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Upgrading $300 Ibanez
Instead of buying another $300 guitar just to look cool, I thought of not wasting that kind of money on a POS V and upgrading my current one.
Here are some pictures of my Ibanez RG421.
My plans are to:
1) Repair all the dings and dents etc.
2) Swirl the guitar black and red.
3) Put new gold hardware on it.
4) Replace the neck pickup.
How would I go about doing this?
Specific questions:
How do you repair dings in wood?
What would be the easiest / best way to take the current paint off?
How do you swirl a guitar? (what paints, what container, etc.)
Would it be best if I replaced the hardware with more Gotoh, or is there another brand that's better?
EMG 85 or 60? and what does the 89 do?
How much would everything cost?
Would it be worth it in the end?
Let's call it a bump.
What trem does your guitar have?
Paint stripper might be the easiest way to remove the finish, but you'll need to do the research to find out which one will work.
To repair dings in wood, you could apply some water and then iron them out with a conductive buffer, like an aluminum sheet. If the dent is too much to iron out, bondo is often used to fill. But since you're going down to solid wood, I'd just use some sawdust and wood glue mixed togther as a filler, let it dry, and sand it flush.
I don't know exactly how to swirl, but there are plenty of guides out there. Just google it.
Gotoh is a great brand, and very affordable. I see no reason to use anything else, but there are other great brands available, especially for locking tuners(which you don't need if you have a locking nut, imo). Sperzel, Schaller, Hipshot, Planet waves, and Grover all make outstanding tuners, though I'm not sure which will be a direct swap.
The 89 is the 85 with coil splitting. Some people like it, I personally wouldn't bother swapping an 85 for an 89 just for that.
You do the math yourself. I can't be bothered.
If you intend to keep the guitar, then it might be worth it to you. But if you ever decide to sell it, you probably won't make your money back for the upgrades. In fact, most people seem to be pretty reluctant to buy a guitar that an amateur has modded.
It has a Gotoh Strat-style bridge.
I will look into paint stripper. All the things I heard said about sanding and all that complicated stuff.
I will also look into the ding repairing method.
Googled swirling, still not getting it, need some clarification from an expert.
Do Gotoh make locking tuners? If not, what brand of gold locking tuners will be a match to the Gotoh SG381?
What about the EMG 60?
Yes, I will keep my guitar, I know upgrading devalues it (why?).
If a Gotoh Wilkinson VS100 will fit, you can get those for about $100. I'd check that out.
Gotoh does make locking tuners. When I made that first post, I thought you had a double locking tremolo. And I think Schaller makes locking tuners that are a direct replacement for Gotohs, but you'll want to verify that.
The EMG 60 is a more mellow pickup. I think that's the pickup Metallica used for the soft part of Nothing Else Matters, if you want an example. I've always found the 85 to be too harsh myself, good for leads though, but not so much pretty soft music. The 60a is the 60 with an A5 magnet. I hear great things about it, but it seems to be rather expensive.
Modding a guitar devalues it because people want a guitar that hasn't been messed with. The average guitarist doesn't seem know even the basics of setting up a guitar, let alone modding one, so they usually want something that they know they won't have issues with a bad mod job. And on top of that, you're customizing the guitar to your liking, which puts it in a niche. The market for swirled guitars with gold hardware is likely much smaller than the marker for chrome or black hardware and a solid color or wood grain.
To be more clear:
The current tuners are Gotoh SG381.
The current bridge is a Gotoh GTC101 or 2. That is a HARDTAIL strat-style bridge.
Do Schaller M6 Locking machine heads come in gold? (Gold isn't a necessity, but I just thought it would look cool against black and red.
Also, what extra routing etc. does it take for a non-floating tremolo? Just an idea.
Take a look at the back of a Strat there is a rear rout to get the Springs/claw in the guitar.
You would probably be cheaper if you looked for a used Guitar that has the things you wan't or you'll end up throwing money (probably more than a new used guitar) away on your current Axe :shrug:
So they don't make non-floating trems? I know strats are floating.
They do not make guitars with the things I want. I'd rather spend $400 on my guitar to make it look cool than buy a $400 already cool looking guitar. They don't really make good-playing guitars that look cool.
But you could always get a diff RG that has most of what you want like the gold hardware and Trem :shrug:
It is your money and you can do what ever you want with it, but if you are unsure of how to route for a trem cavity, you will end up paying a pretty good sum to have a luthier do it.
I was just trying to help you put it in perspective, I am all about doing upgrades to a guitar. But only if they don't go over the price of something already made to a similar spec.
Strats are no floating for the most part you can set them up to float though.
If you spend $400 on a used RG you can get a Prstige (if your lucky and it will be much better than your current guitar) or another older MIJ Ibanez.
There is absolutely no way you could get a $800 Prestige (that's what they are new, right?) for $400. If you could, it wouldn't be as cool as a swirled one. Anyways, I don't want a new guitar, I want a project, something to do.
Thats fine, I just wanted you to be aware of the costs you might come in to ;)
I did a quick look at Guitar centers used section and there are several RG4xxx and higher models for <$400 and they are not prestige models, but they are MIJ wich is still better than most :shrug:
Good luck at what ever you choose to do
It's cool. My RG421 is also MIJ. Right now I'm just looking for parts and prices, and tutorials on how to swirl and repair dents in wood.
This is my shopping list sofar:
GOTOH GTC102 bridge - $80
Grover 505G6 Tuners - $80
Used EMG85 - $60
Random Heat Gun (for paint stripping) - $20
Also, who makes good strap locks, (whatever you call those things that go around the pickups), and knobs?
I really need an expert on swirling to tell me what container, paints etc.
For some reason I thought you had a RG2XX series :o
Well I can give you a quick how to swirl paint list. I did it to my Lowrider in the 90's :D
1. prep it good, if you have chips small dings and your going solid colors I use bondo glazing puddy. It works great and dries super fast for sanding.
