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Wednesday, 2/10/12

It took a full year for the service to design, approve and distribute a face mask — called a Combat Cloth Face Covering, or CCFC — for its soldiers, an effort that required an additional $43.5 million in contracts to provide temporary solutions. That comes out to about $45 per mask, if you assume every active-duty, National Guard and Reserve soldier received one. A pack of 20 N95 masks at Home Depot costs about $20. …Read

Tuesday, 2/9/21

Great Oak coaches quit…

Out There: On Not Finishing

Monday, 2/8/21

Repetitive Stress

Saturday, 2/6/21

Rio 2016 Olympian Alexi Pappas went to MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon to meet inmates taking part in its annual marathon. …More. …Years ago, Don raced a 5K in the Oregon State Penitentiary (like San Quentin in California). Tough guys! Some of them lifers. …Pre popularized the program for citizens to visit once a month.

Thursday

Should boys be allowed to compete in girls sports? Read. Watch. Crazy times.

Thursday, 2/4/21

A Bach prelude perfectly played on Boomwhackers is a visual masterpiece

Tuesday, 2/2/21

Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach on a beach is the musical healing the world needs right now

Monday, 2/1/21

Werner Herzog on skateboarding

Coping with football concussions
…Crazy, big money lunacy. And, yes, I continue to watch it.

Sunday, 1/31/21

Ken Goe: Coronavirus keeps Olympic trials, NCAA championships up in the air at Hayward Field

“My 6-year-old son said to me, “Mom, when I grow up and move into a tent.” He thought it was a right of passage/ normal transition into adulthood.” …Read.

Saturday, 1/30/21

Is Portland dying? Once charming, now dead to Don.

Roaring Kitty Wanted to Break a 4-Minute Mile. He Broke Wall Street Instead.