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A Study of Taspoglutide in Patients With Inadequately Controlled Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Cardiovascular Disease
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Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 23, 2009
Last Update Posted : November 2, 2016
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|A Study of Taspoglutide in Patients With Inadequately Controlled Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Cardiovascular Disease
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|A Randomized Double Blind, Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial to Assess the Effects of Taspoglutide (RO5073031) on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Subjects With Inadequately Controlled Type 2 Diabetes and Established Cardiovascular Disease
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|This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel arm study will assess efficacy and safety and the effects of taspoglutide on cardiovascular events in patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and established cardiovascular disease. Patients will be randomized to receive either taspoglutide subcutaneously (sc) 10mg weekly for 4 weeks followed by 20mg sc weekly, or weekly sc placebo, in addition to background anti-hyperglycemic medication and standard of care treatment for cardiovascular disease. Anticipated time on study treatment is up to 2 years. Target sample size is 2000 patients.
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How To Prevent Copyright From Interfering With Innovation
As anyone who reads Techdirt regularly knows, copyright is a big issue around here -- with particular concern in how certain industries have used copyright law not for its intended and stated purpose (to promote the progress) but for exactly the opposite reason. It's been used time and time again as a weapon against progress and innovation, by industries who saw that innovation as a threat to their business model. In the 1980s, Hollywood tried to outlaw the VCR, declaring it "the Boston Strangler" of the movie industry. The reality was exactly the opposite. The VCR helped revitalize the movie industry and provided the fuel that grew the industry throughout the last two decades. Then, a decade ago, the music industry tried to kill the first MP3 players, again insisting that a portable MP3 player would destroy the music industry. Once again, they failed -- and once again, their own failure has helped to save them. A recent Harvard study found that the success of the digital music market has grown the overall ecosystem and resulted in much greater output in music.
But, still, the industry fights such advances, often using a variety of different tactics, including lobbying and lawsuits. On this front, they've been winning a lot more than losing lately, to their own detriment. Copyright has been extended and changed over and over again, now covering significantly more than it ever did and ever was intended to cover. And certain industries are using that to their advantage. In two recent court rulings, the Hollywood movie studios were able to prevent two different innovative products from hitting the market, since both involved making backup copies of DVDs. Even though these were both designed for perfectly legitimate reasons, both were banned, due to copyright or copyright-related issues.
Imagine how different the movie industry would be if the VCR were not allowed? Imagine how different the music industry would be today if the iPod was illegal? Yet, we're unable to know how different the music industry would be today if Napster has been allowed to live, and the industry had found a way to monetize via its platform. And now we likely won't be able to find out how the movie industry would be different if people could back up their movies legally (there are, of course, unauthorized options for both, but that, too, limits their ability to advance and innovate).
The Innovation Movement is an effort by the Consumer Electronics Association to make more people aware of such issues, and to make sure that Congress actually takes these issues into account, rather than just focusing on the patriotic headline while ignoring the unpatriotic results.
In this Insight Community Conversation, we're looking for thoughtful and well-written discussions on the importance of not letting copyright stand in the way of innovation. How can politicians better understand the negative impacts of certain industries using copyright to protect old business models and take away consumer rights? The copyright system supporters can always point to the past -- noting the successes of the industry and (often incorrectly) attributing it entirely to copyright. But it's hard for innovators to point to the future of what could be if they were allowed to innovate freely. We're looking for discussions on ways to better make this point to politicians, journalists, consumers and (yes) the very industries that have been fighting so hard to protect their old business models. Present a convincing argument on why innovation is key, and holding it back with copyright is bad for everyone. The best results will be used as posts on the Innovation Movement website.
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So, thank you to Tara at Faith in Ambiguity, both for the recognition, and for giving me a writing prompt.
Tara has awarded me both "The Versatile Blogger", and "The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award"!
Apparently, there are some rules that go along with accepting these awards, and they're both quite similar:
Rules for the Versatile Blogger (or the Irresistibly Sweet Blog) Award
In the same post, thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.
In the same post, share 7 completely random pieces of information about yourself.
In the same post, include this set of rules.
So... seven completely random facts about me. (I, like Tara, will not be boring you with seven facts for each, because that would make for a really long post.) Here we go:
1. I really hated working in an office. No matter how nice the office, or the people, there's something about being shut in a little room doing the same thing again and again, day after day, that is just not appealing. (Then again, maybe I just haven't found the right office.) Despite my pervasive aversion to office work, I love office supplies.
2. I quit gymnastics when I was little because there was a mean girl there who stole my socks. They were cable knit ecru knee socks.
3. I am hopelessly attracted to a "bargain". 1/2 pound of buttons for $5? yes please! $10 bag of miscellaneous crap? You bet! There's got to be something good in there, right? It's why I watch "Storage Wars" with my husband, and want to go to yard sales.
4. I want a sheep. I would name him Bob. Or maybe Jim. I want him to live in the backyard and grow lots and lots of wool that I can shear and make into sweaters. I'd need to get someone to come and shear him though, because I saw it once on TV, and it looked like if you're not quick, the sheep will try to eat you. Also, you probably need more than one sheep to get much wool.
5. I have this totally irrational fear that someone will break into my house, kill my family and then make me pretend to be his wife. He will move me around from town to town and he will kill people and make me serve them up at potluck dinners in Sheppard's pie. (I said it was irrational.)
6. I regret taking band in highschool instead of art. I never play a french horn anymore, but I've got art/craft supplies on every surface. Having some actual lessons in technique might have been useful.
7. When I was a kid, there was a linen closet in the hall. There was a space at the top that was just big enough to fit a pillow, a blanket, a book and me. I used to hang out in there and read.
Julie at Feeding the Cat
Stephanie at Clay Baboons
Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life
Marianne at We Band of Mothers
Somer at Somer Sherwood
(I do realise that's only six, but a lot of the blogs I read have been nominated elsewhere.)
I was trying to come up with a snappy ending, but I spent last night zonked on Benadryl and I haven't fully recovered yet.
So, rather than stare at the screen for any longer, I wish you a happy Thursday and bid you adieu.


