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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Severed head in Pennsylvania may be linked to body parts market
[Rooters] Investigators said on Monday that red balls had been placed in the eye sockets of a woman's embalmed head found a year ago in a case that may be linked to a growing black market for body parts.

Economy Borough Police Chief Michael O'Brien at a news conference appealed to the public for help identifying the woman, whose head was discovered in the woods by a child walking home in the rural town about 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Pittsburgh on Dec. 12, 2014.

Despite nearly 30 leads from the public following publication of artist renderings and a bust of the woman's head, she remains unidentified, police said. She was described as Caucasian and about age 50.

Beaver County District Attorney Anthony Berosh said an investigation is under way and it encompasses a range of possibilities.

"There's a black market on body parts and that market is pretty extensive," Berosh said.

O'Brien said the head was found too far off rural Mason Road to have ended up there accidentally and animals moving the head had been ruled out because the embalming fluid would have made it unappealing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 02:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any comment from Larry Niven?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/22/2015 4:48 Comments || Top||

#2  week 1 headline: "Severed head found"
Week 2 headline: "Headless body found"
Week 3 headline: "Head does not match body"

Uh Oh.
Posted by: Nguard || 12/22/2015 6:48 Comments || Top||

#3  An embalmed head???
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/22/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I've felt like that before
Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2015 20:52 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Fernande Grudet aka Madame Claude gone at 92
[Guardian] France's most famous brothel keeper, whose clientele included ministers, diplomats and business leaders in the 1960s and 70s, has died aged 92.

In her heyday, Fernande Grudet, under the alias Madame Claude, boasted a network of more than 500 young women and a handful of young men, as well as an address book that, she claimed, included John F Kennedy, the Shah of Iran and Fiat boss Giovanni Agnelli.

The clientele of her maison close afforded her some protection, but she mostly kept out of police trouble by secretly passing on coupons clients' pillow talk to the French authorities.

The second daughter of a modest family from Angers, Grudet was born in 1923. She fell into the company of criminals when she arrived in Paris in the 1950s, when she began to work in the sex trade.

However, she had greater ambitions. By the end of the decade Grudet had reinvented herself as the child of a bourgeois family and member of the Resistance, and adopted the name Madame Claude to launch a maison close for the rich and famous.

Actress Francoise Fabian, who played Claude [in the film 1974 film Emmanuelle], told Le Point magazine: "I was struck by her widely held cynical view of sex between men and women. To her, men were nothing more than wallets.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 07:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Boy Scout leader attacks bear with hammer after being dragged into cave
[Guardian] A Boy Scout leader was pulled into a cave by a bear but beat the animal away with a rock hammer, authorities in northern New Jersey have said.
I blame lingering salsiccia breath.
Christopher Petronino and three other Scouts were hiking at Split Rock reservoir on Sunday afternoon when he stopped to show the boys a cave, NJ.com reported. He dipped into a small crevasse leading to it, and the bear grabbed him by the foot and yanked him inside. It began biting his legs and shoulders, and Petronino fought it off. The three fellow Scouts with him then called for help.

"Petronino struck the bear twice in the head with a rock hammer. He then pulled his sweatshirt over his head and curled into the foetal position," Bob Considine, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, said in a statement. "He yelled to the Scouts, who were outside the cave, to leave and go get help."
"See Leonardo? It isn't so hard!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 08:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could have been a case of "rough sex."
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2015 19:03 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Oil Price Slump Forces Azerbaijan to Stop Propping up Currency
[ALMANAR.LB] Energy-rich Azerbaijan, whose economy has been hit hard by falling oil prices, withdrew support Monday for its embattled currency and the manat plunged by nearly a third against the dollar.

The manat's plummet spurred jitters, with major retailers halting business in the ex-Soviet country and anxious consumers fearing for their future.

"The central bank took the decision to switch to a floating exchange rate for the national currency as of December 21," the regulator said in a statement.

It said the decision was taken because "falling oil prices and the continuing devaluation of partner countries' currencies has begun to negatively affect the Azerbaijani economy."

The manat was trading at 1.55 against the dollar on Monday, down 32.3 percent from Friday.

The country's central bank has spent more than half of its foreign currency reserves -- which it said had reached "critical levels" -- to support the manat, in free fall since the beginning of the year.

