New CERT Team members at LVH
Today was final test day for 12 new members at the old City Hall. These folks have been attending classes taught by Newport Fire and Police Department, the US Coast Guard, Red Cross and Pacific Ambulance Service since September. Classes ran about 3 hours per session. All culminated today in a written and practical test with older members acting as victims and trainers under the direction of Assistant Fire Chief Toby Cole (who spent this day, his birthday, with the CERT team) and Ret. Police Sergeant Dean Sawyer.
What this means for our community at LVH is the addition of two more skilled team members. Both new members of our team have also been attending our weekly LVH CERT meetings for months. So, there really will not be a need for them to integrate and learn our procedures as they have been doing that all along.
Please congratulate Greg Pfalmer and Wayne Hill if you see them about the hill and know that you are looking at two fine men who have studied and trained to watch over the welfare of everyone in our community in case of a disaster. Good to know they are there for us.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
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Friday, January 05, 2007
News - StatesmanJournal.com
News - StatesmanJournal.com: "'We're going to see the sites, visit friends, and relax on the beach,' Ralph Hernandez said. 'We just want to take a break from work and take in some nice weather for a change.'
What the Salem couple did not know as they stood in line during the noon hour at the U.S. Post Office on 25th Street SE is that beginning Jan. 23, they will be required to show a valid passport to re-enter the United States.
So will all Americans traveling by air to and from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Bermuda. The new air rule does not apply to U.S. territories."
What the Salem couple did not know as they stood in line during the noon hour at the U.S. Post Office on 25th Street SE is that beginning Jan. 23, they will be required to show a valid passport to re-enter the United States.
So will all Americans traveling by air to and from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Bermuda. The new air rule does not apply to U.S. territories."
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NewsGator Online: "'We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.'"
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NewsGator Online: "'Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.'"
Photo in the News: Baby Elephant Eats Christmas Trees
Photo in the News: Baby Elephant Eats Christmas Trees: "January 4, 2007—Holiday leftovers aren't just for humans. Elephant calf Thabo-Umasai at Germany's Zoo Dresden joined camels, deer, and sheep in a traditional new-year feast of Christmas trees yesterday.
'Elephants around the country will enjoy a delicious lunch today consisting of about five Christmas trees each,' Ragnar Kuehne of Zoo Berlin told the Reuters news service on January 3"
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Really cold case: Why is man sitting on dead horse? - CNN.com
Really cold case: Why is man sitting on dead horse? - CNN.com: "This photo, provided by the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, shows a man sitting on a dead horse. People want to know the story behind it."
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Lake-effect methane chills Titan - USATODAY.com
Lake-effect methane chills Titan - USATODAY.com: "By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Think Minnesota gets cold?
Try Titan, another land of a thousand lakes. Saturn's haze-shrouded moon may be an exotic land of liquid methane lakes, NASA scientists reported Wednesday.
First spotted in July in a flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, the lakes explain the clouds that cloak the mysterious Titan, researchers say. At minus 290 degrees on its surface, Titan's weather is a chilly replica of Earth's climate, with methane rains and rivers falling and flowing into the lakes, which evaporate once more to form the moon's clouds, says study lead author Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Rectortown, Va."
Think Minnesota gets cold?
Try Titan, another land of a thousand lakes. Saturn's haze-shrouded moon may be an exotic land of liquid methane lakes, NASA scientists reported Wednesday.
First spotted in July in a flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, the lakes explain the clouds that cloak the mysterious Titan, researchers say. At minus 290 degrees on its surface, Titan's weather is a chilly replica of Earth's climate, with methane rains and rivers falling and flowing into the lakes, which evaporate once more to form the moon's clouds, says study lead author Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Rectortown, Va."
Lake-effect methane chills Titan - USATODAY.com
Lake-effect methane chills Titan - USATODAY.com: "By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Think Minnesota gets cold?
Try Titan, another land of a thousand lakes. Saturn's haze-shrouded moon may be an exotic land of liquid methane lakes, NASA scientists reported Wednesday.
First spotted in July in a flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, the lakes explain the clouds that cloak the mysterious Titan, researchers say. At minus 290 degrees on its surface, Titan's weather is a chilly replica of Earth's climate, with methane rains and rivers falling and flowing into the lakes, which evaporate once more to form the moon's clouds, says study lead author Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Rectortown, Va."
