today's readings

Weathers readings as of the last 24 hours at 7 am:

 

Temperature Reading:                       Precipitation:

Max: 38        Low: 19                         Rain: 0.00"

LVH Weather Report

Ed Simon is working as a volunteer weather observer for NOAA and has their latest and greatest weather gadgets at his home.

How low did it go last night?

Ed says:

Here are my readings as of 7 am for the last 24 hour period:

High: 31 Low: 20 Precipitation: 0

Now at 7:50 am it's 21 degrees.

Ed

Request from Chief Miranda

Tonight,
Monday,
They are calling for volunteers to man a warming room at the Fairgrounds in Newport. They want CERT or Police volunteers only. This notice is only to find out if you are available not to ask you to come yet. Also, if your vehicle does not have traction devices they do not want you to come.
You should call Ed Simon if you are able to meet the safety caveats and want to help:
ph 265-9124
or
2706662

Shift will be 4 hours or less depending on who is available.

Ron's Downfall

Saturday, I was at the Newport Main Fire Station... It was raining outside and after a training session for New CERT members was done. I gathered up my equipment and made for the back door where I had parked my vehicle.

It was very dark outside and as I stepped from the sidewalk to the parking lot pavement ... I didn't see the 2" drop from sidewalk to pavement. In slow motion I began a fall to the pavement. My equipment bag flew from my hands as I braced for the collision between me and the pavement. I was in between my van and a truck which I managed to miss... My left knee hit first I think and then my left elbow and forearm scrapped pavement and as gravity took it's final shot at me my head klonked the pavement.

It was dark and nobody was around... I yelled for help and although I could see people moving around in the building no one could hear me.....

Years ago our CERT team decided to wear whistles around our necks while we were on team business... There it was and after 4 years I needed it. I blew three short blast (the international distress signal).. and kept it up... People inside heard the shrill whistle and came out looking for the source.... I was saved!

When you are alone on a walk about in the park... Take your FRS radio and put that cheap plastic whistle around your neck... Someday, it may come in handy!

Update

The stalled car at the main gate managed to get away around 11:45am.

Windmill ICE

Stay off of Windmill... It is loaded with black ice. People are getting stuck at the gate. Tow trucks are not able to come up or down....

The Bus is chained up and is getting in and out of the park. That is an alternative... But the best choice is to stay home and warm... Prepare for a power loss... Gather blankets, flashlights, etc. Keep your radio on CH6.16 Your neighbors are only a call away.

Your mail will be there tomorrow ..let it be.

ICE !!!!!!!! sTAY hOME....tUNE YOUR RADIO TO ch6.16

Folks....

We have at least two reports of neighbors almost falling. Stay inside... Do not become part of the problem. If you need help get on the FRS Radio and tell us... We will figure something out.

We are monitoring Police, Fire and PUD radio and will have the latest info... Just ask on CH 6.16...

iGoogle

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter"

Christmas Lights

The Linn's on Deer Lane.....at the north end of the park have their lights synchronized to Christmas Music that is broadcast over your FM radio....

After dark and before 10:00pm drive over to their home and tune your FM car radio to 98.3... The lights dance to the music! Kewell...

The music is on a loop of about 7 songs and then it repeats.. Stay for the whole show.

iGoogle

iGoogle: "Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
- Dave Barry"

Odd Winter Weather Coming to Oregon Coast, Mountains and Portland

Odd Winter Weather Coming to Oregon Coast, Mountains and Portland: "Seaside may look like this over the weekend."

December 3, 2008--"Time traveling" astronomers have decoded echoes from a centuries-old supernova, allowing them to see light from the event as it appeared when the distant star first exploded.

In 1572 Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe mistook the supernova for a new star, and he studied it extensively until it disappeared from view. Modern telescopes allow us to see the remnant of the blast, which appears like a colorful piece of cosmic algae in the above composite image.

The new study, in last week's issue of the journal Nature, is the first confirmation that Brahe witnessed what's known as a normal Type Ia supernova—when a white dwarf star in a binary system gathers so much matter from its partner that it compresses until it explodes.

The Spell of the Yukon: Information from Answers.com

The Spell of the Yukon: Information from Answers.com: "The Spell of the Yukon

I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it —
Came out with a fortune last fall, —
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.

