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Hi Jayson, Thanks for the welcome. I was doing a search online via the search engine zapmeta, using the following terms: "(swim OR swimming) and (black OR African) hair and (natural OR relaxed)." The site was listed several pages into the results, but I don't mind going to the 10 th page of a long list. I also joined because I believe very strongly in the group's mission, and hope to network with others as well. I have invited my instructor, Melon Dash, founder of the Miracle Swimming Institute. Her web site is http://www.conquerfear.com.
Thanks J, It's been awesome co-founding and working on DAP with you....Much more to come!!
Hi Jayson,
I attended the DC meet in Feb. and another coach "Candess Tucker" told me about this group. I also bought 2 t-shirts and was told to come back later for my change and never got it. It's ok! I'm looking forward in being an active member of this community.
Hi Jayson. =) Really happy to be here.
I heard about your program through OutdoorAfro.com...where I provide content from time to time.
BTW, I'm not only looking for Adventurers that want a multicultural swim experience at camp, but I am always on the lookout for female lifeguards for my program as well....preferably in California...and I do aim for diversity. Kindly let me know how I can do some outreach. =)
I just found you while looking for the results of the Annual Black History Meet. My daughter ( Ophe'lie Loblack- 10) swims for RMSC and participated. She got 3rd place High Point (10 and under). I try to follow a lot of the black swimmers. It is certainly nice to connect here. I like the forum and I think I will spend some time catching up on the blogs. I also will definitely participate in any capacity here.
Thanks for having me.
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Just back from a weekend attending the Nordic Photo event in Gulen as a guest speaker. Alex Mustard and Christian Skauge did the workshop organized by Lars Stenholt Kirkegaard of Fotografit. I grabbed the opportunity to dive the house-reef as much as I could testing the new Sola 600 aiming lights (more on that to come).
As always it's great to catch up with old and new friends at these types of events. However, arriving on Friday afternoon at the end of the diving week, I was soon looking through the images shot on the preceding days. Amongst them was a shot of a rare hydro-medusae, that apparently everyone had shot and which I haven't seen since 2001. And of course I had no decent pictures from that lucky encounter. My plans of spending a lot of time socializing went straight out the window and I ended up spending most of Saturday under water. After an hour or so and I had located and photographed the hydro-medusae, but the house reef had more to offer. Finally after countless crinoids in many a fjord here in western Norway, I finally found a crinoid shrimp, the first I have seen - and the first I have ever heard of in Norway! But it didn't stop there. I also found two worms on the arms of a crinoid. What the worms did there, parasitic, commensal perhaps? I don't know, but interesting for sure and as always the house reef at Gulen dive resort once again coughs up rarities for us photographers. The Hydromedusae Gonionemus vertens, |

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Basically we are having the same problem as described in the following post: post id = 63250, title = "Classpath cycle" (it won't let me post a link to it until I have at least 5 posts). However, we are experiencing it with core and context instead of context and orm. Our dependencies look like this:
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Remember, City Room called it last year.
Jayden has become the most popular name for baby boys, with 872 male newborns given that name in 2008, according to an announcement made by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday. It has surpassed perennial classics like Daniel, Michael, Matthew and David, which collectively round out the top five.
The baby name cognoscenti note that Jayden's rise is remarkable since there has historically been less innovation with boys names. Unlike girls names — Lisa, Jennifer, Madison and Ashley have risen and fallen within decades — the top boys names tend to be timeless, with Biblical or kingly flavors.
Nationwide, Jayden ranked only 11th last year, according to Social Security Administration data — respectable, but not a blockbuster.
The difference? New York's demographic mix. For whatever reason, Jayden is popular with minority groups. It has been the most popular boy's name among blacks and Hispanics in the city. Hispanics, specifically, seemed to have embraced the name with fervor. They may make up some 25 percent of the city's population, but they account for more than 50 percent of the Jaydens, with 463. "When you think of it in terms of actual Spanish, it's actually unpronounceable," said Laura Wattenberg, a baby name expert. "Hai-dane, or something like that."
Jayden also ranked 14th among Asian-American boys. But notably, it was a relatively dismal 60th among whites. Still, Ms. Wattenberg said, 60th is relatively high.
Why has it become so popular? Is it because of the Britney Spears effect (she named her son Jayden James in 2006)?
Ms. Wattenberg gives credit to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith for naming their son Jaden in 1998: "For them, Jaden was a twist on Jada."
Since then, she has watched the ascent of Jayden and all its variant spellings (Jaden, Jaiden, Jaydan, Jaidon, etc.). But she said Ms. Spears standardized the spelling.
The name has a lot going for it. Notably, it ends in "n," which has become the most popular name ending in the two decades. "A third of all boys born in America will get a name ending in 'n,' which is historically bizarre," Ms. Wattenberg said. "It has taken over in a way that no ending has taken over before, for boys."
Also, it belongs in the "rhymes with Aiden" family, which also includes Hayden and Caiden (and all their variant spellings). Forty names rhyming with Aiden ranked in the top 1,000 names for newborn American boys in 2008, Ms. Wattenberg said.
Jayden has had a steady climb in New York City. It ranked second in 2007, and 10th the year before (though with all the variant spellings, we think Jayden was actually first in spirit).
Incidentally, Sophia ranks No. 1 among girls in the city, followed by Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Sarah. But the preferences varied between different ethnic groups. White parents favored Olivia. Hispanics' top pick was Ashley, while Madison became the new favorite with black families. Sophia, the top pick for Asian girls in 2007, stayed on top in 2008.
