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After browsing these threads I realize I am not alone in this atrocity.
Now I will tell you my experiences at teh West Wind Dojo in Alameda.
It was the 4th of July Street Festival in the year 2003...or was it 04? I don't remember anymore. It was the year I lived in a wee cottage on Park Street right across from Kai's Japanese restaraunt. I was walking along and I happened upon a dojo offering a free introductory lesson.
They lured me to the style by saying that the low "boxed out" horse stance was the best and mosts table stance out there. They also seduced me with tales of Grand Master HUang who trained a supposed Mister Lee, who trained Mister Flint, Who trained Mister Thompson, who trained Mister Koghadai, who in turn became my private instructor.
Mister Koghadai had a very weak ass handshake. It was like he had a Strength Score of 3. At first I figured he was just holding back, but now i think he really didn't know crap, despite having a black belt. (Actually instructors wear red belts)
They also mentioned something about West Wind going to a Chinese tournament and being the only American School to ever win it. After I left I looked on line for Chinese tournements with american winners and found no mention of the West Wind Schools.
I knew nothing about actual fighting, but I always felt my movements were slow and exxaggerated, and thus innefective. The inward block, for example, always felt too slow even for a roundhouse punch.
When I would land a front kick I would return and not always land in perfect form.
The prices were high when I got there, but then they built that big gym and the CORE building...then the prices went from overly high to insane.
Nobody to whom I showed my orange belt level skills was impressed and I got laughed at: I never realized the techs I was taught were bogus.
The instructors drove around in BMWs and sat around in cushy offices. That pissed me off too.
So yeah ask me specific questions and I will give specific answers, because only a questuion will bring the rest form my memory.
And Mister K from bunyip's story?
That's my former private instructor, mister Koghadai.
I'd like to see him get his ass kicked by Chuck Norris.
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The supposed Mr. Lee did exist back in the Old West Wind Schools and he was in fact trained by a Grand Master Huang from China. But that ended between 1998 and 2000. I will not name names, but a group of the Instructors, from the Chief instructor down to the senior head instructors, basically stole the schools from Mr. Lee. He no longer has had anything in the slightest to do with West Wind Schools. These schools went down hill fast the day he was not involved in running them. West Wind used to be a good place to study. When I started I payed $690.00 every 6 months. But that changed significantly after that.
I was driving by the West Wind in Berkely, made famous by Bullshio Hall of Fame Member buynip, the other day.
It was dark and the lights inside the school were on so I could see inisde. What I saw surprised me. Lots of nice equipment, including a full boxing ring. The was also a huge banner outside that said "Home of the Featherweight Champ!" or something like that.
There was nothing about what I saw that screamed McDojo, yet I know the opposite to be true. Just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover.
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Don't hate. We're not even a McDojo. I'll agree, our teachers do preach wanna-be Buddhism (I'm Buddhist) and then ride in BMWs rockin suits, but don't let the teachers dictate the martial art. I get pissed off about that aspect of my school every time, but I put it aside and try to focus on learning. In regular school (not dojo) do you devalue what a professor tells you because he wears crappy clothing? No. You ignore that and focus on his teaching.
Want a McDojo. Check out Rohai Cuong (sp?) Ngu Dojo down the block. Black belt = 3 years. I saw their green belt tests and I nearly laughed out loud in front of the whole school.
What belt did you get up to? White and Orange belt are hella lame compared to Purple and Blue belt.
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West Wind does actually have a web page, but when you put in www.westwindbokfu.com it directs you to MySpace.com, where they have a page...you can not view pics, nor can you send a message, that just brings you to your own MySpace page, should you have one. You can however view some videos of various things...what a hoot, whith the kind of money they charge you would think they could afford a REAL website...how lame, and cheap, as MySpace is a free site....LOL


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Re: Worst Gig Experiences?
I've had several...many due to horrible sound experiences.
One that comes to mind has nothing to do with bad soud though:
We were playing a big venue, with major label record company people in the audience to see us. The guitar player snuck off and got himself so stoned he couldn't work his amp, and inserted guitar solos in places where they weren't supposed to be.
We got a nice letter from the record company, commenting that they loved the band, loved the songs, but hated the *bleeping* Eddie Van Halen wanna be.
Needless to say, the guitar player was promptly fired, but getting those particular record company people to come back out and reevaluate us without him ended up being futile.
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Thanks for picking it up, Naveed :)
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It's hard to know where to begin!
Okay, well here we go.
1: The stage directly under my drum kit collapsed with me on it 6 bars into a tune. The gravity was very strong that day and I hit the deck along with the kit. Pain.
2. Playing a gig in the Australian outback at a Bachelor and spinsters ball. Imagine a large canvas tent in the middle of nowhere. Loads of totally drunk outback Australians who would not dare speak to anyone from the city band that had come to entertain. "Stay away from the city slickers!"
The young women are wearing old 1960's velvet evening dresses handed down from their mothers. And gum boots.
The guys are just wasted on alcohol.
During the second set things began to get a little wild. I noticed that some drunk had climbed atop the tent and was jumping up and down. Directly above the revelers.
