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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Katie Moseley and Casey Logan scored in the final minute of regulation in leading Wellesley College (5-8, 2-3) to a stunning, 15-14, victory at Jack Barry Field. MIT (6-3, 2-3) had never defeated Wellesley in 16 pervious attempts, although the Engineers entered Tuesday's match with their best chance against the lacrosse perenial power.
Tech had been on a tear in April, winning five of its last six, including a 10-9 come-from-behind thriller against Mount Holyoke last Saturday. Against Wellesley, the Cardinal and Gray picked up where they left off, scoring four goals in the first six minutres to build a 4-1 lead.
After the initial surge, Wellesley showed that they would not crumble against MIT's potent offense, by scoring five consecutive goals to move in front. MIT answered with three of its own, and the back-and-forth battle raged on, resulting in an 8-8 standstill at halftime.
Neither team could catch an advantage in the second half, trading goals at the same pace as the first half. Trailing 12-10 with just over eight minutes to go, the Engineers delivered another surge led by the dynamic tandem of Kelsey Presson and Deanna Lentz. A free position goal by Presson inched Tech to within one, while Lentz buried the equalizer at 53:22. Audrey Gill scored a minute later to give the lead back to Wellesley, but MIT's leading scorers could not be denied.
At 57:16, Lentz scored another game-tying goal, while Presson followed with what the Tech faithful hoped would be the game-winner at 58:20. Down to its last breath, Wellesley made a final push, scoring on its final two shots to steal a critical NEWMAC win.
Presson totaled five goals to lead all scorers, while Kaitlin Kamrowski picked up her second hat trick of the season with a three-goal effort. Hee Jay Kang made eight stops in the loss, falling to 6-2 on the season.


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Discussion of wildfires sure to dominate Western Governors' Association meeting in Colorado Springs
When governors from all across the West gather next month in Colorado Springs for their annual meeting, the issue of wildfires, which in the last week have raged in parts of Southern California, will be a prime topic of discussion.
Just last week Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, chair of the Western Governors' Association, signed a measure into law that doles out about $19 million for the state to contract for planes to fight wildfires this year. In 2012 and 2013 Colorado endured some of the most deadly and destructive wildfires in the state's history.
The group will meet from June 9 to 11 at the Broadmoor to discuss issues that also include land conservation, water use and energy.
Back in February a group of Western governors, including Hickenlooper, Republican Govs. Jan Brewer of Arizona and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, traveled to the Washington, D.C., and met with President Barack Obama to express their concerns about drought and what the federal government can do to help Western states.
According to a report mandated by Congress and released earlier this month, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior have projected they might need to spend $1.8 billion fighting fires this year, while the agencies have only $1.4 billion available.
In recent days, California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has made headlines stressing that climate change is the cause behind the massive wildfires that have plagued the West. Brown, who will not be present at the meeting next month, has said there's "political denial," especially among Republicans, when it comes to climate change.
"The state's climate appears to be changing. The scientists tell us that definitely. So we've got to gear up here," said Brown on ABC's "This Week."

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|2009-01-10, 16:09
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Hi everyone. I've look all over the internet to find the definite solution for my drawing problem.
I just can't seem to find the RIGHT program to draw anime. I currently have photoshop CS4. The trial though, i'm planning to buy the real version if i'm satisfied with it's capabilities. (i can get it for 150 via my school for educational purposes so don't think i'm like a super hax0r or whatever) One major thing is the drawing of anime.
So since always, i've been using pscs2, but everytime i compared it with other anime, mine just sucked and was pretty noobish. So last night i went to sankaku complex and saw that a dude offered a HQ anime PSD for the outline. So i downloaded it and looked carefully at it. What i noticed that lines became thicker and thinner at places and were VERY crisp. The crispy-nes is my main issue.
When i draw in photoshop (i have a wacom bamboo now) i use a brush with 3/4px with fading set on pen pressure. I drew a line next to a line on the psd and mine was blurry at the edges, unlike the psd's.
So now i'm wondering the following.
Are there any special plugins/brushes for photoshop to draw anime, or should i purchase another program. I hear that painter is excellent for inking anime.
What should i do?
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Use hard brush instead of soft, personally I like SAI better than Photoshop but when it comes around to it there isn't much difference. I think you should give some screen shot of your settings.
This may help too
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|2009-01-11, 02:38
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Location: Massachusetts
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SAI is actually better for tablets and such so its better for drawing, If you think about it PS was originally designed for photo manipulation and they just built upon that base to get it where it is now.
Japanese Pro's use diffrent software depending on the artists some use PS some use SAI and some use both or other software like the RETAS animation suit(basically for making anime but you can draw in it too though its $$$$$, its the best there is for anime though). In the end you can really use any of them just have to develop different methods of doing things.
I personally like Vector based artwork so things like Maya, Inkscape, Illustrator and Rhino... My artist friend does all his sketching in Painter.
|2009-01-11, 18:45
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Age: 27
Indeed PS isn't the greatest in response to Wacom pen preassure sensitivity (im not sure about the Centriq tablets, but I've used the Graphire 3 and 4) I noticed from different softwares that PS has practically the worst pen sensitivity in its brush system. I've never heard of this SAI thing before but im going to check it out now.
Some things I can recall working fairly well with the pen preassure has been Digicel Flipbook, Corel Painter, and Twisted Brush. PS I prefer because it's what i grew up with and because I can't master all my stroke on my tablet, so i don't rly illustrate much.
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I use both "photoshop cs3" and "corel painter IX". I think its a good match, as each of the two softwares have their own areas of expertise. I've used "sai" before, and I have to agree that it would be the best out of the 3. Tho, my "sai" trial ran out lol... If I had "sai" I would probably use that together with photoshop, because photoshop is still helpful to do all the fine tuning once my drawing is near completion.
Btw, in response to why your photoshop brushes are so blurry.
1. pick a solid brush from the brush pallete. It should by default, be one of the top 6
2. press f5 to enter your brush editing window
3. click the text "brush tip shape", now the menu should change
4. under the tickbox "spacing", drag that bar to 0%
keep in mind, everytime you change ur brush from the brush pallete, that setting will change. That is, unless you define the edited brush as a new custom brush etc. Imo, just change the brush size with the % box to keep it the same settings and different size.
Btw, how big of a resolution was the HQ PSD file you downloaded from the artist? If you're sketching on the computer then 600x800 or something would be a relatively good canvas size. But if you were lineartting from a scanned picture, it may be wiser to enlarge the canvas to x3 or x4 the size of the final output image before lineartting. The bigger the canvas, the more crisp the lines are. Plus outputting from a larger source image will improve the final quality of the image.
