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Official Judas Priest News
Monday, July 25, 2011
July 24, 2011
You're going to a concert. Or "gig" as the hip, trendy folk call it these days. You're not going to any old gig, though. None of this mainstream, poppy crap which is plastered onto the seemingly naive media. You're going to a metal gig. Or rather, tonight is a show. That's right, a metal show. But, you may ask, what can I expect from a metal show? Bring forth the metal show checklist:
• Bass (loud)
• Guitars (louder)
• Drums - the kind that you can feel in your legs
• Singing
• Screaming
• Lights
• Devil horns
• Circle pits
• Fire
• Lasers
• Chants
• Leather
• Metal spiky things
• Motorbikes
• Crowd-surfing
• Denim
• Deafness the following day
• Pandemonium
You're not going to any old metal show, either. Oh no, you're about to see the masters of metal. Frequently labelled the second pioneer of the cult genre, you're going to see them in the home of our beloved metal, in the Black Country city of Wolverhampton. Yes, that's right. You're going to see Judas Priest and they are going to fuck you sideways.
I can excuse you if you've not heard Judas Priest's music - it's not to everyone's taste after all. But if you haven't even heard of them, then you're not even a musical retard, you're just (and excuse my French here) a dick. Judas Priest have been knockin' 'round for over 40 years since they formed from the ashes (or Birmingham, as we know it these days) of the '60s, rising to fame in the 1970s. Of course, back then, there was a totally different line-up to the one we're about to see tonight. In fact, bassist Ian Hill is the only founding member these days, after the departure of K.K. Downing.
This Epitaph tour is spanning the entire world over the next year or thereabouts, and will unfortunately be the Metal Gods' last world tour. This isn't to say that Judas Priest won't do smaller tours or write any more material, because they will. Don't forget that these guys aren't far off their Zimmer frames, aside from K.K.'s replacement, Richie Faulkner, who has only 31 years to his name. Nevertheless, legendary vocalist Rob Halford is 59, ex-Racer X drummer Scott Travis is 49, whilst guitarist Glenn Tipton is 63 and Ian Hill is 60. You can, therefore, understand why Priest have decided to almost semi-retire from the business.
We're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's have no premature excitement here, thank you very much. For tonight, we have two support acts before Judas Priest bludgeon our faces off. First up are American outfit Rival Sons from the sunny shores of California. A basic stage set mirrors their blues-infused rock, a homage to the music of the '70s - keeping it simple and equally as good. Supporting their latest albumPressure & Time, the boys do a fine job of satisfying the metal hungry crowd, most notably with "Burn Down Los Angeles". Vocalist Jay Buchanan is eerily reminiscent of Led Zep's Robert Plant, although perhaps guitarist Scott Holiday doesn't quite live up to Jimmy Page. Nevertheless, some lovely Black Sabbath-esque riffs and Jimi Hendrix-style guitar work culminates in a very good set by the up-and-coming youngsters.[7]
How lucky are we? Not only are we seeing Judas Priest tonight, but one of the support acts are prog-metallers Queensrÿche. Despite a career covering 30 years, the boys from Seattle (as Geoff Tate told us, anyway) only have 30 or 40 minutes to dazzle us with their beautiful music. And dazzle us, they do. Enforcing a snapshot of their greatest hits, Queensrÿche play such classics as "Jet City Woman", "Empire" and "Eyes of a Stranger". We all know how superb a voice lead singer Geoff Tate has, but you don't realize how good he actually is until you see him live. He's like a younger Rob Halford with the wide vocal range, bald head and beard. Tate even acts camp on stage, even though he has 4 daughters, apparently. The unfortunately short set list works a stunner on the crowd, converting not only me, but every other person in Wolverhampton's illustrious Civic Hall. Scott Rockenfield's concise drumming and Michael Wilton's psychedelic-inspired metal guitar work combine for an impressive show. [8]
The time has arrived. The black curtain descends, removing the stage from the view of the crowd, "Epitaph" written simply across the banner. The faintly illuminated outline of a cymbal and maybe some stairs can be seen through squinted eyes. The occasional flicker of a roadie's torch lights up a mic stand or an unrecognizable black shadow. The background music of AC/DC's Back In Black ceases, replaced by a loud, wailing siren. Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" infiltrates the huge speakers, louder than before. This is the beginning. As Ozzy's vocals pierce the tension, the crowd begin to murmur along … "… just like witches at black masses …", ever-increasing until "oh lord, yeah!" is roared by every single voice box in the room. Then, slowly, the strings of "Battle Hymn" can be heard; then the uplifting guitars; and then it starts.
Once upon a time, there was a band called AC/DC. They wrote a song called "Let There Be Rock" in which they listed the core ingredients: light, sound, drums, guitars and rock. As the last notes of "Battle Hymn" come to an end, the drums begin, followed swiftly by the dual guitar power of Tipton and Faulkner. The curtain drops, revealing the mighty Judas Priest in burning lights, as we are immediately battered with the twin blows of "Rapid Fire" and "Metal Gods" from 1980's British Steel. Priest are dressed in their typical attire: leather, metal spiky things and what not. You can tell already by the firmly planted smiles on their faces that they are loving every single moment of this.
The controversially Americanised "Heading Out To The Highway" from Point of Entryinspires an anthemic shout-along to the stadium rock chorus. After yet another costume change by Halford, we're back for the heaviest number of the night: "Judas Rising" from 2005's comeback album, Angel of Retribution. Travis's pounding double bass provides the kind of 21st century metal Judas Priest needed. This is something that Scott Travis does throughout the gig to several of the old songs, before his appointment as drummer back in 1989. He gives them a modernization, such as in the next song, "Starbreaker" from Sin After Sin, a more complex and, ultimately, heavier percussion to accompany the equally technologically advanced guitars. It all goes dark, whilst lasers flutter into the audience: red, green and purple lights subtly lighten the small stage, so you can just about make out Tipton and Faulkner, side by side, as the synchronized melodies of "Victim of Changes" ring out. There's the old saying "seven minutes in heaven" and this is it.
Judas Priest's debut album, Rocka Rolla, was apparently recorded in 1823, according to Rob Halford. Although I'm sure it seems 188 years ago, it was actually released in 1974. "Never Satisfied", from said album, is next on the promised 2 hour set list. This is swiftly followed by a hauntingly beautiful acoustic rendition of Joan Baez's "Diamonds & Rust". Halford's voice is stunning; the kind that sends a shiver down your spine. It builds and builds until the electric guitars kick in for the second half. A personal highlight in a mammoth show, very rarely does such a song make such an impression live. One of the differences with latest album Nostradamus was the operatic element in the several short instrumentals. "Dawn of Creation" is the opener to the album, introducing the brilliant "Prophecy", which is just what we get. Halford comes on stage in a shiny, silver hooded cloak and a staff with the Priest logo on top. Yells of "I am Nostradamus" are succeeded by an emphatic end of fireworks from Halford's staff and flames galore.