At the back of the tent two enormously fat women had decided to moon the room. Imaging two giant upside down light bulbs.
Just as I was recovering from the sight, I caught a flash to behind and to the right. A couple was having sex behind my drum riser between the tent and it. It was the flash of the white bottom that caught my attention.
I turned to the bass player to point out this amazing image when all of a sudden, the couple were gone.
Dazed and confused I turned my attention to the swarming drunken mass dancing under the mad jumper atop the tent.
The two fat ladies had moved off.
And still he kept jumping.
And jumping.
Not so much jumping as falling.
And still they kept dancing. Unaware. Pig ignorant of the danger.
Suddenly they stopped dancing!
The dancing throng had become a mass of limbs.
And vomit.
The band is staring down from the stage.
Then looking at each other.
Looking back.
At each other.
Then everyone left. Well not quite. First all the drunks jumped into their utes and did donuts.
Then off they went into the night.
So after we packed up our gear we headed off to the one store in hundreds of square miles because it doubled as the hotel. Of course it was locked and we could not get in. Then we smashed a window and made for our room.
The next day we drove about 500 miles to the next gig.
3. Not so much one gig, but a series of gigs. I had a drum solo on this show. It's length was determined by how long it took the band leader to scream his abuse at the singers and dancers.
4. There I sat with my drums on the stairs as about 100 wild drunks fought a long brawl in the foyer of the club. There was just this one way to get out. I sat there over an hour until enough police arrived to bring it to a halt. I loaded out amid a swell of people covered in blood being booked by the police. No one said a word to me.
5. I broke my nose on a cramped stage with a stick during a song. The stage was very very cramped. I did complete the song but did so covered in blood.
6. The band had been going great. We were on TV just about every week. We had a huge fan club made up of young women. (The best sort. You do not want to play a sausage fest after that!) We'd just played to a huge crowd of thousands. I was happy as a lark.
Then we went to play a club gig. I discovered that someone of note in the "business" had put the word out that we'd better sleep with him to get to the next stage. The band then broke up 30 minutes before the show. I played that show in a very bad mood. So much effort and work gone.................
The next day I discovered our manager had cleaned out our account.
Renovated his house. I hear it looks very nice.
Getting depressed. Can I stop now? I could go on.
Re: Worst Gig Experiences?
No, keep going, Wy. It's enthralling. All of it :)
You reminded me of a couple more disasters:
1. Playing at a party. A smallish lounge room with too many people and they are dancing through the band - there was zero separation. Some drunks fell over my hihat stand mid-song and cracked the top cymbal right around the bell. Not happy Jan. A couple were pashing off behind me (at least they weren't having sex). A weird night.
2. Playing a residency. The night before we finished polishing up a new original. It had three major parts to it that cycled around. For some reason, that night our followers weren't there and the audience sans familiar faces didn't seem keen. In the break we ducked out to have a smoke. It was stronger than we expected.
Returned pie-eyed and launched into the new song. It was going well until we reached a point where the bassist, guitarist and I each went into a different section of the song.
It broke down to the point where it had to stop. Everyone cracked up, including us. We tried again and there were rousing cheers when we finished it without mishap.
The gig raged after that. The world is a crazy place :)
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I'll let some others have a turn. I've plenty more. I am happy to say I've played some great shows as well.
It surely is. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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This story belongs in a museum next to Michealangelo's David.....
"I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me." She said, "I know how it feels son, 'Cause it runs in the family."
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Once I was playing in my high school Wind Ensemble, Michael Daugherty's Bells for Stokowski. The song had a very intense Tympani part, which I was barely up to on familiar Tympani's but this school's Tympani, although very nice, didn't have the tuning range I was used to.
I screwed up throughout the entire piece, including not playing at all in one of the two solos.
Before that, I failed to pack the triangle (hate the triangle) for Mozart's Wedding of Figaro, and walked around the stage like a doofus until deducing it's absence and exiting stage left.
Once I had an audition for a Tunes for Charity event. It was A rock band playing Freebird.
The band leader was involved in organisation of the the event, so our audition was practically a formality, but the kit I had to play on was atrocious.
The bass drum had no spurs, it looked like it couldn't be younger than 30 years old. It was so out-of-tune that once the towel we had draped over it had finished it's journey off the shell, clinging to the pedal's beater and onto the floor, it sounded like a trash can.
There were only two toms, both mounted off the same stand in front of the snare, so I couldn't even get any 4-piece action in. They were both super dusty and out-of-tune as well.
The snare was fine, but given the circumstances, i couldn't lay into it while still hearing any of the rest of the band, so that sounded lame.
The cymbalS weren't: I had one orchestral suspended cymbal to my right. No good for riding, weak bell, couldn't crash or I'd loose my ride.
I didn't play so good.
Night of the actual gig however...
I also play Bass.
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1. 1999, college town party in an apartment complex courtyard, me playing acoustic drums in a live-techno/trance band. A couple people spilled beer from the 2nd floor balcony onto my cymbals. The rest of the band was heavily amplified and I wasn't, which resulted in me getting mega-blisters on my hands from trying to play loud enough to be heard.