If an image is portrait orientated, my working canvas size is usually around 2400px wide. The length is kept as constrained to proportion. My final output images would usually be 800px wide.
Also, if you ever plan on getting your work laser printed. Then before you draw, hit ctrl+alt+i and set the resolution to 300%. Notice your canvas size will also change, so just change that back. Its a good idea to change the resolution before all else.
If you somehow read through my overly lengthy post... I hope that was somewhat helpful XD; Good luck
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Location: texas
opencanvas sai and ps together
i usaully use sai to make the lines as sai line tools are very easy and fast to use then i trace over those lines in opencanvas for better line strength and shaping after that i color and shade in photoshop i use a 100% hard brush for base colors and a 50% soft brush for shading also i never use paint bucket i use the layer system for all my coloring and shading. i recommend you get photoshop and then get a free download of sai and opencanvas as there are many sai and opencanvas torrents thats how i have mine.
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In February 2008, a helicopter transporting three U.S. senators had to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan. A crash was averted and all three – Joe Biden, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel – survived.
Already friends, they bonded over the experience, say people who know them.
Now these three amigos are set to reunite in the Obama Cabinet, Biden as veep, Kerry as secretary of state, and former Republican Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense – although his confirmation hearings will be contentious.
They will be working for another former Senate colleague, Barack Obama, whose worldview they echo in their statements and writing.
A team of rivals it is not. President Obama clearly intends to shape foreign policy in the White House, and has chosen a band of brothers to carry it out. Yet, given the huge foreign policy challenges he faces, choosing a team of the like-minded could have a real downside. It may not produce the strategic thinking needed when global crises can't be resolved according to the president's script – as happened repeatedly during his first term.
The president has made clear that over the next four years, he wants to focus on nation-building at home, not abroad. He wants to end current military engagements and avoid any new ones.
"Enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war," Obama said in the scant two paragraphs he devoted to foreign policy in his second inaugural address. In an echo of the themes he promoted when he took office, he stressed diplomacy and engagement with enemies, along with the need to renew global institutions.
In his convivial confirmation hearings, Kerry echoed his new boss. He stressed, "We can't be strong in the world unless we are strong at home." American foreign policy, he insisted, "is not defined by drones and deployments alone."
But when it came to dealing with the specific threats the country will face, Kerry, again like his boss, was more hazy. No clarity on how to leave Afghanistan without precipitating the return of global jihadis, or whether drones alone can prevent this – despite a lot of moralizing by him and other senators about not abandoning Afghan women.
As for Syria, Kerry also echoed Obama, hewing to the U.S. position that we have to godfather negotiations between the opposition and the regime. I'd agree if there were any sign that this were possible. Don't get me wrong. I think Kerry is a good choice. But with three former senators already on the foreign policy team, why has Obama sought out another in Chuck Hagel? And since the president, veep and future secretary of state are already focused on military disengagement, why choose someone even more averse to using force than they?
I don't question Hagel because he is allegedly "anti-Israel." But what strengths does Hagel add to Obama's security team?
Although Hagel has some business experience, it isn't sufficient to help in the daunting task of judiciously paring back the defense budget. His "Republican" links aren't likely to help him win over fellow party members, since his views are to the left of Obama's.
Haunted by his Vietnam experience, Hagel seems even more leery of military involvement than his two Senate friends or the president.
In any cabinet debate over strategy – say over policy on Syria – I can't see him breaking the current paralysis with any new ideas.
And on the one subject – Iran – where Hagel does deviate from his buddies, it's not clear what input he can offer. He has consistently opposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran – and also opposed a military strike because he thinks the costs would outweigh the benefits. On this last point, he has a strong case to make.
But Iran is the one issue where the president and Kerry insist a military option must remain on the table – and that containing Iran is not an option. Having been coached, Hagel will no doubt echo this position at his hearings. Yet his selection – and his past stance against military action – will be taken by Iran to mean that the White House isn't serious about a military option, no matter what Hagel says now. That, in turn, may make it less likely Tehran will make concessions in negotiations.
Rather than Hagel, Obama could have chosen someone from the business or policy communities who offered a different perspective than his legislative teammates.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Junior Meagan Thornton (Millville, N.J.) scored a first-half hat trick, and Kaitlyn Kerrigan (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.) added two assists to jump two spots on the program's all-time list and lead the Lees-McRae College women's soccer team to a 4-0 win over Erskine College in Conference Carolinas play on Wednesday evening.
With the victory, Lees-McRae (8-6, 6-1 CC) extends its win streak to seven matches, while also pushing its run of not allowing a goal to 490:17, a span that stretches over six contests. The Bobcats controlled the run of play for much of the match, outshooting Erskine (1-11, 1-4 CC) by a 32-5 margin, including a 15-4 advantage in the first half.
Thornton paced the Bobcats with her third career treble, scoring the natural hat trick with three tallies within a 12-minute span, while adding an assist on the opener. Sarah Mahar (Jacksonville, Fla.) notched her sixth of the season to open proceedings, with Thornton chipping in an assist on Mahar's opening strike.
Kerrigan posted two assists to jump into a tie for fourth on the program's all-time list, while Kaitlyn Briggs (Oviedo, Fla.) made one save to keep her seventh clean sheet of the season and 19th of her career, moving into second by herself in school history.
Ashton Burgess made 10 saves for Erskine in the match, playing the full 90 minutes, as McKenzie Waldrop tallied the Fleet's lone attempt on frame.
Mahar got the Bobcats off to a flying start midway through the fourth minute, taking a pass from Thornton and sending a left-footed finish into the bottom corner for her fourth winner of the season. Thornton would double the advantage to 2-0 in the 17th minute, running on to a long ball from Kerrigan and tucking the finish into the corner from 10 yards out.
The duo repeated the feat less than three minutes later, connecting on another long pass that put Thornton alone with the keeper before she finished with a chip off the bar to stretch the lead to 3-0.
After ringing the bar with a 27th-minute effort, Thornton would complete the treble in the closing moments of the 28th, cutting in from the flank and delivering a picturesque strike into the top corner to send the Bobcats into the interval with a 4-0 advantage.
The Bobcats kept the pressure on in the second half, pushing forward with pace and a sense of urgency while forcing six saves by Burgess in the final 45 minutes. Briggs and the Bobcats would weather a late push by the Fleet, playing as a cohesive unit throughout the match while holding Erskine's forward corps to just two shots on the night.
