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She lost the baby.

Tattoos are for life… but names aren’t. A Swedish mom getting a tattoo of her son’s name came up with a quick fix when the artist made a glaring mistake – she just changed her toddler’s moniker. Johanna Giselhäll Sandström recently told local newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning her “heart stopped” and she “thought [she] was going to faint,” when she saw the ink on her arm had an extra letter and read Kelvin — instead of Kevin, The Local Sweden reported. The 30-year-old mom wanted to honor her children – Nova and Kevin – with a tat three years ago and when the artist didn’t ask about the spelling, she didn’t give it any more thought, she said. Shortly after, she noticed the glaring mistake and went back to the shop, only to have the artist laugh and say there was nothing he could do except issue a refund. Sandström balked at the idea of going through the painful and expensive tattoo removal process and thought legally changing her then-2-year-old’s name would be simpler. The parents have grown to love their son’s “unique” name and the boy – who is 5 now – has taken to it too, Sandström said. “I had never heard the name ‘Kelvin’ before. There isn’t anyone who names their kid Kelvin. So when I thought more about it, I realized that no one else has this name. It became unique. Now we think it is better than Kevin,” Sandström said. The couple had just welcomed their third child, a little girl named Freya, and Sandström wants to go under the needle again to add her name. This time, she’ll be more watchful. “I’m going to write it down on a piece of paper and check it over 10,000 times,” she joked.

Tattoos are for life… but names aren’t. A Swedish mom getting a tattoo of her son’s name came up with a quick fix when the artist made a glaring mistake – she just changed her toddler’s moniker. Johanna Giselhäll Sandström recently told local newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning her “heart stopped” and she “thought [she] was going to faint,” when she saw the ink on her arm had an extra letter and read Kelvin — instead of Kevin, The Local Sweden reported. The 30-year-old mom wanted to honor her children – Nova and Kevin – with a tat three years ago and when the artist didn’t ask about the spelling, she didn’t give it any more thought, she said. Shortly after, she noticed the glaring mistake and went back to the shop, only to have the artist laugh and say there was nothing he could do except issue a refund. Sandström balked at the idea of going through the painful and expensive tattoo removal process and thought legally changing her then-2-year-old’s name would be simpler. The parents have grown to love their son’s “unique” name and the boy – who is 5 now – has taken to it too, Sandström said. “I had never heard the name ‘Kelvin’ before. There isn’t anyone who names their kid Kelvin. So when I thought more about it, I realized that no one else has this name. It became unique. Now we think it is better than Kevin,” Sandström said. The couple had just welcomed their third child, a little girl named Freya, and Sandström wants to go under the needle again to add her name. This time, she’ll be more watchful. “I’m going to write it down on a piece of paper and check it over 10,000 times,” she joked.

Wilbur Ross: ‘The president and I eat quite a lot of American beef’ https://nypost.com/2018/05/14/wilbur-ross-the-president-and-i-eat-quite-a-lot-of-american-beef/ If that's not enough to ruin your appetite for beef forever, I don't know what is!

Why do you assume that? I need to pack & get to the airport.

Flushing residents can reserve their own rain barrel at this giveaway event next month. Councilman Peter Koo is teaming up with the Queens Botanical Garden and Department of Environmental Protection to host a rain barrel giveaway for residents in Council District 20. The giveaway will be handing out 250 rain barrels by reservation only. To reserve a barrel, call Koo’s office at 718-888-8747. Residents who reserve a barrel will receive a confirmation letter in the mail that they must bring with them to the giveaway. Barrels will be handed out on June 2 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Queens Botanical Garden. “Rain barrels are a great way for homeowners to help reduce the burdens on our infrastructure by minimizing the water that flows into our storm drains, sewer systems and local waterways,” Koo said. “Homeowners who recycle rainwater will also realize savings on their water bills and ultimately help create a more environmentally friendly city.” http://2sei0v2s93y31n9ndy1lrzmh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image001-791x1024.jpg

