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Just The PhotographerJuly 26, 2006 at 11:13 PM | Art, Good Times | No Comments
This is the picture that I took at the party of Kim's LiteCubes (that she got from the party that Amanda told us about), in Sam's pitcher, using Albert's camera.
Upcoming ShowsApril 12, 2006 at 8:46 PM | Concerts, Good Times, Music | 1 Comment
Through a strange twist of fate, I have suddenly found myself going to a number of concerts in the near future. In the very near future (AKA tomorrow), I have the Fallout Boy/Hawthorne Heights/All-American Rejects show. And then next month, another show with The Subways (who I actually saw not too long ago), and Imogen Heap… both shows in Lawrence.
That last Subways was so fucking hot, I can't wait to see them again… I never got around to writing about that show, but let me tell you, it was a good one. I ended up going to that one with Kyle and this girl in one of his night classes. I have to be honest, it was probably one of the funnest shows that I've ever been to. The venue was just the perfect size, the band played a great set, and we were all nice and tore up. Here's hoping the next one is just as good.
The Imogen Heap show, I really wonder how that's going to go… I'm thinking it might be kind of a little different format than most shows, being a solo act and all. I've never seen any footage of her playing any shows but I did see the video of her performing live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, hosted by Nick Harcourt. She did all of the music by herself on there. Now, I guess this really isn't too far fetched, considering the number of Joy Electric shows that I have frequented over the years. While I enjoyed every JE show that I've gone to, the Ronnie Martin solo act just did not compare to the first time that I saw him perform with live drums. That was the same show that Ryan and I saw Goat Explosion… that was a good one. I've seen pictures of Jeff Cloud playing with Ronnie too, on the key-tar, if I'm not mistaken. A solo act is cool, but a couple more people on stage doing their thing is probably even a better time. Anyways, Imogen's music is amazing. I enjoyed everything that she put out with Frou Frou and her solo albums are just as good if not better than those. I thought that she'd never come around these parts, but then again, I thought that I would never see The Cardigans either.
Please RSVPMarch 26, 2006 at 11:39 AM | Good Times, KCMO | No Comments
I haven't gone bowling in a long time, so I thought it'd be a good idea to do so last night with some other people. But it turns out that Gladstone Bowl is so jumpin' on a Saturday night at 11:30 that one must actually make reservations in advance. For bowling! Whatever happened to just showing up and checking if they got lanes open? So anyways, we just ended up going to Granfalloons for drinks.
Somebody Gonna Get A-Hurt Real BadDecember 4, 2005 at 11:54 PM | Food, Good Times, KCMO, Site/Personal, Work | No Comments
Friday night, I went to a poker party with Albert. This lady on his team was having a get-together at her house and she was making lasagna. I'd been eating pasta for every single meal of the week and I even passed up pho just to finish up the last bit of my pasta… but who could pass up free lasagna and poker? Eh… let me clarify… the poker wasn't free, it was $20 to play. But yeah, can you believe that shit? I passed up pho!! Believe me, it was not easy.
Now, I enjoy a good game of poker, but $20 is pretty rich. A little too rich for me. I mean we used to play $5 buy-in games back at the house in Manhattan… so one time somebody invited me to go play poker and I was absolutely floored to hear that it was $10. I was like "Oh my godddd, how you gonna play it like that?? Nah, let me know if you do $5 sometime." And then later that week, I heard that game had somehow turned into a $20 game. I was like "daaammmmn sonn."
So yeah, I don't really know why I decided to play this particular time… even though I knew well in advance that it was going to be $20. And especially since I have never ever won any money playing poker in a house game. Ever! I've never even made my money back! So that gets old pretty quick and towards the end I stopped playing. I just couldn't hang with those guys, I guess.
Anyways, Albert and I rolled up in there and somehow I ended up taking third (out of 15), which got me $35. Not too bad. And I got to take home a plate of that lasagna, a loaf of garlic bread, and this box of holiday themed sugar cookies. It was a flat-out raging success if I'd ever seen one.
Saturday started off with a friendly couple of hours of ping pong as they usually do. Chandrak and I hit up an IHOP afterwards. Originally, we decided to go to IHOP because he had these coupons that were supposedly for buy one get one free. But these blasted coupons had so much fine print on them, you wouldn't even believe. First of all, you can't use them on the weekends, so that right there shot the whole plan down. Next, you couldn't use them on the current specials. And it wasn't buy one get one, it was actually buy one get the other for $1. And you had to buy two drinks. So… yeah. Well, we were already there, so we were like whatever and ate some breakfast. I feel like I've been eating IHOP a lot lately. And I dunno if that's necessarily a good thing.
And then that night, we all went out to Granfalloon's for Rob's birthday, as organized by Summer. It was actually his birthday like a whole three weeks ago or so, but due to everybody going out of town and Thanksgiving weekend n shit, this was actually the first weekend that most everyone was in KC and able to go out. It was a grand ol time.
Tonight, a group of us went out to The Majestic to see Russell Peters at the Improv comedy club. I first heard of Russell Peters from this video clip of one of his comedy shows that circulates around work. If you haven't heard of him, you should check out some of his stuff sometime, it's hot shit. He's an Indian from Canada and his material is "racially charged," I think is what I read in one review. And it's true. We were sitting right up in the front and Albert ended being the subject of some of his jokes. I've never been up in The Majestic before… it seems like a pretty "hip" place to be. I might have to check out some other shows there sometime.
Cold / Harry Potter Marathon / Back to the PhilippinesNovember 17, 2005 at 2:02 AM | Food, Good Times, Movies, Nerd, Site/Personal | 2 Comments
First of all, I would like to comment on the fact that it snowed for the first time on Tuesday. The weatherman said that it would snow and there were many naysayers but I was like "nah, it's gonna snow." And it did. We were in a meeting and somebody pointed out that it was snowing, and snowing hard. It wasn't cold or plentiful enough to stick so nothing really happened. But that's not to say that it hasn't been cold recently, because it has been damn cold as of late. I be waking up, freezing n shit. We turned the heater on the other day. I certainly don't want to be responsible for pipes that be bursting n shit. I'm not even sure what's up with the weather this year… I think it should have snowed already a couple weeks, maybe months, back. Global warming? Global cooling? El niño? I dunno… I don't keep up with these sorts of details.
In preparation for the new Harry Potter movie coming out this Friday, me and some people are going to have a Harry Potter marathon tomorrow. It should be every bit as exciting as it sounds. And that's very exciting.
So today, after work, I stopped by Blockbuster to pick up some Harry Potter DVDs. They only had the first two, but it's cool… It is my opinion that the first two Harry Potter movies are better than the third one, and plus I've got the third one as a rip somewhere.
In the same strip mall as this Blockbuster that I went to was this place called Filippina Café (or something to that effect). I was like "oh shit!" when I saw it because I miss that Filipino food so very badly. Some of that afritada… some of that adobo… all that good shit. I ran up in there even though they didn't look like they were open. There were some people moving some things around and this lady told me that they weren't open yet. It turns out that they were opening up shop tomorrow. They let me take a look at their menu and it was all there… all of the familiar menu items that I remember seeing from the Philippines… all except for the mango shake. A couple weeks back, Ryan had called me up and was telling me about this Filipino eating establishment that he had run across in Wichita, and they didn't have the mango shake either. It leads me to believe that the mango shake was probably more of a "I'm actually in the Philippines and I am on the beach" type drink. Since neither of us are in that particular situation at the moment, I suppose a mango shake might be a little too much to ask for. Besides, they'd probably have to resort to mangos from Mexico and that really doesn't cut it. I'm definitely going to have to check this place out though, probably this weekend. Or maybe tomorrow for lunch and skip out on pho.
Next to the restuarant was this little shop called Manila Grocery. I went in there to check it out and sure enough, they sold a number of food products from the Philippines, as well as various typical Asian grocery store foods. They had Jufran brand products! They even had some of that crazy banana-based ketchup that I tried in the Philippines. The whole trek about this strip mall brought me back and now I've got a reason to wake up in the morning. Almost made me forget about the cold, cold weather.
Pho Hien IIIOctober 5, 2005 at 12:09 AM | Food, Good Times, Site/Personal, Wichita | No Comments
When I first heard that my favorite eating establishment of all time, the Pho Hien II, was moving, I had mixed feelings about the news. It had been in the same location for so long that I really couldn't picture myself driving to a different part of town to get my fix. Half of the experience of the place is driving down to that part of Wichita along the stretch of north Broadway that the Vietnamese community have somewhat adopted. It's not the best part of town by any means, and I have rarely dared to venture out there to eat by myself. Or past 6PM.
But what keeps me coming back time and time again is their amazing pho. Because it's not the atmosphere. And it's most certainly not the service. But none of those other things really matter… I know this because I've been to some sparkling clean pho joints with excellent service before. But the food sucked. Or their cafe sua da sucked. Or both. And so I think my brother and I came up with a general rule of thumb: the more down to earth a pho joint is, the better the pho. Why is this? Because those places are more real.
But then I got word of where the Pho Hien II was moving to. Yes, they were moving all the way to a new Vietnamese strip mall… across the street. What a relief!
The other weekend, I was down in Wichita for Amanda's wedding. That was a good one. It also happened to be the weekend of the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival, so I hung out with the family for a bit and ate a fair number of mooncakes.
Of course, every time that I am back in Wichita for any amount of time, you can be sure that I will fit in a lunch at the Pho Hien II, usually with Ryan, sometimes with Martin. This particular weekend, it was just Ryan and I. Going to the Pho Hien II is a treat in itself, but I was especially excited to be able to check out what all had changed at their new location.
Once we got there, I could already tell that some things were never going to be the same. First of all, the place was not called "Pho Hien III", but just "Pho Hien." I didn't know why the other one had the "II" to begin with, but it seemed kind of illogical to discontinue the numbering scheme. Also, gone are the craters in the parking lot and the guerrilla-style parking that patrons frequently encountered back across the street. Still, signs of the old familiar were present inside… the twin pair of plastic bottles of hoisin sauce and Sriracha, the fish sauce in the re-used Kikkoman's soy sauce bottle, all of the same people working, Vietnamese pop music in the background, the life-sized plastic eagle statue near the cash register… I never did figure out what was up with that eagle.
The new: fancier menus in place of the 1-sheet laminated paper menus, new (higher) prices, some kind of faux bamboo plant decoration sitting next to the condiments, two TVs mounted up high on either end of the place, and perhaps most shocking of all… a small disco ball hanging from the center of the restaurant. I was like "what… the…" because I mean, my god it's a disco ball! Ryan suggested that the place gave off a vibe that it could be easily cleared out and rented out for other functions, like I dunno, parties n shit. And no party is complete without a disco ball. It seemed like the most plausible explanation and the tables and chairs certainly looked mobile enough for easy clearing out.
I ordered the #1 with extra noodles. I don't know why… the #1 is pretty large as it is, but it seems to be the thing to do at the Vietnam Cafe up in KC. Call it habit. Or maybe I did it because I was just so excited to see the new Pho Hien that I had to celebrate by gorging myself with so much pho that I probably should have died that very day, right then and there. Yes, I never thought that I would say this… but I was maxed out on Pho. I'd never had so much of it before! So I refrained from pho for about a week and a half before getting some at the Vietnam Cafe.
But this is not to say that it wasn't delicious. The joint has received a facelift, but it's essentially the same ol' place that it used to be. Good eating. Good times. Check it out if you're in the area.
Summer CelebrationAugust 28, 2005 at 4:30 PM | Good Times, Site/Personal, Work | No Comments
Yesterday, a big group of us went to the company sponsored event "Summer Celebration" held at the Kansas Speedway, where there was free food, cotton candy, snowcones, carnival-style games, live music, a badass fireworks show, and what appeared to be an unlimited amount of free Bud Light and Budweiser. It was fantastic.
I have never been to the Speedway before, because honestly, I don't care much for the sport. The place seems like a pretty cool place to throw big company events just like this, though. But for whatever reason, they decided to have all the normal entrances into the complex blocked off, save for one in the very, very back, so you had to actually drive around the thing to get in. Twice. It was like a fucking labrynth n shit. And then, on top of this, I found the security to be extremely lax. I mean, sure there was security staff there, but anybody could've gotten in, had they known about the event.
After all was said and done, I'd drank myself a fair amount of beer and even won some beanbag-style stuffed animals and some useless carnival prizes.
Afterwards, we headed out to Westport and checked out this Irish bar "Blayney's" which is located down a street in Westport that apparently none of us had ever gone down. And what a strange little area it was! There was a pizza place, a Japanese steakhouse, and even this place where groups of people were seated around and smoking multi-tube hookahs. I'd no idea what was going on at that place.
At Blayney's, they had automatic paper towel dispensers in the restrooms. I'd never seen one of those before. And here I thought I had seen it all, too. I mean, I've seen automatic flushing, automatic sinks, automatic soap dispensers, automatic hand dryers… but never an automatic paper towel dispenser. I didn't even need to use the restroom, but I went in there to try it out. I waved my hand in front of the unit and sure enough, a red LED came on and about a foot of paper towel came rolling out. Now I can rest easy knowing that pretty much every aspect of public restroom use has been automated. Except doors… I suppose they could automate the doors, too. But I don't expect to see that for at least a couple more years.
Outside, Westport was happening block-party style just like every other weekend. It appeared there was some large group of girls out at Westport for a bachelorette party. Other than that, it was all pretty standard stuff. Well… I dunno, it also seemed to me like the DJ was playing an excessive amount of 80s music.
The Life AquaticAugust 12, 2005 at 11:32 PM | Good Times, KCMO, Nostalgia, Site/Personal, Work | No Comments
It's almost as if there's no limit to how many posts that I can write about skin peeling! Today's theme: skin peeling from sunburns.
I went to a Royals/White Sox game a couple weeks ago with my new hire group. It was a pretty good time, we got there a little early to start up a grill, drink some beer, and have ourselves a little tailgating session going. It was all sunny n shit that day and the heat was out of control. I could already tell early on that it was going to be an effort to sit through this game. And what a game it was! The score was all tied up and tension was high in the atmosphere… until about the 12th inning, with the same ol' fucking score. Half of our group left an inning or two before then, but us hardcore motherfuckers decided to sit and watch the game through, because we've already stayed this long, we might as well see what happens. Well, we didn't make it to the end. We decided to leave at that point because who knows how long that thing could've lasted. We could've been sitting out there all afternoon! I mean, at that point, I really couldn't care less who would win the game, I just wished somebody would just finish it up and call it good, so I could get the fuck on up out of there. I checked the game later on that day online and I guess the Royals won. Oh well, I'm pretty indifferent towards baseball.
I normally never sunburn. But this game was especially long. And we did stay out there for a good couple of hours. The only other time that I have ever burned in my life is one summer when my brother and I were taking sailing lessons out at some lake. Also did some kayaking, some canoeing… it was all good. That was a crazy summer, a long time ago. Yes, it's a little known fact, but I used to be quite the sailor! I knew all about the different nautical terminology, all the cool sailing knots, etc.
I don't remember shit about sailing. I couldn't tell you which way was which and I can barely tie my own shoe now. I'd probably be the one to get scurvy out on the open sea if it really came to it. It's sad, really.
Interestingly enough, I can remember all kinds of useless information from that summer. I remember the stench of the lake; I remember the vanilla/banana smelling sunscreen in the summer mornings. I remember that was the summer when Semisonic first came out with the song "Closing Time" because that song was all the rage, even before every bar across the US decided that it would be clever to play that song when they kick everybody out. Seven years later, they're still doing it. I mean come on, that shit's so old hat, it's not even funny anymore. Oh, you're so clever.
The reflection from the water and magnification of the sun through the water on my body really did a number on me. That summer, I got the most hardcore tanning/burning that I have ever experienced in my life, and hope to God to never experience again. One artifact of my exposure to the sun, was seen in my very distinct "sandal tan" that was like the difference between night and day. That thing lasted well into and even past the following winter. I mean, it was snowing n shit, 20 below, and there I was, with that blasted sandal tan underneath all of my winter gear. It was ridiculous.
I never knew the sun could be so cruel. Showers were especially painful. This was the sort of thing that'll make you take an ice cold shower. And even then, you're in one corner of the shower, clutching at your arms to dampen the impact of the water. This was the sort of thing that made it painful to put socks or shoes on. And the peeling! My god, the peeling! I don't even want to get into it. It wasn't a pretty sight.
But I was really surprised that I got burnt at that Royals game. Nowhere as bad as that summer, but burnt nonetheless. I spent a week in the Philippines. I'm talking about some motherfucking tropical islands! And all that got me was a lovely dark tan that got me mistaken for a local more times than I would care to recount. What happened? I spend an afternoon at a baseball game and suddenly I find myself wincing in pain two days later in the shower, skin starts to peel a few weeks later. At least I didn't get the sandal tan this time around.
That WeekendJuly 22, 2005 at 7:22 AM | Food, Good Times, KSU, Site/Personal | 1 Comment
