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Harman seems to be doing its part to heat up summer's A/V market. The company just announced that it's now shipping Lexicon's DD-8 Multi-Room Amplifier.
The eight-channel amp promises 1,000 watts of power via Lexicon's own DriveCore amplifier technology, but in a smaller, sleeker package. That translates into 125 watts for each of its eight channels, from a chassis that measures 1.7 (H) by 17.3 (W) by 14.9 (D) inches and weighs just 9.2 pounds.
Inside, the DD-8 uses the new DriveCore amplifier IC chip, which the company co-developed with Texas Instruments. It's a Harman exclusive.
"DriveCore technology advances amplifier design on several significant levels—smaller size, lighter weight, greater efficiency, more environmentally friendly manufacturing—and better sound," says Jim Garrett, the market manager for Harman's High Performance A/V division. "Thanks to its many advantages, Harman is also incorporating DriveCore into its automotive and pro audio products."
That DriveCore chip has a lot to do with the component's compact size, as well as its ability to reduce power consumption and heat production. That's because it combines the amplifier drive stage into the power output stage, along with additional audio-signal functions. The chip also allows the amp to switch into low-power standby mode when not in use, for even lower energy consumption.
Designed with multiroom audio, custom installation and home theater in mind, the DD-8 comes with Phoenix speaker connectors, bus inputs and outputs, local channel inputs and mono/stereo selection for each channel output pair. It also has independent output level adjustment for each channel, as well as 5-15VDC trigger control ports.
The Lexicon DD-8 Multi-Room Amplifier is available now, with an MSRP of $2,500.
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I am very pleased with this book. Massad does an excellent job describing specific models, their history, their use and includes spin off copies.
The descriptions are not the typical glowing magazine reviews. Massad lays the facts on the line as he knows them; hammer bite, slide cuts, sight picture deficiencies pistol accuracy as they perform in his hands both as an accuracy trial or long term range visits. He describes how well the pistols can be carried or not and drops famous names that appreciate and still use the guns.
Mr. Ayoob's writing style is fairly dry but is an enjoyable flowing read drawing a person on.
Several times I thought I would put the book down when I finished a gun review and often found myself several pages into the next pistol's review. The result? Three nights of bedtime reading meant I finished the book and started reading it again.
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First a footnote to a review posted in 2012. The photo quality in this volume is just fine. And the sale price, $18.60, is quite reasonable. Ayoob's writing never disappoints. Enlightening, entertaining, knowledgeable, precise - - - one quickly runs out of adjectives. My only complaint is not a fair one - - - it's with the list of favorites. We all would probably have our own that are not on the list (or in Volume 1) and wish they were. I skipped chapters that didn't interest me (and I won't be specific for fear of igniting an endless debate!), but still came away satisfied. I'm glad I bought it.
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I saw this book at Hastings and delayed purchase because the price was high, full retail, and the photo quality was terrible.
Saw the book again at Cabellas and compared the 2 copies they had to offer. No perceptible difference in picture quality.
I caved, and went ahead with the purchase because the writing was good. But oh-boy, what a disappointment photographically.
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One aspect of Clojure that I have not been quite happy with is namespace management. In a bigger project that consists of several namespaces, I usually end up having nearly identical :use and :require clauses in the initial ns form. These clauses set up the project-specific set of symbols that I want to work with. Individual namespaces sometimes add symbols for their specific needs, of course. What bothers me is that I have to repeat the :use and :require clauses, often with :exclude or :only options with many symbols, in every single namespace. And of course I often forget a copy when updating my symbol set. Therefore I decided to look at how namespaces work in more detail, and try to find a better way to manage symbols in namespaces.
For those who don't want to read all the explanations, my solution (still a bit experimental, for the moment), is in my nstools library, which is also on Clojars.
As most Clojure programmers know, a namespace maps symbols to vars. Vars are mutable storage locations with well defined concurrency semantics, but this is not the topic of this post – see the documentation for details. But a namespace is not a simple map. To start with, a namespace stores two maps: one from symbols to their values, and one from namespace aliases to namespaces. Aliases are usually created using a (:require ... :as ...) clause in the ns form that opens a namespace. They are used in namespace-qualified symbols before the slash, as a shorthand for the full namespace name. Since aliases are used before the slash and namespace-local symbols are used after the slash (or in an unqualified name with no slash at all), there is no conflict between the two. It is thus possible to use the same symbol both as an alias and as a regular symbol in the same namespace.
The main symbol-to-value map is also not quite as simple as it seems. The values it stores are not always vars. A symbol can also have a Java class as its value. A symbol-to-class entry is created using import or using the :import clause in ns. A submap containing only the symbol-to-class entries of the namespace map can be obtained by calling ns-imports. Finally, the symbol-to-var entries can be divided up into two categories: those that refer to vars in the same namespace (created by def and the many macros based on it), and those that refer to vars in some other namespace. The latter are created with use or the :use clause of ns, and the submap of these symbols can be obtained by calling ns-refers. The first category, a submap of symbols to vars defined in the same namespace, is the return value of ns-interns.
There is one more subtlety, and an undocumented one as far as I know: Two symbols, ns and in-ns, are put in the namespace map when the namespace is created, and can't be removed (using ns-unmap) nor redefined. This makes sense because they refer to a macro and a function needed to create new namespaces and to switch namespaces. Having them in every namespace (referring to vars in clojure.core) ensures that it is always possible to get out of the current namespace.
