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[ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 05:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
* Race Matters: At a recent URMC New York Society of Cardiology CO-hosted lectureship on the state of genomic research and technology in health, disease and in the retail consumer market, one was able to witness a race based concern. “Why are there not more African-Americans in the studies?” was the question from the only black practitioner in the audience. “ Why are some of the studies not coming from Africa?” No satisfying answer was forthcoming from the expert from California. While the largest private employer in Rochester NY is URMC, ironically, it is dependent on the black community to staff and operate its facilities 24 x 7 x 365. The residents living in the home of Fredrick Douglass has heard and seen it all. The black church, failing inner city public schools, crime in the neighborhoods, limited job opportunities in a street environment rife with petty and organized crime, substance abuse, abandoned property. High taxes, political patronage, and union restrictions are long standing facts of life that colors much of the black perspective.

Coal:

* RIT CMIS : Manufacturing technology institute funded by the Federal Government, the state of New York, and private industry.

Main:
: A new black Superintendent of Public Schools, a new black Governor, and a new black President will not qwell “prophetic” rhetoric from the pulpit, balance the state budget, or eliminate a 200 year old backlog of white guilt. Barak Obama may be perfect poetic fusion messenger to the new generation of American voters, but he can not govern well or effectively , if he is viewed as pandering to the rapidly fading black leadership elites and their supporters-- and they know who they are.

:: Coal production and export report from the nytimes..

::: CIMS is the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies on the RIT campus in Rochester, NY.

Today a OLLI tour group got a dose of sustainability, a lesson in manufacturing, and a perspective on a post Kodak western upstate NY economy. Locally, part of
the manufacturing view of green sustainability is part rehabilitation and waste management. Quality control , systems management of the product cycle, and energy efficiency is part of the package. One demonstration bay had a half million dollar articulated arm laser surface scanner for image input for product design.

Most of the projects are small simulations and tests of critical mechanical parts like aircraft hydolic systems and gearboxes.

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[ Tuesday, November 27, 2007 06:53 ]

Legacy Journal: Medical Fundamentals: Patient Care, Turf Battles, and Funding

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
Medicine Today: Local, National, and Global: Three Views in the News

* Outliers: A case report from the University of Rochester.

The Texas Tornado and the Outlaw: The Feud ends between reconciled Houston heart surgeons DeBakey and Cooley.

* The Fundamentals: Why the United States is the object of both admiration and envy.

Main:
First, today the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital Rounds was a case report. The patient was a 83 year old woman who was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit from another hospital for care because of fever and cardiomyopathy. Her DRG code was sepsis, probably secondary to pneumonia . Her hospital stay was over 35 days. Consultations, tests and procedures were numerous and frequent. Hospital charges alone were $90,000; insurance reimbursement was 50 cents on the dollar. She was discharged in stable condition at her request three days after simplifying her medicine regimen. One lesson is that the patient did offer students and residents valuable clinical experience. In addition, she probably was included in a NIH funded, University study on focused on some of the fundamental cellular mechanisms of sepsis.

Second, today the nytimes reports that the long standing Texas sized feud between Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley has ended.

Third, David Brooks, writing for the nntimes and reporting from China, makes the case for sticking to the fundamentals of open, free and fair trade given the financial and economic realities of Global trade and the fluid flow of funds.

In the interest of full disclosure of possible conflicts of interest, I have been a willing reference guinea pig subject for an ongoing sepsis research study at Strong, a CME attendee of one Dr. DeBakey’s lectures, a step-brother is a guy who owns his life saving cardiovascular emergency surgery at the Texas Heart Institute by an Iraqi surgeon in Houston, and a post WW II beneficiary of world travel, trade, and the free exchange of human and financial capital.

BTW, approximately 20% of western upstate New York’s working professionals are estimated to be foreign born according to a recently reported economic and business survey.

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[ Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Triple Threat Thursday: Cloning, football and the Real West.

Section:
None

Summary:
“The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact” - Thomas H. Huxley

* The Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton is the site of monkey embryo cloning and stem cell harvesting

* The University of Oregon Ducks are hot, flying high and heading south to Arizona, the Rose Bowl and possibly, New Orleans. Atmospheric carbon dioxide saturation worries will have to wait their time.

* Las Vegas, Nevada is the site of yet another Democratic Presidential Primary debate. The first was in the Silver State’s capital, Carson, City far to the north.

Main:
So, what are the issues here?

