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Muscular model allegedly tried to kill roommate over sexual advances A musclebound fitness model who came to New York to make cash dancing at a gay strip club landed in cuffs after he tried to kill his roommate for hitting on him, authorities said Wednesday. Geoffrey Tracy, 25, of Gilroy, Calif., allegedly stabbed 50-year-old Gregory Kanczes 16 times after the older man tried to grab his privates, according to police and a source close to the case. Tracy, who has no priors, fled the Hell’s Kitchen apartment Aug. 14 and flagged down a bystander who called cops. He was arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court on attempted murder and assault raps and held on $500,000 bond. The victim is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital, according to cops. “Mr. Tracy is a gentle soul, who like many attractive young men and women, fell victim to predators seeking to exploit him for his good looks and take advantage of his youthful naivete,” said his defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff. The violent altercation occurred a few days after Tracy arrived in New York. A strip club owner spotted pics of the hunky personal trainer online and lured to him to the Big Apple with promises of easy cash dancing at a gay club. “He told him he could make a ton of money, bought him a ticket and flew him out,” the source said. The owner arranged for Tracy, a San Jose State grad, to crash at Kanczes’ pad on West 49th Street near Ninth Avenue. But by the fourth night in the dingy apartment, Tracy became uncomfortable. The victim allegedly started rubbing Tracy’s legs then moved his hands closer to his groin and confessed to molesting him as he slept, the source said. When the competitive bodybuilder resisted the creepy advances, Kanczes allegedly blocked the front door and threatened to kidnap him, according to the source. The criminal complaint says at 4:49 a.m., Tracy repeatedly slashed Kanczes, plunging a knife into his neck, chest, shoulder and ribs. https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e4a7e86526e0ef6a1889a3213a937229/5B76F816/t50.2886-16/36510108_213368195884993_7579640902524600320_n.mp4

Emotional support pets banned from Royal Caribbean cruises Tourists looking to take their emotional support peacock on their next cruise adventure may be out of luck. Royal Caribbean International, the world’s second-largest cruise line by number of passengers, will no longer allow travelers to bring their emotional support animals with them aboard its ships, effective immediately, a cruise industry blog first reported Tuesday. If passengers made reservations to sail with emotional support animals before July 30, they will still be allowed on board, but subsequent reservations won’t accommodate them. “We are updating the policy to differentiate emotional support animals from service animals that are trained and certified to perform a function for a person with a disability,” a spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean said in an email to MarketWatch. “It is important to us that all our guests enjoy their vacation, which is why we put into practice this new policy. Royal Caribbean’s policy remains the same for service animals traveling with guests that have a physical or non-physical disability.” The company did not say whether the policy would apply to other cruise lines owned by parent company Royal Caribbean Cruises, such as Celebrity Cruises. Royal Caribbean’s ban appears to be one of the first cruise line policies to actively prohibit emotional support animals specifically, said Chris Gray Faust, managing editor of travel website Cruise Critic. Norwegian Cruise Line does not accept emotional support animals onboard its ships, and neither does Carnival but they do allow service animals. “Norwegian Cruise Line accepts service animals that are trained to perform a specific task,” a Norwegian spokesperson said. On Carnival ships, trained and certified service animals as defined by the US Department of Justice can accompany passengers. “Cruise lines have quite strict animal guidelines, only allowing service and support animals onboard most lines,” Faust said. The one exception: Cunard Line, a subsidiary of Carnival, has kennels onboard for pet owners to use to house their pets during their trip. Cunard’s website even features photos of a porter walking a bulldog on the ship’s deck. Emotional support animals have become a hot-button issue, particularly in the travel industry. While state and local jurisdictions may expand further on what can be considered a “service animal,” under federal law service animals are dogs trained individually to do certain work or perform tasks for someone who has a disability. These tasks can include everything from guiding someone who is blind to assisting people with psychiatric disabilities so that they don’t engage in impulsive or harmful behaviors. Emotional support animals meanwhile are typically not trained by professionals. Additionally, emotional support animals are often considered to be pets, whereas service dogs are working animals and not companions in the same sense. People have claimed creatures ranging from lizards to hamsters to peacocks as support animals. “It’s a topic that is quite contentious among travelers, due to logistical issues and the lines’ otherwise tight guidelines regarding animals onboard,” Faust said. “With policies continuing to change throughout the travel industry — whether by air, land or sea — it’s more important than ever to familiarize yourself with the guidelines of your travel company of choice to ensure you’re booking with a company that can best meet your needs.” The Air Carrier Access Act has a provision that requires airlines to allow emotional support animals on planes, as long as the animal isn’t a danger or interference to others and their owner has proper documentation. A number of airlines, including Delta, American and Alaska have tightened their rulessurrounding these animals, which have been known to bite passengers and relieve themselves on planes. Despite the crackdown on four-legged friends, airlines continue are seeing more emotional support animals on their flights. Along with the uptick in emotional support animals onboard planes has come an increase in the number of incidents involving them. A young girl was injured on a Southwest Airlines flight in February after an altercation with an emotional support dog.

