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[ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails

Section:
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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[ Tuesday, January 08, 2008 07:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Number Two as Winners: The Rest of the Story.

Section:
Sports

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We all like to see underdogs win. Avis vs Hertz. The latest example is an impressive performance by the LSU Tigers of Baton Rouge, LA in the BCS Championship win over number one ranked Ohio State University. One unsung hero of the win is first year LSU Offensive Coordinator, 50 year old, father of seven, Gary Crowton from the state of Utah. He was calling plays for the SuperDome sky box and was seldom seen on the TV screen. Mavericks make headlines. Good Mormons quietly do their jobs. That is all you need to know except that he enjoys biking with his family.

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Crowton has lived, played and coached around the country. Orem, Provo, Snow JC, Idaho State, BYU, Oregon, Lousiana Tech, Chicago, Georgia, Boston College, Western Illinois, Colarado State. He is a student of BYU Coach, Dr. LaVell Edwards , the “spread offense”, and he is part of a quarterback tradition that includes former Forty Niner Steve Young and Kellen Clemens, currently with the NY Jets.

He is but one example among many of quiet, competent, and capable team players making a difference over time. Some times that difference is on Mission, sometimes in the class room or on the field, sometimes at home, at church or in the community. Dr. Edwards and his wife did a Mission in NYC after he retired from coaching in 2000 after eighteen years at BYU. Gary Crowton was his replacement.

Meanwhile in New Hampshire, the nytimes video reporters visits the bars and discovers the natives heat their homes with $3 a gallon fuel oil and use wood burning stores. The same voters have yet to hear of an energy plan from the candidates. Perhaps the recent warm weather has influenced the messages and the turnout.

Revkin of GoEarth blog at the nytimes is still hot on melting ice in Greenland. In January yet? So, who has the most compelling worry? BTW, the really good news weather story today is that a a lost snowmobile family was found in the snow blizzard National Forest areas out of Durango, CO. The predicted summer water shortage crisis predicted by earlier Revkin sources for the southern Rockies region seems to be rapidly fading.

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[ Monday, November 12, 2007 06:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Reflections Big and Little

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
Reflections of the State of Things from a Viet Nam Vet on Veteran’s Day from a small corner in upstate New York:

* Veterans are victims seems to be the message from the Editorial Page of the nytimes today, a day of celebration as well as remembrance.

* The Brighton public schools are closed today and had early dismissal from at least the primary school on Monday morning. Teachers would appear to be missing in action as our kid are far from the front in the marathon race to prepare for life in the fast company of the young, the hungry and the well prepared men and women on the move and on the go to earn and lean in a globalized economy. Meanwhile Emma and Tessa are off early to their excellent private “day care school” for the day while their mom and dad are off to their regular five-seven days a week jobs.

* Hunting season is on in upstate New York. The state joins Pennsylvania, Texas and California in the number of sportsmen and women who hunt and fish. The well endowed white tailed buck I spotted on a recent frosty morning near Buckland Park is but on example of an estimated one million deer in the state.
The bad news is that deer are a major contributor to non alcohol motor accidents on highways. A nytimes obituary notice today is evidence that human population control, wildlife protection, and wilderness designation have long has long been at the core of the Ecology, Wilderness, Wildlife and Green movements in the United States. Contrarian, Bjorn Lomborg of Denmark has a report from London on the facts about the Gulf Stream, north Atlantic temperatures , climate change, the weather on his side of the Atlantic and the science behind the latest UN conference on the subject. That group is meeting in Valencia, Spain. They next meet in Bali. Nice work, if can get it.

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: Contrary to nytimes unfortunate editorial portrait of veteran plight and victimization, the average 26 million US veteran who lives and works among the rest of us is not homeless, penny less, without benefits, and a potential time bomb. Most did not serve in overseas combat units, 9 out of 10 had support MOSs, few returning Viet Nam draftees discharged upon their stateside return had or claimed medical disabilities. How do we know, the numbers are clear. As a member of an examining medical officer team at the Oakland Army Base processing facility in 1968-69, I personally questioned, examined, interviewed and recorded into the personal medical records up to 200 men per day. It that time, each soldier carried his own personal gear, including his written medical record. Each soldier was individually asked if he had any service related accident, injury or illness to report. Having recently returned from Army MC duty in Viet Nam as a Clearing Company Commander for 6 months in 1st Corps in places like Camp Charlie, Quang Tri, and at a landing strip near the surrounded Marine base under seige at Khe Sanh , I had personal experience of conditions on the ground and in the field. While most of the Army troops rotated out after serving in country for their full twelve month assignments. However, there were many exceptions.

One exception was received by our bunkered medical unit alongside an active air strip. He was a young Army Signal Corp Captain who was an a newly wounded, fully conscious, triple amputee caused by a hand grenade blast accident. He had a central line placed, fluids and appropriate analgesics were administered, and he was Medivaced to a surgical unit with stable vital signs and no evidence of head, chest or intraabdominal penetration. The Navy hospital ships, the Sanctuary and the Repose were on line just off shore. Max Cleland later become the civilian head of the Veteran’s Administration , and a Senator for the state of Georgia. Yet, the nytimes continues to characterize every veteran’s stumble as proof of the failings of the current administration. How short the memories and the horizons of those involved in current domestic partisan political agiprop.

It is a vicious high stakes game with rippling waves of collateral damage. Public respect for political parties, congress, the media, and public education continues to decline according the public pulse takers like the Pew Foundation and even pollsters for hire like the Marist Institute of Public Opinion Yet, in Rochester, N.Y>. flags are proudly flown on front porches, the local media regularly reports on local servicemen and their units, the National Guard Army is active, Fort Drum in the Adirondacks trains Mountain warriors, and the University of Rochester has a small but visible NROTC student unit.

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[ Friday, December 22, 2006 13:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Coaching Character

Section:
Sports

Summary:
Coaching sports at all levels is a public activity that is in an intense spotlight of its own making. Youth sports have millions of participants, high school and club sports have 90 lbs girl cross country runners in the weight room three times per week in the off season. Scholarships are riding on college team participation. And then there are the professional sports.

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During the post season college football bowl series there is always the risk of exposing character, ability, intelligence, experience, preparation and execution to an opponent with an abundance is all areas.

That is the story of the Brigham Young University Cougars in the 2006 Las Vegas Bowl victory over the University of Oregon Ducks

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