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Woman Rescued After Surviving Three Days Trapped in Septic Tank
A woman who survived nearly three days trapped inside a septic tank was rescued on Tuesday in Estacada, Oregon, reports said.
Fire chief Richard Anderson told reporters that the woman, who did not want to be identified, fell into the tank while doing maintenance work outside her home.
“She hadn’t been heard from by her family for a couple days, over the weekend, so the family decided to drive up and check on her and that’s when they found her down in the tank and called 911 to get us started to go up there,” Anderson commented.
Reports said that when first responders arrived at the scene, they found the woman lying in sewage almost three feet underground.
“We could see her in the tank. We could communicate with her,” Anderson recalled. “We just really needed to get some resources there.”
A hole dug in the ground exposed the tank, which had a “2-foot by 2-foot hole through its rusted metal top.”
“It can be definitely a scary situation, especially sitting at the bottom of a septic tank and you don’t know that anybody’s coming to get you,” said paramedic Nick Wettlaufer.
Firefighters used a pole and a strap to lift the woman to safety in less than half an hour. Reports said she did not appear to have sustained any injuries, but she was taken to a local hospital to rule out any infections and limited oxygen.
On Wednesday, the Estacada Rural Fire District No. 69 wrote about the rescue on their Facebook page.
Fire chief Richard Anderson told reporters that the woman, who did not want to be identified, fell into the tank while doing maintenance work outside her home.
“She hadn’t been heard from by her family for a couple days, over the weekend, so the family decided to drive up and check on her and that’s when they found her down in the tank and called 911 to get us started to go up there,” Anderson commented.
Reports said that when first responders arrived at the scene, they found the woman lying in sewage almost three feet underground.
“We could see her in the tank. We could communicate with her,” Anderson recalled. “We just really needed to get some resources there.”
A hole dug in the ground exposed the tank, which had a “2-foot by 2-foot hole through its rusted metal top.”
“It can be definitely a scary situation, especially sitting at the bottom of a septic tank and you don’t know that anybody’s coming to get you,” said paramedic Nick Wettlaufer.
Firefighters used a pole and a strap to lift the woman to safety in less than half an hour. Reports said she did not appear to have sustained any injuries, but she was taken to a local hospital to rule out any infections and limited oxygen.
On Wednesday, the Estacada Rural Fire District No. 69 wrote about the rescue on their Facebook page.
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Dorian... meet Florida!
Currently... Dorian is a tropical storm off the coast of Venezuela. Maximum sustained winds are 60 miles per hour and expected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday morning as it crosses over the Dominican Republic on it's way to Florida.
I'm not a weather forecaster, nor do I play one in a TV series, but a few degrees north and it's away from Florida and headed to the Carolina's
The image below is linked to the National Hurricane Center and updates every few hours.
I'm not a weather forecaster, nor do I play one in a TV series, but a few degrees north and it's away from Florida and headed to the Carolina's
The image below is linked to the National Hurricane Center and updates every few hours.
Women As Defined By Geography
If women were landscapes – not as in paintings, the real thing - where would they be? And when will they be there? The only way I can think of is to assign them by age. 
Age 13 – 20
She is in Africa; partly explored and partly virgin.
Age 21 – 30
She is in America; fully developed and in her prime.
Age 31 – 35
She is in India; hot, wise and beautiful.
Age 36 – 40
She is in France; half destroyed by the war but still desirable.
Age 41 – 50
She is in Germany; lost the war but is still hopeful.
Age 51 – 60
She is in Russia; majestic and strong but too mysterious.
Age 61 – 70
She is in England; a glorious past but no future.
After 70,
She is in Australia; everyone knows where she is, but no one ever goes there.
I suppose this will have to do but I can foresee many ladies ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Somehow the age of a woman is not relative to her birth date. They have some other formula to calculate age.
Age 13 – 20
She is in Africa; partly explored and partly virgin.
Age 21 – 30
She is in America; fully developed and in her prime.
Age 31 – 35
She is in India; hot, wise and beautiful.
Age 36 – 40
She is in France; half destroyed by the war but still desirable.
Age 41 – 50
She is in Germany; lost the war but is still hopeful.
