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[ Sunday, December 31, 2006 16:04 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: The Y Generation
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Essays
Summary:
This year’s Time Magazine Person of the Year is———You
! So, Who should be surprised that the technology challenged and union bound print media should be whistling in the dark past the Cemetery as they face the wild west of the new Internet.
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The potential of Web 2.0 open source on the Internet is for everyone to be on the scene all the time. So why send a reporter from the Hub to cover the story in the field. There is already someone there with laptop, camera and a wireless connection to the world. RSS moves the story to subscribers.
Meanwhile, the Youth Generation is not the only one on the
Youwavelength. Stay tuned for new stuff here in early 2007.
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[ Saturday, December 30, 2006 14:30 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Republicans and the California Connection
Section:
Politics
Summary:
The southern California desert around Palm Springs is a winter magnet for folks from the Heartland as well as Hollywood.
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Retired ranchers like the Forrests of Prairie City gather annually to swap tall tales, the Lears of Oregon continue to gather four generations around the New Year, and Bob Hope would frequent the fairways. The gathering tend to be white, Republican, and shaped by a protestant work ethic, the Heartland, the Depression, WW ll, western values, and the GI Bill.
Gene Lear was one representative of that generation. He came from a family of dry land eastern Oregon wheat ranchers near the Dalles who had emigrated from Kansas. An ag grad of OSU, he and Ruth Cherry were married in the Corvallis Methodist Church. His career as a county extension agent in Redmond was interrupted by WW II Naval service as a Lieutenant j.g. aboard ship in the south Pacific and the battle of Okinawa. The G.I. Bill financed a master degree in Public Administration at what is now the Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard University. Gene and family resettled in Corvallis where he served as State Director of Agricultural Extension. During the Nixon administration, he was recommended for a senior Agricultural Department Extension Service post under Earl Butts by Oregon Senator, Mark O. Hatfield. During service in Washington, D.C. he participated in planning administration poverty programs like the WIC.
Following his retirement and return to Oregon, he was a senior member of US AID ag teams in Bolivia and Sudan. His one run for public office was for the Oregon Legislature. He was defeated by a OSU Political Science professor who advocated free contraception at the campus Student Health Clinic, a winning issue then and now.
Gene was a hunter, fisherman, gardener, and a frequent visitor to Beaver basketball and football practices. He never missed a home game. He would have been particularly proud of both the Beaver baseball and football teams this year. He also proudly wore the Crimson of Harvard at the Commencement Processional on the Corvallis campus.
Today, the attention of the Heartland is focused on the Palm Spring area as the county recalls the unique twenty five years of personal and national history from 1950-75. Those were unusual times in which to come of age.
We note, that Gene Lear, like Gerald Ford and others, retired while in good heath and returned to the familiar hearth of home and family.
To the Lears in the Desert sun and to others where ever they may gather, Happy New Year and Thanks for the Memories.
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[ Friday, December 29, 2006 15:57 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Sweet Friday Trifecta:
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Sports
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* The OSU Beavers and Coach Riley went of the win near the end of the fourth quarter in their comeback against the University of Missouri at the Sun Bowl today. It was a team win as Bernard scored on a two point conversion run up the middle.
* The Davis Aquatic Masters were out in force for each of the day’s six workouts at the Davis Civic Pool.
* A local “collector” opened his house to members of the Davis Senior Center for a tour of his home display of Christmas toys, decoration and memorabilia worthy of A.A. Milne.
Meanwhile, Peace and Goodwill to All. And, there is still a place for warriors, their families, their mates, their leaders, their supporters, and yes, even their mascots. Go Beavers. Go Bears.
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[ Thursday, December 28, 2006 15:13 PDT ]
Legacy Journal:Thursday 5th Quarter.
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Commentary
Summary:
Gerald Ford is in the news, but the rest of the world moves on.
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* Democratic Party primary candidate John Edwards announced his election bid against the backdrop of New Orleans. Meanwhile, Latin America continues to elect charismatic nationalist leaders from the left. Chavez of Venzuela is one example. The public there seem to like 13 cent per gallon gas.
* American’s are ambivalent about the number of troops deployed to Iraq, but few politicans on Capitol Hill will vote for reduce military spending, the size of the Defense Department or pay for soldiers, sailors, pilots or marines.
* Americans appear to believe polls suggesting that we, our institutions, our culture and our governments are unpopular abroad. Yet, hundreds of millions from arount the world are willing to exercise the opportunity for an extended house exchange on very short notice. What is it that the pollsters are missing, or not asking?
* Obesity is part of the price of of high living in any part of the world. What is it we do not understand about the basic balance of calories in and calories out. Over time, the numbers add up in every corner of the world. Busy does not burn up calories.
* Fitness and looking good are in. Skiing at Tahoe has been a big Valley thing since the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley. The Arnold Schwarzenegger freak fall and femoral fracture while standing on a green rated ski slope in Sun Vally, Idaho is once again a lesson for us all. Steer clear of Republicans at play on the slopes, on the quail hunt or on the golf course.
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[ Wednesday, December 27, 2006 14:38 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: President Ford: Leadership and Athletics
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Sports
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Summary: Former President Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States, was widely regarded as a team player in the U.S. Congress and one of best athletes to occupy the Oval Office. He came from the Heartland of Grand Rapids Michigan and modest means to captain the University of Michigan Wolverines football team. He was also a conditioning instructor at Yale and in the U.S. Navy during WW ll. He was a daily swimmer, a regular golfer, a seasonal skier and a good tennis player until late in life. He died at his home of 30 years in Rancho Mirage, CA. at the age of 93. He was narrowly defeated by Jimmie Carter in the national election of 1976 because of his unconditional pardoning of Richard Nixon from charges stemming from the Senate’s Watergate Investigation.
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Meanwhile, the nytimes medical reporter has just completed a five part series on the remarkable march of medical science and technology over the past 50 years.
* Lawrence K. Altman, M.D. has been on his beat for more than 30 years.
* In a related story in the nytimes, the treatment of 97 year old surgeon Michael DeBakey’s symptomatic aortic root aneurysm is a big story even for the man, Houston, and the state of Texas.
The DeBakey story is one that hits close to home because step-brother Robert Keppel, Criminologist and former WSU high jumper, had a similar event with threatment by a DeBakey trained Iranian born vascular surgeon after an emergency helicopter ride to Houston . Bob has recovered and returned to his home state of Washington after teaching in the Criminal Justice Program at Sam Houston State University. He is recently returned from lecturing in Paris, France. Happy New Year 2007, Bob !
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[ Tuesday, December 26, 2006 13:43 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: A civil conversation: Hello, Thank You, and Goodbye.
Section:
Editorial
Summary:
A brief exchange of civil good will and peace. So, why can we all just get along?
Main:
The simple answer seems to be that diversity and unshared cultural values has something to do with civil strife defined as chronic turmoil without resolution. This is different from civil war.
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