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[ Sunday, September 07, 2008 07:51 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Surprises

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Briefs

Summary:
* Google is 10 years old.

The 18th ranks Ducks of Oregon scored 66 points using 88 plays and 27 minutes to compile 688 yards of offense. That is efficient, entertaining, fast paced football.

* Tom Friedman has once again declared the world flat and crowded. He also knows the reason and the solution.

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- Baby Google is fast becoming the 800 lbs gorilla on the Internet playground. Like the Ducks, the Chrome browser sticks to the basics and is shockingly fast. In addition, Google has announced a pending agreement to digitalize and, make available for searches, the print archives of major newspapers. The carrot: Click ad revenue will be shared by the partnership. The stick is falling print readership.

-- The Ducks can spread the field, keep the same defensive 11 in the game run, the ball, and pass to any eligible receiver.

--- Demographics is just one Demons that frightens the sober, sane, and rational Friedman. He is right about one demographic parameter: Islamic extremists and Palestinian nationalists are growing thorns in the garden of committed Zionists. Their growth rates are like weeds that threaten the future status of a democratic Jewish Israel.

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Bright Lights: • Business and Trade: • Calendar: • Sunday: • Conventional Wisdom: • Culture Clash: • Middle Brow: • Demographics: • Profile: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Fast Facts: • How Many?: • Google: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • News: • Sports: • Religion: • Islam: • Judism: • Running Scared: • Statistics: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:18 ]

Legacy Journal:080808: The China Olympic Games

Section:
Sports

Summary:
So far the media as covered its own version the first Olympics to be conducted in China. That version has been built around contrived controversy from the start: human rights, minority protests, security suffocation, environmental pollution, demonstrations, disruptions, displacement, performance enhancement, the presumed pressure of “representing one’s country” on poised 16 female gymnasts.

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For example:

* More NBC coverage was given to a former minor U.S.Olympian who had his passport revoked by China when he stated his goal of using the occasion of the Games as a
global podium for protesting Sudan human right violations in Darfur.

* A recently nationalized black African will be he standard bearer for the U.S. team at the Games opening ceremonies.

* Today, prior to entering China to attend the ceremonies, President Bush made public statements pointing to the PRC’s unsatisfactory record on rights.

* Some U.S. cyclists deplaned into the country wearing filtering air masks.

* Local food sources have been suspect and frozen Tyson’s chicken has been imported from Arkansas.

* We can only speculate on the source of water for locally bottled Coca Cola, of McDonald’s hamburger, of piazza in the Village, and Phelps breakfast fuel--- pancakes.

* Meanwhile, it has been announced that China is the second leading auto market in the world, that Chevys are flying off the show room floors, and the Marlbaro man is alive and well in China. But, Viagra has not replaced rhino horn in the traditional Chinese medicine shops.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 08/07 at 10:18 AM
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[ Friday, June 13, 2008 11:24 ]

Legacy Journal: Food for Thought and Summer Snow

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FrontPage

Summary:
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.

Main:
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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/13 at 11:24 AM
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[ Sunday, April 27, 2008 08:09 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon

Section:
Sports

Summary:

The ultimate in spring time weekend warrior events in California includes The Big Sur International Marathon. The Triathlon tribal gathering at Wild Flower, and the DamFast open water swim at Lake Berryessa would be other examples.

Main:
: The start is at 0700 at Ranger Station on Hiway 1 high above the foggy Pacific Ocean. The finish is at Camel Village at the entrance to Carmel Valley just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

This is Mission Ranch, Junipero Serra, and Clint Eastwood country. The vaqueros and the Padres are not running today.

:: Damon Fisk is bib# 3888. If the support crew does its job and the knees hold up, he should finish before the 6 hour closing time at 1300 PDT.

::: Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has been entertaining the locals in Junction City, Oregon 3 weeks before the state mail-in primary. The results may be interesting.

