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No words to describe how bad this place is. The staff is rude and unprofessional. Every thing is all about there rights as renters and they seem to go out of there way to make you uncomfortable in your own apartment.… Full Review ▶
I lived here for two years. By the end of my two years I sub leased out my apartment because I was so miserable here. All the reviews saying bugs and expensive bills? 100% fact. I too encountered those issues constantly.… Full Review ▶
My first year of renting was good, i did not have any issues other than the spiders and bugs and very high heating and cooling bills. The second lease is a completely different story. Unable to talk with the property manager… Full Review ▶
I recently moved out. In all honesty if I could do it all over again I wouldn't live here and wouldn't recommend. I too had had problems with a bug, not sure what it is. Centipede silver fish lookin thing. I… Full Review ▶
You definitely get what you pay for at Wind River Lodge. I lived in a 2 bedroom 2 bath on the top floor. The windows of my apartment faced the west (towards I-435). Biggest issues: Utilities and the water heater. Because… Full Review ▶
I do not wish to bash WRL but I do wnat people to be informed of the mishaps this apartment complex has. Moved in September 2011 Problems with spiders, silver fish, and ants kitchen light didn't work smelled like cats Maintenance:… Full Review ▶
Most people only write reviews when establishments are either really HORRIBLE or AMAZING. So I'd like to share my honest review for the one year I lived at WRL. PROS: -Staff. Despite what many reviewers said, I always had good experiences… Full Review ▶
I moved out of my 2B/2B at WRL this past fall. My primary complaint is of the multiple brown recluse spiders that I encountered during my time at my apartment. I called the office after I found the second one and… Full Review ▶
This is the worst apartment complex ever. If you like loud neighbors, recluse spiders, centipedes, snakes and bad plumbing than this is the place for you. Full Review ▶
The only reason I moved into these apartments was due to a walk in special. I needed to move within two weeks and they were the only ones available-and now I know why. Our apartment had a lingering stale smoke smell… Full Review ▶
I lived here from August 2012 - 2013, and at first it was great but then as that's when things took a turn for the worse. With every maintenance issue I had it was resolved at their leisure, and most of… Full Review ▶
At first everything seemed great. The staff is friendly enough. But Iwould never live there again. There were spiders, centipedes, crickets,frogs, snakes, and many other creepy crawlers. The maintenance staff is worthless. If you complain about anything they come but have… Full Review ▶
I moved to WRL 3/1/13. The leasing went very smoothly, everything was covered and I had the keys in under 30 minutes. (Pretty speedy, I would say) I had originally looked at the apartments 6 months prior and saw the model… Full Review ▶
Its a good place. But i didnt like the laundry facility. Apart from that everything is good Full Review ▶
This was my first apartment and initially i enjoyed living out here until everything began to fall apart. I requested endlessly for the maintenance to fix the thermostat which never seemed to work in the winter or summer. My friends stopped… Full Review ▶
I have had nothing but a positive experience at Wind River Lodge. The staff in the front office are overly helpful and have done an incredible job of being hospitable, polite, and helpful. They've helped with every problem i've had and… Full Review ▶
That's about all I can say. Don't live here. The showroom they should you is NOTHING like what you pay for. My problems: 1. Paper thin walls. Have slept on my couch for the past 4 months because of neighbors having… Full Review ▶
My wife and I have been living here at this complex going on 3 years now and we really like it. The location is great because it's right next to the highway and pretty close to everywhere else we go. The… Full Review ▶
Great apartment complex! I have been here for a few months and I love it. Friendly staff, clean apartments, I don't hear too many neighbors in my complex. Healthy neighborhood with people always running. Maintaince is awesome and usually done the… Full Review ▶
My dog was recently brutally attacked by my neighbor's dog. Management has somehow decided that a 3 inch suture and a $350 vet bill aren't enough evidence that my neighbor's dog poses a threat to other animals or people at this… Full Review ▶
My experience at wind river lodge was average except for the leaking roof. This issue was reported to management on 3 occasions before action was taken. The action that was taken was to paint over the water stains and mold on… Full Review ▶
Okay after reading these reviews on here, I feel as a former tenant that I need to speak up honestly about this complex. My husband and I chose to live here from July 2010 to February 2012. We would still be… Full Review ▶
This is absolutely the worst place I have ever lived in. Most of the staff members are fairly nice at first but once you're signed to their lease, they could care less. One of the girls who works there dresses completely… Full Review ▶
There are no "Non Smoking" apartment buildings at Wind River. No wonder Non-Smokers are moving out. If your neighbors smoke, you'll breathe that toxic cigarette smoke. It comes out of their apartments, creating a smoke-filled hallway before seeping into your apartment… Full Review ▶
I dont know what everyone is complaining about in these reviews. Yeah these are not top of the line apartments, but for a one bedroom its a pretty good deal. Nice, friendly, fair staff. The maintainence is great too, my ice… Full Review ▶
Ive lived here for almost two years and love it. They fix things the same day you call. The snow removal last year was on point. The staff is always really nice and pretty. I know the pretty part does not… Full Review ▶
My friends and I moved there 1 month ago and last weekend we found termites making holes on the wall in the bed room. I asked them right after I moved there to send somebody to do something to those bugs… Full Review ▶
I was a resident for 4 years in a 1bed/1bath apt. in section of the property that has mostly single/double bedroom apartments. I think people are more likely to write a review after a bad experience (myself included), but they don't… Full Review ▶
I have live at WRL since Feb of 2011.. So not very long but i am going to end my lease in August. The apartment complex looks nice from the outside but is very small and out dated on the inside.… Full Review ▶
I HAVE BEEN LIVING AT WIND RIVER LODGE FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS, AND THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO MANNER, NO DECENT WAY OF MANAGING AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. THEY WOULD CUT THE WATER WITHOUT ANY PREVIOUS WARNINGS OR NOTICE. IT HAS HAPPENED AT… Full Review ▶
We currently are in our second year of living at WRL. Wasn't bad the first year until we started noticing the cheap structuring of things-- lynoleum installed too big, caulk over mold, chipping paint. Nothing has obviously made us move as… Full Review ▶
Quite, clean, nice, great price! Full Review ▶
I've lived at WRL for a little over three years now, and think it's a great place. Out of curiousity, I checked online reviews to see what other people think. Wow! Doesn't look too good, does it? It's a large complex… Full Review ▶
I've been at WRL for almost a year and after reading reviews I'm wondering if it varies From building to building.. Haven't seen any bugs in my building.. I think I may have saw one cricket.. But no spiders, ants, roaches… Full Review ▶
I'm a full time student and have been living here for over a year now and the place isn't bad. I've had some maintenance issues and they have always taken care of them the same day or day after. The location… Full Review ▶
I've had constant problems with my heating and AC. Maintenance has repaired it no less than 6 times in 2 years. Last fall I had a rat in my kitchen. I keep my kitchen spotless so it wasn't from anything I… Full Review ▶
This place is loaded with bugs. It's a non-stop battle with one bug or another. I've had it. This morning, I woke up with a dead recluse in bed with me and a giant bite on my leg. Oh - and… Full Review ▶
This place sucks!!!! My dishwasher never worked, my patio had a hole in the floor and I lived on the second floor!!!! I had warm water in the shower only part of the time. Managment did their best on getiing maintaince… Full Review ▶
This is not coming from a bitter tenant who was delinquent at any point on rent, rather someone who got screwed by a staff that has no idea what they are doing. Make sure you have an attourney if you even… Full Review ▶
If you want a decent place to live, you can go somewhere else. I did not feel safe here after their trusted maintenance man, Jeff, whom they supposedly screen background checks on stole money from us; they say one thing, but… Full Review ▶
I have lived at The Wind River Lodge for almost 2 years. I only have one nice thing to say about this apartment complex. The location is great! You have easy access to I-35 and I-435. Other then the location this… Full Review ▶
Have I stressed cheap? It's not just cheap, it's borderline ridiculous. I've rented here a year & 1/2, and I can't wait until my current lease is up so I can get the heck out of here. The rent is cheap,… Full Review ▶
I lived here for a limited time...and that was enough. It's dirty and the staff are very rude...they created an anarchy between themselves. If one of them disliked you, you can be sure the rest would. I had a disagreement with… Full Review ▶
Overall, if you're looking for a reasonable apartment in the area, this is an option. For 6-mo or a year, it's a decent apartment complex. Management holds you accountable if you break the lease - but then you signed it and… Full Review ▶
