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I bought my first Jeff Beck Strat in 1999. It had the baseball bat neck and Lace pickups. A dual Lace in the bridge position, surf green. I made a recording with the guitar and a Vox AC30 all the way up. On playback I was amazed with the sound of the rig. The harmonics were so rich. It sounded like Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. About 2 years later, Fender changed the neck to the C shape and the pickups were changed to the familiar 3 single coils. Well I just got the new one in Olympic White and Hot Noiseless pickups. Amazingly the pickups offer very different shades available with the flip of the switch. If I had to make any changes, I would like to have Oval shaped vintage tuner buttons. Jeff is always pushing the barriers of new frontiers, and this guitar can take you there.
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Got one used. Had been playing an American Standard before. The Standard being a great guitar, the Jeff Beck model beats it. It's the ball bearing nut that lets the guitar stay tuned when pushing the trem very hard. Really like the noiseless pickups. Especially like the sound of the two positions with pickups parallel. - Really a workhorse.
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You know like when you meet someone for the first time, looking at the person and saying to yourself.. WOW!!! that's my type!! But then, you'll never know if you're made for each other until you live together... So when I saw this guitar on the wall it was love at first sight. I was almost afraid that playing her wouldn't give me the same effect she had on my eyes. Ho boy, just holding her, the feel, wow... then I made the mistake to put my left hand on the neck. Not even making a note, just holding the neck was enough for me to say to my salesman SHE'S MINE.. !!! Then you know the rest of the story... the sound of the Pickups the comfort and playability of the tremolo etc... I already own a Deluxe Telecaster and you can easily compare the features, locking keys, beveled neck heel and great noiseless pickups. I've own 3 or 4 Strats before this one and she is by far my most versatile Stratocaster with a Tremolo that just ask to be use. The only negative point I have to say is that I am not excited about the Tweed case witch is beautiful but for me doesn't feel enough rugged to carry this amazing instrument. I'm in love... Again... thanks Fender!!
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Had the cheaper one in Alpine White.
Doesn't matter: The most superb guitar I've ever owned but, I had to reluctantly sell it for cash. I truly miss that guitar.
Totally great build quality, playability and "The Great One's" tone, for sure.
The Jeff Beck stratocaster guitar is a unique guitar. It's a good guitar. It's a great guitar! The features are excellent and it's very easy to pull the strings since they are made of the plastogenic material which is considered to be very rich when it comes to monotoring the ambitions of the guitar. Also it is quite expensive, it is worth it I promise! The only thing bad about it is the design. The design isn't nice it should be better and healthier for the media artists. So yeah you should get it because you could always paint over the design. my name is polina and i love guitars!
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Fantastic strat with modern appointments - I must have found a cherry because the neck and frets are superb, making playability effortless.
The pickups are excellent in that they accomplish what they are supposed to - great tone and no noise. They aren't as 'snappy' as vintage-voiced single coils, but are very smooth and buttery - they seem to handle gain extremely well. I find this a great modern alternate to my other strat - a limited edition 57/62 thinskin (a vintage reissue more or less). I've owned three American Deluxe Strats; a '90, an '06 and an '07 - they were all very good guitars, but this tops them all with respect to playability and tone.....and I'm only getting more picky as I age.
This was strictly a guitar purchase, not a name purchase - I certainly do appreciate Jeff Beck's talent, but I bought this first and foremost because it topped all of the other strats I picked up within it's price range. Buttery tone, great looks and inspiring playability.
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This strat brought me back to Fender after playing other guitar brands for many years. If you compare strats this one has some features similar to the American Deluxe Strat. The neck and middle pickups sounded fine. The bridge pickup a bit too ear piercing for my taste and I have since swapped out that pickup. The modern C neck shape worked out well for my hand. The floating tremolo did not stay in tune when received, and took a lot of adjusting to get it to a useable state. The roller nut, and locking tuners is only a part the the tremolo bar stability issue. It doesn't make all the stability problems go away. I like this guitar alot, but if you can afford it the Fender American Deluxe Strat, buy that one instead, just because it is worth the extra expense. I own both, and both are keepers.
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I bought this guitar used in 2011. It's a 2001 model with the vintage noiseless pickups being used for the first time. Besides the gorgeous Surf Green(it looks more Sea Foam Green to me) finish, what struck me were the pickups. They are stacked humbucker-style and they have more power than any other Strat pickups I have ever used. It took awhile to get used to. I'm not used to that kind of volume out of a Strat. Now, every other Strat seems mild by comparison. The roller nut is great, though I'm not using the whammy that much. Although that is Jeff Beck's style, I may get the springs(which have gotten a bit stretched out over time) set Clapton like. It has taken the place of my old American Deluxe as my main guitar now. A nicely made value, especially as a used piece!
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:49 am
Post subject: Home schooling educational quality - is my child learning??
