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If The Grits You Cook Aren't Smooth, Here's How An Expert Makes Them Extra Creamy APPLE.NEWS Have you struggled with cooking grits that didn't come out as smooth as you'd like? Well, if this is the case...

Doesn't matter. When asked if he was upset at being left off the All-Star team he said something like "of course, that would've been a lot of money for me." He will be demanding $146 million per season.

The NBA's Phoenix Suns just signed Devin Booker (best known for formerly dating one of the Jenners) to an extension that'll pay him close to three times per team game what the Mets are paying Soto. Booker: (2 seasons) 164 team games, $145 million Soto: (1 season) 162 team games, $51 million Soto demands to renegotiate in 3... 2... 1...

A taste of France arrives in Forest Hills with the opening of Tourmaline – QNS QNS.COM A taste of France has arrived in Forest Hills with the opening of Tourmaline, a new restaurant offering a... A hidden gem in Whitestone, Concettina serves up authentic Amalfi Coast cuisine – QNS QNS.COM Give your summer nights an Italian flair at Concettina, a Southern Italian restaurant nestled in the heart of... Average price of Queens houses surpasses $1M in Q2 2025: Report – QNS QNS.COM The second quarter of 2025 marked the first time that the average price for one-to-three-family homes in Queens... $1,000,000

Man Who Accused Perry of Sexual Harassment Speaks Out for First Time: 'I Couldn't Stay Silent Anymore' https://www.aol.com/man-accused-tyler-perry-sexual-224053731.html

Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick's advice that struggling families should eat cereal for dinner to save money has consumers reacting to the year-old campaign. LET THEM EAT NUTELLA! Nutella-maker Ferrero to gobble up cereal giant Kellogg for $3.1 billion STOCKS.APPLE.COM Italian candy giant Ferrero offered the American breakfast company a $3.1 billion deal too sweet to pass up.

