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Sun Peaks Resort - BC's 2nd largest ski resort is a winter wonderland with three stunning mountains surrounding an award winning ski in ski out pedestrian village.A Travelplan consultant can assist you package your accommodation with flights, lifts & transfers for even greater savings on your holiday to Sun Peaks Canada.
Sun Peaks is a charming, family friendly ski in ski out village with three mountain peaks featuring award winning trail design and Canada's best ski-in/ski-out village - awarded by Ski Canada Magazine..Sun Peaks is the 2nd largest ski area in British Columbia, Canada and with abundant sunshine between regular dry snowfalls, this makes Sun Peaks a great ski holiday destination with plenty of bluebird powder days!
Sun Peaks Ski Resort offers superb skiing and snowboarding for all levels with;
You can even be shown around Sun Peaks mountain with Olympic & World Champion Nancy Greene (based on availability).
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If you are a skier there is nothing better than slopes that are not crowded, lifts that are fast, food that is good and not too expensive and terrain that goes on for ever, with a great variety of slopes. Sunpeaks has it all.
A beautiful little village with friendly staff and an array of great restaurants , what more could you ask for.
Spent 15 nights at Coast Sundance - superb accommodation and location at only 50 paces (from level 3) from bed to ski slopes; great staff always smiling.
Skiing conditions like you will never experience in Aust. and not the altitude (3000m+) you experience in USA. About 200cm snow base from double blacks to groomers. No lift lines to the point of almost ski straight in.
Booked entire trip thru Travelplan Ski and it all worked like clockwork - domestic, international and resort transfer travel; lift passes; accommodation. Total trip cheaper than skiing Japan.
Great trip and will do it again without a doubt. Thanks Travelplan Ski.
The Coast Sundance Lodge, while being a little outdated, is in a perfect location with direct access to the slopes. The hotel itself has everything you need with a pub/restaurant and a number of shops located on the ground floor. The 2x queen room is just that, 2 queen beds with a small table and 2 chairs and a functional kitchenette. There are no lounges.The lodges secure ski locker room is well located with access to the slopes. There are laundry facilities in the basement with 2-3 machines for the whole lodge.Nightlife and restaurants are somewhat limited in the resort and after 1-2 weeks we were tired of the same places.The mountain is great and has varied terrain for all levels. The runs are wide and spread out and there are no crowds or lift lines. And some lifts have hoods for the colder days.
Sun Peaks exceeded all of our expectations.
Skiing was fantastic with a 2 meter base and regular top ups, we really enjoyed the glade skiing & the variety of groomed & ungroomed runs.
Good quality & variety of restaurants or a choice of pub or pizza food for cheaper meals plus a supermarket if you preferred to eat in.
Highlight was definitely the chocolate shop.
Our ski in ski out one bedroom apartment was spacious and extremely comfortable, with a good sized kitchen and full bathroom facilities.
Only issue was lack of wireless Internet in the rooms.
Would definitely return & recommend the resort & the accommodation.
My family of 4 with two boys 11 and 8 stayed at Delta residence skiing 9 of 10 days. The mountain was fantastic with essentially no lift cues. Why pay more elsewhere to stand in line?
Guest services were very accommodating and easy to deal with, voluntarily offering to reschedule a lesson that we were not able to take.
The Residences are well located and equipped. There is only one grocery store in the village but it was well stocked. The restaurants are close and good.
Overall heartily recommended as a ski destination
Our family of 2 adults and 2 children recently spent 2 weeks in Sun Peaks and I'm pleased to say that all the positive reviews we read before we went, were absolutely true!
Sun Peaks offers fantastic skiing spread over 3 mountains and is also a very friendly place. It seems to have everything.
Maybe we should keep it a secret though, so we can keep it all to ourselves!
Stayed at Sundance Chalet 4 Bedroom 4 bathroom house.4 Adults & 3 children.
Comfortably accommodated. Well supplied,excellent kitchen & barbecue area.
Easy walk to ski area and to ski home.
Restaurants surprising excellent standard and very reasonably priced for such a small town.
Very quiet resort so great for families.
Only minus is one very small supermarket. We made 1 trip to Kamloops for choice and to stock up.
Highly recommended for famillies
Our first time to Canada and we are planning to return next year.
Canadians are beautiful people and they helped make our holiday one of the best yet.
The terrain is extensive and snow quality was perfect.
We are returning next year with our 4 year old and hope to make this an on going tradition. So nice to ski in a resort where there are no lift queues ever! Great family resort! Everything went to plan with our itinerary with no issues.
Travelplan are a wonderful company to deal with.
My second visit to Sun Peaks. I decided to return with my partner who had not skied for 20 years as there is terrain suitable for both of us. The Sun Guides is a fantastic free service which allowed me to ski in the top group while my partner skied in the lowest group, so we were both happy and I did not have to worry or feel I needed to ski with her. The Sun Guides are there to ski with you morning and afternoon for over 2 hrs The Sun guiding was fantastic for me and I skied in areas I would never have attempted on my own.
There are no lift queues and fantastic grooming. The temperature never got over 0 deg C so snow quality was excellent the whole two weeks.
Staying at Cahility Lodge allowed me to ski with Al Raine and Nancy Greene which was a fantastic experience.
Coast Sundance Lodge probably has the best location in Sun Peaks. Only a few steps to the lifts and right in the small village. The lodge is great value and the staff are helpful but it is getting a little dated.
The ski slopes at Sun Peaks are varied and have something for everyone. There were hardly any lines at the lifts and the sunburst chair has a hood for the cold days.
The Burfield chair is probably the slowest lift you'll find.
The village has some good dining options but after a few nights there isn't much variety.
Sun Peaks Accommodation: Sun Peak's lodging is set around its charming village and feature ski in ski out access or just steps away from the lifts.
Sun Peaks offers a selection of accommodation from luxury hotel to comfortable, spacious apartments.
