Ya I rember it I was in HarMar When it hit and I just rember the Best Buy right across the street!! lol!! and ya!! My brother had taken me to see his friend that worked at Professors and to see a movie after that!! I was Real YOUNG But I still rember the way Everyone was freaking out and had to get to the Basement OF HarMar!! it was so Kool!!
Back from my (very successful :cool:) trip to North Carolina.......
I was actullay living in Fort Lee New Jersey in 1981 - so can't help you there. Didn't it also tear up the old Apache Plaza? Or was that a separate event? I didn't move to Roseville until 1995.
Can you tell me the name of the movie third from right (or left) on the bottom? It should have a number in the title. I got all the rest - but can not get that one.
I only knew where it was since the latitude and longitude were VERY familiar. When you live in Hurricane areas, you know what your coordinates are........long before Geocaching came around. People plot all the season's storms and keep the map just like people score baseball games.
I thought that's what it was at first but I must have over analyzed. It sure looked like Barbara on my first guesses, but I thought Robert Redford was the other star...should looked harder when I looked at IMBD...and I saw the "Bridges" at the top so thought that was in the title...not thinking Jeff Bridges as co-star. :pbpt:
Yes, heading to Orlando for a few days. I want to see Disneyworld before I get tooooo old (lol) :ooh: and while I still can around the park at a relativly good pace and go on the rides etc.
Also taking a day trip to Clearwater beach - which looks absolutly beautiful - and grab a few caches along the trip.
If you like wildlife, think about driving out to Cape Kennedy - the whole NASA base out there is a game preserve, and it's only about 50 minutes from Orlando. I liked seeing the gators and armadillos more than the shuttle covered up on the launch pad.
I still have a few active caches in FL. Clearwater and north of there. Find one of those and with a find in MN and WI, you would qualify for The Grey Wolf Trifecta .
My resume has my name, address, phone, cell phone, and name of my consulting firm on top.
Then, in bold, my top few things I can do, in my case, Registered Nurse, Medical Device Clinical Research, and Technical Writing
The next section is Career Profile, in which I expand into sentences the things I have done as a nurse, researcher and writer.
Then I have Key Qualifications, in which I list twelve tasks, related to the being a nurse, researcher or writer, that are my main strengths. Things like clinical study management, medical presentations, technical product support, staff education, etc.
See how the top three sections build on each other?
Next section is highlighted accomplishments - for mine it is all the FDA approvals I was involved in at my company.
Then comes Professional Profile in which I list my jobs from latest to earliest and bullet points of the key tasks I did in those jobs. Keep the verb tense the same all the way through, such as I reviewed, or authored or wrote or assessed or facilitated (all past tense) - see what I mean?
Last I have a section on Computer skills and then Credentials (degree, nursing licenses)
I think the recommendation is to keep a resume to two pages.
I tweak my resume as seldom as possible and try to personalize each cover letter to catch the attention of the company by using their exact terminology in their job posting.
For some jobs you will want to tweak your resume to reflect the company's exact terminology too. Especially jobs where you know they screen by computer.
With state employment, they don't care if the resume is 10 pages long. They want all the details. I think it's because they are screened by a computer program for key words.
Having to redo mine with the latest job application, trying to cut some of that back was interesting to say the least.
Federal applications are the same way. I don't like it... you could copy the recommended "knowledge, skills and abilities" and just reprint them over and over to get a score so high that you don't even need the interview points...
Crop dusting business soars through tough but rewarding summer days
PLAINFIELD - As the growing season slides toward its peak, it's a thrill to see the aerial ballet of bright yellow planes and helicopters as they swoop and tilt from one field to the next like giant butterflies visiting the crops.
Sights that evoke the romance of crop dusters and look like a thrill ride from the ground are serious business for brothers Jeff, J.R., Bob and Tom Reabe, who own Reabe Spraying Service at Waupun, Plover and Plainfield.
"Maybe it's fun for the first 15 minutes of the day when it's pretty outside, but it's not a thrill ride. It's a profession," said Jeff Reabe, who manages the Plainfield airport between Portage and Stevens Point.
Reabe Spraying Service started as a different kind of venture in 1945 when their father, Roy Reabe, bought land in Waupun after returning from World War II and began building a full-service air business with his wife, Helen, and their young family.
"We had a freight business, air ambulance. Anything you could do with an airplane, we did it," Jeff Reabe said. "Gliders, sky divers, everything. So whenever there was an empty co-pilot seat, I'd ask Dad if I could go along. My brothers and I, that's how we started. ... I don't ever remember being taught how to fly. I just absorbed it."
