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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WUSA9) -- A local woman believes she was unfairly busted for -prostitution- after looking for love on Craigslist. Turns out the man who befriended her online was an undercover cop.
"I don't use drugs. I don't drink alcohol," said this woman we'll call "Donna." She insists she was looking for a little romance, trying to find a so-called 'friend with benefits.'
"I was focused on the location and the fact that they were looking for someone with my body type," she told us.
Instead, she was busted for prostitution.
"I said what is this about? And he said, you're being arrested for prostitution."
'Donna' is a highly educated, employed woman in her 50s. She responded to this ad on Craigslist and began an email correspondence with a man she says simply wanted a glimpse of her breasts.
"I've been getting that request since 6th grade," she laughed. "That's nothing new!"
The two met on a weekday evening in a busy Northern Virginia parking lot, in front of a Target. Minutes later, she got into his car and they drove here, to an office parking lot next door.
"At one point, while we were just chitchatting, he proposed a position for full-on everything. I was like, what? Here?! No!"
She says he asked if they could move to a more secluded place.
"I said no, definitely, and I shook my head left and right to make sure that isn't gonna happen."
Then, she says, he indicated he wanted to get started.
"I took that as a clue to unhook my brassiere," she said, adding that her actions prompted an angry response.
According to 'Donna,' he yelled, "You stop that now!"
Fear, she says, took over.
"I just froze in my seat. At that point, he said look here. Like an order. Loudly. Look here. And he had money in his hand," she said. "The funny thing was, he had it in his crotch, which was weird. I thought when he demanded me to look there, I was going to see something else."
She says he shoved a fistful of cash in front of her face and issued a command: "TAKE IT!"
'Donna' did as she was told and acknowledges, she never tried to escape.
"I was frozen. I was too afraid. And I wasn't sure that the backdoors were unlocked? I was just deathly afraid. Once he yelled at me, I was doing everything he said."
Moments later, the car was surrounded.
"Guns and guys in black with masks on. So I didn't know at that split-second that they were police. I didn't know what the heck was going on," she told us. "When they all came around, all dressed in black, pointing guns at me, I was really afraid that I was just gonna get killed."
'Donna' says she feared for her life, until she spotted a Fairfax County Police logo on one of their sleeves.
"I was kind of relieved that it wasn't some crazy gang. I was relieved because I wasn't going to get killed, or attacked or raped or something."
One year later, 'Donna' was convicted. In court, the prosecution focused on the word "roses" in the Craigslist ad-- an apparent code word for cash. The ad reads "I got two hundred roses."
"It looked like he was looking for a date and I have $200 to spend on a date. To me, that was my first impression. And I was like, okay, take me out for dinner, that's fine. There was no sex mentioned."
Remarkably, 'Donna' returned to Craigslist after the incident and found her current boyfriend, whom she's been dating for the last year.
Fairfax County Police tell us cases like this are handled by its Organized Crime and Narcotics Unit, and that detectives do investigate several cases that stem from online ads, which have risen dramatically in recent years. Police say human trafficking is sometimes involved, in which a victim is forced into these situations against their will.
'Donna' was handed a thousand fine and spent several weekends in jail. She was offered a plea deal, which didn't involve jail time, but she refused. She insists she didn't do anything illegal and is upset there was apparently no video or audiotape of the incident, recorded by police.
Written by Andrea McCarren, WUSA9


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LAS VEGAS (USA Today) -- President Obama is pledging to negotiate with Congress on immigration legislation, but he is also working with another group: voters.
Obama flew more than 2,000 miles Tuesday to make his immigration pitch, visiting a politically pivotal state with a growing Hispanic population -- Nevada -- and urging backers to pressure Congress into supporting a big bill.
Speaking at a high school in Las Vegas, Obama said Democrats and Republicans are starting to come together on a new immigration bill that would include a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States.
"The time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform," Obama said before echoing a mantra, "now's the time ... now's the time."
Obama complimented the immigration framework put forward Monday by a bipartisan group of eight senators, most of which is similar to a plan the president has pushed for years. The president said "this time action must follow," and immigration should not get "bogged down in endless debates," as it has in the past.
"The closer we get, the more emotional this debate is going to become," Obama said.
The president said his immigration principles also include tighter security at the border, crackdowns on businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants, and streamlined processes for foreign students and high-skilled workers, as well as what Obama called "a pathway to earned citizenship."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama visited Del Sol High School in Las Vegas in order to "continue a conversation with the American people about the need for comprehensive immigration reform."
It was the first out-of-town trip of Obama's second term, and mirrors a tactic previously used by him and many predecessors: seeking to go over the heads of Congress and appeal directly to voters who can determine the political fate.
In his first term, Obama traveled the country in favor of such items as his health care bill and jobs plans. In the coming months, he is expected to make similar public appearances for a proposal to tackle gun violence, and perhaps to rally support in looming budget disputes with congressional Republicans.
"It rarely hurts you," said Eric Herzik, who chairs the political science department at the University of Nevada, Reno. "It raises the issue, and he gets a hearing outside the bubble of Washington, D.C."
Meanwhile, a new non-profit organization called Organizing For Action, culled from Obama's 2012 campaign, is also planning to build support for the president's agenda, including gun control and a new immigration law.
Michael Green, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada, noted that Obama and his backers aren't the only ones out there seeking to mobilize voters on immigration and other issues. So are conservative groups, some of which say that immigration policy should focus strictly on border security and deportation, not citizenship.
It's battle that may be fought out on the airwaves, over the Internet, and through the media, as well as on the stump.
"We are seeing more groups pressuring Congress in more ways than we ever have historically," Green said.
While Obama tries to win people to his side on immigration, one key Republican -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. -- warned against one of the potential by-products of the "take it to the people" strategy: Excessive partisanship.
"When the president addresses this issue Tuesday, I hope he will take a bipartisan approach rather than delivering another divisive partisan speech," McConnell said.
Among the potential roadblocks to an immigration bill:
-- House Republicans. GOP members are the majority in the U.S. House, which must sign off on any immigration bill. Many Republicans describe any pathway to citizenship as amnesty for lawbreakers.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told CNN she and other House Republicans want to see specific legislative language on any immigration plan. In the past, she said, "what we've learned is, if you grant amnesty, what do you get? More amnesty. More illegal entry."
-- The rules of the road to citizenship: Backers of the Senate plan -- notably key Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a potential presidential candidate who is trying to sell an immigration bill to conservatives -- wants to tie the pathway to specific improvements in border security.
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Anyone who misses the days of Eric "The Helicopter" Hicks jamming on people's heads for the University of Cincinnati basketball team will have a chance to see Hicks suit up for another local team later this month, but this time he'll be playing football.
Hicks signed a one-day contract to play in the Cincinnati Commandos game against the Marion Blue Racers on April 28. He'll be in town practicing with the United Indoor Football League team during the next couple of weeks. He calls it his "OchoCinco moment."
Although he never played in the NBA, Hicks has been a professional basketball player since leaving UC after his senior season in 2006. Hicks has been a very good player in several European leagues, having played on championship and All-Star teams in such countries as Belgium, Poland, Russia, Israel, China and Spain.
