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Dennis Wedlick lugs around a Bible-size day planner stuffed full of dog-eared scraps of paper. It's no Palm Pilot, but the low-tech device does everything he needs it to do. It juggles projects in Colorado, New York, Virginia; the class he teaches at U. Penn; a visit from a magazine writer; a trip to Italy for a former client's milestone birthday; events for his new book, The Good Home; and the thousands of details surrounding this month's opening of two demonstration houses inside Grand Central Station. It's a schedule that would daunt Stephen Covey, but Wedlick has it all under control.
In his early 40s, Wedlick has already accomplished so much. He put himself through architecture school, graduating from Syracuse University; he worked for Glass House guru Philip Johnson for 12 years; he's run his own practice for nearly 10 years; he's designed a Life Dream House; and, in June, he published (with writer Philip Langdon) his manifesto on residential design. Obviously, he's enormously talented. Yet, as most of us finally realize by age 40, talent alone doesn't guarantee success. Wedlick has come so far because he learned that lesson early on. "In grade school we had to write what we wanted to be when we grew up," he recalls. "I wrote about being on the cover of Life as an architect."
His ambitions clear to him, he worked diligently and strategically to make them happen. His job with Philip Johnson was pivotal. It began as a summer internship, lost in the crowd at Johnson/Burgee. He could have languished in fresh-faced anonymity, but he was determined to make the most of his foot in the door. "I had been there a couple of weeks, folding shop drawings," he says. "Philip Johnson had a party for the firm out at the Glass House. He asked who I was and what I was working on. I said I was folding shop drawings, but that's not what I should be doing. I told him his archives were a mess, that all his drawings were stuffed in tubes and being destroyed. So, I went to work archiving all of his drawings."
The assignment gave him close access to Johnson, who began to rely on him for other tasks. "I would just get everything done," Wedlick says. "I was fast. When you work your way through school, you have to do things quickly." He parlayed the summer internship into school-break stints at Christmas and Easter, and finally into a full-time job when he graduated in the spring.
He worked on skyscrapers with the rest of the crew, but continued doing odd jobs with Johnson, including a renovation of the bathrooms in the Glass House. "It was a great way to learn. Even when he did a bathroom, everything had to be perfect--lined up, thought out--how it would be installed, how it would hold up," he says.
He learned something even more important from Johnson. Despite his status as a star architect, Johnson never forgot he was there to please his customers. "He got into trouble when he said, 'I'm a whore,'" Wedlick says. "But what's true is that you're at your clients' service."
cottage industry
Wedlick has multimillion-dollar projects in his portfolio now, but he began his practice designing sweet, romantic cottages in Columbia County, N.Y., a mix of small-town dwellers and big-city weekenders just outside of Albany. It's where he built a 1,000-square-foot country house for himself and his partner, Curtis DeVito. With its precipitously pitched roof, punctuated by a quirky dormer window, the little house had an irresistible storybook charm. It melded all of the architect's loves--vernacular historicism, Postmodernism, Modernism, and the odd, highly personal flourishes that distinguish a house as one-of-a-kind.
He and DeVito maxed out their credit cards to build the house, convinced it was absolutely necessary to launch Wedlick's solo career. A shrewd decision. It lead to media coverage and a continuing stream of commissions in Columbia County. "It was a challenge to work with a palette of mundane materials and make something unique," he says. "Eventually, that became my whole career."
Making custom homes accessible is still a goal, and it's informed the idea houses he's done for Country Home and Life magazines. Even as his practice has grown and attracted better-heeled clients, he won't turn down a budget-driven project like his own. In some ways, a constrained budget is most simpatico with his taste for restrained detail. "We can do a lot with a little, with clean lines," he says. "But we're not shy to introduce things that have character.
"I'm definitely a romanticist," he explains. "I'm a modernist in the way I like to reduce things, but I'm very interested in drama--in things that are witty and playful. The buildings that age well are the ones that have something odd about them--a romantic twist."
star turn
It's a rare architect who can convince clients to indulge their romantic side, especially if it means the biggest investment of their lives will look a little "odd." But that's exactly what he manages to do, with the strongest case in point--or maybe I should say points--the star-shaped house he designed in upstate New York for the Shah family.
What makes people reach for the stars with him? He says it's because the houses he designs come directly from his clients' program needs; he doesn't impose an architectural statement on them. "Architectural statement. Ooh, you don't want to go there. No one lives in a statement," he says. His idea for the six-pointed Shah house originated with his sense of the family--a doctor, his artist wife, and their three grown children--as a group of very independent but close-knit people. They all get their own sanctum and room to come together.
This intuitive sense about people, coupled with a self-effacing but self-assured manner, is essential to Wedlick's success. It's natural and it's cultivated. He's very careful how he talks to his clients, taking great pains not to impose his opinions or ego. "I want clients to have faith that I'm after what they're after," he explains. "It's about words. There are some that make them defensive and others that show you're listening. Be careful not to use the 'I' word. Don't even use 'I think.' Say, 'Do you think?' Then offer the suggestion. It's the best opportunity to be creative because it leaves the most doors open."
It may also be easier for clients to take risks within a framework that's familiar to them. The materials Wedlick uses and the forms he plays with have precedents clients can recognize. He doesn't cow them with Bauhaus. And he doesn't overwhelm them with sheaves of drawings and detailed models during conceptualization. When he presented the Shahs with his design, he traveled light: "I just showed them the floor plans; I didn't mention that the house looks like a star. I said, 'Here's the screened porch you asked for.' It had the shingles, crown moldings--all the classical touches they wanted."
He says he learned that from Philip Johnson. "He taught me you shouldn't waste time on fancy presentations. If the idea is good, simple plans can explain it."
deus ex media
Wedlick is no less savvy in his dealings with the media. It's another skill he picked up in Johnson's office, where he fielded requests for press materials and project information. In fact, he claims if he weren't an architect, he'd choose a career in journalism--and he's made several forays into the profession. He's written a column for This Old House magazine and for the local paper in Columbia County, among others. "I like communicating," he says. "If writers weren't writing about my houses, I would be."
But we are writing about his houses--so much so that he believes nearly 75 percent of his commissions come from people who've read about his work in newspapers and magazines. No doubt this month's debut of two demonstration houses he designed for Country Home magazine will attract even more press coverage and client commissions. Opening September 10 in Grand Central Station's Vanderbilt Hall and on display until September 30, the houses explore the theme "Modern Country," with ideas for country and city living. "Half-a-million people go through Grand Central each day," he says. "That's a wide audience for residential architecture."
His recent book, The Good Home, published in June by HBI and climbing rapidly in Amazon's sales ranks, should help expand the audience even further. He designed all of the projects in it, but he doesn't tout the houses. Instead, he uses them to illustrate universal points about residential design. Very smart.
Talent, energy, people skills, and media savvy--Dennis Wedlick has it all and, better still, he's learned how to use it.


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Town Square
Library costs are not adding up
Original post made by Diana Diamond, Palo Alto Online blogger, on Dec 2, 2006
San Jose two weeks earlier had opened up its 28,000-square-foot Cambrian Branch library that cost $11.7 million to design and build, minus furniture and computers.
