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Former NFL star Chad Johnson was in a Florida court for a hearing Monday where his probation was reduced for finishing anger management courses related to his arrest on a domestic battery charge last year.
Johnson will be placed on administrative probation and won't have to show up to court again, essentially ending his probation term, said his attorney, Adam Swickle.
After the hearing in a Broward County court, Johnson met with reporters, telling them he was ready to "live life to the fullest as I did before," and attempt a return to the NFL.
Chad Johnson Pleads No Contest, Gets Probation
"It's unfortunate that I made a terrible mistake, I've apologized as many times as I could," Johnson said. "Hopefully right now my focus is to get back in the league, to play the game that I love so dearly, that I worked so dearly since I was a baby to achieve and make that a dream of mine. To have that taken away from you is a horrible blow."
The 34-year-old wide receiver was arrested in August for allegedly head-butting his then-wife, reality TV star Evelyn Lozada, in their Davie, Fla. home.
Johnson Cops Plea Deal, Avoids Jail in Battery Case
According to Davie police, Lozada found a receipt for condoms and confronted Johnson about it at dinner. The argument continued during their drive home, and when they arrived at their driveway, he allegedly head-butted her.
Johnson was cut by the Miami Dolphins the next day, and Lozada later filed for divorce.
The confrontation came barely a month after Johnson married Lozada, who is on the reality TV show "Basketball Wives." Johnson had been battling for a spot on the Dolphins after a disappointing season with the New England Patriots in 2011.
Johnson and Lozada Divorce Finalized
"I think I've learned my lesson, I've become a better man with the classes that I've attended, the people that I've met, throughout this journey," Johnson said Monday. "I think that storm is over now and the sun is somewhat peeking back out and I'm just looking forward to what's to come."


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DA: Man posed as psychologist, sold pot, too
A phony psychologist who sold marijuana to undercover investigators posing as his patients has been arrested along with his pot supplier, an Oyster Bay town employee, Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said Thursday.
Adam M. Goldrusso, 45, of Huntington, who also went by the names Adam M. Russo, Adam M. Gold and Adam M. Gold-Russo, had been treating patients for "years" though he is not a licensed psychologist, Spota said.
Goldrusso told investigators he treated 150 to 200 patients, billing each an average of $150 an hour, Spota said.
"They thought they were receiving help for their hard-earned money," Spota said. "In reality, he was nothing but a fraud."
Goldrusso and his accused drug supplier, Michael Scappa-ticci, 44, of Melville, were arrested March 18. Each was charged with criminal sale of marijuana in the second degree. Goldrusso also was charged with unauthorized practice of a profession. Both entered not-guilty pleas. Goldrusso was released on his own recognizance; Scappaticci posted a $10,000 bond.
Jason Russo, a Bay Shore attorney, said his client and brother, Adam Goldrusso, will not discuss the matter.
"At this point, all I can tell you is that I am in the process of resolving the case with the DA's office," Russo said.
Scappaticci, who has worked for 22 years for the town of Oyster Bay, most recently in the highway department, could not be reached Thursday for comment.
The matter came to light when a handful of Goldrusso's former patients in 2012 filed complaints to the state. In February, Spota said his office became involved when a male investigator posing as a New York City correction officer told Goldrusso he needed a psychological evaluation before he could return to work. Goldrusso charged the undercover investigator $350 for the session, authorities said.
The undercover investigator and a female colleague, who posed as his wife, pretended they were having marital problems and sought help from Goldrusso, who charged the couple $150 an hour. The couple, former narcotics detectives, saw Goldrusso six times and during one session smelled marijuana in his home office. The couple asked if he could supply them and Goldrusso obliged, Spota said.
Authorities said Goldrusso twice sold the undercover investigators drugs, once charging them $1,600 for a quarter-pound of marijuana. The second time he charged them $6,000 for 1 1/4 pounds, but cheated and only delivered a pound, Spota said.
Both times, Spota said, the drugs were delivered to Goldrusso by Scappaticci.
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto said Scappaticci is working and his employment status depends on the outcome of the criminal case.
So far, Spota's office has identified about half a dozen of Goldrusso's former clients. Spota asked that anyone who was treated by Goldrusso call his agency at 631-853-5428.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah has been caring for sick bald eagles since the beginning of the month, each of them succumbing to a mystery illness.
Something is killing bald eagles in Utah, and wildlife officials are scrambling to diagnose the mysterious illness before it spreads.
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Every Tuesday morning during football season, a few minutes before the clock in his living room hits 10 a.m., Jack Harbaugh will step out his front door and soak up the cool air as he stands on his porch in Mequon, Wisc. Try as he might, he cannot resist fidgeting. Every few minutes, he'll glance up the street, eager to spot the FedEx truck the moment it materializes.
Harbaugh turned 72 this year. He worked more than 40 years as a football coach, a job he treated more like a calling than a profession, but he has spent the past few autumns trying to relax and enjoy his retirement. The game, though, is in his blood. Certain rituals feel as important as going to mass. So when he spots the white FedEx truck in the distance, he cannot resist a smile. The best part of his week is about to begin.
He and the driver, Tim, have been on a first-name basis for several years, and by now the driver knows exactly what Harbaugh is looking for.
Barring a delivery delay, Tim will hand Harbaugh two packages.
One will contain the coach's film from the Baltimore Ravens' most recent game.
The other contains the coach's film from the San Francisco 49ers' most recent game.
Jack Harbaugh can hardly wait to descend into his basement, and click on his television — the same one he's had since 1987 (he has no plans of getting a new one.) He'll spend the next few hours blissfully taking notes.
His two sons, John and Jim — who will make NFL history on Thursday when they become the first brothers to face one another as head coaches — are always curious to hear what he thinks. Jack Harbaugh will never volunteer his thoughts unless his boys ask him first, but they almost never forget to ask. It's become an important part of their week as well. Because even at 72, he'll see something they might have missed, or propose something they may not have considered.
