Former health and sex ed teacher at Fitchburg, Mass. charter school pleads guilty to rape of 14-year-old student

Rachelle Gendron was first arrested and indicted in 2013 and has not accepted a plea deal to serve under three years in jail. (WBZ-TV)

A former sex ed teacher will now be getting sex offender counseling and two-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old student.

Rachelle Gendron, 28, allegedly invited the teen over to her house in October 2012 and performed oral sex on the boy while she was working as a health teacher at North Central Essential Charter School in Fitchburg, Mass., the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported.

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Investigators in Worcester County outside Boston found raunchy photos of Gendron, who was 25 and 26 at the time of theillicit relationship, in the boy's cell phone, according to WBZ-TV.

Gendron officially entered the guilty plea Friday in Worcester Superior Court to charges of statutory rape and enticement of a child under 16 years old, the Telegram & Gazette reported.

North Central Essential Charter School in Fitchburg, Mass. was where Gendron worked when the relationship with the student began. (WBZ-TV)

Authorities reduced the charges in exchange for her guilty plea, and, in addition to the sex offender counseling and jail time, Gendron will have to undergo a mental health evaluation and wear a GPS monitoring device during her probation, according to MassLive.com.

She's also not allowed to go near the alleged victim or have any unsupervised contact with anyone under 16 years old as part of her 10-year probation, the Telegram &


Gazette reported.

The boy and his family approved of the sentencing agreement drawn up by prosecutors and Gendron's lawyer, the publication reported.

Gendron told the court that the sexual relationship stemmed from her initially feeling sorry for the student, who had confided in her that he felt alone and had nobody to trust, according to the publication.

"I wanted to help him," she said. "I deeply regret everything that occurred."Mike Mosley

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Mike Mosley was born and raised in Fairfield, CA. He first got the taste of rap when he was in grade school where he would make mix tapes and sell them to all the kids at his school. Mike Mosley soon got a reputation around town that he was man to see if you wanted a tape to get your party started. It wasn't long until Mike Mosley started making his own beats and mastering the turntables. In his little bedroom on a fifty dollar sound system, Mike Mosley started recording with cats like DJ Smalls, Doc of Roc, Cuttin Sutton, Gigolo Jack and a host of other young talented emcee's, but Mike Mosley's big break came when he hooked up with a hungry emcee with


an unorthodox style. That emcee was none other than world famous superstar E-40. The duo of Mike Mosley and E-40 would go on to put the Bay Area on the map in a major way and would start musical movement called the mobb sound that continues to this very day.

Soon after, Mike Mosley hooked up with another unknown hungry rapper from Sacramento who went by the name of C-Bo, and would go on to be one of the true gangsta rappers of all time. Their record called "Gas Chamber" is an all time classic. Then one day while chillin in Atlanta, Mike Mosley was shocked when heard the greatest rapper of all time shout "oh shit, it's Mike Mosley. Yo, we gotta work together". That rapper was noneother than the great Tupac Shakur. It turns out that Pac was a huge fan of the C-Bo records and wanted some of them dope beats on his "Me Against the World" album. So Mike Mosley laced him with two of the best songs on the record "Heavy in the Game" and "Can U Get Away". Pac and Mike would work on a dozen more songs together. Classic songs like "Ain't Hard 2 Find", "Tradin' War Stories", "Gettin Money", "Good Life", and "Million Dollar Spot" and "Dusted 'n' Disgusted" both with E-40. Pac had said many times that Mike Mosley was one of his favourite producers. Mike Mosley then went on to discover a rapper named TQ and ended up producing and executive producing his multi platinum album


called "They Never Saw Me Coming". That record spawned the mega smash hits "Westside" and "Bye Bye Baby". Mike Mosley and TQ toured the world with that record and to this day, it's considered a masterpiece.

Mike Mosley has been featured in magazines, on radio, television and on movie soundtracks and has his name stampled on well over 30 million records. He's discovered hip-hop legends like TQ, E-40, B-Legit, Celly Cel, Mac Mall, Master P, super producer Rick Rock and too many others to count. He has done more for west coast hip-hop just about anyone else in the rap game. Mike Mosley is friends with just about every rapper and producer in the industry. Now Mike Mosley is taking his game to the next level with Steady MobbinI am just now catching up with Metro: Last Light and am beating myself up for not picking it up earlier. 4A Games' post-apocalyptic, subterranean world feels much bigger than what any one game could explore, which is why I'm happy to hear it's opening a new studio and working on more Metro games.

4A, which is based in Ukraine, announced that it's new studio will be based in Malta. "By basing our new headquarters in Malta, a member state of the EU, 4A Games will be able to better compete on the international stage" CEO and Head of Business Dean Sharpe said . "Malta offers fantastic incentives for game development, and we are confident 4A Games will be able to attract the very best talent from Ukraine, Malta


Wisconsin man locked in beer cooler cited for drinking

Police have cited a Wisconsin man who decided to start drinking after he got locked inside a convenience store’s beer cooler.

USA Today Network-Wisconsin reports a Marshfield Kwik Trip manager called police Wednesday morning to report a man had spent the night in the cooler and had drank beer while inside.

According to police, the 38-year-old Marshfield man said he went into the store to buy beer and got locked inside the cooler just before midnight Tuesday. He said he might as well just stay inside the cooler and drink.

A customer told Kwik Trip employees the man was inside the cooler just before 6 a.m. Wednesday. The workers opened the door and man left without paying for the beer.

Police issued the manLaura Dawson is director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington.

Sometimes good diplomacy means doing the opposite of what your impulses tell you to do.

This week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. A lot has happened since the Prime Minister’s last visit two years ago. During more than a year of mercurial trade negotiations, the President habitually threatened to pull the plug on cross-border trade. Tariffs on steel and aluminum left Canadians feeling aggrieved that their country was being branded a national security threat. And, most recently, Canada’s habit of co-operating with the United States has landed it in an extradition dispute that is threatening


Republicans by linking U.S. votes and jobs to the cause of cross-border trade. They have worked in tandem with Conservative MPs and premiers, recruited for their more natural grasp of the Republican language.

Over the past 18 months, Mr. Trudeau and his team have made allies of senior Republicans by linking U.S. votes and jobs to the cause of cross-border trade. They have worked in tandem with Conservative MPs and premiers, recruited for their more natural grasp of the Republican language. Strategy matters. Throughout months of acrimonious trade talks, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland defended core Canadian interests but always resisted the impulse to let harsh words provoke her into retaliation. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, she never went low.

Throughout months of acrimonious trade talks, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia FreelandAn off-the-books contractor in New York City has claimed that the owner of a Brooklyn restaurant kidnapped him at gunpoint last week and forced him to remain in the owner's house for two nights after a dispute over unfinished renovations.

An NYPD source confirmed details of a kidnapping complaint by Venacio Julajuj, 32, which was first reported Wednesday by the Daily News.

Julajuj told the paper that he was paid $25,000 up front to renovate the restaurant, but used the advance to fund another project. On Thursday, May 16, the restaurant owner told Julajuj to meet him in Midtown Manhattan. After the contractor balked at a $15,000 offer to start the job, the unidentified owner and a friend forced him to get on the subway to Brooklyn.

The police source said


the restaurant owner allegedly demanded $25,000 in cash, which the source described as "in effect, ransom." Juljajuj told the Daily News that the owner made him call his brother, Gustavo, and his friends to get the money.

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"He took my ID, my passport and my phone," Julajuj told the paper. "Then he showed me the gun. He said today is your last day. I saw five bullets in the gun. He asked me where I lived and where my wife was. I wouldn’t give it to him. I told him this deal is between you and me."

Julajuj said the restaurant owner kept him in his house Thursday with his limbs bound. He was allegedly fedwater, a banana, potatoes and a Snickers bar.

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The contractor's brother and his sometime-boss reported his disappearance to police on Friday; Julajaj told the Daily News that officers visited the owner's home on Saturday morning while he was still inside.

"I couldn’t say nothing," Julajuj put it. "He had the gun."

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Shortly after police left, the restaurant owner released Julajuj, telling him he was getting "another chance to finish the job."

The police source said Julajuj sustained minor bruising and scrapes but required no medical attention. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

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Rebecca Vela,    Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Village of Sauk Village,  d/b/a Sauk Village Police Department,    Defendant-Appellee.
No. 99-3262
In the  United States Court of Appeals  For the Seventh Circuit
Argued April 17, 2000Decided June 22, 2000

Appeal from the United States District Court   for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern  Division.  No. 98 C 1199--David H. Coar, Judge.
Before Posner, Chief Judge, Fairchild, and  Diane P. Wood, Circuit Judges.
Fairchild, Circuit Judge.

