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Sky Wins WIPO against Pirate Site but Forgets to Take Site Down
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Submitted to: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/20/2000
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Interpretive Summary: Superficial scald is a serious, costly storage disorder of apple and pear fruits. The symptoms, mainly the appearance of brown or black patches on the skin, occur after long-term cold storage and worsen greatly when the fruit are rewarmed. It has long been thought that oxidation products of a natural oily compound called farnesene, which accumulate in the peel during storage, somehow trigger events resulting in death of cells just beneath the fruit skin. Recent evidence indicates that a gaseous breakdown product of farnesene referred to as "MHO" may be directly involved in the tissue damage that leads to scald symptoms. In this study, we purified the primary oxidation products of farnesene ("CTs") from apple peel and showed that in the test tube under air these compounds degrade to yield MHO. Moreover, it was found that production of MHO from CTs was much more rapid at warm than at cold temperature. These results could explain why scald becomes much worse after stored fruit are rewarmed, as the accumulated CTs are rapidly degraded to MHO and other volatiles. This kind of information is essential to develop an understanding of the biochemical basis of superficial scald, and ultimately will help scientists to devise safe postharvest treatments that prevent the disorder.
Technical Abstract: Accumulation of conjugated trienol (CTol) oxidation products of alpha- farnesene in apple peel during air storage at 0-1C is closely correlated with development of superficial scald, a serious physiological disorder. Recent studies indicated that a volatile product of alpha-farnesene oxidation, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one (MHO), may somehow initiate the tissue damage that leads to scald symptoms. Using HPLC-purified CTol products of alpha-farnesene oxidation from peel tissue of cold-stored 'Granny Smith' ('GS') and 'Red Delicious' ('RD') apples, we found that in vitro autoxidation of these compounds (two isomers) yields MHO as a major product. Furthermore, the rate of autoxidation was much more rapid at 20 than at 0C, and at 20C there was an initial lag phase of several hours typical of free radical-mediated reactions. These findings indicate that CTol is the precursor of MHO in the oxidative pathway leading from farnesene to MHO, and explain the burst of MHO production when apples are removed from cold storage, which coincides with a sharp decline in peel tissue levels of CTols and a rapid, marked intensification of scald symptoms. It is unclear why CTols from 'GS' apples autoxidized more readily than those from 'RD' apples. Possibly, small amounts of a natural lipophilic antioxidant coeluted with CTols in the 'RD' HPLC preparation.
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Title: TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT AUTOXIDATION OF CONJUGATED TRIENOLS FROM APPLE PEEL YIELDS 6-METHYL-5-HEPTEN-2-ONE, A VOLATILE IMPLICATED IN INDUCTION OF SCALD Author


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1. Man, 70, in tree fall
I'm sorry he fell. But so glad he was up a tree. He's in Nelson, hotbed of maverick getting-old people.
2. Still chasing balloons at 82
This wonderful woman is part of a family hot-air crew, hauling heavy bags and ropes, and loving it all.
3. At 102, he'll still be up early to recall his mates.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Blogging is good for the health (I think)
Yet another convert! My friend Anon is going into hospital for an operation, and will be out of action for quite some time. This was a shock cancer diagnosis, though her prospects are excellent.
Already changes are rippling through her psyche, and (being a writer) she wants to document events over the next year.
She's never had a blog, despite being a 50-year-old writer.
Anon wanted to know, what's different about a blog? Why not just write on the computer?
So I demonstrated with this entry just how simple and smooth a blogspot is.
And how secure: it can be private.
How searchable, if she adds labels.
How aesthetically pleasing the process is as well as the product.
How editable.
How safe, preserved by Google.
Seeing is believing. I don't have a mission here, I just thought it might help her.
And sure enough, she's started one. Right now it'll be the last thing on her mind, as she's all bandaged up and groggy in a neat white hospital bed. But next week, she'll get to love her blog, I'm sure.
Photo by Labnol.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Good morning, world
I woke late (6.40 a.m.) after a gorgeous sleep, and a thought floated into my mind. I suspect it was prompted by a comment from a philosophical taxi driver yesterday.
"What a wonderful day. I'm alive, I'm here, I'm now, I'm me."
A positive thought but what a self-centred one. Still, it's true: lucky lucky me.
I went to do tai chi on my deck — which I associate with another, far superior thought. Not my own thought, but I own it nevertheless.
"Good morning world. I am still with you!"
How sly. How delicious.
These were the first words every day of the elderly, eccentric hero of Noel Virtue's novel, The Redemption of Elsdon Bird.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Teaching Granny to do cartwheels
So, here we are at WOMAD, World Music 2010 at beautiful Pukekura Park in New Plymouth.
My granddaughter loved it all, 8 hours of music in a single day. Here she is teaching me how to do cartwheels, as they do.
Age is not an issue at WOMAD. All the generations are gloriously jumbled up, on stage and off. Feral New Zealand is there, gentle, timeless hippies in their patchwork skirts and orange trousers, teens in self-protective clumps, suit types like me having fun in our own way, parents wheeling prams -- the lot. It was a lovely, colourful, rich experience in slow motion.
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It's nice being slimmer
I just want to note that I'm enjoying being lighter and slimmer. I plan to be that way forever more after realising the impact on my blood pressure.
After two months on my new regime, I went back for a BP check. The nurse's jaw literally dropped, just like my numbers: down from 160/70 to 125/70. "Like an 18-year-old," she lied. But it's good, easily good enough.
Seems the first 5-10 kilo weight loss can reduce blood pressure significantly, regardless of how large you are to begin with. I think I can see why: the heart has much less work to do.
For the record, I weigh around 7 kilos less than I did in my orange bathing togs, when nobody perceived me as fat. Nor did I. But standards have changed, and the switch from stone to kilos has camouflaged the change.
I'm now around 56 kilo, which sounds quite light. But hey, 57 kilo is 9 stone, which sounds heavy to me! That was my weight as a 16-year-old and I was hefty compared with my friends. OK, hour-glass figure, but no sylph.
Anyway I'm getting accustomed to a new improved me. It's been absurdly easy to lose weight: two weeks on the Atkins diet followed by a normal eating. I just swallow less (especially white carbs, wine and coffee). When I'm out I enjoy anything from passionfruit pavlova to bacon and egg butties.
