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The Everett Herald reports that the john’s three credit cards were charged 82 times between October 22 and November 5. Wallen was eventually tracked down and arrested at her home in Mount Vernon, Washington. The Herald report adds that Wallen asked for police to contact one of her johns for help in paying for her $1 million bail. The judge also said that Wallen’s 13 active warrants for her arrest “might be a record.”

There is no mystery to Giannis Antetokounmpo. On every touch, he has the same end in mind: a meeting with the rim, as forceful as is possible. Antetokounmpo's dominance is cemented by this frustrating simplicity. There is no cat-and-mouse game, as with Stephen Curry's flinching shot fakes. There is no world of possibility, as with LeBron James and his full view of the court. Antetokounmpo's shot chart telegraphs exactly where he means to go. All that remains to be seen is how he manages to get there. That "how" defines one of the league's most unstoppable scorers. The best defenders in the league study Antetokounmpo's moves. Entire teams load up against him with a full array of obstacles. Yet to the extent that any of those opponents are relevant, it is as an accessory—to be spun around, stepped past, or scored over. There is a perfect consensus as to what kinds of shots to take away from Antetokounmpo and a near-perfect failure to actually deny him. Only once this season has Antetokounmpo scored fewer than 28 points in a game. The rest has been an onslaught. What the Bucks experience on a nightly basis amounts to frantic attempts at real-time problem solving. Some opponents choose to give Antetokounmpo space on the perimeter, which he then uses against them. Others play him closely and forfeit lanes to his quick first step. Milwaukee draws more defensive three-second violations than all but two other teams in the league because Antetokounmpo, unspeakable terror that he is, keeps everybody on edge. It's easy to understand why when a sudden spin move could completely neutralize an individual defender: It's on possessions like these that all of Antetokounmpo's ridiculous proportions come to bear. The footwork of his spin alone makes him a nightmare; Giannis will always cover more ground with that single step than his defender would, at which point they have no chance at all of matching his extension toward the rim. Such is a common theme with Antetokounmpo. To keep square with him is already a disadvantage. Give up an inch and the only way for a defender to get back into the play is through dramatic overcorrection. Some are tempted, then, to treat Antetokounmpo as they would a quicker attacking guard: by backpedaling on the drive and closing the gap on the shot. It's a fair idea in theory, upended by the fact that Giannis will run you right into the hoop: Antetokounmpo has taken more shots at the rim than any other player in the league (and made a jarring 79.6% of them) for a reason. He's become effectively settle-proof; no matter what a defender tries, there is only so much they can do to account for the fact that from any point of separation, Antetokounmpo will cover so much more ground on every step than they possibly could. One long stride can be the difference between a defender believing they're square and knowing they're toast: Help defenders, too, can assume perfect position only for Antetokounmpo to sidestep them completely. He is massive. He is powerful. And even though he intends to drive at every opportunity, Antetokounmpo is just too damn slippery for a defense to do much of anything about it. In years past, a slighter Antetokounmpo could be steered by veteran defenders, made to drift from the hoop for more challenging shots. That option is effectively off the table. The physical changes are obvious, as are the changes in how he navigates the floor. Those little holds that might have once slowed Giannis from getting to his spots? Futile. The bumps that used to neutralize his momentum? Consider them absorbed. Antetokounmpo has the legs to power him through, the arms and shoulders to safely manipulate the ball along the way, and the core strength to steady every move. For a player that robust, scoring can come as easily as bumping a player off his spot in the post: Antetokounmpo, through his revised physical profile, has become the perfect continuation player. LeBron has long been able to shrug off fouling defenders on the way to a score. What makes Giannis even more of an anomaly is the range at which he can power through. No matter the point of contact, Antetokounmpo always seems to be within one step and arm's reach of the hoop. Sometimes Antetokounmpo will begin his drives at the three-point line, where he revs up before hitting his defender with a hesitation move or some subtle shift in direction. In other cases, the Bucks will isolate him around the free throw line, a la Dirk Nowitzki in the late 2000s. Their approaches could not be more different. Where Nowitzki used the threat of the shot to open up the drive, Antetokounmpo relies on the immediacy of his drives to sell themselves. A defender has to have the right size, speed, and positioning to have any chance of stopping Giannis. Even then, their guesswork—in terms of which direction he'll push and in what manner—has to be perfect. If it's not, Antetokounmpo's starting point is already so close to the basket as to obliterate any capacity for a defense to recover. This is a quality that Antetokounmpo shares with Kristaps Porzingis: When a defender does make a mistake, the disparity in length alone makes it almost impossible for that defender to find his way back. With Porzingis that manifests with a giant jump shooter lording the ball well over his defender's head. For Giannis, the extension comes horizontally—a defender held off on one side of his body while the opposite arm takes the ball half a world away. Giannis has become undeniable. Opponents who try to prevent him from getting the ball in the first place leave their defense exposed to his back cuts. Fronting him in the post without an outright double-team can often be as good as conceding a layup. On the break, sometimes three or four defenders may not be enough to stop him. Antetokounmpo tearing down the court has a way of diffusing responsibility, with every defender hoping that someone else might step up to stop his progress. The result is a parting of the waters for the most dangerous transition player in the game: This is how a purely dominant scorer bends a defense to his will. Most every other player in the league operates under the veil of variety. The possibility of making one kind of move creates room for another. Not so for Antetokounmpo, who can’t even convincingly eye the rim from afar. Defenders know where he’s going but lack for the means to actually stop him. Instead, they try whatever they can. They gamble, they swipe, and they sell out in one direction or another. What dooms them is less a matter of focus or toughness than it is hard science. To even stand next to Antetokounmpo is to be at a loss. To stand in his way throws that contrast into starkest relief.

