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Sound adds a useful dimension to corporate intranets
August 30, 1999
by Cynthia Morgan
(IDG) -- The day is fast approaching when some executive will have a singularly bright idea: Why not fill in the blanks of his otherwise terse slide show with the recorded speech that went with it, and post the whole shebang on the corporate intranet? It would make a more informative presentation and save him from repeating the speech to every new employee.
He's right. Audiovisual experts say sound paired with still images or text can have nearly as much impact and information as video without the high costs of producing and transmitting video clips across the network. It's also a good step toward preparing your network for the inevitable onslaught of rich media.
I've been experimenting with adding useful sound to network presentations for the past few months. Despite vendor claims, standard desktop software can't always cope with multimedia demands. Slide presentation software has a difficult time synchronizing text and speech. And building sound into animated slide shows, a corporate mainstay, is difficult. Unless you use the right tools, your audio efforts could wind up being a lot of effort for not much benefit.
A WAV file, the typical format for digitized sound, tends to be very large and unsuited for transmission across a network, in part because it contains a great deal of information that the human ear can't perceive. A coder/decoder (codec) application can compress those files into smaller encoded files (for more information on networking and audio terminology, see "Glossary of terms," link below).
One technique, perceptual audio encoding, confines its compression activities to sounds outside the range of normal human hearing. Those codecs, including RealNetworks Inc.'s G2, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media and the nonproprietary MP3, leave a high percentage of the original sound data in the file after compression.
But your choice of codec depends less on the quality of its output than on its production considerations.
In my tests, G2 shaved a few seconds off total encoding time and also streamlined the production process. Xing Technology Corp.'s MP3 encoder was the hardest to use, although it was generally a fast processor once the settings were correct. Windows Media spent more time in encoding, and its setup was sometimes confusing -- there are a lot of subtle steps you can take to enhance the final result, but learning where they are can be time-consuming. If you plan to compress large batches of sound files regularly, those small differences really add up.
Encoded sound files in hand, I set out to marry them to a slide presentation and publish the package on the Web. I turned a few extra hairs gray as I built a simple Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 presentation to augment a Computerworld Minute -- an audio news report we publish daily on our Web site. Then I tried to synchronize it with my encoded sound files.
Right away, I discovered that, although PowerPoint can play a single sound file across multiple slides, syncing images with appropriate spoken sentences is a tedious matter of trial and error. Lotus Development Corp.'s Freelance Graphics wasn't much better, although it's clearly better suited for building online shows. Rather than spend hours trying to match up the entire presentation, I broke the sound file into components I could sync with a particular slide.
The typical corporate speech includes unwanted dialog or noise. So in addition to PowerPoint, I needed a sound editing tool. I chose Sonic Foundry's $499 Sound Forge 4.5.
Sound Forge is almost the de facto "word processor" of sound editing; you can cut, paste, drag and drop a visual graph of the file, and you can apply effects such as fade-in or fade-out. I used it, for example, to clean up the heavy breathing of one speaker, fade music to silence and fill in dead air. You can save money by opting for the $99 "lite" version, AudioAnywhere, which includes a less extensive version of Sound Forge. That's probably all you'll need, plus Sonic Foundry's Acid Style music authoring tool and hundreds of public domain sound clips.
PowerPoint doesn't handle G2, unfortunately. To make up for it, RealNetworks offers RealSlideshow, a free download that offers more powerful rich media features but is less than stellar at anything else. It's far better at creating online presentations because it tracks overall download time and will automatically publish to a streaming G2 server on the Web. It also lets your presentation carry two separate tracks of audio, so you can have background music and a voice-over simultaneously, something PowerPoint had trouble with.
But RealSlideshow wouldn't accept my imported presentations; it works only with JPEG or bit-map images. Music and image editing tools were almost nonexistent. Although I could specify which image linked to which sound file, fine-tuning timing was impossible. The program mangled our slide images no matter how I tinkered with compression settings, making text almost unreadable. You'll have to add legible text later using RealNetworks' RealText editor, which is a lot harder than simply typing words on the page and adds considerably to production time.
Of course, PowerPoint and RealSlideshow aren't the only programs that can place sound-and-image files on the Web. I had better luck with Kai's PowerShow, $50 from MetaCreations Corp. It handles presentations reasonably well and offers precise sequencing of sound, image and simple animation.
If you'll be augmenting a lot of existing presentations with sound, you should strongly consider switching to PowerShow or other low- to midrange multimedia authoring tools. For higher-end uses, such as building interactive tutorials, consider Digital Lava Inc.'s video publishing system (see "Emerging companies: Digital Lava," link below), which not only joins sound and images but also indexes files by keyword and provides navigation points throughout the presentation.
Computerworld covered the ins and outs of setting up streaming audio servers in a previous issue (see "Get rich (media) quick," link below). Until recently, the choice of a streaming server was dictated by the particular codec you were using. But that's rapidly becoming a moot point: New streaming server software products, such as Sonic Foundry's StreamAnywhere, now in beta, can stream music created by the most popular codecs. (Note: Computerworld uses RealNetworks' G2 encoding and streaming media server to record and transmit the Computerworld Minute. It's an easy-to-use, low-maintenance system, and the player is readily available. Our sound engineer, Aaron Bishop, says there hasn't been much call for the Windows Media editions; because the players are free, most people simply download both. And either player can handle MP3.)
The final results? You can see (and hear) sample files on our Web site. In the end, I chose to put up with PowerPoint's limitations; I simply don't do enough to warrant the steep learning curve of a multimedia authoring tool.
Sound quality: Not a corporate issue
Any of the codecs I tested produced far better audio quality than the typically cheap set of corporate speakers can detect.
The more compression the codec performs on a sound file, the smaller the file size... and the higher the chances for poor-quality sound. Because sound quality is a key strategy in the battle for audio codec supremacy, codec developers have spent a lot of time pointing out deficiencies in rival codecs.
I was curious as to just how much difference the average corporate user would find between leading codecs, so I tested 10 sound and voice files encoded from CD and in the studio.
I encoded the samples at bandwidths suitable for a slow (28.8K bit/sec.) modem, Integrated Services Digital Network and Ethernet network connections, using the latest versions of G2, Windows Media and Xing's MP3.com.