Next, let's look at how namespaces are set up in Clojure. Pretty much all the namespace management functionality is available through the standard ns form with its various clauses and options. The one exception is removing symbols, which can be done only by calling ns-unmap explicitly. The ns form first switches to the namespace it defines, creating it if necessary. The second step is to add references to all public vars defined in namespace clojure.core. This step can be modified by specifying a :refer-clojure clause that lists the symbols to include or exclude. Then ns goes through its optional clauses. A :require clause loads another namespace, but doesn't normally modify the namespace under construction. Only if the option :as is specified, there is an impact on the namespace: an alias is added. A :use clause first does a :require and then adds all of the newly loaded namespace's public vars to the symbol table of the current namespace. The options :exclude and :only can be used to select a subset of the public vars. Finally, an :import clause adds Java classes to the namespace's symbol table.
The most dangerous, but also most convenient, ns clause is :use. In its basic form, it adds all public vars of another namespace to the symbol table of the namespace under construction. And once those symbols are there, they cannot be redefined in the namespace, except by first removing them using ns-unmap. The problem is that "all public vars of namespace X" is not something under your control. It's the author of the other namespace who decides which symbols you get in your namespace. The next release of namespace X may well have a few more public definitions, and if those are in conflict with your own definitions, then your module will fail to load. Therefore, as a security measure, you should use the :only option of :use with all namespaces that are out of your control, listing explicitly the definitions that you need, in order to be certain that you don't get more than you expect. Unfortunately, this includes clojure.core, which also grows with every new Clojure release. To be on the safe side, you should have a :refer-clojure clause with the :only in every namespace that you intend to maintain for a longer time.
So far for what I have, but what do I want? I'd like to be able to set up a namespace to my taste and then be able to use it as a basis for deriving other namespaces. With that possibility, I would define a master namespace once per project, being careful to always use the :only option in :refer-clojure and :use. All other namespaces in my project would then be based on this master namespace and only add or remove symbols for their specific local needs.
To implement this functionality, I added three new clauses to ns. The :like clause takes a namespace as its only argument and adds all symbols from that namespace that refer to vars in yet another namespace to the current namespace (make sure you read this properly; there are at least three namespaces involved here!). The :clone clause does the same but also adds the symbols defined in the other namespace. In other words, :clone is equivalent to :like followed by :use. The third new clause is :remove, whose arguments are symbols to be removed from the namespace. It is explicitly allowed to "remove" symbols that aren't there. This creates another way to protect one's namespace against future extensions in namespaces that are :used: simply add all symbols defined in your namespace to the :remove list.
The above paragraph contains a small lie: I didn't add anything to ns, of course, though that's what I would have liked to do. I made a copy of ns and added the new clauses to the copy. The copy is in namespace nstools.ns and it's called ns+ – as explained above, I cannot call it ns. So to use nstools, you have to replace ns by ns+ and put a (use 'nstools.ns) before it.
As I said, this library is still a bit experimental. I am not sure for example if both :like and :clone are necessary. And perhaps :remove should be called :exclude. Of course, any feedback is welcome!


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Remember hitting the disco with your friends on a Saturday night? There were probably times—face it, lots of times—when you thought the night would entail settling back with some tasty cocktails and enjoying a few hours of great music and some of the best people watching on the planet. But those flickering strobe lights, the heart-pounding bass and the slick-as-wet-grass dance floor had different plans for you. Before your pals could pin you to your chair, you'd hit the dance the floor, shakin' your groove thing and doing the electric slide with the best of them.
After years of seeing firsthand how much fun dance music can be, a retired mobile disc jockey decided to convert the basement of his 5,000-square-foot Somerset, NJ, home into a sensational entertainment mecca where his friends and family could dance the night away, see a blockbuster movie, chill at the bar or shoot a round of pool—all without paying a cover charge.
The focal point of the elaborate 2,000-square-foot space, coined the Mega Sounds Lounge, is a 15-by-22-foot hardwood dance floor, polished and primed to handle plenty of pounding feet. Based on his years of experience spinning records at weddings and other occasions, the homeowner knew it would take more than a great surface and catchy tunes to get people moving. Letting his imagination and DJ experience take over, he incorporated multiple disco lights that move to the beat of the music; a 106-inch video screen that drops from the ceiling; 2,000 watts of head-banging bass; and an authentic DJ booth packed with commercial-grade mixers, turntables and other equipment. "He really went all out," says Gregory Mizerek, president of Advanced Media Systems, the Morris Township, NJ based firm that was hired to design and install a combination of residential and commercial-style electronic systems.
As sophisticated as the audio and video setup is, it's a cinch for anyone—not just the DJ in the family—to operate. A high-end Philips Pronto touchscreen-style remote helps get the room ready for dancing, singing, relaxing, taking in a movie or whatever else the homeowners have in mind for the evening. With one press of a button labeled all on, the Da-Lite video screen descends from its hiding spot in the ceiling, the lights throughout the space dim and all the audio and video components turn on. From this point, the homeowner is in charge. Inside his own custom-designed DJ booth, he can call up a music video to display on the screen or play his own compilation of dance tunes through the 7.1 surround-sound system consisting of seven Jamo speakers and an EAW subwoofer. The front three speakers and the subwoofer are recessed into the front wall of the dance area. Even when they're covered by the display, the sound still fires into the room though the acoustically transparent fabric of the screen. The remaining four Jamo speakers are mounted to the walls. When the mood strikes, guests can grab a wireless microphone and sing karaoke, and on special occasions, the homeowner can use his PC to present custom graphics on the screen complete with text messages from his video mixer to fit the theme of the night. Four built-in Delvcam LCD screens allow him to cue up video from two JVC karaoke/DVD players and a digital cable TV receiver so that the transition from one video presentation to next is smooth.
