From tomorrow's Wall Street Journal:
- coal shows resilience in global comeback; Asian and African countries are counting on carbon to expand access to electricity -- wow, I just blogged about that earlier today --
- Alberta walks away from Canada's global warming plans -- previously posted; not at WSJ
- are you paying too little? I pay for very few things from Amazon any more; everything is paid for with points on my credit card that I would have used anyway - gasoline, groceries
- free trade? Not in Argentina. Argentina will impose "temporary" tax on exports -- wow
- blink? after warning from Trump, EU says it is open to "more US beef"
- swine fever spreads in China; pork supply is choppy; China will come back to US for pork
- Brazil's national museum in Rio completely destroyed; sounds like fire department responding was right out of "Keystone Kops"
- Maersk tankers turn to wind power to cut soaring fuel costs; "high-tech" sails o their huge tankers are being tested; 100-foot-tall rotating cylinders that are effectively high-tech sails that could cut the vessel's fuel bill by up to 10%;
- late to the game? Dunkin' Donuts to invest $100 million; 50 US test stores to test "to-go" and mobile ordering; that's all I see at McDonald's and Starbucks any more: "to-go" and mobile ordering; a few of us still go to PlayPlace -- the rest? seniors stopping at McDonald's for 50-cent-coffee; what a great country; and, the president is making it better.
This past week I linked a lot of financial sites to my bank. Wow. I can now afford Starbucks.
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The Book Page
River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea, Colin Fletcher, 1997.
From page 9: The author explains how he decided to raft the Colorado River, from the source to the ocean. And then goes on:
That done, I had to define "the Colorado."A great time to review the geology of the Grand Canyon and the timeline of the earth.
The name originally applied only to the waterway below the junction of the Green and the Grand Rivers.
Then, in 1921 -- the year of my conception -- under pressure from booster politicians in the state of Colorado, the Grand was renamed: the main river and the former Grand became, together, "the Colorado."
But because the Green is 300 miles longer than the former Grand (it also drains a larger area), geographers regard it as the "master stream," and its headwaters in Wyoming as the source of the Colorado. I was happy to go along with the geographers -- especially as all reports had the Green wilder and less spoiled, with a source more befitting a major river.
Quick: why did the Colorado River cut a mile-deep gorge rather than a broad valley that most rivers form? The link above answers the question. It also explains why the very small creeks in western North Dakota cut such sharp mini-canyons.
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Seasons In The Sun
"Seasons in the sun" was one of the greatest one hit wonders of all time. One of the Favs of my youth. Thats for posting it
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