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[ Thursday, November 30, 2006 09:42 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Winter Sports, Global Warming and Polluting Carbon Emissions.
Section:
Alerts
Summary:
Winter sports, leisure and travel are big business and are taken seriously in certain sections of the county. Today the nytimes reports that winter sports academies are one way for student athletes to pad their college admissions portfolios. In addition, the skiing professionals are in a bind. Europe is experiencing a warm winter because of a medium term high pressure weather system that has resulted in delayed or canceled World Cup competitions. So, why not fly out to Colorado. EveEd
One problem: jet aircraft engines contaminate the upper atmosphere with a CO2 vapor trail as they gulp fuel at the rate of eight gallons per minute.
Main:
Is there a problem ,or an opportunity, here?
* Even smart folks like the U.S. Supreme Court Justices hearing the carbon emission case of Massachusetts v EPA seem to have trouble with concepts like the stratosphere and the troposphere.
* Even environmental attorneys exhaled 20% CO2 with each breath. Maybe lawyer gas should be capped, traded and taxed. And then there is always the the solid form of pollution from the distal end of the digestive tract.
* Some in the food police corp claim that the major cause of all that gas is our addiction to cheap calories and fast food. As a matter of public policy they favor a tax on McDonald’s and Taco Bell to fund anti-obesity education programs in the public schools, organic food curriculum reform at research universities, and organizing agricultural field workers.
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[ Monday, November 27, 2006 15:48 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Bill Bowerman & the Men of Oregon
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Book Reviews
Summary:
Bill Bowerman of Oregon, Nike and the University of Oregon was an original. He and his track athletes are the stuff of a good sport story as researched and written by one of his “Tigers” , Ken Moore, long time track and field writer for Sports Illustrated and other publications. By the standards of his time Bowerman was a bootstrap guy with pride, character and respect for the price of extending the limits of individual talent through intelligence, preparation and perseverance.
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Bill was from Oregon pioneer stock. He was born and died in the dry eastern Oregon ranching community of Fossil near the John Day River, raided cattle and used earthy cowboy metaphors as attention device . His father died early.
Public schooling included Portland and Medford. He pledged “Beta” at Oregon where he played basketball, started on the football team, ran the 440 and graduated with a degree in Business Administration. He served with the 10th Mountain Division, learned to ski and returned from WW ll to marry and return to the Rogue Valley as a teacher and coach at Medford High School .
There, Bill and his wife formed a lifelong friendship with the family of lawyer, Otto Frohnmayer. father of the current President and twelve year verteran of the University of Oregon, former Attorney General and Law School Dean, David Frohnmayer. of Medford, Harvard, Oxford and UCB Boalt School of Law.
After replacing Bill Hayward as the Oregon track coach, Bill started building his own record, coaching style and reputation.
Examples:
* For his intelligence, he won the respect of the campus academic community. His track teams consistently led all other mens sports and living groups when the Daily Emerald published the quarterly grade rankings.
* His student athletes were enrolled, converted, trained and graduated. They were not heavily recruited.
* Local volunteers and friends efficiently, manned and managed the well attended meets at Hayward Field. The result is the Oregon Track Club.
* Bill learned and borrowed from the best of his distance runner coaching peers from around the world, including Arthur Lydiard of New Zealand.
* His coaching style was personal and individualized. Like Len Casanova, head fooball coach, he was in coat and tie on meet day, but hewas always “Bill” to his athletes.
* He was cool,confident, and in control of his emotions and his team during meets.
* He was a showman and Hayward Field was his stage for his production of the meet of the moment.
BTW: Eugene, the UofO, the Athletic Department, and Hayward Field will host the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trails in 2008 prior to Bejing. In addition, Andrew Shipley, an Oregon triathlete and club tennis player has been named as one of this year’s class of 32 American Rhodes Scholars.
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[ Tuesday, November 21, 2006 09:13 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Google roll
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Summary:
Google is clealy on a roll.
Main:
The Silicon Valley juggernaut is rolling out updates and features a rapid rate.
Note:
* 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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[ Monday, November 20, 2006 10:40 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Talking Turkey Tales
Section:
Food and Nutrition
Summary:
Q:Which side of the turkey has the most feathers?
A: The outside.
The forth Thursday of November is all about family gatherings, festive food and Thanksgiving.
Main:
Oregon Turkeys are part of the Fisk Family story. That story will be continued at South Lake Tahoe where the traditional contest of divining the time the turkey is done will be complicated by the altitude and the smoked nature of the bird.
Generation four and five of the Oregon Fisks lived in Redmond, Deschutes County during the post-WW ll decade.
Wayne Fisk was a partner in the local feed, grain, and farm supply business. One of the harvest season businesses was turkey processing and shipping. It was a mini assembly line operation that was carried out on the lower floor of the building down by the railroad tracks where potato processing, storage warehouses and the local coop were also located.
The work was short term, physical and high spirited. It meant cash for the holidays and a food basket for the table.
Some families were housed in tar paper buildings; others lived in permanent tents; most of the kids shared bedrooms. Many a small central Oregon potato farm and turkey ranch put food on the table and the kids through college.
One of the specialties of the turkey operation was smoking. Smoked salmon and smoked ham meat preservation culture was a survival skill used to extend the “shelf life” of a protein staple by the the native Americans hunter gatherers of the Pacific Coast as well as the cross country Oregon Trail pioneers from the mid west. Today, smoked meats are a gourmet table and sandwich item.
Today, Minnesota and California are the major producers and shippers of frozen turkeys. Fresh turkey is a local specialty item.
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[ Thursday, November 16, 2006 17:07 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Lessons from kindergarden
Section:
Education
Summary:
Kindergarden is some kind of a shared American cultural experience that many of use seniors in Davis did not have. Most of us were home schooled at the age of 5 somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. In fact, most had the flegling experience east of the Mississippi River. That may explain why much of the history and geographic appreciation of the western part of the country is so spotty among the first generation immigrants to California from the east.
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Just ask a random selection of old friends for directions from Hollister to Healdsburg to prove the point.
Meanwhile, Google Earth is a marvel for teaching real life lessons about Geography.
* The views and searches of terra firma from 200 ft to 200 miles are terrific.
* The commerical links and .kml files are rapidly proliferating.
* David Friedman, the son of Nobel Economist, Milton Friedman and Rose Director Friedman is a science guy and OSX guru. One suspects that Milton and Rose spent some time online. They both knew their way around the world after having grown up on opposite U.S.coasts.
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[ Tuesday, November 14, 2006 14:06 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: New baby in the LJ family
Section:
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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