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Smokers just can’t catch a break. First, we all learned of the obvious dangers of smoking cigarettes and then, not long afterward, the effects of second-hand smoke became a topic of heated debate. Eventually, science won out, demonstrating that second-hand smoke is dangerous to non-smoking individuals nearby. Now, a new study focused on the potential dangers of third-hand smoke has revealed that nasty chemicals and particles from outside of a non-smoking building can find their way inside on the clothing of people coming and going. Those particles, the study suggests, have a habit of finding their way into the air and circulation systems of large buildings, spreading all around despite nobody inside the building ever lighting up a smoke. This means that “smoke-free” areas aren’t necessarily immune to the effects of smokers, even if everyone is playing by the rules, and the research could impact future smoking restrictions and bans. “While many public areas have restriction on smoking, including distance from doorways, non-smoking buildings and even full smoking bans on campus for some universities, these smoking limitations often only serve to protect non-smoking populations from exposure to second-hand smoke,” Michael Waring, co-author of the study and associate professor in Drexel’s College of Engineering, explains. “This study shows that third-hand smoke, which we are realizing can be harmful to health as with second-hand smoke, is much more difficult to avoid.” The study began with an air sample from a non-smoking classroom. The classroom, which has had a ban on smoking for years, was actually filled with chemicals associated with cigarette smoke, and the researchers discovered that nearly one-third of the aerosol mass (the particles floating around in the air that we never notice) was made up of third-hand smoke chemicals. To help figure out how this could be true, the researchers set up lab experiments in which they tested the transport of third-hand smoke particles. They were able to demonstrate that even after fresh air has circulated through an area, the residue of the smoke remains and those chemicals have the potential to once again become airborne. “This means that our discovery was by no means unique to that classroom, in fact, it’s likely quite a widespread phenomenon,” Peter DeCarlo of Drexel University says. “What we’d actually uncovered was a new exposure route for third-hand smoke — through aerosol particles, which are ubiquitous in the indoor environment.” The work, which was published in Science Advances, is an eye-opening look at how even supposedly “clean” indoor environments can still be contaminated by those who pass through. Future research is expected to focus on potential solutions to the problem.

Queens’ mail theft problem reached a new low this morning. Officers from the 112th Precinct stopped three men whom they caught red-handed stealing a blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox from a Forest Hills street corner early on May 11. According to police, the theft occurred at about 3:10 a.m. at the corner of Yellowstone Boulevard and 67th Road. Members of the precinct spotted a 30-year-old man working in concert with two unidentified males to move a USPS mailbox into the rear of a gray 2004 Honda Odyssey. The officers approached, and two of the suspects fled the scene on foot. The officers took the 30-year-old man into custody; law enforcement sources did not have immediate information on his role in the attempted theft. Charges against him are pending at this time. The NYPD Patrol Borough Queens North shared the news on Twitter on May 11, posting an astonishing picture of the mailbox — still in the back of the culprits’ minivan in the 112th Precinct’s Forest Hills parking lot. Cops across Queens have been battling mail theft for many months — although most bandits have taken to using makeshift devices to fish mail out of the boxes rather than stealing entire mailboxes. Last week, the 112th Precinct arrested two individuals who allegedly stole mail out of a U.S. Postal Service box in the area of 63rd Drive and Booth Street in Rego Park. The USPS, at the request of local lawmakers, has begun installing security devices on the mailboxes to prevent further thefts. Following Friday’s bust, 112th Precinct Community Council Heidi Harrison Chain took to Facebook and publicly thanked Deputy Inspector Robert Ramos, the precinct’s commanding officer, “for assigning the extra officers” during the midnight tours to help combat mail theft. http://2sei0v2s93y31n9ndy1lrzmh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dc6vG1IWAAAtCT1.jpg

