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November 22, 2008
was the 45th Anniversary of JFK’s death. This was a poignant JFK interview with NBC News December 16, 1962 reflecting on the challenges of presidency:
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What would the world be like if JFK was not assassinated:
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Thanksgiving, 2008 in the USA
This story is from Kleiner’s Korner November 19, 2007:
“’Tis Thanksgiving week, a traditional North American holiday to give thanks at the conclusion of the harvest season,… celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States,” quoting Wikipedia.
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We have so much in our midst for which to be thankful, as a little girl captured so brilliantly in her diary during WWII. This story out last week reminds us of the bounty all around us:
“The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II will be cut down Nov. 21 because it is too diseased to be saved, the city said Tuesday [Nov. 13]...
The Jewish teenager made several references to the tree in the diary that she kept during the 25 months she remained indoors until the family was arrested by the Nazis in August 1944...
‘Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs,’ she wrote on Feb. 23, 1944. ‘From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind.
As long as this exists, ... and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies — while this lasts I cannot be unhappy,’” quoting the AP.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
1. WASHINGTON STATE 11 YEAR OLD BOY’S LAST WISH - FEED THE HOMELESS
“I had a great time,” quoting Brendon on CNN:
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The original story on From KOMO-TV 4 ABC TV News in Seattle:
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2. “CELLPHONE SHOPPING MAKES WALLETS REDUNDANT IN JAPAN”
“The world's top firms such as Visa Inc and Nokia are still mostly testing phone use for payments, but in Japan, more than 50 million, or about half of all cell phone users, already carry phones capable of serving as wallets.
Japan has pioneered not just the technology but also the business models that will pave the way for wallet phones to become a standard payment method in the future. Some 700 million people worldwide are expected to own such phones by 2013,” quoting Reuters.
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3. “SUPER HEALING”
“You may not know it, but your body has an amazing ability to repair itself after serious illness or injury. A Harvard doc—and former cancer patient—reveals the secrets to tapping into your own powers of recovery,” quoting AARP.
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4. FASCINATING GRAPHICS ABOUT EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY
From the Horizon Project:
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5. “MINING FOR DARK MATTER, SOME GO WIMP-HUNTING”
“At a lab here, 3,300 feet underground, Dr. Paling is searching for one of the most elusive objects in the universe: a wimp, or weakly interacting massive particle. Wimps are leading candidates for dark matter, which is believed to account for up to 95% of the mass of the universe. Something that big would be easy to spot except for the fact that dark matter is invisible. That doesn't stop the elusive mass from making its presence felt by the immense gravitational tug it exerts on stars, galaxies and other cosmic bodies," quoting the Wall Street Journal.
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6. “PRIEST CALLS VOTE FOR OBAMA A MORTAL SIN”
“A Catholic priest in South Carolina has decided that the democratic act of casting a vote is, in some cases, a mortal sin. Therefore, he has decided that parishioners who voted for Barack Obama are not entitled to the grace of Jesus Christ through communion until they've done penance,” quoting the Washington Post.
[Ed. Note: Had to be a Priest in the Southern USA. BINGO! What a surprise from a place where bigotry still lingers to this day. This writer was in North Carolina two weeks ago and received an earful from Blacks and newly-transferred-to-the area Whites and find the area still seething with such an immature and outdated notion of White superiority. What a load of trash for this nation to still bear!]
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7. “HONEY – THE MODERN WOUND HEALER”
“Honey: an easy-to-use bioactive dressing that provides a moist healing environment, with the advantage of having within a single product a range of actions: debriding (the removal of dead, damaged or infected tissue from a wound in order to expose healthy tissue and allow the wound to heal), deodorizing, antibacterial, growth-promoting, anti-inflammatory, and scar minimizing,” quoting Klause Bees.
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8. “DOCTORS TRANSPLANT WINDPIPE WITH STEM CELLS”
“Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
'“This technique has great promise,' said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done,” quoting the AP.
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9. BRAIN EXERCISE
This will drive you nuts. The site instructions are in Japanese, so read below!
1. Touch 'start'
2. Wait for 3, 2, 1.
3. Memorize the numbers positions on the screen, then click the circle from the smallest number to the biggest number.
4. At the end of game, the computer will tell you the age of your brain.
Click START.