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Taking it too farNot to go into much detail of my life I will just say that 15 years ago I lived in West Memphis, Ark., which is rated the second most dangerous city to live in America. There murder, rape and other violent crimes are over four times higher than the national average. This is a place where 1 in every 11 people fall victim of some type of crime. The reason I was there was not of my own choosing since my parent company had sent me to work for an extended period of time as a nuclear health physicist in a decontamination facility located in the area. In addition I was also asked to teach in a local church since the church's regional board was having a hard time getting a full time pastor that was willing to bring his family into such an area. So like most decent people that lived in the area I owned a hand gun for protection while driving or in my home ― which was not illegal in the state of Arkansas. Yet, when I decided to go home to Ohio to visit my family, laws changed. Many Koreans do not understand how the legal system works in America and how each state's laws change depending on how they decide to handle different issues such as gun control or in other words the 2nd Amendment. I was stopped by the Ohio state highway patrol, since I had forgotten to renew my license plates, and I informed the police officer of the gun and where it was located and by Ohio law any gun in a car must be out of reach meaning it had to be in the trunk of the car in a lock box. So I was arrested and placed in a holding cell, waiting to speak to the judge in the morning. The judge dismissed the case and I was freed to go home without even having to pay a fine. This is where the story should have ended and in fact that part did. However, as most of our readers should know Korea is demanding that all foreign teachers must have criminal background checks by the FBI. Like most I believed that the Korean government is only denying applications that had committed certain crimes such as involving drugs, rape, murder or other such charges ― so I informed recruiters of this incident and the fact that it was dismissed. Knowing that it would clearly show up in any FBI background check I was upfront about it. Yet, this is the email I received from one of the recruiters: Hello Mike, It is our office policy not to introduce teachers who have a record because we get commission from the schools. Sorry that I cannot help you, we had a similar case with this and after our office had a meeting we decided not to introduce them. I am really sorry for this. Wish you good luck! Eunice This is a group of people in Korea saying that I am guilty of a crime even though the courts in America let me go with only a warning to not make the same mistake again. For that is what it was – a mistake. While this should hopefully not impair me from getting work in Korea in the near future since I have a Korean wife, I also have a daughter that I have to support and take care of. Plus, I am in the process of getting this cleared from my records. Yet, the point of this article is that over the past few years the media and so many anti-foreigner groups have been demonizing the foreign community so much that any past indiscretion, no matter what it was or how long ago it occurred, is looked upon as a reason not to be hired or even considered for employment. This type of discrimination is wrong and though it is important for Korea to protect its children, it should also protect the privacy and the rights of the teacher and prevent them from being labeled what they are not – criminals and pedophiles. Background checks should be checked by immigration and a special agency within the Ministry of Education and if deemed acceptable this should be enough and it should end there. The way it is going now, newspapers and other news outlets should be encouraged to report crimes committed by foreigners without sensitizing them and in a way that is balanced and without prejudice. Or at least not in such a way that spreads suspicion and hatred to the vast majority that have essentially done nothing wrong. Likewise, the Korean government should start regulating and monitoring these anti-foreigner groups that demonize people that have come here to live and work. These Korean hate groups are no better than the Ku Klux Klan that spread hatred and violence. Immigrants and refugees are among the most vulnerable groups in America. And just like the Klan are a black eye to America these anti-foreigner groups hurt Korea's international image and give the impression that it is nothing more than a group of xenophobic elitists. The writer is a teacher in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. |


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Web Survey Bibliography
Title Screen Design and Question Order in a CAI Instrument Effects on Interviewers and Respondents
Author Fuchs, M.
Source Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association, 1999, pp. 1013-1018
Year 1999
Access date 24.03.2004
Full text pdf (647k)
Access/Direct link Homepage - conference (full text)
Bibliographic typeConference proceedings
Year of publication1999
Web Survey Bibliography - Fuchs, M. (47)
- Using Eye Tracking Data to Understand Respondent's Processing of Rating Scales; 2013; Kunz, T., Fuchs, M.
- Dynamic Visual Design for List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Surveys; 2013; Fuchs, M.
- Using interactive feedback to enhance response quality in Web surveys. The case of open-ended questions...; 2013; Emde, M., Fuchs, M.
- Reducing Response Order Effects in Check-All-That-Apply Questions by Use of Dynamic Tooltip Instructions...; 2013; Kunz, T., Fuchs, M.
- Improving RDD Cell Phone Samples. Evaluation of Different Pre-call Validation Methods; 2012; Kunz, T., Fuchs, M.
- Positioning of Clarification Features in Web Surveys: Evidence from Eye Tracking Data; 2012; Kunz, T., Fuchs, M.
- Using Adaptive Questionnaire Design in Open-ended Questions: A Fieldexperimental Study on the Size of...; 2012; Fuchs, M., Emde, M.
- Effects of number of response options in web surveys: The role of verbal labels; 2012; Thorsdottir, F., Fuchs, M., Jonsdottir, J.
- Effects of Static versus Dynamic Formatting Instructions for Open-Ended Numerical Questions in Web Surveys...; 2012; Kunz, T., Fuchs, M.
- Exploring Animated Faces Scales in Web Surveys: Drawbacks and Prospects; 2012; Emde, M., Fuchs, M.
- Video enhanced web survey; 2011; Fuchs, M., Kunz, T., Gebhard, F.
- Addressing Panel Attrition in Mobile Phone Panel Surveys: Can Incentives and Switching to Mobile Web...; 2011; Busse, B., Fuchs, M.
- Mobile-only – Persistent status or passage in the life course? Results from a Mobile Phone Panel...; 2011; Busse, B., Fuchs, M., Neuert, C.
- Exploring Visual Design Effects In Web Survey Questions. An Experimental Study Using Animated Answer...; 2011; Emde, M., Fuchs, M.
- The Coverage Bias of Mobile Web Surveys; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- The Coverage Bias of Mobile Web Surveys Across European Countries ; 2009; Fuchs, M., Busse, B.
