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[ Thursday, May 15, 2008 08:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.

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Watercooler

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A run up to the Olympic Games 080808

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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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[ Saturday, April 12, 2008 06:38 ]

Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires

Section:
Sons and Daughters

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* Mission Ranch, Carmel, CA

“Make my Weekend !”

* The sea side Gathering Place.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/12 at 06:38 AM
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[ Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: The Path from Oslo, Norway to Bali

Section:
Climate Change

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Al Gore has arrived in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize Monday on behalf of himself and the 3,000 CO-recipients on the various IPCC working groups . He will be then fly to Bali to join them and an estimated 7,000 others. Among the others is Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. She but one example of a Washington, D.C. based execucrat who has been on a long career government, NGO, NPO career path. We note that the weather forecasts for Oslo and Rochester, NY are similar: Light snow, Low of 25, High of 32.

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The Gore flight to Bali will be over oceans, rain forests and land masses. All are massive sources of carbon sequestration. They, and their massive biota, are the major “sinks” in the earth’s dynamic carbon cycle. On example is a single Antarctic krill species . The world’s ocean waters also store massive amounts of carbon dioxide in a variety of forms. The rain forests of Sumatra, Indonesia are a third example of active carbon sequestration by trees using the time honored and trusted method of low tech photosynthesis.

Questions:

* Who is going to pay the pending carbon sequestration bills submitted to developed nations in the Northern Hemisphere by Indonesia, Brazil, Zaire, and others?

* Who has the carbon sequestration rights to the Antarctic Seas and the Southern Ocean?

* What is the latest count on the world’s total krill, ant, beetle and termite biomass?

Answer:

Dah. The truth is we do now know. Nor do the execucrats and experts working out of Washington, D.C., New York City, Princeton, and Palo Alto.

So, where are Nancy Pelosi (http://www.speaker.gov) and Barbara Boxer (” the debate on global green house gas is over” ) this week when we really need them for quikie, if not quirkie, answers to pressing problems ?

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[ Tuesday, December 04, 2007 08:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Tough Minded Tuesday

Section:
Health and Medicine

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Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.” ~W.A. Wallis

Today, reading the technical and scientific peer literature requires time, experience, patience, attention to detail, some skepticism, and an analytic turn of mind. A working knowledge of statistics is an essential tool for the critical reading of studies.

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Some would also cast a vote for the study of Latin as an essential tool for analysis.

Others of us would be content in the certainty that readers and writers, audiences and speakers consistently used Language for reliable and worthwhile communication of facts supported by the evidence at hand. Frequently, headlines, summaries, conflicts of interest, unsupported assumptions, and rhetorical devices distort rather than illuminate the issue at hand.

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