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When Rosalind Price, the MCIO Head Start Transportation Manager, took on the responsibility as coordinator for the facility's annual St. Jude Trike-A-Thon, she took the task very serious for a couple reasons. One, it was an important fund raiser that depended on the generosity of others in order to function and two, six of her father's siblings, as well as himself, had perished from cancer.
The Trike-A-Thon has been a tradition at daycare centers and pre-schools for more than 25 years. It is held had Head Start consist of a week of exercises that teach young ones about toy safety skills, while they attend their regular days at the early learning center. Children learn to ride their toys safely through a series of interactive stories from special characters, such as Bikewell Bear and pedals the Bunny. At the end of the week, the children can bring their trikes or riding toys to the Head Start gym and practice the safety lessons they've learned, while eating refreshments and listening to speakers.
The purpose for all of this is to raise funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, one of the world's premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases.
"St. Jude is the leader on the fight against catastrophic childhood diseases such as leukemia, brain tumors and sickle cell disease," Price said. "Through events like Trike-A-Thon, Bastrop supports the St. Jude mission of finding cures and saving children across the country and around the world."
Price said these fighting these diseases doesn't come cheap though.
"The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $1.5 million, which is primarily covered by public contributions," Price stated in a press release she sent out earlier this month. "St. Jude depends on community-based fundraising programs like Trike-A-Thon to continue the hospital's groundbreaking research and lifesaving care."
The Bastrop community can sponsor children in the Trike-A-Thon by pledging a donation in one or more of their names. MCIO Head Start has had two children to benefit from St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Donations can be in the form of checks made payable to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
For more information, call Rosalind Price at 239.3803 or 372.7679.


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One of the things that astounds (or maybe confounds) me is the rapidity at which my shoulder joint disintegrated. Six months ago it was fine.
Okay, the truth is the shoulder has given me trouble in the past, and in 2007 I had surgery to relocate the long tendon on my biceps. However, the surgery fixed the problem. I went through physical therapy after the surgery and rebuilt both a good range of motion and strength in my left arm.
Then in September 2008 I had my right hip replaced. During that recovery and rehabilitation process, I used my upper body more extensively than I had previous to the surgery. I pushed myself up in bed using my arms, I used a walker for a couple of weeks, then used a cane – with my left arm – for a while. During this time I noticed that my left shoulder was sore, but I thought it was just because I had been using it more and that once that activity had stopped, things would go back to normal.
At my 3-month checkup with my orthopedic surgeon for my hip, I told him that my hip was doing great, but that my shoulder hurt. At that point I had started to lose some range of motion and had pain when I tried to use it or sleep on that side. By December 31, the range of motion was limited to being able to raise my arm out to my side about shoulder height. A month later, I could only raise it about half that height. I'm a little less than that now, and I can't put my hand behind my back at all.
When I first complained to my orthopedic guy, he took an X-ray of the shoulder and didn't note any narrowing of the cartilage. There was a small bone spur, but that had been there the year before without apparent change. This was about December 1. The X-rays and CT scan that I had done last week (about 3 months later) showed pretty much complete destruction of the cartilage, plus the damage to the glenoid.
I guess I didn't notice it as much because it's my non-dominate arm and it only hurt when I tried to use it so I quit using it as much.
What's really scary to me is that I have other joints – such as my knees – that hurt worse. I'm afraid to go look at them. Since I've been off the Humira the past week or so, most of my joints have been complaining. Last night it was after 2:00 am before I could go to sleep and that was after I had taken additional pain medication on top of my normal Celebrex. When I finally do get back on the medication, I'll no doubt have to "build up" the benefits again over a couple of months.
The point is, as disturbed as I am about losing my shoulder, I'm even more concerned about the future. It took less than six months to destroy my shoulder – and that's a major joint. What do you suppose is happening to my fingers, and ankles, and spine?
Hopefully my recovery will be swift and I can get back on medication that may be able to slow down the progression of the disease. I can only hope.


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ACT school canteens have placed last in an Australia wide study looking at the nutritional value of food served in school canteens.
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School canteen menus across the country were put under the microscope in a study conducted by Monash University and online advocacy group Parent's Jury.
The ACT performed poorly, with just 5 per cent of canteens meeting the reccomended nutritional guidelines.
Ross Solly spoke to the manager of Parent's Jury Corrina Langelaan on 666 ABC Breakfast.
The survey identified green foods as the healthy foods that should be eaten every day.The Parent's Jury reccomend that at least 60 per cent of the food on the menu be in the nutritious 'green food' category.
"'Amber food' should be eaten occasionally and 'red food' should be eaten once a term, twice a term or preferrably not at all. 'Red food' is nutrient poor and energy dense junk food," Ms Lanelaan said.
"It takes very little effort to change the menu," Ms Lanelaan said.
Ms Langelann told Ross Solly that the study looked at 19 school menus, 22 per cent of schools in the ACT.
ACT Parents and Citizens treasurer Hugh Boulter raised concerns about whether the findings paint an accurate picture, reporting that almost 20 schools in the ACT don't have canteens.
"The analysis of the proportion of schools that are serving up the food (as they've stated in the amber and green area) is distorted," Mr Boulter said.
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Leanne Wright, Director of Teaching and Learning with Directorate of Education and Training said the directorate was looking closely at the results of the survey.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Competing at full strength for the first time this fall, the MIT men's tennis earned a 6-1 victory over Wesleyan University on Thursday. The Engineers now stand at 1-1 in dual match competition.
Evan Tindell got things rolling for Tech, as he easily defeated Max Kates, 6-1, 6-1, in the No. 1 singles spot. Tom Dohlman posted a hard-fought, 6-4, 7-5, victory against Tallen Todorovich while Eric Beren defeated Evan Rhodes, 6-3, 6-2. At the No. 4 singles position, Mark Egan picked up a 6-0, 6-4 win over Matt Cron. In the Engineers' only loss in singles play, Kevin Durand fell, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. Michael Price had an exciting, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, come-from-behind win in approaching darkness at the No. 6 singles slot.
In doubles action, Tom Dohlman and Evan Tindell had an 8-1 win in the top spot. In the No. 2 position, Mark Egan and Eric Beren lost, 8-5. Kevin Durand and Krishna Pokala had a decisive 8-3 win at the No. 3 slot.
