text: Best Helicopter Skiing in the WorldOct 23, 1999 (Updated Mar 14, 2000) This is a long one...2100 word story. Greed This is the simple story of nine days, six heli-ski guides, four skiers, three helicopters, and more than a 100,000 vertical feet �It�s my birthday, and my Dad says I can have whatever I want, and I want your bicycle.��Pee Wee�s Big Adventure I am a sinner. Some days I am guilty of all seven deadly sins before I get out of bed�those are the good days. But on this trip, I was assigned only one: greed. Luckily it�s one of my favorites. Two days into my exercise in greed I found myself atop a no name peak in the Snake River Range of Wyoming, being hammered with the stinging nettles of propwash snow, as my ride, a Bell JetRanger, dropped for the valley floor like it was dodging ack ack fire. I cowered with Dave Peck, a lifelong friend, Darian Boyle, K2 Team rider, and Lee Cohen, walking flashback to the �70s and legendary ski photographer. After the heli cleared the LZ we scrambled to get our gear on with a manic energy that was reminiscent of Micah Abrams scrambling to get lucky in Vegas. Unlike Micah, we all got gear. Because contrary to our guides lectures�safety never takes a holiday�we would not be descending in a safe and responsible manner. It was every beater for himself and last person to the gunship�well that would be Lee, because he was toting the Angry Midget, a pack stuffed with honking big lenses that, from a Freudian point of view might suggest a lack elsewhere. But I digress; descending is what we set about doing, and damn fast. The snow was six inches of crystal light, on top of perfect wind groomed pitches. With each turn the snow flitted up in light sprays, and it cut with the sound of tearing newspaper. It was the kind of smooth that challenges you to push for more speed, and I found just enough to duck in front of Dave and steal his line. After all, I�m a professional. Greed was my assignment and I was on the job 24/7. Darian worked us both ripping 100-yard turns across the tops of the bread loaf like hillocks, cutting back just before the edge and throwing up a jet ski spray. Darian is six foot of catwalk worthy model and a GMVS graduate�she waxed us without breaking a sweat and was first into the valley. The Snake River area was as massive as ten Jackson Holes, from every peak you could see ridge after ridge of skiable backcountry, without another soul skiing�and it was all in High Mountain Heli Skiing�s permit area. Jagged peaks, massive bowls, and incredible winding drainages, it was a million-acre terrain park with only four kids in the pipe. The day became a series of fevered attempts to poach lines, rip down mountains, and cajole our guide, John Shick, into taking us to steeper and steeper terrain, to which he resisted with lines like: �Heli-skiing in the US is not extreme skiing. This isn�t Disneyland, there are no safety brakes on this ride.� Ummm�yeah, whatever, can we ski something steeper now? [drop cap] �Mummy, I want an everlasting Gobstopper, get it for me.� �Violet Beuaregard in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory When I was made editor of Powder I laughed, my friends laughed, and somewhere deep in the Earth, Satan laughed as well. It was like giving Charles Keating responsibility for Social Security. In the first editorial planning meeting of the year I looked around the large conference room table with as much sincerity as I could muster. I said, �it�s time we gave some coverage to the hardworking folks who are flying helicopters in the lower 48. It�s time to go back to the heartland because that�s where the best skiing really is. What we need to make this work is one big roadtrip through the West, nailing the crown jewels of US heli-skiing. To do it we�ll need a couple of fast cars, lots of money, a hot ski model, big fat skis and lots of heli-time.� They looked at me like I was insane. But being editor is like being king and until someone takes your head off you get your way. So March 19th we hopped into two borrowed Volvo�s, both all-wheel-drive turbocharged wagons, one of them electric blue with 240 horsepower. The Volvo press guy was nervous, saying, �you know Road & Track gets that one next�it�s the only one of its kind in the US.� By which I think he meant, �please don�t flog this through the Bonneville Salt Flats at a buck fifty spraying mud like a man possessed.� Sorry. There was a nagging feeling as we set out on the roadtrip. Sort of a, �I know I�m doing something wrong, but I sure hope I don�t get caught,� vibe. Quotes about greed kept running through my head, and the one I always ended on was Lamont Cranston from the old Shadow radio show, intoning, �The wages of sin are death.� But I rationalized, �I�m not really going into the full-time employ of sin, perhaps part-time wages are a really bad sunburn, or a terribly upset stomach. But the feeling was omnipresent, and my karmic bank was bound to take a beating. We headed straight for Jackson Hole, where the billionaires are driving out the millionaires. We spent two days skiing with High Mountain Heli Skiing and staying in the lap of luxury at the Teton Pines, a country club and ski getaway. Anna Olsen, PR guru from Jackson Hole met us for an evening at the Teton�s restaurant. And like all good PR people she knew how to put a good spin on things, so several bottles of wine later, the chef brought every one of their fifteen desserts. We were greedy, and headed home just shy of gluttony. Our two-bedroom condo at the Teton Pines came replete with five toilets, an amenity that told me the rich really are very different from you and me. We were just starting to kick it when the front desk rang with a message, �Wasatch Powderbirds will fly you as soon as you can get there.