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  1. John Kenneth Galbraith was 6'9"

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    from the globe and mail...

    During a 1956 visit to poverty-stricken India, he realized that a society begins to produce "unnecessary" goods as it becomes wealthier, with corporations creating artificial demand for their products through advertising.
    Following his retirement, Prof. Galbraith remained in Cambridge, Mass., and spent his summers in Newfane, Vt. He continued to criticize prevailing economic thought, attacking control of U.S. politics by the wealthy in 1992's The Culture of Contentment. In The Good Society in 1996, he set forth his vision of a just, equitable society politically organized to help the poor. As recently as 2004, when he was 95, he wrote The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time, an essay arguing that bureaucratic companies manipulate consumers and the government.

  4. Harvard Mouse and Inglewood Jack, Mavericks, April 29

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    wow...what a whole lot of kind words from you ottawa folks! thanks to everyone that made it out, it was nice to meet more board folk in real life, notably steve the owl and freak by night.

    and of course brad and pat, you guys were awesome, as were the staff at mavericks. it's so much fun to have sound guys cater to us. that never happens in real life.

    thank you dr evil and calamity jane for hosting the mice at your place in mousegoode, and thank you to all the folks at that place for inviting all of us in to your home. finally met hux in real life, he was kind enough to pour me glasses of red wine that i could then clumsily spill on my friends (sorry deb :( )

    come together - 3 weeks and counting!!!

    woo hoo!!

  5. It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...

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    while coal isn't the way to go, when you take in to account all of the energy required to mine/refine/ship uranium, not to mention the energy inputs required to build the actual reactor, it takes something on the order of 20 years for a nuclear plant to pay off its' "emissions debt" and actually be clean power.

    not to mention the matter of storing the waste, or as chernobyl demonstrated, what happens when something goes wrong. as a matter of course, nuclear reactors continually vent small quantities of radioactive gas and water. even if nothing is wrong, reactors emit a far worse kind of persistent pollution that has an unknown and frankly terrifying impact on the surrounding area.

    booo-urns!

  6. The End is Near

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    This multi-tiered internet thing is getting old. I mean how many ways do you need to pay for the internet before you snap?

    You pay your internet provider so that you can download at a certain speed with a certain amount of bandwidth (for many, unlimited).

    Then the content provider pays their host to upload a certain amount at a certain speed per month. Just imagine what google pays to allow free downloading of their videos? Anyway, now the people that are getting paid for this bandwidth want MORE money, yet they're already getting paid from both ends!

    it's sick...really.

    actually it's slightly worse than that.

    with "deep packet sniffing" technology, they can determine what packets passing through routers are, and give preferential treatment to say, comcast video on demand (paying) packets, as opposed to a streaming (free) video from the greenpeace site.

    it'$ all about the $$$.

  10. Happy Earth Day!!!

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    Nice! Any highlights (biographical or otherwise)?

    yes...a video clip of his daughter (age 11) addressing a plenary session of the 1992 UN conference on climate change. she formed a group called Environmental Children's Organization and raised money to get the group and families to the conference.

    her message was basically "listen, you adults...you send us to school and you teach us to share and be kind to others and not be greedy and to clean up our own messes, and then you go off into the world and do the exact opposite. you're wrecking the place!"

    what an amazing dad he is :)

  11. Happy Earth Day!!!

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    me and niffermouse spent the evening listening to david suzuki speak at the royal botanical gardens. he's just written an autobiography and is...well, touring to support it, i guess.

    if you are in or near any of the following cities, go see him. well worth the $10.

    Monday, April 24

    GUELPH, ON

    Norfolk United Church (75 Norfolk St), 7 pm

    Tuesday, April 25

    WATERLOO, ON

    Humanities Theatre University of Waterloo, 7 pm

    Tickets: University of Waterloo Bookstore

    Thursday, April 27

    PORT COLBORNE, ON

    Roselawn Theatre (296 Fielden Avenue), 6 pm dinner and reception (optional)/8 pm event

    Tickets: http://www.williamthomas.ca/

    Friday, April 28

    TORONTO, ON

    University of Toronto Hart House Great Hall (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30 pm

