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T & R Fence LLC1621 S Fort Hood St Killeen, Texas United States of America
T & R Fence LLC Poor customer service, low quality work Killeen, Texas
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Took care of customer
*Author of original report: *Update*
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This new guy shows up with his young daughter to fix the fence. He tells me that no one uses wood screws in fences and he admitted to using low quality wood. He tells me if I want to have my fence fixed correctly then I will pay more to get it fixed. His solution to the boards coming down is to put more nails in them. He says that I need a wind brace on my gate to make it connect together. First, he came without my knowledge again (no call, no knock on the door, nothing). He nailed some cut 2x4s onto the existing gate (should add they are not cut straight nor nailed on straight). Then he put a large two-by-four in between the pieces of the gate and I can not open it any longer. He tells me that he doesn't care how many times he has to come out to the house b/c he is paid by the hour.
On August 14th, Gary came to the house again and admits that the wind brace wasn't put on properly so he would fix it. I asked for him to do something about the uneven cut 2x4s and he told me that he didn't care what I said or what I thought b/c he wasn't going to fix my fence. They keep trying to get me to pay more money. Isn't that illegal? He told me that he didn't call before coming to the house b/c he was at another job site. Then he told me that he would have to come back to fix the fence b/c he didn't have his tools on him. (What professional contractor doesn't come with his tools?) He lied to the BBB by attacking me. However, he is the one who started screaming at me, calling me names and then as he is storming off to his truck, he yells, "I AM A PROFESSIONAL!!"
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AUTHOR: T&R Fence - ()
SUBMITTED: Thursday, April 03, 2014POSTED: Thursday, April 03, 2014
Although we strongly advised the customer against using treated pine lumber on her fence, she decided to go with that product anyway. Treated pine lumber warps much more frequently than other materials and, is therefore, much cheaper than other materials.
We serviced the client on multiple occasions to try to get her taken care of. Each time my crews would go out, they would be berated and belittled by the client. I had to pull them from the jobsite on one occasion because of the verbal assaults. My employees called me in fear of their safety.
I have come to realize, after 12 years in business, that you can't make some customers happy. Some people are genuinely negative people that will never be satisfied.
Our business is "A" rated by the Central Texas Better Business Bureau. We are also a BBB Accredited Business. There are strict standards of professionalism and customer service that a business must pass before becoming accredited.
This case was, in fact, mediated by the BBB. The customer agreed to remediation that we accomplished and signed off to the BBB that she was satisifed. As part of the agreement, she was supposed to remove all negative reviews of our company from the internet. She is in violation of our agreement.
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Fade to black and roll the credits – or at least find the remote and change the batteries – Sonoma's Blockbuster video store is closed. It was a big box store of sorts when it opened in Sonoma, part of a corporate chain that at its peak had nearly 6,000 stores nationwide. The brute was blamed for squeezing out Movie Merchants, a local, owner-operated shop of no small charm… Years later, Blockbuster, like a brash young actor mellowing into loveable character parts, seems almost quaint, just another local retailer staffed by the kids of friends and neighbors. So, another empty storefront, another script to be written. Life goes on, then they make a movie out of it. Usually with Matt Damon.
The Sonoma City Council will likely ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers after voting 4 to 1 to have an ordinance drafted for a final consideration next month. "The time has come," said Councilman Steve Barbose said. The restrictions imposed on leaf blowers in 2011, including prohibiting use on Sundays and reducing the allowable noise level from 90 decibels to 70, did not go far enough, according to a crowd of speakers at the council meeting. Proponents of the ban site noise, pollution, and the redistribution of dirt and allergens. Opponents, like Councilmember Tom Rouse, say the current restrictions are fine (the city has never issued a noise violation to the operator of a leaf blower) and a ban would drive up landscaper fees.
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Bring in the ratings, bring in the cash!
TV Guide just released its annual survey of the highest paid stars on television, and unsurprisingly, those with the biggest paychecks appear on shows with some of the biggest ratings.
Ashton Kutcher is once again the top paid actor in prime time, making $750,000 per episode for his work on the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. CBS is also doling out the most dough to an actor in a drama: NCIS star Mark Harmon rules that list, bringing home $525,000 per episode, plus a piece of the show's profits.
In late night, there's a new top earner: Jon Stewart makes between $25-$30 million a year, according to several sources. That puts the Daily Show anchor above Jay Leno and David Letterman, who both make $20 million per year and were previously the perennial late-night salary leaders.
