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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

HAVE I MENTIONED RECENTLY THAT I’M A GRANDFATHER?

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Sophia Isabella Leslie Camacho is 10 months old…...maybe that’s why the following brought tears so quickly to my eyes.

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Posted by Earl on 08/14 at 11:55 AM
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TROUT HAVE BEEN MOVED ALL OVER THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD

Along the East Coast, the Brook Trout populations have been devastated by Brown Trout imported from Europe.

On the other hand, in the Western U.S., it’s the native Cutthroat Trout that have suffered because Eastern Brook Trout were transplanted into THEIR streams and rivers.

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Anglers and other conservation-minded people are restoring, and even rediscovering, native trout species all over the place—you can READ ALL ABOUT IT in the August, 2007 issue of Smithsonian.

Posted by Earl on 08/14 at 10:18 AM
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HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED YOU WERE REALLY A PRINCE FROM SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY?

I guess that William Lobkowicz didn’t really have to “dream” about it—his grandfather probably told him about the 10 castles the family had owned in Czechoslovakia going back 700 years.  One of them was in Prague…...

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Posted by Earl on 08/14 at 09:45 AM
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL DESERVES AN AWARD FOR COURAGE…..

I’ve loved THE FRINGE , ever since our son Thorvald presented MIDDLE FLIGHT, his own one-man play, there in 2001. 

But, this year there’s a REALLY SPECIAL REASON for all of us to love the Fringe…..I refer to “Jihad, the Musical”.

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Posted by Earl on 08/12 at 02:24 PM
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Sunday, August 05, 2007

HAVEN’T YOU ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY BOOMERANGS…..?

I admit I have, certainly since an uncle (or someone) gave me one at Christmas a long time ago….perhaps the most frustrating present I’ve ever gotten.  The instructions told me how it was supposed to work - but it wouldn’t do it for me.

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These are what I thought all “proper” boomerangs were supposed to look like, but apparently the aboriginal Australians made a number of different designs, and used them for

hunting, fishing and imitating the flight of hawks; they made boomerangs to catch on the edge of an enemy’s shield and hit him from behind. Some have two wings; others, four.

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Posted by Earl on 08/05 at 06:51 PM
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

FORGIVE MY LACK OF FAITH IN ROLLING STONE…..BUT, WISDOM ON ETHANOL?

Yes, indeed:

The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after “solutions” that will make our problems even worse. Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make from corn.

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Posted by Earl on 08/01 at 01:29 PM
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