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I can't stand Lowes' "The moment you realize..." ad campaign, and the latest one really drives me up the wall. A woman is seen (talking to Alexa?) ordering the lights on, and her playlist to be played, then orders her washing machine to turn on before realizing it doesn't do that. So she buys a new washer & dryer. My reaction is always "The moment you realize... you need intensive therapy... to figure out why you're so lazy you'd spend over $1000 for smart appliances instead of just turning them on manually." I've also found that just about every time a company updates its website or technology, the 'improvement' is annoying, not necessary, and endlessly frustrating.

http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/cl/2018/cl180517.gif Most nights teenager Kieran Bewick wakes up terrified, screaming and drenched in sweat — believing he is being stabbed by someone he loves. This nightmare is not sparked by some gory horror movie, but a shocking real-life attack. The 18-year-old is lucky to be alive after a sex game with ex-girlfriend Zoe Adams took a sadistic turn. Days after Bewick had moved into her apartment, Adams walked into the bedroom, her face painted like a clown. She put a pillow over his head, whispered “trust me” then stabbed him five times with a 10-inch knife she had hidden at the side of the bed. In May, 19-year-old Adams — who is obsessed with serial killers and male sacrifice — was jailed for 11 and a half years after admitting to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The judge called her “cruel and sadistic” after the court heard how she had thousands of gruesome images on her iPhone. One was of a woman drenched in blood with the caption: “Murder is like a bag of chips, you can’t stop after one.” Another read: “I don’t think about males unless said male is strapped up and being used as a human sacrifice — you should be grateful you are not part of it.” Adams may now be behind bars, but the ordeal still haunts Bewick — especially in his dreams. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, he says: “I will never explore kinky sex again.” “There is absolutely no way in the future I’d ever consent to being tied up or anything like that. From now on it is just normal sex. “I’m pleased with the sentence, it reflects the severity of what happened. I am not only physically scarred, I am emotionally scarred too. I’ve not slept properly since that day and I’m plagued with bad dreams.” Bewick was 17 when he met teen mom Adams through mutual friends in May 2017. They hit it off and over the next two months would talk every day and spend the weekends together. He says: “She seemed nice, kind and funny, I liked her. “But she was a bit odd and had a dark sense of humor. She’d joke about hurting her exes. “I just thought she was messing around but now I know she meant every word.”” Bewick recalls how the petite redhead fancied herself a dominatrix and was obsessed with kinky sex — in particular, tying up men. She would beg him to be her guinea pig. He says: “I used to tell her no. It wasn’t really my cup of tea and I didn’t feel comfortable doing it.” As he got to know her better, he could see how Adams reveled in violence and gore, but never suspected what a danger she posed. He says: “One time she told me about a dream she’d had about a friend’s ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. “In the dream his throat was slit and she was naked on top of him. His new girlfriend was nude and hanging from the rafters above them. It seemed to excite her, she got a kick out of men being in pain. “Another time she showed me a video on her phone of a man in the woods getting his head smashed in by three guys with a baseball bat. I could barely look but she was laughing and said it was cool. “She had a pet snake and loved feeding it live mice. It used to make me recoil watching the animal devour its dinner but she enjoyed killings.” Last June, she sent Bewick the message saying she did not think about men unless they were “being used as a human sacrifice.” He says: “I just thought it was Zoe being Zoe.” “She often said weird things and, although she was into kinky stuff, I didn’t think she actually meant it.” Just three days before the attack on July 29, 2017, Bewick moved into Adams’ apartment. On the fateful day, the pair spent their time shopping before going home to drink vodka and hang out. Adams smoked weed too. He recalls how she asked him: “What will you let me do with you tonight? Will you let me tie you up?” Bewick says: “I told her no.” “I had felt ill all day and the booze wasn’t helping so I went upstairs to bed after being sick.” He woke to find Adams standing in the doorway, barefoot, her face painted in creepy clown makeup. She asked him: “Does this scare you?” He says: “Zoe had painted large diamond shapes around her eyes and a red, Joker smile. “I told her she was freaking me out and to wash it off but she just stared at me, smiling excitedly. She stayed like this for a few minutes before she slowly backed out of the doorway.” The day before, Bewick had told Adams how seeing a barefoot clown was his worst nightmare. She had replied: “A barefoot clown, the ultimate Kieran killer.” He dismissed her clown makeup as a sick joke. He could not have been more wrong. Adams later returned armed with duct tape and a condom. She took off her top and, wearing nothing but boxers, climbed into bed and cuddled him. Again, she begged Bewick to let her tie him up with the tape and became “moody” when he refused. So he agreed to have his face covered with a pillow to spice up the sex. He says: “She was stroking my chest and asking questions like, ‘Do you really love me? Do you really want me?’ My phone went off so she took it and put it down the side of the bed. I thought she was trying to read my messages, as she still had her hand down there. Now I know she was holding the knife. “I took the pillow off to see what was happening and she said ‘trust me’ and put it back over my face. “Seconds later, she stabbed me.” Blood poured out of Bewick’s wounds as Adams plunged the 10-inch blade into his chest, arm and leg. His fingers still bear the scars of defensive wounds from when he battled to save his life. He recalls: “I didn’t feel any pain, I just heard my lung pop and felt blood gush out of me. My adrenaline was pumping. I was in shock.” Despite his terrible injuries, Bewick managed to get away from his attacker. At the front door he turned and saw Adams standing in the kitchen — naked — staring at him. In one hand she held the knife dripping with his blood. He recalls: “I asked her why. She said, ‘I don’t know.’” Bewick ran to her aunt’s house nearby and said: “Zoe’s stabbed me.” He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he had emergency surgery. He spent the next 10 days in the hospital, fighting for his life. He had a collapsed lung and got pneumonia. He also had deep wounds to his arm, leg and fingers. He says: “When I woke up I asked the nurse if I was going to be OK. It was a huge shock, I had wires and tubes coming out of me.” Adams claimed she had blacked out after all the alcohol and cannabis and had no recollection of the attack. But the court did not believe her version of events. The judge told her: “You had decided to cause serious harm to Mr. Bewick during sex.” Bewick is now trying to rebuild his life. He is studying law, psychology and history and is dating a 17-year-old he met at college. Not wanting to name his new girlfriend, he says: “She’s kind and sweet — nothing like Zoe. She comforts me when I have nightmares and wake up dreaming she’s stabbing me. “Even though I know she’d never hurt me, I still dream it. “I cared about Zoe and couldn’t understand how she could do this to me. I believe she intended to kill me that day, but I’ll never know why. “This has had a huge impact on my life but I refuse to let her win. She nearly took my life, but she won’t take my future.”

