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I got this amp in a package deal at guitar center. To start with it was a nice amp, but it quickly went downhill. The buzz and feedback just during idling is ungodly, the gain is shoddy, and the workmanship is okay. But on the upside It's incredibly simple, portable, and pretty durable. But not something I would use again in a performance.
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The Fender Frontman 10G is a really great affordable bedroom amp. It is small and portable, light and easy, clean and serene.
The features of this amp is just volume, tone, overdrive, auxiliary input, and headphone input . It's a simple plug and play amp that is perfect for the casual shredder, amateurs and beginners. You can also take your mp3 player and hook it to the amp and shred with your favourite song. The headphones input is surely one of the best feature with this amp, because I live in an apartment and I, as a considerate guitarist, like to play it soft.
The design for the amp is so simple, that a monkey could learn how to operate this thing. It's also very sturdy. I personally have never dropped it before but it does feel really firm in the hands.
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It's really easy. If you know how to move your hands clockwise and counter-clockwise. You're set.
Clean is amazing on this thing. I don't really know how to explain it further, It's really that good. Overdrive on the other hand is okay. Just okay. I would give the sound a 5 star but the overdrive isn't that good. Also this amp can get LOUD! It could fill a small hall if it needed to.
The value on this thing is really great! You can bag one on Amazon for $80 new and $50 used. It's actually really good for its price
4/5 stars because it is really easy to use, simple features, bang for your buck, and the clean tone is cleaner than Tony Shalhoub from that Monk TV series back in 2002.
Would I recommend this to a friend on a budget? Yes. If I lost this, would I buy it again? No. I'd probably go for the Frontman 25G when I have more money.
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I've been playing since the 70's. I own the Frontman 15G, but the 10 is almost identical. I wanted a small portable practice amp with good sound quality to it, and didn't cost a small fortune. I got the Frontman 15G. The sound quality is Really NICE! It sounds old school. The clean sound is crystal clear and the overdrive is just enough to not make it sound too muddy. Fender has created a lot of new combo amps with a lot of bells and whistles - for example the Mustang amps. I have no patience for that stuff and just wanted the old sound with a lot of overdrive. I used to play the old Pre-CBS fender 100 watt amp through a 4x10 cabinet. What truly surprised me was that even though the Frontman is only 15 watts, I can't play the volume higher than 2 in my room without hurting my already deaf ears. This little monster is freaking LOUD! This one or even the 25 watt model should be perfect for guitarists playing clubs that have their own PA sound systems. It will save you from heavy lifting and is plenty loud for a small stage with your other band members.
I liked this 15 so much that I bought the Frontman 25 as a spare. The price is also very reasonable. For the money, size, sound quality, this one can't be beat. If you're old school and want a traditional sound with only a few knobs, not all the bells and whistles, this is a great value. If you can afford the extra bucks for the Frontman 25, I would say go for it. Otherwise, you won't be disappointed.
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It's also 'Colossus Smash', you won't need another/different power aura for it
When using Power Auras what is the name of the 4-piece set bonus for Warriors CS effect that procs?
Thanks in advance!
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It's also 'Colossus Smash', you won't need another/different power aura for it
haha...thanks. That was simple. =)
Hey so I'm confused again. I'm sure it's a simple answer, but how do I go about not overlapping my regular CS w/ the set bonus proc?
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get an addon like need to know to track colossus smash on your target and just dont use colossus smash when theres still a colossus smash effect on the target
Here's a simple power aura that you can import. Looks for debuff colossus smash on enemy target, includes a timer to see how long before it wears off.
Code:Version:4.23; target:true; icon:ability_warrior_colossussmash; buffname:Colossus Smash; x:-197; bufftype:2; texture:174; alpha:0.5; exact:true; size:1.02; y:0; texmode:1; timer.b:0.9843; timer.HideLeadingZeros:true; timer.h:3.65; timer.UpdatePing:true; timer.enabled:true; timer.r:0.9373; timer.cents:false; timer.Relative:CENTER; timer.y:-51; timer.x:-14; timer.UseOwnColor:true
Thanks for the power aura code to import - works great! One question I had is it supposed to show the graphic/timer when Bloodthirst procs CS? I've yet to see that happen.
I don't have the set bonus myself to test, but it ought to display the graphic whenever a debuff called colossus smash is on your target (whether by cast or by set bonus proc).
Hey thanks that works great!
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Was DaVinci an Atheist? Retelling Church History on the Starz Channel
I'm loving DaVinci's Demons – a new TV series about the life of the young Leonardo Da Vinci. From the first episode they managed to throw in a ton of intrigue and character twists.
