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I really hate to be negative, but Pennsylvania has done it again – and I don't mean that in a good way! Here's what has happened now. A while back I wrote about the Family Search Pilot site and two of their databases: the PA, Philadelphia City Death Certificates 1803-1915 and the PA, Philadelphia City Marriage License Index 1885-1951. Well, I haven 't had the need to search either in a while – until today. And as it turns out there are been some changes. One good and one not so much.
First, the good news is that the Marriage License Indices have been indexed and are now fully searchable! Previously we could only browse through the images. So this is a great enhancement and a big time saver! Kudos to Family Search and their team of volunteer indexers!!
Now the bad part — the death certificate images have been removed from the other database. Why? Well this is what Family Search has on their website:
"On February 4, 2010, the images associated with the index to the Philadelphia City Death Certificates were removed from Record Search because of a contractual agreement that states that the images are only available to registered users."
It goes on to say that records post 1906 can be ordered from the state and pre-1906 from the county court house.
You may be wondering why this is such a big deal – after all, the essential data as transcribed by the Family Search indexers is still available. Well, that's true, but it is always more desirable to see the actual record whenever possible. As wonderful as the indexers are, I have occasionally found that they have misinterpreted names and other of the hand written information. Also, not all the information on the death certificate is always recorded on the transcription form. That's why it was so nice to be able to immediately check the actual record online.
And as far as ordering records from the state, Pennsylvania has some pretty arcane ideas about ordering death records – regardless of how long ago the person died. Generally, they want you to be a relative and to essentially provide the information you are most likely looking for (i.e. parents names)! And of course, there was the time I went to the Montgomery County PA Archives and Records Building and was told I could not look at the estate papers for a deceased relative due to a judge recently ruling that looking at estate papers violate privacy rules. The thing is that I wanted to look at estate papers from 1813!! So whose privacy was in jeopardy!! Ugh!!
Here's hoping Family Search won't have to remove the marriage index images! Well enough ranting.
That's it for now.
UPDATE: Just an update for anyone running across this posting. The Philadelphia Death Certificate images are once again available online at familysearch.org. You will, however, need to register with familysearch and be logged in to view them.


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Young Mizzou Volleyball Team Off To Its Best Start in 32 Years
COLUMBIA - Looking at stats, this year's Missouri volleyball team might be one of the best ever, but looking at the roster, it's also one of the youngest.
It's fitting that Missouri volleyball says its motto for this year's team is "something to prove".
"We just didn't finish where we wanted to last year, so it's just something that we use to remind ourselves that hey guys even though we have a great start, we have a lot more that we want to prove," Senior Setter Molly Kreklow said.
On a roster of 13 players, six are unproven freshman and two more are sophomores, making it one of the youngest in Wayne Kreklow's time at Mizzou.
"They're all really good players and they've played a lot, but they haven't played in environments like this," Wayne Kreklow said. "You know, it is tough and the only thing you can do when you're out there is just try to settle them a bit."
But with a 16-0 start, the best in 32 years, the inexperienced team is the best one he's ever had.
"The pieces all really fit right now with this group," Wayne Kreklow said. "We've got the bulk of the team from last year back, which helps. That team had a couple of really big holes in the lineup that they were kind of limping through and the freshmen have come in a field those gaps really really well."
Part of the secret to success, is a little sister mentoring program the team put in place.
"Each upper classmen has a little sister, one of the freshmen on the team, so we just try to watch them and look out for them and make sure they're doing ok, because you kind of need someone to look out for you and make sure you're ok, and we just wanted to make this feel like home for them," Molly Kreklow said.
"My big is actually Lisa Henning, so you can't go wrong there," Freshman Defensive Specialist Carly Kan said. "They've just been really helping be comfortable and just believing me and knowing that I can do it, and that helps my confidence."
The team is one of only seven unbeatens in the nation, winning its last 10 games in straight sets, but coach Kreklow says this team doesn't worry about stats.
"We've had team in the past that I could've said were worried too much about what's on the paper right now, but I really don't get that sense from these guys, Coach Kreklow said. "And I think a lot of that is from Molly and Lisa. I mean they're just playing."
The young Mizzou volleyball is proving to everyone that age is just another number they're not worried about.
The team says the next thing it has to prove is it can perform in the SEC after going 10-10 in the conference last year.
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The featured engine here is a 1935 Briggs and Stratton Model Y engine that I have restored.
Identified as: Type: 60190 Serial: 116047. This engine has had many adaptations in it's time. Some common applications
for this engine were to run battery chargers, electric generators, lawn mowers and washing machines.
The Briggs Model Y was manufactured from 1931 to 1945, (approximate years of manufacture).
It is rated at 1/2 horsepower with a 2.25" bore and 2.25" stroke. Unlike engine blocks of more recent manufacture, engine blocks of this time period were constructed of cast iron. This model featured a horizontal crankshaft. The air cleaner on this engine used a horse hair element to filter out dirt. There were a number of different methods employed to start this engine, this one in particular uses a foot-operated starter mechanism. Many model Ys were used as washing machine power plants and the foot operated system made the engine easier to start, (especially where the ladies or children) of the household were concerned.
