FOLLOW-UP! TYPHOON WIPHA SLASHED JAPAN ON WEDNESDAY Wipha slashed Japan with fear over further damage in crippled nuclear plant TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — Japan…
Posts published in October 2013
AFFORDABLE? To the Editor: We currently have Anthem Blue Cross with a plan called “clear protection plus 3300” they sent me a package of information…
A long lost envelope of tomato seeds received from relatives in Italy haunts me to this day. My memory of it was of two varieties…
I just returned from the California State Grange Convention in Sebastopol Grange last weekend. The state Grange is definitely on the rise even in the…
Following the previous weekend’s very controversial first loss of the season at Fort Bragg, the AV Panthers needed to get back on track and put…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Public Service Announcements. Calendars and pens at the ready. #142. The Vets…
The big football match-up between the league’s top two teams, the AV High School Panthers and the Mendocino High School Cardinals, was played in Mendocino…
Along with the souls of a few forlorn and unlucky violin works of the eighteenth century, Henry Eccles’s G Minor Sonata published in 1720 has…
E.M. Forster, best known for his novels Room With A View, Passage To India and Howard’s End, published a great short story in 1909 entitled The Machine Stops, an extremely prescient imagining of a future we may soon inhabit. Forty years before the advent of television, Forster foresaw computers and the worldwide internet, the demolition of the global environment, and the total collapse of technological society.