The only thing is, this brash and daring, charming and handsome, half-insane genius almost certainly didn't exist.
It's hard to know what DaVinci believed, because he had to be secretive his whole life (hence his language codes and secret notebooks, etc.) This was a period when blasphemers and heretics could be locked up, tortured or executed. It's doubtful that DaVinci would ever openly defy the church.
This is especially true, because he was employed by many churches to paint religious art.
Riaro, the agent of the Pope, confronts DaVinci and asks him to join the church's cause.
"What's NEXT?" (the desire for knowledge) is the question all men ask, says Riaro…
"Between the base animal and the enlightened man's reach for God lies knowledge. You just want to know what's next. I do to."
"That's not what you want," says DaVinci, "You want to SUPPRESS knowledge."
"No… I want to administer it. Someone has to. Why not an agent of God?"
"Well if God exists, surely he intends his knowledge to be shared by all." … Read More »
Does Religious Freedom Protect Torture? SyFy's new Series "Defiance"
I'm watching Defiance, Episode 2 – a new SyFy channel production about a post-apocalyptic earth city filled with mixed alien races. One of the aliens communities is torturing one of its own for cowardice in battle. The new sheriff, a typical blonde American cowboy, stops the ceremony at gunpoint.
The alien in question begs to let them finish his torture, which is necessarily to clean him of sins so that his soul will reach absolution, and also to redeem his family. It's a not-so-foreign religious idealism which believes pain is purgative. But the cowboy won't listen – until the mayor weighs in and allows them to continue their rite.
"Can you honestly tell me that what you think they are doing is RIGHT?" he whines.
"No, but it is NECESSARILY" she replies.
Which side are you on?
At first I was pissed at the sheriff for sticking his nose into the private affairs of a foreign culture and passing judgment on their religious traditions. What if, for example, a foreign lawmaker walked into your daughter's first communion.
"You're FORCING her to drink the blood of 2000 year old man! That's barbaric!"
"But please sir, I need to do this, drinking the blood will wash away my sins!"
Do … Read More »
Was Jesus a Fraud? The Wizard of Oz, Easter 2013, and the power of Faith
I'm watching the 2013 "Oz the Great and Powerful."
I've been excited about the movie for a long time; what a rich theme to build a story into. Disappointingly it's mostly a kid's movie. Not the smart and mature kid's movie that the original Wizard of Oz was, but the cheesy and silly kid's movie that is aimed at the largely vapid youth of today.
But nearing the end of the movie, I'm recognizing the classic pieces of the Jesus myth: Oz (James Franco) appears to have fallen – run away and abandoned them first, then been struck down in his hot air balloon – everybody gives up hope, the land is controlled by darkness and evil.
The wicked witch yells, "Your prophecy is dead! Your wizard is dead!"
But then (surprise!) Oz is not really dead! He returns in light and power to defeat darkness!
"Wow, you fooled everybody," says the flying monkey. "That was your greatest trick yet."
Oz puts on a technological deception, with smoke and mirrors, to fool the witches into thinking he is REALLY the Wizard of Prophecy. "Thanks to you, I've shed my mortal form. I'm more powerful than ever. I'm invincible!"
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In short, the majority of contemporary post-apocalyptic YA novels are about Revolution. Unlike classic dystopian fiction like 1984 or even the more modern Never Let Me Go show a reality that can't be escaped from. Resistance is really futile, if not only because systems of bio-power have nullified any possibility of Real Freedom.
For decades theorists have been commenting on the total inability (and yet the desperate need) to seek out freedom in order to get to a real, true act – one not simply a chain of causal reaction from within the power structure/system.
Foucault concluded revolution is necessary – even if impossible – only in the act of resistance and rebellion is there the possibility of Truth. Deleuze and Guattari talk about "deterritorialization"; Badiou talks about "courage" and "fidelity to the Truth Event."
Of course we could go back earlier, when theorists were actually still talking about real, political revolution. Camus' The Rebel or Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and many more had the seeds of these theories already.
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I got up early the second day of the conference, took a coffee and a pastry from the hotel lobby, and headed to the convention hall in Springfield Missouri. There was a large crowd outside today. I smiled, eager to meet new friends – until I realized they were Christian protesters.
Skepticon describes itself as the "Largest Free Conference on Skepticism" in the nation, and it has been a well-known atheist convention for several years.
I'd flown in the day before and driven down from Kansas City, passing through pleasant countryside, old white houses, and lots of bible colleges.
