Ohio Teacher Accused of Inappropriate Relations with Student

Shannon Pavlansky-Wojtowicz
(Campbell, Ohio) A 30-year-old teacher formerly at Campbell Memorial High School, Shannon Pavlansky-Wojtowicz, has been accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Pavlansky-Wojtowicz was arrested on a felony charge of sexual battery.

Agents with DeWine’s Crimes Against Children Unit, which is a division of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, began investigating Pavlansky-Wojtowicz in January after the Campbell Police Department received a tip regarding the alleged inappropriate relationship.

Details on booking not provided.

California Teacher Accused of Inappropriate Relations with Minor

Danielle Meyer
(Loomis, California) A 24-year-old music teacher with Placer County Schools, Danielle Meyer, has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Meyer has been charged with penetrating with a foreign object and sending inappropriate material to a minor.

It is not clear what school in Placer County the boy attends, but investigators were very clear that that the 24-year-old Sacramento State graduate is not a teacher employed by the school.

In fact, she allegedly met the minor through her own music tutoring business, according to investigators.

Details on arrest and booking are unavailable.

Tanks in WWI

Tanks are now only a minor feature of WWI propaganda but I think it is important to combat propaganda wherever we see it.

The still widely-believed myth is that the invention of tanks by the British was a major factor in the defeat of Germany.  It wasn't.

It is true that the allies did produce and field large numbers of tanks, whereas Germany did not.  So it is clear that the allies at the time believed their own propaganda. Estimates vary but it is generally said that Britain produced around 2000 tanks and the French over 3000 while Germany produced only around 50. And the French Renault tanks were in many ways actually superior to the British designs.

The big flaws in WWI tank deployment were light armour, slow speed and a tendency to get bogged in the lush agricultural lands of Belgium and Northern France.  Even tracked vehicles could not traverse that ground whenever it was wet, and that was often.

The light armour was actually penetrable by rifle and machine gun fire in the early stages and up to the end was an easy kill for German field guns.  And Germany had a lot of those.

This handicap was greatly amplified by the slow speed of the tanks  -- 5mph for British heavy tanks.  It certainly gave German field gunners easy targeting.  So the tanks that did not get bogged were generally knocked out without too much trouble.

The British light tanks ("Whippets") did rather better than the heavy tanks but there were only about 200 of them fielded and the British themselves considered them as enough of a failure to cut  the numbers they had ordered.  They were designed as "fast" tanks but that was only 8mph.

But the tanks did have some engagements in which they helped so how can I be sure that they did not make a crucial difference overall?

I can be sure because almost up to the end Ludendorff was advancing. In his last great push, German troops got to within 50 miles of Paris.  But that push cost Ludenfdorff over half a million men and that left Germany with nothing like enough troops to take on the great wave of American troops that began arriving at that time.  The American troops did not play a large role in the actual fighting but the sheer number of them told Ludendorff that he was finished and so he asked for an armistice.  It was the arrival of the Americans that defeated Germany.  Just the prospect of fighting so many fresh and carefully-trained troops led to the surrender.

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.). 

Vermont Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison

Patricia Prue
(St. Johnsbury, Vermont) A 30-something local woman, Patricia Prue, has been convicted of killing St. Johnsbury Academy teacher Melissa Jenkins.

As a result, Patricia Prue was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

California Teacher Accused of Sex with Minor

Laura Lasek
(Marysville, California) A 26-year-old teacher at Marysville High School, Laura Lasek, has been accused of engaging in sex with a student.

Lasek faces counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child 14 or 15, oral copulation with a person under 16, and unlawful sex with a minor.

While a teacher at Thomas E. Mathews Community School, Lasek allegedly engaged in sexual acts with a student who attended the school, according to Sgt. Chris Sachs.

Additional information was unavailable as the investigation is ongoing.

Lasek was booked into custody with bail set at $211,000.

Conservative and liberal brains again

Ever since the first twin studies of the matter came out in the '80s, I have been pointing out that political orientation has a substantial inherited component and hence arises from inborn differences in the brains of liberals and conservatives.  That is not at all a popular proposition among either the right or on the Left but the scientific evidence for it continues to accumulate.  We can now specify to a degree the actual brain regions involved.

