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I mentioned a few days ago that I had taken some time off, and I took these back then. As ever, my blogging seem to always be out of alignment with my life. When I do finally get the time to scan and upload pictures, whatever it was I'd been talking about is lost in the mists. How do you lot manage it, eh? All the blogs I follow all seem to be far better organised than mine. I know many people schedule blog posts, even keep a little blogging diary and have a couple of weeks worth of posts tucked up their sleeves. Well, if you are one of those I also bet you where the kind of girl at school who probably did her homework and got picked for the netball team, while I was busy chatting or doodling.
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You may have noticed more TV ads lately--about medicines, etc.--that are obviously aimed at older viewers. Is this because they have more money than younger viewers, many of whom are out of work? Or could it be because their aging brains make them vulnerable?
Germany is a lot like the US, in that the median age is now above 45. But in the January 17th edition of the Financial Times, Norma Cohen quotes aging specialist Norbert Meiners as saying that in Germany, "the average age of staff at ad agencies is 33 years, and only 5% per cent of ad agency staff are over 50," meaning they often don't understand how to successfully market things to oldsters.
Advertisers who DO succeed have found that, while the elderly recognize that they're being targeted, they DON'T like to be reminded of their age. Cohen writes: "For example, a (cell) phone which was marketed to older users and featured big keys and simple signage, was a flop."
But a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with heated saddles and handlebars, and a gear shift that can be moved with one's foot, (giving it a riding position that does not require bent knees, good for people with arthritic joints) is a success.
Cohen quotes ad man Ken Gronbach as saying, "This is going to be the youngest generation of old people ever."
And marketers need those older consumers. Cohen quotes Gronbach as saying that not only are there relatively fewer young people in the core consumer age bracket, they are poorer, because "They can't get a job out of college."
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- The Thruway Authority has again postponed a meeting at which it was expected to vote on a proposed 45 percent toll increase for trucks.
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The board was originally scheduled to meet last Friday, but that meeting was postponed until Tuesday.
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Delbert Bolinger was operating a road grader for the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, smoothing its outer dirt streets some twenty years ago when a family in town invited him in. They all had blood on their feet. "I guess you butchered you a hog," he told them as he helped himself into the house.
"You were nosy," BettyJo Disney decided, reminiscing with Delbert as they sat on her screened-in porch, drinking iced tea. Best friends, they are both in their seventies now. BettyJo likes Delbert, she said, because he's country. He grew up cutting hay with a horse-drawn rake before he ever used a tractor.
Delbert and BettyJo hardly knew me, but I was their neighbors' daughter, they loved my mother, and I was trying to write a story, which meant I had a miniature dream of some independent thing I wanted to do, and that was something they—like so many people in the area—understood well. They wanted to help.
Cattle grazed outside.
Yes, Delbert admitted, he was nosy, and it had gotten him in trouble. The family had killed and cooked up not a tender pig but a goat, and someone in the house handed him a forkful of the stringy meat.
"I take a bite of that thing," he remembered, "and the more I chewed, the bigger it got. I thought, How am I gonna get rid of this? Only one way to do it. I swallered it. About choked."
Swallered. He seemed to take pleasure in the word, drawing out its clay-mudded second half before continuing. They asked how he was doing. "I said, 'Oh, I got a crick in my neck,' and this old lady, she stepped behind me. I didn't think about it, and she hit me right there on the back, and her hand was cold as ice. And I said, 'Well, my neck's better,' and she said"—Delbert took a breath—"'Praise. God.' And I thought, What? And I got back out there on the grader and I thought, this couldn't be right, you can't—"
"Heal somebody with a cold hand?" BettyJo offered.
"She prayed for me or something."
Delbert told the story with Marco Polo-ish wonderment, glancing at me from the corner of his eye, making sure I was taking all this in. The witchcraft of the natives. The things they considered food, offering it to unwitting travelers, and all you could do was swaller.
Sophomore students at Elkins High School hold a bake sale.
This was the final day of a trip last October that began with the feat, performed each visit home, of relearning the way from the newish Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The route is now an obstacle course of housing developments and chain stores, industry having transformed the landscape near the farm where I was born and grew up. Two adjacent counties, Benton and Washington, are home to the headquarters of Tyson Foods, trucking company J.B. Hunt, and, of course, Walmart. Clustered around the discount retailer are roughly 1,250 of its suppliers—Procter & Gamble, Rubbermaid, Glad—marketing, manufacturing, or distributing thousands of products, a great number of them aiding in personal hygiene and food storage.
Although income inequality in Arkansas has widened starkly since the 1970s, the unemployment rate in the northwest region is lower than elsewhere in the state, and lower than in the rest of the South. In the 1940s and '50s, Delbert's parents would leave his grandma and older siblings to tend their milk cows in nearby Madison County, taking Delbert with them to pick apples in the orchards of Washington State. There, they worked alongside other cash-strapped folk from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas who made the seasonal trek, arriving in late summer and harvesting through fall.
Now total employment in Benton and Washington counties has almost tripled since 1980. People come here for work. Some even come for the kind of employment that lands them in huge suburban homes overlooking cattle pastures. In one Ozark farmstead after another, however, people—even those who have city jobs—still dream of having a self-sufficient, rural lifestyle.
The trees had begun to change color. Soon wood stoves would puff threads of smoke from the hills' canopy: hickory, oak, maple, sumac, dogwood, redbud, paw-paw, sassafras, and persimmon.