Mind you, I never wanted to be skinny: scraggy neck, I thought — brittle bones — wrinkles.
But to my surprise I'm really enjoying the difference.
- At dance warm-ups I can bend further forward on the floor: no spare (tractor) tyre.
- I feel more supple and bouncy.
- My morning walks up Mt Victoria are a bit easier.
- Clothes look much much much much better now. It's cool.
Anyway, no need for beta blockers. (I've got nothing against beta blockers, just preferably not yet thanks.)
Some oddities: even my watch strap and shoes are looser.
And most people don't even notice I've lost weight, which is fine by me.
Enough of this boring talk! What on earth brought that on? Be well.
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Labels: weight loss
Saturday, March 6, 2010
2 bikes in the bedroom
What a day yesterday was! My friend Jenny had lent me her son's mountain bike, so I could train more realistically for the Otago Rail Trail bike ride next month. About 9a.m. I set off and rode from Oriental Bay to Hataitai, around the harbour front.
Beautiful blue harbour, with a sliver of sun on the far shore. Happy walkers and riders. It's great whizzing along in the fresh air. I was an instant convert. All my previous reservations were swept away in one short hour. I came home glowing and went to Onyerbike to buy a new bicycle for my very own.
1. Dare I ride in traffic? Sure, it's flat riding all the way around the bays, mainly on the footpath.
2. Weather: given Wellington's notorious wild weather, how many days a year could I use a bike without being blown off? Answer: who cares if I bike only 6 days a year? Multiply that by 10 or 15 years and it's worth the expense.
3. Storage: getting a bike into the back shed is painful. Move wheelie bin, unlock shed, jostle with 2 other bikes. Wrestle bike on to a ceiling hook. Answer: carry it upstairs to my apartment and stick it in the walk-in linen cupboard.
4. But won't a bike be too heavy to carry up the stairs? Answer: na! I can handle that, especially on the new SUB (Sarah Ullmer Bike) bike, which is only 12.2 kilos.
Both bikes are now inside, until Jenny takes her Giant mountain bike home. My new bike is a SUB Lime, step through, hybrid, upright position. I can cycle with my head upright, looking at people and scenery and street signs. Perfect!
All my SUB Lime needs is a basket on the front and it will look almost like a genuine old fashioned old-lady bicycle with modern engineering. Old ladies biking want to sit upright, not double over the handlebars with our heads down.
Around Christchurch we used to see old ladies on their bikes all their long lives. My Great Aunt Bim, for example. It was part of their life, and there was no reason to get off their bikes just because they hit 60 or 70 or 80.
Biking doesn't have to be hell for leather up and down mountains or around a race track, delightful as those are for some. For old ladies, it's about going somewhere and enjoying the ride.
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Labels: bicycle, old lady biking
Monday, March 1, 2010
Birthday gifts for a 70-year-old
What do you give a woman on her 70th birthday? Why, lipstick and a pedicure, of course.
My clever sisters sent me luxury gifts of immediate usefulness. I wore the bright pink lipstick on stage for the Crows Feet show. And all that dancing left me in dire need of a delicious pedicure. Thanks, Penny, Prue and Lesley!
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Goblins Gold is a non-progressive 3-reel slot machine developed by Microgaming as part of its Classic Slot series available here. The game uses a fantasy theme and manages to pack in a lot of atmosphere despite the limitations of the pub-style format. With Goblins Gold, you can imagine yourself as an intrepid explorer traveling deep into a mine to unearthed untold riches that are protected by a tribe of nasty goblins.
Goblins Gold has 3 paylines across its three reels, and available coins range from $0.25 to $5. The bettor can choose to wager one, two or three coins, and the number of coins dictates the tier used on the payout table. The menu is at the bottom of the screen. To adjust the coin size, use the plus and minus buttons. To dictate the number of coins in play, cycle through the three options using the Bet One button. Finally, click Spin to begin the game. Goblins Gold also offers an Expert mode that allows you to streamline and even automate gameplay.
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The three most common symbols in the set are single bar, double bar and triple bar, which pay out 25, 50 and 100 coins with three across, respectively. Goblins Gold also has an Any Bar feature, and that pays out five coins with any combination of single, double and triple bars three across. The game also features a wild symbol, and it can stand for any other symbol to form a standard winning combination, including three lanterns, which are worth 300 coins, and three gold sacks, which are worth 500 coins.
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With Goblins Gold, Microgaming shakes up its approach to pub-style slots, and it works well. We love the authentic approach, but it can get a bit same-y over an entire series, and here we get bold, adventurous music and glorious sound effects that could have been taken straight from a 1980s arcade machine.
The jackpot symbol is the goblin's head, which also serves as the wild symbol. The jackpot payout tiers based on the number of coins in play: 1500 at one coin, 3000 at two coins and 6000 at three coins. That jump at three coins means that betting anything less than $0.75 is just sacrificing odds with nothing in return. At the minimum three-coin bet, the jackpot is $1,500, and at the maximum bet, the jackpot payout is $30K.
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We like when Microgaming colors outside the lines on occasion with its Classic Slot series, and the developers have done a superb job of making a simple, straightforward slot machine that actually feels new and fresh. Goblins Gold is a strong option for classic slot fans, but it can also be an excellent option for the player who wants a breather in between video slot sessions.


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58 Animals That Look Like They're About To Drop The Hottest Albums Of The Year
Funny animals, cute animals, fluffy animals - we've done it all. But never have we ever covered animals so serious like these guys. Now, The Grammys may have come and gone, but these beasts are already putting their game faces for new album covers to steal the awards next year. Hold on to your seat, Adele.
We don't think it's a coincidence. These funny animals knew they were posing for their hotly anticipated album artworks. They've got hits for days stored in their nests, and they're just waiting for the right time to send them to radio and top all of the charts. As long as they haven't signed any exclusive contracts with Tidal, that is...
Now, scroll down for the hottest and the funniest animal pictures worthy of the newest and trendiest album cover artworks. And if your furry friend is also plotting a #fire new release this year, plug the funny pictures into our list below.