After a vicious "Night Crawler", the metal gods bring out "Turbo Lover" followed immediately by metal titan, "Beyond The Realms of Death", one of the greatest ever songs in metal history. It's like taking a frying pan to the face, the sheer power of the music. A quick blitz through "The Sentinel" and "Blood Red Skies" brings us to a cheeky Fleetwood Mac cover. Although, saying that, it's not as bizarre as it sounds, having become a Priest classic in the form of "The Green Manalishi". If you think this is a crowd sing-along, you've heard nothing yet. Halford introduces the British Steelbackdrop once more, which can only mean one song. That song. "Breaking the what?" … "breaking the what?" … "breaking the law!". That's what! Halford turns the microphone stand towards the audience as Tipton, Faulkner, Hill and Travis commence the immortal riff, commanding the crowd to sing this one, which they do in more than full voice, whilst Halford just head bangs along. After more fire, the lights go dark once more, to come straight back on 30 seconds later. Scott Travis once again emphasizes his drumming delights with a spiffing drum solo, which, if you are one of the musically enlightened such as myself, you will recognize as the introduction to Racer X's "Scarified" from his former band. There's only one place this can go, which is straight into the insane drums of "Painkiller". In my opinion, this is the most metal track just about ever: frantic drums mix with a heavy duty riff and high-pitched screams. You could even call it a lullaby.
The poor guys. They've just played a monster of a concert and all the crowd can do is scream for more amongst chants of "Priest". The mighty Judas Priest politely comply with the audience's selfish demands as they launch free-fall into "Electric Eye", with a backdrop of a massive eye in the background, which is a little freaky. Again, the lights go dark. The rumble and growl of an engine can be heard slightly off-stage. For Priest newbies, this is a little confusing. I, however, know just what is about to happen. Seconds later, Rob Halford rides a Harley motorbike on stage in true metal fashion before they smash into "Hell Bent For Leather". This is followed by yet another Priest classic, an extended version of "You've Got Another Thing Comin'", complete with a sensational guitar solo by youngster Richie Faulkner. Finally, we finish tonight's triumphant set with "Living After Midnight" before the lights go down for the last time and Queen's "We Are The Champions" begins to sound out over the PA system. [10]
It was always going to be a task for Richie Faulkner to fill K.K. Downing's colossal shoes, but no one expected to him to settle in so well, so quickly. His onstage presence was so confident that you'd have thought he'd been playing with Judas Priest for decades. Faulkner's guitar work was faultless, blending the powerful rhythm with his intricate, jaw-dropping solos. His air of youth has breathed life into the band, rejuvenating their perhaps former staleness.
Judas Priest enjoyed every single moment on that stage. Forget 'enjoyed', that's such an understatement, they bloody loved it. They put heart and soul into a night to remember not only for them but their home crowd. By loving playing the music, it allowed us to love watching them play at least one song from every single Judas Priest album (except the ones with Tim "The Ripper" Owens on vocals from the '90s). The musicianship was absolutely stunning, the production was incredible and the show of flames, fireworks and motorbikes was blistering for such a small venue. But that wasn't what made the show. It was the fact it was Judas Priest and the vast amount of superb songs in their discography. You could feel it in the air: this was a show that was going to be remembered.
Tonight, we were truly spoilt. This was a masterclass of metal. The young 'uns of today need to take note. After all, Judas Priest are metal gods and they must be worshiped for their might. After tonight, you truly realize why they are so respected in the metal community. It had everything, absolutely everything.
Set list:
War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
1. Battle Hymn
2. Rapid Fire
3. Metal Gods
4. Heading Out To The Highway
5. Judas Rising
6. Starbreaker
7. Victim of Changes
8. Never Satisfied
9. Diamonds & Rust
10. Dawn of Creation
11. Prophecy
12. Night Crawler
13. Turbo Lover
14. Beyond The Realms of Death
15. The Sentinel
16. Blood Red Skies
17. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
18. Breaking The Law
19. Painkiller
20. The Hellion/Electric Eye (Encore)
21. Hell Bent For Leather (Encore)
22. You've Got Another Thing Comin' (Encore)
23. Living After Midnight (Encore)
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Letter From Amex Lowing My Limit
Posted by Mrdjjames on 01/06/2009
TEXAS -- Here is their Letter to me via email:
We are contacting you to let you know that after a thorough review of your credit profile we have lowered the credit limit on the account listed above. We wanted you to be aware of this change immediately.
Your revised credit limit for purchases is now $500.00. The new cash advance limit is $200.00. Please ensure that any additional card members on the account are also aware of this change.
This is not acceptable and I have no issues on my credit. Just checked. I pay my bills off and they can't make any money off me. That is why they did this.
BTW My Credit Limit was 5,000. I work hard to get my credit right. Just got approved for any home I want in this economy! That isn't easy to do AMEX! Shame on you.
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-06:
Well, at least you got a letter. I got one too, three weeks AFTER the fact via USPS. I didn't receive the courtesy of an email. After you get over being upset (which is justified) you will be glad they did it. If you belong to one, get a card from your credit union. They are easier to do business with.
Posted by lobo65 on 2009-01-06:
If your credit score is good, try getting a card with a credit union. My interest rate with USAA is 4.5% with a $10,000 credit limit.
Posted by DigitalCommando on 2009-01-06:
lobo65 is right, my credit union is lowering my percentage rate and increasing my credit limit as we speak, even in these tough times. It is because you are still viewed as a human being who is judged and rewarded by what you do as opposed to some bell curve that sees you as nothing more than a disposable profit center subject to its ever- changing whims.
Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-06:
I have to thank you DC for reminding me about my credit union. Since we chatted I have moved everything over to them and I couldn't be happier.
Posted by DigitalCommando on 2009-01-06:
CU's don't invest in risky or new ventures like CDO's, so they are safe and so is your money. If you have a good credit rating now, it would be wise for those of you who maintain a loyalty to your big bank to at least start an account with a credit union now before they trash your credit score, which absolutely will happen to everybody at some point during the next year. Your loyalty is admireable but misplaced. Move to an institution that is actually run by real, caring people just like you, while you still can. Thanks John!
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Not Again - Unreliable Company
Posted by Skyvm45 on 08/02/2012
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- I got approved for Blue cash reward with 10k credit line a week ago, not to mention I have been valid customer since 2003 owned few AMEX cards including AMEX GOLD CARD, those are closed due to bad some experience with AMEX - anyway this morning 8/2/2012 tried to order a PC (around $1500, just ordered another a day ago had no problem) from DELL and got declined, so called AMEX, the rep, she told me that she will unlocked the card for me and let the transaction go through, after all the security questions I passed and 5 - 10 minutes hold then she came back said although I had cleared all the questions now account has been suspended and under financial review.
WHAT >????? I told her I need it immediately and I was in rush need for my personal business which she was promised that transaction will go though : ( WOW... not a again >> seriously AMEX ?? I have 200K in one of my bank account and a stable job. I use credit cards about 300K in 8 - 10 years period and assume they charge 5% fee to all the merchandise, how much money they lose if lose my account?? last, I made the wrong choice to go back to AMEX. AMEX is a such unreliable company, now I will just stick with Citibank, chase and Bank of America, I will never go back to AMEX again ! I will not recommend to anyone including my family , fiends , coworkers etc !