Whatever source is chosen, the commercial-grade subwoofer driven by its own 2,000-watt Crown amplifier pounds out the bass. "We designed a higher-output audio system for the room when it's in nightclub mode," says Mizerek. To prevent the sound from seeping into other rooms of the house, Ed Yurasek of New Jersey Home Maintenance based in Kendall Park, NJ, constructed the walls of double-layered sheetrock and placed sound-absorbing insulation inside the walls and the ceiling. Just as quickly and effortlessly as the Pronto remote pulls together a dance party, it can shut down the nightclub and fire up the home theater equipment for a night at the movies. The transition from club to theater takes only a few seconds as the Leviton control system dims the lights and the Sim2 DLP video projector activates. The only thing left for the homeowners to do is to push the couches back onto the dance floor and pop a DVD into the player.
Any movie looks breathtaking on a 106-inch screen, but for more casual gatherings at the Mega Sounds Lounge, guests can watch the show on the 42-inch Samsung plasma TV at the eight-seat mahogany bar. The screen sits in a custom-built recess in the back wall so that everyone seated around the bar can see it. A pair of Niles in-ceiling speakers fills the area with audio. A few controls are available at the bar, including a Leviton keypad for setting the lights and the Pronto remote for selecting the mode of entertainment. For example, pressing the bar button on the Leviton wall-mounted keypad activates the neon accent lights and a series of individual pin light fixtures to illuminate the entire bar surface. And just because there's a movie playing on the big-screen doesn't mean that people at the bar have to watch it, too. Using the remote, they can watch a ball game or just listen to a CD instead. Or, if they want to create the effect of an honest-to-goodness sports bar, they can watch the game and listen to music at the same time. It doesn't matter where the Pronto remote is pointed—at the TV, toward the mini fridge, even at the back of someone's head. Because its commands travel over radio frequency airwaves, they can pass unaffected through walls and other structures to ensure that the signals always reach the equipment inside the DJ booth.
A pool table sits next to the bar area. Even here, guests never miss a beat of the action. Built-in speakers can pump out music or audio from a movie, giving visitors to the Mega Sounds Lounge just one more option for fun without feeling disconnected from the rest of the party.
With a high-energy dance floor, a top-notch home theater, a music- and video-filled sports bar and a cool billiards area all under one roof, this lower-level party pad is ready for anything. The electronic systems that make the magic happen are so easy to operate that everyone can truly enjoy the space without breaking a sweat—unless they feel like dancing all night, that is.Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
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Throughout its history, Fender® has always made a special point of welcoming new players to the family by offering entry-level instruments of remarkable style and substance (such as the Duo-Sonic™, Mustang® and Musicmaster™ models), with great sound, classic looks, solid performance and eminent affordability. The Modern Player series continues that great my-first-Fender tradition, with thoroughly modern features and several distinctively unconventional new takes on our most revered instruments-all with outstandingly attainable value.
The Modern Player Jazz Bass® is a volcanic new take on the time-honored Jazz Bass thanks to its dual Modern Player humbucking Jazz Bass pickups. Other features include an alder body, C-shaped maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 9.5" radius and 20 jumbo frets, three-ply pickguard, vintage-style four-saddle bridge with brass saddles, open-gear tuners and nickel/chrome hardware. Available in Three-color Sunburst, Olympic White and Black Transparent.
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After looking through various basses at around £600, i could not find anything that completely suited me - the closest i got was the blacktop jazz. I wanted a bass with a slim, jazz bass neck, yet i wanted more power in the low-end than a traditional jazz. I still, however, liked the sharp definiton of the jazz bass, but, as i said, with more low-end punch.
I'd avoided this bass as i felt it was too low in price to be a worthwhile upgrade from my £280 bass. When i saw it at my local music shop, however, i decided to give it a go.
I WAS BLOWN AWAY. This bass felt better than any of the £600 basses i'd tried and sounded incredible.
It features a classic jazz bass neck, heavily lacquered (may not be your thing, but I like it), a classic jazz bass body with traditional controls (vol [middle pu], vol [bridge pu] and master tone], and two awesome humbucker pickups.
These pickups are exactly what i had been searching for. They supplied a classic, articulate jazz bass sound, perfect for slap bass or jazz soloing, yet with much more low-end power than the single coils of a traditional jazz. This meant i could use it for anything, from classic finger funk to solid rock - truly awesome! These pickups are also very high-output, meaning volume is never a problem!
All in all, an awesome bass that provides the best of both worlds for a bassist who needs more power in their jazz bass sound! Built quality is second to none and i can barely fault this bass....definitely worth more than it costs!
jonners98 owns this item
The Modern Player is the 5th bass that I have owned but the First Fender . The bass was ready to go straight out of the box great action and very easy to play. I might have to learn to play again with such a great instrument . Just incredible how the bass responds to touch.
choward129 owns this item
A friend of mine has a 19 year old son, who plays guitar, but wants a bass. We went looking for basses, I really thought he would go for the Black and Red Jaguar Bass. He loves to play mine and has bugged me to sell it.
