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daviditron: Northover Traverse with Mike

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I have locked you into a desired location. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Northover Traverse with Mike. Mike has an excellent account of our trip to Northover at his blog here. Pictured above in the clouds is Northover, part of the continental divide east of Kananaskis Lake.  It was one of two objectives for what I hope has become an annual trip with Mike.  . 160;After much pondering in the hail, we chose to move it several feet over.  . I don't know how much sleep I got but perhaps 2 hours spread out over...

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daviditron: December 2009

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I have locked you into a desired location. Wednesday, December 09, 2009. Are you Being Served? This week Calgary was buried in snow causing major transportation problems. The drifts in some areas were chest deep for several days as they waited for city crews to clean them. It was lucky that no emergency services were required in those areas since neither ambulance nor fire trucks would have been able to penetrate the massive drifts. But an institution can be? Is considered a better risk? We mistakenly im...

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daviditron: Snowstorms kill hundreds of cattle

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I have locked you into a desired location. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Snowstorms kill hundreds of cattle. From the Calgary Herald today. Ranchers in southern Alberta's Cardston County are in emergency mode after a barrage of spring snowstorms killed hundreds of cattle. Losses are mounting as melting snow reveals calves that succumbed to the winter-like weather of the past couple of weeks, said Reeve Cam Francis. And then the doctor. Sigh* another straw man. No climatologist in their right mind would say th...

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daviditron: November 2009

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I have locked you into a desired location. Friday, November 27, 2009. That's right, the annoying Grey Power commercials are ending according to company president, Catherine Smola. Grey Power invites us to contemplate the injustice of having to pay the same insurance premiums as the heroine when you've clearly earned the right to pay less. I'll tell you what I've earned, the right to yell at the driver in front of me who is treating a busy intersection like a drive-in movie. "C'mon already lets go! Congra...

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daviditron: Mankind: a success story.

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I have locked you into a desired location. Saturday, September 11, 2010. Mankind: a success story. I thought a separate post on this would end a lengthy exchange in the comment section of an earlier post.  The media and others are trying to convince me that I have much to fear over an increase in temperature.  Lets see what the facts say. 160;But wait, hasn't extreme weather deaths gone from .03 deaths per million to .82 deaths per million? And then the doctor. And then the doctor. That seems to be deter...

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daviditron: October 2009

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I have locked you into a desired location. Thursday, October 29, 2009. Why I am not getting the H1N1 Vaccine. Each year, a vaccine is produced to combat seasonal influenza. The most likely strains are assembled and downtrodden. When administered, your immune system fights this weak version theoretically building the antibodies necessary to fight the strain. Study after study shows the flu vaccine reduces your chance of dying of influenza by 50 percent. Seems irrefutable. Matched increasing rates of vacci...

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daviditron: Soil Harvest

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I have locked you into a desired location. Sunday, May 16, 2010. These piles are just the worm castings. What was once table scraps is now very productive (and odorless) topsoil. We even had enough to share with some gardening friends from Calgary. After scooping into piles, the worms scurry to the bottom of each pile where they can be easily collected and returned to their box. And then the doctor. There is more complexity in a cup of soil than in the entire solar system. And then the doctor. Mike youre...

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daviditron: Housing, Wages, Illusions.

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I have locked you into a desired location. Monday, May 10, 2010. Housing, Wages, Illusions. To see recent malinvestment on a grand scale one only needs to look at the US housing market. Low interest rates for a decade caused a speculative housing boom. Currently there are 20 million empty units. Thats enough vacancy to house Canada! That is the face of malinvestment! The real number is closer to 22 percent if you bother to include people who don't have a job. It's ironic that during the recession, minimu...

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daviditron: September 2009

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I have locked you into a desired location. Sunday, September 27, 2009. Not all who wander are lost. Last week I joined the Cochrane Search and Rescue team. For the next 2 months I go through a rigorous training and certification process. I'm excited to learn some new skills and use what skills I've acquired from years of bush work. My previous rants about poorly equiped people wandering into the middle of nowhere will likely come to an end now that I will soon be looking for them! And then the doctor.