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[ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:32 ]

Legacy Journal: The Toughest Job in America

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Columns

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“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"--- John Wooden

The game of picking the toughest or most impossible job in America is a old as the “Public House” yarns of yore. The new mother of quads, wife of a small town pastor, candidate for “First Lady of the Land”, the first ..., etc. Sport Illustrated has called the MBB coaching job at Oregon State University in Corvallis, “the toughest coaching job in America.” The new hire is Craig Robinson , Michelle Robinson Obama’s brother. He will be trying to recruiting nationally for a Pete Correll Princeton style offense played in the old concrete cave-like Gill Coliseum, the site of the Ralph Miller era success and concerts by Peter Nero and others. The good news is the school’s colors-- orange and black.

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So why is it so tough to be a successful coach?

Consider demanding fans, fanatic alumni, impossible parents, jealous faculty, unruly students, rotating ADs, and prima donna athletes with spotty academics who can not make foul shots in the fourth quarter , sustain a block, or lay down a bunt.

So who has the more difficult job, Craig Robinson or Michelle Obama? The latter is one believes Maureen Dowd of the nytimes. Maureen is of a mind that the Republlic Attach Dogs are out to make mincemeat out of Michelle now that Hillary is temporarily out of the glare of national political race kleig lights. Others have the idea that the impressive Michelle, a Princeton and Harvard Law grad raised on the south side of Chicago can handle the heat and the pace of the race.

Winning basketball games in the Pac 10 is hard and less likely than the Obamas both doing well on the campaign trail and beyond.

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[ Saturday, May 17, 2008 05:30 ]

Legacy Journal: The Pacific Rim: Going Global in Oregon

Section:
Sons and Daughters

Summary:
* Oregon Roots

Pacific Rim Travels

* Family Tales from the Pacific Rim

Main:
Pacific Rim: Oregon Roots and Recall Go Global

This piece is prompted by a the May 2008 special edition issue of National Geographic on China and a single OLLI Wednesday afternoon, class of last week. China was the photo-op for NG and the topic for two hours of political history, statistics and economics on 14 May.

For me, the Pacific Rim and China have long been places of interest and involvement. Given my small town, rural Oregon agricultural and ranching roots, some context is required.

On of my earliest childhood memories is of going with Grandpa Dan from Prairie City to the John Day office of “Doc” Hay thirteen miles down river. Ing Hay was then an unmarried, eighty year old, blind Chinese pulsologist and herbal practitioner who lived, worked, and prospered in the community continuously from 1893 to 1948.

Hay had a large and loyal following among the 5,000 valley residents of Grant Count, many of whom had come because of a gold strike in Canyon City in 1863 along with the mostly independent male Chinese miners from California . The 1879 census included more than 2.500 Chinese who outnumbered caucasians 3:1,

Most of the pioneer family members would seen Dr. Martha Vandervlaught if they were pregnant or the kids needed immunization, or her husband, Dr. Jerry if they needed surgery or had an injury. Otherwise, Doc Hay was available for a low cost visit and a kind of walk in walk out symptom orient treatment scheme. MR. Eastern Oregon, local rancher, Herman Oliver, GPa’s fellow graduate from the 8 grade one classroom Long Creek School was Doc Hay’s patient, patron, and protector. Oliver was the son of Portuguese immigrants; Hay was from today China’s leading economic powerhouse, Guangdong Province and its capital Guangzhu near Canton, the ex-Portuguese colony of Macao, and the harbor of Hong Kong . San Francisco had been the seaport of U.S. immigration entree for both Oliver and Hay. Did their paths also intersect at the Golden Gate?

The Hay office, on a John Day side street, was part of stone building where a variety of oriental goods were sold, labor was hired, and local oriental social networking hub was headquartered. The old military barrack and trading post building had rough Ponderosa pine plank floors, cabinets filled with exotic ceramic jars, and multiple aromatic teas or chi boiling on the wood fired stovet . Doc’s older mentor, business partner and friend, Lung On, who also owned the town’s Ford franchise, was usually sitting in the corner for some conversation in Cantonese and reading a chinese language newspaper between consultations. As I recall, tea was the prescription and the cure for Grandpa’s symptoms. Payment may have been in gold or silver coin

When the office and abandoned building was converted to the Kam Wah Chung Museum twenty years after Hay’s death, over 500 herbal remedies were recovered , including a stash of opium and $23,,000 in uncashed patient payment checks.

Years later, in San Francisco beginning in the 5Os, first and second Corps Viet Nam , Kowloon, Hong Kong in 67-68, or Taipai in 69, I would have an instant odor induced recall and flashback experience whenever I explored the local herbal medicine shops. I do not think it was opium or ephedrine induced.

Even in battle zone Viet Nam, the shops were a prominent part of every town’s freewheeling commerce. They were always run and supplied by ethic Chinese who had access to sources inside China and according to U.S. intelligence, opium from the 350,000 sq, km. war lord and Strong tribal area known as “Golden Triangle” that includes contiguous, rugged, jungle mountain areas northern Burma, Viet Nam, Thailand,and Laos that are relatively isolated from the major population, administrative, trading and commercial centers.

