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Токмак або Токмок () — місто обласного підпорядкування в Чуйській області Киргизстану.

Історія
Сучасний Токмак був заснований на початку XIX століття (1825-1830) як кокандська фортеця неподалік від руїн міста Суяб. У 1862 році фортеця була захоплена російськими військами та зруйнована.

Пізніше на місцях колишніх кокандських фортець стали закладатися російські укріплення. На початку травня 1864 року біля руїн фортеці Токмак розташувався загін полковника Черняєва, який прибув з Вірного, який 13 травня 1864 року заклав укріплення Токмак.

У 1867 році Токмак отримав статус міста і став центром однойменного Токмацького повіту Семиріченської області Туркестанського генерал-губернаторства. Повітовий центр у 1878 році був перенесений до міста Пішпек (зараз - Бішкек). Після цього Токмак був позбавлений статусу міста. 1927 року Токмак знову отримав статус міста.

У місті дислокується 8-а гвардійська мотострілецька Режицька ордена Леніна Червонопрапорна ордена Суворова дивізія імені Героя Радянського Союзу генерал-майора І. В. Панфілова.

З 1994 року по 2003 рік Токмак мав назву - Чуй-Токмок.

Населення

Національний склад
 киргизи - 46,8%,
 росіяни -  20,5%,
 дунгани -   16,5%,
 узбеки -  8,6%

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Посилання
 City site Tokmok (Russian)
 Forum Tokmok
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 Dating Tokmok

Міста, засновані в XIX столітті
Міста Киргизстану
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A sweet collection of jazzy new works performed by the next generation of Ballet Fantastique dancers. The Academy of Ballet Fantastique will feature dancers ranging in age from 2 through adult, who will be performing all new pieces choreographed by the professional artists of Ballet Fantastique. Music will include a range of selections, from holiday favorites such as pieces from the Nutcracker, to classics such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. You won't want to miss this year's spectacular event!


Adelaide retains a resilient cluster of colourful second-hand and antiquarian booksellers who, driven by a labour of literary love, have defied the contemporary threats to the industry. And their stories suggest the printed book is far from dead.
In the 1960s, John Scott was "knocking around the north of England", living across the park from Leeds University "with a bunch of scruffy university students who were straight out of The Young Ones".
In his job as a garbage man in an affluent part of town, he often came across treasures – including Victorian furniture and valuable books – which had been discarded by householders and would be picked up and sold by the canny rubbish collectors.
"I started taking books to a big bookstore near the university and I was making more money from totting, as we used to call it, than I was from wages," Scott tells InDaily at his New Morning Books store in Adelaide's East End, surrounded by almost 40,000 books crammed into every available bit of shelf – and floor – space.
"There was a very good bookshop not far from Leeds University and, very conveniently, directly opposite the pub where I used to go for lunch.
After he emigrated to Australia, Scott ran university campus bookstores, then had a company representing book publishers. Towards the end of the 1980s, suspecting that computerisation would be the death knell for his business, he started looking for an alternative.
"Then one day a box of samples came from one of the publishers I represented and the first book, when I opened the carton, was How to Run a Used Bookstore.
Scott opened New Morning Books in Norwood with around 8500 books, then moved around several different locations, most recently Unley Road. Now he is happily ensconced in premises in Frome Street, where his artist wife Janet Bridgland has a studio upstairs.
New Morning Books stocks an eclectic collection of fiction and non-fiction, both classic and contemporary – Scott even keeps a small shelf of old westerns for the occasional elderly male customer who asks for one.
"Like any small business we've had a lot of ups and downs, but we've had more ups than downs, particularly in the last 10 years," he says.
Across Adelaide in Station Arcade, with faithful whippet Oscar by his side, Ben O'Connell sits in a Chesterfield chair once owned by his grandfather Reg – the founder of O'Connell's Bookshop – recalling his early experience of the book business as a schoolboy.
"I used to come and meet him [his grandad] after school. I'd hang around the shop and then we'd go to dinner at Rigoni's or somewhere like that on Leigh Street.
Considered the oldest antiquarian and second-hand bookshop in Adelaide, O'Connell's started life as a kiosk in the Central Market just over 60 years ago and has occupied a number of different premises, including in Leigh Street and Hindley Street.
Along the way, the floor space has kept getting bigger and the range of books has grown. Today, it sells everything from books about metaphysics, military history, philosophy and pop music, to zombie novels, crime and classic English literature; in the window, books on artists Jeffrey Smart and Robert Hannaford sit alongside Cooking With Asterix and a 1970s publication about Japanese pop culture stars.
Ben, who took over the management of the shop from his parents, has also introduced graphic novels to the shelves in more recent years, while other prominently displayed books – such as those on Japanese art – reflect his personal interests.
"We've got customers who have been coming here [to O'Connell's] since the '50s," he says.
"What's lovely is that almost daily a customer will come in and remember my grandfather to me and have a little anecdote about him or something about the old shop in one of the locations.
O'Connell says business has always been robust, and the move a few years ago from Hindley Street to the upstairs space in Station Arcade – which is bustling with commuters – led to a marked increase in the number of customers.
While there's a common belief that younger generations don't read books – or printed ones, at least – he says this isn't borne out by his experience, with O'Connell's book buyers crossing all demographics and ages.
"I'm in here six or seven days a week and all I see is people buying books.
"Interestingly, I find often it's older people embracing the carrying around of an iPad through the city rather than younger people.
There are also, John Scott says, some more unusual customer requests.
"I've had everything in my day.
Scott did notice a pronounced drop in the number of young book buyers around the turn of the millennium. Since then, however, it's bounced back.
"My clientele was about 60 per cent retired people but now at least a quarter of them are people in their late teens and early 20s, and they are the generation that was brought up on Harry Potter.
At basement bookstore Adelaide Booksellers, off Rundle Mall, owners Colin Williams and Mary Kosiak have also noticed a rise in the number of young customers.
"It's really lovely to see," Kosiak says.
"The book is not dead.
Adelaide Booksellers has something of a library feel to it, with well-organised shelves and a careful cataloguing system for its vast collection of mostly non-fiction titles, which range from $3 bargains in the "suitcase special" to limited-editions titles worth several thousand dollars displayed in glass cases.
Having previously worked as public servants, Williams and Kosiak bought the shop in 1997 from Len and Lesley Woodley, who had established it in 1978 as a sideline to their business Standard Books (the forerunner to Dymocks). Back then Adelaide Booksellers was located in different premises, upstairs at 6a Rundle Mall next to Haighs, and the process by which the pair came to take it over says much about the nature of the second-hand book business.
"We were headhunted," Kosiak says, laughing.
"Len and Lesley had the business and they cherished it… they wanted to divest of it but they weren't prepared to let it go to just anybody. They had a mate who was a shopbroker who knew us … he arranged a meeting and then we went for an interview.
Colin Williams used to run the (now-defunct) SA Secondhand Booksellers Association, which in 2003-04 had just over 30 members, not all of whom had physical shops. Around half of those no longer exist, with another – the Antique Market Book Room, one of two shops owned by Michael Treloar – set to close this weekend (read InDaily's interview with Treloar here).
While some of the sellers simply retired, Williams believes high rents have contributed to the contraction of the sector. Online retailing is also a factor, driving down the price of books and therefore shrinking profit margins.
Nonetheless, given how few new bookshops remain, an impressive number of second-hand bookshops continue to thrive – including Treloar's North Terrace business, Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, which was established in 1976 and specialises in rare and collectible books, and suburban treasures like Blackwood Books, whose charismatic owner David Christophel passed away earlier this year.
There have also been more recent additions to the landscape, such as Adelaide's Pop-Up Bookshop, run by Kate Treloar (Michael's daughter) and Nick Patrick, who see themselves as "crusaders for the wonderful bookshops Adelaide has lost and realised we couldn't replicate", and places that combine literature with café culture, like Topham Mall's Book Nook & Bean.
Most of the second-hand bookshops have accepted that adaptation is the key to survival, and while the internet has driven down the price of many second-hand books, it also has an upside.
Adelaide Booksellers, which moved to its current Twin Street location in 2010, says online sales have grown exponentially in the past 20 years, now accounting for about 50 per cent of its sales.
One factor which is probably key to the survival of the second-hand bookshops is that most are independent businesses whose owner-operators are passionate about both books and those who buy them.
"The people," says Scott, when asked to name the best thing about his work. "The people who come in here are wizards.
"There are people who know everything about World War II, there are people who know everything about bees and have hundreds of books on bees.
Mary Kosiak agrees, adding that there is also "the joy of the treasure hunt" to find a sought-after book – and the thrill of discovering that a rather tatty-looking title is actually a 1936 first-edition copy of Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps worth $3000.
Sometimes the excitement comes from finding notes or inscriptions hidden within the book, which Ben O'Connell says can add to its charm.
"We see some lovely inscriptions.
O'Connell also takes pride – and pleasure – in the relationships built with customers, believing this is an important factor in the shop's continued success.
Over the years, those customers have included some very famous faces, such as Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (bassist Flea bought several books, including a signed first edition of Hubert Selby Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn).
Although they love their business, Williams and Kosiak are pragmatic about the future prospects for Adelaide Booksellers, saying the physical labour involved in the job – lifting boxes of books, stacking shelves and so forth – means it is unlikely they will still be doing it themselves in another 10 years.
"And I doubt you'd get anyone to buy a bookshop now," Kosiac says, citing high rents for retail premises and the narrowing profit margin on second-hand books.
Ben O'Connell is more confident about O'Connell's Bookshop, especially given the success of its move to the Station Arcade.
Over at Good Morning Books, John Scott predicts the industry will face a period of "contraction followed by stability", but he's certainly not planning on retiring any time soon.
"I would hope and expect that 50 or 100 years from now there will still be second-hand bookshops like this in Adelaide.
"We're very happy here and I hope to be here for many years to come.


Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on a Fedora 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
To stop cherokee-admin, type CTRL+C on the shell.
The installation configuration as shown allow external acces to directories listing and download with root privilges !
rules for limiting acces MUST be added !!!
It should be also useful to run cherokee as a limited user, not as root !


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The One Tower
by Scotty Strachan
Date Climbed: July 12, 2004
suf·fur
v. 2 undergo pain, loss, defeat, etc.
While the first was unavoidable, providentially the last two did not come into play. This is yet another tale of Barry Beck and Scotty Strachan, and their July 12, 2004 dayhike adventure in the northern Sierra.
Suffer they did, almost as much as they enjoyed the day's quest. It all began during an early-morning flight on July 6th, 2002, when the elder of the pair noticed a spectacular peak in northern Yosemite and flew a little closer so the younger man could capture it on film (digital, that is).
"Now, that's a good-looking peak!" Barry would often remark to himself as he watched his slide-show screen-saver. "It's definitely on the list."
According to the USGS, the peak was named 'Tower,' and some quick research told the two dayhikers that getting to the 11,755' summit and back within a reasonable amount of time would not be easy. According to some consumer-grade topographic software, the climb would involve a 30-mile round-trip by the easiest route.
That put the plans on hold for Scotty. "Thirty miles for one little peak? Don't forget, we've got enough on our plate already!" (to Scotty's credit, this was entirely true, as the team was smack in the middle of a single-summer weekend-style tour of the California's 14'ers)
"That still is a fine-looking peak..." Barry replied, half to himself.
2002 passed, and soon 2003 was over. Uneasy reminders of Tower Peak flickered about daily life like ghostly apparitions searching for final rest. Distant views of the peak glimpsed from surrounding summits, hiking gossip with Steve at the High Sierra Bakery in nearby Bridgeport, and the random glimmers of the mountain on their computer screens at home served as constant reminders that Tower Peak had unfinished business.
At last Scotty could stand it no longer. Phoning his friend one day in the spring of 2004, he passively confessed his secret yearning to summit Tower Peak by outlining a carefully considered plan. "Say, Barry, there might be a way to get Tower, along with a few others. As a bonus, we get to see a lot of new terrain. According to some rough calculations, the overall mileage would be comparable to the typical Tower approach, except that we'd more than double the elevation gain."
Now, any time that multiple summits are possible, Barry is in line for admission. "Reeeaaallly. And just how do you propose to do this?"
"Okay, do you have your topo in front of you?" Deep breath.
Pause. "Yeah."
"Simple," Scotty started, "We go for Tower Peak, Ehrnbeck Peak, Hawksbeak Peak, and possibly Center Mountain or Grouse Mountain. Depending on route, we could always stage a vehicle at a separate trailhead and make a traverse out of it. Three or four standalone peaks over eleven in a day! Worst-case scenario, it'll be thirty-plus miles and over ten-thousand feet of vertical gain. We've done that before, and at higher altitudes."
"Dude, you're certifiable."
Eventually, the plan was hammered into final form, with Barry insisting that doing Tower last would keep the motivation level high. The pair would start at Twin Lakes and hike up the Robinson Creek trail past Peeler Lake and turn north for Buckeye Pass. Somewhere in that vicinity, they would make a beeline northwest for Center Mountain, traversing it to Hawksbeak Peak. Descending south from Hawksbeak, the team would cruise up to Ehrnbeck Peak and traverse to Tower Peak. Once summiting Tower, the hikers would head northeast for the trail over Kirkwood Pass and descend Buckeye Creek to a staged vehicle waiting at the trailhead there. Conveniently, both trailheads were located in adjacent canyons just a few miles from Barry's home in Bridgeport.
On paper, the distance was significant. On-trail: 22 miles, 4500 feet gain. Off-trail: 12 miles, 6000 feet gain. Total: 34 miles, 10,500 feet vertical gain.
Ambitious? Yes. Committing? Totally. But certifiable?
"Only Barry's gear selection!" Scotty later insisted.
Thus it was that on the appointed day, July 11, 2004, Scotty arrived at Barry's house in metropolitan Bridgeport, California. After a little dinner, they decided to hop in Barry's Piper Arrow for an evening reconnaissance of the next day's objectives. The brief flight revealed spotty snow coverage and a fairly stable atmosphere, fueling the duo's desire to go for all four peaks.
"Looks like a long way."
"Yeah, but we'll always have options, depending on how good we feel."
"To what, walk fifteen miles out once we're done?"
"Oh. Yeah, I guess that's a given."
Five-thirty the next morning found the wide-awake hikers at the High Sierra Bakery, where third-generation baker Steve Nugent offered some encouragement along with complimentary ham & cheese croissants and delicious Haystacks. "Wow, you guys'll get to see a lot of neat country today! That's a pretty serious plan. Better take some more pastries."
After staging Barry's Nissan at the Buckeye Creek campground, the team drove fifteen minutes to the Twin Lakes trailhead at the Mono Village resort. A few minutes were spent organizing gear in the empty parking area, and they were off. Walking away, Scotty glanced at the sign reading "Absolutely No Overnight Parking," and hoped that it would stay irrelevant...
A little over two hours later, the pair was passing scenic Peeler Lake and cruising north to Buckeye Pass. Rustic, cutout metal signs at the junctions indicated that the northern boundary of Yosemite National Park had been reached. Soon Barry and Scotty were heading up classic angled granite slabs to gain the first objective: Center Mountain. After a long section of enjoyable low class three, the ridgeline was reached, and a few hundred yards of sand was traversed to the summit. Much to their disappointment, the climbers discovered that although a worthy peak, 11,271' Center Mountain had no summit register. Fresh sheep tracks seemed to indicate that most of the visitors were illiterate anyhow.
A quick, sandy decent off the west side of Center took the two adventurers to another sandy slope, this time the east side of 11,134' Hawksbeak Peak. As the first part of this climb was annoying, they swiftly maneuvered to the class three edge of the north face, high above Kirkwood Lake. Soon the second summit of the day was gained, and the spectacular nature of Hawksbeak was revealed. On three sides the mountain fell away in dramatic cliffs, some over one thousand feet in height. The exposed and precarious nature of the northwest ridge was especially eye-catching, as rugged and forbidding as anything in the famed Palisades.
"Another significant peak without a register?" Scotty exclaimed. "I guess the Sierra Club doesn't stray too far from trails."
"I told you to start bringing one along," Barry responded. "You need to be carrying a little more gear anyway if you expect to get in shape."
Scotty looked over at his friend, who was sporting scarcely more than a small camera, Hydropak, bug repellent, and M&M's. "I suppose my not bringing the camcorder along was a mistake as well, right?"
"Oh, absolutely. And I didn't order you that tourist ski pole for nothing."
At this point, the stunning views also indicated that the dayhike was about to turn difficult and committing.
Scotty, the designated pragmatist, was weighing the options. "Either we descend into the valley and make for Tower's north ridge, or we head up to Ehrnbeck Peak and traverse to Tower from there. I vote for a direct route to Tower in the interest of time, as any route complexity whatsoever will guarantee that we'll have to use our headlamps. Serious difficulty would hinder our ability to even make it back to the trail before dark."