Over 1 million chainsaws were recalled due to a ghostly malfunction that let them run even after they were turned off, causing some injuries — and serious scares. “The power switch can malfunction and allow the chainsaw to continue operating after the operator moves the switch to the ‘off’ position, posing a serious injury hazard to the operator,” reads therecall notice from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission about the 14-inch chainsaws — which were made in China and sold nationwide by Harbor Freight Tools under three different brand names: Portland, One Stop Gardens and Chicago Electric. The California-based retailer said it received 15 reports concerning the seemingly possessed chainsaws — with three resulting in minor cuts and one causing a serious injury to a person’s arm, which required stitches. The recall covers model Nos. 67255 and 61592 of the tools, which were sold from May 2009 through February 2018. Harbor Freight is offering replacements instead of refunds, which will be available starting May 21.

A 25-year-old man lived a double life as a teenager for nine months — even dating a 14-year-old — just so he could play high school basketball again, school officials said. Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley claimed to be a Hurricane Harvey refugee in August when he enrolled as a freshman under the name Rashun Richardson at Skyline High School in Dallas. He later transferred to Hillcrest High School, where he joined the basketball team and dominated younger players en route to being named the district’s offensive player of the year, the Dallas Morning News reports. “He took that as an opportunity to gain access to our schools,” Dallas Independent School District spokeswoman Robyn Harris told the newspaper. “He was fairly savvy to be able to utilize that type of position, knowing that we were accepting Harvey students.” Gilstrap-Portley fully immersed himself in the high school scene, going so far as to date a 14-year-old classmate, according to the girl’s mother. “It’s unbelievable to me that he could get away with this,” the unidentified woman said. “I don’t know what, how [the school] let this slip through the cracks.” The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she didn’t approve of her daughter’s relationship with the man they both knew as the 17-year-old Rashun. But the woman said her daughter told her she did not have a sexual relationship with Gilstrap-Portley, whom she never met but had spoken to on the phone. “He was always respectful to me,” she told the newspaper. “He said he understood my concerns but said that he was only 17 and that he didn’t see a problem with them dating.” Gilstrap-Portley’s deception was finally revealed when one of his former coaches from North Mesquite High School recognized him during a tournament in April. The coach then got in touch with his counterpart at Hillcrest to inform him that “one of my former players who graduated a time ago is playing for you,” according to Harris. “He was a good kid,” North Mesquite’s coach, Phillip Randall, told the newspaper. “I never had any problem out of him. That’s why I was shocked when I heard that all this came out because that’s not the kid that I knew.” Gilstrap-Portley, who had no previous criminal history, was arrested Friday on a charge of tampering with government records. He was taken into custody at the Dallas County Jail but has since been released after posting bail, court records show. School officials, meanwhile, notified parents of the bizarre incident in a letter Monday and vowed to review the district’s policies, KXAS reports.

