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- Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
- Legacy Journal: Memory Lane
- Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
- Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
- 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
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[ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:11 ]
Legacy Journal
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[ Sunday, December 31, 2006 16:04 ]
Legacy Journal: The Y Generation
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Essays
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This year’s Time Magazine Person of the Year is ------ You! So, Who should be surprised that the technology challenged and union bound print media should be whistling in the dark past the Cemetery as they face the wild west of the new Internet.
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The potential of Web 2.0 open source on the Internet is for everyone to be on the scene all the time. So why send a reporter from the Hub to cover the story in the field. There is already someone there with laptop, camera and a wireless connection to the world. RSS moves the story to subscribers.
Meanwhile, the Youth Generation is not the only one on the You wavelength. Stay tuned for new stuff here in early 2007.
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[ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 16:41 ]
Legacy Journal: A salute to Google
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Science and Technology
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“ Where in the world is that American airbase that supports the UN mission in Afganistan?”
Yesterday Google stock was up 5%. Today we installed the Google’s newest service, Custom Site Search. We call it LegacyLog Search. Users will call it sweet but lean. Even President Bush likes Google Earth. Don’t we all. Geography is back on the front burner.
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On the front burner in Davis is the good news that leafy greens, antioxidants and phytochemicals are good for memory retention. That is very good news for the lettice and spinach growers and shippers of the Salinas Valley. The local markets in Yolo County have been clearing their shelves of the stuff recently and sending it to the local Free Food programs.
Meanwhile, the training tables and Dining Halls of Davis will be featuring local produce at the dinner meal tomorrow. We expect the senior Nutrition and Food Science faculty to be out in force. The UCDavis students seem to be partial to ice cream and handle the calories well according to the latest data on the relative infrequency of the fabled freshman fifteen. Workouts, sports, the mirror and snug jeans have a way of controlling the tale of the scales.
Now, about the profile of some University faculty and administrators, there appears to be ample room for improvement.
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[ Thursday, September 07, 2006 13:47 ]
The Fall Season in the Heartland: Harvest Mood
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The pace is beginning to quicken in the Heartland with the first of the fall full moons. School is in session, the fall sports season started, the cross country whippets are working out at the Woody Wilson tract along with the Clydesdales footballers, and the burley water polo guys. UCDavis football travels to Texas for a game with nationally ranked TCU. Freshman Aggie class enrollment is up and orientation has started.
Preparations are underway for a full slate of five football saturday’s in October, including the Bears of Cal and the Ducks of Oregon at Memorial Stadium on the 8th. With a 32 train eight county 0500 to 2200 wwekday Capital Corridor train schedule in Davis town, the trip to the senior sister campus by the bay will be a breeze. BTW, bike go free.
Farmers in Yolo country are looking at good yields and Strong markets for their products. The prospects for continuing good weather is good news for the grape growers in the Great Central and Napa Sonoma Mendecino Valleys. Tomatoes, alfalfa, rice and wheat stables are doing well.
Finally, this site is now updated to EE 1.5 with the simple Commercial PayPal Modue 1.0.
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So what is next?
* Two a day workouts, swimming time trials, pathology , physiology and genomicsconferences, Pen Pals, ESL partners, IH Great Decisions, OLLI Osher Fall Classes, family birthdays, journaling, Googling and all the rest. Whew , time for a break.
* Meanwhile the silly season of off year National election campaigning has begun. Many bloggers will be following and fact checking and satirizing the politicians, their hirlings, their tactics, their funders and their other supporters. It will be interesting.
* Meanwhile, tennis is also in the air from the east coast featuring Andre and Billy Jean in nostalgia roles.
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[ Monday, May 29, 2006 13:15 ]
Memorial Day Connections
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. “ ---- Winston Churchill
Memorial Day in Davis is all about BBQ, swimming and a little remembering of the way it was in times and places far removed from the Heartland.
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* In addition showing the colors and waving the flag, some like to stepback and remember those who wore the uniform and served overseas.
For example, download ,look and listen to an MP3 clip from Memorial Day 2003 in Santa Rosa.
Or, step back in time to the WW II, battle for the Pacific and the occupation of Japan from the bridge of LSM 371 as recalled of two young Naval officers from Oregon and Alabama.
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The local news is that the first place game of the USA Youth Women’s Water Polo Zone meet at the UCDavis Schaal Pool will be a NorCal vs SoCal event. The Central California team, including three young women from Davis, will face Central California Coast team that includes Santa Barbara, Ventura and part of Los Angeles Counties. Following cuts,Tuesday’s Games will be between mixed and matched teams. Another round of cuts will be made before offers are extended to those qualifying for the July Junior Women’s camp in Los Alamitos. There, team members for the 2006-7 National Junior Women’s Water Polo team will be selected.
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[ Wednesday, July 13, 2005 14:58 ]
Orient, Observe, Decide and Act
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WiFi, high level learning and data mining are up and running in the Heartland. The Davis Senior Center has installed a Cisco 1200 AeroNet radio/router, the UCD Library staff has hosted a two day N.B. lecture/ lab mini-course, and the local Internet and DMUG groups have used the Internet to do live demos of IChat AV and e-democracy action.
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This week has thus witnessed the old fighter pilots mantra OODA in multiple venues.
* The N.B. and PubMed are open for learning basic and advanced biology, queries and Web technologies like XML. The site is open to a growing international community of genonic sequencers, content publishers, and researchers in many disciplines.
* Seniors are using IPODs, PCs and laptops for health, travel, current events, family communication, shopping and swapping.
* DAM and the AquaDarts is preparing to share a new Club House. It will be wired for Internet access and can easily go wireless. Now we are ready for a waterproof laptop,
BTW. As of today, this site is running Expression Engine 1.3 and the Discussion Forum 1.0 from pmachine.
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[ Tuesday, October 05, 2004 13:47 ]
Brief Site News
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This is the first posting to this site following a recent EE 1.1 CMS bug fix. The content here is a general, food for thought type commentary
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Democracy will be safe until the people start voting themselves paychecks for not working. ... paraphrase from W. Churchill.
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* “Fight Fat and Feel Fit by putting your Feet on this Flight of Stairs”. A sign on the ground level door leading to the 3d floor of Meyer Hall and the Dept of Nutrition on UCDavis campus.
* The USMS SCM Sprint Pentathlon event to benefit the UCD swimming program was a great success and fun was had by all. What an inspiration to watch Tom McColl and Bill Johnston, two 80+ Masters do all five events!
* Wither America? from Senior Learning Unlimited is off and running. Politics are the subject; Debates are the passion at the top of the ticket. Stay tuned. Is it the visuals, the voice or the black letter words that will carry water when it comes to the heavy lifting of conducting foreign policy in the Middle East?
* One can only hope that some of “The Wise Men” and women are thinking hard about American strategic interests are informed by the history of the early Republic’s experience in the Barbary Coast experience as lived and led by Jefferson for many years. The source documents online at Yale’s Avalon Project.
* Come to think about it Yale, and its alums has long weighed in on topics nuclear and strategic. We have and will continue to see, hear and read the heft of that interest.
* Meanwhile, enjoy the ride. The passengers and crew are not in command of the mission of the ship of state.
* BTW, tickle your curiosity and do a Google search on “kleptocracy”
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