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Posted by trmn8r on 2012-08-02:
Sounds to me like this is a brand new card you were using, and you ordered expensive items two days in a row. I can see how this may trigger a warning of some sort.
Remember that you are using AMEX's money, until they are paid back. They don't know how much is in your bank account unless it is on deposit with them.
I believe the merchant fees are around 2 to 3%. It is true they may lost your business, but imagine how many millions they lost each year to fraud. Personally, I like it when my CC bank's fraud alert is triggered, which has only happened two times in 25 years - it shows me they are being careful. Each to their own I guess.
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American Express is the worst Credit Card Company in business
Posted by Whit29 on 12/05/2010
I have had an American Express Blue card for close to 10 years. I have other credit cards as well from Chase, Citi, HSBC, BofA. I don't use my AmEx all that much lately as I have a BofA card linked to my daughters 529 account and use that mostly for the rewards.
I had a balence of $28.00 on my AmEx and I was away and it was due just after Thanksgiving. I have never been late before on this card, I have a 750 credit score always try to be on time. I realized I misplaced the bill before the holiday and my trip and so I was a few days late and thought I'd call and see if they would waive the $15 late fee charge since it was a first time late charge in 10 years and that I just paid the bill on line. All other credit companies have helped me take a charge off in the past be it for overlimit charge or something like that, I thought AmEx would for sure do it, BUT NO... I even told them I would cancel my card if they wouldn't take the charge off as I was put so aback that they would put making a dollar over good customer service and they said they still couldn't do it. So I told them to place cancel me and they did and I was so in shock that they would be that pathetic on keeping customer's happy. It's not like this happened 3 months ago and I'm asking them to do it again. MY balance was a little $28.00 not like it was $5,000 or something and I'm trying to getaway with something.
In all, I will NEVER work with American Express again and I hope everyone sees them for the bloodsuckers they are. I would work with any other credit card company over AmEx as all other companies have proven to me to put the customer first and not bottom line.
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Posted by tnchuck100 on 2010-12-05:
Welcome to the American Express of today. They care not about you or your past good record. That $15 fee is far more important to them.
It is their right to refuse any form of consideration. As it is your right to tell them to stuff it.
Good move. Many are doing likewise.
Posted by Anonymous on 2010-12-05:
Holding an AMEX that you do not use doesn't really generate a lot of revenue for them, even if your account is 10 years old. It sounds like you do this with a lot of your cards and it really isn't the best practice to depend on these types of favors in this economy. Businesses aren't doing as well as they have in the past either.
Posted by goodbyeamex on 2010-12-29:
This is yet another great example of how unlike most other credit cards American Express has lost their human face. They have become so huge I guess they forgot they ever had one.
Posted by no1panthersfan on 2011-02-26:
I'm wondering if something is being left out or exagerated. If you were truly a ten year member, and this was honestly the first late payment you've EVER made and they refused to credit/waive the late fee, something else was going on. Did they say they COULDN'T do it or WOULDN'T do it? Did they tell you why? Did you ask for a supervisor before you threatened to cancel your card? I know there are bad customer service reps at every company, but you cancelled your card over a $15 late fee after talking to one person?
Posted by Cardman on 2012-05-10:
I had a PERFECT Amex record for 12 years and they essentially did the same to me, except the late fee was $25 and the supervisor was rude about it. I was polite and the supervisor must have entered something in the computer because two other agents said the computer wouldn't let them do anything. Bye bye AMEX.
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American Express Canceled My Card Without Notice
Posted by Mikeca on 01/20/2009
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA -- I have been a customer with AMEX for the past three years. I have always paid on time and never went over the credit limit. I have several other major credit cards and always pay them on time and in full every month.
I used my AMEX for monthly, automated payments and was surprised when a payment came back declined. The payment was declined on January 16,2009. I checked my mail that day and happened to find a letter from AMEX stating (which by the way was dated on January 13,2009) :
Dear (Name):
We are writing to inform you that, after a recent review, your American Express account listed above has been canceled.
The short length of time you have been on file with a consumer reporting agency, in relation to your overall credit profile.
Too many creditors have recently reviewed your credit report.
You have been past due on an American Express account in the last 12 months.
Your account was reviewed using a consumer credit scoring system that evaluated the information in your file at the consumer reporting agency named below. The information provided by the consumer reporting agency included the following factors from your credit report that affected our decision:
Too many accounts with balances
Too many inquiries last 12 months
Too many accounts recently opened
Length of time accounts have been established
Our cancellation of your account under these circumstances may result in negative reporting of this account to the consumer reporting agencies. Additionally, if you do not pay your account in a timely manner, your account may be referred to a collection agency.
Now you can imagine how upset I was. I called AMEX immediately and after spending about four hours on the phone with them, NO ONE could tell me why my account was cancelled. One reason they stated was that I had a past due amount which was never paid with AMEX, which clearly I didn't. I therefore panicked and thought I had been a victim of identity theft and asked to see if there were any other accounts open in my name. The representative established that there weren't and he also confirmed that I had no past due balance on my AMEX account...EVER. He also stated that my credit was excellent and that he would try reinstating my account, which of course was denied.
I quickly went and pulled up my Experian credit report, because the representative said that AMEX had obtained all this information through them. My credit was fine...I have a 728 credit score, no balances unpaid, no delinquencies, no NOTHING. AMEX also stated that they closed my account because I had opened too many recent accounts....which is funny because my AMEX Blue card was the last credit card I ever opened...which was approx three years ago.
This entire experience was completely unbelievable. First, they cancelled my credit card without notice, which resulted in unpaid accounts with other services I used auto pay for with my AMEX. Second, they LIED about the reasons they closed my account. Every time the representative came up with a new reason as to why they closed my account, and I gave him an explanation as to why that could not be possible, he himself had run out of things to say. Third, this may now possible affect my credit score?? WHY??? Fourth, they led me to believe that I had been a victim of identity theft and had me frantically ordering copies of my credit report all morning, which turned out that all was well...
Experian said I am a low risk factor for many lending institutions. My credit score is high, I have no delinquencies or unpaid accounts. I have not opened any recent accounts and I have not had any recent checks to my credit report. WHAT SYSTEM IS AMEX USING TO REVIEW PEOPLE'S CREDIT???
I advise anyone who has an AMEX card to close the account. They obviously don't care that you've paid it in full every month and on time, they don't care about your credit score or credit report...THEY DON'T CARE
I have received much better service my Bank of America Visa's than I ever had with this poor excuse for a company.
Get out.
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-20:
These Amex posts are coming faster and faster. My instincts say Amex is in dire financial straits and is reeling in credit in anticipation of 'something big and bad' coming at them.
All other posts considered: "Abandon ship!" Dump your Amex account immediately, before Amex does it to you. If you cannot pay the balance, close the account to ALL future charges. Cut up the card. And don't forget to pay off what you owe as soon as possible!
Posted by goodfella on 2009-01-20:
This just happened to me today as well. Same exact issue you describe, not to mention that I submitted a payment to American Express the morning of finding out it was canceled that they have refused to refund.
In addition, the rebate check due to us in February (approximately $500) will not be sent, since we are no longer active card holders.
