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Soon to be assembled with a proper bass drum, tiny kit meets 16" bass drum build:http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/s...ass+drum+build
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There are some seriously sexy cymbals on this page! The Instanbuls look great. What do they sound like?
I was getting a new snare head today and I was chatting with one of the customers who recommended the Zildjian Beautiful Baby as an awesome crash ride. I came across a thread here today and everyone who has them seems to like it. I love cymbals (in moderation, of course :)
I'm tossing up replacing my Profile with one and maybe *ouch!* replacing the stomp box with a kick. Not 100% sure the experiment worked at the moment. It's great for low volume but when we're in a bigger space ...
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Yes, I guess so. The stomp box seems better suited to use with hand drums than with a kit. It was a bit of an impulsive buy in hindsight.
A dark red Rhythm Traveler in the shop today caught my eye. Maybe just use one tom so the djembe is still close ... I might have to post in the Show Me Your Massive Kit!!! thread at this rate :)
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Hi Polyanna
I used have been using a set of Pearl Rhythm Travelers on small club gigs for several years. I use a high end snare and cymbals....Placed Evans Hydraulic on the toms....I'll mike the bass drum and one overhead mike. I have tuned them to sound great.
Easy to load in and out..very small foot print. Works for small rooms short pay gigs.
Use Gretchen or DW's for larger rooms and better paying gigs.
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I don't know about "tiny," but this one's pretty small. 14 SD x 15 FT x 20 BD.
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[Here's my tiny tits...er...kit. I've shown it before but...
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I don't really think you can show pictures of that kit enough! Really nice, how do those cymbals sound?
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Gretsch catalina maple.
14" Snare, 14" Floor Tom, 16" Floor Tom as bass drum. Sounds NICE.
Cymbals are
14" 1972 Zildjian A New Beat
20" ZBT Ride with aftermarket hammering, sounds like a K Custom.
Vater 5b Gospel, ProMark hot rods. Just thought I'd throw it out there.
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Witchcraftery, I have only ever heard the Catalinas talked about in glowing terms. It looks like you've focused on quality rather than quantity.
I played just one gig with my stomp box kit. I really did miss using a pedal and DI'ing through the PA, slaved through a small amp, is a bit of a pain - leads all over the place and we all know how flaky leads can be.
Here is the mini kit in action at a restaurant - possibly never to be seen in action again in its current form (and hopefully my goofy look in the shot won't be seen again either): http://www.sangrea.net/rijidij/pix/B...els18Jul09.jpg
Now the confession ... I have become a traitor to the small kit ranks and bought a monster Terry Bozzio set: http://www.sangrea.net/rijidij/pix/N...StuffJul08.jpg
Ok, it's a red wine Rhythm Traveller Gig Kit but I'm just using the 12" tom, along with the djembe. After some testing I took away the inverted 6" splash because its overtones were making the Stagg splash sound even trashier than it already did. The great thing about Stagg spl/crash cymbals is you only crash 'em when you have no choice - helps with discipline :) Still, two of them together can make a reasonable and cheap hi hat setup for the light of touch.
One thing about the RT Gig kit. Call me crazy but it makes no sense to me for Pearl to attach a snare drum to a stand from the bass drum. At first I was too excited to engage brain and wanted to try the kit out fully set up. Naturally every beat on the kick created a serious rattle in the snare. Well, duh! However, the snare's too small for my standard snare stand so, even though I like its look and sound, I'm sticking with my vintage Premier. Very tight squeeze on a 10" snare with brushes too.
The RT toms aren't flash and have to be tuned carefully - not much margin for error to find the sweet spot between *boing!* and *blugh*. I haven't quite found it yet but I'm sure it exists :)
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What! No cocktail kits?
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Hey guys, sorry about the lag in reply. My wife just gave birth to our first baby boy. The Istanbuls are amazing. They are dark and a little trashy with a semi-short sustain but just enough brightness to explode and last to make the point. Hope that description helps. They are a hybrid lathed/unlathed top with a lathed bottom.
I now have the 16" bass drum set up with my full kit as a remotely operated secondary kick on a "Frankenstein" pedal I rigged up. I guess I'll have to post it on the Monster Kits thread.
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Congrats on the baby boy! I bet he takes your mind of drumming quite a lot.
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how do you mount your pedal when you use a 16" floor as a bass??
I use right now a 22 x 18 bass with a 14" snare and a 10" piccolo tom
14" hats and a 8" splash
My drumset
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FWIW - the wife has a RT kit - she was using is like Norge..as an E-kit (It's still got the homebrew transducers)
that we put back to an acoustic kit that is just sort of the extra basher kit now
The toms, being concert style, are what they are - so you just have to approach them on their terms (nice thing is you can nest em for transport, which is i suppose one of the big reasons) - they have a somewhat flat, dry sound (not necessarilly bad, but it's that style).and I think erring to a ringier head kind of works out better (a more controlled head can just get REALLY dry)
The kick - well it seems sensitive to the tuning (and I'm not sure we ever really got it dialed - but haven't revisited it in a while, might be nice to pull to back out)
Technique wise, burying the beater didn't seem to work that well...just not enough resonance to carry it - an open "tympani" hit seemed to let the sound stay reasonably open
One thing about the tom mounts on the kick - they are a decent bit closer that on a more common depth kick - so if you are mounting off those you have to sort of work through that
(the spurs are kind of close and shallow too, so mounting a bunch of aux percussion off em can be destabilising)
dunno - I'm certainly no expert on em. I mention the experience b/c I think it kind of points to the challenge of approaching them
if you are used to setting up "deeper" drums (where maybe you have to work subtractively, controlling resonances, etc) these little guys can kind of throw ya as I think you have to look to preserve/promote more of those resonances - so you have to go off "autopilot" in terms of your set-up strategy
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I also play Bass.
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Here are my kits:
Pearl Export EX, 16" bd and 14" snare
and my favorite
Sonor Force 3007 Jungle kit, 16x16", 10x8", 14x12" and 12x5"
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Here is a pic of my Rhythm Traveler. It was taken at a gig by my guitar player. The String Band always puts that backdrop behind the drums at every show that we play. I thought that the pic came out really good.
I kind of like old drums:)
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I shared the kit with another drummer at a two band gig last Sat and the other drummer also liked it.
It was fully mic'd up at an outdoor party. Thats where that pic was taken.
I kind of like old drums:)
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I'm just using the 12" tom (as per my pic link below). It sems like there's not a lot of wiggle room with the shallow shell between a good and not-so-good sound. Did you find that? I'm trying to work out how it wants to be tuned. I've come a bit closer this week but still no cigar.
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polly - what heads are you using
Have you considered using the 14 as your mounted tom (don't know if it'll suit you better, but it is an option))
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The RT is like that movie with Jack Nicholson. "As Good As It Gets"
It has many quirks, But you can learn to overlook them and find a Happy Place. What my band mates like is that they can get the feel of the drum presence while they work on their sound. We even have conversations as we play now.
I used to play with Blaststicks when we worked on the details of our material. The Blasticks didn't give enough real drum and cymbal sound to feel the music. When I play the RT with 7a's, The volume is just right for practice.
When I practice alone it also helps me because the absence of resos allows me to hear every hit on the drums. When I practice, I play the Traveler for a while and then I move to my big Gretsch kit. The workout on the Rhythm Traveler primes me for the full size Gretsch. Thats the best that I can explain it. Its kind of like having a beer before you have a shot of whiskey!
As far as tuning goes, I simply tune all of the toms to 75 on the Drum Dial. I tune the snare batter and reso to 80. I tune the bass to 75, both batter and reso. I added an Aquarian SK I to the bass batter. The bearing edges are true. The heads tune evenly with the Drum Dial. The kit is well made!
