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2014 Course Schedule
Course Name | Dates | Instructor |
Karst Geology | June 1-7 | Dr. Art Palmer |
Exploration of Mammoth Cave | June 8-14 | Dr. Stan Sides |
Cave Survey and Cartography | June 15-21 | Ms. Patricia Kambesis |
Karst Geology
This is a one-week field course, taught by Dr. Arthur N. Palmer, professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Oneonta. The course provides an introduction to the basics of karst science and cave origin, with emphasis on geologic controls, interpretation, and field methods. Discussions begin at an introductory level but quickly move on to the level at which students are able to recognize and interpret karst and caves on their own. The course consists of classroom presentations and discussions, combined with field trips to surface and underground sites in and around Mammoth Cave National Park. The course is available either as a workshop or for credit (undergraduate or graduate). For those taking the course for credit, a two-week field project and written report are required by September 15 following the course. A prior course in geology is recommended but not required.
Registration Options: Non-credit workshop, CEU, Graduate or undergraduate.
Instructor: Dr. Art Palmer
Dr. Arthur N. Palmer is former director of the Water Resources program at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta, where he is Professor Emeritus of Hydrology and Geochemistry. He and his wife Peggy have been involved with cave and karst studies for several decades. Much of their research has involved the geology of Mammoth Cave. Together they have written many articles and books on the geology and origin of caves. Art is the author of A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park and, most recently, Cave Geology. He has received the Science Award from the National Speleological Society, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Karst Waters Institute, SUNY Chancellor's Awards for teaching and research, and a Distinguished Teaching Professorship. He is also a fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received the GSA Kirk Bryan Award for his work in cave science. Art and Peggy are co-editors of the book Caves and Karst of the USA, prepared for the International Congress of Speleology held in Texas in 2009.
Cave Survey and Cartography Course Description
This course focuses on the fundamentals of in-cave field mapping, digital cartography, and the production of cartographic representations of caves. Instruction will at the beginning and intermediate experience levels. Mornings will include lectures, demonstrations, and instruction on survey technique with a strong emphasis on recording field data and sketching. Afternoons will cover in-cave instruction and practice with field data collection, recording of data and producing representative sketches of cave passages and features. Evenings will cover all aspects of digital drafting and cartographic design and in transforming field notes into maps. By the end of the course, students will be able conduct basic cave mapping including in-cave sketching, transform survey data into line plots, construct and digitally draft cave maps, and make overlays of cave data with digital topographic maps and Google Earth imagery. Throughout the course, participants will work with the course instructor to produce cave maps and other derivative products from survey data. At the end of the course, students will select one of their class projects which will be submitted for assessment by an on-site panel of experienced surveyors and cartographers who will provide constructional critiques of the maps produced by the students. The course will take place at Mammoth Cave International Center for Science and Learning at Hamilton Valley Field Station located just outside of Mammoth Cave National Park.
Instructor: Ms. Patricia Kambesis
Patricia Kambesis is an cave surveyor and cartographer who has extensive national and international cave mapping and cartographic experience. Her areas of interest and expertise cover cartographic design, digital cartography, 3-dimensional models of cave systems, cave morphometry, and integrating cave data into geographical information systems. She has taught this class since 2001.
Instructor: Mr. Howard Kalnitz
Howard Kalnitz is a mechanical engineer who has been caving for over 30 years. He has been surveying caves in his local caving area of Rockcastle County Kentucky for almost 20 ears, and has also surveyed in various other states and countries. He has been drawing up maps for most of this time and focuses mostly on digital cartography as well as GIS representation of caves and systems. He is a current director in Kentucky Speleological Survey and has been assisting in instructing this class since 2003.
Exploration of Mammoth Cave Course Description
This course is an intensive study of the discovery, exploration and development of the caves and karst features of the Mammoth Cave region that resulted in integration of the caves into the world's longest cave system. The forces that stimulated exploration, such as saltpeter mining, regional commercialization of show caves, national park development, and scientific research are examined. Illustrated lectures, handouts, and maps are used to promote understanding of the caves prior to daily field trips. This year the course will emphasize the history of Dr. John Croghan and his famed speleotherapy experiment to cure tubersulosis through residence in the cave. Usually the class repeats connection routes made by previous explorers between one entrance and another in Mammoth Cave. Participants must be in good physical condition. Many underground trips follow tourist trails closed long ago to the public, while other trips require strenuous walking and crawling in undeveloped passages on trips lasting 6-8 hours. This course is held at the Hamilton Valley Research Facility near Mammoth Cave National Park.
Registration Options: Non-credit workshop, CEU, graduate or undergraduate.
Instructor: Dr. Stanley D. Sides
Dr. Sides received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, and his M.D. degree at University of Missouri. Internal medical residency training, and fellowship in hematology and medical oncology were completed at University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology, and was awarded Fellowship in the American College of Physicians. He practiced hematology and medical oncology at Cape Girardeau until retirement in 2012. He began studying the Mammoth Cave region with Cave Research Foundation in 1962, and became fourth president of the organization. He is a Fellow of the National Speleological Society, and recipient of the Peter M. Hauer Spelean History Award. His research project on the caves and people of Flint Ridge has been ongoing since 1973, resulting in numerous articles on the history of exploration of the caves of Mammoth Cave National Park. He taught his first Karst Field Studies class for Western Kentucky University in June 1984. He is author of "Diamond Caverns -- Jewel of Kentucky's Underground." His current research emphasis is on Dr. John Croghan's speleotherapy experiment to treat tuberculosis in the 1840's, and the history of cave exploration and cave development in Flint Ridge.


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China reassures U.S. on government contracts
Fri, May 6 2011
WASHINGTON | Tue May 10, 2011 12:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - China sought to reassure the Obama administration on Tuesday
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expense of American companies.
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China's Reform and Development Commission, told a news conference.
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Economic Dialogue in Washington appeared to amplify on a key promise that
Chinese President Hu Jintao made during a January visit to Washington.
Foreign companies have worried that China's use of government procurement
preferences to encourage indigenous innovation would force them to
transfer technology in order to compete in the country's vast public works
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against products made with foreign technology when awarding government
procurement contracts.