2. put you bas color down
3. Paint the top(swirl color on)and lay plastic wrap (renoylds type) on the body and bunch it up in a circular pattern. This will remove some of the paint, but leave paint where it is bunched up some.
4. Then you finnish like any other paint job. Clear, wetsand, buff.
I just looked GC has 1 Ibanez Prestige for <$400, but it is not the RG :shrug: Just to show you you can get one for <$400 if you look hard enough ;)
I'm glad you're figuring out how to search for this stuff online. I'm not trying to be asshole, but you really need to stop asking every little question here and start finding the answers yourself. They are out there, and they are plentiful. Questions like "Does Schaller make this tuner in gold?" can be answered through google, Schaller's website, or just browsing a store's inventory list. And there are a ridiculous amount of swirl tutorial websites and youtube videos to choose from.
Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I hope your project works out, and that you post pics when you complete this. Or better yet, document your progress once you get started in another thread so other people might get some ideas about what they can do to their RGs.
Maybe I do ask too many questions. I'll look up various pointless questions I have.
However, Google will not tell you certain things. For example: Does the brand of small guitar parts matter? If I bought cheap plastic knobs, pickup rings and that stuff, would it matter? Google will not tell me that.
How too swirl a guitar.
There's loads of videos on Youtube, Look harder next time.
Those things are good to ask here, though you could probably find those questions answered already in another forum. Still don't hesitate to ask something like that.
And if you are serious with those questions, the brand of cheap plastic cosmetic parts doesn't really matter. I'm sure someone out there will claim that they have a valid reason for only using Gibson humbucker rings, or Fender knobs, but that could just be the typical snobbery.
Of course, you can always get cosmetically "better" stuff for more money, but that's up to you.
Swirling isn't too complicated.
First off, dont worry about paint stripper, sanding is cheaper and is no where near as messy. Got an power sander? Will take about 20-30 minutes... if not... do it by hand... depending on your enthusiasm 1-3 hours. Any dents, dings, holes, fill them with woodfiller (£2.99 a tub) leave it sitting proud, then sand it flat.
For swirling, loads of guides go on about primer, i didn't bother, just bought satin black spray paint from local hardware store.
They also go on about borax, to 'break surface tension'...borax is used is laundry and cleaning products to soften water. The water in northern ireland is soft from the tap, so i literally filled a bin with cold water, added like 7-8 kettles of boiling water so it was lukewarm
Then used wee syringes to drop the paint onto the water.. i suppose you could pour it, but this was less messy. It was enamel paint, i used humbrol and another brand i cannot recall. Some guides say humbrol is the best, but the other brand of paint worked fine.
then you get a straw or a stick, swirl the paint about on the surface, dip the guitar, move it gently from side to side, lift it out, i gave it a wee shake, then hairdryer to get excess water off. Any air bubbles, either push them in, or let it dry and sand it off with really fine paper. For taking the original finish off i used like 120 grit, then for the air bubbles and clear coat ive got 1400 grit.
Spray it with lacquer, but for the love of god, make sure there are no posters on the wall, which may fall onto your wet lacquer... i had to redo mine :(
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Would it be worth it? I swirled a stagg strat copy i bought for £15, put it back together, and the action is sweet, so i enjoy playing it, and its a real headturner. A pair of dirty finger pups later and i have no intention to ever sell it, it rocks, and its unique. So if you take the time and do it right, and correct anything you mess up, then yes, it is totally worth it.
Mine cost about £200 but i didnt buy any fancy hardware...and pickups made up 3/4 of that price.
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fuck you!!
Analyst says Dow could embark on 70% decline over next two years.
"Based on our longer-term time cycles the present stock market rally must be considered the bubble to end all bubbles," Zimmerman wrote in a note to clients.
He doesn't believe the Dow Industrials will hit a long-term cycle low until 2016, somewhere in the 5770 to 4650 range. The Dow hasn't seen those levels, which are 65% to 72% below current prices, since late-1995 to mid-1996.
that is assuming they stop QE... they won't until they wreck the USD.
This man single handedly destroyed the free market and replaced it with a centrally managed economy,
History will be brutal to this little man.
Greenspan destroyed what was left of the free market, and Bernanke danced on its ashes.
Bernanke looks like he gained some weight. Must have been hanging with Krugman and the wolves of WS. Pork chops and blow in the Hamptoms on the weekends perhaps?
Fuck that bearded fuckbag. And you know he won't go away either, he'll pop up on TV interviews like Greenspan does, expressing wide-eyed surprise about how bad things are, and how they "couldn't have seen it coming".
Same old pattern, different face. Next up - Old Dog Yellen.
What an asshole!
Fuck you Ben, forward and backwards, just like you did to the middle class.
Ah, now I feel so much better.
Check out this article - the IMF just keeps the hits coming!
1930s-style debt defaults likely, says IMF research:
'Looking forward'
The ChairSatan is totally unable to look past the end of his nose
"Looking Back", I fucked up everything up so badly, I had to print $3.2 TRILLION in 5 years.
He looks like that shithead Mark Levin now that he has thrown on a few
If we can't get the Fed abolished we should get Kate Upton to run it. Nobody listens to the Fed Chair anyway.
Excellent idea.https://www.google.com/search?q=kate+upton+pics&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=thXHUrH7OOqd2QXr4YHwCA&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=637
what I would do to that!
of course this douchebag speaks right before the weekend to make sure stocks come off the lows and continue green and more green into the close.
what a fucking jacksss.
Aaaaand as usual, I missed the turn.
If only it was his last speech...EVER...
"In less than a month my term as Fed Chairman will end. Needless to say, my tenure has been eventful--for the Federal Reserve, for the country, and for me personally. I thought it appropriate today to reflect on some accomplishments of the past eight years, as well as some uncompleted tasks. I will briefly cover three areas in my remarks: (1) the Federal Reserve's commitment to transparency and accountability, (2) financial stability and financial reform, and (3) monetary policy. I will close by discussing the prospects for the U.S. and global economies"
HAHAHA. Obie and Bennie, peas in a pod. Transparency and accountability...
