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You should never end with a line like that. It begs for a reply of "that's what your (insert female relative of your choice) said.":D:cool:

That's a funny looking cock.

DOROTHY: It's like riding a bike. ROSE: I never learned how to ride a bike. DOROTHY: It's like falling off a bike. ROSE: Oh, that I can do. DOROTHY (to Blanche): Just a hunch... Proving once again that there is no situation in life (even picking out my mother's casket) in which I can't quote Golden Girls.

When Mohamad El-ahmed saw a surgeon for a potential penis enlargement operation, he received a surprising response: the surgeon refused to operate on him. “He just said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with your penis. I see much smaller penises every day — you don’t need it.’” Although it was a revelation — another clinic had been extremely pushy in persuading him to get the operation — El-ahmed still harbored a desire: “To be frank, I just really wanted it to be as large as possible, like a porn star!” But learning the gory details of the typical penis enlargement procedure completely freaked him out. He quivers as he recounts it: “They told me they cut under your [testicles], go in six inches and cut something inside to make the penis hang lower. To make it thicker, they de-glove your penis from the base up and insert plastic things to make it bigger.” At the end of the procedure, there’s no guarantee of how much length you’d get so he decided it not worth the risk or price, which is as eye-watering as the procedure itself at $22,600. El-ahmed didn’t have anxiety issues — “I’ll drop my pants for anyone,” he said — but he describes his penis as a “grower” rather than a “shower.” Although there were never any complaints from lovers, he believes “there was room for improvement.” When Man Cave Sydney started offering a revolutionary Penile Girth Enhancement procedure, El-ahmed, 36, jumped at the chance. There was just one catch. The man has to be fully erect as the procedure takes place, via a Viagra-like injection 20 minutes before. But it didn’t phase him: “I have no problems with nudity,” he said. The new procedure is currently only offered by two venues in Australia. Dr. Sara Kotai, medical director of Man Cave Sydney, described why it could attract more men than the current penis enlargement operation. “It’s non-surgical, minimally invasive, and fully reversible, with minimal downtime so men can increase their girth in an hour without scalpels, stitches, general anesthetic or hospital stay,” she said. It’s also considerably cheaper than traditional surgical methods, starting at $2,200. “Filler injections are used under the skin of the penis to instantly increase girth (it is placed between the layers of fascia),” Kotai said, describing the procedure. “Filler is also known as hyaluronic acid — these are the same fillers traditionally used in lips and cheeks.” “It’s a soft gel-like substance that occurs naturally in the body. A standard treatment can increase the flaccid girth by one inch, and erect girth by between a half and a whole inch, with effects lasting 18 to 24 months.” When the effects wear off after about 18 months, you can come back to do it again. El-ahmed is already booked in. “What they do is magic. There’s a massive width improvement — at least half an inch,” he said. “Length is bigger by a little bit — from about six to seven inches. I’m 100 percent more confident.” During my visit to Man Cave Sydney, El-ahmed instantly dropped his dacks and showed me a “before” shot on his phone. The difference is definitely noticeable. It has certainly helped El-ahmed’s love life: “I get lots of compliments from women saying that’s the biggest or best-looking one they’ve ever seen. You hear that and feel over the moon!” He said he has shown his new, bigger version to his friends and they’re in awe. One has booked the procedure for himself. But does it hurt? “We use a blunt needle known as a cannula,” Kotai said. “Hyaluronic acid is injected into the areolar tissue of the penis. Then gentle but firm pressure will be used to manipulate the filler into place. Little to no pain is felt as a topical anesthetic is applied prior to numb the injection sites. Laughing gas can also be administered if required.” El-ahmed said: “The thought of needles in your penis freaks you out but the pain is only a four on a scale of 10.” The after effects, though, are “tender and sore” and the product takes a week to settle so must be massaged, despite the tenderness. “That’s the only downside,” he added. When I asked El-ahmed if he thought society’s pressure on men led them to think they need to go through such procedures in order to be validated, he was nonchalant. “I think we should be more like women — if we want Botox, penis enlargements, hair transplants, we should go and do it like women do,” he said. “We get pressured to have the body beautiful too — from billboards to social media.” Before his pants come back up again, El-ahmed told me about another downside he’s thought of. “The biggest problem I never considered was finding a condom that fits. I can’t. They break halfway down. Even XXL doesn’t fit me now,” he said.