� Another night with not enough sleep, but one more day in a bird. It was a fair trade. [drop cap] I want a cheeseburger�no I want a grilled cheese�no I want two chili dogs�. You�ll get nothing and like it!� �Caddyshack. There�s one downside to heli-skiing�same problem with fishing and hunting, to do it right you have to get after it at the crack of dawn, or at least nearer to the crack than I am comfortable. So with three solid hours of sleep under my belt and my legs moaning like a Kansas City call girl, I approached the start shack of the Wasatch Powderbird Guides. Only it�s no longer a rough log cabin stuck next to the highway. Now it�s a plush world war three bunker, replete with two landing pads, fueling system, and an incredibly comfortable Ledo deck. We went through the safety drills, cocky, because we had some days under our belts. But at the Powderbirds they take it all a little more seriously. Efficiency is everything with Greg Smith�s operation, and the guides worked like a crack SEAL team, strapping avi-beacons to guests chests, instructing skiers never to lift their skis with two hands, (see they can go into the blades, which is bad) and generally running us through some sensible training. At the Powderbirds they fly a sweet A-Star, powerful enough to operate safely in the 11,000 foot range, which conveniently was how high the mountains were around there. When the sun cracked the valley rim we were airborne, heading past Snowbird into The Bush. Well, actually nobody calls it The Bush. We headed for regular ol� Wasatch backcountry, perhaps the finest skiing this world has to offer. The day started with a buff corn run, but the corn hadn�t set up yet. Corn-soon-to-be, is much like ice, but the downside is that when you slide out in a frozen back bowl, it can quickly become a 2,000-foot ripper. Darian, always trying to please the camera, accidentally dislodged a 1,500 lb. tombstone rock that slid for a thousand feet throwing off a bow wave of snow. Oh yeah, we�re not in Disneyland. After teasing us with this run, Oly, guide to the stars, took us into his private stash, and as is only the case in the Wasatch, two weeks after a storm and we were skiing thigh deep super light. This was helicopter skiing. Yet when we got to the �copter, we shut up about the snow. There were two groups waiting for lifts and we were all looking for the same snow. Oly, got on the radio and told the other guides, �we�re gonna work some photo shoot stuff for a while, you guys probably wouldn�t like it over here, but it has good light and that�s all that matters to this Powder Mag group. Suddenly Oly had become greed�s conspirator, so we hogged the pow filled trees all morning, lapping through the only powder left in Utah. At the end of the day I slipped Oly a shiny quarter as thanks for going the extra distance. Darian continually offered to huck off every bump, rock, branch, and snowflake that could be found. I was all for it, �Yeah Digger, launch that cliff. See if you can break a hundred.� Lee, ace lensman, was not amused. Contrary to the image of photographers who send their skiers off impossible cliffs, he wouldn�t let anyone huck in the variable conditions. And when someone did launch something, invariably Lee had the lens cover on, or was changing film, or searching the Angry Midget for a snack. Dave tossed three or four forward flips for the camera, and you would think it was Lee�s first day with a Cannon Snappy from the way the shots came out. Two blurred shots of Dave�s bunger, and all he got out of it was a pronounced limp. Toward the end of the day, my legs were toast, weakened from months of SoCal desk jockeying. So I urged more photo shoots, �Lee, let�s barbie here for a bit, send them ski models on a hike, we need distant silhouette shots to capture the grandeur of this place.� While they sweated out yesterday�s wine, I reclined in the Utah sun. Greed sometimes is a beautiful passive thing, but yes I bordered on stealing some of Sloth�s thunder. We ended up in the White Pine area, hallowed ground for Utah backcountry skiers, but we didn�t see any hikers, no skintrails, and no gorp, just classic Utah descents. Long sustained runs through five centimeters of flawless corn, then carveable Styrofoam and at the bottom ugly ski sucking pine pitch covered mank. Some say corn skiing is better than powder skiing. They�re wrong, but they say it. Our day ended as all days at the Powderbirds end, hitting their dining room and getting down with a serious buffet. I was catatonic after stuffing myself. But there was no rest for the weary, we had a helicopter waiting in Nevada at 7:00 a.m. and three casinos to hit between Utah and Ruby Mountain Helicopter Skiing. Sunburnt, stuffed, and exhausted, we loaded the Volvo�s and soon were running flat out 139mph across the desert. Our wake was filled with the broken dreams of a V-8 Camaro owner who just got his ass kicked by an electric blue grocery-getter wagon. You�re not in Detroit anymore, Toto. There are only about six roads in Nevada, so quite naturally that�s where the cops are. They tagged me blindly going 46 mph over the limit. $391 ticket, and the best thing that could be said for the experience is that the officer skipped the standard �better slow down� lecture. He knew my days of speeding weren�t over, I knew it, why waste both of our time. But it was a poor and bitter ski bum that arrived in the Ruby�s. I have driven through Nevada many times, and always it was a race to see how fast I could get across, usually en route to Tahoe or San Francisco. This was the first time that I slowed down, not by my own choice, and looked at the mountains. They are beautiful beyond words. Ruby Mountain Helicopter Skiing fits in with its surroundings about as well as the Amish at a rave. Joe Royer�s operation is run out of a massive country ranch house with huge vaulted ceilings, 25-foot dining room table, and creature comforts wherever you turn. And on the front lawn sits a