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This isn't exactly a cooking failure, but... I somehow wound up with seven pieces of cutlery that my aunt had -from a set that she did not have all of- in which everything was smaller than the usual piece of silverware. I had a tablespoon, 3 teaspoons, a fork, and two butter knives. Over the years, the fork and one of the teaspoons broke, and twice I absentmindedly left one of the teaspoons on a tray I put into the toaster oven and the plastic handles melted, so I was down to the tablespoon (which I use all the time) and two butter knives (which I've been using a lot lately to make peanut butter and Smuckers sugar-free preserves sandwiches). Last night I had a bowl soaking in the sink and I made a sandwich so I tossed the knife into the bowl to let the peanut butter soak off. Later on when I went to rinse them out, I tipped the bowl over to let the water out and the butter knife (because it's so much smaller than usual) went right down the drain. When I shine the phone flashlight down there, I can see the maroon handle sticking up, mocking me. It's not affecting drainage in any way, so I assume it will stay there until this apartment is bought by somebody who has the money to redecorate this kitchen. OOPSIE!

My former roommate and I went to Europe three years in a row from 1989 to 1991. During one of the first two trips we went to planet Hollywood in London, which was no great thrill, but one of my happiest memories happened just as we were leaving. My friend had liked the avengers TV show when she was younger, but I had gotten rather obsessed with it around that time and had started driving her nuts by always watching it and/or talking about it. So imagine my joy when (literally) as we were walking out the door to leave the theme from the show came on blasting at high decibels. We were parked around the corner and up the block and I think I laughed the whole way to the car as we could hear it the whole way. She cursed me out the entire time. The thought of it still makes me happy. That same friend and I loved a Totie Fields album that I have and we used to quote parts of the routines to each other. One of our favorite cuts was the last selection on the album, entitled Weaver high, in which Totie talked about her time at Weaver high school in Hartford, Connecticut. Well, one day I was doing some fieldwork gathering address information in a neighborhood that had seen better days in Hartford when I passed a high school, and when I looked at the building, guess what the name of it was!?! Judging by the students who were leaving for the day at the time, the demographics of the student body had apparently changed rather a lot since Totie had gone there. I had a cassette of the album with me and of course, I had to pull over and put it on and laugh at my happy coincidence. Have any of you ever had a similar experience, a silly little moment that somehow related to a part of your life and made you laugh then and ever since?

The daughter of classic movie director William Wyler has been found dead alongside her husband in their parked car. Judith Sheldon, 84, and Wylie Sheldon, 86, were discovered in their Jeep on California's Interstate 5 near Redding on 15 June, the same day an extreme heat warning was issued. Temperatures reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 43C). The California Highway Patrol said in a statement that both parties were pronounced deceased at the scene. Authorities revealed that their car's engine was running, and the fan was high, but the air conditioning wasn't working. There was also no water in the car. Judith and Wylie, who met at Stanford University, were on their way to meet their friend David Smith in Oregon to attend Ashland's Shakespeare Festival. Smith told The New York Times: "They didn't crash. They stopped. They both just died there. The entire thing is so bizarre. We're still in a state of shock." Whether the heat was the cause "may be determined" by an autopsy, with Tim Mapes, Shasta County Sheriff's Office spokesman, stating: "We'll just have to wait and see." Judith's father, William Wyler, is the most nominated director in Oscar history, having won three Academy Awards for wartime drama Mrs Miniver (1942), romance The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and religious epic Ben-Hur, and received a further nine nominations for films including Roman Holiday (1953), starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, and 1958 Western The Big Country. Judith – one of Wyler's five children from his marriage to Margaret Tallichet – had a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives and Roman Holiday, appearing alongside Peck in a scene set by Rome's Trevi Fountain. During Wyler's career, he directed 14 actors to Oscar wins, including Bette Davis (Jezebel, 1938), Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress, 1949) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968). Wyler, one of the most versatile filmmakers in Hollywood history, died in 1981, aged 79. Judith, who chaired the board of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, would often bring her father's Oscar trophies to parties, where attendees could pose with them. Judith and Wylie, a former lawyer, are survived by their sons.

In a report made public on Monday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South was triggered in early June 2021 when two connections between garage columns and the condominium’s pool deck failed. Investigators found that initial structural failure spread to other elements of the pool deck and street-level parking garage and caused cracks to grow over the span of a few weeks, eventually unseating the southern edge of the pool deck slab from its supporting wall, the report said. As the pool deck’s concrete slab sagged and warped, the weight of the initial columns transferred to nearby columns “that were not strong enough to support them,” the report said. That caused a “progressive collapse.” “When the pool deck slab broke away, it damaged two connections supporting that part of the tower,” the report said. “The failure then progressed through the Middle part of the tower, followed by the East part.” Investigators said there was no particular event that prompted the partial collapse of the L-shaped building at 8777 Collins Ave. on June 24, 2021. Instead, they said, a host of design and construction defects, along with other decisions made over the 40-year life of the beachfront building, left it vulnerable. https://apple.news/Aik3AIKwFSr2zSDEmb0iSXA

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Struck down in his prime!

