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Does this guy seem like the type who would spend a lot of money on 'product'? Police are investigating after a Virginia woman reportedly fatally shot herself while handcuffed during a traffic stop last week. Sarah Wilson, 19, was a passenger when police pulled over her boyfriend’s vehicle on July 25 in South Norfolk, Va. During the traffic stop, police handcuffed Wilson and left her to wait near the vehicle as police struggled to arrest her boyfriend, identified as Holden Medlin, 27. While officers dealt with Medlin, Wilson managed to get hold of a gun and shoot herself in the head. Wilson was still handcuffed when she fired the weapon, but a police spokesman said the gun was not a police firearm. It was not immediately clear how she was able to access the weapon. Wilson’s death was ruled a suicide, but her mother questioned the police version of events. “Something went very, very wrong,” Dawn Wilson told WRAL-TV. “Even if their story is true … they dropped the ball. My daughter is gone.” Police body-camera footage was not available because the system had been “knocked offline” during the officers’ struggle with Medlin, who ultimately was subdued and arrested with the use of a stun gun, the newspaper reported. He was charged with possession of oxycodone, suboxone and paraphernalia, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm with schedule I or II drugs and fleeing from police. Even if the camera had been working, it likely wouldn’t have captured Wilson’s death because the officer wearing it had been working to detain Medlin. Police found several phones, ammunition, drug paraphernalia and a bag containing a .22-caliber rifle while searching the vehicle. Virginia police are conducting an investigation. No officers involved have been placed on leave.

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Hubba Hubba! Who's hiring him for his words?

My former roommate & I got into the habit of saying 'launder' instead of 'do the laundry'. As in... I don't WANNA launder! (said in the whiniest possible voice)

I check my alerts first, then check for new posts to topics I've started, then peruse the forums in whatever order I'm in the mood for that day (some days I just can't deal with any more politics). P.S. I was taught the plural for words ending in 'ium' is 'ia', but have never heard anyone say stadia, and I was taught the plural for words ending in 'um' was 'a'. However... The current entry from the Oxford Dictionary says: The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city. I always wondered why this isn't the M4M Message Fora.

Two Nevada teens have confessed to fatally beating their mother and burying her in a shallow grave because “they couldn’t take her complaining,” according to an arrest report. Dakota Saldivar and Michael Wilson, both 17, were arrested early Wednesday after their mother, Dawn Liebig, 46, was reported missing from her Pahrump home on Monday. They now face charges of open murder, conspiracy to commit murder and domestic battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing and bludgeoning attack, KVVU reports. An investigation was launched after a man from Idaho called the Nye County Sheriff’s Office to request a welfare check at Liebig’s home, claiming he didn’t trust the children living at the residence. A detective later responded and found Liebig’s cellphone but didn’t locate her, leading him to open a missing person report, according to an arrest report obtained by the station. Investigators then contacted another man who claimed Liebig’s sons gave him differing stories about her disappearance. The man told detectives he believed Liebig was dead “due to the type of family she is in,” according to the report. Detectives then visited the home and interviewed Saldivar and Wilson, who provided inconsistent stories about their mother’s whereabouts. After a search of the teens’ phones and the discovery of a text that read “my mom passed away,” Wilson confessed that he and Saldivar stabbed Liebig before burying her body in a 2-foot-deep grave. Wilson also claimed that Liebig asked the teens to kill her before leading detectives to the shallow grave, not far from where the murder weapons were buried, according to the arrest report. Wilson told detectives Liebig had adopted him five years ago. It’s unclear if Saldivar was also adopted, according to the station. Saldivar told detectives during subsequent interviews that he and Wilson decided on July 19 to kill Liebig because “they couldn’t take her complaining,” police said. The last post on Liebig’s Facebook profile is from July 19. A picture of four male teens sits atop the profile. “Im a mom that hopes she did okay,” the profile reads. “I want my boys to become the men I hope for. I live for them.” Police records obtained by KVVU indicate that Saldivar and Wilson planned to stab Liebig in the jugular vein so she would die quickly. They waited for her to go to sleep on July 19 and Wilson stabbed her in the neck. Saldivar then bludgeoned her in the head with a hammer about 20 times, according to police. Liebig even cried out for help, screaming for Saldivar and Wilson since she was unaware that they were attacking her, Saldivar told detectives. The gruesome, 25-minute attack ended only when the hammer perforated Liebig’s skull. She was then stabbed in the back of the neck with a pocket knife before her body was buried in the desert, according to the report. One of the teens later led detectives to the shallow grave where Liebig’s body was found and also led investigators to the murder weapons, Sgt. Adam Tippetts announced on Facebook. “Further interviews were conducted and both juveniles finally confessed that a few hours prior to the murder, they had a fight with Liebig and were tired of her parenting style and demands on them,” Tippetts said. “They stated they waited until she fell asleep then attacked her. The juveniles recounted a graphic stabbing and bludgeoning. They stated that this attack lasted for approximately half an hour while Liebig fought for her life.” Saldivar and Wilson were booked into the Nye County Detention Center, where they were processed as adults, Tippetts said.