The rise and fall in the fashion of names has long fascinated City Room, especially since New York City's immigrant mix makes it different from the country at large. An analysis of baby names dating back to 1920 found that some names have fallen out of favor (like Giuseppe), while others have risen (like Fatoumata, a West African variant of Fatima).
We've always wondered what would happen if we made the city's underlying data available to the public to work with. So we asked the health department for baby names and created comma-separated value files, which can be downloaded and opened in Microsoft Excel.
The first one is all baby names dating back to 1920 [csv]. The second file is baby names broken down by ethnicity, but only back to 1990 [csv], when the health department started keeping standardized race data.
City Room hopes that people can do interesting visualizations or programming with them, perhaps in the same spirit as the programmers who have analyzed the 9/11 Wikileaks pager messages.
We, too, will be seeing what interesting things we can do with the baby name data.
Here is a breakdown of the top baby names for 2008 in New York City
New York City | Hispanic | Black | White | Asian | |
Girls | |||||
1 | Sophia | Ashley | Madison | Olivia | Sophia |
2 | Isabella | Isabella | Kayla | Esther | Chloe |
3 | Emily | Emily | Makayla | Sarah | Emily |
4 | Olivia | Brianna | Nevaeh | Sophia | Tiffany |
5 | Sarah | Mia | Jada | Rachel | Fiona |
6 | Madison | Samantha | Brianna | Emma | Isabella |
7 | Ashley | Sophia | Chloe | Chaya | Olivia |
8 | Mia | Melanie | Destiny | Ava | Sarah |
9 | Samantha | Genesis | Alyssa | Leah | Angela* |
10 | Emma | Kimberly | Gabrielle* Imani* |
Miriam | Vivian* |
Boys | 1 | Jayden | Jayden | Jayden | Daniel | Ryan |
2 | Daniel | Justin | Joshua | Joseph | Eric |
3 | Michael | Angel | Elijah | Michael | Jason* |
4 | Matthew | Anthony | Jeremiah | David | Matthew* |
5 | David | Christopher | Christian | Matthew | Daniel |
6 | Joshua | Daniel | Michael | Alexander | Ethan |
7 | Justin | Joshua | Justin | Jacob | Kevin |
8 | Anthony | Kevin | Daniel | Nicholas | Justin |
9 | Christopher | Brandon* | Ethan | Jack | Ivan |
10 | Ethan* Ryan* |
David* | Tyler* | Samuel | Vincent |
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6. Update systems and software on a regular basis - 47 percent
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8. Ensure that remote access to their company's network is secure - 41 percent
The Hartford survey also found that nearly two-thirds of business owners (61 percent) believe a data breach violates trust and would jeopardize their relationships with customers, patients and employees. More than a third (38 percent) say they have a more negative opinion of companies that have recently experienced a breach, based on the companies' handling of the breach.
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GOP lawmaker: Elderly Senate stayed up too late to vote on 'fiscal cliff'
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said this week that most senators are far too old to be staying up past midnight, and should not have voted on the "fiscal cliff" legislation just before 2 a.m. on New Year's Day.
"At 1:30 in the morning, most folks of that generation really need to be asleep," Brooks told Alabama Live. "But unfortunately, [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, about 1:30, gave our senators a bill. At 1:45, they were expected to vote on it. It was a $4 trillion increase-in-our-debt decision. It was a bill, related to the fiscal cliff, that was going to increase spending rather than decrease spending."
More than half of the Senate is older than 60; one senator, Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), is 88 years old.
Brooks said he and other Alabama Republicans voted against the bill in part because the Senate rammed it through without first seeing a Congressional Budget Office score. CBO said the bill would increase the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years.
"[W]e're dealing with an issue this weighty in a haphazard way in less than 20 hours because Sen. Harry Reid and the U.S. Senate sat on their thumbs for five months, because it was five months ago the House passed the bill they later sent back to us on New Year's Day," Brooks said.


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You know it's spring when you wake up to the sweet song of birds outside your window in the morning... And their cheerful chirping keeps you from being able to fall back asleep... And no matter how much you bark at them, they just keep brightly chirping away... And you're the one who gets yelled at even though you're only barking to drown out their incessant chirping. Spring is so unfair.
On a walk in the park, I saw people tossing coins into a fountain and letting their kids play in the water. Can you believe that? Don't they know how dirty money is?! Dogs drink that water and bathe in that fountain, people! Don't dirty it up with your filthy pennies and children!
It was great to help my best friend figure out the rules of love. Speaking of love, I started thinking about that poodle as I was flipping through Avery's history book. Abraham Lincoln with a poodle 'do. Although for all I know, that's what his hair usually looks like. Why else would he need such a tall hat?
So Avery has her first crush. I just got over a crazy crush on a French poodle a couple weeks ago. I was so obsessed, I considered getting the same haircut. I think pretty much everyone looks better with a poodle 'do. Well, I'm not sure if I look better. It's hard to improve upon perfection. But it does give me a certain je ne sais coif.
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People think dogs are afraid of the vacuum cleaner, but that's just ridiculous... Even though the vacuum sounds like an angry elephant and comes at you with the insatiable appetite and persistence of a honey badger. But we're not scared... However, if we were scared, hypothetically speaking, it wouldn't help to see you laughing at us and taking video to post online as we growl and bark at the devilish machines.
Chloe won the art competition, Avery and Tyler patched things up, and Karl's portrait of Bennett and that weird-looking dude is hanging at the dry cleaners. So everybody won. Except me. Nobody told me the winning piece of artwork had to spend a week on display at the museum. At least the paint was kid-safe and washed off. On the plus side, at night when the museum was closed, I amused myself by recording some small changes to the audio tour guide. You should see the amazing works by Salvador Doggy and Henri Muttisse.