Transparency and accountability....except don't Audit us ;)
His transparency shtick is the biggest f'n lie. And he clearly needs to reassert its validity, because he stated it first. In other words
"I brought the economy back from the brink and staved off economic disaster. Now let's talk about my greatest achievement: Transparency."
WTF? If disaster was so close, wouldn't transparency be somewhere down the list?
And if people weren't so suspicious, would transparency be needed in the first place?
The guy bleeds lies. Every statement from his mouth is a lie.
Just a fucking devil.
Eat dicks Ben. Don't let the door kick you in the nuts on the way out you fuckin asshole. Thanks for helping to transfer wealth and further the downward spiral of the country you fuckin cunt.
Here is an interesting and beautifully written article by Peter Schiff on gold as an investment - i.e. NOT as a short-term trade. Below the link is an excerpt.
"In times like these, long-term gold investors feel like the designated drivers in the corner of a frat party. It might seem like we're missing the fun, but we must remember that we're playing a different game than the short-term speculators.
"Our drunken friends have had some cheap thrills in 2013, but this stock market growth rests on an unstable foundation of artificial stimulus and cheap money. We are more interested in waking up without a hangover, a wrecked car, or worse."
In December 2012 I blogged a piece called "How to buy gold" [the blog is Barlow's Cayman, for those interested], which has been quite popular. I'm a long-term holder, which I have to say has required a hell of a lot more patience than I expected it would!
I wonder what remote island Ben is permanently relocating to, after he finishes the MSM talkshow circuit? I want to send him a shipment of plague infested rats.
I'll cover the shipping
Karma is a bitch. His family will suffer.
His every other sentence is a lie. And every other sentence is a bigger lie.
All he did was to steal from the poor and enrich the rich and the powerful. He will be knighted by the queen, will be call maestro and then work for Bill Gross at Pimco earning millions while making billions for Pimco with his insider knowledge.
The Fed is a neverending crime syndicate.
Well, it's a shame Will Rogers never met Ben S. Bernanke.
"Watch what may be his last speech" know something we don't?
Hmmm, I was looking for the section that compared the results of the real economy with nearly 5 Trillion printed dollars, with the economy if no banksters would have been saved?
Was that the Appendix?
The last time I listened seriously to Ben Bernanke was I believe on an open call to the Atlanta Fed in April 2007. Ben was asked a question about derivatives what exactly I don't remember but, his answer I'll always remember. He answered that he hoped the Congress did not try to tighten rules on Derivatives. he said the Fed has sufficient tools to handle any possibility!
That's the last time I ever listened seriously to Ben!
That beard just has to smell like Shit !
I suddenly feel motivated to do some maintenance on my guillotine.
Bi-directional propaganda.
FUCKER Bernanke.....blamed EVERYONE and the yet to be born babies for the lack of RECOVERY and GROWTH!!!
Now Rogoff just provided 6 options that would have allowed a cleansing....only problem---The Fucking Markets would have dropped and LOSSES would have been taken by those that maximized RISK!!!
I've never hit so many green arrows since I've been reading zh.
Tear him a new ass, boys.
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Mercury conjuncts Jupiter and squares both Saturn and Neptune, which can confuse things a little. There may be more misunderstandings through misinformation or wishful thinking than usual. Some unfocused, or even self-defeating, thinking could get you into sticky situations, such as signing contracts without knowing everything you need to know about an endeavor, trusting people who later misuse that trust, or problems on these lines. Try to keep yourself grounded in reality as much as possible. You can be successful in the entertainment industry or in any field that requires a lot of imagination and vision. You take on a dreamy and philosophical outlook, which opens up your heart to new experiences. Of course, there is a down side to every positive. Temper your enthusiasm with realism. Enthusiasm running high is a good thing, but if it's over-inflated or impractical, you might set yourself up for some lows that are just as inflated as the highs! Do your best to avoid "get rich quick" schemes or anything along those lines. Things might look better than they are, especially this year. In terms of mental pursuits, you may often find that you have to make a choice in which both alternatives are desirable, but you must choose one at the expense of the other. However, it's a year in which learning new things figures prominently and is favored.
2007 will be a Number One year for you. Ruled by the Sun. This is a year of action. The seeds you plant now, you will reap later. Others might find you less sociable, as you are busier than ever and you focus on your activities and your needs. Still, you are outgoing and your initiative is stronger than ever. Advice - Stand alone, take action, start fresh, express independence.
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There's plenty of Doctor Who news going around as we gear up for the show's return on March 30. Earlier this week, we were treated to four new movie-style posters for upcoming episodes (very exciting indeed), while yesterday we were treated to a rather humorous clip from the show's next episode, "The Bells of Saint John." Now, it appears, we've got some new scoop regarding the Doctor: he's got a very, very big secret.
Now, it might be easy to assume that this secret is his name -- after all, that's the mystery the series has really been focusing on recently: "Doctor who?" has been described as being 'the final question.'
But Doctor Who's producers, playing their cards extremely close to the chest, are talking about a secret that doesn't seem to be the Doctor's name. In fact, they seem to be very deliberately hinting that it isn't.
Whatever this secret is, producer Marcus Wilson has recently teased the secret as being pretty mindblowing. "It will make viewers' jaws drop," he told TV & Satellite Week. "You thought you knew everything about the Doctor? Well, you never saw this coming."
That certainly could imply quite a few things, and it doesn't seem like there'd be too much to be gained from speculation. If you feel like you know what Wilson is talking about, though, please let us know in the comments section below.
Wilson had even more to share, though -- most interestingly, regarding the show's 50th anniversary special. "[Showrunner] Steven [Moffat] has written a script that would make James Cameron weep. It's a story that sprawls through space and time. It will be a huge epic," he is quoted as saying. James Cameron crying? You have my attention, Doctor Who.