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12:00 am
Austin City Limits "Gary Clark Jr./Alabama Shakes" Modern blues and soul are featured in the two performances. Clark showcases his major label debut, while Alabama Shakes spotlight their critically acclaimed Boys & Girls.G
1:00 am
Earthflight, A Nature Special Presentation "Europe" Cranes and geese rise over Venice, Dover, Edinburgh and the monkey-guarded Rock of Gibraltar. In Rome, the Loire Valley, Holland and Hungary, birds gather by the millions to breed and raise their families. Part 3 of 6G
2:00 am
Frontline "Egypt In Crisis" It took 80 years to rise to power, but now, after only 12 months, the Muslim Brotherhood has been ousted by its longtime foe - the Egyptian military. Veteran Middle East correspondents Martin Smith and Charles Sennott examine the rise and rapid fall of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.G
3:00 am
MI-5 "New Allegiances" A new series of shows open with Russia emerging as a new superpower. Islamist terrorism is still a real threat, and new cold war is developing. A British soldier is kidnapped off a London street by Al-Qaeda terrorists, who demand Remembrance Sunday services be canceled. An MI5 spy is returned from a Russian prison. Ros' cover is blown while she is undercover in Russia. Meanwhile, there is a bomb to defuse.G
4:00 am
Hustle A deal goes wrong and the team is left with a hot diamond necklace. Mickey thinks they can keep the necklace if Emma is willing to trick the rich recluse who had it stolen on his orders.G
5:00 am
The Shaw Festival: Behind The Curtain This documentary follows the process of getting a play from the page to the stage, providing insights into all aspects of theater production at the Shaw Festival in Canada, one of North America's longest-running theater experiences. The program captures the Shaw's unique approach to theater and the treasure of its repertory acting company, which presents 11 plays on four stages between April and October each year.G
6:00 am
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Talks About Pets" Bob Trow brings Barney, the dog, back to stay with Mister Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday wants to give Ana a parrot, but changes his mind when the parrot talks back to him. He decides he likes his wooden bird, Mimus Polyglotis, better. D
6:30 am
Curious George "Curious George On Time/Curious George's Bunny Hunt" Curious George On Time - After accidentally breaking Professor Wiseman's cuckoo clock, George decides to explore the inside of the BIG library clock to see how it works. When the big clock stops working too, Mr. Reloj, the local clockmaker, comes to the rescue. With Mr. Reloj's help, George discovers how to use various tools to make the clocks tick again. D
7:00 am
Wild Kratts "Bad Hair Day" Chris and Martin try to help a lion named "He who breathes fire" get past obstacles and back to his pride, who are under siege from two intruder lions. D
7:30 am
Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "Quack Hatches An Egg/The Whatchamacallit/Pocoyo - Sneaky Shoes" Quack decides that a baby duck would make his pond even more perfect than it already is. What on earth is a "whatchamacallit?" Peep, Quack, and Chirp are determined to find out. Then, Pato, Pocoyo and Elly are having fun doing running and jumping competitions: except Pato is taking it very seriously. D
8:00 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Flight of the Penguin/Let's Go Fly A Kite" Flight of the Penguin - Sally and Nick are pretending to fly in their backyard. Oh wouldn't it be great if they really could? The Cat in the Hat brings them to meet his good friend Percy the penguin. After a fun race with a penguin and a bird, the kids learn that not all birds fly, but that doesn't mean they aren't fast! Let's Go Fly a Kite - Sally, Nick and the Cat are trying to fly a kite, but there's not enough wind. D
8:30 am
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina and Super Polly/Angelina's Dance Like A Cake" Angelina and Super Polly - Polly adores a book about a mouseling girl who acquires superhero powers when she hears a trumpet fanfare. Polly starts to think maybe she has superpowers, too! She gets a fanfare recording from her father, but after several failed attempts it becomes clear that Polly has no superpowers at all. Vici, Marco, and Angelina explain that everyone is super at something - like dance, or telling stories, or being a good friend. D
9:00 am
Bob the Builder "Splasher to the Rescue" Splasher, an amphibious vehicle, arrives into town for his first day of work taking the hotel guests for sight-seeing tours by land and sea. After a brave water rescue, he becomes known as Super-Splasher. Determined to live up to his new superhero name, he interrupts one of his tours to rescue some people who don't need rescuing! Will Splasher ever put his superhero skills to use again? It's a hot day in Sunflower Valley and Bob and the team are going to surprise Gripper and Grabber, who are coming from the city, with a new shelter. D
9:30 am
Thomas & Friends "Giving and Sharing" When Victor has to be away from the Sodor Steam Works, Thomas is asked to take over for the day. Victor tries to tell Thomas how to run the Sodor Steam Works, but Thomas doesn't listen. He just wants to get started with his very special job. D
10:00 am
Wishbone "Bark That Bark" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, David overloads on responsibilities and doesn't understand the wisdom of asking for help. D
10:30 am
Martha Speaks "Que Pasa, Martha/TD Is Talking Dog" Que Pasa, Martha - Senor Craig expects everyone to present an oral report in Spanish, and Alice is a nervous wreck! With the help of Martha and some Mexican alphabet soup, she aces her presentation, but did she actually deserve her grade? Vocabulary: (E) recite(d), memoriz(ed)(ation), bilingual, pronouc(e) (iation), articulate (I) speech, oral, aloud, voice, remember. TD Is Talking Dog - Inspired by an old Tarzan-style movie, TD decides to learn animal languages and become an animal linguist. Under Martha's tutelage, he begins his lessons. D
11:00 am
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11:30 am
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Bond Bets" Guest: Kathleen Gaffney, Portfolio Manager, Eaton Vance Bond Fund. With interest rates rising and bond prices falling, is this any time to launch a bond fund? Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Great Investor" Kathleen Gaffney says "yes" and explains what she is doing with the new Eaton Vance Bond Fund. D
12:00 pm
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe The UN Aims to Meet Global Needs of Women; Wajdja: the Saudi Arabia movie making headlines. Panelists: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Red Alert Politics Editor Francesca Chambers, IWF Senior Policy Analyst Hadley Heath, United States Institute of Peace's Manal Omar. D
12:30 pm
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1:00 pm
Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop "Frederic Church's Olana In Hudson River Valley, NY" David visits Olana, Frederic Church's Persian-inspired home in the Hudson River Valley, painting the expansive vista of the Hudson River Valley. The Hudson River Painters, considered the first American school of painting, were profoundly influenced by European traditions, especially the Ideal Italian landscapes of Claude Lorrain. They were popular from 1825 to 1875 and gave Americans their pictorial sense of national identity. D
1:30 pm
Sewing with Nancy "Sew Big Quilt Blocks, Part 1" Make big quilts that are easy to piece, yet have great designer impact. Nancy and quilt designer Debbie Bowles use 18" blocks to make large quilts using ideas from Debbie's versatile BQ pattern designs. Basic cutting and assembly are combined with creative variations such as a T-shirt quilt, cut-up panels, combining 9" and 18" blocks with style, and more. D
2:00 pm
Quilting Arts "Functional Quilting" We all love to quilt - but not every piece belongs on the wall. It's fun to include quilting in the items we use every day. Debbie Grifka start out with a triangular shaped carry all pouch - perfect for carrying makeup and it features piping. D
2:30 pm
Hometime "Creekside Home Windows" The HOMETIME team demonstrates the proper techniques for drying in the home and installing windows properly. D
3:00 pm
Woodsmith Shop "Wide-Screen TV Cabinet" To create this TV cabinet, the Woodsmith editors start with a basic plywood case and dress it up with a contrasting base and top. D
3:30 pm
This Old House "Essex 2012/13, Design for Everyone" Richard and son Ross Trethewey recap the geothermal system's installation with Norm. Tile installers Mark and Erik Ferrante lay reclaimed marble tile in the foyer and designer Keith Musinski's custom-ordered hand-painted border tile in the kitchen. Kevin learns about universal design touring the Seattle home of architect Emory Baldwin. D
4:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Making Custom Concrete Countertops/Cordless Landscape Tools" Host Kevin O'Connor works with an expert to make and install custom concrete countertops. Then, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey shows how to make watertight connections without soldering. Afterward, landscape contractor Roger demonstrates several new cordless landscape tools. D
4:30 pm