It might be small, but both Harbaugh boys know that no detail is truly minor in the eyes of a good football coach. That philosophy is one of the reasons they've thrived at the highest level of coaching.
"Jim and I say it all the time, but he's the best coach we've ever been around," John Harbaugh said. "Now, we're biased maybe, but I've seen the guy coach. ... I've been around a lot of coaches over the years. There's never been a better coach. I've never been around a better coach, a better teacher, than Jack Harbaugh. I can tell you that."
For all they've accomplished, and for all the wisdom they've acquired over the years, the one football mind 49-year-old John Harbaugh and 47-year-old Jim Harbaugh cherish the most still belongs to their dad.
Like father, like sons
If you really want to understand how two Ohio boys with granite chins who once shared a bedroom grew up to become two of the NFL's best head coaches, all you have to do take a closer look at the man they most admire.
"The one thing that strikes me about my dad, even to this day, he's a man without guile," John Harbaugh said. "He's as honest and straightforward a person as I've ever met in my entire life. If there's one thing that Jim and I have both taken from that, and there's one thing that I'd like to be on my gravestone, it would be that. You know where he's coming from."
If you think this Thanksgiving clash between the Ravens and 49ers will be emotionally difficult to handle for John and Jim, imagine then what it will be like for Jack, as well as his wife Jackie.
"My original thought, when the schedule first came out, was I wanted get as many time zones away from the game as I could without disappearing into the ocean," Jack Harbaugh said.
That wouldn't fly, however, with his sons. So after some playful negotiations, a compromise was reached. There will be a brief gathering on the field before the game, a picture taken to hang on the mantle or tuck in a scrapbook, and then Jack and Jackie Harbaugh will quietly slip away from the field and into a private room at M&T; Bank Stadium to watch the game.
"I think if we were sitting in the stands and something happened, you react in a certain way and it becomes a distraction," Jack Harbaugh said. "It would take away from the game. It's going to be better if we can get somewhere and watch the game and not have to worry about being a distraction."
"He knows if cameras caught him cheering, he'd be getting a call the next day from one of us saying 'I always knew you loved him more!'" John Harbaugh said.
But the Harbaughs don't have to be in the stadium for their presence to be felt. So much of what the Ravens and the 49ers do today mirrors what Jack Harbaugh did when he was coaching college football, whether it was in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, California or Kentucky. John and Jim both like to say they get their passion and their intensity from their mother, but their sense of purpose and unwavering focus can be traced back to Jack.
"What sticks out to me is the way he taught us to have a deep abiding respect for the game of football," Jim Harbaugh said. "To respect the people that came before. To respect the people who are participating now. Just how important it was to have respect."
The lessons began at an early age. When Jack Harbaugh was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa in the early 1970s, one of his greatest pleasures was driving his sons to St. Patrick's Elementary School each day before he'd go into work. The boys — separated in age by just 15 months — would ride up front with him, Jim sitting in the middle seat and John by the window. Each day, he'd repeat the same message as he pulled up in front of the school. His voice would build to a crescendo as he said it.
Grab your lunches, men, and let's attack this day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind! And by the way, don't take any wooden nickles today.
"The wooden nickles thing came from my dad, and he never explained it," Jack Harbaugh said. "I have some thoughts about what it means, but I don't think I ever explained it to them either. You look back over those things now and it kind of brings a smile to your face. Because there wasn't any plan, and there wasn't any real message. It was just a salutation where you try to convince your kids to bring a positive attitude to the day."
The three years Jack Harbaugh spent coaching at Iowa were not exactly memorable for what happened on the field. The Hawkeyes went 4-28-1 under Frank Lauterbur. But in a way, a decision Lauterbur made still resonates in the lives of the Harbaughs today. The Iowa coach did not want young kids hanging around at Hawkeyes practices. He felt they were a distraction to the players, who had quickly grown fond of dunking John and Jim in cold tubs, taping them to goal posts and stuffing them in lockers. Lauterbur told Harbaugh his sons, who often rode their bikes to practice after school, could not return.
"I remember we were watching a high school football game in Cedar Rapids," Jim Harbaugh said. "We were driving home, and we were maybe three blocks from our house. Dad would always let me jump up on his lap and let me drive the car home the last three blocks. When we got in the driveway, I climbed back to the passenger side and he said, 'I want to talk to you about something. Coach Lauterbur said he doesn't want you kids coming to practice anymore. I think this means I can't work at Iowa anymore. I can't work for a man who won't let my kids come to practice.'"
Jim swelled with pride. My dad loves John and me so much, he thought, he's willing to quit a job he loves on principle. But Jim also felt conflicted. His father didn't have another job lined up. He'd be walking away from his players in the middle of the season.
"I said, 'No dad! You can't do that! You've got to coach! We've got a game this week!'" Jim Harbaugh said. "My dad was like 'Well, OK, if you insist, but you won't be able to come to practice anymore.' It was only years later that I realized he had manipulated that masterfully."
But to this day, families — especially young kids — are welcome around the football teams John and Jim run. When he was coaching at Stanford, Jim instituted family picnic nights on Mondays. On Saturdays, the Ravens players and coaches are encouraged to bring their kids to work for what's called Family Day. In fact, just this past week, Ravens tight end Kris Wilson couldn't find a babysitter for his 3-year-old daughter, so he brought her to meetings the night before Baltimore played Cincinnati. John Harbaugh wasn't upset. In fact, it actually made him happy during an otherwise stressful week. At home games, Harbaugh's own daughter, Allison, will occasionally stand next to him on the sidelines during the national anthem, and then give him a kiss just before kickoff.
"A lot of coaches would look at that as a distraction, but I think in our places of work and what we're doing, I think we should make it family friendly," John Harbaugh said. "Let the kids come around. Let the kids be a part of it. They're not as much of a distraction as you would think."
The Harbaughs, because of the unpredictable nature of Jack's profession, never lived in the same town for more than a few years while John and Jim, and their younger sister Joani, were growing up. Jack's job at Bowling Green led to the position at Iowa. That led to a spot at Michigan under Bo Schembechler, which eventually turned into a job as Stanford's defensive coordinator.
