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Re: Nay Aug Amusement Park

Neal Levene — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:19:55 -0000

Thanks for the message. I don't have any photos of the Dodgem ride that was at Nay Aug - so the one included here is just representative. The actual Dodgem cars at Nay Aug looked a little bit different from those shown. If anyone has any photos from Nay Aug, I sure would appreciate copies of them.

Most of my memories of the park are from the 70's and very early eighties. I think my grandfather sold the park in 1990. It might have been 1989. He passed away in 1991. During the mid-eighties until the park was sold, I made very few visits as I was in high school (Maryland) and then college (Pittsburgh). I'm glad I never saw it in disrepair.

My grandfather sure did love that place. I can remember how much he liked to rake up the leaves from the park and burn them in big oil drums. I can't remember the last time I lived somewhere that would permit leaf burning. Sigh - what a great smell.

Re: Is Your Organization Learning Faster Than Your Competitors?

Neal Levene — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0000

I deleted the hyperlink as it no longer worked.

Re: Unusually Poor NYT Infographic: Music Industry

Neal Levene — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:24:54 -0000

Thanks for the comments . . . is the lack of rise of online music sales necessarily the death of the music industry. CD sales still appear higher in constant dollars than the height of cassette sales. It might be that the CD industry lead to higher than usual music sales - and then maybe not. Any way you cut it though - I think this is an interesting data set even if predicting the future is not possible.

Re: Water Infographic

Neal Levene — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:31:13 -0000

Thanks for pointing to this site. The information is interesting. I get a little confused as there is a water system. The water doesn't disappear. Does it? Eating less beef to save water seems useful, only if there are alternate uses for the water at points that the water (in Argentina for example) could be used. Is beef production creating a water shortage somewhere else, for example.

When I water my lawn, doesn't the water filter through the soil and return to the water table or through evaboration? If I use less water, I can understand that there is less need for water treatment or water supply. Perhaps that has positive impacts on things like energy consumption.

Wouldn't the cows drink as much water if they were destined for beef as if they were just living their lives?

Data anlysis in complex systems is complicated. Determining correlation and causality is complicated. The fact that systems are dynamic and not static means that every change you make impacts new results.

In any event, thanks for your message Tim. I'd love to hear other people's comments.