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Rebecca Vela,  a female Mexican-American police officer  with the Sauk Village Police Department,  brought this action against the Village  under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42  U.S.C. sec. 2000e et seq. ("Title VII"),  and 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, alleging that,


impose sec.  1983 liability on the Village. The  district court answered both questions in  the negative, and we affirm.

2
Vela has been a police officer for the  Village since April 1993. In November  1997, she filled out an intake form at  the Illinois Department of Human Rights  (IDHR) as a preliminary to an EEOC charge  against the Village. In response to one  question as to the type of discrimination  she wanted to have investigated she  circled "unequal terms and conditions".  She also circled "harassment" and  "failure to promote", but these were  crossed out. She testified that the IDHR  intake officer crossed them out and told  her to initial the cross-outs, although  shehad orally informed him of the  conduct she claimed constituted sexual  harassment. In response to a question why  she felt she was discriminated against,  she wrote only "See attached  copies/pages", but those are not in the  record, nor is there testimony describing  their contents.

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Two days later Vela filed with IDHR (an  EEOC designated agency, 29 C.F.R.  sec.sec.1601.74; 1601.80) a charge of  discrimination. On the form she checked  "sex" and "national origin" as bases of  discrimination against her. In the part  of the form asking for the "particulars",  she listed three incidents in which she  was treated differently from non-Mexican  male officers: being required to take a  drug test after an accident


with a squad  car, being reprimanded for failing to  follow a work procedure, and being  reprimanded for failing to use "spell  check". The charge, which she testified  was typed by the intake officer, did not  describe the harassing conduct which she  said she had described to him.

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After receiving a right to sue letter,  Vela brought this action. Her complaint  alleged that she had been subjected to  repeated sexual harassment including  widespread distribution of lewd and  lascivious pictures, sexual jokes told to  and about her, lewd and lascivious  gestures, condoms left in the glove box  of patrol cars, repeated comments about  her body, sexual behavior and national  origin.1 Only one item indidn't know for sure. Chief Crafton  testified that he had had training in  sexual harassment prior to 1993 and an  eight hour update, which he had attended  with one of the sergeants, in 1995 or  1996. Sergeant Sanders testified that  during the last five years there had been  no training of sergeants with respect to  sexual harassment that he was aware of.  In a portion of a deposition in a  companion case, but contained in this  record, Sergeant Schwertfeger, the  principal offender according to Vela,  testified that sexual harassment had been  covered in a course he took at  Northwestern University. We conclude that  the testimony just described would not  support a


We all know what a Danish pastry is — that delightful caloric bomb of glazed breakfast deliciousness. But what about a Danish classroom cake? And moreover, how can this help teach empathy?

While researching our book "The Danish Way of Parenting; What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids," my co-author and I interviewed numerous teachers and students across Denmark to learn how they incorporate empathy in schools and at home. Notably, in the Danish education system empathy is considered as important as teaching math and literature, and it is woven into the school’s curriculum from pre-school through high school.

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The Danes’ highly developed sense of empathy is one of the main reasons that Denmark is consistently voted one of the happiest countries in theGenerally, continuous form computer printers or copiers are fed fanfold or zigzag folded paper having a rather long length (continuous form) from a stack. Each panel or sheet of the continuous form is usually defined by transverse perforations or scoring. In the formation of a stack of fanfold continuous form paper, the paper is folded back and forth and creased at the perforations defining alternate fold lines until the desire stack height is obtained. As the paper is being oppositely folded at the perforations or scoring, the paper fibers are given an initial directional fold memory, to facilitate refolding and restacking of the fanfold paper at the original fold lines. Examples of fanfold paper folding devices are illustrated in the following United States patents:
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For centuries the Southern Ocean and its salt-laden wind have sculpted the sandstone coastline south of Dunedin. The outcome is a line of magnificent high cliffs, arches and headlands that provide endless vantage points for breathtaking views.

Follow the fenced track downhill to the spectacular, rocky coastline. At the end of the track you will find the handcarved rock tunnel that gives Tunnel Beach it's name. Built in the 1870s, the passage allows access to a secluded and sheltered beach at the base ofSuch shield coils are typically wound into accurately-machined metal journals, and these journals are attached to the former using a number of webs spaced circumferentially around the journals.
These known arrangements suffer from certain drawbacks.
In use, the shield coils are subject to large forces, due to interaction of the coils with the magnetic fields produced. Some of these forces, for example the force known as the body force, act axially. The body force typically urges the shield coils away from a center of the magnet, although the body force may act to urge the shield coils towards the center of the magnet, and towards each other, depending on the design of the magnet. Other forces, for example the so-called hoop stress, act radially, tending to expand the coil to


a larger diameter. The reaction force through the webs, required to oppose these axial and radial forces, puts strain onto the former, requiring the former and webs to be large and heavy to resist these forces. These forces may cause the shield coils to move relative to the journal. Such movement may cause localized heating of the shield coils, which in superconducting magnets may lead to a quench.
The forces acting on the shield coils may cause the journal, or its support structure, to flex. Due to such flexure, the force reaction path resisting the forces on the coil then acts essentially at the radially inner edge of the shield coil, and the reaction forces are borne by a limited surface area of the coils. This may cause deformationFor today’s mathematical puzzle, assume that in the year 1956 there was a children’s magazine in New York named after a giant egg, Humpty Dumpty, who purportedly served as its chief editor.

Mr. Dumpty was assisted by a human editor named Martin Gardner, who prepared “activity features” and wrote a monthly short story about the adventures of the child egg, Humpty Dumpty Jr. Another duty of Mr. Gardner’s was to write a monthly poem of moral advice from Humpty Sr. to Humpty Jr.

At that point, Mr. Gardner was 42 and had never taken a math course beyond high school. He had struggled with calculus and considered himself poor at solving basic mathematical puzzles, let alone creating them. But when the publisher of Scientific American asked him if there might


The politics of disaster

Burma has retained tight control over information about tsunami damage and published a suspiciously low death toll. This is just the latest example of a corrupt government worsening the suffering of its people in a time of disaster

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ILLUSTRATION MOUNTAIN PEOPLE

According to its military junta, Burma is a lucky country. Perhaps in compensation for the years of tyranny and degradation the army has brought, the gods decided that it should be spared. Readers who studied the maps of the Indian Ocean carried by every newspaper and television station last week can't have missed the grim, little boxes filled by terrible figures: Indonesia, 80,000 dead and rising; Sri Lanka, 27,000 and rising; India, 11,000 and rising, Thailand, 4,000 and rising. Yet when the eyesof a splash than a roar.

The line sounded plausible, but couldn't hold. In the surreal way of tyrannies, the Burmese dictators were asserting that there had been no loss of life at the precise moment when the rulers of the neighboring dictatorship of China sent them their public condolences for the loss of life.

Three days after the tsunami hit, the hacks on the New Light of Myanmar, the junta's mouthpiece, admitted that 43 people had died and 25 were missing. Few believed them.

Ever since Dec. 26, opponents of the regime who produce the Democratic Voice of Burma Web site have been receiving leads from scattered sources. An anonymous naval officer told them that a military installation on Coco Island in the Indian Ocean had been washed away. Magye


Island in the Gulf of Bengal may also had been swamped, other sources said. There were reports of the Maubin University building being torn apart, possibly by an earthquake which hit after the waves, of fishermen never returning from the sea and of villages losing dozens of inhabitants. One rumor doing the rounds says that 500 died in one district alone, and it sounds plausible. Like everyone outside the military, the opium barons and the Chinese plutocrats who have bought up much of the country, the inhabitants of the coastal districts are desperately poor. Their flimsy shacks never looked as if they could withstand a raging sea.

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It will take weeks to find out if the real death toll is anywhere near as bad as in Thailand -- if,penetrating the two-year-old with her tongue, and the three-year-old with her fingers, between December 1, 2016, and March 11, 2018.

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During the same dates, Elms also pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault – one against each of the youngsters – in which she intentionally indecently touched them.

Also between December 1, 2016 and March 11, 2018, it was heard that Elms committed four offences of taking indecent photographs of children.

These included two category A photographs, four category B photographs, and one category C photograph.

And between January 1, 2016, and March 11, 2018, Elms committed six offences of distributing indecent photographs of children.

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over a year as fears of resurgent inflation knocked down bonds and upset Wall Street on Friday, with three major US indexes recording their biggest weekly losses in two years, a Reuters report showed.

Marita Limlingan, president of Regina Capital Development Corp., noted that US equities suffered their largest one day decline in a year on Friday, contributing to the worst week for the S&P500 in around two years.

