----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Shannon
To: Pinpoint-Newsletter@googlegroups.com
Sent: 9/1/2008 3:37:29 PM
Subject: Pinpoint-News-- boy Scouts? See me! (was) Vancouver Island Update...
Stephen & Kathy wrote:
Hi Bob,, still here,, mostly lurking and doing moon data. Been busy with scouts, church and family. Thought we were going to have next weekend to ourselves for Kathy's birthday, but got an invitation to watch one of the grandkids play soccer; to watch another family of grandkids while parents go to a funeral; and a dinner invite from another family member,,, If we can get a reservation, at another daughters timeshare, we will probably run away,, HA!!!
A couple of weeks ago I was involved with a camporee, of over 4,000 people, (about 2,500 boys), near Ione. It was the biggest camp I have ever attended. It went very well. They had several helicopters come in, land and let the boys come over and check them out. The fire helicopter did a demonstration and loaded water out of a little pond, (the pond where they were doing canoing), fly over the camp a couple of times, sounding the siren and finally dump the load on the landing site,,, the water was black (apparently the pond wasn't very deep), and when the wash sent the aroma out to where we were watching, we about gagged. It smelled like they had emptied the porta-pottes,, HA! There were a lot more great stories!! A couple of kids got stuck on the zip lines for a while! There were several different obstacle courses, the highway patrol had one obstacle course set up. There was bow and arrow target shooting, hatchet and knife throwing, fire making with flint and steel, BMX and motorcycle stunt demonstrations. I think the big hit, because of the heat, was the 100 yard or so, home made water slide that had a jump in it. It wasn't a very big jump but it would throw them out of control most of the time and they would end up in all kinds of positions at the bottom! It was a 4 day camp, (4 days for boys 16 and older), I was involved the last three days with younger boys, (12 and 13 year olds).
The next Saturday I was involved with several 11 year old scout groups teaching lashing. I'm ready for some quite time, ha!
Stephen
Bob Shannon wrote:
NOT! Not to for you Dr Don..Your one of our heroes...as is Stephen who is missing in action lately....did he take a break or has he been reading my archival? some of them are perhaps...well that is way OT and nothing personal with Stephen who is our BEST'EST!...OK having said that much..I decided to put a small flash gig on my news front page..not the Pinpoint news but my local and Washington news....so there lie the pictures of the Mendocino coast..only 8 right now and you can click on one or another to see it larger....I add them every day...
Click on the following
http://bobshannon.org
and if you ever get back here gang...could I ask my heavy hitters to help out a bit..I have waaaay overextended myself keeping too many things together......so if anyone has two cents to their name and doesn't mind donating to a site...even if the guy is a liberal...sorry...I try harder next time....
Rev. Robert Shannon Sr
2336 University Lane #5
Cheney, WA 99004
or Paypal which is now under
pinpo...@bobshannon.org
!!! PLEASE!!! We are in some serious issues up here and keeping it all together and managing now full time for Jane is really keeping me at wits end...god Love Ya!
Bob -Pinpoint Since 1992
donald2b...@comcast.net wrote:
Bob
I think we are all exhausted with the major events of the past three weeks.
I have family that just moved to Louisiana, and I am trying to put together a book signing for my well received book, The Coming of Coyote: A Southwestern Odyssey. It is a poetic presentation of Coyote and survival, and older copies are available on Amazon.com . Search with title (Sorry for the OT.)
Don
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Bob Shannon <pinpo...@bobshannon.org>
> It has been a long while since I had the hourly time charts for tides in
> Cali..does anyone know the QUICKEST loading site..something that does it
> with information and not a lot of graphics like in the good old days?!
> also I have several images of The Mendo Coast and I will upload a small
> link in a bit...if I remember...and Don I am late in getting the news
> up. Hectic here in WA...be up soon.
> Bob -Pinpoint Since 1992
> donald2b...@comcast.net wrote:
> > Maybe we need to be monitoring the height of tides off Vancouver
> > Island and Punta Gorda?
> > Stephen is our tidal expert.
> > Donald
> > -------------- O riginal message --------------
> > From: Steve Davidson
> > It appears that the current episode of EQs off the northern tip of
> > Vancouver Island is trailing off.
> > I don't know how this relates to lunar cycles but it certainly
> > seems that earth flexing is occurring in that area and generating
> > the EQs. The episode appears to be settling down again.
> > The techtonics of the Pacific Northwest is unique so these types
> > of events are to be expected. The plates are on the move in a
> > highly complex collision with a high amount of torque, twisting
> > and subduction.
> > But what is the straw that breaks the camel's back to make an EQ
> > or series of EQs happen at a particular time? Obviously, tensions
> > are building on faults all the time but what small precipitating
> &g t; events act as a triggering mechanism?
> > That is where lunar, solar, and/or gravitational tidal effects
> > play a roll and that is where tracking EQs against the background
> > of these possible triggering effects will prove to be valuable.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Learning to see life more clearly, one image at a time...
> > Steve Davidson
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "donald2b...@comcast.net"
> > To: Pinpoint-Newsletter@googlegroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 7:27:03 PM
> > Subject: Pinpoint-News-- Re: Vancouver Island Update...
> > Steve
> > This swarm in still intriguing.
> > We are now out of the perigee week, as of 29 15:45, but we have
> &g t; been in the week of the lunar Mid Point since 28 19:11. Today the
> > Moon crossed the Equator going south, and today is the New Moon.
> > The lunar apogee is Sept 07 at 14:59
> > Both the Mid Point and the Maximum Velocity dates are on September
> > 1, so I would expect only one 6M quake in their weeks. A
> > quake already occurred:
> > 6.3M 2008/08/30 06:54:06 -6.194 147.256 56.0 EASTERN
> > NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
> > This could well be related to the Moon crossing the Equator, so we
> > may well get another one.
> > Donald
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: Steve Davidson
> > http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/230_50_eqs.php
> > The EQ total for Vancouv er Island since the current episode
> > began is now up to 34 of Mag 3.8 or higher. At the time of
> > this writing there had been another EQ within the last hour.
> > The largest EQ of 5.9 on the 28th of August is still the
> > largest of the series, but it does appear the current activity
> > is subsiding.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Learning to see life more clearly, one image at a time...
> > Steve Davidson