This weekend, Barak is hanging out closer to home. His exercise plans may include some Chicago hoops with his brother-in-law, the new MBB Beaver coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon. To the best of our knowledge, Obama has not used up his NCAA eligibility.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/27 at 08:09 AM
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[ Thursday, April 03, 2008 06:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash

Section:
Opinion

Summary:
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ----- Aristotle

* The University of Rochester and the local Squash Racquet community is hosting a “Satellite” Pro event. Erika and Jon Little of Brighton are hosting Armando Olguin , a teaching and touring Pro from the San Francisco Bay area.

As the ground unfreezes, it near time to plant what the Seneca Indians call the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans and squash.

* It is also time to squash a few delusions and predictions : the pending American Hurricane Season, the Future of the American Democrat Party, the state of the American Economy, the failure of American Public Education, the degenerate state of the New American Generation, the Coming Collapse of the Global Climate System, ---- etc.

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: The game of Squash seems to be having a mini surge of popularity. Young kids are being signed up by their parents for lessons in Manhattan, NY to Marin Country, CA. Elitist and expensive, it is seen as a way to starting networking toward the Ivy League and Wall Street. In 2003 Forbes magazine rated the game as the # one fitness sport. Impact injuries are rare. Cardio-aerobics are rated at at 800 - 1,000 kcal/hr among top Pros. Upper, core, and lower body muscle strength and speed are required. Endurance, mental toughness, consistency, and practice discipline complete the competition package.

Clearly, the game has gone global with roots in the British Empire and Commonwealth. Youngsters of 23-26 are top ranked. English is the universal language of the sport. The top players come from Egypt, Scotland, Pakistan. Mexico, Colombia and Canada contribute their share of young, mobile talent. College recruits in upstate NY come from Japan, the Ukraine, and even Pennsylvania. Senors also play the game

:: Prof Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs and Steel fame and fortune, continues, as he has for 10 years now, to remind us from his video reruns that geography, geology, climate, and the accidents of migration have much to do with food production, animal domestication, surplus, technology , social organizations and the sustainability( or not) of primitive cultures. The recently the DNA story, grave site
Aztec archeology in Peru, and Native American finding in Oregon have all added complexity and new time lines to the more simple Diamond narrative and interpretation.

::: Experts from Colorado fearlessly continue to make their embarrassingly bad annual predictions. The 2008 Hurricane season edition in now out. A related inconvenient embarrassment is the $6 per bushel of corn and the $4 per gallon price of diesel full. What happened to all the environmental happy talk about how using corn alcohol and stopping oil exploration and drilling was key to controlling global fever.

Today’s temperature bullseye is Yuma, Arizona where the all time low of 13 degrees was recorded within the past 5 years. The another bullseye is the international hot spot , Venezuela, where General Chavez has announced his intent to nationalize the cement industry. Cemex of Mexico is the major external investor

In addition, the Wigley article from the NCAR on the assumptions of the IOCC on carbon emissions rates and published the early April edition of Nature, the weekly international science journal, is yet another wakeup call at the credibility of some of the IOCC Climate Commission’s claims. From nytimes., science writer, Andrew C. Revkin does a partial journalistic mea culpa on his previous “ robins in Inuit land” reporting. To his credit, Revkin does acknowledge that the error was reported by the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on a blog site at World Climate Report..

Meanwhile, the good new is that the baseball and local lake and stream trout season is underway.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/03 at 06:44 AM
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[ Monday, March 17, 2008 05:15 ]

Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green

Section:
None

Summary:
On St. Patrick’s Day in Rochester, N.Y. all is well.

* The temperature is 20, the sun is out, and the streets are dry.

* The green wearing school kids on the corner have mounted the steps of the yellow bus and are launched for the day.

* The green and yellow Ducks of Oregon are off to Little Rock as a #9 seed and the NCAA Men’s BB Tournament.

* The Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN follows the Democrats in Denver, CO . Is that live home field advantage in baseball?

