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John Warren Geils Jr. - R I P
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Posted:Apr 11, 2017 5:26 pm
Last Updated:May 9, 2017 7:25 pm
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This is really beginning to suck a lot. I was thinking about a post a few days ago regarding something I did in my past and it was a song that made me think of it - "Freeze Frame". The J. Geils Band was a favorite of mine along with The Eagles, Huey Lewis and The News, and Cheap Trick to name a few. It has been reportedly was found dead today. R I P
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Any questions?
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Posted:Apr 11, 2017 2:44 pm
Last Updated:May 9, 2017 7:25 pm
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This is you
This is you on your United Airlines flight
Any questions?
There should be 2 quite different images.
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Don Rickles - R I P
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Posted:Apr 6, 2017 11:38 am
Last Updated:Apr 14, 2017 10:55 am
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Among the legendary guys who I though were just totally hilarious when I was a were George Carlin, Bob Newhart, Johnny Carson and Richard Pryor. Don Rickles was right up there I would watch him every chance I got and had his albums. He is one of the main characters in one of my favorite movies Kelly's Heros; as a character named Crapgame, a smart-mouthed shady wheeler dealer supply Sargent.
R I P Don Rickles
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What Real Fake News Looks Like
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Posted:Mar 31, 2017 7:48 am
Last Updated:Apr 4, 2017 6:46 am
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Imagine my uhmmm . . . surprise. 
I get that typos happen but this was up for over 12 hours when I came across it.
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Apology & Not Feelin It
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Posted:Mar 27, 2017 4:17 pm
Last Updated:Apr 3, 2017 9:22 pm
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Normally (whatever that is  ) I respond to people who comment on my posts within a day or so. But on my CONFIRMED, This Is NOT A Sex Site post I seem to be almost 2 weeks late – Ma bad. Lately I just haven’t felt like even looking at my blog and haven’t commented as much as I usually do on other’s posts.
I also haven’t had much I wanted to write out but that is because I’ve had a lot of work related writing to do. Like up to my arce really . There is some stuff floating around in my head that I want, and might, to put to paper eventually (whenever that is). Just sayin.
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CONFIRMED, This Is NOT A Sex Site
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Posted:Mar 14, 2017 4:02 pm
Last Updated:Apr 9, 2017 3:49 pm
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Yes you read that right This Is NOT a Sex Site. It is IN FACT, among other things, an -oriented social network and dating site. “How the fuck does he know that”, you may be asking.
Well, after an exhaustive fact finding mission, for something else, I errantly stumbled upon a site talking about our uhmmm . . . beloved A*F*F. 
On its first paragraphs it states the following:
A*F*F is an internet-based, -oriented social network, online dating service and swinger personals community website . . . In 2007 AdultFriendFinder was one of the 100 most popular sites in the United States; its competitors include sites such as Match () com.
In case you missed it they, whoever they are, compared it to Match – an almost no sex site. Also note the use of the term "" - ain't that a hoot? 
As veterans of the inter/web/nets we all know that if it is on the inter/web/nets it is absolutely true . . . right.  And, after all, would a guy with the name RedRockRascal lie to you? 
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Diving Coral Reefs
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Posted:Mar 13, 2017 8:03 pm
Last Updated:Mar 23, 2017 5:37 pm
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In my semi misspent youth I learned to scuba dive and I had the opportunity to dive some coral reefs off of the Florida Keys. It was a spectacular site, the marine life and the coral itself are a beautiful thing to see. Beyond any words I could put on “paper”. Someday I plan on getting recertified and do more diving – it would be nice if there were reefs to dive near. At this point it doesn’t look like I, or anyone else, will be able to see the coral reefs off of the Maldives.
They are not just pretty either. Please read the following Associated Press article and if you have the means do something. Write to a government rep - regularly, Reduce/Reuse/Recycle, donate to an organization that addresses the damage we humans are doing to the only planet we have. WE, as a race of being are not as smart as we think we are – this is just part of the proof.