"Headlamps? I fully expect to be back in the car before dark. We'll just cruise down to the saddle, up to Ehrnbeck, and run right up Tower. Tell ya what, if we do Ehrnbeck, we'll even head over to the tourist route on Tower instead of messing with the south side." Barry, ever the optimist, was sure of an easy traverse.
"Fine. As long as you have your jacket this time."
"My what?"
The traverse to Ehrnbeck proved to be fairly easy, once a twenty-foot 5.5ish section was completed to avoid steep snowfields. On the trek across Ehrnbeck's sandy plateau, Scotty found an arrowhead fragment mixed in with the decomposed granite. "Oh no, I disturbed its context! Now what will the next visiting archaeologist do? How will they ever reconstruct the events leading to its deposition?"
"I guess a first ascent is out of the question," remarked Barry. "I sure hope they left a register for us."
As it turned out, Ehrnbeck did have a register, placed atop an intriguing summit block.
"Last entry is from 2002," Barry observed. "At least this one sees some visitors."
"How are we going to get off this thing?" answered Scotty, as he gazed over the edge of the vertical west face.
It took some scrambling, but after some exposed 3rd class Scotty found a narrow under-a-chockstone exit to the west slope. He handed his pack to Barry, and squeezed through the narrow passage.
"Dude, you're gonna hafta cut back on the sandwiches if you want to keep this up," Barry noticed.
"This section would certainly be the limiting factor for tourists," Scotty agreed.
The two reached the top of a steep, sandy gully on the southwest side of the peak, and began bounding downhill to evade the cliffs of the northwest ridge. Some circuitous sidehilling soon brought them to a low saddle on the crest leading to Tower itself.
Scotty saw his nightmare begin to materialize. "The next mile might not be very pleasant."
The scale of the features was concerning to Barry as well. "We're going against the grain of the fractures. Try to keep us on a contour so this doesn't get too Williamson-esque."
As it turned out, there was very little Scotty could do about making a direct route. The entire ridge of granite, over a mile in length and a couple hundred yards wide, was fissured and cracked at an angle exactly ninety degrees to their direction of travel. Countless millennia of weathering had selectively removed the less-hardy material in the outcrop, leaving huge gaps, solid cliffs, and tall steps to be negotiated. While in more comfortable circumstances this would provide hours of exploratory enjoyment, for the two climbers it now spelled adversity.
It would do little good to explain the harsh details of the toil, labor, and effort put forth by our heroes in the negotiation of this obstacle. Suffice to say, this section of ridge required considerably more energy expenditure and time than either of the pair had budgeted, and when the last barrier had been surmounted, it was quite clear that they would be racing the sun to the trail.
"At last, we are actually on Tower Peak!" Barry exclaimed as he transitioned onto the large fresh glacial talus. "Now, all we have to do is head up into the cirque below the peak and hop on the north ridge."
"Let's get to it."
In spite of their now-ebbing energy levels, the duo made quick work of the ascent into the cirque. Unfortunately, it appeared that the only access to the easy north ridge of Tower would be by first working away from the summit to some lower-angle slabs. A couple short snowfields were negotiated, with the suncups over two feet deep in places. Fortunately, these were frozen at the bottom, and had not yet filled with water. The west edge of the cirque was overcome with minimal class three effort, and the climbers were on the final ascent at last.
A few scattered boot-prints were in evidence, albeit somewhat aged, as the pair worked their way to the west chute. The steep class three along the side of the gully was welcome, as one more sandy slope would have surely slowed the pace to a crawl.
"This is it!" Yelled down Scotty as he grasped the aluminum summit box. "Now let's sign in and get the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out o' here!"
Barry arrived and proceeded to take a few snapshots while Scotty added an entry to the log. Barry then entered his own comments.
"According to this, it's been a couple weeks since the last visit. Look, you can see Ritter-Banner, Lyell-Maclure, and Conness quite clearly." Barry was impressed with the view.
"We are so out of here," muttered Scotty as he glanced at his Suunto.
They reversed their route for the first time that day, and headed back down the north ridge to the flat just above the prominent 'Tower' feature at the head of West Tower Canyon.
"Okay, from here I think we need to proceed slightly southeast to avoid the really steep slabs," Scotty said. "Hopefully we can traverse this glacial basin quickly, as we will be going with the grain this time."
The route-finding was not easy, but the right judgments were made, and the team was three miles from the summit and crossing Kirkwood Creek an hour later.
"Just one more big uphill to go." Barry was hoping that it would be an easy one.
They worked their way over a small ridge and down through the trees to the trail over Kirkwood Pass, ecstatic to be on the path before nightfall.
"Yes!" Scotty cried. "Now all we have to do is walk for five more hours!"
"We certainly won't get to sleep on the way back," Barry realized. "I didn't bring any layers."
"Well, let's cover what we can while it's still light."
So it was that they made the nine-hundred-foot climb up to Kirkwood Pass just in time to see the now-orange sun sink into the haze above urban California. It was eight o'clock.
"Hard to believe that we were on top of that just two-and-a-half hours ago," Scotty remarked as he took one last look at the fading and remote summit of Tower Peak.
They walked steadily on until the increasing shade became too much for even Barry's sharp eyes.
"It's a good thing I just bought this headlamp," Scotty remarked as he made ready his new Petzl Myo 3. "I don't think that old Micro would have made enough light for us both."
"I need to evaluate my level of fitness better before planning these crazy outings!" Barry muttered.
The next couple of hours involved the typical never-ending ground-pounding of an epic death march. Scotty stuck to the LED's on his lamp, so the pair did not get to view the scenery outside of a coolly-lit ten-foot radius. All they knew was that sometimes the gurgling water of the creek was near, sometimes far, but always rushing in a manner that suggested the flat miles of lower Buckeye Canyon were far away. They worked their way down endless rocky switchbacks. They passed the spectacular scenery of 'The Roughs,' now hidden from sight by the moonless night. Aside from occasional halts to retie a shoe, they did not stop, pushed on by that inexorable desire to reach the car, the end, and sleep.
After an eternity, the path ceased to switchback and became mostly level. Low amounts of traffic had allowed grass and sagebrush to reach across the way, snagging their legs and pulling at their socks. They did not stop. Surely the end would be in just a couple more miles! They could hardly hear the stream now. The trail began to cross large open meadows, attempting to disappear in the process. Several times Scotty had to regain the way, searching with the Myo's Xenon beam to locate the hint of disturbance in the flora.
"At some point, we have to cross the creek," Barry stated.
"Yeah, I thought that would be quite a ways from the campground, right?" Scotty responded.
"I'm not so sure. I thought it was right before the campground."
"Hmm, well it should be obvious enough."
Neither hiker had been on this trail before. In fact, the only familiar terrain the whole day was the trail to Peeler Lake at the start, and only Barry had been that way before. It is doubtful that a map would have helped them in any case, as there were no landmarks to be seen in the dark, flat valley. At last the path turned into the remains of a jeep trail, complete with two lanes.
