CAUGHT: "Super Thief" Devender alias Bunty (middle) in police custody on Saturday.
NEW DELHI: Thirty-five-year-old Devender alias Bunty -- nicknamed "Super Thief" for his alleged involvement in over 500 cases of theft and burglary -- has been arrested once again: this time in New Delhi South Extension. He had been released from jail only last October after five years behind bars for his involvement in over 40 cases of burglary.
``After his release, Bunty committed thefts in several cities across the country including Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Panchkula, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai, Baroda and Hyderabad and disposed of the stolen articles such as laptops, expensive wrist watches and diamond jewellery in Indian cities and in Nepal. Unlike earlier, this time round he did not take anybody along and committed the thefts all by himself," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Delhi) Anil Shukla at a press conference here on Saturday.
In the past six months Bunty, who has been known to maintain a lavish lifestyle and prefers to travel by air, also allegedly committed thefts at several five-star hotels in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Baroda and Delhi. ``He became friendly with a foreigner at Shamiyana disco bar in Mumbai's Taj Hotel and made off with a laptop and $ 1,500. He stole 10 diamond-studded gold chains from a shop at Taj Hotel in Hyderabad. At Le Meridien in Delhi, he stole a bracelet and chain from a jewellery shop. In Baroda, he decamped with a camera from Taj Hotel," said Mr. Shukla, adding that Bunty also planned to commit robberies at the bungalows of Bollywood actresses.
To evade arrest, Bunty stopped using his mobile phone after his release from jail and did not speak to his acquaintances and family members on phone. He also tried to don a new identity and acquired a fake passport in Nepal under the name Hari Thapa. He allegedly stole several luxury cars in Delhi's upmarket Greater Kailash, Chittranjan Park, Defence Colony, New Friends Colony, Malviya Nagar and Hauz Khas areas but was eventually arrested on April 6 when he arrived here from Chennai purportedly to commit a theft at South Extension.
``He commits crime out of sheer passion. He lives a lavish life, stays in five-star hotels and keeps luxury cars. He has a penchant for antiques, exquisite showpieces, jewellery, expensive watches and electronic items," said Mr. Shukla.
The police officer said Bunty operates silently and smoothly and on most occasions the victims do not even realise that a theft was being committed at their premises. "Most times, he entered houses by removing the grill of the front door or window using a long screwdriver and lever. He committed thefts between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. and avoided houses with security guards and dogs."
He abandoned the car stolen from one place and drove away with a new car at the next place of theft. He avoided being caught on several occasions showing presence of mind and exuding confidence."
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Maybe he should give Pir Double Shah some lessons in theft?
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Is a Super Thief like a Super Genius? Does he have a business card?
HONOLULU Legendary crooner Don Ho, known for his raspberry-tinted sunglasses and catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died, his publicist said. He was 76. Publicist Donna Jung said the singer died Saturday morning of heart failure. He had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In 2005, he underwent an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart in Thailand in 2005.
Ho entertained Hollywood's biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation. Shows usually started and ended with the same song, "Tiny Bubbles," which Ho mostly hummed as the audience enthusiastically took over. "I hate that song," he often joked to the crowd, adding that he saved it for the end because "people my age can't remember if we did it or not."
Donald Tai Loy Ho, who is Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.
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Unique Honolulu history, Thanks Don..always got a lift from you and the band. RIP DON
Caught his act in Waikiki [Honolulu] in the 70s, once with her highness and another with some rock band friends from the mainland. [leaving out the sad ones] The good memories of Hawaii = party, surf, flying around the islands, diving, fishing, bearded clams and ..did I say party?
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Donald Tai Loy Ho, who is was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.
Fixed that for 'em. He isn't anything more than a legend now (my grandparents used to love Don Ho and mercilessly forced us kids to watch him whenever he was on TV).
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Went to a Don Ho show in the first couple days of 2002. He'd been sick or otherwise MIA for a while, and this was his first concert back. It was a little sad, since it was held in a smallish banquet room, and was only half full. You got the feeling Don wasn't the draw he used to be.
He sat at a desk and twiddled knobs, and occasionally sang. Most of the singing was done by other people. There was a little round Portuguese guy with an enormous voice, who was terrific. And a Japanese (I think) banjo player who sang "Locky Top". No kidding. Good player, but maybe he should pick other material.
Don sang "Tiny Bubbles", his signature tune, and confessed that he hated the song. Toward the end he sang "Born Free" (I believe it was), and during the song -- in the actual middle of the phrase -- he was talking on the phone. We couldn't hear what he was saying into the phone, but we guessed he was ordering his post-show pizza:
Cause yoooou're -- large sausage and mushroom -- boooorn -- Italian sausage this time, dammit -- freeeeeeee -- and an order of crazy bread.
