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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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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

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Almanac

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“ It is we who are trouble. The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.

* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales.

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.

Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.

* Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado. The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.

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[ Tuesday, January 15, 2008 13:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Polls, Surveys and Statistics; Lip-Synching; the Persian Gulf

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News: International

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“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” --- Mark Twain

* The average American does not trust polls or pollsters, they do not like phone calls at mealtime from bucket shop mills conducting survey, and they are wary of statistics and models when they proport to predicate the future of complex events like life span any particular aging person, national economies, climate.

A Middlebury College Physics professor, in part of a Video Course on using science to reconstruct, model or simulate the earth’s temperature record over the past 4.6 billion years, was unable to give one example of how the proxy studies of tree rings or oxygen isotopes are yielding reliable and verifiable temperature data today.

* Bush in the U.A.Es and Saudi Arabia is flying the flag and promoting two bedrock keystones of American Foreign Policy since WW II, the containment of nuclear weapons and flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.

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: The Pew Trust does some good work. Eileen Clausen is their geocrat director of their Center on Global Climate Change.

:: the winter OLLI series at Osher RIT includes an offering taught by Tim McDonnell titled Amazing Life of Earth. He is funny, fast paced, and fact based. His experience as a presenter is evident. He has no notes, his Power Point slides have a point, and his handouts are clear and concise. Good stuff. A follow on “science class” on Global Warming was a less successful effort to “ lip-synch” the IPPC and Al Gore.

::: Meanwhile, the good news is that at least one F-16 Falcon U.S. pilot, a Persian Gulf pro, will be back in country in time to do some serious snow skiing in the Rockies. Way to go Major!

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[ Wednesday, December 19, 2007 09:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Midweek Movers

Section:
Environment

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Science and Policy Clash in the Political Area. Designing the Future, circa 2020

* Bali is over and at the nytimes, Friedman is perplexed, Rivkin is skeptical, and U.N.Secretary General Moon is reportedly off to campaign for the Universal Human Right not to face capital punishment. The administration representative put on a late in the fourth quarter full court press with an impressive Power Point presentation. Smart and quick, Coach Wooden would have been impressed. Many of the goals are aimed at 2020.

Congress and the Bush Administration have come together to sign the Energy Bill. Mileage mandates, exemptions, and ethanol $ubsidies abound. The goals are for 2020

* The PBS New Hour revisited Oregon and more than 10 years of spotted owl old growth fir forest habitat sanctuary policy begun by the Clinton Administration, championed by VP Al Gore, and administered in the National Forest lands in the Cascades by federal Fish and Games wildlife biologists. The set asides are 7000 acre per bird. The predatory barred owl species has moved in and is out competing their cousins for space and food. Flexible policy into the year 2020 has resulted in lawyerly dueling between administration policy makers and professional politicians.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/19 at 09:46 AM
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[ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 07:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Solid Tuesday Knowledge Base

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Commentary

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“ Many admire, few know.” ---- Hippocrates.

Q: Each member of the U.S. House of Representative is given an allocation for paying the expenses of their offices. What is that amount? What are the restrictions on how these funds are spent?

Useful knowledge sits on a solid time_tested foundation. David Brooks of the nytimes, Robert Betts, MD of URMC, and some physical anthropologists have shed some interesting light on our past, present, and possible future.

* Brooks quotes Isaiah Berlin on politics. That is a good thing.

Betts quotes the medical literature on candida sepsis . That is an instructive thing.

* Scientists examine TB lesions fossilized bones and draw conclusions about vitamin D, sunlight, melanin and patterns of human migration out of Africa. So what does SAD have to do with it?

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: According to Brooks, there may be more to this Clinton vs Obama political primary contest than appeared on the first reading. His essential points are that personal resilience, constancy of character, and a solid world view are necessary for success in office.

:: Robert Betts notes the clinical setting defines the important distinctions between yeast colonization, contamination, and dangerous disease. Most of us carry small amounts if non invasive yeast. Yeast frequently contaminates bladder catheters in women, particularly those on antibiotics. Compared to bacteria, invasive yeast disease is an infrequent cause of death. It is mostly a threat to those on chemotherapy for cancer or post organ transplant immune suppression

::: North bound human migration out of African may have been favored by those mutants with the fewest melanin pigments in the skin. The reason, they were the most efficient vitamin D producers in the low sunlight of the northern latitudes. Interesting, but what about diet as a source of Vitamin D ? What about snow reflected light? For example, cod liver has long been a dietary choice among hunters, gatherers and fishermen in the north.