“The dramatic slide last week followed very strong performance in the preceding two weeks, and in part was due to profit taking after a very strong start to the year and into earnings,” Limlingan said. European stocks, on the other hand, dropped for a fifth straight session on Friday, with the German market leading the charge south.

“There is a cautious moodset forth more fully below, the Court agrees and therefore will dismiss the complaint with prejudice.

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Since 1952, the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar ("the Council") has periodically applied for and received recognition by the Secretary as a "nationally recognized accrediting agency" under § 496 of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. § 1099b. In that capacity, the Council accredits institutions of higher learning, specifically independent freestanding law schools that are not affiliated with a larger university. Traditionally, the Council's accrediting standards and decisions had been subject to final review by the ABA's House of Delegates, the body of ABA members that sets policy for the ABA and supervises and directs the actions of ABA sections and committees. In 1992, Congress amended the


the Council. Under the new structure, Council decisions regarding accreditation of a particular institution would be subject to up to two advisory appeals to the House of Delegates, which has the authority to remand to the Council for further consideration, with ultimate authority vested in the Council to make the final determination at the conclusion of this process. See United States v. American Bar Assoc., 135 F.Supp.2d 28, 30 (D.D.C.2001).
The implementation of this new structure required modification of an existing Consent Decree entered into between the ABA and the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. The modification to that Consent Decree was approved by The Honorable Royce C. Lamberth as "advancing the public interest." Id. at 32. Plaintiff filed comments in that matter, raising objections that themember of the ABA have been diluted by the regulations. The only voting right plaintiff specifically refers to is that as a member of the ABA Section on Legal Education, he votes on electing members of the Council. (Opp. at 7.) Plaintiff claims that because of the "group membership program," which he alleges allows law schools to pay for ABA and Section membership for faculty and administrators, membership in the Section which elects Council members is composed of 80% law school paid members and 20% non-law school paid members. (Id.) As an initial matter, plaintiff does not explain how the "separate and independent" regulations that he challenges have anything to do with the "group membership program," or how applying the separate and independent requirement to the ABA accreditation


namely, on the one hand, that the electric power required by a sink or a plurality of sinks at a moment in time exceeds the power afforded by the sources at that time, and on the other hand, that the power provided by the sources at a moment in time is greater than the power required by the sinks at the same time.Former Arsenal player and Sweden captain Freddie Ljungberg has decided to retire from soccer, his press adviser told Swedish television on Friday.

"It's correct that Fredrik has taken the decision to quit. I got the decision on Wednesday," Lili Assefa told the SVT channel.

The 35-year-old, capped 75 times by his country, was without a club after terminating his contract with Japan's Shimizu S-Pulse by mutual consent in February.

Ljungberg, also known for modelling Calvin Klein underwear and his colourful haircuts, made his name in England at Arsenal, where he won two Premier League titles between 1998 to 2007.

The attacking midfielder was also part of Arsenal's famed "Invincibles" who went unbeaten in winning the 2003-04 English title.

Ljungberg subsequently joined West Ham United before spells in Major League Soccer, Scotland and Japan.

He


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By the time Dec. 20 rolls around, 21 months willMeltwater generated beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet exerts a strong influence on the speed of ice flow, in particular for major ice streams1,2. The subglacial meltwater also influences ocean circulation beneath ice shelves, initiating meltwater plumes that entrain warmer ocean water and cause high rates of melting3. However, despite its importance, the nature of the hydrological system beneath the grounded ice sheet remains poorly characterized. Here we present evidence, from satellite and airborne remote sensing, for large channels beneath the floating Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, which we propose provide a means for investigating the hydrological system beneath the grounded ice sheet. We observe features on the surface of the ice shelf from satellite imagery and, using radar measurements, show that they correspond with channels beneath the


all is said and done, it is potentially the most dangerous, as the smaller usable yields make them substantially more usable for the US military, and risk the Pentagon believing they have the option to use “just a little nuke” here and there during warfare.

Today, a unilateral nuclear first strike would be considered an unthinkable action, turning the attacker into a global pariah overnight. Yet we have seen time and again that the bar for behavior in war is a rapidly drifting line, particularly in this era of constant US warfare.

The use of drones in warfare is a good example. In 2001 the United States conducted the first ever drone strike in Afghanistan, firing a Hellfire missile at a vehicle convoy. Just over two years later, the USWikiLeaks announced on Friday that it is willing to pay a substantial amount of money to anyone who sends them taped conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey.

The organization sent out its reward offer on Twitter shortly after Trump tweeted an apparent threat to Comey on Friday morning. The offer stands as one of the most explicit examples of WikiLeaks pursuing potentially damaging information on Trump, who benefitted from the outlet’s publishing of stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Trump rival Hillary Clinton‘s Democratic challenger in the 2016 presidential election.

According to multiple U.S. intelligence agencies, WikiLeaks received the emails from Russian operatives as part of its efforts to influence the American election. WikiLeaks has denied colluding with Russia. The FBI


Actor Herbert Lom, Exasperated 'Pink Panther' Police Chief, Dies

Herbert Lom, left, as police chief Charles Dreyfus and Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

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He was in more than 100 films, including such classics as Spartacus and El Cid.

But actor Herbert Lom, who died in London today at the age of 95, is best known as the perpetually peeved, increasingly insane police chief Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films.

Driven mad by the comic incompetence of Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), Dreyfus grew increasingly unstable (and increasingly funny, many would say) in the seven Pink Panther movies in which Lom played the part (starting with 1964's A Shot in the Dark).

The actor appreciated the role, but said it also had adownside.

"It was a godsend when I was offered the part," he once said, according to the BBC. "But it did become a double-edged sword as people started to associate me with Dreyfus."

IMDB.com reports that Lom — his name at birth was Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich Schluderpacheru — was born in Prague and made his film debut in 1937, in a Czech production called Zena prod krizem.


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Santa Claws Snatches Christmas Stock Market Rally

Horror movies begin with a simple, almost innocent hint that something is not quite right. The first sign that we have entered the shadowy dawn of global economic collapse, which I call the "Epocalypse," is Santa Claus's failure to show up on Wall Street at Christmastime. A Santa Claus rally for the New York Stock Exchange is as dependable as December snow in New York's Central Park. Oddly, December snow also didn't happen this year.

The year Santa Claus forgot

"Twas an eerily balmy December in New York when Santa Claus failed to rally the stock market. Heat waves were rising from Central Park as both the Dow and the S&P 500 limped out of a particularly scrappy year, bloody and torn. Thusended a multi-year winning streak by closing out in the red. The S&P 500 experienced its worst sell-off in four years and its most volatility since the financial crisis known as "the Great Recession."

Both indexes banged their heads against an immovable ceiling throughout 2015. If you've been reading here long you know that I predicted the stock market would crash in 2014. Many would say I was wrong, given that a surprising number of trusted experts continued to call 2015 a bull market. But a look at the graph below tells a simple truth. The market plunged in the fall of 2014 into what some called a 10% correction, but what happened near the end of 2014 was a transformation far worse than a mere correction:

In a correction,


positively as indicating Fed stimulus would continue, what is the market going to do now without that stimulus in a world flooded with bad economic news?

The bulls were hoping a Santa Claus rally would, at least, add some merit to their year of bullish blather by causing the market to close the year up slightly from where it began. Didn't happen, just as I said earlier this month it would not.

Santa's crippled reindeer

The worst part of this news is that there were only ten stocks keeping the US stock market from being a bear market all year. (Ten stocks did so well they kept the market's average flat even as nearly all other stocks fell.) One of those ten was Apple, which many thought was practically invincible. Inthe final month of 2015, when Santa was supposed to arrive with Christmas cheer, a declining sales outlook took the first bite out the Apple, and it closed with its biggest loss in stock value since the crash of 2008.

What that means is that one of Santa's ten reindeer broke its leg and wasn't able to help pull Santa's sleigh up into the sky this Christmas. From its record high in the spring of 2015, Apple fell, with its shares losing a fifth of their value. A 20% loss is considered a bear market if one is talking about the US stock market overall. Apple dipped 17.5%, so one can say that it is on the cusp now of being in a bear market of its own.

This doesnt


mean Apple is doomed; but what it does mean is that one of the ten reindeer that had been pulling this sled of a stock market along enough to, at least, maintain a horizontal but bumpy run, developed a lame leg. And those ten, when all were doing well, barely had enough pull to keep the market horizontal ... with the lure of Fed stimulus still dangling before their noses.

The December when Santa Claws came instead

I bet my blog that Santa's alter ego would arrive this Christmas. Instead of the usual stock rally, the stock market would crash in the final quarter of the year after a brief rally when the Fed ended its stimulus. That brief rally (not the Santa Claus rally) I said would happen becausedynamic; but the last two weeks of December already show us what this looks like. After the Fed finally came off of its zero-interest target, we saw the market decline reflexively every time it got more news about oil prices dropping, which increases the risk of bankruptcies, bond defaults and layoffs in the oil industry and in businesses that serve that industry.