Well, here is that post about a weekend already long gone (May 5-7). I really should have gotten this one out much sooner, but I've just been distracted with things like finals, graduation, going to concerts, drinking myself silly, moving, and most importantly not having a reliable internet connection to work with. I may have already told a lot of you these stories, but dammit you're just gonna have to hear them again.
So anyways… I'd like to start off with Thursday night, which is really when this series of tales begins. It was Cinco de Mayo so the bars were pretty packed, people going nuts everywhere. It was an alright time… the whole time I was wondering why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo here. It's almost as big of a sham as St. Patrick's Day, another worthless holiday in my opinion. Just thinking about it pisses me off. I can't really go into the exact details of the night, but I can tell you that I lied about my name to these people that we were hanging out with. I had so many aliases that night: Corey, Adam, Jonathan… I really can't picture myself as any of those names, but then again if you know me, why would you? Afterwards, I drove out to Wal-mart and bought some of those delicious 99 cent spicy beef and bean chimichangas. I think I also bought something else too, but I was too drunk to remember. Anyways, I was back home, eating this chimichanga downstairs on the poker table, when Jeff comes home and tells me that he was planning on throwing a party this weekend. I was like "alright" and continued eating. There wasn't a whole lot of notice. I'm not sure if Pat's or Lawson's absence could have been circumvented, had I known about Jeff's intentions earlier in the week.
I had a 541 presentation to give at 10:30 Friday morning. It was a miracle that I made it to that thing. It was pretty easy as usual, and at long last, we were finally done with that damn project. Just the 541 final exam and I'll be officially done with school. Well… I guess, there is that GEOL125 "final" too, but I calculated that I could miss about 16 problems out of 48 and still keep an A. So yeah, I'm not too worried about. I spent the better part of the day before that final re-playing Resident Evil 4, because I want that infinite ammo rocket launcher! That and eating. I bought a chicken and made some stuffing, ate some potato salad. Had a grapefruit… I might have busted out a can of corn, too, I don't remember. As a side note, I am really starting to like canned corn. Like… it is starting to surpass canned green beans… something that I thought would never, ever happen.
OK, let me get back to the weekend.
So Friday night rolls around. Um… it was another night faded away into the drunken haze. But this time, we hung out with this girl that Aldie knows, named Jessie. She's pretty cool, so I didn't lie to her. Also, for some reason, I felt like I had already met her once before. But you know sometimes when you meet certain people in certain situations, you never really expect to see them ever again. Going into a meeting with this kind of mindset does not permit one to easily retain these people into long term memory. But this time, I had a feeling that I would remember this girl, at least for the night. We went around to 3 bars, and I had been in loose contact w/Sut-loc the entire time, but finding a central location to meet in Aggieville was something that was not accomplished that night, unfortunately.
It was around this time that I came up with this grand plan to spend the days all the way up to the Geology final in one long continuous drunken haze. It would be brilliant.
So finally Saturday comes around. I had every intention of pitching in some money to help Jeff get the (3) kegs, but I simply had no cash on me. None. So I'm sitting around, just kind of hanging out. The time went by so quickly… I was working on putting together a mix CD, when 9 o'clock snuck up on me. Where did the time go??
I threw on some clothes and as I went to put on my belt, the thing breaks. The buckle snaps clean off. I was pretty fucking shocked. And saddened. Because now I was going to have to resort to my old belt, which I was never really too fond of. Oh well, it gets the job done. I thought it ironic that just a few days ago, I had posted about my belt. Maybe it wasn't even ironic… maybe it was just peculiar. I'm not really sure if I have a firm grasp of the concept of irony or not.
I went out to Wendy's to get some food. I've been digging the spicy chicken sandwich and small chili lately. And everytime, they ask me if I want to make it a combo. No, I don't want it as a combo. There's a reason why I didn't get the combo. OK, so yeah I bring this food back and try to eat it in the red light from the Christmas lights. It was difficult, I'll tell you that right now. But, I got 'er done. How could you not, when the food is so good?
I even called up my cousin at KU to come over. It was a good deal because I'd never drank him before. Not really. I mean, there was this one time where we were drinking and he was passed out on the floor and I was sitting there watching TV, only mildly involved in drinking games with his college freshman friends. They play their drinking games with an entirely different set of rules! Although I must admit, it was rather amusing to witness/re-live the days of underage drinking once again. Things were so much more exciting back then. There was a certain thrill to it all. Those were the good 'ol days. But don't get me wrong–thank God I'm 21 now.
Speaking of underage drinking, here's a little episode that happened at the party: it's not even that late into the night yet and the place is starting to fill up with people. A lot of people were hanging around outside so I would occasionally go outside to see what was going on, mingle with the people. So one of the times that I stepped outside, I looked around and saw Barry talking to Sam (not my roommate) outside. Sam has this big ass jug of red wine with him; you couldn't miss it. I headed out there to see what was crackalacking. They seen my shirt, and naturally the conversation shifts to Radiohead. Radiohead and then Pink Floyd for a while, and then back to Radiohead. I don't know the first thing about Pink Floyd (I know like 2 of their songs) so I was glad to be done with Pink Floyd and I kept interjecting little comments in hopes of swaying the conversation away from Pink Floyd. And then… all of a sudden, a bright light flashes on Sam's face, originating from somewhere behind Barry and I. A female police officer emerged from the direct flashlight beam.
She grabs a hold of Barry's drink and takes my beer. "How old is everybody here?"
"22," said Barry.
We all kind of looked at Sam, expecting his answer, but he didn't say anything… he just brought his cigarette up to his lips and took a drag. Nobody had to spell it out, we all knew what was about to happen.
The cop spelled it out anyway: "Uh oh… somebody not 21?" The flashlight remained on Sam's face.
"I'm 18," he confessed.
I was shocked. Even if I had known that he was underage, I would have thought that he was at least 20. But 18? Ah yes… those were the good 'ol days.
The cop saw the enormous jug of red wine and laughed. "What is that?" she asks while leaning in to confiscate the alcohol. At this point, I am feeling pretty comfortable because I know that the heat was going to be on Sam and not myself. I mean, I wasn't doing anything wrong, but you know cops, they can bust you for distribution to minors or having an open container, even when you are on private property. The fuckers.
This police officer, the one who took Sam away for what I assumed was going to be either an MIC or an MIP… well, she was pretty hot. I didn't want to say anything though. There was enough heat on the situation already, I didn't want to fuel the situation any further. Also, I might not have said anything even if she wasn't busting up the party and taking away people that I know–the only line I got is "heeey." No game whatsoever.
Everybody on the front lawn had moved inside of the house when word got out that the police were there. And then, naturally, the flow of people went towards the back yard.
I couldn't help but feel somewhat responsible for what had just happened, even though I really didn't cause it. I went out back to check things out. There were these guys climbing the deck and fence to try to move a large amount of random tree branches to burn. I saw this go down but I didn't even want to know where they got those branches. Barry was on the deck yelling n shit over the rail. The light was right behind him so you couldn't really see who he was. But if you knew Barry or if you've even just heard Barry, you would have instantly known who was up there. Our deck isn't really the safest thing to be on, especially for a person of Barry's size. So I went up there to convince him to come down, like one of those cops talking a jumper out of commiting suicide. I was unsuccessful. Had Barry really been a jumper, he would've died and the blood would have been on my hands.
While I was on the roof, I saw some kids sitting on the roof; one of them was pissing off of one of the edges onto the neighbor's alley. I didn't want to see that kind of shit going on. I yelled at those kids and made them come down and then promptly instructed them to "get the fuck off my goddamn deck."
Off in the distance, I saw Sam coming back up to the house, slouching. Getting an MIC is a huge downer, I'm sure, but he tried to play it off like he didn't really care. I could tell that he was upset. Staying at the party probably wasn't going to help.
The party progressed until late into the night. When things started to wind down, I went upstairs to see why my light was on. Aldie was sitting on the couch, with my bag of Doritos in hand. There were chips all over the floor. I swear to God I was finding chips in weird places all the way up until the day that I moved out of that house. Also, he had busted open this large package of individually wrapped instant black sesame drink mixes and I found those packets everywhere too. I really have no idea how the hell he did all this or why in God's name would he do something like this.
But yeah, Sam's run-in with the police, the people treating our house like a goddamned hotel, and now this… everything had been pretty upsetting the entire night. I snapped and blew up on Aldie, yelling n shit, getting violent. I was angry to the point that I was seriously ready to kill the motherfucker for what he'd done, despite our friendship. It was actually the combination of my anger, being really drunk, and the upsetting events of the night, that I screamed out some shit that I didn't really mean… things like "I'LL KILLLL YOOOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKERR!!!" I can't think of the last time that I had ever been so pissed off by something or someone.
Sabrina had been in Sam's (my roommate Sam) room, because he needed help finding his way back to his bed to pass out. She came out and asked me to calm down and asked me what was the problem.
"THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE FUCKING ATE ALL OF MY GODDAMN DORITOS!!!" Yes, I know. On paper, the whole incident sounds pretty fucking silly. I can't even tell someone about this part of the story without providing enough background details to justify my behavior that night. And even then, it still sounds like I'm crazy because there's no way that I could provide a sufficient amount of background to make the incident not totally taken out of context. But I can try:
You see, this isn't the first time that he's done this kind of thing. On no less than 2 separate occasions prior to this one, Aldie had invaded my room, ate all of my Doritos and gotten away with a clean break. But this time, he'd crossed the line. The next day, like I said, I was finding chips all over the floor. I guess he had even tracked in a bunch of dirt and all these weird sphere looking seeds/spores that were all over the floor as well. And! And he had drank some of the pickle juice from my jar of pickles in the mini fridge. I know this because the lid was open and I know Aldie loves taking swigs of pickle juice, vinegar, and the likes. It was one thing to trash the house, I don't give a fuck about the house, but to come up into my room and fuck with my shit, that was uncalled for.
Aldie left and I remained bitter for the remainder of the night, muttering under my breath and cursing about Doritos. Just writing this post brings back those same feelings and is one of the reasons why this particular post has taken me so long to finish. That and the fact that it's long as fuck, too.
Anyways, I guess later on, I was wandering around yet again and on one of my rounds, I came across Jeff, who reported that we had just received a ticket for noise violation. I was like "WHAT!?" because the whole thing was ridiculous… at that point in the night, we probably had about 20 people left at the party. How could we have possibly received a noise complaint? And even if someone actually called in a noise complaint, shouldn't we get a warning first? What gives?
It turns out someone did call the cops on us. And so I guess they had "no choice" but to give us a ticket? And the bitch was like $90! Whatever. I guess we would just split up the cost of the ticket amongst us 4.
Now, 90 doesn't really divide by 4 too evenly, in case you didn't notice. But it was something that had to be done and I was willing to live with it.
A solution arose the following Monday night. I was getting ready to head out to get some Gumby's with Tony and Christy, when someone started knocking at the door. I went to answer it and there was this girl with glasses standing outside. She was our neighbor. She explained to us that on the night of the party, some guys came by her place and asked if they could borrow her pool (one of those plastic kiddy pools that you set out in your yard, fill up with your garden hose). She said "no," so they left. But apparently, later on they must've come and taken it away regardless of what she had to say about it, because it was gone now. I was highly amused by this story but I failed to see how I was related to the whole ordeal. I was like "I don't think we have your pool… I guess I can check and if it's out back I'll get it back to you…" I went and checked but did not find a pool in the backyard, which I was sure would be where a bunch of drunkards would leave a kiddy pool. I asked Tony if he knew anything about the pool. He did not. I apologized to the girl and told her that no, we didn't have her pool and good luck on finding it. This wasn't good enough for her. She held us personally responsible for what happened.
So yeah, you remember how I mentioned Barry was on the deck? Well, I guess he came down later on his own accord. I guess nobody fell off the deck or roof. But I mean, if someone would have fallen off, would we have been responsible for that shit? Fuck no! Or at least, I sure hope not. But the pool? I KNOW that we weren't responsible for that shit, no way.
Her ultimatum went like this: "Either put a check for $10 in our mailbox by next week or we'll call the police."
I was like "Uh… OK, I guess I'll discuss it with my roommates. Seeya."
We talked it over and I guess we just decided to cut her a $10 check, even though none of us thought we should have. I would have been way more against this course of action, but it made an even $100. Well, it turns out, Jeff never wrote her the check so I guess that girl never called the cops. It also means that Jeff has some of our money, too. That punk.
Oh yeah. Sunday night, I got the full story on the noise violation incident. Apparently, the complaint was about someone yelling upstairs. I'm pretty sure that narrows it down to me. But who knows for sure?
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Last Tuesday, a big group of kids from my Compass group met up at this bar in Westport called Harpo's to hang out. They have a special on Tuesdays where you can get 25 cent draws… of Natty Light, quite possibly one of the most terrible beers of all time. On the cheap end of the beer spectrum, you've got beers like Keystone, Old Style, and of course Natty. Now, I won't dog on Natty too much… me and Natty have a sort of a history, but I won't get into that. The point is, they were selling cheap beer for a price so low that it was still a good deal. Good deals taken in mass quantity equals great times. That's a little introduction to the discipline known as Beer Mathematics.
One of the most interesting points in the night was right when we arrived at the bar and of course, I routinely pulled out my driver's license to show them that yes, I was indeed 21+ years old. Now, if you've ever seen my driver's license, you will know that I really don't look like I did back when the photo was taken. In that photo, I was wearing glasses and I had just shaved my head. And it was like 3 years ago. Just from past experience, I know that people will often feel the need to give me the "double take" where they look back and forth between my ID and me at least twice, and then hesitantly return it back to me, not really sure if I was who I claimed to be. It's happened at bars with my license; it's happened at airports with my passport (for which was I was coincidentally photographed for around the same time as my driver's license). I don't blame these people, I can see where they're coming from…
But I had something happen to me that night that took the whole thing to the next level. I hand the guy at the door my license and he did not believe that was me in that picture. So he pulled me aside, and let everyone else that was with get their ID's checked, cover paid, and wristband distributed. The guy hands my license to this big bald guy standing a couple feet back in the corner. He says something to the bald guy, who proceeds to analyze my license under some kind of magnifying glass/flashlight combination tool. The big bald guy didn't think I was the guy in the picture either.
At this point, I was just afraid that they would confiscate my driver's license or cut it up or whatever they do to the licenses of kids who try to sneak into bars under the guise of a friend or relative.
"No that's me, I've got other forms of ID on me…"
"Doesn't matter."
He clamps my license on a clipboard and hands me a notepad and pen and instructs me to sign my name "exactly as it appears" on my driver's license. The page that I was going to be signing on had two other signatures on it. It seemed like a pretty common procedure around Harpo's. I was like "OK." I was confident that I knew how to sign my own name, but I've noticed that signatures evolve over time. Mine has, anyways. I don't know about yours.
So I signed it like I do and the bald guy compares it to the signature on my driver's license using the forementioned magnifying glass and after giving my signature the double take, he finally says, "well, I guess it looks similar enough."
I was like "OK, thanks… I guess," all sarcastic as I return my license to my wallet. They were treating me as if they had just let some 18 year old slip through the cracks of their security, trying to get by with a borrowed/stolen ID. I rolled my eye and got my wristband, a little irked that I had to jump through all these obstacles to drink some Natty, when I never once had to prove myself at bars, never once had to prove myself to the people working at various airports in numerous countries. Just who the fuck do these people at Harpo's think they are?
So anyways, there were a bunch of us out back, occupying like 3 tables pushed together. It wasn't just my Compass group there obviously because Sam and Chris also came. Micheala brought her friend from that other night. Amanda's friend Natalie showed up at some point. Summer brought some of her friends and I am pretty sure there were people there that night that I didn't even get a chance to meet. Great times.
That was the same night that Sam and I ran into Jenny back at the apartment and the L Word was dropped. But that's another story.
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Fight to the Finish: WRD Home Team Championship
By Jeanine Carmichael, Mike Lehmann [Posted August 18, 2015]
This Saturday, masses of people packed into the warehouse known as the Derby Depot for the WRD Home Team Championship bout. … read more
Hot Wheelers vs. Black Diamond Divas: The Saga Continues
By Kendal Gillett [Posted May 20, 2015]
The brave souls who ventured out last Saturday and faced the crazy-weird monsoon-type weather we've been experiencing lately were privileged to the quad driven, counter-clockwise action of Wasatch Derby League. … read more
Wasatch Roller Derby: Portneuf Valley Bruisers v. Bonneville Bone Crushers / Black Diamond Divas v. Hot Wheelers
By Jeanine Carmichael [Posted April 15, 2015]
On April 11, Wasatch Roller Derby hosted a double-header bout at the Derby Depot. The first game was between the Bonneville Bone Crushers (WRDs B-level travel team) and the Portneuf Valley Bruisers of Pocatello, Idaho. The second game Wasatch hosted was between their two home teams, The Black Diamond Divas and the Hot Wheelers. … read more

