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First of all I'd like to apologize for my English, I'm not a native speaker.
Taking into consideration that I'm a lefty, I'm very restricted in different things and the musical instruments aren't an exception. The choice of a bass guitar is just like the choice of the girl with whom you're ready to create a family and spend all life long.
My first bass was Schecter, however I felt that it wasn't my stuff. Then I tried the P Bass and I did really fall in love with it! Everything is perfect here: the classical design, the comfortable neck, the rich sound and, certainly, the fact that it was the first popular electric bass in the history - all that made me a loyal customer of Fender's Precision Bass.
When I got this bass I had to modify it by additional shielding the pickup's cavity and grounding the magnets by the aluminum foil to avoid unpleasant clicks while touching the open strings (G and D especially), however that ABSOLUTELY didn't affect my 100% positive impression I got from playing this bass. I can't imagine myself holding a different guitar.
Furthermore, I gave this bass to the specialist to defret it and now I'm happy owner of a rare left-handed fretless bass! And I must say it's something godlike! I discovered a new field to explore where I could develop myself and thus enlarge my outlook.
So, my kind piece of advice is: if you buy the P Bass, you won't regret doing that! Enjoy it, guys!
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|Model Name:
|American Standard Precision Bass® Left-Handed, Rosewood Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst
|Model Number:
|American Standard
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|Custom Shop '60s Split Single-Coil Precision Bass
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Romania prepares for parliamentary elections
Romania is gearing up for elections this Sunday to choose MPs in both houses of Parliament. Voters are tired of a political class which is renowned for its corruption. Meanwhile, the economic crisis which is affecting all of Europe has hardly warmed people's feelings towards politicians either. The right preaches the gospel of austerity - not a popular solution for many - while the left promises a lot, but is tainted by its historical links with the Communist system.

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David McNally on Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with David McNally about his book Global Slump, which analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. McNally argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation.
McNally locates the recent meltdown in the intense economic restructuring that marked the recessions of the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Through this lens, he highlights the emergence of new patterns of world inequality and new centers of accumulation, particularly in East Asia, and the profound economic instabilities these produced. In Global Slump McNally offers an original account of the "financialization" of the world economy during this period, and explores the intricate connections between international financial markets and new forms of debt and dispossession, particularly in the Global South.
David McNally is professor of political science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of five previous books: Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism (1988); Against the Market: Political Economy Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (2003); Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001); Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (2002; second revised edition 2006); and Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2011). His articles have appeared in many journals, including Historical Materialism, Capital and Class, New Politics, and Review of Radical Political Economics. David McNally is also a long-time activist in socialist, anti-poverty and migrant justice movements.
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Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Greg Muttitt, author of Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.
The departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a broken country and a host of unanswered questions. What was the war really about? Why and how did the occupation drag on for nearly nine years? And why did the troops have to leave? Now, in a gripping account of the war that dominated the last decade, investigative journalist Greg Muttitt takes us behind the scenes to answer these questions and tells the untold story of the oil politics that played out through the occupation.
Greg Muttitt was previously co-director of campaigning charity Platform, which exposes and fights the environmental and human impacts of the oil industry.
Since the Iraq war started in 2003, Greg has investigated the hidden plans for the future of the country's oil. This work took him to meetings where the US and UK government officials lobbied Iraqi decision-makers, and to meetings where Iraqi oil ministry teams discussed their future oil policy with western companies. He met some of the oil executives who hoped to benefit from transforming Iraq's oil industry, and the government officials and advisers they worked with. Greg also got hold of hundreds of unreleased British and American government documents, which described their plans and actions to reshape Iraq's oil industry.
But Greg also talked to ordinary Iraqis, and a few politicians, about what they wanted to happen to their oil. He attended Iraq's first anti-privatisation conference in Basra, and the meeting in Amman at which Iraq's trade unions decided they would fight the oil law the US was pushing. He made many Iraqi friends, and came to know some of Iraq's foremost oil experts. These experiences gave him a very different perspective from what we read in the papers.
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George Lakeoff on Thinking and Talking Democratic
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with professor and author George Lakeoff about his new book, co-authored with Elisabeth Wehling, called THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic. Lakeoff says the Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. He offers Democrats and progressives language to communicate their moral values clearly and forcefully, with hands-on advice for discussing the most pressing issues of our time. He also deconstructs the ways that extreme conservative positions have permeated political discourse.
George Lakeoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Don't Think of an Elephant!, among other works, and is America's leading expert on the framing of political ideas. Elisabeth Wehling is a political strategist and author working in the U.S. and Europe. She is doing research in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, on how politics is understood both in American and Europe.
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Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan.