Group 4, the South San Francisco architectural firm hired by Palo Alto as a consultant, had estimated preliminary costs running between $52 and $62 million, as reported by the Weekly, depending on the size and configuration of Mitchell Library. Guestimates, as I recall, were between 30,000 and 40,000-square feet.
Group 4's figures are at least four times the cost of building the Cambrian Library. In both San Jose and Palo Alto, the library land is owned by the city.
Why the difference, I asked Jennings. She said last Sunday that Group 4's figures included furniture and computers, and also a 10 percent increase per year in construction. She went on to say that the estimates were "very preliminary" and would be reviewed by the city's Public Works Department. "We are trying to include everything in our cost estimate," she said, adding the firm was working on a "very tight time frame." The estimates did not include staffing costs, nor purchase of new books and materials, she added.
I talked to Richard Desmond, director of branch library development for San Jose, and he said the furniture and computer costs for the Cambrian Branch were about $1 million. Okay, so now we are up to $12.7 million for this library, which is serving 60,000 people (Palo Alto's population). He couldn't speculate why the price tag was so much higher in Palo Alto. Construction costs are going up 15 percent a year since 2005, he said, mostly due to the greater global demand for building materials.
The new Cambrian Branch Library features a community living room with a fireplace, a tech center, group and quiet study areas, a storytelling area for 30 children, a community meeting room for 100 persons, and 89 parking spaces. And yes, there is space for a collection of 125,000 items.
The San Jose $11.7 million figure covered design, project management, construction and other related management costs, plus an 80-foot public art stairway project depicting the natural and social histories of the site.
"Did you scrimp on the cost or use cheap building materials?" I asked Desmond. "Not at all," he replied.
This week Jennings revamped her figures, as the Weekly reported Friday, saying the library would cost $20 million less. As the Weekly said, "The price of the most popular proposal -- constructing a new community center/library -- is now $42.8 million, down from a high estimate of $62 million Jennings said. Building just a new library (without including the community center) is now expected to cost $22.5 million, not the $38.5 million previously estimated."
The reason for the "savings," Jennings told the Weekly, is that the estimates had included 10 percent inflation a year which she eliminated, plus she had tightened up the amount added for unknown costs, and reduced the estimated cost of relocating a traffic light and utilities.
The matter is going before the Palo Alto City Council Monday, Dec. 4.
I am still uncomfortable with the numbers.
In 2002, Palo Alto voters turned down a library bond measure for a $49.1 million (cost estimates supplied by Group 4), in large part because of the price tag.
We've had a Library Advisory Commission studying the "what to do about our libraries" question for the past two years, and other library supporters have been tangentially involved.
I credit Jennings for looking into the cost figures this week, and suggesting $20 million could be shaved, but I wonder why the commission had not looked into the cost during the past two years. We can't talk about new libraries without knowing how much they would cost!
It would be like my saying I want a new 4,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms, a large kitchen and a big back yard, without even asking the architect in advance how much something like that would cost.
And even with this new $20 million "savings," I am unclear whether construction cost increases should or should not be built into the estimates.
The Almaden Community Center and Library in San Jose that opened this year is a 64,000-square-foot facility, costing $24 million, Desmond said. And the Bascom Avenue Branch is in the design phase, and will be a 40,0000-square-foot facility costing $30 million -- including increased construction costs.
The time is right for a new library in Palo Alto. Mitchell is definitely old and crowded, and the Main Library is dingy and run down. I would love a new library.
However, we need to spend our money wisely. If other communities can build great libraries for half the cost, most other factors being equal, then we need to make sure we are not being taken for a ride. Remember, these millions for a library bond don't include interest – with interest the price tag doubles.
Comments (15)
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 2, 2006 at 10:17 pm
You mean it's costing us only twice as much as other cities spend to have a new library? Wow. Given the comparative governmental costs in Palo Alto for other amenities and services, that sounds like a real bargain to me.
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 2, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Why are we bothering to build a new library? With the internet, all of the reference material one could need is a keystroke away. I agree that libraries are important for kids -- and kids have libraries in their schools. But what's the purpose of a public library today other than a place to sleep for the homeless?
Instead of spending our hard-earned tax dollars on something that has little relevance in today's world, how about we eliminate tax-supported libraries and turn them over to private organizations? Friends of the Palo Alto libraries could form one. They could charge fees or membership dues. If there's enough interest in libraries, the money will flow in -- and the libraries will have money to provide all of the extras Jennings desires.
Plus, the city could cut taxes equivalent to the amount saved by not having libraries.
By the way, did anybody see those stories on Channel 7 last week about the disgusting behavior by the homeless and sex perverts in the libraries in San Francisco and San Jose? Web Link Wonder if that's going on here?
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 3, 2006 at 1:13 am
Freeda, Perhaps you should also count the 10's-OF-THOUSANDS of Palo Alto (and other) citizens who visit and use our libraries. Most of the talk of "the Internet replacing libraries" is wishful thinking, and innccurate technology and library patron behavior projection. Please do some homework, and suggest something more plausible than replacing this essential public institution with the Internet.
Also, please do come up with something more accurate about the GENERAL demeanor of libraries, instead of the fraction of 1% of the population that causes problems in libraries. Should we eliminate public safety buildings because a fraction of 1% of cops are crooked? Please.
Your comments remind me of all the people in the latter part of the last decade who were claiming that books were going to disappear, now that we have distributed digital media. They were - and are - WRONG. W-R-O-N-G!
Guess what? The book business has GROWN. There are MORE books published than ever before. Someone must be reading and buying them, Libraries are serving them up to their patrons. You can check these FACTS out in any public library.
a resident of College Terrace
on Dec 3, 2006 at 1:40 am
Diane, a few things...
The last library bond measure failed because it was poorly designed, period. In spite of that, more than 61% of Palo Altans voted for it. That's pretty rabid library support, if you ask me. The current library proposals are much more comprehensive, and well-thought-out. Our community WANTS a better library; they will vote to pay for that library.
As for the LAC, I've been watching that group closely. In fact, contrary to yuor claim, "other library supporters" have been FAR more than 'tangentially' involved. The LAC has held MANY public meetings (well over a dozen), at ALL libraries. In addition, all LAC meetings are public, with many, many citizens having input their ideas about what the library should be. Finally, a community survey was sponsored by the LAC and City Council. I have rarely seen such exhaustive public diligence performed for the planning stages of a public institution
About cost: Diane Jennings, the LAC, and Council are VERY concerned about cost, and have included cost considerations in their plan. Polling will be done to gain even more public input about cost. A library audit is being performed, the results of which will help gain insight into how further cost efficiencies will be derived. etc etc. The numbers are being reviewed with a fine toothed comb.
Last, your statements about cost, and the rationale for same, are somewhat premature, as the cost issues are being worked on as we speak. The Council and LAC have made it clear that the current stage of the recommendations are the first step in a process.
About construction cost increases: they're a reality. How much will it cost us NOT to build as soon as possible? Please run those numbers, and consider 10% annual increases as being on the conservative side; 15% is more like it. Also, interest on debt is also a fact of life. What's the interest rate charge on a larger construction amount that results from putting libraries off? Again, NOT building is what we should be focusing on, in terms of a cost debacle that we would have to face down the road. What's the opportunity cost of NOT building ASAP? If you're going to to weigh in on cost, the latter has to be one of the more compelling things cnosidered, because additional construction inflation cost will be the MOST significant cost of we wait.
