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Earlier this week, former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin tweeted, "Rape is the new missionary." After coming under fire for that tweet, UFC president Dana White said that Griffin was upset and that the tweet was misunderstood. Now, Griffin has apologized and made a donation to a Las Vegas rape crisis center.
On Thursday, Griffin visited the Rape Crisis Center in Las Vegas to deliver the apology and donation in person.
"I feel bad, I want to apologize, I feel like a should be punished a little bit," Griffin said [to KTNV-TV].
"Maybe other professional athletes or just guys in locker rooms can kind of be more sensitive towards the topic of rape.? Once you take the comments in the light of day you feel disgusted by it, but at the time you don't think," Griffin said.
Kudos to Griffin for not just apologizing for the remark that was called "disgusting" by the executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, but for making a donation and using it as an opportunity to question how rape is talked about.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast ? A defense lawyer in Ivory Coast says eight allies of former President Laurent Gbagbo will be released from prison on Thursday, even though the charges against them have not been dropped.
Herve Gouamene said late Wednesday that judges agreed to grant the provisional release of the prisoners, including former Family Minister Danielle Boni Claverie and Scientific Research Minister Joseph Kata Kete, as well as advisers.
About 100 Gbagbo allies were detained after the former strongman was forced out in April with the help of U.N. airstrikes. He is under house arrest in a remote region of the country.
His party has not submitted any candidates for upcoming legislative elections, and party leaders say they will only participate if their leader is freed.
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STOCKHOLM ? The blare of techno music throbbed through the streets of Stockholm as churchgoers lined up outside the Church of All Saints for a service far removed from quiet meditation.
Instead of praying silently and singing gentle hymns, the congregation inside raved to techno sounds in ultraviolet lighting at Friday's "techno Mass" ? more like a disco than a service conducted by the Lutheran church.
It is the church's latest attempt at attracting young congregations in a country where attendance at services has been dwindling for decades.
Olle Idestrom organized the Mass for the second time, and says the feedback has mainly been positive.
"There is already a hip hop Mass, there is a rock Mass and a jazz Mass," the 28-year-old priest said. "But it is mainly club music that we listen to and that we like dancing to, so it felt like a natural choice."
And it seems to work.
Unlike at traditional Sunday services where several pews regularly remain empty, Idestrom had to turn away worshippers at the first techno Mass in April.
There was extra seating Friday night at the church, which has a normal capacity of 400.
The service started with organ music and choir singing but soon broke into powerful techno beats to loud approving claps, shouts and cheers. People jumped up and danced at their seats.
Over the past 10 years, membership in the country's Lutheran church has fallen 13 percent and attendance at regular Sunday services plunged 50 percent to 4.6 million visits last year, worrying the clergy.
The church in Sweden has become increasingly progressive.
In 2009, it allowed its first female priests, and two years ago ordained its first openly gay bishop, Eva Brunne, and gave priests the right to wed same-sex couples.
Idestrom says his modern Mass is a further development on the road of progress.
"People say this is exactly what the Church of Sweden needs," he said. "We need to develop the services so that we have a service also for people, mainly from the younger generation, who like this kind of music."
But not everyone is happy about the development.
"There are more than enough entertainment halls in the city to cover all tastes. Let the church remain a place for quiet contact with spirituality," said Dan Kareliusson, a representative of the nationalist Sweden Democrats party.
(This version corrects that first techno Mass was in April.)
