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[ Monday, December 29, 2008 11:13 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Thoughts on India
Section:
Travel
Summary:
“As I’m writing, I’m always reader conscious. I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I’m talking to, and I want to make sure I don’t talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.”——Billy Collins
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India has been much in the news of late. The Tamil Nadu state that surrounds Madras in the south of the subcontinent is the destination of daughter Tanya “Sugah” Fisk. She will be in the Vallore District in the village of Kurumbupalayam .
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In the good company of best wishes from her family and a book of poetry by New Yorker Billy Collins, she is off to share her talents and considerate good will with some young village folk in a spot far from her home in Eugene, Oregon.
An experienced and heady international traveler, she is not going by canoe.
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[ Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:02 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Wednesday Waffling
Section:
Education
Summary:
Waffling is as American as apple pie:
* Forecasters waffle; accountants do not.
* Fiction writers and journalists waffle; editors do not.
* Politicians and diplomats waffle; historians do not.
* Marketers, spokespersons, and advertisers waffle; auditors do not.
Main:
“Teaching is about standing up to be seen, speaking out to be heard , and sitting down to be appreciated.”
So, when is a prognostication flat as a pancake, or yet another artful waffle?
Look for weasel words and phrases like: likely, if, but, others say,———. studies suggests, Harvard said,
Who is accountable and the source?
Is it too good to be true and does it make good sense to three other people, including your accountant.
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[ Monday, December 15, 2008 12:30 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Monday Mood
Section:
Commentary
Summary:
“Thy Rod and Thy Staff will Comfort Thee”
The holiday season seems to shaped by the spirit of secular sleaze: politics as usual in Chicago and the state of Illinois, mega buck global investing masking a giant Ponzi scheme that netted many well known names and charitable trusts, and a level of public trust that is in free fall.
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Meanwhile, there are school plays, music performances, good food, high spirits of children, and good books .
* One example of a good read is Andrew Jackson: An American Lion by Jon Meacham.
The author characterize his fellow Tennessean as a sophisticated self made frontiersman with the gifts of leadership, courage, and good luck.
** Now, an attorney for the embattled Governor of Illinois says that is his client is innocent of any and all charges brought against him. His has killed no one. He has taken no money. He has not chosen any Senator. He does not intend to resign from office and expects to continue to be paid for serving and doing the public’s business. So there you have it and now we know. No jail time is warranted just because one passes the sociopath threshold. And apologies to the neighbors for all the bother.
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[ Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:01 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Briefs
Section:
Alerts
Summary:
Briefly:
* What is it about the politics of Chicago that brings to mind the phrase Chronic Continuing Corruption?
** The Oregon Ducks may not be going to the Rose Bowl, but San Diego has nice weather in late December.
*** Meanwhile, stay tuned for some snow filled video clips on YouTube.
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# Today’s report of a federal indictment against the Illinois governor must be shocking news to event the most jaded of political junkies. Ron Blagojevich , yet another fatally flawed Chicago lawyer/pol, appears to be the poster boy for a kind of tragic triangulation. Power plus Greed plus enemies in the Press is a prescription for the consequences of excess, a fall. Can the Cubs survive the backwash? Zell , Fitzpatrick, and the FBI are now weighing in to take on sleaze in high places. Meanwhile, the Chicago based author Scott Thurow has penned a thoughtful nytimes OpEd piece reflecting an ex prosecutor’s perspective.
## The Ducks have five on the All Pac 10 team and are on an offensive roll.
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[ Friday, December 05, 2008 11:33 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Friday Memoires: OLLI, Assisted Reproduction, and the Holiday Spirit
Section:
Commentary
Summary:
* OLLI Fall term is history. Sherlock Holmes, Dr, Watson, and the Blue Carbuncle were the last of the 2008 video serialization.
** Thanks to the clinical science of Reproductive Medicine and IVF, the air is full of promise and possibility in the person of a 2009 baby.
*** In addition, one family is about to also celebrate the season with a blatant consumer electronic technology assist in the form of a small video camera. Stay tuned for the rest of the story.
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* The Pantheon of Medical History is fill with the names and the works of the ancients and the famous. Dr. James Gude has a recent list of his personal favorites in the latest Sonoma Country Physician.
** San Francisco and UCSF have long been on the forefront of Reproductive Medicine.
*** The Mino HD Flip video camera is one of the toy hits of the gift giving season. YouTube will be taking another internet down load hit soon.
Meanwhile bloggers with style, clout, intelligence and something to say are joining the crowd that is challenging paid journalists in the rapidly downsizing news rooms of mainstream mass media.(MMM)
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[ Tuesday, December 02, 2008 07:50 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: The View from western upstate New York
Section:
Commentary
Summary:
In Rochester, NY ones world view and vitamin D level is influenced by the winter weather. Canada, the Great Lakes, the prevailing westerly winds and the Atlantic Ocean to the east all impact the region’s climate pattern.
* Snow and ice are constants.
** The mood, the pace, and the economy are impacted by weather.
*** The first major indoor shopping mall was built in Rochester in 1962. It is now in the process of being replaced. Shopping has moved with the people to the suburbs.
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Meanwhile, first generations of citizens from around the world are joining a throng of Asian students in search of security, life style, and economic opportunity.
The good news is that most a healthy, happy, and hard at work and play.
Part of that participation is in the musical legacy of the community as fostered by patron and promoter George Eastman.
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