When I play small gigs such as private parties. I don't have to lug all of my heavy drums. I have learned that people in general can't tell the difference between the traveler and a full sized kit. Guests at the parties look at the drums and they ask questions about it. The kit becomes a conversation piece. Kids at the parties love to play it on band breaks. I give mini lessons to them. Thats entertainment, Relating to your audience, Letting the kids play on breaks adds to the party. The parents love it.
I kind of like old drums:)
Last edited by bobdadruma; 08-12-2009 at 01:43 AM.
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There is my kit, nothing special. I'm still working on replacing the beginner kick, but it sounds good enough that I haven't really gotten around to it.
22"x18" Kick
13"x3" Piccolo Snare
13" Quick Beat A Hats
18" A Rock Crash
22" A Custom Ping Ride
DW 5002 Pedals
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And the RT:
Even the kick drum, at 16", is smaller than Danny Carey's floor toms. The kick is weird, set a couple of inches off the ground on four legs, so when you look at it from the front it looks like a hungry animal with the O hole in the front kick skin. Last rehearsal our singer went down on his haunches in front of the kick drum and opened his mouth wide open. Wish I got a photo :)
My current band is so laid back that, even with a fluffy Vater Vintage Bomber Beater on the kick and a couple of make-up pads dampening the kick I have to be careful not to be too loud! So, while I miss the quality of my old Rogers 13" mounted and 22" kick, it's just as well I have small drums these days.
I even use Vic Firth Kidsticks, which are not much over 12" long to keep the volume down (they took some getting used to but I love them now). Super light. Even so, last practice we tried Little Wing for the first time because our bassist was sick and couldn't show, and it gave me a rare chance to try out the tom properly, but my tiny kit - with my tiny sticks and fluffy beater and makeup pads was STILL dominant!
The tom sounds like it's tuned a tad low for its range in this ... hmmm, a drum dial, eh? :)
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Wow I didn't realize the RT came in anything besides "regular" (I'm US so "regular" is whatever USA uses and the rest of the world is "weird" :D ) -- 22, 10,12,14
I'm wondering if you might be more happy with single ply concert head like an Evans strata or a Remo Renaissance Ambassador ...FWIW we had coated pinstripes on the wife's, we thought they were maybe a little too "controlled" (internally damped)
I actually was thinking you might like the larger size specifically because you don't play at high SPL -- I personally find the teeny drums get kind of flat when 'underplayed' (I like quiet too, but I started music as a classicl[al] guitarist, so "rockin out" isn't my native anyway) - so I'm thinking more in terms of resonance than projection
(wife plays with mallets a lot, she likes a soft, defined-pitch tympani like sound on her floor toms...she recently stole my 18" - but doesn't like a lot of volume for that kind of stuff.
though she's Jekyl&hyde -- she also has one of those chad smith snares which is, basically, an ear rape. I think she likes it just so she can "visit upon thine ear with unspeakable sonic mayhem" when most inappropriate)
I tend to like the sound of a larger diameter, maybe uptuned
last time we had our RT out, we tuned the 12 to the 10s pitch and liked the sound of the 12 better, not because of volume, but b/c it wasn't as deadwoody and felt more sensitive at low volume - plus there was a variety of workable timbres as you moved off-center, which I think it nice on a smaller [in number of pieces] kit
but, I think as bob was speaking to with the drum dial - it does (to me at least) seem pretty tuning sensitive in terms of really getting even tension on the head (I suppose b/c it's a relatively simple resonator system - so the tuning that you do have carries a lot of weight in the system).
hmm, now that I think about it, it's a lot like tuning a typical two-stroke engine...the powerband is generally peaky and narrow and it's really sensitive to your ignition timing and getting the mix...jussst right
They just don't have that many parts, so each adjustment does a lot
One of our doggies likes to stick his head in the drums, we try to discourage it, but he loves sounds...I have to admonish him not to try to jump at my (string) double bass..he like the bow
Last edited by justjim; 08-12-2009 at 06:57 PM.
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I bought a DrumDial about a year ago. It took me some experimenting to get used to it. I now swear by it! It saves me a great deal of time! I still fine tension by ear. The dial gets me close. You should try one. Don't be discouraged at first. The dial has a learning curve to it.
Other drummers say that Im a good tuner. I have tuned many a drummers drums for them. I have a lot of experience with tensioning bolts on cars. I work as an Automotive Tech. (35 years experience) I frequently tune multiple carburetors on vintage cars by ear. (Ferrari, Porsche, MG, etc) I can torque nuts and bolts by hand and later check them with a torque wrench and be dead on spec! I think that these skills from my automotive experience has helped me to tension drums. I can sense the torque on a drum lug by feel, as well as by ear.
The sizes on my Rt are different than your kit. 10, 12, 14, toms, 13 snare, 20 bass.
I liked your sample of Little Wing! Here is mine. I was playing my big kit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxNcXkVqbhU
you can see me in this vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSwC...eature=related
I kind of like old drums:)
Last edited by bobdadruma; 08-13-2009 at 01:08 AM.
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extra dampening does seem a bit odd to me as well - always seems to me like the challenge is getting those guys to ring
I suspect that maybe Polly is "EQing" - damping out weird overtones possibly from uneven head tensioning so maybe it ain't ringing true
I hear ya on the carbs -- cut my teeth on the brits and was a holdout from the "just slap a weber kit on it" guys, then again, I left those lever shocks on MGs too...which was probably mistake ;) -- I think something can be said for "tuning" in general, whatever the system...realizing, by feel, that changing this is going to also effect that, getting a feel for how far to back out as you pass over the sweet spot, etc
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If the RT's aren't evenly tensioned, there will be unwanted tones.
I think that perhaps Polly's band plays at such a low volume that she is trying to make her drums play at a level that is too low. Drums can only get so quiet. Even small ones.
Polly is playing with child sticks. I use Zildjian 7a hickory. I also use the stock Pearl RT foot pedal or an Iron Cobra with the felt beater on my bass. Polly uses a fluff beater with extra padding on the batter head. I play a lot louder than she does.
I love the sound when I thwack the toms on my RT at almost a rimshot angle to produce an accent during rolls etc, but without hitting the rim. I get them to sing a
bit that way.
I played a kit with concert toms for 20 years, so the lack of resos doesn't bother me. I find kits with resos more of a challenge.
I kind of like old drums:)
Last edited by bobdadruma; 08-13-2009 at 04:01 AM.
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To Bob & Jim - I live in a flat and can't play kit at home. My flat has a lot of wood and flat surfaces so when I first got the kit, while tuning the tim it was almost like I was letting off a cannon! Once I got it in the studio I could hear that the dampening on the tom sounded lousy and took it off. The sound clip I put in my previous post was the tom undampened. I've since tuned the drum up a bit.
Yeah, ideally I'd have a bigger tom but I'm not spending any more $$ once I pick up the case for the kick I ordered. I've spent an awful lot of time and money on a band that's not that serious. Must be mid life kicking in :)
Bob, good to see you guys gigging and that your crew seem capable of extricating themselves from wives/partners and work long enough to get the arrangements tight. Not easy to find at our age. Your toms were low in the mix so it was hard to judge the tuning, though. The RT toms sounded good on the sound bite that you posted previously. Yes, a quirky sound; they have their own nice quality. But, as Jim said, they probably need a decent thumping to bring out their best.
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Here is my entry into the mini kit parade.
16 x 16 Catalina Maple Bass w/conversion kit
10 x 9 Renown Maple tom
4 x 14 Keller Piccolo snare...home made
p.s. if anyone has any tuning tips for a non-ringing bass sound my ears are open. I have a Fibreskin reso and
a pinstripe batter.
Retirement...August 21, 2015
Feel. Control the Bounce.
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As promised, here's the RT Gig Kit, complete with kick drum that looks a bit like an animal with a wide-open mouth:
Pardon the blurry shot; the light in the studio was about as good as my camera and photographic skill.
