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From the Past 1966

It's a New Year Celebration. Those are  children of Nuclear Scientists who worked at The Nuclear Center in Pyatihatki ( Kharkov Ukraine)

I am second from the right. Waw, almost 50 years past.  

I hate run-arounds

I respect companies that use Reject letters to inform applicants, they did not have any luck with position in the company they applied for.
I call a Reject Letter – No bullshit straight answer. This way a person can move on with his/her job search, without thinking “Oh may be HR from the company I applied 10 months ago, will call me”.
In the past, I had to call HR of some companies that I applied for, just to hear “Well, we do not know, yet” weeks after an interview.
I hate run-arounds. Hire me or do not hire me, but don’t bullshit me.

1816 year without a summer or one more reason why Ukraine is so important for everybody.

Between April 5–15, 1815, in the area Lesser Sunda Islands, Dutch East Indies mount Tambora erupted, throwing ash up in the air, which with combination of low solar activity caused a volcanic winter  and dropped temperatures by 0.4 to 0.7 °C  . Parts of Russian Empire such as Ukraine and Volga region were spared and actually had a temperature increase.

Lack of summer in 1816  created a wide food shortage in the Northern Hemisphere.  In some part of Europe there were food riots. US and Canada had lakes frozen in July.

The only food producing regions in Europe were Ukraine, Volga region – big grain production areas, Balkans and Turkey. The price of grain went up 10 times

I am not a meteorologist. In my life time I saw several big eruptions happened in Polynesia (one of them forced US to close Clark Air force base in Philippines) I do not know, if there can be another eruption like in 1815 soon, but all I can say, that there is something in the region of South Easter Ukraine and other places (see the map), that with rotation of the Earth keeps enough sunshine to produce crops, and other places cannot do that. This makes those areas strategic for countries to control food supply.

Food – commodity that you cannot live without. Control food supply – control people and countries. Ukraine, specifically Central planes and South East of Ukraine, has one of the most fertile soils on Earth.

By importance to food production, the land there can be compared to California’s Central Valley and Mississippi Valley.

Some of the wars in the future will be for food and water.

Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Grand Canyon at sunset