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1. Legacy Journal
2. Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
3. Legacy Journal: Memory Lane
4. Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
5. Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
6. Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
7. Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
8. Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
9. Legacy Journal:  Wednesday Leanings
10. Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
11. Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
12. Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
13. Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
14. Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
15. Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
16. Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
17. Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires
18. Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines
19. Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
20. Legacy Journal:  Saturday Science Session
21. Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash
22. Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
23. Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition:  Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
24. Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
25. Legacy Journal:  Mellow Monday
26. Legacy Journal:  Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
27. Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
28. Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard
29. Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green
30. Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

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Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson





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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 primative iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopyed 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 stacking.

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.  Teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the kid gathering.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a towny, and I were the designated power hay buck jockys.  We had a spirited racing competition.  Our cockpit perches were open ai, the wind and bugs were in your face, and your 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, he would have been 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, now the largest private land owner in the state.

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[ Thursday, May 01, 2008 09:59 ]

Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize

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Climate Change

Summary:

Sacred Cows seem to be falling and reinvented by the Hour. Consider the evidence:

* Gas was first too cheap and polluting, then it too scarce and taxes on diesel fuel was taking bread and tacos off the table of trucker’s kids.

* Americans was being going crazy and driven to the grave because of a diet of corn products; now it is time to wear hair shirts because of an global shortfall in stable cereals in the Third World, due partly because of drought, climate change, agricultural protectionism, and an emerging plague of wheat rust from Uganda.

* First there was the separation of church and state; the a presidential primary candidate from Chicago publicly divorces his pastor of 20 years after a voluntary and consensual association that included conversion, church membership, marriage, children’s baptisms, and Sunday service attendance.

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[ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 07:17 ]

Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard

Section:

Politics

Summary:

* “Moral Hazard” is the current term of ART among the political and economic crisis oriented media pundits.  What does it mean?  Perhaps we should attempt to define the idea behind the phrase.

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It seems to be an insurance term that began in England.  One can imagine the talk in the early coffee houses of London where Lloyds of London syndicates were pooling investors stakes to insure the nations trading ships, their cargos, and maybe event the lives of their crews against accidents and piracy as they sailed at sea to the edges of the known world.  The talk among these sober risk takers may have incluced the possibility of some imprudent risks. like overloading, if insurance was inforce and playable if the ship, cargo and crew capsized and all were lost.  London, the west’s first metropolis, had long been supplied with coal via coast carriers, before they were replaced by canals and railroads. Captain James Cook learned his hazardous trade aboard vessels of just this type.

Today, the term moral hazard has a similarly negative connotation ---- imprudent risk taking without a penalty or price like bankruptcy or insolvency of a business or loss of a house.  Bear Stearn’s most valued asset, trust, was lost, liquidity evaporated and its partners and customers would not trade.  Insurance can not cover or restore loss of trust.

Currently, the economic good news is that not all Wall Street investment firms took the same risks in low quality mortgage backed derivative instruments at Bear Stearns. Today Lehman Bros. profit report excessed expectations.  The nation’s unemployment rate is low and stable.  Productive is good. Exports are Strong. Technology, transportation and services sectors are growing.  Biotechnology and genomics are red hot.  Agricultural incomes and land prices are a boom for the heartland and the national balance sheet. The stock market continues to contain safe and sure value. Pension and Truct funds are performing well.

Yes, New York and other states are facing budget deficits. Inflation rate outpaces Treasury returns.  Discretionary consumer spending may continue to contract.  Housing construction continues to contract in California and Florida.  Decreasing defense spending is not currently an option.  Health care and medical insurance costs are rapidly rising to fund patient expections, institutional and professional liabilty protection ,applied documentation imaging technology, and nursing shortages.

The weaking dollor and low interest rates are a double edged sword,

Meanwhile, in the wild and wonderful worlds of evolutionary biology and genetic molecular biology, guarantees of individual and species perfection and survival are hard to come by.


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[ Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

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Almanac

Summary:

*Early Indian Affairs in the Far West: California Missions, Exploration of the Oregon Territory, Fremont and Carson, the California Connection, and the Klamath Basin Tribes.