The Ozark mountains—actually, not mountains at all, but the sturdier remains of a plateau eroded into a corrugation of hills—have gathered multi-generation farmers and hippie newcomers alike, all eventually marked with the land's cussedness. After rains, the red clay pokes up arrowheads once chipped by the Osage Indians, who concentrated agriculture in the lowlands and hunted in the Ozarks. The soil is full of rocks. Later, settlers pulled those rocks from hollers and fashioned them into fences and church houses—some are still standing now—but their plows continued to churn up stones.
Mariah White and her cow, Scarlett.
Mariah White, 33, had wanted to be a vegetable farmer, but that took so much land, she decided to raise free-range chickens and pigs on her small place on the outskirts of Fayetteville. She sells meat and eggs at the local farmers' market, where I found her with her sons. She joked with her middle-schooler and kept an eye on the toddler. A licensed midwife, she quit the practice to spend more time with her own children. Now she is working 12- to 16-hour days, but she is with her family.
She was the child of gypsies, she said, leaving it at that.
At her farm that evening, Mariah appeared tougher, a petite marshal in a ponytail. Northwest Arkansas is in the midst of a two-year-old drought, and she had hauled water from town. Eleven five-gallon buckets sat in the back of her pickup, waiting to be unloaded.
Her husband, Ira, 31, works as a carpenter. His car arrived at the gate, an electrified wire strung with Tibetan prayer flags. He stepped out, and for a moment Mariah relaxed. After some almost invisible communication between the two, Ira went to milk their single cow. In an unlighted shed, he baited the food trough with grain, and once the cow bounded in, he disinfected her nipples and lubricated them with coconut oil.
Neighbors say this shed was once a kennel for hunting dogs.
Milk jetted into the pail below.
A cat positioned itself in the straw.
Fourteen-year-old Ben Anderson feeds the cattle.
A couple of days later, when poultry grower George Anderson heard about the free-range chicken farm, he scoffed: "That's what people in the city call 'sustainable farming.'" The proper term, he said, is "subsistence." Instead, he and his wife, Darla, produce 15 million pounds of chicken a year in houses equipped with the latest heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. To keep from tracking in viruses and infecting his flocks, visitors to one of his 19 houses must snap plastic covers over their shoes and swear they haven't recently handled barnyard chickens.
Without other income, George figures, true subsistence farming means no electricity, and him driving a team of mules, harvesting just enough corn to feed them and his family. Frankly, he doesn't want to go back to that. He'd love to have a little truck-patch farm if he could afford to. But he knows how that goes. "My mom's dad always tried to do the subsistence farming. He had a few hogs, raised a little bit of cotton." By the 1960s, his grandfather had started working in the woods of eastern Arkansas, where the cypresses along the river bottoms were being cleared for farmland. "He had his little farm, he had the hogs and doing what he could do, but he made his living dragging logs out of the woods with a mule."
His teenage daughter and son belong to FFA, the agriculture education organization formerly known as Future Farmers of America. They led into the yard their project animals, two fat, shining goats.
George knows what people think: This kind of operation he has now is against nature. So be it. Slight and spectacled, there's none of the sunburnt farmer about him. He has a degree in poultry science, and he can genially track the uptick in the U.S. population along with its declining number of farmers. The tractors, the silos—there's no other way: "There's so few of us left, even if I could feed my family and five more, there's way too many of you."
The goats bleated insistently, like shuddering machines.
Darla held on to one of them while her daughter fetched another project, a rabbit.
Darla and George will send the children to college, paying for it with chicken. The children will have better economic opportunities working with him, George said, but they can go on to careers in town, if they want.
He seemed doubtful they will. He'll certainly never go back to the jobs he's left. He couldn't make it as an employee in the poultry industry, in which high-paying jobs are few. "I didn't have the right presentation," he said.
"He didn't play the game," Darla called over her goat.
"I couldn't play the game."
Do the Ozarks even make good employees? Living so far out, you get used to working on your own. J.B. Hunt, Walmart—family members have worked in both places. Walmart is a job, but it isn't a dream. No, Walmart is where the boss says something you can't swaller, and you give your notice and then just leave, crying in the parking lot and digging in your purse for cigarettes.
But if you leave the hills, migrate to a real city? Eventually, long after you've kicked the manure off your boots, you'll give your country self away. One night your friend's registered poodle will jump in your lap, and looking into his eyes, you'll silently muse on the effects of your pastoral upbringing, how your attitude toward animals will forever be at once empathetic and callous because of some kind of shared fate you once had. You'll keep these thoughts to yourself until your friend wonders aloud if she should have the dog neutered, and will let slip how much her mother paid for him. And you'll yelp, "No—put him out to stud! Don't cut off his testicles—those are worth 400 bucks apiece!"
So maybe you decide to stay, and stay country, even if that means having an industrial farm and a backyard garden, as George and Darla do, or hanging on to a job in town and coming home to feed cattle. The average Arkansas cattle herd is small, 30 head. Every other farmlet has one. The man who sells hay to my father also works as a truck dispatcher for a turkey processor, and on weekends sells grass-fed beef at the farmers' market, next to Mariah. Even George keeps some cattle. When he has to move them from time to time, he rounds them up on a horse.
Dr. Tom Lowder with his bison herd.
Along the stretch of blacktop leading to miles of dirt roads and my parents' house, there is another herd that appears like a mirage to passing drivers. Bison. They've been there for 20 years. Their keeper, Tom Lowder, or Dr. Tom—he's an orthodontist but an informal Oklahoman, too—goes to the office three long days a week, and then heads home, rarely venturing from the ranch once there. "Thursday evening I come through the gate about nine o'clock, slap a padlock on it, and I don't take that padlock off 'til Tuesday morning," he said from his armchair nested in a cabin decked out in Old West leather and cast iron. "My best friend, lover, and wife, Marti, and I are the only two people out here in the center of 250 acres."
