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Toroid

Toroid

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wwkirk said:
What's wrong with him? Did he spend all his NBA dough already?
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According to the second link his net worth is $500,000. I heard celebrities will intentionally get in trouble with the law for the coverage that keeps them viable. Considering his connection to Kim Jong Un there could be a pending stunt he'll be involved in. Kim has also been behaving badly.
Dennis Rodman’s net worth revealed as he heads to Singapore for Kim-Trump summit | Daily Mail Online
Dennis Rodman Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth
 
Toroid

Toroid

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This was all over the news today. A wanted murder suspect was involved in a high speed chase. A few days ago he walked into a convenience store and killed a clerk. At 2:16 into the video he points the long barreled hand gun out the vehicle window and fires at law enforcement. The video didn't cover the end which went on for another hour. Three BearCat vehicles showed up and boxed in the vehicle. A K9 was sent in to distract him and they pulled him out from the other side.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyybOOKsF8

The guy in the vehicle has lighter skin compared to the person in the store.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAcD8MftOJM
 
wwkirk

wwkirk

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Toroid said:
According to the second link his net worth is $500,000. I heard celebrities will intentionally get in trouble with the law for the coverage that keeps them viable. Considering his connection to Kim Jong Un there could be a pending stunt he'll be involved in. Kim has also been behaving badly.
Dennis Rodman’s net worth revealed as he heads to Singapore for Kim-Trump summit | Daily Mail Online
Dennis Rodman Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth
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Frankly, $500K is not that much unless he has significant income ongoing. I can't see him living on that for the rest of his life.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
Massive tanker crashes into tugboat pushing two barges, causing 25,000 barrels of toxic gas product to spill into the Houston Ship Channel
  • A 755-foot tanker collided with a tugboat pushing two barges near Bayport, Texas, around 3:30 p.m., capsizing one of the barges and damaging another
  • The U.S. Coast Guard has set up an incident command and reported no injuries Friday night
  • Each barge was carrying an estimated 25,000 barrels of reformate, and the Coast Guard said that an unknown volume of the gasoline product spilled
  • National Weather Service said the smell of gas could carry several miles inland
  • Texas Commision on Environment Quality stated that they had deployed teams of contractors to 'conduct air monitoring ' in support of the Coast Guard
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Dow plunges 590 points as investors fear effects of escalating trade war on economy
U.S. markets plunged Monday as China said it would raise steep tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods, upping the stakes of a trade war that threatens to imperil the global economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 700 points, or nearly 3 percent, in afternoon trading as investors feared that a trade standoff with China would escalate into a full-blown economic crisis -- tipping the U.S. and world economies into recession. Dragging the Dow were Apple, Caterpillar and Boeing, with drops of 5.78 percent, 5.11 percent and 4.65 percent respectively. The blue-chip index was headed for its lowest close since January.


The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was down 2.5 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was off 3.5 percent, its worst day of the year and continuing the losses from last week. Ten out of 11 market sectors were in negative territory around noon. Utilities was the only bright spot.

Both S & P 500 and Nasdaq were on track for their worst day of the year. The S & P on Monday was treading just above a key threshold of 2,800.

Commodity futures in U.S. soybeans, the largest U.S. export to China, and copper, a predictor of the global economy, were both hitting lows on trade fears.

"Today's tit-for-tat in U.S./China trade tariffs has exacerbated tumbling futures out of fear that tensions could trigger a global recession," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.

The drama began last week after President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese imports to the United States. He also told aides to begin plans to hit more than $300 billion in other Chinese goods.

Asian markets were down more than 1 percent on China's response, with the Shanghai Composite dropping 1.2 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225 down just shy of 1 percent. European markets were down across the board, with the German Dax leading the drop, off 1.5 percent. France's CAC had fallen 1.2 percent and the Pan European Stoxx 600 was off 1.2 percent.

Volume on Wall Street was up but "not massive" as the market moved into its last hour of trading, according to Howard Silverblatt of S & P Dow Jones Indices.

"Selling is organized," Silverblatt said. "People are not dumping. Investors have reassessed the trade issue. They weren't factoring enough risk into it."

Adding to the pressure on stocks was a Saudi news report that said two Saudi oil tankers had been attacked with "significant damage" in coastal waters near the Persian Gulf, heightening tensions with Iran.

The tankers were subjected to an "act of sabotage" early Sunday morning in waters off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement by the Saudi Minister for Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Khalid Al-Falih carried by the official Saudi news agency.

Saudi Arabia did not say who was responsible for the apparent attack, which caused no casualties or oil spill, according to the statement.

Oil futures initially climbed on the news, with U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate advancing 1.6 percent and Brent crude up nearly 2 percent. Both bench marks had reversed and oil prices were on the decline by early afternoon as the trade fears overwhelmed the Iran concerns.


"Stock investors are in risk-off mode this morning as Trump's trade war with China seems to be escalating while negotiations seem to be breaking down," said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research. "Adding to the geopolitical tumult is mounting tension in the Middle East following the sabotaging of Saudi oil tankers over the weekend."

