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MVB Falls to No. 6 Ohio State, 3-1
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ball State men's volleyball team dropped a heartbreaker to the No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes (28-26, 25-22, 25-19, 25-23) Sunday afternoon at St. John Arena. Senior outside hitter Greg Herceg and sophomore outside hitter Shane Witmer each tallied double-digit kills while junior setter Graham McIlvaine registered a double-double.
Herceg led the match with 18 kills while Witmer added 10 kills. McIlvaine tallied his second double-double of the season and seventh of his career off 45 assists and a career-high 13 digs. Junior libero Tommy Rouse got under 17 digs while middle blockers Kevin Owens and Matt Leske each recorded a solo block and five assisted blocks.
The Cardinals trailed in the first set but used defense to get back in. Two triple blocks and a solo block by Owens brought the Cardinals to within two, 20-18. A heads up play from McIlvaine to dig the ball gave way to a Witmer kill to bring BSU to within one. The score would get knotted up several times down the stretch, but the Buckeyes came out on top 28-26.
Ball State led by as many as seven twice in the second set, 18-11 and 20-13. Ohio State mounted an 8-2 run to tie the set at 22-all. Herceg managed a dig that set up a Witmer kill to give the Cardinals a one-point advantage. A Herceg kill and a Buckeye attack error would give the Cardinals the 25-22 set win.
Ohio State hit a .297 clip (17-6-37) to Ball State's .222 (12-4-36) in the third set. The Cardinals were not able to outlast an offensive explosion from the Buckeyes' Chen Levitan and Andrew Lutz and fell 25-19.
The Cardinals led by as many as six early on in the fourth set, but the Buckeyes managed a comeback and took the lead 21-20. Back-to-back kills by Herceg knotted up the match at 23. The match ended on a Cardinal attack error.
With the loss the Cardinals fall to 8-3 on the year and 3-3 in the MIVA, while the Buckeyes improve to 10-2 and 4-0 in league action.
Ball State next travels to Chicago next weekend to play matches against No. 14 Lewis on Friday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., and (RV) Loyola on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 6 p.m. You can keep track of the team on Twitter at @BallStateMVB or on Facebook at "Ball State Men's Volleyball". As always, ballstatesports.com is the official site of Ball State Athletics.


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on March 23, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By David L'Heureux
Tired of the treadmill? Bogged down with the Swiss ball? Weights have you wondering?
It's easy to get stuck in a fitness rut when you're doing the same gym workout or running the neighborhood loop you've been following for years.
"A lot of people spend all day plugged in to a computer or a phone or staring at a monitor, then they go to the gym and plug in to a treadmill for the same old workout," says Lisa Isom, a veteran professional Xterra competitor based in Leadville, Colo. Xterra is an off-road duathlon that combines the disciplines of trail running and mountain biking.
"When you do that, you aren't getting the benefits of an outside workout," Isom says.
The simplest way to expand your exercise horizons and travel to fantastic destinations: Get out of the gym. Here are some ideas:
Rock climbing
If you are looking for an adrenaline-packed, full-body workout, rock climbing might just rope you in. "It's like you are lifting weights while running," says Sean McColl, a top Canadian climber. "You are constantly using every part of your body. Legs, arms, fingers and your head and mind."
Necessities: Climbing shoes, chalk bag, ropes, harness and hardware-like carabineers and spikes.
Cost factor: $$$
Trail running
If you're burnt on the usual asphalt loop around the block, find a wooded area or a park in your vicinity and head for the hills. Trail running is a great change of pace for a number of reasons. "Sure you get the cardio workout and fitness boost from running up a trail," says Isom. "But you also have to be focused and really aware of your surroundings so it takes your mind off everything else in your day."
Necessities: Trail running shoes
Cost factor: $
Mountain biking
You don't have to be an extreme athlete to enjoy the benefits of rolling on knobby tires, and it beats spinning away at the gym by a mile, according to U.S. mountain bike Olympian and 10-time national champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski. "Mountain biking is an incredibly welcoming sport to newbies and beginners," he says.
An increasingly competitive mountain bike market has made getting a quality new or used bike very affordable.
Necessities: Mountain bike, helmet
Cost factor: $$$
Kayaking offers participants a "liquid conveyer belt" through the great outdoors, says Eric Jackson, former freestyle kayak world champion. "You are always out in the open on the water in a boat, so you get the most amazing views."
Paddling works your upper body and core, while your legs and hip flexors work to stabilize your body from inside the boat.
Necessities: Kayak, paddle, life jacket, spray skirt, helmet, roof rack, straps
Cost of entry: $$$$
Fishing? A workout? You'll battle the current of the river and keep your upper body, arms and core fully engaged as you work the fly line. "People laugh when I say it's work," says Colorado fly-fishing competitor Joel B. Sharp. "But after two hours in the water, you're cooked."
