[Breitbart] On October 8, an Indianapolis homeowner--who is also a Roller Derby girl--punched an alleged home intruder until she had driven him back into a corner, then drew "a Japanese-style sword" and used to it to keep him subdued until police arrived.
The incident occurred "around midnight."
According to The Indianapolis Star, 43-year-old Karen Dolley awoke to sounds of someone in her home. When she turned on the lights to investigate police say she saw 30-year-old Jacob Wessel standing in her living room.
Dolley began punching Wessel and opened a near-by drawer to grab a gun, but in the pressure of the moment she opened the wrong drawer and failed to find the firearm. So she grabbed "a Japanese-style sword called ninjato," which she used to keep the Wessel subdued until police arrived.
Dolley said she did not think she was hitting Wessel that hard, but the morning after revealed her hands were bruised from the encounter. She said, "I didn't think I was getting good blows in but my knuckles are bruised today. Hitting someone like that, it isn't like the movies. You're expecting it to be louder and see people jerk around, but that's not how it happens in real life."
In addition to being a Roller Derby girl, Dolley has a training background medieval combat fighting. Jake obviously suffers from acute victim-selection disorder. He really cannot be blamed for his actions.
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She's an SCA member from the region where women were first allowed into tournaments. A good portion of the training involved is putting on a helmet and learning what a "good hit" is by having someone whack your head with a rattan stick.
Yeah, he picked the wrong target.
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Icarus program is named after boy in Greek myth who flew close to the sun
Aims to develop drones capable of carrying a small payload that 'vanish within four hours of payload delivery or within 30 minutes of ...twilight'
There's a possibility that a final design may disappear in a puff of smoke
Remains from the craft must be no larger than a grain of sand More at link . . . .
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Won't stand a chance against CHALICE, which uses a dispersed system of mirrors for guidance and a rocket battery using Ash tipped warheads guided by active cruciform fins.
Or it could just be some nerologist's waiting room.
Plane wreckage containing 'many skeletons' and painted with the Malaysian flag has reportedly been found in the Philippines, prompting speculation it could be missing Flight MH370.
Police confirmed they had received reports of the discovery in thick jungle on the remote island of Sugbai in Tawi-Tawi province.
An audio technician, Jamil Omar, contacted police in Malaysia to say his aunt, Siti Kayam, had stumbled upon the wreckage while she and others were hunting for birds.
Police commissioner Jalaludin Abdul Rahman, based in neighbouring Borneo, said the woman claimed she climbed into the smashed fuselage and saw skeletons.
He said: 'Mr Jamil claimed his aunt had entered the aircraft wreckage, which had many human skeletons and bones.
'She also found a Malaysian flag measuring 70 inches long and 35 inches wide.'
According to a local media reportL 'There was a skeleton still in the pilot's seat. The pilot had his safety belt on and the communication gear attached to his head and ears.'
Speculation grew that the wreckage could belong to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in March last year with 239 people on board.
Police remain reserved about the report, mindful of confirmation by French authorities that part of an aircraft wing -- a flaperon -- found on the island of Reunion in the west of the Indian Ocean earlier this year had been confirmed as being from MH370.
It would be unlikely that the flaperon had been able to drift from the Philippines to Reunion, given that land -- Borneo, the Malaysian mainland and parts of Indonesia -- would be in the way.
However, police are understood to have not dismissed the possibility that the flaperon could have broken off from the aircraft after it took off in March last year to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the missing part causing the pilots problems in handling the jet.
Adding to the general mystery is the report by oil rig worker Mike McKay who told the Mail exclusively earlier this year that he stood by his observation of an 'aircraft on fire' as he stood at night on his rig off the southern tip of Vietnam.
For MH370 to have come down on remote Sugbai island, it would have had to divert from its north east course after take off and head due east towards the lower Philippines islands.
A catastrophic disaster, an explosion, a fire, or even a hijacking, could have resulted in it veering around the skies, experts have said.
Australian, Malaysian and Chinese authorities have been sharing information based on satellite signals that have resulted in an intensive search of waters south west of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean.
Despite high-tech scouring of the waters and the ocean floor, there has been no sign of the plane in that area, the only discovery confirmed as being from the aircraft being the flaperon found earlier this year on Reunion.
Whether the mystery of the plane's final resting place along with its 239 passengers and crew will be solved with the latest report of 'wreckage' is expected to be known within the next day or so.
Police in Sabah, in northern Borneo, confirmed that Mr Omar had called in at the police headquarters to personally lodge a report about the wreckage.
