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[ Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:11 ]

Legacy Journal: Would you believe that ----?

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None

Summary:
Amazing, but true, even if it goes against the tide.

For example:

Main:
* George Bush will not be on the ballot in November.

The average age of Congressional Senators is over slightly under 62. The median age is considerably older. 25 Committee Chairmen are older yet. 25% are over 70. Hawaii’s two senators will soon be 84. Yes, there is a Federal Civil Service requirement of forced retirement at age 65. For airline pilots, the retirement age is lower.

* No oil refinery has been built in the United States for more than 30 years.

** A new 351 unit limited access community is proposed for Brighton, NY. Opponents to the project cite “elitism”, impact on local traffic, cost of maintaining lighting alone the Erie Canal tow path, lack of mandated low cost rental units , effect on future property taxes, and possible liability from the public use of a new boat launch facility as informing their worrys and converns .

* The Army Corps of Engineers is reportedly being called to testify under oath as to why they are apparently unable to predict the time and place of breeches along the hundred of miles of Mississippi River levees.

Girth measurements and inadequate exercise correspond significantly to the calcium index scores of heart images, to cardiac enlargement, and to the risk of early death by massive myocardial infarction. Diabetics and metabolic syndrome X patients are at particular risk.

* Q: “When is sex safe after a heart attack?” A: “When was it safe before?”

Obama is a two timing, head faking, levee breeching, lakeside liberal Chicago pol. He has a Fast Eddie side according to Brooks of the nytimes. Obama is taken back his “ Public Financing for the General Election” pledge. His Internet driven small donation drive is said to be both successful and democratic. However, the Obama brand is free of total spending caps and one third comes from those contributing the maximum allowed by law. Party regulars, campaign staffers and the ad media are licking their chops and liking their chances come the fall. In a time of flooding, the following from the Supreme Court is timely. “Money, like water, will always find an outlet.” If campaigning is the outlet, the candidate is the reservoir, and the Internet is the inlet.

A federal government report says that weather extremes measured in terms of frequency, intensity and duration will “probably” increase. However, the average surface temperature in the U.S. will likely remain within its historic norm. Rainfall, snow melt, and river runoff in the Heartland is thought to be part of the process. Meanwhile transportation, agricultural equipment use and carbon emissions in flooded areas are acutely down by the forces of necessity.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/19 at 08:11 AM
Bottom Line: • Bright Lights: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Thursday: • Critical Care: • Features: • Jokes: • Fitness: • Food: • Givens: • Death: • Heartland: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Medicine: • SeniorStatesmen: • Truth Telling: • Voice: • Whine: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:20 ]

Legacy Journal: Defending the First Amendment

Section:
Legal

Summary:
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic” --- Justice Holmes

The ACLU, the Press, Madison Avenue, and Libertarians are among the most vigorous defenders of freedoms of speech and the press. However, there are clearly limits that involve the law, abuse of the privilege, and notable ethical lapses, if not double standards, by prominent journalists.

Main:
The word of Holmes speak for themselves. Clearly, the recent case of the new Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, the colorful, libertarian Romania born resident of Rancho Palos Verde, is an example of an abuse of judicial power, privilege and public trust. Even the venerated Tim Russert, a blue color sports fan from south Buffallo, was among many who failed to call shock jock Don Imis to task for his intemperate ad hominum radio slur against black members of a NCAA championship woman’s basketball team.

The facts in the Kozinski case are ,as they say , “in dispute”. What appear to be so it that the Judge had access to a server, a registered vanity internet domain name, and that he frequently uploaded and accessed files of questionable taste and origin from his judicial court offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. What he did and did not do while at home and on the road is unclear. What is not is dispute is that the Judge is colorful, even flamboyant, writes frequently for the popular press, and claims to have more than a passing interest and knowledge of computers.

What the folks at the gym and the water cooler expect is that the judicial entitlements that come with even the narrowest and most partisan of Senate approvals nominees, carries with it the responsibility of at least the public appearance of judicial probity by the high priesthood of the Federal Courts.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/15 at 12:20 PM
Backgrounder: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Sunday: • Culture Clash: • Popular Culture: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Justice: • Moral Authority: • Washington Watch: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Thursday, May 29, 2008 08:34 ]

Legacy Journal: Sounding Off on the Shape of Things to Come.

Section:
Coming Attractions

Summary:
Getting Back to Basics:

* Replacing group Victim_hood and dependency with individual initiative and personal responsibility. Health, fitness and nutrition come to mind.

Think about structured and patterned groups of threes as in the stable and functional milk stool.

* Enjoy the wonders of nature. Even the best designed, equipped and staffed NICU can not fully replace for the fetus an anatomically intact and physiologically normal maternal placental unit. Think about the vital three.