Several notable NFL players had college basketball experience, including tight ends Antonio Gates, Jimmie Graham and Rob Gronkowski. Hicks, who is 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, hasn't played football since his sophomore year of high school in North Carolina. Although he doesn't expect to end up in the NFL any time soon, Commandos coach Billy Back says his size and athleticism could be real advantages in this league.
"He's an all-time fan favorite Bearcat and one of my favorites as well," Back said. "He's an athlete, and we can use his height to our advantage."
Hicks plans to return to Europe soon to resume his basketball career, but said in a release that he's excited about playing for the Commandos.
In addition to the April 28 game in which Hicks will play, the Commandos have home games at the Cincinnati Gardens May 12, May 26 and June 2. Tickets are $10-$22 and available through Ticket Master or the Cincinnati Gardens ticket office, 513-631-7793 or
2250 Seymour Ave. Find the team's website here.
Here's a video showing a bunch of cool stuff Hicks did as a Bearcat.
University of Cincinnati basketball players might not know that much about the history between their program and that of Ohio State University, but Cincinnati's mayor just added another level to the stakes for tonight's game. Mayor Mark Mallory and Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman have made a friendly bet on the outcome, putting each city's hometown ice cream on the line.
If Ohio State wins the game — which will take place 9:45 p.m. tonight in Boston — Mallory will send a shipment of Graeter's to Columbus. Should UC beat OSU and advance to the Elite 8, Coleman will send some of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams to Cincinnati.
Mallory has offered supreme confidence that the 6-seeded Bearcats will take down the 2-seed Buckeyes.
"The Cincinnati Bearcats are a great source of pride for the entire city. I'm confident that UC will prevail and march on to the Elite 8," Mallory said in a news release. "I just hope Mayor Coleman sends enough Jeni's Ice cream for the entire team."
When offered the initial wager, Coleman reportedly slammed down his OSU travel coffee mug, then paused to reflect on the heartbreak Buckeye fans felt back in 1961 when UC upset the favored Buckeyes to win the NCAA championship and then defeated OSU in the title game again in 1962. (Just kidding, Coleman was also gracious and nice, releasing his own statement.)
"I want to thank Mayor Mallory for his generous offer of Graeter's ice cream on behalf of the Bearcats," Coleman said. "While I do not expect it to be as sweet as the Buckeyes' victory Thursday night, I'm sure it will be delicious. In fact, I'll be happy to share some with Mayor Mallory if he'd like to join me next week rooting on the Buckeyes in the Final Four.
Late Sunday night, as the Cincinnati-Florida State game prepared to determine the final member of this year's Sweet Sixteen, the national analysis dudes all started talking about how the state of Ohio had gone 7-0 up to that point — Ohio University had just defeated South Florida to get into the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since the 1960s. Ohio State and Xavier were both already in.
Cincinnati went on to win a physical, back-and-forth game against FSU, which finished third in the Atlantic Coast Conference and won the ACC tournament. It was the first time in the history of UC's program that the team beat a higher-seeded opponent in the NCAA Tournament. The No. 6 seed Bearcats will play No. 2 seed Ohio State at 9:45 p.m. Thursday in Boston, which means the state of Ohio will suffer its first loss of the 2012 NCAA Tournament then.
After a second-round comeback win over Notre Dame, Xavier found itself in the fortunate position of facing a team called "Lehigh" rather than one called "Duke." Lehigh was one of two 15 seeds to defeat a No. 2 seed in this year's second-round of play, and the "Mountain Hawks" made actually game of against Xavier, which didn't have the game in hand until less than five minutes remained. Xavier will now play No. 3 seed Baylor at 7:15 p.m. Friday in Atlanta.
Ohio University upset 4-seeded Michigan in the second round and then ousted No. 13 seed South Florida in the third. The Bobcats will play No. 1 seed North Carolina at 7:47 p.m. Friday in St. Louis.
Ohio State beat Loyola (Md.) and Gonzaga to earn its spot in the Sweet Sixteen. OSU and Cincinnati last faced each other in the NCAA Tournament in the 1962 National Championship game, which UC won 71–59. (UC also defeated OSU in the 1961 title game, 70-65.) The Ohio State-Cincinnati winner will face the winner of Syracuse-Wisconsin, setting up a potential rematch of the Big East Tournament semifinal game when Cincinnati upset Syracuse.
The Ohio Valley's hoops success easily spreads beyond just the Ohio teams — three more schools within 100 miles are in the Sweet Sixteen: Kentucky, Louisville and Indiana. Kentucky and Indiana are actually matched up in the South Region (9:45 p.m. Friday in Atlanta), while Louisville faces Michigan State in the West (7:47 p.m. Thursday in Phoenix).
The Big East again this year sent more teams to the NCAA Tournament than any other conference, and four of its nine are still standing: Syracuse, Marquette, Cincinnati and Louisville. Each of these schools is in a separate region, so it's still technically possible for an all-Big East Final Four.
Thursday, March 22
Wisconsin vs. Syracuse
(Boston): 7:15 p.m. on CBS
Louisville vs. Michigan
State (Phoenix): 7:47 p.m. on TBS
Cincinnati vs. Ohio
State (Boston): 9:45 p.m. on CBS
Florida vs. Marquette
(Phoenix): 10:17 p.m. on TBS
Friday, March 23
Baylor vs. Xavier
(Atlanta): 7:15 p.m. on CBS
North Carolina vs. Ohio
(St. Louis): 7:47 p.m. on TBS
Kentucky vs. Indiana
(Atlanta): 9:45 p.m. on CBS
Kansas vs. N.C. State
(St. Louis): 10:17 p.m. on TBS
Sixth-seeded Cincinnati will face the eleventh-seeded Texas Longhorns in the second round of the East region. The game is slated to tip at 12:15 p.m. today on CBS.
Offensively the 'Cats will look to use their superior size — Texas has only one player taller than 6-foot-7 — down low with Yancy Gates, Cheikh Mbodj and Justin Jackson. If UC can get the ball down low on a consistent basis then the duo of Wright and Dixon will be able to penetrate and create open outside shots for Parker and leading scorer Sean Kilpatrick. Unlike Texas, UC has a well-balanced offense with four players averaging double digits and a fifth player averaging 9 points per game.
Catch plenty of action and throw back a green beer (or 12) before the 10th-seeded Musketeers face off against seventh-seeded Notre Dame in a battle of Catholic supremacy ... on the hardwood (in terms of religion, they're all winners).
Notre Dame doesn't have a go-to scorer after losing their stud, Tim Abromaitis, early in the year. But what the Fighting Irish don't lack is a core group of players that work their tails off and come up with wins. A big match up in this game will be between big-men Jack Cooley and Kenny Frease. If either one can have a monster game expect that team to win.
The Bearcats' sweet double-overtime victory yesterday over Georgetown was the team's sixth win in its last seven games, three of which were against teams ranked in the Top 25 at the time. The 'Cats are now 6-3 against the RPI top 50, with tonight's 7 p.m. Big East semifinal against No. 2 Syracuse offering an opportunity to seriously enhance the team's seeding come Sunday.
ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi currently has the Bearcats projected as an 8 seed, playing Virginia in the first round with a potential second-round game against No. 1 seed Kansas. This situation would seriously suck. (For Cincinnati or for Kansas? ... Good point.)
Cincinnati is by far the most dangerous team in the 7-10 range, having recently defeated projected 3-seeds Marquette and Georgetown, along with projected 5-seed Louisville. It's safe to say that no No. 1 or 2 seed wants to see the Bearcats in the second round. And for UC, the road to the Sweet Sixteen actually would look a lot easier from one of the 11 or 12 seeds — fellow Big East squad South Florida is projected as a 12 to face 5-seed UNLV in the first round and potentially 4-seed Florida State in the second. I think UC would gladly take on a tougher first-round matchup for a second round game that's not against a school that starts four or five future NBA players.
It actually wouldn't be a huge surprise if UC is one of the several teams that every year gets slotted somewhere far from what the prognosticators expected. The Bearcats' RPI of 58 might fit in with those of some of the current bubble teams, but only two other teams outside the RPI top 17 have as many wins over the RPI top 50 as UC's six (Kansas State, RPI 44, and Notre Dame, RPI 37, each also have six).
The Bearcats received votes in the AP Top 25 last week. UC's five votes had the team around the No. 35 ranking, which falls in line with the 8- to 9-seed projection. But that was before yesterday's win over Georgetown, which would likely have earned the 'Cats more votes even if the team loses to Syracuse. Louisville, on the other hand, fell from the Top 25 in last week's ranking, actually sitting two spots out at No. 27, but the Cardinals are currently projected as a 5 seed, which would typically include teams in the 17-20 range.
The selection committee doesn't strictly follow any single set of rankings when determining seeding, but the guess here is that even with a loss to Syracuse in the Big East semifinals it wouldn't be a stretch for the committee to consider UC one of the top 28 teams in the country, which would put UC among the 7 seeds. And it's safe to say that a win over Syracuse would put the Bearcats firmly in the Top 25 by week's end, meaning a 6 seed would be possible. And if UC were to win the whole Big East tournament, it would be difficult for any selection committee to seed the team very far from the likes of projected 3-seeds Georgetown and Marquette, two teams the Bearcats have beaten in the last 16 days.
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Bearcats put on a good showing tonight in primetime against the No. 2
team in the country in the Big East semis. Selection committee
members will be watching, as will the potential No. 1 and No. 2 seeds
which certainly don't want to see Cincinnati between themselves and
the second round.
Photo of Dion Dixon jamming on Louisville's Chane Behanon by Brian Baker/Lacking Focus Photography.
Let's start with Xavier, who is in a far more intriguing position heading into tonight's game. Joe Lunardi, Jerry Palm and Shaw Siegel — all well-known braketologists — have XU in as either an 11 or 12 seed. Fair enough, although as the 3 seed in the A-10 Tournament I believe the Muskies should have to win at least one game to earn a bid to the big dance. I'm going out on a limb here — win and in, lose and lock up a home game in the NIT.
But if the Musketeers can hold on for a "W" the 11 to 12 seed range looks far more promising than you may believe. Xavier is talented on any given night to beat most of the 5 and 6 seeds. Here's a mouthwatering thought: Lunardi has Xavier against Louisville in his latest projection. That would be one hell of a game.
The Bearcats will be more than familiar with Syracuse after tonight's game and a regular season meeting, but I think the Bearcats match up better with the Jayhawks. If things go according to (my) plan and UC gets Kansas, Yancy Gates is going to have to go into beast mode against player-of-the-year candidate Thomas Robinson. I digress; a win against Syracuse tonight in the mecca of hoops, MSG, might push UC into the realm of a 7 seed. Oh how magical that would be.
If Gates can put up a performance similar to yesterdays and the defense can limit the opportunities of Dion Waiters and Kris Joseph the 'Cats have a fighting chance. It would also be nice if those cool new uniforms — 28 percent lighter than the old ones, I hear — could supply and additional 10 points or so just for good measure.
As a UC fan I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a 7 seed. I really would like to see Xavier in and prove that their recent struggles aren't a true reflection of their potential. Check back Monday for a Selection Sunday analysis.
ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi has Xavier as one of his first four out, and I tend to agree — although I disagree with the pointless bickering in the comments section regarding the brawl that happened — wait for it — almost three months ago. The Bearcats are listed as a 10 seed, a much better prospect than having an 8 or 9 seed and having to play Kentucky or Syracuse if they can make it past the first round. With the current mock up, the 'Cats would play San Diego State in the first round — a winnable game — and North Carolina in the second — maybe, with a hope and a prayer.
Not to say that crazier things haven't happened: VMI, Butler (twice) and George Mason have all knocked off No. 1 seeds in the tournament. UC has more talent than any of those teams, and if they can continue playing like they did against Marquette this past Wednesday the Sweet 16 or even Elite 8 isn't out of the question.
The Bearcats played stifling defense against Marquette, forcing 17 turnovers. They dominated the paint, outscoring the Golden Eagles 42-24, and JaQuon Parker was a revelation. Parker used his size and strength to drive to the hoop at will and went 2-for-4 from behind the arc, including a halftime buzzer-beater that put UC up 16 at the half. Parker finished the game with a career-best 28 points.
The Bearcats didn't look back. Yancy Gates finished the game with 13 boards despite being limited to less than four minutes of first half play because of foul trouble. The 72-61 final wasn't as close as the score indicated, as UC coasted to victory. With the emergence of Parker the 'Cats now have a steady combo of inside and outside threats that will make them a difficult team to face both in New York and in the NCAA tournament.
Xavier, on the other hand, isn't a lock for a ticket to March Madness. Winning the A10 tourney would put all doubt to rest. The Muskies host Charlotte tomorrow; with a loss the NIT will certainly be beckoning. A win leaves a glimmer of hope, but in all likelihood, Chris Mack and his team will be on the outside looking in next Sunday.
The year 2000 seems like only yesterday — everyone all hunched up in our bomb shelters assuming the bank was going to turn our life savings into some kind of repeating decimal instead of the hundreds of dollars we had in there, all because a computer doesn't know how to count above 1999.
Once we made it to the Millennium, many Cincinnatians' concerns shifted from ultimate survival to how awesome it was going to be when Kenyon Martin and the UC Bearcats won the National Title. We're not here to recap how much it sucked to witness Kenyon's broken ankle in the stupid Conference USA tournament or to apologize to the girlfriend at the time who walked in the room during the injury and expected some semblance of reason to be demonstrated despite the fatal blow to the 'Cats' chances. (She says she forgave me, but her recent marriage to a hockey player in California speaks otherwise...)
Before the conference tournament there was the Bearcats' second-to-last regular season game, a contest against future pro Quintin Richardson and the DePaul Blue Demons on March 2, 2000. UC had four of its own players who would be drafted following the 1999-00 season: Martin (1st overall pick in 2000), DerMarr Johnson (6th pick in 2000), Kenny Satterfield (53rd in 2001) and Steve Logan (30th in 2002).
Witness, via the beauty of the
Internet, the final 3:46 of gametime, the No. 2 Bearcats trailing
60-50 and Dick Vitale in the house to go off about how awesome Kenyon was.
