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[ Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk

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Arts and Culture

Summary:

Erika Little, daughter Tessa, live in the Lilac Festival, Highland neighborhood so this May weekend is to be a perfect Trifecta trice celebrated



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* First, Tessa Little is now officially four years old.  The California Princess has made the Rochester transition in style and is preping for KG in the Brighton School District in the Fall of 2009.  Meanwhile, she is continues to play the role of Emma's younger sister, best friend and student, cat tormentor, and non-stop asker of questions about how stuff works. 

** The Lilac Festival around the corner in Highland Park is in full bloom and the weekend music is swinging.  The opening parade with Strong Drum and Bugle Corps from the upstate region, is now history.

*** Meanwhile, Erika Little has earned the title Mother of the Year.  Relocating cross country from California, finding and updating the perfect house, guiding the kids, working at the URMC, in a Clinical Research Unit, and hosting guests and visitors is only part of the Little story of the past eight months.

The truth is, Mom’s tend to be the world’s most passionate warriors and best truth tellers.

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[ Friday, January 04, 2008 10:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Iowa: The Purple State

Section:

Politics

Summary:

Iowa is often thought of a red, white, and blue representative of Heartland Americana.  The results of state’s 2007 Republican and Democrat party bruising caucus competiton is more some shade of purple ,lavender, or lilac.  Black and yellow are Hawkeye colors, but big city Illinois was a big winner, and The Oprah factor may have played a role.  Apparently, the Harlem based lieutenant -governor of NY, the Latino mayor of Los Angeles, the former Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, and the collection of labor bosses that attended the Hillary “victory celebration” in Iowa were visibly stunned by results.

Main:

The state’s anti-war, isolationist streak once again surfaced.  The Quad Cities and Des Moine media center appears to have influential, but not decisive. 

On the Republican side, the two leaders, Huchabee and Romney shared 59% of the secret Republican party caucus vote. Three others, Guliani, Thompson and Paul, shared 41%. On the Democrat side, the three candidates standing shared 97% at end of the evening rounds of non secret balloting. 

So, the conclusions are:

:  The 1% of Iowans who are potential voters in the national presidential vote in November are not good at voting the next leader of the Free World.
They did not vote for native son and California transplant, Ronald Reagan, in 1980.  The follow on folks in the Granite state did.

::  Iowan’s are not pleased with the Clinton legacy, influenced by the Clinton machine, nor swayed by the Clinton money.

:::  Push poll tactics had a negative reaction in Iowa.

::::  As of New Hampshire and ABC TV showcase, five Republicans and three Democrats are still standing.

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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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[ Monday, November 26, 2007 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: A Culture of Complaint: Bets not Paying Off:  Blame it on the Weather

Section:

Environment

Summary:

“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.  We may will call it black diamonds.  Every basket is power and civilization.  For coal is a portable climate”.  --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Never place a bet on a college football game or predict the temperature and wind speed and direction at game time next week.” --- ESPN sports reporter.

How times change. Heat, cold and coal seem to be central to our perception of the way the world works,—or should bend before our needs.  Carbon and coal are central to current complaints about climate, temperature and the natural and chaotic rhythm of weather that frustrate use with dynamic and sometimes dramatic changes.

Coal remains, for many, an abundant source of comfort, convenience, and civil necessity, and mostly in the form of reliable and affordable electrical power. How often, we take the long history of energy technology progress for granted.  Try living off the grid in winter bound Yellowstone NP or Alaska for three days to learn the point.

Main:

Gambling with your life to test survival limits has always been a challenge for young risk takers. Thus, the sustained popularity of books by Jon Krakauer of Corvallis, Oregon.

Some complain about the weather or the temperature.  Others engage Nature directly-- face to face.

Thank about it.  Weather is used to explain and give meaning to how our moods change, when shoppers buy, why the tomatoes will not grow, where water is available, who needs to put in hay, what species will survive, thrive, --- or not.

Today,

* Snow is falling in the Pacific Northwest Cascades at the 3,000 ft level. 

* Rochester, NY is shrouded in dark gray and the school kids are prepared for rain.

* Bali is preparing for a tropical jet set De visit by UN types.

* Maryland is hosting Middle East stakeholders this week.  The Golan is on the table.

* Oil spot market prices, the price of hay, and the cost of milk at the market continue to spike upwards as dollar markets continue to adjust to the whole as it is, not the world that that we want, but do not control.

Meanwhile most pundits, planners, policy makers, and politicians have yet to place their bets and roll out their plans and consumer cost analysis for taxing, capping or trading carbon and carbon surrogates.  Many call for institutions to place risky but necessary bets so as effectively manage the earth billions of known and unknown plant and animal species, control weather and climate, and listen to our complains about the present, regrets about the past, and fears about the future.  All of this seems to represent a naively self centered view of the State of Nature as it is experience by those live closest to her mystery and best know her power.