- Are people sharing their mobile phones? Selection probabilities in cellular telephone surveys; 2009; Fuchs, M., Busse, B.
- Is a cell phone really a personal device? Results from the first wave of a mobile phone panel on sharing...; 2009; Fuchs, M., Busse, B.
- Are Respondents Sharing their Mobile Phones? Preliminary results based on a mobile phone panel in Germany...; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Dynamic feedback in open-ended questions: Experiments on the visual design language of Web surveys; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- The relative coverage bias caused by the mobile-only population across Europe; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- The Video-Enhanced Web Survey Data Quality and Cognitive Processing of Questions; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Gender-of-Interviewer Effects in a Video-Enhanced Web Survey: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment...; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Differences in the Visual Design Language of Paper-and-Pencil Surveys Versus Web Surveys A Field Experimental...; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Mobile web surveys: A preliminary discussion of methodological implications; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Response Effects in Video-enhanced Web Surveys; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- The relative Coverage Error in Telephone Surveys caused by Mobile-Only Populations across Europe; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Communicative Channels, Cognitive Processes and Question Understanding: Results from a Randomized Field...; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Gender-of-Interviewer Effects in Video-Enhanced Web Surveys. Results from a Randomized Field-Experiment...; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Using Audio and Video Clips in Web Surveys — Feasibility and Impact on Data Quality; 2007; Fuchs, M., Funke, F.
- Video Web Surveys: Results from field-experimental comparisons with text-based Web surveys; 2007; Fuchs, M., Funke, F.
- Asking for Numbers and Quantities: Visual Design Effects in Web Surveys and Paper and Pencil Surveys; 2007; Fuchs, M.
- Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Mobile Phone Surveys; 2006; Fuchs, M.
- Online student feedback surveys. Methodological issues in comparison to the traditional classroom survey...; 2005; Fuchs, M.
- Kognitive Prozesse und Antwortverhalten in einer Internet-Befragung; 2003; Fuchs, M.
- Item Non-Response Reminder in a Web Survey; 2003; Fuchs, M.
- Methodological Issues in Mobile Phone Surveys; 2003; Vehovar, V., Batagelj, Z., Callegaro, M., Fuchs, M., Kuusela, V.
- Cognitive Processes in Web Surveys; 2003; Fuchs, M.
- Cognitive processes when answering online questionnaires; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Comparing Web Surveys and Paper & Pencil Surveys: Measurement Error and Mode Differences; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Paper and Pencil versus Web Survey. Measurement Effects and Mode Differences; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Cognitive processes in Web Surveys; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Screen Design in a Web Survey; 2001; Fuchs, M.
- Length of Input Field and the Responses Provided in a Self-Administrated Survey: A Comparison of a Paper...; 2001; Fuchs, M., Couper, M. P.
- Technology Effects: Do CAPI or PAPI Interviews Take Longer?; 2000; Fuchs, M., Couper, M. P., Hansen, S. E.
- Technology effects: Interview duration in CAPI and paper and pencil surveys; 2000; Fuchs, M., Couper, M. P., Hansen, S. E.
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What it is... and what it´s not!
Robert Monaghan is the founder of Air Innovation, set up in 2006 to further promote and deliver on innovation, both program management and cultural development working in strategic partnerships with Unilever, Kraft, Pernod Ricard and Philips.
Robert Monaghan is keynote speaker at day one of PACKAGING INNOVATIONS.
- Who: Robert Monaghan
- About: PACKAGING INNOVATIONS - What it is... and what it´s not!
- When: 28 November 2012
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There are many brand owners who do not believe that packaging alone can drive brand innovation and ultimately sales.
We as packaging specialists don't help ourselves here, as all too often we wave case studies around which are novel - yes - but innovative and money makers - no!
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A stimulating and provocative 45 minutes punctuated with some high profile successes as well as a number of fakes!
Robert Monaghan - Innovator & Designer
Robert was born in Scotland, where he studied Industrial Design, which led him to domestic appliance design for Electrolux, where he created a number of new kitchen and cleaning products over a relatively short period.
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Biography (Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century)
Article abstract: A literary innovator, Gertrude Stein captured the dialogue of common people and significantly influenced the writing of post-World War I authors.
Early Life
Born into an affluent family that traded in imported fabrics, Gertrude Stein was the last child of Daniel and Amelia Stein, who vowed to have five children. Gertrude recommended being the youngest child in the family, contending that it saved one considerable bother.
Daniel Stein, having quarreled with his brother and business partner Solomon, took his family to Vienna in 1875, remaining abroad until Gertrude was five. She grew up fluent in French and German as well as English.
In 1880, the Steins moved to Oakland, California, where Gertrude grew up. In 1888, Amelia Stein died, followed by Daniel in 1891. Gertrude's brother Michael became her legal guardian. Her brother Leo, then nineteen, transferred from the University of California at Berkeley to Harvard. Gertrude followed as soon as she could, entering Radcliffe College (then known as "Harvard Annex") in 1893 as a special student because she failed the entrance examination.
At Radcliffe, Gertrude studied philosophy and psychology with Harvard professor William James, becoming his star student. She received the bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1898. Returning to Baltimore, where much of her family lived, Stein began a medical degree at The Johns...
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At the forefront of literary modernism in the early twentieth century was the inimitable Gertrude Stein. Although she was an American, ideological and artistic differences with her home country compelled the author to move to France. Further solidifying Stein as an iconoclast was her nearly lifelong relationship with her companion and secretary, Alice B. Toklas. Stylistically, Stein wrote in a stream-of-consciousness manner, a method that attempts to present thoughts as they occur in an uncensored fashion. Poet Judy Grahn has identified six principles at play in one combination or another in Stein's work: commonality, essence, the "continuous present," value, play, and transformation. Stein's most famous and successful work is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein tried to exactly represent the thoughts and feelings of her companion.Essential Facts
- Many famous authors of the twentieth century revered Stein as one of the most original and thought-provoking writers in history. Among her admirers and friends were Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder.