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vigilance to ensure China actually keeps its promise not to use government
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companies that use home-grown technologies at the expense of U.S. and
other foreign firms.
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their indigenous innovation policies was a very positive part of President
Hu's visit here, but now is time to provide more clarity how they are
going to implement that very high profile pledge with a timeline for doing
so," he said, speaking before the talks opened.
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Stewart Wallis Scholarship - $1000
The scholarship shall be awarded annually to the top academic student graduating from Grade 12 from Kitasoo Community School, located in Klemtu, BC. To be eligible, the student must be proceeding to post-secondary education at either North Island College or any other post-secondary institution in B.C. Upon demonstration of registration at either North Island College or the post-secondary institution of their choice, the recipient will be issued a cheque for the amount of the scholarship.
Stewart was proud of his aboriginal heritage and his most recent achievement of obtaining his learners' driver's license. He loved camping, basketball, playing the drums, scuba diving, displaying his magical tricks and impersonations. Most of all �Stewie' loved to make people laugh.
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Bob Minkler lived his life with great enjoyment and never took the little things for granted. He took pride in his work and was a caring man who treated people with respect and consideration. "Bob was a special man," says Ellie. "He lived his life with high standards whether it was the way he was romantic with me, how he cared for friends and family or his dedicated approach to his work. If Bob could give one message to a student receiving this entrance award," says Ellie, "it would be to enjoy your life and your job, keep high standards and never take the every day things for granted."
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This award valued at $1,500 will be awarded to a student returning for second year in Fisheries and Aquaculture program who has demonstrated academic achievement, applied skills and a career interest in finfish aquaculture. Based on recommendation of faculty. No application necessary. Funds awarded as a tuition credit for the fall term. For more information about the Marine Harvest Salmon Aquaculture Scholarship visit http://www.viu.ca/fisheries/scholarships.asp
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This scholarship was for post-secondary students studying an undergraduate degree with a focus or intention of specializing in marine sciences or aquaculture. A decision was made to change the focus of the scholarship to one of sustainable funding for those already selected. As a result, applications are no longer being taken for this scholarship.
Prior recipients of the scholarship who continue their studies with determination and dedication are now receiving annual scholarships. Those students have all identified a long term goal of completing a PhD's in marine sciences and the scholarship's contribution is helping to stabilize funding for their long term plans.


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Hi folks,
Can anyone recommend a gas dryer? I tried posting this question over a week ago on the laundry forum, but no bites. I guess most people are choosing electric. I have heard that gas dryers dry clothes faster and around here it will be cheaper to dry a load than with electric. Carol |
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Most posters in the Laundry forum are fans of European,German in particular,front load machines and electric dryers.And to a lesser extent the South Korean counterparts. IMO, Whirlpool still makes the best gas dryers. There is the Whirlpool Duet Steam WGD94HEX. And since Whirlpool now owns Maytag there is its version the Maytag Maxima EcoConserve Series MGD6000X. There is also Speed Queen. They have three standard dryers which vary little in options plus the extra fancy Imperial. Speed Queen has earned a reputation for outstanding long term durability but if something goes wrong getting parts and service can be a bear. They still don't have a 1-800 number for residential customers only commercial customers. |
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Deeageaux, Thanks for letting us know about the Whirlpool and Maytag models. I will check them out for sure! Laat2, Thanks for your response. We have a gas water heater and gas heat. We will have a gas fireplace, and want a gas dryer. All gas facilities will be on the same side of the house. We may also run a line for a gas bbq outside. We don't want a gas stove. This is a addition with a gut to most of the current house, so these lines can go in no problem. Carol |
I don't know about the availability of Speed Queen parts (I've never tried), but I used a form on their support page to ask a question yesterday and I had an email answer in an hour. |
I mixed my existing Frigidaire gas dryer with a Miele washer. The dryer is 20 and the miele 220V is 10. Gas is signifigantly more efficient than electric. |
We have the Whirlpool Duet (not Steam, though) and the dryer has worked just fine. We've had to have the washer portion serviced a couple of times, but no real big deal. |
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Generals go nonprofit
The Waynesboro Generals are now run by a new local nonprofit organization.
Waynesboro Amateur Athletics has assumed ownership of the team. Former Generals owners Jim Critzer and David Gauldin II are on the board of directors of Waynesboro Amateur Athletics, whose mission is to support youth, high-school and college sports in the Waynesboro area.
Other members of the board of directors for Waynesboro Amateur Athletics are Chris Graham, Mary McDermott and Bill Moore.
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In this June 8, 2011, file photo, Guardian Angels Keunthi Davis (left) and Quentin Batteast stand patrol at the Red Line station near State Street and Chicago Avenue. | File photo
Updated: December 15, 2012 6:22AM
Thank you to the Guardian Angels and the work they are doing to stop crimes. May God bless and keep all of you safe.
To the commenter who doesn't think firefighters should get recognition when they give up their lives in the line of duty: If your house starts on fire and you're in need of the fire department, save the call to 911, grab a garden hose and then tell us how easy it is.
Evergreen Park
We can get food cheaper at the Speedway gasoline station than at McDonald's. We also get rewards points at Speedway toward more food.
A comment in Speak Out suggested people on the East Coast should have prepared for Hurricane Sandy by stocking up on gasoline and groceries. I'm guessing some of these people don't have the resources to do this. And where would you stock gasoline — in their bathtubs?
Lou from Palos
Why do TV weathermen stand in front of the weather map? Many are overweight and block almost half of the map.
The corruption of the Chicago-way politics has now spread to Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States thanks to the equally corrupt media, the uninformed and the takers.
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I lost my health insurance when I lost my job. I have a lot of hospital bills to pay. I asked for help but I got denied. Maybe I should go get pregnant, claim I don't know who the baby's father is and let the government pay for everything like half of these people do.
