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Herb Pharm's Celandine Extract is a good source of greater celandine (also known as chelidonium majus)' which is an herb that may work to maintain overall well-being in several ways.
For instance' celandine extract may help address some signs of mild anxiety or tension. In particular' it may promote relaxation and help you get a good night's sleep by serving as a gentle sedative.
In addition' celandine may act to stimulate the release of bile' which may work to support healthy digestion by breaking down fats. Due to its antispasmodic properties' this herb may also work to alleviate certain symptoms associated with gallstones' such as abdominal pain' nausea' or indigestion.
Moreover' celandine extract might have a mild detoxifying effect. Notably' greater celandine's alkaloid and flavonoid components may serve as antioxidants that may work to protect your cells from free radical damage.
Celandine Extract by Herb Pharm is produced with the fresh flowering herbs and roots of organically grown chelidonium majus plants that are harvested by hand.
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By Desert Rose
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Amazing for Gallbladder
Over 20 years ago when I was having a severe gallbladder attack a friend who is an experienced nurse practitioner recommended Celandine. The herbalist I bought the tincture from told me to put one drop under the tongue and wait - literally one drop - not the many drops suggested on the label. I couldn't believe the relief from that one single drop. Because gallbladder problems have been a major problem in my family for generations, I've continued to use this wonderful tincture. In a really severe attack, I would still use one drop but when I catch the symptoms before they become painfully acute, I often use 3-6 drops and find that sufficient. Each person is different but it never hurts to start low and go higher as needed. I also recommend Chelidonium, the homeopathic potency of this wonderful plant. Another reviewer stated that it didn't help with warts - not surprising since I've never heard or read of Chelidnium/Celandine being used for that purpose.
I like the quality of Herb Pharm tinctures.
This form of Celandine has alcohol - I prefer the alcohol-free version that Herb Pharm makes but that is a matter of personal preference.
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Tactical Machine will give you 10% off, if your a Vet or say you saw them on Facebook..
Hell they will even put it together for you and have it ready when you get there.
Musibike. "AR sweet to assemble." All those damn flying springs and crap..
The AK is a cake walk compared too that flying spring, small pin crap..
My cat ate one spring, went in his food dish. He is fine, it passed..

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Hello everyone,
This is sort of related to the thread http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=225156 on the book The Honey Revolution.
I just think it would be great to hear other people's story on how they've experienced the health benefits of honey. I just put up a page on my website: http://www.honey-for-health.com/heal...-of-honey.html
and at the bottom of the page, you can tell your own stories about how you have gained the benefits of honey for any health problems, etc.
This is a great forum and I'm sure you guys (beekeepers or not) have a little bit of something that you can share.


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Considering this issue's marijuana madness, we'd be remiss not to mention this weekend's Hempstock festivities, taking place in remote Starks, near Skowhegan, for the 18th (and possibly final) year.
The festival, organized by the pro-pot organization Maine Vocals, will start on Thursday, and finish up on Sunday, August 17. Jam bands on the scene including Banyan, Big Rhythm Wine, and Portland regulars Hoboe, Stream Band, and Shy Green are scheduled to perform over the weekend. Tickets are $35 at the gate; it's $70 if you want to camp. Police presence has varied over the past few years.
But it's not just toking and tunes that the weekend is intended to promote, says head organizer Don Christen, an active marijuana activist in Maine.
"Hempstock is a fundraiser for our petition drive to fix our current medical laws," Christen says, referring his efforts to reform Maine's medical marijuana statutes, which he says are "in need of drastic repair."
Maine law allows for the use of marijuana in certain medical circumstances, yet it does not provide for the legal acquisition of the plant or its seeds. Nor does the state have any type of statewide ID card (as they do in Vermont and Rhode Island) to identify medical-marijuana users. Christen and other activists say these two deficiencies severely limit the law's potential.
Christen and Maine Vocals have had trouble rounding up sufficient funds and manpower to launch a legitimate petition drive. They've also run into trouble with the Starks landowner, who's expressed some reservations about continuing to hold Hempstock on his Abijah Hill Road land. To that end, "We have purchased a piece of land in Harmony for holding festivals," Christen writes in an email. The site already hosted the Somerset County Jam Fest earlier this year, and two additional festivals — Reggae Fest in September and a Harvest Fest in October — are scheduled there.
"We are ready to move the other events here if need arises and will make it our new home for all the festivals. The site is fairly secluded and the neighbors don't have a problem . . . and the town can prosper also with the business we can bring their way."
Hopefully Harmony stocks lots of pizza and Combos.
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Nothing like a bright moonlight desert night, two good buddies and an oxidized orange (aka the Pumpkin) 1974 Chevy Suburban 454 w/ 4 speed manual and a sound system that rivals several night clubs for a good time. This is what I did last night. And yes, we were all bad. Much beer was had.
Sounds fun! Neat truck, too.
Ahh, that's nice.
The truck, that is.
Ahhhh...To be young and carefree and drunk out in the desert.... in a Suburban. Life is good. Drink it up!


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Honey and almonds flavor this simple (and gluten-free) cake. It's lovely for afternoon tea or a spring holiday dessert. Be careful not to overbeat the egg whites—they should be white and very foamy, but not at all stiff or able to hold peaks. If you beat them too much, the cake may sink in the middle as it cools.
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I am learning and started assembling some frames from Mann Lake and they are splitting like crazy. Using the nails provided and curious is this common or should I be using something other than nails.
Thanks in advance for ideas
I am learning and started assembling some frames from Mann Lake and they are splitting like crazy. Using the nails provided and curious is this common or should I be using something other than nails.
Thanks in advance for ideas
I don't use Mann lake frames, I use Kelly frames. I don't have any problem with them splitting. They may have sent the wrong nails.
Got to be nails that are too fat(wide). Use a very thin finishing nail and Titebond II wood glue(or other waterproof glue)
Mann Lake does good frames.
Old Guy in Alabama
I am agreeing with JR. I have had no trouble with Mann Lakes frames. Atleast close to a thousand in hives now. i use 1 1/2" staples in mine. good luck to you all.
I have the nails provided by Mann Lake that are not finishing nails - they have very small heads on them - will look at the staple option and smaller nails in next couple of days -- thanks
The nails shown in the Mann Lake catalog for frame assembly are 3/4" long. Of course, they sell other sizes for different purposes:
If the nails that you are using are other than 3/4" long, I'd suggest contacting Mann Lake for the correct size.
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I use a pneumatic stapler with narrow crown staples and Titebond III but a good way to reduce splitting is to tap the pointy end of the nail with a hammer to blunt it a bit. This causes the nail to tear the wood fibers instead of wedging them apart. Works very well. It's an old trick my Dad taught me from his 40+ years as a carpenter. Good luck!
"Someday we will look back and realize someone was right...and conveniently forget we were the ones that were wrong."
I purchased the unassembled frames from Mann Lake when I started beekeeping Sat and put 8 nails in each frame. I used a precision hammer instead of a big honkin hammer. I sucked at hammering nails. Now I don't suck too bad. If you got the nails that the website said to use. Perhaps adapt your blows. I didn't get a the whole compressor and staple gun till recently. Now I suck at using pneumatic tools and switch over to manually hammering them sometimes. Good Luck!
I would call mann lake and tell them what is happening. Maybe they sent the wrong nails. I bet they make it right anyway. Nails do split more equipment than staples. I was taught to always pound in a nail with the chisel side accross the grain. That does tend to split wood less.
I put together 800 mann lake frames this winter without a single split but I use 1/4 crown staples and not nails
1/4 ? I used 1", it wasn't a success. Maybe I could use the huge box of 1/2 inch I bought
These are 1/4" crown staples, 1" long.
These would be used with a pneumatic stapler and an air compressor. They are not the same thing as staples that fit in a "hand powered" staple gun. As Danno pointed out, the 1/4" refers to the width of the staple, not the length.
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> a good way to reduce splitting is to tap the pointy end of the nail with a hammer to blunt it a bit.
> I have a small steel block on my workbench that I use for dulling nails to prevent splitting.
On occasion I collect discarded wood for reuse. Sometimes when removing the nails I find some (obviously applied with a pneumatic gun) that have virtually no point at all. Now I know why they were used!
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if you happen to get a batch of frames that want to split, usually this only happens with old coarse or dried out wood: a few hours before assembly soak them in water awhile, let them surface dry an hour so the glue will stick then assemble... you should not run into this with mann lake stuff their products are excellent. some other posters had real good sugestions.