Last week's win over Louisville has gone a long way toward
moving the Bearcats off the NCAA Tournament bubble and into the 10-seed area of
most projections. A win at South Florida last Sunday would have all-but-secured
the invitation, but the dudes lost by a point on the road, 46-45.
[UPDATE: The Bearcats whooped on Marquette, 72-61; here's the AP recap: Cincinnati halts No. 7 Marquette to pad resume.]
Tonight UC will welcome No. 7 Marquette to Fifth Third Arena under a bunch of weird circumstances: Marquette kicked the crap out of the Bearcats 95-78 on Feb. 11, and it's Senior Night for a couple of UC players who aren't used to being trampled so badly (at least not in recent years).
Here's what Yancy and Dion told The Enquirer's Bill Koch yesterday.
"You know that it's Senior Night and we feel it," Gates said, "but I think we'll feel it more when we get on the court tomorrow. Right now, our focus is so much on we need this win that we really don't have time to sit back and think, 'Oh, tomorrow's Senior Night.' "
"I don't know how I'll feel tomorrow," Dixon said. "We're just trying to focus on getting this win. That's the main thing."
After tonight, the Bearcats have one remaining regular-season game, at Villanova on Saturday. Assuming they can't handle the rematch with Marquette, they'll really need to beat Villanova to avoid entering the Big East tournament on a three-game losing streak. If they were to drop their first tournament game after that, they'd be sitting at 20-12 on Selection Sunday with a real ugly RPI.
One win out of UC's remaining regular-season schedule or in the Big East tournament should be enough to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season. But a win over South Florida last Sunday probably would have assured it as well.
It is under such circumstances that two of Mick Cronin's most influential recruits take the court tonight for their final home game. Gates is a hometown player who chose UC over Ohio State, West Virginia and Xavier, among others, and has traveled a fairly up-and-down road during his four years. Gates surely wants to end his senior season on a high note after the Crosstown Shootout fiasco, which threatens to overshadow his years of hard work and importance to Mick Cronin's rebuilding effort at UC. Gates currently ranks 17th on UC's career scoring list and is the only Bearcat to ever lead his team in rebounding four straight seasons.
Dixon came to UC from a Chicago public school where he used to jam on a bunch of high schoolers. He's contributed every year, as his 1,183 career points show — good for 27th all-time at UC. Dixon's versatility has been a huge help to Cronin, who has used Dion as a shooting guard and point guard during various parts of his career. And Dion tries to thump it on people even though he's just a little too small to do it all the time. We still really appreciate that.
After everything this year's team — and these two seniors, specifically — has been through, tonight is surely going to be an energetic and emotional night down at The Shoe. Hopefully the 'Cats can hang with Marquette — securing an NCAA Tournament-securing win on Senior Night would be a beautiful way for the careers of these two players to end.
UC entered the game as the second-best 3-point shooting team by percentage – 36 percent – and the most 3-pointers made with 203 on the year. This theme continued as the 'Cats went 11-27 from behind the arc including eight in the first half. Cashmere Wright fueled the 3-point barrage as he nailed a career-best, six long balls. Louisville on the other hand struggled mightily from behind the arc finishing the game 1-14.
Big man Gorgui Dieng finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Cardinals. Peyton Siva added 14 points and 4 assists in the Louisville loss. Louisville fell to 9-6 in the Big East while UC improved to 10-5. Both teams have three conference games remaining.
Only weeks away from Selection Sunday, the Bearcats should guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament with another win in the last three games. Xavier, on the other hand, needs to win out and have some results go their way if they want to make the Big Dance.
A sloppy evening from the Muskies combined with a outstanding performance by Massachusetts' guard Chaz Williams led to an easy win for the Minutemen. Xavier turned the ball over 20 times and could not compensate for the career-high 29 points from Williams, including six 3-pointers. Xavier had four players score double-digits and Dez Wells led the way with 19 points, but Wells also led Xavier with 6 turnovers.
The Musketeers' remaining schedule includes two sub .500 teams in Charlotte and Richmond and a trip to second-place Saint Louis — which beat Xavier by five at the Cintas Center back on Jan. 25.


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Valley Stream author releases fairy tale
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Once upon a time there was a 12-year-old fro m the Bronx who wanted to make her mark in the literary world by writing an original fairy tale. However, there are no glass slippers, seven dwarfs or evil witches in the real-life story of author Patricia Gordon's writing experience, but her latest book "The Queen of Broken Hearts" pays homage to the world's most beloved fairy tales with a unique twist of its own.
Gordon, who has lived in Valley Stream since 2001, has always been a fan of fairy tales, but her two previously published books didn't have any Prince Charmings or mermaids in them.
"People of all ages will always be charmed by the romanticism of fairy tales," she said. "Who doesn't want to get lost occasionally in imaginary worlds where an ugly duckling is really a beautiful swan and dreams can come true if you wish upon a star? Who doesn't want to believe in true love so powerful that it can awaken Sleeping Beauty and Snow White out of their coma-like slumbers or turn a frog and a beast back into princes?"
While growing up she was a fan of fairy tales, but was under the impression that people at Disney created the famous stories she knew on their own. When she was 12, she discovered that it was the work of Hans Christian Anderson that inspired "The Little Mermaid." That fact encouraged Gordon to write her own fairy tale.
"The Queen of Broken Hearts" is about a lonely maiden named Corona who must overcome a tragic fate after her heart is struck by Cupid's arrow, Gordon said. In the story, which takes place during Valentine's Day, Corona seeks to find love, but Gordon added, this in not your typical fairy tale.
"Even though I was inspired by the old-fashion style of fairy tale writing, there aren't really any stereotypical damsels in distress in my story," she said. "In fact, the females in the tale seem to be the heroines of the day who don't focus on getting a prince and his castle at the end to have a happy ending."
Gordon, now 33, said she wrote the first draft of "The Queen of Broken Hearts" between the ages of 12 and 14. She then tried to get the book published by sending it to agents and publishers, but they weren't interested in fairy tales.
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JOCKEY ANNE SANGUINETTI, E Z KITTY, WINNER: "The race went exactly how I wanted it to. In the last race she got left a little at the gate and that just kind of messed her up from the get-go. When she's sitting right off the horse's hips and when she's dragging me, I know she's going to run big. And I know she'll finish, but she was pulling like that the early part of the race like she was in the zone and nobody could beat her. When she wants to win nobody will beat her. I was (surprised to win by so many lengths). I looked back a couple of times because there were such good horses in there and I just could not believe they weren't coming. I kept thinking 'They gotta be coming, they gotta be coming.' I kept looking and they weren't there and they weren't there. And so finally I'm like they're not coming.
NOTES: E Z Kitty (21-11-3-3-$236,315)…E Z Kitty has even stakes wins, four at Emerald Downs, three at Turf Paradise…Trainer Jeff Metz and jockey Anne Sanguinetti both have two stakes wins this season at Emerald Downs—Hastings Handicap and Emerald Distaff with E Z Kitty…Metz and Sanguinetti are the top trainer/jockey combination this season with 22 wins…Bruce & Cass Maller of Incline Village, Nevada, purchased E Z Kitty privately last March…E Z Kitty is eligible for the $50,000 Belle Roberts Stakes on Washington Cup Day, Sunday, Sept. 8…E Z Kitty scored her first stakes win in the 2011 Washington Cup, winning the John & Kitty Fletcher Stakes for Washington-bred 3-year-old fillies.