Goats enjoy brief escape on way to Brooklyn butcher You gotta be kidding! More than 20 goats escaped from a truck headed to a Brooklyn slaughterhouse Tuesday when the driver pulled over for a nap — and it’s the third time a herd has broken free in less than two weeks, sources said. The animals had been doomed for the dinner plate when they busted out of trailer attached to a pickup truck near the live-slaughter halal market Vivero Primos in Bushwick at around 4 a.m., the owner and witnesses said. “I saw the driver this morning and he didn’t say anything to me. Stupid guy,” said Ali Saeed, who owns the market on Wyckoff Avenue and Hancock Street. “I don’t know why he would come here at four in the morning when we open at eight.” The brave Billys got a taste of freedom — hoofing to a nearby bus stop and chowing down on grass — before a neighbor woke up the driver and helped wrangle the goats. “A neighbor came over and said to me, ‘I caught your goats.’ I thought he was joking. I said, ‘All right thank you.’ He said, “I’d like a free chicken,” said Saeed. “Now I’ll have to give him one.” The animal world jailbreak comes less than a week after 75 sheep and goats escaped from a livestock auction in Hackettstown, New Jersey. And on Aug. 3, 100 goats broke free from a truck renting the animals for a lawn service in Boise, Idaho. Bushwick neighbor Melvin Benton, 58, was leaving his apartment when he spotted the goats in the middle of the street — as cars swerved around them. He tried to wake up the truck driver, who had brought the animals from a farm in Iowa. “The street [was] covered in goats. The driver was knocked out asleep. I was banging on the window but he wasn’t waking up. The goats were across the street from their trailer,” he said, adding he rushed to help round them up. “I called the police…They got him up.” Ciaran Flanagan, a 33-year-old bartender who snapped a shot of the goats, said, “The guy was shouting, ’Yo, the goats got out!’” “I’m from Ireland, so I’m used to goats roaming the roads. I didn’t expect to see it here,” Flanagan said. The goats were safely rounded up before 8 a.m., witnesses said. But Brooklyn neighbors were stunned to see the critters in the urban jungle. Lorraine Fields, 56, who lives next door to the slaughterhouse said, “It was terrible! I thought, Oh my god, get the goats!” Tony Castro, the landlord of a building next door, said the shop has been in the neighborhood for the last decade. “I don’t know how they allow goats to be slaughtered in the city,” Castro said, noting that the shop is “smelly.” Animal rights advocate Chris Allieri pointed to the “cruelty” associated with live poultry markets and slaughterhouses, which are scattered around the Big Apple. “[T]here’s likely no happy ending for these animals,” Allieri said. Saeed didn’t provide the name of the driver or his firm.

I always thought this son of a president was fairly good looking: http://www.socialyz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/george-bush-unibrow-235x300.jpg

You mean Season 3.

I often refer to Lisa Marie's late daddy as Pelvis Parsley, though I got that from THE PINK PANTHER: Cinderella is a one time character who only appears in the 1969 Pink Panther cartoon Pink-A-Rella Info/Story Unlike many of the other cinderella(s) This Cinderella is a scrawny, dirt-poor young girl who lives in a small shack. After finding a magic wand, the Pink Panther used it to give her a nice house, which at first frightened her but when Pink Panther showed her the wand, he used it to give her a makeover and transform her into a ravishing beauty for a night of dance with heartthrob Pelvis Parsley. However when the Witch, who lost her wand, came to get it back, Pink Panther had to take Cinderella home before midnight, which result in her losing one of her heels and changing back to her poor self. However Pelvis chase after her and after slip on her heel on her foot, returning back to her attractive self and she was carried off with him, to live happily ever after.

