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CANTAUCO, Chile (Reuters) – It was supposed to be a magic recipe for instant riches, but instead hundreds of residents in this sleepy town in central Chile are up in arms over a "magic cheese" scam that has left many deep in debt.
Chilean housewife Erica Pavez was one of around 300 residents taken in by the pyramid scheme, buying kits to make "magic cheese" said to be used in beauty products like luxury shampoo and moisturizers.
Lured by the scheme, Pavez and her family spent about 25 million pesos (27, 745 pounds)) on the kits, which they believed contained special ingredients to produce the "magic cheese" but in fact turned out to be boxes of crystallized bacteria worth around $4 each (2.7 pounds). The kits cost nearly $400 a piece.
"We are modest people here, casual workers and we got more and more into debt so that we could get into the business," she told Reuters as she prepared to file her claim with visiting French investigator and examining magistrate Sylvie Gagnard.
"I am very disappointed," she said in tiny Cantauco, 75 miles south of the capital Santiago. "We have nothing."
She produced the cheese at home following instructions to mix the ingredients with milk and ferment them for two weeks. The small, round cheeses she believed would be turned into expensive beauty products ended up on the scrap heap.
Frenchwoman Gilberte Van Erpe, arrested and placed under investigation in France last year, is suspected of setting up a vast pyramid scheme, telling buyers the fermented mass produced by the kits could be sold to cosmetics companies in France.
A French newspaper reported Van Erpe made about 30 million euros (26.25 million pounds) from her activities. She could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Elvis has left the vehicle. A man was arrested on more than 50 traffic citations — all in one day. Police said Elvis Alonzo Barrett, 46, fled from police trying to stop him for a traffic violation Thursday morning. Police said he ran through red lights, crashed into another car and a fence. Police said they found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in his car.
Barrett faces several charges, including fleeing and eluding and reckless driving.
He was also issued more than 50 traffic citations on charges including speeding, running red lights, and not wearing a seat belt.
Police said Barrett has a lengthy criminal history and his driver license was suspended.
A phone number listed for him was not in service Thursday night.
Slain tourist called fiance from car trunk
SAVANNAH, Georgia - A pregnant tourist who was abducted and killed while jogging in Puerto Rico told her fiance "she was going to die" in a frantic cell phone call from the trunk of her abductor's car, the victim's mother said Friday.
Sara Kuszak, 36, was found dead with her throat slashed Wednesday. Her mother, Joan Lang, said her final call to fiance Cheshire McIntosh offered little hope of escape.
"She talked to Cheshire and she told him she knew she was going to die," Lang said by phone from her home in San Jose, Calif. "She knew she didn't have a chance with this man. You can just imagine the agony they were both going through, to say goodbye to each other."
McIntosh declined an interview request through Thelma Rivera, an attorney in Puerto Rico who was helping him translate documents and complete funeral arrangements. McIntosh instead released a statement requesting privacy and time to grieve.
“I am very distraught by the sudden and unforeseen passing of our lovely Sara Kuszak,” McIntosh said. “Sara was an exceptional person and we were looking forward with great joy to the birth of our child.”
He also praised police in Puerto Rico and the FBI for acting swiftly to find his fiance.
“Their immediate response, while it was not enough to bring us Sara back home safely, did prevent us from a possibly long and tortured wait,” McIntosh said.
A friend said Kuszak, who moved to Savannah from San Francisco five years ago to live with McIntosh, was a fearless explorer of the islands she visited during work trips with her yacht-captain fiance.
She spent weeks at a time at sea, preparing meals as the crew chef while McIntosh, piloted private yachts for their wealthy owners. Friends say the couple that planned to marry in March were a perfect match — attractive, adventurous and charismatic.
"A lot of these trips were to islands and she would run through some kind of crazy neighborhoods and tell stories about dogs chasing her," said John Everette, a friend of the couple, who lived in Savannah. "She was always somebody who didn't have a lot of fear in her."
5 months pregnant
Now the couple's friends and families are trying to make sense of why she was grabbed, stuffed into a trunk, raped and killed in the coastal town of Fajardo, Puerto Rico. She was five months pregnant when she was slain.
"That's a line even the most debased person usually just doesn't cross," Everette said Thursday. "It's a particular shame it would happen to her. Everybody has faults, but they were really hard to find with her."
