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Homeless Students
Spending time on the school board provides a lot of information…Recently, I’ve learned that a student can have a home and still be homeless.
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I Could Visualize the Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Fall ended, and my winter started in December. It may be due to a warming global temperature – but in the seventies, when much of my life was dedicated to snow surveys, I would have been explaining it by…
Getting All the Government We Pay For
Ignore the dangling participle in the headline. I know it violates the rules of grammar, if not conversation in my neighborhood. Lately, I’ve been looking at the state closest to Montana in population – Rhode Island. Until this last decennial census, it had two congresscritters and we had but one. Next year, the shoe goes onto the other foot – we will have two and they will have one. One of the Rhode Island stories I ran across was an article titled “I Battled Rhode Island’s Cookie Police.” Now Rhode Island is 1214 square miles – in Lincoln County terms,…
I like the IRS Life Expectancy Tables
I have reached the age where IRA disbursements are mandatory. A dozen years back, life expectancy tables became personal, as opposed to a general demographic exercise. I walked away from my oncologist with a 3 year prediction, and I didn’t really like it. On the other hand, a dozen years later, I believe that I have demonstrated that demographers are better at projecting the group tables than medical doctors are at individual predictions. The tyranny of small samples is the basis for a lot of the world’s errors. Anyway, I got this copy of the IRS tables from bankrate.com. They…
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A New Ice Age is Coming
Some of the stuff a guy reads is contrarian. That’s OK – science moves ahead by questioning the existing explanations. Science World has an article describing the potential for a new “mini-ice age” hitting us around 2030. It isn’t my field, but I did teach Indians of North America – and my timeline started as…
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Hoover Soup
I ran across a recipe for Hoover Stew – the website said “content other than actual recipes on this site is copyrighted material” so I figure I can copy the recipe and add my own commentary. 1 16 ounce box of elbow macaroni|2 16 ounce cans of stewed tomatoes1 16 ounce package of hotdogs1 16 ounce can of corn (a can of beans may be added for protein) Directions: Cook macaroni according to directions on box Slice hotdogs into very thin coins Open cans of tomatoes, beans and corn, but do not drain corn or tomatoes. Beans may be rinsed.…
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