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Cassie Ventura
Cassie at the February 2008 premiere of
Step Up 2: The Streets
|Casandra Elizabeth Ventura
August 26, 1986
New London, Connecticut, U.S.
|The Williams School
|Years active
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Casandra Elizabeth Ventura (born August 26, 1986), known mononymously as Cassie, is an American recording artist, dancer, actress and model. Born in New London, Connecticut, she began her career as a result of meeting record producer Ryan Leslie in late 2002, who later signed her to NextSelection Lifestyle Group. During this time, Diddy heard "Me & U" in a club, and Leslie convinced him to partner his Bad Boy Records with Leslie's NextSelection imprint for the release of Cassie's debut album.
Cassie's self titled debut studio album was released in August 2006, peaking at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 top three hit "Me & U", which became a major hit in 2006.[1] She began work on her second studio album in 2007 releasing three singles; "Official Girl" featuring Lil Wayne in August 2008, "Must Be Love" featuring Diddy in April 2009, and "Let's Get Crazy" featuring Akon in August 2009, which all failed to chart in the USA, in late 2009 Cassie signed a record deal with Interscope Records. On April 11, 2013 Cassie released her debut mixtape RockaByeBaby, which was promoted with the release of "Numb" featuring Rick Ross and "Paradise" featuring Wiz Khalifa.
Apart from music, Cassie is signed to modeling agency Wilhelmina Models and One Management. Cassie has modeled for Calvin Klein one[2] and has been featured in magazines including GQ[3] and Bust and becoming the face of ASOS 2013 spring collection,[4] Cassie has appeared in adverts for Delia's, Adidas, Abercrombie & Fitch, Seventeen, and a commercial for Clean and Clear.[5] Cassie is known for being a style icon due to her "edgy style"[6] and "feminine" and "sophisticated" fashion. Cassie is also known for setting the trend among women of shaving their hair, after Cassie shaved hers in 2009 influenced by punk.[7] Cassie cites Kate Moss as her style influence.[8] Cassie has also ventured into acting; she made her film debut in Step Up 2: The Streets (2008).
Early life[edit]
Cassie Ventura was born in 1986 in New London, Connecticut;[9] the daughter of a Filipino father and a mother of African-American, Mexican and West Indian descent.[10] She attended the Williams School, a preparatory school, located on the Connecticut College campus.[11] At age 14 Cassie began modeling, and when she was sixteen, she was modeling for local department stores, Delia's fashion catalog, and Seventeen.[9][11][12] Cassie also briefly appeared in R&B singer Mario's "Just a Friend 2002" music video.[13] Encouraged by producer Rockwilder, Cassie took vocal lessons as well as using her schools performing arts program, taking modern ballet.[11] Cassie finished high school in 2004, instead of going to college like her peers she moved to New York City, where she returned to modeling and classes at the Broadway Dance Center.[11] Whilst Cassie was in New York, she began booking print and commercial modeling gigs and being represented by Wilhelmina Models.[14]
2004–06: Cassie[edit]
Ryan Leslie spotted Cassie at clubs and parties in late 2002 frequently.[11][15] The two wrote a duet called "Kiss Me", and after recording the track, Leslie played the song for music executive Tommy Mottola.[11][15] Mottola offered Cassie a management deal, and Leslie signed her to NextSelection Lifestyle Group, his music-media company he founded with online marketing partner Rasheed Richmond.[16][17] Leslie wrote and produced Cassie's first single, "Me & U", in 2005. The song became a club hit in Germany.[9] During this time, Diddy heard "Me & U" in a club, and Leslie convinced him to partner his Bad Boy Records with Leslie's NextSelection imprint for the release of Cassie's debut album.[9]
Ryan Leslie produced most of the album, which is a mix of R&B/hip hop/pop. Ventura said in an interview, "I rap, I sing, I do my R&B, I do my slow songs and stuff that the girls will love, I have a down South joint, I have a rock song that I did with my girls this band called Pretty Boys."[18] She paid tribute to her Filipino culture by incorporating OPM sounds into some of the ballads. The album, Cassie, was released on August 8, 2006 and sold 321,000 copies in the United States.[19] The album's lead single "Me & U" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, selling more than 1 million digital downloads.[20] To promote her album, Cassie performed on Total Request Live and 106 & Park: BET's Top 10 Live. Her performances were described as "rocky" and "less-than-stellar", but Diddy said that it was due to her inexperience.[21] He said that he would be "with her through her development", and that he has no "question on her ability [to sing]".[21] Cassie addressed the events on her MySpace page, saying that she is aware that her performances were "pretty bad", and that she was "still getting over stage fright".[21]
2007–12: Film debut and Interscope records[edit]
MTV News reported in June 2007 that contrary to rumors, Cassie had not been dropped from Bad Boy Records after releasing two singles from her self-titled debut album. Diddy said that she was in the studio working with producers Kanye West and Pharrell Williams on her second album.[22] It was also reported that Cassie was no longer collaborating with Ryan Leslie, who had produced the majority of her debut album.[23] However, the singer later stated that she was open to collaborating with Leslie again.[24] According to Bad Boy A&R Daniel 'Skid' Mitchell, rather than largely relying on the one songwriter-producer, the new album's mix of writers and producers, as well as her own co-write input, makes it a more personal record for her.[25] Additional production on the album came from Seven and LV, as well as Diddy himself.[26] Cassie said that she had also collaborated with Akon, The Neptunes, Danja, Eric Hudson, The Surf Club and Rob Holiday, although she was not sure which tracks were going to be included on the album.[24] Commenting on the number of producers on the album, Cassie said that she "collaborated with a lot of different producers and a lot of different writers, which was an amazing opportunity for me, because on my first album, one producer [Ryan Leslie] straight through…which was fun, but it was nice to experience other people."[27]