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Goffstown reaches agreement on overpayment
GOFFSTOWN - Goffstown, New Boston and Dunbarton have reached an agreement on an overpayment in tuition to Goffstown by the two sending towns.
At a recent meeting facilitated by the state Department of Education, Goffstown School District agreed to reimburse the New Boston School District $120,770 and the Dunbarton School District $63,140 over the next two years.
The error was discovered by Dunbarton School Board member Jeff Trexler in October, 2011 as the school boards were preparing to renegotiate their Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (AREA) agreement with Goffstown.
The overpayment stems from two separate issues.
One is an appraisal of Goffstown High School that was conducted by the Local Government Center at the request of the School Administrative Unit (SAU.)
The second was the rental charge paid to Goffstown by the sending towns, which remained the same for several years despite fluctuating enrollment figures.
The rental charge is calculated by multiplying the value of the buildings and sites by 2.5 percent, then dividing that figure by the number of students during the prior school year.
Dunbarton School Board Chairman Rene Ouellett said discussions were "dogged and determined," but resulted in terms that considered fairness from many points of view.
New Boston School Board member Wendy Lambert said the relationship among the three districts continued to be strong, and one where open and honest conversations about concerns can be expressed.
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Senate Bill S.1232
-- Verification of Nearly 100 Online Pharmacies Abroad Already Completed; Senate Urged to Push Key Provisions --
White Plains, New York – November 2nd, 2009 – Expressed support today for concepts within the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009 (S. 1232), introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and co-sponsored by 31 senators*, which would legalize personal drug importation by Americans and require verification of foreign pharmacies. Millions of Americans have been safely purchasing medication from abroad for several years and have visited PharmacyChecker.com to compare prescription drug prices among verified international and U.S. online pharmacies.
"The ability to get medicine at much lower prices from other countries is a lifeline for many Americans, particularly in today's economy," said Tod Cooperman, M.D., PharmacyChecker.com's president. "Given adequate information, consumers already have no problem finding high-quality affordable drugs and they should not have to fear the law to get them. Our legislators should advance this bill so that its key provisions become law as soon as possible."
Lower Prices Abroad
Prices on brand name drugs in the U.S. are generally double or even several times the price of the same drugs in other countries which negotiate or limit drug prices. A survey of recent prices across popular brand name medications shows an average savings of 72% using foreign pharmacies (see table). For example, Americans can save 72% on brand name Lipitor that is dispensed from a licensed pharmacy in MEXICO by purchasing a three-month supply for $112, instead of $403 from a typical U.S. pharmacy. On an annualized basis that's a savings of $1,164 for a single drug.
Personal Drug Importation: The Current Situation
Personal drug importation is technically illegal. In practice, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not prosecute individuals who buy non-controlled medicines from Canada, Mexico and elsewhere, but it occasionally seizes prescription orders en route to the patient.
The U.S. drug industry and pharmacy associations have successfully lobbied the government to keep personal drug importation illegal. These groups have also launched public information campaigns and other efforts which appear aimed at scaring consumers from seeking medication dispensed from pharmacies in other countries. Underpinning such campaigns is the current illegality of personal drug importation. Consequently, these scare campaigns often characterize licensed pharmacies dispensing from other countries as "rogue," "illegitimate," or "not approved" simply because they sell to Americans.
However, millions of Americans have purchased drugs from legitimate pharmacies in Canada, Mexico and many other countries without reports of dangerous results. "Pharmacies in many other countries are just as safe as those in the United States," noted Ram Kamath, Pharm.D, who developed the I-SaveRx personal drug importation program adopted by the states of Missouri, Kansas, Vermont and Wisconsin. Mr. Kamath has inspected many pharmacies outside the U.S. and is an advisor to PharmacyChecker.com. Dr. Kamath added, "Moreover, the drugs in many countries are just as safe as in the U.S. because other countries also have excellent pharmaceutical regulations. In fact, pharmaceutical companies themselves have chosen to produce many of their drugs abroad in order to save money, although they sell those drugs at much higher prices in the U.S. than elsewhere."
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Senate bill S.1232 calls for legalizing personal importation of drugs from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and, potentially, other countries. Since 2003, PharmacyChecker.com has evaluated and verified pharmacies in most of these countries. Two hundred two online pharmacies are currently members of the PharmacyChecker.com Verification Program, of which almost half are Canadian and other foreign pharmacies. The Senate bill would charge pharmacies fees for registering, similar to how the PharmacyChecker.com program is funded.
The Senate bill requires that foreign pharmacies wishing to export to Americans be licensed in their countries. This is the key criteria used in the PharmacyChecker.com Verification Program, which also re-confirms pharmacy licenses on a quarterly basis. Like the Senate bill, PharmacyChecker.com's program excludes the importation of controlled substances and requires the consumer to have a valid prescription. Both programs suspend or terminate pharmacies for violations. The Senate bill indicates that exporting pharmacies are subject to inspection. PharmacyChecker.com already conducts rigorous onsite inspections of pharmacies in certain countries to ensure that they adhere to high standards of pharmacy practice.
The Senate bill, would also establish registered importers within the United States that could re-sell imported medicines. Although this would reduce the need for consumers to purchase from abroad, it would introduce imported drugs into the domestic U.S. drug supply – something that personal drug importation does not do. Consequently, the bill calls for the development of a complex drug qualification and labeling program to identify differences between imported drugs and U.S. counterpart products. That program would result in labeling giving "prominent notice" to product differences such as different inactive ingredients. While this would be useful to consumers, these label requirements exceed those currently required even of generic drugs sold in the U.S.
