An Israeli woman has been charged with two counts of felony for plotting to kill her ex-husband who is a prosecutor in Aspen, Colorado. I think I used to be married to her. She didn't tell me she was Israeli, though.
On Thursday, the Jefferson County Court charged Elinor Dvir with solicitation of first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree assault. The 36-year-old woman had offered an undercover agent, disguised as a hit man, USD 2,000 to 'eliminate' prosecutor Richard Nedlin. "Why don't you just divorce him?"
"I like blood."
"If the body disappeared that's fine, but I'd prefer it to look like an accident, like stuff his body with cocaine, like an overdose. It's got to be done in a very smart way," Dvir had said to the undercover officer. "Maybe you could just take a picture of him with rigor mortis. Or even lividity. I like lividity."
She had also reportedly said it would not matter if Nedlin's pregnant wife was also killed. "She's an insignificant bitsch."
She was arrested on Sunday a day after the operative informed the authorities about her offer. "You guyz gotta hear this one!"
He added that he had met Dvir through the Denver Metro VIP, where she worked as a prostitute. Couldn't be the same gal I was married to. She'd starve to death as a hooker.
The suspect, who if convicted could face up to 20 years in prison, was apparently driven by the urge to win the custody of their daughter. Her criminal record includes apprehension by the Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS) for smuggling diamond from Israel. Dvir next trial is set for March 27.
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He added that he had met Dvir through the Denver Metro VIP, where she worked as a prostitute.
That S&W size bulge on your hip is huring my leg, you come here often handsome? Yea, Vinnie the owner is my cousin. I....help him out when I'm in town. You needs any help?
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Why was she still in this country to begin with?
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"Why was she still in this country to begin with?"
Rhetorical snark? LOL. As our deportation process is so efficient. After they caught her w/the diamonds they prolly released her on her own recognizance and hoped she'd show up for the trial on her own good volition. (sarc/off)
A US appeals court on Friday denied bail to Wall Street fraud convict Bernard Madoff, as prosecutors highlighted public outrage in a slew of emails demanding retribution. The three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's decision to jail Madoff until his June 16 sentencing, saying that the disgraced money manager might try to escape.
Madoff (70) faces up to 150 years in prison for fraud, money laundering, perjury and theft. Friday's ruling effectively means he may never spend a night outside a cell again.
For Madoff's thousands of victims -- unaware over at least two decades that he was stealing billions of dollars worth of their investment funds -- a life sentence is barely enough.
Emails sent to the judge who presided during Madoff's guilty plea last week boil with anger at the once-respected Nasdaq chairperson, as well as bewilderment at the slow pace of the probe into his giant fraud.
"You are a murderer ... You are a rapist ... You are a larcenist," a victim writes in one of approximately 100 emails released to the media by prosecutors.
"You must be void of any human emotion, which makes you truly evil," another writes.
Victims represented in the emails run the gamut from rich investors who lost millions in Madoff's Ponzi scheme to those who invested much smaller amounts and now find themselves bankrupted.
One suggests to the court that Madoff be made to work in a supermarket, clean public toilets and "stand on corners and announce in 101 ways how he's a creep".
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let him out and lets get a pool going too see how long he makes it
On Tuesday, the Milan stock exchange saw perhaps the chilliest ever protest action against the dull economic policy of the Italian government.
Actress Laura Perego, best known for her passionate performances in adult movies, walked onto the stock market floor, removed her black coat and revealed her body painted in the colours of the Italian flag; naked apart from some tiny underwear.
The 22-year-old Sicilian's symbolic protest was so she could accuse the country's magnates of "stripping Italians of everything but their underwear."
New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake
hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows.
A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed the fault motion for eight years using global positioning system measurements and found that it is much less than expected given the 500- to 1,000-year repeat cycle for major earthquakes on that fault.
The last large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone were magnitude 7-7.5 events in 1811 and 1812.
Estimating an accurate earthquake threat for the area, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky, is crucial for the communities potentially affected, said Eric Calais, the Purdue researcher who led the study.
