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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
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Almanac
Summary:
” 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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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
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Almanac
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* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals
** That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona. It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism. This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.
*** This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular. One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers. One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface. The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.
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: It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe. Environmental
preachers are not.
:: Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard. In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.
::: Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.
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Calendar: • Friday: • Cascade Effect: • Cherry Picking: • Climate: • Climateering: • Climate Police: • Southern Comfort Zone: • Culture Clash: • Data: • Numbers: • Dollars and Cents: • Follow the Money: • Earth Sciences:: • Entitlements: • Environment: • Water: • Expressions: • core: • Western: • Frontiersmen, Cowboys and Indians: • GeoEngineering: • Media Watch: • TV Journalism: • Moral Jeopardy: • Rock and Rule: • Rule of Law: • Legal Remedy: • Tall Tales: • I could be Wrong, but---: • Voice: • Chorus: • Dooms Day: • Punditry: • Weasel Words: • possible: • studies suggest ---: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:
[ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:16 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
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Almanac
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“Some politicians can put more words into small ideas than most other folks.” —- A. Lincoln
* Maps: The National Geographic Society, NG the Magazine, and GeoPedia have a Strong feature on Permafrost with a carbon twist.
** Tall Tales, embellished recollections by office seekers are as American as Apple pie.
*** Who was the first American to make the Pacific coast to Atlantic coast overland crossing on all U.S territory?
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: It is claimed that Permafrost locks up more than 800 Gigtons of carbon dioxide.
:: Hillary Clinton now states that she misspoke when she claimed to have been under the threat of snipper fire when she visited Bosnia ten years ago. Her campaign has recently ken on the desperate appearance of a long death march..
::: Recall the year that New Albion moved from Mexican (Californio) to Americano control during the Polk Presidency with persistent prodding by Senator Benton of St. Louis, Missouri. The year was 1846, called the Decision Year by Bernard DeVoto in his 1943 historical narrative of the 750,000 sq. mile addition to the bicoastal continental U.S, and the runup to the Civil War to preserve that Union.
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[ Monday, March 24, 2008 13:49 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Mellow Monday
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Almanac
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* Easter is all about kids, spring, and renewal.
** Hope is in the air and quarterly home sales are up. Recession! What Recession?
*** Meanwhile, folks continue to show upscale Wegman’s, travel to Florida, and enroll their kids in expensive private and parochial schools. Even Davidson is enrolling young athletes who know play smart.
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: The ground is western upstate NY is still icy and not ready for planting, but the corn folks are chomping at the bit. In Ontario county, 50% of the land is in forests waiting to leaf, and their is a building boom as folks are voting with their cars by making the longer commutes on the ThruWay to escape rapidly rising property assessments and tax rates.
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[ Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:44 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
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FrontPage
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The Definition of the Perfect Trifecta -
* Spring Cleaning:
** Easter Weekend:
*** NCAA Men’s BB Tournament:
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: Happiness in Spring can be defined as starter plant seeds in the nursery beginning to sprout young shoots, sighting the neighborhood marmot coming out of hibernation, watching the house cat eye the returning Cardinals in the bear berry brush outside the window, a bracing circle walk with a hot chocolate pit stop with Miss Emma. The wind chill reading was 10 degrees at 0800.
:: The Easter Sunday will include some pool laps, Church Music and a trip to the Finger Lakes for a Birthday Brunch.
::: Meanwhile, the first round brackets of March Madness are the real deal if the first day is any indication. The quality of the coaching, the caliber of play, and the parity are all impressive. Now it is time to put in the supply of hot dogs and some munchies for those late night contests.
Meanwhile, Revkin of Dot Earth blog at the nytimes has noted that the sun as returned to the Arctic region and that the annual summer encampment of scientists studying the ice, water and ocean floor will soon be returning. Strategic issues like continental shelf territorial claims , Northwest Passage, and Northeast Passage shipping lanes at at stake. The science is preliminary at best.
On the carbon front, it appears that the Norwegians has taken up the fine ART of creative carbon accounting. They offset their oil production and consumption with carbon credits from the planting of trees in Africa.
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[ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 05:22 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
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Commentary
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* 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.
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*** 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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