The oil industry was the primary driver of the Fed's jobs recovery. You won't see oil helping the job market again in 2016. With China stating in December that it will decline more in 2016 (and People's Republic hates to admit bad news), all commodities are certain to fall more for some time, though the rate of fall may decrease.

With turmoil in the middle east getting worse


And if they are bizarrely right, that only tells you how horrible the holiday sales season must have been -- that they'd retire the extra help before it was over.

Santa Claws also brought some bloody-bad news in time for New Year's Eve. The US is solidly in a manufacturing recession. At a rating of 42.9, the Chicago PMI (Purchasing Manger Index) closed the year well below its 50-point median, which is the level at which business is neither up nor down.

Down from 48.7 in November, the final US economic data point of the year sums up perfectly what a disaster Yellen has hiked rates into. (Zero Hedge)

December's numbers mark the seventh month of contraction this year and bring the manufacturing index to a six-and-a-half year low. In otherin the Dallas Fed's measurements means business is contracting. The gauge has been below zero all year, but now it is plummeting.

Economists blamed some of this decline on warmer-than-average temperatures in the eastern half of the US. Gee, last year, economists were blaming bad economic statistics on colder-than-average temperatures. That would lead me to conclude the only temperature that works for the US economy any more is an exactly average temperature. That's kind of fussy. Humbug.

Santa Claws looked even longer in the tooth outside of the US. European stocks plunged 5% in December, their worst drop during the holidays since 2002. Moreover, they plunged because the European Central Bank promised to continue its economic stimulus. That's weird! The ECB promised more free money for investors, and stocks fell?

The


copper -- you name it -- it all came down hard. Oil plummeted almost 35% from an already low position, and copper closed the year 25% lower. The Bloomberg Commodities Index plummeted 25% overall in what was its fifth straight year of decline. Such a massive overall deflation in commodities has to eventually affect the price of everything made from those commodities as well.

Toward the end of 2015, junk bonds began to tear apart because of the commodities crash. More importantly, the junk-bond crash began to spill over in November and December into investment-grade bonds as bond fund managers were forced to start selling their higher-value bonds in order to find liquidity to pay off investors who want out of the funds due to the failing junk bonds.

I'vesaid in the past that, while housing is going to crash again, housing is not going to lead the crash this time. Corporate bonds of commodity-sourcing industries are already leading the crash.

Stock markets took their worst hit in late August and early September when China entered rough waters, and things have been bouncy ever since. Warren Buffet lost a bundle (but not more than he can afford -- just $8 billion.)

Hedge funds started collapsing as bonds went bonkers. The ratio of endangered bonds versus healthy bonds as well as the number of defaults have both hit their highest levels since the official years of the Great Recession.

Nearly 700 hedge funds died in the first three quarters of 2015 -- the last quarter yet to be known.

The [hedge-fund] money


until the first day of the week when the Christians at Troas would meet: "... we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days. On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight." 4. A matter of Christian faith and practice is approved only if it is stated in writings given by the apostles and prophets of the Lord who were guided "into all truth" by the Holy Spirit, as stated in John 16:13. The only means of knowing what the apostles and prophets taught is by reading what the apostles and prophets wrote. E.g. "Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, buta plurality of supervising men, served by a plurality of deacons in local Christian communities. E.g. "Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.....Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops. Be pastors of the church of God..." in Acts 20:17,28. 28. To understand scripture, first try to identify the genre of literature it fits into: law, history, wisdom, poetry, narrative, epistles, prophecy and apocalyptic literature. 29. By reading, one will understand. E.g. "In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets" in Ephesians


Steve Bisciotti didn’t blocked Kaepernick signing

On Wednesday, the general manager from the Baltimore Raven Ozzie Newsome responded to a report from Dianna Russini that stated that he blocked Kaepernick opportunity of signing with the team. The article stated that Ozzie and head coach John Harbaugh had met resistance from the team owner Steve Bisciotti in regard signing the quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The team told the press they are going through a process and haven’t made a decision, also that Biscotti had not told anyone they cannot sign Colin Kaepernick, nor has he blocked the move and pointed the statements are false.

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The Ravens have made their interest in potentially signing the player, in anJersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.

On the night of May 2, 1973, Shakur, along with two other accomplices, killed Foerster execution-style at point-blank range during a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick.

For Shakur, the shooting was the culmination of years of militant radicalism during which she joined and left the Black Panther Party because it was not violent enough, before subsequently joining the Black Liberation Army, a domestic terror outfit responsible for bombings and assassinations throughout the 1970’s which claimed the lives of 13 police officers.

The Black Liberation Army was supported by the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, a group responsible for bombings targeting the United States Capitol and the Pentagon.

In 1971, Shakur also joined the Republic of New Afrika, a group committed to


establishing a separatist black-ruled country within the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

After escaping from jail with the aid of three members of the Black Liberation Army, Shakur was given political asylum in Communist Cuba where she still remains to this day despite numerous attempts to extradite her.

In 2013, the FBI added Shakur to their ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ – the first woman to ever appear on the infamous list. The reward for information leading to her capture was subsequently doubled and now stands at $2 million dollars.

A simple Twitter search reveals that fact that Shakur – a “most wanted” terrorist and a cop killer – is lionized by innumerable ‘Black Lives Matter’ supporters.

She is also routinely quoted by ‘Black Lives Matter’ demonstrators, including during lastMs. Weiss, and Dr. Sapienza for being up for the challenge and being good sports about it!

Fun Run

The Elwood Knight and Elwood Middle School Football team led a pack of 63 runners in their first lap around the track. The goal was to run 4 laps around the track to make a mile and many participants achieved that goal! Spectators cheered on the Knight, EMS football team and over 60 student and adult fun-runners!

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Teaching Climate Change

They may have been right that locating the Current Affairs offices in New Orleans was an act of madness. On Saturday, after staying late at my desk on the weekend out of a sense of selfless obligation to the magazine’s readership, I went out through the front door to discover that our corporate headquarters had become desirable waterfront property. (Because we rent, this was not good news.)

When I went into the office, this was a sidewalk. Several hours later, it was a bayou. An unusually generous midsummer rainstorm had deposited eight inches of rain in a three-hour period, more than the city’s pumping system could handle. The streets had instantly become rivers. And given what a few hours of summer rain could apparently do, people quicklyPremature Mortality From Noncommunicable Diseases in the Federated States of Micronesia, 2003-2012.
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After having expressed antagonism towards nation-building during the 2000 campaign, newly elected President George W. Bush appointed Abrams as deputy national security adviser, where Abrams’ role was essentially nation builder-in-chief.

Abrams was even more consequential as nation-wrecker. He was one of the principal architects of the invasion of Iraq. He is an inveterate advocate of “regime change” against countries whose policies he doesn’t like. He has a track record in attempting to overthrow foreign governments both by covert action


as Trump colorfully put it, “dumb as a rock.”

Nothing about Abrams, the NeverTrumper who believes Trump cannot govern effectively without him, has changed since then.

Following his rejection by Trump, Abrams wrote a sour-grapes article for Politico, disparaging the president, along with Vice President Pence and Abrams’ erstwhile patron Tillerson, for not having international human rights policies identical to Abrams’ own views.

Abrams has been outspoken against sensitive Trump international policies right up to the moment of his surprise appointment. He is unapologetic about his role in masterminding the Iraq war. He has opposed Trump concerning American troops in Syria and America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia. As recently as January 14, 2019, he published a withering attack on Trump’s Middle East policies and diplomacy.

As events in Venezuela last week reachedmorning of the derby, and bobs along where he will, preferably across the finish line.)

Giant Duck Balloon (Click for larger image.)

In the lot with the trees there's a big shrubby plant with coppery leaves and spectacular pink flowers. C. says it's a flowering quince— therefore definite evidence (along with the nearby daffodil) of a former garden on the lot.

Flowering Quince Chaenomeles japonica in the Lot With the Trees (Click for larger image.)

I went down to Ediz Hook. There was a lot of ship action. Most interesting and baffling, the Evergreen freighter that came out of Puget Sound just to drop off its pilot before heading straight into Canadian waters, curving back east en route to Vancouver. Not clear what else they could have done (no pilot station at


the highway.

Sunday was a beautiful spring morning at Rialto Beach, I got my COASST surveys for April done (no dead birds). There's more wrack than there had been for a while, and marine debris on the beach, nets, bits of rope, Asian plastic bottles from the North Pacific garbage patch.

