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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 06, 2013, 11:01:41 AM »

Please do not get me started.  If the trend of Black Friday sales starting earlier and earlier every year continues, then it won't be too long before stores are open all day on Thanksgiving.

My store was open all day on Thanksgiving.  I worked the overnight shift, from 5 PM on Thursday to 5 AM on Friday.

Ditto. Had to work on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday. 9:30a-6:30p Thursday, 7:30a-4:30p Friday.

Yikes - you had it worse than I did!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 05, 2013, 05:03:53 PM »

Please do not get me started.  If the trend of Black Friday sales starting earlier and earlier every year continues, then it won't be too long before stores are open all day on Thanksgiving.

My store was open all day on Thanksgiving.  I worked the overnight shift, from 5 PM on Thursday to 5 AM on Friday.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 28, 2013, 12:40:02 PM »

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  As you think about your Black Friday shopping tomorrow, please take a minute to think about how you're going to treat your salespeople and cashiers.  We don't get holidays off.  We don't even get to shop during the best sales of the year.  We give up our family time, our free time, and even our sleep so that you can buy all the presents you want.  We get yelled at countless times a day for things that are totally beyond our control.  It really takes just one act of kindness, one sympathetic and understanding customer, to make our day.  Will you be that customer?

That said, my schedule is frightening me.  Today I work 5 PM to midnight, tomorrow from 5 AM to noon, next Saturday from 2 PM to midnight, and the following Sunday from 5 AM to whenever the job gets done.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 20, 2013, 10:00:52 AM »

To be honest, I'd rather keep the current music than go back to Taylor Swift and Nickelback.

Agreed! even though it's 2 production tunes it's way better than the recent vocals.

Another idea would be having a NWS Short Term Forecast at the beginning of each LF or even a Regional Outlook by TWC.

Like the "Local Update" from the WeatherStar 4000?  How will that get squeezed into a one-minute forecast, though?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 18, 2013, 08:21:32 PM »

While I was under a tornado watch yesterday mine just said, "Frankfort, this is your weather."

At least there wasn't some stupid joke in there.  The threat of a tornado pretty much removes any appropriateness of levity in such a situation.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 18, 2013, 08:19:54 PM »

So after about a week of the new Local On at the 8's... I REALLLYYYYY think they should eliminate the opening slide with the "Hello" message on it and also eliminate the last slide with the "Summary". It would allow for a consistent use of the hourly forecast and close up radar. Even when there's an alert. I'm noticing now when there's an alert, instead of cutting out a pointless hello message slide, they only show today's forecast and not tonights, and they also eliminate the hourly forecast because there's precip in the area and have to show both radars. Just get rid of the pointless Hello slide and summary slides so we can have more weather 

I agree completely.  We don't need a large analogue clock or the jokes.  The summary is nice, I'll admit, but when time is of the essence (and TWC gives so little time to local forecasts these days), it's not absolutely necessary, anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 16, 2013, 10:55:41 PM »

I work retail.  Not only that, but I will be in the electronics department.  My Thanksgiving, once again, is looking to be totally nightmarish.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 16, 2013, 10:54:55 PM »

Strange how some people are getting a transparent LDL during programming, here I'm getting the blue one.

SD gets the blue bar, HD is transparent.

That makes sense, since it allows the widescreen program to not be letterboxed in the classic sense while still maintaining proportion.  On the other hand, it doesn't look so pretty. 

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Update-Related Issues

« on: November 14, 2013, 05:48:24 PM »

Just wanted to inform you that my Local Forecast still is stuck on the desert theme. I live on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, so it's not very fitting 

I don't know how to find my STAR info since it no longer says it... but my cable provider is Atlantic Broadband and my city is Chester, MD but I get the forecast for Centreville, MD.

This is a known issue, and the technical folks behind the scenes are said to be working on it.  It's a brand-new system, so let's just give them some time.    It's not as if they ignore the problems.  They know what's going on.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 14, 2013, 12:01:21 PM »

Good points.  I'd personally rather see snow indicated in white on a radar.  The idea of white land on weather maps, though, baffles me in any context other than a black-and-white newspaper.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 14, 2013, 11:19:09 AM »

I've seen both blue and white used to indicate snow on various channels.  I suppose it's just what you're used to.

That said, I prefer snow to be indicated by white, and I prefer the land on weather maps to not be white.

P.S.: I remember the days before radar could even show snow.  We had to make do with blotchy green and the meteorologist in front of the map explaining that this was snow, and we had to take his word for it!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 14, 2013, 04:46:21 AM »

Bitter party of one your table is now ready....LMAO 

Make that "bitter party of two."  I agree with pretty much everything that was said.

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General Discussion / Re: Google continues to change YouTube :/

« on: November 14, 2013, 04:45:32 AM »

I wasn't a fan of Google+ when it first started, and I'm even less of a fan now.  Since the first day I started an account there I kept saying it needed to make some drastic changes to be successful.  Google+ seems instead to have taken a page out of TWC's longform playbook...

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 13, 2013, 07:35:15 PM »

During long forom shows there is still no weather information on the bottom of screen during commercials beaks for those who do not have the IS2.  It should be there because they do it during live shows on the national feed and I don't get why they can't set the computer to turn it on and off during long form?
Are those who have an IS2 getting any info at the bottom during commercials?

The LDL during longform is transparent.  If there were a national LDL on the screen, the local LDL would need to have a solid background to cover it up, thus blocking out most, if not all, of the bottom portion of the screen during longform.  The only way to show longform full-screen without covering up the bottom is to keep a transparent local LDL, which, unfortunately, means no national LDL underneath.

I'm not talking about the LDL being on during longform shows. I get why it's off.
I'm talking about the commercial breaks during long form.
Why can't we get LDL the they do on the national feed during commercial breaks on the live shows during longform?

Too difficult to keep turning on and off for a few minutes of commercials throughout hours of longform programming?

There's an article from the AP who talked to David Clark.

I'd much rather watch coverage of severe weather anywhere than have to watch whatever longform programming there is, meaning I won't be watching The Weather Channel at all.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 13, 2013, 05:14:50 PM »

During long forom shows there is still no weather information on the bottom of screen during commercials beaks for those who do not have the IS2.  It should be there because they do it during live shows on the national feed and I don't get why they can't set the computer to turn it on and off during long form?
Are those who have an IS2 getting any info at the bottom during commercials?

The LDL during longform is transparent.  If there were a national LDL on the screen, the local LDL would need to have a solid background to cover it up, thus blocking out most, if not all, of the bottom portion of the screen during longform.  The only way to show longform full-screen without covering up the bottom is to keep a transparent local LDL, which, unfortunately, means no national LDL underneath.