We looked at a Jaguar Bass and MIM Precisions and Jazz Basses. He saw this and said, "That's Her"
Off the rack there was no setup at all, the strings were half an inch off the neck at the 17 fret. I kind of gave the salesguy a hard time, How can you sell an instrument that plays terrible and not in tune, I borrowed 2 allen wrenches and gave it a quick tweak on the truss rod and lowered the action. I got it to where it was playable, not perfect but in 3 minutes it was 1000 times better. My friend played it, then I gave it a shot. We plugged into a giant ampeg, I prefer Fender Amps, This is one of those basses that I usually ignore, I didn't like the color and the dual pickups kill the look. I was very impressed. It was fairly light, the grain pattern of the wood was nice....The neck was To Die For, It had the tinted thick glossy finish like the Fender Japan and Korea models from the 80s had.
I prefer a little more snap and top end, that's why I shy away from the humbucking jazz pickups. This bass sounded very good, not as bright but quite useable.
We worked a deal and got a nice fender gig bag thrown in because this bass was unplayable off the rack. When I got it home I went over the bass, the tuners were slightly loose and the jack was finger tight. Not the worse I have seen, but I always go over an instrument when I get it home.
For a bass I wouldn't even give the time of day to, I was pleasantly surprised. The finish was top notch hardware and controls were good, lighter than average, and a killer neck. I might just buy one myself
I really like Jazz basses, but they are normally $1,000 for a good one. The basses that are 300, 400 and 500 are normally Squier. They don't feel as good as a Fender Jazz. This bass feels like a a $1,000 dollar bass but it is 500 dollars! The tuning pegs stay in tune for a long time, if you do a good amount of playing. The pick-ups are one of the clearest pick-ups I have played on a 500 dollar bass. The bass has a good weight to it, but you get my point I can go on about this bass. If you are looking for a great Jazz Bass, no more looking! it can do the low end, the mid and the high end. Some of the 1,000 dollar basses did not have the best bridge, it looks like a bent piece of metal. This one is a thick pick of metal making sure that strings are not going any where! best Jazz bass for the money.
chase roeder owns this item
The title says everything, this bass is fantastic. I tried this piece of craftsmanship out at my local Sam Ash while looking for a new bass for the group I'm with now and I was blown away, nothing seemed to match the sound I was looking for. However, before buying I went home and did some research online before dropping $500 on a Chinese made bass. I like to look at the negative reviews online to see where the weaknesses in the instruments I'm buying are. I was shocked to find the worst review online was 3 out of 5 stars. And that 3 out of 5 stars was your usual brand snob who was happy with the bass just not the name. This bass looks and feels great! The neck is so smooth and the whole shabam is just plain sexy. You can play it all with this bass. It's unique sound let's you do anything you want from blues to heavy metal. And it's pick-ups make it unlike any bass I've played before. The bass can take a beating too, I use it as my primary bass for gigging, she's been through hell and back and still going strong. I purchased the Transparent black model and it just looks amazing. Fender's Modern Player series is great for musicians, giving us great classic instruments with a ballsier tone.
KrisManzelli owns this item
I got this for my birthday last year as my second bass guitar (my first REAL bass guitar - I have a cheap $250 Dean Edge 09 bass in mahogany) and what an incredible choice I made! In fact, I was browsing through my local music store for some bass tab books and saw a used Olympic white Fender Jazz bass for about $200, which is what I set my mind on to buy the following next week for my upcoming birthday. The week I went to get it, I found out that someone bought it, so I went looking for another cheap Fender Jazz bass. I saw a black Standard Jazz bass that was pretty cheap, but I saw a brand-new, just shipped 3-color sunburst Modern Player Jazz bass sitting right in front of it, about $150 cheaper than the Standard Jazz bass I saw. I took it down and plugged it in to the nearest amp and cranked out some Who tunes and some Zeppelin tunes and was blown away by the deeper, more ballsy sound than a regular Jazz bass. I haven't bought another bass since; I'm so blown away by this one I don't think I need another one (though I'll probably get another Fender bass sooner or later).
colinjpush owns this item
Well let me start by saying this bass is worth every single penny. I looked at a few MIM Jazz basses & I almost got the standard ash, until I noticed that the neck had a slight twist in it. I also looked at a few other MIM standard jazz basses and I was not impressed by the overall craftsmanship. Rough frets sticking out of the neck and just an overall rough jagged feel to the MIM. So at this point I was kind of discouraged. I love fender - it's all I have ever wanted to play and all I have ever pretty much played. The only other basses that I saw by fender were the made in America which are very very nice! However it just wasn't in my budget. Then when I was about to give up, I saw a white fender modern play kind of tucked away at the back of the bass room (I was in guitar center) I took it down and started to play it. wow, this thing feels so nice, and looks just as nice. It put the MIM to shame and was 100 dollars less. (I don't mean to talk bad about MIM products, but I'm sorry they are just greatly lacking in quality). So I decided pretty much on the spot that this would make a great solid backup bass. So I bought it along with a really nice SKB hardshell case. Last night I had band practice, I started out by playing this before my main player which is a Fender American standard jazz bass. So I played my modern player for half of the practice, and then I switched to my American standard. What I am about to say is the honest truth. I like the modern player bass more than my American standard. There I said it, and is true. The oversea's fender products have really proven to be some amazing quality instruments for the price. I still think nothing beats an American standard fender. I have to say though, this thing comes in a very close second, if not tied. So get this bass while you have the chance. you won't regret it. it's very versatile and over all a great bass.
