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[ Saturday, April 19, 2008 07:57 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.

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* Fossils: A Fecal Trail in the Oregon Desert near Paisley Caves and Summer Lake . Cressman and the UofO Museum of Culture and Natural History.
Rock Hounds in the Great Basin.

A 1840-50 Western time line.

* Duel track meet in Eugene, Oregon, Track town USA

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: To quote Larry McMurty on poet Janet Lewis after the death of her husband: “she did go back to the desert, to the places of the pueblo peoples, the Hopi and Navajo, peoples who appear to live in harmony with the eternal simplicities: sun, stone, sky. She ponders a fossil:”

In quiet dark transformed to stone,
Cell after cell to crystal grown,
The pattern stays, the substance gone….

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::: If it is a Saturday in the spring in Eugene, it is time for a classic retro duel track meet between the men of UCLA and the Tiger Ducks of the UofO

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[ Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:50 ]

Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie

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Commentary

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Early May, 1846 the Pathfinder, his scout, and their swashbuckling band of Americanos crossed overland from Mexican Alta California and the Sacramento River Valley into the Oregon Territory. There a hundred years of HBC authority was being challenged by American trappers, mappers, traders, missionaries and Yankee settlers of many stripes.

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[ Sunday, November 25, 2007 13:23 ]

Legacy Journal: Weather Questions: Snow in the Mountains, Cyclones in the Seas, Sleep in France

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Is it true that the weather forecasters predicted snow for Minneapolis Minnesota, Midland, Texas, and Mammoth Hot Springs at the northern entrance to Yellowstone NP near the Montana border this weekend?

Was that snow on ground as CBS Sunday Morning visited the elk and the bison in Yellowstone this morning? We noted the soon to be delisted Grey Wolves were nowhere in sight. And it is a full moon.

Could it be that some are blaming U.S. farmers, Thanksgiving travelers, service vehicles, bus drivers, snow plowers, etc for the Indian Ocean cyclone and flooding in Bangladesh.?

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A: Yes, Yes and Yes.

Meanwhile, The nytimes book review section features a useful review of a number of Christmas books on cartography. Included are offerings on urban mass transportation and early maps for early cross country Pioneers to the American West.

Another nytimes Op Ed guest is Graham Robb , author of The Discovery of France: A History and Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. a seasonal 100 nytimes best books of the year selection. as reviewed by Caroline Weber of Barnard. Winter Sleep is his topic. Apparently the author, a Brit with a PhD in French Literature from Vanderbilt University, is of the quaint notion that mid nineteenth century French provincial peasant farmers holed up and slept their way through the winter in the close company of their children and livestock. The result was a politically correct ecologic and environment savings on food, fuel, fiber, and forage. Hum.

So, are we to believe that the Frenchmen in the Provinces in the mid nineteen century did not milk their cows, pitch hay, split wood, repair fences, add a room, send their kids to school, attend church, gather at the Bistro, sing, dance, repair harness, prepare meals, drink wine, forge iron, etc.? Where is the modern equivalent of great French historians, like Fernand Braudel, and the recently deceased Eugen Weber, former Dean of Arts and Letters at UCLA, when we really need them? For the meantime, the country’s new Prime Minister will have to take up the slack by showing the French and the world both clear direction and bold action.

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[ Monday, November 12, 2007 06:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Reflections Big and Little

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Commentary

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Reflections of the State of Things from a Viet Nam Vet on Veteran’s Day from a small corner in upstate New York:

* Veterans are victims seems to be the message from the Editorial Page of the nytimes today, a day of celebration as well as remembrance.

* The Brighton public schools are closed today and had early dismissal from at least the primary school on Monday morning. Teachers would appear to be missing in action as our kid are far from the front in the marathon race to prepare for life in the fast company of the young, the hungry and the well prepared men and women on the move and on the go to earn and lean in a globalized economy. Meanwhile Emma and Tessa are off early to their excellent private “day care school” for the day while their mom and dad are off to their regular five-seven days a week jobs.

* Hunting season is on in upstate New York. The state joins Pennsylvania, Texas and California in the number of sportsmen and women who hunt and fish. The well endowed white tailed buck I spotted on a recent frosty morning near Buckland Park is but on example of an estimated one million deer in the state.
The bad news is that deer are a major contributor to non alcohol motor accidents on highways. A nytimes obituary notice today is evidence that human population control, wildlife protection, and wilderness designation have long has long been at the core of the Ecology, Wilderness, Wildlife and Green movements in the United States. Contrarian, Bjorn Lomborg of Denmark has a report from London on the facts about the Gulf Stream, north Atlantic temperatures , climate change, the weather on his side of the Atlantic and the science behind the latest UN conference on the subject. That group is meeting in Valencia, Spain. They next meet in Bali. Nice work, if can get it.

