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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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[ Thursday, May 08, 2008 13:29 ]

Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?

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None

Summary:

Peak performance across the board is difficult whether one is dancing with the stars or training as a triathlete.  Gina Koleta of the nytimes continues to impress with her columns on exercise and competition. 

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The same can be said of country naturalists, like Charles Darwin, working and writing from home at in Kent during the haydays of 19th century Victorian England.  The amateurs with all their enthusiasm for beatles and barnicles, reputations protected by a coterie of friends and family, and popular publishing success , were being replaced by the professional academics, societies, laboratories, and the latest in German instrumentation and organized science research

Meanwhile, the University of Rochester had a one day meeting at the City Convention Center for health care professionals treating women who are are pbese, diabetic or both. Guess what?

* American women are eating more, exercising less ,and gaining weight just like the Pina Indians did after they gave up their hunting and gathering more than a century ago.

* Fat woman are a risk for early death, growing big babies during pregnancy, having wound infections, and being difficult to manage during anesthesia and fetal evaluation exams like ultrasound.

* They may even break standard delivery room and operating room tables.  Whoa!

* Gastric bypass and banding surgery many have better, faster and more cost effective than medical therapy for morbid obesity in a properly selected population. 

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[ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails

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Almanac

Summary:

“Some politicians can put more words into small ideas than most other folks.” --- A. Lincoln





* Maps:  The National Geographic Society, NG the Magazine, and GeoPedia have a Strong feature on Permafrost with a carbon twist.

** Tall Tales, embellished recollections by office seekers are as American as Apple pie.

*** Who was the first American to make the Pacific coast to Atlantic coast overland crossing on all U.S territory?


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:  It is claimed that Permafrost locks up more than 800 Gigtons of carbon dioxide.

::  Hillary Clinton now states that she misspoke when she claimed to have been under the threat of snipper fire when she visited Bosnia ten years ago.  Her campaign has recently ken on the desperate appearance of a long death march..

:::  Recall the year that New Albion moved from Mexican (Californio) to Americano control during the Polk Presidency with persistent prodding by Senator Benton of St. Louis, Missouri.  The year was 1846, called the Decision Year by Bernard DeVoto in his 1943 historical narrative of the 750,000 sq. mile addition to the bicoastal continental U.S, and the runup to the Civil War to preserve that Union.

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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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[ Friday, January 04, 2008 10:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Iowa: The Purple State

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Politics

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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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[ Wednesday, January 02, 2008 09:55 ]

Legacy Journal:  Resolution:  Take the Cure - Cut Consumption.

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Environment

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“The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.” ---- Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond, the popular non fiction author and today’s nytimes Op Ed Page Contributor, has a popular and long held view of the world, IE, Population Pressure, rising consumption expectations, and carbon fueled environmental pollution are associated with the cause and effect linked story of the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations.  The cycles of human history may be largely accidental, but also includes the adaptability and resourcefulness of preliterate “indigenous “ natives.

Currently a tenured UCLA emeritus professor of Geography and environmental health, the 70 year old Diamond has Bio-morphed from membrane cell biologist, to medical school physiologist, to amateur exotic topical birder, to amateur anthropologist, enthusiastic world traveler, to his current position.  His titles and awards are many.

Main:

In the times, Diamond states that currently, Europeans enjoy “a higher standard of living” and less consumption than the U.S. Does Diamond really believe that the EU has better institutions of Higher Education and BioMedical Research, a more accessible system of public education K-16, more choice and variety in public access to public lands, more affordable and greater choice in quality food, clothing and housing, a better job market, a lower rate of unemployment, a lower rate of interest and inflation, a lower tax burden, a more free media, a less restrictive immigration policy , ---- etc, etc.? 



: Meanwhile, life goes on. Have a ball in 2008.


:: In the mean time, It is 19 degrees on a bright mid day in Rochester, Rt 70 between Denver and the ski slopes has been cleared of snow, and storms in Iowa are welcoming the party watchers and participants from around the world to the caucus circus.


:::  40 % of possible Iowa caucus goer are said to be nonaffilicated independents 5% will be Republics crossing over at Democratic events. Even out of state students can work on a campaign, participate in an opinion poll, and register a legal primary vote all in one day.  Welcome to Iowa. 

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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

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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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