"I expect the manat to further devaluate," analyst Samir Aliyev told AFP. "The era of a stable manat has ended."

"The main problem is that the national currency's collapse will inevitably lead to higher inflation rates."
Posted by: Fred || 12/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is no limit to what you can't do once the money runs out.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Suspect held in Vienna in case involving two Pakistanis
[DAWN] FRANKFURT: Police locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
a Swiss national at Vienna airport, suspected of money laundering and tax evasion in connection with the trading of carbon emissions certificates, German prosecutors said on Monday.

Two suspects are being remanded in jug, and a warrant is out for two Pak nationals who may have returned to Pakistain, the Frankfurt attorney general said.

The move is part of an investigation relating to the so-called carousel trades made in 2009 and 2010, in which buyers imported emissions permits in one European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
country without paying value-added tax (VAT) and then sold them to each other, adding VAT to the price and generating tax refunds when no tax had been paid.

The 55-year-old Swiss man, whom Austrian police detained on his way from Zurich to Vienna on Wednesday, is suspected of having been a member of a gang making such trades and having evaded payment of taxes worth 125 million euros, the attorney general said in a statement.

"The accused is suspected of having been responsible for setting up and controlling an extremely complex international network of bank accounts with several companies (among others in Panama), which the gang members used for tax evasion," it said.

The statement said 10 people had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two years and nine months to almost eight years for their involvement in carbon trading
... trading imaginary climate benefits for real dollars...
scandals, which European police agency Europol has estimated cost EU governments more than 5 billion euros in lost revenues.

Also, Frankfurt prosecutors in August indicted seven current and one former employee of Deutsche Bank in connection with its carbon fraud investigations.
Posted by: Fred || 12/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Mob lynches suspected robber in Karachi
[DAWN] KARACHI: A suspected robber was beaten to death by an angry mob in Korangi area of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Monday, police said.

An enraged mob got hold of a 'burqa-clad' couple who were escaping after staging an alleged robbery attempt at a beauty parlour in Korangi number 4 area of the metropolis.

The man, later identified as Mohsin Raza, 25, was severely tortured by mob before police took him to the hospital, where he departed this vale of tears, Korangi SHO told media.

The police officer said that the man breathed his last at Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) while his wife was rescued by the police. A pistol was recovered from the female suspect's purse.

Back in August, a suspected robber-cum-murderer, Gul Badshah, was killed in New Karachi in a similar way.

The police had said that the suspected robber along with his accomplice had tried to deprive one Hafeez Haq of cash and valuables in sector 5-M of New Karachi. When Haq offered resistance, the duo opened fire, killing him on the spot.

The incident infuriated the area people who caught one of the robbers and beat him to death while his accomplice fled, the police said.
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Science & Technology
Video - CDC investigating 'new type' or different E. coli strain at Chipotle
[CNBC] Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill hit a 52-week low Monday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it is investigating another, more recent outbreak of a different strain of E. coli linked to the restaurant chain.

The CDC does not know yet if the more recent cases are tied to a larger outbreak that began at the end of October.

Five ill people were identified in Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma as part of the new investigation, on dates ranging from Nov.18 to Nov. 26, 2015. The new Illnesses are not included in the current case count, which is now at 53, the CDC report said.

On Oct. 31, an outbreak of E. coli was first linked to the chain, mostly in Washington and Oregon. Illnesses started on dates ranging from Oct. 19 to Nov. 13.

Twenty ill people were hospitalized during that outbreak, according to the CDC.

Chipotle announced it would revise its standards after reports of illnesses, with measures like high-resolution testing of ingredients, end of shelf-life testing of ingredients, continuous improvement in the supply system based on testing data and enhanced food safety training for team members.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 09:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will they name it Escherichia chipotle?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2015 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Which south-of-the-border country will this particular variety be tracked to?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2015 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Lave Sus Manos and his Orchestra
Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2015 20:53 Comments || Top||


FDA lets gay men donate blood if abstinent for at least 1 year
[Wash Times] Gay and bisexual men are now permitted to donate blood one year after their last sexual contact with a man, the federal government said Monday in its final recommendations to the blood-product industry.