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FILE - In this May 4 2005 file photo, Lucas Papademos, former European Central Bank (ECB) Vice President attends a news conference about the results of the ECB-meeting in Berlin. Former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos joined Greek political leaders at powersharing talks on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 to form a new government. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, Pool-File)
FILE - In this May 4 2005 file photo, Lucas Papademos, former European Central Bank (ECB) Vice President attends a news conference about the results of the ECB-meeting in Berlin. Former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos joined Greek political leaders at powersharing talks on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 to form a new government. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, Pool-File)
Outgoing Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, center, is accompanied by his advisors and security detail as he arrives at the presidential palace for a meeting between political parties led by Greek President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. The hope is that the fourth day of talks will finally yield a new prime minister to head an interim government that will secure the country's continued bailout funding. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Presidential palace guards march outside the presidential palace, during a meeting leading by Greek President Karolos Papoulias with the Greek political parties in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. The hope is that the fourth day of talks will finally yield a new prime minister to head an interim government that will secure the country's continued bailout funding. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
The head of the opposition conservatives, Antonis Samaras, right, arrives, at the presidential palace for a meeting with the other political parties and leading by Greek President Karolos Papoulias, as he accompanies by his party's spokesman Giannis Michelakis in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. The hope is that the fourth day of talks will finally yield a new prime minister to head an interim government that will secure the country's continued bailout funding. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou waves to the media as he arrives at the presidential palace for a meeting with the other political parties and leading by Greek President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. The hope is that the fourth day of talks will finally yield a new prime minister to head an interim government that will secure the country's continued bailout funding. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Lucas Papademos, a top former European Central Bank official, joined Greek political leaders at power-sharing talks Thursday, becoming the front-runner to lead an interim coalition government.
The interim government is being formed to make sure debt-strapped Greece gets its latest bailout payment and to approve a new euro130 billion ($177 billion) international rescue package from eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund.
Greece is under growing international pressure to hammer out a coalition deal that would likely run the country until early elections in late February, after ratifying and negotiating details of the new debt deal. That deal is the country's second massive bailout, after a first euro110 billion ($150 billion) rescue package was deemed not enough to keep Greece from bankruptcy.
Papademos, a former ECB vice president who is not a member of any party, joined the talks two hours after the meeting started between Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras. Papandreou has promised to quit when the coalition deal is reached, but the talks have repeatedly stalled since Papandreou and Samaras made the historic commitment Sunday to forge a unity government.
Papademos has been operating lately as an adviser to the prime minister.
Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange were up 2.1 percent at 783.28 on the prospect of a power deal. That came despite more bad news for Greece's recession-hit economy: unemployment surged to 18.4 percent in August, up from 12.2 for that month in 2010.
Other eurozone nations have refused to give Greece its latest installment of bailout cash ? euro8 billion ($11 billion) ? until the country approves the second bailout deal, which took European leaders months to hash out.
The markets want clarity soon so the new government can secure bailout cash to avoid an imminent bankruptcy that could push Europe into a new recession and world financial markets into turmoil.
Greece's deliberations over the past few days have taken a backseat to developments in much-bigger Italy, where Premier Silvio Berlusconi has announced his intention to resign soon after a new package of economic reforms are passed. But concerns over a prolonged political gridlock in the eurozone's third-largest economy ? Italy is considered too big for Europe to bail out ? have roiled the markets. Italy's borrowing costs shot through the roof Wednesday, tempered only a bit by a hasty promise from Italy's president that Berlusconi would be out of office by Monday.
Europe has already bailed out Greece, Portugal and Ireland ? but together they make up only about 6 percent of the eurozone's economic output, in contrast to Italy's 17 percent.
The new Greek debt deal would also see private bondholders cancel 50 percent of their Greek debt holdings ? and many analysts fear that Italian bond holders could one day also be required to forgive some of Italy's massive euro1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) debt.
Thursday's meeting in Athens, convened by Greek President Karolos Papoulias, was also attended by the leader of the rightist LAOS party Giorgos Karatzaferis.
Socialist lawmakers had pressed Papandreou to step down after his proposal to hold a referendum on the new debt deal ? a plan that was swiftly withdrawn after an angry reaction from world markets and EU leaders.
Despite three days of wrangling and intense European pressure, Greece's main parties have been unable to agree on who will lead the new government. Socialist deputies expressed fierce opposition earlier to reports that parliament speaker Philippos Petsalnikos was to be named as coalition prime minister, state-run NET reported.
