[HOSTED.AP.ORG] A 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma has died, police said.
Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following the assault last weekend, Unified police front man Justin Hoyal said Saturday night.
Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," Hoyal said in a blurb.
The teen, whose name hasn't been released because of his age, has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault. Hoyal said authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.
An autopsy is planned. No cause of death was released.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed at death's door, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
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...Listened to this twinkie on NPR the other night. Sounded like she not only doesn't have a brain in her head, but that she refuses to admit that her big mouth might have killed a good band and alienated all her fans.
Mike
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Sounds like life at the truck stop on I-20 got a little boring...
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There was no way around it: The room was half-empty.
The 2013 edition of South by Southwest was just getting underway as Natalie Maines stood onstage at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, sporting a brunette faux-hawk and holding an acoustic guitar.
Whole sections of the 2,750-capacity space sat devoid of bodies. Those who were in attendance chattered incessantly, glued to smartphones or loudly ordering drinks from the bar. The venues emptiness carried an almost oppressive weight.
The music began gone were the breezy, poppy country songs, replaced by something darker and tougher and for the next hour, the audiences indifference to Maines and her bandmates did not subside.
This is the price you pay for starting over.
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Whole sections of the 2,750-capacity space sat devoid of bodies.
Now, again, who is Texas ashamed of? /rhet question
[Nigerian Tribune] THE controversies surrounding the grounding of a Bombardier jet belonging to the Rivers State government have taken a fresh turn, as sources within the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) revealed that the embattled governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, would have to pay a total sum of $320,000, about N51.2 million, to the agency for the 16 days its pilot contravened the aviation laws.
According to findings by Sunday Tribune, for violating the airspace regulation for 16 days, the Rivers State government would part with a $20,000 per day fine.
But a source within the state government disclosed that NAMA's position about payment of fine was entirely new to the government, saying: "We are not aware of any fine, neither has the state government been officially briefed. Whenever NAMA briefs us officially on the issue, we will know what to do."
According to the sources, NAMA would not have grounded the plane if the pilot had signed the passenger manifest, stating that it was after the grounding of the plane by NAMA that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authorities (NCAA) noticed that the plane had registration issues, even as they noted that the grounded plane would be released by the agency as soon as the owner paid the fine.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the sources revealed that NAMA was only concerned with the violation of the airspace regulation, saying the payment of the fine would not stop the NCAA from carrying out its duties as regarding the grounded plane.
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All I hear are clicking noises.
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[An Nahar] At least two people were rubbed out Friday in Conakry during fresh festivities between Guinean police and opposition protestors, a hospital source and an opposition official said.
"Three of our supporters were rubbed out Friday in Conakry," senior opposition official Cellou Dalein Diallo told AFP. A medic at a hospital in Conakry was able to confirm two deaths.
The troubled west African nation's opposition, protesting against a "unilateral" government decision to stage long-delayed legislative elections on June 30, had already clashed with police on Thursday.
A policeman who was seriously maimed in Thursday's unrest died of his injuries on Friday, a police front man said.
More than 20 people were maimed on Thursday when the protest march veered off its authorized course.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused former Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe of plotting to assassinate him.
Maduro said he had evidence that right-wing Venezuelan politicians had been involved in the plot.
He has alleged conspiracies against him since taking over from the late His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez and winning disputed elections last month.
Uribe -- a fierce critic of President Chavez -- dismissed Maduro's accusation as "immature".
On Friday, Maduro said: "Uribe is behind a plot to kill me. Uribe is a killer.
"I have enough evidence of who is conspiring, and there are sectors of the Venezuelan right involved," Maduro added.
Hours later, Uribe responded by saying: "To the immature accusation by the dictatorship... just one response: repeat the elections."
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Chinese and Indian armies have withdrawn simultaneously from face-off point at Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh, official sources said on Sunday evening.
According to reports, the agreement between the two sides was reached following a high-level meeting. Both countries decided to end the deadlock at 7.30pm, PTI quoted official sources, as saying.
Earlier reports said that Chinese troops have refused to budge from the Indian territory occupied by them. Chinese troops reportedly asked the Indian forces to pull back first in the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector of Ladakh.
Senior military personnel of the two countries led by Brigadier-level officers held a fouth flag meeting at Chushul on Saturday but their discussions lasting 45-minute ended without any positive outcome with the Chinese refusing to restore status-quo ante as it obtained on April 15 before they intruded 19 kms deep on the Indian side of Line of Actual Control (LAC) pitching five tents and bringing in some 50 soldiers besides military vehicles and dogs.
Official sources said that the Chinese side asked the Indian troops, which have also established tented posts about 300 metres from the Chinese, to pull back first before they could think of going back. The Indians said that any pull back had to be simultaneous and that the Chinese should vacate their intrusion. The sources said that in view of this impasse there was no breakthrough in the meeting but the two sides decided to continue the dialogue.
