UFC 157 results: Ronda Rousey worried about sports bra as much as Liz Carmouche

UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey had more than opponent Liz Carmouche to worry about in their UFC 157 bout. She was also worried about a possible wardrobe malfunction.

Ronda Rousey proved to UFC fans that she's a force to be reckoned with by pulling off a first-round armbar victory over Liz Carmouche late in the first round of their UFC 157 main event fight. Rousey was in a bit of trouble early in the bout for a couple of reasons though. One was the fact that Carmouche was on her back hunting for a choke. The other was a the threat of a wardrobe malfunction. Rousey explained the situation to Ariel Helwani on Fuel's UFC 157 post-fight show:

"I was thinking about my bra, actually. I kept thinking, I didn't order this one myself, so they gave me my weigh in bra for the fight. If you look back, I was adjusting myself at one point while she was on my back. Multitasking!"

She also went into more detail about the whole UFC experience, and the fight itself:

"I was trying just to ignore everything until I was out there. It was weird. I was in there just yesterday so it felt like a familiar place. It didn't seem odd at all. I think I was less nervous. I think I was most nervous for the Julia Budd fight, way back, I don't know why I was so nervous for that one. On the ground I feel so comfortable. I don't ever feel like I'm in danger, so I don't mind taking a lot of risks. I felt fine with her on my back, I was thinking more about keeping my sports bra up while she is trying to choke me. I felt very safe and in control even though it didn't look like that."

Rousey (7-0) is expected to face the winner of the Cat Zingano-Miesha Tate bout for her next title defense.

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Source: http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/2/24/4023638/ufc-157-results-ronda-rousey-sports-bra-liz-carmouche

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Texas tightens rules on troopers' aerial shooting

By Paul J. Weber
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas ? Nearly four months after a Texas state trooper in a helicopter fired on a pickup truck speeding along the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two Guatemalan immigrants, state officials said Thursday that troopers are now forbidden from aerial shooting unless they're under fire.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced the policy change while facing questions from lawmakers about the deadly high-speed pursuit near La Joya in October. The truck was mistakenly thought to be carrying a drug load, and DPS says a trooper opened fire to disable the vehicle because it was barreling toward a school zone.

McCraw continued to defend that shooting, even while rolling out new rules that would now forbid it.

"I'm convinced that now, from a helicopter platform, that we shouldn't shoot unless being shot at, or someone is being shot at," McCraw said.

According to the revised policy later released by DPS, "a firearms discharge from an aircraft is authorized only when an officer reasonably believes that the suspect has used or is about to use deadly force by use of a deadly weapon against the air crew, ground officers or innocent third parties."

A suspect driving aggressively or recklessly does not constitute use of a deadly weapon, the new policy states.

The American Civil Liberties Union quickly applauded the move.

"We are relieved that Texas is ending this extreme practice, which no other Southwestern border states have ever allowed," said Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas. "We hope that this decision is a step, if only a small one, toward ending the culture of violence that pervades enforcement of border security in Texas."

Criminal prosecutors in Hidalgo County still are investigating the shooting, which caused the truck to crash into a ditch. Two illegal immigrants died, and a third was injured. Authorities said the wounded immigrants were among six hiding under a blanket in the truck's bed.

"I'm a firm believer they did exactly what they thought they needed to do," McCraw said Thursday.

The incident began with a chase after Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens spotted a red pickup near La Joya and the U.S.-Mexico border, about 250 miles south of San Antonio. The wardens requested help, and the DPS helicopter joined midway in the 14-mile, high-speed pursuit of what authorities said they believed was a "typical covered drug load."

In the days following the incident, civil rights groups and the Guatemalan government expressed concerns that DPS essentially was investigating itself because the Texas Rangers, who were leading the investigation, fall under the DPS umbrella. A week after the incident, McCraw said he had asked the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to investigate and would turn over the Texas Rangers' report.

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Berlusconi sex trial halted until after election

MILAN (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor will be postponed until after this month's election due to his campaign commitments, Italian judges ruled on Monday.

The next hearing in the trial will now be held on March 4, a week after the February 24-25 elections. Milan judges upheld an argument from Berlusconi's legal team that his political campaign constituted a legitimate impediment to his attendance.

The 76-year-old media magnate and leader of the center-right coalition, who faces separate trials for tax fraud and other offences, has had all his trials postponed until March.