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Just curious, Why did you put such a large porthole? On a drum that size, its like having no reso at all! I only put a 3 1/2 inch hole in mine. I thought that that was large! I have a 20" bass.
You also have a lot of stuffing in that drum. I would have used a hand towel folded flat at the bottom just to take some ring off. Im using an Aquarian SK I on my bass, with nothing inside. On a drum that small I would use an Aquarian Performance II as a batter with nothing inside. Try it. I recommend that for Gruntersdad also. He also asked about dampening his small bass.
The kit looks great! I love small kits!
What are you using for a snare?
I kind of like old drums:)
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My modified Dddrums
My kit: http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=47845
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I am still learning to play quietly with a kick pedal, bearing in mind that until now I haven't used a bass drum and pedal for about 8 months (I used a stomp box for a while) and can't practice at home due to volume issues. You heard the sound snippet of Little Wing. The prominent kick sound in it was a 16" drum stuffed with crap and struck with a big fluffy jazz beater - lol.
Thx for the tip re: the Aquarian. I'll do that once I have the kick situation more sorted out.
I agree that the small kits on this thread are really appealing. Even with small setups we still manage to have a wide range of setups and a few quirks. Grunter doesn't seem to have any cymbals. Lang has chimes. Everyone has different numbers, types and sizes of cymbals. For my kit, the 10" djembe seems to set up its look. I got the snare with my first kit - no name on it - and a jazz drummer who my sister went out with for a while said it was a vintage Premier. I have the biggest O-ring dampener (old head cutout) on it that I've ever had, with only a six inch hole to keep the volume down.
I think I'll have to agitate for us to turn up a bit!
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This is my two piece kit I use for my acoustic gig every wednesday.
24x14 gretsch
14x5 gretsch new classic chrome over brass
14" A zildjian quick beats
10" A custom splash
Rhythm-tech tamborine hi-hat ring
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its not tiny as some but here we go...
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Hi Polly
I just got this one. Tama STAGESTAR, It's an older one as far as I can tell. Im trying to find out what year it is.
14x18 bass
8x10, 8x12, rack toms
12x14 floor tom
5x13 steel snare
I haven't replaced the stock dented heads from the novice player that owned it yet. I ordered them.
I haven't had time to clean/shine it. When I change the heads I'll detail it.
I made a 2" riser for the 18" bass drum. It works great!
The kit is in great condition. It will polish up like new.
It sounds and plays excellent! Great tuning range. I can't wait until the Aquarian SK II and the black Tama logo heads arrive for the bass drum along with the new Aquarian Studio-X coated single ply tom heads.
Update; the last 4 pics are with the new heads installed and the kit cleaned up.
I put Aquarian Studio-X Coated heads on the tom batters and SuperKick II on the bass along with a Tama black logo head.
Im lovin this kit! It sounds wonderful! I really like the tone of the toms and the 18" bass. I read that this was a desirable low end kit because of its sound, but I never realized just how good that it would sound! I have played drum kits that cost tree times as much that didn't sound as good. If you find a Tama Stagestar, Buy It!
I kind of like old drums:)
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Tue., March 5+
at Texas Stars
Cedar Park Center
7:30 p.m.
Fri., March 8*
at Milwaukee Admirals#
Bradley Center
7 p.m.
Sat., March 9^
vs. Milwaukee Admirals#
Allstate Arena
7 p.m.
Sun., March 10*
vs. Rockford IceHogs
Allstate Arena
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#Amtrak Rivalry
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Beginning with tonight's contest at Texas, the Wolves will play four games in six days for the first time this season; Chicago will play just its second three-in-three set this weekend when it travels to Milwaukee on Friday before hosting the Admirals on Saturday and Rockford on Sunday.
--- Matt Climie: Set a franchise record with his fourth road shutout of the season on Friday, a 33-save performance against Texas ... Started 10 straight games since returning from injury on Feb. 8 after a six-game absence ... Registered a 1.87 goals-against average, .943 save percentage, and three shutouts in his last 10 tilts but has earned just a 5-4-1 record during that span ... Ranks third in the AHL with a .923 save percentage and shares fifth in the league with a 2.30 goals-against average in 33 games (15-15-2) during the 2012-13 campaign ... Has already surpassed the number of games and minutes played from last season
--- Andrew Ebbett: Potted the Wolves lone goal on Saturday to extend his point streak to seven games ... He has tallied 6 assists and 9 points during his current point streak which dates back to Dec. 30 ... Ranks third on the Wolves with 17 helpers and 26 points in 33 games this season ... ... Has averaged 1.06 points per game over his last 16 games with Chicago ... Skated in five games with the Canucks this year
--- Darren Haydar: Saw his three-game point streak snapped on Friday, but accrued an assist on Saturday ... Paces the Wolves with 17 goals, 24 assists, 41 points, and a +13 plus/minus rating in 47 games this season ... Amassed 13 goals and 27 points in 23 tilts since the start of 2013, which includes 8 markers and 14 points in his last 11 outings despite being held scoreless in four of those contests
--- Bill Sweatt: Dished out an assist in back-to-back games last week, which marked the first time he tallied points in consecutive games since Dec. 8 and 13 ... Holds fourth on Chicago with 11 goals and sixth with 22 points in 44 contests this season ... Posted 4 assists and 5 points in his last five games
--- The Wolves have posted a 13-6-1-1 record in 21 games since losing players to the end of the NHL lockout on Jan. 6 to move into a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference playoff standings; Chicago sits in second place in the Midwest Division with 61 points in 52 tilts (27-18-4-3); the team's 52 games are the fewest-played in the AHL and it holds at least two games in hand on all of the other 14 teams in the Western Conference and at least four games on 7 of them.
--- The Wolves and Stars both were not awarded a power-play opportunity in their tilt on March 1; it marked the first time in Chicago's AHL history that it didn't earn at least one man-advantage chance; the last time the Wolves failed to generate a power-play chance came on Feb. 16, 2001, when it was still a member of the IHL.
--- After averaging 3.20 goals per game during the month of February, Chicago has scored just three goals in its first two tilts in March; the Wolves have registered a 8-13-3-0 mark when scoring two or fewer goals this year.
--- Beginning with its game against Milwaukee on Friday, Chicago will battle Midwest Division foes in six straight contests; the Wolves have accrued an 11-12-3-2 mark within the Midwest Division this season.
--- For the 17th straight season, the Wolves will wear special St. Patrick's Day jerseys, presented by Jewel-Osco, at home games on Saturday, March 9; Sunday, March 10; and Sunday, March 17. Fans can bid on the green jerseys worn by their favorite players in a silent auction, with the exception of five; four of which will be available in a raffle and the other through a blind auction. Proceeds will benefit Easter Seals and Chicago Wolves Charities. For more information, call 1-800-THE-WOLVES.
Saturday, March 2
(at) San Antonio 2, Chicago 1
--- The Wolves were clipped by the San Antonio Rampage 2-1 at AT&T Center
--- Center Andrew Ebbett lit the lamp for Chicago
--- Goaltender Matt Climie kicked out 20 of 22 shots
Friday, March 1
Chicago 2, (at) Texas 0
--- Wolves goaltender Matt Climie earned his fourth shutout of the year with a 33-save performance to lead the team to a 2-0 win over the Texas Stars at Cedar Park Center
--- Left wing Darren Archibald and defenseman Adam Polasek provided the offense for Chicago

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Since my big Cake-a-thon with Meeta and Jeanne, I've been extremely busy here in Life's a Feastville-sur-Loire (thanks, Jeanne). Busy as a little bee, une petite abeille, buzz buzz buzzing from word document to word document, from e-mail to twitter and back again, writing, organizing, answering, researching. As much as I want to think of myself as the Queen Bee, I often just feel like a drone or a simple worker bee all dressed in chic black and yellow… zipping blindly from one flower to the next, one activity to the next, trying to carry back the nectar to the hive where I pray that it will be magically transformed into golden, sweet honey cakes.