"This is the third time I'm coming here for (this) issue, and I hope it's the last," Samaras said Thursday as he arrived.
The head of the IMF, meanwhile, pressed for a quick resolution.
"I believe that many lenders, many investors actually expect something to happen to give political clarity," IMF chief Christine Lagarde said during a visit to Beijing. "It's much needed in Greece, it's much needed in Italy. There is clearly some rumors, trepidation, expectations. No one really understands who is going to come out as the leader, and I think that confusion is completely conducive to volatility."
The European Union, meanwhile warned that the 17-country eurozone could slip back into "a deep and prolonged" recession next year as the debt crisis spins out of control.
The EU's economic watchdog, the European Commission, predicted Thursday that the eurozone will grow only a paltry 0.5 percent in 2012 ? way down from its earlier forecast of 1.8 percent growth. EU unemployment will be stuck at 9.5 percent for the foreseeable future.
The report also predicted growth in Italy would slow to 0.1 percent next year, down from 1.3 percent forecast this spring.
It also warned that Italy is unlikely to balance its budget by 2013 if recently promised austerity and reform measures aren't implemented. If those measures don't happen, Italy will still run a deficit of 1.2 percent, with debt close to 119 percent of economic output.
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Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens and Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed.
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Republic Wireless could shake up phone plans in a big way, thanks to the wonders of wifi
When it comes to mobile carriers, consumers may have four major choices (for now), but they're all starting to look the same ? and that isn't a good thing. But a new provider, Republic Wireless, headquartered in North Carolina, is shaking things up with a rather unbelievable $19 a month no-contract plan. That's $19 not just for unlimited calling and texting, but?mobile data too.
Since more smartphones mean more strain on mobile network infrastructure, consumers watch 3G data prices rise on traditional carriers, even as a plan's data allotment is cut back.?So what's the catch? Republic Wireless realizes that's a question so common it's actually included a subsection asking just that on its homepage. The company keeps costs down by routing as much of its network activity as possible over wifi internet connections, which are better equipped to handle data-intensive activities like streaming music and movies with no additional cost, assuming you don't max out your home bandwidth limits. This gives the carrier's 3G networks a little?bandwidth breathing room, which translates into the $19 deal. As for traditional 3G mobile data, the carrier borrows Sprint's network; if your interest is piqued, it's worth looking into the quality of Sprint's service in your area.
But the wifi-minded carrier isn't for everyone. It employs a calculator called the Cellular Usage Index (CUI) to determine where you fall on the spectrum of mobile users. If you're a light or moderate user (one who won't put too much pressure on their networks), you're the ideal customer. But users who use up a disproportionate share of mobile bandwidth are subject to getting the boot (after a series of warnings) if they don't rein in their heavy voice and data usage.
The good news? The vast majority of mobile customers aren't data hogs. Even if you spend all day returning calls or refreshing your inbox from the palm of your hand, odds are that you fall somewhere on the middle of the spectrum. According to the carrier, "you could consume 550 minutes, send 150 texts, and download 300 megabytes of data without crossing the community's fair use threshold," and that's not even taking wifi ? which has no associated cost ? into account.
For now, Republic Wireless is limited to one handset: a tweaked version of the LG Optimus running Android 2.3. You can buy the no-contract phone for $99 through November 27 with the promo code "welcome19" before the price goes back up to a standard $199. That's not much choice as far as what you're toting around in your pocket, but it could be a small price to pay to break away from more traditional (and more expensive) carriers.
Ready to sign up? You'll need to have a wireless network to associate with your account, since that's what makes the deal go 'round, after all. The carrier's program is currently in a limited beta, so opt in sooner rather than later to get on board. And since you'll need to ditch your existing carrier, check out our early termination fee calculator so that jumping ship doesn't cost you an arm and a leg.
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HONG KONG ? A senior U.S. Navy commander said Wednesday he worries much more about North Korea than about other Asian countries, including rising military power China.