Think Minnesota gets cold?
Try Titan, another land of a thousand lakes. Saturn's haze-shrouded moon may be an exotic land of liquid methane lakes, NASA scientists reported Wednesday.
First spotted in July in a flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, the lakes explain the clouds that cloak the mysterious Titan, researchers say. At minus 290 degrees on its surface, Titan's weather is a chilly replica of Earth's climate, with methane rains and rivers falling and flowing into the lakes, which evaporate once more to form the moon's clouds, says study lead author Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research in Rectortown, Va."
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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Donna Talarski took this picture at Fogarty Creek beach during a winter storm. You notice that when we use a picture as a banner it loses a bit or gains from the contortions we put it through to fit the page? Still both renderings are pretty darn neat.
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Donna Talarski took this picture at Fogarty Creek beach during a winter storm. You notice that when we use a picture as a banner it loses a bit or gains from the contortions we put it through to fit the page? Still both renderings are pretty darn neat.
Feds: Crisis Communications Subpar In U.S., Homeland Security Survey Gives Only Six American Cities High Ratings For Emergency Communications - CBS Ne
Feds: Crisis Communications Subpar In U.S., Homeland Security Survey Gives Only Six American Cities High Ratings For Emergency Communications - CBS News: "Homeland Security is under the gun to improve emergency communications among first responders, and Chertoff has pledged to achieve nationwide interoperability by the end of 2008.
The Department of Homeland Security study comes five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, revealed major problems in how well emergency agencies were able to talk to each other during a catastrophe. Many firefighters climbing the World Trade Center towers died when they were unable to hear police radio warnings to leave the crumbling buildings.
In New York now, the report said, first responders were found to have well-established systems to communicate among each other — but not the best possible.
Just over a year ago, Hurricane Katrina underscored communication problems when radio transmissions were hindered because the storm's winds toppled towers. "
The Department of Homeland Security study comes five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, revealed major problems in how well emergency agencies were able to talk to each other during a catastrophe. Many firefighters climbing the World Trade Center towers died when they were unable to hear police radio warnings to leave the crumbling buildings.
In New York now, the report said, first responders were found to have well-established systems to communicate among each other — but not the best possible.
Just over a year ago, Hurricane Katrina underscored communication problems when radio transmissions were hindered because the storm's winds toppled towers. "
Mysterious Structures Reappear on Central Oregon Coast Beach
Mysterious Structures Reappear on Central Oregon Coast Beach: "Mysterious Structures Reappear on Central Oregon Coast Beach
Ancient stumps once buried have reappeared
(Newport, Oregon) - Some three hundred years ago – so the prevailing theory goes – a massive tsunami hit what would become the Oregon coast, changing the landscape and leveling entire forests, not unlike the blast of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago.
The eerie remnants of this event are now visible again on Newport’s northern beaches, showing a series of strange structures and shapes on the beach that look like some sort of collaboration between Roger Dean (the man who did the Yes album covers) and Dr. Suess.
Head to Moolack Beach or Beverly Beach, on the northern end of town, and you’ll find giant octopus-like structures, the leftovers of root systems dotting the beach. There are currently about nine of the big structures at Moolack, with dozens of smaller tree points sticking out of the sand in various areas."
Ancient stumps once buried have reappeared
(Newport, Oregon) - Some three hundred years ago – so the prevailing theory goes – a massive tsunami hit what would become the Oregon coast, changing the landscape and leveling entire forests, not unlike the blast of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago.
The eerie remnants of this event are now visible again on Newport’s northern beaches, showing a series of strange structures and shapes on the beach that look like some sort of collaboration between Roger Dean (the man who did the Yes album covers) and Dr. Suess.
Head to Moolack Beach or Beverly Beach, on the northern end of town, and you’ll find giant octopus-like structures, the leftovers of root systems dotting the beach. There are currently about nine of the big structures at Moolack, with dozens of smaller tree points sticking out of the sand in various areas."
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NewsGator Online: "'Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.'"
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Our calendar for the News letter..