- What is so unique about Stein's stream-of-consciousness writing style? Here is an example from her book The Making of Americans: "Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
- During World War I, Stein and Toklas learned how to drive and risked their own lives delivering medical supplies to French hospitals.
- In 1934, Stein raised a ruckus when some misinterpreted her sarcastic comments in the New York Times about Hitler: "I say that Hitler ought to have the (Nobel) peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany....By suppressing Jews...he was ending struggle in Germany."
- Stein often had a wry sense of humor. For example, she once said, "I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich."
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
From the time of her arrival in Paris in 1903 until her death in 1946, Stein strove to be a central figure in modern literature. She directed a movement that broke with the past and sought fresh forms of literary expression. A bold explorer of prose, she broke away from the nineteenth century's reliance on plot, character, and conventional description to demonstrate how awareness and identity could be evoked through simple words. She deliberately chose an unliterary style and emphasized the power of words by arranging them in unusual ways.
Although her autobiographical works about France are best remembered, Stein left her mark on modern literature through her influence on writers such as Hemingway and Anderson. The cadence and artlessness of much contemporary writing echoes her early experiments in modern prose.
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Biography (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
When Daniel Stein and Amelia Keyser were married in 1864, the seeds of Gertrude Stein's future independence were sown, for the couple had some unusual ideas about child rearing and family life. Perhaps most psychologically damaging to the children was the parents' firm decision to have five children—no more and no fewer. Consequently, Gertrude's beloved older brother Leo and she were conceived only after the deaths of two other Stein children. In Everybody's Autobiography Stein says that the situation made her and her brother feel "funny." Knowing that one's very existence depends on the deaths of others surely would have some psychological effect, and some biographers attribute Stein's lifelong interest in identity to her knowledge of her parents' decision about family size.
Daniel Stein was apparently as quarrelsome and independent as his daughter was to become. Having operated a successful cloth and clothing business in Baltimore with his brothers, Daniel and another brother broke up the partnership by moving out to Pittsburgh to open a new business. When Daniel had earned enough money, he moved the family across the Ohio to Allegheny, and it was there that Gertrude Stein was born in 1874. She was the last child the Steins were to have, completing the unit of five children. Michael Stein was the oldest child (born in 1865); Simon was next (1867); then came Bertha (1870) and Leo (1872). When Allegheny was hit with fire and...
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Biography (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but she was seven years old before her family settled into permanent residence in Oakland, California, the city she was later to describe as having "no there there." Her birth itself was contingent on the deaths of two of her five brothers and sisters: Her parents had decided to have only five children, and only after two children had died in infancy were Gertrude and her older brother, Leo, conceived. Identity was to become one of the central preoccupations of her writing career, and the tenuous nature of her own birth greatly influenced that concern.
Stein's early years were comfortably bourgeois and uneventful. Her father, a vice president of the Union Street Municipal Railway System in San Francisco, was authoritarian, moody, and aggressive, but vacillating, and he may have helped foster her sense of independence, but he undoubtedly left her annoyed by him in particular and by fatherhood in general. Her mother barely figured in her life at all: A pale, withdrawn, ineffectual woman, she left most of the rearing of her children to governesses. By the time Stein was age seventeen, both parents had died and she had grown even closer to her immediate older brother, Leo. In 1893, she entered Harvard Annex (renamed Radcliffe College the following year), thus rejoining Leo, who was a student at Harvard. There, Stein studied with William James and Hugo Munsterberg and became...
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Biography (Identities & Issues in Literature)
America made her, Gertrude Stein claimed once, but Paris made her an artist. After her aborted career as a psychiatrist, trained by William James at Harvard, and her first unrequited love for a woman, she followed her brother to France in 1903, always on the search for novelty, change, and education. Her American past still haunted her: Her first book, deeply psychological and immediately successful, was Three Lives. Her most ambitious early project, The Making of Americans, expands her stream-of-consciousness style from the personal to the public: Stein intended to write a history of the human mind through a family saga based on all possible character types.
In the 1920's and 1930's, Stein's fame and artistic influence soared. Her salon in Paris housed paintings of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and others. Her innovative books, her literary mentorships, and her circle of friends made her famous. She published widely, and with her "wife," Alice B. Toklas, she entertained such prominent American expatriate writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway later criticized her eccentric style, which employs words for their rhythmic and musical qualities instead of their meanings, as writerly arrogance. Her use of simple words and sentence structures influenced his style. Stein's other literary...
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Biography (Women's Issues (Ready Reference series))
Author Profile
In 1903, Gertrude Stein moved to France, where she befriended great artists such as Pablo Picasso and inspired writers such as Ernest Hemingway to forge a new American style. Stein wrote the experimental novels Three Lives (1909), a three-part work focusing on women, and The Making of Americans (1925), a family chronicle, and she told her own story in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). Stein's most explicitly feminist work is The Mother of Us All (1947), a play about women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony.
Bowers, Jane Palatini. Gertrude Stein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. A succinct, feminist-oriented introduction to Stein, with separate chapters on the short fiction, novels, and plays. Includes notes and bibliography.
Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in Pieces. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. The first detailed, chronological study of all Stein's work. Bridgman's approach is primarily psychobiological; he locates Stein's experimentalism in pathology rather than intention, seeing guilty evasiveness about lesbian sexuality as the crucial impetus for her avant-garde writing.
Brinnin, John Malcom. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein...