We then judged sound quality using different output devices:
The high-end headphones easily detected differences between original and encoded/compressed sound files. There were marked differences between the encoded samples. I detected subtler differences with the Bose speakers, sometimes drowned out by environmental noise.
None of this mattered once we'd tried the same tests with our "typical" speakers and headphones. Aside from slight differences in volume, the files were nearly indistinguishable.
Lousy speakers produce lousy sound, and on most corporate desktops, that's as good as it gets. Base codec choice on user demand, platform and ease of administration.
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Eom, Chanyoung (University of Oregon, June , 2011)[more][less]Eom, Chanyoung 2011-09-12T18:49:06Z 2011-09-12T18:49:06Z 2011-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11558 x, 51 p. : ill. New equity shares are sold for raising capital via a primary seasoned equity offering (SEO). In their 2010 article, Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino discovered an intriguing relationship between market volatility and primary SEOs, namely that the volatility decreases before a primary SEO and increases thereafter. This pattern contradicts the real options theory of equity issuance for investment. In this study, I examine in greater detail whether the pre- and post-issue volatility dynamics are related to the probability of issuing new equity. I find little evidence that the decision to conduct a primary SEO depends on changes in market volatility after controlling for previously recognized determinants of SEOs. This reconciles the volatility finding of Carlson et al. with the real options theory of equity issuance for investment. I also examine secondary SEOs, in which only existing equity shares are sold and therefore no capital is raised by the firm. For secondary SEOs, real options theory makes no predictions about risk changes around the events. I find that market volatility tends to decline before a secondary SEO, a finding which warrants further attention. Committee in charge: Dr. Roberto Gutierrez, Chair; Dr. Ekkehart Boehmer, Member; Dr. Wayne Mikkelson, Member; Dr. Jeremy Piger, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Finance, Ph. D., 2011; New equity shares Market volatility Seasoned equity offerings Finance Economics Seasoned equity offerings and market volatility Thesis
Nguyen, Tu Cam (University of Oregon, September , 2011)[more][less]Nguyen, Tu Cam 2012-02-29T22:04:51Z 2012-02-29T22:04:51Z 2011-09 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11983 x, 99 p. Using data for publicly listed commercial banks and bank holding companies around the world, I investigate the market discipline effect of subordinated debt on banking firm risk taking in the period 2002-2008. In addition, I examine whether this effect depends on national bank regulations and legal and institutional conditions. I provide evidence that subordinated debt has a mitigating effect on banking firm risk taking. Further, the results suggest a threshold level of national bank regulations and economic development above which subordinated debt mitigates risk taking. Overall, the evidence supports the efficacy of proposals calling for increased use of subordinated debt in banking firms. Committee in charge: Wayne Mikkelson, Chairperson; Ekkehart Boehmer, Member; Diane Del Guercio, Member; Wesley Wilson, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Finance, Ph. D., 2011; rights_reserved Finance Banking Social sciences Subordinated debt Bank Risk-taking The Disciplinary Effect of Subordinated Debt on Bank Risk Taking Thesis
Liu, Chung-Shin (University of Oregon, December , 2011)[more][less]Liu, Chung-Shin 2012-04-16T21:55:21Z 2012-07-27T17:15:52Z 2011-12 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12143 x, 94 p. : ill. (some col.) This paper examines how competition faced by firms affects asset risk and expected returns. Contrary to Hou and Robinson's (2006) findings, I find that cross-industry variation in competition, as measured by the concentration ratio, is not a robust determinant of unconditional expected stock returns. In contrast, within-industry competition, as measured by relative price markup, is positively related to expected stock returns. Moreover, this relation is not captured by commonly used models of expected returns. When using the Markov regime-switching model advocated by Perez-Quiros and Timmermann (2000), I test and find support for Aguerrevere's (2009) recent model of competition find risk dynamics. In particular, systematic risk is greater in more competitive industries during bad times and greater in more concentrated industries during good times. In addition, real investment by firms facing greater competition leads real investment by firms facing less competition, supporting Aguerrevere's notion that less competition results in higher growth options and hence higher risk in good times. Committee in charge: Dr. Roberto Gutierrez, Chair; Dr. Roberto Gutierrez, Advisor; Dr. Diane Del Guercio, Inside Member; Dr. John Chalmers, Inside Member; Dr. Bruce Blonigen, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Finance, Ph. D., 2011; rights_reserved Finance Social sciences Expected returns Conditional model Empirical asset pricing Market competition Market power Impact of Product Market Competition on Expected Returns Thesis
Genc, Egemen (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Boehmer, Ekkehart Genc, Egemen Genc, Egemen 2012-10-26T04:07:12Z 2012-10-26T04:07:12Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12455 My dissertation consists of two essays on mutual funds. The first essay examines the role of extreme positive returns on future fund flows using maximum style-adjusted daily returns (hereafter MAX) over the previous month. My results suggest that there is a positive and significant relation between MAX and future fund flows. The results are robust to controls for fund performance, fund size, age, turnover, fund fees, volatility, and skewness of fund returns. Of particular interest, this relation exits only in retail funds. Moreover, MAX is persistent from one month to the next, but MAX-based investment strategies are associated with lower risk-adjusted returns than investors could have achieved in otherwise similar funds. Overall, my analysis suggests that mutual fund investors are attracted to maximum style-adjusted daily returns, which is in line with the theoretical argument that investors exhibit a preference for lottery-like payoffs. These investors are successful in achieving a lottery-like return profile, but this strategy is costly in terms of expected returns The second essay studies the effect of recent and long-term mutual fund performance on future fund flows. I document that investors' response to recent performance depends on average long-term performance. In particular, a recent loser fund experiences outflows only if its longer-term performance is also poor. Similarly, recent good performance leads to more inflows only if the fund has also good long-run performance. In contrast, investors ignore recent performance if it provides a signal that conflicts with the longer-term signal. This implies that good fund managers with a longer-term focus will find it easier to attract future inflows than managers with a short-term horizon. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. fund flows fund performance lottery-like returns mutual funds Essays on Mutual Funds Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Park, Heejin (University of Oregon, September 29, 2014)[more][less]Del Guercio, Diane Park, Heejin 2014-09-29T17:47:21Z 2014-09-29T17:47:21Z 2014-09-29 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18377 This study examines whether firms' decisions to offer company stock in defined contribution (DC) plans are explained by managers' corporate control motives. Using a large sample of proxy voting outcomes, I find that employee ownership in DC plans is significantly and positively associated with the level of voting support for management sponsored proposals. This suggests that managers encourage employee DC holdings in company stock in order to receive higher voting support in favor of management. The effects of employee ownership on voting outcomes are significantly greater in subsample tests than in full sample tests: management proposals opposed by Institutional Shareholder Services, management proposals of close votes, director election votes receiving more than 20% of votes withheld, and say-on-pay frequency proposals. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Company Stock Managerial Entrenchment Pension Plans Proxy Voting Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans: Evidence from Proxy Voting Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Finance University of Oregon
