SURVIVAL: A missing eight-year-old Maryland boy safe and sound

Saturday, August 31, 2024

https://www./news/article-13772993/Arizona-rescue-missing-boy-tzion-maron-lava-river-caves.html

Arizona park rangers’ dramatic rescue of missing boy who spent night alone in wilderness after getting separated from his family
By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:43 EDT, 23 August 2024 | Updated: 11:45 EDT, 23 August 2024

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Park rangers and more than 100 volunteers worked together to find a missing eight-year-old Maryland boy who got separated from his family while visiting a cave in Arizona. 

Tzion Maron, of Baltimore, went missing near the opening of the Lava River Caves near Flagstaff on Wednesday after his family was unable to locate him in the immediate area, prompting search and rescue crews to be called around 6:15pm. 

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No details about how he got lost or what he did  — right or wrong.  Would be good for an “after action  —  lessons learned”.

Watching children over the years, I’ve learned (the hard way) to never ever take your eyes off them.  They seem to be able to “disappear” in a heart beat.

Now there are things like Apple air tags and Angel Sense to help.

If you’re not holding their hand, then you better have your eyes on them.

Glad for the good result.  Great help from various groups.  And a lesson to all of us to watch “our” kids.  Even if they are not “ours”.

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ECONOMICS: Remember you get what you pay for … …

Friday, August 30, 2024

FROM NEXTDOOR

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John German  — Milltown  —  2024-08Aug-20

I keep reading about people getting ripped off by home improvement people.

1) If you aren’t given a detailed quote on letterhead with a physical address you are taking a chance.

2) If you hire a tradesperson without a license, you are taking a chance. A licensed individual is accountable for his/her license and usually will not risk getting board complaints.

3) If you hire a person who has no insurance, you are taking a big chance. Ask for proof of insurance. If a contractor shows up at your house with a crew of day laborers and has no workers comp. insurance you can be held liable if they get hurt on your property.

4) A contractor should have the business name, location, license # on their trucks. That’s a law.

There is a reason some contractors charge more money, it’s called overhead. Licensed workers and insurance are for your protection. 

Years ago, a friend of mine hired a guy “on the side” to put in an oil burner. The guy did a lousy job with the connections. A day later, a line leaked. His entire 500 gallon oil tank sprayed out onto the basement floor. It went into the sump pump and it got discharged into his backyard which had a stream. 500 gallons of heating oil into the stream and the inexpensive guy was nowhere to be found.

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Remember you get what you pay for … …

… … sometimes “cheap” is much more expensive.

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SURVIVAL:All first responders need to know who and what they are dealing with

Thursday, August 29, 2024

https://click.iphonelife.com/ga/webviews/4-3550952-5-12372-15621-162251-2t8e02054d

Get Help in an Emergency with a Medical ID on iPhone

While a medical alert bracelet or a medical ID card in your wallet may help in an emergency, there’s one more tool you can use to ensure you receive the prompt care you need—your iPhone! Even if you keep your iPhone locked with a passcode or Face ID, it’s still possible to have your Medical ID visible on your smartphone so that bystanders and emergency personnel can assist you in a medical emergency. Let’s get started learning how to set up the Medical ID on iPhone.

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Not every “survival” situation happens in Death Valley, on the ski slopes, or in a national park.  

BUT, wherever they occur, first responders need to know who and what they are dealing with.

I have this “medical id” set up on my iphone. Suggest you should too. And, recommend it to anyone you know.

During my time on the First Aid squad, there were many times when this would have save time and prevented confusion. Often, people couldn’t communicate key info and we were stuck. Just had to scoop ‘n’ dash and let the ER sort stuff out.

I think this feature, along with what3words location pinpointing app, are two of the things that EVERYONE should have on their phones. I’m sure Android has a similar feature.

FWIW YMMV faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It!)

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ECONOMICS: Only the Gooferment could try to manage beavers

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/28/conservationists-warn-unauthorised-releases-beavers-english-rivers?ICID=ref_fark

Beaver-bombing’: unauthorised rodent releases on the rise in English rivers
Experts say trend is because of failure by successive governments to approve releases despite promises
Patrick Barkham
Wed 28 Aug 2024 07.05 EDT

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Debbie Tann, the chief executive of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said: “We’ve got beavers living wild quite happily and quietly [across southern England] and yet to get a licence to release a native animal back into its natural habitat we’ve got to do this 100,000-word application to assess its impact on every single aspect of everything.”