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Biography (Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets)
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. Her grandfather, Michael Stein, came from Austria in 1841, married Hanna Seliger, and settled in Baltimore. One of his sons, Daniel, Gertrude's father, was in the wholesale wool and clothing industry. Daniel was mildly successful and very temperamental. He married Amelia Keyser in 1864 and had five children, Michael (born in 1865), Simon (1867), Bertha (1870), Leo (1872), and Gertrude (1874). In 1875, the family moved to Vienna, and three years later, Daniel returned to the United States, leaving his family for a one-year stay in Paris. In 1879, the family moved back to the United States and spent a year in Baltimore with Amelia Keyser's family. In 1880, Daniel found work in California, and the family relocated again, to Oakland. Memories of these early moves would dot Gertrude's mature works. Leo and Gertrude found that they had much in common, took drawing and music lessons together, frequented the Oakland and San Francisco public libraries, and had time to devote to their intellectual and aesthetic interests. When their mother died of cancer in 1888, Leo and Gertrude found themselves more and more detached from the rest of the family. In 1892, Daniel Stein died, and the eldest son, Michael, took the family back to Baltimore, but the Steins began to scatter. In 1892, Leo entered Harvard, while Gertrude and Bertha stayed with their aunt, Fannie Bachrach. Michael, always patriarchal and...
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Biography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Gertrude Stein, who studied psychology under William James (1842-1910) at Harvard University and went to medical school at The Johns Hopkins University, became one of the United States' most celebrated expatriates. Abandoning her medical studies just months short of graduation, Stein moved to Paris in 1903 and, except for occasional brief visits, she never returned to the United States.
Stein spent her childhood in Europe and until her teens was more comfortable speaking French and German than English. Her parents—Daniel Stein, a businessman who became vice president of the Omnibus Cable Company in San Francisco, and Amelia Keyser Stein—were both dead before Gertrude Stein went east in 1893. Stein left Oakland, California, where the family had lived, to enter Harvard's annex, later Radcliffe College. Stein's oldest brother, Michael, set up trust funds that assured Gertrude and her siblings life incomes sufficient to sustain them. Gertrude's closest family connection was with her brother Leo, two years her junior, whom she joined in Paris, where he lived, in 1903.
Stein was always interested in the essence of how people communicate. At Harvard, she had conducted experiments in automatic writing, and she was struck by the poetry and repetitiveness of what her subjects produced. In France, she came under the spell of novelist Gustave...
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Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874 to Daniel and Amelia (Keyser) Stein, Gertrude Stein became a voice for the avant-garde in twentieth- century art. Her cosmopolitan attitudes and tastes were formed early, as she spent five of the first six years of her life in Vienna (where her father studied the banking business) and in Paris. In 1880 the Steins moved to Oakland, California, where her father worked as a stockbroker. After her parents died, Stein moved to Baltimore to live with her aunt. During the 1890s, she attended Radcliffe, studying composition with William Vaughn Moody, philosophy with George Santayana, and psychology with William James. These thinkers were to have a profound impact on Stein's approaches to writing and her taste in art collecting. In 1903 Stein moved to Paris. Her apartment at 27, rue de Fleurus, which she shared with her brother Leo and later with her companion Alice B. Toklas, was a meeting place for artists, writers, and musicians. Her Saturday ''salons'' brought people such as Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Erik Satie, Virgil Thompson, and Pablo Picasso.
An art collector with a daunting personality and no lack of self-confidence, Stein gave advice, made pronouncements, and presided over a flock of expatriate American and English writers, whom she dubbed the ''Lost Generation.'' Her first major work, Three Lives (1909), gives a taste...
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Biography (Short Stories for Students)
Born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Gertrude Stein was the youngest child of upper-middle-class, Jewish-American parents. After her birth, the family traveled in Europe for several years before settling in Oakland, California. Stein was very close to her brother, Leo. The two remained virtually inseparable for several decades. When Leo went to Harvard in 1892, Stein enrolled in the all-female Harvard annex—soon to become Radcliffe College—the following year. Radcliffe, and especially psychology professor William James, became a shaping force in her intellectual development. Many of James's teachings, including his theories of perception and personality types, shaped her own aesthetic theories. With James's encouragement, Stein decided to become a psychologist. After finishing her bachelor's degree in 1897, she began her training in the medical program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1901, however, she left without completing her degree.
Reading—particularly literary classics—consumed more and more of Stein's time. Taking up the pen herself in 1903, she made her first attempt at writing a novel. This first effort, titled Q.E.D., fictionalized Stein's recent romantic entanglement with a young woman named May Bookstaver. Stein cast herself as the rational Adele and Bookstaver as the passionate and ultimately unreliable Helen. Critics have generally viewed this work—published only after Stein's death—not...
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, the youngest of five children in a well-to-do Jewish family of German descent. Before she was a year old, her family began a sojourn in Austria and France that would last five years. Stein's early exposure to the sound of English, German, and French may account for her conviction that words possess a weight and shape of their own.
Her childhood and adolescence were spent in Oakland, California, on a ten-acre farm where she grew up close to nature and the simple domestic objects that would make up the vocabulary of much of her later experimental writing. Her formal education was haphazard, but she read the works of William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Jules Verne and visited art galleries in San Francisco. The death of her parents by the time she was seventeen led her to form a close bond with her older brother Leo.
When Leo entered Harvard University to study history and aesthetics, Gertrude enrolled in Radcliffe College. There she attended the lectures of the philosopher William James and conducted research in automatic writing that later appeared in the Harvard Psychological Review. James considered her one of his most brilliant students, and his lectures on the subconscious led her to experiment later with capturing the poetic quality of subconscious...
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The state supreme court has upheld the removal of the clerk-magistrate of the Barnstable District Court, Robert Powers, for misconduct.
The Committee on Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Courts had accused Powers of starting his day one to two hours late, missing the busiest part of the schedule, and failing to "maintain order and decorum in proceedings he presided over and to be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, lawyers, staff, judges and others in his official dealings," thus creating "the perception in the community that the Barnstable District Court is not a place to go to be treated fairly."
Powers was also charged with being "grossly delinquent in performing administrative duties"
The Supreme Judicial Court, in a unanimous ruling issued on Friday, said the public good required removing Powers from office.
The court sad that althugh Powers apparentlty made up his hours by staying late, his chronic tardiness was unacceptable.
Power blamed his inability toget to work on time on his multiple sclerosis, but the curt pointed out that he did not provide medical evidence to document that and added, "Powers's illness has not prevented him from arriving to work on time since June, 2011."
