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Right-wing media responded to news that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning by lobbing personal attacks against the secretary and demonizing health care reform.
To hear conservative media tell it, the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich following an outcry over Eich's support for the 2008 referendum that banned same-sex marriage in California is merely the latest sign that a new era of anti-conservative persecution has arrived. That narrative undergirds the right's campaign against LGBT equality and is essential to understanding conservative support for measures that would enshrine anti-LGBT discrimination into law.
On April 3, just two weeks into his tenure, Eich announced his decision to step down as Mozilla's CEO. The revelation that Eich had contributed $1,000 to the anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 campaign had triggered fierce criticism from Mozilla employees, companies like OkCupid, and gay rights activists. As Slate's Mark Joseph Stern noted, the campaign for Proposition 8 was about far more than a simple disagreement over the definition of marriage. Supporters ran stridently homophobic ads accusing gay people of wanting to turn children gay, "mess up" children by introducing gay marriage into the curriculum, and conceal the truth about marriage and reproduction.
The virulently anti-gay propaganda behind the Prop 8 campaign - and the measure's subsequent passage -served to compound the sense of vulnerability among the gay community, which faces discrimination in housing, healthcare, public accommodations, and earnings, and is disproportionately targeted by hate crimes. Given the vitriol that motivated the Prop 8 fight, many supporters of LGBT equality objected to Eich's appointment to Mozilla CEO.
In the right-wing universe, however, it's conservative Christians whose rights are under assault. While Eich's decision to resign was an example of the free market at work - precisely the solution many libertarians and conservatives have long prescribed for anti-gay bigotry - conservative media figures greeted his departure with cries of totalitarianism and bigotry, condemning the "intolerant" LGBT movement for its role in the controversy.
Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in comparing Eich's critics with Nazis, declaring on his April 4 program that "'[f]ascist' is probably the closest way" to describe them (emphasis added):
When it was discovered that Brendan Eich had donated a $100 [sic] to Proposition 8 four years ago, the literal... What is the proper name for people who engage in this kind of behavior? "Fascist" is probably the closest way. You can call 'em Nazis, but nevertheless they went into gear, and immediately Brendan Eich was described as "filled with hatred" and anti-gay bigotry all over the tech media.
Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro sounded a similar note, launching an anti-Mozilla campaign on his website TruthRevolt.org to protest the company's "fascistic crackdown":
Fox News reporter and serial misinformer Todd Starnes failed to disclose that the source for his latest bogus religious liberty horror story is the vice president of sales at the publishing house promoting Starnes' latest book - a book that, conveniently enough, warns of growing "intolerance" against American Christians.
On March 29, Starnes reported that five-year-old Gabriella Perez had been rebuked by a teacher for trying to pray in her Oviedo, FL school lunchroom. The girl recounted the alleged episode in a YouTube video posted by her father, Marcos Perez. Starnes' report featured an original interview with Perez, who told Starnes that he had long had concerns about "issues and agendas we see in the culture war."
But on April 1, the Orlando Sentinel raised doubts about the credibility of Perez's story. According to the Sentinel's report, none of the staff who could have been at the cafeteria at the time of the incident recall witnessing the student being spoken to about prayer. The staff member who allegedly spoke to Gabriella Perez hasn't been identified, and the school has reiterated that it has no policy prohibiting students from praying.
The Sentinel also revealed that Marcos Perez is the vice president of sales at Charisma House, the publisher of Starnes' soon-to-be-published collection of religious liberty horror stories, God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values (emphasis added):
School officials have not interviewed Gabriella, who was pulled from the school by her parents the day after the video was posted. The Perezes said they accelerated existing plans to home school her. Her father is vice president of sales at Charisma House, a Lake Mary-based Christian book publisher. The company is currently promoting the book "God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values," by Fox News host Todd Starnes. Starnes reported on the lunch prayer controversy for Fox News Radio. Marcos Perez said he did the interview with Starnes because "I'm passionate about the cause." He seemed distressed by any notion of ulterior motives. Using his family to promote a book "would be egregious," he said. "I'm a father first, a VP of sales second."
As Right Wing Watch noted, Perez was recently featured in a press release promoting Starnes' book.
Starnes' report on the alleged incident now includes an editor's note disclosing Perez's employment at the top of the article:
Fox News used a misleading report from the anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) to accuse the Obama administration of "destabilizing the nation" by releasing undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds. In fact, data show that the Obama administration has met its enforcement mandate to prioritize the deportation of immigrants with criminal convictions, which has resulted in a substantial increase of such deportations.
Referring to gay people as "homosexual" is a practice that's quickly falling out of favor with major news outlets due the term's often pejorative connotation and frequent use by opponents of LGBT equality. But Fox News has yet to update its language when referring to gay and lesbian people.
On March 23, The New York Times published a piece exploring the often derogatory connotation of the term "homosexual." Writing for the Sunday Styles section, the Times' Jeremy Peters noted that experts increasingly view "homosexual" as an offensive and stigmatizing term, even if many people still see the term as relatively "innocuous" (emphasis added):
To most ears, it probably sounds inoffensive. A little outdated and clinical, perhaps, but innocuous enough: homosexual.
But that five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.
" 'Homosexual' has the ring of 'colored' now, in the way your grandmother might have used that term, except that it hasn't been recuperated in the same way," said George Chauncey, a Yale professor of history and an author who studies gay and lesbian culture.
Consider the following phrases: homosexual community, homosexual activist, homosexual marriage. Substitute the word "gay" in any of those cases, and the terms suddenly become far less loaded, so that the ring of disapproval and judgment evaporates.