Eliezer Marquez, 36, was charged in court Thursday with kidnapping, rape and first-degree murder in Kuszak's death. Police in Fajardo said he confessed to killing Kuszak after they arrested him Wednesday with bloodstains on his shirt and pants.
The killing was carried out in the same fashion as murders that Marquez's mother, Ines Navedo, was convicted of committing in 1992. She slit the throats of two young siblings aged 2 and 3.
"He told me he felt bad because he didn't know (Kuszak) was pregnant," said police officer Arsenio Rodriguez. "He was crying and telling me he was sorry because he has a daughter and knew he had made a big mistake."
Police said Marquez told them he spotted Kuszak jogging alone Wednesday, stopped his car and opened the trunk as he waited for her to pass. He then grabbed her and forced her into the trunk.
Found dead hour after phone call
Kuszak used her cell phone to make a desperate call for help from the trunk of her kidnapper's car Wednesday, about an hour before she was found dead by police. The FBI then used the signal from the phone to help locate the suspect.
Marquez, who could face up to life in prison, walked into court Thursday with his head down for a closed hearing in which the charges against him were announced. He did not enter a plea and does not have a lawyer yet.
"Justice is being done for this victim," prosecutor Francisco Sanchez said outside court. "In this case, there will be no negotiation. He will face the full consequences."
Kuszak moved across the country from San Francisco about five years ago to live with McIntosh on the Georgia coast. Everette said the couple met in the South Pacific, where McIntosh was working on a boat and Kuszak was vacationing with friends.
She had arrived in Puerto Rico to meet up with McIntosh the day before she was killed. Kuszak's mother said she and McIntosh planned to sail together to the Virgin Islands to be married between March 15 and 22.
"The McIntosh family just worshipped Sara," Lang said. "She's always been an adventurous spirit and very smart woman. She had all her ducks in a row."
Everette, a friend of McIntosh's since high school, got to know Kuszak last summer when he joined their crew as a deckhand for a three-week trip from the Virgin Islands to Rhode Island. When she wasn't preparing meals of fresh fish caught over the side of the 66-foot yacht, Everette said, Kuszak would try to cheer up anyone who might seem glum.
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
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I am working on something for pick 3 to share, like I've done every year since I've been on LP, but I have to finalize some of my testing. If everything works out, I will do a few live test , here in my blog and then I will make my final decision. It should be very interesting/profitable though.....
"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself." - Michel de Montaigne -
Etta James rips Beyonce for singing ‘At Last’
LOS ANGELES - It’s a feud that spans a generation — music legend Etta James has put modern superstar Beyonce on blast for singing her signature song, “At Last,” at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.
“I tell you, that woman he has singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ass whipped,” James told a crowd at a concert in Seattle on Jan. 28. “I can’t stand Beyonce, she had no business up there singing ... my song that I’ve been singing forever.”
But it seems the feud is one-sided. Beyonce recently portrayed the older singer in the film “Cadillac Records,” where she performed “At Last” among other songs, and the two had the chance to meet at the film’s L.A. premiere, where Beyonce sang her predecessor’s praises.
“I actually just got a chance to speak with Etta James,” Beyonce told Access Hollywood at the time. “She’s a living legend and I want her to love the movie, and I hope she does.”
It’s not the first time Beyonce has had a run-in with a soul icon. After she referred to Tina Turner as “the queen” at the 2008 Grammy Awards, Aretha Franklin — long known as the Queen of Soul — issued a statement that said, “I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce ... However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.”
As for “At Last” — while it may be James’ trademark tune, the track was first performed by Glenn Miller and his orchestra in 1941 and later by Nat King Cole in 1957. James debuted her version in 1961.
The writers of the song are Mack Gordon and Henry Warren, who penned a number of ’40s hits, including “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” (the first gold record ever with sales of 1,200,000), “You’ll Never Know,” “The More I See You” and “I’ve Got a Gal In Kalamazoo,” all No. 1 singles
This dream, for some strange reason, is so funny to me that I cannot stop laughing. I have laughed so much until my side is starting to hurt, but here goes. My husband told me this evening when he got home from work that he dreamed:
"I was riding a bicycle in an unfamiliar neighborhood and all of a sudden, these kids came from out of nowhere and started throwing these huge bricks at me! I started riding even faster to try and get away from them because they were aiming for my head!"
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