Hi all,
I have two great kids that mean the world to me but they live with my ex wife and are home schooled. I get along with my ex wife alright and was initially against home schooling but came around on it eventually. However as of late I have some real concerns about the quality of my first child's education.
My daughter should be starting 2nd grade at this point. Right now she isn't reading very well and has trouble spelling most words save for 3-4 letter ones she has seen before. I ask her is she knows her vowels, long 'A' sounds, etc and other basic questions and she just doesn't seem to be grasping some/most of the concepts. I'm really worried to say the least.
She has online interaction with her teacher and other students that I have watched but she seems to be behind the other kids in figuring out what is going on. And this includes my ex wife helping her read the instructions and giving her the answer about 50% of the time.
My ex wife is not the most organized person in the world and from what little she shares with me they do maybe an hour of schooling a day that seems to include alot of arts and crafts type stuff. I feel my ex isn't putting in enough time with her but I want to make sure some of my concerns are founded before I address them.
I'm not sure where other kids are as far as their curriculum but is this normal for a home school environment? Shouldn't you be able to read and write by the end of the 1st grade? When I went to school it was alot more organized and most kids her age seem to have a much better grasp of basic reading and math skills. I remember as a kid we were reading and writing pretty extensively by the second grade....
Does the home school organizer or teacher monitor the kid's progress at all or is it all on the parent to track the child's developement? I admit I don't know much about home schooling and thought their would be more participation or interaction with a teacher or organizer or someone that would assist in my children's education besides my ex wife?
Any info other parents can pass along would be very appreciated.
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I implore you to trust your children's mother.
I don't know what kind of program your children are enrolled in, but I do know that regardless of what kind of outside oversight there may be, the parent is still responsible.
What you describe does not sound unusual to me. I cannot make a more in-depth assessment, however, since I'm not getting first-hand information.
Please do not make homeschooling an issue. Millions of parents--most often, mothers--have successfully educated their children at home, even though to those who are not living with the children every day the progress may seem slow. It will best if you encourage your children, rather than quiz them when they're with you. Your children's lives have already been torn apart by divorce; homeschooling will give them far more stability and indivualized attention than any public or private school will, as long as you don't make it an issue.
In answer to your specific question, yes, it is not uncommon for children to not be reading at their age level by the end of first grade. Thousands of public schools produce non-readers regularly. Many homeschoolers take a relaxed approach to academics with young children; one of my dc was not reading at her age level until she was 9½, but she started taking classes at the community college when she was 14, and aced all them.
You could give your children's mother the link to this site, in case she has questions.
Also, it would be good for you to educate yourself on homeschooling. Mary Pride has written several good books on homeschooling, and there are many articles right here on her site; you could also look for Dr. Raymond Moore's books, and John Holt's "Teach Your Own."
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I appreciate the reply ellie - and don't get me wrong I don't have an issue with homeschooling but rather I was getting worried at the apparent lack of progress my child seems to show. She is very bright, inquisitive and loves to learn so it seems to me that her learning is a bit out of sync with her natural tendency.
It is unsettling as a parent to be kept in the dark and have little feedback or have the opportunity to ask questions of a teacher or coordinator. I have read up on homeschooling and endorse it but what do you do when it doesn't appear to be working? Again my ex wife is not the most organized person in the world and doesn't appear to devote very much time to schooling beyond an hour or so a day. Again - is this normal and is this a sufficient amount of time to devote to schooling on a daily basis? I realize the child receives a great deal of 1 on 1 time being instructed but is a bare minimal amount (?) more beneficial than a regular school cirriculum?
I'm not trying to argue and appreciate the feedback but I'm skeptical that this arrangement is benefiting my child right now. I realize many children benefit from being home schooled but I tend to believe they receive more organized instruction time than my child is getting right now...
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:20 pm
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Sometimes you cannot tell that it's "working" until many years later.
You cannot really tell what your ex is doing with your dd because you are not there all day. There's so much more to education than filling out workbook pages and being instructed by a teacher.
And I cannot tell, either, because I'm not talking to your wife. I'm getting a second-hand observation from someone who may have a tendancy to be hostile, right?
Again, I implore you to trust your child's mother. She cares about your daughter's education every bit as much as you do. How organized she may or many not be is irrelevant. Please do not make homeschooling an issue.
Perhaps if you were to be less pushy--and I feel your pushiness from the way you describe how you've grilled your dd on her knowledge of phonics, even though you might not think you were either "grilling" or pushing--your ex would be more open about what she's doing. Children often get their tongues tangled when being asked questions about spelling words when it's not in spelling "class."
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I'm getting a second-hand observation from someone who may have a tendancy to be hostile, right?
Where on earth did you get an idea like that? Wrong - and on so many levels lady....
I think you have alot of nerve to spout off about my being 'pushy' and 'grilling' my daughter about the subjects she is currently studying. Some parents would call that discussion and being involved in your child's learning. Do you assume I perform some kind of punishment if she doesn't pass muster when I'm 'grilling' her? Nothing could be further from the truth....I don't know where you got that idea because I am not a hostile person. End of story. I'm not sure where you project this kind of paranoia from but it can't be a good place.