I enjoyed the show, in an anthropological sort of way, but I wished I could've seen it in an outdoor tiki hut with a bunch of sloshed Midwesterners in leis. My mistake, I realize now, was in not being drunker at the time.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.
Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."
Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.
Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.
Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.
Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant texting.
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Just why then did this colony collapse happen before cell phones existed?
I once bought three hives that had no bees in them, and a month later all the Larvae hatched, raised a new queen, and were viable hives thereafter.
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So much for the killer bee problem. Take that killer bees! lol
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The kids have to give up their cell phones to save the "bumbly bees"? Uh Ohh, must be like the day Gore realized private jets leave a carbon footprint...
Losing the bees is a serious problem though, gang.. I am hoping the colonies are bouncing back with the optimism Redneck Jim has from past experience.
As weird as it gets, a hugh bumble bee just bumped my window as I was proofing this.
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Don't panic. Den Beste is cited on the Instaprof's with the comment -
The claims in that article about cellphones and bees sound like the global warming hysteria, up to and including the predictions of apocalypse.
For instance, there was this claim: "Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees."
That's wrong. Corn, wheat, rice, rye, barley, and all the other grain crops do not rely on insects for pollination, and they make up the majority of the calories consumed by the human race.
It's true that there are a very large number of crops which do rely on insects, but many of those do not rely on honey bees, or at least do not have to. In many areas, they use a different kind of bee that looks a lot like a honey bee but is much different in life cycle. These bees don't produce honey, and all the females are fertile, with each producing 5-10 grubs. They work collective laying sites with the grubs being placed in holes in wood.
In the wild they use dead trees, but the farmers that rely on them put up boards with holes drilled in them for the bees to use.
Honey bees are important, but the current problem doesn't mean the human race is going to starve to death.
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I've read about the missing bees all over america. Farmers plant's are being pollenated and honey prices are rising. I wouldn't doubt this study so quickly, stranger things have happened.
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Ok, did anybody ask how they hold them up to their little heads? Just wanting to know.
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Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
"Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives."
quote from the LINK thread:
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This tells volumes to anyone with a hint of a clue about biology. It says that whatever is happening is natural, and has happened enough for Nature to have built in defenses against whatever it is. The only time in nature you leave food untouched is when your instincts tell you it is BAD. For that to happen takes evolution a longtime to perfect, thus this crap isn't new. It tells me it is something very nasty but very old, older than H. sapiens and certainly cell phones.
But cell phone scares are all the rage these days so...... Not saying cell phones don't pose some major risks, but that has nothing to do with a media bandwagon. They start for reasons totally unrelated to science and then in the chase for funding, marginal scientists hook up to the bandwagon and make it self sustaining.
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bzzzzz
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Yeah it step back and but forget someone's concept that they call a disorder for 1 hive, there's no real name to it, it's like sudden death syntrum, it could be anything.
Bee hives have been missing all across the US for the last 3-4 years in larger than normal numbers.
Cell phones use frequencies to transmit data on electomagnetic spectrum. Bees and many animals use the earth's magnetic belt for direction. As our communications output expands, bees are not returning to the hive.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that about one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and that the honey bee is responsible for 80 percent of this pollination.
I'm confident we'll adjust.
Either we'll have nanomachine bees or we'll start reserving a frequency for important species, or they'll just die and we pay higher prices for fruits.
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IIUC - the bee disappearance is more correctly placed at the injuries caused by mites...but that wouldn't fit into the "scare agenda", would it. Cell phones = electricity= global warming =?
whatever is actually happening, grants and human guilt depends on us being the problem
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While the cell phone connection is dubious at best, this still remains a serious issue. California's Central Valley grows half the fresh produce and vegetables eaten in America. A vast majority of the fields do not have anywhere near the bee populations required to sustain adequate pollenation.
Growers schedule importation of truck-mounted hives with crop florescence (blooming) cycles to obtain the required results. Apiary businesses are extremely concerned about Colony Collapse Disorder and so are the growers. Recent reports had them trucking in colonies from other states to make up for the shortfall.
Due to agriculture being a multi-billion dollar industry in California, it certainly wouldn't hurt to have a more rigidly controlled study done regarding this. Crop losses would far outweight the potential cost of such research.
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Frank is right. CCD already has been linked to mite infestations. However, I'm confident subsequent studies will show that the mite infestations are due to bee immune system suppression caused by cell phone EMF/RFI.
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Anyone figured out why the mites have become a big problem in recent history?
Or tracked the mites' origin?
'Cause, if they originated in Mexico, I have a suspicion on how to reduce the problem...
