The Story of PUSH In 2003 an unusual bit of information surfaced about a new computer technology. My friends and I had been hearing that someone, somewhere was copying electronic text documents and photos onto Compacts Discs (CDs) with a small, affordable, home unit. Hard to believe there was a time before this was possible, but in 2001 it was revolutionary. Before the CD there was the floppy drive with limited capacity. Now you could design and store a large volume of text and photos with little effort. Working with Rich Haydon of TAPJoE Press, we envisioned how this would change the world of the small poetry press. Our first “wild Idea” was that small publishers could now copy their book, with multiple photos and images, for a fraction of the cost of a published paper book and sell them for a fraction of the hard copy price. CD’s would be easy to mail the old fashioned day or electronically and PDF would secure the content. The cheaper sales price would mean that b
The FIre finger at Red Top Lookout, near Swak Pass, WA, is typical of many other lookouts, both surviving and relegated to memory. It stands in the center of the lookout and is used to generate numbers which, when called in to firefighters, gives them references to the fire's location and makes it easier to find. As you an imagine, if you get close enough to a fire, you'll start to see the smoke, but down under the canopy, climbing up a drainage slope, the smoke isn't always visible, so you first use the lookouts description and then start using your senses to find the actual fire. From there, it is up to the crew to either extinguish it, monitor it for a while, or set back and wait for rain,, whichever fits the operation plan of the day.
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