[Hurriyet Daily News] An ex-convict in the southeastern Ottoman Turkish province of Adiyaman, whose past murders include his first wife and son, has killed his third wife and her son.
Local media reported on Sept. 25 that the 76-year-old man, identified only as Bekir A., killed his third wife Emine and their 18-year-old son Enes in the Guzelyurt village last week.
Police launched an investigation to catch the man, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after committing the murders.
According to reports, the man had killed his first wife and son 34 years ago.
After spending only eight years in jail, he was released but nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! soon after for killing his aunt’s son.
Suffering from psychiatric issues, the man was released again with a medical report.
He had a short marriage with his second wife, before divorcing her and marrying 61-year-old Emine Orki.
Their son Enes was reportedly preparing to start university this week after winning the entrance exam for Igdir University.
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[ARABNEWS] His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman and was immediately led away in handcuffs at age 81, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison.
The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall from grace for the comedian, former TV star and breaker of racial barriers.
"It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Constand’s own statement to the court, in which she said Cosby took her "beautiful, young spirit and crushed it."
Cosby declined the opportunity to speak before the sentence came down, and afterward he sat smiling, laughing and chatting with defense team. His wife of 54 years, Camille, was not in court. Constand smiled broadly upon hearing the punishment and was hugged by others in the courtroom.
Cosby’s lawyers asked that he be allowed to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction, but the judge appeared incredulous over the request and ordered him locked up immediately, saying that "he could quite possibly be a danger to the community."
Cosby was also fined $25,000.
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[Asharq Al-Awsat] Scientists said Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.
So-called gene drive technology works by forcing evolution's hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to a higher proportion of offspring -- across many generations -- than would have occurred naturally.
In experiments with the species Anopheles gambiae, scientists at Imperial College London tweaked a gene known as doublesex so that more females in each generation could no longer bite or reproduce.
After only eight generations, there were no females left and the population collapsed due to lack of offspring.
"This breakthrough shows that gene drive can work, providing hope in the fight against a disease that has plagued mankind for centuries," said lead author Andrea Crisanti, a professor in Imperial's Department of Life Sciences.
Previous attempts by the same team and others to induce the genetically programmed extinction of mosquitos in the laboratory ran into "resistance" in the form of mutations that fought back against the high-tech engineering.
- A TIMELY BREAKTHROUGH -
The next step will be to test the technology in a confined laboratory setting that mimics a tropical environment, said Crisanti.
"It will be at least five-to-ten years before we consider testing any mosquitoes with gene drive in the wild," he said in a statement.
The doublesex gene targeted in the experiments is deeply "conserved", meaning that is formed tens or even hundreds of millions of years ago and is today shared by many insects with only minor variations.
"This suggests the technology could be used in the future to specifically target other disease-carrying insects," the researchers said.
Scientists not involved in the study described it as a timely breakthrough.
"Traditional approaches to controlling mosquitoes -- especially the use of insecticides -- is becoming less effective," mainly due to the build-up of resistance, said Cameron Webb, a clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney.
The new research, published in Nature Biotechnology, was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has poured close to $100 million (95 million euros) into the development of gene drive technology -- especially via the research consortium Target Malaria -- with the aim of eradicating the disease.
The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has also invested tens of millions of dollars.
"It is incumbent on DARPA to perform this research and develop technologies that can protect against accidental and intentional misuse," DARPA spokesman Jared Adams told AFP last December.
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Scientists said Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.
Cause they couldn't program the female of the species to go full femnazi?
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Won't be allowed. That'd be a Genetically Modified Organism. GMO=BAD.
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I can see something like this working if you can introduce enough modified mosquitoes to form a significant fraction of the breeding population. But if you can only introduce a minuscule fraction, how is the genetic modification going to spread? The descendants of the modified strains, by construction, don't reproduce as quickly as the native ones.
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#5 I can see something like this working if you can introduce enough modified mosquitoes to form a significant fraction of the breeding population
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[Breitbart] Fonda has expressed mixed feelings about her infamous trip to Vietnam in 1972. Last year, she told BBC, "I don’t regret going to Vietnam."
