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[ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 08:52 PDT ]

Legacy Journal:  B&B on the Erie Canal

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Travel

Summary:

The Tow Path on the Erie Canal is a place with a connection to a significant part of the economic history of the entire region.

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* A small group of bicyclists departed the Adam’s Basin Inn B&B ,  on Washington between Spencerport and Brockport, after fueling up with a filling gourmet breakfast prepared and serviced by our host Pat Haines.and her husband.

* Pat’s husband drove us and our bikes to our departure site 27 miles downstream to the west.  Rural cobblestone farming country was the scene along Rt. 104 running parallel to the Lake Ontario shoreline.

* Our return bike route included no locks, but plenty of canal cross roads.  After a lunch break, a chat this a transcontinental biking Scots lass, were returned to the Inn after 8 hrs for a shower and and a planned dinner out at a family Greek restaurant in the Victorian center of the college town of Brockport.

* One highlight of the two night one day our trip out of Rochester was the opportunity of visiting the Canal authority workmen manning the barges, tenders and dredges docked at Adam’s Basin.  The bridge bells that sound the lifting of the bridges for the passing boat traffic adds to the authenticity of the setting.


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[ Monday, July 28, 2008 12:43 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Summer Swing

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Education

Summary:

Summer fun for kids includes continuing to learn, explore, and grow in body and mind.

Physical activity and music are part of the mix for the Little girls of Rochester who recently spent two weeks in California. San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Santa Barbara were in the mix of family venues. See and hear the videos. The embedded version below requires a shockwave-flash plugin.

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Emma and Tessa are now back in Rochester, NY and are in full time - full speed biking, swimming and skating modes.  Meanwhile the Buffalo Bills are painting the town of Pittsford and the John Fisher College practice field red and blue.  Live music is in the air every night of the week.

 

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[ Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:13 PDT ]

Legacy Journal:  Thursday Thoughts: Twitter, Triathlons for Horses, and Obama One on Tour

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Commentary

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“Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend itself”  D. Cal. Senator, Dianne Feinstein.

*  Twitter seems to be a kind of miniblog for quick social networking for device packing mobile professionals who expect instant access to ....?

**  Eventing at venues like the recent Stewart Equestrian Trials in western upstate New York, on the other hand, is basic athletic competition.  Dressage, Cross Country, and Stadium Jumping are the three classic events spread over three days.  That level of horse and rider interaction is the real deal. Animated mustang cartoon fantasy fiction like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron out of Dream Works by Hollywood, is at best misleading, at worst, childish. The stock characterization of pure wild mustangs,  pristine noble natives, and profoundly evil wranglers, cavalrymen and railroad builders is standard drivel.

***  Stock characterization and standardized drivel has been the story of the early U.S. national campaign to date.  The pace will quicken after the party conventions.

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The Obama camp may use Twitter, but do not expect to see the campaign abandon the jet, O one , for time on horse back any time soon.  Meanwhile, the candidate is taking a quickie course in geopolitics , international security, and global trade.  Attempts to correct and clarify misstatements ( “poor choice of words) on Jerusalem, the recent success of the U.S. military in Iraq, and an over simplification of American interests in the Middle East are not reassuring to those who have long worked these and other issues.

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[ Monday, July 14, 2008 08:33 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: High Finance, Bad Loans, and Banking Reform

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None

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Depression Era hybrid twins that were originally created to extend easy housing credit to individuals, create construction jobs, and bring the power of the federal government to the needs of the poor.  Reduced regulatory and reporting standards, minimal reserve requirements,  access to low interest funds, no taxes on “profits”, and a presumption of federal protection, if necessary lead to a powerful competitive advantage and a dominant home mortgage market share.  Years of increasing size, a Washington, D.C. power base of lobbyists, administration appointments, Congressional inaction , and a looming economic moral hazard contributed to a stock market meltdown of their share prices.

Raines and other friends of Angelo Mozilo, including Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, and James Johnson, are reported to have received favorable loans from Countrywide.  A California Mozilo company, IndyMac is today officially “failed” and in Fed hands.