Some gay rights advocates have declared the term off limits. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or Glaad, has put "homosexual" on its list of offensive terms and in 2006 persuaded The Associated Press, whose stylebook is the widely used by many news organizations, to restrict use of the word.
George P. Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has looked at the way the term is used by those who try to portray gays and lesbians as deviant. What is most telling about substituting it for gay or lesbian are the images that homosexual tends to activate in the brain, he said.
"Gay doesn't use the word sex," he said. "Lesbian doesn't use the word sex. Homosexual does."
Peters highlighted use of the term by anti-gay figures like Rush Limbaugh, whose comments on the "homosexual" NFL prospect Michael Sam and the efforts of the "homosexual lobby" to defeat Arizona's anti-gay discrimination bill smack of contempt.
Use of the term is also pervasive at Fox News - and not just from the likes of the network's hate group mouthpiece Todd Starnes, who recently warned that "Christians are trading places with homosexuals" in the military. Just as the network insists on misgendering transgender subjects, Fox also has no qualms about regularly referring to gay men and lesbians by a term many of them shun.
Fox employees from Megyn Kelly to Sarah Palin continue to use the word "homosexual" to describe gays and lesbians. Fox Supreme Court reporter and pro-discrimination champion Shannon Bream teased a forthcoming segment on "homosexual adoption":
Fox's "Medical A-Team" member and anti-LGBT pop psychologist Keith Ablow uses the term "homosexual sex" while criticizing pro-gay advertisements.
And Fox's Bill O'Reilly was recently mocked for a segment in which he attacked the Girl Scouts for "leaning left," seizing in particular on the organization's employment of a spokesman who participated "in a punk rock band with homosexual overtones":
Guinness announced that it will not participate in the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade due to the parade's exclusion of LGBT groups, prompting outrage and calls for boycott from right-wing media figures.
Several right-wing media figures reacted with outrage on Twitter after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have permitted businesses and individuals to refuse to serve gay couples and individuals.
Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes effusively praised hate group spokesman Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) as "one of the most intelligent talk show hosts in the country." Fischer is notorious for making rabidly homophobic statements, including the claim that gay men caused the Holocaust.
During a February 24 appearance on American Family Radio's Focal Point with Bryan Fischer, Starnes and Fischer discussed a halted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) study that would have examined how well newsrooms are meeting the public's "critical information needs" on key public policy issues. Right-wing media hyped the study as an invasive survey that could lead to the federal government dictating news coverage.
While the FCC has backed off the study following public comment, Fischer said it "sounded" like the FCC is "reloading" and will proceed with the study anyway. In his discussion of the study, Fischer accused the Obama administration of trying to censor anti-gay views. Starnes agreed, suggesting that the Bible could soon be censored or outlawed. The Fox commentator praised Fischer's analysis of the FCC study as emblematic of why Fischer is "one of the most intelligent talk show hosts in the country":
Right-wing media figures, led by Fox News, have launched a campaign against the Girl Scouts accusing the group of indoctrinating young girls into liberal politics. The accusation has been propped up by misleading claims, ludicrous oversimplifications, and frequently repeated myths about the organization, which focuses on empowering girls.
Fox News has spent the last several months championing anti-gay business owners who refuse to serve gay customers - depicting efforts to prevent discrimination as threats to religious liberty. Now, with several states debating bills that would legalize homophobic discrimination in business and employment, Fox News is now defending the extreme, anti-gay segregation policies it helped to create.
The push to legalize anti-gay discrimination first came to public attention on February 12, when the Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing individuals and businesses to refuse any services "related to, or related to the celebration of" any union - effectively allowing blanket protection for the denial of services to gay couples. After a storm of negative publicity, the State Senate has shelved the bill.
Similar bills have recently died in Idaho, South Dakota, and Tennessee, but the Arizona legislature has sent its own license to discriminate measure to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer's desk.
The wave of anti-gay segregation measures is the culmination of a concerted right-wing strategy, bolstered by Fox News, to cast anti-gay discrimination as an integral part of religious freedom.
Long before the public outcry over Kansas' license to discriminate bill, Fox threw its weight behind businesses whose owners refuse, ostensibly on religious grounds, to serve gay and lesbian couples - precisely the form of discrimination that conservative state legislators have sought to legalize.
As part of Fox's continued conflation of homophobia and Christianity, the network has repeatedly defended discrimination by anti-gay business owners as an essential part of religious liberty.
On December 10, Fox & Friends hosted Colorado baker Jack Phillips and his extremist Alliance Defending Freedom-affiliated attorney to discuss a court ruling that Phillips had violated the state's anti-discrimination law by refusing to serve a same-sex couple. The segment featured a graphic proclaiming "The Death Of Free Enterprise," while co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Phillips why he thought he shouldn't have to discard his "personal religious beliefs just to make a buck."
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes continued their feud over Kansas' anti-gay segregation bill, with Powers calling Starnes out for "lying" in his criticism of her opposition to the measure.
The feud between Starnes and Powers began on February 19 with a USA Today column in which Powers challenged supporters of a Kansas bill which would have allowed businesses to refuse to serve gay and lesbian couples on religious grounds. "Christians backing this bill," Powers charged, "are essentially arguing for homosexual Jim Crow laws." Powers' Fox colleagues Starnes and Erick Erickson swiftly criticized the column and defended the Kansas bill as an effort to protect religious liberty.
Starnes reignited the feud with a February 20 tweet alleging that Powers - an evangelical Christian who quoted religious opponents of the Kansas bill in her column -- showed an ignorance of Christianity:
Powers pushed back, accusing Starnes of lying:
Starnes continued to take umbrage at the comparison between Jim Crow laws and "license to discriminate" legislation, charging Powers with "smearing people" who supported the legislation and accusing his critics of "playing the race card":
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers condemned a legislative push in Kansas to legalize religiously-motivated anti-gay business and employment discrimination, contradicting Fox News' pattern of defending anti-gay discrimination and sparking criticism from Powers' Fox News colleagues.