In 2008 Cassie made her film debut as Sophie Donovan in the dance film Step Up 2: The Streets, Cassie also sang the lead single "Is It You" to the Step Up soundtrack. The song was released on November 13, 2007,[28] and peaked at eighty-five on the Canadian Hot 100[29] and fifty-two in the United Kingdom.[30]
In July 2009, Cassie announced that the album's title would be Electro Love. The idea was given to her by DJ Cassidy; Cassie explained by saying that "it's basically the sound of the album. It's not supposed to be taken so literal. 'Electro' could be like house and techno, but that's not what it is, but it's definitely a dance album. I just wanted it to be a reflection of that and the vibe of the music. It has that love song feel to it, but accompanied by that specific beat".[24] Cassie said that her new album will demonstrate more "independence"; there will be a "difference in vocals, a little bit more personality. And it's definitely a sensual album".[31] Three singles have been released from the album; "Official Girl" featuring Lil Wayne in August 2008, "Must Be Love" featuring Diddy in April 2009, and "Let's Get Crazy" featuring Akon in August 2009. All three singles failed to chart in the United States.[23]
After several delays, it was announced in December 2009 that Cassie had signed a new record deal with Interscope Records.[32] She is featured in a spread in the August/September issue of Bust in which she said a new single will be released in the fall. She has recently told her Twitter followers that she is still in the studio recording for her album. At the time of an October 2010 interview with HitQuarters, A&R Daniel 'Skid' Mitchell said that Cassie had already recorded around fifty songs for the album. Mitchell said that she was taking her time over the album because she is keen for "it to be something that people are going to respect."[25] She also appeared in rapper Wiz Khalifa's "Roll Up" music video as his love interest.
2012–13: RockaByeBaby[edit]
Cassie released the single, "King of Hearts", which was released in the United States on February 14, 2012, along with the official music video.[33] On April 24, 2012, Cassie performed the single live for the first time at BET's 106 & Park music video show. She concluded the performance with a brief dance number set to the Kanye West remix of the song, along with four dancers. After the performance Cassie and 106 & Park were worldwide trending topics on Twitter and it received mostly mixed to positive reviews from various online media outlets.[34] The single, "Balcony", featuring Young Jeezy, was then sent to U.S. urban radio stations on September 18, 2012.[35] On September 13, 2012, Nicki Minaj released the debut single off her re-release album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up, titled "The Boys", featuring Cassie.[36] The song was then sent to urban radios on September 25 and a music video was released on October 18.[37]
In July 2012, Cassie announced in a letter to her fans that she had been working simultaneously on her album and a new mixtape titled RockaByeBaby.[38][39] Cassie has been working with producers will.i.am, Da Internz, and Toby Gad, and was hoping to release it by the end of the year.[40] Cassie revealed that Da Internz had produced two songs for the project that were ready, she continued to say that the mixtape would set the "tone" for the album's sound.[41] RockaByeBaby was released on April 11, 2013,[42] the mixtape featured production from Rob Holladay, Da Internz, Young Chop, Mike WiLL Made It[43] as well as guest features from Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T, French Montana, Too $hort, Fabolous, and Ester Dean. The mixtape placed 43rd on Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2013 list and named one of Fact's 20 Best Mixtapes of 2013.[44][45] "RockaByeBaby" was also named best mixtape of the year by Dazed & Confused.[46]
The mixtape saw the release of "Numb" featuring American rapper Rick Ross on April 2, along with the songs accompanying music video[43] and "Paradise" featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa premiered on April 9, 2013 alongside the video on BET 106 & Park.[8][47][48] In April 2013 it was announced that Cassie was the face of the Summer 2013 Forever 21 collection.[49] "I Love It" featuring rapper Fabolous served as the mixtape's third promotional song, a behind the scenes video was released online on May 20, 2013. The music video was directed by Chris Latouche and filmed in an underground club.[50] On September 5, 2013, Cassie released a video for the track "I Know What You Want", directed by Christopher LaTouche and JayOhh.[51]
2016: Second studio album and return to acting[edit]
In March 2015, Cassie's boyfriend, rapper Diddy announced he would return to producing and revealed he would be producing songs for Cassie's second studio album.[52] In 2016 it was announced Cassie would return to acting, playing the lead role in the romantic comedy The Perfect Match. Released on March 11, 2016, the Billie Woodruff directed film, stars Cassie alongside Terrence J who plays Charlie, a successful playboy who doesn't believe in love until he crosses paths with the sexy Eva (Cassie).[53]
Cassie's musical sound is R&B, pop, and hip hop soul. Her voice has "character and ability".[54] Cassie cites Aaliyah, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Nine Inch Nails, La Lupe, Mariah Carey, Faith Evans and Usher as musical influences. Cassie also refers to herself as a "die-hard Janet Jackson fan", continuing to say "I'd love to emulate Janet Jackson's career—totally, Janet Jackson is an incredible and fantastic, from her moves to her voice".[55][56] Cassie debut album was R&B and pop rock with urban and contemporary R&B styles, the album contained "looming synthesizer patterns" and "ice-cream-truck melody to give it a slightly twisted and threatening edge", as well as containing "flippant playfulness".[54] RockaByeBaby (2013) is an R&B and hip hop mixtape that featured "dark"[57] and a "raw, laid back vibe."[58]
