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Have Holidays Fallen Prey to the Nature of Todays Society?Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:08
Halloween was good fun for the kids now it is a day for evil and some parents don't let there kids dress up no more! Is todays society too serious about everything? Has Santa, the Easter bunny, Halloween, and holidays that were mostly fun things fallen prey to the nature of todays society to be so serious? Are these things teaching our children the wrong messages?
Do you let your kids go trick or treating? Believe in Santa? or do you believe that Halloween is the Devil's day and refuse to let your kids believe in a man coming down the chimney to deliver presents to the people? Is it ok to let a kid believe in something and be a kid or Is it best for the kid to know the truth at an early age? Are we robbing our youth of the innocence of childhood? You tell us tonight on the Live In The Vocal Booth Show.
Will School Choice Create Better Schools or Disable The Public School System?Friday, 01 June 2012 19:22
Will School Choice Create Better Schools or Disable the Public School System?
School choice advocates believe having the option to send children to charter schools, private schools or better performing public schools should be the right of every parent and will provide for competition in education where schools will have to perform better to retain students. The opposition to school choice argues it can violate the separation of Church & State by providing federal funds for private faith based education. Many view school choice as a tool to destroy the Public School System particularly in poorer district where students will be limited because of the available tax dollars and the inability to travel to better performing schools.
Tonight the Live in the Vocal Booth team ask you to weigh in on school choice. Do you think school choice will hurt the public school system or create a climate of competition where all schools will have to raise student performance and offer and education that parents and children want or is school choice undermining an already disabled educational system by taking needed funds away. Also does money provided per pupil make a difference in a child's education? Join us for what is sure to be a major debate "Live in the Vocal Booth"
Special Guest: Qadree El-Amin
If ever someone had the Midas touch in business and music, it would have to be internationally recognized entertainment executive Qadree El-Amin. Best known for his skillful and successful navigation of the careers of GRAMMY Award-winning artists Boyz II Men, El-Amin seems to not only turn everything within his grasp into pure gold, but over the years, he has had a knack for attracting successful artists who want to take their careers to even greater heights.
Born and raised in Little Brick Newark, New Jersey, El-Amin has a reputation as a savvy artist manager and a crafty negotiator. Thanks to his ingenuity and assertiveness, Boyz II Men holds the distinction of being one of only a handful of artists who climbed to the number one position on the charts a remarkable 50 times. Their hit single, "One Sweet Day," with Mariah Carey, spent a record-breaking 16 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart.
Earlier this year, El-Amin's hard work was memorialized when the group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Said El-Amin of the occasion, "It was a surreal moment; to see those guys, for all of us to be together again...witnessing a historic moment for Boyz II Men." While he is largely recognized for his success with Boyz II Men, the El-Amin stamp extends far beyond the popular 90's boy band. Through his Southpaw Entertainment Company, he has also served as manager to global superstars Michael Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Janet Jackson, Teddy Riley & Blackstreet, Deborah Cox and Lou Bega, among many others.
Over the years, El-Amin has worked closely and formed valuable alliances with a veritable who's who of music's elite, including noted record label presidents Clive Davis, L.A. Reid, Jimmy Iovine and Tommy Mottola. Never one to shy away from diversification, El-Amin has also dabbled in the film world, having played a major role in groundbreaking movie soundtracks for big screen favorites such as "Jason's Lyric," "Boomerang," "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Khazam, "Soul Food," "How Stella Got Her Groove Back, " Prince of Egypt," and "Hurricane." He has also produced several notable television specials, among them "Homecoming," a Disney production featuring Boyz II Men and "A Christmas Special," with Vanessa Williams, Babyface, Shania Twain, Phil Collins and Rosie O'Donnell. Clearly, El-Amin has passion for his work but there's more to him than what the entertainment world sees. As the father of four -- three sons and one daughter -- El-Amin keeps his hands busy guiding the growth and development of his own family. Additionally, his two clothing lines, Southpaw and Heavy Hittaz, continue to thrive and grow.
Currently, he is hard at work on his biography, Qadree El-Amin: AMAN, which is due for a Fall 2012 release, as well as various other domestic and international business ventures, including a burgeoning deal with legendary boxing promoter Don King, with the Don King Flight Card Mobile App. But despite all of his endeavors, this generous, socially-conscious role model prides himself on his philanthropy and makes every effort to feed his desire to give back to the community. He has travelled worldwide on charitable and humanitarian missions, something which is very close to El-Amin's heart. An active philanthropist, he has benefitted organizations such as the American Diabetes Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation and back in his home town, the Newark Boy's Club.
After more than four decades in the music industry, Qadree El-Amin shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, if you ask him, he'll tell you that he's just beginning to make his mark. Says El-Amin, "God has told me that the things I've done in the past will pale in comparison to the things that I will do in the future."
Tribute To Fathers Of The World!Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:51
Tonight Saturday 6/16 on "Live in the Vocal Booth" the team will be discussing our Fathers and the impact our fathers made in our lives. We invite you to share what your dad means to you. We know dads are important and whether we have good or bad experiences it impacts who we are in such a major way. Many have grown up without their father, if that is you how did that make you feel? Maybe you feel like your father was simply a sperm donor and doesn't deserve the title father. Maybe you were blessed and your dad was Superman, whatever your experience we want to hear from you because at BKS1RADIO.COM your voice matters!!! Tune in tonight 11:00 pm (EST) on www.bks1radio.com call in 646-233-1302 or jump in the live chat.
If You Had The Power To Change, What Would You Change? and What Did The Cancellation Of All My Babies Mama's Do For African Americans?| Guest:Health/Fitness Trainer Sundiata RaminThursday, 17 January 2013 18:54
Tonight on The Grown Sexy Situation Show we have a double topic: If you had the power to change a choice you made in your life what would it be? and What did the cancellation of the oxygen channel's reality show "all my babies mama's" do for African Americans? Our guest author & health /fitness trainer Sundiata Ramin, chat live or call in 646-233-1302 to discuss the topic or to give your shout outs. Join the live experience of bks1radio.com
Topic #1: If You Had The Power To Change A Choice You Made, What Would It Be?
We've each been provided with a number of incredible and irrevocable gifts that are often times overlooked and/or taken for granted. One of the most incredible gifts provided to you is your Power to Choose. Everything we do and don't do in life is a choice. Every day we choose to do some things and to not do other things. Most people would like to change their life in one way or another. How about you? Are there areas of your life that you would like to change?