Love this place WoW! other review is unreal, have you even bother to go to the office. They have always made my issues go away, I have had issues too, but the staff is great, it is so relaxing enviroment, and… Full Review ▶
The bugs at this place are awful and do invade your youe apartment even after you have them spray. Your duty as a tenant is to call every couple weeks and have them spray. The parking is HORRIBLE!!!!! I have to… Full Review ▶
You'll regret it. My boyfriend and I moved into our apartment last November, and the place has been going downhill ever since. The first problem that we encountered was the lighting to our dining room. It wasn't a matter of a… Full Review ▶
This is, bar none, the worst apartment place I have ever had the misfortune of living in. The first thing the management did (while we were on our way from our previous city to here) was tell us they had to… Full Review ▶
These apartments aren't too bad, but I think they are a little over priced. Overall its a very nice neighborhood, no problems with neighbors, i've never had issues with things breaking, the walls are a little thin, but overall not too… Full Review ▶
I have lived here a year in June and we are moving when the lease is up. The office staff are usually pleasant, however slightly unprofessional. My biggest issues are with maintenance. Although the grounds are kept neat, things have broken… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for three years now and this is the worst place ever!! My Tiles in my shower rotted and fell of the wall and this was three months ago. i asked them to fix it and they said… Full Review ▶
I understand the fact of 'you pay for the service you get'... but I do not believe, if you get anything for a 'lesser' value that the customer service side of the deal should be anything but professional!!! I was also… Full Review ▶
DO NOT RENT HERE! The management is absolutely terrible and they have no concern for your safety or happiness. If you have any complaints they won't keep track of them and will have NO record of them when you try to… Full Review ▶
I'm a Wind River Lodge tennant and I'm not going to lie, I'm a snob. I did a ton of apartment searching before I settled on a place and I think that a lot of the reviews on this website fit… Full Review ▶
I currently live at windriver lodge, I wish I could upload photos of the hundred dead bugs outside my door but they might find out who i am and make my life a living hell..anyways, the leak in my celing, the… Full Review ▶
The staff and Price Brothers will screw you. I lived in my apartment for two years and had lots of issues. The maintance staff was under staffed and I agree w/ the previous comment of the office staff always acting as… Full Review ▶
I lived in Wind River Lodge for a year. It was my first apartment and therefore I was taken advantage of by the leasing agents. I would not recommend this apartment to anyone, especially if you have children, for the following… Full Review ▶
Many of the past comments I've read have been true and some of them you'd only know because you lived here so I assume most comments are by legitimate tenants. First, it is true that with the renewal of your lease,… Full Review ▶
Wind River Lodge is a price brothers apartment complex. I did a lot of reserch before moveing in. I read all the awful things and was a little scared, But I got in in aug of 07 and its now june.… Full Review ▶
If you're looking to rent a nice apartment, you should probably stay away from this one. The office staff is rude and unwelcoming. They always seemed understaffed and had very little time to accomodate to your needs. Maintenance wasn't great. One… Full Review ▶
I lived at this complex for only six months and we cut our lease short because of two instances of burglary. In both cases we know the door was locked and when we returned our blinds were opened (we assume as… Full Review ▶
The thing I love the most is the location of the complex. It s in a nice part of town. The park is within walking distance and always full of friendly people on warm sunny days. Lots of convenient businesses close… Full Review ▶
Horrible. The apartment we moved into had a horrible, super-smoker cigarette smell to it. The apartment had not been cleaned (despite the management's protestations otherwise), and the whole place was about 15% brighter after we scrubbed the doors with a light… Full Review ▶
Beware: If you have any high dollar items of value (including cash) then this is not the place for you because your personal property will mysteriously disappear - even if you lock your door when you leave and even if you… Full Review ▶
Any time I needed something fixed in my apartment they acted like it was a HUGE inconvenience for them! There are gas leaks everywhere! Everytime I step out side I have to hold my breath because of the smell! The leasing… Full Review ▶
The tennis courts finally were redone. I am finally seeing some nice changes and the Manager is gone. She was great and only there a year or so. Much nicer than the present or the past. Maintenane is fast. Finally nicer… Full Review ▶
Ants are a major problem, major gas leaks, air conditioning and furnace keep breaking down, the fridge crapped out, the dishwasher doesn't work at all but maintenance keeps insisting it does. the staff are rude and unprofessional, I can't count how… Full Review ▶
I moved here about a month ago with my 2 month old son. We love it here. There is plenty of parking in our building towards the back. The grounds are very pretty. The pools are also very clean and nice.… Full Review ▶
First off, I pay $449/ month, which was about as low as I could find in the area with washer/dryer hook-up. The place isn't very big, I think about 700sf or so, but it is the right size for my wife… Full Review ▶
Parking is the biggest problem, Since we have no parking in our parking lots a car had to park on the street and it got rear ended last night and just left there so when I left this morning you saw… Full Review ▶
I loved living here the first year and now that I renewed my lease I wish I hadn't. I have ants very bad so I signed up for the exterminator to come and all he did was put a few "glue"… Full Review ▶
Moved in last August. Everything was good until the ants came. We never got rid of them until it got cold outside. They are back again in March. Our house does not have good laying around, it is kept clean but… Full Review ▶
Basically I love the management staff, they have so far worked with us with financial situations and the timing in which we needed to get an apartment. My only problem is that the place is falling apart. We've had our fridge… Full Review ▶
I just moved into Wind River Lodge and I am very happy. The office staff was very helpful, I needed to get into an apartment in very short time and the girls made it very easy. My rent is cheap and… Full Review ▶
I think the layout of the buildings is very attractive and the cost is low in comparison to neighboring communities. The area is about as safe as one can hope for (a park across the street, elementary school down the road,… Full Review ▶
If you are looking for an apartment, please, please do not move here. The management is a total joke, all of them are seriously rude and unprofessional. Any maintenance that needs to be done takes forever and is not done correctly.… Full Review ▶
You people that write on here have nothing else better to do. You probably pay close to nohting in rent and you still complain. Why don't you go pay $900 for a one bedroom and then you can compain. You get… Full Review ▶
I have found that the office staff makes this place unlivable. First off, one of the girls parks her pt cruiser in the front spots that are supposed to be reserved for residents who are stopping in or going to the… Full Review ▶
Just a couple of the girls in the office are lazy and no good. A couple of them need to get their stuff together cause when I moved in the lady had no idea where she was taking me and drove… Full Review ▶
I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. It's dirty, the people that live here are dirty, the management is poor and they don't seem to care about issues you call in about. It seems they have a pretty nice job of… Full Review ▶
I've lived here since Jan of 2006, My first night was total hell, my upstairs neighbors were fighting and he beat the ---- out of her, i called the cops and they were here in 2 mins, and took him to… Full Review ▶
The parking lot is the crappist part about this aparment complex. I have blown out a full set of tires in the past year that I have lived here. No one in the office gives a crap about the parking lot… Full Review ▶
My husband and I currently live at Wind river lodge, and we both hate it.
We have had numerous problems and the staff here ignores our compliants.
We have had MICE, COCKROACHS and LOTS OF SPIDERS.
Our neighbors here are either rude or really… Full Review ▶
I have been here for several years now and the only complaints I have are about the remodeling. The name SUCKS, the deer out front look gay, and the club house is dark and boxed in. Oh and staff parking in… Full Review ▶
I have a mixed reviews. Right after I moved in I noticed the dishwasher didn't work. It had a rusted hole in the door! The guest bathroom sink also leaked. These are both items that should have been checked before allowing… Full Review ▶
I believe the rent is very reasonable. All big issue problems I have had, have been fixed within a day of reporting it. Walls are thinner than one would hope, but if you have okay neighbors like I do, then it… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for over a year. Management has been very nice. Any time I call in a request it is taken care of. There are a lot of things to do in this community with the fitness center, pools… Full Review ▶
Where can I even begin? The clubhouse is nice now! Wow! Big deal. All the money spent on changing the name of the place and remodeling the clubhouse could've been better spent on the parking lot, improving the apartments, etc.