Anthony, Andrea (University of Oregon, September 29, 2014)[more][less]McKeon, Stephen Anthony, Andrea 2014-09-29T17:52:52Z 2014-09-29T17:52:52Z 2014-09-29 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18424 I examine the effect of ownership structure on firms' propensities to save the proceeds of a share issuance as cash. Specifically, I focus on changes in cash savings at the time of a seasoned equity offering (SEO), a moment at which the firm experiences a large inflow of cash, to determine whether ownership structures such as managerial blockholdings or the presence of institutional investors materially affect firms' decisions regarding their level of cash savings. I find that firms with managerial blockholders are more inclined to save share issuance proceeds as cash, relative to firms with outside blockholders or no blockholders present. This finding could be interpreted as consistent with either managerial entrenchment or incentive alignment, so I distinguish between these competing forces by examining SEO announcement returns. The market's reaction to SEO announcements when managerial blockholders are present is significantly worse on average when the firm has excess cash, lending support to the entrenchment explanation. I also find that firms with greater total institutional ownership save more cash from equity issuance, which is consistent with the theory that greater firm monitoring allows optimal corporate cash holdings to increase because shareholders are less concerned about potential misuses of cash. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. agency problems blockholders cash holdings corporate governance equity issuance monitoring Agency Problems and Cash Savings from Equity Issuance Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Finance University of Oregon
Turkiela, Jason (University of Oregon, October 17, 2014)[more][less]Gutierrez, Ro Turkiela, Jason 2014-10-17T16:16:46Z 2014-10-17T16:16:46Z 2014-10-17 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18544 Dividend payments to shareholders can create conflicts between debt and equity investors as these payments can expropriate wealth from bondholders to shareholders. However, dividend payments can also serve as a signal regarding firms' future earnings. Utilizing both improved bond event study techniques as well as a conditional event study model to control for self-selection and the presence of confounding earnings announcements, I find that, on net, dividend increases represent a transfer of wealth from debtholders to shareholders. Nevertheless, bondholders react more favorably to larger dividend changes consistent with the presence of a positive signaling effect. The conditional event study approach also provides the ability to test whether managerial hesitancy in cutting dividends may represent an additional source of expropriation. My results indicate that while bondholders are clearly harmed by these implicit dividend increases, evidence in support of shareholders' gains is mixed. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Bondholders Conditional Event Study Corporate Governance Dividends Self-Selection How Do Dividend Announcements Affect Bondholder and Shareholder Wealth? Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Finance University of Oregon
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GOODY, Ky. – Belfry High School will be hosting the 60th District baseball and softball tournaments on Monday and Wednesday May 20 and 22.
On that Monday, the Pirate baseball team will host Phelps at 6:30 p.m. The winner will play Pike County Central on Wednesday at 8 p.m., according to Belfry's Todd Cassell, director for the tourneys.
The softball game will start at 6 p.m. on Monday with Phelps going up against Pike County Central. The winner will play Belfry's Lady Pirates on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Belfry's baseball team is coached by Michael Hagy, while Ryan Chapman coaches the softball team.
As of Friday, May 10, the Pirate baseball team had a record of 12-15, while the softball team had a record of 13-15. The regular season will end this week for both squads.
Hagy's squad will have four road games. They were to have traveled to East Carter on Saturday, then to Allen Central on Monday, Lawrence County on Thursday and Sheldon Clark on Friday.
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Washington. With one year to go until Election Day in the United States, the Republican presidential field is deeply unsettled, leaving President Barack Obama only to guess who his opponent will be. But the race's contours are starting to come into view.
It's virtually certain that the campaign will be a close, grinding affair, markedly different from the 2008 race. It will play out amid widespread economic anxiety and heightened public resentment of government and politicians.
Americans who were drawn to the drama of Obama's barrier-breaking primary battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the up-and-down fortunes of the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, are likely to see a more partisan contest this time, with Ohio and Florida playing crucial roles as they did in 2000 and 2004.
Republicans have their script; they just need to pick the person to deliver it. It will portray Obama as a failed leader who backs away when challenged and who doesn't understand what it takes to create jobs and spur business investment.
Obama will highlight his opponent's ties to the conservative tea party movement and its priorities of advocating deep spending cuts and opposing tax increases. He will say Republicans are obsessed with protecting millionaires' tax cuts while the federal debt soars and working people struggle.
On several issues, voters will see a more distinct contrast between the nominees than in 2008. Even the most moderate Republican candidates have staked out more rigidly conservative views on immigration, taxes and spending than did Arizona Sen. McCain.
Democrats say Obama has little control over the two biggest impediments to his re-election: unemployment and congressional gridlock.
The jobless rate will stand at levels that have not led to a president's re-election since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Largely because of that, Obama will run a much more negative campaign, his aides acknowledge, even if it threatens to demoralize some supporters who were inspired by his 2008 message of hope.
The tea party, one of the modern era's most intriguing and effective political movements, will play its first role in a presidential race. After helping Republicans win huge victories in last year's congressional elections, activists may push the Republican presidential contenders so far right that the eventual nominee will struggle to appeal to independents.
"It's going to be extremely different, with much more hand-to-hand combat, from one foxhole to another, targeted to key states," said Chris Lehane, who helped run Democrat Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.
Republican consultant Terry Holt agreed. "You can expect a very negative campaign," he said. "In 2008, Barack Obama was peddling hope and change. Now he's peddling fear and poverty."
