Celebrity Deaths

Yesterday we were blanketed by the smoke. The air had an orange-yellow hue to it and blocked out much of the Sun. Honestly looked like the air on another planet then here. Today not so bad. Other than hot and somewhat humid, i have detected no difference in air quality. Your mileage may vary.

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This makes me wonder If anyone is tracking the numbers of air related aortic dissection particularly among senior citizens.

Gee, thanks. As someone who flies regularly and has flown close to a million miles I have never been scared to fly before. Now after having a second heart attack you are telling me my heart might blowout midflight. I currently have eight flights booked, should I cancel two of them to increase my chance of survival by 25%?
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No way, man. But you should be able to get one of these quality products onto the plane...


Do it as you're ascending, and make sure you share with the stewardesses so they bring you extra chips and sodas.

Don't worry, it's perfectly safe, those bottles are well under 3 liquid ounces.

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This makes me wonder If anyone is tracking the numbers of air related aortic dissection particularly among senior citizens.

Gee, thanks. As someone who flies regularly and has flown close to a million miles I have never been scared to fly before. Now after having a second heart attack you are telling me my heart might blowout midflight. I currently have eight flights booked, should I cancel two of them to increase my chance of survival by 25%?
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No way, man. But you should be able to get one of these quality products onto the plane...


Do it as you're ascending, and make sure you share with the stewardesses so they bring you extra chips and sodas.

Don't worry, it's perfectly safe, those bottles are well under 3 liquid ounces.
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AMs knowledge of the gay underground is impressive.

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This makes me wonder If anyone is tracking the numbers of air related aortic dissection particularly among senior citizens.

Gee, thanks. As someone who flies regularly and has flown close to a million miles I have never been scared to fly before. Now after having a second heart attack you are telling me my heart might blowout midflight. I currently have eight flights booked, should I cancel two of them to increase my chance of survival by 25%?
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No way, man. But you should be able to get one of these quality products onto the plane...


Do it as you're ascending, and make sure you share with the stewardesses so they bring you extra chips and sodas.

Don't worry, it's perfectly safe, those bottles are well under 3 liquid ounces.
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AMs knowledge of the gay underground is impressive.
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Oh. Sorry to disappoint you, but I had no idea these products had anything to do with the gay underground. But as always, thanks for sharing your remarkably broad knowledge and varied experiences.

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AMs knowledge of the gay underground is impressive.
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(ahem) Somehow I doubt these fine cleaning solvents^* are strictly a gay phenomenon.

IN NYC, they are often sold as VCR head cleaners. Who knew there were so many VCR collectors.

Forty-five years ago, on July 16th, 1981, I was one of a few thousand fans gathering for a free twilight concert by Harry Chapin and friends.
Chapin was not your typical rock star. He'd struggled as a comedy writer for years, moonlighting as a cab driver and guitar instructor. At 29, he married an older woman who financed an album that produced a huge hit -Taxi. In 1975, he teamed up with Bill Ayers and formed Long Island Cares, a private food bank that still exists. They then formed Why Hunger, a dedicated day when hundreds of radio stations give up their programming in favor of a telethon for local food banks. Chapin and his brothers performed over 200 concerts a year, half of them for charity.
Harry's philosophy was one for me and one for the people. He inspired my blackjack career, where I gave every other day's winnings to local charity.
So, it is July 16th, 1981, and I'm in the park, buzzed up, and the radio interrupts Freebird with the announcement that Harry Chapin has died in a fiery crash on the Long Island Expressway. A hush falls over the crowd, and strangers literally start hugging each other. People are stunned and in tears. A man comes on stage and announces that the concert is canceled and that everyone should leave. The opposite happens. Somehow, word gets out, and thousands of people converge on the park. Someone plays a tape on a boombox, and everyone sings along. The sun goes down, but people still keep coming. Dozens of cops are trying to move people along but failing badly. It lasted for hours until someone thought to turn on the lawn sprinklers to move everyone along.
He's forty-five years gone, but his vision lives on. Long Island Cares has provided over fourteeen million meals to New Yorkers, and World Hunger Year is an ongoing affair, with over 600 radio stations participating in the yearly telethon. The organization Chapin built with Harry Belafonte was the impetus for We are the World.
Harry Chapin had a simple motto- When in doubt, do something.

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IN NYC, they are often sold as VCR head cleaners. Who knew there were so many VCR collectors.
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One of the good things about being a pharmacist is I can get the real McCoy at will.

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IN NYC, they are often sold as VCR head cleaners. Who knew there were so many VCR collectors.
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One of the good things about being a pharmacist is I can get the real McCoy at will.
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If you had the real McCoy available you wouldn't need drugs. He'd just scan you with his medical tricorder and use the regenerator device to fix the problem.