Energy Factoid:

* The University of Southern California is the largest non public customer for electrical power in Los Angeles.  Government and public education continue to be major power users and wasters.

Question:

* What measurement best represents the earth’s heat cycle?

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[ Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Science:The IPCC Report :The Final Synthesis of the U.N. Framework on Climate

Section:

Climate Change

Summary:

“No single feature of man’s past equals in importance his attempt to understand the forces of Nature and himself.” ---- Herbert McLean Evans

* In San Francisco this morning it is business as usual: The airport is fogged in, the UC Golden Bear football team lost again, Barry Bonds is indited for perjury and accused becoming a big headed Giant for Life with the help of Human Growth Hormone, skiers are hoping that the current storm will mean an early Thanksgiving start to the Sierra season, and the private company hired to contain the the recent oil spill and manage the clean up is taking flack from all directions.

** Meanwhile, Stephen Schneider of Stanford has returned to the Stanford based, Center for Environmental Sciences and Policy(CESP) from Valencia, Spain to translate and explaining the meaning of the latest report of the U.N. sponsored, Switzerland based IPCC to the rest of us.  Then it is off to next month’s U.N. Framework on Climate Convention meeting in Bali, Indonesia.  Whew, that is a lot of translation, explaining and even more jetset junketeering in the name of global science consensus making. But, read the report, bypass the translation, and form your own opinion.


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Apparently, there is more research to be done according to some of report section scientists .  One of the scientists has called for improving and refining the predictions made by many of the IPCC groups according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle. He is Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder and a coordinating lead author for part of the summary report.  He specifically cites precipitation ( water in the form of rain and snow) and ocean conditions ( temperature, pH, buffering capacity, levels, currents, etc) as examples where improvement in data collection, interpretation, analysis and prediction is needed.  Some of the predictions were based on solid but preliminary data collecting in the field.  Other predictions rely on untested computer models, proprietary algorithms, and secret assumptions. The result: science that has not had the benefit of rigorous and repeated scrutiny. That is a formula for both bad science and bad policy.

As of today the IPCC computers, climate models and report writers appear unable to measure, forecast or predict:

* cyclones in Bangladesh

* hurricanes in Belize

* the winter snow in the Sierra

* wind shear at the airport

* rain in Georgia

* this week’s Santa Ana winds in San Diego county

* ocean currents in Hawaii

* floods in Florida

* The change in the depth of the world’s oceans during 2007 ( The average ocean water depth is over 12,000 feet)

* or the possibility of fog for the Stanford UCB Big Game.

So, if the IPCC is unable to answer straight forward, 5th grader type questions, what is the significance of the work that these people do that relates to the daily lives of ordinary people, living, working and playing in real places?

Meanwhile in upstate NY, the Catskills, the Adirondacks,and the Poconos in Pennsylvania all are experiencing unseasonably cold temperatures, frost on the ground, and heavy show on the ski slopes.  An yet another irony. Herbert McLean Evans, former head of Experimental Biology at Berkeley was a among the first to isolate HGH from the pituitary gland.

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[ Wednesday, November 14, 2007 08:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Lost in Translation: Lessions from the San Francisco Bay

Section:

Environment

Summary:

As a onetime time resident of Sausalito, a lover of our family traditional holiday meal of Dungeness crab, and a fair weather sailor on San Francisco Bay, the coverage of the cargo ship oil spill is of more than a passing fancy.  Crab from northern California and Oregon is available on the Wharf and around The City.

* Rodeo beach, a “fouled area” is just around the corner from Sausalito. But, Oracle World attendees from around the world as taking in The City sites.

* Sadly, the swim portion of the weekend San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island, off shore from the wharf of tourist Tiburon, was canceled because of the spill.

* The Major of San Francisco was reportedly missing in action while in Hawaii with girl friend, actress Jennifer Sibel.  He has now returned and declared a local “disaster”.

* Verbal communication between the Chinese Captain and the local pilot on the bridge of the cargo ship was apparently snarled by technical glitches in both the ship,s radar and mapping systems.

* The Governor is being asked to delay the opening of the crab season by the well organized and well connected Italians that represent the Wharf based commercial fishing fleet.  The sport fishing guys are not on board and are still departing with their paying charter clients. Tourist cruises and commuter ferries schedules are apparently unaffected.

* Finally, Intelligent Design on Trial is a recent PBS Nova presentation. 

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The size, impact and lasting effects of the spill pales in comparison to the recent storm related Russian oil tanker spill in the in the Strait of Kerch. btween the Black and Azov seas. There, oil in the water was reported to be 2,000 tons, more than 100 times that in the Bay.

Meanwhile, Al Gore, the 100 million dollar man, has announced that he will be an “active partner” in his new VC firm post. He will participate in weekly meeting in person if he is in town, or by video conference from home in Nashville, TN.  $2 billion is the 2007 forecast for VC funds for 2007 flowing to “clean technology” firms.  California is the center of the universe for the lion’s share of that activity.  In the mean time, plan to be responsible during Thanksgiving and earn carbon credits by donating your turkey grease to a biodiesel site near you.  Do get a receipt.

