Pacific NW News Thursday Oct 24, 2013

Oct 24, 2013
"Only when the last tree has died,
the last river has been poisoned,
and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money."

Zombie inspired donut shop survives 3-month mark
KREM.com (registration)
A new business started in the summer of 2013 in Spokane is bringing together zombies and donuts. Dawn of the Donut has created more treats in their first three ...

BobShannon

Seeing the Earth&Sun Digest for the zillionth time reminds me that I should send a link to monthly sunspot reports that I do the first of every month.

As everyone probably knows, there are very unusual things happening on the sun right now that could have long-term impact on EQ and climate activity.

So near the first of each month I write a monthly sunspot report right after the Royal Belgium Observatory releases Earth's official monthly sunspot count. In it I review what happened that month and talk about what it might mean.

Here is last month's exciting sounding report:
"September 2013 Sunspot Report"

I'll send a link each month. If such things interest you then take a peek.

BobShannon

Chuck Weezer

$250 for hauling your own garbage! Keep Leo and boot the rest of those......Someone with a monopoly on a service and a position of authority seems have raped the citizens of Republic. I am sure glad I don't live in Republic. But maybe if the Ferry county citizens are lucky, someone will get paid off and we will all be able to get a $250 ticket.

Kathy Meader

THE OCEAN IS DEAD

It was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it. Not the absence of sound, exactly. The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.

And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.

The birds were missing because the fish were missing.Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line."There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled.

But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.

Sometimes Autumn is subtle--Turnbull Rrefuge

I know the mark is coming because we have had way too many stories like this. I am friends with Ingrid and her husband. They are retired with quite a few million..no worries but then she went quiet for a few days and I received a message from here as follows:

"Sorry about the silence concerning Jim and me.

I had just started to control the symptoms of Meniere's disease with medication, when my stress levels were severely tested. Last week Monday morning I got two SMSs that a substantial amount had been withdrawn from my Investment Bank account at 23:54 hours Sunday night and again the same amount at another ATM in another Shopping center ten minutes later (Monday morning).

Resume of Investigation:
Crooks had inserted into the ATM in a small Shopping Centre close by a machine which clones Bank Cards. Jim had withdrawn on Saturday from my current account Rand 2,000 in that ATM. The crooks cloned at that time my current account card, which was linked to ALL my Bank accounts...

The cloned card was used to change the daily maximum amount. By using the Clone before and after midnight they were able to withdraw two days maximum amounts.

***************

All my cards except my Credit Card as well as Jim's Cards had to be replaced, pins/passwords changed ergo all links to eg Internet Banking were lost. The new cards/ passwords, pins/links don't work yet.

The Statements to the Bank, Police took days and days and had to be repeated again and again to different Investigators. We are not allowed to use in future ATMs in small centers which have no guards - only inside the bank when we have again working cards...

All these people invaded our house and used terminology which confused Jim totally. They took my statements and then wrote in their own language the actual declarations eg and I quote
"I was surprised that all this cash was gone overnight" HA HA HA I shall never forget that phraseology.

BOB More and ultra more card problems and we will be forced to accept a chip. Watch it happen. REFUSE ID chips to your death if you know the Bible as some do..

 

 

 Rick Price

Victims:
Victim #1:
Name: Male Child
Age: 8
Address:
City/State: Fort Bragg, Ca

Victim #2:
Name: Male Child
Age: 6
Address:
City/State: Fort Bragg, Ca

Suspects:

On 10-22-2013 at 1911 hours Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to Coroner's case at a property located in the 19000 block of Highway 20 in Fort Bragg, California.

Upon arrival Deputies learned two sibling children (8-years-old and 6-years-old), had died as a result of injuries sustained during an apparent All Terrain Vehicle collision.

At this time the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is conducting a Coroner's inquiry into the deaths while the collision is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol.

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office does not intend to release the identities of the children until the conclusion of the Coroner's inquiry.  

Ron Rattray

You already know Seattle is due for a devastating earthquake, but a new study shows one more thing to worry about: Landslides. Published Tuesday in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, the study found that damage from earthquake-triggered landslides will be worse and more widespread in Seattle than previously thought.
The study focused on the Seattle Fault, a 30-mile fracture that runs east-west through Seattle, under CenturyLink Field and over to Issaquah. Capable of inflicting mass damage, it's due for another rupture, but no one knows when.
"A major quake along the Seattle Fault is among the worst case scenarios for the area since the fault runs just south of downtown," said Kate Alltstadt, a University of Washington doctoral student and co-author of the study.
Then there's Seattle's rain and craggy topography, a recipe for landslides. Allstadt and the research team wondered: How would a magnitude 7.0 quake along the Seattle Fault affect the city's crumbly slopes?
Answer: Catastrophe. The study found that thousands of landslides would ravage Seattle's coastal bluffs and southern neighborhoods. More than a 1,000 buildings would be in hazard zones of collapsing hills, the study found. But that when the soil was dry.
A far worse threat loomed when hills were soggy. More than 8,000 buildings would be in potential danger if a major earthquake hit after a rainy spell.