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Click on the picture at the link and it will change from low tide to high tide. Neat! What a wonderful application of a lesson in Nature. Link

Towfish Sidescan sonar transducer. It can spot objects 1200 ft down easily. Like taking underwater pictures with sound. It is a unique item to own. Classified Ads > Boats

[“Clogged byways”] Code enforcement for tree trimming for over hanging trees in the canals has struck Little Torch Key, Jolly Rogers subdivision. Many of the homeowners were issued letters to trim their overhang. Our neighbor got one and he blamed the other neighbor for calling on him. No one called anyone, the county took an aerial view and then issued citations.

[Poo News] What the shape and color of your stool means. Link

One of the best local UFO sightings witnessed by hundreds of people occurred in Key West on Feb. 27th 2014. The red lit UFO was hovering above the middle of Eaton and Fleming Streets. All witnesses claim that this object was not an aircraft or blimp, nor did it make any noise whatsoever. Video

Secrets of the Seagrass March 15 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. See what lives in these wonderful meadows of the sea. Make a seagrass crown to wear and play a game of. Build A Seagrass Bed. For Kids in kindergarten through fifth grade and it’s free. Fun! Games! Crafts! Friends! Pre-registration requested

Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center, 35 East Quay Road, at the end of Southard Street, Across from Fort Zachary Taylor State Park. Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Free admission and parking, gift shop. Events 

[LSD] When my brother Tim was 25, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. His crime? Selling pot and LSD to a friend who turned out to be a police informant. Tim had never even been to jail, but now, because of a totally non-violent crime, he has been condemned to die in prison. Link 

[10 GB Free Storage] I saw the response to the guy with the backups problem.  It reminded me to send you an invite to give our cloud storage a try and let me know what you think. Here is the link. Sign up for the 10GB account.  Its free! Link

Let me know your thoughts with it and the process or any other usability likes/dislikes so that I may improve it if necessary.

[Police Form To Check Your Property] This is the form you fill out so the police can check your property while you are away on vacation, etc.

The Moon passes over Orion as it waxes through first quarter. (These scenes are drawn for the middle of North America. European observers: move each Moon symbol a quarter of the way toward the one for the previous date. In the Far East, move it halfway. The blue 10° scale is about the size of your fist held at arm’s length.)

Driftwood.35 foot long appx. 6 foot wide. I think it is S. American mahogany, but it is spectacular. A true show piece and needs a loving home. Located in North Key Largo. Logistics will require a flat bed and/or barge, crane and tie downs. I’ve lived here for 30 years and have never seen anything like this. Ever. More pictures are available. Classified Ads > Miscellaneous 

[Gun Nuts] Here is another type of legal shooting setup.

[Error Oxc000000f, HDD is shot?] This is a Windows error, meaning Windows actually tried to load, which means the HDD is not shot, rather it’s likely a software issue and your files are probably fine and recoverable. If the HDD didn’t work at all the BIOS/UEFI would have given “no bootable device” or some other like message.

It’s possible shock damage occurred to the drive, which happens when hard drives are moved while they are operating (a no, no!). If the heads strike the spinning platters where vital operating system data or users files are located, they could be lost and unrecoverable.

In this case since you have no backups (a no, no!) I suggest you take the machine to a capable local data recovery specialist, most decent PC repair shops can do this. Once the files are recovered the sector damage can be determined/mitigated and/or a new drive or reinstall of the operating system/repair can occur. Windows 7 can make backups for you, just need a external drive and instructions.

Depending on the cost/age of the laptop, you may opt just for data recovery and then buy a new one. However if you want Windows 7 laptop you need to buy one online in the business section of most online PC vendors or deal with the horrors of Windows 8 which isn’t going over too well. A good PC shop can assist in assisting you with choosing the right machine for your needs and to last until 2020 when Windows 7 support ends or can be further upgraded to Windows 9 or 10 when it appears.

Rare photographs. Link

[Homeless] Here we go again.  More hot air about the city’s homeless problem.  This time it will involve the city commission and the county commission.  The county commissioner George Nugent is going to the meeting with a bad attitude evidenced by his statement quoted in The Citizen, “they’re going to have to define exactly why we’re sitting at the table”  Shouldn’t mayor Cates have done this when inviting the County officials to a summit?  Nugent also stated, “I’ve got a lot of other issues I’m focused on” ,  “it could be a short meeting”  This sounds like Nugent has already made up his mind to do nothing about the “problem”  

We all know where Mayor Cates and commissioner Yaniz stand on the issue.  Mayor Cates wants financial help from the county to rid key West of the homeless because KWPD can’t legally do it for him, except by way of murder.  Tony Yaniz, we all know would prefer  to exterminate all homeless in Key West by starving them out.  Yaniz is a proponent of shutting down the soup kitchen.  Yaniz was also quoted by The Citizen saying “the homeless can make do with a toilet, a tent, and a shower”  What a novel idea!  Hey Tony, tell them where they can pitch their tents!  How about WisteriaIsland?  How about your front yard?

