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You will live and work together as a community in residence. Your work will be discussed with the constant support of mentors and fellow international students.
one-on-ones with the mentors. small group sessions. full sessions.
The Photography Master Retreat schedule.
The 2019 Photography Master Retreat one-week summer session will begin on Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 4pm and concludes on the morning of Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 10:00 am. These dates have been chosen so that participants can also attend the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles, the international photography festival.
The Photography Master Retreat emphasizes intensive review and discussion of each participant's process and work. The three mentors are committed to taking individual students to their highest photographic potential in a creative, supportive, and enjoyable environment. Portfolio reviews, supportive critique, discussions, and opportunities for introspection are all integral components of this special program. The mentors schedule the week working with the larger group (14 participants maximum), smaller groups, as well as individual one-on-one sessions.
The schedule is designed so that each participant's process and work is reviewed, discussed and reframed into a final presentation on the last day of their project(s), accompanied by an artist statement and future goals.


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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) The University of Georgia police department is investigating the possible theft of prescription drugs within the school's tennis programs.
Georgia has suspended men's and women's assistant coaches, Bo Hodge and Drake Bernstein, respectively.
The investigation and suspensions of the top assistants come as Georgia prepares to host the men's and women's NCAA championships. The round of 16 begins Thursday in the men's and women's draws.
UGA police were contacted on May 7 to investigate the possible theft and/or mishandling of drugs valued up to $1,500, according to a UGA police incident report obtained by The Associated Press. According to the report, men's coach Manuel Diaz first reported the theft of the medication from the athletic association.
Diaz said Tuesday he could not talk about the incident. He said he has discussed the matter with his players.
''It's an ongoing investigation and we'll just have to let the law enforcement folks do their job,'' Diaz said. ''We've counseled the kids and the kids are in a good place and we're moving forward.''
Diaz said the incident has not drawn the interest of the NCAA.
''I've been told there is no NCAA investigation, whatsoever,'' he said.
According to the incident report, UGA police were called to the tennis center on May 7. The report filed by officer J. Gagliano also stated the complaint was ''related to the possible theft and mishandling of prescription medication involving a number of individuals within the tennis program.''
The report mentioned no names of those involved.
Diaz said all players are ''absolutely'' active.
Georgia freshman Robert Loeb, who plays with Jan Zielinski on the nation's top-ranked doubles team, said the investigation will not be a distraction. He said the message from Diaz was ''we just need to move forward. We can't control that. We just need to move forward and stay positive.''
Georgia women's coach Jeff Wallace declined to comment on the investigation during a news conference on Tuesday which was previously planned to preview the tournament.

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In recent years, refrigerated egg substitute has replaced the raw egg traditional to this classic salad recipe. Don't skimp on the garlic and herb croutons--they're well worth the effort.
1. Cook garlic in small pot boiling water, 5 minutes. Drain. Place garlic in processor or blender. Add egg replacement, anchovies if desired, mustard, Parmesan and lemon juice. Puree 1 minute. With machine running, add oil in stream until blended.Croutons:
2. Heat oil and butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add garlic; cook 2 minutes. Add bread cubes. Increase heat to medium-high; cook, stirring frequently, until bread is evenly browned, 7 to 8 minutes. Stir in parsley and Parmesan; toss to coat.To assemble:
3. Toss together dressing, romaine and croutons in large bowl. Divide equally among 4 plates.


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Crash Pad
M.E. Parker
"You're such a dork." Lark slipped her hair back behind her ear. "Frontier Park? For what this place costs, you could've taken me out—like for real." She followed her rant with an eruption of laughter, tossing her head back, staring at Pete as though she were looking at him through the bottom of a pair of bifocals. "You should see your face right now. You kind of look like one of those Dr. Seuss characters," she said waving her finger under her nose. "The ones with the big honkin' space between their upper lips and their noses."
The glassblower placed a black strap under the lustrous mass, still spinning it, polishing what would eventually become one of the trademark Frontier Park beer goblets in the gift shop. The glass blob turned. Pete fixed on the longitudinal red streaks that had formed, what might have reminded him of Christmas candy had his mind not been hijacked by hearts, enlarged ones. "And there's the veins." Pete said. He could even hear thumping in his own chest, his aorta quivering like the D string on his bass guitar.
Lark had told Pete what happened to her brother. 16 years old. Dropped dead from an enlarged heart. Almost an hour after she told him the story in the shadow of Miner's Mountain, Pete still couldn't shake the idea of a kid with a brontosaurus heart exploding under his ribs. Every fist-sized thing he saw was an engorged thumping heart–the snow cones, the flower blooms around the ride lines, the pomegranate in the trash can, everything, except what was left of his funnel cake. It looked like powdered intestine.
Pete and Lark had only known each a couple of weeks. Pete had been the cook on Lark's first night at Grill Masters, a great gig for a guy. All the waitresses wore skimpy outfits. She cornered him after work, and they spent that night at his apartment, where she'd been ever since, because, she had told him, she was practically homeless. Pete had only had one real girlfriend to speak of, and he had certainly never lived with a girl. When a girl like Lark, a bona fide nymphomaniac with the body of a music video dance extra, and on top of that, a girl with no place to live, took an interest in him, Pete figured he should stop playing the lottery; he would never get much luckier.
They had packed a lot into those two weeks, even an abbreviated version of shit awareness week, that inevitable period of time in any relationship when, according to Pete's mom, the veil is lifted and all the annoying things about each other surface. He had already dealt with the fact that Lark's feet smelled like gorgonzola cheese when she took off her work shoes and that she had a couple of missing teeth up front that she concealed with a temporary bridge on a retainer that sometimes came loose, not when they were just kissing, when they really got going.
The glass, it really did resemble an enlarged heart. Absolutely, it did, a bulging orange mass slick with heat that could burst any moment. Pete never intended to vocalize this, but his thoughts had suddenly become tethered to his mouth with no delay, the way an inadvertent fuck on the radio might miss getting hiccupped before it sullied the airwaves.
"Why would you even say that?" Lark snapped. She glared at him all surprised.
Pete practically raised his two younger sisters. He knew drama, and he had pegged Lark as one of those girls who got off on being indignant. He didn't know why he said it. Enlarged hearts had invaded his brain, his eyes drawn to that glowing orb of glass, to its transformation, its elongation, as the man in the leather apron blew into the end of the rod, ever twirling it between his palms.
