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[ Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep

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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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/26 at 07:02 AM
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[ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:28 ]

Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.

Section:
Education

Summary:
* Collecting:

Writing:

* Legacy: HUH.

Memorium:

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A chronology of Gray’s life follows:
Born Nov. 18, 1810 in Sauquot, N. Y. (Paris, Utica, Oneida CO)
Studied at Clinton Grammar School under Orlando Kirkland, 1823-1824
Studied at Fairfield Academy one year, probably 1824-1825
Studied at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fairfield, N.Y., starting autumn 1826; received degree of doctor of medicine in January 1831
Began exchange of plants with John Torrey, 1830
Taught science at Utica Gymnasium, May-July 1832, Jan-July 1833, Jan-July(?) 1834
Collected for Torrey, summer 1833; worked for him in his house, fall 1833
Taught at Hamilton College, summer 1834
Visited Philadelphia with Torrey and collected in New Jersey for him, Sept. 1834; returned to Torrey’s house
Worked on Elements of Botany in New York; finished April 1836
Made librarian of New York Lyceum of Natural History, Feb. or March 1836
Planned to participate in U.S. south seas expedition but delays led him to withdraw
Appointed professor of botany at newly formed University of Michigan, 1838
Traveled to Europe to buy books for Univ. of Michigan and to visit herbaria, Nov. 1838- Nov. 1839
Began correspondence with George Engelmann, 1840
Began a new textbook, 1841
Appointed professor at Harvard, 1842
Finished Manual, Dec. 1847
First volume of Genera of the Plants of the U.S., appeared 1848
Engaged to Jane Lathrop Loring, May 1847; married May 4, 1848
June 1848 wedding trip to Washington, D.C.
Went to Europe, June 1850 - Sept. 1851
Botanical Textbook revised 1850, 1853, 1858
To Europe, late summer 1855, for 21 days
Second edition of Manual appeared 1856
First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, 1857
How Plants Grow, 1858
Involved in defense of Darwin starting 1859
Field, Forest and Garden Botany, about 1867
Went to Europe, Sept. 1868- Nov. 1869
Went to California and came back by way of Dubuque, June - Aug., 1872
How Plants Behave, 1872
Gift of C.S. Sargent and H.H. Hunnewell allowed him to retire to work on North American Flora, 1873
Traveled to southern U.S., March 1875-April 1875
Darwiniana, 1876
Traveled to southern Alleghenies, Aug. 1876 - Sept. 1876
Traveled to California, July 1877 - Sept. 1877, with Hooker
Traveled to southern Allehenies, June 1879
Traveled to Europe, Sept. 1880- Oct. 1881; received LLD’s from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh
Traveled to Montreal, August 1882 for meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science
Traveled to St. Louis, May 1884; to Virginia, Sept. 1884
Traveled to Mexico and southern California, Feb. - May 1885
Received vase in honor of his 75th birthday, Nov. 18, 1885
Traveled to Europe, April - Oct. 1887
Died Jan. 30, 1888

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[ Saturday, April 05, 2008 05:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Science Session

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:

“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.” - From a letter to Asa Gray, Harvard biology professor, cited in Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation, N.C. Gillespie, p.2)

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections,—a mere heart of stone”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children”

--------- Charles Darwin

The preserved collection of the voluminous correspondence of Charles Darwin fills volumes and is the source of much of the current spate of publications on the man, his methods and his motives. Part of that legacy can be found in the UK at the Darwin Correspondence Project.

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: Asa Gray, Born 1810 in Oneida C. NY ,Fisher Professor of natural history, and Herbarium Director, Harvard University, 1842–88. Wrote numerous botanical textbooks and works on North American flora. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1863–73; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1872; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1874–88. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1873. One of his collectors was John C. Fremont.

The Herbarium is part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History which shares its site with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnography. The botany department, museum and medical school have graduated the drug culture cult hero, Andrew Weil of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Arizona.

Recently, part of the Gray Darwin correspondence, quote #2) has been lifted from Gillespie and used to attack the scientific (hypothesis, theory) of evolution and elevate the “theory of Creation Science”.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/05 at 05:25 AM
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[ Wednesday, January 02, 2008 09:55 ]

Legacy Journal: Resolution: Take the Cure - Cut Consumption.

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.” ---- Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond, the popular non fiction author and today’s nytimes Op Ed Page Contributor, has a popular and long held view of the world, IE, Population Pressure, rising consumption expectations, and carbon fueled environmental pollution are associated with the cause and effect linked story of the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations. The cycles of human history may be largely accidental, but also includes the adaptability and resourcefulness of preliterate “indigenous “ natives.