But no one beats Judge Judy. Judy Sheindlin is the top earner in any genre, raking in $47 million a year for her work on the top-rated syndicated daytime show.
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Between the Covers
John Gilstrap
With the publication of No Mercy looming in just six months, I finally saw the cover art for the first time last week. If I knew how to insert pictures here, this would be the perfect place to do so, but alas, there lies the limit of my technical ability. So, please indulge me and visit my website via the link above. You don't have to linger, but the new cover is proudly displayed there.
Sure, now's fine. We'll wait.
Thanks for that. Welcome back. Pretty cool, huh? I love the creepiness of it. When you consider that the primary purpose of a cover is to get a potential reader to pick it up off the shelf, I think it accomplishes its goal.
But I haven't always been so lucky. In fact, early in my career, my covers ran the gamut from kinda weird to just plain boring. At All Costs, for example, featured a cityscape in the background, which I probably would have liked better if the book had taken place in a city. As it was, it was mostly set in remote, rural America. When I asked my editor at the time why they did the city thing, he told me it was because they couldn't come up with anything better. Does that breed confidence, or what?
Nathan's Run is a story about a 12-year-old boy on the run for murder, even as an assassin is on his heels to do him in. HarperCollins at the time saw fit to create a hardcover jacket that featured a sepia-colored image of a curve in the road. That's it; just a road with stripes on it. It was certainly artistic, but I vastly preferred my British cover, which showed the image of a bad guy in whose sunglasses we could see the reflection of a boy running for his life.
The point where I am right now with No Mercy defines the stage of book-writing that I find most frustrating. From here forward, I am virtually powerless to affect the future of my labor of love. The manuscript is done, and with that final edit, I've handed the process over to the team of professionals who have to make all the other parts of the puzzle fit together. If the past is a predictor of the future, I'm in good hands; but it's still hard to surrender control.
One of the great clichés of all time is that you can't judge a book by its cover, yet all of us do it every day. So, what do y'all think? We've talked gender bias and age bias. We've touched on genre bias. What about cover bias? I confess that I'm a practitioner. Are you?
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That is a great cover!ReplyDelete
I don't necessarily buy books if I like the cover, but a good cover will definitely make me pick up the book and read the jacket or the back cover.
Nice cover, John. They did you proud. And yes, I am cover bias. I tend to shy away from books with kitty cats and puppy dogs on the cover. Not big on people with fangs. And if it says that it includes recipes, I move on to the one with an Apache helicopter or the U.S. Capital in the background.ReplyDelete
Yep, I've always been a sucker for the "big book" type of covers. I can't stand the overly artistic Edgar Sawtelle-types. Just not my thing. Give me a bold title and a lasting image (White background, black background, or maybe a blue/green) and I'm good.ReplyDelete
Start throwing in yellow, orange, or gray backgrounds, and sepia-toned anything, and I will usually move on. There are some exceptions, like JD Rhoades's BREAKING COVER, but for the most part I'm consistent.
Some of my recent faves are THE DECEIVED (Battles), THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND (Deaver), DEVIL BONES (Reichs), TRIGGER CITY (Chercover), THE MARK (Pinter), BONEYARD (Gagnon), THE HARROWING - UK Cover (Sokoloff), and THE WATCHMAN (Crais).
Which of course means that, should my novel about the present-day hunt for a contract killer posing as a religious nut ever get published, the cover will feature a sepia photo of a victorian woman lying dead on a sofa with a sword in her chest, on a cloudy grayish background, the title in illegible white brush script at the very bottom. And my name spelled wrong.
Dude! Creepy is right. Whatever the place is pictured on the cover of that book, I don't want to visit there. Of course to find out what place it is, I'll have to read the book to make sure I don't stumble into that town on my next foray across the country. And Graves sounds like an interesting soul. In other words...the cover works.ReplyDelete
Great cover, John!ReplyDelete
And thanks, Jake, I loved the Boneyard cover too. My recent favorites are the ones done for Chelsea Cain's and Tana French's books.ReplyDelete
Love your cover, John.ReplyDelete
I may be the king of bad covers. Pizza slices with action happening in them in bold colors for the Massey books. In fact my publisher's art department's only change in the Massey series came when they can out of primary colors and tried to get me to agree on apple green. The next cover was as bad, or worse, much worse. The new cover is the only one of seven that I like. The UK cover of my first book was my all time favorite until this coming one.
We all get the letters accompanying the artwork that reads: "We know you will love this cover as much as WE do."