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What began as a simple, innocuous phone notification this spring evolved quickly into a real estate mystery and multimillion-dollar legal dispute for Issaquah property owners accused of illegally chopping and stripping dozens of trees on public land. Stumps and barren trunks jut into the sky where once stood a thick copse of Douglas fir, western red cedar, Sitka spruce, hemlocks and maples. The cut extends well into King County’s Grand Ridge Park. The thinning is so apparent, a new hole in the forest can be seen from Interstate 90. What remains is a much clearer line of sight between three mansions on the hill and the mountains to the south. The people who own the properties are no secret. Four of them work in real estate and the fifth is running for public office on Mercer Island. But who was hired to clear these decades-old trees and why the work cut so deeply into public property remains unclear. County officials don’t yet know and the property owners aren’t saying. One is, however, distancing herself from the cuttings entirely while another is defending the work. Attorneys for King County filed a lawsuit on June 6 against all five property owners. The suit, filed in Superior Court of Washington for King County, cites millions of dollars in damages. For the company (or companies) behind the cuttings, county lawyers listed only pseudonyms. The King County sheriff’s office is also investigating the case to determine whether criminal charges are warranted. Nearby homeowner Alex Brown alerted county officials to the cutting this spring. When one natural resources officer visited the scene, he said they told him it amounted to a “massacre” and the “most egregious vandalism” of this kind they’d ever seen. The illegally cut and damaged trees leave behind serious and generational harm to a protected natural area, County Parks Director Warren Jimenez said in a statement. Not only did the property owners cut into large trees themselves, they cut into a sensitive and hazardous habitat, exposing the steep hillside and surrounding ecosystem to risk well into the future. “This kind of damage undermines decades of public investment in environmental conservation and responsible land management, and we are committed to holding accountable those who violate the public’s trust and damage our shared natural resources,” Jimenez said. While Brown and other neighbors expressed concern over the cuttings and their personal safety downhill, the defendants themselves have offered little information. King County officials continue to investigate and attorneys are seeking a jury trial to determine the full extent of the damage. Brown moved into his rural Issaquah home about two years ago and especially loves the access to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. He’s an experienced thru-hiker and trail runner, and he hunts and fishes. He also keeps a trail camera in a small, sloped clearing about 75 yards behind his house to track wildlife. That area is a remote section of King County’s Grand Ridge Park. Alerts pop up on Brown’s phone intermittently, letting him know the camera detected movement and sending him a single photo of the footage captured. Sometimes he’ll see bears, coyotes, even mountain lions. He’s started a blog and contributes to a local YouTube channel to share the video clips and his musings. In late March, Brown said he received a different type of photo: What appeared to be a fallen tree. That’s funny, he thought. If a tree falls in the forest … You know the saying. The footage was no laughing matter, though. Brown watched as a large log, stripped of its branches, barreled down the steep hillside like a missile. It wedged itself under another, larger log just steps from the trail cam. Footage from Alex Brown’s trail camera shows a large log, stripped of its branches, barreled down the steep hillside like a missile in King County’s Grand Ridge Park. The video set off a multi-million-dollar legal dispute for Issaquah property owners accused of illegally chopping and stripping dozens of trees on public land. Brown, a journalist, followed the clues. From the log’s final resting place, he could see a path of destruction leading all the way up the steep slope, toward an expensive and private development off Issaquah’s Grand Ridge Drive. He and a fellow neighbor scrambled up the incline, through spider webs and what began as a simple, innocuous phone notification this spring evolved quickly into a real estate mystery and multimillion-dollar legal dispute for Issaquah property owners accused of illegally chopping and stripping dozens of trees on public land. At the top they found more destruction than they anticipated. Dozens of trees had been slashed and sawed. Some had been cut down entirely, others were stripped of their branches except for small tufts up high. Others still had been “topped,” or cut higher up the trunk. “My jaw dropped,” Brown said. In the background sat three mansions and manicured lawns. Brown said he approached one of the property owners, Sam Cunningham, about the cuts and received apologies. He said Cunningham (who did not respond to a request for comment for this story) told him that another neighbor had hired a “licensed, bonded arborist” on behalf of the property owners. This was a case of an arborist going rogue and exceeding their brief — they had specifically not been authorized to cut county park trees, Cunningham reportedly told Brown. The uphill neighbor asked Brown to allow those up top to take the lead on reporting the incident to the county. But Brown and his neighbors contacted the county themselves. Attorneys for King County filed a lawsuit on June 6 against all five property owners. The suit, filed in Superior Court of Washington for King County, cites millions of dollars in damages. For the company (or companies) behind the cuttings, county lawyers listed only pseudonyms. The King County sheriff’s office is also investigating the case to determine whether criminal charges are warranted. Nearby homeowner Alex Brown alerted county officials to the cutting this spring. When one natural resources officer visited the scene, he said