Towards Altamont
From High Point.
Taken on Sunday January 15, 2012 at John Boyd Thacher State Park.
Hamilton County Unemployment
At 11.3% unemployed in December 2017, Hamilton County in the Adirondack Park has the state’s highest unemployment rate.🤔
That sounds really bad, however much employment in Hamilton County is seasonal in nature, with unemployment being only 3.9% in July and 3.8% in August. 🏕⛰🚵🏊
There are only 2,300 people in the Hamilton County labor force, with 300 unemployed.
3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making
This article from the Harvard Business Review has some straightforward tips on how to make better decisions when you have to make a choice.
Top 6 Common Uses For Gold
I was surprised to read that 78% of all gold consumed today is for Jewelry, especially with gold being used for many other purposes, such as electronics and other high-efficiency electrical conductors. Gold can be spread very thing for most uses, outside of jewelry, so while the amount of products that use gold are much wider then jewelry, only jewelery uses a significant amount of gold.
Difference between Microprocessor and Microcontroller
"Visually both microprocessor and microcontroller almost look identical but they are different in many aspects. They are different in terms of the application in which they are used, processing power, memory, cost and power consumption."
Cougars Officially Declared Extinct in Eastern U.S., Removed from Endangered Species List
"Eastern cougars once roamed every U.S. state east of the Mississippi, but it has been eight decades since the last confirmed sighting of the animal. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially declared the subspecies extinct and removed it from the U.S. endangered species list."
"The decision, announced Monday, is the result of years of deliberation. The agency conducted an extensive review of the eastern cougar in 2011, and recommended it be removed from the endangered and threatened species list in 2015, Reuters reported. The species, also known as pumas, are the genetic cousins of mountain lions in the Western United States and of Florida panthers, which are now found only in the Everglades."
Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
"A short drive north of Fairbanks, there's a red shed stuck right up against a hillside. On the surface, the shed looks unremarkable, except for the shed's door. It looks like a door to a walk-in freezer, with thick insulation and a heavy latch. Whatever is behind that door needs to stay very cold. "Are you ready to go inside?" asks Thomas Douglas, a geochemist at the U.S. Army. Behind the door is a geological time bomb, scientists say. No one knows exactly how big the bomb is. It may even be a dud that barely detonates. But the fallout could be so large that it's felt all around the world. Now there's evidence that, in the past few years, the bomb's timer has started ticking."