nicebassbro owns this item
Made in China, EXTREMELY impressed with the quality and tone of this bass guitar! Many people think that this bass is only for the one style of music, but with as little as just changing the strings you can definitely play ANYTHING from punk rock to blues on this particular bass. I recommend this instrument for someone in a band for the stage or for the studio. You can get an amazing tone from this bass by plugging it into an ampeg amp, and tweaking some knobs, as I found this the best way to get the true tone out this instrument. However, having said positive comments, I was disappointed to see a bit of a sloppy paint job around the corner of where the back pickup sits. Its not really noticeable, but it was disappointed - but when can you expect from a Chinese factory? To sum it all up, this bass was definitely a winner, as is definitely worth the price!
spastronaut owns this item
Having played guitar and bass for 33 years, and specialized in the low end for more then 15 years, I thought I knew what I wanted, and it was a Fender Roscoe Beck four string. I wanted the neck, shape and balance of my Jazz, but without the single coil hums. My Jazz was also heavy (a Japanese 75 reissue in natural Ash that weighed a ton) and I wanted the light solidity of my Sting Precision, which had had its single pickup upgraded and the electrics fully shielded.
But then I found the Modern Player Jazz. Two humbuckers, each completely noise free, even in the messy studios and venues I work in. Thicker, rounder tone than a straight Jazz. More flexible and breathy than a Precision. Nice growl when you need it. Good balance and low weight. Familiar logical controls. Great tonewoods and a flawless high gloss finish. After three months of playing I've only encountered one minor niggle: the spring in the bridge saddle for the E string is too short and rattles. When I get round to changing the strings (to flatwounds: that's how I roll) I'll fit a longer spring.
Chinese made of course, which some players get sniffy about. Made in the same factories as the Squier Classic Vibes, which are extraordinary VFM. One salesperson I spoke to said he loved the Squier CVs but thought the Fender MPs were a step too far... For years I've played Japanese and Korean instruments, but the Chinese are now making instruments pretty much as good, at far lower prices.
And all for under £400 new with a full guarantee, bought from my friendly neighborhood guitar store, when the nearest Roscoe Beck (unsold old stock as it's no longer manufactured) is in Amsterdam for more than £1500.
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|Model Name:
|Modern Player Jazz Bass®, Rosewood Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst
|Model Number:
|Modern Player
|Advertised Price:
|3-Color Sunburst
|Body Material:
|Body Finish:
|Gloss Polyester
|Body Shape:
|Jazz Bass®
|Neck Material:
|Neck Finish:
|Gloss Polyester
|Neck Shape:
|"C" Shape
|Scale Length:
|34" (864 mm)
|Fingerboard Radius:
|9.5" (241 mm)
|Number of Frets:
|Fret Size:
|String Nut:
|Synthetic Bone
|Nut Width:
|1.5" (38.1 mm)
|Position Inlays:
|White Dot
|Truss Rods:
|Truss Rod Nut:
|3/16" Hex Adjustment
|Bridge Pickup:
|Modern Player Humbucking Jazz Bass
|Middle Pickup:
|Modern Player Humbucking Jazz Bass
|Volume 1. (Middle Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Tone
|Pickup Configuration:
|4-Saddle Vintage-Style with Brass Saddles
|Hardware Finish:
|Tuning Machines:
|Standard Open-Gear
|3-Ply Black
|Control Knobs:
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There's something in the air this week. Maybe it's that the holidays are coming, or that it's getting colder, or that there's not much actual news to be had three weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show. But for some reason, the dumb Apple rumors are piling up like so many discarded MobileMe accounts.
The latest offender? You've probably seen it already: Retina iPad mini. Here's why it's a total waste of everybody's time.
Just to be clear, this isn't the kind of rumor that's dumb because it's wrong. In fact, it's the opposite: a rumor that's based on something so inevitable, it has no merit as a rumor. It's simply a statement of fact, one that's been known since the day the first iPad mini came out. You might as well say that the next iPad mini will have a faster processor or a bigger battery or will run iOS 7. No. Kidding.
That makes all of this flocking toward Retina iPad mini bad enough, in its own way. But what makes it truly galling is that today's burst of stories isn't based on a component someone found, or anything concrete it all. It comes, instead, from DigiTimes. For those unfamiliar, DigiTimes is the single worst purveyor of rumor wrongness in the entirety of tech. Harry McCracken at Time did an excellent take-down earlier this year, if you're looking for proof. It's so bad, in fact, that most sites run every DigiTimes story with a throat-clearing caveat. Others, like Gizmodo, straight up don't run them. Ever.
So when DigiTimes says the next iPad mini will have a retina display, what they're really doing is taking the most obvious spec bump available to them, slapping some unnamed, probably nonexistent "sources" on it, and calling it a scoop.