When Mohamad El-ahmed saw a surgeon for a potential penis enlargement operation, he received a surprising response: the surgeon refused to operate on him. “He just said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with your penis. I see much smaller penises every day — you don’t need it.’” Although it was a revelation — another clinic had been extremely pushy in persuading him to get the operation — El-ahmed still harbored a desire: “To be frank, I just really wanted it to be as large as possible, like a porn star!” But learning the gory details of the typical penis enlargement procedure completely freaked him out. He quivers as he recounts it: “They told me they cut under your [testicles], go in six inches and cut something inside to make the penis hang lower. To make it thicker, they de-glove your penis from the base up and insert plastic things to make it bigger.” At the end of the procedure, there’s no guarantee of how much length you’d get so he decided it not worth the risk or price, which is as eye-watering as the procedure itself at $22,600. El-ahmed didn’t have anxiety issues — “I’ll drop my pants for anyone,” he said — but he describes his penis as a “grower” rather than a “shower.” Although there were never any complaints from lovers, he believes “there was room for improvement.” When Man Cave Sydney started offering a revolutionary Penile Girth Enhancement procedure, El-ahmed, 36, jumped at the chance. There was just one catch. The man has to be fully erect as the procedure takes place, via a Viagra-like injection 20 minutes before. But it didn’t phase him: “I have no problems with nudity,” he said. The new procedure is currently only offered by two venues in Australia. Dr. Sara Kotai, medical director of Man Cave Sydney, described why it could attract more men than the current penis enlargement operation. “It’s non-surgical, minimally invasive, and fully reversible, with minimal downtime so men can increase their girth in an hour without scalpels, stitches, general anesthetic or hospital stay,” she said. It’s also considerably cheaper than traditional surgical methods, starting at $2,200. “Filler injections are used under the skin of the penis to instantly increase girth (it is placed between the layers of fascia),” Kotai said, describing the procedure. “Filler is also known as hyaluronic acid — these are the same fillers traditionally used in lips and cheeks.” “It’s a soft gel-like substance that occurs naturally in the body. A standard treatment can increase the flaccid girth by one inch, and erect girth by between a half and a whole inch, with effects lasting 18 to 24 months.” When the effects wear off after about 18 months, you can come back to do it again. El-ahmed is already booked in. “What they do is magic. There’s a massive width improvement — at least half an inch,” he said. “Length is bigger by a little bit — from about six to seven inches. I’m 100 percent more confident.” During my visit to Man Cave Sydney, El-ahmed instantly dropped his dacks and showed me a “before” shot on his phone. The difference is definitely noticeable. It has certainly helped El-ahmed’s love life: “I get lots of compliments from women saying that’s the biggest or best-looking one they’ve ever seen. You hear that and feel over the moon!” He said he has shown his new, bigger version to his friends and they’re in awe. One has booked the procedure for himself. But does it hurt? “We use a blunt needle known as a cannula,” Kotai said. “Hyaluronic acid is injected into the areolar tissue of the penis. Then gentle but firm pressure will be used to manipulate the filler into place. Little to no pain is felt as a topical anesthetic is applied prior to numb the injection sites. Laughing gas can also be administered if required.” El-ahmed said: “The thought of needles in your penis freaks you out but the pain is only a four on a scale of 10.” The after effects, though, are “tender and sore” and the product takes a week to settle so must be massaged, despite the tenderness. “That’s the only downside,” he added. When I asked El-ahmed if he thought society’s pressure on men led them to think they need to go through such procedures in order to be validated, he was nonchalant. “I think we should be more like women — if we want Botox, penis enlargements, hair transplants, we should go and do it like women do,” he said. “We get pressured to have the body beautiful too — from billboards to social media.” Before his pants come back up again, El-ahmed told me about another downside he’s thought of. “The biggest problem I never considered was finding a condom that fits. I can’t. They break halfway down. Even XXL doesn’t fit me now,” he said.

