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[ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 07:13 ]

Legacy Journal: Controlling Carbon: You Go First

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Many of the media and academic hyped prescription for curing perceived climate change problems and promoting alternative sources of energy production remind some of us of the kids summer games that
are playground and summer camp semi tests of bravado predictably backup up by “ You go first.” from the sidelines.

Main:
It is one thing to be in the game; quite another to be on the sidelines, in the stands, the booth, or on the beach with the latest throwaway book.

Consider the following:

* A certain California governor is said to be considering a 35 K makeover of his Hummer so it can run on canola oil.

* He also has had a fashination with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that have been prototyped by a Sacramento based research consortium and maintained by a dedicated gang of graduate engineers at their lab at UCDavis.

* One person drove his converted Mercedes diesel from Vermont to California on a fuel diet of diner grease. Now there is a recipe you can really run on. The stunt and a book have drawn attention, but so has the bizarre behavior of the horse Big Brown and people on reality TV.

* Some have proposed state wide color coded surtaxes on electrons flowing through the power grid that are generated by. say, coal fired steam plans.

* Others have suggested a jet water vapor trail surcharge on all national and international plane passangers, mail, and freight. A super supra charge would be made on flights from “dirty polluting China.”

* Countries like New Zealand and Sudan with more methane emitting sheep than people must also be called to account by the UN Security Council.

* Meanwhile, Al Gore, the current “Carbon Coach”, and Apple Board Member was sighted at the recently opened WWDC in San Francisco. To the best of our knowledge, the Major, Gavin “Green “ Newsome, has not yet declared the Moscone Convention Center a carbon fuel and plastic water bottle free zone.

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[ Friday, April 11, 2008 12:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines

Section:
Essays

Summary:

“The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” --- An Arab Proverb.

“Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action ...” ----- D.H. Lawrence

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
------ Winston Churchill

: “The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.”
------- J.Frank Dobie- Texan Folklorist, of the Mustangs

Main:
: The mustang is a feral horse with Spanish roots that has ranged the western part of the North American continent for more than 500 years. In the north western Spanish empire in the New World, Native American tribes valued the trained “Big Dogs” and acquired them as the opportunity presented itself. Failing that, they did domesticate the feral fall out and leavings. The horse has evolved and adapted to the conditions of the west: dry deserts, rocky and steep terrain, harsh winters, and scant grass and browse.
Today, BML land in Harney County and the Steens Mountain south east of Burns, Oregon is the home of the Kiger Mustang, the model for the animated movie Spirit of Cimarron.

:: The mustang is the mascot of SMU, UCDavis, Cal State at SLO, and the former Malin, H.S. , Oregon state “B” champions in football and basketball.

::: Ford Mustang automobile, the Mustang fighter aircraft, and various power speed boats are example of compact high performance machines.

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[ Saturday, December 29, 2007 07:58 ]

Legacy Journal: Year End Clear Winners.

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* In Random Order, here is a personal Thank Your list of 2007 winners.

Main:
: David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist for the nytimes. Best Advice: “Interview three people every day.” Solid writing, grounded, funny, and smart. A pleasure to read and watch as a regular panelist participant on the Friday edition of the PBS Lehrer News Hour and even ABC News on Sunday mornings..

: The August 7th picture perfect Carmel, CA wedding of Damon Fisk and Rebecca Welch at the Mission Ranch. Great timing. Good going. An outstanding all family happening. Thanks for the memory treasure chest photo album.

: The summer relocation of the California Littles to The City of Rochester,NY and the town of Brighton. Jon, Erika, Emma and Tessa have been the perfect host and hostesses for a parade of visitors from across the U.S. MCC and URMC have also benefited from their work. Christmas in western upstate New York has been part of a special holiday season.