Here is some good news. If you enjoy delicious Italian food, there is a new restaurant you need to try. Bella Mia in Midlothian was a pleasant surprise. The food was wonderful. We're definitely going back. It's on 147th Street and a little hard to find, but you won't regret going there. It's the best Italian food we've had in years. I love Italian food. The decor makes it nice for special occasions, too. We're already planning to have a birthday dinner there after only our first visit. I just had to spread the word. I loved it that much.
Why have so many people stopped using their turn signals? This is actually illegal. The driver can be ticketed for not using them. I don't understand why people find it so hard to pull down or push up on that easy-to-use lever in every vehicle. Some I have seen with their cellular phone in their left hand pressed against their left ear. Don't you people realize that the rest of us would really love to know which way you plan on going so we won't run into you or get in your way of a turn?
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Veterans Day is always celebrated on Nov. 11. That is why the tradition started at the end of World War I, which happened on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which is November. This great country of America has religious freedom because of our veterans. If this special day falls on a Sunday, so be it. We all can still give homage to our God, our country and our veterans.
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The Democrats need to clean up their own yard before pointing the finger at everyone else. Illinois is more than $139 billion in debt and counting. Illinois has raised every possible tax it can under the Democrats like the income tax, the gasoline tax, the liquor tax, the cigarette tax and property taxes. You name a tax and they have raised it, and they are looking for more taxes to raise. We have Democrats who allegedly tried to sell an Illinois Senate seat. We have Democrats who handed the teachers union a raise even though Chicago is in high debt.
I think high school and college students who don't study should bring a class-action lawsuit in court so they can get their passing grades similar to the Chicago firefighter's situation. Do we want incompetent people?
Bill from Oak Forest
Republicans want to pass voter identification laws, but I don't think they can show any significant examples of voter fraud. They want to pass voter identification laws to keep people from doing what they are not doing already.
The dumbing down of America just keeps rolling. These so-called reality TV programs are borderline insane. I came across the "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" show. I had no idea what it was. Now I know it's total garbage. This show glorifies a trailer-trash family that includes a pregnant 17-year-old mom, a pet pig and a mother who likes to hoard toilet paper for some reason. Talk about excrement!
Don from Orland Park
Never have I been so proud of my fellow Americans as I was on Election Day when we rejected the efforts of the radical right to suppress the vote, demonize organized labor, trivialize educators, ignore the working class and the poor, and deny women equal pay and protection against domestic abuse. The party of gray-haired old guys in dark blue suits is obsolete.
Mike from Scottsdale
On Nov. 6 two states, Colorado and Washington, passed a referendum to make the recreational use of marijuana legal. How does John Q. Public square this against the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program taught to our students by local law enforcement agencies on the dangers of drugs?
Regarding nepotism: They all said they were extremely qualified for the job and just applied. Right, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, Cook County Chief Circuit Judge Tim Evans and so on. By the way, since the law doesn't say I can't hire family, it's legal. But is it ethical?
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The SuperFlow® 350 regulator used on the SuperLite® 27 provides outstanding performance. It features a diver adjustable system so that the regulator can be "tuned" during the dive according to your workload. This adjustment also allows you to set the regulator as the supply pressure varies, which is especially important when working with a low pressure compressor.
The Tri-Valve Exhaust System helps to keep the breathing system dry under all conditions without increasing the breathing resistance of the helmet. In addition, the helmet is also equipped with a separate Water Dump Valve which is mounted on the left side.
The helmet neck ring design, first produced in 1991, allows for evenly distributed weighting of the helmet. The chrome plated machined brass helmet ring houses the latch catches and provides protection for the bottom end of the helmet. The diver is also provided with an externally adjustable chin support. This support, along with the adjustable neck pad on the locking collar, gives the diver a comfortable, secure, custom fit.
The SuperLite® 27 is Commercially Rated™ and has been tested and certified to meet or exceed all requirements for all governing agencies. It is certified for use in all diving operations world wide.
Regulator Performance
SuperFlow® 350 Performance: The SuperFlow® 350 regulator on the Kirby Morgan 27 offers high performance. The regulator has been tested at Dive Lab at Panama City, Florida. It meets all current U.S. Navy and European diving standards.
Cage Code: The cage code for identifying KMDSI products for U.S. government purposes is 58366.
CR Standards: These helmets meet or exceeds all standards established by Dive Lab of Panama City, Florida, and are CR (Commercially Rated) marked.
CE Approved: The SL 27 helmet is CE Approved.
Temperature Limitations: Use at water temperatures below 33°F (1°C) requires use of hot water shroud (P/N DSI 525-100) and hot water.
The Hot Water Shroud (P/N DSI 525-100) in conjunction with hot water to the diver should be used whenever diving operations are conducted using HEO2 at water temperatures less than 60°F (15.56°C) for the comfort of the diver. KMDSI further recommends that the shroud be used in conjunction with hot water to the diver whenever diving operations are conducted using air or mixed gas, in waters colder than 36°F (2.22°C) to reduce the possibility of demand regulator icing.
Usually the greatest danger of demand regulator icing will be encountered on deck when the surrounding air temperature is less than 32°F (0°C). This effect is primarily due to the refrigeration effect of breathing air pressure reduction, and the addition of moisture from the divers exhalation coming in contact with the topside air temperature.
If diving where the water temperature is 36°F (2.22°C) or warmer but the topside air temperature is below freezing, (32°F (0°C) icing of the demand regulator is possible. To help eliminate the possibility of freezing on the surface, warm water should be run over the exterior of the demand regulator prior to water entry, if the hot water system is not used.
Only equipment certified and tested according to EN 250/E DIN 58 642 may be used with the SL 27 helmet when conducting diving operations in European EC compliant countries.
The umbilical assembly should be composed of good quality diving hose that meets industry standards. Generally, gas hose will be married to the communications wire, pneumofathometer hose, and strength member in a manner that will allow the strength member to receive all the strain. There are also good quality umbilical available that are assembled at the factory using a twisted method which does not require marrying. Regardless of the system used, the umbilical is the diver's life line and should always be of excellent quality and maintained carefully.