"At one time, in the 1970s, he was the college secondary coach in the country," John Harbaugh said. "He was the guy who everyone came and visited to talk about defense. He was the premier guy. He spent a lot of time with Dick LeBeau when LeBeau was the Lions coach. And Dick LeBeau taught my dad Cover 2 back when it first came out in the mid-70s. They both talk about that a lot. He was very much a cutting-edge guy."
Always rooted
It did not matter where they were living, however, when the holidays arrived. Jack Harbaugh would load his family into the car and return to Ohio, and if the boys fought like caged bears on the open road with poor Joani wedged between them, their father would resort to his lone disciplinary tactic.
"He'd reach back when he was driving and he'd thump us on the forehead with his Big 10 Championship ring," John Harbaugh said. "Either that or he'd clunk our heads together."
"John was always just a little smarter than I was," Jim Harbaugh said. "He would never sit in that back left seat right behind my dad. He was harder to reach."
Their brawls were sometimes legendary. Jackie would plead with them to stop, insist that brothers shouldn't fight like this, but they didn't listen. The nomadic existence, however, only strengthened the bond between them. Jim emerged as the superior athlete, a reality people always assumed privately bothered his older sibling, but to this day, John insists it wasn't the case.
"My senior year at Pioneer High School [in Michigan], I was going to be the starting quarterback," John Harbaugh said. "I hadn't played quarterback before, but I was a good athlete and I was going to be the starter. Jim was a sophomore. He was coming from junior high and they knew about him, but I've know Jim my whole life. I know how good he is. I knew he was going to be the starter. It took about a week. They brought him up and I said, 'He'll be the starter. I'm going to wingback.' It was a given. People said to me, 'Didn't that bother you?' Well, no because he was a legitimate quarterback. It was all he ever played. I knew he was going to be pretty good."
Their journey from there has been well documented. Jim would eventually go on to become the starting quarterback for the University of Michigan, and parlay that into a 15-year NFL career, including one season with the Ravens. John contemplated going to law school before becoming a graduate assistant under his father at Western Michigan, a decision that set him on a path toward the NFL as well. In 1989, Jack became the head coach of a Western Kentucky program that was on the verge of implosion.
To this day, both John and Jim talk about their father's 14-year stint coaching the Hilltoppers in a way that suggests nothing short of reverence. The school repeatedly looked like it might kill the program, either by vote or simple neglect. First the athletic department was forced to cut 13 scholarships. Then the program's operating budget was slashed in half, eliminating the salaries of two full-time coaches. The locker room leaked when it rained. The players had to run across train tracks to get to practice, and then they'd spend the first 10 minutes picking up rocks from the field. The school wouldn't even buy soap for the athletic department, so Jackie Harbaugh went out and bought some herself so the players could shower after practices and games.
"What we would do is we'd cut them in half so they'd go a little bit longer," Jack Harbaugh said. "At the end of the day, we'd have our managers go through and collect them so the players didn't take them home with them so we'd have them the next day. There were some tough times. We were really on the ropes. The president had decided to drop the program. He had the votes. He had the five votes he needed to put the program away."
Jack Harbaugh's sons refused to watch their father struggle from afar. John, who was coaching at the University of Cincinnati at the time, would spend hours putting together two recruiting lists: the players he was targeting to play for the Bearcats, and the players he hoped his father could sign to play at Western Kentucky. Jim, who was still playing in the NFL, took an unpaid assistant coaching position on his father's staff, which allowed him to go on recruiting visits without violating NCAA rules. John would identify 20 or 30 kids in Florida they should go after, kids with talent but academic red flags, and Jim and Jack would drive down on their own dime to convince prospects to sign. The three Harbaugh men talked on the phone constantly.
"It was truly one of the great times of my life," Jim Harbaugh said. "You really start to understand how those father and son businesses happen. The dad passes something along to his son and they work side-by-side for awhile. You're learning the trade, the secrets, and you're talking every single day."
The turn-around was slow. Half the kids struggled to stay eligible academically. But in time, Jack Harbaugh molded them into a winner. In 2002, Western Kentucky captured the Division I-AA National Championship, a feat that would have been unfathomable when he took over the program.
"That was the signature coaching experience for me," Jack Harbaugh said. "John and Jim really stepped up. Without their support and contribution in terms of recruiting and the times we spent on the telephone talking football during that championship season, that would have never been possible."
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Regardless of what happens in the Thanksgiving meeting between his two sons, this week will in some ways bring Jack Harbaugh's life almost full circle. On Friday, the day after the game, he and Jackie will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Fifty years ago, Harbaugh was a high school football coach in Cleveland, and in those days, Browns owner Art Modell provided free game tickets for local high school coaches. So the morning after the Harbaughs were married, they had breakfast at White Castle, and then spent their "honeymoon" watching the Browns play the Giants in Municipal Stadium.
"Jackie and I walked up those steps and I can remember it like it was yesterday," Jack Harbaugh said. "It was about all we could afford. I saw Mr. Modell at a game a few years ago. I told him, 'Mr. Modell, if it had not been for you, I would not have had a honeymoon.'"
After spending a few extra days in Baltimore with family, Jack Harbaugh and his wife will return to their home in Wisconsin. Eventually, a FedEx truck will swing by the house and make its regular delivery. Harbaugh's routine, however, will be slightly different this time. It will be a unique moment, alone in his basement, sitting in front of a television he's had for nearly 25 years. His voice swells with pride when he explains why.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The NCAA Frozen Four is being hosted for the first time in a Southern city. And in keeping with the theme of a non-traditional site, two first-time participants hope to make their own memories.
Union College, a 2,133-student liberal arts school from Schenectady, N.Y., and Ferris State — located in Big Rapids, Mich. — will meet in Thursday's semifinals as both try to continue their unlikely paths toward a national hockey championship.
Meanwhile, the "other" semifinal is a more familiar matchup to college hockey fans.