The family started crop dusting in 1946. Flying services haven't used dust for about 50 years, but the industry has been unable to shake the old, romantic name in favor of something more appropriate such as aerial applicator or agricultural aviators.
Roy liked to get youngsters interested in flying and trained scores of them to become pilots in his many sideline air businesses. He spent many years as a pilot examiner and was a flight instructor until about 10 years ago.
He retired in 1979 and sold the business to his sons. In the mid-1980s, insurance costs skyrocketed and the business had to be pared back to what had the least competition, and the most profit.
"(Aerial spraying) is probably the more difficult flying you can come up with, but because of that, it's not something everyone wants to get into," Jeff Reabe said.
He said it's also a business that has changed technology from the old open cockpit biplane to turboprops and helicopters that can cost $250,000 to $500,000.
Distributed among the three main airfields and nine pilots, Reabe Spraying Service has three Bell 47 helicopters that they use in small fields, places close to residential areas or where a chemical requires helicopter application.
They also have two 400-gallon, 680-horsepower and two 500-gallon, 750-horsepower turbo-prop Air Tractors, two Pawnee gas propeller planes and a vintage Air Tractor 301 with a 600-horsepower radial engine.
An airplane has an unlimited life, provided it's maintained, overhauled and has critical parts replaced on the manufacturer's schedule, Mr. Reabe said.
"When (parts) get to so many hours, regardless of how good they look, they get chucked," he said. "As long as you follow that (maintenance schedule) you can make an airplane last literally forever, but at the end of forever you probably won't have any part that's original on it."
Most maintenance is done in-house, and major overhauls are winter projects.
Summer is for flying.
"We have to make our annual income in basically three months, so one day for us is as important as four days for somebody else," Mr. Reabe said. "Every hour is four times more important."
The season starts in mid-May with a few cranberry and Christmas tree spraying jobs, and then early peas and gypsy moths later in May. Beans, potatoes and corn overlap in June and July. In August the crops taper off, and by mid-September it's all over.
Mr. Reabe said his employees start at sunrise and finish at sundown, as long as there is work to do, winds under 10 mph, no rain and good visibility. There is usually a stretch during mid-day when one of the criteria can't be met, and the staff restocks, organizes, eats and rests.
"Because of the unusually long day, we usually incorporate a nap, a siesta, or something in there, because it's very difficult for somebody to run from sunrise to sunset. That's a very long day," he said. "Come evening when those conditions are met again, we go back to work and go until sunset."
The season is short but intense. There is no such thing as a summer vacation, but they have all winter to do everything they missed, Mr. Reabe said.
The intensity of the job is only one of its hazards. There are also trees, power lines and irrigation pivots to negotiate, but Mr. Reabe said he thinks ag flying is safer than driving a car.
"When you're driving down the road on a two-lane highway, you're putting a tremendous amount of faith in the other guy, whereas what we're doing, it is strictly up to the individual in the aircraft. He's the only thing that's moving out there," Mr. Reabe said.
It's also a matter of experience.
Mr. Reabe said his hiring standards are well above licensing and insurance requirements, and his staff of pilots is well seasoned. The senior pilot has flown for 37 years and has logged more than 33,000 hours of agricultural flying, and another pilot has more than 30 years of experience.
That kind of longevity across the industry is going to cause some problems as older pilots start retiring and there aren't enough young, experienced pilots to take their places, Mr. Reabe said. His company is putting the education materials developed by his father toward training some of the next generation of agricultural pilots.
In contrast to a pilot shortage is an increase in the amount of corn land being sprayed. Mr. Reabe said people on the ground are likely to see planes in places they haven't been before. As corn prices rise, farmers will invest more in getting bigger yields. Aerial spraying, in many cases, is more efficient than ground application.
"We can work cheaper per acre because expenses are all based upon per hour. In that hour, we can cover a bunch of acres. What we can cover in an hour, a ground sprayer might take half a day," Mr. Reabe said.
As with everything else in the agriculture industry, prices to operate the spraying service are rising.
"This year is nuts," Mr. Reabe said. "Fuel has gone up a couple of bucks from last year, and fuel is probably a quarter of my operating expenses." His airplanes burn an average 50 gallons an hour at $4 to $5 a gallon before taxes.
A third generation of Reabes already is involved with different aspects of flying, with several commercial and corporate pilots and engineers among the grandsons, but Mr. Reabe said he doesn't know who might be interested in managing the family business in the future.
"When my dad was still doing it - flying and managing - he came to the conclusion that it was extremely difficult and can be dangerous trying to manage and fly at the same time," Mr. Reabe said. "When you're flying, you need to be thinking about what you're doing, and that's it. When you manage, you're thinking about what everybody else is doing."
