Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company
FRIDAY REPORT OF 05/26/06
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
“A TIMELY NEW MARKET IN PROPERTY FUTURES”
Our title and quotes are from a 5/23/06 posting on ECONOMIST.COM:
“At a banking conference last week the chairman of America’s Federal Reserve finally said out loud what nervous homeowners from Manhattan to Los Angeles have been muttering edgily for months. Ben Bernanke acknowledged it was ‘pretty clear’ that America’s housing market, which had been soaring for years, was at long last cooling down. But the slowdown seemed to be ‘orderly and moderate’, he said – and so hoped millions more Americans, anxiously eyeing their equity.
“Those who fear that worse will come now have a way to assuage their worries. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange opened a futures market this week trading in contracts tied to American housing prices. The futures are based on a market index called the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Contracts are available for markets in ten US cities, including frothy ones such as New York and Los Angeles. There is also a composite index. A one-point movement in the index changes the value of a contract by $250. This week the composite index stood at 231, for a value of $57,750…
To read the complete article, click on http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6969200
“A DIET OF MILK COULD BRING TWINS
by Helen Pearson”
Our title and quotes below are from NEWS@NATURE.COM of 05/20/06:
“Eating milk and dairy products could increase a woman’s chance of having twins, a US doctor is proposing, based on a study of vegan women…
“Gary Steinman of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, carried out a simple comparison: he gathered together childbearing records for more than 1,000 vegan women who do no eat any animal products. He calculated that vegans were around five times less likely to bear twins than omnivorous women or vegetarians who eat dairy food…
“Twins tend to run to run in families, showing that the chance of having them is partly determined by our genes. Older women also bear more twins, so the rise in older mothers, as well as fertility treatments, is pushing up the number of twins produced. The notion that diet may play a role is a relatively new one…”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/pf/060515-19_pf.html
Our editor and his wife are parents of two sets of boy-and-girl twins, and one of their other children already has twin girls.
“WHAT CAUSES RINGING IN THE EARS?”
by Dr. James B. Snow, Jr.
Our title and quotes are from posting on SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.COM on 05/22/06:
“The medical term for ringing in the ears is tinnitus, which means noise in Latin. Tinnitus is not limited to ringing but may be perceived as whistling, buzzing, humming, hissing, roaring, chirping or other noise. The technocal definition of tinnitus is therefore the perception of any of these sounds in the absence of an acoustic stimulus in the surrounding environment…
“…The most common form arises from damage to the inner ear or cochlea caused by exposure to intense noise. Loud noise can damage the hair cells responsible for receiving auditory stimuli…Drugs such as aspirin, quinine, aminoglycoside antibiotics, cancer chemotherapeutic agents and other ototoxic, as well as infections and head injuries, can also cause tinnitus…
“In summary, the perception of a ringing in the ear in the absence of a sound is thought to result ultimately from the cortices of the brain spontaneously increasing their activity and is associated with the organization of the auditory cortex. But many aspects of tinnitus remain mysterious.”
“ALL THAT GLITTERS
by LOUIS MENARD”
Our title and quotes are from THE NEW YORKER issue of 05/12/26:
“The Nobel Prize in Literature [1901] was the first of the major modern cultural prizes. It was soon followed by the Prix Goncourt first awarded in 1903) and the Pulitzer Prizes (conceived in 1904, first awarded in 1917). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started handing out prizes in 1929, the Emmys began in 1949, the Grammys in 1959. Since the nineteen-seventies, [James] English says, there has been an explosion of new cultural prizes and awards. There are now more movie awards given out every year – about nine thousand – than there are new movies, and the number of literary prizes is climbing much faster than the number of books published. When a prominent figure in the cultural world – a benefactor or a distinguished critic or professor – dies, the friends and family often establish a memorial prize in his or her name. (As English points out, the friends and family often have no conception of how much even a minor award costs to administer. The price of administration, in fact, usually far outstrips the value of the prize itself. The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition costs more than three million dollars a year to run; the winners receive twenty thousand dollars.) This doesn’t mean that everyone gets a ribbon. In the awards economy, the rich tend to get richer. Michael Jackson has been given more than two hundred and forty awards in his career. Steven Spielberg has ninety. ‘The Return of the King,’ the third movie in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, won seventy-nine prizes. English estimates that among poets John Ashberry is the leader, with at least forty-five prizes and awards. John Updike sets the pace for novelists, with thirty-nine…”
To read the complete article, click on http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/051226crbo_books
“THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
by William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White
If you hope to influence people by what you write (personal letters and
otherwise), you should buy your own copy of the book in our title. Once you
discover how many times you will use “the little book” to improve your
prose, you will wonder how you previously got readers for your stuff.
I got my first copy in April 1985. My paperback contains 85 pages of text
and 7 pages of index. Following its dicta enabled me to write HOW TO MAKE
MONEY GROWING TREES that John Wiley published in 1989 and has been selling
ever since.
USED BOOK SALES
We offer for sale all used books listed at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php.
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.
SELL LAND
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