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Privacy education for kids
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I sent out a Sun wide email yesterday, reviewing Sun's corporate priorities for FY05. The priorities are pretty basic – and distill down to eleven words. Which I asked folks to try to remember – lest we have to resort to one of those awkward stickers to put on employee badges.
Notwithstanding the confidentiality breach, it's wonderful to see that some enterprising Sun employee made sure our global workforce and partner community could enlist their dogs and kids in helping them meet the objectives of priority 4…
Maybe next year, we should release the t-shirt first.
Where are my manners? To our friends at AOL, and to the StarOffice and Java Desktop community – CONGRATULATIONS!


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Barely six years after it was launched, AirBnB is now estimated at $30 billion. Some say that if you have a spare room in your house, you are actually sitting on a gold mine. But that is not always the case. In fact, making profits through AirBnB is one of the few challenges that AirBnB hosts are confronted with. That said, it is still possible to raise your income, but you should be prepared to exert a lot of effort, make sacrifices, and release your inner creativity. The key here is to be ready and willing to make an investment. One of the AirBnB tips that we can give you is to get a renovation so that you can raise your income.
AirBnB Tips: Get A Renovation And Raise Your Income
The first step in growing your AirBnB income is to remodel your place. This can range from simple improvements, such as adding new appliances or repainting the walls, to drastic changes, like installing new floors or widening the room.
When getting a room renovation, one of the most important AirBnB tips that you should remember is to focus on your kitchen and bathroom. Why? Because these spaces are the first things that a prospective tenant wants to see. No one would book a property with dirty and shabby kitchen and bathrooms. If you are looking for kitchen ideas for your kitchen's new look, you can find some inspiration in magazines and interiour design websites.
As an AirBnB host, you can also increase the value of your property by building on some add-ons. If your property is a stone's throw away from the beach, you might want to consider getting snorkel gears or surf boards that your tenants can use. In addition, try to modernise the look of your property. Refurbish it with new furniture, decórs, and appliances, especially for your kitchen and bathrooms.
Facts About Renovating Your Property for AirBnB
One reason why you should renovate your property right now for AirBnB is that you can triple your income. For instance, a decent room in outer Sydney costs $200 per week prior to renovation. Throwing in the equation the seasonal fluctuations and other factors, a newly furnished property in the outskirts of Sydney can easily be rented out for $700 per week.
Some hosts are having second thoughts in renovating their property because of the work and the costs associated with it, and the space requirements to pull off an amazing property. But you know what? You don't need a gargantuan space to create a hotel suite. Just furnish the space smartly, add a dash of creativity, and manage your budget wisely.