Personal life[edit]
In May 2015, Cassie was featured in a racy advertisement for Diddy's fragrance "3 AM".[59]
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Further reading[edit]
- Macpherson, Alex (December 30, 2008). "Cassie's unreleased classic". guardian.co.uk. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
- Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (January 6, 2011). "The growing cult of Cassie". guardian.co.uk. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
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With the loss of the mines and of several factories as well, he said, Marion County has lost nearly 400 retail jobs in the first half of the 1990's and 27 of its 355 stores. A study done for the Marion County Chamber of Commerce says county residents are spending $90 million more a year outside the county than in it.
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Mr. Reese said the county's 9 percent unemployment rate, compared with the national rate of 5.6 percent, was actually higher because many workers had stopped looking for jobs and were not counted.
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"All of us grew up in coal camps and lived within walking distance of the mines," said Gary Pastorial, 46, who was laid off from Tygart. "Everyone burned coal in their homes, and when you went out in the evening, you couldn't see the air. One of my chores was to scrub the front porch with a mop every day because it was black."
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by loooorrnadoonnne June 17, 2005
a freshly turned out whore.
Daddy put Jessica Simpson on the track and she gave it up to all those graffiti guys. You could paint 3 murals with some of that azz.
by anonymous March 03, 2005
Only loved by her parents because of her looks. Her dad only cares that she has double D's! Skank and the stupidest person on the face of the earth, no lie! She mooches off everyone she can because she couldn't sell enough records. Can someone please tell me why she still gets to go to award shows?!?
Could also be used as a synonym for stupid (see example)
Could also be used as a synonym for stupid (see example)
Your so Jessica Simpson!
by dontaskme November 12, 2007
proof that blondes are dumb. the stereotypical blonde bimbo with epic tits and a fake tan. i doubt SHE was the one who initiated the divorce. her husband probably had some sense knocked into him finally. is now dating a smart brunette and is making millions by pretending to be depressed and heartbroken about the split (his new album).
person 1: jessica simpson is dumb, but nick lachey is a smart man for leaving her.
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by blah blah blahhhhhhhhh March 18, 2007
A former pop star who never exactly claimed the success of Britney Spears in the music department, who has completely ruined her once lovable and pretty image with bad plastic surgery, and has had a pretty shitty music career ever since divorcing Nick Lachey which forced her to switch into becoming an actress.. which is just plain wrong!
Jessica Simpson's last cd 'A Public Affair', sold less than a million copies while Ashlee Simpson's last CD sold over 3.5 million copies, maybe should get back with Nick to rekindle her success!
by CallyLove August 09, 2007
she looks like a man for christ's sake. look at her manly butt chin. have you seen her without makeup? she'd make a cute gay male. im not even kidding. if you jack off to her, then you'd jack off to her, then you'd probaby jack off to a blown up cartoony doll.
i bet jessica simpson was born a man and had tons of surgery from it's rich parents.
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When Jessica first came onto the scene in 1999, no one cared about her. No one cared about her with her 2nd album. But once she got the reality show and pretended to be incredibly stupid, people paid attention to her and she is now the most overexposed person in Hollywood. I HATE HER WITH A PASSION.
Why do people care about her 6 years after she releases her first album?? Oh, I don't know, maybe because people get enjoyment out of people who pretend to be stupid for some reason.
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Luthien wrote:I figure we may as well discuss Tolkien's ideas about fairy tales, his essay "On Fairie Story," his idea of the "eucatastrophe," and other such things. I know Beren has already made mention of this, in relation to other series, but I thought we could discuss it in more detail here.
...skipping a large portion...The human mind, endowed with the powers of generalization, and abstraction, sees not only green-grass, discriminating it from other things (and finding it fair to look upon), but sees that it is green as well as being grass. But how powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty that produced it, was the invention of the adjective: no spell or incantation of Faerie is more potent. ... The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also coceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, gurn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into swift water. If it could do one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power--upon one plane, and the desire to weild that powerin the world external to our mind awakes. It does not follow that we shall use that power well upon any plane. We may put a deadly green upon a man's face and produce a horror; we may make the rare and terrible blue moon to shine; or we may cause woods to spring with silver leaves and rams to wear fleeces of gold, in such "fantasy," as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.
