May 7 2024 - Generation Naming

 

Have we always named generations?  When did we start?  Thoughtco.com tells me that it is generally agreed to have started in the 20th century.  It also tells me that generational theorists Neil Howe and William Strauss wrote the1991 book on this titled Generations" and get credit for the names.  I found these sources along the way: Gertrude Stein named the Lost Generation 1883 - 1900.  Tom Brokaw named The Greatest Generation 1901 - 1924.   Time Magazine named the Silent Generation in 1951 in an article.  The first recorded use of "baby boomer" is in a January 1963 Daily Press article by Leslie J. Nason describing a massive surge of college enrollments approaching as the oldest boomers were coming of age. The term Generation X was popularized by Douglas Coupland in an article for Vancouver Magazine in 1987. He later said that he had adopted the term from Paul Fussell's book Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, published in 1983. "The easy solution was Gen Y, because, of course, Y comes after X. Just like baby busters, though, Gen Y didn't stick. Neil Howe and William Strauss' 2000 book Millennials Rising named the generation born in the years following 1980 after the new century, and millennials was the label that endured." Xennial: Jed Oelbaum credits Sarah Stankorb with the term. The earliest traced usage comes from the 2014 Good article, which Stankorb pitched including the term Xennial. Gen Z: The 'Z' in the anemia means "zoomer' - but no one is given credit for its name.  Maybe it goes back to Douglas Coupland who is credited with Gen X. Gen Alpha: Social researcher Mark McCrindle coined the term for the most recent generation to denote a “new start” after Gen Z. McCrindle theorizes that they will be characterized by more diverse family dynamics, higher racial diversity and higher economic inequality than previous generations.     Tourist Tulip Fields are popping up everywhere in Niagara.  There was one in Fenwick last year - TASC.  Now there's another nearby.  And this one is on Seventh Avenue just north of Fourth Avenue.  Drop into 13th Street Winery for your butter tarts and then walk the fields - they are just around the corner.

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July 7 2022 - Canola in the News

 

There are a lot of plant crops that are used to make oils.  Soybeans, oil palm, rape, and sunflower account for 70% of the world production of plant oil.  Soybeans are the biggest crop.   We have sunflower fields northwest of Toronto. And there is quite a bit of Canola.  It is a type of rapeseed created by plant breeding in Canada in the 1970s. Canola is likely contentious as it was bred to be resistant to herbicides.   Canola made the news last week for other reasons.  People were taking to the yellow fields for selfies, and of course,  did damage to the crops.   If you google "canola fields selfie" the first picture is the news footage and the rest look like stock footage.   There are canola fields around the world.  Canada, Australia, U.S. China, and Europe.   I guess there are those for and against "canola tourism."  Some of the pictures have titles such as "Show us your canola selfie" - that's a twitter contest by the canola growers in 2020.   There's a Canola field trip to Western Australia in 2020 video.  Just below it is an Australian news article about trampling the canola fields. Here is an autumn picture that I expect is a canola crop.

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April 7th - Economists as Geometrists

The weather has been exceptional this spring - much warmer than previous years, particularly the last 2 years where we had a late and wet spring. Are we finished with snowflakes on the weather forecast?  No.  There are snow flakes with scattered flurries for next Thursday April 16th.  Last April we visited Kingston and Ottawa, and experienced the much colder weather in Eastern Ontario, with a snow storm in Ottawa.   The National Post had this headline about the economy:  What will your recovery look like?  Economists look beyond V, L and U projections in unprecedented times This article has a catchy introductory sentence:  "The global economic downturn has transformed economists into part-time geometrists"  To describe their projections, most economists turn to letters of the Latin alphabet.  A V-shaped recovery sees a steep decline in GDP being met with a rapid bounce off the bottom, whereas the dreaded L-shape spells recession, with GDP failing to return to its pre-crisis levels for years.  Here's the visual from the National Post article. Within that article was a quote that brings back memories of Monopoly:  There's going to be a price to pay for ensuring the system is saved.  There's no get out of jail free card  - that comes from David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research & Associates.  It got me thinking about Monopoly and other fun Catch-Phrases: Corner the market  Do not pass Go  Get out of jail free  Get out of jail free card  Go directly to jail, do not pass go Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Here's the field where yesterday's Queen Anne's Lace was blooming.  It may look like a rural setting, but just beyond the crest of the hill is the QEW highway.

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