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1. Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oi
From: George Lessard
2. GENEALOGY : HISTORY: Genealogy Gives Life to History
From: David P. Dillard
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1. Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oi
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:26 am ((PST))
Published on 4 Dec 2006 by Energy Bulletin. Archived on 4 Dec 2006.
Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil
than the US
by Dmitry Orlov
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar
or an activist. I am more of an eye-witness. I watched the Soviet
Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a
concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent
a message it is.
My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in
the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet
Union, prior to its collapse. The rhetorical device I am going to use
is the "Collapse Gap" - to go along with the Nuclear Gap, and the
Space Gap, and various other superpower gaps that were fashionable
during the Cold War.
http://energybulletin.net/23259.html
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2. GENEALOGY : HISTORY: Genealogy Gives Life to History
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:07 am ((PST))
GENEALOGY :
HISTORY:
Genealogy Gives Life to History
Genealogy Gives Life to History
By Sharron Hollen, The North Platte Telegraph
12/10/2006
NP Telegraph
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<http://www.nptelegraph.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=
17573011&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6>
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NORTH PLATTE - Ruby Coleman was just 9 when she was first introduced to
the subject of genealogy. It reduced her to tears and filled her with
fear.
I was sure I was going to fail third grade, Coleman reflects. Her teacher
had asked the students to write a brief family history that would
hopefully include the names of great-grandparents.
What Coleman discovered, and was introduced to through that simple class
assignment, led to an abiding fascination with genealogy and history. Over
a span of more than five decades, it has also brought Coleman to the
national forefront as a professional genealogist.
Colemans childhood fear that she had no family history originated, in
part, from living more than a thousand miles from her grandparents at a
time when neither cross-country travel nor long-distance telephone calls
were commonplace.
Her mother put her at ease about the school assignment when she brought
out yellowed pieces of paper that were filled with family names and
snippets of history. Her father shared names and family stories he had
heard as a boy growing up.
It got me excited. It turned me on to genealogy, said Coleman of the
resulting school paper, written in childish scrawl, that she presented to
her teacher.
That first venture into genealogy also began to give life to history.
Genealogy, Coleman said, is about more than just names and dates. It is
the discovery of other bits and pieces of information, of time and factors
in history, that begin to turn those names into real human beings.
For 13 years, from 1983-1996, Coleman wrote the column Heritage Lines for
the North Platte Telegraph. It tied local history together with people who
were part of that history.
Coleman now writes for national genealogy publications and genealogy
sources on the Internet. Her work appears regularly on Genealogy Today and
on the New England Historic Genealogical Society Web site. She has written
texts and electronic learning CDs, with instructions from beginning to
advanced levels of genealogy research, that are regularly used in
workshops and classes by other professional genealogists.
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David Dillard
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