In a column for USA Today published on February 19, Powers blasted a Kansas bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse services to same-sex couples based on the owner's religious views. Since its passage by the state House of Representatives on February 12, the bill has been shelved by the Kansas Senate. Powers took issue with supporters of "homosexual Jim Crow laws" using Christianity to justify anti-gay bigotry - a common practice at Fox News (emphasis added):
Whether Christians have the legal right to discriminate should be a moot point because Christianity doesn't prohibit serving a gay couple getting married. Jesus calls his followers to be servants to all. Nor does the Bible call service to another an affirmation.
Christians backing this bill are essentially arguing for homosexual Jim Crow laws.
Christians serve unrepentant murderers through prison ministry. So why can't they provide a service for a same-sex marriage?
Some claim it's because marriage is so sacred. But double standards abound. Christian bakers don't interrogate wedding clients to make sure their behavior comports with the Bible. If they did, they'd be out of business. [Evangelical pastor Andy] Stanley said, "Jesus taught that if a person is divorced and gets remarried, it's adultery. So if (Christians) don't have a problem doing business with people getting remarried, why refuse to do business with gays and lesbians."
Maybe they should just ask themselves, "What would Jesus do?" I think he'd bake the cake.
Powers' Fox colleague Erick Erickson made clear that he wasn't a fan of her column, tweeting a link to a blog post that criticized her position and called the right to refuse service essential to "the common good." Erickson called the post "your must read of the day":
Right-wing media outlets and personalities attacked a Coca-Cola ad aired during the Super Bowl that featured members of different cultures singing "America the Beautiful" in several languages.
On January 28, President Obama gave his fifth State of the Union speech during which he addressed the urgent need to act on climate change. Conservative media pundits latched on to the cold winter weather in the area during his speech to laugh off global warming, despite the clear long-term warming trend.
Right-wing media figures condemned the weddings of 33 same-sex and opposite-sex couples at the 56th annual Grammy Awards, describing the ceremony as an attack on Christianity.


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Officers are trained in a "Use of force continuum" — on one end is "Simple directions and commands;" the other end is "Any force that can result in death or great bodily harm." The continuum "does not mandate step-by-step graduation by officer," according to the department manual.
A Taser is in the middle of the St. Paul police continuum. The police policy manual calls a Taser "a non-lethal weapon used as a means to control potentially violent or assaultive subjects."
Mike Miller, an associate professor of criminal justice at South College in Knoxville, Tenn., has studied police officers' use of Tasers. He thinks there's been a national trend of police agencies adjusting policy from allowing Taser use for "passive resistance" to "active resistance."
The St. Paul officers described Lollie as "actively resisting," Miller said of his review of the police reports, which he did at the Pioneer Press' request.
"Officers have to act on the information available to them at the time of the encounter," said Miller, who retired as a captain from the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando, Fla. "I can understand the young man's perspective: he felt he was being confronted about something he was not guilty of. Subsequent officers arrived and it tended to escalate the situation, and you see that a lot, unfortunately. From a purely policy perspective, officers have to counter the resistance they encounter."
Miller, said he hopes the Lollie case will result in a review of policy about the public nature of skyways and perhaps more education for security guards about what areas are public and private, and when someone would be considered trespassing.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has also weighed in about Tasers after conducting a report, saying in 2011 that there is "no standard policy for Taser use in Minnesota."
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Brian Fitch Sr., 39, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of officer Scott Patrick, 47. Prosecutors say the 19-year veteran of the force was fatally shot by Fitch during a routine traffic stop July 30.
First appearances in court cases typically come within a few days of a suspect's arrest. But Fitch was shot eight times during an exchange of fire with police when they tracked him down in St. Paul the night of Patrick's death, and has been hospitalized ever since.
He required at least once surgery, for his stomach, according to court documents.
Fitch also faces a number of attempted murder, assault and gun charges. Ramsey and Dakota County prosecutors are convening a rare multi-county grand jury to consolidate the cases against him.
A repeat criminal offender, Fitch was wanted on a number of warrants when Patrick pulled him over. Fitch faced years in prison if apprehended.
The day before Patrick's death, Fitch told an ex-girlfriend he'd shoot an officer if pulled over, according to court documents.
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The man, from Frontenac, Minn., caught the attention of deputies about 10 a.m. after "shuffling slowly" through the walk-through metal detector at the Dakota County Courthouse in Hastings and smelling of booze, Sgt. Chris Melton said.
He was "doing the stir-stick — swaying back and forth," Melton said, and had blood-shot eyes and snow on his pants and jacket from falling. The man's girlfriend said she drove him to the courthouse, where he was to appear on a gross-misdemeanor driving after cancellation charge stemming from a prior alcohol offense, Melton said.
"He was walking and talking," Melton said. "I asked him how much he had to drink and he said, 'enough.' "
Once the man was in the courtroom, the judge asked him to submit to a breath test. The first test, taken at about 10:15 a.m., revealed a blood-alcohol content of 0.499 percent, Melton said. Fifteen minutes later, a second breath test showed the 0.509 percent reading, Melton said.
The man admitted to drinking a liter of vodka that same morning.
"I thought he was probably a 0.15 or somewhere around there," Melton said, adding the highest reading he saw before then was around 0.40.
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They'll be discussing "shootings with houses getting struck and discuss some strategies to combat this," Mathison said.
No one has been injured in these shots-fired cases, and police don't believe they're random, Mathison said. The cases may be gang related -- "some of the players we're looking at have ties to gang," he said.