A friend once called her that... I've never been able to call her anything else since. Same with Clorox Bleachman (Phyllis Lindstrom)... although that was just a friend repeating what she'd heard Clorox say on a talk show about the funny mispronunciations she'd heard of her name.

Urethra Franklin So did I.

There's a personal irony in Cher recording that song. I often goof around with song lyrics, singing something nonsensical that rhymes. For the part of the song that goes There's not a soul out there, No one to hear my prayer For years I've been singing the 2nd line as Not Sonny and not Cher... I don't know why. I must be psychic!

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Curiously, I hear this... should I be worried?

True, but to be fair, in this case... The small town of Vail, located about 25 miles southeast of Tucson, has an average home price of $258,000 and no apartments within the 425-square-mile school district

Maybe after OMEN II people were just too scared to work with them.

A historical theme park in France has enlisted brainy birds to clean up after pigs. The folks at Puy du Fou in the western Vendée region have schooled six “intelligent” rooks to collect cigarette butts and debris left on their grounds. The gregarious Eurasian crows deposit the detritus into a small box. But these waste collectors don’t work for free. Each time they deliver a piece of trash, the box dispenses a tasty treat. “The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean,” the park’s president, Nicolas de Villiers, told Agence France-Presse news agency, noting that the birds also “like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play.” The first cleaners have already been put to work, with the rest set to join them on Monday. Puy du Fou attracts more than 2 million visitors a year, making it the second most popular theme park in France after Disneyland Paris. This is not the first feather in the birds’ cap. Earlier this year, scientists created a vending machine that showed the crows’ prowess solving problems. The machine required a particular size of paper token to release a treat, BBC News reported.

I prefer his brother Even. Much more stable and consistent.

Here’s something to crow about. A historical theme park in France has enlisted brainy birds to clean up after pigs. The folks at Puy du Fou in the western Vendée region have schooled six “intelligent” rooks to collect cigarette butts and debris left on their grounds. The gregarious Eurasian crows deposit the detritus into a small box. But these waste collectors don’t work for free. Each time they deliver a piece of trash, the box dispenses a tasty treat. “The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean,” the park’s president, Nicolas de Villiers, told Agence France-Presse news agency, noting that the birds also “like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play.” The first cleaners have already been put to work, with the rest set to join them on Monday. Puy du Fou attracts more than 2 million visitors a year, making it the second most popular theme park in France after Disneyland Paris. This is not the first feather in the birds’ cap. Earlier this year, scientists created a vending machine that showed the crows’ prowess solving problems. The machine required a particular size of paper token to release a treat, BBC News reported.

You mean the CHER song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" :rolleyes:

When I first got a computer (1996ish) I sent him one of his greeting cards (I collected ones that used porn stars) and told him we were born on the same day, then asked him for one of his jockstraps. I guess I wrote to his business address. He didn't send me one, but sent the card back to me autographed.

My long-lost twin. Born same day. I'm taller, but he's bigger.

Didn't count, but I know about 2/3 of them. Hated her at the start of her career, had a stretch mid-career when I liked her stuff, haven't listened to anything new in years.

Don't know

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Wrangler was born John Robert Stillman in Beverly Hills, California. His father was Hollywood film and television producer Robert Thurston Stillman, who produced such films as Champion,Second Chorus, and Home of the Brave and produced television series such as Boots and Saddles,[6] Rawhide, andBonanza. His mother, Ruth Clark Stillman, was a former dancer in Busby Berkeley musicals. Stillman began his acting career at the age of nine in the television series The Faith of Our Children (1953–1955). The series, which starred Eleanor Powell, was a syndicated religious family show that won five local Emmy Awards.