2. 2003, restaurant/bar gig, me playing keyboards in a psych/space rock band. Not-quite-freezing cold outside. The restaurant was "too small" for us to play indoors, so they stuck us out on the patio. Bass player and drummer got into a fight, bass player left so I had to try and recreate his lines with my left hand. The only people outside listening to us were vagrants and drunks that were wandering the street... The only thing that saved this from being a total disaster was that we were paid very well and got free food & hot toddies...
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1) 1973 First real gig at a Ramada playing standards while in high school. Forgot my stick bag, dad had to drive it to me.
2) 1974 Playing VERY LOUD hard rock in a biker bar in Oklahoma City with topless dancers on the bar- fight breaks out, had to fear for my life. Lukily they didn't care about the band.
3) 1977 Had to drive 6 hours in July from Denton, Tx to Odessa, Tx in 100 degree heat in small car with 5 people and NO air conditioning to play week long hard core country gig in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do in the daytime. We didn't have IPods or CD's back then.
4) 1980 Go to get my car parked on 27th Street and 8th Ave in NYC. Have to drive to NJ for gig. No car- has been stolen. Call friend in sheer panic to get ride to gig. Never recovered car.
5) 1980 playing gig in NYC restuarant - during break some guy walking by outside looks in and see's his girlfriend in the place with some other guy. In a RAGE runs in, tries to jump over the bandstand and lands on the acoustic bass, splintering it into small pieces. He, the other guy and the girl race out leaving us standing there, jaws agap.
6) 1981 Show up to play a gig, only to find another drummer setting up. Turns out the leader forgot he hired me thus two drummers showed up. Professional, I think not.
7) 1981 Playing gig at catering hall in Brooklyn. Maitre de bends over in front of bandstand, hand gun drops out of jacket. He calmly picks it up places it back in his jacket and goes about his business.
All situations were real events, with no fabrication.
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Here goes...
We are playing this pub that is trying to establish itself as an up-and-coming venue for new live acts which means pushing out all of the miserable old guys that come to drink there on their own. Well we are the first band to play there and needless to say they haven't quite managed the transition and the clientel consists of 10 haggard guys trying to forget it all.
The venue has no equipment so we provide everything and have to set up in the corner where the entrance to the men's toilet is, with the drums in a sort of cubic, bare-brick alcove from which I have to move the heaviest pool table in the world.
When we start playing the alcove is acting as some kind of mental reverb chamber so that the drums sound like noise soup. The guitarist has been positioned such that whenever someone goes to the toilet, he has to stand sideways like when someone passes you in a corridor, so that the person can go for a piss.
During tunings, the bassist is getting the one person who turned up that we know to buy him drinks, and at the end, dissilusioned by the sheer existentialism of the whole affair, I see him slowly turn to face me, bleary-eyed and wobbling on his feet. Then in slow motion, I see him run towards the kit and launch himself. I have a freeze frame of him horizontal, still looking me in the eyes and I swear still playing the bass part, then he just crashes through the kit, taking out the crash and the hi hats before rolling under the snare and just lying there. The old codgers by the bar all turn their heads, registering what has happened, don't change their facial expressions at all and then, in unison, turn back to stare into their half-empty pint glasses. We never went back.
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Finding out my bandmates couldn't switch to 6/4 measure for the chorus and then switch back to 4/4 for the verse without me playing something obnoxiously obvious.
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Wow, some interesting experiences(!).
Ever see the movie Blues brothers with the chicken wire in front of the band as the audience throws beer bottles ? Well, back in the late 80's/early 90's... in Williston Florida.... there are actually bars like that.
Enjoy the Music,
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My goodness, i'm still in school band; stage and jazz, but when I play in a concert (in the school gym) the toms ring so much, it gets quite annoying, and the toms are pretty used as well, lots of dents and etc, once, for christmas concert, i played, hit the toms to do a fill ( at a climax i must add) and the hi-tom ripped lol.
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Yeah, it always sucks if you break a head during a performance. Especially bass or snare. You can probably squeeze by without the toms for a set but a BD/SD head breaks and your screwed. Especially if you don't have a replacement or backup drum.
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I hate it when you do not tighten your bass drum beater and it falls off in the middle of a song.
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Sadly, I can relate to this post. I once had a fight happen virtually under my kit. Sadly again, it involved the bass player. Stones Green Ginger Wine was also involved I believe.
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i remember my first 'gig', not relly gig but school performnce and was using there shitty stuff and after 2 songs using double pedal, the slave arm broke and the beater loosened up so much that it was metal on thin 1ply plastc. the batter head ended up with dints on it and is now even worse haha!
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nothings beating that one larryace!
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yea man war stories.
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Every single night playing in a hotel lounge with the Jerry Farber trio back in the early seventies. Yeah, Jerry, I'm talking about you!
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Let's see...
I've had many "paid rehearsals" over the years as well. A few years ago my band played a show in Philly on a Sunday night... actually a Monday morning, at 1:00 a.m. - no surprise, only two bartenders and the soundman, and another band, were present.
I've busted a hole in my bass drum head, during a charity performance being broadcast live on the radio (though just my college's station) - happened on the second song of a 45 minute set.
