Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Aldous Huxley
Showing posts with label Need. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Need. Show all posts
7/30/09
7/24/09
I want Greensboro, North Carolinato be a place my kids will want to livewhen they grow up.
The secret of happiness is freedom
The secret of freedom is courage
Thucydides
7/16/09
If federal, state and local budget tighteninginvolves cutting social servicesfor the socioeconomic lower endshould the city prioritize law enforcement costsconsidering what could most likely happento crime rates?
Only seven meals separate civilization from potential anarchy
Josette Sheeran
UN World Food Program
7/8/09
Which proposalrepresents the best long-term interestsof a society’s children?
Illinois Gov Pat Quinn vetoed the state budget Tuesday
and yet again called for an additional $1 billion in spending cuts
The proposed budget cuts include 2,600 layoffs
and up to 12 furlough days for state employees
Among the governor’s proposed cuts are
$140 million from Medicaid and health insurance
$250 million in targeted reductions in grant programs
$125 million from the Department of Corrections
$175 million cut from proposed increases for K-12 education
$25 million from other state offices, departments and agencies
$100 million in additional reserves
St Louis Business Journal, July 7, 2009
Can absorbing more small losses sooner
and keeping winners longer
increase return?
Can winning
be slowly losing for as long as possible?
Gov Beverly Perdue tried Tuesday to loosen a knot
in the state budget negotiations at the Legislature
offering her own $1.6 billion tax plan
that's larger
than either House or Senate Democrats have proposed
She has said about $1.5 billion in additional money was needed
to protect public education and other vital services
from painful cuts during a year with an unprecedented budget gap
of $4.7 billion
She suggested raising the sales tax most consumers pay
from 6.75 percent to 7.75 percent for 13 months
and place an "emergency surcharge" on the highest wage earners
such as couples who make more than $1 million
for two years
NC governor offers $1.6B tax plan to end deadlock
Associated Press, July 8, 2009
If good judgment comes from experience
does experience come from bad judgment?
6/25/09
Do you already have everything you wantif you think so?
If non-material want can provide a high quality of life
while material want doesn’t necessarily create happiness
is it better to be miserable with a high standard of living
than unhappy and poor?
People who have what they want
are fond of telling people who haven't what they want
that they really don't want it
Ogden Nash
American poet
6/13/09
Is living in the momentthe only way to live happily ever after?
It takes a very long time to become young
Pablo Picasso
6/8/09
Doors
The secret of happiness is freedom
The secret of freedom is courage
Thucydides
If life is a room of open doors leading to other open doors
do what you and/or others do or don’t
determine what doors stay open or lock you in or out?
When one door of happiness closes another opens
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened
Helen Keller
If positive thought outperforms negative
can faith in open doors be better than fearing them closed?
Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end
with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality
Admiral Jim Stockdale
6/4/09
If life needs sustenance and a temperate climateis want everything else?
Is attachment suffering?
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill
keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt
chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench
care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner
Tao Te Ching
Do you already have everything you want if you think so?
If non-material want can provide a high quality of life
while material want doesn’t necessarily create happiness
is it better to be miserable with a high standard of living
than unhappy and poor?
People who have what they want
are fond of telling people who haven't what they want
that they really don't want it
Ogden Nash
American poet
3/7/09
Is the government penalizing well run businessesby rewarding poorly managed firmswith taxpayer money?
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools
Herbert Spencer
Coined the phrase “Survival of the fittest”
If the government selectively subsidizes some business
are those looking to purchase homes, cars and energy
obliged to pay higher prices and taxes to fund the subsidies?
Did some economic and political leaders
bail themselves out of mistakes
with trillions of debt and newly created money
handed down to the unaware of following generations?
We have in many ways humiliated ourselves as a nation
with some of the problems that have taken place here
Henry Paulson
Naked Capitalism, Willem Buiter
The Wall Street Journal, Calculated Risk, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Big Picture , Felix Salmon,
Is the government penalizing well run businessesby rewarding poorly managed firmswith taxpayer money?
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools
Herbert Spencer
Coined the phrase “Survival of the fittest”
If the government selectively subsidizes some business
are those looking to purchase homes, cars and energy
obliged to pay higher prices and taxes to fund the subsidies?
Did some economic and political leaders
bail themselves out of mistakes
with trillions of debt and newly created money
handed down to the unaware of following generations?
We have in many ways humiliated ourselves as a nation
with some of the problems that have taken place here
Henry Paulson
Naked Capitalism, Willem Buiter
The Wall Street Journal, Calculated Risk, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Big Picture , Felix Salmon,
3/1/09
On Efficiency
Silicon Valley…would be a pale shadow of itself
without Indian, Chinese and Israeli brain power in its midst
Jeffrey E Garten
Yale School of Management
Held economic and foreign-policy posts
in the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123577692593997401.html
If almost 2,500,000,000 people live in China and India
and the statistical probability
of a country with less than 10,000,000 people among about 6.76 billion
appearing in the above quote is very low
what is Israel doing that's not being replicated
and why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRAEL
On Efficiency
Silicon Valley…would be a pale shadow of itself
without Indian, Chinese and Israeli brain power in its midst
Jeffrey E Garten
Yale School of Management
Held economic and foreign-policy posts
in the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123577692593997401.html
If almost 2,500,000,000 people live in China and India
and the statistical probability
of a country with less than 10,000,000 people among about 6.76 billion
appearing in the above quote is very low
what is Israel doing that's not being replicated
and why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRAEL
2/25/09
Do most climate scientists agree that the earth is warming or is there is a lot of disagreement?