Actress and painter Kristin Harmon, the older sister of "NCIS" actor Mark Harmon and the ex-wife of former pop star Ricky Nelson, died April 27 of a heart attack. She was 72. Harmon's "sudden and unexpected" death was confirmed by her daughter Tracy in a touching Facebook post May 1. Tracy added that Harmon had also been put into a coma for an undetermined amount of time last year to treat a lung infection. "No one could blow the house down like she could. And no one could make something out of nothing like she could," Tracy wrote. "She knew where the party was, she WAS the party. She didn't just know the cool people, she WAS the cool people." Harmon was born in 1945 to 1940 Heisman trophy winner Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox. She was the older sister of actor Mark and model and "Bay City Blues" actress Kelly. The blonde met her future husband Ricky Nelson at just 12 years old, and they were wed six years later in 1963. That same year, she joined her husband's family's radio and TV series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," on which she appeared in 29 episodes as Ricky's on-screen wife. The couple, who also appeared together on screen in "Love and Kisses," had four children: actress Tracy, twin sons Gunnar and Matthew, who went on to form the band Nelson, and son Sam. But there was trouble in paradise for the two, whose marriage quickly descended into a drug-fueled spiral. "At first we were in it together. I tried to be one of the guys, to fix the marriage by going on the road and being involved in road stuff that is really not good for anyone. After a while we were totally messed up, both of us," she told People in 1987. "I got into therapy and so did he for a while but then he started not showing up… I knew that if I didn't leave, we would both die. I knew that I would just somehow try to make it for my kids. I couldn't help Rick anymore." Harmon filed for divorce in 1977, but the couple reconciled — only to split again in 1980. Their divorce was finalized two years later after years of he-said, she-said over drug and alcohol use. After Nelson was killed in a plane crash in 1985, Harmon entered rehab at the behest of her brother, Mark. She and her sibling's relationship was further strained when Mark and wife Pam Dawber were awarded temporary custody of a then-12-year-old Sam in 1987 amid accusations that Harmon's drug use had made her incapable of taking care of her son. Harmon later regained custody following a contentious war of words, though Mark won visitation rights. She was married again to Mark Tinker in 1988, and they split in 2000.

With Ray Bradbury’s novel about a society where books are outlawed coming alive in HBO’s new film “Fahrenheit 451,” attention has returned to one of the most difficult real-life books to come-by in the United States. Stephen King is one of America’s most prolific authors whose countless stories and books can be found in almost any retailer in the country. However, there’s one novel that the author has decided to let fall out of publication due to the real-life crimes that spawned because of it. The average King fan may not be familiar with the 1977 book “Rage.” Originally published under his pen name, Richard Bachman, King wrote the novel in 1966 while he was still in high school. In it, a young man named Charlie Decker is called into the principal’s office of his high school after assaulting a teacher. He goes on an expletive-filled tirade for reasons he doesn’t understand, prompting his expulsion. Decker then goes to his locker to retrieve a semi-automatic pistol, burns the remaining contents and kills two other faculty members before taking his algebra class hostage. What ensues is a standoff in which the students who begin as hostages become unwitting accomplices as a sort-of Stockholm Syndrome sets in and they begin to identify more with their captor than those trying to end the conflict and return things to the status quo. King let the book fall out of publication in 1998 after real-life tragedies allegedly inspired by “Rage” and made him feel morally obligated to write it. The book existed for a time in a 1985 collection of novels called “The Bachman Books,” which also included “The Long Walk,” “Roadwork” and “The Running Man.” Eventually, prints of “The Bachman Books” dwindled from four stories to three as the author allowed “Rage” to die a quiet death in the publishing world. Today, curious readers can still get their hands on a copy, but they have to be willing to pay between $500 – $700 on Amazon to do so. As Business Insider notes, the novel was number two on BookFinder’s 2013 list of out-of-print books that are still in high demand. To this day, the novel is still considered one of the most controversial books in the U.S. Why then did King, the mind behind twisted and horrific stories like “Misery,” “It” and “Pet Cemetery,” decide to let this book fall out of print? The answer can be traced back to Dec. 1, 1997, at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky. 14-year-old Michael Carneal brought three guns to school and opened fire on a group of students standing in a prayer circle. Three were killed and five were injured, with one unable to walk again. According to a local report, Carneal then dropped his weapon and surrendered to the school principal. Police would later discover a copy of “Rage” in Carneal’s locker. It was the fourth school gun violence incident in which the authorities found the gunman had been exposed to, and possibly influenced by, the now out-of-print King novel. In 1996, 14-year-old Barry Dale Loukaitis killed his algebra teacher and two students before being disarmed by a faculty member he tried to take hostage at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Washington. He allegedly claimed that he was inspired by “Rage” and modeled his life after Charlie Decker. In 1989, 17-year-old Dustin Pierce took a classroom of 11 students hostage at gunpoint in Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky while reportedly trying to recreate the plot of “Rage.” After a nine-hour standoff, he surrendered to police. In 1987, Jeffrey Lyne Cox held 60 classmates at gunpoint at San Gabriel High School in California before being disarmed by some of the students. He was known to have read “Rage” multiple times The Los Angeles Times reported. Shortly after the 1998 incident, King is said to have called his publisher to demand the book be taken out of print. The publisher reportedly agreed. King did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request to discuss the book. However, shortly after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, King published a 25-page nonfiction essay titled “Guns” in which he explained his reasoning for pulling the novel. “It took more than one slim novel to cause (the shooters) to do what they did. These were unhappy boys with deep psychological problems, boys who were bullied at school and bruised at home by parental neglect or outright abuse,” he wrote in “Guns,” (via USA Today). “My book did not break (them) or turn them into killers; they found something in my book that spoke to them because they were already broken. Yet I did see ‘Rage’ as a possible accelerant which is why I pulled it from sale. You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.” The author, now 70 years old, went on to explain that he felt no legal pressure to pull the book, only a moral obligation that he extended to his fellow gun owners. “I was protected under the First Amendment, and the law couldn’t demand it. I pulled it because in my judgment it might be hurting people, and that made it the responsible thing to do,” he wrote. “Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces in this country decide to do a similar turnaround. They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability.” Today, “Rage” is only available to those with deep pockets and an even deeper curiosity — something King continues to support. Despite a library of stories based on fictitious murder and macabre, King is willing to let “Rage,” which happens to be one of his earliest works, rest in peace for fear that it will cause real-life murder, macabre and violence if made available again.