One other thing you might try, stick the point of the nail into a block of beeswax before before nailing.
Quite often will keep wood from splitting.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I started learning about assembling frames on Friday afternoon just as Mann Lake closed for the weekend. I did find success with drilling a tiny pilot hole about 1/4" deep and that eliminated the splitting, I only placed one nail and glue in each top & bottom bars - not sure how that will play down the road. Frames are 6"5/8 - most seemed to have a good firm fit.
Will do as suggested and call Mann Lake on Monday - they seem like a good supplier - it just surprised me how fragile the frames were in response to my small hammer and their nails -- Thanks again


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My Second question of the day: people often ask if my work is microwave safe. The truth is, I don't know. I don't have a microwave, and never have. It is fired to cone 5,6 depending on which clay body I'm using. It seems quite vitreous so I assume that no water would seep into the clay body and cause problems in a microwave? Up until now I've just said that I can't guarantee it. Is there a way to tell, short of enlisting a friend with a microwave?
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National speaker Glenn Anderson, the first deaf African-American to receive a doctorate degree, will discuss "Success Strategies for Students of Color" on Monday, April 14, at Pulaski Technical College.
Dr. Anderson's presentations will begin at 10 a.m. Monday in the R. J. Wills Lecture Hall located in the Campus Center on the college's main campus in North Little Rock, 3000 West Scenic Drive.
His presentation is free and open to the public.
Dr. Anderson has worked for more than four decades to provide advocacy and community services for deaf people. He currently is director of training at the University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing located in Little Rock. He's also a professor in UAF's Department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources, and Communication Disorders.
He was inducted into the American Athletic Association of the Deaf Hall of Fame in 1992, the Gallaudet University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995, and the National Hall of Fame for People with Disabilities in 2004.
Dr. Anderson's son, Jamall Anderson, played for the Atlanta Falcons last year.
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Your thoughtfulness is as beautiful as the quilt. What a good friend you are and she is so fortunate to have you.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Your thoughtfulness is as beautiful as the quilt. What a good friend you are and she is so fortunate to have you.
Really beautiful! That fabric is so pretty! You all are wonderful friends for her. Thank you!
What a wonderful thing to do and a beautiful quilt!
Very pretty quilt top
The whole quilt is stunning and that peacock fabric is wonderful! The love put into it will warm and comfort your friend throughout her battle. My prayers are with her.
that is gorgeous and the quilting is superb!
A rolling stone gathers no moss
OH it is stunning! May your friend's angels come and wrap their loving healing arms around her and guide her through this horrible time. You are a incredible person and even better friend to do this for her!
Resolve to be thyself, and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Mathew Arnold 'Self-Dependence' 1822-1888
Beautiful quilt, what a wonderful thing you did just for her.. I'm sure she will love it..
What a beautiful quilt and what a dear friend you are!!!


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Discover the marvels of China in May 2013
By Kathleen Rubino '13
The Alumni Association and Distinguished Service Professor John Chaffee are sponsoring a tour to China, May 26-June 8, 2013. This trip is open to the public. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
Chaffee, a longtime faculty member in history and Asian and Asian American studies, was born in China to missionary parents. During his time at Binghamton, he has written many books and articles about China, and visited the country often.
"I hope that I will be able to share my love of Chinese history and my lifelong fascination with China," Chaffee says. "It is an endlessly fascinating country, and, from trip to trip, it changes before one's eyes."
He says China is the seat of one of the great civilizations of the world, but is also a land that is imbued with historical significance - something that will be a special focus of this trip.
Travelers can look forward to an extensive tour of China, starting with Shanghai's Jade Buddha Temple and ending with an excursion to the Great Wall of China. Visitors will even visit Suzhou and Hangzhou, two scenic areas of China that few American tourists ever get a chance to see.
This unique tour has several Binghamton connections. In Wuxi, travelers will meet Ruby Wang, a longtime Binghamton resident who has retired to her birthplace. A tour of the Wuxi Museum will include a wing devoted to her paintings. Then, in Beijing, artist Michael Cherney '93 will meet with the group; he has won Chinese awards for work that combines Chinese and Western genres from calligraphy to photography.
The trip costs $4,299 per person (with a $500 deposit due upon registration), which includes airfare, 14 nights of first-class lodging, most meals (including a gala farewell banquet), internal flights and train tickets.
See a detailed itinerary at the Alumni Travel Program website. To register or get more information, contact partner agency Travel with the Experts at 888-684-4885 or email@example.com.


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she who must be obeyed: a humorous way of referring to someone's wife or female partner
'Well today has been my own. SWMBO has been at work so I've had some peace and quiet …'Narrowboat Alacrity [weblog] 23rd February 2008
'Her husband built everything, and she finished everything. I'm not big on finishing, so this sounds like a good plan. I was wondering how much others get their SWMBOs involved in the work?'Old Tools 11th June 1999
like similar expressions, the phrase on which SWMBO is based suggests a kind of mock female dominance
Her indoors, The old lady, The trouble and strife, My other/better half … these are just some examples of those humorous, informal (or just plain irritating) ways of describing wives or female partners. The preponderance of references to women, rather than men, in such phrases suggests just how discriminatory the English language can be. And Internet-speak has now provided yet another to add to the set: if you're a regular web user, you might have come across someone referring to their beloved as SWMBO.
SWMBO, pronounced 'swimbo', is an acronym of 'She Who Must Be Obeyed', a tongue-in-cheek reference to a female partner. Though the phrase itself has been around for some time, the acronym form has only appeared relatively recently, popularised by use in blogs, forums, chatrooms and instant messaging. Like similar expressions, the phrase on which SWMBO is based suggests a kind of mock female dominance. This idea is carried over into a much less frequently used male counterpart: IAYM, an acronym of 'I Am Your Master'.
An alternative to SWMBO with arguably gentler overtones is GLW, an acronym of 'Good Lady Wife', which was originally popularised in Australia but now also occurs across the English-speaking Internet.
The expression on which SWMBO is based, She Who Must Be Obeyed, was brought into general recognition in the late seventies by a British television series called Rumpole Of The Bailey. The main character in the series, Horace Rumpole, is a London defence barrister. As well as featuring Rumpole's legal activities, the drama also deals with his personal life and family relationships, notably his wife Hilda, who he secretly refers to as she who must be obeyed.
Though the Rumpole series popularised the expression, its first use in fact dates back to a 19th century novel entitled She, by British author and scholar Henry Rider Haggard. The title serves as an abbreviation of the phrase she who must be obeyed, a mark of respect which is used to refer to Ayesha, a fictitious white queen featured in the novel. It is also claimed that during his childhood, Haggard's nursemaid threatened him with an ugly doll which she described as she who must be obeyed.
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Punctuation of Quotations
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In all academic writing,
Quotations must have appropriate punctuation.
In order to determine how to punctuate the phrase that comes before a quotation, you need to know whether the phase is an independent clause. Here, you have three options:
1. When the quotation is merged into a clause, no punctuation is necessary to divide them.
Roosevelt spoke of December 7, 1941, as "a day that will live in infamy."
2. If the quotation is preceded by a form of a word like say, reply, or answer, that word is followed by a comma.
She knows she is no longer safe, saying, "I feared for my Safety in this wicked House" (28).
3. If a complete sentence or independent clause precedes the quotation, a colon is the appropriate mark of punctuation.
She knows she is no longer safe: "I feared for my Safety in this wicked House" (28).
Also make sure that you place quotation marks correctly with respect to other punctuation marks and with citations.
1. The final period or comma goes inside the quotation marks, even if it is not a part of the quoted material, unless the quotation is followed by a citation. If a citation in parentheses follows the quotation, the period follows the citation. If a superscript footnote number is used, it follows the period and the quotation marks.
a) The Portland vase is "blue porcelain," according to Compson (435).
Comma is within the quotation marks; the period follows the citation.
b) Macbeth says, "Life's but a walking shadow" (5.5.24).
Citation follows the quotation marks; period follows the citation. Note: The MLA Handbook recommends the use of Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals for designating acts and scenes in plays. However, some instructors still prefer Roman numerals. Check with your instructor if you are uncertain which to use.
c) As E. H. Carr has written, "The serious historian is the one who recognizes the historically conditioned character of all values, not the one who claims for his own values an objectivity beyond history."1
2. A colon or semicolon is placed outside the quotation marks (regardless of whether or not it exists in the quoted material).
a) Correct:
Roberts (137) mentions "the divine right of kings"; the phrase did not become current in English until the late seventeenth century.
b) Incorrect:
Mr. B says that Pamela "may be thawed by kindness;" (180).
