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[ Saturday, April 12, 2008 06:38 ]

Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires

Section:
Sons and Daughters

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* Mission Ranch, Carmel, CA

“Make my Weekend !”

* The sea side Gathering Place.

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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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[ 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.

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: 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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[ Monday, December 17, 2007 09:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Previews

Section:
FrontPage

Summary:
“Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?” --- Richard Feynman

* This morning, national ABC TV Weatherman Sam Champion was forecasting from snow storm central, Rochester, NY. The area is 300% above normal snow fall for this date in the season. One third of the normal seasonal quota has already been filled and winter has not officially started! But, raw numbers can be misleading. At 0800 the sun was out and the sky was cloudless. Some schools closed, others were open. Folks were out to work, clearing, shoveling, plowing and shopping.

During the last week, there was one day without a US troop death. Is the surge working? At the John Wooden Classic MBB in Indianapolis, Purdue hosted and defeated rated Louisville and Rich Patino while starting four freshmen. Therefore, are rankings misleading? Wooden is reported to have graduated 19th in his class at a time Purdue had 4,000 students. His first job after graduation was as a classroom English teacher at a small high school.

* Meanwhile, billions of dollars are being pledged to help jump start a new state of Palestine, new species have been discovered and described regularly in remote, barely explored places like the highlands of New Guinea, and the quality of life and the choices available has never been better for more people.

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Meanwhile, guilt, uncertainty, and fear continue, as usual. Understanding positive parts of the three News Summaries are part of the antedote.

: Above and below normal or average is common and not a cause for concern. Take the weather. Complex system events like winds, ocean currents, cloud formation, precipitation patterns and temperature variation are like many events in the natural world where change and chaos are in play. Predication and forecasting are difficult even with real time monitoring, massive computer modeling by the NWB, and constant updating of data. General patterns do exist, but the action on the ground is usually very locale specific and novel. What is true in downtown Rochester, or next to Lake Ontario may well not apply a mile south over the hill in Brighton’s Summit Dr. neighborhood. Furthermore, preliminary results reported by numbers like 1/3 d and 300% do not indicate trends that will continue for the remainder of the season. The same is true of the early season non-conference road record of the basketball Cardinal team.

:: And that brings us to Coach Wooden and sport. To the best of my knowledge, he has never run for public office, been appointed to a position of power and privilege, lived a life of ease and luxury, or been paid for a product endorsement. He has written a simple book of Wooden Wisdom. So, what makes him and others different from many in the current Y generation?

::: So, some critics and cynics focus on the failures of the past, others chose to travel the tough, slow, uncharted road to peace in the Middle East. One such traveler is football fan, the U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Another person of character is the ant guy, E. O. Wilson. He has written that fewer than 25% of the worlds species have been discovered, described, named, archived and studied.

And finally, who can fail to be impressed by the demonstrated virtue of Charity and giving by the American public.

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[ Monday, November 19, 2007 13:08 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Jeopardy: Predictions: Sports, Weather, Economics, Politics, and Religion

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“ When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world “—Zig Zigler And today, we remember Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address and the power of short speech making.

During the past NFL football weekend four state of Oregon Quarterbacks were on the field. Three on the winning side. Clemens of the Jets, A.J. Feeley of Eagles, and Anderson of the Browns won. Harrington entered the game for the Falcons after the game was lost and passed for Atlanta’s only score. Who predicted that combination of scenarios?

Meanwhile, one in five economy handicappers are reported predicting that there is a 50% change of a U.S. recession soon time soon according to one expert interviewed on CNBC. The political pros are playing it close to the vest on the outcomes of the Iowa caucases and the New Hampshire primaries. One expert noted that the Orange Bowl and snow may influence caucus attendance by the young college activists.

Some economists associated with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are proposing a small % of the Global GDPs as a set aside to mitigate carbon dioxide effects and to fund research in alternatives to fossil fuels. That has the sound of roughly $50 billion per year.

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Is the IPCC in danger of committing a moral jeopardy?

* Heavy snow is forecast for the northwest Cascades and the western exposures of northern Rocky Mountains. The upper Green River drainage in Wyoming, the largest tributary of the Colorado River, will benefit In NY, the Bills of Buffalo are once again playing football at 32 degrees.

* Canada and rest of the North American continent continues to supply water to one of the world’s marvels, the Great Lake system connecting ports that link the Heartland to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

* The two billion dollar U.S. snowboard industry is booming. Burton is ready for a banner season.

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