My father has known Dr. Tom for years, since they met in the local grocery store once outfitted with tables and chairs for old-timers to sit and drink coffee. Dr. Tom apparently concluded that he'd encountered an authentic article, a genuine antique horseman. Today, when my father joined Dr. Tom in the cabin, Dad wore an oilskin duster and a Western-print shirt, as if not to disappoint his friend.
A rain that my father, afraid of getting his hopes up, had dismissed as a squall the night before had turned into the steady pour the ponds and pastures needed.
Thunder cracked in the trees above.
Walnuts fell on the roof.
Dr. Tom neither castrates his bulls nor vaccinates the herd, and feeds them no hormones nor antibiotics, which would contaminate their meat. He prefers to let the bison build up natural resistance to infections. Still, living free range is tough on the animals. Some die. He leaves the carcasses to the animals he reported seeing on the property: coyotes, bobcats, cougars, black bears. Then he collects the skulls, sets them on fence posts, and lets them bleach in the sun.
Like Delbert and BettyJo, Dr. Tom and my father were anxious to provide useful quotes. The rancher was explaining the health benefits of his animals' meat, so much better for you than feed-lot beef, but don't get him wrong, "our beef industry, like our poultry industry, feeds the world, and so they have to do things that they have to do to mass-produce; that is OK with me, but I like to have a choice"—when Dad redirected the conversation.
"Tom, your being in buffalo, does it possibly have anything to do with the fact that you, kind of like me myself, are a bit of a romantic?"
"Absolutely. Absolutely," the rancher conceded. "It throws you back."
Dr. Tom calls his place Wounded Knee Ranch. In 1968, he could only afford to continue studying dentistry at an underserved hospital on the Sioux Indians' Rosebud reservation in South Dakota. There, he spent time with Henry Crow Dog, a shaman in a line of famous medicine men. To the young intern, some of the American Indian practices seemed directly in line with the Christian Bible.
Dr. Tom now wondered about the antioxidant properties of plants growing in the Garden of Eden, if they were like the plants ancient Indians gathered. In any case, the Indians' diet must have been better than ours, he decided, citing as evidence a dentist's early 1900s research on indigenous peoples who never ate refined foods. "It's interesting to see the earliest photographs taken of these absolutely gorgeous faces," he said, "wide faces, broad dental arches shaped beautifully."
"If we use the wisdom God gave us, we can go out and collect plants and purify," Dr. Tom imagined. "We won't extend our lives beyond what he's set the limit on to any great degree, but we'll have healthy lives." He and my irreligious father, now enthralled, talked about the storied Sioux who lived through Wounded Knee, eating lean, crimson bison meat, dying old.
The rain let up, and we walked outside.
In the yard were two wild turkeys, a brother and sister. A friend of our host had found an abandoned nest and incubated the eggs. The tom followed us around.
Along a fence was a line of horned skulls, each bobbling on a fence post: white, white, white, white.
Dr. Tom opened a gate to the bison's pasture.
The bulls' faces were covered in cockleburs, and they roared like lions.
Bison skulls line rancher Tom Lowder's fence.
Following the blacktop away from the pasture, and then bumping an inch or two down to unpaved road, it's still several miles to my parents' place, which is remote by anyone's definition. At this point, my parents have dropped out of most society and much of the economy. My 79-year-old father spends his days with his horses. My mother, 60, is the hunter-gatherer. She carves spoons from green wood and sells them at the farmers' market. She's attracted a following that included, last time I was there, a train-hopping fiddler in sooty denims, a chicken house electrician, and a couple of women with a video camera.
She walks into the forest with a handsaw when she spots a straight persimmon, or a fallen branch of cherry, whose red heartwood makes the prettiest spoons.
A child prodigy and an Army brat, she grew up, according to her family's lore, with a sketchbook in her hand and her fingers stained with charcoal. She went to Ireland to paint and find adventure in her late teens, and then came back to her family in the Ozarks. She got factory jobs, catching tortillas in stacks of a dozen at a Mexican Original plant, and gutting chickens for Campbell's Soup. She'd work for months at a time, save her money, and then quit to drift and draw. When she was 21, she met my father, and—not tragically, at least not for her children—diverted most of her creativity into raising us, seven eventually.
She would often quote a verse to us, from Matthew: And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Now, the house's paint is peeling. With no working cook stove, my mother fixes collards and curries on a hotplate. Packrats have moved in. From time to time, she texts me updates on the number of them she's caught and released away from the house. Her latest triumph came illustrated with a digital rat: –,@,¥
After six decades of terrific health, delivering some of her babies without medical insurance, she isn't feeling well. Her illness is not life threatening—surgery is optional—so there was only one doctor's visit. This is the price of freedom, she says. She will eat better, rest, and heal herself.
Praise God.
One afternoon I followed the limestone path through the front yard toward the house. When my sister Sarah and I were preschool age, our mother had spent a day sewing us new dresses, orange calico for Sarah, navy for me. We'd waited for her to finish them, and pulled the dresses over our bare chests, and this was where we'd run outside to dance in our new finery, spinning the skirts in circles.
On the porch were horse tack, dog food bowls, a barrel of drinking water. In one corner was a stack of cathode-ray television sets, gifts from friends who thought that my mother and father could use all the material help they could get. Also, they'd moved on to flat screens. But my parents planned to listen to the presidential debates on the radio.
How hard a person must work to keep up with the times! And how much devotion it requires not to do so.
I tiptoed up the steps.
