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Saturday, June 24, 2006
A TALE OF TWO ROBINS
Two robins decided to leave their tree to find some lunch. They found a freshly tilled patch of land that was crawling with worms. They quickly gobbled up as many of the worms as they could. Before long, they grew tired and decided to lie down in the warm sun. Soon, a large cat came along and ate both of them. As he finished, the cat thought, "I just love baskin' robins."
Two robins decided to leave their tree to find some lunch. They found a freshly tilled patch of land that was crawling with worms. They quickly gobbled up as many of the worms as they could. Before long, they grew tired and decided to lie down in the warm sun. Soon, a large cat came along and ate both of them. As he finished, the cat thought, "I just love baskin' robins."
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
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Raccoon!!!
The biggest raccoon I have ever seen Is living on Evergreen in the Burdis' hedge. He made an appearance today at 3:15pm. I think he may have found a home there. Remember the lecture we had on bears? Over and over they said feed a raccoon feed a bear... They're cute but well do we need a bear?
If you live in that area try to secure any pet food you have been leaving out.
I don't know but this may be the result of bulldozing the forest on the north end of the community.
Well I see I have upset people including Charles who has been the best thing that ever happened to this website.
However, this website has rules just as any structured writing environment does. The rules say no politcal discussions and no religious treatises. Finally they say obey the Golden Rule. Those of you who are long time readers have seen the wisdom of these rules be made before your very eyes.
The rules are simple. Someone has to enforce the rules. That someone is me (not by choice I might add.. nobody wants the job.) No matter what you do as an editor you run the risk of offending someone.. I accept that risk.
You cannot imagine the nastiness that grew out of political discussions and the hurt feelings that ensued. That is not the purpose of this website to turn neighbor against neighbor over strong political and religious positions. WE had hoped to make this a sunny place of shared experiences and pleasant pictures. That is what we want and to keep the peace we cannot let anything get started that would disturb that peace. You may not think what you think or say about poltics in this community is not that bad but it had already had escalated to nastiness from 2 comments written by readers... Thus I deleted it.
If anybody wants to write here they can. I will edit out Political and religous stuff... There are literally thousands of blogs where one can go to argue those points or to pat each other on the back because they agree with each other. This, however, is not one of those places.
However, this website has rules just as any structured writing environment does. The rules say no politcal discussions and no religious treatises. Finally they say obey the Golden Rule. Those of you who are long time readers have seen the wisdom of these rules be made before your very eyes.
The rules are simple. Someone has to enforce the rules. That someone is me (not by choice I might add.. nobody wants the job.) No matter what you do as an editor you run the risk of offending someone.. I accept that risk.
You cannot imagine the nastiness that grew out of political discussions and the hurt feelings that ensued. That is not the purpose of this website to turn neighbor against neighbor over strong political and religious positions. WE had hoped to make this a sunny place of shared experiences and pleasant pictures. That is what we want and to keep the peace we cannot let anything get started that would disturb that peace. You may not think what you think or say about poltics in this community is not that bad but it had already had escalated to nastiness from 2 comments written by readers... Thus I deleted it.
If anybody wants to write here they can. I will edit out Political and religous stuff... There are literally thousands of blogs where one can go to argue those points or to pat each other on the back because they agree with each other. This, however, is not one of those places.
Friday, June 23, 2006
"Why Worry About Tomorrow?"
Why worry about tomorrow
And the rising of the sun,
Of anguish over past mistakes
That cannot be undone?
Why waste life's precious moments
On things that bruise the heart
When today is ours to fashion
Into a work of art?
Today comes but once, my friend,
It never can return--
So use it wisely while you can,
There's a lesson you may learn.
Let history record the past
And tomorrow come what may.
Be content to do your best
With what you have today!
Poet: Clay Harrison
Why worry about tomorrow
And the rising of the sun,
Of anguish over past mistakes
That cannot be undone?
Why waste life's precious moments
On things that bruise the heart
When today is ours to fashion
Into a work of art?
Today comes but once, my friend,
It never can return--
So use it wisely while you can,
There's a lesson you may learn.