An essential power of Faerie is thus the power of making immediately effective by the will the visions of "fantasy."
...at no time can I remember (hearing fairy-stories as a child) that the enjoyment of a story was dependent upon belief that such things could happen, or had happened, in "real life." Fairy-stories were plainly not primarily concerned with possibility but with desirability. They awakened desire, satisfying it while often whetting it unbearably, they succeeded.
A real taste for fairy stories was wakened (in me) by philology on the threshold of manhood, and quickened to full life by war.
...if adults are to read fairy-stories as a natural branch of literature--neither playing at being children, nor pretending to be choosing for children, nor being boys who would not grow up--what are the values and functions of this kind? That is, I think, the last and most important question. I have already hinted at some of my answers. First of all: if written with art, the prime value of fairy-stories will simply be the value which, a literature, they share with other literary forms. But fairy-stories offer also, in a peculiar degree or mode, these things: Fantasy, Recovery, Escape, Consolation, all things of which children have, as a rule, less need than older people.
We should look at green again, and be startled anew (but not blinded) by blue and yellow and red. We should meet the centaur and the dragon, and then perhaps suddenly behold, like the ancient shepherds, sheep, and dogs, and horses--and wolves. This recovery fairy-stories help us to make. In that sense only a taste for them may make us, or keep us, childish.
Recovery (which includes return and renewal of health) is a re-gaining--regaining of a clear view. I do not say "seeing things as they are" and involve myself with the philosophers, though I might venture to say, "seeing things as we are (or were) meant to see them"--as things apart from ourselves. We need, in any case, to clean our windows; so that the things seen clearly may be freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity--from possessiveness. Of all faces, those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention, perceiving their likeness and unlikeness: that they are faces, and yet unique faces. This triteness is really the penalty of "appropriation": the things that are trite, or (in a bad sense) familiar, are the things that we have appropriated, legally or mentally. We say we know them. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands upon them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
...we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children, we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales--because they find them romantic. ... This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Fantasy is made out of the Primary World, but a good craftsman loves his material, and has a knowledge and feeling for clay, stone and wood which only the art of making can give. By the forging of Gram cold iron was revealed; by the making of Pegasus horses were enobled; in the Trees of the Sun and Moon root and stock, flower and fruit are manifested in glory.
And actually, fairy-stories deal largely, or (the better ones) mainly, with simple or fundamental things, untouched by Fantasy, but these simplicities are made all the more luminous by their setting. For the storymaker who allows himself to be "free with" Nature can be her lover not her slave. It was in fairy-stories that I first divined the potency of the words, and the wonder of the things, such as stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine.
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Agreed and agreed, but what about "gaming"? Wtf qualifies as "gaming"? Running WoW? Overwatch? And they are going to throttle "gaming" data to 2mbps? (Not that I imagine many games use nearly that amount, but still, you could have a PC + XBox + mobile game going on in the normal household quite easily...)
I agree that typically music and video will be easily identifiable, but I have huge (YUGE) questions about the "gaming" cap.
Please congratulate Australia's new Prime Minister! Let's welcome "mARBLE CAKE ALSO THE GAME" to the podium!
"Oh wait, Trump is the message to the powers that be, the result of years of "Better Kang than Kodos." If President Trump is the only way to break this vicious cycle, bring him on."
Do you like nuclear holocaust? Because that's how you get nuclear holocaust.
Malaysia seems to be the furthest along in the ratification process, and Peru is also moving forward.Since strings were pulled to get people to forget about Malaysia's human rights abuses and "upgrade" Malaysia's status on human trafficking, it only makes sense that Malaysia would charge forward. If they don't, I bet that upgrade would mysteriously disappear...
I've started keeping a list of news sites with no comments sections, and I just avoid them. If I see a link with info I'm interested in that points to one, I'll try and find the same info elsewhere. To me, it's like the whole PS3 OtherOS debacle: how do you think you can offer some cool functionality and then retroactively take it away and not be affected?
It's funny, really. China's strategy is to control what gets "out" in the first place. USA's strategy is to just lie.
Which is worse?
Mike, it's not about what works or improves the situation, it's about punishment. These are the people that constantly conflate infringement and theft. Since they will always see it as "theft", there must be punishment.
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Mike, I tend to agree with your posts, and I'm all about Section 230, normally. But I'm not sure I agree with your assessment this time. It sounds to me that the gist of the state's argument is that the site solicits illegal content, and thus is not eligible for safe harbors when the hammer comes down. This kind of goes along with "clean hands". You can't look for help from the courts when you were performing illegal activity.
Now it may be another question whether or not "revenge porn" *should* be illegal, but in California, at least, it apparently is, and so in that light, I can see why the site would not qualify for safe harbors. Having said that, it would need to be extraordinarily obvious that the (or a) site was soliciting illegal material for this to be the case. In my mind, Megaupload would not fall under this, as there was no obvious solicitation of illegal content.