gleaming new A-Star. It�s what you imagine Ted Turner�s house must be like. Yet the surroundings are true breadbasket, hard working ranches, agriculture based communities, not the average setting for a high-end heli-ski gig. We quickly fell into a pattern at Ruby Mountain. Get up, check the weather, ski our asses off, then at 2:30, hit the ranch house for Backgammon, where I was trying to win back some of my speeding ticket money from Lee. Unfortunately he used some kung-fu voodoo New York child chess prodigy stuff on me and soon I was $160 down. At 6:00 every evening Francy, Joe Royer�s partner, lays out dinner. It�s here that words fail me. I can only say that each dinner became the best food I had ever eaten, and the entry fee was worth it for the culinary experience alone. Joe and Francy create the most comfortable atmosphere in which to talk, dine, �gammon, and relax. Later in the evenings, the bad guests, the greedy ones, would load into the Volvo for the 20 minute ride to the local casino. Four nights running I took The House to the cleaners. The laws of chance did not apply to me. Nevada was one big ATM, and I just kept punishing them for that speeding ticket. I ended up with so much money that I had nothing else to do but buy a shotgun at a pawn shop. God knows why, but when you win enough, when money is falling out of your pockets, and all your friends are losing, then you buy a shotgun to illustrate just how wealthy you have become and how little money means to you. Returning home from a ski trip with a fat wad of dead presidents and a 12 gauge was hard to explain to my fianc�e, but now she thinks I am dangerous and no matter how loudly she yelled I knew that secretly chicks dig danger. Flying into the rubies on our first day I was astounded. Royer has locked up the only ski operation in an area that is equivalent to the whole of the Wasatch. In four days we never saw another skier, or ski-track that didn�t belong to us. There were incredible peaks, ungodly steeps, huge bowls, and some of the best couloirs I have ever seen. One shot, The Come Line, is�umm�true to its name. 2,000 vertical feet of perfectly shaped couloir, descending as a straight steep white line amidst impenetrable rock faces. Every day Royer brought us to new ranges, new mountains, new bowls, and every day we sated ourselves with endless untracked. Even though it hadn�t snowed in a couple of weeks he was still able to find us fresh snow every run. And on the last day it snowed about eight inches, and the Ruby�s revealed themselves as paradise. We raced through boot top ego snow, on top of perfectly carveable base. Royer didn�t mess around, no matter how hard we matted it, invariably he was at the helicopter first with a small smile that said, �these are my mountains boys, don�t fool yourselves.� And we didn�t, after nine days of spazzing around the country as fast as we could, slurping heli-time like 12 steppers at a keg party, we finally calmed down. And for a moment we let go of greed, and appreciated the majesty of the mountains, the power of skiing, and how infinitely lucky we were. Then we fought like dogs to get in the �copter and do it all over again. And that should be the end, but in my rush to get back to Southern California, a curious thought in itself, I offended a native Nevada law officer. I had been making good time, taking a back two-lane highway, and averaging somewhere north of a hundred for the better part of five hours. But coming into some podunk town, doing a measly 65, this guy clipped me. Blues going, I got the lecture I had missed days earlier and halfway through an 18 wheeler ripped to the side of the road with tires squealing and dust flying. And I thought, �there must be an accident. Maybe the cop will let me off.� The driver of the rig was red in the face and screaming before he hit the ground. �Thank God you nailed that crazy sumbitch. I�ll drive anywhere to testify, sign anything, spend the day in the courtroom as long as you lock that lunatic up.� He kept screaming, but now the cop was busy saving my life, and my defense that �perhaps it was a different electric blue Volvo wagon� seemed weak even to myself. I signed the ticket, and my much of my gambling money went straight back into Nevada coffers. You can�t win at greed, but sometimes you can break even. |


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Fresh and juicy during spring and summer months, strawberries are delicious when combined with tender spinach, creamy goat cheese and crunchy toasted almonds. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 6.4g | Fat: 16.6g | Fiber: 2.3g | Protein: 4g | Calories: 181.2
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A filling breakfast or post-workout recovery drink, this protein-packed smoothie tastes just like strawberry cheesecake! You can also substitute any other fruit for the strawberries, or add half the strawberries and half a different kind of fruit. (We love the classic strawberry banana combo!) Submitted by OILPAINTER Carbs: 36.4g | Fat: 2.7g | Fiber: 6.2g | Protein: 19.4g | Calories: 236.3
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(ABC 6 News) -- In the 2013 legislative session, lawmakers increased funding for early childhood education by $40 million by creating new scholarships for kids to attend preschool.
"Research has shown that between the ages of birth and age five is when the most learning occurs," said Amy Baskin, director of Early Childhood Family Education in Austin.
Baskin and other educators in Mower County said they're excited about the new opportunities created by roughly $130,000 in new pre-k scholarships.
"We've been able to add some classes, and we're going to add a summer class for some children that have had no previous experience prior to entering kindergarten," Baskin said. "So it's going to be a tremendous impact in our community."
