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Rushing to Brazil: Documents Required
Docs Ok! There seems to be something about me and rushed trips to Brazil that causes a chaotic mess and almost heart attacks. Back in February 2013, I bought a ticket to Brazil on a whim in order to surprise my then-future wife. It was a decision made in haste and out of excitement. I remember the feeling of my heart sinking when I told her that I was going to be there the next night, which…
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New Music - Why Awake
New Music – Why Awake
New to the Electro-Pop/ Alternative Hip-hop scene, Why Awake debuts with their self-titled album.
“Why Awake” plays like a soundtrack to a heartbreak. Touching on subjects such as death, infidelity, and loneliness, “Why Awake,” lyrically, takes you on a journey through the emotions associated with these events.
The crisp and precise production brings all of these elements together in a…
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Jupiter Island, Florida - SHHH, It's a Secret.
Jupiter Island, Florida – SHHH, It’s a Secret.
There’s a beach just north of West Palm Beach, FL that should be packed, but it’s often empty. The water is clean, clear, and warm. There are limestone formations next to the shore. But, there are a limited number of parking spots that allows for the beach to not be too crowded.
Is Blowing Rocks Preserve a Florida secret?
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My $10 Itinerary - How I Get To Fly Around The World So Cheaply
My $10 Itinerary to Rome, Havana, St. Thomas, and Little Rock.
Orlando to Little Rock, Arkansas- $0 Miami to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands – $0 Miami to Rome, Italy – $0 Miami to Havana, Cuba – $10 The above list is where I’ll be traveling to in the next 10 months and how much it cost me for the plane tickets. On October 12th I booked all of these flights. It was like Christmas morning for me to be able to book tickets to different parts of the world. It was…
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Pokémon Go Strategy Leading Up to the Fest.
As the Fire and Ice event wraps up for Pokémon Go players, the question has turned to, “What next?” I’m going to share my personal strategy for how I’ll approach the next month leading up to Pokémon Go Fest on July 22. What we know from Niantic is that the gym system is going away for at least the next month. That means that a lot of what Pokémon Go players have focused on, winning and…
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Positives Democrats can take away from a Trump victory
Positives Democrats can take away from a Trump victory
The GOP just move left…BIGLY. Trump is not a righteous Christian with impeccable morels. He is the embodiment of the uncouth average Joe who cusses and calls himself a Christian without really being active in religion. Also, Republican voters have now relinquished the ownership of moral high ground that they were hanging onto for political decisions. They decided that a brazen, deeply flawed,…
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Timothy Bloom - The Beginning
Timothy Bloom – The Beginning
Timothy Bloom – The Beginning 2-Time Grammy winner Timothy Bloom has released ‘The Beginning,’ the first part of an upcoming EP trilogy. The soulful crooner is back in his groove with this release. ‘The Beginning’ is a refreshing mix of guitar driven -almost punk rock- tracks and ole-timey soul/jazz/blues feelings. Timothy has released four songs from the EP on Soundcloud so far, ‘Howl at the…
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How to Choose the Evolution of your Eevee in Pokemon Go
How to Choose the Evolution of your Eevee in Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go has been the biggest smash hit of 2016. People all over the world are playing the game nonstop. It has been a giant boost for Nintendo and a great catalyst for exercise! There are many things in the game that seem random, and many trying to figure out how to control what your Eevee evolves into. Redditor smithnigel posted about a trick he found to choose the evolution of your Eevee in…
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Ultra Violet by Aaron Joseph Newman
That feeling of waking up and being surrounded by a mass of people in the mess of the night before, checking your phone, only to read self loathing, misspelled, text messages you sent to your crush is the Ultra Violet feeling. Aaron Joseph Newman has released his latest track, “Ultra Violet,” accompanied by a video that captures “a night of partying that may not be remembered, but the actions of…
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Korean Food
I’m not going to write a long post, I just want to say that I love Korean food and have already had so much good food in just a couple of days. Iced Coffee – Korean Style Jajangmyeon Bar side dishes Spicy chicken pizza Potato pizza BreakfastGimbap A raw fish “salad”breakfast Breakfast buffetPork cutletCold noodle soup
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Currently Stuck on a Bus in Guatemala as Farmers Strike
I have been on a Tica bus from Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico headed towards Guatemala City. We left at 7am this morning. It is currently 8:30 and I have experienced a lot so far. First was a debacle at the border. Mexico charges a fee to leave the country if you stay for more than 7 days. I arrived in Mexico the night of May 4th and left today, the morning of May 11th, and technically wasn’t even in…
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Upcoming Travel Follow along next week as I travel to Guatemala City, Guatemala then take a bus between and around volcanoes as I travel to Tapachula, Mexico and explore the beautiful Mexican state of Chiapas. I will visit with former students and visit schools where they are teaching English. Many pictures and posts to come.
