Ribbon...

The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates urged North Korea to stop its provocations and obey United Nations resolutions.

But what was left unsaid between the two ministers was their own diplomatic and commercial ties to North Korea, with the UAE in particular home to thousands of its workers whose wages help Pyongyang avoid international sanctions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is visiting the UAE as part of a three Gulf Arab nation tour over the ongoing diplomatic crisis involving Qatar, avoided discussing that dispute. He instead focused in part on North Korea.

USA enacted new sanctions against Russia and North Korea. We need to work with other for peace. War didn't get us a peaceful existance.

My Vision...

One Bite...

The case against Steven Barnes in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl seemed circumstantial, at best.  Two hairs that looked like the victim's; some dirt on a truck like that taken from the crime scene; a pattern on the bumper that resembled a design on the victim's popular brand of jeans, and that was enough.

He spent the next 20 years in prison before DNA testing exonerated him, becoming one of hundreds of people convicted in whole or in part on forensic science that has come under fire during the past decade.

Some of that science, analysis of bite marks, latent fingerprints, firearms identification, burn patterns in arson investigations, footwear patterns and tire treads, was once considered sound, but is now being denounced by some lawyers and scientists who say it has not been studied enough to prove its reliability and in some cases has led to wrongful convictions.

Two reports by scientific boards have sharply criticized the use of such forensic evidence, and universities that teach it are moving away from visual analysis  essentially, eyeballing it and toward more precise biometric tools.  Hope we use it right.   Just a thought.

Scheme...

German prosecutors have charged a man accused of bombing Borussia Dortmund's team bus in April with attempted murder.  Prosecutors said they filed the indictment at the city's state court.

The 28-year-old suspect, who has been identified only as Sergej W. in line with German privacy laws, is charged with 28 counts of attempted murder, two counts of bodily harm and setting off an explosion.

Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured in triple blasts as the bus headed to the soccer team's stadium for a Champions League game.

Investigators have said the suspect took a five-figure loan to bet that the club's shares would drop, then bombed the bus in an attack he tried to disguise as Islamic terrorism in a scheme to net millions.

Pathetic...

Success...

Pummeled...

Problem...

Bickering...

    

Sunday School...

Dega's...*

A nine-year-old girl accidentally shot her gun instructor dead with an Uzi. She pulled the trigger of an automatic gun and the recoil sent the gun over her head, shooting the instructor. 

The shocking recording, taken by the girl's parents and released by police, shows the instructor standing closely next to the girl when the gun recoiled as she fired on full automatic mode.

It is crazy to put that gun into a little girl's hands. Many own guns, trained in various safety classes, competed etc., but this is a child for God's sake.   Just a thought.