It may be “the ultimate driving machine,” but BMWs are proving to be hell on drivers’ thumbs. In yet another lawsuit filed against the German automaker over its luxury cars’ automatically closing doors, a Long Island woman claims her BMW 750Li nearly cut her thumb off — crushing it to the point that she needed reconstructive surgery and two pins. Alexis Fields, a stay-at-home mom from Smithtown, was on her way to her daughter’s Halloween parade in 2016 when her right hand got crushed in the automatic door as she was getting out of her car. The BMW has SCAD (Soft-Close Automatic Door) technology which detects attempts to close the door and kicks in an auto-close mechanism. Fields, 40, says she was reaching in to grab her purse with her right hand leaning on the door frame when the wind nudged the door slightly and triggered the motor. “It happened so fast. It pulled shut on my finger and clamped down like a vice. My thumb was completely flat within seconds,” Fields said. “Then it exploded. It blew up two, three or four times its size. It was awful. Initially I felt no pain but then I started to panic and the pain came in,” Fields added. Within two hours Fields, whose thumb was “mauled and mutilated,” went to a specialist who performed surgery. But “sadly, by that time, it was too late to restore Mrs. Fields’ thumb to its former pre-injury condition,” the suit states. Fields has numbness, limited mobility and pain in her right hand to this day resulting from the Oct. 31, 2016, incident. In March, Godwin Boateng sued the carmaker after his right thumb was chopped off by the SCAD technology in his $70,000 BMW X5. Boateng, a 61-year-old who also lives on Long Island, is also repped by Fields' attorney. Unlike Fields, doctors were unable to save his thumb and he now wears a fake digit from a $3 magician’s kit. The lawyer said since The Post earlier reported on Boateng he has been flooded with dozens of calls from people from around the country who say they have similar injuries. “BMW, like a petulant child, has been unwilling to take responsibility for its modern-day guillotine doors,” he said. A rep for BMW said, “We can’t comment on any pending litigation.”

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/

What good is a hot cowboy without an equally hot Indian Native American? http://www.newforestcentre.info/uploads/7/5/7/2/7572906/5421181.jpg http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/brave.jpg

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.