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Connie the Short Bus Lady's Uncle has bees and they are dissapearing. In the last year he has lost 10 out of 20 hives but this is not related to cellphones. Cellphones don't work as far out as he lives.
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Don't get me wrong; the collapse of the bee population in the US is a real and serious issue. The magnitude of the decline is apparently unprecedented. I've been following it for a couple of years, and it seems to be accelerating. The scientists involved don't seem to have any good ideas.
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Unprecedented? I would think the data to back that up is probably unavailable or "subject to interpretation", by which I mean: a grant whore looking for data to match their $-paying thesis will find data to match it, whether it exists or not. I admit I don't have evidence to the contrary, but the level of plants requiring bee pollinization (including non-cultivated) in the present day is SURELEY higher than at any time in most areas of the world. The irrigation and cultivation projects in the last 200 years make that a non-starter as an arguing point
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"Most important, bees navigate primarily via polarized light, which is in a completely different part of the EM spectrum from radio waves. How radio waves could possibly impact their use of light for navigation (any more than it does humans' use of light for navigation) is at best nonintuitive, so I would never believe it until I saw the published paper showing me the evidence. I am not holding my breath for that paper to appear."
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If you are going to blame something hi-tech... you need something with a newer market penetration than cellular to blame....
Bees see in the infra-red and UV - LIDAR on somebodies spy sats would be a good first choice. Since it hit first in the US and then EU - maybe a chinese or russian set of lidar sats? CAN WE BLAME THEM OR IS THAT ILLEGAL?
LIDAR scans the land below the sats with laser beams making a laser "radar".
If its an RF thing... maybe the 5.6 ghz (ISM-band 3?) wireless phones and WiFi are at fault as they are newer penetration. BUT, Since the bee loss covers more than just cities I doubt it. (Not much WiFi in the middle of a field)
Also, the bio-effects of CDMA and GSM cellphones are quite different. (CDMA almost nil due to spread spectrum and hopping)
I tend to suspect an ingredient added to fuel (blame the epa) or active space based sensor or a virus/parasite (maybe even bio-war) or a random roll of the cosmic dice.
"During the last three months of 2006, we began to receive reports from commercial beekeepers of an alarming number of honey bee colonies dying in the eastern United States," says Maryann Frazier, apiculture extension associate at Penn State University. "Since the beginning of the year, beekeepers from all over the country have been reporting unprecedented losses.
Originally, CCD collapses were reported primarily by commercial migratory bee keepers who move their colonies from one area to another. More recently, it is clear that non-migratory beekeepers are also experiencing CCD. Of particular note, several queen breeders/packagers have experienced severe CCD symptoms in their operations. This causes particular alarm since many bee keepers depend upon these operations for new bee colonies and these losses translate into fewer bee colonies being replaced or started anew this year. It is now clear that CCD is a problem facing all bee keepers; it will have a major impact.
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In CCD, the bee colony proceeds rapidly from a strong colony with many individuals to a colony with few or no surviving bees. Queens are found in collapsing colonies with a few young adult bees, lots of brood, and more than adequate food resources. No dead adult bees are found in the colony or outside in proximity to the colony. A unique aspect of CCD is that there is a significant delay in robbing of the dead colony by bees from other colonies or invasion by pest insects such as waxworm moths or small hive beetles; this suggests the presence of a deterrent chemical or toxin in the hive.
In colonies experiencing CCD, we have found that individual bees are infected with an extremely high number of different disease organisms. However, we have found little evidence of parasitization by varroa or tracheal mites. Many of these known bee diseases are commonly associated with stress in bees. Of particular note, we have found all adult bees in CCD colonies are infected with fungal infections. These findings may indicate that the bees are being immunosuppressed, but none of the organisms found in these bees can be attributed as the primary culprits in CCD.
Of special concern, we have found species like Aspergillus and Mucor among the fungi in CCD colonies. These fungi were previously reported to be bee pathogens in the 1930s and are associated with toxin production; however, since that time, these fungi have been rarely of concern in bee colonies. Determining the role of these fungi in CCD is important not only in terms of solving the mystery of CCD but also in determining how these fungi are related to fungal species that infect vertebrates, including humans. Fortunately, at Penn State University, we have world-recognized experts in fungal identification and fungal toxins; these researchers have teamed with us to address this concern.
A German breeder who exported his giant rabbits to North Korea in the hope they would breed ... er, like rabbits ... and end a famine is worried that the pedigree animals may have been eaten.
After Pyongyang refused to reveal the bunnies' whereabouts, Karl Szmolinsky said Tuesday: "I'm concerned my animals were not kept for breeding as planned, but may have ended up in a casserole." Szmolinsky, who raises rabbits at Eberswalde, north-east of Berlin, says this was the only explanation he can think of for North Korea's refusal to let him see the 10-kilo animals, believed to be the biggest rabbits ever bred. "They tell me everything is in capable hands and the rabbits are doing just fine, but I'm not so sure," he said. "However I have no information whatever about what actually became of them.