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Uniforms Manufacturers & Wholesalers in Alphington, VIC
The most popular Uniforms Manufacturers & Wholesalers near Alphington, VIC, 3078
The most popular Uniforms Manufacturers & Wholesalers near Alphington, VIC, 3078
29 Bennett St, Alphington, VIC, 3078
3A Fink St, Preston, VIC, 3072
28-30 Eastment St, Northcote, VIC, 3070
316 Johnston St, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067
11 Studley St, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067
By Appointment, Melbourne, VIC, 3067
29 Duke St, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067
59-63 St Hellier St, Heidelberg Heights, VIC, 3081
9-13 Reeves St, Clifton Hill, VIC, 3068
Rodney Mark - Professional Uniform, Supplier and Corporate Clothing Provider.more
157-161 Burnley St, Richmond, VIC, 3121
114 Murphy St, Richmond, VIC, 3121
Level 1 313-317 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122
123 Nicholson St, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057
20 Cromwell St, Collingwood, VIC, 3066
Uniform supplier and embroiderer.
447 Plenty Rd, Preston, VIC, 3072
3/155 Donald St, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057
105 Mcewan Rd, Heidelberg Heights, VIC, 3081
105 McEwan Rd, Heidelberg Heights, VIC, 3081
654 Burke Rd, Camberwell, VIC, 3124
9-11 Stewart St, Richmond, VIC, 3121
10-12 Hill St, Richmond, VIC, 3121
By Appointment, Toorak, VIC, 3142
Delivers to or Services Australia-Wide (Online only)
Uniform Choice is serviced oriented uniform and work wear supplier, offering online shopping of wide range of product,quality brands, and custom designed uniforms, and deliver throughout Australia.more
Australia On Collins, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
8-10 Hall St, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122
6 Bond St, South Yarra, VIC, 3141
6 Bond St, South Yarra, VIC, 3141
Unit 2 Level 2 4 Riverside Qy, Southbank, VIC, 3006
6 Bond St, South Yarra, VIC, 3141
521-523 Chapel St, South Yarra, VIC, 3141
455-461 Victoria St, Brunswick West, VIC, 3055
467 Spencer St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
14 Gaffney St, Coburg, VIC, 3058
122-126 Gladstone St, South Melbourne, VIC, 3205
22 The Pines Shopng Cntr, Templestowe, VIC, 3106
11/331 Ingles St, Port Melbourne, VIC, 3207
Unit 2 216 Turner St, Port Melbourne, VIC, 3207
5/40 Simpsons Rd, Box Hill, VIC, 3128
3/2-4 Joseph St, Blackburn North, VIC, 3130
36 Renshaw St, Doncaster East, VIC, 3109
87 Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, 3182
238 Wolseley Pl, Thomastown, VIC, 3074
Academy Uniforms are one of the leading School Uniform Suppliers in Victoria. We have over 30 years experience in the School and College wear industry. This successful family business was founded St. Patricks Day in 1977. We manufacture high quality Australian Made garments for retail and wholesale customers at very competitive prices. Originally operating in Clifton Hill, the business moved to Fairfield and after many years there we finally moved to Thomastown in 2005. It is from our Thomastown premises where our business has grown rapidly due to the convenient location and first class retail outlet. Academy Uniforms currently manufacture for over 250 Schools, Australia wide. Academy Uniforms offer an experienced design team ready to assist your School/College with all your Uniform requirements.more
21 Tuscan Ct, Thomastown, VIC, 3074
436 Waverley Rd, Malvern East, VIC, 3145
Promotional Products Melbourne... Promotional products, promotional items, corporate gifts, we are your promotional products supplier. We offer a largest selection of the most innovative and cost effective promotional products. Browse our site to find the perfect promotional products for all your promotional needs or give us a call. Take the stress out of your next promotion. We work with promotional products, trade show giveaways, corporate gifts, on a daily basis and have all the marketing know how to guarantee the best return on your investment. So, what are you waiting for? Promotional products, best selection, great prices, superb service.more
6 Elder Ct, Thomastown, VIC, 3074
6C Randor St, Campbellfield, VIC, 3061
Get in touch with the company to get the best solution for business clothing. The company has all the clothing solutions for business promotion.more
By Appointment, Maribyrnong, VIC, 3032
JK Clothing is a family company supplier of Men and Ladies Corporate/Work wear Uniforms soon gained a reputation as a reliable, clothing supplier. With over 30 year's experience, JK Clothing is a recognized supplier of quality Clothing. JK Clothing is a flexible organization capable of handling large and not so large requirements with equal efficiency. This is due to our on-site design center, state of the art machines and experience. We use the latest computerized embroidery machines and digitizing equipment to provide custom embroidered logos.more
17 White St, Maribyrnong, VIC, 3032
We are the best providers of the premium corporate clothing in Melbourne. With unparalleled quality and mix, our range of uniforms in Melbourne is proven to be a popular choice of the customers that are sold at competitive prices. We provide top-quality work wear in Melbourne for various purposes like Hospitality, Health Care, Marketing and Sales and all other purpose of corporate events or environment. We are the market leaders of work wear in Melbourne and carry a comprehensive experience in providing custom clothing in Melbourne and guarantee 100% satisfaction for all our valued customers.more
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Angie Goff's LIVE interview with White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses on the South Lawn of the White House.
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Easter Egg Roll: Angie Goff & White House Chef
Angie Goff's LIVE interview with White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses on the South Lawn of the White House.
Obamas, Glee, Elmo at Easter Egg Roll
I got up at 1:00 AM for one of the funnest assignments I've ever had. Covering the White House Easter Egg Roll. I thought wedges would be great for the lawn affair but soon realized the open-toewas no match for the early morning dew! Probably more uncomfortable than me were the dozens of characters in mascot uniforms… OMG proudly scored the first on-cam interview with the Roll's power couple: Mr & Mrs Bunny.
See my wusa9 report below that includes the First Family, Glee's performance, my basketball skills and interview with Elmo!
OMG off to the White House
Ready, Set, GO! I am so excited about reporting live from the White House Easter Monday morning. Forget I have to be in at 2AM… we got an Easter Bunny and 14,500 hardboiled eggs waiting! Be sure to watch WUSA9 (CBS) between 5-7AM ET for my live reports on the Easter Egg Roll from the South Lawn. From entertainers to being environmentally friendly looks like the Obamas have this thing covered. Star studded cast expected to join the 30,000 lucky ducks that scored tickets… Reese Witherspoon, the cast of GLEE and Sesame Street, JK Rowling, Apolo Ohno, Billie Jean King and Gigi Fernandez and many more.
History: White House Easter Egg Roll
This year's souvenir egg (everyone rolling will get one!) is signed by the Obamas and is made with vegetable oil based ink and wood from a sustainable forest. So eco-chic, pardon the pun.
Contest: White House Easter Egg Roll Poster
You're Easter Egg Roll roving reporter here. Just got word from the White House that it's having an Easter Egg Roll Poster Contest for local schoolchildren. Michelle Obama will choose the winner which serve as the official 2010 White House Easter Egg Roll poster! The White House invites all District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia charter, magnet, and traditional public schools to submit one poster design per school by next Wednesday, March 3, 2010. I can't wait to report LIVE from this event April 5th and will keep my eyes out for the winner.
The First Lady's Top Pick Gets:
- Their logo featured on the White House 2010 Easter Egg Roll program.
- Invitations for the artist and their class to attend the Easter Egg Roll April 5th
History lesson for you: In the early 1800s, local children rolled eggs on the Capitol Steps the day after Easter. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes invited D.C. area children to roll their Easter eggs on the White House lawn and a tradition was born, growing into the national event that it is today.
The poster should reflect this year's theme "Ready, Set, Go!". For more information about the poster contest entry process or www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll/poster