"It can't be too far now," Barry stated.
"I hope you're right," Scotty said, with doubt clearly showing.
They passed through a cattle gate into another expansive meadow, and suddenly the road disappeared. Several paths seemed to wander about, but which was the right one? With so much fresh cattle sign about, it was impossible to tell which was the pack trail and which were aimless stock highways. All the hikers could do was to head down-canyon, and hope for something more obvious.
Soon they were met with a stream crossing.
"Is this it?" Scotty wondered. "It's one-thirty already. I'd like to be back soon."
"Well, we have to cross at some point, so we might as well do it now," Barry said as he removed his shoes.
They forded the stream and began once more to proceed down the valley.
"Look! Something reflective! And another!" For a second, Scotty thought that they'd reached the campground.
"Oh, it's just a cow," Barry said in a low voice.
In fact, it was whole herd of cows. They weren't sure what to make of the bright light and two men thrashing their way through the meadow at night, so they milled about and bellowed to one another in confusion. Some of the more curious animals began to shuffle along behind the hikers in the dark, making Scotty not a little uneasy.
"I saw some cows with non-cow equipment," he whispered to Barry. "I'd like to be away from here ASAP."
Just then, SQUISH! They had found a swamp.
"Great! Now what?" Barry griped. "And I see another creek just ahead! This whole valley is one big cow wallow!"
"I say we head for the north side and try to find the road in the sagebrush again." Scotty advised. "We stay in the sage until we see the campground and then cross the valley."
After a few minutes, though, it was clear that there was no easy way out. Every way they turned, they were faced with knee-deep muck. Barry had had enough. "Not a good idea. I know we need to be on the south side, so let's just head for the slope and continue down all the way to the car."
"Fine," Scotty acquiesced. "Bushwhacking is certainly preferable to this."
They worked their way back through the cow herd until they reached the first ford. Turning south, they crossed the main branch of the creek and struggled through another short section of thigh-deep, stinky mud before reaching the eaves of the pine forest.
"That sucked big time," was all Scotty had to say.
"Concur."
With the forest came another path, which the exhausted hikers then followed with suppressed hope. It soon became obvious that this trail was skirting the meadow, and sticking to the high ground, which made things much more pleasant. Eventually, the trail became a jeep track again, and the hikers pressed on with renewed vigor. Minutes went by, and still no campground. After half and hour, they began to wonder just how far they still had to travel.
"We're almost to downtown Bridgeport by now," Scotty growled. "This had better not bypass the trailhead!"
"Impossible," Barry reassured. The campground covers the whole bottom of the canyon."
At last, after nearly an hour of walking the dusty road in soggy shoes, reeking of mud, the forlorn hikers reached the Buckeye Creek campground. Any tourists who were awakened by the banging of the metal cattle gate at two-twenty in the morning would have peeked out of their RV at the sorry sight and quickly drawn the shades.
Twenty hours, virtually non-stop. Thirty-four miles. Ten-thousand five-hundred vertical feet of positive gain.
The One Tower was not strong enough.
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It is hard to know how many of these were built, but it seems they were very popular for awhile. Later on the beach catamaran craze took over and these boats were largely forgotton. It is probable that these boats built with plywood but before the advent of epoxy resins would have had limited lifespans, and eventually they all rotted away. The little I know about this boat was that it went fast but did not point upwind very well. As to why this was the case, my best guess would be a sail plan that was had a low aspect ratio, having no jib, together combined with a board that was probably too small for the boat.
Notice that the rig, though large and powerful lacks a jib. When I was sailing a catamaran years ago, the hobie cats with a jib would always point higher than my boat without a jib. Thus my guess is that it is these three features that resulted in relatively poor upwind performance, as opposed to the geometry of having one large hull and one small hull. The daggerboard that can break on grounding maybe an issue, a pivoting centerboard may be preferable.
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Emptoris Selects Interim CEO, Launches Search for Permanent Leader
- August 13, 2009 1:08 AM |
Earlier this afternoon, Emptoris announced that Bill Atkinson will take over as interim CEO of the organization. Bill is currently the Group President of Technology at Marlin Equity Partners, Emptoris' owner. In the press release, Emptoris suggests that he will focus on guiding "the company's search for a new CEO and working closely with the Emptoris leadership team". What will the agenda of the new CEO be after Atkinson steps down? If you read between the lines of Bill's hints in the release -- e.g., "The new CEO will inherit an organization primed for accelerated strategic acquisitions and organic growth ... " -- it suggests to me that on the surface, we can expect more of the same from Emptoris. However, I'm not so sure if this will be the case, and I believe we might see a slight evolution in strategy and a change in leadership focus, potentially for the better.
If I were in Emptoris' shoes -- or Marlin's for that matter -- I'd realize that the leadership approach and operational focus required to get a company from the $50 million revenue range to the $100 or $200 million range is very, very different than during the initial periods of growth in a company's life. Right now, Emptoris needs to focus on bringing in leadership with significant operational and sales-driven experience. It is extremely rare that a company leader has what it takes to start an organization and oversee its growth to nine figures in revenue. The skill sets are almost entirely different, if not in conflict with each other.
Moreover, I'd focus on leveraging my core assets and strength (e.g., differentiation on organic product development and engineering) than simply trying to broaden the pie through additional acquisitions. Acquisitions are always risky and can distract from the core. To date, at least some of Emptoris' acquisitions were less than fully successful initially from an operational and development integration perspective. Which is par for the course with 90% of software acquisitions. Trust me on this -- I have the scars to prove it. It's very easy for "strategic acquisitions" to become unstrategic nightmares.
In my view, the ultimate CEO should focus on scaling the operations of the business and building out an expanded services ecosystem -- both internal and external -- to help even out revenue ups and downs ahead of finding organizations to gobble up. But perhaps above all, the yet-to-be determined leader should focus on continuing to drive the type of core supply management innovation that Emptoris is known for.
If Marlin thinks Emptoris can "roll-up" its way to an IPO or a large buy-out while keeping their core set of customers happy and signing checks, they've got something coming to them unless they can bring a new level of operational effectiveness and competency around acquisition integration (who knows -- maybe this will be Bill's legacy). Moreover, Marlin and Emptoris' CEO must recognize that Emptoris fundamentally is an innovation play and should optimize the executive team around scaling their commercial efforts and, most important, research and development, which will play to their true competitive advantage in the market.