Necessities: Fly rod, reel, line, dry and wet flies, vest, and waders
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6 Unspoken Rules of Public Transportation (Everybody Breaks)
#3. Standing in the Wrong Place
There aren't many great places to stand on a bus or train; by the time you're forced to stand, the thing's going to be packed enough that no matter where you position yourself, you'll be in someone's way. The only thing you can do is minimize the number of people you're inconveniencing with your big standing ass. And there are a few simple rules for doing that:
1) Don't Stand in Front of the Doors
If you're nowhere near your stop, you should be nowhere near the door. The back of the bus or the middle of the train car are best. Unless it's packed, and the doors are the only place where there's the three cubic feet you can squeeze yourself into, in which case, fine, stand by the doors. But just know that you're going to be getting on and off to make room at every stop.
2) Don't Lean on Poles
Those poles are for multiple people to grab on to, necessary for keeping buses from becoming mosh pits/American Gladiator events. When you lean on or hug one of these poles, your back and ass are taking up valuable grabbing space. According to Transit Law, anyone who sees you doing this is allowed to grab on to you for support. The arm, lapels, neck, whatever.
Or the funhose.
3) Also the Escalator. Don't Fuck Up the Escalator.
And for the love of Escalating Jesus, don't stand on the walking side of the escalator. (The exact side varies by country.) You're going to get yelled at, or stepped on, or shanked in the neck. In the future, escalator steps will be able to detect when someone is standing on the wrong side, and will fall out beneath that person, dumping them into pits of ... something futurey. Let's say nanolava.
(On a side note, this advice evidently doesn't apply in Japan, where some cities have started banning walking on escalators. Having a mix of walkers and standers increases the risk of collisions, and a standing-only escalator policy evidently improves throughput. This is interesting science, but I urge you not to try this shit anywhere else in the world if your neck is vulnerable to shankings.)
#2. Waving Bags Around
Having a bag at all on mass transit is already a pretty big nuisance for everyone, so if you can avoid it, please do. But I get that you've got a meeting, or a class, or a shitty hostel to get to, and you'll need some stuff when you get there.
There's a Lonely Planet guide to Belgium and a really filthy sleeping bag stuffed in there.
The problem with baggage is pretty obvious: It takes up space. Space that could be used by other people, or worse, space that is already being used by other people. When you hit someone with your bag, you are committing a hate crime, one that's been perpetrated by the bag-having against the bagless for too fucking long. A day is coming, sooner than you think, where everyone who doesn't put their backpack at their feet on a crowded train is going to be put against a wall and shot.
The children will be encouraged to frolic in their blood.
#1. Talking to People
This is the biggest violation of bus etiquette possible, because the violators are no longer putting their physical presence in someone's face. They're putting their words there.* It's possible to ignore someone standing like a dick in front of the doors or swinging a backpack around like a wrecking ball. But ignoring someone talking at you is impossible. The words can't not be heard, can't not be understood, and before you know it, some asshole's inane thoughts are rattling around your brain without your permission.
"The rain's pretty wet today. This bus driver sure likes to make right turns. Brain medication tastes like vowels."
Every time I see this on the bus, my toes curl. It is dragging-a-cat-across-a-chalkboard excruciating for me to listen to someone else's awkward, kind of creepy small talk. Even when it's not me getting talked at. I've gotten off buses several blocks from where I need to be to escape a one-sided conversation about rain dampness that I wasn't even involved in.
Understand that I'm not making a full-throated defense of being shy or isolated. I am all in favor of meeting and talking to strangers in other settings -- at parties, at the bar, at the sex club. Those are appropriate venues, because everyone involved (presumably) wants to be there.
"My day went fine, young lady. It always went fine. That means I don't want to say anything more about it. I don't know you. No, I don't remember you from the club. The fuck room doesn't have lights on for a reason. Oh look, it's my stop."
*Triple there combo!
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Still, now that the beautiful international lawyer is engaged to the Oscar winner, Pigozzi, an international art collector and streetwear designer, says it was the 36-year-old's intelligence as much as her beauty that captured the actor's attention.
"She's a very smart girl," says Pigozzi, who first met Alamuddin several years ago via a mutual friend in London. "She's never boring. She does a lot of interesting cases and has worked in The Hague. She has incredible stories. She doesn't do cases like, 'My apartment was flooded,' or 'My dog bit your cat.' "
At a party Wednesday at Pigozzi's art-filled Manhattan apartment for his Limoland line of brightly colored shirts, T-shirts and swimwear (Scott Disick is a fan), Pigozzi said, "She found a good match there, because he's very smart, too. They will be good together. I highly encourage it."
Besides, he says, "She's a very smart and serious girl. Very good family."
Pigozzi, who reached out to offer his congratulations to Alamuddin after their announcement, says she isn't one to dish on the details. "She is very discreet," he says.
And to that point, he adds: "I don't know anything about the wedding. But she is very happy."


