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Flagstaff, Arizona, turned into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory Monday when a tanker truck spilled 3,500 gallons of it across Interstate 40. The “river of chocolate” flowed onto the highway’s westbound lanes east of Flagstaff near the 211-mile marker. The tanker was transporting around 40,000 pounds of 120-degree liquid chocolate, officials said. It was not immediately clear why the truck rolled over or when the mess was fully cleaned up.

Shouldn't this be in the movie thread? After all, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is the most important work she ever did. Her (identical) twin sister Stockard must be devastated.

East Antarctica’s ice is melting at an unexpectedly rapid clip, new study suggests By Alex Fox Antarctica’s melting ice, which has caused global sea levels to rise by at least 13.8 millimeters over the past 40 years, was long thought to come from primarily one place: the unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now, scientists studying 40 years of satellite images have found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet—considered largely insulated from the ravages of climate change—may also be melting at an accelerating rate. Those results, at odds with a large 2018 study, could dramatically reshape projections of sea level rise if confirmed. “If this paper is right, it changes the ball game for sea level rise in this century,” says Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who was not involved in the new work. East Antarctica’s ice sheet holds 10 times the ice of its rapidly melting neighbor to the west. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose base is below sea level, has long been considered the most vulnerable to collapse. With an assist from gravity, a deep current of warm water slips beneath the sheet, melting it from below until it becomes a floating shelf at risk of breaking away. In contrast, frigid temperatures and a base mostly above sea level are thought to keep the East Antarctic Ice Sheet relatively safe from warm water intrusion. A collaboration of more than 60 scientists last year, published in Nature, estimated that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet actually added about 5 billion tons of ice each year from 1992 to 2017. But as climate change shifts wind patterns around Antarctica, some scientists think warm water carried by a circular current off the continental shelf will start to invade East Antarctica’s once unassailable ice. “People who study Antarctic ice know that East Antarctica has the potential to start losing significant amounts of ice, but it’s never been clear how fast that would [happen],” Oppenheimer says. To find out how fast that ice loss is happening, glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues combined 40 years of satellite imagery and climate modeling. The models were used to estimate annual snowfall, which over time adds ice to the region’s glaciers. Then, the team measured the speed of ice flowing out to sea by tracking visual landmarks on the glaciers through time. This allowed them to estimate how much ice each of the continent’s many glaciers sent out to sea each year from 1979 to 2017. By subtracting the amount of ice added annually by snow from the amount of ice lost to sea, the researchers determined how much ice was gained or lost. “After staring at satellite photos for hours you go a little cross-eyed, but it’s basic statistics—you beat down the noise by adding more data points,” Rignot says. “Tracking down these old satellite photos and spending months analyzing by hand was worth it to create this long-term record.” Overall, the study found that Antarctica now sends six times more ice plunging into the sea each year than it did in 1979. During the 40-year period of the study, Antarctica added 13.8 millimeters to sea level, with the majority coming from West Antarctica. But East Antarctica, particularly the area known as Wilkes Land, was responsible for more than 30% of Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “The more we look at this system the more we realize this is a fragile system,” Rignot says. “Once these glaciers are destabilized there is no red button to press to stop it.” If intensifying polar winds are responsible for the intrusion of warm waters beneath East Antarctica, the situation is likely to get worse, Rignot says. The increasing strength of those winds is owed in part to the contrast in temperature between Antarctica and the rest of the world. As greenhouse gases warm much of the planet, this temperature differential is likely to intensify, driving even stronger westerlies, he adds. But the bold new results won’t be accepted without a fight, says glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, who was not involved in either study. “There will be a lot of comparisons between the methods used to create these estimates and those in the [previous study],” he says. In addition to the ice-tracking method used in the current paper, the previous one also gathered two other measurements: one that estimated ice loss by repeatedly “weighing” the ice sheet via satellite, and one that estimated changes in elevation on the glacier’s surface from planes and satellites. No matter the outcome, Rignot hopes the study brings greater attention to a part of Antarctica that has traditionally been understudied. Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, agrees. “We need to monitor the entirety of Antarctica and we just can’t do that without international cooperation,” Fricker says. “We can’t take our eyes off this ice.”