I wonder when the one of the cable channels will understand this is just as nuts as deadlest catch..
I loved nap time and loved it when it rained...was so darn tired of running all the time.
Hello Kitch My brother is heading out to PLAINFIELD next weekend and I was woundering if we could get the address of the old Ed Gein place if you still know it!! and if you got the GPS cords. that would be kool also!!
diggin4it??? you musta lived thru it??
I mean that sucker tore up central park.
but part of the reason Central is a nice is it is now..
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I clicked on the link just to see if I could view it from work
never know what is filtered and what is not -
got the big stop sign - no access - I'll have to view it from home
I'm rarely on the computer from home anymore
not really working when you surfin' the internet anyways
I was actullay living in Fort Lee New Jersey in 1981 - so can't help you there. Didn't it also tear up the old Apache Plaza? Or was that a separate event? I didn't move to Roseville until 1995.
Can you tell me the name of the movie third from right (or left) on the bottom? It should have a number in the title. I got all the rest - but can not get that one.
Thanks. Diggin'
In canada?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117057/
Thank you IMBD.
Thanks guys!
I thought that's what it was at first but I must have over analyzed. It sure looked like Barbara on my first guesses, but I thought Robert Redford was the other star...should looked harder when I looked at IMBD...and I saw the "Bridges" at the top so thought that was in the title...not thinking Jeff Bridges as co-star. :pbpt:
Also taking a day trip to Clearwater beach - which looks absolutly beautiful - and grab a few caches along the trip.
And I think ya got a ways to go before you're old :pbpt:
I would say at least another 50 or 60 years at least!!!
I need to make a good stand out resume that is free can you point me in the way of one that would yell HIRE ME!!!
Thank You,
http://docs.google.com/templates?q=resume
I found that by googling for "resume format". There are a bunch of other hits for that search too.
Good luck!!
Then, in bold, my top few things I can do, in my case, Registered Nurse, Medical Device Clinical Research, and Technical Writing
The next section is Career Profile, in which I expand into sentences the things I have done as a nurse, researcher and writer.
Then I have Key Qualifications, in which I list twelve tasks, related to the being a nurse, researcher or writer, that are my main strengths. Things like clinical study management, medical presentations, technical product support, staff education, etc.
See how the top three sections build on each other?
Next section is highlighted accomplishments - for mine it is all the FDA approvals I was involved in at my company.
Then comes Professional Profile in which I list my jobs from latest to earliest and bullet points of the key tasks I did in those jobs. Keep the verb tense the same all the way through, such as I reviewed, or authored or wrote or assessed or facilitated (all past tense) - see what I mean?
Last I have a section on Computer skills and then Credentials (degree, nursing licenses)
I think the recommendation is to keep a resume to two pages.
I tweak my resume as seldom as possible and try to personalize each cover letter to catch the attention of the company by using their exact terminology in their job posting.
For some jobs you will want to tweak your resume to reflect the company's exact terminology too. Especially jobs where you know they screen by computer.
I sooooooo need to update my resume, it's awfully outdated.
Having to redo mine with the latest job application, trying to cut some of that back was interesting to say the least.
hurry up and call him Ice
Crop dusting business soars through tough but rewarding summer days
PLAINFIELD - As the growing season slides toward its peak, it's a thrill to see the aerial ballet of bright yellow planes and helicopters as they swoop and tilt from one field to the next like giant butterflies visiting the crops.
Sights that evoke the romance of crop dusters and look like a thrill ride from the ground are serious business for brothers Jeff, J.R., Bob and Tom Reabe, who own Reabe Spraying Service at Waupun, Plover and Plainfield.
"Maybe it's fun for the first 15 minutes of the day when it's pretty outside, but it's not a thrill ride. It's a profession," said Jeff Reabe, who manages the Plainfield airport between Portage and Stevens Point.
Reabe Spraying Service started as a different kind of venture in 1945 when their father, Roy Reabe, bought land in Waupun after returning from World War II and began building a full-service air business with his wife, Helen, and their young family.
"We had a freight business, air ambulance. Anything you could do with an airplane, we did it," Jeff Reabe said. "Gliders, sky divers, everything. So whenever there was an empty co-pilot seat, I'd ask Dad if I could go along. My brothers and I, that's how we started. ... I don't ever remember being taught how to fly. I just absorbed it."
The family started crop dusting in 1946. Flying services haven't used dust for about 50 years, but the industry has been unable to shake the old, romantic name in favor of something more appropriate such as aerial applicator or agricultural aviators.
Roy liked to get youngsters interested in flying and trained scores of them to become pilots in his many sideline air businesses. He spent many years as a pilot examiner and was a flight instructor until about 10 years ago.