A family of seven people, including four children, was found dead Friday in an Australian village in what is being considered the country’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, officials said. Police are treating the incident as a murder-suicide and said they were not looking for any suspects, according to Australian news outlet ABC. The children, whose ages were not disclosed, died with their mother and grandparents in Osmington, a village of fewer than 700 residents near the tourist town of Margaret River. Police responding to a phone call found the bodies and two guns on the property, Western Australia state Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said. “This devastating tragedy will no doubt have a lasting impact on the families concerned, the whole community and, in particular, the local communities in our southwest,” he added. A family friend told ABC that Katrina Miles and her four children were among the victims. Her parents, who are listed on the property title as Peter and Cynda Miles, also were killed, the friend said. Two adults were found outside and the other five bodies were located inside, according to the outlet. The mass shooting is the worst Down Under since 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people and seriously wounded 23 others in Port Arthur. Local lawmaker Libby Mettam said Friday’s deaths had already sent “significant shockwaves” through the community. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that will be affected by this tragedy, including those first responders,” Mettam said. Former local Councillor Felicity Haynes described the slain family as “caring neighbors.” “They were just such lovely people,” she said. Nearby resident Freya Cheffers said she was in shock. “Everybody’s just devastated … I just prayed that I didn’t know the family, as it turns out I kind of do,” she told ABC. Australia’s gun laws are widely regarded as a success, with supporters including former President Barack Obama saying Australia has not had a single mass shooting since they were implemented. The accepted definition of a mass shooting — four deaths excluding the shooter in a single event — has been met only once in Australia since 1996, when a farmer shot his wife and three children before killing himself in 2014. Under Australian law, farmers are allowed to own guns because they have a legitimate need to use them to kill predators or sick or injured livestock. But automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns are banned from public ownership. Samantha Lee, chairwoman of the Gun Control Australia lobby group, said rural areas were over-represented in Australian gun deaths, including suicides. “Regional and rural areas are particularly vulnerable to these sorts of tragedies, because of the combination of isolation, sometimes mental or financial hardship and easy access to firearms,” Lee said in a statement. “Although the details of this tragedy are yet to come to light, Australia has a tragic history of higher rate of gun deaths in rural areas,” she added.