"We were bombing, and it wasn’t being talked about," she also said. "And I thought, ’I’m a celebrity. Maybe if I go, and I bring back evidence’ And it did stop two months after I got back, so I’m proud that I went. It changed my life all for the good,"
However, she did say, "The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun. It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ’Oh my gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding with the enemy,’ which is the last thing in the world that was true."
This July, she commented on the photo again, saying, "I am proud I went to Vietnam when I did. I am so sorry that I was thoughtless enough to sit down on that gun at that time and the message that that sends to the guys who were there and their families."
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At Mather AFB we took over a Marine Corps navigator trading building as a command headquarters in 93. Jane Fonda’s picture was precisely placed in the urinal and remained there for all our tenure. Some things are never forgiven.....
I was on Morrissey Boulevard (about 1/2 mile south of the former Boston Globe HQ) at 11:15 yesterday morning when I saw this nut fly up on me and basically started tailgating me. Granted, I came onto it a little hot off of Exit 14 North off of I-93 (downhill slope, slight rain for weather), then I looked back & saw the guy speaking into one of those handheld radio thingies, and I'm like 'I'm not even speeding (much)!' So I switch from the middle lane to the right lane, figuring he was going to hit his blues any second and pull me over for something, but he took off into the other lanes a few seconds later.
Here's why he was on me, apparently running my plate (my cop roommate confirmed this when I told him the story):
"Police are still searching for the gray Toyota Corolla that Allen Warner drove away in on Monday night."
MUMBAI (AFP) - An Indian passenger sparked panic in mid-air when he tried to open a plane door, apparently mistaking it for the toilet, the airline and reports said.
The man was travelling on a GoAir flight from New Delhi to Patna on Saturday when he attempted to open the aircraft's rear exit, the carrier said.
"A co-passenger raised the alarm and he was intercepted by the crew," GoAir said in a statement emailed to AFP on Tuesday.
Indian media reports said he was a first time flier in his late 20s.
When fellow passengers asked him what he was doing he told them he "needed to use the washroom urgently and kept tugging at the exit door", The Telegraph, a Kolkata-based newspaper, quoted an airport official as saying.
To Patna he flew from New Delhi,
But something had hijacked his belly:
They sent out a scooper
For poor B.D. Pooper,
And some say that plane is still smelly.
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Is there even any In-N-outs in Texas? I can't recall seeing one. And I'm not so sure it's Whataburger honestly. Chick-filet is the one with 3 lane drive throughs and is ALWAYS busy, every location, anytime they are open.
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The "source" of this was an App called Foursquare... So transplanted out-of-state urban Millennials would starve looking for an In-N-Outs without the help of an iPhone?
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I've seen several in the I-35 corridor, even eaten at one. Unimpressed.
On the other hand, my wife, who has a fondness for the newest 'gourmet' burgers, allows me to take her to Whataburger (family owned sine 1952) every so often.
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Not sure about hipster; the bigwigs in the State of California called for a boycott. Got their pee-pees smacked over it.
Foursquare is a yellow pages of sorts for food, IIUC. A hipster app? I don't know.
I've heard both burger joints are good. I'll say I am richer for not living within driving distance of a Braum's. Could break a budget at Winstead's as well.
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Yes, we have In-n-Out Burger joints in Texas. 25 of them in the DFW Metroplex alone. They're okay, I'm still a Whataburger guy myself. Although Sonic will do as a standby.
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All the gas stations I go to have signs saying to shut off your engine before fueling.
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Aircraft are removed from service for maintenance and engine rehab based partly on engine start cycles. If there aren't enough assets, and critical missions, they can run longer if they run longer.
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If you don't shut 'em down, you don't have to do the dreaded dailies and preflights. just a splash of gas, swap the crew and send 'em on their way. Sometimes ordies get a bit testy if you want to re-arm while the power is still running to the pylons.....but that is what the weight-on-wheels switch is for, right?
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Did this in the army with the trucks too. Allowed for very fast fueling and scooting.