Check out more of what Wilson had to say here.
Doctor Who will air "The Bells of Saint John" Saturday, March 31 on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US.
Change is what has kept this fantastic show going for decades and hopefully for decades more.
The big secret..... well..... um..... I happen to know what it is and if you really want to know, then keep reading BUT, if you want to be supprised you should stop reading this post right now.
OK, the secret is that not only is he not the last of the Time Lords (once again) but that he is the father of whole new race of them. This goes back to the story "The Doctor's Daughter" After she left that planet she traveled all over the universe and made her own time machine and eventualy gave rise to a new family of Time Lords.
Now wouldn't that be interesting, but if you thought it just couldn't be true, you'er right. It's just something to make you think. But I think they just might be bringing the daughter back to shake things up a bit.


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|In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, industries and lifestyles are damaging the Earth.
|"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature. But with a million more of us every 4¿ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt.
|For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.
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After six minor league seasons, Francis Parker High grad Noonan makes San Francisco roster
SAN FRANCISCO Nick Noonan grew up in Tierrasanta, a mere two exits north of Friars Road and Qualcomm Stadium, the place where he saw his first World Series game in 1998. He attended plenty of other Padres games in the course of his youth, too, at both the "Q" and Petco Park.
Any affinity for the hometown Padres in Noonan's own home, however, was heavily balanced with the fact that both his parents were raised in Chicago.
"I was more of a White Sox fan, but my wife (Athena) and her family were all die-hard Cubs fans," said Bill Noonan, Nick's father. "She and I moved here in 1987. When we went to see the Cubs play the Padres (in San Diego), she put the kids in Cubs jerseys. I said, "Honey, you can't do that. We're in San Diego now.'"
Now adorned in the jersey of the San Francisco Giants — the real deal — Nick Noonan had to give an extra grin at the twists in the life of a pro baseball player.
"Of all the ballparks to make my first major league start," said Noonan, 23, a utility infielder. "Wrigley."
That was just last week, a memorable day made unforgettable by the fact that Noonan singled up the middle in each of his first three at bats, scoring twice in a comeback win over the Cubs. Before the Giants left the frigid Windy City, Noonan had pinch-hit for Tim Lincecum and posted his first two runs batted in, tying a game also won by San Francisco.
This weekend, he's not merely watching the Padres again, but playing against them at AT&T Park. Next weekend, his jersey likely will be hanging in a locker in the visitors clubhouse at Petco Park.
"To play there will be special," said Noonan, "but it'll have a bit of a weird feeling to it."
Indeed, it's still all new to Noonan, who didn't know until the last few days before Opening Day that he'd finally made a major league roster. That the man informing him of this was Giants manager Bruce Bochy — who had been skipper of most of the Padres teams Noonan had seen growing up — only lent more perspective and retrospective to the emotional moment that Noonan was able to share with his family in Scottsdale.
"We came across a picture we took on a Padres Photo Day of Nick, when he was just 6 years old, with Bruce Bochy standing behind him," said Bill. "Nick was such a Padres fan that when we'd go to the racquetball courts and play Whiffle ball, he'd name which player he was.
"He'd bat left-handed and say he was Steve Finley or Tony Gwynn. Then he'd bat right-handed and say he was Quilvio (Veras), and then he'd say he was Ken Caminiti, copying all their different batting stances and swings."
Nick developed his own left-handed swing to the point where his huge offensive numbers — .505, 32, 156 over four years — at Francis Parker were positively Adrian Gonzalez-like. Like the former Eastlake High star, too, Noonan was a CIF Player of the Year and first-round draft pick, back in 2007.
"I feel like at times my career was kind of stalling, not going the way I had envisioned," said Noonan. "At the same time, it's almost like I just got drafted yesterday and was on my way to Arizona. You play in the minors for six years, then one day, you wake up in San Francisco and you're on the team. Now it seemed like it all happened pretty fast."
Little more than four weeks ago, Noonan was back in minor-league camp after the Giants optioned him out, ostensibly considering a couple other candidates for the utility role. With only a few days to go in Cactus League play, though, Noonan was recalled.


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How does magnesium affect blood pressure?
Researchers have suspected for a long time that the dietary intake of minerals other than sodium can affect the blood pressure, but conclusive evidence has been lacking. This study reviews all the published articles examining the relationship between the intake of magnesium, (evaluated from people's descriptions of their diets) and blood pressure. It evaluated 30 reports from 12 different countries. The general finding was that people whose diets contain more magnesium have slightly lower blood pressure than those with less magnesium. However, the authors of the analysis concluded that it was not possible to say exactly how big is the effect of magnesium on blood pressure from the existing data.
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Other studies have suggested that insufficient intake of magnesium may be one of the many factors that lead to heart disease. As this analysis shows, it could also raise the blood pressure. But studies in which people have been given extra magnesium have not shown consistent effects on blood pressure. Most of the magnesium in our diets comes from leafy vegetables, beans, nuts and grains, and about 25% from drinking water. Americans have an average daily magnesium intake of about 250 milligrams - less than the recommended daily intake (350 milligrams for men and 280 for women).
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2015 SEASON: NEWS ARCHIVE: Hempfield Victory Ends Lady Comets' Stellar Season
Hempfield Victory Ends Lady Comets' Stellar Season
Abington Heights' outstanding spring season ended tonight when, in the first round of the PIAA state tournament, an excellent Hempfield team posted a 4-1 victory over a battling Lady Comets' side. Abington finished the season in elite company, as one of only 16 AAA teams involved in the quest for the state title. The team acquitted itself well in tonight's match against one of Pennsylvannia's powerhouse programs.