Growing a Greener World "Aquaponics: (Oakland, CA & Milwaukee, WI)" From tabletop gardens to full commercial operations, we explore the world of aquaponics - growing food with only water and live fish. D
5:00 pm
Dialogue "Livable Communities" Host Marcia Franklin talks with Robert McNulty, the founder of Partners for Livable Communities, about what makes communities "livable."G
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
PBS NewsHour Weekend On Sunday, while more and more people are living alone, the costs of rent and real estate are soaring. So cities like New York and Vancouver are trying to get the most out of some of the apartment space they do have, by creating "micro" apartments. Many of these apartments are smaller than what was previously allowed under the law. D
6:30 pm
British Antiques Roadshow "Winchester 2" On a second visit to the cathedral, experts find an early 19th-century recipe book from Jane Austen's household, a curious Victorian brooch in the shape of a lady's corset, and a rare four-barreled golden pistol that delivers an explosive valuation.G
7:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "A Middle Fork Journey" OUTDOOR IDAHO explores 100 miles of the free-flowing Middle Fork of the Salmon. Cameras follow rafters, on both guided and independent trips, who meet the challenges of the river, experience the changing scenery, and encounter wildlife. The show also explores the surrounding countryside, considers the effects of fire, and reports on a dramatic logjam.G
7:30 pm
Oregon Field Guide "Bald Eagle Recovery, Cyclocross, Jim Anderson" Cameras capture video of eagles in the largest wintering grounds for the birds in the 48 contiguous states. The episode also provides an update on the bird's removal from the Endangered Species List and includes a climb up into an eagle nest.G
8:00 pm
Last Tango In Halifax Celia and Alan decide on a civil marriage ceremony to be held at an eerie medieval hall near Halifax. As they visit, a storm is brewing, the lights go out and they are locked in the ancient building. In the midst of a thunderstorm, Gillian's Land Rover inexplicably catches fire. Part 3 of 6G
9:00 pm
Masterpiece Mystery! "Foyle's War, Series VII: The Cage" A severely injured man drags himself to a hospital, only to die shortly after being found by a nurse and doctor. As Foyle makes inquires, he is led to discover a mysterious military facility full of secrets that could threaten British Intelligence. Meanwhile, Sam's jumbled efforts to help her husband, Adam, campaign for Parliament draw surprising results.G
10:30 pm
New Tricks "Old School Ties" When the body of young PE teacher Jason Bowe is discovered in woodlands adjoining a prestigious boarding school, the UCOS team is asked to investigate the case quickly and discreetly. The headmistress is preparing for an important visitor and is less than happy with the investigators' presence.G
11:30 pm
British Antiques Roadshow "Winchester 2" On a second visit to the cathedral, experts find an early 19th-century recipe book from Jane Austen's household, a curious Victorian brooch in the shape of a lady's corset, and a rare four-barreled golden pistol that delivers an explosive valuation.G


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I have to confess—bolting a motor onto my bike has been a fascination of mine since I was a kid and first saw the DIY gas bike kit ads in the back pages of Popular Mechanics. It was probably second only to the idea of strapping a bunch of hot-air balloons to a lawn chair and coasting over the trees in my neighborhood.
Although I've come close to building something like my motorized bicycle boyhood fantasy, it always got eclipsed by something more practical—until I saw the electric conversion kits.
Converting a standard bicycle to electric power is remarkably simple. You can approach it from a complete DIY perspective and build it all from scratch; you can adapt motors and parts from salvaged electric scooters; or you can buy complete turnkey kits with everything you need—instructions and all. Finally, the fantasy became practical.
There are plenty of reasons that people like electric-powered, or electric-assist bikes. They're so much simpler, smaller, and lighter than electric motor-scooters or motorcycles; they can be pedaled efficiently and easily; and, in most states, you don't need special licensing or permits to ride them. Electric scooters' pedals are just for regulatory show—to qualify them for "motorized bicycle" status in the eyes of the government. They are too heavy to pedal, realistically. Electric bikes allow an avid bicyclist to enjoy the open road, and help out on the hills or on that long road home. They can help you keep up with the group, if you like to ride with more extreme bicyclists.
They also let you pull more weight—for a trailer, groceries, or gear to the beach—and you can jump on the bike, run your errands, and come home without a huge workout. You can use the bike for a commute, and arrive ready for work without the need for a shower and a change of clothes.
Police departments find an advantage in electric bikes: They can pedal around all day, and enjoy all the benefits, tactical and otherwise, of "bike detail." However, if they get a call some distance away, the 30 mph top speed of many of these bikes can quickly get them where they need to be without being winded when they arrive.
For city dwellers, electric bikes are light enough to bring into a building and up elevators for storage and recharging in your apartment—something you just can't do with an electric motor-scooter. If you're keeping yours on the street, the removable batteries of an electric bike allow for easy in-apartment charging.
"Range anxiety" is avoided with an electric bike. If you run out of battery energy, you simply switch to leg-power and pedal your bike home or to the nearest electrical outlet.
Factory-built electric bikes can cost in the $1,200 to $1,800 range, not prohibitive to bicycle enthusiasts, but the kits can be cheaper, from $400 on up. The components include the bike, motor, motor controller, batteries, and rider controls. There are a few extras available, but those are the basics.
Bikes. The choice of bike for the conversion process really is up to you. Kits are made to accommodate standard, modern designs. With the exception of only a few obscure models, nearly any bike will convert easily.


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I am really enjoying writing about ghosts and the paranormal, and after publishing my first few True Ghost Stories books on Amazon Kindle last year, I have really been bitten by the publishing bug, and plan to publish more books on Amazon in the near future.
I love doing the research for each new book too, as you can come across some real fascinating - and often quite scary - cases. It is amazing how, for instances, true life cases of poltergeist activity date back many centuries. Cases like, for example, The Demon Drummer of Tedworth and The BAD_WORD Lane Ghost still continue to fascinate people right to this day, and such cases would make some real good material for any writers or producers seeking new sources for fright films.
I would be very interested in hearing from other writers or webmasters who have made the parnormal their main pursuit. Perhaps we could exchange stories, ideas, links etc. I never ever get tired of talking about true life hauntings, so please feel free to contact me any time.
It's a great site. Keep up the good work.
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Good luck! (y)
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 08 May 2013 - 09:15 PM
Thank you. I am pleased to say that since I made that posting, my Kindle books have been going from strength to strength. I have recently put a new one on Amazon called Poltergeist Pests.
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A Magician Turns $1 Bills Into $20 Dollar Bills And Tips a Bunch of Pizza Delivery Guys $100
October is National Pizza Month. And to celebrate it, a magician named Stuart Edge decided to order a bunch of pizzas and give the delivery guys some REALLY good tips.
You can check out his trick on YouTube. First, he acts like he's giving them five one-dollar bills. But then he magically turns them all into TWENTIES and gives each of them a hundred bucks.


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Huskies' Pride-filled Rally Falls Short At Stanford, 31-28
Keith Price completes 33 passes for 350 yards, and the 15th-ranked Huskies come within one, hardly conclusive replay-reviewed, overturned completion late from beating 5th-ranked Stanford.
By Gregg BellUW Director of Writing
STANFORD, Calif. – Keith Price will be more successful in the bottom line of winning or losing than he ultimately was on this memorable night at the "Farm."
He will never be more impressive, gritty or inspiring.
"He was an absolute stud," Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian said.
Washington's fifth-year senior quarterback had just been pile-driven into the turf by more charging Stanford pass rushers while throwing incomplete on UW's next-to-last offensive play of the game. He had stains of four colors all over his white, No.-17 jersey, the result of being sacked five times and hit to the turf at least seven other times. He played most of the second half with his taped thumb throbbing because of an earlier hit, as Stanford repeatedly pounded him before, during and after throws.