[continued] “In the Alters’ day planner from 1985, they took meticulous notes about what they ate, where they went, and the medications they had,” KOB 4 points out. “On Thanksgiving 1985, they mysteriously left it blank.” And now there’s the family photo showing they were in Tucson the night before the painting was stolen. The investigation has been underway for a year now. The FBI has declined to comment until the case is closed. “Composite sketches, in hindsight, resemble the faces in the Thanksgiving photo, down to their position side by side,” the Arizona Republic wrote. The New York Times, on the other hand, theorized: “The sketch of the female suspect — described at the time of the theft as being between 55 and 60 years old — bears a resemblance to Mr. Alter, who was known as Jerry and was then 54. And the sketch of the young man — described at the time as between 25 and 30 years old — bears a resemblance to his son, Joseph M. Alter, who was then 23.” The Alters had two children, Joseph and Barbara. Reporters from multiple news outlets, including The Washington Post, have been unable to locate either child. Several of the couple’s acquaintances told the Times that Joseph Alter has severe psychological problems, and has been institutionalized on and off since the 1980s. Jerry Alter’s sister, Carole Sklar, told the New York Times that the idea that her brother, his wife, or their son could have stolen the painting was “absurd,” as was the theory that her brother disguised himself in women’s clothing. “I can’t believe Rita would be involved in anything like that,” Mark Shay, one of her former co-workers, told the Daily Press. “I could see them buying a painting not knowing where it originally came from, maybe.” Museum officials, however, told the Arizona Republic that the painting only appears to have been reframed once during the 31 years it was missing, suggesting it had only had one owner during that time. Something else doesn’t add up. Jerry and Rita Alter worked in public schools for most of their careers. Yet they somehow managed to travel to 140 countries and all seven continents, documenting their trips with . And yet, when they died, they had more than a million dollars in their bank account, according to the Sun News. “I guess I figured they were very frugal,” their nephew, Ron Roseman, told WFAA. Roseman couldn’t be reached for comment on Thursday evening. But not long after “Woman — Ochre” resurfaced, he told ABC13 that he couldn’t imagine that his aunt and uncle had stolen the painting. “They were just nice people,” he said.

