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A tentative title for the next advocacy post: Senior & Student Think & Pitch Tanks  Let's start with a few excerpts from the "Think & Do" article of J un e 2007 which targeted retirees:   How many retired professional and business leaders will use their time, talents and perspectives to benefit their city and region? How many will use their intellects in networking with locals to attack & solve local problems?  1 . D etermine the goal. 2. I dentify the highest- leveraged approach. 3 . D iscover the ideal technology for such approach.     People in their 60s and beyond need productive relationships. Discovering and implementing needed solutions to intractable problems gives purpose and structure to retirement work that matters. The Test: Where's that collaborative can-do & will-do spirit? Do retiring Londoners have the creative spark to launch Think & Do Tank ( s)? "  The current project chall...

  https://www.xfel.eu/  and https://www.dw.com/en/european-xfel- first-images-of-the-x-ray-laser-inspire-researchers/ a-40311964   Excerpts:   "It sounds like science fiction - an X-ray camera that is not only detailed enough to capture pictures of individual atoms but that can even document the course of chemical reactions as they are happening"  "It's barely a year since the European XFEL (X-Ray Free-Electron Laser)  was launched, with the first scientists getting their "beam time." Excerpts:   “X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are novel X-ray sources that provide femtosecond pulses of a peak brilliance that exceeds that of synchrotron sources by nine orders of magnitude… allowing the investigation of the dynamics of matter in a time-resolved manner 1 , 2 , 3 , and enables the analysis of highly radiation-sensitive objects.”  Such as LENR  "Teams of scientists from 35 universities and research i...

https://neuenergy.blogspot.com/2018/06/gta-relief-valve-new-cities-on-ontarios.html      This post relates to a growth and highway proposal for Ontario's northern 519 area and the GTA. It has ties to the 400/401/402 freeways and to Huron, Bruce, Grey, Middlesex, Simcoe and Wellington counties. Having fallen off the CN/CP rails in the 1960s and losing out on rural employment and county revenue growth, a Georgian Bay freeway is overdue; highway upgrades and new job centers are survival end games.          Promoted  is a freeway from the 402 east of Strathroy ,  north towards Walkerton/Hanover and thence east to the 400 south of Barrie. To keep the province competitive, expansion of the freeway grid should get on the South-west’s rolling 5-yr Highway Plan. Once a Right-of-Way is secured, construction is staged over decades as a 2-laner and then built out to full freeway standard as mid-century needs dictate.   ...