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Only the Gooferment could try to manage beavers … … with a 100,000-word application.

Hey, here’s a thought, deregulate anything to do with the beaver.  No forms, no bureaucrats, no beavers constrained and fighting to the death for their space.

Especially no “red tape” and all the people to shuffle paper.

Frankly I’d bet “Mother Nature” can control the beavers and provide for all the predators to feed off them with a meal.

Now if we could just find a predator to control all the politicians and bureaucrats!

Sigh!

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RANT: Civil forfeiture needs to be abolished; only if people are convicted of a crime can their assets be taken

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/18/civil-asset-forfeiture-explained/74802279007/

Old legal quirk lets police take your money with little reason, critics say
Jeanine Santucci USA TODAY
Published 5:08 a.m. ET Aug. 18, 2024 Updated 11:46 a.m. ET Aug. 18, 2024

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Law enforcement was able to take the money through a controversial practice called civil asset forfeiture. Advocates against the practice say it amounts to legalized government theft, at times from ordinary, innocent Americans. 

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Civil forfeiture has been effectively eliminated in only North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico and Maine, according to the Institute for Justice. But dozens of other states have tried reforming their laws. Some have elevated the standard for burden of proof that law enforcement has to have to seize property. Others have improved the transparency of their procedures, Rulli said.

A federal loophole makes it easier for law enforcement agencies across the country to evade state reforms. The federal government isn’t beholden to state laws, Rulli said, so law enforcement agencies can call federal authorities in, which will seize property and split the profits with the local agencies.

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This is unConstitutional trickery that the Gooferment at all levels pulls on “We, The Sheeple”.

I find the Gooferment’s conduct immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Hopefully you do too!

Argh!

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ADHOC: Why does the Gooferment get to tax “winnings”?

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

nj1015.com/5-bet-turns-into-1-million-at-hard-rock-atlantic-city/

Why does the Gooferment get to tax “winnings”? I doubt that I am “ahead” even though I-paid taxes on my winnings that exceeded the “threshold”.

And why does the Gooferment get to run the lottery?  At least the bookies paid fair odds.

Also, why when a lotto jackpot go unclaimed does the Goofermentget to keep it?

Argh!

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ConspiracyTheories: New photo emerges of Crooks communicating — real or photoshopped?

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1824867330280534219

George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19

🚨New photo emerges of Crooks communicating with an unidentified individual/agency right before he began firing

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DJT assassination attempt 

No idea if this is “real or imaginary”?

If it is real, it certainly raises a lot of questions!

I, for one, would like “the truth”.

Right now, I’d call it “8. Generally Accepted As False” until it is authenticated.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

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ENCOURAGING: Anyone in Prospect Park, PA should consider this fellow for plumbing work, imho!

Monday, August 26, 2024

FROM. QUORA

“I want to take a moment to recognize my cousin Andrew Henry and here’s why. My neighbor Gregory who is elderly, retired, and disabled recently had a sewer line break in our shared front lawn. The sewage was backing into the houses. After speaking with Greg a few times about the issue It became clear that he didn’t have the insurance needed to repair the sewer or have sufficient funds, actually none. As you can imagine it was an unpleasant situation and was not something that should be left unattended. Andrew spoke with Gregory and also found out that he is a retired Air Force veteran. After a few rounds of conversation back and forth, Andrew decided he wanted to help Gregory in a time of need. This Saturday, on his day off, and with a $1000 donation (cost of material), he gathered some help and put a new sewer line in for him. Thank you Andrew for giving back to your community and for helping Gregory and my family. The world could definitely use more people like you. If anyone in Prospect Park, PA or surrounding towns needs the services of an excellent plumber please consider reaching out to Andrew.”

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Probably need a little more identification for those folks in the neighborhood.

