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Ridgecrest's Measure L Advisory Committee meets tonight, Jan. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall's Conference Room Area B on the first floor.
The committee plans to discuss a formal response to a letter presented by Mayor Dan Clark's letter presented at the Jan. 14 Measure L committee meeting.
The mayor's letter proposed a "re-visioning" of the committee's goals.
Other discussion items will include the committee's independent quarterly budget report and the budget overview by committee vice chair Phil Salvatore.
The meeting is open to the public and welcome to weigh in on matters during public comment of the agenda items.
Read Tuesday's edition of the DI for a full report.
The agenda is available on the city's website: http://ridgecrest-ca.gov/meetingsmlacagendas1-28-13-measure-l-advisory-committee-agenda-docxpdf/download
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Whiteside grateful for another year of eligibility
Former HHS standout fights through injuries at Coastal Carolina
Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 7:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 7:55 p.m.
CONWAY, S.C. — Much like the secondary, Coastal Carolina's defensive line is host to a few of the more competitive position battles for the team this month, as young players look to catch the coaches' attention and prove ready for a larger role this fall.
And then there's Dominique Whiteside.
The former Hendersonville High standout is in that mix too — looking to prove himself and earn a chance to be more of a factor on Saturdays — but his situation is quite a bit different from the rest, as is his perspective as a sixth-year senior.
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AT&T has 250 jobs to fill in service expansion
Published: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:26 a.m.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — AT&T says it's looking to fill more than 400 openings in North Carolina, including more than 250 new jobs in dozens of locations statewide.
The telecommunications company says Monday that it's expanding wired and wireless service. The company is seeking wire installation technicians, network testers, and managers.
AT&T plans to increase the density of its wireless network with tens of thousands of small cells and other network sites. The company also is on a mission to install the wires that carry data for businesses and other customers.
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Asheville official mulls banning gun shows
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 8:54 a.m.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A member of Asheville's city council is proposing a ban on holding gun shows at publicly owned buildings.
Councilman Cecil Bothwell said Tuesday he's interested in the idea in the wake of a shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 children, at a Connecticut school.
Asheville already has an ordinance prohibiting the possession of firearms on city-owned property. But gun shows have regularly been held at a city-owned agricultural center and U.S. Cellular Center downtown. One is scheduled at the agricultural center this coming weekend.
Bothwell says the law is clear and that the city should do whatever it can to stem gun violence.
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Jimmy Kimmel tested the knowledge of purported March Madness fans by having a reporter ask them to name just one college basketball player.
One girl answered, "Kobe Bryant?" while another woman could only name a brand of malt liquor.
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Richard E. "Dick" Ashbaugh, 86, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and formerly of Waynesboro, died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, Ohio. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Dawson Funeral Home, East Liverpool. Burial will be at a later date at Columbiana County Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
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A truck traveling toward Lewisville on Highway 60 near St. James flipped and landed in the ditch Dec. 22, 2012.
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Inspirational Studios: Büro Destruct
Category: Design / Typography, Designers/Studios, Illustration,
Posted by: John Palowski
Posted: Jan 11th 2013
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Everybody has to start somewhere… so my first lecture as a Shillington College teacher was to inspire the new Full Time students to go out and discover studios & designers who might inspire them to produce their own exciting and thought provoking work over the next 3 months.
Where better to start, but to introduce to them a studio whom I discovered back in 2000, when the world of graphic design was just beginning to compete for my own attention (sorry BSC Psychology – you just weren't doing it for me). It was the typography produced by Büro Destruct (Bern, Switzerland) for Radiohead's LP, Kid A – that got my designer-y juices flowing. Their motto "Small City – Big Design" resonates throughout their catalogue of work: exciting experimental approaches bursting out of their studio walls, sprawling across the globe with a cheeky smile on it's face.
Playful illustrations & a huge catalogue of display typefaces (many of them free to download at www.typedifferent.com) make up a huge percentage of their output, which they continue to produce with as much enthusiasm and passion as they always have shown.


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Rain forces postponement of prep basketball
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 6:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 6:20 p.m.
Tonight's Smoky Mountain at West Henderson basketball games, which were originally scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. with the varsity girls, have been postponed by the threat of flooding and high winds.
The games will be made up Thursday. The varsity girls will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the main gym, followed by the varsity boys. The JV boys will begin at 4 p.m. in the old gym, and they will be followed by the JV girls.
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Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
Category: Design / Interactive, Designers/Studios, Web / Design,
Posted: Aug 13th 2013
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Fi (Fantasy Interactive) are one of those agencies who are really pushing the boundaries when it comes to digital. Their site is a a great showcase of how we should be designing for the digital landscape and its multitude of devices.
What's even better is Fi avoid the usual screenshot project showcase and instead offer these amazingly detailed case studies of their projects, giving you a peek behind the scenes of a world class digital agency.
A recent case study entitled "Is This The Future of The Airline Website?" caught my eye & is well worth checking out if you have any interest in interface design and user experience. What's even more impressive is that this is a 'fantasy' job, not a real project. Fi have pin-pointed an industry they'd like to work in, then turned their eye onto the problem at hand. If I ran an airline I'd be knocking on their door immediately.
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Map of the Dead
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Posted by: John F
Posted: Apr 11th 2012
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Posted: Apr 11th 2012
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We all know the zombie apocalypse will happen one day so its best to be prepared with this Google map overlay that highlights danger zones like cemeteries and perfect places to scavenge supplies. Mmmmmm brains!


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Whether watching the Gunners kicking it live at Emirates Stadium or catching the action on TV, we are Gooners through and through.
Arsenal returns to its traditional team badge in 2012 from the 125th anniversary badge they wore during the 11/12 season.
The red jersey has the traditional look with white sleeves. New for 2012, Arsenal's home jersey has a blue crewneck collar and blue details on the cuffs. The white sleeves and blue details pay tribute to the kits Arsenal wore in the 1930s under legendary manager Herbert Chapman. There is also a detail on the back collar that honors Chapman's revolutionary WM formation and Arsenal's motto Victoria, Concordia, Crescit, which means Victory through Harmony.
