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Live performance and spontaneity are everything for Animal Collective, so capturing the magic of their unique electronic psychedelia on CD was a huge test for engineer and producer Ben Allen.
Over nine years and eight albums of head‑spinning music, Baltimore‑born group Animal Collective have perfected their individual meld of psychedelia and electronica. Their latest and best offering to date, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is a dense, otherworldly record on which Beach Boys harmonies meet heavily treated instrumentation to produce an avant‑garde pop. The roots of its unique sonic character lie in the fact that the foursome were reduced to three in the wake of guitarist Josh Dibb aka Deakin's hiatus from the band.
Unusual in the sense that they write new material for tours, primarily, rather than for recording, the remaining trio — Dave Portner aka Avey Tare (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear (vocals, samples, percussion) and Brian Weitz aka Geologist (electronics) — were forced to rethink their methods when going back out on the road without Dibb, after the release of their previous album, 2007's Strawberry Jam.
"It made us have to write a lot, I guess," says Portner. "We needed to find a new way of approaching having three people do as much, so we tried to do something different and use the samplers more."
"There aren't a lot of rules in our songs," Weitz points out. "We have effects processors on stage, and some nights if you're bored of doing the same thing you did the night before, you can try and play around with a different effect. Or trigger a loop differently to see how it works with timing. And occasionally those experiments on stage work and they make their way into the song."
In approaching Merriweather Post Pavilion, the trio decided to hook up with co‑producer Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Puff Daddy, Christina Aguilera), specifically for his low‑end expertise. "That was the original attraction," Weitz says. "But also he had a more eclectic taste in music. Growing up he'd been surrounded by music that wasn't just urban hip‑hop. He seemed to be somebody that technically knew how to work in that area, but was open‑minded to other styles as well. We heard the Gnarls Barkley record, but knowing that he'd been involved in a lot of the Bad Boy Records stuff from the '90s was exciting to us."
Allen remembers his initial conversations with the band. "We did a couple of conference calls via Skype over the course of a week, talking about music," he says. "I was really excited. This came at a time when I was getting a little disillusioned with the mainstream music business. So for me it was real treat. But it was also a huge technical challenge on a lot of levels. I was constantly on my toes."
The first task for Allen was to find a suitable studio. Alongside the usual equipment considerations, Allen had to factor in the fact that Animal Collective employ a strict no distractions/privacy rule when recording. "We just lock ourselves in the studio," Portner explains. "We don't let anybody come in. We just like to be in our own world and not have any strangers around."
Allen suggested Sweet Tea, a facility housed in an old gas‑station‑cum‑woodshop in the small town of Oxford, Mississippi. "Sweet Tea is amazing," he enthuses. "It's the vibiest studio I've ever been in. It feels like you're making music in a living room that just happens to have a Neve 8038 desk in it. It was excellent. Just the crunchiness that you could get going with the preamp gains. So we had the Neve, and also this guy from Oxford, Mississippi, who runs a company called JFL Audio, has custom‑made a bunch of preamps and compressors and limiters that are based on classic models. Those were the two flavours we had."
Portner and Weitz are equally enthusiastic about Sweet Tea. According to the latter, "From the very start we were looking for a studio with a big control room, 'cause we wanted to do most of the tracking in the same room as the engineer. So once we saw a picture of Sweet Tea, and the control room was almost as large if not larger than the live room, we decided that would be the right one to use. We wanted a room with a lot of interesting outboard gear to play with. We just wanted to all set up in there and hook up the outboard gear to our gear."
The band decided to set up their QSC PA (which they normally use for on‑stage monitoring) at the back of Sweet Tea's control room, to give them something resembling their live environment for laying down takes. "I was taking a direct input from the samplers," Allen explains. "Getting sounds and watching my levels. Then once they were ready to do a take, they would crank up the PA speakers and I would turn down my monitors. We got into a system where I got what I needed and then they were able to rock out."
"When we were writing the record," Weitz goes on, "since so much of it was electronic and sample‑based, we used those PA speakers to make the samples. And so we just saw them as a big part of the record. We originally brought them in case we were going to re‑amp stuff, like play some electronics into a live room or something. But we brought three pairs of them and we only needed four of them for the re‑amp, so we had these other two left and we just thought it would be fun to set them up at the back of the room. You don't want to kill the studio's monitors."
"It's not a very accurate representation of what most people are gonna be hearing," Portner laughs. "We do it mostly for our own enjoyment."
In another unorthodox move, Animal Collective eschew sequencing in favour of triggering their samples live, in an effort to lend their electronic elements a looser, more human feel. "That was the game plan from the get‑go," says Allen. "For me, that was so challenging technically. They're all playing samples and sequences and recorded material with no synchronisation protocol between any of their machines whatsoever. They've created all these loops on their little samplers and they play them just like a guitar player would play in time with a drummer.
"So we would start by figuring out what was the most rhythmic layer of the song. Each guy would play their parts down once — and there might be seven minutes of this — so everything in that sense was recorded live. We wouldn't put a loop into the computer and then copy it in Pro Tools. However many samples were in each machine, that's how many passes we would have to do. And they're the synchronisers. It just happened to be that they're playing loops."
Ultimately, of course, this led to a natural messiness in the timings between sequences and samples, which the team chose not to tighten up. "Everything's not totally locked in and rigid… even though we try and play it as close to a locked‑in way as possible," Weitz says. "I think even a casual listener's brain can maybe subconsciously pick up a little bit of a looseness there."
Sampler‑wise, Weitz and Lennox favour the Roland SP404 and the more recent SP555. "The SP404 was just what we started using," Weitz says, "'cause it was what we could afford and it was the most simple thing. And now it's become an instrument that we know really well. It's really user‑friendly. You can do things in real time on it. So we've gotten used to them. We almost may be approaching a point where we know them too well and it's time to try something else."
In terms of synthesizers, it's analogue all the way for Animal Collective: namely the Roland SH2 and Juno 60. "We've used them on almost every record for the last 10 years," says Weitz. "The Juno we use primarily for mid‑range or high‑end melodic lines and the SH2 we use more for the bass sounds."