Even though the semicolon is present in the sentence quoted, it should not be in the quotation.
Correct: Mr. B says that Pamela "may be thawed by kindness" (180).
3. A question mark, exclamation point, or dash is placed within the quotation marks when it is part of the quoted material.
Otherwise it is placed outside the quotation marks.
a) "How do I love thee?" asks the sonnet. "Let me count the ways."
The first quotation is a question; the question mark is part of it.
b) What is the meaning of the expression "eschew obfuscation"?
The quotation is not a question; the question mark goes outside the quotation to indicate that the whole sentence is the question.
c) There is great pathos in King Lear's cry, "O reason not the need!" (2.4.259).
An exclamation point within the quotation is followed by quotation marks, then by a parenthetical citation. The period after the citation ends the sentence.
4. Do not place any mark of punctuation inside the quotation marks at the beginning of a quoted phrase, and do not use an ellipsis(...) at the beginning of the quotation.
a) Incorrect:
King Lear refers to his daughter Goneril as a "?detested kite?" and as "?wolvish?" (1.4.253, 259).
b) Correct:
King Lear refers to his daughter Goneril as a "detested kite" and as "wolvish" (1.4.253, 259).
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Adapted by Trinity Rep founder Adrian Hall and Trinity composer Richard Cumming, the family favorite has had 33 prior outings, some years with alternating Scrooges in double the shows, and some years with a female Scrooge. Once children labored in a clanking, hissing Industrial Revolution-era factory.
The director this year is Michael Perlman, a recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA theater program, and he says he's aimed for the heart of the story: Ebenezer Scrooge's initially flinty, eventually well-warmed heart, thawed after all those sparks are struck by ghostly visitors.
Bravely — audaciously — he accomplishes this in a significantly revised version of the hallowed Hall text. Eliminating some familiar dialogue and interchanges, reshuffling others, he even adds a line here and there to punch up a scene or interplay.
The result is a fresh and lively Christmas Carol that will please both those well familiar with the show and those new to it.
Having seen these productions for nearly three decades, I think the only version that approached this one in ingenuity was Peter Gerety's take in 1991. But he just found clever little ways to refashion what we were familiar with seeing; Perlman does that and more.
This year's Ebenezer Scrooge is inhabited by Mauro Hantman, who has the requisite lanky stature and emotional range to convey our favorite curmudgeon. Before we meet him, we see a red door stage center, sporting a wreath apparently put on the neighborhood ogre's office door as a joke. He's inured to the kind holiday wishes of his nephew Fred (Brandon Drea) and his meek , mistreated clerk Bob Cratchit (Richard Williams).
Instead of in a background prologue, the death of Scrooge's late business partner Jacob Marley (Matt Clevy) is woven into the singing of the chorus and the Dies Irae as a grim memory while Scrooge counts his money. Soon returning as a chained, white-clad flying ghost — lunging out of the bedroom bank safe Scrooge has instead of a mere money box — Clevy has the stature and intensity to be an especially fearsome menace to the initially dismissive Scrooge.
The emphasis on Scrooge's point of view comes up a lot, mostly through underscored memories — thinking he's glimpsing his beloved dead sister Fan among street carolers, watching his old boss Fezziwig (Richard Donelly) painstakingly teach the boy Scrooge dance steps.
As the Ghost of Christmas Past, Rachael Warren never dims a fervent inner glow that perfectly captures such heartfelt nostalgia. The Ghost of Christmas Present is simultaneously and buoyantly played by Joe Wilson Jr. and Jude Sandy, sometimes speaking together for emphasis, sometimes taking turns. Cleverly, no one plays the Ghost of Christmas Future; there are only spotlights that pierce the stage smoke in answer to Scrooge's questions about his fate.
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How does one determine to feed in the spring?
Having gone thru my hives it seems like it will be a struggle to keep the brood open for laying eggs as they are bringing in pollen and seem to have decent stores of honey. One hive actually had the entire top deep nearly 100% full. On that one I actually pulled some frames and replaced them with empty comb in an attempt to provide more room as it looked like where ever there was an open cell there was an egg.
So in spring when and how do you determine to feed. What are the signs that say "They have enough sources to feed off of in nature to keep them alive?" What blooms, plants etc do you need to see before you can "Confidently" say this?
Clearly every hive and every situation is different but I would think you don't want to feed a hive that has enough stores, but you also don't want a hive to starve....I would also think that there must be a quick and easy way to determine all this.


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The Devil's Love
Book by: Peatrack
Status: Finished
Genre: Romance
Chapter1 (v.1) - The Devil's Love
The room is filled with a thick aroma. Alcohol and cigar smoke, the sensation stings. Its palpable. Above all the dirt, a sweet perfume collides with my nostrils. Our eyes met across the bar, her
red cocktail dress boils my blood. Her blond locks shine beauty throughout the dark lonely saloon. The stare is filled with passion and fear. The passion for the internal flames of desire. The fear
of the unknown, of the night that was about to unfold. Catholics would crucify for the thoughts buzzing in my brain. My spirit told my legs to walk, they disobey. The pounding heart in my chest,
argues with my body to move. Something snaps. In a flash I'm there, standing in front of her. The look on her face is of confusion. She looks like how an angel should look. She smells how an angel
should smell. Talk damn it!
"Care for a smoke?" I mumble.
"Sure" Her words are blunt, yet elegant.
"You're everything a man could want…"A soft smile breaks across her face. "It's just not your face. Your... figure Or your voice It's your eyes. All the things I see in your eyes."
"What do you see in my eyes?" she is taken back.
"I see a crazy calm, you're sick of running. You're ready to face what you have to face. But you don't want to face it alone" the confusion turns into understanding.
"No. I don't want to face it alone." Her perfume is a sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes. I tell her that everything will be alright. That I'll save her from whatever she's scared of and take her far far away.
The night was romantic enough, more then others, she is still there when I awake. The sun stings my pupils, a buzzing enters my brain. Was it worth it? A night of shallow love, fruity drinks, and a filled ashtray. What do I do next? Laying still in the cheap motel's bed, I analyze the off-white walls. A peaceful angel lays next to me. She looks peaceful, the sun shines upon her soft skin. I pull the sheets over her, in a way I'm jealous of the sun. But now also the sheets. Jitters tingle. I need relief. The pack on the nightstand is empty. The salvation I need is another mans sin.
Leaving is not the hardest part, its dealing with the regret. How many more nights of this can I take? One night stand, after one night stand, I only pray that my demons take me now. That would be the easy way. There is only one bar open this early, Debbie's, over in East Side. A lousy bar, in a lousy part of town. But the people in Debbie's are my kind of people, low life's running from hell. Also liquor is liquor.
"Come see the magnificent Flying Aces! Defying gravity! Swinging! Flipping! FLYING!" a small, awkwardly sized man, more child than man, announcing to an admiring crowd.
Carnies have always been my family, I don't consider myself a freak like others, but still in the family. I am a trapeze artist, a member of the Flying Aces. Ma, Pa, and sister Marie and me make the group. Pa learned from his dad and brought Ma along for the ride, I'm just surprised she never got off. I supposed she really did love him. Love, the four letter word that does not exist in my life. I have other four letter words that live with me, but love was just that, a four letter word. I am 17, young and able, but still a virgin. I wanted to feel the warmth of a girl, no a women. I knew I had to leave the trail.
Leaving the trail meant banishment for life, no return and no contact with family still inside the trail. Jake Reynolds left the trail, I guess he was tired of being Jake the snake. Jake was a contortionist, he would fit himself into the smallest places, sometimes the places got to small. After almost dying while passing out inside a trunk he walked away and never looked back, I wonder what happened to him and if the world was a safe place for me.
My fix for a hangover is to drown it in the very poison that made my head hurt this way.
"It could be tonight," I thought as I stood in the corner, pretending to have a good time. I would meet her tonight. All my young life, I had dreamed of a girl like this. 5'6, silky hair, trim, nubile body. Trim, nubile body that really knew how to move. And soft, deeply tanned skin. Now as for personality traits, she needed only one. She had to love sex and all the time. To arrive at this moment, I had traveled vast distances enduring many hardships. Abject poverty, starvation, show tunes, you name it. From across the room, I saw her. She was perfect. I knew almost nothing about her and she didn't know much more about me. It was exactly how it was supposed to be. I brought her to my room. The lights were soft, the moment was right. Then she leaned over and whispered in my ear, 'Do you love me?' Thoughts raced through my mind. Did she really want me? What had I done to deserve this bounty? Does God exist? Who invented the lava lamp and why?
