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- Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
- Legacy Journal: the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
- Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
- Legacy Journal: Wednesday Leanings
- Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
- Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
- Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
- Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
- Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
- Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
- Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires
- Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines
- Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
- Legacy Journal: Saturday Science Session
- Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash
- Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
- Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
- Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
- Legacy Journal: Mellow Monday
- Legacy Journal: Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
- Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
- Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard
- Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green
- Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out
- Legacy Journal: Tueday Talk of the Town
- Legacy Journal: Seasoning, Conventions, and Climate Blowback
- Legacy Journal: William F. Buckley
- Legacy Journal: Fisk Family Friday
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[ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:11 ]
Legacy Journal
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Alerts
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: We are expanding the use of tags and categories to our journal postings. To access the complete list, click on Achieve Listing # 1, * . It is located up north, just above the first of the most recent 30 postings. Be patient and the SQL server will prepare a nice alphanumeric listing that is fresh and current.
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[ Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:22 ]
Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
Section:
Arts and Culture
Summary:

Main:
* First, Tessa Little is now officially four years old. The California Princess has made the Rochester transition in style and is preping for KG in the Brighton School District in the Fall of 2009. Meanwhile, she is continues to play the role of Emma's younger sister, best friend and student, cat tormentor, and non-stop asker of questions about how stuff works.
** The Lilac Festival around the corner in Highland Park is in full bloom and the weekend music is swinging. The opening parade with Strong Drum and Bugle Corps from the upstate region, is now history.
*** Meanwhile, Erika Little has earned the title Mother of the Year. Relocating cross country from California, finding and updating the perfect house, guiding the kids, working at the URMC, in a Clinical Research Unit, and hosting guests and visitors is only part of the Little story of the past eight months.
The truth is, Mom’s tend to be the world’s most passionate warriors and best truth tellers.
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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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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.
Main:
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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Backgrounder: • Basics: • Biography: • Calendar: • Thursday: • Conventional Wisdom: • Fitness: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Website Reviews: • Leisure: • Life Lines: • Personalities: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ 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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Barber Shop: • Black and White: • Calendar: • Thursday: • Climate: • Forecasting: • Food for Thought: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • WakeUp: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 13:24 ]
Legacy Journal: Wednesday Leanings
Section:
Commentary
Summary:
This posting is a prelude to May Day.
Main:
Lessons Learned during the Week:
* The silent majority is optimistic. Pessimists are a noisy minority.
* Many in that minority are narrowly focused on their opinions without considering facts and context.
* The nature v nurture, secular v religious, local v global bipolar views of the world are long standing and will persist despite well intended attempts to “educate” young and old about shades of gray alternatives.
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[ Sunday, April 27, 2008 08:09 ]
Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
Section:
Sports
Summary:
The ultimate in spring time weekend warrior events in California includes The Big Sur International Marathon. The Triathlon tribal gathering at Wild Flower, and the DamFast open water swim at Lake Berryessa would be other examples.
Main:
: The start is at 0700 at Ranger Station on Hiway 1 high above the foggy Pacific Ocean. The finish is at Camel Village at the entrance to Carmel Valley just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
This is Mission Ranch, Junipero Serra, and Clint Eastwood country. The vaqueros and the Padres are not running today.
:: Damon Fisk is bib# 3888. If the support crew does its job and the knees hold up, he should finish before the 6 hour closing time at 1300 PDT.
::: Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has been entertaining the locals in Junction City, Oregon 3 weeks before the state mail-in primary. The results may be interesting.
This weekend, Barak is hanging out closer to home. His exercise plans may include some Chicago hoops with his brother-in-law, the new MBB Beaver coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon. To the best of our knowledge, Obama has not used up his NCAA eligibility.
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Calendar: • Sunday: • Chronicles: • Exercise and Health: • Features: • Graphic: • Photo: • Have a Good Day!: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • News: • Sports: • Well Seasoned: • Young at Heart: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:02 ]
Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
Section:
None
Summary:
* RITMemoire3: Billy_and_the_Bike.pdf
** Three point standardization and check list lessons: Communicating was you sense , Analysis of what you sense, & Action plan. Document what you know, not what you feel.
*** Big Sur to Carmel Marathon Race.
Main:
: Redmond, Deschutes, Three Sisters, John Charles Fremont, and more.
:: Better your communication and your outcomes by building a World Class High Reliability Organization. Start with Standards
::: For weekend warriors.
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Backgrounder: • Basics: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Saturday: • Chronicles: • Courage: • Fitness: • Frontiersmen, Cowboys and Indians: • Fundamentals: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • News: • Good News: • Retrospect: • Science: • Science and Technology: • Natural Sciences: • Biology: • Molecular Biology: • Genomics: • Young at Heart: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
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