Here's the thing; everyone who covers technology knows all of this. They know that a retina iPad mini is a rumor in the same way that the sun rising tomorrow is a rumor. They know that DigiTimes is a travesty. And yet:
Rumor: An upcoming version of the iPad Mini will have a Retina screen cnet.co/UgGHh3— CNET (@CNET) December 14, 2012
Hold Onto Your Hats! Apple's Next iPad Mini To Get Retina Display [Rumor] cultm.ac/VGavCQ— Cult of Mac (@cultofmac) December 14, 2012
Retina iPad mini again said to launch next year bgr.co/SonkH2— BGR (@BGR) December 14, 2012
Rumor: iPad mini is going retina tinyurl.com/cbu33nb— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 14, 2012
Rumor: Next-gen iPad mini to boast high-resolution display dlvr.it/2dd5w9— AppleInsider (@appleinsider) December 14, 2012
iPad Mini with Retina Display expected next year, 5th gen iPad to be lighter bit.ly/U01hFx— Geek.com (@geekdotcom) December 14, 2012
Digitimes claims next iPad mini to have higher-res display, next 9.7-inch iPad to be lighter goo.gl/fb/UcaG1— 9to5Mac (@9to5mac) December 14, 2012
The company will ask Apple to ship more iPad minis to Taiwan as soon as possible, but the next wave of shi... bit.ly/ZpHpi3 #ipad— Techno News 24/7 (@TechnoNews247) December 14, 2012
Rumor: próximo iPad mini virá com tela Retina; iPad de quinta geração será mais leve ● mcmgz.in/cy7— MacMagazine.com.br (@MacMagazine) December 14, 2012
Apple focusing on Retina display for next-gen iPad mini, sources say wp.me/p19WFc-p2M— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) December 14, 2012
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Start or keep doing 25 man Flame Lev, I can't tell if you are or have been doing it already. It drops a nice ring, BiS Bracer and a weapon upgrade, it can also drop the blade ward and blood draining enchanting patterns.
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A game played whereby one person puts their hands down their pants, fondles their cock and then proceeds to rub their hand onto an unsuspecting persons face.
1. "I was walking to the kitchen yesterday and Sebastian jumped out from behind the wall and got me square in the face, what a fag"
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A disease that occurs when a dude takes a leak holding his cock in his hand, then proceeds to leave the bathroom without washing.
Each person that man then shakes hands with is infected with cock hand.
Soap will kill all traces of the disease.
Each person that man then shakes hands with is infected with cock hand.
Soap will kill all traces of the disease.
Mitch took a leak at taco bell, didn't wash and then proceeded to go back to making tacos. Damn now everyone is infected with cock hand.
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A term given to the one unlucky enough to have phallic projections instead of fingers, rather like ten dick digits. This person will usually be really cackhanded, retarded, and a bit of a dickweed.
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Last night was our 30th IRIS Nights lecture!
We had two very special guest lecturers, Academy Award winning producer Corinne Marrinan and blind photographer Bruce Hall.
The subject of the evening was a short film directed by our own Neil Leifer, co-produced by Neil and Corinne, and featuring Bruce Hall along with two other blind photographers (Pete Eckert and Henry Butler) called
"Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers.
I didn't know about blind photographers until I heard about this film. The subject matter was introduced in a very artful way in the film, through interviews with a number of well-known photographers talking about their skepticism or curiosity about how a blind person can even be a photographer.
Bruce and Corinne discussed the unique case of each of the three, as each of them has a different kind of blindness.
Peter Eckert lost his sight later in life, so he had a lifetime of 20/20 memories to draw on to create his ethereal, painterly images.
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Henry Butler has been completely blind since he was a baby, so his pictures arise out of his musical sense of timing and his connection to people he meets.
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Bruce has been legally blind since birth
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Bruce then veered into his other work: his ongoing (life) project documenting life with his twin sons who are profoundly autistic.
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Written by Rich Forestano: firstname.lastname@example.com Friday, 04 May 2012 00:00
Nassau County Attorney John Ciampoli revealed at a press conference on April 26 that he asked District Attorney Kathleen Rice to investigate if all nine Democratic county legislators engaged in criminal activity. He cited the Democrats threat of refusing to vote on bond approvals if a compromise on redistricting is not reached.
The county attorney read a Dec. 15, 2011 correspondence from Democratic Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams, which was also signed by the other eight minority legislators, advising County Executive Ed Mangano that, "we cannot in good conscience consider any borrowing requests for any purpose until we arrive at a satisfactory resolution of legislative redistricting." The county is looking to borrow up to $140 million, which requires a super majority (13 of 19) vote from the legislature.
Ciampoli called the Democrats' act an "obstruction of governmental process" and said actions of this nature would be punishable by "a minimum of one year in jail for each count."
There must be a monetary, personal or political benefit to the lawmakers, Ciampoli noted, to get a criminal charge, adding that he was not aware of any legal precedent for the case. Abrahams' letter concluded, "Until there is fair, nonpartisan redistricting, there will be no bonding."
Abrahams could not be reached for comment.
"The proposition of an illegal quid pro quo, where government operations are being held hostage in return for something of a political advantage…is criminal conduct," Ciampoli said. "It is a crime for a public official to ask as is done here in writing, for some personal gain or political advantage in return for an official act."
Ciampoli said the political advantage would be to have district lines that favor Democrats. Democratic Communications Director Mike Florio summed up the press conference as an, "attempt to deflect attention from Mangano's failure to fix assessment and balance the budget without reckless borrowing."
Mangano did not return calls for comment.
If approved, the borrowed funds would go toward tax refund settlements and judgments. Nassau lawmakers plan to vote on the matter on May 7.
Democrats have made it no secret that they want more information concerning the tax refunds, who will be receiving them and more transparency in redistricting. Last year, Democrats blocked a vote to redraw district lines.
"There's no guarantee that when these lines are drawn that these particular legislators would be the ones running in those seats," Florio gasped. He stated further that the GOP accusations are "baseless."
