A cannibal who killed and ate parts of his mother had his sentence reduced by a judge who said 'he needed to eat'.
Sergey Gavrilov secured reduced time in jail after confessing: 'I did not like the meat very much. It was too fatty. But I was so hungry, I had to eat it.'
The 27-year-old was given a lenient prison sentence because the judge said he was starving and needed to eat after spending all his money on vodka and gambling machines.
Don't the Russian casinos offer comps?
The Russian man hit his mother Lyubov, 55, over the head with a brick and then strangled her with an electric cable following a row over her refusal to give him her pension money to spend on alcohol.
A court heard how he put her body on the balcony of the family flat near Samara, in southern Russia, and took her allowance before going on a two day drinking and gambling binge.
Returning to the flat, he soon ran out of food and started slicing meat from his mother's body.
'She was frozen, like meat in the freezer,' he told police. He cooked soup and pasta with meat from his mother's body over a period of more than a month, he said.
The Russian criminal code dictates 15 years in jail for his crimes but the judge said he was reducing it slightly because Gavrilov - who previously served time in jail for robbery - pleaded guilty and 'he was not keen to eat the meat, he just was hungry'.
Gavrilov was jailed for 14 years and three months.
Psychiatric tests found the man was 'normal' mentally and fully aware of what he was doing.
Which you would think would increase, not decrease, the time in prison ...
He was caught when a policeman came to his flat, suspecting him of stealing a mobile phone. The officer found the dead woman - with both her legs missing - on the balcony.
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Popcorn was a colorful character. Saw the show on History Channel about moonshiners. The ole boy liked to make his 'shine. Was in his blood literally and figuratively.
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hope nobody was smoking
*whoosh!*
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My favorite 'shinner died 2 years ago. I'll tip my shot glass to them both. By the way, does anyone know how the shot glass got it's name? Hint: it has to do with cowboys.
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The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775, to raise 2 battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "birthday". At the end of the American Revolution, both the Continental Navy and Continental Marines were disbanded in April 1783. Although individual Marines stayed on for the few American naval vessels left, the last Continental Marine was discharged in September 1783. The institution itself would not be resurrected until 1798. In that year, in preparation for the Naval War with France, Congress created the United States Marine Corps. Marines had been enlisted by the War Department as early as August 1797 for service in the new build frigates authorized by Congress. The "Act to provide a Naval Armament" of March 18, 1794 authorizing them had specified the numbers of Marines to be recruited for each frigate....
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Standing at the end of the bleachers at Quantico when the Newly Commissioned USMarine Officers graduate. Giving them their first salute as Commissioned Officers....and each one of them hands you a Silver Dollar he asked the Base Bank to provide. You can use those Silver Dollars in later years as introductions to that Officer ( even after he is retired) just send the Silver Dollar in and he will remember that it was you. "Sir" and give him a salute. Look me in the eye, Marine, I am looking into your eyes.
I was there when you went down on TA14 and I got the stretcher bearers and ran with you all the way in. You went all the way and I went with you.
We know the way and we know how we got there. You and I remember.
God Bless the US Marine Corps.( otherwise known as "the Crotch".
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a group of junior enlisted Marines were outside the auditorium in Quantico one spring day when me and 141 other brand new butter bars walked out and began trading silver dollars w/them and the other pre-staged saluters.
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I was tickled to learn the Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) was a Marine. Happy birthday and thanks to you all.
Can anyone explain the fouled anchor on the Marine emblem? Googling says it's old, back to colonial times and maybe nicked from the English, but nothing about the fouled part - something that is generally ungood in a nautical way.
7:10 PM - Radio transmission between the Anderson and the Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald is still being followed by the Arthur M. Anderson. They are about 10 miles behind the Fitzgerald.
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, this is the Anderson. Have you checked down?"
Fitzgerald: "Yes we have."
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. Fitzgerald, there is a target 19 miles ahead of us. So the target would be 9 miles on ahead of you."
Fitzgerald: "Well, am I going to clear?"
Anderson: "Yes. He is going to pass to the west of you."
Fitzgerald: "Well, fine."
Anderson: "By the way, Fitzgerald, how are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
Anderson: "Okay, fine. I'll be talking to you later."
They never did speak later...The 29 men onboard the Fitzgerald will never again speak with anyone outside of the ship.
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At 17, in 1942, my dad shipped out on an ore carrier as a steward. That meant he made everybody's bunk, swabbed the deck, and helped the cook get chow on for the crew. Sometimes the latter chore meant peeling 25 lbs of potatoes, sometimes that meant fishing off the ship's fantail on a quiet day. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943, finished submarine school in 1944, and was quartermaster on 3 war patrols before the Japanese surrendered. He came back to the Lakes during the summers to earn room and board while going to college on the GI Bill. He worked his way up from the firehold to the pilothouse over seven years. He finished college, left the Lakes, and went on to a career as a chemist.
The ore carriers loaded up at the Lake Superior ports by pulling alongside huge wooden trestles called chutes. A switch engine would pull dozens of hoppers full of ore or taconite on a track the length of the chute. The hoppers dumped their loads into the chutes. When the chutes were full, each chute was emptied into a hatch on the carrier. When the carrier was full, the crew dogged her hatches and cast off.
