A question: Do you know whether this (clothing optional) beach still exists? No, I don't want to go there but times have changed and I wonder if gals would feel safe on such a beach these days...

Or the Ring door bell cameras. They can run for several months on a charge but they also have a solar option. You can charge the batteries at home and swap them periodically.

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One of our local high school principals wrote an editorial about how he didn't want any police or resource officers in his school. "There will be no guns in this school!" Exactly what a shooter wants to know. The Aurora shooter who shot up a movie theatre bypassed several other theaters because he knew they allowed guns. He went to one that didn't.

Ohio has a good thing going for traffic lights on major highways. A yellow flashing light will start to flash when the lights are about to go red. The yellow lights are positioned so that you have time to slow before reaching the red light.. thus easy slowing and braking.

Here in Michigan, we have some of the same yellow lights but they are flashing ALL the time and thus are of no help. Michigan loses on that one.

Buy a Subaru... I'm getting about 31.5 on each of two of them.

Supposedly they 'beefed' up the starter for this but between the wear and tear and the fact it's possible that the engine won't restart at a critical moment, I do not want this feature.

My 2020 Subaru Outback has a ridiculous "feechur" that shuts the motor off if you come to a stop under certain conditions. It will automatically start it up again when you hit the accelerator or let off the brake. I asked the dealer if there was a way to turn the feature off permantly and he said there wasn't and that most people hate the feature. They do provide a 'button' on the display panel that will turn it off for your current trip but it will turn it back on when restarting the engine after a stop. So every time you get in the car, you have to remember to turn off the feature. Reason for the feature?? They save a little bit of gas with it and if they want to advertise their mileage using the feature, they have to make it permanent.

I use a Dakota system that you can also purchase from Amazon. I have two units, for a front driveway and back driveway. Both use a buried magnetic sensor which have been very reliable. Both use about a 100 foot cable to my house which keeps the transmitter inside and out of the weather. Buried sensors seem to work best.

I learned to fly at 18, just before college. Quickly got my commercial and CFI. Did some crop dusting but saw enough starving wnnabes trying to get airline jobs that I never wanted to go that route. Flew until age 74 when heart problems took over. I miss flying, but ya gotta get out sometime. Last plane was a V-tail Bonanza... the Cadillac of the single engines (in its day)

The 'problem' with MCAS was not so much MCAS itself but the fact that Boeing never told the pilots about it or how to deal with it. Yes, Boeings fault.

The servo problem had to do with a very cold servo (due to temps at high altitudes) being fed warm hydraulic fluid suddenly. Not too possible on takeoff and hard to repeat in tests.

On what do you suggest that Boeing knew about the problem? Just watched the "Air Disasters" show on this. I very much doubt that Boeing would have ignored the problem if they knew all along. Even the manufacturer of the servo ran many tests and couldn't produce the failure.

You might want to talk to the owners of the Big Bay lighthouse B&B in Big Bay MI.