Through a screen door, I saw my mother sleeping in a chair near the wood stove, in the same room where she'd given birth to me. I'd brought her a new, scholarly biography of St. Francis of Assisi, which she read in an afternoon and, deciding to give it to a friend, immediately began rereading favorite passages, preparing to part with the book. It was open on her lap.
A floor lamp lit my mother's waist-length braid white, white.
All around her the trees' leaves were turning color, as if by witchcraft.
She kept sleeping.
Mother, mother.
Why do you still let us dream all these dreams?
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Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy) Climber's Log
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|Route Climbed: San Antonio ski Hut Trail Date Climbed: July 20, 2003
|Beautiful summer day on Mt Baldy. Crowds actually not too bad on the trail given the weather. 28 degrees celcius on top at 11 AM with a nice refreshing breeze.
2hrs 50 min up, 1h 50 min down.
When I got back to my truck (parked at Manker flats), the car beside mine had the windows smashed out and I presume the contents taken. I had heard that this can happen here - good reminder to keep things hidden when parked at this trailhead.
|Posted Jul 21, 2003 2:42 pm
|Route Climbed: Up Backbone, Down the Hut trail Date Climbed: July 8, 2003
|It was a scortcher that day. 70s-80s the entire way with no breeze what so ever. The hut trail was a highway, with at least 12 people headin up. Made good time though, up and down in 3.2 hours.
|Posted Jul 9, 2003 8:34 am
|Rainier Guy
|Route Climbed: San Antonio Ski Hut Route Date Climbed: September 3, 2001
|Hike this while not in shape, like I did, and pain will become your friend. We made it on our first hike together. Now we hike Mt. Rainier National Park on a weekly basis.
|Posted Jul 1, 2003 8:32 pm
|Route Climbed: Mt Baldy Ski Lifts/Devil's Backbone Date Climbed: May 26, 2003
|Made it fine and back...unfortunately paid the price with a throbbing headache...
|Posted May 27, 2003 10:34 pm
|Route Climbed: ski hut/devils backbone Date Climbed: may 17 2003
|A very nice hike! still some snow on the peak and on the north facing slopes.
|Posted May 18, 2003 7:33 am
|Route Climbed: Ski hut trail, Devils backbone Date Climbed: April 8-9, 2003
|Started late afternoon on Tuesday and reached the top an hour before sunset, which was a great sight, and started down late the next morning. On the way down, I almost walked into a pair of mountain goats.
|Posted Apr 11, 2003 11:42 am
|Route Climbed: Manker Flat up the ski hut trail Date Climbed: March 30, 2003
|On the mountain again this weekend. The snow is melting out fast. Took the Backbone trail down this time, then down the fire road back to Manker Flats.
|Posted Mar 31, 2003 8:45 pm
|Route Climbed: Ski Hut Trail Date Climbed: March 23 2003
|Beautiful day on the mountain. Great snow conditions above 8500 ft. Incoming clouds in the afternoon created the most awesome scenery.
|Posted Mar 24, 2003 10:26 pm
|Route Climbed: Up the Bowl catching part of the Devil's Backbone Date Climbed: March 16, 2003
|Attempted to summit the day before, but had to turn around because the sky was flashing constantly as the lightning bolts were closing upon us fast. Ended up waiting out the storm overnight which left lots of fresh powder. Made going up the Bowl primary route of choice. Second attempt was a charm. Sprinkling snow and fast rolling fog throughout the ascent and descent.
|Posted Mar 16, 2003 8:24 pm
|Route Climbed: Blue Ridge Trail Date Climbed: June 23rd, 2002
|Had a great day at the mountain. While away hikining, somebody broke in my car parked at Guffy Campground and stole all cloths and a sleeping bag. At least the car was a rental...
|Posted Mar 13, 2003 4:06 pm
|Route Climbed: Devil's Backbone Date Climbed: April 20, 2002
|Having bagged several of the major peaks in Southern California, Mt. Baldy offers the most spectacular views. On our first visit to the summit the previous year, my brother and I could see not only Catalina Island but San Clemente Island as well. We could also see Gorgonio, Jacinto, Palomar, Santiago, Baden-Powell, Wilson, the Tehachapis, the entire high desert, the Antelope Valley and much more.
|Posted Mar 12, 2003 8:35 am
|Route Climbed: Ski Hut Trail to Backbone to Lifts Date Climbed: Feb 9, 2003
|Great day with nice weather. Very little snow. Encountered a little snow and ice coming out of the bowl, but other than that just small patches here and there. No need for crampons or ice axe at this time. Windy and cold at the top and down the backbone.
|Posted Feb 10, 2003 8:40 am
|Route Climbed: San Antonio Ski Hut Trail Date Climbed: February 1, 2003
|A beautiful day on the mountain with some strong and cold winds at the top, but things couldn't have been too bad, as I met a climber on the summit nattily attired in hiking shorts. Also met about thirty other folks and seven or so dogs. There is very little snow on Baldy this year – only some big patches on the slopes climbing out of Baldy Bowl. The big storms of late December 2002, blew over and destroyed the outhouse at the Sierra Club Ski Hut. I suspect there will be a project to rebuild it this spring. (I heard about the Columbia tragedy from another hiker near the top, we hadn't listened to the radio during the drive to the mountain and were oblivious to the days sad events).
|Posted Feb 2, 2003 2:31 pm
|Route Climbed: Manker Flats to Baldy Summit Date Climbed: January 25, 2003
|It was an amazing day today. It was difficult to believe that it was January. We didn't encounter any snow until crossing the bowl. The snow wasn't too bad going up (I didn't bring my snowshoes). We summited at about 3pm. The temperature on the summit was about 40 degrees. The winds were very strong. The temperature was dropping on our way down. As a result, the snow was turning to ice. It made it difficult to walk on the trail. We had to go off-trail to avoid slipping. Crampons would not have hurt.