Try… Full Review ▶
ok so most of the walls are thin and yes theres always cops but at least they are making it safe people breaking in happens everywhere whether or not its a house or apt..ive lived at these apts twice once in… Full Review ▶
You name it, we've got through it:
Old appliances - Had to have dishwasher replaced the first week we moved in
Old plumbing - pipe burst and flooded the upstairs bathroom causing a waterfall from our livingroom ceiling.
You can hear ENTIRE conversations from… Full Review ▶
Be very careful, my car got broken into as well as my second floor neighbor's. Poor maintenance and quality. Apartment got broken into at the end of lease, watch out for maintenance people, for clubhouse does not keep track of whoever… Full Review ▶
We decided to rent here in August of 2004. I was 6 months pregnant and we needed a two bedroom. The price was right. We moved in and the first night I was comming home and there were a bunch of… Full Review ▶
Do not live here. The office staff is so rude and no work orders are ever taken care of in a timely matter. I mean a week later I finally was able to use my ac. Don't know if it's the… Full Review ▶
I have had my vehicle vandalized more times than I can remember. I have tried to go through normal "channels" to address it but to no avail. HOWEVER if I catch the responsible party, well lets just say your significant other… Full Review ▶
Don't do this.... They are old, the staff is crappy, and you have to call work orders in multiple times before some one acctually comes out. DON'T DO IT Full Review ▶
Do not live at Chesapeake Estates. They might seem like a good deal but you definatly get what you pay for. The walls are paper thin and I could hear every word my neighbors said. They had small children who cried… Full Review ▶
Don't let the pictures fool you. This place is a hole. When I moved in, the carpet was in horrible shape with a bright green stain in the middle of my living room. Since then, whenever maintenance comes they do a… Full Review ▶
I am so glad that our lease was up and we moved!! We moved here thinking it would be nicer than the apartment that we moved from that was in little mexico. I would take little mexico over this place any… Full Review ▶
Maintinence is good. Quality of apartments in comparison to others is kinda low. Layout of the larger one bedroom is --------! The parking situation is bad, typically there's only about 10 spots in front of one whole building. Effeciency of Heating… Full Review ▶
I lived in this apartment complex for almost 2 years. I had no complaints until it was time to renew. I was always a great tenant and always paid on time. When my lease came up there was many problems. First… Full Review ▶
Poor followup on the part of the leasing staff and the maintenance staff. It is difficult to talk to the manager. It is like trying to get into Fort Knox so to speak. I recommended to others some live there now… Full Review ▶
The staff is very friendly and helpful. All maintenance requests are handled in a timely fashion. This is a great community to live in when looking for something quiet and out of the way. It's also close to many banks, restaurants,… Full Review ▶
Lived here for a year and would never recommend these apartments to anyone. The pipes are loose in the walls making for a very loud noise. The laundry room has no ventilation and the lent goes everywhere including in the apartment… Full Review ▶
We lived in a 1 bedroom apt. on Schweiger Ct. for a year. Our neighbors were friendly, most were working people or college students. The real complaint that I have that made me miserable was the thin walls and floors. I… Full Review ▶
I also had a problem with the apt. complex and it seems I am not the only one. (Wish I had found this site before I moved in.) We were charged $675.83 for the replacement of carpet due to excessive cat… Full Review ▶
I also had lost my deposit due to "excessive pet urine". After being told I would receive my entire deposit back. My carpet was horrible when I moved in and probably cleaner when I moved out. There were holes in the… Full Review ▶
You pay for what you get. Very nice price but I see bugs A LOT. More than average. The weeds are out of control. The layouts are not designed very well. It was fine for me cause I lived alone but… Full Review ▶
These apartments were reasonably priced & I enjoyed living there. I would just make sure to keep records of all correspondance, but that is true at all apartments!! I did not have any problems overall
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THIS PLACE IS A COMPLETE DUMP! Where should I start? The hot tub hasn´t worked in forever. But on a more personal level, I was getting threatening notices from the management on my door, saying that I was too loud and… Full Review ▶
I lived in this complex for a year. Over that time we had over 20 mice come through our apartment, at least that´s how many we killed. We called the office incessantly for them to set traps. Sometimes they did (a… Full Review ▶
THIS -------- IS STRAIGHT UP GHETTOFIED..THE QUINDARO OF JOHNSON COUNTY....I LIKE HOW THEY MAKE THE ONE BEDROOM MIDGET ACCEPTABLE..THE SHOE BOX ONE BEDROOM ALSO HAS A LAUNDRY ROOM WHICH I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THEY GOT THOSE MACHINES IN THERE IN… Full Review ▶
Upon moving in to Chesapeake in the fall of
2002, we were deeply disappointed upon the move in conditions. We immediately notified
the management with a professional letter. They did respond to most everything. We took pictures and notated everything on… Full Review ▶
Cheseapeake Estates charged me 600 dollars for carpet to be replaced also, and they even wrote on our check in sheet that the carpet already had spots. They also said we had bleach spots. The only time I use bleach is… Full Review ▶
I lived in Chesapeake from 1997-2001.
It was cheaper than a lot of apt complexes in the area - but you get what you pay for. I too had water leakage throughout that was fixed with spray paint and I too… Full Review ▶
I have spent the time to review all of the listings here for this complex and I have to say 80% of what I read I too can relate. Where do I begin.....management needs training in ethical standards and professionality....the construction… Full Review ▶
The leasing agents park in the handicap parking spaces and the community has a hot tub that doesn´t work and has not worked for a year that I know of.The agents are also very rude and unhelpful and very unprofessional flirting… Full Review ▶
My roomate and I lived in this complex for 3 years. At first we thought it was nice, not very big, but it would work. We liked 1 person in the office, but she is no longer there. We had maintenance… Full Review ▶
I lived at Chesapeke from 02/00-12/01 and pretty much had a push-pull experience. There were only two major experiences with the small studio-like apartment. A bird built a nest inside the fireplace and had free access to my apartment. Perhaps if… Full Review ▶
i´m going to tell you the honest truth about chesapeake, so be prepared.
when i first came to view the complex, i was very impressed. the staff was very friendly. i moved in, and then after a couple of months,… Full Review ▶
This place will stick you with every fee known to man and then smile about it. If you have a problem, expect there to be about a 2 month waiting period before they come and screw it up more. I have… Full Review ▶
I like the atomosphere, the staff is excellent and always prompt to my needs. It is pretty quite and relaxing being that it isn´t in such a comercial area. I find that you only have problems as a tenant if you… Full Review ▶
I was strangely relieved to read the other reviews of Chesapeake Estates. My husband and I have lived there for 3 years and put up with so much because it really is the cheapest place in the area to live. We… Full Review ▶
The price was good for the location. The ants and roaches became like second family to me. The maintenance never fixed anything properly, if they fixed it at all. My neighbors had the cops called on the too many times to… Full Review ▶
this place is a piece of crap. do i need to say more? i think so.