"But we actually ended up overdubbing some other stuff," Allen points out. "We got to mixing and some of the low end on the bass stuff wasn't really doing what we wanted it to. So we used a Novation Bass Station, just 'cause that was at the studio. And actually some of the bass sounds in it were really amazing. In the same way, I would go in and use Drumagog and replace the kick sound once we got the performance in the computer."
Most of the distinctive arpeggio sequences on Merriweather Post Pavilion were created using the Juno's in‑built arpeggiator, but Allen recalls that on occasion the band turned to Logic to create patterns from more abstract sounds.
"'Daily Routine' starts with this little arpeggiated synth thing and the sound of a water drop. The guys had this really specific idea about what they wanted to do and so we cut up the [Juno] arpeggiation into individual notes and just put a mic up and recorded Dave making water drops happen in the sink. Then we cut those into individual samples and I went into Logic and wrote a tempo map that just accelerated over the course of 30 to 60 seconds. So the song starts and you hear one little note of the arpeggiation and one little water drop and they slowly speed up until it goes into the song."
Similarly inventive is the washy, ethereal outro of 'Daily Routine', created, says Allen, by chaining the Roland samplers as effects units. "A lot of that is the samples that exist earlier in the song. But what they might do is actually trigger samples out of one and have it going through the effects in that unit, plus they're using another [404] in effect mode, just putting tons and tons of delay on it."
Elsewhere, if a specific sound from an original demo sketch was considered too tricky to recreate, it would be spun into the master recording. "The acoustic guitar on 'In The Flowers' was the original recording that Dave did into his Roland [VS]1680 in New York," Allen recalls. "We imported it off of his machine. I tried to talk them out of that as much as possible, but sometimes they're really particular about the way things sound. They really like the sounds they've already gotten and getting them away from that could be difficult sometimes, for better or for worse."
If there's one item of outboard gear that all involved say in some ways defined the sound of the album, it's the Eventide H3000 Ultra‑Harmonizer, a new discovery for Animal Collective.
"Those guys fell in love with the H3000," Allen remembers. "Once I showed them what you can do with it, you could just sit Dave down with the pitch knob and a lot of cool things happened. A lot of times, with the piano and acoustic guitar stuff, we would run it through the H3000 and create a pitched‑up and a pitched‑down version and mix it back in so it'd have an otherworldly sort of feel."
Among the other distinctive features of Merriweather Post Pavilion are its loose, multi‑layered rhythm tracks. "There's an old Gretsch kit at Sweet Tea that we used," Allen says. "A lot of the beats were constructed one part at a time, so maybe Noah would go in with just a tom and a snare and he'd hit the tom and the side of the snare and we might layer that eight times. A lot of the size of the percussion sounds is because there's a close mic and maybe two room mics on one instrument overdubbed eight times, so you might have 24 tracks representing that part."
"The electronic‑sounding drums are still acoustic drum patterns, often that we made in our practice space," Weitz goes on. "Then we treated them with an effects processor in the sampler, just to give it more of an electronic texture.
"There's a lot of natural reverb too," he adds. "A lot of the reverb on the live percussion and a lot of the re‑amps, it's all natural reverb within a space in Sweet Tea. It was just the hallway, basically — one side was wood and the other was metal and it was really narrow but it also had a high ceiling. We just listened to our footsteps in there and thought it had a really good sound and we wanted to put the mark of the place on the record."
The tracking for the album was completed at Sweet Tea in an intense month in February 2008. Some tracks were far simpler to record than others. 'No More Runnin', the most laid‑back track on the record, was recorded very quickly. "'No More Runnin' was the one we started with," Weitz recalls. "That's a sparse song, but all the sounds and textures we use in it we were really happy with, so it didn't need that much else going on."
At the other end of the scale, the Beach Boys‑go‑rave atmosphere of 'My Girls' was comparatively difficult, since it took the team a while to work out how best to approach its central arpeggio figure.
"'My Girls' was definitely the most difficult to record," Portner admits. "Just because we had one version of it and some of the instruments that we recorded were out of tune. It used to be more of a piano loop and not a synth loop, and tonally it was slightly off, so the first version we weren't happy with at all. We did an overhaul on it and built it up from scratch."
"It was the hardest to get to sound right," Weitz says. "It wasn't necessarily the hardest technically to record. Also it was the hardest song to fit on the record sonically because it's one of the sparsest songs, it's not nearly as dense as the others. Sometimes it sounded a bit empty or too straightforward. It didn't have an interesting sonic personality, until we got to mixing."
For epic closer 'Brother Sport', Allen found himself having to refer to the Collective's live version of the song to achieve exactly the right dynamic. "'Brother Sport' was the biggest challenge because the energy of that song they really had nailed down live. Matching that energy was really difficult."
When it came to approaching the opposing vocal styles of the two Animal Collective singers — Portner's restless and gnarly performances, Lennox's more flutey, choirboy‑like delivery — Allen created two different signal chains, though the specific details have been lost in the mists of time.
"We had a C12 and a U47, but to be honest I can't remember which one we used on which. Noah would generally want to go all the way down the song a couple of times, then we would listen back and see what we liked and what we didn't like. With Dave we were a little more methodical. We would do a section and go back and listen and recut little parts. But there's two to four doubles of everything. So we'd get an initial pass that we liked and then we'd go back and do doubles and triples and quads."
Once tracking was completed, Allen and the band took a few months off to listen to the monitor mixes. "We recorded the album in February [2008]," the producer remembers, "but we didn't mix it until June or July and I was listening to the songs all the time. To me that's such a great sign, because I usually don't do that. Usually I do a record and I don't listen to it until I have to mix it."
When it came to choosing a studio for mixing, Animal Collective decided to follow Allen, who figured that Chase Park Transduction in his native Athens, Georgia would be the perfect location.
"When it comes to mixing, you want the engineer to be really comfortable around the studio," Weitz stresses. "You don't want to waste a lot of time trying to figure things out in a brand new place. For us, though, it's really important to go somewhere new. It kind of breaks us. It puts us in a mind set of not focusing on anything but making the record, and it's a new experience being in a new town, so that gives the record a really fresh feeling. Working in studios or with engineers that we've worked with too many times over… just without thinking about it, you can slip into old habits."