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Saint Vincent College Center for Political and Economic Thought, in cooperation with the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government, will present Dr. J.D. Foster at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 16 in the Fred M. Rogers Center on the campus of Saint Vincent College. His talk is entitled, The Trials of Congress' Misnamed 'Super Committee.' Dr. Foster is the Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He formerly served as associate director for economic policy at the White House's Office of Management and Budget. He also worked as senior advisor in economics at the department's office of tax policy, advising the assistant secretary on issues concerning the 2011 tax cut, the 2001 stimulus bill, reform of the tax expenditure presentation in the president's budget, simplification, and options for tax reform. Dr. Foster has also worked on Capitol Hill. He was the legislative director for Rep. Philip M. Crane, then vice chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Formerly, he was the executive director and chief economist at the Tax Foundation. He served as chief of staff to chairman Michael Boskin at the President's Council of Economic Advisors at the White House. Dr. Foster received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University. For more information, contact Mary Beth McConahey, program manager of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College at email@example.com.


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quote: They rely on retailers to sell their consoles, games, PCs, software, mice, keyboards, etc. If they piss off retailers too much they'll stop pushing Microsoft products. If they do this, Microsoft would likely need to sell everything themselves (hardware and software) or come up with other retail alliances.
quote: Yes because being tied to your Xbox Live ID will do that because you can only log in on one console otherwise you need to buy another console.


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Timberlake made it a guys' evening out on Friday, kicking off the festivities at Yellowtail Japanese restaurant and lounge inside the Bellagio hotel.
Coming in around 10 p.m., the newlywed went incognito, casually dressed – and wearing a cap – to the point that no one in the restaurant seemed to recognize him. Seated in the main dining area, he did not appear to get any special treatment, though he seemed to be having a good time, munching on sashimi made by Chef Akira Back, and chatting and laughing with his pals. At one point, his hit song "Suit & Tie" came on.
While Timberlake's night looked low-key, his wife, who was dining across the casino at Fix, appeared to have a much livelier evening.
In town for a friend's bachelorette party, Biel and her gal pals munched on the eatery's specialties, including tuna tartare and wings.
On Saturday night, Biel followed in her hubby's footsteps and dined at Yellowtail. Sipping on sake, Biel seemed in good spirits.
But it wasn't until after the meal that the party really got started.
The actress and her female friends made their way to 1 OAK nightclub at the Mirage Hotel and Casino, where an onlooker tells PEOPLE they sat at a VIP table stocked with vodka, Champagne and fireball cinnamon whiskey. The group partied until after 3 a.m.
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Woman convicted in stepson's dehydration death was friends in Dallas jail with woman who glued daughter's hands to wall
The women convicted in two of the most high-profile child abuse cases in recent Dallas history apparently became friends while awaiting their trials in the Dallas County jail.
That relationship between Tina Marie Alberson and Elizabeth Escalona came back to hurt Escalona at her own trial last year, when prosecutors played a recording of a jail phone call between Escalona and Alberson.
The recording was made last year after Escalona posted bond and was released from jail, but before she pleaded guilty in her own case. Alberson and Escalona talked on the call about Escalona's upcoming case, in which she ultimately pleaded guilty to torturing her daughter and gluing her hands to a wall as punishment.
On the call, Escalona appeared to have kind words for the man who would ultimately decide her fate, state District Judge Larry Mitchell. She indicated to Alberson that she expected a light punishment from him.
Escalona's thoughts on lead prosecutor Eren Price, however, were not so kind. She was recorded cursing Price.
She apparently wasn't right about Mitchell either. He later sentenced her to 99 years in prison.
Alberson was sentenced this morning to 85 years in prison for depriving her 10-year-old stepson of water as punishment for days. Jonathan James collapsed and died in record July 2011 heat in a southern Dallas home that lacked adequate air conditioning.


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on January 25, 2013 - 8:10 PM
LOCKPORT – A Cambria drunken driver was sentenced Friday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas to months of weekends in jail, five years' probation and fines and fees totaling $5,520.
Donald J. Rolfe, 43, of North Ridge Road, had pleaded guilty to felony driving while intoxicated in the wake of his April 29 arrest on Youngstown-Wilson Road, where his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.20 percent.
In another case Friday, Melvin M. Early Jr., 39, of Norfolk Avenue, Buffalo, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI and was scheduled for sentencing by Farkas on May 3. Early was pulled over Aug. 12 in Niagara Falls and originally was charged with a felony.
Deputy District Attorney Theodore A. Brenner told Farkas he was offering a misdemeanor plea because Early is awaiting sentencing on a DWI felony in Erie County Court March 14.