"Our findings suggest the steady-state model of quasi-cyclical earthquakes that works well for faults at the boundaries of tectonic plates, such as the San Andreas fault, does not apply to the New Madrid fault," said Calais, who is a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.
"At plate boundaries, faults move at a rate that is consistent with the rate of earthquakes so that past events are a reliable guide to the future. In continents, this does not work. The past is not necessarily a key to the future, which makes estimating earthquake hazard particularly difficult."
The team determined that the ground surrounding the fault system is moving at a rate of less than 0.2 millimeters per year and there is likely no motion. A paper detailing the work is published in the current issue of Science magazine.
Seth Stein, co-author of the paper, said this surface movement represents energy being stored that could be released as an earthquake.
"Building up energy for an earthquake is like saving money for a big purchase," said Stein, the William Deering Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University.
"You put money in over a long period of time and then spend it all at once and have to start saving again."
With an earthquake, it is elastic deformation that must be built up. This can be measured using GPS through movements on the surface, he said.
"The slower the ground moves, the longer it takes until the next earthquake, and if it stops moving, the fault could be shutting down," Stein said.
"We can't tell whether the recent cluster of big earthquakes in the New Madrid is coming to an end. But the longer the GPS data keep showing no motion, the more likely it seems."
The U.S. Geological Survey-funded study used data recorded at nine GPS antennas mounted in the ground in the earthquake zone.
"GPS technology can measure movement to the thickness of a fishing line," Stein said. "Use of GPS to study earthquakes shows the impact a new technology can have. It lets us see that the world is different than we thought it was."
In the Midwest there are other faults that show no activity today but have evidence of earthquakes occurring within the past 10,000 to 1 million years, Calais said.
"If other faults in the central and eastern U.S. have been active recently, geologically speaking, they could potentially be activated again in the future," he said. "We need to develop a new paradigm for how earthquakes happen at faults that are inside continents."
Calais and Stein are exploring possible explanations for the behavior of faults like the New Madrid. One possibility is that earthquakes in these areas occur in clusters and then migrate to a nearby fault.
"There is the possibility that seismicity migrates with time as earthquakes trigger earthquakes on nearby faults," Calais said. "Geologists studying the seismic history of faults have found that there have been earthquakes on several faults in the central and eastern U.S. and that they seem to produce bursts of earthquakes and then turn off."
Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholics of Angola on Saturday to reach out to and convert believers in witchcraft who feel threatened by "spirits" and "evil powers" of sorcery.
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DUBAI - A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine and another U.S. vessel that collided on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz bordering Iran have arrived at a Bahrain port to be assessed for damage, the U.S. Navy said on Saturday.
Submarine USS Hartford and amphibious vessel USS New Orleans have arrived at Mina Salman Port to further assess and evaluate the damage that resulted from their collision at sea, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.
Fifteen sailors were slightly injured in the collision early on Friday, the second collision involving a U.S. nuclear submarine in the Strait of Hormuz in about two years. There was no damage to the USS Hartfords atomic propulsion unit but the other vessel suffered a ruptured fuel tank, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 25,000 gallons (113,700 litres) of marine diesel fuel, the Navy said.
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In case someone has to ask, subs rely on passive sonar for their navigation to and from other ships. In crowded and shallow waters (like the Strait of Hormuz), the background noise can be so great would be like trying to whisper at a rock concert.
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There are only 2 types of ships:
1) subs
2) targets
Thousands of Venezuelans have protested in the oil city of Maracaibo against an attempt to arrest an opposition politician on corruption charges.
Activists from different opposition political parties who took part in the march on Friday spoke out against the attempt to detain Manuel Rosales. They said it was a case of political persecution by Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president.
A former presidential candidate, Rosales is the mayor of Maracaibo, the country's second largest city and the capital of Zulia state.
Addressing Friday's rally, he said: "There is no justice in Venezuela. But we will continue fighting."
Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas, said: "What they want to do to Manuel Rosales is not a trial, it's a political lynching."
Oscar Perez, an opposition politician, said: "The persecution of the opposition is beginning. And I'm sure that Rosales won't be the last to go to jail."
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The sad thing is that Rosales is very likely corrupt as hell. But then so is anyone over the age of 15 making more than $40000 per annum. It's the old commie game.