Topic #2: What Did The Cancellation Of The Oxygen Channels All My Babies Mama's Do For African Americans?
Amid mounting pressure from the public the Oxygen Channel cancelled Shorty Lo reality show All My Babies Mama's, which starred Shorty Lo his 11 children and 10 different mothers. Concerns were raised by many people who viewed the show as disrespectful and giving off the wrong message, while showing African Americans in a bad light.
On The flip side it can be argued that the show would have shown a father who is stepping up and taking the responsibility of raising his children along with the baby mothers. If this stance is taken then the show could be a positive influence.
Special Guest: Sundiata Ramin
A native of Washington, D.C. and graduate of Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Sundiata pursued his education in Graphic/Advertising Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
After working many years in advertising, Sundiata decided to make a career change from graphic designer to entrepreneur and for nearly a decade owned several bookstores in New Jersey. As an avid reader, he always enjoyed reading books pertaining to health, fitness and well-being. He discovered that through a proper balance of spiritual, mental, physical exercise he could prevent many of the health problems that plague his family, community and nation today. Sundiata discovered that obesity was at the root of most common illnesses including high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
Sundiata made a committment to eat healthy and exercise daily. By cutting out the trans fats and maintaining the saturated fats could improve his health overall but he learned that the body needs essential proteins and fiber to function on an optimum level.
He was introduced to Visalus and the 90-Day Challenge by a friend in March 2012. From that day forward he has promoted the 90-Day Challenge with great success. As a Director of Visalus and the 90-Day Challenge, Sundiata has helped hundreds of clients lose and maintain their weight. He looks forward to helping others in the new year to achieve their personal goals regarding optimum health.
Live In The Vocal Booth Aritst Review: Daley - Alone Together| Topic: Social Media & The Youth| Special Guests: Gospel Artists: J. Nicole and Angela Spivey| Dance/Pop/Industrial Rock Artist ValentinSaturday, 23 March 2013 19:16
Artist Review: Daley
Gareth Daley, or known as Daley is a unique, UK singer songwriter and artist. Daley hails from Manchester. His diverse sound rooted within Neo-soul, Pop and R&B, infused with Ambient / Experimental vibes.
He first began in 2010 he featured in the Gorillaz's smash hit "Doncamatic" taken from their re-release of Plastic Beach. The song charted at 37 in the UK and became Daley's first song to enter the charts. Daley performed the track in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on the 20th of November.
In 2011 Daley began to showcase his talent and was entered into the BBC Sound Of 2011 poll, to which Jessie J, also a UK recording artist took first place. In the same year Daley teamed up with the British recording artist Wretch 32 with the song "Long Way Home" which was on the album "Black and White".
Daley then started to work on his own material and produced the mixtape "Those Who Wait". On the mixtape featured the Grammy Nominated artist Marsha Ambrosius on the track "Alone Together", a music video was made and released in 2012. A music video was also made for the song "Smoking Gun". A video for the song "Spent" also taken from "Those Who Wait" is expected this year (2012).
In 2012, Daley started to tour around the UK showcasing "Those Who Wait". He supported the new up and coming UK artist Emeli Sande on her tour titled "Our Version of Events". His debut album is expected to be released this year.
Bio for Daley from: www.last.fm/music/Daley
Topic: Social Media & Youth
Social Media and the Internet are no longer sleeping giants they have arrived. What are the effects of technology on our youth? The positives are the technical knowledge our kids are gaining along with the ability to truly take their education beyond the confines of a books, radio and television. Our youth have the ability to be global learners.
The negatives range from cyber bullying to sexual experimentation. With unlimited access to pornography on their smartphones, IPads, and Tablets what will all this access to information do to our youth in the future and what can we do to better reign in this technology so the effects on our youth won't be damaging? Tune in tonight to The Live in the Vocal Booth Team as they jump in on Social Media and the effects of technology on our youth.
Special Guest: J. Nicole
Twitter: @myjnichole/ Facebook/jnichole/Juliet Jones
Juliet Nichole Jones (known as artist J. Nichole) is a native of Pennsylvania, and an Inspiring Contemporary Gospel Artist who has a love of ministry and music. With her unique and anointed voice she is reaching beyond the traditional gospel sound and gospel audience. Honored by colleagues, and adored by the public this singing sensation is truly an inspiration. She is the daughter of a musician father and an evangelist/songwriting mother, and has had much support from her influential yet talented parents.
Her career began at age 7 where she began to sing in local talent shows. By age 8 she became little Miss Southern PA where she won her first trophy. By the time she was 12, she knew in her heart that singing was what she wanted to do. She accepted the Lord into her life, and one day while watching a show on TV she saw a blind girl give her testimony and sing beautifully for the Lord. J. Nichole was immediately inspired and wanted to sing with the same enthusiasm as the blind girl did. During Church service one day JNichole prayed and asked God earnestly from her heart to bless her with the same enthusiasm to sing.
Little did she know, God heard her prayer request, and years later it would manifest into a reality. While in her college years, J. Nichole enjoyed singing and touring as lead vocalist with a top 40 band in PA. She then placed law school on hold, and headed out to LA to pursue her music career. While in L.A. she had the pleasure of working with many influential artist in the music industry in the pop/ r&b markets, performing at local venues with her girl group at the time, as well as a pending deal with Sony that unfortunately fell through.
After many obstacles faced in L. A. as a single mother during that time, J. Nichole started to faithfully attend church and study the word and it was then when she quickly re - dedicated her life back to the Lord. She immediately realized God had other plans for her and her music career as a singer, writer and entrepreneur. Currently she is working on her brand new Gospel CD titled "No More Runnin".
She released the first single from that CD titled "Do you know him" in 2012, then in 2013 she released the second single titled "Get your Spirit UP" currently in rotation on Wamo 100.1 AM/FM Gospel's Best Sunday's with Brother Marlon, and many more. She is also taking the internet radio by storm (KROV 97.1 FM, Magic 102.3 FM on Radio Synergy 1, Racman Radio, CJB Radio to name a few). She is lined up to appear on WLCF TV the Spotlight, Bobby Jones Presents for New Vision Productions for the Impact TV Network, and the Iowa Gospel festival in the summer of 2013.