I've already contacted Costco and filed a complaint. Will be contacting my Attorney General and the FTC. Will also be attempting to start a class action lawsuit.
Posted by Jacksgirl on 2009-01-26:
It happened to me last week. I called Amex today and canceled all my accounts rather than submit to their "financial review." We're also offloading our Amex stock. Take that, Amex.
Posted by just_a_guy on 2009-01-27:
I'll post more details some other time, but basically my story is the same.
1. AmEx reduced credit from 25k to 12.1k in October 2008--no problem, I didn't want that much of a limit anyway.
2. I paid the entire balance off (over $11k) less a couple hundred for outstanding transactions on 1/15/09.
3. AmEx canceled my card on 1/18/09 with essentially the same reasons all of these others have posted even though no late payments for AmEx or any other accounts and having held the card since 1999.
4. Wasted 30 minutes arguing with AmEx about their "policy" and finally gave up since they clearly weren't going to do anything about it. Even though all I ever did with them (and other creditors) is pay my bill on time.
Last step for me will be to complain to Costco about AmEx since I wouldn't have even bothered getting the card in the first place if it wasn't the only CC they accepted.
Posted by bb160 on 2009-02-24:
I wandered onto this site after I received a letter from American Express in which they canceled my card in my opinion for no reason. They said " too many creditors reviewed my credit report", but if they did they would see a good credit rating. I have been a cardholder for 11 years and always paid off my balances and never paid late! I have carried a zero balance for a while and this is the thanks I get for not abusing the system! I am also a small business owner and am strongly considering closing my merchant account with American Express.
Posted by Unreliable Service on 2009-02-24:
I received my billing statement with a note saying my account was closed at my request- which is completely false. Then they state that my rebate check is enclosed on the third page. I check and there is nothing there. I don't know if I should even bother calling. What I would like is information on a class action lawsuit.
Posted by Worst AMEX! on 2013-11-09:
I hate AMEX customer service. Now, you get connected to some spanish sounding voice, just because they have to hire them so they don't get hit with the EOE lawsuit. NOT only did they not do what I requested them to do, they yelled at the customer, I HATE THEIR company and I will NEVER recommend them to anyone ever again. NEVER AGAIN. Plus, they pretend to offer you bonuses for small business saturday, when in reality, they are raping transaction fees off of small businesses!!! What a bunch of crooks!!!
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Here's A Way To File A Complaint Against American Express
Posted by Greedbynoothername on 12/03/2008
Join in sharing with with the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit your experience with American Express interest rate increases with less than 45 day notice and no opt out provision.
You can lodge your complaints to: House Financial Services Committee, Democratic Staff, 2129 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (Phone 202 225–4247)... contact web page: http://financialservices.house.gov/contact.html
Since Amex has gone to the Federal government and changed their structure to a commercial bank in order to participate in the federal bailout, then they should be held accountable for their own sworn testimony just a few months ago...
Amex has done exactly what they said they don't do in their sworn testimony - they have implemented rate increases ...
( a ) not because of a specific account performance issue,
( b ) with less than 45-days notice,
( c ) without the ability to opt-out,
( d ) claimed that their cost of funds is a rationale in raising rates
Here is the sworn testimony from Larry Sharnak. Executive Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Cards, American Express Company Before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Hearing on H. R. 5244, the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2008 (4/17/2008)...
QUOTING DIRECTLY FROM THE TRANSCRIPT (http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/
"There are a number of practices we simply do not do:
- We do not increase an individual customers interest rate -- or APR -- for any reason other than the customer's performance on that particular account. If you are an American Express Cardmember, your interest rate will be increased to a penalty rate only if you violate the terms and conditions on that specific American Express account."
"Recently, many have raised concerns that credit card customers have not seen the benefits of recent rate reductions by the Federal Reserve. This is not the case for American Express Cardmembers. As the Prime Rate falls, which normally follows any drop in the federal funds rate, the interest rates applied to American Express variable rate credit card accounts are reduced by an equivalent amount. Since the Federal Reserve began reducing interest rates in September 2007:
- American Express has reduced interest rates on all variable rate credit cards;
- American Express has made these reductions automatically, and;
- American Express has passed along all reductions in the Prime Rate directly to consumers.
It is important to note that while these rate reductions have been directly passed on to consumers, American Express' own cost of funds has not come down at an equivalent rate. As you know, the capital markets are experiencing considerable uncertainty, which has had an impact on the cost of commercial borrowing. Even for well-capitalized, Arated companies, like American Express, interest rate spreads are extremely high. This means that the rate reductions American Express has passed along to consumers have exceeded the reduction in our own cost of funds.
As I mentioned earlier, American Express will not increase an individual Cardmember's interest rate based on their performance with other lenders, or based on a change in our cost of funds. Moreover, we will not raise a Cardmember's interest rate because of their performance on another American Express account. The overwhelming majority of American Express consumer lending accounts, 94 percent, end the year with the same or a lower interest rate than they had at the beginning of the year."
...and about 45-day notice and opting out...
Interest rate increases triggered by the customer's performance on the account in question should not be subject to a 45-day advance notice and an opt-out requirement. However, in circumstances where the rate increase results from reasons not related to the specific account in question, we believe it is appropriate to have advance notice and an opt-out.
As we discuss later in our testimony, advance notice and an opt-out should also apply to any terms change that an issuer may make to the account agreement, in lieu of a complete prohibition on "any time for any reason" terms changes as currently contemplated in the
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Posted by TGT101 on 2008-12-03:
opting out is the same as canceling the card. You would still be responsible for the whole balance. You can 'opt out' whenever you want.
Posted by greedbynoothername on 2008-12-04:
Not sure I understand your statement that "opting out" is the same as canceling the card. For cards other than American Express, if you "opt out" they honor your existing interest rate on the outstanding balance. In the case of American Express, they will not be honoring the existing interest rate after an account is closed. They are upping the interest on pre-existing amounts, even if you close your account. SO for American Express, "opting out" is not the same as canceling the card because you can't opt out of the interest rate increase, whether you keep or cancel the card.
Posted by TGT101 on 2008-12-04:
Read the fine print most the time it says that in opting out of any change you hereby cancel your card with .
Posted by greedbynoothername on 2008-12-05:
I read the fine print. You can cancel you card or "opt out" but they are still raising your interest rates at AM Ex (unlike other cards who don't raise your interest rate on outstanding balances when you opt out). I'm in the rather good credit category so mine was at 7.99% for a blue card before the November notification. On December 1, they raised my interest rate to 10.99%. I, like other commentors, have never had a late payment in my life with a credit score over 750. I carry a balance on this card because I put my college fees on it and am paying off over time so the inability to freeze the interest rate impacts me. This is just a really greedy company.
Posted by Credit-Card-Dude on 2009-01-30:
FYI, for unknown reasons, the House has taken down the individual testimonies of the witnesses, so the link to Sharnak's testimony no longer works. However, the transcript of the hearing is available at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:42721.pdf The quoted section of Sharnak's testimony is on the 70th page of the .pdf.