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Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Program
Scope of Program
The Small Unmanned Aircraft System Policy (Policy) governs City of Valdez operations of the small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) Program. The sUAS Program harnesses aerial data to facilitate informed community maintenance, growth, and capable emergency response. The Program is administered by the City office of Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM). Participants are drawn from several emergency response and non-emergency response departments in the City of Valdez.
Click here to view the current City sUAS policy.
This policy was created as a master's degree capstone project by the city's Emergency Manager. Click here to view the final project submission which offers additional information on small unmanned aircraft capabilities and program development.
Purpose & Background of sUAS Program
Use of small unmanned aircraft (sUA) in the public sector is becoming increasingly commonplace. A sUA can be utilized by COV employees at a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft, while not subject to the availability or potential limitations of a third party. Creation of the City's sUAS Program is in response to a host of diverse issues directly affecting all persons within the incorporated limits of the COV. These issues are primarily centric to: natural and manmade hazards; City planning, maintenance, and management; and routine emergency response to complex events.
Natural and Manmade Hazards. Valdez residents, and infrastructure, are exposed to earthquakes, avalanches, tsunamis, extreme snowfall, volcanic activity, flooding, terrorism, rain deluge, hazardous material release, wildfires, slope instability/landslides, glacial retreat, high winds and more.
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Prior to 2021, two employees from the City's Capital Facilities and Ports and Harbor Departments acquired sUA to informally address a few of these local issues. Their proactive efforts facilitated the aerial observation of a number of significant recent events, some of which are: flooding and erosion occurring on or in Valdez waterways (2016-2020), the construction of the New Boat Harbor (2018-2019), a vehicular homicide investigation that led to an arrest and conviction (2018), the unprecedented separation of the water-bound portion of the Valdez Glacier (July, 2019), and a back country search and rescue operation where the sUA was crucial to the discovery and rescue of four stranded packrafters in a remote section of the Tsaina River (2019). The new sUA Policy unites their experience with an organized sUAS Program designed to meet the City's diverse needs.
The purpose of the City sUAS Program and related policy are to centralize all sUAS Operations in the City under one overarching mechanism that:
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London Mayor unveils 20 new water fountains in bid to reduce single-use plastic
28 August 2018, source edie newsroom
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has confirmed that 20 new water fountains will be installed across the capital as part of a scheme to slash the amount of single-use plastic bottles that are purchased.
The fountains form part of Khan's draft London plan, which includes a commitment to make clean drinking water widely available
The first four fountains have already been installed at Heart of Valentines Park, Kingly Court and Liverpool Street Station, with the Kingly Court facility already being used more than 10,000 times a month.
Meanwhile, the two fountains in Liverpool Street Station have dispensed more than 8,000 litres of water since they were installed earlier this month – saving the plastic equivalent of 16,000 single-use bottles.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "Water fountains are a simple but effective way to encourage Londoners and visitors to ditch plastic bottles and instead refill reusable ones. With the hot weather we've seen this summer, the demand is greater than ever for quick and easy ways of accessing free drinking water and I'm pleased to confirm the locations for the first 20 of our new public water fountains.
"Some of these are already attracting thousands of visitors a day and City Hall are working on plans to secure many more across London."
The remaining 16 fountains will be installed by the end of the year, with their locations decided as part of the Mayor's partnership with the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) #OneLess campaign aimed at tackling single-use plastic waste.
After analysing footfall in venues which applied to host a fountain, the campaign and City Hall will install new facilities in Bexleyheath Town Centre, in Bexley; North Acton Square, in Ealing; Windrush Square, in Brixton; Ladywell Fields, in Lewisham; Beckenham Place Park, in Lewisham; Horniman Museum, in Lewisham; Paddington Recreation Ground, in Westminster; Acton Park, in Ealing; Guy's Hospital, in Southwark; St Thomas' Hospital, in Lambeth; Camberwell Green, in Southwark; Swiss Cottage Open Space, in Camden; Nisbett Walk, in Bexley; South St Alban's Street, in St James; The London School of Economics and Political Science and the Natural History Museum.
The #OneLess campaign's director Heather Koldeway said the campaign was "taken aback" by the number of transport hubs, shopping centres, museums and business districts which applied to host a fountain.
"There is definitely huge appetite in London to stop using single-use plastic and establish a new culture of refilling," Koldeway said. "We are delighted to be working with the Mayor of London on this exciting initiative to reduce the plastic blight on the ocean and firmly establish London as a city that no longer uses plastic bottled water."
The new installations come after research from the #OneLess campaign revealed that Londoners buy more than three plastic bottles every week on average – equating to 175 bottles every year per person. It is thought around 7.7 billion plastic bottles are bought across the UK each year.
Refill London
City Hall this year launched the Refill London campaign in partnership with Thames Water and campaign group City to Sea. Under the scheme, 65 businesses, venues and shops across the city have committed to offer free tap water refills to visitors – including the likes of Costa Coffee, Leon and Whole Foods.
It is currently being trialled in five areas in London - Greenwich town centre, Lewisham high street, the Southbank and Bankside, Regent Street and London Bridge – with a view to a wider rollout.
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The Sustainable Sites Initiative, which just certified its first three projects, hopes to do for outdoor spaces what LEED did for buildings.
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Green-building standards like LEED and SEED help guide and spur environmentally conscious construction. But step outside the door and into the garden, the campus quad, or the street, and there's never been one set of rules to promote sustainability. Until now.
The American Society of Landscape Architects and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin have been working to create a set of standards since 2005. Last week, the program they developed, The Sustainable Sites Initiative, certified the first three landscapes through its standards process. In Missouri, a corporate campus where parking lots retain storm water, a walking trail passes through restored prairie, and a garden grows vegetables earned three stars. A green space at a Texas college and a playground at a urban park in Memphis each earned one star. To earn certification, sites can earn points for features like soil restoration, water conservation, native plants, and sustainable land maintenance.
The organizations running SITES, which now include the U.S. Botanic Garden, hope the standards program will raise awareness of the possibilities of sustainable landscapes in the same way that LEED boosted the profile of sustainable building. When ASLA conducted a public opinion poll a couple years ago, respondents said they're concerned about the environment and they know how to make their homes greener, says Nancy Somerville, ASLA's executive vice president. But when asked whether they knew what they could do to make their outdoor spaces more sustainable, their level of knowledge dropped. "The overall public has been completely unaware of what you want to be doing in the design and maintenance of the outdoor environment," Somerville says. "But all that connective tissue from the building envelope out plays as great or a greater role in the environmental sustainability and livability of our communities."
One of the challenges of developing the standards has been creating criteria flexible enough to work for a wide variety of outdoor spaces—from office parks and military complexes to national parks. The three sites that earned certification are participating in a pilot phase meant to identify any difficulties in using the system. A streetscape, for instance, might not be able to rack up points for using recycled materials or use of native plants because the standards must work as well for a wetland in Louisiana as for an arid zone in Arizona.
But the larger challenge might be convincing people that sustainable landscape are not inferior aesthetically to the lawns and gardens and road medians that have dominated America's outdoor spaces for decades. Holly Shimizu, executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden, says people often believe sustainable landscapes must be wild and untended. Her organization is working to spread the principles established in SITES to a less technical audience: Landscapeforlife.org provides home gardeners with guidance on soil, water, and plants, derived from SITES principles.
"You can still have a lot of beauty in these projects, and you should," says Susan Rieff, executive director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. "But it requires a lot more care, I think, and a lot more thought. Just as building a green building takes more thought and attention than people were used to."
Photo courtesy of SWT Design