But I'm curious what anyone thinks this is actually doing.The answer is, "something". I know it is not a good answer, but it is the correct one.
Not to derail, but why the hell is "allegations or reprisal against whistleblowers" even a thing???
What is even worse in my mind is the mindset that "poor starving artists" somehow *deserve* to get rich for writing/singing a few popular songs. This is total bullshit and is contrary to all but the most recent handful of decades. In truth, musicians/singers (also called bards) sometimes did starve: they sang for their supper, and if they didn't sing well, or often enough, they didn't get pelted with money to afford their next meal. Painters/sculptists were usually not recognized until after death, and did not see any of the wealth that would later be amassed for their works. This every-stream-or-picture-or-whatever must be paid for mindset is quite new in the long scheme of things, and inevitably benefits the middlemen more than anybody, which is why they keep whining.
I paid for Metallica's Black album on cassette; I bought it again on CD; I'll be damned if I ever pay for it again.
Consider dropping the period?
Let's flip that around. What offense do you perceive being given to the family?
Yes, their family member was killed, and that is tragic. But the picture didn't kill him, nor did the article.
Yes, the article had a mistake (and a pretty bad one at that), but surely no one thinks that it was intentional? And if not intentional, then no offense could be intended.
So, unless you come up with another reason to be offended, all we have left is a money grubbing lawsuit that is not only not intended to "protect" the dead man's dignity, but instead essentially robs him of whatever dignity he may have had.
I don't know if it is patented (can't imagine it isn't though), but copiers already incorporate very similar sounding "technology". They are programmed to not copy money, at least U.S. money, don't know about other countries' currency.
Wow, guess I should have scrolled to the bottom before posting. Great minds think alike.
But someone from a lobbying group for the legacy copyright players pulled out the "you're all so smart, nerd harder" card by saying that if Silicon Valley can build a self-driving car, surely it can build a technology that can determine what is and what is not fair use.And on the day that they turned on the technology that can determine what is and is not fair use, it looked at humanity and despaired. And then blew it all up. The end.
No one has successfully won damages on a false DMCA claim yet. At this point, it is doubtful it will ever happen.
Yes and no. The wall portion is beyond the novels, but the Iron Islands are way behind. One of my (many) gripes with the show is how much it has screwed up the timeline of things.
Patraeus is just unbelievable. He should be rotting in prison, and instead of being happy that he isn't, he's holding court with the press?


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That company no longer did business with ARA. I called ARA, and they advised they had other condos, but the price had gone from $55 per night to $73.00 per night! No contract protection, but a rip-off to the max. We had paid $4700 for a membership which was now worthless to us. We had counted on the discount to justify the membership. I can get a pretty decent Motel room for $75 per night; and I found out thru Condolink that I could work a deal close to $75 per night on their condos. It's probably the same anywhere.
ARA, of course, claims the condos are worth $200 to $300 per night. I didn't believe that when the salesman gave us the pitch, but figured $80-$100 per night was a reasonable figure.
Then, about one week later, we got a notice that their inflation protected maintenance fees of $240 per year had been increased to $318. Apparantly, inflation for the year 2000 was 32.7%!
The contract specifically said they could raise dues "annually by an amount not to exceed the % increase in The National Consumer Price Index for the YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRIOR THERETO"!
ARA simply said they hadn't raised dues for 10 years, and the increase was 10-years worth of inlfation. When I pointed out that wasn't what the contract said, their response was "that's the way we're interpreting it".
Small bright spot: I put my last contract payment ($1658)on my VISA, so I went thru the dispute resolution process. VISA gave me my money back! On their form justifying the return, they put "not as described". This all took place in May/June of 2000.
ARA is still trying to collect the money I managed to retrieve. They refuse to refund the balance I paid ($3,037). They have now turned the account over to a collection agency. The battle goes on.
In short, if Advance Resorts of America, Inc. calls you and offers you something, check first with the Oregon Attorney General's Office. They have quite a thick file of victims, both old and new. I'm one of them. Unfortunately, the AG doesn't seem inclined to get too involved, although the last I heard, ARA was no longer selling "memberships" in Oregon. They are, however, still running their business in Washington State, and running their campground and condos in Rockaway Beach and Nehalem Bay, Oregon.
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Three of the four units work fine so far. The unit in question has never been powered up and they are telling us it was a power surge and that is why the unit does not work.
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Android 7.0 Nougat review: All about getting things done faster
The name of the game this year is efficiency.
The name of the game this year is efficiency.
"We're committed to the Pixel program but we don't have plans to restock the Pixel 2."
'Frostpunk' is 'a deeply serious game created for a mature gamer,' creative director Michal Drozdowski says.
... apparently by levying a sizeable fee to merchants and requiring loads of proof that the products are legit.
A secondary touchpad for the MBP, more Pencil features for iPad and a standalone 5K display.
For now, the commission won't seek to protect city-run internet providers.