Did a live set on another college station where our guitar player broke a string on the first song.
My band had its first show with a new bass player - our singer's younger brother, who was only 16, told the bar owner his age, and because he was under 18, he wasn't even allowed to sign a performer's contract and be inside the bar at all. We ran a cable out the front door, and he played his bass in the entrance way, confusing people as they walked in. Because he didn't have a monitor (he was hearing the sound as it leaked out through the door and walls) - our timing was apparently way off.
One band played in nasty dive bar where people crapped in the sinks in the bathroom, and a guy in the crowd screamed that he wanted to rape us while we were on stage, as other audience members laughed and cheered.
Played a show in a big venue where the sound guy - a friend of a friend - forgot to turn on our monitors. I asked him about this at the end of the show, after we were almost booed off (we sounded horrible and the owner wanted to pull the plug). He looked down and flipped one little switch - the monitors popped on - and he just said, "Oops!"
Nearly got into a fist fight while another drummer forced me to use his kit. My band had set up the show, and even got to pick them to play with us from a batch of CDs the venue gave us to choose from. But we opted to go on first (at 10 pm) because we, and our audience, were older and would appreciate an earlier night. But this caused the other band to think, "We're the headliners!" and take control. The other band's drummer had huge toms, and only one rack tom with a ride cymbal sticking way out - I'd never played that configuration, and I got trapped and dropped my sticks a bunch of times throughout the show. He wouldn't even let me change the heights of the drums and cymbals. And, he had the name of his band on the bass drum, though we covered it up. Very disheartening.
But the worst show I ever played was at The Fastlane (no longer in business) in Asbury Park, NJ, in 1995. Let me take you back...
I don't know if this goes on any more, but the venue would force you to buy a batch of tickets in advance that you could sell to your family/friends/fans... or not. You fronted the cost, so you were saddled with selling them - I think it was like, 30 tickets at $15 each. The venue told us in advance, "Everyone has to have a ticket - every one you bring to your show. If your girlfriend carries your guitar, she needs to have a ticket! If your buddy comes to help you set up your drums, he needs to have a ticket too!" We told them, "Okay, we get it!" We sold most of our tickets, and had a few left over that we figured we'd give away to anyone who might show up to see us or the other band playing.
So we got there and loaded in 3 hours before the show was supposed to start, but the venue wouldn't let us set up or sound check because, even though we were opening, they wanted the other band to show up, set up, get mic'ed up, sound check - then they'd move their stuff aside and we'd set up, and leave our stuff up. We sat in the bleachers with a couple friends who came with us (don't worry - they had tickets) and waited.
Eventually an employee came around to collect and rip tickets. The two girls we were with handed over their tickets, and the guy ripped them. Then he asked me for my ticket - I told him, "I'm the drummer in the first band." He frowned and said, "Didn't they tell you when you set up the show?! EVERYBODY'S GOTTA HAVE A TICKET!" "Even... even me?" I asked. "Yes, even the guys in the band!" What a scam! So we used those extra tickets on... ourselves, paying $45 off the top to perform.
The first band didn't show up until 40 minutes before the show was supposed to start. They set up slowly and sound checked. When they were done, the sound guy disappeared. I later found him in front of the club smoking a joint. I told him we were finally ready to do our sound check, but he waved me off - "Ah man, there's no time. Your first song will be your sound check!" I told him that we'd come three hours early to be sure we had a sound check, but the bouncer next to him stepped up to me and said something like, "He told you, there ain't time!" So we didn't have a sound check.
We got on, and performed reasonably well, from what I heard and remember. When the last song ended, I spun my mic back on its stand but it swung too far. It went into the stack of speakers and created the loudest feedback Ive ever heard. I saw the wasted sound guy jump I think he thought I did it on purpose. I didnt, but I was happy. That move may have lead to what happened next though
When we were loading out, someone threw an M-80 at us from across the street. My memory of that moment is kind of blurry, but I think someone had called us over from the side door (where our cars were) to the front, just in time for the bomb to fly. It was shocking, I think the employees standing around laughed and said something about the kids in town doing that all the time. Asbury Park is a rough town, if you didn't konw.
It was only the next day that our singer/guitarist realized that someone (probably a club employee) had stolen one of his guitars in the commotion. This made us think that the throwing of the M-80 was planned out the timing was just too perfect. Plus, our music never really seemed to inspire us being assaulted by fireworks even in Asbury Park.
That's the worst show I've ever played. It's funny how when people who don't play music and don't have anyone close to them who performs ask about what it's like to be in a band, they're thinking of the actual music so often - but most of what I remember from past shows is all the stuff around it - often, the unpleasant stuff you have to endure just to play your music.
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This is awesome, very few people reading this will have a true visual of the places but I was there, maybe not at those shows but at the Fast Lane, Stone Pony, Asbury, all those towns.
Used to follow a band called Backstreets around. Was hammered out of my head at the bar and the piano kicked a drink onto my lap, fortunately I was too drunk to start a fight so the nice chap bought me another one.
I remember very little of that night or many of those nights. Great memories.
