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Mob Wives is baaaack! Vh1 just released the poster and teaser clip for Season 2 and all I can say is YES! Oh sweet glorious television Gods — Thank you! I love these bleepin ladies!
As we recently reported all four of the ladies are returning and the drama will be as crazy as ever! Especially with the introduction of a new mafia princess!
In the off season the hell raisers in heels of Staten Island have been busy, busy little bees. Renee Graziano has been getting nipped, tucked and toxed. Oh and her father Anthony Graziano has been sent back to prison on extortion charges as reported by the Staten Island Live News.
She's also rekindled things with Junior (aka Hector Pagan Jr), recently arraigned on allegations that he and a crew robbed a card game run by the Bonanno crime family. A photo of Renee and Junior leaving a Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn is below.
Carla Facciolo is back together with her estranged husband Joseph Ferragamo and has called off the divorce. Hopefully he'll remain out of prison and they can stay happily married.
Karen Gravano is still hard at work on her book which according to the M.O.B. Wives blog is titled MobDaughter and is slated to be released in February 2012 — right in the middle of Season 2! A photo of Karen attending a publishing meeting for the book is below, a mock-up of the book cover is behind her in the pic!
As for ol' Drita "Brass Knuckles" D'avanzo she's been spotted hanging out with Jersey Shore's infamous Snooki! Oh lawd, the thought of their antics is causing me heart palpitations! Drita recently posted some pictures of the two of them on her Facebook page. A photo of Snookers and Drita is below. Right after these were taken the two did tequila shots until punching random people in the head seemed like a good idea, then got leopard print tattoos, flashed some people, bought a fur and danced on a bar. Ok, I made that part up, but I imagine that's what happened.
The most exciting news for the new season of Mob Wives is the introduction of a NEW WIFE! Yes, Karen is the odd girl out no more as her 'cousin' is joining the cast in an effort to make Renee's overly Restylane'd head explode!
According to the NY Post, Ramona Rizzo (pictured below) has been added to the cast! Ramona is a divorced mother of four currently living in New Jersey, but was raised in Staten Island along side Renee and Karen."Karen and Ramona grew up together, did their first Communion together and slept over each other's houses," Jennifer Graziano — Renee's sister and the creator and producer of the show – reveals. "They're really close and call each other 'cousins.' "
"They're probably tighter than real blood cousins, but they're not related, " she adds.
Ramona has quite the organized crime legacy! Her grandfather was Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero, a member of the Bonnano crime family who was a subject of the movie "Donnie Brasco" and played by Al Pacino!
Ironically Ramona's legendary grandfather was also somewhat of a traitor who "unwittingly" played a role in the downfall of the mob when he brought undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp's character in the movie) into the crime family. Ramona's grandfather died of cancer in prison in 1994 and was never punished by the mob for his accidental nark.
Ramona has been Tweeting up a storm since the news leaked that she was participating in the show and even tweeted a photo of her and bestie Karen! A photo of the pseudo cousins is below!
Is anyone else a tad bit frightened about the drama shizzstorm we're in for this season? Watch out Real Housewives of New Jersey, the real gangsters of reality TV are claiming their turf!
Mob Wives season 2 will premiere Jan. 1 (8/7c) on Vh1. Are you ready to stab somebody with a stiletto?! See the teaser below!
New Mob Wives cast member Ramona Rizzo!
Renee and Junior leaving Federal Court. I love how Renee is wearing sequins to court! Where is her fur??
Snooki & Drita – too much tanning to handle! (Actually both look really pretty)
"Cousins" Ramona & Karen from Ramona's Twitter.
Karen attending a publishing meeting at Flatiron. Look at the screen behind her for the mock-up of her book cover!


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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Life isn't what it used to be for ER worker injured in attack involving mentally ill manMARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 13. 2013 11:42PM
Last week, Gov. Maggie Hassan assembled a team of experts and said she wanted them to look at the bottleneck of mentally ill patients in hospital emergency rooms.
Don Wyman can tell you about teams of experts.
Since July, Wyman has seen expert after expert. Surgeons have pinned and plated the bones in his cheekbones, eye sockets, jaw and nose — bones shattered when he was attacked while trying to calm a deranged and unstable patient in the emergency room of the Elliot Hospital last July.
He sees a speech therapist. The hospital worker who used to give workshops on calming psychiatric patients now grasps for words. "I listen to things. I know a lot more answers than I can think of in my head," Wyman explains.
He sees a rehab-neurologist psychiatrist.
The man who used to raft on white water, camp and hike mountains suffered two post-attack strokes and now walks his neighborhood.
And he sees a life coach. The father of four at-home children needs to relearn everyday tasks such as grocery shopping, making change and doing the laundry.
"I'm a different person now than I knew then," Wyman said in the kitchen of the south Manchester house he shares with his wife and their four children.
The attack on Wyman and fellow Elliot Hospital licensed nurse assistant Melissa Clermont is fading from the front pages, in part because of the violent attack involving Fern Ornelas at the same hospital three months later.
Wyman, who is 52, has worked as an LNA for 25 years at the Elliot emergency room. As an LNA, he drew blood, monitored electrocardiograms and sat with patients. His specialty was psychiatric care.
"Don has the perfect calm, cool, collected approach that is so effective with our psychiatric patients," reads a nomination of Wyman as Emergency Department MVP, written by his coworkers shortly before the attack.
After the attack, the Wymans moved from a country New Boston home to a smaller south Manchester house to be closer to doctors and family.
His wife, Amy Wyman, works as a registered nurse at the Elliot psychiatric unit. They have two children together — son Cooper, who is 6, and daughter Delaney, 3. Amy Wyman's 12- and 16-year-old children from a previous marriage live with the family.
Wyman remembers nothing about the attack.
Clermont — his coworker who suffered a slight cheekbone fracture in the attack — remembers it well. Her body tenses up when she speaks about it. She gasps for air and speaks nervously.
"It was the worst day of my life," said Clermont, a single mother of three who has returned to work part-time.
She has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She avoids crowds, and the event often revisits her.
"People think my face is fine," Clermont said. "They don't know what I see every day."
Amy Wyman said Don can't be left alone with the children, so she's been unable to return to work. She is burning through his vacation time and time donated by Elliot Hospital employees. He is on worker's compensation, which only provides 60 percent of his normal wage.
At home, he has spent hours rearranging the house, moving items from one shelf to another.
Still, Wyman recovered from his strokes faster and better than doctors initially expected, said his mother, Donna Carey. He is getting shoulder surgery and special glasses to correct his double vision.
"It's slow and he's frustrated by it, but I can see progress," said Carey, a retired health care worker.
Always a worker, Wyman talks about one day returning to work. But he realizes he has changed and probably can't do the same job. He still wants to be trained and tested for the job, he said.
As a psychiatric nurse, Amy Wyman said she saw the cutbacks that preceded the crowded emergency rooms: Units closed at Catholic Medical Center, Portsmouth Pavilion and Androscoggin Valley Hospital in the 2000s. Elliot Hospital's Pathway program went from 19 to 12 beds, and the New Hampshire Hospital lost 60 beds under former Gov. John Lynch.
Under pressure from a federal government lawsuit and mental health advocates, the Legislature and Hassan this year devoted $24.67 million to new or expanded programs.
About half those initiatives have started, according to an update from state health officials. Five of 10 beds have opened at Franklin Hospital; Harbor Homes has received $720,000 to help keep mentally ill people in apartments and off the streets; community treatment teams have been approved for Lebanon, Laconia, Portsmouth and Dover, and seven existing teams will now work seven days a week.
It will take another seven months before other initiatives get off the ground.
At this point, however, no one is adding beds at the New Hampshire Hospital, something Mayor Ted Gatsas, Manchester hospital presidents and hospital workers called for in August, after the attack on Wyman and Clermont.
The state's strategy continues to emphasize prevention — community treatment teams and supportive housing — over New Hampshire Hospital beds.