The reason it is more dangerous is that there is always a greater chance of ignition for the spilled fuel (there is always spilled fuel) if engines are running. Having your tanker area catch fire is always frowned upon.
[Breitbart] As the UK readies to depart the European Union (EU), figures show its exports to Israel soared by 75 percent in the first six months of 2018, a trend official figures show will continue climbing into 2019.
According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), exports from the UK to Israel (excluding diamonds) totalled $3.45 billion between January and June 2018, up from $1.97 billion in the first half of 2017. In June alone, UK exports to Israel jumped from $335.7 million in 2017 to $606.2 million this year.
Mineral products, machinery and electrical equipment and products of the chemical industry led the way. This continues a trend that has grown steadily from a base of $3.66 billion in 2016 to $4.30 billion in 2017 and will provide a template for other bilateral trade relationships after the Brexit process is completed.
Two-way trade between the UK and Israel has grown by eight percent in the first half of 2018 ‐ from $4 billion in 2017 to $4.33 billion in 2018. This is on top record levels achieved in the last two years: $9.1 billion in 2017 and $7.2 billion in 2016, according to the ICBS.
British PM Theresa May highlighted the importance of UK-Israel trade during a speech in London last month, when she applauded the strength of the relationship binding the countries together.
[The National] The US sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s wife and several close associates in an escalation of the Trump administration's efforts to punish the socialist regime for corruption and anti-democratic practices.
Cilia Flores de Maduro, 61, is the first lady, a former attorney general and head of the National Assembly. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez, as well as Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino were also included.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said shortly after the penalties were announced on Tuesday that his administration is looking at further sanctions "very strongly."
"What is going on in Venezuela really is unacceptable," Mr Trump said later Tuesday during a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... . "The Maduro regime is obviously not doing the job."
US pressure on Mr Maduro has increased as the South American nation deals with hyperinflation that’s expected to reach one million percent by the end of the year, vast food shortages and collapsing oil production. The leftist leader is widely unpopular but has clung to power through what the US claims are rigged elections and corruption.
"President Maduro relies on his inner circle to maintain his grip on power, as his regime systematically plunders what remains of Venezuela’s wealth," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
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[Euronews] HONG KONG ‐ China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, American officials said Tuesday.
The incident came amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over tariffs and follows the U.S. last week imposing sanctionson China after it bought arms from Russia.
The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, had been due to make a port call in the former British colony of Hong Kong in October, diplomatic sources told Reuters.
"The Chinese government did not approve a request for a U.S. port visit to Hong Kong by the USS Wasp," a spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate in the city said.
"We have a long track record of successful port visits to Hong Kong, and we expect that to continue," she added.
In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang did not directly answer a question on whether China had denied the request.
"For requests for U.S. military ships to visit Hong Kong, China has always carried out approvals case by case, in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the detailed situation," he told reporters, without elaborating.
[Sputnik] A Chinese national who arrived in the US on a student visa and studied at the Illinois Institute Technology has been arrested for allegedly "working at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer" in the Ministry of State Security for China, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The suspect, Ji Chaoqun, is 27 years old and was arrested Tuesday in Chicago, according to the Justice Department. He is accused of secretly carrying out the orders of an officer in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a branch of China's Ministry of State Security.
"According to the complaint, Ji was born in China and arrived in the United States in 2013 on an F1 Visa, for the purpose of studying electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 2016, Ji enlisted in the US Army Reserves as an E4 Specialist under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program, which authorizes the US Armed Forces to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills are considered vital to the national interest," the Justice Department said in a press release.
When applying to the MAVNI program, Ji specifically denied having had contact with a foreign government within the past seven years, and later failed to disclose his relationship and contacts with the Chinese government in an interview with a US Army officer, the charge alleges.
Prosecutors claimed during his hearing that Ji used his position to spy on US engineers and defense contractors. The Justice Department complaint alleges that Ji targeted eight individuals for possible recruitment, among them Chinese nationals working as engineers and scientists in the US, some for defense contractors.
