Well as you can see today is mostly pictures there's a lot of news to you. I choose not to do the news today. Maybe just one piece of news. Somebody told us there would be no boots on the ground and that guy going to Iraq they're making jokes about on the late-night shows now. There's bird telegram and then there's got to be more troops around in there just avengers but no resending word for protecting advisors  little crazy. Olive it's crazy.

Just the other day that real surprise we told you so there's no more Ebola in the United States. Gone. Guess what there's Ebola in the US again. Admittedly he came in from West Africa or east Africa or somewhere and he's a doctor. He didn't get ebola over here in the United States and he didn't have a chance to go wandering around here  in the United States so I imagine he'll be the only one for sure tell me how?? Tell me again! No Ebola in the United States. I don't believe that when I have seen it done for about 10 years. That's for last of the civilization for 10 years apparently the Republicans don't like is making deals with the Chinese now.

My mother as a child really loved her dad Henry Smith. Henry even wrote a lengthy college book on music...both how to play as well as composition. Other jobs, teacher at Ohio Bible College and sold marble gravestones..We don't have his exact date of death...born i n1862 my mother cared for him until he took his last breath...in his cabin on Riveredge. He loved gravy on his lamb. May have passed of anything related to bad diet,

Editor Bob Shannon since 1992 online
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Canadian Photographic Editor Rick Price

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History of Whittaker Mountaineering

Since 1948 our family has been at the forefront of American mountaineering, and we still live it 365 days a year. In 1948, the Whittaker twins, Jim and Lou, began mountain rescue work in the Cascades of Washington state.  By 1950 they were guides on Mt. Rainier.  Two years later, they became instructors for the army’s renowned 10th Mountain Division, which produced many of America’s greatest climbers.

Even in those early days, the Whittaker family was deeply involved in outdoor retail. In 1954, both twins worked in ski and sporting goods stores. A year later Jim, along with Lloyd Anderson, opened Recreational Equipment Cooperative, now known as REI, which Jim gradually built into America's largest outdoor specialty retailer. Along the way, he also became the first American to summit Mt. Everest and an advisor and spokesperson for Vibram Rubber Company, whose lug soles continue to revolutionize climbing footwear. In 1990, Jim led the successful Mt. Everest International Peace Climb, comprised of mountaineers from China, Russia and the U.S.

Meanwhile, Lou concentrated his efforts on Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. (RMI), which has evolved into the most long-lived, wide-ranging mountain guide service in North America, serving clients on Denali, Aconcagua, Vinson, Everest, Kilimanjaro and beyond, along with thousands who come to climb Rainier every year (more than 70,000 since 1968). Between his duties as head guide and owner of RMI, Lou led the first ascent of the North Face of Everest in 1984 and the first American ascent of Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, in 1989. He has served as a product designer and consultant for JanSport, New Balance and K2.

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Ron Rattray

My G'Grandmother Nan aka Mary Walter

Don Shannon

CHANCE OF STORMS: NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Nov. 16th when a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. CIRs are transition zones between fast and slow solar wind streams. Solar wind plasma piles up in these regions, producing density gradients and shock waves that do a good job of sparking auroras.  


OLD SUNSPOT CRACKLES WITH FLARES: Old sunspot AR2192, recently re-numbered AR2209 for its second trip around the sun, is crackling with M-class solar flares.