Soon, Astronauts will be able to figure out what's growing on the walls of the ISS.
But folks aggressively violating the app's terms of service will remain blocked.
One is 38-inches, one has Google Cast built-in and the last one is built for PC gaming with AMD FreeSync.
Starting today, pilots will need a government-issued certificate to fly.
'You're the Worst', and remastered 'Resident Evil 4' are also ready to go.
Maybe Google will release a totally new Chromecast next.
You now have a sense of who's making interesting videos besides your friends.
You're now free to move away from the outlet.
The name of the game this year is efficiency.
It can warn health care workers up to three weeks in advance.
Apparently, 'no means no' doesn't apply to virtual reality.
You, too, could watch the Megaupload founder's bid to stay in New Zealand.
With a 2GHz octa-core processor, 16-megapixel camera and a fingerprint sensor to boot.
Even if you don't have much use for the stylus, this is still Samsung's best phone yet.
Dragonfly 44 has the mass of our galaxy, but only a fraction of the stars.
HI-SEAS showed that you could live in relative isolation on a distant planet.
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A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.
Go away, you overrated charlatan!
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A very convincing liar. A scam artist pretending to be interested in your well-being or wants you to be interested in someone else's well-being in order to trick you into handing over your money. A person who manipulates your vulerabilities and appeals to your emotions with a touching story or puppy-dog face before asking for a 'financial' gift.
Televangelists such as Benny Hinn are shameless charlatan.
by darrenspool November 24, 2006
Used in bars etc. Mean a guy who pimps all the good ol' ho's!
Yup! That boy is like a charlatan! He's pimpin' them all!
by Andrew & Jågger-J August 21, 2004
a group of 7 cutie patootie girls that are infamous around the scene and myspace. can be found at most shows in and around central new jersey or new york.
d00d those charlatan girls own the scene
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Because of early morning practices out on the cold water, crew isn't a sport for everyone. But for senior Tyler Clickner, it just felt right from the moment he started.
Clickner tried many sports when he was younger but nothing felt as natural as rowing.
He is currently a member of the Rye Garnets Varsity Crew Team.
At the Bill Braxton Memorial Regatta held at Mercer Lake, N.J., Clickner placed in all three of his races, winning two gold medals and one silver. In his initial race, the Men's Varsity Double, he, while rowing in the stroke seat, teamed up with Michael Batal and finished first. In the Men's Second Varsity Eight, Clickner and his teammates finished second in a very tightly-contested race. He followed that up with a first-place finish in the Men's Varsity Quad.
Coach Stanley Nelson was impressed with the performance of his senior rower.
"Tyler raced three times that day which was more than anyone else on the team," he said. "Tyler's has been a longtime member of the team and it was great to see him have such a successful day."
Teammate Liam Wilson agreed.
"Tyler is an incredible athlete and skilled rower," Wilson said. "He is the picture of sportsmanship and his upbeat attitude keeps our team going through tough times."
This is Clickner's fourth year on varsity. The team will work out over the winter and begin to race again in the spring.
But Clickner is also active out of the water. He is an honor roll student, was named a Class of 2016 Scholar and is a member of the Bread of Life Club, an organization that helps to feed the hungry and homeless of Westchester.


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This fight is easier than the Marquez fight.
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I'd pour some hen for all the Floyd fans on NSB and then I'd replay that clip over and over of either the KO or decision for Campbell while eating KFC. Nah, I'm kidding. That is never going to happen. Anyways whats wrong with Pac vs Clottey?
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I say wake the fok up.
Cuz it aint happening.....no one can envision and have high hopes for this type of fight to even happen, it's st8 up bs.
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[QUOTE=shadeyfizzle;7245559]Whoa....relax there buddy. I was rooting for Nate against Bradley and I still think he would beat Bradley in a rematch.
But realistically speaking if Campbell went up against Floyd he'd be about as favored as Alfonso Gomez against Cotto.
and the reason people will always bring up the peden clip is because it was 1 of the biggest bonehead moves not just in boxing but in all of sports of all time. Campbell could become p4p #1 and he still will never be able to live that peden fight down.[/QUOTE]
I know that, and so does Nate. But some of the lesser mentally gifted posters look at that clip as some sort of measuring stick of Nates career achievements. Its just one stupid thing he did 5 years ago. Nothing more, nothing less.
And of course I cant be 100% objective, but I do know boxing. There is only ONE way to beat Floyd. You have to make it a dogfight. You cant outbox him, or out jab him, you have to make it nasty. And who else from 140-147 can make a nasty inside fight better than Nate? Be honest.....
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Not a damn career Lightweight.
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[QUOTE=Bootneck;7245561]bring on hatton-campbell? pacquiao-campbell?[/QUOTE]
we tried that when Nate was still at 135 with 3 belts. Pac passed.