It's easy to understand the strategy in concept. But that means people like Wyman's alleged assailant, Ansel Kinglocke, will end up — violent and in crisis — at emergency rooms until the new system gets up and running.
It's like a city closing most of its fire stations during the dry season to concentrate on fire codes and fire prevention campaigns.
"They need the hospital beds," Carey said. The community-based system is based upon everyone staying on their medication, but what if they don't? she asked.
"How are you going to monitor them?" she said. "I just see a lot of people out of control. The whole system is morally wrong and something needs to be done."
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursday in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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What do Gayle Benson, Leah Chase, Mary Matalin, the Krewe of Muses and Women of the Storm have in common?
All are on the exhibitors list for Art in Bloom, a five-day fundraiser that kicked off Wednesday at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Their floral displays are among the nearly 100 featured at the annual event, whose 2013 theme is "Celebrating Steel Magnolias."
The seeds for Art in Bloom were planted in 1988, and for 25 years now, it has been a rite of spring at NOMA. But even after a quarter-century, the fundraiser remains fresh, thanks to a changing roster of speakers and exhibitors.
This year's lectures will be given Thursday morning at NOMA by Mississippi garden designer Susan Haltom and by Southern style guru Tara Guerard of Charleston, S.C.
"The speakers we chose tie in closely with our theme," said Jeanette Slakey, Art in Bloom co-chairwoman with Joey Brown. "Both are Southern women who exemplify a steel magnolia."
Haltom, who takes the podium at 9:30 a.m., was instrumental in restoring the lost garden of writer Eudora Welty in Jackson, Miss., a story she tells in the book "One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place."
In the book, Haltom looks at the importance of garden clubs during the early 1900s, when such organizations gave women a way — sometimes their only way — "to meet and discuss and interpret and exchange" ideas on all subjects, she said on "The Reading Life" WWNO radio program. Art in Bloom is staged by NOMA and the Garden Study Club of New Orleans.
Guerard, who speaks at 10:45 a.m., is the author of "Southern Weddings: New Looks from the Old South" and "Weddings by Tara Guerard." She designs not only events, but also furniture and invitations, for a client list that spans the country.
One tip from Guerard on how to make an outdoor party more glamorous: "I might put pink camellias — which are very Southern — in shimmery olive-green votive holders, so they really pop," she told a Food & Wine magazine writer. "Camellias are like the peonies of the South — they're very delicate, but also lush and sexy."
The lectures will be followed at 12:30 p.m. Thursday by a luncheon and Saks Fifth Avenue fashion show in the Pavilion of the Two Sisters. A combined lecture and luncheon ticket is $150; lectures only, $75; luncheon only, $100.
Through Sunday, NOMA admission of $10 for adults includes the opportunity to view all Art in Bloom exhibits during regular museum hours.
Exhibits include floral displays done by area garden clubs, which are assigned works of art in the museum to use as inspiration. Then there are the displays done by local notables, school groups, professional florists and other designers, typically carrying out the year's theme.
Joining the aforementioned local exhibitors in the Movers and Shakers category are Lally Brennan and Ti Martin, Edible Schoolyard New Orleans, Junior League of New Orleans, Margaret Orr, YA/YA (Young Aspirations/Young Artists Inc.) and New Orleans City Council members Jackie Clarkson, Stacy Head, Susan Guidry, Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, Kristin Gisleson Palmer and LaToya Cantrell.
Among other exhibit categories are Bonsai, Ikebana, Creative Designs and Tablescapes.
Co-chairwoman Slakey was especially looking forward to the Tablescapes entries. "We have some new exhibitors and their space is so much larger than last year," she said a few days before the preview. "I am also excited to see how the professional designers interpret the theme."
Brown was eager to see how the garden clubs interpret their assigned artwork through flowers. "But then I really like to see how interesting the Creative Designs people can get. And Ikebana is something a lot of people don't know about," she said. "It is all very cool!"
As an added attraction, local actors will give a staged reading of Robert Harling's "Steel Magnolias" at 7 p.m. Friday at NOMA. The work features such steel magnolia-isms as "Smile! It increases your face value." Attendance is by regular museum admission, but reservations are required.
Proceeds from Art in Bloom benefit educational projects and exhibitions at NOMA and community projects of the Garden Study Club, including the New Orleans Botanical Garden, Beauregard-Keyes House, Parkway Partners, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Longue Vue House and Gardens and the Hermann-Grima and Gallier Historic Houses.
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Principle Investigator: Don Stredney
Duration: 5/1/05 – 4/30/06
Unintentional occupational injuries remain problematic. This applied research aims to harness emerging technologies to simulate a common occupational setting that provides the potential for experiencing acute traumatic injuries. The investigators will adapt current technologies to simulate an environment with a power take off (PTO), an indispensable tool found on farms and other work environments that transfers power from a common tractor to be redirected to drive various implements. The PTO has continuously proven to be problematic in providing acute unintentional injuries through entrapment or entanglement.
This preliminary research will extend our current work to this specific scenario, the PTO environment, which is exemplary of high-risk agricultural work settings. The pilot study will help delineate advantages and limitations of our approach and the data collected will help us generate study designs for future submissions. Long term, the use of virtual environments can serve to elucidate the etiology of occupational injuries and possibly help identify high-risk populations.
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Gov. Maggie Hassan will join nearly a dozen State of New Hampshire agency leaders as speakers at Culture OneStop, a new conference designed specifically for board members and senior staff at New Hampshire's cultural nonprofits, as well as for library trustees.
Culture OneStop will feature hour-long panels addressing issues related to charitable trusts, employment security and labor, insurance, and resources and economic development. Commissioners from those agencies will moderate their specific panel sessions and will be joined by experts from those fields.
Gov. Hassan will speak during the lunch session. She will be followed by short presentations made by the Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food, the Department of Education, the Department of Environmental Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Liquor Commission, the Racing and Charitable Gaming Commission, and the Community Development Finance Authority.
Content for Culture OneStop has been directly impacted by an online survey completed by New Hampshire cultural nonprofits. Attendees will also be able to ask questions in an open forum.
Culture OneStop takes place at the Grappone Center in Concord, N.H. on May 31, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
"New Hampshire's cultural nonprofits help make our state a wonderful place to live and visit, and are vitally important to our economy," said Gov. Hassan. "I'm pleased that so many of our state agencies are participating in Culture OneStop and offering their expertise to these organizations."
Registration for Culture OneStop is now open. The cost is $75 and includes panel sessions, lunch and refreshments during breaks. Partial scholarships are available. Learn more and register at www.nh.gov/nhculture.
The Culture OneStop committee includes the N.H. Department of Cultural Resources, the N.H. Department of Justice, the N.H. Center for Nonprofits, the N.H. Business Committee for the Arts and the UNH School of Law.
New Hampshire's Department of Cultural Resources includes the State Council on the Arts, the Film and Television Office, the Division of Historical Resources, the State Library and the Commission on Native American Affairs. The Department strives to nurture the cultural well-being of our state. From the covered bridges and traditional music of our past to the avant-garde performances and technological resources of today and tomorrow, New Hampshire's culture is as varied as its geography and its people. This strong cultural base—which truly has something for everyone—attracts businesses looking for engaged workforces, provides outstanding educational opportunities and creates communities worth living in. Learn more at www.nh.gov/nhculture/.


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Monday, July 26, 2010
Crasnick: Oswalt wants that 2012 option, after all
Just to make it clear: Roy Oswalt will not approve any trade unless his $16M option for 2012 is picked up. Cardinals. Phillies. The team doesn't matter. That part is pretty much non-negotiable. When Oswalt talked about "restructuring," he meant he might be willing to defer a part of the money. But that was it.
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" Astros right-hander Roy Oswalt, who's been at the center of trade speculation since he asked the club to trade him to a contender two months ago, said on Friday that money won't be an issue in approving a trade from the Astros, hinting that he's not worried about teams' willingness to pick up his $16 million option for 2012.