From Flash Fabrica:
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10. INTRODUCING WAMPKIDS
“WAMP Inc. provides residential adventure programs for youth with physical challenges such as Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Cord Injuries and Cerebral Palsy in the High Sierra’s of California.
WAMP participants experience a transforming change in skills, capabilities, and attitudes. As one participant stated, I now realize that I’m NOT just handicapped, I’ve got so many things to do and accomplish!” quoting their site.
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Government warns of "catastrophic" U.S. quake”
From Reuters:
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B. “Southern Ocean close to acid tipping point”
From ABC in Australia:
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C. “Census of the ocean discovering new wonders”
“Findings include city of brittle stars, octopus expressway, white shark café”
From the AP:
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D. “Meteor lights up skies over Western Canada”
“Fireball would rank among the year’s sky highlights, expert says”
[Ed. Note: See the video.] From Reuters:
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E. “Dirty Money”
“The fight to control one of the biggest polluters in U.S. history, and what it means to Texas.”
From the Texas Observer:
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F. “Illegal Mexican Immigrants or Water Refugees?”
From AlterNet:
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. FASCINATING LOOK AT PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE FOR CHANGE:
Breaking Barriers: U. S. Minority Leaders
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Breaking Barriers; U. S. Women Leaders
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B. “Fluoride implant for children”
From UK’s Daily Mail:
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C. SHOULD ALL ELSE FAIL, THERE IS ALWAYS THE INFLATABLE HOUSE!
“Tricked-Out Inflatable House Provides "Instant Survival"
From WIRED:
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D. “Stores see 'seismic' shift as consumers clamp down”
From the International Herald Tribune:
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E. Buying Gift Cards for the holidays? Beware!
From Gerard Ladalardo, CMPS:
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13. THIS NATION
A. CURTAIN PULLED BACK ON FEDERAL RESERVE
“Bloomberg News Sues Fed to Disclose Collateral From Taxpayer Loans to Banks”
Financial news publisher Bloomberg wanted to know where the $2 trillion in Federal Reserve bailout money was going, so it asked the Fed to disclose the recipients of the cash. The Fed refused. Bloomberg filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. The response was the Fed was not part of the federal Government and was therefore not required to comply to such a request. What does that mean? The Fed finally admitted what Korner readers have known for many years: the Federal Reserve Bank is a private corporation and not in any way a government agency. So, Bloomberg has filed suit against the Fed for a list of bailout recipients.
From ABC News:
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And this from The LA Progressive:
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And:
“Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose”
“The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral,” quoting Bloomburg.
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And: ”End The Fed” begins November 22nd
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B. “Expanding Border Powers Creating ‘Constitution-Free Zone’ That Covers Two-Thirds of Americans”
From the ACLU:
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C. “Saudi Arabia buys $3.5bn of gold in two weeks”
From Peter Cooper’s weblog:
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D. “They Rule”
“The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards,” quoting the site.
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E. “Guantanamo's Daughter”
“Outrage over the Guantánamo detentions spurred Mahvish Rukhsana Khan to volunteer in the legal effort to defend detainees’ basic rights.”
Ed. Note: this is a moving story about the basic of all American values: the right of a trial of one's peers and being detained without torture, all devoid in the Bush Administration.
From Amnesty International:
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F. “Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012 “
“Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be ‘worse than the great depression’”
From Prison Planet.com:
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G. “The man who knows too much”
“He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib... No wonder the Republicans describe Seymour Hersh as 'the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist'. Rachel Cooke meets the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington”
From UK’s Guardian:
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H. “Never Forget”
From Truthout:
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I. “Rather's [Former CBS News anchor] Lawsuit Shows Role of GOP in Inquiry”
From the New York Times:
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J. “GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered”
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K. “Dennis Kucinich ‘Racketeering On A Scale This Country Has Never Seen Before!!!’"
On YouTube:
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L. "30 reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011"
From Market watch:
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M. JZ Knight in Santa Cruz’s Good Time Weekly on Obama’s challenges is as poignant today as in July!
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Student authors are Margot Losa and Jean Isaacs have published a children’s book I Cherish Planet Earth, about appreciating and preserving nature and our planet:
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B. The November, 2008 RSE Newsletter is out:
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Be sure to see the Orbs of RSE: “You’re not alone!”