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Via Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/02/study_antarctic_glaciers_slipping_swiftly_seaward.php?ref=fp6
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees
Revelation 7:3
Study: Antarctic glaciers slipping swiftly seaward
Antarctic warming worse than thought, melting glaciers could raise sea levels over 3 feet
ELIANE ENGELER, AP News, Feb 25, 2009 08:42 EST
Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday — a development that could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels.
A report by thousands of scientists for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year concluded that the western part of the continent is warming up, not just the Antarctic Peninsula.
Previously most of the warming was thought to occur on the narrow stretch pointing toward South America, said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and a member of International Polar Year's steering committee.
But satellite data and automated weather stations indicate otherwise.
…For the International Polar Year, scientists from more than 60 countries have been conducting intense Arctic and Antarctic research over the past two southern summer seasons — on the ice, at sea, and via icebreaker, submarine and surveillance satellite.
The biggest west Antarctic glacier, the Pine Island Glacier, is moving 40 percent faster than it was in the 1970s, discharging water and ice more rapidly into the ocean, Summerhayes said.
The Smith Glacier, also in west Antarctica, is moving 83 percent faster than it did in 1992, he said.
All the glaciers in the area together are losing a total of around 103 billion tons (114 billion U.S. tons) per year because the discharge is much greater than the new snowfall, he said.
"That's equivalent to the current mass loss from the whole of the Greenland ice sheet," Summerhayes said, adding that the glaciers' discharge was making a significant contribution to the rise in sea levels. "We didn't realize it was moving that fast."
The glaciers are slipping into the sea faster because the floating ice shelf that would normally stop them — usually 650 to 980 feet (200 to 300 meters) thick — is melting.
The warming of western Antarctica is a real concern.
Summerhayes said sea levels will rise faster than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group set up by the United Nations.
A 2007 IPCC report predicted a sea level rise of 7 to 23 inches (18 to 58 centimeters) by the end of the century, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee. The group said an additional 3.9 to 7.8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) rise was possible if the recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
Summerhayes said the rise could be much higher.
Ian Allison, co-chair of the International Polar Year's steering committee, said many scientists now say the upper limit for sea level rise should be higher than predicted by IPCC.
"That has a very large impact," Allison said, adding that extremely large storms which might previously have occurred once in a year would start to occur on a weekly basis.
The IPY researchers found the southern ocean around Antarctica has warmed about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past decade, double the average warming of the rest of the Earth's oceans over the past 30 years.
If we’re relatively stuck on Earth for the moment
should we try to make what is last as long as possible?
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is that none of it has tried to contact us
Bill Watterson
Is it too late to fix?
Do most climate scientists agree that the earth is warming or is there is a lot of disagreement?
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Via Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/02/study_antarctic_glaciers_slipping_swiftly_seaward.php?ref=fp6
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees
Revelation 7:3
Study: Antarctic glaciers slipping swiftly seaward
Antarctic warming worse than thought, melting glaciers could raise sea levels over 3 feet
ELIANE ENGELER, AP News, Feb 25, 2009 08:42 EST
Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday — a development that could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels.
A report by thousands of scientists for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year concluded that the western part of the continent is warming up, not just the Antarctic Peninsula.
Previously most of the warming was thought to occur on the narrow stretch pointing toward South America, said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and a member of International Polar Year's steering committee.
But satellite data and automated weather stations indicate otherwise.
…For the International Polar Year, scientists from more than 60 countries have been conducting intense Arctic and Antarctic research over the past two southern summer seasons — on the ice, at sea, and via icebreaker, submarine and surveillance satellite.
The biggest west Antarctic glacier, the Pine Island Glacier, is moving 40 percent faster than it was in the 1970s, discharging water and ice more rapidly into the ocean, Summerhayes said.
The Smith Glacier, also in west Antarctica, is moving 83 percent faster than it did in 1992, he said.
All the glaciers in the area together are losing a total of around 103 billion tons (114 billion U.S. tons) per year because the discharge is much greater than the new snowfall, he said.
"That's equivalent to the current mass loss from the whole of the Greenland ice sheet," Summerhayes said, adding that the glaciers' discharge was making a significant contribution to the rise in sea levels. "We didn't realize it was moving that fast."
The glaciers are slipping into the sea faster because the floating ice shelf that would normally stop them — usually 650 to 980 feet (200 to 300 meters) thick — is melting.
The warming of western Antarctica is a real concern.
Summerhayes said sea levels will rise faster than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group set up by the United Nations.
A 2007 IPCC report predicted a sea level rise of 7 to 23 inches (18 to 58 centimeters) by the end of the century, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee. The group said an additional 3.9 to 7.8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) rise was possible if the recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
Summerhayes said the rise could be much higher.
Ian Allison, co-chair of the International Polar Year's steering committee, said many scientists now say the upper limit for sea level rise should be higher than predicted by IPCC.
"That has a very large impact," Allison said, adding that extremely large storms which might previously have occurred once in a year would start to occur on a weekly basis.
The IPY researchers found the southern ocean around Antarctica has warmed about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past decade, double the average warming of the rest of the Earth's oceans over the past 30 years.
If we’re relatively stuck on Earth for the moment
should we try to make what is last as long as possible?
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is that none of it has tried to contact us
Bill Watterson
Is it too late to fix?
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