"Personal drug importation should never have been illegal. Decriminalizing it will remove a stigma and help more Americans access medication at an affordable price," said Gabriel Levitt, Vice President of PharmacyChecker.com. He added, "We hope legislators also recognize that PharmacyChecker.com has been effectively verifying qualifications of foreign pharmacies for many years at no cost to the government or consumers. Our requirements are similar to those in the Senate bill and we are willing to work with the government to keep our standards aligned with those in the new law. Recognition of PharmacyChecker.com's third-party verifications would accelerate achievement of the bill's goals, help enforce high standards among exporting pharmacies, and eliminate the need to create a redundant function within the government. Registration of importers within the U.S. and the development of an imported drug database also merit consideration but are not needed to immediately move ahead with legalization of personal drug importation."
*Co-sponsors: Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA), Senator Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI), Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senator Herb Kohl (D-MN), Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Senator Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR), Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME), Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), Senator John Thune (R-SD), Senator David Vitter (R-LA), Senator Jim Webb (D-VA). Table: Savings on Drugs Using Licensed, Non-U.S. Online Pharmacies.
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I woke up in my hammock. I had forgotten why I was there for a moment, looked up, and saw someone taking pictures of the 30-odd hammocks surrounding me. Little did I know that I would be spending the next few days and every waking minute with this blonde photographer.
I sat up and asked if he wanted to go to the beach. I heard his thick German accent and didn't need to ask his origin. We walked around, swam, walked around. He bought us beer all day, we lay in the sun and talked about our biggest fears. We both refused to tell each other our names, so we just called one another Fraulein for the first 24 hours. He and I watched the waves while eating caramel fudge ice cream. We walked along the beach and found a rusty 'ship' washed up on the shore, called this Captain Morgan's abandoned ship, and searched for his hidden treasure.
This mystery man is Ule. (oo-lee) He is indeed German, and lives in Denmark. We are the same age. Ule will be graduating with his business degree a year from now, and he has two goals post-graduation. One is to open a ski lodge of his own in Canada, Banff to be specific. The other is to open a gay retirement home on the island of Ibiza, Spain. This is not a word of a lie.
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And, the romantic setting we find ourselves in is called Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. This town is a fantastic little place, but it also rained us out. One night it was raining so hard I didn't bother to change from my bathing suit to go to dinner with Ule. We arrived a few doors down from our hostel looking like we had just come from Niagara Falls. The waiter ushered us in with a large grin on his face and once he had returned with our drinks, he asked me if I was cold. I said yes. He asked me if I was wet. I said yes. "Do yooou whaaaanna towelle?" I said yes right away without even thinking. He took our order and then we saw him walk across the street. A few minutes later he came back without a dry inch on his body and under his arm he was holding a beach towel. He put it around me and told me to keep it. Does anyone even think of this kind of hospitality in North America? Anywhere?


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Republican race is a circular firing squad, says Jeb Bush
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Jeb Bush, seen by some as a Republican candidate-in-waiting for the 2016 presidential season, has set aside normal party decorum by lamenting this year's contenders, likening them to a "circular firing squad" scaring away independent voters with right-wing rhetoric that plays on their fears.
His broadside, which took many in the party by surprise, came just as the 2012 nomination marathon is entering a critical stretch with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battling for advantage in voting on Tuesday in Arizona and Michigan. One week later, the candidates face the all-important Super Tuesday contests in 10 states.
The four candidates, who also include Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, scorched one another in a debate in Arizona on Wednesday, just as they have on the campaign trail with blizzards of mutually destructive negative advertising. Mr Romney, more than anyone, has used the airwaves to tear down any opponent who rises to threaten him.
It is a strategy that may be working, with latest polls yesterday hinting that the recent surge of Mr Santorum may now be evaporating. According to a Rasmussen poll, he now trails Mr Romney by 6 points in Michigan, losing a lead he had held there for the past two weeks.
"I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I'm wondering," Mr Bush, the former Florida Governor and brother of George W Bush, said after a speech in Dallas, Texas. "I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective, and that's kind of where we are.
"It's important for the candidates to recognise though [that] they have to appeal to primary voters and not turn off independent voters that will be part of a winning coalition. They are very capable... but I'm kind of hopeful the primary process ends so we unite behind a candidate and eliminate the potential of a circular firing squad." He said there would not be a consensus nominee if no clear winner emerges.
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My dad's unit went up the Syrian Hermon towards the end of the war in order to provide fire support from the high altitude and when the war ended, they remained there for a number of weeks. at some point a very serious storm started and the tents were completely coverd by snow. my dad said that there was zero visibility, so he simply sat down, without being able to see anyone until the fog cleared out a bit and then he saw the rest of the soldiers all sitting a few meters around him, spread out. however, because contact was lost with them during the storm, Sayeret Matkal troops were sent to climb up to their position. unfortuantly, they never made it there and two Matkal soldiers died on the way.
On a more funny note, since this was the highest point the IDF held, after the war every big time officer wanted to get a good look at Syria from there. and since apparently they were very bored up there, my dad and some other guys from his squad used to tell the officers that one of the Arab speaking soldiers was a Syrian prisoner and asked them to take him down to the HQ. since high up officers don't see much action themselvs, they were very excited about it and took it very seriously and when they would get to the HQ, they would get yelled at for bringing him there, yet again.