J. Nichole has been extremely honored to be selected as a performer for the 36th Annual Festival of Black Gospel in NY on March 1, 2013 along with other amazing and anointed artist such as Jonathan McReynolds and Anita Wilson to name a few. While inspired by many artist in Gospel such as Mary Mary, Fred Hammond, Nicole C. Mullen, James Fortune and Fiya as the list can go on - J. Nichole carries a unique style all her own. When she isn't singing or pursuing her doctorate degree JNichole enjoys spending time with her family or doing volunteer work with her local church in New Jersey.
She also enjoys working with her mother Yvonne in expanding their non-profit organization "My Spirit in Motion", which involves many outreach programs /missionary work. The mission is to defeat the kingdom of darkness with a vision of helping others. Ultimately, J. Nichole's prayer is that her spirit-filled singing will touch the lives of countless of millions of listeners through numerous appearances on radio, television, and concerts throughout the United States and foreign lands.
Special Guests: Valentine
"Merging the genres of dance/pop and industrial rock, Valentin sings from a typically dark and occasionally cynical perspective of that infamous, and often unpredictable, four-letter word: love. He draws influence from a wide variety of artists (Nine Inch Nails, Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, Savage Garden, and Robyn to name a few), but he pushes himself to stick to his true colours. His favourite colour is black."
Special Guest: Angela Spivey
Some people find their calling early in life. The Princess of Gospel, Angela Spivey, is one of them. The Chicago native joined the children's choir at her father's First Corinthians Missionary Baptist Church and made her singing debut at the age of four. A year later, at the ripe old age of five, she became the choir's director.
Angela would go on to form the nine-member Voices of Victory, a young adult choir that quickly grew in membership and prominence around Chicago. Now, some 37 years later, the choir comprises 65 members and Angela remains true to her calling: To spread the word of God through music and to use her anointing to heal others.
Launching a career as a gospel recording artist wasn't Angela's goal. In fact, she was content to sing in the church and vehemently opposed the idea of recording. But others saw the need for her ministry on a larger scale and, eventually, so did she. "People started pushing me to record, but I never wanted to do it. We recorded 'Victorious Praise,' our first CD, in 1993," she recalls. In 1997, she was the lead vocalist for the GMWA Gospel Announcers CD's outstanding track, "So You Would Know How Much I Love You." She followed up with 1999's "Glory, Honor and Praise."
For someone who was reluctant to record, Angela was on a roll. In 2002, she was joined by ten members of her choir for the recording of "I'm Determined," the CD that put her front and center in the gospel industry, netting several 2003 GMWAs, including awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, Traditional Album, Traditional Song, Traditional Best Video and the coveted Artist of the Year. She was also nominated for a 2003 Soul Train Lady of Soul Award in the gospel CD category.
But with all that she has achieved, at least one person was convinced that Angela had not gotten her just due. That person would be Pastor DeWayne Harvey, CEO of her new record label home, Innovative Records. "Angie's been a hidden talent," he says. "People know about her, but her success in terms of sales, outings, venues, and all the things that come along with a good gospel artist just aren't there. That's my goal. I know her voice is anointed and designed to reach not only people here in the United States, but all over the world."
Angela's forthcoming CD, her sixth, "He Keeps His Promise," produced by Harvey, Antonio Wimberly and Etienne Porter, serves up an array of spiritually uplifting songs; notable among them is the title track, which is the CD's debut single. Spivey's new release is destined to be one of her greatest. Harvey and his crew of producers have not only captured the essence of what Spivey does, but have given her a new look and sound. This new sound is evident in that lead track as well as on the standout second single, "God Cares." Spivey said that the songs stretched her out of her comfort zone; however, the results of moving out are amazing. Spivey says, "It's new, it's fresh, almost as if I have been reinvented."
Additional gems on the album are the poignant "My Outcome is Victory," penned by Spivey; "Let God Do It," a song penned by Harvey; and "I Wanna Be Ready," which is traditional yet new.
Angela says that every song she records has to resonate with her spiritually and emotionally. It's not just about a funky beat or a catchy hook. It's about telling a story, dispensing wisdom and drawing on the word for healing, comfort and discernment. "I try to seek God and hear God, so that the song that He gives me will be a blessing to someone else," she says. "I want to let people know that their outcome is victory if they trust God. I want to tell them that their joy is coming in the morning. A lot of people need to know that if they can just hold on until morning they can find joy. I want songs that will touch the hearts of men and women and help them to realize that bad situations are not that bad after all."
As Angela prepares to follow in the footsteps of her father, she looks forward to continuing her musical ministry as well. She says that even though she has always known her calling, it's clearer now than it has ever been, much clearer than when she was that four-year-old girl singing in her father's church. "I've grown spiritually," she lends. "When you look at my overall picture, I've changed. I'm not that little girl Angie anymore. I'm a woman who knows God and loves God. That's my calling."
Violence In Urban CommunitiesSaturday, 07 December 2013 15:36
Topic: Violence In Urban Communities
In many urban communities, young black males are at war with each other. What tools and resources can Parents, Schools, Police and the Community at large employ to stop the senseless death of our young, black men?
African American men are dying by epidemic proportions, so where is the cure to this mindset that has more of our youth dying than any epidemic in History? Tonight we want to hear what you have to say and more importantly what you are going to do to help heal and inspire today's young black man.
Single Parent Home Pt 2Friday, 25 October 2013 17:19
As we stated before children without a father in a home are more likely to grow up in poverty. But what are the other affects? What happens to our men and our women who grow up without a father vs those who grow up with their father present.
This Friday the ladies of the OWWHH show will discuss the impact of father involvement with focus on today's MAN. Join us as we shed some new light on this issue.
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Parenting!Saturday, 08 March 2014 09:19
Parenting... Has the word parenting lost its definition? Has it become ok to allow your child to use profanity, misbehave, or imitate sexual behaviors on YouTube and WorldStarHipHop? Are parents spending too much time at work and not enough time with their children?
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Children Killing Parents
Did you know on average five parents are killed by their biological children in the United States every week? It seems we are seeing these incidents more and more in the news. What are the characteristic of children that have committed murder of their parent? What are the motivating factors when children kill their parents and are there warning signs?
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By MATT GALLAGHER
Mark Daily in February 2006.Courtesy of Matt
GallagherMark Daily in February 2006.
Commentary: A Soldier Writes
Memorial Day remembrances don't change with time. Every year, it's the
same stories, the same fallen friends, the same whys and what-ifs. We
change, at first slowly and barely discernible and then all in a rush,
but they? They stay the same.