I do really like that cover. I especially like the way I absorbed the nature's image first, then refocused and "saw" the eye. Nice effect!ReplyDelete


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The South Side High School Network is part of Chicago Public School's (CPS) Department of Family and Community Engagement (FACE). They will be hosting their inaugural South Side Collaborative High School Fair to provide 7th and 8th grade students and their parents with information about the different high schools in the South Side High School Network. Schools in attendance will be:
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From time to time, I review products that I have purchased and then try to answer people's questions about the product who might be doing research on it and want an owner's honest opinion. Today, I'm reviewing the Samsung WB200F digital camera; which I picked up about a month ago at the Portage, Indiana Wal-Mart for about $160 ($176 after the 16GB SD card).
Why I Chose the Samsung WB20
The Samsung WB200F was a last minute purchase the Saturday before I had to travel to Montana for business to walk down a power plant that is getting an environmental upgrade. Since it's out of the way and expensive to travel to, the chance of us getting a second walk down to confirm things was slim. So that meant it was important to get a lot of pictures. Previously, I would walk down the power plants and take the photos I needed with my iPhone 3GS and (starting a year ago) my Samsung Galaxy S3. All too often, I would go through my photos to find something important only to find the photo that looked like it would be acceptable on my phone looked like crap on my computer because it was too dark or too blurry. So, because the stakes were so high for this Montana trip, I made the decision to invest in a REAL camera.
I wish I could say that I chose the Samsung WB200F after doing a ton of research, but it was really a matter of what selection they had at Wal-Mart. The WB200F was the most reasonably priced photo with more than a 5x optical zoom. Coming in at 18x optical zoom, the WB200F actually beat out some of the more pricey $200+ cameras with only 12x optical zoom.
Optical zoom is important because we sometimes have limited access to parts of the plant and being able to read nameplate information on equipment can be difficult from long distances. If you don't know much about digital imagery, Digital Zoom on a camera is stupid. All it does is crop a photo and blow it up, meaning you lose quality. Plus, you can get the same effect for FREE by saving the file onto your computer and zooming in on it. That's all digital zoom is… garbage.
Four things really stood out with the WB200F when at the power plant.
1. The WB200F's 18x Zoom and Image Quality are Incredible!
No more climbing stairs or bending over for me! With a swipe of the finger on the zoom control (located around the shutter button), I'm zoomed in so close that I can read the smallest of fonts on a nameplate from 50+ feet away.
2. Panoramic Photos are SO Easy to Take!
I didn't know the WB200F had the panoramic photography option on it when I made the purchase. It was a discovery in the hotel room before our last day out there. That's really cool. It works better if you hold the camera sideways when you take the photo, though. That way, you get more vertical pixels, but still get a 180 degree shot. I'm glad I realized that in the field.
3. Easy to Hold.
I haven't bought a digital camera since 2007 when I needed to take a lot of photos for the many Mike Huckabee Presidential Campaign events I was attending and writing about. I'm impressed by how much the technology has evolved, but I'm also impressed by how a simple change in shape can make the camera that much easier to hold. There's a small bump out at the side of the camera opposite the lens that makes grasping onto the camera a lot easier; which is definitely a plus when you're taking photos with your brand new $160 Samsung WB200F over a handrail 300 feet above the ground.
4. Battery Life Is Insane!
Granted, this is a brand new battery, so it's a little premature to judge the actual performance of the battery, but 10 hour days of walking around and taking hundreds of photos, many with a flash, and the battery was never even reduced to 1/3rd life. Perhaps we can credit that to the LED flash, perhaps we can credit it to an incredible 3.7V 1030mAh Lithium Ion battery (battery model SLB-10A).
Not knowing this before leaving to Montana, I tried finding a second battery to plug in when I drained the first, but had no luck at Wal-Mart, Target, or Batteries Plus (typically my ace up the sleeve for all power supply and battery needs). If you want a backup battery, you better make sure you order one online. I'm now thinking the Samsung WB200F isn't going to need a second battery.
5. The Flash Is Kind of in the Way
The only operational con about the camera, in my opinion, was the pop-up flash. Being an ogre, I have large hands and it just so happened that even when my index finger was on the shutter button, it still partially covered the lid of the flash. Of course, that's fixed easily enough by moving my finger. Such a sacrifice!
Anyway, as much as I would love to show you pictures from the power pl
ant, confidentiality agreements between my company and our client dictate that I'm not allowed to share them. So, after I got back to Indiana, I took the camera to the 2013 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State game in South Bend, IN.