Last, I think it's dangerous to presume that Palo Altans are "being taken for a ride". I've heard that old saw about dedicated library officials so many times that it's getting tiring, if not downright aggravating. The LAC, City Council, and library staff have been extraordinarily diligent in looking for ways to make this infrastructure build as cost-effective as possible.
Keep your critical eye honed, but do try to be aware that jumping the gun on criticism of this plan is premature at this point. We're where we need to be to get this done.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 3, 2006 at 8:12 pm
I am not sure how relevant this may be to our discussions, but in particular to address Freeds's concerns, I was in the new downtown San Jose MLK library today. It is a wonderful building, very well laid out with plenty of space for laptops, research work and plenty of internet and library catalog computers. The coffee shop was busy and the children's area was full. I know it is not a fair comparison to Palo Alto, but it was far from being seedy and a hub of community (both city and university) activity. I mention this because in the heart of silicon valley this wonderful new library is a beacon to the way ahead, not to the way back. Books will not go out of fashion even in the advances of getting information from the internet. In fact to me it looks as if it is the opposite, with libraries teaching its patrons how to find what they need from the library catalog and websites just as much as any other internet website.
a resident of another community
on Dec 4, 2006 at 5:00 am
your analysis of construction costs is hardly informative. You really need to be looking at $/ft2 of space if you want to compare prices with other libraries. According to your numbers, SJ spent $454/ft2 with equipment, and the 52-62M for 30-40k ft2 for P.A. works out to between $1300-2067/ft2, a factor of 2.9-4.6 what SJ paid! Even with the current high prices of building, $500/ft2 shoudld buy a pretty nice library. Anything more than that and you are paying way too much, or you have picked exorbitanly expensive materials that are a waste for a public library. You can still have a beautiful finish but use inexpensive materials. You should also be asking, how much is the architects fees? Are they getting a percentage of the project cost?
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 4, 2006 at 12:38 pm
"Construction guy" pretty much said it. Whatever else is said and "explained away", it is not much more than arm waving. If we pay more than $500/sq.ft. someone is making off with a bundle, and someone else is grossly incompetent or worse. At $500 it is already about a double of what typical housing per sq.ft. cost is.
Further, the "instant savings" of $20M raise more questions. From the description it seems that nothing has changed in the construction, and only the calculation method has changed. If calculation method can affect the cost by 30% overnight, how safe should we feel when the bond will move forward that it indeed is for the right amount, and not for 30% too much or 30% too little? I know little about construction, but a simple googling of Calif. construction costs index:
Web Link
indicates that the average annual increase in the last 10 years was about 3% and the average increase in the last 2 years is about 6% annually. And this number is currently dropping with housing slowdown. So the glib 10% increase per year assumption seems grossly overstated.
Finally, how big of a library do we need in Mitchell Park? If 28,000 sq. ft. are plenty for 60,000 people in San Jose, do we even need 30,000 sq. ft. in Mitchell park, when Palo Alto also has a total population of 60,000, and with Mitchell Park being one of 2 main sites, in addition to another three more peripheral branches? We certainly don't seem to need more than that.
I hope these questions are asked and answered tonight at the council meeting.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Dec 4, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Palo Alto is in Santa Clara county - why not get the county to maintain the library instead? Check out the Los Altos branch - its 100 times better than any library in Palo Alto!
And yes - we do need a library ! Finding/reading material on the internet has its own pros ( quick access, searching ) - but the charm of holding a printed book and reading it, is completely different !
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 5, 2006 at 11:44 am
The cost of the new library includes the following line items : 1. "Palo Alto Suckers"
2. "City Council Sleepy heads"
DD - Thanks for waking Palo Altans. But we need you to do more.
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 10, 2006 at 1:10 pm
As a design student studying architecture currently, the cost figures seem very high to me as well. I have done a case study on the Almaden Branch Library and Community Center in the City of San Jose and the cost was much less (finished earlier this year) and is 65,000 sq.ft. If this new dual facility offers a lavish gymnasium and multistory library that will make no need for the downtown library, I can see why the costs might be getting up there, but otherwise I think this is outrageous. Has anyone seen the conceptual designs for the proposed facilities? Does anyone know the South San Francisco architecture firm designing it? Sure, we are Palo Altans, but we are not to be taken advantage of when it comes to building costs!
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 10, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Mr. Kim, Palo Alto is an easy mark not only for building contractors and architects, but for consultants, suppliers, and most of all, even for its own employees. Anyone watching city government over the past decade or so can see that Palo Alto spends much more than neighboring cities for the same amenities. In the flush times, those in government got used to not having to pay attention to what things cost. Bad habits die hard, and now that our treasury is not so full, we're seeing the results of the profligacy of the last decade. So much of our budget is eaten up by employee costs and wastes that, unlike other cities, we have to consider special bonds for libraries, infrastructure and the police station. And even then, as you point out, our costs estimates are wildly our of line with what other cities spend.
Sure we're taken advantage of on the library. What else is new?
Palo Alto Online blogger
on Dec 10, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Diana Diamond is a registered user.
Mr. Kim and Chris --
I agree with both of you! I have long complained that anytime this city wants something new, a bond measure or parcel tax is the only answer -- despite a $129 million general fund, which is nearly double that (on a per capita basis) compared to our neighboring cities.
You both "get it!" in my humble opinion.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 13, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Yes, the main library appears a bit dingy. I have no opinion on the others because I have mostly used the main library-I have only visited two of the others a couple of times.
Doesn't almost every building getting use over time get worn? In the 18 years I have lived in my home here we have repainted and recarpeted most rooms at least once, and made some more significant changes to others. But we have not decided to abandon the house for a new one, or tear it down and build again on the spot. Why can't the remodel or redecorate approach work for the library? I don't think library usage is much different than it has been for many years, so it should not be a matter of more capacity.
And most people don't go to the library because of its up-to-date appearance. They go for books.
a resident of Midtown
on May 20, 2007 at 8:37 am
The Palo Alto City Council should hire the architects and builders of the San Jose library to design and build one for Palo Alto.
a resident of College Terrace
on May 20, 2007 at 8:41 am
Thank you Diana. Why can't our leaders and or staff do the leg work you do? I see us/them living in an ivory tower and ignoring the world outside our borders. I bet no one on the council is aware of the San Jose library efforts - if they were, we should have heard this issue addressed by the council or the library commission.
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Front Range (CO) > Pikes Peak > Climber's Log
Pikes Peak Climber's Log
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|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: October 1, 2005
|Hiked to Barr Camp at night on September 30. Then hiked to summit with full pack on the first and descended back to trailhead. This is a rough hike with a full overnight pack. would've been much quicker had i left most of my gear at Barr Camp and picked it up on the way out.
|Posted Oct 2, 2005 1:49 pm
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: Late May, 2002
|At the time I was living in St. Louis and had came out to Colorado to summit West Spanish Peak on a Friday. I felt strong after finishing and decided to attempt Pikes Peak via the Barr Trail on Saturday. Those were two tough days for a flatlander! Took the cog railroad down. My first thirteener and my first fourteener in one weekend. I was officially hooked!
|Posted Sep 22, 2005 11:48 pm
|Zach Owen
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: Sept 16, 2005
|Thanks for putting in such a great trail Mr Barr. Left the TH at 6:45 AM and got back at 4:15 PM. Now I know why people shuttle the descent. Weather was great. Next time I'll camp at Barr Camp, and make a summit bid the next morning.
|Posted Sep 17, 2005 11:49 am
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: 27 July 2005
|Beautiful day! Very foggy and misty as we started, it felt as if we were walking through a rain forest. Broke out of the clouds at Barr camp and the rest of the day was awesome.