Even after formal charges issued against him, the court said, Powers testified that it was "debatable" whether he was required to be in the clerk's office by 8:30 a.m. "We conclude that it is not debatable," the court said.
The court said Powers showed a lack of patience, courtesy and dignity. "He was entirely capable of acting appropriately and controlling his temper and speech but did not do so on a regular basis" the court said.
In one of several examples cited in the decision, the court said Powers onced asked a woman appearing before him in a small claims case why she was not answering his questions. She said it was because he had told her to "shut up." Powers denied having said that and added that he would delete it from the taped record of the proceeding. "His threat to alter the tapes was shockingly inappropriate and demeaning and disrespectful," the hearing officer wrote.
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The EPA Speaks Out: The Clean Air Interstate Rule Explained
The Environmental Protection Agency reviews how the multi-pollutant control concept is to work.
On March 10, 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) to reduce air pollution that moves across state boundaries in 28 Eastern states and the District of Columbia. When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce sulfur dioxide (SO 2) emissions in these states by more than 70 percent and nitrogen oxide (NO X) emissions by more than 60 percent from 2003 levels, resulting in more than $100 billion in health and visibility benefits per year by 2015. 1 EPA expects these air pollution reductions to be achieved largely through a proven emissions cap-and-trade program.
CAIR-one of the largest EPA initiatives ever undertaken-will go a long way in helping localities meet federal air quality standards. The rule, based on multi-pollutant control concepts that EPA first introduced nearly a decade ago, 2 is not without costs, benefits, and other impacts. 3
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Currently 132 areas do not meet the new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particles or ozone, that affect some 160 million people, or 57 percent of the U.S. population (). 4 SO 2 emissions contribute to the formation of fine particles and acid rain. NO X emissions contribute to ground-level ozone, the formation of fine particles, and acid rain. These air pollutants are linked to serious health consequences including premature death and heart attacks, as well as illnesses such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, and other respiratory problems. Sulfur and nitrogen deposition contribute to significant environmental problems including damage to sensitive ecosystems and impaired visibility in parks and residential areas.
The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires states to take action to address this environmental problem. However, because air pollution can travel long distances, one state's pollution often affects a downwind state's nonattainment areas. Consequently, an individual state significantly may reduce emissions from within its borders, but may not necessarily meet air quality standards (). To address this "transport" problem, EPA developed a regional approach to the transport of emissions across state borders.
From its extensive consideration of the power industry's emissions and pollution control options over the last 15 years, the agency recognized that the power sector, which emits roughly 69 percent of nationwide SO 2 emissions and 22 percent of nationwide NO X emissions annually, is a source of cost-effective emission reductions (). While the power sector has made meaningful reductions of SO 2, NO X, and direct particulate emissions over the past 25 years, and EPA has already set stricter standards for other major sources of emissions such as cars, trucks, buses, and construction vehicles, EPA has determined that much more is needed to bring many areas into attainment with the NAAQS by CAA deadlines.
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Koike Aronson Inc./Ransome offers the LD-600R, a compact tilt/turn positioner that can handle pieces weighing more than 1,100 lbs., 6 in. off the table. It features a standard footswitch and pendant controls, as well as a protractor dial indicator. The compact size and square footprint design allow simplified movement around the work area.
The positioner can be used with GTAW and GMAW machines. A new noise tolerance design reduces the impact of noise generated during GTAW to help ensure stable rotation. The antidust and -spatter design allows stable operation even in harsh welding environments. Options include a torch stand, automatic welding controller, and work chuck.
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(RTTNews) - Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high in May as companies struggle to contain their costs in the midst of stringent competition and weak demand.
The jobless rate rose to a record 11.1 percent from 11 percent in April, Eurostat said Monday. The figure was in line with expectations.
The number of unemployed increased by 88,000 in May from the previous month. On a yearly basis, unemployment surged by 1.82 million. Around 17.561 million people were out of work during the month.
Compared with a year ago, the unemployment rate fell in eight member states, increased in eighteen, and remained stable in Hungary.
The EU27 jobless rate came in at 10.3 percent in May, compared with 10.2 percent in April. Spain has the highest jobless rate of 24.6 percent, followed by Greece with 21.9 percent.
Meanwhile, official figures released today showed that Italy's unemployment rate fell for the first time in sixteen months to 10.1 percent in May.
The unemployment rate for males increased to 10.9 percent from 9.8 percent in the previous year. Likewise, the female unemployment rate rose to 11.3 percent from 10.3 percent.
IHS Global Insight's economist Howard Archer sees the likelihood of Eurozone unemployment rate rising significantly higher over the coming months to hit 11.5 percent by the end of the year.
Elsewhere, the latest Purchasing Managers' data from Markit Economics signaled that the downturn in the manufacturing sector extended to an eleventh successive month in June.
The survey showed that manufacturing output declined for four successive months, while purchasing activity dropped at the steepest rate in three years. Reflecting bleak activity, employment fell at the fastest rate for nearly two-and-a-half years, with job losses signaled by all nations except Ireland.
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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives are seeking information in the Aug. 26 murder of Ryan Easly, 22, in Metairie.
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Kerry J. Trosclair, 29, Millet Drive, Reserve, was arrested 9/4/2013 and booked with possession of drug paraphernalia, distribution/manufacture of schedule II CDS, drug free zone violation, and creation/operation of a clandestine laboratory.
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Anil Patel, 46, pleaded guilty to tax fraud in connection with unreported income.
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A new grassroots movement has launched a website and a video to campaign across America for the repeal of stand your ground laws.
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Prizes for high-flying pupils (From Ledbury Reporter)
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THE achievements of John Masefield High School pupils were highlighted at its presentation evening.
It marked the first public appearance for Frances Surridge, the school's new chairman of governors.
She replaced Spencer Lane, who resigned from the chairmanship in the summer after seven years.
Ms Surridge, an experienced teacher who has also worked with schools and parents on exclusion issues and most recently for a Malvern-based charity which supports children with disabilities, said: "I really enjoyed the opportunity to congratulate the young people who received prizes, as well as thank all the school staff and parents who have supported them to achieve."