We encountered a few adventurous people that were going to spend the night.
|Posted Jan 25, 2003 9:33 pm
|Date Climbed: spring 02
|it was windy and cold!
|Posted Jan 8, 2003 3:07 pm
|Route Climbed: Ski Hut Date Climbed: December 2001
|Posted Jan 3, 2003 3:09 pm
|Route Climbed: The central Bowl Date Climbed: December 30, 2002
|Posted Jan 3, 2003 3:08 pm
|Route Climbed: The central Bowl Date Climbed: December 24th 2002
|On the Christmas Eve day of 2002, Michael Gordon, Joe LeMay, Babu Sherpa Long Chen and I, all of us from SCMA, hiked up the central bowl from San Antonio hut. We found some soft snow, breakable crust, frozen snow, touches of hard ice and steep terrain up the gully. Beautiful, cloudy day in Southern California and nobody else on the mountain. Had very "interesting" descent down the bowl without ice axes and crampons. A bit sporting, even for very experienced group of alpinists. My 130th time on the top.
|Posted Dec 31, 2002 4:21 pm
|Route Climbed: Baldy Bowl from Manker flat Date Climbed: 17 NOV 2002
|Attempted baldy a month ago via the blue ridge trail and failed to make it. last time stoped at pine mountain and turned around. this time i decided to take a more direct route. The baldy bowl trail was steeper than i had expected and my wife didn't let me forget about that. sure is a nice feeling to get to the top. Beutiful day, lovely skies and views for miles.
|Posted Nov 21, 2002 8:01 pm
|Route Climbed: Various Date Climbed: Between 1973 and 2002
|My home Summit Logs indicate, that I climbed Mt.Baldy some 129 times between 1973 and 2002.
Some trips I remember, in 1983, Miguel Carmona and I climbed the South Ridge to the summit, slept there, then did the traverse of the 3 "T" peaks to Ice House Canyon and from there climbed Ontario Peak and back to car. This was overnight trip with snow on the ground in late December. It was some 10,000 feet of elevation gain and 27 miles of snow hiking.
In December of 1999, in incredible wind and snow storm (60mph?), Miguel and I crawled on all four to the summit, only to see two other guys do the same. Michael Gordon (see the Baldy Main Page photo) and Johny (Downtown) Brown were the other insane people on the summit that day.
We climbed the mountain in just over two hours via San Antonio Hut in 1994, with 50 lbs packs, preparing for Himalayan Expedition.
That hill is an incredible training ground for all of us in Southern California. Love it!
|Posted Nov 14, 2002 2:35 pm


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Winter Ophelia
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Thread: POLL for my december girl
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It's soo weird, I really don't like Cassie names that much (Cassie or Cassandra) but I really love Cassia! Normally, I think that it'd annoy me if I didn't like something that will potentially be used as a nickname. Like I wouldn't use Jennifer if I didn't like Jen/Jenny because most of them end up being called Jen or Jenny, but Cassia I think is simple enough that you could get away with it. It sounds so nice with Alora too. I vote Cassia!PREGNANT with our first!!!
My name is Caroline, BeatrixDaisy is just a name I like!
My favorite names:
Emilia, Beatrix, Juliette, Chloe, Madeline, Audrey, Emerson, Alaina, Felicity, Coralie, Alessandra, Katherine, Lucy, Luna
Holden, Noah, Nathaniel, Caleb, Cameron, Adam, Calvin, Travis, Ronan, Hudson, James, Paul, Peter, Mason, Troy
September 5th, 2013 02:26 AM #18
Winter Ophelia - Winter sounds too 'final' as a first name, for flow switch
Winter Felicity - as above, plus Felicity is much too lovely to be a middle when trendy Winter will be out of style in a few years
Cassia Snow - nice, lovely - different but not trendy or dated
Scarlett Ember - basically Red Fire? feels jokey and over the top
Matilda Boheme - names dont really go together or flow
Brigitte Snow - same as above, Cassia or Felicity are much better than Brigitte
Felicity Winter
Cassia Snowi do not ignore the Rich Text toolbar provided me. i bold, italicize, enlarge, underline and CAPITALIZE for emphasis, individuality, and to capture attention among the endless Arial Standard Size Font that everyone else uses.
i am not screaming nor will i cosset you. i do this to highlight the most important aspect of my thoughts so they are not lost again in the never ending sea of tiny, black, tempered letters that make up forums everywhere.
~*~ i encourage you to do the same ~*~
September 5th, 2013 02:33 AM #20
Alora and Cassia sound great together!!Not expecting, just love collecting names!
My name is Erin. I am 22 years old and I have loved baby names since I was 10.
Girl names: Juliet Elaine, Madeline Hope, Linnea Carys, Stella Rose, Emilia Colette, Clara Noelle, Violet Elizabeth, Lydia Charlotte, Elaine Victoria, Evelyn Ruby
Boy names: Jonathan Rhys, Wesley Quinn, Evan Robert, Joel Dominic, Quinn Patrick, Dawson Cole, Judah Nathaniel, Rhys Jeremiah, Roman Gabriel, Lachlan Jude
September 5th, 2013 04:50 AM #22
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I really love "Snow" as a Middle Name for a winter season baby girl! Personally, I don't care for "Winter" as a First Name. It just sounds too harsh and cold, unless you plan to use "Winnie" as a NN. In which case, I really like your choice of Winter Ophelia. Otherwise, I would have to eliminate the FN Winter and vote for Cassia Snow, but Cassia doesn't sound like a formal name, more like a NN. Would you consider switching the names around a bit? Felicity Snow would be a very pretty combination. Felicity means happiness! I also like the ethereal sounding combination of Ophelia Snow. It sounds very elegant, although much more formal than Felicity Snow. For some reason I just don't care for the combination of Brigitte with Snow. Best of luck to you!


