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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.

Could you clarify how you feel about Joan Rivers? 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.

When I hear "Helen of Troy" I think of a woman from upstate NY. When I hear "Zeus" I think of BDSM videos. When I see "Avalon" I think of Toyota.

Karen Walker: Oh Dear Lord, he's been humping my pans!

Georgia or Delaware?

Every time I see that phrase I picture dueling armies having water balloon battles using condoms as balloons.

Didn't you write up a shopping list at any point? That always gets MY juices flowing.

But you have such a pretty face! It's a shame to hide it behind all that excess weight.:cool:

An Arkansas woman was arrested Saturday after telling police she shot and killed her husband because he bought pornography, officials said. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release it received a call around 2:30 p.m. from 69-year-old Patricia Hill, who told dispatchers she just shot her 65-year-old husband, Frank. When police arrived at the home, located about 36 miles south of Little Rock, they found Frank Hill dead in a shed on the property. Hill sustained two gunshot wounds to the upper and lower body, according to police. The sheriff’s office said that during an interview with Hill, she told investigators she arrived home and went to the shed on her property to confront her husband, but there had never been any physical altercations between the couple. “However, Mrs. Hill stated that she disagreed with her husband’s purchase of video pornography via the television guide, which she canceled upon discovering the purchase, but Mr. Hill managed to place a subsequent order,” Maj. Lafayette Woods, Jr. said. “Mrs. Hill stated that she entered the shed and asked her husband to leave but he refused.” When her husband didn’t leave the shed, Hill told investigators she went back to their home and got a .22 caliber pistol. “She went back to the shed a short time later, where she entered and shot her husband twice, striking him once in the leg and once in the head,” Woods said. “Immediately following the shooting, Mrs. Hill stated that she returned inside the residence, where she returned the weapon and called 911 to report the shooting.” At this point, investigators do not believe the incident had anything to do with self-defense, FOX16 reported. Hill is currently in Jefferson County’s detention center on felony probable cause for capital murder in the shooting death of her husband without bond, and will stay there until her court date next week.

A Bronx man was arrested for bashing his girlfriend with a Bible on Sunday, police told The Post. Daniel Laforge, 36, got into an argument with his girlfriend at his Parkside apartment on Bronx Park East at about 7 a.m., police said. He began to punch the 41-year-old woman, then grabbed the Good Book and smacked her in the head and shoulder with it, cops said. The woman called 911, and told police she suffered significant pain on her head and shoulder after the beating. Laforge was arrested at the scene and charged with felony assault and harassment.

Adam & Yves is a 1974 X-rated film created for gay male audiences. The film is notable for the unauthorized use of footage of Greta Garbo, in what turned out to be the legendary actress's final appearance on film. Set in Paris during springtime, Adam & Yves is about the French Yves (Marcus Giovanni) and his pursuit of the American tourist Adam (Michael Hardwick). The men have a brief affair, but a long-lasting relationship is prevented by Yves' insistence that they not share personal information. While making the film, director Peter de Rome reportedly stalked Greta Garbo around New York City, where the retired star was living. After much searching, De Rome, located her and was able to shoot footage of Garbo walking across First Avenue. The footage was inserted into Adam & Yves, and its presence was explained by having Adam recalling how he once saw the elusive star. The Garbo footage was used without the star's knowledge or permission, and she was not paid for her appearance.

I suppose Greta Garbo was the most famous example. Her last film appearance.

Is it just a co-inky-dink 2 insurance company spokesmen played amoral felons (as opposed to moral felons) on OZ? http://i55.tinypic.com/23s64k0.jpg

So I've heard.

First got to know him as part of a family of grifters on FX's under-appreciated THE RICHES, starring Minnie Driver. Then he was the obnoxious lab tech Dale Stuckey on SVU who eventually killed O'Halloran and slashed Stabler.

She claims she is the secret scion of a Manhattan financier — her Dalton and college tuition paid by a furtive father she never knew, while her single mother cashed his monthly checks like clockwork for 20 years. Today she is a beautiful star of a television police procedural who has taken a leading role in a real-life legal drama over the late mogul’s $100 million fortune. Marina Squerciati, 36, who plays cop Kim Burgess on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.,” has never spoken about her dad, because he swore for years to provide for her in his will, according to court papers. But John R. Jakobson — who at age 25 in 1955 became one of the youngest people ever to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange — broke his pledge, the actress claims. The price of keeping quiet for most of her life, Marina claims, was “extraordinary.” She lost the chance to bond with Jakobson, who died in April 2017 of pneumonia at age 86, and she was denied “any relationship whatsoever with her half-siblings,” say documents filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court. One of those possible siblings is also a TV actress: Maggie Wheeler, 59, who is best known for her role on “Friends” as Chandler Bing’s irritating, nasal-voiced on-again off-again girlfriend, Janice. In a 2017 interview, Squerciati told EW, “I don’t have any siblings.” About 6 million viewers tune in for “Chicago P.D.,” where Squerciati pals around with castmates Sophia Bush and Amy Morton, who arranged a baby shower for Marina when she was pregnant with her daughter. The girl was born last year, a month after Jakobson’s death. Jakobson’s family, including his widow of 34 years, Park Avenue socialite and noted etiquette author Joan Jakobson, apparently never knew of Marina’s existence. “I’m not aware of it at all,” Joan Jakobson told The Post, asking incredulously, “She said she was John’s daughter?” She later added, “This has all hit me, like, I don’t know — a snowstorm.” When Marina got engaged, Marie Squerciati asked Jakobson if he would send a gift. He replied by reaffirming that the girl “would receive money under his will,” his daughter claims. But that never happened. Jakobson’s estate plans included money for his first and second wives, his three surviving children and his stepdaughter through Joan, as well as funds for a namesake foundation. Lawyers for the Squerciatis reached out to the estate in September to ask if Marina was named a beneficiary, court papers show. It’s unclear how much money the actress is seeking. Nicholas Jakobson, the executor of his father’s estate, “has devoted substantial time and . . . considerable legal expense in analyzing the claim,” according to a court filing by the estate, which slams Marina Squerciati’s allegations as having “no basis in fact or law.” Squerciati’s bid to be included in her alleged father’s massive estate “amounts to nothing more than an avaricious attempt to enforce an alleged, vague oral promise made to [her] mother, rather than to herself, and which resulted in no legally recognizable injury to her,” Jakobson’s lawyers asserted. Even if Marina Squerciati could prove Jakobson is her biological father, she has no written evidence of his promise to provide for her in his will, the lawyers argued. She had “ample opportunity as an adult” to get Jakobson to put his commitment in writing, the financier’s lawyers claim. Keeping the secret may have even been something Marina Squerciati herself wanted, say the lawyers, who offered her a paltry $50,000 settlement. “She may have wished to avoid the opprobrium, which, although unfair and unjustified, is often cast upon nonmarital children,” the lawyers wrote. “As a successful actor, [she] may have been especially sensitive to this given her public persona and position in popular culture.” The Squerciatis did not respond to requests for comment.