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WNC man sentenced to 5 months for killing bear cub
Published: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9:47 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9:47 a.m.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A Robbinsville man has been sentenced to five months in prison for killing a black bear cub in the Nantahala National Forest.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell on Wednesday also ordered 20-year-old Tyler Micaiah Colvin to pay more than $2,000 restitution to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
Colvin pleaded guilty in December to transporting wildlife that had been taken in violation of federal laws and regulations. Prosecutors say Colvin used a .50 caliber muzzleloader to kill the cub in the Wayah Bear Sanctuary in Macon County in October 2011.
Killing bears in a sanctuary or that weigh less than 50 pounds is prohibited.
Prosecutors say that after Colvin shot the bear cub, he skinned it and removed the paws and some meat. He left the carcass in the forest.
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Former West standout Bishop belts walkoff homer for Furman
Published: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 10:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 10:30 p.m.
Furman freshman Sieara Bishop, a former West Henderson High standout, hit a walkoff home run in the bottom of the seventh Saturday to lift Furman to a 3-2 victory over Elon in the opening game of a three-game Southern Conference softball series in Greenville, S.C.
Bishop ended her day going 1-for-4 with the solo homer and is now hitting .263 for the Lady Paladins.
Game 2 was suspended due to darkness after two innings with Furman holding a 4-0 lead. The Paladins and Phoenix will attempt to resume that game at 11 a.m.today before playing the series finale following the conclusion of the suspended contest.
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Poster Competition
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Posted by: Renee
Posted: Mar 13th 2012
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Put those concept development skills to good use and enter the National Desexing Network poster competition. The Queensland league of the organisation is running a competition for national desexing month. Put those design skills to a good cause... entries close 30 April 2012


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Jane Lynn Enos, 73
Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 3:44 p.m.
HENDERSONVILLE— Jane Lynn Enos, 73, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, November 21, 2012. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Addison and Lillian Romaine Palmer (nee Taylor) and her infant brother, James Lawrence, who was born a blue baby and only lived 48 hours. Lynn was born in Baltimore, MD on February 5, 1939. She graduated from Eastern High School in 1957 and was always interested in working in the business world. She worked for such companies as Johns Hopkins University Institute for Cooperative Research, Westinghouse Supply Co., Peterson Howell & Heather, Edwards & Anthony Pharmacy. She was a "cliff-hanger" retiree from McCormick & Co., Inc. in Baltimore. Even after retiring she enjoyed part-time jobs. Lynn met her husband, Frank M. Enos, while volunteering at the USO in Baltimore. They married July 14, 1968. Lynn traveled to Germany and California with her husband. She maintained a close relationship with Frank's son, Tim, his wife Shirley and their son Mike. Lynn and Frank moved to the Riverwind Retirement Community in Etowah December 12, 1999. She was of the Methodist faith. She is survived by her beloved husband Frank and his family.
A funeral will be held 1:00 PM Tuesday, November 27, in the chapel of Forest Lawn Funeral Home. Pastor Jeff Hawkey will officiate. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 120 Executive Park, Asheville, NC 28801, National MS Society, 3101 Industrial Drive, Suite 210, Raleigh, NC 27609 or American Heart Association, 3535 Pelham Rd., Greenville, SC 29615. To sign the online register book, please visit www.forestlawnhendersonville.com.
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Koi Fish Feed Invite
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Posted by: Thea
Posted: Oct 7th 2013
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Posted: Oct 7th 2013
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This lovely Koi-inspired invitation is made from actual fish feed. Write down the date in your diary and then feed your fish the invite! Amazing. It was awarded bronze at Cannes this year.
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Doing Acid at a Kanye West Concert
All my friends have left, and I am alone in a crowd with 20,000 other people. I could care less though. I've been waiting two hours for this, and I'm not about to leave what promises to be the greatest failure I have ever seen.
The crowd is antsy, as am I, because I have acid flowing through my veins. I'm not talking battery acid, like an obscure fight club reference, I'm talking about a tiny little ten dollar pill that promises six hours of fun. It started to take effect about two hours ago. The stars started dancing during the Phil Lesh and friends performance, and I could see patterns in the grass and trees that never existed.
A friend of mine told me it was going to be a religious experience, that my world was going to be flipped upside down and I would never be the same. For just ten dollars, your world can be distorted forever. You'll meet god if you want; your brain will think in new ways and you'll become creative, maybe even enlightened.
At this point, the grass has turned purple and I am seeing pentagrams in the trees. A man walked up to me and asked me who was supposed to be on stage. At the time, I heard none of this. I looked at him with my gaping pupils, and he backed up. I took a step at him, and asked him to repeat himself, and even through the cadence I could tell nothing audible left my mouth. He quickly made himself part of the crowd again and I spun staggered towards the stage. This must be what Hunter S. Thompson felt like in Vegas. People are always trying to talk to you at the most inconvenient times.
I'm not even sure what I expected to happen. He was supposed to be here, and the giant TV screen keeps saying he'll be on in 15 minutes. This was a half an hour ago. I can't take it anymore. My hallucinations have become full-blown. My vision is completely blurred out. I keep putting my hands to my face and shaking my head like that kid from Home Alone. I'd scream, but I don't need the attention. Then, the field goes pitch black. I expect to hear cheers, but all I hear is booing. An electronic voice comes on, telling Mr. West he's crash landed. Then the lights start flashing.
I have no clue where I am, and I think the world is ending. Lasers are shooting at me from the stage, and Kanye West is there, dancing and singing like a 14-year-old girl. I couldn't believe it. The functioning part of my brain, the left side, wanted me to leave, knowing that this was the worst musical act in existence, but the drug-induced right side of my brain just wanted to dance. It wanted to tell everyone in the area that this was the greatest thing to ever happen here at Bonnaroo, and that they should stop booing.
I was in the minority. Here I am, a 21-year-old college kid who thought it would be a good idea to take acid for a Kayne West concert, and there they are, 20,000 of the whitest people I have ever seen, staring directly at me. They're staring at me because I am screaming. I am screaming at the top of my lungs. My left brain has merged with the right and I have no control over anything. I'm screaming, "I'm tripping balls and you're terrible right now!!!" I'm screaming it, over and over again. Everyone is staring at me. For a second, I thought the act had stopped altogether, and Kayne West was staring me down, with all his rich kid fury.
So I turned around and tried to run. But when the grass is purple and the stars are moving at a blinding pace in a gray post-apocalyptic sky, it's hard. So I walked. Not even at a fast pace. I walked right past all these judgmental eyes. I had to get back to my tent, and I knew it was 20 minutes away. It's very hard to stand up straight and walk, let alone not cry while peaking on acid.
