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watching my local news - New Zealand issued a report that a tsunami has formed (size unknown)
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What - again?
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doesn't sound like anything dramatic or damaging - I think the alert was cancelled (per AP - no linky)
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Yeah, i think the Tsunami threat is officially over now. Although i was just watching the beginning of the local news over here in Queensland, Australia and the news reader mentioned that C.A.R.E workers from Australia are standing on top of a hill and can see a 'big' wave coming in from out at Sea. The news report must of been recorded earlier on before the threat was over.
LIMA, Peru - A traveling exhibition of human cadavers wants a stolen lung back. The left lung was taken in Peru from "Bodies: The Exhibition," which has traveled the globe displaying cadavers preserved through a process that replaces water in biological tissues with polymers.
The organ disappeared from an area where visitors can touch preserved cadavers.
"In the whole world this has never happened," said Susan Hoefken, manager of Lima-based Impacto, the company presenting the exhibition.
A $2,000 reward - no questions asked - was offered Tuesday for the return of the lung. It has no commercial value but will be costly to replace, Hoefken said.
She described the embarrassment of reporting the Monday theft to the show's owner, Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions. "They told us to recover the lung somehow," Hoefken said.
Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the “Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.
David McKenzie
Federal Way, WA
Runner-up:
The wind dry-shaved the cracked earth like a dull razor--the double edge kind from the plastic bag that you shouldn't use more than twice, but you do; but Trevor Earp had to face it as he started the second morning of his hopeless search for Drover, the Irish Wolfhound he had found as a pup near death from a fight with a prairie dog and nursed back to health, stolen by a traveling circus so that the monkey would have something to ride.
Warren Blair
Ashburn, VA
More award-winning Bulwer-Lyttony at the link.
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Woman killed under garage door lured medics away with fake 911 call
CALDWELL - Police now say the woman who was crushed and killed by a garage door last week in Caldwell – lured away paramedics with a bogus 9-1-1 call.
"Yeah, my name is Stacy and I am driving toward Ontario, when a car went off into the median at mile marker 22," from 911 call to dispatch.
Stacy is actually Melissa Farris, 35, of Caldwell, according to Caldwell Police Chief Chris Allgood. He says Farris made the call to 911, waited for paramedics to leave, then tried to slip under the closing bay door. That attempt failed, and instead she got trapped and died.
Farris was a former worker at the paramedics station where she died Thursday. Her call appeared to be perfectly crafted to call paramedics away from the station. When the crew arrived on the scene described by Farris – they found no accident.
Farris’ description was vivid and detailed. “I couldn't tell the color of it, it was right beside me and the next thing I know, I saw a bunch of dust and it was on its side," she said.
The call is only about two minutes long. Farris said she was driving a cattle truck and tried to get pulled over to check on the accident. She even seemed out of breath on the call. She said she was going to walk back to the crash scene, near mile post 22 on Interstate 84 -- west of Caldwell.
Farris worked for the Canyon County Paramedics for seven years. She parted ways with the medics in December, but the details surrounding her departure are classified by officials as a personnel matter and havenÂ’t been released.
Investigators say there were sensors on the door, but they are higher than a home garage door and Farris was able to get under their beam, causing her to be trapped and killed. Farris' motive for luring paramedics away or trying to get inside the station has not been released.
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Seems obvious to me, she planned to rob the station.
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Darwin nods.
Mike
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Poetic justice.
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She was an EMT at the station until about a year ago. No word released as to why she left but keep in mind that there would be supplies, including some drugs, in the station and she probably knew how to access them. My suspicion; she had an addition to some drug(s). She wouldn't be the first in the medical profession. Too bad, so young.
Conservative Egyptian lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake their virginity and one scholar has even called for the "exile" of anyone who imports or uses it. "Ferallensake, Fatimah! You're a virgin again? Can't you just buy shoes or handbags like your friends?"