"I'm familiar with the place and the rate was great," Allen explains. "They also have three EMT plates there and a couple of spring reverbs, and those were things that we were really keen to have. The low‑end response in the rooms is really amazing, so I just knew that it was the right place for us to be. Plus, it's really private and really out of the way. Privacy was such a big thing for those guys that I felt it was the right place to be."
Studio A at Chase Park Transduction is centred around a Sony MXP3036 desk. "It's an interesting desk," says Allen. "The EQs are deceptively powerful, especially in the upper mids. They add a little clarity to a vocal extremely well. So we had those and a handful of [API] 550As that you could swap around. I had subs set up on the desk for stuff coming out of Pro Tools and we might hot‑swap some of the API or Sony EQs around. Most of the mixing, at the end of the day, was done in the box, except for the reverbs and a little bit of top‑end EQ in the desk."
"[The mixing] wasn't as hard as I thought it was gonna be," Portner states. "I was really worried because Strawberry Jam was really difficult and we actually had to mix it twice. But the mixing of this was done more by Ben — he'd take two or three hours to set up everything how he thought it should be and then we would come in and direct him from there."
"It was a little challenging because there's a lot going on," Allen says. "But for me it was more challenging because the band has such specific ideas about what they want. But those specific ideas are very, very abstract. So we might do a mix and someone might say, 'Y'know at three minutes and 42 seconds there's this one sound of a frog jumping in a pond and I really want it to sound like it's more wet.' Stuff like that."
For the band members, attention to detail, it seems, is paramount. "We kinda nit‑pick a lot of stuff," says Portner. "Most people would think, 'Nobody is gonna care about that, you're crazy.' Brian is the king of putting on headphones and saying, 'There's a glitch at one minute in.'"
"Yeah, I seem to hear those things," Weitz laughs. "If I hear them once, I'll never be able to listen to the song again until we get them out of there. Because I always know they're coming and they almost become the loudest thing in the song to me. It drives me up the wall."
At the end of it all, Ben Allen agrees with the legion of music critics who have hailed Merriweather Post Pavilion as an early contender for record of the year, marking the pinnacle of Animal Collective's career to date.
"What they do is not like traditional songwriting, they're not pop music artists by any stretch," the producer stresses. "The experience of all these songs together in an album is more important than the experience of one particular moment in a song. They're looking at this as a piece of art they've made and it happens to have 11 songs on it. Modern music rarely does that any more and I think that's really cool." .
If there was major difference of opinion between Ben Allen and the band during the mixing of Merriweather Post Pavilion, it was over the level of the vocals. The producer wanted them high in the mix, whereas the band members' preference was to mix them lower.
"[For] Ben, I think, coming from his background working in urban music," Brian Weitz reasons, "the vocals and the drums are always significantly louder than anything else. To Ben the vocal melody and the lyrics are the core of the song, along with the rhythm. We have a different view. We like everything to blend together. Even if we want everything to be defined, we want it to all have a lot of presence and personality. To us it's more about a psychedelic sonic listening experience than just a straight pop listening experience. So there was that discussion.
"Pretty early on in the mixing we realised we were gonna have to find the middle ground, so we would do three mixes, where the vocals would be where we wanted them to be, then one louder where Ben wanted them to be and then one even lower than where we wanted them to be, just in case we changed our mind. It was very, very rare that we went with the loud vocal version. 'Summertime Clothes' is the biggest example of where we disagreed. Even after we finished the record we were still thinking maybe the vocals are too loud on that song. And Ben felt the opposite way."
"My instinct is to make the vocals as clear as possible," Allen states. "That's not really their style. So there was some healthy friction in the studio. That's the compromise there. I would push it and push it until someone would say, 'The vocals are too loud.' And the next thing you know, the vocals are covered in reverb and really low."
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I get this error when I try to login with my SOAP client :
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Client] DTD are not supported by SOAP
When I go to the wsdl url with a browser, I get it well.
Can someone help me ?
I have the same problem.
In update 3.0.0 the soap connection was completly bugged. In update 3.0.1 the soap appears when surfing to it but now i'm not able to send the login command.
are there any solutions to this problem?
i'm using php version 5.2.0-8+etch13
I haven't found a solution yet. I hope someone will be able to help us…
Hmm, SOAP works fine for me. The error message that you get indicates that you do not get a SOAP response at all, but rather some error page from your server.
Could you a) have a look at your apache access and error logs to see what happens when you try to log in via SOAP b) post your code that instantiates the new SoapClient and then the login call?
The code.
//Connect To SOAP $client = new SoapClient('http://url.be/systemen/api/?wsdl'); $session = $client->login('*********', *********);
The error:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Client] DTD are not supported by SOAP in /*****/test.php:6Stack trace:#0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__call('login', Array)#1 /*******/test.php(6): SoapClient->login('****', '*****')#2 {main} thrown in /*******/test.php on line 6
Acces log
9******* - - [07/May/2009:13:10:22 +0200] "POST /index.php/admin/api/soap/index/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3106
There are nog related items in the error log…
Hope you can see what is wrong.
Hmm, the only difference I can see to my code is that I use http://www.xxx.yyy/api/soap/?wsdl as url for the soap client.
If that does not help, I would have a look at the login function and see how far you get with the login.
Good luck…
The url is correct. Otherwise i would get to the login stage.
Thanks for the succes! if i get any further i'll let you all know.
Maybe i've found something.
At the end of the WSDL definitions there is a invalid url
'<service name="MagentoService"><port name="Mage_Api_Model_Server_HandlerPort" binding="typens:Mage_Api_Model_Server_HandlerBinding"><soap:address location="http://myurl.be/index.php/admin/api/soap/index/"/></port></service>'
the soap:address location showes the login form of the adminpanel.
Where can i adjust this url?