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A Manhattan judge has ordered an artist booted from her $1,500-a-month Tribeca loft and is making her pay a record-setting $185,000 fine for illegally renting it out on Airbnb. Eileen Hickey, 72 — whose artwork has appeared in “Eat Pray Love” and other films — was first sued by the owner of 460 Greenwich St. in 2014 over illegal sublets in her rent-stabilized home of 43 years. Landlord Robert Moskowitz claimed Hickey, whose apartment spans the entire fourth floor, had raked in some $4,500 a month via her Airbnb guests from Spain, California and New Orleans. Meanwhile, she admittedly owns an East Village condo — but claims to use it as an office. Moskowitz caught Hickey red-handed when a Spanish sublet tenant hung a banner from the fire escape of the 1,400-square-foot unit to welcome friends. “Hickey has engaged in outrageous behavior using her rent-stabilized apartment as an illegal hotel,” Moskowitz fumes in court papers. “She has engaged in rent profiteering and commercial exploitation . . . Her actions are in violation of the [state] Rent Stabilization Code and a number of other laws.” But Hickey, a former Guggenheim Museum curator, insists she’s a “platinum tenant” who turned to Airbnb briefly to pay her now-former husband’s medical bills. “I used Airbnb starting in September 2012 for a total of 85 nights over 10 months to help pay the bills in a brief family emergency, not to earn a living,” she told The Post. Hickey claims an attorney she had consulted gave her the green light to list the two-bedroom unit on Airbnb. “I wouldn’t knowingly break the law,” she said, referring to the state’s Multiple Dwelling Law, which bars tenants from renting out their apartments for fewer than 30 days at a stretch. The Rent Stabilization Code also prohibits tenants from profiting off below-market-rate pads. She said she earned a total of $14,000, which she claims she’s paying back to her guests in a desperate attempt to save her apartment. An Airbnb spokesman did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Hickey lost the case after repeatedly failing to turn over court-ordered documents, including bank and credit-card statements, because she was “in the Hamptons,” according to the landlord. This week, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nancy Bannon authorized a city sheriff to “take all necessary steps . . . to effect the removal and ejection of Eileen Hickey . . . from said premises at 460 Greenwich St.” Hickey, a downtown-gallery fixture, has until June 9 to get out. “To have no place to go at age 72 is quite horrible,” she said. The $185,000 fine covers the landlord’s legal fees plus a penalty for violating the Rent Stabilization Code. Industry experts say it’s the highest known penalty in the United States for an individual Airbnb host illegally renting out a single property. Large-scale Airbnb operators who list multiple properties on the website have previously been fined more than $1 million by the city.

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An Arizona woman who called herself the “new Hitler” was busted this week for allegedly stalking a man — and sending him over 65,000 text messages in less than a year — after they went on a single date, according to reports. Jacqueline Ades of Phoenix was arrested Tuesday and slapped with charges of threatening and intimating, stalking and harassment. A month ago, the unidentified man called Paradise Valley cops when surveillance footage showed her taking a bath in his tub when he was away on a trip. Ades, 31 — who authorities said had a butcher knife in her car — was arrested but later released and never showed up for her court date. On Tuesday, she went to the man’s place of work in Scottsdale, and was escorted from the building. Paradise Valley cops got wind of the incident, and busted her in Phoenix. Ades — who told cops she was the victim’s wife– is being held without bond. According to court records, Ades became obsessed — visiting the man’s home and office and inundating his phone with texts, sometimes 500 in just one day, after she met him last summer through an online dating website, AZCentral.com reported. Last summer, the victim reportedly called the cops when he found Ades parked outside his home. Officers escorted her off the property. Ades allegedly proceeded to send the man alarming texts following the incident. “Oh what would I do w ur blood! … Id wanna bathe in it,” one text said, according to AZCentral.com, citing court documents. According to the news outlet, Ades called herself the “new Hitler” in another text. In another message, Ades alleged wrote: “Don’t ever try to leave me…I’ll kill you…I don’t wanna be a murderer.” Ades told cops that she never wanted to hurt the man and sent the messages because she did not want him to leave her, AZCentral.com reported.