I saw a cop on a horse and I thought I was about to shit my pants. Not because of the cop, but because I haven't crapped in two days. Then the word shit got stuck in my head on loop.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
It's the most fascinating word in my vocabulary. The cop looks at me, and I look back, absorbing him into my black hole pupils. I veer at him and he stops his horse, but I stagger right by and into the porta-potty. I can feel him staring at me through the door. I expect him to bust in and find me here, pants down, shitting in the urinal section of the box shitter. I then decide to take a piss in the section made for pooping, and I realize I am pissing slime, not urine. It looks like a solid material pouring from my dong. I panic, thinking I picked up some weird disease from shitting in a urinal.
My pants aren't even pulled up and I bust out the door, finding myself alone. The cop and his behemoth horse are gone. I can't even see any other concert goers. I stagger to my tent, and lay inside, watching the dew evaporate from my tent. I wouldn't sleep for the next 30 hours.
I think the moral of this story is that Kayne West is a terrible artist, even when you're on acid. At least that's what I'm taking from it. Next time I'll get Jay-Z tickets.
Kudos to you for choosing a somewhat refreshing subject. Sometimes it seems as if the majority of the articles on this website limit themseleves to booze, weed, and girls. Thank you for bringing acid into the picture, but not only that, but with Kanye West involved.
I do have to say, while an interesting piece, I felt as if you could have gone further with this to make it better crafted. You're readers understand that you are on acid at a Kany West concert, and instead of just describing your acid experience, perhaps you could have put it into a larger context than just your experience. I.E. you could have ragged on Kanye more. There is so much information in this piece to make it so much more than a narrative if you so choose to do so.
In short, anyone can describe their drug experience but a good part of writing means putting it into a context. You have so much material here, just use it better.
Sorry for being a jackass, but I hate to see so much potential wasted.
It's perfectly fine, I love criticism. You could have told me the article was straight garbage and I would respect that.
This article was straight garbage.
"People are always trying to talk to you at the most incontinent times"
Incontinent? Invonvenient perhaps?
"Incontinent? Invonvenient perhaps? Cock."
Haha, correction fail. Muphry's Law strikes again!
Seems almost like a mushroom trip. Ignore these other fucks on this page. They're just jealous you were at Bonnaroo.
You used i.e. wrong you mean to use e.g. i.e means: also known as *usually followed by one word* not "for example." Before you try to sound literate you should check yourself.
Dude, felt like I was there. Could have been a little more descriptive for those who haven't yet had similar experiences.
Yay for acid making EVERYTHING an adventure - even something as frightfully boring & painful as a Kanye West concert. Entertaining piece - thanks for sharing!! :-D
Yo man I saw Kanye under similar circumstance although it was shrooms not acid and I completly understand every feeling you just described. It was one of the craziest times of my life because every aspect of that concert from buildup till crashing anti-climatic end was insane. I spent the entire wait trying to convice everyone that it was ok and that Kanye was going to be awesome and that booing was not going to help but combating a field full of pissed off fucked up people is diffcult especially when you are trying to convince them to stay postive about somone they are there to hate anyway. Even though i danced and screamed and sang the whole time, I could understand the feelings of resentment towards Kanye. I just think its great that somone can, through words and actions, liken themselves to the second coming of christ, and get a crowd of 80,000 people, many of whom would never listen to him, saying his name for days to come no matter how negative the comments are after word.
Yeah, I tried to convince my friends to stay but they left me there like assholes. I'm just glad that I am not the only one who does hallucinogenics at awkward times then tries to act like a functioning human being.
It really is the best part of doing acid.
COMPLETELY agree. Acid is great because you've basically been turned into a primal beast, trying to relearn and reassess basic functions such as swallowing (which is fucking weird on LSD). Great piece, loved every line.
I went to Kanye's show at the U of A. Some chick on speed was going crazy and completely out of her mind screaming for Kanye to come. I was thinking what the fuck is wrong with her then decided to loudly say "I heard his plane got stuck in LA and he can't make it tonight". She looked at me like I'd just said her mother had been killed, was on the verge of tears, then her friend whispered something to her along the lines of "You fucking retard, he's joking". Then she got pissed and told me to fuck off. When he finally got on stage a few hours later, she tried to rush the stage and touch him. She didn't even make it halfway before getting grabbed by security and missing the rest of the show. I nearly cracked a rib laughing as she was carried out crying and thrashing.
dude, doing hallucinogenics at awkward times is the only fucking thing that makes life slightly entertaining, well that and getting blow jobs on ferris wheels @ amusement parks ..wheres the amusement without a blow job anyway?
that just about sums up self-transcendence in a nutshell.
This is great. Absolutely hilarious! And you my friend Mr Gillespie, are very hot.
I don' t know how I got here, but I was coming down and stumbled upon your piece; laughed my ass off and had to pick it up half way through. Eat, drink, and be merry!
lmfao. wow that was hilarious. "i'm tripping balls and your terrible right now!!!" LOL
oh man i can totally relate to that..only substitute a Kanye concert with "wandering around campus with a friend and subsequently drinking with a fat dude who we proceeded to do terrible things to after he passed out on a couch. also, mexican food tasted like curry
Well my friend. I have been to every Bonnaroo, minus the journey you attended last year. After downing copious amounts of the psilosibyn, watching 30,000 faces melt can be somewhat of an ominous and ass-clenching experience. What is it about mushrooms and acid that make me panic into taking a dump? Perhaps it's the whole food-poisoning aspect of the shrooms and the uncontrollable vision quest that is acid. I must, like many have, give you kudos on your bravery in this matter and will 100% agree that Kanye West is a sham; no matter HOW many hot women shake their asses to his "hits". Great post.
People are always trying to talk to you at the most "incontinent" times... so people where trying to talk to you while you pissed yourself?
Ah, The perks of Microsoft Word trying to guess what word you meant. I missed this when I proofread. Inconvenient was the word
I was looking for.
Oh, that's my bad, I thought you actually MEANT "incontinent," as a pun or something. Like people always try to talk to you when you're drunk and have to pee.
