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[ Tuesday, January 08, 2008 07:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Number Two as Winners: The Rest of the Story.

Section:
Sports

Summary:
We all like to see underdogs win. Avis vs Hertz. The latest example is an impressive performance by the LSU Tigers of Baton Rouge, LA in the BCS Championship win over number one ranked Ohio State University. One unsung hero of the win is first year LSU Offensive Coordinator, 50 year old, father of seven, Gary Crowton from the state of Utah. He was calling plays for the SuperDome sky box and was seldom seen on the TV screen. Mavericks make headlines. Good Mormons quietly do their jobs. That is all you need to know except that he enjoys biking with his family.

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Crowton has lived, played and coached around the country. Orem, Provo, Snow JC, Idaho State, BYU, Oregon, Lousiana Tech, Chicago, Georgia, Boston College, Western Illinois, Colarado State. He is a student of BYU Coach, Dr. LaVell Edwards , the “spread offense”, and he is part of a quarterback tradition that includes former Forty Niner Steve Young and Kellen Clemens, currently with the NY Jets.

He is but one example among many of quiet, competent, and capable team players making a difference over time. Some times that difference is on Mission, sometimes in the class room or on the field, sometimes at home, at church or in the community. Dr. Edwards and his wife did a Mission in NYC after he retired from coaching in 2000 after eighteen years at BYU. Gary Crowton was his replacement.

Meanwhile in New Hampshire, the nytimes video reporters visits the bars and discovers the natives heat their homes with $3 a gallon fuel oil and use wood burning stores. The same voters have yet to hear of an energy plan from the candidates. Perhaps the recent warm weather has influenced the messages and the turnout.

Revkin of GoEarth blog at the nytimes is still hot on melting ice in Greenland. In January yet? So, who has the most compelling worry? BTW, the really good news weather story today is that a a lost snowmobile family was found in the snow blizzard National Forest areas out of Durango, CO. The predicted summer water shortage crisis predicted by earlier Revkin sources for the southern Rockies region seems to be rapidly fading.

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[ Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Iowa caucus Populists meet the world of realpolitic & the Pakistani Peaple’s Party

Section:
Politics

Summary:
“ To understand the game of basketball, watch the action away for the ball.” —a literate Knick fan.

?Q?: Who initiated Pakistan’s Nuclear Strategy? What are the two “official languages of Pakistan?

Iowa voters are courted and recharacterized every four years. The state’s early system of caucus primaries is highly unique, a bit curious, not quickly explained, and more than a little quixotic. That brings us to presidential candidate Mike Huchabee of Arkansas, the Bhutto’s, and the People’s Party of Pakistan in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Faith, Family, and Freedom is the Huchabee calling card . The PPP creed is: “Islam is our faith; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; all power to the people.”

Today, we learned that Mike Huckabee appears to relatively uniformed about Pakistan, some basic facts on immigration, and the pressing need to control nuclear power. We also learned with the reading of the will of the martyred Benazir Bhutto, self proclaimed, PPP “Chairperson for Life”, that the family political fiefdom founded by her father, aristocrat, Zulifair Ali Bhutto, will be continued in the person of a 19 year old son, Bilawali Bhutto Zurdai, a first student at Oxford University in England. His father, a well connected, cafe society, polo playing and convicted 10% fee taker, Asif Ali Furdai, will be a placeholder. Meanwhile, back in Switzerland, the snow slopes and boarding schools are being prepared for the return of the rich and famous.

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So, Iowa prepares to be the lead off state in the fast paced and daunting task of winnowing the field from which the leader of the free world will be determined. Is Mike Huchabee of Arkansas that man?

Meanwhile, in the world’s 6th most populated nation, the clans, the Khans, the imams, the elites, the media, the military, the civil service, the feudal tax collectors from peasant farmers in provinces like Sindh with 60 million people in the south east Indus Valley bordering the Indian Ocean, and expatriots, including the estimated 500,000 in the United States, are attempting to participate in a byzantine power politics arena where nuclear power and technology are part of the volatile mix. Not to be missed is the question of were oil pipe lines from the Caspian region are going to cross on their way to ports and China markets.

Q&A: * PPP founder, and former Prime Minister, the father of Benazir Bhutto. English and Urdu.

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[ Friday, December 28, 2007 06:53 ]

Legacy Journal: Three Complex Systems: Genome, Climate, Governance

Section:
Education

Summary:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Three big things that are important, complex and incompletely understood by experts: As Einstein put it, “explanations should be as simple as possible — but no simpler”. And, “ one fact can demolish a beautiful theory”.