Yet Price kept firing back. Fourth down, 1:20 remaining, his team down by three, Price escaped two more Stanford hits. He scrambled to his right. He calmly motioned with his sore passing hand, directing Kevin Smith back toward him. His low pass found his trusted receiver beyond the line to gain. Smith raced back, dived toward the pass and cradled the ball at the ground on the Stanford sideline. Officials ruled a catch, and UW had the ball at the Cardinal 33.
Price raced to get his team to the line in order to get the next play off before a replay official upstairs could call down for a review. Price called the same play, "all verticals," and UW was poised for the biggest win of its program's revival.
Then, just as center Mike Criste snapped the ball, the referee blew his whistle.
The replays ESPN television viewers and press-box inhabitants saw was anything but conclusive as to whether the ball hit the turf before Smith made the catch. But replay reviewers upstairs often have high-definition and zoomed-in, frame-by-frame looks that TV viewers don't see. Whatever the replay reviewer saw was enough in his mind to overrule his field colleagues and conclude the ball hit the ground before Smith caught it.
Incomplete. And infuriating. That's how the 15th-ranked Huskies' last chance ended in a 31-28 loss at No. 5 Stanford on a frantic Saturday night for the ages at Stanford Stadium.
True to his character and quality, Price stayed above the messy ending.
"I guess the official made a good call," he said. "I'm not blaming the referees.
"I should have thrown a better pass. If I would have thrown a better ball, higher, we feel we would have won that game." Price completed 33 of 48 passes for 350 yards and two touchdowns. Those fantastic numbers tell only half of the story about one of the grittiest, most impressive performances UW has seen in the last dozen years.
"I thought I played decent," he said. "There were throws I make every day that I didn't make."
Decent? If that was "decent," then Price is just "OK" as a quarterback.
"It's tough, man. It's tough," he said. "We were so close to winning the ballgame that we felt we should win."
Smith said five different times on his way to the Huskies' buses and the silent flight back to Seattle: "I know I caught that ball."
Then he shook his head and said of his quarterback: "He played his heart out."
That heart and pride will live longer than the sting, at least into next Saturday when the Huskies (4-1, 2-1 Pac-12) host second-ranked Oregon in another battle royale to stay at the top of the Pac-12 North.
"He showed the heart that his entire team plays with. Keith exemplified that," Sarkisian said. "I'm proud of him.
"But there's no reward for losing. We are a proud football team. We are proud of the way we played. But we came here to win the game. … So we have to show the ability to handle the adversity of a tough loss like this and get ready to play another excellent football team. We need to eliminate some of the mistakes we made.
"The thing I think we proved to ourselves is that we can beat anyone in the country."
Bishop Sankey, the nation's rushing leader at 151.8 yards per game coming in, plowed for 125 yards on 27 carries for Washington, which out-gained Stanford 489 to 284. UW zoomed to 30 first downs, to just 14 for Stanford.
But a 99-yard touchdown on the opening kickoff when the Huskies failed to even touch returner Ty Montgomery, another 68-yard run back by Montgomery in the fourth quarter immediately after Price and the Huskies had cut the lead back to three, and 212 kickoff-return yards in all crucially damaged the Huskies' shot at a league-altering win. Ten more penalties for 89 yards by the nation's most-flagged team coming in didn't help, either.
If not for the kick-coverage errors and all the flags, UW would likely be 5-0 for the first time since 1992.
Smith rebounded from two dropped passes in Price's 13-for-16 first half to break free for a 29-yard touchdown pass from his pal. That pulled Washington to within 17-14 on the first drive after halftime, as the Huskies continued 2013's pattern of scoring immediately after the break.
After Stanford went back up by 10, Smith made a 21-yard catch to the Stanford 15. It was Price's grittiest throw of many. Staring through a Stanford linebacker that was about to drill him in the chest, Price stood tall and fired a perfect strike to Smith outside the left hash mark. On the next play Sankey patiently surfed through Stanford's vaunted defensive front for a 15-yard touchdown run, and UW was back to within 24-21.
But then Montgomery got free again on the ensuing kickoff, for 62 yards to the Washington 19-yard line. That was one of six times Stanford began a drive from no deeper than its own 39. Tyler Gaffney ran 11 yards to put the Huskies back down by 10, 31-21, into the final quarter.
Yet again, Price answered. He completed six of seven throws on a monster, 18-play drive to get the Huskies to a first down at the Stanford 7. Mickens then broke open through the middle of the end zone. But Stanford's A.J. Tarpley leaped like a basketball player into Price's passing lane and tapped the ball to himself for an interception. With 6:11 left, it looked like Washington's last chance had ended.
But safety Will Shamburger and linebacker John Timu stopped a third-and-5 run 2 yards short of the first down to force a Stanford three and out. Price completed five of six throws on the ensuing drive from the UW 21. The final completion was 1 yard to Mickens outside. That made it 31-28 with 2:38 remaining.
UW used all its timeouts on the next, defensive possession. On third and 1 Travis Feeney ran through a block and slammed down quarterback Kevin Hogan for no gain on a read-option keeper. The great, we-will-not-be-denied play forced Stanford to punt again.
Price got the ball back one last time at his own 33 with 1:21 to go and no time outs.
The only thing he ultimately failed to do was overturn the final, decisive call on Smith's fourth-down, catch-wait-no catch.
"Ah, he was awesome. He was awesome," Sarkisian said of Price. "Really, I'm sad for him. But I'm proud of him. Fifth-year senior. Been through so much adversity. To battle back against that team? That's a great defensive front.
"I told the team was proud of them," Sarkisian said of his players, as they shuffled to the bus to ponder a game they still believe they should have one.
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Maren Lien, an English and humanities teacher at American International School in Kuwait City, said they "try to look at curriculum through the lens of human rights issues." She discussed briefly the state of human rights in Kuwait. Lien said in Kuwait there are several areas of human right violations, but there are four main ones. She said that native nomads because of their nomadic roots are not given citizenship in Kuwait. Freedom of expression is severely limited in Kuwait. Lien cited a man who recently went to jail for saying negative political comments on Twitter against leaders of Kuwait. Another issue is labor issues. She said there is a lack of a labor standards, especially for migrant workers. Lien added that women have very limited rights and were only recently given the right to vote in Kuwait.
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Jacoby said the goal of the international video conference was to help teachers design curriculum that addresses cross-curricular concerns that focus on global inter-dependence, issues and events.
This year's participants were invited to present their suggestions and findings in 2014 to the United Nations. The cost of UNTCHR was partially funded by registration fees and subsidized by GEM and Chestnut Hill College.
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Holy smokes. This story has a real ick factor. I hope he didn't do this. If he did, he is one sick mofo.
Darren Sharper charged with rape
Updated: February 14, 2014
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LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors say former NFL safety Darren Sharper, who has been charged with raping and drugging women in California, is under investigation in connection with five more rapes and 11 druggings in other states.
Sharper appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday but his arraignment was postponed until Feb. 20 at the request of his lawyers.
Prosecutors immediately filed a motion to raise his bail to $10 million and outlined details of other alleged assaults and druggings in Las Vegas, Tempe, Ariz., and New Orleans.
Sharper has not been charged in the other jurisdictions and remains under investigation.