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Please stop by the office to confirm your intent to attend Renaissance High School and to verify all your contact information. The office will be open:
August 25-28, 20149:00 am -3:00 pm3400 1st StreetBremerton, WA 98312
The first day of school this year is on Wednesday, September 3, 2014:
Students new to RHS 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Students returning to RHS 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
After completing the entire intake process you will have the opportunity to make your advisory appointment and sign for your ORCA pass. Please make every effort to be here so you can attend classes as soon as they start. The next intake will not be offered until September 18, 2014.
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efforts, allow more efficient development of new modeling tools, promote higher standards or best practices, facilitate interpretation of results from different modeling approaches, speed scientific advance, and improve understanding of the various sources of modeling uncertainty.
Decision makers at many levels often desire projections of climate and its future range of variability and extremes localized to individual locations or very fine, subkilometer, scales. While the resolution of global climate models may eventually be this fine, the committee judges that this is not likely to occur within the next 20 years. In the meantime, other statistical or dynamical downscaling techniques will continue to be used to provide finer-scale projections. Although an evaluation of various methods would be useful, this would likely require a study unto itself. Furthermore, as global climate resolutions become finer themselves, statistical downscaling techniques become simpler and more straightforward and the need for more computationally expensive dynamical downscaling may diminish. Thus, the committee focused its attention in this report on improving the fidelity of models at all scales. However, like downscaling itself, using climate models with finer grids does not guarantee a much more certain or reliable climate model projection at local scales. As noted above, the uncertainties in climate models even at local scales derive in large part from global-scale processes such as cloud and carbon-cycle feedbacks, as well as uncertainties in how future human greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions unfold.
Recommendation 3.1: To address the increasing breadth of issues in climate science, the climate modeling community should vigorously pursue a full spectrum of models and evaluation approaches, including further systematic comparisons of the value added by various downscaling approaches as the resolution of climate models increases.
Recommendation 3.2: To support a national linked hierarchy of models, the United States should nurture a common modeling infrastructure and a shared model development process, allowing modeling groups to efficiently share advances while preserving scientific freedom and creativity by fostering model diversity where needed.


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Sokari Douglas Camp has built an international reputation on her interpretation and celebration of African festival performance.
Sokari Douglas Camp was born and raised in the Kalabari town of Buguma in the Eastern Niger Delta, and has studied and exhibited in Europe and America. Masquerade is a strong theme in her work, in particular reinterpreting in metal and wood the male art of Kalabari masquerade.
Of particular concern to Sokari is the adoption and display of African masking traditions by museums of the West. Traditionally, these have collected and displayed West African masks as static sculptures, a world away from how they would have appeared originally in performance. Isolated from the movement and drumming, the costumes and exuberant temporary decorations, and the belief system which inspires them, the masks become very different objects.
Kalabari women are traditionally not allowed to make images, a restriction based on keeping women's fertility cycles strictly apart from the male process of creating art. As a sculptor in steel and wood, Sokari transgresses this restriction. As a sculptor who reveals the process of dressing and performing that transforms young men into deities, that transgression is profound.
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James Thurber was one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century (and a crack cartoonist to boot). A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1999, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, are from his uproarious and candid collection My World and Welcome to It—including the American classic "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"—as well as from The Owl in the Attic, The Seal in the Bathroom, and Men, Women and Dogs.
To call such persons "humorists," a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature. The little wheels of their invention are set in motion by the damp hand of melancholy.Enjoy the surprises, certainly, but revel in the candy-coated popcorn and peanuts. As in "More Alarms at Night," in which a teenaged Thurber intrudes upon his sleeping father, a skittish man named Charles, because he can't recall the name Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Coincidentally, his father has just been frightened half to death by Thurber's brother, who had earlier stalked into his room saying coldly, "Buck, your time has come."
"Listen," I said. "Name some towns in New Jersey quick!" It must have been around three in the morning. Father got up, keeping the bed between him and me, and started to pull his trousers on. "Don't bother about dressing," I said. "Just name some towns in New Jersey." While he hastily pulled on his clothes--I remember he left his socks off and put his shoes on his bare feet--father began to name, in a shaky voice, various New Jersey cities. I can still see him reaching for his coat without taking his eyes off me. "Newark," he said, "Jersey City, Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Paterson, Passaic, Trenton, Jersey City, Trenton, Paterson--" "It has two names," I snapped. "Elizabeth and Paterson," he said.Of course, things turn out fine, as well they should. And why not? The best of Thurber, which The Thurber Carnival arguably is, is sublime; surprising insight and wry observations tossed lightly and served constantly with effortless good humor and an obvious love for all things gently eccentric. --Michael Hudson


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The biggest difference between the Black Chicago Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance is brand awareness. The fact is, from roughly the early '30s to the '50s, Chicago was black America's most fruitful cultural capitol.
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Cayenne, which has served as fleet communications vessel for several Pacific Cups and has been described as "the strongest signal I have ever heard" among the fleet, uses the following steps:
1. Ignore Dynaplate for the junk that it is. (My Opinion)
2. Try to place your antenna tuner as near the antenna as you can. For us, this meant placing it under the cockpit near the thing that passes through the hull to connect to the antenna wire.
3. Counterpoise (ground) as follows:
a. Run copper tape to the two through-hulls used as drains. Scrunkle it around the drain and secure with hose clamp. There are those that say this will be enough. It creates an electrical connection to the entire ocean.
b. Run copper tape up to a place where you can bond it to a stanchion. An electrical connection to the lifelines creates a lovely counterpoise.
c. If you feel like it, bond in a few other things.
4. The magic: After you have added your ground to a certain amount of ground, fire up your ssb and hit the tune button. You will hear the clickety-click as the tuner balances the ground and antenna for a given frequency. THEN add about ten feet of aluminum foil to the overall setup and TOSS IT IN THE SEA. Hit tune again. If it goes clickety-click, it means that yes, you were able to add more effective ground. If not, you have created all the ground that is of any use and you are done. You do not NEED to max out, but it does help.
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Phil Sherwood adds:
I installed a ground plane (counterpoise) per a Gordon West article I read. The copper strip runs from the SSB radio installed at the nav station down to the starboard water tank, where it attaches to one of the inspection-plate hold-down bolts.