: A cross country road trip thru the Heartland of the Country was a 2007 highlight. the Ruby Mountains of NE Nevada, the upper Salmon River of Idaho, the Grande Teton and Yellowstone NPs of Wyoming, Paradise Valley and Cisco in Montana, the Bad Lands Lakota Buffalo Grass Lands country out of Rapid City, Sturgis, and Wells South Dakota, Egan, MN Park and Skating Rink, the Minnesota-Wisconsin Interstate Park along the St. Croix River Dalles , the DePaul University district of Chicago and Niagara Falls were all new territory for this traveler.

More than three “locals” were interviewed a each stop. Their stories added rich context to the experience. I thank them all from the local journalist, historian, and fellow hospital breakfast clubber in St Croix, Wisconsin along the National Ice Age Trail to the weather aged and well preserved ranch woman, Mrs Cuny at the end of dusty road in one the most remote table islands in of the Bad Lands Lakata Sioux Reservation of Pine Ridge, the former home of Chief Red Cloud and U.S.M.C.Olympian, Billy Mills.

: Thanks to the great community of Davis, CA , the Davis Senior Center Staff, DAM swimming club, and UCDavis for first rate programs that support senior fitness. The Aggies MBB vs UCLA at Pauley/Wooden Arena this weekend. You must be kidding.

: Thanks to the Raleigh Bike Company of England and the UCDavis Aggie Bike Barn for my restored machine. It is fast, light, safe, comfortable, fun and even tracks well in the new snow. It is also fuel efficient and relatively nonpolluting. BTW, wow many of 15,000 in the Climate Brigade who jetted to and from Bali, Indonesia for the recent UN IPCC tribal gathering and pep rally use a bike daily for personal transportation or pleasure?

: Thanks for JCC. It is a welcoming and healthy bit of Brighton and Rochester Jewish life and culture.

: Thanks to George Eastman and the Kodak Company. Rochester institutions and Hollywood are not their only legacies.

: Thanks to Wegman’s. A great place to refuel. Supermarkets will never the same.

: Thanks to all that made holiday music. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra with Sissel on PBS was especially fine.

: Thanks to many friends, family and neighbors along the trail. 2007 has been a memorable ride. BTW, the Internet techies at Sonic, Expression Engine, URMC , JCC, and the Brighton Senior Center continue to impress. Apple, Google, and open source applications continue to Rock and Rule as part of the exclusive PMASS Club .

Finally, one has the sense that the anti-natalist views of the eco Malthusians fear promoters are wearing thin. Prof David Pimental, a bug guy who bio morphed into a global guru at Cornell Ag, the politically active Directors and executives of the Sierra Club, and the carbon climate crowd have tried to temper their message. But, bottom line, it is still old wine, new label. “More people means Disaster” is the staple standard; “Carbon is Poison” is on the label, even the Champagne. So, the sober message for the Holidays if you must drink to enjoy yourself, be responsible and please, do not drive. Brake for Bikers. To have a really Happy 2008, make a baby, but do not mix up the bottles.

Q: What is more dangerous, birthing a baby, performing your own appendectomy, believing that mankind can override Nature and control the enormous forces that drive what we call Climate, serving with the military in Iraq, living in Richmond, California, or driving a vehicle under the influence of drug or alcohol several times a month? Think about it.

BTW, some are still worried because during the summer of 2005 , the Arctic Ocean ice pack was down to a meager 1,500,000 square miles, ten times the area of California. The good new for the concerned is that as of 29 December, 2007, it is really cold and really dark in that Polar region as ice is rapidly being reformed. Because of the polar winter blackout, photos are not available. But, alcohol abuse remains real, reoccurring , and year around problem among the native population.

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[ Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:39 ]

Legacy Journal: The Sunday Funnies and Surprises

Section:
Business

Summary:
This morning, Maureen Dowd, the catty Op-Ed Columnist at the nytimes opines that Mitt’s No J.F.K.. Apparently, shameless, she borrowed the phrase from Woodward, a recent 0p-Ed Contributor. As previously noted here, he borrowed it from the late LLoyd Bentsen of Texas.

