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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
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Arts and Culture
Summary:
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* 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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[ Saturday, April 19, 2008 07:57 ]
Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
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* Fossils: A Fecal Trail in the Oregon Desert near Paisley Caves and Summer Lake . Cressman and the UofO Museum of Culture and Natural History.
Rock Hounds in the Great Basin.
** A 1840-50 Western time line.
*** Duel track meet in Eugene, Oregon, Track town USA
Main:
: To quote Larry McMurty on poet Janet Lewis after the death of her husband: “she did go back to the desert, to the places of the pueblo peoples, the Hopi and Navajo, peoples who appear to live in harmony with the eternal simplicities: sun, stone, sky. She ponders a fossil:”
In quiet dark transformed to stone,
Cell after cell to crystal grown,
The pattern stays, the substance gone….
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::: If it is a Saturday in the spring in Eugene, it is time for a classic retro duel track meet between the men of UCLA and the Tiger Ducks of the UofO
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[ Friday, April 18, 2008 09:36 ]
Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
Section:
Personals
Summary:
The kids have been on a week spring break in Rochester. So, it was time for Jon Little to take them on a quick Amtrak trip to NYC and Philadelphia.
Main:
The weather was warm, the skies were clear, the folage and flowers were out, and the rail cars were filled with travelers.
* The rail station in Philly got rave notices.
* Rates were cheap, schedules were kept, the country side was interesting, and the service was central city to central city without security and terminal hassles and delay.
* There were no carry on concerns or lost bags. The system worked and the trio had enjoyed at true mini vacation without using the car, a parking garage, or an airplane.
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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]
Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
Section:
Almanac
Summary:
“ It is we who are trouble. The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.
* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales.
The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.
** Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.
*** Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado. The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.
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[ Monday, December 24, 2007 13:05 ]
Legacy Journal: On Christmas Eve, Peace and Good Will.
Section:
Briefs
Summary:
The snow is fresh in Rochester, NY. The moon is full, shoppers are out and about, music and good will are in the air.
So, bake some cookies with the kids, take a bracing walk, write a note, wrap a gift, have some oyster stew. Gather and celebrate.
Main:
Take a break from worry and woe, and be of good cheer.
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[ Tuesday, October 16, 2007 05:31 ]
Legacy Journal: Medicine: Cardiology:Imaging: What is your Calcium Score?
Section:
Health and Medicine
Summary:
The current wow factor technology in diagnostic medicine is imaging. One example is non-invasive, multiple slice, spiral duel source CT the heart. Post imaging processing then “reconstructs” a dynamic multi-dimensional image of the heart, coronary arteries, and their main branches with rapidly improving resolution. The reconstruction is software based. One of data set outputs is a Calcium Score. That score is roughly correlated with gross mortality over time in populations followed for up to ten years.
Main:
The current cost of the test at Strong URMC is $1100. The risk is low in patients who are not sensitive to contrast dye, have good micro-vascular systems, have a normalized cardiac rhythm, and are not at risk for radiation induced cancer. Dye allergy, diabetics, cardiac dysrhythmias and young women are not currently considered to be appropriate candidates for the procedure. Patients presenting to the ER with symptoms consistent with symptoms consistent the “Deadly Triad” of Rule Out myocardial ischemia, vs dissecting thoracic aneurysm, vs pulmonary embolism are currently excluded.
The use of the procedure in following patients post CABAG, post coronary balloon dilation with or without stent placement is unclear.
* The local Rochester health insurance Big Three requires prior authorization for coverage.
* Currently, the Unit is accepting self-referral, self pay, executive physical patients.
So, is the Calcium Score about to replace the Cholesterol level as a topic of cocktail conversation? Stay tuned.
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[ Monday, September 10, 2007 06:51 ]
Legacy Journal:Carmel Mission Ranch views
Section:
Sons and Daughters
Summary:
The wedding mission at the Carmel Mission Ranch is history and the newly weds are off to Crete and the Greek Isles The Fisk-Welch family gathering on the cypress was a great success.
Damon Fisk and Rebecca Welsh were both the focus and the event planners with the help from a high energy group of friends and family. The setting was spectacular; the weather cooperative, the mood joyful, the events all flawless, the supporting cast incredible, and the results memorable. Good thing happen to good people. View the evidence at the following photo slide sites----:
* From the Bridegrooms side: An amateur slide show.
http://picasaweb.google.com/dpfisk/MissionRanchFiskWelchWedding
** From the Bend Lears, Several Chapters of phanfare with music to match:
http://jlear.phanfare.com/album/410168
Thanks to Uncle Jerry and Aunt Julie Lear of Bend, Oregon for great slides and appropriate sound tracks.
Main:
Thursday, 6th of September.
An afternoon wedding rehearsal at the Ranch followed by an informal wedding party gathering and dinner at the nearby Baja Cantina in Carmel Valley.
Friday, 7th of September.
AM breakfast in the Ranch dining room, golf at Canada CC, hiking the Valley, gathering with honor guest, 94 year old Ruth Lear, the groom’s grandmother from Corvallis, Oregon, Carmel Mission Tour, visits to Monterey, shopping in Carmel, and walking the beach at the Carmel River estuary.
PM grooming, gathering, pinning , prepping and photoing of the wedding parties on the Patio. The big moment at 1730 on the lower lawn gathering in the open air with sheep, the marsh and the windless bay as a backdrop. There was a post ceremony photo shoot and reception.
A dinner gathering was on site with a great meal, appropriate toasts with Sonoma County wine and champagne, spontaneous moments and shared memories by family members. The group then relocated for up tempo dancing, more toasts, and a high tech slide show presentation.
At 2200 is was off on the shuttle to the Hog’s Breath Inn and Bar in the Village for a safe and sane continuation of the festivities.
Hum, somewhere, Zorba, the Greek is smiling.
Saturday, 8th of September.
The follow up was a noontime beach BBQ, swim and farewell.
BTW. The Ducks contributed to the mood of the day: University of Oregon 39, University of Michigan 7!
Meanwhile, there was not one bit of evidence from experienced, sophisticated, informed, and wise travelers from around the country of the widely predicted and pending wild Global crisis of climate change, ecologic collapse, and natural disasters. Even Florida has been spared the predicted seasonal hurricanes. Have fun in Greece.
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