When the recession put an end to the Phoenix Day Spa in Ashland, owner Jessica Vineyard turned to her lifelong passion — astronomy — to make a living. Now she's charted a new course as a wandering star wizard, "Ms. Galaxy."

"The splitting of the atom changed everything - save man's mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe." - Albert Einstein

Given the arrogance and hubris of modern civilization after the nuclear core meltdown and release of extremely high amounts of dangerous radiation from the cooling rods of the badly damaged Fukishima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, a sad realization came loud and clear - humanity is pathologically bent on a path to total species extinction, not only of other living creatures, but of our own human race.

Remember this - extinction is a total waste of time!

This, my friends, is not the first wake-up call, but it may very well be the last.

Protect our Columbia River and prevent cancer in the children who will drink the contaminated water from the Energy Department's (USDOE's) latest plan to use Hanford as a National Radioactive Waste Dump for extremely radioactive wastes.

12,600 truckloads of extremely radioactive waste would come through Oregon and Spokane to Hanford, if Hanford is chosen as the national radioactive waste dump for extremely radioactive (GTCC) wastes.