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What is…lust? ‘Jeopardy!’ viewers swoon over ‘hot priest’ contestant Father Steve Jakubowski, 29 One fan commented, “There is an extremely attractive Catholic priest on Jeopardy, and that’s just not fair.”

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I checked and the pens have an expiration date of January 2026.

There’s buzz in the film world that Netflix ain’t so happy with Martha Stewart after the domestic diva dared to slam her upcoming documentary, “Martha.” Adding to the awkward situation, we hear the streaming service flew Stewart via private jet to the film’s premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. A source told Page Six: “As you can imagine, Netflix is pissed. During a Q&A with the Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles at a diner for CEOs on Sept. 10, Stewart reportedly said that the doc’s director, R.J. Cutler, “refused to change anything.” “I try not to talk publicly about the things I don’t like, [as] it’s not good business,” she allegedly said during the discussion with Coles. But, “I can talk a little bit badly about that,” she quipped of the film. Stewart then said, according to the Daily Beast, “It’s more about my stupid trial, which was so unfair.”

Vroom doom Crazy video shows woman stealing Porsche and running over owner in his driveway Police are searching for a woman who was captured on video running over a man in a Porsche — just moments after she expressed interest in buying his luxury car. Beep Beep.wav what the hell r u doing.wav toodle-oo.wav Here Comes Trouble.wav oh shit.wav Please Come Again.wav TheyKilledKenny.wav Thank you, precious!.wav

Ready to roll the dice and take a tour of Queens, one property at a time? The world’s most famous board game is getting a local twist with the debut of MONOPOLY: Queens Edition. This special version of the iconic game will be officially unveiled on Saturday, Oct. 5, at Queens Center Mall, located at 90-15 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst. The MONOPOLY: Queens Edition replaces the perennial board game’s spaces (from ‘Boardwalk’ to ‘Park Place’) with Queens’ own landmarks, organizations and businesses. It features customized Community Chest and Chance playing cards to ensure the board is a historic and enduring tribute to one of the most popular destinations in the eastern U.S.

Pennsylvania’s dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought back to life to feed the voracious energy needs of Microsoft under an unprecedented deal announced Friday in which the tech giant would buy 100 percent of its power for 20 years.

How can that be when you don't even look old enough to drive?

Ohtani became the first player in major league history with multiple home runs, multiple stolen bases and five hits in a game (he also had seven RBIs at the time). When he hit his third home run in the ninth inning, he became just the second player with six hits and five extra-base hits in a game, matching former Dodgers outfielder Shawn Green (Ohtani broke Green's club record of 49 home runs on Thursday, as well). And Ohtani is the first player with five extra-base hits and 10 RBIs in a game. He is two Home runs behind Judge and given how both have been lately I wouldn't be surprised if he ties or surpasses him before the end of the season. With 34 doubles, seven triples, and 51 homers he is eight extra base hits shy of 100. I wouldn't put that past him, either. His 51 homers have come off of 50 pitchers. And his home runs came in his last three at bats of the game, so if he homers in his first at bat in his next game…

I was on it for 7 months last year, until I couldn't afford to refill it, so I am familiar with it- I'm just still in the mood to binge eat (and further exacerbate my health problems).

I've been eating non-stop for a couple of months and have put on almost 10 pounds. I'm completely out of control. I saw my endocrinologist 9/6 and he said he'd see if he had any Ozempic samples to give me if I thought it would help get me restarted. It turns out he had a 3 month supply. It's still unopened 2 weeks later.

6-6. 2 doubles. 3 HR. 10 RBI. 2 SB. 150 599 123 176 34 7 51 120 77 158 51 4 .294 .376 .629 1.005 Any guesses?