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* The Hudson Bay Company, Coastal Exploration, Astoria, and the War of 1812

** Junipero Serra: Spain, Mexico and the Californios of Monterey

*** Peter Ogden and the fur traders

**** The Bear Flag Rebellion

***** Dr. John Marsh and General Marianna Vallejo of Sonoma

****** Captain Jack and the Modoc Indian War http://www.klamathtribes.org/

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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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[ Friday, January 11, 2008 11:23 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Faceoff: Fitness, Forcasting, and a Free Ride --- to the White House?

Section:

Commentary

Summary:

“ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle.





* Long time controversial Washington Post columnist psychiatrist, and former Mondale speech writer, Charles Krauthammer, has an critical eye for bad manners from people who should know better.  He has gone where others fear to tread and he writes about the cynical live TV debate Obama “ nice enough” remark directed toward Hillary Clinton.  Polled New Hampshire voters were not asked, nor would they reliably report, their reaction to the low brow blow.  Obama shot himself in the foot and probably paid a continuing price:  embarrassment, an likely wifely rebuke , and an altered public perception of the pol from Chicago. Meanwhile, for the pollster, who were 0 for 9 in New Hampshire, and the poll watching political junkies, it is out of there and on to South Carolina.

** Economic fitness and security has cycled to the fore.  Job and spending forecasts, fuel prices, costs of government entitlements, education, and an early year sloppy wall street marketplace are now front and center.

*** In the candidate winnowing process five case makers remain on the Republican side; three remain standing on the Democrat side and the endorsement phase of the campaign is underway.


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:  President Boren of the the recently BSC Bowl chastened University of Oklahoma, and Mayor Blomberg of NYC are sounding like UN potentates, “ Stop the bickering and make nice with everyone.”

::  Mitt Romney will soon learn about how much love and support he has in Michigan.

:::  On this date in Rochester, NY, the record high was 56 in 1939.  The record low was -12 in 2004.  Today, the temperature is in the low 40’s.  Politically Correct Town of Brighton had a “Go Green
Campaign Kickoff evening this week.  The next morning winds downed power lines and freezers were off .  But is was RG&E to the rescue with emergency dry ice ( CO2) available at strategic locations.  We are curious about the possible adverse environmental impact of the C02 whether the Spanish owners purchased Carbon Credits at current market rates.  BTW, the FTC has started a fact finding process on the accountability and soundness carbon trading market system in the U.S.

:::: The kicker and really big news for today is the new machine for the masses, and a new polluter, the four door , 5 passenger Tata Nano introduced at the 12 day Auto-Expo in New Delhi, India attended by 1.2 million people.  The market is gigantic, 7 in a 1,000 Indian families has a car.  The good news is that once on the road they will be filled with people. The auto guys in Michigan know the game, but seem unsure if it wants to play in that league with the competitions ball.  They seem to mostly complain about the rules, the environment on the field and then change the coachs.

In Rochester and Brighton, most cars and service vehicles are 6 cylinder + and have one driver and no passengers. A significant number are driven by women grraduate and post doctoral students and working professionals from Asia, southern and eastern Europe, and the middle East.  Central and South American hispanics are also represented.  The evidence is on displace at mini-UN places like the Eastman General Dental Clinic at the URMC and the area campus like RIT and the University of Rochester.


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[ Wednesday, January 09, 2008 06:41 ]

Legacy Journal:  Minority Report: Polls, Elections, and Climate Policy

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Commentary

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* Today, we again learn from New Hampshire that political polls are poor forecasts of election results. Why?  Clearly many polls are badly done, many at intended to influence the results, and many voters and consumers disconnect their thoughts, from their verbal reports, and from their actions.  The easy analysis is that Granite state voters are independent and make there decisions in the secrecy of the voting booth.

** It is not widely reported, but Mitt Romney corralled one third of the New Hampshire Republican vote in a five candidate field led by a maverick hero. That is not a loss.  The contest moves on.

*** Bjorn Lomborg , the climate change maverick from Denmark is interviewed in the Canadian press.  His analysis is worth reading.

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* The national presidential campaign is a marathon race.  The 71 year old McCain is impressive, but youth must be put into service in the international area.

** Put the pollsters and pundits on the sidelines.

*** Meanwhile, Lomborg , a young and thoughtful social scientist, is not pandering to backyard gardeners when is come to policy.  He is numbers and data focused.

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