A man, his boyfriend and a third man had an orgy on a late-night London subway train in front of other passengers. Nicholas Mullan, 24, and George Mason, 35, engaged in an array of sex activities which they filmed on the Northern Line between Leicester Square and Waterloo stations. Prosecutors say another man was involved in the astonishing incident which also involved extensive sexual activity. The whole affair happened on February 19, 2018. The two men appeared in court on Friday and pleaded guilty to one count of outraging public decency. Outlining the case, prosecutor Victoria Murphy said: “This is a case of outraging public decency on a London Underground train.” “On the 19th of February 2018, British Transport Police were contacted to a report of a video which had been posted online showing three men engaged in explicit sexual acts on a train.” “It showed full sex, oral sex and masturbation in the presence of the traveling members of the public.” “It appears to take place on the Northern Line between Leicester Square and London Waterloo.” “It was reported by a man who was also gay who thought the video overstepped the mark and was morally unacceptable.” She added a British Transport Police investigation later identified two of the three men – the third is thought to have escaped identification because their face was pixilated. The two men will appear in court on February 1 for sentencing. http://mensparkle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bulldogpit-Ruined-Orgy-Marco-DeVaul-03.gif http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vc-fDURpLaE/U-X6--phlMI/AAAAAAAAXo8/8MHIoysqDvw/s1600/3-1.gif https://www.thesword.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3-helix5way.gif http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.316d1e99639615e055ba4b91ff89c6b4&pid=1.7&rurl=http://101hotguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Group_sex_02.gif&ehk=4utYTFaWcNtYshmiCztAbg https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.23ad2bddd1535d5f755fe1c50c355a57&pid=1.7&rurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lVdBajlIFvI/U4vL9t6f-bI/AAAAAAAAHjw/ITas7b-n-qA/s1600/tumblr_m6nqr5rH0z1r28lwdo1_500.gif&ehk=k5tjbWDqza9zCgu8OlXLKw

3 rentals that didn't charge, then back to the co-op I grew up in, which doesn't charge. In each case, it's because the apartments aren't individually metered. My a/c's go on in Mid-May and off in mid-Oct, unless there's a cloudy day in the low 70s during that stretch.

Well, I haven't paid utilities since about 1985, so I'd have to say pretty good.

They are just trying to copy Weird Al.

Brace yourself, classic rock fans: The Who has confirmed its first new studio album in more than a dozen years is in the works. Legendary lead guitarist Pete Townshend, 73, said in a statement that fans should expect “dark ballads, heavy rock stuff, experimental electronica, sampled stuff and Who-ish tunes that began with a guitar that goes yanga-dang.” Set to drop later this year, the new recording is the first since The Who’s “Endless Wire,” a 10-part mini-opera released in 2006. Frontman Roger Daltrey also announced dates for the band’s “Moving On!” tour, which launches May 7 at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, peaks May 13 at Madison Square Garden and wraps Oct. 23 at the Rogers Arena in Edmonton, Alberta. A local orchestra will join the band every night of the tour for an evening of music spanning their entire career, Rolling Stone reports. But don’t expect the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to go soft on us. They all have viagra prescriptions, ladies! “Be aware, Who fans!” Daltrey said in a statement. “Just because it’s The Who with an orchestra, in no way will it compromise the way Pete and I deliver our music. This will be full throttle Who with horns and bells on.” What about rings on their fingers and bells on their toes? Say... Has anybody seen my Sweet Gypsy Rose? The 75-year-old “Baba O’Riley” belter also hints that this could be his last tour. “I have to be realistic that this is the age I am and voices start to go after a while,” he tells the Mirror. “I don’t want to be not as good as I was two years ago.” Diehard fans should also be on the lookout for Daltrey’s upcoming memoir, “Thanks A Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story,” which publishes in the US on the same day the “Moving On!” tour ends.

I can walk, but stiffly and sometimes painfully due to back issues. Standing still is worse than walking. I keep a computer chair in my (galley) kitchen so I can roll back and forth and face either side. I cook and do dishes sitting down, standing only when necessary.

Detroit — A 21-year-old man was found dead at the abandoned Packard Plant Saturday morning, police said. Police said the man was with a group of friends playing a game of hide-and-seek inside the building on St. Aubin near East Ferry. Police said the building is an extension of the 45-building plant. The group was playing the game between midnight and 1:30 a.m. on the ninth floor of the building. He ran off to hide and possibly fell through the elevator shaft on the ninth floor, police said. Friends were unable to find him and left the building. They returned in the morning with flashlights to search for him. They found his body inside an elevator shaft on the first floor covered by debris, police said. Friends called Detroit police Saturday morning. Developers of the Packard Plant project at Arte Express purchased the property, with its 43 dilapidated buildings and 45 acres of decayed landscape, in 2014. The first phase of the project broke ground in May 2017, which included revitalizing the administration building and a nearby building. The project is estimated to cost $23 million and developer Fernando Palazuelo is financing the entire project himself. The entire project, which has four phases across the property’s 45 acres, is expected to take up to 15 years.