Wild video shows an 8-year-old Ohio girl swerving her family’s SUV across lanes on a 25-minute joyride to go shopping in Target. Dashcam footage released Wednesday shows alarmed motorist Justin Kimery calling 911 on Sunday, assuming it was an adult driving dangerously in a 2020 Nissan Rogue. “There’s a guy in a car, he’s like right behind me. He’s swerving all over, he’s swerving everywhere like in all the lanes,” Kimery said — not realizing at first it was a young girl behind the wheel. The girl had $400 on her and used it to shop around — which police said they made sure she returned to her parents. She had checked out before cops arrived, employees said, without detailing exactly what she bought. While no one was hurt during her long-winded spin behind the wheel, the little girl confessed she smashed a mailbox somewhere along her route, leaving a dent in her parents’ car. https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/footage-shows-eight-year-old-ohio-girls-joyride-to-target/

Dear Valued Guests, Today is a great day for Red Lobster! We are happy to announce that Red Lobster has successfully exited its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Red Lobster is now stronger, more resilient, and ready for a bright new chapter – supported by our loyal guests, dedicated team members, and new ownership who are committed to investing in Red Lobster’s future. We’ve been inspired by the countless stories you’ve shared with us over the past few months of how Red Lobster has been a part of your lives—from celebrating milestone birthdays and anniversaries, to being the place for first dates that turned into lifelong partnerships. We’re excited to create new cherished moments with you as we turn the page to start writing Red Lobster’s next chapter. That chapter begins now. You’ll start to see the positive impact of investments in Red Lobster across each of our 545 restaurants in the USA and Canada. We’re more excited than ever to serve you the high-quality seafood that has made us a beloved family tradition for over 56 years – and to hear how our improvements are making your cherished moments even more special. Red Lobster Source: https://m.em.redlobster.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp

Stunning drone footage shows vulnerable oceanfront houses that dot the Outer Banks on the brink of collapsing into the sea. The footage — recorded Friday by WRAL News in Raleigh-Durham — caught a cluster of homes in Rodanthe, North Carolina, that the water seems particularly intent on claiming. The banks have already foreclosed on some of the houses, which once stood about 100 yards away from the rising surf, one homeowner said. “So many people say hateful things [and] ask why we built our house in the middle of the ocean,” said Sharon Troy, whose family has owned one of the homes for 16 years. “It was not like this when we bought it,” she said of her house, which is near a pile of sand that used to be GA Kohler Street. “There was a football field of beach behind these houses.” Not anymore. Now it stands in the path of waves with a group of other homes after years of beach erosion and high winds as sea levels rise. The waves splash wildly against the wooden footings of the houses — even at low tide, the station said. And their septic tanks have cracked open, spilling sewage into the water. “It wasn’t like this just a few years ago. And, we aren’t rich people. We are hard-working normal people. We can’t afford to move it,” she said. “There is nowhere to move it,” Troy continued. “The insurance company won’t pay out until it falls over.” Mark Gray, of WM Dunn Construction, told WRAL that his company has been contracted to clean up debris from at least five of the homes in the last few years. “When it’s rough like this, like when the last one went in, we had to clean 11 miles of beach,” Gray told the station. “It’s a mess.” The waves do their damage quickly — Gray said that between Monday and Tuesday last week, the ocean swallowed up another few feet of sand. “It’s changed the whole dynamics of this thing,” the contractor said. “Eventually, when the ocean erodes enough of the beach, then it takes the foundation out from under the house,” he continued. “As it lost beach, it lost the sand under its pilings and eventually the house just collapsed.” “We’re bringing more equipment down to get ready for the potential collapse of the house,” he added. “Everything’s changed now. If the house falls, there’s no beach to get on to clean it up, so I don’t know what we’re going to do.” “It’s a really unfortunate situation because that debris can scatter long distances across the seashore,” Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Dave Hallac told the station. Climate change is further exacerbating the natural erosion that shifts the sands of the ever-changing barrier islands, Hallac said. And that puts more and more buildings at risk. “When you add a foot of water or 2 feet of water, that just makes everything worse,” Hallac said. Meanwhile, saltwater floods the neighborhood’s sandy, barely-paved streets, reminding the 200 or so residents left that their little beach community is on the clock. “It’s incredibly sad,” Troy, the homeowner, said. “All we can do is hope and pray.” The troubling scene has played out time and again along the Outer Banks, a 200-mile string of barrier islands off North Carolina and Virginia. Last month, another house in Rodanthe collapsed into the sea in a caught-on-camera disaster —and it was the seventh house to be carried away by rising tides in just the last four years. David and Teresa Kern of Hershey, Pennsylvania, had bought the four-bedroom, two-bathroom vacation home in 2019 for $339,000. The destruction left the couple scrambling to salvage what they could of their finances. The Kern’s 1,500 square-foot home collapsed into the ocean back in August. Debris from the home is seen washed up on shore. A cluster of homes in Rodanthe, North Carolina, are on the brink of collapse because of sea level rise and erosion