we went to move in and our apt. was not even ready. no one even told us, and they still gave us the keys.… Full Review ▶
You get what you pay for. I had a so-so experience in my apartment for two years, and I was paying a so-so amount to rent it. Good -
Maintenace was quick to respond to problems (garbage disposal out, leak in… Full Review ▶
Chesapeake Estates is the worst place I have ever lived. The apartment layouts are completely ridiculous. Maintainence is a complete crock of ----. Utility bills are out of this world. Sure they may pay for water, but who the hell cares… Full Review ▶
THis place is noisy and maintenance never comes to fix anything unless it is an emergency. Who ever says this apt is good is stupid!!!! Full Review ▶
This complex does not have many qualitiy amenities, but it does have good apartments that are well taken care of. This complex has the most square footage for the $ of any apartment complex in the SW JOCO area. It is… Full Review ▶
Well, I guess I am not the only one who hates my apartment complex. I went to pay my monthly bill (not exactly sure why) and there were human feces spread on the drop box. It was gross, kind of like… Full Review ▶
Poor customer services, poor management. Will never EVER rent from again. Terrible, see previous reviews, speaks for itself. Full Review ▶
Don´t rent here. We have had several occasions where maintenance came in without our permission to fix something, but left the apartment in worse shape when they left, then they never come back to fix it. Our apartment flooded from the… Full Review ▶
Please, please, look elsewhere. Apartments are ok but the management is really poor. They usually have 3 people in the clubhouse working but I get the feeling there is not much working going on. They are usually very rude, but I… Full Review ▶
After graduating high school I was ready to get out of my own. I went to spectrum apartments to look for an affordable apartment and Chesapeake was one of the options I was given. When I came to their facility I… Full Review ▶
I rented from Chesapeake a few years ago and was pleased with it overall after I considered the price. I found my way back here in January 2002. Bad...Bad...mistake. I have had several problems with the office staff saying that they… Full Review ▶
I feel that Chesapeake Estates violated my privacy and did not hold up their end of the deal. Maintenance entered our apartment without prior notice on several ocasions, and when we had something that needed fixed we had to report the… Full Review ▶
Chesapeake looks good when first visiting it. They even made me what I thought was a good deal on my place. The last six months of living here have been one constant battle. Whether it is taking three weeks to come… Full Review ▶
I am submitting part of a letter which I was forced to submit because of ongoing issues with my stay at Cheasapeake Estates.
Currently, last months electric bill for my 600 square foot apt was $170.00 Currently my AC… Full Review ▶
If you ever plan on listening to your radio or even TV after 9pm. DO NOT move into an upper-floor apartment! I recieved regular noise complaints and visits from the police for acceptable levels because of my dear neighbors below. Management… Full Review ▶
I moved to Chesapeake in 1998, it was great then! It has since been bought by Price Managment, I have been waiting for my lease to end. I am moving out at the end of April.
As far as maint. it… Full Review ▶
I made the big step of moving to the city, and chose Chesapeake Estates as the place I would live in 2000. At that time, the grass was flush, and the buildings were well maintaned. You could count on maintenance to… Full Review ▶
Chesapeake is a good place to live. They have switched management companies and the new mgmt is trying to update the apartments as quickly as possible. All problems that we have had while living here have been fixed in good time.… Full Review ▶
Lived in both a 1 bedroom and a 2 bedroom while I was there. Loved the setup of the 2-story 2-bedroom. Liked living there. But the walls are too thin - my neighbors alarm woke me up every morning (and I´m… Full Review ▶
The Apartment is too poorly constructed. They are asking too much for the apartments. The neighborhood is very nice.6 Full Review ▶
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Growing up in the slums of Nairobi in Kenya is not easy. Community-based-organisation Vijana Amani Pamoja - or VAP - exploits the power of soccer to educate and empower young people from the city's slums, helping them to make positive and healthy decisions.
Using the sport for development model, VAP tackles issues of HIV/AIDS, female empowerment and anti-corruption across three programs and regular community soccer tournaments.
Based in the Eastlands area of Nairobi, VAP supports some of the most marginalised boys and girls in Kenya.

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The technological imagination from the early Romanticism through the historical Avant-Gardes to the Classical Space Age and beyond
domingo, 1 de abril de 2012
Elizabethtown - There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco...
"Drew Baylor: [voiceover] There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is merely the absence of success. Any fool can achieve failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of epic propotions. A fiasco is a folk tale told to other's to make other people feel more alive because it didn't happen to them"
Maybe I'm hopeless a Romantic spirit still in search of that truth which the original Boston Transcendentalism suspected beneath the text of American nature as Manifest Destiny. This nature only reveals itself in the action of the unconditioned Self. There have been many failures in my life, but my recent experience with facebook already belongs to one of his biggest fiascos, namely, a monumental cosmic disaster. There is on the virtual life, in that beautiful plenty of euphemisms language of sociologists, a new "post-social" dimension, which only seems to stimulate the darkest psychoses and manufacturing defects of our species. If nature was a corrective for the social theater at the time of Emerson, now the hegemony of culture as second nature only turns the social roles more grotesque and dangerous in their masquerade in this new dimension. It was with these mixed claustrophobic feelings that I finally closed my profile with a last glance at Mark Zuckerberg on the cover of "Mad" magazine: what a jerk and wanker, what a loss of time! I wanted only to breathe fresh air. But I have not lost my sense of humor and my faith in what is simple, beautiful and comes from the heart, my thrust for truth, and my love for real and common people, real feelings in real life, vibrating fiercely out there as Drew Baylor´s journey to the heart of America and to sweet Claire, as he eventually accepts his "epic failure" believing in patience and that regenerating magic power of nature. For these and many other reasons I love "Elisabethtown" today more than ever, although my heart is still hurt and tired. God bless Emerson and the eternal spirit of America!
José Galisi Filho
"Give all to love, obey the heart."
"Love and you shall be loved."
"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
And this Ellen Kishmore´s quote to Drew is pure Emerson: "Drew, it was real, and it was great, and it was really great."
Summerlong - Kathleen Edwards
I know how to play this game
one, two, three and I'm safe
count real slow to five
you couldn't keep me around if you tried
I know how to beat the rage
of my tender age
touch me once in the hall
but don't look back and don't call
There are some things I can hardly say
You've got me feeling a brand new way
Please don't let this be summerlong
And I used to play this game
in the middle lane
pass them all on the inside
and don't get caught in a lie
There are some things I can hardly say
You've got me feeling a brand new way
Please don't let this be summerlong
Cuz I want to stay
All the nights and wasted time
trying to get my head to change its mind
all the talk of what it could be
when it never was
There are some things I can hardly say
You've got me feeling a brand new way
Please don't let this be just summerlong
Please don't let this be summerlong
Cuz I want to stay
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KDL Recommends For Teens > General Fiction > Great Teen Reads
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Beat the Band
Title: Beat the Band
Author: Don Calame
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Being paired with the school's most hated girl for a project threatens to socially destroy Coop, so he decides the only way to save his reputation is to win Battle of the Bands. The only problem: he and his band mates have absolutely no talent. But that won't stop Coop from going to hilarious lengths to get what he wants.
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Get ready for riffs on hot girls, health class, and social hell! The outrageously funny boys from Swim the Fly return to rock their sophomore year.
In this hilarious sequel to Swim the Fly, told from Coop's point of view, it's the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class must work in pairs on semester-long projects. Matt and Sean get partnered up (the jerks), but Coop is matched with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a presentation on safe sex. Everybody's laughing, except for Coop, who's convinced that the only way to escape this social death sentence is to win "The Battle of the Bands" with their group, Arnold Murphy's Bologna Dare. There's just one problem: none of the guys actually plays an instrument. Will Coop regain his "cool" before it's too late? Or will the forced one-on-one time with Helen teach him a lesson about social status he never saw coming? With ribald humor and a few sweet notes, screenwriter-turned-novelist Don Calame once again hits all the right chords.


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PHOTOS: Florida's rejected license plates aren't always offensive
Dade City, Florida- It's early in the flu season and so far, there have been two deaths related to the swine flu in Pasco County, according to health officials.
They are among the 36,000 people health officials say will die nationwide this year from complications due to the flu.
Pasco Health officials say a flu shot may have prevented the death of 27-year-old Holly Harrelson, a mother of three young children. She reportedly died from complications due to the Swine Flu.
Holly's father Tim Harrelson now has a plea for anyone who has not been vaccinated.
"Please don't take the risk. There are precautions out there you can take. There are no guarantees [and] it may have saved her life if Holly had that," Harrelson urges. "She may still have been here with us today... 27 years old, three kids; she's gone."
The Pasco Health Department reported a three percent increase of influenza type cases in emergency rooms last week. While health officials say that's normal for this time of year, according to the state's weekly Flu Review, Pasco is seeing a moderate level of flu cases that's higher than most counties statewide, and in the bay area.
"Overall the vaccine works," says Dori Budetti, a nurse practitioner with the Pasco Health Department. Budetti says this year's flu vaccine includes the H1N1 virus, better known as the Swine Flu. "We've already seen a decrease in flu cases this year compared to last year," says Budetti.
But when the flu hits, especially in someone who has not been vaccinated or has a weaken immune system, Budetti says it hits hard and fast.