This Hempfield team, which houses an All-American player among its personnel, certainly has the components of a team that could challenge for the state championship. They moved the ball especially well, played with an out-of-this-world level of poise, and were never hesitant to fire a shot when they found an opportunity to do so. They were well conditioned, well coached, and individually talented. While Abington has shown itself to be a very good team this year, Hempfield is better. Indeed, it would surprise no one if Hempfield went all the way.
Hempfield jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first half. They added a fourth goal in the early second half, before Alex Chapman would snake her way inside the six-yard box to finish a deflected ball, enabling the Lady Comets to avoid the shutout.
Mariah Deibert performed admirably in goal and picked up 6 quality saves.
Starters Sarah Holmes, Christine Colman, Meredith Salmon, Emma Black, Alex Chapman, Sarah Sopinski, Emily Sullivan, and Maggie Scanlon all played with tremendous heart and hustle. Beth Dine and Justine Leininger, the other two starters, combined to produce the most shots for Abington, although the Lady Comets had only 9 shots on the evening. Kat Fox, Katie Hock--and later, Katrina Helcoski--would provide the minutes off of the bench.
Trying a little trickery, the Lady Comets opened the game in an unusual 4-2-2-2 formation that held the flank players back, waiting patiently for counterattack chances where serves could be played quickly ahead to its widely-spaced forwards. Later, in the second half, the team returned to one of its more normal systems of play and used a 5-3-2 formation which rotated the flank midfielders forward on designated overlapping runs; but whatever the Lady Comets tried was thwarted by a strong and well-organized Hempfield defense.
Looking back on the season, nothing but smiles should pervade the faces of the Abington faithful. A terrific 14-5-1 record, a district championship, and a competitive run at the WVC title all symbolize the excellence of the team. This year's team scored 18 more goals than last year's team, and it should be noted that last year's team played one game more than this year's squad.
Tonight's match marked the final high school game in the distinguished coaching careers of Chris Davis and John Diven. As they move on to coach the BBC women's team in the fall, the Lady Comets extend their thanks to these two gentleman for their extraordinary dedication as coaches and for taking time to provide an inspirational model of moral character.
The Lady Comets will now celebrate their landmark season at their annual team banquet which will be held Sunday night at Glen Oaks Country Club. This lively affair is always a highlight and is not an event to be missed!
Amid the joy and laughter of Sunday evening, a measure of sadness will also fill the room, as the team will say goodbye to its six remarkable seniors. In fact, the Lady Comets will also being saying goodbye to a couple of underclassmen who are either moving away or moving on to another sport in the fall. However, for much of the rest of the team, the "call to arms" can be heard in the distance--next season starts sooner than one might think!


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Senator Chuck Grassley today said that a report he requested from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office confirmed the accounts he heard from whistleblowers about the undue pressure placed on Immigration Service Officers to approve immigration benefits. The report was released today, and a copy of the report can be found here.
Today's statement below is followed by a comment Grassley released on Friday in response to a draft copy of the report. Grassley's request to the Inspector General, as well as letters to Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano can be found here.
"The report clearly shows that the immigration service has a lot of work to do to get rid of the 'Get to yes' culture that has pervaded the agency in recent years. The fact that a quarter of the immigration service officers felt pressure to approve questionable applications, and 90 percent of respondents felt they didn't have sufficient time to complete interviews of those who seek benefits, certainly warrants significant changes be made immediately.
"What's most disappointing in this final report is the agency's decision to turn a blind eye to several very good recommendations from the Inspector General. For example, it only makes sense that policies be established to make sure there is a legitimate and fair process when a manager intervenes in a benefits case. Director Mayorkas should reconsider the department's initial response to some of the recommendations and create an environment that ensures a thorough and complete analysis of all applications."
Here's Grassley's statement from Friday.
"Whistleblowers have been complaining for several years that leadership in Washington, D.C. and immediate supervisors were placing inappropriate pressure on immigration adjudicators to simply find a way to approve benefits. This 'Get to yes' attitude doesn't serve the American people who expect a thorough and complete analysis. When a quarter of the immigration service officers felt pressure to approve questionable applications, and 90 percent of respondents felt they didn't have sufficient time to complete interviews of those who seek benefits, there are serious and widespread problems that need to be addressed by the department. This comes down to the safety and security of the American people, which should not be compromised by any means."The Inspector General took to heart the concerns he heard from Immigration Service Officers, and he made some serious and thoughtful recommendations. I'm particularly interested in the implementation of recommendations by the Inspector General to develop standards to permit more time for an adjudicator's review of case files, develop a policy to establish limitations for managers and attorneys when they intervene in the adjudication of specific cases, and issue policy that ends any informal appeals process and the special review of denied cases. These get at the heart of the whistleblowers' allegations, and would go a long way to changing the 'Get to yes' culture that prevails at the agency."
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The Game Boy Advance (GBA) lives a schizophrenic existence. One hand, it's hailed as the successor to the old Game Boy, a technologically advanced piece of equipment that has already brought us some true handheld classics (Advance Wars, the new Castlevanias, etc.). But at the same time, it's reviled for being a dumping ground for Nintendo's older offerings, as Super NES (SNES) title after SNES title has been ported over to the GBA. The tough question to answer is whether these ported titles are a "good" or "bad" thing. Pretty much all of these titles are still good games in the sense that what made them enjoyable at first remains enjoyable at a later date. But does the production of these games preclude production of new games and the possibility of creating new paradigms in games based in 2-dimensional graphics?
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past is fondly remembered as one of the classic entries in the Zelda series and one of the strongest SNES titles. As such, it's no surprise that it was ported to the GBA. I'm not going to spend much time talking about the details of Link To The Past here. It's a solid and competent port, complete with even many of the secret bugs that enamored hardcore fans of the original. Anybody interested in the title for historical or other purposes can approach it with a clear conscience.
Taken entirely on its own, it would be a tough call to make as to whether Link To The Past is worth the time that was put into making it. But that question is overshadowed by the inclusion of an entirely new piece of Zelda adventuring in the form of Capcom's The Legend Of Zelda: The Four Swords, packaged together with Link To The Past. It's because of this new content that I'm pretty much willing to give the cart a pass when it comes to the issue of recycling material.