"Do you love me?" Staring into her eyes I knew that she really needed to hear it but for the first time in my life, I knew these were no longer just words and if I said it, it would be a lie. "Do you love me?" she whispered. "Do you love me?" It would not be tonight. The answer was no.
The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. I know Satan has a spot reserved for me, everyday I am trying to run the other way. I could still smell her on my skin…What was the smell though… strawberries, she smelt like strawberries. A single hair of hers laid on the lapel of my jacket, I choose to leave it, it allows me to lie to myself that I actually cared about her.
My apartment was on the opposite side of town from Debbie's, I drive a long way for the bottle. The fifth storey of the building, a good walk up the stairs, but that's one thing my Ma always taught me, "Don't be lazy Zus! Take the stairs, your legs were made for walking." She died last year. Down the hall from my 505, lives a pretty little thing that makes me tremble. I have yet to try anything on her, trust me I want to, but she is different. She is the kind of girl that is special, she doesn't have daddy issues, she doesn't spend the evening in the bars looking for romance, she attended college and actually got the grades cause she was smart. She is a respectable women, and I am a pitiful man. I would sell my soul to the devil himself to be able to be her man. If I had a soul to sell at this point.
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text: Gotta agree with Roger Ebert, re: his dislike of 3-D movies. The extra charge seems is excessive, and I generally have a diminished "movie experience" due to the screen appearing darker and more cluttered (Alice in Wonderland, How to Train Your Dragon). I'd expected tehnology to make 3-D better after all these years, so I tried it again. Bad decision. Alice, in particular, was a visual mess ... the 3-D was less disappointing than the flick itself, but still I wish we'd have chosen the 2-D version. Worst 3-D for me was Avatar -- oy, pressure headache. Have to admit, though, that 3-D worked for me for Beowulf -- perhaps because of the type of animation it used.


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What are you seeing out there?
Mn looks better then Wisco where I have hives but even in Mn it varies considerably from nothing to really good.
Wondering about the Dakota's, heard similar stories there, that it varies all over the map.
Me thinks the price of honey is headed up as this season is a bust over all for the big honey producing states.
Traditionally August is not a big month, maybe everything is late this year and there is more to average this season out.
- Posters stick with the topic region please -


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Aloha, I purchased this very expensive $5,000.00 computer from Alienware in 2007. It has been a nonstop battle with them over the phone with tech support and sending the laptop back and forth to them through the mail. The warranty will run out in April of 2010.
I have been wronged greatly by Alienware. It has never worked properly and all I have done for the last three years is troubleshoot it with them over the phone. I have had to send it back to them at least 10 times. Every single time it has come back, there is either something new wrong with it, or they actually made the computer worse. A constant problem of dead pixels is one problem. No matter how many times they replace the LCD screen, more dead pixels seem to pop up only a week after I get it back. One time they actually replaced the LCD screen with dead pixels with another LCD screen that already had dead pixels in it.
Another time they returned the computer with the hard drive wiped out. They accidentally erased my whole computer and I had very valuable pictures of the first year of my daughter's life on it. Yes I know I should have backed up my files, but the DVD drive on this computer has always had a problem with it and Nero will not work. It errors out most of the time when I try to burn to a DVD using windows. I have always told them of this, but time and time again they forget to replace the part. They never ever completely fix it and there is always more problems.
Even after all of their mistakes and bungles, they refuse to build me a new system. I even told them I would accept a desktop tower. It would be less expensive than the $5,000.00 I paid for the laptop. It probably would also be easier to repair. They have also told me that a refund of my hard earned money is out of the question as well.
What can I do? This is so unfair to me and I deserve better customer service that I have received. They sold me a very crappy computer and they have the attitude of not really caring or trying to do what is right. I have sent the computer back to them about 10 times. It is obvious that this is a very defective computer at the core and cannot be fixed, unless they have tech repair people that absolutely do not know what they are doing. I don't know what I can do.
I am currently researching Falcon Northwest computers and I am already impressed. I have not been able to find any significant bad reports about them. Is there hope in the battle for a nice computer that works like it should in the world now?
UNKNOWN -- I bought a M15x laptop June 2010 and roughly one year after, I experienced an overheating problem, just the beginning of my problems I assure you. I called tech support, after all I had never had a laptop last me longer than 2 years; I expected a problem or two.
After 2 hours on the phone, I was assured that everything was fine. Even though the area around my mouse and keyboard was so hot it was burning me. I knew what was wrong, it had happened to every other laptop I'd ever used around the same time. Its fans were clogged with cat fur; I own two cats both long fur. Yet they refuse to listen to me and told me I just needed to get it air conditioning. I was deeply offended.
Over the course of the last year (2012), I experienced crashes, blue screens, unexpected shutdowns, overheating, problems with my internet connection (that were not modem related; every other connection in our house was fine), my screen would just suddenly go black and my battery wasn't charging. I didn't want to call tech support I was afraid I would get dismissed again. I considered going to another computer repair center but didn't want to break my warranty so reluctantly I called around January 2013.
They seemed friendly and helpful. Quickly diagnosing that my computer needed to come in for repair. They sent a box and pre-paid postage. However, when the box got here, I quickly discovered that my computer was too big for the box. I called and asked if they had a bigger box, they said no, that I should find one and send it as soon as I could as it was important for it to be sent in.
I didn't have one and I didn't want to buy one (I'm a student and rely on my parents for money). It seemed kind of pointless for me to buy a box when they had sent me one. I managed to stuff it into the box they had sent to me. I shipped it all the while hoping it would be returned in relatively good shape.
I was expecting to be without my computer for around a week. That is what they told me after all. Alas, it was returned a couple days later. I couldn't help wonder if I had stuck the stickers on wrong and if it they were returning to sender. I checked the addresses and it had come from Alienware/Dell and was being returned to me. Wow, that was fast. I opened it, excited to have it back and working again. Well almost working, the battery still wasn't charging, but if that was my only problem I'd live with it.
A few days later while working on my laptop, it starts screeching at me and it pops up with a very familiar blue screen stating that my computer has crashed. I brush it off thinking that it was a fluke. Except it happens again the next day and again a few days later. A very familiar pattern emerges over the next several months and I get angrier and angrier. Weren't they supposed to have fixed this?
I call tech support and after a few test am told that I have to reinstall window 7. Alright I can do that and I don't have to send my computer away to do that, a plus. I'm handed off to a manager to do a survey. They say goodbye and I'm faced with reinstalling Windows.
I Google it and get started. I backup my system and follow the instructions I found on how to reinstall windows. The whole process takes me two days. I get frustrated. When it comes back the screen isn't the same, and the most important thing I can't control how bright my screen is. Having chronic migraines this is a big problem, my screen is too bright and I'm trying to figure how to adjust it.
Again I turn to the ever faithful Google. I'm nowhere after hours of trying and worse, I've now triggered a migraine with the light. I'm beyond frustrated. I shut the computer off and go to bed with a pounding headache. I've given up on adjusting the light for now. I think maybe reinstalling some of the Alienware software may provide the answer so I start reinstalling everything, Skype, Acrobat, Microsoft Office and everything else I could think of. Friday night, I again have a migraine and am no closer. On top of everything else, the crashes have returned. I'm angry.
This shouldn't be happening, tech support assured me that reinstalling Windows would fix this problem. It should have been fixed four months ago when I sent it in. I call tech support the morning of 4/20/13. After an hour wait, I get a person and explain my problem. I'm asked how I reinstalled Windows and then told I did it wrong, that I was supposed to be walked through the process by a tech. I was told to restart my computer, then press F12. After I did that, I was told to insert the re-installation disk and to select the option with CD/DVD/BD-rom. I was not asked if I would like to back anything up before we started this process, and feeling rushed, didn't think to ask.
The first few steps were self explanatory, the tech asked me to tell them when I got to a certain page and I did. They then gave me a set of instructions I didn't understand, after asking them to repeat themselves several times they got very frustrated with me and I made a mistake with the instructions.
I am not great with computer and definitely not good with computer terms. I felt very lost during this step and felt the tech was very frustrated and angry trying to explain it to me. When I made the mistake, I felt very harassed and just wanted to get off the phone with him as quickly as possible. We got to the end of the reinstallation and I was told to call back when it was done.
About half an hour later, my computer was back to its normal screen so I called, as instructed. I had a wait time of 45 minutes. I am told that they will call me in around an hour. I agree. I ask for an address so that I can file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and am talked in circles, I never get an address.
