Oregon Geology

For all who love Oregon and Geology, this map tool link is worthy of checking out.

The purpose of the Oregon Geologic Data Compilation <--click here to go to the site (OGDC) project is to assemble the best available geologic map information for the entire state by integrating the work of many individual geologic mappers into a vector digital dataset. The data are stored in a geographic information system (GIS) format with links to a relational database. The compilation is thus a "living map" that can change as new geologic information and mapping becomes available.

What is it?

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) has completed (May 2009) a six-year project to digitally compile geologic data for the entire state. This effort brings together the best available geologic mapping from state and federal agency sources, student thesis work, and consultants.

To view the map, your browser must must be JavaScript enabled, and, if you are using Internet Explorer, allow ActiveX controls. The map itself is image intensive. Users with slower internet connections may find that resizing the browser window to a smaller size will help the map image load faster.

You can view Oregon stratigraphy, rock type, and rock property theme maps on topographic and shaded relief backdrops along with faults, formation boundaries, and USGS 7.5' topographic quadrangle outlines and names. You can drag a portion of the map, and it recreates the map in a closer view. You can see fault lines, and there are pop up keys to determine geologic information.

Books on the Economic Meltdown

The list of books related to the economy have been flying off the presses in the last two years. The list is so long that it can't fit on this blog, but there are longer lists available lists in the library. Here is a snapshot of four titles from the 2009-10 list:

House of Cards by William D Cohen. c2009 332.66 COH
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation's fifth-largest investment bank: "In my book, they are insolvent." This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitable enterprise in the eighty-five years since its founding. Ten days later, Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. How this happened - and why - is the subject of William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative. Cohan's minute-by-minute account of those ten days in March makes for breathless reading. -Publisher

In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic by David Wessel c2009 332.1109 WES
"Whatever it takes" --That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his career as an academic. Then when thrust into a role as one of the most important people in the world, he was compelled to boldness by circumstances he never anticipated. (Award winning author.) –Publisher

The Match King by Frank Partnoy c2009 364.168 PAR
Ivar Kreuger, the best-liked crook that ever lived, was a Swede who operated on Wall Street during the 1920s, and his apparent suicide in 1932 coincided with the collapse of his businesses, bankrupting millions of investors. Partnoy’s research on Kreuger reveals how he cornered global markets in safety matches by raising money in the U.S. and loaning it to European governments in return for monopoly control of production and sales; he devised and sold complicated financial products, and with questionable accounting methods structured a long list of murky deals. Partnoy explains that Kreuger, while a crook, was an attractive one who created substantial wealth, revived much of post World War I Europe, and generated real profits for investors before his empire collapsed. With the current arrest of Bernard Madoff for stealing more than $60 billion from investors, we are reminded that history repeats itself. This is a timely and excellent book. -Booklist

Tyranny of dead ideas: letting go of the old ways of thinking to unleash a new prosperity by Matthew Miller c2009 330.973 MIL
If "Fortune" columnist Miller's eerily prophetic book had come out earlier, it could have served as a wakeup call for Wall Street and Washington, D.C. before the failure of several venerable financial institutions required government bailouts. The author's prescient observations make a case for how an American attitude of entitlement and outdated beliefs about government, education, taxes, corporate excess and health care threaten our national well-being and our position as a world leader. Beliefs such as Your Company Should Take Care of You, and The Kids Will Earn More than We Do are traced to their origins in the past, and are now strategies that strangle the same corporations at the expense of global competitiveness. This book offers a fair-handed critique.-Publishers Weekly

Look for forthcoming titles soon:

Comeback America by David Walker c2010

Freefall: America, Free Markets by Joseph Stiglitz c2010

Good Value by Stephen Green c2010

Flu Essentials: What You Need to Know

Visit the Center for Disease Control and get the essentials you need to know.

The CDC provides fact sheets you can download and share with friends, family members and people in your community. Help spread the word this fall about how to fight the flu and when to get help.

The informational sheets are available in multiple languages.

211 info. Get Connected. Get Answers.

Are you in need of a referral for food, shelter, housing, foreclosure or maybe health care? Or maybe you know someone who needs a little help.

211info is Oregon and Southwest Washington's support directory. 211info is a nonprofit that provides people with "free and easy access to answers they need most".

Are you waiting to read The Lost Symbol?

Interesting reads to fill the void.

Washington burning : how a Frenchman's vision of our nation's capital survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the invading British Armyby: Standiford, Les

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Isaac Newton's freemasonry : the alchemy of science and mysticism
by: Bauer, Alain


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Masonry unmasked : an insider reveals the secrets of the lodgeby: Salza, John

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Get Cooking with Your Library Card!

Check out the database of the month!

Indulge yourself and your loved ones with new recipes from some of the country's best food industry and nutrition magazines including Bon Appetit, Real Simple, Sunset, Redbook, Essence, Good Housekeeping, and Vegetarian Times. The Culinary Arts Collection presents general interest magazines, academic and trade journals, books, and news about food, entertaining, and wine.
A search on Thanksgiving recipes brings up lots of recipes and ideas for holiday celebrations.

Check out the Culinary Arts Collection with your WCCLS library card handy.

This is just one of many databases available to you with your library card.

New Blu-rays at the Beaverton City Library

DUPLICITY

Two sexy spies turned corporate operatives attempt to pull off one of the biggest heists ever. As the stakes rise in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, they'll put everything on the line to remain one double-cross ahead of the rest.

EASY VIRTUE

A young Englishman falls madly in love with a sexy, glamorous American woman, and marries her impulsively. When he takes her to the family home, his mother takes an instant disliking to her and undermines her every move. Will their love be in danger of slipping away?

GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST

A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with several women on a conference call is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a hilarious adventure through his failed relationships - past, present, and future.

SUNSHINE CLEANING

Trying to better her financial situation, a single mother starts a crime scene cleaning business and asks her unreliable sister to join her. Together they clean up the deadly messes left by others, and deal with the messes in their own lives as well.