"The money part, I can work out with anybody," he said. "We can work on doing different things to restructure whatever they want to do. The biggest thing is making it work for both of us." "
If Roy has truly changed his stance, Roy simply does not want to get traded. Easy as that.
- July 26, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- John Royal said...
That's it. I give up. A pox on both their houses. Now excuse me while I bang my head with a brick.
- July 26, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Andrew said...
Of course nowhere in that quote does he specifically say that I wont require my option to be picked up, just that "the money part can be worked out".
- July 26, 2010 at 5:07 PM
You're right. There wasn't an exact quote saying I'll waive my option or whatever the case may be but there was this tidbit: "hinting that he's not worried about teams' willingness to pick up his $16 million option for 2012."
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Marcelo Tinoco's practice combines documentary photography, archival research, and diorama construction. Tinoco has laboriously cultivated a personal digital database of images that he organizes into categories, including animals, objects, human beings, and structures; these become the raw materials for his complex scenes, which he creates one element at a time. The images are printed onto large-scale cotton photographic paper, sometimes up to two meters in length, and depict subjects ranging from Venetian history and 1970s Brooklyn to tropical paradises and post-apocalyptic cities.
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Here's some (more) Latin I've parsed and translated - from Orberg's LLPSI cap XLII
Bellum Sabinum
Novissimum [nns] ab Sabinis [mabp] bellum [nns] ortum est [pf3s(nns)], multoque [adv] id maximum [nns] fuit [pf3s]
The latest war to arise from the Sabines was the longest.
Nihil enim per [+a] iram [fas] aut cupiditatem [fas] actum est, [pf3s(nns)]
It arose from nothing but anger and greed.
nec ostenderunt [pf3p] bellum [nas] prius [adv] quam intulerunt [pf3p].
neither did they declare war before they brought it.
Non solum vi [fabs], sed etiam dolo [mabs] usi sunt [pf3p(mnp)]:
Not only through strength but also through deceit..
Sp. Tarpeius [mns] arci [fds] Romanae [fds] praeerat [i3s]. Huius [mgs]
Spurius Tarpeius was governor of the Roman citadel. His
filia [fns] virgo [fns] forte [adv] aquam [fas] petitum [sup] extra
unmarried daughter happened to have gone to fetch water outside the walls
moenia [nap] ierat [pl3s]. Ei Tatius auro pollicendo persuasit ut
Tatius with the promise of gold persuaded her
Sabinos [map] armatos [map] in arcem [fas] acciperet [is3s].
to allow the armed Sabines into the citadel.
Accepti [pf3p(mnp)] Sabini [mnp] Tarpeiam [mas] necavere [pf3p]!
The invading Sabines slayed Tarpeius -
- seu ut arx [fns] potius [adv] vi [fabs] quam dolo [mabs] capta esse
- whether it was better that the citadel was seen to be taken by force
videretur [is3s] seu exempli [ngs] causa [fns] ne quis impune [adv]
than by deceit perhaps it provides a lesson that no one
patriam [fas] suam [fas] proderet [is3s]
should, with impunity,betray their country.
- I'm a little confused about the construction seu...seu. My sense is that the construction is something like 'whether..or if..' ?
Additur [pf3s] fabula [fns], Tarpeiam [mas] mercedem [fas] ab Sabinis [mabp]
The story grew that Tarpeius had demanded from the Sabines 'that which they
postulavisse [pfi] 'id [nnp] quod in sinistris [fabp] manibus [fabp] haberent
had on their left hands'.
[is3s]' (nam Sabini [mnp] aureas [fap] armillas [fap] magni [mgs] ponderis
(for the Sabines had braclets of great value on their left arms)
[ngs] bracchio [nds?] laevo [nds?] gemmatosque [map] anulos [map] habebant
and also rings with gem stones.
- not sure of construction '...braechio laevo...' - is it dative of possession?
[i3p]); ergo Sabinos [map] pro aureis donis scuta in eam coniecisse!
Hence the Sabines instead of golden givts gathered their shields in one place.
- is the last line a figure of speech - instead of paying up they defended themselves?


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Zach Galifianakis always Bradley Cooper's first port of call
Bradley Cooper immediately called Zach Galifianakis after his dad died.
The 'Hangover Part III' hunk has formed a close bond with his co-star after working on three films together, and he leaned heavily on his pal following his father's death in January 2011.
He told Italy's A magazine: ''Zach is one of my best friends; he's the one I go to when something's wrong. He is the first person I called when my father died.''
The actor also insists fans relate to the 'Hangover' movies because the cast - which also includes Ed Helms, Ken Jeong and Justin Bartha - play ''real men'' who have emotional baggage.
He explained: ''I think the reason why everybody likes our characters in 'Hangover' is because we portray real men. We can mess things up, but eventually we all need real friendships.''
Bradley previously credited the franchise's success to the characters to the friendship between the three lead characters.
He said: ''The chemistry between the three of us is the main reason for it, I think. It's kind of every man's fantasy to have amazing friends with whom you can live it up at the age of 20, and still do the same when you're pushing 40.
''I think a lot of people see a bit of themselves in Phil, Stu and Alan.''


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When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he's found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him getting Noah back, but Paul's not giving up without playing his love really loud. His best friend Joni might be drifting away, his other best friend Tony might be dealing with ultra-religious parents, and his ex-boyfriend Kyle might not be going away anytime soon, but sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right.
This is a happy-meaningful romantic comedy about finding love, losing love, and doing what it takes to get love back in a crazy-wonderful world.
Review: This is my very first David Levithan book. Let me share a little story. I've been catching up on John Green's books recently and I told myself that I would work on David Levithan after because they are the 2 authors I hear the most about when people talk about Contemporary YA. I was going to have Will Grayson, Will Grayson be my first David book, but I wished that I could read Boy Meets Boy first because I've heard a lot of things about it. Imagine my joy when I see BMB in a used bookstore. Yep. So excited.
Now to the actual book. The characters were very well done. They were lovable, but flawed. It was nice seeing the different sides of them. Even though you're following this story through the eyes of Paul, he obviously has good and bad encounters with each of these other characters. Noah was sweet. He might be my favorite. Kyle, Tony, and Joni were all great characters as well. Tony actually made me think of a friend of mine in real life. Reading Tony's relationship with his family made me think that's how my friend would be treated if he was gay. Luckily, I don't have to worry about that since he's straight, but if he was gay I would have to give him this book ASAP.
The story was adorable. Probably what I liked most about it was that, to me, it didn't read like a "boy falls in love with another boy" story. Obviously that's what it was, but it felt like every other "girl and boy fall in love" story. That's important to me because I'm one of those people who believe that your sexuality doesn't matter. Falling in love is falling in love. Maybe it's easy for me to say that because I'm never going to have to deal with the things some of these characters dealt with, but that's a personal conviction that I have. People have been getting so caught up in the "oh my gosh two people of the same sex are in a relationship". It shouldn't be about the people in the relationship, but the emotion in the relationship. If that makes sense. *Rant over. Sorry* I wish I went to Paul's school. The people there seem pretty tolerant of everyone regardless of if you're gay or straight. That's the only problem I had with the book. Paul's whole down seemed to be okay with everything and that's unrealistic. I like how light this book was considering how heavy a topic it is though. And to make up for the "perfect town" background, Paul mentions a couple of times that he knows there are schools/towns/families much less tolerant than his. Overall I thought this was a wonderful book and I can't wait to read more of David's books.
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Fight of the Day: Gary Goodridge vs. Jan Nortje
So Gary Goodridge will be taking on Butterbean in April, and tomorrow's Strikeforce event will feature Bob Sapp against 1-5 Euro-can Jan Nortje. If you're curious about Goodridge and Nortje's current skill level, just watch this sad match from K-1 HERO's 8 (3/12/07), where Goodridge takes piles of abuse in one of the roughest, stupidest rope-a-dopes ever, then pounds back when Nortje is completely gassed. Again, Sapp is a -600 favorite in tomorrow's match, even though his usual game plan (slug away all your energy then fall over) is exactly the same as Nortje's. Anyway.