* First, The Genome: It makes you, me, and most of the remaining six billion of us, unique in our appearance and our chemistry. It is the Science story of the year. So, what do SNPs, HapMaps, and copy number variation have to do with the uniqueness of you, me, and the quilt work that contributes variety to the spice of life?

Second, Climate Change: Forecasting is scientifically treacherous ground. Here are ten examples that illustrates that point.

* Third, Governance: Today, the politically fixated media would have us know that the world is in “Disarray” with a regrettable assassination attempt and possible accidental head injury of the “chairwoman for life” of a powerful Pakistan political party who has been compared to Indira Nehru Ghandi and St. Joan . True, politics and governance are frequently messy and even chaotic. However, foreign chaos does not necessarily lead to disorder and confusion on the bridge of the American ship of state

Main:
Facts, Analysis, Conclusions, and Action (Change, Behavior, Adaptation---etc) often change. Change is frequently comfortable and slow, here we go.

: There is far more diversity in the Human Genome than was thought by many active researchers in 2006.

:: So, who is surprised that bad decisions are often rationalized by frail data, faulty logic, and irrational analysis when it comes to predicting the future. The results can be destabilizing, even disorienting. Consider the case of the High School Science guy in Oregon and his < 10 minute You tube explanation of “climate destabilization”. Scary? No. Concerning? Yes. Reportedly, his obsession has been followed by at least one ER visit because of chest pain, a leave of absence from his Chemistry and Physics classes, and a move to Corvallis. Can we assume that this 30 something year old father of two rides a bicycle: to work? to the mall? to his doctor’s appointment?

::: Pakistan is a different place than NYC, Washington, DC, London, Paris, Bonn, the Debating Halls of the EU Parliament, and the UN General Assembly. It has been and will continue to be a threatening, dangerous, and corrupt place. Culture and strategic location make Pakistan one of the world’s PMASS counties. The Western Powers, Islamic leaders, and India have long been aware of Pakistan and concerned about its deployment of nuclear capabilities under military, technocratic civilian, or God Willing theocratic rule.

Finally, there is the evolving story of the young female Siberian Tiger that escaped from her open moated exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, climbed a wall thought by officials to be 16 ft high, and killing a young man shortly after the dusky zoo closing time of 5:00 P.M. After measuring, the wall is now reported to be closer to 12.5 ft. high. Some say a 20 feet standard is safer. Settling in the sand? Shorting on the concrete? Natural weathering and erosion? Police reported the animal died of bullets they fired after responding to a series of confusing 911 calls.

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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]

Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.

Section:
News: International

Summary:
“Beware of the Russian Bear! “—Winston Churchill.

Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century? Who was Karl Popper?

* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice. Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran. Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56. Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet. Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones. Worry about AGW? Bring it on. Alcohol as a Fuel? Foolish. Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.

Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.

* The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus. Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver?

Main:
: Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.

:: Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue. Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes? Putin? It depends on your point of view. If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.

::: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position. Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor. Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution. The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.

Answer: Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.

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[ Friday, August 31, 2007 10:20 ]

Legacy Journal: An August Update from the Heartlands.

Section:
Travel

Summary:
During the month of August, this writer has been on a minimalist kind of luxury vacation. No phone, not camera, no note pad, no guide books and no driving. The occasion was a relocation from Calilfornia to Rochester, NY. The mode of transportation was a live-aboard Green Tortoise Bus crammed with an eclectic group of 35 free spririts representing seventeen countries and seven languages outbound from San Francisco. Most of us had done the Bay Area tourist thing before departing for flight connects in New York City, Boston or Washington, D.C. for England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia or whereever.

Meanwhile is was close quarters in the bus on visits to the Rudy Mountains of Nevada, the Salmon River of Idaho, the great National Parks of Grand Teton and Yellowstone and the sweeping vistas of Wyoming, the five star destination spot at Cisco Hotsprings Resort in Paradise Valley on the Yellowstone River in the heart of cowboy heaven south of Livingston, Montana, the annual Biker rally in Sturgis and Lakota country in the Bad Lands of Rapid City, South Dakota, the farmlands and the upscale suburb of Egan near the Mall of the Americas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Interstate Park of LA Croix,Wisconsin, the center of Chicago near DePaul University, Lake Michigan, the Turnpikes of Indiana, Lake Erie and Cleveland in Ohio, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Niagara Falls in Seneca country in northwestern upstate New York. Then it was then on to mid Lake Ontario, the Erie Canal, the lower Genesee Valley and the county’s first boom town, The City Rochester, NY. For some explorers, it was 13 states in 13 days. Whew!

Main:
What an opportunity to take the pulse of the county. The pulse of this youthful country is Strong, steady, vital and optimistic.