I wait an hour and half before calling back. I'm told that they were just about to call me. I'm led through instruction on how to get AlienContact. I'm then passed from one tech on the phone to another tech online. Before hanging up with the phone tech, I again ask for an address, and again I'm talked in circles but given an email address. I was passed to the online tech, who would be installing all the drivers.
They took control of my computer for about an hour and a half and when needed something asked. They reinstalled almost everything that came with my computer. They didn't reinstall Microsoft Office 2010. They called when done and disconnected. As of right now (an hour after), everything seems to be fixed. Well almost everything. The battery still doesn't charge correctly, and the screen does still go black if you touch the monitor, at all.
Hi folks - I thought you might want to know about a customer service nightmare I'm having with the Alienware Solution Station. My son is 13 and saved up to buy his Alienware M18x. He had a problem and tried to reset to factory settings and made a mistake. His bad… should have looked online for instructions first. Still, we called Alienware and asked for help. For a fee, they said they would take care of it.
That was five weeks ago. Fourteen phone calls later. Four technician appointments - three of which had NO technician show up. First, they did the basic re-install. However, they couldn't get the wireless card to work and came to the obviously incorrect conclusion there was something wrong with the wireless card (it was working fine before we called them). I waited for a technician a few days later. He showed up, replaced the wireless card and it still didn't work. I called back. They worked on the software some more (remotely) and still couldn't fix the wireless. So, they decided that the replacement wireless card was bad and needed to be replaced again.
I received two confirmation calls from Dell but the technician never showed. When I called, I was told it was because the part was backordered. Nobody ever called to tell me (these are three hour time windows I'm waiting). Then, two more confirmation calls for a couple days later. The technician never showed and lied about calling me and waiting 20 minutes.
At that point, I said that I wasn't going to wait again for a wireless card that was unnecessary in the first place. The Alienware support person asked what I wanted him to do - so I said I wanted him to fix the software. After about an hour, he did. He discovered that the technician who did the initial work (a month had passed at this point - and about 10 calls) did it incorrectly and nobody ever went back to check it. Then, however, it turns out we had a problem with graphics that we didn't have before.
He couldn't solve it and instead said that we needed a new graphics card. So, today, I waited again. I got two confirmation calls from Dell and the technician didn't show up. Again, because the part is on backorder, but nobody told me. So now, I've spent countless hours working with my son at times (of course, he has to go to school at some point), taking up time in my working day, and most of it wasted because the support people did the job incorrectly the first time, told me I needed parts I didn't need, and have on-site technicians who lie and don't call customers to tell them they aren't coming.
Today, I asked to talk to someone who might be interested in hearing about this. Tech support transferred me to customer service. They wanted to transfer me to tech support. Finally, I got the woman to understand that I thought they might want to know that their tech support has been terrible and their on-site technicians don't show up. She told me her manager would call me. Who is good for a bet that I don't hear a word? So... I wait... with my frustrated kid for the part that is on backorder and the technician who doesn't call and there's nothing I can do, except let other Alienware users know, just as a heads up and just in case someone who cares is looking.
MIAMI, FLORIDA -- I ditto everything that has been said about Alienware Customer Service, or lack thereof. I purchased a new Alienware Area 51-M17 supposed gamer screamer in 2006. Have had nothing but headaches with it since. Ordering, delivery to spec and all was fine. Problems started about 3 months after I got it. Started acting up with boot problems and video glitches. Called CS. I was told the OS was the problem and needed to be reinstalled.
This problem continued over the next 9 months with CS telling me I had to reinstall the OS. I was also having problems with the RAID controller and hard drives. I got them to send me a replacement hard drive about the 6 month point but it did not change anything.
Finally just after the warranty expired, the laptop did also. I called Alienware and their answer was the warranty had expired, the repairs would be on me. I argued to no avail at this point, and sent the computer in for repairs. I was told the computer needed a motherboard, again at my expense. I argued over a 6 week period until finally they repaired the computer and refunded the charges. I also asked for and received another year of warranty coverage, that I had to pay for.
About six months go by and the video starts to go again. All the while, the computer is performing as if it has molasses for silicon. I call CS. Again with the reinstalling of the OS. I finally get them to troubleshoot over the phone and they decide the video card is bad. They arrange for an onsite repair from a local contract computer guy who does a nice job.
Another 6 months go by and the thing starts acting up again. Same song and dance about reinstalling the OS. By now I am an expert in OS installs. It dies again. This time when I send it to Alienware for repairs (at my expense, second warranty has expired), they tell me I need another motherboard but sorry, they don't have any and can't get any. I find this to be unbelievable. I am told they don't manufacture the computer parts, just assemble them and their supplier doesn't make the boards anymore. And by the way, they can't replace or upgrade my computer because, you guessed it, the warranty has expired.
I find a repair place in TN that has parts. After receiving it back from Alienware, who BTW is in the Miami area, I live in AK, I send it to the TN guys for repairs. They do a nice job at less than the Alienware quote for the same repair, if they had parts.
It lasted about a year and guess what, same OS issues. I had about given up on it when I got a copy of WIN7 and thought what the heck. I installed the WIN7 and after struggling with a couple of driver problems, particularly the InProComm 2220 Wireless card, it was acting like a new computer. That was about 6 months ago. And guess what? Yup, the video is dying again.
I have just boxed it up to send again to laptop repair to see if it is salvageable. I have owned the thing for about four years and half of the time it was in repair status. That classifies this chassis as a "lemon" by any definition. I don't think Dell has been able to clean house at Alienware yet with their reliability and CS issues. If that ever happens, maybe the Alienware laptops will be a item worth acquiring. Until then, steer clear!!
FLORIDA -- December 2008, I purchase an Alienware M17 laptop with all the bells and whistles costing right at $5000. The machine arrives two weeks later and seems fine. We moved and a couples weeks later, I start to play with it more. I find that the visual recognition software has stopped working and is asking for a license key. I call tech support and explain the problem and the tech has no idea. After spending three hours on the phone and multiple re-installs of the software, I find that it works fine until you log in using the fingerprint reader at which time it stops working. The tech tells me he has to research it and get back to me. To this day, I have not received a call back.
The next issue starts mid January. The machine has two hard drives in a RAID 0 stripe. Upon boot one of the drives does not appear in the RAID array. After rebooting, the drive shows up but the array is not accessible. After rebooting a second, time the computer will find the OS.
I call tech support, which tells me I need to back up all my data because we have to break the array to test the drives. I get the chance to do this and call them back a month later. We spend four more hours on the phone while he has me test the drives and he figures out that one is bad, so he sends one to me, but I have to pay to have it shipped in advance to me. After receiving the drive, I open the box to find it is a refurbished drive they sent out for my three month old computer.
I install the drive and install the data back and guess what, upon reboot it does the same thing. I call them back and I am now told that I have to send the computer back. Oh and I did pay extra for the on site warranty. After waiting three weeks for a shipping box and two additional calls to get it sent to me, I ship it back. I get a call from a woman telling me she works directly for the CEO of the company and that she will be handling my case from now on and that she will ensure me that my laptop will be repaired correctly and come to me like new. I told her that I wanted a new hard drive put in to replace the refurbished one they had sent and she told me no problem.
Two weeks later, she calls and tells me that my computer was shipped and will be to me in a couple days. I asked her if they replace the hard drive and she told me yes they did. It arrives and I turn it on, WOW it fails to find the hard drive in the RAID array. Rebooting it finds the drive but no OS, rebooting again and the computer boots. (sound familiar?) The computer boots to Windows and lo and behold, the OS was not a new install (which was one of the reasons they said it had to be sent back and they promised to replace the hard drive which would require a reinstall)
I shut the computer down and pulled out the hard drive bay that I had installed the replacement drive in and guess what the refurbished drive was still there. I know because I marked it with a sharpie. I called her back and told her what was going on, she told me that she wanted me to send it in to her and that she would personally repair it. I told her that I wanted it replaced since it was only six months old and it had not worked for four of those months. She told me she would send me two new hard drives and if that did not fix it that I needed to send it to them for repair that they would not replace it. Buyer beware do not by Alienware.
LEVITTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA -- My husband purchased the Alienware m9750 in February 2008 as a gift for me. The system worked fine for a few months, but then began having problems keeping time. We contacted Alienware and they sent us a CMOS battery to replace. That did not fix the problem so October 2008 it was sent into their repair depot.