"I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me." She said, "I know how it feels son, 'Cause it runs in the family."
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I fell off the stage once half-way through a gig, my drum throne slipped back and I went over luckily it was whilst the singer was chatting to the audience, but yeah....that really sucked.
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One of my first gigs i decided to cut my hand open by clasping a cymbal a bit too hard.. carried on through the gig, but ended up having to replace my skins due to the blood!! wasnt a nice sight.
Worse gig for sound was when the soung eng decided to put nothing but vocals into my monitor, at a volume where i couldnt hear myself or the rest of the band. When i told him all he said was 'wear earplugs' what a douche!
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Played a gig outside, in the woods, at night. Got destroyed by mosquitoes
And to top it off, when I was setting up my drumkit
this guy walks over (drunk) and says
"have you seen these guys play? they're really good!"
my response
"...um yeah, i'm the drummer"
"oh shit, seriously?"
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"I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me." She said, "I know how it feels son, 'Cause it runs in the family."
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Before I started playing full time I done a lot of work for local bands. My worst experience was with a band called KT Offbeat, where they claimed to be country and southern rock (I got paid, so the genre of music didn't bug me.) We arrived at the bar, and had to play behind chicken wire and ended up doing a 4 hour set with only two 15 minute breaks, and 3 fights broke out.
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hmmm. that one reminds me.
my band opened for a well known local band but they didn´t show up.
we rocked the house for 3 hours only stopping for 2 minutes (timed) to change a string.
because we had to pay for the PA (which the headliners would have done) we got paid $1 each.
oh and the time my bass was stolen.
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First gig I ever did. Wasn't used to playing live, so naturally, I filled every two seconds and dropped my stick halfway through a two song set ahaha.
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My first concert; I was playing Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses at a school concert, with a friend of mine on drums, some guy who I didn't really hang out with or get to know singing, and my school's music teacher on bass. I was playing guitar, or course. Before I went on, I had to set up my multi effects pedal, which I had 2 presets on. One for the clean guitar, with delay and chorus on top of it, and on for the distortion, which was slightly louder, and didn't really have any effects. I plugged it in, and it didn't work. So I had to change the clean to distortion on the amp. The amp didn't have 2 channels, only one, so I would have to roll up the gain knob all the way, and start playing again. When I got to that point, and I turned up the gain, the guitar was so loud, and overpowering, that we had to stop the song, and turn down the volume, and start again from where we ended up. Of course, we finished the song correctly then, but I was extremely embarrassed. lol
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Junior forward Dewaun McEachin led Lee County with 20 points. Dante Graham scored 18 points and Jason Payne added 12 points.
Quentin Jackson led Middle Creek with 24 points. The Mustangs swept Lee County, with wins by 14 and 16 points, last season.
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Northwood Temple 62, Grace Christian 38
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Zach Boggs scored 18 points and Isaiah Jones scored eight points for the Crusaders (7-5, 2-1).
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O'Neal 76, Lee Christian 26
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Jack Johnston had 12 points and five rebounds while John Roger Moore had 10 points and four steals for O'Neal.
Kevin Kemp led Lee Christian with 14 points.
O'Neal hosts North Moore tonight at 7:30 p.m. Lee Christian (1-7) has a conference game at Cape Fear Christian Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Chatham Central 67, Gray Stone Day 42
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Junior Zack Burke led the Bears with 19 points, 11 rebounds and four steals. Jeremy Kerr scored 13 points. Brandon Phillips and Derrick Harris added eight points each.
Chatham Central (1-4, 1-1) hosts West Montgomery Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Northwood 69, Voyager Academy 58
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Charles Hope led the Chargers with 25 points. Ti Pinnix had 11 points and Aumad Walker had 10 points.
Northwood visits Carrboro Friday for a 7:30 p.m. start.
Douglas Byrd 86, Union Pines 75
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Kendall Hillman and A.D. Murray led five Eagles in double-figure scoring with 17 points each.
The Vikings play a conference game at Overhills Friday at 8 p.m.
Westover 88, Overhills 56
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Titus Gary led Westover with 23 points, including five three-pointers.
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Triton 56, Southern Wayne 50
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Tarvis Bradshaw led the Saints (5-2, 0-1) with 12 points.
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De'ja Bland led Lee County with 16 points and five steals. Olivia Sturdivant had 10 points, 10 rebounds and seven steals.
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Grace Christian 74, Northwood Temple 44
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Anna Murr scored 29 points, including making 6-of-9 three-pointers, for the Lady Crusaders (10-2, 3-0). Kaycee Murr scored 11 points and Payton Winchell added nine points.
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Overhills 46, Westover 36
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Networking for a public interest career is even more important than networking in the private sector– but networking opportunities might look a little different. The (somewhat) hard truth in public interest is that there are just not the same number of banquets and "events" as there are in the private bar. Take advantage of those that do exist – CLEs, destination CLE/ training events by practice-specific organizations (ex. Washington Defender Association), speakers at school, Access to Justice Committee meetings, and WSBA and local bar commission meetings. Attending these not only makes you a better attorney or law student, but gives you the opportunity to meet other skilled practitioners who are active in their bar sections. Outside of these events though, effectively networking with other public interest practitioners might require a little creativity. Check out our calendar to find upcoming events!