From there it runs down and under the cabin sole to the aft-most little bilge compartment where the through-hulls and seacocks for the engine raw water intake and galley salt water intake are, a run of only about 4 or 5 feet. It then attaches to the bronze galley salt water seacock.
The tank itself probably doesn't have quite the surface area square footage to be a good counterpoise by itself and might even be superfluous given the copper's connection to the seacock. But the part from the nav station to the water tank was already installed and in good shape, so I left it in place. The part from the tank to the seacock was very easy to install.
The antenna tuner, which is mounted to the inside of the transom just starboard of the backstay chainplate, is grounded to the rudder cage with a hefty (#8 or #10) wire.
The setup, which includes an Icom 706 MkIIG radio and AH-4 antenna tuner -- seems to work fine. People on various marine and ham radio nets have said my signal is strong and clear. The setup gets around the hassle of running copper strips all over the place and the undesirability of having a bronze plate mounted on the exterior below the waterline. It won't work if you have marelon through-hulls, of course.
According to Gordon West, by attaching to a through-hull you're essentially using the ocean as the counterpoise. Here's the link:http://www.kp44.org/ftp/SeawaterGroundingFor_HF_Radios_byGordonWest.pdf
Oh, and it doesn't matter if the copper turns green. The electrons don't care what color the copper is as they run along its surface. You just need to maintain a continuous length of copper, wherever it leads, and have only to clean off the green stuff if you have to solder in a patch somewhere.
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Tunis rally turns violent
Tunis police used tear gas and batons to disperse protesters Monday (April 9th) on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunisia Live reported. Participants marched to commemorate Martyrs' Day and denounce the ban on protests along the city's central street. At least 15 civilians and 8 policemen were hurt in the clashes, AFP reported.
Wrapped in Tunisian flags and shouting "we're not afraid, the people are here", the demonstrators reportedly sought shelter in neighbouring streets and shops after police in trucks and on motorbikes pursued them.
Later Monday, hundreds gathered in Monastir, Sousse and Sfax to show support for the Tunis demonstrators.
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Ennahda alleges that it has no militias which took part in repressions of April 9 the anniversary of martyrs. But it forgets that people are used to its terrorist militias since the era of Ben Ali or even since Hassan Al Banna the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928. Many intellectuals, journalists and artists have been assaulted by its militias including Zyad Krichane and Soufiane Benhmida. There were even threats of death including recently Al Kassas (retaliation). These are excesses emanating even from their reactionary terrorist leaderships like the one made on May 25 in Bourguiba Avenue when the roach who is a leading preacher when he said: "death to Essebssi" and he was followed in acclaims by his ignorant followers. But the odd thing is that he didn't act "manly", recognize his mistake, apologize to everyone, call for calmness and curse Satan. It is sure that Essebssi will renounce to the case. Not only Essebsi, but even the Jewish minority which he threatened of death recently. The cockroach wasn't fair, wise and honest so as to recognize, apologize and thus revive in the Tunisian people the spirit of brotherhood, tolerance and transcendence over hatreds. However nothing can be expected from somewhere else but its source. To sum up, Ennahda and the majority of "Islamists" are the people who farthest from fairness and they are by God the dirtiest people! Have you heard of the scandal about this, honesty and manliness of the Egyptian Salafi who alleged that his nose was broken but he had undergone a plastic surgery to his nose after he was elected to the national assembly? But the oddest thing is that it was found out that he was secretly married to a "dancer"? even if he is married. It was a tremendous scandal which rocked his party. Finally, Ennahda and similar movements are a terrible threat to civilization, peace, civility, mind and morals! Yes morals!!! The verse "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they thought that they were acquiring good by their deeds!" applies exactly to them!


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Rabbits is a 2002 series of short avant-garde, horror-comedy video films written and directed by David Lynch, although Lynch himself refers to it as a nine-episode sitcom. It depicts three humanoid rabbits played by Scott Coffey, Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts in a room. Their disjointed conversations are interrupted by a laugh track. Rabbits is presented with the tagline "In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery".
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Have you made personal and professional New Year resolutions yet, in the spirit of the season? I'll leave the personal ones to you. Professionally, New Year resolutions—or at least specific and measurable goals for 2012—are of critical importance, especially in today's dynamic and often disconcerting business environment. Here are a few suggestions you might want to take into consideration.
- Are you making the most of your existing customer base? Common wisdom says that mining existing customers for more business costs six times less than acquiring a new customer, yet many businesses place an undue amount of focus on customer acquisition, letting customer retention/expansion efforts fall to the back burner. Do the research on your best customers. What are they doing differently these days? What are the key trends in their respective industries? Who are you working with inside each company, and how can you best expand beyond those group(s)? Don't let valuable existing customer relationships languish. Make sure they know about the full range of your offerings, and don't be shy about asking your best contacts for internal references.
- Another way to grow revenues is to work on growing the average revenue per sale for your business. Make sure your customers and prospects know about all the great things you do. Perhaps they are using someone else for non-print work that you could handle to provide them with an integrated cross-media source. Or perhaps they haven't moved into cross-media in a big way, leaving a big opportunity door open for you. Customers aren't mind readers, and they don't sit in your strategy meetings. If you don't aggressively reach out and touch someone at those accounts, how will they know who to call when new projects pop up? Make sure you have the right cross-media tools in your 2012 toolkit that can add significant revenue—and margin—to print-only customer deals you might be doing today.
- Related to the suggestions above is the idea of building ongoing relationships that deliver recurring revenues. These solutions-based (rather than transactional) relationships deliver a huge benefit to your business, not the least of which is a reduced cost of sales. Take the hunter/farmer approach—your best sales people should be uncovering new opportunities and working them into an annuity revenue perspective. Much of the ongoing touch points can then be handled by your customer support team, leaving the sales "hunters" to move on to the next target. Don't forget, though—those hunters still need to retain at least a modicum of a relationship with existing customers! While they may not be the primary contact anymore, they can't abandon them. They should show up periodically to see how things are going and to "hunt" for even more projects!
