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"Go
out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax
bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check
you have to write." --Mark Cuban
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I’m
going to read you the name of a business and I want you to tell me if
it’s a prison or a vineyard.
Vermlion
Valley in Wakeman, Ohio ….. VINEYARDFoothills
in Morganton, North Carolina ….. PRISON
BRAIN ON DRUGS:
"Go
out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax
bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check
you have to write." --Mark Cuban
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I’m
going to read you the name of a business and I want you to tell me if
it’s a prison or a vineyard.
Vermlion Valley in Wakeman, Ohio ….. VINEYARDFoothills in Morganton, North Carolina ….. PRISON
Vermlion Valley in Wakeman, Ohio ….. VINEYARDFoothills in Morganton, North Carolina ….. PRISON
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Police say that 18-year-old Anthony Damante of Milan, Ohio delivered a bag of marijuana to the wrong car in a store parking lot and is now facing drug trafficking charges. A woman reportedly went into a store to buy lottery tickets, returned to her car, and found a strange smelling sandwich bag marked “Sour Kush” on the front seat, prompting a call to police. A police report says officers used surveillance camera footage to determine that another woman in the lot gave Damante money and went inside the store while Damante put the 40 grams (1.4 ounces) of pot into the wrong woman’s unlocked car.(https://goo.gl/9qudpT)
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Real Housewife of New York, Ramona Singer, was driving her Maserati in Southampton and rear-ended a Mazda. No one appeared to be hurt. (http://goo.gl/BdZnba)
Newlyweds
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have decided to honeymoon in Alberta,
Canada. The couple will be staying at “The Royal Retreat” in a
6,000-square foot cabin. (https://goo.gl/REza5K)
Real Housewife of New York, Ramona Singer, was driving her Maserati in Southampton and rear-ended a Mazda. No one appeared to be hurt. (http://goo.gl/BdZnba)
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A Florida man caught a shark Sunday. It was too small to keep so he released it. While his hand was still in the water the shark turned around and bit him before swimming away. The 52-year-old man suffered very minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.
Running late for work or just miss that bus? You could have a good excuse: Your electric clock might be running a bit cuckoo. Because of a change in federal energy regulations, some scientists say your trusty, older plug-in clock may be losing or gaining a few ticks over time. Electric clocks keep time based on the usually stable and precise pulses of the electric current that powers them. In the U.S., that's 60 hertz (cycles per second). In the past, regulators required power companies to immediately correct the rate if it slipped off the mark. But that precision is expensive to maintain, so last year, the correction part was quietly eliminated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/38215737/clocks-may-go-a-little-cuckoo-with-power-grid-change
Chattanooga's airport says an internal miscommunication forced a plane to turn around Thursday night. A woman posted on the airport's Facebook page that her flight from Atlanta was on schedule Thursday night. She says it had to turn around because no lights on the Chattanooga runway were on. According to a statement from the airport, there was a miscommunication with the FAA that caused the lights to be turned off too early. The plane was able to land later in the evening. You can read the airport's entire statement below:
“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversees and manages the runway lighting system at the airport. Last night there was an internal miscommunications within that agency, which resulted in the lights being turned off too early. However, we have had a discussion with agency’s management, and we are satisfied this will not happen again. We regret any inconvenience for our passengers, and although delayed, we are glad they were able to land in Chattanooga later in the evening.”
http://foxchattanooga.com/news/local/chattanooga-bound-plane-forced-to-turn-around-because-runway-lights-were-off
During
a driver’s evening commute in Tacoma, Washington an object struck
his car. He discovered that it was a handgun lodged in his bumper.
A Florida man caught a shark Sunday. It was too small to keep so he released it. While his hand was still in the water the shark turned around and bit him before swimming away. The 52-year-old man suffered very minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.
Running late for work or just miss that bus? You could have a good excuse: Your electric clock might be running a bit cuckoo. Because of a change in federal energy regulations, some scientists say your trusty, older plug-in clock may be losing or gaining a few ticks over time. Electric clocks keep time based on the usually stable and precise pulses of the electric current that powers them. In the U.S., that's 60 hertz (cycles per second). In the past, regulators required power companies to immediately correct the rate if it slipped off the mark. But that precision is expensive to maintain, so last year, the correction part was quietly eliminated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/38215737/clocks-may-go-a-little-cuckoo-with-power-grid-change
Chattanooga's airport says an internal miscommunication forced a plane to turn around Thursday night. A woman posted on the airport's Facebook page that her flight from Atlanta was on schedule Thursday night. She says it had to turn around because no lights on the Chattanooga runway were on. According to a statement from the airport, there was a miscommunication with the FAA that caused the lights to be turned off too early. The plane was able to land later in the evening. You can read the airport's entire statement below:
“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversees and manages the runway lighting system at the airport. Last night there was an internal miscommunications within that agency, which resulted in the lights being turned off too early. However, we have had a discussion with agency’s management, and we are satisfied this will not happen again. We regret any inconvenience for our passengers, and although delayed, we are glad they were able to land in Chattanooga later in the evening.”
http://foxchattanooga.com/news/local/chattanooga-bound-plane-forced-to-turn-around-because-runway-lights-were-off
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The word "testify" is based on the Ancient Roman practice of making men swear on their testicles when making a statement in court.
In England in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word.
The Grandiloquent Word of the Day
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Nefelibata
(ne-fe-LE-ba-ta)
Noun:
-A cloud walker; one who lives in the cloud of their own imagination or dreams, or one who does not abide by the precepts of society, literature, or art;
-An unconventional, unorthodox person.