If you've ever stirred up waves in a bathtub, you know that the ripples crash against the side of the tub and bounce back, at odd angles to the other waves. The same thing happens in a storm on the Lakes. Huge waves bounce off the shores and roll back in several directions. Hurricane winds can blow in one direction while the waves are running in the opposite direction. Freak waves can combine into one monster wave over 60 feet high.
The captain of the Anderson thought that the Fitz was way too close to a rock reef, and may have touched bottom and done damage without knowing it, cracking her hull several hours before she disappeared (source: Dwight Boyer). Other possibilities: she may have fallen into the trough of several rogue waves, may have got caught between two wave crests and her unsupported keel collapsed; or she may have submarined under a particularly nasty wave and not recovered. People will debate this case til Kingdom Come.
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thought i watched something on the Discovery channel recently about this. As I recall the investigators, after finding the wreck on the bottom, concluded that the load shifted and crashed into the back of the cargo area, damaging the rear doors and letting the lake pour in until it sank.
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New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.
This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.
The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket. Dr Wolfgang Knorr at the University of Bristol found that in fact the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, which is essentially zero.
The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.
This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because emission targets to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen early next month have been based on projections that have a carbon free sink of already factored in. Some researchers have cautioned against this approach, pointing at evidence that suggests the sink has already started to decrease.
So is this good news for climate negotiations in Copenhagen? "Not necessarily", says Knorr. "Like all studies of this kind, there are uncertainties in the data, so rather than relying on Nature to provide a free service, soaking up our waste carbon, we need to ascertain why the proportion being absorbed has not changed".
Another result of the study is that emissions from deforestation might have been overestimated by between 18 and 75 per cent. This would agree with results published last week in Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They re-visited deforestation data and concluded that emissions have been overestimated by at least a factor of two.
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CO2 only stays in the atmosphere for a little more than 5 years. All the alarmist models assume it persists for 50 - 100 years. This discrepancy alone could account for the results of the study.
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but, but...I thought we were all doomed! Al Gore said so. Cripes, aren't the Seychelles almost under water by now? And what about those poor friggin polar bears, wasting away to nothing.
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they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels and they were married, but then, they switched from the swingline to the Boston stapler. Blah blah blah and on it goes.
IOW for some change is as difficult as it for Milton W.
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If ONLY we had some type of GREEN technology that would absorb carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Perhaps something solar powered that converted carbon dioxide and water to some harmless compound like say sugar and released oxygen. Perhaps, the brilliant Al Gore could invent it.
If ONLY we had some type of GREEN technology that would absorb carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Perhaps something solar powered that converted carbon dioxide and water to some harmless compound like say sugar and released oxygen.
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DMFD goes strong to the basket!
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You think we have problems? Sheeeeiiit, man. Go back to the carboniferous period. Plants were growing like mad, laying down layers of future coal. O2 was up to 35%. CO2 way up. Breathing was easy. Supercharged O2. Electrical storms setting off righteous fires.
The earth is a buffer. It resists great change. Otherwise all life would be dead. Mother MacCree! Climates changes throughout time. It is just that the shuck and jive people need another scam.
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and the dinosaurs
that would be so awesome
lets have more greenhouse gases - now
yes we can
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The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News.
According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.
After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to an "oasis," which historians believe was El-Kharga. After they left, they were never seen again.
"A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear," wrote Herodotus.
A century after Herodotus wrote his account, Alexander the Great made his own pilgrimage to the oracle of Amun, and in 332 B.C. he won the oracle's confirmation that he was the divine son of Zeus, the Greek god equated with Amun.
The tale of Cambyses' lost army, however, faded into antiquity. As no trace of the hapless warriors was ever found, scholars began to dismiss the story as a fanciful tale...
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Global Wind. Al Gore is on the case and will sell you sand credits.
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The event actually happened. Its not just a story. I first read about it as a boy, the story is very old. Cambyses is an extremely long time ago.
How long ago is Alexander the Great? Cambyses is even older than that by half a millenium.
Imagine 50,000 men is a Sahara sand storm like a "shimal" with no cover and no protection at all. Imagine the year is eight centuries before the birth of Christ. Alexander the Great wont be born for another four hundred years...as long ago as we are from the Sir Francis Drake today.
The shimal is a blown wall of Sand coming faster than a truck can drive and towering half a mile high for as far as you can see. And you are in the open... on the floor of Hell. And its nearly 3,000 years ago.
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Bronze weapons - maybe they're talking about armor or something?
I have to admit that it sounds unlikely that they found a specific expedition's remains. Seems rather like someone declaring a cluster of galley wrecks off the south coast of Sicily was the Roman fleet catastrophically lost during the First Punic War. Yeah, it has to be down there somewhere, but that lee shore was killing single ships and squadrons off and on for more than two thousand years of trade and warfare.
It's kind of like drawing a bucket through a sand-dune downwind from the pyramids and selling the contents to tourists as bits fallen off of the monuments.
