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If the basement door is thick enough, with a good lock, why bother with steps one and two? :cool:

Forensic recovery teams searched for more victims in the charred wreckage of the northern California town of Paradise on Saturday as the number of people listed as missing in the state's deadliest wildfire topped 1,000. Remains of at least 71 people have been recovered in and around the small Sierra foothills town 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco. It was home to nearly 27,000 residents before it was largely incinerated by the blaze on the night of Nov. 8. The disaster already ranks among the deadliest U.S. wildfires since the turn of the last century. Eighty-seven people perished in the Big Burn firestorm that swept the Northern Rockies in August of 1910. Minnesota's Cloquet Fire in October of 1918 killed 450 people. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has blamed the recent spate of fires on forest mismanagement, was due to visit the fire zones on Saturday to meet displaced residents. Governor Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom planned to join Trump on his tour. Authorities attribute the high death toll from the blaze - dubbed "Camp Fire" - partly to the speed with which flames raced through the town with little advance warning, driven by howling winds and fueled by drought-desiccated scrub and trees. More than a week later, firefighters have managed to carve containment lines around 45 percent of the blaze's perimeter. The fire covered 142,000 acres (57,000 hectares), fire officials said. Besides the toll on human life, property losses from the blaze make it the most destructive in California history, posing the additional challenge of providing long-term shelter for many thousands of displaced residents. EVACUEES With more than 9,800 homes up in smoke, many refugees have taken up temporary residence with friends and family, while others have pitched tents or were camping out of their vehicles. At least 1,100 evacuees were being housed in 14 emergency shelters set up in churches, schools and community centers around the region, with a total of more than 47,000 people remaining under evacuation orders, authorities said. Search teams with cadaver dogs combed through rubble-strewn expanses of burned-out neighborhoods looking for bodies. On Friday night, Butte County Sheriff Korea Honea said the remains of eight more fire victims were recovered during the day, bringing the death toll to 71. That surpasses the previous fatality record from a single California wildfire - 29 in the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles. Honea said the total roster of people unaccounted for had swelled to 1,011 - up from the 630 names posted Thursday night and well more than triple the number counted as missing on Thursday afternoon. "This is a dynamic list," Honea told reporters, saying it was compiled from "raw data" that likely included some duplications or multiple spellings of names. Honea bristled when asked whether many of those listed at this point, more than a week after the disaster, were expected to end up either deceased or declared missing and presumed dead. DROUGHT "I don't think it's appropriate for any of us to sit and speculate about what the future holds," he said. As of Friday, he said, 329 individuals previously reported missing had turned up alive. The names were being compiled from information received from a special hotline, along with email reports and a review of emergency-911 calls that came in on the first night of the fire, Honea said. Some listed have likely survived but not yet notified family or authorities. Others may not have been immediately listed because of delays in reporting them. Weather conditions have since turned more to firefighters' favor, though strong, gusty winds and lower humidity were expected to return late Saturday through early Sunday, ahead of rain showers forecast for mid-week. The outbreak of Camp Fire coincided with a series of smaller blazes in Southern California, most notably the Woolsey Fire, which is linked to three fatalities and has destroyed at least 500 structures near the Malibu coast west of Los Angeles. It was 78 percent contained on Friday night. Scientists have said the growing frequency and intensity of wildfires in California and elsewhere across the West are largely attributable to prolonged drought that is symptomatic of climate change. The precise causes of the Camp and Woolsey Fires were under investigation, but electric utilities have reported equipment problems in the vicinity of both blazes around the time they erupted.