When Mohamad El-ahmed saw a surgeon for a potential penis enlargement operation, he received a surprising response: the surgeon refused to operate on him. “He just said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with your penis. I see much smaller penises every day — you don’t need it.’” Although it was a revelation — another clinic had been extremely pushy in persuading him to get the operation — El-ahmed still harbored a desire: “To be frank, I just really wanted it to be as large as possible, like a porn star!” But learning the gory details of the typical penis enlargement procedure completely freaked him out. He quivers as he recounts it: “They told me they cut under your [testicles], go in six inches and cut something inside to make the penis hang lower. To make it thicker, they de-glove your penis from the base up and insert plastic things to make it bigger.” At the end of the procedure, there’s no guarantee of how much length you’d get so he decided it not worth the risk or price, which is as eye-watering as the procedure itself at $22,600. El-ahmed didn’t have anxiety issues — “I’ll drop my pants for anyone,” he said — but he describes his penis as a “grower” rather than a “shower.” Although there were never any complaints from lovers, he believes “there was room for improvement.” When Man Cave Sydney started offering a revolutionary Penile Girth Enhancement procedure, El-ahmed, 36, jumped at the chance. There was just one catch. The man has to be fully erect as the procedure takes place, via a Viagra-like injection 20 minutes before. But it didn’t phase him: “I have no problems with nudity,” he said. The new procedure is currently only offered by two venues in Australia. Dr. Sara Kotai, medical director of Man Cave Sydney, described why it could attract more men than the current penis enlargement operation. “It’s non-surgical, minimally invasive, and fully reversible, with minimal downtime so men can increase their girth in an hour without scalpels, stitches, general anesthetic or hospital stay,” she said. It’s also considerably cheaper than traditional surgical methods, starting at $2,200. “Filler injections are used under the skin of the penis to instantly increase girth (it is placed between the layers of fascia),” Kotai said, describing the procedure. “Filler is also known as hyaluronic acid — these are the same fillers traditionally used in lips and cheeks.” “It’s a soft gel-like substance that occurs naturally in the body. A standard treatment can increase the flaccid girth by one inch, and erect girth by between a half and a whole inch, with effects lasting 18 to 24 months.” When the effects wear off after about 18 months, you can come back to do it again. El-ahmed is already booked in. “What they do is magic. There’s a massive width improvement — at least half an inch,” he said. “Length is bigger by a little bit — from about six to seven inches. I’m 100 percent more confident.” During my visit to Man Cave Sydney, El-ahmed instantly dropped his dacks and showed me a “before” shot on his phone. The difference is definitely noticeable. It has certainly helped El-ahmed’s love life: “I get lots of compliments from women saying that’s the biggest or best-looking one they’ve ever seen. You hear that and feel over the moon!” He said he has shown his new, bigger version to his friends and they’re in awe. One has booked the procedure for himself. But does it hurt? “We use a blunt needle known as a cannula,” Kotai said. “Hyaluronic acid is injected into the areolar tissue of the penis. Then gentle but firm pressure will be used to manipulate the filler into place. Little to no pain is felt as a topical anesthetic is applied prior to numb the injection sites. Laughing gas can also be administered if required.” El-ahmed said: “The thought of needles in your penis freaks you out but the pain is only a four on a scale of 10.” The after effects, though, are “tender and sore” and the product takes a week to settle so must be massaged, despite the tenderness. “That’s the only downside,” he added. When I asked El-ahmed if he thought society’s pressure on men led them to think they need to go through such procedures in order to be validated, he was nonchalant. “I think we should be more like women — if we want Botox, penis enlargements, hair transplants, we should go and do it like women do,” he said. “We get pressured to have the body beautiful too — from billboards to social media.” Before his pants come back up again, El-ahmed told me about another downside he’s thought of. “The biggest problem I never considered was finding a condom that fits. I can’t. They break halfway down. Even XXL doesn’t fit me now,” he said.