The WB200F's 18x Optical Zoom
Let me show you what I mean when I say the image quality of the WB200F is incredible. Feel free to click the images to see the full resolution photos. You may have noticed the 4,000 pound statue of the Virgin Mary on top of Notre Dame's Golden Dome, but did you ever notice the lightning protection rod coming out of the Holy Mother's golden dome? I hadn't!
Here is another example from before the game during the marching band's concert on campus.
I guess this is a good time to warn you that just because you are getting incredible detail doesn't mean you're guaranteed beautiful pictures. Don't worry, she fixed her wedgie.
Examples of the WB200F Panoramic Photography
Here are some examples of the panoramic photography the WB200F is capable of. Keep in mind, I turned the camera sideways to convince it that it was doing a vertical 180 degree shot (which it is capable of!). This allows me to capture more vertical pixels to get a taller image. One thing that is worth mentioning, as it was a bit of a disappointment for me, is that these are NOT full resolution photos. If you click some of the photos below to see the full-sized photo, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Anyway, as great as the camera is, it's still not greater than having tickets to a Notre Dame victory! The picture below is of me and my father, who agrees.
WB200F's Digital Candy (and Gimmicks)
The Samsung WB200F also comes with some neat digital features that really show how far camera technology has come.
Touchscreen on a Digital Camera!
I was surprised to find that digital cameras have touch screens! It seems like it only recognizes one finger at a time, but it's still neat. I'm not sure how necessary it is to have a touchscreen on a camera since there are button controls right next to it that are slightly easier to use (your thumb is literally right on top of it). But it's a nice touch for when you are presented with a screen that's not intuitive to navigate or a window pops up that isn't easily closed (just tap "Close" on the screen).
It's a gimmick, but I won't deny that it is also a nice touch in an age where we expect everything to have a touchscreen; which might be why my wife and niece's finger prints are all over my computer monitors.
WiFi Connection
The Wireless connection for the digital camera is a fantastic idea, but it comes with some shortfalls. For starters, it doesn't remember the password to my home's wireless network; which leaves me fumbling on a small touch screen to enter my password. That's a pain.
Furthermore, its connectivity to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and other common places is limited-to-non-existent. You can e-mail photos to yourself, back them up on a cloud, and you have a few other options available to you. None of which are as easy as taking the camera home and dumping your photos on your hard drive. If you get a 16GB SD card, you won't have to do that very often… assuming you're the type that doesn't upload photos after every outing… like me.
MobileLink Connects Your WB200F to Your Samsung Smartphone
Samsung tries to make up for this with another neat feature that allows you to connect your phone and camera together; which lets you download the photos from your camera to your phone for digital messaging and photo-sharing. You can even use your phone as a remote screen and shutter button. The screen of your phone shows you what the camera is seeing and with a press of a button, it will allow you to remotely take a photo. It's excellent for spying on the ninjas who sometimes invade my living room when I'm in my office… the catch for all of these mobile connectivity features is that you need a Samsung smartphone. That works out well for me, but for the millions who have an iPhone, not so much.
And by "well", I mean in theory. Like dealing with the WiFi always needing to be reconnected, the same goes for my phone, even though I have the app and you would think the devices would be smart enough to remember one another. Connecting them involves that annoying "bump" technology, only it's more clumsy because both of your hands are holding both of your devices and you have to simultaneously accept the connection on both devices. In case you haven't noticed, the Samsung Galaxy and Note series of smartphones are very large and difficult to operate with one hand, especially when you're holding it against another device with a larger mass and volume.
Samsung WB200F Final Judgement!
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If I had the choice to make again, I would definitely buy the WB200F again. The features, optical zoom, and high-resolution make the Samsung WB200F a steal anywhere below $200. One thing I didn't address is "Do you really need a digital camera when you have a camera phone?"
The answer to that is tricky. If you're just going to post photos online of you, your friends, and your cats, then most photo sharing sites will downgrade your photo's resolution to keep file sizes lower and you don't need a fancy camera like the Samsung WB200F. However, if you want to PRINT your photos or take photography seriously as an art (or data collection device like me), then you're going to want something that shows more detail.
The digital cameras in the $50 to $100 range typically aren't much better than what you have on your typical high-end smart phone. Keep in mind that digital zooms are worthless, it's the optical zoom you want, and most cameras in this price range won't go beyond 5x optical zoom. That may be enough for some, but if you're actually SERIOUS about your photos, then the extra money you spend to get into the next class is worth it.
And if you're going to go to that next tier, then I highly recommend the Samsung WB200F.
Personally, I plan on bringing my Samsung WB200F to all major events I attend. It may justify taking space in a woman's purse, but pocket space for men is so limited, that I won't have it on me every day.