The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs about $30. It is intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins -- culturally important in a conservative Middle East where sex before marriage is considered by many to be illicit. The product leaks a blood-like substance when inserted and broken.
Gigimo advertises shipping to every Arab country. But the company did not answer e-mails and phone calls seeking comment on whether it had orders from Egypt or other parts of the Middle East.
The fracas started when a reporter from Radio Netherlands broadcast an Arabic translation of the Chinese advertisement of the product. That set off fears of conservative parliament members that Egyptian women might start ordering the kits. Obligatory quote from "educated" Muslim religious authority in 5....4...3....
Sheik Sayed Askar, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood who is on the parliamentary committee on religious affairs, said the kit will make it easier for Egyptian women to give in to temptation. He demanded the government take responsibility for fighting the product to uphold Egyptian and Arab values. "It will be a mark of shame on the ruling party if it allowed this product to enter the market," he said in a notice posted on the Brotherhood's parliament Web site on Sept. 15. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest political opposition group, holds 88 of Egypt's 454 parliament seats.
Prominent Egyptian religious scholar Abdel Moati Bayoumi said anyone who imports the artificial hymen should be punished. "This product encourages illicit sexual relations. Islamic culture forbids these relations except within the confines of marriage," Bayoumi said. "I think this should absolutely not be allowed to be exported because I just hate it if a woman can compare my lack of technique to another man's skill! it brings more harm than benefits. Whoever does it (imports it) should be punished."
In a country and a region where pre-marital sex is so taboo it can even lead to a woman's murder, the debate over the virginity-faking kit has revived Egypt's constant struggle to reconcile modern mores with more traditional beliefs -- namely, that a woman is not a virgin unless she bleeds after the first time.
"Bleeding is not the only signal that yes, she's a virgin," said Heba Kotb, an observant Muslim woman who hosts a sex talk show on TV in which she fields calls from all over the Middle East. Yeah, but it makes 'em feel so MACHO!
Kotb noted that a medical procedure that reattaches a broken hymen by stitching is illegal in Egypt and can cost hundreds of dollars -- prohibitively expensive for the poor. But many women still secretly seek it out in fear of punishment for pre-marital sex. Such punishment could include slayings at the hands of relatives, a practice more commonly referred to as honor killings and common in the more conservative tribal areas of the Middle East.
Marwa Rakha, an author and blogger who writes about dating issues, sees the product as a tool of empowerment for women in a macho Arab culture that restricts women's sexual urges but turns a blind eye to men galavanting. "It sticks it in the face of every male hypocrite," she said. Hmm. I wonder if this company would allow some decadent Western tramp (aka me) to buy one on behalf of an Arab woman as a wedding present? What's that argument we always hear from regulation happy wankers here? "If it saves one life..."
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In that Egyptian women are justifiably annoyed to no end with this crapola, I bet there is no end to their glee at the writhing of the nasty Nellies.
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Mr. Wife was told by Japanese friends at university that the reconstructive surgery was very popular with Japanese girls who'd come to the U.S. to improve their English and have an adventure. This was the late 1970s, so possibly the girls no longer ask, "Anetowa skibi deska?"
[Dawn] Ugandan authorities have detained top Rwandan genocide suspect Idelphonse Nizeyimana, the so-called Butcher of Butare, officials said on Tuesday. The United States had offered a five million dollar reward for the capture of Nizeyimana, a former Rwandan army intelligence officer and one of the four most wanted suspects on an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) list.
Nizeyimana, who was captured Monday in a Kampala hotel, served as an intelligence officer in the southern university town of Butare at the time of the mass killings in which an estimated 800,000 people died in 100 days in 1994.
He is wanted for genocide, complicity to commit genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
Nizeyimana, a Hutu, is accused of being one of the two leading planners of massacres in Butare, notably of ethnic Tutsi students and lecturers at the university and of ordering the execution of Queen Rosalie Gicanda, the widow of King Mutara III and a figure revered by Tutsis.