The impact will perhaps be amplified in Austin, where higher poverty rates and the high cost of child care force some families to make difficult decisions.
"We've known several people who had jobs as paraprofessionals in the school district, who decided, 'Oh, we now have two kids, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to keep working as a paraprofessional when most of that money ends up going to daycare anyway,'" said Ryan Mayers, the father of four children, two of which attend school in Austin.
Mayers has one child currently in preschool, and said he knows the value of getting kids started early.
"The younger you can get kids learning, the better they will be in the end," Mayers said. "They can actually tell when a kid comes into that kindergarten setting if they've had a good background in preschool, they know right away."
And with hundreds of kids across the state now able to attend preschool, experts said the scholarships not only make educational sense, but also financial sense.
"For every dollar we spend on early childhood, it's a $16 return on investment in the future with higher paying jobs and lower crime," Baskin said. "So the research has been out there, it's just a matter of now finally starting to put some resources into it."
The scholarship program is giving more than $3 million to families in Mower, Olmsted, Rice and Winona counties.


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Remember when I told you that hateful homophobe Orson Scott Card's story in an upcoming Superman anthology set off some controversy?
Slog tipper Shawna points out that a total of four comic book stores are refusing to carry the comic with Card's story. According to Robot 6, the stores are Zeus Comics in Dallas, Whatever Store in San Francisco, I Like Comics in Vancouver, Washington, and Ralph's Comic Corner in Ventura, California. Comic book fans are being totally reasonable about these small business owners' decision to not carry a book by a creator they consider to be an active agent of hatred.
Just kidding! They went crazy, right on schedule. Although to be fair, I have to admit that the amount of right-wing bullshit that I see in the comments on comics blogs seems to be decreasing. Unless there's a popular new right-leaning comics blog I don't know about, there's a lot less hatred than there used to be. But there are still a few freaks hanging around:
It's disturbing to see how a small number of people of a particular sexual orientation can inluence the culture so much. Seems to me that the actions of the homosexual community in regards to those who oppose their lifestyle is rather oppressive. Although they are always screaming about tolerance, I don't see too much f of it from them.
I will buy multiple copies, out of spite. It's staggering how the homosexual community, when shown any opposition, of any degree, throws around the words hatred, bigot, homophobic, hatemonger, etc.
This is the real world. People don't have to be tolerant. People don't have to be accepting. People don't have to be accommodating of anothers opinion. Being offended over every thing must be a miserable way to live.
Get over yourselves.
All this a bunch of horse hockey. Don't like the author, don't buy his stuff. You want to buy it, but it !
Superman would believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. Ma and Pa Kent raised him right.
I have already instructed my retail store to purchase and additional 20 copies for me. So all it really takes is four more people to do the same, and this is utterly offset. Nice try to make a guy lose his job because he doesn't agree with your agenda.
Homo-sexuals seriously need to get off their high horse and stop ramming their own opinions down our throats (no pun intended). It's just tacky (and I know how they just HATE that).
When I asked her what her dad did, she said, "He's a college professor. He teaches the dead languages." "People study that?" She shrugged. "I guess." "Okay. So what are the dead languages?" "They're languages that were once important but that nobody uses anymore. They haven't been used for a long time, except by historians." "Like what languages?" "You know, FORTRAN. BASIC." "What does one sound like?"
"I'm afraid Hitler and Nazism have stained Wagner," he says dolefully. "For some people that stain ruins the whole work; for others, it is just something you have to face up to."
I was also writing this essay to a conservative Mormon audience that at the time would have felt no interest in decriminalizing homosexual acts.


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Belfast is a city which has been defined down the years by religious fervour and sectarianism. But amid the Troubles, another smaller community has existed quietly for more than a century.
Israel's ambassador to Britain Daniel Taub has told MPs that talks between Israel and the Palestinians could lead to a "complex peace", similar to that forged in Northern Ireland.
Two Israeli schoolchildren have toured Northern Ireland in a bid to combat anti-Israel activity.
Yedida Jacobs and Paz Ben-Nissan, both 17, spoke to youth groups and school pupils and met political leaders during the five-day visit. They stressed the need for people to talk about the Middle East conflict, and repeatedly said they were opposed to boycotts.
A proposal to boycott trade and investment with companies which work with Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been ditched by local councillors.
Members of Newry and Mourne District Council in Northern Ireland were expected to vote on a motion at a meeting last month, but initially postponed the decision until September.
A Northern Ireland MP has questioned why a groundbreaking Holocaust education project is not available to pupils there.
The Holocaust Educational Trust's "Lessons from Auschwitz", which takes teenagers to visit the Nazi concentration camps and asks them to share their experiences with their peers back home, has been running since 1998. More than 17,000 students have taken part.
One of Northern Ireland's smallest towns has officially twinned with Gaza City, after months of political argument.
The chairman of Moyle District Council attended a ceremony in the Palestinian city on Monday night.
Moyle, in County Antrim, has a population of 15,000 and is home to the world-famous Giant's Causeway.
Members of Parliament have cautioned against drawing comparisons between the situation in Israel and that of Northern Ireland before the Good Friday Agreement.
