Bob Shannon, Kathy Meader US Editors
Ron Rattray, Rick Price British Columbia and Alberta Editors

 

Please donate: We need a new wheelchair and a bed...those are most important. Our springs are broken on our sleeping bed. It cannot be repaired. We must replace it because Jane and I suffer tremendous pains at night but the bed keeps us awake taking pain pills. Secondly we need a small wheelchair for one of us to shop in. It has to be fold able so it will fit into our drivers car. Neither the federal nor state government will pay for these and we barely get enough money. We have been reduced to begging. My PayPal account is pinpoint@bobshannon.org......2336 University Lane #18, Cheney WA 99004

Associate Editor Kathy Meader

U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients

CHICAGO, Oct 3 - Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.
Many say they have gone to hospital managers, seeking training on how to best care for patients and protect themselves and their families from contracting the deadly disease, which has so far killed at least 3,338 people in the deadliest outbreak on record.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly said that U.S. hospitals are prepared to handle such patients. Many infectious disease experts agree with that assessment.
Dr. Edward Goodman, an infectious disease doctor at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas that is now caring for the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in this country, believed his hospital was ready.

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Global Highlights

• The combined average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was record high for the month, at 0.75°C (1.35°F) above the 20^th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F), topping the previous record set in 1998.
  
• The global land surface temperature was 0.99°C (1.78°F) above the 20^th century average of 13.8°C (56.9°F), the second highest on record for August, behind 1998.
  
• For the ocean, the August global sea surface temperature was 0.65°C (1.17°F) above the 20^th century average of 16.4°C (61.4°F). This record high departure from average not only beats the previous August record set in 2005 by 0.08°C (0.14°F), but also beats the previous all-time record set just two months ago in June 2014 by 0.03°C (0.05°F).
  
• The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for the June–August period was also record high for this period, at 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20^th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), beating the previous record set in 1998.
  
• The June–August worldwide land surface temperature was 0.91°C (1.64°F) above the 20^th century average, the fifth highest on record for this period. The global ocean surface temperature for the same period was 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20^th century average, the highest on record for June–August. This beats the previous record set in 2009 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).
  
• The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for January–August (year-to-date) was 0.68°C (1.22°F) above the 20^th century average of 14.0°C (57.3°F), the third highest for this eight-month period on record

Most of California is in extreme drought areas and is expected to remain there. Even if they have a normal winter it will have

come too late. Folks outside California will suffer with extreme high food prices, already soaring. A quart of milk for 1.50...budget pack of 20 fat ground beef over 10 dollars. Soon only the rich will be able to live ad eat right.Others such as survivalists and some religious groups are ready to leave the country. Word is out that the government is working on plans to move large numbers of hungry starving people out of California and putting them in HUD founded locations as well as specialized housing, Will the US find it's children eating from garbage like the poor in Mexico?

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An upper-level ridge of high pressure will build over the West during October 2-9, bringing a return of dry and warmer-than-normal weather, while the upper-level trough of low pressure slowly moves east of the Rockies. The trough will funnel cooler-than-normal air into the north central and eastern states, with widespread areas of rain forecasted along fronts and surface lows from the Mississippi River to the East Coast, and in parts of the Plains. The heaviest rain, 1-4 inches, is expected from Missouri to the Great Lakes, with areas of about an inch in parts of Nebraska, the Tennessee Valley to Southern Appalachians, and parts of the Northeast.
The upper-level circulation pattern will become stalled during October 9-15, with a ridge over the western CONUS and trough over the east. Dry and warm weather should dominate the West, while colder-than-normal air masses frequent the Plains to Midwest states. Gulf of Mexico moisture is expected to feed weather systems which bring above-normal precipitation to the Plains, Midwest, and Northeast states. The Southeast is forecast to have near to below-normal precipitation during this period. Alaska should be wetter than normal in the south and drier than normal in the north, warmer than normal in the west and near to below normal in the southeast.

Kristina Pizana-Brown

Hi everyone, there was a planned clean up on the basketball court by courthouse this upcoming weekend but will be on hold for now. Just temporarily until we get full permission from the city to proceed. We appreciate all the help and feedback we have been getting for this. Hopefully soon this project will come together properly and succeed. Thank you!!