"Oh my God. See if I ever tell you anything again." Lark gave him a half slap on the cheek.
"What?" Pete shrugged.
"I tried to actually have a real conversation with you. That's what. So, I told you about my brother. Deal with it. I swear. You are such a hypochondriac." She pulled a tube of lipstick out of her purse and gave her lips a fresh coat of aubergine.
"I just don't feel so good. Strange. You know?" Pete rocked on his heels back and forth, feeling taller and taller as he stared into the kiln fire where the man in the black apron twisted the bulbous glass at the end of the rod. Pete's eyes followed the arc of a spark as it popped from the kiln. Beside him, Lark stared at the orange orb, or maybe, Pete guessed, she was eyeing the glassblower who she probably thought was hot. "What? You want to do that guy or something?"
"That is so freakin' cool." Lark tilted her head, obviously fixated on the transforming glass–not the glassblower. She looked different, not slutty or even sexy. She reminded Pete of his little sisters when they used to watch those educational half-cartoons with talking stuffed dinosaurs and reading dogs, her mouth the shape of a gaping, up-ended crescent moon.
"If it gets any bigger–that thing will explode." Pete ran his finger along Lark's cheek, stopping in the pothole of an acne scar. Normally, he hardly noticed those acne divots on her complexion; they were small. But today, it was as if her face had absorbed the brunt of a meteor shower, leaving him in awe of her facial topography, of the tiny, irregular craters caked with makeup.
"Oh my God. What are you doing?" She asked, never looking away from the molten form of glass that had finally begun to resemble a beer goblet.
"Come on." She grabbed his hand. "Let's go back over to Miner's Mountain."
"Line's probably still too long." Miner's Mountain was the ride that kept Frontier Park in business. The line rarely shortened. Pete rubbed his eyes. "I feel like shit. Just came on, you know?" His heart now felt enlarged, and all his blood vessels a thousand stretched rubber bands. The feeling reminded him of the tension headaches he used to get that blurred his vision. Only this was all over his body.
The official, mustachioed Frontier Park glassblower looked up at Pete as though he might start taking him. The glassblower's eyebrows arched, the smolder of hellfire in the kiln behind him charring the souls of fallen glass figurines. He aimed his fiery glass trident right at Pete, as if preparing to penetrate the pony wall that kept tourists at bay and thrust the glass right into Pete's ever morphing, fattening heart. The glassblower's lips parted, prepared to do the devil's magic on the molten glass when his eyes found Pete's. Skip it, he mumbled to Pete.
"What? What did you say? Skip it. Skip what? Miner's Mountain?" Skip it. His heart skipping beats–that was the it–the beat.
"Who are you talking to?"
"Who the fuck are you talking to?" Lark giggled, as if she were being held down and tickled by a group of fourth-grade girls between pillow fights.
Pete pointed to the glassblower who had begun to detach the goblet for cooling.
"Dude. You're talking to that guy? What, are you telepathic?" She continued laughing, bending over to catch her breath. "And what did you guys talk about?" She sucked in a deep breath, trying to stop laughing.
"Look, I have to sit down." Pete's heart pounded. His whole body twitched the way his nose did right before a thunderstorm hit. "I don't feel good." He visualized Lark's sixteen-year-old brother, what he must have gone through, splayed out on a gurney surround by white-coats and green-masks, a hefty nurse Ratchet type yelling clear right before she tried to zap the poor kid's mega heart back to life. "I can't breathe very well." Pete wished his mom were still alive, standing right next to him, working her rosary.
"Dude." Lark's giggling continued.
Along with the various ailments associated with lupus, which Pete had been certain he had until his mom finally convinced him otherwise, Pete had memorized the heart-attack symptoms as a kid, worried even then he would turn out to be the one in a million to suffer an early coronary. Pain in the shoulder. His shoulder hurt. Shortness of breath. He had forgotten to breath, or so it seemed. The past few seconds, or minutes, he had just stood there, not breathing, or breathing softly, sipping, as though he needed to tell himself to breath instead of his body doing it for him without explicit instruction. Tightening chest. Someone, a giant, may as well have plucked him from the clutches of Frontier Park and crushed his grape of a ribcage. Lightheadedness. If his head were any lighter if would pop off his neck and float up to the top of the Miner's Mountain. Irregular heart rate. Oh mama, there wasn't anything regular about his heart rate. Feeling of impending doom. That was the symptom that had always thrown him. Doom for Pete was no longer impending. Doom had descended unto him cloaked in leather and told him to skip it. "I have to sit down."
"We are sitting down you nut. This is hysterical."
"Hysterical? I'm having a heart attack. My mom always told me that only old people have heart attacks. I mean, I worried about it anyway, but I always figured she was right." The sentence flew out of his mouth as a flock of word doves suddenly released from a cage. "She always told me there were better things to worry about at my age. College, job, car payment, keeping my sisters in line. Of course, I fretted over the cancer too. My mom had it. My grandmother had it, but it was a woman cancer, you know, so I didn't kill myself over it. Oh man, I'm having a heart attack. Really." Pete jolted to his feet, rubbing his face, trying to control his heartbeat, which somehow made it worse.
"You're not having a heart attack, you dork." Lark lit a cigarette, laughing again, fixing her hair so it fell all to one side. She rotated the lit cigarette with her over and over, eyes never leaving the red ember on the end.
"No, I am. Really." Frontier Park's main concourse had taken a turn from its cheesy Old West façade book-ended by a double-loop roller coaster at one end and an infrequently-trammed parking lot at the other, to a twisted corridor of rotten wood and rusted steel, captioned in Cyrillic, which led straight to the mouth of hell. Feeling of doom. He had always wondered about the last symptom, as in how would doom manifest itself on the victim of a failing heart. He had imagined panic, all is lost, flashes of his soon- to-be-expired life, not being with some girl hammering his brain shut, not taking him seriously, all on the very edge, the Frontier of consciousness.
"Pete, sit down. You're losing it." Lark reached for his hand. "That whole hypochondria thing. I thought you were just kind of kidding around when you told me that. I didn't realize how messed up you were. If it makes you feel any better, my brother didn't really have an enlarged heart."