: In 1962, The Beaverton facility was the first of seven NIH funded Primate Centers to open. The news is exciting, but not unexpected. Animal embryo cloning and stem cell harvesting remains labor intensive, low yield, but without any near term direct benefit in treating human disease.

:: The Duck men’s basketball team has announced a highly successful high school recruit class from Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta. Mens Cross Country is going for an NCAA Championship this weekend. A Heisman Trophy is waiting in the wings of the stage at the New York Downtown Athletic Club.

::: In the buildup to the debate in Las Vegas, two NewsHour reporter have been profiling Nevada. Last night one of them visited Elko, Nevada in the northeastern quarter of the state. In the heart of the Great Basin, it is cattle, hay and coal country. True, U.S. 80 is lined with with casinos and crap tables all the way from Reno to the Utah border. But water is the gold key to the long term sustainable health of the area. Water for wildlife, water for habitat, water for hay, and water for livestock. It is an olde Western story. Water was also needed by the coal burning locomotive steam engines of the early Trans Continental Railroad and the real opening of the Far West to internal migration, trade and communication. Today, the wheeler dealers in Las Vegas want northern water to be used for electrical power generation on site and to fill a water pipeline to the arid but fast growing desert region 300 miles south.

Las Vegas hosts 38 million visitors a year. Service workers are the backbone of the gaming and destination playground industry. Elko ranch families came, settled and stayed. Ely mineral miners are highly paid at nearly $70,000 per year and they produce $5 billion in gold and silver. These are different folks, life styles and cultures than their cousins to the south.

Recently, personal visits to Las Vegas and the Ruby Mountains, hikes in Lamoille Canyon and a plunge in Liberty Lake out of Elko have left a Strong bias in favor of the latter. So, that do Gate Keeper policy at the northern end of Lake Tahoe, the source of the Truckee Rivers, the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing in Pyramid Lake, and Bing Crosby have to do with shaping a point of view that favors the traditional over the transitional, the few over the many, the stayers over the transient, the sustainable over hyper-growth, the proven over the dream, the sure over the high risk, the soul pleasing vistas of nature over the 24x 7 manufactured pleasures of the flesh pots? If one does not get it, you have never camped out and sung around an evening fire in the company of friends and family.

BTW, Hello to Murray Gardner, MD of the Primate Center, Davis, CA, a fellow Sierra trekker, and a regular DAM lap swimmer.

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[ Wednesday, October 31, 2007 05:17 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Wakeup Call: A Return to the Basics

Section:
Education

Summary:

“Be quick. Be fast. But, do not hurry or rush.” ----- adapted from Coach Wooden

“ Beware the frequent parent interview trap of the childlike gotcha question, “Why?” Why me? Why now? Why here? Why ....?

“ In clear thinking and balanced writing , always distinguish between fact and fiction, evidence and proof, association and the science of cause and effect”

Three Wakeup Calls:

* ET meets IT: It has gone global. We call it the third leg of the IT3 stool that is stable and supported by the synergy triad of Internet, Information and Instructional Technologies. This technology troika is well illustrated by the powerful math model of the Venn Diagram.

* * Headliners.

* * * Jump Starters.

Main:
Education:

* Today, nytimes journalist Tom Friedman is back on track and back on message with his column about ET plus IT in rural India. BTW, we are using the permalink feature, and bypassing the nytimes archives for our links.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/opinion/31friedman.html?ex=1351

* A second nyimes basics article by Natalie Angier, visits a magnet school and physical science classroom in Virginia for a blast of fresh air.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/science/30angi.html?ex=1351483200&en=af7c

We we impressed a recent ABC evening news report from the field on the wonders and the science of fall leaf color change. On the question for Why leaves change color, there seems to be several theories, but no consensus among botanists, cell biologists, evolution scientist, and ecology researchers

Headliners::

* This morning we awoke to the fearful warning that many plastic products contains globally used, long studied, “everywhere chemical” hardening and clearing agent. Bisphenol A and phthalates are the class of chemical compounds. A federal government PhD laboratory reproductive toxicology researcher reports that she has found paraovarian cysts in mouse she has injected with the compound. She is apparently concerned a possible association with future reproduction in mice. So what about human females and children? “More studies and funding are needed “

A recent CNN report cites a 2005 study by Shanna Swan, a professor of obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine and Dentistry, showing that sons whose mothers had higher phthalate levels in their urine, in particular a dibutyl phthalate, had a shorter distance between the anus and the genitals.