In November of 2007, the British author Christopher Hitchens wrote a
nonfiction piece for Vanity Fair titled "A Death in the Family." If you
haven't read it, I suggest that you do. New York University's esteemed
journalism school nominated it as one of the decade's top 80 works of
journalism. It's about the death of a young lieutenant in Iraq, and the
resulting effects on his family, his community, and the author. The
lieutenant's name was Mark Daily, a 2005 graduate of U.C.L.A., and he
was my friend.
We met in September of 2005 at Fort Knox in Kentucky, and like 40 or so
of our peers, we wore gold bars and exuded green - something that, if
known at the time, would have mortified us. For seven months, we labored
through the Armor Officer Basic Course and Scout Leaders Course
together. Even though Mark was in a different training platoon, we
became familiar through mutual friends, Matt Gross and Chris Demo, and
we cultivated our own relationship from there.
When I received word about Mark's passing (his Humvee hit a deep-buried
I.E.D. on Jan. 15, 2007, and he died instantly), I could remember only
the times we disagreed and argued, for whatever reason. These debates
were almost always esoteric and philosophical in nature; I think we
gravitated toward one another for these discussions, knowing our other,
more pragmatic, friends would've scoffed and told us to focus on the
tasks at hand. Still in Hawaii at the time of his death, about a year
short of my unit's deployment timeline, I became overwrought with a type
of survivor's guilt fairly common in military veterans. Mark was the
first from our Basic class to fall (we'd lose a second, David Schultz,
on Jan. 31, 2008), and it became the dreaded "this is for real" moment
all young soldiers experience in their wars. Demo and I now lived
together in Honolulu, and we did the only thing there was to do for
23-year-old kids caught in such a situation: we got rip-roaringly drunk
that night toasting to Mark, and did our best to suppress the fears his
loss had incurred upon our souls and psyches. After all, our battles in
Iraq still awaited, a fact no longer gilded with romanticism.
Before he deployed with the First Cavalry Division, Mark posted a brief
statement on his MySpace page, titled "Why I Joined." The entire piece
resonates even today, in a post-surge America and post-Awakening Iraq,
because it puts on display the type of individual that made these
movements work in the first place. "Consider that there are 19-year-old
soldiers from the Midwest who have never touched a college campus or a
protest," Mark wrote, "who have done more to uphold the universal
legitimacy of representative government and individual rights by placing
themselves between Iraqi voting lines and homicidal religious fanatics."
Mark channeled idealism into action in a manner that seemed natural to
him, but remains all too rare in our modern world.
Why'd we sometimes disagree? He saw the best in people; I feared the
worst. He was inspired by Hitchens; I called Hitchens a chicken hawk.
Although he was sympathetic to antiwar statements and arguments
regarding Iraq, he instead focused on the opportunity we had to instill
democracy in the heart of the Middle East. I, uh, didn't. Mark also
became the first person to tell me to stop concerning myself with how we
ended up in Iraq - it didn't matter anymore - and to instead focus on
what could be done since we were already there. And he was right. We
were second lieutenants destined for the war regardless of our personal
opinions, and the decisions made in 2003 were now as irrelevant to our
lives as they were to the Iraqi people living in the midst of it all.
With the passage of time, and through my own deployment to Iraq, I've
been able to focus on the good times with Mark: laughing about being
covered head to toe in mud while fixing a tank track; ganging up on
political fascists and berating them into intellectual submission;
drinking beers at Irish pubs in Louisville, reminiscing about field
exercises, talking about them like they were actual war stories. He was
a driven mind, less of an oddball than me, and I genuinely liked and
admired him - things that aren't always the case with battle buddies.
In retrospect, I think that I was even a little jealous of Mark's rugged
optimism; young men like him weren't supposed to exist anymore, except
maybe in the minds of our Greatest Generation grandparents. But he did,
and all of us who were there with him at Knox are better off because of
it. Even then, we knew Mark to be the lieutenant we wanted our platoons
to think we actually were. He set a high standard and gave us something
to aspire to as leaders - something I suspect lingers in all of us,
whether we're still in the Army or not. I know that it remains the case
for me.
See you at Fiddler's Green, Mark.
On 5/30/2011 4:25 PM, Nate Hughes wrote:
A Death in the Family
A 21-year-old Mark Daily takes his oath as a U.S. Army officer during
a commissioning ceremony at U.C.L.A. on June 25, 2005. All photos
courtesy of the Daily family.
I was having an oppressively normal morning a few months ago, flicking
through the banality of quotidian e-mail traffic, when I idly clicked
on a message from a friend headed "Seen This?" The attached item
turned out to be a very well-written story by Teresa Watanabe of
the Los Angeles Times. It described the death, in Mosul, Iraq, of a
young soldier from Irvine, California, named Mark Jennings Daily, and
the unusual degree of emotion that his community was undergoing as a
consequence. The emotion derived from a very moving statement that the
boy had left behind, stating his reasons for having become a volunteer
and bravely facing the prospect that his words might have to be read
posthumously. In a way, the story was almost too perfect: this
handsome lad had been born on the Fourth of July, was a registered
Democrat and self-described agnostic, a U.C.L.A. honors graduate, and
during his college days had fairly decided reservations about the war
in Iraq. I read on, and actually printed the story out, and was
turning a page when I saw the following:
"Somewhere along the way, he changed his mind. His family says there
was no epiphany. Writings by author and columnist Christopher Hitchens
on the moral case for war deeply influenced him ... "
I don't exaggerate by much when I say that I froze. I certainly felt a
very deep pang of cold dismay. I had just returned from a visit to
Iraq with my own son (who is 23, as was young Mr. Daily) and had found
myself in a deeply pessimistic frame of mind about the war. Was it
possible that I had helped persuade someone I had never met to place
himself in the path of an I.E.D.? Over-dramatizing myself a bit in the
angst of the moment, I found I was thinking of William Butler Yeats,
who was chilled to discover that the Irish rebels of 1916 had gone to
their deaths quoting his play Cathleen ni Houlihan. He tried to cope
with the disturbing idea in his poem "Man and the Echo":
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot? ...
Could my spoken words have checked
That whereby a house lay wrecked?
Abruptly dismissing any comparison between myself and one of the
greatest poets of the 20th century, I feverishly clicked on all the
links from the article and found myself on Lieutenant Daily's MySpace
site, where his statement "Why I Joined" was posted. The site also
immediately kicked into a skirling noise of Irish revolutionary
pugnacity: a song from the Dropkick Murphys album Warrior's Code. And
there, at the top of the page, was a link to a passage from one of my
articles, in which I poured scorn on those who were neutral about the
battle for Iraq ... I don't remember ever feeling, in every allowable
sense of the word, quite so hollow.