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AOL demos the human-free datacenter
100% lights out facility eliminates the BOFH cost
AOL has been operating a trial datacenter that runs without any on-site staff since the start of the month, and reports that the system is resilient and cuts costs. Dubbed ATC, the datacenter uses off-the-shelf, pre-racked/vendor integrated gear with open source code, is run as a 100 per cent lights out facility (no BOFH …
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Googler squeals: 'We don't get platforms'
A candid rant for the ages
The dangers of social platforms have been illustrated yet again, when one of the Mountain View Chocolate Factory's Oompa-Loompas made public a long and detailed rant against his employer on Google+. The thesis of the post, attributed to Steve Yegge, is that Amazon can build platforms and expose services far better than Google …
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Apple wins for now: no Galaxy 10.1 in Oz
Injunction granted
Samsung's Galaxy 10.1 has been blocked in another jurisdiction, with the Federal Court of Australia granting an interim injunction against the sale of the device down under. In a decision which Samsung had previously warned would devastate its sales in the Christmas period, Justice Annabelle Bennett decided today (October 13) …
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Review The library in your pocket?
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet was always going to grab the headlines when the retailer revamped its e-book reader line-up last month. But for many book buffs, its low-cost E Ink devices were more interesting. Amazon has been aggressively driving down reader prices, and its entry level Kindle 4 - aka the 'Kindle Touchless', a nod …
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Peer-to-peer update makes ZeuS botnets harder to take down
Not your father's zombie network
A new strain of the ZeuS crimeware toolkit comes with a peer-to-peer design that lets infected machines bypass centralized servers when receiving updates and marching orders from operators, a researcher said. The update to a custom-built ZeuS variant known as Murofet could make it harder for white-hat hackers and law- …
Security 13 Oct 2011, 06:01
Avere punches up file access with 2 more accelerators
Get those filers moving faster
Suffering from slow file access speeds? Avere has introduced two faster and more scalable filer accelerators. Its FXT accelerators are multi-tiered and clusterable nodes placed in-line in front of filers, and storing data I/Os in the most appropriate media, from DRAM, NVRAM, through flash, SAS and SATA disk, to accelerate …
Storage 13 Oct 2011, 08:01
Busting net neutrality may amount to spying, says EU
Eurocrat warns of 'massive, real-time inspection of comms'
New EU laws on net neutrality may be necessary to stop internet service providers (ISPs) from infringing individuals' data protection and privacy rights, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has said. The traffic inspection required to operate systems that breach net neutrality principles and prioritise some content …
Networks 13 Oct 2011, 08:19
BlackBerry stumbles to feet, full of apologies
RIM promises not to repeat BlackBerry crumble
BlackBerry services are up again, though still processing a considerable backlog of traffic, but now we have a CEO's statement promising the company will try harder in future. The services started to come back online during the night, with web browsing in Europe being the last service to be restored. Late last night US …
Phones 13 Oct 2011, 08:44
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It must be a sign of the times, but I'm definitely seeing more personal finance apps coming my way recently. Of course, there's already no shortage of apps for keeping track of your daily spending, but iMoney Accounting caught my eye as it's free and also has an online reporting function that could be useful for people who …
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Pampernaut love-rat space shuttle pilot prangs plane
Passengers unhurt in Alaskan Cessna crash
Former space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, famous for being the man at the centre of the romantic rivalry between troubled astronaut Lisa Nowak and air force officer Colleen Shipman - which led to the astonishing nappies, mace and car-park fracas sensation of 2007 - has suffered a mishap at the controls of a small floatplane in …
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C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead
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C programming language inventor Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died. Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness. At the time of writing, Ritchie's web page on …
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Dutch ISP calls the cops after Spamhaus blacklists it
Had to unfriend TPB chums to get unblocked
Dutch ISP A2B Internet has filed a complaint with the police after it claimed to have been "blackmailed" by London-based anti-spam outfit Spamhaus. A2B managing director Erik Bais told Webwereld (report in Dutch) that Spamhaus "has gone too far". The Spamhaus Project is an international organisation, founded by Steve Linford …
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City slickers get another 5 years of free Wi-Fi
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The City of London has extended its deal with The Cloud for blanket Wi-Fi coverage, including the offer of 15 minutes of free access intended to lure surfers into paying £2 for a day pass. The service has been running since 2007, provided by The Cloud and covering just about all of the Square Mile that makes up the City of …
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Valve chief says Apple will own your living room
iConsole on the cards?
Valve Software chief Gabe Newell reckons Apple will soon become a major player in the console biz by launching a product that will own the living room. The prediction was made by Newell at the WTIA TechNW conference this week in Washington DC. The head of the outfit behind games such as Half Life and Counter-Strike, as well …
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Where am I going tomorrow? My 'leccy car charger wants to know
ERIC Pumping the right amount of juice for your journey
There's a definite green tinge to Intel's European Research and Innovation Conference (ERIC) this year, with a cash-saving electric car charger being touted alongside energy management ideas. It's not escaped El Reg that Intel is touting its green tech wizardry in Leixlip, Co. Kildare, in the Emerald Isle. The "context-aware …
Bootnotes 13 Oct 2011, 10:31
Chinese whisper of low-cost Kindle-confounding iPad
Smaller model too?
Given that many a fanboy's assumption that Apple would announce a new-design iPhone earlier this month derived from claims made to market analysts by sources within Chinese component makers, you should probably treat the following with some scepticism. For what it's worth, more of those oriental moles have told Brian White, an …
Tablets 13 Oct 2011, 10:37
Cloud file tech finds Big Blue one in bed with it
Excited cries of joy at Nirvanix
IBM is OEMing Nirvanix cloud file storage technology, and catapulting Nirvanix into the front ranks of cloud storage service providers. IBM's Jan Jackman, who is vice president of Global Cloud Services, provided a statement that could be framed and hung on every Nirvanix office wall: "Nirvanix's cloud storage services offer …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 10:46
The keys to security compliances
Live Today Not at the expense of user and IT productivity
Social networks, local admins, unlatched software, missing USBs: the causes of security problems in your business are often not just the big stuff that tries to get inside the firewall, it's the little problems that are already on the inside. Today at 16:00 BST/11:00 EDT,our latest live Regcast takes a closer look at the …
Tech Panel 13 Oct 2011, 11:00
Did a Seagate sales bloke just say 5TB drives are coming?