Kate Upton and Justin Verlander didn’t just want awedding in Italy, they wanted a true experience. “It was really important to Justin and me that it feel like we were on vacation with our closest friends and family,” Upton told Vogue. “We set up an entire afternoon dedicated to interactive games, which we called the Uplander Olympics.” Guests participated in a “ping-pong tournament, cornhole, a football toss, relay races, and an epic water balloon fight” ahead of the couple’s rehearsal dinner that evening, where they requested guests wear red. Upton donned a red Valentino gown while Verlander sported a custom-made red tuxedo jacket. The next day, the ceremony and reception took place at the Rosewood Castiglion Del Bosco resort. “We found a beautiful corner of paradise that Tuscany Flowers helped transform into our ‘secret garden,’” Upton shared. “It was the first time the property had ever held a ceremony in this location.” Upton kept with Valentino when designing her ceremony dress because it’s “the best at creating delicate, beautiful lace and details, and their Italian heritage kept the fashion and feel authentic to our venue,” she said. During the reception, which took place in a greenhouse custom built for the couple, Upton ditched the conservative gown and opted for a sheer number, designed by Christy Rilling Studio. “I wanted a dress that I could have fun in,” she shared, “but that still brought the glamour.” Their first dance was set to Michael Bublé‘s “Everything.”

Kate Upton and Justin Verlander didn’t just want a wedding in Italy, they wanted a true experience. “It was really important to Justin and me that it feel like we were on vacation with our closest friends and family,” Upton told Vogue. “We set up an entire afternoon dedicated to interactive games, which we called the Uplander Olympics.” Guests participated in a “ping-pong tournament, cornhole, a football toss, relay races, and an epic water balloon fight” ahead of the couple’s rehearsal dinner that evening, where they requested guests wear red. Upton donned a red Valentino gown while Verlander sported a custom-made red tuxedo jacket. The next day, the ceremony and reception took place at the Rosewood Castiglion Del Bosco resort. “We found a beautiful corner of paradise that Tuscany Flowers helped transform into our ‘secret garden,’” Upton shared. “It was the first time the property had ever held a ceremony in this location.” Upton kept with Valentino when designing her ceremony dress because it’s “the best at creating delicate, beautiful lace and details, and their Italian heritage kept the fashion and feel authentic to our venue,” she said. During the reception, which took place in a greenhouse custom built for the couple, Upton ditched the conservative gown and opted for a sheer number, designed by Christy Rilling Studio. “I wanted a dress that I could have fun in,” she shared, “but that still brought the glamour.” Their first dance was set to Michael Bublé‘s “Everything.”

David Meza has been sentenced to life in prison in connection with the brutal murder of his boyfriend in 2015. The adult film star, who was reportedly leading a double life at the time of the murder, reportedly stabbed then-boyfriend Jake Merendino 24 times before slitting his throat and dumping his body in a ravine just off a highway in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, NBC San Diego reported. According to People magazine, the 27-year-old was sentenced to an additional 20 years behind bars due to a conspiracy to obstruct justice conviction handed down during a May court appearance. During that same trial, Meza was charged with domestic violence resulting in murder. A judge described the crime against Merendino as "shockingly evil," People stated. "The Merriam dictionary defines 'heinous' as hatefully or shockingly evil, abominable," U.S. District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller said during the hearing on Monday. "The murder was shockingly evil — excessively so." Miller went on to paint a picture of what Meza did to his beau, describing the repeated "torture" he endured. "If we try to visualize what happened, we visualize blow, after blow, after blow, after blow, after slash, after slash, after slash, after blow, and repeat another three times," Miller described. "One can't even imagine the torture and torment Mr. Merendino experienced." Citing conversations inside the court room, People reported that authorities argued that Meza killed Merendino in the hopes of inheriting his $3 million estate along with his $273,000 condo with an oceanfront view. The 51-year-old inherited his fortune from his parents, both of whom were employed at one time by ExxonMobil. Merendino made Meza the beneficiary of the condo and drafted a will on hotel letterhead in December 2014, just over a year after the pair met. In it, Meza was chosen as the heir to Merendino's fortune. Miller said during sentencing that Meza's crime was fueled by desperation and greed, stating that his secretive life was falling to bits around him. "His double life was collapsing under his own weight. A solution was the savage murder of Mr. Merendino," the judge stated. When the killing occurred in May 2015, authorities claimed Meza was working as an online escort. Unbeknownst to Merendino, People reported, Meza was dating a woman named Taylor Langston. Langston was pregnant when the crime occurred and was called in to assist in covering up Merendino's murder. According to the publication, she pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. She told police that when Merendino died, she and her beau had just crossed into Mexico to visit a friend named "Joe." She claimed they spent four hours there before returning home to San Diego. Meza was charged with the same crime because authorities suspected he'd contacted "Joe" and requested a fake alibi for him and his girlfriend. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2476198.1450986469!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/merendino25n-2-web.jpg

