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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
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12. Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
13. Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
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15. Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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19. Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
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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





Main:

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 08, 2008 13:29 ]

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

Section:

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. 

Main:

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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[ Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep

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None

Summary:

* RITMemoire3: Billy_and_the_Bike.pdf

** Three point standardization and check list lessons:  Communicating was you sense , Analysis of what you sense, & Action plan.  Document what you know, not what you feel.

*** Big Sur to Carmel Marathon Race.

Main:

:  Redmond, Deschutes, Three Sisters, John Charles Fremont, and more.

::  Better your communication and your outcomes by building a World Class High Reliability Organization. Start with Standards

:::  For weekend warriors. 

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[ Thursday, April 03, 2008 06:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash

Section:

Opinion

Summary:

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ----- Aristotle

* The University of Rochester and the local Squash Racquet community is hosting a “Satellite” Pro event.  Erika and Jon Little of Brighton are hosting Armando Olguin , a teaching and touring Pro from the San Francisco Bay area.

** As the ground unfreezes, it near time to plant what the Seneca Indians call the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans and squash.

*** It is also time to squash a few delusions and predictions :  the pending American Hurricane Season, the Future of the American Democrat Party, the state of the American Economy, the failure of American Public Education, the degenerate state of the New American Generation, the Coming Collapse of the Global Climate System, ---- etc.

Main:

:  The game of Squash seems to be having a mini surge of popularity. Young kids are being signed up by their parents for lessons in Manhattan, NY to Marin Country, CA.  Elitist and expensive, it is seen as a way to starting networking toward the Ivy League and Wall Street.  In 2003 Forbes magazine rated the game as the # one fitness sport.  Impact injuries are rare.  Cardio-aerobics are rated at at 800 - 1,000 kcal/hr among top Pros.  Upper, core, and lower body muscle strength and speed are required.  Endurance, mental toughness, consistency, and practice discipline complete the competition package. 

Clearly, the game has gone global with roots in the British Empire and Commonwealth. Youngsters of 23-26 are top ranked.  English is the universal language of the sport.  The top players come from Egypt, Scotland, Pakistan.  Mexico, Colombia and Canada contribute their share of young, mobile talent.  College recruits in upstate NY come from Japan, the Ukraine, and even Pennsylvania.  Senors also play the game

::  Prof Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs and Steel fame and fortune, continues, as he has for 10 years now, to remind us from his video reruns that geography, geology, climate, and the accidents of migration have much to do with food production, animal domestication, surplus, technology , social organizations and the sustainability( or not) of primitive cultures.  The recently the DNA story, grave site
Aztec archeology in Peru, and Native American finding in Oregon have all added complexity and new time lines to the more simple Diamond narrative and interpretation.

:::  Experts from Colorado fearlessly continue to make their embarrassingly bad annual predictions.  The 2008 Hurricane season edition in now out.  A related inconvenient embarrassment is the $6 per bushel of corn and the $4 per gallon price of diesel full. What happened to all the environmental happy talk about how using corn alcohol and stopping oil exploration and drilling was key to controlling global fever. 

Today’s temperature bullseye is Yuma, Arizona where the all time low of 13 degrees was recorded within the past 5 years.  The another bullseye is the international hot spot , Venezuela, where General Chavez has announced his intent to nationalize the cement industry.  Cemex of Mexico is the major external investor

In addition, the Wigley article from the NCAR on the assumptions of the IOCC on carbon emissions rates and published the early April edition of Nature, the weekly international science journal, is yet another wakeup call at the credibility of some of the IOCC Climate Commission’s claims.  From nytimes., science writer, Andrew C. Revkin does a partial journalistic mea culpa on his previous “ robins in Inuit land” reporting.  To his credit, Revkin does acknowledge that the error was reported by the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on a blog site at World Climate Report..

Meanwhile, the good new is that the baseball and local lake and stream trout season is underway. 

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[ Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Gulf Warriors: In the Air: on the Ground

Section:

FrontPage

Summary:



* This week the President of the United States traveled to the Middle East.  Israel, Bahrain and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf, and Egypt.  Sadly, most Americans can not locate strategically important Gulf locations like Qatar, Oman and the Straits of Hormuz on a map. 16 million barrels of oil in giant tankers, 20% of the world supply , daily transits the straits.

** On the Sunday talk shows, the foreign policy had no place. Hours of valuable TV time was spent probing the trivia and drivel of arcane processes of partisan party primary policy and personality.  Not one person at the JCC early morning Monitor equipped stationary machine workout watched Attorney Journalist Tim go one on one with Attorney and environmental spokesman , John Kerry, or George opine with George on ABC, or Bob Schieffer the # 3 network a Viacom and Sumner Redstone showpiece.

*** Meanwhile, the good news is that oil from Iran is now entering the market at the rate of 2.5 million barrels a day, American households spend 35 % less of their inflation adjusted income on fuel than 20 years ago, and one of the remaining nine primary candidates for president, a non attorney, has a rational, comprehensive and workable economic and energy plan for the future.




Main:

:  American views of Gulf events, history, culture are largely polarized and are not well served or informed by the mass media.  Meanwhile, the next generation of elites and leaders are getting valuable field training on the ground, at sea, and in the air.

::  Few voters are concerned about AGCC as a keystone issue.

:::  The conventional wisdom is that Mitt Romney is willing to run a national delegate based primary strategy.  The summer Republican Convention in Minneapolis could be interesting and important.

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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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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]

Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.

Section:

News: International

Summary:

“Beware of the Russian Bear! “—Winston Churchill.




Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century?  Who was Karl Popper?




* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice.  Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran.  Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56.  Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet.  Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones.  Worry about AGW?  Bring it on.  Alcohol as a Fuel?  Foolish.  Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.




** Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.




*** The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus.  Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver? 




Main:

:  Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.



::  Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue.  Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes?  Putin?  It depends on your point of view.  If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.



:::  Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position.  Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor.  Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution.  The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.





Answer:  Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.

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