I don't care about grades, social standing, validating children via some kind of artificial ranking system nor 'grilling' them so I can feel good about their body of knowledge as you so 'elegantly' put it ellie...
What I did come into this forum hoping home-schooling wasn't some kind of rubber stamp given by xenophobic divorcee moms and was instead a structured alternative learning path that avoids the hang ups so many kids run into in the public and private school system.
And to top it all off - ellie you ask me to do precisely the same thing a parent does when he signs his kid off to go to public school. Just shut up and let someone else handle the well-being of your kid.
At this point ellie I'm alot more worried about your kids than mine. I have to say I found some answers on theis forum and I definitely don't like what I hear...
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:44 pm
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I'm sorry you feel this way.
I'm asking you to trust your child's mother, and to not make homeschooling an issue.
I only know your side of the story. I am trying not to give advice without hearing directly from the person who is doing the actual teaching.
I used the word "hostile" because that's what I'm seeing, albeit a very mild hostility (and your referring to me as "lady" seems to validate my judgment). Perhaps I erred; if so, I apologize. But my advice remains the same: don't make homeschooling an issue; trust your child's mother, who cares as much about your child's education as you do; be supportive by asking your ex if there's anything you can do to help, rather than second-guessing her methods, especially when we're talking about a 7-year-old child, the first month of school.
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Post subject: Re: Home schooling educational quality - is my child learnin
I think I understand where you are coming from on this issue. You don't have a problem with home school as long as your child is learning. I don't think there is one problem with that.
Have you talked to your ex wife about this? I think if you show interest in her day to day routine that would be appreciated. Do you know what program your ex wife is using? Maybe ask to do a subject or two with your daughter.
Education is not just a mother's right. You are her father and you do have the right to be interested in your child's education and progress. I think if you ask your ex more questions things will make more sense to you.
As for her progress, what you described sounds normal. Not all children learn quickly and reading can take some time. I think if you help your daughter when she is with you that will help too.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:45 pm
Post subject: Lil' Shorty 2013 Mock Offseason 1.0
Free Agency
Key Resigns
Ronde Barber:
- Signs a 1 year deal and retires after the 2013 season. He sees the strong chance of a playoff run this year and wants one more crack at it with plenty still left in the tank.
Michael Bennett:
- Signs a 4 year deal and deserves it. He has been one of our best pass rushers as of late and is only continuing to develop. Considering our pass rush woes he has to be a top priority for us to resign. A rotation of him and Bowers on the left for a full season should do our pass rush some good in 2013.
Mike Williams:
- Signs a 4 year extension. He clearly deserves it after the season he had this year along side Vincent Jackson. Williams is one of the best #2s in the league and deserves more than a contract of a 4th round pick.
Roy Miller:
- Signs a 3 year deal. Is excellent in stopping the run and really came on under Schiano. Miller did great this season and should stay in Tampa considering how important he was in the run defense. Now we just need someone to rotate with him that can rush the passer.
EJ Biggers:
- Signs a 3 year deal. He is a solid backup but we need better starters.
Let Walk / Restructures
LeGarrette Blount:
- Let him
hit the market
and decide not to resign him.
Quincy Black:
- Despite the best season of his career he is still a 2 down LB and after his horrible injury his $6 mil. per year salary doesn't fly any more.
He gets cut
to free up cap space.
Dallas Clark:
- Was great for us this year but we could put part of his salary to a TE that would really help us out.
Let him walk.
Jeremy Trueblood:
- He sucks. Why bother?
Dan Orlovsky:
- Freeman needs better competition. Bye bye.
Eric Wright:
- Some might disagree but I saw we keep him to be a nickel back and
restructure him down to $4 million per year
with 2 years of that guaranteed. I say he takes it because he knows he wont get much more on the open market.
Key Additions
Here is a classic Lil' Shorty offseason for ya.
But in all seriousness I think we make some moves again cuz Dom knows we need to make the playoffs and he wouldn't of freed up money for no reason.
QB - Matt Moore:
- Is not a franchise signal caller but with experience as a teams signal caller he should be able to push Freeman more than Dan the Man.
RB - Felix Jones:
- Though he is small like Martin he would be and ideal COP back to Martin and help bring another dynamic to the offense. Plus, a change of scenery could really do him some good and possibly be all he really needs other than some good Earnest Byner coaching.
TE - Jared Cook:
- Idk whats up with the Martellus Bennett obsession lately but Cook imo is a much better option. He will cost a little bit more but it will pay dividends in the passing game. Is not as good of a blocker as Martellus but wouldnt make passing downs as obvious as Clark.
OT - Somebody that would be reasonably priced and good competition for Dotson.
DT - Glenn Dorsey:
- Would be a great rotation guy with Miller and really help get more of a push on passing downs.
