Category: 2006
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Reflections on China
A friend asked me for some thoughts on China based on my research and travels. Please see the PDF document at: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/china-reflections.pdf
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Year One
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Just before midnight local time on the night of 27-28 August, 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather buoy #42003, located in the Gulf of Mexico roughly at the intersection of a line directly south of Panama City, Florida and directly west of Naples, Florida, suddenly stopped transmitting. The buoy, a 10 meter…
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22 Men
While visiting the R.B. McLean Mill National Historical Site, the last remaining commercial scale steam powered sawmill in North America, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the volunteers who keeps the place going and operates the mill for museum visitors. He’d worked all over the island in the logging business, but got…