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[ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 08:52 ]

Legacy Journal: B&B on the Erie Canal

Section:
Travel

Summary:
The Tow Path on the Erie Canal is a place with a connection to a significant part of the economic history of the entire region.

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* A small group of bicyclists departed the Adam’s Basin Inn B&B , on Washington between Spencerport and Brockport, after fueling up with a filling gourmet breakfast prepared and serviced by our host Pat Haines.and her husband.

* Pat’s husband drove us and our bikes to our departure site 27 miles downstream to the west. Rural cobblestone farming country was the scene along Rt. 104 running parallel to the Lake Ontario shoreline.

* Our return bike route included no locks, but plenty of canal cross roads. After a lunch break, a chat this a transcontinental biking Scots lass, were returned to the Inn after 8 hrs for a shower and and a planned dinner out at a family Greek restaurant in the Victorian center of the college town of Brockport.

* One highlight of the two night one day our trip out of Rochester was the opportunity of visiting the Canal authority workmen manning the barges, tenders and dredges docked at Adam’s Basin. The bridge bells that sound the lifting of the bridges for the passing boat traffic adds to the authenticity of the setting.

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[ Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:11 ]

Legacy Journal: Would you believe that ----?

Section:
None

Summary:
Amazing, but true, even if it goes against the tide.

For example:

Main:
* George Bush will not be on the ballot in November.

The average age of Congressional Senators is over slightly under 62. The median age is considerably older. 25 Committee Chairmen are older yet. 25% are over 70. Hawaii’s two senators will soon be 84. Yes, there is a Federal Civil Service requirement of forced retirement at age 65. For airline pilots, the retirement age is lower.

* No oil refinery has been built in the United States for more than 30 years.

** A new 351 unit limited access community is proposed for Brighton, NY. Opponents to the project cite “elitism”, impact on local traffic, cost of maintaining lighting alone the Erie Canal tow path, lack of mandated low cost rental units , effect on future property taxes, and possible liability from the public use of a new boat launch facility as informing their worrys and converns .

* The Army Corps of Engineers is reportedly being called to testify under oath as to why they are apparently unable to predict the time and place of breeches along the hundred of miles of Mississippi River levees.

Girth measurements and inadequate exercise correspond significantly to the calcium index scores of heart images, to cardiac enlargement, and to the risk of early death by massive myocardial infarction. Diabetics and metabolic syndrome X patients are at particular risk.

* Q: “When is sex safe after a heart attack?” A: “When was it safe before?”

Obama is a two timing, head faking, levee breeching, lakeside liberal Chicago pol. He has a Fast Eddie side according to Brooks of the nytimes. Obama is taken back his “ Public Financing for the General Election” pledge. His Internet driven small donation drive is said to be both successful and democratic. However, the Obama brand is free of total spending caps and one third comes from those contributing the maximum allowed by law. Party regulars, campaign staffers and the ad media are licking their chops and liking their chances come the fall. In a time of flooding, the following from the Supreme Court is timely. “Money, like water, will always find an outlet.” If campaigning is the outlet, the candidate is the reservoir, and the Internet is the inlet.

A federal government report says that weather extremes measured in terms of frequency, intensity and duration will “probably” increase. However, the average surface temperature in the U.S. will likely remain within its historic norm. Rainfall, snow melt, and river runoff in the Heartland is thought to be part of the process. Meanwhile transportation, agricultural equipment use and carbon emissions in flooded areas are acutely down by the forces of necessity.

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[ Thursday, May 29, 2008 08:34 ]

Legacy Journal: Sounding Off on the Shape of Things to Come.

Section:
Coming Attractions

Summary:
Getting Back to Basics:

* Replacing group Victim_hood and dependency with individual initiative and personal responsibility. Health, fitness and nutrition come to mind.

Think about structured and patterned groups of threes as in the stable and functional milk stool.

* Enjoy the wonders of nature. Even the best designed, equipped and staffed NICU can not fully replace for the fetus an anatomically intact and physiologically normal maternal placental unit. Think about the vital three.

Beware of the false analogy, the always imperfect metaphor, and predictions of the future.

Main:
In the first instance consider the cumulative results and consequences of adults gaining 1% of their body weight and losing 2% of their fittness per year over thirty years.
That is a poor allocation of resources, a bad bet, and a poor investment by any standard.

Second, even the smallest business requires solid financial services, a good accountant, and ongoing legal counsel to grow and prosper. Call this the Donna Summers formula for sustaining success.

Third, evolution has provided a complex and effective human reproductive mechanism to replenish species. But, the results are not alway perfect.

Fourth, communication is a major part of the human social, economic and cultural landscape. However, thoughts and words are far from complete, accurate, and truthful.
Action defines the human condition and the natural world provides both opportunities and pitfalls. Meanwhile, look beyond the hype and the headlines and take a hike.

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:
Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

Main:

Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
Chu is a University of Rochester graduate and trustee. As a major university based research administrator, Nobel Prize winner, national energy policy expert, his lecture today to an overflow crowd was up to date, fast paced, fact filled and well received. Dr. Chu is Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been the formative influence in establishing Helios. Steve is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and professor of Physics and Cellular and Molecular Biology of the University of California, Berkeley

“ We do not do nuclear weapons research.”

Main:
Amount his practical problem points are the following:

* California is a leader in energy efficiency legislation standards, research and capital investment in retrofitting and renewable sources of power generation.

* The industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers from ammonia and the “Green Revolution” prevented the food crisis predicted by the Malthusian popular professor of butterflys at Stanford, Paul Erhlich in his 1969, the Population Bomb..

