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UPDATE on Interesting Voice Mail

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UPDATE on Interesting Voice Mail:

This is a sample of the different scams on the internet. The most common right now is they are from the IRS, Social Security, or You will be arrested if you..blabblab..

As I often do , I reported this.  In my report to the FBI, I found that these calls, especially with threats of bodily harm, are under reported and anyone receiving such calls should file a report.

So, if you are so inclined to do so as I am,  this is one way to report it.   Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) Home.

Filing a Complaint with the IC3

The IC3 accepts online Internet crime complaints from either the actual victim or from a third party to the complainant. We can best process your complaint if we receive accurate and complete information from you. Therefore, we request you provide the following information when filing a complaint:

  • Victim’s name, address, telephone, and email
  • Financial transaction information (e.g., account information, transaction date and amount, who received the money)
  • Subject’s name, address, telephone, email, website, and IP address
  • Specific details on how you were victimized
  • Email header(s)
  • Any other relevant information you believe is necessary to support your complaint

The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners. Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.

Since 2000, the IC3 has received complaints crossing the spectrum of cyber crime matters, to include online fraud in its many forms including Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) matters, Computer Intrusions (hacking), Economic Espionage (Theft of Trade Secrets), Online Extortion, International Money Laundering, Identity Theft, and a growing list of Internet facilitated crimes. It has become increasingly evident that, regardless of the label placed on a cyber crime matter, the potential for it to overlap with another referred matter is substantial. Therefore, the IC3, formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (Internet Fraud Complaint Center), was renamed in October 2003 to better reflect the broad character of such matters having an Internet, or cyber, nexus referred to the IC3, and to minimize the need for one to distinguish “Internet Fraud” from other potentially overlapping cyber crimes.

  • https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

This is still true!

Misc:

Nine Important Facts to Remember as You Grow Older:

9) Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

8) Life is sexually transmitted.

7) Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

6) Men have two emotions: hungry and horny, and they can’t tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

5) Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

4) Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

3) All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

2) In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

1) Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow….and as someone recently said to me: Don’t worry about old age; it doesn’t last that long.

(Extra:  Conception is a coincident, death is a fact, everything in between is simply risk management)

Michigan High School Althetic Association – State Championship Game

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The Edwardsburg Eddies football team made the MHSAA Division 4 Football State Championship game at Ford Field in Detroit Friday the 23rd.  They had a league record of 9-0 with 14-0 Overall and a national rank of 442 and state (MI) rank of 7.

The Edwardsburg Eddies played the Chelsea Bulldogs at Ford Field (home of the Detroit Lions) located at Brush Street in Detroit.

The Eddies won 28 to 7 but it was a tight game with the score being Eddies 8 and Chelsea 7 for 3 quarters and until the Eddies broke it open in the last 7 minuets of the game.

Awarding the State Trophy to the Edwardsburg Eddies
a sea of Blue for the Eddies – I think most of the town of Edwardsburg showed up!
Pregame ceremonies – No #66 is my grand nephew
Mascot: Eddies Colors Royal Blue and Orange
Ford Field – Home of the Detroit Lions
Typical Eddies Fan Car

 

 

FAA / WINGS presentation at the Dowagiac Airport (C91)

Fly Days

Over the weekend I was able to attend an FAA / WINGS presentation at the Dowagiac Airport (C91) on the South Bend Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and Airspace & Services they provide.

Dowagiac is a smaller Michigan airport  so they do not have the ability to really clean the runway of snow and ice so I drove over rather than flew.

For non-pilots:  FAA = Federal Aviation Administration which is part of  the  Department of Transportation. The WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program is the FAA’s recurrent training program for general aviation (GA) pilots. The bottom-line mission of WINGS is fairly simple which is to reduce the number of GA accidents. To accomplish that objective, WINGS employs an assortment of targeted education and training opportunities to help pilots apply the principles of aviation risk assessment and risk management.

Did I mention they also usually have Free Coffee and Donuts for attendees 🙂

As a side note, one of my old skydiving and flying buddies has a hanger at the Dowagiac  airport so a few of us dropped over to check out his Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) that he is in the process of building.

 

Butch the Rooster

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Butch the Rooster

Sarah was in the fertilized egg business.   She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so she could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, she could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Sarah’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen but, this morning she noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!  When she went to investigate, she saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Sarah’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one. Sarah was so proud of old Butch, she entered him in a Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell Peace Prize” they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention?

Vote carefully in the next election. You can’t always hear the bells.

End of a perfect fly day and just before the storm clouds settle in.

Fly Days, ,

Today the weather was cooperating, and I was able to get a ride down to Michigan City airport to pick my plane after its annual inspection was completed.

One part of picking up my plane, especially if I did not do an owner assist, is to make sure as best I can that the annual  has been completed (ie: log books updated and signed) and that during the pre-flight inspection to really look to insure that all parts and pieces are where they should be and that there are no extra parts, pieces or tools hiding in the plane.

Per the FAR’s (Federal Aviation Regulation) the pilot in command of a civil aircraft is responsible for determining whether that aircraft is in condition for safe flight. The pilot in command shall discontinue the flight when unairworthy mechanical, electrical, or structural conditions occur.

With that said I like to be there early so there is no rush to get home before sunset, or to get it out of the shop before they close. It’s always a good idea to look under the cowl and take the time to look everything over paying special attention to any areas where work was done. Get the hands in there and test hose connections, etc. Then I do the external checks very thoroughly. Same deal on startup, every little thing gets tested.

It’s no problem to run up several times and check out the engine and prop for any out of the ordinary behavior. Make sure and check the flight controls a few times (physically and visually) for full range of motion, correct movement, and really pay attention to any change in feel or resistance.  Check the radio including the push to talk (PTT). That’s about it, other than expect the unexpected and have plenty of outs if things don’t seem right.  And with that said, I always stay in the vicinity of the airport for a bit until I am sure everything is okay.

And with all that completed it was back to Benton Harbor I went with the clouds following.  From the pictures included here you can see it was a good day for flying 😊