Beware of the false analogy, the always imperfect metaphor, and predictions of the future.

Main:
In the first instance consider the cumulative results and consequences of adults gaining 1% of their body weight and losing 2% of their fittness per year over thirty years.
That is a poor allocation of resources, a bad bet, and a poor investment by any standard.

Second, even the smallest business requires solid financial services, a good accountant, and ongoing legal counsel to grow and prosper. Call this the Donna Summers formula for sustaining success.

Third, evolution has provided a complex and effective human reproductive mechanism to replenish species. But, the results are not alway perfect.

Fourth, communication is a major part of the human social, economic and cultural landscape. However, thoughts and words are far from complete, accurate, and truthful.
Action defines the human condition and the natural world provides both opportunities and pitfalls. Meanwhile, look beyond the hype and the headlines and take a hike.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 05/29 at 08:34 AM
Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Thursday: • Courage: • Dead Reckoning: • Demographics: • Aging: • Diet, Nutrition & Health: • Fitness: • Food: • Homeostasis: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Life Lines: • R:: • Responsibilities: • Triangulation: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ 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
Backgrounder: • Basics: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Saturday: • Chronicles: • Courage: • Fitness: • Frontiersmen, Cowboys and Indians: • Fundamentals: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • News: • Good News: • Retrospect: • Science: • Science and Technology: • Natural Sciences: • Biology: • Molecular Biology: • Genomics: • Young at Heart: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ 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:

Main:
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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/08 at 12:28 PM
Backgrounder: • Biography: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Tuesday: • Chronicles: • History and Heritage: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • New York: • Villages: • Science and Technology: • Natural Sciences: • Biology: • Voice: • Well Reasoned: • Well Seasoned: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Saturday, February 09, 2008 09:35 ]

Legacy Journal: Tornados, Darwin, and Right Sizing

Section:
Columns

Summary:
* Andrew Revkin, the nytimes writer covering the environment from his blog a Dot Earth seem to be on to something significant--- the real nature of Weather Science, Records, and Tornados.

Charles Darwin, his fellow 19th century Victorians, and the Royal Navy were also keenly aware of the complexity of weather, ocean currents, and natural events like volcanoes. Janet Browne, professor of the History of Science, Medicine and Biology, among others, reminds us of the importance of a historical frame of reference.

* 4 Giga (billion)tons of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning added to the atmosphere seem like a sure burden with consequences. But, each of our nucleated cells has 6 billion DNA base pairs , my thumb drive has 2 Gigs of memory, and each cubic kilometer of ocean water contains one billion gallons or 4 billion pounds of water.

Main:

: So, what is the cause and effect relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide, Gulf of Mexico surface water temperature, and the frequency and severity of mid west tornadoes? One of the discussant to the Tornado blog article presents graphic evident that suggests that this winter, Arctic Ocean ice has be restored to its historic norm. The story of the arresting photo of polar bears apparently stranded on a summer ice float at sea is interesting.

:: Darwin is coming to the fore yet again. Next year will be the Bicentennial celebration of his birth. Multiple events are planned around the world.

::: Meanwhile, the general level of math, science, and technology Literacy appears to be rather low. Even this week’s brainy PhD student appearing on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? missed the answer to the the million dollar question. The answer was Chuck Yeager. What was the question?

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 02/09 at 09:35 AM
Basics: • Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Saturday: • Chances are ---: • Cause & Effect: • Climate: • Climate Chronicles: • Earth Sciences:: • Energy: • Environment: • Air: • Features: • Permalinks: • Q & A: • History: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Nature: • Northern Lights: • Show and Tell: • Snow Flakes: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Saturday, January 12, 2008 08:11 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Breeze

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Concerned about:

Winter Tornados in Wisconsin, Whiteouts in the southern Rockies, Frost in Florida, Floods in the Pacific Northwest? African Desert Drought? Clan violence in Pakistan ? Snow is Bagdad.? The cause is fossil fuels and AGCC. The cure? Crisis and Fear driven Action. The Agenda? Education to influence the young , general public opinion and the polls , emergency civic duty advocacy and political activism, and fund raising.

Main:
Meanwhile, the media rush and gush is fixated on events South Carolina. Temperature records from there are interesting. No evidence of warming according to local records.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/12 at 08:11 AM
Burden of Proof: • Calendar: • Saturday: • Chances are ---: • Cause & Effect: • Climate: • Climate Change: • Climate Chronicles: • Southern Comfort Zone: • Data: • By the Numbers: • Dollars and Cents: • Follow the Money: • Environment: • Movements: • Features: • Permalinks: • Hot and Cold: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Missing Parts: • News: • Good News: • Running Scared: • Voice: • Tribal Chant: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

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