From Portuguese “nephele” cloud and “batha" - a place where you can walk
Used in a sentence:
“Always the nefelibata in grade school, his social calendar was generally wide open; but now that he’s a billionaire, he finds it difficult to decide which event he wishes to grace with his much sought after presence.”
-A cloud walker; one who lives in the cloud of their own imagination or dreams, or one who does not abide by the precepts of society, literature, or art;
-An unconventional, unorthodox person.
From Portuguese “nephele” cloud and “batha" - a place where you can walk
Used in a sentence:
“Always the nefelibata in grade school, his social calendar was generally wide open; but now that he’s a billionaire, he finds it difficult to decide which event he wishes to grace with his much sought after presence.”
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A
former Indiana man who was considered dead after abandoning his
family nearly 25 years ago and fleeing to Florida has been ordered to
pay his ex-wife nearly $2 million in back child support. Police
arrested Richard J. Hoagland in Florida on a fraudulent personal
identification charge in 2016. He’d started a new family using a
dead man’s name after leaving his family in December 1993. Hoagland
had been presumed dead since 2003. Authorities believe he stole Terry
Symanski’s identity by using the man’s death certificate to
obtain documentation including a birth certificate and driver’s
license. Symanski died in 1991. A relative discovered the identity
fraud while doing research on his family history. A magistrate in
central Indiana’s Hamilton County on Wednesday awarded Hoagland’s
ex-wife, Linda K. Iseler, with child support for their two children
dating back to the early 1990s, The Journal Gazette reported . The
case was handled in Hamilton County because the couple had married
there, said Iseler’s attorney, Tom Markle. The judgment includes
nearly $1.4 million in interest on payments he should’ve been
making, court records show. Hoagland’s assets were considered in
the case, court officials said. “Also considered is the fact it was
clear Richard (Hoagland) was not living in poverty, but had obtained
a comfortable lifestyle, had remarried and had children, obtained a
pilot’s license and owned at least one airplane that was acquired
for personal use,” court documents said. The court is still
deciding whether Hoagland should pay Iseler for attorney’s fees. A
hearing in the case is scheduled for next
month.
http://www.wate.com/news/national-world/man-who-abandoned-family-ordered-to-pay-2m-in-support/1190562840?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_6News
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Lee
Graves rarely gets fast food, but Thursday morning he was running
late so he decided to stop and grab a Coke with his breakfast. That
stop would lead to hours in the hospital and a promise he won’t be
stopping at a McDonald’s again. Thursday
morning, Graves pulled through the McDonald's drive-thru at 3552
Blanding Blvd., Jacksonville, and orders a large Coke with some food.
However, after paying he was handed a small Coke at the window.
Graves says he whispered to a cashier that he ordered a large. The
worker returned roughly 30 seconds later and handed him the drink he
asked for, however once he put the drink in his cup-holder and
circled the building he knew something wasn’t right.
“As
I was about to go out to Blanding, the Coke started foaming out of
control, like it erupted like a volcano.” Graves then took a few
quick sips thinking it would stop the drink from foaming and going
all over the inside of his truck. The Jacksonville resident said he
held the Coke out the window and it continued to foam.
“When
I took the lid off ... there is a blob of blue slime right in the top
of the Coke sitting there,” he said. Graves asked the manager if
they had anything in the store that could’ve turned the drink blue.
They told him no.
Graves
then said he was about to dump the drink out, but noticed a change.
“At this point, the Coke is almost clear and as I dump it out on
the ground, something about the size of a golf-ball fell out of the
bottom of the cup, looks like a white rock. At that point, I almost
instantly knew that something was going on.”
Graves
said the first gulp that he took tasted like chlorine, but he didn’t
want to believe it. He got filings at the dentist the day before and
thought maybe his taste buds were off.
Graves
said he felt ok for about an hour then felt like he was going to
vomit or have to use the bathroom, so he decided to go to the
hospital. Graves said he was there for about six hours and staff
wanted to keep him, but he decided he’d be more comfortable at home
and return if things got worse.
He
was sent home with prescription for nausea.
Graves
told First Coast News he is not a regular customer at the Blanding
Boulevard McDonald's, has never seen the employee before who he
thinks slipped something in his drink, and has no reason to believe
he did anything wrong.
“Had
I had words with the girl, been rude, I could’ve understood to some
degree, but all I did was literally whisper to her that, ‘hey this
should’ve been a large’.”
Graves
filed an incident report with McDonald’s and Jacksonville Sheriff’s
Office.
He
says he hopes justice is served and hopes there are repercussions for
the store and/or the employee he believes put something in his drink.
Graves said there is lesson for everyone out there to take from his
painful experience.
“Stay
safe, keep your eyes open, if something tastes funny, don’t drink
it, if you’re coke just all of a sudden starts foaming for no
reason, take it back, take it to the police to get investigated,
there’s definitely something wrong.”
McDonald’s
did respond to First Coast News questions about this alleged incident
saying,
“Serving
my customers safe, high quality food and beverages is a top priority
for me. We take this claim very seriously and are investigating the
matter,” said Edgard Gerena, McDonald’s
Owner/Operator.
https://www.wbir.com/amp/article?section=news&headline=jacksonville-man-hospitalized-claims-mcdonalds-employee-put-detergent-pod-in-his-drink&contentId=77-553960887&__twitter_impression=true
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