Boston College (31-10-1), the overall No. 1 seed and winners of 17 straight games, will take on Minnesota (28-13-1). The Eagles and Golden Gophers have combined for 43 Frozen Four appearances.
But it's not like the winner of the Boston College-Minnesota matchup will be a lock to claim the title.
"Any of the teams have a chance to win here," said Ferris State coach Bob Daniels, whose school competes at the NCAA Division II level in other sports. "That's the beauty of our sport. College hockey is definitely a unique animal when it comes to opportunities for all to be successful."
Ferris State (25-11-5) reached the Frozen Four after making only the second NCAA tournament appearance in the program's history. Union College (26-7-7), which competes at the NCAA Division III level in its other sports, is the Frozen Four's first East Coast Athletic Conference representative since 2003.
Both teams are strong defensively.
Union College features sophomore goaltender Troy Grosenick, who is second nationally in goals-against-average (1.64) and save percentage (.936). Ferris State, featuring goaltender Taylor Nelson, is tied for fifth nationally in team defense, allowing 2.17 goals per game.
"We don't really consider ourselves a small school in terms of hockey," Union College coach Rick Bennett said. "The only time we consider ourselves a smaller school is in terms of enrollment. Both teams look like they're in uncharted waters. At this stage, you tend to want to reinvent things and we're not going to do that. We're going to keep doing the things that got us here."
Boston College is accustomed to getting here. The Eagles have 10 Frozen Four appearances under Jerry York, in his 18th year coaching Boston College. They have captured four national championships, most recently winning in 2008 and 2010.
The Eagles were just 6-9-1 in late January, though, and that's when York challenged his players to strive to become something other than an average team.
"Our play raised, our work ethic raised and we became a special team," York said. "We're built upon that and gotten better and better. We've got players who want to leave a mark and leave a legacy.
"BC-Minnesota, this rivalry goes back a long, long way. It's not just the color of the uniforms that are the same. These are two teams that value hockey on their campuses and have great, great traditions. We're honored to be looking across the ice at the Gophers."
Minnesota, making its first Frozen Four appearance since 2005, had missed the NCAA tournament for three straight years and was 16-14-6 last season.
Minnesota has a relatively young team with 19 underclassmen, but it has 19 NHL draft picks. The Gophers program has won five national championships, including back-to-back titles in 2002 and 2003.
During the NCAA drought, it was especially painful for the Gophers to watch Minnesota-Duluth win last season's national title at St. Paul, Minn.
"It's not easy to get here and it's even harder to win it all at the end," Minnesota coach Don Lucia said. "The focus on the games is the same, whether you're in Tampa or Timbuktu. You're thinking about the game, the rink, your opponent. These host cities do a great job. When you get on the bus to leave the airport, you might see different palm trees instead of pine trees. It's going to be a great experience.
"But it's a business trip. You always focus on the task at hand."
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A 5-year-old girl who died two months ago at her grandmothers house in Hermosa suffered an accidental drug overdose from two medications, a medical examiner has ruled.
Kimber Michelle Brown, daughter of Mike Brown and Raelyn Anderson-Brown of Durango, had almost 2½ times the upper limit of dextromethorphan an over-the-counter drug found in cough and cold suppressants, according to a toxicology report.
The girl also had above therapeutic levels of Cetirizine, another over-the-counter drug used to treat colds or allergy symptoms, said Dr. Carol Huser, La Plata County coroner.
Combining the two depressants produced a greater toxicity than each drug would have caused alone, Huser said.
In my opinion, the combination of these drugs which were the ingredients of the over-the-counter medications with which Kimber was being treated caused her death, Huser wrote in an autopsy report released this week.
Kimber died early Feb. 12 while staying at her grandmothers house in the 31000 block of U.S. Highway 550, about 10 miles north of Durango.
Her father is an investigator with the La Plata County Sheriffs Office.
The grandmother, identified Friday by the sheriffs office as Linda Sheets, 59, the mother of Anderson-Brown, had been treating the girl for flu-like symptoms, Huser said.
It is possible the grandmother inaccurately measured the doses of medicine or that Kimber self-medicated beyond the dosage she was given, Huser said.
The medications were kept on a counter within reach of the girl, she said.
The 6th Judicial District Attorneys Office is reviewing the case to determine whether criminal charges should be filed. The investigation also is intended to answer questions for the family, said District Attorney Todd Risberg.
It is a terrible tragedy, he said. I dont see any evidence of criminal conduct, but we want to look at all the reports, and there are still some things outstanding.
The Sheriffs Office declined to release incident reports Friday, saying the investigation has not been concluded. The reports are expected to be available early next week, said Ed Phippen, investigator with the Sheriffs Office.
We are still looking at those reports and havent approved them all yet, he said.
The coroner ruled the death an accident.
I have no reason to suspect any ill intent, Huser wrote. The degree of negligence in either measuring an inappropriate dose or leaving medications within reach of a child does not, in my view, rise to the level I require for a certification of homicide.
The death should serve as a warning to parents and individuals about the dangers of over-the-counter drugs, she said.
People do not understand medication you buy off the supermarket shelf can be harmful, Huser said in an interview. Common drugs like aspirin, Tylenol and Benadryl will kill you if you take too much of them.
In the evening hours before her death, Kimber was complaining of leg pain, cramps and muscle spasticity all complications associated with drug toxicity, Huser said.
The 46-pound girl had 96 nanograms per milliliter of dextromethorphan in her blood, according to the toxicology report. The upper limit for adults is 40 ng/ml, Huser said.
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The toxicity levels undoubtedly reached higher levels than what were measured postmortem, Huser said. Toxicity levels are always lower at the time of death than the highest levels obtained, she said.
Their systems shut down gradually, usually over a period of hours, Huser said. During those hours, their bodies continue to metabolize and excrete the drug.
There is some debate among pediatricians about the benefits of giving children between the ages of 2 and 6 cough and cold medications, said Dr. Henry Farrar, who practices pediatric emergency medicine at the Arkansas Childrens Hospital.