"Why would you make that up?" Laughing at him, and now lying, Pete knew his mother would have disapproved of Lark. With his sisters, he had always slammed down the fist on lying, lumped it the basement of character traits right there with schadenfreude, something else Lark had exhibited today, laughing, smirking, lapping up his imminent demise right in front of his face. "Still doesn't change the fact. I gotta get out of here. I can't breathe."
"Look, my brother OD'd okay? I just didn't want you to freak out. Start mothering me like I was one of your bratty sisters or something. I can handle my shit."
"OD'd? Bratty sisters?" Both of Pete's sisters werein college, working a couple of jobs apiece to pay for it. One played the clarinet. The other played the flute. Pete had toted them to and from band practice and dance lessons and girl scouts while his mom slowly faded away. Just because he never let them do drugs, took away their cars, fought with them physically and mentally, practically locked them in the house to keep them from getting into drugs, which had pretty much been his mom's last request, did not mean that he had mothered them or that they were bratty. He let them do pretty much anything else they wanted. Lucy, who was only three years younger than Pete, had two abortions before she graduated. He had tried to keep them clean, but keeping them off drugs in their neighborhood had been a full time job.
"You're just so preachy about that shit."
Pete didn't have the energy to argue, with the sky, now a pink silkscreen, folding him up inside it. He trembled all over, fever with chills on a summer day, his favorite songs mashed into an oompah collage, the people in Frontier Park scuttling by as countless Benny Hills chasing the skirts of women in front of them.
Drugs. Strike three on his mom's girlfriend disapproval meter. Though he couldn't seem to conjure the image of his mother, not anymore. She had died only two years ago. Her face should still be fresh in his mind. He thought it was before today, but he wondered if the world had always been this way, hues of pink and green over a backdrop of trembling trees beneath a corrugated sky. The door to the taffy parlor on the other side of the concourse sulked in shame, the novelty of its colors and shapes usurped by asphalt walkway. In his assessment, if such a place as heaven and hell existed, his life to this point would have been much more worthy of heaven than hell, but as the iron gates of the underworld creaked open to receive him, he saw not silver and fleece but craggy, barren mountains so hot as to burn a hiker's feet right through the sole of his boot.
"Pete. Are you okay?" Lark grabbed him by the shoulders, her icicle fingers cold-branding his bare arms.
"I don't know."
"I know that look. First, the heart thing and now this. I can't tell you anything."
Pete rubbed his face. He scanned the park for a water fountain to splash his face, finding only a shallow puddle near the vending machine where he could wet his cheeks.
"Oh my God. Pete." After an initial chuckle, her laughter trailed away. "You're freaking me out. My brother was a speed freak. Trust me. You can't OD on acid."
"What are you talking about?"
"You're not going to have a heart attack and you're not going to OD. You needed to loosen up. Live a little. See that drugs aren't all bad. I just figured if we were going to an amusement park, we might as well be amused. Just laugh. Enjoy it. That's what I do. That's what it's for."
"Trust you? Enjoy it?" He had trusted her. She had violated that trust. Or so he thought, but thought had changed—he thought. And he could not recall what thought was like before his synapses started misfiring behind a screaming wall of pink. He wondered had he always thought this way, pushing back on logic like a salmon swimming upstream in search of a point of origin. Would his decisions forever, from this point forward, consist of questioning whether or not he had always felt the way he felt at that moment, a feeling that he couldn't manage to remember? Above him, a tower of twisted steel, the Miner's Mountain rackety-crackled up its initial ascent, to the summit where the answers must lie, each of its passengers having resigned the worthlessness of their lives for a chance to see Frontier Park from soaring height, catapulted from the highest knob, all for a chance to stop their minds as quickly as they could.
Lark's smile faded. "Oh shit. Shit. Double shit."
Pete jumped, her fear as palpable as ants marching up his arms. "What?"
"It's Julian."
Orange Julius. Pete remembered those. "You don't see those anymore. Orange Julius. Smoothies took over. There used to be one in the old Sunset Place mall."
"What the fuck is Julian doing at Frontier Park? Is he following me? Oh, man." Lark grabbed her purse and held it up beside her head. "Quick, get down." She kneeled down beside the bench.
As if on a lazy Susan, the bench came around back into view with Lark plopped beside it, holding up her purse. The sight of her hunched over on the sidewalk, a fat pigeon pecking for bread crumbs, was funny, showed him a glimmer of life beyond the fires of cerebral hell.
"It's not fucking funny." Lark waved Pete over closer to her. "You won't be laughing if Julian recognizes me. If he did this to me," she said pointing at her mouth, "imagine what he'll do to you."
"Some dude knocked out your teeth? That's what happened?" Pete continued to laugh, having imagined a twelve-year-old pre-slutty Lark tumbling over her bicycle handlebars, teeth hitting the ground.
Her lip sucked in a little over the gap in her teeth. Pete doubled over laughing.
She stood up and slung her purse at him. "It's not fucking funny,you dick."
"I'm sorry. I just can't stop."
"This bridge is only temporary until I get my teeth permanently fixed. Dick."
Pete sunk back into the bench, his arms outstretched as if he were swaying in a hammock on the beach. His girlfriend had drugged him, and good, all because he needed to loosen up. Hell had returned.. He could practically feel his teeth falling out after a punch from this Julian guy, who would certainly double up his fury on a man.
"What are you doing?" Pete asked, confused as to how Lark could go from terrified damsel to ambivalent park primper.
Lark moved her compact mirror from side to side. She reapplied her makeup, giving the acne scars a fresh fill, Pete imagined. "I don't want Julian to think I've let myself go."
"What? That guy knocked out your teeth."
"Yeah, but he needs to know what he's missing." Lark smacked her lips together after a swipe with the lipstick tube.
Pete eyed Lark's purple shirt. It struck him as an odd design. Tight in places, loose in others flapping in a breeze. He imagined all her other clothes, the mound of club outfits and bras and shoes, all those shoes. How, he wondered, could someone "without a place to stay" accumulate so many shoes? Then he imagined those shoes flying out the window of his apartment, scattering, bouncing off the hoods of passing cars, being carried away by stray dogs, tight tops and skirts littering the sidewalk. Next he'd toss her hair products, pour them out the window, glop, glop onto the ground. He could put up with a lot, but deception was the elevator down, and now a mental assault, a mind fucking without his consent had sentenced him to this bench in cerebral Purgatory, longing to see his sisters, to tell them he really could see their mother in their faces, the sharp nose and wide hopeful eyes. He had always seen his sisters as such a burden. Now, he wished hard for one of them to call him, ask him for a favor, anything.