What if (assuming you can afford it) you accumulate some gear/clothing of the type you like seeing guys in, then hire a guy you like the look of, then ask him to put it on at the start of your assignation. Maybe the gear + your excitement will turn him on & he'll get into it more than he'd thought he would.

New White Sox closer Kelvin Herrera.

R. Kelly reportedly suffering severe panic attacks as damning Lifetime series airs, as judge grants emergency motion to enter his Chicago studio COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY...

A teenager allegedly participating in the "'Bird Box' Challenge" caused a two-car accident when she attempted to drive while her eyes were covered, police say. A 17-year-old girl was driving on the Layton Parkway just before 5 p.m. Monday when she allegedly decided to pull her beanie hat over her eyes and continue driving, said Layton Police Lt. Travis Lyman. "It didn't take long for her to lose control," he said. The girl, traveling about 35 mph, began to swerve back and forth, eventually overcorrecting, and went into oncoming traffic where she sideswiped another vehicle on the driver's side, Lyman said. The impact from that crash spun the girl's pickup truck into a light pole and a concrete barrier. The challenge was created on social media after the Netflix movie "Bird Box" was released. In the movie, Sandra Bullock's character is forced to do many activities while blindfolded, including running through a forest and taking a boat on a lake. Similar to the dangerous "In My Feelings" car challenge and the Tide Pod eating challenge, the "Bird Box" Challenge became the latest internet craze that even officials at Netflix have publicly tried to discourage. People participating in the challenge attempt to do activities while blindfolded. Neither the man in the car that was hit in Layton, nor the teenage driver or her 16-year-old male passenger were injured. The incident has police shaking their heads in disbelief. "It's just outrageous that somebody would think to do that. This one, luckily, didn't end in any injuries but easily could have. The stakes are just way too high to do something like that while you're driving," Lyman said. When Layton police first investigated Monday's crash, they weren't sure what caused the accident. "Initially we were told she was just talking to her passenger and got distracted," Lyman said. But the driver who was hit wasn't convinced. Lyman said the driver decided to do some of his own detective work. "He just could not understand why her car was doing what it was doing," he said. "It was actually through some help and work on the other driver's part to try and make sense of why she was driving the way she was based on what he had seen (that the challenge came out)." The driver talked to someone who had overheard what the teen girl was really doing. After passing that information along to police, detectives reinterviewed the girl and she admitted she had tried the challenge, Lyman said. Police are expected to hand the case over to prosecutors to be screened for a potential charge of reckless driving.

'Bachelor' Colton Underwood: 'I don't wear underwear' He might be America’s most famous virgin, but Colton Underwood is still free-balling. “I don’t wear socks and I don’t wear underwear,” the 26-year-old says.