Granted, Four Swords is driven entirely by GBA connectivity, and if someone who buys this game doesn't know another person with a GBA, Link To The Past and a link cable, the GBA cart quickly becomes a smaller SNES cart, only in this version Link yells when he swings his sword. But if the hypothetical game purchaser is riding on the connectivity train, Four Swords is a potent reason to purchase the cartridge.
Four Swords is Zelda torn down to its mechanical foundations. In other words, there's little or no story here, and in addition, there's no coherent world or even coherency to the design. Rather, the game's levels are some of the goofiest dungeon-style constructions seen in any Zelda, barring perhaps Majora's Mask, presented with no sort of artifice or logic used to excuse their existence. As such, the player will need to be able to let go of their desire for a consistent back story and indulge in Zelda-style gameplay in order to enjoy themselves.
Thankfully, I found that the mechanics of The Four Swords are enough to provide all the enjoyment I needed. As a friend pointed out, playing The Four Swords immediately turns friends into a cadre of squabbling siblings. Veering wildly between cooperation and competition, it's not uncommon to see people screaming about getting together to kill a boss just seconds after threatening the other players with hot melty death regarding certain sneaky acquisitions of rupees. The best part is that the developers obviously encourage this sort of activity, adding in gameplay mechanics that are specifically designed to allow players to not only conquer the game, but mess with other players in the process. (Two of my personal favorites: 1. You can pick up and fling other players around like the proverbial Zelda pots, and 2. A deliciously evil power-up, the magnet, which can be used to pull around the other players like a puppy on a leash-a very unhappy puppy, that is.)
If connectivity is an option, then Link to the Past offers up the best of both worlds, one being a dusty old tome that's still great fun to rediscover; the other being a new adventure that takes great advantage of the multi-user videogame experience. If it's not, Link To The Past quickly becomes just another SNES archive brought over to a fresh platform. Not that that's inherently bad, it's just there.


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I'm clearing through the backlog, and as I purchased this one back in November, I felt that it was about time to knuckle down and finish it.
Mixed feelings on this game, with my strongest feeling being that of disappointment. My initial forays with the game were positive, before the creeping boredom set in.
I liked the open world and destruction engine incorporated into the game, but my interest in the campaign really dropped off about halfway through. I found it necessary to take regular breaks because the story underpinning Mason's righteous quest did not hold me sufficiently after the mechanics of bringing down buildings with weaponry and vehicles were mastered.
I held a forlorn hope that the narrative development would make up for the repetitive gameplay.
The story that Volition began to develop (primarily through the cinematics) was largely forgotten as the game progressed until the majority of the missions in EOS had been completed, by which point I was strongly considering bailing. I'm well aware that the Guerilla action side missions presented some variety within the gameplay, but I chose to persevere with the main campaign and hoped to be immersed by a pleasing story of repression and retribution. Instead the loss of Mason's brother and the plight of the Mars populace seemed no more than a ploy to justify the wholesale destruction that followed. In my opinion this game dragged on longer than the game mechanics could support. The combat in the game did not develop sufficiently and the swarming masses of identical EDF soldiers overwhelmed me by their sheer weight of numbers rather than their ingenuity.
As has been touched on elsewhere in this thread the climax of the game is underwhelming...three shots of my Thermobaric rockets and credits rolled. My sense of achievement was minor and I felt hard pressed to remember high points of the campaign, although the god like power I felt using the Walkers almost brings me to recommend this game alone....maybe my journey with this game was to bring me to the realisation that I am a mech fan!
I am aware that Red Faction Armageddon is a more linear experience, so I have some curiosity after losing interest in this open world. However, I am yet to read any positive reviews. Anyone in the forum have any experience with it?
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Yesterday, Mortimer and I met the famous actor Thomas Wesson (especially riveting as "Taller Boy" in "Dark Asylum") for pizza on the East Side and then walked over to MoMa where we rendezvoused with the famous author Luanne Rice.
A visit to MoMa (or any good museum) is kind of a self-diagnostic. You learn a lot about where you are right now by how you react to stuff -- new art and art you've seen a hundred times.
Luanne and I, for example, were both drawn to the work of Alighieri e Boetti, who works obsessively in ballpoint pen and -- at least in one instance -- punctuation.
But who knows why any of us likes any one thing? If I walk into a big gallery full of works by celebrated painters, I will almost immediately find anything by Redon, in his later-life colorful period. I don't even have to know it's there. It's almost as if the painting and the painter find me, and it has been that way since I started looking at art.
Since 2001 or so I have been strangely drawn to the spindly -- often quite wounded and lonely -- sculptures of Giacometti. I think it's one of the ways 9/11 showed up in my subconscious.
And Mortimer and I, this time, were stopped in our tracks by this work by Siqueiros. It, unfortunately, does not even begin to come to life in that kind of reproduction.
And on this visit, half a dozen or so of my usual favorites seemed a little beside-the-point.
You know what I mean? Art and dreams tell us what we don't really know about ourselves
Via Ibiblio.org.
Last night Mortimer consented to hang out with me, and we decided to watch "Rocket Science" on DVD. Mortimer approached it with reservations because the film has been compared to "Rushmore," and Mortimer is one of America's leading "Rushmore" scholars, able to quote and parse obscure aspects of the film in ways I find a little daunting.
"Nothing can be compared to 'Rushmore'," said Mortimer as I closed the DVD tray to start this film.