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IN NYC, they are often sold as VCR head cleaners. Who knew there were so many VCR collectors.
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One of the good things about being a pharmacist is I can get the real McCoy at will.
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If you had the real McCoy available you wouldn't need drugs. He'd just scan you with his medical tricorder and use the regenerator device to fix the problem.
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Then what did he use the hypospray for?

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The current air quality alerts due to the wildfire in Canada specifically warn people with heart conditions against heavy exertion outdoors.
For what it's worth, there was less wildfire smoke than this 3 years ago when I was troubled by my little episode.
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I did not notice the smoke this morning, but on my way home I did. Looks like the 1970s!
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I decided to investigate some freeplay offers I got from a property in Iowa. As soon as I crossed the river today, the temperature went up 20 degrees. Wisconsin is blanketed right now.
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I was surprised to see how many casinos there are now in Iowa. I remember when Prairie Meadows was the only real casino.

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The current air quality alerts due to the wildfire in Canada specifically warn people with heart conditions against heavy exertion outdoors.
For what it's worth, there was less wildfire smoke than this 3 years ago when I was troubled by my little episode.
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I did not notice the smoke this morning, but on my way home I did. Looks like the 1970s!
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I decided to investigate some freeplay offers I got from a property in Iowa. As soon as I crossed the river today, the temperature went up 20 degrees. Wisconsin is blanketed right now.
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My barn is about 100 feet from the house and it looks hazy between the house and the barn because of the smoke. It smells like somebody is cooking a really large barbecue using Hickory chips.

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The current air quality alerts due to the wildfire in Canada specifically warn people with heart conditions against heavy exertion outdoors.
For what it's worth, there was less wildfire smoke than this 3 years ago when I was troubled by my little episode.
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I did not notice the smoke this morning, but on my way home I did. Looks like the 1970s!
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I decided to investigate some freeplay offers I got from a property in Iowa. As soon as I crossed the river today, the temperature went up 20 degrees. Wisconsin is blanketed right now.
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My barn is about 100 feet from the house and it looks hazy between the house and the barn because of the smoke. It smells like somebody is cooking a really large barbecue using Hickory chips.
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How many feet to the outhouse? :)

Ron Hunt, former MLB All-Star. Mr Hunt was an original Met and was the first Met to start an All-Star Game. He had an unusual path to the big leagues. Signed by the Braves out of high school, he spent four years as a light-hitting utility player in the lower minors. The expansion Mets were able to buy him for next to nothing and installed him as their starting second baseman. He led the National League in being hit by pitches seven years in a row, and was one of the few high points in the early days of the beloved Mutts.
Mr Hunt had suffered from both cancer and Parkinson's in the last few years.
Rest in Peace.

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The current air quality alerts due to the wildfire in Canada specifically warn people with heart conditions against heavy exertion outdoors.
For what it's worth, there was less wildfire smoke than this 3 years ago when I was troubled by my little episode.
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I did not notice the smoke this morning, but on my way home I did. Looks like the 1970s!
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I decided to investigate some freeplay offers I got from a property in Iowa. As soon as I crossed the river today, the temperature went up 20 degrees. Wisconsin is blanketed right now.
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My barn is about 100 feet from the house and it looks hazy between the house and the barn because of the smoke. It smells like somebody is cooking a really large barbecue using Hickory chips.
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How many feet to the outhouse? :)
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This house was built in 1850 And there were outhouses here until the 1940s. They're not allowed in this county anymore. There are antique bottle collectors who get permission to dig up the old outhouses on properties like mine because people would throw empty bottles into them.

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Ron Hunt, former MLB All-Star. Mr Hunt was an original Met and was the first Met to start an All-Star Game. He had an unusual path to the big leagues. Signed by the Braves out of high school, he spent four years as a light-hitting utility player in the lower minors. The expansion Mets were able to buy him for next to nothing and installed him as their starting second baseman. He led the National League in being hit by pitches seven years in a row, and was one of the few high points in the early days of the beloved Mutts.
Mr Hunt had suffered from both cancer and Parkinson's in the last few years.
Rest in Peace.
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Ron Hunt was a scrappy second baseman whose rookie year with the Mets was 1963 (he was NOT an original Met). He finished second in the NL Rookie of the Year voting that year to another scrappy second baseman named Pete Rose. Ron Hunt's 1963 batting average was .272 and his slugging percentage was .396. By contrast, Pete Rose's batting average was .273 and his slugging percentage was .371 . Both Hunt and Rose had a WAR (Wins Above Replacement) of 2.4 that season. Rose had 41 RBI for a team that scored 648 runs that year; Hunt had 42 RBI for a team (the historically awful NY Mets) that scored only 501 runs that season.