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Hi Folks,
Yup, it's me again with a computer/OS/SBC problem that is causing mental problems. Quick update on the machine and server. X-P SP3, Outlook Express and SBCGlobal.net. I have been getting the 0x80004005 error message off and on for the past three months. I call the hot line and wait a lifetime for an agent to help me. They all say SBC does not support Outlook Express. I explain I had OE when I signed up for their service, why do they not support it now? None of the agents have answered that to my satisfaction, however, for a few bucks per month (I can't remember the exact amount) I can subscribe to their service to get help for OE. That sounded like blackmail to me. They have always helped me get my mail program working, only for a day or two. The past few days I have been researching this issue with the help of Google, many folks seem to think this error is a problem with the server. Have any of you had this problem? If so, how did you rectify it? Once again, thanks for the great help. Steve |
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Microsoft seems to think this problem is most common if you are using Norton Anti virus. In any case, here is a microsoft link. Maybe something there will help you. Good Luck |
Here is a link that might be useful: Microsoft
- Posted by esteban_2009 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 12 at 20:36
Hi Cat, Thanks for the post and link. I should have stated in my original post I use AVG (free version). Steve |
Where or when do you get that error ? Seems same error number shows for many things but.... First page on a search.. Microsoft: There's a whole bunch of supposedly fixes.. one is... eHow says turn off System Restore, reboot.. then turn system restore back on. Does this error have a popup message when you're checking email ?? or when/where do you see it. |
- Posted by esteban_2009 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 12 at 22:03
mikie, Yes, I get a pop-up message when I try to send and receive e-mail. I didn't try the System restore trick. I'll give it a try next time this happens. Thanks for your help. Steve |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 2:59
I would not try turning off system restore if you do that you will wipe out all the restore points on the pc, then should you need to use one you are out of luck. Unless that is an absolute for sure fix I wouldn't go through that. Have you considered moving to another email client, outlook express is so old and outdated, there's other options. I sure would not pay any extra to your isp for additional help, that's ridiculous and I doubt they would fix anything, they would tell you to go with a newer supported email. |
- Posted by esteban_2009 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 10:37
RC, thanks for the response. You said "Outlook Express is so old and outdated" that describes me to a "T". The reason I use Outlook Express is that's the only mail program I have used since purchasing my first computer many years ago. I can do a pretty good job of writing letters and even forwarding attatchments when needed. I question my ability to learn another progam. When you mentioned using the email provided by my isp, would that be SBC/Yahoo? If not, what one would you recommend. Steve |
- Posted by esteban_2009 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 11:51
RC, I just imported my address book to Yahoo mail, and sent a few test messages. So far, so good, except I can't determine how to send a BCC. Does Yahoo not have that option? Steve |
It would be SBC/Yahoo. Go to this page and put in your username and password and you will be signed in to that account and can check out if you want to use it. You can try it out and go back to OE if you don't like it. Or you can try something like thunderbird which is easy to configure and see if you like it. |
I see you had already tried it while I was typing. I could never manage to send email bcc from there. That's why I started using Thunderbird. I send a newsletter to a group of people and do not want all their email addresses showing up. With Thunderbird I send it to a mailing list bcc. Try it, it's easy to configure. It will ask for your email address and password and find all the other information it needs. |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 13:30
yes for some reason they all want to hide the Bcc options and I really have no idea why because that is the way to send multiple emails properly so addresses are not displayed for everyone. this article will help you out a lot it has a lot of yahoo shortcuts and one is how to toggle off and on BCC. another way is click on the TO: itself that will open your contacts before each name is a box you can tick for those options and there is the BCC option also. Making this change now even though it is leaning something new is good because if you get a new pc with 7 or above you no longer have the option of using OE so you are ahead of the game. And you can check your email from anywhere on any pc which is good if you are away from home. |
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Just a follow up to the various builds out there. I'm not sure of the accuracy of this report. :-
6933 will NOT be published, however the BETA will be released on the next major build, we've had 6933, and 7000 is the next you will hear of. The BETA. Microsoft says they want to delay the Windows 7 release so they can develop the new Windows Shell much further. They have completed the Start Bar so far apparently, now they are going to apply more Special FX to AeroPeek, Flip3D, DirectX 11, .NET 4.0, XNA 4.0 (version number pushed farther to match .NET 4.0), MS says they want to push the versions up to the same version of Windows, so everything will match the Windows version number, they hope by Windows X, all software with higher build numbers will be re-created and have the version X, all software with lower build numbers will be pushed up to the date, ready for Windows X (X meaning ten (10)). After Windows X, Microsoft said, either everything will be X1, X2, X3, etc in versions, or Windows will scrapped with a new idea, and name (depending on how far technology moves by the release). In could be six years before Windows X, but six years will soon go, or will there be a new idea in the spotlight? It's something we have to wait for to find out... The new Shell and 6801 were both used to make a virtual 'Windows NT 6.1.6933', produced by pirates." Windows 7 Forums • View topic - Windows 7 Beta on next build |
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Wow, it looks like Microsoft and Apple really are working together after all!! We see proof there with the way Microsoft is going to offer there software. As well we will see here with some videos!!
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Windows 7 Build 6933
"Although the PDC demonstrations were all done using Windows 7 Build 6933, the build distributed to developers was 6801. This is just to clarify for those who are looking for Build 6933 that there is no such build available to the public. It is highly unlikely that a Build 6933 leak will be online since it was never distributed. Wed all have to wait until mid-December for the first public beta. At that time, Microsoft should be distributing Build 6933, or even a newer build."
Is there a Windows 7 Build 6933 Leak? | Windows 7 Center If you read that Blog you'll notice that some fool posted a reply :- "mitakis says: October 31st, 2008 at 4:08 pm can anywhere someone upload for me windows 7 build 6933?" Yeah. He read the Blog alright!! Didn't he?? |
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05 Nov 2008 | #14 |
Has there been any word whether the newer build public beta will require a fresh installation or will it be available as updates?
Fingers crossed on the update |
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05 Nov 2008 | #15 |
As there has been no public release of the Beta as yet it will be a fresh install, (Requiring I presume a new Beta Key).
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It isn't so.
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The truth of the matter is - Fresh Install - it makes me so happy.... I just love to play...
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28 Nov 2008 | #20 |
Soooo nicee just found some old Windows Vista Ultimate Beta 2 cd-keys from my MSDN subscription and it worked for Windows 7 activation build 6801 !
