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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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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:
Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

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Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Monday, March 03, 2008 14:19 ]

Legacy Journal: William F. Buckley

Section:
Politics

Summary:
William F. Buckley, Jr and John F. Kennedy both visited Eugene and the University of Oregon in 1959-60. Both were impressive men to those of us who were young sophomores and unsophisticated, small town country rubes. We knew we has seen the elephant.

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We did read the newspaper and watch B&W TV so were were aware of the that writer Buckley was tilting the windmills of Godless Yale University. Kennedy was preparing his bold move from the Senate to the White House.

Both were tall, tanned, elegant, articulate, and to the manor born. The Ivy League was part of their shared pedigree.

WFB’s UofO forum was the Fishbowl in the Student Union where he spoke without notes in patrician tones about what, I do not recall. But his style was memorable. His tailored suit was without a crease, the knot of his tire was just right, his posture and diction were perfect, his message was cool, clear and logical.

JFK’s college appearance was a quick Q&A with a small campus group gathered at the cramped studio of the campus radio station.

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[ Thursday, December 20, 2007 06:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Music and Performance from the Heartland.

Section:
Arts and Culture

Summary:

“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”—Brigham Young

Question?: What is the longest, continuously running network broadcast in the United States?

* Christmas is a time for the performance of exceptional music and rich visuals. One of example is the annual PBS presentation of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra, and Sissel from Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Christmas calories and fitness are another issue of perception over reality. Gina Kolata, as usual, clears up the confusion.

* Recent Ob-Gyn Rounds at UofR Highland, an e-mail from Damon in The City, and workouts at JCC reminds me of the continuing legacy of a San Francisco original, Dr. John Kerner, long associated with the MT. Zion Hospital and Medical Center. He is part of a video presentation, a Chronicle porfile, and a recent award from the French government at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C.

Main:
So, what are the messages and the meaning for Christmas 2007?

: First, the Mormon faith is not a radical non-christian cult. The LDS church in the mainstream of more than 350 years American religious history.

:: Second, the 360 member volunteer Choir, the 20,000 seat performance hall, and the recording facilities at the Conference center, are unique, without peer and a part of a noble and enduring American tradition.

::: Third, featuring the Norwegian star, Sissel, is season appropriate and reflects a continuing global reach originating since 2000 from Salt Lake City and the Convention Hall.

:::: Fourth, the program support of the Sorenson and Eccles families and foundations is evidence of the sustaining power of the pioneering foundations of region.

::::: Fifth, the program needed no host or spokes person. The richness and quality of the choral, instrumental and dance performances said it all. It is part of the Mormon way, after all.

Answer: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Spoken Word, since 1929

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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.

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“ 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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[ Tuesday, October 30, 2007 06:30 ]

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

Section:
Cartoons

Summary:
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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[ Tuesday, May 08, 2007 16:23 ]

Legacy Journal: Lou Dobbs and the Homeland

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
Lou Dobb is a media man with a Strong personna, a regular pulpit at CNN, and a populist message. He is also a small town boy from rural Rupert, Idaho along the Snake River drainage portion of the Old Oregon Trail. He also has a degree in economics from Harvard University.

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In a former life he was a working CNNfn business and finance journalist. Currently he does commentary on the politics of immigration where he is a Strong advocate of border security and the values of the American Hearland, as he believes and lives them. Here is gives no quarter and take no prisoners was cowboys used to say of a maverick back at the corral on the ranch.

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