I was also there and also tripping balls on acid. I however, made the unfortunate mistake of taking it, going to Pearl Jam, checking out a few small acts, and then waiting 4 hours for Kanye... little bit of a buzz kill. Needless to say, Kanye sucks.
haha, dude was this at bonnaroo? thats so fucking funny. i was tripping for my first time too, i had a pretty bad trip. kanye did suck.
wow! I did drugs, too, when I was younger, but this is just so immature - have you actually thought about what these things do to (and, of course, FOR) you beforehand? Obviously not, to me it seems like a "I-wanna-do-what-college-douches-write-home (or "in-their-blog"?)-about" kind of thing to do.
I'll make sure I put this in the scrap book of my life just for you.
lol, what a douchebag comment to make. I repeat, DOUCHEBAG
kanye west totally sucks ass. hooray for the internet revolution- send those record companies out of business if this is the shit they are going to feed us. he is so very very bad. puke:O
lol at chuck palahniuk metaphors!
Some can enjoy acid...for people like myself, it's the scariest fucking thing EVER! Yes, I agree, peeing is weird on acid...but try SEX!
Kanye west is horrible, so unoriginal.
at least the acid made it fun =]
6 hours? 6 hours?!? My friend, weak acid. Try 18. Try rapidly hallucinating for 12 of that. Try hearing the most beautiful, indescribable music bubbling up out of nowhere only to look at your friend and have him say, "The music isn't real."
Trying looking over in your mind's eye and seeing a door in the wall, with a faceless man in a suit standing in front of it holding out a pulsating tab and hearing a voice unlike any voice you've ever heard before:
"Would you like to trip again?"
Dude i was there for Phil Lesh then went to see Kanye. After waiting an hour all of us said fuck this and walked around pod 9 exploring. I found a church... We ended up humming the pink panther theme song the whole way back to our good old pod 1. where we promptly ate some mushrooms and made fun of our few sourly disappionted friend that decided to stay and see him while watching the sunrise. We didnt sleep that night.
1. Acid isn't sold in pill form. It hasn't been sold that way in 40 years.
2. Acid lasts for 9-12 hours, not 6.
3. Your experience sounds like fiction written by someone who has never had a psychedelic experience, but has read enough about them to lie semi-convincingly.
twas my first thought too. an acid pill?? wtf.
dude, "That Guy" is soooo dumb. lol. you obviously know nothing about drugs today. bhahahaha, not sold in pill form for 40 years? hahahahahahahahahahah
Exactly... if anything he rolled, and problably smoked bud too, that will make you semi hallucinate, nothing like acid though.... and as far as acid lasting 6 -12 hours, thats the main effects, you can keep having little trips for over a week...
Can I ask a question as a first timer if I were to drop acid 12/8 hours before a plane ride would you recommend it still and would I be fine?
Is this a serious comment? Cuz uh... I'm pretty sure you could put acid in just about anything. If you can put it on blotter paper or a sugar cube, why the fuck not a pill? Jackass comment, like several others in this thread. So many haters...
i had the same exact experience at an Aphrodesia performance. they played as a stage setter for BUCKETHEAD. i was trippin balls. it was amazing. i definitely felt the same way about everyone- even the band- staring me down and commenting about my every move. i stumbled back to my campsite that was in the woods (we were at nelson's ledges, ohio) and i felt like the band had continued to harass me all the way until i made it to my tent. where i watched the sun float around the sky from within my tent, and the music just getting more crazy trippy confusing (if you dont know what I'm talking about, listen to Aphrodesia). yeah. so i know exactly where you are coming from with pretty much this entire story. (in retrospect, it's pretty hilarious you had that experience, is it not? :-P)
deemsters and kanye is where it's at
yo anyone who has ever done hallucinogens or psychedelics can completely relate to this guy. This is probably the funniest story I have ever read, and YES IT IS TRUE THAT PEOPLE TALK TO YOU AT THE MOST INCONVENIENT TIMES!!! Hunter S. Thompson is God, and this story must have been a great experience.
Hunter would kill you for calling him god.
I have to say, that was one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.
The post above mentioned something semi-accurate; acid isn't in pill form anymore (or at least none I've come across).
Regardless, I still laughed from start to finish. Well done.
I would never, ever choose to see a Kanye West show on cid though. Every time I've been on acid around a black person they've turned into the Grim Reaper; even a small 5 foot even black friend of mine. It's not surfacing hidden racist feelings (to anyone who may read this and posts something similar); I think it's based off a childhood experience where a black friend dressed up like that for Halloween.
My point, however, was that seeing a black guy on stage surrounded by lasers and his minions cheering for him would've been the most terrifying experience of my life on acid.
Touche for sitting through any of that concert. Kanye's a scrub.
wow. I am so sorry you had to go through that.
There is no way someone judged you from trippin at Bonnaroo. Everyone there is fucked up on something. I passed out in my tent before Kanye, but I heard he was a major let down. Oh and for the shitting, we just went in the woods every morning. Beats the hell out of those nasty urinals.
you wouldn't lose control like that from one hit.
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I know acid doesn't come in pill form, It's easier than typing it's a little piece of blotter paper... Acid comes in different forms, I'm well aware of that.
Also, I was talking about when I started feeling it and when it ended. Who gives a fuck about the last couple of hours where I didn't trip and walked around waiting to pass out.
Acid has different strengths values like every other drug, and in this story I ate three good hits and went to town.
Also, I love spam and if you have an interesting tripping story tell me, I love hearing about them.
Last time I ate cid (cept this year's camp bisco) I was at my brother-in-law's bachelor party. Let me first add that my friends and I are veterans of the scene, but my BIL is not. He had been to a few Phish shows and has seen his share of partying, but it had been several years since he had got down. He only had a few friends from back home come up so I invited a few mutual friends to come out with us and my wife would DD all night in a party van. We started getting drunk early and had reservations at Dave and Busters near Chicago. We got there and had a game room and an awesome waitress. She hooked us up big time and exceeded all of our expectations;^)
After about 4 hours or so we were all way too drunk to be in public. We had these over-mic'd blotters (toenails) floating around and we all decided it was time to fly. I should say that with these particular blotters, you were fucked if you looked at them wrong. A tiny piece was gooood. We all ate at least 2-3 each...I don't quite recall.....Next thing I remember is playing a 3-D bowling game and sweating my dick off. My beers were still going down like water and all the activity in the room became one sonic mesh of rhythmic bliss. I was blazing my dick off in the middle of Dave and Busters laughing hysterically with my best friend while 3-D bowling on "expert." This memory will never leave me. We had unlimited everything, a beautiful flirty waitress who let us do anything, beer, a DD....but it wasn't enough....we needed titties, and the waitress nor my wife was going to strip for us.