In the bail motion, an investigator described a pattern in which the former football star met women at clubs, lured them to a hotel or apartment then drugged and raped them.
Sharper is facing two counts of rape by use of drugs, four counts of furnishing a controlled substance, and one count of possession of a controlled substance, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
The complaint alleges the drugs involved were morphine and zolpidem, which is sold under the brand name Ambien.
Sharper was represented by prominent Los Angeles attorneys Blair Berk and Leonard Levine.
"We look forward to the true facts being revealed in this case," Berk said after the brief court appearance. "And we are hopeful Mr. Sharper will be fully exonerated before this case is concluded."
Sharper, 38, played in the NFL from 1997 to 2010, mostly with the Packers.
Prosecutors said he met two women at a West Hollywood nightclub on Oct. 30, invited them to a party and stopped at his hotel room.
He is accused of giving a shot of alcohol to each of the women before they passed out. One woman told investigators she woke up naked hours later with Sharper sexually assaulting her. The other woman awoke and "interrupted his actions," according to the criminal complaint.
On Jan. 14, Sharper met two other women at the same nightclub and invited them to a party. On the way, he invited both to his room and offered them shots before they passed out, prosecutors said.
When they woke up early the next day, one woman believed she had been sexually assaulted, the complaint said. Both women left his hotel and sought medical treatment.
Sharper was arrested on Jan. 17. He was allowed to remain free on $200,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport. He has not entered a plea.
Prosecutors are seeking to raise bail to $10 million because the Miami resident faces similar investigations in Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana. Superior Court Judge Roberto Longoria did not immediately take up the bail request.
Sharper's lawyers refused to comment on the other investigations.
If convicted in the California case, Sharper could face more than 30 years in state prison.
Sharper was selected All-Pro six times and chosen for the Pro Bowl five times. He played in two Super Bowls, one with the Packers as a rookie and a second with the Saints.
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Sounds pretty creepy......
guy was an outstanding baller in his heydey. A playmaker of Deion Sanders caliber at the safety position. I think he's a future hall of famer but with this now happening....not so much
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Good article. I still have an open mind about this. Want to see what evidence they have.
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According to the reports, he didn't ask. He drugged them and then had sex with them while they were asleep. That sounds almost like necrophilia.
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He did it. Dang. What a creepy dirtbag.
Darren Sharper reaches agreement
Updated: March 20, 2015
LOS ANGELES -- Five years after reaching the NFL pinnacle by earning a Super Bowl ring with the New Orleans Saints in an All-Pro season, Darren Sharper is looking at a long stretch in prison after his lawyer said Friday the former safety reached a plea agreement that will settle rape charges involving at least nine women in four states.
All the alleged incidents came after Sharper's retirement in 2011, and the cases involved similar allegations that he slipped drugs to women and sexually assaulted them when they were unconscious or otherwise unable to resist or consent.
His Los Angeles attorney, Blair Berk, said Sharper would enter pleas in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas on Monday that would resolve allegations there and in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Brian Russo, his attorney in Arizona, said his client will use video conferencing from Los Angeles, where he's being held, to allow him to make a change of plea in Phoenix.
Only prosecutors in Nevada provided details of their part of the deal with Sharper. He is expected to plead guilty there Tuesday to one felony charge of attempted sexual assault, with the expectation that he'll face between 38 months and eight years in prison, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told The Associated Press. He had previously been charged in the state with two counts of felony sexual assault, each carrying a possible 10 years to life.
"We are pleased that Mr. Sharper is accepting responsibility for the crimes he committed in Nevada," Wolfson said.
Wolfson said the Nevada prison term would run concurrent with other sentences in other jurisdictions.
"I'm not sure where he's going to serve his time," Wolfson said, "But he's going to serve significant time."
The announcement came after a morning of closed-door meetings in the Los Angeles chambers of Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor.
The Las Vegas charges, filed earlier Friday before the agreements were announced, had the same pattern as the previous allegations. Prosecutors there alleged that Sharper went club-hopping with two female tourists and took them to his hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip, where he drugged and sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious.
He had been sought on a warrant in Nevada, but he had been jailed since Feb. 27, 2014, in Los Angeles, where he had been due for a preliminary hearing Friday after pleading not guilty to drugging and raping two women there in 2013.
The New Orleans charges allege that he sexually assaulted three women in 2013. The Arizona charges allege that he drugged three women and sexually assaulted two of them in November 2013 in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe.
New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro wrote in a statement that he expects Sharper will be sent to Louisiana within 30 days to plead guilty to federal and state charges filed there.
Cannizzario thanked victims in the cases for remaining involved despite personal attacks on their credibility. "This plea constitutes a complete vindication of these victims as well as their truthfulness," he wrote.
Sharper had a 14-year All-Pro career as a safety with the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints. He played in one Super Bowl with the Packers and was part of the Saints' only championship season.
He was working as an analyst for the NFL Network before being fired when the rape allegations surfaced.
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Sharper enters pleas in two cases
Updated: March 23, 2015
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LOS ANGELES -- Former NFL star Darren Sharper pleaded no contest Monday to drugging and raping two women in Los Angeles as part of a broader plea deal in four states that will send him to federal prison for nine years.
Sharper, 39, acknowledged the crimes in Los Angeles Superior Court after pleading guilty by video link to sexual assault in Arizona.
Sharper wearing a striped, light blue suit, said he was entering the plea because it was in his best interest. He had faced up to 33 years in prison if convicted of all counts against him in California.
The former all-pro safety who won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints admitted he had drugged and raped two women he met at a West Hollywood bar in 2013 and 2014.
The women were not in court, but prosecutors said they had agreed to the plea deal.
In the Arizona case, Sharper admitted sexually assaulting one woman and trying to attack another in suburban Phoenix in 2013.
Sharper appeared in a Phoenix courtroom by video-conferencing from Los Angeles, where he has been jailed since February 2014.
Under the deal negotiated by his lawyers and state and federal prosecutors, Sharper will serve a nine-year federal prison term for similar crimes in Louisiana, Nevada, Arizona and California.
Similar hearings will follow in Las Vegas on Tuesday and in New Orleans in the next month. In each state, he's accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women when they were unconscious or otherwise unable to resist or consent.
He was sentenced immediately in the Arizona case, which is very unusual. Sentencing in California was scheduled July 15.
Sharper retired from the NFL in 2011 after a 14-year career with three teams and later worked as an analyst for the NFL network.
All the alleged sexual assaults happened after Sharper's retirement as a player.
Sharper admitted sexually assaulting one victim and trying to assault another in Arizona, though police said he drugged three women and sexually assaulted two of them at a Tempe apartment in November 2013.
Prosecutor Yigael Cohen on Monday cited a letter in which one of the victims says she suffered emotional harm as a result of the attack and that she didn't have the ability to resist.
A search of the Tempe apartment turned up a shot glass with a white residue that turned out to be the sedative zolpidem, and California investigators discovered that Sharper had a prescription for the drug.
In the California case, he pleaded no contest to four counts of furnishing zolpidem, which is a controlled substance.
Sharper's attorneys said last year that their client did not make the drinks authorities say he used to drug the women.
One of the women told police she had not had any alcohol that night until Sharper insisted she drink a shot. Another young woman said she had been drugged, then went to bed, locked her door and was not attacked.
The next day, one of the women confronted Sharper, who denied wrongdoing, according to police reports.