Vice Adm. Scott Swift, who took over as commander of the 7th Fleet in September, said that while the U.S. military has an "open and robust" relationship with China, he spends a lot of time thinking about North Korea because of its "unpredictability."
"Insight to what their thoughts may be is very limited. It's a closed society," Swift said.
That's "a concern to me because I could not guess where any decision may be going with respect to North Korea," said Swift, who said he wanted good relationships with his counterparts in Asia so that he could anticipate what they might do instead of react to them.
Swift said that China is using its military and diplomatic might to protect its growing array of interests around the world. But he says it's not something "it's not something I wring my hands over" because the U.S. also shares many of China's interests, such as fighting human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Swift spoke during a visit to Hong Kong with the USS George Washington aircraft carrier group. The 7th fleet is based in Yokosuka, Japan and covers most of the Pacific and Indian oceans. It boasts about 60 other ships and 40,000 sailors and Marines.
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HONG KONG ? A senior U.S. Navy commander said Wednesday he worries much more about North Korea than about other Asian countries, including rising military power China.
Vice Adm. Scott Swift, who took over as commander of the 7th Fleet in September, said that while the U.S. military has an "open and robust" relationship with China, he spends a lot of time thinking about North Korea because of its "unpredictability."
"Insight to what their thoughts may be is very limited. It's a closed society," Swift said.
That's "a concern to me because I could not guess where any decision may be going with respect to North Korea," said Swift, who said he wanted good relationships with his counterparts in Asia so that he could anticipate what they might do instead of react to them.
Swift said that China is using its military and diplomatic might to protect its growing array of interests around the world. But he says it's not something "it's not something I wring my hands over" because the U.S. also shares many of China's interests, such as fighting human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Swift spoke during a visit to Hong Kong with the USS George Washington aircraft carrier group. The 7th fleet is based in Yokosuka, Japan and covers most of the Pacific and Indian oceans. It boasts about 60 other ships and 40,000 sailors and Marines.
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Michael Jackson's doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.
The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray marked the latest chapter in one of pop culture's most shocking tragedies ? the death of the King of Pop on the eve of the singer's heavily promoted comeback concerts.
Members of Jackson's family wept quietly after the verdict was read, and his mother, Katherine Jackson, later told The Associated Press, "I feel better now."
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Sister La Toya Jackson told the AP she was overjoyed.
"Michael was looking over us," she said on her way out of the courthouse.
Murray sat stone-faced during the verdict and was handcuffed and taken into custody without bail until sentencing on Nov. 29. He appeared calm as officials led him out of the courtroom.
A shriek broke the eerie silence in the packed courtroom when the verdict was read, and the crowd erupted outside the courthouse. Jubilant Jackson fans cheered and sang "Beat It" as they held signs that read "guilty" and "killer." Passing motorists honked their horns.
The jury deliberated less than nine hours. Murray, 58, faces a sentence of up to four years in prison. He could also lose his medical license.
"Dr. Murray's reckless conduct in this case poses a demonstrable risk to the safety of the public" if he remains free on bond, Judge Michael E. Pastor said.
District Attorney Steve Cooley said it will be difficult to achieve an appropriate sentence for Murray because of a new state law that allows early prison release for people convicted of nonviolent felonies.
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Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said prosecutors' sympathies went out to the Jackson family who have "lost not a pop icon but a son and a father."
Jurors were escorted from the building and not available for comment after the verdict was read.
It was unclear whether the jury determined that Murray had administered the fatal dose of propofol while deciding he was responsible for the death of Jackson.
Prosecutors had said Murray violated at least 17 separate standards of care, a number of which could have resulted in death.
Murray's attorneys left the courtroom without commenting.
In Las Vegas, a former Murray patient and current friend, Donna DiGiacomo, sobbed and said she thought the jury was under "overwhelming pressure to convict."
Jackson died on June 25, 2009. The complete story of his death finally emerged during the six-week trial. It was the tale of a tormented genius on the brink of what might have been his greatest triumph with one impediment standing in his way ? extreme insomnia.