So we headed for Palatine to a full BYOB nudey bar called Dancers. The ride was full of trace music and blissful smoothness. Heading to a full nude bar with my wife was kinda bugging me out though. I know she just wanted to keep us safe and she doesn't care what the fuck I really do, so why do I care? I just didn't know what to expect I guess. None of us did!
When we got there, we all jump outta the van and go take a leak....It was pretty funny. Our coolers still had cold beer and here we were!! We walk inside and it was one of those "PLING..they all know we're blazin!!" things. Two big black guys were running the front and my wife is up there wheelin and dealin...trying to figure it all out. Suddenly he says "Gentlemen, feel free to come in and out with a cup and make sure you tip our females...enjoy"
We filled up our cups, went inside, and got down to some Phil Collins...."WHAT?!? Phil Collins?" "She's dancing to Phil Collins?"
'It's another day for you and me, paradise'
I must say her expressions were awfully dramatic, perhaps she deserved a few bucks for artistry? I tossed a few bucks on stage and she ignored it...My friends laughed..I felt awkward. Then the next thing I remember is turning around and seeing the only blondy asking me if I wanted a dance...How could I say no? I obliged and we walked hand in hand (right past my wife who just got back in) into the back room. She asked about our party and I actually told her we were all tripping....It totally bugged her out. "You're not going to freak out and shit are you?"
I told her "nahhhh...you smell too good."
As she laughed and awkwardly got undressed I realized the other women dancing in the room. They were way hotter than mine and suddenly she pulls my chin towards her and tells me to pay attention. I said I like variety and I was sorry. She smelled like cantaloupe, my favorite fruit...so I told her that as her nipple rubbed across my lips. After the dance I went back to our spot, watched some fucked up shit for a while and then went outside with my wife to puff. We decided that shit was getting too fucked up and expensive, so we should perhaps call it a night.
We go inside and round up the crew, but the bachelor was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. He had been missing for a long time...really don't recall seeing him before the incident..
We figure he's in back doing some yak or something and low and behold, he was. He comes out with this girl who is pulling him by the shirt. "He's in trouble!"
We're all like what????
He owes me alotto money.
How much?
We all laughed and he just looked like a ball of confusion.
He had been gone for 20 songs and god knows what happened. We had pooled up the cash as another gift..stupid ass...I hope he reads this one day..too bad he can't recall anything but "we were talking."
whatta foo
dude ur a fucking pussy, yeah kanye sucks but no man ur making it sound like acids a terrible thing. last time i took lsd i took 4 hits and tripped like a fucking banger at the mall, and before that i tripped 10 hits. acids a wonderful thing and u should be the happiest person on earth no all terrified and paranoid like ur dumbass
"I know acid doesn't come in pill form, It's easier than typing it's a little piece of blotter paper..."
Complete bullshit. "I dropped a tab" "I took a hit" "I took some blotter paper" it's all as long as "I ate the pill"... Anyone who's actually done LSD would not refer to it as a pill, it's like saying i just ate a cigarette. It's completely inaccurate, and your a fool for trying to pass off a fake drug experience as fact. For people interested in real information about any drug, visit Erowid.org.
Wow@ all these haters. Ragging on someone because he called acid a pill, and referring him to erowid makes me YOU are a jackass. Erowid is where 14 year olds go to learn about drugs and lie to their friends about them. This was an awesome story, don't listen to these freakin' morons. I'm gonna go smoke some whiskey and snort some weed. Try not to waste too much time criticizing me for it.
I definitely do not believe that this was a genuine trip. The pill thing is definitely a big red flag in my mind. As well as how you described your trip.. i just don't think it happened, and your story wasn't very good. I guess high-school pot heads and persons uneducated about LSD might believe this, but I don't. Also Erowid.org is easily the best source on all drugs- make sure to check out the experience vaults for a great read...
I think that this was really well written. I even laughed a few times, and definitely enjoyed reading it. :)
I was at the same show. I had left maybe ten minutes before he went on. It's nice to know that I didn't miss much. I was sick the duration of the festival. Sucks, but you just got to keep trucking, I suppose.
This seems like the same experience I probably would have had, considering all the meds I was on. Sinus, pain, weed, and beer. I didn't have the guts to take a hit of LSD while being so sick. I'd done that before once, and the following 12 hours proved quite weird.
It's probably safe to say that I am no longer insane after an experience like that. Welcome Aboard! Next stop: Further!
hey guy, LSD doesn't come in pill form very often, and normally duration of LSD is about 12 hours. If it only lasted 6 hours, and was in a pill, i'm pretty sure you just took MDMA. Find some real acid and go take it in a forest or in nature or some psychedelic concert. kanye west is not a good choice
Dude, what are you talking about? 90% of Bonnaroo is fucked up the entire time lol. You weren't the minority. And acid's not a pill, but that's besides the point...
The newbs are all over this shit. Yes, it is highly unlikely that you're going to find he++y LSD crystal on lot, but to say ACID DOESN'T COME IN A PILL IS IGNORANT.
Summer tour, 1997 (phish)
I got a thumb-print that rocked my world for 2 days.
Kid dumped it out of a pill....SO?!?
Crystal LSD is very dense and not easily mistaken for other chemicals. My guy had them in clear pills, like molly. A tenth of molly doesn't take up half the space as a 10th of LSD.
Hell, this kid may have gotten into some research chemicals for all we know. But to say "acid doesn't come in pills just shows your newbage."
wow this site really attracts some morons, huh?
let me clear something up for all of the idiots tripping over themselves to shoot holes in this not very hard to believe story.
1. Acid can come in whatever form you fucking want it to. You can drop LSD on spree, skittles, mentos, an aspirin pill, whatever you want. So saying you took an "acid pill" is, um, pretty fucking obvious if someone dropped it on a pill of some sort.