"There's trade-off, there's back and forth, this is politics," Florio said.
Ciampoli affirmed that the Democrats' demands could bring charges of third-degree bribery, coercion, official misconduct and obstruction of government administration.
"We have attempted to deal in court and in the legislature with the question of getting taxpayers the refund they're due under real property tax law from Nassau County," Ciampoli said.
Florio tried to squash any implication of as illegal activity, stating, "This represents a rogue administration attempting to criminalize the legislative process and engage in political prosecutions which have no place in American democracy."
Originally, Ciampoli, a Republican, requested on April 2 Acting New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott investigate the purported criminal action. Scott's office declined to comment, but called this matter "jurisdictional." Therefore Rice, a Democrat, was called on to essentially investigate her own party.
"I saw it as a good first step to go through her office because it took it out of the milieu of Nassau County politics," Ciampoli said. "I apologize to the district attorney for visiting this upon her office. I am certain that she will act professionally and appropriately and consider how to pursue this matter."
The April letter showcases a four-month gap between Abrahams' letter and county action on the alleged criminal act. Rice's office declined to comment.
"The actual actions taken [between letters] on the floor of the legislature subsequent to the letter, made the letter more than an empty threat," according to Ciampoli.


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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Park Geun-hye took office as South Korea's first female president Monday, returning to the presidential mansion she had known as the daughter of a dictator, and where she will respond to volatile North Korea, which tested a nuclear device two weeks ago.
Elected in December, Park also must answer victims of her father's 18-year dictatorship and address worries about a lack of jobs, a growing gap between rich and poor and a stagnant economy. There's pressure for her to live up to her campaign suggestion that she can return the country to the strong economic growth her father oversaw, the so-called Miracle on the Han River.
North Korea's underground atomic detonation tests her vow to soften Seoul's current hard-line approach to its northern rival. Park called the Feb. 12 test, the North's third since 2006, "a challenge to the survival and future of the Korean people" and said Pyongyang should abandon its nuclear ambitions and work for peace.
"There should be no mistake that the biggest victim will be none other than North Korea itself," Park said in her first speech as president during a ceremony where troops in formal uniforms shouted "loyalty" and fired cannons in salute.
At her inauguration, a band played a military march before a crowd of tens of thousands, including U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. Before Park took her oath of office, South Korean superstar PSY performed his global hit "Gangnam Style." Children and the elderly alike joined him in the contagious horse-riding dance he made famous in the song's video.
As Park was sworn in as president, North Korea's state media continued their typical rhetoric against South Korea and the U.S. over annual military drills that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
"The U.S. warmongers should think what consequence will be brought out for getting on the nerves of the DPRK, a dignified nuclear power," the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. DPRK refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. It warned the allies would "die in flames" if they start a northward invasion.
Pyongyang, Washington, Beijing and Tokyo are all watching to see if Park pursues an ambitious engagement policy meant to ease five years of animosity on the divided peninsula, or if she sticks with the tough stance of her fellow conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-bak.
Park's decision will likely set the tone of the larger diplomatic approach that Washington and others take in stalled efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.
"If Park Geun-hye wants to contain, the U.S. will support that," said Victor Cha, a former senior Asia adviser to President George W. Bush. "But if Park Geun-hye, months down the road, wants to engage, then the U.S. will go along with that too."
Park's first weeks in office will be complicated by North Korea's warning of unspecified "second and third measures of greater intensity," a threat that comes as Washington and others push for tightened U.N. sanctions as punishment for the nuclear test.
That test is seen as another step toward North Korea's goal of building a bomb small enough to be mounted on a missile that can hit the United States. The explosion, which Pyongyang called a response to U.S. hostility, triggered global outrage.
Park has said she won't yet change her policy, which was built with the high probability of provocations from Pyongyang in mind. But some aren't sure if engagement can work, given North Korea's choice of "bombs over electricity," as American scientist Siegfried Hecker puts it.
The economic aid and other benefits that North Korea would have received by "choosing electricity over bombs ... will be made much more difficult, if not impossible, for at least the next five years," Hecker, a regular visitor to North Korea, said in a posting on the website of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
As she takes office, however, Park will be mindful that many South Koreans are frustrated at the state of inter-Korean relations after the Lee government's five-year rule, which saw the North conduct two nuclear tests and three long-range rocket launches. In addition, attacks blamed on North Korea that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
Park's policy calls for strong defense but also for efforts to build trust through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue. Park has also held out the possibility of a summit with new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.


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Meh. That's all just rationalization to try to back up the bullcrap that has been fed to players all these years by developers that - for the most part - have failed to provide experiences that are actually fun in and of themselves, so the grind becomes the only reason to play.
It's crap. It's also not "What an RPG is" because that's bullcrap, too. What it is, is simply a development style designed to keep people paying sub fees as long as possible. To steal a word that Extra Credits used, it's pretty much just abusive.
Heh, you try to make it sound so terrible. The only thing I'd say to that is that you can't just "Raid/pvp at the highest level" solely because the time-gating gets removed. That's another piece of bullcrap that's been fed to players, this idea that the gear is the ONLY thing that's important.then comes the rationalization "why can't I just get all the gear up front so I can just raid/pvp at the highest level without any time investment"
That's true...but it's BECAUSE the game is presented to them as just being about the grind. The entire game (and MMO's in general) end up revolving around gameplay experiences that are simply not fun at best - and frankly just plain work at worst. Of course people just stop playing once the somewhat-addicting rewards are done being handed out. There are plenty of games where people keep playing them after they're "finished", because the game itself provides a fun experience.History has proven fleetingly few people play these games once their gear is "done",
This is really a result of a company wanting to milk the subscription model as much as they can with as little cost as possible, rather than some necessity of the game, as players have been led to believe.