The British media, which have taken a special interest in the rabbits, wondered last week whether they played a star role on the menu at recent birthday celebrations for dictator Kim Jong Il.
Szmolinsky had been set to fly to North Korea in mid-April to see the pens built for the giant German greys, but the North Korean embassy in Berlin denied him a visa. North Korean diplomats in Berlin purchased six breeding rabbits, two of them males, from him, according to Szmolinsky, who knows of another six rabbits taken to the secretive communist nation on a private basis. The 68-year-old breeder says it was not exactly a lucrative export deal: He only charged a few hundred euros for the animals. "I'm utterly disappointed the embassy won't let me go there," said Szmolinsky. "If they come to me in future wanting rabbits, they can't expect any more help.
Asked for comment, a spokesman for the North Korean embassy in Berlin was unsympathetic. "We got the rabbits and shipped them to the Farm Ministry in Pyongyang. Why should we invite the breeder over as well?" he said. Asked if North Korea had killed the rabbits, he hung up the phone.
Breeder Szmolinsky said he was older but wiser now. "I'm never going to export my rabbits again unless I've checked out the conditions locally first," he said.
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They were intended for dinner all along, but not so fast.
stupid, stupid people.cut off a food source,
Or maybe the rabbits didn't have enough to eat and starved?
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Szmolinsky might be our fool of the day.
Didn't he notice the saliva drooling down the buyer's face ?
that the compass on the ceilings of cells at the Segbroek police station in The Hague points in the wrong direction are inaccurate, says a spokesperson for the police. There may have been confusion since a compass is usually viewed from above, while the painted image on the ceiling must be viewed from below of course. "But the compasses painted on the ceilings indicate east and west correctly," the spokesperson confirmed.
Ah, but the rumors will never fully die, and the list of "grievances" against the infidel authorities steadily grows longer...
Islamic arrestees who are being held at the Segbroek police station in The Hague have a compass painted on the ceilling of their cell so that they know which direction to face when praying.
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Make it point straight down, where they're really worshiping.
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Accommodating this evil is the same as abetting it. Force feed them pork and deport them with a certificate stating they are eternally damned to whatever passes for Hell in the Orc imagination.
The long-awaited toxicology report in Bob Woolmer's murder case has indicated that the Pakistan cricket coach was poisoned before being strangled in his hotel room.
"Iocaine powder! I'd bet my life on it!"
According to a source close to the Jamaican police, the investigators probing in Woolmer's mysterious death believe the South African was poisoned to incapacitate him before murdering him in his Jamaica Pegasus hotel room around one month ago, London daily The Sunday Times reported.
"Join me in a drink, Mr. Woolmer?"
"Ummm... Mine's green. And it's bubbling over the top of the glass!"
"Hmmmm... Yer right. Mine seems to have gone flat. Well, never mind! Drink up!"
But Mark Shields, the Deputy Police Commissioner leading the inquiry, refused to confirm poison was found
"If it was poison, it was a tasteless, colorless, odorless poison that leaves no trace!"
"You mean like iocaine powder?"
"You could bet your life on it!"
and said the toxicology samples and postmortem report would be sent to Britain for further analysis. "If he was manually strangled and asphyxiated, why didn't he put up a fight?
If he was poisoned, why strangle him?
"I've always said there was a possibility he was incapacitated by something else.
"If I tell you they (the results) have come back and we are conducting further tests, I suggest you draw your own conclusions," he said at a press conference in Kingston on Saturday.
"Inspector! Inspector!"
"Yes?"
"David Gregory, from NBC here! Were there any fingerprints on the poison?"
Shields described the toxicology results as "encouraging" but said the probe could take a "long haul". "There are three possibilities. One is that someone could give themselves up.
"A Perry Mason moment?"
"Really. It's a possibility. Stop laughing."
"Two, there could be a massive breakthrough or, three, we are here for the long haul.
"Inspector! Inspector!"
"Yes?"
"Nic Robertson, from CNN here! How long a haul?"
"How long y'got, Nic?"
"At the moment we are certainly in category three. We would love to move to one but I think that is unlikely at this stage," Shield said. He quashed the speculation that it was the drug iocaine powder aconite, which causes asphyxia. aconite is from a plant found in the Indian subcontinent . It has been used in several assassinations in Pakistan
This article starring:
Bob Woolmer
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
A German breeder who exported his giant rabbits to North Korea in the hope they would breed ... er, like rabbits ... and end a famine is worried that the pedigree animals may have been eaten. 
The long-awaited toxicology report in 