CB - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
- When its all said and done I think we hire the old Arizona DB coach to be our new DB coach and that connection wouldn't hurt this pick up. DRC still has some untapped potential and would be a big time upgrade for our secondary.
2013 NFL Draft
Round 1: Xavier Rhodes - CB - Florida St.
- I personally see Rhodes as the 2nd best CB in this class behind Milliner. Granted, Rhodes is not as technically sound as Milliner, he has a ton of upside and the potential to be the best CB in this class. Possesses great bump and run cover ability and though he is a rather large CB, Rhodes has great body control and ball skills. Milliner and Rhodes are probably the 2 best fits for our defense at CB and with Milliner out of reach, we nab Rhodes.
Round 2: Tavon Austin - WR - West Virginia
- Now I know there was another Mock out there that had us grabbing Austin in the 2nd. If he in deed is there, I think its definitely a possibility. Tiquan was decent in the slot this year but showed some alligator arms at times and is better suited for being out wide. With Austin in the slot and VJax and Mike on the outside we would have a pretty nasty WR group. Plus, with the addition of a real TE and a healthy OL and Dougernaut, we have ourselves a top 5 offense on paper.
TRADE: Bucs give up their 3rd and 4th round picks to move back up into the 2nd round.
Round 2b: Khaseem Greene - SLB - Rutgers
- Once again, I dont mean to copy the work of another, but I really like this idea of trading back up to get Greene. I dont know if we will be able to but Dom has no problem being aggressive in the draft. Greene would be a 3 down LB and take Quincy Black's spot right away. After being recruited by Schiano and yet again putting down a phenomenal year, Greene shows that he would be a great addition to our young but talented LB group. Who knows if he lasts until the bottom of the 2nd but crazier things have happened. Last years draft of 3 core players for years to come was great, now lets back it up this year with Rhodes, Austin, and Greene.
Round 5: DJ Swearinger - FS - South Carolina
- His recklessnss could be considered a problem in todays NFL but you cant teach his dedication to the sport and his physicality. Its just something that he was born with and you have to admire his desire to hit an offensive player like a train and play the position the best he can. With that said, he will have to learn how to better wrap up and not always go fro the kill. DJ is also pretty athletic and makes plays on the ball while in the air. He has no regard for his body, he just wants to make the play. Give him a year behind Ronde and we could of very well found our FS of the future. Not sure if he lasts until the 5th but safeties are hard to judge. He could very well go in the tail end of the 4th but for now we got him in round 5.
Round 6: Devin Taylor - DE - South Carolina
- Very tall long armed DE that kind of reminds you of a JPP. That is not to say he will even remotely resemble JPP in the NFL, just to give you an idea of Taylor's build. You wonder if a guy like Clowney made Taylor better than he really was, but regardless, Taylor has a lot of upside and though he is raw, could make for a good 5th DE behind Clayborn, Bennett, Bowers, and Te'o Nesheim.
Round 7: Manase Foketi - OT - West Texas A&M
- With letting Trueblood walk this offseason we now need someone to help push Dotson. Foketi might not even make the team depending on if we add a RT in FA but regardless he could be a camp body that turns out to be much more valuable than a 7th round pick.
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Madden offseason.
No way we get all those free agents. One team just doesn't get a player in the top 2 of his position in the free agent class, for about 5 players. It just doesn't happen. Also, a couple of those players are drafted about a round lower than they will go (Swearinger, Green).
Plus, you really want to keep Wright? I wouldn't take him for $1 million a year, let alone 4. Get rid of him, he's a bum on his best day.
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To me, Rhodes at 13 is a reach. But you see him as the #2 CB, so I'm not going to question you there, that's you're opinion.
The rest of the draft looks good to me, targets each of our needs well.
Love the Matt Moore signing, very underrated QB who could start over a handful of other current starting QB's. Not big on Felix Jones and he'd probably command a fairly hefty salary.
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To me, Rhodes at 13 is a reach. But you see him as the #2 CB, so I'm not going to question you there, that's you're opinion.
The rest of the draft looks good to me, targets each of our needs well.
Love the Matt Moore signing, very underrated QB who could start over a handful of other current starting QB's. Not big on Felix Jones and he'd probably command a fairly hefty salary.
Glad you see it the same with Matt Moore. Other than Cook and DRC I really dont see the other FAs demanding really high salaries so thats why I saw we grab at least 5 FAs this offseason. Plus, considering last years FA I definitely see it as possible for us to grab both a top TE and top CB. I could live without Felix Jones though. Just thought Id add someone else in there since Blount is useless now.
And for now yes, DRC would be the #1. In a year or two I think Rhodes would be the #1 in this situation. But for now he needs to clean up a few things first and just get some experience. And I have no problem keeping Wright to be the nickel. The dude did adderall. Its not like he beat a cabby and pistol whipped his sisters boyfriend. Would probably be one of the better nickel backs in the NFL actually.
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I'm not buying we get that much in the offseason. Honestly don't get the commotion over DRC. He's overrated soft and inconsistent. Freeman made him much better than he was.