As someone with a background in theology and comparative literature, my writing and art focuses on religious themes without actually being reverent; in fact my playful paintings and research into historical religious literature and mystery cult traditions inevitably comes across as blasphemous.
It's difficult to share my work with theists, who get uncomfortable, and so I've begun to make connections with atheists communities. But this was my first time actually participating in an atheist event. As somewhat of an outsider, I surveyed the gathering with the detached eye of a social scientist.
From the protesters outside, you would think atheists were dangerous, or evil, or violent, … Read More »
Satan is Good, God is Bad: our shifting moral compass and why atheists are throwing the Devil under the bus
I went to Skepticon 5 expecting a group of heretics that would get a kick out of my inversed reading of Milton's Paradise Lost, which claims that Satan is the hero of the story (which was actually the mainstream reading before it became the "mistaken reading", and is now coming into vogue again by top Milton scholars).
I was surprised to find that Satan makes atheists uncomfortable. Atheists already have a huge image/perception problem, with the religious proclamations that people can't be good without God and that therefore all atheists are "evil." Christians already think of atheists as nearly synonymous with Satanists; hence atheists have an uncomfortable relationship with Satanists and don't want to be associated with the Devil.
Even more so than the term "Atheist", "Satanist" has an immediately powerful negative connotations. And on the one hand, I definitely think that those people who wish to create a secular political and social force big enough to stand up to religious groups that are trying to make their faith-based beliefs govern the private lives of the rest of us, need to think about how they are perceived because it does impact the message being shared.
But there is still a very good reason … Read More »


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Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)CDH55385
Women's lives and loves
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Book 1 No 01: Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken
Book 1 No 02: Mir ward gesagt, du reisest in die Ferne
Book 1 No 03: Ihr seid die Allerschönste weit und breit
Book 1 No 04: Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt entstund
Book 1 No 05: Selig ihr Blinden, die ihr nicht zu schauen
Book 1 No 06: Wer rief dich denn? Wer hat dich herbestellt?
Book 1 No 07: Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag' erhoben
Book 1 No 08: Nun laß uns Frieden schließen, liebstes Leben
Book 1 No 09: Daß doch gemalt all' deine Reize wären
Book 1 No 10: Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen
Book 1 No 11: Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen
Book 1 No 12: Nein, junger Herr, so treibt man's night, fürwahr
Book 1 No 13: Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht
Book 1 No 14: Geselle, woll'n wir uns in Kutten hüllen
Book 1 No 15: Mein Liebster ist so klein, daß ohne Bücken
Book 1 No 16: Ihr jungen Leute, die ihr zieht ins Feld
Book 1 No 17: Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen
Book 1 No 18: Heb' auf dein blondes Haupt und schlafe nicht
Book 1 No 19: Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen
Book 1 No 20: Mein Liebster singt am Haus im Mondenscheine
Book 1 No 21: Man sagt mir, deine Mutter woll' es nicht
Book 1 No 22: Ein Ständchen Euch zu bringen kam ich her
Book 2 No 23: Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden?
Book 2 No 24: Ich esse nun mein Brot nicht trocken mehr
Book 2 No 25: Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen
Book 2 No 26: Ich ließ mir sagen und mir ward erzählt
Book 2 No 27: Schon streckt' ich aus im Bett die müden Glieder
Book 2 No 28: Du sagst mir, daß ich keine Fürstin sei
Book 2 No 29: Wohl kenn' ich Euren Stand
Book 2 No 30: Laß sie nur gehn die so die Stolze spielt
Book 2 No 31: Wie soll ich fröhlich sein und lachen gar?
Book 2 No 32: Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz, der dich erhitzt?
Book 2 No 33: Sterb' ich, so hüllt in Blumen meine Glieder
Book 2 No 34: Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf vom Bette
Book 2 No 35: Benedeit die sel'ge Mutter
Book 2 No 36: Wenn du, mein Liebster, steigst zum Himmel auf
Book 2 No 37: Wie viele Zeit verlor ich, dich zu lieben!
Book 2 No 38: Wenn du mich mit den Augen streifst und lachst
Book 2 No 39: Gesegnet sei das Grün und wer es trägt!
Book 2 No 40: O wär' dein Haus
Book 2 No 41: Heut' Nacht erhob ich mich um Mitternacht
Book 2 No 42: Nicht länger kann ich singen
Book 2 No 43: Schweig' einmal still, du garst'ger Schwätzer dort!
