NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes.
I knew network TV was getting bad, but this is ridiculous ...
Police said Saturday his body was discovered Thursday when they were called to the house over a burst water pipe. "You could see his face. He still had hair on his head," Newsday quoted morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus as saying. The home's low humidity had preserved the body.
Officials could not explain why the electricity had not been turned off, considering Ricardo had not been heard from since December 2005.
Neighbors said when they had not seen Ricardo, who was diabetic and had been blind for years, they assumed he was in the hospital or a long-term care facility. Aparantly the poor guy had no family or friends.
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"Mummified body found in front of blaring TV"
This headline could apply to me in my college years...
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Funnily enough, that's basically how I'm eventually going to die, except that I may also be partially eaten by a pet.
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This is just starting. With the wonders of direct deposits and automated payments from your bank account, when will they ever know you're dead? Why would the bank care?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Porn star Ron Jeremy wants to be taken seriously -- with his clothes on. Dressed in a dark track suit with a protruding belly that shows he is past his physical prime, Jeremy hardly strikes you as one of the most successful American porn stars.
But Jeremy, 53, who claims to have been with more than 4,000 women during a 30-year career, is the first to admit that he is not your stereotypical sex star. He believes his average looks are a key to his success.
In a new memoir, "Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz," he said audiences identified with him because he was just like them -- hairy, with a mustache and standing just 5 feet 6 inches tall. "They look at themselves in the mirror and think, Y'know, compared to Ron Jeremy, I'm not that bad looking at all," Jeremy says in the book released this month.
Jeremy, who trained to be a teacher, started out as an actor in New York in the mid-1970s but ended up in porn films to make some money after his girlfriend sent off some nude photographs of him to Playgirl. He never looked back. But with more than 1,750 adult films to his name and turning 54 next month, Jeremy had few Hollywood directors knocking at his door.
Jeremy turned to reality TV, joining the second season of "The Surreal Life," which features a group of low-level celebrities living in a mansion in Los Angeles. "It increased my audience. A lot of women and children now know me from the show," said Jeremy. "Now I'm getting more work."
Jeremy, who was born Ron Jeremy Hyatt, can be seen in a spinoff of that series, "The Surreal Life: Fame Games," and had a role in the comedy "Finishing the Game," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
In addition to his book, Jeremy is busy with other ventures -- his adult film company, speaking on television and college campuses about sex and pornography, and promotional appearances for products that carry his name.
But more than ever, he is driven to seize those elusive Hollywood roles. "It's a certain amount of ego," he said. "In my little cloud, I still think I'm an actor." Hey, he played some small parts (hé) in a couple movies I've seen, "Orgazmo" and "Toxic Avenger 3" IIRC.
Would he like to do more reality television? "To me, porn and reality TV are similar. I don't mind being in them," he said. "I just can't stand watching them." A pause as Anonymooose scrambles for his classic Ron "what me worry" Jeremy pic.
Global Warming!
LONDON - Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but he's the first to have four of them. A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles southwest of London, showed the duckling to reporters Saturday.
"It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking 'he's got too many legs' and I kept counting 'one, two, three, four,'" Janaway said.
Stumpy would probably not survive in the wild, but Janaway, who runs the Warrawee Duck Farm in New Forest, says he is doing well. "He's eating and surviving so far, and he is running about with those extra legs acting like stabilizers," Janaway said.
The mutation is rare, but cases have been recorded across the world. One duckling named Jake was born in Queensland, Australia, in 2002 with four legs but died soon after. Yeah, BFD, just tell me when a duckling is born with four ARMS.
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The rich and varied cultural tapestry: South Africans ritually murder and dismember post-pubescent boys, whereas West Africans prefer to murder pre-pubescent boys. Well well well. Learn something new every day.
Authorities in Pakistans rural Punjab are wary and investors are getting worried about a man who doubles the money given to him within 70 days. How Sibtul Hasan Shah, now popular as "Pir Double Shah", can double whatever sum is invested with him within 70 days is not known. His brother and frontman Intezar Shah said the business was in collaboration with some Dubai-based partners involved in "stocks" there.
The Daily Times reported on Sunday that the suave and good-natured teacher-turned-businessman is himself becoming rich. He has opened branch offices and appointed agents to spread his business. Doubling of money through any banking system in South Asia generally takes anything between four to seven years, depending upon the prevailing interest rate that is stipulated by the government and monitored by the central bank.
The report said that although Shah did not give a guarantee, or a proper receipt, for the money received and only wrote the sum on a plain sheet of paper, people were blindly investing with him. While those who have invested and benefited are happy, there are also those who have concerns that Shah might run away with the money invested with him while the government might look on "as a silent spectator".
The Sialkot police says it has received no complaint from anybody duped. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) says it only monitors registered financial institutions and Shah is not one of them. Shah, who started this "business" about 18 months ago, began by doubling money invested with him within 15 days. But as his business grew, the number of days for doubling the money increased to 70.
Several senior officials of the area who invested with Shah did double their money, said local resident Usman Siddique, adding that he had also earned a 100 percent profit on the Rs 10,000 he invested with Shah. Shah was in Dubai for about two years thereafter. During his two or three visits home he persuaded some of his relatives and friends to help him start his own "business of doubling peoples money".
"After some time, he returned to Pakistan and gave all of them double the sums they had given him, as agreed," he added. An unnamed close relative of "Pir Double Shah" said Shah had bought a lot of property, including a petrol pump, and he also had several bank accounts across the country. He said that on the day Shah bought the petrol pump, he offered people free fuel. However, he too feared that Shah might flee with the money.
"Pir Double Shah" was not available for comment, the newspaper said. But Intizar Shah said people did not bother about Shah not being registered. "People regularly visit our offices, and are investing large sums with us, because they trust Pir Double Shah," he added.
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Obviously these folks never heard of Mr. Ponzi...
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That, or Mr. Shah is washing all sorts of drug/mob/terrorist money and using the rubes to create a tidal wave of transactions, designed to overwhelm any forensic accountant.
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Anxiety saps working memory, full stop; it doesn't particularly matter the specific focus of the anxiety. Perhaps a prescription of valerian tea before approaching the subject would help.
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My answer always has been : no maths (and no efforts in general), so, no anxiety, problem solved. That's how I became to be what I am, that is a very sub-average person... but a mostly harmless one, thank God. No shotgun Angel of Death routine at my workplace until I hit the late 40s/early 50s and realize how hopeless, futureless and desesperate I am, I think.
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Something that screws up a lot of tests in "internal dialogue", or talking to yourself. For some reason when people get too focused or unfocused in their concentration, they start talking to themselves, and it snaps them back in the other direction, breaking their concentration.
However, if you can teach yourself to keep your focus longer without the noise, then you do better on tests. The same rule applies to meditation. The first thing they tell people is to stop talking to themselves.
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Trailing daughter #2 tested off the chart gifted for math, and at the moment is taking both geometry and second year algebra at the honours level. She cannot, however, do arithmetic worth a damn, as she's forever misreading numbers and operation signs. A calculator helps somewhat, but we're all looking forward to when she gets to calculus and has symbols instead of numbers to manipulate.
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Eric Jablow"No one who needs a calculator to solve arithmetic problems should be allowed to use one." That was my philosophy during my teaching days.
thatr sounds so much like a math word-problem giver me HUGE anxiety.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Porn star Ron Jeremy wants to be taken seriously -- with his clothes on. Dressed in a dark track suit with a protruding belly that shows he is past his physical prime, Jeremy hardly strikes you as one of the most successful American porn stars.