This engine used an L-head design, (also referred to as a flat-head). To save space the spark plug was oriented in a horizontal direction. The speed of the model Y is controlled with a pneumatic governor.
The operating RPM range is from 1700 to 1900 RPM. This particular model Y engine has a stamped brass tag to identify it.
The fuel mixture is provided by a 1/2 inch suction-feed mixer, (or carburetor) constructed of pot metal. The gas tank is external on this model and not incorporated as part of the base of the engine, (as was the case in some of the other
Briggs engines of this time period). Depending on the type of gas tank utilized, (there were several types) a check-ball
valve was also used in models where the gas tank was mounted below the mixer, (or carburetor). The exhaust is aspirated through a 3/4" NPT threaded port. The spark plug is an 18mm flat head type: Champion 8COM. This engine deploys a blower type of cooling mechanism with fins on the flywheel that force air over the engine block which has cooling fins to regulate the engine temperature.
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JR Hildebrand
Sebring - What motivates a kid who graduated early from High
School, where he played varsity baseball and
maintained over a 4.0 GPA, including honors and AP classes, to
take up a career in racing, a sport full of danger, uncertainty,
and a lot of broken wallets? That's exactly what JR
Hildebrand from Corte Madera, California has chosen for himself.
Well spoken, very polished and years beyond his
age, 2006 saw 19-year old J.R. Hildebrand
win the Cooper Tires Formula Ford 2000 Championship in dominating style. Winning a record setting 12 of 14
races, he also set records for most consecutive victories in a
season at seven, most laps lead in a season and most poles in a
season on his way to the championship.
This year he moves up to the Champ Car Atlantic
Series and in pre-season testing he has shown early form that
would indicate he will be a serious contender for that crown and
the $2M that goes along with it.
On Saturday in Sebring the young rookie was
third fastest overall and on Sunday he moved to the top of the
timesheets. Pretty impressive stuff against some pretty
heady company.
Transitioning over to the bigger Atlantic car
proved to be no problem for JR.
"It's been pretty easy," Hildebrand told
autoracing1.com. "A number of drivers have come out of the
Cooper Formula Ford 2000 series and done well in Atlantics, like
Jonathan Bomarito for example. The cars drive somewhat the same with lots of
downforce and grip, a torquey motor instead of high HP, radial
tires and a similar balance. Obviously the Cooper FF car
does not
have the big underbody tunnels, however, it's sort of similar
how we drive it," said Hildebrand.
Renowned engineer Don Halliday has signed on to
become the lead engineer for Newman Wachs Racing's (NWR) 2007
Champ Car Atlantic season. Halliday's hiring has been one of many restructuring decisions
NWR team principals Eddie Wachs and Ove Olsson have made in
preparation for 2007.
Despite the help of Halliday, JR admits he still
has a lot to learn and cautions against setting his and the
team's expectations too high too early.
"2007 will be a real learning process for me,
especially the street circuits which most of the junior formula
don't race on.
"In terms of the competition level there is
nothing that beats the Atlantic Series. Yesterday, the
first day of testing, we had 21 drivers within one second of
each other and I ended up 3rd quick but was only 3/100ths slower
than Matos who was fastest. It just goes to show you how many good drivers
we have. I was happy to be the top rookie driver both
JR Hildebrand
Champ Car
"If you look at last year the guys who were
quick right away last year were quick all year so we're hopeful
our early form carries through as well, but with so many good
drivers in the series we cannot lose our focus.
Like all the drivers in the Atlantic Series, the
$2M that goes with winning the Atlantic title is a real carrot
at the end of the stick. Having $2M in his back pocket has
propelled last year's Atlantic champion Simon Pagenaud into the
2007 Champ Car series and that fact isn't lost on Hildebrand who
has his eyes on moving up to Champ Car within two years.
"The $2M is a huge incentive," said Hildebrand.
"But even without the $2M you would see this series be popular
because the competition is so good and it's not too expensive.
The $2M is
especially big for drivers who do not have a lot of money and
it's a way to make it to Champ Car, which is where I plan to be within
years. We try not to think about the money and focus on our
performance, and if we do that the results will be there."
Hildebrand already has future goals he has set
for himself, and to diversify is one goal the Californian has
set for himself.
"Dad raced vintage Trans-Am cars and the vintage cars have a special place in my
heart because drivers from that era would drive all kinds of cars.
Unfortunately today with contracts that is hard to do. My
goal is to prove my worth in all forms of racing, but my
short-term goal is to excel in open wheel, and like Graham Rahal and
Simon Pagenaud, use success in the Atlantic series as a stepping
stone up to Champ
Car. I can't count out going overseas and trying F1
but as Champ Car continues to improve that is the championship I want to
win within the next 5 years."
And if he does win the $2M Atlantic championship
the fact isn't lost on JR that his Atlantic co-owner, Paul
Newman, also owns 1/2 of Newman/Haas racing's Champ Car team.