During a debate on Israel in Westminster Hall, called by Labour MP John Woodcock, it was pointed out that the peace process in Northern Ireland went ahead "with the Provisional IRA still on active operations".
The historian Geoffrey Alderman says he has been "disinvited" from a panel debate on the Middle East at the Belfast Festival due to take place tonight.
The festival's director Graeme Farrow asked him to join Professors Avi Shlaim of St Anthony's College, Oxford and Beverley Milton Edwards, of Queens University, Belfast, as speakers at the event.
Professor Shlaim is a noted critic of Israeli policy, while Professor Edwards is the author of a recent study of Hamas.
Máiread Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has flouted the orders of Ben Gurion airport security officials by refusing to board a plane out of Israel.
Ms Maguire was prohibited from entering Israel following her involvement in an attempt to breach the naval blockade of Gaza in June. She was deported after the Rachel Corrie ship was boarded by the Navy and redirected to Ashdod.
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The ID I have used recently charges an hourly rate and then a 20% markup on the "wholesale" price of furniture, fabrics, etc., stating that the price will never be higher than retail. When I did a construction project my GC was cost plus and I was shown the invoices and he then added his fees. Would you expect an ID to show you the invoice? Without it there is no way for me to know that I am getting the best price and one that matches the agreed to contract. I seem to always pay retail, which would mean that the discount to IDs is always 20%. Any insight into what the discounts are for designers at a large Design Center with fabrics from Kravet, Schumacher, etc. My other issue is that the ID does not itemize the hourly bills. I enjoy working with the ID, but feel like there is too much smoke and mirrors built into the billing and I don't have any way to reconcile the bills or be able to check for errors. If you've worked with an ID, how did they bill you? |
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- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 27, 13 at 9:05
I would expect an itemized invoice and copies of invoices. If there's nothing to hide, then she will provide, although she might charge you for the time it takes her to put the package together. imo, in order to run a smooth business and keep clients separate, it should be done already. Excel spreadsheet (once set up) will do the adding for her. Of course she has to have the discipline to actually do it. Some insurance companies ask for copies of invoices/tickets when you file a claim. It could be brought to her attention this way - you need them for your files. |
Our interior designer is very open about billing. I would just ask. Discounts vary: Oly studio 40% Lee industries 25%, Mitchell gold - 10%. |
Good point about the insurance. I have receipts for most large items I have bought in the past, even scanned most of them when we relocated overseas for a few years. I guess part of my problem is that we live in the same town and belong to some of the same community groups. I'll finish my current project with the ID and then bring this up as the reason why I won't continue for the 3 projects I planned to tackle next. |
- Posted by joaniepoanie (My Page) on Thu, Jun 27, 13 at 12:55
I would hope that anyone doing hourly billing would be totally honest...lots of room for padding here. I spent a nice chunk of change for a 2 hour consultation...I wanted a gameplan for my main living area, except kitchen. Colors, furniture placement, etc..Almost the entire time was spent with her showing me products on her laptop and we didn't even discuss the FR. I was so disappointed I did not continue with her...even though she is sort of well known in my area. Next time I am just going to utilize the designers at reputable furniture stores. |
I have only worked with ID from store where I purchased most of my furniture. I had to give a $1000 in order to have her help me....and after the first $5000 spent, the $1000 is refunded. She has also helped me with paint colors, and will give helpful hints about accessories, even though I didn't purchase that through her store. Its a pleasure not to pay her hourly fees!!! |
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3 and say, You mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. | 3 and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. |
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Monday was the inflection point.
Monday was the time when the possibility became a probability, when the potential began to approach realization on the field.
Monday was when Grady Sizemore started to look real.
In a camp defined by its serenity, the lone lingering debate has revolved around center field: Sizemore or Jackie Bradley Jr.? It's a complicated question because it undercuts traditional mores: The veteran Sizemore is more of the unknown quantity than the rookie Bradley, an oddly stable choice for a player who doesn't turn 24 for another month.
On Monday morning, who will play in center field still looked like a tossup. Sure, Sizemore had played well, but how much could he play? How would the Red Sox handle center when he couldn't? How much would that stunt Bradley's development?
By Monday afternoon, those concerns seemed trifling.
Sizemore's presence was ubiquitous in Boston's 10-5 win over the Cardinals. He had three hits and two sparkling defensive plays. On a day when Dustin Pedroia, Mike Napoli and Ryan Lavarnway each hit a home run, nobody looked better than the man in center field.
It was a reminder of all that Sizemore once was, and the cathedral ceiling he still possesses in 2014. Sizemore on Monday wasn't an approximation of what he once was or 75 percent of his old self. For seven innings at least, Grady Sizemore was Grady Sizemore.
"Maybe [that was] a little bit of a flashback to how good Grady was for a number of years," manager John Farrell said after the game.
"It's a great feeling just to be back out here and be part of a team and not be on the outside looking in," said Sizemore. "It's been the case for me a long time, sitting on the outside being hurt and watching. So it's just good to be around the guys and be in that same scenario."
Sizemore's day started with a leaping catch — and a hard collision into the wall — to end the bottom of the first.
"Honestly, I was kind of walking off the field," said starter John Lackey. "I've seen him do that before. I kind of thought it was going to happen."