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Our trip (a 12-day Tanzania safari) was fabulous. We wanted to see the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater and the BIG FIVE animals and we did and MUCH, MUCH more.
The Serengeti was my favorite and the Crater a close second. Each place was unique. We did see the BIG FIVE animals and each one MANY times (except for the rhino - we saw three of those only in the crater), otherwise lions, elephants, cheetahs, etc. got to be almost ho-hum just another lion, elephant, etc. We saw lions, leopards and cheetahs stalking their prey, also saw the lion and leopard successful in their stalking efforts.
The food at each lodge was outstanding - I had taken along "snacks" with the thought that perhaps I might be hungry or not care for the food - needless to say I gave it all away (unopened) at the end of the trip. The guide we had (Christopher) was not to be believed - he could spot the animals with his naked eye (and we had to search with binoculars). I know a great deal of what we saw was thanks to Christopher's expertise, knowledge and skill.
We had done a 4-day safari in Kenya in conjunction with a cruise (with another company several years ago) - there was no comparison - in Kenya we were usually in a "caravan" of MANY safari vans and in Tanzania we were a caravan of "one" vehicle. Personally, I think the Tanzania experience was much better.
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ClearBridge Energy MLP Opportunity Fund Inc. Announces Refinancing
ClearBridge Energy MLP Opportunity Fund Inc. ("the Fund") (NYSE: EMO) announced today it completed a private placement of $150 million of fixed-rate senior secured notes on February 7, 2013. Net proceeds from the offering will be used to repay outstanding borrowings on a floating rate line of credit, make new portfolio investments, and for general corporate purposes. After the private placement, the Fund's total leverage is $190 million or 22.3% of managed assets, comprised of 79% in fixed-rate securities and 21% in floating rate financing.
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Motricity, a mobile content and services company based in Durham, N.C., has announced a $50 million round of equity funding from serial investor Carl Icahn.
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Bank of America Ordered to Unseal Documents in MBIA Case
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Bank of America (BAC)has been ordered to unseal by January 8 certain documents it had sought to keep under wraps in a legal dispute with insurer MBIA (MBI), according to a decision Thursday by New York State Supreme Court Judge Eileen Bransten.
MBIA is suing Bank of America over mortgages placed into bonds it sold by Countrywide in the years leading up to the subprime mortgage crisis. MBIA insured the bonds, but wants Bank of America to assume liability for them because MBIA claims they contain false representations. Many analysts expect Bank of America to eventually settle the case for $2 billion to $3 billion, but the bank has been stalling, trying to run out the clock on cash-strapped MBIA.
The more than three year old case has provided countless pages of documents, including financial records, internal company emails, and testimony from senior Bank of America and Countrywide executives, including Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. One massive trove of documents released Nov. 19 and 20 added up to more than 16,5000 pages, according to BTIG analyst Mark Palmer.
The documents at issue in Thursday's decision by Judge Bransten fall into 11 different categories, covering everything from witnesses' home addresses to Countrywide's current financial information, to capital contributions from Bank of America to Countrywide to non-public information concerning the amount of Countrywide's litigation costs and reserves. Bloomberg L.P. has joined MBIA in opposing Bank of America's motion to keep the documents out of public view.Judge Bransten granted many of Bank of America's requests to keep documents under seal, but MBIA shares still gained 11.67% Friday. BTIG's Palmer, who is bullish on MBIA shares, sees the Judge's order as a positive for the bond insurer. "We have said for some time that a settlement in the MBIA-Bank of America legal battle likely would not occur until BofA reaches the point at which it is experiencing real pain by not settling. The decision by Justice Bransten to unseal certain documents that BofA would prefer to remain private - including information about the structure of a prior BofA settlement, as well as details about the process through which it funneled capital to Countrywide - moves the bank a couple of steps closer to its pain threshold, in our view," Palmer wrote via email.
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Yet another reason why I love Richard Dawkins
Oh Richard. Heart. And yes, that is actually him commenting.
I'm sure some faitheists would be annoyed by such a comment, but I'm just struck by the sheer awesomeness of Richard Dawkins telling some trollish commenter to fuck off.
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Roflcopter!! Great find, Jen.ReplyDelete
(In case you can't tell, I have nothing better to do today than follow your blogathon while sitting at work, fixing people's computers.) That really made me laugh.
That is pretty awesome. I am waving my pom-poms in delight and cheerleading.ReplyDelete
I'm actually in the same boat. I figured that, since I woke up around the time your post started, I'd cheerlead and try to at least be moderately amusing for the duration.ReplyDelete
Hahaha, are you working too, though?ReplyDelete
- Grant GordonJuly 25, 2009 at 7:36 AM
lol I almost chocked on my drink when I read his comment :)ReplyDelete
Thought I'd share this link for everyone:
Now if only all catholics were like this, I don't think I'd mind them all that much
Nope. Everyone I'd normally work for/help now is out of town for the weekend.ReplyDelete
So, not the same boat. Mine is more of a dinghy with a tarp covering it so I can hide from the evil sun.