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Regardless of whether you are hunting for cottage casual, classic with a twist or contemporary sophistication, the Greater Residences and Gardens furniture collection is made to meet your style wants.
If you long for delicate searching, but durable wicker furniture, appear no additional than the all-weather assortment. This wicker" can deal with the heat, sun and cold winter temperatures like a pro. This weatherproof, UV-resistant vinyl or resin is woven over a strong aluminum frame. The colors will not fade and the finish stays fresh, season soon after season. Just wipe it clean and it is ready for a gathering of household or buddies.
Lastly, a single much more note prior to the analysis: Furniture, even restricted to property furniture, is a large category. To make my search far more manageable, I looked for only two pieces of furniture – a sofa, which is an upholstered piece of furniture, and a bedroom dresser, which is most often produced of wood. As you will see, the quantity of possibilities and opportunities to buy American are almost overwhelming, based on what you are willing to pay, how difficult you are prepared to look, and if you are willing to wait for your furniture to be manufactured and shipped to you.
Crate&Barrel has a 'made in USA' searchable internet site, and they truly had 61 sofas from about 15 diverse collections labeled as produced in the USA, priced from $1,000 to $4,200. They had been the only site where I truly located a dresser labeled created in the USA – either the other folks did not have any, or did not say the nation of origin. If you like Crate&Barrel furniture, you stand a reasonably very good possibility of getting some thing produced in the USA here. Like Macy's, two thumbs up for Crate&Barrel's honesty in publishing the nation of origin for their furniture.
One particular of my individual favorites for house décor is T.J. Maxx. Sure, this shop has tons of clothing to look through, but have you checked out their house décor and gift section? It really is a wonderful place to uncover a gift in no time. And you probably will not be in a position to resist buying one thing for your own décor.
Our design inspiration is rooted in the enduring movements of the previous, such as Shaker, Asian, Mid-century Modern day, Danish and Arts & Crafts. We channel these style influences to create timeless modern day furniture that is comfortable and durable, employing all-natural and responsibly sourced supplies.