Not much swell, Rialto Beach, April 17, 2011 (Click for larger image.)

James Island from Rialto Jetty, April 17, 2011 (Click for larger image.)

Kelp Ashore, April 17, 2011 (Click for larger image.)

Low Swell, Not Much Surf, Rialto Soundscape for Cee, April 17, 2011

Then I drove around to the La Push side of the river and not-saw gray whales for a couple of hours. Oh. I already mentioned that. It did occur to me that perhaps there just weren't any whalesyou have to drive east up the highway, get across the river, then back west again. I did that. Walked to Ellen Creek and back.

The river overlook. Quileute River, the jetty, James Island and Pacific Ocean Beyond (Click for larger image.)

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Near the end of the visit, another expedition with M. (whom I've known since junior high school and very little in the intervening decades). We went to Morikami Gardens. Lunch in the cafe, walk around the garden loop, visit the museum. My perhaps insufficiently reverent take: that it's a little odd, Florida water and Florida plants being trained to a Japanese sensibility by people a long way and a number of generations from Japan.

The best part was when we sat on a bench on the


mifi unit right on the spot to get online and find the line of poetry which came to mind. Wallace Stevens, it turns out. Of Mere Being.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Day Six in Florida. On day three I spent the late afternoon and supper time with a friend whom I knew in junior high. She used to come on family vacations with my mom, my sister and me. Before my stepfather came on the scene, when the three of us were the whole family, fifty-plus years ago. Hadn't seen her for some decades, until last summer.

We spent a long time making bad driving decisions looking for a little county park called the Secret Woods Nature Center. Despite the heat. It had a butterfly island, with wonderful signs to saywhat species of butterfly larvae or nectar-eating adults feed on each thing in the garden, it worked, there were butterflies. Flitter flitter. Then we went on a boardwalk trek though (dry in this season) cypress and mangrove woods and so on, out to a river called the New River, and suddenly on the other side of the water, huge homes and fancy boats. And all the time the sound of interstate 595 and state highway whatever#, and planes from the Fort Lauderdale airport low overhead. It really is a Secret Woods, you'd never imagine it was there.

Um yeah, it was horridly hot, but a breeze had sprung up so we survived. I took pictures, but for the first time in my whole electronic life, I have forgotten the


Image caption The Stig has never removed his helmet on the show

The BBC has lost a legal fight to stop publication of a book which reveals the identity of Top Gear's driver The Stig.

The High Court in London refused to grant the BBC an injunction blocking the publication by HarperCollins of an autobiography of former Formula Three driver Ben Collins.

The book, called The Man In The White Suit, claims Mr Collins is the mystery driver on the BBC Two show.

The BBC began legal action against HarperCollins last week.

It says it won't confirm or deny that Ben Collins either was or remains The Stig.

But Top Gear presenter James May, who was a studio guest on BBC London when High Court's decision was announced, made light of the situation.

He said:"Obviously I'm now going to have to take some legal action of my own, because I have been the Stig for the past seven years, and I don't know who this bloke is, who's mincing around in the High Court pretending it's him."

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Racing driver Ben Collins was in court for part of the hearing

The Stig is famous for his racing overalls and dark-visored helmet. His identity has long been a closely-guarded secret on Top Gear - one of the BBC's most popular shows in the UK and around the world.

Several racing drivers have been linked to the role, including former Formula One world champions Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher.

Mr Collins, 35, from Redland, Bristol, was in court for part


said it was "no surprise" that Ben Collins' company listed Top Gear amongst its work as the driver had "appeared numerous times on the programme and he often supplied other drivers for both the programme and Top Gear Live".

Last week, HarperCollins said it would "vigorously defend" its right to publish the book, adding it was "disappointed that the BBC has chosen to spend licence fee payers' money to suppress this book".

However Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman attacked the publisher, writing on the Top Gear website that the BBC had a right to protect Stig's anonymity "from a bunch of chancers" who were "hoping to cash in on it".Dead Island Riptide Screens 16 March 2013

Deep Silver has released a new batch of screenshots from Dead Island Riptide, illustrating this new entry to the Dead Island franchise which will reanimate the zombie terror in the original game. A monsoon has hit the once beautiful archipelago and heavy rainstorms have laid waste to large areas of the islands. The city of Henderson and jungle areas on the island of Palanai were flooded leaving boats as the only remaining way of transportation. Dynamic weather conditions will force the team members to adapt to changing visibility conditions. A fifth character will join the team, with an all-new and unique skillset. The combined skills of the group will be sorely needed, since terrible, new and unknown zombie mutations have emerged all


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A woman vented out her anger on a man for making her pay close to Rs 9000 on their first date and then asking her out for a second date.

The entire episode was shared on Reddit by the man and it has now gone viral on social media. The conversation starts when the man asked the woman out for a dinner.

The woman replied: “After what you did last time you expect me to go out with you again? Wow”.

Apparently, on the first date, the man only paid for his meal which was close to Rs 1500 (euro 17.5). The woman paid for her order, a lobster and a bottle of wine, which cost almost Rs 8000 (Euro 110).

The man said that hepaid for his carbonara and beer meal and did not want to pay for the woman's lobster and wine meal which cost £92.50 more. He said that he is a student not her ''sugar daddy''.

The woman called the man ''rude'' and said that a ''gentleman always pays''.

She even called the man gay and said that she would never go out with him.

The man responded by saying he is a gentleman and that is why he didn't leave when the woman was talking about some other guy.

The woman got furious and said that all he wanted to do was to have sex with her. She said: ''bye loser' and ended the conversation.

When the man asked her out for a second date, she said NO.


Private Number (Judy Clay and William Bell song)

"Private Number" is a song recorded by American soul singers Judy Clay and William Bell, and included on Bell's album Private Numbers (1968). In the US, it was released as a single, where it peaked at #17 on the Best Selling Rhythm and Blues chart and #75 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Outside the US, "Private Number" went to #8 in the UK.

911 version

English boy band 911 covered "Private Number" for their third studio album, There It Is (1999). There are two different versions of the song, one version featuring Natalie Jordan and one featuring Fann Wong. The song was released as the third and final single from the album on 3 May 1999 and peaked at number three onMeredith Vieira To Host Daytime Talk Show?

Meredith Vieira recently opted not to renew her contract for syndicated quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire so she could “move on and do other things.” Those other things may be a new daytime talk show. According to the NY Times, Vieira is in talks with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution about hosting a syndicated talk show for fall 2014. That would maintain Vieira’s daily presence in daytime/fringe while keeping her in the NBCU family. Vieira got the gig on the ABC-Disney syndicated Millionaire while she was on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, which Vieira co-hosted for nine years. If she headlines a daytime talk show, Vieira will follow in the footsteps of her Today predecessors Jane Pauley, whose NBCU-produced


second hot water passage, the first cold water passage is coupled to the second cold water passage, and the first mixed water passage is coupled to the second mixed water passage.
In another aspect, the mixer valve includes a mixing chamber coupled to each of the second hot water passage and the second cold water passage.
The present invention further provides a mixer valve assembly a pressure balancer cartridge including radially extending lugs, a mixer valve in fluid communication with, and supported by the pressure balancer cartridge, and a housing fitted over the pressure balancer cartridge and the mixer valve and including notches for coupling to the lugs, wherein the housing includes an exterior surface, and wherein a sealing member is disposed by the exterior surface.
The present invention also providesa mixer valve assembly comprising a pressure balancer cartridge including radially extending lugs, a mixer valve in fluid communication with, and supported by the pressure balancer cartridge, and a housing fitted over the pressure balancer cartridge and the mixer valve and including notches for coupling to the lugs wherein the housing includes a first end and a second end, and wherein the first end includes a first aperture and the second end includes a second aperture, and wherein the mixer valve includes a control lever extending through the first aperture, and wherein the cartridge extends through the second aperture.
In a further aspect, the pressure balancer cartridge includes a first end and a second end, in wherein a plurality of feet project from the first end, and wherein the


mixer valve is supported on the second end.
In yet a further aspect, the first end is characterized by a substantially planar surface, and the lugs are substantially co-planar with the first end surface.
The present invention also provides a water faucet comprising a faucet body including a sleeve, a base provided at one end of the sleeve and fluid passages formed in the base, and a mixer valve including a pressure balancer cartridge including radially extending lugs, a mixer valve in fluid communication with, and supported by a pressure balancer cartridge, and a housing fitted over the pressure balancer cartridge and the mixer valve and including notches for coupling to the lugs.
The present invention further provides a mixer valve assembly comprising a pressure balancer cartridge including radially extending lugs,7 000 bags of rotten rice dumped

2010-02-04 19:07

Freetown - Sierra Leone dock workers began tossing 7 000 contaminated bags of imported rice into a river on Thursday to prevent them from going to markets in of one of the world's poorest states, the standards bureau said.