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Carbon monoxide poisoning can be a deadly condition. It results from inhaling carbon monoxide gas. Carbon monoxide is produced when gas, wood, charcoal, or other fuel is burned. It often builds up when fuel-burning heating and cooking devices are faulty or not properly vented. A car engine can also produce carbon monoxide, as can cigarette
smoking. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, tasteless, and colorless gas. People can inhale it without knowing.
Once the gas is inhaled, it is easily absorbed through the lungs. Hemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood to the entire body. Carbon monoxide binds tightly with hemoglobin and takes the place of the oxygen. Tissue then becomes starved for oxygen. Brain tissue is very much at risk.
Inhaling carbon monoxide gas causes carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer, but there's hope.
A large international study shows that a drug for advanced breast cancer keeps localized tumors from returning after surgery.
Researchers found that recurrence of such early cancer was reduced by a-third in women who started on Tamoxifen then switched after two and a-half years to the newer drug Exemestane compared with those who took Tamoxifen the whole time.
The study appears in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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This Week In Home Entertainment: Evil Dead, 42, Hell On Wheels And More
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Its hard to picture two releases that are more opposite than the big two this week. Evil Dead is a movie that revels in gruesome violence set in a cabin in the woods while 42 is a movie about a baseball team, and more importantly, about avoiding violence in order to help break down racial barriers in the sport. One story is horrifying and one is heartwarming, and if neither of those two releases suit your fancy, there's plenty more that's out this week. Beyond the two big movies, this week offers fans plenty of TV sets, including sci fi, animation, and a Blu-ray and DVD set prefacing the return of AMCs Hell on Wheels. Read on to learn about some of July 16ths best releases, and maybe even a few that may have slipped under your radar.
Evil Dead Blu-ray
Fede Alvarezs loose reboot and continuation of the Evil Dead series made famous by Sam Raimi is a gory and harrowing story of a group of friends who head to a cabin in the woods with the goal of helping a young woman named Mia (Jane Levy) get over a severe drug addiction. Dealing with an addicted young woman in the woods is already a little freaky and problematic, but add demons and even possessed trees and you end up with a recipe for death and disaster filled with nods at Raimis original Evil Dead film.
Since Raimis film at the time was banned in some areas due to its gory nature, its hard to believe Alvarezs film might strive to be even more blood-littered than its predecessor, but the nature of this film is inherently more creepily violent and less campy than the movies that came before. This may be tough for fans of Raimis films to invest in, as well as tough for audiences who prefer suspense and an exciting pace in horror films to blatant, cringe-inducing gore.
Despite this, Levy brings a lot to the table in Evil Dead, willing to put a lot of physicality into her performance as a possessed individual. Shes joined by a slew of up-and-coming names who all get into the destructive nature of the film, including Red Riding Hoods Shiloh Fernandez, The Story of Lukes Lou Taylor Pucci, Cults Jessica Lucas, and Legend of the Seeker actress Elizabeth Blackmore. The youthful cast is one of the things that ties the film back to the original, and each of the members brings a familiar horror character to the table, while still adding to the compelling nature of the film. Evil Dead may not be the best horror film the year has to offer, but it may be the most dedicated to violence. If you are alright with films that take violence to an extreme, its worth a watch.
You can order Evil Dead on Amazon.
Best Special Feature: The bonus features are all short, behind-the-scenes looks at the making of the film, filled with interviews from the actors and the other creative forces who worked behind the scenes. Most of the extras really could have been put together in a lengthy Making of documentary, but instead, they are separated, which means audiences must spend a lot of time perusing through the menu to watch a few short segments.
The best of these short segments is the initial Directing the Dead segment, which goes through the script, the set-up, Alvarezs process, and even covers some of the old school camera tricks the crew ended up using, despite getting a decent $17 million production budget to bring the story to the big screen. If you did enjoy the movie, Blu-ray copies come with a few extra bonus features, the rest of which can be seen, below.
Other Special Features:
Making Life Difficult
Being Mia
Cast and Filmmaker commentary (Blu-ray only)
Unleashing the Evil Force (Blu-ray only)
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This is not the first map I post about these two countries, as you might remember. This time however I'm going to (try to) create a more handdrawn look, instead of the satellite image sort of map I used before. I purchased a drawing tablet (the cheap sort: a Wacom Bamboo) and I'm now getting accustomed to using it.
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I already have a fairly nice parchment texture at the ready that I'll add as soon as the rest of the details are finished. For now I'm mainly concerned about the look and feel of the mountains and the tapering rivers - it seems I still have to finetune those quite a bit (I just jumped from GIMP to Photoshop and ran into an inspiringly steep learning curve).
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How early Christians lived
Religion | Christians had constant reminders that they were aliens and strangers-and also salt and light-in these ancient cities
"How early Christians lived" Continued...
ANTIOCH, EPHESUS, and PERGAMUM, Turkey - Tidings of comfort and joy," we sing almost 2,000 years after the first words of good news began to spread. But into what kind of world were the tidings poured?
At Christmastime especially we tend to associate the origins of Christianity with shepherds in the field, keeping watch over their flocks at night. But a visit to this city once known as Antioch, and now named Antakya, suggests that Christianity grew up in an affluent urban society.
Antioch was the city where, as chapter 11 of the book of Acts notes, "the disciples were first called Christians." It was the launching pad for the mission trips of Paul and Bartholomew, as chapters 13-15 of Acts relate, and the place where gentiles were told that they could be Christians without undergoing circumcision. It was also the third-largest city of the Roman Empire, after Rome and Alexandria, with a population that topped out probably at half a million.
Antioch was also a prosperous city devoted to politics, wine, erotica, and religious argument. It was a city with engineering that impressed all but with morals that depressed even pagans. The first-century Roman satirist Juvenal wrote that Antioch "has poured its sewage into our native Tiber-its lingo and manners, its flutes, its outlandish harps . . . and the whores who hang out round the race-course."
Antioch was a city in which Roman authority could stop-or at least reduce-cheating in the marketplace. Officials called agoranomas checked the cleanliness of shops, examined measuring and weighing instruments, and assessed prices. The Romans could bring water from afar by impressive aqueducts and could even move rivers.
A tunnel at Antioch's port city, Seleucia Pieria (now called Cevlik), shows that this last claim was no exaggeration. With the harbor silting up and winter rains leading to flooding, Emperor Vespasian (a.d. 69-79) decided to change a river's path by constructing a diversion canal almost a mile long. For the last 425 feet of the canal the Romans cut through mountain rock and did so in style, creating a wondrous tunnel that you can still walk through today, and leaving an inscription at the end with the names of Vespasian and his son Titus.