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It's kind of like drawing a bucket through a sand-dune downwind from the pyramids and selling the contents to tourists as bits of mummies from plundered tombs.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The trial of a senior aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is postponed amid reports that some of the testimonies presented were extracted through torture.
Roy Bennett's trial, which started on Monday morning, was adjourned until Wednesday to give time to the Judge to review submissions from the state and defense attorneys.
While the state charges that Bennett's defense was not properly outlined, his defense attorneys want a witness to be withdrawn from the case.
Bennett's attorneys say they have evidence that the witness's testimony was extracted through torture.
Bennett's lawyers also said that weapons dealer Peter Michael Hitschmann, who is the main prosecution witness, was arrested and charged in 2006 but throughout his trial he did not implicate Bennett.
Roy Bennett is facing charges of terrorism, insurgency and sabotage. According to the judge, the court session is postponed to Wednesday.
Tsvangirai's party says the case is politically motivated and calls for an end to the trial. Bennett was to become deputy minister of agriculture, before being charged.
The case was one of several issues which led Tsvangirai to pull out of the coalition government he formed with President Robert Mugabe in February.
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President Hugo Chavez has threatened an all-out war in South America should the US want to provoke Colombia to launch an armed conflict in the region.
Chavez said Venezuela could end up going to war with Colombia, warning that if a conflict broke out "it could extend throughout the whole continent."
The anti-US leader ordered the military to prepare for a possible war, addressing President Barack Obama to be cautious about any move in the region.
"Don't make a mistake, Mr. Obama, by ordering an attack against Venezuela by way of Colombia," Chavez said during his weekly television and radio program Sunday.
However, the Colombian government dismissed Chavez's threats, saying it would protest to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the UN Security Council.
"Colombia never has, and never will, make an act of war," government spokesman Cesar Mauricio Velasquez said.
A recent military agreement between the US and Colombia that gives American troops greater access to military bases of Colombia has sparked controversy in the region.
In recent weeks, tensions between the two Latin American nations have been worsened by a series of shootings.
Last week, two Venezuelan National Guard troops were killed at a checkpoint near the border in Venezuela's western Tachira state, prompting Caracas to temporarily close some border crossings.
The violence prompted Venezuela to send 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia on Thursday to increase security along the border.
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FREEREPUBLIC > NICARAGUAM PRESIDENT [Ortega]:LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES MUST UNITE TO ELIMINATE THE US MILITARY FROM COLUMBIA.
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Not that I want to see this happen by any means, but . . . if Venezuelan warplanes bombed Key West, that would put Obama and the far left Dems in a bit of a tough spot, would it not?
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Mike: It would be W. Bush's fault for provoking Chavez. And the Key Westers, as well, for, like, making Key Lime Pies and things.
The German government spent at least 1.2 trillion euro on reunification over the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Half of that was spent on welfare for East German pensioners or unemployed people, while 160 billion went into infrastructure and 90 billion on the agricultural sector.
The total is 4.5 times the 1 trillion Deutsche Mark estimated at the time of reunification. Welfare proved much more expensive than the original estimate due to massive unemployment in the East. Even now, 100 billion euro or 4 percent of Germany's GDP is being spent on the former East every year. Germany's GDP in 2008 was 2.5 trillion euro. As the world's third largest economy with a consistent US$150 billion annual trade surplus, it has been able to bear the massive reunification cost without going bankrupt.
But what about Korea? According to studies by Korea University professor Hwang Eui-gak and the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, the reunification cost for Korea would be at least US$1.2 trillion, and around 10 percent of South Korea's GDP every year would have to go to North Korea for some time. The proportional burden is 2.5 times greater than West Germany's. Four West Germans had to feed one person in East Germany, the richest of the Socialist countries, but in case of Korea, two South Koreans would have to pay for every one person in North Korea, one of the poorest countries in the world.
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If they'd reunited in 89 like the Germans it wouldn't have been as bad.
[Geo News] An under trial prisoner has mysteriously died in Landhi jail Monday, while police claim the accused committed suicide by strangulating himself
Mohsin went toilet, where he committed suicide by strangulating himself with his cummerbund.
with his cummerbund.
According to sources, Mohammad Mohsin s/o Mohammad Dildar, 20, died mysteriously in Landhi jail. Jail official claimed that under trial Mohsin went toilet, where he committed suicide by strangulating himself with his cummerbund.
Mohsin's dead body has been shifted to hospital for a post-mortem. He was arrested under the charges of motorcycle theft, last week, police said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775, to raise 2 battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "birthday". At the end of the American Revolution, both the Continental Navy and Continental Marines were disbanded in April 1783. Although individual Marines stayed on for the few American naval vessels left, the last Continental Marine was discharged in September 1783. The institution itself would not be resurrected until 1798. In that year, in preparation for the Naval War with France, Congress created the United States Marine Corps. Marines had been enlisted by the War Department as early as August 1797 for service in the new build frigates authorized by Congress. The "Act to provide a Naval Armament" of March 18, 1794 authorizing them had specified the numbers of Marines to be recruited for each frigate....
President Hugo Chavez has threatened an all-out war in South America should the US want to provoke Colombia to launch an armed conflict in the region. 