This historic cruise ship once had a bright future, but now it’s been repossessed by the city of Stockton, California. After purchasing the former German passenger liner and “pocket” cruise ship Wappen von Hamburg on Craigslist in 2008, Utah-bred tech entrepreneur Chris Wilson spent 15 years and more than $1 million painstakingly restoring it, CNN reported. He renamed it Aurora, for a time lived on it with his partner Jin Li, and moved it to multiple California waterways as he poured countless hours into rehabilitating the vessel — with dreams of transforming it into a museum. For some time, Wilson appeared to be well on his way to giving Aurora a fresh lease on life. That’s until multiple other large ships sunk near where it was moored just outside of Stockton and, realizing “there was really no future for Aurora” at that location, he decided to offload it. In October 2023, he says, he sold Aurora. “Maybe Aurora wasn’t in the right place,” Li commented to CNN. “Maybe if Aurora was in a different state, or a different country it would have been different.” Then, this May, Aurora began sinking. “It has been determined the ship has suffered a hole and is taking on water and is currently leaking diesel fuel and oil into the Delta Waterway,” the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office posted on X. Far from one man’s passion project, it has now become Stockton’s headache. The city has taken over the ship, which community relations officer Connie Cochran told CNN currently has “no clear ownership” and is working on “figuring out how to dispose of the vessel,” a goal that is complicated by the fact that Aurora is located beyond the city’s technical limits and is more than 2,400 tons. “We absolutely loved our time with that ship,” Wilson told CNN, adding of the present situation: “It haunts me and I lose sleep over it. I’m not happy about it.”

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You were distracted thinking about your fantasy football picks. I believe you picked these...