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"The White Stallion bucks and hits me in my nose until my face busts" - Lil Wayne
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quote: I disagree in cases where the driver is not simply distracted by something else. Having a manual transmissions takes focus OFF traffic and on to actually performing a task at the same time. With an automatic it allows the ability to focus more on what is happening around you than worrying about when you need to shift.
quote: Those that are "newbs" at manual transmission are certainly going to be distracted the first number of times driving because it requires them to be far more engaged on how to operate the vehicle than to pay attention to what's happening around them.
quote: What i mean is if the entire experience becomes completely transparent, then it's no different from driving with an automatic transmission. You either let the car do it for you, or you just do it enough that it's reflex. The net result is you have just as much attention to pay to the road as you do driving an automatic. I see no gain there. (And I'm not referring to the technical benefits of the transmission itself)
quote: I was simply stating that to an unskilled driver, it does require thought and thus not all of their attention is always put on the road, whereas with an automatic this is never the problem, because you can devote your entire attention to what is around you. Once you learn to drive a manual transmission well enough, there is no longer a gap between the two, but manual at that point provides no extra benefit as other posters have tried to claim.
quote: They are reading my post and immediately assuming that my point is that manual is harder to drive and is a distraction. I am trying to state that once the initial (very small) learning curve of driving a manual transmission vehicle becomes second nature to the operator, the distinction between driving a manual versus driving an automatic no longer exists.
quote: Whether or not a person who drives a manual vehicle is more inclined to be more engaged in the driving experience is completely beside the point I'm trying to make.


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What's the first thought that comes to your mind looking at these shots of Ang Lee and Anne Hathaway together at the LOUIS XIII and Film Foundation Creative Encounters event in Beverly Hills today? God I love that movie. It's one of the few movies that gets me all emotional just thinking about it. Full Story
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Michelle Yeoh in Venice yesterday this time for the premiere of Lust, Caution. She is perfection. Oh and by the way…Michelle is 3 years older than Diane Lane. Just sayin'… Anyway, Michelle of course was there to support fellow Chinese Ang Lee's latest. You may best know Lee as the Oscar-winning director of a movie called Brokeback Mountain and also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Full Story


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5 Terrible Combinations Made From Great Things
Our world is filled with many wonderful combinations: David Bowie plus Queen gave us "Under Pressure"; pizza plus bagels gave us the pizza bagel; and Jack O'Brien plus a huge bag of X gave us a Cracked office party that we're still not allowed to blog about.
Ah, memories ...
But what about all the unsuccessful combos? Times when two great things are combined, and despite all expectations, the result sucks far harder than either of those things separately. And to be clear, I don't mean things like drinking and driving or government and religion. I'm talking about great things, thrown into the mixer of awesome, whirled together with high expectations, but producing only a viscous sludge of failure.
#5. Chris Cornell Plus Rage Against the Machine = Audioslave and Sadness
I fully believe Soundgarden's Chris Cornell is the most talented human being in the history of hard rock. The greatest lead singer rock has ever produced, surpassing Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey and Steven Tyler. Just as important, his songwriting prowess rivals Jimmy Page's, and he's penned a tremendously diverse and impressive catalog ranging from speed metal to blues, gospel and folk-influenced songs.
Rage Against the Machine, although holding a smaller place in my heart, has an undeniable musical legacy. Tom Morello is an inventive and unique lead guitarist of tremendous power, and Rage's rhythm section reliably delivered a powerful hard rock stomp.
So at that magic point in the early 21st century when Soundgarden was no longer a band and Rage's lead singer Zack de la Rocha left to pursue dreading his hair and being angry about Latino politics full time, it seemed a wonderful opportunity to make this thing happen. Hell, even superproducer Rick Rubin thought it would be a great idea. What if Rage suddenly had a lead singer with an actual vocal range who wanted to write about things besides that time Mexican soldiers raped his grandma? What if Cornell, who had experimented with a more mellow solo album, returned to just kicking ass?
Zach getting irate about Sandinistas. (Educated guess.)
Well, after three albums, it's clear that what would happen is nothing special. At all. The union produced fairly mediocre hard rock that lacked any of Soundgarden's musicianship, groove and subtlety. Rage fans were also disappointed by the departure from the four on the floor, take no prisoners RATM stomp. And Zack de la Rocha fans missed seeing a dreaded Muppet strutting around stage ranting about Simon Bolivar or Che Guevara or, OK, I'm not really sure.
#4. Board Games Plus Movies = Clue, Battleship, Cancer (Probably)
You know how in every Cracked list there's an entry that doesn't quite fit with the others? No. No you don't. That never happens. And it's not happening now. But I must admit this entry's kind of less specific than the rest because when it comes to the concept of combining movies (big fan) with board games (big fan), how can I pick just one abortion? They're all terrible. There's Clue and Battleship, and soon we'll have another Clue, plus Candyland, Monopoly and Ouija.
I'm not sure how this keeps happening. These games have no story. They have no protagonist. They have no dialogue. There is nothing to actually adapt, just some vague name recognition. It's the stupidest idea for someone to sink money into ever since somebody decided to start a website based only on the name recognition of a magazine that no longer existed.
"See, in the movie, Ouija is a plucky Midwestern girl who wants to make it in the big city!"
Nevertheless, I'd like to formally announce right here that I am currently pitching a movie based on Ants in the Pants that follows Seanbaby's heroic exploits as he engages in a Muay Thai death match with his pubic lice.
