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[ Thursday, September 11, 2008 08:14 ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Time for Truth Telling: 9/11, the Magazine, and the True Myth Makers.

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Commentary

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* On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, it is time this morning to pause and soberly reflect on the significance of that tragic day. The story is partially told by the rapid repair of the Pentagon and today’s dedication of the victim memorial at that site.

Joel Klein has written a Time profile on Palin people from his east coast perch. The mythology of the longstanding American Story or small towns and small people who do big things because of their Western getup and go is the target of Klein’s revision for those of us to used to religiously subscribe to the magazine. Kleinists have a new reality: it is cosmopolitan, urbananist, globally focused, secular, pro-Israel, and not a little over-the-top intellectual. We do not see Klein doing any serious hunting, fishing or fact finding in Alaska any time soon.

* Meanwhile, Klein, like Obama, uses a mistimed and misappropriate metaphor in a Palin political context. ”Rocket propelled grenade“ has now jarringly replaced” lipstick on a pig” as the explosive image of the moment. So, today, Sara Palin joins other Alaskan who are sending their warriors off to Iraq to doing what have been going on for 7 years: Continuing the push back military response against middle eastern extremists who wish the likes of Joel Klein, and many of the rest of us, more than a little ill will and bad action.

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[ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Walking with Religion---Walking with Nature

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By my light’s Americans are tolerant about religion and like to get up close to the wonders of the Natural World.

There are to recent examples that illustrate the point. First is the from a study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust part of the $ 300 billion dollar a year American philanthropy community. Second is Rochester, NY’s Maplewood area along the lower Genessee River Trail

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* The finding the Pews Study of Religion in America includes the fact that Americans tend to be believers, and that they are tolerance of the idea of that there is more than way to practice a religious life.

A recent glorious morning among fellow bikers, hikers, stroolers, and exercisers was spent by a group of senior Oscher Life Long Learning Institute at RIT class members who were led by Hal Schuler. The area is the Center of Catholic Rochester on the bluffs above the gorge of the lower Genesee that for 10,000 years has been exposing a stratified geologic history of more than 400,000,000 years before ending it winding way to Lake Ontario.

What is striking is the juxtaposition of nature and the revolutionary power of technology to change the both the landscape and the human environment and culture.
Yankee enterprise was at work in land deals, shipping by sail, steam and modern barge, building bridges and the Erie Canal, dams, water systems, hydroelectric generating plants, and global companies like Eastman Kodak.

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[ Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:11 ]

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

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None

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

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* 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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[ Friday, June 13, 2008 11:24 ]

Legacy Journal: Food for Thought and Summer Snow

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FrontPage

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The news focus recently has been on:

* Flooding in Iowa. Never-the-less the NCAA Track and Field Finals in Des Moines continue without a pause.

* Global warming is predicted to eliminate sea ice in the Arctic Ocean this summer, But,new snow means June skiing this weekend in Aspen, Colorado. The Rockies promise to water the streams and rivers of Colorado where the fishing and the hay production will be super.

* Large fresh tomatoes are reported to be the source of some recent clusters of Salmonella. The recommendation is to wash or cook your beefsteak tomatoes before eating. Maybe a ketchup substitute would be prudent.

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Meanwhile: Good news continues.

* Iowa corn futures are Strong.

* May retail sales are OK.

* A record number of Americans are employed and employers are looking for well trained, reliable workers. Illegal immigrants, workers, visitors, family members and students are filing papers and voluntarily returning to their countries of origin.

* There are no major strikes, fuel shortages, transportation slowdowns or empty food shelves. Hospitals are open for business and firefighter are prepared for the summer season, Congress will soon join the school kids for summer recess.

* Kid and parents are learning about organic produce, self pick fruit and vegetable farms, and home grown
tomatoes. Freshness, known supply chain, local support, and even cost may be some of the advantages.

Unfortunately, you still have to put gas in the van whenever you substitute train and truck diesel out of the distribution system.

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[ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 07:20 ]

Legacy Journal: Water: the Wilds of Wyoming and Beijing, China---A western perspective.

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Sports

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What do the sparse wastelands of Wyoming and the Olympic architecture of urban Bejing, China have in common?

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Well, to some folks based in and writing for publication from New York City, both places are foreign, exotic, strange, and not easy to understand, a visit not withstanding.

* Take the current report about a spring of wet weather in Wyoming. The nytimes finds that newsworthy and a bit unusual. So, now it is now possible for trees to grow, meadow larks to sing, prong horn antelope and cattle to graze. Meanwhile, there may even be a hay crop from down by the creek. No wonder Jackie Kennedy wanted her son to get out of town for the summer and get some seasoning and common sense experience on a friend’s working Wyoming cattle ranch.

* And then there is the story of the National Aquatics Center, “The Water Cube” in Bejing the site of the 42 swimming events over two week during the 2008 Olympic Games. The place cost over $100 million in contributed funds from non mainland Chinese sources, was designed by an Australian firm, seats 17,000 and has a light weight, semi-translucent, petroleum based ,Teflon like ceiling. So, what is not to like about that?. A writer for the current New Yorker magazine finds much to comment on including the Chinese way of doing urban planning and residential relocation.

Apparently, some writers need to take a lesson from Frederick West Lander and get out of town and into the field of battle more often.

BTW: Frederick West Lander was an eastern engineer who went went west with the Army and later surveyed for the railroads as they snaked their way across the county’s arrid and hostile trans Mississippi frontier in a series of fits and starts.

Ball’s Bluff ( The Battle of Ball’s Bluff during the Civil War on the Potomic River near Washington.)
(by Frederick West Lander)

Aye, deem us proud, for we are more
Than proud of all our mighty dead;
Proud of the bleak and rock-bound shore,
A crowned oppressor cannot tread.

Proud of each rock, and wood, and glen;
Of every river, lake and plain;
Proud of the calm and earnest men
Who claim the right and the will to reign.

Proud of the men who gave us birth,
Who battled with the stormy wave
To sweep the red man from the earth,
And build their homes upon their grave.

Proud of the holy summer morn
They traced in blood upon its sod;
The rights of freemen yet unborn;
Proud of their language and their God.

Proud that beneath our proudest dome
And round the cottage-cradled hearth
There is a welcome and a home
For every stricken race on earth.

Proud that yon slowly sinking sun
Saw drowning lips grow white in prayer,
O’er such brief acts of duty done,
As honor gathers from despair.

Pride, it is our watchword; “clear the boats”
“Holmes, Putnam, Bartlett, Peirson-Here”
And while this crazy wherry floats
“Let’s save our wounded”, cries Revere.

Old State—some souls are rudely sped --
This record for thy Twentieth Corps --
Imprisoned, wounded, dying, dead,
It only asks, “Has Sparta more?”

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[ Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Briefs

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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.”

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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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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

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Almanac

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“ It is we who are trouble. The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.

* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales.

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.

Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.

* Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado. The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.

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