I writhed around in my chair for a bit and decided that I ought to
call Ms. Watanabe, who could not have been nicer. She anticipated the
question I was too tongue-tied to ask: Would the Daily family-those
whose "house lay wrecked"-be contactable? "They'd actually like to
hear from you." She kindly gave me the e-mail address and the home
I don't intend to make a parade of my own feelings here, but I expect
you will believe me when I tell you that I e-mailed first. For one
thing, I didn't want to choose a bad time to ring. For another, and as
I wrote to his parents, I was quite prepared for them to resent me. So
let me introduce you to one of the most generous and decent families
in the United States, and allow me to tell you something of their
Second Lieutenant Mark Daily flanked by his wife, Janet, and his
parents, Linda and John, at Fort Bliss, in Texas, October 30, 2006.
In the midst of their own grief, to begin with, they took the trouble
to try to make me feel better. I wasn't to worry about any "guilt or
responsibility": their son had signed up with his eyes wide open and
had "assured us that if he knew the possible outcome might be this, he
would still go rather than have the option of living to age 50 and
never having served his country. Trust us when we tell you that he was
quite convincing and persuasive on this point, so that by the end of
the conversation we were practically packing his bags and waving him
off." This made me relax fractionally, but then they went on to write:
"Prior to his deployment he told us he was going to try to contact you
from Iraq. He had the idea of being a correspondent from the
front-lines through you, and wanted to get your opinion about his
journalistic potential. He told us that he had tried to contact you
from either Kuwait or Iraq. He thought maybe his e-mail had not
reached you ... " That was a gash in my hide all right: I think of all
the junk e-mail I read every day, and then reflect that his precious
one never got to me.
Lieutenant Daily crossed from Kuwait to Iraq in November 2006, where
he would be deployed with the "C," or "Comanche," Company of the
Second Battalion of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment-General Custer's old
outfit-in Mosul. On the 15th of January last, he was on patrol and
noticed that the Humvee in front of him was not properly "up-armored"
against I.E.D.'s. He insisted on changing places and taking a lead
position in his own Humvee, and was shortly afterward hit by an
enormous buried mine that packed a charge of some 1,500 pounds of high
explosive. Yes, that's right. He, and the three other American
soldiers and Iraqi interpreter who perished with him, went to war with
the army we had. It's some consolation to John and Linda Daily, and to
Mark's brother and two sisters, and to his widow (who had been married
to him for just 18 months) to know that he couldn't have felt
Yet what, and how, should we feel? People are not on their oath when
speaking of the dead, but I have now talked to a good number of those
who knew Mark Daily or were related to him, and it's clear that the
country lost an exceptional young citizen, whom I shall always wish I
had had the chance to meet. He seems to have passed every test of
young manhood, and to have been admired and loved and respected by old
and young, male and female, family and friends. He could have had any
career path he liked (and won a George C. Marshall Award that led to
an offer to teach at West Point). Why are we robbed of his
contribution? As we got to know one another better, I sent the Daily
family a moving statement made by the mother of Michael Kelly, my good
friend and the editor-at-large of The Atlantic Monthly, who was killed
near the Baghdad airport while embedded during the invasion of 2003.
Marguerite Kelly was highly stoic about her son's death, but I now
think I committed an error of taste in showing this to the Dailys, who
very gently responded that Michael had lived long enough to write
books, have a career, become a father, and in general make his mark,
while their son didn't live long enough to enjoy any of these
opportunities. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now ...
In his brilliant book What Is History?, Professor E. H. Carr asked
about ultimate causation. Take the case of a man who drinks a bit too
much, gets behind the wheel of a car with defective brakes, drives it
round a blind corner, and hits another man, who is crossing the road
to buy cigarettes. Who is the one responsible? The man who had one
drink too many, the lax inspector of brakes, the local authorities who
didn't straighten out a dangerous bend, or the smoker who chose to
dash across the road to satisfy his bad habit? So, was Mark Daily
killed by the Ba'thist and bin Ladenist riffraff who place bombs where
they will do the most harm? Or by the Rumsfeld doctrine, which sent
American soldiers to Iraq in insufficient numbers and with inadequate
equipment? Or by the Bush administration, which thought Iraq would be
easily pacified? Or by the previous Bush administration, which left
Saddam Hussein in power in 1991 and fatally postponed the time of
These grand, overarching questions cannot obscure, at least for me,
the plain fact that Mark Daily felt himself to be morally committed. I
discovered this in his life story and in his surviving writings.
Again, not to romanticize him overmuch, but this is the boy who would
not let others be bullied in school, who stuck up for his younger
siblings, who was briefly a vegetarian and Green Party member because
he couldn't stand cruelty to animals or to the environment, a student
who loudly defended Native American rights and who challenged a
MySpace neo-Nazi in an online debate in which the swastika-displaying
antagonist finally admitted that he needed to rethink things. If I
give the impression of a slight nerd here I do an injustice.
Everything that Mark wrote was imbued with a great spirit of humor and
tough-mindedness. Here's an excerpt from his "Why I Joined" statement:
Anyone who knew me before I joined knows that I am quite aware and at
times sympathetic to the arguments against the war in Iraq. If you
think the only way a person could bring themselves to volunteer for
this war is through sheer desperation or blind obedience then consider
me the exception (though there are countless like me).... Consider
that there are 19 year old soldiers from the Midwest who have never
touched a college campus or a protest who have done more to uphold the
universal legitimacy of representative government and individual
rights by placing themselves between Iraqi voting lines and homicidal
religious fanatics.
And here's something from one of his last letters home:
I was having a conversation with a Kurdish man in the city of Dahok
(by myself and completely safe) discussing whether or not the
insurgents could be viewed as "freedom fighters" or "misguided
anti-capitalists." Shaking his head as I attempted to articulate what
can only be described as pathetic apologetics, he cut me off and said
"the difference between insurgents and American soldiers is that they
get paid to take life-to murder, and you get paid to save lives." He
looked at me in such a way that made me feel like he was looking
through me, into all the moral insecurity that living in a free nation
will instill in you. He "oversimplified" the issue, or at least that
is what college professors would accuse him of doing.