Two friends and I saw it off-Broadway eons ago just to see Mr. Juliet Mills in his birthday suit. Nice booty, if I recall. And Carmack isn't the dweeb with the glasses. He's the one pursuing Meredith that she should pass on to get involved with Dr. Andrea (Andrew) DeLuca, who was born in Italy and speaks fluent Italian. 9/4/81 IN the Off Broadway hit ''Entertaining Mr. Sloane,'' Maxwell Caulfield plays a most unusual character. ''Mr. Sloane'' - his first name is never given - is a lower-class young Cockney who lives with a middle-age landlady and her homosexual brother, both desperately lonely souls who viciously compete for Mr. Sloane's affections. Mr. Sloane, strange person that he is, finds the situation quite congenial. He shrewdly portions out winks and bottom-pats to his hosts in exchange for free meals and a cheap room. He struts about the house in boots and leather pants, and he takes the car for a spin when he pleases. All goes well until he kills someone in the parlor. On the face of it, then, Mr. Sloane is a manipulative hoodlum who resorts to murder to get his way. And in most productions of ''Sloane,'' this is how the character is played. Yet Mr. Caulfield, in the many laudatory reviews he received, has frequently been praised for giving Mr. Sloane an innocent, almost endearing quality. His eerie warmth tilts the play, usually staged as a straight-out farce, a degree or two toward drama. 'Ideal Spider in the Web' ''Maxwell Caulfield is the ideal spider in the web,'' wrote one critic, say ing he was ''as disarming of himse lf as he is of others - which gives this revival that tragic tinge of great comedy.'' Mr. Caulfield pinpoints the source of likability in his interpretation of Mr. Sloane. ''He is an orphan,'' Mr. Caulfield said the other day on a Hudson River pier near his Upper West Side apartment. ''He wants to love and be loved, by anyone, by the bloody ticket-taker or the greengrocer. He will cuddle up to his landlady like Little Orphan Annie, then turn around and dress in leather for her brother. He'll do anything to be loved.'' And what experience does Mr. Caulfield's draw upon in his portrayal of this unusual young man? ''I've done things to survive,'' he explained, ''things that I don't regret, but which, well ... that my mother wouldn't have liked. Besides, Mr. Sloane and I are alike in many ways. We are both survivors. We are both charmers. And we can both spot an opportunity at a hundred paces.'' These traits - abetted by equal measures of talent, ambition and rugged good looks - have brought Mr. Caulfield remarkable success for a 21-year-old actor. He won a Theater World Award for his Off Broadway debut in ''Class Enemy'' and is now playing the lead role in only his second Off Broadway show, a box-office hit. Agents and producers have been visiting the Cherry Lane Theater regularly. Now the William Morris agency has signed him on and he is in the running for two major film roles. Drive to Become a Star How does Mr. Caulfield explain his rapid rise? ''Since the age of 15, the motivating force in my life has been to become a star,'' Mr. Caulfield said coolly. ''I've always been in a rush to make it, and I'm quite convinced I will.'' The rush began on a single day, Mr. Caulfield recalled vividly, when he was studying for a major examination in London, where he grew up. ''I was reading a biography of Marlon Brando,'' Mr. Caulfield said. ''I remember thinking, 'I really like this dude, the way he just gets up and does things.' So, I slammed the book shut and said 'I don't want to go to college anymore. I'm going to be an actor.' '' At the time, Mr. Caulfield had appeared in school productions. But he had never worked as a professional. He took a job tearing tickets at a London movie theater and scraped by, determined to get an Actor's Equity card without having to work in the provinces for a year. Instead, he joined a ''nude show'' on London's West End, dancing naked to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. By the time he won the Equity card, he wanted another card even more: the ''green card'' that bestowed resident's status in the United States. He had been reading biographies of James Dean and Montgomery Clift, and was ''totally addicted to the idea of coming to New York and achieving success in American theater.'' Time for a Change In May 1978, he flew to New York with $300 in his pocket, got a room at the West Side Y.M.C.A. and took a job in a hot basement kitchen on Columbus Avenue. ''I did the job for two hours and said, 'I cannot stand this.' '' That same day Mr. Caulfield's American acting career began. Among the casting calls in Backstage magazine, he found one for a gay farce called ''Hot Rock'' at the Truck and Wareh ouse Theater, tried out andgot the part. ''It was sort of trashy, but it was one step up from the nude show , so I was improving,'' Mr. Caulfield said. Within a year, he had won the lead role in ''Class Enemy,'' which began as a showcase then played Off Broadway after receiving good critical reviews. Jeremy Ritzer, a producer, came backstage one evening and said that if he ever staged ''Entertaining Mr. Sloane,'' the title role was Mr. Caulfield's. On the Road in 'Elephant Man While waiting, Mr. Caulfield hardly wasted his time. He toured in Florida, playing John Merrick in ''The Elephant Man.'' His leading lady was Juliet Mills, the 39-year-old actress who is best known for her role in the television series, ''Nanny and the Professor.'' She and Mr. Caulfield were married when the run was over. ''We are great admirers of the relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin,'' he said. ''We have great chemistry, and we want to work together whenever we can. But we're also simply good for each other. Juliet is my ideal of a woman. She has the life force and the secret of eternal youth.'' What is next for Maxwell Caulfield? ''What I see around the corner, actually, is a kind of meteoric flash,'' he said. ''All I can hope is that it's not just a flash. If I can keep lighting up my part of the sky for a few years to come, I'll be a happy man.''