"The flu comes on fairly sudden with a high fever, headaches, and severe coughing respiratory symptoms," she explains.
The flu vaccine helps protect one from a few strains of influenza, but not all. That's why experts say even someone who has been vaccinated needs to take precautions.
They encourage all to wash hands frequently, drink lots of water, and if you have to cough, cough into your sleeve. Also, avoid areas or contact with anyone with the flu and finally, if you have the flu or flu-like symptoms stay home.
And for anyone who says the flu shot makes them sick, Budetti says their immune system may have already been compromised before being vaccinated.
"What are the underlying health conditions? How good is your immune system? How well is your reaction to the vaccine?"
Health experts say it's not too late to get your flu shot. Florida's is entering the peak of its flu season and since it takes two weeks for the flu shot to take effect health officials say you have plenty of time to receive the protection you need.
Check out some of our most read stories from 2013:
#shortyellows: Florida quietly shortened yellow lights
Terrorism Warning: Memo says terrorists practicing dry-runs on Florida flights
Kittens shot: Officer shoots kittens in front of children
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Weird ice: Strange, giant circles appear on frozen pond
Controversial Club: College student organizes "White Student Union"
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Science Arrest: Teen girl arrested over science project explosion
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least the price is negotiable. The public just wants free services. If the members of the public cannot get free information from the government, they will try to get it from somewhere else.
In conclusion, the accessibility is improving, but the municipalities also need to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. There is still too much emphasis on protecting intellectual property rights. There are still no consistent and transparent licenses, although the government agencies are trying to work on that. Transparency of cost is needed too, as is some legal clarification about what is an economic activity under the law. There are some court cases pending, and until they are resolved, there will be no clarity.
Here are my recommendations: Simplify current licenses and guarantee the funding. If an agency is going to make GI available free of charge, it should be funded from the current budget. At this time such information cannot be funded from sales alone so, yes, perhaps we should involve the private sector.
Within the GeoPortal Consortium we are working with both the public and private sectors, and the private sector really enjoys it. If they can get something out of it like free data, they will help you develop services. For the Authentic Registries, the current legislation is insufficient. The public sector activity will be overtaken by services such as Google Earth's, and in five years' time the opportunity will be lost.


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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center at Integris Health's Southwest Medical Center unveiled a bionic robot suit that will help paralyzed Oklahomans stand up and walk.
There are only 10 other states in the U.S. that have this type of robotic technology.
Ekso is a robotic exoskeleton that is re-enabling the disabled.
"Imagine yourself in a wheelchair and you haven't walked for six months or a year,"Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Medical Director Dr. Al Moorad said. "This is tremendous. We want our patients who live in Oklahoma not to have to go to Houston or Denver or Chicago. We want them to stay here and now they can."
Thanks to a generous donation from the Chickasaw Tribe, Integris Health will soon own an Ekso bionic suit.
"There really is something about being able to have a conversation with someone eye-to-eye. It's like being my old self again. It's truly amazing for me," Ekso ambassador Sarah Anderson said.
Ekso is forecasting hope for paraplegics like Anderson and others.
This generation of bionic robot is operated by a therapist.
The model that Integris is getting next month will be controlled by the patient.


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Event Details
Annual APDA Chapter Meeting - Newton, MA 10.15.2011
Event Date: Saturday, October, 15th, 2011
Event Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Please join us as the APDA Chapter Board reviews activities of the past year and presents and overview of the year to come. This is an opportunity to be heard and to share your thoughts on how APDA MA can continue to support the Parkinson's community. Information will be provided on how to become a member. The meeting will immediately follow the Greater Boston Parkinson Support Group October program. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
|Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Bowles Conference Center, Room 1
|2014 Washington Street
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Hyundai has had a great marketing partnership with Burn Notice for three years. And as the USA Network spy drama speeds to the end of its final season this summer, Hyundai wants to make sure its sponsorship goes out with a bang, not a whimper.
"We're sorry to see the show go," David Matathia, director of marketing communications for Hyundai USA, told me. "It's been a great platform for us."
And specifically, Matathia said, Burn Notice has provided a "great showplace for the capabilities of the Genesis Coupe" that is driven by the character Fiona Glenanne, girlfriend of the spy protagonist Michael Westen — and a pretty good cloak-and-dagger practitioner herself. "We've been able to have that deep integration and really show off what the car can do."
To that end, the show and the automaker have created a higher-profile role than ever for the Genesis Coupe. Glenanne, played by Gabrielle Anwar, long has been seen behind the wheel in the show's many demanding chase scenes in Miami, but the treatment of the car in this last go-round of Burn Notice has been elevated considerably. And it's not just a matter of swapping a new Tsukuba Red number for her previous blue one.
For one thing, there have been a few scenes in Burn Notice this season like the recent chase that could have served as all but the script for a Genesis advertisement. Trying to follow an elusive bad guy through the streets of Miami, Glenanne's passenger worries that she's "driving like Mario Andretti" to keep up with them.
"What are you talking about?" she quips. "Mario Andretti never had a car like this." It's a miracle the Hyundai logo doesn't materialize on the screen afterward.
And there's the infomercial interview with Anwar that USA Network plays during a commercial space in each episode, a personality spot in which she reveals that she likes yoga and is a mother. And she offers, "Fiona is quite chic. I suppose there's a similarity with her Hyundai Genesis Coupe." The flashy Genesis shimmers in the background. "There's a sense of speed and freedom [with the car] which I do rather enjoy."
The car may be red, but that's product-placement gold. No wonder Hyundai is going to miss it.


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AFA Note: The story below was published in the Denver Post on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. A special thanks to the Post for allowing the athletic department to reprint it on our site.
Band of brothers: 1985 Falcons
Team shares a special bond and a legacy that still soars to this day
By Jim Armstrong
The Denver Post
Terry Maki remembers it as if it were yesterday. The chaos in the cockpit, the sense of imminent disaster, the flashes of enemy fire cutting through the darkness toward his helicopter.
"We were 50 feet off the ground," Maki said. "The helicopter drowns out most of the sound and light, but there were a lot of anxious folks in that helicopter. I really thought, at one point, we were going to be shot down."
Maki doesn't particularly like talking about that day in Iraq, or any of his military experiences for that matter. It's all part of the code of a Special Forces officer. He will, however, acknowledge a certain box at his home in Montana, one filled with medals to honor a man filled with mettle.
"I have a few, yeah," he said.
The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and the Meritorious Service Medal, just to name three.
Before he became a real-life Rambo, a man who infiltrated enemy lines with the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, Maki was a heck of a linebacker at the Air Force Academy. What Dick Butkus was to the Chicago Bears of the mid-1960s, Maki was to the Air Force Falcons of the mid-1980s.
"One tough son of a gun," said his coach, Fisher DeBerry.
Maki had a lot of company on the 1985 Air Force team that finished 12-1 and ranked No. 5 in the nation. With each passing year, the pile of evidence grows higher, one that points to that season as the greatest in school history.
Funny thing, though. Time also has revealed the special nature of that team, and the players' lasting legacy has little to do with setting academy records for victories, or points scored, or interceptions, all of which they accomplished, but what they did after leaving the academy.
Maki was asked about his most prized piece of memorabilia from his days in the armed forces. He didn't mention any of his medals, but rather a helmet signed by DeBerry and members of the 2006 Air Force football team, DeBerry's last at the academy.
"They sent it to me for my retirement," Maki said. "That was really cool."
A special blue-collar group
They had nicknames for each other. Smaki. Sid Vicious. Fat Joe. Spike. Scooter. Horsehead. Bandstand. They spent countless hours together, squeezing in impromptu film sessions between late-night studythons involving such core courses as astronautical engineering and aeronautical engineering and statistics. And they had an unconditional commitment to each other, a bond they still feel to this day, with their hair thinning and graying.
"We had blue-collar players who bought into our foundation, which was family and brotherhood," said DeBerry, who won the 1985 Bear Bryant Award as the national coach of the year. "They didn't want to let each other down. That's what made that group."
Added wide receiver Tyrone Jeffcoat, one of the few black players on that team: "I don't know if people understand how tight we were as a group. We transcended race and background. We broke down a lot of the subcliques that may have existed in previous classes."