DEAR ABBY: My mom is getting remarried at the age of 84 to a man who is 83 and has never been married. They got engaged after dating for six months. I think it’s unwise, but I want her to be happy, so I will go to the wedding. She asked her best friend to be her maid of honor, and then asked my brother to be best man because her fiance didn’t have anybody who would do it. I expressed my frustration that she asked him to be best man and not me to be her maid of honor. Now she wants me to be the maid of honor, but I really don’t want to do it because I’m not in favor of the marriage. Looking back, I should’ve kept my mouth shut about my frustration. Should I do it out of love and respect for Mom, or hold my ground because I really think it’s a bad idea? I don’t want to be her maid of honor for so many reasons. — INDECISIVE IN INDIANA DEAR INDECISIVE BITCH: You were outspoken regarding your reservations about the wedding, which is likely why your mother asked her best friend to do it. She has now invited you to be her maid of honor because you told her you felt left out. Whether you support your mother’s decision to marry this man or not, the wedding is going to happen. Unless you intend to find yourself increasingly distanced in the months and years to come, accompany your mom to the altar, wish her well and cross your fingers. YOUR MOTHER’S WEDDING DAY SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT YOU, OF COURSE, SO KEEP BEING A SELFISH TWAT AND HOLD YOUR GROUND. YOU’LL HAVE DECADES TO MEND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR MOTHER. DEAR ABBY: I’ve been dating a wonderful guy for the last six months. Our relationship is great, but he has an ex who is much younger than us (a 16-year age gap). He started seeing her while she was pregnant by someone else. He stayed with her until the baby was 3, but, given the circumstances, he continues to get the baby for weekends, etc. He is not on the birth certificate, but the baby knows only him as her dad. My problem is the ex. She constantly calls or texts him for money or to say she bought things for the little girl. She has called him to come over to hang out, and, most recently, asked him to co-sign for a new car for her. I’m not OK with the lack of boundaries, and I have said so. He hears me and has told her several times to back off, but she doesn’t listen. It’s causing arguments between us. The child isn’t his actual child, but that fact obviously isn’t changing anything. Should I walk away? — THIRD WHEEL IN THE EAST DEAR THIRD WHEEL: Your boyfriend is clearly attached to the little girl. You can’t change that, nor should you try. That said, he is still with you in spite of the fact that his ex may be trying to get him (and his financial support) back. Whether you should grit your teeth and tolerate it isn’t something I can answer. Your boyfriend can, however, and whether you should walk away is a question you should be asking him. KILL THE BITCH AND DUMP THE KID AT THE NEAREST FIREHOUSE. (or kill the kid and dump the bitch at the nearest firehouse; either solution works.) DEAR ABBY: A close male friend, “Will,” ended our friendship without warning. I didn’t know he had such strong feelings about my current arrangement. I have been dating a married man, “Bart,” whose wife suggested he get himself a girlfriend if he wanted sex/intimacy/companionship. She also told him she would “never want to sleep with him again.” It has been 10 years since they were last intimate or even shared a bed. They don’t live together; Bart lives in his guest house. They share a son, which is why he doesn’t want to leave. As a parent, I understand. It’s why I stayed in my own marriage for so long. The circumstances are less than ideal and something I never thought I’d be a part of, but I haven’t felt this wonderful in years. My ex-husband and I were never this compatible. When I’m with Bart, it’s magical, and I believe it’s mutual. For this choice of mine, Will has severed our friendship. He did it via text. I’d told him about it two weeks earlier, and he advised me to be careful. He called Bart and me “cheaters,” but it’s not exactly like that. I’m deeply hurt over this loss. I want to know if Will is in the wrong or if I am. — NO CHEATER IN ARIZONA DEAR NO CHEATER SLUT: Does who is “right or wrong” matter at this point? Your friend Will does not approve of your affair with Bart because of his marital status and IS A SANCTIMONIOUS PRIG WHO IS CLEARLY IN LOVE WITH YOU AND JEALOUS OF YOUR PARTNER IN IMMORALITY SO HE has chosen to distance himself. That’s his privilege. You made an adult decision to engage in this relationship, and it has cost you a friend. Live your life, but don’t be shocked if others also feel the way Will does.

Philadelphia man made bomb, mass shooting threats in fantasy football feud gone way wrong I had no idea @WilliamM was into fantasy football.

“Pig-butchering” scams cost Americans billions. This lawyer is taking them on. Prosecutor Erin West has been one of the few to have any success against the criminals Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/AlV5WmaD_TqCN2eDUBd23CA

BREAK UP THE SOX!!! Led by Red Hot Andrew Benintendi (.288, 11 HR since the deadline), they lead the angels 8-2 and are going for their third straight win. If they get it, they need to go six and four the rest of the way to avoid setting the record for most losses. Five and five would keep the Mets tied for the most losses and four and six would give the White Sox the most losses ever, but allow the Mets to keep the records for least wins and lowest winning percentage. So there will be much high drama and suspense in the season's final days…