He retired in 1979 and sold the business to his sons. In the mid-1980s, insurance costs skyrocketed and the business had to be pared back to what had the least competition, and the most profit.
"(Aerial spraying) is probably the more difficult flying you can come up with, but because of that, it's not something everyone wants to get into," Jeff Reabe said.
He said it's also a business that has changed technology from the old open cockpit biplane to turboprops and helicopters that can cost $250,000 to $500,000.
Distributed among the three main airfields and nine pilots, Reabe Spraying Service has three Bell 47 helicopters that they use in small fields, places close to residential areas or where a chemical requires helicopter application.
They also have two 400-gallon, 680-horsepower and two 500-gallon, 750-horsepower turbo-prop Air Tractors, two Pawnee gas propeller planes and a vintage Air Tractor 301 with a 600-horsepower radial engine.
An airplane has an unlimited life, provided it's maintained, overhauled and has critical parts replaced on the manufacturer's schedule, Mr. Reabe said.
"When (parts) get to so many hours, regardless of how good they look, they get chucked," he said. "As long as you follow that (maintenance schedule) you can make an airplane last literally forever, but at the end of forever you probably won't have any part that's original on it."
Most maintenance is done in-house, and major overhauls are winter projects.
Summer is for flying.
"We have to make our annual income in basically three months, so one day for us is as important as four days for somebody else," Mr. Reabe said. "Every hour is four times more important."
The season starts in mid-May with a few cranberry and Christmas tree spraying jobs, and then early peas and gypsy moths later in May. Beans, potatoes and corn overlap in June and July. In August the crops taper off, and by mid-September it's all over.
Mr. Reabe said his employees start at sunrise and finish at sundown, as long as there is work to do, winds under 10 mph, no rain and good visibility. There is usually a stretch during mid-day when one of the criteria can't be met, and the staff restocks, organizes, eats and rests.
"Because of the unusually long day, we usually incorporate a nap, a siesta, or something in there, because it's very difficult for somebody to run from sunrise to sunset. That's a very long day," he said. "Come evening when those conditions are met again, we go back to work and go until sunset."
The season is short but intense. There is no such thing as a summer vacation, but they have all winter to do everything they missed, Mr. Reabe said.
The intensity of the job is only one of its hazards. There are also trees, power lines and irrigation pivots to negotiate, but Mr. Reabe said he thinks ag flying is safer than driving a car.
"When you're driving down the road on a two-lane highway, you're putting a tremendous amount of faith in the other guy, whereas what we're doing, it is strictly up to the individual in the aircraft. He's the only thing that's moving out there," Mr. Reabe said.
It's also a matter of experience.
Mr. Reabe said his hiring standards are well above licensing and insurance requirements, and his staff of pilots is well seasoned. The senior pilot has flown for 37 years and has logged more than 33,000 hours of agricultural flying, and another pilot has more than 30 years of experience.
That kind of longevity across the industry is going to cause some problems as older pilots start retiring and there aren't enough young, experienced pilots to take their places, Mr. Reabe said. His company is putting the education materials developed by his father toward training some of the next generation of agricultural pilots.
In contrast to a pilot shortage is an increase in the amount of corn land being sprayed. Mr. Reabe said people on the ground are likely to see planes in places they haven't been before. As corn prices rise, farmers will invest more in getting bigger yields. Aerial spraying, in many cases, is more efficient than ground application.
"We can work cheaper per acre because expenses are all based upon per hour. In that hour, we can cover a bunch of acres. What we can cover in an hour, a ground sprayer might take half a day," Mr. Reabe said.
As with everything else in the agriculture industry, prices to operate the spraying service are rising.
"This year is nuts," Mr. Reabe said. "Fuel has gone up a couple of bucks from last year, and fuel is probably a quarter of my operating expenses." His airplanes burn an average 50 gallons an hour at $4 to $5 a gallon before taxes.
A third generation of Reabes already is involved with different aspects of flying, with several commercial and corporate pilots and engineers among the grandsons, but Mr. Reabe said he doesn't know who might be interested in managing the family business in the future.
"When my dad was still doing it - flying and managing - he came to the conclusion that it was extremely difficult and can be dangerous trying to manage and fly at the same time," Mr. Reabe said. "When you're flying, you need to be thinking about what you're doing, and that's it. When you manage, you're thinking about what everybody else is doing."
I wonder when the one of the cable channels will understand this is just as nuts as deadlest catch..
I loved nap time and loved it when it rained...was so darn tired of running all the time.
still crazy to think you did that.
did you ever take a girl up with you?