But there was no discounting the role played by the rigors of everyday academy life.
"The adversity of the situation brought us all together," Jeffcoat said. "You depend on teammates. They're your brothers. You lean on them, tell them about the bad days and the good days. We had real strong bonds because those guys see you at your most vulnerable. There's a certain degree of intimacy that comes with that."
All-America safety Scott Thomas stays in touch with former teammates via the Internet and when he gets the chance he travels to Colorado Springs for reunions from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he serves as a squadron commander.
"We can pick up right where we left off, even if we haven't spoken to each other for a year," Thomas said. "There are so many guys I'm proud of on that team. I mean, look what they've done with their careers."
Only one player on the 1985 team, sophomore defensive tackle Chad Hennings, played in the NFL. But then, that was by design. Air Force graduates are supposed to aspire to stars on their shoulders, not on their helmets, as Hennings wore with the Dallas Cowboys.
If Hennings was the exception among those players, doing great things in the service of their country was the rule.
Some of those players became majors; several rose to colonel, most if not all ahead of the age curve -- under the zone, to use Air Force vernacular, serving in various danger zones -- Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, to name a few. One, Richard Clark, is a brigadier general in his mid-40s. Another, Col. Mike Chandler, went on to command the Thunderbirds. Another, Brady Glick, has spent more hours in an A-10 fighter plane than any other flier in Air Force history.
They didn't just fly A-10s. They piloted C-141s and F-16s, even Air Force 2. They led troops that ultimately vanquished Manuel Noriega from Panama and Saddam Hussein from Baghdad. They tracked down terrorists, carried supplies for starving refugees, escorted the vice president and the secretary of state around the world, and took part in more operations than Hawkeye and Trapper John -- Operation Desert Storm, Operation Anaconda, Operation Desert Fox, Operation Desert Shield and Operation Just Cause among them.
John Ziegler, a defensive tackle on that team, is now Col. John Ziegler. He landed in Iraq in 2006, where he worked counterintelligence and special investigations to identify and locate terrorists.
"There's not a lot I can tell you," Ziegler said. "There were a few we had our eyes on and we were able to . . . keep tabs on them. I was watching a video feed from a Predator, and to be able to see our guys flying around a house I had been watching a month earlier, it was kind of rewarding."
Maki saw his share of combat
Maki was deployed nine times from the late 1980s into the early years of this decade before retiring from the military to coach high school football in Montana. Name just about any Middle East conflict and he saw it, sometimes behind enemy lines with his Special Forces brethren. And yes, he witnessed more than his share of casualties. That's why he's not comfortable talking about his military experiences.
"It's personal when you lose forces, men who put their tails on the line every day. You're talking about the bravest Americans you could imagine. The best of the best, each one of them."
Maki survived that hail of enemy fire toward his helicopter in Iraq. Thomas has a similar story, having been rescued behind enemy lines in Iraq after being forced to bail out of his F-16 when the engine caught fire. U.S. Army Special Forces arrived 2 1/2 hours later, but the mission wouldn't have been successful if some of those missiles whizzing past the helicopter had found their mark.
"I never thought I was going to die," said Thomas, now a lieutenant colonel. "There were a couple of long hours of wondering, but I always had confidence in everybody around me. That comes from what's instilled in you after being part of a team with that academy group."
Thomas isn't alone. To a man, members of the 1985 team interviewed by The Post credited the experience of playing football at the academy with helping to mold them into the officers they became.
"We had a lot of leadership courses, but I firmly believe that nothing taught you more about leadership than playing football at the academy," said Bart Weiss, the quarterback on the 1985 team. "It taught me to identify people's strengths and weaknesses. You learn that you're going to take a physical and mental pounding, but you can't get down. Because you're not always going to play on 72-degree sunny days."
Maybe it was meant to be that Maki, a retired lieutenant colonel, would teach those lessons himself to high school football players. He's coaching in Florence, Mont., population 1,000, where he and his players were preparing this past week for a Class B state playoff game Saturday night. The name of his team? What else?
The Falcons.
Jim Armstrong: 303-954-1269 or firstname.lastname@example.com
About the 1985 Falcons
Some key members of the 1985 Air Force football team, and what they're doing now:
Head coach Fisher DeBerry
Then: Won Bear Bryant Award as nation's top coach
Now: Retired, living in Oklahoma and South Carolina
QB Bart Weiss
Then: Directed record-setting offense
Now: Colonel, vice commander, McConnell AFB, Derby, Kan.
LB Terry Maki
Then: His 30 tackles keyed win vs. Notre Dame
Now: Retired Special Forces officer coaching high school football in Montana
FS Scott Thomas
Then: All-American, returned kickoff, punt and interception for touchdowns in 1985.
Now: Lieutenant colonel in reserves; pilot for American Airlines
LB Brady Glick
Then: Backup linebacker/special- teams player
Now: Lieutenant colonel, has logged more hours in A-10 than any other Air Force flier
DT John Ziegler
Then: Scrappy defender who gave up 30 pounds to opponents most weeks
Now: Colonel, Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs
NG Dick Clark
Then: Helped defense allow school-best 2.8 yards per carry
Now: Brigadier general, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La.
LB Pat Malackowski
Then: Rivaled Maki as team's hardest hitter
Now: Colonel, Nellis AFB, Las Vegas
DT Chad Hennings
Then: Future Outland Trophy winner, played for Dallas Cowboys
Now: Motivational speaker, consultant in Dallas
WR Tyrone Jeffcoat
Then: Did dirty work as a blocker in option offense
Now: Running a packing plant in Little Rock, Ark.
LB Mike Chandler
Then: Second-leading tackler to Maki
Now: Colonel who once commanded the Thunderbirds
RB Kelly Pittman
Then: Weiss' wingman in the backfield
Now: Major, flight instructor at Randolph AFB, San Antonio
WR Ken Carpenter
Then: Led 1985 Falcons in receiving
Now: Retired lt. colonel, living in Pacific Northwest, flying for Delta


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Owner/chef Amy Zupanci making gnocci. Zupanci tries to use not only the freshest of ingredients but also makes everything she can from scratch. From the gnocci seen here to the mustards she uses.
Go into the kitchen at Fond in Edwardsville, with owner-chef Amy Zupanci. Read Ian Froeb's review here: "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fond." Photos by Jennifer Silverberg.


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What could more girls, more booty shorts and more bitchiness mean? The creator of the Pussycat Dolls is back on the prowl, searching for the three girls who will make up Girlicious — the next Pussycat Dolls. And lucky for us, she's decided to televise it in all its catty glory.
In the first episode, we meet the fifteen girls who've been "inspired" by the PCD, who have "danceability" (Ed: is that a word?) and drive. It's nice to know some things don't change – we're still going to have to listen to "Don't Cha" before every show, and Mark McGrath's schedule is still clear enough so that he can co-host.
We learn from Robin, creator of the PCD, that Girlicious will have more of an urban vibe, more street. I want to be Robin when I grow up. Every time she enters a room she gets a round of applause.
Now, the girls: Tiffanie's particularly excited about the competition, given that "Geffen is going to have like 100%…support." Uh, Tiffanie? Have you seen how desperate the record industry is? They're so hard-up for publicity they're actually making reality shows on the CW…oh. Nevermind.
On to our gaggle of girls, which is chock full of diversity. First up there's Carrie, who's the oldest at 25. She likes to party.
Then there's Keisha. She likes girls.
Cassandra has a "tattoo of cherries on her hoo-ha."
Then there's Charlotte, who's mature.
A pretty well-rounded group we've got.
The girls are split up into five groups of three, and immediately Natalie views co-group member Charlotte as a threat because she is "somewhat Latin," meaning she has brown hair. The girls are tasked with coming up with their own look and choreography based on the same five songs that we heard ad nauseam last season.
In the mandatory sob story category, we've already had two before Jenna admits that it's tough being one of the bigger girls on the show, which is strange, as she looks normal to us.
Ten minutes into the show, and we've already got a proper feud going. It's difficult to choose sides in the already developing battle of Natalie vs. Charlotte. Charlotte seems pretty stuck-up, and Natalie's a harpie. The fabulous Mikey Minden is back, and even more razor-tongued than last season. He identifies Charlotte as the weak link in dancing.