Sri Lanka's government faced increasing pressure Friday to answer for alleged human rights violations following a recent war crimes lawsuit and allegations from over 50 men who said they were raped, branded or tortured as recently as this year. The men's anguished descriptions of their abuses come nearly a decade after Sri Lanka's civil war ended and days ahead of a review of the Indian Ocean nation by the U.N.'s top human rights body. Doctors, psychologists, lawmakers and rights groups have appealed to the United Nations to investigate new allegations published by The Associated Press on Wednesday. The AP reviewed 32 medical and psychological evaluations and interviewed 20 men who said they were accused of trying to revive a rebel group on the losing side of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war. Although combat ended in 2009, they say the torture and abuse occurred from early 2016 to as recently as July this year. "Someone has to do something about this," said Dr. Frank Arnold, one of several doctors who wrote to U.N. Human Rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein and called for an independent investigation into the Sri Lankan torture allegations. "As forensic experts, we have collectively seen many hundreds of Sri Lankans who have fled their country following torture over the years," the physicians' letter said. "We continue to receive a worrying number of cases from Sri Lanka despite the change of government." One of the men in the AP investigation said he was held for 21 days in a small room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down. Another man described being abducted from home by five men, driven to a prison, and taken to a "torture room" pocked with blood splatters on the wall. Most of the men say they their captors identified themselves as members of the Criminal Investigations Department, a police unit that investigates serious crimes. Some, however, said it appeared their interrogators were soldiers. Rep. Eliot Engel, top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said policymakers in Washington cannot ignore these alleged crimes. "These allegations are horrifying, and must be fully and transparently investigated. The seriousness of these reports should also make the United States wary of advancing our military relationship with Sri Lanka until a full accounting has occurred," he said Friday. Sri Lanka's diplomatic mission in Geneva did not respond to repeated calls or an email Friday seeking comment. U.N. human rights office spokesman Rupert Colville said "we are currently looking into these alarming allegations to work out the best way for them to be further investigated." The AP's investigation into the recent Sri Lankan torture allegations came months after another investigation in which the AP found that 134 U.N. peacekeepers from Sri Lanka were implicated in a child sex ring in Haiti between 2004 and 2007. Despite evidence of child rape, no Sri Lankan peacekeeper was ever prosecuted. In August, rights groups in South America filed lawsuits against Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya, a Sri Lankan ambassador in the region. He is accused of overseeing military units that attacked hospitals and killed, disappeared and tortured thousands of people at the end of the country's civil war. Upon the ambassador's return to Sri Lanka, President Maithripala Sirisena vowed that neither Jayasuriya nor any other "war hero" would face prosecution — a pledge that rights groups said illustrates continued impunity in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, which has denied the allegations of torture and war crimes, goes before the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in Geneva next week as part of a regular examination known as the Universal Periodic Review. All 193 U.N. member states usually undergo such reviews about every 4-1/2 years, but Wednesday's review may hold added significance. The UPR process generally focuses on institutional, long-term efforts by countries — not specific issues like the recent testimonies of sexual abuse and torture in Sri Lanka. The new allegations, however, suggest that Sri Lanka still has not stopped using torture — a practice it was highly criticized for during and after the war against the Tamil Tigers rebel group. Documents used for the review will include accounts of disappearances, calls to bring rights abusers to justice, investigations into war crimes, and reports of torture and arbitrary arrest in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's delegation will be headed by Harsha de Silva, a deputy minister. Yasmin Sooka, director of the South Africa-based Foundation for Human Rights, said she hopes the review will spur member states to ask Sri Lanka tough questions. She also urged the U.N. to establish an independent body to investigate the allegations — much like it did in Guatemala. "There is no real framework for witness security in Sri Lanka," said Sooka. "As it stands now, the very people who are accused of such violations would essentially be in charge of investigating themselves. An independent investigative unit needs to be established." Many ethnic minority Tamils contend the government continues to target them as part of a larger plan to destroy their culture. Tamils speak a different language and are largely Hindu, unlike the country's largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority. More than 100,000 people were estimated to have died in the war, including at least up to 40,000 civilians in its final months, according to U.N. estimates. Sri Lankan authorities have denied targeting civilians and dispute the death toll. Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, chief minister for Sri Lanka's Northern Province and a former Supreme Court judge, sent a letter to the AP on Friday confirming similar rights abuses he has heard from Tamils in his northern constituency. He said he has previously urged the U.N. rights chief to demand an independent investigation. "Unfortunately, this was overlooked ... if the international mechanism was in place it would have acted as a deterrent to these military sadists," he told the AP on Friday. The London-based Freedom from Torture group also urged Zeid to independently investigate the claims. "Our evidence is consistent with the recent press reports and suggests that torture remains deeply ingrained in the military, police and intelligence sectors in peacetime Sri Lanka," the group said in a letter. Some advocates said even more pressure was needed. "There's mounting evidence that Sri Lanka cannot keep ignoring but while the pressure is there, they are essentially still getting away with it," said Canadian lawmaker Gary Anandasangaree, who has urged the Canadian government to do more ahead of a peacekeeping conference in Canada next week. A Sri Lankan teen known as Witness #267 showed scars and marks on his chest during an interview in London. The 19-year old said that he was raped and burned more than 60 times with cigarettes during his detention earlier in the year in Sri Lanka. Trembling when asked questions, he says, “I can’t. I’m not anywhere near through this.”