Posted by Ray Sieger on 2013-11-13:
Around the end of Oct 2013, I got a letter from American Express saying that they were lowering my credit line on my card from $21,000.00 to $1,000.00. I have been with them since 1996 and I have never had a late payment. I have paid them untold thousands of dollars. I owed nothing on the card. I had been paying it off every month. I called them and talked to someone in the Philippines who just read from a piece of paper and told me my debt ratio on my credit was high and I had inquiries. I tried to explain that we had bought a large house a few months ago and bought furniture, etc, so of course my credit showed it but we have never had a late payment on anything. This person just kept reading from a piece of paper and wasn't listening to me. I called back the next day thinking that I could talk to someone that would make some sense but the next person just kept reading from the same paper so I got frustrated and just told them to cancel the card and I cut it up. I was still annoyed with this a few days later since this wasn't the way to treat a valued customer with a perfect record, so I called again and asked to speak to a supervisor. I told her, why don't you just put a hold on the card instead of penalizing me. I don't really need to use it. She ignored me and said that she will put in a request to re-instate the card but I would get a letter and need to submit more information in order to get my credit line back. I asked her if re-instating the card would put another inquiry on my credit and she said no. A few days later I got a letter from AMEX and they wanted proof of income that included W2 form, personal tax returns, bank statements (checking, savings, certificates of deposit, personal financial statement, brokerage accounts, etc. That is unbelievable and also a bit of an invasion of our privacy. I was actually going to give in to this and start gathering the information and then I got another letter stating that they checked my credit and I couldn't get the card back. It looked like a letter a person would get when they applied for a card for the first time. This also now put another inquiry on my credit report which the lady said they wouldn't do. The irony here is that they based a lot of this on my debt ratio and buy destroying 2 of my credit lines, they actually made it worse. I say 2 credit lines because they did the same thing on my wife's AMEX card. Also, looks like they put another inquiry on my credit. They were no other card companies that did this. Only American Express. My credit score was on its way back up since we bought the house. My score was back into the 700 range. I have been monitoring it. Now it is going back down because of this incident. They need to make up the damage they have done to our credit. Give us back our credit lines and if they don't want us to use the card, then that would be fine. Don't damage people with a perfect payment record. We are not the bad guys. I have supported them for 18 years and this is the reward.
Posted by Metoo on 2013-12-03:
I had the same experience. Paid on time, and Am/Ex cut my limit from $20K to $200.00 above my balance. I don't use the card much
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Out Of The Blue
Posted by Braintwist12 on 04/26/2009
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- I recently paid of my American Express Blue card in full. ($2500) I had spent some time paying off other debts first but this was the last to go. I was feeling good about finally being debt free and having a decent line of credit to start using on a regular basis. I was also looking forward to suing those rewards point that I acquired. (6300) So I go to use my card knowing that I have a nice cushion of 2600 and it is declined. Figuring it must be a mistake I check by phone and everything was cool. On-line my account is paid. So I try to use it once more. NO DICE! So I called the customer service line and found that my account had been canceled. I asked if it was some kind of mistake and they told me they sent me a letter informing my why. Since I didn't get the letter they told me over the phone that they checked my credit and saw that I had too much debt for the about of credit available.
Well I guess that is what happens when you only have a few credit cards and then get financed to BUY a new car! I get approved for a car loan, pay off all my credit cards, and they think it is in their best interest to close my account! I would think that faithful making on time payments for all my accounts for two years would show some kind of responsibility. I guess they don't want money. I can't believe that they would do such a thing. I would have at least wanted some notice. They have my number they could have called, or I guess they didn't give a crap. Credit card companies only call when they want to hassle some who is down like a big financial bully. Well I am done with them I just wish I had spent my 6300 rewards point before they stole them from me!
I think we all know the big corporations like this have gotten way out of control. Lets hope the snazzy congress of ours can finally come up with some legislation that will put the power back in the hands of the consumers!
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Posted by NofriendofAX on 2009-04-27:
Welcome to the wonderful world of American Express. Now that you've freed up some of your debt. I would suggest you wait about one month, and obtain a copy of your credit report showing you have reduced you debt.
American express has reduced my credit limit three times over the past year. It's been about three months since the last reduction. So, I'm feeling confident that they will once again reduce it in my next billing statement.
After reading so many comments on this site about American Express, I decided to cash in my rewards. I've taken the American Express card out of my wallet, and will never ever ever ever use it again!
I think American Express should take a long hard look at what they're doing to people. I don't hear people on this site saying they haven't paid American Express. The people who are complaining are the individuals who actually pay their bills, and care about their credit score.
Shame on American Express.
Posted by MattG. on 2009-05-09:
The same thing just happened to me. My credit record is flawless, I have had credit for the past two years, never missed a payment (always paid on time), and today was notified that my American Express card was canceled.
I called to ask why? My debt was too high.
I just recently bought a car, and instead of paying it off in full (which I could do), I decided to build my credit by making payments for at least two years.
American express saw this and decided I was too much of a risk. So instead of calling me and renegotiating, instead of lowering my credit line, they just canceled me. They did not even give me notice before hand.
Now I have a Costco card, but no American Express. The whole point I signed up with Costco was to get that American Express.
When I called to get my card reinstated, I told them my situation and they said sorry that is just how it is.
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American Express Just Decreased My Credit Limit
Posted by Mindmltn on 03/16/2009
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- I have been a American Express customer for 4 years now and I have never been late or not paid my bill. I have a limit rather I had a limit of $5000 and I have been leaning on it the last 6 months for gas and other things since my work hasn't given out raises in three years due to the recession. I have a credit score of 736 and have no delinquent or derogatory items on it.
I have a total of $6700 in revolving credit and I am paying it down as fast as I can.
I just made a $1000 payment to my blue card last month and they reduced my limit to $3900 which leaves me with an available balance of $130. This is the third time they have reduced my limit from the $5000 I opened it with and I have had to threaten to close my account to get them to put it back to what it was when I opened it.
I was told by their customer service that after reviewing my credit I have too much debit and they reduced my limit because of that fact. I have never made any payments late on any of my Car loans, Personal Loans, or credit cards and don't have anything negative on my credit.
I am completely disgusted with American Express for this and I am going to open a new account with another credit card company and transfer my balance and close my account even if it adversely affects my credit. I am tired of American Express punishing their good customers for no reason at all except they decided that I am over my extended which I am not.
I just am paying it down slowly so I always have cash on hand for emergency's.
I see this as a trend for all of their customers over the last 5 months. I hope they lose a lot of customers because of this practice and I hope that our government doesn't give them a dime of bailout money. I am just disgusted by them and I will be closing my account ASAP.
They charge merchants the highest fees out of all credit card companies for transactions and treat their customers like crap. I am done with them and I hope that everyone else who has an account with them does the same as it will happen to you too. Good luck to all of you and I hope that you don't have the same experience with American Express that I have been having.
They are just terrible. Shame on you American Express.
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-03-16:
A lot of us here feel your pain. Don't feel bad, they are doing this to everyone. It doesn't make it any easier to swallow but they are not singling you out.
Posted by Anonymous on 2009-03-16:
"They charge merchants the highest fees out of all credit card companies for transactions and treat their customers like crap."