Does anyone expect anything to be accomplished at this Homeless Summit?  If you do, you are fooling yourself.  Maybe Cates and Yaniz want to get the Sheriff’s department to help harass (and murder) the homeless.

 On another note:   Is the city commission so blind they don’t know the toilet w/tp is a joke?  Or did Yaniz put it there?

Theres the entire worlds view then theres the American Conservatives’ view. Jon Stewart nails it. Video 

Rumor has it that ftr guy wants Big Pine Key to join the Russian Federation. 

[Captain Doom and Gloom] As the saying goes, If the public can see it, it is at least 7 years obsolete already, so what does BB have now? So glad we are telling the world about our inventions. How long before our enemies have a system! Now you know why you should back up your data to paper. Anything electronic can be switched off instantly. Poof, gone!

This technology could take out Iran and N. Korea’s nuclear program in a New York minute. Most interesting 2 minutes on new technology that Boeing has developed. A must watch. Video 

[President’s  imagined weakness] Let’s see how other American  Presidents have fared. Have they shown a lot more toughness? Lets see.

Did the Russians invade Hungary because American wartime General Eisenhower was weak? Maybe they considered President Johnson weak so they invaded Czechoslovakia? Interesting. Remember Russia helping dismantle Moldavia? I guess G. W. Bush was a very weak President. I seem to remember the Russian territory of Georgia being invaded because our weak President G.W. Bush letting them. The biggest slap to Americas face was when Bush allowed a Chinese air force plane force aa American spyplane to the ground and did virtually nothing when they dismantled it. Maybe our President is in the same boat as these other Presidents when there wasn’t much they could do.

On Friday the unemployment stats for the month of February were released by Team Obama’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate increased to 6.7% even though the number of persons employed increased more than expected. Last month, 175,000 more people were employed than there were in January. The experts had predicted that only about 45,000 new jobs were to be created.  That is good news, but it masks some long standing bad news. Also we must consider that the ranks of the new hires was inflated by a burst of Government hiring. Government added 13 million new hires last month alone. The unemployment rate for government workers is less than half of that of the general public, 3.2% vs 6.7%. And that rate declined substantially from January to February.

The ranks of the long-term unemployed grew by 203,000 to more than 3.8 million, after having fallen in the past two months. That’s despite the fact that emergency unemployment insurance (UI) expired at the end of December. The longer these workers stay unemployed, the more difficult it is for them to reenter the labor force and the more likely it is that they become permanently unemployed. That’s a scary outcome and one that is growing more likely with each passing month.

In order to return to the unemployment rate we enjoyed pre-recession, pre Democrat control of our governance, it will take us 5 more long hard years at the rate we added jobs last month.

It is absolutely shameful that today, about 7 years since the Democrats took control of Congress, there are nearly 7 million FEWER people working. That is horrible, especially when you consider that there are nearly 17 million MORE Americans who are members of the civilian non-institutional population.

Deer Friends, normally after a recession has ended, and our recession officially ended in June 2009, nearly 5 years ago, our economy will typically experience rapid growth, between 3 and 5% per year GDP. Our GDP growth rate averaged 3.21 Percent from 1948 until 2013, and it reached an all-time high of 13.40 Percent in the fourth quarter of 1950 and a record low of -4.10 Percent in the second quarter of 2009 after only 2 years of Democrat control of our economy. Since Obama took office, our GDP growth rate has only averaged about 2.1%. We are not recovering, it’s not all Obama’s fault, it is simply a function of the Democrat philosophy of governance.

Part 2) This weekend America, and the world, is a safer place than it has been in a long time.  Not only is Obama out of Washington vacationing at Ocean Reef, in the Florida Keys, but Kerry and Susan Rice are wandering around, separately, in the mid east. Plus, Joltin Joe Biden is vacationing in the Virgins (Islands).

Yep, the I expect that the Ukraine mess will sort itself out without our President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and our National Security advisor. Ukraine will in all likelihood be another triumph for Putin’s lust to reestablish the Soviet Union, but who cares, certainly not the Obama administration. Certainly the admin need not worry itself about the cluster f**k that is Democare. Nah, no worries about our abysmal economy or record number of folks on welfare. No worries about the record number of people who have been out of work long term.  Yep, all of that pales in comparison to the Prez’s need to vacate again, after all he’s only taken vacation three times this year.