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Testimony came from medical experts, household employees and Murray's former girlfriends, among others.
The most shocking moments, however, came when prosecutors displayed a large picture of Jackson's gaunt, lifeless body on a hospital gurney and played the sound of his drugged, slurred voice, as recorded by Murray just weeks before the singer's death.
Jackson talked about plans for a children's hospital and his hope of cementing a legacy larger than that of Elvis Presley or The Beatles.
"We have to be phenomenal," he said about his "This Is It" concerts in London. "When people leave this show, when people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. I've never seen nothing like this. Go. It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'"
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Prosecutors portrayed Murray as an incompetent doctor who used the anesthetic propofol without adequate safeguards and whose neglect left Jackson abandoned as he lay dying.
Murray's lawyers sought to show the doctor was a medical angel of mercy, with former patients vouching for his skills. Murray told police from the outset that he gave Jackson propofol and other sedatives as the star struggled for sleep to prepare for his shows. But the doctor said he administered only a small dose on the day Jackson died.
Lawyers for Murray and a defense expert blamed Jackson for his own death, saying the singer gave himself the fatal dose of propofol while Murray wasn't watching. A prosecution expert said that theory was crazy.
Murray told police he had formed a close friendship with Jackson, never meant to harm him and couldn't explain why he died.
The circumstances of Jackson's death at the age of 50 were as bizarre as any chapter in the superstar's sensational life story.
Jackson was found not breathing in his own bed in his rented mansion after being dosed intravenously with propofol, a drug normally administered in hospitals during surgery.
The coroner ruled the case a homicide and the blame would fall to the last person who had seen Jackson alive ? Murray, who had been hired to care for the singer as the comeback concerts neared.
Slideshow: Watch Jackson's face change over the years (on this page)
Craving sleep, Jackson had searched for a doctor who would give him the intravenous anesthetic that Jackson called his "milk" and believed to be his salvation. Other medical professionals turned him down, according to trial testimony.
Murray gave up his practices in Houston and Las Vegas and agreed to travel with Jackson and work as his personal physician indefinitely.
For six weeks, as Jackson undertook strenuous rehearsals, Murray infused him with propofol every night, the doctor told police. He later tried to wean Jackson from the drug because he feared he was becoming addicted.
Jackson planned to pay Murray $150,000 a month for an extended tour in Europe. In the end, the doctor was never paid a penny because Jackson died before signing the contract.
During the last 24 hours of his life, Jackson sang and danced at a spirited rehearsal, reveling in the adulation of fans who greeted him outside. Then came a night of horror, chasing sleep ? the most elusive treasure the millionaire entertainer could not buy.
Testimony showed Murray gave Jackson intravenous doses that night of the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam. Jackson also took a Valium pill. But nothing seemed to bring sleep.
Finally, Murray told police, he gave the singer a small dose of propofol ? 25 milligrams ? that seemed to put him to sleep. The doctor said he felt it was safe to leave his patient's bedside for a few minutes, but Jackson was not breathing when he returned.
Witnesses said he was most likely dead at that point.
What happened next was a matter of dispute during the trial. Security and household staff described Murray as panicked, never calling emergency services but trying to give Jackson CPR on his bed instead of the firm floor.
Slideshow: See photos from Michael Jackson?s life and career (on this page)
A guard said Murray was concerned with packing up and hiding medicine bottles and IV equipment before telling him to call emergency services. Prosecutors said Murray was distracted while Jackson was sedated, citing Murray's cell phone records to show he made numerous calls.
Authorities never accused Murray of intending to kill the star, and it took eight months for them to file the involuntary manslaughter charge against him. It was the lowest possible felony charge involving a homicide.
There was no law against administering propofol or the other sedatives. But prosecution expert witnesses said Murray was acting well below the standard of care required of a physician.
They said using propofol in a home setting without lifesaving equipment on hand was an egregious deviation from that standard. They called it gross negligence, the legal basis for an involuntary manslaughter charge.
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