Surrounded by heavily armed police, hundreds of dock workers tossed the rice into the Mabang river in northern Sierra Leone, 35km from the capital where scores of baby crocodiles surfaced intermittently as the rice hit the water.

"We have taken the rice that far to ensure that rogue marketeers would not reclaim the rice and sell it," said the director of Sierra Leone's standards bureau, James Dumbuya.

The rice, which was brought into the country by a Lebanese importer from Vietnam in December last year,


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Hundreds of people, including personnel from myriad agencies, participated. According to some versions of Scenario A, explosives were placed at the World Trade Center to ensure success. In other versions, all of "the Jews" working there were tipped off by some phone bank run by the Mossad. In every version, however, the U.S. government was in on it, and everyone involved kept the biggest secret in American history.

Then, there's Scenario


Van Jones, an avowed "communist" and passionate supporter of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, was a truther par excellence. Contrary to many reports, he didn't merely sign 911truth.org's petition in 2004, he helped organize one of the first truther groups as early as 2002.

When these and other revelations came to light, Jones resigned from his White House job as "green jobs czar."

The reaction from much of the liberal establishment has been fascinating, hypocritical and deeply creepy. For starters, the same White House that fueled the anti-birther boom has refused to offer a single critical word about Jones' past positions (some of which he recanted as his job security grew more threatened; we'll see how long that lasts).

In July, the popular left-wing Web site FiredogLake couldn't let go ofthe birther bit. One post -- titled "The Republican Party is the Birther Party, and it's dragging them down" -- made much of the fact that 28 percent of Republicans, according to one poll, do not believe that Obama is a natural-born citizen. This week, the site's founder, Jane Hamsher, was disgusted that Jones was "thrown under the bus," even though he subscribed to trutherism, a view that "35 (percent) of Democrats believed as of 2007."

Got that? Belief in an implausible conspiracy is a cancer on the GOP. Even greater belief in an even more implausible conspiracy is proof that it's mainstream.

Apologies for Jones and trutherism appeared instantly on the sites of the left-wing flagship magazines The Nation, The New Republic and elsewhere. The New York Times and


In today's scandal-less scandal, fans couldn't find Mike Kensil, the supposed Patient Zero from the league headquarters, on the NFL's Operations website. Kensil, Vice President of Game Operations, was still available on the website, but the notion that Kensil had been fired by the league spread like wildfire.

Greg Aiello, the NFL's PR person, quickly corrected the false report to ensure that everyone was aware that Kensil's status in the league "hasn't changed." The NFL snuffed out a dumb report within 12 hours to ensure one of their employees wasn't caught in the crossfire.

This approach runs counter to how the league approached DeflateGate, where the league intentionally withheld crucial information that could have corrected a false report that damaged the brand of the New England Patriots and started thedumbest "scandal" the sports world has ever seen.

The correction from the NFL is just another step by the league to correct misinformation that is damaging to the league's reputation, in stark contract to how they handled the Patriots requests to correct ESPN's false reports. This hypocrisy is starting to finally make headlines as the league's shoddy approach to the investigation is reaching critical mass. The NFL clearly lacked standards and imprinted an obvious bias on each step of the process.


JohnChoi Profile Blog Joined December 2007 1773 Posts #1 KaL (GooJila) has decided to retire “I want to rest for the time being.”

KaL, who after finishing his military service continued his progaming career by joining Prime, has regrettably pronounced his retirement.

With the disbanding of Airforce ACE and STX Soul, KaL had no team to go back to. Even while doing his service, KaL had not lost his passion for progaming. As soon as he was discharged, he joined Prime right away and fulfilled that passion.

However, the long period in which he was away from progaming (even with his time in Airforce ACE) held him back. Despite his best efforts, his game sense didn’t seem like it was returning and he eventually made the decision to retire.

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source: KaL, who after finishing his military service continued his progaming career by joining Prime, has regrettably pronounced his retirement.With the disbanding of Airforce ACE and STX Soul, KaL had no team to go back to. Even while doing his service, KaL had not lost his passion for progaming. As soon as he was discharged, he joined Prime right away and fulfilled that passion.However, the long period in which he was away from progaming (even with his time in Airforce ACE) held him back. Despite his best efforts, his game sense didn’t seem like it was returning and he eventually made the decision to retire.When KaL joined Prime he had said, “If I feel like I am unable to grow into a 1 win card for my


CINCINNATI -- U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is on a shortlist to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in a decision expected by the end of the week, spoke on Wednesday at a labor luncheon at the NAACP Annual Convention.

“Our diversity is our greatest strength as a nation,” said Perez, who if chosen as Clinton’s vice president could help her reach the important Hispanic voting bloc.

Secretary of U.S. Department of Labor Thomas Perez speaks at the NAACP Labor Luncheon at the Duke Energy Convention Center on Wednesday July 20, 2016 (Phil Didion for WCPO).

His speech came on the same day the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced its support for Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in its first-ever presidential endorsement.

Perez didn’t offer any hint about the possibilityis also a potential Clinton running mate, also spoke at the convention Monday. Afterward he campaigned with Clinton at the University of Cincinnati.

Clinton is expected to announce her running mate by Saturday. In addition to Perez, others reportedly on the short list are Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

“Nobody who works full-time job in this country should have to live in poverty,” Perez said, to a crowd that clapped loudly throughout his 20-minute speech, and gave him a standing ovation when he left the stage.

Perez criticized Republicans for failing to raise the minimum wage and not expanding overtime protection. He also stressed the importance of enacting a family paid leave law.

Secretary of U.S. Department


Today we’ll get a chance to visit an Afghan military base. The images below are parts of old Soviet equipment located nearby as it was not allowed to take pictures of the base itself.

On June 23, 2011 President of the USA Barack Obama said he would remove American troops out of Afghanistan.

He made the promise before his elections and now he is trying to implement the idea into practice.

5000 soldiers will be sent home in July and 5000 other soldiers will reach their families by the end of the year.

Still, it is widely believed that Afghanistan will hardly become a country of peace following the removal of American troops.

The national army of the country is not yet strong enough to handle the political situation.

Corruption prospers here, many soldiersA building at 1210 W. Lake St. could house world-renowned architect Helmut Jahn's future offices. View Full Caption Bugaj Architects.

WEST LOOP — A famous architect is making plans to relocate his offices to the West Loop.

Helmut Jahn, namesake of JAHN architects, is in talks to move the firm to 1210 W. Lake St., according to Bernie Citron, a Thompson Coburn attorney representing the building's developer. The firm is currently located in the Jewelers Building at 35 E. Wacker in the Loop.

West Loop real estate firm R2 Companies is working to rehab the interior of the 12,000-square-foot Lake Street building, which currently houses auto shop Wizard Werks, converting the building for office use, said Matt Duhig, R2 principal. The auto shop's lease expires in early 2017.

The brick and concrete


loft building features 35-foot bow truss ceilings and is two blocks from the CTA Green Line's Morgan 'L' stop.

JAHN hasn't signed a lease on the space yet, but the deal is close to being completed, Duhig said at a sparsely-attended community meeting this week.

Honored in 2012 with the American Institute of Architects Chicago Lifetime Achieve Award, 76-year-old Jahn is known internationally for his work on projects that include the Song Center in Berlin, the European Union headquarters in Brussels, the James R. Thompson Center in Downtown Chicago, the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport and the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune. Jahn also helped design McCormick Place East on Chicago's lakefront.

Helmut Jahn (DNAinfo/Ted Cox)

This year, Jahn alsoRevellers could see more late-night bars, hotels and music venues pop up throughout the inner suburbs under proposals being developed by the City of Sydney.

Green Square, Broadway and parts of Surry Hills were among areas that needed extended late-night trading hours, according to more than 10,000 residents and visitors surveyed on the city's nightlife.

The feedback was part of the council’s first review in more than a decade of the planning controls that determine trading hours and locations of night-time premises across Sydney.

The City of Sydney asked for feedback on how it could revive the city's nightlife. Credit:Janie Barrett

It showed strong support for more late-night venues in fast-growing parts of the city including Green Square, as well as more diverse late-night businesses including shops, restaurants, cafes, small bars, live


well known, he’s not nearly as big as the names who were interested in moderating the 2nd debate had we been in LA or NYC. Larry King generated incredible amounts of press for that debate, and I plan on bringing in more names the entire country knows and cameras can’t help but follow to moderate the debates in 2016. (Both Jon Stewart and Phil Donahue were interested if we had been in NYC, as were Ricki Lake and Martin Sheen had we been in LA.)