Maharishi Mahesh was both a spiritual man and an entrepeneur who promoted the joys of inner happiness. He was born as Mahesh in Jabalpur, India into a scribe caste family, and reinvented himself as a maharishi, meaning "great seer" in Hindi during the 1950s. In the 1960s, he was the spiritual guru of the Beatles, which put him on the world stage. The Maharishi started the transcendental meditation movement in 1957. He called it TM, a trademark, and it consisted of closing one's eyes twice a day for 20 minutes while repeating a mantra silently. The goal was to attain deep relaxation, clear thinking, inner fulfillment, and to eliminate stress and promote good health. TM is now a multi-billion dollar industry.


For months your baby has thrived with just breast milk or formula on the menu. Now that he's getting bigger, he seems to want more out of lunch than meremilk. When is the best time to introduce solid foods to your infant? Which foods should come first?
You're in charge of making healthy, appropriate food available to your child in a way he can handle.
Your child is in charge of what, when and how much he eats.
He's both the learner and the explorer: you are the supportive, reassuring facilitator.
Has doubled his birth weight and weighs at least 13 pounds.
Introduce new foods one at a time to see whether your baby has an allergic reaction or is sensitive to a particular food. Food reactions usually show up asrashes on the face or in the diaper area, by spitting up, or by loose stools. Babies don't need the sugar or the salt that adults eat, so don't add them toyour child's food, even though it may taste bland to you.
Hold your baby in your lap when you start out. Be sure his head and neck are upright.
Talk quietly. He needs to concentrate when he's starting out.
Watch your own facial expression. If you snarl as you present pureed peas, your baby will wonder why he's getting that green stuff.
Milk is still important, but give your baby solids first to encourage him to accept new foods.


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Best Spot for Graffiti Spotting
L.A. Weekly October 6, 2010
L.A. is a city with a skeleton of concrete. For graffiti artists, this corpse can be a canvas. In some urban corners, often left untouched (and unbuffed) by the powers that be, graffiti murals spring up like trees planted by invisible arborists. But these areas, like old-growth forests, are becoming rare. The mouth of the Belmont Tunnel — where the city's first subway ran — was once the premier guerrilla gallery for urban artists. Today, lofts stand in its place, but one classic, old-school graffiti spot remains: the bridge at the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River. Murals, scrawled in the imaginative typography of the street, span the gray walls, sometimes extending down into the green waters of the basin. And on the undersides of the bridges, markings of the original graffiti artists, early-20th-century hobos, are written in coal swiped from the engine rooms of freight trains. Past meets present, forever etched on the urban walls. Under the Arroyo Seco Parkway, in the L.A. River. —Drew Tewksbury


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NetApp channel partner John Woodall calls the acquisition a bold move because, rather than focusing on locking customers into its own technology, NetApp has become a leader in making it easy for customers to develop a multi-cloud strategy.
NetApp is continuing its transformation from a storage vendor wrapped with cloud tools to a provider of multi-cloud, cloud-native capabilities with the acquisition of StackPointCloud.
NetApp on Tuesday unveiled the acquisition of StackPointCloud, a developer of multi-cloud Kubernetes-as-a-service and a contributor to the Kubernetes project. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor plans to combine the StackPointCloud technology with its own cloud data services technology as a complete DevOps offering.
That offering, called NetApp Kubernetes Service, will give NetApp a complete multi-cloud Kubernetes platform as part of a complete cloud stack for Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and NetApp HCI hyper-converged infrastructure, the company said.
StackPointCloud is now part of NetApp's Cloud Data Services business unit.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed and NetApp executives were unavailable to provide further information by press time.
However, Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager of that business unit, wrote in a Tuesday blog post that the acquisition of StackPointCloud came about initially because of a need for his organization to have a better way to do devops on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
NetApp has been developing for all three public clouds, but developers can get slowed down when doing so in order to sync the releases of new capabilities for all three, Lye wrote. This requires building multiple services on multiple code lines, build and deploy software that can be run as a service and on multiple clouds, and build microservices while maintaining Kubernetes clusters on those clouds.
"I have the build part working well. … However, we were really struggling with the deploy and manage bit. My teams were burning too many cycles deploying services to multiple clouds and putting together release strategies for each cloud independently of one another," he wrote.
Because Kubernetes offers an open approach to deploying containers across multiple clouds, NetApp wanted a SaaS-based platform for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on public clouds, and found StackPointCloud's stackpoint.io technology, which Lye wrote significantly increased the company's developers' productivity.
"Because the developers love stackpoint.io so much after our testing, I bought the company. It's just that good.. so good that I want to build it and make it available to everyone! It's great for one developer or even thousands. It's pure Kubernetes, deploys on the clouds, has GitHub integration, has all the networking figured out, supports A/B testing, canary and blue-green needs," he wrote.
The acquisition is yet another proof point that NetApp has completely changed how a storage vendor approaches public clouds, said John Woodall, vice president of engineering at Integrated Archive Systems, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based solution provider and long-time NetApp partner.
"Try to tell me who else is doing this in their space," Woodall told CRN.
NetApp historically was a traditional hardware infrastructure-focused company like many of its competitors, but under its new leadership has in the past year become the leader in flash storage and divided itself into three forward-looking business units, Woodall said.
The first, NetApp's Storage Systems and Software business unit, is led by Joel Reich, executive vice president of product operations, and includes the company's storage arrays. The Cloud Infrastructure business unit, under Senior Vice President and General Manager Brad Anderson, focuses on converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, NetApp SolidFire all-flash arrays, and NetApp StorageGRID object-based storage. The third is Lye's Cloud Data Services business unit, and focuses on developing NetApp's Data Fabric technology.
It is also important to realize that, while NetApp has had a spotty record with acquisitions, its last three--StackPointCloud, PlexiStor, and Greenqloud--are all software companies with significant impacts, Woodall said.
"The Cloud Data Services business unit under Anthony Lye has been acting like a real software company and a real cloud company," he said. "A real example of a devops-based cloud organization. The cadence of innovation has been is increasing, and will grow even faster."
NetApp is not a storage company with a wrapping of software, Woodall said.
"It's NetApp looking to make the consumption of storage easier," he said. "The cloud business is growing as a segment for NetApp. NetApp is putting itself in the position that, if you have cloud-native applications, it provides cloud-native ways to store the data."
It is a bold move for NetApp, Woodall said.
"They're not locking customers into NetApp storage unless the customers want really great storage," he said. "They're giving control over when and where customers want to deploy cloud-native apps. Customers may want to deploy on Google, but then migrate to Amazon but use some other cloud to manage it."
NetApp Kubernetes Services is already available from NetApp, which charges for the services a small percentage of what is deployed with no upfront licensing costs or contracts needed.