Obama and his aides reject that characterization, of course. They say the Republican candidates are under the tea party's spell, noting that all of them said they would reject a deficit-reduction plan even if it included $10 in spending cuts for every dollar in new taxes.
Both parties agree that jobs will be the main issue. The White House predicts unemployment will hover around 9 percent for at least a year, a frighteningly high level for a president seeking a second term.
Republican lawmakers, who control the House of Representatives and have enough power in the Senate to use procedural maneuvers to prevent votes on legislation, have blocked Obama's job proposals, mainly because they would raise taxes on the wealthy. The candidates, echoing their Republican colleagues in Congress, say new jobs will follow cuts in taxes, regulation and federal spending.
With the economy struggling and Obama hemmed in legislatively, his advisers sometimes say the election will be a choice between the president and his challenger, rather than a referendum on the administration's performance.
"That's a very genteel way of saying, 'Were going to rip your face off,' " said Dan Schnur, a former aide to McCain and other Republicans, and now a politics professor at the University of Southern California. Obama has little choice but to try to portray the Republican alternative as worse than him, Schnur said.
Some Republican candidates would be tougher targets than others. Texas Gov. Rick Perry promotes his state's significant job growth, leaving Democrats to grouse that he was a lucky bystander rather than the cause.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says his years in the private sector make him best suited to lead an economic expansion. But Obama's allies have gathered details of jobs that were eliminated when Bain Capital, a takeover firm that Romney headed, restructured several companies.
Obama's overall job-approval rating was 46 percent in an AP-GfK poll from October. Only 36 percent of adults approved of his handling of the economy, a worrisome number for any incumbent.
Yet 78 percent said he's a likeable person, which forces Republicans to be careful. It's possible that Obama will run a more cut-throat campaign than will his challenger. For now, anyway, Romney calls Obama "a nice guy" who doesn't know how to lead.
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Judy Lash Balint is a Jerusalem-based journalist, writer and author of Jerusalem Diaries: In Tense Times (Gefen) and Jerusalem Diaries II: What's Really Happening in Israel (Xulon Press 2007). She is a contributor to the Fodor's Israel Guide, as well as the Peace Fire anthology (Free Association Books) and The Expulsion from Gush Katif (Southern Hills Press).
In 2003, Ms. Balint received the Mosaic Award for Excellence in Feature Writing about Israeli Peoplehood, Culture and Society and took second place in the Jerusalem Foundation's Excellence in Jerusalem Reporting contest.
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Prior to making aliya in 1998, Ms. Balint served as a national director of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha. Ms. Balint earned an M.S.W. and a B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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When Microsoft launched its Office for iPad apps last month, one of the most requested missing features was printing support. Just over a month later, today the company announced in a blog post that it's updating the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint iPad apps with support for printing in addition to other new features and fixes.
Your top request is here! You can now print Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations to an AirPrintTM printer. In Word for iPad, you can choose to print a document with or without markup. In Excel, print a selected range, a single worksheet or an entire spreadsheet. Of course, you can select the pages or slides you want to print.
In addition to printing, the company also announced that its updated PowerPoint with SmartGuides, the tool that allows users to easily "align pictures, shapes, and textboxes as you move them around on a slide." You'll also find other new features for Excel, as well as fixes and improvements in the other apps:
AutoFit in Excel now lets you adjust the width of multiple rows or the height of multiple columns at the same time. With just a few taps, you'll be sure that your spreadsheet looks better and that no content is hidden.
The updated Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for iPad will be available on the App Store today. The apps are free to download for basic document viewing features, but do require a $99/year (Home) or $69/year (Personal) Office 365 Home subscription to unlock full editing features. You can, however, currently grab the Home subscription for $68 on Amazon, which is even less than Microsoft's cheapest Personal plan.
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It'll probably never happen but the only other feature I need is access to rival cloud storage services.
Anyone notice that big companies release versions of their software missing key features then turn around and add them back in touting them as new features?
Usually it's because they'd rather not have them at all than do a crappy job at it then have to fix the mess later.


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Originally posted by B1mble
Just curious cause I see people say this type of thing about loads of games, why do you think they should leave that comment there? There's nothing constructive in it and it comes across as someone whining to me, which is what I see people complain about a lot on mmorpg.com about their posts being removed (comments like: 'this sucks' getting removed for example)
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Originally posted by comrademario
But, if the other comments from the same post are..
"They have time to make those useless quest interface changes, but no time to fix the damn bug of the dragon mask. (already passed 2-3-4 months?)"
"They have time to make those useless quest interface changes, but no time to fix the damn bug of the dragon mask. (already passed 2-3-4 months?)
Yea, eigher fix it or remove it from the game and pay us back 500 BC. Now it's just our waster money."
and they are still there, then I find it curious that a less strident comment about giving the dwindling population a priority over interface changes warrants any kind of ban. Well not unless any reference to the population is undesirable. :S
At the end of the day if its company policy to censor that particular subject then so be it. More fool him for not reading the T & C.
Also, as my bro and I have left the game because of said issue (low population) I care about it as much as he does which is I dont. I only mentioned it in passing as it is sort of an indicator as to how a company views its customers and I found it funny coz kinfolk got spanked :D.
See i've moderated forums before. I would have binned your brother's comment too because it adds nothing to the discussion, it's just a player trying to be funny/whiny or whatever. There's nothing in that comment that is helpful to that topic in any way.
The other two comments you highlighted actually are problems that need to be fixed. They bought an item, the item doesn't work and they want it fixed or for a refund to be given. That's fair to me and I'd be annoyed if they censored those comments. Your brothers post added nothing though.
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I beg your pardon.
In Russia, Allods are still alive and well.
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To busy playing GW2 to post much around here... *shrug*
Originally posted by Loser60
The dev is Russian and chauvinism seems to work. There are no guarantees that this game will be (can we even say remain?) successful in the US. It's gone downhill since the first cash shop was introduced really.
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Originally posted by Wickedjelly
My friends loved it until the cash shop. They told me horror stories about its pricing and the functionality of the items.
I played it at the start, during open beta and into launch, and it looked damned good for a MMO out of left field that I had never heard of before... but I was deeply entrenched in a WoW raid guild at the time and just didn't have the time for two similar MMOs.