My money's on the crabs.
***UPDATE: Wow, I had no idea so many people loved Clue. Well, I love the cast, but for me it was always mediocre because each of those actors was in earlier movies I enjoyed more. Also, the movie itself is a lot like one of my favorite comedies of all time, Murder By Death, except not as funny. I wasn't trolling you with this. I was trolling with the Zach de la Rocha jokes that apparently bothered no one.
#3. Mick Jagger Plus David Bowie = "Dancing in the Streets" and ... Oh My.
Chris Cornell might be my rock-and-roll hero, but David Bowie is my God. I don't think there has been another artist who's had a greater impact on every aspect of how I live my life.
For example, here I am on the way to my prom.
There's far too much ink on Bowie's diversity and importance for me to waste everyone's time reiterating it here. But if you're reading this and think of Bowie as only the dude from Labyrinth or Let's Dance, you're missing out on an awful lot. Download Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Heroes and Scary Monsters. Four completely different, incredibly important and influential albums. But despite all that innovation and bravery, somewhere around 1983, David got a taste of American mainstream mass success and lost his damn mind. He wandered the halls of musical mediocrity for six years until Tin Machine saved his soul in '89. But before that happened, he teamed up with his old pal Mick Jagger.
Mick Jagger's a rock-and-roll legend and lead singer of the Rolling Stones -- y'know, that band that contrarian douchebags like to say is the greatest band ever because they think it's cooler than giving the Beatles as the right answer. Anyway, Bowie and Jagger got together in 1985 to cover the classic Martha and the Vandellas song "Dancing in the Street." This was the result:
Years later, Bowie's ex-wife would claim that Mick and Dave had sex in the '70s, but I promise you that even if she filmed the two of them in the throes of a passionate 69, that footage would not be nearly as homoerotic as this video. And this is not the good kind of gay, either. This is not the glam rock Ziggy Stardust sexuality that embraces both genders and all intergalactic species or the Oscar Wilde uber-sophisticated kind of gay associated with wise and witty zingers. This is the swishy kind of gay that belongs to a beauty salon queen, booking appointments while bitching for a full 10 minutes about how the Starbucks barista didn't leave room for milk. Also, on a musical level, it sucks. We all agree on that, right? I don't need to, like, give reasons, do I?


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ST. GEORGE — Even as his attorney continued to fault his accuser's account of kidnapping and rape, former preacher Dale Richardson knew Wednesday that the odds were against him.
In the second day of the 49-year-old's trial, his attorney showed a jury how the woman accepted phone calls during the time she said she was abducted, tied up and forced to perform sexual acts on Richardson.
Jurors learned how he and the woman, who still works as a prostitute, had set up a rendezvous that day in July 2011 by exchanging text messages.
Richardson thought he could be acquitted if the jury saw the same problems with the woman's story that his attorney did.
But it was the two other women accusing him of rape, including one who was not a prostitute, he worried about.
Richardson was on trial this week in only one case, but 1st Circuit Judge Maite Murphy allowed his accusers in two others to be heard. And as one of them prepared to testify Wednesday, Richardson pleaded guilty to three counts each of kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison under the deal that abruptly ended his trial. He had faced up to 30 years on each count.
The agreement allowed him to avoid prosecution for one other kidnapping case in which the woman had not accused him of rape.
Under state sentencing guidelines, he won't be eligible for release until he has served 17 of those years. He has already spent nearly two years in jail.
As his relatives and accusers wept, the former leader of Freedom Free Will Baptist Church on Lincolnville Road issued a brief apology for the "pain and suffering I've caused."
Murphy told him that the women he raped had put themselves in dangerous situations. But they didn't deserve to be bound, taken to remote locations and forced to have sex at gunpoint, the judge said.
"Churches heal people," she said. "You were the pastor of a church. Rather than healing the people who most needed it, you took advantage of them in the most horrible way."
Victims' 'mercy'
For weeks, Richardson had considered a plea deal. Defense attorney Andy Savage said Richardson could have been acquitted if Murphy hadn't allowed testimony and evidence in the other cases not on trial this week.
Richardson had arranged to have sex with the woman who had already taken the witness stand. But, the woman testified, she never would have agreed to rough treatment as part of a sexual fantasy.
"We were doing pretty good on the facts," Savage said. "But the legal issues were like a tidal wave."
Married for 30 years, Richardson has two grown daughters.
His loved ones walked briskly out of the courthouse after he accepted responsibility for the crimes. None would stop and talk with reporters.
"There's two sides to every story," one of them said but refused to tell that story.
Assistant Solicitor Glenn Justis, who helped prosecute the case, said Richardson's victims are traumatized each time they give their accounts. The plea deal allowed them to move on, he said.
But their credibility on the witness stand, he said, was a hurdle for a guilty verdict. One was an escort, one was a street prostitute, and one was a hitchhiker with a criminal rap sheet, he said.