True. But "Rocket Science" is not without its unique charms, although at times it seems almost like an impasto of every quirky, throwaway-laden high-school-is-misery movie you've ever seen. "Rushmore," "Election," "Welcome to the Doll's House," "Napoleon Dynamite" all seem to have exerted some useful influence on this movie. It's crammed with familiar tropes, including the one about the parental generation coming amusingly unglued one floor up from the teens. "Rocket Science" has layers and layers of jokes, and one of them involves a husband and wife (minor characters) who, for some reason connected to their marriage, spend a lot of time playing a cello and violin arrangement of "Blister in the Sun," by the Violent Femmes. (This seems like a nod, also, to "Grosse Point Blank.") They're not important in the scheme of the movie, but the cello, briefly, is. One trope that seems a little overworked these days is the cheerful, supportive Asian sidekick (see "Disturbia"), but "Rocket Science" does, at least, something new and funny with it.
About a third of the way in, I realized I loved this movie. It may be a little imitative, but it has its own dark intelligence. I don't think anybody else ever really used the rapid-fire speech patterns of debaters to such comic effect, and I love the way the script just bulldozes enormous piles of humorous content at you. Roy Blount Jr. once told me that humor should be like a great Christmas where you finish unwrapping a present only to have another one shoved at you right away. This movie doesn't let you catch your breath. I like a movie which makes you laugh hard but quietly, so you don't miss the next joke.
It's also the best movie about stuttering ever. But stuttering is just a metaphor for isolation and lack of confidence. When Hal, the disfluent protagonist, privately scrawls out the answer his teacher his asking for but cannot bring himself to say it aloud, even enduring the teacher's withering scorn rather than risk trying to say "nom de plume," half the audience says, "I've done that."
Mortimer (who has done that) loved the movie too, but Hal's agonies rang so true for him at times that Mortimer found himself holding his napkin in front of his eyes rather than behold Hal's latest fiasco. "Can anything go right?" Mortimer demanded at one point.
Near the end, though, Mortimer resumed his defense of "Rushmore."
"The reason it's better is that I know exactly how this movie is going to end. You could never predict the end of 'Rushmore' or even really describe what that ending is," Mortimer announced.
Those of you who have seen "Rocket Science" already know that Mortimer was wrong. If there's a less predictable, more-Rushmorean ending to a teen movie, I don't know what it is.
"When you like a movie, you really like it," Mortimer told me.
"We have to own this," I told him.
And we will.
Nobody seems to be mentioning this role in all the tributes today, but -- damn -- I loved Charlton Heston as Richelieu in Richard Lester's two Musketeers movies.
On CBS Sunday Morning, AGLFC sprinkled praise on the new Scorsese Rolling Stones film, although he did pause to observe that Keith Richards "is starting to look like "Freddy Kruger's Gypsy grandmother."
No use in sitting alone in your room. Come hear the music play.
We'll be at the Emperor at the Linden in Hartford all night Sunday night in a benefit for CARC. Here is how you buy tickets. They're a little steep, but you get a lot for your money and you support some very important work in helping people with AIDS. EVERYONE IS INVITED. Even you, Lisa!
Usually by the time the nominations come out, I've seen at least three of the best film nominees; and it becomes a simple matter to mop up the other one or two. This time, I've seen only "No Country for Old Men" and "Michael Clayton." It never occurred to me I'd have to go see "Juno" in a move theater. Isn't it basically kind of a really good TV show, like "Arrested Development?"
A few random thoughts.
1. The (nominated) director of "Clayton" has already said he would never cross a picket line. All you need is a small critical mass to make it fashionable (and shameful to do otherwise), and you've basically got no ceremony. Oscabs? And it's not in the writers' interests to cut them any kind of special one-night deal. Quite the opposite. This could be the year everybody decided to be Marlon Brando. They should send Indians?
2. This was the year the Academy decided it was kind of bored by Denzel Washington, who could conceivably been up in two different categories for varius kinds of work in two movies. Uh-uh. That has to come as a surprise.
2a. They're also temporarily over Ang Lee. "Lust, Caution" -- an amazing, full-bodied, Italian roast movie -- didn't show up anywhere.
3. Best Actress category seems a little week; and it's often so. Of the performances, I have seen only Christie's (although I just did some Netflix tinkering to fix that). They might have thought about Naomi Watts in "Eastern Promises."
4. I'm surprised that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" didn't make the Best Picture field.
5. "Zodiac" is going to be one of the most underappreciated very good movies of the last ten years.
6. Most of the nominated documentaries are rebukes of the Bush administration. They should almost rename the category.
When my mother's Alzheimer's disease finally obliged me to put her in a care facility, when I found myself making daily visits and growing acquainted with some of the other patients, I was forced to recognize the kind of ruinous beauty of the disease. The same power that draws us to the toppled columns of Greek temples is breathtakingly present in the slowly scattering minds.
I came also to know that Alzheimer's is a snowflake disease: there are as many versions of it as there are patients. As a disease of thought and personality, it interacts very intimately with the people who have it. At times, rather than stealing them away, it makes them more themselves than they have been in a long time -- raking away the the topsoil of social convention and recent memory to reveal the core of the person.
Years ago, leaving the nursing home where my father died, I wrote this:
The people there are, I've decided, strangely beautiful. They drift slowly through the halls like ships, broken-masted or hull-pierced, never to sail again, but bobbing and eddying in the last harbor, sad and lovely fragments of their old selves.
I bring all of this up because I've just watched "Away From Her," a movie of startling beauty and sadness. If you've been avoiding it, don't. It's not grim. It's not bleak. It doesn't shrink from some of the sorrows of the scourge, but it also gets right some of the tenderness and even mirth to be found in the patients and their families.
Julie Christie has already picked up a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Fiona, the patient, but, invoking the Goldman Rule, I have to argue that Gordon Pinsent gives deeper, richer, more important performance as Grant, the bereft, dutiful, heartbroken and ultimately guilty husband. (William Goldman says that, in a movie like ""Rain Man," the Tom Cruise role is the harder job, selling the Dustin Hoffman character to the audience, reacting to him as we might react.) But Christie too is superb and, for my money, dead on. Those of us in "the community" will recognize a thousand little details that she gets right as she declines before our eyes. She is still, by the way, one of the most beautiful women in the world. Something should be said, also, on behalf of Olympia Dukakis, whose Marian is one of those characters who has one set of thoughts coming out of her mouth and a completely different set bleeding out of her eyes.