You could just come hang out here, Andre. Nova Scotia must have pissed on god's shoes, as we have had six summer days so far. Everything else is muggy and cloudy and crap.ReplyDelete
(suggesting the divine is behind weather patterns is firmly tongue-in-cheek)
Not a fan of muggy, but cloudy is my thing. Can't see a damned thing in bright light.ReplyDelete
I would if I could, though. Texas is the worst in summer.
Haha! Epic ownage!ReplyDelete
I just love that, it put a huge smile on my face :D
I have many, many reasons why Texas isn't my thing, buddy. I don't know how you do it.ReplyDelete
I love you guys :DReplyDelete
It's pretty cloudy and sad here right now. Probably for the best, otherwise I'd want to run around outside.
It's a trick of birth. That big 'Texas Pride' thing we all have? The doctor gives it to you right out of the womb, along with your hat and gun.ReplyDelete
The people born in rural areas just get more, since there are fewer of them.
It's almost impossible to get rid of once it's in you. Terrible, terrible stuff. It's easier to quit smoking, religion, and trickle-down economics than it is to quit Texas if you're a native. <.<
Aww, Jen. Thanks. It really looks like it's about to pour down here. Great blogging and working weather. I am doing both right now.ReplyDelete
Hahaha, yeah, I know what you mean, Andre. It's kinda like how I know all the words to Barrett's Privateers, and Farewell to Nova Scotia. You're born into it. In the end, there's no place I'd rather be.
Yep. It's exactly that.ReplyDelete
Of course, I've found that the Pacific Northwest is a place I could really get used to, if I needed to get out of Texas for some reason. Most folks from the humid swamp parts of Texas seem to agree.
Yeah, I hear that a lot. I dunno, I've not been, but my dad's family is from BC. So I have roots there. But at the same time...they get a lot of smug out there.ReplyDelete
Just for those who haven't seen Dawkins' first public use of that quote:ReplyDelete
It's a classic (in fact, that whole Beyond Belief was a classic).


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Heart Of Texas: A Lone Star ABC : Welcome to Texas - home of cowboys, cattle, and NASA - where "Friendship" is the motto folks live by. Remember the Alamo, where a brave Army fought against Santa Anna; visit Big Bend National Park and try to spot a Bear; and go to the Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame to discover the women who Conquered the Old West. Celebrate Texas in this alphabetical tour from Laura Krauss Melmed and Frané Lessac. With a treasure trove of facts and bright, bold art, this rootin'-tootin', rip-roarin' tribute to the Lone Star State will have readers shouting "Yee-haw!"
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OPP hiring 30 dispatch, data entry staff for Orillia call centre: apply by Feb. 16
ORILLIA – Looking for a job with the OPP as a call-taker, dispatcher and or civilian data entry person?
The Ontario Provincial Police are preparing for the 2014 Provincial Communications Centres Symposium, Calling out for Communicators, which will take place on March 19-20, 2014 in Orillia at the OPP's headquarters.
During the two-day symposium, 30 participants will explore a career in call-taking, dispatch and civilian data entry.
The OPP are inviting applications from all men and women who are interested in exploring civilian employment in their provincial communications centre and looking at the OPP as a future employer.
During the symposium, in-depth presentations, mentoring sessions and an on-location tour of the Orillia provincial communications centre will provide a "fascinating behind-the-scenes look at frontline and specialized policing services," the OPP say in a news release.
Participants will stay overnight at the OPPAcademy across the street from the provincial headquarters in Orillia.
The application deadline is Thursday, February 16, 2014 at 12 a.m. (midnight).
Those looking for an exciting career opportunity can obtain information and the application itself on the OPP website at: PCC Symposium 2014 at www.opp.ca.
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The Library Resource Center on each campus is an information center providing students with access to a broad range of material and services to improve learning. The goal of the LRCs and their professional staff is to assist students in attaining their educational goals and in developing research skills. Across the three campuses, approximately 150,000 volumes and 700 periodical subscriptions are integrated with more than 16,000 videocassettes, slides, computer disks, CD-ROMs, and other audiovisual items accompanied by a variety of equipment and computers to facilitate the learning process. An online public access catalog contains the book and audiovisual holdings of the three campus libraries. The library home page provides access to SUNYConnect databases and the World Wide Web. The ECC library home page is http://library.ecc.edu.
Other offerings include services for the disabled, photocopying, personal computers, study guides, and group study rooms.
The college archives are housed in the North Campus Library Resource Center.
In addition to the campus facilities, local and state library resources are available to students through the interlibrary loan network and the LRC's membership in the Western New York Library Resources Council.
ECC students with a current ID card may borrow materials from Buffalo State College, SUNY at Buffalo, and other SUNY libraries.
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Numerous feedbacks were posted online after a chart that was provided by Microsoft to a Wall Street Journal columnist was posted. The chart shows the upgrade path to Windows 7 from either XP or Vista.
It is a 66-cell matrix and only 14 of them indicate an "in-place" upgrade. This means that all the data and applications will remain untouch after the upgrade process. The other 52 cells show that users need to install their programs again and restore their data files once the upgrade is complete since the installation will completely wipeout those files.
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Former President and Nobel Prize Laureate, Jimmy Carter talks about the principles he lives by and some of the events that shaped him at a young age. Although, Mr. Carter has written extensively about his life and beliefs, he now extends the message of integrity to children in his book, "A Gift of Peace".
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A Tale of Two Cities
Games of compare-and-contrast can be fun. They also provide a method to evaluate and learn from those things being compared and contrasted.
In the parks and recreation business, the rules of this game often morph. The simplistic compare-contrast approach yields to the more complex chess-like game of evaluating and defining the needs of each community. The check-mate is declared when facilities are overflowing with satisfied patrons.
