This WEblog...

This website is really a blog (weblog)

The company that owns this free site is Google. Google owns Blogger ...the provider of our site. Anyone can own one or dozens of these sites for free. Recently, Blogger made large changes to how the code worked for a website... What they did is take away the need for needing to know html (hyper text machine language). Now you point and click at what you would like to have and make a choice from several options and then your code is installed automatically...

One new option is to give those that work on this site a chance to color all the boxes , titles, fonts and a variety of sections of the blog. It is very much like giving a grandchild a box of crayons and watching what they create. So from time to time you will see changes in these areas as we play with our crayons.

Want to learn how to make one of these? It is very simple and there are more than one of us who know how... I'm sure we could have a class.

Oregon Coast Ghost Forest In Peril

Oregon Coast Ghost Forest In Peril By Erosion That Exposed It: "(Oregon Coast) - This winter's wild weather and big waves scoured more sand than usual from the beaches of the Oregon coast, exposing a host of ‘ghost forests,’ the famed cannons of probable historical significance and other geologic oddities. Those ghost forests – stumps from ancient tree stands – showed up all over once the stormy waves subsided enough to let beachcombers find them. Cape Lookout, southern Lincoln County, Newport, Arch Cape and even rarely seen stumps just north of Pacific City popped up all over."

More on the earthquakes off the coast

Small earthquakes ‘swarm’ off the Oregon Coast: The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.: "NEWPORT — More than 600 earthquakes have rattled the central Oregon Coast in the past 10 days, too small and too distant to be felt onshore or cause damage, but anomalous enough to puzzle the scientists who recorded them."

Interesting Quotes

Bill Vaughan

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

Phobos Got Whacked Good

National Geographic News Photo Gallery: New Hi-Res Views of Mars's ''Fear'' Moon Unveiled: "April 10, 2008—It might look like the Death Star, but rebel forces would have nothing to fear from Phobos, the Martian moon named for the Greek god of horror. The moon was recently imaged in high resolution by the Mars-orbiting HiRISE camera."

Eartquakes off the coast

Swarm of earthquakes detected off Oregon Coast - KMTR NewsSource 16 - Eugene, Oregon -Breaking News, Local Weather, Local News, Local Sports, Springfield, Oregon: "Geophysicist Robert Dziak (ZEE-ak) says they don't know what the earthquakes mean.

But he says they could be the result of magma rumbling underneath the Juan de Fuca Plate - away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon.

More than 600 quakes have been detected in the past 10 days. Three were of magnitude 5.0 or greater.

On the hydrophones, they sound like low rumbling thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening.

Most are too small to be felt on shore."

We now can share your web albums!

Have you mastered Picasa? Have you Learned how to upload your Picasa web albums?... See the slide show on the right side of the page? That could be your web album... Your pictures... Simple.. easy..

Talk to me... teckron@gmail.com

New on the right...

A link to the Newport Senior Center... Of interest for our residents are the scheduled trips.. Have a look.

Did you ever see the movie, "Soilent Green"?

Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog: "My colleague Mark Bittman wrote a fine piece recently about the greenhouse-gas consequences of conventional meat production. Others have explored the environmental and ethical impacts of factory and feedlot farming. Manufactured meat, in theory, provides an end run around these issues. What if you can have your meat, be ethical, and environmental, too? (And presumably they’ll engineer the bad fats out as well….)"

"Dino Killer" Asteroid Was Half the Size Predicted?

"Dino Killer" Asteroid Was Half the Size Predicted?: "The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs might have been less than half the size of what previous models predicted.

That's the finding of a new technique being developed to estimate the size of ancient impactors that left little or no remaining physical evidence of themselves after they collided with Earth."

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Father Larry Lorenzoni

"The average person thinks he isn't."

Our very own Wayne Hill turned the big "60" on Wednesday. Several friends celebrated the event with him at the LVH Clubhouse. Congratulations, Wayne, on joining the rest of us. You only have to look at the rest of us to know the old saying "You only get better with age" is soooo true.

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.

This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.

The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko De Mayo.

Top this for a speeding ticket!

Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar CA . One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill.

The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then turned off.

Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.

Back at the CHIPs Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.

The reply came back in true USMC style:

Thank you for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident.

You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down.

Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.

Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.

The pilot also suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.

Thank you for your concern.

Semper Fi

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Alligator Blood May Lead to Powerful New Antibiotics

Alligator Blood May Lead to Powerful New Antibiotics: "Biochemists in Louisiana found that blood from the American alligator can successfully destroy 23 strains of bacteria, including strains known to be resistant to antibiotics.

In addition, the blood was able to deplete and destroy a significant amount of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL: "Between five and 10 large male turkeys, or toms -- apparently a little giddy with the onset of turkey breeding season -- have been bullying postal workers as they make their rounds, pecking at them and even trying to rough them up with the sharp spurs on their legs. One of the birds launched itself through the open door of a mail truck and scratched the driver.

Eric Lobner, regional wildlife program supervisor for the state Department of Natural Resources, is on the case, investigating the turkey gang.

'They are being threatened by the turkeys, ' said Lobner, who received a call from Wilhite about the situation.

Lobner said other residents should not be too worried about marauding bands of wild turkeys in the streets. He said this particular group of toms has a reputation and has actually been a problem in the past at John Muir Elementary School, chasing school children around the playground and even pecking at the doors after the students were rushed inside the school."

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Evan Esar

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."

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W. C. Fields

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch."

A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming - New York Times

A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming - New York Times: "What is needed, Mr. Sachs and others say, is the development of radically advanced low-carbon technologies, which they say will only come about with greatly increased spending by determined governments on what has so far been an anemic commitment to research and development. A Manhattan-like Project, so to speak.

And time is critical, they say, as China, I"