These are just a few ideas for those 2012 New Year resolutions to keep your business strong and healthy this year and beyond. If you haven't already done so, sit down with your team and flesh out your growth plan, building on these ideas with the great ideas your team can surely come up with. Make 2012 your best cross-media year ever!
For more great ideas and discussion about how to have a successful 2012 as a print and/or marketing services provider, tune in to the joint PODi/MindFireInc webinar on January 18th. You might also want to check out this Industry Week article: New Year's Resolutions for Every Manager: Six suggestions guaranteed to improve performance in almost any workplace. While not cross-media specific, they are great teambuilding suggestions that can only enhance your ability to delight your customers.


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QUALITY GRAPHICS CENTER -- An Office Romance
March 2002"We put a major emphasis on our customer service. Clients have our home numbers, and they can reach us whenever necessary," she says. Part of that commitment to customer service is education, reports Yeats. Quality Graphics regularly runs customer education seminars. They also send regular newsletters to their customers, giving concept and design tips, as well as updates on their latest upgrades.
According to Yeats, the once-traditional industry mode of doing business often meant keeping customers ignorant to ensure their dependence on printers. "It was a case of they didn't know how to do it and you did," she describes. It's a tradition Quality Graphics has long since broken.
"We've known for a long time that the better educated customers are, the better able they are able to make intelligent decisions. When they can make intelligent decisions, we can do a better job for them," she notes.
A major part of Quality Graphics' desire to provide excellent customer service is being able to provide customers with cutting-edge technology that meet their needs.
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Quality Graphics offers its customers a complete digital prepress department, which includes an Agfa Galileo digital platesetter, a PGI Polaproof Prediction digital color proofing system and a PGI Polaproof 2230 Gold digital color proofing system; a complete finishing department; as well as two six-color, 28x40˝ Mitsubishi sheetfed presses, a two-color, 14x20˝ Hamada C252E-SF and a two-color, 10x15˝ Hamada 550 CDA press.
"We made the shift to CTP four years ago, while other companies are just now beginning to research computer-to-plate," she notes. Quality Graphics does still offer a conventional prepress department for those who still require film output, but Yeats believes the future is CTP. "We put a lot of research into CTP and, ultimately, we decided that the Agfa unit would work well for us. Our customers are thrilled with CTP; they can make any needed changes right up to the last minute," she adds.
Always willing to lead the way in new technology, Quality Graphics recently installed a Harris & Bruno LithoCoat tower coater conversion on one of its 40˝ sheetfed presses. Quality Graphics claims it is now one of only three printing facilities in New Jersey that offers in-line UV coating. "We've always been a pioneer when it comes to technology. We're always ready to look at the next step," she says.
Yeats credits Quality Graphics' willingness to embrace new technology as key to their growth and success. "We keep going to all these seminars and various industry top management conferences because they give us a look into the future. Instead of being paralyzed with fear, we are excited. We know we have the capabilities to harness the technology and to profit by it."
Yeats sees a future full of potential for Quality Graphics. "We plan to develop a distribution system, as well getting more into mailing services. We want to expand our finishing capabilities, so there is less and less that we have to send outside," Yeats notes.
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The air conditioners in most of my classrooms at school are broken. It averages about 100 degrees Fahrenheit here in August. This is bullshit. The air conditioner in my car is also broken! Yay, roasting in the 100 degree heat for about 7 hours a day is SO FUCKING ORGASMIC! Except not.
Hmm, what else has happened? Oh, my Pre-Cal teacher just randomly decided we have a test tomorrow. No warning or anything. Just halfway through class she said, "Oh, and there's a test tomorrow." Fuck her. And that Speech teacher did the same thing! At least that stuff is just common sense, though.
And some stupid fucknugget upset FCG. I don't know what happened, really, only that she posted a very upset Facebook status last night and then deleted her Facebook. So now I can't keep up with her on Facebook and actually have to talk to her more. Naturally, I am panicking. I'm gonna talk to her later this week... I hope it goes better than last time.
But that's not the nincompoopery I'm here to tell you guys about. Oh, no, it gets way worse. That's just the nincompoopery of the general universe. You guys want to hear about the really good stuff... And that, my friends, is the nincompoopery of my mother, who is basically a 12-year-old girl in a 42-year-old body.
My mother, as many of you know, is kind of, well, boy-crazy. Uhh, man-crazy, at her age, I guess? But yeah, as soon as she meets a new guy, she is always instantly "in love with" him. A month ago, she was trying to get my dad back even though he has had a girlfriend for 2 years. That fiasco ended quickly, however, because 3 weeks ago, my mom met a new guy.
She started doing all the annoying things she does whenever she becomes obsessed, such as talking to him for 12 hours straight on the phone and turning every conversation no matter what the subject into one about him. Then, after 2 weeks of talking to him online, she invited him to visit.
He was very normal-seeming, though he looked and sounded quite like my uncle. How is that not weird for my mom? Anyway, yeah, he wasn't much of a problem. It's what happened after he went back home that's the problem.
My mom said she is "head over heels in love with him" and "is marrying him and moving to Tennessee in less than a year." Bear in mind she has known this guy for 3 weeks.
She said I could either go with her or stay here. I mean, I hate it here with a burning passion, but I also really am not a fan of the area in Tennessee they would be going to. I used to be dragged there at least 4 times a year until I was 10, and I NEVER liked it. I've also hated it even more each time I've been back. I would never choose to move there, much less into the house of a guy I don't even know! I've said maybe 2 words to the guy! Hell, I would be wary of moving into, say, my dad's girlfriend's house, and I've known her for 2 years. Some stranger's house? No fucking way!
I told her point-blank that it was extremely silly to be planning to marry and move in with a guy she's talked to for 3 weeks and that she should probably slow down. She said that she WAS slowing down! (Damn, I'd hate to see "fast" then!)
She then proceeded to say how she only knew my dad for 6 months before she married him. Uhh, yes, and look how that turned out. And she said the same things about her other two boyfriends, and they were both fucked up to the max. There was the drug addict one who used to beat his ex-wife and then the one who cheated on her with a 17-year-old...
