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Harford Mills Brine Storage Ponds

There are two large brine storage ponds at the Enterprise Products Propane Storage facility in Harford Mills NY, outside of Ithaca and Cortland. They pump brine out of underground storage caverns and use it to store 680,000 BbLs of Propane.

https://www.enterpriseproducts.com/customers/natural-gas-liquids/#HarfordMillsNY

More about Brine Storage Ponds: https://www.layfieldgroup.com/geosynthetics/project-profiles/brine-storage-pond-storage-of-natural-gas-liquids-.aspx

High resolution LiDAR digital elevation models are a fantastic tool for exploring land and finding…

  • Old dump sites
  • Old mines
  • Old roads
  • Old stone walls
  • Cuts and fills of any sort on the land

 Hillshade Of South Mountain

I would definitely use such hillshade data when considering to buy a piece of land, to get a better idea of what its like then what just an aerial photo or map shows. LiDAR see through trees and bushes, it gives a lot more information then you might get without a very detailed survey of a property.

Download NYS High Resolution LiDAR data.

Traditional or Roth? Finance Pros Answer Which Retirement Account Is Best for Your Situation – WSJ

Traditional or Roth? Finance Pros Answer Which Retirement Account Is Best for Your Situation – WSJ

In general, we find that if you plan to retire earlier in life and take distributions later, then tilting more toward a Roth retirement account is beneficial.

For instance, if you had your retirement accounts weighted more heavily toward Roth accounts and retired at 65, yet waited to start withdrawing at 75, your final retirement balance at 85 would be $2.88 million under the simulations we used. If you were balanced across retirement accounts (50-50 split between accounts) your balance at 85 would be $2.8 million; if you weighted your holdings toward traditional retirement accounts, your balance at 85 would be $2.75 million.

On the other end of the spectrum, if you plan to retire later in life and take money out later in life, then aiming for a 50-50 split is best.

NPR

Scientists are nervous about drug-resistant fungi : NPR

Combatting bacterial and viral infections is getting tougher because of their growing resistance to drugs. Antibiotic drugs can no longer be counted on to conquer nasty bacteria. Antivirals don't always overpower the viruses. This is a huge problem but it is one that widely acknowledged and researched.

There's an additional medical challenge though, that matters a lot. Namely, drug-resistant fungi.

Yep, fungi.

It's a topic that doesn't get discussed much — and that worries Paul Verweij, professor of clinical mycology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He says there's a "silence surge" in drug-resistant fungi and that it's mostly happening under-the-radar.

Fungicides are used to protect plants against fungal disease. Everything — watermelons, maize, wheat, flowers — use lots of fungicides. If we didn't use the fungicides, you'd probably have a yield loss maybe of 30% or 40%.

The problem is that the fungicides are quite similar to the drugs we give to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time, our medical azoles [a class of antifungal drugs] do not work as well anymore.

The Campers (featuring Phil Ochs) – Adam and Eve

Now Adam was the first man since the world began.
The Lord picked up some clay and from it made a man.
Now Adam wasn’t satisfied, he said, I’ll need a bride.
So the Lord took out a rib from Adam’s side.

They set out to meet each other, never met before.
They recognized each other by the clothes each other wore.

Now she wore a tulip, a bright yellow tulip, and he wore a big red rose.
And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her,
but he told her no one knows.

He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic,
right down from your head to toes.

If any guy needs a harem,
I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them,
and he blushed like a big red rose.
The garden of Eden is where they settled down.

They had a small apartment just outside of town.
Now Adam didn’t eat much, but she didn’t give a hoot.
When he got hungry, he picked him some fruit.

They finally sought their home there,
I don’t know where they went.
They had to move away because
they couldn’t pay the rent.

But she still wore a tulip,
a bright yellow tulip,
and he wore a big red rose.

And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her,
but he told her no one knows.
He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic,
right down from your head to toes.

If any guy needs a harem,
I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them,
and he blushed like a big red rose.

I really mean it,
he blushed like a big red rose.

Phil Ochs …. before he started out on his own with The Campers (1963) singing Camp Favorites.

Raining bedliner …

It was raining pretty hard when I was about to leave home this morning but then it’s stopped. It was a very pleasant ride in, I shed my rain coat to avoid getting dripped in sweat like I was when I rode in last week. It was a nice ride in, maybe though I was listening to the radio a bit too loud but things very noise level as I leave home then ride along and under the interstate highway. With the tires installed properly, and the new tire on the back, I have a pretty solid ride, and since topping off the front brake, it stops well, though maybe I could use some BrakeKleen on the front rotator to stop the squeal. I think without the freezing weather, I shouldn’t have the air bubble issues I always have in the winter.

So I called and am having the spray-in bed-liner put in my truck next Friday. I was glad they were able to get me in right away, and the price is definitely reasonable. I will confirm the details about them properly masking the bed lights and pulling other hardware before spraying when I get there but the reviews of the place are good, so I think it will be good. I just want the protection of a bedliner before the camper shell goes on my rig. I worried they couldn’t get it done before May, but that’s silly – I still have the panademic-era mindset of everything being back ordered. Then it’s just waiting for the truck cap.

This weekend after Mom and Dad’s anniversary party in Coeymans, I am going to stop at Lowes and get a longer M7 bolt to mount the CB radio to the top of the dash. I have the mounting bracket from the old truck, I might need to drill another hole in the bracket but the M7 bolts on the center console that hold the center speaker on the fancy SuperDuty trucks mount to a bracket that is tied to firewall, and can more then hold a radio without interfering with the airbag. I check the radio is still low enough that it doesn’t impact the view out of the windshield much but puts the CB radio up high where it is easy to interact with.