The Chinese side also reiterated their earlier stand that India should dismantle bunkers constructed along the LAC in Phuktsay and Chumar areas to which the Indian side contended that similar activities were being carried out on the Chinese side.
Chinese officials maintained that the activities on their side was more of a developmental work and that India should stop pushing its grazers in Chumar division, south east of Ladakh.
On April 15, Chinese troops had intruded nearly 27 kms deep into the Indian territory but an early detection and aggressive patrolling by the security personnel posted in the sector managed to pull them back to the present position near the old patrol base in the DBO sector, which is still 19 kms from the LAC.
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Prolly best to take wid a grain of salt for now, as MIlBloggers claim Net sources are only quoting from report from the Press Trust of India [PTI], while the latter per se is repor that a "fourth flag" meeting between India + China has once again failed???
FYI TOPIX > CHNESE TROOPS HAD PROBED INDIAN ARMY POSTS AT THREE POINTS/PLACES IN LADAKH DBO SECTOR, before its final incursion.
Anyhoo,
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Pravda] CHINA THREATENS TO END MILITARY ROLE OF USA IN ASIA.
> CHINA'S RIFT WID JAPAN IS OPEN CHALLENGE TO IS - THE JAPAN TIMES.
> [Defense News] CHINA-JAPAN ISLAND DISPUTE COULD BECOME FLASHPOINT. Sino-Japan dispute the REAL PROBLEM, N-O-T KIM JONG-UN = NORTH KOREA.
> [Defense News] JAPAN-CHINA ISLAND SPAT [Yonaguni] THREATENS JGSDF DEPLOYMENT + MUCH MORE.
> MYANMAR ANOTHER ARENA OF COMPETITION OR BATTLEFIELD BETWEEN US + CHINA?
Truth be told, IMO Yonaguni is prolly a bigger realistic threat to the PLA than Japan's control of the China-claimed Senkakus/Daoyus. I'm pretty sure the PLA has Yonaguni in their high-priority, To-Be-Attacked-First/ASAP target lists like Taiwan.
* TOPIX > [HuffPo] WE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THE REAL TICKING TIME BOMB ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA.
ROK + DPRK steady econ deterioration leading to possible chaos + worse?
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > NEW GALLUP POLL: ONLY ONE-HALF OF AMERICANS THINK THE US IS STILL #1 MILITARILY. Steady decline in mainstream belief since Summer 2009.
VERSUS
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SINGH TO CHINA: PULL OUT YOUR TROOPS [Ladakh] OR I WILL SPEND ONE MORE NIGHT [or maybe TWO] IN JAPAN - CHOOSE! | [Times of India] SINGH EXTENDS JAPAN TRIP, SENDS STRONG MESSAGE TO CHINA.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [AJW Asahi Shimbun] CONTEMPT FOR CHINA LEADS TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGZ [indigenous] OKINAWANS, by mainland + island-based Non-Okinawan Japanese, + Okinawan-vs-Okinawan inter-indigenous criticisms.
Anti-Nippon, Pro-China Left-winger? treason + sedition in the ranks???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN TRIED TO BUY ISLANDS [Northern Territories = South Kuriles]BEFORE SOVIET COLLAPSE: OZAWA, but Gorbachev turned the offer down.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "SANKEI SHIMBUN" JAPANESE MEDIA: JAPAN PM ABE WARNS BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN JAPAN + CHINA, EAST ASIAN NATIONS COULD BE COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN [collapsed] BY 2015.
* SAME > NORTH KOREAN AIR FORCE CHIEF THREATENS ICBM, NUCLEAR "SUICIDE/KAMIKAZE" ATTACKS AGZ THE US IFF NORTH KOREA IS ATTACKED.
* WORLD NEWS > XI'S WAR DRUMS | CHINA LEADER'S PLOY MORE THAN JUST NAVAL GRAZING | CHINA'S XI JINPENG IS SPOILING FOR A FIGHT, BUT WID WHOM?
CAN CHINA ACTUALLY FIGHT?
WaPo continues its week-long perspective on Guns in America with this four-month old story of a Georgia mother who emptied her 38 into an intruder, when he opened the door to the crawl space. Cops were on the way. Funny -- I missed the story four months ago. By the time Melinda Herman called her husband at work to say an intruder was in the house, she had rushed both children into an upstairs bedroom and locked two doors behind her. She also had retrieved a .38 from the gun safe. The only place left to hide was a crawl space that led to the attic, and that's where Herman crouched, with her son and daughter beside her and a revolver in her hand.
Walton County sheriff's deputies barreled toward the subdivision, but the intruder reached the crawl space first. When he opened the door, Herman fired six times. Sadly, the perp survived. More training needed! Reading further, she did hit him with five of the six shots.
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Mrs. Herman stated the subject came in the bathroom and opened the crawl space door. Mrs. Herman stated she started shooting at the subject. Mrs. Herman stated she kept shooting at the subject and the subject started yelling please stop.