If you've got the time...

I thought everyone having smartphones surgically attached to their hands made wearing watches passe.

A school district in Arizona is building a tiny home community for cash-strapped teachers who can’t afford local housing. 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, CityLab reports. This leaves many of the local school teachers, whose salaries range from about $38,000 to $46,000, commuting from Tucson in order to live somewhere they can afford rent. “The lowest rent you can find for a house in Vail is $1,200,” Sydney Scharer tells CityLab. Scharer teaches fifth grade at Senita Valley Elementary School and makes $38,000 a year. The only way to afford rent was for her and her fiancé to live in a 600-square-foot apartment about a 30-minute drive from work for $850 per month. “It was the closest thing we could get to Vail and still keep our rent reasonable,” she said. But now, thanks to a new housing community, Scharer and soon others, will be able to live in a neighborhood of two dozen 300- to 400-square-foot homes on district land. The tiny home community is being built on five acres near what’s set to become the town city center. Scharer and her fiancé just moved into the site’s first tiny home, a one-bedroom, 400-square-foot property she’s renting until her own customized tiny home is complete. On a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, her monthly payments will be about $700 a month. The homes will be available both for purchase and rent, with the project being supported mostly by local investors. The district is spending $200,000 on infrastructure and teachers and staff will pay $125 a month to cover the cost of renting the land, which will include utilities and internet, CityLab reports. John Carruth, the school district’s associate superintendent, told CityLab he acknowledges that the issue is not only limited to housing options but teachers’ salaries. Arizona ranked last in the country for elementary teacher salaries and 49th for high school, AZ Central reports. “The best model is to compensate teachers so that they can afford a home like anyone else can,” Joe Thomas, president of Arizona Education Association, the state’s largest teacher’s union, told City Lab. “I don’t think it’s any more complex than that.” “I think it’s a creative approach, but I don’t know if it values the work and the contribution that educators make in the community. Maybe if we can just move away from tiny school budgets,” he said. Carruth said the district already contributes 89 percent of its budget to employee salaries and that a 10 percent bump wouldn’t be enough to solve the affordable housing issue. “The majority of our teaching stuff is under 35. They’re dealing with this. We’re trying to solve something we can control,” he said.

Does she drink regular or decaf?

Search for the one attached to the best-looking guy (or biggest cock). :cool:

NYPD pilots flew $4M plane in penis-shaped route to troll boss [/url] Five NYPD pilots were so angry at their supervisor that they used a $4 million, federally funded spy plane to fly a route shaped like a giant penis, The Post has learned. Inspector James Coan, head of the Aviation Unit, learned of the phallic airborne artwork from his minions, who discovered the lewd pattern on the department’s flight-tracking software, sources said. He alerted NYPD brass, and the pilots were disciplined following a departmental hearing — with two getting bounced from the unit. The raunchy route came amid a feud between the pilots and Coan over whether the single-engine Cessna was safe to fly over open water — which is why the feds paid for it in the first place, according to the sources. In July 2017, pilots were told to fly at low altitudes over open water 25 miles offshore so they could scan ships for radiological weapons. “If that prop [propeller plane] goes, it’s over. You’re going to crash into the ocean,” a source said they warned their boss, Coan. “They wouldn’t have enough glide time to get back to land at that altitude. It was like a suicide mission.” The low-altitude flights also left them out of radar and radio range, sources added. The pilots’ pushback intensified this past March, when Coan ordered them to make the runs more frequently, sources said. Amid their protests, five flyboys took the plane up and flew the penis-shaped route. Supervisors on the ground saw the phallic flight path while tracking the plane and raised the issue with Coan. In total, a dozen pilots have questioned the wisdom of flying a single-engine plane so far out over open water, sources said. Eight of them — including the five penis-drawing pilots — were stripped of their flight gear and made to clean plane hangars and wash Coan’s department car, according to sources. “Any of the people who complained about the mission — they got the s–t end of the stick,” a source said. “They had to do all these menial tasks outside their job description, including washing his car.” NYPD pilots average more than $100,000 a year in pay, according to records posted on SeeThroughNY.net. “They’re wasting a fortune in training and expertise,” a source added. By May, the NYPD had agreed to cease the offshore counterterror missions altogether until it met with the union representing pilots, but the meeting has yet to happen, sources said. The plane’s last flight, according to tracking service Flight Aware, was on July 5, after itshuttled Mayor Bill de Blasio between his vacation in Canada and a Big Apple police memorial event. Police Commissioner James O’Neill has defended using the plane for other than counterterrorism. Last year, he rode the bird to the funeral for then-Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce’s mother, Dolores, and he admitted taking it to western New York for the July 8 funeral of a state trooper. That flight does not appear on Flight Aware records, and the NYPD has refused to release the plane’s flight logs to The Post. FEMA, which issued the grant used to buy the plane, has said it is looking into whether the NYPD misused the Cessna. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

