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[ Friday, September 19, 2008 09:18 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
The past week has been eventful:

* The New York City bases financial services market has experienced a case of the chickens coming home to rest as a combination of problems like “borrowing short and lending long” based derivatives, lack of credit, and lack of trust have impacted both the locals and the globals.

Osher Senior Life Long Learning at RIT has started its new academic year with a host of new class offering including Sherlock Holmes, Vermont History, the exploration of the West, local bird watching, female jazz singers, the ART of story writing and story telling, computer basics and the Collapse of societies. Current events continues to be popular.

* The start of the fall season in Rochester, New York.

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Meanwhile, it is political campaigning in high gear.

: The Seniors of Rochester are nervous about their economic future.

:: Senior are also uneasy about the national tickets. They are general resolved to accept change and a historic first: either an African-American or a woman will be be part of the new team elected to national office.

::: Global Climate change has fallen of the public concern worry bead chain.

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[ Friday, September 12, 2008 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fish Wrap.

Section:
Book Reviews

Summary:
Aristotle. ...’"Homer has taught all other poets the ART of telling lies skillfully”

* Thomas Friedman is out with a breezy new book. It is about his view of the Environment and what needs to change to save the World. His paper, the nytimes, has brought in a sober reviewer, David Victor of Stanford University

We like PBS, The Evening News, and Jim Lehrer and his fellow reporters ---but. Last night’s segment on the meaning of 9/11 was a flop. Poets are fine writing about the meaning of life, but not on the language that is appropriate for reflecting on meaning of the loss of loved ones and the response to continuing radical terrorist threats from parts of the Muslim world aimed at the life blood Republic.

* Meanwhile, SP, the VP candidate in training , is coming into the brass knuckles arena of national campaigning by degree. Consider the snide skewering of Cindy McCain by Ariel Levy in the current issue of the New Yorker.

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[ Friday, September 05, 2008 06:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fifth: Change, Cultural Divide, B&B, Google Chrome, and Arctic Drilling

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
What is in the Air?

* Change is coming. So is __

Google Chrome browser

* Drilling for Oil in the Arctic

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* It seems there are two big glitches in the T. Boone Picken’s plan to put wind generated electrical power onto the national grid: distance and capacity. Electrical power is best used immediately close to the site of generation. The electrical grid is not designed for high volume, long distance transmission. Natural gas lines are.

The post conventional wisdom of the professional national press and pollsters continues unchanged. The powerful B & B attorney partnership charisma machine continues to be fueled by mega bucks. The mass of volunteers, like families with kids with special needs working for the other side, are given no reckoning. Further, Alaska is far from the Boston, NYC, Washington, D.C. axis of power. Talk about a change challenge to the continuing cultural divide between the east and the West!

So, Google is now on the the desktop with a browser and it works well with Vista. Fast is good. Google apps will continue to flow from the Lab to the rest of us.

* It appears that the widely reported melting of the Polar Arctic Ice Cap is not quite the sure evidence of global warming a once advertised by the advocates of the theory. New interpretation of satellite images say “OOPs, not so fast.

It seems that shallow water pooled on top of the floating ice pack has been misinterpreted a open sea water. In addition the prospect of using the long fabled NorthWest Passage that shortens the freighter run from Rotterdam to Yokahama by 5,000 mile is still a bit of a pipe dream. Shifting summer ice continues to a formidable Arctic hazard for most surface ships. So, the Arctic Polar Ice Cap is almost a floating island just as we begin a long winter of refreezing as the Polar bears continue to thrive.

Meanwhile, the Siberian version of the Northwest Passage appears to have a significant choke point for summer time open water freighter traffic.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/05 at 06:46 AM
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[ Friday, June 13, 2008 11:24 ]

Legacy Journal: Food for Thought and Summer Snow

Section:
FrontPage

Summary:
The news focus recently has been on:

* Flooding in Iowa. Never-the-less the NCAA Track and Field Finals in Des Moines continue without a pause.

* Global warming is predicted to eliminate sea ice in the Arctic Ocean this summer, But,new snow means June skiing this weekend in Aspen, Colorado. The Rockies promise to water the streams and rivers of Colorado where the fishing and the hay production will be super.

* Large fresh tomatoes are reported to be the source of some recent clusters of Salmonella. The recommendation is to wash or cook your beefsteak tomatoes before eating. Maybe a ketchup substitute would be prudent.

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Meanwhile: Good news continues.

* Iowa corn futures are Strong.

* May retail sales are OK.

* A record number of Americans are employed and employers are looking for well trained, reliable workers. Illegal immigrants, workers, visitors, family members and students are filing papers and voluntarily returning to their countries of origin.

* There are no major strikes, fuel shortages, transportation slowdowns or empty food shelves. Hospitals are open for business and firefighter are prepared for the summer season, Congress will soon join the school kids for summer recess.

* Kid and parents are learning about organic produce, self pick fruit and vegetable farms, and home grown
tomatoes. Freshness, known supply chain, local support, and even cost may be some of the advantages.

Unfortunately, you still have to put gas in the van whenever you substitute train and truck diesel out of the distribution system.

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[ Saturday, June 07, 2008 09:07 ]

Legacy Journal: More Music from Rochester and the Village of Fairport

Section:
Music

Summary:
This weekend, Canal Days in the the Erie Canal Village of Fairport of several thousand residents features music and food to several hundred thousand visitors, including at least one sweaty tow path biker from Brighton via Pittsford.

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A warm and humid Friday evening, long time local resident and Rochester native, Gap Mangione and his Big Band sound, entertained the youthful throng between the busy rail tracks and the Erie canal prior to fireworks in the clearing skies. Cindy Miller was is good voice as the band performed over three hours and three professional sets. The music was a nice warmup for the mid-month International Rochester Jazz Festival.

Meanwhile, the fresh from school teen age set was swarming to the action and the food stands to see and be seen. Fairport is a small, compact, canal side community with a Victorian core along the main drag, Church Street. Nostalgia and cuteness was the driving theme. Buntings , bandstands and brassy boys from the local high school sport teams were on public display. The nice local teen center was closed.

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[ Friday, April 18, 2008 09:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.

Section:
Personals

Summary:
The kids have been on a week spring break in Rochester. So, it was time for Jon Little to take them on a quick Amtrak trip to NYC and Philadelphia.

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The weather was warm, the skies were clear, the folage and flowers were out, and the rail cars were filled with travelers.

* The rail station in Philly got rave notices.

* Rates were cheap, schedules were kept, the country side was interesting, and the service was central city to central city without security and terminal hassles and delay.

* There were no carry on concerns or lost bags. The system worked and the trio had enjoyed at true mini vacation without using the car, a parking garage, or an airplane.

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[ Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Section:
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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