Mr Jamil, who produced his identity card to police, said his aunt had not been able to provide the information earlier because there were no facilities on the island.
'So my aunt came to see me,' Mr Jamil told the police.
In his official report, Mr Omar said the nephew and his friends went into the wreckage 'and found many human skeletons and bones,' a report on freemalaysiatoday.com stated.
The site added: 'There was a skeleton still in the pilot's seat. The pilot had his safety belt on and the communication gear attached to his head and ears.'
A naval task force which landed on the Philippines island reported later today that initial checks with villagers on the island had failed to confirm the report.
Captain Giovanni Bacordo, commander of Naval Task Force 61, said a team of men on a gunboat had been sent to investigate the report but could not add any new information.
'We interviewed the people at the Sugbai Island (also known as Sugbay) - the fishermen - but they have no knowledge of it,' said Captain Bacordo.
'If we are too check thoroughly it has to be a deliberate effort. It's a big island, 3.5 miles long, but we did an initial investigation with the populace,' he told Philippines media.
Further investigations are to involve Mr Omar, 46, and his his aunt.
An officer admitted that if it was a hoax call, it did not make sense that Mr Omar should have given police his name and that of his aunt.
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Lots of scavengers in the jungle. I'd expect the remains to be scattered about by the larger ones, but maybe it was just beetles and flies doing the cleaning.
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Seems plausible to me. Came down at night. Even if it caught fire would have burned out by dawn and if in a valley unlikely to be seen.
[AlAhram] The corpse count from last month's stampede at the hajj has risen to at least 1,535, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it the deadliest incident in the pilgrimage's history.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has yet to provide an updated corpse count after saying two days after the stampede that 769 Muslim pilgrims had died. Saudi authorities have also not provided a breakdown by nationality.
Hundreds of pilgrims have also not been accounted for following the September 24 stampede at the hajj, one of the largest annual gatherings in the world.
But many foreign governments have provided numbers on pilgrims killed from their countries and an AFP tally shows the corpse count has risen more than 100 beyond the 1,426 pilgrims who died in the hajj's worst previous incident -- a tunnel stampede in July 1990.
[DAWN] President Alexander Lukashenko was expected to win a fifth term in Sunday's election with ease, but he said anything much less than 80 per cent of the vote would be a sign that his support was slipping.
The authoritarian leader faced no serious competition in the election, which was boycotted by the opposition. Even before polls opened in the former Soviet republic, the Central Election Commission announced that 36 per cent of the 7 million registered voters had cast their ballots during five days of early voting. By 4 pm on election day, the official turnout was nearly 75 per cent, even though many polling stations in the capital and nearby villages were nearly empty.
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[RFE/RL] A court in Kazakhstan has begun hearing a case against a Christian convert charged with inciting religious hatred. Yqylas Qabduaqasov, an active Seventh-Day Adventist, was brought to the courtroom on October 9 in handcuffs.
Saryarqa District Court Judge Aqmaral Isaeva only allowed journalists to film three minutes of the trial's start and then banned any recording devices in the courtroom. Several witnesses testified that Qabduaqasov expressed ideas during Bible study sessions that sounded insulting to Muhammad and Muslims.
Qabduaqasov, who was arrested in August, pleaded not guilty. He could face up to 10 years if convicted.
[DAWN] Nepal’s parliament elected Communist party leader Khadga Prasad Oli the new prime minister on Sunday, thrusting him into the centre of daunting challenges, from ethnic protests over the new constitution that has also upset vital neighbor India to rebuilding from April’s devastating earthquake.
Oli received 338 votes from the 597-member chamber, Parliament speaker Subash Nemwang announced. Oli defeated his predecessor Sushil Koirala, who received 249 votes.
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[DAWN] MULTAN: Seven people, including six members of a family, were killed in a clash between two families over a trifle at village Tulamba of Khanewal district on Sunday.
The Rajput family used to stop Sukhera families from using the state land as a passage to reach their outhouse. On Sunday, they opened fire on the Sukheras and killed four siblings, Abida, Khalida, Abdul Majeed and Abdul Kareem, their uncle Zulfiqar Ali and cousin Maqbool who was a guest in their home. Muhammad Rafique of Rajput family was also killed in the firing. Two other persons were reportedly injured.
According to police, the outhouse of the Sukheras was located near the residence of the Rajputs and they used to forbid the Sukheras from using the state land as passage along their residence.
The Sukheras said they had lodged an FIR with Tulamba police on the complaint of Abdul Kareem after receiving death threats from the Rajputs. When the police quashed the FIR, they submitted another application to the police a couple day back. However, police didn’t take any action.