"It's a shame that ... a preacher ... would have this second life and wouldn't treat those less fortunate than him in a better way," Justis said outside the courtroom. "The victims actually showed more mercy to him by allowing this plea."
Though weeks of negotiation had gone into the deal, attorneys hashed out the final details during the jury's lunch break Wednesday.
When Richardson stood in front of the judge, Justis read off the basics of the other women's accusations that played into the defendant's decision:
In January 2010, the first woman hitched a ride from the driver of a red pickup on Ashley Phosphate Road in an area of North Charleston where all three stories leading to Richardson's convictions began.
Instead of dropping off the woman, Richardson pulled out a pistol and drove her north on Interstate 26. In a forested area off Jedburg Road, Richardson made the woman get out and have sex with him.
He left her wandering in the woods. She eventually emerged and called 911 from a pay phone.
That August, Richardson was parked in a white Cadillac outside a Hess station on Ashley Phosphate Road. The eventual victim noticed him and climbed into his car.
They negotiated a deal: He would give her $30, and she would have sex with him.
He took her to a remote part of North Charleston, where he stopped the Cadillac. The woman thought that's where she would make good on their contract.
After she snuffed out a cigarette on the ground, she turned to the sight of Richardson holding a gun.
He tied her hands, covered her head with a pillow case and drove her to the mobile home, a parsonage for his church.
But the woman couldn't remember much of the building's interior because she still had the pillow case on her head when she said Richardson raped her on a table.
After Richardson dropped her off in North Charleston, that woman also reported her ordeal to the police.
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The next woman's allegations, the ones Savage defended him against this week, would end the exploits that prosecutors said classified Richardson as a sexual predator.
Savage said it was nothing more than strange sex.
The woman advertised her services online, in forums like Backpage.com and AdultSearch.com. She went by a fictitious name: Vanessa, a petite, sweet and 19-year-old brunette.
"Im ready now in a discreet quiet location," Vanessa wrote in one post. "Or i can come see you."
During the trial, a Verizon Wireless employee testified about calls between Richardson and the prepaid cellphone that the accuser posted in her ads. Some of the calls popped up on July 11, 2011, 16 days before the incident.
On July 27, the two numbers exchanged text messages indicating that a meeting was set up that morning.
"I'm here," said a text message from Richardson's cellphone at 10:50 a.m. "You still coming?"
"Yeah," the recipient responded. "Give me a min."
Seven minutes later, the person Richardson was texting typed, "I'm coming now."
Even prosecutors acknowledged after the guilty plea that the woman had arranged to meet Richardson.
But she did so without knowing her prospective client was the man who happened upon her on the roadside, gave her a ride and later raped her while holding a 9 mm pistol.
But Savage noted the phone calls between her cellphone and another number during the time she was supposedly being held against her will. They indicated, he said, that she was a mutual participant in the sex.
Whether it later turned into a bizarre and unwanted escapade that included bondage and a firearm had been issues for a jury to decide.
"When his expectation exceeded her willingness to perform certain acts was the question," Savage said. "Even when you're a prostitute, it doesn't matter: No means no."
The woman later gave the authorities information they needed to arrest Richardson.
Detectives linked the perpetrator's method of operation to unsolved abductions, leading to the additional charges.
Other accusers also picked him out of a photo lineup. In one case, analysts matched semen on the accuser's shirt to a sample of Richardson's DNA.
But Richardson had not denied having sex with the women, so his attorney argued that the DNA evidence didn't matter.
His guilty pleas Wednesday, though, left some wondering if any other unsolved assaults would be tied to him.
Justis, the prosecutor, said it's possible.
"Maybe some day in the future, we'll find out there's more," Justis said. "When you look at … the way he went about it, people just don't wake up one day and start kidnapping."
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United Nations Sports Programme gets Underway in Gwangju22 August 2013
Gwangju (UNOSDP)- The United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) will today commence with the Asian edition of the Youth Leadership Programme (YLP). Held in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, the 13 day event will focus on the education of young community sports volunteers from different countries in the Asian and Oceanic region.
As the seventh edition of this now well established programme, the Gwangju YLP will invite 33 participants from 19 different countries. Working in close cooperation with the 2015 Gwangju Universiade Organising Committee (GUOC) and the NGO Right To Play, this YLP is set to be the most diverse so far.
Representing the Fijian Football Association's Just Play Programme, Shina Shainaaz Ali, has been counting down the days until the start of Gwangju YLP.
"I am really looking forward to the camp, to make new friends and to learn as much as I can from the facilitators. It is also going to be a strange experience for me, as this will be my first time being away from home, but I am sure that the hosts and other participants will make me feel welcome."
The Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, Mr. Wilfried Lemke, is also in Gwangju to meet all the participants, and to take part in the EPICS Forum. As the flagship initiative of UNOSDP, Mr. Lemke is especially pleased to launch the YLP in Asia.