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C. Third Quarter Demographic Results of student spending in Yelm area:
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D. JZ outlines all of the details of her case against the city of Yelm in this full-page ad in the Nisqually Valley News & The Olympian:
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In addition, all of the court documents are available for the public to see:
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E. Ramtha items for auction this week [clearing out the old to make way for the new!]:
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F. Ramtha invites all current students to the Blue College Retreat, 2009:
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G. From The Masters’ Fund:
Students who are having difficulty starting their food storage program. If you have not received wheat in the past, The Master's Fund will help you get started. Contact us for hours of pick-up. Happy Holidays!
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H. Check out the RSE 2009 advanced students event:
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And all 2009 events by category:
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Thurston County Waste Free Holidays
B. The Olympian to be printed at the Tacoma News-Tribune
C. Yelm property owners face perfect storm brewing in 2009
D. Simply Heaven to close its doors – fantastic savings
E. More bee classes in Yelm
F. Mayor’s credibility ‘Gone with the wind” – is untruthful in NVN
G. CB & Ham radio class in Yelm
H. Why has Wal-Mart’s connector road not been completed – as dictated by Land Use laws?
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th President of the USA
link here .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17, 2008
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Dear Readers;
Several of you wrote to ask why I had said nothing about the Obama win last week. This writer was away and that Korner had been "put to bed" prior to the results being known. I love change and think it’s about time Americans show the world that skin color is not a factor in determining one’s abilities for public service. See number 13 below for articles that are most aligned with my perceptions about this election...
On another note, what has been requested for nigh a long time has now been accomplished on Kleiner’s Korner – a “Search” function. See the search box in the left-hand column to find archived stories dating back to October, 2002. Although Kleiner’s Korner was established in September, 2001, the archives did not begin until October 16, 2002. Happy hunting!
Thank you for your interest.
Steve Klein
1. “THE CLIMATE OF CHANGE”
Op-ed piece in the New York Times by Al Gore:
“THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis…
Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.”
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And:
“OBAMA’S CABINET: START WITH AL GORE”
“If there is a single appointment Barack Obama could make to signal how dramatically things will change in Washington, it would be to name Albert Gore Jr. -- former House member, former senator, former vice president, former presidential nominee and current Custodian of the Planet -- as secretary of state. For all the other aspirants to the job, sorry -- this is an inconvenient truth,” from the Washington Post:
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2. “CHANGING YOUR MIND CAN CHANGE YOUR BODY, TOO”
“Change your mind, and you just might change your body, too. Psychologists say our “self talk” or “internal dialogue” can make or break a fitness routine.
The problem is that many people simply aren’t aware of how destructive their thoughts are, says Gareth Dutton, a psychologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee who specializes in helping people to exercise and lose weight.
‘The thing that precedes your behavior is a thought, and we sometimes aren’t good at getting in touch with our thoughts,’ he says.’We’re on autopilot,’” quoting MSNBC.
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3. PA. REP. “INTRODUCES BILL TO BAN HUMAN IMPLANTATION OF ID DEVICES”
“State Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to implant any identification device on or under a person's skin that would contain and transmit personal information. The bill (H.B. 2374) also specifies penalties for violations of the measure.
Josephs said the risks to privacy that could occur as a result of such a device on any human, regardless of age or condition, would outweigh any possible benefit that could be derived. She also added that some medical experts believe such devices may contribute to causes of cancer,” quoting Rep. Joseph’s website:
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4. “UNHAPPY PEOPLE WATCH LOTS MORE TV”
“Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people.
The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey...
John Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park...and UM colleague Steven Martin...in the December issue of the journal Social Indicators Research,” quoting LiveScience.
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5. “THE WORLD CAME TO DR. MICHAEL DEBAKEY”
“Arguably the world’s most famous physician, in both military and civilian capacities Michael DeBakey pioneered techniques and surgical equipment that changed medicine and saved thousands of lives. He was equally conversant in discussions of cardiac surgery, philosophy, poetry, classical literature, history, and international sociopolitical and economic issues,” quoting this in-depth Cover-Story by Houston-based Continental Airlines in their November edition of Continental Magazine in all seat back pockets on all flights worldwide. [Ed. Note: See Dr. DeBakey's Quote of the Week at the bottom of this Korner.]