* Once again, we are told that there is a measurable association between a couple of swallows of wine with your lingini with clam sauce and breast cancer/

Jump Starters:::

* On a per CPU installed base, the sing versions of Apple OSX 1.50, Leopard is selling at twice the rate of the multiple versions of Windows Vista.

* The New York Board of Reagents is attempting to jump start there P-16 program aimed at “At Risk Students”. These student were identified by the studies and analysis of Brooklyn native, Harvard professor and former NY-D Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. They tend to be poor, minorities, without fathers in the household. The educational establishment in NY, was well represented in a video conference hookup on WXXI this week. Featured was the current president of CUNY , and the Superintendent of the Buffalo Public School system. Clearly the focus was on the four year colleges. Sadly, there was no discussion on job and technical training in the state’s community colleges.

* Finally, Revkin a nytimes roving reporter on the global environment has a blog, dot earth</a>.. The Arctic is his current beat, but he would rather travel to a tropical rain forest, beach or coral reef.

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[ Thursday, October 04, 2007 06:13 ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Newsbeat: A view from New York-- the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
Like any good song or sermon we have a three beat posting this Thursday,

Associated with that beat is the reassuring, steady, and reliable weekly refrain of the New England Journal of Medicine. This week, any Oregonians recognize the name, of Cardiac Surgeon, Dr. Albert Starr, a 2007 Lasker Award for Medical Clinical Research winner. An audio interview with Dr. Starr is linked to a NEJM review article on cardiac valves by an Atlanta based clinician and biomedical engineer.. This issue date is Thurday, 4 Ocober, 2007. During the Sixties, Starr’s work had the Strong support of the Medical School Dean, Dr.David Baird, the Chief of Medicine, an OSU trained engineer, an master diagnostician, Dr. Howard Lewis, the Chief of the Cardiology, Dr H. Griswold, and Chief of Surgery, Dr. J. Engelbert Dunphy. It was a magical mixture of bravado, hutzpa, common sense, good luck, and team building that brought success out protential a potential misadventure. University of Oregon Medical School, Multnomah County Hospital and the Veterans Hospital patients, students and house staff on “Pill Hill” were the immediate local beneficiaries. We knew we were watching exceptional people at work and participating in this exciting chapter of American medical history.

Brooklyn, James Madison High School, Columbia University, Bellvue and military service in Korea were part of Starr maturing. But his success was in Portland, Oregon were he lives today. Oregonlive.com has a local perspective on Dr. Starr and his award.

There was a ripple effect that extended to other training and practice venues like active Trauma Units in the Los Angeles County system and the USArmy MC, and the height of the Viet Nam conflict in the late Sixties, and San Francisco General Hospital in the early 1970s,

Main:
First, the Good News:

* Today, the nytimes editorial page has grudgingly gives Ubcredit to the administration and the State Department for stellar work with its partners on negotiating an apparent deal to defuse the North Korean nuclear potential.

* PBS, and the Ken Burns War II serial is supporting the collection of viewer submitted stories of that era. One example among many is that of Wayne Fisk U.N.of Oregon and his fellow shipmates aboard USS LSM371 in the south Pacific and occupied, post A bomb, Japan.

* The weather is great and the winds are fair along the south shores of Lake Ontario in western upstage NY and mine workers are emerging from this underground work sites in South Africa.

Second, the Bad News:

* It is safer and healthier for young men to be overseas on military duty than on the mean streets of many of our urban cities, including those of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.

* Urban schools continue to reflect the decay of community and family life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and other academic Social Scientists, have described the problem of an institutionalized culture of dependency. Moynihan was a product of a poor single parent home in multi-ethnic NYC and CCNY. He know the territory, the streets and the way up and out. Indiana family ties and the U.N.were part of this young man’s escape route.

* Naturally disasters, accidents and the bizarre continue to dominate the media headlines

Third, the SAD and the Ugly.

* Caricature by Cute and Clever character Assassination continues to be the current reigning style for the political junkies with a platform. Collins is now the new Maureen Cleaver

* The school bus company with the contact to serve the Brighton, NY School District appears to have a policy of prohibiting photos taken from private property of kids on the corner once the bus has arrived. We all applaud safety and privacy, but consider the assumed authority, the consequences, the logic and the enforcement ramifications. Are yellow school buses invisible to cross road traffic video surveillance video cameras and webcams? Hum.

* Rambo guys with guns can be ugly, but so can congressional committee chair persons holding a hearing before an international media corps.