Main:
# The climate good news is that no warming is in sight. Snow is reported in the hills of San Diego. CA, and the Oceans continue to buffer their pH in the historic 7.8- 8.4 range , reliably pump and sequester carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and carbonates into the pelagic deep. One source on the science is AP 2001, Vol 1, Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, Carbon Cycle, pp 390, By Carlson, of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ocean science seems to be the forgotten man in the AGW game on that the serious ocean scientists are beginning to weigh in on pH stabiliity, temperature consistency, and corral health.

## The greening of the Summit Dr.spring garden near Highland Park has started with a well lighted, home made, basement seed nursery of flowers, vegetables, and herbs .

### The Ducks are the # 6 team in the Pac-10. A very good ASU team was left at home. All the best to Ernie Kent and the loyal Duck fans. Do not forget to bring your A game with a first half offense, and a second half defense.

#### The Democrats including the Super Delegates are concerned about the unhealthy spectacle of an international spotlight on a Delegate credentials fight in Denver in late August as the Bejing Summer Olympics are having their closing Ceremony. The Republics will mounting the pulpit in St. Paul in early September with a forum to launch their National
Campaign.

Meanwhile, the migratory birds from the south are starting to show up in Rochester at about the expected time according the local birds watchers and counters.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/17 at 05:15 AM
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[ Monday, December 17, 2007 09:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Previews

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FrontPage

Summary:
“Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?” --- Richard Feynman

* This morning, national ABC TV Weatherman Sam Champion was forecasting from snow storm central, Rochester, NY. The area is 300% above normal snow fall for this date in the season. One third of the normal seasonal quota has already been filled and winter has not officially started! But, raw numbers can be misleading. At 0800 the sun was out and the sky was cloudless. Some schools closed, others were open. Folks were out to work, clearing, shoveling, plowing and shopping.

During the last week, there was one day without a US troop death. Is the surge working? At the John Wooden Classic MBB in Indianapolis, Purdue hosted and defeated rated Louisville and Rich Patino while starting four freshmen. Therefore, are rankings misleading? Wooden is reported to have graduated 19th in his class at a time Purdue had 4,000 students. His first job after graduation was as a classroom English teacher at a small high school.

* Meanwhile, billions of dollars are being pledged to help jump start a new state of Palestine, new species have been discovered and described regularly in remote, barely explored places like the highlands of New Guinea, and the quality of life and the choices available has never been better for more people.

Main:
Meanwhile, guilt, uncertainty, and fear continue, as usual. Understanding positive parts of the three News Summaries are part of the antedote.

: Above and below normal or average is common and not a cause for concern. Take the weather. Complex system events like winds, ocean currents, cloud formation, precipitation patterns and temperature variation are like many events in the natural world where change and chaos are in play. Predication and forecasting are difficult even with real time monitoring, massive computer modeling by the NWB, and constant updating of data. General patterns do exist, but the action on the ground is usually very locale specific and novel. What is true in downtown Rochester, or next to Lake Ontario may well not apply a mile south over the hill in Brighton’s Summit Dr. neighborhood. Furthermore, preliminary results reported by numbers like 1/3 d and 300% do not indicate trends that will continue for the remainder of the season. The same is true of the early season non-conference road record of the basketball Cardinal team.

:: And that brings us to Coach Wooden and sport. To the best of my knowledge, he has never run for public office, been appointed to a position of power and privilege, lived a life of ease and luxury, or been paid for a product endorsement. He has written a simple book of Wooden Wisdom. So, what makes him and others different from many in the current Y generation?

::: So, some critics and cynics focus on the failures of the past, others chose to travel the tough, slow, uncharted road to peace in the Middle East. One such traveler is football fan, the U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Another person of character is the ant guy, E. O. Wilson. He has written that fewer than 25% of the worlds species have been discovered, described, named, archived and studied.

And finally, who can fail to be impressed by the demonstrated virtue of Charity and giving by the American public.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/17 at 09:43 AM
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