The incidents have primarily been in the 600 block of Stryker Avenue and 600 block of Hall Avenue over the past several weeks, Mathison said.
An active investigation is underway, Mathison said.
Here's the Central District's Facebook post about the meeting:
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Update on Wednesday -- Dog found. See below for the latest.
From today's St. Paul police reports: A woman reported to police that she tied up her dog named Gummy Bear, a white Shih-poo, outside the SuperAmerica at 399 N. Lexington Parkway on Sunday at about 7:10 p.m. She went in the station, came out about 10 minutes later and the dog was gone.
Surveillance video showed an older, silver car pulled up next to the dog. A male got out, took the dog off the leash and put the pup the backseat, said Sgt. Paul Paulos, a police spokesman.
The victim told police that Gummy Bear is her service dog, helping her cope with seizures. Gummy Bear was last seen wearing a green vest.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 651-266-5632.
Paulos said Wednesday that Gummy Bear has been found and returned to its owner. A woman called police on Tuesday, saying she had the dog, Paulos said. Police are not pursuing charges against the woman because she explained that she thought the dog was abandoned when she saw it outside and was going to turn the dog into the Animal Humane Society, said Paulos, adding that she was very apologetic.
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According to the police department's weekly newsletter, "Just the Facts," Shepard approached the car to find a juvenile who said he was "drunk, not wasted."
After searching the juvenile and car, the officer found a jar of pot, a half-full bottle of Crown Royal whisky, a bag of wine that had been removed from its box, and a double-edged knife.
"The vehicle was towed and the juvenile was driven home with his citations to deal with parental consequences," the newsletter says.
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The commission consists of more that 350 lawyers, judges, law school professors, legislators and other state officials -- all attorneys -- from every state who draft and promote enactment of uniform laws designed to solve problems common to all states.
Lansing, of St. Paul, has served on the commission since 1993. She was first appointed to the appeals court in 1983 after serving as a Ramsey County District Court judge and as St. Paul city attorney.
--Bill Salisbury
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The Ramsey County District Court assignment division chief retired Wednesday, May 1, after 34 years on the job. She started as a temporary clerk-typist in the violations bureau and worked her way up, ditching plans for law school.
As assignment chief, "It was her pleasure every day to tell judges where to go," said Chief Judge Teresa Warner.
From her windowless basement office in the downtown St.Paul courthouse, Noel pointed to a piece of the building's history: One of the ashtrays that used to stand near every elevator and in every judge's chambers back in the day.
"I'm taking it," the longtime smoker said.
We're guessing that sheriff's deputies just waved as she left the building.
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After watching Ramsey County public defender Mary Mateer shuffle around for misplaced documents, repeat questions and ask about a topic that had been prohibited, Judge Leonardo Castro gave the jury a 2.5 hour break Tuesday, March 19.
"Ms. Mateer, I'm gonna give you this time to get organized," Castro said after he had sent the jury out of the courtroom. "Frankly, you're doing a disservice to your client at this time."
"May I respond at this point?" Mateer replied.
"No, you may not," Castro said.
"Can I respond -- "
"No, you may not."
"Can I at least make a record -- ?"
"No you may not," Castro said.
The judge walked back into his chambers. Mateer told an associate that she believed Castro was incorrect about the topic that had been disallowed.
Mateer is representing Ronald Sims in an Oct. 21, 2012, aggravated robbery case involving a Craigslist transaction. On Tuesday morning, she was cross-examining the alleged victim. Some of the questions focused on his criminal background. Mateer brought up a case that was not to have been discussed, the judge said.
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The "gallon smashing" prank might not have people crying over spilled milk, but it's probably not making store managers happy.
Here's some background about the prank, which involves young people smashing a gallon of milk onto a store's floor and sliding through it. Video of it has gone viral.
It apparently came to St. Paul's Midway Target on Saturday, March 9 about 11 p.m., when police say a 16-year-old girl carried out the prank and an officer cited her.
An off-duty officer working at the University Avenue Target was called to the dairy aisle, where a manager was standing with an empty gallon of milk, said St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos. The officer asked the manager what was going on and he said it was a "gallon smash incident," Paulos said.
The teen admitted to doing it, and the off-duty officer cited her for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property, and released her, Paulos said. The teen was at the store with two friends; a police report didn't say whether anyone had recorded it.
Paulos said the case was his first time hearing about it.
"In today's social media world, kids are picking things up faster and faster," Paulos said. "Stores should be on the lookout for this behavior. The kids should know it doesn't just cost property, but jeopardizes the safety of themselves and other customers."
Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in an email that the company is aware of such incidents.
"At Target the safety and security of our guests and team members is a top priority," she wrote. "We are taking these safety incidents very seriously and are partnering with our team and with law enforcement."
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Mark Ruffalo Talks Science Bros And The Possibility Of A HULK Solo Flick
One of the many things Marvel fans are excited to see in Avengers: Age of Ultron is an expanded role for Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner and his internal, green rage monster the Hulk. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige promised larger and more substantial roles for both Banner and Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye. We've seen several set photos of Renner in his new costume, but we're just now starting to get our first shots of Ruffalo running around as Banner. The actor recently spoke with Digital Spy about playing Hulk and fielded yet another question about a possible Hulk solo outing. The actor seems to think it's a real possibility now, though he also agrees a team-up movie with the other half of the Science Bros. would be cool too.
While Ruffalo didn't spill any beans about Age of Ultron, he did tease some more Science Bro. goodies. Tony Stark and Bruce Banner formed quite the odd friendship in The Avengers, and it took off as a hugely popular internet meme. Some are funny, others are just plain ol' creepy and put Banner and Stark into some very adult situations. There will be more fuel added to those fires since Ruffalo said that there will be some "very cool Science Bros. stuff."