In 1979, the tight-knit, all-girl students of Eastland Academy won the hearts of millions. And among the core cast of "The Facts of Life" was a real-life student who, on one fateful day, unexpectedly scored a life-changing role on the nostalgic '80s sitcom. Mindy Cohn had no professional acting experience whatsoever before she played bubbly aspiring journalist Natalie Green. She didn't even audition for the role. Cohn just so happened to be at the right place at the right time, as she was plucked straight out of her normal life at Westlake School in Los Angeles. Before filming the pilot of "The Facts of Life," star Charlotte Rae and some of the show's producers visited the campus to find out what real-world private school girls were actually like. Cohn was assigned to give them a guided tour — and, clearly, she made an impression. As director John Bowab recalled in an Entertainment Weekly retrospective on the series, "Charlotte and Norman Lear went to Westlake to find out how girls that age act, and Mindy was so funny that Charlotte said, 'That girl should be on the show!'"

Mr. Andrea Mitchell was 100. Complications from Parkinson's

That was terrific but when she told the Golden Girls story she said it was with CBS executives. I noticed one other mistake earlier in the show but it has slipped my mind.

Daveigh Chase was "obviously drugged out of her mind" in her last years, her grieving mother has said. Chase, who shot to fame in the early Noughties as the voice of Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch and as the young villain of the horror movie The Ring, died this week at the age of 35, following years of drug addiction and homelessness. In her first comments on her daughter's death, Chase's mother Cathy revealed that she had spent years desperately searching for her daughter, after she disappeared following stints in prison. Chase had been jailed in Los Angeles after being charged with two counts of burglary, and her mother noticed an extreme change in her daughter when she visited her in prison. "She was completely gone, like, out of her mind," Cathy told The Daily Mail. "I honestly thought there was something wrong with her. My daughter was never diagnosed with mental health other than PTSD. But the drugs took hold of her." She added that Chase had been "seeking drugs and was partying with the wrong people" in the wake of injuring her back in a motorcycle accident in 2016, which she believes led to her becoming addicted to painkillers, then other drugs.

Princess Charlotte Looks Just Like Prince William in New Father’s Day Photo Shared by Kate Middleton uhh... I see NO receding hairline & she's clean-shaven. you have no idea how disappointed I am!

everything's working again. If you did anything, thanks. If you didn't, thanks in general.

Craig Melvin got more than just an interview with Deidre Hall. The daytime TV legend, 77, appeared on Today on Friday, June 19, to celebrate 50 years of playing Dr. Marlena Evans on Days of Our Lives. But before the interview wrapped, Melvin had one unusual request. “Of all of the storylines that you’ve been a part of over the years, what I’ve always enjoyed is your ability to slap,” Melvin told Hall. “You’re a great slapper.” “Well thanks,” Hall replied with a laugh. When Melvin asked whether she had ever calculated how many on-screen slaps she’s delivered over the decades, Hall admitted she “couldn’t begin to imagine.” “It would be one of the greatest professional honors of my life if you could slap me,” Melvin then told her. “I would be privileged to slap you!” Hall responded, noting that the studio crew appeared equally enthusiastic about the idea. After Melvin jokingly warned her not to “hurt the money maker,” Hall explained exactly how the stunt would work. “I’m going to draw my hand back and I’m going to come very close to your face,” she said. “And when you feel that happen, you’re going to snap your head.” With Melvin declaring himself ready, Hall swung her hand toward him. The anchor immediately jerked his head back, shouted and pretended to cry out in pain as the audience and crew erupted into applause. “You okay?” Hall asked. “Oh my God, my God, my God,” Melvin joked, faking sobs. “I’m sorry, I meant to miss but I…” Hall teased before both burst into laughter. “You’re the best,” Melvin told her afterward. The playful moment capped an interview celebrating Hall’s remarkable five-decade run on Days of Our Lives, where she first joined the cast in 1976. Looking back on landing the role, Hall revealed she nearly turned it down after assuming she was a fallback option. “I had read the script and I wanted it so much,” she recalled. “When he called, I thought, ‘Oh, everybody else must have turned it down.’ Because I’m no dummy, I turned it down too because I thought there must be something wrong with the part!” A few weeks later, her agent called back with some surprising news. “He said, ‘You actors are just so crazy. You’re their first choice,'” Hall remembered. “I said, ‘Tell them I’ll be there.'” Half a century later, she’s still there. Asked whether she ever imagined she’d still be playing Marlena 50 years after her audition, Hall said the longevity of both the character and the soap remains a thrill. “Nobody had done 50 years at that point,” she said. “The fact that we stayed on the air is a thrill. We kept on going and going and going and I got to stay … and keep working.” Hall also credited executive producer Ken Corday and the show’s writers for helping the long-running soap remain one of just four daytime dramas still on the air. “[They] have cracked the code,” she said. “[Whether it’s] a new love story, sometimes a jeopardy story, when young couples make magic together, put them up in front. They just know that the audience is going to find it compelling and irresistible.” The actress also reacted to recent praise from Ryan Gosling, who revealed earlier this year that Hall was his original acting inspiration while passionately defending soap opera actors, noting how they don’t get the love they deserve for memorizing 10 pages of dialogue a night and executing them in a single take. He also accepted her invitation to visit the Days of Our Lives set, telling her in a video on social media in March, “I will be there to thank you in person for being my OG acting inspiration,” “It wasn’t Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. It wasn’t DeNiro in Taxi Driver. It was you.” Asked how she felt about that, Hall said she was “stunned” by Gosling’s comments. “His work is so impeccable and he’s so honest and so clean in his work, that I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, what is he seeing? I don’t want to let him down!’ But what a lovely gesture and I’m beyond flattered.” And despite reaching the 50-year milestone, Hall said she has no plans to leave Salem anytime soon. “As long as my key card opens the gate, I’m there,” she said. “It’s my family. I love that place. I couldn’t resist.”

