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- Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
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- Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
- Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
- Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
- Legacy Journal: the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
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- Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
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- Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
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[ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:11 ]
Legacy Journal
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Alerts
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: We are expanding the use of tags and categories to our journal postings. To access the complete list, click on Achieve Listing # 1, * . It is located up north, just above the first of the most recent 30 postings. Be patient and the SQL server will prepare a nice alphanumeric listing that is fresh and current.
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[ Wednesday, December 19, 2007 09:46 ]
Legacy Journal: Midweek Movers
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Environment
Summary:
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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[ Friday, December 08, 2006 13:54 ]
Legacy Journal:James Kim in Oregon
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Weather
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Lessons from James Kim: A road less travelled..
Death in a winter wilderness is not a one way route. However, getting lost and stuck at night in foul weather at the end of a logging road at 4,500 feet can begin a cascade of potentially fatal events. Falls can kill in seconds, wet hypothermia and exposure in minutes, dehydration in hours, starvation in days. Aquired infectious diseases like malaria, typhoid or hanta virus can be acute or chronic. Ingestion of contaminated water and naturally occuring poisons does occur to those forced to live off the land.
The locals do not travel Bear Camp Rd #23 in winter the east to west on the slow 53 mile shortcut along the “ Wild and Scenic Section of the Rogue River “ to the coast and a resort in the town of Gold Beach. BLM, USFS and county service roads may be paved, but they are not the Interstate. Night travel in an underequpped Saab station wagon driven by an inexperienced tourist from The City on vacation with kids would be considered high risk at the outset. A country rube in the Tenderloin District for a night out in San Francisco would be safer.
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A reasonable equipment list would include:
* Tire chains
* Detailed current maps of unfamiliar terrain are critically important tools of the wilderness trades.
* GPS and compass are basic instruments for backroad and backcountry orienteering.
* Bright orange and reflecting duct tape or spray paint and flairs can aid air rescue patrols in locating the stranded.on the ground.
* Matches or wind proof lighter. Fire starter like Vasoline coated cotton balls.
* Candles can warm a small space.
* A shovel, axe,several burlap bags, cable, and a mechanic wench can help free a vehicle from a snowbank.
* Spare fuel can extend survival time.
* Fully charged spare batteries for essential equpment.
* A radio with a hand generator.
* A Strong directed beam, portable, battery powered, light source.
* A proper hat, work groves and boots, insulated sox and layered water proof inner and outer synthetic clothing.
Fighting fire and falling trees during the season in those very hills brings many hard hats and hard bodies of Oregon close to the multiple dangers of this kind of treachous terrain. This is not designer label territoryl
Meanwhile, who does not anquish over the dilemma of a Dad taking on the fatefull decision strike out on foot and scramble 16 miles to seek aid and save his family. No words or work of fiction can match the nobility of good will on the ground vs the awesome power of nature. However, the dressing room wisdom from Davis on this day is that a hero can and did make some bad and ultimately fatal decisions.
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[ Tuesday, November 21, 2006 09:13 ]
Legacy Journal: Google roll
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Google is clealy on a roll.
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The Silicon Valley juggernaut is rolling out updates and features a rapid rate.
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* Google Docs & Spreadsheet have added features and =functions for collaboration and distribution. Like Reader and GMail, they are now both accessible directly from within Personal Page. Is AJAX great or what!
* Google is adding some of the best and the brightest from around the world to its 9,000 employee base at the rate of 100 a week.
* Google stock broke through 500 today.
* Google Personal Page Creator recently added image upload editing, multiple URLs and mobile device posting.
* Google Domain Hosting and multiple user accounts are features we use and like. Free is a good thing for testing, creating content, and word of mouth network marketing. It is a classic Win-Win rapid growth strategy.
* Even the Big Four of the Central California Railroad devined ways of generated revenue from toll roads and rail service during the six years blasting, tunnelling and bridging the Sierra portion of the nation’s first transcontinental rail line.
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[ Tuesday, November 14, 2006 14:06 ]
Legacy Journal: New baby in the LJ family
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Ads
Summary:
“Geography and Demographics Decide many a Destiny.” … a tribute to geography recognition week.
We are pleased to announce that www.legacyjournal.info out of Google Personal Domain Start Page by legacyjournal.info is now live and active. WWW in this instance is the young diminutive version of the LJ publishing source. The domain includes access to a full range of Google services for those registering (opening) a GMail account as <>@legacyjournal.info.
Our admin will be notified of the account request and will activate the account after reviewing the membership application. Please allow 2 working days before your notification of account activation.
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The goal is duplicate some of the features and tools that we currently use on our login Google account Customized page. Among them are Google Reader and legacyjournal.info RSS feeds. Firefox 2.0 appears to handle both well.
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[ Monday, October 23, 2006 14:36 ]
Legacy Journal Update: Stem Cells and Biotechnology
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Commentary
Summary:
Two clues as to the pace and location of entrepreneural hightech capital investment have recently emerged. One is from a recent biotechnology update from the San Francisco office of the California Insitute of Regenerative Medicine. The second is from the pages of today’s nytimes on the culture of Silicon Valley.
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On Friday, a Biotechnology class at UCDavis was given an update on California Prop 71 of 2004, the $3 billon so called Stem Cell Research and Cures funding measure. After two years since being strongly approved by California voters, no patient has been treated, not disease has been studied and not research requests have been processed, evaluated or funded. Studies, expert opinions, strategic plans, educational gatherings, public hearing and staff building seem to be the major accomplishments from the King Street office. There is one bit of good news. King St is near both the home of the baseball Giants and the China Basin biomedical research campus of UCSF, the homebase of several Nobel Prize science recipents.
Recently, Randall Stross, a business prof and writer based in the South Basy , reported in Digital Currents for the nytimes on the importance of location in the fast paced world of California hightech venture capital investing. The bottom line is that startups tend to be located within 20 minutes driving time of their Sandhill road funders. Those funders like to look their partners in the eye over lunch, in the boardroom, on the office walk around, or even better is networking and smoozing at the evening meeting of the local school board or weekend match at the local youth soccer field. Travel to hiking in Sierra, triathlons in Santa Cruz ,skiing in Tahoe ,and fishing in Hawaii tend to combine family vacations and business.
Meanwhile, Walters for the SacBe, estimates that the $400 million being spent by “special interests’ like the leadership of California Nurses Association and others is small beer compared to the $400 billion that is annual under the direct or indirect control of the various agencies of the State of California.
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