Meanwhile, scattered sun is forecast this afternoon for Rochester, NY. And, the Russians are doing nuclear deals in Iran. Will the race go the Isaiah Berlin’s metaphorical Hare or to the Hedgehog? Who in congress knows or cares? Pelosi? Boxer? Hunter?

A: One million dollars per year. ??.

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[ Friday, December 14, 2007 07:00 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Summary: Testing standards for steroids, HGH, and carbon dioxide.

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Commentary

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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

Question?:

#1: What is the “best quess” average surface land temperature of the continental United States?

#2; What is the absolute increase over 50 years in the the carbon dioxide concentration in ppm as measured by Keeling and displayed by his Curve at Mauna Loa, Hawaii?

The UN IPCC Bali fest is over and without significant results. No Highs. No Lows. No Home Runs. Blame the U.S and the current administration, feed the press predictions of corral extinction and island flooding, release baby turtles into tide pools, and return to the snows storms of New York City if your jet can get clearance to land. But, the jet trails from Bali are a sign of more meeting over the next two years to put meat on the bones and numbers on the Road Map. Rest assured that no meeting will be held in a midwest Interstate truck stop diner.

The stats of climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg continue to be fairly report by the press in his native country, Denmark.

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Revkin of Dot Earth blog site at the nytimes stayed home in NYC while colleagues covered Bali and the San Francisco meeting of the American GeoPhysical Union. Coral reef bleaching by warm acidic tropical ocean waters is one of Revkin’s concerns. He also covers the Arctic region ---during the summer. Beware of pictures of Polar bears in full sunlight in winter time articles.

Meanwhile, the Mitchell Report has been released. The position of the Unions that represent most American Professional Athletes is now clear. They oppose using blood to test for performance enhancing drug, some of which could be used for filling criminal charges. Urine testing for metabolic products has become more sophisticated, but if you want the unfiltered truth, go for the serum. That is were the action is. For an accurate, precise and definitive result, your doctor will order a blood test. Diabete? Pregnacy? Hepatitis? Hypothyroid? Malaria? Menopause? The tests quick, inexpensive, automated, and widely available. Tests for HGH was available now; more are on their way to the marketplace.
90% certainty by be good enough for the UN IPCC. Blood test for pregnancy are > 99.9%. Welcome to the world of black or white, yes or nor, right or wrong, eat or west, up or down. Get over it.

Answer: #1:

54 degrees F. The average temperature would be lower if you included Alaska, Canada and their ice masses and the surface temperatures of their contiguous waters.

#2: 50-70 ppm. The average is less than one ppm per year. The initial 1958 reading was 320 ppm. That is an absolute interval change of 0.007% ! Remember we a talking parts per million here. Water vapor is the primary atmospheric driver in maintaining a remarkably stable average temperature of planet Earth. The earth’s orbit, tilt and the Sun’s radiant output are of course dynamic external variables.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/14 at 07:00 AM
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[ Thursday, December 13, 2007 13:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Medical Views and News You can Use.

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Health and Medicine

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Question?: What is the common term researcher use to characterize the stain of mice with a predictable and inherited genetic “defect”?

* Professor Alain Einthoven of Stanford is once again in the Health Care Insurance spotlight. In the current NEJM, he turns to the Netherlands as a mixed model for mandated coverage.

* The NEJM also covers stem cell research and the “knockout” laboratory mouse model for cellular biology research, the foundation of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.

* A NEJM Review Article by Italian authors on platlets and vascular inflammation is conprehensive with a PubMed linked bibliography. A 12 minute instructional multmedia video from UOHSU on the proper techniquie for subclavian line placement is a valuble training aide.

* An ABC News Roundtable of HealthPolicy experts ranks Electronic Medical Records EMRs as being in the top 5 reforms for improve the efficiency and quallity of the American system of delivering medical services. Surprisingly, the VA’s EMR system ?MUMPS? based system is used as a model. As noted, the VA is largely a captive system with long term patients who are geographically dispersed.

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The weekly Thursday morning OB-GYN rounds at Highland Hospital, part of the URMC complex was a WebCast with a partners from a Rochester law fire presenting steps that individual can prudently take to protect themselves from some forms of identity theft when using electronic means to make a variety financial transactions.

Answer: “Knockout”

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