Age 51 – 60
She is in Russia; majestic and strong but too mysterious.
Age 61 – 70
She is in England; a glorious past but no future.
After 70,
She is in Australia; everyone knows where she is, but no one ever goes there.
I suppose this will have to do but I can foresee many ladies ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Somehow the age of a woman is not relative to her birth date. They have some other formula to calculate age.
Research vs Propaganda
All the people on our planet can be divided into two groups. There are those who will believe everything that researchers say and those who know that researchers will say anything to please their sponsors. That is the only way for them to stay in the game. You keep the sponsors happy. 
Likewise, you get two kinds of researchers; no matter what field they’re in. Firstly you get the researcher who is funded to find the truth. He does not set out to prove anything. He collects the evidence and will not reach early conclusions. When he’s done, he will look at all the evidence that is available and base his interpretations on that. He was hired to find the truth and he tried to do just that.
Then there is the researcher who is funded to prove or disprove something. He will twist or shape even the most insignificant finds into evidence to prove his point while he will ignore – and even suppress – anything that would defy his purpose; no matter how conclusive that evidence may be. He was not funded to prove the opposite and it would be financial suicide to submit a negative report to his financier.
Then how do we know the difference? Who do we believe? Well, look at the sponsor; see what interest he may have in the outcome of the exercise. What does he stand to gain or lose by the outcome?
But this kind of selective evidence gathering is not confined to scientific research. We get it in almost every industry from archaeology to simple market surveys, and nowhere is it more prominent than in the news media. Just listen to how different an Arab TV station and an Israeli TV station will describe the same bombing incident; one would think they’re talking about different events. Once again it is a matter of who pays the wages.
So, a little advice from me; don’t believe everything that researchers say. First, look at who’s to gain or lose by the outcome and who is funding the venture. It goes about big bucks for the sponsor and is the bread and butter of the researchers.
As usually, you don't have to pay me for this valuable advice. I render it as a free service in order to promote a better understanding of datamanipulation misrepresentation.
Just go out and do it today; whatever!
Likewise, you get two kinds of researchers; no matter what field they’re in. Firstly you get the researcher who is funded to find the truth. He does not set out to prove anything. He collects the evidence and will not reach early conclusions. When he’s done, he will look at all the evidence that is available and base his interpretations on that. He was hired to find the truth and he tried to do just that.
Then there is the researcher who is funded to prove or disprove something. He will twist or shape even the most insignificant finds into evidence to prove his point while he will ignore – and even suppress – anything that would defy his purpose; no matter how conclusive that evidence may be. He was not funded to prove the opposite and it would be financial suicide to submit a negative report to his financier.
Then how do we know the difference? Who do we believe? Well, look at the sponsor; see what interest he may have in the outcome of the exercise. What does he stand to gain or lose by the outcome?
But this kind of selective evidence gathering is not confined to scientific research. We get it in almost every industry from archaeology to simple market surveys, and nowhere is it more prominent than in the news media. Just listen to how different an Arab TV station and an Israeli TV station will describe the same bombing incident; one would think they’re talking about different events. Once again it is a matter of who pays the wages.
So, a little advice from me; don’t believe everything that researchers say. First, look at who’s to gain or lose by the outcome and who is funding the venture. It goes about big bucks for the sponsor and is the bread and butter of the researchers.
As usually, you don't have to pay me for this valuable advice. I render it as a free service in order to promote a better understanding of data
Just go out and do it today; whatever!
Trump's weird lies at the G7 meetings
Today in The New Yorker;
By Robin Wright
By Robin Wright
In response to:
As the world’s seven largest economic powers met in glamorous Biarritz, the lungs of the planet, in the Amazon rain forest, were ablaze. “I’m an environmentalist,” President Trump insisted, at a press conference on Monday, claiming that he knows more about the subject than most people. Yet hours earlier he had skipped the session on climate change, biodiversity, and oceans; the white high-backed chair reserved for him had been conspicuously empty. The White House insisted that he had “scheduled meetings” with the leaders of Germany and India, even though both were plainly in view at the climate session. (Never mind, as well, that the Trump Administration has rolled back at least eighty-three environmental regulations in less than three years.)