Sharper is expected to plead guilty to one felony charge of attempted sexual assault in Nevada, with the expectation that he will face up to eight years in prison, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told The Associated Press.
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Darren Sharper pleads guilty in Vegas
Updated: March 24, 2015
ESPN.com news services
LAS VEGAS -- Former NFL star Darren Sharper pleaded guilty Tuesday in Las Vegas to a reduced felony attempted sex assault charge, in the third part of a four-state plea deal that prosecutors say will put him in federal prison for about nine years.
Appearing by Internet hookup from a courtroom in Los Angeles, Sharper entered his plea before Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon, who scheduled sentencing for June 25.
Look, I'm a dad of three daughters ... If he ends up only serving nine years, it's an absolute shame. It's way too short.
- Scott Fujita, to TMZ
on ex-teammate Darren Sharper
A plea agreement calls for Sharper to serve 38 months to eight years in prison for the Nevada conviction, but at the same time as sentences from California, Arizona and Louisiana.
On Monday, the 39-year-old Sharper pleaded guilty to sexual assault in Arizona -- again using an Internet hookup -- and no contest in Los Angeles to raping two women he drugged after meeting them in a West Hollywood bar.
He was sentenced to nine years in the Arizona case and will face 20 years in the California case when he's sentenced July 15. The California no-contest pleas have the same effect as a conviction, and state sentencing rules will have him serve about nine years.
Sharper is due in federal court April 6 in New Orleans, the city where he won a Super Bowl as a member of the NFL's Saints franchise. He's due in Louisiana state court 10 days later.
Sharper wore an orange jail uniform with "LA County" stamped over his chest pocket as he sat Tuesday in Los Angeles flanked by attorneys Blair Berk and Lisa Wayne.
One of his Las Vegas lawyers, Richard Schonfeld, appeared on his behalf -- first before a Las Vegas justice of the peace and then before Herndon.
The former All-Pro safety cleared his throat and said, "Guilty," when asked to enter his plea.
Sharper's other lawyer, David Chesnoff, issued a statement noting that Sharper took responsibility in the Las Vegas case.
Sharper could have faced 20 years to life in Nevada state prison on two sexual assault charges filed against him last week in Las Vegas.
Those charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement. Prosecutor Craig Hendricks said he spoke with the two victims, both in their mid-20s, before terms of Sharper's plea deal were made public.
Sharper was accused of club-hopping with the women in January 2014 before taking them to his room at a Las Vegas Strip hotel, drugging them and raping them while they were unconscious.
Police and prosecutors characterized the Las Vegas case as weaker than in California, Arizona and Louisiana because the women didn't report the attack until after they returned home and heard about similar allegations against Sharper.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Tuesday he was satisfied that Sharper was accepting responsibility for his crimes in Las Vegas and the other states.
Sharper retired in 2011 after a 14-year NFL career as with the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings and the Saints. He won a Super Bowl in New Orleans.
One of his former teammates, Scott Fujita, called what has happened "disgusting."
"He was a great teammate, a great player," Fujita told TMZ. "But all that aside, it's disgusting and beyond repulsive.
"Look, I'm a dad of three daughters ... If he ends up only serving nine years, it's an absolute shame. It's way too short."
Sharper was working as an NFL network analyst when women began telling police in several cities similar stories of blacking out while drinking with him and waking up groggy to find they had been sexually abused.
His arrest came as the league dealt with off-field problems with players accused of crimes ranging from spousal abuse to murder.
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Penile plethysmograph test to gauge arousal part of Darren Sharpers strict post-prison deal
April 10, 2015
When Darren Sharper gets out of prison in less than a decade, if he wants to stay out, the former NFL star who once cut loose on the field and in nightclubs from Miami to Los Angeles will live the closely monitored life of a known predator.
During his first three to five years of freedom, California officials will track him by GPS.
Hell undergo sex offender treatment for years.
He cant drink alcohol for the rest of his life or go to bars or liquor stores. He cant visit sex shops or chat on the Internet to get a date.
If he wants to spend the night away from home or travel more than 50 miles, state officials must approve it.
Sharper will be subject to lie detector tests and, while on lifetime probation in Arizona, to the penile plethysmograph, in which a sensor is attached to the penis while an array of sexual images flashes before his eyes, to gauge arousal.
Sharper will comply or land back in prison in Arizona or Louisiana, or both to serve at least another 14 years behind bars before returning to the same conditions.
Such are the terms of a comprehensive and global disposition that Sharper and prosecutors in four states have reached to resolve drugging and rape cases against him in Louisiana, Arizona, California and Nevada, covering nine sexual assault victims.
The terms of the deal remain for two judges in New Orleans one federal, one state to approve as public bewilderment rises locally and nationally over what many see as a sweetheart prison term for the retired ex-Saints star.
Sharper remains at the St. Tammany Parish jail, pending a guilty plea in federal court on three counts from an indictment accusing him and former St. Bernard Parish Deputy Brandon Licciardi in a years-long conspiracy to drug women to prime them for rape.
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Karen Herman made clear in her courtroom this week that she wouldnt take Sharpers guilty plea for three New Orleans rapes until after U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo signs off on the deal.
Under the terms of the deal, Herman would have the ultimate say over Sharpers compliance and whether he must return to Louisiana to serve out an agreed-upon 20-year sentence on two counts of forcible rape and a count of simple rape.
Under the intricate agreement, Sharpers time behind bars or while under parole or probation supervision in California and Arizona will be considered in custody time under the 20-year Louisiana sentence.
But if he runs afoul of the terms, only his time behind bars would be counted against those 20 years, with no credit for parole or probation time.
This week on WWL-TV, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro defended the seemingly lenient prison sentence for Sharper, citing closure for the victims.
Look, certainly they would have liked to see a greater sentence imposed. I understand that, and we have discussed that with them, Cannizzaro said. But for all intents and purposes, these victims have been vindicated. They were in fact the victims of this mans sexual assaults. They were not doing this for any financial gain, but simply they wanted to come forward and let the community know, This guy violated us, and he is going to walk into the courtroom and plead guilty.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles said the reluctance of victims to have their identities revealed when they testified in open court factored into striking the global plea deal.
The deal also requires Sharper to cooperate fully with authorities. He must sit down to be interviewed and debriefed by law enforcement authorities after the Louisiana pleas but before his formal sentencing.
The agreement does not limit the topics, and it demands that Sharper testify, if asked, before grand juries or at trials. It seems likely that, at a minimum, hell be asked to provide information about alleged co-conspirators Erik Nunez and Licciardi, both of whom have pleaded not guilty to rape charges.
After his various sentencing hearings are over, hell serve at least 101 months in a federal facility and the remainder less than a year if hes a model federal inmate in California before hes released to state and federal supervision there.
Just how closely hell be monitored by parole agents in the Golden State will be determined through a series of assessments, said Luis Patino, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
In general, the special conditions of parole are designed to keep the offender from the same sort of situation that he or she was in when they committed the crime, Patino said.
State law requires that Sharper submit to HIV testing and that he must pay actual restitution to the victims.
Along with registering for life as a sex offender, he also must register as a narcotics offender under state law in California.
Once finished with parole in California, Sharper would move to Arizona for lifetime probation, according to the agreement.
There, his neighbors, school groups and any employers will be alerted to his presence, and his face, address and a description of his crimes may be posted on a flier.