When asked about the possibility of another Hulk solo movie starring himself, Ruffalo says that Marvel is actually starting to come around to the idea. He said rather optimistically:
I think they are, for the first time, sort of entertaining the idea of it. When we did Avengers 1 it was basically 'No!', and now I think there is some consideration for it. But there's still nothing definitive, not even a skeletal version of what it would be. I look forward to going down that road, if we could crack the nut. It's a tough…I think the Banner/Hulk storyline is obviously not an easy nut to crack.
Fans have been clamoring for more Hulk since The Avengers, and it seems like Marvel will soon oblige. Depending on just how successful Age of Ultron is, the studio will probably decide on what they want to do with Hulk next. While a solo outing might not be in the cards, Ruffalo thinks a team-up movie for Iron Man 4 (if they make an Iron Man 4) would be pretty cool. When the interviewer raised the possibility of that, Ruffalo really took a liking to that idea, saying, "That would be cool! Or do Iron Man and…Iron Man 4 and Banner is in that. That'd be very cool." You can hear more from Ruffalo by watching the full video below. What do you think about the actor's comments? Would you rather see a Hulk solo movie or a Hulk/Iron Man team-up?
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The Reno Fire Department now says they believe the Verdi Fire that scorched more than 6,000 acres twelve days ago...was man-caused.
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Investigators will not say exactly how the fire was sparked, though it was disclosed that it was started north of the Truckee River, near an industrial building.
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That those conditions were NOT the general norm in Europe
Which is false - obviously, they were, at the time specified. That's what industrialization was all about. Just go have a look at the standard British or French "suburb" from the era.
and are not the general norm at the present time, and that's just accounting for
Which is doubly irrelevant, because the present day does not enter the picture, but such a form of habitation does remain the norm on many locations outside Europe.
I have not questioned whether those conditions existed AT ALL
This is exactly what you have been questioning all the time.
I say crowded conditions existed -> you say "bullshit". I say two people having sex in a crowded room is a likely scenario, as per well-known historical fact -> you say I'm imagining things. All in feeble attempts to sidestep the fact that the existence of the conditions and the scenario voids your original claim that Gideonite-like folks procreating would somehow be unlikely. That's simply ignorance of the history of sex speaking.
YOU made the claim that everyone, everywhere, lived like that at some point.
Well, in Europe, yes. In North America, yes. In Asia, yes. In Africa, yes. In Oceania, I sort of doubt it.
As said, crowding is a natural result of lack of infrastructure, so isolation results in crowded accommodations. A nomadic lifestyle, even more so. You just don't build separate rooms for having sex unless you live in luxury to start with. What do
imagine ancient habitats really looked like? Again, just go have a look - the nearest library can't be that far away.
People went outside to pee. They stayed inside to fuck. That was civilized behavior, the opposite was, well, the opposite.
rural areas are less densely populated than any time in their history.
Which in no way leads to spacious accommodations. Quite to the contrary, smaller housing arrangements will have to make do. Just go and have a look.
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I've just returned from the International Conference on Ancient Studies in Dubai. By the time I left I was almost deliriously tired, enough perhaps to find a passionate and fiery exchange between two wonderful speakers from the conference, Ahmed Osman and Andrew Collins, debating who or what killed Egypt's King Tut as we drove to the airport, highly comical. I can already hear in my mind Mr. Osman's contempt for this report in the New York Times (he firmly believes that the boy king was murdered):
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King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh, was frail, crippled and suffered "multiple disorders" when he died at age 19 in about 1324 B.C., but scientists have now determined the most likely agents of death: a severe bout of malaria combined with a degenerative bone condition.
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A massive wooden temple is rising on an industrial lot in downtown Petaluma – being built with the express purpose of burning it down.
Sound unusual? Maybe, but only to a certain line of thought. If one thinks like a Burning Man festival participant, it makes perfect sense.
Bay Area artist David Best and his crew of about 100 volunteers are designing and constructing the Temple of Grace, a spiritual and sacred space for memorials, reflection, celebration and to commemorate life transitions at the weeklong festival that begins Aug. 25 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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In the final public act of the alternative festival — the evening after the eponymous burning of the "The Man," a large wooden effigy — the temple is set aflame and participants watch as ideas and memories expressed in the temple are "released."
It is the eighth temple Best has designed and he is continuing a tradition he started in 2000 with its dedication to loved ones lost, specifically this year those lost to suicide.
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During the courtship she would go to Buckingham Palace "quite a lot...because he lived there," she said.
They married on December 19, 2013 after a romantic "Walt Disney" kind of courtship, they both said.
Alex Williams' provocative piece "The End of courtship" tells of the depressing reality that is the dating world of millennials.
The courtship is sometimes a prolonged affair, and many males and females congregate at an appointed place.
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Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.
The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage.
However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine.
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Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google.
The Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine.
One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan "puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them. This is all about Microsoft hurting Google's margins."
Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, has said that the company is prepared to spend heavily for many years to make Bing a serious rival to Google.
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I guess MS has decided that if you can't beat 'em, (try to) sabotage 'em!
Google is so engraved in society today that building a better search engine(not saying Bing is) would not beat Google. Drastic measures are the only way to compete with Google.
Anyway we all loose big time if there ever is a search engine war where sites decide to be listed in one search engine and not in another one.
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Nice move Microsoft. If you can't develop a worthwhile product, try to hurt your competitor by buying away their publishers.
Might work for a year or two, until the publishers start to hold Microsoft accountable for all the promises of increased revenues and advertisers... and when it doesn't come... they will all go lurking back to Google... which will at that time now hold a 80% share of the market...