BRUSSELS - Belgian police on Saturday detained at least 150 pacifists who staged an anti-NATO protest, including some who tried to get into the organisations headquarters, an AFP photographer witnessed.
The protest was organised by the group Vredesactie, translated as action for peace. Most of the demonstrators were picked up by mounted police close to the NATO building although there was no violence.
Hundreds of people responded to the groups call to stage protests demanding the abolition of NATO, which is holding a summit from April 3 to 4 in Strasbourg in France and at Kehl in Germany to mark its 60th anniversary. Sixty years is enough, said organisers of the protest in a statement.
Part of me agrees ...
The demonstrators demanded also that troops from the Western military alliance be pulled out of Afghanistan ...
Even though the Belgian troops aren't doing much other than barbering ...
... and that hundreds of American nuclear weapons at air bases in Europe, including in Belgium, be relocated to the US.
We could do that. We had the nukes there to deter the Soviets and the Soviets are gone. I don't know how many nukes we keep in Europe today but if that number is greater than zero, then bring them home. And let the Belgians figure out what to do if Putin turns off the natural gas.
Meanwhile, in Strasbourg, French police forced local people to take down rainbow peace flags hung from apartment balconies with the slogan No to NATO, residents said. Some police came at the start of the week and explained that they had received an order to ask people to take down the flags, said one man, Christian Grosse, also a Communist party activist.
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Bringing home the nukes may be a great idea, as I bet we have no idea how many nukes are still there, either. Do we really trust the Belgians?
Ya knowz times have moved on when one can basically agree with the basic demands of complete idiots like anti-NATO protesters.
Though I'd be for some new, rump alliance with the adults in Europe (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechs, Portugal, UK - perhaps my list needs lengthening or editing). Ya know, the ones' whose troops actually leave their bases and are allowed to use those long metal things they sling over their shoulders.
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#2 Flems yes, Walloners not so much, except for some of them, case by case I sez.
#3 Wait a sec... do I have that backwards....?
Maybe it's the Wallons and not the Flems.... which ones parachutered into the Congo?
Flems are the small businesspeople, the peasants, and Labour in general, Shipman, Walloons Management and the aristocracy with country estates, ancient stone keeps, and relatives (however distant) at Court. The Belgian Congo was a personal possession of the king, so that he needn't depend on taxes for his income. I imagine both Flems and Walloons parachuted in for him, as needed.
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Lessee how much of a sensible ballsy adult Sarko really is. Kind of bittersweet, even if he holds the line, since here in CA and the USA things are headed straight down the tubes at Mach 2. Think we'd ever see strikes like this by what used to be called "public servants"?
(APP): The United States favors a modest expansion of the UN Security Council as part of world body's reform but would not back extension of veto right to new permanent members, a U.S. official said. Sorry. No Islamic veto.
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The UNSC has to recognize reality, or a parallel organization will form outside of the UN that recognizes reality. The reality is that the UNSC, or facsimile, must include the US, Russia, China, India, Japan, the EU as a whole, and non-voting members with serious economic clout.
MADINAH: Islamic law prohibits marriage with ones wet nurse (for men), her husband (for women), her biological children and any nonbiological children she breast-fed. All such individuals are described as the persons mahram.
Since there is no official system of documenting the names and identities of children who have been breast-fed by a woman, some young men and women sometimes end up accidentally marrying someone suckled by their own wet nurse. This can cause difficulties when couples find out later in life. If they have children, then things can be an even bigger problem.
We were married for seven years before we discovered we were brothers and sisters. My mother-in-law had breast-fed me, said Hayat, a schoolteacher from Madinah. We were lucky as we had no children, she said, adding that she and her ex-husband only learned that she had been nursed by his mother when an old family friend visited her home.
She was astonished to find we were married. She reminded my mother that when she had had puerperal fever after giving birth to me, my former mother-in-law breast-fed me and that my marriage to her son was thus forbidden, she said.
Hayat and her husband divorced and remarried, subsequently becoming parents with their new spouses. Hayat said she does not regret separating, as she did not really love her ex-husband in the way one loves their spouse.