Host Marvin Simmons speaks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran about his new book Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post. From 2009 to 2011, he reported on the war in Afghanistan for The Post, traveling extensively through the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar to reveal the impact of President Obama's decision to double U.S. force levels. HIs previous book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won numerous awards for non-fiction.
When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government: a war cabinet arrested by vicious bickering among top national security aides; diplomats and aid workers who failed to deliver on their grand promises; generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places; and headstrong military leaders who sought a far more expansive campaign than the White House wanted.
Chandrasekaran explains how the United States has never understood Afghanistan—and probably never will.
This is an unedited version of the show that aired Wed. 7/18/2012
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Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Dennis Marker, author of FIFTEEN STEPS TO CORPORATE FEUDALISM: How the Rich Convinced America's Middle Class to Eliminate Themselves From Ronald Reagan to the Tea Party Movement.
Never has a philosophy of a country shifted as radically as it has the last thirty years. Marker details in pull-no-punches prose how the assault on the middle classes is widespread and relentless. Determining our actions today can move us towards either a stronger, more positive future, or a future shrouded in fear, poverty, war.
In a full frontal attack by what Marker calls the Corporate Feudalists, Marker details how the middle class has become superfluous to the very rich and why various policies were deliberately created to eliminate them. Their defining characteristic is dirty, scorched-earth partisanship carried out regardless of cost. Conservatives are anxious again to finish first – with the big prize- monopoly control of the American government, and the power to turn their ideology into the law of the land.
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Peace activist Cindy Sheehan on Venezuela
Cindy Sheehan spoke in Portland this week about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. Sheehan's latest book is "Revolution: A Love Story," the story of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. Jenka Soderberg recorded her talk.
Cindy Sheehan is an anti-war activist whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War. Her website is cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/
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Sibel Edmonds on her memoir "Classified Woman"
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Sibel Edmonds about her new memoir "Classified Woman." Sibel Edmonds is the most classified woman in U.S. history. In her memoir she takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded.
Having lived under Middle East dictatorships, Edmonds knows firsthand what can happen when government is allowed to operate in secret. Hers is a sobering perspective that combines painful experience with a rallying cry for the public's right to know and to hold the lawbreakers accountable. With U.S. citizens increasingly stripped of their rights in a calibrated media blackout, Edmonds' story is a wake-up call for all Americans who, willingly or unwillingly, traded liberty for illusive security in the wake of 9/11.
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Carlos Chavez presents part two of the Watts Gang Truce Anniversary program on Political Perspectives. Part one aired last week with a powerful panel discussion titled, Pioneers in Peace. It featured voices from "Freeway" Ricky Ross, the honorable Orland Bishop of Mosaic, Alex Sanchez of Homies Unidos and others. Check out the following link to listen or download that program:
This week features one of the founders of the peace treaty, who found himself under fire for helping to create this movement in 1992. His name is Dewayne Holmes from the Imerial Courts housing projects. We'll also hear other voices from the Watts community as they share their reflections on how the gang truce changed their lives.
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Leon G; (Freeway) Ricky Ross; Daude Sherrils; Little Brother JB; Willie Freeman; Alex Sanchez; Stan Muhammad; Dewayne Holmes; Donny Jubert; Sista Souljah (West Coast)
Part II is scheduled to air on Wednesday, June 20th 2012 on Political Perspectives at 9am.
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The 2nd Revolution: Dismantling Corporate Rule
We live "drenched in corporate culture," with our planet, our democracy, and all of us "real people" under assault. But, according to Paul Cienfuegos, "We the people are more powerful than we dare to believe," and the corporate power structure CAN be dismantled. A long-time community organizer and educator, Cienfuegos provides a wealth of information showing how the fictions of "corporate personhood" and "corporate rights" can be challenged and reversed by empowered, informed citizen action. He'll be leading a Portland workshop June 9-10.
"If we relearn our history, if we understand again that corporations were designed to serve us, not to rule us, in this democratic republic, then we can reclaim our sovereignty. Once we understand this, the sky's the limit. We can rein in corporate constitutional "rights" as have more than 100 communities in PA, NH, ME, and VI." (The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has provided advice and support to many of these communities - learn more HERE.)
On June 9 & 10, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, Paul Cienfuegos will be leading his full-weekend workshop: "We The People Are More Powerful Than We Dare to Believe: First Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule." For more details about the content of the workshop, click HERE. For more details about cost (sliding scale), timing, and how to register, click HERE.
Community Rights PDX has begun rights-based activism here in Portland -- you can learn more HERE.