Trump also claimed that China had called his top trade negotiators “numerous” times during the two-day summit to signal China’s interest in getting “back to the table” to work on a deal to end the escalating trade war. On Friday, Beijing had announced retaliatory tariffs on seventy-five billion dollars of American imports—leading Trump to label China the “enemy” and the Dow to tumble more than six hundred points. On Monday, the President announced a surprise breakthrough. “You can say we’re having very meaningful talks, much more meaningful than I would say at any time, frankly,” he bragged. The Dow shot up almost three hundred points. Then, somewhat baffled, China’s Foreign Ministry denied any such recent calls—or any such progress.
Few expected the G-7 summit—which was founded in 1975, to foster collaboration on global issues—to produce much this year. Trump has proved irascibly intransigent on the world stage, even (or especially) with allies. The French hosts abandoned the usual formal communique signed by the seven leaders—from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States—pledging future courses of action. But, at a time of wide-ranging and often existential challenges for the world, the G-7 this year was arguably the least productive summit since the group was founded. It ended with Trump pontificating on his version of events—for more than an hour—spouting views that were often unworldly, occasionally unwise, and sometimes just plain wacky. It was a sorry ending.
At the final press conference, Trump called for Russia’s re-ëntry into the group of the world’s most advanced economies. (The G-7 expanded into the G-8, in 1997, to include Russia after the Cold War ended. But it expelled Russia in 2014, after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion and annexation of Crimea, then deployed men and matériel to aid separatists in eastern Ukraine.) Trump, who is due to host the rotating summit next year, said he would “certainly” like to invite Putin to attend. “I really think it’s good for the security of the world,” he said. Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, has only increased since 2014. Russia is still a pariah state globally. Last year, Washington sanctioned Moscow and expelled dozens of Russian diplomats because of Russia’s use of military-grade chemical weapons against dissidents living in Britain. And then there’s that pesky, largely unaddressed issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
The wackiest comment was Trump’s claim that the First Family has cultivated “excellent” relations with the North Korean dictator since diplomacy began—in three meetings—more than fourteen months ago. “The First Lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d agree with me—he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential,” Trump told reporters. But Melania Trump has never met Kim.
.....As the world’s seven largest economic powers met in glamorous Biarritz, the lungs of the planet, in the Amazon rain forest, were ablaze. “I’m an environmentalist,” President Trump insisted, at a press conference on Monday, claiming that he knows more about the subject than most people. Yet hours earlier he had skipped the session on climate change, biodiversity, and oceans; the white high-backed chair reserved for him had been conspicuously empty. The White House insisted that he had “scheduled meetings” with the leaders of Germany and India, even though both were plainly in view at the climate session. (Never mind, as well, that the Trump Administration has rolled back at least eighty-three environmental regulations in less than three years.)
Trump also claimed that China had called his top trade negotiators “numerous” times during the two-day summit to signal China’s interest in getting “back to the table” to work on a deal to end the escalating trade war. On Friday, Beijing had announced retaliatory tariffs on seventy-five billion dollars of American imports—leading Trump to label China the “enemy” and the Dow to tumble more than six hundred points. On Monday, the President announced a surprise breakthrough. “You can say we’re having very meaningful talks, much more meaningful than I would say at any time, frankly,” he bragged. The Dow shot up almost three hundred points. Then, somewhat baffled, China’s Foreign Ministry denied any such recent calls—or any such progress.
Few expected the G-7 summit—which was founded in 1975, to foster collaboration on global issues—to produce much this year. Trump has proved irascibly intransigent on the world stage, even (or especially) with allies. The French hosts abandoned the usual formal communique signed by the seven leaders—from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States—pledging future courses of action. But, at a time of wide-ranging and often existential challenges for the world, the G-7 this year was arguably the least productive summit since the group was founded. It ended with Trump pontificating on his version of events—for more than an hour—spouting views that were often unworldly, occasionally unwise, and sometimes just plain wacky. It was a sorry ending.