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History groups embark on a grave mission (From The Oxford Times)
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12:00pm Wednesday 4th September 2013 in News By Emma Harrison, Reporter covering Rose Hill, Littlemore and Iffley. Contact me on 01865 425430
HISTORY groups in Oxfordshire are busy recording inscriptions from gravestones from about 300 churchyards in the county.
In the last 20 years inscriptions from about 200 churchyards have been archived by the Oxfordshire Family History Society and are used by people researching their family trees.
The Littlemore History Society is the latest group to contribute to the collection and is in the process of recording gravestones from St Mary and St Nicholas Church in Littlemore.
Society chairman Pat Good, from Littlemore, said: "All the gravestones are going to be recorded. All the local history groups are going to do this and they will be a permanent record in the Oxfordshire archives."
The group has recorded about 30 gravestones so far, spending about three hours there.
Members decipher what is on the stones, write them down and then take a picture.
Mrs Good, 83, said: "We use a special technique – you cannot always see these things. We have to spray the gravestones and the water shows off the writing. Or we get a mirror or a shiny bit of foil over what we want to read. It is an amazing technique."
The mirror or foil reflects the daylight onto the gravestone, making it easier to read to read the inscription.
Alan Simpson, monumental inscriptions co-ordinator for the Oxfordshire Family History Society, said: "It is quite a slow process as you can imagine.
"It might take a year to do one churchyard and there are more than 300 churchyards in Oxfordshire, so we still have a way to go."
He added: "All the churchyards we have done can be reproduced on a CD. People interested are those researching their family history. This lets them see stones dedicated to their ancestors and lets them read what is says on them."
There are other groups recording the inscriptions in Deddington, Stanton Harcourt and Cowley St James.
Churches that have had gravestonesrecorded include the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Giles, St Clements, Marston and Headington Quarry.
Dr Simpson said: "The other support service we offer is if people know they have someone buried in Oxfordshire but are not sure when, we can check through the index."
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The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
UPTON, NY — Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider — a particle accelerator used to recreate and study conditions of the early universe at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory — have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus: antihelium-4. This new particle, also known as the anti-alpha, is the heaviest antinucleus ever detected, topping a discovery announced by the same collaboration just last year. (read more . . .)"
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New to gyroplanes.
Hey all!
I was actually just surfing the web recently and stumbled upon the ultralight autogyro. After doing some research, I became instantly hooked! I always dreamed of flying (I mean flying, you know, the childhood dream we all have - not sitting inside a big metal box staring out the glass window, but actually feeling free). I just could not believe how open and exposed you are in one of these things! At any rate, I was wondering how much these things go for? (low-end). Now, I am a college student so its not like I'll be buying one anytime soon, but I would be interested down the road. I mean, every guy has his toy - I'd just like mine to be capable of flight instead of your typical motorcycle or sports car lol Cheers! |
Every form of aircraft has models with the same open feeling. I definitely don't want to discourage you from gyros. I love them too. I'm new to flying too, and fell in love with them. I really don't want to fly anything else.
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Welcome to the Forum! I will apologize in advance to not actually answering your question.
Since were only dreaming, can I suggest we up the dream to a experimental gyroplane. Since your still going to need significant training, there will be little value in not going all the way and getting your sport pilot license. You will then not be limited to all the little things that staying ultralight is likely to cost you. In addition you will increase the number of used modern gyroplanes available to you. So although its not exactly the answer to your question you can often find pretty decent machines for around 10K. A bit more or less. And these will have those features like, brakes, pre-rotaters, extra gas capacity, electric start, larger engines etc that make a gyro more fun to fly. To be honest in the 6 years or so I have been flying gyroplanes, I am not sure I have seen more than a handful of actual ultralight machines, and even those get a little defensive when a scale gets too close. I have actually heard one pilot say, "its usually an ultralight but its retaining water right now." True story.
"at 55 I did'nt GO over the hill, I FLEW over it" Sport Pilot Powered Parachute Sport Pilot Gyro I don't always fly a gyroplane, but when I do I fly a Dominator. Stay airborne my friends! |
You can spend any amount.
I have seen gyros for less than $5000 us and for well over $100000. In many cases the blades are over $3000. It is easy to spend money on flying.
The Laws of Aerodynamics are unforgiving and the ground is hard. Michael Collins (1987) "A well designed aircraft is important but no substitute for proper knowledge. attitude, and experience. " (2011) Airgyro facebook Photos by Michael Burton Instructor and PRA event map More about Michael Burton Michael Burton 801.769.6404 |
SP trike - $3K 6K SP gyro - $6k - $20k TP trike - $6k - $20k TP gyro - $20K - $60K The most fun for the buck IMO? Single-place gyro. The cheapest way to get inot the air with something safe and easy IMO? Single-place trike (part 103 is actually feasible) |
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The gyroplane has a few unique qualities that really make it stand out from other forms of flight. First it was designed to create an aircraft that doesn't stall and the free spinning rotor does just that. If you lose power you are going to come down, but it's a lot like being under a powered parachute in that way, you don't stall and spin in and die, you simply start coming down under full control. They can typically land in a very short distance, which makes them a lot safer in the event of an engine out and a forced landing situation. They can also handle windy conditions that will virtually ground other light aircraft. When it comes to maneuverability, nothing beats a Gyroplane, a gyro can make a 180 degree turn and go back the way it came in as little as about 50 ft. In wind it can hover in one spot, it can fly very slow or over 100 mph. That all adds up to a lot of flexibility and pure fun to fly. A gyro doesn't have a lot of commercial or utilitarian uses right now, but for pure recreational fun flying, nothing beats a gyro (in my opinion).
