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This morning, in a total random moment I decided to browse the music section of craigslist. I usually browse the Boats section once a day, but today I just clicked around, checked out camera stuff, computers, and eventually musical instruments. I then came across a really sweet deal on an ELX. I bookmarked it, and went with Jo to get breakfast and a new game for her on the PS3, as well as a stop at MEC for a jacket for me.

I decided over breakfast at White Spot that I was going to call about the kit. I did, and it was still available. at 6:00 the former owners brought this kit to me.

My new (used) Pearl Export Series ELX 5pc. Kit

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The Ad:

Like new..never been on stage, been in my spare room and played gently. Upgraded kick pedal to Tama Iron Cobra, added 20 inch Zildjian China High boy crash and a 10 inch Wuhan Splash. Has a cymbal pack which includes 20 inch medium ride, one 16 inch medium thin crash and high hats all by Sabian.
The kick drum sounds amazing on this kit which is what sold me on it above all others I tried! That and the color. Also a Gibraltar lumbar drum stool.
In the pics the one Tom is on the floor because I do not have the room to have it set up..my computer chair will bump into the set.
I am selling because I am not able to play due to a bad back getting worse..no band plans for me anymore :( So..it is sitting gathering dust.
I paid the Long and McQuade brand new price out the door..not including the up grades of $2900 I do understand the extreme mark down on music gear..have been in the business for over 20 years….pains me but it is a sacrifice. This is a great kit..looks and plays new and is going to waste and taking up room that I could put a spare bed. Sorry..I do not want to sell separate pieces.

Details

The Export series is a popular one. There were 3 in this series. The EX, EXR, and ELX. The EX was a plain wrap finish, and the EXR was an exotic wrap. The ELX is the higher end of the Export series because it has a glossy lacquer finish. The wood itself Poplar which is how these became affordable (and thus popular) kits. My particular kit is the ELX825H and is referred to as the Fusion model (the one with the hanging 14” x 11” floor tom). Lacquer finish is “Amber Fade” with Black Hardware to compliment it (Bass has wood hoops).

Specs

• 22” x 18” bass w/Protone Batter
• 10” x 8” tom w/Protone Batter
• 12” x 9” tom w/Protone Batter
• 14” x 11” tom w/Protone Batter
• 14” x 5.5” snare w/Remo Coated Ambassador Batter
• 2 TH-88I tom arms
• TH-88S tom arm
• AX-20 clamp
• C-800W straight cymbal stand
• BC-800W boom cymbal stand
• S-800W snare stand
• H-820W hi hat stand
• Tama HP900P Iron Cobra Pedal
• Sabian XS20 20” Medium Ride
• Sabian XS20 16” Medium Thin Crash
• Sabian XS20 14” Hi-Hats
• Zildjian 20” China Boy Hi
• Wuhan S-Series 10” Splash
• Gibraltar 9609-BT Brake Tilter Boom w/ball adjust
• Gibraltar Throne - Separates B9608 base, GUBR Back Rest & S9608OS Moto Seat
• Sabian 61143 Premium Stick/Mallet Bag

I so totally own a sweet kit!

php mail() Broken? Googl’ing and finding a mess of answers about rewriting code, RFC compliance and general hulabaloo but no answer as to why you are getting this error? Well your installation of php probably has just been Hardened

ALERT - mail() - double newline in headers, possible injection, mail dropped (attacker 'IPADDRESS', file 'FILENAME', line 668)

You will need to find the option suhosin.mail.protect in your php.ini and set it to 0.

; This directive controls if the mail() header protection is activated or not
; and to what degree it is activated. The appended table lists the possible
; activation levels.
; suhosin.mail.protect = 1
suhosin.mail.protect = 0

The reason for this setting is to prevent injection attacks, so as a prerequisite, be sure to filter your incoming data! More info on suhosin.mail.protect is available. In your reading if you come across the CRLF vs. LF conversations, this is a good summation. Basically it comes down to your OS and MTA.