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Meanwhile, former Freddy MAC chairman and CEO Franklin Raines and his ilk appear to have escaped tainted but largely beyond the reach of the law. Raines, of Harvard, Oxford, the Clinton OMB, and Lazar Freres, had his mismanagement errors and losses partially covered by insurance.

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[ Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:03 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Chatter x 3: ABC, NBC, and CBS

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Commentary

Summary:

The silly summer season of Sunday network election talk TV is again upon us.  Today, the Governor of California,  Arnold Schwarzenegger was front and center for the first one third of ABC’s This Week with George Stephenopoulos.  What ever the California connection to Disney, natives would agree with Arnold that California is the most important state in the union, and McCain should not dismiss the state as a lost cause in his general election campaign.  This week McCain will address both LA Raza group in San Diego and the annual NCAA meeting.  How quixotic is that?  Or is good politics now that Steve Smith is now driving the McCain Express bus and serious funds are starting to fuel the political machine.

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Meanwhile George and his wife, Alexandra Wentworth, can spend serious time hanging out with their friends, like the Steinfelds and playing with the kids and the crabs at the Hampton beaches while others summer on ranches in Montana, music festivals in Aspen or Vail,  attending media conferences in Sun Valley, Idaho or fly fishing in Jackson Hole Wyoming.  Arnold and wife are on Senior Senator watch and have the Gulf Stream on standby near their Santa Monica home.  Little of significance will be happening in Sacramento or Washington, DC between now and Labor Day.

As of today, Arnold’s sense of political realism is that:

  *  The Governator is on top of the early, numerous, and wide spread lightning cause fires in his state.  Regional and Federal help has been sufficient to date and the weather is cooperating. 

  *  There will be not drilling for oil off the coast of California.  Off shore oil is a states rights issue.

  *  Global Climate Change is a reality in the minds of California voters, so why should the Terminator stand in front the Green train that has already left the station?

  *  Political gold is still to be mined in California.

  *  At the age of 61 year this month, he has a stake in and appetite for future National Service  that does not necessarily include national elective office.

  *  Learning for experience an changing one’s mind is not flip-flopping, it is what smart people, successful business executives and long term survivors do everyday.

  *  Arnold may have come the United States knowing little English, but puts many crossover journalists, including Time editors,  to shame when it comes to putting ideas and opinions into understandable sentences.

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[ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:27 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Monroe County: Politics, the Carousel, and the Onterio Beach

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Feature

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Today, the RIT-OLLI summer senior strider group was out for a stroll and local history lesson focusing on Charlotte and the Port of Rochester,NY on the lower Genesee.River.  Points of interest included the cemetery, the lighthouse, the boat basin, the yacht clubs, the Ferry Building boondoggle, the secret walk between Beach St. and Lake Ontario, and the pristine carousel at the Ontario Beach Park run by Monroe County. 

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*  Monroe County’s historic Dentzel Menagerie Carousel at Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte is open for the 2008 Season. This year is the carousel’s 103rd continuous season at the Park, where it first opened in 1905.

The carousel was carved and created by the firm of G.A. Dentzel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed at Ontario Beach Park in 1905, and has remained in its original location, ever since. The carousel is a menagerie model and consists of 52 riding animals.  Rides are one dollar, or unlimited all day for five dollars.
Smaller versions exist in Davis and Santa Barbara, California.  Carousel restoration is done in Albany, Oregon.

Meanwhile, out west in Sun Valley, Idaho, Allen & CO is sponsoring its annual media smoozefest and flyin for the rich and famous.  For my money, I far prefer the thrill of floating with friends, fishing, camping, and watching the Big Horn Sheep watering along the banks of the Salmon River to the north of Sun Valley. But, that is a story for another time.

*  Oh yes, Politics. Legacy N.Y. State Senator Rep Joe Robach of Monroe’s 56th District is in a dog fight to keep his seat in Albany.

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