A Brooklyn jail guard who’s on trial for forcing inmates to pleasure his huge, stinky, hooked penis also bragged that his nickname was “caballo” — “horse” in Spanish. In closing statements Wednesday, federal prosecutors recounted how Metropolitan Detention Center correction officer Lt. Eugenio Perez crowed about his 12-inch tool before abusing the women. He asked one inmate who was on cleaning duty near his office “if she knows what they call him. They call him ‘Caballo,’ the horse in Spanish,” said Assistant US Attorney Taryn Merkl. “He bragged to her that it was 11, 12 inches long … He told [her] to ‘suck on it.’ She said no. He grabbed her hand to touch his penis.” When that woman got away, Perez turned on a different inmate who was cleaning nearby — instructing her to give him oral sex then masturbating while staring at her privates, Merkl charged. “He was not going to take no for an answer. He was The Caballo and he was aroused,” she said. The feds infamously corroborated the stories of the five women who say Perez abused him while they were incarcerated at the Sunset Park lock-up by confirming their description of his massive, putrid member. The FBI got a search warrant to take photos of the distinctive phallus — which Merkl showed to jurors Wednesday, noting that it wasn’t even erect in the images and “would have appeared even larger” to the women who saw it at full mast. “There is no reason why any of the victims should know anything about his penis. They all remember things about his penis,” she said. “How would we know these very personal and intimate details if they weren’t forced to live through it?” In his closing statement, Perez’s lawyer countered that the inmates all had reason to “lie and fabricate” to get out of jail, noting that the case had no traditional evidence like DNA. “It can’t simply be the stigma, that the allegations [are] enough, because then everybody would be guilty,” said attorney Kenneth Montgomery, telling jurors the feds wanted them to “convict simply because they said so and because of the stigma of these allegations.” Prosecutors rebutted that it was “ridiculous” to suggest the women were all part of “some big scheme or plan.” The jury is scheduled to begin deliberations Thursday. Perez faces up to life behind bars if convicted.

Amazon struck a deal with Sears Holdings to provide tire services, boosting traffic at the ailing department store and extending the online retailer’s growing stable of alliances with brick-and-mortar companies. Sears shares rose more than 25 percent, marking its best day in over a year, after the company said it would install any brand tires sold on Amazon at its stores. The deal also includes Sears selling its DieHard range of tires on the online retailer’s website. Separately on Wednesday, the e-commerce giant said it had partnered with homebuilder Lennar Corp. to convert some of the home construction company’s model homes into showrooms for Alexa. Amazon’s latest deal is another sign that the online behemoth sees the value of in-store pickup and in-person service that’s core to brick-and-mortar retail, that it and rivals see room to cooperate. Over the past year, the online retailing giant has entered into partnerships with physical chains such as department store operator Kohl’s Corp to sell Amazon-branded items as well as use its retail locations for picking up online orders. In April, Amazon tapped electronics chain Best Buy to sell smart televisions with the capabilities of its artificial assistant, Alexa, baked in. In return, Best Buy would become the exclusive merchant of these TVs on Amazon.com. For Sears, the new deal extends its partnership with Amazon, where it already sells its Kenmore home appliances. It is a welcome boost for the struggling company that has seen years of declining sales as competition within the retail industry intensifies from the likes of Wal-Mart and other e-commerce platforms. Sears said the service would roll out to its Sears Auto Centers centers in the US over the next couple of weeks. The company’s shares were up 21 percent at $3.35 in afternoon trading. They earlier touched a high of $3.46. Amazon shares were up 0.6 percent at $1,602.81 on the same day Walmart said it would pay $16 billion for a 77 percent stake in Indian online shopping website Flipkart, Amazon’s main rival in the Asian country.