The coming week will find me mixing, stirring, concocting, creating in the kitchen. Thoughts of pomegranates and Grand Marnier, chocolate and espresso float lazily through the apartment and pull me into a warm, aromatic embrace. Creamy mascarpone promises elegant luxury like thick fur stoles and deep feather pillows, showers of snowy powdered sugar, deep, earthy puffs of cocoa and ground almonds splashed with rum smelling of the South Pacific draw me into the kitchen with promises of distant lands. The days leading up to my birthday will be overflowing with sweet things, sweets for the sweet, but this past week has been rather barren. And hectic. We did finish the last of the Chocolate Orange Cake, enjoyed by all, and my Pinolata, the luscious Italian Pine Nut Tart, disappeared with a rapidity that made my head spin. Now the counter and tabletops are bare, eagerly awaiting the next round of homey goodness.
I decided to write one of those "I've been busy doing…" posts to fill in the gap and fill you in on all the latest news in my little world, the new adventures that I've embarked upon and the changes I've been going through. It has been, as I've said, a hectic week but good hectic, busy getting things done and I feel that it has certainly been a week very well spent. It's as if I have offered myself a few new beginnings as a birthday gift, new challenges and exciting, interesting projects. We continue, Meeta, Ilva, Jeanne and I, to work passionately and methodically on From Plate to Page, excited that the waiting list continues to grow as we now organize not only the first workshop in Weimar in May but the second workshop in Italy planned for October as well. I still so love writing for the Huffington Post, I stand up just a little straighter, shoulders back, chest out, chin up every time I see my name splashed across the Food page, see myself smiling out of the Featured Blog Post space, and ogle in wonder and pride that it is really me. I so enjoy finding the words to say, the subjects to share with my newfound readership, food for thought, the discussions each one may inspire and sharing my favorite recipes with a larger audience.
My first big news is, well, take a look around and tell me what you see! My lovely, generous sister Meeta spent a day with me behind the scenes adding share buttons at the end of each and every post, making it now easy for you to share your favorite Life's a Feast stories and recipes with your friends via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Stumble Upon and so many more. Just know that each time you click one of those buttons and share something that you love, something that interested you and made you think, I appreciate it more than you can imagine and I thank you very much! She also added follow buttons in my side bar just below my About Me blurb, and you now have the choice to get e-mail alerts whenever I post delivered right into your mailbox or via Feedburner. Go ahead, don't just sit there, no need to hesitate and before you forget… while we are on the subject and talking about it just lean over and click on one or the other of the green icons to your right… and you will never miss a Life's a Feast post again! You can also, if you don't already, follow me on Twitter or Facebook in one easy click as well!
Thank you so very much, Meeta, for taking care of me! You know how grateful I am!
My latest writing adventure comes in the form of The Rambling Epicure, an all-new, on-line food site, a daily international food chronicle written by expats and Europeans. I was invited to join an amazing team of food writers, photographers, chefs and wine experts and given the awesome, delightful assignment of writing about… dessert! At Destination Dessert, my monthly (or so) column, I will share my dessert adventures, all new recipes (not found on my blog), both the traditional and the innovative, the homey and the elegantly sophisticated, while regaling you with stories about each sweet treat. This is truly a stimulating writing challenge for me and I hope that you will all join me on this sweet voyage, following me to each destination. I only ask that you join me for the pleasure of the ride, eat with thoughtful moderation and all of your senses. And that is where you must fly to in order to enjoy my wonderful Italian Pine Nut Tart, Le Pinolata! You'll find a new article and the recipe for this simple yet luscious dessert.
We spoke together at Food Blogger Connect in London in 2009 and again in 2010, we'll be heading the writing sessions at our own From Plate to Page workshop and now we're taking it on the road! I am proud to announce that I will be sharing the stage once more with Jeanne, this time at Indaba 2011, the South African Food & Wine Bloggers Conference held this February in Cape Town, organized by the fabulous Colleen, our own Brownie Girl! We will once again be speaking and leading a workshop on food writing & finding your own style and voice. And I am so looking forward to this enriching, exciting adventure alongside my Spice Sister!
And last but soooo not least, Life's a Feast has been nominated once again for a Blogger's Choice Award 2011 in the category Best Food Blog! If you enjoy my blog, my writing, my stories, the recipes, then I hope you will be so kind as to take 2 minutes of your time and link over to the Life's a Feast page on the Blogger's Choice Awards 2011 site and vote for my blog! Just click on the little Vote icon under the number of votes behind the little man and you'll be asked to log in (if you voted last year) or register. It is simple and painless and fast! They'll e-mail you a confirmation with your User Name and Password, which allows you then to go back, click once again on Vote and voilà the number should jump up one as it counts your vote! Know that I really do appreciate the time taken and every single vote! I thank you very much!
Yes, you are free to go over and do that now….
So, have it all down? Share buttons? Follow me via e-mail updates or Feedburner? Destination Dessert on The Rambling Epicure? The Blogger's Choice Awards?
To thank each of you, I will be sharing slices of Pinolata….


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Updated Feb 26, 2013 - 2:40 pm
James Harden's beard gets a timeline
There's not much left to say about James Harden's beard.
After all, its greatness has been well-documented and any extra attempts to describe it may ultimately lead to poor and unnecessary adjectives, the likes of which could make the beard angry.
And we don't want to do that.
Anyway, the good folks over at BuzzFeed.com have produced a piece titled "The James Harden Beard Timeline", and its sole purpose is to take us through the beard's many stages.
It's magical and wonderful and simply great. Not unlike the beard itself.


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When I had HELLP, I went straight to HELLP and didn't have any pre-e beforehand. After my c-section, I was hurting literally from head to toe. My feet also swelled up a LOT. (though the rest of my body didn't seem to swell too much)
My questions are:
1. Is it normal for ppl to swell up after surgery, regardless of whether or not they have pre-e/hellp or not (b/c my son swelled up with edema after surgery, which ended up causing a severe brain bleed. I was just wondering if my feet swelled b/c of some pre-e that happened after my HELLP, or if it was just something that happened b/c of the surgery. It scares me to think that I could get severe edema that could threaten my life after having surgery)
2. I was seriously in pain from head to toe. Was that from the HELLP/pre-e, from something to do with the surgery, or from the mag-sulfate?
3. I don't know about anyone else, but when they took out my catheter, that was the WORST pain. (Well, that and standing up for the first time). Is that normal? Are subsequent c-sections any easier or better? (please tell me they are)
4. I was having contractions 2 days before my HELLP set in. Is it possible that something to do with the contractions caused my HELLP, or was my body anticipating HELLP or something and trying to expel the baby?
These are all just things I've wondered about. I don't know if anyone will have any answers, but I was curious.


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Pat McMahon
How do we schedule the non-partisan play date?
It appears that most of the ballot questions have been answered.
A couple of races still have to be decided, but the puzzle that still seems to be discussed most frequently -- and most pessimistically -- is just how the partisan gridlock can be broken once everyone gets back to some business other than being elected.
I don't recall such entrenched zealots since Martin Luther bid farewell to the Vatican and started his own party.
But one thing everyone seems to agree on, is if the president and Congress conduct business as they have been, there will be far less business to conduct for all of us. So how does anyone get leadership from both sides to listen to one another for ideas that could create a better America?
Polite discussion? Forget it.
Numbers and logic? Not a chance.
Power! It's the only thing that gets respect in Washington.