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|2012-06-17, 22:27
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Aye... there's not really a clean line for a number of groups.... especially since all of the "classic" metal bands almost qualify as mainstream rock/pop to a young metal enthusiast compared to death metal or metalcore.
|2012-06-18, 14:43
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Quite confused by this thread after reading a few lines. However, I thought I would put my two cents in. I grew up with metal and have always loved it. However, throughout the years metal has become increasingly generic and divided up into endless sub-genre after sub-genre. This started around 2000 when labels started signing bands just because they could growl, scream or play a few rhyths. On the other hand, 2000 was the era when Manson and Slipknot came onto the global stage (new metal or now Emo for the younger generation) and kids decided wearing black and putting some make-up on their face made them cool. The problem is with metal, is a lot of the really good bands are overshadowed in the industry, Why? (1) because so many crap bands are signed by labels (2) the birth of new metal and (3) the stigma to this day that metal brings. Today I can listen to anything from black metal (like sigh for example) to j-pop (like kalafina). To me music is about atmosphere. If the band can bring a unique sound, and moving atmosphere, that can make you think then it is always a welcome surprise.
Hahaha this probably is not the right place to say this, but as Japan was one of the black metal pioneering countries, Japan does have some very good black metal bands. Seeing Sigh live is just an amazing experience. Needless to say, Japan does also have some amazing power metal, hard rock, metal and death metal bands. I could always do a long list like elsewhere in this thread but don't have the energy. Plus to go through a list of European metal bands could take me a couple of months (a bit like me trying to remember every band I have seen live in the past ten years). So instead I will keep with the topic of the forum and name a few Asian metal bands that are popular at the moment.
Chthonic – Taiwanese traditional music mixed with Balck Metal (Black Metal not to everyones taste but amazing sounding band and sure to be massive outside Taiwan).
Galneryus – Japanese Power Metal (Reminds me a lot of Dragonforce)
Ishtar – Korean Metal (Female vocals not to everyone's taste but I really like the female operatical sound).
Dark Mirror ov Tragedy (South Korean Symthonic Black metal reminds me of the mid era of Dimmu Bogir)
I would list more, but I have to write for my own website, instead of writing on this forum. I'm getting a little carried away.
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It has finally happened, guys. This should be especially interesting for you, Haladflire65.
After over a year without a frontman, Kamelot has revealed their new singer, Tommy Karevik. The thirty-year-old Scandinavian has been the vocalist of progressive metal band Seventh Wonder since 2005 and has recently gained some further fame by helping out Kamelot on their latest tour. Here are two videos featuring him performing the song 'Center of the Universe' by Kamelot as well as the track 'Paradise' by Seventh Wonder.
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What's your opinion on Kamelot's decision? I personally am not a very big fan of Karevik. He doesn't sound different enough from Khan but at the same time also not as good. I guess I'll have to see. I trust the bands ability to make the right decisions and try to let the upcomming album convince me in september.
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Okay, I've refrained from posting this for a LONG time, but contrary to what the title says, I'm not into metal.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I am willing to explore the genre, so anyone want to recommend a few songs/bands? I want to start out with the softer variates.
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Start with the classics from the 80s and work up to present day. The older stuff is a lot easier of a gateway for most folks.
Black Sabbath (fronted by Ozzie Osbourne before he went solo), Iron Maiden. Def Leppard was originally considered metal if you can believe that.
Shreddy but melodic stuff by Ronny James Dio or Yngwie Malmsteem.
Guns'n'Roses has been categorized as "glam metal"... and then there's Metallica (first few albums)
For the various present day sub-genre, I'll have to hand off to someone else... though I'm reading now that Wolfmother has been categorized as "retro-metal" by some (I had just tagged them as 'hard rock' but whatever).
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Huge metal fan here. I've been playing guitar for a little over 10 years (started off as a jazz guitarist, go figure). Got into Lamb of God and then Cannibal Corpse and it was over.
Been really into the DJENT scene lately. Dude's like Misha 'Bulb' Mansoor and Tosin Abasi are such huge influences to me.
Djent is just an onomatopoeia for the tight mid-rangey palm muted guitar sounds that they frequently use (with a lot of noise supression in between). It's not really a genre.
This is definitely one to check out (this is Tosin's band but Misha played all the rhythm parts). All instrumental all day eeryday.
This next one is Periphery, Misha's full time band. Some pretty tasty riffs in this as well.
Lemme know if you dig it!
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Kamelot have now revealed the title and cover of there upcomming tenth studio album. It is due october and will be called 'Silverthorn'. Additionally, they recently played a song from that very album. It's titled 'Sacrimony' and sounds refreshingly different.
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Somehow I get the feeling that this will be the most symphonic sounding Kamelot record so far.
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^ The cover's a promo, they revealed a tiny bit of the actual one... tease, much >.>
I missed your earlier Kamelot post, ZGoten! As you know I like Tommy quite a lot from Seventh Wonder so I'm excited to see how well he'll do with Kamelot He has a great range, too, so perhaps he can bring some more soaring melodies to Kamelot. Apparently he helped a lot with the songwriting for Silverthorn. I'm hoping for the best but trying not to get my expectations up too much.
Spoiler for Silverthorn stuff:
Personally, I love how everything's sounding so far. Tommy seems to be doing great and I can't wait for the album. It does indeed sound more symphonic and I'm also hopeful since I've heard that none of the band members liked Poetry for the Poisoned, either, so they want to get back to the sound of older albums like Black Halo and Karma.
On another note, I'm getting more into black metal I've been listening to Fleshgod Apocalypse and Be'lakor lately, pretty cool stuff.
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Here are some of my favorite performances:
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|2012-07-24, 19:50
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I like metal! But I really just listen to J-Pop now, stupid anime xD
Anyways, I like bands such as Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Powerglove, Dragonforce, etc.
Pretty much into power/classic/heavy metal, I guess.
|2012-07-27, 16:39
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Discoveries like this make me want to get into the genre full-time. I have a terrible feeling that there are countless rather unknown (at least in my neck of the woods) gems like this out there that I haven't discovered yet. The Swedes deliver once again.
|2012-07-27, 17:26
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|2012-07-29, 19:07
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I just typed up a long ass post that went poof. Ugh. Shortened version: metal is my greatest passion and I listen to a LOT of it. Lots of doom, death, black, progressive or a combination of these. I love the fact that the music keeps evolving and that bits and pieces from different genres are molded together to create new things.
Some stuff I absolutely love:
My Dying Bride
Swallow the Sun
Bolt Thrower
Deathspell Omega
Most stuff by Devin Townsend
You probably get the idea. One thing I definitely don't like is (classic) power metal. Stuff like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche, the second part of most Dream Theater songs, Dragonforce.. stuff with lots of soloing and high pitched clean vocals. It just doesn't do anything for me.