"Fearless," Farrell said.
He hit a line-drive single in the third, and another through the right side in the fifth. He added his first extra-base hit of the spring in the sixth, a double off the Green Monster.
He's now 8-for-21 this spring — a .381 average.
"When we've observed BP, you're starting to see him move his legs a little bit more in his swing," Farrell said. "There's greater impact that's coming."
For good measure, Sizemore made a diving catch in left-center to rob Jon Jay of extra bases in the top of the seventh — his final defensive inning.
It was about as dominating an all-around performance as is possible in the month of March. That chronology, of course, serves as a reminder of the context here. Sizemore's performance came in an exhibition game. Twenty-one at-bats is a laughably small sample. He's still played on back-to-back days only once, although he's now scheduled to do it again on Wednesday and Thursday.
When the Red Sox signed Sizemore, that was part of the deal: The window for evaluation was going to be tight.
"Our memory serves us well. We knew what kind of player he was," said Farrell, acknowledging that questions about Sizemore's durability remain valid. "We won't know until there's a string of games that are played. I can't sit here today and say that's afforded here in spring training."
"I'm just happy to be healthy," said Sizemore, "to be out there playing and able to do those things. Hopefully I can build off of that.
"I feel good. I haven't had one day where I was like, 'I don't know if I can play today,' or 'This might be too much.' I can't really say because I haven't pushed it yet, but the important thing is I feel good enough to keep going out there every day."
Sizemore, for his sake, isn't making grand proclamations after Monday. He focuses on a nearer horizon.
"Let's just get through tomorrow before we start talking about the season," he said. "I just want to keep focusing on spring training and getting better and better."
The Red Sox, though, can continue to dream on Sizemore — to see him as an approximate replacement for Jacoby Ellsbury in center and at the top of the order and the kind of high-reward signing that can make a good lineup look great again.
"We just had to stay open-minded to the evaluation of spring training and see how he performed," said Farrell. "He's performed very well."
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15 The LORD of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, proclaims: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land." | 15 For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.' |
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Hello all. We have a waterfront home in Florida and have stunning sunset views to our west or left side of our home. The vacant lot next door (.35 acres) just received a new 5500 Sq ft 3 story home and they just completed a 6 ft fence all the way to the water. This new fence completely blocks our sunset view and my favorite view altogether. I'd like to be a good neighbor...but now I would like to simply create privacy now down the fence line ( our home is a one story). First...how I do that and not feel guilty of hindering their view of the water. ..or should I care at all and simply create my private bastion. I give up a lot to afford to live in this beautiful spot and it has been hard to let go of the privacy and even more so the more beautiful views....All advice is greatly appreciated!!! |
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- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 19 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 14, 14 at 23:21
I'd build a 2 story deck so you can enjoy your view! This (and I hate them) is one reason a HOA is a good thing. Without that, you don't have a prayer. A little concrete, lumber, and labor will give you a nice deck. You can just go up there and enjoy your view. Put a cover on it, and they can't watch from their 3 story house. That was pretty tacky what they did. They should have been more considerate. |
Create privacy and if you can, build a deck - when it comes to views, we can't take them for granted. In my neighborhood, people are selling their older homes and the new buyers are building up to get a view. Funny though, one neighbor build up to get a view then the one in front build up and obstructed their view. And they used to be friends. Good luck. |
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Anyone here from nyc or upstate ny where are all the jobs for new grads im currently taking my prereqs but i need to use my skills... Read More
0Jun 29, '12 by ladeelovex3Quote from charismalpn2010hey yall. I've been reading your comments and it discourages me a little. I'm pursuing my LPN and i don't want to here that there are no jobs.Anyone here from nyc or upstate ny where are all the jobs for new grads im currently taking my prereqs but i need to use my skills
Keep your heads high. I'm sure you'll find something
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0Jun 29, '12 by charismalpn2010hey lady i found a job been here for a year its in a clinic i also worked in a nursing home for a few months just for the experience but it was nasty lol where do you live in ny?
0Dec 10, '12 by heidibelle1Hi, I haven't had any luck yet and I live in the Albany, NY (upstate NY) area. I graduated in June 2012 and received my license in October 2012. I've had a handful of interviews but no takers! I've applied to a number of doctor offices, nursing homes, and home health agencies as LPN's have been phased out of hospitals here. One home health agency said you need a year experience and offered me a home health aide position which doesn't count as one year experience towards an LPN position with them. I think with so many new graduates from a number of LPN programs in the area, limited jobs for LPN's and a bad economy it's hard to get a job right now period. When I look at the want-ads here, there are 10 RN jobs for every LPN job. I'm starting to get discouraged and decided to go to a local community college to start on my RN.


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I am interested in the processes (ecological, biological, and abiotic) that affect the distribution and abundance of populations in space and time and I use a combination of field surveying, experimentation, and modeling in my research. I typically evaluate spatio-temporal patterns of populations in the context of biological control of insects and plants and have done so in a variety of ecosystem types (forest, rangeland, old field). I am particularly interested in the role that climate and landscape variables play in population dynamics across space. Read more about my research interests here and about recent projects here.
