Ilunga Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 @gurn I know you care about this subject as do l. This is more good news on this topic https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/eating-oily-fish-like-mackerel-or-salmon-lowers-alzheimers-risk/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Love it when a story like this has a happy ending: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/europe/germany-missing-boy-found-alive-sewer-intl-scli-grm/index.html Quote An 8-year-old boy was found alive in a sewer eight days after he went missing in Oldenburg, northwestern Germany. The boy, identified by authorities only as Joe, was reported missing on the afternoon of June 17. Joe was eventually rescued from the sewer system after a passer-by in the local area heard noises coming from a manhole cover early on Saturday morning and alerted the emergency services, the Oldenburg-Stadt / Ammerland police department said in a statement Tuesday. Joe was found just 1,000 feet from his home address and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia and dehydration. Police said they didn't believe anyone else was involved in the incident. An initial police report described Joe as having a learning disability. While the search was ongoing, they said he might misinterpret it as a game and continue hiding. Joe's surname hasn't been made public, in accordance with Germany's privacy laws. Immediately after the rescue, investigators started scanning the drainage system for clues to how he disappeared. The authorities concluded Joe most likely climbed into a concrete drainage pipe while playing, and then crawled into the sewer system through a canal and got lost after several meters. Investigators said that, between the entrance to the drainage system and the place where Joe was found, there are drainage manhole shafts and junctions at regular intervals where he was able to stand up. Joe told police in an initial statement that he became increasingly disoriented while stuck in the sewers and was unable to find his way out. "We are so happy -- truly," said police spokesman Stephan Klatte, according to CNN affiliate N-TV. "That is absolute luck. Of course, there was a possibility that we wouldn't find the child there. Possibly -- if he had not made a sound or these noises would not have been heard, then we may not have found him there at all," Klatte added. Gut gemacht by that passer-by....it would have been easy to just ignore those noises.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 More good news on the missing children front: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/missing-edmonton-girl-lila-smith-found-safe-in-oregon/ar-AAZ7dby?li=AAggNb9 Quote A 13-year-old Edmonton girl who disappeared more than a week ago has been found in Oregon. Edmonton police said in a news release that Lila Smith was found Saturday morning. Her family has been notified and arrangements are being made to return her to Edmonton. The teen has been taken to a children’s hospital in Oregon for a precautionary examination, police said. A 41-year-old Oregon man has been arrested and is to face charges of child luring, the release said. Other charges may be added as the investigation continues. Smith went missing on June 24 after leaving for school. Edmonton police are holding a news conference Saturday morning to provide further details on how the girl was found. The search involved many law enforcement agencies, including the FBI. “This investigation is a success thanks to the many partners involved, including various specialized Edmonton Police Service units, as well as, ALERT (Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams), Northern Alberta ICE Unit, RCMP, Abbotsford Police, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, CBSA, Gladstone Police (Oregon), Oregon City Police, and the FBI,” the EPS release stated. The release did not provide further details as to where in Oregon the teen was found, or how she crossed the border. So glad this girl is safe and going home. I hope this scumbag goes away for a long time. Anyone who thinks this is okay is certainly a danger to society.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Some more "feel good" news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/randy-bachman-stolen-guitar-reunited-japan-canada-day-1.6508351 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gurn Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/a-few-jaguars-now-roam-the-arizona-borderlands-why-that-s-a-big-deal/ar-AAZW9lO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ade6e1c7d3a049c2b8829be4d287e564 hen biologist Ganesh Marin first observed a jaguar on a preserve in northern Sonora, Mexico, in 2020, he was elated. The feline continued showing up on Marin’s grid of camera traps along the Arizona border, which indicated he was making the region his home. Marin nicknamed the jaguar El Bonito, Spanish for “the beautiful.” But in 2021, Marin, a National Geographic Explorer, noticed something odd about the photos. The spot patterns appeared to vary ever so slightly from one picture to the next. Further examination confirmed that he was indeed seeing not one, but two young male jaguars. It had been thrilling enough to watch Bonito develop on camera, “growing up, getting bigger, growing a thicker neck and bigger head,” Marin says. But realizing it was more than one: “That was pretty exciting.” The presence of a second jaguar a couple miles south of the Arizona border provides yet more evidence that the big cats are moving north to reclaim old territory, says John Koprowski, a biologist and dean at the University of Wyoming and Marin’s Ph.D. advisor As recently as the early 1900s, jaguars were found as far north as the Grand Canyon and south all the way to Argentina. But hunting, often government-sponsored, wiped them out of Arizona and New Mexico, the northern expanse of the jaguar's range, by the mid-20th century. Marin named the second jaguar Valerio, after Valer Clark, a conservationist who founded the organization Cuenca Los Ojos. This bi-national environmental organization now manages a 121,000 acre wildlife preserve along the border in Sonora, where Marin does his research as a doctoral student at the University of Arizona. The cats could expand their territory to the north if humans let them, but they