I loved being able to hitch a ride down the mountain with my wife and kids.
Definitely a unique experience
|Posted Sep 15, 2005 6:06 pm
|Gord Boston
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: August 17, 2005
|Very picturesque, and a straighforward hike if you take the cog railway back down. Unless you would like to share my experience of having an octogenarian run by you at 12,300 feet (or something similar) don't hike up the week before the marathon.
|Posted Sep 8, 2005 12:02 am
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: 15 July 2005
|I love Pikes Peak, but Barr Trail has become a bit crazy. I had to stand aside about 20 times to get out of the way of moutain bikers coming down. Jeez. Walked with a friend, and summitted in 7 hours. Going back in late September 2005 and may try the up and down route, the full 26 miles. Stay tuned.
|Posted Sep 6, 2005 7:37 pm
|Route Climbed: road Date Climbed: sept various
|sure thing
|Posted Sep 5, 2005 1:56 pm
|Route Climbed: Pikes Peak Highway Date Climbed: July 2, 2005
|My wife, daughter and I reach the summit in about 40 minutes after we paid our toll. Encountered high winds, snow and lightning and had to go inside the summit house.
|Posted Sep 4, 2005 10:12 pm
|Mike Mc
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: February 25, 2005
|I have climbed Barr Trail and Pikes Peak many times; however, a winter accent was quite a different ballgame. According to the Barr Camp keeper, our party was the first to make a summit attempt in two weeks. At about 13,000, the snow was getting really deep (even with snowshoes), and the weather was moving in, so we headed back.
|Posted Aug 28, 2005 10:43 pm
|Woodie Hopper
|Route Climbed: Northwest slopes (Crag's TH) Date Climbed: 7/23/05
|Long easy hike, get early start. Hiked with Robert Flynn (Nashville) his first 14er.
|Posted Aug 25, 2005 9:15 am
|Route Climbed: Barr trail Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2005
|Ran/speed hiked my 2nd Pikes Peak Ascent and 5th summit of Pikes. I finish just as the heavens unleashed a barrage of hail, snow, and graupel on the rest of the runners. The road was closed stranding over 600 people on the summit. Epic weather in August!
|Posted Aug 25, 2005 12:37 am
|Route Climbed: Northwest Slopes Date Climbed: August 29, 2003
|Thank you Andy and Brian! What a great day!
|Posted Aug 24, 2005 10:08 pm
|Route Climbed: Drove up! Does that count? Date Climbed: August 11, 2005
|This was my feeble attempt at getting acclimated in Colorado before hiking up Mount Elbert the next day. Went from 30' to 14,110' in a day. I felt a little drunk at the top. The day was to crummy to see anything or hike around.
|Posted Aug 22, 2005 6:11 pm
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail - Pikes Peak Ascent 1/2 Marathon Date Climbed: August 20, 2005
|Wow, what a day. Beautiful at the start, but lightning, hail, and snow near the top... wound up snowing 8"+. The race was called early due to lightning (smart move on the officials part) and the road was closed due to the snow, stranding hundreds of (mostly) unprepared runners and spectators at the summit for 4 hours. Lots of oxygen and IVs being administered to those not accustomed to spending hours at 14,000' :-) Time was a kinda slow 4hr 57min.
An unusual but fun way to climb a 14er...
|Posted Aug 21, 2005 8:53 pm
|Route Climbed: Road :( Date Climbed: August 15th, 2005
|drove up, as we were only in the area for half a day. next time i'm in the area i'll go back and get it the real way :)
|Posted Aug 20, 2005 1:43 pm
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: 8.17.2005
|Time saving cheater to avoid afternoon TS. Took 8:00 AM Cog to Mountview and hiked to A-frame, reached summit at 1:20. Descended close to 3:00 PM with li'l break at Barr Camp, got to Ruxton by 8:00 PM; still a long day on trail!
|Posted Aug 20, 2005 12:34 am
|Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2005
|Cheated my way up this one - but what a view! Took the time to find and step on the highpoint behind the, ugh, snack bar/gift shop. Also did some cragging just below the summit plateau.
|Posted Aug 17, 2005 1:12 pm
|Route Climbed: Crags Date Climbed: July 27, 2003
|With essentially no acclimitization, my friend Jeremy and I took the Crags route to the summit. The going was slow and we got a relatively late start of 6 a.m. and so ran into bad weather on the day down, which is to be expected in the mountains in the afternoon. We made the decision to ditch the trail and hitch our way back to the trailhead. See my trip report "Tour de Pikes" for the full story.
|Posted Aug 12, 2005 11:28 am
|Route Climbed: Crags Campground Trail Date Climbed: July 30, 2005
|Great early morning climb with some confusion in the early stages. Reached the summit at 8:00 AM and was back at the car by 10:30. Almost nobody on the way up and 40 or 50 on the way down. There was also a small herd of sheep on Pike's broad shoulder.
Great climb overall.
|Posted Aug 9, 2005 4:37 pm
|Route Climbed: Barr Trail Date Climbed: 8/76 band 8/91
|I hiked to the summit 2 out of three attempts. Sure was a funny sensation to reach the top after passing through such wonderful and awesome landscape only to be confronted with a cog-rail, Parking lot and trading post. Though, I did appreciate the hot chocolat.
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Maine is terrible, fog, rough seas, unprotected harbors...don't go to Maine!
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Don't try to convince him..we have enough northerners coming down and polluting the place as it is..:-)
Best cruising is SW Fl and the keys..we live here and love it..
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I was wondering. Where have people liked cruising the best?
I want to go to the PNW. The only problem is the weather. Spring is gloomy, cool, and rainy and summer is short and not very windy. Otherwise is seems perfect.
How about California? It looks like there is a lack of harbors and anchorages, although I might be wrong.
The NE is cold for most if the year but Maine in the summer looks great.
The mid Atlantic, Chesapeake Bay I don't know much about.
The south is well...the south.
Florida. Maybe this looks like the best year round cruising. Lots of place to stop and good water and weather.
Anyone have some personal experience that they really loved?
Where is the best cruising in the USA?
Born and raised in the PNW. Best summer cruising grounds in the USA. Period!
Lots of anchorages, parks, islands, and it is beautiful. No hurricanes, humidity, bugs, ice storms, or superstorms and coastal flooding. Not as crowded as the SW, Florida, Chesapeke, and the NE. Amazing maritime community. Dungenes Crab is the best tasting in the world, world class salmon fishing, and abundant clams and oysters. San Juan Islands, Canadian Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, Desolation Sound are world class areas that you can spend years exploring. Amazing scuba diving with octopus. Killer whales, grey whales, and marine mammals are plentiful.
Clean water and clean air. Snow capped peaks year 'round. Each summer when the kids were small (before little league) we would spend a month at a time exploring the islands and Desolation Sound on our sailboat. Best memories of my life. We plan on doing more of that after we become empty nesters. Absolutely awesome March through October.