What do you think would happen if President Obama got the Republican and Democratic leaders together in a room with the senior George Bush and Bill Clinton, two men who traveled the world together, two men who have seen and done it all and everyone began to talk seriously about the art of compromise?
That is, after the team of George and Bill reminded everybody to "cut the crap!"
It's a start.
I'm Pat McMahon.


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Updated: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.
On Friday, Twitter exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that the new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup was underway in North Korea. So far there is no indication at all that these rumors are true. The rumors originated on China's twitter-like platform Weibo (fyi: here's the fascinating Google translated page of original Weibo posts), and quickly got picked up by Gawker.com and retweeted in the U.S.
As the story goes, a couple assassins barged into Kim's room in Beijing and shot him, before being shot and killed themselves by bodyguards. Twitter user @ChristianJMay posted that the rumor is "based on news that a host of blacked out cars have descended upon embassy in Beijing, where he was visiting." Nevermind that as far as anyone can tell, Kim wasn't even in Beijing.
What's interesting is how in this era of social media, the rumors have taken on a life of their own. A post this afternoon on the fake twitter account @BBCLiveNews got retweeted broadly. It stated: "Confirmed breaking news. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un assassinated. Updates to follow."
Late Friday afternoon, Gawker.com, in an update post, appeared to have solved the mystery of the activity at the embassy:
It may have been part of an extended birthday celebration for the late Kim Jong-il, whose 70th birthday will be lavishly celebrated by North Korea on February 16th. In a Weibo post on the rumors about the activity at the embassy, the Chinese news agency Phoenix pointed out that a "Conference of Remembering the 70th Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Birthday" was scheduled to have begun on February 8th in Beijing. Trips and tours have been planned to China and North Korea by travelers from all over the world to mark the anniversary.
However, Phoenix adds: "So far there is no way to confirm if the actions of the North Korean Embassy today were related to the celebrations of Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday."
Later, Friday night, ABC news cited U.S. government sources who reportedly said: "Our experts are monitoring the situation and we see no abnormal activity on the [Korean] peninsula and nothing that credits that tweet as accurate."
I think it has something to do with the flamboyant, self-caricaturizing craziness of Kim's father Kim Jong-il (see "Team America: World Police," by the makers of South Park), but the denizens of the Interwebs took glee in joking about the possible death of the new young dictator.
Twitter user @Rocco_Castoro posted this morning: "This just in: Kim Jong-un's cause of death was being force-fed hotdogs and having a basketball bounced off his head repeatedly for 20 hours."
A post on The Atlantic Wire highlighted more particularly good tweets:
Kim Jong-Un's name is fertile fodder, as@AngryMnkyFight demonstrates: "Kim Jong Un dead or Kim Jong Undead. Remember kids, spacing is the difference between assassinations and zombies." So's the leader's weight, as comedian Chris Jenkins shows us: "Due to mistranslation, there are rumors that Kim Jong Un was assassinated in China. What it actually said was that he assassinated a buffet."
We'll find out soon enough if Little Kim has followed his father Kim Jong-Il into the hereafter. If he is alive and well, this day of rumors will mark the real beginning of his rule. Kim was expected, after his father's death on Dec. 17, to abide by a 100-day mourning period, like his father did upon the death of Kim Il-Sung in 1994. Yet an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily this week (from before the rumors) notes that Kim has already come out of mourning, and has been seen traveling North Korea, visiting tourist traps like "the Seoul Ryu Kyong-su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang."
The article includes this heart-melting passage:
Kim Jong-un is already showing a different public personality than that of his father. While Kim Jong-il maintained a distance from the public, wearing sunglasses and rarely having physical contact with the public, the young successor doesn't hesitate to act friendly and intimately with the people. That is the kind of behavior associated with his grandfather, Kim Il Sung. In a documentary aired recently by the North's Korean Central Television, Kim Jong-un's broad smiles and bold gestures were shown. He whispered in the ears of other soldiers and held the hand of a wife of a military leader. During a visit to an Air Force unit on Jan. 20, he hugged soldiers. When he visited Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on Jan. 25, Kim touched the faces of students and tasted soy sauce.
Soy sauce! Who doesn't like soy sauce? Still, I would have advised him to tuck into a big bowl of kim-chi, the spicy pickled cabbage that is Korea's equivalent of apple pie with ice cream.
(Note in response to sensitive commenters below: my point is that soy sauce is … meh. Whereas kim-chi is awesome. If I'm the dictator of North Korea and I get to choose my photo-ops, I'm going to go to the kim-chi factory instead of the soy sauce factory.)
He's friendly; he hugs soldiers; maybe this Kim is not so bad after all. He's even said to love the iPad 2 and is set to allow Egyptian mobile operator Orascom Telecom to set up internet connections in North Korea.
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Right On! Finally someone who gets it. I've been on AT&T in Detroit for years. It's been very good for me.
Now if someone would challenge the "It's so expensive" myth. They talk about the iPhone as the cost of phone + service. (It's &1500.00!!). Why don't they talk about other phones this way.
AT&T Sucks, and So Does Your Carrier
Among the dull roar of criticisms about iPhone I have to endure, one in particular stands out as the most irritating and unfounded - the attack against AT&T. I hear these slanderous indictments all the time..."Why did Apple choose AT&T?", "AT&T sucks! They should have gone with Verizon or Sprint", "AT&T is evil". Blah blah blah.
Here's a bit of schooling for you numbskulls - What you don't understand is that the quality and reliability of wireless service in the U.S. is subjective and varies from one location to another. For example, in my specific locale, Sprint offers the worst reliability and coverage of any major carrier. T-Mobile is practically non-existent. Verizon offers great service, but their selection of handsets is abysmal. So, for all practical purposes, AT&T is the "best" wireless carrier for me. Your experience will vary. A friend of mine who lives in Redmond Washington (no, it isn't Bill Gates) says that T-Mobile offers the best coverage and voice quality in his area, while Sprint is teh suck. So which one of us is right? We both are.
Unlike other parts of the world like Asia and Europe, wireless infrastructure in North America is less ubiquitous and unevenly distributed. This is the reason why we suffer through so many dropped calls, poor voice quality, and latency.
So yes, AT&T does suck. And so does Verizon. So does Sprint. So does T-Mobile. And so on. There is no "best" wireless carrier, only best in your location. Live it, learn it, be it.
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AT&T Sucks, and So Does Your Carrier
Right On! Finally someone who gets it. I've been on AT&T in Detroit for years. It's been very good for me.
I'm one of those switchers. ATT sucks, Verizon sucked. They all suck. As you say it just depends on where you happen to be standing.
In my personal usage so fare the ATT service has been comparable to VZ. Some dropped call, but I also dropped calls on VZ.
To those still bitching about ATT I say get over it. Apple had to pick someone. And to those on VZ they offered it to you them and VZ turned it down.
I'm glad they didn't go with Verizon. I'd quit using cellular if they were the only choice left. The only thing worse than their coverage is their customer service. I switched to Cingular last year and it's been great. I'm not happy about them being bought back by AT&T again and changing the name. If I hadn't already signed up with Cingular, I don't think I would have switched to AT&T but since I'm already here, it's been fine. I'd pick T-Mobile if they had better coverage because they have good plans and notoriously good customer service.
But you're right...they all pretty much suck.
Me, I likey T-Mobile, so I'm going to hold out and see what happens with them and the iPhone. I've heard conflicting info on the Apple-ATT iPhone service contract, everything from a 5-year exclusive to only thru Dec. 2007.
Anyhoo, T-Mo does have awesone CS (at least in my experience), and their service plans are, as a whole, the best and cheapest. Sure, their network coverage could be better, but for the most part my reception has been 99% glitch-free. Will be interesting to see where the iPhone lands next.
I love my iPhone, but...