Woman, 29, Still in 10-Year Coma, Is Pregnant by a Rapist By FRANK BRUNI JAN. 25, 1996 This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. She was an outstanding student, graduating near the top of her class at a respected Roman Catholic high school in the area and heading to an Ivy League university for a future in the sciences, or perhaps medicine. But a sudden swerve off a road thrust her car into a tree and her into a coma that never lifted over the next decade. Fed by a tube, swaddled in a diaper, she aged from 19 to 29 with little change in her condition. Then in late December, the staff attending her at a nursing home in Brighton, a suburb on this city's southeastern edge, noticed a puzzling difference: her belly was growing bigger. The police said that doctors first checked for a digestive blockage, then did three separate tests before relaying their discovery to criminal authorities and the patient's stunned family on New Year's Eve. The woman was pregnant, the victim of a rape. This extraordinary case, details of which have emerged gradually over recent weeks, has drawn scrutiny from state health and criminal justice officials for its vivid demonstration of the vulnerability of nursing-home patients to abuse. But it is attracting the attention of physicians and ethicists for an additional reason: the young woman's parents, acting as her guardians, have chosen to continue her pregnancy. A full-term pregnancy would result in a birth in May. John Parrinello, a lawyer in Rochester who is serving as the family's spokesman, said: "It was a very difficult decision, because nobody could predict the future, her capacity to survive a pregnancy, her capacity to deliver a child. There are not many cases similar to this." Mr. Parrinello said it had not been determined who would raise the child. Several prominent biomedical ethicists said that while they can cite cases of pregnant women who fell into comas or suffered brain death, they cannot recall any other case of a woman's becoming pregnant while already in one of those conditions. They said this case raises troubling ethical concerns. "There's some question here about using her as a vessel," said Ellen Moskowitz, a health care lawyer and bioethicist at the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor. "Does that recognize her humanity? Is this something that offends the natural order?" In addition, Ms. Moskowitz said, "You could wonder about the effects of a child born of this arrangement. What kind of explanation is due this child, and what are the potential harms that could flow from that?" Law enforcement sources said the young woman's family was motivated by the belief that she would not have wanted an abortion and by the desire to see a part of her live on. The family declined to be interviewed, and Mr. Parrinello has released little information about her. He has also asked that she be accorded the anonymity usually granted rape victims who request it. The authorities investigating the case, who have not made an arrest, have withheld the young woman's name from the public record and similarly have released little information about her. But Gary Ciulla, an investigator with the Brighton Police Department, said that to see the young woman, whose blue eyes often follow a visitor around the room, is to get a haunting sense of the promise her life once held. "You could see the remnants of her beauty," Mr. Ciulla said. "She was a beautiful girl." Mr. Ciulla and others who have visited her say she breathes without the assistance of machines, responds physically to certain stimuli and can feel pain, but is completely uncommunicative and seems unaware of her surroundings. As a result of her family's silence, little is known about her prognosis when she first lapsed into a coma in 1985, the choices her family faced in keeping her alive or the precise reasons they decided not to end her pregnancy, which was between four and a half and five months along when it was detected. Although the doctors attending the young woman's pregnancy at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, where she was moved after her condition was discovered, declined to be interviewed, other medical experts said that if the young woman's vital signs are normal, she may well be able to deliver a healthy baby. The young woman and her family are Catholic, and one of her close friends from high school remembered her as deeply religious and opposed to abortion. "She was always pretty pro-life," said the friend, Vicky Hansen, who now lives in Troy, N.Y. Ms. Hansen said that she recalled her stating that position in a class they took on contemporary issues. Ms. Hansen, other classmates, family acquaintances and the woman's school records portray her as a straight-laced, sober-minded teen-ager from a middle-class family with some domestic troubles that led to her parents' divorce sometime after the car accident. On her mother's side, she comes from a large Polish clan of colorful weddings and deep Catholic faith. The young woman herself was the oldest child and only girl in a family of four children. They lived on a suburban street in a modest two-story house that afforded a view of the steeple on the Catholic church a block away. The young woman attended a Catholic grammar school and then a Catholic high school for girls, participating in diving, gymnastics, theater and a Christian service group during her first years. Later, Ms. Hansen said, the young woman scaled back on extracurricular activities so she could take a job as a cashier in a grocery store and save money for college. But her attention to her studies never flagged. "There was a big deal about who was going to be valedictorian, and she was in the running," Ms. Hansen said. "It came down to the wire." By different accounts, the young woman graduated second or third in a class of roughly 180 students. She was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, and was inducted into the National Honor Society before her high school graduation in June 1984. Photographs of her from her yearbook show an extremely pretty girl with a radiant smile and a tiny metal crucifix dangling from a chain around her neck. Classmates said they lost track of her when she went to Cornell. The car accident apparently occurred during the second semester of her freshman year, because school records show that she had ceased to attend classes by late March 1985. Elaine McKay, a high school classmate, recalled that the young woman was driving with a college boyfriend and swerved off the road to avoid hitting a deer. Ms. McKay could not remember the boyfriend's name, what happened to him or where the accident occurred. Ms. Hansen said the young woman had been dogged by ill fortune. Her boyfriend during her senior year of high school accidentally shot and killed himself, Ms. Hansen said. The incident drew widespread local publicity because the 17-year-old boy was apparently influenced by the Russian roulette sequence in the movie "The Deer Hunter." Since her own accident, the young woman has been institutionalized, but she was not placed in the nursing home, the Westfall Health Care Center, until February of last year. The 145-bed nursing home had opened just two months earlier. Surrounded by fields, decorated in blues and purples and immaculately clean during a visit on Tuesday, the nursing home appeared to be an ideal environment. But unannounced visits from State Health Department inspectors last year found many deficiencies, including ants in the dining room and crusted food around patients' mouths, said Claudia Hutton, a department spokeswoman. More disturbingly, one of Westfall's former nurse's aides, John Horace, 51, has been charged with sexually abusing a 49-year-old female patient there in September. The comatose woman's rape is believed to have occurred in August. Criminal authorities said there are differences between the cases; the 49-year-old patient, for example, is partly physically disabled and was not raped. The police would not say whether they have a suspect. Claudia Blumenstock, the administrator of Westfall, said in a prepared statement that its staff is shocked by what happened. "Unfortunately," Ms. Blumenstock added, "nursing homes cannot provide full-time surveillance of our premises to prevent unforeseeable criminal acts." The State Attorney General's office has joined the Brighton police in investigating the rape, because Westfall's acceptance of Medicaid patients gives Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco some jurisdiction. Mr. Vacco said that what happened there should be be seen in the context of 1,000 complaints about abuse in nursing homes that his office receives every year. "It is indicative of a very significant problem that is largely unrecognized," Mr. Vacco said.