Let history record the past
And tomorrow come what may.
Be content to do your best
With what you have today!
Poet: Clay Harrison
Community Roster
Hmm!
How would you feel about having our community roster on line? Wait! I know you worry about your phone # and all that but it's in the phone book now and as a result it is already on line anyhow. We could edit the list to keep those off that do not want to be on such a list. We could also put on any info that a participant would like all of us to know. Where ya from? What are your hobbies? Just any and all kinds of fun stuff.
Think about it .. I'm out of pocket today but will return and set up a poll for everyone about this... Think about it and run a comment or two and we will see what developes. RT
Hmm!
How would you feel about having our community roster on line? Wait! I know you worry about your phone # and all that but it's in the phone book now and as a result it is already on line anyhow. We could edit the list to keep those off that do not want to be on such a list. We could also put on any info that a participant would like all of us to know. Where ya from? What are your hobbies? Just any and all kinds of fun stuff.
Think about it .. I'm out of pocket today but will return and set up a poll for everyone about this... Think about it and run a comment or two and we will see what developes. RT
Retired and well-wired
ron says: I want this for us... a good read.
Retired and well-wired: "Retired and well-wired
Terwilliger Plaza's computer-using senior citizens are the opposite of technophobic
Friday, June 23, 2006
JOHN FOYSTON
They call it the T-Factor at Terwilliger Plaza, a buzzword that suggests this Southwest Portland retirement facility is well-wired and computer-friendly.
'You've been busy this month,' computer wrangler Rick Fox told a couple dozen residents at a recent monthly meeting of the Terwilliger Users Group. 'With 80 active members, you're downloading about 30 gigabytes of information a day, and we've logged about 200 to 300 e-mails daily -- about 9,000 a month.'
Fox manages computer, phone and security systems at Terwilliger Plaza, and has worked hard to encourage residents to become computer proficient.
Around here, the image of the technophobic senior citizen who pines for the days of vacuum tubes and rotary-dial phones doesn't fly, thanks in part to the T-Factor. Instead, Plaza residents are video-conferencing with their kids, surfing the Web for their next travel destination, ordering their weekly groceries, paying their taxes or buying Christmas gifts on Amazon.
They're staying in touch with the world through e-mail and the T-Net home page, where they can call up TriMet schedules, read menus for the ground-floor restaurant, contact staff members or browse the resident roster."
Retired and well-wired: "Retired and well-wired
Terwilliger Plaza's computer-using senior citizens are the opposite of technophobic
Friday, June 23, 2006
JOHN FOYSTON
They call it the T-Factor at Terwilliger Plaza, a buzzword that suggests this Southwest Portland retirement facility is well-wired and computer-friendly.
'You've been busy this month,' computer wrangler Rick Fox told a couple dozen residents at a recent monthly meeting of the Terwilliger Users Group. 'With 80 active members, you're downloading about 30 gigabytes of information a day, and we've logged about 200 to 300 e-mails daily -- about 9,000 a month.'
Fox manages computer, phone and security systems at Terwilliger Plaza, and has worked hard to encourage residents to become computer proficient.
Around here, the image of the technophobic senior citizen who pines for the days of vacuum tubes and rotary-dial phones doesn't fly, thanks in part to the T-Factor. Instead, Plaza residents are video-conferencing with their kids, surfing the Web for their next travel destination, ordering their weekly groceries, paying their taxes or buying Christmas gifts on Amazon.
They're staying in touch with the world through e-mail and the T-Net home page, where they can call up TriMet schedules, read menus for the ground-floor restaurant, contact staff members or browse the resident roster."
Thursday, June 22, 2006
How Will Our Emergen
How Will Our Emergency Network Look? Where do you fit in?
Ron Thomas
I have people stopping me telling me they have purchased their new FRS radios. The last person paid $15 for 2 of them at WalMart. Some of you know them as Walkie Talkies and have them in your motor homes for backing up the rig or carrying on a conversation while you are caravanning. They are not CB radios but they work similar and have a shorter range. Today most of them have ranges of 2 to 5 miles. Our community is a mile long so they are ideally suited for us. To the left is a picture of the FRS radios the CERT teams use. All of them look similar.