The one-year deferral policy -- which mirrors several countries' policies on men who have sex with men (MSM) -- was decided by health professionals who considered blood safety issues as part of their plan to lift a blanket ban on MSM blood donations that was put into place in 1985, the Food and Drug Administration said in a 27-page guidance document.

"We have taken great care to ensure this policy revision is backed by sound science and continues to protect our blood supply," Dr. Stephen Ostroff, FDA acting commissioner, said Monday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 07:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the FDA trusts everybody not to forget about some casual one-night stands?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/22/2015 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Politics trumps science (again)

Don't tell me 'advance' civilizations don't practice human sacrifice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/22/2015 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  It'll work 90% of the time.
Posted by: gorb || 12/22/2015 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how they define abstinence..
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/22/2015 12:50 Comments || Top||

#5  "It depends on what "is" is
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/22/2015 18:42 Comments || Top||

#6  In other news, the CDC has reported a sudden, mysterious spike of new aids cases.

"Unexpectedly"
Posted by: Nguard || 12/22/2015 18:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Who trusts anything the government says?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2015 19:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Sure hope I don't need a transfusion any time soon.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/22/2015 19:40 Comments || Top||

#9  If you know you'll need some, go donate it specifially for it so they give you your own blood back
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/22/2015 20:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, I've donated well over 6 gallons of blood in my lifetime, so I should get something good back.

The self donating is fine if you have time to plan it - like if you are going to have surgery. The problem is if you are admitted to the hospital because you are bleeding out, there's no time (or blood) to donate and get back.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/22/2015 23:23 Comments || Top||


SpaceX forever changes access to space. Nails a booster landing at the Cape

Ok, so now mash the fwd button.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket returned to flight Monday, on a mission for communications firm Orbcomm which also resulted in the first return of the vehicle's first stage to the launch site. Flying in a new "Full Thrust" configuration, the rocket depart Cape Canaveral at 20:29 Eastern time (01:29 UTC on Tuesday) with the first stage touching down 10 minutes later.
The first stage is estimated to cost SpaceX in the neighborhood of $30,000,000 to build so reuse could be a massive cost savings. They have been quoted as saying the 2nd stage costs between $3-5 mil, and the fuel $128K-$700K depending on market prices. They have suggested that eventually a rocket with a previously flown core might sell launches as low as $11 million. This compares to $67mil for a current F9 or $120-160 million for an Atlas 5 launch from ULA. Access to space might get much cheaper!
The Orbcomm launch, which follows a similar mission last July, saw the Falcon 9 fly for the first time since June's failure which claimed the CRS-7 Dragon spacecraft that had been bound for the International Space Station.

The launch also marked the first flight of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust, internally known only as the "Upgraded Falcon 9″ -- which introduces upgrades that will increase the vehicle's capacity and increase the number of missions on which first stage recovery attempts will be possible.

The payload for this RTF mission consisted of eleven Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 01:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  hmm embed worked in the preview. It shows a chopper view of the landing. You can see it and other videos of the landing on
https://twitter.com/SpaceX
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Discussion of booster landing here at this link.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 2:04 Comments || Top||

#4  "As God and Robert Heinlein intended!"
- some sci-fi nerd
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/22/2015 5:08 Comments || Top||

#5  IMA awaiting the inevitable SpaceX deniers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2015 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  YAY!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/22/2015 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  The embed works for me, 3dc. I don't know if someone fixed it, or if it just takes a little time to load.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2015 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Amazing how fast that thing can accelerate when the weight of the fuel is greatly reduced!
Posted by: gorb || 12/22/2015 11:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Today the hangover period
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  If you had a bunch of these, you could make a real, life-sized game of SpaceX Invaders.

And yeah, it's pretty dang cool. Congrats to the team that did it.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2015 13:24 Comments || Top||

#11  last minor nit:
SpaceX confirms successful Falcon 9 Upgrade 2d stage reignition after Orbcomm sats released - key for GTO telecom missions, where $$ lie.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/22/2015 13:46 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia to start building two nuclear reactors in Iran
[AlAhram] Russia will start constructing two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, as Tehran seeks to reduce its reliance on oil and gas with 20 facilities over the coming years, an official said Tuesday.

The start of construction follows a historic deal between Iran and world powers in July that ends a decade-long standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme.

