12 pound turkey challenge

[Scott Campbell]

weight: 201.6
exercise: stacking a load of firewood and punching myself in the balls repeatedly after the Packer game.

breakfast: tuna salad sandwich with spinach and provolone and green tea
lunch: microwave ziti, buttered bread, trail mix, and more green tea
Diner: homemade general tso chicken with brown rice, potato chips, a beef stick, and a bottle of pinot grigio.

I figure I could lose a couple of pounds by shaving my chest, but the hairless look makes me look fatter. Decisions. Decisions.

Backup Skin. How do you do your sauce? I've tried Tso's at home a bunch of times but have never achieved anything worth making again.

I'll get back to you on that. I'm currently closing the Ritz Carlton at Lake Las Vegas. By closing I mean laying about my suite lamenting the loss of hundreds more jobs at the hands of a President who decided to singlehandedly maim the area's economy. My wife makes that dish so I don't have the recipe in my memory banks, so you'll have to wait til I get back home.

Where the fuck is the Ritz Carlton in Vegas? I've been there a million times and never ran across it.

[retailguy]

Where the fuck is the Ritz Carlton in Vegas? I've been there a million times and never ran across it.

Lake Las Vegas.

Here's a quote from the website....

We regret The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas will close permanently May 2, 2010.
Until that date, we will be accepting reservations, and the hotel will be fully operational.

So, don't worry about it. you can't stay there unless you leave now!

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010...oncerns-rippl/



Closing of Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas raises concerns of ripple effect
Henderson’s mayor says other businesses at MonteLago Village Resort just getting by

Mona Shield Payne / Special to the Sun

MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas.

By Amanda Finnegan (contact)

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
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The Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas.
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This week’s announcement that the Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas is going out of business has raised concerns that the hotel’s closure will have a ripple effect on neighboring merchants.

Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen said he expects shops and restaurants at MonteLago Village Resort will feel the impact of losing the 348-room luxury hotel.

Businesses have told him in the past they are holding their own, but just getting by, he said.

“Certainly we are concerned,” Hafen said of the hotel’s closing. “The biggest concern we have is for the employees and their welfare.”

The Ritz-Carlton, a fixture in the resort community since it opened in February 2003, announced Monday it will close on May 2.

“Our owners, Village Hospitality, decided they could no longer fund the hotel,” Ritz-Carlton spokeswoman Vivian Deuschl said on Monday. “As a result of that, we can no longer operate the hotel without adequate funding.”

A number of shops refused to comment Tuesday about the Ritz-Carlton announcement and referred calls to MonteLago Village manager Maurice Talley.

“We’re very sad that the Ritz-Carlton employees are no longer going to be employed and it may have some residual effect, but it’s too hard to quantify,” Talley said.

Talley said he didn’t know how much of MonteLago Village Resort’s shop and restaurant traffic comes from the Ritz-Carlton.

At least one shop owner, however, said she doesn’t expect the closure of the hotel to have a major impact on her business.

Marianne Freeman, whose home furnishing and accessories shop, Tesoro, has been at Montelago Village since 2003, said most of her customers are people who live at Lake Las Vegas, not hotel guests.

“Certainly the closure will affect my business to some extent, because the Ritz has always brought in visitors from across the county, but it won’t have a huge impact,” Freeman said.

Jennifer Morton, marketing and public relations director for Casino MonteLago, predicted that business for the casino will remain steady without the luxury hotel.

“We have a strong local base, so it’s just going to be business as normal for us,” Morton said.

Hafen said he recently met with the general managers of the Ritz-Carlton and Loews Las Vegas, who told him the properties were struggling but doing what they could to keep their doors open.

The hotel’s closure will leave about 350 employees out of work, but Deuschl said efforts are being made to relocate them to other Ritz-Carltons, Marriotts and other hotels in the Las Vegas Valley.

Hafen said the Ritz-Carlton pays about $129,000 in annual property taxes.

Without the Ritz-Carlton, Loews Lake Las Vegas and the MonteLago Village Resort will be the only hotels in the development.

“I don’t think the residents of Lake Las Vegas will be affected much,” Hafen said. “As far as our tourism in Henderson, it will make a little bit of dent, but it’s one of many properties we have here in the city.”

