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[ Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Olympic Swimming Prep

Section:
Parks & Recreation

Summary:
The Rochester, NY Parks and Recreation Dept has a citywide summer swimming progress that includes lessons for kids at the Genesee Valley Aquatic Center.

Main:
Emma and Tessa Little are getting an early start on the Olympic Games of 2028.

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[ 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.

Main:
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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[ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 08:51 ]

Legacy Journal: 2008 mid-point

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
At the mid-point of 2008 where have we been and where are we going? &#8734 is not the answer.

* At the 4th of July break, it is time for BB, BBQ, and Root Beer.

The Olympic Trials are underway and the summer rec programs, including swimming lessons for the kids are underway.

Main:
Meanwhile, there is really little new News.

The politicians are traveling abroad; western wild rivers are benefiting from record snow packs in the the Sierra, the Cascades, and the Rockies. The babies, the mail, and FedEx packages are still being delivered, strawberries are in the fields and markets, people are mowing their lawns and going about their business, and the U.S. continues to be the destination of choice for the world’s young, mobile, and talented elites. Life is good.

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[ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 07:20 ]

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

Section:
Sports

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

Main:
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, May 15, 2008 08:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.

Section:
Watercooler

Summary:

A run up to the Olympic Games 080808

Main:
I do not recall a time that I have not regarded water from a mostly positive point of view. Maybe it it the surname Fisk, Swedish for fish; maybe it is a vestigial DNA remnant from a former Chinook salmon tree of life ancestor.

Oh, there was a little chop along the way. I recall the time I had to pull my two year old sister out of the deep freeze drink when she fell through an ice bridge while crossing a rushing Strawberry Creek that ran through Grandpa’s place where we were otherwise spending a traditional, safe , cozy, kid centered eastern Oregon Christmas. Today, she has no recollection of the event.

Come to think of it, I have experienced some seasick moments crossing the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria, and rolling with the waves in a storm while waiting to dock at the lime stone cliffs Dover after an English Channel ferry crossing on. But, those were mostly no harm - no foul events.

Water for me is all about fun, motion, beauty and power.

My Rites of Passage included climbing up Horsetail Falls with a full pack into the Desolation Wilderness Area above Lake Tahoe to the granite moonscape of the high Sierra that is the snowy source of the American River, fishing behind beaver dams on the Klamath Indian Reservation, SCUB diving solo in mile high alpine Lake Strawberry, spring time water skiing on Lake Shasta with all of my 34 Malin H.S. senior classmates, and carving a pattern of syncopated 15 ft rooster tails behind a single fiberglass slolom ski while skimming across glassy smooth surface of Lake-of-the-Woods during quiet midweek evening after work at the Klamath Fall molding plant.

Watching white water pound over the spillways at Grande Coulee, Bonneville, and Hoover Dams was also part of my experience exploring the American west .

Another part of my expanding experience included the waves of the warm Atlantic in Southern Florida. Even the wind driven, poison laden Portuguese Men-of-War cast up on the beach could not deter youthful curiosity.

The lure of water adventuring matured into vacations to Makaha Beach for viewing the Surfing Championships and weekend sailing in western San Francisco Bay from a berth in Sausalito, and bare-boat cruising in the the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Free diving the reefs, challenging the surge of the surf and tides among the lava flows and cavorting with the dolphins around the Capt Cook Memorial in Hawaii’s Kialakekua Bay was part of the fun and part of the adventure challenge.

However, the best was yet to come with a two year experience with the DAM swimming club in Davis, CA. A local, the non Marvel comic character, Ironman Triathlete Dave Scott, was the founding coach of that group, now largest Masters Club in the U.S.A. For two years on a 0545 and 1000 AM x 7 day x 52week schedule, I learned about the power of swimming, I had missed watching Johnny Weismuller on Tarzan B-W films, taking summer polio season swimming lessons at the Redmond Community Pool , or later doing after work laps in the Malin Community pool in hopes of making a University frosh swimming team.

What I had previously missed was the power of good technique, proper coaching, disciplined practice and group support. Much of my group support came from charter Davis DAM members and workout regulars like Steve Watson, Harry Colvin, Susan Munn, and Lucille Richards. They, and others, were youthful beyond their seventy plus years. One result was a trip to St. George, Utah, the Huntsman Senior Games, and a swimming event metal.

Among our group, there was a running debate as to who or what had launched our shared love of the water. Truth to be told, in the men’s dressing room, the usual winner was the ever youthful Esther Williams. I can not speak to the conversations in the women’s dressing room.

However, I can guarantee that the DAM dressing room chatter will be focused on Olympic Swimming times and records come August, 2008 in Bejiing China

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[ Sunday, October 21, 2007 13:26 ]

Legacy Journal: Water in the Lower Colorado River Basin: A view from New York

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“ Water will run uphill to meet a money honey-pot”

This Sunday, New York Times Magazine writer, JON GERTNER, examines spot water shortages in Colorado. The provocative title is, The Future is Drying Up.

