Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company
FRIDAY REPORT OF 04/28/06
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
LEARNING WHEN AND HOW TO USE LAW AND LAWYERS
The most helpful and interesting information on these subjects we’ve ever seen appears in “Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution” by Murray N. Rothbard and was posted on 04/22/06 at http://www.mises.org/story/2120.
It is subdivided into the following 14 aspects:
“Law as a Normative Discipline, Physical Invasion, Initiation of an Overt Act: Strict Liability, The Proper Burden of Risk, The Proper Burden of Proof, Strict Causality, Liability of the Aggressor Only, A Theory of Just Property: Homesteading, Nuisances Visible and Invisible, Owning the Technological Unit: Land and Air, Air Pollution: Law and Regulation, Collapsing Crime Into Tort, Joint Torts and Joint Victims, and Conclusion.” Printing it requires 31 pages. Many of you will refer to it many times over the years.
“THE MOBILITY MYTH
by Alison Stein Wellner”
Our title and quotes are from a recent article in REASON:
“It’s one of the most durable perceptions about America: The United States is a nation on the move. From the days of ‘manifest destiny,’ when pioneers forged their way westward, to today, as technology loosens the geographic tether, the American people appear congenitally restless. Unlike other stodgy countries, we’re a young nation, modern cowboys and cowgirls, lonely but rugged, isolated and independent, charting our own course. We’re entrepreneurial, pursuing opportunities wherever they take us. What could be more quintessentially American?…
“All this might be very troubling, if not for the fact that increasing geographic mobility is a myth. If anything, Americans are more likely than ever to stay put. You might think that basic fact would give the social critics and policy makers pause. But it hasn’t stopped them from asserting that rampant mobility is destroying the environment, undermining the family, and increasing anomie. More important, it hasn’t stopped them from proposing intrusive, coercive, and expensive measures to curb a problem that doesn’t exist.
“In 2004 less than 14 percent of U.S. residents moved – the lowest figure since the Census Bureau began collecting the data in 1948, when the moving rate was 20 percent. What’s more, the movers aren’t going very far: Fifty-eight percent of people who moved in 2004 moved within the same county, while 20 percent moved to a different county within the same state. Nineteen percent of movers (less than 3 percent of U.S. residents) set off for different states, a bit lower than the interstate moving rate during the late 1940s. And those who move usually aren’t in hot pursuit of economic opportunity: Just 16 percent of all moves are work-related. (Most people move for reasons related to housing: to shift from renting to homeownership, to find a cheaper or more spacious place, and so on...
“Historians generally agree that throughout U.S. history Americans have been more mobile than people in other countries, particularly Europeans. The evidence for this is mostly anecdotal, since comparable statistics are hard to find. But even today, Americans are at least slightly more mobile than people in other countries. For example, 11 percent of U.K. residents moved house in 2001, compared to 14.2 percent of U.S. residents.
“It’s hard to pinpoint the moment Americans began to settle down, since the Census Bureau did not start collecting comparable yearly data until 1948. But since then, mobility has declined steadily. Local moves (within the same county or within the same state) have declined the most. In 1948, 17 percent of the population made a local move. By 2004 that figure had fallen to 11 percent. Interstate moves were already rare in the 1940s and have remained essentially flat since then: In 2004 just 2.7 percent of the population moved across state lines, compared to 3.4 percent in 1948.
“The profile of the typical mover hasn’t changed much either. ‘Migrants have always been younger,’ says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Movers today, as in the late 1940s, are disproportionately in their 20s and early 30s, although today’s young aren’t quite as restless. In 1948, 37 percent of 20-to-29-year-olds moved, compared to 28 percent in 2004.
“Frey believes increased homeownership has played an important role in declining mobility. Sixty-eight percent of Americans owned homes in 2003, compared to 55 percent in 1950 and 47 percent in 1900. The increase is due partly to tax policies that subsidize home ownership and partly to looser mortgage application standards. A homeowning American is a more rooted America because homeowners are less likely to move. In 2004, for example, 6 percent of homeowners moved, compared with 28 percent of renters…
“Finally, Frey notes, there’s the general aging of our society. Since 1940 the percentage of people 65 and older has more than doubled, thanks to increases in longevity. The average baby born today can expect to live 10 more years than a baby born in 1950. Younger people move more frequently than older people, so as society grays the share of people who move each year naturally declines…”
“Alison Stein Wellner, a former editor at American Demographics magazine, is a writer in New York City. To read the complete article, click on http://www.reason.com/0604/fe.aw.the.shtml
“FINCHES PROVIDE ANSWER TO ANOTHER EVOLTIONARY RIDDLE”
Our title and quotes are from an article posted on http://www.sciam.com:
“Previous research had shown that female birds go for the most resplendent mates; in the case of finches, this means males with the reddest breast. Some scientists argue that such sexual selection is the driving force behind apparently useless displays, such as red breasts or the brilliance of a male peacock’s tail. ‘For such elaborate traits to evolve, you have to have mating patterns where everyone wants the same thing,’ ecologist Kevin Oh explains.
“On the other hand, in a relatively stable population, if all females mated with the flashiest guy, the charm of finches would become inbred. Instead, female finches should seek out males with the most genetic difference from themselves. But this would lead to a variety of hues for male finch breasts. ‘Even though preference for genetically complementary mates is widely documented, it has always puzzled people that individual differences in mate preference do not prevent the evolution of elaborate ornaments,’ ecologist Alexander Badyaev notes.
“Badyaev has spent the last 10 years photographing, taking DNA samples and measuring a charm of house finches in Montana…By analyzing that record, the researchers found that early in the mating season, females chose the male finch with the reddest breast. But as the season wore on – and new females entered the charm – they typically chose males with strong genetic differences from themselves. And those tempted to stray typically chose a mate more genetically different than their regular partner, according to the research presented in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
“Although it remains unclear how finches sense genetic difference, the finding does reveal a new strategy for evolving elaborate ornamentation while preventing inbreeding. And that means this behavior might apply to more than just one charm of finches in Montana.”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.sciam.com and then on our title.
USED BOOK SALES
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OUR SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBER
For details, click on http://www.vardaman.com and then on the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” You can offer to buy or sell timber or land. You must post the general area of your interest; be sure to include the state. You must also post your E-MAIL ADDRESS and the URL of your Internet site. Our tracking report will not report the number of visitors UNLESS you enter your URL. If you are selling, you should post the name of the tract. When you have entered all details, click on “Submit,” and what you just entered will appear on our Internet site at the bottom of the page under the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” Be sure to check for and correct errors.
For each tract posted and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.50 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.50 for each visit his ad received during the week just ended. You can pay us by e-mailing the money to “Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company” at PayPal or mailing it to P.O. Box 12293, Jackson, MS 39236. We will delete your ad when your payments cease.
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