And it comes a year after Tehran signed a contract with Moscow to construct two reactors at the existing Russian-built Bushehr power plant.

A series of agreements signed between the two countries last year foresees eventually increasing the total number of Russian-built reactors in the country to nine.

Work on the two facilities "will commence next week," state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
's website quoted atomic energy agency front man Behrouz Kamalvandi as saying.

Iran plans to build 20 more nuclear plants in the future, including four in Bushehr.

The accord does not limit Iran's development of civilian nuclear sites.

The two reactors will be financed by Iran, Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom, said last year.

The two countries are allied in supporting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
against opposition and jihadist groups, mainly the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

And they plan to boost trade volume, as they signed several joint development documents last month during Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
's first visit to Iran in eight years.

On Monday, Iran's Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade, Mohammad Reza Nematzade, and his Russian counterpart, Denis Manturov, opened an industrial exhibition in Tehran.

The three-day fair by Russian industrial holding Rostec State Corp, along with hundreds of business leaders, aims to introduce Russian industries to Iran, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
's website reported.

Rostec owns 700 enterprises, organised into 14 holding companies, and nine of which are focused on the military.

Russia is "not afraid" of Western economic delegations trying to dominate Iranian markets after the lifting of sanctions, a Rostec official said Tuesday.

"Everyone is waiting for the sanctions to be lifted and every one wants to be the first" to enter Iran, international cooperation department chief Victor Kladov told AFP.

"We are afraid of nothing; we are certain of the quality of our products," he said.

"Iran and Russia have a long history, and we are trusted partners for each other," he added.

Fields of cooperation included transport, the auto industry, aviation, metallurgy, petrochemicals, oil and ship building.

Iranian engineers were examining the Sukhoi Superjet 100, in which the Russians travelled, Kladov said.

"As we are talking here Iranian technical specialists are examining it at the airport and they are flying over Tehran" to test it, Kladov said.

"If we can technically satisfy" Iran, a possible number "around 100 aircraft" would be sold to Iran, he added.

Rostec Helicopters was also in talks with Iran to sell new Russian medical helicopters. Rostec will also repair and upgrade a fleet of 50 Russian helicopters now operating in Iran.

Iran is to become a central maintenance centre in the region that services Russian-made aircraft from neighbouring countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, he added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan will depart in 2016
Margaret Sullivan will conclude her tenure as public editor of The New York Times when her four-year contract expires in eight months, she told Poynter today.

“Yes, I am headed into the home stretch of my four-year term,” she said in an email. “The role really requires an outsider’s perspective, so I’ve thought all along that having a clear time limit serves The Times and its readers best.”

Editors at The New York Times have “already begun considering who should replace her,” according to POLITICO Media, which first reported Sullivan’s pending departure.

Sullivan signed a four-year contract in 2012 to replace Art Brisbane as public editor, the paper’s in-house ombudsman. The contract came with the possibility of extending her tenure to six years, an option Sullivan has opted not to exercise.

Most public editors at The New York Times have occupied the job for two years or less. An exception is Clark Hoyt, who held the job from 2007 to 2010.

Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘What will happen here is you’ll stick around and eventually you’ll alienate everybody, and then no one will be talking to you, and you’ll have to leave.’ I’m about three-quarters of the way there."
Sullivan normally eschews press, preferring to let the criticism on her blog speak for itself. But she offered this wry reflection on the conclusion of her tenure in a rare interview with Longform’s Max Linsky this summer:

Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘What will happen here is you’ll stick around and eventually you’ll alienate everybody, and then no one will be talking to you, and you’ll have to leave.’ I’m about three-quarters of the way there.

Sullivan has certainly pulled no punches since taking the public editor’s job. She has been critical of several high-profile stories from The New York Times, including the paper’s exposé on New York nail salons, its deep-dive into Amazon’s workplace culture and its coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email imbroglio.

For New York Times kremlinologists, Sullivan’s blog has also proved to be a clearinghouse of news about the inner workings of The Times. In recent months, she has reported word about changes to the Times’ comments section, quoted Maureen Dowd in defense of her news-breaking column about Vice President Joe Biden and shed light on the paper’s new fact-checking practices.
Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The NYTs could close its doors and go out of business and those who live in "flyover land" would not miss it or care.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2015 18:57 Comments || Top||



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