Help again @RadioRob I am getting a security warning on my desktop that I've been blocked by the website because of some mysterious action I have taken. This happens with both Firefox and chrome; I can navigate around the website and read anything I want to, but it won't let me post anything (either a new topic or within an existing topic). I am obviously posting this on my cell phone. I have cleared the cookies on chrome, which has accomplished nothing, but I don't know how to do it on Firefox (which I rarely use and almost never go to this website with). And I restarted my computer. it says to tell the site owner that the cloud fair Ray ID is A0E4F29F2FABD6F1. The last time you answered me I didn't understand your suggestions so if you have any more advice to offer me, please keep in mind that you are talking to a technological moron. Thank you.

Tipper used to say the same thing after sex, I've heard.

A college student who suffered severe burns has now recovered after becoming the first patient in the world to receive an experimental treatment. In December 2025, Kaitlin Jeffrey — an 18-year-old student at Western University in Ontario, Canada — suffered severe burns to her face and neck during a fire at a fraternity house. The incident sent five people, including Jeffrey, to the hospital. Jeffrey was transferred to Hamilton General Hospital's regional burn center where doctors at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) determined she could receive an innovative treatment to speed up her healing process. The new treatment involves using exosomes, which are tiny particles released by cells that help coordinate healing, tissue repair and reduce inflammation. According to medical experts, the particles are collected and injected into the injured areas to accelerate healing. This is said to be a better approach than the typical skin grafting process, which can result in scarring and a "patch-like appearance." "My vision for Kaitlin was to avoid skin graft surgery to her face and neck at any cost," Dr. Marc Jeschke, vice president of research and innovation at HHS and medical director of the hospital's regional burn program, said in a release. "You can do the best graft on the planet, but you won't return the skin to normal. And, for a young person, a skin graft to the face and neck can be absolutely devastating," he said. After approval from Jeffrey's parents, Jeschke and his team became the first in the world to perform the treatment on a burn patient. She reportedly received two treatments, days apart, using one trillion exosomes that were sourced from the United States. Doctors called the results "absolutely remarkable." Jeffrey, originally from Toronto, is thrilled about her recovery and expressed her gratitude to the entire burn center. She told the hospital that she hopes her case will lead to more options being available for other patients like herself, even outside of Canada. "It's honestly a miracle," she said of the treatment. "Being injured in the fire has also had a deep impact on my mental health, and it's something I'm continuing to deal with. But having such good results, particularly to my face, is helping me move forward." "Like Dr. Jeschke, my family and I would love to see exosome therapy become the standard of care for patients like myself in Canada, so that when horrific things happen, it doesn't change people's lives forever," she added.

It's better at 1.25X. She sounds less strident at that speed.

I went back-and-forth about whether to use the word legend or royalty. Perhaps that is why you seem to be having so much difficulty comprehending such a basic fact.

With my luck I'll just keep going on and on for far too long and will have had to sell everything I own by the time I die, so unless my niece and nephew want the refrigerator box I'll be living in I don't feel the need for estate planning.

Project Hail Mary MGM+ NEW TO STREAMING Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out.

never heard of either

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