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The Bucks Joined the NBA’s Elite Around the Time Giannis Blew the Warriors Off Their Own Floor How do you know when an upstart contender hits another level? It looks a lot like what Antetokounmpo did in Thursday’s second quarter at Golden State. There’s a moment when it all lines up—when what you’ve been imagining and theorizing about becomes real, and all that’s left is just to sit back and watch. It happened at Oracle Arena on Thursday, with about five minutes left in the second quarter. The Milwaukee Bucks held a slim 44-41 lead over the Golden State Warriors. Through the game’s first 19 minutes, the two heavyweights—in one corner, the sport’s dominant dynasty and the West’s top seed; in the other, a challenger with the East’s best point differential—had fought in a phone booth, with neither side able to get hot from behind the 3-point arc or create more than two possessions’ worth of separation. And then, with 5:01 to go in the first half, Giannis Antetokounmpo checked back in, and everything clicked: All of a sudden, that three-point lead ballooned to 15. The Bucks had just crushed the two-time-defending NBA champions in their own gym. By the end of the barrage, Antetokounmpo had totaled nine points, two rebounds, an assist, a steal, and a block in barely three minutes. On a court also occupied by two in-their-prime NBA MVPs, he was the best player—by far. An arena that’s grown accustomed to seeing the hometown team render the final period meaningless got to witness the visitors insisting on 12 minutes of garbage time. After the 134-111 pummeling, Antetokounmpo verbalized the message he and the Bucks had just sent: “We’ve arrived.” By now, you probably know the reasons for that arrival. New head coach Mike Budenholzer has overhauled the Bucks’ schemes, emphasizing spacing and 3-point shooting on offense, and trying to force opponents to take lower-value midrange jumpers on the defensive end. The early returns have been remarkable: Milwaukee ranks second in the NBA in points scored per possession and third inpoints allowed per possession, the only team in the league in the top five in both categories, and is off to its best start in 47 years. At the center of it all, as always, was Giannis. He’s not really the most natural fit in a five-out, shoot-it-as-soon-as-you-get-it offense—he is currently shooting a crisp 8.7 percent from 3-point range—but he’s the engine that makes it all go, because his presence induces defensive panic on every possession. Knowing that Antetokounmpo can get to the rim in two steps from virtually anywhere inside of half court, and that he is shooting 73 percent once he gets there, leaves even well-drilled and well-intentioned defenders cheating a step his way. That creates all the opening he needs to ping the ball around the perimeter, stay one step ahead of the rotations of scrambling defenders, and find great looks. Most nights, those looks come from outside, with Milwaukee ranking second in the league in 3-point attempts per game and first in makes. But as the Curry-led Warriors know better than anyone, when you stretch a defense out far enough, it snaps, and from there, you can get whatever you want: The Bucks scored a season-high 84 points in the paint at Oracle. “Very similar to four years ago here,” Curry told reporters on Wednesday. “A change of scenery sometimes helps. You get a little boost of energy, a little shift of focus and perspective, and that little bit of difference can unlock something.” So far, it looks like it’s unlocked Antetokounmpo, allowing him to be the most fully formed and devastating version of himself we’ve ever seen—one capable of not just snatching a game out of the hands of two of the five best players in the world, but doing it so stoically that how wild it is barely registers. . The Bucks have arrived. Giannis is here. The future is now.

Burger King employee goes viral for helping elderly customer Now that’s some good customer service. A Virginia Burger King employee is going viral for her act of kindness. Nineteen-year-old Alexis Easter, who works at the fast-food chain in Mechanicsville, was photographed escorting an elderly customer to his car. The man, known to Easter as Mr. John, is a regular at the restaurant. “When he’s done, I help him to the car because he has a terrible back. When we get to his car, we talk and I make sure he’s safe,” the employee told WTVR. Easter’s simple act caught the attention of a passerby, who snapped a photo of the young woman and her customer, which she shared on social media. “Shout out to the cashier at the Mechanicsville Burger King, making this world a little brighter,” Elizabeth Chandler wrote on Facebook. Chandler said she was so impressed by what Easter was doing for the man. “Seeing her help this gentleman was so heartwarming. It’s so seldom to see people going out of their way for others and expecting nothing in return. Since posting this I learned that Alexis is only 19 and does this on a regular basis for any customer in need,”Chandler told Yahoo. Easter always tries to do what she can to provide the best customer service. “Always go out of your way to help others,” she told WTVR. Chandler, who also frequents this Burger King, said Easter isn’t the only employee who goes above and beyond their job description. “That’s the culture at that Burger King. Every employee I have ever seen goes so far out of their way for everyone. Another employee named Monica hands out plaques to those going through hard times, including my grandmother when she was going through treatment for cancer,” she told WTVR.