- Attend CPD's Networking Seminar for ideas and tactics to network efficiently and effectively.
- Attend ATJI's social justice forums and meet public interest attorney presenters, work with public interest and pro bono attorneys on projects and casework, and/or meet with ATJI staff for guidance on connecting with attorneys practicing in areas of interest.
- Get involved! Join PILF , Access to Justice Institute activities, community action groups, list-servs. You'll not only make the impact you came to law school to make, you'll be educating yourself and meeting other movers and shakers!
- Ask mentors or colleagues at your current position for suggested contacts, and if it is appropriate to use their name when contacting the person.
- Talk to attorneys to determine if there are practice-area specific fundraisers that you can attend, such as the Washington Environmental Counsel Auction. Attending fundraisers, even if you can't donate money, is a great way to meet attorneys and other community members that are dedicated to the equal justice movement. Mix and mingle! Before you go, practice making small talk and introducing yourself to people you want to meet. If you can't attend as a guest, volunteer to work at the event – another great way to start meeting people and show off your dedication to the cause.
- Don't be shy about introducing yourself if the opportunity presents itself. Public interest attorneys are often running this way or that, so if you see one that you know of and admire walking down the street, go for it and introduce yourself (Caveat: use good judgment – if they're walking south down Third Ave. carting boxes of documents and have a very focused look on their face, chances are they're in trial and not interested in chatting. However, they may appreciate an offer to help carry the boxes and you can talk on the way!).
- It's worth repeating: get involved! Volunteer with organizations you believe in and go the extra mile on projects. It will be remembered.
Resources for Networking and Volunteering
- Seattle University School of Law Center for Professional Development
- Seattle University School of Law Access to Justice Institute
- WSBA Access to Justice's Advocate Resource Center
- Seattle University School of Law Public Interest Law Foundation
- Equal Justice Works
- NALP's Public Interest
- Public Interest Law Initiative
- Yale Public Interest Law
- Harvard Office of Public Interest Advising


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Testimony concluded Wednesday in the trial of Harold B. Cartwright III, who is facing 27 charges related to his alleged habitual sexual abuse of three minor girls.
Cartwright is alleged to have committed sex crimes against three victims, aged 4 through 16, between 1989 to 2011.
On Tuesday, the alleged victims testified to years of frequent abuse by Cartwright.
Wednesday's testimony began with the mother of one victim testifying that she had forced her daughter to recant her first claims of sexual abuse by the defendant.
When the defendant later took the stand, he repeatedly denied all the accusations, instead blaming the charges on his alleged victims looking to hurt him.
Cartwright testified that two of the victims were looking to get back at him for threatening to expose their participation in pornography. The defendant testified that he found pictures and videos of his youngest victim online; however, the victim and a Sheriff's Office investigator both testified that the image is not of the alleged victim.
In cross examination, Deputy Solicitor Bill Weeks facetiously described Cartwright as an "incredibly lucky" man, as he found the pornographic pictures he claims feature his youngest alleged victim quickly.
"Out of the thousands of porn sites out there, you found (this victim)? Out of the millions upon millions of pictures?" Weeks said.
Cartwright claims his finding of the first picture of his alleged victim "was relatively quick ... the second site I looked at."
Cartwright testified that he watched a report by talk show host Tyra Banks that 50 percent of teenagers had made pornographic movies. In response to this, Cartwright searched for pictures of young women he knew online, he testified. He claims that he found pictures and videos of one of his alleged victims.
Since his arrest on these charges, Cartwright has had the opportunity to find the images and videos he previously claims to have found. He produced two images in this search, which was monitored by an Aiken County Sheriff's Office investigator and an assistant solicitor.
However, that investigator testified on Wednesday that he was not convinced by the images.
"I didn't feel there was enough evidence to warrant further investigation," Investigator Kristopher Evensen said. "I didn't believe it was (the alleged victim)."
An expert witness, S.C. State Law Enforcement Division Forensic DNA Analyst Billy S. Gallman, testified that semen found on the bed sheets of the youngest victim matched Cartwright.
Gallman, who has testified as a witness more than 50 times, added that there is a 1 in 16 trillion chance of the profile not being the defendant.
"That is how rare this profile is," Gallman said.
The defendant later said, "I know exactly how it got on that sheet."
Cartwright said his semen was on the sheets after he had a sexual encounter with a women. However, he said that it was not in the victim's room, it was in another room in the victim's home.
Previously, the jury heard the mother of this victim testify that Cartwright had called her and asked her to wash the bed linens of the victim.
Thursday, the jury will be charged on the law, the defense and prosecution will offer closing arguments and then deliberation should begin.
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All it takes to sell Chevrolet Volts to the American public is a dealership that is dedicated to the task from the top down, focused training of salespeople in how to showcase the car, a handful of Volts in inventory, and a homegrown Excel spreadsheet with some data comparing the cost of ownership of several Chevrolet models.
And one other thing — it helps to have windmills on the property, providing electricity to your dealership. They attract Volt aficionados like a homing beacon.