I kidded with JR that I would love to overhear that conversation
in the off-season as to which team would get the $2M that goes
along with JR. Wouldn't a seat at Newman/Haas be fantastic
I asked?
"When we get to that point in the
season we'll see," said Hildebrand. "Right now it is one
step at a time and maybe if Bourdais heads off to F1 and a spot opens up,
who knows, but I
can't focus on that yet. Newman Wachs has given me all the
tools to succeed so now we need to come through."
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The internet has been abuzz lately about a recent FOX News report that has linked co-sleeping deaths to formula feeding. The report, which I found to be quite balanced (though somewhat sensational), is based on a number of co-sleeping or bed sharing deaths in the city of Milwaukee and the city's message that there is no such thing as safe bed sharing.
I first read about the report from a Tweet by Allie from No Time for Flash Cards. Annie from PhDinParenting quickly posted the FOX News video for all to view and discuss.
The City of Milwaukee Health Department is currently running this ad – with a headstone in place of a headboard – to discourage ALL parents from co-sleeping with their babies. "For too many babies last year, this was their final resting place." I guess they figure fear mongering is better than educating. As a mother who made an educated decision to co-sleep with my children, I find it quite offensive.
Then there is a TV ad that the state of Indiana is running (more fear mongering) to convince parents that they only place a baby should sleep is in a crib which is plain disturbing.
The FOX News report does a good job of representing both sides of the co-sleeping debate and even interviewed Dr. James McKenna, who literally wrote the book on safe co-sleeping.
The report revealed (although not until the very end of the video) a surprising finding, that in all of the Milwaukee co-sleeping cases they reviewed for 2009 and so far in 2010, 100% of the babies were formula fed. McKenna predicted the outcome and even goes so far as to state, "I really actually think that breastfeeding is a prerequisite for bed sharing."
The blogger at The Babydust Diaries qualifies the formula finding:
This isn't to say that the formula caused the death or that formula fed parents don't care but there are some specific circumstances that can make these kids more prone to bed-related deaths2. The video mentions positioning and waking of the mother but also the frequent wakings of the child. Formula takes longer to digest and thus those children sleep for longer stretches than breastfed babies and often sleep deeper – causing an increase in SIDS deaths as well.
The Fearless Formula Feeder wrote about her thoughts on the Fox report in Cosleeping and formula feeding: a tale of two scapegoats. She particularly took offense at "the immediate and inaccurate battle cry against formula and formula feeding" on Twitter. She suggests rephrasing Tweets from things like:
"FORMULA FEEDING, not alcohol or soft bedding, at root of bed-sharing baby deaths!"
"Formula feeding was the common factor in these poor babies' deaths!"
"Breastfeeding could protect against cosleeping deaths"
"Formula feeding parents should be alerted to cosleeping risks"
The Fearless Formula Feeder adds:
If you watch the video, it is clear that bottle feeding was indeed associated with 100% of the cosleeping death cases in Milwaukee. …
However, the sensationalist news report also mentioned, in passing, some other important factors. Like that the majority of the babies lived in low-income, black families. And that 75% lived in households where smoking was a factor, and many had parents who engaged in drug use or drank frequently. Or that a number of the cases, though originally classified as cosleeping deaths, were later ruled as other causes of death, like SIDS.
Although the City of Milwaukee Health Department would like it to be a black and white issue, there are clearly shades of gray. The medical examiner reports in Milwaukee County showed that the vast majority of co-sleeping deaths were African-American babies living in what the Black Health Coalition calls "chaotic homes." McKenna agrees that there is an "overwhelming predominance of deaths in the lower socioeconomic environment." Yet the city refuses to acknowledge and address the complexities.
The Baby Dust Diaries blogger commented on this as well:
The other issue brought up in the piece is about socioeconomic status. Statistically, more bed-related deaths occur in poorer and often unstable homes. Once again this is a correlation not a causal relationship. I was flabbergasted at the health department woman's assertion that she shouldn't even have to think about different types of people. Seriously? How do you serve a population and remain blind to the demographics? I really liked the woman from the community program [Black Health Coalition]. She, correctly, points out that ignoring the reality of the situations at home only drives these already under-served people further away from the services that can help them.
She also points out that there's a difference between a mom who brings her baby into bed as a last resort and falls asleep and a mom who has done her research and knows how to safely bed share – like she did, as did I. "It isn't a last resort of the exhausted, but a well-thought out, planned, and safe situation."
So is it fair, as the city of Milwaukee and the state of Indiana suggest, to say nobody should ever co-sleep? Or how about what James McKenna said, that only breastfeeding moms should be allowed to co-sleep? Or should we instead try to raise awareness about the risks AND benefits of co-sleeping for both breastfed and formula-fed babies and the increased risk for formula-fed babies so that parents can make decisions based on research rather than on fear?
For more information about safe bed sharing, visit:
- James McKenna's articles on co-sleeping
- Sleeping Safely with Your Baby by Dr. Sears
- Co-sleeping Safety by PhDinParenting
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I began my morning yesterday realizing I had a few things to do that didn't have anything to do with any of my goals or work....making appointments for others....finding paperwork for others....washing clothes for others....and thinking about two or three projects I needed to finish up for others.