And because commenter "fightfan" asked for it, here's Goodridge's November 2005 loss against Glaube Feitosa in a K-1 kickboxing championship match. Watch as Feitosa knocks out Gary's front teeth at 3:44, and recoil in horror during the slo-mo replay at 5:08.


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Green Bay police arrested 21 people at the Packers NFC wildcard playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field.
WLUK-TV reported Sunday, Jan. 7, that the arrest total was the highest for the season.
Of those arrested, eight were for unlawful conduct, three for unlawful conduct and trespassing, and three for unlawful conduct and resisting, the station said. Two were arrested for unlawful conduct and battery. Three other people were arrested for underage drinking. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting. Another person was arrested for drug possession.
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Another Wednesday, another poetry prompt. Yay! But before we get to the prompt, I just wanted to share that a few of my poems have been published in the most recent issue of Poets|Artists (along with a poem by my wife Tammy and Poetic Asides regular Laurie Kolp). Click here to check out the issue in PDF format for free. If you like; you have the option to buy a print copy too! Or get the interactive edition.
For today's prompt, write a someday poem. By someday poem, I mean that you should write a poem about someday in the future. However, I'm always more than open to poets taking the prompt in any direction they wish.
Here's my attempt at a someday poem:
After the shot, he stood up, brushed off some grass, and walked away unnoticed.
He went first to his house to kiss his mother goodnight.
She turned in her bed.
He took a last look around his room, then left.
The rain washed the blood from his hoodie.
He thought briefly about the things he would never accomplish.
He thought harder about what he'd already done, the things he couldn't take back.
It's important to note he felt no anger.
Then, he walked toward the light.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World's Problems (Press 53). He did not win the Mega Millions jackpot last night. Robert is married to the poet Tammy Foster Brewer, who helps him keep track of their five little poets. When he's not reading or writing, Robert enjoys getting outside and doing stuff, whether it's just going for a walk or playing football. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
Check out more poetic posts here:
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CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK, S.C. (AP) — After spending 60 hours lost with his two children in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park, drinking foul water and trying unsuccessfully to eat raw turkey eggs, J.R. Kimbler says he knows what not to do next time.
Kimbler, 43, had planned a quick nature hike with his two children during their weekend visit. He took no water or snacks, nor his daughter's asthma medicine or a trail map for his first trip to the woods east of Columbia.
"I feel like the world's worst father. But I guess I did pretty good because I kept everybody alive for three days," Kimbler told reporters just before they were released from the hospital Tuesday.
Kimbler and his kids, 10-year-old Dakota and 6-year-old Jade, were rescued Tuesday morning. Doctors said they were fine except some dehydration, scratches and bug bites.
Kimbler said the signs on the trails confused them Saturday afternoon and they ended up lost among the giant trees, deep in the rough undergrowth and marsh of the 27,000-acre park. The trails were especially tough to follow and the terrain even more rugged after thousands of trees and branches were knocked down during a massive February ice storm.
As the sun set, Kimbler realized they were hopelessly lost and sent a short text message to a friend. Right after he hit send, his cellphone died.
Kimbler is a taxi driver with no Boy Scout or survival training. "Closest I got to that was watching the 'Survivor' series on TV," he said.
So he did what he could. They drank scummy, terrible-tasting water that collected in puddles after picking out the bugs and leaves. They kept walking toward the sun, because Kimbler figured they would run into something or someone. They tried to find food, and Kimbler thought they hit the jackpot after scaring away a wild turkey and finding six or eight eggs. However, that didn't go well.
"I grabbed one of the eggs and said, 'We can eat these — crack them open and swallow them whole!' I cracked it open and the bird was too developed. It was gross," Kimbler said.
Kimbler heard nothing except an occasional helicopter or plane passing overhead Sunday and Monday. By the time the sun set Monday, he began to lose hope.
"I've got to stay strong for them because if I start crying or freaking out, it is going to make it ten times tougher for them" Kimbler said.
As the three huddled together, Kimbler was awakened from an unsound sleep at around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday by Park Ranger Jared Gurtler about two miles from the visitors' center where they had entered the park.
"I was just hollering names," said Gurtler. "They all hollered back."
The ranger tossed them water bottles and told them to stay put.
"I'm not staying here," Kimbler said he answered back. "I'm coming to your voice. I've been stuck here for three days."
More rangers with ATVs were able to reach the family at daybreak and took them back to the visitor's center. Kimbler said he couldn't stop crying.
"I love every one of you," Kimbler said he told the rangers. "I want to hug every one of you right now."
Doctors at Palmetto Richland Hospital had prepared for the worst, as the family arrived in ambulances. But Dr. Derick Wenning said besides some dehydration and dirt, they were in remarkably good shape. Doctors still worry they could have parasites from drinking the dirty water and have warned them of symptoms to watch for.
Doctors released them after six hours observation.
Eighty searchers from nearly a dozen agencies searched for the three. Officials closed the park Monday afternoon, but reopened it Tuesday after the father and children were found.
The children live with their mother, Tammy Ballard, who said she was just happy that everyone is safe.
Kimbler had been out of the children's lives for a few years but recently started weekend visits with them. He tried to do something fun with them on Saturdays, but he said he knows he won't go to Congaree National Park again.
So where will he go instead?
"Skating rink. Somewhere indoors," Kimbler said. "Next time I'm going to Google it first."
Jeffrey Collins reported from Columbia. Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP . Collins can be reached at http://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP


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Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
I've been impressed by some of the latest Harlequin Nocturne covers. They used to be so cheesy, but there's been a lot of improvement across all the Harlequin lines. I love the vivid colors here, and while I love how dramatic that dress is, I pity any heroine who has to make a fast getaway wearing it!
The Lost Wolf's Destiny by Karen Whiddon will be in stores September 2013
A desperate mother. A scarred man. A powerful bond… The moment he saw Blythe Daphne on the television news, Lucas Kenyon knew three things: she was a shapeshifter, like him. She was the most desirable creature he had ever seen. And she was in terrible danger.
Now, the wolf in Lucas is driving him to save Blythe and her young daughter from a man he knows is evil personified. A man who believes all shapeshifters are demons straight from hell. But Lucas knows he must never reveal the secret that threatens to tear him apart—not even to the one woman who could heal him


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Dutchmen RV has recently received the 2010 Coleman Licensee of the Year Award.
"On behalf of the Coleman Company, it is my honor to present Dutchmen with the 2010 Coleman Licensee of the Year Award," says Jason McClintock, Sr., Director, Licencing –The Coleman Company."It is extremely unusual for a company to receive this prestigious award, just after their first full year of receiving the Coleman license. It's through hard work and dedication like yours that has placed the Coleman brand in a position of strength over its 111 year history.
"The red logo is as much yours as it is ours and we hope that through the continued partnership we can continue to give consumers quality products they can trust. Thank you for all you do to keep this brand strong. Dutchmen has much to be proud of and a lot to celebrate. Congratulations!"
"The Dutchmen team is proud and honored to receive this great award," says Dutchman RV President, Don Clark. "Coleman and Dutchmen share similar philosophies with regard to strong reputations and tireless commitment of serving our customers. We look forward to our continued partnership and the success of the Coleman Travel Trailer – Fifth Wheel product line.


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Seacoast SWAT team not far from scene of captureBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
April 20. 2013 3:03AM
Members of a Seacoast area SWAT team were just two blocks away when they heard the gunfire as authorities surrounded the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect and took him into custody peacefully Friday night.
The Seacoast Emergency Response Team, commonly referred to as a SWAT team, joined the many law enforcement agencies involved in the intense manhunt in Watertown, Mass.