My wife and I love to travel, one of the best things about traveling is getting to try new foods that aren’t available in our city. One of our favorite dishes is pho. Pho (pronounced fuh as in fun without the “n”) is a Vietnamese noodle soup.
When we travel to different cities, we often look up pho restaurants on Yelp and order some. We have had pho in 5 different states. If you haven’t noticed, we really like it.
Where we currently live – Jonesboro, Arkansas – we cannot get pho, so we decided to take a shot at making our own. We scoured the interwebs and pieced together a recipe from many different ones that we saw.
Though it was not exactly the same as we get at a restaurant, it was still pretty good. If you have any suggestions to improve upon what we have come up with, please tell us, because we want to have a great pho recipe.
Below I will tell you what we used.
Ingredients
Do it yourself (faux) Phô.
I used:
8 cups of unsalted beef stock
1 onion
3 whole cloves
4 start anise
1 cinnamon stick
1 ginger root
4 minced garlic gloves
1 tablespoon of fish sauce
1lb of round eye beef
Rice noodles
Bean sprouts
1/2 of a lime
Fresh basil
Hoisin sauce
Sriracha sauce
Directions:
Cut onions into thin rings
Peel ginger
Mince the garlic
Put ginger, garlic, cinnamon, anise, and cloves into a cheesecloth and tie
Bring beef stock to a boil with fish sauce, onions, and the cheesecloth full of spices, covered, for 45 minutes to an hour (reduce to medium heat after brought to boil)
Slice beef into very thin slices
Put rice noodles in already boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then rinse with cold water and separate into the bowls
Put the uncooked beef on top of the noodles
Pour the boiling stock (minus the cheesecloth) onto the meat and noodles
Add desired garnishments and sauces
Pho
How to Make Faux Pho My wife and I love to travel, one of the best things about traveling is getting to try new foods that aren't available in our city.
My name is Will Huff. I’m an instructor at Arkansas State University. I also have a small marketing company called Huff Media Services that helps support my teaching habit. In October 2015, my wife and I bought our first Toyota Prius. We knew that to build our business – we needed to see clients who were a few hours away – we would need to do a lot of driving and a Prius was the best way to help us cut our costs. We bought a used, silver, 2011 PriusII with 70,000 miles on it. We were instantly in love with our car. We were in love with the spaciousness of the hatchback and the headroom. We were in love with the quietness of the ride. Most of all, we were in love with the gas mileage. Since buying the Prius our lives have changed. We have gone to just about everywhere we can get to by car, we have seen so many new places, and my driving habits and lifestyle habits have changed for the better due to the purchase of our Prius.
Let’s go places. That phrase now has a different meaning post-Prius. My wife, being from Brazil, had seen just a fraction of the sights in the USA. She had been to a few places, but not to too many of the famous landmarks. So we were anxious to get on the road with our new Prius.
Our first weekend with the new car, we went to Chicago for my wife’s birthday. The next weekend, we went to the Smoky Mountains for my birthday. In the first ten days of being Prius owners, we had already traveled over 2,000 miles! Three weeks later we embarked on our first big road trip post-Prius, we decided to touch all of the states in the Northeastern USA during Thanksgiving break.
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee
During the Thanksgiving trip, we were able to see Niagara Falls, New York City, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, Plymouth Rock, and many other sights. It was during this trip that we found a way to create a sleeping space in the back of the Prius to save on hotel costs.
New York
Central Park
By the end of this trip, my wife and I had been to all states east of the Mississippi River and that got us thinking about driving to the rest of the states that we had yet to visit. We wanted to touch each of the lower 48 states in the USA. We had already visited a few before the Prius, but we were bound to see the rest post-Prius.
We decided to make our second epic road trip in December, during my winter break from the university. We left on a Thursday morning and zigzagged from Arkansas up to North Dakota and over to Washington. We had to bypass Mount Rushmore and Wyoming due to a winter storm. We went down the west coast to the Redwood National Forest in California and down highway 101 towards San Francisco. We crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and went all the way down to San Diego. We left California and took I-40 across four other states before returning to Arkansas. Due to major snowstorms, we were unable to visit Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado.