It's not that I mind doing these things...hardly. I like to help, but more and more I find my day is full doing a list of things that don't have anything to do with a table of contents I must flesh out, articles to write, and seeing writing opportunities......or at least answering the emails when the opportunities seek me out.
Just a normal day for me as I grew more frustrated by the minute, but this time my thinking and my realizing left my brain, moved down my arms and out my fingers to a Facebook status that said, "I wear too many hats that aren't mine...some by misguided choice, some that are inherited and some are foisted upon me. I'm going to stop. Take your friggin' hat and wear it yourself....'
Later, while I was working out at the gym I thought about my status, and then my mind wandered to hats in general.
My first introduction to hats was at Greenbriar Mall west of Atlanta when I was five or six. Mother frequented Rich's department store....an Atlanta mainstay....quite often. Well, actually......very, very often. She knew most of the clerks by name, and they knew her, too. I can close my eyes and actually walk around the store in my mind I was so familiar with the layout.
Right in the center of the store were the escalators with the bakery on one side and the hat department as well. Every now and then if I caught Mom in the right mood she would give the clerk a smile, and they would let me sit down at the table and chair in the hat department and try on a few.
I generally went for the flimsy, wide-brimmed pastel creations...but secretly I really loved the veiled concoctions. At the time I just knew I liked them....now I know I liked them because they were deliciously sexy...add in a pair of matching leather gloves you can only remove by unbuttoning five or six covered buttons, and.....
Oh my....
In another life I had to have worn hats....I MUST have....and mourn the fact that they just aren't worn that much anymore....at least not in the circles I travel.
I turned away from my hat desires to think about other hats....hats in history.
Historical hats....
There had to be some.....right?
Earlier this year the Victoria and Albert Museum had an exhibit regarding hats. Of course, since the exhibit ....a collaboration between the museum and Stephen Jones....was in Great Britain the collection included hats belonging to former queens including Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
When we think of Queen Victoria we tend to think of a rather large aging lady in black as she spent the last several years of her life mourning the passing of her husband, Prince Albert, but for many years she dressed very colorfully including fancy bonnets. The collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum included a bonnet from the 1840s....a construction made of plaited horse hair and salmon pink ribbon. You can just make it out along the bottom half of this picture.
The beige tulle and lace hat worn in the late thirties by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was also in the collection. She wore the hat for a series of well known photographs taken by Cecil Beaton on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Turning towards American History the most iconic man's hat would have to be Abraham Lincoln's use of the top hat. Lincoln was already a tall man. It is said he was taller than most no matter where he went, so wearing a top hat was like a six foot woman deciding to wear five inch heels.
This hat is the one President Lincoln wore on the last night of his life...April 14, 1865. It's on display at the Smithsonian Institute.
My research indicates President Lincoln bought this particular hat from J.Y. Davis, a Washington hat maker. Notice the black silk band....Lincoln had this added to the hat in remembrance of his son Willie.
Following the assassination the War Department took possession of the hat and other items left behind at Ford's Theater. From there the hat became the property of the Patent Office and later was transferred to the Smithsonian where it has remained. In those days the employees of the Smithsonian Institute were instructed not to exhibit the hat and not to mention that it was there because of the furor it might cause in those early years following the President's death.
The hat remained in a basement storage room for almost thirty years before it was finally displayed in 1893 when the Lincoln Memorial Association borrowed the top hat for an exhibition.
Of course, today....it's one of the most popular artifacts of American History the museum owns.
Unfortunately, another iconic hat in American History is also connected to an assassination ....the Kennedy assassination.
The American public was first introduced to the pillbox hat during the Kennedy inauguration.
This article states:
[The hat was] a fawn-colored domed pillbox created by a then unknown 29-year-old named Roy Halston Frowick. The hat sat tilted toward the back, nearly doubled the size of her head, frankly, and creating a pretty contrast to her striking dark looks. She was nothing the country had ever seen. A fashionable, beautiful and highly cultured First Lady, one who not only spoke fluent French but effortlessly shopped in Paris and New York. Across the country, women unanimously agreed: This young woman was their new fashion icon. For his part, Halston had no idea what was coming.
Jackie Kennedy also wore a pillbox hat on that fateful date in Dallas, Texas.
The pillbox hat First Lady Jackie Kennedy wore the day her husband was assassinated is as iconic as the pink suit.
This article from 2011 advises the suit was turned over to the National Archives, but the hat is missing and remains missing to this day.
Somewhere inside the hospital [that fateful day in Dallas], the hat came off. "While standing there I was handed Jackie's pillbox hat and couldn't help noticing the strands of her hair beneath the hat pin. I could almost visualize her yanking it from her head," Mary Gallagher, the First Lady's personal secretary, who accompanied her to Dallas, wrote in her memoir....
The pink suit, blood-stained and perfectly preserved in a vault in Maryland, is banned from public view for 100 years. The pillbox hat...is lost, last known to be in the hands of [Gallagher], who won't discuss its whereabouts...