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: Contrary to nytimes unfortunate editorial portrait of veteran plight and victimization, the average 26 million US veteran who lives and works among the rest of us is not homeless, penny less, without benefits, and a potential time bomb. Most did not serve in overseas combat units, 9 out of 10 had support MOSs, few returning Viet Nam draftees discharged upon their stateside return had or claimed medical disabilities. How do we know, the numbers are clear. As a member of an examining medical officer team at the Oakland Army Base processing facility in 1968-69, I personally questioned, examined, interviewed and recorded into the personal medical records up to 200 men per day. It that time, each soldier carried his own personal gear, including his written medical record. Each soldier was individually asked if he had any service related accident, injury or illness to report. Having recently returned from Army MC duty in Viet Nam as a Clearing Company Commander for 6 months in 1st Corps in places like Camp Charlie, Quang Tri, and at a landing strip near the surrounded Marine base under seige at Khe Sanh , I had personal experience of conditions on the ground and in the field. While most of the Army troops rotated out after serving in country for their full twelve month assignments. However, there were many exceptions.

One exception was received by our bunkered medical unit alongside an active air strip. He was a young Army Signal Corp Captain who was an a newly wounded, fully conscious, triple amputee caused by a hand grenade blast accident. He had a central line placed, fluids and appropriate analgesics were administered, and he was Medivaced to a surgical unit with stable vital signs and no evidence of head, chest or intraabdominal penetration. The Navy hospital ships, the Sanctuary and the Repose were on line just off shore. Max Cleland later become the civilian head of the Veteran’s Administration , and a Senator for the state of Georgia. Yet, the nytimes continues to characterize every veteran’s stumble as proof of the failings of the current administration. How short the memories and the horizons of those involved in current domestic partisan political agiprop.

It is a vicious high stakes game with rippling waves of collateral damage. Public respect for political parties, congress, the media, and public education continues to decline according the public pulse takers like the Pew Foundation and even pollsters for hire like the Marist Institute of Public Opinion Yet, in Rochester, N.Y>. flags are proudly flown on front porches, the local media regularly reports on local servicemen and their units, the National Guard Army is active, Fort Drum in the Adirondacks trains Mountain warriors, and the University of Rochester has a small but visible NROTC student unit.

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[ Tuesday, October 30, 2007 06:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Truth Telling: Schulz, Manhattan, and Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer

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Cartoons

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Three Views in the Rear View Mirror.

* PBS American Masters: Charles Schulz - the Video.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/schulz_c.html

* The Manhattan Project: What is in a Name? A nytimes view of some NYC, Columbia University, and European connections.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html

* Breast cancer treatment: The good news and the bad news.

Bernadine Healy, M.D., USNews, Health Editor.

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* Monday’s PBS American Master’s presentation of the world of Charles Schulz is based on a recently published book by HarperCollins. The preview reviews give the production a fair, but not great rating. The psycho babble and Citizen Kane stuff took the pace out of the heart story. The middle of the one and one half hour presentation was a hard slog. It was like glue on the bottom of minimalist cross country skis designed for efficient gliding while enjoying the non gloomy surrounding and experience. The local Santa Rosa paper reports on the reaction of Jeannie, the Schulz widow and chief tender of the legacy flame.

* Nuclear containment remains the key to understanding bipartisan American foreign affairs interests, policy, tactics, and strategy since the end of WW II. Containment includes securing sources, storage, distribution, and processing of a critical and limited resource, uranium ore.

* The use of radiation therapy in the treatment of breast cancer has well known long term effects on the heart. USNews and World Report, editor, Dr. Bernadine Healy, M.D. reports to consumers on the current state of medical knowledge.

Finally, on the light side of the news, the young mid afternoon crew at CNN had fun with a video feed from Klamath Falls, Oregon today. The event was the long planned levee demolition with 200,000 lbs of explosives , reflooding of 2,500 acres of formerly productive farm land owned by the Nature Conservancy. and the restoration of marsh habitat for two endanger species of suckers, the short snout and the Lost River.

Not lost on the drought plagued Atlanta area team was the spectacle of propagating “sacred” suckers while sacrificing valuable irrigated wheat land. They could were unable to hide their laughter. The watercooler remarks around the newsroom, and around the nations bars and barbershops can not be repeated on the public airways. The locals know the real laugher. The local Chiloquin Tribe has 300 aces of tribal land inhabited by nine people, including five caucasians In the early 1960s The Tribe sold productive Reservation timberlands. At that time, some tribe members invested in income property, others spent their inheritance and destroyed their economic future. Ironically a casino in the small town of Chiloquin has been a source of jobs and tribal income. The tribe is reported to have a membership of near 3,000.