Currently a tenured UCLA emeritus professor of Geography and environmental health, the 70 year old Diamond has Bio-morphed from membrane cell biologist, to medical school physiologist, to amateur exotic topical birder, to amateur anthropologist, enthusiastic world traveler, to his current position. His titles and awards are many.

Main:
In the times, Diamond states that currently, Europeans enjoy “a higher standard of living” and less consumption than the U.S. Does Diamond really believe that the EU has better institutions of Higher Education and BioMedical Research, a more accessible system of public education K-16, more choice and variety in public access to public lands, more affordable and greater choice in quality food, clothing and housing, a better job market, a lower rate of unemployment, a lower rate of interest and inflation, a lower tax burden, a more free media, a less restrictive immigration policy , ---- etc, etc.?

: Meanwhile, life goes on. Have a ball in 2008.

:: In the mean time, It is 19 degrees on a bright mid day in Rochester, Rt 70 between Denver and the ski slopes has been cleared of snow, and storms in Iowa are welcoming the party watchers and participants from around the world to the caucus circus.

::: 40 % of possible Iowa caucus goer are said to be nonaffilicated independents 5% will be Republics crossing over at Democratic events. Even out of state students can work on a campaign, participate in an opinion poll, and register a legal primary vote all in one day. Welcome to Iowa.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/02 at 09:55 AM
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[ Wednesday, December 19, 2007 09:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Midweek Movers

Section:
Environment

Summary:
Science and Policy Clash in the Political Area. Designing the Future, circa 2020

* Bali is over and at the nytimes, Friedman is perplexed, Rivkin is skeptical, and U.N.Secretary General Moon is reportedly off to campaign for the Universal Human Right not to face capital punishment. The administration representative put on a late in the fourth quarter full court press with an impressive Power Point presentation. Smart and quick, Coach Wooden would have been impressed. Many of the goals are aimed at 2020.

Congress and the Bush Administration have come together to sign the Energy Bill. Mileage mandates, exemptions, and ethanol $ubsidies abound. The goals are for 2020

* The PBS New Hour revisited Oregon and more than 10 years of spotted owl old growth fir forest habitat sanctuary policy begun by the Clinton Administration, championed by VP Al Gore, and administered in the National Forest lands in the Cascades by federal Fish and Games wildlife biologists. The set asides are 7000 acre per bird. The predatory barred owl species has moved in and is out competing their cousins for space and food. Flexible policy into the year 2020 has resulted in lawyerly dueling between administration policy makers and professional politicians.

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So

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/19 at 09:46 AM
Calendar: • Wednesday: • Chances are ---: • Cause & Effect: • Climate: • Climate Noise: • Energy: • Environment: • Envirotech: • Execucrat: • Features: • Quotes: • Headliners: • Herd Mentality: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Media Watch: • News: • Global: • Regional: • Science: • Science and Technology: • Natural Sciences: • Biology: • Update: • Wilderness: • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: • Bluster: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Monday, December 17, 2007 09:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Previews

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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.

Main:
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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/17 at 09:43 AM
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[ Thursday, December 13, 2007 13:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Medical Views and News You can Use.

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
Question?: What is the common term researcher use to characterize the stain of mice with a predictable and inherited genetic “defect”?

* Professor Alain Einthoven of Stanford is once again in the Health Care Insurance spotlight. In the current NEJM, he turns to the Netherlands as a mixed model for mandated coverage.

* The NEJM also covers stem cell research and the “knockout” laboratory mouse model for cellular biology research, the foundation of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.

* A NEJM Review Article by Italian authors on platlets and vascular inflammation is conprehensive with a PubMed linked bibliography. A 12 minute instructional multmedia video from UOHSU on the proper techniquie for subclavian line placement is a valuble training aide.

* An ABC News Roundtable of HealthPolicy experts ranks Electronic Medical Records EMRs as being in the top 5 reforms for improve the efficiency and quallity of the American system of delivering medical services. Surprisingly, the VA’s EMR system ?MUMPS? based system is used as a model. As noted, the VA is largely a captive system with long term patients who are geographically dispersed.

Main:
In addition,

The weekly Thursday morning OB-GYN rounds at Highland Hospital, part of the URMC complex was a WebCast with a partners from a Rochester law fire presenting steps that individual can prudently take to protect themselves from some forms of identity theft when using electronic means to make a variety financial transactions.

Answer: “Knockout”

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Posted by: dfisk on 12/13 at 01:27 PM
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