Hampton Police Chief Jamie Sullivan, president of SERT's board of directors, said 19 tactical operators and four command staff from SERT arrived in Watertown just before 4:30 p.m. and had just begin searching a neighborhood when the suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, was found hiding in the boat in a backyard not too far away.
"We heard the shots fired a couple of blocks away from where we were," Sullivan said. "We were certainly not in the line of fire, but we heard it all."
The SERT officers, who were brought in to relieve other agencies, maintained their location as the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) zeroed in on Tsarnaev.
"Eventually, after the initial barrage of fire, the perimeter was set up and the HRT moved in," Sullivan said. Sullivan said he was stationed at a command post and listened as the team made contact with Tsarnaev and eventually took him into custody.
The SERT officers know the risks they could face whenever they're deployed in a crisis situation, Sullivan said, adding, "You're absolutely on a heightened state of alert. Obviously it's been a very tragic and frightening week."
The members of SERT are highly trained officers and detectives from 11 Seacoast law enforcement agencies.
The officers are trained to handle critical incidents, including hostage situations, armed barricaded suspects, high risk warrants, searches in wooded areas and other crisis situations.
In his 30 years in law enforcement, Sullivan said he had never been responded to an incident involving so many law enforcement agencies. They included officers from Manchester, Nashua, and New Hampshire State
"We played a very small role in a very huge event and we're glad we were able to help out," Sullivan said.


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No. 97,818
1. Under the facts of this case, the prosecutor did not commit misconduct by asking a 13-year-old complaining witness in an aggravated indecent liberties with a child case questions to establish the witness' understanding of the duty to testify truthfully and the witness' thoughts or feelings at the time she was touched by the defendant.
2. The jury determines the existence of an overt act. There is no definitive rule concerning what constitutes an overt act; each case depends on the inferences a jury may reasonably draw from the facts.
3. Under the facts of this case, after considering all the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to the prosecution, we are convinced a rational factfinder could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant's touching of the child was an overt act toward the completion of the crime of aggravated indecent liberties with a child but the defendant failed in the perpetration thereof or was prevented from or intercepted in executing the completed crime.
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; JOHN J. McNALLY, judge. Opinion filed October 17, 2008. Affirmed.
Korey A. Kaul, of Kansas Appellate Defender Office, for appellant.
Amory K. Lovin, assistant district attorney, Jerome A. Gorman, district attorney, and Paul J. Morrison, attorney general, for appellee.
Before MALONE, P.J., BUSER, J., and LARSON, S.J.
BUSER, J.: William Sherrod appeals his conviction of attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child in violation of K.S.A. 21-3301(a) and K.S.A. 21-3504(a)(3)(A). Sherrod contends he was deprived of a fair trial by prosecutorial misconduct. Sherrod also claims there was insufficient evidence to convict him of attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child because the evidence showed he committed the completed crime. We affirm the conviction.
Factual and Procedural Background
The State's evidence consisted of testimony by the complaining witness, G.S., and her mother. G.S. was 13 years of age both at the time of the crime and at trial. At the beginning of G.S.'s direct testimony, the prosecutor asked the child if she knew the difference between a truth and a lie, that she was under oath, and that she was obliged to tell the truth. Defense counsel did not object to the questions, and G.S. answered yes to each one.
G.S. then described how on January 31, 2004, Sherrod and his wife, Kelly Sherrod, hosted a party at the Sherrods' home. The family of G.S. attended the event. After the party, G.S. spent the night at the Sherrods' home. G.S. slept in the living room on a bed that was converted from a couch.
Shortly after G.S. awoke the next morning, Sherrod came into the living room and laid down on the bed, apparently to sleep. G.S. testified that Sherrod then began rubbing her back on the outside of her shirt. The prosecutor asked G.S. how it made her feel, and she replied, "Uncomfortable" but not "worried." There was no objection to the question.
The prosecutor later asked, "And then what did he do?" The transcript shows G.S. made no audible response. The following exchange then occurred:
"Q. Do you want to be here today, [G.S.]?
"A. No.
"Q. Okay. But you understand your duty to tell the truth, right?"
Sherrod's counsel objected, but G.S. replied, "Yes." Out of the jury's hearing, Sherrod's counsel argued the question was leading and that "to suggest that she has a duty to be there I think is unfairly prejudicial." The district court replied, "Well, in terms of duty to be here it was couched in terms of duty to tell the truth." The district court did not specifically rule on the objection, and there was no further response by G.S. to the question.
G.S. testified that Sherrod next reached under her shirt to rub her back and then he rubbed her legs. She described how Sherrod told her that "I couldn't tell anybody what he was doing and I couldn't even tell my best friend." When the prosecutor asked G.S. what she was "thinking at this point," she responded, "I was scared and just wanted to throw up." There was no objection to the question.
Sherrod next began rubbing G.S.'s stomach. While doing so, Sherrod touched the bottom of G.S.'s bra and the outside of her underwear. Under questioning by the prosecutor, G.S. then testified:
"Q. Okay. He was on the outside first, and then what did he do?
"A. He started going on the inside.
"Q. Okay. And when you say he started going, what part of his body?
"A. His hand.
"Q. Okay. His hand? And it was going where?
"A. On the inside of my underwear.
"Q. Okay. On the inside of your underwear? Okay. And how far did his hand go inside of your underwear?
"A. Not very far.
"Q. Okay. Did his hand go between your legs?
"A. No.
"Q. Okay. Did it go further than just the inside band of your underwear?
"A. A little bit.
"Q. Okay. Um, did it go down to where you use the restroom at?
"A. No.
"Q. Okay. Did it go halfway down to that area?
"A. Yeah.
"Q. Okay. And I have to ask you some questions about your body. You're 13 years old, correct?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Okay. Are you developed enough where you do have pubic hair in your genital area?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Okay. Did his hands go that far?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Okay. And what did you say to him?
"A. I told him to stop.
"Q. Okay. And what happened?
"A. He did."
Afterwards, Sherrod told G.S. that he hoped they could still be friends and "he wouldn't do it again unless I wanted him to." The prosecutor asked G.S. how that made her feel, and she replied, "Angry." G.S. said Sherrod "tried to make a joke out of it," wondering if he could pay her not to tell anyone about it. The prosecutor asked G.S. how that made her feel, and she replied, "Bad." There were no objections to the questions.
The mother of G.S. testified that upon her daughter's return home later that morning, G.S. began crying hysterically and went to the bathroom. G.S. initially did not respond to her mother's questions asking if anyone had touched her. She ultimately told her mother, however, about the encounter with Sherrod.
A short time later, G.S.'s mother and her boyfriend confronted Sherrod and Kelly about the allegations. According to G.S.'s mother, Sherrod claimed that all he had done was "rub her back." Kelly looked at Sherrod and asked him "why he always thinks he has to rub everybody's back." When G.S.'s mother asked Sherrod why he had told G.S. not to tell anyone, Sherrod "just said he didn't think it was appropriate. Some people might think it would be inappropriate for him to rub other people's backs."
The jury was instructed to find whether Sherrod had performed an overt act towards the commission of aggravated indecent liberties with a child but "failed to complete the commission of the crime." The elements of aggravated indecent liberties with a child were stated as touching or fondling G.S. "in a lewd manner, with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either [G.S.] or [Sherrod] or both," and that "at the time of the act [G.S.] was a child under the age of 14." Sherrod did not object to these instructions, request any instructions, or submit proposed instructions. The jury returned a guilty verdict, and Sherrod appeals.
Prosecutorial Misconduct
Sherrod alleges two kinds of prosecutorial misconduct. First, he claims the prosecutor's questioning of G.S. regarding her understanding of the duties imposed while testifying under oath constituted impermissible bolstering of her credibility. Second, he contends the prosecutor's questions to G.S. about her thoughts or feelings during the encounter with Sherrod were designed to inflame the passions of the jury.