The Left endeavour to "spin" the findings concerned in a way favorable to themselves so I do occasionally take a little time to "unspin" such claims.  Below is another example.  It was reported as "Liberals have more tolerance to uncertainty (bigger anterior cingulate cortex), and conservatives have more sensitivity to fear (bigger right amygdala)".  So conservatives are scaredy cats and liberals are fine tolerant people.

They base that on the following excerpt from the original research report:

"...[O]ur findings are consistent with the proposal that political orientation is associated with psychological processes for managing fear and uncertainty. The amygdala has many functions, including fear processing. Individuals with a larger amygdala are more sensitive to fear, which, taken together with our findings, might suggest the testable hypothesis that individuals with larger amagdala are more inclined to integrate conservative views into their belief systems... our finding of an association between anterior cingulate cortex [ACC] may be linked with tolerance to uncertainty. One of the functions of the anterior cingulate cortex is to monitor uncertainty and conflicts. Thus it is conceivable that individuals with a larger ACC have a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty and conflicts, allowing them to accept more liberal views."

As you can see, the report authors were much more tentative in interpreting their findings than were the commentators on it.  The commentators have turned maybes into definite statements.

Most such reports are however parsimoniously interpreted as conservatives being more cautious, which is hardly a discovery. And if there is something wrong with caution then there is everything wrong with a lot of things.  Science, for instance, is a sustained exercise in caution. So conservatives are born more cautious and Leftist brains miss most of that out.  So the "sensitive to fear" report above could be equally well restated as "cautious".  And the finding that liberals "have a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty and conflicts" is pure guesswork.  As the report authors note, that is just "one of the functions of the anterior cingulate cortex".

I give the journal abstract below, paragraphed to make it easier to follow:

Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults

By Ryota Kanai et al.

Summary

Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and conservatives on psychological measures [1]. Variability in political attitudes reflects genetic influences and their interaction with environmental factors [2, 3].

Recent work has shown a correlation between liberalism and conflict-related activity measured by event-related potentials originating in the anterior cingulate cortex [4]. Here we show that this functional correlate of political attitudes has a counterpart in brain structure.

In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter volume using structural MRI. We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala. These results were replicated in an independent sample of additional participants.

Our findings extend previous observations that political attitudes reflect differences in self-regulatory conflict monitoring [4] and recognition of emotional faces [5] by showing that such attitudes are reflected in human brain structure.

Although our data do not determine whether these regions play a causal role in the formation of political attitudes, they converge with previous work [4, 6] to suggest a possible link between brain structure and psychological mechanisms that mediate political attitudes.

Current Biology 21, 677–680, April 26, 2011 ª2011. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).  

Colorado Teacher Accused of Nasty with Students

Leslie Carlson
(Thornton, Colorado) A 28-year-old teacher at Pinnacle Charter School, Leslie Carlson, has been arrested on suspicion of providing alcohol and marijuana edibles to students.

Police began investigating Carlson on Friday after the high school alerted them to the allegations. Officials say she is accused of contributing to the delinquency of minors.

"I know why I became a teacher," Carlson posted on Facebook last May. "These kids are amazing. I'm lucky to work with them, not the other way around. I hope they know that."

Police say Carlson has been placed into custody during the course of their investigation.

"We substantiated that the relationships she was having with students was inappropriate and we terminated her," William Wiener, the charter school's executive director, told The Denver Post.

Wiener said Carlson broke policies.

ISIS Beheads Cigarette Smokers

The Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria has long imposed a strict ban on alcohol, cursing, smoking and other acts deemed haram, or sinful. But it seems smoking may be the vice that's most offensive to ISIS, considering the severed head of an ISIS official that was reportedly found last month in eastern Syria with a cigarette in its mouth. “This is not permissible, Sheikh,” a note attached to the nearby corpse read in Arabic, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

While cigarettes are allowed under Islam, the terror group’s severe interpretation of Sharia law declares smoking as a “slow suicide” and thus forbidden in ISIS-controlled areas. The Islamic State -- formerly known as ISIS or ISIL -- began imposing radical restrictions last year after overtaking large areas in eastern Syria’s Deir Elzur province, which is adjacent to another stronghold and the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa. ISIS imposed the full-face veil for women and banned music as well as the sale of cigarettes and hookah pipes, noting the “financial and health damages” from smoking, according to Al-Monitor.