It was probably the same fire that killed Elizabeth Keene's mother. You know how networks like to cross-promote their shows!

I watched all the episodes last season, but never really got into the show. Kevin & Toby were so incredibly annoying the first half of the season (Kevin with his stupidity and shallowness, Toby because his constant earnest goodness made my teeth hurt), I was praying for Toby to die after his heart attack and for that AT&T spokechick to hit Kevin over the head with a phone (an old-fashioned heavy rotary model). They got less nauseating as the season went on. I never started watching this season, and now it seem like too daunting a task to catch up... maybe I'll do it next month when everything will be in reruns. Then again, due to the shocking Toby scandal, maybe I'll have to boycott the show on moral and ethical grounds.

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Too bad there don't seem to be many 24-hour stores left, correct?

My favorite supermarket is down the road from all of my doctors' offices. Since I seem to have an appointment every week, I just shop afterwards. It's an efficient system... you should try it.

Too expensive

A fraternity pledge who fell asleep at the wheel and killed another student claimed in a new lawsuit that he was forced to stay awake for three days straight in a hazing stunt ahead of the deadly crash. University of Louisiana at Lafayette student Michael Gallagher Jr. sued the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the university officials Friday, following in the footsteps of 23-year-old Rustam Nizamutdinov’s mother, who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternity and some of its members in September. Nizamutdinov was on his way home to his apartment on Nov. 6, 2016 when he was fatally struck by a vehicle driven by Gallagher, which drifted onto the sidewalk where he was walking. Gallagher’s lawsuit claims he was badly sleep-deprived when he was forced to be a designated driver for drunken Kappa members during the university’s homecoming weekend. Following the accident, Gallagher immediately phoned his parents. When they arrived on the scene, they found him shocked and unable to remember what happened. According to the toxicology reports, Gallagher was not impaired at the time of the crash, KATC reported. The suit additionally claims university officials should have known about the “persistent pattern of hazing” by the Kappa Sigma members long before the deadly accident.