Sordid evidence emerges in case of castrated dead soccer star When handsome 24-year-old footballer Daniel Correa Freitas joined the throng of family and friends celebrating the 18th birthday of a friend, he had little idea of the horror that lay in store. A champagne-fueled evening in a local nightclub had culminated early in the morning at an impromptu party at the family home of Allana Brittes. It was here, at 8 a.m., that Freitas sent a series of selfies on WhatsApp showing him lying in bed alongside Allana’s mother, Cristiana. “I’m going to devour the birthday girl’s mom…and the dad is here,’’ a grinning Freitas wrote to friends. One replied: “That guy is going to beat you up.” Little could the friend have known the extent to which this casual, jocular prediction would come true. Just hours after that exchange Freitas was dead, his body dumped in bushes in a nearby town — he had been castrated and nearly decapitated. Revenge attack after ‘rape’ The gruesome discovery in the southern Brazilian city of San Jose dos Pinhais has made headlines around the world, not in the least because of the bizarre events that have unfolded in its aftermath. Three days after Freitas’ body was found, Allana’s father, Edison Brittes Jr., a well-known businessman, admitted to killing him, claiming it was a revenge attack after finding Frietas attempting to rape his wife, Cristiana. The murder investigation has been full of twists and turns, and among the issues puzzling detectives now are toxicology reports showing the amount of alcohol in Freitas’ bloodstream. Yet, while Edison insisted he acted alone, police have also arrested both Cristiana and Allana on suspicion of helping to cover up the soccer star’s murder – and they are still looking for another three people they believe may have been involved in his death. The soccer player on the cusp of stardom The claims and counterclaims in the shocking case have transfixed the Brazilian public, who are still coming to terms with the shocking death of a boy who played in their equivalent of the English Premier League. Freitas, who was signed by leading club Sao Paulo two years ago, was tipped for a glittering future. A popular figure among teammates, his soulful eyes and athletic frame meant he had no shortage of female admirers — among them Allana, whom he met in 2017 while playing on loan for her home city of Curitiba. This week, she insisted to police that their yearlong friendship was purely platonic, although it was strong enough for Freitas to make the two-hour journey from Sao Bento, where he was based, to join her intimate 18th birthday celebration. Only 20 people were invited to the party in a Curitiba nightclub on Oct. 26. The party eventually ended in the early hours of the 27th at the family home. ‘I’m going to devour the birthday girl’s mum … and the dad is here’ Exactly what happened next is the subject of the ongoing police investigation, but at some point after 8 a.m., Freitas sent a series of WhatsApp messages to friends in which he claimed he was about to have sex with Cristiana. Accompanied by a selfie showing him lying in bed alongside either a sleeping or possibly unconscious Cristiana — still wearing the dress she wore to the party — the grinning footballer wrote: “I can sleep here. There are several women sleeping all over the house.” In a subsequent message, he took things further: “I’m going to devour the birthday girl’s mum … and the dad is here.” He followed it up with another message 10 minutes later, which read simply: “I ate her.” He was found dead by passers-by, practically beheaded with severed genitals hours later. In the immediate aftermath, Edison did his best to appear normal, even calling a friend of Freitas to commiserate over his death. In a recording, obtained by Brazilian news outfit Globo News, he called Freitas’ death “a tragedy,” offering to help and insisting that the victim had left the family’s house alive. “Man, we don’t know what happened. He has not left (his) cellphone, he’s gone,” he said. “Allana is in shock, man. God, I had to try to soothe (her) down.” ‘He was beaten and killed cruelly’ His daughter, meanwhile, was also at pains to suggest she knew nothing. In a series of text message exchanges with Freitas’ anguished mother and aunt she too insisted that Freitas had left her home alone at around 8 a.m. “He just said goodbye, got up and left,” she wrote in one message to Freitas’ mother, adding, “Let’s have faith. It will be all right.” When his mother sent a subsequent audio message saying that Freitas was dead, Allana responded that she did not believe it. “Tell me it’s a lie,” she wrote. A day later, she posted a picture of herself with Freitas on Instagram suggesting she was upset that he had not sent her a birthday card. “This year you did not send me one,” she wrote, alongside a crying emoji. Murder confession and screams from the bedroom Two days later her father was arrested on suspicion of murder – a murder to which he quickly confessed, claiming to have acted in a “moment of madness” after hearing his wife’s anguished screams from their bedroom. In a televised interview with a Brazilian television station, he described smashing down the master bedroom door down to find the soccer star lying on top of his wife. “She was screaming and begging for help,” he said. “What I did was what any man would do, because the woman that was there was not my wife, she was every woman in Brazil. “It could be your daughter, sister, mother or wife. At that moment it was my wife, Cris, who I have been married to for 20 years.” He added: “When I threw him off my wife, I threw him on the floor and stopped her being raped by that monstrous scumbag. I hit him a lot, a lot and took him out of the house. I don’t know if he was awake or unconscious or if he had just closed his eyes. “I wasn’t thinking of anything. I had a knife in the car, a small knife, which was with the tools in the trunk. I did not know I was going to do that, I was desperate, besides myself with rage. I looked in the trunk and saw what was there.” More than one attacker? Adding that he had put the soccer star’s body in the trunk of the car, he insisted that while his friends had helped him take him out of the house they had tried to stop him from committing the crime. “But they could not do it,” he insisted. His version of events was apparently backed up this week by both Allana — who told police she too heard screaming from her mother’s bedroom – and Cristiana herself, who in a statement to detectives claimed she woke to find the player rubbing his penis against her before her husband stabbed him. “Cristiana confirms that she suffered sexual abuse without penetration by (Freitas) who rubbed his penis on her,” her lawyer Claudio Dalledone Jr. revealed this week. “She was drunk, asleep and thought it was a dream. She saw him on top of her and started screaming.” The police are not yet convinced this is the truth, as investigator, Amadeu Trevisan, made clear this week. “The facts don’t add up,” he declared, emphasizing that it had not yet been proven whether Freitas had had sex with the suspect’s wife – and, moreover, that police believed that three more people participated in the soccer star’s beating. “We are identifying who was in the house with the main suspect on that night. We believe three people entered the room with (Edison) and the player (in order) to kill Daniel. “Regardless of what happened between Daniel and the wife of the main suspect, the reaction of the aggressor was disproportionate. He was beaten and killed cruelly.” Of that there is no doubt. Yet on Thursday night, as they prepared to question Cristiana, Edison defiantly continued to insist that he committed the crime on his own – hinting that he would do the same again if he had to. “Rumors always get started but the truth will come out,” he said. “I know I did what I did. I want everybody watching to think what they would do to keep the moral integrity of your family and help a small and fragile woman.”