But Mikey saves his most fantastic jabs for Carrie, who likes to party: "Her look is so tragic I can't even begin to talk about it." Oh please! Please talk about it! Needless to say, he's under-whelmed with the dancing. Elsewhere, Jenna walks out of practicing with extreme cramps, leaving her group in the lurch to learn the moves.
Since the girls have been working so hard — squeezing into all those form-fitting workout clothes and applying all that foundation — Robin's taking them to the Tom Tom Club, the exclusive Interscope Records hang-out. On the way, yet another chapter in the Natalie-Charlotte feud erupts when Natalie, for no apparent reason, won't let Charlotte borrow one of her fifty pairs of boots. Natalie thinks she's come up with a pretty ironclad excuse that she will use later in her defense: "Nobody said 'Hey Natalie pack boots for Charlotte.'" Natalie, girl, I feel for you watching this back. You do not look good.
Joining the ladies at the Tom Tom Club is Nelly Furtado, who looks totally contractually obligated. It's karaoke time, and apparently there's only two songs, and the songs are "Fly" by Sugar Ray and "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado. Wonder how they arrived at these two. "Fly" is performed at least three times, which is likely the most that song has been played since 2001.
Jenna's cramp situation escalates, and she ends up in the hospital with a ruptured cyst, which will likely effect her already shakey dance moves. To show the level of competition and compassion on the show, Robin asks, "Well can you dance in a wheelchair?"
Over in Charlotte and Natalie's group, "We Got the Beat" isn't quite gelling, given the fact that Charlotte won't even touch Natalie while they're dancing. Mikey's keen powers of perception lead him to believe something's up, and Robin tells the girls that they better "work it out" before the competition. In other groups on the eve of the competition, Jenna's dragged from the wheelchair, and Keisha's nervous about her singing, and the harpie Natalie needs a nap, so her group practices without her.
She'll sleep well. A villain this good in reality television hangs around for a few episodes.
The next day is Judgement Day. The judges are the same as last season — Robin, Ron Fair, and a barely recognizable Lil Kim. First up: "Tainted Love" with Tiffanie, Alexis and Megan. Lil Kim is not impressed.
Then Keisha, Ilisa and Carrie perform En Vogue's "Never Gonna Get It." Jenna, Jamie and Charlye perform "Where Did Out Love Go?," and its sort of hard to see what Jenna was so worried about. There's little to the choreography than hair flipping and high stepping.
The next group strikes me as the group where all three could be kicked off, as we've hardly seen them at all in the forty minutes preceding. Cassandra, Chrystiana and Nichole perform "Right Now" by the PCD. Charlotte, Kristin and Natalie perform "We Got the Beat" by the Go-Gos with no incident, other than one of the most gratuitous butt shots in reality television.
Eliminations go down with some pauses that should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention. In the end Kristin "isn't a star," Charlotte "wants it," but "might not have it." Carrie's "one of the worst dancers here," and Keisha has the moves, but not the voice. Carrie, who likes to party, is saved for further humiliations by Mikey Minden. Sadly, Keisha, Charlotte and Kristin will not be in Girlicious.
Let the pink boa-ing begin, and the mascara stream down relieved faces!


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The Europe Concert
This year, the Berlin Philharmonic's annual Europe Concert will be led by Daniel Barenboim in Oxford University's Sheldonian Theatre. The May 1st concert features the young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who will be performing Elgar's Cello Concerto. It is a through and through romantic program which begins with Wagner's Prelude to the third act of Die Meistersinger and concludes with Brahms's First Symphony. The same concert will also be given in the Berliner Philharmonie on April 27th.


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Trials Of A Stay At Home Mom
Tips 4 Saving
The Kids are Grown, Now What?
Healthy mom for junk food kids
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Marine Corps Nomads


text: Indiana scouted class of 2014 Potomac (Md.) guard Dion Wiley in last summer's July evaluation period, but the Hoosiers hadn't been mentioned with the five-star guard in recent months. That's because the word on Wiley had been that he didn't want to go far from home for college, which is no longer the case.


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"We're not a big school district, and we could not afford to put much money into a data warehouse. We needed a system teachers could use that didn't require entering tons of data,'' Collins says. "With SAS, we've learned much more about our students, improved their test scores and done it all with limited resources."
Beech Grove turned to B2S Analytics, an education data analysis and management services company, to create a customized SAS data warehouse to help Beech Grove assemble, analyze and report on student data.
Beech Grove's data warehouse integrates grades and demographic data from the district's student management systems with test results from the Indiana Department of Education (ISTEP+) and Northwest Evaluation Association tests (NWEA). Using SAS, Beech Grove analyzes NWEA results to predict student performance on the ISTEP+. Instantaneous access to student information lets teachers deliver individualized instruction. Remedial tutoring offered in advance helps struggling students pass.
Beech Grove's results are impressive. Aggregate state test scores have jumped 11 percent since 2002. Of the class of 2007, 80 percent enrolled in college – tying 2006's all-time high and a 20 percent increase since 2005. A record 40 percent of the class of 2008 is on the Academic Honors Diploma (college prep) track, with 95 percent on the CORE 40 (above basic requirements) track. In 2008, Beech Grove High School was the only high school named a Four Star School in Marion County. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has named the district a "Best Buy in Education" for three years running.
Creating a teacher-friendly solution
With the data warehouse, Beech Grove discovered that it needed to give more attention to students transferring into the district, who made up the group most likely to fail the state tests. It also discovered that while Beech Grove students were strong in basic reading and math, they needed more work on higher-level skills like multiple-step math problems and comparing different nonfiction texts.
"Teachers can figure out which strategies work based on the data,'' Collins says. And the school district can also focus not just on students meeting benchmarks but on measuring growth from year to year. Measuring growth is the gold standard of student assessment. Students don't learn at the same rate, and many educators see getting students to reach a certain bar before starting higher-level coursework in the seventh grade as key – as opposed to hitting a target each year.
"Our goal is that if you start your education with us, by sixth grade you will pass the state tests, no matter who you are,'' Collins says.
Craig Buckler, the principal of Central Elementary, says the SAS data warehouse gives teachers and administrators a stronger understanding of where a student stands. If students are grasping a concept, they move ahead. If not, "we develop a plan to get them to where they need to be ... I used to say when meeting with parents, 'I feel that the student is doing X, Y, Z.' Now I can review the data and say 'I know.'''
Buckler says the easy-to-read reports the warehouse generates for each child incorporate everything from test results to attendance records. Having everything on one sheet takes some of the tension out of a parent-teacher meeting. It also helps parents see what they need to do to help. "We had one child who entered second grade struggling quite a bit. We had a meeting, showed the parent what was happening with the testing and the attendance, and that student has turned around,'' Buckler says.
Freeing administrators to innovate
Collins hopes to expand the use of the database by incorporating SAT or ACT scores. He will also use it to study the effectiveness of some novel ways the district is working to reduce the high school dropout rate.
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SAS provides a database that teachers use to track performance and spot student weaknesses.
Aggregate state test scores have jumped 11 percent since 2002, and 80 percent of Beech Grove students are enrolling in college – tying 2006's all-time high and a 20 percent increase since 2005. A record 40 percent of the class of 2008 is on the Academic Honors Diploma (college prep) track, with 95 percent on the CORE 40 (above basic requirements) track.
"With SAS, we've learned much more about our students, improved their test scores and done it all with limited resources."
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A cast for broken limbs and related method, the cast comprising a cylindrical, double wall sleeve fabricated of a thin polymeric or elastomeric material and containing a cylindrical batt of fiberglas or like reinforcement impregnated with a polymeric catalyst. The opposed ends of the cast are constructed so that the spaced sleeves are sealed one to another and also to the cylindrical batt of the fiberglas or the like, which is concentrically disposed within the cast intermediate the spaced sleeves. Spacers may be used to maintain said concentric relationship. The cast comprises a plurality of breather ports, the edges of which are sealed as are the ends of the cast. When it is desired to use the cast, a suitable polymeric material is injected through a filler port into the interior of the cast between the two spaced concentric sleeves. The physician manually kneads the resin within the cast causing the catalyst initially contained within the central reinforcement to become mixed into the polymer thereby initiating polymerization. The filling vessel is detached and the cast is placed upon the injured limb of the patient. A conventional wrapping, such as an elastic roll bandage, is placed on the cast to exert pressure causing the same to conform precisely to the exterior surface of the injured limb. The wrapping is removed once the resin has set and adequately cured.