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Little Red Riding Hood brushes claws with Beauty & The Beast in this macabre send up of fairy tale classics. In the dark yet humorous webcomic No Rest For The Wicked, there are no heroes.
The story, which Peterson started in 2003, revolves around Princess November, who brushes off an old woman in the woods and receives a curse for her trouble.
Almost driven mad from a lack of sleep, November flees from home (and a pending engagement to a strange boy) in search of the moon. On her travels, she meets Perrault (also known as Puss or Puss-in-Boots), as well as a hooded companion named Little Red.
While many people remember the tale of a sweet Little Red Riding Hood (or Little Red Cap), Little Red in Peterson's world is a bit different than imagined.
Reborn as a bad-ass with a dark past, Peterson's Little Red is haunted by her grandmother's death...and perhaps still coping with her own.
Red is a stoic character, preferring to fight, rather than speak, but seems to take great pleasure in scaring people:
Along their travels, November, Little Red, and Perrault run into a variety of story characters. They have a fun encounter with the Beast:
And a harrowing encounter with the cannibalistic witch from Hansel & Gretel:
The three also stumble across a fourth companion, a woman accused of witchcraft with a unique feature:
In this case, the townsfolk are correct about one thing:
However, this does not dissuade our heroine.
Where Peterson's story shines is her knowledge of the darker side of fairy tales. On her Extras page, Peterson includes links to lesser known stories like Bearskin (in which a man makes a deal with the devil to wear a bearskin and stop bathing for seven years), The Girl Without Hands (where a girl's parent's sell her to the devil in exchange for worldly riches), and The Buried Moon (in which the moon is captured and buried by monsters). It can be addictive diving into each of these stories and their references to theology, good and evil, and human darkness. (As a special extra, the SurLaLune site also provides a feminist perspective on many fairy tales and decodes some of the symbolism.)
The comic is ongoing, but as Peterson warns on the site, sporadically updated. Still, the archives are well worth a read.
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Mike Parker, a retired educator, directly expresses to the state Senate his concerns about public education.
Dear members of the North Carolina Senate:
I am a retired teacher, so I no longer have a personal stake in the fallout from your ill-conceived education decisions. However, I do have four adult children, and each has a spouse. Of those eight North Carolina citizens and taxpayers, four are in education: three classroom teachers and one administrator.
When I reviewed the Senate�s proposed budget, my first thought was: �These people are losing their minds.�
Then I just got angry.
The people of this state entrusted both houses of the General Assembly and the Governor�s office to the Republican Party. If the Senate�s mindless assault on teachers continues, then the GOP can be assured it will have control of the General Assembly for only two years.
First, let�s deal with some myths.
Myth 1: Anybody can do what a teacher does.
No, the vast majority of you can�t. Teaching in the real world is not Ben Stein in �Ferris Bueller�s Day Off.� No matter how much a teacher knows, a teacher must first control student behavior and then engage students � before that teacher can present a single concept.
I challenge any legislator or parent to try to step into a classroom and do a teacher�s job for one to two weeks. Notice, I did not say for a day or two. Kids respond to novelty, so they might give you a couple of days� grace.
Doing the teacher�s job is more than standing in the classroom, controlling students, engaging students, and presenting information. A teacher must prepare lesson plans � and preparing those plans demands an understanding of curriculum, objectives, and methodology. If you want to do the job, be sure to do the whole job. Oh, don�t forget about grading � tests, quizzes, essays and homework. And remember the meetings.
Myth 2: The North Carolina teachers� union stifles educational progress.
North Carolina does NOT have a teachers� union.
I was a member of the North Carolina Association of Educators for nearly all my public school teaching career. We never had union meetings, and we never called for a strike. For those of you who missed this tidbit, North Carolina is a right to work state. Besides, public employees are not allowed to strike. So when you mention the North Carolina�s teachers� union, I deduct IQ points.
The Senate�s proposed budget included these particulars:
1) No raise for teachers � and other state employees. (Over the past six years, teachers and state employees have received a 1.2 percent increase in pay � an average of 0.2 percent per year.)
2) A ludicrous offer for teachers to surrender their tenure for $500.
3) Eliminating increased pay for teachers who earn certifications at the master�s, sixth year, or doctoral level. (The net effect is to provide a disincentive to teachers to advance their education.)
4) Eliminating pay for teachers who hold National Board certification.
At one time, a teacher could increase his or her meager salary by earning NTBS certification and a master�s degree. The Senate would abolish this incentive for self-improvement. Evidently, the Senate gurus want teachers to stagnate.
In the past few years, the General Assembly has moved average teacher salaries in this state from 21st in the nation to 48th in the nation. The Senate rallying cry seems: �We aim for the bottom.�
People often justify their assaults on teachers by talking about �some teachers.� Are they too na�ve to realize they are arguing by exception � not by the rule?
Are some teachers better than others? Sure. But aren�t some lawyers, dentists, doctors, store managers, mechanics, plumbers � better than others?
Teachers understand economic realities. They have worked for six years doing more with less. They give the best they have on any given day to your kids.
Research consistently shows the single most important factor in educating children is the classroom teacher.
Please take time to read Maggie Haberny�s guest column in last Wednesday�s paper. She does not even complain of the issues I have raised. Yet, she is leaving North Carolina to teach in Denver.
Unless things change drastically, she will be only among the first who decide to step out of a North Carolina classroom and into a classroom in another state � or into a new profession.
Mike Parker is a columnist for The Free Press. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or in care of this newspaper. To read the guest column referenced above, follow this link: http://www.kinston.com/news/local/guest-column-an-open-letter-to-the-n-c-general-assembly-from-a-teacher-1.153495


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Patatas bravas with chorizo
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal342
- fat19g
- saturates7g
- carbs32g
- sugars6g
- fibre3g
- protein12g
- salt1.91g
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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- 1 onion, chopped
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- 2 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1 red chilli, chopped
- pinch cayenne pepper
- pinch smoked paprika
- 400g can chopped tomato
- 1kg new potatoes, halved or quartered
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- 250g small cooking chorizo
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Heat a little oil in a pan, fry the onion, garlic and chilli until the onion softens, add the cayenne and paprika and stir. Add the tomatoes and bring to a simmer, then cook the whole mixture down for about 20 mins until you have a thick paste. Season well and, if you prefer a smooth sauce, blitz it with a hand blender.