2 – Two tiers of sponsors. Our second tier sponsors will expand on the 57 media and organization sponsors F&E had for the 2012 debates. These sponsors paid nothing, but reported on the debates and helped spread word of them. The first tier sponsorsScotland's national naloxone program: The prison experience.
Launched in 2011, the Scottish national naloxone program marked an important development in public health policy. Central to its design were strategies to engage prisoners given their elevated risk of drug-related death in the weeks following liberation. Implementation across Scottish prisons has posed particular challenges linked to both operational issues within prison establishments and individual factors affecting staff delivering, and prisoners engaging, with the program. Barriers have been overcome through innovation and partnership working. This commentary has described how the development of the program in prisons has adapted to these challenges to a point where a largely consistent model is in place and where prisoners-on-release are reaping the benefits in terms of reduced opioid-related mortality.


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December 2006, updates added June 2008, June 2011, July 2014, May 2016, June 2018 Attack of the flesh-eating parasitoid maggots!! Mutant mute crickets run rampant in tropical paradise!! The headlines may sound like a trailer for a cheap horror flick  but in fact, these sensationalist sound bites accurately describe the situation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The "flesh-eating parasitoid maggots" are the offspring of the fly, Ormia ochracea, which invaded Hawaii from North America, and the mutant crickets are the flies' would-be victims. The flies follow the chirps of a calling cricket and then deposit a smattering of wriggling maggots onto the cricket's back. The maggots burrow into the cricket, and emerge,male wings, but Xm- males have the mutant mute wings.

The island of Kauai is testimony to how quickly natural selection can operate under the right conditions. Between 1991 (when they started monitoring the situation on Kauai) and 2001, Marlene Zuk and her colleagues documented major declines in the island's cricket population. The crickets seemed to be no match for the parasitic flies. In one study, 30% of calling males were infested with the parasite, and in 2001, the island was virtually silent: the team heard only one cricket call! Such intense parasitism represents strong selective pressure favoring any genetic change that helps the crickets evade the flies. And in 2003, the team discovered the result of that selection: the cricket population had bounced back! The island was again


hanging out near their literal "wingmen"  the few calling males remaining in the population. Female crickets are attracted to these callers but may get distracted by a mutant mute male en route. A silent male that intercepts a female has made it over one hurdle, but even then, his mute wings are a major handicap in terms of reproductive success. Typically, a male cricket that has attracted a female would then perform a courtship song to seal the deal, but mutant males have no voice for that sweet-talking. For most female crickets, the lack of a courtship song would be a serious turn-off. However, Kauai's females seem to be a bit less choosy and are willing to accept a silent male as a mate. Marlene Zuk andis the same in terms of behavior (chirpless males) and both were favored and spread because of the same sort of natural selection (escaping detection by a parasitic fly), this is a case of convergent evolution, not gene flow. Several lines of evidence support the idea that the silent males on each island have distinct evolutionary origins. First, the wings of silent Kauai males look slightly different from the wings of silent Oahu males—that is, they have different phenotypes. The silent Oahu males have more remnants of the toothy, noisemaking vein on their wings than do the silent Kauai males. Second, although both of the mutations are located on the crickets' X chromosome, genetic analysis suggests that they are distinct. The reasoning behind this conclusion takes some explaining.


denied the allegations against him, stating that he was in Los Angeles between August 23 and 29, and in New York for the entire month of September. According to a Czech intelligence source, there is no record of him entering Prague by plane, but Respekt magazine and Politico pointed out that he could have theoretically entered by car or train from a neighboring country within the Schengen Area, for example Italy. In the latter case, a record of Cohen entering the Schengen zone from a non-Schengen country should exist, if it occurred.

However, on April 13, 2018, the DC Bureau of McClatchy Newspapers reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that Cohen did travel to Prague during the late summer of 2016, with two sources having confirmed thisthen discussing several items of business with Cohen. Cohen mentions that he needs to "open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David", interpreted as meaning David Pecker, the head of American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer. Later when they discuss financing, Trump is heard saying something about "pay with cash", to which Cohen responds "no, no, no", but the tape is unclear and it is disputed what is said next; the word "check" can be heard. A transcript provided by Trump's attorneys has Trump saying "Don't pay with cash ... check." The tape cuts off abruptly at that point. A lawyer for the Trump Organization said that any reference to "cash" would not have meant "green currency", but a


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306 N.Y. 704 (1954)
Holly Popkin, by Irving Popkin, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant,
v.
Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association of Rochester, New York, Inc., Respondent.
Irving Popkin, Appellant,
v.
Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association of Rochester, New York, Inc., Respondent.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
Argued November 23, 1953.
Decided January 15, 1954
Meyer Fix for appellants.
Robert C. Winchell for respondent.
Concur: LEWIS, Ch. J., CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ. Taking no part: VAN VOORHIS, J.
Judgments affirmed, with costs; no opinion.


TB anywhere is TB everywhere

TB is still largely considered a poor man’s disease and is generally associated with the socially disadvantaged people living in low and middle income countries. But the story of Liam Joel Taylor proves that, being an air borne infection, TB can strike anyone anywhere.
31 years old Liam neither lives in a developing country, nor does he
come from an economically or socially disadvantaged class. He lives near
Liverpool and his father is a lecturer in South American Studies. In 2011, after doing his Masters in Environment and Development he went to South America to do some work on water pollution. Unfortunately the job fell through while he was there. Then he, along with his girl friend, spent around 7 months travelling to Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia,Letterman brought up Monica Lewinsky, saying he felt bad for the role he played in making her the butt of jokes after her affair with President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. Lewinsky recently resurfaced in an interview with Vanity Fair.

"I like Monica, and I felt that she's never had the chance to move on," Walters said, noting that both Bill and Hillary Clinton have been able to continue their lives.

"Monica is still stuck in the humor of it," she said.

Noting that Walters is retiring from her show "The View," Letterman suggested that Lewinsky could work as a co-host there.

Walters thought for a moment, then slowly responded, "I won't tell you what we have done, but it would have been possible. I don't think that's what she wanted."

But,


she added, "I think it would be great if she were on 'The View.' I wouldn't expect it tomorrow."

Walters also talked about embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who backed out of an interview with her to discuss his recorded racist rant.

Walters said she isn't a doctor, so she doesn't know if Sterling is in the early stages of dementia, as his estranged wife, Shelly, told her. But during off-camera talks about doing an interview, Walters said, "I felt talking to him that he was confused."

As Barbara Walters prepares to retire from journalism on Friday, she is making the talk show rounds to discuss her career. She might have hinted at someone else's career Wednesday night on "Late Show with David Letterman."Government

Public hearings on proposed revisions to Wisconsin’s endangered and threatened species list scheduled for March 5 at various locations around Wisconsin have been cancelled and a hearing has been rescheduled due to the potential for a severe winter storm. The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Advisories and Warnings for much of Wisconsin from Monday night through Tuesday.

As a result the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has cancelled public hearings on the proposed revisions to the state endangered and threatened species list that were scheduled by video conference at Milwaukee, Green Bay and Eau Claire and a public hearing scheduled for Madison.

State Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack and Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone earned the number one and two spots in a three-way primary last week,


setting them up to face off in the April 2 general election.

Eliminated from the contest was consumer attorney Vince Megna, who finished a distant third.

While statewide Roggensack earned more than twice as many votes as Fallone, local results once again illustrated that the City of Middleton leans far more heavily to the left than the neighboring Town of Middleton.

In the city, Fallone, who is viewed as the more liberal candidate, received 1,001 votes. Roggensack, who has the backing of many Republicans, got 478. In the town, Roggensack defeated Fallone 259 to 230.

The Middleton Common Council last week unanimously approved a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA) Local 427. The deal covers 2013 through 2015.

The agreement between the city and WPPA calls for increases inSalt Lake Comic Con announces six guests

Last fall, the convention shattered records as the largest first-year comic con in North America. At April’s Salt Lake Comic Con FanX, more than 100,000 geeks flooded the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Founders Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenberg were escorted to the podium by Boba Fett and representatives from the Empire. Before Farr and Brandenberg were to be encased in carbonate, they were given some last words.

Luckily, those words included six fan-favorite guests confirmed for the convention this September:

Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters, The Crow)

Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride)

Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Spider-man)

John Barrowman (Arrow, Torchwood)

Sam Witwer (Being Human, Battlestar Galactica)

Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)

Of course, they didn’t waste any time hosting celebrity appearances. Daniel Logan, a New Zealand actor


A graphene lightbulb with lower energy emissions, longer lifetime and lower manufacturing costs has been launched thanks to a University of Manchester research and innovation partnership.