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Insurance symposium addresses challenges in the residential property insurance market
BOONE—University students, faculty, regulators and industry leaders met in May at the Residential Property Insurance Symposium to discuss current problems and trends and to identify solutions for the residential property insurance market.
That market is in a state of turmoil and the problems and potential solutions are complex, according to Dr. David Marlett, chairman of the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance at Appalachian State University. Appalachian and UNC Charlotte co-hosted the symposium in Charlotte.
Marlett said repercussions of Superstorm Sandy, the recent catastrophic tornadoes, unprecedented hurricane activity and the Biggert Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 are among concerns for the need to create greater stability within this critical market.
Speakers from North Carolina as well as Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia shared their expertise.
"We greatly appreciate the speakers' participation in the symposium, which provided students an opportunity to hear first-hand from national experts," Marlett said. Among the speakers were N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and Ray Farmer, South Carolina's director of insurance who provided their perspective as regulators and described the challenges of balancing the needs of consumers and the industry.
"The symposium was an excellent forum for researchers, students and insurance experts to discuss the concerns regarding the availability and costs associated with coastal property insurance and the exposure risks involved," Farmer said. "As director of insurance for the state of South Carolina, the coastal property insurance marketplace is among my top priorities for the department. I welcomed the opportunity to attend and speak about South Carolina's property insurance marketplace at this important event."
Tom Marshall, a lecturer in risk management and insurance at UNC Charlotte, added, "A primary mission of the universities is to provide a forum for analysis and discussion of critical issues. The symposium was a unique opportunity for Appalachian State University and UNC Charlotte to bring together all elements of the insurance industry for dialogue in search of solutions to some of the industry's most complex problems."
More than 230 people attended the symposium, which provided learning and networking opportunities and offered six hours of continuing education credit.
"With financial support from 22 insurance carriers, managing general agencies and industry associations, the symposium represented not only a valuable forum but also a significant investment in the university insurance programs and ultimately in the students who represent the future of the insurance industry," Marshall said.
Funding for the symposium was provided by the following sponsors: State Farm, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), AAA Carolinas, Universal Insurance Company, Nationwide, Travelers, AmWins, Allstate, Ascension, Auto-Owners, Burns & Wilcox, Hartford, Hull & Company, Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC), Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of South Carolina Foundation, Keystone Insurers Group, Johnson & Johnson, Allen Tate Insurance, Liberty Mutual, Lloyds, Paul Davis Restoration, Southern 1752 Club and the Professional Insurance Agents of N.C. (PIA).
For additional information, contact Marlett at email@example.com or Marshall at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Appalachian's risk management and insurance program
The risk management and insurance program at Appalachian develops students with a solid academic and practical foundation through both academic and enrichment programs. In addition to studying the risk management and insurance curriculum, students have the opportunity to receive extensive real-world exposure through career coaching, internships, shadow days, and travel to industry conferences and to Lloyd's of London.
Learn more at http://insurance.appstate.edu.


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Original Diagnosis Problems. The installer's nightmare….repeat failures.
You have changed an engine, cylinder head, or crankshaft only to have the replacement fail for the same problem, or another problem, only a short time later.
The Solution…proper original diagnosis.
Not finding original diagnosis problems can cost a ton of money and inconvenience.
There are many situations that occur in today's vehicles that cannot be fixed by the replacement of an engine, head, or crank.
Damage to these parts is only the result, not the cause of the problem.
One example of a sensor/system failure is a blown head gasket or failed piston. The engine, piston, or head is changed.
Shortly the customer returns with a blown head gasket, or part of the piston burned away. Because finding and correcting the original problem never did happen.
Before replacing any of these components, you must first find the real problem that caused the failure.
The purpose of this Engine Portal Tech Talk is to inform you, in the strongest possible way, of the consequences of not diagnosing and checking the systems that make an engine operate properly. As a result not finding original diagnosis problems.
Computers and sensors control today's vehicles. There may be as many as 20 sensors feeding information to the vehicle "master control unit " (MCU) or brain box.
There are other sensors, while not directly attached to the MCU, that do affect the information the sensors feed to computers.
These sensors are part of systems that operate the vehicle properly. All of the systems must be in proper operating order for the engine to function properly and have normal combustion.
Consequently abnormal combustion will result in detonation. Due to not finding original diagnosis problems.
Examples of systems that play an important role in the proper running of today's engine are:
- The exhaust system
- Cooling system
- Oiling system
- Fuel ignition system
- EGR system
- Air temperature system
- A.I.R. (thermactor) system, or RCV-CCV system
These systems are all controlled by the sensors that send signals to the MCU. So the result of this information is a properly or improperly operating vehicle. As a result failure of any of the sensors which supply information on these systems, or failure of the system itself, can cause a major engine failure.
Just as with the original engine, under proper care and maintenance, it is reasonable to expect mileage from remanufactured engines of 100,000 miles and up if all conditions are the same. The difference then is in the changing over of an engine or part.