“Every smoker should be aware that with every cigarette he smokes in a state of trance and vanity is disobeying god,” the so-called ISIS Preaching Office reportedly said in a statement last year.

Smoking is deemed slow suicide.

USArmy Brigade Headed for Showdown with ISIS

(Fort Carson, Colorado)

As Congress mulls America's war with the Islamic State terror group, more than 4,000 Fort Carson soldiers prepared Thursday to leave Colorado for Kuwait, where they will take over as America's largest ground force in the troubled region.

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team bid farewell to the post in a ceremony and will head off soon to serve as U.S. Central Command's Reserve force in the Middle East - the first soldiers into battle if a major combat force is used to battle Islamic State fighters.

The unit is Fort Carson's heaviest force, armed with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Many of its soldiers are veterans of one or more of the brigade's four combat tours in Iraq.

Reportedly, the unit has trained for more than a year for the mission.

New York Woman Faces Sex with Boy Charges

Ashley Magin
(Dansville, New York) A 23-year-old local woman, Ashley Magin, has been accused of violating the terms of her parole for her alleged illegal activity with a 14-year old boy.

Magin is currently in jail on sex charges, including attempted rape and violation of parole.

Magin allegedly gave alcohol to the minor and performed sex acts with him multiple times.

Magin is in custody with bail set at $20,000.

Louisiana Woman Accused of Nasty with Boy, 4

Angeline C. Lodice
(Jefferson Parish, Louisiana) A 26-year-old local woman, Angeline C. Lodice, has been accused of sexually abusing a 4-year-old boy.

Lodice faces counts of aggravated rape, sexual battery and production of child pornography.

Sheriff's deputies say Lodice worked as a stripper at a Bourbon Street club. She was arrested Oct. 27 after the child's father told the Sheriff's Office that her cousin gave him videos and photographs showing her performing oral sex on the boy. The crimes occurred between Nov. 13, 2012, and Oct. 18, according to the indictment.

When questioned, Lodice admitted she's the woman depicted in the photos and videos. However, she "said she could not identify the child ... because she believed she was drugged," according to her arrest affidavit.

Another video showed her having intercourse with a dog, according to the arrest affidavit. Authorities later determined that incident occurred in St. Landry Parish, so Jefferson Parish prosecutors did not pursue charges.

Lodice was booked into custody with bond set at $800,000.

Connecticut Teacher Accused of Sex with Minor

Allison Marchese
(Madison, Connecticut) A 37-year-old teacher at Daniel Hand High School, Allison J. Marchese, has been accused of engaging in sex with a minor.

Marchese faces counts of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury or impairing the morals of a minor.

Her arrest is the result of an investigation that began at Daniel Hand High School on Jan. 7. Police did not say whether the alleged victim is a student.

Marchese teaches English at the school, where her husband also teaches. Her status wasn't clear late Thursday morning.

Marchese was booked and released on $100,000 bond.

Popular Pro-Gun Signs Vandalized

(Conoy Township, Pennsylvania)

A small Pennsylvania township has been getting a fair amount of attention over the unusual welcome signs slated for posting along every road leading into the community:

“Welcome to Conoy Twp. This Is Not a Gun Free Zone.”

Stephen Mohr, a township supervisor and lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, said reaction to the signs had been positive. “You have to realize that to most people in this township God, guns, family and friends are the four most important things,” he told Lancaster Online.

The signs are meant to deter crime and welcome law-abiding people, he said.

The signs were vandalized almost immediately by anti-gun activists.

Obama is showing his colors

In the latter stages of his tenure and when he cannot be re-elected anyway, Obama has begun revealing his true anti-American, pro-Islamic colours and boy are they revealing.

“Christians did some terrible things, too”, he said at this week’s prayer breakfast. “Just look at the Crusades”, he said, when he again tried to defend Islamic atrocities as mere workplace incidents.