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6. “BRIGHT IDEA” – INVENTOR BEHIND THE LED
“In the February 1963 issue of Reader’s Digest, Nick Holonyak Jr. made a bold prediction — that one day, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) would replace the incandescent lightbulb. ‘I knew it could happen,’ says the inventor of the first visible LED. ‘I just didn’t know how and when.’ Forty-five years later, early adopters are finally switching from compact fluorescent lightbulbs to LED equivalents that can last 4,000 hours longer and use as little as half the energy.
Holonyak, who turns 80 this month, is the inventor most responsible for this technological leap. A professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Holonyak was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, in May. The honor serves as an exclamation point on an impressive career that already included awards such as the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology, and more than 30 patents for inventions including the dimmer switch and the laser diode used in CD and DVD players, in addition to the LED,” quoting this month’s Continental Airlines Inflight Magazine, CONTINENTAL. [Scroll down to mid-page]
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7. “2,000-YEAR-OLD GOLD EARRING FOUND IN JERUSALEM”
“Israeli archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday [Nov. 10].
The discovery dates back to the time of Christ, during the Roman period, said Doron Ben-Ami, director of excavation at the site. The piece was found in a Byzantine structure built several centuries after the jeweled earring was made, showing it was likely passed down through generations, he said," quoting LiveScience.
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8. “OREGON SCIENTISTS RESEARCH THE SCIENCE OF LOVE”
“If you thought love was just an emotion, think again. New research is showing that love has a lot more to do with the brain than the heart...
While we often think of love as an affair of the heart, new research is proving it may have a lot more to do with our brain and chemical make-up.
‘To explain this complex thing we call love requires an awful lot of science,’ said Dr. Larry Sherman, PhD, Oregon National Primate Center. ‘We know that certain phases of love are linked to certain areas of the brain,’" quoting Seattle’s NBC affiliate KING-5 TV.
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9. “FIRST-EVER IMAGES TAKEN OF EXTRASOLAR PLANETS”
“Includes pictures of a multiple-planet system and single-planet system”
“Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system, quoting Space.com:
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10. “GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE METHANE INCREASES”
“Methane, a potent greenhouse gas linked to global warming, has begun to increase again after nearly a decade in which its atmospheric concentration was relatively stable.
The sudden jump was detected almost simultaneously last year at all measurement stations around the world.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that before methane began increasing in 2007, it appeared that manmade and natural sources of the gas were in balance with the atmosphere’s ability to neutralize it with a compound known as hydroxyl free radical (OH),” quoting Earthweek.
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Times Square getting its first 'green' billboard”
“Powered by wind and sun, avenue sign expected to save $12,000 a month”
From the AP:
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B. “Olympic swimmer: Oceans need our help”
“Gold medalist Aaron Peirsol on his latest ocean conservation projects”
From NBC’s Today Show:
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C. “Floating to save the L.A. River”
From the LA Times:
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D. “Brown clouds dim Asia, threaten world's food”
“U.N.: Pollution haze could lead to extreme weather, harm farming”
From the AP:
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E. “Supreme Court Limits Protection for Whales from Navy Sonar”
From the NRDC:
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened”
Very interesting timeline from Investor’s Business Daily:
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B. “Israel considers question: ‘Who is a Jew?’”
“Issue heads to higher court after rabbis annul some 40,000 conversions”
From MSNBC:
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C. “House Races Push Women's Numbers to New High”
From Women’s e-news:
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D. “Blind pilot guided to land by RAF”
From the BBC:
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E. KK Story Follow-up:
“Bones near crash site are Fossett's, officials say"
"DNA tests confirm that millionaire adventurer died when plane crashed”
From the AP:
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13. THE ELECTION
A. The Obamas sat down with CBS News "60 Minutes" for their first post-election interview, broadcast on Nov. 16:
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B. “Ron Paul Warns Of Great Shift Toward Global Government Under Obama”
From Infowars:
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C. “Should he [McCain] have been expelled from the Senate?”
From the New Republic:
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D. “Will Obama Administration Signal Return to Rule of Law?
[Ed. Note: One certainly hopes so!]