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SOUTH ARI ATOLL, Maldives (AP) — There were startling colors here just a year ago, a dazzling array of life beneath the waves. Now this Maldivian reef is dead, killed by the stress of rising ocean temperatures. What's left is a haunting expanse of gray, a scene repeated in reefs across the globe in what has fast become a full-blown ecological catastrophe.
The world has lost roughly half its coral reefs in the last 30 years. Scientists are now scrambling to ensure that at least a fraction of these unique ecosystems survives beyond the next three decades. The health of the planet depends on it: Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine species, as well as half a billion people around the world.
"This isn't something that's going to happen 100 years from now. We're losing them right now," said marine biologist Julia Baum of Canada's University of Victoria. "We're losing them really quickly, much more quickly than I think any of us ever could have imagined."
Even if the world could halt global warming now, scientists still expect that more than 90 percent of corals will die by 2050. Without drastic intervention, we risk losing them all. "To lose coral reefs is to fundamentally undermine the health of a very large proportion of the human race," said Ruth Gates, director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
Coral reefs produce some of the oxygen we breathe. Often described as underwater rainforests, they populate a tiny fraction of the ocean but provide habitats for one in four marine species. Reefs also form crucial barriers protecting coastlines from the full force of storms.
They provide billions of dollars in revenue from tourism, fishing and other commerce, and are used in medical research for cures to diseases including cancer, arthritis and bacterial or viral infections.
"Whether you're living in North America or Europe or Australia, you should be concerned," said biologist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at Australia's University of Queensland. "This is not just some distant dive destination, a holiday destination. This is the fabric of the ecosystem that supports us." And that fabric is being torn apart. "You couldn't be more dumb ... to erode the very thing that life depends on — the ecosystem — and hope that you'll get away with it," Hoegh-Guldberg said.
Corals are invertebrates, living mostly in tropical waters. They secrete calcium carbonate to build protective skeletons that grow and take on impressive colors, thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae that live in their tissues and provide them with energy.
But corals are sensitive to temperature fluctuations, and are suffering from rising ocean temperatures and acidification, as well as from overfishing, pollution, coastal development and agricultural runoff. A temperature change of just 1 to 2 degrees Celsius (1.8 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) can force coral to expel the algae, leaving their white skeletons visible in a process known as "bleaching."
Bleached coral can recover if the water cools, but if high temperatures persist for months, the coral will die. Eventually the reef will degrade, leaving fish without habitats and coastlines less protected from storm surges. The first global bleaching event occurred in 1998, when 16 percent of corals died. The problem spiraled dramatically in 2015-2016 amid an extended El Nino natural weather phenomenon that warmed Pacific waters near the equator and triggered the most widespread bleaching ever documented. This third global bleaching event, as it is known, continues today even after El Nino ended.
Headlines have focused on damage to Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef, but other reefs have fared just as badly or worse across the world, from Japan to Hawaii to Florida. Around the islands of the Maldives, an idyllic Indian Ocean tourism destination, some 73 percent of surveyed reefs suffered bleaching between March and May 2016, according to the country's Marine Research Center. "This bleaching episode seems to have impacted the entire Maldives, but the severity of bleaching varies" between reefs, according to local conditions, said Nizam Ibrahim, the center's senior research officer.
Worst hit have been areas in the central Pacific, where the University of Victoria's Baum has been conducting research on Kiritimati, or Christmas Island, in the Republic of Kiribati. Warmer water temperatures lasted there for 10 months in 2015-2016, killing a staggering 90 percent of the reef. Baum had never seen anything like it. "As scientists, we were all on brand new territory," Baum said, "as were the corals in terms of the thermal stress they were subjected to."
To make matters worse, scientists are predicting another wave of elevated ocean temperatures starting next month. "The models indicate that we will see the return of bleaching in the South Pacific soon, along with a possibility of bleaching in both the eastern and western parts of the Indian Ocean," said Mark Eakin, coral reef specialist and coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch, which uses satellites to monitor environmental conditions around reefs. It may not be as bad as last year, but could further stress "reefs that are still hurting from the last two years."