Meanwhile, steam the potatoes for 10 mins and put the chorizo in a frying pan to slowly cook and release some of its oil. Tip off the excess red oil and add 1 tbsp olive oil. Add the potatoes and fry everything together, turning the heat up as you go so both the potatoes and chorizo brown in patches. Tip into a bowl. Season the sauce – if it isn't hot enough add a few more pinches of cayenne. Spoon the sauce over the potatoes and chorizo to serve.


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As contract negotiations with National Grid go down to the wire, six local utilities unions are poised to strike at midnight on Saturday night, displeased about what they said is a proposal that would hike their health care contribution.
"All locals have taken a strike authorization vote,' said Brotherhood of Utility Workers Council President Dan Hurley, who said he represents 1,200 workers in six unions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island that constitute "the majority" of National Grid's electrical workers and the workers in a Northborough call center.
"National Grid is currently engaged in contract negotiations with several union locals. We are negotiating in good faith and are committed to an outcome that balances the needs of our customers and our employees. The safety and well being of our customers, the communities we serve and our employees are our first priorities and will continue to be so as negotiations continue," National Grid said in a statement.
The company serves about 1.2 million customers in Massachusetts and 842,000 in Rhode Island.
Aside from a proposed health insurance contribution increase from 20 percent to 25 percent, the union members are displeased at the staffing levels, which Hurley said were not high enough to adequately respond to storm damage.
"We've seen the consequences in New England and around the country when companies ignore items that impact public safety," Hurley said in a statement, which also claimed the company has 30 percent fewer workers on staff than in 1996. Hurley told the News Service that the fact National Grid has brought in out-of-state workers to handle cleanup and repairs after major storms is evidence that the company doesn't have enough trained workers.
Hurley, who is president of Local 369 as well, led his local workers at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant through contentious contract talks with Entergy Corp. that resulted in a lock-out after the union authorized a strike. Asked about the chances of a strike versus a last-minute contract extension or an agreement, Hurley said, "We're committed to negotiating for as long or as hard as it takes to get a deal together."
The brotherhood, which represents 1,200 workers, also complained about payroll inaccuracies that it said had resulted in a $270,000 fine from Attorney General Martha Coakley.
Last December, the Department of Public Utilities fined National Grid $24.8 million for "systematic failures" in its response to two storms in 2011, which "left local public safety officials standing by downed wires for as long as several days" and other problems.
National Grid serves the outer Boston suburbs, the South Coast, the North Shore, the Worcester area and parts of western Massachusetts.
National Grid union threatens strike this weekend
As contract negotiations with National Grid go down to the wire, six local utilities unions are poised to strike at midnight on Saturday night, displeased about what they said is a proposal that would hike their health care contribution.


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My hope during this 31 day series is to empower you to finish your own quilt tops. If "free motion" quilting scares you, then it's time to become friends with your walking foot. I want to show you that you can make beautiful quilting designs without having to send your quilt out to be long-arm machine quilted. Yes! I (a machine quilter) am encouraging you to do your own quilting!!! I'll still be here if you want me to quilt for ya though. Feel free to grab a button and post it on your blog. Don't forget to post your pictures on the Petit Design Co. Flickr group too.
A little disclaimer: All of the designs featured in the 31 days post were thought up by me on one afternoon. I sat down with a pen and paper and drew out over 40 designs. As is often the case in quilting, the odds are that someone else has also had the same idea, but arrived at it or done differently. After I write the weekly posts, I sit down and search Flickr, Pinterest, and Google to see if i can find any quilts using similar designs/concepts that I have shared. The quilts I find are featured on the Sunday Inspiration posts and link back to their original source. I did not browse the internet and steal designs/ideas from others to pass off as my own.
~ Norma
Day 1: The Walking Foot
Day 2: DIY Quilt Guide for Walking Foot
Day 3: Basting a Quilt
Day 4: The Humble Line
Day 5: Starting, Stopping, and Rounding Corners
Day 6: Grids
Day 7: Sunday Inspiration
Day 8: Circles
Day 9: Waves
Day 10: Continuous Curve
Day 11: Curved Crosshatch
Day 12: Orange Peel or Pumpkin Seed
Day 13: Water
Day 14: Sunday Inspiration
Day 15: Broken Glass
Day 16: Zig Zag
Day 17: Argyle
Day 18: Argyle: Mix It Up
Day 19: Double Argyle
Day 20: Stairs
Day 21: Sunday Inspiration
Day 22: Topography
Day 23: Ribbons
Day 24: Giant Clamshell
Day 25: Geometric Meander
Day 26: Quilted Fabric
Day 27: Borders
Day 28: Sunday Inspiration
Day 29: Quilt as You Go
Day 30: Binding: part 1
Day 31: Binding: part 2
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Finding Asian celebs in Hollywood is like playing a game of Where's Waldo? And these lovely ladies were the only ones I could find ...
Actress Li Bingbing, star of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and the upcoming Resident Evil: Retribution, arrived on the red carpet in a white Georges Chakra Couture gown
Actress Zhang Ziyi wasn't invited to the Oscars but she was able to attend Elton John's Oscar viewing party wearing this fab cobalt blue gown by Elie Saab
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I'm currently reading a nice introductory book (german, could be translated as "Physics with a pencil"). The author works a lot with differential calculus and antiderivatives (integrals will be used later). I'm stuck at a kind of mathematical question inmidst the easier physics:
So he takes the equation of force:
$m \ddot{\vec{r}} = \vec{F}$
and dot-multiplies it with the speed $\dot{\vec{r}}$:
$m \dot{\vec{r}} \cdot \ddot{\vec{r}} = \dot{\vec{r}} \cdot \vec{F}$
but I do not understand how he gets to the next step:
$\delta_t \left(\frac{1}{2}m\dot{\vec{r}}^2\right) = \frac{d\vec{r} \cdot \vec{F}}{dt}\ \ \ $ (with $\frac{mv^2}{2} = E_{kin}$)
because if I resolve the last equation again I find something different than what we began with, because the derivation of the left part leaves me no single $\dot{\vec{r}}$.