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BAGHDAD (AP) -- The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein's feared eldest son was said to torture underperforming athletes.
Saddam built the split teardrop-shaped sculpture in the middle of a manmade lake in the early 1980s to commemorate Iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The names of hundreds of thousands of fallen Iraqi soldiers are inscribed in simple Arabic script around the base.
Today the monument stands as a memorial to a different sort of martyr. In recent years, the Shiite-led government has begun turning it into a museum honoring the overwhelmingly Shiite and Kurdish victims of Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime.
The transformation of the Martyr Monument and other Saddam-era sites highlights Iraq's effort to memorialize those persecuted by the former dictator and purge many symbols of his rule. Yet a decade on from the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqis still grapple with the country's postwar identity and how much should be done to cleanse Iraq of traces of the strongman.
It is a tricky balancing act that risks exacerbating Iraq's already strained sectarian tensions. Many Iraqi Sunnis today feel their sect has been marginalized and unfairly persecuted by Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. For Baghdad, the historical clean-up effort has the added benefit of ridding Iraq of many uncomfortable references to war with Shiite heavyweight Iran, an increasingly important ally.
The Martyr Monument now features mannequins striking gruesome, if not particularly convincing, poses to display firing-squad executions and the unearthing of mass graves. Also depicted here are the poison-gas killings of some 5,000 Kurds by Saddam's forces in the northern town of Halabja 25 years ago this month.
Kifah Haider, spokesman for the government-backed Establishment of Martyrs, which oversees the site, denied that the museum gives preference to certain victims over others.
"We wanted to document the crimes of the former regime," he said. "It's so this generation learns about the crimes they didn't have to live through."
The site plays up the majority Shiites' role in opposing Saddam's rule. Images of turbaned Shiite clerics, including many family members and political allies of Iraq's postwar political elite, gaze down upon visitors. One banner depicts al-Maliki signing Saddam's execution order. Posters show hellish fires superimposed on photos of the ousted leader.
The Martyr Monument is located some 2.5 miles (four kilometers) from Firdous Square, where 10 years ago on live television U.S. Marines memorably hauled down a Soviet-style statue of Saddam, symbolically ending his rule.
Today, that pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides.
But Saddam's grandiose creations live on elsewhere.
The crossed-sword archways he commissioned during Iraq's nearly eight-year war with Iran stand defiantly on a little-used parade ground inside the Green Zone, the fortified district that houses the sprawling U.S. Embassy and several government offices.
Iraqi officials began tearing down the archways in 2007 but quickly halted those plans and then started restoring the monument two years ago. Nevertheless, the hundreds of Iranian soldiers' helmets that once spilled from the base of the sculptures, suggesting an Iranian defeat that never actually happened, were removed.
Other insults to neighboring Iran, with which the postwar Iraqi government has increasingly close ties, have been scrapped too. A statue of a pilot who once stood atop the wreckage of an Iranian fighter jet recently disappeared from downtown Baghdad.
Some Shiites say more needs to be done to exorcise Saddam's specter and that of the now-outlawed Baath party he once led.
"The removal campaign should go on until we get rid of everything that reminds us of this criminal and his party," Shiite lawmaker Ali al-Alaq said.
But other Iraqis fear that too much of Saddam's larger-than-life legacy has already been lost.
Sinan al-Obeidi, a history professor at al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, argues that some Saddam statues and other works should have been kept so future generations can learn what his rule was like.
"If every ruler ... destroyed remnants of the previous era or civilization, then we would not have any antiquities or archaeological sites left to see," he said.
Baghdad-based artist Nassir al-Rubaie understands the desire to rid Iraq of Saddam's statues, but he fears things have gone too far.
"Unfortunately, some of the people who are handling the removal issue have no understanding of the meaning of art," he said.
It was easy to wipe away some traces of the dictator's legacy, like renaming Saddam International Airport -- now Baghdad International -- or Baghdad's double-decker Leader Bridge, now known as Hassanain Bridge in commemoration of two of the holiest Shiite saints. New banknotes without Saddam's portrait began circulating within months of the invasion.


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My great great grandfather, Jan Zajicek arrived in this country via the port of Baltimore on the ship Berlin.
The Ships List website reports the following information on the ship.
This was the 2,333 gross ton ship BERLIN built in 1867 by Caird & Co, Greenock for North German Lloyd. Her details were – length 285ft x beam 39ft, clipper stem, one funnel, two masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 84-1st and 600-3rd class. Launched on 1st Oct.1867, she made her maiden voyage in Apr.1868 from Bremen to Southampton and Baltimore. Her first Bremen – South America voyage started in 1879. In 1882 her engines were compounded and she made her last voyage for the company in March 1894 between Bremen and South America. In 1894 she was sold to M.Bruzzo, Italy and was scrapped the following year. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.546] [South Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor]
I was hoping to find a photo of this ship but have been unable. The book, Ships of our Ancestors,by Michael J. Anuta does not have a photograph. It has photos of two other ships with the name of Berlin.
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