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Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in length and about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) heavier than the official stats for hockey star Sidney Crosby. It measured nearly 5 feet, 10 inches (1.77 meters) long when swimming and weighed in at 223 pounds (101 kilograms). If the penguin and the Penguin faced off on the ice, however, things would look different. When standing, the ancient bird was maybe only 5-foot-3 (1.6 meters). The newly found bird is about 7 inches (18 centimeters) longer than any other ancient penguin that has left a substantial portion of a skeleton, said Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. A potentially bigger rival is known only from a fragment of leg bone, making a size estimate difficult. The biggest penguin today, the emperor in Antarctica, stands less than 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall. Mayr and others describe the giant creature in a paper released Tuesday by the journal Nature Communications. They named it Kumimanu biceae, which refers to Maori words for a large mythological monster and a bird, and the mother of one of the study's authors. The fossils are 56 million to 60 million years old. That's nearly as old as the very earliest known penguin fossils, which were much smaller, said Daniel Ksepka, curator at the Bruce Museum of Greenwich, Connecticut. He has studied New Zealand fossil penguins but didn't participate in the new study. The new discovery shows penguins "got big very rapidly" after the mass extinction of 66 million years ago that's best known for killing off the dinosaurs, he wrote in an email. That event played a big role in penguin history. Beforehand, a non-flying seabird would be threatened by big marine reptile predators, which also would compete with the birds for food. But once the extinction wiped out those reptiles, the ability to fly was not so crucial, opening the door for penguins to appear. Birds often evolve toward larger sizes after they lose the ability to fly, Mayr said. In fact, the new paper concludes that big size appeared more than once within the penguin family tree. What happened to the giants? Mayr said researchers believe they died out when large marine mammals like toothed whales and seals showed up and provided competition for safe breeding places and food. The newcomers may also have hunted the big penguins, he said.

A wild early morning rampage by a crazed teenager who allegedly slammed into a jogger in Prospect Park with a stolen car was just the beginning of his reign of terror, the Daily News has learned. Michael Gitelis, 18, stole the Hyundai Sonata in Camden, N.J., at some point after midnight Thursday and careened into Brooklyn, police sources said. He drove into Prospect Park and slammed into a 51-year-old woman jogging along the East Drive at about 5 a.m. She suffered a pelvic fracture, a spinal fracture and a cut to her head. Gitelis, of Flatlands (a part of Brooklyn), abandoned the Sonata and three hours later reappeared about 15 blocks away on E. 23rd St. near Avenue J where a 59-year-old woman had stepped out of her car but left it running, sources said. “He was wreaking havoc,” a police source said. He jumped into the 2016 Honda and took off. The woman emerged from the store, saw that her car has vanished and called 911. Cops in the 66th Precinct spotted the stolen Honda on E. 7th St. and pulled it over. After the cops left their car, Gitelis threw the car into reverse and slammed into their police cruiser and a parked car, according to police. He then jumped out and ran off on foot down 7th St. toward Avenue K. Soon yet another 911 call came in. About 15 blocks away, outside a building on E. 13th St. near Avenue N, Gitelis knocked a 61-year-old woman to the ground and jumped into her 2018 Toyota Camry, cops said. He threw the car into reverse and ran her over, fracturing her knee and cutting her right hand, arm and leg. Before medics rushed her to Maimonides Medical Center, she was able to tell police that she had left her iPhone in car. Using the Find My iPhone app, cops tracked the car to Brooklyn Borough Hall and swept in and arrested him at 9:34 a.m., five hours after his wild run began. Officers Jared Vazquez and Miguel Marquez were credited with making the arrest, sources said. “When was this guy going to stop?” the police source said. “Thankfully officers intervened before someone else got seriously hurt.” Cops found the Sonata stolen in New Jersey on E. 23rd St. Gitelis was hit with a range of charges including robbery, assault, auto theft, grand larceny, and leaving the scene of a crash. He was not intoxicated, sources said. Gitelis had been arrested Dec. 1 in Brooklyn for making graffiti and resisting arrest and on Oct. 20 for burglary. On Sept. 14, he posted to Facebook, “Anybody know someone who can give me 5 hrs of driving instruction b4 Mon?” He also recently posted a number of angry fatalistic raps about life. “Torn in every direction … I try to take off the shroud but I’m stuck in a cloud that not floating,” he wrote. “U keeping me down, feeling alone, feelings be told. Never sweating but always feel cold. Feels like I’m an elf just working for a magic man that never exists.” In his most recent post, on Nov. 27, he wrote, “Prob should reread these posts b4 I send them but f–k it whoever doesn’t like it can s–t it and the rest of u r just stuck with it.”