And since their sites will be newly re-listed, it will take years for them to recover their rankings...
Does this damage the web?
No, not really. It just means that we'll have to use Bing to search for news-related stuff instead of Google - I'm not going to loose sleep over that.
Does this set a precedent that others will follow?
No, not really. For everyone else, maximum exposure is everything - Microsoft can't afford to buy everyone off.
if Bing are paying the papers for their content, then they can't object if Bing try and make a bit back.
Google would probably find themselves on the end of an argument with the papers if they tried to follow suit.
The primary issue might surprise you. (It did me.)
There are very, very few products that can be sold in context to the news. And news content performs worse than average in regards to branding. Google has been disappointed with the income; their agreement with Associated Press is mostly a marketing ploy.
This is why everyone talks about charging for the news. It's not, as News Corp seems to believe, that it's free. It's that news is not good for presenting ads.
It's funny. Much of what is passing around on WW as common wisdom is unknown to executives in the news biz. I believe most webmasters in the news business keep their mouths shut because they fear for their jobs, rightfully so. There are very few cutting-edge web talents working for newspapers today.
Feels like MSFT should be investigated for exploiting their monopolies in other areas to gain unfair advantage in search this time.
While it might depend on how the final deal develops (assuming there is one), I do not see how negotiating exclusive rights to republish copyrighted material can be seen as an abuse of monopoly. It is how copyrights have been handled for years.
Seems to me that M$ is basically saying, "If we pay for access to this content you have to assure us that others are not getting the same access for free."
And, if the model proves profitable for both parties, then I would guess many more traditional news outlets might defect from Google as well - unless Google develops a way to begin paying publishers for the use of their content.
Or may be that's exactly what they want, far fewer readers for whose privilege MS would pay far more.
"very few products that can be sold in context to the news"..."It's that news is not good for presenting ads."
I assume you are qualifying that as clickthrough ads - ie. MS Adcenter as I would have to disagree on that as a general statement.
If M$ have a way to use Y! display ads in the future deal, then brand awareness and product association-wise it's big stuff... not a G buster, but a good solid income stream which is not OS related....
Targetted ads displaying next to news content can work - provided it is only about associating a brand to the broad topic or the focus of the news story.
It would need a very good ad inventory as well as good contextual matching of ads to stories - maybe therein lies the problem?
It would need a very good ad inventory as well as good contextual matching of ads to stories - maybe therein lies the problem?
But there's the rub. What ad do you match to Gov. Sanford facing 37 ethics counts (Cheap Flights to Argentina? Smokey Mountain Vacations?)
How about 104 Killed in Coal Mine Blast? Radiation Leak at Three Mile Island? International Tensions Heat up Over Iran Nukes?
Is this ethical? Is it even legal? To me, it sounds like Budweiser going into a bar and telling the owner, "We'll pay you not to serve Miller." (As opposed to "We'll pay you to serve Bud in addition to Miller.")
Given Microsoft's history on the antitrust and restraint-of-trade front, it seems like a risky move for Microsoft.
As for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is getting a limited-term subsidy from a search engine the best he can do? A few weeks ago, Mr. Murdoch was complaining about Google News and talking about getting users to pay for content. Now he's looking for a handout from another referrer of low-quality drive-by traffic. This sounds like an act of desperation, not a long-term plan for monetizing his content.
But there's the rub. What ad do you match to Gov. Sanford facing 37 ethics counts (Cheap Flights to Argentina? Smokey Mountain Vacations?)
How about 104 Killed in Coal Mine Blast? Radiation Leak at Three Mile Island? International Tensions Heat up Over Iran Nukes?
Click through ads are not a good choice for these examples, but display ads can match perfectly. The news item causes fear, the ad the solution. A perfect combination if these news items are combined with one of the ad types below:
I run a few medium sized news sites and have to say that contextual ads wise hard news performs OK. Only TV, health and tech news do better for us eCPM wise. A lot better than movies or celebrity anyway. Non-contextual no advertiser has ever requested we exclude ads from hard news. I would guess they use the sort of hard news (tabloid or broadsheet) to target the users for branding and later purchases. I don't think you should get obsessed with matching a specific banner ad to a story, not going to happen in most cases.
The problem is not that hard news cannot generate well online, it does as well as most other news topics. It is just online newspapers cannot generate as much as they did in print and hard news is very expensive to produce if you are doing your own reporting.
In respect of Google and AP, have you seen the page. One Adsense unit at the bottom. They are hardly going to rake it in from that. I would guess if they put the same amount of ads as most big sites then they would do OK. But I think Google is wary of becoming a publisher and so the half-hearted effort that was really to solve the duplicate agency content issue on Google News.
Hard news is the problematic part of this. You will see lots of tech, celebrity, movie, tv, gaming news sites. That news is cheap to produce and you can turn a profit with it online. Far fewer hard news sites and most of them are also in print.
My worry is we will be left with just a few agencies like AP, Reuters, DPA and AFP gathering/veryfing all the news from the ground plus some big public funded ones like BBC. That number might even drop as they are hit with the declining revenue from the newspapers who buy it. Since agency news is far less valuable online as people can read more than one paper easily. The less sources the less reliable and more open to abuse/manipulation. Difficult/expensive hot spots to cover will just be ignored.
I look forward to seeing what happens with this, if anything.
It won't work anyway - if I'm looking for news I hardly ever see any results from News Corp properties, and if I do then the same story is repeated in loads of other locations - that's why I think Murdoch is fighting a bit of a losing battle here...
Newspapers need advertisers.
Microsoft chooses to advertise only in newspapers that sign up to Bing exclusively.