Without getting spammy, here are 3 songs that are absolutely top of the bill for me:
Tiamat - Whatever that hurts
This started my appreciation for doom metal. This song is so..lush, yet has these really slow and dark riffs going on.
Machine Head - Davidian
This makes me want to headbang and mosh. It just grooves and grooves and I get never get sick of this song.
Novembre - Anaemia
A bit of doom and death metal, yet it's quite melodic. Pretty catchy, but with a somber approach. I love the melancholy they instill in their songs.
I can also see Diablo Swing Orchestra discussed here. I discovered them recently and they're quite refreshing, their songs strangely want to make me dance in a non-metal way.
The typical elitist anti-nu metal stuff is getting pretty stale. Can't say I'm really into nu metal, but using terms like 'real metal' is pretty laughable. Real metal doesn't exist. I'm really glad that there's no such thing as just metal anymore, there's just a LOT of extreme music that keeps evolving into new stuff. Some stuff I don't like, but I'm glad we have more than just Black Sabbath.
|2012-08-21, 21:15
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just love these two
although i don't know much about metal genre
cause i always listen to everything comfortable for my ears, completely ignore about genres
|2012-08-22, 04:17
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Location: Australia
Age: 23
I am a metal head though I am fan of different genres as well. I have also a soft spot for J-Metal/Rock. I can listen to any kind of metal/rock but I am more partial to normal heavy metal, symphonic, gothic, glam and industrial metal. Got it in for hard rock and rock n roll too! Though listing those genres down, I would say I am more fan of music where I can't quite put my finger on what genre it is. My favorite band of all time is Nightwish.
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CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA -- Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY GATEWAY OR ACER. This is not a relationship that you want to get into. Gateway is defined by poor quality products and ZERO customer service. ZERO. I purchased an NV Series Gateway laptop and within the first two months had my first issue, I took it back to Best Buy and it was sent back to Gateway where they had to replace a piece of faulty hardware.
A couple months later the Gateway laptop failed again, and once more I took it back to Best Buy who sent it off and had a new mother board installed. A few months later, the same thing happened, failure, and ANOTHER mother board had to be installed. At this point I was requesting a new computer because it was close to the end of what I consider a short one year warranty and I had already had so many failures and spent so many weeks without my computer.
Well, not long after the warranty expired, so too did the battery. The Gateway battery had a catastrophic failure, I lost data and now the battery will not charge. Since that time, my Gateway laptop has become a desk top, always having to be tethered to a wall outlet.
The most recent issue is that it will not start up; it keeps freezing and will not allow me to recover to the last good configuration. I have contacted Gateways tech support but they require a $200 fee for their help. I spent just under 2 hours getting the run around by their tech support and then a supervisor.
When I told them I wanted to speak with a corporate customer service rep, I was given a phone number which ultimately got me to another call center in India where they finally admitted that they were in fact tech support as well and not customer service. What you can expect from Gateway is a shabby product that will be patched up and barely kept together until your warranty runs out and then you are on your own unless you want to cough up even more money and time to get it fixed (over the phone by the way).
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA -- I purchased this laptop on Home Shopping Network, advertising it as the only computer you will need for the next 5 years. After only 6 weeks of use, I had issues with it powering on. Used all the info in owners manual before calling repair. I was very aggressive in my demands for a new laptop, no I was told send it to repair center in TX by an customer service representative in the Philippines. Then told by Escalations personnel that I had no options but to pay for shipping to TX, cost me $20.
Before shipping back, we noticed that the port for the AC/DC adaptor plug was too far recessed in, thus the plug was not making a connection. Computer was in perfect condition, only needing new jack/port for the battery cable. I included a note with the computer notifying them that was all that was needed. Received email stating computer was received at repair center, 6 business days later received call stating due to all the damage and repairs, they would have to replace parts with non matching parts. I asked why would they be needing those parts when there was only one issue.
To cut it short, the computer was damaged between the time it left me and up to 6 days after Acer repair center received my laptop. Gateway/Acer is stating the damages weren't covered by warranty they were just doing me a favor. Also the mother board was replaced and a broken key!!! How did this all happen when all they needed was to replace the port for the cable? Questioned why they would accept the computer in that condition(damage not covered by warranty) and then wait 6 business days to contact me.
They are dumbfounded and without an answer, but my only option is to take the non-matching casing panel or they will just send it back damaged. DO NOT BUY ACER/GATEWAY computers. The warranties are worthless and they obviously drop your computers before they repair them. No way would they have accepted my laptop for a simple repair if there was a cracked casing panel piece, broken key, and in need of a new mother board after 6 weeks of use!!! THEY ARE DISHONEST AND SELL LEMON COMPUTERS.
I must first qualify my review, I am a component level PC technician / IT support and forensic specialist, often hardware manufacturers get a black eye from irresponsible software vendors "pushing" a beta release of an OS that's not ready for release to the general public. My Gateway experience follows.
In Nov of 2009 I purchased a refurbished Gateway NV5214u and Western Digital 500GB HD from the CompUSA/Tiger Direct group. I was totally Jazzed, everything I wanted in a laptop and a screaming deal to top it all off. I ripped that puppy out of the box and began the initial charge, once the battery's forming charge was complete, with a quart of "DD" coffee and champing at the bit I powered up, the laptop came preloaded with "Vista Home Entertainment" version, in several min I was greeted with a pleasing blue/gray frame around the famous BSOD (blue screen of death), OK let's play, 45 min later after much keypunching and profanity BSOD persisted!
OK, pop open the optical drive a stuff a Suse 11.2 "Live CD" and reboot, following the post screen came the hardware inventory, well son of a gun, I ran the memory diagnostic and loaded live mode, everything was there. Great! Not a hardware but a driver issue, don't have to return it. Now with confidence I shutdown, pulled the 350GB Seagate drive installing the 500GB Western Digital and loaded Suse 11.2 Linux, which was the initial plan. About 2 hours later the laptop of my dreams was sitting before me, It hasn't missed a beat since.
A few months later I upgraded to 11.3, in the following months I have been so pleased I have purchased 4 more of these laptops at baby needs shoes prices, all not working, all responding to the same therapy.
Thanks Bill, never could have afforded them if they worked!
