Luckily, he was conscious when he was transported to the hospital.
Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 3, 2015
Thứ Sáu, 27 tháng 3, 2015
The 25-year-old mother of former New England Patriots star’s daughter must make a difficult choice today.
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Shayanna Jenkins is not in an enviable position.
Jenkins, Aaron Hernandez's 25-year-old fianceé and the mother of his daughter, is expected to be called to the witness stand Friday in his trial for the murder of Odin Lloyd. In February, she was granted immunity from criminal charges in exchange for testifying against him. If she takes the stand and refuses to speak, she'll be charged with contempt of court. However, prosecutors hope she will flip and testify against Hernandez, the father of her two-year-old daughter, Avielle.
In this murder trial — the first of two that Hernandez faces this year — Jenkins plays a central role.
The victim, Odin Lloyd, was the boyfriend of Shayanna's sister, Shaneah. Hernandez and Lloyd were introduced by the sisters, though Shaneah has testified that the men were little more than cordial acquaintances. Shayanna is positioned to choose between potentially betraying her sister or her fianceé, with whom she has a child.
If she testifies against Hernandez, and tells the jury that he is guilty, he will have little left in his defense.
If she does not, she will be held in contempt of court and jailed until the end of the trial, which would leave her child with both parents in jail. And if she does not testify against him and Hernandez is found not guilty, he still faces another trial for a 2012 double homicide, along with multiple charges of owning firearms without a permit. Also, jurors could still find Hernandez guilty on forensic evidence if she does not choose to testify.
Jenkins has had a lot of scenarios to consider. If her attorney has advised her to take the risk of contempt, it's possible she's doubtful of the prosecutor's case against Hernandez.
Before the trial, the Bristol County Sheriff said he would not allow Hernandez and Jenkins to marry. Even so, Massachusetts state law only awards spousal privilege for incidents that occurred after the date of marriage, not before.
Prosecutors have spent two months building their case against Hernandez, and he's caught few, if any breaks, with evidence against him. Experts have testified that a shoe print that was found near Odin Lloyd's body match a pair of Air Jordans Hernandez was seen wearing the night of the homicide. A bullet casing found in the rental car Hernandez was driving the night of the homicide was recovered and matched to the other casings found at the scene. Surveillance video from Hernandez's own home shows him walking around carrying a Glock the morning of Lloyd's murder. Despite the arsenal of circumstantial evidence, prosecutors have yet to establish a potential motive, and the murder weapon was never recovered.
Shayanna Jenkins could clear those loose ends up. Testimony so far has insinuated that she threw away the murder weapon — a Glock .45 — at Hernandez's direction. Shayanna's sister, Shaneah, and the Hernandez family housekeeper have both testified to seeing Shayanna leave the house with a large black trash bag with a box-shaped object in it the day after Lloyd's murder. Jenkins borrowed her sister's car, and told her she was going to the bank to get cash to pay the housekeeper, who later testified that she was paid with a check. Both witnesses have described Shayanna as being "anxious" that day.
Attorneys for both sides have been arguing this week over whether or not to admit transcripts of phone conversations Hernandez made from prison, which are not privileged. He had multiple conversations about creating trust funds for the children of his terminally ill cousin, Tanya Singleton, who has been charged with accessory to murder and sentenced to home confinement for contempt of court. Prosecutors hope Jenkins will tell them Hernandez was paying off potential witnesses against him, but defense attorneys will make the claim that he was trying to support the children of a dying woman.
Shayanna has not appeared in court for three weeks, but reports from the courtroom say she is present Friday, and wearing her engagement ring.
The late UNC coach’s trust sent letters to about 180 former players this month informing them of the gift.
Legendary UNC men's basketball coach Dean Smith passed away last month at age 83, but his players just got a reminder of how much he cared for them.
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The trustee confirmed the gift to the players to the Associated Press.
The letters told the players to "enjoy a dinner out compliments of Coach Dean Smith."
Former player Serge Zwikker told ESPN he was incredibly moved by the gesture.
"My wife opened the letter and handed it to me," he said. "At first I didn't know what it was, but when it hit me, it put a tear in my eye. Even after he passed, he was still all about his players."
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Warning: Every mic is a hot mic. Nigel Hayes’s reaction is pretty adorable, though.
This is No. 1-ranked University of Wisconsin Badgers basketball player Nigel Hayes.
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His team is competing in the NCAA Tournament, and the second-year forward has given some ~rather entertaining~ press conferences lately.