The so-called "Bunga Bunga" scandal, in which Berlusconi is accused of paying for sex with an underage night-club dancer, was among factors that accelerated his demise as prime minister in late 2011, at the peak of the euro zone debt crisis.

Berlusconi has conducted a vigorous television campaign which has enabled him to pick up support in opinion polls but his center-right alliance still lags the center-left Democratic Party.

(Reporting by Manuela D'Alessandro; Writing by Antonella Ciancio; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/berlusconi-sex-trial-halted-until-election-140539758.html

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The Millions : Tillie Olsen and the Writing of Fiction

This piece was produced in partnership with Bloom, a new site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. Click here to visit Bloom, where Tillie Olsen will be the featured author throughout the week.

Sometime in the seventies, in a dilapidated New Haven bookstore I picked up a paperback copy of Tell Me A Riddle, Tillie Olsen?s collection of four short stories. The book had been celebrated when it came out in 1961, but I hadn?t known about it. I was the mother of young children, beginning to publish poems. I wanted to write fiction, but couldn?t. Tillie Olsen?s stories (and Grace Paley?s, which I discovered at around the same time) turned me into a fiction writer, as if they pointed to a door in what had looked like a blank wall?a door to which, as it turned out, I owned a key.

I thought then that short stories weren?t an interesting form, but I had read few of them, and almost none by contemporary American women. I associated short stories with tight plots and surprising endings that affected the reader intellectually more than emotionally.

The four stories I now read by Tillie Olsen, about ordinary life ? children, parents, old people, black and white people trying to lead lives that included one another, people worrying about money, people whose friendships were strained by human weakness and societal pressures ? did not have surprising endings, only endings that showed how the difficult truths that the author had laid out were even more true than you might have expected, but that love was also more possible than you might have thought. Tillie Olsen?s characters had faults. They were likelier to say the wrong thing than the right. They hurt one another. But nobody disappeared permanently from anybody else?s life. Like the family I grew up in ? my parents were the children of immigrant secular Jews, like some of Olsen?s characters and like Tillie Olsen herself ? they said the unspeakable to one another, and continued going about their business together, wounded or not. Moreover, Olsen?s stories were political without being preachy, without sacrificing the particular person to the general truth. They are as strong today as when they first came out. They have psychological precision, musical language that reveals feeling and experience by entering into a character?s sensory experience, and political ferocity expressed in plausible generalizations from the experience of intensely real men and women.

Here?s the opening of ?Hey Sailor, What Ship??:

The grimy light; the congealing smell of cigarettes that had been smoked long ago and of liquor that had been drunk long ago; the boasting, cursing, wheedling, cringing voices, and the greasy feel of the bar as he gropes for his glass.

?He? is Whitey, a Merchant Marine on shore leave, trying to get himself sufficiently under control to reach the house of the old friends who deplore his drunkenness and despair but let him in. I?d never before seen a story about that kind of friendship, but in my own life I?d known some of them ? friendships that are mostly painful, hard to justify to skeptical onlookers, but indispensable.

?O Yes,? also about friendship, begins with a young girl and her mother, ?the only white people there, sitting in the dimness of the Negro church that had once been a corner store, and all through the bubbling, swelling, seething of before the services, twelve-year-old Carol clenches tight her mother?s hand, the other resting lightly on her friend, Parialee Phillips, for whose baptism she has come.? The story is about two girls, one black and one white, whose friendship is destroyed as they become teenagers by the differing expectations of teachers, the pressure of their friends, and the contrasting lives they live because of poverty and race. Even now, decades later, I?ve read few stories, especially by white people, about the stresses of black and white friendship ? as opposed to stories about black servants and white employers.

Those two stories are my favorites, though the others are more anthologized and famous. The first story in the book is ?I Stand Here Ironing,? in which a mother ironing clothes outlines, in an imaginary conversation with a social worker or guidance counselor, the obstacles in herself and in her life that kept her from caring properly for her oldest child ? who, she hopes, will at least learn ?that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.? The last story ? almost a novella ? is ?Tell Me A Riddle,? about the dying of a passionately political old woman who was an imprisoned Russian radical in her youth and cannot relax, ever; her husband, who just wants to move to someplace comfortable and live out their remaining time peacefully; and the granddaughter who nurses the old woman and makes the couple behave like human beings, forcing them to become the old lovers they still are by rejecting any other view of them except as people who love and are loved.