We kept our second sailboat in San Diego for about 4 years. We used it as a second home away from Seattle. Did extensive sailing in the SoCal area, Catalina, etc. Amazing sailing year 'round with warm sunny weather, and relatively warm ocean water with predictable wind and small tides. Catalina Island is also amazing. Not as lush as the San Juan's and Canadian Gulf Islands, but warm water, abundant sea life and world class scuba diving. We really enjoyed having our sailboat there. We would spend 2 to 4 weeks at a time each summer exploring communities along the SoCal coast.
So for us - the perfect solution is to be in Seattle in the summer and winter in San Diego. A perfect combination of locales. Both in the same time zone. In the best coast of the US. 2.5 hours apart by commercial jets and 21 hours apart by car. So, we moved our sailboat back up to Seattle and bought a second home in San Diego! It is in the small beach and surfing community of Ocean Beach. I will likely purchase a small day sailer to keep at our SD home to get out in the water in the SD Bay and in Mission Bay while we are there in the winter. In the summer, we will be back in the Seattle area and spend significant time on our 32' sailboat cruising Puget Sound and the Islands.
So, for us, the best spring, summer and fall cruising is the PNW and the best winter sailing is SoCal.
Re: Where is the best cruising in the USA?
Maine in September.The weather is fine and you have most anchorages to your self.
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LOL!! Sailing of course!!
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sailordave: I was born in DC so I know what you mean about 14th ST. NW!!! To me, for my small amount of time sailing, I would say the Chesapeake Bay!! But, I am looking forward to many other areas once I move into the lifestyle.
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If i had the money; i'd have one boat on the great Lakes for the summer and one in the Southeast or gulf (Pass Christian, Miss) for the winter.
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Chaumont-Bay is a beautiful, secluded area located near the St. Lawrence Seaway, on the east end of Lake Ontario, in what is commonly called the Thousand Islands-Seaway region of the state. The Chaumont-Three Mile Bay area is a "Golden Crescent" shaped body of water that is the largest fresh water bay in the world. It also has some of the best fishing in the world where its murky waters provide the perfect habitat for perch, bass, pickerel, pike, lake trout and salmon. The entrance to the bay is provided at Point Peninsula and Pillar Point, where you'll find two of the most prestigious yacht clubs in the country, as well as several local marinas. Chaumont Bay offers swimming, biking, hiking trails and cross country skiing and snowmobiling, as well as boating and fishing. A two-mile trail at Chaumont Barrens leads visitors through a unique landscape with a variety of rare habitats. Although a remote area, Chaumont Bay has motels and rentals along the water and in the village of Chaumont, and area restaurants are excellent. Many special events are held in the area each year, including the Lyme Community Field Days, the Tour de Chaumont Bay Bike Ride, along with several fishing derbies and arts and crafts fairs. In addition, Chaumont Bay is near golf courses, the ferry to Canada, boat access to the St. Lawrence Seaway and 1000 Islands boat tours.
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14th St NW in DC used to be where people went "cruising" and Times Sq. NYC before they cleaned it up!
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Good book but badly needs updating
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This was a good introduction right up to the point where Express was mentioned. This whole section fails to work - which somewhat undermined the value of the book.(This IS mentioned on the UNCONFIRMED :-( errata page.)With the book being two years old at this point (July 2014) it's time to update it - particularly refreshing the Express section (and any other samples that no longer work).I would've given the book a much better rating if it weren't for this problem.
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While the book is ok to good, the code examples are not. Firstly, they could use more detail, such as file names and instructions about where to put the files, especially in the express examples. This brings me to my second point; the examples are dated. This is most glaringly true in the express examples, which don't even work with a recent release of the framework. Also pure node code gives warnings about deprecated methods. So, even though the books not much more than a year old, it needs a new revision. Before that I cannot recommend anyone getting it.
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Good book, not for beginners
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Node: Up and Running is a good book for people who know Linux and JavaScript and are going to work with Node.js. Still it is quite a step to go from client-side JavaScript to server-side JavaScript, any help – like this book – is welcome. I received and read this book for the St.Cloud MN .Net User Group.In one of the first sentences of the book, the authors write "Node.js allows this popular programming language to be applied in many more contexts, in particular on web servers." The rest of the book only discusses the web server context and that is what it should do. In clear language most of the important principles of Node are explained. By the end of chapter 3, you have the feeling you have a grasp of what Node can do for you and how you can use it for a server. Then from page 55 to page 172 it threatens to be an API reference. It doesn't turn out that way, actually the API discussion is much better than just an API reference. In good narrative the use of various APIs is discussed, in the end again you have a grasp of what the presented APIs can do for you. The title of part II "Deep Dive and API Reference" is thus a misnomer, it is much better than that. For an experienced Node programmer, don't expect a full API reference which may be retrieved from the Internet. Although, while reading the book I tried to find API references and the Node community seems to be quite bad in documentation. Hence this book is excellent in helping to avoid basic mistakes and providing coherent, basic information.Node promises scalability safe and simple. This is to be achieved through good use of the event loop. However, it is easy enough to write blocking code, either by doing I/O the wrong way or by performing time consuming calculations. There are two mechanisms prevent to prevent long hanging applications: leave I/O to the system's libraries and time consuming calculations should be put in their own process or thread. Node has those mechanisms too. Actually the mechanisms Node provides are quite easy compared to other environments. To differentiate from 'difficult' C, the 'easy' Node community tries to avoid terms like remote process or thread. Reading this book it turns out that Node still uses the same principles for scalability with slightly different naming. But if scalability is so important to Node, why does this book not discuss programming principles of scalable programming in one chapter? For example the use of child processes and workers is spread around in chapter 3 "Building Robust Node Applications" in the section "Using Multiple Processors" (to me using multiple processors is nice, but should be an automatic result of good programming in Node) and chapter 5 "Helper APIs" in the section "Child Process" (but using an API is not a goal in itself, it is the result of programming for scalability) and some loose remarks throughout the book. The promise of the subtitle ("Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript") unfortunately is not consistently addressed in the remainder of the book.Node: Up and Running is a good book to prepare for the use of Node.js. The price is a little on the high side, hence three stars. I do not have access to a Linux machine and Node.js is not easily installed on Windows. After trying to install Node.js on my computer for half an hour I gave up. Node must be interesting and fun, but I didn't get Node up and running.
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If you have heard of Node (which true web developer hasn't!) but haven't had the courage to get your feet wet, Node: Up and Running (O'Reilly) is the book to get. In a true "up and running" style, this book assumes zero knowledge of Node, other than a familiarity with JavaScript. This book is well-written with lots of example code snippets generously thrown inside the book.
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Greetings, today I will be reviewing Node.js up and running which is provided by O'Reilly Blogger Review Program to me.The book is a mixed bunch. There are good news and bad news. Good news is, it provides a solid starting background. How to install, how to set up a server and how to set a chat server up is provided. I mean the book provides clear explanations on core Node.js services and uses them to set a chat server up. Which is very good, very very brilliantly executed. The rest... well that is the bad news part. After that brilliant introduction, the book goes exhaustively explaining functions of Node.js and provides code snippets of usage but does not provide a gestaltive example to introduce those concepts in a real world application. It would be perfect if, for example, we could see how to implement cryptographic functions in the chat server we built in the first chapters.This is quite a disappointment really. I was trying to learn Node.js for a business related problem and was enchanted with the title. I couldn't find a relevant information for my solution and to be frank I would not recommend it to anyone who is starting anew to Node.js. If you are a node.js newbie, who has learned how it works and built some applications with it, it would doubtless provide extra information which will broaden your horizons.The book is good, if only it could provide some real world examples...
