Best Netflix Movies, October 2016: Watch before they're gone | BGR
Halloween's on a Monday this year, so you're probably going to want to save your energy this weekend. What better way to do that than to sit on the couch or lie on the bed and binge watch a bunch of Netflix movies that will expire in November? With just a few days left until the end of the month, you're certainly not going to have time to watch every show and movie departing the streaming service, so we've decided to round up the best of the best and share them with you. After all, the movie selection is likely only going to get worse from here on out. SEE ALSO: Why Netflix doesn't want to be included in Apple's TV app Here are our picks of the 10 best movies leaving Netflix on November 1st: Almost Famous (2000)Angel Heart (1987)Deliverance (1972)E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Fatal Attraction (1987)Fresh (1994)Into the Wild (2007)Legally Blonde (2001)Major League (1989)Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Some of these you've probably seen before; others you likely haven't. Either way, this chilly weekend should be a great time to barricade the front door and relax with some streaming video. And if you'd rather watch an entire television series than a bunch of old movies, Chuck is a highly entertaining distraction. Thankfully, even when all of these movies and shows do vanish, Netflix will replace them with a bunch of great new content. Don't forget to check out all of the new movies and TV shows being added to Netflix in November. http://bgr.com/2016/10/28/best-netflix-movies-leaving-november-2016/
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Xiaomi's Mi Mix concept video forgot to thank sci-fi great Stanley Kubrick
China's Xiaomi impressed with its Mi Mix concept phone on Tuesday. But one aspect that some may have missed was the company's use of science fiction to promote its next-gen device. Specifically, one video showing off the Mi Mix is basically a mini-sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The one-minute spot puts Xiaomi's smartphone in the role of Kubrick's monolith, an all knowing, all seeing black rectangle that appears at various locations on Earth and other planets. As in the film, the Xiaomi video features a number of people (in this case, children) tentatively approaching the alien structures as if looking for an answer to the universe's ultimate question. It's not uncommon for tech companies to borrow from classic sci-fi, but this video is such an obvious copy of 2001's theme that we had to call it out. The good news? It not only accentuates the admittedly original and beautiful smartphone, it also has us hoping for another sequel to Kubrick's cinematic classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://mashable.com/2016/10/26/xiaomi-mimix-concept-kubrick-2001/ Chinese firm admits its hacked products were behind Friday's DDOS attack | Computerworld
A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that security vulnerabilities involving weak default passwords in its products were partly to blame. According to security researchers, malware known as Mirai has been taking advantage of these vulnerabilities by infecting the devices and using them to launch huge distributed denial-of service attacks, including Friday's outage. "Mirai is a huge disaster for the Internet of Things," Xiongmai said in an email to IDG News Service. "(We) have to admit that our products also suffered from hacker's break-in and illegal use." Mirai works by enslaving IoT devices to form a massive connected network. The devices are then used to deluge websites with requests, overloading the sites and effectively taking them offline. Because these devices have weak default passwords and are easy to infect, Mirai has been found spreading to at least 500,000 devices, according to internet backbone provider Level 3 Communications. Xiongmai says it patched the flaws with its products in September 2015 and its devices now ask the customer to change the default password when used for the first time. But products running older versions of the firmware are still vulnerable. To stop the Mirai malware, Xiongmai is advising that customers update their product's firmware and change the default username and passwords to them. Customers can also disconnect the products from the internet. Botnets created from the Mirai malware were at least partly responsible for Friday's massive internet disruption, according to Dyn, the DNS service provider targeted in the assault. "We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack," Dyn said in statement. The DDOS attack, which flooded sites with an overwhelming amount of internet traffic, slowed and stopped access to Twitter, Spotify, PayPal and many more services. Although Dyn managed to fend off the disruption and restore access to its service, Mirai-powered botnets could easily strike again. Earlier this month, the unknown developer of the Mirai malware released its source code to the hacker community. Security firms have already noticed copycat hackers using it. The Mirai malware also appears to target products from other IoT vendors that use weak default passwords in their devices. Security experts have noticed the malware tries a list of more than 60 combinations of user names and passwords. Last month, a Mirai-powered botnet also briefly took down the website of cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, by delivering 665 Gbps of traffic, making it one of the largest recorded DDOS attacks in history. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3134097/security/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-ddos-attack.html ![]() http://charlie8schroeder06.webgarden.com/section-1/about-us/actress-kaley-cuoco-and-ryan href="http://combsnrhknmlnws.webgarden.com/section-1/about-us/divorce-or-separation-divorce-or">http://combsnrhknmlnws.webgarden.com/section-1/about-us/divorce-or-separation-divorce-or href="https://daffyinjury7121.wordpress.com/?p=6">https://daffyinjury7121.wordpress.com/?p=6 href="http://joe0poole23.blogcindario.com/2016/10/00003-may-says-to-trigger-eu-divorce-by-end-of-march-sterling-falls-reuters.html">http://joe0poole23.blogcindario.com/2016/10/00003-may-says-to-trigger-eu-divorce-by-end-of-march-sterling-falls-reuters.html href=''> Alibaba Riding On China's Mobile Payment Growth Through Alipay - Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) | Seeking Alpha
Please take note this is only one aspect in weighing the attractiveness or non-attractiveness of the companies mentioned in the article as an investment and should not be used independent of other factors such as valuation, which are not addressed. Alipay, the third-party online payment platform controlled by Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) through its financial affiliate Ant Financial Services Group with which it has a profit-sharing interest is the largest electronic payment services provider in Mainland China with over 450 million users conducting 170 million transactions a day. ![]() Source: iResearchChina Alipay has been a beneficiary of China's growing mobile payments market, which is the largest and fastest growing mobile payments market in the world. ![]() Source: Wall Street Journal Last year, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest mobile payment market. ![]() Source: Wall Street Journal The rapid growth of mobile payments in China's is largely attributed to the country's 1.3 billion population and mobile internet penetration rate of 90% of the total population of Chinese internet users according to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). ![]() Source: iResearchChina As a result, China has the largest number of mobile shoppers in the world with over 300 million people shopping through their smartphones. ![]() Source: eMarketer Without a long-standing credit and debit card payments infrastructure, China's shift to a cashless consumer payment system has largely rested on mobile payment platforms dominated by Alibaba's Alipay and Tencent's (OTCPK:TCEHY) Tenpay which together control over 80% of China's third-party mobile platform market. With only 16% of consumers holding a credit card according to World Bank estimates, Chinese consumers are more open to digital payment methods than users in developed countries. ![]() Source: The Demand Institute Yet there's still room for growth. China's internet penetration stands at about 50% of the population (compared with the U.S. where it is about 87%). Nielsen projects this figure to increase to 68% by 2020, bringing 300 million more people online. ![]() Source: Axco Insurance China's urban internet penetration is relatively high - first-tier cities such as Beijing have a penetration rate above 70%. In rural China, internet users make up about 28% of China's total internet users, despite accounting for 50% of the total Chinese population. Much of this disparity is due to inadequate internet infrastructure in rural China. The Chinese government plans to allocate additional funds to rural areas to improve internet infrastructure and extend broadband connections in an effort promote e-commerce and boost trade. After Premier Li Keqiang criticized the country's mobile internet for being expensive and slow, the country's three telecom operators pledged to reduce data prices by 25-30 percent and improve network speeds. This will help increase China's internet penetration which is expected to lead to a corresponding increase in mobile internet usage. ![]() Source: Metaps Additionally, China is undergoing a technological shift in which an increasing number of online shoppers are switching to mobile, thereby increasing the proportion of e-commerce sales being made over mobile. ![]() Source: eMarketer Going forward, this will have the effect of increasing mobile's share as a proportion of total e-commerce sales. By 2019, eMarketer expects that over 70% of China's e-commerce sales will be made through mobile, up from 49% in 2015. ![]() Source: eMarketer Apart from this growth driver, Alipay's next opportunity is to increase expansion into brick-and-mortar stores. China is the world's largest proximity mobile payments market. China's proximity mobile users doubled in 2015 and are expected to increase by 45% this year to 195 million smartphone users. By comparison, eMarketer estimates the U.S. will be home to 37.5 million proximity mobile payments users this year. At an estimated 38% in 2016, China's proximity mobile payments penetration is higher than the U.S. yet the market is still untapped with usage mostly concentrated in larger cities. Thus, there is room for growth and as more Chinese retailers upgrade their systems to accept mobile payment methods at the point of sale, the number of smartphone users making in-store payments with their mobile phones should increase as well. eMarketer expects it to increase to 50% of China's total smartphone users by 2020. ![]() Source: eMarketer