ALSO: from the mother ship: Grief TV-14 | 46min | Episode aired 4 February 1998 Season 8 | Episode 14 McCoy pursues murder charges against a health care worker who impregnated a comatose patient after the woman dies during childbirth. However, investigation also reveals that the victim's mother may have played a role in the incident.

1. What actor or actress starred in an unsuccessful (but very funny) show that had the same name as two subsequent hit shows? 2. What actor or actress played a parent on a TV show, then on a later show played a parent to the sibling of an actor that had played their kid on the first show? http://www.netanimations.net/Animated-gif-spinning-question-mark-picture-moving.gifhttp://www.netanimations.net/Animated-gif-three-flashing-question-marks-picture-moving.gifhttp://www.netanimations.net/Animated-dancing-red-question-mark-picture-moving.gif 1. VALERIE HARPER 2. VALERIE HARPER

When planning for a family trip to New Zealand, an American father wrote a classified ad in the NZ Herald for his three “unmarried, handsome sons” as a joke. But it quickly caused a social media sensation, and his sons were flooded with more than 600 responses. Neil, from Oregon, secretly created the dating ad in December for his sons, Benjamin, Jeremy and Matthew. “My wife and I have 3 wonderful, successful, alas unmarried, sons,” the ad reads. “We are not expecting, just hoping, to introduce our sons to nice NZ daughters. At the very least, we’ll embarrass our sons and the truth is, we do find some enjoyment in that.” Neil had never placed an ad like this before and just wanted his kids to put themselves out there. His youngest son, Benjamin, is a 26-year-old consultant in Seattle. Middle son Jeremy is a 28-year-old working for nonprofit organizations and the oldest, 31-year-old Mathew, works in real estate in Portland. “I am sure they will be surprised and annoyed, but I am sure they will laugh,” Neil, who didn’t want to disclose his last name for personal reasons, told The NZ Herald. “We have a good relationship and are always joking with each other. They know I am a little unusual in that regard.” Thanks to their dad’s efforts, the sons ended up meeting some New Zealand bachelorettes on their travels. “Between my brothers and I, we went on a few one-on-one dates,” Benjamin told The Daily Mail. ‘[New Zealand women] are very intelligent, kind, friendly people. We love their accents. They were a lot of fun, everyone we met seemed nice.” Neil said that they were even invited to “family dates.” “We are doing great, my sons were a tad embarrassed but they handled it well and thought it was hilarious in the end,” Neil told The Daily Mail. “I even met some great parents.” And Benjamin said his brother even found a potential partner during their holiday. “Two weeks is hard to fall deeply in love,” he said. “Matthew actually met someone so hopefully that’s the start of something.” (He's the cute one on the left)

Even worse than a lump of coal, Lifetime was slapped with a lawsuit for calling a random family ugly in, of all things, a Christmas movie. TMZ reports that Setiam Allah and wife Katherine sued the network over their film “Christmas Harmony,” in which the couple’s family photo was called “ugly” by the male lead. The lawsuit claims that an Allahs’ family picture somehow ended up as a prop in the film without their permission. In the scene, the titular character Harmony pins a random family photo to the wall and her love interest tells her to take it down, adding, “They’re ugly!” The Allahs were reportedly humiliated when their friends and family members called them to inform them of their unfortunate, unplanned cameo in the Christmas film. They alleged in their suit that they only sent their portraits to about 50 people, none of whom worked for Lifetime. “Christmas Harmony” first aired in November. The Allahs are asking for all of the film’s profits. A rep for Lifetime did not return a request for comment on the “Christmas Harmony” suit. The Allahs did not immediately return requests for comment.