    Tickets: University of Toronto Bookstore

    Phone: (416) 640-5836

    Saturday, April 29

    ORANGEVILLE, ON

    Orangeville District Secondary School, 7:30PM

    Tickets: BookLore Bookstore & Caledon Countryside Alliance

    Phone: 519-942-3830

    Sunday, April 30, 2006

    LONDON , ON

    Grand Theatre (471 Richmond Street), 7:30 pm

    Tickets: University of Western Ontario Bookstore, Books Plus (519) 661-4091, & Grand Theatre Box Office

  14. It's All Too Much

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    hhehehee...they played it at a show you were at...welcome to your forgetful years (~):)

    No! I'm not that far gone' date=' yet ;). Name the show - you sure it wasn't that Buckeye that I missed?

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    according to deadbase,

    (17) 07-02-95 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, In. (Sun)

    1: H. C. Sunshine*, Walking Blues*, Dire Wolf*, All Over Now*, Broken Arrow*, Desolation Row*,

    Tennessee Jed, Let It Grow*

    2: Scarlet*> Fire*> Victim*>All Too Much> New Speedway*> Drumz> Attics*> Sugar Magnolia E:

    Mighty Quinn*

    *final version fences crashed after "Broken Arrow" - final/last "Desolation Row": 10-10-94 [61] - "Fire"

    was first verse only

    ...which doesn't jive with the memory i thought i had of seeing it done in buffalo with you and cj. i'm thinking that the memory of the show itself, which is vaguely trickling back as i think about it (hmmm...i wonder if i have that show....must go look....) anyway, i wonder if the content of the show was eclipsed by the fence and all the cops and stuff. i can still hear the low rumbling sound of the generators that were running the lights as we walked out through the hole in the fence :(

    in the context of that evening, "all too much" was an inspired choice....

    edit to add...currently downloading the show from archive. sadly it's 64k mp3, but, well, i remember having 5th generation aud recordings and being happy to have them...

  16. It's All Too Much

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    I.e. the Beatles tune - had no idea the Dead covered it (must have been all that Beatles that it seems Welnick brought in). Nice version, too - Jerry does nice things with that horn line at the end.

    3-26-95 - The Omni

    hhehehee...they played it at a show you were at...welcome to your forgetful years (~):)

  21. oil for water...

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    from The Brandon Sun, Brandon MB:

    Water for oil: study predicts unprecedented crisis

    By: Dennis Bueckert

    OTTAWA — Canada’s Prairies will face an unprecedented water crisis in coming years due to declining river flows and growing water usage — especially in processing Alberta’s vast oil sands, says a new study.

    Summer flows in Prairie rivers are already 20 to 80 per cent lower than in the early part of the 20th century, say Alberta researchers David Schindler and W.F. Donahue.

    Worst affected is the South Saskatchewan River, whose summer flows have been reduced by 84 per cent, according to the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    All the major Prairie rivers are fed by melting snow and ice in the Rockies, but the glaciers and snowpack have been receding due to climate warming.

    Weather records in the Prairies show a warming of one to four degrees C in the past 80 to 118 years, and half the weather stations receive substantially less precipitation than a century ago.

    The study says that Alberta is the most vulnerable to water shortages because of population growth, extensive use of irrigation and the rapid growth of the oil industry.

    ‘‘The projected use of water for the oil sands could be as high as 45 cubic meters a second, which would be about half of the low flow of the Athabaska in most of the years of the last 15 or 16,’’ said Schindler.

    Currently, the oil sands consume three to six barrels of water per barrel of oil produced.

    The wetlands in northern Alberta are already showing negative effects of declining water supply, but large oil sands projects continue to be proposed and approved, says the study.

    Alberta also accounts for almost three-quarters of Canada’s irrigation agriculture, and for intensive livestock operations with 6.4 million cattle and 1.8 million hogs.

    ‘‘If the trends described above continue, the combination of climate warming, increases in human populations and industry, and historic drought is likely to bring an unprecedented water crisis in the Western Prairie Provinces,’’ says the report.

  25. Give anything up for Lent? How's that going?

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    I gave up Christianity for lent about 8 years ago and I've never looked back.

    What he said' date=' only more than eight years ago.

    It's kind of interesting that yet another of the many things that all religions seem to have in common is the practice of self-denial.

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    morals and virtue and carnal forebearance...

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