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SInce this thread is back id like to share a funny story about why I cant ever play this game :)
I first tried with my wife when it first released, and we both enjoyed our first try and were loking forward to play more.
The next day I came down with the worst flu I have ever gotten in my life, I tried playing for 5 mins before I felt like puking.
A week later after I recovered we tired again but I suddenly felt nausiated and ill.
Ever since then I cant even think about this game without feeling sick, where was this when I wanted to quit wow XD
Originally posted by comrademario
The other two comments you highlighted actually are problems that need to be fixed.
Ah, so a rapid decline in game population isn't a problem that needs to be fixed? Interesting view.
I would question the logic that accepts one persons gripe about a dragon mask in the same thread, over a comment about the death of the entire product, which for some reason is found to be unnacceptable.
In fact I would question the judgement of the admin that allows player comments on a 'latest development news' topic instead of locking it and leaving it to the relevent discussion section for players to put forward their opinions. The last thing a company needs is for those that read and don't post watch the latest update get trashed by the community.
Plus as paying customers (in the main) I believe they are entitled to question the priorities of a company that thinks autopathing and watching your toon folllowing a ball of wool is more important than actually having players there to appreciate it.
But hey thats just me :S
Just to let you guys know. When i posted this thread i was at endgame and doing these astral runs for gems. Which in my book was a waste of time and thank god Gpotato took that quest out. I think alot of people gave up over that or just stop playing for one reason or another. I was on the verge of quitting and had for a bit til the Patch was released. Gpotato listened to the fanbase and fixed this game good. Now only if Gpotato can do damage control. Its really hard to get people back into playing this game. Im having more fun playing this game than i did when i was leveling my character. I remember all the quest being bugged and jobs not being balanced out. I thnk anybody who is reading these post should give this game a try if they are deciding wether or not to download this game.
I think its really safe to say that cash shop was really not or is a issue. I bet the majority of people who use the cash shop is to buy for want. I bet the biggest selllers are cosmetics and mounts. My biggest bitch was the lack of content in this game wich drove people away.
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Originally posted by huskerman34
So your saying that the cash shop rune system isnt a cash shop factor? You do know that people exclude players with low level runes right.... and getting a 30-40% flat rate dmg and def boost from them isnt "optional", especially for serious pvp and endgame. Yes you can spend a year farming gold and nothing else and get the minimum rune level...otherwise it costs *no joke* thousands of dollars.
With that said...what killed the game was the old cash shop, there were tons of people playing and they added several cash shop systems on top of the ridiculous rune system, on top of the decorative and convienience items people want to buy in the cash shop. Luckily they got rid of the curse items making them free in the cash shop.
Dont be fooled, once you realize the cash shop in the game, in its current form, youll need to make a decision on if the game is worth it to you. It drives most people away whould otherwise spend thousands less on a good p2p game and have access to everything. That is this games biggest downfall.
If the cash shop isnt the reason why dont we tell potential players how much real money it would take to go from level 3 runes (something that is hard to do in game but not crazy) to level 7? I think i linked the site that explained, but lets highlight this issue. How much to go from all level 3 runes to all level 5 (bare min) then 6 then 7...break it down for us how the cash shop couldnt possibly be a factor. Ignore bag expansions (very needed if you plan to farm gold) cosmetics extra earring slot so on and so forth...lets focus on the raw dmg and def stats from runes and their cost....especially since having low runes will get you excluded in game.
My guess is you wont...since its a crazy amount of money.
Just to add..the point of this game in its entierty is almost completely focused on farming gold for the cash shop items. Less you drop $5,000 off the bat....otherwise your goal is to farm gold so you can buy pay to win items and participate in endgame.
Originally posted by Crunchy221
Well your bitching has no real basis. If you played this game long enough which by the sounds of it you didnt. Then you would know that you dont have to open your wallet or purse to play this game. Gpotato offers you many options of getting gpots and getting runes. Not once was i forced to buy from the cash shop. I used the cash shop cuz i wanted. IF you cant farm in this game , then you dont need to be playing mmorpgs then. Its a requirment for all mmorpg. Oh just for you information i didnt spend no more than 20 real dollars on this game to buy Gpots. I got my runes to 7. No since gpots can be bought and sold through exchange system the cash shop is irrelavant.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but one way of earning Gpots is grinding surveys and opening yourself up to an atrocious amount of advertising.
It is another way (possibly horrendously time consuming) of earning cash without denting your wallet. At the end of the day though the game is still dying and Gpotato is still an Anti Midas company that turns everything it touches to S*@t. The upcoming update is elitist and caters to the minority and it is still massively pay2win.
Hell, it must be getting pretty bad as the EU forum is taking issue with anything that mentions population or even hints at it. The temp ban hammer must be playing whack a mole at the mo.
Dude, you spend a lot of time on here bad mouthing them for someone who has said recently that you don't about the game or what gPotato do any more . Move on if you don't like it :P
Originally posted by comrademario
Meh. Your probably right. It just irks that another great game seems to be going the way of the dinosaurs. :(
Do you know one thing I love about Allods apart from the usual? Female characters wear armour. Actual armour. It really bugged me after a while that in other games a bikini top and a thong had the same protection as full plate. It sort of........didn't scan. Looked good if the graphics were up to par but just didn't fit if you know what I mean. Plus if they could wear that kind of kit and have good protection why couldnt my barb run around in a thong :P
I also love the Astral, the ships, the character variation that can be built through stats and rubies and runes, the atmosphere, the character graphics etc etc.
I guess thats why it is hard not to be cheesed off with the way its going. :(
Originally posted by B1mble
It seems like your reaching to prove your point.
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This is like trying to drive straight through Schroedinger's minefield!
What eventually drove me away from Allods (and the Arisen... still a pity. They were one of the visually most interesting races in the MMO landscape) was my inability to grasp the attribute-system. Some people tried to explain it to me but I couldn't make sense of any of it.
A game that depends largely on the bigger number but fails to show or explain how these numbers work together and against each other can't hold me for long. I don't like playing games that make me feel stupid. °_O
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To busy playing GW2 to post much around here... *shrug*
Originally posted by Indrome
Was it a long time ago that you played? The tips from the stats seem to actually mean something now, it should be rather self explanatory, no matter what class you play. The stats have been simplified a lot too, mainly for easier balancing.