Main:
“ To borrow a cup sugar from a neighbor without permission is stealing. To borrowing someone writing without attribution is plagarism and may get you kicked out of school. To borrow ideas from everyone is called research.” --- a olde mentor and others.

“ Never look back in business, if you do, you’ll lose your nerve.” ---- Robert O. Anderson nytimes obituary

: We note that Dowd did a phone interview with, and quoted fellow writer , Jon Krahauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven. Both seem to find the 1820 upstate New York roots of Mormonism, the role of Brigham Young in the settling the West and the founding of the Beehive state., the presence of Mormon Temples in places like Washington, D.C., and presidential candidates that do not feel compelled to publicly discuss their undergarments as, well, troubling to some at best and dangerous to the rest of us at worst. Those narrow views are also shared by some towards observant members of the Jewish faith and about the possible role of Boston’s Cardinal Cushing during the early 1960’s American advisory “involvement” in Vietnam --- one of many JFK presidential high risk “courageous” adventures. In the end, MS Dowd, is correct. At age 60, Mitt Romney is not the forever 46 years young JFK of her youth. BTW, LDS, founder, Joseph Smith was killed by a mob at the age of 39 while in jail in a small town in Missouri.

We also note the the First Amendment to the Constitution devotes more space to the establishment and expression clause, than to the freedom of press and speech clause.

:: To many, Robert Anderson was a conservation hero. To others, he was the personification of the Environmental Movement’s worse nightmare. A Los Angeles based oilman and Arco founder, he drilled early and often in New Mexico and Alaska, refined in California, supported Republican candidates, and owned large ranches that ran cattle by the thousands. Five strikes and you take a protester’s pie to the face. Anderson was also an early contributor to the Muir Institute housed at UCDavis. Early on, he was acutely aware of the risk’s involved in the counties growing dependence on foreign sources of oil, and he was an active participant and supporter of the summer think tank gathering at the Aspen Institute in Colorado.

::: Finally, what if the writers went on strike and there was not late night performers? Would Oprah take her show on the road? Would Hillary gaffs go unnoticed? Would comedy, satire, and fiction be found only in print?

Meanwhile, one can expect a blizzard of climate news this next week from Oslo and Bali.

BTW, could it be that some Catholics are cranky with the Mormons because of a MBB BYU victory over the Notre Dame Irish? Maybe it was just a cold cup of coffee at Marriott’s.

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[ Thursday, November 08, 2007 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Thusday Fast Tracks: Cognition, the Politics of C02, and Getting Real with Water

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:
* Exercise if good for executive control and for brain frontal lobes in the opinion of writers for the nytimes. A good case for tuning out television and turning off the computer.

* A view of CO2 trangulation along the banks of the Potomac River: Deep Calculus

* Water Cycle: a view from the Desert. Cowboy math in Arizona beats the Green Felt Jungle in Nevada.

Main:
: The seniors working out at the Brighton, NY JCC get it. Exercise is good for you health, your organs, and your mental functioning. They know about heart function, oxygen delivery, and micro vascular disease. These folks have been to school. They have also sent their kids to some of the best medical school is the country. My partner at the bank of erg machines ( rowing machines) conducted a post doc seminar on exercise, diet, health and the value of parochial education. His education began early, continued as a parent, and now as a student of his daughter who is a resident in Pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Many new friend is also in disease prevention mode. Weight control, beans in his diet, and the the benefits of algae to the health of the environment. However, caveat emptor:

* He, like most, appeared unwilling to accept that while exercising his breakfast was being recycled as carbon dioxide urea and methane with the marvelous magic of his skin, lungs, kidneys and intestines. While trying to compute the energy costs of cooling the fitness room, heating the water in our shower, powering the banks of ‘TV monitors, and fueling our ride to and from the JCC we both experienced a significant senior core meltdown moment. So we parted with a tip of the hat to the biomass people, including U o R Trustee Steve Chu at the Lawrence Lab in far away Berkeley and potential algae farmers in Arizona.