In a stall in a bathroom in one of NYC's gay porn theaters. I don't remember which one.

As a big league umpire, Dale Scott saw maybe 1 million pitches from the field. His final call, it turned out, was the easiest of all. Rather than risk yet another concussion, Scott has decided to retire at 58. “I’m done,” he told The Associated Press. The veteran crew chief missed nearly the entire 2017 season after a foul ball off the bat of Baltimore slugger Mark Trumbo in Toronto on April 14 caught him hard in the mask, causing Scott’s second concussion in nine months and fourth in five years. Within a few days, while undergoing treatment for head, neck and shoulder injuries, Scott realized it was the end of a major league career that began in 1985 and included three World Series assignments, three All-Star Games and 91 postseason games. “In fact, it was pretty easy,” he said. “I wasn’t planning on this year being the last one. But I thought, this is a sign.” Especially when he asked three doctors about the possible long-term effects if he got jarred again. “They said, ‘We just don’t know,'” Scott said. “But they told me that the more times you get hit, the more probability that you’ll have issues.” This summer, he saw Bruno Mars and Green Day in concert, watched Fourth of July fireworks from a boat near his home in Portland, Oregon, and enjoyed more time with husband Michael Rausch. They’ve been together since 1986 and were married in November 2013 in Palm Springs, California, by the city’s mayor. Scott came out as gay after the 2014 season. The next spring training, Reds outfielder Marlon Byrd gave Scott a big hug while trotting to the dugout. “You’re free, brother. I’m so proud of you,” Byrd told him. Says Scott: “I did feel free. I am who I am.” Scott’s decision will resonate, said Billy Bean, Major League Baseball’s vice president for social responsibility and inclusion. Bean came out as gay after his big league career ended in 1995. “He has achieved everything in his umpiring career, and has carried himself with integrity and garnered the respect of his peers and MLB players,” Bean said. “I am filled with pride as I reflect on all of his accomplishments. He’s a pro’s pro, who’s been a wonderful example to the LGBT community and all sports fans.” “Years ago, Dale reached out to me after my personal story went public,” he said. “If we had been able to have that conversation when I was still playing, I know it would have changed the course of my career. Dale’s legacy will undoubtedly continue to inspire others to pursue their dreams, and I hope we see the results around MLB soon.” Scott worked 3,897 regular-season games and was a crew chief for 16 seasons, half his career. “I was fortunate enough to have Dale as my crew chief for 10-plus years. A gifted umpire and true professional, he ran the crew with a smile as he mentored many of today’s most successful umpires,” fellow ump Dan Iassogna said. “The courage that he showed in coming out while still working on the field is as much of an accomplishment as his many World Series and postseason assignments,” he added. Scott acknowledged his decision to retire might have been more difficult if his circumstances were different — say, he was 40 and hadn’t worked the World Series. Now, he walks away with his health intact. And if there were any doubts, he keeps the video of that last violent concussion on his cellphone. MLB provides long-term disability for umpires who cannot work because of concussion effects, the same as it does for other permanent injuries. Scott wonders about umpires who are cleared as part of the concussion protocol and then face the choice of continuing to work and risk further injury, or leaving the game. “That needs to be addressed,” he said. “Maybe my situation can be a catalyst for that.” His future will include rooting like crazy for the Oregon Ducks and, having been a Top 40 AM radio DJ in high school, perhaps some voice work. Scott also can look back on all the games he did: Among them, he was the plate umpire for Scott Erickson’s no-hitter, he worked a season-opening series in Australia, and was the last umpire to eject hot-tempered manager Billy Martin. And there was that game at old County Stadium in 1986, when a big crowd turned out to welcome the hugely popular Gorman Thomas back to the Milwaukee Brewers. The first time Thomas batted, Scott called strike three. The fading slugger went 0 for 4 and when he got rung up in his last at-bat, it was more than Thomas could take. “It’s my night,” he pleaded with the rookie ump, “not yours!”