As part of the deal, newspapers advertise Bing and their share of searches rises significantly.
Now, the figures may not stack up directly for Microsoft, but they are more or less at war with Google, and if they can afford this, I am in no doubt that it will hurt Google in the area of search (but may not affect profits in a big way immediately).
In a thread titled "Will Microsoft pay publishers to boycott Google news?" on the Microsoft Corporate Forum, I asked:
Is this ethical? Is it even legal? To me, it sounds like Budweiser going into a bar and telling the owner, "We'll pay you not to serve Miller." (As opposed to "We'll pay you to serve Bud in addition to Miller.")
Pubcos in the UK do exactly this all the time, although they don't pay landlords, they just make them sign draconian contracts. Also as far as I know even in the US, drinks companies often have "exclusivity" deals with various event companies.
I think this would be good for competition. If Google were paying sites to delist from other engines, that would be market abuse since they are the leading player (as Intel were the leading player in their market). But for a smaller engine to do it - that's fine. In the unlikely event that Bing goes on to become the market leader, these deals will need to be revised, but for now, I don't see how else Google's near-monopoly can be broken. And breaking up a near-monopoly is a good thing, whatever you think of Microsoft.
edit: another thing: the fact that there may be no relevant ads for these topics is kind of beside the point. A deal like this would get more people into the habit of using Bing, and would benefit Microsft, though maybe not directly.
Hmmm, I'm no legal expert, but paying a supplier not to supply another retailer?
There are very, very few products that can be sold in context to the news.
As for News Corp., THE ECONOMIST recently reported that the share of its revenue that comes from cable TV distribution fees has doubled since 2006. It seems pretty clear that, in Rupert Murdoch's estimation, the way to make the Internet profitable for media properties is to control distribution through exclusivity deals that ultimately could lead to "carriage fees" like those paid by cable carriers to cable TV networks. Getting Microsoft to pay for "carriage" of news headlines and snippets is a small step in that direction. Will it work? That's unlikely, but the fact that Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft are discussing such a deal suggests that Microsoft has changed its stance on "net neutrality," at least as far as search is concerned.
It seems a bit Mafia-like to me. If you don't pay us money we'll come round and smash up your house. I dislike Murdoch a whole pile more than Google, I hope he looses this one.


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SAO PAULO (AP) - Rafael Nadal is drawing inspiration from the Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo as he returns from an injury.
With Ronaldo watching, Nadal won the Brazil Open on Sunday for his first title after a seven-month layoff caused by treatment of his left knee. Nadal said Ronaldo is "an example" to be followed because of his determination to rebound from a series of career-threatening knee injuries.
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Advocate Menzi Simelane, on leave since December when the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled his appointment as prosecutions boss was invalid, heads to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday in a fight to keep his job.
Following an application by the DA challenging President Jacob Zuma's 2009 appointment of Simelane as national director of public prosecutions (NDPP), the court held the president had acted "irrationally" by, among other things, ignoring concerns about Simelane.
Former Speaker Frene Ginwala, who chaired the inquiry into the fitness for office of Simelane's predecessor, Vusi Pikoli, said in her report at the end of that inquiry Simelane's conduct "left much to be desired" and his testimony had been "contradictory and without basis in fact or law".
Some years earlier, Simelane's conduct during his time at the Competition Commission was criticised in a 2003 Supreme Court of Appeal judgment. And it also emerged that the General Council of the Bar was looking into Simelane's conduct.
None of these issues, Simelane argues in documents before the Constitutional Court, was fully canvassed during the earlier court proceedings.
Instead, he argues, the Supreme Court of Appeal erred in finding that the president's decision to appoint him could be reviewed or that he had failed to take all matters into account. Simelane also argues the Supreme Court of Appeal erred in ruling that the determination of a candidate's fitness and propriety must be objectively determined.
"It should instead have found that in appointing the NDPP, the president exercised a value judgement that is not amenable to review," court documents say. "It should instead have found that the president must determine subjectively whether a candidate is appropriate for appointment."
Simelane also argues in the court documents the president has "a broad discretion" to adopt processes for the appointment as neither the constitution nor the National Prosecuting Authority Act set them out.
He declined to comment.
While the Constitutional Court case is under way, Simelane remains on leave and his post will continue to be filled in an acting capacity by advocate Nomgcobo Jiba, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the National Prosecuting Authority.
This is one of several vacancies filled by acting staff in the top ranks of the criminal justice portfolio which arose in controversial, often politically sensitive, circumstances.
This week the focus has relentlessly been on the police and the controversies swirling around crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli, who is accused of misusing the secret service account, but is nevertheless widely touted as the next national police commissioner.
Meanwhile, suspended national police commissioner General Bheki Cele is awaiting the outcome of an inquiry into his fitness for office triggered by the controversy over R1.7 billion police office leases.
Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is acting in his place.
On Friday, the cabinet noted its concern over reports of high-level cases of crime and police involvement in criminal activities.
However, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said Mdluli had not been discussed specifically.
"It cannot be on (the) cabinet agenda to discuss individuals," he said.
Other vacancies include the head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), following the redeployment of Willie Hofmeyr to the Asset Forfeiture Unit, the director-general of intelligence after the departure of Jeff Maqetuka and the heads of the State Security Agency and its domestic branch, Moe Shaik and Gibson Njenje respectively, amid tensions with their minister.
With the exception of Shaik, these top jobs have been vacant for five or more months.
This week, the Justice Department finally gazetted the acting appointment of advocate Nomvula Mokhatla to head the SIU, five months after Zuma's choice, Willem Heath, resigned over his controversial statements that former president Thabo Mbeki had had a hand in prosecutions against Zuma.