FRS stands for Family Radio Service. People use them a lot to keep track of their kids especially at amusement parks. We are going to use them here in a variety of ways. True many will feel it is not worth the effort but I’m thinking you buy 2 and split the cost with a neighbor. You’ve just bought yourself a pretty good security package for nothing.
Here are some of the ways we will use our system...
Nearly every few days someone comes up with a fresh new idea on how to use the system. It’s so dirt cheap that you shouldn’t even fret over whether you should buy one or not.... Just do it.
I would like to talk about the radio itself now. Most of them come with 22 channels. Each one of those channels are further split into 36 privacy codes each. A privacy channel puts your group on another channel so that you don’t cross talk with other groups. For instance, right now we are monitoring CH 14 but usually everybody just picks a channel and starts talking and that could make our network useless up here so we will be using privacy code 14 which will make our network pretty much by itself. So our park will be on CH 14 Privacy Code 14 and will be on your display as 14.14. As time goes on we hope to have volunteers monitoring it 24/7.
Some time in July we will have CERT team members helping residents learn how to use their new radios. So if yours looks to complicated don’t fret we have been trained on them and will help you master it.
Ron Thomas
I have people stopping me telling me they have purchased their new FRS radios. The last person paid $15 for 2 of them at WalMart. Some of you know them as Walkie Talkies and have them in your motor homes for backing up the rig or carrying on a conversation while you are caravanning. They are not CB radios but they work similar and have a shorter range. Today most of them have ranges of 2 to 5 miles. Our community is a mile long so they are ideally suited for us. To the left is a picture of the FRS radios the CERT teams use. All of them look similar.
FRS stands for Family Radio Service. People use them a lot to keep track of their kids especially at amusement parks. We are going to use them here in a variety of ways. True many will feel it is not worth the effort but I’m thinking you buy 2 and split the cost with a neighbor. You’ve just bought yourself a pretty good security package for nothing.
Here are some of the ways we will use our system...
- We lose power in the park and telephones and cell phones... We are still linked by our FRS radios.
- A neighborhood Watch patrol asks a resident to call in suspicious activity. In fact block captians might even monitor their radios all the time or take turns with their assistants.
- You live alone are injured or ill .. you have another means of communication.
- In an Emergency the CERT team will be able to give our community advisories over our network. You will be able to call for help.
Nearly every few days someone comes up with a fresh new idea on how to use the system. It’s so dirt cheap that you shouldn’t even fret over whether you should buy one or not.... Just do it.
I would like to talk about the radio itself now. Most of them come with 22 channels. Each one of those channels are further split into 36 privacy codes each. A privacy channel puts your group on another channel so that you don’t cross talk with other groups. For instance, right now we are monitoring CH 14 but usually everybody just picks a channel and starts talking and that could make our network useless up here so we will be using privacy code 14 which will make our network pretty much by itself. So our park will be on CH 14 Privacy Code 14 and will be on your display as 14.14. As time goes on we hope to have volunteers monitoring it 24/7.
Some time in July we will have CERT team members helping residents learn how to use their new radios. So if yours looks to complicated don’t fret we have been trained on them and will help you master it.
Oregon - Visitor and Relocation information:
An Oregonian tried and true......................
By Adam Ross
A lot of people say they're 'from Oregon,' but when John Bond mentions his state of origin, he really means it. 'My family arrived on covered wagons in the 1800s,' Bond said.
The Bonds that lived on the prairie and travelled the Oregon Trail called Eugene their home, but John has been hanging his hat in Rogue River for the past 15 years. An educator for 30 years, Bond retired in 2000 as principal of Rogue River High School.
