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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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[ Friday, February 15, 2008 13:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fun Factory

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Commentary

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* What a world! Some say that the world is not reading. Yet, e-mails, text messengers, chat rooms, news outlets instruction manuals, PDF documents, online databases and blogs at exploding. Yes, the newsroom staff at the nytimes was reduced by 7.5%. Competition, cost pressures and technology have a way of reducing the drag effect of death weight.

* Global Warming? It the February spike in mid west tornado activity the result of surveillance and reporting , Gulf Warming, or Cooling from northern Canada weather fronts? That eminent climate and ecology authority, Senator John Kerry , seems to have it all figured out is case some of the rest of us seem conflicted, uncertain or confused.

* Meanwhile, seniors in OLLI classes at Osher RIT are taking on science topics like the Physics of Global Climate and Darwin’s five year round-the world voyage of discover aboard the converted bark, H,M.S. Beagle. at the age of 22 beginning in 1832. It took Darwin another 25 years to digest his experiences and publish his work on evolution, natural selection, and the science framework around the biologic time line and path of the human species. Intelligent Design has come under the microscope and is in the cross hairs of this serious minded group.

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: So, thanks from Rochester, NY to Rochester, Minnesota and the staff at Nevin’s shop at EEhosting.com for their recent annual site reregistration work.

:: Thanks for NOAA, the folks at the National Weather Forecasting service, and the good work of Glenn Johnson, the really fine weather reporter at ABC 13WHAM and Democrat&Chronicle Rochester, NY weather columnist.

::: Also, congrats to Jon Little for his new faculty member website at Monroe Community College where he teaches Weather and Climate, and Physical Geography. Jon is a first instructor in the Department of Chemistry and GeoScience . Jon’s site includes a PDF file or his University of Delaware Master’s Degree thesis based on field work done in Alaska’s Arctic North Slope, on site photographs, links to climate and weather resources, and information for his western upstate New York students. He interests included extreme weather, permafrost, local real time weather monitoring, regional geography, and the appropriate use of technology in education. He also teaches at SUNY Geneseo

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[ Monday, February 04, 2008 09:48 ]

Legacy Journal: Malaria, Mormons, the Beagle, and the Economy

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Almanac

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* Malaria:

The Mormon Utah tribute to Gordon Hinkley.

* A western view of the economy, energy, and the frustration around global climate change.

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: During the five years that the young gentleman amateur naturalist, Charles Darwin, was making like a modern day eco-tourist as paying passenger on the converted coastal carrier, the H.M.S. Beagle, The water and steam powered technology shift was well underway. Coal fired rail engines on land successfully competed with animal towed canal barges and carriages. Wood and canvas ailing ships would soon be replaced by Ulster steam ships with hulls of iron. Gold might enrich men, but iron would build nations. Yet, Darwin was able to fulfill his dream of visiting the tropics, collect in Patagonia and the frigid Straits of Magellan, experience an earth quake, visit active volcanos, and explore some of the Galapagos Islands.

:: One might safely assume the George Romney will pickup some delegates in the Utah Republican primary election. He is the one candidate with a clear message on energy.. He views energy sources, including fossil fuel as a clear and necessary ingredient the continuing the success of American manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and electrical power generation.

::: Meanwhile, NOAA remains a trusted and valuable source of weather, environmental and climate information. So, the geophysical sciences continue to improve the recording and analysis of measurable changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide readings and land surface temperatures changes over the most recent 100,000 year cycle within the 500,000 million years of evolving life forms and the constantly changing environments of planet earth.

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[ Monday, December 03, 2007 09:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Snowbound Monday

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Weather

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Winter type weather featuring snow has arrived one month early and is the leading feature on the local and national news.

* The western valleys and the Cascades mountains are experiencing records precipitation.

Snow fall is reported as far south as Arizona and New Mexico and is contributing to airline delays from coast to coast.

* The east coast from New England to Maryland also has continuing snow fall.

Meanwhile, in Rochester, NY lake effect snow fall is filling many a picture window.

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To avoid the obvious questions, the UN IPCC conflab begins today in pristine Bali. Stay tuned for the answers. One wistful Wanderlust view of poverty in Paradise, pollution on the beach, and the permanent floating party of self proclaimed aging environmental activists and exeucrats is offered by writer and blogger , Andrew C Rivkin of the nytimes.

Meanwhile, $20 trillion in global energy investment over the next 20 years and dreams of billions more in the to be developed carbon trading markets is enough to excite hot money around the world.

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[ Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:07 ]

Legacy Journal: Thanksgiving: Thanks for ….

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Weather

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Family oriented Thanksgiving Weather Report and News:

Upstate NY: Blowing wind, dark gray skies, raining with snow on the way. Time for popcorn and a fire.

Florida, Tampa Bay: Not a hurricane on the horizon. Rochester seniors are heading south.

Denver: Snow is forecast.

Oregon: Storms on the coast,and the crab boats are in the south to supply the S. F. Dunginess market. Snow is the Siskyous is always possible.

San Francisco: Fair around the Bay.

Hawaii: nice and 80.

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* People around the country are out and about with good cheer and things to do. The senior group in Rochester continue to winterize, shop, socialize, attend classes and exercise. Health Plan cost are up, but exercise and health club rebates are an incentive to get out and workout.

* Tanya is visiting Tiffany in Hawaii. Yes, there are both wild pigs and wild turkeys on the Big Island was take you choice.

* Damon and Rebecca will be in the Bay Area. Will Penngrove, Sonoma wild turkey shoot on the wing be on the menu?

* Meanwhile, will it be California or NY wine on the Little table on Thursday?

