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NewsGator Online: "Will Rogers 11/2/2007 6:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)] 'I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.'"

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NewsGator Online: " 'All marriages are mixed marriages.'"

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NewsGator Online: " 'Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?'"

The destruction of Mecca: Saudi hardliners are wiping out their own heritage - Independent Online Edition > Middle East

The destruction of Mecca: Saudi hardliners are wiping out their own heritage - Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "Historic Mecca, the cradle of Islam, is being buried in an unprecedented onslaught by religious zealots. Almost all of the rich and multi-layered history of the holy city is gone. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past two decades."

Newport News-Times: Commissioners ink historic agreement

Newport News-Times: Commissioners ink historic agreement: "Natural hazards experts say the Pacific Northwest could endure an earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a 600-mile underwater fault zone nearly identical to the 600-mile fault that snapped offshore near Indonesia at the end of 2004. A large earthquake along the Oregon coast would likely trigger multiple landslides, take out utilities, and buckle highways. The ensuing tsunamis, the first of which could arrive in as few as 15 minutes following a local quake, could bring waves that build to 30 feet or higher washing over the coast at speeds of 20 miles per hour or faster. The waves could threaten the coast for eight hours or more, with the largest waves arriving hours after the initial one, significantly damaging infrastructure - dock facilities, bridges, buildings, coastal developments, as well as ships and boats caught in the harbors. As the water from each wave rushed back out to sea, it would carry logs, rocks, beams, oil, and other toxic debris, causing additional damage. The flood of seawater would also have profound effects on marine and land habitats."

The LVH CERT Team receives
the grant ...
$2000
for a new Automatic Electric Defibrillator (AED) for our community clubhouse and CERT operations..

Last night at Chinook Winds...

In an email from Larry Henson to the community.....

Jess Stogsdill stopped by the LVH office a few minutes ago to say he had just returned from the hospital where he had gone to visit John Wilson who lives here in LVH. John is Lorrain Wilson's husband and JoJo Teichert's father. Jess said hospital personell told him Mr. Wilson had passed on in the night.

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NewsGator Online: "'The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.'"

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NewsGator Online: "'We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.'"

Oregon Coastal Town Has New Take on Glass Floats

Oregon Coastal Town Has New Take on Glass Floats: "The rules for the Oregon Glass Float Giveaway are simple. Between November 1 and January 31, 2008, visit one of the businesses listed at www.newportchamber.org, or on a map available from the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce (800-262-7844). Fill out an entry form and return it to the float display at the business; enter at any – or all – of the merchants. Weekly drawings will be held throughout the winter, with the remainder of the floats given away Jan. 31, when each business will select two names from its entry pool. Winners will be notified by mail."

Breaking Health: E. coli warning Prompts Massive Frozen Pizza Recall - The Emergency Email & Wireless Network .......... www. EmergencyEmail.ORG .....

Breaking Health: E. coli warning Prompts Massive Frozen Pizza Recall - The Emergency Email & Wireless Network .......... www. EmergencyEmail.ORG ........ NewsEmergency.com: "414,000 Cases Affected Health Risk: High Public health officials are urging consumers to throw away any Totino's or Jeno's brand frozen pizzas that contain pepperoni in the wake of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections. "

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Local News | Test buoy for wave energy sinks off Oregon coast | Seattle Times Newspaper

Local News | Test buoy for wave energy sinks off Oregon coast | Seattle Times Newspaper: "NEWPORT, Ore. — The first wave energy test buoy deployed off the Oregon Coast is now 150 feet below the ocean surface. Mike Clark, a spokesman for Finavera Renewables, a Canadian energy developer, said the 72-foot-tall buoy began taking on water late last week and sank just one day before engineers were going to remove it."

The October LVH Newsletter ...


is copied to the internet... use the link on the left to go there.

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NewsGator Online: " 'It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.'"