they told him it amounted to a “massacre” and the “most egregious vandalism” of this kind they’d ever seen. The illegally cut and damaged trees leave behind serious and generational harm to a protected natural area, County Parks Director Warren Jimenez said in a statement. Not only did the property owners cut into large trees themselves, they cut into a sensitive and hazardous habitat, exposing the steep hillside and surrounding ecosystem to risk well into the future. “This kind of damage undermines decades of public investment in environmental conservation and responsible land management, and we are committed to holding accountable those who violate the public’s trust and damage our shared natural resources,” Jimenez said. While Brown and other neighbors expressed concern over the cuttings and their personal safety downhill, the defendants themselves have offered little information. King County officials continue to investigate and attorneys are seeking a jury trial to determine the full extent of the damage. Revisiting the site in June and climbing between cut logs, Brown examined the debris left behind. He remains highly skeptical that such widespread damage could have been an accident. “You’d have to have so much skill and so much manpower to pull this off,” he said. Investigating county officials spray-painted large, orange numbers on the trees and stumps cut on county property. One by one the numbers tick upward, tallying the damage. In all, 72 trees were stripped of their limbs, 45 cut down, 18 topped and seven more damaged in some other way. One hundred and forty two in total. More trees were cut and damaged on private land, and county officials confirmed no clearing permits had been issued for any of the three properties in question. Stop work orders are now stapled to several remaining trees in the park. County attorneys filed their lawsuit in early June, listing Cunningham, his wife, Laura Brice Cunningham, Vlad and Jessica Popach and Julie Hsieh as defendants. The Cunninghams and Popaches work in real estate and Hsieh is running for Mercer Island City Council. The suit accuses the defendants and unknown companies of multiple trespassing counts, damage to public land, negligence, and damage to environmentally critical lands at risk of landslide or erosion. County attorneys estimate the damage adds up to about $2.3 million. State law allows for such damages to be tripled in these cases, which would bring the total to nearly $7 million. Pending additional costs for restoration, emotional damage, arborist fees and court costs should also be tripled, the complaint says. While the cuttings damaged King County land, they likely increased the property values for the homes at the top of the hill by improving their views of nearby mountains, the attorneys argue. Damages to be determined in a trial should consider this boost in equity, the complaint says. Similar cases have settled for far less. The city of Seattle brought a similar lawsuit against West Seattle homeowners in 2017 after they destroyed more than 150 trees there. The city agreed to settle for $440,000 and offered one family immunity from criminal charges in exchange for naming other property owners involved. Hsieh pushed back strongly against the allegations within the lawsuit and her involvement. She lives on Mercer Island but served as the registered agent for her parents’ corporation (also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit) through which they bought the Issaquah home. Her parents closed on the house earlier in March and hadn’t yet moved in when the cuttings took place, she said. Never before had the family met the Popaches or Cunninghams, Hsieh said in a text. “Still don’t know them,” she said. “Now there’s a gaping hole with a few damaged trees where there used to be beautiful trees.” “My family got dragged into this,” she added. Hsieh said she hopes those who “committed this terrible act” are brought to swift justice. Vlad Popach confirmed Hsieh was not involved. Many of the other details he provided, though, raised more questions. Popach said in an email exchange this week the remaining property owners wanted to cut the trees because he believed they posed a threat to the homes in question, citing widespread wind damage from windstorms last winter. Popach acknowledged he knew the arborists would be cutting on King County land. The neighbors had called county officials to discuss the matter and received “verbal permission” greenlighting the cuttings, he said. But Popach said he doesn’t remember the name of the county official who gave the permission. As for the cuttings on private property, Popach said he does not believe permits were needed and that none of the work was carried out to improve the views for these homes, he said. As the county’s lawsuit moves forward, officials declined to comment on the case further. Popach refused to name those who might be able to back up his claims: the arborists. Caitlin McNulty and her husband moved to the area about 18 months ago with their infant son and they live not far from Brown. McNulty’s husband was actually the one who scrambled up the hill with Brown. They’re displeased and frightened by the cuttings. What if that falling log hadn’t been stopped on its way down the hill, McNulty wonders. It might have hurt somebody or even kept going all the way to I-90. Trees in the area are susceptible to high winds, she said. But the trees that were cut sat downslope from the homes in question and also were hundreds of feet away from them. “You want to feel like your neighbors have your back,” McNulty said. “It makes me feel even worse that they’re pretending to be safe while actively putting my family in danger.” The area is prone to landslides, McNulty said. That sort of risk can be mitigated by trees anchoring soils to the mountainside. And these trees belonged to the county, so they should have been protected. But now, many of them have been cut or damaged and McNulty wants a slope assessment to determine whether the landslide risk has increased. Yes, the mysterious crews physically cut these trees, McNulty said. But she holds the people who hired them more responsible for the damage.

