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Monday, March 18, 2013
Trial of two Ohio students charged with rape nears conclusion
By Drew Singer
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping an incapacitated 16-year-old girl rested their cases on Saturday after testimony from the accuser, and the judge said he would render his verdict the next morning.
Presiding over the non-jury trial, the judge heard closing arguments then adjourned to weigh evidence from four days of testimony, capped by the accuser tearfully acknowledging she had little memory from the night of the alleged assault.
Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, two members of the Steubenville High School football team, are charged as juveniles with raping a girl by digital penetration while she was essentially unconscious from heavy drinking at a party.
If convicted, the defendants could be sentenced to a juvenile detention facility until they turn 21, and be required to register as sex offenders.
The judge said he would announce his verdict in court at 10 a.m. local time on Sunday.
Mays and Richmond have denied raping their accuser and say that any sexual contact that occurred was consensual.
The case drew national attention to the Ohio steel town of Steubenville, 40 miles west of Pittsburgh, after photo and video images, as well as Twitter banter, were posted online appearing to document the alleged assault and its aftermath.
Taking the stand as the final witness of the trial, the accuser recounted drinking vodka mixed with store-bought frozen slushies at a party that evening, then finding herself sitting on a curb early the next day with her hands between her legs, vomiting into the street.
She testified that she otherwise had no recollection of her own of what happened in the early hours of August 12, 2012, when witnesses in the case have said she was too drunk to move or talk.
Under its policy of keeping the names of accusers in rape cases confidential, Reuters is not identifying the girl.
The girl testified that she only learned what had happened to her from text messages, pictures and other information posted on social media by classmates who witnessed the alleged assault. Some of those witnesses have testified.
TEARFUL REACTION
Prosecutors displayed to her some of the pictures that circulated on social media, including one that showed her naked with what prosecutors say is semen on her stomach.
The girl started crying as she looked at the photo, saying she had never seen it before.
"Who is that in the photo?" prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter asked.
"Me," the girl answered.
"How does it make you feel?" Hemmeter asked.
"Not good."
The girl also testified that when she finally went to the hospital, after seeing a video in which classmates joked about the incident, she was reluctant to identify her alleged assailants.
When Hemmeter asked her why, the girl replied: "Because honestly, I was praying that everything I heard wasn't true. I didn't want to get myself into drama because I knew everyone would just blame me."
Defense attorneys have questioned whether the witnesses in the case remembered details from the party or were just repeating rumors that circulated afterward through their social groups or from investigators looking into the rape allegations.
After cross-examination of the accuser by defense lawyers, who sought to highlight inconsistencies between her testimony and accounts of others, the two sides rested their cases and presented their closing arguments.
Hemmeter argued that the very things that made the accuser "an imperfect witness (also) made her, in every sense of the word, a perfect victim."
"She was substantially impaired, and they treated her like a toy," the prosecutor said.
Defense attorney Walter Madison countered that among the witnesses called by prosecutors, "neither of their stories matches up."
He added: "The reality is somebody's telling a lie. ... Her friend told this court she has a reputation for telling lies."
Two former friends of the accuser - Kelsey Weaver and Gianna Anile - told the court on Saturday that she was known for fabricating stories.
Weaver, 17, testified the accuser had told her she liked Mays. Weaver also said she watched the accuser drink four shots of vodka and two beers and flirt with Richmond on the night she says the rape occurred.
Weaver said the accuser told her she thought she had been drugged as well - a conclusion Weaver said she did not believe. Asked by the defense why she had doubts, Weaver said, "Because (she) lies about things."
Weaver and Anile were with the accuser on the night of the alleged rape. Both testified that they ended their friendship with her because of the accusations.
(Writing by James B. Kelleher; editing by Steve Gorman and Xavier Briand)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trial-two-ohio-students-charged-rape-nears-conclusion-025725041.html
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Alarming report: The Health Insurance Woes of African Americans ...