In reviewing a prosecutorial misconduct claim we employ a two-step analysis without regard to the existence of an objection below. The first step asks whether the "complained-of conduct was outside the considerable latitude given a prosecutor in discussing the evidence." State v. Albright, 283 Kan. 418, 428, 153 P.3d 497 (2007). The second step asks "whether the remarks constituted plain error, that is, whether the statements prejudiced the defendant and denied him or her a fair trial." 283 Kan. at 428.
The court considers three factors in determining whether there was plain error: (1) whether the misconduct was gross and flagrant; (2) whether the misconduct demonstrated ill will by the prosecutor; and (3) whether the evidence was of such a direct and overwhelming nature that it would have had little weight in the jurors' minds. No single factor is controlling. The third factor may not override the other two unless the harmless error tests of both K.S.A. 60-261 and Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 17 L. Ed. 2d 705, 87 S. Ct. 824, reh. denied 386 U.S. 987 (1967), have been satisfied. Albright, 283 Kan. at 428.
First, with regard to Sherrod's bolstering of credibility claim, a witness must understand the duty to tell the truth. See K.S.A. 60-417. It is appropriate to lay a foundation for a child's understanding of this duty by asking the child questions such as those posed in this case. See State v. DeLespine, 201 Kan. 348, 351, 440 P.2d 572 (1968).
Sherrod nevertheless asserts that it is "inconceivable" such questions were necessary. We disagree. Not only was G.S. a 13-year-old complaining witness in a sex abuse case, the trial transcript indicates she testified with difficulty. G.S. was repeatedly asked to speak up, she failed to respond to questioning, and the trial judge once found it necessary to direct her to answer.
It was, therefore, not impermissible for the prosecutor initially to question
G.S. about her duties as a witness and then to reexamine her understanding when she did not respond to a question. Although the objected-to question was leading, it was not bolstering. In State v. Elnicki, 279 Kan. 47, 60, 105 P.3d 1222 (2005), for example, a prosecutor improperly told a jury, "'[Y]ou know [the victim] was telling you the truth.'" Here, in contrast, the questions all focused on G.S.'s own understanding of her testimonial duties.
Moreover, assuming the questions were improper, there was no plain error. The questions were brief and to the point. The prosecutor did not mention G.S.'s duty to tell the truth in closing arguments, instead telling the jury, "It's your job to determine the credibility of the witnesses." The district court also instructed the jurors "to determine the weight and credit to be given the testimony of each witness." Jurors are presumed to follow the instructions from the court. State v. Daniels, 278 Kan. 53, 72, 91 P.3d 1147, cert. denied 543 U.S. 982 (2004). We find nothing gross or flagrant here, nor any prosecutorial ill will.
We next address Sherrod's claim that the prosecutor's questions concerning G.S.'s thoughts or feelings were improper. Sherrod argues: "The sole purpose of the State . . . was to make the jur[ors] sympathize with the victim and to inflame their passions against [him]." Sherrod infers this intent from an asserted lack of relevance to the "thoughts and feelings" testimony, a point to which the State had no chance to respond to below because Sherrod never objected to the questions.
On appeal, the State counters the testimony was relevant "to show . . . [G.S.] was not . . . over-reacting to what was just a back rub." Sherrod did not testify at trial, but G.S.'s mother recalled that when she confronted Sherrod after the incident, he claimed, "'[A]ll I did was rub her back.'" Yet, both G.S. and her mother testified to G.S.'s hysterical reaction later in the day.
The testimony regarding G.S.'s contemporaneous thoughts and feelings provided the jury with context to understand the occurrence. It confirmed the escalating nature of the encounter, and it helped to explain G.S.'s reaction to Sherrod's touching. As a result, the evidence had some tendency in reason to prove Sherrod had done more than he claimed when confronted by G.S.'s mother. See K.S.A. 60-401(b) (relevant evidence). Finally, assuming there was prosecutorial misconduct, Sherrod has wholly failed to prove the requisites for plain error.
We find Sherrod's two claims of prosecutorial misconduct are without merit.
Sufficiency of the Evidence
Sherrod contests the sufficiency of the evidence. He argues that "if the jury believed" the facts as alleged by G.S., those facts "equate to the completed crime of aggravated indecent liberties" with a child. According to Sherrod, therefore, the "State did not prove a critical element of the crime of attempted aggravated indecent liberties, specifically that [he] failed to complete the crime."
Aggravated indecent liberties with a child is defined in relevant part as: "Any lewd fondling or touching of the person of either the child or the offender, done or submitted to with the intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desires of either the child, or the offender, or both." K.S.A. 21-3504(a)(3)(A). "An attempt is any overt act towards the perpetration of a crime done by a person who intends to commit such crime but fails in the perpetration thereof or is prevented or intercepted in executing such crime." K.S.A. 21-3301. "When the sufficiency of the evidence is reviewed in a criminal case, this court must consider all of the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to the prosecution, and determine whether [we are convinced] a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. [Citation omitted.]" State v. Parker, 282 Kan. 584, 597, 147 P.3d 115 (2006).
We first note Sherrod's concession on appeal that he never raised this particular basis for insufficiency before the district court. If Sherrod believed the State's evidence established the greater crime of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and not the lesser included crime of attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child, he had numerous opportunities to object below. See K.S.A. 21-3107(2)(b) (an attempt is a lesser included crime). Sherrod did not move to dismiss the charge. See K.S.A. 22-3208(4). He did not defend on this basis at the preliminary hearing. See K.S.A. 22-2902. Sherrod did not object to the attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child instruction. See K.S.A. 22-3414(3). Finally, he did not seek a new trial on this particular ground. See K.S.A. 22-3501(1).
Sherrod did move for a judgment of acquittal, but only on the basis that the facts alleged by the State to prove the overt act did not occur. See K.S.A. 22-3419(1). This argument is different from Sherrod's claim on appeal that those facts constituted more than overt acts and, instead, constituted the completed crime. Quite simply, we believe Sherrod has raised a new issue on appeal. As a general rule, issues not raised before the district court may not be raised on appeal. See State v. Shopteese, 283 Kan. 331, 339, 153 P.3d 1208 (2007).
As to the merits, Sherrod does not show error. At oral argument, Sherrod's counsel contended the crime of aggravated indecent liberties with a child was completed when Sherrod first touched G.S.'s legs. In his brief, however, Sherrod relies on G.S.'s testimony that he "rubbed her legs, rubbed her stomach, intentionally brushed up against her bra . . . [and] put his hand down her underwear and touched her pubic hair."
The State counters that
"[d]uring the massage the defendant was careful to not touch her breast area or her buttocks or the inside of her thighs. However, when he started to put his hand inside her underwear it becomes clear what his intent was. In this case the child told him to stop when he put his hand in her underwear and he did, which is why the State charged it as Attempted Aggravated Indecent Liberties."
Sherrod essentially invites us to find as a matter of law that the crime was completed at some point before G.S. told him to stop. The aggravated indecent liberties with a child statute, however, does not specify any particular touching which, if committed, establishes a completed crime. In fact, Kansas case law is replete with a variety of indecent touchings perpetrated upon children which resulted in convictions for aggravated indecent liberties with a child. See State v. Kessler, 276 Kan. 202, 214-15, 73 P.3d 761 (2003) (touching of penis and buttocks); State v. Sampsel, 268 Kan. 264, 267-68, 997 P.2d 664 (2000) (sexual intercourse); State v. Ippert, 268 Kan. 254, 255-56, 259-60, 995 P.2d 858 (2000) (touching in vaginal area with finger and penis); State v. Lewis, 33 Kan. App. 2d 634, 636-38, 656-57, 111 P.3d 636, rev. denied 277 Kan. 924 (2003) (rubbing vaginal area).
Under the facts of this case, the jury could have reasonably viewed the touching of G.S. as an overt act toward the commission of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. In this regard, it is important to remember: "The jury determines the existence of an overt act. There is no definitive rule concerning what constitutes an overt act; each case depends on the inferences a jury may reasonably draw from the facts." State v. Zimmerman, 251 Kan. 54, Syl. ¶ 6, 833 P.2d 925 (1992).