"The Asian and Oceanic region has always been one of my desired locations to host the YLP, and when the GUOC approached me to host the seventh camp I was delighted. The settings are perfect for a fortnight long sports programme, and the variety of participants in Gwangju is excellent."
Following the Special Adviser's recent trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, three North Korean youth have made the journey from Pyongyang to Gwangju to participate in the cultural and sporting exchange.
"This is the first step at bringing the North and South closer together using a sporting platform. Our unique programme offers the participants the opportunity to exchange dialogue and their experiences in peaceful surroundings."


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Outstanding wilderness areas are less than a half-hour away. The spectacular Squaw Valley Ski Resort is only a half-day's trip as well as Yosemite National Park. To the south, one can visit Silicon Valley, where international electronic and computer corporations have located their headquarters. Stanford University, one of the most prestigious private universities in the United States, is just a 30 minute drive from San Francisco.
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Lindsay Lohan can fuggedabout playing Victoria Gotti on film.
"We are not talking any further about Lindsay playing Victoria," says Marc Fiore, producer of Gotti: Three Generations. "She is no longer being considered. The talks have stopped. We are going to meet with other people [for the role]."
But just last week, it seemed almost a sure thing when Lohan popped up at the movie's April 12 press conference and looked strikingly like Victoria Gotti. Even John Travolta, who's playing Gotti Sr., in the yet-to-be-made flick said, "I always thought she was gorgeous and talented."
So is Lohan just too expensive and troublesome to insure with all of her past legal troubles?
For now it's omerta for Fiore, who would not explain why she's been "bumped off."
"She a wonderful person," he tells PEOPLE. "Her legal case has nothing to do with it. We just couldn't reach terms."
Meanwhile, Nick Cassavetes is also out as the film's director but Fiore says it's all due to scheduling conflicts. "Nick is doing the film Yellow and financing came through" says Fiore. "We were just not willing to put Gotti on hold so we decided to release him from the film."
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Seven years ago, Massachusetts embarked on an ambitious journey to expand coverage to nearly every resident in the state. Through a mix of legislation, regulation and coalition building, the state has succeeded -- and provided meaningful lessons for healthcare companies along the way. In a two-part series, HRI examines how Massachusetts health reform impacted employers, insurers, and healthcare providers -- and what this may mean for the US healthcare industry under the Affordable Care Act.
In 2012, Massachusetts passed a law that takes aggressive action on cost containment. HRI assesses how effective the main provisions of the law will be in controlling healthcare costs.
Even before the Affordable Care Act was enacted into law, policymakers, politicians and industry leaders have debated the impact it will have on employer-sponsored health coverage. Approximately 150 million Americans get their health insurance through their jobs. As implementation of the ACA moves forward, it has many people wondering about the fate of employer-sponsored insurance.
When it comes to compensating their workers, businesses save money when they provide a combination of salary and health insurance due to federal tax exclusions. In the example below, the company that provides coverage to a worker earning $52,000 per year in 2014 saves $2,550.87 because of the tax deductiblility of the insurance.
Take home pay for workers is higher when they obtain health insurance through their employer. In the example below, a family with combined income of $92,000 in 2014 that has employer-sponsored coverage takes home $3,097.50 more in pay by taking advantage of the federal tax exclusion for the insurance.
In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a law that would eventually provide healthcare coverage to over 98% of its residents and serve as a model for the architects of the ACA. Seven years later, Massachusetts offers insights into how businesses and workers may respond to the ACA by assessing the impact that reform had on employer coverage in the Baystate.
|Employer coverage requirement/penalty
|Businesses with 50 or more employees pay a penalty for not offering coverage, or if an employee receives a subsidy in an exchange. Penalties range from $2,000-$3,000 per employee annually.
|Businesses with 11 or more employees must make a "fair and reasonable" contribution towards insurance coverage or pay up to $295 per employee annually.
|Individual coverage requirement/penalty
|Individuals must carry insurance or pay a penalty. The tax equals a flat dollar amount or a percent of income, whichever is greater. In 2014 the penalty is $95 per adult, $47.50 per child or 1% of family income. The penalty increases every year.
|Individuals must carry insurance or pay a penalty equal to 50 percent of the lowest health insurance premium for each month the individual didn't have insurance.
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|The state offers a 15% rebate to lower wage small businesses that adopt wellness programs.
|Exchange eligibility for small businesses
|Businesses with 100 or fewer employees can shop for coverage on a state exchange. States can expand participation to businesses with more than 100 employees in 2017.
|Massachusetts' Health Connector is available to businesses with 50 or fewer employees.
All tax liabilities are calculated assuming 2012 federal individual, payroll, and corporate tax rates under federal law. State taxes are not included in these calculations. The business is assumed to owe the statutory corporate tax rate of 35%, has more than 50 full time equivalent employees and bears the full cost of the ACA penalty for not offering health insurance to employees. The payroll tax, while normally split evenly between the employer and employee, was 5.65% for the employee and 7.65% for the employer in 2012. For individual income taxes, it is assumed that the employee and family take advantage of the standard deduction and personal exemptions.