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The fourth week of the season started off with promise. After the rain passed through Monday, the temperature was in the 20s, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at shooting hours, with a cold north wind, and the ducks were flying. The temperatures began easing up on Friday, leading into another warm, muggy weekend. At sunrise it was 51 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday and 61 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday in a driving rain. Despite the mid-season drop off in duck numbers, the groups that hunted had fun. Nick, our Ohio boy learning to be a southern duck hunter, went for a swim. I finally convinced him not to shoot at mile high ducks (he gave a new definition to sky blasting) and thought he was settling in. After a strong volley at a group of ducks, I looked around and Nick was thrashing around in the water. I wasn't sure that he wasn't going down for the third time. Yes Nick, shotguns do kick. Guess I may have to teach Coop to be a rescue dog as a second occupation. Several groups (I won't call names) admitted that they shoulda, coulda had their limits. The Duck Dusters had a great Saturday shoot and limited out. With the freeze line considerably north of us, the main migration is hanging out in Iowa and Northern Illinois. However, we had a number of groups report large flights of gadwall that worked the decoy spread but never committed. Could be a sign of new ducks moving in. With the Christmas break approaching, our hunt groups are itching for the push and can't wait for January.
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By her own admission, the luncheons cooked by Phool Jumari Rawat may not always be the tastiest food prepared for school children, but that is not the reason students are refusing to eat the food cooked by this woman. In India, children of the Bibpur Primary and Junior High school near Lucknow have launched a boycott against the school cook because of her food, it is due to the fact Msr. Rawar is a Dalit, a so-called untouchable. As a result, the children claim any food made by her is unclean. Ironically, this year in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit, Mayawati Kuman, was elected chief minister of the state. The children remain adamant in their refusal to accept any food from an untouchable. A district magistrate, Chandra Bhanu, said the emphasis will now be upon the poor quality of food prepared by Mrs. Rawat as the basis of terminating her employment. One pupil, Shivani Singh Chauhan, commented: "I will not eat anything cooked by that lady. I have heard my family members say that she is from some law caste. So, I b ring my own lunch box."
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Our Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that 79% of the surveyed financial services firms are either already working on transforming their application landscape or plan to start this effort by 2012 at the latest. The need for greater business agility and flexibility, new business capabilities, and improved ability to cope with changing markets, offer more differentiation, and increase market share are key drivers for a large share of these financial services firms.
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Similar to the past few years at this time of year, we are in the process of preparing a global banking platform deals report for 2010. As we have done since 2005 to help application delivery teams make informed decisions, we will analyze deals' structure, determine countable new named deals, and look at extended business as well as key functional areas and hosted deals — all to identify the level of global and regional success as well as functional hot spots for a large number of banking platform vendors.
In the past, some vendors told us that they are not particularly fond of us counting new named deals while only mentioning extended business, renewed licenses, and the like. Why do we do this, and what is the background for this approach? First, extended business as often represents good existing relationships between vendors and banks as it represents product capabilities themselves. Second, we have asked for average deals sizes and license fees for years, but only a minority of vendors typically discloses this information. Thus, we do not have a broad basis for dollar or euro market shares — and I personally shy away from playing the banking platform revenue estimates game.
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Consequently, available data makes counting new named deals the only feasible way to represent an extending or shrinking footprint in the off-the-shelf banking platform market — and thus to also represent customer decisions in favor of one banking platform or the other. Some vendors suggested introducing weights for the size of the bank and the relevance of the seven world regions (for example, North America and Asia Pacific). We could easily do so, but there are problems with this approach:


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Many travelers have found relief from airline engine drone with a good pair of noise-canceling headphones. But noise-canceling headphones can also handle engine noises a little closer to home, too. For a number of years I've used hearing protectors while mowing and trimming in the yard. Both riding mowers and string trimmers can generate about 95 decibels of sound -- a level where hearing damage can occur.
Mowing and trimming two acres takes time, though, and the job was boring with nothing to listen to. So I solved that problem with a pair of Shure E3 sound-isolating headphones and an iPod.
Here's why they're especially effective for this kind of job: the E3s are earbud-style 'phones that sit inside the ear canal, which helps block out exterior sound. And after I insert the E3 earbuds, I put my ear protectors on. Between the protectors and the headphones, the whine of the mower and the string trimmer sound like muted drones. The sound is dampened enough that I can set my iPod's volume at less than half its maximum, ensuring that I'm listening to my music at a safe level.
One final tip: the headphones have a fairly long cord, so I run it under my T-shirt and bring it out at the neck. This prevents me from snagging the cord with the weed eater's handle as I trim, and accidentally yanking the headphones out of my ears. Once was enough!


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I posted this on the SHH boards, but you guys here may be more interested in it:
I was curious if anyone has attempted to make the TDK mask/helmet. I was thinking of ways to accomplish this from the vantage point of one who doesn't know about casting, and I found this site:
Basically it is a site that does 3D printing (which I have done before). So I got to thinking about modeling the mask in 3D and uploading it for anyone to use. First I have to clarify and check out some things:
The best material to use out of their selection seems to be the Cream Robust, as it is the sturdiest. The maximum size of the model for this material must be contained in a 13.7795" x 15.748" x 15.748" cube, and I'm sure the mask isn't bigger than that (unless the ears cause a problem).
As for price, its $2.50/cm³, but this applies for the total amount of MATERIAL used, NOT dimension of the object.
Since we see the mask being put on as a helmet, I don't see it being one-piece as a problem, and I'm sure it can be spray-painted black.
As for an update of the status of this, I have contacted the people on the Shapeways boards and this is doable; even using the slightly flexible, cheaper material may be possible depending on the size of the mask (And that depends on the person's head). I have acquired a 3D model that is about 85-90% accurate to the TDK version in 3DSMAX (which fits inside the aformentioned cube), but it needs a lot of tweaking, so I'll prob start from scratch and use it as a reference. I have plenty of reference photos as well, so all I need is some free time to really get into the modeling.
As far as fabrication goes, if anyone wants to pitch in on this, the design can be shard on Shapeways so anyone can order one, but like I said the size might differ based on head size, so perhaps an option S/M/L 3D models can be made to accomodate this.
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Robin van Persie has hailed the "absolutely unbelievable" Yossi Benayoun after the Israeli's late goal secured victory for Arsenal at Villa Park on Wednesday.
With the Gunners seemingly heading for a share of the spoils against Aston Villa, Benayoun stepped off the bench to head home an 87th-minute winner from Van Persie's corner.
The Dutchman was delighted to see Benayoun reap his reward for some impressive recent performances.
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Hi to you all once again. I need your humble advice once more. I was at the track recently and was insanely discouraged because I was running a whole second slower last year (it's too embarrassing to say). So now I'm looking into going stage 1 (filter and access port) to hopefully lower my 1/4 mile time. I'm sure part of my problem is having an automatic and my car is an 02' so it has a "glassbox" tranny . I am wondering if going stage 1 will be worth it or if it will harm anything? Can the same access port I used for my car be used on other WRX, etc in the future? Is stage 2 out of the question?
