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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/12826432-does-anyone-remember-porn-stud-steve-marks- He was a weatherman who transitioned to porn in the early '90s. These days, he's selling real estate and is partnered to the executive director of PFLAG. I think it's great (and seemingly) rare that a guy has an apparently happy & successful post-porn life. (this was from 2013)

Patrick Mahomes is riding highfollowing his first career playoff win Saturday over the Indianapolis Colts. Mahomes, who completed 27-of-41 passes for 278 yards in snowy Kansas City, appeared to celebrate the 31-13 victory with girlfriend Brittany Matthews, who shared a photo of the couple cuddling up outside Arrowhead Stadium. “Just a few East Texas kids that had to grow up a little faster than expected,” Matthews posted on Instagram after the game. Mahomes, 23, a native of the Lone Star state, attended college at Texas Tech, before being selected by the Chiefs 10th overall in the 2017 draft. As for Matthews, she continues to be Mahomes’ biggest fan on game days. Following November’s epic thriller between the Rams and the Chiefs in Los Angeles, where Kansas City fell 54-51, the University of Texas at Tyler grad made sure she was there for her beau following the crushing loss. “Sure missed this guy #greatgame,” she posted on social media at the time. Expect Matthews to cheer Mahomes next week, when the Chiefs battle either the Chargers or the Patriots in the AFC Championship. [MEDIA=instagram]BsjuN1sB6XO[/MEDIA]

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In an out-of-this-world first, green-thumbed Chinese scientists have managed to sprout a plant on the far side of the moon, officials said Tuesday. “This is the first time humans have done biological growth experiments on the lunar surface,” said Xie Gengxin, who led the design of the experiment. The sprout emerged from a lattice-like structure inside a canister since the country’s Chang’e-4 lander set down on Jan. 3, according to images released by the Advanced Technology Research Institute at Chongqing University. Scientists who designed the “mini lunar biosphere” experiment sent a 7-inch container holding air, water and soil. Inside are cotton, potato and arabidopsis seeds — a plant of the mustard family — as well as fruit fly eggs and yeast. A cotton sprout has grown well, but so far none of the other plants has taken, the scientists said. “We have given consideration to future survival in space. Learning about these plants’ growth in a low-gravity environment would allow us to lay the foundation for our future establishment of space base,” said Professor Liu Hanlong, head of the experiment. He said potatoes could be the main food source for space explorers, while cotton could be used for clothing and rapeseed could be a source of oil, according to the South China Morning Post. Plants have been grown on the International Space Station before but never on the moon. The ability to grow plants on Earth’s satellite will be integral for long-term space missions, like a trip to Mars, which would take about two-and-a-half years. It would mean that astronauts could potentially harvest their own food in space. A cotton sprout growing in a lattice-structured container during an experiment inside the Chang’e-4 lander on the far side of the moon.

Flagstaff, Arizona, turned into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory Monday when a tanker truck spilled 3,500 gallons of it across Interstate 40. The “river of chocolate” flowed onto the highway’s westbound lanes east of Flagstaff near the 211-mile marker. The tanker was transporting around 40,000 pounds of 120-degree liquid chocolate, officials said. It was not immediately clear why the truck rolled over or when the mess was fully cleaned up.

Shouldn't this be in the movie thread? After all, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is the most important work she ever did. Her (identical) twin sister Stockard must be devastated.