Search & Rescue mission

Search & Rescue mission: "'There's lots of action, but the reason I really like it is there are lots of character-driven scenes,' said Mink, hiding out from the rain in the cabin of the MLB as it sat moored at a dilapidated dock just off of the Sea-to-Sky Highway. 'When they are at work they are adrenaline junkies. They are risking their life and rescuing people. There's lots of choppers and boats, and diving and underwater sequences. And when they're at home they're kind of messed-up people with real problems and lives like the rest of us have.'"

The Outsider

The Outsider: "They say your mind plays more reruns than Seinfeld, the same thoughts popping up time and again each day. Spending a lot of time hiking in the woods only reinforces that theory. But there are exceptions to that rule. Moments when thoughts, ideas — instincts — kick in from who knows where. At times like that, I simply listen, and comply."

GHOULISH POTLUCK TONITE!!!!! 5PM

JOIN US FOR FUN AND MERRIMENT... TONITE..HALLOWEEN POTLUCK 5PM SOCIAL..BRING WHAT YOU'RE DRINKING.. 6PM DINNER..A DISH (WITH FOOD IN IT)TO SERVE 8 TO 10 PEOPLE.. WHATEVER YOU WANT!!! ALSO BRING YOUR OWN PLACE SETTINGS.. RIGHT DOWN TO YOUR OWN FORK ,KNIFE & SPOON AND GLASS OR CUP.. THE WITCHES ARE FLYING ON THEIR BROOMS TONITE AND HAVE NO TIME FOR KITCHEN WORK. SEE YOU THERE.!! COSTUMES IF YOU WANT.

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NewsGator Online: "'Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.'"

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ming the clam is 'oldest animal'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ming the clam is 'oldest animal': "A clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived animal discovered. Scientists said the mollusc, an ocean quahog clam, was aged between 405 and 410 years and could offer insights into the secrets of longevity."

SEAK71 PAAQ 301550
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TSUNAMI SEISMIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
750 AM AKDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...THIS IS AN INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EVALUATION
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH A MAGNITUDE SUCH THAT A TSUNAMI
WILL NOT BE GENERATED. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY WCATWC MESSAGE
ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT.

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
MAGNITUDE - 5.1
TIME - 0746 AKDT OCT 30 2007
0846 PDT OCT 30 2007
1546 UTC OCT 30 2007
LOCATION - 52.0 NORTH 171.2 WEST
40 MILES/64 KM SE OF AMUKTA PASS ALASKA
235 MILES/378 KM E OF ADAK ALASKA
DEPTH - 24 MILES/39 KM

THE LOCATION AND MAGNITUDE ARE BASED ON PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.
FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - EARTHQUAKE.USGS.GOV - OR THE APPROPRIATE
REGIONAL SEISMIC NETWORK.

New Poll Question on the Left

Space Station... Don't skip this you'll be sorry!

This link shows the station as it has grown since 1998. Just slide the slider at the bottom of the picture and watch components being added... cool!

CLICK HERE

I was asked ...


to make a survey of what you all think of a tongue in cheek gossip column about goings on in the park?

I don't particularly like the idea myself based on past experiences with the websites I have created.

On the other hand a large group of folks thought it would be fun. They say names wouldn't be used and humor would be the vein in which it would be produced.

Since I feel the way I do I would not be the creator nor maintainer of the site. However, we would put a link to that new website on the LVH blog for a trial period of time until it can be determined whether it is a good thing.

With that in mind expect to see a poll soon that will give the folks interested in creating this new feature an idea of how it will be received.

Never get tired of taking or finding pictures of the beauty of the fall weather...... hope you enjoy them.
(click on picture to enlarge then arrow back to get next one)

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NewsGator Online: "'The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.'"

Snow ball is back!

The Last Supper

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/cenacolo/look.asp

The above link takes you to a rendering of the Last Supper that allows you to magnify and get really close to see the detail that few would ever get to see. The controls at the bottom of the picture magnify the painting in extraordinary detail. A good visit.

The Serenade!


Last night around 10:00pm a virtuoso came to sing to the south end of the park. He sang songs of the forest and of its demise. Though we never saw him we heard him sing to his lover, the moon.

He sang his songs in high soprano and then at the end of his performance slowly faded back into the forest whence he came.

It is so cool to live here!