Currently, over 600,000 retail locations and over 1 million taxis in China accept Alipay, and Alibaba is continuously making efforts to expand its reach in brick-and-mortar businesses through partnerships and alliances. This year, Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) teamed up with Ant Financial to offer Alipay as an option for Samsung Pay users, which increases Alipay's offline business reach since Samsung Pay is accepted at almost every terminal that uses near-field communications (NYSEMKT:NFC) and magnetic stripe technology (similar to Tenpay, which is owned by Tencent, Alipay is a QR code-based mobile payment service). ![]() Source: Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Last year, KFC and McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) struck deals with Alipay to allow customers to pay using the Alipay smartphone app. Under the deal, around 5,000 KFC outlets in 900 cities across China and more than 2,100 McDonald's restaurants will accept Alipay. Alipay has also teamed up with Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and hotel chain Marriott (NYSE:MAR). Alipay's offline business expansion is not limited to China with efforts being made to go global by following in the footsteps of Chinese cross-border online shoppers and Chinese outbound tourists who are the highest spending international tourists in the world. ![]() Source: World Tourism Organization Alipay has already signed deals with 10 overseas airports and over 80,000 merchants worldwide. Europe is the most popular tourist destination outside Asia for Chinese tourists. By the end of this year, in partnership with Ingenico Group (OTCPK:INGIY), Alipay will be available to Chinese travelers travelling in Europe. As part of the deal, Alipay will be embedded into Ingenico's in-store payment gateway, thereby allowing Chinese Alipay customers to use the mobile payment service in European locations already offering Ingenico's in-store payment system. With Ingenico Group being Europe's largest payment technology service provider, with thousands of merchants as its customers, this partnership will significantly expand Alipay's reach across brick-and-mortar stores in Europe. Ingenico, together with its U.S. competitor, Verifone (NYSE:PAY), control 80% of the market for payment terminals. Apart from this latest European partnership, Alipay also has agreements with Airbnb (Private:AIRB) and Uber (Private:UBER). Chinese cross-border e-commerce is booming, with Chinese shoppers spending US$ 57 billion in 2015, nearly double the amount spent the previous year. With rising incomes and increasing numbers of cross-border shoppers, Chinese cross-border retail sales are on the rise with sales projected to increase nearly three-fold by 2020 compared to 2015. A Nielsen study revealed that 88% of consumers in China's Tier 2 cities intend to try to cross-border e-commerce in the next year, primarily motivated by the lack of offline opportunities to buy the same goods. ![]() Source: eMarketer The U.S. is the top destination for Chinese cross-border shoppers. ![]() Source: iResearch In response to this, Alibaba has signed deals with many U.S. retailers and brands such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Macy's (NYSE:M) and Ann Taylor (NYSE:ANN), all of which have recently begun accepting Alipay in an effort to woo wealthy Chinese customers. Last year, the number of China-based Alipay users that shopped from U.S. retail sites over Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday increased 700% from the previous year, according to Alipay. Meanwhile, total U.S. sales from China-based shoppers using Alipay increased 15 times versus last year. All these factors are expected to contribute to the growth of China's mobile payment market in the future. Total payment volume processed by China's mobile wallet companies is set to more than triple by 2019 to US$ 5.3 trillion. ![]() Source: qz.com In a sign of Alipay's dominance and future prospects, parent Ant Financial Services Group recently raised US$ 4.5 billion in equity from two consortiums of investors. The Series B round valued Ant Financial at more than $60bn, making it one of the world's most valuable private technology companies. ![]() Source: qz.com Disclosure: I/we have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. http://seekingalpha.com/article/4013516-alibaba-riding-chinas-mobile-payment-growth-alipay Declining NFL Quality of Play Has Been a Talking Point for 25 Years | The Big Lead
The NFL ratings are down. The primetime games have generally been non-compelling. Even when it's a close game, like Sunday night's Colts-Texans overtime game, it's not a great contest. How much of this decline in quality of play is responsible for any ratings dip? Television ratings have been soaring for a long time, where the NFL seemed impermeable despite, well, everything the league might do. But what of the complaints. They've been going on for awhile. Let's go back beyond the recent complaints about quality of play, too many young players, the lockout, the spread offenses and college football. Here is a Lexis search of articles discussing the NFL and "quality of play," and "inferior product." ![]() From Mike Preston of the Baltimore Sun, in 2008. The NFL is so watered down and mediocre that a team like the Ravens can be almost as good as any other on any given Sunday. Almost as good? As it turned out, that Baltimore team reached the AFC title game. From the Myrtle Beach Sun-News in