Celeb Gist

Burglar takes break from robbing home to cozy up with overly friendly family dog: 'I love you, too'

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So much for man’s best friend. A suspected bike thief in California was seen pausing his alleged crime to pet and cuddle with the victim’s golden retriever, surveillance footage of the home shows. “In a rather peculiar turn of events, as the suspect was about to make his escape, he paused to pet the household dog who had entered the garage,” the San Diego Police Department posted on its Facebook page.  An unidentified male entered a garage at a home in San Diego’s Pacific Beach neighborhood at about 10:40 p. Read More...

Can you work yourself to death?

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By Zaria GorvettFeatures correspondent AlamyLast year, claims of karoshi reached a record high (Credit: Alamy)‘Death from overwork’ is so common in Japan there’s even a word for it. But is it physically possible? The Japanese have a knack for inventing words – and there are some that every self-respecting office worker should have in their vocabulary. There’s arigata-meiwaku: when someone does you a favour that you didn’t ask them to – which actually caused you massive inconvenience – but you’re socially obliged to thank them anyway. Read More...

Charlie Barnett family, wife, children, parents, siblings

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Charlie Barnett is an American actor who played the role of firefighter/paramedic Peter Mills on the NBC program Chicago Fire from 2012 to 2015. Among his numerous leading parts on Netflix are those of Alan Zaveri in the comic Russian Doll, Ben Marshall in Tales of the City, and Gabriel Miranda in the suspenseful You. He was raised till the age of seven on a sailboat in the vicinity of Longboat Key, Florida. Read More...