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1. Legacy Journal
2. Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
3. Legacy Journal: Memory Lane
4. Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
5. Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
6. Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
7. Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
8. Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
9. Legacy Journal:  Wednesday Leanings
10. Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
11. Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
12. Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
13. Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
14. Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
15. Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
16. Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
17. Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires
18. Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines
19. Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
20. Legacy Journal:  Saturday Science Session
21. Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash
22. Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
23. Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition:  Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
24. Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
25. Legacy Journal:  Mellow Monday
26. Legacy Journal:  Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
27. Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
28. Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard
29. Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green
30. Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

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[ Thursday, May 15, 2008 08:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.

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Watercooler

Summary:

A run up to the Olympic Games 080808

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I do not recall a time that I have not regarded water from a mostly positive point of view. Maybe it it the surname Fisk, Swedish for fish; maybe it is a vestigial DNA remnant from a former Chinook salmon tree of life ancestor.

Oh, there was a little chop along the way. I recall the time I had to pull my two year old sister out of the deep freeze drink when she fell through an ice bridge while crossing a rushing Strawberry Creek that ran through Grandpa’s place where we were otherwise spending a traditional, safe , cozy, kid centered eastern Oregon Christmas. Today, she has no recollection of the event. 

Come to think of it, I have experienced some seasick moments crossing the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria, and rolling with the waves in a storm while waiting to dock at the lime stone cliffs Dover after an English Channel ferry crossing on.  But, those were mostly no harm - no foul events.

Water for me is all about fun, motion, beauty and power. 

My Rites of Passage included climbing up Horsetail Falls with a full pack into the Desolation Wilderness Area above Lake Tahoe to the granite moonscape of the high Sierra that is the snowy source of the American River, fishing behind beaver dams on the Klamath Indian Reservation, SCUB diving solo in mile high alpine Lake Strawberry, spring time water skiing on Lake Shasta with all of my 34 Malin H.S. senior classmates, and carving a pattern of syncopated 15 ft rooster tails behind a single fiberglass slolom ski while skimming across glassy smooth surface of Lake-of-the-Woods during quiet midweek evening after work at the Klamath Fall molding plant. 

Watching white water pound over the spillways at Grande Coulee, Bonneville, and Hoover Dams was also part of my experience exploring the American west .

Another part of my expanding experience included the waves of the warm Atlantic in Southern Florida.  Even the wind driven, poison laden Portuguese Men-of-War cast up on the beach could not deter youthful curiosity. 

The lure of water adventuring matured into vacations to Makaha Beach for viewing the Surfing Championships and weekend sailing in western San Francisco Bay from a berth in Sausalito, and bare-boat cruising in the the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.  Free diving the reefs, challenging the surge of the surf and tides among the lava flows and cavorting with the dolphins around the Capt Cook Memorial in Hawaii’s Kialakekua Bay was part of the fun and part of the adventure challenge. 

However, the best was yet to come with a two year experience with the DAM swimming club in Davis, CA.  A local, the non Marvel comic character, Ironman Triathlete Dave Scott, was the founding coach of that group, now largest Masters Club in the U.S.A.  For two years on a 0545 and 1000 AM x 7 day x 52week schedule, I learned about the power of swimming, I had missed watching Johnny Weismuller on Tarzan B-W films, taking summer polio season swimming lessons at the Redmond Community Pool , or later doing after work laps in the Malin Community pool in hopes of making a University frosh swimming team.

What I had previously missed was the power of good technique, proper coaching, disciplined practice and group support.  Much of my group support came from charter Davis DAM members and workout regulars like Steve Watson, Harry Colvin, Susan Munn, and Lucille Richards.  They, and others, were youthful beyond their seventy plus years.  One result was a trip to St. George, Utah, the Huntsman Senior Games, and a swimming event metal.

Among our group, there was a running debate as to who or what had launched our shared love of the water.  Truth to be told, in the men’s dressing room, the usual winner was the ever youthful Esther Williams.  I can not speak to the conversations in the women’s dressing room.

However, I can guarantee that the DAM dressing room chatter will be focused on Olympic Swimming times and records come August, 2008 in Bejiing China


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Posted by: webscribe2 on 05/15 at 08:06 AM
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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

Section:

Arts and Culture

Summary:

Erika Little, daughter Tessa, live in the Lilac Festival, Highland neighborhood so this May weekend is to be a perfect Trifecta trice celebrated



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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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 05/10 at 08:22 AM
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[ Thursday, May 08, 2008 13:29 ]

Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?

