Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company
FRIDAY REPORT OF 7/29/05
The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy
"SEX AND DRUGS"
Our title and quotes below are from The Economist of 07/21/05:
“Men and women seem to feel pain in different ways. That may mean they sometimes need different pain-relief drugs.
“Males and females respond to pain differently, even as children. In most places, boys are expected to show a stiff upper lip when they get hurt, while in girls wailing is, well, girlie. In part, this difference is learnt – or, at least, reinforced by learning. But partly, it is innate, for instance, to blame upbringing for the finding that boy and girl babies show different responses to pain six hours after birth, or that male rats are more longsuffering than females. It is also life-long. Ed Keogh of the University of Bath, in England, and his colleagues have found that women report feeling pain in more body areas than men, and also feel it more often over the course of their lives.
“Many researchers are therefore concluding that genetics underpins at least some of the difference, and that females really do feel pain more than males. Indeed, some go further. They think that the way men and women experience pain is not only quantitatively different, but qualitatively different, too. In other words, men’s and women’s brains process pain using different circuits. Some pain scientists therefore think it is only a matter of time before painkillers are formulated differently for men and women in order to account for this difference…”
To read the complete article, click on: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4197761
“DEFENDING THE CITY”
Our title and quotes of William Finnegan, its author, below are from THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY of 07/25/05:
“Before 9/11, the N.Y.P.D. had fewer than two dozen officers working the terrorism beat full-time. Today, there are about a thousand. Crime-fighting is still the N.Y.P.D.’s primary mission, but counterterrorism has really expanded the operational and conceptual boundaries of traditional police work. There are N.Y.P.D. detectives permanently stationed overseas, for instance, in half a dozen different countries. Ray Kelly, the Commissioner, has gone way outside of the traditional police-recruitment channels, looking for people with military, intelligence, and diplomatic backgrounds, people with deep knowledge of international terrorist organizations. What’s more, he has comprehensively persuaded the entire department to think of counterterrorism as a fundamental part of what cops call the Job…
“The N.Y.P.D. turns out to have some advantages, when it comes to counterterrorism work, over federal agencies traditionally responsible for doing it. For instance, in the languages considered critical to counterterror work today – Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, and so on – the N.Y.P.D. has deeper resources than the Feds. That’s partly because New York is a city of immigrants. When the police department’s leaders decided, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, to get serious about doing counterterrorism – to start doing it at a level, certainly, that no American city had ever attempted, they looked into the rank and file and found there a wealth of language expertise. There were literally thousands of officers, many of them originally from the Middle East, who were native-level speakers of dozens of foreign languages. A lot of those people were writing parking tickets – and a lot of them were ready to get into something more challenging. The N.Y.P.D.’s employment-application form now lists sixty languages that the department is interested in…
To read the full text of this fascinating, timely article, click on http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050725on_onlineonly01
“APPETITE HORMONE MAY SQUELCH LEARNING
By Roxanne Khamsi”
Our title and quotes below are from NATURE published online on 07/20/05:
“…Studies have begun to link memory deficits with metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Jenni Harvey of the University of Dundee, UK, says patients with diabetes can experience ‘anything from short-term memory loss to Alzheimer’s-like symptoms.’ And she says leptin is the key.
“An increasing number of reports show that abnormal levels of leptin can significantly alter brain cell function, Harvey told an audience at the annual meeting of the Biochemical Society in Glasgow, UK, this week…
“So could abnormally high leptin levels in children with weight problems be hindering their ability to perform in school? Harvey says that given the increasing incidence of obesity in the young, researchers should investigate the potential link…”
Click on http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050718/full/050718-8.html to read the complete article.
“INNOVATION: THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING
By Daniel Gross”
Our title and quotes below are from FORTUNE:
“Spending commitments for network TV’s fall schedule fell slightly during the recently concluded upfront sales period – for the second year in a row. Sales of magazine ad pages are roughly the same as they were in 1998, even though the economy is some 30% bigger. And so poor is the state of newspaper advertising that the Wall Street Journal – long a reliable profit maker – lost money on an operating basis in the first quarter. But the Internet is expected to attract close to $8 billion from national advertisers this year, still fairly modest but up 15% from 2004…
“Advertisers are spending more than ever. Universal McCann forecaster Robert Coen projects that U.S. advertisers will spend $279 billion this year, up 5.7% from 2004. But much of the growth is occurring far from Madison Avenue. You’ll find it in California, on the decidedly unchic Ampitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, headquarters of GOOGLE, where it speaks the dorky language of search algorithms and text-based ads embedded in e-mail. You’ll find it at Yahoo in nearby Sunnyvale, where it has begun to speak the silky patois of brand image and high-concept multimedia campaigns. And you’ll find it sooner or later at telecoms like SBC, which are pioneering a form on Internet television that just might save the TV spot. Give it ten years, say the tech gurus, and everything you watch will be high-definition, interactive, and brought to you via the Internet – you’ll love it!…”
Click on http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/ to read the complete article.
CHANGES IN BOOK SALES
This week we sold two batches of books and deleted them from the offering at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php. We deleted all empty spaces and added new books beginning at #406.
NEW SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBER
For the 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 after 05/12/05 and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.25 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.25 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. The new fee schedule does not apply to tracts marked with asterisks::
SELL LAND OR TIMBER
For tract in IA, send e-mail to windyhillt@aol.com
For tract in NC, send e-mail to savel23@aol.com
For 107-A. tract in GA, send e-mail to slaseter@comcast.net
BUY LAND
*For tracts in SC, send e-mail to loblolly@surfbvi.com
For tracts in MD, send e-mail to meyerstm@comcast.net
For tracts in MA, send e-mail to leonelmtz65@hotmail.com
BUY TIMBER
*For tracts in AR, send e-mail to dyork@digitalpassage.com
*For tracts in IL, send e-mail to psftimber@hotmail.com
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