#1 The Up-And-Coming Music Legends
#2 They Look Like They Are Posing For A 90s Rap Album Cover
PLAY LIST: Pigeon Break ▪ In the Hood ▪ Whatchu Lookin' At ▪ I Spy ▪ Work for Bread Crumbs ▪ Fly To the Light ▪ Tree Tops ▪ Taking Flight ▪ Ledge Sittin' ▪ Fly the Coop ▪ Rooftop Rap ▪ Old Ladies Bags ▪ In a Bird's Eye ▪ Pigeon Pie ▪ Pidgy Tails ▪ Featherless ▪ Spiraling ▪ Dive Bombers ▪ My Colors ▪ Gettin' Down and Beakey ▪ Bad Beaks ▪ Sittin' on Statues ▪ I'm Pooped ▪ Chimney Hopping ▪ Flurry of Feathers
#3 These Cows Look Like They're About To Drop The Hottest Indie Rock Album Of The Year
#4 Norwegian Black Metal Puppies
PLAY LIST: Tug O War ▪ Muddy Puppies ▪ Lookin' Mean ▪ Sled Runners ▪ Wolf Pack ▪ Tribal Masks ▪ Steely Blues ▪ Growling ▪ Big Dogs Barking ▪ Stay? No way! ▪ Jump the Fence ▪ Piddle a Little ▪ Shredding Ecstacy ▪ X Marks the Spot ▪ Got Steak? ▪ Digging Deeper ▪ Treats Rehab ▪ Spots ▪ Holes in the Yard ▪ Under the Fence ▪ Midnight Yelping
#5 The Meow-tang Clan Pose For Their Debut Rap Album
PLAY LIST: You Look Delish to Me ▪ Yeowza ▪ Dat My Mousey ▪ I Said Sit, Damn It ▪ The Faceoff ▪ Trained to Fight ▪ Claws of Fury ▪ Bared Teeth ▪ If He Runs, Bite 'im ▪ Bite 'im in the Bumm ▪ 'Sup ▪ Growls Like Thunder ▪ Bored w Balls ▪ Thugs Playtime ▪ Welcome to Da Hood ▪ Watching You ▪ Meh ▪ Cats Rule , Dogs Drool ▪ Partners in Mine ▪ Unlikely Companions ▪ Run Aways ▪ No Scaredy Cats ▪ Running with the Dogs ▪ Hissy ▪ Herd of Cats ▪ Raining Cats and Dogs ▪ The Alliance
#6 The Band With The Twin Guitarists
#7 The Pop Trio Owls
#8 This Mandrill Looks Like It's About To Drop The Hottest Mixtape Of The Year
#9 This Dog And Owl Dropping Their New Album
#10 The Electronic Rock Penguins
#11 The 80s Duo Horse Pop Band From Iceland
#12 The Newest Grunge Band In The Scene
PLAY LIST: Coughin' Up Hairballs ▪ Dead, Dead Mice ▪ Catpack's Back in Town ▪ Trash Can Rumble ▪ Ridgeback Dogs ▪ Puppy Fritters ▪ Sitting Ducks ▪ Raging Furry ▪ Walkin' the Fence ▪ Ninja Ankle Attack ▪ Juming Higher ▪ Damn Red Dots ▪ Its My Box, Move It or Lose It, Scat Cat; Acapella Medley ▪ Tornado Paws ▪ Stealing Hearts ▪ Fishing in the Koi Pond ▪ Scratch My Itch ▪ Purrfect Pounce ▪ Tail Twitchin' ▪ Reaoouuwza!
#13 Emo Rabbit About To Drop His Solo Album
#14 Fall Out Boy
#15 The Hard Rock Squirrels
#16 This Dog In The Shower Look Like He About To Drop The Hottest Album
#17 Finnish Metal Band
#18 One Direction
#19 These Meerkats Dropping Their Family Album This Year
#20 The Emo Revival Duo
#21 This Retriever Finally Coming Out With His Solo Album
#22 These Llamas Are The Newest Hit In The Country Rock Scene
#23 The Lion Sleeps Tonight
DAYYYYYY OOO! DAYYYYYYYYY OOOOO! (Like if you know this song or if you've seen beetle juice and understand)
#24 Hottest Album For Summer 2017 Is Coming Soon
#25 The Aggressive Rock Chickens
#26 The Meerkat Dolls
#27 Manatee-nevermind
#28 The Lions Look Like They're On A Cover For Best Romantic Hits Album
#29 The Cutest Duet To Sign A Record Deal Ever
#30 Eco Band
#31 This Squirrel Is Dropping A New Album
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#32 The Big, The Bad And The Feathery
the Tweeters, with their manager, Mr. Barker, and their DJ, Spinner.