The terms of that probation will continue if Sharper lands back in prison for violating the conditions of the deal and serves out his sentence in prison.
There will never be a time he will be finished, a person familiar with the deal said.
Arizonas role will be gauging and mitigating the chances that the former Saint would reoffend.
Restrictions on where he can live, move or travel, and with whom he can spend time, are designed to limit Sharpers opportunities to commit the crimes with which authorities charged him, experts say. According to the deal, one of the tools authorities could use is the penile plethysmograph, or PPG.
Commonly, rubber rings are placed around the penis to measure swelling in response to seeing certain pictures. Offenders might be shown depictions of both consensual and nonconsensual sex to compare the reactions and get a reading on whether rape arouses the subject, according to a 2012 research study.
Just how county probation departments in Arizona use such findings was unclear.
The deal doesnt specify in which Arizona county Sharper must reside, and not every Arizona countys probation department makes use of the penile testing. Maricopa County the states largest, including Phoenix, Scottsdale and Mesa stopped awhile ago, said Michael Cimino, deputy chief of the countys adult probation department.
Its not typically something we use any longer, Cimino said. Its been several years.
While Sharper has consented to such testing under the plea deal, many in the medical and legal communities dont put much stock in it. The American Psychiatric Association years ago called the device unreliable, in part because men can feign responses during a PPG test by concocting images in their minds.
Federal appeals courts in New York and California have in a pair of cases rejected it as a method to monitor sex offenders, finding it unreasonably intrusive.
Still, Sharpers concession to be subject to the test suggests a life in Arizona far removed from the one he enjoyed as a professional football player or television analyst before his January 2014 arrest in Los Angeles.
Especially for a sex offender, I think it would be naive for someone to have the expectation that theyre going to have the same life when they go on probation that they did before they got on it, said Joshua Davidson, an Arizona lawyer who represents such clients.
When hes an old man, (the probation) will extremely limit what he can do, where he can go and who he can see, said Howard Snader, another Arizona criminal defense lawyer. If youre writing this from the angle that hes never going to get out of the system, thats correct. If youre writing that he got a sweetheart deal, then, nah.
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Ex-NFL safety Darren Sharper pleads guilty to drugging women with the intent to rape
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Posted: Fri May. 29, 2015
Former NFL safety Darren Sharper pleaded guilty in a New Orleans federal court on Friday to three counts of conspiracy to distribute drugs with the intent to commit rape, reports the New Orleans Advocate.
Authorities charged Sharper and another man with distributing the drugs alprazolam, diazepam and zolpidemmore commonly known by the brand names Xanax, Valium and Ambien, respectivelywith the intent to commit rape.
Sharper has already pleaded guilty to state charges in Nevada and Arizona and no-contest in California as part of a global plea deal that will call for him to spend the next nine years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting women in those states.
Sharper has been in jail since February 2014 after he was arrested in Los Angeles following the first rape allegations.
Sharper is expected to plead guilty to two counts of aggravated rape and one count of simple rape in Louisiana state court on June 15, stemming from two separate incidents in September 2013 involving three women. That case was delayed until the resolution of the federal case.
Sharper, 39, played 14 seasons in the NFL with the Packers, Vikings and Saints. He was a five-time Pro Bowl defender and two-time first-team All-Pro selection.
He was employed as an analyst for NFL Network before he was fired when the rape allegations surfaced.
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Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper gets 18 years in federal prison
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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY
Darren Sharper NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them -- double the sentence recommended by prosecutors.
One of Sharper's victims -- the only one to speak at his sentencing hearing -- rebuffed his display of contrition.
"For the list of people you've done this to: Go to hell," she said. Her name was not given in court, and The Associated Press does not identify victims of sexual abuse by name.
The former New Orleans Saints safety, jailed since February 2014, apologized and appeared chastened by his fall from grace.
"I would like to apologize a thousand times," the 40-year-old Sharper said. Later, he said, looking down and sighing, "I'm still trying to figure out why I made some of these choices."
His voice quivered and choked with emotion when he apologized to his parents.
U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo, in sentencing Sharper, told him she couldn't understand how he did what he did, since he was college educated and obviously had grown up "in one of the most loving households."
"We can never ignore the damage you inflicted on those women and society at large," she said.
Sharper had pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans to drugging three women so he could rape them. He also has pleaded guilty or no contest in state courts in Louisiana, Arizona, California and Nevada to charges arising from allegations of drugging and raping women.
Defense attorney Billy Gibbens asked for leniency because Sharper's testimony helped get "late" guilty pleas from two codefendants who will be sentenced in October.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael McMahon told the judge, "I don't think Mr. Sharper has really wrapped his head around the fact that he is a serial rapist."
Meanwhile, the tearful victim told Sharper that because of arrogance and "clear stupidity," he kept drugging and raping women even after he knew she was talking to state and federal investigators.
"Within days ... you gave me ... and the entire judicial system in Louisiana the big middle finger because you thought we weren't capable of stopping you," she said. "You continued to rape other women in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas."
She said she understands that people make mistakes. "But it wasn't a mistake. A mistake happens once and you never make it again." Rather, she said, it was "a way of life for you and your friends."
Prosecutors suggested a 9-year prison term for Sharper under a multi-jurisdictional plea deal, but Milazzo rejected it in June as too lenient. The sentence she imposed, 18 years and four months imprisonment, was 15 months short of the maximum. Sharper also was fined $20,000. His sentence will run concurrently with any state sentence.
The judge said he will be on three years' supervised release after he gets out of prison, including "sex treatment conditions" and registration as a sex offender.
Sharper or his friend Brandon Licciardi, a former sheriff's deputy in neighboring St. Bernard Parish, put anti-anxiety drugs or sedatives into women's drinks so they could rape them, according to a 15-page statement signed as part of Sharper's plea agreement.
Milazzo has scheduled sentencing Oct. 13 for Licciardi and a second New Orleans codefendant, Erik Nunez.
Charges around the country involve nine victims, but Milazzo has said in court that there may be as many as 16.
Sharper was named All-Pro six times and chosen for the Pro Bowl five times during a career that included stints with the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings. He played in two Super Bowls, one with the Packers as a rookie and one with New Orleans Saints when they won in 2010.
He ended a 14-year career in 2011. He was working as an NFL network analyst when women began telling police in several cities similar stories of blacking out while drinking with him and waking up groggy to find they had been sexually abused.
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It's become impossible to access any of my downloadable files : my browser tells me there is a DNS problem with download.daz3d.com
I tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome ... nothing works.
What's up here ?
I am not certain, because I am having no trouble with downloads, nor have I seen any other reports of any problems.
THere was a problem on Saturday with access to the site for some people, but that was sorted out on Saturday.
Try clearing your download history and cache, maybe do a system refresh and try again.
Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately your advice doesn't seem to help.
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I ask, because that link is not one that we normally see when downloading
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I have just "bought" this week's freebie and checked it out, and it is downloading fine, as I type this. And at the normal download speed for me, and I have terrible broadband connection.
I really do suggest that you close your browser, clear your cache. Possibly even reboot your system, to make sure the cache is completely emptied. Maybe you can even reset your router. It is not a problem that is affecting others.
I just did a system reboot and it works now. Seems to come from the Mountain Lion "upgrade" (never had any need to reboot with Snow Leopard, that I miss so much).