If Christianity can be blamed for the Crusades why shouldn’t Islam be blamed for terrorism?

Of course Christianity was responsible for atrocities equal to Islam’s, but Christianity moved into a modern world centuries ago while Islam still practises and promotes its abhorrent past as though scores still need to be settled.

Forget the conspiracy theories, there is now no doubt where Barack Hussein Obama’s faith allegiance lies: “There is no sweeter sound on Earth than the Muslim call to prayer.” “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.” “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”, he said.

In childlike denial, both he and Abbott still refuse to identify terrorism with Islam. Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher deli store killings were, according to Obama, “random acts of violence” and “we should not over-react”.

Within six minutes of being notified of James Foley’s graphic beheading, he was back on the golf course. Yet within minutes of being notified of his beloved Saudi King Abdullah’s death he had cut short his Indian visit so he could be present at his wake. (Saudi Wahhabists were the original creators of the Islamic State, Al Queda and the “student” Taliban.)

Obama gave our enemies the dates and times American troops were to be withdrawn. He is now defining for the enemy where exactly American bombing raids will and won’t be carried out.

Among others he has freed five high-value Afghani terrorists in exchange for one American deserter who has converted to Islam and is about to face a Court Martial.

Two million Christians lived in peace under Syria’s Bashar Assad. But Obama sent the CIA to train and arm Sunni Al Qaeda fighters to slaughter those Christians. Obama says he is arming “moderates” but, just like the “moderates” he armed in Benghazi, he knows it is the terrorists who get the arms.

Obama has recently made arrangements to train and equip those same Syrian rebels in Saudi camps on Saudi soil.

Obama’s so-called “moderate” allies shoot and cannibalise captured American soldiers in cold blood, but this doesn’t stop Obama. He refuses to arm and train Kurdish Peshmergers, the only fighting force with the stomach to put boots on the ground to defeat the ISIS.

He has an overt hatred of Israel and is actively providing vast sums of money in an attempt to destabilise Netanyahu in the upcoming elections. He openly supports the Muslim Brotherhood who supports Al Queda.

The timetable for American withdrawal from Afghanistan is the same timetable for the Islamic State to join with the Taliban to further it’s caliphate across the Levant. Just wait and watch.

The Benghazi massacre, was "only a reaction to a silly video” said Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The pleas for help from the murdered Americans were ignored as the White House watched a live feed for seven hours while Embassy staff battled for their lives.

The order that stopped all rescue efforts (a stand down order) could only have been given by Obama.

Obama is a Sunni Muslim of the Luo tribe who feigned conversion to electorally palatable Christianity in order fight the good fight from the White House.

In 2011, Malik’s “Barack H. Obama Foundation,” received quick approval as a charitable foundation. It was illegally backdated to 2008 and personally signed by Lois Lerner, the IRS chief who, under questioning, took the 5th (a legal refusal to answer on the basis it may incriminate the accused).

Funds from this “charitable foundation” now support Obama’s brother, Malik's 12 wives in luxury. Malik also owns and manages Sudan’s Islamic "Da’wa Organisation", which finances terrorism throughout northern and central Africa.

According to Judge Tahani al-Gebali of Egypt’s Supreme Court, Malik Obama also oversees the Muslim Brotherhood’s international investments.

Judge Gebali claims Obama, through his Egyptian Embassy, bribed Muslim Brotherhood leaders with over $850,000 per year and it claims that Barack Obama himself is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the same mob that slaughtered thousands of Coptic Christians and burned their churches... Barack Obama uttered not a word in protest.

Obama’s close relationship with his brother has continued to this day; completely concealed from the American public. He was raised in the Muslim faith by his father and attended a Madrass in Indonesia.

Now, we should be prepared to give this bloke the benefit of the doubt when it comes to such serious charges as treason and sedition but fair dinkum the evidence is stark.

In six short years Barack Hussein Obama has extended America’s debt from $8 trillion to $19 trillion (soon to be $21 trillion) has crippled American exports and has opened America’s borders to all comers with promises of fat welfare cheques and citizenship.

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).