Elvis Presley met Priscilla Beaulieu when she was just 14 years old. He was 10 yearsolder, and already a rock 'n' roll superstar. The two married in 1967 after a nearly eight-year courtship. I think it's safe to assume Elvis would've voted for Roy Moore.

Little did you know that he had a photo of YOU that HE used to jack off to!

With its glass floor-to-ceiling windows and grand spiral staircase, you’d be forgiven for assuming this building is a modern art gallery or a museum. But, in fact, it’s not a swanky gallery. It’s not even an Apple Store. It’s a McDonald’s. Finished in 2015, the glass-fronted McDonald’s can be found in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Designed by Mei Architects, the classy fast food joint is decked out with leather seats and marble tables and is as swanky on the inside as it is from the outside. The spiral staircase leads up to a dining room on the restaurant’s second floor, while the huge windows give the whole place a light, airy vibe. As the architects behind the design say, “a perforated golden facade” presents the building to the street outside, making those classic Golden Arches look a little less golden in comparison. The food may be the same as every other McDonald’s but the spacious interior means you can enjoy your Big Mac in comfort. And if you want to eat your fast food al fresco, you can always make use of the stylish outdoor furniture, in keeping with Rotterdam’s outdoorsy town planning. But Holland’s premiere McDonald’s wasn’t always so impressive. In fact, it may have been one of the world’s least swanky McDonald’s, in a building described by residents as the “ugliest building in Rotterdam.” It’s fair to say that the old McDonald’s was as bad as they come, set in a 1960s building which used to be a cigar shop. But rather than tear the old building down, architects were given free reign to cook up a fast food joint fit for a king. Speaking about their new-look restaurant, the designers behind the radical overhaul said: “As McDonald’s is open day and night, 24/7, its appearance after dark is important.” “By day the building is inviting to shoppers, while in the evening it glows to attract the nightlife crowd.” I was more impressed by the McDonald's I ate at in Moscow in 1991: Europe's largest McDonald's restaurant is situated on Pushkin Square in Moscow. The size of the premises is 2,500 square meters. On the day of its opening, Jan. 31, 1990, the restaurant set a new record for daily visitors, serving 30,000 customers. There was a line halfway around the block, but (fortunately) our guides knew how to cut the line & get in without waiting. http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1427477/mcdonalds-moscow.jpg

WOW! I know the battle for ratings is fierce, and the networks are desperate for anything that will give them an edge, but what CBS is doing with MOM next week to try to win the 9PM Thursday ratings battle is just… I don’t know what! To have Christy sleep with Jack McFarland’s son!?!?!? And don’t forget, Elliot’s mother is Bonnie’s former carpet muncher. This is all a little TOO incestuous! Even for a Chuck Lorre show.

Tight shirt for the reveal tonight. Yum! Ashley walked around in shorts and a skimpy top at times during the first two episodes. If they want higher ratings, he oughta try the same wardrobe choices.

Love his children Dudley & Demi. Also alleged to be equine-like in part of his anatomy, as is half-brother David. (I guess they both took after the same half.)

The famous poster that hung on my wall: http://www.voyagersguidebook.com/photos/undefined/jonerikhexumtTree-fixed.jpg A friend of mine works as a camera man for CNN. They interviewed my late hubby before COVER UP started. He tried to reach me to tell me about it, but this was before cell phones & texting/email, so I had to settle for a bootleg unedited copy of the interview footage. I still have it on a VHS tape somewhere, in lousy condition.

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else. --Dana Delany

Did Grant Goodeve replace him in your fantasies? His role in the CHIPS film should've been Frank "Paunch" Pauncharello

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Higgins has kicked the bucket & bought the farm where's he's pushing up daisies: A spokeswoman for the family of actor John Hillerman says the co-star of TV’s “Magnum, P.I.” has died. Hillerman was 84. Spokeswoman Lori De Waal said Hillerman died Thursday at his home in Houston. She said the cause of death has yet to be determined. Hillerman played stuffy Jonathan Higgins to Tom Selleck’s free-wheeling private detective Thomas Magnum in the hit 1980s series set in Hawaii. Hillerman also was known for his 1970s roles as arrogant radio show detective Simon Brimmer on the “Ellery Queen” series, and as a difficult boss on “One Day at a Time.” Hillerman appeared in a number of other series, including “Valerie,” ″The Love Boat” and “The Betty White Show.” His film credits include “The Last Picture Show” and “High Plains Drifter.