$\frac{2}{2} m \ddot{\vec{r}} = \dot{\vec{r}} \cdot \vec{F}$
Maybe I misinterpret the application $\delta_t$ to both $\vec{r}$ or the $\frac{d\vec{x}}{dr}$-notation not applying to $\vec{F}$ here? (The author states before that he use the partial differentiation symbol $\delta_t$ in the same way as the total $\frac{d\vec{x}}{dr}$ because the partial states exactly what is to be derived.)


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The Assistant in Training (AIT) and Assistant Manager position's primary responsibility is to fulfill our mission statement, "to create the most enjoyable shopping experience possible for our Guests." Additionally, AIT and Assistant Managers perform a variety of sales, merchandising and operational tasks assigned by store management (e.g. cashiering, merchandise display and pulls, register procedures, and routine cleaning of facilities). Work directly with the Store Manager and Leadership Team to develop sales, recruit new Teammates and provide leadership. The AIT and Assistant Manager will also share responsibility for training and motivating Teammates and act as the Store Manager in their absence. The Assistant Manager Position is a progression from the AIT position and therefore includes additional high level duties that are specific to that position, though the majority of job duties and responsibilities are shared.
Sales Generation and Guest Service
Greet Guests with a friendly, engaging attitude, and is consistently prepared to provide legendary service to each Guest.
Teammate Recruiting, Training and Development
Develop skills and assist in leading, directing, motivating and educating new Teammates to meet and achieve Buckle's accountability, shift orientation, Loss Prevention and sales presentation standards on a daily basis.
Visual Merchandise Management
Own and influence product through zone ownership, exhibiting the ability to recognize and merchandise products and projects to Teammates daily with a specific learning goal in mind.
Ability to work a flexible schedule, which may include mornings, evenings, and weekends, the day of/day after Thanksgiving and Christmas, all based upon store and business needs.
Establish relationships and excellent communication with Corporate Office Departments to assist Store Manager in effective operations of the store.
Supervisory and Leadership
Ability to travel and cover other Stores within District based on business needs.
Coachable; consistently welcomes feedback from Manager to improve sales presentations.
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Europe-Construction-Equipment.com is a classified ad portal dedicated to used construction equipment and excavators (from spare parts to bulldozers) : excavators, cranes, loaders, backhoe loaders, bulldozers, dumpers, rollers, crushing sieving equipment, etc. Find all the makes of used loader and all types of used loader.
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Have You Ever Wondered Why?
St. Luke's Formation Team is happy to announce a monthly offering to help us understand more about our faith, the Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Tradition (of which the Episcopal Church is part).
At the beginning of each month, a brief exploration of a different topic of our faith will be offered. The explorations are not meant to be exhaustive, but simply to help us reflect more deeply on why we as followers of Jesus do what we do. We hope these explorations raise more questions than answers because we believe the journey of faith is a journey of unending depth and growth!
Have You Ever Wondered Why:
The Church Celebrates the New Year Well Before Christmas?
We Have Icons, Statues, and Stained-Glass in our Church?
Our Parish is Named After St. Luke?
There's an ox with wings tiled into the floor near our main entrance?
Episcopalians Make the Sign of the Cross?


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@Olaf - I'm quite familiar with the intricacies of open source licenses (as you've figured out).
I see you've addressed the 2 required points per LGPL, which I was probing for - and failed to mention as requirements or in the downloads.
1) you have to indicate that the source you used is available and that you will provide it via email / contact info. (for non-derivative works / static linked). I assume that only means the vb_cairo_sqlite.dll
2) for LGPL V3 you have to also provide all the specific custom scripts / tools for the build environment. (which you did mention in the prior post) the fact that you're using old versions of a build environment, don't really matter. Most hard core dev's should breeze through getting the project to compile using newer tool chains.
So it's great that you've cleared that all up here when asked - but for the sake of transparency, appearance, and more importantly compliance - you do need to indicate that in the project download.
It's adding to perceived (and possibly real) non-compliance.
You can't then say Oh I'll just remove the LGPL parts as a solution to something you are currently distributing.
It all just looks bad for someone with as much credibility as you.
Hopefully you take this as constructive criticism.
LGPL V3 you are required not only to provide source, but the build scripts, and environment details as well.Code:d) Do one of the following: 0) Convey the Minimal Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, and the Corresponding Application Code in a form suitable for, and under terms that permit, the user to recombine or relink the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version to produce a modified Combined Work, in the manner specified by section 6 of the GNU GPL for conveying Corresponding Source. 1) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (a) uses at run time a copy of the Library already present on the user's computer system, and (b) will operate properly with a modified version of the Library that is interface-compatible with the Linked Version.
You are required to release enough to actually build it yourself.
That was the point of V3 of LGPL, you can't provide most of the source without all the information required to rebuild them yourself.
edit: being defensive about requirements only adds to the looking bad.


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In this Guest Post, FELIPE SPERANDIO updates us on Brazilian Superior Court's interesting decision holding that once an arbitral tribunal is in place, it shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to grant any interim measures.
A recent decision of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice ("STJ") has ruled, for the first time, on the issue of the concurrent jurisdiction of national courts and arbitral tribunals with respect to the making of interim measures (Itarumã Participações S.A. v Participações em Complexos Bioenergéticos S.A. – PCBIOS, Resp no. 1,297,974-RJ). The decision is significant in shedding light on a topic not addressed by the Brazilian Arbitration Act. It also reassures the view that, where there is an arbitration agreement, the national courts may only intervene – in exceptional circumstances – to support arbitration. Read the rest of this entry


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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak witnessed the last shuttle he will ever watch launch into space -- but it's hardly his first.