For years -- perhaps even decades, Donald Trump has been known for being brash, outspoken and easily confrontational. Those traits have been criticized by some and applauded by many as part of his frank and no-nonsense approach to his career and life in the White House. But a doctor who specializes in brain injury medicine has suggested in a new article that those very behaviors could indicate that the president suffers from a “degenerative brain disorder" and that he should be tested. “I see worrisome symptoms that fall into three main categories: problems with language and executive function; problems with social cognition and behavior; and problems with memory, attention, and concentration,” Dr. Ford Vox wrote in a piece published by the medical news site STAT last week. Vox names a series of specific examples from his time on the campaign trail and in office as signs of a bigger medical problem, including fragmented and repetitive speech patterns, the battles he engaged some Gold Star families in -- and even his regular claim that millions of illegal votes were cast for rival Hillary Clinton, which has not been substantiated by any reputable reporting. "I see worrisome symptoms that fall into three main categories: problems with language and executive function; problems with social cognition and behavior; and problems with memory, attention, and concentration," he writes. "None of these are symptoms of being a bad or mean person. Nor do they require spelunking into the depths of his psyche to understand. Instead, they raise concern for a neurocognitive disease process in the same sense that wheezing raises the alarm for asthma." "It’s time to discuss these issues in a clinical context…even if the president has a physical exam early next year and releases the records, as announced by the White House, what he really needs is thorough cognitive testing,” he continues. He also acknowledges that the evidence provided is not sufficient for a diagnosis, which is why he advocates testing. "It’s entirely possible that the president does not have predementia or is not progressing toward dementia. But he is definitely behaving as such," he adds. Vox joins a small, but growing chorus of medical experts who have spoke out about the president's behavior in clinical terms. Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee has written two editorials on the matter in the past weeks, one for NBC and another in The New York Times, stressing the need for medical testing in both instances. “Trump has already exceeded our usual threshold for evaluation," Lee claimed in his piece for NBC. If reports are accurate, the behaviors may not not gone unnoticed inside the White House either. Most recently, Trump's "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz said during an interview on MSNBC that a number of White House officials have expressed concerns about Trump’s “mental health." “I know that two different people from the White House ― or at least saying that they were from the White House and that turned out to be a White House number ― have called somebody I know in the last several weeks to say, ‘We are deeply concerned about his mental health,'" he said.

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For me, she's a 3-hit wonder. STRONGER is her best, but I also like CRAZY & LUCKY.

Ah, my late husband... if cellphones had existed back then, I'd have met him. My friend's a cameraman for CNN. He filmed an interview with Jon-Erik promoting COVER UP. He tried to reach me all day, but couldn't. I had to settle for an unedited copy of the tape. It begins with him talking about fate... how there's no sense to worry about things... he didn't look for a reason for why things happen. He mentioned people dying under accidental circumstances as an example.