Paul and the other early Christians, instead of being overawed by Roman power and trying to fit in, stood for Christ at great personal risk. What may have been Christianity's first church was a natural cave on the western slope of Antioch's Mt. Silpius. Now called St. Peter's Church, it has an interior of limestone fissured from erosion and dripping water. Visitors can climb up to the cave church and stand where Peter, Luke, and Paul are all said to have preached.
Significantly, the cave had an escape passage useful in times of Roman persecution. That passage is now largely blocked, but a small opening still leads up and to a mountainside honeycombed with small tunnels and tombs. The apostles knew there was a time for in-your-face demonstrations before the Roman authorities, and also a time for escape.
To gain a further sense of Christianity's early growth amid affluence, it's useful to visit Ephesus, the city where Paul voluntarily stayed the longest on his missionary trips. Aqueducts and impressive homes with courtyards show that the Roman Empire could have had the traditional DuPont Company slogan, "Better things for better living."
The things provided material comfort. Remnants of aqueducts show how water came from afar, to be heated for baths in big cauldrons made of copper. Ephesus even had a communal latrine where people, instead of crouching, could sit on slabs of stone with well-situated holes and water running alongside and underneath. With needs properly cared for, Romans could ban asocial tendencies. One wall bears the inscription, "Whoever urinates here, may the wrath of Hecate fall upon him."
And yet, as that reference to a pretend-goddess indicates, spiritual needs were dealt with in less satisfactory ways. All were supposed to worship the great statue of Artemis, which displayed a slender goddess with about 20 bull testicles hanging breast-high-but in Paul's time and probably earlier, thoughtful Ephesians understood the silliness of the cult and listened to Paul's explanations of a true way.
The book of Acts records that Ephesians did not rebut Paul theologically, just materially: "A man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, gathered together the craftsmen and said, 'Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business. . . . This Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.'" Demetrius noted that if Paul was not stopped, the whole temple could "be regarded as worthless," and the idol makers' trade could "fall into disrepute."
Walking around Ephesus today, you can see easily how the riot recorded in Acts would have grown: "Filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, 'Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.' The city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater." The huge outdoor theater (also used as an arena) is still there, looming over the Ephesian marketplace. The sound of a mob shouting "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians" could have been heard far and wide. It's not surprising that some who joined the throng didn't even know what had precipitated the riot.
What a threat Paul represented, when he proclaimed that God created heaven and earth-which means that humans are not in control! The rites of the Roman Empire were all designed to glorify man and the gods men created in their own image. For example, a big arena day would begin with the slaughter of wild animals, which was designed to reassure the audience that even beyond the boundaries of the arena, man was in control. At noon came executions, designed to show that the empire is a place of order. Crucify the prisoners. Have animals tear them alive. Burn them.
The afternoon brought gladiator fights, which brought the emotions of WWF wrestling events but even more so, because gladiators played for keeps and were supposed to show the triumph of valor over fear. Spectators came to see blood and gore, sure, but they also wanted to see how the gladiators confronted the inescapable eventuality of death. Each spectator was to come to terms with his own mortality.
Artemis could not save the Ephesians from death, nor her city and temple from a slow death. Today, hawkers outside of the Temple of Artemis site are still in business, selling statuettes of Artemis for about $3.50. They also sell what one sign called "genuine fake watches" and offer a bargain for bathroom use: "only 50 cents to experience the magic atmosphere." But any magic that existed is long gone, as chirping crickets and humming locusts perform their concert over fallen pillars.
Visits to the sites of the other six cities that the apostle John wrote about in Revelation-Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, all in what is now western Turkey-also show that the goals of the city builders eventually proved to be vanity, vanity.
Only one of the seven cities, Smyrna (renamed Izmir), is now big: With a population of 3 million, it is Turkey's third-largest city and sports the typical contrast of wealth and poverty. Men wearing three-button suits and square-toed shoes bustle downtown, but houses with corrugated metal roofs and walls of junk stand by the railroad tracks.
The other sites have only goatherds and shepherds as regular residents, often with small towns nearby. The olive trees growing amid heaps of ruins display thick trunks, as if they have been pruned back many times. Locals, instead of treating the sites with awe, accept and incorporate them into daily living, with only souvenir sellers pointing out that dead men can still tell tales.
Once these sites were awesome and awful, and there's no better place to see that than Pergamum, which the apostle John called the site of "Satan's throne." It's easy to see why: Marble temples on a steep, apparently impregnable site would have given it the appearance of a shining city on a hill, gleaming like the sun or like some understandings of heaven. The large outdoor Pergamum theater, steepest in the ancient world, still beckons.
And then, as visitors came closer, they could see close-up what John may have identified as the throne itself: the great Altar of Zeus. King Eumenes II had it built as a tribute to Zeus around 180 b.c. The altar celebrated the purported victory of gods made in man's image-Zeus, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, etc., etc.-over their opponents. The east frieze showed Athena, and the serpent often depicted with her, killing a giant.
The altar is now in a Berlin museum, close to where crowds in the 1930s worshipped Hitler. Raiders of the Lost Ark did not make up the dictator's fascination with archeological discoveries. He apparently imagined himself in ancient days, hearing cries of devotion at Satan's throne.
Today, the sounds at Pergamum are different. Temple salesmen offer come-ons for souvenirs. "Cheaper than Target," one yells. "Cheaper than Wal-Mart," another says. On summer days an ice cream vendor shows his cross-cultural literacy by reciting in accented meter, "I suc-reem, you suc-reem, we all suc-reem for ice-ca-reem."
From below, in the town now known as Bergama, the call for prayer comes from several mosques as the sun sets over a ruined wall. Above, at Satan's throne, comes the constant roaring of the wind through trees and arches by which grow thistles the size of a fist. Almost all of the flowers have massive thorns.


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Glomus jugulare tumors
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nerves near the temporal bone of the skull begin to rapidly increase in number, forming a mass. This tumor gets its name from the nerves, called glomus bodies, and their location in a small opening in the temporal bone, known as the jugulare foramen. Glomus jugulare tumors are included in a group of tumors called paragangliomas.[1] They are usually benign, meaning cells in the tumor are unlikely to spread to other parts of the body. Symptoms of a glomus jugulare tumor include dizziness, difficulty swallowing, hearing issues, pain, or weakness in the muscles of the face. Treatment includes surgery to remove the tumor, sometimes followed by radiation therapy.[2]A glomus jugulare tumor develops when cells in
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- PubMed Health. Glomus jugulare tumor. A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. March 2012; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002600/. Accessed 1/28/2013.
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Google Acquires Zagat (the Universe Next?)
You know times are changing when Google envelops something that has its history in print. And today, it acquired Zagat—a coup for the publisher that launched in 1979, truly the O.G. of user-generated reviews (sorry, Yelp).
The SF Chef–Driven Trip to NYC
I'm in New York this week working on a travel story. As usual, when I go to a big city, the first thing I do is email every chef I know for their dining recommendations.
To SF, From Rome: Locanda-to-Be Chef Anthony Strong Reports Back
Chef Anthony Strong, one of 7x7's 2010 "Top 20 Under 40", returned recently from a two month trip to Rome where he got paid to learn the ropes (mostly at Osteria di San Cesario), a chef's dream come true. Lucky for us, though, he'll be applying his newfound knowledge to Delfina's next restaurant, Locanda, when it opens on Valencia Street in the spring of next year. Delfina just sent out its newsletter where Strong details the highlights of his trip. If you know Strong, it's so very him. Funny, quirky, offally.