No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?)
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it's a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there's some as would trade it
For no land on earth — and I'm one."

iGoogle

iGoogle: "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso"

Can't see the cell tower for the tree | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal

Can't see the cell tower for the tree | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal: "Crews installed a cell phone tower disguised as a tree on Liberty Road S in Salem on Tuesday"

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Black hole confirmed in Milky Way

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Black hole confirmed in Milky Way: "According to Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit."

iGoogle

iGoogle: "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw"

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Lebanese finds 'heaviest' potato

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Lebanese finds 'heaviest' potato: "'This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds),' Khalil Semhat told the AFP news agency at his farm near Tyre, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut."

Economy | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

Economy | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team: "n addition, because lower-income seniors may have no choice but to take withdrawals this year and in 2008, Obama and Biden will exempt any withdrawals made up to the required minimum amount from taxation. This will give seniors the flexibility they deserve -- to forgo withdrawals if they choose or to take those withdrawals tax free if they need those resources to pay their bills."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.8 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION 0624Z DEC 9: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Brrrr!

Statement as of 1:05 PM PST on December 08, 2008

... Turning extremely cold with very low snow levels this weekend
over southwest Washington and northwest Oregon...

The coldest air of the winter season will be settling in over
southwest Washington and northwest Oregon this weekend... bringing
very cold temperatures to the region and snow levels possibly near
the valley floor.

The initial surge of cold air will spread into southwest
Washington and northwest Oregon Friday night as a strong cold
front moves through. While air ahead of this front will be
relatively mild... very cold air behind this front has the
potential to drop snow levels quite low... not unlike a snow event
that occurred in mid November of 2003 which dropped several inches
of snow in the Portland Metro area. While this kind of detail is
not certain at this point... the snow level at the back edge of the
cold front Friday night could turn out to be quite low.

The cold air will continue to stream onshore during the day
Saturday and any showers will likely drop snow to the 500 or 1000
feet elevations. The onshore flow will likely limit the
possibility of the snow reaching the valley floor due to a
significant over water trajectory of the air... as the water
temperatures off the coast remain in the lower 50s.

It appears a reinforcing shot of Arctic air will then spread
through The Gorge and down through western Washington into
northwest Oregon Saturday night and Sunday... and bring the coldest
air to the region in quite some time. At that point... minimum
temperatures could fall into the teens with daytime temperatures
struggling to reach freezing. The possibility of any significant
snow once the main shot of Arctic reaches our area is uncertain at
this time as it is dependent on whether any organized systems will
spread over the area... but the possibility does exist.

Be sure to take precautions this week in advance of the arrival of
the very cold air... such as wrapping pipes... covering foundation
vents... draining outdoor water pipes... and protecting vulnerable
outdoor plants.

The News Letter, from Ron's soap box

Hello folks,

Let's talk about our monthly newsletter. The newsletter has run into some trouble that we feel you should know about.

Mr. Forsloff, a long time resident, has generously published the newsletter for the cost of ink and paper for a number of years. Sadly, that arrangement is coming to an end as he is retiring. We have been looking for other ways of keeping the newsletter alive and well.

Currently, we may be able to have a friend of Jim Rose's publish it for us. But, He lives in Portland. So that poses a logistics problem as you can see. Other options include having it printed locally. These options all will cost money which will be deducted from a rapidly depleting Social Club treasury.

We do have the ability to publish the entire newsletter on line for free. But that means people would have to view it on the computer.... Some folks don't have a computer. On the other hand we do have a computer lab at the clubhouse with high speed Internet for free.

This last newsletter will be the last until we have a solution to the problem...

To the, "Why don't you...... folks".... Hey, we need ideas but we need people and $$ willing to put forth a little effort. So, if the judgement of the community is to do nothing then it seems to me that the demise of the Newsletter is imminent.

Gotta idea? Leave a comment or call Charolette Paulson (Social Club President)

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It's a tire and kitty is in the wheel

Two Headed 4 paw Monster

NewsGator Online

Rick Cook

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Central Oregon Coast Bay Lights Up This Weekend

Central Oregon Coast Bay Lights Up This Weekend: "On December 6, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., local lighted boats make a large loop around the bay, from the Coast Guard Station to the Embarcadero Resort and back, showing off a variety of colorful designs."