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Christopher Wilder is the firm's lead for cybersecurity and industrial IoT. He has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, intelligence, and physical security experience. His life's work is at the convergence of physical and information security – Internet of Things (IoT), networks, electronic surveillance, and operational intelligence. Wilder began his career in Naval intelligence and from there expanded his career in the intelligence community (IC) by protecting and securing dozens of critical infrastructure projects and special operations facilities worldwide. In addition to working with of many of today's top security technology and service providers, he is the personal advisor to several heads of state and government agencies on cyberwarfare, counter-terrorism, and infrastructure development/deployment.
Chris has spent the past two decades working with dozens of the largest technology firms on go-to-market, technology architecture, M&A, and marketing and content strategy. His expertise is in applying Edge/IoT solutions across multiple industries including supply chain, manufacturing, data centers, transportation & aviation, and security.
Chris has served as the Chairman & CEO for Industrial IoT firm Tiga Energy Services Inc., CTO for a private security firm focused on the convergence between physical and cyber security, Chief Marketing Officer for an Open Source Real-Time Communications Firm, and as a communications executive for HP Labs covering IoT, security, augmented reality, and teaching drones to learn via cognitive computing. Chris has been on the ground floor for several successful (and not so successful) startups and serves as a Managing Director and technology advisor for a London- based investment fund focused on energy and technology. He provides ongoing advice, due diligence, and counsel to multiple venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds worldwide.
Chris is the co-author of the best-selling business book, Influencing the Influencers (ISBN: 0978964306) and author of multiple technology eBook publications such as Big Software Has Arrived, The CTO's Guide to SDN, NFV & VNF, Carrier Cloudification: What Telecom Executives Need to Know, The Essential Guide for Telecom Service Providers Adopting Big Data Solutions, and The No Nonsense Way to Accelerate Your Business With Containers. Chris is also a frequent contributor to The Boston Globe, New York Times, Forbes, TechTarget, Light Reading, and other leading publications.
Chris has a degree in Marketing and has achieved an executive certification from The California Institute of Technology for Machine Learning and Big Data. Fun fact, he has expertise in deploying "Red Team" physical/cybersecurity operations, intelligence and sitrep assessments, executive protection, and medical/operational evacuation.


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A CAP FULL OF WHISKEY
January 11, 2013 March 26, 2019 admin
and melted Post-it glue in a
South Floridian October.
The days begin
after tolerated
wetnose snuggling and
pineneedle hair-in-your-eye
mirror sessions
Put on your makeup.
Your father's handwriting has been
honored with visits to the Psychologist
at the most inconvenient time of day,
Staring at a person
sitting in front of vertical blinds
is an eye-slicing nightmare
like playing
one of those "hidden image" games on a
fucking lite-brite.
"So, Tell me,
What do you like to do?"
Yellow Sand
0 thoughts on "A CAP FULL OF WHISKEY"
These six stanzas are related. How? Hmm.
I didn't know that Post-it glue could melt, but it's hot in South Florida in October, so. Scary to think the glue and whiskey might have been mixed together. Maybe a Post-it note was on the bottle, and it came off. Anyway, not much whiskey, not much glue. Transience.
Not just the day begins, but "the days begin"–many of them, possibly all of them. Is "wetnose snuggling" love or just getting too close to the upcoming mirror? The "mirror sessions" are self encounters of some sort, "pineneedle hair-in-your-eye" seems too close for comfort but can be "tolerated" like the "wetnose snuggling." Commitment anxiety? Even to oneself?
"Put on your makeup" is done in a mirror, at the beginning of a day. Coverup. Presenting yourself to the world in the way you think you should be seen.
"Your father's…visits to the Psychologist at the most inconvenient time of day." Inconvenient for whom? Presumably the poet's persona. Skewed parental relationships.
The fifth stanza has the most shocking imagery, which describes just "staring at a person." Relations with anyone a nightmare.
The last stanza turns it back on us: the poet's persona confronting the reader, perhaps a mirror of herself, in an off-handed, not serious, seemingly cynical (in light of the rest of the poem) invitation to a relationship; having said what she's said, enough to cut it off at the start. She doesn't "like to do" any of the above, much or at all.
I would say what relates these different snapshots is relationships: their transience, tolerableness or discomfort, anxiety, coverup, pain, terror, involuntary inconsequential recurrence.
I liked this poem just from the look of it, its incoherence, pared-down language, off-the-wall yet striking imagery, and dig at the end at our self-understanding. Despite keeping its distance, it invites us in for a closer look.
Nathanrainer says:
The provocative photo and title guided my mouse. It was interesting reading the poem, not really relating to it or getting too much out of it, and then reading Randall's closer look afterwards. I definitely appreciate it when very personal poems like these are published and shared regardless of how removed they might be from what the general public (or the readers) might relate to and appreciate. Its also very nice to see people like Randall go into in-depth analysis of work like this. Randall, I'd love to send some of my work your way for dissection sometime.


Missed connecting flights - are we entitled to compensation?
Within European Union, a very straightforward regulation exists regarding passenger rights for denied boarding, flight delays or cancellations. The basic rule states that if your flight has a delay of over 3 hours, you are entitled to monetary compensation by the airline. However, very often, shorter delays can cause you to miss your connecting flights, which in turn may put you in a spiral of problems. The good news is that policies and regulations governing missed connecting flights in Europe now exist and you are entitled to compensation if you arrive at least 3 hours later at your final destination.
Our missed connecting flight rights & entitlement to compensation are based on the EU Passenger Rights regulation 261/2004. The most important rule is that a passenger is entitled to compensation only in the case when both flights are on the same ticket. This is still valid if two or more airlines serve your journey, as long as they are indicated on the ticket, but that also means that you may not be entitled to comensation if you bought two separate tickets for your journey and you missed your connection. In such a case, the law regards your journey as two separate (non-connected) trips. You are entitled to compensation only if you arrive 3 hours or later at your final destination. If you missed your connecting flight, but the airline managed to quickly rebook and board you on another flight and as a result you arrive only 2h 45m later than the arrival time indicated on your original ticket, compansation claims will most probably be denied. What you need to know in such a case however, that you have the right to snack and refreshments. In case the airline does not offer you such at your transfer airport, you can rightfully claim a voucher. The requirement for free food is a delay of 2 hours or more.
Connecting flights are a more complicated matter compared to point-to-point flights, where rules can be applied in a straightforward way. The EU regulation 261/2004 states that in case of extraordinary circumstances, airlines are released from responsibility. Defining extraordinary circumstances can often be tricky and you should be certain that airlines will apply various strategies to minimize their claims payout. For this reason we recommend you to submit your claim via a professional company specialized in passenger claims handling. This will ensure you have a strong partner for the uneven battle with the airlines.
The last thing remaining to define in this article is the actual compensaton cap. For flights with distance of up to 1500 km, the cap is EUR 250, between 1500 km and 3500 km, the amount rises to EUR 400 and if the distance is longer than 3500 km, you are entitled to EUR 600. The actual length of delay is also taken into consideration, when determining the right compensation amount. You should know that for a delay of more than 2 hours, you need to be provided with meals, drinks, access to telehphone. For overnight delay, a free hotel accommodation needs to be arranged for you as well.
We need to keep in mind that above described set of rules apply in the territory of the European Union and are generally valid for carriers registered in any of the EU member states. The regulation also applies to non-EU airlines, operating to destinations in the union, but the set of rules are different and compensation eligibility needs to be examined case by case.
We hope you never run into delays and missed connections, but if you ever do, make sure you collect evidence. Keep all receipts, original tickets, rerouting documents, take pictures, exchange contacts with fellow passengers in similar situation, ask the airline for written confirmations for rerouting, statements, etc. This evidence can help you build your case against the airline more effectively.
Finally, it is good to mention that in case you are covered by a travel insurance, you are still eligible for compensation by the airline. Therefore it always make sense to protect yourself against missed connecting flights with travel insurances, such as World Nomads.