Book 2 No 44: O wüßtest du, wie viel ich deinetwegen
Book 2 No 45: Verschling' der Abgrund meines Liebsten Hütte
Book 2 No 46: Ich hab' in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen
The song microscope (an instrument yet to be invented by science but long at the disposal of Wolf enthusiasts) shows that the amalgam of music and poetry which is the Italienisches Liederbuch is a volatile substance teeming with frantic activity, unguessed-at by the many, invisible and inaudible to the uninformed ear and eye, and yet hugely colourful when viewed through the right lens and heard through the right amplifier. Multitudinous protons and neutrons jostle within even the simplest of song texts, and Wolf at the height of his powers, in Einsteinian fashion, knew how to harness the secret power of these atoms of poetry to create a music of explosive power – music which belies its modest dimensions. The intense human activity of an Italian village is mirrored by a parade of the tiniest and most subtle musical devices and inflections seemingly with lives of their own, and with the sophistication and the inevitability of living organisms. The people depicted in Heyse's collection are atoms of society, part of a bustling and vibrant community, yet somehow anonymous in that their behaviour in love – or when angry, spiteful, or laughing – is archetypal, as repetitive and inevitable as life itself. And as a result of the composer entering into the spirit of these words in the most profound way, there is in this combination of music and poetry a timelessness which places the work far beyond the realms of nineteenth-century song and Italian pastiche.
The work is about patterns of life – ever changing, and yet ever the same. A celebration of these living litanies in Wolf's hands is no less than life-enhancing. We hear what is going on beneath the surface to such an extent that we do not stop to ask whether these rispetti are contemporary with Cosimo de Medici, Vittorio Emmanuele or Mussolini. A staged and costumed Italienisches Liederbuch would thus reveal nothing that we cannot already hear in the music; the point of Wolf's writing is to lead us deep into the poetry with the smallest number of extraneous distractions. The banalities of mere story-telling are transcended by a scenario which needs no lighting because it is brilliantly lit from within; it needs no mise-en-scène because it is bound together by the variety and unpredictability of life itself. The composer himself is the conductor, for he left the performers more than enough detailed instructions to remain firmly in charge. Of the cast of three, the pianist is rooted firmly to the spot, hopefully in front of a better instrument than could ever be found in an Italian village, and the other two alternate in song without ever combining their voices in duet. Only once, or possibly twice, does the composer permit them to address each other directly. Many an opera lover would find this a distinctly unpromising recipe for an evening's entertainment. And yet if we use our ears and listen to our hearts we have to declare that here is a triumph of the lied over the operatic form sacred to the real Italians. This is only one of the delicious paradoxes of a work, so small and yet so large, so complex yet so simple, which is one of the enduring masterpieces of the civilized world.
Wolf never heard both parts of his Italienisches Liederbuch together, although a letter of October 1893 to Dr Strecker in Mainz shows that a complete performance of the work – at a time when only twenty songs existed – was planned. Although this plan never came to fruition, the work is comparable to Schubert's Winterreise in that both composers and their friends seem to have regarded Book I of their respective cycles (a halfway house in each case) as finished works worthy of performance in their own right.
The absence of a performing tradition of the Italienisches Liederbuch in the composer's own lifetime has given later performers carte blanche in deciding a performing order for the songs. This has been encouraged by the publication of a Wolf handbook by Edition Peters in which various running orders are suggested, and by the late Erik Werba who also concocted and published a number of different sequences, some of which have been recorded. Countless singers and pianists have had a great deal of fun shuffling the songs to make connections between them on the basis of 'she said to him' and 'he then said to her'. The enjoyable thing about this is that the work can seem subtly different each time, but there are also a number of dangers. It seems a mistake, for reasons outlined above, to attempt to operaticize Wolf's cycle (it has been 'staged' in American music colleges more than once), but it is also important to acknowledge that the 'cycle' is in fact two separate works, one completed in 1891 and the other in 1896. Greater stylistic differences (and much more time) separate these two books than separate the two books of Winterreise. The second Italian set has a different mood and certainly a different style of piano accompaniment. As the work is usually given with an interval, it seems only wise to allow those twenty minutes to stand for the five-year gap between the two groups of songs.
When Felicity Lott, Richard Jackson and I performed the work for the first time (at the Purcell Room, London, in October 1975, in honour of Flora Nielsen's 75th birthday) I devised an order which mixed the two parts unmercifully, grouping songs under sub-headings taken from Tommaseo's Canti Toscani – one of the sources of Heyse's translations. Thus the songs were arranged together under 'L'amore ineguale', 'Serenate', 'Preghiere e rimproveri' and so on. This seemed a good idea at the time, but I am now convinced that the composer knew exactly what he was doing when he made his own order for publication. For each of the two books Wolf chooses a wonderful motto song, and for each of them a high-spirited virtuoso finish. Throughout there are subtle juxtapositions of key, metre and tempo to provide contrast and relief, except where the composer wishes to suggest a link when certain songs seem to glide into each other.