2. I'm tired of all these retards that come out and claim "acid lasts this long" like if you take theres only one dosage possible. You can take a small enough dose that you'll only feel it for a few short hours. You can take enough for it to last days. How hard is this to understand?
dude hate to break it to you, but a pill that lasts for 6 hours is not acid, it's ecstacy - likely some combo of mdma, mda, meth, 2cb, other research chemicals, etc etc. lsd is not a pill and lasts much longer. nice story though.
rap music in general was very weird to me while i was tripping...
my stand-by's for an acid trip:
my girlfriend/trip partner
the mars volta
animal collective
cattle decapitation {albeit a weird choice, i found that it gave me equally awesome and evil visuals}
sketch book
colored pencils/markers/paints
light sticks/glow sticks [not in the rave sense]
i also found that a lit cigarette could and did entertain me for hours[obviously not the same cig, but you get the picture]. nothing like staring at the visual trails of a red hot cherry, or tracing the cig in the air making all sorts of crazy animals and whatever else my mind showed me ..
but, the last time i tripped, there was a walking stick mating frenzy going on, so that was crazy as hell, and was quite entertaining.
and to all the people trying to correct everyone and their mother, it doesnt matter. its not worth it. if youve done acid, then you know. if you havnt, then you dont. simple as that.
shits crazy.
jerk off your ego a little more. acid and kanye west? what the fuck were you expecting?
I'm suprised you did'nt come away from it a Kayne west fan, not much music i havent "felt" while on acid - guess KW really is just canned commercial garbage...
Amusing story regarding your acid experience. My trip was quite a bit different, but hey.. The three all varied so who's to say depending on the person as well as the amount. First time I took acid was at a rave (cliche I know) but it was a RIIIIIDICULOUSSSS experience. It was in the midst of four or five pills.. And I didn't even remember eating the two blots until four o clock am when edc (LA) was wrapping up. The visuals kept me in a dead stare, whether it was the fabric on the back of the headrest in front of me.. The cherry on my 27, the afgan blanket tossed across my couch.. Or the fairy flier handed to me as I left the venue that morning. I could hardly hold a conversation - not due to a lack of current Intelligence - but because I was so damn visually stimulated! I could go on for hours about my experiences... But I agree with a previous post about lingering effects. I call it getting mindfucked. I don't know if its just because I am now capable of acknowledging the visual effects.. But I feel like sometimes I see the patterns. (Usually in a week to two following my trip.) Anyhow, funny story. My experiences were quite a bit different (and geez again.. Acknowledging a previous post.. Sex on acid?? Eek. Don't reccomend it.) But anyways keep the stories coming they crack me up.
hahaha amazing, sounds more like my first mush trip tho - cant wait to try acid !
Ahhh haha I loved this! 2009 was my first roo experience. this is the funniest thing i've read in weeks!
dude, i'm pretty sure you weren't the only one on acid..
Ok, I have to ask. I've done acid twice before, wasn't that strong, didn't trip that hard and I was, for the most, part at home and alone. However, in 4 days, I'm going to an MGMT concert, and I've managed to secure some acid. It may be stronger than what I've tried before, there's really no way of knowing.
My question is, do you think it'd be alright to take the acid so I have the trip during the concert? I have alot of experience with weed, and I'm like the Morgan Freeman of sobering up (meaning no one notices I'm high). I will be with some friends, and I may or may not let them know I'm taking it.
Your advice?
Wow well first mistake was the kanye obviously, you should've went to gwar or something cool like that. Secondly your friend sold it to you like a fucking hippy its a drug it will do one thing and thats distort how your brain reads and relays things. Acid is pretty cool but you gotta keep that mind that you ARE on a drug and the it will be over soon. Funny to come across this article for i shall be doing 3 hits tomorrow.
But if this was your first time, trust me its worse with mushrooms.
oh yeah and public places terrible to be on acid everyone talks to you then and wants to be friends.
Kudos for experiencing things first hand instead of just coming to the conclusion everyone knows that its bad.
I love everything about this article. I do agree that it could have been longer, though. The insanity stops just short of being epic.
I once saw Marilyn Manson (years ago) on mushrooms. I don't like Marilyn Manson, but my girlfriend at the time did so I figured, what the hell. The strangest thing was the crowd. Three guys dressed like the crow and a 300 pound goth tranny were among the highlights. And for the record I have never researched drugs on any website. Anyone who tries to fact-check a drug story based on articles about drugs has nothing useful to bring to the conversation.
i ate an acid sweet tart at a kanye show once and it was great. guess i'm the only kanye fan here...
This reminds me of Coachella when I was on Acid watching kanye, I also was on acid to watch cee-lo green get the power shut down on him and kicked off stage for sucking hahaha


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- 40mm Red/Green dotThis site seems great, although I did not get to use it in the field yet. It is very easy to adjust to compensate for being on top of the carry handle (I have the carry handle mount). I can hit a 2" target with it at about 20 meters away consistantly. The only problem I can find with it is that it is kind of difficult to notice the differences in intensities. For the price of this sight it is a good deal.
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VERRY NICE SCOPE! No zoom but for a red dot scope it is brobably one of the best i have!
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- this thing is awsomefirst off i like the fact that unlike most red dot or red cross sights that are made of plastic this one was made of metal the metal gives it a nice amount of weight the only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars is because the battery runs out so freakin fast one mine but maybe that is because I play for about 4 to 5 hours every day for a week once but over all it is a awsome sight.
(p.s.) dont forget to turn it off when your done and if you arent shooting for a while also turn it off it saves the battery.
- good stuffThis is a good Red-dot sight
I got mine @ Airsplat, and it works perfectly with my SRC M4. When combined with the carrying handle mount, it makes my SRC M4 super accurate.
Night- time is a little troublesome,though. cuz you can't see as well through the sight, but if you keep both eyes open ,you'll be able to see better...plus its better than trying to find your iron sights when its dark out
just make sure you line everything up PERFECTLY before its dark...otherwise you'll be missing a ton
- goodI got this scope with my sig sauer 552 electric. It glows green and red. It is more of a cross than a dot. It mounts easy. Makes the gun more accurate and does not slow you down. I personally think it is a bit expensive. But good -The toad


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Something I picked up on Twitter yesterday via The Coolhunter (still a firm favourite for inspiration!) — a cool (read: very hipster) take on American Airlines' branding. It's the work of Anna Kövecses (check out her Behance site for some really lovely work, including some beautiful illustration work), a Cypriot designer who won $1000 and considerable exposure for her troubles. You can read all about how the project came to be here.