The US Army's military intelligence unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the US Attorney's Office in Illinois worked on the case. Ji was due in court at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday. While Ji remains innocent until proven guilty, he could face up to 10 years in prison, the Justice Department noted. Ji is being charged with one count of acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the Justice Department.
According to an FBI special agent's affidavit, Ji scouted eight "naturalized US citizens born in Taiwan or China now living in the United States. All eight individuals either currently worked in or were recently retired from a career in the science and technology industry, including several individuals specializing in aerospace fields." Ji also obtained background reports from Intelius, Instant Checkmate and Spokeo before sending these reports to an unknown email address, which was then forwarded to an unnamed Chinese intelligence officer. Ji described this information as "eight sets of midterm test questions for the last three years," the affidavit noted.
"Based upon my training and experience, it appears that Ji was tasked by Intelligence Officer A to provide him with biographical information on eight individuals for possible recruitment… Ji attempted to cover up the work he was doing on behalf of Intelligence Office A by misrepresenting the contents of the attachments, calling them 'Midterm Test Questions' rather than stating the true contents of the email — background checks on ethnic Chinese working as engineers and scientists, including for cleared US defense contractors," said the FBI special agent investigating the case.
"It is typical trade craft for Chinese intelligence officers to instruct their US assets to conceal information they are providing to their handlers in China in order to protect that information, the asset and the intelligence officer," the FBI agent noted.
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Ji was born in China and arrived in the United States in 2013 on an F1 Visa, for the purpose of studying electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 2016, Ji enlisted in the US Army Reserves as an E4 Specialist under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program
[WND] Planned Parenthood convinced a hotel in Austin, Texas, to cancel a screening of a new movie about convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, according to the film’s producers.
The movie, "Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer," which opens in theaters Oct. 12, was to be screened Saturday night in the Hyatt Hotel in the Texas capital at the same time Planned Parenthood hosts a $400 a plate gala dinner headlined by Cecille Richards, the organization’s former CEO.
The movie’s producers, however, were told Monday by the hotel the screen was canceled for "security reasons."
The producers told WND they paid the deposit and signed the contract to reserve the space for the screening.
"Everything that was required by the Hyatt was provided and completed as required," a spokesman said.
The rise of SpaceX as a major launch provider has been the most surprising evolution of the launch sector during the past decade. It forced incumbent industrial actors to adapt their business model to face this new competitor. European actors are particularly threatened today, since European Autonomous Access to Space highly depends on the competitive edge of the Ariane launcher family. This study argues that the framework of analysis which best describes the events leading to the current situation is the theory of disruptive innovation.
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Oh noes, SpaceX!!11!!!
Europe threatened.
Need moar EU
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A response to the #MeTooMovement? Just a lot safer and more meaningful to have a relationship with a sexbot than run the risk of a relationship with today's womyn.
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A message for future Bay Staters:
Be kind to that critter that caters!
Please, never be rude
As they bring you your food...
Unless you're the waiters' creators.
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[ARABNEWS] The defeated strongman of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, is welcome in neighboring Sri Lanka, Colombo said Tuesday, two days after his surprise defeat in presidential elections.
Sri Lanka has long been a haven for dissidents from the nearby Maldives over years of political upheaval, including for hundreds of opponents of Yameen since he became president in 2013.
In a phone call on Monday, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe "informed Mr. Yameen that he is welcome in Colombo at any time," the premier’s office said.
Wickremesinghe made the call after hosting Yameen’s arch rival and former Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed at a luncheon meeting on Monday.
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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.
[ARABNEWS] His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman and was immediately led away in handcuffs at age 81, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison.
Setting a new course for Da Nang skipper. We should be arriving sometime Friday morning. 
[Sputnik] A Chinese national who arrived in the US on a student visa and studied at the Illinois Institute Technology has been arrested for allegedly "working at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer" in the Ministry of State Security for China, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
[WND] Planned Parenthood convinced a hotel in Austin, Texas, to cancel a screening of a new movie about convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, according to the film’s producers.