Kulich is Easter holiday bread made with candied fruits and nuts. You can taste Kulich only on Easter Sunday after all rites. Some people bake small Kulichs fr everyone, other prefer one big cake for the whole family. It is also a tradition to bring Kulich with you as treaty when you are invited as a guest to Easter table.
Dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in a small quantity of milk. As soon as the yeast mixture rises, pour in the rest of milk, beat in eggs and whip carefully. Add sugar, combined with cardamom and nutmeg, and melted butter to the mixture. Then pour in flour slowly, stirring carefully, so that there aren't lumps. It the end, stir in raisins. Then divide dough in loaf cakes, depending on the quantity and size of molds, and put in molds. Cover with a clean towel and leave to rise in the mold. It the dough is good, it usually takes 2-3 hours. After that put in a preheated oven and bake on average heat until light brown. Don't open the oven often; otherwise Kulich won't be light and fluffy. Check the readiness with a wooden stick - put it in the Kulich. If the stick is clean, the cake is ready and can be taken out.


I doubt that were the only family out there who occasionally forgets that we're dealing with a very serious disease here. It's not that CF really ever leaves our minds but we tend to get cruising along with life & all of our commitments & begin to sadly, take our health for granted.
This week we had a bit of a slap in the face type of reminder. A reminder that each day, & all that we fill it with, are not a given. Christa's been fighting an increase in respiratory symptoms for a couple of weeks now. Just 3 weeks ago she was running a 5K & regularly participating on her cross country team – feeling like she was in the peak health of her life. Keeping that in mind, all it took was one cold virus to crumble this peak. We tried the usual rounds of oral antibiotics at home & stepped up her CPT regimen, even added a course of steroids- with no success. The frequent coughing spells were making her sick & sore & wearing her out. We knew that a hospital stay was likely necessary to get her back on her feet again.
So here we are on a lovely Saturday morning. Not sarcastically lovely, but a morning we've actually decided to enjoy. When I say decided, I mean that it was a conscious decision not to feel whiny this morning. This is our second morning here following admission at the Children's hospital in Omaha. Christa's feeling a little nauseated from the large doses of IV antibiotics, and my hip & shoulder are sore from the bench sofa that I sleep on while we're in. It's cloudy & rain is on the way, and we both would rather be at home. The lesson that I'm writing about this morning is one that I have to apply for the entirety of our stay. While there are plenty of negatives that can be found at this point, we're simply choosing not to see them. We may talk about them & address them with our doctors & nurses, but after that we try to let them go & search for whatever good we can salvage, today there is much. In most all situations there are gifts & blessings to be found, some are immediate and some appear in time, timing that is not ours to understand today.
#1) 1:1 time together= great opportunities for planning, dreaming, sharing stories & thoughts that often get rushed through on a regular busy day at home.
#2) Time to binge watch & read! Never do we ever have time to simply sit & watch multiple episodes of something that makes us laugh, or read several chapters of our books in one sitting. Christa even likes to wear earbuds & catch an episode during her rounds of respiratory therapy each day.
#3) Accessibility to so many food & snack options. While this one is great for Christa- it's tough for me. As she's grown into a teen, my role is now a mixture of support & assistance here in the room as well as delivery driver for all her favorite dining spots. Our hometown has a handful of great places to find take out…Omaha has hundreds 🙂 So far she's had some of her favorite Noodles & Company combination, a Crane Coffee run and a gouda & beer cheese soup from the Upstream Brewery that was heavenly. On her list for tomorrow is Panera.
#4) Time to experiment with hair. It's so stressful to test out a hairdo & have it fail five minutes before we need to leave for school. We have fun finding things to try on Pinterest & You Tube. I'm not full of talent for hair, but I did master a fishtail braid we had to show off in the photo above!
#5) Extra sleep. This maybe should have been number one, because we definitely cannot underestimate the power of a nice catch up on pillow time. We both enjoyed a little nap on a rainy afternoon after the beer cheese soup today.
#6) Time to be creative- for fun. This stay we've decided were going to experiment with soap making a little. Come back tomorrow to see how that works out!
#7) Shopping. Yes, one perk to being in Omaha is that there are a number of great places to shop close by. In years past, I never left the room without Christa during a hospital stay, but as she's growing up she stays independently a little bit at a time. I initially would drive just down the street to the grocery store & she'd watch for our vehicle out the window. Now she's happy for me to go run a few errands. It gives her a little time alone & usually results in something fun or new for her! On today's list was her winter coat.
#8) Family photo book catch up. My goal for myself during each stay is to knock out one year's worth of photos & compile them into a digital scrapbook which I then send off to be printed. I'm working on year 2013 currently, so I'm not that far behind!
#9) Opportunities for growth in her communication & advocacy skills. as much as I'd like to be by her side at every appointment in her future, I know the day will come when we need to turn the reigns largely over to her. I'll always be there for support, but our goal is to raise a strong, independent & capable daughter, CF needs included. I watch & see how interacting with the health care staff on a regular basis becomes easier for her as our stay goes on. I let her list all of her medications and address her issues with staff as they arise when ever possible.
#10) Learning something new. It's rare that we have a stay that doesn't result in picking up some piece of information that we didn't have before. We've learned everything from autogenic drainage techniques, to high calorie recommendations that we'd never tried. This stay we're testing apiece of equipment called a there-pep device.


Learn about John Muir and the people surrounding him: his family, colleagues, friends, and the ranch workers. Learn about where John Muir lived and worked through the places associated with John Muir NHS. Learn about the museum and archives collection of John Muir National Historic Site and how to research the collections and donate artifacts and archives to the park..
Learn about John Muir and the people surrounding him: his family, colleagues, friends, and the ranch workers.
Learn about where John Muir lived and worked through the places associated with John Muir NHS.
Learn about the museum and archives collections, how to research the collections, and donate artifacts and archives to the park.