Asian supermarket 99 Ranch Market will open its first New York City location in Flushing on Friday, July 25, debuting a 37,000-square-foot facility that combines grocery shopping, dining and entertainment under one roof. Located at 37-11 Main St., between 37th and 38th avenues, the long-awaited flagship marks a major expansion for the California-based grocery chain, which has developed a loyal following for its high-quality Asian products. The two-level store includes a 22,000-square-foot ground floor market stocked with over 10,000 curated Asian food items, premium meats, fresh produce and a live seafood section. Customers will be able to hand-pick live fish and have it steamed or fried on-site—services rarely offered at New York supermarkets. The interior will feature wide aisles, natural lighting, and clean, contemporary finishes. Asian supermarket giant 99 Ranch Market to open first NYC store in Flushing – QNS QNS.COM Asian supermarket 99 Ranch Market will open its first New York City location in Flushing on Friday, July...

Asian supermarket giant 99 Ranch Market to open first NYC store in Flushing – QNS QNS.COM Asian supermarket 99 Ranch Market will open its first New York City location in Flushing on Friday, July... Asian supermarket 99 Ranch Market will open its first New York City location in Flushing on Friday, July 25, debuting a 37,000-square-foot facility that combines grocery shopping, dining and entertainment under one roof. Located at 37-11 Main St., between 37th and 38th avenues, the long-awaited flagship marks a major expansion for the California-based grocery chain, which has developed a loyal following for its high-quality Asian products. The two-level store includes a 22,000-square-foot ground floor market stocked with over 10,000 curated Asian food items, premium meats, fresh produce and a live seafood section. Customers will be able to hand-pick live fish and have it steamed or fried on-site—services rarely offered at New York supermarkets. The interior will feature wide aisles, natural lighting, and clean, contemporary finishes.

Hire a cleaning person to clean out your cabinets.

Limited-edition ‘Welcome to Queens’ street signs go on sale as part of NYC DOT’s monthly drop – QNS QNS.COM A limited sale of authentic “Welcome to Queens” street signs, celebrating the city’s most diverse borough is... The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) on Thursday launched a limited sale of authentic “Welcome to Queens” street signs, celebrating the city’s most diverse borough through its monthly sign drop initiative. Only 50 of the hand-crafted signs—produced by the DOT’s Maspeth-based Sign Shop—are available for purchase through the CityStore website, the official store of the City of New York. Each sign is priced at $100, with a limit of one per customer. Proceeds will benefit the city’s general fund.

200 million year-old flying reptile species found APPLE.NEWS The newly discovered flying reptile is the oldest pterosaur in North America.

https://www.aol.com/hollywood-legend-101-recalls-scandalous-190808863.html Eva Marie Saint turned 101 on July 4 and to celebrate, Remind Magazine resurfaced an interview she did a few years ago about her iconic 1959 thriller North by Northwest alongside 1950s heartthrob Cary Grant. In the interview, Saint talks about her intimate scene with Grant and what it was like working with director Alfred Hitchcock. When Hitchcock came calling for North By Northwest, Saint already had an Oscar to her name, but she said in the interview that MGM didn't want her for the leading role opposite Grant — they wanted Cyd Charisse. But Hitchcock fought for Saint. "Hitchcock wanted the ‘cool blonde.’ I remember saying to my husband, ‘Hitchcock sees me as a sexy spy lady!’ And my husband said, ‘So do I!’ He’s a director, so there I had the OK from Hitch and my husband!" said Saint, who was married to director Jeffrey Hayden from 1951 until his death in 2016. Hayden was a renowned TV director, helming episodes of such shows as Peyton Place, Quincy M.E., That Girl, Magnum P.I., In the Heat of the Night and dozens more classic shows. When Saint read the North by Northwest script, she recalled thinking "Oh, this would be really fun" to film and she went on to say that it definitely was. "We worked hard, but we had such a good time working with Hitch," said Saint, adding of the famed director, "His demeanor on the set and his relationship with the actors … the respect he showed [them] … he checked out everything … he was so prepared." She also said that the film was definitely a little scandalous for 1959 and coyly added, "But we kept our clothes on, didn't we?" North by Northwest was the only Hitchcock film that Saint would act in over her 8-decades-long career. It was also the only one she did with Grant. But she had plenty of other famous co-stars — Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, for which she won her Oscar, Don Murray in A Hatful of Rain, for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in the Civil War romantic drama Raintree County.

May the chickens exert their vengeance on you!

McMahon and Mario Lopez talking whilst showering.

When it walks out of the fridge on its own.

8 PM, July 4th is the perfect time to go shopping… Nobody in the store. Except that they jack up the prices for the holiday... Eight 2L bottles of Coke Zero... Balance due… $102.64. The cashier had a wee bit of trouble with the rain check process.

I have a few packets of gravy mix that predate the discovery of fire, which seems to make no sense.

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McMahon had cancer; he never told anyone.

She is no longer a spring chicken of 100. Feliz cumpleanos!

Is that a euphemism?