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None

Summary:

Peak performance across the board is difficult whether one is dancing with the stars or training as a triathlete.  Gina Koleta of the nytimes continues to impress with her columns on exercise and competition. 

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The same can be said of country naturalists, like Charles Darwin, working and writing from home at in Kent during the haydays of 19th century Victorian England.  The amateurs with all their enthusiasm for beatles and barnicles, reputations protected by a coterie of friends and family, and popular publishing success , were being replaced by the professional academics, societies, laboratories, and the latest in German instrumentation and organized science research

Meanwhile, the University of Rochester had a one day meeting at the City Convention Center for health care professionals treating women who are are pbese, diabetic or both. Guess what?

* American women are eating more, exercising less ,and gaining weight just like the Pina Indians did after they gave up their hunting and gathering more than a century ago.

* Fat woman are a risk for early death, growing big babies during pregnancy, having wound infections, and being difficult to manage during anesthesia and fetal evaluation exams like ultrasound.

* They may even break standard delivery room and operating room tables.  Whoa!

* Gastric bypass and banding surgery many have better, faster and more cost effective than medical therapy for morbid obesity in a properly selected population. 

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 05/08 at 01:29 PM
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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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[ 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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/18 at 09:36 AM
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[ Thursday, April 03, 2008 06:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash

Section:

Opinion

Summary:

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ----- Aristotle

* The University of Rochester and the local Squash Racquet community is hosting a “Satellite” Pro event.  Erika and Jon Little of Brighton are hosting Armando Olguin , a teaching and touring Pro from the San Francisco Bay area.

** As the ground unfreezes, it near time to plant what the Seneca Indians call the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans and squash.

*** It is also time to squash a few delusions and predictions :  the pending American Hurricane Season, the Future of the American Democrat Party, the state of the American Economy, the failure of American Public Education, the degenerate state of the New American Generation, the Coming Collapse of the Global Climate System, ---- etc.

Main:

:  The game of Squash seems to be having a mini surge of popularity. Young kids are being signed up by their parents for lessons in Manhattan, NY to Marin Country, CA.  Elitist and expensive, it is seen as a way to starting networking toward the Ivy League and Wall Street.  In 2003 Forbes magazine rated the game as the # one fitness sport.  Impact injuries are rare.  Cardio-aerobics are rated at at 800 - 1,000 kcal/hr among top Pros.  Upper, core, and lower body muscle strength and speed are required.  Endurance, mental toughness, consistency, and practice discipline complete the competition package. 

Clearly, the game has gone global with roots in the British Empire and Commonwealth. Youngsters of 23-26 are top ranked.  English is the universal language of the sport.  The top players come from Egypt, Scotland, Pakistan.  Mexico, Colombia and Canada contribute their share of young, mobile talent.  College recruits in upstate NY come from Japan, the Ukraine, and even Pennsylvania.  Senors also play the game

::  Prof Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs and Steel fame and fortune, continues, as he has for 10 years now, to remind us from his video reruns that geography, geology, climate, and the accidents of migration have much to do with food production, animal domestication, surplus, technology , social organizations and the sustainability( or not) of primitive cultures.  The recently the DNA story, grave site
Aztec archeology in Peru, and Native American finding in Oregon have all added complexity and new time lines to the more simple Diamond narrative and interpretation.

:::  Experts from Colorado fearlessly continue to make their embarrassingly bad annual predictions.  The 2008 Hurricane season edition in now out.  A related inconvenient embarrassment is the $6 per bushel of corn and the $4 per gallon price of diesel full. What happened to all the environmental happy talk about how using corn alcohol and stopping oil exploration and drilling was key to controlling global fever. 

Today’s temperature bullseye is Yuma, Arizona where the all time low of 13 degrees was recorded within the past 5 years.  The another bullseye is the international hot spot , Venezuela, where General Chavez has announced his intent to nationalize the cement industry.  Cemex of Mexico is the major external investor

In addition, the Wigley article from the NCAR on the assumptions of the IOCC on carbon emissions rates and published the early April edition of Nature, the weekly international science journal, is yet another wakeup call at the credibility of some of the IOCC Climate Commission’s claims.  From nytimes., science writer, Andrew C. Revkin does a partial journalistic mea culpa on his previous “ robins in Inuit land” reporting.  To his credit, Revkin does acknowledge that the error was reported by the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on a blog site at World Climate Report..

Meanwhile, the good new is that the baseball and local lake and stream trout season is underway. 

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/03 at 06:44 AM
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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.

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:  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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/19 at 05:22 AM
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