Other things to mention: I have cat-back exhaust with 2.5 inch piping, I'm thinking of going with 3" before tuning and staging up. I also already have a panel aftermarket filter.
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The problem is that with each cycle our country become more divided and less willing to listen to the other side, no matter how relevant their points may be. It's really depressing when you try to have a discussion about issues that matter, and it degenerates into a shouting match about who's a socialist.
QuoteThe problem is that with each cycle our country become more divided and less willing to listen to the other side, no matter how relevant their points may be. It's really depressing when you try to have a discussion about issues that matter, and it degenerates into a shouting match about who's a socialist.it may seem like we are getting more divided, but i don't think we really are. in fact, i think we are drifting more toward the middle (muddle) and it's not a good thing. go look through old newspaper archives from past elections all the way back to the beginning. in hindsight, the arguments and name calling are funny. i'm sure at the time, it was not so funny. the difference now is that we can't get away from it. 24/7 tv news, radio, and daily newspapers, bombard us with it to the point that we despair. division keeps us from extremes, and it also keeps us from wallowing in the bottom of the murky pit of mediocrity.
One terrible event, that was bad but hardly crippling, and had absolutely nothing to do with socialism..... and you watched the inception of the patriot act, wiretaps w/o warrants by telecoms, rendition to torture in obliging countries, jailed ex-communicado for years w/no recouse or even hearing the charges, like gitmo and secret CIA bases off shore, courts not following precedence, war on sovreign countries based on lies, Transportation Security Administration, giving middle class jobs to foreign unfriendly countries with no tarrifs to protect the US rank and file, VA quagmire, no bid billion dollar contracts to friends, losing a billion or so in cash, patriotic political predators who play on your fears with promises of security and stimulus payments, similarity between the mainstream media and Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda?........gee the list is extensive
i don't think we should have secret camps or gitmo. i think the info they have should be wrung from them, and they should be executed on the spot. unfortunately, they won't put me in charge........
As for mandatory this and that, I an completely sick and tired of people butting their noses into my business by assuming I'm too stupid to wear a seatbelt or a helmet. I can take care of myself (now insert the rant about how everyone has to pay for stupidity which justifies yet more and more laws), and I do. Just don't tell me how to keep myself safe, I can figure it out myself.
But you did sell your civil rights for less than a 10 cent cup of coffee.But medicare for everyone is evil??Yikes
Don't you just love statistics? I just read an article about motorcycle helmets. It was trying to make it sound bad by saying that of all fatalities 42% were not wearing helmets. That tells me that 58% were wearing helmets. More died wearing one than not wearing one. Perhaps the helmet itself killed the people.
Many health insurance carriers do charge more for smokers.
The increased tobacco taxes are a sham and you know it. Most states took this money and used it for everything but health care. Very little is going to smoking cessation,treating cancer patients or otherwise. It was just a new cash cow for the government. If there was any legitamacy to this tax,they could set up a fund with this money just to help people with smoking related illness,be it first or second hand. If smoking is a deadly as they say why doesn't our government make it illegal?' Because the money the tobacco companies pay in taxes and the revenue collected from cigarette taxes would dry up. This is about funding government,not helping sick people.
kev, you ask the right question "why should i pay" but you draw the wrong conclusion. you think the solution is to regulate. that path is a dangerous one. who decides what is considered dangerous behavior?
if you are going to adjust health insurance for risk, fine. you might also consider withholding care from those who have no insurance.
Kathy's been arguing that we need to keep our current system of private health insurance because it is market based and gives people the most freedom
Right now, people who have health insurance are paying for it through higher charges. People who have Medicaid, or Medicare or no coverage are not paying for it at all. We need to spread that cost across the entire population, just like we do the cost of roads. A consumption tax or some other form of national tax to fund a single payer system designed to provide emergency care and a set of basic preventive services that I've advocated elsewhere is really the only logical answer.
[no, kathy has been arguing that we need to make adjustments to the current system.
but that isn't what happens. what happens is that you end up with a larger portion of people, not paying anything, and the "rich" paying for everything. you try making the poor and elderly pay for health care. you'll hear a scream so loud it'll tilt the world.
as you point out, we are already paying for the care. the difference is that i don't have to downgrade my health care to crappy. if i pay a little more for the insurance I WANT, and some of that payment is used to cover those who do not pay, so be it. it's not a great system, but it's better than a national health care plan that makes sure everyone has insurance, but inferior care. it is certainly better than a hillary plan where the government runs health care.the goal is to create dependency. it is not to make sure everyone has great health care. do you really think these people give a rats backside whether you have insurance?


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Project Boats -- Where Do You Find Them?
Yikes, what regattas was she in? You have got to be kidding that someone raced a houseboat like the Columbia 41! Maybe a special class where she competed with OutIsland 41s, but I doubt any race committe would be willing to hang around waiting for them to finish...
I think a race history is the wrong carrot to waive around to build interest - go with "roomy liveaboard".
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I found a Colombia 41 flush deck in New Orleans that is in need of saving you may contact me at email@example.com I think it could be had for $15.000-$12.000 dollars as the owner has died and she is in bad shape but has a long race history and is a neat boat because of the history or regatas she sailed in.
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We saw a Jason 35 in Galveston, TX listed for $20,000. I don''t know if it''s the same one. This one had a motor, really just a hull and deck. He had done some work down below but not too much. Very nice man, I would think very fair to deal with.
Project Boats -- Where Do You Find Them?
Try THIS OLD BOAT magazine for listings and great advice from owners on fix it yourself items and boats. This magazine is for the Timex watch crowd and park your Chev in the designated spot group. Terrific articles and commentary from a respected small craft designer(Ted Brewer).They recently listed a Jason 35 that was bought as a kit and never finished.The magazine would still have the listings somewhere.Asking $20k.There are a lot of fix it up boats from uncompleted kits purchased in the early 80''s lurking out there.Good luck on your hunt.cap10ed
Project Boats -- Where Do You Find Them?
Greetings everyone!
First; let me appologize for not being better about replying. For some reason my Mac crashes everytime I attempt to post messages. I''m on a PC today and so far so good!
Second; Thanks for all of the great suggestions. I appreciate all of the help.
Hope to see you guys out on the water... some day!
Thanks again,
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Hi Glen,
I just emailed you, but wanted to add a couple of things. One: I believe there''s a "project" cruising boat at Spring Point Marina in South Portland. I seem to recall mention of it last year. Might want to call them. Around 40 feet I think. Two: also try American Boat Listing: www.ablboats.com. It''s a FSBO site.
We understand, as we''re deep into our own major project: http://www.sailnamaste.com
Good luck,
Project Boats -- Where Do You Find Them?
I found mine lurking behind a building. Yep, the owner is dead and the family wanted it gone.
Project Boats -- Where Do You Find Them?
I lived aboard in New York City (actually New Jersey - across the way) and Boston. Yes - people look at you sometimes like you''re nuts - but you CAN live comfortably as long as you 1) heat the boat properly and 2) make sure you have access to fresh water to fill your tanks. And - if you ask me - there is NOTHING like waking up one winter morning after a heavy snow, going up on deck, and looking around!