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Hayes is fascinated by stenographers. Last week, during a pre-game press conference, Hayes tested the stenographer's skills by rattling off a random list of wonky words.
Before he answered a reporter's question, Hayes said, "I'd like to say a few words: cattywampus, onomatopoeia, and antidisestablishmentarianism."
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When reporters asked about the tongue-twisters, Hayes told them, "She does an amazing job typing words," and that "If I say a word like soliloquy right now, she may have to work a little bit harder to type that word. Or quandary, zephyr, xylophone, things like that, that make her job more interesting."
Thứ Năm, 26 tháng 3, 2015
Thứ Tư, 25 tháng 3, 2015
A memo filed Monday contends that the team they can still use the name — but so can everyone else.
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder.
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In 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office canceled the team's registered trademark, saying the name is "disparaging" to Native Americans. The team filed a lawsuit against the Native American activists who filed the original complaint, claiming a violation of their First Amendment rights.
The team retains their rights while the decision is under appeal, and the Department of Justice's filing is not a decision on the matter, but rather an endorsement of the patent office's move.
(Throughout the memo, the team is referred to as "Pro-Football, Inc.," or "PFI," which is the name the team uses for business purposes.)
The DOJ says that the purpose of a registered trademark is essentially to limit the language rights of others, and that the team's "free speech" argument shows faulty logic.
Indeed, PFI and the ACLU both admit that canceling PFI's registrations would result in reducing PFI's ability to restrict the speech of others. [...] These admissions doom PFI's First Amendment argument. Making it "easier for other people" to use words and symbols, and allowing them to do so without first obtaining a license from PFI, means that more speech would be legally permitted by canceling the registrations.
The DOJ also says the Redskins have conflated the meaning of "trademark" and a "registered trademark," possibly to misconstrue the impact of the repeal.
PFI engages in unsupported, whopping hyperbole when it asserts that "[w]ithout a federal registration, enforcement of trademark rights becomes exponentially more burdensome." A registration adds little and possibly no valuable to a widely known trademark. [...] As noted, the owner of an unregistered mark may bring an infringement action under the Lanham Act and the common law for injunction or damages.
The Redskins (and the ACLU) have argued that the Lanham Act, which prohibits the government from registering trademarks for, among other things, language that disparages a group's racial identity, is a flimsy and inconsistently applied facet of trademark law. In the memo, the DOJ ardently defends the Lanham Act, and says the argument is unfairly taken out of context.
While it may have other substantial interests as well, the Government certainly has a substantial interest in dissociating itself from commercial trademarks that may disparage fellow American citizens or others, especially marks that may disparage based on ethnicity or race.
The Redskins have argued that saying their name "may disparage" Native Americans is too vague, but the DOJ lists a handful of examples of equally "vague" language that have been deemed suitable by the Supreme Court.
Whether the term "redskins" may disparage Native Americans is no more vague than numerous other statutory and regulatory questions that courts have upheld against vagueness challenges. [...] Further, when it applied for its registrations, PFI was fully on notice that its marks contained matter that may disparage. Dictionaries before and during the time when PFI obtained its registrations stated that "redskin" is an offensive term.
Since November 1992, Examining Attorneys have refused at least twelve applications on grounds that "redskins" may disparage. Seven of these refusals involved PFI applications.
The team has claimed that losing their trademark registrations would cause a significant loss of value to their brand, but the DOJ again contends they can "still assign and license these marks, and can still bring infringement actions for injunctions and damages."
In layman's terms, the DOJ is telling the team that they can retain the name and image, but without the guarantee of exclusive rights. The DOJ argues that the team has attempted to misrepresent the rights they will retain without their commercial trademark registrations.
A hearing between the parties has been scheduled for June 24.
BuzzFeed News interviewed Ashima Shiraishi, who just broke two world rock climbing records. She’s only 13, so of course we used Snapchat.
This is Ashima Shiraishi. She's one of the top female rock climbers in the world — and she's only 13.
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At 13, she is also the youngest person — male or female — to climb something so hard.
The climb is expected to be rated "5.15a," a difficulty grade that only a handful of the world's best male climbers have ever completed. The rating is awaiting consensus that will cement Ashima's climb as a world record: A handhold on the route recently broke off, making Ashima the first person to climb the more difficult route.
Only two women in history have ever even climbed the difficulty below, 5.14d.
It was such a hard climb that at some points, Ashima had to be upside down.
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