Hunt and Rose both had an OBP (on base percentage) of 0.334 and both soon became the regular lead-off hitter of their 1963 clubs - although Hunt was eventually shifted to the 3rd spot in the Mets line-up. Rose was followed in the Reds line-up by Tommy Harper, Vada Pinson, Frank Robinson, and Johnny Edwards and scored 101 runs in that season. Hunt was followed in the lineup by guys like Tim Harkness, a washed-up Duke Snider in his final season, Choo Choo Coleman, and Frank Thomas (the Little Hurt) and scored only 62 runs in his rookie season. That difference in runs scored was the reason why Rose was elected over Ron Hunt as 1963 NL Rookie of the Year.

I didn't start following baseball and the NY Mets until a few years later but Ron Hunt was one of my favorite players - even after he was traded to the Giants. Looking back to 1963, I always felt he had been robbed of the ROY Award because he played for the historically-awful NY Mets while Pete Rose played for the heavy-hitting Cincinnati Reds. I wondered if Hunt's career would have been different if he had been voted the 1963 ROY, if he would have gotten different opportunities, if he "could-a been a contender." Probably not, but, dammit, I always liked Ron Hunt and I'm so sad that he has passed.

RIP, Ron Hunt

Close enough to celebrity status, I suppose,

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boxer Hannah Rapp, who in June fought for the World Boxing Council women's featherweight championship, was killed on Saturday while she bicycled in Texas after a motorist struck her with his car, according to authorities.

Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with her death, the sheriff's office of Brazos county, Texas, said in a statement.

The agency said Rapp and a fellow bicyclist were riding on a local road when Medina passed them in his car, stopped, and drove his vehicle in reverse. Medina then hit Rapp, and she was pronounced dead after emergency responders brought her to a hospital.

Brazos deputies said they booked Medina on a count of manslaughter, which Texas law defines as recklessly causing a person's death. The sheriff's office did not provide additional details, saying the "isolated" case remained under active and ongoing investigation.

Word of Rapp's death prompted tributes from her colleagues in professional boxing.

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Close enough to celebrity status, I suppose,

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boxer Hannah Rapp, who in June fought for the World Boxing Council women's featherweight championship, was killed on Saturday while she bicycled in Texas after a motorist struck her with his car, according to authorities.

Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with her death, the sheriff's office of Brazos county, Texas, said in a statement.

The agency said Rapp and a fellow bicyclist were riding on a local road when Medina passed them in his car, stopped, and drove his vehicle in reverse. Medina then hit Rapp, and she was pronounced dead after emergency responders brought her to a hospital.

Brazos deputies said they booked Medina on a count of manslaughter, which Texas law defines as recklessly causing a person's death. The sheriff's office did not provide additional details, saying the "isolated" case remained under active and ongoing investigation.

Word of Rapp's death prompted tributes from her colleagues in professional boxing.

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I dove deeper into this and it appears the motorist hit her intentionally in an act of road rage.

As a cyclist myself I am aware that there are people who don't care if they hit me, and others who want to hit me. What for? There have been a few incidents in the news where a a cyclist was intentionally targeted by a motorist and whatever reasoning there is behind it is too depraved for me to understand.

Duane Ward, 62.
Mr Ward was an important part of the Blue Jays' two World Championships in 1992 and 1993. The closer on the 1993 team, Ward, hurt his arm in the postseason and was forced to retire in 1995 after missing the entire 1994 season. Ward flew into Toronto to participate in this weekend's celebrations of those two titles, but missed some of the scheduled events. The club announced his passing last night, but provided few details.
Rest in Peace.

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The current air quality alerts due to the wildfire in Canada specifically warn people with heart conditions against heavy exertion outdoors.
For what it's worth, there was less wildfire smoke than this 3 years ago when I was troubled by my little episode.
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I did not notice the smoke this morning, but on my way home I did. Looks like the 1970s!
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I decided to investigate some freeplay offers I got from a property in Iowa. As soon as I crossed the river today, the temperature went up 20 degrees. Wisconsin is blanketed right now.
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The smoke plume seems to be spreading wider. It definitely doesn't seem as thick. The rains also seem to be helping.

There were a bunch of videos on the local chats about "new" recipes for smoked cocktails... make a cocktail, wave it outside for a minute...

Kaylee Hottle, the Deaf actress who starred in the last two Godzilla x Kong movies, has died at 18. Car crash in Maryland.

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Kaylee Hottle, the Deaf actress who starred in the last two Godzilla x Kong movies, has died at 18. Car crash in Maryland.
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I had no idea a Godzilla movie had been made in the last 30 years.

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Kaylee Hottle, the Deaf actress who starred in the last two Godzilla x Kong movies, has died at 18. Car crash in Maryland.
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I had no idea a Godzilla movie had been made in the last 30 years.
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They've made 17. 5 were/are American with one on the way. 4 Kong movies, too, with one on the way.

So heartbreaking. She had an incredible future ahead and was a true role model for the deaf community. RIP.