Community Emergency
Community Emergency Response Team Roll-out
By ron Thomas
Today we had our rollout meeting for the coming Emergency Drill Session here at LVH. Present was the director of Emergency Communications for Lincoln County, Jim Hawley. Jim is also joined at the hip by over 45 radio HAM operators throughout Lincoln County. He is going to call the two HAMs that live in our community and try to enlist their aid for combined CERT/Lincoln County Disaster Communications as he has helped the Lost Creek residents near ONA Beach. This is a vital part of our Emergency Plan for LVH. It will allow us to communicate with outside services if we become cutoff from our phones, electricity and professional emergency responders. Jim Hawley will supply our qualified HAM operator with the necessary equipment to put us in touch with the world. He has two repeater systems, one at Otter Rock and another at the Fire Department.
The entire plan was discussed today. Not all of the CERT team was in attendance so a second meeting will be held at 6:00 pm at the clubhouse this Friday. Volunteers willing to help the CERT team are encouraged to attend. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEERS are especially welcome.
Sometime very soon we will have an LVH Town Hall meeting to present the plan and then soon after that we will have our drill. We will be inviting CERT team members from the Newport area to come participate also.
By ron Thomas
Today we had our rollout meeting for the coming Emergency Drill Session here at LVH. Present was the director of Emergency Communications for Lincoln County, Jim Hawley. Jim is also joined at the hip by over 45 radio HAM operators throughout Lincoln County. He is going to call the two HAMs that live in our community and try to enlist their aid for combined CERT/Lincoln County Disaster Communications as he has helped the Lost Creek residents near ONA Beach. This is a vital part of our Emergency Plan for LVH. It will allow us to communicate with outside services if we become cutoff from our phones, electricity and professional emergency responders. Jim Hawley will supply our qualified HAM operator with the necessary equipment to put us in touch with the world. He has two repeater systems, one at Otter Rock and another at the Fire Department.
The entire plan was discussed today. Not all of the CERT team was in attendance so a second meeting will be held at 6:00 pm at the clubhouse this Friday. Volunteers willing to help the CERT team are encouraged to attend. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEERS are especially welcome.
Sometime very soon we will have an LVH Town Hall meeting to present the plan and then soon after that we will have our drill. We will be inviting CERT team members from the Newport area to come participate also.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Stem Cells Help Paralyzed Rats Walk, New Step In Research May Have Potential To Repair Human Spinal Cord Injuries - CBS News
Stem Cells Help Paralyzed Rats Walk, New Step In Research May Have Potential To Repair Human Spinal Cord Injuries - CBS News: "Stem Cells Help Paralyzed Rats Walk
New Step In Research May Have Potential To Repair Human Spinal Cord Injuries"
New Step In Research May Have Potential To Repair Human Spinal Cord Injuries"
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
"SOCIAL CLUB MEETING MEETS TO RESIDENT ON THE HILL"
(click on picture to enlarge, then arrow back)
The Longview Hills Social Club met today at the Club House and discuss old topics and also a lot of new ones was brought to the floor to vote on. If you haven't been to one of your Social Club Meetings, then now is a good time to attend. There will be new officers taking over soon and still need a Chairperson, so if you might be interested then step forward. Also the lady pictured in the last photo here is our new resident Tina Hines, welcome Tina and we look forward to seeing you at future events on the hill. We thank those residents who took time to come to the meeting today. Remember this is YOUR communtity and so get involved, if a little or a lot.
(picture by Charles Burke)
(click on picture to enlarge, then arrow back)
The Longview Hills Social Club met today at the Club House and discuss old topics and also a lot of new ones was brought to the floor to vote on. If you haven't been to one of your Social Club Meetings, then now is a good time to attend. There will be new officers taking over soon and still need a Chairperson, so if you might be interested then step forward. Also the lady pictured in the last photo here is our new resident Tina Hines, welcome Tina and we look forward to seeing you at future events on the hill. We thank those residents who took time to come to the meeting today. Remember this is YOUR communtity and so get involved, if a little or a lot.
(picture by Charles Burke)
Porcupine!
Last night, very close to midnight, Jacky and I went down to the JC Market. On our way out of the park we came upon a small porcupine crossing Windmill dr. by Vern and Dottie Charles' home. He was on his way south.. Maybe looking for a new home. Due to all the recent bulldozing of forest habitat north of the park we may see more animals than usual this year. Pet owners here have had to take doggies to a vet to have quills removed from sore noses.
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