Ratings!

We are experimenting with a new rating system at the bottom of each post... check a box to let us know what you think of postings.

We can change and add rating words or make a 1-3 rating system.. If you would like to make a suggestion just put a comment at the bottom of any article... RT

President Elect's Weekly Address

Do You Know You're Having A Stroke?

Do You Know You're Having A Stroke?: "Stroke symptoms include:

* Sudden numbness, weakness, or paralysis of your face, arm or leg -- usually on one side of the body
* Sudden difficulty speaking or understanding speech (aphasia)
* Sudden blurred, double or decreased vision
* Sudden dizziness, loss of balance or loss of coordination
* A sudden, severe 'bolt out of the blue' headache or an unusual headache, which may be accompanied by a stiff neck, facial pain, pain between your eyes, vomiting or altered consciousness
* Confusion or problems with memory, spatial orientation or perception"

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com: "The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to finish work on a rule that would make it easier for utilities to put coal-fired generating stations near national parks. It is working on another rule that would allow utility companies to modify coal-fired power plants and increase their emissions without installing new pollution-control equipment."

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com

Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com: "Edward C. Hopkins, a policy analyst at the Sierra Club, said: “The E.P.A.’s own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality. By signing off on this rule, the agency has abdicated its responsibility.”"

DailyTech - Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars

DailyTech - Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars: "Consumers who purchase or lease electric cars will be able to visit Better Place supply recharging service locations to switch out their lithium ion car battery for a full-charged new one. Better Place will then recharge the new battery during off-peak electricity hours."

Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age: Scientific American

Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age: Scientific American: "Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues asked two groups—one made up of 19- to 33-year-olds and the other of 60- to 72-year-olds—to perform a memory task. The researchers used electroencephalography to record electrical signals from the participants’ brains in milliseconds during the task. In contrast to the younger adults, the older group could not suppress distracting stimuli during the first 200 milliseconds after exposure. “At later time points, the ability to ignore does show up,” Gazzaley says. “It’s not abolished, just delayed.” By then, however, the irrelevant information had interfered with the memory task, making the older group less accurate overall than the younger group."

President Elect Obama's Transparentcy Web site

Want to know what the agenda for our government is? Want to see feedback and how it's going?
http://change.gov/

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.2 135 SW EUREKA, CA. 1343Z NOV 28: Tsunami NOT expected

George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

National Geographic News

teckron@gmail.com has sent you this story from National Geographic
News. We hope you enjoy it

MEDICARE COVERAGE

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.'

'Mrs. Sanders, please.'

'Speaking.'

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory.

When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a
biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well.

We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly,
either way the results are not too good.'

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the
other one tested positive for HIV. We can't tell which is which.'

'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?' questioned Mrs.
Sanders.

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive
tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off
somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'

Dear Sirs,

A letter to my bank:

In view of what seems to be happening internationally with banks at

the moment, I was wondering if you could advise me.

If one of my checks is returned marked

"Insufficient Funds," how do I know whether that refers to me or to you?

Please advise,

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 7.0 190 NW PETROPAVLOVSK, KAMCHATKA. 0903Z NOV 24: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.5 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 1612Z NOV 22: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Poetry review: “Fire to Fire” by Mark Doty | csmonitor.com

Poetry review: “Fire to Fire” by Mark Doty | csmonitor.com: "Striking imagery and a powerful imagination are two of his best tools, as evident in his earliest poems. When Doty writes about an Easter contest in “Ararat,” for example (from “Turtle, Swan,” 1987), he doesn’t recall an egg, but an oval full of glorious possibilities.

What might have coiled inside it?

Crocuses tight on their clock-springs,
a bird who’d sing himself into an angel
in the highest reaches of the garden,
the morning’s flaming arrow?

Any small thing can save you.
The descriptions are surprising yet spot-on, and the precise imagery provides the perfect balance for plainer, more conversational phrasing."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.2 040 E ILIAMNA, AK. 0604Z NOV 21: Tsunami NOT expected

iGoogle

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Einstein

NewsGator Online

"Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry."

