Concerning Inflection Point Opportunities

Jim

Riddle answer: The conclusion of the trial of John Scopes, tried for teaching evolution in schools. This remains an issue in many Christian circles and has made national politics with the church of one presidential candidate.

The printed word still has a draw for the teenage generation. I keep the current issues of "The Smithsonian" and "Scientific American" on my desk and the kids can't resist picking them up and reading them. One cover story on Aliens Among Us is irresistible for most boys. So the market for slick magazine paper should hang in there. The girls are really into books, particularly love stories. So there you go.

Is anyone working on a germ fighting tissue that can still be used to clean your spectacles? I hated the tissues that contained a skin cream. You completely smeared your glasses if you unknowingly used them for that purpose.

As experienced last year, three kids in our school with maybe 25 at driving age have completely totaled vehicles in December and January. Luckily none were seriously injured. But the net experience leads me to realize we should buy our teenage drivers the safest vehicles we can afford. Then we should insist that they & their passengers ALWAYS use all vehicle safety devices, including seat belts. I wrote this in a Frontline Focus editorial last March and will likely repeat it this year.

Peace,

Gene Canavan
Prattville, Alabama, USA

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Jim:

Thank you for adding me to the Nip Impressions mailing list. I must tell you I've read many industry newsletters over the years and this is one of the best, if not the best, I have seen.

Best regards,

Cheryl Ahto
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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Jim,

Your "pay my expenses only" offer to visit mills is a very interesting idea. I would be open to something like that with a mill or research group. My caveat would be for travel of me and my wife (my fettish is to only travel if she comes), travel by train is preferred by me. Conversations would be about technical subjects (curl, dimensional stability, paper properties), perhaps for a half day and a lunch meeting. I find I feel too beat if I do it for a whole day at once.

My last visit on a similar basis was visiting several Australian mills over three weeks. I'm not sure I would be up to that again.

By the way, are you going to get the new website into "high gear" soon?

Chuck Green
Webster, New York, USA

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Chuck:

I plan on revamping Cellulose Community in February.

Jim

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Hi Jim,

William Jennings Bryan died in 1925 five days after the conclusion of the Scopes Trial in which he defended Creation against Darwinism. Trial was in Dayton, Tennessee. Bryan College in Dayton was named in his honor. (My son graduated from there)

I have been enjoying reading your weeklies.

Back in Milton, PA, after a short stay in Alabama.

Mike Mitchell
Milton, Pennsylvania, USA

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Hey, Jim,

Enjoyed your column, as always.

Regarding fiber resources, what about the amount of raw material wasted every year? There are massive forest fires, consuming huge resources to control. And there is a lot of wood lost to disease, old age, etc. (The latter often in the name of "conservation"). It seems to me that better forest management would make better use of our resources and reduce the danger of wildfires. I often wonder how much timber is lost to fires, compared to the timber harvested. How about a guest column from someone who knows?

I did read that the movie "The Last of the Mohicans" was filmed on timber company land in NC, as that land seemed to fit the producer's idea of what upstate NY looked like at the time. Poorly publicized, but it shows that not all timber company land is single species plantations.

I had a friend in Idaho who used to take contracts from the government to clear cut 10-15 acres here and there to improve the wildlife habitat. Too few of us know that Bambi doesn't really live in a 100 year old forest.

The answer to this weeks riddle is the Scopes "monkey trial"

Best regards,

Peter Angevine
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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