Felix jones could never stay healthy in Dallas.
Draft wise: no way Greene is there late 2nd. Teams are talking late first early 2nd for him.
Swearinger won't be there in the 5th.
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Swearinger at worse is a 3rd round pick. The first 3 picks are realistic in my book and I think for the most part the FA period is realistic and solid.
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Probably have to knock a few of those free agents off the end product and I don't think Swearinger makes it past the middle of the second round but good job. I also think we do trade up though at some point.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:38 pm
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Don't think the FA will happen , but FA is just so hard to predict. Onto the draft
Like the players we add, big fan of Rhodes, Austin, Greene, and Swearinger. would love to have them all.
-do not think we'd take Rhodes at 13, I think we'd trade down
-I'm not in love in trading up with Greene
-Swearinger will be a day 2 pick IMO, one of the best safeties in the draft to, love the swagger he plays with
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Yeah you guys are probably right about Swearinger. Realistically he is a 4th or late 3 right now from what I've read. But I think he will rise up draft boards come draft day. Also, I think Rhodes is another guy who rises up boards come draft day. I'd love to drop down and add a 3rd but idk if in the long run Rhodes will last that long in the 1st. However if we did that, everything I had in this draft could stand, except we would have and extra 3rd to draft Swearinger with.
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if we could get COOK and DORSEY i would be pretty happy, would rather see us trade down from the 13th spot and still pick of Rhodes and get an extra pick
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I dont really like the trade up at all.
For one, i think there is a good chance Greene will be there in the 3rd.
Secondly, i dont even want to draft Greene. He looked pretty bad at the Senior Bowl and he was terrible at shedding blocks. He looks to me like a WLB and we already have one of the top WLB in the league.
I would much rather picks we give up and then draft a player like Gerald Hodges or Kiki Alonso in the 4th.
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I don't want to draft Greene either I am not impressed with him, I think people just want him cause he's from rutgers or something... Tavon Austin is a big playmaker yes but a big risk because of his size and I don't even know if Freeman could keep up with his speed... So I really hate the draft
But I would love to get Glenn Dorsey
As far as the free agents being "unrealistic" like people are saying, it's really nothing compared to past mocks of Lil shorty's and hey I won't doubt his free agent signings anymore after what happened last offseason
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I'd really like this draft if it were to happen. The FA list seems a bit wishful, but anything is possible after last year. If someone were to have predicted our FA signings a year ago in a thread like this, they'd be called crazy.
I don't know if Swearinger will be there in the 5th for us, I think he's probably going to go in the 3rd round. But really good job man.
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Caaddy24 wrote:
I don't want to draft Greene either I am not impressed with him, I think people just want him cause he's from rutgers or something... Tavon Austin is a big playmaker yes but a big risk because of his size and I don't even know if Freeman could keep up with his speed... So I really hate the draft
But I would love to get Glenn Dorsey
As far as the free agents being "unrealistic" like people are saying, it's really nothing compared to past mocks of Lil shorty's and hey I won't doubt his free agent signings anymore after what happened last offseason
Greene put up some great numbers and a solid body of production while at Rutgers. Especially the last two years, but I can see why you dont like him. He would have to add weight and get stronger in the offseason to be a SLB but I definitely dont see that being a problem. I dont think, with added size and strength, that he will have too much trouble shedding blocks at the next level.
And thank you for you kind words about my FA. I remember last year that after we got Jackson and Nicks you said that you would never doubt my free agencies again. Hahaha
While I dont see us getting 2 All Pros like last offseason; Cook, DRC, and Dorsey would be very valuable additions imo that could very well happen.
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I'd really like this draft if it were to happen. The FA list seems a bit wishful, but anything is possible after last year. If someone were to have predicted our FA signings a year ago in a thread like this, they'd be called crazy.
I don't know if Swearinger will be there in the 5th for us, I think he's probably going to go in the 3rd round. But really good job man.
Much appreciated man! I think that if we do indeed draft Rhodes and his stock hasnt risen out of the roof that we could very well drop back a few picks and pick up an extra 3rd for it. Now, having 2 3rds we could use one of those to draft Swearinger at a more reasonable slot for him. Id love to have that dude on this team.
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The Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern and Zoe Perry celebrated the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's drama about a brilliant scientist whose life is falling apart. Watch the cast chat about the opening of this gripping new play!
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Tony Danza, Rob McClure, Brynn O'Malley and the whole Honeymoon in Vegas team welcomed the press for a sneak peek at rehearsals of the new musical comedy.October 28, 2014
The funny 20-year-old breakout star of Pitch Perfect is making them laugh in Broadway's The Book of Mormon. He stopped by Show People to talk about his already-standout career.August 28, 2014
Learn how to do the rip-roaring Newsies paper dance on Broadway Balances America.November 2, 2014
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Hi Friends,
The Fun-A-Day site is now a wiki, which means you can add your show, add your project, post pictures, share materials, and get in touch with each other directly. We hope this helps decentralize the project and enables you to make Fun-A-Day your own. Register an account and click on the editing links to the right to get started. If you want to add your own show page, check out the wiki's documentation to see how. Let us know how it goes!