After 2 months in the repair depot we stop receiving communication about the status of our system. We were unable to get a response for a month. It was returned to us January 14, 2009 and were told that the Motherboard, Hard drive, Wireless Card, and TV tuner card were all defective and replaced. However we received it back with all the same hardware issues as before the repair plus the optical drive no longer worked. On January 16, 2008 we were contacted by a representative on behalf of Alienwares CEO. She informed us that they shipped a new optical drive and to let her know if it fixed the problem. It did not of course since the motherboard was defective.
On January 26, 2009 she issued a cancellation of our system and told me to pick out a new system which matched the cost of our original since she could not issue us a refund. Which is what we requested. We ordered the Alienware m15x, which we were forced into as none of their other systems came with windows XP which is what we had originally and wanted.
That system was delivered on March 6, 2009. Immediately open using the brand new system, it had hardware problems. It was locking up, crashing and overheating. It was also not shipped with correct specs. It was supposed to have an upgraded LCD and did not. I contacted the representative and explained the situation.
She was extremely apologetic and though extremely hesitant, I agreed to have it returned to the repair depot. She guaranteed me she would personally test the system to ensure it was functioning perfectly and that the LCD would be replaced with the correct one. And that if I had any problems she would do everything in her power to get us a refund. The system was returned to us on March 14, 2009. On March 18, 2009 the system began turning itself off immediately upon going to battery and the system was getting red hot to the touch. I sent the representative an Email about the situation and also left her a message on March 19, 2009.
I was in contact with her on March 20, 2009 where she once again despite her earlier promise wanted it shipped back to the repair depot. I told her that this was simply unacceptable as the system was just returned to me and should not have been sent to me in this condition. I requested she keep her promise and issue us a refund. She told me it was not an option. All she could offer me was to ship it back to repair depot and upgrade my memory.
This has been an ongoing matter that seemingly has no resolution. We have been trying desperately to work with the representative to get our money back since we cannot get a working laptop from this company and to no avail. This system is under warranty until February 2011 and I am getting the impression that all I will be doing until the end of warranty is sending it back and forth to the repair depot and still not have a working system. This laptop has been at the repair depot more than it has been in my possession. This is a $3,666.95 laptop that has not worked properly since its purchase.
DALLAS, TEXAS -- Just like everyone else I had been wanting an Alienware computer for years. Then the day came when I was able to purchase my "dream computer" from Alienware. I spent over $4,000 for it. An Alienware Aurora M9700 laptop with all of the extra goodies I could get including a year extended warranty. Just to let you know, this is merely a summary of what Alienware has put me through. It took a bit more than the estimated amount of time for it to be shipped out to me. I had ordered it in October of 2006 and didn't receive it until after that Christmas.
Once I had finally received it I had nothing but problems with it, mainly problems with the video. I kid you not that it took, from the very first tech support phone call I made to Alienware almost a month after I received it to the time it actually got half-haired repaired and sent back to me with the same problems as before, about 4 months. It was pure hell dealing with anyone from Alienware and still is.
After several months of talking with tech support about my laptops video problems, they decided it was one of the video cards. After sending me a replacement video card, they sent out an incompetent tech person to fix it who said and I quote him, "I don't know what I'm doing" after he had just about damaged the casing and ultimately damaging one of the speakers. That guy had to call in to Alienware tech support to find out how to open the case properly (after he had it open half way exposing the inside components). He couldn't get proper help from the tech support himself.
I ended up on the phone with an Alienware tech support manager while that guy was still at my residence who told me that he was going to send the guy away after I had expressed my distress over the situation to him. The entire month following that situation was spent trying to get my address changed which they had refused to do at first but I finally succeeded in getting it changed after much Hell was given to me by customer service. I had to change my address due to several moves I had made since I had bought the computer before they would further any repairs to it.
After that and after way too much hassle from Alienware employees telling me that I would have to foot the bill for any shipping, labor, parts cost even though my warranty was still in effect, they finally agreed to have me send it in to their repair center for the repairs free of charge. I sent my computer out to them on a Monday and received it back from them two days later on Wednesday. They said my video problems were caused by "the video cards dirty heat sinks" and that they cleaned them. They had also told me that I had a "bad image of Windows" they had originally put on my system and the restore disc which they refused to replace.
They never repaired the speaker that was damaged by the tech guy they had sent out to my residence and would quickly change the subject every time I mentioned it. I still had all of the same problems after I got it back from them. I've been putting up with these problems for a year and a half now. The LCD is now about to go out and they are refusing to fix the issue which is something they should have tested and fixed before.
Once again they have told me if I wanted it fixed the costs of everything from the shipping, labor, parts and so forth would be coming out of my pocket and not theirs. The cost they estimated would be well over a thousand dollars. This is a defective product they sent to me in the first place and never actually fixed. It would be an awesome computer if they had just fixed all of the issues the laptop computer had to begin with without giving me so much hassle over it. If it wasn't for the video problems it would have been "the awesome computer of my dreams".
It would be nice if they were to fix the problems now without any cost to me since it was their failure to make sure everything in, on and about the computer was in tip-top working order before they shipped to me since that is what I paid for, a perfectly working Alienware computer.
MIAMI, FLORIDA -- My husband and I bought a refurbished laptop computer on April 10, 2008 and when we received the computer, it did not work. We bought this computer for $1033.98 through eBay Alienware Outlet Store. I now believe that we received a computer which had been returned to them broken and was then roughly patched up and passed on to us. I called their technical support on eight separate occasions and spent at least eight hours on the phone trying to get the computer working. Their best solution was to have me, a person with no computer experience, take the computer completely apart and try to fix the problems.
Technical support had me remove the hard drive, install all drivers, take the keyboard off, and remove and replace almost every essential component of the computer. When I repeatedly asked to send in the computer for repair, they refused and instead had me (again) remove the hard drive and mail it in. They then sent me a "new" one. What we received several weeks later was password protected for some other person's user profile with no password. I called them again and again their best answer was to have me take apart my computer and reinstall all the drivers.
The warranty is now expired, but the computer still does not work. I had asked on several occasions, within my warranty, for them to take the computer back and fix the unit properly. Alienware refused. We now believe this was done intentionally to cause the 90 day warranty to expire thus requiring us to pay for the parts. We had saved for a year to buy this computer. All we want is that which was promised to us when we purchased the machine, a working computer. We have called Alienware and asked them to please take it back and repair the unit. They refuse unless we pay for all the repairs.
We took the computer to Falcon Computers here in Waimea to see if they could fix it. The technician looked at it and immediately knew that the problem was probably a faulty motherboard and stated that there would be no reason any computer technician would not be able to diagnose this repair. This further cements our feelings that Alienware purposely and knowingly ran out our warranty to avoid paying for this repair. We want either a working computer or our money back.
In May 2006, I ordered and received an Alienware Area 51m 7700 notebook computer from www.alienware.com for a total of $3,912.00. The computer ran incredibly hot from the beginning, which eventually led to a failure of the motherboard in November 2006. I was frustrated at the time, because I've never had this problem in any (not to mention much less expensive) computer I've ever owned. "These things happen" I told myself, and fortunately the system was still covered under warranty, so I sent it in for repair.
When I got the computer back, it was at least operational, but the overheating issues continued. This eventually led to the failure of the motherboard from overheating again in June of 2007. The only difference now is that the warranty was up, and boy did Alienware like to hide behind the "your warranty has expired" angle. Yes, I understand that my warranty is one month out, but the same issue has occurred again.
This clearly points out to me that they did not properly diagnose and repair the issue the first time around. I was told that they would gladly look at the computer as long as I paid for all shipping/labor/parts, which all totaled could end up costing me a quarter of the computers worth, and this thing is barely a year old.
I did some research online and found an alarming amount of Alienware customers have had the same issues with the model Area 51m 7700. I brought this up to their customer support but they denied it, even though I found talk of a class-action lawsuit due to the failure rate of this model.
This company knows nothing of customer retention, customer loyalty (this was my second Alienware computer), customer satisfaction, and only seems to care about their profits. Please do yourself a favor and avoid them at all costs. It will save you so much frustration and anguish in the end. From now on, I will do my homework more thoroughly and make sure a company has some pride and accountability in their product before making such an expensive purchase. For now, all I have is a $4,000, year old paperweight.
I purchased an M17x in 2009 - after Dell had acquired Alienware. This purchase followed two other negative experiences. Why did I buy a third, you may ask? Because I was promised that Dell's influence had changed the juvenile Customer, Technical, & Warranty Support previously provided by Alienware.