Thanks guys ! |
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Evidently you did not see them. Lately, he only posts the one >>about the "Gas Vans", which I stated that no physical proof of any kind >>exists to prove they were no more than another propaganda story made up >>by the Russians. What is your definition of "physical proof?" For most people, "physical" would be anything which can be perceived with one or more of the five senses. In that case, documents are "physical proof." How about the following? -------------------------------------- Letter to Reich Minister of Justice From Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg 13 August 1941 ...Buses arrive in Hadamar several times a week with a large number of these victims. School children in the neighborhood know these vehicles and say: "Here comes the murder wagon." After the arrival of such vehicles the citizens of Hadamar then see the smoke coming from the chimney and are upset by constant thoughts about the poor victims especially when, depending on the direction of the wind, they have to put up with the revolting smell. The consequence of the principles being practiced here is that children, when quarrelling with one another make remarks like: "You are thick, you'll be put in the oven in Hadamar." People who do not want to get married or who do not get the opportunity say: "Get married? No fear. Put children into the world who then end up going through the stack." Old people are saying "on no account will I go into a state hospital! After the feeble-minded, the old will be next in line as useless mouths to feed." ------------------------------------------- Letter to Obersturmbannfuehrer Walter Rauff From Willy Just 5 June 1942 RE: Technical alterations to the special vehicles already in operation and those in production. Since December 1941, for example, 97,000 have been processed using three vans without any faults developing in the vehicles. The well-known explosion in Kulmhof (Chelmno) must be treated as a special case. It was caused by faulty practice. Special instructions have been given to the relevant offices in order to avoid such accidents. The instructions were such as to ensure a considerable increase in the degree of security. Further operational experience hitherto indicates that the following technical alterations are appropriate.... 2) The vans are normally loaded with 9-10 people per square meter. With the large Saurer special vans this is not possible because although they do not become overloaded their maneuverability is much impaired. A reduction in the load area appears desirable. It can be achieved by reducing the size of the van by c. 1 meter. The difficulty referred to cannot be overcome by reducing the size of the load. For a reduction in the numbers will necessitate a longer period of operation because the free spaces will have to be filled with CO. By contrast, a smaller load area which is completely full requires a much sorter period of operation since there are no free spaces..... 3) The connecting hoses between the exhaust and the van frequently rust through because they are corroded inside by the liquids which fall on them. To prevent this the connecting piece must be moved so that the gas is fed from the top downwards. This will prevent liquids flowing in..... 6) The lighting must be better protected against damage than hitherto....It has been suggested that lighting should be dispensed with since they are allegedly never used. 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Hello from mercifully moist Bedford County (moist for the moment anyway). I am in search of some good advice on strawberries. I have started a patch this year- bought everbearing plant starts from Gurneys and they have done great. I planted them in two rows and put black landscaping plastic down between the rows. With all the rain we have had, the plants have done great but the weeds have done great too. The plants are starting to send off runners and are managing to put on a few berries despite my efforts to remove blooms. Any good advice out there about controlling weeds in a strawberry patch? I understand the runners are important for the future... how do I let them root without getting out of control weeds? Thanks. |
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We always used a lot of straw to keep the weeds down but Dad had two excellent ways of removing weeds...me and my little sister. Growing up, it seemed like Tina and I were always pulling weeds, pinching blooms, straightening runners or picking berries. Obviously Mom & Dad worked them too but even now I look back and it seems like we spent all spring and summer every year in the strawberry patch or garden. We had about an acre in berries and another acre in veggies. I HATED gardens when I was a kid! I hope that nobody told you strawberries were easy but two rows should be fairly simple. It's like everything else in life, if you want to be successful then you have to put the time in on it. |
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Tag Archives: Greater BostonAnd just like that, we're married!After all of the plans and preparations, the big day came and went without a hitch! We had glorious weather, the ceremony was everything that we wanted it to be, and the reception was an absolute blast. We had people from both sides tearing up the dance floor until midnight. We ended the night exhausted, our sides and cheeks hurting from a day spent laughing and grinning ear-to-ear. We arrived in Worcester on Tuesday night, which really allowed us to take a more relaxed approach to last-minute preparations. There were the table numbers to finish up, the seating chart to arrange, welcome bags to assemble, and yard work to be done, not to mention being here for the tent and bathroom installation. Things went quite smoothly for the most part. On Wednesday morning Dana's mom, Kathy, wanted to reveal the Chuppah. All along we knew it would include articles of clothing from both families but we had no idea what the finished product would look like. Kathy settled on a tree design using the clothing donations as the leaves of the tree. We must have sat for almost a full hour and looked at it, recognizing the articles and locating other items on the Chuppah. It was truly a spectacular final product that we will keep in our family for many many years. We were bursting with excitement when Friday evening came around and the out-of-town guest began to arrive. The rehearsal went well and afterwards we gathered at a local restaurant for drinks and appetizers—a chance for our families to mingle and get to know each other before the big day. And—much to our surprise—an a cappella group had been hired to sing to us and Dana's grandparents, who are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary in July. On Saturday morning we woke up to a gorgeous sunny day. The ladies got their hair and make up done while the men slept in and spent the morning lounging. By 5 o'clock everything was in place and we were ready to start the show. Dana walked down the aisle around 5:30 and the ceremony began. We started with a traditional Jewish blessing over the children given by both of our parents. Then we had a reading by Chris's uncle (a Jesuit priest), followed by our own version of the seven blessings read by friends and a poem read by Chris's sister. Afterwards we exchanged vows and rings, Chris stomped on the glass (twice—since he wasn't sure he had broken it the first time), we kissed, and then it was on to the party! Now, three-weeks later, it's hard to remember all of the details from the reception but it truly was a magical day. Many people commented on how personal the ceremony was and how much they learned about both religions. The Horah may have been one of our favorite moments, when family and friends from both sides joined on the dance floor to dance around us and lift us in chairs. The joy that we were able to share with our friends and family was palpable during those few minutes, and everyone had a great time. The morning after the wedding there was a brunch at the Pulda