The answer is found in convincing merchants to drop Amex in favor of other forms of payment. It's no fun for a retail employee to tell an Amex customer that their purchase has been declined because Amex closed the account or reduced the available credit without notice. Amex sets up merchant's employees to be their messenger and ultimately the customer's whipping boy. It's time to send Amex to the dung heap.
Posted by Anonymous on 2009-03-16:
I read on MSN today that all credit cards are lowering everyones limits. Like John said, it's not just you. It's not fair, but it's legal.
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Lack Of Loyalty
Posted by Victim of American Express on 09/29/2010
Today I called the American Express CS Department to see why my interest rate had gone up so high after over 20 years of doing business with American Express. I have been a loyal customer, never late with my payments, with over 40,000 unused rewards points.
I was unable to get a straight answer from American Express and in a nutshell got the impression that if I wasn't happy I guess I could take my business some place else. No transparency and needless to say no reciprocation from their part!
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Posted by CaptainSpaulding on 2010-09-29:
Welcome to 21st Century America!
Posted by Weedwhacked on 2010-09-29:
It seems that they did that to almost everyone just because your contract with them allows them to do it.
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Terrible customer service and a terrible company
Posted by Good_credit on 03/29/2010
I have been very careful with credit cards my whole life. As a result, I have an excellent credit score (776), but I don't have a huge credit history. Nevertheless, like most people, I am inundated with offers for new credit cards, but as I said, I am careful. I have had a corporate AMEX card for 5 years and I've paid it in full each month. I've also had a VISA platinum for 10+ years. So, when I finally decided to get a cash rewards card, I decided to go with AMEX Blue Cash, thinking that in addition to my credit score, they would see my good history with them and offer me good terms. However, the card they sent me has a credit line of $2,000 and an APR of 22%; I could get better terms by walking into Macy's and applying for a card.
I've called and emailed with AMEX for 3 weeks asking for someone (anyone!) to contact me and explain why they decided to give me such a raw deal. After 2 weeks, the accounts supervisor (Jerene Nelson) finally called and left her number on my voice mail, however, when I phoned the number I reached a sex chat line! It took another week for her to finally call me back and she was incredibly rude. I just don't get this company. I am a very, very careful credit user. I understand they are reigning in credit and hedging their risk, but to offer such poor customer service just baffles me.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what I can do about it. They've already pulled my credit report, so if I go and apply for a different card so soon, that will affect my credit score. This is a real short coming of our system. We apply for a credit card without knowing what terms we are agreeing to. We can cancel the card but that hurts our credit score.
Given my interaction with AMEX, I would *NOT* recommend this company. I am planning to cancel both this and my corporate card, just as soon as I can *reach* any one at AMEX - I've been trying but somehow they always manage to have a problem with their phones. Really an awful, awful company! Do yourself a favor and select any other credit card.
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American Express is Losing in Customer Courtesy
Posted by Zannesan on 11/21/2009
First they raised my rates. I was annoyed but thought it was just the times. I didn't really care all that much.. I payed my balance each month.
But then they just send me an email announcing they were lowering my credit limit from 10K to 2K .. out of the blue.. effective immediately! Not a courtesy notice... nothing. They effectively told me they cared nothing about my card membership. I was alarmed because I had just signed up some of my personal bills to be paid by my credit card and my balance was already almost 2K. So basically, I could very easily go over my limit in a few days and then they could charge me an outrageous fee. I can't believe this is legal.
Whoever is in charge of American express customer retention has got to be an idiot. They have immediately lost my loyalty. I can't believe the treatment I have received. The customer agent I called had not empathy at all and just kept repeating.. it goes into effect immediately and they had just sent me a letter. Asked me if I wanted reasons.. I finally said yes, but she never told me. I have such a bad taste in my mouth about how they have treated me.
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-11-22:
That's what they want, less customers with revolving credit. They need to look good to both the government and their investors. They need to appear "risk free". Running you off is their plan.
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From Web designer to Census taker to mystery shopper, Bethany Mooradian has held so many random jobs over the past 13 years that she now calls herself "queen of the random job" and trains others on finding nontraditional jobs and avoiding scams. She's the author of I Got Scammed So You Don't Have To and The Mystery Shopper Training Program.
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You've been working random jobs since 1999, but a lot of people are just discovering that sort of career path, thanks to the recession. Could you explain your path to becoming "queen of the random job"?
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Most people are surprised that mystery shopping is legit. A lot of times [consumers will] pay for information or they'll pay to be listed with a company, and those aren't really real companies. They end up getting scammed, and it's not a scam. I've been doing it for 13 years.
I've also done standardized test scoring. Remember when you were in school and you had to take all those tests? When you're doing reading comprehension, the kids have to actually write out sentences, and a computer can't score that. They are actually scored by real people.
Also, getting paid to receive mail as a mail decoy agent. That's where I get paid to receive mail in my business, and I send that mail to a company. They send you mail or they put you on a list, and what they want to see is if your name gets sold to any other lists and how long it takes for you to get a particular mailing.
What are some of the red flags that might tip off readers to a job scam?
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Wailord isn't as big of a threat as it looks, but it is certainly a force to be reckoned with. Its stat distribution is good, with decent bulk and reasonable offense, but poor Speed. The only niche it has is its access to Water Spout, and it is an excellent one: a full-HP rain-boosted Water Spout can OHKO or 2HKO pretty much every Pokemon in the metagame. Wailord's support options are lacking, but its powerful Water Spout helps to make up for that. All in all, Wailord has its pros and cons, and can be useful on a rain or Trick Room team.
While Wailord possesses decent offenses and defenses, it lacks Speed. With Trick Room set up by a teammate, though, Wailord will be able to outspeed almost all Pokemon in non-Trick Room teams and do massive damage with Water Spout. Water Spout is a powerful STAB move that should only be used when Wailord is at or close to full HP. Surf and Hydro Pump are less powerful STAB attacks that can do good damage when Wailord's HP is too low for Water Spout to be effective. Surf hits all Pokemon on the field, including its teammates, which can work well if Wailord has a teammate with Dry Skin or Water Absorb. Hydro Pump is more powerful but less accurate, and hits only one Pokemon on the field. Protect should be used on the first turn to conserve HP, while a teammate sets up Trick Room. This ensures that Wailord will outpace almost all Pokemon during the next four turns, allowing it to freely spam its powerful moves. Ice Beam 2HKOes most common Dragon-types, such as Latios and Dragonite, that might try to come in on a resisted Water-type move.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
Other Options
Wailord has a few other sets that it can pull off effectively. If you're looking for a fast Pokemon to spam Water Spout on a rain team, Choice Scarf Wailord is a viable option. Wailord doesn't have the best defenses, but it can take hits reasonably well thanks to its enormous base 170 HP, making a more defensive set viable. If you plan on using Wailord on a hail team, Blizzard should be used over Ice Beam. Life Orb and Water Gem are also two other items to consider. Life Orb gives Wailord a much appreciated power boost, but Water Spout will decrease in power thanks to recoil damage; alternatively, Water Gem- and rain-boosted Water Spout OHKOes almost all Pokemon in the metagame. Wailord also has a decent base 90 Attack stat, allowing it to utilize a Choice Band set with Waterfall, Double-Edge, Earthquake, and Selfdestruct. Hidden Power Grass and Hidden Power Electric can be used over Protect to hit opposing Water-types. Additionally, Wailord can set up Rain Dance on its own, so it is a viable option over Protect. Selfdestruct can be used as a reasonably powerful last-ditch attack, but it's generally not powerful enough to be really useful.