Guess what - it seems they have actually gotten worse. The M17x has experienced all kinds of problems. It seems that there was a period where it was experiencing power issues and needed a new BIOS update. Unfortunately, the BIOS update hadn't been developed and it took "them" 3 months to develop it. All the while, my purchased warranty ticking away.
When I made requests for my warranty to be extended during the down periods, the company laughed at me. Further problems ensued. There have been too many problems with this system to reasonably document. So, I made the request that the company buy back the machine - to which they also laughed at.
I made a call back to the Florida Division of Consumer Protection, and it seems that my case on the past two machines was "just closed". I was not notified… no calls… etc. Since, I have sent letters to the Governor, and the State Attorney General asking why the Division of Consumer Protection is not supporting Florida residents.
Also, I have been in contact with a supervisor from the Division. My complaints are: Dell/Alienware advertised an In-Home/On-site Service for which it is not possible to get; Dell/Alienware did not provide the warranty support for which I paid; Dell/Alienware has denied me periods of Customer Service/Tech/Warranty Support for which I paid.
There's much more, but the key is that I did not get what was advertised; what I paid for; and I'm tired of feeling ripped off. This lemon and the related experience has soured me to the point that there will never be another Dell product in my home. My opinion, from reading other reviews... in this forum and others… is that it is great to vent about your experiences. By doing so, you make other consumers aware that they are not alone.
However, my time and money is important to me. I don't like being jacked around by Dell Alienware Customer Support after paying a premium for their product. And the bottom line, if all of the complaints listed in this forum and others, found their way to the State Division of Consumer Protection - I think a lot of Alienware's foolishness would stop. But, it will take consumers organizing and not just complaining. I wish you the best, but stop throwing away your money, and just taking the ensuing proverbial butt raping. Make it stop!


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Finding Insider Buys in a Sea of Sales
It's no secret that we're always looking for interesting insider transactions and fodder worth sharing with you. So after our sources over at InsiderScore released an update yesterday that noted that there are buys out there amid the sea of sales, we naturally took a look.
Here are a few actionable buys over the past month that caught our eye.
First stop is Hecla Mining (HL) after the CEO Phillips Baker bought 150,000 shares for $478,300,on May 14. Per InsiderScore this move is significant because of the timing of Phillips' purchase in that he bought even as shares traded at their lowest levels since 2009.
Apache (APA) also made the cut when Chairman and CEO Steven Farris bought 10,000 shares for $836,900 on May 20. InsiderScore notes that the buy adds to purchases made by other insiders and notes that the move also aligns, "with a company buyback, after shareholders voted against the energy company's executive compensation package."
Up next, we checked out Chesapeake Energy (CHK) where the Non-Executive Chairman Archie Dunham made his second transaction for 2013 and bought 450,000 shares for $9.4 million on May 20. Dunham's purchase marks the largest insider buy at the company in five years. InsiderScore writes:
Dunham's buy also serves to extend the positive insider sentiment environment that emerged in the wake of Founder and former CEO Aubrey McClendon's high-profile problems and eventual exit from the company. Since June 2012, when Dunham was brought on as part of a board shake-up, insiders at Chesapeake have purchased $17 million in shares at an average price of $19.28 per share.
We also looked at mail and document service producer Pitney Bowes (PBI) after its newly appointed CEO Marc Lautenbach conducted his first transaction and bought 66,000 shares for $1 million at $15.36 on May 7. InsiderScore writes:
Lautenbach's purchase is a notable show of conviction in the wake of an earnings miss and the slashing of Pitney Bowes' dividend. With this buy, Lautenbach has put 118% of his $850,000 annual base salary into the stock.
We note that Pitney Bowes insiders have been conservative in terms of their transactions, with a May 2012 Cluster Buy representing the only other transaction(s) since late 2008.
Finally, we're including Allscripts Healthcare (MDRX) as CEO Paul Black made his second buy of the year, purchasing 7,100 shares for $99,800 on May 15. InsiderScore wrote about Black's prior purchase back in March and considers this to be a continuation of his bullishness and writes
We note that the recent purchase was transacted at a price 10% higher than his March purchase and a price 5% higher than the stock's 50-day moving average. The buy raises Black's cash investment to nearly $500,000, or about half of his annual salary.
That's all for now. We'll see you over at Inside Scoop.


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A rare drink special found in a few taverns in the Chicago area. Named after foie gras, a delicacy banned in the city of Chicago, the Foie BLAH involves sticking a funnel down a patron's throat and pouring alcohol in until their liver is engorged to ten times its original size. After having a Foie BLAH the patron can never again enter the Chicago city limits, and is forced to retreat back into the suburbs. While the Foie Gras is reserved for the very rich, the Foie BLAH should not be attempted by anybody.
"I'm sorry sir, but the chart says you've had a Foie BLAH. You'll have to go to a suburban hospital to treat your alcohol poisoning."
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I had these files in work for quite a while (maybe a year or so) and even now these aren't finished 100%, but I wanted to post them, mostly because of the modified armor stencils (I already posted some) that are using these templates as a base. The parts that needs more work are the cod plate, the knees and the back plate, but the base is there if someone will try to scratch build one of these.
These templates try to replicate the original armor both in form and in asymmetries and are pretty close to WOF's large armor templates (which was conceived as a symmetrical armor to fulfill the need of the majority).
Update 03-11-2013
The majority of the armor parts (except the back plate and the knees) were reduced in size by 5%, and now the templates are in the medium category. I managed to do a parts break down for the cod plate and the knees and now you can use the RWA templates to do your own scratch build armor. All the files were replaced with the modified templates.
The chest, abdominal and collar plates were done using the Heilman images as a base, while the rest of the armor parts were done using all the available images from the exhibits and the movie stills.
And here are the templates resulted from those images:
Chest, Abdominal and Collar Plates with Center Diamond and Shoulder Bells
Back Plate
Cod Plate
Back belt
Knee Pads
And finally, the PDF files that contains all the armor templates:
RWA Templates A4.pdf
RWA Templates LTR.pdf
Here is an image that shows the approximated points for the original attachment method:
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Paintings by Jerry Cabrera
UTSA alumnus Jerry Cabrera exhibits paintings in Laredo
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(Nov. 21, 2005)--The Sound Alternative Space for Contemporary Art presents new paintings by San Antonio artist and UTSA alumnus Jerry Cabrera through Dec. 5. The exhibit, "Verbum," is on display at 206 W. Ryan St., Suite B, in Laredo, Texas.
The pieces in the exhibit are based on abstractions of Cabrera's cape paintings, his signature work in recent exhibitions.
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- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
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Originally from Laredo, Cabrera earned an M.F.A. degree in painting from UTSA and a B.F.A. from Texas State University - San Marcos. A San Antonio-based artist, he has exhibited in San Antonio, Austin and San Marcos, including Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, MEXIC-Arte Museum and the UTSA Satellite Space.
Cabrera's work is included in the Neiman-Marcus Collection, and he is presently commissioned by the SBC Center in San Antonio to create a series of paintings.
For more information, contact Eduardo Garcia, gallery director, at (956) 206-4785.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by tkaug, Nov 7, 2012.
Oriental? God, that sounds so racist. If you are going to get on your high fecking horse, please don't have a racist name tag, mmkay?
The oriental plane is the English language name of one of my favourite trees.
Well then...you have named your favourite tree in A VERY RACIST WAY!!!!
You have a good writer.
Plantanus Orientalis-----A GORGEOUS TREE WITH maple type leaves.
Not OP's fault, PeterG. the agriculturist/scientist/?? who named this tree ORIENTAL PLANE, and OP's poor taste for liking this tree.
Ignore it and it will go away.
Honest professor - I didn't mean to plagiarize! It was a coincidence/ subconscious / the mark of 2 geniuses moving along the same plane.
LOL, so how's that working out, Zigs?
LMFAO! This is one of the best posts I have seen in awhile! Hilarious!
Tonia had a legitimate shot at making the '98 Olympic team, last time she competed at Nationals. And she went to Worlds that same season, finishing 6th. The only similarity I see is that you probably never enjoyed seeing either one of them sticking around. Which, you know, is how retirement should be determined. Will have them give you a call before signing up for any future events.
Fumie didn't get along with anyone but her sister. I think I remember reading Shizuka or Miki's blog a long time ago that they always included Fumie to going out for dinners and stuff(they were all practicing at the same rink at one point) but Fumie never wanted to join in.
While it's true she didn't get along with them, we wouldn't know what prevented her from wanting to join in.