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btw campbell-mayweather is not the same as clottey-pacquiao.
clottey is a top 5 welterweight.
cintron and malignaggi is actually a more meaningful fight than campbell.
cintron and malignaggi are top 5 at 154 and 140.
nate has had what 1 fight at 140? and it wasn't even a win.
at least clottey has been at 147 for much of his career.
malignaggi who is a career 140 guy (not too bad since floyd is a small 147 guy anyway) and kermit is a 154 guy (not that great but at least he has height and size advantages over floyd) would make for better opponents than nate.
any top 5 guy from 140-154 would do for pacquiao and mayweather.
nate does not qualify imho.
great for him if he gets paid but don't say it's as good a fight as pacquiao-clottey.
mayweather-campbell isn't even as good as pacquiao-malignaggi.
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The blaze has already burned an area larger than San Francisco, and could quadruple in size over the next month.
The blaze has already burned an area larger than San Francisco, and could quadruple in size over the next month.
It's been burning since 2013, and will continue to do so for years to come.
On the list of things you're not advised to do in closed quarters with a limited oxygen supply, lighting a fire definitely ranks high. But this week, NASA did exactly that.
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This is the fifth major skyscraper since 2012.
Going on past events, it is surely only a matter of time.
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UK fires are being blamed on the 'boards, alongside thousands being seized at our ports.
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I have started my own website which will provide virtual assistant to busy people who need help in there day to day life. I have been planning for it since last six months now website is almost completed but i am stuck at some point . I have lots of people with me who are ready to work and who are well qualified. I am confused how to get leads for the website. Is SEO will work or should i focus on email marketing and other. Please help me since it will create lots of employment. And i want to help unemployed people via this.
Hello guys! I began trying to make a little side cash online and joined Warrior Forum back in 2011. In 2012 I was making Adsense Micro Niche sites and also Amazon sites, always focusing on keywords that I could grab an open .com domain name for. I had many flops, but did have an amazon site that did well and make me about $100 a month on average. I got excited and began writing more and more articles, creating more and more sites. Eventually my marriage hit a rough spot because my wife was upset I spent way to much time on the computer so I walked away from the micro niche site world... Fast forward 4 years, the marriage didnt work out anyway and I wish that I would have never left, I now feel like I have so much to learn all over again! Are Amazon sites still a decent way to go? I woulnt ask for anything to be spoon fed to me I know that is a huge pet peeve for many forum members, but any suggestions or just pointing in a general direction would be greatly appreciated!
It's still as 'easy' as it used to be. Offline marketing, as this forum knows it. Providing websites, search engine optimization, social media and other services to small businesses...
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California gave its new high school exit exam for the first time this year and newspapers across the state last week made much of the "abysmal" results: less than 45 percent of the state's 9th graders passed the test. While a committee of teachers had recommended that the state set the passing score at 70 percent, the state board of education voted to lower the bar to 60 in English and 55 in math rather than allow even more students to flunk the test.
Given the nature of the test, however, the school board fears and journalistic alarms seem unwarranted. Unlike the standardized tests around which the rest of California's accountability system is built, the new graduation test is aligned with the state's academic standards. (The California Senate last week passed a bill that would replace off-the-shelf tests given in other grades with tests tied to the state's standards.) The English part of the high school exit exam covers material that students are expected to learn through the end of their sophomore year and the math test covers geometry, algebra, and statistics. Expecting most students to pass a high school exit exam at the end of their first year of...
In the past several days, you may well have read assertions by U.S. Senators, explaining their vote against the Gregg amendment to include a voucher pilot program in the big elementary/secondary education bill, to the effect that there is no evidence that such programs work. (Of course they were voting against a demonstration intended to find out whether such programs work!) But they were wrong. Paul Peterson and his team at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) have created a veritable cottage industry of voucher studies, including careful evaluations of a number of the privately funded programs that have recently proliferated. Some of those studies include information on student achievement. Others don't. Two recent ones that don't look at achievement are nonetheless illuminating on many other fronts. In January, the Harvard team published its evaluation of San Francisco's BASIC Fund Scholarship Program. In March appeared a review of the national Children's Scholarship Fund. More are in the pipeline. Based on phone surveys of parents and students, their great contribution is comparing the experiences, attitudes and satisfaction of those who used a private scholarship to move from public to private school with those who did not. Both these...
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Japan is overhauling its elementary-secondary education system. According to the Education Ministry, explains Craig Coley, "in place of 'overemphasizing intellectual education' schools will teach more 'zest for living.' The curriculum will stress creativity and independent thinking."
This is great news for America and bad news for Japan. Just as the U.S. shows signs of recovering from the excesses of progressivism, Japan plunges in. Perhaps its children can now look forward to an overdose of "relevance," encouragement to learn whatever they like, teachers who see their roles as "guides on the side," and nobody held responsible for meeting external academic standards.
When that day dawns, we'll no longer feel that Japan has superior schools. U.S. children will surpass their Japanese age mates on international assessments of math and science. And Japan will ooze deeper into the fever swamps of goofy education ideas.
Perhaps I exaggerate. It's difficult to imagine a land as top-down, buttoned-down, homogenized and precise as Japan ever turning its kids loose to learn whatever tickles their fancies. Not, in any case, until Japanese trains stop arriving at the precise moment and place that the timetable dictates.