In addition to the hotels, restaurants, shops and casino, the 3,600-acre Lake Las Vegas development, located 20 miles southeast of the Strip, includes more than 1,600 residential units.

Lake Las Vegas is now in bankruptcy, burdened with $728 million in liabilities amid the worst real estate downturn in memory.

According to Henderson City Attorney Elizabeth Macias Quillin, Lake Las Vegas owes about $25.7 million to the city of Henderson in Local Improvement District financing and assessments. The city has three Local Improvement Districts in the Lake Las Vegas development.

Sun reporter Erin Dostal contributed to this report.

[SkinBasket]

Closing of Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas raises concerns of ripple effect Henderson’s mayor says other businesses at MonteLago Village Resort just getting by

The village casino closed a couple months ago, as did the golf course. The restaurants in the village were staffed with one person on the floor and one person working the kitchen. The whole place is going to be a ghost town. Lots of "small" people losing jobs and a lot of small businesses losing big money due to the hotel going under.

I think someone acted stupidly.

[Deputy Nutz]

Closing of Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas raises concerns of ripple effect Henderson’s mayor says other businesses at MonteLago Village Resort just getting by

The village casino closed a couple months ago, as did the golf course. The restaurants in the village were staffed with one person on the floor and one person working the kitchen. The whole place is going to be a ghost town. Lots of "small" people losing jobs and a lot of small businesses losing big money due to the hotel going under.

I think someone acted stupidly.

So did you sneak on the golf course for an early evening round?

[HowardRoark]

I think someone acted stupidly.

Time for a summit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i5k4I1AOEI

[SkinBasket]

skin,

just ordered some NO2 black and CE2 Platinum to experiment with (occupational research), if it shoots a lightning rod up my workouts' ass i'll let you know and maybe a better choice than the stuff you asked about.

I've been trying both the Oyx Elite stuff and the NO Xplosion to get a feel for them. The Oxy Elite is basically caffeine with some other appetite suppression stuff in it. Seems to work just fine in both regards, and themogenicly, it definitely makes sweating easier and more plentiful, but I wouldn't take it before weights or rolling, as it still carries some twitchiness and tingles with the stimulation.

The NO Xplode seems to be a better pre-workout option. The stimulant is more subtle and makes beginning the workout easier, since it seems to just make you want to move without making me feel jumpy. I guess maybe I got less tired during the workout, but that's hard to gauge since I don't stick to a hard-line routine.

So for now, I guess I'll try OxyElite on days off and the NO on workout days.

[twoseven]

skin,

just ordered some NO2 black and CE2 Platinum to experiment with (occupational research), if it shoots a lightning rod up my workouts' ass i'll let you know and maybe a better choice than the stuff you asked about.

I've been trying both the Oyx Elite stuff and the NO Xplosion to get a feel for them. The Oxy Elite is basically caffeine with some other appetite suppression stuff in it. Seems to work just fine in both regards, and themogenicly, it definitely makes sweating easier and more plentiful, but I wouldn't take it before weights or rolling, as it still carries some twitchiness and tingles with the stimulation.

The NO Xplode seems to be a better pre-workout option. The stimulant is more subtle and makes beginning the workout easier, since it seems to just make you want to move without making me feel jumpy. I guess maybe I got less tired during the workout, but that's hard to gauge since I don't stick to a hard-line routine.

So for now, I guess I'll try OxyElite on days off and the NO on workout days.

how much caffiene per serving in that NO Xplode?

[SkinBasket]

The Xplode has about 80-100mg in it from what I've read. They made it part of their secret recipe so it's unlisted. The oxy crap has 100mg each, and two doses of xplode certainly seems to have less caffeine than two does of that just from using myself as an test tube.

[Freak Out]

What in the fuck are you putting in your body? Xplode? Oxy elite? You guys training with Barry Bonds now?

[twoseven]

The Xplode has about 80-100mg in it from what I've read. They made it part of their secret recipe so it's unlisted. The oxy crap has 100mg each, and two doses of xplode certainly seems to have less caffeine than two does of that just from using myself as an test tube.

that seems pretty low on both of them. i have a buddy that takes one of the NO products that has told me something about 400mg of caffiene in one of them. that's quite a bit and would explain the blast he gets from it. 120 or less is pretty tame, but yeah, with those 'proprietary blends' you never can tell. i am wanting to try some of the NO stuff, but not if it has more than 100 mg or so of caffiene, that's a slippery slope since i am already getting 400mg for breakfast from cheap caffiene pills (i hate coffee, and 3am is too fucking early to go it w/o something).