Those are several of the elements used by Serra Chevrolet in Southfield, Mich., to sell a phenomenal 25 volts per month these days. That may not seem like a lot to outsiders, but consider that the average U.S. auto dealer sold only a total of 653 cars for all of 2010, according to National Auto Dealers Association data.
And understanding that most of the 3,000 Chevy dealers still sell only one Volt, or maybe fewer, per month, Serra's accomplishment is highly notable — especially as General Motors attempts to gauge both near-term and long-term demand for its highly visible "extended-range hybrid."
"We're getting in 25 a month" from the GM factory in nearby Detroit, "and we're selling 25 a month," Greg Brown, general manager of the dealership, told me. "We only have five left on the lot; we should always probably have 15 to 20 here at the dealership. So we just put in an order for another 25."
The general idea of electric cars and plug-in hybrids such as Volt is still taking on water. Just last week, for instance, the consensus of auto-industry executives at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit was that such vehicles are likely to remain confined to a niche of under 10 percent of the U.S. market through 2025 and beyond.
As for Volt, it isn't clear how long the car will yet take to reach GM's original first-year sales goal, set for 2011, of 10,000 units. Volt sold a remarkable 2,289 units in March, by far its best sales month to date. But Alan Batey, vice president of sales for Chevrolet, told me that it would be an "unbelievable achievement" if Volt also hit that sales level for April, because of a number of factors that come into play when selling any low-volume model, and some particular to Volt. This month's sales will be announced on Tuesday.
In the meantime, however, Batey said that a handful of dealers around the United States "have really gotten after it and created some momentum" for Volt sales. Besides Serra, they include Criswell Chevrolet in Gaithersburg, Md.; Penske Chevrolet in Cerritos, Calif., and others in the West where Volt interest and demand runs highest.
Al Serra's dealership group is a long-time stronghold for General Motors, with a base in Flint, Mich., GM's original hometown. Southfield also is in the heart of GM's base of employees, so they comprise a huge sort of native demand for Volts, no doubt. Yet neither historical footnotes nor the mere fact that Motown is GM's town sell Volts.
Some other things do. Here are factors Brown and Serra Chevrolet are leveraging to sell an outsized number of Volts:
Cross-selling the car: Many Chevy dealers failed to move Volts last year because they steered typical customers quickly toward other high-mileage models at the first sign of resistance or a buyer's lack of understanding the technology. Serra's approach is to start by understanding the customer's overall automotive needs and to allow that discussion to lead naturally to the possibility of a Volt for consumers where it could make sense.
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Born and raised in London and the English countryside, Stella McCartney graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1995. A signature style of sharp tailoring, natural confidence, and sexy femininity was immediately apparent in her first collection; after only two collections, in 1997, she was appointed the Creative Director of Chloe in Paris and enjoyed great success during her tenure.
Stella McCartney launched her own fashion house under her name, in a partnership with Kering as a 50/50 joint venture, and showed her first collection in Paris in October 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her designs. Her collections include women's ready-to-wear, accessories, lingerie, eyewear, fragrance, and kids.
In 2008, a new lingerie collection of aspirational styles that reflect a modern woman's needs was launched. In Winter 2010, Stella McCartney introduced the Falabella handbag. Distinguished by a braided chain detail, the bag has since become one of the designer's best-selling items. Also in 2010, the first Stella McCartney Kids collection debuted for boys, girls, and babies ages newborn to 14 years, capturing the spirit and energy of kids today. In 2011, Stella McCartney launched her line of sunglasses, which compliment her collections and are eco- friendly; the line has since expanded to optical.
For the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, Stella McCartney was appointed Team Great Britain's Creative Director by Adidas--the first time in the history of the games that a leading fashion designer has designed the apparel for a country's team across all competitions, for both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games. In celebration of London in 2012, Stella McCartney presented a one-off capsule evening collection during London Fashion Week.
Stella McCartney's commitment to sustainability is evident throughout her collections and is part of the brand's ethos of being a responsible, honest, and modern company.