From The American Lawyer:
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E. “Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions”
From the Washington Post:
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F. “Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights”
From Truthout:
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G. “My wife made me canvass for Obama; here's what I learned”
From the Christian Science Monitor:
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H. “Finishing Our Work”
By Thomas Friedman in the New York Times:
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I. "Ditch the smooth transition. The people voted for change”
From UK’s Guardian:
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J. “Guantanamo closure called Obama priority”
From the Washington Post:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. RSE students Tim Mann and Mari Mankamyer were pictured in the Nisqually Valley News on a front page story this week about the City of Yelm tightening its belt.
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B. RSE student and soprano Kathy Soroka will perform a concert for the Frick Museum’s Music
For Exhibitions November 18 in Pittsburgh:
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For show info:
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C. Canadian RSE student Andre Cyr was recently awarded the Charles-Eusèbe Dionne 2008 prize for outstanding contributions to ornithology in the province of Quebec. The prize recognizes the first publisher of a major book on birds in Quebec in 1906. Andre was also honored as leader of the University of Sherbrooke community.
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& see this shining RSE folkie’s picture!
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D. Dan Meifert’s beloved partner Karyn Griffin passed this plane 11/11 at dawn, just before 5:00AM. Her sons Chris & Brett along with his wife Jennifer, cat Roscoe & Dan were with her at home. The memorial will be at Liquid Soul cafe in McKenna on Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 5.30 PM.
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E. Greg Simmons’ Physics of Change Newsletter had some particularly compelling & insightful questions and answers this month:
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F. Ramtha 1 on 1 auctions are now open for the Christmas Event December 20, 2008 & in Australia in early December, plus many other Ramtha items up for bid to clean out the old and make way for the new, as Ramtha shared at last week's Yelm Follow-up :
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Gail Schorno passes
B. Honoring America’s Vets on Veteran’s Day
C. “Lose your job, lose contact with your community”
D. Yelm-based film distributor announces next project
E. Mayor has egg on face as he flip-flips on city law suit decision
F. Thurston County Commissioner resigns
G. Radio station proposed for Yelm + coverage of Yelm-based KRSE webcast radio
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"As long as God has given you a good body and a good mind,
you should use it."
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey (1908-2008)
Pioneering American heart surgeon .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10, 2008
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Veterans Day 2008 in the USA this week.
“Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11,” quoting Wikipedia.
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Kleiner’s Korner honors all of those veterans that are currently serving or have served this nation, for they signed on to give back to their country, with most unaware they were merely being used as pawns on a chessboard by a bunch of servants to money/power interests that hideout in the shadows.
The U. S. Constitution mandates war can ONLY be declared by the U. S. Congress (Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution, “The Congress shall have power... To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;). Most are also unaware that the last Constitutionally declared wars were with Japan, December 8, 1941, Germany & Italy, December 11, 1941 & Bulgaria, Romania & Hungary June 5, 1942. The Korean War was not a war authorized by the U.S. Congress nor any conflicts since then.
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"American Stories"
Reflection on Election, 2008. From Truthout:
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1. “SEARCHING THE INTERNET INCREASES BRAIN FUNCTION”
“UCLA scientists have found that for computer-savvy middle-aged and older adults, searching the Internet triggers key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning. The findings demonstrate that Web search activity may help stimulate and possibly improve brain function.
The study, the first of its kind to assess the impact of Internet searching on brain performance, is currently in press at the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and will appear in an upcoming issue.
‘The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults,’ said principal investigator Dr. Gary Small, a professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA who holds UCLA's Parlow-Solomon Chair on Aging,” quoting ScienceDaily. [Ed. Note: See the Brain MRI image.]
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2. “CREATING WIRELESS NETWORK USING VISIBLE LIGHT”
“Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves.
Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create "Smart Lighting" that would be faster and more secure than current network technology,” quoting ScienceDaily.
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3. “SCIENTISTS TAP INTO TREE POWER”
“Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery behind the source of a faint electrical current in trees - and it wasn't as hard as they thought.
For years, inventors and scientists have driven nails into trees, wired those nails to nearby metal spikes, and wondered at the faint but predictable electrical current that resulted…
Now, a team of MIT scientists using platinum electrodes and everyday fichus house plants have found that the faint current actually comes from an imbalance in pH between the soil and a living tree. And that discovery is already sparking discussions about novel ways to use that electricity - including as a power source for a tree's own fire alarm,” quoting the Boston Globe.