I traveled to India recently to teach a course in Banglaore. When I landed in Bombay, I turned on my phone and it promptly connected to an EDGE network and downloaded 2MB of Yahoo! and other e-mail that I didn't want. The resulting charge was about $70 for that sync.
There is currently no way to disable EDGE when roaming outside of the U.S.. I managed to trick it into not kicking in by keeping my Wifi turned on to a site that I didn't have access to. However, this was a poor hack...
Apple and AT&T need to provide the ability to disable EDGE Roaming. I would like to be able to enable it when needed, but most of the time, I can wait to download my latest batch of junk e-mail to a time when I am in a WIFI zone.
I would guess that most folks who can aford an iPhone also travel extensively. Many of those people even have a passport and dare to venture outside of the U.S.. I hope that AT&T and Apple can understand that their current approach to mobille data is untenable outside the U.S.. They need to come up with an International Roaming plan for data and SMS that makes sense. Until then, I taking my old RAZR along and leaving my iPhone shut off...
Good point about how wireless quality varies throughout the US. But AT&T "service" does suck.
They took weeks to troubleshoot my landline/broadband install--checking on my building's wiring. They then "billed" me for said installation and one month non-existent "service" even though I never even went online with them. AT&T's online service must suck so much that my MacAfee spam guard was blocking the AT&T software from being installed.
The kicker? I just found out they put me into collection for a bill I never received for service that was never used. Their call center sucks too: they work when you're at work and have limited hours on Sat--it's the reason why I stayed home last night and why I got up at 8 am today! I just hope the good folks at Cingular don't go the way of their AT&T parent.
The right thing for AT&T to do is to refund people (something that other vendors practice) within the first month's experience--but oh wait, that would be fair treatment of the customer, leading to AT&T not wrongfully charging people. I can see why this would be distasteful to AT&T.
Well then, pretty much everyone here is right. AT&T sucks, Verizon sucks, Sprint sucks, Alltel imo really sucks, and T-mobile sucks.
I work as a tech for Sprint/Nextel. What people don't seem to understand is that CELLULAR IS NOT A PERFECT TECHNOLOGY. Considering the fact that 10 years ago NONE of us carried a mini computer in our pocket, that was able to make phone calls, and take pictures, and surf the web, oh and play music. I find it a small wonder that any of this crap works at all. Cellular companies are no different then the old Ma Bell system of yesterday with the exception of the fact that they are using nearly unproven equipment and technology. I am not saying that people shouldn't feel the need to complain when the services they are spending their hard earned money on isnt working. Im just siding with those that understand things are not perfect. Customer service reps work sad shitty jobs where people yell at them all day long. Really whens the last time you called your cell provider when your phone was working right. In store techs (like me) and sales staff deal with some of the most charming people on the planet who yell at us because they refused insurance when they bought the phone and they ran it over with their car. Honestly if you have a legit complaint then you should be heard and handled with respect. Thats what I do anyway. But in all reality all big companies kinda suck. My Comcast internet blows, but what are you going to do thats life. We could after all still be running around like cave men.
Odd that this apologist for AT&T ends up on a page with two advertisements for AT&T. Live it, learn it, be it. Gimme a break. AT&T's customer service stinks. Anybody who has dealt with them knows that. The problem starts with the stupid telephone interface you must traverse to get to a customer representative. Punch in your number. Pick your option. You may have to give your number again. What the last four digits of your Social Security number. Whoops, you'll have to call back and go through the entire process again. It's amazing and infuriating. AT&T has designed the perfect system for enraging customers. A government psychologist really needs to look at it, figure out the principles and apply them to the war on terror. Who needs torture when you have AT&T?
Come on guys, you can do better than this.
They all suck, but ATT is the maestro of suck.
So, while accepting what you say is correct, then in the regions where at&t does suck, people must opt out of the iPhone? NOT!
Your logic "AT&T is the "best" wireless carrier for me" (in your region) has more justified the reason for iPhone to be unlocked to all the unfortunate people not so lucky as to live in your "best" at&t region.
The pop up advertising on the screen sucks. Bellsouth can't or wont do anything about it.
I am very disappointed to see the 3G coverage be limited and impact my ability to make calls. I have to turn off the 3G in most locations on my IPhone 16G system when not surfing or performing data related tasks. This is ridiculous. We pay top dollar to drive a Porsche and all AT&T delivers is UGO (car) performance.
I moved to a new address last month and asked ATT to transfer my phone number to
my new address. After moving, ATT claimed they had to give me a temporary number
and proceeded to charge me for it and then charge me for CHANGING the temporary
number to my old existing number. I'm not paying for something I didn't ask for. I did
NOT ask for the temporary number nor did I ask for a number change. I simply asked
them to TRANSFER my existing number to a new address.
That's the first problem. The second problem is with the quad package I ordered. I
ordered landline service, wireless cellphone service, dishnetwork tv, and DSL for about
$180 a month. So far, ATT has billed me separately for the landline service and a
whopping $343 for cellphone service that doesn't even work half the time!!
The third problem is that ATT is preventing my ISP from giving me the SAME EXACT DSL
service I had before I ordered the quad package. After telling me I would have to pay a
$100 deposit to get DSL, ATT cancelled the DSL part of the quad package and reduced
it to a triad package so that I could continue with my ISP's DSL service. But my isp says
that ATT refuses to let them give me the DSL service I had before I moved. (My isp
orders DSL through ATT.) ATT told my ISP that DSL wasn't in my area even though I
moved just two blocks away. I called ATT to ask why, and they said DSL IS indeed
available in my area, that I don't have to pay a $100 deposit anymore, and that they
put in an order for me. I believe this violates FCC Rules since they are preventing my
ISP from giving me service that i had and want to continue to use.
I am not paying this outrageous bill. They're charging me a month in advance for things
I DON'T have, CAN'T use, and apparently CAN'T have.
Whoever heard of a $343 cellphone bill?? I only had it since July 12th or something??
Good article. Very true what he points out. Here's my situation: I have only ever dealt with Verizon and Att wireless. I had Verizon when I lived in the southeastern US and it generally worked fine. When I moved to CA I switched to Cingular (before it was ATT) and got the new amazing RAZR (which sucks). I now live in WA state and have since upgraded to an iPhone (1st Gen). What I have noticed is ATT service seems to be fine for me all up and down the west coast but the coverage can be a bit shoddy at times in the South eastern united states whenver I go back to visit. My mom used to have Verizon in Sacramento where we lived and said the service was horrible. Right now I am thinking about breaking my contract with ATT and switching to T-mobile because they have a pre-pay or pay as you go service with their sidekick. I'd be paying about 30 bucks a month as opposed to the 70-75 bucks (w/tax) I'm paying right now with my iPhone. To a broke college kid thats a huge difference! Now I also realize that the iPhone beats the sidekick anyday which is why I'll probably hang on to it and just use it as an iPod Touch. Anyways hopefully all goes well. Cheers.
AT&T realy sucks. The phone service is ok. The coustomer service sucks big time. I purchaced an iphone that froze up when i tryed to use it. I brought it back to the store 16 hours later and they told me I could not exchange it. After arguing with them they told me they could exchange it, but they would charge me a 10% restocking fee. I called Apple they wanted to charge 39.00 to exchange the phone. I spent 3 hours with Apple tech suport just for them to tell me there was a hardware problem. The Apple rep called At&t and asked them to give me a credit for the restocking fee. They did. The AT&T rep told me to go back to the store and exchange the phone. When I returned to the store it was the same bull. They told me they would not exchange the phone. I told them to call there coustomer service line. I left the store about 2 hours later with another phone. It took about seven hours of my time. I miss cingulare. AT&T sucks.
The phone service is lousy. I can't use the phone in my own house (a highly populated suburb). None of my friends can get service in their homes - we all need to go outside. And I can't get service in my office as well as two of our branch offices. And Apple is supposed to be leading edge? I'll take Verizon service any day. Why would anyone buy the new phone???!!