Finally, The PBS science series Nova featured a documentary with dramatization on a trial on Intelligent Design and a school board supported change in the curriculum of a public school 9th grade Biology class in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.  An interactive website supplements the program website. Included are six short audio clips by presiding District Judge, John Jones,lll.  He neatly summarizes for the public the key points of the 126 page written opinion in the case.  His interview on the Tuesday, PBS News Hour was a forthright and thoughtful prelude to the program.  Judge Johns acknowledged that he received death threats for his part in the case, but that he hopes that science, judicial independence, and education have been well serviced by the opinion and the documentary. Among the target audience are present and future school board members.

In Rochester, the leading candidate for city schools superintendent has been selected by the school board. That candidate is young, foreign born, black, male, a physics teacher, and administrator in the New York City School System.  Most, but not all, are happy with the candidate or the selection process. He appears to be a good match for the clear needs of The City schools.  USAToday reports that on standardized math proficiency testing, students in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Singapore and Korea continue to excel.  Those in Washington, D.C. do not.

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[ Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:39 ]

The Polar Express Arctic Meltdown: A Hot topic in a Frigid Region.

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Science and Technology

Summary:

Global warming is the answer to many serious and most rhetorical questions about Environment cause and effect .  The Greenhouse Effect is clear and concrete metaphor.  Melting Arctic Ocean sea ice and permafrost thaw are the symptoms.  Industrial CO2 emissions from the tailpipe and the smokestack is the cause.  The cure is global policy like the Kyoto Protocol recently endorsed by V. Putin and the Russian Duma. The National Geographic, its writers and photographers are now the science journal of record for many popular culture readers and mass media reporters .

Recently, sea ice and glaciers in the western Arctic have been the subject of mass media reporting including a PBS aboard ship visit to a US Coast Guard Icebreaker with a 40 scientist research team sampling the local CO2 cycle..  Other reports have include a scare yout pants off segment by ABC’s northlands expert, Canadian born, New York based anchorman, Peter Jennings.  Today, the Cal Aggie carried a News piece by Mike Toner, of the Cox News Service on the early news from a gathering of 300 scientists who are attending an International symposium in Reykjavik. Iceland.  The headline grabbing projections are for massive Global consequences of an incompletely studied, poorly documented and barely understood region and complex natural system.

It should be noted that the Polar region and most of the Arctic Ocean is now in near total sub-zero.  That inhospitable condition will continue of five months without interruption. The great whales have long deported for Maui, the terns are well on their way to Antarctica, the caribou herds have vacated the North Slope, the summer scientists have returned to their winter abodes well to the south.  Is this the picture that Heart landers in the Sacramento Valley are getting from the National Geographic?

No, the picture is one of a well lighted, poster-child, polar bear “stranded” on a wafer of floating sea ice. Quick ,send money to save or study the plight of the poor creature.

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* Perhaps the career and comments of a widely quoted and respected member of the academic elite class, population crusader, Garrett Hardin is worthy of review. 

* Vaclav Smil as written an obiturary in the American Scientist, published the Sigma Xi.  Hardin, the father of four, was a vigorous supporter of Planned Parenthood, author of the Commons Carrying Capacity argument of limiting population growth and migration( physical and cultural overloads are his twin themes.  His was also a CO-founder of the American Eugenics Society, a member of the Universalist - Unitarian Church, and a member of the Hemlock Society.  He retired from his academic post at the University of California,Santa Barbara in 1978.  Born in Dallas into a branch of the outlaw Hardin clan of Texas, he trained at biology at the University of Chicago where he was a Phi Beta Kappa.  His PhD was from Stanford.  He is the author of popular works on population studies including The Tragedy of the Commons.

* Like his kindred spirit Paul Erhlich, Hardin and elite leaders united under the Club of Rome flag , have long been making long term projections of the logically inevitability of the global collapse of complex social and natural systems because of destructive individual self interest, massive demographic trends and population induced environmental degradation.  They are true believers in the Church of Malthus. What he and others did not see was the dramatic demographic shift in the status of women in consumer based first, second and third world societies.  Plus, we are now witnessing the ability of 1.3 billion mainland Chinese to feed themselves and to export quality goods and services to the West.  No trend lasts forever, not ever human populations.

* Likewise, what the Global Warming Earth Science community has not done is present a comprehensive and integrated picture of how global energy flows, CO2 cycles, Oceans and Earth orbits and tilts explain well known natural phenomena like variable ocean currents, different temperature trends in Eastern Canada Vs Western Alaska, a fluctuating Arctic Ozone effect, the effect of tundra fires in Arctic Siberia, etc.

See the positive Julian Simon inspired. Ecology Bootcamp fired Arctic Ocean MultiMedia Presentation.

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