Advise for all purchasing new computers / electronics. Follow the initial charging instructions! All semiconductors are subject to "New device mortality rates" the longer the device has been operating the more reliable it is. General guidelines advise a minimum "burn in" of 200 hours for hi-rel applications. I leave my new stuff on for months, if it's destine to fail it's going to do it while it's under warranty.
For computers, STFW for "live CD distributions" these are alternative OS's that run albeit slowly but entirely off the CD without altering your hard drive. A wonderful tool to find who's really responsible for your misery. Ultimately it's always "caveat emptor" arm yourself with knowledge, you'll find life requires far less KY jelly, best of decisions and fortune to all. "I fix windows but I work on Linux"
SOUTH DAKOTA -- Let me first say that I have owned Gateway products in the past and was very happy and recommended them to others who purchased based on the recommendation... However... I have a laptop that failed while under warranty... tech support, which is somewhat of a horror show, informed me that the BIOS would have to be reset for a cost of 99.00 !!! BIOS is not my fault... but they essentially extort, because they will not even have a look unless you pay for what should be under warranty first.
So, I pay... send it off to service. It is returned with the battery jammed in crooked and a bottom panel unsecured... don't worry, I took pictures! Within days, strange things happen and it proceeds to quit on me. Called the techies overseas and as part of the diagnostic, they ask if I have restore discs. I reply that I received 1 with the computer... Oh, but you need 2. So that will be 23.00 first, then we can proceed with diagnostics. Does this reek of extortion once again? I pay the 23.00, receive the disc, call tech support and guess what? Yep, it sounds like a bad hard drive... AGAIN - that's #2!
This time they agree to pay for shipping... Well, here we go again... 3rd new hard drive that works for a few days until the "lock ups" and endless reboots. Now, I'm dead in the water again. Meanwhile, I urge everyone with a Gateway problem to contact the **. I have yet to get real satisfaction yet as Gateway has denied the first portion of my claim but I've had 2 more hard drive crashes since they were first notified and they're stalling. That's the name of the game, force the consumer to give up. It's important that everyone with a Gateway problem GET PROACTIVE and CONTACT THE SD ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE. Hopefully, there will be strength in numbers. Good Luck.
I returned my computer under warranty in order to have the problem that thousands of other users (according to Google) fixed. (I suggest you Google " Gateway computer will not boot" before buying.) I was told that it "had major induced trauma" and that I had 12 hours to call back to give them 200$ to fix it, or it would be shipped back, not repaired.
I did, thinking it would be cheaper to get robbed of 200$ for a fictional trauma, then buy a new computer. Apparently, it only takes 6 hours to fix a " major induced trauma" AND begin the shipping. When I called back to have the address changed, so someone would be there to sign for it, " it had already been shipped." Tricky. When I pleaded for them to call FedEx and re route, I was told that Gateway's policy was that they will not pay the 11$ FedEx charged.
I will not only never buy another Gateway product, I will go out of my way to make sure my friends, family, and strangers never buy another product from them. If you are looking for someone polite, friendly and informed, I suggest you avoid **. Call either one of these people immediately if you would like to be chuckled at while they stand behind Gateway's Policies.
I purchased this last Christmas. All of a sudden it wouldn't power up after only 11 months! I tried to search the internet for help... nothing. I tried the customer service number and all I got was a recording. My husband lost his job 2 years ago. When he finally got a job... this was our Christmas gift to one another but now... worthless. We don't have money to fix this and we shouldn't have to fix this after this short amount of time. I will never buy a Gateway anything again. It has been a complete waste of time and money. I advise everyone to steer clear of Gateway products.
I purchased a Gateway computer on 4/19/2010. Just recently the hard drive went down and would not boot. I took it back to Best Buy to see what they could do. They sent it off to be repaired and told me I would have to call Gateway and get a recovery disk, as they could not do that, to get the computer back to the way I bought it.
OK, fine, no problem, but when I called they told me the software warranty was only for 90 days and I would have to purchase the disk from them even though the hardware is warranted for 1 year, and that is what caused the problem to begin with. It was the rudest customer service department that I have ever dealt with, tech support just told me to go to the website and hung up on me.
I looked up the terms of the warranty and under the hardware section it states, and I quote exactly, "The scope of technical support consists of helping you diagnose and resolve problems with defects in Products covered by this Agreement, and, for PC Products, REINSTALLING THE FACTORY-INSTALLED OPERATING SYSTEM AND (SOFTWARE) to restore it to the original factory configuration". I kept mailing them back stating this and they kept responding with there is nothing they can do.
It was a hardware problem that occurred and they don't care, just saying that it's past 90 days and I'm brushed off by them every time. I highly recommend whoever reads this that they look elsewhere for a computer. DO NOT USE GATEWAY!!! Worst customer service ever! Will not stand by a warranty that it states in their terms of the warranty that they warrant. Absolute joke for a customer service department
I purchased a Gateway laptop in Jan 08 and started having trouble with it six months later. Called customer service because I could not get it to turn on, or even get a charge. I Wanted to send it in to them to have it fixed but the customer service representative wanted to do some trouble shooting first. It turned back on and started working again but few months later it started doing the same thing. Now its 5 months out of warranty and they will not help me. Its doing the thing, same problem that I called them for when it was under warranty. Seems like Gateways customer service team try's to slide you buy until your warranty is up so you have to pay them more money. Pretty bad customer service.
I bought a Gateway Notebook from Gateway 2 years ago with a 4-year warranty. Recently, one of the hinges that connects the top of the notebook to the bottom of the notebook broke. I called Gateway and was told they had sold my warranty to MPC. I contacted MPC and learned they are now bankrupt and will not service my computer.
I called Gateway again and was given a huge run-around. Gateway has treated me terribly regarding this incident. I was told they definitely would not take care of my computer. When I asked to speak to a manager they informed me there was no manager to speak to. When I asked for the name of the representative I was speaking to, he told me he was not allowed to give out names. Not only did I pay Gateway money for a 4-year warranty, but they also received money from MPC for my warranty. They were paid twice for a warranty and will NOT stand behind their product. DO NOT BUY GATEWAY!!!
CONWAY, ARKANSAS -- This is a copy of a letter that I wrote to Gateway, after two years of a very frustrating experience with their product quality and service. The letter speaks for itself. Following my letter is their response letter dated October 3, 2003. This letter wonderfully speaks for Gateway, Inc. Their letter is a "must read" by the computer audience. If you know of other web sites that I could post this letter on, please advise.
This is to request that Gateway, Inc. replace the referenced laptop computer. This computer has been a lemon from day one. I have been totally dissatisfied with the computer and have expressed this many, many times to your technical staff. Due to my total dissatisfaction, I was advised to write this letter by your technical staff using the referenced service request number.