Massacres began later in Butare than in other parts of Rwanda. Hutus and Tutsis had lived there in harmony there and it was only after the removal and execution of the local prefect that the killings started.
Nizeyimana was handed over to authorities of the Tanzania-based ICTR.
'We got him. He was in a hotel and our intelligence located him. Through Interpol the police was able to identify him (and check) that he was the one on the wanted list,' Ugandan police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba told AFP.
The other top fugitives on the ICTR list are Felicien Kabuga, the suspected genocide financier, former defence minister Augustin Bizimana and Protais Mpiranya who commanded the presidential guard.
Nizeyimana is also on a United States list of Rwandan genocide suspects with a five million-dollar (3.5 million-euro) bounty on his head.
Rwandan prosecution spokesman Augustin Nkusi welcomed Nzeyimana's capture but said Rwandan authorities would prefer that he be extradited to face trial at the scene of his crimes.
Nizeyimana was captured after a tip-off and did not resist arrest, the deputy chief of Uganda Interpol, Elly Womanya, said.
His arrest was a collaborative work between the ICTR, Interpol and Ugandan authorities.
'He is in the custody of the ICTR,' Roland Amoussouga, a spokesman for the tribunal told AFP in Arusha, Tanzania.
Police said Nizeyimana arrived in Uganda around October 1 from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and may have been heading for Nairobi or Tanzania.
Since the recent thaw in Rwanda-DR Congo relations, Kinshasa has been under pressure to hand over to the ICTR suspected organisers of the genocide hiding there.
This article starring:
Idelphonse Nizeyimana
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So, when does Rwanda becomes member of UN's HRC?
[Bangla Daily Star] An independent team of investigators from Dhaka probing the abduction and rape of a class VII schoolgirl in Kalapara yesterday alleged that the local police refused to collaborate with them.
Police officer Kabir Hossain who rescued the victim in the early hours of September 26 was meanwhile transferred to Patuakhali Police Reserve office.
Patuakhali Superintendent of Police (SP) Saibal Kanti Chowdhury said that the transfer was done as per the wish of Kabir, an assistant sub-inspector.
The team from Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) comprising two lawyers and two senior investigators said that they were denied access by the Kalapara police to general diaries (GDs), statements of the victim and her relatives and police logs during the events of September 25, when the juvenile was abducted and raped by a gang of youths.
Team leader of the investigators Abu Ahmed Faijul Kabir said that as per law the police are under legal obligation to produce the documents to investigators to facilitate the probe in order to unearth facts.
"Police alibi about the timing of rescue of the victim and other events following the incident were also extremely confusing," said the team leader.
Kalapara police's role in the sensational incident came under question from the very beginning when they failed to lodge any case or arrest anyone in this connection allegedly under the pressure from the local ruling party high-ups present there at the time.
On September 27, the alleged rapists were summoned to appear at a local high school along with their parents and punished by a jury of arbitrators comprising local ruling party leaders and activists.
All the 16 rapists and accomplices were fined Tk 10,000 each. They were released after they were beaten as prescribed by the arbitrators. The family of the victim was provided with the money realised as fines by the leaders on condition that they remained silent about the fact of that night.
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Apparently it's not rape-rape, because the local police would be all over it if it was.
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I'd look closely at the description of the Rapist and see if any of the Officers match.
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Unfortunately, there are some [too many] who want to stay on the Plantation. We just object to such voting themselves more money created by the skill and work of others. It grates against the principles of 'thou shall not covet' and 'thou shall not steal'. Of course soci@lism is based upon 'thou shall covet' and 'thou shall steal', thus the rewards.
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I could not say it better myself better, procopius2k.
These idiots vote for democrats that put their businesses out of business and then stand in line for money from other people who still have jobs. Rinse and repeat and all you will be left with is lines of ignorant, stupid, and uneducated people everywhere.
And the money will be useless.
What is the use of paying anyone anything if no one will do any work?
The European Union has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states.