USNavy Bribery Investigation

Rear Adms. Terry Kraft, Michael Miller, David Pimpo
(Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan)

The commander of naval forces in Japan and two other admirals are retiring following letters of censure issued by the secretary of the Navy in connection with a wide-ranging bribery scandal in the Asia-Pacific region.

Naval Forces Japan commander Rear Adm. Terry Kraft, along with rear admirals Michael Miller and David Pimpo, were censured by Secretary Ray Mabus to “document their failure of leadership” related to dealings with Glenn Defense Marine Asia between 2006 and 2007, according to a Navy statement.

Navy officials spanning the ranks from enlisted to commanding officers, as well as high-placed civilians, have pleaded guilty since December 2013 to trading classified information in exchange for luxury travel, cash and prostitutes with ship support contractor GDMA and its owner, Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis.

Reportedly, more than $20 million was scammed from the U.S. Government.

Pennsylvania Woman Pinched in Florida for Cocaine

Jesi Lorene Platz
(Niceville, Florida)

A 20-year-old Pennsylvania woman was arrested for possession of cocaine after being pulled over for a faulty tag light.

Niceville Police officers performed the traffic stop on Jan. 31, according to the arrest report. When an officer spoke to the driver, identified as Jesi Lorene Platz, he noticed the smell of marijuana.

A search of the vehicle found some marijuana residue on the floorboard areas, the report said. Officers allegedly found a spoon with white residue, a cut straw with white residue, a cellophane wrapper with cocaine and several small clear plastic baggies with cocaine residue in Platz’s purse.

A court date is scheduled for March 17.

Who won the Battle of Britain?

The bit of history I want to challenge below may seem to be of no interest to people today but, as we shall see, its central lesson is in fact highly relevant to America's current war on Daesh in Syria.

Finding the truth amid a fog of lies is always hard but if we are to deal with reality constructively, we need to find the truth. One of the great obstacles is propaganda -- and wartime propaganda is surprisingly persistent.  The propaganda of the victor in a war tends to become the history of that war. I don't think anyone now believes the WWI Allied propaganda that it was "The great war for civilization" but that is probably only because so much has happened since then.

One bit of propaganda that always amuses me is the Hollywood portrayal of German troops in WWII as stupid and hopeless bunglers while Allied troops were savvy and clever.  That is of course the exact opposite of the truth.  One only has to reflect on the mere 6 weeks that it took Hitler's troops to overrun France to suspect that portrayal.  It took Germany just 6 weeks to conquer French forces that were more numerous and in some ways better equipped than they were. The Wehrmacht was in fact by far the most militarily efficient force deployed in WWII.

And I am afraid that the British victory in the Battle of Britain is a myth too.  The story is that poorly trained Allied airmen got into their Spitfires and turned back the Luftwaffe.  They didn't.  The Heinkel and Dornier bombers mostly got through and unloaded onto their target areas.  The extensive damage they did to places like Coventry is testimony to that.

So what have we not been told?  The fact is that the trained pilots of the Luftwaffe in their excellent Messerschmitt 109s made mincemeat out of the British fighters.  The German bombers got through because their escorting Messerschmitts shot the Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires down before they could get to the bombers.  The British counted as an air "Ace" a pilot who shot down a dozen or more German planes while Germany had lots of pilots with 100 or more "kills".  Adolf Galland is the best known example of that but other Luftwaffe pilots had even more "kills". There is a list of WWII air aces somewhere and about the first 100 pilots on that list were German.

So how come the Royal Airforce did so poorly?  The British aircraft were pretty good but the Battle of Britain was fought mainly by the older Hawker Hurricanes.  Spitfire production had not ramped up at that stage.  But all British fighters at that time mounted machine guns only, whereas the Messerschmitt had cannon as well. So a hit from a Messerschmitt could be much more deadly.

But some RAF pilots did relatively well so it was not mainly their machines that were wanting. It was their training.  Like the French, the British had simply not trained nearly enough pilots -- whereas Germany had been training pilots since the Spanish civil war.  Britain's large motor vehicle industry was readily converted from making motor cars to making aircraft and it did pour out lots of them.  But where were the pilots to fly them?  Men were sent up to face the Luftwaffe with as little as ten hours of air training.  They were lucky to get their machine pointed in the right direction at that stage and were hence sitting ducks.  Very few allied pilots lasted long.  It was common for them to fly only a few sorties at most before being shot down.

