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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals

That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona. It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism. This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.

* This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular. One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers. One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface. The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.

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: It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe. Environmental
preachers are not.

:: Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard. In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.

::: Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.

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[ Tuesday, November 13, 2007 06:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Tueday SF Bay View

Section:
Environment

Summary:
When San Francisco and the Bay Area is the news source, the story has legs. Mark “ 49er"Twain and his legacy of media writers and reporters, including Tom “Summer of Love “Brokow, learned that lesson well early in their careers

Today the story of the moment involves the leak of more than 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel from an piloted, outbound from Oakland, Hong Kong owned container ship into the center of San Francisco Bay. Volunteers, scores of locally based environmental activist groups, the local congressional delegation, the local city and multi county politicians, state agencies, and federal official have swarmed to the scene. Oh, the guys on the water, the U.S. Coast Guard are being heavily criticized for their failure to contain the spill to the shores and beaches of politically sensitive areas like Marin, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Solano, and even Sonoma counties. Rep CA, (D) Chm. George Miller is the public face of outrage. Hearing will be held. Possible criminal charges are being considered pending investigation. Banning bunker fuel is advocated by some.

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The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Major of San Francisco and the editorial board of the Chronicle have all been briefed and issued statements. We are awaiting the news that public school students are being given release time to volunteer in the bird rescue mop up operations long the Marina Green. Lunch will be catered by Green’s Restaurant. Pre-spill seaweed salad will be featured

* Meanwhile, from just down the 280 freeway, in the heart of high tech venture capital, is today’s news that Al Gore is a new partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

* Further south, Google plans to release an Open Source Java based developers development platform. Ten million dollars is prize money is being offered to application contestants. Further, the second of the the two Google founders has announced wedding plans. Google advisor, Al Gore will not be attending. He has a prior engagement at a December event in Oslo, Norway. Burr, but ice free is the weather forecast.

* Murdoch, NewsCorp and the wsj.com have indicated their intention who make the website content available at no charge. This is further validation of the online search ad model that is replacing some subscription models in the large circulation print media with a global reader profile.

* Recently, Bay Area football teams, like the San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, the Cal Bears and the Stanford Cardinal, appear to falling to better teams. Some folks in Marin County are convinced it must be due to living and training in a polluted environment caused by the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Just checkout the stats on breast cancer in Mill Valley, Alzheimer’s in Tiburon, and violent behavior deaths among young men in Richmond.

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[ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Wacko Wednesday

Section:
Markets

Summary:
Tom Friedman continues his nytimes column on his view of the future of technology, energy, and the role of 700 million Indians in the coming Brave New Green World of carbon trading derivatives.

Currently, some very smart executives and Wall Street players are paying the heavy price of not knowing the fundamental value of “ Junk “ home mortgage backed financial instruments. Derivatives if you will. General Motors and Bear Stearns are the latest in the lineup. More accounting standards enforces write offs against current profits are anticipated. The future of carbon trading is murky and shares a built in flaw with other “derived” finance instrument. That would be a lack of accepted standards and mechanisms for pricing, valuing, measuring and enforcing accountability of carbon based credits and debits.

One wag has proposed color coding electrons so that electricity meters in say, the elevators of NYC high rises could sort out the source of the power used. Now, there is an opportunity for some smart E2K programmers.

Dot Earth blogger, at the nytimes weighs in with more Wednesday Wackiness. A Foster City California project is setting sail to play Captain Pirate of a scheme to capture the rights to carbon trapping plankton on the high seas. Some folks must be spend far to much time watching reruns of Johnnie Deept movies.

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Meanwhile:

The mood of the Heartland was measured by yesterday’s election results:

* Utah rejected a proposal to provide state wide vouches to public school students.

* Oregon rejected a proposal to add to the state tax on cigarettes to provide medical care to poor kids not covered by Medicaid.

* In New York, the State Legislature and the Monroe Count Legislature remains Red.

* A town in the western upstate NY county of Wyoming voted against a proposed large commercial turbine based Big Wind Farm project in their neighborhood. The proposal is thought to be based downwind in Massachusetts.

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* Injured race horses and other ill animals are humanly and regularly “put down.” Yet, it appears that is not technically possible according to the sources for those legal reporters covering death penalty issues before the courts.

* Important legal and political issues in Pakistan continue to be reported without context as though events in the street are being played out in some small town in Louisiana.

* The temperature today in Rochester is 10 degrees below “normal” and there is light snow on some home roofs that are on rises in the southern part of Brighton, Monroe County, NY

* The local paper has been recognized by an independent trade group is accessing over 80% of its potential market within its service area. That is a # 1 ranking. Among those serviced are a large and growing number of foreign born, young professional east Indians, Asians and Europeans. The University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital and affiliated groups, Xerox, Eastman, and Bauch and Lomb are continuing talent magnets.

* Speaking of snow, USA Today reports that the National Park Service is considering closing the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park for the winter. A 8,550 ft. pass west of Cody, Wyoming is used by outfitters for really hardy and fit high mountain skiers, trekkers, and snowshoers.

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