West Village residents are kicking up a stink over a “serial farter” who’s polluting the neighborhood. Earlier this year, a local blog posted, “It’s happened thrice, so it can’t be a coincidence: There’s some guy who I believe is playing a fart sound as he passes people as some sort of social experiment. I think it’s always the same . . . fart.” The sleuth posted, “Every time . . . while I was talking to a friend . . . we just get interrupted by this fart that leaves us silent and staring. He plays it as he passes and never looks back, acts like nothing happened. Guy is white, college age, very straight-laced looking.” The not-so-silent-but-deadly dude went quiet for a while, but one area insider told us on Tuesday, “My wife and I were walking by Washington Square Park, and the guy passed by and just ripped one, and we both started laughing.” The couple deduced from the blast it could not have been human. “The dude had a backpack,” said the source, wondering if it housed a flatulence-simulating device. The source snapped a picture of the prankster — a hipster in shades, shorts, a short-sleeved button-down shirt, running shoes and a gray backpack. Citizens beware.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a first-time writer to your column. I’m mentally disabled, have MD (muscular dystrophy) and am diabetic. I take a lot of medication. When people ask me why I don’t work or “Where do you work?” what should I say? When I say I don’t work and that I’m disabled, they look at me funny and don’t believe it. My disabilities aren’t visible. WENDY IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR WENDY: You are not obligated to disclose your medical history to people you know casually. (If they knew you well, they wouldn’t be asking those questions.) All you need to say is, “You know, that’s personal. If you’ll forgive me for not answering your question, I’ll forgive you for asking.” Then change the subject.

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Pets have ‘inner clock’ just like humans If sometimes you wonder if your dog is angry with you for staying out late, you might be right. New evidence suggests that animals have a clear sense of time, using previously undiscovered neurons that seem to switch on to count off minutes as they wait. The discovery was made by a team fromNorthwestern University while studying the medial entorhinal cortex of mice. Located in the mid-temporal lobe, it’s the part of the brain associated with memory and navigation. And since it encodes spatial information in episodic memories, lead study author Daniel Dombeck theorized that it could function as a sort of “inner clock” as well. “There are many similarities between the brains of mice, cats, dogs and humans,” Dombeck told Fox News. “We all have a medial entorhinal cortex (the region we found that may act as an inner clock), so it’s logical to think that this brain region serves a similar function in all of these different species.” To test his theory, Dombeck and his team put a mouse on a physical treadmill in a virtual reality environment. The mouse would run (on the treadmill) down a hallway to a door. After six seconds, the “door” would open and the mouse would get a (non–virtual reality) treat. They would repeat this a few times before making the door invisible. Dombeck was surprised to find that the mouse would still run and stop at the invisible door, waiting for six seconds for it to “open” so it could eat. Since the mouse didn’t know whether the door was open or closed and waited exactly six seconds, the team concluded that it had to have used its inner clock. The researchers also monitored the mouse’s brain activity, finding that the mouse’s neurons would fire as it ran. When it stopped at the door, those neurons would turn off before a new set began firing. These newly discovered neurons only fired when the mouse stopped, keeping track of the time the mouse was resting. Dombeck believes that dogs and cats more than likely have the same neurons that encode time. “There’s evidence that humans and monkeys can estimate time intervals using some form of an ‘inner clock’ and now with our work we know that mice also can explicitly represent time intervals in their brains and can perform timing tasks,” he explained. “Therefore, it’s logical to think that animals in between mice and humans in the hierarchy chain, like our pets (dogs and cats), can also use their brains to estimate time intervals.” The team’s research could have an impact on humans. The entorhinal cortex is one of the first regions of the brain affected by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, and researchers could study how these diseases affect the new time–encoding neurons. “When doing basic research like we are, it’s always difficult to know where or how your findings will make an impact, but it’s really results from basic research like ours that eventually lead to better treatments or understanding of diseases, and sometimes even provide insights into how things like designing better computer software (by mimicking brain function),” Dombeck said. “Since the medial temporal lobe (the larger brain region that includes the medial entorhinal cortex) is one of the first regions affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and since the timekeeping properties of this part of the brain were previously unknown, it’s not unreasonable to think that clinicians could soon be asking patients to estimate different amounts of elapsed time as part of the battery of tests to look for early signs of dementia.” The study can be found in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

I've heard he's fabulous in real life, too! :D:rolleyes:

My former roommate & I were HUGE Bee Gees fans. Her father was the 'sound man' for Joan Rivers' talk show. One day they were on... he never called us to come meet them. "Oh, I didn't think you'd be interested." We never let him live it down.