Op-Ed Contributor - What’s the Point of Daylight Time? - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - What’s the Point of Daylight Time? - NYTimes.com: "What explains this unexpected result? While daylight time reduces demand for household lighting, it increases demand for heating in the early spring and late fall (in the mornings) and, even more important, for cooling on summer evenings. Benjamin Franklin was right about candles, in other words, but he did not consider air-conditioners."

Architecture: A City That's Built at the Bottom of a Lake

Architecture: A City That's Built at the Bottom of a Lake: "something you don't see every day: a town built in the middle of a lake. Not on an island, but actually below water level. It's the ancient city of Seuthopolis, in Bulgaria, which was discovered in 1948."

Roomba

SHOP WITH A COP

I was approached by a member of Longview Hills requesting information on donating to the "Shop With a Cop" program. For those of you who are not familiar with this project, the Oregon State Police, Newport Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff participate in a program where they take underprivileged children Christmas shopping. Each child is given a gift card and goes "shopping" with the officer. According to the officers we spoke with, it is very heart warming as very seldom will these children spend anything on themselves. They want to make sure there is something for Christmas for the moms, dads, sisters and brothers. This year December 6th is the shopping day.

Anything, of course, is appreciated whether it is $5 or $100 (or anything in between). Below is the e-mail I received from Carla Urbigkeit of the Oregon State Police:

Thank you for contacting me about Shop With A Cop!! It is SO hard to raise money when everyone is so strapped!!

I have asked people who want to donate to make the check payable to 'OSP Volunteers' and they can mail the check either to our OSP office here in Newport (PO Box 947) or the OSP Volunteer address (PO Box 974) both in Newport OR 97365. I know, the two PO Boxes are very similar in number!!

I sure appreciate your help! If you have any questions you can certainly call me at 270-4817.

Thanks again!
Carla

I know things are really tight this year and we only ask you to donate if you can afford it. We do, however, want to thank anyone in advance who is able to contribute. Merry Christmas!

Sir Barnett Cocks

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Pyramid Building

Soon (Nov 23rd, National Geo TV special)

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.0 ARCTIC OCEAN 0453Z NOV 18: Tsunami NOT expected

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.1 ARCTIC OCEAN 0411Z NOV 18: Tsunami NOT expected

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.3 ARCTIC OCEAN 0400Z NOV 18: Tsunami NOT expected

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.6 QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS, CANADA 1256Z NOV 17: Tsunami NOT expected

California wildfire chases 30,000 from homes - Salt Lake Tribune

California wildfire chases 30,000 from homes - Salt Lake Tribune: "LOS ANGELES - Santa Ana winds blowing at times at hurricane strength fanned two more monstrous wildfires on Saturday, destroying hundreds of homes and putting ten of thousands of people under a mandatory evacuation order.
The Los Angeles Times reported more than 30,000 were ordered to leave their homes."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 7.6 MINAHASSA PENINSULA, SULAWESI 1703Z NOV 16: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.6 040 SW EUREKA, CA. 0543Z NOV 16: Tsunami NOT expected

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.3 065 SW ATKA VILLAGE, AK. 0403Z NOV 15: Tsunami NOT expected

The Longview Hills Fishing Club helps Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife service salmon fish traps on a few streams in the area. We are working on a project to put a rail on a walking bridge at the Schooner Creek Trap (east of Lincoln City) and we had scheduled a work day on Friday, November 14th. Wayde needed a measurement from the bridge and wanted to check Schooner Creek due to the amount of rain we have had this past week, so he and I drove up there yesterday (Thursday).

What a surprise we had when we got there! The normally calm, blue, serene Schooner Creek was a brown, fast moving river. Naturally, we postponed the bridge work scheduled for Friday until, hopefully next week but I thought many of you would enjoy seeing Mother Nature's handiwork.

In case you have not had the chance to meet Michele Longo Eder or to read her book, Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife, you are missing a rare treat. This local author has written her memoir which is insightful, interesting, and heart wrenching. Everyone I have spoken with who have read this book say they can't put it down. If you want a chance to meet Michele, she will be at the Pacific Maritime & Heritage Center in Newport, this coming Sunday, Nov. 16th, and at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City, next Tuesday evening, Nov. 18th.