Confidential negotiations on how to implement the Lisbon Treaty have produced proposals to allow the EU to negotiate treaties and even open embassies across the world.
A letter conferring a full "legal personality" for the Union has been drafted in order for a new European diplomatic service to be recognised as fully fledged negotiators by international bodies and all non-EU countries.
According to one confidential paper, the first pilot "embassies" are planned in New York, Kabul and Addis Ababa.
Lorraine Mullally, the director of Open Europe, described the move as "a huge transfer of power which makes the EU look more like a country than an international agreement".
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I'm sure they okayed this with their population beforehand.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Turkish police have resorted to the use of force to disperse a crowd of demonstrators protesting a meeting of the International Monetary Found (IMF) in Istanbul.
The protesters came together around Taksim Square, a business neighborhood of the Turkish city, on Tuesday near the venue of the IMF meeting.
Some protestors reportedly broke shop windows near the site of the demonstrations. Police was forced to use pepper gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd of demonstrators.
Similar protests were also held at Bilgi University with the demonstrators chanting "Go away IMF. You're stealing money."
The IMF delegates were in Istanbul to discuss ways to "tackle poverty and to devise strategies to prevent another global economic crisis."
Last week, a protester threw a shoe at the international body's head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, during an appearance at a university in the city, CNN reported.
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Throwing back a 9mm slug would cut down on that.
Yes, doctors that make up the finest medical system in the world. The same system that Obama and the Union Bosses want to destroy and replace with government beaurocrats and union members.
Three Americans - two of them women - won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for work that used simple pond organisms to uncover a key part of the aging process in our own cells.
It was the first time that the prize for medicine went to two women - Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California San Francisco and Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University. The other winner, Jack Szostak, is a biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Their work in the early 1980s clarified the nature of molecular-scale structures called telomeres - sometimes likened to the caps at the ends of shoelaces because they keep our genetic material from fraying. As we age, our telomeres inexorably shrink, causing the death of our cells and, eventually, us.
The study of telomeres has since opened up vast avenues of research not only in aging but in cancer and other diseases. "Those of us in the field have been asking, 'When in the world is the Nobel committee going to get around to this?' " said Joseph Gall, a biologist at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.
In cancer, tumor cells often manage to turn off the telomere aging clock - allowing more rapid, uncontrolled division, and researchers are experimenting with drugs to turn the clock back on.
Others have found that in healthy people, exercise can keep telomeres long while certain kinds of stress can shorten them.
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Probably good that Barack and Michele didn't campaign for these Nobel prize winners--might not have won. Probably someone from Brazil would have won.
[Dawn] The dollar's future as the world's top currency was thrown into doubt on Tuesday as a report said Arab states had launched secret moves with China and Russia to stop using the greenback for oil trading. Arab states have undertakn steps with China, Russia, Japan and France to stop using the dollar for oil trades, British daily The Independent reported on Tuesday, but this was denied by Kuwait, Qatar and reportedly other nations.
Despite the denials, the story sent the dollar sliding against rival currencies. In turn, that sent gold prices surging a new record high at 1,038.65 dollars per ounce, as the dollar-denominated precious metal became cheaper for buyers using stronger currencies.
It comes as the United Nations called Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy, which has allowed the United States the 'privilege' of building a huge trade deficit.
'In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning -- along with China, Russia, Japan and France -- to end dollar dealings for oil,' The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday. They would instead switch 'to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar, the paper added.
Jane Foley, currency analyst at Forex.com, said the report was 'another chapter in the plot against the dollar as the world's most dominant reserve currency.'
She added: 'The dollar may be falling from grace, but it remains the case that since there are no alternatives its fall from pole position will be slow.'
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Sabah denied the report.
'Not at all,' Sheikh Ahmad said when asked by journalists to comment on The Independent story. 'At our level, no. We have never discussed or proposed this,' he said, adding that he was 'unaware' of any Gulf state making such a proposal.