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Invasion ecology and biological control
- Linaria dalmatica biological control
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Ph.D. Environ. Science, Univ. of Rhode Island (2010)
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March 1999Dan Maliniak, vice president of Allied Bindery, in Madison Heights, MI, also sees the advantages of HSS over carbide. "Carbide blades cost twice as much to buy, cost twice as much to sharpen and don't last much longer," he says.
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"Cutters have been very labor-intensive and, when we began buying optional equipment, the increase in efficiency and productivity was significant," Zeigler claims.
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In fact, according to Zeigler, the most important piece of optional equipment he purchased was the Transomat off-loading system. By helping move paper without heavy lifting, he says the Transomat helped Original Smith Printing eliminate many of its workman's compensation claims.
Maliniak shares the same sentiments about his automated Polar System 2. "Our workman's comp guy loved it when he saw it," he exclaims, describing the impact of the system, which consists of a stacklift, jogger, counting scale and off-loader—with the cutter at its heart.
To emphasize the point, Maliniak points out that Allied Bindery has a cutter operator who has been with the company since its beginning; that operator recently turned 65. Maliniak says the operator thought about retiring because of all the heavy lifting and overtime associated with his job, but now he plans to stay around.
According to Maliniak, the addition of the Polar System 2 practically eliminated overtime, retained a strong employee and postponed the search for, and subsequent training of, new personnel.
"With the new system, the cutter operator produces four times as much work, and he's not as tired as he used to be," contends Maliniak. "The expense of the off-loader was paid back in about a year between efficiency and wages."
Adler was equally concerned with efficiency at Fort Dearborn, where millions of labels are printed each year. "The goal was to obtain the ability, once the label was cut, not to touch it again until it was put into the box," Adler says of the off-loading systems. "When you handle something more than once, you have the possibility of mishaps and, in our case, mixes [mixed up labels]. You could be putting a bundle of corn into a box of green beans."
Automating the cutters was part of Fort Dearborn's recent bindery "overhaul." Adler says the company completely redesigned its bindery to automate various tasks, redeploy employees and reduce its workforce by 30 percent. Adler says upgrading the cutters was a large part of that change.
As a final piece of advice for the printer or binder shopping for a cutter with optional equipment, Adler offers this simple piece of advice: "Go out and visit people who use the equipment. Talk to the operators and management about their overall success with it. Learn what the value is and try to run some cost benefits on it."
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Do I need free soda? (524 comments)
Not as long as I can go home at 5, no.
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Do I need free soda? (524 comments)
Not as long as I can go home at 5, no.
See, what you did there, that was racist. (608 comments)
The framing of this article seriously makes me want to take Slashdot off the list of sites I look at. Politically correct? Because he's not white? Cowardly, pissant, fragile ego white kids need to get over themselves. And now.
Call Bob Howard. (336 comments)
We better not be violating the second Benthic treaty, that's all I have to say...
Yes. (1002 comments)
Re:really?! (400 comments)
If you don't like it, stop developing the tech. Because if it exists, it will be used against you.
That will never happen. If a tech can be developed, someone will develop it. What we need is a real civil government. Mind you, I have no idea how to implement that these days.
Oh fabulous.... (332 comments)
The Future: A first post, stamping on an article, forever.
Dammit! Other films did this too (72 comments)
I need to compile a list, but off the top of my head Earth: The Final Conflict did this years before Minority Report. That is all.
Re:not science (387 comments)
I would argue that the effects are observable, and they're against it. If every choice is available somewhere, why does probability work so well? Why can we somehow navigate this infinite sea of all possibilities with confidence?
Different? (243 comments)
Is this vastly different than the Predator drones we use in AfPak? Or are we just freaked out because someone else is doing it?
Well... (218 comments)
Very carefully?
Re:Build-in function library (831 comments)
The only problem with this is that a huge amount of time web devs are working on servers they don't own and don't have install privileges to. That's why PHP wins.
Sad but true.
Re:The game (201 comments)
Actually, right now, you can buy all the ddo content and come out ahead of six months of a paid account. That'll probably change, but at the moment you get a monetary advantage being a free player.
Prediction tool (11 comments)
Weird, DDO doesn't have this problem. Does this mean it's doomed? Can you now predict success of an MMO on spam levels?
Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist (832 comments)
Right, and how do they grow it?
Unless it's an unusually uh, moist, area, you'd get the same thing with water collectors anywhere there's a settlement and no need to pay a farmer plus transport it. It didn't look real wet around that farm.
Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist (832 comments)
R2-D2 Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in slapsticky fashion -- and no voice synthesizer. Imagine that design conversation: "Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we'll never get a 30-cent voice chip past accounting. That's just madness."
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else. John Scalzi seems to suffer from the "must have everything" school of thought and doesn't think the future will focus on minimalism and getting one thing right. Thank god he's not writing software and just another hot air blogger. I reject Episodes I, II & III so I don't know what he's talking about with the oil slick and jets.