The work — and the forum which spawned it — really exemplifies the virtues of self-initiated and initiative-laden work. Yes, our industry is a competitive one, it certainly has been for as long as I've been a part of it, and it's unlikely to change any time soon. As we advise all of our students, you really do need to work hard to get your work seen, and one of the most common traits we hear prospective employers looking for is initiative. It's never enough to plod along being content with the status quo. You need to constantly be looking at how things can be improved. How things can be better. And more importantly, how your skills and initiative can be put to good use to see communication being more effective.
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Tee Time: Oliver teaches for the love of the game
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If you're a golfer and new to the Western North Carolina you may not be familiar with one of the area's best golf teaching professionals. But those of you that have played the courses in this area are probably very familiar with PGA Professional Brian Oliver.
Oliver's credentials as a player and instructor are quite lengthy: 2005 Mountains Chapter PGA Professional of the Year, 2006 Mountains Chapter PGA Junior Golf Leader of the Year, 2005-2006 President of the Mountains Chapter PGA, Member of the Board of Directors for the Western North Carolina Junior Golf Association, winner of the 2007 Mountains Chapter PGA Pro-Pro Championship, winner of the 2006 & 2008 Brad Daugherty Fall Golf Invitational at The Cliffs of Walnut Cove, instructed a student that won the North Carolina High School Individual State Championship in 2009, instructed seven students that won the Western North Carolina Junior Golfer of the Year Award in 2008, and instructed four students that won the Western North Carolina Junior Golfer of the Year Award in 2007.
Besides having solid teaching credentials, Oliver also has a warm and engaging personality, which makes working with him so enjoyable. He not only wants to help improve the golf games of his students but make it an enjoyable experience for them.
"I love to teach the game of golf and I want to give back to the game that has been so good to me," said Oliver. "I have been a PGA Professional since 1999 and I have been teaching golf for 18 years. I am back at Broadmoor Golf Links teaching golf again and I am dedicated to making Broadmoor Golf Links the best teaching facility in Western North Carolina."
Broadmoor Golf Links, which is partnered with Warrior Custom Golf, is located in Fletcher, off Airport Road, near the airport and I-26. Broadmoor is this region's only links style course and has no housing or out of bounds on any of the holes. The course has bent grass greens, Bermuda grass fairways and bluegrass/fescue rough.
Starting May 11, Oliver will begin Junior Golf Clinics every Saturday. Clinics will start at 10 a.m. and the cost will be $10 per junior. Oliver's website, BrianOliverPGAPro.com will have the dates and information about the clinics.
Oliver will also be doing Get Golf Ready Classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Get Golf Ready is a proven program that has the individual ready to go on the golf course and enjoying the game in only five one-hour sessions. You can learn with a friend, if you so choose, in a no-stress, no-embarrassment atmosphere. You can register online at playgolfamerica.com.
And if he's not already busy enough, Oliver said that he is going to be helping Dave Sciupider with providing instruction to area elementary and middle schools in Henderson, Buncombe and Transylvania counties. Additionally, he has plans to do a golf clinic this summer for the Wounded Warrior Project and the Folds of Honor Foundation. Information will be available in the coming weeks on his website.
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Students on the Dean's List must have a minimum grade point average of 3.5 or 3.75 for the semester based on a 4.0 grade point system and must have taken at least 12 hours of coursework. The following St. James Alumni were recognized with Dean's List honors during their fall semester:
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Abby Frederickson, St. Olaf College
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There's a giveaway at the end of this post. I'll begin with an update on why I have not been very active on my food blog, since mid-June. I'll highlight my update in italics, so you can scroll past it, if you want to find out what a Digital Recipe Reader is-- and why you might want one.
It has been seven weeks since I received my new "Bionic Knee". On my post for Vanilla Salted Peanut Cookies, I shared a less-than-stellar review on how things went. This post, however, has a more positive spin and I am beginning to feel like my life is slowly getting back to normal.
Initially, I felt very discouraged (and sad) that my fantasies of spending six post-surgery weeks, at home, didn't quite pan out as I had imagined. I had visions of spending a couple of weeks with down time, impressing my home visit Physical Therapy with my ability to recover so quickly, and having the last four weeks being able to walk around (albeit slowly and carefully). I figured I'd have plenty of time to make new recipes, read books, meet friends for leisurely lunches and that in six weeks I'd be walking better than ever.
When I told my physical therapist what my goals were, and that I needed to return to my full-time job in six weeks, he raised his eyebrows. (This was not a good omen.) Together, we worked on my rehabilitation, three days at week-- at home. There was pain involved, but progress began to happen, and he was very patient with me.
What I did not expect was that I would spend six weeks of a very slow recovery. It took four weeks for me to learn how to get into my car, and to feel comfortable while driving. Standing and cooking, without pain, proved almost impossible for the first six weeks. Consequently, my wonderful husband did his best to prepare our meals and my camera, spatulas, pots and pan sat unused.
At the end of six weeks, I returned to work, and I can finally drive with minimal discomfort. My freedom has been restored! My spirits soared, being back at work, where I could interact with people and get away from feeling like a prisoner in my own home. I feel useful again, and I have been very busy. Oh, happy day!
I am now going to outpatient physical therapy, where they have an underwater treadmill-- and I do love the water! I am making slow, but steady progress, and am confident that my new knee and I will be very happy together-- but it could take a few more months. Best of all, I'm starting to do some simple cooking. I can't stand for more than 15 minutes, so whatever I make has to be simple and quick. My men help, if I need it, and do all the cleanup. Lucky me! I'm laughing again, and very thankful that the worst is behind me-- I can't wait to get back to creating new recipes so I can share them on my blog--oh, how I've missed my hobby!
When I started my food blog, in 2008, I discovered a website, "Key Ingredient". I created a free account, and figured out how to "Embed" each recipe card at the bottom of each of my blog posts. I found that it was super easy for me to save recipes, from other websites, by creating a recipe card and storing it on Key Ingredient. (though, Pinterest is now my favorite way to save recipes that I've spotted and want to save as my "to try" list.)
In 2010, Key Ingredient launched their DEMY Digital Recipe Reader. The price was $299.00, and that was a bit too pricey for me. Eventually, COSTCO carried the product for $199.00 and I bought it. The concept was that I could "sync" or "download" all of my Key Ingredient Recipe cards into the DEMY. No more binders or printed recipes!