For example, the jury may have considered Sherrod's rubbing of G.S.'s back, legs, and stomach to be "mere preparation made by the accused," which prefaced his actual overt act towards touching G.S.'s genitalia, i.e., reaching below her underwear. State v. Stevens, 285 Kan. 307, Syl. ¶ 5, 172 P.3d 570 (2007). Then again, the jury may have considered Sherrod's admission to rubbing G.S.'s back as beyond preparation and constituting an overt act towards touching her genitalia. Regardless, our task in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence is not to substitute our judgment for that of the jury. See State v. Henderson, 284 Kan 267, 297-98, 160 P.3d 776 (2007).
A reasonable factfinder could conclude from Sherrod's escalating actions that he intended more–in particular, to actually touch G.S.'s genitalia. Such a factfinder could also conclude that Sherrod's intent was thwarted when, as the prosecutor told the jury, G.S. summoned "the courage to say stop" and Sherrod complied. Considering the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, we hold a rational factfinder could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that Sherrod was guilty of attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child.


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SOURCE: Taylor, Myron. "Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Irony of History." Shakespeare Quarterly 24, no. 3 (summer 1973): 301-08.
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Seven weeks after arriving at Singapore, the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) left Changi Naval Base June 11 to begin a series of regional exercises with the navies of friendly nations. The Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercises take place annually around southeast Asia, but the Freedom's participation is expected to be one of the most-watched events in the history of the maneuvers.
"The opportunity to work side-by-side and interact with regional navies in exercises like CARAT is in large part why Freedom was deployed to Southeast Asia," Rear Adm. Tom Carney, commander of Task Force 73 and U.S. naval forces for CARAT, said before the ship shoved off from Changi.
Although the ship has operated in the Caribbean and western Pacific Ocean since entering service in late 2008, the much-ballyhooed deployment to the Far East is putting the sometimes-troubled Freedom under a spotlight like no other 3,000-ton small combatant has had to endure.
While at Singapore in May, the ship took part in the International Maritime Defence Exhibition (IMDEX) and the Singapore Navy's Western Pacific Multilateral Sea Exercise (WMSX), where interest in the ship was very high. The intense media scrutiny was expected, and will likely continue through the cruise, expected to last through the year.
Commanding officer Cmdr. Timothy Wilke, his 50-sailor Gold Crew and the surface warfare and aviation detachments aboard have become used to visitors coming aboard, from high-ranking U.S. and foreign officials to more than 5,000 people who toured the ship over a Singapore open house weekend in mid-May.
Since arriving in Singapore on April 18, the list of distinguished visitors to tread the ship's decks is impressive, and includes U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus; Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations; Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of U.S. Pacific Command; Vice Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. The numerous foreign military and government visitors include Singapore defense minister Ng Eng Hen, and Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of staff of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The CARAT exercises already are underway. The Indonesian phase was completed in May, and exercises in Thailand are winding up. Other U.S. ships taking part in the CARAT exercises include the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), amphibious ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), salvage vessel USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) with Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, and the supply ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11). The Freedom is headed for Malaysia to begin her participation. Other navies taking part in CARAT include Bangladesh,Brunei,Cambodia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste.
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There have been several noteworthy developments in the drug space recently, which will likely have a material impact on the companies in this sector and the markets they serve. Companies mentioned in this review include Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY), Merck & Co. (MRK - Free Merck Stock Report), Pfizer Inc. (PFE - Free Pfizer Stock Report), Actavis plc. (ACT), and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX).
Earnings Season
With several members of "Large Pharma" scheduled to release fourth-quarter and full-year results in the coming weeks, investors ought to be honed in on the impacts of recent patent losses, emerging generic competition, pipeline activity, and integration progress for the companies that recently completed acquisitions. Some noteworthy upcoming release dates include: Bristol-Myers Squibb (January 24th), Pfizer Inc. (January 28th), Eli Lilly & Co. (January 30th), and Merck & Co. (February 5th).
Actavis is Poised for a Strong Finish
On January 14th, Actavis announced that its adjusted earnings for the fourth quarter will be better than it previously expected. Back in October, management had guided for fourth-quarter adjusted earnings to be between $2.95 and $3.05 a share, but now says its share net will be above the high end of that range. Although no further specifics were given, shares of Actavis stock rose 3% in price on the news. The company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full-year results on February 20th.
FDA Votes to Approve Merck's Blood Thinner
On January 15th, The Food and Drug Administration's panel of cardiology experts voted in favor of approving the drug Vorapaxar to help prevent blood clots in patients with a history of heart attacks. While this is positive news for Merck, it came as somewhat of a surprise on Wall Street as many analysts had expected the drugmaker to shut the program down after studies showed that Vorapaxar significantly increased the risk of internal bleeding. Before these risks came to light back in 2011, Merck had touted the drug as a potential blockbuster medication, but since has conceded its diminished prospects and is seeking FDA approval for a much narrower group of patients, mainly those who have had a recent heart attack, but have not had a stroke or internal bleeding. The company now views Vorapaxar as an add-on therapy to be used with other common blood thinners, such as aspirin. Investors should note that the FDA is not bound by the panel's recommendation, but takes its advice into consideration when reviewing investigational medications such as these. If approved, Merck plans to market the drug under the brand name Zontivity.
Valeant Receives Antitrust Clearance for Solta Acquisition
On January 15th, Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International announced the January 14th expiration of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 with respect to the previously announced tender offer by its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Sapphire Subsidiary, for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Solta Medical at a price of $2.92 a share. The expiration of the HSR waiting period satisfies one of the conditions to consummate the tender offer.
Valeant's agreement to purchase Solta was first announced on December 16th and is valued at roughly $250 million (a 40% premium at the time of the announcement).The transaction is scheduled to close sometime in the first quarter of 2014, at which time management expects it will be immediately accretive to cash earnings per share. Solta sells energy-based medical device systems for aesthetic applications that generated revenue of approximately $145 million in 2012.At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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MANCHESTER - Police are seeking the public's help in locating a city man who has been missing since Sunday morning.
Kody Sharp, 22, was last seen about 12:30 a.m. Sunday outside a Riverdale Road address.
Sharp, who is 6-foot-1 and weighs 190 pounds, has blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing black jeans and a blue polo shortsleeve shirt with a longsleeve shirt underneath.
Police said an extensive group of family and friends has been contacted and no one has reported any contact with Sharp since early Sunday morning.
There is concern that Sharp may be suicidal and in need of medical assistance.
Members of the New Hampshire State Police and the Manchester Fire Department assisted the Manchester Police Department in a search of the Riverdale Avenue area, which included steep, wooded embankments along the Merrimack River. No signs of Sharp were found. The fire department launched boats in the Merrimack River behind the stadium earlier today.
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Wolfeboro father and son receive promotionsBy LARISSA MULKERN
Union Leader Correspondent
January 23. 2013 7:29PM
WOLFEBORO - December was a month of decorations, and not just of the holiday variety, for Dean Rondeau and his son, Derek.
Local residents know Dean Rondeau, 49, as the second-in-command with the Wolfeboro Police Department. But when he's not policing the community, he's training troops in military intelligence operations as a newly promoted colonel with the U.S. Army Reserve.
Last month, Col. Rondeau was honored to conduct the ceremony in which he promoted his Derek, 26, to the rank of captain in the U.S. Army.
Both Rondeaus are graduates from Norwich University, a military college in Vermont, and both have served in Afghanistan.
Derek Rondeau was promoted to captain on Dec. 14 in front of his battalion, 2nd BN 87th Infantry at Fort Drum, N.Y. He returned home from Afghanistan in May after serving 14 months in theater as an infantry platoon leader, infantry company executive officer and infantry company commander.
While there, he earned a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantryman's Badge "for engaging the enemies of the United States in close combat" while in Kandahar Province. One of those combat scenarios included a firefight with Taliban troops in which he led his troops to rush an enemy position.
