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Ron Cabral's Blog
March 19, 2010
- If suddenly 30 million people without health care get it where will the needed doctors and nurses come from to handle the new increased numbers of humanity coming into the system? What is the current doctor to patient ratio in the USA? - what will it be when the new health care system goes into operation? These are just a few questions that I did not hear addressed during all the hoopla about ...
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February 13, 2010
- Luge has suddenly become the sport everyone wants to see. The start of the 2010 Winter Olympics was marred by the tragic death of twenty one year old Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. During a practice run he lost control of his sled and he was thrown out of the track going 88 miles per hour. He hit a metal pillar. This was filmed and shown to the world.Prior to this Luge was a sport few ...
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January 5, 2010
- Bill Graham is having a birthday party Saturday night . This annual fundraiser is sponsored by the Bill Graham Foundation. The foundation supports music education and the arts with grants. Bill loved athletics and music and he put his talents to work to save school music and sports in the San Francisco Public Schools for the 1975/76 school year. Bill put on SNACK Sunday at Kezar Stadium the ...
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November 17, 2009
- I attended a literary event at a bookstore (Clayton Books) nearby me in Clayton, California the other night - Ben Fong-Torres was in conversation with the noted guitarist Greg Kihn about The Grateful Dead Scrapbook. Ben wrote a 25,000 word history of the band that he first began covering in 1968 when he was a young reporter for Rolling Stone. The new Rolling Stone was headquartered in San ...
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October 22, 2009
- Lenore Kandel died on October 18, 2009 - she was 77. Lenore was originally from New York, but found herself in San Francisco during the 1960's. She is considered one of the last of the Beat poet's and Jack Kerouac portrayed her as the character Romana Swartz in his 1962 novel, 'Big Sur'. She wrote and published 'The Love Book' in 1966 and she soon became one of the shining lights of San ...
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August 6, 2009
- As the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock draws ever closer you might want to catch the Heroes of Woodstock tour coming to a town near you soon. Hosted by Country Joe it features Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Ten Years After and suprise guest appearances. The schedule for the Heroes Tour is as follows: Aug 1 Soaring Eagle Casino - Mt. Pleasant, Michigan/ Aug ...
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July 18, 2009
- Just got back from a 10 day trip to rural Eastern North Carolina. To get there we flew on U.S. Air - San Francisco to Charlotte and then on a twin engine DeHavilland - Dash 8 prop "puddle jumper" to Greenville in Pitt County. Rented a car there, a little Huyndai and drove out to Winterville were we made our headquarters. Along the way we could see some corn and tobacco fields with ...
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June 19, 2009
- Due the unexpected May 21st passing of Berkeley filmmaker Claire Burch the DVD on Country Joe - Gimme an F - is according to Joe, "up in the air." Claire was close to completion on what became her last film. Her partner on the project Mark Weiman is attempting to complete Claire's work in time to have it come out with the autobiography as had been planned originally. Advanced ...
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June 16, 2009
- The new Kindle DX from Amazon in just a short time is taking this new way to read to new heights. This one is larger at 9.7 inches, but it can hold 3,500 books and a good selection of newspapers, blogs and magazines. It is only 1/3rd of an inch thick and has an improved screen. It also can read to you in either male or female voice. It has a built in dictionary of 250,000 entries and it ...
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June 5, 2009
- Country Joe McDonald one of the Hero's of Woodstock did a solo concert last night at the Farmer's Market in Todos Santos Plaza in Concord. He played sitting down and produced bright and vibrant versions of Section 43, Save The Whales, Janis, and Hold on It's Coming. This was the first time I have ever seen Joe play seated. Joe's guitar sounded razor sharp and he was in excellent voice and ...
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June 4, 2009
- I have been around airplanes since I was 17 (1958). I learned to fly a single engine seaplane at age 18 at Commodore Aviation in Sausalito, California. My first solo cross country assignment was to fly to a small lake (Woodard Reservoir) way out in the Central Valley, land on the lake, beach the craft and add 10 gallons of gas to the wing tank. Take off and head back over Mt. Diablo to Richardson ...
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March 29, 2009
- In 1976 Judy Bebelaar and I were teaching at Opportunity High School in San Francisco. Opportunity was the new name of the old Continuation High School. The school was designed to attract those students who did not have success in the mainstream high schools - drop outs, unwed mothers, chronic truants, those with severe school phobia and others. It was a small school located in an old state Motor ...
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March 9, 2009
- The new improved Kindle 2 from Amazon is out. WIth this one you can download 150 books and more magazines, newspapers and blogs than you could with Kindle 1. You can select from 250,000 books available to download to your Kindle 2 . If this isn't enough it has a new feature - it will read to you if you desire that function. Kindle 2 is lighter and thinner than the previous one and ...
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March 4, 2009
- Been a while since I added anything here. Have decided to add another Country Joe photo gallery. This is the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock and the story of Country Joe takes on legendary qualities especially this year. If you haven't seen the Woodstock movie it will give you a good idea what that was all about. One scene in the movie stands clearly stands alone, the scene is of one ...
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August 6, 2008
- Country Joe and Me just went up on KINDLE. KINDLE is a new electronic reading devise developed by Jeff Bezos and his staff at Amazon.com. It is selling for $359. Currently over 145,000 books are available for application to KINDLE. The KINDLE can hold up to 200 full length books as well as various newspapers and magazines. No book costs more than $9.95. The devise stands alone as a wireless ...
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