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This is like trying to drive straight through Schroedinger's minefield!
Aye, t'was a long time ago. Can't even remember the basis of my falling out with that particular system so well anymore. ... Meh, times past.
But thanks for the info. Might check it out again if I ever feel the urge to see the Arisen again.
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Allods was a great game i start it as Beta on EU and was one of the first 40lvl priests on russian servers. But game can be as great as fun as you can imaging but if publishers or developer starting to treat gamers like money bags its always end for any game. for some time 5th stage of "how it called" was optional and only gave you +hp but runes from very beggining were game breakers as for 13th lvl you needed like for new house. and playing with affordable 4-5 lvl runes was just painfull not saying you was instantly owned by some "epic" gamers with 9-10lvl punes no matter how skill you was. it was first time i left game after they added debuff on every death and just before they introdused first raid dungeon. after a year or so i tried to return to game yes they added some nice things redone 5th stage of "" and now it was pure Pay us 200$ a month if you want to stay in game. it was absolutelly Must to uprgade to 5th lvl "" as healer and cost around 300$. ok done it forgot as game acctually was fun. and sudenlly runes became a problem also as you want like 6-7lvl at least and only way to get them in game is to farm 24/7 not kind of my definition of fun sadly :( . MOnthly actions to open boxes to get extra +1-4 abbility or equal insanly disbalansing items. all just accelerated end for the game :( and "toilet" riders on their insanly Over powered "mounts". Astral was so much fun Ship navigating +1 i really loved it not even 100day ship building time stoped me. by the time 46lvl was introdused in game and around 600$ total spending for maybe top of 6 monthg playing it was Real end of game for me at least. Great game insanly poor presentation by greed monsters :(
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Them honey badgers
It is games industries. At this point people will try to fill their bags before they close, so this is not something new I see. From my experiance in F2P games, all end up the same. It is like a long version of a demo game unless you pay to keep up leveling and so. The only issue that bother me is you need cash shop items to do a stable damage, and that completely inblance the game from it is roots to it is top branch. When I see such game doing so I have no more fun there, because money will make you own not skills and gear. maybe runes for some is not a big deal but once u test it in real game you will see, that this particular item can boost your class by 50% maybe less or more depends on how much runes u equip on each of the 6 peices. And this is completely funny and in time you will feel bored. It is just a matter of time until this game shut and closed. The new patch explain the whole disaster which they going to merge the 2 servers to be one and thats a sign of low populated game just like requiem if anybody playing or played it before. requiem is a perfect example just like allods.
anyway I will have to wait until these piles of shit gone from the face of internet and new ones comes or if these franchises gets republised again.


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Claudia Greige's life is now back in Corpus Christi, but her thoughts are still in a tiny village called Aaba, with her husband's relatives and the people of Lebanon.
"It's very difficult to leave his family there, with all this going on," she said. "I hope that all of this will end."
Greige was able to briefly forget about war on Thursday when she, her husband Sam and their 8-year-old daughter Megan returned home after their vacation left them stranded in war-torn Lebanon. Megan, wearing a red, traditional Lebanese hat, celebrated with friends and classmates when she and her parents arrived at Corpus Christi International Airport.
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When starting out it is impossible to know your costs. So you need to keep records.
I estimate by the SF. It takes out the guess work. When you start measuring you will have a property size. As you work through the season you will get data on how long it takes you to do so many SF in so much time.
Once you know the time it takes and your costs you will then get good pricing.
Example, a 1/4 acre lawn you do in 30 min's. Your costs are $20. You want to make $20 hour pay. You charge $30.
Business cost is more then gas and line and blades. Repair, maintenance, replacement money to buy new equipment. Money to add additional equipment to grow the business. Even trucks and trailers have to be factored in.
Then there is office supplies, insurance, licenses. All are part of a businesses costs.
So until you learn your costs try to find out what the local pricing is where you live so you do not ask to high and get no work or ask to low and lose money.
Many a LCO start out trying to get $60 hour. At that rate there should be enough gross to cover all of your costs and pay you a salary.
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Pernille visits her Thai friends and
colleagues and takes a swim with them
in the waterfall
Nut and Pernille play in muddy waters and wash afterwards
Tuk and Lin in white pants and denim jacket with little tops.
Two katoy with a good focus on the long jeans
On plays in mud and water
Tuk & Lin in jeans an white pants get somewhat muddy
Pernille and Nut in jeans and jackets play/fight to get each other dirty!
Pel & Ju use the swimming pool to get their sexy outfits wet
Om, Pa and Pernille play around in lack boots on the rocks in big waves
Pall in white blouse and a very tiny skirt with black boots
On gets her jeans outfit dirty by sitting in ashes, dust and mud. Nice
thong btw
Pall is pretty and happy.... she is wearing a great jeans and white blouse
which she gets soaking wet with fun!
Tak & Yuy in shorts pose sexy on the beach
Om & Pa in very short
shorts on the beach and in the ocean.
A double feature movie with 5
girls completely rolling in nice, thick mud!
240 pics of Pall and Yuy on a
sunny day at the beach having fun with water and sand on their very short
Big set of Ta in jeans shorts,
lack boots and little top, getting muddy and wet
Nat & Bon in jeans pants
and shorts getting wet
"What you mean, keep our
clothes clean?":-)
Movie of Pal & Ju at
Patong beach, wearing jeans
Oy and Am in short skirt in
orange clay
Ca in 2 outfits in the mud, a
jeans with white blouse and a lack suit
Very good video of FIVE Thai
girls crawling in dirt,
Danish Pernille teams up with
Thai girl Ma in a boots-in-the-mud-game... Some good washing afterwards
Ging and Mon find a flooded
street to wash after the mudding, but it's even easier with the hose at
Movie of two crazy girls
wading in deep mud!
Another set with orange clay,
two friends in jeans abuse the mud and have fun!
Lack boots and little lingerie
but it are her poses that make this dirty set so hot!
Continuation of Job & Kim
Bo & Nut in very short
shorts and a little jacket first get muddy, then wash themselves
One for the lovers of very
high boots, wading in mud.
Ca in a tight jeans gets
herself muddy in this small, but very pleasant set!