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Drunk nights out cause over a third of vegetarians to eat meat
Drinking alcohol may lower a person's inhibitions, including their diet.
The U.K.'s deal-oriented website Voucher Codes Pro conducted a survey of nearly 1,800 self-reported vegetarians, and 37 percent admitted to eating meat when they get drunk.
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Of this group, 34 percent made this a regular habit, responding that they eat meat every time they're out and under the influence.
The most popular food to indulge in is kebabs, capturing 39 percent of these meat-eating vegetarians; burgers were second, claiming 34 percent.
Bacon, fried chicken, and pork sausages rounded out the top five foods most likely to be eaten during these cheat meals.
Interestingly, much of this indulgence happened in secret with nearly 70 percent not telling anyone about their inebriated meat eating.
As a result of these findings, the website's founder encourages friends of vegetarians to help them abstain from meat when drunk.
Despite the behaviors of this group, 63 percent of the vegetarians surveyed claimed to stick to their diet regardless of alcohol consumption.
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Our Sunday meetings are held in The DQ Centre on Fitzwilliam Street. Enquiries should be directed to our church office, Egerton Hall, which is directly across the road and where many of our other mid-week meetings also take place.
Sunday meetings: The DQ Centre
We meet in The DQ Centre – with the main entrance on Fitzwilliam Street, S1 4HA. DQ is just down the road from Devonshire Green and is right in the centre of Sheffield. Look out for our sign!
Church Office: Egerton Hall
Enquiries should be directed to our Egerton Hall office, which is directly opposite DQ.


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By publishing her two-volume set Pastiche of Poetry in 2012, Rose commemorated writing poems for more than 50 years.
A religiously themed poetry book God, My Greatest Love collects her spiritual poetry.
"I had a lot of fun collecting food and diet related poems. My internal Gemini twins begged me to write new poems on this recurring life theme. Therefore, Eat, Diet, Repeat was born," Rose says with a wink as she wipes the chocolate from her chin.
Check out all of Rose Klix's published books at RoseKlix.com. Also go to her Reviews page to read what others are saying about her books.


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Noblesville Garden Contest
All Noblesville residents are warmly invited to participate in the Annual NPA Denzel Hufford Garden Contest. There are two categories in which a winner will be selected The Novice Garden is one which is one to five years old. The Mature Garden is six years of age or older. The winners will each receive an outdoor garden marker to proudly display along with a cash award. A runner up from each category will each receive a gift certificate to Garden Thyme at The Old School House. The awards are made possible by an anonymous NPA family with NPA matching funds.
The judges include a Denzel Hufford family member, a Hamilton County Master Gardener, a Noblesville Preservation Alliance member, a member of Keep Noblesville Beautiful, and a winner from last year's contest. Judging will be scheduled, weather permitting, between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM, July 6th, through the 11th. If at all possible, we would like the gardener to be home during the judging. The Master Gardener will be available to answer any gardening questions. We will try to contact each person to inform them of the specific scheduled day for our garden visit.
The categories being considered:
The winners will be announced on August 1st.


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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must continue to operate Horace Williams Airport (IGX) for the public and Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Medical Air Operations for at least another year, according to the state's recently-passed budget bill.
Meanwhile, the Legislative Research Commission will study the effect the closure of the airport would have on the AHEC program.
Saving Horace Williams has become a rallying point for North Carolina pilots, hundreds of whom have contacted their state legislators in an effort encouraged strongly by AOPA and The Southern Aviator.
The commission study will give AHEC doctors and pilots a chance to tell their stories, unhindered by university politics. AHEC uses general aviation aircraft to fly medical school faculty, medical residents and health science students to support other medical facilities across the state. Moving its operations to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), as the university's chancellor has proposed, could delay AHEC flights unacceptably. RDU is a busy airline airport, 30 minutes or more from the university by road.
Although pilots and the medical community have won this round, the university still appears committed to closing Horace Williams. Its administration wants to build new faculty housing and executive offices on the land.


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I want to kick my novel in the head. It's not doing what I want it to do.
I just keep reminding myself that I've had other novels that I hated just as much. One of them truly was a disaster, but the other one now looks like it might have potential. I'm pressing on.


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Joel Campbell DEMANDS Arsenal exit as Arsene Wenger eyes swoop for Radamel Falcao
ARSENAL forward Joel Campbell is hoping to push through a deadline day switch to Portuguese giants Benfica.
Portuguese newspaper O Jogo claim that Campbell has demanded he be allowed to leave the club on-loan before tonight's 11pm deadline.
Benfica are keen to wrap up a deal for the Costa Rica hot-shot, whose only appearance this season for Arsenal was as a 86th minute substitute in the 3-0 Community Shield victory over Manchester City.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has previously ruled out the possibility of Campbell leaving The Emirates on-loan again this summer.
Campbell, 22, has spent the past three seasons on-loan at Lorient, Real Betis and Olympiakos - partly due to the Gunners being unable to obtain a work permit that would allow him to play in England until 2013.
A decision to allow Campbell to leave the club is likely to be dependent on Wenger's ability to land a new striker before the transfer window slams shut.
The Gunners boss is set to be without leading marksman Olivier Giroud until the new year after the Frenchman sustained a broken leg in the 2-2 draw with Everton on August 23.
Wenger has been linked with a deadline day swoop for Monaco forward Radamel Falcao, but reportedly faces competition from Manchester City and Manchester United.


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Starring: Julian Lloyd Webber, Vaclav Neumann, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Director: Tony Palmer
Rating: 6/10
Shot in Prague in 1988, Dvorak – in Love? (not to be confused with Josef Skvorecky's similarly titled novel) is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about a recording session, with Julian Lloyd Webber, the distinguished conductor Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philarmonic Orchestra going through their paces on that stalwart of the classical repertoire, the Dvorak cello concerto. Sprinkled in along the way are snippets of what were then newly discovered letters by Dvorak which throw some light on the piece (it grew out of the composer's unrequited passion for his wife's sister and he was spurred to write it when she fell ill while he was away in America).
These insights into the man behind the music, although welcome, are too fleeting to make much of an impact, so the main appeal of the documentary lies in the interesting peek it furnishes into what goes on during the making of a classical CD. For example, it's fascinating to see them recording the concerto in bits rather than all the way through in one go, and there's no shortage of unintentional humour and human foibles, with an elderly conductor who communicates mainly by humming and a producer acting like a complete backseat driver, timing them on his digital watch and making a fuss about laggardly tempi (you wince whenever he says, "Maestro, can I now tell you my ideas?"). The cello concerto is a piece of music you don't get tired of hearing, and the stormy eloquence of the score comes across well, courtesy of a soloist in fine form. The picture's not a thing of beauty but the sound is very good on the DVD, clear and weighty. Quite short at only 53 minutes, but fun for fans of the great Czech composer.


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This mixed-use project is located in the City of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Uniquely positioned northeast of downtown Little Rock along the northern shore of the Arkansas River, the site is adjacent to the landfall of the former Rock Island Railroad Bridge and the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center and Park. The proposed development consists of two parcels. The western parcel contains an 11-story tower with structured parking for general office, residential, and retail uses, while the eastern parcel contains a 7-story hotel building with structured parking lined by conference room spaces and a restaurant. The proposed development also contains a centrally-located linear urban plaza for public use and access to the Arkansas River, as well as a future city riverfront park.
Working with the general program and the client, the design creates a stronger connection to the river and takes advantage of the site's special relationship to the Clinton Library and adjacent pedestrian bridge.