It was the late Walter Legge who impressed on me (during long sessions with my young colleagues in 1975 as well as with Schwarzkopf in 1976) that of all composers Hugo Wolf was master, if not of his own sad destiny, then of his songs. His relationships with publishers were fraught with difficulty precisely because he was so punctilious about the exact pagination of his music. If he had a recital programme printed he supervised each detail of it, including the flowers which embellished the foot of each page. His relationship with singers (whom he regarded as mostly stupid) was always tense because he demanded absolute fidelity to his intentions. He was unquestionably a tyrant in matters musical and Legge continued this tradition with great relish, arriving at my door to coach the young team with a cigar in one hand and a metronome in the other, both instruments of torture in their various ways. I am extremely grateful to him now, however, because he showed us that, in terms of his own music, Wolf knew best. No other composer has left so many detailed instructions (including metronome marks) for a set of songs; to obey Wolf's dynamics and tempo indications as far as possible (far easier said than done) is to obtain the best results on the concert platform. Having come to admire the way that the composer is able to 'rule from the grave' (something that I believe was his intention as far as his songs are concerned) it is inconceivable to me that, having been composed with immense effort and superhuman care, the songs of the Italienisches Liederbuch were thrown together in an arbitrary sequence on the whim of the moment, and without that careful thought and intention which is the Absicht of the obsessively controlling artist. In the composer's own order, which on the whole eschews quasi-operatic resonances of dialogue and cute response, we hear the kaleidoscope of village life (rather than see it) and our ears are encouraged to listen to all the riches which lie beneath these serenades, laments and dramatic confrontations. This is the way the composer carefully planned to present his work to posterity.
I confess to one departure from this which I think has a certain musicological validity. The 'hatching' of a work like this on a stop-go basis with gaps of years and a sudden deluge of creativity is highly fascinating. I have presented a performance of the cycle in Wigmore Hall, and again at the Walton Estate on Ischia, in which the songs were performed in the order in which they were composed. They were linked by readings from the composer's letters to friends which showed the various moods of elation and depression which governed the work's genesis. This order has the advantage of course of not mixing songs from the two periods. We were denied the excitement of 'Ich hab' in Penna …' to end the evening, but had the hauntingly beautiful (and also appropriate) 'Was für ein Lied …' instead. Presenting an evening like this shows the cycle as 'work in progress', but I remain convinced that the best order for a recording is the composer's own.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1994


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From fishing guides to hunting lodges, Markel insures a variety of outdoor programs, including:
We know pest control operators work hard to protect the customers they serve. With such a unique business, we understand their risks. Over 5,000 operators have chosen Markel for insuring their pest control business.
The following programs are available to commercial retail producers through partnerships with our program administrators.
If you're interested in bringing a program to Markel, please contact Mark Nichols, Managing Executive, at 804-527-7622, or click here to learn more.
Markel has the insurance know-how in education. Our coverages provide specialized schools protection for their staff and students. Our appetite in this niche includes:
Serving a variety of senior living facilities, Markel is the industry leader for stable coverage and risk management resources. We provide specialty insurance to the following lines of business:
Small businesses are an essential market for Markel.
Markel insures a wide range of nonprofit and social service organizations.
Accident insurance is available for group activities and organizations of almost any type. Some of the groups we insure include:
The sports and fitness industry is dedicated to helping people look and feel great as well as learning or improving skills in their chosen sport/discipline. Markel is also dedicated to providing these businesses with the right insurance coverages that address their unique risks. Specialty insurance coverage is available for schools/studios, amateur sports teams/leagues, or associations. Classes in this line of business include:
Injuries can have a dramatic (and costly) impact for students and their families. Living with the after effects of a disabling injury can literally cost millions of dollars. Some of the groups we insure are:
Markel's tuition refund product protects schools from the financial consequences of students' forced or voluntary withdrawal from school prior to term completion.
We know the pride and joy that comes with owning your watercraft. That's why we tailor our watercraft insurance policy to fit your specific needs. Whether you own a sailboat, powerboat, motor yacht, houseboat, or anything in between, we offer the right protection for you and your watercraft.
Workers' compensation may be available for small-to-medium size businesses in 35 states. Separate appointment required.


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