Redwood Forest
Redwood Forest
Golden Gate Bridge
San Diego
Oregon
Grand Canyon
By the end of 2015 just 60 days into owning a Prius, we had traveled to 40 states and had seen over 9,000 miles of road on just three of the trips. We had driven a total of 20,000 miles from October to January.
2016 started off a slow on the big trips, but we finally had a chance to hit the road again during Spring Break. We mapped out a course and hit the road. During the eight days on the road, we visited Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, and the Rocky Mountains. By the 5th day of travel, we had completed our goal of visiting the lower 48 states!
Mt. Rushmore
South Dakota
Montana
Utah
In just 150 days and 30,000 miles post-Prius, we had traveled to 45 different states together. A woman from Brazil was able to go to each of the lower 48 because of our Toyota Prius, which is something that most Americans cannot say they have done.
Trying to save money on gas has actually changed the way I drive. I used to be one to have quick take-offs from the stop lights and stop signs, but now, since I have a monitor tracking the economy of my driving by showing me the miles per gallon (MPG,) I am more careful to not rev the engine too high. I am now conscious of keeping the RPM low so that the MPG do not go down. I’m also more conscious of my speed on the expressway. I drive differently to keep my MPG as high as I possibly can, which has lead to me being a safer driver. Having a Prius really has affected my driving style and habits.
Another aspect of my life that has changed is how I spend my money. My wife and I have developed the habit of equating money spent to possible miles that could be driven. When we want to buy a meal that would cost $20, sometimes we will say, “That’s more than 400 miles.” Meaning that if we didn’t buy that, we could get 400 miles of a road trip instead. It has actually lead to us having a bigger savings account and being more conscious about our spending habits. Our savings account is definitely bigger, post-Prius.
When we do shop though, we now have no problems with going to towns that are a little further away. The great gas mileage of the Prius allows us to leave Jonesboro, Arkansas and travel to cities like Memphis and Little Rock, which are more than one hour away, because it doesn’t take too much fuel to get us there. So it’s no problem to go to places where we can shop for better deals than we can get in a smaller town.
Having a Prius has really affected our lives and lifestyles in more ways than we could’ve imagined. All for the better. The only regret that I have about our purchase is that I did not get us a newer model PriusV with fewer miles. Because of the fact that we use the hatch area to sleep in on nights we are just passing through and to save money on hotel costs, we could really use the extra space that the PriusV has to offer. Also, today we passed the 100,000 miles mark in our car, meaning that it’s now definitely a high-mileage vehicle. With the new traveling habits that we have developed, it won’t be long until we are really high on miles and in the not too distant future may not be able to go on the epic type road trips that we have become accustomed to.
I’ll sum it all up by saying that purchasing a Toyota Prius was a really big deal. It has lead to lifestyle changes, but really has changed our lives. We have seen so many things in that last 150 days that we wouldn’t have had we not purchased a Prius. Toyota’s motto is “Let’s Go Places,” and since my wife and I bought our Prius, that has also become our motto.
Let’s Go Places!
Let’s Go Places: How Buying a Toyota Prius Changed My Life(style) My name is Will Huff. I'm an instructor at Arkansas State University. I also have a small marketing company called Huff Media Services that helps support my teaching habit.
Aaron Joseph Newman - Super 2000
Aaron Joseph Newman – Super 2000
One of my favorite up-and-coming rappers/musicians is Aaron Joseph Newman. His usual brand of realistic verses and self-deprecating lyrics soak the tracks with realism. But sometimes, like with “Super 2000,” Aaron just wants to remind you that he’s slick behind the mic and has some crazy-good lyricism. (more…)
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How US Social Programming Has Led to the Rise of Trump
How US Social Programming Has Led to the Rise of Trump
The presidential election 2016 is a very crazy anomaly. Can you remember any other election where a candidate could say so many things that the press jumps all over the story, the candidate doesn’t apologize, and comes out better for it? For so many candidates of past, there was just one faux pas that ended the candidacy. Donald Trump has had numerous “WTF” moments and seems to come out better…
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Tabitha – Dear Summer Tabitha has brought another heater with her latest release - "Dear Summer." The classic Just Blaze beat, that Jay-Z originally rapped over, is laced with raw yet soulful lyrics.