Former Disney Channel star Hilary Duff unleashed an epic tirade on social media against a nightmare New York neighbor she claims keeps her up all night with his pot smoking. like that’s a bad thing?!?!?!? The “Lizzie McGuire” actress turned to Instagram to rant about her male neighbor — whom she claims is named Dieter Addison — at her exclusive Soho building. In a series of videos and pictures, littered with eggplant emojis, Duff laments to her 9.2 million followers that her “a—–e neighbor … smokes cigarettes and weed all night long,” and that her apartment stinks because of it. The star also personally attacked Addison by alleging, “We know your parents pay your rent. We know you’ve never worked a day in your life—must be nice. Have some respect for your neighbors who work hard to live in that building.” Duff — who has a 6-year-old son Luca with ex Mike Comrie — also advised Addison to “get a vape,”*** adding, “And another thing….stop breaking all your furniture when you fight with your girlfriend or boyfriend … it scares me and my kid. Therapy is cheaper …” She also adds, “I know your (sic) still sleeping. I really hope your (sic) hang over hurts.” Addison, who spoke to Page Six by phone Wednesday, says he is hiring lawyers because he does not smoke pot — and he actually lives full time with a sober companion. But he does admit he is a heavy smoker and has received complaints about cigarette smoke from the actress. “I live with a sober companion,” he told Page Six. “I’ve been sober for months now. I smoke a ton of cigarettes, don’t get me wrong, but this is a smoking building, which is why I signed the lease here.” Addison is the grandson of the wealthy H. Dieter Holterbosch, who was born in Germany and immigrated to the US with his parents. A 2016 New York Times obituary said he was a self-made man who built a business empire that included a family vineyard, importing Lowenbrau beer to New York state and starting a distribution network for other beers. He also collected European royal carriages and “amassed one of the world’s finest private collections of vintage automobiles.” ***An exploding vape pen fatally wounded a 38-year-old Florida man in what is believed to be the nation’s first e-cigarette death, according to a government report. Firefighters found Tallmadge Wakeman D’Elia’s burned body in the upstairs bedroom of his St. Petersburg home May 5 after a neighbor reported seeing flames, WTSP reported. D’Elia, a former TV producer for CNBC, suffered burns on 80 percent of his body and also sustained injuries to his skull and brain. At least two parts of the exploding vape pen were removed from his cranium, the Pinellas County medical examiner told the Tampa Bay Times. D’Elia was smoking an unregulated Smok-E Mountain Mech Works vape pen before he died. The pen does not come with safety features to ensure the device doesn’t overheat, according to an online product description. A spokesman for Smok-E Mountain Mech Works told ABC Action News that they’ve been having issues with other companies cloning their batteries. The spokesman said the company’s devices do not explode and that the problem likely stems from the battery or the atomizer. E-cigarette battery explosions are rare, but when they occur, the device “can be propelled across the room like a bullet or small rocket,” according to a FEMA report.There were 195 explosions between 2009 and 2016 but none resulted in death. An Idaho man was seriously injured and lost several teeth when an e-cigarette exploded in his mouth last year. And in 2016, a man burned his fingernail off when a vape pen exploded in his pocket at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Oh, pish! Good luck means good vacations!

A Staten Island couple's landscaping project unearthed a hidden treasure — a safe containing $52,000 worth of sopping wet cash, gold, diamonds and other gems, officials said Tuesday. Matthew and Maria Colonna Emanuel always thought the hulk of metal jutting out beneath a thatch of small trees in the backyard of their Todt Hill home was just a cable box. They had hired a landscaper to replace some trees in their yard that had been destroyed by deer. But when the landscaper pulled the rusted metal out of the ground, they learned it wasn't a box, but a safe. After opening the safe with a pickax, the couple discovered a bunch of smelly, soaking wet and stuck-together dollars just rotting away. "And there are all these bags with hundreds, and jewelry, diamonds, engagement rings, dozens of rings, gold with jade," Matthew Colonna Emanuel told CBS News. "It was stunning." There was also a piece of paper inside with their neighbor's address. "First I knocked on the door and I asked them if they were ever robbed and they said they were," Matthew said. According to a police report, the safe was taken from the neighbor's home during a burglary in 2011, the day after Christmas. For some inexplicable reason, the thief decided to bury the safe in the Colonna Emanuels' back yard. The couple have since returned their treasure, which was first reported by the Staten Island Advance, to their neighbor, who was very excited to get the cash and baubles back. Maria Colonna Emanuel says there was never a question about returning the loot. "It wasn't ours," she said simply. Uh, lady, ever heard of that ironclad legal tenet called 'finders keepers, loser weepers'?

I remembered that, except for the last line.

A pack of vicious wiener dogs mauled an Oklahoma woman to death, according to reports. Tracy Garcia was standing outside her home last week when her neighbor’s six standard dachshund and terrier mixes and one border collie mix suddenly attacked her — leaving her with injuries so severe, she later died. “This is a bad situation, a very unfortunate situation,” Carter County Sheriff Chris Bryant told KTEN. “This is just a bad deal all the way around.” Deputies shot and killed one dog who charged at them and the other six were taken to the Westwood Veterinary Hospital to be put down at the owner’s request. The dogs involved in the attack were all under 40 pounds, with legs shorter than an adult’s hands, according to images of their remains reviewed by the Daily Ardmoreite. “They have really noticeable characteristics like their knobby legs, knees, very short-legged dogs,” euthanasia technician Amanda Dinwiddie told KXII. Six of the dogs were about 1 year old and the seventh was about 3 years old and possibly the pack’s mother. All were infested with fleas and ticks, Dinwiddie said. “We were cleaning ticks off ourselves all day,” she said. “They are very covered, you can tell they have been living out in the woods.” It’s unclear what led to the attack, but the investigation is ongoing. Garcia, 52, a housekeeper at the Hilton Inn, was buried Tuesday and is survived by a son and daughter, according to her obituary.