#33 I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
#34 This Canine Trio Posing For Their Ballad Album
#35 Why Do These Cows Look Like They're About To Drop The Most Fire Album Of The Year
#36 Bro Why This Snake Look Like It's About To Drop The Next Best R&b Album
#37 Why These Dogs Look Like They About To Drop The Most Soulful Motown Album Of 1965
PLAY LIST • Aarrrooooo! • Outside After Dark • Behind the Fence • Got My Beautiful Bones • Its All Kibble n Bits • Howl At the Moon • Run and Fetch • Muddy Ditch • Catch Dat Squirrel • Nappin' in the Shade • Watering Trees • Damb That Cat! • Scat Cat! • Beggin' n Pleadin' • One More Long Walk with You
#38 This Kangaroo Bringing Hardest Macho Hits Of 2017
PLAY LIST: ▪ Hang Time ▪ Ridin' the Curl ▪ Macking 10 Feet Tall ▪ Playing with Sharks ▪ Sun or Storm ▪ Bombora ▪ Axed ▪Taste of Salt ▪ Speedo Man ▪ Kickout ▪ Beachbreak Bailout ▪ The Longest Ride ▪ Carving the Pipeline ▪ Grom in the Gnarly ▪ Pigdoggin' a Racy ▪ Riptide
#39 The New Beyoncu00e9
#40 Newest Pop Star
#41 This Romantic Duck Is About To Drop A New Album
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#42 New Single Is Dropping - I Can't Feel My Face When I'm With You
#43 This Cat Is Releasing A New Emotional Cover Of The Sound Of Silence
PLAY LIST: Goin' Catatonic ▪ Without You ▪ Come Back to Me, Baby ▪ Empty Arms ▪ Deep Sigh ▪ Reflection ▪ One Last Time ▪ So Alone ▪ Waitin' n Watchin' ▪ Cling to Hope ▪ I Still See You in My Dreams ▪ When ▪ Regret ▪ The Hardest Part of Living is Knowing I'm Losing You ▪ Yearning ▪ My Tears Fall Like Rain
#44 Every Female Solo Singer At Music Festivals
PKAY LIST: Hiding in the Long Grass ▪ Dandylion Queen ▪ Sniff the Breeze ▪ Fields of Flowers ▪ Hide n Seek ▪ Fido ▪ Summer Dayz ▪ I Like Spike ▪ Run Free ▪ Long Walk Home ▪ Finding Sticks ▪ Skunk! ▪ So Yellow, the Sun ▪ Chase Me ▪ Someone's Coming ▪ Sleek and Lovely
#45 Puppy Gang
#46 This Feline Duo Look Like They're Dropping Their Debut Rap Album In 2017
PLAY LIST: Drop That Mouse ▪ Catnip Illusion ▪ O, Snap ▪ Big Dogs ▪ Prowling for a Lark ▪ Catching Snakes ▪ While You're Away ▪ Sunlight ▪ Birds at My Window ▪ Fluff n Stuff ▪ Sneaking Up ▪ I'm Purrfect ▪ I'll Ignore You if I Want To ▪ Dogs vs Claws ▪ Sleep All Day ▪ Catnip Dreamin' ▪ Don't Call Me Lazy Paws ▪ The Cat Door ▪ Gimme Boxes ▪ Jump a Little Higher ▪ Surprize Attack ▪ Ankles, Beware ▪ Spilled Milk ▪ 11:00 PM ▪ The Big Purr ▪ Cathouse Cuddles ▪ Meeeow
#47 This Bunny Is About To Top Joanne On The Charts
#48 This Piggy Is Dropping Her Biggest Hip Hop Album Yet
The newest rapper to get a record deal. Here he is, the son of Lil Yachty: LIL PIGGY!
#49 They're About To Drop Their Greatest Love Mixtape
PLAY LIST: The Sounds of Summer ▪ At the Beach ▪ Sand Between My Toes ▪ Surf's Breaking ▪ Won't You Play with Me? ▪ Moonlight Stroll ▪ First Light ▪ Waves Break at My Feet ▪ Surf Line ▪ Splash in the Surf ▪ Shell Seeker ▪ Wet Dog ▪ Tide's Out Tonight ▪ Wandering ▪ Jump In ▪ Ocean Blue ▪ Jellyfish & You
#50 This Duo Is Dropping A New Album
#51 Florence And The Beagles About To Drop A New Album
PLAY LIST : I Love Old Shoes ▪ Snow Romp ▪ My Water Bowl's Empty ▪ Ain't Gonna Fetch No Mo' ▪ Puppy Dog Eyes ▪ Beware the Dog Catcher ▪ Mail Man's a Commin' ▪ Belly Rubs and Bacon Bits ▪ Break That Chain ▪ Alone and Whining ▪ Running in the Tall Grass ▪ Just Sniff It ▪ Off Leash ▪ Uncollared ▪ The Stray ▪ Bad Dog ▪ Try and Take My Bone ▪ Midnight Serenade ▪ The Pack is on the Prowl
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#52 The Parror Trio Pose For Their New Rap Album Cover
#53 Wow Such Gang
#54 Backyard Pugs Are Back With A New Album
#55 Pug With A Soulful Album Of Existential Ballads
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The pictures are awesome! The headlines next to them not so much, but still doesn't spoil the fun :)
I kind of hope I live in a future where animals become music artists like this. Haha.
The pictures are awesome! The headlines next to them not so much, but still doesn't spoil the fun :)
I kind of hope I live in a future where animals become music artists like this. Haha.


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plus this way it'll answer the question on everyone's mind right away, why is there so many dinosaur related things in the entrance to the zoo?
before anyone asks, sadly no they don't have an vivus-dinosaurs on display. i can't think of a single zoo on earth that has any of us surviving dinosaurs actually on display...
despite that, dinosaurs are all over the place here at the calgary zoo even if you're not looking for them... such as this cement mural of some here by the front gate gift shop.
your answer is to be found a few hundred metres from the gift shop. the first dinosaur you're likely to see at the calgary zoo is this triceratops (unless you come in the back gate... but its parking lot is small, and the entry is boring... that and i'm not sure why you would skip the tunnel :p ).
he is of course not a living vivus-dinosaur, but a sculpture. one of twenty they still have on display here... there used to be more when i was a kid, but as everything does, it has changed since my last visit.
while i was still just a little guy in the egg (i took a while to exit my egg... think of it as a security blanket) i'd look up to and admire this guy... wanting to grow up big, tall, and scary just like him. my hero worship was so much, one of the first things craig ever bought me was a poster of this him so i could look up to him even while at home!
of course when i was a bit older i discovered that living vivus-tyrannosaurs aren't very nice. don't believe me just read up about my cousin larry the biggest JERK! i know... i discovered i might not want to grow up to be one in the end.
here at the zoo stands the one t-rex i wish i could be more like...
getting swept up in my memories of my hero t-rex, i decided to take a chomp out of his triceratops...
from the first vista you have to wander to the second one. there are two paths to choose from. the high path or the low path. it doesn't really matter which one you take. in the end you'll get to the second vista (just in a different spot).
along the upper path you'll be treated to lots of the fake cement landscape.
they mimic mostly different types of sedimentary rock...
i think they were put here as their associated with dinosaurs, as our fossils are typically found in them.
however it is a little misleading and sort of confusing to put representations of living dinosaurs amongst these rocks. it gives the impression we actually lived among them when alive... most of us didn't of course, and those few that did live by the ancient badlands won't have fossilized! these rock environments erode, and thus are good for exposing fossils already there. not so good for making new ones (that would be the place all the eroded rock washes too!)
despite that fact, i can't quite bring myself to disliking them.
they are part of my fond memories of this place. more to the point they are sort of artistic. this is like a large surreal painting you can walk through. dinosaurs' past and present are mixed in fluidic harmony, and you can't pull the two apart...