[SkinBasket]

weight: 202.5
exercise: hours of masturbation

breakfast: 2 oxy elite pills, 8oz can v8 fusion
lunch: 1 liter green tea
dinner: half a lasagna, two cheese stuffed bread sticks, potato chips, two mini peanut butter cups, and a bottle of wine.

[SkinBasket]

What in the fuck are you putting in your body? Xplode? Oxy elite? You guys training with Barry Bonds now?

I'm too old to treat my body like a temple. Besides, I grew up eating Teflon flakes off old frying pans and whatever those plastics are that seep into your food when you put them in the microwave, so I'm not too worried about polluting myself now.

[twoseven]

fuck barry bonds an his shrek sized head. and in case you are actually wondering, these products are just amped up versions of your morning coffee. they do little to support actual tissue recovery, and even less to stimulate growth. they are pretty much just energy boosters.

[Freak Out]

What in the fuck are you putting in your body? Xplode? Oxy elite? You guys training with Barry Bonds now?

I'm too old to treat my body like a temple. Besides, I grew up eating Teflon flakes off old frying pans and whatever those plastics are that seep into your food when you put them in the microwave, so I'm not too worried about polluting myself now.

You have a point......what harm can the seeds of a Chinese orchid tree do anyway.

Bizarre stuff....talk about leading me down a rabbit hole. I do 10 minutes research on the ingredients of the oxyelite and wound up on some very freaky bodybuilding/supplement review forums.

[SkinBasket]

What in the fuck are you putting in your body? Xplode? Oxy elite? You guys training with Barry Bonds now?

I'm too old to treat my body like a temple. Besides, I grew up eating Teflon flakes off old frying pans and whatever those plastics are that seep into your food when you put them in the microwave, so I'm not too worried about polluting myself now.

You have a point......what harm can the seeds of a Chinese orchid tree do anyway.

Bizarre stuff....talk about leading me down a rabbit hole. I do 10 minutes research on the ingredients of the oxyelite and wound up on some very freaky bodybuilding/supplement review forums.

Did you say hello to Partial?

[twoseven]

The Xplode has about 80-100mg in it from what I've read. They made it part of their secret recipe so it's unlisted. The oxy crap has 100mg each, and two doses of xplode certainly seems to have less caffeine than two does of that just from using myself as an test tube.

the GNC website is good for reading labels on the products. i am thinking now it was the Black Powder my friend might have been talking about, it has a blend of green tea and caffiene that comes in around 400mg.

[Freak Out]

fuck barry bonds an his shrek sized head. and in case you are actually wondering, these products are just amped up versions of your morning coffee. they do little to support actual tissue recovery, and even less to stimulate growth. they are pretty much just energy boosters.

That's what I deducted from my trip down the supplement rabbit hole.....it seems they add some weird Asian plant matter just as an ingredient filler.

Did you know American Ginseng was the first thing the Chinese (Red) imported from us when we opened up trade with them?

[SkinBasket]

Caffeine gives me a boner. 400mg and you could just call the stuff Cock Xplode.

[Freak Out]

What in the fuck are you putting in your body? Xplode? Oxy elite? You guys training with Barry Bonds now?

I'm too old to treat my body like a temple. Besides, I grew up eating Teflon flakes off old frying pans and whatever those plastics are that seep into your food when you put them in the microwave, so I'm not too worried about polluting myself now.

You have a point......what harm can the seeds of a Chinese orchid tree do anyway.

Bizarre stuff....talk about leading me down a rabbit hole. I do 10 minutes research on the ingredients of the oxyelite and wound up on some very freaky bodybuilding/supplement review forums.

Did you say hello to Partial?

No.... I didn't take the time to register so I could post.

[twoseven]

Caffeine gives me a boner. 400mg and you could just call the stuff Cock Xplode.

i used to follow my morning breakfast of oatmeal a banana and 400mg of caffiene with a couple of Viper 16 oz energy drinks an hour later right before the workout from time to time on a saturday morning. talk about a caffiene convention. jezzus, hands were shaking but i didn't have much trouble with fatigue. the crash later in the day was nice.