Having said that - my boat was in very good shape. There were two people I knew that had essentially found project boats and were working/living on them. It takes a lot of commitment - but if you have the fortitude to stick with it I think it can be very personally rewarding. I wouldn''t trade my liveaboard days for anything!!
One guy acquired a brokendown Irwin 28 at a yard a few hours away. He paid almost nothing for it, had it trucked to our yard, was up in the yard for about 2 months (yes - living on the boat in the yard), completed bottom work, went back in (without standing rigging) and kept on working. The Irwin 28 (in my view gave him very little space, which was made smaller by the fact that he was tearing most of the insides out) - but he absolutely loved the experience and what he was doing.
The second guy (actually a couple - but he did all the work) lived on a wooden motorboat that he had been rehabbing for about 7 years. The motor boat gave him a lot more living space, but he diligently kept at it and made notable progress each year. I think in his case the boat was more of a home than a boat - but when I left he had just finished rebuilding the engines and was going to take the boat out this year!
The third guy found a derelect 27'' sailboat (don''t remember what kind) in a yard that was structurally sound. He paid about $8,000 for it. He lived on it full time, spend all his free time working on it, and it took him about a year to overhall (repowered, re-did all the wood inside, redid the systems) - he had a great time!
So - I have to say - it is very possible to do what you want to do. There are times you will be uncomfortable - but in my view the rewards far outweigh the inconvenieces.
Hope this helps!
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A couple with children sailed around the world in a modified Cal 25. A Cal 27 has full head room--and would make an adequate liveaboard. I lived aboard a Columbia 29 a number of years. I think that in your climate a liveaboard should have a functioning head(or portipotty), adequate heating and insullation (there is a material which is a closed cell PVC foam which is quite cheap and is known as "fish Blanket"--it sticks to a fiberglass hull with liquid nails and makes a nice surface on the interior), full head room, an adequate sleeping platform and at least a table of some sort.
I have both built and restored boats and feel if you have the skills and set a reasonable set of goals you can do well with a restoration--if you start with a solid hull.
Bob Austin
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Arsenal take on QPR at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, October 27 (kick-off 3pm).
We are looking for 12 Junior Gunners to form a guard of honour and greet the players as they walk onto the pitch!
To enter our competition you need to be between six and 12 years old and a registered Junior Gunner member. Additionally, you, and an accompanying adult will need to have a ticket for the match.
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someone hurry up and mod it or get a server up and running
if only people wrent lazy
me do it well im NO
and i can im just lazy
Why dont you do it?
No you cant, and no lazy has nothing to do with it, seeing how YOU SIT ON YOUR ASS your not doing much, the correct term is, it cant be done.
If it could, it would've been done already, not your lying ass.
For one, you need to make a custom laucher, etc etc.
Then make a database, then buy a server, then a site, put simply you lose money, and you keep losing money when it comes to private servers.
Meaning, you would have to know how to make a specific Table for the game, and make sure the game is able to recognize the db, while the DB can recognize the server.
like right now i should be doing my homework so i dont get grounded but id rather watch tv and look at you being a meanie
^ ur not even willing to do ur homework, how the hell can u revive dragongem
i cant
and i didnt plan on doing so
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What is Free Aqua Zoo?
Free Aqua Zoo is a free browser game that plays like a cross between an aquarium simulation and an aquatic game. As proud owner of a brand-new aquarium, you strive to become the best fish breeder and aquarium keeper in the world on FreeAquaZoo. A total of 24 entertaining, variety-packed levels await you. Starting as lowly Worm Bather on level 1, you will work your way up to the highest of the high: Fish Whisperer. How can you excel at this aquatic game? By caring for your virtual fish as best you can. After all, the funny little fishies swimming to and fro in your tank need a little tender loving care just like the rest of us. Cuddle them, poke them and feed them in Free Aqua Zoo. Expressing true love for your aquarium fish may take a bit of effort, but it is oh so rewarding...
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Wait, wait – you mean, you don't know what a mouthbrooder or a paramecium is? Then it's high time that you dive into Free Aqua Zoo, the latest browser game programmed and provided by Bamberg-based browser game-producers upjers. Why? Well, simply because Free Aqua Zoo offers you an exceptional aqua game that revolves entirely around colorful, friendly little fish. Yeah, that's right, we're talking about fish, for they are the real stars of this free browser based online game. But it's not really about your normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill fish – we've managed to collect a really exceptional mix of extravagant fish here. Mouthbrooders and paramecium are just part of the menu - though of course, it's not your job to eat, but feed and tend to them here.
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In the new browser game, Free Aqua Zoo, a multitude of features are at your fingertips. This article will give you a rough overview of some of what awaits you in this browser game. Free Aqua Zoo will explain the most important features of the browser game to you as soon as you begin playing via a short and concise tutorial. After registering, a fish called Jolanda will guide you through the fascinating world of this aqua game (a game that, like all browser games from upjers, is free to play, by the way).
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Canisius College head coach and former Golden Griffin standout Randy Mearns has been named for induction into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
A native of St. Catharines, Ontario, Mearns played at Canisius from 1990 to 1992. He still holds school records with 95 career assists as well as 94 points and 49 assists in a single season. Overall, he totaled 190 points during his playing career with the Blue and Gold, which ranks second in the program's record book.
Mearns has also served the last 15 seasons as head coach at his alma mater, leading the Griffs to the MAAC Championship and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2008 and 2012. Under his guidance, six players have been drafted in the first round of the National Lacrosse League, while leading the Griffs to 80 wins.
After graduating from Canisius, Mearns spent 10 seasons in the NLL with Buffalo and Rochester, totaling 214 points, 62 goals and 152 assists. He helped the Bandits to a title in 1993 and the Knighthawks to a championship in 1997.
Mearns also won a Minto Cup with St. Catharines in 1990 and was a five-time winner of the Mann Cup, taking two titles with Brampton (1992-93) and three crowns with Six Nations (1994-96). He served as an assistant coach on the 2006 and 2010 national field teams, with the 2006 squad winning the World Championship.
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If I had a nickle for every time I've forgotten to hook a wire back up or tighten an inaccessible nut/bolt I'd be able to hire a fleet of mechanics :)Scott
The week after time change, was pulling into the jobsite one morning with the sun right in my eyes. Sheetrock truck was unloading in the drive, so I pulled around it and ran right straight into a light pole. Just got the truck back from the shop last week.
Earlier in the year, I had a water leak in the truck. Got it fixed. Filled the radiator with water, and never gave it another thought.This past week.....you guess right. Night temps were in the low teens.Went out three days ago and tried to start the engine. Started right up. With squealing, and smoke a billowing. Shut it off.hoses...frozen. Water pump...frozen.So I had a heater on for two days and wrapped it on top with blankets. (It was stuck outside)Went to start it yesterday. Engine started right up and sounded good. Whew I thought. So I jumped down and looked at the engine. Engine running great. Nothing else moving. Now I have a broken master belt. Everything is connected to this one belt.Last night, tow truck hauled off my truck to the shop to fix it. (Way to cold for me to be laying on the ground with this crap.)What a bonehead. I suggested to the wife that she failed to remind me that I should of drained the radiator and put in antifreeze. She was not amused.So what bonehead thing did you do lately?Thanks for reading. ;)