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International Left-handers Day

Enduring in a Right Handed World, lefties get one day out of the year, this is  it. Sunday August 13 is International Left-handers Day. We should all remember famous left-handers, like president Ronald Reagan, or baseball star Ty Cobb. This was an amazing accomplishment for many, even more so for a lefty. 

Due to right handed desks, door handles that are on the right, and right handed rules of…

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►8-25-17 Oroville Dam Live Update - Look at 'Spillway Oroville Demands' ...

Oroville Dam and the California Drought

The spillway is to increase runoff to 45,000 CFS starting Wednesday, where it previously was at 15,000 CFS.

Oroville Dam was in the news in February, when increased rains produced a problem with water release. The regular spillway removes dam water overages. When the dam water reaches it’s maximum height, at 960’, the highest dam in America begins using the emergency spillway.

Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway went into use February. The news found the emergency spillway seemed insufficient and an evacuation was called by DWR. 180,000 were evacuated, and crowded into churches, Evacuation Centers, and friends homes outside the dams area. It was chaos. Some had only an hour’s notice. Some were diverted after evacuating. They all got out. After about a week, officials said it was safe to go back, and residents returned to their homes.

The Oroville Dam evacuation of February proved to be a harbinger of what was possible after the 5 year California drought. Climate Change caused heavy rains to appear.

It also damaged the spillway. A lot. The Oroville Dam Spillway was broken in half. Water removal from the spillway had increased to 100,000 CFS, but was now decreased, eventually to zero, while DWR officials checked to see just how bad it was, up close. It was found that ‘it needed fixin’, and Governor Brown went to Washington to ask for funds. That happened and California was going to get it’s dam spillway repaired.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were expected for the repair. Those contracts were appointed, and spillway reconstruction was begun in April 2017. Oroville is to expect completed reconstruction of the spillway by November.

David Schaedler 5/8/17

The Takeover of America

   Suppose there was a takeover of the United States. Now, suppose that it was so insideous, so far reaching that you never even knew. It was so far reaching, far down, deep down, inside, to your very existence, to your own soul. The takeover was so complete, so sure, so true, that you couldn’t tell from yourself, and you didn’t want to play the fool and admit this. The takeover would have to be…

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Yesterday 's and Today's Feelings

Yesterday ‘s and Today’s Feelings

In the past, we used to read the paper to get news about events in our nation. It told us of social events, but mostly crime stories that were on the front page. There was the big Sunday paper that held news social events and want ads. That included the funny papers too. It was pretty complete. That is, until the advent of television.

 We would sit in front of our tv set and choose from the 3…

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Sleep

Some clue on sleeping, if you have troubles it’s that you may not be doing one of the following.

1. Have a dark room and comfortable bed.

2. No screens an hour before bedtime.

3. No smoking, alcohol or energy drinks 4 hours before bedtime.

4. No exercises 4 hours before bedtime.

5. No coffee 6 hours before bed.

6. No radio or TV in the bedroom.

These are basic rules for sleeping well. Enjoy!

February 7, 2016

Funny things you find on the internet ...

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NSA? NSA!?

What 10,000 documents did Edward Snowden steal anyway?

Who gave a National Security Worker oversight of his own 10,000 private, classified NSA documents? What security measure?

What were these - stolen and private - documents anyway? Telephone records? He has 10,000 private telephone records?

The Russians have 10,000 stolen, private, American telephone records?

Who wants a Communist listening to his private phone calls?

What do you do? Complain about the theft.

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Trapping Planets Holding Water

Trapping Planets Holding Water

Scientists say it’s possible five Earth-sized planets orbiting Trappist-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star located 39 light years away, contain “significant amounts of water.” An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation hitting all seven Trappist-1 exoplanets. The phenomenon is important because low-energy UV radiation…

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Why a Chihuahua shakes can be any number of reasons, from anxiety to being underfed and having low blood sugar. Another reason is being disoriented. There are more, to be sure, read the article above.

David Schaedler