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4. “...NEUROSCIENTISTS USE SOUND TRAINING TO HELP DYSLEXIC CHILDREN READ”
“Cognitive neuroscientists monitoring brain activity with fMRI found that children with dyslexia are often unable to process the fast-changing sounds used in spoken language. Sound training dedicated to teaching children to better process these sounds improves their ability to manipulate words and their phonetic components, which translates into better reading…
But researchers believe the problem could also be with how the brain "hears" sounds. "We believe that these children -- from being toddlers or even earlier as infants -- have problems with processing these changes in sounds," Nadine Gaab, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass., told Ivanhoe,” quoting ScienceDaily.
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5. AN INSPIRING STORY FROM “BILL MOYERS’ JOURNAL”
“Bill Moyers talks with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music,” quoting Mr. Moyer’s page on the PBS website:
link here .
6. “WHERE OLD GADGETS GO TO BREATHE NEW LIFE”
“It's a fact of life and one of the reasons I have a job: digital electronics will eventually break or get replaced. But it's hard to know just what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. Some people stuff them in junk drawers. Others want to donate or recycle their old electronics, but worry about compromising private data. And plenty of people want some monetary compensation,” quoting the Wall Street Journal.
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7. “CReSIS RADAR SYSTEM CRUCIAL TO ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION”
“A "clone" of an ice-penetrating radar system created by researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas will be used as the key component for a multinational team of scientists as they pierce the mysteries of one of the last unexplored places on Earth…
…The system will be used on a National Science Foundation plane to virtually "peel away" more than 2.5 miles of ice covering an Antarctic mountain range that rivals the Alps in elevation, spanning an area more than twice the size of California,” quoting the Kansas City Infozine.
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8. “CONFRONTING A WORLD FRESH-WATER CRISIS”
“As the global population grows--and freshwater supplies dwindle -- ensuring that everyone has sufficient supplies of life-giving H2O has become an enormous challenge. Here's how to start,” quoting Scientific American.
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CONTACTS: World Water Council,
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USAID,
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Flow the Film,
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9. “HAWKING TO RETIRE FROM CAMBRIDGE POST”
“Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge next fall,” quoting MSNBC. Cambridge requires retirement for professors when they turn 67. Prof. Hawking will remain on as Professor Emeritus.
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10. “REVIVED HUBBLE SNAPS PERFECT PICTURE”
“The Hubble Space Telescope is working again taking stunning cosmic photos after a breakdown a month ago,” quoting the AP.
link here
NASA’s main Hubble page:
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Swans delay migration to stay in warmth of Siberia”
From UK’s Times:
link here
B. “…first October snow in London in 74 YEARS”
From UK’s Daily Mail:
link here
C. “Pickens: My Energy Plan Is the ‘Only Plan’”
“Tells 60 Minutes Wind Power, Solar Energy And Domestic Natural Gas Are The Only Choices To End Country's Oil Addiction”
From CBS News 60 Minutes:
link here
D. “Wind power battling economic headwinds”
“After finally hitting its stride, industry gets slammed by credit crunch”
From MSNBC:
link here
E. “One Man's Plan to Save a Natural Treasure”
“U.S. Entrepreneur Is Trying To Help Mozambicans By Reviving Gorongosa National Park,” from CBS news 60 Minutes:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Is Your Money Safe?”
“To assure customers and lure new depositors, banks are rebranding their images.”
From Newsweek:
link here
B. “Sharpest Consumption Drop Since 1980 Pushes GDP Negative”
From Truthout:
link here
C. “Credit Crunch Takes New Face”
“CBS Evening News: Credit Card Companies Take Drastic Steps To Reduce Risk, Even At The Expense Of Good Customers”
From CBS news 60 Minutes:
link here
D. “The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street”
“Steve Kroft on Credit Default Swaps and Their Central Role In The Unfolding Economic Crisis” From CBS News 60 Minutes:
link here
E. "Shocked Disbelief"
David M. Kotz, Truthout: "Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan found himself 'in a state of shocked disbelief' at the failure of individual self-interest to protect our banking system. What really ought to provoke shocked disbelief is that a person who held such views was placed in charge of regulating the American financial system, a position he held from 1987 to 2006."