"Oh dude. That's some crazy shit. That's not Julian," Lark said as the man in question walked by them. "That doesn't even look like him. I don't know what I was thinking." She began to laugh again. "To the mountain." Lark pointed to Miner's Mountain, the tall, inverted corkscrew roller coaster with half its track in the dark.
Pete's confusion and fear had provided him with clarity. He replied with what his mother told him to say when he first started middle school, the way he should handle it if someone pressured him to do something he didn't want to do. "I don't feel well. I'm going home," he proclaimed, not knowing what daunted him more, the idea of a corkscrew flight through a sound rainbow in Miner's Mountain or making his way home, wishing he could soar above the park for a look at the park map with you are here next to a sign to the restroom.
"Look, Pete, I'm sorry. Really." Lark never looked up, continuing to study her reflection in the compact mirror. "My bad. Forgive me?" She crinkled her nose, still looking in the mirror.
"No. No. What? Are you kidding?"
"Come on, Pete."
"Come on Pete nothing. I'm just a place to stay, aren't I? Just some crash pad until you find the next, better-looking guy like Julian you can shack up with. What? You need me to smack you around like Julian? Is that it?"
"It's not like that, Pete. I swear. Don't do this." Lark finally looked at him, eyes desperate, as though she were a non-swimmer neck-deep in a swimming pool.
"Don't do what?"
"You're not just a place to stay. Okay? I really have had it pretty rough, Pete."
Pete wanted to call his sisters, make sure they were okay, remind them to stay away from guys who might smack them around. When he was seventeen, those two wrecking balls around his neck kept him from doing anything. One sister to band practice, the other to after school tutoring, one suspended from school, the other needing someone to go on a Brownie campout. At seventeen, Pete hated his mom for dying such a long and painful death. At twenty-seven, he was glad to have something left of her in his two sisters. But he knew, no matter what they had gotten themselves into in college, neither of his sisters were liars, and neither of them would even think about drugging someone. He, had something to do with that. He had harped on them in place of their sick mom and threatened them the way a dad might have if they had one. If only Lark had been lucky enough to have a brother like him.
"I am telling you, I'm not getting on that thing." Pete pointed in the general direction of Miner's Mountain. He had never had a problem with Miner's Mountain before, but the sound of the cars sliding across the rails, zooming through a maw in that concrete peak, made him think of wrecking his car in the twelfth grade, all crunched up inside a soda pop can with wheels.
"Fine. We'll go on the Log Flume. Nice and peaceful. With birds tweeting and water gushing." She made a fluttery bird with her hands and laughed.
Pete really did just want to go home, by himself, and change the lock on his door, but he didn't think he could be alone right now. He was relieved that the line for the Log Flume was not long. All that waiting made him jittery. He resigned himself. Really, it was all just a wait.
M.E. Parker is a closet antiquarian masquerading as a technophile, as well as a writer, an editor, web designer, and a carpenter who imagines a world of wooden computers with leather bound keyboards. Find him at www.meparker.com.
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"The Nutcracker And The Four Realms" is chocolate box art lavishly brought to over-saturated, over-sugared, overly decorated life on the big screen. And, like the contents of that box of chocolates, there are moments of sublime deliciousness, a few over-sweet gooey confections and even the occasional nut. It's hard to resist all the tempting treats … Continue reading The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (2018) Review
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On Friday, April 28th, Pinnacle's Learn-a-Thon winners were treated to a special field trip. Theses students, in grades Kindergarten through Sixth, logged the most minutes in Science study during our Compass Week. These students spent extra time outside of school learning about different branches of Science through reading, trips to the zoo, cooking, and watching shows. These future scientists were treated to a special trip to Barnes and Noble and lunch at Chili's!
Compass Week
Family Science Night
PPA would like to thank all of our families who attended our Family Science Night event! All science projects on display were fantastic! Students and teachers were thrilled to see everyone and show off their experiments. It was truly an out-of-this-world experience!
Science Compass Week Concludes
Science Compass Week came to an end on Friday, April 28th. Students in grades K-6 had a Science focus as classes experimented and explored throughout the week! Just take a look…
Compass Week – Science
Our final Compass Week of the year, Science Week, is in full swing! We have been able to start each morning Station out with a fantastic science experiment to get those Science brains turned on!!
PPA will be hosting our Science Fair this Thursday from 5:30pm – 7:30pm! The students have been working so hard on their projects and they can't wait to show them off on Thursday night! Come on by and learn all about what your kiddos have been learning and have a sweet treat! Hope to see you there!!!
International Delight!
Wow, what an amazing start to our 3rd Compass Week of the year, International Week! Our panthers heard from so many amazing world travelers this morning, all the way from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to the the bright lights of the Louvre. We are so thankful for the amazing volunteers that have taken the time to come share with us some of your amazing adventures! We can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings!
Did Someone Say Snow?
Yes, you heard it correctly, SNOW…right here at PPA! Kinder through 6th graders, don't forget to suit up on Wednesday, 1/25, and get ready to play in the snow!! It's going to be c..c..c..cooooooold, so make sure you bring your gloves and a warm jacket!! After our snow play, we can warm up in the café with some delicious s'mores and hot cocoa! Don't forget to return your permission slip!


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Karl Koth and Sam Papendick are two old friends with shared passions for microbrewing and for keeping things local. The two grew up in Rapid City and reconnected after they finished college. Both also had taken up homebrewing in their spare time and eventually decided to collaborate, opening up Hay Camp Brewery in January 2014.
The pair opened up a shop in an old garage at the Fairmont Creamery in town. For the sake of keeping things local, they named it "Hay Camp" for Rapid City's original name in the 1800s. Their first space was intimate and a little cozy, seating about 30 people at a time.