East Antarctica’s ice is melting at an unexpectedly rapid clip, new study suggests By Alex Fox Antarctica’s melting ice, which has caused global sea levels to rise by at least 13.8 millimeters over the past 40 years, was long thought to come from primarily one place: the unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now, scientists studying 40 years of satellite images have found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet—considered largely insulated from the ravages of climate change—may also be melting at an accelerating rate. Those results, at odds with a large 2018 study, could dramatically reshape projections of sea level rise if confirmed. “If this paper is right, it changes the ball game for sea level rise in this century,” says Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who was not involved in the new work. East Antarctica’s ice sheet holds 10 times the ice of its rapidly melting neighbor to the west. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose base is below sea level, has long been considered the most vulnerable to collapse. With an assist from gravity, a deep current of warm water slips beneath the sheet, melting it from below until it becomes a floating shelf at risk of breaking away. In contrast, frigid temperatures and a base mostly above sea level are thought to keep the East Antarctic Ice Sheet relatively safe from warm water intrusion. A collaboration of more than 60 scientists last year, published in Nature, estimated that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet actually added about 5 billion tons of ice each year from 1992 to 2017. But as climate change shifts wind patterns around Antarctica, some scientists think warm water carried by a circular current off the continental shelf will start to invade East Antarctica’s once unassailable ice. “People who study Antarctic ice know that East Antarctica has the potential to start losing significant amounts of ice, but it’s never been clear how fast that would [happen],” Oppenheimer says. To find out how fast that ice loss is happening, glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues combined 40 years of satellite imagery and climate modeling. The models were used to estimate annual snowfall, which over time adds ice to the region’s glaciers. Then, the team measured the speed of ice flowing out to sea by tracking visual landmarks on the glaciers through time. This allowed them to estimate how much ice each of the continent’s many glaciers sent out to sea each year from 1979 to 2017. By subtracting the amount of ice added annually by snow from the amount of ice lost to sea, the researchers determined how much ice was gained or lost. “After staring at satellite photos for hours you go a little cross-eyed, but it’s basic statistics—you beat down the noise by adding more data points,” Rignot says. “Tracking down these old satellite photos and spending months analyzing by hand was worth it to create this long-term record.” Overall, the study found that Antarctica now sends six times more ice plunging into the sea each year than it did in 1979. During the 40-year period of the study, Antarctica added 13.8 millimeters to sea level, with the majority coming from West Antarctica. But East Antarctica, particularly the area known as Wilkes Land, was responsible for more than 30% of Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “The more we look at this system the more we realize this is a fragile system,” Rignot says. “Once these glaciers are destabilized there is no red button to press to stop it.” If intensifying polar winds are responsible for the intrusion of warm waters beneath East Antarctica, the situation is likely to get worse, Rignot says. The increasing strength of those winds is owed in part to the contrast in temperature between Antarctica and the rest of the world. As greenhouse gases warm much of the planet, this temperature differential is likely to intensify, driving even stronger westerlies, he adds. But the bold new results won’t be accepted without a fight, says glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, who was not involved in either study. “There will be a lot of comparisons between the methods used to create these estimates and those in the [previous study],” he says. In addition to the ice-tracking method used in the current paper, the previous one also gathered two other measurements: one that estimated ice loss by repeatedly “weighing” the ice sheet via satellite, and one that estimated changes in elevation on the glacier’s surface from planes and satellites. No matter the outcome, Rignot hopes the study brings greater attention to a part of Antarctica that has traditionally been understudied. Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, agrees. “We need to monitor the entirety of Antarctica and we just can’t do that without international cooperation,” Fricker says. “We can’t take our eyes off this ice.”

A man, his boyfriend and a third man had an orgy on a late-night London subway train in front of other passengers. Nicholas Mullan, 24, and George Mason, 35, engaged in an array of sex activities which they filmed on the Northern Line between Leicester Square and Waterloo stations. Prosecutors say another man was involved in the astonishing incident which also involved extensive sexual activity. The whole affair happened on February 19, 2018. The two men appeared in court on Friday and pleaded guilty to one count of outraging public decency. Outlining the case, prosecutor Victoria Murphy said: “This is a case of outraging public decency on a London Underground train.” “On the 19th of February 2018, British Transport Police were contacted to a report of a video which had been posted online showing three men engaged in explicit sexual acts on a train.” “It showed full sex, oral sex and masturbation in the presence of the traveling members of the public.” “It appears to take place on the Northern Line between Leicester Square and London Waterloo.” “It was reported by a man who was also gay who thought the video overstepped the mark and was morally unacceptable.” She added a British Transport Police investigation later identified two of the three men – the third is thought to have escaped identification because their face was pixilated. The two men will appear in court on February 1 for sentencing. http://mensparkle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bulldogpit-Ruined-Orgy-Marco-DeVaul-03.gif http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vc-fDURpLaE/U-X6--phlMI/AAAAAAAAXo8/8MHIoysqDvw/s1600/3-1.gif https://www.thesword.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3-helix5way.gif http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.316d1e99639615e055ba4b91ff89c6b4&pid=1.7&rurl=http://101hotguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Group_sex_02.gif&ehk=4utYTFaWcNtYshmiCztAbg https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.23ad2bddd1535d5f755fe1c50c355a57&pid=1.7&rurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lVdBajlIFvI/U4vL9t6f-bI/AAAAAAAAHjw/ITas7b-n-qA/s1600/tumblr_m6nqr5rH0z1r28lwdo1_500.gif&ehk=k5tjbWDqza9zCgu8OlXLKw

3 rentals that didn't charge, then back to the co-op I grew up in, which doesn't charge. In each case, it's because the apartments aren't individually metered. My a/c's go on in Mid-May and off in mid-Oct, unless there's a cloudy day in the low 70s during that stretch.

Well, I haven't paid utilities since about 1985, so I'd have to say pretty good.

They are just trying to copy Weird Al.