The employee is married and filing jointly, thus claiming a standard deduction of $11,900. They also claim two personal exemptions of $3,800 each and a dependent exemption of $3,800 for their child. The household income used in this example falls slightly below the national average for a family with two full-time workers. $15,000 is the average premium for private sector employer-provided family coverage in the US according to the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
When employer-sponsored insurance is offered, the employee's effective federal income tax rate, after accounting for the deductions and exemptions, is 9.3% on combined taxable income of $77,000. Under this scenario, take home pay for the household is: Total wages ($80,000) - health insurance premiums ($3,000) - payroll taxes ($4,351) - income taxes ($7,185) =$65,465. The employer owes payroll taxes ($2,831), but may deduct them and the full value of the employee's compensation ($52,000) from its corporate taxes. Thus, the total effective cost for the employer to hire the worker is: Wages ($40,000) + health insurance premiums ($12,000) + payroll taxes ($2,831) - corporate tax deduction ($19,191) = $35,640.
When health coverage is not offered, the employee's effective federal income tax rate is 10.3% on combined taxable income of $92,000. Under this scenario, take home pay for the household is: Wages ($92,000) - payroll taxes ($5,198) - income taxes ($9,435) - direct purchase health plan premiums ($15,000) = $62,367. The employer owes payroll taxes ($3,978), but can deduct them and the full value of the employee's compensation ($52,000) from its corporate taxes. The employer now also pays a penalty ($2,000) for not offering health insurance. Thus, the total cost to the employer for hiring a worker is: Wages ($52,000) + payroll tax ($3,978) + penalty ($2,000) - corporate tax deduction ($19,592) = $38,386.
This illustrative example assumes that the family takes the standard deduction of $11,900 in both scenarios. In many cases, households at this income level itemize deductions and may deduct premiums and cost sharing that exceed 7.5% of Adjusted Gross Income in 2012 (10% of AGI in 2013 and beyond). In the extreme case, in which the couple itemize and are able to deduct the entire premium, they still pay $848 more in payroll taxes if the employer drops coverage. Regardless of whether the employee itemizes deductions, the employer continues to lose $2,746 in extra tax payments and penalties if coverage is discontinued.


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Love Day
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I bought Justin a PS3 game, and he bought me a massage. We went for gifts that we didn't want to buy ourselves but really wanted! :)ReplyDelete
Today is also my husbands birthday - so he gets two (or one really big) gifts, usually. This year, since I am feeling much like you are, I haven't done much. My mom volunteered to babysit tomorrow if I can muster up the energy to go out with my husband :) My sister-in-law is taking my boys today, so maybe I can get around to taking a shower and actually putting on some make-up today!ReplyDelete
well today my husband and I have our life boxed up and shipping to Alaska. So we will probably cuddle up on a twin mattress that is on the floor watching a movieReplyDelete
happy valentine's day!ReplyDelete
Well, let's see...ReplyDelete
Steve has to work on his project due Saturday, Mark is still sick with a nasty cold, Matt's friend is coming over because his mom won't be home and right now I am enjoying some quiet time while Mark naps and the kids walk thru the front door.
We don't do much - cards, maybe flowers or a special dessert. But we're weird like that. :-)ReplyDelete
We're not doing anything for V-day, we're saving it for our anniversary in a few weeks. But we have enjoyed a quiet day all together at home and are giving the big girls roses at dinner tonight. Hope you have a good one. :)ReplyDelete
We don't do much. Eric is making ME dinner and AJ got some cards and a dalmation pup...he is totally into "that doggie movie".ReplyDelete
I celebrate it at school with my kids, but hubby and I don't celebrate it at home.ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's Day!ReplyDelete
Nothing special here.. hubby is cooking his special chicken and then some wine and gourmet chocolates for dessert.
What comes for trying to find out the baby's sex... I always waited, but I don't think I could do it for the fourth time!
Ps. I just posted a Mommy Necklace giveaway, it would be perfect for you :)
I am dropping by today to update you on Kristen's babies - you prayed for her back in August, and I'm sending you the links to the rest of the story. There are a lot, but you can look at as much as you want to. Thanks for your prayers for these miracle babies.ReplyDelete
I really like valentine's day. Rich and I have always gone out for a special dinner, then we'll go to a movie. Our tradition is to get a nice box of chocolates and sneak them into the theater and share them while we watch the movie. We've gone a few times after the 14th and have gotten cheap chocolates, like you mentioned in your nwi post. That's how we celebrate it. I hope you get passed the sickness soon. Praying for you.ReplyDelete
Well, this year I worked. Ha! But we really haven't celebrated V-day in quite awhile. The kids love it though, so I always make heart cookies and get them a little something. Besides, if Monte bought me a dozen roses on the most expensive flower day of the year, I might strangle him. After I hugged him of course.ReplyDelete


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