* Heartland farmers should be putting 35 million acres of farmland back into producing crops for domestic and foreign food consumption, not alcohol for fuel. World price increases and shortages of basics like corn, wheat, rice, and soybean expose weak currency nations to the flame and flood of food riots.

* Diesel and jet fuel can not be biogenerated. Termite power in the form of multiple gut microbes may be a model for converting lignan protected cellulose (wood) into simple sugars.

* The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Helios Project concentrates on renewable fuels Jay Keasling is an colleague.

* Nuclear power production needs to increase. Current nuclear power plants are safe and waste problems are being solved

* The national electrical grid needs a DC upgrade to the tune of $ one Trillion dollars.

* The general approach should be a multi layered, but results oriented.

* Photovoltaic cells, Wind generators, fuel cells and gas turbines,at present, are orders of magnitude more costly than coal, hydro, and geothermal. Klamath, Oregon and the state of Utah are geothermal hot spots.

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[ Monday, November 26, 2007 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: A Culture of Complaint: Bets not Paying Off: Blame it on the Weather

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate”. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Never place a bet on a college football game or predict the temperature and wind speed and direction at game time next week.” --- ESPN sports reporter.

How times change. Heat, cold and coal seem to be central to our perception of the way the world works,—or should bend before our needs. Carbon and coal are central to current complaints about climate, temperature and the natural and chaotic rhythm of weather that frustrate use with dynamic and sometimes dramatic changes.

Coal remains, for many, an abundant source of comfort, convenience, and civil necessity, and mostly in the form of reliable and affordable electrical power. How often, we take the long history of energy technology progress for granted. Try living off the grid in winter bound Yellowstone NP or Alaska for three days to learn the point.

Main:
Gambling with your life to test survival limits has always been a challenge for young risk takers. Thus, the sustained popularity of books by Jon Krakauer of Corvallis, Oregon.

Some complain about the weather or the temperature. Others engage Nature directly-- face to face.

Thank about it. Weather is used to explain and give meaning to how our moods change, when shoppers buy, why the tomatoes will not grow, where water is available, who needs to put in hay, what species will survive, thrive, --- or not.

Today,

* Snow is falling in the Pacific Northwest Cascades at the 3,000 ft level.

* Rochester, NY is shrouded in dark gray and the school kids are prepared for rain.

* Bali is preparing for a tropical jet set De visit by UN types.

* Maryland is hosting Middle East stakeholders this week. The Golan is on the table.

* Oil spot market prices, the price of hay, and the cost of milk at the market continue to spike upwards as dollar markets continue to adjust to the whole as it is, not the world that that we want, but do not control.

Meanwhile most pundits, planners, policy makers, and politicians have yet to place their bets and roll out their plans and consumer cost analysis for taxing, capping or trading carbon and carbon surrogates. Many call for institutions to place risky but necessary bets so as effectively manage the earth billions of known and unknown plant and animal species, control weather and climate, and listen to our complains about the present, regrets about the past, and fears about the future. All of this seems to represent a naively self centered view of the State of Nature as it is experience by those live closest to her mystery and best know her power.

Energy Factoid:

* The University of Southern California is the largest non public customer for electrical power in Los Angeles. Government and public education continue to be major power users and wasters.

Question:

* What measurement best represents the earth’s heat cycle?

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[ Friday, November 23, 2007 11:40 ]

Legacy Journal: A Picture Perfect Thanksgiving in Rochester, NY

Section:
Food and Nutrition

Summary:
Jon and Erika Little. Mom and Dad to Emma and Tessa Little were the prefect host and hostess at their home in Brighton for the celebration of their first Thanksgiving since moving to Rochester, NY from Davis, CA. The theme was both classic and eclectic. The turkey was fresh from a local Amish farm, the cider was upstate New York, the hazelnuts topping the yams were from Oregon, and the wine was from France. The kids DVD appetizer was a Charlie Brown classic from Sonoma County and the featured event was Sea Biscuit from Mendocino County. The backdrop was fresh snow on the bright fall colored leaves of the backyard forest, Summit Dr and Summit Hill.

Meanwhile, post IPCC reporting continues to include confusing, if not biased numbers and unfounded projections. The latest is from AP , SFGATE and something called the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Main:

* 20 degree night, and 30 degree midmorning temperatures with full sun added to the adventure of the season’s first slippery slide toboggan run on the adjacent south facing Seminary hill. The local weather experts report that the temperature if far below normal for the date. And the first salt and sand was spread on the streets of Brighton and the paths on the University of Rochester campus. The maintenance crews manning the trucks are not big fans of Big Al. They prefer the Bills. We understand that Niagara Falls are icy and that the nightly light show is spectacular.

* During the morning hours, local cars, trucks shoppers and joggers were discharging carbon dioxide, heat and visible water vapor into the air. Despite the sun, there was
probably little photosythetic mitigation by the snow bound vegetation.

* The UN WMO report is reported to be based on readings from 44 of the UN’s 192 member countries> No, Vatican City, Scotland and Wales are neither countries or UN members. Reportedly, Puerto Rico, the District of Colombia, and Northern Ireland are concerned about their local weather and may be sending delegations to the big December Climate events in Oslo and Bali. New York and California are representative very diverse weather, temperature and surface water states. Each has thousands of official and unofficial reporting stations. We are curious as to how many of them supplied data to the UN WMO in Geneva, Switzerland and how many supplied data for the 2,500 IPCC scientists, attendees and section report writers.

* BTW, Approximately 44 counties and delegations will be meeting next week in Annapolis, Maryland for a U.S. administration sponsored Summit on Israel/Palestine. The nytimes is not optimistic about the host’s motives, the good will of the guests, and the possibility of a positive outcome. Tony Blair will be advising the U.N. and the new Secretary- General.

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