house, which was a great opportunity to catch up with our guests and spend time with those people we weren't able to see for long during the reception. It's funny, before the wedding everyone warned us how quickly the night would go, but I guess it's one of those things that you have to experience to believe. It truly flew by! All in all, the wedding was a wonderful time and we considered it to be a beautiful fusion of both of our faiths. Our families and friends came together to celebrate us, our love, and the future we have before us. We consider it to be a bright future, and look forward to the joys and challenges of being an inter-faith couple and raising children with an appreciation for the rich heritage of both of our faith backgrounds. Approaching the finish line…Hello Everyone, The countdown is on! As of today we have officially two weeks until we tie the knot in front of our friends and family. To say we are excited and counting down the days would be an understatement. Preparations are moving along smoothly. RSVPs are in (201!) and even our "I work best under pressure" friends have booked hotel rooms. Tomorrow morning we are having a final tasting of the cupcakes and sampling the appetizers for the rehearsal dinner. Songs have been selected, the ceremony is (mostly) organized, and we got our Pinterest on making some pretty cool homespun table numbers out of stained wood, nails and twine. Friday night we attended a party with some of Chris's co-workers, and they revealed something they've been working on: a book of marriage advice from Chris's first grade students. They were absolutely precious, and here are some of the highlights: Roberta, age 7: "How to be a good husband: You can kiss her! Spend time with her! Take her dancing! Take care of the kids! Love her and the kids" Asia, age 6, has some fashion tips: "I'll give you advice: You need handsome clothing, like a black tuxedo, and you need shiny black shoes" Kofi, age 7: "Show love to her by giving her flowers and chocolate ice cream and chocolate hearts and take her on special vacations, like to California." Takyus, age 7: "Take her on a date and make her dinner before she gets home. And do your laundry…and hers too." Devon, age 6: "Be kind to the wife. Do what the wife says. Have fun with the wife" It goes on like this for pages and pages, advice from 100 first graders many of whom recommend buying things like dresses, roses, and rings–who can argue with that wisdom? There was funny advice, silly advice, and a lot of poignant advice about being kind, patient and honest with one another. We believe that our plan for the ceremony so far reflects our willingness to be patient and honest with one another, and our commitment to include elements of both religious faiths in our lives as we move forward. Here's the rundown so far:
Then it will be over! We can't believe it is all happening so fast. It is an event that has been a long time in the making and we anticipate it like we've never looked forward to anything in our lives. We can only hope that everyone has as much fun as we know we will. We'll try to post again in the next few weeks as everything comes together! Thank you for reading and going through this wonderful process with us. A Beautiful ShowerSince Chris and I have been planning our wedding for so long, it's strange to think that it will actually happen–and soon! This weekend really put it into perspective how close it is as my bridal shower was this past Sunday. It was held in my hometown, at the home of a very good family friend. Four of my mom's friends hosted the shower and it was amazing. They truly thought of every detail and made sure the women from both sides of our families felt included.As we've mentioned many times before, both of our families are large. So, as one may imagine, the shower was quite crowded with about 50 in all of family and friends–most of whom were meeting for the first time. The event began with lunch and schmoozing. After we ate everyone gathered in the living room to embarrass me (in the most loving way possible) with a quiz about Chris.
Then, some members from both families stood up and spoke. This part was so touching. My aunt Liz spoke about my grandmother, who passed 5 years ago, and how much she would have loved Chris. A few of Chris' aunts read poems or blessings. My sister, who lives in Israel, sent something for my mom to read for her, and Chris' sister, who lives in England, sent something for Chris' mom, Judi, to read. Then, for the big finale, both my mom and Judi said a few words, both of which brought me to tears. Chris' mom read the following poem: A Mother's Prayer I prayed for you There was something about you You were the answer to the prayer I prayed for your health And now I know just who you are I have put together this little poem Now…if that doesn't bring you to tears, I don't know what will! My mom also brought the place to tears, but mostly through laughter. She teased about how the key to a successful marriage is BreatheRight Strips and how it's best to bake goodies when your children aren't home so you can lick the batter, ha! Now I know why there was always banana bread and brownies around when I got home from school! I truly felt like the luckiest person in the world, not only for the amazing gifts we got (!!!) but also for the immense amount of love that surrounded Chris and I. We are truly blessed. 110 days to the wedding! Will We Raise a Future Olympian?As the Winter Olympics have been consuming our TV watching the past few weeks, Chris and I have been talking about our future children–particularly, our future children and sports. Will we raise a future Olympic athlete? Possibly, but probably not. We are both relatively athletic and played sports as children; Chris was an avid hockey player through high school and I took up rowing in high school and stuck with it through college. I often ask myself how people get into sports in the first place (this came up often while watching many of the sliding events at the Olympics–how does one become a skeleton competitor?!) I imagine children are first exposed to the sports their parents' were (or still are) involved with and then make choices from there. Of course, Chris is already talking about buying our future first child a pair of hockey skates, and I know I'd love my children to experience the lifelong friendships and physically active lifestyle I attribute to my years as a rower. We both enjoy skiing and would surely expose our children to that at an early age. But…the rest is really up to them. This made us think about how in many respects, religion parallels athletics, or really any interest that can be passed on from a parent. A child's first exposure to religion is through their parents and the religion(s) they practice. Clearly this is more complicated when parents practice different religions, as we do. Chris and I do not happen to be the type of believers who find Judaism and Catholicism mutually exclusive, but we know that there are many among both faith groups who would say that you must pick a side. So what do we do? Try to expose our children equally to both faiths and wait and see which they choose? Will our children have Bar or Bat Mitzvahs or first communions and confirmations? Is it possible for them to choose to practice both? We do not really know the answer to these questions, and in fact think that our kids will be infinitely more qualified to address them. We do acknowledge that exposing our children to our faiths will require us to make some changes, but we can't exactly foresee what this will mean. Ultimately the best we can hope for is to raise our children with the values our religions have taught us; kindness, caring, loyalty, honesty, and generosity. And if they end up competing at the Olympics one day, we'll be there to cheer them on. Our Cultural KnapsackHi–it's Chris here. Following a Facebook link early last week, I reach this article which discusses a "Jewish" style of conversation which the author of the study refers to as "cooperative overlapping," and which I and many other people who are not