In my teens, the sister of the best-looking guy in my neighborhood wrote erotic novels. Several years ago their cousin brutally murdered his therapist. Maybe warn your relatives...

What if you live in a city that doesn't have electricity?

Not at all, just proud. (Well, maybe just a little.) However, it means that anything I come across pertaining to kids and school will be used to tease you... until the end of time. Consider it one of the joys of parenthood.:D:rolleyes:

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Dutch researchers uncovered two hidden pages in Anne Frank’s diary — that are full of dirty jokes and the teen’s thoughts on sex and prostitution. “Anyone who reads the passages that now have been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile,” Frank van Vree, the director of the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies said at a Tuesday press conference unveiling the discovery. “The ‘dirty’ jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all an ordinary girl,” he added, according to the Associated Press. The 13-year-old scribbled the pages on Sept. 28, 1942 – less than three months after she her family went into hiding from the Nazis in the secret annex of an Amsterdam home. She covered her racy words under a layer of brown paper to hide them from prying eyes. Researchers from three institutes – the Anne Frank museum, the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Huygens Institute of Netherlands History — worked together and used digital technology to decipher the passages. They photographed the pages, backlit by a flash, and then used image-processing software to decipher the words, which were jumbled with the writing on the other side of the pages. In a passage on sex, Anne described how a young woman gets her period at 14, saying it’s “a sign that she is ripe to have relations with a man but one doesn’t do that of course before one is married.” She also addressed prostitution, writing, “All men, if they are normal, go with women, women like that accost them on the street and then they go together. In Paris they have big houses for that. Papa has been there.” The pages also contain four risqué jokes which the teen described herself as “dirty.” “[The pages] bring us even closer to the girl and the writer Anne Frank,” Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House Museum said at the press conference. Anne wrote in her diary until she and her family were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. She died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen camp, along with her sister. Anne’s father was the only member of the Frank family to survive. He had his daughter’s diary published and it has since been translated into dozens of languages and become a worldwide bestseller. The institutions involved in deciphering the new pages say that it is unclear whether they’ll be incorporated into new editions because of copyright issues. also... Recently discovered journal reveals tragic story of Poland’s Anne Frank https://nypost.com/2018/03/25/recently-discovered-journal-gives-harrowing-insight-into-nazi-occupied-poland/

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Did y'all realize Connie Britton only signed on for one season? They're negotiating with her now to make a few appearances next year, which I guess would be to wrap things up with Buck. As for the season finale, if Peter Krause was going to wind up with one of the soon-to-be-divorced characters, I'd rather it be the other one. http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/co/2018/co180120.gif After several years out of the spotlight, Jennifer Love Hewitt made her return Monday for the FOX Upfronts to promote "9-1-1" -- she's joined the show for its the second season, an exciting cast development after the exit of Connie Britton. After Jennifer starred in "Criminal Minds" in 2015, she seemingly retreated from Hollywood around that time: Photo archives indicate she hasn't stepped foot on a red carpet in four years. Her last major appearance was for a CBS press tour in July 2014.

When I was a kid I heard a story several times about how my uncle got a call at work one day from my aunt... She asked how he'd gotten there & he replied that he'd driven. She was surprised, considering that she was looking out the window at their car. He'd left the house, walked over to a car that was the same model and color as his (Chevy), inserted his door key, then his ignition key, and off he went-- in somebody else's car. When I was a teenager, I was hanging out with my friends. One girl locked her keys in her car (an Olds, I think), though the trunk was open. We were all trying to figure out if there was a way we could remove the back seat, so we could get into the car, when I walked over, inserted the key to my camaro into the door lock, and opened it. From then on, I'd occasionally leave notes for her in the car, usually on the steering wheel.