I remember seeing this occasionally when I attended Syracuse University... although I remember them branding their pledges, not their member. OUCH!

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I also think one or two have done the show to help themselves get in better shape. The only time I ever cared about the show was the season Joey Lawrence & Mario Lopez were on.

One sluggish driver caused a massive backup on the Bayonne Bridge on Thursday afternoon that caused the bridge to shut down for several hours, officials said on Friday. The driver was going so slow in the snow that it took cops half an hour to guide her across the bridge. Meanwhile, workers couldn’t clear the snow and ice piled up on the bridge, creating perilous conditions for everyone else on the connector. “It took about 30 minutes, and while all this was happening, there was heavy snow and maintenance trucks couldn’t continue snow operations,” said Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman. “That’s why we had people stuck on the crossing and had to get vehicles off the bridge to clean it and make it safe.” The bridge was closed from about 3 p.m. until after 8 p.m.

The puns don’t stop for this suspect’s mugshot Florida cops posted a mugshot of a jailbird with a freakishly large neck — and observers really went for the throat in a pun-filled viral thread. “His neck is still at LARGE!!!” one Facebook user cracked about Charles Dion McDowell, 31. Another quipped, “Dude is up to his neck in charges.” McDowell was arrested on a slew of drug charges and sent to jail on Nov. 11, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office =68.ARCcX9CsVqpuIBhhQ41-Vhco5uNngXdpjeOBgm6A8qsDrvX2QhckqEpi4AY3SMLIQlUNv5umWMOHlXuJGPdd-HqK_IJzaYb8CDh26STMUMUzdu1MUUkeqV-GSw8tJw018NE6lCGHakOAzhpjYhjjFDvR24XwW021odrHaWOZeQFUZtj9ue98lNQIDJQh46M9xrzsJJwa4ffpgZHt9Xeuql9d46jIYlzOiC1RnoVFha3EFPt4bEDA2RJVcaY0u45X_dZoQI7fg8deTRvsSqJYCaBKSe6mFGTyoivdtcXacqcARmuqznAej7bGPynclA4zw576VdphCdmswwSx0dIJC4mafA&__tn__=-R']said in the Tuesday post. But the internet was much more interested in his neck than the bust. “Somebody notify his Necks to Kin!

A Florida man was arrested after he walked into a police station and asked to go to jail for downloading child porn on his phone. Cory Hinsch, 24, from Pensacola, was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography and released from Escambia County Jail after posting $10,000 bond. Hinsch was cuffed after walking into the Pensacola Police Department on Nov. 9 and showing an officer at the front desk images of a young girl engaged in sexual acts that he said he downloaded from the so-called dark web, according to an arrest report. After being read his Miranda rights, Hinsch gave a statement without the presence of an attorney and allowed police to look through his phone. Police say they found two images portraying child pornography and arrested him. Hinsch could serve up to five years in prison, five years’ probation, and be forced to pay a $5,000 fine.