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[ Saturday, July 28, 2007 15:56 ]

Legacy Journal: A weekend view from Davis

Section:
Essays

Summary:
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love."----- Mother Teresa

Main:
A good morning in Davis includes: a visit to the Amtrak Station; a chat with friends on their way to serve as volunteer docents at the Sacramento RailRoad Museum; coffee with Phyllis at the Davis Farmers Market, making friends and sharing a strawberry-rubarb muffin with a retired couple from Corvallis who were visiting their son and daughter-in-law and their growing two career family; swimming laps at the Hickey Pool; dodging rally squad camp participants on a bike across campus; sharing lunch with Robert and Winn at Dos Coyotes; and finding the perfect soft roller duffel bag on sale at Big 5 in the Market Plaza.

What to do for an encore in the afternoon? A youth swim meet at Schaal and an air conditioned library on the west UCDavis campus will do very nicely.

Lessions learned:

* Seniors arrive early to catch morning weekend trains. Blurry eyed single students and groups of Cantonese speaking students arrive at last minute. The first group values sleep, the later wants to know the cost.

* Seniors who volunteer for community service or to man the impressive Yolo County for Obama booth at the Farmers Market are knowledgeable, committed, and passionate.

* The Famers Market is a central, pleasant, convenient, safe and accessible multi-generational meet and greet spot. The local pols learned that long ago. The Mayor was in, but out with not for public ears and eyes type asides with the powers that be. She does have a Berkeley and a Cambridge background and Davis is a company town, after all. UCDavis has been, is and will continue to be what defines the culture of this small college town. Today, the paper reports that UCD donation in the last fiscal year excessed $100 million for the first time.

* And by the way, according to the usually solid Chris Cuomo of Albany, Yale , Fordam, and the Hamptons, backyard poison ivy is growing beyond control, “possibly” because of rising carbon dioxide levels. In Aggie Davis, many plant people think the young GMA media guy and his New York City friends have their causes and their effects backwards.

More later. Stay tuned.

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[ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 15:54 ]

Legacy Journal: The State of the Nation Memorial Day, 2007

Section:
Opinion

Summary:
America is admired by the World’s youth, the country is prosperous, the economy is growing, the citizens are happy, healthy, well educated, well housed and employed, institutions work, the environment good and getting better, lifestyles are taking advantage of leisure time, and there is domestic freedom, tranquility, justice and tolerance.

Main:

Categories:

Negative View

Positive View

Image

Foreigners hate America and are openly hostile to American’s.

50% of the world’s population, 25 and under, wants to emigrate to the U.S.

Prosperity

The average American is poor.

The median household income of a family of 4 is over $50,000 per year.

Economic Growth

The economy is stagnant.

The rate of economic grow continues to exceed the rate of inflation.

Happy

The majority is dissatisfied with their lives.

The vast majority of American’s are satisfied.

Health

Americans are in poor health.

The state of health of Americans is good.

Housing

The average American can not afford a house

The majority of families live in the own home

Jobs

America is not creating jobs.

The unemployment rate is at a historic low.

Education

Public education is poor, unavailable and expensive.

American public education is the envy of the world.

Environment

Crowding and Global Warming = massive collapse and catastrophe.

Population growth is slowing and climate is complex and has moods that shift with the millenia, at a
geologic glacial pace.

Justice

Racism, sexism, religious intolerance and ethic bigotry are the norm.

Human Rights has been a standard in the written Constitutional Bill of
Rights for more than 200 years. The Civil War and the Civil Right Acts
are now part of history and legislative law.

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Categories:	Negative View	Positive View
Image	Foreigners hate America and are openly hostile to American’s.	50% of the world’s population, 25 and under, wants to emigrate to the U.S.
Prosperity	The average American is poor.	The median household income of a family of 4 is over $50,000 per year.
Economic Growth	The economy is stagnant.	The rate of economic grow continues to exceed the rate of inflation.
Happy	The majority is dissatisfied with their lives.	The vast majority of American’s are satisfied.
Health	Americans are in poor health.	The state of health of Americans is good.
Housing	The average American can not afford a house	The majority of families live in the own home
Jobs	America is not creating jobs.	The unemployment rate is at a historic low.
Education	Public education is poor, unavailable and expensive.	American public education is the envy of the world.
Environment	Crowding and Global Warming = massive collapse and catastrophe.	Population growth is slowing and climate is complex and has moods that shift with the millenia, at a geologic glacial pace.
Justice	Racism, sexism, religious intolerance and ethic bigotry are the norm.	Human Rights has been a standard in the written Constitutional Bill of Rights for more than 200 years. The Civil War and the Civil Right Acts are now part of history and legislative law.