At the final press conference, Trump called for Russia’s re-ëntry into the group of the world’s most advanced economies. (The G-7 expanded into the G-8, in 1997, to include Russia after the Cold War ended. But it expelled Russia in 2014, after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion and annexation of Crimea, then deployed men and matériel to aid separatists in eastern Ukraine.) Trump, who is due to host the rotating summit next year, said he would “certainly” like to invite Putin to attend. “I really think it’s good for the security of the world,” he said. Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, has only increased since 2014. Russia is still a pariah state globally. Last year, Washington sanctioned Moscow and expelled dozens of Russian diplomats because of Russia’s use of military-grade chemical weapons against dissidents living in Britain. And then there’s that pesky, largely unaddressed issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
The wackiest comment was Trump’s claim that the First Family has cultivated “excellent” relations with the North Korean dictator since diplomacy began—in three meetings—more than fourteen months ago. “The First Lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d agree with me—he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential,” Trump told reporters. But Melania Trump has never met Kim.
For All These People Who are Searching Here!
If you have found good one, why are you still looking for a better one?
After the better one, comes the next better one - and after this better one comes the next and so on and so on!
You will search forever! Always for a better one!
The search does not stop!
You never will have a chance to create a little family!
You NEVER will feel REAL love!
You NEVER will have a life in happiness and harmony,because you are too busy by searching for something better!
At the end of your life you will feel very lonely because you have always searched, but neither lived nor loved!
it is a very sad end of your life! Believe it or not!
After the better one, comes the next better one - and after this better one comes the next and so on and so on!
You will search forever! Always for a better one!
The search does not stop!
You never will have a chance to create a little family!
You NEVER will feel REAL love!
You NEVER will have a life in happiness and harmony,because you are too busy by searching for something better!
At the end of your life you will feel very lonely because you have always searched, but neither lived nor loved!
it is a very sad end of your life! Believe it or not!
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Internet Speed Test...
I'm at my home house in Miami for the weekend.
Plans include sorting through 2 closets and 2 dressers of clothing to determine what I get to keep, what gets donated and what becomes rags for cleaning.
My laptop came for the ride and I've got a Wi-Fi hotspot signal from my phone to get internet.
I've done this lots of times, but today the bandwidth was crawling and I cannot link to my computer in the office to do any work. I switched to my tablet that also has hotspot capabilities and it was streaming along very well.
So, I switched back a forth a few times checking bandwidth with a few services and called my cellphone provider to complain.
My phone has unlimited 4G, but 3G if I set it in hotspot mode. The tablet gets 4G with a 2gig ceiling and drops to 3g... or slower depending on conditions.
For $10 I can upgrade the plan so my hotspot has 4G with a 10gig ceiling then drops to 3G. I can add or remove the plan as needed with no penalty.
I was told it would be about 2 hours for the system update and to reboot my phone for it to take effect. I rebooted and about 15 minutes later I had a 4G hotspot out of my cellphone. The bandwidth was so good it, out performed my Comcast internet at my condo.
Not sure how long 10gig will last if I play a YouTube movie, but I can set it on low bandwidth and see how that goes.
Plans include sorting through 2 closets and 2 dressers of clothing to determine what I get to keep, what gets donated and what becomes rags for cleaning.
My laptop came for the ride and I've got a Wi-Fi hotspot signal from my phone to get internet.
I've done this lots of times, but today the bandwidth was crawling and I cannot link to my computer in the office to do any work. I switched to my tablet that also has hotspot capabilities and it was streaming along very well.
So, I switched back a forth a few times checking bandwidth with a few services and called my cellphone provider to complain.
My phone has unlimited 4G, but 3G if I set it in hotspot mode. The tablet gets 4G with a 2gig ceiling and drops to 3g... or slower depending on conditions.
For $10 I can upgrade the plan so my hotspot has 4G with a 10gig ceiling then drops to 3G. I can add or remove the plan as needed with no penalty.
I was told it would be about 2 hours for the system update and to reboot my phone for it to take effect. I rebooted and about 15 minutes later I had a 4G hotspot out of my cellphone. The bandwidth was so good it, out performed my Comcast internet at my condo.
Not sure how long 10gig will last if I play a YouTube movie, but I can set it on low bandwidth and see how that goes.
Historical Moment -- The United States Returns To Being The Biggest Energy Producer In The World !!!
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!!!