....[At some point following the assassination], a box arrived at the National Archives, where such treasures as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are kept. In it were the suit, blouse, handbag, shoes, and even her stockings, along with an unsigned note on the letterhead of Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's mother: "Jackie's suit and bag worn November, 22, 1963.
No hat.
One has to wonder about the hat.....
Ah.........yet another mystery in history.


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In the past five years, Sascha Ring has been haunted by the dead and possessed by some impulsive spirits.
Ring, a Berlin-based producer and original member of the Shitkatapult label, spent much of the new millennium establishing himself as an arterial-meets-ethereal sound designer recording under the name Apparat. His electrocoustic works, including collaborations with Ellen Allien and remixes of numerous peers, built on an adolescence steeped in post-Detroit techno arrhythmia and Warp Records harmonic diffusion. Tracks never lacked a sense of immediacy or animation, but they still held an equally hermetic quality. "I was some kind of musically autistic person ... sitting in the studio on my own for a long time," he laughs, acknowledging an undeniable influence.
Saturating deliberately paced sessions with cycles of alternating microloops, granular reverbs, and other expressive bit-crushing, Ring was left with a hard drive of what he describes as songleiche, or audio corpses—remnants of compositions never completed for public consumption. In 2008 Ring took these cadavers and collaborated with production duo Modeselektor to vivify them on an album under the project/album name Moderat. And it is in the wake of that album's 2009 release that Ring decamped from the familiar to conceive his fourth Apparat album and Mute Records debut, The Devil''s Walk.
"Moderat is the reason my album sounds quite organic and analog, because with Moderat everything was inside-the-box, all programmed in Logic because it was the easiest way to exchange ideas," reflects Ring. "I'm happy to still consider Moderat as my second band, because it gives me the freedom to still do all the electronic stuff; it's where I can put all the rave ideas. And it also lets me play around more with what Apparat is, how it can be more poppy. And being able to completely change how I work keeps me inspired."
Ring did more than change up his drum sequencer, synths, or DAW to get out of his normal workflow. Accompanied by musicians Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), Fredo Nogueira, and Jörg Waehner, Ring rented a house, "Casa Magia," in Sayulita, Mexico, far away in body and spirit from the crisp gradients of Germany.
Sasha Ring in the studio.
"I had built myself a nice studio for the Moderat album, but for this Apparat album I wanted to work with sounds that don't sound perfect," says Ring. "So we took a laptop, some preamps, and microphones, and went to record like a band, moving drums around this house … using nice gear but not caring about mic placement or if things sounded a little f**ked up. It was playing with Legos instead of doing a computer-aided drawing; it was very playful, direct, and intuitive, and I found it very inspiring."
Armed with Soundelux U195, Sennheiser MD 421-II, and Neumann KMS151 microphones, a MacBook with an Apogee Ensemble, and an API Lunchbox, the participants experimented with the space, hanging mics from rafters and creating modular studios out of black fabrics draped in closets, hallways, and the palapa, a thatched-roof porch lined with open windows. Vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards, and other sound generators were tracked and then compiled into song arrangements. Returning to Berlin and surveying the sessions, however, Ring found himself battling old demons. "I realized it wasn''t the record I wanted to do and it was just completely my fault, because I overworked everything again," admits Ring, who had traded the temptation to obsess over digital's infinite options for an infatuation with over-processing analog sources.
Ring then took a three-month break before connecting with Patrick "Nackt" Christensen, who co-produced the second sessions for The Devil's Walk between his studio, Chez Cherie, and Ring''s own home base. Nackt provided an ear free of emotional attachment, pressing mute on many, many sounds that were declared superfluous, as well as adding string arrangements and providing additive instrumentation. The two kept the spirit of the first sessions, however, recording as much natural response as possible.
"I have favorite instruments, like my Nord Wave, and I would rather spend time figuring it out to get the sound I want directly than later pile it with EQ and plug-ins," says Ring. "I have things I do run, like Pluggo from Cycling '74 and Native Instruments Guitar Rig, because I want to make certain sounds more interesting, more wide. I definitely treat most things in the computer, but I''m trying harder now to set things right while I record them. I want to avoid MIDI quantization as much as possible, and to bury in real sounds, little noises."
This dogma to keep as much as possible within the physical realm extended in several directions. These included tweaking mistake-flecked guitar runs till they sounded like synths; replacing scratch tracks generated in Reaktor with percussive flourishes from pianos, pounding metal, and mallet instruments; plus creating single-minded processing modules out of old gear like a Korg MS-50 modular synthesizer. "But I just run audio through the output section, and maybe also the filter," explains Ring. "Once you just turn the output completely up, it always generates this really, really cool hiss and a little crackle. You run a bass sound through and it distorts in a nice, thick, sparkly way."
Additionally, Ring used an Altec 1612a preamp repeatedly to generate what he describes as a "mids-y, old, and sh*tty" sound to impart distressed character to certain elements, such as mandolins in the album''s lead single, "Ash/Black Veil." "The Altec definitely makes some frequencies disappear, but it doesn't sound annoying," Ring says.