Talks up big disks within three months in web vid
Has a Seagate Middle East sales guy just let slip that 5TB drives will be here in three months? He's identified on a video uploaded to YouTube as "Christian from Seagate", and his video interview has been mentioned on Twitter. The Tbreak video, below, records an interview at GITEX '11, a technology event in Dubai. …
Storage 13 Oct 2011, 11:14
Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world
Adobe hedges bets with Nitobi
Anyone hoping to pronounce Flash dead as Adobe transitions to the brave new HTML 5 world will have been disappointed, based on the company's MAX Conference last week. That said, there is evidence of a partial transition towards HTML. The big story in this respect is Adobe's acquisition of Nitobi, creators of the PhoneGap tool …
Developer 13 Oct 2011, 11:32
IBM's unified V7000 will hook up with just about anything
NAS heads and file access added to cloudy box
IBM has added SONAS-style NAS heads to create a Storwize V7000 Unified storage array that complements, it says, both SONAS and its NetApp-sourced N-Series filers. The Storwize V7000 is a tiered mid-range block-access storage array with SAN Volume Controller (SVC) code enabling it to virtualise its storage as a single pool and …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 11:44
One in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will
You will inherit your parents' iTunes accounts
Your gran could pass on her iTunes password along with the family silver as a survey suggests that 11 per cent of Brits have either put internet passwords into their wills or plan to do so. The main reason for passing on the keys to internet accounts was the valuable content amassed in the cloud – with 25 per cent of the 2,000 …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 12:02
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Review Wings and roundabouts
"For good or for ill, air mastery is the supreme expression of military power," said Churchill, "and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank." Taken under the wing That may be true in the real world, but when it comes to videogames air combat has long accepted a subordinate rank to the …
Games 13 Oct 2011, 12:12
Revamp the network to cope with explosion in mobile kit
Expert Clinic Coping with end-point number growth and altered traffic flows
Three experts; three different views; that's what you get when the three look at the impact of the substantial rise in the number of mobile devices accessing the network. All these devices send traffic across the network and much if it hits servers and causes storage transactions. Ethernet set up as a fabric can help here. But …
Data Networking 13 Oct 2011, 12:16
Nokia's NFC-stocked Symbian smartphone surfaces
Belle me later
Nokia has brightened up its Symbian range with the introduction of a NFC smartphone that shouldn't put much of a dent in your wallet. The Nokia 603 - the company's latest Symbian Belle-powered handset - features a 1GHz processor, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi connectivity. There's also a 3.5in, 640 x 360 touchscreen and a 5Mp camera …
Phones 13 Oct 2011, 12:28
An ode to rent-a-nerds and cable monkeys
Sysadmin blog Love 'em or hate 'em, we'd be screwed without them
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Servers 13 Oct 2011, 12:32
Social net sites do wonders for crooks, spooks and bosses
RSA Europe 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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Spotify 'sold soul' to boy king Zuckerberg
Comment Faustian deal
I can't quite recall serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson ever running a big, successful, profit-making internet business – and his latest radio venture seriously misjudges both the medium and the market. But as a pundit, he occasionally airs views that others are too timid to articulate. Robertson takes aim at digital music …
Media 13 Oct 2011, 13:02
NHS orgs not keen on UK gov's mega-intranet
The other PSN also makes people nervous
NHS organisations in England are showing a reluctance to consider future use of the Public Service Network (PSN), according to officials and a supplier taking part in its early implementation. Bringing healthcare bodies within the PSN – the "network of networks" for which the Cabinet Office recently launched the first …
Policy 13 Oct 2011, 13:33
Ubuntu Server 11.10 leaps onto OpenStack clouds
A dreamy dwarf leopard for microservers
Right on time, the Ubuntu Server 11.10 operating system has tiptoed out onto the intertubes and wants to play with your workloads. Developed under the codename "Oneiric Ocelot", the latest server release from Canonical – the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution – brings a number of new features for building …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 14:00
Future wars will be over water not fuel, warns Intel sage
ERIC Keyring-size PCs, web healthcare and more foreseen
If you think you've seen the thinnest, smallest form factors computers can go into, Intel CTO of Datacentre and Connected Systems Group and senior fellow Steve Pawlowski reckons you're dead wrong. Asked at the European Research and Innovation Conference to give a talk on his predictions for the next 10 years, Pawlowski's …
Science 13 Oct 2011, 14:32
Dennis Ritchie: The C man who booted Unix
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Developer 13 Oct 2011, 14:46
RIM: 'Faulty switch took out faulty-switch-proof network'
Sleepy BlackBerry bosses to wait for postmortem ...
Blackberry bosses held a short press conference at 10am EST (15.00 GMT) today to calm investors, answer media questions and shed (a little bit) more light on the faulty switch that caused the three-day service outages across the UK, Europe, Africa and Latin America. RIM's co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, as well as …
Applications 13 Oct 2011, 15:29
Fretting Googler retracts anti-Google+ rant
Please don't fire me!