"I've been to three of these," he said.
It was, however, his new wife's first experience watching a launch from Kennedy Space Center.
U.S. & World
"When you see it in person, you hear it, you feel it, you're in a very nice viewing site, it is so much more beautiful than any picture you could ever see in your life," he explained.
Woz watched the launch from NASA's Operations Support Building 2, according to his FourSquare check in.
OSB II (in NASA speak) is a large office building with an observation deck that has an enviable view of the launch pad. A NASA spokeswoman said the observation deck is "available to family and very close friends" of the space program.
When we pointed out he had just seen the last shuttle launch ever, Woz was sanguine.
"Who knows what's in the future. We all have it in us to learn where we call came from and what's out there, and that's NASA's territory."
As for Mrs. Woz? "My wife was brought to tears. That's what it does to people."


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Using IFL 2.99, all attempts to create a bootable USB fail. I use a Linux laptop, and don't have a Windows machine.
My Linux is Kubuntu 17.04, the machine a Starlabs StarLite (Intel N4200, UEFI). Secure boot is disabled, but there is no BIOS option for legacy boot, so UEFI is always active.
First I tried using makeHDD, but the script is so bug-ridden it's unusable. I've tried fixing some of the more glaring errors, but it appears to have been written by someone who doesn't really understand Shell as a scripting language.
I then tried simply writing ifl.iso to the USB drive using dd. This is a standard way to create a non-partitioned bootable drive (it's how I created a bootable Linux install in the first place). This device does boot, and enters the grub menu. But on trying to boot one of the selections, the first "loading" messages appear, then the screen goes blank and it hangs.
This is actually the way the machine behaved the first time I installed Linux and got the EFI partition wrong. I therefore suspect that the IFL boot is not correctly configured for UEFI. As I mentioned above, I have no option for legacy boot mode.
Any suggestions? Without a way to boot IFL from an external device I have no way to create image backups. Being a strict UEFI machine I can't use BooIt either.


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String of mysterious 'booming noises' reported across several U.S. states
December 10, 2012
ARIZONA – Jean Swesey was doing homework with her son in Cottonwood when it happened. "It was a whole series of booms," Swesey said. "Up to six or seven. It was fast, it went loud. We were quiet and then my daughter down the hall screams really loud, 'Did you hear that?' I sat there for a second and I heard another set." Swesey wasn't alone. Residents in communities in and around Verde Valley and as far as Flagstaff called 911 or their police and fire departments to report the strange booming sounds. "It sounded like thunder, but underground," Swesey said. "Like muffled thunder. And all the dogs in the neighborhood, all of them that were outside all started barking at once." CBS 5 News first received reports of the explosion-like noises shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday and began checking with law enforcement and government sources. The U.S. Geological Survey reports no significant earthquake activity in Arizona that could have created the booms. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office had deputies in the area that either heard it or tried to respond to resident calls. They found nothing. The Sedona Fire District dispatched a crew to check a report of a strange odor, but that was unfounded and may not be related to the sounds. The Camp Verde Marshal also received a number of phone calls about the booms. Officers found no evidence of any explosions. But the Verde Valley contains large expanses of uninhabited land. "Maybe when the light comes back they'll find something," said Gary Johnson of Sedona Fire. Swesey sure hopes so. "It was just, 'boom-boom-boom-boom-boom all over the Verde Valley." The cause of the mystery noise still remains a mystery. –KPHO
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text: Epic Explorers is the newest addition to the Christianity Explored range, specially designed for 4-11s. The five flexible sessions can be used for a holiday club, after-school club, or as an opportunity for children to invite friends to their church group. Epic Explorers takes children through Mark's Gospel as they explore the life of Jesus together. On the way they will discover who Jesus is, why he came, and what it means to follow him.


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Anthony Johnson was expecting his next fight would be against Jake Rosholt after his August win at Titan FC 24.
And it shall be. But rather than at an upcoming Titan show, Johnson (12-4) and Rosholt (12-4) will fast-track their meeting. The two are scheduled for the main event of an Xtreme Fight Night card next week in Tulsa, Okla.
Promotion officials recently announced the fight, which will take place at Xtreme Fight Night 9 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa.
Johnson in August move up to light heavyweight and easily took care of Esteves Jones in the main event of Titan FC 24 in Kansas City, Kan. Johnson nearly stopped Jones in the first round before putting him away with strikes in the second.
That win made Johnson 2-0 under the Titan banner since his release from the UFC in January following a first-round submission loss to Vitor Belfort at UFC 142.
Johnson went 7-4 in the UFC, but it was his infamous struggles to make weight that marred his time there. Johnson twice missed his mark fighting at welterweight. And when he elected to move up to middleweight for the Belfort fight, he missed weight badly and the two fought at a catch weight of 197 pounds.
In May, in his first fight for Titan, also at middleweight, he again missed his mark on the scale and again fought at a catch weight – this time at 195 pounds against fellow UFC veteran Dave Branch. Johnson went on to win by unanimous decision, then decided to move up to light heavyweight – meaning a very small weight cut for his fights and, he and his camp said, the ability to concentrate on training and the fight, not on the stress of cutting weight.
Rosholt also recently moved up from middleweight to light heavyweight, but his debut didn't have the same results as Johnson's. Rosholt was submitted by Matt Thompson in the first round of a regional show near Dallas in June.
Prior to that loss, Rosholt had been on a six-fight unbeaten streak, picking up five wins and a no contest. That no contest came in his lone fight for Titan in May 2011. Rosholt landed what was thought to be an illegal knee in the third round and originally was ruled the loser by disqualification. But the Kansas commission later overturned the result to a no contest.
Rosholt is 6-2, plus the no contest, since a 1-2 stint in the UFC that saw him drop first-round submissions to Dan Miller and Kendall Grove, but pick up a third-round submission win over Chris Leben at UFC 102. Rosholt has fought once under the Xtreme Fight Night banner before, losing to UFC vet Matt Horwich by TKO in November 2010.
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