She's going to visit him tomorrow for about a week. He was just here a few days ago... But she "can't STAND to be away from him for a minute longer!"
Anyway, just because I feel the need to share:
Sweet dreams, Oasis~ :D
Parents complain about crazy hormonal teenage children, but it seems when the roles are reversed it's 100000000000000000000 times worse. That really must be a nightmare. Well, on the, er, bright side, if your mom moves away does that mean you get to live on your own?
No, I would live with my dad, but he's okay so that's not a problem.
You say you hate where you live with your mom and sister, but would you hate it as much if you lived there without your mom and sister? Your time there is limited anyway...right?
It would still be awful because this town is unsafe, populated mostly by total jackasses, and there's not much to do. But yeah, I'll only be here for a little less than 2 years.


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Fennimore Livestock Exchange, Wednesdays, Fennimore, WI
Milwaukee Stockyards, Monday and Thursdays, Reeseville, WI
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Dairy Lab Services, Inc, Dubuque, IA
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Animal Disease and Food Safety Laboratory, 405 South 21th Street, Sparks, NV 89431, Contact: Anette Rink, DVM, PhD, Phone: 775-753-3700
Biogenetic Services, Inc., 801, 32nd Avenue, Brookings, SD 57006, Contact: Alex Kahler or Customer Service, Phone: 605-697-8500
Colorado Department of Agriculture- Rocky Mountain Regional Animal Health Laboratory, 2331 West 31st Avenue, Denver, CO 80211, Contact: Tiffany Brigner, Phone: 303-477-0049
Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, Michigan State University, 4125 Beaumont Road, Room 150 DCPAH, Lansing, MI 48910, Contact: Roger Maes, DVM, PhD, Phone: 517-353-1683
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GeneSeek, Inc., 4711 Innovation Dr., Lincoln, NE 68521, Contact: Mr. Abe Oommen, Phone: 402-435-0665
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California School of Veterinary Medicine, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8744, Phone: 530-752-7383
Shearers and Wool Handlers
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Dear Tax Talk, I am using a self-directed Roth through Mid Ohio Securities to buy and sell real estate. I can buy unregistered securities in a corporation or invest in a limited liability company with my Roth now. Could I have the Roth own an LLC that I use for conducting business and see the profits pass through to the Roth? -- JS
Dear JS, A Roth IRA is a great investment tool, made only better if you can invest in your own company and later sell that company tax-free and live off that money tax-free.
I just worked with a client who was acquiring the stock of a business, and we structured it so that his Roth IRA actually bought the stock. The acquisition was 70 percent bank financed and 30 percent purchaser financed. The company actually took on the amounts as debt and used the cash to redeem the stock of the seller. The Roth IRA acquired a nominal interest in the company since it didn't have a lot of funds in it, but once the other stockholder was redeemed, the Roth wound up with around 95 percent of the stock.
Due to some technical rules that the IRA custodian and an advising attorney provided an opinion on, a sibling of the purchaser acquired the remaining stock. The sibling was necessary to avoid prohibited transactions with the IRA. The stock was in a conventional corporation but an LLC can be taxed as a conventional corporation. I don't believe the Roth can or should own an LLC taxed as a partnership because flow-through from the partnership can cause tax complications.
There is scant legal precedence or IRS guidance on this issue, so I suggest you find a good attorney and IRA custodian. My client used Pensco out of San Francisco as the IRA custodian and Pensco recommended the attorney.
A word to the wise: not every thing is guaranteed here. But measure the outcome against the downside and have a good accountant involved with all the parties to the transaction.
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Robert M. "Robbie" Price laid his head down and went to sleep at his home on Saturday, July 19, 2014, only to awake in Heaven.
He worked for many years detailing cars for Jim and Jackie Chase and also Brian Liner until his retirement at age 62.
He was a member of First Baptist Church. He never met a stranger, enjoyed his Sunday School class, sharing a joke ,with those around him and woodworking with his hands.
He is preceded in death by his sister, Thelma Bledsoe; mother, Hazel Longwith Price; grandmother, Naomi Bledsoe; foster brother, James Hoyle Shedden; brother-in-law, Alvin Scroggins; mother-in-law, Mary Belle "Granny" Scroggins; and three half brothers: Donnie, Jackie and George Price.
He leaves behind to cherish his memory his loving and devoted wife of 53 years, Nora Scroggins Price; daughter, Hazel Price; son, Todd Price and his wife, Susan; two grandsons: Seth Rickman and Nathan Rickman and wife, Lisa; great-grandson: Eric Rickman; special nephew, Chris Scroggins and wife, Suzzane; nephews: Andy Scroggins (Dwanna) and David Brewer; two nieces: Amy Swallows (Greg) and Cara Owenby (Adam); brothers-in-law: Bill Scroggins and Larry Scroggins; two sisters-in-law: Darlene O'Neal and Nancy Scroggins; a very special friend, Jerry Huggins; and other nieces and nephews: Robbie Price (Lisa), Steve Price (Lesley), Ann Anderson (Tony), Lisa McClelland (Steve), Donnie Price, Tyler Price and Nicki Ledwell; several other extended family members; and a host of special friends.
A celebration of his life is planned for tonight, July 22, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. at the East Cleveland Baptist Church, 1145 Arnold Street N.E., with the Rev. Joe Lockman and Lloyd Eismeier officiating.
The family will receive friends at the church this evening from 3:30 until the 7:30 p.m. service time.
The interment and burial will take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the Sunset Memorial Gardens with his family and friends serving as pallbearers.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made in Robbie's memory to your personal church or the charity of your choice.
You are encouraged to share a memory of Robbie and/or your personal condolences with his family by visiting his memorial web page and guestbook located at www.companionfunerals.com.
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Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced Atum Mambe, age 27, of Bowie, Maryland, today to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain merchandise, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Judge Nickerson also ordered that Mambe pay $655,411.82 in restitution.