December 2007: Here's a frightening notion: what if the playoffs follow the same pattern as the regular season? That would be beyond depressing since we just went through the worst NFL regular season I can remember, a season where the quality of play diminished markedly, particularly by the quarterbacks. And this is a league that is defined by its quarterbacks. The Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine lamented as well when having to watch a week without the Patriots (who went 16-0 that season): The NFL really stinks this year. Oh, there are more than enough story lines to keep everyone's interest. I'm never going to term the 2007 season boring. But the quality of play is just, ugh, turning the NFL into the post-Jordan NBA. And it's not like the really bad teams, the Jets, Dolphins, Raiders, Rams and 49ers, are bringing the rest of the league down. It's the middle class, the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos of the world. It's the teams like San Diego and New Orleans that were supposed to compete for the Super Bowl this year. Everywhere you look, it's like country music radio - a bunch of watered-down pop wannabes. That's right, the NFL is Rascal Flatts. From Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel in 2004: Let's just get this out of the way right now, OK? This has been the worst NFL season in history. For the most part, the games and teams have been unwatchable. It's no wonder Ricky Williams quit before the season to go eat roots and smoke bushes in Tibet. Who wants to be a part of this mediocre mess? In Jacksonville earlier this week, Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver announced that the team would be covering up all the empty seats with a tarp. I've got a better idea: How about we throw a tarp over the players so we don't have to watch this dreck. The quality of play, back in those halcyon days when Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Steve McNair, Donovan McNabb and Kurt Warner were in the league, must have been a talking point, because Bill Parcells is quoted in a 2004 USA Today article as saying "I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down" in response to a question on the topic. ![]() After the previous Super Bowl, February of 2004, Tim Cowlishaw said: For the NFL, the week of wretched excess that is the Super Bowl is over. Don't expect a lot of self-examination over the declining quality of play. That's not what this league is about. In November 2003, Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News wrote: On the recent edition of HBO's "Inside the NFL," Bob (Rapping Roberto) Costas asked the panel to identify the biggest NFL story at this point in the season. There was silence until Cris Collinsworth blurted out: "Bill Parcells." Then the rest of the cast (Dan Marino and Cris Carter), acting like Solomonic scholars, nodded in agreement. They all feel the job Tuna has done - so far - in turning the Cowboys around is big news. No offense to the panel - or Parcells - but the Cowboys' so-called resurgence is part of a big NFL story no one on these NFL TV shows - or most NFL scribes - will touch. The reason Parcells has been able to straighten things out in Dallas so quickly is a direct result of the poor quality of play in the NFL. Compared to days gone by, the NFL is putting out an inferior product. Raissman comes up frequently complaining of the quality of play in the early 2000's. In other articles, he referred to it as "inferior," "boring," "suspect," and "wretched." Jim Jenkins of Sacramento Bee, in 2003: Fans probably would favor a shakeup in division races every year instead of a few teams dominating annually, as was the case most of the last three decades. But there are also purists who believe free agency and the salary cap's effect on quality reserves, the major components of parity, have leveled the playing field too much and that the NFL product isn't as good as it used to be. They may have a point. ![]() In 2002, Pat Summerall was quoted as saying the following: "I compare nothing you see now on the field with what was seen just seven or eight years ago. We still have great individual players, of course, but the teams just no longer have the quality of depth to make them great teams who can sustain a superior level over several seasons." In January of 2000, Bob Glauber quoted Troy Aikman: Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman thinks he knows the reason: The quality of play throughout the NFL has suffered because of three-pronged pressure created by free agency, the salary cap and expansion. "I don't think the level of talent around the league is as consistent as it once was," Aikman said. "When you spread out the talent that we do have over more teams due to expansion, then I do think it becomes a watered-down league." Just look at the Cowboys. Dallas won three Super Bowls in the 1990s and easily could have produced the most dominant team of all time had free agency not been introduced in 1993 and the salary cap a year later. Over time, the Cowboys could not keep all their top players, to the point that they have become average. From the Montreal Gazette in 1999, in the season which gave us the Greatest Show on Turf: It's gotta be the worst NFL season in history. Penalties, replays, fumbles, interceptions, commercials, Boomer Esiason. Green Bay-Carolina yesterday turned out to be a decent game, but this was one sequence in the first half: Packers punt. Panthers returner fumbles. Green