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MOV Climate Corner: Dollars and (common) sense

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With the 2024 elections behind us and a second Trump administration preparing to take control in a few short weeks, I find it to be a time of reflection on the last four years. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Despite the rhetoric around America’s political realities and what the future may hold, we must also look back at the consequential policy of the Biden administration and the indelible impact it had on clean energy and climate. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act set a new standard for prioritizing clean energy and climate issues, putting hundreds of billions of dollars toward ...

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Dawson James Janus was born Nov. 12, 2024, to parents Brey and Zak Janus of Parkersburg, WV. He was born at 8:01 a.m. at Marietta Memorial Hospital weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces, measuring 18.5 inches. Grandparents are Bryan and Linda Mays of Bloomingdale, OH and Jeff and Marcy Janus of Kent, ...

Cliff Crane on the Steamboat CARRIE BROOKS

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The steamboat CARRIE BROOKS chugged along down the icy Muskingum River one frigid winter day in the 1870’s. Engineer Cliff Crane was on duty in the engine room. Near Malta-McConnelsville, Ohio, Crane stepped out on the stern to oil the bearings of the paddlewheel shaft. Spray from the ...

Smart phones have slowly taken over our lives

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Why can’t people stay off their phones? I’m a bit concerned that as a species we are losing our ability to communicate with people F2F. That’s “face to face” for those of you who haven’t let cell phones take over your life. Statistics show that nearly everyone has a cell phone now, and most of those phones are smart phones. To call them phones is really a bit of a misnomer. Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple Inc. summed it up best when he introduced the iPhone in 2007. “So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a ...

MOV Climate Corner: A challenge and an opportunity

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2024 has been a year of climate-related disasters. On Dec. 19, Reuters published one photo from each of the countries mentioned in its coverage this year: of the 125 countries, 22, or more than 15%, of the images featured the aftermath of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, or heat waves, and this in a year that saw political upheavals and wars across the globe. In the United States alone, wildfires burned 8.4 million acres, a million and a half more than the average of the last ten years, which have seen historically high fire numbers. The eighteen named storms of the Atlantic ...

Y2K+25: Computers didn’t stop the world 25 years ago

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For all of us a certain age – you know who you are – it has been 25 years ago since a world meltdown was predicted because of changing of computer clocks from 1999 to 2000. Y2K, geek shorthand for Year 2000, caused issues because early computers used only the the last two digits of the year in order to date files. This was done early on because memory was such a valuable commodity and dates such as 1999 took up more memory to store than simply using 99. As time kept ticking toward the end of the century people started getting seriously concerned that the computers of the world ...