Qatar's oil minister also flatly denied the report. 'Qatar has no information about what the newspaper has published and there are no secret or announced meetings concerning that matter,' Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah told reporters in Doha.
Fisk however reported that secret meetings had been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which would result in oil no longer being priced in dollars.
'An eventual move towards oil being traded in a wider range of currencies is possible, but in our view, The Independent article makes it sound far more imminent than it likely is,' said Barclays Capital currency analyst Adarsh Sinha. 'In particular, the political consensus needed to achieve this would be very difficult, especially at a time when there is an apparent lack of consensus on more proximate issues for GCC countries, such as the Gulf Monetary Union.'
The report comes against a background of an agreement between China and Russia earlier this year to boost the use of their domestic currencies in bilateral trade at the dollar's expense. Both countries have called for a revamp of the global financial system in the wake of the economic crisis, saying there is a need for a new supra-national currency besides the dollar.
Meanwhile in Istanbul on Tuesday, UN undersecretary-general for economic and social affairs, Sha Zukang, said 'important progress in managing imbalances can be made by reducing the (dollar) reserve currency country's 'privilege' to run external deficits in order to provide international liquidity.'
Zukang was speaking at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
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Thousands of people get sick with food poisoning each year, resulting in lost workdays, hospital stays, or, in some cases, long-term illness or even death. And even in cases where food is supposedly safe, it may still contain debilitating bacteria that, for all the government's best intentions, still gets through to wreak havoc among the public.
All that could change, though, thanks to a new innovation by Israeli startup MS-Tech (http://www.ms-tech.co.il/). MS-Tech, which has been deeply involved in the area of sensor technology for years, is developing a hand-held sensor for use by government, industry and consumers that will indicate quickly whether food is safe to eat - or whether it should be disposed of as a health hazard, like those burgers that destroyed Stephanie Smith's life.
Currently, public food safety is in the hands of overworked and underpaid government inspectors, who must make do with inspecting small samples of stock, and determining based on those samples whether or not food is safe enough to be consumed by the public. But MS-Tech's FoodScan 3000 device, when it is ready, will take the power of safety out of the hands of government and put it where it belongs, says MS-Tech CEO Doron Shalom - in the hands of the people most affected by food safety issues, the consumers themselves The evil Juden---not content with brutally opressing Palestinians, they try to undermine public order everywhere. Just think of thousands of food expection jobs lost!
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There are three things that can put a lot of this down. The first is the butcher's advice that when you remove whole meat from the package, wash it off before using it. This is because most of the bacterial contamination is on the surface, and even a brief rinse will considerably reduce it.
The second thing is the use of bacteriophage, bacteria eating organisms, in a spray on the food. This is done before it is packaged. Bacteriophage are harmless to humans and convey no flavor to the meat.
The third thing is to package the meat in an airtight package with some carbon monoxide gas. This makes the meat continue to be bright red in color, instead of gray from exposure to the air. It is also very toxic to most bacteria.
Lyrics of a song taught at a Maryland public school:
Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama--He says
Yes we can!
President Obama--We say
Yes we can!
President Obama--I say
Yes I can!
President Obama--He says
Yes we can!
Barack Obama--Oh yes he rates,
The first Black President in the United States!
He's smart and he's--so so good!
He'll lead this country as he should!
He wants us all to work together,
To make this country even better!
Prez' Obama says--"Yes We Can!"
Make the US better--hand in hand!
Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama,
President Obama
President!
Here's a translation of "The East is Red":
The east is red, the sun is rising.
China has brought forth a Mao Zedong.
He amasses fortune for the people,
Hurrah, he is the people's great savior.
Chairman Mao loves the people,
He is our guide,
To build a new China,
Hurrah, he leads us forward!
The Communist Party is like the sun,
Wherever it shines, it is bright.
Wherever there is a Communist Party,
Hurrah, there the people are liberated!
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.
Woman killed under garage door lured medics away with fake 911 call