In relation to the SIU, which has uncovered billions of rand in corruption and misspending, presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said the president would make an announcement "when he's ready".
"It is a matter he is very well aware of," he added.
Zuma will also have to make a decision regarding Cele, once he has the report of the board of inquiry.
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On April 5, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed the bill that institutes an $85 fine against violators beginning July 1.
Parnell received the bill April 18 and is expected to sign it into law. In 2008, Alaska passed the ban, which carries a maximum penalty of $5,000 and one year in jail. Last December, the state's law department recommended clarifying the regulation because it does not explicitly mention texting.
Since 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's has prohibited commercial drivers from texting while driving, and last November, the agency also banned handheld cell phone use.
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Dead Horses will also be performing 9 a.m. until noon at the corner of Main and Merritt Streets.
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More drama in the beer world. Dogfish Head's reality show "Brew Masters" has been cancelled. Anthony Bourdain has claimed that "Big Beer" threatened to pull advertising from the Discovery Channel if they continued to air the show. For those of you unfamiliar with Bourdain, he's like a punk rock Rick Steves.
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Being related to RADM Worden, I have done some study of Monitor and Merrimac and Worden's history.
One of my favorite stories is about the possibility of Merrimac steaming up the Potomac and attacking Washington. Apparently according to Welles's diary (and my memory), during an emergency meeting of the Cabinet, Stanton was hysterical and kept leaping out of his chair to look out the window for the expected Merrimac on 3/8 or 9. Shortly he ordered concrete vessels sunk to prevent ingress up the Potomac by Merrimac. Later Lincoln was on a carriage ride with someone who asked what the concrete vessels were and AL replied: "Oh, that's Stanton's navy." Cracks me up.
Beyond bombarding Washington, the real fear was that Merrimac would take on the other wooden warships of the blockading fleet, I think mainly stationed off the Roads. Harper's Weekly headline on 3/10 was that Worden had saved the US Navy. Ericcson's genius was that when the first exploding naval shell was used in the mid-1840s (date?), he understood clearly that that marked the end of wooden sailing warships. Previously naval tactics had not been to sink a ship but to take her, as prize money was involved. Hence captains concentrated on sharpshooting the captains and officers (the purpose of Marines), firing the sails, and creating an ocean pile-up by "crossing the T". But exploding shell changed all that. The day after the battle at Hampton Roads, the British govt. canceled all contracts for wooden war ships.


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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - At the start of this semester, sixteen historical markers could be found around Georgetown College's campus. But when students returned after Labor Day weekend, ten of them were missing.
Georgetown College launched a new campus historical walking tour in March. Sixteen markers gave visitors information about the college's buildings, people and historical events.
They were designed by select students and faculty, and all of the markers were in place just in time for the start of this semester.
But over Labor Day weekend, ten of those signs went missing. All ten markers, valued at a total cost of $1,000, had been stolen from various locations across campus.
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NO NO NO ! Not because im worried that the ship might sink. Its because I couldn't stand being caged in with 3000 strangers in a captive market where you can't get off and you are charged for everything.

Sorry but cruising is not for me.
What so I would feed the fishes - nope
If I could afford it, yes. Sailing is my preferred mode of travel
I would take a cruise on a small liner that provided limited to no amenities just to see the Alaskan coast.
If I had money I would
don't care to go, never been before.....why start now. would rather fly to an island and vacation at my own speed. Although the Titanic went down and people still went on cruises lol
Good deal and good company for the duration, then it's all systems go.

Out of thousands of cruises how many have actually gone down ? Not that many, the risk is there but minimal I guess.
If I where to get a good deal on a ticket, Sure I would.
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text: Rumor has it that Kanye has gotten tired of fucking Kim. Can you believe it? Perhaps he hasn't, it could be that Kim just isn't putting out these days. Either way, there's whispers going around that Kanye is taking a step back from the marriage, and letting kim gorge on food while he goes to Paris to see his latest strane, Iggy Azalea, this cute little blonde pop star. Do you think Kim cares? Personally I don't think she cares what Kanye does, their marriage was probably just another career move. But you can bet your ass she has a Kim and Kanye sex tape just waiting to be leaked when the time is right. Maybe they are planning an epic marriage break down as Kayne leaves Kim for Iggy, releases a new album, Kim has her baby, and releases a new sex tape all at once. I think the media world would implode.


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Since leaving Yale, where he was a professor of Environmental Law and Policy to become DEEP Commissioner in March 2011, Dan Esty has been dogged by a series of political faux pas that Rose, the Sacred Heart professor, says could be used against his wife by Donovan.
"He could potentially be a liability," Rose said of Dan Esty. "I expect it will be a bruising campaign and I know there was some question of conflict of interests on his part."
Rose is referring to a story unearthed last October by the Hartford Courant's Jon Lender in which it was revealed that Dan Esty did $205,000 in consulting work for Northeast Utilities before he became DEEP Commissioner and received a $7.500 speaking fee from New Haven-based United Illuminating in 2009.
Lender's story also turned up that NU executives also gave to $2,000 to Elizabeth Esty's campaign last summer. After the story came out, Dan Esty was criticized over his handling of the matter for two reasons:
- That he failed to put NU on a recusal list, of companies he would avoid any contact with in terms of regulatory decision because of prior dealings with them.
- Because donations to Elizabeth Esty's campaign could be seen as an attempt to curry favor with her husband's state agency.
Dan Esty was also criticized by environmental groups last year for his handling of a land swap in Haddam between the DEEP and a private developer.
Ron Pugliese, a Democratic selectman from Southbury who is supporting Elizabeth Esty, said any decision by Donovan to drag her husband's issues into the congressional campaign "would be a mistake."
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