With its drum snippet palpitations, bow scrapes, and sighing decays, "Ash/Black Veil" stands as a template of the album's initial blueprint—an elegant textural tension influenced by Roxy Music and the Cure and akin to the melancholic bliss of Doves or Radiohead or a remixed composition of a contemporary classical minimalist composer than some track by a tech-house/dubstep-influenced DJ who plays Fabric and records mixes for DJ-Kicks. In contrast, "Song of Los" is the most sequenced, holographic, artificially augmented, and therefore furthest from the concept.
Having Nackt's studio accessible also allowed Ring to revisit the vibe of the palapa. Whereas the Apparat studio has a single small room with a flat frequency response, Chez Cherie offered a large loft space with portable rigs/walls where more room could be recorded (though it was dialed down in the final, more intimate mix). Even at the Apparat studio, elements would be backed off the mic by meters to get as much roominess as possible.
To enrich the presence of his vocals, which anchor many tracks and act as another directly manipulable instrument, Ring switched to a Bock Audio 151 cardioid tube condenser mic with a Universal Audio 6176 pre/compressor, as he felt the tone was similar in thickness to a vintage Telefunken ELA-M 250. The one number Ring doesn't sing is "Goodbye," which features Anja Plaschg of Soap&Skin and holds the hushed, hazy lope of certain songs by mellifluous Swede duo jj.
In the end, Ring crafted an encompassing album intended to gradually unfurl during front-to-back listening in concentrated sittings. The Devil's Walk is possessed by soft-focus dream-pop, dusky syncopation and affecting swells that Ring equates to Bon Iver records rather than electronic music's culture of flurried singles. He hopes the album won't lose context by having its songs plucked out and orphaned in playlists, as the sequence exerts a pulmonary rhythm throughout its 10 oxygenated, aspirating tracks. Systolic longing pulses beneath arpeggios and ruddy flushes of cloistered harmonies, offering a testament to a fleeting summer of rediscovery and the dynamics of a corporeal aesthetic.
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On the evolution of the album…
"I felt kind of relieved to be able to become more poppy or whatever with the new Apparat album. I always had my doubts to go this direction because I grew up as some kind of underground techno DJ dude, you know, and I slowly changed and developed into more of a, let's call it a musician. Finally I started writing songs and stuff, but it took quite a while until I could present that to the people, because before I always thought the people would think I was going nuts, changing like that.
First I was completely straight techno, and then I got into all this more purely digital electronica thing, if that's what you want to call it. And suddenly some people started using real instruments with their electronics again, and that was me as well, just because I got bored of the sound. Nothing's forbidden now.
On searching for sounds…
I'm always searching for sounds; sometimes I do it for ages. I have these moments when I just will be sitting in the studio and I don't really feel inspired to write music or feel really creative and that's basically the stuff I do. And sometimes it's more or less successful. When Pitchfork announced this new album, I read they said something like, "new album by German dance producer Apparat." But I can't really do what I want to do with dance music anymore. It needs a certain punch … simple, rough in-your-face sounds. I think I just can't do that because I always end up making the sounds more petite and more detailed and I shape them a little more here and there and in the end everything is a little too complex to be good for the dance floor.
This doesn't mean I don''t use some techniques that are also very good for dance music. Playing with sidechaining is a hobby of mine. That's another reason I switched to Logic. I think it's nice to have the sidechain possibility in every channel. For Cubase, you always had to have a workaround for that. I'd been using Cubase for years and year and years and for the Moderat project, I switched to Logic to be able to exchange files with Modeselektor, so I'm glad I did.
Like, a very cheap trick that is always cool, you can do with the Logic Bit Crusher. You set all the controls to zero, so it will only work as a very crazy brickwall limiter. It doesn't distort, and you can run it very loud. It can make things very nasty and punchy if you use it the right way.
But I can get lost in programming tricks, too. A lot of time when I was in the studio I'd think, "Oh my god, this is going to be a really f*cking killer dance track," and then four hours later and 20 Reaktor patches later there were so many sounds in there and it lost its whole punchiness. It just got too complicated. That's my main problem.
On new sonic directions on the new album…
On this new album, I think all these songs sound quite different, so the guy who did the mastering had to do subtle modifications to all of them and he had to know and be aware of the middle, where he wants to go with all these songs, where he wants to put them. I think he did a good job, and he also put them on tape in the end. So this album has been taped in the end, but not really on my special request. He just thought it's a good idea.
I wasn't mixing this album, you know? I had a friend of mine who did the mixing. He said, in his opinion, tape really made a big difference. But maybe he just hears better than I do. He had a lot of work to do. We involved my friend quite late in the mixing process and we thought we'd just bounce everything and give him all the separated stems without any effects and any EQs, so basically we destroyed the whole mix. Seriously, for the first song we gave him 80 tracks without any compression, EQs or any effects. It was really, really stupid. I don't know why we did that. Some of these EQs were really important not only for the sound but the sound design. And he ended up making a really amazing mix. Probably he had to redo all the stuff we did. But he did it, and it sounded really good.