taking the high path between the main vistas, you'll come across a corythosaur.
followed quickly by an edmontosaurus.
finishing off this nice pocket of alberta dinosaurs is a pretty miserable reconstruction of a styracosaurus. (the first vista could be argued to be all albertan too i guess... but the t-rex, triceratops, and ankylosaur are more associated with montana... corythos, edmontos, and styracos are definitely albertan. even if found elsewhere).
after the highpath you end up at the look out on the second vista. or as i like to call it the ocean vista...
that is if there were water in it!
i was so depressed arriving here on this visit to discover the zoo had drained all the water! i get it, they have to before winter so that ice doesn't damage the pond housing or the dinosaur models... but still it was my favourite (non-dinsaur) part of the park when it had water...
despite this photo being a lame version of this vista, you can see dr. bakker's favourite part of this zoo. prehistory offset with a modern city. on the skyline you'll notice downtown calgary in all its glory!
i saw dr. bakker do a talk at the zoo a few years back, and he always joked that alberta was single handily more than enough reason for the US to invade canada. not only did it have the dinosaurs of the alberta badlands, but it had the calgary zoo. the only place where you could look at remnants of dinosaurs and walk 2 minutes to look at modern animals to compare them too. it was funny joke... at least i hope he was joking!!!
just off to the side of the look out is the prehistoric park's newest (still here anyways) dinosaur. an apatosaurus.
as this is the sea themed vista you'd expect some marine reptiles, and you shan't be disappointed (unless they've drained the ocean... oh wait). right off the bat is a tanystropheus.
next is a nothosaur trying to fend off... a mosasaur?
okay so that doesn't make sense. clearly these two animals would never have remotely interacted, what with one being from the very beginning of the dinosaur's reign the other from towards the end...
it used to make sense. when i was a kid the mosasaur was fighting...
this elasmosaur which has now been moved a little ways away.
completing the marine reptile collection is a placodus.


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"Keep it on hold. . .I'll be back!"
Kyle Branzel as Alex More as Barbra Streisand; photo: provided
You don't often see a play about attitude, but Jonathan Tolins one-man play about an out of work actor and Barbra Streisand is just that. According to an entry in the actress's book on design, says the narrator of this play, she has a barn on her Malibu property, a familiar looking one, that has a basement built to resemble a California shopping mall in which she keeps thousands of her own possessions on view for visitors to see - but she is the only visitor.
The actor here, Kyle Branzel, begins by acquainting us with the book and telling us that nothng in the play is real, is true. Instead, he maintains, the only facts are the historical ones and we have to guess which ones are those. He then becomes another actor, Alex More, who has the adventure that is explored in the play about a friendship that develops between Alex and Barbra. As absurd as it all truly is, it becomes much more real than the framework story. Alex becomes more real than Kyle and Streisand becomes his willing partner in the story Kyle is telling. If this becomes confusing, well, it should. The comedy is a play about the bluffs we face in life, real relationships and those imagined.
Alex has a boyfriend named Barry, Jewish and more a faggot than our hero. He is always on the attack whether it be personal, sexual, professional or sardonic. Alex has an employer, a woman who regards him as slightly less important than a lint brush. He also has a former employer whose attitudes fluctuate with the tides of need. Kyle plays all of the characters in this show and each has his or her own resonance and reality. Each is well defined by either a look or a stance or a voice-tone.
Kyle Branzel; photo: provided
Kyle has a delicious old time playing all of these people and not - he assures us - doing impressions of them for almost all of them are figments of the playwright's imagination. His Streisand personna, however, is implied through a Brooklyn accent, a left hand that maneuvers his sweater, a vague look, and not through her voice or vocal impact. For Barry, the bad, bad boyfriend, he brings us a man whose gruffness is everything, his mean attitude everything else. And so it goes. His best character is Alex More, the actor who ends up as Streisand's employee, friend and role coach.
The transitions he puts Alex through are marvels, each and every one. Through the close scrutiny of director Steve Stettler, Kyle's Alex manages to convince and convey with almost immortal intent the spirit of the great superstar whose only friend is herself and who cannot remain aloof even if she is only acting a role, self-created for the occasion. Similarly we become much more cognizant of Alex's journey through the oddness of great celebrity whenever he becomes the primary character, stealing the scene from the great scene-stealer herself.
Stettler and his designers, Brian Dudkiewicz for set and Amith Chandrashaker for lights have created a peculiar space, with furniture, where Alex's story is underscored with colors that shift, change and register emotional impact when the narrative can only be just so poignant.
This is a tricky play. The actor at the center is not the actor on stage but is a character instead. That character, in turn, is a host of other characters. Often the real actor is playing the story actor and other characters all at the same time. That we never, for an instant, mistake one personality for another is where a really great actor exists. Kyle Branzel is a resourceful and remarkable interpreter of all of the roles thrown his way. He manipulates dialogues and verbal spats and the attitudes taken by so many people, real and not real, so very well that the play could be renamed in his honor: "Kyle, Examined," or "Kyle, Exposed," or "Kyle, Revealed," or something like that.
As a person who ordinarily dislikes one-man shows, this one is unique in its creation: an actor who dislikes the premise under which he is performing but who manages to do it all better than a slew of actors could, each one taking a single role. I applaud the actor heartily here. I applaud the author for giving us a unique situation within a situation. I applaud the company for presenting such a curious work and its director for keeping it constantly fresh and engaging. I applaud, to put it mildly, the work on stage in Weston, Vermont, for everything it does so very well indeed.
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The Lion in Winter
You think your family is stressful over the holidays?
What if the annual Christmas reunion means that Dad orders Mom out of the dungeon where she's been kept for ten years? (Well, she did lead all those civil wars against him.) What about their three (surviving) sons the eldest a soldier, the middle one plotting Machiavellian intrigue, the youngest a "walking pustule" who arrive wondering when the old man is going to die and each willing to help him along? Which son will Dad force to marry his lovely mistress? And who's that crashing the party? Why, it's the eldest son's former lover, the King of France (whose pop once was married to Mom).