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[ Friday, October 19, 2007 04:58 ]

Legacy Journal: Complex Systems Modelling, Forecasting, and the Weather

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Environment

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Weather forecasters put their personal reputations, the public trust, and the lives of their customers on the line every hour of the day.

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“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” -------- Patrick Young

“The News is to Weather forecasting what History is Climate Change.” --- Webscribe2

In the interest of full disclosure, this wroter admits to a possible prejudicial bias and conflict of interest. A son- is-law is a academic Earth Science instructor with a background of field work in Arctic Alaska permafrost region, a nephew is a U.S.C.G. officer with duty assignments in Alaska and Florida, another nephew
is an Air Force Academy graduate and F-16 pilot on assignment with the Colorado Air National Guard with multiple prior assignments to the Persian Gulf, and I am an ecology bootcamp survivor where the focus was strongly influenced by the politics of the Sierra Club. A personal focus was the Arctic Ocean and UNClOS.

Today, a nytimes video clip features the U.S. Coast Guard and its possible new role in the Arctic Ocean if summer sea lanes and the US Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty, and recognizes UN and International authority over the “open seas”. The associated story by Rivkin gives some Arctic context and relevant links.

This is good news to business men in upstate New York and Canada. They are expected to develop port facilities in Hudson’s Bay for accessing ice free, trans Polar shipping lanes across the Arctic Ocean to ports in Asia. Some routes may be shortened by up to 5,OOO miles. Meanwhile long time traders, developers and investors in the U.A.E are building sand islands in the Persian Golf. They seem unaffected by the “Inconvenient Truth” of rising Oceans from melting Greenland and Antarctic ice induced by fossil fuel released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Upstate, lakeside western New York weather is part of the complex and dynamic quilt-like global patchwork than is a mere nano slice of the whole. Here the weather is seasonal, has a distinct “lake effect”, and today is influenced by forces for west, south, north, and occasionally, the east. It was 70 at 0900, passing scattered, thunderstorms and sun breakthroughs are expected.

Meanwhile, EggHead, a science orented UC Davis new service blog re[prts that the that well respected journal, the Sacramento Bee is reporting a recent LA Nina effect in northern California, the Sierra and the Great Valleys. If true what does it mean and what is a rational person to do with that information? Cheer or Cry? Meanwhile, what about the Valley levees, the reservoirs, Tahoe water, Sierra snow, ag water, the Delta, fish in the Bay, hydroelectric power from the Feather River, the salmon run, and sweater sales at Macy’s?

The fact is that localized and particularized weather forecasting accuracy decline geometrically over time measure in hours. Pilots know that, farmers now that.their lives and livelihoods depend on that understanding. They understand the power of weather effects, and how little morals can predict and influence weather, let alone, climate change.

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[ Thursday, July 19, 2007 09:31 ]

Legacy Journal: A Day in the Life of Damon Fisk: 1991-08-02

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Government

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The second of August, 1991 was significant in the young life of Damon Fisk. On that day, he was a 16 y/o summer tourist in Washington, D.C. In fact, he was in the White House on a day that both news and history was being made on the spot. The spot included the West Wing, the south lawn and the old Press Room. President George Bush was in office, the former Soviet Union was unraveling and Congress was in recess.

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On that sunny August day, Damon was the guest of a fellow Santa Rosan, a member of the Hutchinson family, who had on office in the Executive Building where she worked for the President’s Chief of Staff, John Sununu. Drug Czar, Bill Bennett’s office was just down the hall.

After being escorted through a rigorous security check, Damon got a person tour of the Executive Building while the morning events played out in the White House, across the alley. President Bush had recently returned from his annual vacation in Kennebunkport, Maine to hold an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, hold a news conference, and announce the appointment of Robert Schwartz Strauss of Texas as the new, and last, U.S. Ambassabor to the soon to be former Soviet Union. By mid morning, the official business of the day was done.

Thereafter, Vice President Quale, Defense Secretary, Dick Chaney, National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, members of Secret Service, the President’s daughter, and others were greeting tourists on the official White House tour and jointed with those escorted to the traditional south lawn marine helicopter send off. Damon was among the latter group.

The atmosphere was casual, but correct; friendly, but choreographed to the second; quick, but not rushed. The President was up, out and away to Maine in a brief moment, and Strauss was off to Moscow. Damon exited the scene through the narrow corridors of the West Wing where all monitors were tuned to CNN.

Meanwhile, Damon’s Washington experience was to continue at the Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court Justice Warren Exhibit and the Court lunch room Associate Blackmun corner table.

Since that day, Damon has graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1992, the University of Oregon, B.A. in 1996, the Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D. in 2000. Currently, he lives in San Francisco and is an associate in the S.F office of the DuaneMorris law firm.

We suspect that 1700, Friday, 7 September, 2007 in Carmel will mark yet another memorable day in life of Damon Marshall Fisk.

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