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[ Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Triple Threat Thursday: Cloning, football and the Real West.

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None

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“The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact” - Thomas H. Huxley

* The Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton is the site of monkey embryo cloning and stem cell harvesting

* The University of Oregon Ducks are hot, flying high and heading south to Arizona, the Rose Bowl and possibly, New Orleans. Atmospheric carbon dioxide saturation worries will have to wait their time.

* Las Vegas, Nevada is the site of yet another Democratic Presidential Primary debate. The first was in the Silver State’s capital, Carson, City far to the north.

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So, what are the issues here?

: In 1962, The Beaverton facility was the first of seven NIH funded Primate Centers to open. The news is exciting, but not unexpected. Animal embryo cloning and stem cell harvesting remains labor intensive, low yield, but without any near term direct benefit in treating human disease.

:: The Duck men’s basketball team has announced a highly successful high school recruit class from Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta. Mens Cross Country is going for an NCAA Championship this weekend. A Heisman Trophy is waiting in the wings of the stage at the New York Downtown Athletic Club.

::: In the buildup to the debate in Las Vegas, two NewsHour reporter have been profiling Nevada. Last night one of them visited Elko, Nevada in the northeastern quarter of the state. In the heart of the Great Basin, it is cattle, hay and coal country. True, U.S. 80 is lined with with casinos and crap tables all the way from Reno to the Utah border. But water is the gold key to the long term sustainable health of the area. Water for wildlife, water for habitat, water for hay, and water for livestock. It is an olde Western story. Water was also needed by the coal burning locomotive steam engines of the early Trans Continental Railroad and the real opening of the Far West to internal migration, trade and communication. Today, the wheeler dealers in Las Vegas want northern water to be used for electrical power generation on site and to fill a water pipeline to the arid but fast growing desert region 300 miles south.

Las Vegas hosts 38 million visitors a year. Service workers are the backbone of the gaming and destination playground industry. Elko ranch families came, settled and stayed. Ely mineral miners are highly paid at nearly $70,000 per year and they produce $5 billion in gold and silver. These are different folks, life styles and cultures than their cousins to the south.

Recently, personal visits to Las Vegas and the Ruby Mountains, hikes in Lamoille Canyon and a plunge in Liberty Lake out of Elko have left a Strong bias in favor of the latter. So, that do Gate Keeper policy at the northern end of Lake Tahoe, the source of the Truckee Rivers, the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing in Pyramid Lake, and Bing Crosby have to do with shaping a point of view that favors the traditional over the transitional, the few over the many, the stayers over the transient, the sustainable over hyper-growth, the proven over the dream, the sure over the high risk, the soul pleasing vistas of nature over the 24x 7 manufactured pleasures of the flesh pots? If one does not get it, you have never camped out and sung around an evening fire in the company of friends and family.

BTW, Hello to Murray Gardner, MD of the Primate Center, Davis, CA, a fellow Sierra trekker, and a regular DAM lap swimmer.

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[ Monday, October 15, 2007 05:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Morning Forecast

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Business

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How is it that down river, down state big city types in New York get to shape the news and your view of the world and the way it works.?

After all, New York continues to decline by many measures. It is a high tax burden state. It is losing population, manufacturing jobs, high tech investment capital, corporate headquarters, national media and publishing readers and viewers, once dominant sports teams, and ........ One conciliation is that the Dr. Dean’s state of Vermont leads most high tax state lists. Meanwhile, Wyoming is among the low tax states, and is a leader in per student public school spending and graduation rates. In Rochester, the middle school drop out rate and the school dropout rates are highest in upstate NY. Currently the district is searching for a new system chief and more direct state funding as local tax revenues have fallen for six straight years.

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But you get the idea. Even the old guys from Brooklyn at the gym get it. The population is graying, services are redundant and union bound, public education in the urban setting is deteriorating, the weather is lousy, retail and the tax base are moving to the suburbs. So, what is strategic about New York City?

For one, it is awake before the rest of the country. NYC based writers, editors, producers and publishers pickup events from Asia, the middle East and Europe, react to them, and then pass them along to the other three time zones. For example, ESPN ABC can cover the weekend of sports from sunrise on the east coast to sunset on the west coast. The same is true of markets and business news. International and War news coverage is similarly part of the media rolling thunder echo chamber effect.

What is lost is coverage of important new events in the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones. For example, the Oregon State Beaver football defeat of the # 2 ranked Cal Bears at Memorial Stadium early Saturday evening was a major college sports story with real BCS implications. The continuing losses by Notre Dame and the New York Yankees continue to lead in the headlines, the columns, the commentaries and the blogs.

Second, the media is obsessed with polls and surveys. One laughable example was on a Saturday morning “news show” The guest was an editor for a woman’s magazine. The topic was the public perception of “Happy” marriages among the current crop of Presidential candidates. The Winner by a double digit margin ---- the Clintons! But, subject to change next week. Oh, ready.

So much for an advertising based, poll driving, cut and paste, one dimensional view of the world from Madison Avenue, Black Rock and Rockefeller Center. The marvelous ways it really works out in the Heartland is less fictional, glamorous and celebrity driven. However, Heartland lives and events are richer, infinitely more interesting and ultimately more important. Never the less, Gibson and the ABC Evening News team seem to be tracking well and getting it more right than not.

A short weekend piece in the week end edition of USA Today by the founding publisher for the Gannett New group formerly based in Rochester, NY is revealing. He has a home in Eureka, South Dakota that he visits often. One suspects those return to his root helps to frame his focus and his world view.

Finally, what is it that we do not seem to trust about Viacom?

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