On Saturday, Maqbool, a cousin, came to meet them and they arranged his stay at the outhouse. The next day when the family was going to see off the guest, the Rajputs allegedly opened fire on them and killed six members of Sukhera family. One member of the Rajputs, identified as Rafique, was also killed.
Khanewal District Police Officer Jahanzeb Nazir Khan said six people had been arrested with weapons. However, police have not filed an FIR yet.
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[DAWN] Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab organiser Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said on Sunday night that the defeat of his party’s candidate in the NA-122 by-election by a ‘small margin’ of about 4,000 votes was not a defeat by just the rival candidate but the entire might and resources of federal and Punjab governments. But it's still a defeat, bub. Deny all you want, they still won't let you in.
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Yup. He's one of ours.
Filardi wasn't universally popular for this decision. He took to Audubon to write: "Why I Killed A Rare Kingfisher So That I Could Study It And Become More Famous." Wait, no. His article was headlined: "Why I Collected a Moustached Kingfisher." (The comments section to this article is well worth a read.)
[DAWN] An angry crowd attacked a police station in a southern Thai resort island and torched nine squad cars after two young men were killed in a police chase, an offical said on Sunday.
Scores of local residents in a small rural town in Phuket island joined the protest, throwing stones and setting fire to police vehicles before they were dispersed early on Sunday.
The incident followed the death of the pair in an apparent crash during a police chase, Phuket governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada said without giving further details.
“They torched nine cars — 14 officials were injured and as well as two villagers injured,” he said, adding four policemen have been shifted from their duties to calm the situation.
Phuket is one of Thailand’s most popular tourist destinations but the unrest was not close to areas frequented by visitors.
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[HOT Air] Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post correspondent in Tehran imprisoned for more than 14 months has been convicted in an espionage trial that ended two months ago, Iranian State TV has reported.
News of a verdict in Tehran's Revolutionary Court initially came early Sunday, but court spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei did not specify the judgment. In a state TV report late Sunday, Ejei said definitively that Rezaian was found guilty.
But many details remained unknown. Rezaian faced four charges -- the most serious of which was espionage -- and it's unclear if he was convicted of all charges. Rezaian and The Post have strongly denied the accusations, and his case has drawn wide-ranging denunciations including statements from the White House and media freedom groups.
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Two months ago? Wasn't that about the time of Champ's historic agreement that wasn't quite a treaty with the Mad Mullahs?
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Shows you what a putz Champ is: he couldn't get one guy released from an Iranian prison in return for $150 billion to be paid to terrorists.
Heck, even in Illinois I could have gotten us a prisoner exchange and a new bridge in my hometown.
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Sort of convicted in the Holder/Dept of Education official style of handling 'sexual misconduct' charges on today's campuses in America. Guess he couldn't prove his innocence. I'm sure the WAPO grasps the irony of the situation. /sarc
[Huffpoo] COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Denmark has married his partner in the Scandinavian country that became the first nation to allow gay couples to formalize their unions in 1989.
Rufus Gifford, the U.S. envoy since September 2013, is a strong gay rights advocate and often appears with Stephen DeVincent, a 56-year-old veterinarian, at his side. The two were married Saturday at the Copenhagen City Hall. Gifford, a 41-year-old Boston native, wrote on Twitter: "26 yrs ago the site of 1st legal gay unions in the world. Humbled and emotional."
Later in the day, he posted a smiling photo of the two, showing off their rings: "In the land that created fairy tales, we just started our own."
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.
Icarus program is named after boy in Greek myth who flew close to the sun
[DAWN] President Alexander Lukashenko was expected to win a fifth term in Sunday's election with ease, but he said anything much less than 80 per cent of the vote would be a sign that his support was slipping.
[RFE/RL] A court in Kazakhstan has begun hearing a case against a Christian convert charged with inciting religious hatred. Yqylas Qabduaqasov, an active Seventh-Day Adventist, was brought to the courtroom on October 9 in handcuffs.
[DAWN] MULTAN: Seven people, including six members of a family, were killed in a clash between two families over a trifle at village Tulamba of Khanewal district on Sunday.
[DAWN] Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab organiser Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said on Sunday night that the defeat of his party’s candidate in the NA-122 by-election by a ‘small margin’ of about 4,000 votes was not a defeat by just the rival candidate but the entire might and resources of federal and Punjab governments.
[Huffpoo] COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Denmark has married his partner in the Scandinavian country that became the first nation to allow gay couples to formalize their unions in 1989.