::: Meanwhile, we have learned that 20% of the continental U.S. is desert and by definition, in a permanent state of drought. Reported by PBS Wired Science, Phoenix, Arizona is growing in population while not increasing total water consumption. Part of its water infrastructure is a massive reservoir system that includes both above ground and underground natural systems. This system, like the electrical grid is monitored and controlled by gatekeepers who send water from where it is to where it is need. Neat. Seniors at Sun City are also committing resources to storage, They are donating organs like their brains upon death to projects like research on degenerative disorders of the central nervous system in the elderly.

Appraising , auditing and monitoring water directly and concretely is easy, affordable, and reliable. The same can not be said for the carbon dioxide cycle and the pie in the sky carbon trading systems. So, absent proper appraisal of their present and future value, alternative, inefficient, and subsidize forms of energy production, processing, storage, distribution and use are suspect.

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[ Monday, October 22, 2007 13:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Names in the News.

Section:
Watercooler

Summary:
The power of the Internet.

Main:
Today is a tip of the tech hat to the reach of the Internet.

* From e-mail a message from a retired Opera tenor from Davis who is a NY native who trained at the Rochester Eastman School of Music.

* Streamed video of the awards banquet at the Ford Hawaii Ironman World Championship included Justin Hurd of Hartnell College in Salinas, UCDavis, and Ft. Collins, Colorado who finished fourth in the men’s 20-29 age group. He probably qualified at the Sonoma County fall Half VineMan event.

* One of the presenters at the banquet was long time Kailua Kona volunteer coordinator, Jane Bockus formerly of Santa Rosa.

* A long time Ironman sponsor, Janus Funds of Boulder, Colorado supports a Charity Challenge that raised more than $ 3 million for various causes including Kids CNS Cancer.

* The PDF version of the Sonoma Country Medical Association Bulletin lists Dr. James Gude as a recipient of an award for his continuing service to area Critical Care units and patients.

Meanwhile, Apple Leopard OSX iChat features multiple conferencing enhancements.

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[ Thursday, October 11, 2007 06:12 ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Truth Day: Medicine, Health and Diet Demographics

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
“ You know your are on the move then you hear the dog barking. “ --------- Cervantes from the Man from LA Mancha.

* Diet and Cancer. John Tierney of the nytimes is on the case for sound science.

* Alcohol and Breast Cancer. A view from Kaiser in Oakland, CA. vs the nytimes.

* Drugs, Addiction, and Death. Here the facts are truly a cause for concern and action. The action is strict enforcement of state DUI laws. Money must be spent on providing the funding necessary for detection, investigation, evidence preservation and prosecution in a count system that is fast and fair.

The evidence is clear in Rochester, NY. Drinking is big business. So is the Saturday night ER. So is DUI legal defense work among the areas advertising criminal defense bar.

Main:
* Obesity is more closely associated this some forms of human cancer than are diet components and diet supplements . For example, most endometrial cancers are highly associated with prolonged, sustained, unopposed hyperestrogenic states in women. Fat makes potent estrogens. Pregnancy and progestins are protective. Therefore, fat subfertile women are at risk for the disease.

* We suspect that the resent alcohol breast CA has more to to with the well studied Marin County demographic population statistics aberration than a direct individual cause and effect pathophysiologic mechanism. At least in Marin County, the population of women most at risk for breast cancer have a high socioeconomic profile and a low child bearing profile. The former includes white wine with one’s seafood salad lunch on the deck in Tiburon.

* The real battle to save life years is the old story of alcohol and the automobile. Prince Di died inside a powerful car that crashed while being carelessly driven by an DUI candidate. A drivers license represents the potential power to kill.

Meanwhile, Gina Kolota continues her sterling work at the nytimes as she covers the beat she knows and loves, exercise. How can you beat good work?

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