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Fun-a-Day starts January 1st, 2014! Pick a project, do it every day in January and show your work in a group show the following month. If you would like to start a show in your city, check out our quick start guide and add your show to the 2014 list below. Feel free to start posting your project ideas at the bottom of this page.
Thank you to all the participants of the 9th Annual Fun-A-Day project. Last January, artists in more than 20 cities chose a project (take a photograph, make the bed, draw a picture, bake a cake, etc.) to do every day in January. Browse our photo archives for images of past events and see the list below for show details.
Baltimore, This year's show is at: Gallery788, 3602 Hickory Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21212
Boston - Opening Reception FEB 21st 7-9pm at Voltage Coffee & Art | 295 3rd. St. Kendall Square | Cambridge MA 02142 (Show runs FEB 17th to APRIL 5th) voltagecoffee.com
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Over his lifetime Martinu composed a huge quantity of music in many different styles and forms, but, as he wrote to his biographer Miloš Šafránek: 'In pure chamber music I am always more myself.' He wrote his first Piano Trio, subtitled 'Cinq pièces brèves' in Paris in 1930: 'I don't know how I came to compose the Trio; suddenly, as if it were the work of another hand, I wrote something entirely new.' The newness consists of a characteristic slant on neo-classicism, which was to become a hallmark of Martinu's style: music built from small cells (a word Martinu himself used), with insistent rhythms that defy the regularity of the bar-line, partly through the influence of jazz, pungent harmonies, and an intricate network of counterpoint. The effect is to create a musical language which functions like a sort of cubist reconstruction of baroque techniques. A sculptor, hearing this Piano Trio for the first time, said that it was as if it were 'carved out of marble', a description that Martinu found 'very apt'.
The first movement is in that brisk neoclassical style that Stravinky made so much his own—strong, staccato rhythms, with the little chunks of material used repetitively to build the movement, somewhat as in a baroque ritornello movement. The second movement is slow and reflective, with wide-spaced chords combined with lines that interweave in a cool and, again, Stravinskian manner. The third movement returns to the brisk mood of the first, but now faster and more obsessive in the way it works away at little motifs. The fourth movement is like a cubist scherzo, beginning and ending in ghostly pianissimo. And the final movement is a rapid piece full of syncopated rhythms and bravura piano-writing, strongly suggesting Martinu's love of jazz.
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Dictador XO Perpetual
Review: Dictador XO Perpetual 91.5/100
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted August 19, 2012
It was about a year ago that I was contacted by the fellows tho are responsible for Dictador Rum, and was asked if I would like to review their new Dictador XO Perpetual. This new rum sounded intriguing, and I was curious about the how the Dictador XO Rum might differ from the Dictador 12 and Dictador 20 Year Solera rums which I had already tasted and reviewed. I agreed to receive a sample and when it arrived, I found this statement on the plastic protective sleeve which slides over the box that houses the XO Perpetual.
" … The Dictador XO Solera System Rum is elaborated from the fermentation of unique virgin honey of sugar cane, then distilled in antique copper pot alembic then is aged in very high end pre-used oak barrels from 3 cardinal points… "
Additional statements on the Dictador website speak to a difference in the aging regimen used for the XO rums. Although the information is not specific, it appears that the major difference is in the oak selected. The intent seems to be to create a different flavour profile for the Dictador XO. As a result, the XO Rums (the Insolent and the Perpetual) promise to offer a new taste experience for the rum connoisseur.
The Dictador website also explains that the Dictador Rum are produced in Colombia, more exactly, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia at Cartagena de Indias City. These rums are based upon an international marketing concept, combining the traditions of Colombian Rum making with Japanese bottle designs and European packaging and marketing.
Of course you might be wondering why it took me a full year to provide my review, that answer lies in the quirky tax laws of my great country called Canada. The rum had to endure a rather tortuous journey before it legally arrived on my doorstep a few short weeks ago. My apologies to the Dictador team for not being able to provide the review any sooner.
In the Bottle: 4/5
To the left is a photo I snapped of the Dictador XO Perpetual bottle presentation. I am not nearly as fond of the packaging for this rum, as I was for the Dictador 12 Year and the Dictador 20 Year Solera Rums.
Two things jump out at me which I found detracted from what otherwise would have been a very nice presentation. The first problem was with the plastic sleeve (not shown) which fits over the protective box. This sleeve contains a lot of nice information about the rum; but it was also slippery and slides off of the box easily. This forces you to carry the boxed package with one hand underneath. If you do not, the sleeve will slide right off, and your precious rum will fall to the floor. This is cumbersome and annoying! Fitting the sleeve back over the box after you have removed it to get at the rum, is even more troublesome and not worth the effort. I threw my plastic sleeve away very quickly, and I suggest strongly that the Dictador team does the same with this part of their design concept.