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Hood River Development - Mr. Naito
Please ask Mr. Naito if his love of democracy extends to his business. Would he be willing to turn his development firm into a employee run cooperative corporation, giving ownership and organizational rights to employees. Mr. Naito's concern for democracy probably ends at doors to his corporation. Mr. Naito looks at this battle to develop the Hood River riverfront property as a public realtions battle. He will promise the community jobs and the city council financial support, and the council will eye the property tax revenue as a benefit to the community. If he is successful, once again we will be selling our responsibility to the land and the river for a short term gain. Mr. Naito cares little for the community, but operates on greed. If the environmental laws and regulations were not in place he would not be concerned at all with the impact of his development on the river, the wild life, and the ability of people to enjoy what nature have given us for free.
Bravo for having this debate, though. And controlling the civility of the debate.


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Central cord syndrome (CCS) is a type of incomplete spinal cord injury. CCS is marked by damage to the nerve fibers that bring messages from the brain to the body. This condition affects how you can use your arms and hands, and in some cases, your legs. There may be a loss of sensation and motor control.
CCS is caused by damage to the central part of the spinal cord. This damage may occur when the neck is hyperextended. This can be associated with:
Common causes of injury include:
CSS can also be due to:
Males over 50 are more likely to have this condition. Risk factors that increase your chances of developing CCS include:
If you have any of these symptoms, do not assume it is due to CCS. These symptoms may be caused by other conditions.
If CCS is due to trauma, symptoms usually come quickly. Sometimes, however, symptoms may come more slowly.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. A neurologic exam may also be done.
Your doctor may want pictures of your spinal cord. These can be taken with:
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Rehab can take a long time for some patients. If you are young and have more muscle function, you have a better chance of recovering.
Treatment options include the following:
In most cases, surgery is not needed. Often treatment involves:
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Clinical Syndromes. J Spinal Cord Med. 2007;30:215-224.
Cortez R, Levi AD. Acute Spinal Cord Injury. Current Treatment Options in Neurology. 2007;9:115-125.
Finnoff JT, Midlenberger D, et al. Central cord syndrome in a football player with congenital spinal stenosis. Am J Sports Med. 2004;32:516-521.
NINDS central cord syndrome information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/central_cord/central_cord.htm. Updated September 27, 2011. Accessed November 27, 2012.
Rich V, McCaslin E. Central cord syndrome in a high school wrestler: a case report. J Athl Train. 2006;41:341-344.
Spinal cord injury—acute management. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated November 13, 2012. Accessed November 27, 2012.
Spinal cord injury—chronic management. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated September 6, 2012. Accessed November 27, 2012.
Spinal cord injury center. American Association of Neurological Surgeons website. Available at: http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/spinal-cord-3134.html. Updated November 9, 2009. Accessed November 27, 2012.
Spinal cord injury (SCI): prevention tips. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/sciprevention.htm. Updated November 21, 2012. Accessed November 27, 2012.
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Your child's doctor should examine his eyes at each well-child visit. She'll check them for problems, just as she examines his back, ears, breathing, and heart, to make sure that all's well.
If the doctor spots a health problem with your child's eyes, such as a minor infection, she'll treat it. If the problem is more serious, she'll refer you to a medical eye specialist, or ophthalmologist. She should also refer you to a specialist if she notices any other signs of vision trouble or if your child has a strong family history of eye problems in childhood.
At every well-child visit, the doctor should check for signs of congenital eye conditions or other problems. She should also examine the structure and alignment of your child's eyes and his ability to move them correctly. If the doctor does the following things, you can rest assured she's doing a thorough job:
Speak up if your child's doctor doesn't perform an eye exam. Schools sometimes test children's eyesight, so your doctor may assume it's already been done.
That's something medical doctors and optometrists tend to disagree about, so you'll have to decide for yourself. Most medical doctors who deal with children's eyes say that vision screening at well-child visits, if done properly, is all that's needed to monitor your child's vision. (The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus say that primary care physicians should be the ones to screen for vision problems.)
According to medical doctors, taking your child to an optometrist for a separate screening is time-consuming and expensive. In addition, some eye care providers both prescribe and dispense glasses, which may present a conflict of interest.
But optometrists (and the American Optometric Association) say that because some primary care doctors aren't properly trained, aren't comfortable giving eye exams, or don't have the time to do complete eye exams, many children don't receive thorough examinations.
Medical doctors and optometrists may disagree about who should check your child's eyes, but there's no argument on one point: It's crucial to have your child's eyes checked for problems early on. Good eyesight helps your child do his best in everything from schoolwork to sports. And early detection of certain eye problems, such as lazy eye (amblyopia), makes treatment much more likely to be successful.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommend that your child's eyes be screened for problems at birth, by 6 months of age, at 3 to 4 years of age, at 5 years of age, and every following year. The recommended schedule set by the American Optometric Association is similar: at age 6 months, at age 3 years, and before first grade, followed by routine exams every two years.