Brace yourself, classic rock fans: The Who has confirmed its first new studio album in more than a dozen years is in the works. Legendary lead guitarist Pete Townshend, 73, said in a statement that fans should expect “dark ballads, heavy rock stuff, experimental electronica, sampled stuff and Who-ish tunes that began with a guitar that goes yanga-dang.” Set to drop later this year, the new recording is the first since The Who’s “Endless Wire,” a 10-part mini-opera released in 2006. Frontman Roger Daltrey also announced dates for the band’s “Moving On!” tour, which launches May 7 at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, peaks May 13 at Madison Square Garden and wraps Oct. 23 at the Rogers Arena in Edmonton, Alberta. A local orchestra will join the band every night of the tour for an evening of music spanning their entire career, Rolling Stone reports. But don’t expect the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to go soft on us. They all have viagra prescriptions, ladies! “Be aware, Who fans!” Daltrey said in a statement. “Just because it’s The Who with an orchestra, in no way will it compromise the way Pete and I deliver our music. This will be full throttle Who with horns and bells on.” What about rings on their fingers and bells on their toes? Say... Has anybody seen my Sweet Gypsy Rose? The 75-year-old “Baba O’Riley” belter also hints that this could be his last tour. “I have to be realistic that this is the age I am and voices start to go after a while,” he tells the Mirror. “I don’t want to be not as good as I was two years ago.” Diehard fans should also be on the lookout for Daltrey’s upcoming memoir, “Thanks A Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story,” which publishes in the US on the same day the “Moving On!” tour ends.

I can walk, but stiffly and sometimes painfully due to back issues. Standing still is worse than walking. I keep a computer chair in my (galley) kitchen so I can roll back and forth and face either side. I cook and do dishes sitting down, standing only when necessary.

Detroit — A 21-year-old man was found dead at the abandoned Packard Plant Saturday morning, police said. Police said the man was with a group of friends playing a game of hide-and-seek inside the building on St. Aubin near East Ferry. Police said the building is an extension of the 45-building plant. The group was playing the game between midnight and 1:30 a.m. on the ninth floor of the building. He ran off to hide and possibly fell through the elevator shaft on the ninth floor, police said. Friends were unable to find him and left the building. They returned in the morning with flashlights to search for him. They found his body inside an elevator shaft on the first floor covered by debris, police said. Friends called Detroit police Saturday morning. Developers of the Packard Plant project at Arte Express purchased the property, with its 43 dilapidated buildings and 45 acres of decayed landscape, in 2014. The first phase of the project broke ground in May 2017, which included revitalizing the administration building and a nearby building. The project is estimated to cost $23 million and developer Fernando Palazuelo is financing the entire project himself. The entire project, which has four phases across the property’s 45 acres, is expected to take up to 15 years.

What if (assuming you can afford it) you accumulate some gear/clothing of the type you like seeing guys in, then hire a guy you like the look of, then ask him to put it on at the start of your assignation. Maybe the gear + your excitement will turn him on & he'll get into it more than he'd thought he would.

New White Sox closer Kelvin Herrera.

R. Kelly reportedly suffering severe panic attacks as damning Lifetime series airs, as judge grants emergency motion to enter his Chicago studio COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY...

A teenager allegedly participating in the "'Bird Box' Challenge" caused a two-car accident when she attempted to drive while her eyes were covered, police say. A 17-year-old girl was driving on the Layton Parkway just before 5 p.m. Monday when she allegedly decided to pull her beanie hat over her eyes and continue driving, said Layton Police Lt. Travis Lyman. "It didn't take long for her to lose control," he said. The girl, traveling about 35 mph, began to swerve back and forth, eventually overcorrecting, and went into oncoming traffic where she sideswiped another vehicle on the driver's side, Lyman said. The impact from that crash spun the girl's pickup truck into a light pole and a concrete barrier. The challenge was created on social media after the Netflix movie "Bird Box" was released. In the movie, Sandra Bullock's character is forced to do many activities while blindfolded, including running through a forest and taking a boat on a lake. Similar to the dangerous "In My Feelings" car challenge and the Tide Pod eating challenge, the "Bird Box" Challenge became the latest internet craze that even officials at Netflix have publicly tried to discourage. People participating in the challenge attempt to do activities while blindfolded. Neither the man in the car that was hit in Layton, nor the teenage driver or her 16-year-old male passenger were injured. The incident has police shaking their heads in disbelief. "It's just outrageous that somebody would think to do that. This one, luckily, didn't end in any injuries but easily could have. The stakes are just way too high to do something like that while you're driving," Lyman said. When Layton police first investigated Monday's crash, they weren't sure what caused the accident. "Initially we were told she was just talking to her passenger and got distracted," Lyman said. But the driver who was hit wasn't convinced. Lyman said the driver decided to do some of his own detective work. "He just could not understand why her car was doing what it was doing," he said. "It was actually through some help and work on the other driver's part to try and make sense of why she was driving the way she was based on what he had seen (that the challenge came out)." The driver talked to someone who had overheard what the teen girl was really doing. After passing that information along to police, detectives reinterviewed the girl and she admitted she had tried the challenge, Lyman said. Police are expected to hand the case over to prosecutors to be screened for a potential charge of reckless driving.