Whoever figured out how to process and mass-produce chocolate. Well, if not the smartest, then certainly the greatest and most-important. A legend in his own mind.

Utah man is state’s first rabies death in 74 years A Utah man who caught bats and let his wife play with them, died of rabies — the first death of its kind in the state in 74 years. Gary Giles, 55, first began having neck and back pain on Oct. 19 and doctors thought he’d just pulled a muscle. But the pain only got worse and turned to numbness and tingling. “Being touched, he felt like he had pins and needles all over his skin,” Giles’ daughter Crystal Sedgwick told Fox13. “He felt like his skin was on fire.” It wasn’t until Giles died on Sunday at Utah Valley Hospital that doctors realized he’d been infected with rabies, Sedgwick said. The state’s health department believe he contracted the deadly virus from bats, which literally hung around his home, but they’re still working to confirm the theory. “My mom has always thought that bats were really cute, so he would sit there and hold them for her and let her pet their heads, and they would lick them,” Sedgwick said. Sedgwick’s mom, Juanita Giles, said she didn’t realize the bats that infested their home could be carriers of the highly contagious ailment. “I had no clue,” she told KSL. “We would wake up in the night and they would be walking on our bed.” EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! “I’ve always thought bats were kind of cute, but I had no idea the kind of risk we were at.” Since her husband’s death, Juanita said she and the rest of the family are getting vaccinated — just in case. The last time someone died of rabies in Utah was 1944. According to the CDC, there have only been 23 cases of human rabies reported in the US between 2008 and 2017.

I love his Geico ad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQEf-Ogozw

I think that even though he isn't on the show anymore, Richard Belzer should tweet that he's never had a glass of Ice-T(ea).

KFC launching chicken and waffles nationwide for limited time Skip the trendy brunch spot lines and head for the takeout window. KFC is launching Kentucky Fried Chicken & Waffles nationwide Monday, here for just a limited time.