I had tmobile service I got what I paid for. Now I have Att SERVICE [with my new IPhone, yes, the software is updated and yes, I have all the really cool stuff disabled so my battery will work and yes, I now have had to dumb it down to Edge so I can talk on the phone] and I am paying for 3G which doesn't work at all. I took my phone into an apple store to talk intelligently about the issues. They looked at my phone and I had 24 % dropped calls. This I believe is systematic and not the exception. So, why doesn't Att just admit that the 3G is not ready for prime time yet and give me a plan where I get what I pay for? Then all of us might stop calling and they could get on with things.
So I continue my quest to identify the fact that ATT should not be charging for a call plan specific to the Iphone that does not work.
at&T SUCKS!!!! I was an employee there, they refused to pay me!!!! I wrote to the president, and he ignored my email! I worked for their corporate division, they sold bulk cell phones to corporations!! the service SUCKS!! the Bulk rates are a rip off!! and they refuse to pay their employees! that's why you all receive shitty service..they dont' even provide clean drinking water for thier employees
An AT&T salseman came to our door. We said no thanks. He called a supervisor, I said no I didn't want AT&T. Then AT&T shutoff my current service provider saying I had agreed. AT&T sent installers to my home which I refused. I protested and AT&T cancelled the order I never made. Now my provider says I have to pay for instalation and I will lose the number I've had for years. What can I do?
Hi there, just doing some research for my Sacramento 4g site. Lots of information out there. Wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but great site. Have a good day.
I guess every person whose having difficultieswith their manhood should read this great post. Will spread your post to my blog readers too. thanks
It's all about location, location, location. That is why Apple's (previous) exclusivity deal with AT&T was bad for ALL consumers of cell phones and cell phone infrastructures. The simple fact is that AT&T sucked enough in enough areas to raise enough issues that people complained, but mostly switched networks (mainly non-iPhone users), due to horrible call quality and connection issues. If that was not a fact then why was there a court decision for breach of contract?
AT&T is so desperate at this point that they have reduced average cell phone bills (look at new rates and tiers of text messaging, anytime minute plans) by 25% to keep customers aboard (ESPECIALLY those whose contract are up (as I am one, they will do anything for me such as give me 2,000 anytime roll-over minutes)). In their desperation they have also over paid for the acquisition of T-Mobile to help their failing infrastructure. The merger will NOT be seamless. Time to switch away from AT&T and T-Mobile (unless you don't have many iPhone users in your coverage area) as their technologies are not compatible nor will they be for the next 1-1.5 years. I respect you die-hard fans that are willing to wait that long just to get a "cooler" phone.
Njoy! :)
Well At&t has been amazing to me for almost 6 years now and out of no where they suck...so explain that? Did the coverage change? I get dropped calls constantly something I never ever experienced before and only heard of from friends.
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15 years later. I'm still getting go kill 10 rats quests.
Just because you change the numbers into a slide bar, and automatically give me the quest, it doesn't mean I'm not still getting more kill 10 rats quests.
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beware, some game have tried a minimal, partial kind of "time evolution". lotro and coh for example, change the environment you find around you in certain part of the game based on some act you did.
It's really really limited, coh has (should I say had?) it just in (new) atlas park, in the first mission after the tutorial, and lotro only in some part of dunland based on your point in the epic history.
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Joined: 1/07/07
There is a lot that can improve beyond quests and dynamic events, true. But I just mentioned one of many possible ways we could change things.
When we made WoW, we looked around and said, let's make a themepark...but we could have chosen anything. There were so many types of MMOs before WoW, and Blizzard took just ONE of them and popularized it.
We can dig back and find lots of other ideas to mine and shape and polish as WoW did. I see lots of potential in online games if we can just take our WoW blinders off.
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It's irritating to see so many focus on the title and ignore the content.
The "AI Director" concept I first heard of used in relation to Left 4 Dead, where it supposedly spawned zombies according to how desparate the situation was, among other factors. I never really noticed it in that game, but I think that's the way it should be: you should feel like you're just playing the game, not feel like you're being directed.
The way I read this, it's like playing a dungeon crawler with a random map generator, only with an MMO and randomly generated events rather than maps. The problem I forsee is that if you want to make a massive world, you have to be generating these events for every single player at any given time, or restrict them to an area, both of which don't solve the time/money/repetition problem. What you'd need to do is shift away from the "individual that can group to take on huge world" to a more co-op/guild focused game where you HAVE to group up and form relationships to succeed. It puts off solo players, but it breaks up the userbase into more managable chunks that allow you to better plan events for them.
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Joined: 5/02/12
So far I haven't seen almost nothing changed and DE's require even less brains than quests in other games because they are all kill 10 this and escort that. I wouldn't call washing and feeding cows innovation either. Maybe I can see the true essence of The Saviour of MMOs in level 80 zone? Haven't got that far because of boredom.
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The strong are sometimes wrong but the weak are never free.
I don't know about anything else but I predict that GW2 has killed off the idea of exclusive gathering nodes. I think everybody will switch to shared gathering nodes except EVE Online, because EVE is always different. But everyone else will. And not just because people like not having to fight over nodes are hate having nodes ninja'd while they fight the mob but because the developers can better control how much a player can harvest from a node. If nodes as not shared then you have to spawn them faster so that others can come though the area and be able to harvest as well, at least in a reasonable time frame. If you share the nodes then you can make the respawn time much longer because everybody will get a crack at the node. Then you can space out the refresh long enough to discourage people from farming a small area.
It is a very small thing but that is also what makes the change safe and easy for other MMOs to transition to.
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Originally posted by Caldrin
A sandbox is merely a themepark in which the devs have made the unfortunate mistake of giving the players the tools to create the rides instead of doing it themselves..
So we get go mine 10000 ores for the empire/company/faction instead of joe bob needs 10 ores, no thanks...
As far as GW2 goes it is one of the best themeparks ever made and it is the real deal epic themepark but it needs many more big rides added with a little more fire and a bigger set of balls in their implimentation..
Hopefully anet will finish the innovations they started with revolutionary additions..
Playing GW2..
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Originally posted by Eir_S
I really doubt that. As Trion's devs said that players love questing so NPC offering quest isn't going anywhere. In his words 'there is something ZEN about completing quests' and i agree with it.
I don't want questign to be gone just like how i don't want every MMO to be littered with DE's. I want both. options and choices is better. I can think for myself and don't want game devs to save me.
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"change everything: kinda depends on perspective. Does not seem to me like GW2 'changed everything'.
In example AO, SWG and EvE seem much farther from themself than GW2 is from WoW.
This is not bashing of GW2, since I don't think that's bad thing.
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Joined: 1/07/07
I've heard the MMORPG audience is a tough crowd. I think you guys have every right to be angry that MMOs haven't changed much in the past 10 years. Glad to see people still want more, as it really makes me want to figure out what the "more" is as a game maker.
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I don't understand why so many players think of GW2s dynamic events as the evolution of the theme park genre? If I was playing a theme park MMO (and I am currently doing that with LotRO) I would certainly prefer quest hubs.
In my eyes GW2s dynamic events are a big fail. You often stumble into an event without knowing whats going on, just trying to hit a few monsters to get at least a bronze medal. Without quest hubs there is absolutely no connection to the surrounding area or npcs.
I still remember the different areas in WoW. I can still draw a pretty accurate map of - let's say - Westfall out of my head. I even remember some NPC names. In GW2 I can not even remember the starting grounds. I am rushing through different areas from event to event... it all feels sterile, lifeless and artificial.
GW2s dynamic events are just fast food action for ADD kids.
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Originally posted by Caldrin
Maybe for you but I don't like Openworld sandbox MMOs like Skyrim and the like. I actually like some design and some structure of where I'm going and heading. The only factor if it's quality or not.
