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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 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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[ Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Briefs

Summary:

Chu is a University of Rochester graduate and trustee.  As a major university based research administrator, Nobel Prize winner, national energy policy expert, his lecture today to an overflow crowd was up to date, fast paced, fact filled and well received. Dr. Chu is Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been the formative influence in establishing Helios. Steve is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and professor of Physics and Cellular and Molecular Biology of the University of California, Berkeley

“ We do not do nuclear weapons research.”

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Amount his practical problem points are the following:

* California is a leader in energy efficiency legislation standards, research and capital investment in retrofitting and renewable sources of power generation.

* The industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers from ammonia and the “Green Revolution” prevented the food crisis predicted by the Malthusian popular professor of butterflys at Stanford, Paul Erhlich in his 1969, the Population Bomb..

* Heartland farmers should be putting 35 million acres of farmland back into producing crops for domestic and foreign food consumption, not alcohol for fuel. World price increases and shortages of basics like corn, wheat, rice, and soybean expose weak currency nations to the flame and flood of food riots.

* Diesel and jet fuel can not be biogenerated.  Termite power in the form of multiple gut microbes may be a model for converting lignan protected cellulose (wood) into simple sugars.

* The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Helios Project concentrates on renewable fuels Jay Keasling is an colleague.

* Nuclear power production needs to increase.  Current nuclear power plants are safe and waste problems are being solved

* The national electrical grid needs a DC upgrade to the tune of $ one Trillion dollars.

* The general approach should be a multi layered, but results oriented.

* Photovoltaic cells, Wind generators, fuel cells and gas turbines,at present, are orders of magnitude more costly than coal, hydro, and geothermal.  Klamath, Oregon and the state of Utah are geothermal hot spots.

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[ Friday, February 15, 2008 13:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fun Factory

Section:

Commentary

Summary:

* What a world!  Some say that the world is not reading.  Yet, e-mails, text messengers, chat rooms, news outlets instruction manuals, PDF documents, online databases and blogs at exploding.  Yes, the newsroom staff at the nytimes was reduced by 7.5%.  Competition, cost pressures and technology have a way of reducing the drag effect of death weight.

* Global Warming?  It the February spike in mid west tornado activity the result of surveillance and reporting , Gulf Warming, or Cooling from northern Canada weather fronts?  That eminent climate and ecology authority, Senator John Kerry , seems to have it all figured out is case some of the rest of us seem conflicted, uncertain or confused.

* Meanwhile, seniors in OLLI classes at Osher RIT are taking on science topics like the Physics of Global Climate and Darwin’s five year round-the world voyage of discover aboard the converted bark, H,M.S. Beagle. at the age of 22 beginning in 1832.  It took Darwin another 25 years to digest his experiences and publish his work on evolution, natural selection, and the science framework around the biologic time line and path of the human species.  Intelligent Design has come under the microscope and is in the cross hairs of this serious minded group.

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:  So, thanks from Rochester, NY to Rochester, Minnesota and the staff at Nevin’s shop at EEhosting.com for their recent annual site reregistration work.

:: Thanks for NOAA, the folks at the National Weather Forecasting service, and the good work of Glenn Johnson, the really fine weather reporter at ABC 13WHAM and Democrat&Chronicle Rochester, NY weather columnist.

:::  Also, congrats to Jon Little for his new faculty member website at Monroe Community College where he teaches Weather and Climate, and Physical Geography. Jon is a first instructor in the Department of Chemistry and GeoScience .  Jon’s site includes a PDF file or his University of Delaware Master’s Degree thesis based on field work done in Alaska’s Arctic North Slope, on site photographs, links to climate and weather resources, and information for his western upstate New York students. He interests included extreme weather, permafrost, local real time weather monitoring, regional geography, and the appropriate use of technology in education. He also teaches at SUNY Geneseo

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[ Friday, February 01, 2008 12:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Final Friday: Sure Things for 2008

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FrontPage

Summary:

* Super Bowl Sunday means Buffalo Wing sales will soar in Rochester, New York.

* The country is experiencing widespread freezing weather in the heartland, record precipitation in the west, chilly nights in the a hurricane free season in the Gulf, and a near absence of voter, media candidate concern about AGW. Will there be an Al Gore spot ad in Super Sunday? Not likely. The issue is down around # 16th on the priority list.

* The rate of growth of the $14.6 trillion GDP is slowing. But, employers are competing for reliable employees with the necessary personal qualities, technical skills, and experience. The real story of the American story is told by those in line on the outside seeking an personal or family chance at a once in a lifetime opportunity than many US citizens take for granted. Immigration demographics are increasing, not decreasing.

* Voters for the national ticket in November may have Democrat bonus choice: Three for the price of One. Come on down.

* Expect a high gloss, high cost, high profile TV and endorsement blitz and buzz for the next ten daze. The haze of campaign may be the next step in the degradation of the environment by noise pollution and jet contrails.

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:  Medical Care costs about 16% of the GDP or over $2 trillion. Some what a federally funded Universal Medical System at a matter of “Right” based on the British National Health Service.  On the other hand, the American system is also fueling research, expansion of hospital beds, capital investment and a talent magnet in the service sector of the economy.  Media advertising , Big Pharma profits , Medical Foundation non profit trust funds, and executive compensation also seem to have benefited.

::  Hillary Rodham Clinton is long off her Saul Alinski and Wal- Mart SOAP box gigs. She has now gone national with her campaign.  Her organizing network in upstate New York is impressive, her hold in California is formidable, and she is portrayed as respected in Arkansas.

:::  Meanwhile, everybody over the age of 30 who make their living off the little screen is trembling before the HD switch over.  The darn thing shows wrinkles after all.

::::  Fast fact checkers and caught on tape moments will continue to fuel the cheap instant analysis part of covering the campaign.

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[ Wednesday, January 09, 2008 06:41 ]

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

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Commentary

Summary:

* 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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[ Sunday, January 06, 2008 11:17 ]

Legacy Journal:  The Purple Hue of Precinct Politics

Section:

Politics

Summary:

The New York Times is showcasing a politically focused professionally recorded project that uses five citizen reporters. It is full length reporting with an example at http://purplestates.tv/alex_ritchie.  Yes, the theme color is purple as in passion, but also as in a fusion of red and blue.

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One example is Mitt Romney in Iowa.

* The traditional media pundits seem to find Romney uninteresting.  He has a ernest Boy Scout manner, he has a squeeky clean background, humor is not forte, one liners are not his style, and there are no smoke filled alcohol lubricated back room deals.  He may be even a little dull and a trifle boring like my usual breakfast of oatmeal. eggs and orange juice.  But, steady and regular seems to get the job done.

* He is hard core and consistent on taxes, military spending, and immigration.

: Romney does not play a musical instrument in public.

** He is comfortable in his own skin.

::  We do not care what kind of underwear he chooses.  That is personal, private, and not for public tabloid copy.

*** He is not given to the rhetoric of sharp personal attack.

::: He is aggressive and well informed on policy differences between himself and his fellow candidates.

**** He is respected by his opposition.

:::: They know that in the marathon that is the path to White House, he has the heart, the stamina , the loyal support and the momentum to go the distance and make his case directly to the American electorate. 

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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.

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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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