The paperback I read, back in the seventies, had no cover. Later I learned that when you bought a paperback without a cover, it meant that the author and publisher were being deprived of money: booksellers tore off covers and returned them to publishers for refunds, and they were supposed to discard the books. But if Tillie Olsen had known how I came by her stories, I don?t think she?d have objected. A Communist when she was young ? she was born in 1912 and was in her twenties during the Great Depression ? she was a lefty all her life and, apparently, took delight in almost any disruption of established order. In her last decades she was a vocal feminist who regularly used more than her allotted time as a public speaker, and jumped from subject to subject, resisting all demands ? benign or not ? for coherence and logic. Her passionate speeches about feminism and the thirties inspired many. When she was invited to Yale, a mile away from my house, I heard her speak. She spontaneously sang ?Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?? and I was smitten. She died in 2007.

Her biographer, Panthea Reid (Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles), provides useful and fascinating information, but disapproves of her subject. Tillie Olsen wasn?t truthful, regularly fictionalizing her experience. Her extreme disorganization and heedlessness sometimes did harm. And like the regretful mother in ?I Stand Here Ironing,? she didn?t take good care of her first child. Reid still manages to show that Tillie Olsen was a splendid, larger-than-life woman, and that many people forgave her faults, finding a great deal in her to love.

Tillie Olsen was forty-nine when Tell Me a Riddle was published. After writing the stories in it and publishing them in journals, Olsen won lucrative grants and fellowships. Publishers twice gave her contracts for novels (back in the thirties, Bennett Cerf, at Random House, worked hard to get her to write, and provided over a thousand dollars as an advance to support her meanwhile). Olsen repeatedly told her publishers she was almost done with a novel, but she never completed one, or any stories except for those four. She promised to write, accepted money to write, but didn?t write. Reid describes these periods as if Tillie Olsen was making irresponsible choices, but any reader who has tried writing a novel will guess how much pain she must have felt.

Olsen did write part of a novel. It was lost among her papers, found forty years later, and published, when the author was in her sixties, as Yonnondio: From the Thirties. Its harrowing, gorgeous, sensitively written chapters recount the childhood of Mazie Holbrook. Her father works in the Wyoming mines, then becomes a tenant farmer whose large family nearly starves. He finds work digging in the sewers, where the men are forced to work more quickly than is safe, and finally he gets a job in a slaughterhouse, where he is in danger from scalding water. The story is an indictment of injustice, callousness, and lack of opportunity, a chronicle of the Great Depression ? and also a sharply observed account of kids growing up. It is even more fervent in its outrage than Tell Me a Riddle, but no less exact and irrresisitible in depicting life moment by moment. It breaks off at page 132 with a note from Olsen that starts, ?Reader, it was not to have ended here.?

Tillie Olsen?s only other book was Silences, published in 1978. I still have the hardcover edition I bought for $10.95 when the book was published: I didn?t deprive Tillie Olsen of all the royalties I owed her. Silences consists of quotations, lists, transcripts of talks. It includes an essay about Rebecca Harding Davis that Olsen wrote for a reprint of Davis?s nineteenth-century novel Life in the Iron Mills. In disconnected or partly connected paragraphs and footnotes, Silences argues that life as we?ve known it through most of history discourages writers ? especially women ? from writing. It looks at all the reasons women have failed to write and publish over the centuries, from the need to take care of children, to biased reviewers, to lack of confidence and emotional breakdowns. Olsen barely mentions her own situation, but it becomes clear that when she did have enough time and money to write, she simply couldn?t. We learn from her biography that she worked full time as an activist for the Communist Party for years, including the years when Bennett Cerf was waiting for his novel. It must have been hard to believe that she could do more for the world by sitting alone writing and rewriting paragraphs than by going out and fighting for social change. Also, my guess is that Tillie Olsen didn?t know how to write a novel ? it?s not obvious ? and resisted the consecutive thinking it would require. She had no one to talk with ? either in a formal class or in friendship with other novelists ? about just how writers plan, shape, and complete novels. She wrote the four stories in Tell Me A Riddle, in fact, when she was allowed to audit a creative writing class, taught by Arthur Foff, which one of her daughters attended. He encouraged her, told her about writing fellowships at Stanford, and urged her to apply. She won a fellowship and was helped further by a teacher there, Richard Scowcroft. But still couldn?t produce a novel.