In his other e-mails and letters home, which the Daily family very
kindly showed me, he asked for extra "care packages" to share with
local Iraqis, and said, "I'm not sure if Irvine has a sister-city, but
I am going to personally contact the mayor and ask him to extend his
hand to Dahok, which has been more than hospitable to this
native-son." (I was wrenched yet again to discover that he had got
this touching idea from an old article of mine, which had made a
proposal for city-twinning that went nowhere.) In the last analysis,
it was quite clear, Mark had made up his mind that the United States
was a force for good in the world, and that it had a duty to the
freedom of others. A video clip of which he was very proud has him
being "crowned" by a circle of smiling Iraqi officers. I have a
photograph of him, standing bareheaded and contentedly smoking a
cigar, on a rooftop in Mosul. He doesn't look like an occupier at all.
He looks like a staunch friend and defender. On the photograph is
written "We carry a new world in our hearts."
Two weeks before he was killed in action, last January, Mark Daily
relaxed on the rooftop of Combat Operating Base "Resolve," in Mosul.
In his last handwritten letter home, posted on the last day of 2006,
Mark modestly told his father that he'd been chosen to lead a combat
platoon after a grenade attack had killed one of its soldiers and left
its leader too shaken to carry on. He had apparently sounded steady
enough on the radio on earlier missions for him to be given a
leadership position after only a short time "in country." As he put
it: "I am now happily doing what I was trained to do, and am
fulfilling an obligation that has swelled inside me for years. I am
deep in my element ... and I am euphoric." He had no doubts at all
about the value of his mission, and was the sort of natural soldier
who makes the difference in any war.
At the first chance I got, I invited his family for lunch in
California. We ended up spending the entire day together. As soon as
they arrived, I knew I had been wrong to be so nervous. They looked
too good to be true: like a poster for the American way. John Daily is
an aerospace project manager, and his wife, Linda, is an audiologist.
Their older daughter, Christine, eagerly awaiting her wedding, is a
high-school biology teacher, and the younger sister, Nicole, is in
high school. Their son Eric is a bright junior at Berkeley with a very
winning and ironic grin. And there was Mark's widow, an agonizingly
beautiful girl named Snejana ("Janet") Hristova, the daughter of
political refugees from Bulgaria. Her first name can mean "snowflake,"
and this was his name for her in the letters of fierce tenderness that
he sent her from Iraq. These, with your permission, I will not share,
except this:
One thing I have learned about myself since I've been out here is that
everything I professed to you about what I want for the world and what
I am willing to do to achieve it was true. ...
My desire to "save the world" is really just an extension of trying to
make a world fit for you.
If that is all she has left, I hope you will agree that it isn't
I had already guessed that this was no gung-ho Orange County
Republican clan. It was pretty clear that they could have done without
the war, and would have been happier if their son had not gone
anywhere near Iraq. (Mr. Daily told me that as a young man he had
wondered about going to Canada if the Vietnam draft ever caught up
with him.) But they had been amazed by the warmth of their neighbors'
response, and by the solidarity of his former brothers-in-arms-1,600
people had turned out for Mark's memorial service in Irvine. A
sergeant's wife had written a letter to Linda and posted it on Janet's
MySpace site on Mother's Day, to tell her that her husband had been in
the vehicle with which Mark had insisted on changing places. She had
seven children who would have lost their father if it had gone the
other way, and she felt both awfully guilty and humbly grateful that
her husband had been spared by Mark's heroism. Imagine yourself in
that position, if you can, and you will perhaps get a hint of the
world in which the Dailys now live: a world that alternates very
sharply and steeply between grief and pride.
On a drive to Fort Knox, Kentucky, and again shortly before shipping
out from Fort Bliss, Texas, Mark had told his father that he had three
wishes in the event of his death. He wanted bagpipes played at the
service, and an Irish wake to follow it. And he wanted to be cremated,
with the ashes strewn on the beach at Neskowin, Oregon, the setting
for his happiest memories of boyhood vacations. The first two of these
conditions had already been fulfilled. The Dailys rather overwhelmed
me by asking if I would join them for the third one. So it was that in
August I found myself on the dunes by an especially lovely and remote
stretch of the Oregon coastline. The extended family was there,
including both sets of grandparents, plus some college friends of
Mark's and his best comrade from the army, an impressive South Dakotan
named Matt Gross. As the sun began to sink on a day that had been
devoted to reminiscence and moderate drinking, we took up the tattered
Stars and Stripes that had flown outside the family home since Mark's
deployment and walked to his favorite spot to plant it. Everyone was
supposed to say something, but when John Daily took the first scoop
from the urn and spread the ashes on the breeze, there was something
so unutterably final in the gesture that tears seemed as natural as
breathing and I wasn't at all sure that I could go through with it. My
idea had been to quote from the last scene of Macbeth, which is the
only passage I know that can hope to rise to such an occasion. The
tyrant and usurper has been killed, but Ross has to tell old Siward
that his boy has perished in the struggle:
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt;
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
This being Shakespeare, the truly emotional and understated moment
follows a beat or two later, when Ross adds:
Your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.
I became a trifle choked up after that, but everybody else also
managed to speak, often reading poems of their own composition, and as
the day ebbed in a blaze of glory over the ocean, I thought, Well,
here we are to perform the last honors for a warrior and hero, and
there are no hysterical ululations, no shrieks for revenge, no insults
hurled at the enemy, no firing into the air or bogus hysterics.
Instead, an honest, brave, modest family is doing its private best. I
hope no fanatical fool could ever mistake this for weakness. It is,
instead, a very particular kind of strength. If America can
spontaneously produce young men like Mark, and occasions like this
one, it has a real homeland security instead of a bureaucratic one. To
borrow some words of George Orwell's when he first saw revolutionary
Barcelona, "I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth
fighting for."