Jewish–and, I'm sure, a lot of Jews who don't practice this conversational style–would call interrupting. [Note: I used the quotations because, as the author notes, "Jewish conversational style" is not a very precise term, and it seems to refer more to Eastern European Jews from the general New York area. In fact, I might go as far as to call this harried conversational style more typical of New Yorkers in general than Jews specifically, but I digress.] Reading this article got me to thinking about our often unthought-of cultural heritage, the unspoken set of assumptions and standard operating procedures that all of us walk around with. In my education classes this is referred to as your "cultural knapsack" to emphasize how pervasive it is; we carry it with us everywhere. I remember the first family Channukah party I attended, and while I would not accuse any member of Dana's family of practicing the not-so-delicate art of cooperative overlapping, I do recall being overwhelmed by the constant conversation, trying very hard to keep pace–and I thought my large Irish-Italian family could talk! Conversational style is just one of perhaps a million things that we are coming to learn about one another and our families. Little did I know, for example, that it was "a gentile thing" to eat dinner early! Or that Jews are the true masters of ordering Chinese, and that, at least in Dana's family your Chinese food is always shared. These small things, whether they are cultural or merely family traditions, are part of what makes this union so exciting. Dana and I are constantly learning new things about one another and our culture and background, and have learned to be more sensitive about insisting that our way is the right way or the only way. In addition to just learning about how the other half lives, we've both expanded our horizons by attending multiple religious services of the other person's faith. But I suppose that's a blog entry for another time… And so it begins…Chris and Dana here; the new couple for InterfaithFamily's wedding blog. We're so excited to share our experiences with you. Let us begin by introducing ourselves. Dana is originally from central Massachusetts and Chris is from southern New Hampshire. We met in Boston after college while working as Americorps volunteers for a non-profit called Playworks and have been together for over five years. Dana was raised conservative Jewish and Chris was raised Catholic but currently neither of us attend service regularly. We still live in Boston in our newly purchased condo and are both still working in Education; Chris as a first grade teacher at a Boston Public School and Dana as a school administrator at a private school in Boston. It has certainly taken us some time to get used to our different religions and traditions, but we have both been very open-minded throughout the learning process. We have each tried new things and gotten involved in one another's faith. A key element of this is that we participate when we feel comfortable to do so and 'sit it out' when we don't. Now…about our wedding! We got engaged in November of 2012 and are getting married next June, 2014 at Dana's parents' home. The ceremony will take place in the front yard and the reception will be in backyard under a tent, in what Chris likes to call a "mullet wedding…business in the front, party in the back." We will be married by a mutual friend and plan to incorporate aspects of both religions into the wedding ceremony. While we are not entirely sure what that will look like yet, we do know a few key details: there will be a chuppah, designed by Dana's mother (more details about that later) and we will undoubtedly dance the hora, we will have a few Bible readings of Chris' choosing and Chris is extremely excited to break a glass and give guests custom-made Boston Bruins kippot. So how is our relationship different than a same-faith couple? Well, we don't have to split holidays, which is pretty nice, and we get to celebrate both Christmas and Hannukah. In the beginning we often had to act as ambassadors for our respective faiths, explaining a lot and trying not to assume that the other knew things. We began the discussion of how to raise our children very early on and continue to give it a lot of thought. We both feel that religion is an important element of our lives both culturally and spiritually, and want to pass on the values we've received from our families and upbringing. However, we've also had to do a lot of self-reflection and think about how much of a role religion plays in each of our own lives at the moment. It has certainly been a journey to get where we are now and we have learned a lot along the way. We are very excited to share our wedding experience with you readers and to see what our future brings! Cheers, Chris and Dana |


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Ian Simmonds researches and deals in glass made or used in America prior to the Civil War. He is interested in the material culture of early America, including the making, manufacture, marketing and use of glass and other decorative arts.
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At first glance, some objects makes no sense at all.
Sure, this is a whale oil lamp. However, its font and stem have nothing at all to do with its foot.
The font and stem are typical—if extraordinarily rare examples—of hand blown lamps of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. However, the base dates to 1850 or even 1870. It is pressed from so-called 'clambroth' colored glass.
I absolutely adored the Venini / Carlo Scarpa exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum (November 5, 2013 - March 2, 2014). It once again demonstrated that the most successful new designs come from a deep love of the past.
The bottle above belonged to Paolo Venini. It is part of a small collection inherited by his daughter Laura and that found its way to America after she married an American.
Pity the poor prolific author-illustrator, so successful yet full of the belief that her art deserves better than to be turned into mere merchandize!
No wonder, then, that these vases are the result of plagiarism rather than authorized products created under the artist's own artistic control, adding to her wealth and encouraging her to produce even more.
Two early pressed salt dishes show that even heavily collected glass keeps on revealing new and unexpected varieties.
Early pressed glass salt dishes form one of the most attractive groups in early American molded glass.
Part of the curse of esoteric knowledge about the decorative arts is that it can distract you during even the finest historical movies. You bring deep-rooted expectations to the movie — expecting glassware like this — and almost gag at what glass is shown in its place.
This evening we marveled as Daniel Day Lewis brought Abraham Lincoln to life in Stephen Spielberg's latest masterpiece. They are both geniuses. But why on earth did the production designer choose that glassware, with heavily gilded rims, totally wrong forms and probably made in the 20th Century? And why, if they knew they were guessing, would the director feature it so prominently?
This decanter helps teach the most important lesson required for a collector of early cut glass—that patterns alone are an unreliable guide for either dating or attributing cut glass.
It is cut in one of the most attractive and highly sought after patterns seen on 1830s American cut glass—broad S-shaped scrolls linked together by polished circles. Yet when I bought it, I knew that something strange was going on.
Subtle differences between the centers of two miniature drawer pulls reveal how a mold maker solved a tricky problem — creating a mold with a fixed volume, to be filled with varying quantities of glass.
Pressed glass knobs play a special role in glass history.
It took American inventors over thirty years to advance glass pressing to the point where it was capable of this. At 9 inches tall and 7½ inches in diameter, and made by the New England Glass Company circa 1869, it is the largest pitcher pressed before 1880.