A novelist friend told me recently that she was thrilled to come upon Silences when it was published. My recollection is that I didn?t like it. I wanted more fiction from Tillie Olsen, not an explanation of why there wouldn?t be any. And Silences was alarming. When it came out I had three children under the age of eight and had published no books. It did offer a little bit of hope, finding some cause for optimism in the accomplishments of the women?s movement. It still must have been difficult for me to believe, reading it, that I could write and publish when so many couldn?t. But I did write and publish stories and novels, partly because of what I learned from Tillie Olsen?s work. She wrote so little, but she did write those forthright, honest, unsentimental stories about city life and family life in an imperfect society. Living her politics, she wrote with keen attention and respect about people and situations that might have seemed too insignificant for fiction. Decades later, I am still trying to emulate the courage in those four stories.

For more on Tillie Olsen, and other authors who ?bloomed? after the age of 40, visit Bloom.

Source: http://www.themillions.com/2013/02/tillie-olsen-and-the-writing-of-fiction.html

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US, Canada Dig Out After snowstorm; 15 Dead

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) ? About 310,000 homes and business remained without power Sunday as the U.S. Northeast and Canada dug out from a blizzard that dumped up to 3 feet (a meter) of snow on the most densely populated part of the region. The death toll was at 15.

Some motorists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow. Utilities in some hard-hit New England states predicted that the storm could leave some customers in the dark at least until Monday.

?We?ve never seen anything like this,? said county official Steven Bellone of New York's Long Island, where hundreds of drivers had been caught on highways by Friday's fast-moving storm. Local police said Sunday that all known abandoned cars were searched and no one needing medical help was found.

At least 11 deaths in the U.S. and four in Canada were blamed on the snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was overcome by carbon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled Saturday morning.

Roads were impassable, and cars were entombed by snow drifts. Some people couldn't open the doors of their homes.

?It?s like lifting cement,? said Michael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Massachusetts.

Blowing with hurricane-force winds, the storm hit hard along the heavily populated corridor between New York City and Maine.

New York City's three major airports _ LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, New Jersey _ were up and running by late Saturday morning after shutting down the evening before. Boston's Logan Airport resumed operations late Saturday night.

Most of the power outages were in Massachusetts.

At New York's Fashion Week, women tottered on 4-inch heels through the snow to get to the tents to see designers' newest collections.

In Massachusetts, the National Guard and Worcester emergency workers teamed up to deliver a baby at the height of the storm at the family's home. Everyone was fine.

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Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/393469/us-canada-dig-out-after-snowstorm-15-dead

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Grammy Best Dance Album Belongs To Kaskade Or Skrillex

Chicago electronic trio Krewella ready their debut album and wish two of their fellow EDM stars luck at Sunday night's award show.
By Akshay Bhansali

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Tough questions await Obama's CIA nominee

John Brennan speaks about the killing of Osama bin Laden from the Briefing Room of the White House in Washington??White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan will face questions about America?s expanded and unpopular drone war?including strikes that have killed U.S. citizens around the world?when he faces the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday in what is expected to be a tough hearing on his nomination to head the CIA.

Brennan, a gruff 25-year CIA veteran, will likely also be asked about the agency?s use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding that meet international definitions of torture during George W. Bush's presidency, as well as leaks of national security information under President Barack Obama. Republicans have charged that the Obama administration has disclosed sensitive information for political gain. The White House denies this.

While he is sure to face sharp questioning at the hearing, which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. EST, Brennan?s journey to confirmation is more likely to resemble John Kerry?s road to the State Department than Chuck Hagel?s tortuous path thus far as Obama's nominee to head the Defense Department.

Brennan got a bit of help late Wednesday from Obama, who directed the Justice Department to share with the Senate and House Intelligence Committees several classified memos laying out the legal rationale for drone strikes, notably those that target Americans. Some of the Senate committee?s eight Democrats and seven Republicans had suggested they might block Brennan's nomination until the administration made those documents available.

?I am going to pull out all the stops to get the actual legal analysis because without it, in effect, the administration is practicing secret law,? Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the panel, warned Wednesday before Obama's move.

The issue attracted fresh scrutiny this week when NBC News obtained and published a 16-page ?white paper? giving the green light for targeting individual Americans anywhere outside the U.S. for assassination?without oversight from Congress or the courts, and even if the U.S. citizen in question is not actively plotting a specific terrorist attack.

The White House on Tuesday defended targeted assassinations as ?necessary,? ?ethical? and ?wise.? Human rights and civil liberties groups have condemned those strikes partly because they are carried out without oversight from American courts or Congress. Other critics have warned that civilian deaths in drone strikes inflame anti-U.S. sentiment and help Islamist extremist groups recruit new members.