Suspected mass serial killer admits to 90 murders DALLAS — A man convicted of three California murders and long suspected in numerous other deaths now claims he was involved in about 90 killings nationwide spanning nearly four decades, and investigators already have corroborated about a third of those, a Texas prosecutor said Thursday. Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland said 78-year-old Samuel Little was booked into jail this week following his indictment in the 1994 death of a Texas woman. Investigations are ongoing, but Little has provided details in more than 90 deaths dating to about 1970, Bland said. Little was brought to Texas in September, and investigators with law enforcement agencies in several states traveled to speak with him about unsolved homicides. “They’re able to match up over 30 cases so far,” Bland said. “So far we don’t have any false information coming from him.” If the number of killings Little claims to have committed proves true, it would make him one of the most prolific killers in US history. Ted Bundy confessed to 30 homicides from about 1974 to 1978. John Wayne Gacy killed at least 33 boys and young men in the 1970s. Arguably one of the deadliest globally was an English general practitioner named Harold Shipman, who an investigative panel determined was responsible for the deaths of 250. He was convicted in 2000 in the deaths of 15. During his 2014 trial in Los Angeles, prosecutors said Little was likely responsible for at least 40 killings since 1980. Authorities at the time were looking for possible links to deaths in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. Bland said Little recently provided details to Texas Ranger James Holland that showed Little was in Odessa, Texas, when Denise Christie Brothers was last seen in 1994. Her body was found about a month later in a vacant lot. Holland eventually elicited a confession from Little and admissions to dozens of other killings from about 1970 to 2005, Bland said. The rangers are an elite team of investigators within the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS did not respond to requests Thursday to speak with Holland. Little was being held without bond Thursday in the Ector County jail on a murder charge relating to Brothers’ death. Jail records don’t indicate whether he has an attorney. He has a court appearance scheduled for Nov. 26. Little was brought to Texas for questioning in the case from California, where he was convicted in 2014 in the deaths years earlier of the three women in Los Angeles County. DNA evidence collected from old crime scenes was used to match samples of his stored in a criminal database. Los Angeles cold-case detectives at the time suspected Little was a serial killer, a transient and former boxer who traveled the country preying on drug addicts, troubled women and others. His criminal history includes offenses committed in 24 states spread over 56 years — mostly assault, burglary, armed robbery, shoplifting and drug violations. Those detectives determined that Little often delivered a knockout punch to women and then proceeded to strangle them while masturbating, dumping the bodies and soon after leaving town. Little, who often went by the name Samuel McDowell, grew up with his grandmother in Lorain, Ohio. His criminal history shows his first arrest came at age 16 on burglary charges. For years he had denied to investigators in different states that he was responsible for any killings. Bland speculates that he finally confessed after the appeals of his life sentence in California were ultimately rejected and he no longer had any reason to hide his role. “People for years have been trying to get a confession out of him and James Holland is the one who finally got him to give that information,” Bland said.

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WilliamM, are you developing a stutter?

I thought that was going to lead into a post about long-time stores in one's area that have gone the way of the dodo (and no, I don't mean the one in the White House). I think you added the part about the turtlenecks to the title after I first clicked on it. Well, okay, I'll think it about it as the evening progresses, but right now I can't think of anything to write to mock turtlenecks. :rolleyes:

You have seen those commercials that say 'seek immediate medical attention for an erection that lasts over four hours', right?

And then one of the women was hired by the DA's office to replace Bobby Flay's ex-wife when she left the series for the first time. http://dianeneal.org/gallery/albums/uploads/DIANE%20IN%20TELEVISION/LAW%20AND%20ORDER%20SPECIAL%20VICTIMS%20UNIT/SEASON%203/LAW%20AND%20ORDER%20SVU%20-%20E3X10%20RIDICULE/SCREENCAPS/L_OSVU_-_E3X10_RIDICULE_203.jpg And another married the sexy Jason O'Mara two years later, though she divorced him last year. http://www.malecelebnews.com/wp-content/images/2011/10/Jason-O-Mara-in-Terra-Nova-episode-1%C3%9701-12-640x574.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RxDwZ4gjS1I/TbbQfFfmPyI/AAAAAAAAAj4/QWsdclMrN_M/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/joe+morelli.jpg

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I'm a Beefaroni man.

A sleeping’s Hell Kitchen man awoke to find a stranger grabbing his genitals before the silent intruder bolted from the apartment early Thursday, cops said. The 21-year-old resident left his door unlocked, allowing the thirty-something assailant to slip inside the residence around 4:35 a.m., cops said. The intruder, sporting a multi-colored scarf, groped the sleeping man over his clothes — and when the victim awoke, the creepy night crawler placed his fingers to his lips and motioned for silence, cops said. The suspect then wordlessly exited the apartment at 51st St. and Ninth Ave. and headed west, police said. Police released a video showing the suspect’s escape. Cops described the wanted man as age 30 to 35, with black hair and glasses. In addition to the scarf, he was wearing a black coat, a gray shirt, jeans and dark shoes. Anyone with information can call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIP. Calls are confidential.