The cast of the upcoming fox show THE RESIDENT: Matt Czuchry as Senior Resident Conrad Hawkins[3] Manish Dayal as Dr. Devon Pravesh[4] Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Soloman Bell[4] Emily VanCamp as Nurse Nicolette "Nic"[5] Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor[6] Merrin Dungey as Claire Thorpe Melina Kanakaredes as Dr. Lane Hunter Moran Atias as TBA

The cast of the upcoming fox show THE RESIDENT: Matt Czuchry as Senior Resident Conrad Hawkins[3] Manish Dayal as Dr. Devon Pravesh[4] Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Soloman Bell[4] Emily VanCamp as Nurse Nicolette "Nic"[5] Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor[6] Merrin Dungey as Claire Thorpe Melina Kanakaredes as Dr. Lane Hunter Moran Atias as TBA

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At least twice a week, an 8-year-old Maude Julien was made to grasp an electric fence for 10 minutes at a time without betraying any feeling — no twitching or grimacing, not even a blink. The cruel ritual, supervised by her father, was considered a test of her willpower as he sought to turn her into the “ultimate survivor.” “I held on with both hands, and it was most important to show no reaction at the moment of the power surges,” recalled Julien, now 60, to The Post. “I had to stay impassive.” As if that weren’t disturbing enough, once a month, the little girl was locked overnight in a rat-infested cellar to “meditate about death.” Julien, now a grandmother living in Paris, has chronicled her horrifying childhood in the memoir “The Only Girl in the World” (Little Brown, out Tuesday). According to the book, she spent 18 years being mind-controlled by her paranoid dad, who belonged to an esoteric lodge of Freemasonry that dabbled in the occult and subscribed to a mishmash of oddball philosophies. He believed in a fallen world and thought that there would one day be an uprising of evil. In his mind, Maude had been chosen as a leader and his protector. “He was most definitely insane and an alcoholic,” said Julien of her father, Louis Didier, who died in 1981 at age 79. Didier, who became relatively wealthy from selling transport stock after World War II, created Maude for his own twisted purposes. It started when he adopted a 6-year-old girl, Jeannine, in 1936, then groomed her to become his wife. In November 1957, Jeannine gave birth to the child whom her husband would put through experiments to raise the perfect “superhuman.” The trio lived in an isolated mansion in northern France, where Julien was home-schooled and subjected to Didier’s countless “endurance tests.” These ranged from being dangled over a cliff and assisting in the slaughter of livestock, to drinking whiskey before having to walk in a straight line. To this day, Julien has liver damage from all the alcohol her father forced on her. For 10 years, between the ages 3 and 13, she was sexually abused by a laborer who worked on the estate. Meanwhile, Julien was forbidden from leaving the compound for nearly a decade. Her only companions were her dog and two ponies whom she adored. “I really think that, without my animals, I wouldn’t be alive today,” she said. “They gave me physical contact and warmth because nobody [in my family] was allowed to touch each other in the house. “I learned love and compassion from them.” She sought solace in books, though Didier dictated what she read. Eventually she became fond of Dostoyevsky and, particularly, “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas — which inspired Julien to dream of her escape. Amazingly, despite the mind control and hypnosis, the girl resisted being totally drawn into her father’s “cult of three.” But she suffered from self-loathing and took to self-harm as a coping mechanism. Mercifully, her savior came in 1972 in the form of a music tutor, Andre Molin, who arrived to teach her how to play the accordion and piano. “He played along with my father for three years to gain his trust,” explained Julien of how Molin eventually helped free her from the house. “Then he got my dad’s permission to teach me at his shop in a nearby town and I eventually got a job there.” When Julien was 18, Didier allowed her to wed a young musician she’d met during classes — with the caveat that she’d leave him after six months and return home a virgin. She seized the opportunity and fled for good. The six-year marriage produced a daughter, now 35. Julien later settled down with another man and had a second daughter in 1990. Julien is still estranged from her own mother, to whom the memoir is dedicated. “She is a victim and I sent the book to her with a note,” she said. “She didn’t react directly but I heard through intermediaries that she was afraid and wasn’t happy I wrote it.” Over the years, Julien has received intensive therapy to help cope with the traumas of the past. After receiving her psychology degree, she now treats patients of her own. She admits that writing her memoir triggered flashbacks to her childhood horrors. But she’s relieved her story’s being published. She said: “I really want it to be a book of hope — I consider it an escape manual.”