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Kung Fu To'a is now training in NEW LOCATIONS! We are looking to make it more convenient for our members by training in prestige locations:
– Tuesdays on Crows Nest Community Centre on 2 Ernest Pl, Crows Nest;
– Thursdays on Fitness First North Sydney Elizabeth Plaza on 1 Elizabeth Plaza, North Sydney;
– Saturdays on Fitness First North Sydney Walker Street on 100 Walker St, North Sydney.
Come and try!
Note: You do not need to be a member of these venues or clubs to attend our classes. Just come as a To'a Member.
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Date of advertisement – 11/03/2015
Last date to apply – 09/04/2015
Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) posted a recruitment advertisement to invite all the eligible candidates of India who are interested in serving one of the best government of India undertaking power sector public company in 2015.
Karnataka BESCOM Jobs
Here in the below table you would come to know about the name of the posts advertised and the number of vacancies on which the recruitment is going to happen in 2015.
|Name of the Posts
|No. of Vacancies
Total number of posts – 238
Pay Scale
Rs. 10250-300-11750-360-13910-420-16850-510-18890-570-20600-620-23080-700-25180/-
Eligibility Criteria
Age : 18-35 years
Educational Qualification : Candidates must have minimum of Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
Application Fee
Fore more details about the method of payment or to verify the fee amount please refer the original advertisement as advertised by the Karnataka BESCOM jobs.
Method of Selection
All the candidates must have to appear into the written test and then in an interview for final selection to work into the company.
How to Apply
- Download the Advertisement for posts of Assistants
- Visit the bescom karnataka website – http://bescom.org/recruitment-of-assistants/
- Choose the desired post
- Read the instructions and fill the online application form
- Pay the application fee
- Take print of the submitted application form and fee receipt
- It's all done
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No 418, 1st Floor, Above Canara Bank,
100 Ft Road, 4th Block, Koramangala,
Bangalore 5th Cross Rd,
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Bangalore, Karnataka
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Author: Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: July 1, 2012
Rating: 5/5 stars
Recommended to: Lovers of fantasy, fans of magical realism, readers who wish to fall in love with vibrant characters.
I had heard about this book in reading circles for a while, but it wasn't until it was selected as the November book in my book club that I really got a chance to sit down and read it.
I have to say I was completely enchanted by the world of this book, but it was the bravery of point of view that first piqued my interest. This book slides from second person to third person throughout the novel, and as a writer I know how difficult it is to write in second person so I was immediately impressed.
Morgenstern creates a mysterious world you want to know more about, and much like the night circus itself, the book unfolds it's mysteries one act at a time. At the heart of the book is a simple premise: Two magicians challenge each other to a game where they pit their apprentices against one another until one is deemed the victor. The story is much richer than the sum of its parts though, and by the end of the tale you are as invested in the characters within the story as you are in the magical circus itself.
Thematically I would summarize this book as "the Prestige meets Romeo and Juliet," but on the spectrum of Shakespearean plays, this would fall much closer to the comedy end of the continuum than the tragedy.


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Our instructor is an intelligent, enthusiastic, well prepared and effective teacher and I feel confident that I have gained a solid knowledge for basic Spanish over the last two months (and will continue to do so going forward). He not only covers the topics in the book, but also brings to bear related knowledge to help round out the experience. He also knows how to make sure that everyone in the class stays involved. I have been sharing my experiences with family and friends alike, so that they can understand that I'm having a positive learning experience with the Language Fundamentals curriculum.
Donna Johnson
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I love Language Fundamentals After-School Program! The instructor is fun and patient. My daughter leaves the class feeling energized and relaxed and she is learning Spanish every week. We have had other programs in the school prior to this one, but Language Fundamentals is by far the best. I recommned every school to use Language Fundamentals as their After-School Program for Spanish. Children really learn and they have fun while doing so!
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I have had a great experience with Language Fundamentals especially because of our fun, intelligent and patient teacher. Our class includes a mix of grammar, conversation and insight into the Spanish Culture. Our teacher is able to teach us Spanish from our language point of view. Language Fundamentals makes learning Spanish fun!
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Diet fads come and go like the seasons, yet we tend to fall for the latest trend every time. This year was no different. See how many of Google's most-searched-for diet trends in 2016 you recognize. We're betting some will surprise you!
The Top 10 Diets of 2016 According to Google
10. Mono Diet
The mono, or monotrophic, diet restricts your intake to just one food of your choice. Comedian and magician Penn Jillette ate only potatoes for two weeks, which led him to eventually lose 100 pounds over the course of 2015. However, no nutritionist would recommend the mono diet, holistic nutritionist Laura Lagano, R.D., tells Shape, because a single food cannot provide the variety of nutrients our bodies need to function.
9. Dukan Diet
Millions of Europeans — including Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton — are on the Dukan Diet, a low-carb regimen created by Dr. Pierre Dukan. His book "The Dukan Diet" guides readers through four high-protein, low-fat phases.
8. Pizza Diet
Hold the phone — people are eating pizza to lose weight? Earlier this year, New York City-based chef Pasquale Cozzolino made headlines when he dropped 100 pounds by eating pizza every day. Since then, similar stories have surfaced, including that of cyclist and bodybuilder Matt McClellan. But the secret to these diets isn't all that advanced. By opting for healthier options like canned tomatoes instead of tomato sauce and dough made without butter or lard, the dieters were able to manage their calorie intake while satisfying their appetites.
7. Wild Diet
"Fat-Burning Man" Abel James swears by the Wild Diet, which "focuses primarily on plant-based foods and bans processed carbs, but allows pastured meats, cheeses, butter and even chocolate," according to ABC News. With this diet, you don't count calories, avoid all processed foods, embrace fats and — when you feel like it — skip meals.
6. Dissociated Diet
This diet's odd name sums it up pretty nicely. You dissociate carbohydrates from proteins by eating them at separate meals. Supposedly, when they're eaten together, you store more fat. However, according to a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, this theory lacks scientific proof, and the dissociated diet proved ineffective for fat loss.
Related: International Journal of Obesity -- Similar weight loss with low-energy food combining or balanced diets
5. Ketogenic Diet
This no-carb, high-fat diet is a mainstream treatment for epilepsy. It tricks the body into starvation mode, "in which it burns fat, not carbs, for fuel," Fred Vogelstein writes for New York Times Magazine. It's a process called ketosis. Although you can't have any alcohol or sugar (goodbye, social life), you don't have to count calories. And studies have shown that the ketogenic diet can potentially boost heart health by improving HDL cholesterol levels.
4. Atkins 40
Who wouldn't want to try the miracle diet that brought us Kim Kardashian's post-baby body? The Atkins 40 gives the age-old, high-protein, low-carb diet a face-lift by relaxing the rules and letting dieters start with 40 grams of carbs a day instead of a meager 20.
3. Military Diet
Also known as the 3-Day Diet, this weight-loss strategy all but promises that you can lose 10 pounds a week and have ice cream in the process. You consume between 1,100 and 1,400 calories a day for three days, then eat enough to maintain your weight the rest of the week. It's a basic calorie-restriction plan, meaning that there's nothing revolutionary about eating toast and tuna for lunch.
2. Taco Diet
If you think your dreams are coming true because you can eat endless carnitas and carne asada tacos and still lose weight, you might want to think again: This diet is totally vegan. You get 75 different taco recipes to choose from — and guac is still on the menu.
The GOLO diet takes the cake for being Google's most-searched diet trend of 2016. This diet targets your levels of insulin, a hormone that regulates glucose absorption and affects your metabolism. GOLO's Metabolic Fuel Matrix, a meal plan that promises to promote weight loss, along with the GOLO Release supplement, are said to help keep insulin in an optimal zone.
What Do YOU Think?
What was the last health related thing you searched for on Google? Have you ever tried any of these weight-loss plans? If so, did it work? What do you think of diets in general? Are they effective in the long run? Let us know in the comments section!
Master Cleanse Dangers
Diet fads come and go like the seasons, yet we tend to fall for the latest trend every time. This year was no different. See how many of Google's most-searched-for diet trends in 2016 you recognize. We're betting some will surprise you!


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Grammar: Your New Friend
Grammar: Your New Friend
This page is in development
Major grammar issues:
Subject-verb agreement
- Helpful information about subject-verb agreement
- More helpful information about subject-verb agreement on the SAT and ACT — with interactive quizzes!
- Self-Quiz: Subject-Verb Agreement
- More Quizzes: Interactive quizzes at the bottom of this page
Pronoun-antecedent agreement
Correlative Conjunctions
- Helpful handout and practice for all kinds of conjunctions!
- SAT Practice Questions! Test your skill in critical reading and writing here!


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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
For cookie lovers with a sense of humor. If you're wondering, ABC stands for "already been chewed". These slightly imperfect gingerbread cookie cutters will create cookies that make you smile, even before you take the first bite. Comes packaged as a set of three in an acetate box. Pretty cute huh? Imagine your guests' reactions at half-chewed cookies … Available on Amazon.com
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Monday, 29 August 2011
If you love marshmallows, you must check out this recipe! I can't resist this relatively simple marshmallow recipe by Tina of Sparkling Ink. Not only do I love the fluffy whiteness of this simple candy, I also adore Tina's lovely pictures. A perfect treat! For the recipe please click here.
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Thursday, 18 August 2011
What an original idea... great for summer parties! By Martha Stewart
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
I found an ideal bag for going to the beach with kids or for a weekend away… this limited edition LOVE bag. The unique bag is hand made from recycled sailing cloth (100% cotton). It is made by local fishermen in Kenya who now are able to earn an income to support their families (which they couldn't with fishing). I just love it!
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
After giving birth, I had enough time to relax and search for new inspiration for my blog. I found some wonderful things, this is one of them; a vintage themed kids' birthday party that is designed by Vicky Hudgins of The City Cradle. It has to be one of the sweetest celebrations I have come across!
I love everything about it, from the cute vintage photo booth, creative props, to the mouth watering treats at the sorbet stand. Each activity is beautifully thought out, created and decorated, while keeping to a gorgeous peachy pink color palette.
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