The second problem I have with the overall packaging design is the large black XO written across the bottle. It is gaudy, and it makes a beautiful, suave bottle design look cheap and tacky.
In the Glass 9/10
Fortunately, when I pour out a sample of my rum into my glencairn glass, all thoughts of 'cheap and tacky' immediately disappear. The Dictador XO Perpetual has a beguiling quality in the glass. The initial scents are aromatic and fruity. I sense a wonderful butterscotch sweetness underneath a bouquet of oak and baking spices (vanilla, brown sugars, and cinnamon). Orange peel wells out of the glass, but if you are patient the orange peel soon melds with the butterscotch to give the air a lovely impression of marmalade. Almond-like scents are prevalent, and like the orange peel these scents also meld with the sweet butterscotch bringing a distinct impression of marzipan into the breezes. Amidst all of this aroma, old English toffee and fresh tobacco scents weave in and out as well.
As you let the glass sit even longer, the baking spices deepen adding cloves and nutmeg to the air above the glass with a nice smokiness implying a sherry-like accent on the rum. As I stated earlier the overall effect on the air above the glass is wonderful.
In the Mouth 56/60
Initially the Perpetual Rum does not seem as sweet on the palate as it was in the glass. I would describe this as a light to medium bodied rum with a soft dryness. The smoky sherry-like accents are very noticeable initially; but as the rum decants, sweeter flavours of butterscotch and toffee begin to take center stage. There is a moderate amount of oak spice and citrus zest which gives the rum a nice spicy heat. Rich brown sugary baking spices, (in particular vanilla and cinnamon) build alongside the butterscotch and toffee. Flavours of marzipan and marmalade develop as does a nice sensation of fresh tobacco and hints of new leather. I would even suggest that sensations of chocolate and cola find their way into the rum although these impressions are quiet and indistinct.
I like the XO Perpetual a lot, and what I appreciate the most is how the rum appears to be just a little better each time I return to my bottle.
In the Throat 13.5/15
The rum finishes with that same lightly dry smokiness which I had noticed on the initial delivery. Oak spices and citrus peel tickle the throat and leave the palate heated. There is an ever so light bitterness in the finish that was not apparent earlier, and the final flavour impressions which the rum leaves in my memory are leather, tobacco and old English toffee.
The Afterburn 9/10
As I said, I am really liking the Dictador XO Perpetual Rum. It seems to have more flamboyance than the other Dictador Rums (12 Year Solera and 20 Year Solera). It is fruitier and carries less overt oak into the flavour profile. This speaks perhaps to that different aging regimen which is bringing forward new and different elements into the Dictador taste profile. The rum is a great sipper and an elegant mixer (Although I manged to restrict myself mixing only high-end classic cocktails). Of course the best praise which I can give to the Perpetual Rum, is that it is one of those rare rums which seems to taste better every time I have another glass.
If you are interested in comparing more scores, here is a link to my other published Rum Reviews.
Suggested Recipe
Rum Old Fashioned
2 oz Dictador XO Perpetual Rum
1 tsp simple syrup
1 dash bitters
3 large ice cubes
1 twist of orange peel
Add the first three ingredients to a rocks glass over the ice cubes
Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink. (This will release the oil from the orange zest into the drink)
Drop the peel into the cocktail if desired.
Please Enjoy Responsibly!
My Final Score is out of 100 and you may (loosely) interpret the score as follows:
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
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John's Phone, from the designer firm John Doe Amsterdam, could be the greatest grandparent phone of all time. It is certainly an interesting minimalist experiment in usability. Ten centimetres tall and weighing 95g, John's Phone cuts the crap so pretty much all that remains is a basic box with a standard keypad. A screen along …
Where's the old fogey icon
You need to see a screen while dialing?
Has the internet completely killed your attention span?
Has the internet completely killed your attention span?
Yes. Yes it....oh look, a kitten.
Read _GRANDPARENT_ phone
My old folks need to check every 2 digits that they have entered the correct ones, so yeah they need to be able to see the screen.
To be honest, better would be a series of buttons marked "John", "Mary" etc. so they don't have to worry about numbers. Some of them seem to even have trouble remembering which name is which, let alone what numbers to dial to who.
Not too good for my Grandma...
...her name is Edna, not John.
Seriously though, having it labelled with a persons name might not be great for those of the older generation with failing memories who get confused easily. Unless of course their name really is John.
Classical rotary dialler phone
I want a mobile that's a hollowed out rotary dialler of yore complete with curly chord to handset. That would be perfect for the oldies too.
How cool would it be to whip it out of your bag, plonk it on the desk and start turning numbers.
This should get you halfway there...
There's one at http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287. Just watch a certain heiress doesn't try to throw it at you.
... http://www.mockia.com/
Its 300 bucks.!
A "curly chord"?