"Some of the big limitations we had in the old spot were visibility. We were kind of tucked back away from the road," said Papendick. "From a production standpoint, the brewing equipment was integrated into the taproom, so we had our brewhouse behind the bar. Making beer and selling beer on the same day was a nightmare for us. When our lease was up at the Creamery, we knew we needed to move and address some of those issues."
They were itching to move when they came across an old Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealership built in 1948 that had most recently served as a laundry facility for Rapid City Regional Hospital. They were interested in the space and its art deco style, and they were excited to try out a multi-business concept Papendick had seen work in other cities.
"We thought that the building was a really good fit for us, and all the space was indicating that we needed to make use of it," recalled Papendick. "The Source in Denver does this multi-business under one roof, so they have a brewery down there and a butcher shop and restaurants. We thought that was a cool concept and a good way to make use of such a large building."
Fitting into this multi-business along with their brewery is Mothership Coffee and Commons, a coffee shop and common area with lots of natural light to draw people into the space, and new local artists featured each season. All the coffee comes from South Dakota roasters, like The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co., Pure Bean, and Essence of Coffee.
"The Mothership is being transformed into more of a conference space or morning meeting room. We're going to quit doing a coffee shop every morning and go for more of a privately booked space," said Papendick. "We've got a really great storefront, why not put local artists on the walls?"
The two are also working on a new music venue and private event space, Ursa Major Musical Monument. The space will have a National Park theme to fit the surrounding environment. The first show at Ursa Major will be touring band Best Coast on September 20.
"(Best Coast) will be our kickoff show, and then we'll be booking things after that. For the music, we're featuring touring bands, people that are coming through Rapid City that are connecting between (other cities)," said Papendick. "(Ursa Major) can be used primarily for concerts, but also wedding receptions, conferences, I guess really any private event can go in there."
Papendick said that the space could also use a restaurant, but they've been hosting food trucks to complement the brewery crowd for the time being.
"The idea was to have a restaurant that would complement the coffee shop in the morning, and then the brewery for lunch and dinner, and that would also be able to cater into the event space," he explained. "Hopefully we'll be able to attract a restaurant or somebody who's into local food and stuff that pairs really well with craft beer."
Above all, Papendick and Koth want to keep things local. Papendick said their motto is "craft your community," and that's all he hopes to do with this new space.
"We're all about featuring local products. We have local artists on display in the Coffee and Commons, we're doing all South Dakota-roasted coffee and tea, and we make all our own beer and serve only our beer," he said. "It's all about supporting small, local businesses."
For more information, visit haycampbrewing.com or mothershiprc.com.


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Alcohol isn't commonly thought to be a "healthy" part of a weight loss program, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy a drink or two without screwing up your progress.
First, let's talk about why we're even addressing this topic. Considering that drinking inhibits fat loss and adds excess calories, wouldn't it make sense to forego it altogether?
If this is possible for you, great. There's no shortage of articles (such as this one) on how alcohol physiologically hurts your efforts.
But weight loss isn't just about physiology. If it were, everyone would be able to just "eat less, move more" their way into skinny jeans. In reality, your environment is just as important as your physiology is to weight loss, and there are few things as native as alcohol. It has played a central role in almost all cultures since neolithic times, and there's even evidence to suggest that it played a key role in human evolution. READ MORE....


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An export mission of Azerbaijani entrepreneurs will visit Saudi Arabia's Jeddah and Riyadh cities on December 6-8, Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) said on October 24.
The entrepreneurs specialize in production of fruits and vegetables, mineral water, fruit juices, sugar and confectionery products, wine and other alcohol products, honey, tea, meat and other products.
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Despite not physically growing in size, it seems our world just keeps getting bigger and bigger as more people get addicted to the beautiful cycle of travel—the more cities you visit in the world, the more you want to see. Here Vogue Living lists the trending cities that you should try next, from the beautiful chaos of Zanzibar to the blue streets of Chefchaouen; add these emerging hotspots to your travelling wish list.
Chefchaouen, Morocco
If your Instagram feed is anything to go by, the beautiful city of Marrakech in Morocco may seem a little bit 'been-there-done-that'. For your next trip, try a visit to Chefchaouen, 'the blue city' of Morocco instead.
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Zanzibar, Tanzania
Zanzibar is a beautiful chaos of local culture and vibrancy set on a tropical island that is a delight to all senses.
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Valletta, Malta
It's the smallest capital in Europe, but by no means small in history or culture. UNESCO has named the city of Valletta a World Heritage Site, noting that the city is 'one of the most concentrated historic areas in the world'.
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Porto, Portugal
From gothic architecture to Art Nouveau cafés, Porto is filled with the kind of historic charm that travellers are always searching for.
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Seville, Spain
Local wine, traditional Spanish tapas and breathtaking architecture—booking a trip to Seville in 2018 is a no brainer in our books.
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Petra, Jordan
The blushing colours of Petra's rock formations have to be seen to be believed. From ancient architecture to picturesque clifftops, Petra is a destination that will slip right to the top of your travelling wish list.
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Osaka, Japan
Osaka is associated with the Japanese phrase 'kuidaore' meaning 'eat oneself bankrupt', so foodies take note. Must try dishes include okonomiyaki, takoyaki and kushikatsu.
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Nusa Lembongan, Indonesia
Indonesia can sometimes get a bad wrap for being a tropical getaway for lazy travellers due to the South East Asian island country's proximity to Australia. But Nusa Lembongan is a refreshing and authentic escape from the tourists of Bali.
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Miami, USA
Forget everything you thought you knew about Miami, the Floridian city is making a comeback in a big way. With new hotels and restaurants popping up every other month, the city is so much more than a spring break destination in 2018.
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Jaipur, India
A marriage of vibrancy and culture, India's pink city is filled with romantic architecture and local crafts that do not cease to inspire curious travellers.
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Chengdu, China
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Halloween is a fun time- rummaging through different costumes to see who you'll transform into for the night. The smell of apples and pumpkins permeating the air and the gorgeous trees with their vibrant leaf headdresses make everything so much more colorful, so enchanting. My favorite place to find fun, sexy and unique costumes is Yandy.com
Here are my picks for favorite Halloween costumes 2017:
I love this low maintenance kitty cat costume! Not all costumes have to be over the top or expensive! This is only $29.95
I'm obsessed with the 1920's! I love this sultry, flapper costume! Elegant, sexy and vintage!