Still, the Education Ministry's Rainbow Plan, aka Education...
Senator James Jeffords may have made special ed reform even less likely when he let it be known that the White House's refusal to boost spending for this program was part of the reason for his decision to leave the GOP, writes Michelle Cottle in this week's New Republic. She explains why real change is unlikely and why that's most unfortunate for children.
"Reform school," by Michelle Cottle, The New Republic, June 18, 2001.
Terry Moe's important new Brookings book has a title meant to recall his and John Chubb's influential 1990 work (also published by Brookings), Politics, Markets, and America's Schools. This volume should have an impact, too. Based primarily on a massive 1995 survey, it analyzes U.S. public opinion on vouchers more thoroughly and exhaustively than anyone has ever done. While opinion is not the only proper basis for policy, in a democracy it's mighty influential. Moe's findings are not easily summarized in politician-style sound-bytes, however, because on these matters the American public feels several different ways at the same time. It certainly believes in public schools and, for the most part, is satisfied with its public schools. Yet it also thinks private schools do a better job and, if money were no object, many people bent on seeking the best schools for their children would move to them. Hence they'd welcome vouchers. But they care not just about the abstract "market principle" of vouchers. They also have strong views about how a voucher program should work. Perhaps their two most important opinions are (a) that a voucher program should include church-affiliated schools but (b) all schools participating in a voucher program...
The recent domination of U.S. spelling bees by home-schooled students isn't hard to explain: many of their parents see rote memorization as a valuable learning technique, while this old-fashioned practice is frowned upon by most teachers who learned their craft in schools of education. John Derbyshire explores how indispensable memorization is to advanced learning in a National Review article that's loaded with clever mnemonic devices (e.g. "One idle damn Sunday, Dad killed cheating thief and lied to cover it," as a way to remember the Ten Commandments).
"Thanks for the memories," by John Derbyshire, National Review, June 25, 2001. Article not available at www.nationalreview.com.
In Washington, DC, where the high school graduation rate is only 57 percent, what happens to the other 43 percent? Many later try to earn their diplomas by passing the GED, but only 34 percent of those taking the GED exam in DC pass it (compared to 70 percent nationwide). In this week's Washington City Paper, Garance Franke-Ruta puts a human face on these glum statistics in a long cover story on dropouts trying to turn their lives around.
"Filling in the blanks," by Garance Franke-Ruta, Washington City Paper, June 8, 2001. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/cover.html
National Center for Education Statistics
The federal government's National Center for Education Statistics publishes two indispensable volumes each year, without which nobody has essential data at hand. One is The Digest of Education Statistics, consisting of hundreds of pages of numbers sans interpretation or commentary. The other is the more selective and subjective Condition of Education. The latest edition is just out. Weighing in at almost 300 pages, it is largely free of the creeping politicization that beset some of these volumes in the late Clinton administration. And it's full of telling factoids and trend lines. Here are a few from the section on teachers:
The Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) wanted to determine whether the state's ed schools were tailoring their teacher training programs to the state's academic standards for students as well as to new performance standards (set by the state Board of Education) for schools of education. The CCHE asked the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to examine four teacher ed programs. In turn, the NAS commissioned a study by David Warren Saxe, a professor of social studies education at Penn State (and a member of the Pennsylvania state board of education). His report was submitted to Colorado authorities last year but has only now become public. After examining reams of documents describing the teacher training programs (which were provided by the ed schools themselves) and visiting all four schools, Saxe has penned a devastating critique. His report paints a vivid picture of ed schools bowing to the gods of progressivism and national accreditation rather than to traditional academic content and effective instruction, notwithstanding state policies requiring the latter. Saxe finds many of the training programs to be overly politicized, with courses and training sessions emphasizing social justice, cultural relativism, racism and homophobia. Much of the coursework is at best irrelevant...
The charter schools of the Lone Star State have been much in the news of late, particularly as the legislature grappled with a possible moratorium on their creation. That didn't happen, but people are understandably interested in how they're doing. After all, by 1999-2000, there were 142 such schools enrolling nearly 25,000 youngsters. How are they doing? The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) commissioned two Texas A & M economists to examine four years worth of charter data. The most encouraging result: Texas's so-called at-risk charter schools (about half of all the state's charters, each serving more than 75 percent at-risk kids) showed stronger pupil achievement gains than regular public schools. But the other charters aren't. The authors also note that many youngsters entering a charter for the first time, especially if it's a brand new school, experience a one-year drop in scores on the Texas statewide tests. They comment that, at a time when many new charters are opening and many children are newly enrolled in them, "A one-year look at average changes in test scores for charter students will mainly capture the decline in performance of the new entrants." They further observe that charters are serving "a disproportionately...


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A baby is handed to Pope Benedict XVI for his blessing as he makes his way to the Plaza de la Paz in his popemobile, in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. At the entrance to Guanajuato, Benedict received the keys to the city. The pope reserved his only public remarks Saturday for a gathering of about 4,000 children and their parents massed in the plaza. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)