Is that one played on a French horn, Souzaphone, Serpent, Contra-bassoon or similar?
Looks bulky to me...
..compared to the legendary moto F3.
What's size got to do with anything?
Gota love the F3
Despite Motorola not selling it here, I still managed to get my hands on 3 of em. It's a phone designed as a phone (and not designed to be another computer).
Though 3 weeks of standby makes this one sound tempting...
backup phone
That would actually work pretty well as a backup phone if you ended up away from somewhere to charge your main one.
What parents need ...
is a hand-phone into which up to 5 numbers could pre-programmed, with a graphic capability for each number, so children could be given a phone which permits them only to call trusted people without the risk of dialing any other number without cost control. The graphic along each number could be of the person whose number is programmed.
Since some jurisdictions require GPS be fitted, this data could be transmitted so the called party would know where the child user was located.
I have done this with Android phones. Works a treat, once you know how to lock them down.
It is better than most mobile phones on the market, in that it includes a real ink pen - very useful.
If you want to appeal to the oldies
better make the volume switch go Loud, Louder, Deafening
A lot of people have smartphones these days that barely last 24 hours before needing to be recharged. I would definitely buy one of these phones to take camping, on holiday and on weekends away along side my smartphone.
However, it doesn't mention SMS, and by the sounds of it, it doesn't support SMS. That rules it out for me. Like most people, I spend more time talking via SMS than via voice...
Most people?
Teenagers you mean.
I love it. A mobile phone that's actually a phone, rather than a camera or a web browser or whatever. Great concept. I'd have one tomorrow were it not for one thing. The price.
Why does it cost that much when all it will do is make a receive phone calls? There are any number of cheap phones for less than half that much. If they'll sell them for under £20 I promise I'll buy one.
Ultra cheap non-feature phone
Tesco used to do this, for under a tenner, SIM-free...
That was rather my point. If Tesco can do that for under a tenner why does John's phone cost six times as much, Should be about a fiver really.
And it's best feature is that you'll get no annoying texts from your provider about all the deals you don't want.
Disposable cells are in reality POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service
If they can bang out disposable phones for a minimal number of bucks/pounds why not these? The only difference is in the case and the SIM.
@AC Actually....
Just wait till Tesco gets hold of it - £19.99 and that'll include re-badging the name to "That woman with the annoying accent that does our adverts"'s phone!
Have a look for the tesco party phone. Costs 5 or 10 quid. Not good for oldies (small buttons) but it's a minimal phone with sms.
Times are changing
Give a whole new meaning to "Excuse me, I have to go use the John."
looks sturdy
Should be able to support the best phone game ever as well... Catch!
it's the opposite of an iphone
...it must be the anti-christ-phone
Not for the "active" and tech capable pensioner...
When are any of these companies actually going to make a phone for the more active pensioner? My farther who's in his 60's complains he can't press the buttons or screen on most phones, yet needs to text to pay for parking and would also like email/internet. He also needs Activesync to synchronise the contacts with his desktop PC ( via Exchange - to save "fiddling around" with the phone).
He was seriously considering an iPad until we pointed out the voice/text part was missing. An iPhone is just a bit too small and gives no tactile feedback. Maybe the Galaxy tab but again a real keyboard would be better.
Not a good ringtone though
Not a good ringtone though...
Don't forget to switch to Nederlands and it is about 2/3 of the way into the player.
(In the neuiws section, the first item, john's-phone-bij-bnr)
I still want a simple mobile with a ringtone like a real phone bell not some rubbish noise from america!
Makes me think of...
that YouTube video that's been doing the rounds this week, "My Life As A Dickhead".
It's likely to find itself wedged into a pair of skinny jeans while its owner rides their fixy to some ultra-pretentious squat party/art exhibition in Hackney.
No thanks!
nice but
I'll stick with my nokia 1800 thanks. It can do sms and calls , a few simple games, has a torch and a standby time of over a week. mind you I do agree with the sentiment. I leave smartphones to the poseurs.
It beats the early iPhone (without the cut/copy/paste functionality) in that it supplies a pen.
And no, I'm not ever going to let them live that one down.
Still think the screen is too small. I can hear the "where's my glasses" again...
In the early 90's, I had a Sony mobile (getting too old to remember the model) that was a dead ringer for this, except it was dark green and you couldn't see the numbers in the dark.
Oh, and it had a stubby little aerial!
Kind of funny
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad that so many posters here have been sucked in by smatphone marketing crap. Do you people really *need* something that didn't even exist five years ago?
Phone marketing reminds me of washing powder marketing. You've just got to have the new version that washes whiter than white, whereas your old powder made everything grey. But hang on a minute didn't they say that about the last version and the version before that? Likewise with phones. Every new phone is the last phone you'll ever need. And yet I know people who have at least three new phones a year.
My first (analogue) mobile phone didn't even have a display! Just a keypad, like a simple landline phone. I think I still have it somewhere...
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