I love this "Little Lost Alice" costume. So unique and detailed!
I love this Peacock Masquerade Corset Costume. Having lived in New Orleans, I can't help but feel my heart flutter when I see this beauty!
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In an era where info is everywhere...
and we're expecting to do everything, Nick Snapp decided it was time to figure out how to focus on what works, and eliminate the noise. He realized that no matter what the online gurus tell you, there will never be a one-size-fits-all strategy, and there had to be a way quickly test and validate ideas and marketing strategies online. Through countless iterations, Nick and his team developed Snappier, and eventually re-branded The Make it Snappy Experiment podcast to follow suit (formerly The Make it Snappy Productivity Show).
Snappier leverages technology and behavioral science to build profitable online courses and products.
Nick earned a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Union College and MBA from the University of Florida. He obtained Lean/Six Sigma and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications, and worked 14 years in the nuclear and phosphate industries, where he led teams as a capital project manager, responsible for multi-million-dollar projects.
Nick is best known as the atypical-engineer host of The "Make it Snappy" Productivity Show podcast (and all things "snappy," for that matter). His faith fuels his love for people, culture, language learning, and his passion for "tough love" and living deliberately. He and his wife, Nazach have three boys, Carter (8) and Ethan (6), and Nico (2).


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It's not often that we get to see Sea Smoke on the Hudson, but today's Arctic blast set the stage for some beautiful scenery.
Sea smoke billows up when the water temperature is MUCH warmer than the air — at least 30 degrees warmer.
This morning, it was 5 degrees Fahrenheit in New York, and the water temperature at the Battery was 38 degrees.
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Linklaters, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May have secured roles on the £900m share placing of a 44 per cent stake in tour operator Thomas Cook.
With clients becoming increasingly international, chambers are following suit. But as Nic Fletcher finds, barristers from the same set appearing on opposite sides of the same case is often not the done thing


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The internet actually rules the world and a lot of people depend usually on such to collect information, expand the business, transaction as well as others. The internet has come across with so many features which help everyone to get whatever they like. It has also opened so many doors for the business and has also served itself as a boon for such entrepreneurs to become visible all around the world. The business is a core sector which gets affected by the rise of the internet and technology. In order to cater to the needs of the business owners, companies have actually laid such platform which can help the business owners to achieve their dream.
Marketing is surely one very common term and this has been used by the firms since history. If marketing is actually done by using the online tools, then this is coined as digital or internet marketing. The platform is much stronger than the other methods of marketing like growing in demand for the huge potential that such brings in connecting one end of the world with the others. You must know that such digital marketing platform focuses on providing promotional advertisement that can help increase the visibility of the business and bestow many choices to consumers to search for the right product.
There are certainly a lot of advantages that you will be able to get and it is would help the business to swell from such tiny drop into the ocean. With this platform, then the businesses would be able to reach each part of the world and also help in penetrating every market, revitalize such business standard and also the financial success. These professional agencies are going to hire such skilled individuals who have the knowledge regarding the building strategies, the internet and many others which can increase the statistics of the business.
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A digital marketing agency that is professional concentrates on the better ranking of the business on those search engine pages. They would actually target to bring the business to the search engine's first page by content marketing to be able to improve the visibility. For traffic, such talented professionals would hit the social media pages such as Twitter, Facebook and others for publicizing the website. This is going to create awareness among the market and such would also induce interest of the public to visit the site and look at such products and services being sold. Prior to making such site popular, the agency would take a deep interest in building as well as developing the website that caters to the nature of the business.
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No claim is more popular among opponents of the Marketplace Fairness Act than that MFA would require businesses to file taxes in something like 10,000 jurisdictions. The most emphatic opponents even talk about audits from 500 Native American governments. Those numbers are meant to play on the worst fears of their audience of business owners. I enjoy great storytelling as much as anyone, but we're talking about a make-or-break policy for Main Street businesses around the country. It's not story-time, and we have a responsibility to the facts.
The Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 says that states get to decide how they want to collect sales taxes on internet retail sales as long as they make compliance reasonably simple and easy. State governments that want to collect these taxes can either simplify their sales tax code in accordance with the Marketplace Fairness Act, or they can join the more rigorous Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, also known as SSUTA. About half of U.S. states have already adopted laws in accordance with SSUTA.
Under the Marketplace Fairness Act, states can only require Internet sellers to collect sales tax if they have "a single entity within the State responsible for all State and local sales and use tax administration, return processing, and audits for remote sales sourced to the State." This means that a single state office handles everything including local taxes. If a state chooses this option, remote sellers would have to interact with exactly one office in that state.
States must also provide "a single audit of a remote seller for all State and local taxing jurisdictions within that state" Find out more here. To reiterate, that's one office, one audit, one system per state. That means the worst-case scenario of tax jurisdictions is less than 1% of the 10,000 that opponents of Marketplace Fairness have threatened. And this stuff isn't buried in the legislation; it's on page two of four that make up the whole bill. Similar language appears in the first few pages of the SSUTA.
As a business owner I'm sympathetic. We're busy people and don't usually have time to do a lot of our own research on legislation. So if this was just about correcting a single false claim I probably wouldn't have been so bothered. But I want others in the business community to know that the opponents of Marketplace Fairness are not credible. Look at their claims and then look at the facts. Maybe they have not read the legislation or maybe they have read the legislation and are fully aware of the fraudulent claims they continue to repeat. Either way they cannot be trusted on this issue.
Opponents of Marketplace Fairness are sounding one false alarm after another. They invent information to play on fears and vulnerabilities in the business community until there feels like no difference between "I don't understand this legislation" and "this legislation will make me close my business." That kind of manipulative lobbying is dangerous and in this case the message is also insulting—like internet entrepreneurs can't handle the same compliance costs that brick-and-mortar entrepreneurs deal with every day. But unlike these critics, I have faith in my competitors, in the free market, in business owners, and in voters. And maybe most important of all, I have faith that a few facts will reveal the truth even in the face of 10,000 clever lies.