Incidentally, I came across this issue implementing mini_sendmail-chroot on OpenBSD and had to dig a bit for the solution…

HTH

You are getting inundated with spam since you entered your email address on some site, and you are thinking “now what?”. It’s pouring in from free-this and weekly-that and you click unsubscribe and it keeps coming in. Well, this is my method for solving spam problems.

Most spammers protect their address lists like chunks of gold. They constantly trim and add to it, they try to get meta data to go with it and they try their hardest to send you something that interests you with a link you will click on, and make them rich. One thing they are generally not interested in is history. Historical data is not important to them and I capitalize on this.

Next time you get UCE (I am referring to actual emails form nasty companies, not V1@grA SPAM), find the “Update Email Address” or “Change Options”, (either from a link in the email or in the headers) and go to it. Make yourself a nice false identity, complete with a mathematically ral address (a valid street, valid zip code, etc) and then fire up Google and find yourself a temporary email address. Update your preferences with a temporary address, wait a few minutes in case there is a “confirm change of address” email sent, and voilà!

Spammers don’t generally maintain “Old Email Addresses” (I mean they are not actually trying to be a CRM) so you have now just taken yourself off their list without taking yourself off their list :) It’s not a complete solution, but I know from experience that this works…

I have been playing drums now for like 20-30mins a day for a year. I can do some stuff but I am still beginning. I don’t read music, I don’t have a teacher. I have an mp3 player… and patience. A lot of information is on the ‘net and there are a lot of different techniques which are taught but few seem to really help me improve beyond the basics. I did however find a couple videos recently from Aaron Bland which are really helping.

Two things of note. First I started (as with most I am sure) playing match grip. It seemed most natural yet I yearned for some reason to play traditional grip. I think it was a statement by Neil Peart regarding his switch to trad. grip (at Freddie Gruber’s prompting) after many years which inspired me to wonder about learning it too.

Secondly, while speed is important I am finding that I really want to get my technique in shape, hence the never-ending quest for instruction on the ‘net. The hardest part is filtering the wheat from the chaff when searching, as there are a lot of people teaching ways-to-improve-this-and-that which are perhaps a little lacking.

I have found that it is a split between watching videos and listening, over and over, to music. Neil Peart is an excellent example of quality as he brings a level of calm to the mix, which I have taken as inspiration to find a quiet place in my mind while I sit at a kit, but the music of Rush was created as a complete unit, so trying to take drum pointers from their music is, well, hard, as the percussion is an constructed as an accompaniment to a larger piece and I get a “Doesn’t play well with others” feel from it, so I leave the music from Rush as auditory splendor and move on to finding technique inspiration form others.

Johnny Fay of the band “The Tragically Hip” falls into the category of drummers I like to listen to. The Hip has a great style, and while I like their music a lot, I love the drumming a lot more. Classic beats, great tempos, and stuff which I can work on. The beats have a bit more soul in them for me. Groove, if you will. I find that I want to toe-tap when listening to The Hip and that puts me is a space where I want to play.

Just a side note, both Peart and Fay are Canadians, eh? Fellas, if either of you are ever in Vancouver, look me up so I can take you for dinner as a thank you for the inspiration!

Back to the reason for this post now. When searching for information, best practices state that you look for patterns that emerge from samples of data. Metronomes are one of those things that pop up continually, so I have been working more and more with my metronome to get my timing better. The hard thing about metronomes for me isn’t getting the time right, but rather finding something which is natural to play along to the constant Bing!, blip, blip, blip, Bing!, blip, blip, blip. The is where a video from Aaron Bland came to the rescue.

8th Note Placement is something I can finally use with the metronome and play without getting bored beyond belief in 2 minutes. This has the benefit of getting me some quality time with the metronome as well as giving me some tools to help me learn to mimic the sounds which I like most from the drums so thanks to you too Aaron. Although you aren’t a Canadian drummer, I will buy you dinner too if you ever stray north of the border :)