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[ Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep

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* 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.

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: 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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[ 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

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: 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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[ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 07:17 ]

Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard

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Politics

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* “Moral Hazard” is the current term of ART among the political and economic crisis oriented media pundits. What does it mean? Perhaps we should attempt to define the idea behind the phrase.

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It seems to be an insurance term that began in England. One can imagine the talk in the early coffee houses of London where Lloyds of London syndicates were pooling investors stakes to insure the nations trading ships, their cargos, and maybe event the lives of their crews against accidents and piracy as they sailed at sea to the edges of the known world. The talk among these sober risk takers may have incluced the possibility of some imprudent risks. like overloading, if insurance was inforce and playable if the ship, cargo and crew capsized and all were lost. London, the west’s first metropolis, had long been supplied with coal via coast carriers, before they were replaced by canals and railroads. Captain James Cook learned his hazardous trade aboard vessels of just this type.

Today, the term moral hazard has a similarly negative connotation ---- imprudent risk taking without a penalty or price like bankruptcy or insolvency of a business or loss of a house. Bear Stearn’s most valued asset, trust, was lost, liquidity evaporated and its partners and customers would not trade. Insurance can not cover or restore loss of trust.

Currently, the economic good news is that not all Wall Street investment firms took the same risks in low quality mortgage backed derivative instruments at Bear Stearns. Today Lehman Bros. profit report excessed expectations. The nation’s unemployment rate is low and stable. Productive is good. Exports are Strong. Technology, transportation and services sectors are growing. Biotechnology and genomics are red hot. Agricultural incomes and land prices are a boom for the heartland and the national balance sheet. The stock market continues to contain safe and sure value. Pension and Truct funds are performing well.

Yes, New York and other states are facing budget deficits. Inflation rate outpaces Treasury returns. Discretionary consumer spending may continue to contract. Housing construction continues to contract in California and Florida. Decreasing defense spending is not currently an option. Health care and medical insurance costs are rapidly rising to fund patient expections, institutional and professional liabilty protection ,applied documentation imaging technology, and nursing shortages.

The weaking dollor and low interest rates are a double edged sword,

Meanwhile, in the wild and wonderful worlds of evolutionary biology and genetic molecular biology, guarantees of individual and species perfection and survival are hard to come by.

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[ Tuesday, November 20, 2007 06:35 ]

Legacy Journal:Medical Legacy: George Hoyt Whipple, MD. (1876-1974)

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Education

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1926: Founding Dean, University of Rochester Medical Schooll. 1936: Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology with Murphy and Minot.

Rule #1: “Remember the value of Work in life and science.”

Rule#2: “Keep your Word.”

Rule#3: “Don’t make Assumptions.”

Rule#4: “Personal Integrity Matters in Medical practice, teaching and research.”

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Personal Recollections of a Victorian and a Patrician Paragon of the Virtues of Key Values:

George Hoyt Whipple, the man is remembered today with a University of Rochester Medical Rounds lecture by former students who are now senior members of the faculty.

Whipple was a product of New England. His father and grandfather were country physicians in New Hampshire. Fatherless at an early age, he was drawn to nature, sports, hunting and fishing. He was athletic, playing baseball and football at Phillips Andover and crewing at Yale. He was thrifty and worked to avoid debt. He was intelligent and good in math and science. He traveled and lived in Baltimore, attended the new Johns Hopkins Medical School where all the disciples were represented by the best and brightest , the Canal Zone, Europe and San Francisco for medical experience at the Hooper Foundation.. His work in Anatomic and microscopic Pathology with Welch and others, was broad and grounded in classic pathophysiology . Diet and nutrition were part of his clinical and research core.

In San Francisco, at the Hooper Foundation, he noted the unfortunate bifurcation of preclinical and clinical medical education between Berkeley and San Francisco. In Rochester, and the influence of Flexner, he united practice, teaching and research under one roof at the Strong Memorial Hospital. Initially, he was also a one man interviewing and admissions committee. One of his lasting legacies is the quality of the young departmental chairmen that he recruited to, live, work and build in upstate New York. George Corner, Willard Allen, and William Masters all left their marks on the clinical study of progestins and reproductive physiology.

Whipple’s office at the Medical School, near the Library in the Pathology Department, is a kind of shrine that remains as he left it. Along with Eastman, Strong, Rees, and the Education Board of New York, a Rockefeller Foundation legacy, he is part of the nostalgia and Victorian legacy that lingers in Rochester.

Finally, two side notes. The tradition of of the Gold Headed Cane Award is a concept that honors the 18th century practice of presenting an actual gold-headed cane to the pre-eminent physician in English society. One such cane was continuously carried from 1689 to 1825 by five distinguished British physicians and now resides in the Royal College of Physicians in London. Second, Murphy is one of those credited with intrinsic factor research and the dietary treatment and cure of pernicious anemia with dietary liver. Murphy attended the University of Oregon before transferring to Harvard Medical School. He is one of three Nobel Prizes with a Condon, Oregon connection.

On this day, one wonders if the dilution effect of awarding Nobel the Peace Prize to large heterogeneous and amorphous groups like the UN IPCC may not tend to devalue the award and blunt its lasting impact. Time and the force of nature and climate will tell the tale. What man will propose, nature will depose. Today, another unsigned Editorial in the nytimes, The Scientists Speak, is startling if not naive in its suggestion that members of congress should try to read and understand the as an Oracle, science and the limitations the report. If Michael Oppenheimer the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University with seven years of experience of being associated with the IPCC framework is to be believed, burnout is a problem. On a recent News Hours interview, he also revealed that the report are not allowed to make specific policy recommendations. Therefore, Congressmen are on their own to translate the state of the science into policy. So far, their individual records are not impressive, Dr.Bill Frist and Dianne Feinstein being notable exceptions on the senate side.