Newport, OR
Sunday, Nov. 16th
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Lincoln County Historic Society
Pacific Maritime & Heritage Center
333 SE Bay Blvd., Newport (541) 265-7509

Lincoln City, OR
Tuesday, Nov. 18th
6:30 PM
Driftwood Public Library
801 SW Hwy 101 #201, Lincoln City (541) 996-2277

----------------
Learn more about Michele and her book at:
http://www.saltinourblood.com

Run!

sent in by Blaine Kalar

THIS IS A PICTURE THAT SOMEONE TOOK WHO WORKS ON AN OIL RIG .

HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE LIGHTNING AND WAS UNAWARE

OF THE TORNADO UNTIL THE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATED IT.

Canasta

6 Deck Canasta Wednesdays @ 1pm

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 5.2 OFF COAST OF OREGON 0149Z NOV 14: Tsunami NOT expected

What They Miss About the Oregon Coast

What They Miss About the Oregon Coast: "It was the coast the way it once was. And there are plenty of folks who remember chunks of living history about the region, and its more rugged, even ruddy appearance and vibes before the last ten years' of growth spurts took hold and changed the landscape and feel."

iGoogle

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer"

NewsGator Online

"As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.0 060 NW HOMER, AK. 2201Z NOV 11: Tsunami NOT expected

CERT/US Coast Guard Drill

To prepare for the Central Coast Drill on November 8th, a pre-drill meeting was held at the regular Monday CERT meeting at LVH on November 3rd. Mike Mulligan came to outline the entire project, especially as it pertained to the areas at the Agate Beach Golf Course and Longview Hills.



The drill was coastal wide, from Yachats to North Lincoln City. LVH CERT, however, only participated in the drill at the Agate Beach Golf Course (Code Name: Hotel) and Longview Hills (Code Name: India). Luckily, Nicole Mangum was able to clear the area of the pesky goat who had wondered in the landing zone so all was ready for the drill. There was some doubt if the drill was going to come off due to inclement weather and concern about two ships in trouble out to sea. The helicopter wasn't able to hover but did make the necessary fly over. The above photos are from the Agate Beach Golf Course.



The group at Longview Hills cordoned off the parking lot and marked it so the helicopter would be able to spot it. Everyone was prepared, thanks to Ron Thomas' planning. We even had radio trouble and were able to overcome that problem. Although the drill didn't go as originally planned, it left little doubt that the CERT team is prepared for an emergency. We learn a great deal each time we have one of these drills. Our only hope now is that we will never have to put it to the real test.

Newport Welcomes New K-9 Patrol Officer

Here is Newport Police Department's newest officer. Check out the website for more info about Eyan.

iGoogle

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
- Jules Renard"

iGoogle

Einstein said....

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

First Voyage

First Voyage: "Bob: I am certain that she didn't know then, and I believe that she doesn't know even now, how extraordinary those three days in November 1996 were. We had purchased Chiron, a 47-foot cutter rigged sailboat, the month before and had planned to leave it in Seattle until more favorable weather in the spring. But the long-range forecasts were for a very hard winter and the immediate predictions were for a brief weather window in the first week of November."

LVH CERT Team trains with Coast Guard

Cabelas Catalog Radio Sale

$24.95

Folks, tomorrow marks the first big storm of the season. You really should consider owning an FRS radio and tuning it to our community emergency channel CH6. 16.

You can keep up on what's happening in our community... Have CERT team members on call in case you need help in a power outage

Loss of phone and cell phone ???? We have our very own Lincoln County Emergency Services HAM Radio operators.. Other team members make reports on what the Police and Fire Departments are doing. Our electricians listen and interpret what the PUD is doing and all this is relayed to you in our community.

Join the emergency net today. Buy your radio ... If you need help any CERT team member can help you... Just ask or email
teckron@gmail.com

Canadian artist finds poetry on the battlefront

Canadian artist finds poetry on the battlefront: "August Widow
from across the road, with church and soldiers in their scope,
story is veins and arteries, soft tissue to these black coats
this murder of shiny microphones, video cams
they beak, they claw, they pick at mourner carrion;
gray day, gray day, a brother buried half a world away
from bullet and pomegranate, on this his prairie
where wild flax blues and blooms,
and yellow canola swathed,"

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.3 065 NE ILIAMNA, AK. 2337Z NOV 9: Tsunami NOT expected

A road trip down Oregon's coast reveals small towns and undeveloped beauty [] - Cleveland.com

A road trip down Oregon's coast reveals small towns and undeveloped beauty [] - Cleveland.com: "Oregon's coast is still wild enough to be a windy wonder, tame enough for the squeamish, surprisingly affordable and uncrowded -- yet diverse enough to please at least someone in the car most of the time.