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James Paxton looked up at the 20,000 Canadian fans cheering for him and pointed to the giant maple leaf tattoo on his right forearm. The Big Maple picked the perfect place for the game of his life. Paxton became the first Canadian to pitch a no-hitter in his home country, pitching the Seattle Mariners over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 Tuesday night. “You couldn’t write this stuff,” Paxton said. “Pretty amazing to have it happen against the Blue Jays, at home in Canada.” Not bad, eh? A 29-year-old lefty from Ladner, British Columbia, Paxton got a standing ovation at Rogers Centre. The crowd rooted for him in the late innings, realizing he was one of their own — his tattoo of Canada’s national symbol includes an image of a family home near Vancouver. “Pretty amazing to have it happen against the Blue Jays and home here in Canada,” said Paxton, who was drafted by the Blue Jays in the first round in 2009. “I had some family here tonight and friends; special to share it with them. And awesome that it was on TV in Ladner, B.C., on Rogers [sportsnet]. Those are the only games they get over there, so the rest of my family and friends were able to watch, too.” Paxton joined Dick Fowler of the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics as the only Canadians to throw a no-hitter. It was the seventh no-hitter thrown outside the United States, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Paxton threw the third no-hitter in the majors this year — all three have come in different countries. Oakland’s Sean Manaea pitched one against Boston on April 21 in California. Four Los Angeles Dodgers combined to no-hit San Diego in Mexico last Friday. Coming off a career-high 16 strikeouts in his last start, Paxton (2-1) was electric once again, hitting 100 mph with his fastball while retiring Josh Donaldson on a grounder to end it. Paxton struck out seven, walked three, threw 99 pitches and benefited from an outstanding play by third baseman Kyle Seager to get the final out. “I mean, Josh Donaldson, the guy’s pretty good. So I was like, ‘I better bring my best stuff here,'” Paxton said of reaching 100 mph on his last pitch. “I’m gonna rear back and throw as hard as I can. Fastball is obviously my best pitch; they know it and I know it. I was like, ‘I’m gonna let it rip, top of the zone, and see what happens.’ And then he smoked that ball to third base, and Seager made an amazing play.” With two outs in the seventh, the former Gold Glover made a full-length diving stop on speedy Kevin Pillar’s grounder down the line, then slung an off-balance throw that first baseman Ryon Healy snagged on one hop. “If that ball gets by you, it’s going to be hard to get any sleep tonight,” Seager said. “It may be hard anyway.” Russell Martin led off the Toronto eighth with a long drive that left fielder Ben Gamel caught near the wall. “What a defense tonight. That was amazing. Those guys were making every play,” Paxton said. Anthony Alford fouled out on the first pitch to begin the ninth and Teoscar Hernandez struck out swinging. Donaldson ended it with a hard one-hopper to Seager. Healy pumped his fist after catching Seager’s throw, and the Mariners streamed out of the dugout, dousing their pitcher with a cooler as the crowd of 20,513 cheered. After his teammates had left the field, Paxton came back out and waved to the fans. “Just showing my respect to the Canadian fans,” Paxton said. “I really appreciate their cheers after the game, supporting me being Canadian. That was very special. I just wanted to show them that I heard them and that I was very grateful for their support.” Paxton said his tattoo also includes a mural of Bowyer Island, north of Vancouver, where his family owns a summer cabin. “It’s kind of a special thing for me, having not lived in Canada for the past 10 years or so,” he said. “It just reminds me of home.” Paxton was a first-round draft pick by Toronto in 2009 out of the University of Kentucky, but didn’t sign. He instead played in an independent league, was drafted by the Mariners in the fourth round the next year and joined them. Seattle fans certainly appreciate him, too, especially the ones sitting in Maple Grove. Rather than K cards to mark his strikeouts, they hold up “Eh” signs in a playful nod to his heritage. This outing was a lot better than his first game in Canada. He allowed nine runs, six walks and seven hits in 2⅔ innings in a September 2014 loss to the Blue Jays. “We’ve come a long way from that,” he said. Mariners manager Scott Servais said he started to think early about what could happen. “Probably about the fourth inning I looked up and realized his pitch count was in such good shape that if he got a few breaks along the way we might be looking at something special,” Servais said. “It certainly was special tonight.” Paxton’s season has taken off since a bald eagle mistakenly landed on his shoulder before a start last month. He’s 2-0 with a 2.51 ERA over seven starts since the bird stuck its talons into his back before the Minnesota Twins’ home opener. Fowler threw his no-hitter on Sept. 9, 1945, against the St. Louis Browns. He had recently returned from serving in the Canadian military during World War II, missing two full seasons, and pitched his gem in his first start of the year.

The best way to make scrambled eggs! Pizza and pancake syrup? What's he eating? The moon is full tonight! I pledge allegiance to the flag... Don't stand there TOO long (shrinkage)

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I only got a cell phone when pay phones began disappearing because I was on the road a lot for work. It was a cheap flip phone on a prepaid plan, the cheapest possible, so I was always conscious of using up my minutes. As a result, I got into the habit of only using it to make necessary calls, and keeping it off otherwise. When I'd go out of town for work, I'd tell people I'd turn it on at night when I got to the motel so they could reach me if necessary (not everyone would have my itinerary). And after the initial contact, I'd have them call me back on the room phone. Friends know not to try me on my cell. I tried to set up voicemail, but it was a pain in the butt, and customer service was no help, so I didn't bother.

I don't know how she puts up with you.

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