According to his plea agreement, from July to December 2006 Mambe ordered large numbers of cellular phones, televisions, laptop computers and other technology products from companies, claiming to be the owner of businesses such as M&A Associates, DSOL Consulting and/or Dollar Services, Inc. Mambe also claimed at times to order products on behalf of the University of Maryland. When ordering products, Mambe provided the sales people with closed credit card account numbers and improper bank authorization numbers. Several companies mailed a total of approximately $655,411 in merchandise to Mambe, who never paid the companies. After receiving the merchandise, Mambe would sometimes call the companies and falsely state that he did not receive the merchandise.
On December 21, 2006, U.S. Postal Inspectors searched Mambe's home and recovered some of the fraudulently ordered merchandise, including computers, cell phones, and five plasma televisions. Mambe admitted that what he "did was wrong, but the lifestyle was very lucrative and it was hard to walk away from." Based on his participation in the fraud scheme, Mambe supported two residences. He sold some of the merchandise for $350,000 to $400,000, and sold a portion of the merchandise overseas. He also bought dump trucks in England and shipped the trucks from England to Cameroon, West Africa.
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I am a stay-at-home wife and mom to 2 dogs, hopefully soon kids as well. Having grown up just outside of New Orleans, I have always been a "Live to Eat" person, as well as loving to cook. My parents definitely instilled in me the importance of unprocessed, homemade food as well as always being open to try new things.
My life is very blessed and I tend to want to share that with people through food and opening our home to anyone.
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Your doctor performs this surgery by making a small incision in your neck just above your breastbone. Your doctor then inserts a thin scope (the mediastinoscope) behind your breastbone.
This allows your surgeon to obtain a biopsy of your lymph nodes in the center of your chest (mediastinum). Your doctor will then check this cell sample for:
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Your biopsy results will help your doctor come up with the right treatment plan.
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Your doctor performs this surgery in an operating room. You will receive a general anesthetic that will make you sleep during the procedure. To keep your throat safely open as your head is tilted back during the surgery, your doctor will place a breathing tube down your throat.
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You may get a small scar where the instruments are inserted. You may also experience some discomfort at the incision area for a few days.
In some cases, you may experience temporary injury to a nerve that weakens your vocal cord muscles. This may make your voice hoarse.
Rarely, bleeding can result. This may require a larger chest surgery. Air leaks from the lung may occasionally need additional treatment, such as the placement of a chest tube for drainage. This will be placed between the ribs and kept in place for a few days.
This surgery does not require an overnight hospital stay, although you should not drive or drink alcohol for the rest of the day.


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Some professional cyclists do make pretty good money. Their teams fly them to the big races, and they can afford to live comfortably and train at home in between. Levi Leipheimer, for example, has a house in Santa Rosa, California and an apartment in Girona, Spain for extended overseas trips. A lot of the big domestic pros have homes in Boulder, and it's not uncommon to hear of someone flying down to Tucson for a week to train if the snow gets too deep back home.
Most of us, however, do not have these luxuries. We get our travel paid for, but only to select races, which means we need spend our meager salaries on a place to live somewhere with good training, and local racing options. Since there's really no place in the U.S. that offers this year-round, we live like vagabonds or gypsies, following the seasonal racing in a traveling circus.
I rent a room year-round in Gainesville, Florida, where I stay from August through whenever the California campaign starts in the spring. In the summer, to escape the Florida heat (which makes training impossible), I rent a cheap (very cheap) place somewhere in the Northeast. This year, it's just outside of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in a house with anywhere from one to eight other pro cyclists, depending on who's off racing somewhere. The rent is $500 flat, for May to August, and you get what you pay for.
First, a view from the outside:
The house itself is three units, rented (from right to left) by college students, a Vietnam veteran, and us. Note the proximity to the road, a highway frequented by 18-wheelers at night. The speed limit is 45, but we're right at the tip of a blind corner, so we find it safer to listen for oncoming cars instead of looking each way.
As you walk in, you're greeted by this overflowing trashcan, which may have been explored recently by raccoons. Everyone who passes the mess feels guilty, but asks "Why should I be the one to clean it up?" Shameful.
Once inside the house, we're just glad that the living room floor isn't covered with trash.
All furniture in the house fits into one of the following categories:
a. Portable (folding chair pictured, air mattresses)
b. Abandoned by previous renters (the sofa)
c. cardboard
That is a bicycling magazine on the sofa.
The fridge is stuffed at all times, and you'd better initial everything, or it's fair game.
Here's the pantry. Everyone buys four boxes of pasta, labels them with initials, and doesn't eat it, because pasta is boring.
The freezer is full of Manager's Special (almost expired) chicken breasts, which were 75 percent off.
I'm not complaining. I enjoy the lifestyle right now, and it's worth it for what I get to call a job, but I thought it would be fun to take my readers on tour, so you'll know what it means to be a pro bike racer. I hope you enjoyed it.


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This year's finalists are Thakoon Panichgul for Thakoon; Laura and Kate Mulleavy for Rodarte; Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig for Marchesa; Phillip Lim for 3.1 Phillip Lim; Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra for Costello Tagliapietra; Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk for Jovovich-Hawk; Doo-Ri Chung for Doo.Ri; David Neville and Marcus Wainwright for Rag & Bone; Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewelry, and accessories designer Devi Kroell.
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"The money is important, but to most of them, the bigger win is the mentoring," said Steven Kolb, CFDA's executive director, who called each designer on Tuesday to inform them they'd made the final 10 from among 101 applications.
Next month, the designers behind each label will meet with members of the selection committee, which consists of several key industry executives, from retailers to editors and designers. They will visit the finalists in their studios and discuss the nature of recent collections with each designer to eventually narrow the list down to three. The selection committee consists of Vogue's Anna Wintour and Sally Singer, Oscar de la Renta, CFDA's Kolb and Lisa Smiler, Barneys New York's Julie Gilhart, Jeffrey's Jeffrey Kalinsky, Coach's Reed Krakoff, Theory's Andrew Rosen and Kellwood's Stephen Ruzow.
Vogue and the CFDA established the fund in 2003 to offer support to young designers both financially and professionally. The fund has been widely lauded for helping young designers in areas such as production, sales, marketing and public relations.
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