I mention Orwell for a reason, because Mark Daily wasn't yet finished
with sending me messages from beyond the grave. He took a pile of
books with him to Iraq, which included Thomas Paine's The Crisis; War
and Peace; Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (well, nobody's perfect); Stephen
Hawking's A Brief History of Time; John McCain's Why Courage
Matters; and George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. And a family friend
of the Dailys', noticing my own book on Orwell on their shelf, had
told them that his own father, Harry David Milton, was "the American"
mentioned in Homage to Catalonia,who had rushed to Orwell's side after
he had been shot in the throat by a Fascist sniper. This seemed to
verge on the eerie. Orwell thought that the Spanish Civil War was a
just war, but he also came to understand that it was a dirty war,
where a decent cause was hijacked by goons and thugs, and where
betrayal and squalor negated the courage and sacrifice of those who
fought on principle. As one who used to advocate strongly for the
liberation of Iraq (perhaps more strongly than I knew), I have grown
coarsened and sickened by the degeneration of the struggle: by the
sordid news of corruption and brutality (Mark Daily told his father
how dismayed he was by the failure of leadership at Abu Ghraib) and by
the paltry politicians in Washington and Baghdad who squabble for
precedence while lifeblood is spent and spilled by young people whose
boots they are not fit to clean. It upsets and angers me more than I
can safely say, when I reread Mark's letters and poems and see that-as
of course he would-he was magically able to find the noble element in
all this, and take more comfort and inspiration from a few plain
sentences uttered by a Kurdish man than from all the vapid speeches
ever given. Orwell had the same experience when encountering a young
volunteer in Barcelona, and realizing with a mixture of sadness and
shock that for this kid all the tired old slogans about liberty and
justice were actually real. He cursed his own cynicism and
disillusionment when he wrote:
For the fly-blown words that make me spew
Still in his ears were holy,
And he was born knowing what I had learned
Out of books and slowly.
However, after a few more verses about the lying and cruelty and
stupidity that accompany war, he was still able to do justice to the
young man:
But the thing I saw in your face
No power can disinherit:
No bomb that ever burst
Shatters the crystal spirit.
May it be so, then, and may death be not proud to have taken Mark
Daily, whom I never knew but whom you now know, and-I hope-miss.
Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
More http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/hitchens200711?printable=true#ixzz1NrwJsWRW
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Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Biology and AAV Gene TherapyDue to its relative safety, enthusiasm for gene therapy vectors based on adeno-associated virus (AAV) has steadily increased among researchers over the last few years. As a result, AAV vectors are being used for a widening variety of therapeutic applications. AAV is particularly attractive because the wild-type virus can integrate its genome into a specific location on chromosome 19. Although recombinant AAV vectors, at present, do not have this property, active research aimed at developing such vectors is ongoing. Such vectors would have the advantage that they would not result in oncogenic transformation caused by random integration of vector DNA. Our lab is focusing on the cellular mechanisms that underlie the cell and tissue specificity of AAV. AAV can transduce a variety of cell types and tissues but with varying efficiencies depending on cell type. Muscle, for instance, is transduced very efficiently, while other tissues and cell types are transduced more poorly. These differences can only be partially explained by variations in receptor densities in various tissues and cell types. It is likely that other cellular barriers also are playing a role in these differences. Our research aims to gain a better understanding of the cellular roadblocks that prevent the efficient transduction of certain cell types and develop methods to improve transduction efficiencies for these cell types and tissues. Specifically, we are developing new methods to target AAV to specific cell types.
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The truly excellent and marvelous radio show "On the Media" takes a weekly look at the influence of media in our lives. This week they had a superb story and discussion about "Photojournalism and Foreclosure."
Paul Reyes, author of "Exiles in Eden," discusses the role of photography in communicating the "emotional weight" of the foreclosure crisis in Florida. He compares the work of today's photojournalists to the classic images documenting the Great Depression by icons like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. He also speaks about it in this piece "Picturing the Crisis" on the Opinionator blog:
... there is one aspect of the Great Recession that has nevertheless caught the photographer's eye: foreclosures. And while it remains to be seen if it achieves the social and artistic impact of the Depression-era work, foreclosure photography has already helped define an era that will mark American society for decades to come.
Here's a slide show featuring examples of foreclosure photography.
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Azealia Banks and Pharrell Williams – #ATMJAM (2013 Glastonbury Teaser)
This could be a massive song from Azealia Banks when it's released… This teaser from Glastonbury is just mean – I want it all!
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Jamie cullum did it first years ago with his cover of 'Frontin' by N*E*R*D, and it hasn't really been done since. Then I see this cover by Wouter Hamel, a Dutch jazz/pop crossover artist. It felt a bit wrong but it comes out good in the end. I think…
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British Tomato Week runs from May 15-22 2011. It is a great reminder to us all how truly terrific British tomatoes are. Currently 75% of all tomatoes consumed in Britain are imports from Saudi Arabia - 3,100 miles away - Spain, the Canary Islands and Morocco, which is totally absurd when you consider the fresh, delicious and British tomatoes that are waiting to be devoured right here on our doorstep. This month The Sauce tries Jane Grigson's Cream of Tomato Soup.
The problem with convincing the British consumer to buy British tomatoes is that you are shattering a rose-tinted ideal. Tomatoes evoke memories of the sweet, succulent, deep-red fruit that you feasted on in Spain, when you walked bare-foot along the streets of Seville looking like a bronzed Penelope Cruz/George Clooney, with tomato juice seductively trickling down your chin. They are not synonymous with that pale-skinned day spent on the Cornish coast in a downpour. Tomatoes simply don't look British, nor do they smell British. Therefore it makes perfect sense to buy Spanish tomatoes not only to re-live the taste of that holiday, but also because they are often cheaper.
To dispel the first myth - you didn't look and probably never will look like a bronzed Penelope Cruz/George Clooney - more a sunburnt Brit on holiday who needs a napkin. The tomato eaten in Spain would undoubtedly have been delicious but it most certainly won't taste remotely similar when purchased here. The tomatoes sold in Spain are not the same fruit as the Spanish tomatoes sold here.
The Mediterranean-sun-soaked variety that you savoured in the piazza are totally different tomatoes to the ones that are made to specifically slow-ripen for export, so that they can withstand the four or five days of travel it takes to reach the British supermarkets. This obviously interferes with the natural ripening process so that they never get fully red and ripe. So, whilst British tomatoes may not be identical to their Hispanic brothers their taste will be far superior to any tomatoes imported into the UK.
As to the second myth - the quality and taste of British tomatoes make them far better value for money. There are currently only 40 British tomato growers left in the UK. Most of the small family-run businesses have closed down, unable to produce the big volumes for small prices demanded by the dominant supermarkets. The surviving growers work as hard as they can to allow their tomatoes to ripen naturally on the vine, travel as little as possible and be kept fresh without refrigeration. The British tomato industry has made a commitment to eliminate pesticide use. All British growers now favour a biological approach - introducing pest-munching insects to the glasshouses, using bumble bees to increase pollination and natural substances such as sulphur to help control powdery mildew. There are no GM British-grown tomatoes. The UK growers look after their employees. The British Tomato Growers Association operates an open-door policy on all their farms, inviting the public to go and see for themselves that the fruit is being farmed, picked and packed by fairly-paid, legally-employed workers.