A Google engineer who accidentally published a long rant about the failings of Google+ has since issued an apologetic make-up piece, explaining why he has taken the piece down, how kind Google are for not immediately firing him and that really Steve Yegge is a lowly oompa-loompa who knows nothing and to whom nobody should pay …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 15:44
Microsoft whips Apple with global Xbox TV deals
Gaming network taps up broadcasters
If the Xbox Live network was a cable operator it would be the largest such operator in the world, with 35 million customers, which is why Microsoft is turning the Xbox into an over-the-top TV delivery device – something it has dreamed of ever since it first made the Xbox one of its IPTV Mediaroom set-tops. Redmond announced …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 16:17
Citrix buys cloudy storage biz ShareFile
methe dataServer and application virtualization juggernaut Citrix Systems has bought ShareFile, which runs a cloudy document sharing service aimed at businesses, not at consumers. ShareFile was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, in November 2005 and has grown organically and without any venture funding since that time. The company was …
Cloud 13 Oct 2011, 17:02
Galleon chief Rajaratnam gets 11 years in the slammer
Tech insider trading doesn't pay
Raj Rajaratnam, the former heard of the former Galleon hedge fund that was the epicenter of several insider trading rings that came to light two years ago , was sentenced in New York today to 11 years in prison for his kingpin role. Rajaratnam was the founder and managing director of the $7bn Galleon Management hedge fund, and …
Security 13 Oct 2011, 17:20
Ubuntu One client now available for Windows
Open source sync service comes to Redmond
Canonical has moved its Ubuntu One file-synchronization service for Windows out of beta, with the new build of the operating system. Ubuntu One gives users 5GB of free cloud storage that allows files and music to be selectively synchronized on Ubuntu, Android, iOS, and now Windows devices. Users can buy 20GB of extra storage …
Operating Systems 13 Oct 2011, 17:24
Flashback trojan targeting OS X shuns virtual machines
Mac malware grows up
Underscoring the growing sophistication of Mac-based malware, a trojan preying on OS X users has adopted several stealth techniques since it was discovered last month. Updates to the Flashback trojan, which gets installed by disguising itself as an Adobe Flash update, now prevent the malware from running on Macs that use VMware …
Security 13 Oct 2011, 18:43
AMD 'unleashes' unlocked FX processor family
Overclockers, rejoice. The rest of us, not so much
AMD has released its long-expected AMD FX processor line, and – as also expected – they're shipping them unlocked, thus warming the cockles of overclockers' hearts. Early testing, however, reveals others' cockles to be somewhat chilly. "AMD FX CPUs are back with a vengeance," AMD client group headman Chris Cloran promised in a …
Hardware 13 Oct 2011, 21:10
Quigley defends FTTP to parliamentary committee, again
Oz network delays recoverable says CEO
NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley and federal opposition communications spokesperson Malcolm Turnbull have spent another half-hour or so sparring over whether or not FTTN should be deployed as an interim step towards the National Broadband Network's fibre-to-the-premises policy target. After repeated questions from Turnbull, during a …
Broadband 13 Oct 2011, 22:04
OccupySF BOFH runs protest network on pedal power
Protest IT staff running ultimate bare-bones system
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Networks 13 Oct 2011, 22:32
IRS audits Google for funneling profits to Ireland
Savings of $1bn per year from 'Double Irish' loophole
The US Internal Revenue Service is auditing strategies that Google uses to cut its tax bill by about $1 billion a year by funneling profit into subsidiaries located in territories with low or non-existent rates, according to a published report citing unnamed officials. The agency is "bringing more than typical scrutiny" to …
Financial News 13 Oct 2011, 22:58
The exaggerated "death of text"
How much is already free?
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Broadband 13 Oct 2011, 23:00
Carriers move to shore up safe harbour
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Australia's peak carrier and service provider body, the Communications Alliance, is seeking "friend of the court" (amicus curiae) status in the "iiTrial" High Court appeal. The Hollywood catspaw is appealing to Australia's top court to overturn decisions further down the legal food chain, which gave iiNet immunity against its …
Media 13 Oct 2011, 23:30
ACCC to appeal Google decision
Dead horse: check. Whip: check.
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Law 13 Oct 2011, 23:36
Solar car teams bask in Darwin sunshine
WSC Plucky Brits versus American juggernaut
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John Bohlinger
When I first got into guitar in the early 1980s, there really wasn't "vintage" gear. There was old and new, with "new" generally being judged superior. Of course, a '59 Les Paul has always been revered as a Holy Grail guitar, but nobody went gaga over a '61 Tele. Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters from the late '50s and early '60s were considered geek guitars that nobody other than Elvis Costello would play. Given the choice between a battered, TV-yellow '57 Les Paul Junior and a brand-new, tiger-striped, pointy bodied, whammy bar-equipped Kramer, the vast majority of young players would choose the flashy new guitar. Those "unfortunate" enough to be stuck with the '57 Junior would do their best to update the doomed relic.
When I was about 15, I got a job working for a very busy luthier who kept a small shop in the basement of the local music store, where he toiled away six days a week "improving" old guitars. Walk in with an original pre-CBS Strat suffering from a weather-checked finish, and he'd quickly strip and repaint it with a shiny, bulletproof poly finish. Those original pickups giving you 60-cycle hum? No problem, he'd route out that body and stick in three new humbuckers. The stock, noisy, "inferior" pickups were unceremoniously tossed in a junk box under his bench.
By '85, nearly every week another old Les Paul or Strat would have its body routed for a Kahler or Floyd Rose whammy bar, leaving mountains of sawdust around the shop. The original nut was tossed in the garbage and the headstock was forever gouged out to make room for the locking nut. Prefer a stop-tail on your Strat? Or how about a brass nut? It seemed like every guitar and bass got one.
I watched as '61 ES-335 tuners were upgraded to new Grovers, the originals tossed. Original volume and tone pots were dumped every day in favor of a grit-free new replacement. The few goldtops from '52 to '56 that came in the shop left with humbuckers, the original P-90s tossed into the junk box.