Brennan will also face questions about exactly when, and how, he opposed Bush administration ?enhanced interrogation techniques??practices like waterboarding that the United States used to label torture. He has said in the past that, while at the CIA, he objected to that program.

In a pre-hearing submission to the committee, Brennan said he ?did not play a role in its creation, execution or oversight? and ?had significant concerns and personal objections? that he expressed ?privately? to colleagues at the agency. Brennan will tread carefully: He withdrew his name from consideration to head the CIA four years ago in the face of opposition from liberal groups who charged that he had not done enough to oppose such interrogations. And Republican Sen. John McCain, who survived torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, released a letter late Wednesday openly doubting that Brennan put up much of a fight.

Brennan will also likely face questions about the disclosure of national security information to the media. Republicans have repeatedly charged over the past four years that the Obama administration has released sensitive secrets for political gain.

In another submission to the committee, Brennan for the first time acknowledged that he had taken part in voluntary interviews with federal investigators looking into disclosures about America?s cyberwarfare against Iran and a foiled bomb plot tied to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Brennan said prosecutors had informed his lawyer that he is ?only a witness? in both cases.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cia-nominee-brennan-faces-tough-questions-confirmation-hearing-093053057--politics.html

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Criminal Law Experts, Politicians & More Wanted - Legal Playground

Below are some of the latest media opportunities for legal experts. Good luck.

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Summary:? Criminal Law Experts

Name: Tim Nats

Media Outlet:? ExpertBeacon; Source: ReporterConnection

Deadline:? Ongoing

Query:? ExpertBeacon is expanding its Legal category and seeking Criminal Law experts, including, but not limited to the following topics: Criminal Procedure; Criminal Assault; Property Crimes; Homicide/Murder/Manslaughter; Drug Charges; Domestic Violence; Sex Crimes; White Collar Crimes; Misdemeanors; Traffic Offenses; Juvenile Crimes; Probation and Parole; Bail and Bonds. This can include criminal defense attorneys, legal consultants, legal scholars, forensic and medical experts, professional mediators, private investigators, et al, and any of those who have a qualified expertise on the subject. On the website, each expert will get attribution as a contributing collaborator and their dedicated promotional profile page published. There is no fee to participate. If interested, apply at: http://www.reporterconnection.com/index.php?p=pubse_response_query&qid=21702

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Summary: Just BK Talk Radio Show seeks Politically Minded People

Name: Brian Kellar

Media Outlet:? Just BK; Source: RadioGuestList

Query:? I am looking for someone who has knowledge of politics particularly the second amendment. Also anyone who is an author and might want free promotion for their book.

Show Description: Just BK is a new talk show on the internet. I was with another network and people know me. I have just ventured out on my own. On the show I talk about the day?s current news. I talk a little about politics as well as adding my opinion to it all. I also try to add a little fun into the mix. Although Just BK is a new show, BK is well known on spreaker.

I was with a network on Spreaker and decided to go at it alone. I have a lot of fun on the radio but, at times it would be nice to have guests on. I know there are things that listeners may be interested in but just may not know about. My show would give guests a platform to either promote books or even give their opinion on a multitude of topics.

Audience Demographics for Show: Typical listeners tend to be between 22 to 60 years old. They vary from unemployed to keeping their job secret. All walks of life.

Audience Size for Show and Source for Claim: Based on previous shows I have done on the network I was on, my shows averaged between 20-35 listeners per episode. Having guests on would hopefully increase those numbers.

Show Format: Online radio show; Recorded podcast

Broadcast Schedule + Format + Network(s):? Just BK airs M-F from 9am-12 pm Pacific time. It airs on www.spreaker.

Booking Contact for Interviews: Brian Kellar
Email Brian at william.kellar30@gmail.com

Radio Show Web Site: http://www.spreaker.com/user/just-bk

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Summary: Authority on Texas Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Disclosure Act

Name: Kevin Price Price of Business

Media Outlet: Price of Business; Source: HARO

Deadline: 6:00 PM EST - 6 February

Query:? I would like to interview an authority on the Texas Hydraulic
Fracturing Fluids Disclosure Act for my radio show.

Requirements:? An expert who can discuss the law and what it means to energy. If interested, send an email to: query-2t1r@helpareporter.net

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