John Kilduff of Again Capital said that, at least for now, the concerns over Iran are taking a back seat to the fear that the trade salvos between the U.S. and China could ultimately lead to a reduction in world oil demand.

"Trade fears are overwhelming oil markets and sending prices down," Kilduff said. "Markets are worried that the demand side of the oil trade will take a hit from tariffs and a slowdown in world economies."

The president has alleged that the Chinese government is ripping off U.S. consumers and businesses by unfairly subsidizing Chinese companies, stealing intellectual property from U.S. firms, and flooding global markets with cheap goods to put other companies out of business.

On Monday, he warned China against retaliation on tariffs in a series of tweets. But China countered with its own tariffs. The Chinese government said it would impose tariffs on U.S. imports starting on June 1, with steepest penalties hitting certain beef, live plants, dyed flowers, and a range of fruits and vegetables. The tariffs would range from 5 percent to 25 percent.

Technology stocks were taking a hit Monday, with all five FAANG stocks -- Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet -- deeply in the red.

Apple shares were off 6 percent because of the risk a China trade war could have on Apple revenue in that country. The shares also were reacting to a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that allows iPhone users to sue the phone giant over prices at its App Store.

Another high-profile technology company, Uber Technologies shares fell $3, more than 7 percent, Monday in its second day of trading. The ride-hailing company debuted Friday at a price of $45 per share. Shares in the company, which is the most anticipated initial public offering of the year, are 17 percent off their opening price on Friday.

Monday's skid comes on the heels of the first weekly decline of 2019 in U.S. stocks.

The S & P 500 eked out a gain Friday on speculation the escalation wouldn't derail global economic growth, paring its loss for the week to 2.2 percent. That's the steepest drop since the five days ended Dec. 21, when stocks were tumbling toward the brink of a bear market. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2.1 percent to 25,942. Apple Inc. was among the worst decliners in the 30-member gauge as the iPhone maker's close ties to China put its profits at particular risk. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3 percent.

The sell-off started last Monday after Trump's weekend tweets threatening to more than double tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, which he then followed through on. Equities staged a late-day comeback Friday on renewed optimism that an all-out trade war can be averted.

Stocks in all 11 major industry groups ended last week lower, with technology and industrial companies sinking the most as Beijing promised to retaliate against the fresh U.S. tariffs.
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Toroid

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Doris Day died. She lived a very private life which seemed odd.
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Doris Day dead: Silver screen icon dies of pneumonia aged 97 | Daily Mail Online
Day's death was announced on Monday by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation
  • She died at home in Carmel Valley, California, surrounded by close friends
  • The actress was married four times but had only one son, Terry Melcher, who died in 2004
  • She is survived by Terry's son, Ryan, her beloved grandson
  • Day is among a handful of iconic Hollywood actresses who rose to fame in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Her classic films include Pillow Talk, Love Me or Leave Me, Romance on the High Seas and Calamity Jane
  • Day's four marriages all ended in divorce and two treated her poorly; one beat her and the other squandered her millions
  • After 39 films in 20 years, she retreated from the limelight in the 70s to focus on animal rights work
  • Her wishes were that she should have no funeral service, memorial or grave site
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Toroid

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Tim Conway died at age 85.
Tim Conway, Star of The Carol Burnett Show, Dies at 85
Tim Conway has died at the age of 85.

He passed away at 8:45 a.m. in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, his rep Howard Bragman confirms to PEOPLE.

Prior to his death, he suffered complications from Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) and had no signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Conway is survived by his wife of 35 years, his stepdaughter, his six biological children and two granddaughters. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family would like donations to be made to The Lou Ruvo Brain Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The beloved actor is best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show, winning viewers over with characters like the Oldest Man and Mr. Tudball, whose accent he has said was inspired by his Romanian mother. He was known to ad-lib his sketches — even surprising his scene partners — and won a Golden Globe Award for the series in 1976, along with Emmys in 1973, 1977 and 1978.




At a 2013 event promoting his memoir, What’s So Funny? My Hilarious Life, Burnett, now 86, painted her collaborator as an on-set prankster.

“Tim’s goal in life was to destroy [costar] Harvey Korman,” she told the crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“Harvey wet his pants,” Conway bragged.

It’s an anecdote he also recalled in a 2013 interview with the Los Angeles Times.

“Harvey never saw what I was going to do until he was actually doing the sketch,” he said. “As a matter of fact in the dentist sketch you can actually see Harvey wet his pants from laughing.”
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pigfarmer

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CasualBystander said:
Boy, that is about all the legal private guns in Australia, and just from one American owner.
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And it seems the problem wasn't that she had them or even that many rather that they had been sold improperly. You need an FFL01 at that point and from what I saw, they could've just went and got one without too much trouble.

I know guys like that. Not of that magnitude of course, but people get weird about all hobbies and collect things compulsively. I looked through the pile of ammo and saw a lot of .22 bird shot, varmint loads, antique stuff. Still a bit disturbing - and this from a man with his own cache.

People who have their house overloaded with commemorative spoons for example, do not often make the news.....
 
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