Pass the nog, but unsheath your dagger. In 1968's The Lion in Winter it's Christmas Eve and a family is gathering. Trouble is, it's A.D. 1183 and the family is aging King Henry II of England (Peter O'Toole at his most robust and bearish), his imprisoned wife, willful Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn, chewing the role with sharpened teeth), and their three power-hungry princes: proud Richard the Lionheart (Anthony Hopkins in his big-screen debut), ugly John of later Magna Carta fame (Nigel Terry), and the sly middle brother Geoffrey (John Castle).
Exclaims Henry, getting into the spirit of the occasion, "What shall we hang, the holly or each other?"
Also along for the holiday get-together is France's young King Philip (Timothy Dalton, all of 22 in his screen debut). His past, well, friendship with Richard further twists the tinsel. And then there's Henry's long-time mistress Philip's sister and the eventual wife of whichever son becomes Henry's successor Alais (Jane Merrow).
Jesus himself would have a hard time bringing peace to this yuletide household. Here's a family whose every deed and word is a chess move or a dagger stroke. Alliances political and sexual rise and fall amid skillful clashing and scheming for Henry's throne. Meanwhile, what's at stake is merely the future of England and France.
But that's just life as usual for this clan. As Henry puts it, "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king and fifty all at once." Eleanor only quips dryly, "Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?"
At the center of this regal melee stand Henry and Eleanor, married 31 years. Their combination of ferocious mutual fondness and take-no-prisoners warfare on battlefields and in bedrooms make them one of cinema's great complicated relationships. Eleanor, like Henry a product of a long life among various royal houses (she was formerly married to the previous King Louis of France), clings to her past as one of history's most powerful women. "I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade," she reminisces. "I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn but the troops were dazzled."
Even pretty Alais, who Eleanor raised nearly as her own daughter, is no babe in the woods here. "Kings, queens, knights everywhere you look, and I'm the only pawn," she says. "I haven't got a thing to lose that makes me dangerous."
Loosely based on historical events, The Lion in Winter was written by James Goldman, the brother of screenwriter and novelist William Goldman. He adapted his own Broadway play for the screen with few changes. Swords clang and the dungeon door slams open and shut, but there are no extraneously cinematized action set pieces. And the cast does tend to lean into the theatrical bombast as if Brooks Atkinson is in the back row.
Nonetheless, director Anthony Harvey opened up Goldman's play into authentic spaces far from any proscenium, and remained faithful to an energetic drama propelled by its performances and dialogue. Witty lines fly fast, one barbed rejoinder can topple kingdoms, and cleverness is any formidable foe's weapon of choice. The Broadway play was billed as "a comedy in two acts," and while there are sharp laughs in The Lion in Winter . . .
John: My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!
Henry: The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings.
. . . at its heart this is a vicious medieval Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? where the personal really is the political and vice versa.
Hopkins was primarily a stage actor at the time, and it's interesting to see the future Hannibal Lecter so young and broody. Because Hopkins was appearing at the National Theatre in London, he needed Sir Lawrence Olivier's permission to take time off to shoot the film. Olivier agreed, provided that Hopkins shoot his scenes during the day, then fly back from Ireland, Wales and France for his evening stage performances in As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing.
Representing some of the critical dissent, Life magazine film critic Richard Schickel, who cared not a bit for the anachronistic modern-sounding dialogue placed into a 12th-century setting, staged a palace coup when the New York Film Critics Circle gave its Best Film Award to The Lion in Winter over John Cassavetes' Faces. Schickel and three others resigned in a huff, only to rejoin the following year. Lion is mannered and talky, granted, and brassily "classy" by today's standards. But Goldman's screenplay, which wisely does not aspire to be faux-Shakespeare, took the Academy Award.
Hepburn also walked away with the third of her four Oscars. Her Eleanor is every bit Henry's equal in brainpower, military cunning and verbal combat a powerful figure in Women's Liberation 1968 and still one fine juicy role now. Hepburn also drew the best out of O'Toole, who became her devoted friend for life when she scolded him on the set for his self-destructive ways.
The Lion in Winter was up for the Best Picture Oscar, but it lost to, of all things, Oliver! (Talk about your off years. That was a tragic and blandly conservative win in the year that also delivered 2001: A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, The Producers and others better reflecting moviedom's seismic pop evolution.) John Barry, who gave us all that iconic James Bond music, handily won the statue for his moody, ecclesiastical score.
Further Oscar nominations included O'Toole's full-throated performance as Henry (O'Toole's second film portrayal of Henry II after Beckett), Anthony Harvey's directing and Best Costume Design. Add to the virtues on display here the location shooting in England, Wales and Ireland, and the scenic design recreating medieval England's dank, cold and desperate barbarism, the perfect setting for this otherwise thoroughly modern First Family.
MGM's The Lion in Winter DVD brings us a good transfer of a richly colorful print (anamorphic 2.35:1). There's a little speckling, but nothing serious. The Dolby Digital 2.0 monaural audio is crisp and strong. Anthony Harvey's audio commentary is dry yet informative and, after you give it a chance, reasonably engaging. Also here is the original theatrical trailer. The interview with Hopkins found on the previous Laserdisc edition is, alas, absent. Keep-case.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Friendship and Smiles
Some of the speakers spoke to my heart and my faith more than others. There were powerful moments throughout though. A couple things have really stuck out to me, and I thought I'd share them.
Lisa Welchel spoke on friendship. (She was on The Facts of Life and has the book Creative Correction that I want to read.) This year I have been more purposeful in reaching out to other women. And it's worked. By inviting a couple acquaintances over, we've gotten to know one another better. Some friends I just email or call somewhat regularly...regardless, I've been trying. Anyway, Lisa said something very convicting. She shared how some friends once told her that they felt to get to know her on a personal level they needed to read her BLOG and books. Um...yeah. Do our friends and family know what is happening with us if they don't check in regularly with our blog? I don't know. Some do...too many don't. But somehow, at times Iexpect my friends to want to read my blog(s) (we have a family blog, in addition to this one) to know what is happening with us. I thank Lisa for pointing out my horribly faulty and sinful attitude.