British tomatoes do smell British. Their odour is of that delicious greenhouse smell that evokes images of the best of British summers. They have been grown in the UK since the 1600s and are an integral ingredient to the most popular of dishes served in the UK.
British food is seriously cool at the moment. Morrisons boasted record-breaking sales over the Easter week and Royal Wedding weekend citing their sales of British produce as the big driver. The stay-cation is the ultimate holiday of choice this year. Gary Rhodes dedicates a whole episode of the BBC's The Great British Food Revival to tomatoes. What could be hipper than savouring British tomatoes in Britain - at festivals, camp sites, holiday cottages, barbecues, picnics, in the garden or laughing in the rain. They can be enjoyed in a salad, on a British beef burger, as a tart topping, in a Summer soup, as a juice. The possibilities are endless.
Don't be misled into thinking that British tomatoes are hard and tasteless. Piccolo cherry tomatoes are the sweetest British tomato yet produced, containing up to 12% natural sugar. Other British-grown varieties, especially during the peak season from May to September, include Santa, baby plum tomatoes and cocktail tomatoes such as Red Choice and Aranca. Elegance is a fabulous on-the-vine classic tomato. If you buy tomatoes on the vine then leave them on the vine until you eat them. Don't destroy the flavour of tomatoes by putting them in the fridge. Keep them in the fruit bowl - where they belong.
British tomatoes are available from Farmers Markets, Farm Shops, vegetable box companies such as Abel and Cole and Riverford and all good supermarkets. You can always grow-your-own.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
A county councillor is claiming a victory for "people power" following the decision to add a rural road between Catfield and Ludham to this winter's gritting route.
Paul Rice, county member for the Broadland Smallburgh division, has been campaigning for more than two years to have a one-mile stretch of the C405 gritted after a spate of accidents.
Despite raising a petition with 666 signatures and receiving the full support of Catfield and Ludham parish councils, the county council had resisted gritting until now.
It had argued that although the road was a useful local short-cut, it could not justify adding it to the priority gritting network when it provides the same journey as the A149 and A1062.
Learning that the council had at last relented, Mr Rice said: "With the co-operation of highways engineers this has now been sorted in time for this winter. This is a victory for people power and shows the council has listened to their arguments."
Acknowledging the backing of the parish councils, he also thanked Ludham GP Simon Morris who had attended crashes on the road and highlighted the perils posed by ice on the carriageway.
In an open letter, he had voiced his concerns that with trees alongside the route, it was his fear that someone would go off the road and crash into one, sustaining very significant harm.
Mr Rice had contacted police to gather supporting statistical evidence and confirmed there had been several accidents on the road, some where people received life-changing injuries.
The section of road now to be gritted is a bus route for a school bus and it is the way a meal van goes from Ludham school to Sutton and Catfield schools.
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Ahhh,Paul Rice,the famous flipper.
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All this about a gritted road?
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Small Bass guitars that have shorter necks and scaled down bodies used to be considered bass guitars beginners or folks that had shorter arms and smaller hands. Nowadays these instruments are actually preferred by many pro bass players because of the lighter weight and the lower tension on the strings. This allows for a lot more play in the strings to get bended notes.
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A lot of these are still packaged and sold as beginner models and starter packs, so a lot of good deals can be found on these smaller sized basses, but if you put some extra care in choosing one that is sturdy and made well, you can come out way ahead. On the other hand, some of these are just junk, made of particle board and with poor quality fit and finish.
There are a couple of different sizes that are classified as smaller basses, first being 3 4 scale or short scale basses, and then there are the medium scale basses that are only slightly smaller than a full sized bass guitar. Both make excellent starter bass guitars for beginners, or a smaller more comfortable bass for those of us who have smaller hands and shorter arms (and also for guitarist who just want to dink around with a bass, and it feel more like a regular guitars scale. )
So what are some of the factors that determine the price and quality of a short scale bass?
Well, one big factor in both the price and quality is the country of origin. American, European and Japanese instruments are both expensive but of the finest quality. You are going to pay quite a bit for even a stripped down model, but you can pretty much guarantee that it will be rock solid.
The guitars made in developed countries such as China, South Korea, and Mexico are of varying quality, but with the emphasis on newer machinery and industrial processes, Chinese factories seem to produce decent quality basses that have cheap prices. The Korean guitars seem to have a great value on detail work such as burst finishes and inlays, decorative stuff…
In developing countries, like Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, etc, not many instruments are made for import to the U.S. and U.K. but some really cool ones are made for local and regional markets.
So what features affect the prices?
One thing is the level of decoration the body neck and headstock have. Big block mother of pearl inlays cost more than pearloid dots on the fretboard. Unique finishes such as bursts and quilt maple tops cost more than the same models with less appointments.
To me there are a few things that are essential, though, when looking at any small bass guitar.
One of these is that it has to be made from solid wood, not plywood or particleboard.
This bass guitar features a solid alder body (not plywood) and a beautiful maple neck with maple fingerboard and 20 frets which helps deliver excellent tone and sustain:
There is also the hardware to consider. Any bass guitar neck should be reinforced with a truss rod, and it should be a strong one at that. A warped neck on a bass is a real mess.
Necks should be made of rock maple or harder wood or graphite composite bass necks. Softer woods will most definitely warp.
Fretboards for short-scale bass guitars are usually made of rosewood, maple, or ebony. Of these, ebony is generally the most expensive, with some varieties of rosewood being rare as well.
Many players have distinct preferences about the fretboard and the way it sounds and feels. On fretless basses this is really important, where on fretted instruments, the quality of the fretwork also is important.
I have had axes in the past that had poorly finished frets, keps snagging my fingers on the edge of the neck. What a pain.
There is also the matter of the bass guitar bridge, bass tuning pegs, and the nut. The materials that these are composed of will affect the sound and playability of your bass.
I like solid enclosed tuners and a really solid metal bridge on a bass guitar. This helps the bass stay in tune much better.
It also helps to have a high gear ratio so that they are not so hard to turn.
The other major thing to look at is the pickups and electronics (knobs and switches). You can choose between an active or passive pickups, the active seem to have less sound interference and seem more lively but they also cost more for the most part.
There are Split coil, p-style, and humbucker type pickups on electric basses. Investing a little more to active is well worth it, altho some prefer the vintage sound of the passive pickups.
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