link here
F. "Paulson's [U. S. Sec. of the Treasury] Swindle Revealed"
From The Nation:
link here
G. "Why America needs an economic strategy"
"U.S. lacks policies to ensure long-term competitiveness in a global economy"
From Business Week:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Ramtha's Christmas & New Year's Eve events have been announced:
link here
Ramtha's Christmas Evening is Live Streamed to all current students Saturday, December 20, 2008. Check back to this site for details closer to the event date:
link here
B. Your chance to grab a piece of history! Ramtha's clothing, shoes and carpet are all up for auction.
Moving out the old to make way for the new!
link here
C. All three of JZ Knight’s future remote-views to Dave Ross during a live radio interview in September, 2007 come true:
link here
D. "Ramtha: Buy Gold to Secure Your Sovereignty"
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Support our locally owned businesses: Tim's Pharmacy
B. Economic slowdown reaches SE Thurston County
C. "Lose your job, lose your contact with your community"
D. Former Yelm Schools Superintendent Nutter appointed to Planning Commission
E. WA. State makes news with prisons going green
F. Yelm public the winner as Judge says City MUST follow law on water case
G. Free nutritional healing talk Tuesday in Roy.
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?...
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.”
Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Duluth, MN. Born American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.
From the song “"Blowin' in the Wind" …released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of philosophical questions about peace, war, and freedom without supplying concrete answers,” quoting Wikipedia.
link here
The complete lyrics:
link here .
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On this Election Eve USA, these caught my eye:
A. “Ron Howard's Call To Action”
“Ron Howard wants to talk about the election. So does Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler.”
link here
B. “Celebs make another plea to vote”:
link here
C. "Obama and McCain - Dance Off!"
This is hilarious!
link here
1. WISDOM: THE FILM
From Andrew Zuckerman:
link here .
2. “U. S. PILOT ORDERED TO SHOOT DOWN UFO [IN 1957]"
“An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on Monday [Oct. 20]
Retired U.S. airman Milton Torres told Britain’s Sky News on Monday that he was the pilot and has spent 50 frustrating years attempting to uncover the truth of his aerial encounter,” quoting the AP.
link here .
3. NOW IT’S NOT A FOOTBALL PLAYER GETTING $20 MILLION, IT’S A SCIENTIST!
“U.S.-based neuroscientist renowned for plumbing the depths of memory function has won a $20-million research prize – the richest award of its kind in Canada – to move to Alberta to further his work.
Bruce McNaughton, a Canadian who was lured to the United States 26 years ago by bigger pots of research funding than Canada could ever offer, will now be based at the University of Lethbridge, which is home to one of this country's premier brain institutes,” quoting the Toronto Globe & Mail.
link here .
4. ORBS TAKE FLIGHT AT THE PHILLY WORLD SERIES
From the Seattle Times blog, scroll to 2nd picture:
link here .
5. “9 MIND-BOGGLING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES”
“New tests and advances on the horizon,” quoting MSN.
link here .
6. “THE FAT TAX"
“The state of Alabama has issued a warning to its state workers: Get fit or pay up.
In August, the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board approved a plan that will charge workers an additional $25 to cover their insurance premiums, if they don't take advantage of free health screenings available to all state employees. The program, to begin in January, will require state workers to receive medical screenings for body mass index and health problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity.
Critics have panned this as a "fat tax" that unfairly punishes people for their genetic predispositions. Others argue that the measure amounts to lawful discrimination that infringes on the right of free will, much like the state's 2004 decision to offer a discount to non-smoking employees,” quoting The Root.
link here .
7. “UFO ‘THE SIZE OF AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER’”
Michael Knight’s Earth Change report has a fascinating story this issue:
link here .
8. “MERCURY AS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE”
“New pictures of never-before-seen parts of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft are revealing surprises about the solar system's innermost planet,” quoting Wired.
link here
And from NASA:
link here .
9. NEW SOLAR CAPTURING MATERIAL BREAKTHROUGH
“Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture.
Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues combined electrically conductive plastic with metals including molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material,” quoting ScienceDaily.
link here .
10. “SCIENTISTS GET INSIDE A WALKING FISH’S HEAD”
“Scientists for the first time described features in the underside of the skull of Tiktaalik roseae, the so-called “walking fish” discovered in the Canadian Arctic in 2004. It is considered an important transitional animal in the evolution of fish into amphibians, the first land-dwelling vertebrates.
The findings showed that the migration from water to land was more complicated than merely having a fish’s fins transform into legs, the scientists wrote in Thursday's [Oct. 16] issue of the journal Nature,” quoting Reuters.