What happens when the calendar person is away from home and gets sick? Oops! No calendar for the coming 2 months on your frig. :(
Sad state of affairs this. There may be a ray of hope though. We have noticed with the influx of new people to the community of new neighbors this year came people with more computer skills. Also, a few of us older nutz are learning computers too.
What we can do to stop this problem could be solved if I sat down and put to words the steps to get a calendar ready for our printer. Then those with the skills or those that would enjoy the challenge of doing something new on a rainy day could give it a try. I bet several of you can do it.
Now you new folks probably do not know about the LVH School House website. It is a place that Jim Dodds and myself developed to help residents learn computer skills. From time to time I should be putting lessons in that have value to the community. Haven't done that for a good while. But today,, it's raining, I'm recovering and there is a problem that can be solved.
So if you visit the LVH school house website you will find a tutorial on how to make a calendar suitable for printing or for your refrigerator yourself.
Here is how to navigate to the school room. On the left side of this page click the icon that says "LINK CITY". This index web page contains links to websites of interest to our community. In the first column you will see an icon for the school house. Click it and read the new lesson. Give it a try and next time there will be one more person who can make a calendar for the newsletter.
What happens when the calendar person is away from home and gets sick? Oops! No calendar for the coming 2 months on your frig. :(
Sad state of affairs this. There may be a ray of hope though. We have noticed with the influx of new people to the community of new neighbors this year came people with more computer skills. Also, a few of us older nutz are learning computers too.
What we can do to stop this problem could be solved if I sat down and put to words the steps to get a calendar ready for our printer. Then those with the skills or those that would enjoy the challenge of doing something new on a rainy day could give it a try. I bet several of you can do it.
Now you new folks probably do not know about the LVH School House website. It is a place that Jim Dodds and myself developed to help residents learn computer skills. From time to time I should be putting lessons in that have value to the community. Haven't done that for a good while. But today,, it's raining, I'm recovering and there is a problem that can be solved.
So if you visit the LVH school house website you will find a tutorial on how to make a calendar suitable for printing or for your refrigerator yourself.
Here is how to navigate to the school room. On the left side of this page click the icon that says "LINK CITY". This index web page contains links to websites of interest to our community. In the first column you will see an icon for the school house. Click it and read the new lesson. Give it a try and next time there will be one more person who can make a calendar for the newsletter.
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1/1/2007 5:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)]
'I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.'"
1/1/2007 5:00:00 PM [rss@quotationspage.com (Quotes of the Day)]
'I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.'"
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NewsGator Online: "'When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.'"
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 — Page 2
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 — Page 2: "ALUN ANDERSON
Senior Consultant (and Former Editor-In-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist
The Sunlight-Powered Future
I'm optimistic about…a pair of very big numbers. The first is 4.5 x 10ˆ20. That is the current world annual energy use, measured in joules. It is a truly huge number and not usually a cause for optimism as 70 per cent of that energy comes from burning fossil fuels.
Thankfully, the second number is even bigger: 3,000,000 x 10ˆ20 joules. That is the amount of clean, green energy that pours down on the Earth totally free of charge every year. The Sun is providing 7,000 times as much energy as we are using, which leaves plenty for developing China, India and everyone else. How can we not be optimistic? We don't have a long-term energy problem. Our only worries are whether we can find smart ways to use that sunlight efficiently and whether we can move quickly enough from the energy systems we are entrenched in now to the ones we should be using. Given the perils of climate change and dependence on foreign energy, the motivation is there. "
Senior Consultant (and Former Editor-In-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist
The Sunlight-Powered Future
I'm optimistic about…a pair of very big numbers. The first is 4.5 x 10ˆ20. That is the current world annual energy use, measured in joules. It is a truly huge number and not usually a cause for optimism as 70 per cent of that energy comes from burning fossil fuels.
Thankfully, the second number is even bigger: 3,000,000 x 10ˆ20 joules. That is the amount of clean, green energy that pours down on the Earth totally free of charge every year. The Sun is providing 7,000 times as much energy as we are using, which leaves plenty for developing China, India and everyone else. How can we not be optimistic? We don't have a long-term energy problem. Our only worries are whether we can find smart ways to use that sunlight efficiently and whether we can move quickly enough from the energy systems we are entrenched in now to the ones we should be using. Given the perils of climate change and dependence on foreign energy, the motivation is there. "
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