Checks and Counters
Sun teams make Water Spout pitifully weak, and the common Chlorophyll users are able to do huge damage to Wailord with their STAB Grass-type attacks. However, in Trick Room, Wailord can outspeed and OHKO most Chlorophyll users with Ice Beam. Priority moves can be problematic for Wailord, as they can do significant damage to it before it attacks, reducing Water Spout's Base Power. Water Absorb Jellicent is the best counter to Wailord as it regains health when hit by Water-type moves and resists Ice Beam. Dry Skin Toxicroak can also take anything Wailord has to offer and retaliate with priority Fake Out and Sucker Punch, or restore its own HP with Drain Punch. Taunt users such as Tornadus can stop Wailord's teammates from setting up Trick Room. Ferrothorn is another notable counter as it resists both of Wailord's moves and can sap large amounts of health from Wailord with Leech Seed, or do huge damage with Power Whip. Almost all bulky Water-types, Lanturn and Milotic to name a few, can wall Wailord.


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Today I Learned About Replaced Elements
There is a new feature I am working on at work that necessitates me to add a rotated element behind an image. I could easily just add another div to the DOM, but I wanted to do it with a CSS pseudo element to cut down on markup. Ideally, I would just add a class via JavaScript if a certain condition was met, and my special case would be "turned on."
We have a lot of images on our site and make use of the
img tag heavily to load up our assets instead of using
divs and setting a background image. What I learned and didn't realize about until today, is that image tags are something called "replaced elements."
What is a replaced element?
A replaced element is something that has its appearance controlled by an external resource. So what does that mean? It could mean that its behavior and appearance is controlled by the browser itself. This is why other replaced elements like
textarea, and
input all look different depending on which browser you use because how those elements are displayed is up to the browser.
On these replaced elements, pseudo elements like :before and :after don't work, and aren't meant to work due to their inherent responsibility and purpose. This behavior is directly mentioned in the spec. Too bad I didn't realize it until I had already spent a few days wondering why my style works on a
div but I couldn't find it when I tried swapping it to an
img tag!
Note. This specification does not fully define the interaction of :before and :after with replaced elements (such as IMG in HTML). This will be defined in more detail in a future specification.
The workaround for to get my desired behavior is not difficult to achieve at all once you realize you can't manipulate the
img tag directly. All you need to do is wrap your image (or other replace element) in a block element like a
div and then you can use the :before and :after pseudo elements to their full capacity.
I hope this information helps someone else out there who may not have known about this little piece of behavior in HTML!
StackOverflow: CSS :after not adding content to certain elements
W3C: Generated content, automatic numbering, and lists
An End to Front-end & Ruby on Rails Session 7
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of watching the culmination of 8 weeks worth of work that went into the final projects of the students who took my class over at General Assembly. I saw everything from an aggregator of fitness clubs in the greater New York City area to a social trip planning web app.
I am always amazed and inspired by the things people dream up, especially people who may not have programmed a day in their life. Often, programming novices see the "web" and have no idea what goes into it, just "magic." By having introductory courses like the one I teach at General Assembly, we begin to demystify the web so that students can gain a better understanding of the time and energy that goes into making a website or a web app.
Not all of the students I have taught or met want to become developers. Some just wanted to have a better fluency in "developer speak" so that they can go on to hire someone to finish up their prototype. One student and his wife want to start a business and he constructed a web application for potential customers to order window blinds. Many found that they were able to solve problems that they were having in their personal lives. A student in the class felt that she and other parents had difficulties keeping track of their children's school activities. She developed an application to keep track of the school's functions and be edited by her and other parents in the school to keep these events up to date.
When we as teachers, mentors, and role-models have a better understanding of what a novice's goals are, we can better target how to answer their questions and frame it in the context in which they want to apply it.
8 weeks is not a lot of time to complete a full-fledged web application—especially when you're also dealing with a full-time job and 3 hours of class time twice a week. I hope I was able to convey to them that it was really an achievement to go from no knowledge of Ruby and Rails to presenting in front of their peers their idea—even if they didn't get everything they imagined completed. If nothing, they all learned to better hone what it meant to reach a minimum viable product and concentrate on the most important features.
It was a pleasure teaching you, and good luck in your future programming adventures!
Resources for Learning Ruby's Pry
During my teaching, one obvious effective tool for learning Ruby is the Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB). It helps students figure out how to play with Ruby's syntax before they go on to write their first script. I'd heard about Pry before, but it wasn't until lately that it came up on my radar again. Here is a small collection of links to blogs, resources, and screencasts that I have found helpful in understanding how powerful it is in development.
I can't see myself using it just for a plain Ruby program, but it definitely is better than the basic Rails console.
I just use it like this from within the base of my project:
$ bundle exec pry -r ./config/environment
Uninstall Engine Yard's OS X RailsInstaller
I'm in the midst of teaching an introductory 8-weeks course on Ruby and Ruby on Rails over at General Assembly in Manhattan. Per the course material, we have them install RailsInstaller, an "all-in-one" kit that is meant to get a novice developer up and running in a development environment as quickly as possible.
Acting as teacher, I felt it was good to lead by example and go through an installation of RailsInstaller. After I clicked the install button though, I immediately had flashes before my eyes of this tool over writing many hours of work of painstakingly pruning and preening my dot files, configs and preferences for RVM and git. I pretty much regretted that I did that, thinking it may compromise many of my personal and volunteer projects dependent on having a flawless development environment. (If you're familiar at all with my Github profile, you'll know that I have a few projects devoted to my obsessive collection of laptop configuration scripts and dot files.)
Honestly, I have been using my personal MacBook Air for a week now and haven't noticed any issues in my development environment using the incorrect versions of Ruby, Git or RVM, but I still have this paranoid suspicion that I may have done something by installing RailsInstaller over everything I've curated. (Yes, very paranoid.)
Which led me to try to research on where RailsInstaller actually installed these files and how in the world I could remove them!
After a cursory search, I came up pretty empty-handed because on the RailsInstaller main page, it doesn't give you any information on how to uninstall it! (Maybe a ploy for you to never uninstall it?? *cue evil laugher!*)
It seems Google Groups is the place to be for me in finding necessary information lately, so I came upon this thread asking about a "clean uninstall" for Mac OS X. (Finally!)
Two things:
If you have an old version of RailsInstaller, you can run this simple command:
If you have a recent version like mine, that App doesn't actually exist in that path and is actually within the ~/Applications folder. D'oh! (Now you know how often I actually peek into that folder versus using Spotlight.)
open /Applications/RailsInstallerOSX-Uninstaller.app
And there you go, it runs through a similar process that you ran when installing, except this time removing the files you previously installed and you can happily watch as all that extraneous overhead is removed over a cup of tea!