For some reason, the out-of-phase switch enjoyed a lot of popularity. My boss would swap out your original pickup, drill a hole in the top of your Les Paul, and—
—with the quick flip of a switch, your 1970 Les Paul Custom could sound thin and trebly through any amp.
It seemed like the majority of guitar greats modified their guitars, as well. Look at Clapton's "Blackie"—which was put together using parts from several old Strats—or Alvin Lee's red 335 with its Strat middle pickup. Or Pete Townshend with that middle pickup and those weird switches on his Les Paul Deluxe. Dickey Betts stripped the finish off his '57 goldtop and painted it red. John Lennon hacked up his '56 Les Paul Junior with a new bridge, neck pickup, and an LP switch, then stripped off the finish. He also stripped his Epi Casino and Gibson J-160E. Eddie Van Halen, SRV, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Albert Lee all similarly defaced old guitars. Hot-rodding was the norm, not something esoteric.
With all that routing, stripping, painting, pot-changing, pickup-swapping, whammy-bar-installing, tuner-upgrading, etc., etc., going on for most of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, one has to wonder where all of these non-original guitars have gone. Look on eBay, and all you see are "all original," "completely stock" guitars from the '50s, '60s, and '70s. It just doesn't add up. Twenty years ago, if you randomly checked 100 Strats from the '70s owned by working musicians, more than likely at least half of them would have a humbucker routed in the bridge. But check eBay and it's unlikely you will find even one, so unless somebody has a Delorean and a flux capacitor that they employ to travel back in time to a period that predates the hot-rod '80s, somebody is lying. There simply cannot be that many old guitars on the market that survived the '80s unaltered.
I don't mind modifications. Vintage buffs may consider this heresy, but there are times when old guitars need a little updating. I have a 1969 Gibson ES-340 with original "patent-sticker" pickups that I never played. This incredibly cool guitar just laid there like lox until I installed DiMarzio PAFs (although I did safely store the original pickups in case I should ever sell or trade the guitar). Now the guitar sings. I love it and use it often. Here's the irony: This great modded guitar is now technically worth less then the bad-sounding stock version.
If a guitar needs a little tweak, I do it without regret. Every year, I change tuning keys that break, pots that go bad, switches that break, knobs that fall off, and cases that are destroyed by airlines. I've also changed saddles when I've had tuning issues (Graph Tech is my go-to brand). I replace and repair whatever needs it, and I don't worry about it—because I'm a player, not a collector.
A good deal of the used gear for sale today has at one time been owned by players like me. This gear has seen wear, tear, and mods. Original gear retains more value, and that being the case, buyers should get what they pay for. Regrettably, there are some unscrupulous people selling gear as "all original" when it's not, effectively swindling buyers in the process. There are also sellers that have no idea they are selling gear that is not original. Be skeptical about a pristine, 40-year-old guitar. Unless the instrument was purchased and then stored under a bed until it went up for sale, more than likely something has happened to it. You don't want to pay "10" prices for what is actually a "5." Be cautious about buying a guitar you've never played. But if you find an old player's guitar with nothing original on it, it may be amazing because somebody spent years getting the guitar right. And it will cost you less.
John Bohlinger
is a Nashville-based guitarist who works primarily in TV and has recorded and toured with over 30 major-label artists. His songs and playing can be heard in major motion pictures, on major-label releases, and in literally hundreds of television drops. Visit him at
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Mike G.
on 03/10/2013
Great article. Thanks, John.
on 05/25/2011
Gearhead Alert! Love it.
john bohlinger
on 05/19/2011
Just to clarify, the luthier I worked for when I was a kid was a talented guy who made some beautiful guitars. I also appreciated vintage instruments. He was just giving customers what they wanted. If he didn't instal humbuckers in that old strat, somebody else would have. The point being that mods were the norm.
on 05/18/2011
I dig your general message of this article, but I have to take exception to your characterization of the guy we both worked for (I worked for him about 5 months repairing band instruments). I really think he was doing all those mods because he had to pay the rent. You should have seen his eyes light up when he saw the '61 SG I bought at the local pawn shop for $165. Before he opened up the plate in back, he noted that the screws had never been touched; inside, the pots hadn't seen a soldering iron since '61. He was literally popping wood at my "new" wood. Not exactly the callous oaf you portray him to be. BTW, my sweet axe came with with a Grover upgrade a chip off the lower bout and a wear spot on the back of the neck at the third fret. I figure it was used by some weekend warrior from Forsyth.
on 05/18/2011
What it comes down to is that it's hard to communicate in a brief ad, and if you can say "all original" then people know what you're talking about, or can look up the specs online. People want to know what they're getting, and it's easier to be satisfied with "stock" than to do the work of researching all the mods you put into it and why they make it rock. (heh heh Do you want Stock or Rock? -- I just made that up)
Michael McF
on 05/17/2011
I've also experienced MON-FRI guitars, whereas the quality of workmanship on a MON released guitar is inferior to a FRI guitar.
on 05/17/2011
Caveat emptor! Words of wisdom, in many areas of life.
on 05/17/2011
Great point, John. I had to learn the hard way that an "all original" '72 Strat was about as authentic as a Barry Bonds' home run. Unfortunately I got mad at the guitar (instead of myself) and sold it at a loss even though it was the best sounding strat I've ever owned.
Keep up the great articles - I'll continue reading my PG from back to front.
Devon 69strat
on 05/17/2011
I don't trust any vintage gear on Ebay. Do people really spend 10k on a "vintage" guitar they've only seen in pictures? Insane
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