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In a fixed wing you practice keeping on course and maintaining an altitude and if what I hear over the radio is a fair representation paying a lot of attention to something called manifold pressure. Most often when my friends and I fly we have no destination and if were at the same altitude for more than a minute we get bored. Your more likely to see dives and climbs, follow the leader 20 feet off the ground, A couple of analogies you might find to illustrate the difference. In a gyroplane you are the bird, in a fixed one you ride in the belly of the bird. A gryoplane is to a jet-ski, as a fixed wing is to a minivan. Join us you won't be sorry.
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Gyroplane Fun!
Yesterday as I landed at San Luis Obispo (SBP) ATC cleared me to restaurant parking, it was a familiar voice and half way there he asked me to contact ground and said there were two people in the tower that would like to see your aircraft. I was a little nervous because often FAA people come in pairs.
It was Helen, a controller at SBP and her shadow for the day, a young lady who felt she was going to get a golf scholarship to Embry Riddle University and wanted to become a controller. I didnt even know they had a golf team. The young lady had never seen a gyroplane flying and had been a little nervous about the steep descent. She assumed I was going around when we were still at 500 feet AGL over the numbers and was surprised when we landed gently at the taxiway mid field. I agreed to take her flying after my lunch. My mission that day was to find out about airport day coming up on Saturday. SBP is not my home airport but several people had already asked if we would support it. After lunch I was conducting a pre-flight inspection and Mr. Piper came running up and asked me to participate in their airport day. Mr. Piper is the number two management person at SBP. He wanted to know if there was anything he could do to encourage me to support airport day. I took the young lady up flying after a proper briefing and as soon as we were outside the air space I slowed to 20kts straight and level. I pulled the power as we began a tail slide and then let the nose point at the ground. When we reached 50kts I advanced the throttle and made a steep turn to the right and then left with around a 75 foot radius and then slowed to 35kts describing a 35 foot radius circle. The altitude divergence amounted to 170 feet. She asked to do it again. We flew over her school in Morrow Bay and headed down the coast toward Avilla bay. Yesterday was the first day of the Santa Ana winds and the onshore breeze was quarreling with them along the coastal hills. We were rocking and rolling in the 30 kt gusts from winds that could not make up their mind which way to blow. We could feel the blasts of cool ocean air against our faces. The ambient temperature was 91 F. When we returned I flew the pattern at 90kts IAS, nearly stopped over the numbers while pulling the power back and made a dead stick landing at the taxiway. This is not an unusual day in the world of gyroplanes and in my opinion much of it would not be safe or possible in a trike. Today I am flying with Bob to Watsonville (WVI) to try out the new restaurant for lunch and meet with some fixed wing fliers from northern California. WVI is 138 nautical miles to the North West. The Santa Anna winds have not left us. Thank you, Vance
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I built my first gyro when I was in high school. I made parts from raw stock one by one, bought a VW engine out of a Beetle for $15 and purchased used components from my PRA chapter-mates as they upgraded their own machines. I did run out of money during college and had to sell off much of my gyro stuff, but it IS possible to build on a shoestring, with guidance. I had plenty of that, from the members of PRA Chapter 24. Once I got working after school, I bought back into gyros and have been at it ever since. So your dream is within reach if you want it badly enough. Realize, though, that this is quite an all-consuming hobby. The absence of gyros from the commercial production-aircraft scene for decades means that there's no concentrated mass of expert knowledge left out there. You have to piece together your gyro knowledge from many small sources, and be able to sort the bull from the truth. Some long-time gyro pilots are great "sticks," but have little (or inaccurate) technical understanding about aerodynamics and design. This is true even of some (self-taught) gyro designers. It's a challenge. The rewards are just as Vance and others have described them -- the gyro is a uniquely fun aircraft. |
Hi DKHoe,
I have flown trikes and have flown a gyro. I honestly dont see any comparison between the two in enjoyment factor. Gyros are extremely manuverable, dont stall or spin , can turn on a dime , fly nose down, nose up, sideways, backward, and can land in a small area which would be very useful in the event of an engine out, could even be the difference between life and death. I have no doubts in my mind that gyros are the ultimate personal flying machine and the jetski or dirt bike of the skies... No airplane compares i manuverability...there are just no comparisons..I encourage u to pursue this hobby if fun flying is indeed what you aspire for. |
Also. when other machines are on the ground wishing they can fly, guess what, u are up and flying. Wind is not a factor...... and no fear of having your machine blown over on a windy day. just will not happen... GYROS RULE BY FAR!!!
Keep your head in the clouds. |
Now for a brief tangent: There is much discussion of "fixed wing" in the descriptions above, that I think really should say "airplane" to be fair. Sailplanes (gliders) have fixed wings, too, but they aren't used for transportation, don't have pilots worrying about manifold pressure or droning along on a fixed course, etc. If airplanes are minivans and gyros are jetskis then gliders are sailboats. Flying a rotorcraft can make you feel like a bug (dragonfly, bee, etc.) and that's great fun. But gliders make you feel like a bird (hawk, eagle, etc) and that's delightful. Finding lifting air, exploiting it to get height and range, and learning how a wing really works (without a noisy engine to distract you, cover up your mistakes, or protect you from the atmosphere's will) is great fun and develops airmanship. |
I don't do aerobatics in my Calidus auto-gyro as I can in my ultralight biplane. As much as I love my gyro, there's lots of things quite fun you could do in a fixed wing... Maher P.S. I have a manifold pressure gauge in the Calidus and it's quite handy at takeoff ;-) |
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Bronze Radio Return headline a day of feel-good tunes featuring Tall Grass Getdown, the Shady Trees, Entendre and family-friendly activities. A portion of proceeds benefits the Stowe Education Fund.
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With their forthcoming new album, Up, On & Over, Hartford's Bronze Radio Return hope to continue the momentum they've built with their three previous albums. Presenting a hooky brand of Americana-infused indie music in a similar vein as Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers, those records have garnered heavy national airplay, especially on college and internet radio stations. The band plays the Cupola Music Festival at Mayo Fields in Stowe this Saturday, June 22, with locals TallGrass GetDown, the Shady Trees and Entendre.