All beaches are public, and access is guaranteed by law."

NewsGator Online

Wernher von Braun

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."

NewsGator Online

Ambrose Bierce
"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

NewsGator Online

Rodney Dangerfield

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

Editorial - The Rural Life - Still Life - NYTimes.com

Editorial - The Rural Life - Still Life - NYTimes.com: "Every now and then I feel as though I’ve woken up in a Rembrandt etching — a tangled thicket of pen-strokes from which a landscape emerges. It’s not just that the sky has taken on the tint of 17th-century drawing paper or that the world has lost color. It has more to do with the balance of time. Nature seems to have paused. There is a numb overcast overhead, with little drift to it. Wood smoke slides down the roof and onto the road. The wild apples are waiting to fall."

100mpg

Sent in by Bob Dean

VOA News - Honda Unveils New Robot Walker

VOA News - Honda Unveils New Robot Walker: "The Honda Motor Company has displayed for the first time a new computerized walker machine, designed to help factory workers and the elderly."

Sent in by Barb Dudley

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.5 VANUATU ISLANDS 0720Z NOV 7: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

NewsGator Online

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

Skeleton Of 12,000 Year Old Shaman Discovered Buried With Leopard, 50 Tortoises And Human Foot

Skeleton Of 12,000 Year Old Shaman Discovered Buried With Leopard, 50 Tortoises And Human Foot: "The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by 'exceptional' grave offerings - including 50 complete tortoise shells, the pelvis of a leopard and a human foot. The shaman burial is thought to be one of the earliest known from the archaeological record and the only shaman grave in the whole region."

San Francisco Journal - At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - NYTimes.com

San Francisco Journal - At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - NYTimes.com: "The only hybrid specialty garage run by a woman has opened in the Bay Area, which has more Priuses — 70,000 as of 2006 — than most states. And while its owner, Carolyn Coquillette, has a preoccupation with cleanliness that may not be unique in a mechanic’s shop, her ubiquitous recycling containers (for paper, plastic, rubber, metal and oil) and the solar panels on her roof set Luscious apart. So does its specialty: giving hybrid owners the option of going fully electric."

San Francisco Journal - At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - NYTimes.com

San Francisco Journal - At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - NYTimes.com: "The only hybrid specialty garage run by a woman has opened in the Bay Area, which has more Priuses — 70,000 as of 2006 — than most states. And while its owner, Carolyn Coquillette, has a preoccupation with cleanliness that may not be unique in a mechanic’s shop, her ubiquitous recycling containers (for paper, plastic, rubber, metal and oil) and the solar panels on her roof set Luscious apart. So does its specialty: giving hybrid owners the option of going fully electric."

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Information Statement: M 5.0 065 SE AMUKTA PASS, AK. 0505Z NOV 5: Tsunami NOT expected

The Great Fear of the Unknown - USATODAY.com

The Great Fear of the Unknown - USATODAY.com: "There is something in the human psyche that makes us view some innovations or research with great suspicion, fearing that careless scientists will blow us all to kingdom come, says sociologist Robert Bartholomew, author of the 2001 book Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. 'People see what they expect to see in a search for certainty, especially during times of crisis, as they attempt to confirm their worst fears and greatest hopes.'

Lack of understanding, 'combined with anxiety, has been responsible for scares of all sorts over the centuries,' he notes, ranging from witchcraft trials to UFO sightings. Scares often arise from such anxieties as war jitters, including the phantom zeppelin sightings that convulsed Great Britain before World War I."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Pizza in Nehalem

Many of the regular pizza ingredients are irregular in the first place: not even in the Portland area will you find many pizzerias with toppings like meatballs, herbed lamb, chorizo, pastrami, carrots, cashews and other nuts, celery, smoked salmon, zucchini, mandarins or cheeses like smoked provolone, gorgonzola, ricotta feta, marscapone or montrachet.

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Information Statement: M 6.1 050 S ATKA VILLAGE, AK. 1349Z NOV 2: Tsunami NOT expected