Definitely needs recognition.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Kei cars are the antithesis of the big American SUV — but let the Free Market decide

Sunday, August 25, 2024

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/states-keep-banning-cheap-little-kei-cars-for-fear-theyre-deathtraps/

A cute, cheap death trap? Japanese Kei cars banned by yet another US state
Limited in size and power, Kei cars are like fishes out of water on US roads.
Jonathan M. Gitlin – 8/15/2024, 3:36 PM

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Kei cars are the antithesis of the big American SUV. Where EPA regulations effectively penalize automakers for building smaller, more efficient cars, Japan’s Kei car regulations cap size, weight, and power to just fractions. Kei cars aren’t just small, they’re also pretty cheap, a fact that has made them a sales success in Japan and highly desirable as a gray-market import, particularly by people who think new cars have gotten too large, too complicated, and too expensive. A few years ago, Ars even wrote a guide on how to go about importing one from Japan.

But not everyone is a fan of the diminutive Kei import. As far as the federal government is concerned, as long as it’s more than 25 years old, an imported car does not have to comply with federal motor vehicle safety standards or fuel economy standards; just makes sure you pay all your import duties.

That’s because the federal government doesn’t license vehicles to operate on public roads. That task belongs to the individual states, and increasingly, they are giving Kei cars the thumbs down—sometimes even in cases where previously those cars posed no problem.

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Mungus the Unhyphenated

The root of the problem stems from an organization called AAMVA — the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. It’s an organization that’s part non-governmental regulatory organization (managing the Commercial Driver License system), part advisory organization, and part lobbying organization. They create more or less ready-to-deploy rules and legislative proposals.

AAMVA has had it in for “mini trucks” (Kei trucks) for years, and has expanded their efforts to all Kei vehicles now.

Do we really want an organization like this — which isn’t answerable to the public at all — effectively dictating to states’ motor vehicle departments? My thought is “no”, but how many average people even know of its existence, let alone agendas, to speak up about it?

August 15, 2024 at 8:43 pm

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Just what we need an entrenched bunch of bureaucrats for the benefit of Gooferment bureaucrats.  What could POSSIBLY go wrong?  Everything!!!

The Federal Gooferment is worried about Google?  How about worrying about stuff closer to home.  Here’s an organization that is a non-governmental regulatory – advisory – lobbying organization.  Argh!

Close the borders and open up trade.

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GOLD: Pot of Gold found; testament to its eternal value

Saturday, August 24, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-find-literal-pot-of-gold-but-its-not-in-ireland/

Archaeologists Find Literal Pot of Gold, but it’s Not in Ireland
By Andy Corbley – Aug 8, 202

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It’s one of the best things an archaeologist can hope to find: a hoard of gold coins. One was dug up recently in a terracotta pot, meaning that, if one sustains the pun, they found a pot of gold.

They didn’t find it at the end of a rainbow, however, but it was at the ‘end’ of something—Asia—as the Ancient Greeks would have considered it.

Excavations among the ruins of Notion, an ancient city-state in modern-day Turkey, turned up the foundations of a house dating to the Achaemenid Persian Empire buried under another house built from the Hellenistic Period, or about 180 years later.

“The coins were buried in a corner of the older building,” Dr. Christopher Ratté, lead archaeologist on the project, told the New York Times. “We weren’t actually looking for a pot of gold.”

The coins are known as darics, which stems from the name of the Emperor Darius I, or from ‘dari-‘ the root word for gold in the Persian language. Dating to the 5th century BCE, it was a time of great upheaval as Greek city-states fought against each other, against Persia, and sometimes on behalf of Persia against other Greeks, when mercenary soldiers made up key components of many major armies in Asia Minor.

The running hypothesis as to the coins’ provenance is that they were buried with the full intention of recovering them later. They probably represented savings, as each daric would be around one month’s pay. However, the fact that they were never dug up from their little hole in the corner of the house suggests the worst.

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For a number of reasons, I loved this story.  Sad for the original owner who never was able to retrieve his stash.  Wondering about any reward for the discoverers.  Curious how much they are worth.

Mine aren’t buried, but could be if need arises. 

There is something practical about having stashes and caches in turbulent times.

As usual, the politicians and bureaucrats of the Gooferment want everything they can steal so stash and cache are two prudent strategies for dealing with the modern day equivalent of pirates.

Argh!

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