Impressions:

* Young non-American travellers see the country through different cultural prisms than do native travellers from the two coasts. Distance, the grandeur of big building, homes, rivers, lakes and mountains, open space, abundance, opportunity and prosperity impresses european youth. Many of them are young students working summer jobs in places like the Pharmacy in Wall, South Dakota, and the Yellowstone NP restaurants run by Xanterra, Inc of Denver, CO.

* Corporate America is not despoiling the environment and raping the landscape in the Heartlands. For example, in Wyoming, along I-90, local coal on mile- long hopper trains were supplying electrical generation plants suppled with local water from steam and cooling. Those plants were connected to the national power grid towers with pronghorn antelope, Angus cattle and quarter horses grazing in their shadow. BTW, energy associated state revenues in Wyoming have led to one of the highest rates of per capita public education spending in the nation. The results are eye-popping rates of graduating seniors enrolling in college.

* Along the high reaches of the Continental Divide, the watersheds of the Snake River to the Pacific and the Yellow Stone River to the Caribbean Oceans are well guarded and extensively monitored by multiple agencies and their professional staffs offield engineers and wildlife naturalists.

* Those literate folks who get most of their information about the country and the current state-of-affairs from their easy chairs and the media are missing an important and postive story. They become like many obese folks who accept norms via the recently described mechanism of social networking of a socially acceptable body image recently described in the NEJM. Independent observations by folks who put boots on the ground and do their field work tend to be optimistic and hopeful.

* Independent working people in the Heartlands do their jobs with the aid of machines, power equipment, trucks, vans, tractors, combines, tillers, service vehicles, school buses, snow clearing equipment, locomotives, airplanes, etc. They and their families are impacted daily by the price of natural gas, gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, their electic bills reflect the mitigation legislation that targets coal fired electricity producers. Further, basic building and construction materials like lumber, cement, rebar and asphalt are impacted by rising energy prices.

* Yes, there is roadside evidence of wind farming and corn ethanol fired turbines along the Heartland gridway. But, but eco-friendly can extract a price. USA Today, this weekend reports the death of a worker in at a Wasco CO. Oregon wind farm site from a high speed windmill blade malfunction.

* Reports are that the prices for prime corn land have tripled over past five years. Agricultural commodities prices for meat, milk, eggs and corn meal have impacted the supermarket and restaurant checkout bill.

* Today in the online NYtimes, a regular columnist, David Brooks, sums it up well. Weary easterners tend to vacation at the beach. The vigorous and vital among us head for the high mountains. At altitude, in places like the the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Grand Tetons, the Sierra, MT Shasta, the Cascades of Oregon and Washington, and Montana’s Glacier, NP, the air is clear, the climb a challenge, and the perspective refreshing and uplifting. Maybe that is why the the Directors, Governors and guests of the Federal Reserve System at their annual prelabor day meeting chose to head west to places like the Rerort Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While the air is bracing, an envionmental group and USA Today have labelled the Cowboys the worst per capita polluters on the planet. Meanwhile, construction jobs and fossil fuel fired electrical plants continue to boom in the Basin region as south California reports its annual late summer brownouts.

* Meanwhile, may the Americans who hew the wood and draw the water be included in policy debates that propose to adopt the EU model of energy taxation and the Chinese model of transportation.

* BTW, one notes that Rochesterian homeowners are plentiful, proud, and are frequent flag flyers, even when it is not Memorial or Labor Weekend.

* Local Labor weekend Sunday services included a visiting member of the United Universalist Service Committee based in Washington, D.C. The theme was the Jewish Holocaust, the Just Nations award in Israel, and the tribal conflict in the Darfur Region of the Sudan as widely covered by Nicholas Kristoff of the nytimes. None in the audience appeared to aware of of their former senior Senior’s book, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Oxford University Press, 1993. He and his coauthor described the rising tide of regional tribal conflicts that have come to define the destatification of current geopolitics.

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[ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 14:11 ]

University Scientific Research: Fraud and Misconduct.

Section:
Public Events

Summary:
Yesterday, CK Gunsalus an attorney specializing in Scientific Research Misconduct, was the keynote speaker at a certification awards event hosted by the UCDavis Office of Research. Certificates in ethics and strandard oriented program appeared to awarded primarily to foreign and domestic students with federal training and research grants in the sciences.

Main:
The presentation was a broad brush analyisis of the problem, its root causes, and variety of possible solutions.

* Attitute.

* Blame Shifting.

* Disengaged Moral Compasses.

* Sloppy or Absent primarylsource data work books and accounting records.

* Poor adminsitrative overssight and accountability.

* Outmoted Legacy policies and procedures.

* Collegiality as a fall back position

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