Ice-T announced on Twitter Friday that he’s never eaten a bagel in his life. A fan asked the “Law and Order: SVU” star what his favorite type of bagel was, and he responded, “Lol. I’ve never eaten a Bagel in my life…” Obviously, fans were in disbelief about his response, with one even attempting to call him out for apparently having eaten cinnamon raisin a bagel on his hit series. “Lol. TV is make believe,” he replied. Twitter users must have continued to express their shock at his revelation because Ice-T seemed to reach his limit. “White people.. Don’t lose your Fn minds because I’ve never eaten a Bagle [sic].. Take it easy…. lol,” he tweeted. The 60-year-old rapper isn’t the only person to have surprised people with his eating habits, as Kylie Jenner shared she had never tried milk with cereal until September 2018. Kylie called the combination “life-changing.”

$4,300-per-night male escort reveals what women really want The guy obviously has a way with a pussy! A man who quit a high-flying job to become a male escort has revealed the unlikely thing many women ask for — breakfast in bed. Ryan James, 31, spoke to Australia’s “The Morning Show” about his life as an escort and revealed how he resigned from his corporate job in finance to switch careers. Now he charges between $285 and $4,300 for his services. Sex work is legal in Australia, although it is regulated differently by the country’s six states. James told the show: “I didn’t tell them [my family] at first.” “When I did get started, I told my friends pretty quickly. My family found out a little later.” “It was a bit of a mixed reaction. They don’t treat me any differently because of it.” He added: “It’s probably not the kind of thing parents would choose for their children, but they still treat me well.” James told how his most popular request was a luxury dinner date, which includes six hours of pampering or pleasure, an overnight sleepover and breakfast in the morning. On his website, James said he was “courteous, polite and a gentleman at all times.” “Any encounter we have will be truly memorable, leaving you wanting to come back again and again,” he added. He has a “wish list” of gifts women can buy him, including Hugo Boss suits, Prada shoes and Tag Heuer watches, but he also welcomes charity donations. James previously told the Daily Mail that companionship was important for women. “Pretty much every single client that I see there’s some companionship element to the booking,” he said. “From what I see, men are more focused on the sexual side of things. Women are focused on the sex too, they wouldn’t come to see me without it, but we spend a lot of time talking as well.” James says many of his clients could easily meet a man in a bar, but that they want a “different experience.” Some are recently divorced, while others are still married but haven’t been intimate with their husbands for some time. The youngest of James’ clients was just 20, but he says it’s rare for them to be in their 20s.

Tamera's husband's niece was killed in the Thousand Oaks massacre.

So now we know why Gabby left Casey behind in Chicago. She wanted to go direct last night's SVU.

So will will Captain Kirk marry Raymond Reddington in a double ceremony with Murphy and the judge?

Mass shooting victim’s mom wants gun control, not ‘prayers’ The mother of a victim in the California shooting tragedy — who managed to survive the 2017 massacre in Las Vegas — said she wants gun control and not “thoughts and prayers” after the death of her son. The grieving mom of Telemachus Orfanos was emotional as she told reporters she wants “no more guns” after the latest mass shooting inside the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks. “My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home,” the woman said. “He didn’t come home last night.” The woman continued: “I don’t want prayers, I don’t want thoughts — I want gun control and I hope to God nobody sends me any more prayers.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo is the NBA’s last folk hero You still need to see Giannis to believe the things he does on the court. https://www.sbnation.com/2018/11/8/18070752/giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-legend TOTAL DOMINATION!!!

That was his 'hook' when they introduced 6 new interns last year. (They did a pretty good job of making the new people interesting and/or likable.) The first time Schmitt was in an OR observing, he leaned over the patient and his glasses fell into the open abdominal cavity. His nickname became Glasses, and he is still occasionally called that. He has proven to be a competent doctor, though an awkward person.

If you'd have started this topic in the fetish forum, you might've gotten a few other alternatives to wiping. On CHELSEA LATELY, Chelsea Handler used to berate Jeff Wild for the direction in which he wiped, but I don't remember which way she said was the right direction.

Train your tongue to be extra-nimble, so that if they are real diamonds, you can remove them without swallowing them or him noticing, then sell them on ebay.:rolleyes::cool:

A misspelling of Ms. Winfrey's name, which is kinda ironic because she's explained that her name was spelled "Orpah" on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.