Yeah, well my toasters primary function is to make toast. However, they decided to put a lever that allows me to communicate with it so that I'm not in the dark as to what's going on. Here's the design meeting:
"Hey we've got this kickass flight droid that will sit right behind you and help you out while you fly"
"Sweet, so it'll like, tell me if there's problems"
"Oh sure. As long as you speak boopie-beepie"
C-3PO Can't fully extend his arms; has a bunch of exposed wiring in his abs; walks and runs as if he has the droid equivalent of arthritis. And you say, well, he was put together by an eight-year-old. Yes, but a trip to the nearest Radio Shack would fix that. Also, I'm still waiting to hear the rationale for making a protocol droid a shrieking coward, aside from George Lucas rummaging through a box of offensive stereotypes (which he'd later return to while building Jar-Jar Binks) and picking out the "mincing gay man" module.
Again, you're overlooking his primary function. C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." So he's got arthritis, well, you didn't build him to be flexible or fight. You built him to look pretty and translate. Everything else is bells and whistles. I think he was meant to stand in a corner for some rich merchant or politician and translate any language imaginable. Are you going to tell me that my car is flawed because I couldn't afford a $20 toaster to put in the dash?
Nah, I'll tell you your car is flawed if they put an air conditioner in it that only blows hot sand. So what he's a protocol droid? They gave him ARMS AND LEGS. And then made sure that they barely work? What the hell.
Death Star An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you rebuild it, your solution to this problem is four paths into the central core so large that you can literally fly a spaceship through them? Brilliant. Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can't get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
Uh, the second Death Star was never completed, you idiot. The rebels learned about it and attacked it before it had everything completed so anything like "four paths to the central core" or "exposed shafts" could well have been necessary during its construction. Haven't you seen Clerks or watched Robot Chicken's parody of Palpatine trying to talk to the foreman?
Yeah, so here's a guy who already lost one giant pile of money (plus like a million people which makes Skywalker one of the great genociders of the SW universe, but I digress) by having a kid blow the first one up with a single shot. You're going to build another one, you know he and his pain in the ass rebellion is still around, and is watching you. So what you do see, is oh, DON'T PUT THE EXPLOSIVE REACTOR IN UNTIL LAST. Just a thought.
But Luke's X-34 speeder on Tatooine? The Yugo of speeders, man. One hard stop, and out you go.
He's a farmer. You should have seen the "vehicles" and ATVs I drove while working on farms. One was a modified bus with huge water tanks on the back and an upside down bucket for a seat. They make a Yugo look like a dream car. Are you going to complain about the blast marks and carbon scoring adorning the rag tag rebel ships next?
Yeah, but this thing floats. If you can master floating technology, how hard is seatbelt technology? Of course, I guess he needs to be free to jump in and out and adjust that load of
So easy to rip apart. And you know, he doesn't offer anything constructive. Like the asteroid worm. He would have enjoyed it more if space in the Star Wars galaxy was like our space? Dead, uninhabited and void? George Lucas isn't a god but he sure thought up some neat ideas for a universe that John Scalzi will never come close to.
Oooh ouch. Zing! I guess Scalzi will have to slink back to his cave, now. Or not, whatever.
Re:No, it's the stupidest tech startup (148 comments)
Right. Besides the aqueducts, medicine, roads, and irrigation, the bully has given us nothing!
Re:Played by? (227 comments)
Actually, he used to put his good les pauls on a stand behind the amp, pull out a cheap copy and smash the crap out of it. He wasn't totally stupid.
Great! (472 comments)
Now if I could just find an XP vending machine, I 'd be all set.
Re:!demo (242 comments)
Nah. I've played this game. I'm working on this project (thank god I can talk about it) and that's fairly accurate. They're improving the tracking on this thing on a weekly basis and it's pretty playable now. I'm not sure whether this is going to set the world on fire or not, but what you saw being played on stage is the real deal.
Re:Economics in one Lesson (147 comments)
Fundamental to my argument is that people have a right to that which they produce.
Well, you may want to check with whoever you work for. Most people don't.
Secondary to that is that people know how best to spend the money that they earn
Yeah, especially the people who run fortune 500 companies. They do great.


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.- Bishop Julio Teran Dutari of Ibarra, Ecuador, expressed his support this week for the recent declaration of the Bishops Conference of Ecuador denouncing the concentration of power as a possible prelude to dictatorship, and he reaffirmed that "this is not a position against any one individual but rather an analysis of what is happening in the country." The bishop explained that the Conference makes declarations based on objective analysis of the state of the country and he recalled that, "We have heard about the concentration of powers in one political direction under the leadership of the President of the country. It is a fact everyone knows about."
"If we have said that this situation could lead to anarchy or a dictatorship, it's not a position against any one person but rather an analysis of what is happening in the country," the bishop explained.
In response to the current political state of the country, Bishop Dutari emphasized, "There is no time for mutual accusations and much less for mudslinging and discrediting the other side."
"We all must assume the responsibility of seeking out paths forward. Of course we have to count on the Government because it has the authority. We are all responsible for collaborating so that authority is duly exercised, within constitutional norms," he added.
On the other hand, Bishop Dutari responded to lawmakers who have criticized the declaration, emphasizing that it has been misinterpreted to mean the bishops are "taking a position in favor of a specific political party" and against others. "There is no reason to have this kind of reaction," the bishop stated.
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