My latest experience with the computer was 7-22-03. The LCD viewer went out while watching a DVD movie (no, I didn't drop it, had not dropped it, hadn't even though about dropping it, and there is no evidence from looking at the case that the computer has ever been dropped). I called your technical staff 7-22-03 and talked to **, and he informed me that the LCD was bad.
The best part of this conversation was that he informed me that the LCD was not covered under warranty. I even talked to his supervisor ** and he confirmed the good news. They said they would have someone call me the next day with an estimate of the cost to replace the LCD and to arrange for me to ship the computer to you for repair. The estimate was $869. Good news? What this meant is that I would have to take a $2,284.99 computer and throw it in the trash can.
For your information, during the month of August, Dell had a laptop advertised with similar hardware for $699. None of this helps me. Regardless, I am the looser and Gateway continues to win with your present policy. All I ever wanted was to have a dependable laptop for use in my consulting engineering business. I have never had this from day one, thanks to Gateway. I have read and re-read the limited warranty. I cannot find where the warranty excludes the LCD. The warranty simply states:
Gateway Companies, Inc. warrants to the original end-user that the Product (excluding Accessories) will be free from defects in materials and/or workmanship from the date of shipment for the period indicated on your invoice, except for portable batteries, docking stations, and Gateway-branded big screen monitors (27 inches or larger) for which the warranty period is one year from the date of shipment unless otherwise specifically indicated on your invoice.
I purchased the computer 8-30-01 with a 3-year extended warranted that I paid an additional $105.00 for. I was assured by the Little Rock, AR Gateway staff that the computer was completely covered by the warranty. They assured me that the $105.00 I paid for the extended warranty was a bargain. I assume that I can now place this warranty on my bulletin board until it expires, as a reminded of Gateways efforts toward customer satisfaction, since I now have lost the use of my $2,284.99 lemon computer. I know, it is only money.
I regret having to spend my time writing this since all of my repair history is on your computer under my customer ID number. But since Gateway has a policy of not providing a hotline phone number that a person can call to express their total dissatisfaction with a Gateway Product, I am listing some of the wonderful experiences I have had with Gateway since my purchase of the lemon computer 8-30-01:
On 12-5-01, the computer would not boot-up. The computer is 3-months old. I called technical support (by the way, sit down sometime in the quietness of your home, experience the wonderful Gateway call menu, and time yourself on how long it takes to reach a real live technical person) and talked to **. He told me something to try with no success.
I called technical support back 12-5-01, 11:45 am and talked to **. After going through the exciting Gateway telephone menu and the disappointment of not having a working computer, then expressing this to **, he was so concerned that he hung up on me. I called technical support back and talked to **, and then I talked to **, then to ** and then to a supervisor named **. Each required me to experience the wonderful Gateway telephone menu again and again. After all of the frustrating calls, they decided the hard drive had failed.
I dont remember what happened between 12-5-01 and 12-10-01, but on 12-10-01, at noon, I called technical support and talked to **, then we were disconnected for some unknown reason. I then called back and talked to **, and I believe he said I would have to send the computer in. This was Event # **.
On 12-12-01, I called technical support and talked to **. He said that I would have to send the computer to Gateway for repair. I am now 7-days into the wonderful Gateway customer satisfaction policy. On 12-12-01, ** called to advise me of the procedures Gateway uses to pick up the lemon computer. Then we were disconnected before I received all of the needed information. I then had to call back the wonderful Gateway telephone menu and talk to Shawn. He told me that Airborn Express would pick up the computer after I received a box (by mail) to put the computer in for shipping. This happened as planned.
On 12-19-01, the computer was shipped back to me. I believe I received it on 12-22-01. The service department had replaced the hard drive and shipped it back to me. The good news about all of this, I lost all of my work related engineering files. There is no way to put a value on this loss, but I am sure it would be in the thousands of dollars. But I know that was my fault, since I did not have them backed up. I also know that under normal circumstances, you can retrieve files from a hard drive before discarding. I now know too that I am a Gateway, totally unsatisfied customer.
On approximately 12-21-01, I called technical support again at 2:30 pm and talked to ** complaining about the US port on my computer not working. He gave me some things to try. On 12-27-01, I called technical support and talked to ** at 12:30 pm. I complained of not being able to use my USB port and the unavailable Help and Support on my computer, Event # **. His advice was to reload the C drive. This did not work, so I called technical service back 12-27-01 and talked to **. He said I needed another hard drive and he would mail me one and I could install it.
On 12-27-01, I called customary service to express my dissatisfaction with the computer. The computer is now 4-months old. I was convinced the computer was a lemon. Two replacement hard drives required in the first 4-months of use of the computer. I talked to ** with no satisfaction. I then called the local Gateway store in Little Rock, AR and they advised me to call customer service.
On 12-27-01, I called back customer service and talked to **. He then transferred me to technical management. I talked to **, case management and she transferred me to portable management. I talked with **, not with portable management, but I am now connected with technical support. He transferred me, and then I was disconnected again. I then called technical support back and talked to ** and during the conversation, I was, yes you guess it, disconnected again. By now, I am totally frustrated, disappointed and mentally exhausted from being a Gateway totally unsatisfied customer.
On 1-3-02, I tried something new; I conversed with **, via email. She said to carry the computer to the local store or call case management. Remember, the computers USB port was not working and Help and Support software would not boot up. So I called customer support, and during the conversation, you guessed it, the satisfied customer was disconnected. I called backed again and explained by problems.
I believe I received the replacement hard drive (it was a used part that had the famous words reconditioned on it) the same day, 1-03-02. I called technical support and ** walked me through the process of replacing the hard drive. After installing the used hard drive, you guessed it, the same two problems existed, no USB port nor Help and Support.
I called technical support again on 1-3-02 and talked to **. She said that she had read about this complaint and suggested that the fix is to reset the computer clock. I reset it to May 2001 and she told me to do something that I dont remember, but regardless, after resetting the clock back to the current date, the computer worked perfect. She gave me a # ** for the fix. This was Event # **.
Then on the same day I had to call technical support back and I talked to **. The computer would not boot up. She suggested that I turn the computer off and hold the off button for 10 seconds before releasing. This worked. Thanks to **, my $2,284.99 lemon computer was working perfect again. Remember, the computer is still 4-months old with 2 replacement hard drives and 24 phone calls to technical support. Time is only money.