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When Social Media Doesn't Feel So Social
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Let the Games Begin + Giveaway Winner
Happiest of Mother's Days to all my mama friends out there! As my buddy Kandace posted: "It took me a while. But, I think I am all prepared for Mother's Day…. The garbage and recycle are full, the dishwasher has … Continued
The Mother's Day Hierarchy
Mother's Day. I recall being a kid and feeling a little jealous that moms got their very own holiday (because kids are too dumb to realize the national children's holiday is just called "Life.") I wanted to be a part of … Continued
I Won, Now It's Your Turn: Mother's Day Giveaway
This post is all about winning. Winning for you, and winning for me…well, technically not me. For one of the dresses you so kindly helped me choose to wear to next week's Listen to Your Mother performance. But first, let's … Continued
Please Be My Fashion Police
This is going to be short and sweet. The Listen To Your Mother St. Louis Show is just 10 days away, and this girl needs to figure out what she will be wearing on stage. I already have my amazing (and FREE) … Continued
Hey, I Just Bought An Area Rug…And Other Stuff
You know how sometimes you call up a friend just to say hey? Well, that's kind of all this is. Hey! I didn't get a real blog post written this week because I spent too much time binge watching Unbreakable … Continued
The Google Search History of a 6-Year-Old Boy
I'd like to kiss the person who invented internet parental controls. Raising kids in this digital age usually terrifies me. The moment my tween daughter first asked me for her own iPhone without the slightest hint of joking in her … Continued
Listen To Your Mother…Or Me. Either One.
Eat your vegetables. Put on a coat. Tie your shoes. If you don't clean up this hell-hole-hurricane-disaster-zone-stinking-landfill-of-a-room, I will clean it for you…and give all your earthly possessions to homeless Brazilian Pygmies who don't have bedazzled password journals. I think … Continued
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T.E. McHALE: We are now pleased to welcome the 2000 FedEx Championship Series champion Gil de Ferran of Marlboro Team Penske. Thanks for joining us today.
GIL de FERRAN: Good afternoon, everybody. It's my pleasure to be out of the cage and talking again.
T.E. McHALE: Our pleasure to have you. Gil, the driver of the No. 1 Marlboro Honda/Reynard is entering his seventh year in the FedEx Championship Series and his second with Marlboro Team Penske. He became the eighth CART champion in Team Penske history last season, joining Rick Mears who won in 1979, '81 and '82; Al Unser who won in 1983 and '85; Danny Sullivan who won in 1988; and Al Unser, Jr. who won in 1984. Gil's season included victories at Nazareth and Portland, the former of which was the 100th champ car win in Team Penske history. He also recorded five pole positions at Homestead, Long Beach, Mid-Ohio, Houston and California Speedway. Gil's pole for the FedEx Championship Series season finale at California Speedway established a world closed-course speed record of 241.428 miles per hour. That pole also grouped him in the sole position of tenth place in CART career history with 11 pole positions. He qualified among the Top 5 drivers for 16 of 20 starts and scored championship points in 15 of 20 starts. Gil won the FedEx Championship Series championship with 168 points. With that we will begin taking questions for Gil.
Q. If you could maybe talk about how testing has gone for you this winter and obviously you had some setbacks at Phoenix and Homestead, and really do you think that set you back any? I'm not talking so much about physically, but just on the learning curve with the new car.
GIL de FERRAN: Well, I mean, if I was going to describe my season, I would call it brief. I really didn't do a lot of running at all. Obviously, since the last accident in Homestead transpired, my injuries were worse than they first appeared, so I haven't been running at all. You know, I did not spend as much time as I would have liked driving the car. But, you know, hopefully that's not going to be too much of a setback since, you know, there's very little change in the equipment for this year. Basically the car is a minor development on the car that we used last year, you know. The tires are no much different. The engine, you know, obviously there's a new spec with the lower boost thing. Helio has been working on getting that working properly with Honda. You know, there's not that much to - how can I say - to develop or do. I'm hoping that that's going to not -- that that's not going to set me back too much in the beginning of the season. It's not an ideal situation, but it's a reality that I've got to deal with.
Q. Maybe I've been AWOL, but can you explain what you mean when you say the extent of your injuries was greater than it first appeared? What are you dealing with now?
GIL de FERRAN: I guess after the Homestead accident, I was in so much pain in my foot, that was the worst pain I had. My foot is still not a hundred percent. I cannot run or do any high-impact training on my foot. But that wasn't really what was holding me back and my driving, you know. My shoulder and my -- my left shoulder and my rib cage on the left started hurting as soon as I got back in the car. You know, that was putting me back quite a bit in the car. That's why we decided to call it off. I've been basically doing physio for about ten days now.
Q. I assume that the prognosis is that you'll be in pretty good shape for Monterey?
GIL de FERRAN: That's what I'm hoping for. I'm starting to step up my training program, you know. I can't even remember when the date was of the Laguna test, but I think it was about 12 days ago or something like that, you know, on the five or six day after that, I couldn't do much. I had to do very slow physiotherapy, and I can't run, as well, which is unfortunate, which is what I like to do a lot to stay in good shape. But this last week I started to accelerate the intensity of my training program, you know, as my injuries are getting better. I'm hoping to be in good shape there when I get to Mexico. That's for sure.
Q. I asked Roberto Moreno this same question, but I just wanted to get your thoughts on the cancellation of the Rio race. How important was that race to you? How much of a disappointment is it going to be not being able to race down there?
GIL de FERRAN: I think it's going to be a great disappointment not to be able to race over there. From a personal standpoint, it was a very, very important race. You know, I thoroughly enjoyed, you know, racing at home. I was very, very happy to go there in the first time I think it was in '96, it was the first race. You know, from an emotional standpoint, was a very important race. So I'm very, very disappointed that the race was canceled. However, you know, those sort of races, you can't go against the wind, you know? I mean, a race is supposed to be something that everybody wants for it to happen, all the sponsors involved, including the government of Rio and the people of Rio. You know, is supposed to be a big party, supposed to be an event that everybody enjoys. If you have any sort of disputes or bad feelings or anything like that going on, it's really not ideal. You know, I suppose whenever I was starting to see that things were not going so well there, it was like, "Okay, well, you know, it's clear that somebody does not want the race to happen." So from that standpoint, I think it was probably the right decision.
