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Mike Goetz, P.E. Accepting a certificate at the Statehouse
atrium ceremony.
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Akron
Mike
Goetz, P.E.
Ceremony at the Statehouse atrium
Bill
Lhota, an AEP veteran, was the keynote speaker. He stressed the need
for business ethics, and contrasted the outcomes of George Westinghouse,
(died the year the first engineers' code of ethics appeared, yet was
highly ethical himself, concerned about his employees, &c.), an
engineer who brought down his firm and many of its partners by bribing
politicians (such as U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew, who resigned
as he plead guilty to tax evasion) to award them contracts, and Phil
Condit, a highly-regarded eingineer at Boeing who rose to run the
company, but whose lack of concern for ethics forced his resignation.
The
roughly 150 or so being awarded the professional engineer designation
were asked to stand at the side of the atrium in "roughly alphabetic
order" so that they could quickly come forward when their names
were called. Few but engineers could be expected to pull that off
-- and there was little "roughly" about it.
Anti-war
march started at First A.M.E Zion
Around the corner.
I
can't bring myself to call it a peace march -- there was nothing peaceful
about Saddam Hussein. What is truly harmful to a just peace is the
U.S.'s alliance with brutal regimes such as the Saudi monarchy. The
U.S. is still associated with the inept, undemocratic, and unjust
rule of the Shah of Iran and pilloried in that nation as "the
great satan."
That
we took a stand against Saddam Hussein is to our credit -- whether
or not it was wise to start such a war at such a time is far less
certain. That it was unwise to go into it with so little planning
for the aftermath is without doubt.
ABOVE
Crocus with bee. The crocus are bold and beautiful
now that they have escaped their temporary snow shells. (Back garden).
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Preparing
for a long week ahead
Short-staffed next week, we hope to leave things in
decent order tonight.
The
first round of the NCAA men's basketball championships invaded Nationwide
Arena across the street, so access to the office was itself limited.
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Choir
rehearsal
We got out the Hallelujah Chorus for Easter. That
dreadfully exposed high A is still there in the tenor line. I had
hoped it would be rewritten.
Bexley
afterward
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New
Guinea Book
Online
AESQUE
Old
news (March 11), but still notable
Jimmy
Breslin | Newsday
For
days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to
follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service
and down to the park workers:
"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."
So
all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks worked to
ensure that, as always in his life, George Bush's feet do not touch
the ground when he appears in the big park today.
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Snow
day for Amy
In Akron. We get some snow, but most of it passes
just to the north.
New
Guinea pictures
Posted pages 1, 3-10 to see how it goes; more to come.
AESQUE
More
Dostoevsky
Finished the third short novel in the collection,
The Eternal Husband.
So
many characters in Dostoesvky are both 40 and live on the 4th floor.
Strange.
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Lonely
Without Amy & Charlie
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The
Double
Feodor Dostoevsky
Finished reading it today
Where
exactly to draw the line on the suspension of disbelief, whether this
or that was not as it is here and now, this was a difficult thing.
An
extraordinary number of people seemed to interact with "our hero's"
double, his other personality, and trying to visualize what was truly
happening was not easy.
Amy
to Akron
Posted
Desktops
Two Charlies for Amy
Outside
Charlie's chair
Third
Sunday of Lent
Pastor Hudson was again not enthusiastic about Mel
Gibson's "Passion of the Christ."
Sang
the choir: Angels bear my soul away, by Garry Cornell (who also wrote
the fanfare we are using for our wedding). There is an organ recital
at the church scheduled for Tuesday that will debut another of his
compositions.
The
resolution of the final chord is quite beautiful in this piece (Angels
bear my soul); Al said afterward he had intended to do it a capella,
but neglected to tell the organist.
Other
than us tenors dropping to an E where we ought to have put the far
more interesting (not to mention written) G on one verse ending, the
piece went very well.
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