Maybe she's a Scientologist? Or an Illuminati? And only socialises with HER OWN KIND.
I meant it could have been external as well as internal. She got along fine with the American skaters, at least on surface. She had spent her childhood years in Anchorage Alaska and her spoken English was pretty good, so I guess it helped her there. When moved to Japan she might have had some difficulty in being fully adjusted into the circle, where compliance with group behavior is the encouraged norm, relatively speaking. It would have been not entirely by her choice or her lack of sociability, but there could have also been some social or emotional barrier set by her peers which would not be readily visible or felt by the outsiders. It's my guess.
those are good observations,lowtherlore. it's easy to judge a person, especially from the outside, instead of looking at our own flaws
Now that the world hasn't ended, we need a new conspiracy.
That's very interesting, thanks. I didn't realise. Having been brought up in a different country puts you in this strange position where you feel and consider yourself to be Japanese (or whatever other nationality), yet when you move there after years of living somewhere else, you are different and don't really fit in. I know somebody who has experienced this clash.
Im sorry but Fumie has been done along time ago
I just saw a post below on her Twitter account.
Arrived Munich,waiting Adam
I do not think her English is good at all.
Good English speakers wouldn't make such silly mistakes like this.
She did, and she wisely recognized it was then or never, that was her last chance, and instantly turned pro after the 1997-1998 season after a long and respectable amateur career, to cash in on her pro opportunities before it was too late. This is Tonia who for skating standards had stretched out her amateur skating career to the max as it was. Fumie who has had a far more successful career than Tonia has not had the same wisdom Tonia had about when to let go. Like Tonia in 1998, 2006 was Fumie's last chance to reach her major goals in the sport, and as it was she might have just missed (4th at the 06 Olympics, just off the podium, just missing the long awaited World gold). To stay for 1 more year to attempt to skate at Worlds at home in Japan was reasonable, but after that it has just gotten plain silly, and now post Vancouver it is now getting to the point it is borderline scary and one could even worry about her sanity at this point. If she were competing in adult competitions like Midori Ito that would be totally fine, but instead she not only competes at elite level competitions in Japan, a decade older than anyone else, but talks about wanting to go back to the Olympics when she cant even make it out of regional competition, do triples anymore, and is now getting 4s in components in regional competition, after reportedly already bankrupting her retired parents to keep doing this. Yikes! Sadly she has also missed the opportunity to have a nice professional career, something much lesser skaters like Jennifer Robinson have enjoyed, and help the financial burdens of her family.
I agree that Fumie's desire to compete is quixotic, but this statement is heavy on the hyperbole. Fumie is a frequent participant in shows -- she is doing one in Italy tomorrow -- and I don't know that she is turning down offers to train for Japanese regionals. Judging from her schedule I think she is doing all the shows she can and entering the regional competitions on the side, regardless of what she may tell the press in her infrequent interviews. Just my two cents.
There's often a big difference between another language spoken and another language written.
Admins, could we please change the title of this thread to: "Fumie Suguri, the Norma Desmond of Figure Skating"? Thanks.
I have spoken to Fumie several times and her English is better than your Japanese will ever be.
In addition to her years in Alaska, she is extremely well cultured and traveled thanks to 15+ years competing. She's worked with Russian, Japanese and North American coaches and choreographers.
She was tweeting, likely on a mobile device. She doesn't need to have perfect grammar.
While I think her best competitive days are behind her, she's not hurting anyone by still competing.
You say she is not hurting anyone by still competing?
How many times has she withdrawn competitions just a few days before so no other Japanese substitutes can compete? She also makes excuses for not winning, saying she had some injuries or an issue with her boots. That is not what senior skaters like her should do.
By the way, I am a native Japanese speaker and I hear and see her news at the first place.
She has also cancelled many ice shows in Japan so she totally deserves it that she is not invited to Ice shows in Japan anymore.
MANY elite level skaters give those reasons (injury/boot issues) when a competition doesn't go the way they want it to, whether it be true or not, I don't see why Fumie shouldn't be allowed to do the same
tkaug, we get it. You hate Fumie Suguri or at least dislike so much that you want to spread bad gossip about her to damage her reputation.
You forgot to mention she wrote the same thing word for word in Japanese, namely without the particles, which is strictly speaking grammatically incorrect as well
Maybe her Japanese isn't that good either
Or maybe we shouldn't judge her language ability based on tweets. Just saying.....And even if her English wasn't perfect, what's the problem?
Then again, I am sure you'll have more reasons why we should hate Fumie that you can generously share with us


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When a discussion becomes so abstract and self-referential that you stop having it because you've confused yourself too much to continue.
Even I couldn't even tell any more whether I was being sarcastic or serious, so the conversation sort of ended in a metabortion.
by ZackE October 02, 2013
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Health Beat: Treating depression with electroconvulsive therapy
MIAMI - Electroshock therapy was first used in 1938 to induce a therapeutic seizure. Those seizures seemed to reset the brain. Todaym the treatment is nothing like the Frankenstein depictions in film and television.
When medication and hospitalization no longer work for 100,000 psychiatric patients, depression and bipolar disorder are wiped away with electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now looking into the pros and cons of ECT.
This is what scares us most about ECT, a high voltage of electricity sent directly into a patient's brain without any pain medication.
"It used to be that people would have a full convulsion and they would break bones from the contracture of the, of the muscles," said Dr. Michael Hughes, psychiatrist at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Today, however, patients are put under anesthesia and the low dose electricity is safely regulated by the newest machine.
"The machine quite dramatically modifies the waveform of the current as it passes through the machine and then gets administered to the central nervous system," said Dr. Martin Strassnig, attending psychiatrist and chief, ECT service, University of Miami.
It changed Barry Wiernik's life.
"He said, 'Roni, I don't want to live and I can't get out of bed,'" said Roni Wiernik, Barry's wife.
Barry Wiernik is bipolar and suffers from severe depression. Newly prescribed maintenance ECT every eight weeks is the only way to keep him from relapsing.
"There's no pain involved. You go under general anesthesia, you wake up within an hour, and it's like nothing happened," Wiernik said.
"I think this is such a wonderful thing because it helped my husband," Roni said.
Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. Michael Hughes said ECT could cause some temporary memory loss, soreness, and nausea, but it works and can even now be used during pregnancy, instead of mood enhancing drugs.
"It's scary for people to hear about it. When you know about it and see it, it is safe," Hughes said.
Some states, such as Utah, have tried to outlaw ECT.
It is, however, legal and used to treat severe depression and bipolar disorder that is resistant to medication.
In fact, two thirds of those patients are women. ECT is covered by insurance as both an inpatient and outpatient procedure.
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Beginning the CEH
At this point I believe I will start with the CEH. ELS's student program will probable follow, we'll see what kind of timeframe I am looking at later. This thread will hopefully serve to chronicle my progress towards this exam, and hopefully keep me motivated and on track.
First and foremost, I am not looking at this point at ordering the official guide for financial reasons, and reviews of the material would seem to indicate that the money could go elsewhere.
So my first question is, what should be the first book that I should read? What kind of timeframe should I set for myself to master this exam material? I think I am firm on security knowledge at the Security+ level, and I have user level Linux knowledge, no programming knowledge.
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I have a 5 year old son that would really like to have me finish his boba fett costume that I started 3 years ago. (I know, I know, I'm slow). Here is where I am at. I have the armor, but it still needs more painting and weathering. I have a pattern for the jumpsuit. I have material but I think it may be too heavy and will use it instead for the vest. I have printed out the gauntlet and backpack patterns at 66% and have started cutting the gauntlets from a for sale sign (light weight sintra). I am planning on making a majority of the backpack out of foamcore board. I saw the tutorial for the belt with boxes and tools, so those shouldn't be an issue. I need help with a few things, though.
1. I have a rubies boba helmet, but it is warped so that it is oblong front to back, rather than circular. I have tried heating it a little and putting a ball inside it to help retain it's shape as it cooled, but soon after removing the ball, the helmet returns to the oblong shape. is there anything that I can put in the helmet permanently to help it retain its shape?
2. What would be a cheap, but sturdy way to make the girth belt? I can dye it if need be and saw the tutorial on dying it using latex stain, but I need to have the belt before I can dye it.
3. Any help with weathering would be great.
4. What is a good inexpensive way to make the shoes? He will outgrow them too quickly for me to want to put a lot of money into them.
The best thing about all of this, though, is that I have another son age 2, who will get to wear this when his older brother outgrows it.
thanks for any help you can give me.