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “7 killer whales missing from Wash. Waters”
“Orcas presumed dead; researchers say lack of food could be factor”
From the AP:
link here
B. “...scientists raise alarm as Britain's seals disappear”
From UK’s Guardian:
link here
C. Will Killer Whale Lolita ever be returned to her Puget Sound family:
From the Orca network:
link here
D. “Risk of Disease Rises With Water Temperatures”
From the Washington Post:
link here
E. Strange insect behavior
“2 Dogs Killed When Hundreds Of Bees Attack”
From Palm Beach, FL. ABC-TV:
link here
E. “With Time Short, Bush Pushes EPA to Relax Power-Plant Rule”
From McClatchy Newspapers:
link here
F. “Sea-Level Rise Threatens Sydney Coast”
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
link here
G. Spectacular "Picture of the Week"
From MSNBC:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. This May, 2007 Ron Paul answer during a Presidential Debate still pertinent:
link here
B. “ACLU Demands Information on Military Deployment Within US Borders”
From Common Dreams:
link here
C. “Torture's Smoking Guns”
From the Washington Post:
link here
D. “Mobile broadband hits the air”
From USA Today:
link here
E. “Most Presidents Ignore the Constitution”
“The government we have today is something the Founders could never have imagined.”
From the Wall Street Journal:
link here
F. "Bush launches last-minute deregulation push"
"White House moves to relax many rules covering private industry"
From the Washington Post:
link here
G. "Economic downturn may be picking up speed"
"Latest data show rising job losses, sharp pullback by consumers"
From MSNBC:
link here .
FINANCIAL UPDATE
A. "Financial Crises: From the Depression to Today"
From the AP:
link here
B. "Greenspan admits ‘mistake’ that helped crisis”
[Ed. Note: Of course he helped caused this crisis, as discussed here many times! This man was lauded as the financial genius of the last 25 years, all whilst this writer was saying he is just printing money to prop up the Stock Market. While I was being decried, the American financial investor was being robbed from right underneath their nose. I was called a pariah & lacking confidence in the U. S. economy by touting public buying gold & silver to protect their assets. Now, all of that has come true!]
From the AP:
link here
C. “Home prices fall by sharpest annual rate ever”
“Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller price index off by record 16.6 percent”
From the AP:
link here
D. “First-Ever Layoffs Loom at Postal Service”
From Labor Notes:
link here
E. “Credit Cards: The Plastic Trap”
From France’s Le Nouvel Observateur:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Ramtha opens the Nov. All-Group Follow-up on Nov. 5th with a worldwide Live Stream:
link here
B. RSE student was quoted on MSNBC about surviving these times:
"Richard Mankemyer, general manager of the Survival Center, in McKenna, Wash. said he too is swamped.
'There are a lot more people interested in being prepared, stocking up and being on their own for extended periods of time, as we’ve been advising,' he said. Among them are businesses, he said, including a major Northwest corporation that recently spent “tens of thousands of dollars” to stock up on shelf-stable foods for its executives. He would not identify the company, but he said he urged the officials to stock up for its other employees as well," quoting MSNBC.
link here
C. The children’s book THE LAND OF SMAERD has won a Silver Medal in the 2008 Moonbeam Children's Book Award's in the Mind - Body - Spirit category (#28).
link here
RSE student Jack von Eberstein is Publisher:
link here
D. The RSE student authors page has been updated with the latest student’s books:
link here
E. Ramtha’s required reading for new students entering into Blue College in February, 2009.
link here
F. The Wino & The Master” is this month’s story by Miceal Ledwith in the Bleeping Herald.
link here
G. The RSE student Preparedness Page has been updated with student businesses:
link here
H. Happy Halloween from RSE:
link here
I. JZ has requested the movie Flow [Water] come to Yelm and will be shown to the public in Yelm Cinemas this week:
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. County to remove recycle bins
B. City of Yelm many October record lows
C. Mayor & City Council get stinging rebuke
D. Art Show here titled: 4 Women
E. Happy Halloween & Yelm Autumn
F. Blue Bottle hosts dinner & musical evening
G. Flow: The movie comes to Yelm this week
H. Yelm's Survival Center mentioned on MSNBC
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish Playwright
link here .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives"
at
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Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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