To his credit, Gertner makes the important point that water is not consumed. It may be displaced or it may be transformed, but it not destroyed. His work as a contributor to Money Magazine and as a writer with tennessean.com of Nashville may have acquaint him with the potent combination of regional water, big science and energy as in the TVA.

Others have noted that water, like heat, is seldom delivered by nature at just the right place, at just the right time, in just the right quantity to satisfy every need and every hope.

Main:
First, Gertner introduces readers to Dr. Stephen Chu, head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC. Chu is a respected research scientist Physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1997 for work done Bell Labs where he surely knew the current UC President, and fellow Physicist, Canadian, Robert Dynes. He is also high profile in promoting big ideas that attracts funding. At an previous academic stop at Stanford with the help of James Clark funding, Chu became a biophysicist, and a Cellular and Molecular Biologist. Since moving to Berkeley, Chu has the Lab from Nuclear Physics and Atomic Radiation into the alternative energy and bio-fuels field and attracted mega-millions of research pledges from firms like BP. So what are Chu’s qualifications as a western water shortage expert? The Chu’s model based western water forecasts for the second half of the century are not a good start. For example, he appears to forecast a 67% probability of up to 70% of the Sierra snow pack “Disappearing”. Oops. The most casual summer hiker visiting places like Yosemite, the John Muir Trail, and the Desolation Wilderness is aware that the vestige patches of the winter snow pack are scant by late August. Snow in the Sierra is not a year to year cumulative event. Foothill water storage at sites behind dams like Shasta and Folsom are. But, Chu must be excused for his apparent excesses. He is not a westerner.

For starters, young Stephen attended early schools in NYC. That city is well known to have a reliable and long standing municipal water supply from to the Adirondacks. His undergraduate time at the University of Rochester probable acquaint him with water in abundance in the economically important Great Lake System, where shipping interests are concerned with every inch channel depth, and because of the local “Lake Ontario effect” on the western upstate NY weather pattern. Chu is also described as a swimmer.

In any event, Chu is energetic, fit, smart, is always looking for big problems that can be solved by Big Science, and is at the ready with audience tuned Power Point presentations.

Second, we are introduced to Bradley Udall of the well know Arizona branch of the Mormon Udall clan. As western enviromentalists, they put the Chu clan to shame. In addition a professional water manager from New Zealand is introduced. Here some interesting numbers like acre feet per year market rates that range from $ .50 to $12,000 and household use averaging 163,000 gallons per year appear. We suspect that the annual American per household “water footprint” that includes all direct and indirect forms of water use would be significantly greater.

Meanwhile, the Indian Nations, the tourist industry, the religious fundamentalists, ranchers, farmers, builders, young professionals, fishermen, hunters, Gary Hart, Tim Wirth and even the Coors folks are on board the train that has already left the station and is headed for ....... BTW, that train is diesel powered. Who paid the carbon tax?

In any event, today, snow is reported to be falling in Denver, and the Sierra snow pack is starting early this year. Book your reservations and get your tickets now. It the Denver half of the World Series is snowed out, you can always hit the ski slopes.

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[ Monday, September 17, 2007 05:59 ]

Legacy Journal: The Heartbeat from the Heartland

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
It is Morning in America and the sun is shining in Rochester, New York. “So, why the optimism ?” ask some at the local Jewish Community Center Mens Spa.

Main:
Consider the following:

* The morning local temperature was in the low 40s and will be in the low 70s by mid-afternoon. Folks are out and about the business of getting on with life--
going to work, going to school, volunteering at the local hospital, working out, walking the dog, chatting with friends, cleaning the house, racking the leaves, visiting a school or whatever.

* The news via New York City is mostly about O.J. out in Vegas and raging fires in southern California. A dull news day is a good thing, except for those with nothing better to do than watch Diane and Oprah.

* Iran does not have nuclear weapons---- not yet anyway-- according the Egyptian lawyer heading International Nuclear Inspection agency in Vienna, Austria.

* The sun is not ready to burnout, implode, or explode any time soon, according to the New York Times.

* The Rochester Marathon was a great success with tons of participants, finishers and volunteers out for the scenic and sunny fund raising event for the local Arthritis Foundation.

* The Jets lost, but New Yorkers have embraced a tough Duck from Burns, Oregon, QB Kellen Clements.

* The University of Oregon has hired the successful baseball coach from Fresno State to restart the program in Eugene. The football team is for real and is ready to go 4 and 0 before hosting the sixth ranked Cal Bears and Coach Tetford at Autzen Stadium in 2 weeks

* Meanwhile, on the personal front, the BP is 107/74, the BMI is optimal, Endurance, Strength and Speed are in the upper 2% adjusted sex and age. So, is there a primary care physician in the Brighton, NY area who is currently enrolling healthy, non smoking, non-medicated Medicare type folks? Maybe.

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