On 8-13-02. I carried the computer to The Computer Works, a local computer repair center in Conway, AR. There was a short in the computer. You could slightly press on the computer and it would loose power or lock up. I was willing to pay for the repairs, even though it was still under warranty. This is indicative of how much I despise the effort that is required by Gateway to get the computer serviced.
The Computer Works advised me that there was a crack in the main board and since it was under warranty, to contact Gateway. I continued trying to use the lemon computer by propping it up so as not to loose power. At the time I was doing technical writing for the federal government and my use and need for the computer was intense.
On 9-4-02 (the computer is now 13 months old) I carried the computer to your local store in Little Rock, AR. They review the electrical short problem and determined that they could not repair it. So they mailed the computer to your Gateway Repair Center, Irving, TX. It was received by the Center on 9-13-02.
On 9-13-02, the Repair Center replaced the fan. On 9-17-02, they replaced the case and reflowed cold solder. From 9-18 to 9-26, there was no work on the computer. On 9-26-02, the Center had or did replace the main board, CPU, heat sink assembly, IC socket, video card, and the UA1 MB assembly. It was shipped out the same date, some 22 days later. All of my personal engineering files where gone again.
During this 22 day period I continually tried to determine when the computer would be returned. I was told 9-4-02 at the local store in Little Rock, AR, that the Repair Center would return the computer in 5-7 business days. It is obvious that what you say is not always what you mean. I tried the Chat Center on 9-25-02 and talked to Storm. She replied with a cookbook answer: As per our records the technicians at the service center are working hard on your system. Is there anything else I can help you with? I pleaded with her to find a way to replace the computer since it was a lemon. She referred me to same old merry-go-round the Client Care team.
The Chat Center was only one of the many calls I made during this 22 day period. Since I was in dire need of my lemon computer, I called at various times to **, in my efforts to find out the status of my computer. All, with the exception of **, gave me the typical our technicians are working hard on your computer and it will be shipped soon. ** was the only one who actually took time to locate the computer, determined the expected return shipping date and even gave me her direct telephone line so I would not have to go back through the wonderful Gateway phone menu.
The computer again worked perfect until 7-22-03. The $2,284.99 lemon computer is now 23 months old. This is when the $869.00 LCD viewer went out and for some reason, it is not covered by warranty? This wonderful failure of my outstanding Gateway product was alluded to at the beginning of this letter.
Again, I resent even further having to take one-half of a day of my time to write this letter. Your technical staff assures me that youll keep a history of my lemon computer within your computer filing system. This letter has cost me more than $500.00 of my time since I am in business for myself. Not only that, I have spent endless hours with your technical staff to determine solutions to the lemon computer.
I have lost all of personal files twice. I was delayed in my technical writing contract during the 22 days you kept my computer for repair. This cost me over a thousand dollars. I have pleaded continually that this computer be replaced. Even Best Buy has a 3-time lemon warranty. If you have to have your computer repaired 3-times during the warranty period, they will replace it free.
If you force me to throw my $2,284.99 lemon computer in the trash by refusing to replace it, you will win the battle as you have from the day I bought this lemon. But I want you to listen closely, I will win the war. I promise to insert this letter on the Gateway computer user site, I promise to send this letter to our local Better Business Bureau, I promise to send this letter to the Arkansas Attorney Generals Consumer Alert Division, I promise to share my lemon Gateway experience with every engineer or individual who is in the market for a computer and I promise to write PC World and other related magazines about my experience with the Gateway lemon product.
I will win the war many times over if you decline and continue with an insensitive attitude towards replacing my LEMON Gateway Product. AGAIN, THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN TO REQUEST THAT MY LEMON GATEWAY LAPTOP COMPUTER BE REPLACED PERIOD.
I know I have been sarcastic, non-professional and somewhat unkind in this letter. I apologize for my tone, but I am so frustrated and disappointed with the lemon product. I believe Gateway will act positive on this request. All I want is a dependable computer that I can provide information and do the work that is required in my consulting engineering business. I do not want to purchase the lemon computer again, nor do I want to throw $2,284.99 in the trash can.
As I stated in my September 12, 2003 letter, I have read the limited warranty over and over, and I have never been able to find where the LCD is excluded. Regardless, the laptop was, is and always has been a lemon. A copy of the limited warranty may be faxed upon request. Thank you for reading and sharing my frustration with Gateway. Please share this with any computer literate person that may be interested in a factual experience with Gateway.


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Nathan the Nance
If you're a theater maven, you can't help being a fan of Nathan Lane. While he's had success in movies (notably The Birdcage) and TV (recent recurring role on The Good Wife), the stage is his natural element (The Producers,The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, etc., etc.), and he's a theatrical treasure, who can sing, do broad comedy, and yet do serious drama, too.
In the new Broadway production, The Nance (at the Lyceum Theatre), he has a role that was literally written for him by Douglas Carter Beane. He plays Chauncey Miles, a nance, the mincing comic on a vaudeville bill who gets laughs with homosexual double entendres. Apparently the men who played those roles (think Bert Lahr or Phil Silvers) were usually straight, so having it done by a homosexual was "like having a Negro do blackface." That's the case with Chauncey. While Lane is openly gay, Chauncey couldn't risk that in the '30s, and so the play explores the tension between his professional success and personal insecurity.
This dichotomy allows Lane to show off both his skill with a zinger and his ability to portray a person in real pain. (Those upturned eyebrows help with that.) He's surrounded by a first-rate cast. There's the Broadway veteran, Lewis J. Stadlen, his foil in brilliant routines in the Marx Brothers/Abbott & Costello mold. There's a trio of strippers with hearts of gold (Cady Huffman, Jenni Barber, and Andrea Burns) who are part of his offstage family. And there's a young New York newcomer (Johnny Orsini) who becomes his love interest and a threat to his independence.
The bigger threat turns out to be the authorities who are intent on shutting down the burlesque houses on moral grounds. This occupies most of Act 2, which moves a lot more slowly than the fast-paced hilarity of Act 1. That's not due to Jack O'Brien's direction, which deftly works with John Lee Beatty's sets (rotating among the stage, backstage, and Chauncey's apartment, with an authentic looking Horn & Hardart Automat thrown in). No, it's the script, which doesn't really know how to end. On the other hand, burlesque didn't die overnight, and Chauncey's denial - about that reality and romantic commitment - is part of the pathos. This is the world before Stonewall, before Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, when proud men had to live in fear. We can laugh, but also be thankful that we've come a long way.


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Holding Moments Forever
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