Last week, Key Ingredient launched their new Prime Membership (ad free) for $19.99 per year. At first, I was disappointed in the membership offer. The difference is that with the free account, you are now limited in the number of private recipes (ones only you can see) and number of cookbooks you can create. I have close to 1200 stored recipes, and I do have quite a few cookbooks, and a number of private recipes. Plus, I saw an incentive I could not resist-- the first 1000 subscribers would win a FREE RECIPE READER. So, I took a chance, paid the fee and I won a FREE RECIPE READER!!
Since I already have a Recipe Reader, I have decided to give my prize to a lucky reader of my blog. So, this giveaway is not sponsored by Key Ingredient. I thought it would be fun to share this with someone who wants to store their recipes digitally!
- Key Ingredient recently added a feature that I appreciate-- that is, when someone copies a photo from another website, they must give the "source" URL (link). This is in response to many food bloggers who felt that Key Ingredient was another "scrape site". If you don't know what a scrape site is, it means that people copy recipes and photos-- and sometimes the entire food blog's content-- and do not list the source. This is a copyright infringement, and is considered "stolen work"! I was pleased to see that Key Ingredient is taking steps to protect food bloggers who do not appreciate having their work "stolen".
- I know that when I publish any of my photos or recipes, that I am vulnerable to people taking my own work without asking me for permission. My general rule on this-- please ask, and even better-- please give a link back to me. My fellow food bloggers thank you for this.
- I have actually found my photographs copied, and used as other people's recipes. I hated to do it, but I reported it to Google and the posts have been taken down. All we food bloggers ask is, please be courteous! I've read stories about lawsuits that have happened, and they're not pretty stories.
- Anytime I publish a recipe that I did not develop, I always list the source name and link back to them.
You can buy a Recipe Reader on "Amazon" for a current sale price of $149.00 (regular price is $199.00) Now then, are you interested in winning a free Digital Recipe Reader?
If you want to win (or buy) a Recipe Reader, first you must be willing to create your own free account on Key Ingredient. (You can, later, decide if you want a prime membership.) Please understand that the Recipe Reader doesn't scan your recipes! I recommend that you practice entering a few recipes and create a few recipe cards. If you're a champ on cutting and pasting, you will find that it takes just a minute, or two to create a recipe card. If you want to save your precious heirloom hand-written recipe cards, you'll have to type it in yourself. If you add their "Cookshare" button onto your browser tool bar, most times I can click on that and most (but not all) website recipe instantly becomes a recipe card (with the URL/Link source automatically added). Of course, you can easily save Key Ingredient recipe cards, that other members have shared, to your own cookbooks (here is my account) Even if you don't own a Recipe Reader, you'll love storing your recipes on their website-- and you can easily print them out or email them to a friend. You can read more about how to use Key Ingredient here.
Once you have created your recipe cards, connect your Recipe to your wireless router, and your stored recipe cards will automatically sync to your Recipe Reader! Contrary to a few negative reviews that I've read, I have never had a problem receiving technical support! You can contact them at 855-KEY-CHEF (855-539-2433), email at firstname.lastname@example.com They were great at helping me to set up my Recipe Reader. I admit, I initially received a "lemon", but Key Ingredient quickly sent me a new unit and everything is running just fine.
I want to reiterate that I am not being paid by Key Ingredient to sponsor this giveaway. I simply want to share with you a kitchen tool that I use all the time. When my husband was doing his best to cook for me, he used my Recipe Reader to find my easy Super Sloppy Joe's recipe-- he followed the recipe, and he made them perfectly!
Leave a comment, below, that you'd love to win a Recipe Reader. You can receive up to five extra entries by: "Liking" my Facebook Fan Page and leaving a comment that you did (if you already are on my Fanpage, you can leave a comment that you do-- and thank you! Tweeting this giveaway (copy me @foodiewife), and leave a comment that you've done so. Share this on your Google Plus page with a link to this post, and leave a comment that you've done so. If you are on Facebook, announce this giveaway on your Facebook and be sure to link back to this post; leave a comment here that you've done so. Comments left on my Facebook Fan Page are appreciated, but will not be counted as an entry-- you must comment on this post, only. Please be sure that you have an email address or profile with an email address so I can contact you, if you win. I apologize, but I can only ship within the continental United States.
Giveaway has ended. I will announce the winner very shortly. Thanks for entering!
I will be back, blogging on a more regular basis, very soon. Thank you for your support, patience and encouragement. I've really missed not being able to cook and bake for my family. I think they have, too!


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Statistics from the past few years indicate that Oklahoma's deer hunters are doing a much better job in their selection of the animals they harvest. The figures indicate that Oklahomans are bagging fewer yearling bucks and taking advantage of more frequent opportunities to harvest antlerless deer.
"Hunters are better educated, and they are being more selective about what they are harvesting," said Erik Bartholomew, big game biologist for the Wildlife Department. "This shows that more of the state's 250,000 deer hunters are recognizing that they are deer managers when they are out hunting," he said.
In the late 1980s, yearling bucks accounted for nearly 70 percent of the state's total buck harvest. But over the past two decades, the percentage of yearling bucks in the total buck harvest has shrunk to 25 percent in the state.
This is a trend drawing great support from experts such as wildlife biologist Kip Adams, director of education and outreach with the Quality Deer Management Association. "I think that Oklahoma has done a tremendous job protecting yearling bucks and improving the age structure of the deer herd," Adams said.
The QDMA recently released a report detailing the 2011 deer harvest across the United States. It showed that Oklahoma was among the top five states where hunters harvest more older bucks, those at least 3.5 years old. In Oklahoma, 51 percent of the bucks taken in 2011 were at least 3.5 years old, compared with a national average of 33 percent.
What this means is that the state's deer hunters are letting more and more young bucks walk away in favor of waiting for a more mature, perhaps trophy, deer. "This is very positive for the deer population, and especially for Oklahoma hunters," Adams said.
Bartholomew added that the state's deer hunters can continue to improve the health and age structure of the deer herd by working together.
"Hunters should continue to take advantage of antlerless deer hunting opportunities, and they should strive to keep up the good work of introducing youth to deer hunting.
"Also, we encourage hunters to continue thinking about the bucks they are harvesting each year. Ask yourself each time you see a buck, 'Is he the one I want?' And look for opportunities to pass on younger bucks in order to wait for an older one."
States where the % of yearling bucks in the adult buck harvest declined from 2001 to 2011 (and the size of the decline).
State Percentage
From QDMA's 2013 Whitetail Report
Regulations in red are new this year.
Purple text indicates an important note.