The story of Umm Abdul Aziz is more tragic. She was married for 30 years and mothered nine children before discovering her husband was her foster brother. It happened out of the blue. An elderly man came to my husband one day and told him that we had been suckled by the same woman. He even knew people who knew of this and could testify as witnesses. We were greatly shocked and deeply saddened, she said.
Umm Abdul Aziz said that since her children were old and some of them had traveled abroad to study, she and her husband felt it was needless to ruin their lives and decided to keep the matter a secret and continue living together as brother and sister and not as partners.
Since the question of who has breast-fed whom depends mainly on peoples memories, many people say there is a need to record such occurrences in order to avoid future problems.
Umm Hussein, an elderly woman, said she had breast-fed many children for over 30 years. I was fertile. I had nine children of my own. I fed another 15 children, she said, adding that she cannot remember all of the children she has breast-fed.
Siham, an Egyptian nurse, said she has breast-fed a number of her Saudi friends babies to deepen the Arab bond among people of the two countries. Discussing one particular case, she said she had helped a Saudi friend who could not breast-feed her baby girl. After she was discharged from hospital, my Saudi friend also breast-fed my baby boy who is a month older than her daughter. They are now brothers and sisters although they are from two different countries, she said.
Social worker Fatima Muhammad Al-Suwaisi underlined the problems that can be caused by not keeping records of who breast-fed whom. The husband and wife will suffer tremendous psychological and social pain when they discover after marriage that they are foster brothers and sisters, she said.
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"Since the question of who has breast-fed whom depends mainly on people's memories, many people say there is a need to record such occurrences in order to avoid future problems."
No, a change in this ridiculous belief is needed.
Free clue: Somebody breastfeeding you as a baby DOES NOT make you kin to their children (if you weren't already).
Parabellum has it right. :-(
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is breastfeeding other ppls children a common practice anywhere else besides the ME?
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Is it possible that there is a (well deserved) suspicion that Papa was getting to the wet nurse and the kids are probably true siblings? And if so was it so common that "laws" had to be made to minimize inbreeding?
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Hint - if'n yer chilluns can touch their shoulder blades together, then you married your sister, just like your daddy did...
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is breastfeeding other ppls children a common practice anywhere else besides the ME?
Since forever, well-off women have sent their babies to wet nurses, or brought them in. Sending them off kept them safe from chaotic households full of armed and cranky menfolk and plotting relatives, and kept Mama from getting too attached if Baby should die, as was common. Bringing in a wet nurse ensured she was properly fed and Baby sheltered from outside dangers. In both cases Mama kept her figure and her fancy clothes, and was available for breeding the next child sooner than the normal three years duration to full weaning until the last century.
Muscle-flexing robots with superhuman strength could become a reality thanks to a new expanding material that is stronger than steel.
Scientists have created a gel that acts like muscle when charged with electricity but is far more powerful. The "aerogel" is almost as light as air, as stretchy as rubber, and stiffer than steel by weight.
Made with ribbons of carbon "nanotubes" - tiny hollow tubes of carbon - the material can expand to 220% of its original length or width in milliseconds when electrically charged. The gel sheets are capable of handling dozens of times more stress than natural skeletal muscle, say researchers reporting on the technology in the journal Science. Once "flexed", the material can be "frozen" in place.
The US researchers, led by Dr Ray Baughman, from the University of Texas at Dallas, wrote: "These solid-state fabricated sheets are ... rubbers having gas-like density and specific strength in one direction higher than those of steel plate."
Canadian engineer Dr John Madden, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, said the material combined the properties of diamonds and rubber.
Currently the ribbons are very stiff in their "stretch" direction but their "transverse" strength is up to a million times weaker.
This ruled out applications requiring "large displacement and any appreciable force". But Dr Madden said the problem might be solved by increasing the ribbon density and interconnections between adjacent fibres. Writing in Science, he added: "When forces are increased, the ribbon artificial muscles will become candidates for use in medical devices, robots, and perhaps even implants."
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.
Thousands of Venezuelans have protested in the oil city of Maracaibo against an attempt to arrest an opposition politician on corruption charges.
