NEW YORK – A standoff between striking school bus drivers and aides looking for job protections and a city administration that says they just can’t have it has the potential to go on for some time.

Parents are scrambling for a second day to figure out alternatives so tens of thousands of students can get to school on Thursday.

Michael Cordiello of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union says the drivers will strike until Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city agree to put a job security clause back into their contract.

But Bloomberg says the strike “is about job guarantees that the union just can’t have.”

Observers on both sides of the issue say absent an injunction, the strike could last a while.

A shipment of 18 human heads held up by customs officials at O’Hare International Airport was bound for a cremation service in the Chicago area after its use in medical research abroad.

A spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, Mary Paleologos, said Tuesday that the heads were originally sent from Illinois to Italy for medical research and were returned to the area for disposal as part of the agreement.

She says a paperwork problem held up the shipment, which arrived at O’Hare in mid-December.

The containers were being stored at the Cook County morgue while authorities investigated the matter.

Paleologos says the heads will be turned over for cremation.

This year the flu season has packed quite a punch, forty-seven states have reported widespread flu and surely, there are a couple people, if not one, that you know are dealing with the nasty virus. Lately, you are considered to be lucky if you find general symptom relief medicine stocked in stores because everyone is looking for sweet relief.

If you find yourself in-front of an empty shelf and you have the flu, there is still hope! What is being called the “Oil of Oregano Revolution” by Dr. Cass Ingram, author of The Miracle of Wild Oregano, presents a possible alternative which Dr. Ingram takes regularly and claims that he hasn’t been sick for years.

The oil of oregano is being administered to chickens at a Pennsylvania poultry plant as an alternative to antibiotics, Dr. Ingram said in an interview with North Platte Post that the chickens which are taking the oil of oregano, produced at Bell & Evans, are more vital and healthy. The natural supplement has benefits to humans which Dr. Ingram explains in the interview that the oil of oregano is a germicide which makes it ideal for getting over a common cold or the flu. Dr. Ingram explained a study where he injected the flu virus into cells and he found that the oil of oregano which “obliterates the virus.”

Listen to the interview where Dr. Cass Ingram shares the benefits from oil of oregano.

 

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You can buy Dr. Ingram’s book, The Miracle of Wild Oregano, online by clicking on this link.

A weird way to sum-up the week but why not? Watch a few scenes of a chocolate bunny melting slowly. If it makes you feel almost bad then just think about eating one. Same thing almost, right?

 

Via:  Lernert & Sander

Authorities say a boy who fired on classmates and wounded one at a rural California high school had planned the attack and targeted students he felt had bullied him for more than a year.

Kern County sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a news conference Thursday night that the 16-year-old used a shotgun that belonged to his brother and went to bed Wednesday night with a plan to shoot two fellow students.

Youngblood says surveillance video shows the boy trying to conceal the gun as he nervously enters Taft Union High School through a side entrance after school had started Thursday morning.

The boy entered his classroom, shot and critically injured one student, then fired on others before a teacher and another staff member talked him into surrendering.

A Wisconsin father is accused of abusing his son then locking him in a dog kennel until he fell asleep, the father said he lost his temper and just blanked out before the alleged incident on a Sunday night in October.

Last week the father, 34-year-old Michael Kitzman, of Fox Valley, was charged and taken into custody. Police told Fox 11 that the two-year-old son gave the family dog a toy, which belonged to a sibling. Kitzman claims to have lost his temper before he allegedly hit the boy, more than once, then tied his arms and legs together and left him on his stomach for around 45 minutes. Later, Kitzman allegedly untied the boy and moved him from the living room floor to a dog kennel then placed the dog kennel in a dark room, locked in until he fell asleep.

Kitzman reportedly confessed to mostly everything that happened during the incident which took place in October. The accused father is restricted from having any unsupervised contact with a person under the age of 18 and is on a $10,000 bond.

 

Source: Fox11 Online

In this video you will see the first-ever footage of a Giant Squid. A submarine project crossed paths with this giant squishy beast which appears to attack the submarine, enjoy!

Via: Gizmodo