Other family members have had their own personal Pacific Rim experiences.

* Doug has been a volunteer “Conversation Partner” for asian post doctoral students at UCDavis from Myanmar, Japan, and China. Today, 40 % of the enrolled UCD freshman class is mostly first and second generation Asian.

* Brighton daughter Erika, a UCD science graduate was an English as a second language contract instructor at Nanjing Agricultural University for one year in the ‘90s. Her family visitor was younger sister, Tiffany.

* Nephew Brian, an AF Miliary Academy graduate and F-16 Falcon fighter pilot has a B.S minor in Chinese and was part of a cadet group that was hosted for a summer visit to Taiwan by the Taiwanese Air Force. He has also had a one year posting in South Korea.

* Daughter- in-law Rebecca has traveled in modern day Viet Nam and is familiar with working conditions there for contract firms who supply the SF based Gap.

* Son Damon in the San Francisco office of the international law firm, DuaneMorris HQed in Philadelphia, has recently opened a new office in Singapore with a branches in Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City.

Bottom line. Oregon has long been involved with the China Trade and the Pacific Rim.

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:
Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

Main:

Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Friday, April 11, 2008 12:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines

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Essays

Summary:

“The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” --- An Arab Proverb.

“Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action ...” ----- D.H. Lawrence

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
------ Winston Churchill

: “The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.”
------- J.Frank Dobie- Texan Folklorist, of the Mustangs

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: The mustang is a feral horse with Spanish roots that has ranged the western part of the North American continent for more than 500 years. In the north western Spanish empire in the New World, Native American tribes valued the trained “Big Dogs” and acquired them as the opportunity presented itself. Failing that, they did domesticate the feral fall out and leavings. The horse has evolved and adapted to the conditions of the west: dry deserts, rocky and steep terrain, harsh winters, and scant grass and browse.
Today, BML land in Harney County and the Steens Mountain south east of Burns, Oregon is the home of the Kiger Mustang, the model for the animated movie Spirit of Cimarron.

:: The mustang is the mascot of SMU, UCDavis, Cal State at SLO, and the former Malin, H.S. , Oregon state “B” champions in football and basketball.

::: Ford Mustang automobile, the Mustang fighter aircraft, and various power speed boats are example of compact high performance machines.

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[ Tuesday, January 08, 2008 07:29 ]

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

Section:
Sports

Summary:
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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[ 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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In addition,

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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[ Monday, November 26, 2007 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: A Culture of Complaint: Bets not Paying Off: Blame it on the Weather

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Environment

Summary:
“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate”. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Never place a bet on a college football game or predict the temperature and wind speed and direction at game time next week.” --- ESPN sports reporter.

How times change. Heat, cold and coal seem to be central to our perception of the way the world works,—or should bend before our needs. Carbon and coal are central to current complaints about climate, temperature and the natural and chaotic rhythm of weather that frustrate use with dynamic and sometimes dramatic changes.

Coal remains, for many, an abundant source of comfort, convenience, and civil necessity, and mostly in the form of reliable and affordable electrical power. How often, we take the long history of energy technology progress for granted. Try living off the grid in winter bound Yellowstone NP or Alaska for three days to learn the point.

Main:
Gambling with your life to test survival limits has always been a challenge for young risk takers. Thus, the sustained popularity of books by Jon Krakauer of Corvallis, Oregon.

Some complain about the weather or the temperature. Others engage Nature directly-- face to face.

Thank about it. Weather is used to explain and give meaning to how our moods change, when shoppers buy, why the tomatoes will not grow, where water is available, who needs to put in hay, what species will survive, thrive, --- or not.

Today,

* Snow is falling in the Pacific Northwest Cascades at the 3,000 ft level.

* Rochester, NY is shrouded in dark gray and the school kids are prepared for rain.

* Bali is preparing for a tropical jet set De visit by UN types.

* Maryland is hosting Middle East stakeholders this week. The Golan is on the table.

* Oil spot market prices, the price of hay, and the cost of milk at the market continue to spike upwards as dollar markets continue to adjust to the whole as it is, not the world that that we want, but do not control.

Meanwhile most pundits, planners, policy makers, and politicians have yet to place their bets and roll out their plans and consumer cost analysis for taxing, capping or trading carbon and carbon surrogates. Many call for institutions to place risky but necessary bets so as effectively manage the earth billions of known and unknown plant and animal species, control weather and climate, and listen to our complains about the present, regrets about the past, and fears about the future. All of this seems to represent a naively self centered view of the State of Nature as it is experience by those live closest to her mystery and best know her power.

Energy Factoid:

* The University of Southern California is the largest non public customer for electrical power in Los Angeles. Government and public education continue to be major power users and wasters.

Question:

* What measurement best represents the earth’s heat cycle?

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