Why did it take so long?
A simple 7 1/2" tall chestnut-shaped blown bottle shows that an object's glass itself can make the object stand out from the crowd.
The tightly sealed, hollow stem of a small cream jug presents collectors from two different fields with quite a problem — no less than a coinundrum
Trapped within is a rare, nearly uncirculated 1831 United States five cent coin, known to collectors as a "capped bust half dime."


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I purchased two (2) Lychee trees from different nurseries about 3-4 years ago. The trees grew beautifully and are now almost 8-10 feet tall. See picture of one of them below: The problem is that the trees have NEVER given fruit. Now I am a real novice at fruit trees and gardening in general and have never given any fertilizer to this tree. We have mango trees and guava trees and Sugar Apple trees with similar fertilizer care (or lack of care) and have tons of fruit. Are lychee trees a difficult tree for a novice? Could the lack of fertilizer be the cause of no fruit? Could we have somehow purchased two "male" or two "female" trees and they can't breed? Is this even a consideration with Lychee trees? Are the trees too "young" for fruit? Any advice would be appreciated. |
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- Posted by tony_k_orlando Z9 Fl (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 08 at 17:57
- Posted by ben_in_sofla 10 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 08 at 21:00
That is an excellent looking tree, probably cause you didnt fertilize it. My understanding is the Lychee's get root burn easily with granular fertilizers. I have a couple of trees about half the size of yours and they also should be fruiting, but nothing yet this spring. I believe that the trigger for flowering and fruiting is a specific temperature range in the winter and since we had a warm winter in South Florida I think we'll get nothing this year on our small trees, maybe larger trees will bloom, who knows... Notice that the tree with fruit picture is in zone 9 (colder winter) The grower that I bought my trees from swears by extensive mulching as the only fertilizer these trees need. I'm talking 5-6 inches from drip line to near trunk area, and replenished at least a couple of times per year. I have the brewster and mauritius varieties. BTW this web site will provide ALL the info about lychee's that you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. http://www.lycheesonline.com/ |
newbiegardner, Are these airlayer or grafted trees? Also, they need chilling in order to trigger flowers. Most varieties need between 100 and 200 hours of standard chilling (32░ - 45░ F). Air-layered or grafted trees begin to bear fruit in 3 to 5 years. Fertilizer |
- Posted by floridajane 34134 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 08 at 12:17
I saw a map of Florida that showed a very limited sliver of area along the southwest coast where lychee is supposed to thrive. My friends have had a great-looking lychee for years. They live a mile east of 41 and the darn thing only fruited once with an end count of 40 lychees. We bought a house west of 41, two blocks from the water, and the big lychee tree in our yard is packed with fruit, and I've seen two others in the neighborhood that look the same. From what I can gather, the one factor that everyone has in common is that all the trees have been neglected, which leads me to believe that the lychee is finicky and really only does its stuff within a small geographical range. That being said, I'm sure there are proper ways to force fruiting but I'm clueless about them! I can only share my expertise from the brown thumb of negligent gardening! :) |
I am in Sarasota and acquired two huge lychees on this property (maybe 30 feet each). They are both largely in the shade of old oaks, but on sun- exposed areas get a modest amount of fruit about every other year. I never really fertilize them, but they have a lot of mulch under their canopy. Irrigation once weekly. Unfortunately, the fruit is so high, and we have soooooo many squirrels, that we rarely get to taste the fruit. The squirrels go crazy for them, even when green. One bite, of course, then to the ground they drop. The young leaves are very susceptible to wind burn. We use these trees mostly for shade and wildlife habitat. |
You might want to look on the ECHO website. They have good info on lychee and they actually talk about "girdling" the tree (a few branches, I guess?) to induce fruiting. Sounds kind of drastic to me, but if you're really desperate it might be worth a try. I've pasted a link to where it talks about girdling (because it's hard to find), but also look on the site under general tropical fruit plant descriptions for lychee and you'll find a lot more info. Their website has tons of good info on unusual tropical edibles. I was at ECHO on Saturday and got some cool things. They have beautiful plants, good prices, and proceeds go to a really good cause. |
Here is a link that might be useful: lychee girdling
Many lychee varieties are notoriously difficult to make flower, Mauritius is an exception. Not fertilizing after mid fall will help, along with only very modest watering (or less) during winter. What varieties are yours? Gary |
Newbie, Wow!! That is an absolutely beautiful Lychee tree. I can't wait to get mine to look like that. I have two but were only planted 12 and 13 months ago. You are obviously doing something very right, the tree is very healthy. What variety is it? Also the tree requires x amount of chilling hours. Might have affected it if your winter was too mild.According to the article below you have to do this no later than July 15, so you still have a few weeks, if you want to try it. Good luck! Tony, great looking fruits, you are so lucky!! Enjoy them! Check out the link from lycheesonline.com Great article on tips on getting lychee trees to bloom/fruit |
Here is a link that might be useful: Lycheesonline.com (Tips on Getting Fruit)
- Posted by gary lacey big island hawaii(email@example.com) onWed, May 4, 11 at 0:50
My big tree 30ft gave fruit four years ago. Afrer that the leaves turned brown on the outer edges and many fell off. This year the leaves look great and no brown on them. It is starting to add new growth. What could I do to get it to fruit again? |
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11 All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD , and look, For I am despised." | 11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. "Look, O LORD, and consider, for I am despised." |
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Data Theft Notifications - How Soon is Too Soon?
This has happened to me before... (137 comments)
I create addresses specifically to receive mail from retailers I order from. For example: email@example.com.
I NEVER type these addresses anywhere, and they are not something a wide net spam sender would guess...
Over the last few years i have had about 4 situations where those very account specific addresses began receiving a LOT of spam.
The sites included Dell, and PCMall. The PCMall ones very primarily sexual in nature...
I have thought of every possible way they could have gotten that address, and a security breach seems like the only feasible way. I have never typed those addresses anywhere else (no forums, no re-use on other sites, etc...), have never had a virus or spyware on my machine (OSX, thank you very much), so there is really one source for those addresses, the companies internal database.
anyone else experience this before?


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