Health care is on the front pages once more as the controversial Affordable Care Act develops into one of the critical pivots on which the success of President Obama?s second term is expected to turn. In 2012, 17.4% of non-Hispanic Blacks were uninsured. More critically, only 55.9% of African Americans are expected to continue to live in good health
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AP PHOTOS: Pakistani troops compete despite wounds
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) ? Dozens of wounded Pakistani troops, many of them maimed during the fighting in the country's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, gathered Saturday for a sports competition designed to help them recover ? in body and spirit.
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks saw thousands of Taliban militants cross over the border into Pakistan, where they meshed with homegrown Taliban fighters and their allies.
Since 2009, Pakistan's army has launched numerous operations across the tribal areas against militants, who have responded with hundreds of attacks against security forces and civilians. At least 4,000 Pakistani forces have been killed, and thousands more wounded.
The most severely wounded are sent to the Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, Islamabad. Despite being in wheelchairs or walking with crutches or on prosthetic limbs, dozens on Saturday competed in soccer, basketball, track races and archery contests.
Capt. Jamshaid Anwar Warraich, 28, lost his leg above the knee in September 2010 in a mine blast in South Waziristan. Now he wears a prosthetic on his leg and has returned to service with his unit based in Rawalpindi.
"If someone is participating in sports, he forgets about that injury, and he comes to know that he can do something ? that he's not disabled," Warraich said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-pakistani-troops-compete-despite-wounds-192754141.html
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Inspired by deep sea sponges: Creating flexible minerals
Mar. 15, 2013 ? Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Germany have created a new synthetic hybrid material with a mineral content of almost 90 percent, yet extremely flexible. They imitated the structural elements found in most sea sponges and recreated the sponge spicules using the natural mineral calcium carbonate and a protein of the sponge. Natural minerals are usually very hard and prickly, as fragile as porcelain.
Amazingly, the synthetic spicules are superior to their natural counterparts in terms of flexibility, exhibiting a rubber-like flexibility. The synthetic spicules can, for example, easily be U-shaped without breaking or showing any signs of fracture This highly unusual characteristic, described by the German researchers in the current issue of Science, is mainly due to the part of organic substances in the new hybrid material. It is about ten times as much as in natural spicules.
Spicules are structural elements found in most sea sponges. They provide structural support and deter predators. They are very hard, prickly, and even quite difficult to cut with a knife. The spicules of sponges thus offer a perfect example of a lightweight, tough, and impenetrable defense system, which may inspire engineers to create body armors of the future.
The researchers led by Wolfgang Tremel, Professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Hans-J?rgen Butt, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, used these natural sponge spicules as a model to cultivate them in the lab. The synthetic spicules were made from calcite (CaCO3) and silicatein-?. The latter is a protein from siliceous sponges that, in nature, catalyzes the formation of silica, which forms the natural silica spicules of sponges. Silicatein-? was used in the lab setting to control the self-organization of the calcite spicules. The synthetic material was self-assembled from an amorphous calcium carbonate intermediate and silicatein and subsequently aged to the final crystalline material. After six months, the synthetic spicules consisted of calcite nanocrystals aligned in a brick wall fashion with the protein embedded like cement in the boundaries between the calcite nanocrystals. The spicules were of 10 to 300 micrometers in length with a diameter of 5 to 10 micrometers.
As the scientists, among them chemists, polymer researchers, and the molecular biologist Professor Werner E. G. M?ller from the Mainz University Medical Center, also write in their Science publication, the synthetic spicules have yet another special characteristic, i.e., they are able to transmit light waves even when they are bent.
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- F. Natalio, T. P. Corrales, M. Panthofer, D. Schollmeyer, I. Lieberwirth, W. E. G. Muller, M. Kappl, H.-J. Butt, W. Tremel. Flexible Minerals: Self-Assembled Calcite Spicules with Extreme Bending Strength. Science, 2013; 339 (6125): 1298 DOI: 10.1126/science.1216260
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