I'll share just one other thing. Andy Andrews (author of The Butterfly Effect and others) talked about how by smiling when we talk it can really change our attitudes and the perception of us. It's really just choosing to be happy. He even suggests practicing in a mirror...because it is not as natural as you would think. Our daughter, M, has told me I have grumpy lips sometimes. Um, yeah. Convicted again. I definitely notice a difference with her response to me when I correct or discipline while smiling. I'm trying to make an effort to generally smile more.
We stayed overnight in a hotel (even though we live about an hour away and could have driven). (The hotel had just opened on Monday so everything was brand-spanking-new!) We had more girl time together. It was such fun! We were quite the group. Four of us were in our thirties, two in their forties, and one in her seventies. Quite the age range, huh? Most of us had met before and were good friends, but two women I didn't know. Regardless of when we met, I think we all had a great time.
I'm not sure I would go to Women of Faith again, but I did enjoy myself and took away bits of wisdom here and there.
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- Miller Moments said...
I'm a HUGE Women of Faith fan. I've gone every year for as long as I can remember and am sad that this year I won't be able to attend. Lisa Welchel's books are amazing. I think I have all of them, except her most recent one on friendship.
I think the thing about the blog thing that frustrates me is that people these days seem to prefer email, blog and facebook type relationships. It's really difficult to cultivate friendships in person (at least for me). Everywhere you go, people are texting these days. They don't even need to talk on their phones-they text!
I am constantly trying to reach out and plan things with my women friends and I find that they all come and seem to enjoy our time together...but if I don't plan it, it doesn't get planned. No one else takes the reins.
Ok, enough from me! :) Thanks for a great post!
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- Carrie said...
I haven't been to a WOF conference yet - although they come here every year. It either just doesn't work out or the speaker line-up doesn't grab me. Now if the Chapmans would head this way with WOF this year, of course I'd go! =D
It's interesting hearing your take-away thoughts from your weekend. Thanks for sharing a bit more!
- Tue Sep 21, 11:00:00 AM
- Dorie said...
Sounds like a great weekend to grow closer to the Lord in your walk, and take home some great applications. I hear you about the connecting with others. Sometimes it can be difficult to reach out to others for whatever reason, but it is always worth the effort!
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Don't Just Notice The Shiny Things
Anyone that has ever been around babies for any length of time knows that they are attracted to shiny things. They can't take their eyes of them. Whether it is something sparkly or something that reflects light, babies are usually mesmerized.
As I sit on the couch this morning I notice the same thing about my Christmas tree that is in the next room. When I view it from a distance I see the bright colorful lights and the shiny brand new ornaments. But as I look closer and more carefully, I see the ornaments from Christmases long ago that aren't quite so bright. In fact they may even be a little bit damaged. And they definitely don't shine! Yet, these are the ornaments that hold the most meaning to me. The one that a student gave me 15 years ago with the touching biblical quote. And the ornament from the 1st Christmas my wife and I were married. Or the homemade snowman that looks like it may come apart at any moment.
I myself need to look at my students the same way I look at my Christmas tree. Too often I notice the students that stand out. The ones that misbehave, the ones that shine, the ones that are unique . These are the ones that get the majority of my attention. And that is not right! It is not right because there are kids that at my school that follow all the rules, are kind to others and bring me little Christmas cards and yet I don't even know their name. Or if I do know their name, I know that I don't spend enough time simply listening to them and hearing what is on their mind.
When I return from the break I am going to make every effort to spend more time to get to know those kids that aren't so shiny. The kids that know my name and yet I don't know theirs. The kids that have been in my building since they were 4. The kids who have done everything to deserve my attention and yet haven't gotten it. That is not say that I won't continue to give attention to those things that are shiny. I am sure I will. I just need to start paying more attention to those things that are not because they have been ignored for too long.


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Madoff the Piker
Rochelle, IL....Wednesday, February 16, 2011....Let's face it: America has a fascination with crime. I don't know why this is - i don't know if anybody does. But we know it is so by the ubiquity and popularity of crime themes on television, in the movies, in the popular press. Maybe it's the vicarious thrill we get from the portrayal of acts that we, of course, would never commit...but perhaps secretly wish we could experience. Or perhaps there's something about being tantalized by the threat of harm, held at a safe distance, but made to seem very real.
I thought to start by appealing to that secret thrill. Public enemy #1 - does it intrigue you? Yet consider this: it is more than hypothetical. Public enemy #1 means it poses a greater risk to the common weal than any other individual, syndicate, or phenomenon. So who or what is public enemy #1? Some mass murderer? The mafia? Companies like Enron that defraud the public? Let me take you back a few years. Back to a time in the modern era, but before cell phones, before iPods and iPads, before Walkmen, VCRs, even touch tone dialing. Back to the beginning of the 1960s, to the farewell address of the greatest American hero of World War II, our retiring President, General Dwight Eisenhower.
In that famous speech, he warned about the rise of what this man who had devoted his life to military, and then public, service called "the military-industrial complex". Every gun that is made, he said, every weapon produced, is in some sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who shiver and are not clothed, who wander and are not housed. It wasn't Karl Marx or Mr. Krushchev or even some long-haired liberal professor saying these things, it was General Dwight Eisenhower, the man who shepherded the Allied forces to victory over the Nazi war machine, a man who understood the significance and necessity of weaponry.
"In some sense a theft" - these were his words. And theft is a crime. The bigger the theft, the bigger the crime. Whoever commits the biggest crimes is therefore our biggest public enemy. And whom do we have, today, who commits crime on such a scale? Of course, they might be other crimes, than theft. They might be murder....mass murder....or the poisoning of whole peoples or environments.... maybe something like the rape of the Amazon rainforest, or the incredible toxic oil spill in the Giulf of Mexico. What crimes - deliberate harmful actions planned and carried out intentionally - rise to the level of public enemy #1? Bernie Madoff, who stole not millions, or mere hundreds of millions, but some 50 billions of dollars from his victims? Or perhaps the earlier Savings and Loan scandal, that robbed millions of innocent depositors? Or how about the 19 thugs who boarded American airplanes with box-cutter knives, one beautiful late summer day, and extinguished several thousand lives? Might we call them public enemy #1 - or the movement they represent?