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[ Saturday, May 27, 2006 13:27 ]

Foreign Fire Fighters: Contract Workers in the National Forests

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Today, the PBS program NOW from New York City, featured foreign contract workers in the Lolo N.F. of Montana who were replanting tree seedlings in a burned area. The ernest young woman reporter on the scene appeared to have little personal experience and even less understanding of the value, utility and necessity of manual labor and reforestation. She was light years removed from the Montana youth of writer, Norman Maclean and his acclaimed, Young Men and Fire. The good news balance was provided by young female F.S. Ranger on scene who added a seasoned and reasoned tone to the dry, but important factural details of the operation on the ground.

Whether, the young reporter followed the example of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and went fishing, hiking or boating in beautiful western Montana near the college town of Missoula is unknown. We note that the local forecast today is for snow.

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I was recently reading the 1907 Forest Service journal entries of Ranger Grandpa Dan, the first of three generations to work as U.S.D.A empoyees during the summer. the fire season in the Malheur National Forest in Grant County, Oregon. Two previous generations had been pre Forest Service volunteer firefighters. His entries tell the story of mill workers from the Utah based, David Eccles founded and controlled, Oregon Lumber Company at Bates and contract Japanese Sumpter Valley narrow gauge railroad work gangs out of Baker City joining forces when “recruited” into the fight against lightening strike or right of way fires.

At one time, college students for around the country willingly worked as summer employees in the west. We did the hard work of planting trees, piling brush, building trails, clearing streams, maintaining camp sites and generally having a great shared out of doors experience. At the end of the summer students returned from fields, the construction job and the forests fit, tanned and ready for some football.

That reserve source of student labor for the well paid work of fighting wild fires has long left for foreign travel planned and led by campus faculty, for office internships, for summer camp counsellor positions, for youth athletic camps and for a wide variety of less physically challenging opportunities.

Those of us who “gandy danced” and ate with hardy and hard working Mexicans on summer railroad maintenance trains benefited from the experience. Fitness and the ability to handle hard manual labor was a matter of pride. The tools of the trade including the Pulaski and the spike driving hammer. Today, the equivalent is found in the garage, the gym, the Athletic Cub or the Activity Center complete with the latest soy supplement for cancer prevention and steamed rock message to help manage the stress of final exams.

My, how times have changed! Meanwhile, the battle of obesity associated diabetes, heart disease, peripheral athersclerosis, and hypertension continues.

The good news in 10 sq. mile Davis is that the Unfied School District and the taxpayers are spared the expense of school bus system. The majority of kids and UCDavis student have bikes and do ride them to class, to the playing fields and to shop, socialize and just plain workout.

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Meanwhile, yesterday Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. was reportedly paralysed by fear because of noise generated at a real work site.

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[ Friday, April 21, 2006 13:32 ]

The California Legislature and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Help in on the Way

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Yesterday was an occasion for a country lad from Davis to visit the Capitol in Sacramento and tour to the newly opened 19O6 San Francisco Earthquake Museum. The state Senate and Assembly were in session and the spring break 4th grade classes were in the house for a California HIstory module lesson. Assembly woman, Jackie Spear was their school teacher in chief.

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In 1906, the part time California Legislature was not in session during April. The Governor called an extraordinary session in June and some State Government measures iwere voted and passed in response to the events two month previously.

One bill was to fund pay for the state’s mobilized National Guard Troops. Another was to allocate $25,000 for the rebuilding of Agnew State Mental Hospital, home to more than 1,000 patients in Santa Clara County. Rebuilding San Francisco City Hall would be the responsibility of The City.

Meanwhile, President Teddy Roosevelt would mobilize men and ships from the Presidio and other areas. Most of the massive evacuation was via private steamersfrom the the docks in the Embarcadero. By accounts is was one class evacuation from Russian Hill to China Town. The Levi-Strauss workers were relocated from their south of Market location to the east bay where work and pay continued.

On the scene relief work for the homeless and the foodless fell largely to the churches, the fraternal organizations, the mutural aid societies, the guilds, the unions. Communication to the word was handled by Wireless, Western Union, the Working Press, transoceanic cable and the new commercial radio. The early relief response came down the Sacramento River from the Valley. Then, supplies poured into the east bay via the railroad. Bread baked in Salt Lake from Mormon storehouse wheat flour was part of the early cargo to the Bay Area. It was fresh, but not sourdough

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[ Thursday, January 26, 2006 13:30 ]

News with Legs

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Politics

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Thursday is the big day in the Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday media cycle. Oprah does a recall of her defense of the fictions in her Book Selection recommendation, a Million Little Pieces. Now she is anger at being “misled” by the author. President Bush responds to election results in Palestine and previews his updoming State of the Union address to Congress. Google partners with mainland China. Sam Alito’s name, reputation and record goes to the full Senate for yet another round of rehashing. The editorial page calls for a “spineless” Senate minority to use its option to use filibuster the ccongirmation process and damage the standing of Congress with the silent, but aware, majority in the Heartland.

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* Oprah is nothing if not a quick study in survival. She may have also read her fan mail and put her finger to the wind.

* President Bush is ever the optimist. He views regime change via the ballot box as a good thing for the people of Palestine.

* Google is good way to continue opening doors and minds in China.

* The Senator’s will continue to Huff and Puff, but Alito will survive, stand and serve. The worse concerns, fears and prognostications of catastrophe by his detractors will not come to pass.

Meanwhile, it is game night and date night in Davis and around the rest of the Heartland.

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