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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 15, 2008 13:04 ]

Legacy Journal: Memory Lane

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Personals

Summary:

“Make My Weekend” : A Classic Black and White Colorful Kodak Moments at the Mission Ranch, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.

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The fall of 2007 offered an opportunity for the Rochester branch of the family to gather back in northern California with old and new friends, scattered members of the tribe, members of the San Jose Welch family, and son Damon’s buddies from the Empire State, “The City”, and Santa Rosa in Sonoma County for some golf, and --- oh yes, a wedding.

For the Fisks, it was the first formal family wedding in more than thirty-five years.

It was kind of a return to the 1820-1850 Mexican Californio era.  The Mission of Junipera Serra was a short hike up the Valley of the Carmel River. Down river, a protected wetland seeped into the Pacific Ocean at a sandy cove just to the west of the fenced Ranch grounds where sheep grazed.

We bunked out in the restored and plumbed ranch out building.  Chuck wagon grub and Strong coffee brewed by the grandsons of former vaqueros was available at the cook house at the first light. Horses were stabled on rancheros next to the golf course in Carmel Valley. 

The local sights included cypress rimmed pristine beaches and cliffs festooned with native plants and touring plein aire painters The marine marshes were protected and populated with birds, bugs and aquatic species that could warm the heart of Rachel Carson. Tide pools worthy of attention from Steinbeck and “Doc” Rickets, and shops to tempt the most reticent credit card holder complimented the scene.

A quick drive away was Monterrey, Cannery Row, calamari cuisine, and the historic presidio.

But, the weekend belonged to Rebecca Welch, son Damon and their special guest of honor, 94 year old Grandma Ruth.  She jetted in from Corvallis for the Groom’s dinner, the sunny early afternoon outdoor wedding, the reception, the wedding dinner, and the following fandango.  She did not miss a beat or a photo op.

At 2230 it was time for the younger generation to load into the bus and head out for the Boar’s Breath a cool basement jazz piano bar in the center of town.

The following day it was a burrito BBQ on the beach, a bracing dip in the surf, and final farewell hugs all around.  The bride and groom then departed to catch a flight for a rest and some privacy in the warm azure blue of the Greek Isles.

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

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Watercooler

Summary:

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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[ Thursday, May 08, 2008 13:29 ]

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

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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. 

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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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[ Thursday, May 01, 2008 09:59 ]

Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize

Section:

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 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.

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:  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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[ Thursday, March 06, 2008 14:31 ]

Legacy Journal: Seasoning, Conventions, and Climate Blowback

Section:

FrontPage

Summary:

Question: Which Latin American country has the best record for the largest reduction in its homicide numbers over the part 10 years?

* Seasoning is a good thing. It is part of the process of self protection, sustainability, and adaptation

** The Democratic Convention in August is shaping up as a mid summer event not to be missed.  The media, Denver, and the media will all benefit.

*** The oceanographic spector has returned from the deep to haunt Al Gore. 

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: Experience is part of the seasoning process that allows one to quickly winnow wheat from chafe.  Speed of processing is part of the process of pattern recognition which is often subconscious, almost automatic and appears to short cut the ponderous gymnastics of conscious analysis, rationalizations, processing and endless reality testing. 

Leaders in sports, medicine, business the military, and politics are frequently called on to use their core gut instincts when making time critical decisions.

::  Meanwhile, Democratic primary news will have may ups and downs, surges and bad weeks, twists and turns. A senior Obama foreign affairs adviser with a Harvard Law and Kennedy School pedigree, Irishlady, Samantha Powell, has resigned, left the campaign trail, and put on the plane back to Boston after an intemperate, off-the-record characterization of Hillary Clinton to a Scots newspaper reporter.  Words have consequences.  Meanwhile, the Clinton camp has “Ken Starred” Obama.

:::  Roger Revelle, a student Gore mentor is quoted prior to his death,as believing that with technology, like the “Green Revolution” it is possible to greatly expand global agriculture and food production.  Truth to be told, the 96% of Americans who do not make their daily bread as farmers and ranchers seem shocked by the 6-12 months of rising world market price of grain, meat, eggs, dairy and seed oil based food. Even malt barley for brewing beer is in short supply. At last report, Nigeria, Iceland, and Indonesia are not wheat growing countries.  The facts are:  export oriented manufacturing, agriculture, food processing, storage, and distribution, construction, transportation, and cold weather consumers will be disproportional disadvantaged by may of this current proposals fix the presumed problem by “georegulate” of the proported global thermostat to the “right temperature” and to ‘climate control,’ or ‘climate engineering’ the atmosphere to the “right carbon dioxide” million parts per volume (mppv).

Meanwhile, there is continuing confusion as to the interplay between weather and climate. One problem is the choice of words of words to categorize a poorly understood, complex, dynamic, and chaotic process.  For example, the earth has been around for roughly 4 billion years, the oceans for almost as long, and homo sapiens for 10, 000 years.  In the latest interation, be are still daunted by the challenge of understanding the biochemical workings of estimated 60 trillion cells in the human body.  Modern climate science research is just beginning. So step back, take a deep breath and chill out before consigning of life as we know it to the fires of Hell.

For many living in western upstate New York, this week-end’s snow fall, temperature drop,heating fuel bills, and food market sticker shock ave only been partially blunted by the good news on the sports page.  The RIT hockey team continues win and advance in NCAA tournament play.

Answer: Colombia, the second most populous Spanish speaking country in the world.

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[ Thursday, January 10, 2008 13:13 ]

Legacy Journal: The Osher Foundation at SSU, UCDavis and RIT

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Education

Summary:

Senior Learning as a winner with the Osher Foundation of San Francisco partnerships at colleges as diverse as Sonoma State University and UCDavis in California and RIT in western upstate New York.

* The 2006 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT is a continuation of The Athenaeum, a venerable Rochester institution.  The 500 members rally around the themes of “left brain and right brain member led learning”, a learning center on a campus with a global reach, and “cradle to grave” services like the on campus nursery, and an adjacent senior housing, River Run, on the banks of the Genesee River.

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: The 2008 Winter term begins next week and potential class participants are sampling a rich variety of learning and socializing opportunities on two occasions this week.  Each afternoon course sampler featured four course previews by the organizers. Earth Science, Victorian England, Fiction, and Jazz were the topics.

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