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According to a statement from the shelter, Ollie was recently surrendered by his owner, but is truly "a wonderful boy" who is "incredibly sad not to be in a home with a family."
"I happen to be a big fan of hounds, so Ollie had me at his first 'Ah-WOOO'. Ollie is a very tall, lanky boy and has a distinctive howl; while I love that, I know this combination has deterred some people as they were looking through the kennels for dogs," said Julie Potter, business manager of Paws Crossed.
Potter said she brought Ollie home to see how he'd do overnight in a home setting.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The MIT men's fencing team overpowered its opponents at the Northeast Fencing Conference dual meet held at the University of New Hampshire by winning 94 out of 108 bouts.
The Engineers opened the day with a 27-0 blanking of Boston University and then went on to defeat UMass-Amherst, 21-6. Tech posted a 25-2 victory over the host Wildcats before beating Tufts University, 21-6.
Trevor Chang and Samuel Korb registered records of 12-0 and 11-0, respectively, leading the epee squad to a mark of 33-3. William Walsh had the best showing in the sabre events, finishing 11-1 on the day. Jason Chen went undefeated in foil with a 12-0 ledger.


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MIAMI - A south Florida imam was convicted Monday on charges of funneling more than $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban.
A federal court jury convicted Hafiz Khan, 77, on four counts of providing money and support to the group, which the United States considers a terrorist organization. Each count is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Khan is a US citizen born in Pakistan and was the imam at the Flagler Mosque, one of Miami's oldest mosques. Prosecutors said he sent money to friends and family in Pakistan to be funneled to the Taliban between 2008 and 2010 and that some of the funds were used to buy weapons.
Jurors returned their verdict on the fifth day of deliberations following a two-month trial.
US District Judge Robert Scola set sentencing for May 30. Two of Khan's sons were also arrested in the case in May 2011. Charges against one were dropped for lack of evidence last year, and the judge acquitted the other son for the same reason after prosecutors finished presenting their case in court in January.
Evidence against the elder Khan included bank records and wiretapped phone calls in which he solicited money and expressed support for Pakistani Taliban efforts to overthrow the Pakistani government and attack Americans.
Khan said the money was intended to help support relatives, war victims and a school he had founded in his hometown in the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan.
He testified that he lied about supporting the Taliban because he wanted a $1 million donation from a purported Taliban sympathizer, a man who was actually an FBI informant paid by the government.
The Pakistani Taliban was formed by Islamic militants in 2007. The US State Department declared it a foreign terrorist organization three years later.
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George Clooney and Ryan Gosling film scenes for their new movie The Ides of March on Wednesday (February 23) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Ides of March is the film adaptation of the play Farrugut North, which starred Chris Pine in an Los Angeles production last year.
The film is about "an idealistic staffer (Gosling) for a newbie presidential candidate (Clooney) gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail."
George is also directing the film with Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, and Philip Seymour Hoffman all on board.


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DALLAS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the selection of Belinda McCallister as the new director of its El Paso Area Office, which is part of the agency's Dallas District.
"I am very pleased that we were able to hire someone of Belinda's quality and experience for this position," said Janet Elizondo, director of the EEOC's Dallas District. "She is an outstanding manager and leader. I know she and her staff will serve the people of El Paso, western Texas and southern New Mexico well."
McCallister has 25 years experience in the area of employment discrimination. Prior to her selection as area director, McCallister worked as an enforcement supervisor in the EEOC's Dallas District Office, where she gained an extensive knowledge of the investigative process.
McCallister said, "The El Paso office has enjoyed many accomplishments. I hope to build on that good work and help the office continue to make a difference in the communities we serve."
The EEOC's El Paso Office takes and investigates charges of employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, and it covers a geographic area that includes El Paso, western Texas, including Lubbock, and the southern half of New Mexico.
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Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
The title of this book Lighting Out for the Territory by Roy Morris, jr. refers to the last paragraph in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when Huck reckons that it's time "to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest", which is exactly what Clemens himself did in July 1861. Clemens had ridden as a guerilla maurader for the Missouri militia in a locally formed group in the very early days of the Civil War called the Marion Rangers. They never saw any real action, but his brief stint with them, plus the ever present chance he could be drafted by either side, Union or Confederate, to pilot a gun boat, made the mostly neutral West look inviting.
His brother Orion had been appointed as Secretary to the Territorial Governor of the newly created Nevada Territory. Orion invited Sam to go along to share expenses. From this happenstance beginning one of America's great writers was born.
The book covers the late 1850's to the time Clemens returned to the East to seriously pursue his writing career. He met and married the love of his life, Olivia Langdon, made and lost fortunes, fathered three girls whom he loved dearly and wrote his best work. But that is all in the future for this particular book.
Author Roy Morris is having fun covering Clemens' bachelor days in the wild and wooly West. He tried silver mining, but the work was too hard. He tried working as an assistant to his brother, but he was too bored. When he found he could earn a little money writing pieces for newspapers, he had found his ideal job, sleep in, stay up late, hang around saloons and police stations and write what you observed with a few exagerations thrown in to keep it interesting.
Readers will become reaquainted with Twain's particular type of wit and his life before he became "sivilized". within this book. An index, a bibliography and suggested other books are included.
Doors open at 7:00 the trouble will begin at 8.
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Emeritus Chemistry Professor and Wabash's official, unofficial College Photographer John Zimmerman welcomes the public for an insider's view of 95 of his framed photographs currently on display at the Crawfordsville District Public Library.
Zimmerman invites you to go with him on a trip around the world and take in the vibrant colors, stunning landscapes, and intricate detail of his images, which he's captured in his travels across the United States and around the world.
The exhibit, "Come Travel With Me," is open during normal library operating hours through the month of May. For a special insider's experience, Zimmerman will give a guided talk on Saturday morning, May 17 at 10:00 a.m.
The long-time chemistry teacher picked up his camera long before retirement from the classroom, and annually chronicles the people, events, and history of Wabash College. While always an avid traveler, Zimmerman has stepped up the travel since his retirement. The exhibit at the library includes images captured in Texas, England, Scotland, Wales, San Francisco, Crete, Philadelphia, Northern California, St. Petersburg (Russia), and Cape Cod, to name a few.
"Z has long been a photographer who inspires me to do better work with my camera," said Jim Amidon, director of public affairs at Wabash. "About a dozen times a year, John will either pop into the office or shoot me an email with photographs he's made. Each time there appears to be more, something different in his photography. He approaches his craft like an educator, learning from every image capture about light, color, line, and subject matter. He really has been an inspiration to me — and to all of us who love photography."
Zimmerman has been the official photographer for the Glee Club and Theater Department for decades. He's traveled to England, Australia, New Zealand, and all across the country with the Glee Club, capturing performances in photographs and video to preserve the history of the arts at the College.


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During enlarging, a fact has to be taken into account that the speed of this paper isconsiderably lower than that of other Foma photographic papers so that exposure times have to be adequately longer. Besides, the Schwarzschild effect, being shownparticularly at long exposures (above 15 minutes) along with a low intensity of light,which is characteristic for this type of paper, should be taken into account
|Paper Type
|Base Type
|Fiber Base / Double Weight
|Surface Finish
|25 Sheets
|8" / 20.3 cm
|10" / 25.4 cm
|Packaging Infosdcweyzxsfde
|Package Weight
|0.95 lb
|Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
|11.0 x 1.0 x 0.5"