face obstacles such as roads and the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 450 miles of 30-foot-tall wall were built during the Trump administration, most of it in Arizona and New Mexico, blocking off vital wildlife corridors. “There are animals right there within just a few kilometers of the border that could easily be impeded from moving further north if the border becomes impermeable,” Koprowski says, due to extension of the border wall and expansion of highways. “But more than anything, the [finding] provides great hope that this connectivity can be maintained,” he says—and even, possibly, improved. Ancient homeland The borderlands of Arizona and New Mexico, and its series of mountain ranges, known as Sky Islands, represent one of the most biodiverse areas of North America. Interspersed with mountains are the dry plains of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts and assorted grasslands and riparian areas, collectively home to tens of thousands of species of plants and animals. For eons, jaguars, mountain lions, ocelots, bears, and many other wide-ranging species have freely roamed across this contiguous biome. But barriers such as roads and fences now hamper this movement. Nevertheless, in the last 25 years, at least seven jaguars have been seen in Arizona—including one still thought to live in a mountain range in the southeastern part of the state—and about the same number have been observed across the border in Mexico. Moreover, a March 2021 study estimates that a huge swath of the region is prime jaguar habitat, and could likely support a population of a few hundred animals. Jaguars are classified as an endangered species in the United States. Somewhere around 200 jaguars live in the Mexican state of Sonora, and both cats Marin observed were likely born somewhat close to Arizona, perhaps within 60 miles, says Gerardo Ceballos, a researcher with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Female jaguars generally do not venture very far from where they were born, and their mobility is the limiting factor to the species’ expansion. Males, however, can roam far and wide in search of territory and mates. The big cats face a variety of threats in Mexico, including poaching and retaliatory killings for their perceived role in livestock predation. “If we continue trying to protect the jaguars, maybe within about five years we could see pregnant females in the United States,” Ceballos says. But to move north, the cats need protected wildlife corridors. Any expansion of the border wall will further harm animals’ ability to move freely—and parts of the wall will need to be opened up to reduce the harm it has already caused, experts say. The Biden administration has pledged not to significantly expand the border wall, and some discussions are underway to lessen harm to wildlife, though no major changes have yet been made. “Unfortunately, now the border wall represents a new barrier for jaguars to reach the United States,” says Antonio de la Torre, a biologist with the conservation group Jaguares de la Selva Maya, who studies the cats. “It is critical to implement a mitigation measure to solve this issue if we want to ensure the natural expansion of jaguars to the north.” If you protect it, they will come Until recently, much of what is now northern Sonora and southeastern Arizona had plentiful wetlands, known in Spanish as cienegas. That’s why Cuenca Los Ojos is working to bring water back to the landscape, and has so far restored about 75 acres of wetlands and streams, says Jeremiah Leibowitz, the organization’s executive director. Prior to 2019, the 30 miles of Cuenca Los Ojos’s northern border, which abuts Arizona, had only short vehicle barriers and barbed wire fencing a few feet in height, which wildlife could easily cross. But now, it’s lined with 30-foot steel bollard walls, Leibowitz says. A few corridors remain devoid of such tall barriers, however, such as the southern end of the Peloncillo Mountains that straddle Arizona and New Mexico. (Learn more: An endangered wolf went in search of a mate. The border wall blocked him.) This area, like much of its surroundings, receives half or more of its rainfall during the monsoon season, from June to September. After European colonization, people modified the landscape to be much less absorbent, replacing prairies with agriculture and building impermeable structures, including asphalt. As a result, this rain can run off the land quickly, causing erosion. Cuenca reserve managers are working to restore the original permeability of the land, in part by slowing down the water with stone erosion-control structures, Leibowitz says. Beavers, whose dams also control water flow, have also recently recolonized many of the streams on the preserve. Both Sonoran jaguars have been seen near a stream on the reserve that runs year-round. Establishing a range Valerio and Bonito sometimes frequented the same area within a few days of each other, according to the camera trap data. As they’ve gotten bigger, Marin figured one would push out the other—upon reaching reproductive age, male jaguars try to establish their own territory. Sure enough, Valerio, who is ever so slightly bigger, has stuck around—he was last seen in March—while Bonito has not been observed since October 22, 2021. Marin suspects he is somewhere nearby, but since the animals can range so widely, it’s anybody’s guess. Besides looking for wildlife using cameras, Marin worked with biologists Melissa Merrick, Katie Benson, and Matt Valente to sample environmental DNA from some of the streams, which turned up evidence of jaguars, black bears, white-tailed deer, deer mice, and other local wildlife. The team hopes to expand their sampling and study of eDNA to learn more about the presence of terrestrial wildlife, a practice that remains in its infancy, Benson says. In the meantime, the research shows the area is home to a bevy of important species, and that habitat restoration can increase an area’s biodiversity. “The fact that the animals are using this area over and over again—all of that speaks to the quality of the habitat and the need to increase that connectivity” with surrounding areas of Mexico and the United States, Koprowski says. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRocket18 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 That the Pope came over and apologized. A step in the right direction, we all hope for healing to take place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkNuk Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Snoopy would be pleased: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/us/beagles-rescue-envigo.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20220729&instance_id=67880&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=56405277&segment_id=99864&user_id=dc88543b79693b0f05322365a827e237 4,000 Mistreated Beagles Need Homes. These Folks Are Stepping Up. Hazel, a 6-year-old beagle, got scared her first night in a foster home when she played with a toy and it squeaked. She had never seen a stuffed animal or ball before. She was comfortable with water but afraid of the tub during her first bath. Hazel is one of more than 400 beagles who were released from a breeding facility in Virginia last week. About 4,000 total are expected to be released to shelters, rescues, foster owners and adoptive families in the next two months. The mass rescue comes after United States authorities filed a complaint in a federal court in May, after inspections of the Envigo breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Va., over the past two years revealed several violations of federal regulations. Officials found the beagles hungry, sick, mistreated and, in some cases, dead. Many of the animals in the breeding operation were expected to be used in research and testing. After the inspections and calls from lawmakers, a federal judge approved a plan this month to rescue the beagles. That mobilized several rescue organizations, dozens of volunteers and hundreds of would-be owners who wanted to help. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Watching him play this song on that kit . Awesome. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Not gonna lie, this made me feel very good............. F.B.I. Searches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence in Florida The former president called the search an “assault” and complained that the authorities had broken into a safe. The news appeared to come as a surprise to top aides at the White House. Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signalling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilunga Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 On 8/15/2022 at 10:19 AM, bishopshodan said: Watching him play this song on that kit . Awesome. This is my friend Nicky He is a hell of a percussionist. I have seen him do this many times behind a bar. He is currently the drummer for the John Butler Trio 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/missing-dog-found-missouri-berome-moore-cave/10324125002/ Quote Abby, a 13-year-old dog who was missing for two months, has been rescued after cavers pulled her out of a complex cave system. Rick Haley and Gerry Keene – both of whom have specialized cave rescue training – led the operation inside Missouri’s second-largest cave, Berome Moore, Haley told USA TODAY on Sunday. They used a duffle bag and blankets to protect the dog as they maneuvered their way out. Abby was moved 500 feet through a “very tight, awkward, vertical climb, handing her hand to hand upward to the surface,” Haley wrote on Facebook. On Saturday, Haley said he returned to the cave and found Abby's footprints near the entrance she likely came in from – a 12-foot-deep pit. Abby was 200 feet inside the main passage. Haley said the owner reported Abby had been missing since June 9, meaning she could have been in the cave for up to two months. Haley, who has been caving since about 1990, and Keene were there with a team of about 30 to map a cave north of Perrysville, Missouri, as part of a project for the Cave Research Foundation when the mission came up. Although Abby was “in poor shape” and malnourished, Haley said, the dog had no apparent injuries. Berome Moore cave is about 21 miles long, according to Missouri Caves and Karst Conservancy. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 23 hours ago, Muttley said: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/08/15/those-little-donuts-pne-2022/ No more "those little donuts" at the PNE this year. big donut pushing them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, JM_ said: big donut pushing them out? I'm still struggling to understand how that makes anyone feel good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 1 minute ago, RUPERTKBD said: I'm still struggling to understand how that makes anyone feel good? I think its the donuts that make him feel good. I get it, when those things are warm they're great. Apparently there's still going to be 3 vendors of them still there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkNuk Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 7 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/missing-dog-found-missouri-berome-moore-cave/10324125002/ That's one lucky dog. That the cave explorers just happened to explore that area of the cave is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, UnkNuk said: That's one lucky dog. That the cave explorers just happened to explore that area of the cave is amazing. Agreed. The fact that a 14 year old dog didn't succumb to starvation or exposure after 2 months is amazing in itself. Happy story all around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmm Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 On 6/23/2021 at 7:49 AM, bishopshodan said: seeing my wife out in public when she doesn't know I'm watching. when my dog plays. learning about the wonders of existence and consciousness. not a day goes by that i don't think 'what the heck is all this?' i music. completing projects. art. exercise. that is a good list Mine is pretty close Family my girlfriend Music/ dance, dance /music ( Watching, Listening, Playing) Junk Creatin' Fixing stuff My Bike Berry Picking 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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4petesake Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 (edited) That is a billion dollar smile! Good story about the lady who makes the wigs in the comments as well. Edited October 17, 2022 by 4petesake 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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