Woman’s car damaged in SpaghettiOs assault: cops PITTSBURGH — Police are investigating an assault involving several cans of SpaghettiOs in Pittsburgh. WTAE-TV reports a woman told police she was meeting someone in the city’s Terrace Village neighborhood last month when another woman approached her and began throwing the canned spaghetti at her vehicle. The victim says the suspect tried stabbing her with a knife, and she was sliced in the finger. Police say the victim managed to get away, taking the attacker’s purse with her. Items in the purse helped authorities identify the suspect as 59-year-old Eileen Gettleman. Police say the victim’s car was left with a broken back window and a splattering of red sauce and pasta. Gettleman has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy. No attorney is listed in court documents. Police are working to identify any additional suspects.

And she said the nicest things about you! 'Major' Frida Kahlo Exhibit Coming To The Brooklyn Museum http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_jen/fridakbk.jpg Frida in New York, 1946. The Brooklyn Museum has just announced a major exhibition "exploring the life and work of the iconic Mexican artist" Frida Kahlo. The exhibit will open on February 8th, 2019, and feature Kahlo's work—including paintings, drawings, photographs and film—as well as her clothing, jewelry, and other personal items. This is the first time her personal objects (from the Blue House, the artist's lifelong home in Mexico City) will be on view in the United States, according to the press release. A little more on that: After Kahlo's death in 1954 [when she was just 47 years old], her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, instructed that their personal belongings be locked away at the Blue House, not to be touched until 15 years after Rivera's death. In 2004, these items were unearthed and inventoried. Making their U.S. debut are more than one hundred of Kahlo's personal artifacts ranging from noteworthy examples of her iconic Tehuana clothing, contemporary and Mesoamerican jewelry, and some of the many hand-painted corsets and prosthetics used by the artist during her lifetime. Shedding new light on one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, these objects illustrate how Kahlo crafted her appearance, and shaped her personal and public identity to reflect her cultural heritage and political beliefs while also addressing and incorporating her physical disabilities. Kahlo’s choice of clothing, though a purposeful statement of her politics, must also be understood in relationship to her well-documented disabilities. At eighteen, after recovering from a childhood case of polio that left one of her legs permanently weakened, Kahlo was in a horrific bus accident that left her with lifelong injuries, including a severely broken spine. Enduring more than thirty operations during her lifetime, Kahlo convalesced at the Blue House and in hospitals on and off for decades. The exhibition is titled Appearances Can Be Deceiving, after a drawing by Kahlo, "in which she makes visible the disability that her striking Tehuana skirts and blouses covered." The show will also delve into Kahlo's time in New York City, where she traveled with Rivera for his work, as well as her own. In 1934, the two had been in town when Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural at Rockefeller Center, but was fired from the project when he included (and refused to remove) an image of Vladimir Lenin (Kahlo and Rivera were active members of the Communist party). A few years later, in 1938, Kahlo was here again for her first and last NYC exhibit (and her first solo show), at the Julien Levy Gallery. The above portrait was taken not long after this show opened, and her career had been taking off both in New York and internationally; it was taken on the roof of a Greenwich Village building. It's unclear if this will be included, as it was at the 2015 exhibit at the the Detroit Institute of Arts, but it's worth highlighting here. In 1932, as Kahlo's career was just beginning, an article was published with this headline alongside her photo: "Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art." According to the Detroit News, the reporter, Florence Davies, asked Kahlo (who was living in Detroit at the time with Rivera), "Are you a painter, too?" Kahlo replied, "Yes. The greatest in the world." We're gonna go ahead and guess that the headline for Davies' article was the handiwork of a male editor. http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_jen/kahlohealdine.jpg A 1932 headline that most certainly was written by a man. The exhibit—which the Museum's Anne Pasternak points out "comes at an important time, when it is critical to build cultural bridges between the United States and Mexico"—will only run through May 12th of next year, and will certainly be drawing crowds (the museum has already instituted a timed ticketing procedure).