A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery Jerry and Rita Alter kept to themselves. They were a lovely couple, neighbors in the small New Mexico town of Cliff would later tell reporters. But no one knew much about them. They may have been hiding a decades-old secret, pieces of which are now just emerging. Among them: After the couple died, a stolen Willem de Kooning painting with an estimated worth of $160 million was discovered in their bedroom. More than 30 years ago, that same painting disappeared the day after Thanksgiving from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. And Wednesday, the Arizona Republic reported that a family photo had surfaced, showing that the day before the painting vanished, the couple was, in fact, in Tucson. The next morning, a man and a woman would walk into the museum and then leave 15 minutes later. A security guard had unlocked the museum’s front door to let a staff member into the lobby, curator Olivia Miller told NPR. The couple followed. Since the museum was about to open for the day, the guard let them in. The man walked up to the museum’s second floor while the woman struck up a conversation with the guard. A few minutes later, he came back downstairs, and the two abruptly left, according to the NPR interview and other media reports. Sensing that something wasn’t right, the guard walked upstairs. There, he saw an empty frame where de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” had hung. At the time, the museum had no surveillance cameras. Police found no fingerprints. One witness described seeing a rust-color sports car drive away but didn’t get the license plate number. For 31 years, the frame remained empty. In 2012, Jerry Alter passed away. His widow, Rita Alter, died five years later at 81. After their deaths, the painting was returned to the museum. The FBI is investigating the theft. Did the quiet couple who lived in a three-bedroom ranch on Mesa Road steal “Woman-Ochre” and get away with it? De Kooning, who died in 1997, was one of the most prominent painters of the midcentury abstract expressionist movement. “Woman III,” another painting in the same series as “Woman-Ochre,” sold for $137.5 million in 2006. The works of de Kooning remain among the most marketable in the world. The Alters had moved to Cliff (population 293) in the late 1970s or early 1980s, according to the Silver City Daily Press. H. Jerome Alter, who went by Jerry, had been a professional musician and a teacher in New York City schools before retiring to New Mexico, he wrote under “About the author” in “Aesop’s Fables Set in Verse,” a book he published in 2011. “His primary avocation has been adventure travel,” the biographical sketch says, noting that he had visited “over 140 countries on all continents, including both polar regions.” Rita Alter, who died in 2017 at the age of 81, had worked as a speech pathologist at the local school district after the couple moved to New Mexico, the Daily Press reported. Her former co-workers remembered her as “pleasant but quiet,” a friendly woman who was good with children but didn’t volunteer much information about her life. In 2011, a year before his death, also at the age of 81, Jerry published a book of short stories, “The Cup and the Lip: Exotic Tales.” The stories were “an amalgamation of actuality and fantasy,” he wrote in the preface. Though none were literary masterpieces, one stands out in the wake of the de Kooning discovery. “The Eye of the Jaguar,” concerns itself with Lou, a security guard at an art museum. One day, a middle-aged woman and her 14-year-old granddaughter show up. The older woman asks Lou about the history of a prized emerald on display. Six months later, she and her granddaughter return, then leave in a rush. “Wow, those two seem to be in a hurry, most unusual for visitors to a place such a this,” Lou thinks. He reinspects the room and realizes the emerald is gone. Running to the door, he sees the pair speeding away and runs out to stop them. The older woman floors the accelerator, crashing into Lou and killing him. Then the two speed off, leaving behind “absolutely no clues which police could use to even begin a search for them!” Jerry Alter’s fictional tale ends with a description of the emerald sitting in an empty room. “And two pairs of eyes, exclusively, are there to see!” it concludes. He could just as easily have been describing the de Kooning. But nobody thought of that until the painting was discovered in the Alters’ bedroom, where it had been positioned in such a way that you couldn’t see it unless you were inside with the door shut. After Rita Alter died, her nephew, Ron Roseman, was named executor of the estate. He put the house on the market and began liquidating its contents. On Aug. 1, 2017, antique dealers from the neighboring town of Silver City came to see what was left. One of the men, David Van Auker, would later recall at a news conference that he spotted “a great, cool midcentury painting.” They bought it, along with the rest of the Alters’ estate, for $2,000. Silver City, an old mining town near the Gila National Forest, has a high concentration of artists. So it didn’t take long for someone who recognized the painting’s significance to wander into Manzanita Ridge Furniture and Antiques. “It probably had not been in the store an hour before the first person came in and walked up to it and looked at it and said, ‘I think this is a real de Kooning,’ ” Van Aukertold KOB 4, a TV station in Albuquerque. “Of course, we just brushed that off.” Then another customer said the same thing. And another. It was becoming evident that the painting might be worth more than they had originally thought. Van Auker and his partners, Buck Burns and Rick Johnson, hid it in the bathroom. Once the painting had been secured, Van Auker did a Google search for de Kooning. That’s when he spotted an article about the theft of “Woman — Ochre” and called the museum. “I got a student receptionist, and I said to her, ‘I think I have a piece of art that was stolen from you guys,’ ” he told . “And she said, ‘What piece?’ And I said, ‘The de Kooning.’ And she said, ‘Hold, please.’ ” Miller, the museum’s curator, told WFAA that what made her pause was when Van Auker described how the painting had cracked, as if it had been rolled up. It was a detail that no one could have invented. The dimensions were an inch off from “Woman — Ochre,” which corresponded with it being cut out of the frame. Van Auker took the painting home and stayed up all night with his guns, he told Tucson Weekly, getting startled every time he heard a branch scrape against the side of the house. The next night, a delegation from the museum arrived. When Miller walked in, Van Auker told the Daily Press, the room turned silent. “She walked up to the painting, dropped down on her knees and looked. You could just feel the electricity,” he recalled. Authentication would later confirm that it was a perfect match for the missing de Kooning. Over the past year, a handful of clues potentially linking the Alters to the theft have surfaced. Several people told the New York Times that they had a red sports car, similar to the one spotted leaving the museum. The car also appears in home movies obtained by WFAA. Some of the couple’s photos show Rita in a red coat like the one that the woman at the museum had been wearing, KOB 4 reported. And Ruth Seawolf, the real estate agent who put the Alters’ house on the market, told the Silver City Sun News that she had taken home a luggage set and, inside, found glasses and a scarf that match the police description.

And what 'thing' would that be?