In addition, if your child has an increased risk of eye disease, his eye care provider might suggest that his eyes be checked more frequently. Factors that might put him at higher risk include premature birth, developmental delay, family history of eye disease, previous serious eye injury or eye disease, use of certain medications, and a chronic condition such as diabetes.
Your first strategy should be to make sure your child's eyes are checked thoroughly at regular doctor visits, as described above. If you're not satisfied, talk with your child's doctor. And if you're still not happy with the level of care, by all means get a second opinion from someone you trust, whether that's another pediatrician, an ophthalmologist, or an optometrist.
Between visits, observe your child's vision at home, and if you think something might be wrong, have it checked out. For pointers on what to look for, see our list of warning signs that there might be a problem with your child's eyes.
Ophthalmologists are medical doctors who have graduated from medical school and completed, at minimum, an internship and a three-year residency. In addition to doing eye exams and prescribing eyeglasses and contact lenses, ophthalmologists diagnose and treat eye diseases, prescribe medications, and perform surgery.
Pediatric ophthalmologists complete a yearlong fellowship in surgical and medical treatment of eye disease in children after finishing a residency in ophthalmology.
Optometrists are not medical doctors but doctors of optometry. They are trained and licensed to examine the eyes and diagnose and treat vision problems with glasses, contacts, and therapy. Optometrists can also prescribe some medications.
Opticians make and dispense glasses and other optical items. They're trained to fill the lens prescription provided by the ophthalmologist or the optometrist, in much the same way that pharmacists fill doctors' prescriptions.


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Keith Hernandez held a book signing June 27 at Borders of Westbury and hundreds of baseball fans had an opportunity to receive autographed copies of the former first baseman's new book, Shea Good-Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season. Hernandez also took some time out before the signing to speak with Anton Community Newspapers about his years in Flushing and the demolition of Shea Stadium.
Hernandez began his major league baseball career in 1974 as a first baseman with the National League St. Louis Cardinals. He remained in St. Louis for nine seasons, taking home a World Series title in 1982. The following year, Hernandez was traded to the New York Mets and in the seven seasons that followed, added a second World Series title (1986) and a National League playoff berth (1988) to his résumé. In 1990, the Mets let Hernandez go and the five-time All Star and 11-time Gold Glove winner headed to Cleveland where he played his last year of major league baseball with the American League Indians.
Shea Goodbye, which hit bookshelves and online retailers April 30, is Hernandez' third book; in 1986, he published If at First: A Season With the Mets and, nine years later, penned Pure Baseball. Through Shea Good-Bye's 300-plus pages, Hernandez provides a behind-the-scenes overview of the Mets' 2008 season – the final one at Shea – from the off season signing of pitcher Johan Santana and midseason dismissal of manager Willie Randolph to the club's disappointing final game and failed postseason berth to the ceremony marking the end of the 44-year-old stadium.
"It was a very disappointing season. It was sad that it ended the way it did," Hernandez told Anton Community Newspapers, adding that, in his opinion, many fans would have probably felt differently about seeing the home of the Amazins' come down had the 2008 season ended differently. "The Mets haven't had many winning years in their history. There have been a lot of bad finishes," Hernandez said, adding that he, personally, was not sad to see Shea Stadium come down to make way for Citi Field. "Met fans have always had more of an attachment to Shea than the players," he said.
Although he did not take any mementos from Shea Stadium for his own personal collection, Hernandez said he does still have the nameplate that hung above his locker during his seven-year stint with the Mets. In fact, he admits Shea will forever remain a soft spot for him. "I will never forget Shea and everything that happened there over the years, the good as well as the bad," he writes in Shea Good-Bye.
Hernandez, who has worked as a baseball analyst for the Mets on both SportsNet New York (SNY) and WPIX television since 2006, is hopeful that the new stadium will help the New York Mets turn a new page.
"Citi Field should be the symbol of the new Mets era, one of strength, dominance and success," Hernandez writes, "It holds all the possibilities of a bright future. I like the fact that everything [is] new at Citi Field, that the 2009 season [is] a fresh start in every sense."
At press time Monday, the 2009 season had reached the halfway point. The New York Mets have played 81 games and have a record at Citi Field of 22-17; their away record was 17-25. With an overall record of 39-42, the Mets were three games below .500 and four games out of first place behind National League East division rivals the Philadelphia Phillies (42-37), the 2008 World Series Champions.