Just like how people like their Call of Duty, sports, etc, they won't radically change. This type of MMO is here to stay because it works and people like it.
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GW2 changed nothing, just more of the same.
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Originally posted by Sentime
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Optional PvP = No PvP
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Originally posted by grummz
And I do not envy you in your task Sir, as trying to find out what we as players want from an MMO must be quite like the parable of the blind men describing an elephant.
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Originally posted by dageeza
The diffence is that collecting the 10000 ore in a sandbox affects the world, the faction can then use that ore to make something which in turn affects the world, that change then affects something else, that is true dynamism, not a static event that runs on a loop.
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Originally posted by Deerhunter71
Warhammer made the quest public and allowed people to jump in on the fly without grouping.
Rift made the events spawn at random locations and time and increased the complexity of the stages.
GW2 made it so what event is spawned depends on the state of the world at the time. If the centaurs control the camp then the event for centaurs attacking the camp cannot start, Instead the event for the humans taking back the camp starts. GW2 opened the door to events being reactive to the environment. It is not a huge or noticable shift but it is an important step towards making the whole experience more realistic.
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Guild Wars 2 needs randomness. By now everything in that game is spread across some wiki page for anyone to read exactly everything that happens in game and where and what time.
I like the idea of having no zones and very large dynamic events that take place in in many small places and increments to build to a giant whole at the end. This event could take days, even a week as long it continued to evolve, and then replayed when it finished. Only set its duration at an odd amount of fixed time, say 55 hours, with many variables during the events(I'll elaborate later) and do not tell the players so a wiki page would have a harder time informing anyone about what came next. Being able to immediately look up anything on a wiki removes immersion and attachment to character achievements, it does for me at least. if I have to look up the event, item or quest up, I feel less of an accomplishment after having beat it.
I do realize 55 hours is a long time and would cause much gray hair to any developer. But take Guild Wars' Queendale as an example...
You start your character in the out skirts of the city, what needs to happen? We are preparing for invasion, what does the city need? Stone, and wood to help prepare strengthen the walls and build ballista/catapults. Ok, off you go. If X ammount of stone is not recieved in Y amount of time, then Z event happens, if X stone is recieved, A event happens, if stone and wood are recieved in Y then B event happens and so forth. No two 55 hour events would be the same and they would have to be kept at a decent pace to warrant the players attention.
During their forest gathering they discover "Hey, this place I was gathering from is having problems with raiders that hamper the gathering of the items, they need help." Insert heart quest.
For me, this is the problem with Guild Wars, there is no grand scheme of things, once you are done with one area, you move on to the next until you are techinically done with the zone. Give players a reason to come back that doesn't feel like grinding. Remove the level system, that isn't needed, use skill points that require experience to gain, say 300 skill points per character class as a max. Making 10 or so classes to begin with would allow players some pretty wild custimization options.
I could literally go on forever on this topic and how to at end-game make it more of a sandbox, once the themepark rides are done.
P.S. I appologize for any grammar and spelling mistakes, still sipping my morning coffee
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Originally posted by VikingGamer
Yeah, but in the end, if it doesn't feel all that different to me, it really isn't that big of a deal.
When those public quests happened with TR, now that felt different.
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Originally posted by RefMinor
Definetly this.
1) GW2 got rid of quest hubs: Yes, it also pretty much got rid of quests too. So.... I'll take quest hubs over that. The game is at least 98% kill/gather/destroy tasks. You know, those exact things people complain about in other games but for some reason when ANet does it, it is revolutionary.
2) GW2 is B2P: Yes, they successfully tricked players into paying $60 for a F2P game. Yet again, because it was ANet, it is revolutionary and will be the future of gaming. So the future is we'll all pay $60 for a F2P when currently you get F2P games for free to start with... good improvement.
3) GW2 auto grouped everyone: Yup, and they killed all socialization by doing so. Good to know the future of gaming is an MMO where no one ever talks to each other. Sounds fun.
4) GW2 did combos!!: Oh wait, other games already did those.
5) GW2 did Dynamic Events!!: Oh wait, other games already did those.
6) GW2 did WvW PvP!!: Not any different from RvR that has been done before only this time there is absolutely no point to it at all so it is boring as hell. Not a good improvement.
If we base the future of gaming off of GW2... we're f&%ked.


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1. Bold & eclectic: Sofa, coffee table, rug, gold tray, gold box, brass sculpture, solid turquoise pillow, green and white striped pillow, orange velvet pillow, green velvet with ribbon trim pillow, pink geometric patterned pillow, turquoise patterned pillow, Elte, (416) 785-7885 or Elte.com; leopard pillow, Tonic Living, (416) 699-9879 or Tonicliving.com; pink bargello crewelwork pillow, Artifacts, (416) 961-1058 or Artifactslifestyle.com; green cut-velvet pillow, brown and white geometric pillow, framed moth print, Boo Boo & Lefty, (416) 929-2223 or Boobooandlefty.com.
2. Tailored & streamlined: Linen lumbar pillow, Tonic Living, (416) 699-9879 or Tonicliving.com.
3. Charming & easy-going: 20" burlap box pillow, ChairTableLamp, (416) 934-1021; 10" x 16" pillow with single stripe, 16" x 20" vintage grain sack pillow, Love the Design, (416) 408-1727 or Lovethedesign.com; 18" sq. buttoned pillow, Peaks & Rafters, (647) 350-3500 or Peaksandrafters.com; 20" sq. red-stripped pillow, Elte, as above.
4. Globally inspired: 22" sq. and 8" x 22" antique carpet pillows, Kantelberg & Co., (416) 964-0192 or Kantelbergco.com; 17" sq. and 17" x 20" remnant-style patchwork pillows by Nadine Reid (far right, small pillow in back, second from left), Hollace Cluny, (416) 968-7894 or Hollacecluny.ca; 15" sq. vintage sari pillow, West Elm, Westelm.com.
5. Two colours: 26" sq. blue and white block-print pillow, Lucca, (416) 485-4999; 20" sq. green pillow, Peaks & Rafters, as above; 20" sq. geometric and circle block-print pillows, John Robshaw, Johnrobshaw.com.
6. Quiet & elegant: Herringbone pillows, Elte, as above; striped pillow, G.H. Johnson's, (416) 532-6700 or Ghjohnsontrading.com; cut velvet pillows, Boo Boo & Lefty, as above.


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manny must have gotten turned down by rhonda again. he's gonna get lit up for this worse than any criticism his cousin karo got and it serves him right i guess. but besdies that what a weak move
Manny is one of those dudes that I would train for to legit fight.
Win lose or draw I never liked the fucking guy and I would happily go down swinging just for the chance to put the hurting on him.
I think its safe to say that all Armenians are fuct up and dangerous.
I doubt he'll get fired, though. Torres and Forrest were former champions when they tweeted rape jokes. Gamburyan has never been more than a softly-ranked also-ran. I mean, think back for a minute: Is this the first time you've thought about him for longer than 5 seconds in years? The guy is fighting c-levels coming off losses on the prelim's of a free card.
I just don't think he's important enough to generate attention.
I could be wrong, he was probably a step from being released if he'd lost his last fight.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
The Rum Diary
Yeah, Bye.
The stupidity of that tweet just made me laugh out loud. What was his point of posting that?
Sweet lord, what year are we in? Even if you thought that, why would you say it ouloud? Or worse... post it to the internet.
SO apparently he never said it52m Manny Gamburyan @MannyGamburyan
Hey everyone my twitter my FB and IG accounts are hacked wtf is going with this ppl I guess they got nothing to do.
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What if he was joking?
I thought rape was funny. Slapping a woman should be even funnier. No?
There are many paths to freedom, not all are peaceful
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