Please adjust your Netflix queues. Get this movie. It has as much heart and grace as anything you'll see in a year.


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Well it must be due to the fact that I don't have a TV and rarely look at the news but DAMN. I guess it's the 12th night of these riots and the nation hasn't seen this much destruction since WWII.
I'm still not 100% positive as to why the riots occurred but I believe they said that some minority teenagers accidentally electrocuted themselves while hiding from the police. Don't ask me how that sparks nation-wide riots but it did. Anyway I think it has to do with the general discrimination of government or something to that effect.
I'm still reading some more on it, am I missing something? Crazy stuff over there.
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We can assume the leader of a partition is always the first replica. Data will only be stored in the first replica. So, there is no fault-tolerance support yet. Just make the partition logical.
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ah, speaking of different perspectives, which is a good thing
+1 on the patch.
For 2, I was interpreting Host as a noun, instead of a verb. Thus the confusion.
2. Renamed ZkUtils.isPartitionOnBroker
11. Removed checkSetEquals
The AutoOffsetResetTest hangs since it was updating the offset for the wrong ZK path. Fixed that.
>> 11. TestUtils: why do we need checkSetEqual? Doesn't scala do that by default?
This is something you had added in the ZookeeperConsumerConnectorTest, not part of this patch. I think Scala does it by default, and I'll clean it up as well.
>> 2. ZkUtils: rename idoesBrokerHostPartition to something like isPartitionOnBroker
I didn't see any grammatical difference between the two, but if you think the latter is easier to understand, I'll incorporate the change
>> Unit tests seem to hang consistently for me. Seems to hang on testLatestOffsetResetForward(kafka.integration.AutoOffsetResetTest).
Please see my previous update on this JIRA, I've already identified that. Please wait for another patch
Please address items 2 and 11. For 4, I am fine leaving the ZK check in LogManager for now. Please add a comment that this will be fixed later.
Unit tests seem to hang consistently for me. Seems to hang on testLatestOffsetResetForward(kafka.integration.AutoOffsetResetTest).
There is something wierd happening with the AutoOffsetResetTest with the latest patch, will take a look and upload another one
1, 3. Done
4. Better done as part of kafka-44. If this is not done at all in this patch, unit tests break left and right. This patch had to change almost all tests, I'll prefer making more test changes in another patch.
5. Good suggestion.
6. These changes were required since the current code doesn't allow you to restart a Kafka server by calling shutdown and start on KafkaServer. It might need some cleanup, but it seems wrong that we can't restart a server that has been shutdown. Ideally, we need to refactor the LogManager, KafkaZookeeper and KafkaServer to remove the interdependencies.
7. broker id is left there for now. This can change once that new Replica entity is introduced. Changing it in this patch is again introducing way too many changes. I'm thinking all cleanup doesn't have to happen in one huge patch. I will prefer this change is done in another one
8, 9, 10. Done.
12. It is meant for checking topic registry to test the leader selection. The partition ownership checks are pulled in from ZkLoadBalanceTest
Lets keep in mind, that this is not the only patch that we should do for clean up and refactoring. It is getting harder to manage and rebase too.
1. ZkUtils.getTopicPartitionsPath: There are a couple reasons why we chose to use /brokers/topics/partitions to store partition data, instead of /brokers/topics: (1) This distinguishes the ZK layout in 0.8 from 0.7. In 0.7, we already store broker ids directly under /brokers/topics. So there could be confusion if we put partition ids at the same level. (2) This also leaves room for future extension to add non-partition level per topic info in ZK.
2. ZkUtils: rename idoesBrokerHostPartition to something like isPartitionOnBroker
3. LogManager: logFlusherScheduler.startUp is called twice.
4. LogManager.getOrCreateLog: The LogManager shouldn't need to know anything about ZK. The check of whether a partition exists on a broker should be done at KafkaApi level. Ideally, we just want to check partition ownership from a local cache, which will be populated by ZK listeners (part of kafka-44). In this patch, we can either not check at all or directly check from ZK (with the intention to have it optimized in kafka-44).
5. KafkaServer: the log cleaner scheduler is scheduled in LogManager, should we start up the schedule there too. If there is good reason to do that, should we protect startUp from being called more than once?
6. KafkaScheduler: what's the benefit of having a startUp method? It seems creating the executor in the constructor is simpler.
7. Partition should be made logical. It only contains topic and partition id. There will be a new entity Replica which is associated with broker id.
8. ProducerPool: remove unused import and fix indentation in close()
9. AsyncProducerTest: There are duplicated code that sets up mock to form expected partition metadata. Can we have a separate method to share the code?
10. Producer: Is zkClient in the constructor just for testing? If so, add a comment to indicate that.
11. TestUtils: why do we need checkSetEqual? Doesn't scala do that by default?
12. ZookeeperConsumerConnectorTest.testLederSelectionForPartition: is it really testing leader election? It seems to be testing partition ownership.
13. ZkUtils.getLeaderForPartition: This is probably fine for this patch. However, we should think whether it is better to get leader info from ZK directly or use the getMetaData api.
1. Imports are cleaned up
2. zkClient instance creation is moved to the Producer
This patch needed some cleanup -
1. the zk connection was created more than once in the producer. This can be done once, by moving it to the constructor of the producer pool.
2. Imports need cleanup as well
Quite a bit of changes -
1. The producer depends on zookeeper to fetch the initial list of brokers in the cluster. After that, it uses the getTopicMetadata API to fetch the topic metadata
2. The partitions are made logical. Al though, it is a bit confusing what the Partition object represents. I think a partition should be associated with a topic, broker and have an id
3. Removed the ZkLoadbalanceTest and javaapi.PrimitiveApiTest. These were duplicated tests