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[ Thursday, December 20, 2007 06:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Music and Performance from the Heartland.

Section:
Arts and Culture

Summary:

“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”—Brigham Young

Question?: What is the longest, continuously running network broadcast in the United States?

* Christmas is a time for the performance of exceptional music and rich visuals. One of example is the annual PBS presentation of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra, and Sissel from Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Christmas calories and fitness are another issue of perception over reality. Gina Kolata, as usual, clears up the confusion.

* Recent Ob-Gyn Rounds at UofR Highland, an e-mail from Damon in The City, and workouts at JCC reminds me of the continuing legacy of a San Francisco original, Dr. John Kerner, long associated with the MT. Zion Hospital and Medical Center. He is part of a video presentation, a Chronicle porfile, and a recent award from the French government at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C.

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So, what are the messages and the meaning for Christmas 2007?

: First, the Mormon faith is not a radical non-christian cult. The LDS church in the mainstream of more than 350 years American religious history.

:: Second, the 360 member volunteer Choir, the 20,000 seat performance hall, and the recording facilities at the Conference center, are unique, without peer and a part of a noble and enduring American tradition.

::: Third, featuring the Norwegian star, Sissel, is season appropriate and reflects a continuing global reach originating since 2000 from Salt Lake City and the Convention Hall.

:::: Fourth, the program support of the Sorenson and Eccles families and foundations is evidence of the sustaining power of the pioneering foundations of region.

::::: Fifth, the program needed no host or spokes person. The richness and quality of the choral, instrumental and dance performances said it all. It is part of the Mormon way, after all.

Answer: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Spoken Word, since 1929

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[ Friday, November 30, 2007 09:41 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final: Frameworking the Future

Section:
Environment

Summary:
Enviromentalism: The State of the Movement.

* A usatoday blog view of the fluid flow of the movement.

The State of the Environment: CT Radiation and Xrays .

A nytimes Op Ed page writer chimes in on “Problematic” CT scans and radiation exposure.

* The inner Environmental Stressor: Asthma and P.T.S.D.

Main:
“Two things in life are certain, death and taxes.” --- Grandpa, Mark Twain, and others.

: Today, the local Rochester, NY paper has a lead article in its Business Section on a local investment in a corn to ethanol envirotech boomlet. The graphic of the process was excellent. It clearly illustrated the steps in the conversion. What was interesting was that more than twenty energy consuming processes were necessary to convert corn in the field to alcohol in the motor. Transporting, grinding, heating, distilling, cooling, pumping, filtering, and storing are among the examples of steps that are highly energy dependent. Meanwhile, the same paper reports that a local Congressman part of a delegation on a six day trip to Brazil for a first hand look at how that nation has “weaned itself from a dependency..... on foreign oil” using sugar cane to produce ethanol. It there also a rum dependency problem in Brazil where the stuff is reported to be plentiful and cheap for natives and tourists.

:: Predictably, the OP Ed folks of nytimes used a slow day on Friday to fill white space with tepid pap on what is characterized as “possibly problematic"--- unnecessary diagnostic radiation exposure. That is a strongly voiced opinion?
The good news is that the issue is not one of peace or prosperity, and no parallels were drown using the horrible Hiroshima metaphor.
Sadly, the science, technology and history of CAT scans is lacking. Not even EMI and the Beatles are given their due. The good news is that the research behind the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine helped launch the progress that powers the fifth generation machines. Dramatically increased processing speed has reduced motion artifact, optimized contrast enhancement, and decreased study completion time. Radiation exposure is now measured in mrem units and slice imaging time in msecs. That is very good news.

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[ Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Science:The IPCC Report :The Final Synthesis of the U.N. Framework on Climate

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
“No single feature of man’s past equals in importance his attempt to understand the forces of Nature and himself.” ---- Herbert McLean Evans

* In San Francisco this morning it is business as usual: The airport is fogged in, the UC Golden Bear football team lost again, Barry Bonds is indited for perjury and accused becoming a big headed Giant for Life with the help of Human Growth Hormone, skiers are hoping that the current storm will mean an early Thanksgiving start to the Sierra season, and the private company hired to contain the the recent oil spill and manage the clean up is taking flack from all directions.

Meanwhile, Stephen Schneider of Stanford has returned to the Stanford based, Center for Environmental Sciences and Policy(CESP) from Valencia, Spain to translate and explaining the meaning of the latest report of the U.N. sponsored, Switzerland based IPCC to the rest of us. Then it is off to next month’s U.N. Framework on Climate Convention meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Whew, that is a lot of translation, explaining and even more jetset junketeering in the name of global science consensus making. But, read the report, bypass the translation, and form your own opinion.

Main:**
Apparently, there is more research to be done according to some of report section scientists . One of the scientists has called for improving and refining the predictions made by many of the IPCC groups according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle. He is Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder and a coordinating lead author for part of the summary report. He specifically cites precipitation ( water in the form of rain and snow) and ocean conditions ( temperature, pH, buffering capacity, levels, currents, etc) as examples where improvement in data collection, interpretation, analysis and prediction is needed. Some of the predictions were based on solid but preliminary data collecting in the field. Other predictions rely on untested computer models, proprietary algorithms, and secret assumptions. The result: science that has not had the benefit of rigorous and repeated scrutiny. That is a formula for both bad science and bad policy.

As of today the IPCC computers, climate models and report writers appear unable to measure, forecast or predict:

* cyclones in Bangladesh

* hurricanes in Belize

* the winter snow in the Sierra

* wind shear at the airport

* rain in Georgia

* this week’s Santa Ana winds in San Diego county

* ocean currents in Hawaii

* floods in Florida

* The change in the depth of the world’s oceans during 2007 ( The average ocean water depth is over 12,000 feet)

* or the possibility of fog for the Stanford UCB Big Game.

So, if the IPCC is unable to answer straight forward, 5th grader type questions, what is the significance of the work that these people do that relates to the daily lives of ordinary people, living, working and playing in real places?

Meanwhile in upstate NY, the Catskills, the Adirondacks,and the Poconos in Pennsylvania all are experiencing unseasonably cold temperatures, frost on the ground, and heavy show on the ski slopes. An yet another irony. Herbert McLean Evans, former head of Experimental Biology at Berkeley was a among the first to isolate HGH from the pituitary gland.

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