For the next song, we figured out it was a lot of useless work and he was like, "Come on guys, just give me your Logic file and I'll just clean it." I did not think this was a good idea, because bouncing stuff and giving all this stuff to a mixer is kind of like a restart, and some of the mistakes you did before he's not going to run into the same problems. But he wanted to just have the whole Logic file and he cleaned it himself and substituted EQs with hardware stuff and some Universal Audio plug-ins, whatever… and it sounded good in the end.
I think one thing that really made this album what it is in the end is sequencing. I think it is a very important part of making an album and it's kind of sad that it's about to disappear. Kids mostly just download single tracks and make their own playlists, which is ok, but I think you definitely miss a lot of cool things like all these songs which don't really appear to be really, really intense at first, but maybe they just take some time and they grow on you. If you just listen to something once and you don't listen to the record over and over again, you're going to miss the real hit, the long-lasting stuff. That's why I really take care to make albums that have some drama. I think that's a very important thing. I'm not a friend of singles.


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Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is featured in Journey, the twenty-second and final episode of Season One. It is sung at the 2010 Midwest Regional Championship by Vocal Adrenaline with Jesse singing lead.
They wear pink and black during their performance and the number is intertwined with the birth of Quinn's baby, Beth, by mixing some lyrics with Quinn's pain (for example "let me go"). It is one of the few songs to be performed for the recording length (aside from most mash-up songs). Their performance earned them first place in the Regionals competition.
Vocal Adrenaline:
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide no escape from reality
Open your eyes look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy (Vocal Adrenaline: Poor boy) I need no sympathy
Vocal Adrenaline:
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, Little low
Jesse with Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter
Vocal Adrenaline:
To me
To me
Jesse (with Vocal Adrenaline):
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
(Mama, oooooh) didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
(Carry on, carry on)
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, (with Vocal Adrenaline Girls: oooooh) (Vocal Adrenaline Boys: Anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
(Vocal Adrenaline: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...) I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
(with Vocal Adrenaline: Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?)
Vocal Adrenaline:
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me
Vocal Adrenaline Girl:
Galileo (Jesse: Galileo)
Galileo (Jesse: Galileo)
(with Jesse: Galileo Figaro)
Vocal Adrenaline:
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Vocal Adrenaline:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go
Will you let me go
Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
No - we will not let you go (Vocal Adrenaline Girls: Let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Vocal Adrenaline Girls: Let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Vocal Adrenaline Girls: Let me go)
Will not let you go (Vocal Adrenaline Girls: Let me go)
Never let you go (Vocal Adrenaline Girls: Let me go)
Vocal Adrenaline:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mamma mia, mamma mia
Vocal Adrenaline:
Mamma mia, let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out
Just gotta get right outta here...
(Vocal Adrenaline: Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters, to me
Jesse with Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows
- The choreography was very grueling for the dancers (one sprained her ankle, one got a concussion, one broke her finger, one did a head-whip into the steadicam), and Jonathan Groff was injured during rehearsal receiving a five-inch scar on his biceps from his dance partner's stiletto.
- One male dancer lifting a female dancer onto his shoulders even made it into the final cut and can be seen to the right of the screen of him accidentally dropping her.
- Jane Lynch dubbed the number her favorite of the series.
- Jonathan Groff does not actually play the piano but he learned how to play the song for this episode only.
- As revealed by Rachel in Nationals, this performance was the gold standard for many show choirs for years.
- This is the second song Vocal Adrenaline has done by Queen, the first being Another One Bites the Dust, both of which Jesse sung lead in.
- In Nationals, Jesse claims that he lost 10 pounds during this performance.
- At 5:56, this is the longest song Glee has done.
- This is Jesse's last solo in the series.


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Yeah i had talked to Rob about Wal basses - he offered me to come over and try out / play his set of Wal basses but was not interested in selling. Such a shame because he is local and has a great collection of Wal basses.martyforrer wrote:Rob Burns in Otago has one. I had one in the early 90s, but I didn't like it. I bought it new from the RS. I couldn't get the "sound" so I went back to a Fender Jazz. Much better.
I have been looking for around a year or more so far without being able to seal a deal - mainly due to sellers being reluctant to ship international.
If anybody is aware of somebody who might be interested in selling, let me know, because it would be a great help


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George Hearst Jr. - Hearst Corp. chairman - dies
George R. Hearst Jr., chairman of the board of the Hearst Corp., died Monday at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto of complications following a stroke.
Mr. Hearst, who became ill June 16 at his ranch home in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County), was 84.
He was the grandson of William Randolph Hearst, who took over the small and struggling San Francisco Examiner in 1887, the first newspaper in what became a worldwide media empire. The elder Hearst died in 1951.
George Hearst Jr. served for more than 50 years as a director of the Hearst Corp. and became chairman of the board in 1996.
During his tenure, the Hearst Corp. grew into a huge conglomerate with interests in newspapers, magazines, television stations, cable TV networks, Internet businesses, real estate and other enterprises. Other businesses include European magazines, television stations in Latin America and the award-winning Hearst Ranch Winery on the Central California coast.