Questions or Input About the WB200F?
Feel free to leave a comment with your questions or opinions. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have before making this purchase. As stated above, I do this as a service to my readers and people who are making big purchases who stumble across my website. I'll answer your questions as quickly as possible.
If anything written in this post was incorrect, or if you have a different experience, say your piece here, too.
UPDATE: Highlighting Limitations of WB200F Focus
In November 2013, I received a comment from Suzanne Corgan, a photographer from Paws Galore, a UK photography service specializing in the photographing of pets (you see that, leave a good comment and you get a plug!). She asked whether it was possible to adjust the focus so as to create a blurry background. Now, I was aware that the WB200F had some unique focus features, but I never experimented with them.
To summarize these features, they are limited in their technical capability.
The Samsung WB200F does offer three focus options: an Auto Focus (AF), a manual focus, and a touch focus. A key observation for all three is that getting a sharp focus on objects less than 30 inches of the lens are difficult to get into focus. It's even worse when you zoom.
All of the photos taken above utilize the Auto Focus; which is the default on the camera. I had some problems with this last Saturday as I attempted to take photos at the Notre Dame vs. BYU game during some heavy snow periods. Granted, I would still say that persistence pays off and if you wait for it to adjust, you can get the auto focus to… well, focus automatically.
Auto Focus is great for most pictures you're going to take for photo albums, web sites, Facebook, and so forth. But that's not what Suzanne needs.
The touch focus is great for focusing on objects that are not front and center in your photos. Using the touch screen, you just tap the area you want to focus on and the Auto Focus will kick into action and adjust itself until the area you tapped is sharp. Unfortunately, this doesn't give you any options regarding the softness or blurriness of the background (at least from what I can tell).
This leaves the manual focus. I hope to do some outdoor tests this Thanksgiving weekend when Krista and I take our niece to Chicago. However, based on tests I did in my home, it appears that there are some technical limitations to this camera's ability to focus. The manual focus works by presenting a slide bar on your screen that you can adjust manually (recommended) by swiping your finger on the touch screen or by pressing the left or right side of the round button to the right of the screen (which is better for fine tuning, but too slow for on the fly adjustments). As with the touch focus, there are no settings to adjust the blurriness of the areas not in focus.
However, you can get some limited control of the blur by zooming in on an object and setting manual focus to as close as it will focus. The problem is that this camera will not adjust all the way to the closest focus while zoomed in. You won't even get halfway there.
I am by no means a technical expert when it comes to optics and camera lenses, but it seems to me that this is the reason why photographers carry multiple lenses with them and it's not just for that stupid fish-eye fad. How close you want to be to your subject and how far the background is behind your subject can vary significantly and unless you have the right lens, you won't be able to get the look you're going for.
As I wrote above, I plan to keep playing with the focus features this weekend to see if maybe I'm wrong, but after fiddling with it for a few hours, it does not appear Suzanne (or anyone else) can use this camera for creating portraits with blurred backgrounds.
Here are a couple of the greatest effects I could get with manual focus. In both examples, the foreground focus is on the left, the background focus is on the right.
I've had this camera for a few months now and am having my first major problem. The settings wheel is not staying on the AUTO setting. It's falsely registering a switch to PROGRAM when I attempt to take a photo. It started off pretty randomly at first (enough so I thought I was accidentally hitting the wheel with my index finger). However, a month after first seeing this, it kicks me out of AUTO about 30 to 40 percent of the time I try to take a photo. The WB200F does quickly notice that the wheel is actually on AUTO and sends you back to it without you having to do anything. However, when you're the one taking the pictures, this gets REALLY annoying.
I plan to call SAMSUNG customer support on Monday to see how we can get this resolved. Hopefully having the top rated review of this camera will expidite things a bit.


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KURRAM AGENCY – The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) recently suffered another setback when its Kurram Agency chapter split into two. The Kurram Agency amir, Maulana Fazl e Saeed Haqqani, bolted from the TTP and formed his own group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Islami Pakistan.
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I'm pretty sure this image is taken at the Aokigahara forest in Japan, more commonly known as the suicide forest, someone has left their car, walked into the forest, and never came back.
#24 to #2 - niggafromoutaspace (10/27/2013) [-]
If you look at the cars parked next to it you can see that the cars have the steering on the left side. The cars in japan are mostly steered on the right side. And when you look closely you can see that the numberplates are european because japanese nuberplates arent that wide. Im sorry to destroy your theory.


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