| The view from my end of the shovel - Snapshots from a Christmas past ...
It was a brisk December morning in Duluth, Minn. Just a 10-year-old girl then, I was chattering, bouncing and dancing around the kitchen."Dad's home! Dad's home!" I cried. "And today is the day we get our Christmas tree! And Dad's home!"What was so special about Dad being home? Well, usually he wasn't!You see, Dad worked construction and was gone six days a week. My family needed the money and the company would pay him if he was willing to work that extra day every week. On Sunday afternoons, he traveled to the job site wherever it was in his home-away from home his newly-cleaned travel trailer stocked with clothes, blankets, food and a few notes from me. He didn't return until late Saturday nights.But that week, Dad came home on Friday night! I hadn't known it because I was already fast asleep when he pulled into the driveway.
ITema Named a Preferred Web Site Provider for REBNY and ResidentialNYC ...
NEW LONDON, Conn. --(Business Wire)-- ITema, Inc., a leading provider of dynamic Web sites and associated on-line productivity tools for the do-it-yourself business owner, and ResidentialNYC.com, the public listings portal recently launched by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), have entered into a preferred supplier agreement.
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Ulyanovsk Region
A modern telecommunications network ensures reliable connections with all countries of the world.
Nature is rich and beautiful, with a variety of landscapes, from fields and mountains, hills and valleys, to mixed forests, rivers, and lakes. The region is famous for the Undory resort, the ancient Beloe Lake, Yulovsky Pond, and the Sura River.
Ulyanovsk has a relatively well-developed raw mineral resource base. Oilfields have been discovered here, and there are large reserves of cement-making materials, building, glassmaking, and foundry sand, clay aggregate, diatomite, brick-making materials, oil shale, and peat. There are also underground reserves of medicinal and mineral waters. The Volzhanka mineral water bottling plant has an output capacity of 24 million bottles per year.
GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit”
I hope, however, that their willfull ignorance has not slowed us down so much that it is too late. perhaps though… we needed a huge dose of reality to force us ALL to come to that awareness… by all.. I mean the magic number of folks that will tip the scales into our favor of saving this planet and the survival of our planet in sustainable ways. Namaste .
Vice Chairman Hood Underscores the Need for Effective Enterprise Risk ...
February 4, 2008, Alexandria, Va. – National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Vice Chairman Rodney E. Hood addressed the National Association of Federal Credit Unions’ (NAFCU) Mid-Sized CEO Roundtable in Williamsburg, Va. The Vice Chairman used this forum to discuss the current financial state of the industry as the Agency prepares to release the industry’s 2007 year-end data. Vice Chairman Hood provided detailed slides, specific to the group, comparing them to national averages for all federally insured credit unions, and he discussed the trends and points of concern that the Agency is tracking. Hood described how the best practices of risk management can be used to mitigate the effects of a downturn in the economy. He presented the roundtable with seven areas of risk and their associated issues, based on the present state of our economy. "Now more than ever, you as credit union leaders, along with your boards, must focus on doing due diligence.
Nanopores That Can Recognize, Separate Proteins and Small Molecules
Nanopores, holes less than one-thousand the width of a human hair, are capable of isolating strands of DNA or therapeutic drugs from a solution, based mostly on the size of the pores. Now, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created nanopores that can recognize and interact with certain molecules, actively controlling their movement across synthetic membranes. Results were published online Feb. 3 in Nature Nanotechnology. .
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