Bay recovers at the two. On the first play, Brett Favre drops back 24 yards and gets called for illegal grounding - a 24-yard penalty. Next pass, a Carolina deep back intercepts. Runs it back 10 yards. Fumbles. Green Bay recovers. But the Packers don't score. Martha Stewart, anyone? Indeed, Martha Stewart, anyone? From John McClain of the Houston Chronicle in 1999: Playing quarterback in the NFL used to be glamorous. Now it can be hazardous to your health. Remember when quarterbacks used to be larger than life? The NFL no longer produces quarterbacks like Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham, Sonny Jurgensen, Bobby Layne, Sammy Baugh, Y.A. Tittle, Sid Luckman, Bart Starr, Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Roger Staubach, John Elway, Kenny Stabler and Terry Bradshaw. Quarterbacks were stars. They were the leaders. They didn't walk; they swaggered. They could defy authority. It was cool when they were cocky. Everyone wanted to be their friend. They were celebrities who made the most money and got the girls. Today, they just make the most money. Playing quarterback in the NFL isn't what it used to be. One reason there is rampant mediocrity in the league is because the quality of quarterbacks is diminishing. The NFL is competitive, and it can be interesting, but the quality of play has slipped significantly. As is the case with the other major professional sports, there are too many teams, and the product has been diluted. And no position has been watered down more than quarterback. It's the most difficult position to master in pro sports. Jurgensen, an analyst on the Redskins' radio broadcasts, calls it "the worst-coached position in pro sports." From Dan Caesar's NFL picks column in 1999: That the giants (we can't bring ourselves to capitalize the g -- there is nothing giant about this offense) are above .500 heading to the game that brings them to the midpoint of the season speaks volumes about the quality of play in the NFL. From 1998, Len Pasquarelli's Sunday Special column: Offensive line coaches point out that NFL free agency has eroded the quality of play on the offensive line more than at any other position. Only four teams began this season with the same unit they had in 1997. Three teams have four linemen each in new positions. Among the 150 starters, there were 31 linemen who went into Week One with fewer than a dozen starts at their current positions. From Bob Glauber in 1997: "If anyone has previously seen such lousy football during the second half of a season, please let me know, because the NFL's quality of play in recent weeks has been downright loathsome." From John McClain in 1996: It says here the salary cap is ruining the NFL. It is becoming an inferior product. Financial restraints are killing teams that suffer an inordinate number of injuries and are forced to play too many young players and too many undrafted free agents who are fortunate to have jobs. *** The NFL just isn't what it used to be, and we're not talking about 20 years ago. We're talking about two years ago. ![]() Let's check in on two years before, back to Len Pasquarelli: "Suddenly, all the talk about the dearth of young talent at quarterback has subsided. The overall quality of play is still not up to the standards everyone would prefer, but at least now the NFL can point to a half-dozen potential standard-bearers. "It's not exactly a 'Golden Age,' but you can see some guys getting ready to make the move up to Pro Bowl caliber," said San Diego general manager Bobby Beathard, whose quarterback, Stan Humphries, 29, may be the league's most valuable player over the first month of play. "There was a down time, certainly, and that's worrisome. But we've got to take strides, too, to develop people. Once in a while, you have to make the tough decision, like they did in New York with [waiving] Phil Simms. Could the Giants have won this year with Simms? Probably. But they're winning now without him and they've got their quarterback for the next 10 years maybe in Brown. They've made the transition and moved on." The Dave Brown era was indeed memorable. From 1993, Charles Bricker of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: "Free agency has been a gold mine for the players but a disaster for the quality of play in the NFL. It's murdering team depth and forcing young players onto the field before they're ready to perform. " In 1992 the league used the quality of play due to free agency in its defense in the anti-trust trial: The point emphasized by the league is that total free agency would disrupt teams and lessen the quality of play. At the same time, the NFL needs to explain football in terms that jurors can use to give them a sound basis for judgment. All the while, the all-male NFL legal team is aware that simplifying things too much will sound condescending. From Glenn Dickey, San Francisco Chronicle, in January of 1991, before a playoff matchup: IN THE NFL , it all comes down to the quarterback, which is why the 49ers should beat the Washington Redskins today -- and also why this has been the worst NFL season in years. The quarterback controls the pace of the game; when a game seems slow or dull, it's usually because one or both of the quarterbacks is ineffective. This year, ineffective quarterbacks have been the rule, not the exception. Arbitrarily, I'd define a topflight quarterback as one who can make the game-winning play when necessary and who can carry an offense that is otherwise sputtering. The