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/lifestyle/four-things-doctors-and-modern-medicine-got-totally-wrong/#:~:text=Doctor doesn't always know,been unfounded and even dangerous. In his new book, “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health,” Dr. Marty Makary examines how some of the medical establishment’s biggest health recommendations in recent decades have been unfounded and even dangerous. “Much of what the public is told about health is medical dogma — an idea or practice given incontrovertible authority because someone decreed it to be true based on a gut feeling,” writes Makary, a surgeon and professor at John Hopkin University. Four instances where many doctors got it wrong. In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a recommendation that children under age 4 and pregnant and lactating women avoid peanuts if there was potentially a high risk of allergy. That recommendation was based on a UK recommendation connected to a 1996 study from the British Medical Journal that actually found no association between pregnant mothers eating peanuts and their baby developing an allergy. Furthermore, the study’s lead author, Jonathan Hourihane, told Makary that he opposed the guidance. “It’s not what I wanted people to believe,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.” In the wake of the AAP guidelines, peanut allergies saw a huge increase — and became increasingly deadly. “Suddenly emergency department visits for peanut anaphylaxis — a life-threatening allergic swelling of the airways — skyrocketed, and schools began enacting peanut bans,” writes Makary. In 2007, roughly 5% of medical claims for anaphylactic food reactions were for peanuts; by 2016, 25% were. By 2019, there were reports that one in every 18 children in America had a peanut allergy. “The AAP recommendation had created a vicious cycle,” Makary writes. “The more prevalent peanut allergies became, the more people avoided peanuts for young children. This, in turn, caused more peanut allergies. “ Today, many doctors recognize that early exposure to peanuts is best, but “the remnants of the peanut avoidance recommendation still linger,” write Makary. The US and UK have the highest rates of peanut allergies in the world. For decades HRT was considered something of a godsend for women in menopause, helping with symptoms such as hot flashes and depression, while also lowering the risk of heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. But in 2002, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) declared that HRT resulted in a “26% higher incidence of breast cancer.“ The pronouncement came from a study of nearly 17,000 women by Stanford and Harvard researchers, but it wasn’t backed up by the actual data. There was no “statistically significant difference in the rates of breast cancer among women on HRT compared to those who took a placebo,” writes Makary. “The authors had misrepresented their data. But amazingly, hardly anyone noticed.” Those who did and spoke out were drowned out by the masses. “US prescriptions for HRT plummeted by 80%, and they remain low to this day,” Makary notes. “Tragically, a generation of millions of women were denied a life-changing treatment.” There’s no question that antibiotics save lives, but Makary notes that they’re wrongly thought to have no downsides — and are being overprescribed to potentially devastating effect With ear infections in children, doctors once did a careful examination to distinguish between a bacterial and a viral infection, the latter of which is much more common and can’t be treated with antibiotics. Today, doctors, aside from specialists, might not have the knowledge or time to make such a distinction — or it might be a telehealth visit — so they’ll just write a prescription for antibiotics to cover their bases. But, he writes, “the overprescribing of antibiotics is causing more harm that we may realize” — namely to gut health, which can potentially lead to a host of health issues. For a study published in 2021, Mayo Clinic followed all children born in Olmsted County, Minnesota for 11 years. Of those kids, about 10,000 were given an antibiotic in their first two years life. They had significantly higher rates of obesity, asthma, learning disability, ADHD and celiac disease compared to the roughly 4,000 children who did not receive antibiotics early in their life. Mayo Clinic doctors recently repeated the study, and it yielded similar results. Other research has suggested that everything from the rising number of food allergies to higher rates of breast and colon cancers in recent decades may be due, in part, to our declining microbiome health. Finally, fluoride was first added to tap water in America starting in the 1940s to prevent tooth decay, and it’s now in roughly two-thirds of American homes. (In Europe, only about 3% of residents have it.) An analysis by the Cochrane Collaboration — an international non-profit that reviews medical research — found “very little contemporary evidence” that water fluoridation successfully prevented cavities, noting that studies suggesting otherwise were dated, poorly designed and did not take into account the fact that many people now use fluoride toothpaste. Meanwhile, some research has raised concerns about the effect of fluoride on gut health and IQ in babies, as it can settle in fetal brain regions and effect neurotransmitters. A 2019 study in JAMA Pediatrics found that “maternal exposure to higher levels of fluoride during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores” in young children. More research is needed, but Makary notes this is yet another assumption we shouldn’t take for granted. “If someone tells you that fluoridation of the water supply is entirely safe and essential for public health, that is an opinion, not a fact.”

Deal-hunting 8-year-old girl drives herself 10 miles to local Target This bargain-hunting kid wasn’t playing around. An 8-year-old Ohio girl was so set on shopping that she hopped behind the wheel of the family SUV and drove for 10 miles to the local Target, according to reports. The pint-sized shopaholic gave her folks quite the scare and sent police scrambling, but eventually emerged unscathed — even giving the cops a giggle. “Well, I’ve finally found a woman who’s in more of a hurry to shop at Target than my wife,” Bedford, Ohio, police quipped online Sunday. “That’s right, an 8 year old took mommy’s car this morning and drove to Target in Bainbridge to shop. “Not sure what she bought, or if she was even able to use her Target app to save 5%,” the department said. “We did let her finish her Frappuccino. We’re not mean.”