Graphene Lighting PLC is a spin-out based on a strategic partnership with the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester to create graphene applications.

The UK-registered company will produce the lightbulb, which is expected to perform significantly better and last longer than traditional LED bulbs.

It is expected that the graphene lightbulbs will be on the shelves in a matter of months, at a competitive cost.

The University of Manchester has a stake in Graphene Lighting PLC to ensure that the University benefits from commercial applications coming out of the NGI.

The graphene lightbulb is believed to be the first commercial application of graphene toemerge from the UK, and is the first application from the £61m NGI, which only opened last week.

Graphene was isolated at The University of Manchester in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov, earning them the Nobel prize for Physics in 2010. The University is the home of graphene, with more than 200 researchers and an unrivalled breadth of graphene and 2D material research projects.


direct involvement in the murders and rape. He provided three versions of how the crimes were committed. It appears from the last version of the confession that appellant and one Jesse Lamar Hall went to Dunedin Beach where they saw the victims, David Sawyer and Susan Routt. They approached the victims' car, and Hall, with gun in hand, told the victims that appellant wanted to have intercourse with the girl. The victims' car was moved from the beach to a designated parking lot, and the boy and girl were forced at gunpoint to go with Hall and Hoy to a secluded area of the beach. With Hall guarding Sawyer, Hoy overcame Miss Routt's resistance and, ignoring her cries for help, sexually assaulted her. Attempting to break away fromHall to go to the girl's aid, Sawyer was shot in the face. After falling to the ground, he was shot twice more in the head. Hall then proceeded to take his turn in sexually assaulting Routt, both vaginally and anally. Hall shot her twice in the side of her head. Appellant then returned and assaulted her anally, after which he rolled her over and shot her in the forehead. Sawyer's wallet was then taken from his body by Hoy.
On September 27, 1975, appellant was charged by indictment with murder in the first degree of David Sawyer, with murder in the first degree of Susan Routt, with involuntary sexual battery of Susan Routt *828 and with robbery of David Sawyer. The public defender was appointed to represent him


resulting in a jury verdict of guilty of both charges of murder in the first degree and the charge of involuntary sexual battery. Judgment of acquittal had been entered as to the robbery charge, and a verdict of guilty was returned as to the lesser included charge of petit larceny. After sentencing hearing, a majority of the jury recommended life imprisonment. Prior to sentencing, the judge obtained a presentence investigation report and a psychiatric examination report. Upon considering and weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the trial judge determined that, under the circumstances presented, the imposition of the death penalty was appropriate on each charge of murder in the first degree.
Initially, appellant argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion for change of venue since pre-trialallegedly inflammatory articles to which our attention is directed by appellant were contained in the Clearwater Sun. Only six jurors were excused by the trial court due to a prior acquaintance with the cause. Eleven were excused by the State by peremptory challenge. The defense utilized only twenty-five peremptory challenges when permitted forty by the trial court. With only a very few exceptions, the prospective jurors stated that they could unreservedly render an impartial verdict.
The voir dire of the jury selected to hear the cause reveals that eight of them had no prior knowledge whatsoever of the cause prior to being called for jury duty. Of the remaining four, one heard that the murder had happened from a customer, but that was the extent of her exposure, and


of a detective summarizing three differing and contradictory statements made by the appellant. Published with equal prominence in these articles contained in the Clearwater Sun was appellant's retraction of his confession. Further, as appears from the record, none of the jurors even read the articles in question. The area in which the trial took place was not dependent on a sole daily newspaper for information. In fact, a great many of the perspective jurors did not read the Clearwater Sun but, rather, read the St. Petersburg Times. In the instant case, the voir dire of the jury evidences no prior knowledge *831 on their part of the publications to which appellant directs our attention.
Although recognizing that the granting or denying of a continuance is a matter within theof the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the trial judge explained:
"The capital felony was committed while the defendant was engaged, or was an accomplice, in the commission of a rape, at gunpoint, of a 16 year-old girl.
"The capital felony was committed for the purpose of avoiding a lawful arrest in the sense that it was to insure that there would be no witnesses to testify against the killer.
"The capital felony was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel in that two attractive, vibrant teen-age youngsters in love with life and in love with each other were killed in cold blood in each others presence deliberately and mercilessly. The girl was raped in the presence of her fiance, and he was killed when he tried to help her. She had to know,


as she was being violated, and begging for help, that she too would die at the hands of her merciless ravishers  as she did die.
"This appellant confessed to his guilt on numerous occasions, both before and after his repudiation of the first confession. His knowledge of intimate details that could only have been known to a participant in the crime furnishes absolute corroboration of his confession and the polygraph test taken of him also corroborates the confession.
"The only mitigating circumstances the undersigned could find were the defendant's lack of a significant history of prior criminal activity and the age of the defendant (22) at the time of the crime. These are insufficient, in the mind of the undersigned, to outweigh the aforesaid aggravating circumstances."
This court, in State"The Secretary of State for War has today received the following dispatch from Lord Chelmsford," "Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's forces in Natal colony, South Africa." ""l regret to report a very disastrous engagement" ""which took place on the morning of the 22nd January" ""between the armies of the Zulu king Cetshwayo" ""and our own Number 3 Column, consisting of Five Companies" ""of the 1 st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot," ""and one company of the 2nd Battalion," ""a total of nearly 1 ,500 men, officers and other ranks." ""The Zulus, in overwhelming numbers, launched a highly disciplined attack" ""on the slopes of the mountain of Isandhlwana," ""and in spite of gallant resistance..."" "What did he ask, Father?" "Whether a man of God like myself was pleased


A new short documentary compiles archived footage to recall an event held in New York on the eve of World War II in which tens of thousands of people gathered at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden venue to cheer on US Nazis at what was billed as a “pro-American rally.”

Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry’s latest work includes the moments when a Jewish man was beaten to the floor as he tried to rush past dozens of uniformed Nazis on the stage in a failed attempt to disrupt the main speaker.

The seven-minute “A Night at the Garden” is made up of various clips showing the drama on the night of February 20, 1939, when 20,000 people packed into Madison Square Garden for a rally organized by the German AmericanBund, a Nazi movement led by German-American Fritz Julius Kuhn.

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The film was recently screened at 22 US cinemas in the Alamo theater chain.

Curry made the film for the documentary unit Field of Vision after learning about the history of the rally a year ago.

In an interview published last week on the Field of Vision website, the director talked about the film and its significance to modern society.

“Events like this should remind us not to be complacent — that the things we care about have to be nurtured and defended regularly — because even seemingly good people have the potential to do hideous things,” he said.

American neo-Nazis and US white supremacists made


headlines recently after an August nationalist rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, dissolved into clashes and deadly violence when an alleged white supremacist drove his car into counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

In the black and white footage from 1939 rally, uniformed American Nazis carrying swastika flags are seen parading up to the stage, where a 30-foot-high poster of George Washington is surrounded by US flags and swastika banners. During the proceedings the crowd also sings “The Star Spangled Banner.”

At the time the rally was held, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was already operating several concentration camps as part of the persecution of Jews and political opponents that led to the murder of six million Jewish people across Europe. On September 1, 1939, German invaded Poland, launching World War II,basic rights of free speech and free assembly must never be tampered with in the United States, we are opposed to any action to prevent the Bund from airing its views.”

“New York Mayor [Fiorello Henry] LaGuardia, for his part, ridiculed the event as an ‘exhibition of international cooties,’ and said he believed in exposing cooties to the sunlight,” Curry noted.

According to Curry, the German American Bund “had a significant presence in the 1930s, with training camps in New Jersey, upstate New York, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and a huge march down East 86th Street in Manhattan. But their mainstream appeal was reduced by their leaders’ German accents and culture.”

In December 1939, Kuhn was imprisoned for embezzling Bund funds. He was stripped of his US citizenship and after the war


Japan said Saturday that Australia and Canada will join the multilateral effort to monitor North Korean attempts to evade U.N. Security Council sanctions through maritime smuggling.

The Foreign Ministry said the two countries will deploy patrol aircraft to U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture. They are expected to engage in monitoring and surveillance activities to prevent ship-to-ship transfers of goods at sea by North Korea in waters around the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula and in the East China Sea.

“Japan welcomes these activities from the viewpoint of upholding maximum pressure on North Korea,” the ministry said in a statement.

The expansion of the surveillance effort, which already involves the United States and Japan, comes as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held theIT Leaders: Building the Next-Generation Bosses

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Leadership development programs tend to fall within most organizations' training budgets--which continues to get chopped just as spending on new project initiatives is starting to see a lift, says Bill Pelzar, vice president of executive programs at Gartner. "There's no question that's the case right now," he says.

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