The Winter Blues Cure: Hot Clam Chowder and a Dozen Cold Oysters
I moved recently from my place in Bernal Heights to a house that sits right on the cusp of Noe Valley and the Castro. When we moved in, I asked the previous tenant, a flamboyant real estate broker, which neighborhood he described it as. He took a moment to look my husband up and down and said, "Well, I call it the Castro. But you—you're definitely going to call it Noe Valley."
The two neighborhoods might offer different stereotypes, but their food offerings are about equal. Neither are considered SF food meccas (although with Frances, the Castro's definitely coming up in the world).
The Big Chill: 7 Refreshing Wines Under $15
Indian summer demands refreshing wines that are easy on both the wallet and the palate. For this: seven keepers, $15 and under.
And Now For 7x7's Pie Social: When Pain Isn't Gain
This is why we're not blogging today. We had the first annual Pie Social.
After sweating bullets over a Rose Levy Beranbaum tart recipe (I've decided that Rose Levy Beranbaum takes the joy out of baking with her charts), making a beautiful lemon curd, delicately tossing blueberries in sugar as to not break them and driving the tart to the Union Square office at like 15 miles an hour from Bernal Heights over hills and valleys, terrified it would slide around in the car and break, Robin showed up with her own creation called "Monkey Pie": Store-bought crust, sliced bananas, Jell-O chocolate pudding and ReddiWip.
The Humphry Slocombe Factor: Is the Joke On Us?
Elizabeth Weil's feature profile on pastry chef Jake Godby, the owner of the cultish ice cream shop Humphry Slocombe, came out in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. As she is apt to do, Weil turned what I thought would be the expected, all-praise-wacky-ice-cream-flavors piece into an article that subtly presented a couple thoughtful ways to view SF's food world. She writes of Godby:
The City's Best Italian, Minus the Scene
If there is any cuisine that this town identifies itself with right now, it's Italian. From Flour + Water to Delfina to A16, we love and praise our Italian restaurants like nothing else. As does the media (7x7 also being guilty as charged). These restaurants continually get picked up in the national press such as Washington Post and Travel + Leisure.
Chocolate, Curry Carts and To-Go Cocktails: The Best of SF, Eat + Drink
Chocolate and caramel, curry carts and cocktails for the road. Mexican fiestas, Hawaiian loco moco and Shanghai Bucks. Where to get goat in the Marina, black-sesame popsicles in the Mission and … Tums (available at any Walgreens).
Indian Food Mania: From the Street to the Home
If you're craving Indian food in any form, this is the week for it.
• Tomorrow, there are two big Indian goings-on. Take your pick:
West Bengal-native Auntie Jharna and chef Roger of Soul Cocina are hosting an Indian cooking class, where you'll learn to cook the likes of chicken kofta meatballs, saag paneer and sabudana vada with curry leaf and coconut. A communal dinner follows. The class is being held in Noe Valley. June 19, 3:00-5:30, $50


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May 29, 2016
The Young People of Praise performed an album release concert over the weekend at Bonita Lakes Mall.
The group had copies of its new Gospel CD 'Chapter One' for sale and performed songs from the album.
You can also purchase their new album online in either CD or MP3 format. A link to the site is provided below.
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September 15, 2010
The provisions in a publishing contract (and what is negotiated out or modified) cannot be more important in launching your book and whether it is successfully distributed. The author receives a contract that reflects the publisher's legal position; not yours. Contracts establish the rights and obligations of the parties and have to be scrutinized carefully. There should be no ambiguity as to either the rights the author is granting or the obligations of the publisher. Provisions that are unclear or appear unfair should be queried and modified or deleted.
You may be told by your editor when you attempt to negotiate changes to the publishing contract that the provisions are "standard." There is no such thing as "standard." There are provisions that the publisher is either willing or unwilling to modify or delete. My experience is that once publishers send a contract they are interested in the book and are prepared to negotiate the legal and business terms.
The grant of rights, which is usually an early provision in the contract, is key. The rights granted and retained are critical to both publisher and author. The publisher wants not only to publish and distribute the book throughout the world for the term of copyright but also to exploit the subsidiary rights. The publishing contract typically provides for the territorial scope of rights and a list of subsidiary rights with the proposed sharing of revenues for those rights. It may be preferable for the author to grant some of these rights and retain others.
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- The contract should contain out of print and termination clauses which permit the author to reclaim all rights to the book or rights which the publisher has not licensed within a reasonable time after publication.
- The contract should contain a clause which specifically states which rights are reserved by the author.
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May 30, 2016
Southern Mississippi has fired football coach Ellis Johnson after one winless season.
Athletic director Jeff Hammond said in a statement Tuesday that Johnson "will not return in the future as our head football coach."
The 60-year-old Johnson is due a $2.1 million buyout over the next three seasons.
The veteran coach has been a successful defensive coordinator at several schools, including South Carolina, Mississippi State, Alabama and Clemson before coming to Hattiesburg, Miss.
That experience didn't translate into success with the Golden Eagles.
Southern Miss finished with a 0-12 record one season after a school-record 12-2 finish that included a win in the Hawaii Bowl. The Golden Eagles were the only team in the Football Bowl Subdivision not to win a game this year.
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A look at Hollywood headlines from years past.
1965: Disc jockey Alan Freed in Palm Springs, California, died of kidney and liver disease. He was 42. He's credited with coining the phrase "rock and roll."
1973: Jerry Lee Lewis made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry. Opry officials allowed him to perform as long as he didn't use profanities and played only country music. By the end of the set, Lewis broke both agreements.
1982: Singer Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a live bat during a concert in Des Moines, Iowa. He claimed he thought it was a toy thrown to him by an audience member.
1988: Beach Boy Mike Love hurled insults at Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger while the Beach Boys were being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1990: Comedians Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold got married. They have since split up.
1993: Actress Audrey Hepburn died of cancer in Switzerland at the age of 63.
2012: Singer Etta James died of complications from leukemia at the age of 73.
Today's Birthdays: Comedian Arte (AR'-tee) Johnson is 85. Singer Eric Stewart (10cc, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders) is 69. Director David Lynch is 68. Drummer George Grantham of Poco is 67. Guitarist Paul Stanley of Kiss is 62. Bassist Ian Hill of Judas Priest is 62. TV host Bill Maher ("Politically Incorrect") is 58. Actor Lorenzo Lamas is 56. Actor James Denton ("Desperate Housewives") is 51. Bassist Greg K. of The Offspring is 49. Country singer John Michael Montgomery is 49. Actor Rainn Wilson ("The Office") is 48. Actress Stacey Dash ("Clueless") is 47. Actor Reno Wilson ("Mike and Molly") is 45. Singer Edwin McCain is 44. Actor Skeet Ulrich ("Scream," "As Good As It Gets") is 44. Drummer ?uestlove (questlove) of The Roots is 43. Drummer Rob Bourdon of Linkin Park is 35. Singer ("American Girl")-songwriter (co-wrote Katy Perry's "Roar," "California Gurls") Bonnie McKee is 30. Country singer Brantley Gilbert is 29. Singer Kevin Parker of Tame Impala is 28. Actor Evan Peters ("American Horror Story") is 27.


