Update Little Falls 11/28/2009
Good story and history of Dubai World to date. Ref; The Wall Street Journal, 11/28-29/09 page A10. For the moving shock wave, page A10. For the value of the U.S. dollar, page B6. For the help of it's oil-rich neighbor …
Update little falls 11/27/2009
Very good story on Vietnam's economy. a) State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Giau devalued the dong by 5%. b) This move makes Vietnams manufactured goods cheeper than those of many other Asian countries, improving it's global edge. c) …
Update Little Falls 11/25/2009
Corn and soybean harvest is slow and long this year, caused by wet weather. As of 11/22/09 soybean harvest at 97% complete, corn harvest at 66%, the corn 33% lower than the five- year average of 96% by now. Most …
Update Little Falls 11/23/2009
Ancient crocodiles of 100E6 years ago sometimes reached 8 tons. Ref: USA Today 11/20/09 page 5A National Geographic Nov. 09 page 126 Captain Khlebnikov will not be spending the Winter in Antarctic ice , near Snow Hill Island this Winter, …
Update Little Falls 11/19/2009
Atherosclerosis in 1981 B.C. ?. They ate meat from cattle,ducks and geese and salted the meat as there was no refrigeration unless ice was brought down from the highlands of Europe and stored in straw storage in Egypt. Ref: The …
Update Little Falls 11/17/2009
Looking for Nuclear-Plant design?. The top builders are Areva SA of France and a U.S. -Japanese consortium of General Electric Co. and Hitachi Ltd. and Korea hydro & Nuclear Power known as APR1400. Ref: The Wall Street Journal, 11/16/09 page …
Update little Falls, 11/16/2009
Up from a good nights sleep on 11/15/09 as it was my day off. At 8 AM I looked out the window after hearing geese flying in. There were about 75 Canadian geese in the Mississippi River. The frosty morning …
Update Little Falls, 11/12/2009
Good news on why a stable Yuan is good. The big picture appears to be that the U.S. needs to fix it's economy and China needs to spend it's money!. To move the Yuan up would depress U.S. consumer demand …
Update Little Falls 11/09/2009
A note on energy. T. Boone Pickens says natural gas supplys will be gone in 30 years. He recommends fuel cells or batterys. Mr Pickens also has predicted oil prices to be $300.00 a barrel by 2019. Ref: Star Tribune, …
Update Little Falls 11/05/2009
We had a 1000 lb. order for English toffee that has kept us busy the last few days at Pete & Joy's. Weather is still wet and cool but no staying snow yet.The trees are all but gone of leaves …
Update Little Falls 11/02/2009
A story on the Sun Cafe's Art Deco historical designation architectural design. As I studied the French Riviea and found Frank Jay Gould's $5E6 Art Deco casino design, The Palais de la Mediterran'ee in Nice, built in 1926. At the …