I'm afraid not. All these are mere pikers compared to the criminals i have in mind. Now i'm going to throw around some figures in a moment, and before i do, i want to put them in some perspective. We measure our national budgets, these days, and our naional indebtedness, not in billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars, but in trillions. Do you have any idea what a trillion dollars means? I learned recently that if you took literally a trillion one-dollar bills, and if you could actually stack them one on top of another, in very, very high piles, they would reach all the way from the surface of the earth, to the surface of the moon....four times!
Or think of it another way: if you could stand in the middle of Grand Central Station in Manhattan, handing out dollar bills to passersby, as fast as possible - and let's be realistic, here, let's make them $100 bills. So let's say you're giving away a $100 bill every second - which is pretty darn fast, when you think about it. How long would it take you to give away a trillion dollars? Well, it turns out you'd need a little help, because if you did it every second of every day with no break for eating or sleeping or anything else, it would take you 3 hundred seventeen years, 35 days, 17 and three-quarter hours....give or take a minute or two.
That's just ONE trillion dollars. And yet the national indebtedness of the United States is now around thirteen trillion dollars. And there is a reason for it. It's not social progams out of control - they are not out of control, in fact, they're not very well funded. It's not too many regulatory agencies - if anything, when you consider the massive harm that much ungoverned commercial activity is doing to our planet, we have way too little regulatory mechanism. It's not the unchecked growth of entitlement programs - the fact is that a program such as Social Security is self-sustaining for a few decades yet! Social Security currently has something like a $4 trillion surplus, at least on paper.
No, the expenditures which have run up this huge debt, which have burned up America's productive might and given us nothing economically useful in return, which have made us paupers in the world economic community and a third-world nation in terms of our rotting infrastructure, our failing health care system, our dilapidated inner cities, our topsoil-poor farmland, our decrepit educational system - the tragic waste of resources which has put us in this fix is the very military-industrial complex that General Eisenhower warned us against, in his last days as President, grown to such monstrous proportions that, to borrow a phrase from Casey Stengel, if the General were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.
My friends, it is our out-of-control military budget which is public enemy #1, and it will kill us if we don't get it back under control.
It isn't merely that all this spending on war and preparation for war is terribly misguided, counter-productive, and cannot be shown to have increased our security one scintilla. Worse, by depriving our entire society of much-needed resources for honest-to-goodness human needs, this profligate spending has ruined our cities, our countryside, our habitations, our health, our common life. Now let me give you some concrete examples.
Taxpayers in The United States will pay $737.0 billion for the Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2011, if the proposed budget is enacted. That's just shy of three quarters of a trillion dollars. This buys weapons, two on-going wars, hundreds of military bases, new planes and submarines, a large standing armed force and a huge bureaucracy behind it....not to mention all kinds of expenditures on various civilian projects, funded by the military, whose real purpose is to marry the civilian sectors to the military and silence opposition. Three quarters of a trillion dollars...a cool three trillion in just four years. Now let's consider, what could we be buying, instead?
If we cut the so-called "defense" budget by just 10%, we could use those funds this way (data from
* 3.78 million children receiving low-income healthcare AND
* 1.13 million elementary school teachers AND
* 1.29 million firefighters AND
* 9.7 million Head Start slots for children AND
* 44.5 million households with renewable electricity-wind power AND
* 9.45 million military veterans receiving VA medical care AND
* 15.16 million people receiving low-income healthcare AND
* 1.12 million Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers AND
* 93.5 million scholarships for university students AND
13.28 million students receiving Pell Grants of $5550 each.
These are just some of the things we could provide ourselves with THIS YEAR if we cut the defense budget by only 10%. Did you know there was a serious candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1992 - a man with administrative experience, the elected mayor of Irvine, California, a liberal Democrat in heavily Republican Orange County (Larry Agran) - who said that on his first day in office, being the Chief Executive of the country, he would cut defense spending by 50% and put the savings into more urgently-needed national priorities. Fifty Per Cent! I'm suggesting just a fifth of that....for now.
Now, I'm not a big fan of how either of the major parties has handled our finances in my lifetime. And it's certainly true that when
consider the terrible financial situation of our states and cities today, the true problem is that they can't raise taxes enough to cover their debts because the defense budget is already stealing it all away to throw away on stuff we don't need, that creates no economically useful product.
I used that phrase before - it's time i fleshed it out just a bit. How many people ride to work on a B2 bomber? Once it is built - and, sure, it creates jobs in the building of it - how many jobs does it actually produce and sustain for the economy, over the long haul? No more than a few dozen. A few crews to fly it around, a few more to service it. That's IT!!
Now suppose you took some of that $8 or $10 billion that it costs now to produce ONE B2 bomber, and spent it instead on, let's say, transit buses. How many jobs would THAT create? Well, first of all, the jobs to produce buses are not going to be as high-skilled, hour-for-hour, as the jobs to build buses. So you can hire more people at somewhat lower wages. Lots more people, in fact. Our recession goes away, as we take this money and put it back in the civilian sector. And once the buses are built, guess what? They carry people to work! A single bus carries hundreds of people to work every day! Imagine a fleet of buses! And they need people to drive them and wash the windows and repair and service them! They have a fantastic impact on the economy. Not money just thrown away, as with a bomber, literally thrown away.
And, by the way, what do you get for your $10B? A reasonable estimate to produce a bus is $200,000 today. You get 50 THOUSAND buses. Do you suppose we could use maybe a dozen or so of those around here? Let's have four dozen, for Ogle County - that leaves 49 thousand nne-hundred fifty-two for the rest of the country. And i tell you what, cancel another B2 bomber and we can afford to pay the drivers and maintenance folks. Now how many people can we employ with that money? Well, at let's say $50,000 a year, which is probably on the high side for these jobs, we can hire 200,000 workers - that's four per bus. Why, we'll have money left over; we can even paint the dang things.
Do you begin to get some idea of how throwing all this money away on military spending is impoverishing our country, throwing the political parties at each other's throats, and making mortal enemies out of neighbors? I tell you, military spending is public enemy #1, and it has got to be stopped.
So what is to be done? Well, that's really the topic of another talk; maybe i'll give you that one for Easter, since John has asked me to talk at Easter time. Suffice it to say that we have got to begin talking about it, which is something we haven't been doing for a long time, treating the subject as if it were sex or religion or something like that. It is not taboo. It is our future, yours and mine, and it's time we reclaimed it.
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