Mrs. Herman stated she realized she had shot all of her rounds in the weapon. Mrs. Herman stated she kept yelling at him to stay down. Mrs. Herman stated she told him if he tried to get up, she would shoot him again. Mrs. Herman stated she grabbed her kids and they ran downstairs.
The deputies' report does not mention the blood, the walls, the carpet or the screaming and crying. Nor does it say that the revolver Herman used was loaded with ammunition from a visit to a gun range a week before.
"Her husband had just talked her into learning how to shoot," says Capt. Greg Hall, chief of detectives, sitting across the desk from the sheriff. "You've got two little kids trying to hide behind mama. The lady did what any mother would do."
Herman fired six shots, missing only once. Paul Ali Slater, 32, an unemployed father of six,
From which detail we are to conclude that he was just trying to support his family...
was shot five times in the face and torso. He made it back to his vehicle but crashed a few blocks away. He barely survived his injuries. Last month, Slater was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He told the judge that he thought the Herman's house was empty when he broke in to steal.
Then why did he chase the residents all the way to the top of the house, instead of either grabbing what was at hand or leaving upon being seen? There were plenty of other houses in the neighborhood, surely.
Sitting at his desk, Sheriff Chapman says Slater sought out Herman and her children, bypassing a purse on a counter and a big-screen TV to reach the crawl space, breaking through two locked doors in his path.
This is starting to sound like a "Darwin wins" situation.
Before the shooting, in an effort to keep dangerous individuals and scam artists from residential neighborhoods, Chapman had urged the Walton County Board of Commissioners to adopt an ordinance that required background checks, registration and fingerprinting of all door-to-door salespeople.
Not that it would have helped in this case, as our perpetrator had no legal intentions whatsoever.
Two months ago, because of difficulties enforcing local regulations, the ordinance was repealed. So what's a Mother to do?
"He came to my house before he went to the Hermans'," says Anita Brown, 38. "I saw him drive up." Brown says she was in her office when she saw an SUV pull into her driveway. The man who got out was wearing a hoodie and baggy jeans" Brown says. She grabbed her phone and went outside before he could make it to her front door.
He said he was looking for a coach, according to Brown. He was vague when she asked for specifics. "Where's he coach at?" Brown asked. The man retreated to his vehicle and left. Brown went inside to cook lunch. She did not hear the gunshots a few cul-de-sacs away at the Hermans' house.
"If she hadn't shot him, we'd be having a murder trial right now," Brown says. "I firmly believe that." This is the WaPo. How are they gonna work this into The Narrative?
"Let's go," Zakia Slater calls to two of her sons, who have just inhaled dinner and are 20 minutes from the start of basketball practice. They load into the SUV.
The same one her husband took on his robbery expedition?
As Zakia backs out of the driveway, the steering wheel shimmies. "Mom, it's obviously not safe," the 9-year-old boy says.
"It certainly isn't," Zakia says, trying to conceal one more frustration in a life now built on them.
Suddenly she is on her own with six children, and her husband is known as "that guy who got shot by the lady."
Too late for Darwin to kick in, it appears.
She owes a lawyer $7,500. Her phone rings with collect calls from jail.
"I want to see Daddy," her youngest daughter says. "When are we gonna be able to see Daddy?"
"Daddy broke the law," she says.
The community that Paul Slater upended includes his own family. His wife of nine years
Six children in nine years? Goodness.
was so frightened by the public outrage that she slept with a knife under her mattress. She spent her days in her classroom with "The Legend of the Bluebonnet" and her nights in a chair at the hospital for five weeks. This went on as teachers and colleagues from school came to her house with casseroles, lasagna and red velvet cake. One crocheted a scarf for her. "We're praying for you," they said.
She has prayed a lot herself. Zakia can't explain why her husband broke into a house with a crowbar. She imagines Herman and her children, "scared out their minds," she says. But her husband said he was looking for jewelry, not people. Her fiercest conviction is that he had no intention of hurting anyone. "I can never imagine him doing anything like that," she says.
To which Capt. Hall of the sheriff's office says, "Bless her heart."
Which, I have been told, is Southron for a great many things, most of which do not mean "Bless her heart."
As time has passed, the same unease that affects the rest of Walton County has settled in her. Deciding that a knife under a mattress wasn't enough, she went to a pawnshop and bought a gun. Thus endeth the lesson.
More details from an article in Daily Mail dated January 6, 2013. Perp had a record and had served time.
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Six rounds expended with the outcome as noted above. And they say (magazine) size does not matter.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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By the time Melinda Herman called her husband at work to say an intruder was in the house, she had rushed both children into an upstairs bedroom and locked two doors behind her. She also had retrieved a .38 from the gun safe. The only place left to hide was a crawl space that led to the attic, and that's where Herman crouched, with her son and daughter beside her and a revolver in her hand.