I'll take NORMAN LEAR SHOWS For $1000, Alex... All In The Family Maude The Jeffersons The Powers That Be

DEAR ABBY: How can I tactfully tell an elementary school teacher in whose class I assist that she uses poor grammar and words that aren't words (i.e., "I boughten this yesterday," or, "Her and me went to the soccer game.")? I am fond of this teacher but feel she's doing a disservice to her pupils. Other than that she's a devoted, energetic teacher. It is really difficult to bite my tongue. -- TACTFUL IN THE EAST DEAR TACTFUL: Children model their behavior after the example the adults around them provide. That a teacher would consistently do what she's doing in a classroom setting is shocking. How could she have become a licensed educator with such poor English skills? Politically speaking, I don't think that as her subordinate you should take it upon yourself to correct the woman. I do think this is something you should discuss with the school principal.

I've never watched the show, but I read somewhere that wrestler John Morrison ( https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/a-reason-to-watch-wrestling.73484/#post-650508 ) is on. Methinks the man needeth a jockstrap:

Man dies after injecting silicone in genitals, mom blames sex ‘cult’ master A Washington kink enthusiast died last month after silicone injections in his genitals led to fatal bleeding, but his mom believes a gay sex “cult” is to blame. Jack Chapman, a 28-year-old Australian living in Seattle, died from “silicone embolism syndrome” resulting in hemorrhaging in the lungs, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office told The Stranger this week. Chapman — who went by “Tank Heathcliff Hafertepen” and “Pup Tank” — was an active member of San Francisco and later Seattle’s gay BDSM community. Chapman served as one of several slaves to master Dylan Hafertepen, known as the nickname “Noodles and Beef.” Hafertepen, who has thousands of followers on social media, is known for posting salacious photos with his slaves, whom he calls his “pups.” Several of Hafertepen’s “pups,” including Tank, appear to have artificially enlarged genitals as well as extremely muscular bodies. Chapman’s mother Linda is blaming Hafertepen for turning her son on to the dangerous body modification that resulted in his death. She likened her son’s relationship with his master to a cult. “It was devotion, it was like some sort of clan, family, like a cult. And to prove their devotion to him they had to change their bodies,” Linda said on the Australian talk show The Project, which aired on Channel 10 this week. “He was not the Jack that I sent over there. He had no self-esteem, he’d lost himself in this cult. This was a disturbed boy,” she added. Linda detailed a contract her son signed with Hafertepen which promised his master total control over his mind and body. She said her son was required to take Hafertepen’s last name, give him his salary, wear a chain around his neck and cut off contact with anyone outside his BDSM circle. Hafertepen deactivated several of his accounts after Chapman’s death. It is not known who injected silicone into Chapman’s scrotum. Chapman’s death in mid-October was caused by a viral inflammation of the lungs called pneumonitis, which progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office said. The syndrome eventually resulted hemorrhaging in the lungs. Three weeks prior to his death, Chapman signed over all his money to Hafertepen in his will, something Linda said she finds unsettling. “Three weeks before he dies he writes a will and leaves everything to Dylan. If that’s not suspicious I don’t know what is,” she told The Project. Linda said her son Jack and his autistic brother Ben each received $200,000 after her late husband’s death. Jack’s money was intended to go to Ben’s medical care if anything were to ever happen to him, she explained. Linda confronted Hafertepen about the will on The Project. “You didn’t think of his autistic brother, on a disability pension. $200,000 is a pretty good price, isn’t it?” she said to him. “I was intending to give that to Ben,” he replied. Linda then asks him to put that in writing. “Not with this animosity,” he said. A Facebook post on a memorial page for Chapman praises his relationship with Hafertepen. “Tank’s greatest passion was for his partner, Dylan. Together for over eight years, their love overcame challenges the size of continents, and persisted as an unbreakable bond. Tank’s devotion and love for his partner was absolute. Tank’s final words to Dylan were ‘Thank you for allowing me to serve you,’” the post read. The Facebook memorial also says Chapman died of “an undiagnosed lung ailment,” which contradicts the coroner’s statement. Linda said she plans to go to the police over her son’s death. “The Seattle Police Department and King County Medical Examiner’s Office have reviewed the medical file related to this death, as well as concerns from the community. There is no criminal investigation at this time,” the department told The Stranger.

Dorothy Bruns, 44, was found dead in her Staten Island home by a friend late Tuesday afternoon, sources said. Bottles of prescription pills and an apparent suicide note were found nearby.