"He called me afterwards and said, 'It was pretty dicey out there,'" Col. Rondeau said of his son, who resides at Fort Drum with his wife, Stephanie.
Another combat experience involved fighting the enemy through a rocky mountain pass, where Capt. Rondeau manned a 50-caliber machine gun mounted on a Humvee and shot at enemy troops.
Does Dad worry?
"There wasn't a day go by I didn't think about what my son was going through," Col. Rondeau said, adding that since he was privy to intelligence reports, he knew what the enemy was up to.
"At the same time, I took great comfort knowing he was extremely well-trained," the elder Rondeau said. "He graduated the top of his class, and Norwich University has great military training."
Father and son also communicated by phone, with dad providing additional advice on operations.
For instance, Dean told Derek how to prepare his troops for a middle-of-the-night raid, when the enemy is most fatigued and vulnerable.
In addition to administering his son's promotion, Col. Rondeau was honored with three awards at a separate ceremony on Dec. 7.
The first was a Meritorious Service Medal for his work as a battalion commander training enlisted men in military intelligence and officers in various disciplines. The second was an Army Commendation Medal for intelligence operations from 2009-2010. The third was the Knowlton Award for Excellence in Military Intelligence.
Dean Rondeau has served with the Wolfeboro Police Department since 1996 and currently holds the rank of lieutenant.


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Antec Lanboy Air Review
Antec has always been one of those manufacturers that just about everyone with even only a little experience in the world of computers has heard of. For almost 25 years, Antec has been developing and producing top quality cases, power supplies and other PC accessories and their quality has not decreased over the years. I have been an Antec fan since the early days of my own computer enthusiasm, and have been a regular user of their products. Antec has always had a large fan base for their computer cases as they always have great airflow, good looks, innovative features, and overall intelligent design.
The looks of someone's rig can be very important. To those who it isn't, typically you'll find their high end gaming rig in a $40 cheapo case, or better yet, strewn across their desk in no case at all. As we know, there is quite a market for the folks who care heavily for looks. Some of these products are low-end, flashy mid tower cases that have, for example "neat dragon design in the window and comes with two free 80mm red LED fans". On the opposite end, some people are okay with spending hundreds of dollars on the case of their choice that does everything that they could ever want, and has superb looks.
Antec has something for those who want just about everything, but not to spend hundreds of dollars. This offering is the Antec Lanboy Air. It is a fully customizable, nearly 100% modular mid tower case that can be configured in hundreds of different ways. I will go into a mass of detail about these customizations on the upcoming pages, so stay tuned. The Antec Lanboy Air is an open frame, mesh construction, mid tower computer case that is quite portable and looks damn good, just like the legend that the name of the Antec Lanboy implies. I am ecstatic to have my hands on this case. I remember seeing the unveil video from the CES2010 coverage, and have had my fingers crossed the entire year hoping to get my hands on it one day. Alas, that day has come, and it is time to start checking it out.
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The front of the box for the Lanboy Air has a fully exploded view of the case, showing the sheer modularity that this product offers. Literally every component can be stripped from the frame and be rearranged into different positions, potentially offering more convenience to the user over another position. I did not fully realize this by reading about it before launch, and I must say this picture is impressive. The right side of the case shows a picture of the Lanboy Air fully assembled, which may be one of the few pictures like it throughout this review! By now, I believe I have figured out I have the blue model as pictured all over the box. The rear of the box has nine icons showing certain features of the case with brief explanations in several different languages that describe each of these features. Each picture is bordered in either red, yellow, or blue, which are the three colors in which the Antec Lanboy Air is available. The left side of the case has a similar picture to that as the one on the right side of the case, but it has many red and blue arrows entering and exiting the case. Though they seem to be arranged randomly, the concept is there. There are many ways to configure the fans and cooling arrangements with the Lanboy Air, as nothing stands between the user and their preference but a few screws and a few minutes.
Like 99.999% of every other case out there, it is protected inside the exterior box by being the meat of the sandwich between two soft Styrofoam blocks and wrapped in plastic. This prevents it from being damaged from impacts, and the plastic wrap helps it stay scratch-free and clean during handling and packaging. On top of the case inside the box is the user's manual and a card with the link to Antec's survey page. I typically picture the case with all of the included accessories and hardware, but each require a little more explanation than usual so I will explore those later.
With the Lanboy Air out of the box, my anticipation for what this case has to offer is growing the more I look at it, so let's move on.


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NEWARK, N.J. -- French, Russian, Swedish.
While the first two sound like salad dressings, they're actually languages that you can hear being spoken on an NHL rink nightly.
But the language doesn't matter, does it?
That's what Simon Gagne was wondering on Wednesday, as reporters pestered him about the nickname of his new line - with fellow Francophones Sean Couturier and Danny Briere - as the "French Connection II." It did not matter that most in the Flyers' locker room couldn't name the original members of Buffalo's famed line of the same name, but Gagne laughed anyway.
(Or, that the real "French Connection" was a heroin smuggling scheme from France to Turkey to the United States in the 1970's. But that's a topic for another day.)
"Hopefully having two French guys on the same line will help," Gagne said. "I have no clue. I don't think (speaking French) changes much. The only thing it could change is if you're on a faceoff in the offensive or defensive zone and you want to switch something at the last second - and you don't have a french guy on the other team - you could speak French and they have no clue what you're talking about.
"After that, you know, it doesn't matter if you're French, Russian, or Swedish. You just need to find a way to play good today. I guess it's just having that in coming that in common that makes it a little bit easier."
Gagne (2 goals), Couturier (2) and Briere (5) have all struggled to score this season, so maybe Peter Laviolette throwing the three of them together will produce success.
"It's just one switch of two players, just to maybe try and find something offensively," Laviolette said. "Or a different look for those two guys."
The Flyers know this home-and-home series with the Devils could make or break their season. Being swept would likely mean the Flyers would need to win 17 of 19 to guarantee a playoff position.
"You don't want to look too much ahead," Gagne said. "But you have a chance to beat a team that is ahead of you - not too far ahead - so that could be really big for us.
"If you do well in those two games, you could be in really good shape after that. It could be a huge difference.They're a great chance for us to get back to where we want. We'll try and jump on it tonight."
ODDS AND ENDS: As Ilya Bryzgalov noted after Tuesday's practice, playoff hopes for the Flyers will look a lot bleaker if they're not able to at least split this double dip with the Devils.
In Las Vegas, the Flyers' odds would seem to suggest that they're on a slippery slope.
According to Bovada.lv:
Only 12 teams have longer odds to win the Stanley Cup than the Flyers (40-1). They are an 18-1 shot to win the Eastern Conference.
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Pittsburgh Penguins 2/7
New York Rangers 11/2
New Jersey Devils 13/2
Philadelphia Flyers 15/1
New York Islanders 66/1
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Zeno Clash is an action game with a strong focus on melee combat set in a punk fantasy world. Featuring up close and brutal combat in a first-person perspective, the game is played in battle scenarios where the adversaries are always dangerously close and the use of exotic firearms and artifacts is a commodity. The new close combat mechanics are a deviation from traditional shooting in the FPS genre that will feel fresh for players.
The first chapter is set in a fantastic & chaotic world where the main character has been exiled from his clan and hunted down by his own brothers. A desperate journey past the forbidden desert will bring him to the end of the world.
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As part of the Lewiston Discovery Series, the Lewiston Council on the Arts will present the "Art of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" at 7 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the Historic Lewiston Opera Hall, 732 Center St.
Bruce Aiken, president of An Irish Secret Society of Buffalo, has written more than 20 papers on Sherlock Holmes and will delight mystery lovers and Holmes fans alike. Aiken will explore little known connections between Holmes, his creator Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Niagara Frontier.
Light refreshments will be available for purchase. No advance registration is required. Admission is $5 for guests and free to LCA members.