Bee, Far & Puk first play
in muddy waters, after cleaning up they pose some more
Great movie of Dung and her
friend in jeans outfit playing in mud and getting themselves completely
Wang hoses herself down in
tight jeans
Pat & Wan play in the
ocean in their long clothes,
Oy & Pat first play in the
mud, then wash themselves, with pleasure!
Movie of Vang & Tukta,
they find a muddy puddle and have some dirty fun! :-)
Om and Te in hotpants play
with water
Sexy and muddy Thai girls,
losing clothes while playing
Two girls in the jungle in a
lake where they make a great mud spot!
Movie of 3 girls in Danish
mud, I dug a hole behind my house and rain did the rest, they enjoyed it
very much :-)
Pat & Wan get sprayed by a
garden hose, then take a walk around the city to show their wet clothes
Muddy girls grow in trees :-)
Good they can wash afterwards.
Fun on the beach with two
girls in jeans
Nice movie of 2 girls wading
in deep mud and getting so dirty!
Two friends start out playing
in a lake, but end up rubbing and moaning in wet mud
Her white jeans soon get gray
by the mud she is rolling in...
Wang is holding some firm
balls while getting all muddy
Movie of Ran, Jing and Ging,
in the back of our house in Denmark, playing with wet clay
Pat & Wan on the beach in
long pants, walking between all the tourists :-)
A two-parter, first in sexy
outfits getting dusty, then some pics in the mudpit behind our house.
Movie of 2 girls in tight
jeans wading around in a lake, one in very long pvc boots
Omte first gets made up by her
friends, then shows off her cowboy outfit with cut off denim shorts and
short top.
An extra pictureset of the two
girls in their wet jeans!
Very nice movie of two Thai
girls in regular jeans, blouse and shirt, getting all wet and having so
much fun!
Wang is a hot girl with her
string in an all jeans outfit!
New girls Pat & Wan in
white and blue jeans walk around the city, then decide to go to the beach
Good movie of two girls in
jeans rubbing each other on their dirty clothes
Little set but very hot! Two
little red dresses, two hot girls and some cooling water!
Two girls in jeans get muddy
with nice, wet mud
After mudding it is good to
wash yourself!
Animalprint top with little
fur coat and a shiny red blouse, both in hotpants!
Tight jeans getting dirty in
the yellow clay!
2 Movies of Noa and Goi in
several outfits playing in a little stream.
Wearing a silky yellow dress
and a red shirt over shorts, these two find a construction site to get
muddy on, washing with a garden hose!
Tukta and Ba find some good
mudspot and get their jeans dirty and wet.
Bee and Tae in silky shirts
and jeans in muddy water
Two girls first get their
jeans dirty in mud, then play in water to get clean again!
By request Pall finally shows
her breasts, covered in mud!
Actually a very dry set this
week, 2 Thai girls get their jeans dirty, dusty and ashy, and play with
each other!
Movie of Nit and Thip in
clothes, playing very sensual and wet
Mature Thai ladies in jeans
jackets and on All Stars sneakers play around in muddy water.
Not much water here, but those
dirty jeans in the mud are very nice to enjoy!
Two girls get their jeans
muddy and try to keep the satin blouses clean.
They get their jeans dirty in
some mud, and wash it off in a lake!
Two girls begin in jeans
jacket and a white skirt, but end up in hotpants and muddy water!
Mud, water and dust make a fun way to get dirty :-)
3 girls in jeans get a little muddy, then wash it in a lake!
Far is wearing black leather
boots and hotpants when she rolls around the orange clay of her village
Pall in hot skirt and white
top gets herself dusty, then washes herself with a garden hose.
Ann & Por playing with eggs part two, funny movie of
girls in jeans rolling around in broken eggs.
Oy and May in wet sand wearing
thigh high lack boots!
After crawling around in some dust Gao and Ging find orange mud with just a little bit of water on it,
4 girls play in muddy water
and get dirty. At the end they take of their clothes to wash them.
30 minute movie of two Thai girls, first a little cat fight on the ground,
Ging and Ran in jeans
walk into a lake, but the bottom is filled with gray mud.
Por is having a fag while sitting in gravely mud. She gets her jeans all dirty on the ground in the process.
Ann and Wan play and fight in
a shallow puddle with orange water!
3 girls crawl around a muddy lake filled with orange water.
uk and Wan have some dirty
jeans and white blouses, so they wash themselves in the ocean
2 girls wiggle themselves in a mud pit until they are stuck 2/3 of their bodies in the slimy mud.
Tukta and Ba are playing in a
little stream in their tight jeans pants!
Ann & Por are wearing jeans pants and jeans jackets and they decided not to go swimming, but to play with eggs.
Ging and Pall in jeans get
dirty in the mud, especially Pall covers herself in wet mud!
31 minute movie of Bee and Rai on a rainy day, they get stuck in the mud
knee deep and play to get dirty!
Ann & Wan on high lack
boots, first Wan eats an icecream the dirty way, then they pose and play
in orange mud.
Bee and Rai play in short shorts on a river bank and get themselves muddy. They wash each other in the lake, having fun.
We got some nice compliments
last week, so here's another pool-set:
Movie of 4 friends in the swimming pool, wearing red clothes and playing,
laughing and having fun being wet!
Nut & Bo in blue and pink
dress on the shores of a ricefield where they play in the muddy water
2 friends go for a walk and find a little mud puddle.
Two of our most popular ladies
are back, Ging and Pall use a rice field to ruin their clothes :-)
Movie of Noi and Gao on the border of a rice field.
3 friends take a ride through
the city to end up on the side of the road where there is a puddle of
dirty, muddy water.
2 Thai girls walk around in mud in jeans to get completely mudded at the end!
Oy and Gan are both wearing
long jeans and a jacket over a shirt, they play on the beach and walk
around the city wet.
Ann and Por find a spot with very enjoyable mud, where they sink until their knees.
3 friends go mudding just
outside the city, they find a dark mud hole to play in, and wash
themselves in a little lake.
Bee and Rai fight in the mud, while laughing and getting very, very dirty!
2 Thai milfs in jeans all wet,
and a little bonus, a small set of 2 girls in bikini I met in Pattaya.
Movie of Bee and Rai,
they roll in the mud and wash themselves in an exiting scene!