"George was an enthusiastic supporter of the corporation's growth and diversification strategies," said Frank A. Bennack Jr., executive vice chairman and CEO of Hearst Corp. "As chairman of the board, he brought his vast experience and wisdom to bear during a time of incredible growth and helped guide us through periods of enormous change. Although always calling every situation as he saw it, George was the most supportive and steadfast chairman a CEO could possibly have. He will be greatly missed by everyone who had the pleasure of working with him."
In 2000, the Hearst Corp. bought The San Francisco Chronicle and sold the smaller Examiner. It owns 15 daily newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News and the Albany Times Union in New York.
Sons part of business
George R. Hearst III, one of Mr. Hearst's two sons, is publisher of the Times Union. His other son, Stephen T. Hearst, is vice president and general manager of Hearst's Western Properties, based in San Francisco.
"He was a silent giant," George R. Hearst III said Monday night. "He was probably one of the most generous people anyone could ever hope to know. He always did great things, good things, for people when nobody was looking. I'm sure many will be forever grateful for his generosity."
The corporation also owns 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300 magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics, and O, the Oprah magazine. The company also owns 29 television stations and has interests in cable networks, including ESPN and the A+E Networks.
In 2011, the Hearst Corp. acquired nearly 100 European magazines from the Lagardere group, which made Hearst one of the world's largest magazine publishers.
The Hearst Corp. is privately held; Mr. Hearst was the chairman of a 21-member board of directors. Its financial structure has not been made public, but the corporation acquired the European magazines for several hundred million dollars and built the Hearst Tower in New York City in 2006 for a reported $500 million in cash.
George Randolph Hearst Jr. and his twin sister, Phoebe, were born in San Francisco on July 13, 1927, to Blanche Wilbur and George Hearst, the oldest son of William Randolph Hearst.
George Hearst Jr. was named for his father and his great-grandfather, who made a fortune in silver and gold mining and served as a U.S. senator from California. The senator acquired the San Francisco Daily Examiner in 1880 as payment for a gambling debt.
Sen. George Hearst gave the newspaper to his son, William Randolph Hearst, in 1887.
War veteran
George Hearst Jr. had a long career as a newspaper, real estate and corporate executive. He was also a war veteran, a helicopter pilot and a philanthropist.
He attended the University of New Mexico and the University of Southern California. He served nearly 10 years in the military, first enlisting during World War II and serving in the Naval Air Corps. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1954. He was a helicopter pilot during the closing days of the Korean War. In March 1953, Mr. Hearst, then a warrant officer, flew his helicopter within 300 yards of enemy lines to resupply a battalion of troops marooned near the front line.
It was the Army's first attempt to resupply frontline troops using helicopters, which were able to fly in extreme weather that would ground other aircraft.
He later flew several other missions to evacuate sick and wounded men during a prisoner of war exchange in the last months of the war. His unit, he said, "has been called on to do almost everything over here. In evacuating wounded from forward areas, bringing back our sick and wounded POWs ... bringing food and ammo supplies, the helicopter has come into its own."
Started in Los Angeles
He began his newspaper career at the age of 20 as a classified advertising salesman at the Los Angeles Examiner. After his military service, he was an assistant to the business manager of the San Francisco Examiner, then moved to the Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express, where he was an assistant business manager. He was later named publisher.
The paper merged with the Los Angeles Examiner and was called the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Mr. Hearst was named publisher in 1965.
In the early 1960s, the Herald Examiner was the largest evening newspaper in the country. In 1977, Mr. Hearst was promoted to vice president of the Hearst Corp. with responsibility for managing the corporation's real estate interests.
At that time, he served on the Hearst Corp. board of directors and its executive committee. In March 1996, he became chairman of the board, succeeding his uncle, Randolph A. Hearst, who had died.
Mr. Hearst was active in civic affairs and had been at various times a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and many other organizations.
He was also president of the Hearst Foundation and a director of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, which award grants in the fields of education, health, culture and social services. In the five years ending in 2011, the foundations awarded $162.2 million.
"He supported health, education and cultural arts and human services, and directed large and substantial funds for the public benefit," said son George R. Hearst III. "He set the bar for others to follow and was one great guy."
He is survived by his twin sister, Phoebe Hearst Cooke of Woodside; wife Susan and her daughter, Jessica Gonzalves, and her two children; his three children, George R. Hearst III, Stephen T. Hearst and Erin Hearst Knudsen; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Hearst was predeceased by his oldest child, Mary "Bunny" Hearst Ives, who died in 2004.
Services will be private. A celebration of life will be announced at a later date.
Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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We just caught a new prototype for the 2010 Chevy Equinox, undisguised to the point that it looks darn near showroom-ready. An earlier Equinox prototype—photographed in mid-August—dropped the heavy vinyl camouflage, but still had mismatched body panels and a decent dose of graphic tape to partially muddy the waters. With the appearance of this squeaky-clean, unobscured white prototype, we're about as close as we'll get to the 100% finished product until it makes its official bow.


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