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Through Obama's truculent special interest campaign of division and derision, he is rapidly exhausting his check list of demographic groups. He's already targeted women, Hispanics, gays, blue collar workers, and all sorts of minorities. Now he is going after the 'commuter vote' in northern Virginia. Politico is reporting that Obama is up with a 60-second radio spot in northern Virginia claiming that Paul Ryan's budget | Read More »


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ISPs will have to ban foreign sites with pornography if they do not verify age of visitors: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32180744 [more...]
"Your Kink Is OK" was one of the best features of the old alt.sex.bondage newsgroup. It was a warm and reassuring message for new people, an ethical guide, and an attempt to create an open space where people could talk about BDSM without being slammed for it. FetLife could do with a dose of all that. [more...]
Paul Goggins MP, the original architect of Labour's extreme pornography law which criminalises possession of some BDSM images showing consenting adults, has died. It was Goggins who used the "no place in our society" phrase: [more...]
Josh writes: "David Cameron's most recent attempt at banning porn altogether for the UK public is set to take effect in January 2014. However, this pornography ban will not take the form of Internet Service Providers just censoring those sites (Internet filters, BBC, 2013) but will come with a maximum THREE YEAR PRISON SENTENCE to anybody caught in possession of or watching porn depicting simulated consensual non-consent sex." [more...]
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Dying dogs
Politics | Conservative Democrats-blue dogs in red districts-may become an endangered species after the elections in November
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Learning how to frost a cake or organize one's closet? No problem.
eHow.com is a website that, as its tagline goes, "tells you how to do just about everything."
But for its recent entry on learning "how to be a conservative Democrat," eHow.com offers a blunt assessment: The site labels it "challenging" to pull that off in the current political climate.
Challenging may be putting it mildly. Conservative Democrats are in tight spots right now all over the country. Even those who voted against such big-government legislation as healthcare reform are having a difficult time responding to Republican arguments that a vote for any Democrat is a vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Maybe that is why these conservative Democrats have kept busy this summer running as fast as they can away from Pelosi and their party's establishment. Just by observing their campaign strategies, it is easy to forget which party they belong to:
• Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello has been meeting with Tea Party groups in his Virginia district while fellow Virginia Democratic Rep. Glenn Nye touts in ads his willingness to "go against his own party."
• Democratic Rep. Travis Childers of Mississippi highlights in ads his pro-gun and pro-life stances while accusing his Republican challenger, Alan Nunnelee, of "raising taxes on sick people in hospitals."
• Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., is running commercials attacking "Nancy Pelosi's energy tax."
• Rep. Mike McIntyre, a North Carolina Democrat, "doesn't work for Nancy Pelosi," according to his commercial.
• Television ads for Rep. Bobby Bright, D-Ala., highlight how he voted against "massive government healthcare."
"Bobby Bright is an independent conservative," the commercial's narrator says. "He is one of us."
Bright, who won by 1,700 votes in 2008, serves an Alabama district where 63 percent of the voters went for John McCain for president over Barack Obama. In a campaign season where candidates have already painted Pelosi as public enemy No. 1, no one has gone further than Bright. When asked at a late August Chamber of Commerce event in Montgomery, Ala., if he would support Pelosi as House Speaker next year, Bright responded that Pelosi "may get sick and die" before he would have to decide.
But by Nov. 3, it may be conservative Democrats, called Blue Dogs in the House, who could be facing their own political death sentences.
With originally just 23 mostly Southern representatives at its formation 15 years ago, the Blue Dog coalition has enjoyed a renaissance the last two election cycles. Since 2006 more than 50 Democrats have won congressional seats in conservative-leaning districts.
There are now 54 Blue Dog Democrats in the House, representing districts from all over the country. But that may end up being the group's high water mark: Of the 54, 32 are in districts McCain won in 2008. Currently 43 of the Blue Dogs are in competitive races, according to a Cook Political Report evaluation. That includes 17 toss-up races and four races that lean Republican.
"All the Democrats, no matter what they vote for, the one vote Republicans bring up is that first vote they cast for Nancy Pelosi as speaker," says Isaac Wood, an expert on House races at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Republican challengers are not letting Democrats shake their Pelosi ties: In Arizona, opponents of incumbent Democratic Rep. Harry Mitchell have surrounded Mitchell's campaign signs with larger ones that read: "Pelosi's Lap Dog."
One reason the label may be sticking can be found in the voting records of Blue Dogs. In the 110th Congress the Blue Dogs voted with their party an average of 92 percent of the time. This is no different than the rest of the party's members: Overall House Democrats voted with party leadership the same 92 percent of the time.
Take Maryland's Frank Kratovil. The freshman Democrat won by less than 3,000 votes in a district McCain won by 19 points. Kratovil is calling his newest campaign ad "Independent." Yet he voted with party leadership 85 percent of the time, including a vote for the cap-and-trade legislation that many fear would damage his district's Eastern Shore economy.
Rep. Walt Minnick, a Blue Dog Democrat from Idaho, voted the least with his party leadership at 71 percent of the time. Minnick often mentions this on the campaign trail. His opposition to the healthcare overhaul, climate-change legislation, and the federal stimulus package has helped him take a 23-point lead over his Republican challenger in a conservative state.
Conservative Democrats campaigned two years ago with promises to curb the national debt. But like Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania, many of these freshman Democrats made one of their first votes in favor of an economic stimulus package that is now costing nearly $1 trillion.
These Democrats, now that they have to face voters again, are trying to regain their conservative labels by joining Republicans to block some Democratic spending plans. But it may be too little too late.
Obama's policies have so far failed to fix the economy or boost the job market. As a result, these Democrats are becoming increasingly unpopular in districts where voters elected them in hopes that they would right the nation's financial ship.
"There's a lot of frustration here with conservative Democrats who haven't been able to stop cap and trade and stop healthcare reform, but also with all representatives . . . for the economic situation," says the University of Virginia's Wood.
There is one group that may not mourn the loss of conservative Democrats: Liberal Democrats. They believe that a thinning of the ranks of conservative Democrats is a necessary step toward being able to fully implement far-left policies.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., told The Hill last month that the party may have more liberal purity soon: "I think a lot of the House seats we're going to lose are those who have been the toughest for the Democrats to pull into line-the Democrats that have been the most difficult."
-Emily Belz contributed to this report
By the numbers
On average, the 54 Blue Dog Democrats voted with the party 92 percent of the time. Democrats on average voted with the party (leadership) 92 percent of the time. In other words, the Blue Dogs show no different voting patterns than the rest of the party.
The 5 Dems who have bucked their party the most are: (the numbers are the percentage they voted with the party)
Walt Minnick 71%
Bobby Bright 72%
Gene Taylor 78%
Harry Mitchell 80%
Travis Childers 81%
And the 5 Dems who have voted with the party the most:
Adam Schiff 99.5%
Joe Baca 99%
Mike Thompson 99%
David Scott 99%
Jane Harman 98%