So why did the Luftwaffe eventually go away?  Because the German High Command  learnt at that stage a lesson the Allies also learnt later on when it was their turn to bomb Germany:  Aircraft are expensive and bombing is not very effective at achieving war aims. You need boots on the ground.  America is facing that fact right now in its attempts to suppress Daesh in Syria.  Fortunately, Daesh do not have an air arm

What Germany found was that bombing affected production of war materiel only marginally and that it did not corrode enemy morale to any significant extent.  So the Luftwaffe went away and concentrated on easy targets in Russia instead.

So nobody won the battle of Britain.  The Royal Airforce did not  stop the bombing and the Luftwaffe failed to achieve their basic objectives of stopping British war production and intimidating the British population.

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).

Kentucky Teacher Sentenced for Sex with Girl - Update

Chelsea Rose
(Benton, Kentucky) A former teacher at Reidland Middle School, Chelsea Rose, has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student.

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Kentucky Teacher Accused of Sex with Girl, 14
[Previous 2/11/15 post]
(Paducah, Kentucky) A 24-year-old teacher formerly at Reidland Middle School, Chelsea Rose, has been accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.

Rose faces felony charges in two counties, McCracken and Marshall Counties.

Rose detailed to Sheriff's Deputies her relationship with a 14-year-old girl in an interview last Friday. The arrest warrants from McCracken and Marshall County detail this interview and other incidents of the relationship. Some of the material in the warrants are too explicit to publish.

She says the sexual relationship began last month, January 17th. This was during the time Rose worked as a teacher and cheerleading coach at Reidland Middle. She admitted to several things including inappropriately touching and kissing the girl at the Calvert City Drive-In, buying alcohol for the girl and other underage students, and sending inappropriate text, picture, and Facebook messages.

Rose was arraigned in McCracken County Court.

California Educator Gets Prison for Molesting Girls - Update

Andrea Michelle Cardosa
(Riverside, California)

In statements read during the sentencing hearing for their former teacher Monday, Feb. 9, two female sexual abuse victims wrote of how Andrea Michelle Cardosa betrayed their trust, leaving them with nightmares and a reluctance to trust other adults with their own young children.

Cardosa, 41, pleaded guilty last month to three of 16 charges against her related to having sex with two of her former students about 15 years ago.

In a plea agreement, she was sentenced by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez to 10 years in state prison.

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California Educator Accused of Molesting Girls
[Previous 2/4/14 post]
(Riverside, California) A 40-year-old educator formerly with Riverside County Schools, Andrea Michelle Cardosa, has been arrested for allegedly molesting two schoolgirls ten years ago.

Cardosa faces 16 counts of illegal sexual contact with a child.

The alleged abuse took place more than 10 years ago, but recently escalated into a public scandal when one of the reported victims posted a video online of herself confronting Cardosa over the phone.

The 28-year-old woman, who has identified herself as “Jamie,” says the abuse began when she was 12 years old and Cardosa was working as her basketball coach at Chemawa Middle School. The alleged molestation continued until Jamie graduated high school.

Jamie recently learned Cardosa was an assistant principal at Alhambra High School. She called the administrator at her office to confront her about the alleged abuse, recorded the conversation — unbeknownst to Cardosa — and posted the video to YouTube.

Cardosa was booked into custody with bond set at $5 million.

California Reservoir Leaks

Hetchy Reservoir
(San Francisco, California)

A $111,000-a-year San Francisco water manager will likely be suspended after he was seen urinating in a reservoir that supplies drinking water to nearly 2.5 million Bay Area residents.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports Public Utilities Commission employee Martin Sanchez could receive a five day suspension without pay after the Jan. 6 incident took place at the Priest Reservoir in the Sierra foothills.

A commission insider sent the SF Chronicle an anonymous complaint that alleges a number of employees saw Sanchez urinating “several times” in the reservoir.

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