list is short: Joe Montana, Randall Cunningham, Dan Marino, possibly Warren Moon, possibly Jim Kelly, though Kelly gets a lot of help from a good running attack. John Elway should be on the list, but he has slipped badly the past two seasons. Steve DeBerg? This year, maybe, but not before or again. ![]() We'll close in 1990, from the Boston Globe: "Last year proved that aside from the 49ers, there are no super teams in the NFL. Adding two more mediocre teams to the playoff mix might create more excitement, but it will not increase the quality of play. Add to that the strong possibility of expansion, as well as spring play when the international operation of the NFL begins in 1991, and you have a formula for overexposure that could make the NFL a second-rate league very quickly." http://thebiglead.com/2016/10/18/declining-nfl-quality-of-play-has-been-a-talking-point-for-25-years/ Debris flies as tornado, rain wallop Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A tornado struck an Oregon beach town, sending debris flying and toppling power lines and trees as strong winds and heavy rain walloped the Pacific Northwest. Thousands of people were without power as utility crews in the region prepared for what's expected to be an even rougher storm on Saturday. In Seattle, a 4-year-old boy and his father were injured by a falling tree branch Friday. The Seattle Fire Department said the child suffered serious injuries and the father minor injuries. The Coast Guard and other agency officials near Port Angeles, Washington, had made several trips to rescue 40 teenagers and six adults who became stranded at an outdoor recreation camp after they lost power and downed trees blocked their way out. The National Weather Service in Portland, Oregon, urged people to stay off roads as multiple streets in the city were flooded and impassable after heavy rains hit the area Friday evening. The tornado was reported on the northern Oregon coast. Tillamook County Sheriff Andy Long said it touched down in the city of Manzanita about 8:20 a.m. There were no reports of injuries. Debbie Harmon, owner of the Amanita Galley, said most of the damage is near the beach and downtown. "It was a normal beach storm, which we get a lot of, and then out of nowhere the wind went 'whoooo,'" she said. "Suddenly the whole sky was filled with debris. It was just crazy. And then it just stopped." The mayor declared a state of emergency -- a necessary step for the small town 90 miles west of Portland to be eligible for federal disaster money. Long said two businesses were destroyed and one home is uninhabitable. He says other homes have roof damage. The Red Cross opened a shelter for those affected. Julee Ward, who lives between Manzanita and Nehalem, said she awoke to violent thunderstorms and an eerie, dark sky. Her husband went outside to check on things after 8 a.m. and called for her to come out. "Behold there was this big tornado flying about a mile away from our house," she said. "There was debris flying everywhere ... you could see the debris up in the funnel." Video shot by her husband showed a massive funnel spilling down from dark clouds. "You could hear it howling too, which was the crazy part," she added. The National Weather Service said another twister made landfall about 9 a.m. near Oceanside, Oregon, but no damage was reported. A total of 10 tornado warnings were issued. The heavy rain created dangerous conditions throughout the region , as drivers tried to see out rain-pounded windshields and navigate through standing water on roads. In Oregon, Portland General Electric reported that more than 4,000 customers were without power early Friday. Pacific Power reported that 2,800 customers in coastal communities had no lights, down from a peak of more than 15,000. At one point, 15,000 customers were without power in Seattle. Portland had the rainiest Oct. 13 in its history. In addition, the National Weather Service says a 103-mph wind gust was recorded at Cape Meares. In Washington, Puget Sound Energy responded to scattered outages affecting thousands of people throughout the day. Lightning strikes hit the southwest Washington coast. In northern Nevada, winds gusting up to 76 mph fueled a wild fire that has destroyed at least 22 homes and charred 3 square miles of brush and timber in a rural valley between Carson City and Reno. Meteorologists expect a lull before the remnants of Typhoon Songda, which wreaked havoc in the western Pacific days ago, hit the Pacific Northwest on Saturday. Forecasters say wind gusts as high as 70 mph could sweep through Seattle. Mayor Ed Murray urged residents to avoid the city's many parks during the wet weekend weather. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was rushing to fix a 300-foot section of a rocky coastal retaining wall in La Push, Washington. The jetty had previously failed and the only thing remaining was a gravel berm, according to spokeswoman Patricia Graesser. A breach of the wall would expose the Quileute reservation, a Coast Guard station, and marina to direct Pacific wave action. The same weather system is expected to affect Northern California, bringing rain, wind and coastal flooding to the San Francisco Bay Area through part of Saturday. The storm also carried the potential for flash flooding in central Idaho, where nearly 300 square miles of mountainous terrain burned in a blaze earlier this year. ___ Bellisle reported from Seattle. 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