We took a ride through the arboretum today. I managed to shoot a few rather nice photos of the beautiful fall color. Click on the photos and view a 1024 x 768 version. This size can be used for a desktop background image on many pc, linux and mac computers (save the large photo to your computer):
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Enjoy it now, before winter grey begins 🙁
Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) recently published a 14 page pdf summary of the recent big corporation tax cut/giveaway. 170K PDF
Scott Simon talks with color scout Ed Hepborn in Lisle, Ill., about what causes leaves to change colors and what is significant about this fall.
Just in time for the shopping season: Manolo’s shoe blog.
The study found that many state economies are already highly dependent on the biopharmaceutical industry, including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Washington and Utah.
The state economies in Nevada, Vermont, Alabama, New Hampshire, Florida and West Virginia also show great potential for capitalizing on biopharmaceutical development in the next 10 years.
The Milken Institute’s report. State by state biopharma economic contributions.
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We the People Wisconsin sponsored Friday evening’s debate between challenger Tim Michels and incumbent US Senator Russ Feingold. Click on a photo above to view additional images from Friday’s event.
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Thanks to everyone at We the People for organizing this (and other events), especially Tom and Deborah Still.
I’ve posted campaign links and fund raising information here for this US Senate race.
12 stranded hikers found safe; common sense and prayers, the hikers used their heads — and kept the faith. John M. Hubbell, Meredith May and Ulysses Torassa:
It could have been disaster. Death in the utterly quiet wilderness, two miles above sea level. With nobody around to know you’re gone.
But it turned out differently for three groups of hikers that were imprisoned by weekend snowstorms in the Sierra Nevada high country. All of them were rescued Thursday, and the real tale of their ordeal is that in many ways it wasn’t an ordeal. They were pretty experienced in the outdoors, they had good equipment and, most important in the eyes of professional rescue workers, they stayed together.
On Thursday, as they were brought to safety and the hugs and kisses of their loved ones, they told their stories.
Nova Safo on the recent resignation of Deborah Gribbon’s, Director of the Getty Museum in LA. I shot two panoramas at the Getty on a gorgeous clear day a few years ago.
New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual’s name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader.
The State Department hopes the addition of the chips, which employ radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, will make passports more secure and harder to forge, according to spokeswoman Kelly Shannon.
The reason we are doing this is that it simply makes passports more secure,” Shannon said. “It’s yet another layer beyond the security features we currently use to ensure the bearer is the person who was issued the passport originally.”
But civil libertarians and some technologists say the chips are actually a boon to identity thieves, stalkers and commercial data collectors, since anyone with the proper reader can download a person’s biographical information and photo from several feet away.
Go…. see the Madison Rep’s production of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen. We very much enjoyed Thursday’s performance which was the Rep’s first show at the new Overture Center. Nancy noted that the lighting and set were very well done. The rep has a page on the people behind the set construction.