Q. Do you envision the FedEx series returning to Brazil? In what way do you think that could happen?
GIL de FERRAN: I do envision it returning to Brazil. The only way I see it happening, like I said, if it's in a situation where everybody wants the race to happen, you know, including the city that hosts it. I don't really understand exactly what went on, what went wrong in Rio. You know, to me, you know, I know a lot has been said, a lot has been written about it. To me, the situation is far too complicated. I did not make myself -- I did not, you know, see it as my job to make myself acquainted with all the details. So I just have to say, you know, I hope we can race again in Brazil. There is a lot of Brazilian drivers, there is a lot of interest there on the Brazilian fans, and there is a lot of Brazilian investment in the series. I think on those three counts, you know, when you weigh everything up, it does warrant having a race over there.
Q. I wanted to ask you, what are you and Helio going to do for an encore? Seems like you have gotten the captain back motivated, brought a fire back to Penske Racing that they even see down in Penske Racing South?
GIL de FERRAN: There's certainly a lot of fire there, I can tell you that. Everybody's really fired up, you know, including Roger. I think the mindset is not really trying, "What we going to do for an encore?" I think everybody on the team realizes it was really difficult to win one championship and to have as good a season as we had last year. It's going to be just as difficult to win a second one. Obviously, we fancy our chances with -- I certainly think we have a chance in this championship again, but I don't think it's going to be easy at all. I'm sure Helio is in the same mindset.
Q. You also have the (inaudible) at the speedway. You'll be working in mid March at Phoenix, as well.
GIL de FERRAN: We have a busy season ahead of us. Before those decisions were made, a lot of analysis went on, "Could we do this well? Could we not do this well?" I think the team really worked hard to put an infrastructure together that -- so we'll be able to take care of everything properly. You know, I think one of the things that open it up was the testing rules for the season. You know, last year we were testing a lot in between races. This year we're not allowed to do that. Even though they added more races to it, I would probably say it's less busy than it was last year.
Q. Rusty Wallace told me that Roger is like a man on a mission. He hasn't lost any of the desire to win that championship I'm hoping.
GIL de FERRAN: Put it this way: After working with Roger for a year, I don't feel I ever had the right again of feeling tired (laughter). You know, "man on a mission" is and an understatement. He works unbelievable hours. He works more than everybody else. He wakes up earlier and goes to bed later than anybody else. He's got so much energy and he's totally devoted to whatever he puts himself towards. I mean, racing is very important I think for him. I'm sure if you ask him that, he'll be able to expand on that. "A man on a mission" is an understatement when you're talking about Roger, I think (laughter).
Q. CART is going to be racing in Montreal on the same track as the Formula 1 cars. What's your feeling of CART going to Interlagos now that Rio is out of the picture? Do you feel that track would be suitable for the Champ cars?
GIL de FERRAN: Absolutely. It's just a shame that the very old track in Interlagos is not in good shape anymore. That in my mind was probably one of the best road courses ever conceived. If you can't have one thing, we'll have the other. The new one is not that bad. I mean, safety-wise it's very, very good. They had to bring the standards up to accommodate the Formula 1 cars. If it's good enough for them, it's probably will be good enough for us, too.
Q. Now that Rio was canceled, you have the IRL race in March as well as the Mexico race. Has that taken a little bit of pressure off not having to do Rio, as well?
GIL de FERRAN: Yeah, absolutely eases up on the schedule a little bit. You know, it's good in a way, but bad in another way. You know, once you start racing, you want to keep working. You know, you don't want to have big breaks like that, especially in the beginning of the season. I mean, if that month break came in July, that would be very welcome. But earlier on in the season, to be quite honest with you, I rather be running.
Q. What is your impression of the IRL car compared to the champ car as far as driving?
GIL de FERRAN: They're quite different. You know, I drove them in two configurations. I drove them at the speedway and PIR oval. At the speedway they got the super speedway configuration, which is similar -- it feels similar to ours. You know, the car has quite a bit less power, but grip-wise they feel fairly similar. On the mile oval configuration, the car has a lot more down force than what we have. You know, they put big wings on the car. The car goes around corners very, very fast. So they feel very, very different in the mile oval configuration. The car has very little power, but then again it goes through the corners very, very quickly. Our car, you know, you go very, very fast down the stretch because you have a lot of horsepower, and even sometimes you even get wheel spin coming off the slow turns on the short ovals. But you got to really brake a lot and slow down for the turn. The mile oval is a completely different animal.
Q. How many days were you originally going to test this season? With Helio's help, will the team get in all their test days by March the 1st?
GIL de FERRAN: Well, if I'm not mistaken, we had 20 days of testing, and it was going to be ten days each. I think we'll just about be able to use all those days over there. The problem is during the winter, there's not that many tracks that you can use. Those tracks also have limited dates available. Sometimes, you know, when you have something go wrong like an accident or something like that, you've got to spend some time rebuilding stuff or rescheduling everything. It's difficult to do all the testing you think you need to do.
Q. I know they're going to offer Fridays as open practice sessions. That may help you. Even though you haven't had that much time in the car, it is a new car, could you talk about how this car compares to last year's car?
GIL de FERRAN: It doesn't feel very different at all. I mean, I think I said earlier, is a mild development over last year's car. Obviously, we're hoping that even though it's a small development, we're hoping to get quite a bit of performance out of it, but it doesn't feel that different, you know. Most of the mechanical systems are the same. Basically the biggest development has been on the aerodynamics so the car doesn't have that much of a different feel.
Q. You had a very good season last year, but is there anything you feel you want to improve on? Do you have a strategy going into this year how you can repeat your championship?
GIL de FERRAN: I think, you know, as I look back, we had a very good season, particularly in terms of speed. I mean, we had -- if you look at our qualifying average, you can see it was -- it was either first or second to Montoya. But it was very, very good. Our racing average was not quite as good as the qualifying average that we had. It's basically trying to keep one in line with the other. I think last year was a little bit of an atypical season for a lot of people from that standpoint. You know, that would be the aim, probably get to the end of more races and trying to turn good qualifying performances into better race results.
T.E. McHALE: Thank you. At this point we will let Gil go. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Best of luck defending your FedEx Championship Series championship during the 2001 season.
GIL de FERRAN: Thank you very much.
T.E. McHALE: With that, we will wrap-up for the afternoon. We thank all of you who bore with us through this marathon call. We hope it was helpful. We appreciate your interest in the FedEx Championship Series. Thank you and good afternoon.
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