Make no mistake. Fossil fuels are the resource on which the world runs. It is the backbone of a healthy economy, the steel behind military strength and the engine of freedom in the world. Except in fantasy, there is no substitute. Why do you think the left and other enemies of civilization are so hell bent on eliminating fossil fuels (but only in Western countries... they ignore the countries who are the biggest polluters and enemies of the West). Having the most fossil fuel production means having the most strength. It's no surprise our enemies don't want that to happen. In the 21st century, same as in the last century, fossil fuels = FREEDOM. We must NEVER give in to the forces who want to take that freedom away.
Thanks to President Trump, who is making America great again in so many ways, America has just regained the title of the largest producer of fossil fuel energy sources in the world. We no longer have to kowtow to terrorist regimes and countries that want to destroy us and take away our freedom thanks entirely to President Trump's vision and leadership. We are now a net EXPORTER of fossil fuels. It's far more than just about energy. It's about FREEDOM.
POWER AND STRENGTH = FREEDOM
FOSSIL FUELS = FREEDOM
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!!! A TRUE LEADER AND VISIONARY.
Remember all the BS "science" from the left... like that "Peak Energy" theory that said the world would run out of fossil fuels 25 years ago? They are a JOKE!
Do you think it's coincidence that while the economies in the rest of the world tank, the US economy is the strongest its ever been at the same time President Trump has turned around its energy policy and embarked on a mission to be the fossil fuel leader of the world? Economic strength and prosperity DEPENDS on fossil fuel production.
MORE FREEDOM !!!!! FULL SPEED AHEAD !!!!! .... MAGA !!!!!
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Make no mistake. Fossil fuels are the resource on which the world runs. It is the backbone of a healthy economy, the steel behind military strength and the engine of freedom in the world. Except in fantasy, there is no substitute. Why do you think the left and other enemies of civilization are so hell bent on eliminating fossil fuels (but only in Western countries... they ignore the countries who are the biggest polluters and enemies of the West). Having the most fossil fuel production means having the most strength. It's no surprise our enemies don't want that to happen. In the 21st century, same as in the last century, fossil fuels = FREEDOM. We must NEVER give in to the forces who want to take that freedom away.
Thanks to President Trump, who is making America great again in so many ways, America has just regained the title of the largest producer of fossil fuel energy sources in the world. We no longer have to kowtow to terrorist regimes and countries that want to destroy us and take away our freedom thanks entirely to President Trump's vision and leadership. We are now a net EXPORTER of fossil fuels. It's far more than just about energy. It's about FREEDOM.
POWER AND STRENGTH = FREEDOM
FOSSIL FUELS = FREEDOM
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!!! A TRUE LEADER AND VISIONARY.
Remember all the BS "science" from the left... like that "Peak Energy" theory that said the world would run out of fossil fuels 25 years ago? They are a JOKE!
Do you think it's coincidence that while the economies in the rest of the world tank, the US economy is the strongest its ever been at the same time President Trump has turned around its energy policy and embarked on a mission to be the fossil fuel leader of the world? Economic strength and prosperity DEPENDS on fossil fuel production.
MORE FREEDOM !!!!! FULL SPEED AHEAD !!!!! .... MAGA !!!!!
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Why Is It?
Why do so many women have pics of them in or on their beds? 
At first, I thought that it was a funny question but just the other day we had to explain why so many men have pics with their cars, so I guess it is not such a funny question after all. 
I mean, right now I have a copycat stalking me here on the blogs and she is in her bed too. Ah, and then we don't even know if she really is a she. To my knowledge beds are made for only two purposes. Now wait a minute, we don’t know if it is her own bed... so let the record stand that she - if she indeed is a she - is in a bed.
Not that it is very important, I’m just inquisitive.
Have a great day!
At first, I thought that it was a funny question but just the other day we had to explain why so many men have pics with their cars, so I guess it is not such a funny question after all. I mean, right now I have a copycat stalking me here on the blogs and she is in her bed too. Ah, and then we don't even know if she really is a she. To my knowledge beds are made for only two purposes. Now wait a minute, we don’t know if it is her own bed... so let the record stand that she - if she indeed is a she - is in a bed.
Not that it is very important, I’m just inquisitive.
Have a great day!
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