And so it is with Medina, Ohio and Longmont, Colo., two strikingly similar cities whose newly-constructed recreation centers meet the somewhat different needs of their communities.
Medina and Longmont are both home to burgeoning populations, with large influxes of young families. Both are distinct cities with long histories separate from their much larger neighbors, Cleveland and Denver/Boulder respectively. And, both have developed as bedroom communities, feeding workers to the larger cities while providing a great quality of life conducive to those young families.
Though the cities seem to be demographic mirrors of each other, comparing and contrasting the two approaches to their new recreation centers would be unfair, and well… simplistic.
Instead, it's best to tell two stories — tales, if you will — of how these two communities created recreation centers that meshed with the distinct personalities and needs of their communities. They also learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way, from which all parks and recreation departments can learn something.
Medina, Ohio
The City of Medina has a unique relationship with the local school district. It's a long-time partnership that forges handshake deals. A good analogy is the friend who buys something for you, knowing you'll return the favor. There's no need to keep records. The slate is always clean.
"We utilize 17 of their ball fields in the summer, and they utilize some of ours for competition. We have paid to put lights on school property, and a lot of our recreational opportunities were through the schools," explains Kenn Kaminski, director of parks and recreation for Medina.
Given this interaction, it was only natural that the issue put to voters to build a new recreation center would be tied directly to a school bond initiative. A previous initiative to build a new rec center had lost, as it was tied to other city works that had little or nothing to do with recreation, says Kaminski.
This time, the vote passed, creating a new high school and a connecting recreation center. The new recreation center, which opened to the public on Dec. 7, serves both the schools and the general public.
The trick would be to balance the needs of both and make sure students weren't stepping on the toes, both literally and figuratively, of rec center patrons.
Two Birds, One Stone
"We give the school the money, they build the project and we manage the facility. Basically it's a double-win situation — the residents get the biggest school in the state and a rec center without raising income taxes in the city," says Kaminski.
The bond issue did raise property taxes, but the additions help create greater property values. Plus, research points to the fact that schools and recreation top the list of residents, regardless of where they're located.
The new school and rec center are connected by one secure entrance to the field house, which has four full basketball courts and 24 hoops, 12 of which can be lowered to eight feet. The courts can be converted into tennis, volleyball and badminton, and one has a batting cage.
"We sat down with gym teachers, athletic teams and anyone else who used their competition gym, and asked what their needs would be. From that we were able to come up with a scheduling template. For example, we know there will be two gym classes here just about every hour of the day," says Kaminski.
"Their athletic teams usually stayed until about 10 p.m., and one of the goals of this project was to get them home by six or 6:30. Now they're able to bring their teams over here to practice, so they can bring their teams here from 3-5."
Schools will also utilize the new competitive pool. In response to this opportunity, the district now has a swimming curriculum, something it didn't have before.
The competition pool will allow for swim meets, complete with its own entrance, seating and a bulkhead that can change the configuration from meters to yards, depending on the requirements of the meet.
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26 Australian Delegation, United Nations, to Department of External Affairs
Cablegram UN657 NEW YORK, 11 July 1947, 9.30 p.m.
Balkans Commission. Your 367.
1. In the Council today we made a general statement supporting the recommendations of the Commission but reserving our position on details of the United States resolution. This leaves way open to us to support worthwhile amendments submitted by France or Colombia. Parodi [1] has not yet spoken and is we understand consulting with United States regarding his proposals.
2. The following is a summary of our main points:
(a) Council cannot itself hear and evaluate evidence and must rely on its com- missions of investigation to ascertain facts. The Commission's 'conclusions' were conclusions as to the facts based on the evidence. What the Soviet Union and Poland describe as 'facts' are merely selected extracts from the testimony.
(b) Commission was instrument of the Council and allegation that it was not impartial implies that Council is also partial. In actual fact evidence shows that it was the Soviet Union which approach[ed] problem with preconceived ideas.
(c) The Soviet claim that Greek witnesses were all unreliable is unfounded. Many witnesses, though illiterate, stood up to hours of gruelling cross examination with only minor inconsistencies. All liaison officers had a[n] equal opportunity to present witnesses and any selection was made by committee of experts including U.S.S.R. and Poland.
(d) The Commission had complete freedom of movement in Greece and witnesses against the Greek Government spoke freely. Even Communist newspapers were sure to attack the Government policy.
(e) Soviet statements based on the fact that the Commission did not investigate the Macedonian issue are absurd as it was the Soviet representative who insisted that the Commission team should not visit the area involved.
(f) Liaison officers and Soviet and Polish representatives attempted to divert attention from real task of Commission by insisting on irrelevant investigation of internal affairs of Greece. It was not because the Commission considered incidents due to Greek internal policy.
(g) No adequate reasons have, therefore, been advanced why Council should not accept conclusions of majority of Commission. The report clearly indicates that continuance of situation on Greek frontiers is likely to endanger peace and security. It is the Council's duty to devise means to rectify position.
(h) Australia agrees with proposals made by Commission at invitation of Council including establishment of standing Commission which is the only recommendation which has been seriously questioned. It is significant that Greece has agreed in advance to establishment of Commission. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania on the other hand while demanding investigation by Council of incidents which they allege were provoked by Greece oppose establishment of organ which could effectively carry out investigation.
(i) Before expressing opinion on details of United States resolution it would be valuable to have explanation of reasons for departure from original proposal for 'a small commission or a single commissioner'. It is possible also that alternative suggestions may be made which should be taken into consideration.
3. Bulgarian Representative made a further statement claiming that Council had [no] such authority under charter to establish permanent commission. Johnson (United States) replied.


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