Noi and Jane are cousins and
show a lot in this wet set.
Ging and Gao in very wet clay rolling around sexy. At the
end some nice washing with the garden hose.
2 girls play in muddy water,
including some nice behind the scenes of the washing off.
16 minute movie of 3 Thai girls in very sticky mud. It's hard to move in their jeans.
Long movie of Beer in white
lackboots walks around in mud and rolls in water.
Something for the footlovers
this week, bare naked feet in clayish mud!
Long movie of Ann and Por in
jeans outfits, making love in sucking mud.
Two sisters after a mudbath
try to wash themselves a bit :-)
3 Thai girls are wearing jeans outfits and roll on the ground in the dust
and dirt.
Two girls at rocky beach try
to stand up in the breaking waves. Hot skirts.
3 friends in hotpants and
small tops in a waterfall.
Nat & Bon in very hot
outfits at the sunny beach! They get wet and pose inviting.
Movie of three girls playing
sexy in a thin muddy goo!
Oy and May in very hot
hotpants, sexy and shiny with a nice cameltoe :-)
Movie of May, destroying the
boots she wore before. First breaking them, then burning them.
Tukta and Ba play in very
muddy water. They shout from the fun they are having and play wild to get
all wet, and later on, all muddy.
Reprise of 4 friends on a
mudtrip, this time an extended version of not 10, but 24 minutes girls
playing in mud!
4 friends at a wet place in
the yellow clay, where they get themselves very dirty!
Bambi from Denmark visited us
in Thailand and right away got her thick-high lack boots stuck in
Nam and Hom at the beach in a
white pants and denim hotpants. Wildly playing and getting completely
Movie of May and Nut in the
pool, in 3 different outfits! They play, tie Nut up and pose in a lovely
pink dress.
Noi and Jane first play in
their jeans in some wet mud, then move to the ocean to get clean and wet.
Tukta & Ba crawl around in
their jeans (one flared) and get them dirty.
2 Movies of Oy and Pat! First
they play in their kinky lack outfits in mud and water,
Nit and Tip are very sexy and
playfull girls on All Stars in muddy water.
Long movie of 5 girls at
Pattaya beach in regular outfits and some sexy hotpants.
Tuk and Wan in a dried up
river bed with yellow clay get their jeans and white blouses dirty!
Movie of Bo & Nut in
jackets and jeans in water and later on in some wet mud.
Something else this week, odds
and ends from various girls:
2 Movies of Nong and Pang!
Together 20 minutes in 2 sexy and nice outfits they play in water that
gets very muddy.
Oy and Pat reminded me of the 80's
rockband Kiss :-) Their lack outfits are unusual, but fun.


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|Less than $7
Posted by Jim on 06/20/2013
Love this place, each time I visit the city I got to come here. Love the corner location great place for people watching. I have had great breakfast. But my favorite is the veggie burger and the salads. Fun atmosphere, esp on the sidewalk seating.
Posted by Roy on 06/10/2013
The burger was amazing, but it took over 20 minutes after being seated to even place our order. After numerous requests for our drinks, they never did come. We were also left without water for over 20 minutes. The bill came with our drinks on it, so we had to have them taken off.
Posted by WB on 12/05/2012
$13.95 for a Med Chopped Salad that consists of 1 olive sliced into slivers, one baby carrot shaved, and few tomato pieces coupled with dry chicken over iceburg lettuce is an insult. A prior visit was the same deal. Save your time and money for somewhere else.
Posted by Michael on 11/14/2010
Was here on a Friday night about 2am. Never, never again. Blasting music, dirty tables, indifferent and overwhelmed servers, totally average food, cold food that should be hot and decldedly shady and intoxicated fellow patrons. Whoever the manager was, they had completely lost control of the place. Our server actually told us, "This is nothing, you should see it some nights." We couldn't wait to get out of there. Nothing to recommend it.
Posted by shabuchwae on 09/22/2010
I went here the other Sunday with a group of people in my fitness group. We all decided to learn how to eat out healthily. So we split everything to compensate for the huge portions. The service was solid. The fruit salad platter we ordered was huge, colorful, and very fresh! They made great choices of very complimentary fruits. The ceasar sald with chicken was meh. Standard fare with nothing to impress. The turkey burger was ASTOUNDING!!! I'm sure it's even better on the brioche roll it traditionally comes on...but we ordered it on 7-grain and it was great! And you MUST try the Tuna Nicoise Salad! SOOO GOOD!!!!! I'm not quite sure what the Chickan Paillard was trying to be...but it was the same chicken breast we were given with the ceasar salad but with a mystery sauce overtop of it...and the brown rice wasn't very brown...or was soaked in butter...because it wasn't steamed and you couldn't taste the usual nutty flavor inherent to brown rice. We also ordered greens instead of carbs with all of the dishes and those were quite fresh. And the dressings we ordered on the side were delightful. We obviously made a lot of requests for changes to the menued items. But our server never blinked an eye and gladly accommodated everything. The space had a very open feel. The establishment was very clean. The servers and hostesses were quite attractive. It was primely located and offered a nice traditional diner/Meatpacking fusion experience. You might expect better cuisine in the Meatpacking District (I sure do)...but I still think its a good spot if you want to dine in that area and have a nice experience without being bent over when you pay your bill.
Posted by Griff12 on 04/22/2010
I recently went to the Diner w/ a bunch of old friends and we had a great experience. We all ordered something different and everything tasted fresh and delicious. Especially the burger and disco fries. Our waitress was lovely - very attentive and friendly and on the ball. Although it was quite crowded, we never felt rushed and we lingered over several rounds of drinks and a fattening dessert. The price was very reasonable by NYC standards. The only negative was a bit of a wait for the bathroom. Not enough to keep me from going back again soon.
Posted by Anonymous on 04/01/2010
It was on a Tuesday at 2am. Food was cooling off, as I waited to get the attention of the waitress, since no butter was brought out with my toast. Not only that, but they weren't crowded, I was alone, there was nothing unusual going on, and still, I had to wait a good half hour just for my bill to come. Actually a half hour went by, before I was ASKED if I wanted the bill, even though the reason was clear what I was sticking around for. The dinner itself tasty...but Huevos Ranchero will only yield you a single spoonful of beans which is pathetic.