Stella McCartney's achievement in fashion and social awareness has been recognized on numerous occasions, including the following:
Women's Leadership Award, Lincoln Center Corporate Fund, New York
Best International Designer of the Year, The Elle Style Award, London
Order of the British Empire award for excellence and service in the fashion industry
British Designer of the Year, Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year Awards
International Award, Telva Magazine, Madrid
Brand of the Year, Luxury Briefing Awards, London
Designer of Year and Brand of the Year, The British Fashion Council, London
Honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts London; funding a new scholarship at Central Saint Martins for designers who adhere to her ethical view
Red Carpet Award, The British Fashion Council, London
Honored by the Natural Resources and Defense Council, New York
Featured in the Time 100, New York
Named a Woman of the Year, Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards, New York
Best Designer of The Year, The Spanish Elle Awards, Barcelona Green Designer of the Year, ACE Awards, New York
International Designer of the Year, Elle Style Awards, London
Best Designer of the Year, The Elle Style Award for Award, London Best Designer of The Year, The British Style Awards, London
Woman of the Year, Organic Style, New York
Best Designer of the Year, The Glamour Award, London
Star Honoree, Fashion Group International Night of Stars, New York
Woman of Courage Honoree, Unforgettable Evening event, Los Angeles
Style Icon, Elle Style Awards, London
Designer of the Year, The Rover British Fashion Awards, London
Designer of the Year, VH1/Vogue Fashion and Music Awards, New York
Stella McCartney's special projects and collaborations have included:
Partnered with the Nature Conservancy and Ovis XXI to introduce a new luxury sustainable wool for Autumn 2014, originating from Patagonia, in support of the restoration and conservation of the land
Launched the 2014 London Stella McCartney Green Carpet Collection, a sustainable eveningwear collection
Designed an exclusive lingerie set for Breast Cancer Awareness month
Designed the White Ribbon badge for the Kering Foundation's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, for the third year running
Designed exclusive t-shirts for the Red Nose Day 2013 campaign to benefit the Comic Relief charity in the UK
Appointed team Great Britain's Creative Director by Adidas for the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games
Created the costumes for the New York City Ballet's Ocean's Kingdom, a ballet collaboration between Paul McCartney and Peter Martins, which premiered in New York
Launched an ongoing partnership with the International Trade Center's Ethical Fashion Program creating accessories handmade in Kenya
Designed exclusive t-shirts for the Red Nose Day 2009 campaign to benefit Comic Relief charity in the UK
Launched Meat Free Monday, an awareness campaign in the UK
Designed specially-made costumes for Madonna's Reinvention Tour, Annie Lennox's summer concert tour, and the wardrobe for Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in the film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced Wednesday that it will lay off 76 employees this week and eliminate hundreds more positions by June.
"Sadly, the institution must eliminate approximately 950 full-time equivalent positions (FTE) within the medical center by June 30, 2013," Baptist officials said in a news release.
"About 50 percent of these FTE eliminations will be achieved through deletion of vacant, temporary and contract labor positions, as well as normal attrition and retirements," the release said. "Consequently, there may be as many as 475 currently filled employee FTE positions eliminated by the end of June."
The 475 currently filled positions represent 3.5 percent of the total workforce. Some of those positions will be eliminated by normal attrition, Baptist officials said.
As part of the transition, 76 employees are being laid off this week, Baptist officials said. Those employees will get their full pay and benefits through Jan. 4, when their severance benefits will begin.
Baptist said it will help those employees with outplacement assistance.
About a third of the cuts will be in corporate or administrative areas. The cuts will not affect nurse-to-patient ratios or the hospital's renowned medical research, hospital officials said.
To try to reduce the sting, the hospital has posted the last eight months of job openings only internally and offered training for those moving into new areas.
As for why the layoffs are happening, Baptist said it is trying to cut costs as health care providers expect a 10 percent reduction in reimbursements in the next two to three years. Health care providers also expect to see declines in federal research funding as lawmakers try to reduce federal deficit spending.
"Wake Forest Baptist is committed to reducing its costs in order to make health care and the overall enterprise more efficient and affordable," the release said. "At the same time, it is even more committed to improved quality, safety and service, patient-centered care, pioneering research, training the next generation of medical leaders and commercializing discovery and intellectual property."


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- Periodic workloads that only run for a few hours, days, or weeks during a given billing cycle
- Short-term, project-based workloads where term commitments aren't desirable
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Customers with steady-state and long-term workloads don't always need this hourly flexibility, however. And that's why GoGrid has developed prepaid monthly, semiannual, and annual Cloud Server products. Prepaid Cloud Servers are less flexible, but they do offer significant cost savings in exchange for the term commitment. The shortest prepaid term GoGrid offers is a monthly prepaid Cloud Server and the longest term is an annual prepaid Cloud Server.
If you run a constant workload during a given month, a prepaid term server is probably a better solution than an hourly server. Again, the tradeoff here is flexibility. Prepaid servers are ideal for:
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For example, imagine you run an eCommerce website. You know you always need three servers to run your operations throughout the year. During the holiday season, however, you know demand is likely to spike. Your deployment of annual servers going into the holiday would look something like this:
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Three people have been charged in connection with the December 28 robbery and shooting that occurred at Tienda Mexiana at 403 East Main Street in Andrews.
Andrews Police Chief Joseph Cooper said Laurn Stcroix, 22, his brother Mario Stcroix, 25 and 19-year-old Jessica Prior were arrested in Maryland.
They were extradited and booked in the Georgetown County Detention Center Sunday.
Both men are charged with armed robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and possession of a deadly weapon during a violent crime.
Prior is charged with being an accessory after the fact of a felony.
Cooper said Andrews police received help from the U.S. Marshal Service in apprehending the three.
Cooper said authorities were able to reach out to Priors mother which led to the arrests.
At about 7 p.m. Dec. 28, the men reportedly walked into the restaurant and demanded money. Cooper said the owner, who was at the cash register, was shot in the stomach during the robbery.
Cooper said the suspects fled on foot after the robbery but its unknown if they had a car waiting.
As of Monday, the victim remained hospitalized in stable condition, Cooper said, and the business remains closed.
The three are awaiting bond hearings.
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