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates broadly to the art of placing a cast on an injured limb and more particularly to a novel cast comprising a pair of concentric sleeves sealed at the ends and containing therebetween a cylindrical batt of reinforcement impregnated with a resin activating substance which initiates polymerization when comingled with a suitable polymer, and a related method.
2. Prior Art
Heretofore, the use of a cast comprising plastic interior and exterior walls have most frequently utilized a polymeric foam in the interior between the sleeves. This has created a number of problems because it is difficult to control the foam and often the cast becomes a pressure-applying device rather than an instrument which restrains undesired movement of the limb. Also, such an approach prevents adequate breathing of the skin in the vicinity of the cast. As a consequence, the medical profession has used only to a limited extent such an approach.
With the foregoing in mind, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide a novel cast for injured limbs and related methods.
Another paramount object of the present invention is the provision of a novel cast wherein the cast comprises spaced concentric sleeves sealed one to the other at opposed ends and containing therein a cylindrical batt of reinforcement impregnated with a catalyst wherein a polymeric material is injected between the sleeves into contiguous relation with the reinforcement and is caused to be polymerized when mixed with the catalyst.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a novel cast comprising a plurality of breather holes intermediate spaced cylindrical walls of the cast.
These and other objects and features of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, taken with reference to the accompanying drawing(s).
1. A cast for injured limbs comprising:
spaced generally concentric elongated sleeves, the axis of which is parallel to the limb of the patient upon which it is to be used, of pliant impervious resinous material defining a hollow space between the sleeves;
porous reinforcing material disposed within said space and comprising the only substance between the sleeves, said reinforcing material carrying a resin activating substance;
at least one resin ingress port in the outer sleeve whereby inactive resin is injected into said space and caused to be activated and polymerized by intermingling the inactive resin with said activating substance to ultimately form a resilient shape-retaining cast the exterior of which comprises said sleeve and the interior of which consists of polymerized resin and said reinforcing material.
2. A cast according to claim 1 further comprising means sealing opposed ends of the cast intermediate the concentric sleeves.
3. A cast according to claim 1 wherein said porous reinforcing material comprises a batt of fibers initially cylindrically generally concentrically disposed within the space between said sleeves.
4. A cast according to claim 3 wherein the initial generally concentric relationship between the sleeves and the batt of reinforcement is achieved by spacers.
5. A cast according to claim 1 further comprising skin breather ports for aerating the skin of the patient disposed between the ends of said cast and spanning transversely through and between both sleeves and means sealing said sleeves one to another at each said skin breather port.
6. A method of placing a cast upon an injured limb comprising the steps of:
providing a pair of generally concentric elongated sleeves secured one to the other at opposed ends, the sleeves comprising pliant impervious resinous material whereby a space is defined between the concentric sleeves the axis of which is essentially coextensive with the limb of the patient upon which it is placed, the space having porous reinforcing material only disposed therein which carries a resin activating substance;
displacing inactive resin through an ingress port in the outer sleeve and a portion thereof across the porous reinforcing material into contiguous relation with the inside sleeve to substantially fill the space between said sleeves;
manually causing intermingling between said displaced inactive resin and said activating substance to cause activation and initiate polymerization of the resin within the space between said sleeves;
axial displacing the resin filled sleeves upon the injured limb during polymerization before the resin has set;
thereafter applying external pressure to the resin filled sleeves upon the injured limb to bring the cast into contiguous conformity with the exterior of the injured limb and retaining said pressure until the resin within the sleeve has adequately set and cured so as to constitute a resilient shape retaining cast; and
removing said pressure.
7. A method according to claim 6 wherein said resin displacing step comprises injecting the resin through a filler port in the outer sleeve.
8. A method according to claim 6 wherein said external pressure is applied by wrapping the cast with a yieldable bandage to cause said contiguous conformity.
9. A method according to claim 6 wherein said intermingling step comprises manually kneading the cast through the outer sleeve.
FIG. 1 is a perspective representation of one presently preferred cast embodiment in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross section taken along lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary cross section taken along lines 3--3 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary cross section taken along lines 4--4 of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 5-7 are line drawings illustrating the manner in which the cast of FIG. 1 is utilized.
Reference is now made to the drawings wherein like numerals are used to designate like parts throughout. FIG. 1 in particular illustrates a presently preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention comprising a cast, generally designated 10, which consists of an interior elastomeric sleeve 12, preferrably in the nature of a thin wall membrane of pliant synthetic resinous material, and an exterior sleeve 14 also preferably of a thin walled membrane of resinous material. Said sleeves 12 and 14 are generally concentric one within the other and together define a space 16 therebetween. Disposed in said space 16 in generally concentric relation intermediate sleeves 12 and 14 is a cylindrical batt 18 of porous reinforcing material which is impregnated with a suitable catalyst (resin activating substance) the function of which is to cause polymerization of a synthetic resin when the resin is inserted into the space 16 through 1 or more filler ports 20 formed in the exterior sleeve 14. A plurality of spacer studs 22 may be utilized to maintain the generally concentric relationship of the sleeves 12 and 14 and the cylindrical reinforcing batt 18. The spacer studs 22 are each preferably integral with the adjacent sleeve 12 or 14. It is preferred that the material of the batt 18 be fiberglas, although other types of reinforcement may be utilized.
The opposed ends 24 and 26 of the cast 10 are sealed, i.e. the inside and outside membrane walls 12 and 14 are heat sealed or resin bonded together along a lip 28 (FIG. 3) with the porous cylindrical batt 18 also being secured to said opposed sleeve ends at location 30 adjacent the seam 28. Thus, the interior 16 between the sleeves 12 and 14 is entirely sealed to the exterior atmosphere except at each filler port 20.
The cast 10 is provided with a plurality of breather ports 32, one of which is illustrated in FIG. 4. Each filler port 32 is sealed as is each end 24 and 26.
In the use, a suitable instrument such as a syringe 33 containing a satisfactory resinous material is united with a filler port 20 and the resinous material injected through the filler port 20 into the space 16 between the sleeves 12 and 14 (See FIG. 5). Air contained within the space 16 is preferably evacuated during injection of the resin through a second filler port 20. Once a suitable quantity of desired resin has been injected into the space 16, the resin is kneaded by the physician, nurse or the like through the exterior sleeve 14 (FIG. 6). Once the resinous material has been adequately kneaded so as to mix in a reasonably homogenous manner the resin with the catalyst or activator, the cast, while still pliable is placed upon the injured limb of the patient and is wrapped with a suitable wrapping 34, which may be an elastic roll bandage. This step causes the cast to conform to the exterior surface of the injured limb without applying unneeded and undesired exterior pressure. Once the resin has set and adequately cured, the wrapping 34 is removed. A very strong, somewhat resilient cast results which is ideally suited for injured limbs.
The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiment is therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.
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This new phenomenon is taking the future dad-world by storm. Akin to bachelor parties, dadchelor parties (also called a daddymoon or man-shower) give dads-to-be one final chance to be kid-free. Some dadchelor party ideas include everything from playing a round of golf, to taking a fishing trip, to going all-out in places like Vegas or Mexico. It can even be as simple as having that one final cigar and scotch before your baby mama puts the kibosh on all things vice.
The responsibilities of parenthood are many. Debauchery and the minivan lifestyle don't really mix. Eric Deyerler, a father of two, realized that before his second was born, he just needed a quick weekend out to be selfish again, before being selfless became his only option. "I love being a dad. My kids are amazing. I just needed some time to be one of the guys again before getting away would become nearly impossible." Eric says that he and his buddies played some golf, then hit a local dive bar for some drinks, before grabbing some late night burgers. Once his second baby came into the picture, this would have been a tough night to undertake.
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