The speed of the destruction is what alarms scientists and conservationists, as damaged coral might not have time to recover before it is hit again by warmer temperatures. But some may have a chance.
Last month, Hoegh-Guldberg helped launch an initiative called 50 Reefs, aiming to identify those reefs with the best chance of survival in warming oceans and raise public awareness. His project partner is Richard Vevers, who heads the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, which has been documenting coral reefs worldwide.
"For the reefs that are least vulnerable to climate change, the key will be to protect them from all the other issues they are facing — pollution, overfishing, coastal development," said Vevers, who founded The Ocean Agency, an Australian organization seeking new technologies to help mitigate some of the ocean's greatest challenges. If the reefs remain healthy and resilient, "they can hopefully become the vital seed-centers that can repopulate surrounding reefs."
Nature itself is providing small glimmers of hope. Some of Kiritimati's corals, for example, are showing tentative signs of a comeback. But scientists don't want to leave it to chance, and are racing ahead with experiments they hope might stave off extinction.
"We've lost 50 percent of the reefs, but that means we still have 50 percent left," said Gates, who is working in Hawaii to breed corals that can better withstand increasing temperatures. "We definitely don't want to get to the point where we don't intervene until we have 2 percent left."
Going a step further, she is also trying to "train" corals to survive rising temperatures, exposing them to sub-lethal heat stress in the hope they can "somehow fix that in their memory" and survive similar stress in the future.
"It's probably time that we start thinking outside the box," Gates said. "It's sort of a no-win game if we do nothing." There are a few sites listed on the obligatory post
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Any Bloggers From The Ottawa Area?
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Posted:Feb 20, 2017 4:42 pm
Last Updated:Mar 27, 2017 8:14 pm
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We seem to have a MiA blogger; Spanky spankandsquirt20 has been off the site since 2/14 and has not responded to a couple offsite emails I’ve sent. Not really like her.
According to one of her recent posts her ex had been annoying her. Hopefully that was all but who knows.
If someone over there can get in contact with her and confirm she is OK that would be a good thing.
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The Latest On . . .
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Posted:Feb 20, 2017 8:16 am
Last Updated:Mar 14, 2017 5:44 pm
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I’m reporting to you live from the outskirts of Helsinki, Sweden because I hear ABBA playing in the background. Oh no, that’s an . . . alternative fact. Ah, the fog is clearing here at the IKEA in Bowling Green. Well it turns out I’m actually in Florida, no . . . wait . . . Well I know I’m not in reality.
Anyway, the rampant speculation on the massacre is a bit sketchy right now but here is what we don’t know. It occurred somewhere in Sweden or nearby like Scandinavia or Europe-ish, maybe Asia.
The carnage is indescribable, thousands have been massacred, the smell hangs thick in the air it reminds me of a frozen dinner I had once . . . Swedish Meatballs. Oh the humanity . . . meatballs are human right? Some are Swedish some are actually immigrant Italian meatballs. Some anonymous sources are telling us that the meatballs are fake. But for Christy it is just meatloaf blockage.
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What do you see?
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Posted:Feb 19, 2017 9:18 am
Last Updated:Sep 5, 2017 8:46 pm
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Like the title says tell me what do you see?
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About Coming Together
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Posted:Feb 7, 2017 4:57 pm
Last Updated:Apr 9, 2017 7:10 am
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To me it is somewhat ironic that people come to sites to meet other people – to come together, whether it is solely online or in person, or for whatever purpose(s). Then, some, judge others for whatever “reasons”, and still others complain about all of it.
Few focus on the simple fact is all “dating” sites do is offer the opportunity to communicate with other potentially (no guarantees) likeminded people. Whether it is for marriage, a one night stand, or just chat is strictly up to the people themselves.
What made me think of this is a simple email message I received from another dating site.
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