Growl 2.0 — Some Headaches, Some Workarounds
Like a lot of people I know who are on Macs, I use Growl for the different alerts I have set up on the different applications I use. For my IM client, Adium, I want to know when I get a new message and maybe know when my husband signs on or off. On Twitter, I want to see when I get a new private message and I use Propane to access my job's Campfire and want to know when someone has mentioned something like my name or the work "Thai." Growl recently updated to version 2.0 and I have encountered a couple of nagging problems.
The Headaches
Over the years, this functionality has become indispensable. I, like many people I know, either donated to the Growl project when it was free, or decided to purchase it on the Mac App Store whenever its newest version moved over to that platform.
That being said, I was really disappointed with some of the issues I have been having with Growl's recent point release at 2.0 that came out a few days ago. All of a sudden, I noticed that I couldn't click on the notifications anymore and have it open the appropriate application. When I see a new Adium message, I expect it to open Adium and show me that message. Instead, the notification pop-up would disappear into the GUI ether.
I insisted to myself that the problem just HAD to be user error and tried mercilessly to watch what it was that I was doing so I could debug. When that didn't work, I then began to pour over the Growl preference panel to see if I may have accidentally unchecked/checked a box I didn't mean to. No dice! There is no setting there that mentions any type of click behavior that could be modified.
My last stop was opening up the Mac App Store and looking at user feedback, I couldn't possibly the only person experiencing this problem, right? Right. When I looked at the most recent reviews, 'lo and behold, other users were having the same problem. A little more digging brought me to the Growl Google Group and latest gripes from the most passionate of users.
Another issue I encountered this morning was that roll-up and/or limits to how many Growl notifications appear at once also seems to be broken. As an example, when I logged into my account, Twitter was still running and was racking up notifications. I had to wait about a minute for the log to cycle through before I had access to my screen again, I've never had this problem before! Again, I don't see a preference option for this, and it seems other people are experiencing the same issues. I don't have "roll-up" enabled, because frankly, I only want those notifications if I am actually sitting at my desk, not later, but this could potentially resolve this issue. I'll try again tomorrow morning to see if I encounter it again!
On Mountain Lion, I have the option of turning on Notification Center to handle my Growl notifications, but it gets grouped as a Growl application notification. That kind of sucks and defeats the purpose of quickly knowing which application is notifying me in the first place. I quickly turned this option off.
The Workarounds
As a preface, I use Mac OS X Version 10.7 (Lion) at work and Version 10.8 (Mountain Lion) at home. Both had issues.
In this thread, someone complains about the Growl notification clicking not working. One of the fixes, or "workarounds," is to download the Growl Version Detective and analyzing the different registered apps utilizing the Growl framework — I didn't know this tool existed!
If you download the application, you'll get a great bird's-eye view of how each of your Growl-enabled application is using the Growl framework.
When you click on an Application name, you'll either see an option to "Upgrade FW" (upgrade the framework,) "Revert FW" (revert to the original framework,) or a message stating that it can't be upgraded because Growl doesn't have permission to upgrade the framework because the application was downloaded via the Mac App Store. In that instance, the application developers will need to update their application to work with the latest version of the Growl framework and release that update in the Mac App Store.
An important change from version 1.3 to 2.0 was that Growl is now sandboxed. What does that mean?
In the Apple Sandbox Design Guide it goes over the importance of using sandboxing in your Mac apps. The idea is that you want to add additional protection to your apps and how user data is accessed. When Apple rolled out the Mac App Store, one of the biggest gripes from developers and users alike was the ability for low-level access to system functions to control more minute behavior and preferences. As designed, apps available through the Mac App Store can't access root level privileges, nor should they as a safety concern! Apps that need that kind of access won't find themselves in the App Store any time soon. That being said, Growl decided to trade off certain niceties and features so that they could offer their product in the App Store as well as having the additional pluses of having a sandbox.
That said, because of the sandboxing, it adds additional problems that haven't been figured out quite yet, like the notifications not always opening the application after being clicked:
The old method for click feedback was using NSDistributedNotifications, which we could fire at any time, but these are not allowed under sandboxing with a payload (the context that we send back to the app would know what the click was in relation to). The new system uses GNTP networking, and eventually we have to close that socket, or we run into the problems that 1.3.x and 1.4 had with running out of socket slots and pegging a CPU, we do this after the display times out or 15 seconds, whichever comes first. We have plans on improving this, but we haven't gotten that far yet. - Daniel Siemer
I will have to check back tomorrow to see if the "roll-up" option will fix the issue I was having with Twitter flooding my screen when I logged in this morning. I don't have the option of upgrading the version of Growl framework for Twitter, so I'm hoping roll-up will work.
If you want to be able to use Notification Center with Growl in Mountain Lion, I would suggest you use a free product like Bark which will take the pain out of all the notifications getting grouped under the generic Growl App notification.
The Take-Away
I have to wonder, now that Growl is a pay product, if enough due-diligence was taken to bug test this latest version. I can excuse these types of issues if it's a free product because, hey — it's a great tool and it's free. But if I am paying for it, AND it's available in the Mac App Store, isn't that supposed to convey an additional expectation of quality?
If you're upgrading your framework drastically between 1.3 and 2.0, shouldn't there be some sort of notification to all developers out there to prepare for framework 2.0? I shouldn't expect my users to dig through Google Groups (which by the way is apparently favored over filing a bug ticket in the first place!) to look for workarounds to upgrade something that developers should be responsible for.
These issues aren't going to prevent me from using Growl, but it does make my experience less enjoyable and less useful. I would really hope to see that in the long-run that the Growl team take some precautions when making large changes like this and give users/developers more of a heads up or at least delineate known issues within the upgrade description on the Mac App Store.


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I have downloaded 3.1.2 activated for 3gs (2,1) now. I am so worried.
Is this the correct way to go? My iphone was unlocked with 3.0 and has not been restored to anything else than 3.0
I do not think ecid shsh is on file...
iTunes will be able to restore this file? I tried with 3.0, but iTunes will not sign that. But they "sign" 3.1.2?
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Canvas and steel hamper comes in 10 oz. industrial strength, off-white canvas with pull-tie top. Stands up on a steel caddy with Northern Hardwood runners at the feet. Handmade in Massachusetts since 1921. Ships free. (
Five-star hotels keep these canvas hampers in rotation, but that doesn't mean they're too fancy for your bathrobe. Whether you carry your laundry through the house or down the block to the coin-o-matic, the industrial strength canvas bag is easy to remove from its caddy and take with you, and the pull-tie top keeps garments off the ground.
The company that makes these hampers has supplied the military and hotels with their industrial strength canvas baskets, bins, buggies and bags in the U.S. since 1921.
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You can think of a hundred reasons to fill up this hamper, whether it's with laundry, linens, toys or firewood. Whatever it is, the bag, a natural, undyed 100% cotton canvas, can be washed easily.
The bag does have brass grommets along the top for the rope to go through. These are heavy duty grommets that can become very hot in the dryer, so be sure to use caution.
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