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June 2013 New ProductsPosted in Product Reviews on June 1, 2013
Bag of Air
Sometimes on-board-air systems just don't fit on every engine, and what if you've got two Jeeps? Gonna swap engines every time? Sure you could use a tank, but tanks ain't small. Well Viair has the solution. Pick the pump you need and check the "portable" box. That will get your pump of choice bolted to a vibration-resistant sand tray and delivered in a heavy-duty carry bag. Also in the bag are wiring with alligator clips, a high-flow airline with a pressure gauge. All pumps feature an air filter element with replaceable filtration media.
Information: Viair Corporation
949/585-0011, viaircorp.com
Cold Solid
Tired of subpar aftermarket rear track bars? Not a problem. Iron Rock Off Road was too, so the company took matters into its own hands with the design of this 1.25-inch-diameter solid cold-rolled track bar. The company claims it is the strongest track bar out there and ships with black powdercoat finish and zinc on the adjustable link to handle the elements as well. The bar features enough adjustment to handle any '97-'06 Wrangler from 0 to 6 inches of lift, even without an aftermarket axle bracket.
Information: Iron Rock Off Road
952/210-7185, ironrockoffroad.com
If you have an '07-up Wrangler and your factory door retaining straps are stretched, frayed, or broken, you probably know about Smart Straps—the only kit on the market that allows you to replace your door straps without paying the dealer the $65 for the factory strap/wiring loom part. The Smart Strap is stronger than the factory part and allows for two stopping positions. They are washable and allow for the front doors to open wider. But that isn't the news. The news is that Smart Straps are now available in eight new colors. Colors include black and grey checkerboard, white and grey checkerboard, green, yellow, red, tie-die, grey digital camouflage, and green digital camouflage.
Information: Star Fabricating
801/244-5859, starfabricating.com
Steer Ease
While we pay a lot of attention to fitting bigger tires, the fact is that a lot of us just don't need high-flow power steering pumps, big-bore boxes, or rams to move our tires around. And, often fitting all the stuff can be a huge pain. So whether you've got a lightweight Jeep on smaller tires or just want to move your project around without peeing power steering fluid all over the place, we found the solution. Borgeson recently acquired Saginaw's manual steering box production capabilities and rights and is now offering a staggering array of all-new (not rebuilt) manual boxes for all sorts of applications.
Information: Borgeson
860/482-8283, borgeson.com
Buying new tie-down straps can be a staggering experience with a vast array of lengths, colors, and accessories available; it is easy to grab the wrong thing. Mac's Tie Downs has made this whole mess much easier with the Ultra Pack. It can be ordered with your choice of hooks, in six and eight feet lengths, and includes four strap wraps and four axle straps. The hardware on the axle straps is custom-designed to fit tight applications. The whole shebang stores neatly and easily in a nylon carry bag. Mac's tie downs feature more than double the stitches-per-inch than competitor's products, and are available in blue, red, black, and yellow.
Information: Mac's Tie Downs
800/666-1586, macstiedowns.com
Gauges, Dummy
Hate wiring? We hear you. So does MTS Company. Whether you've got an early or late YJ Wrangler, MTS has the replacement gauge panel to fix any of your gauges that died 10 years ago and you've been afraid of wiring in a replacement. The formed plastic panel comes with the gauges already installed and wired to a year-specific plug. Gauges include fuel level, oil pressure, water temperature, and voltage. The pods are available in both black and tan. Just remove a few Philips screws, unplug the old gauges, plug these in, and enjoy another 20 years from your YJ Wrangler.
Information: MTS Company
800/522-1622, mtscompany.com
Stage 2
If you want a little more power out of your '07-'11 Wrangler, you aren't alone. This Stage 2 kit from aFe Power boasts 58 percent more flow than the factory intake, resulting in 10hp and 11 lb-ft more power on an otherwise-stock engine. The massive 4-inch-diameter air filter is both washable and reusable and enclosed in a black powdercoated 16-gauge heat shield. The heat-shield is one-piece and requires no assembly while the roto-molded intake tube is also dyno-tuned and helps to keep heat out of the intake air flow. The filter element itself is of five-layer cotton construction to keep dirt out of your engine while still out-flowing paper elements.
Information: aFe Power
888/901-7693, afepower.com
Extreme Sequel
The new ProComp Xtreme MT2 tires feature a tread designed with advanced computer modeling to deliver unsurpassed grip without excessive road noise. The two-step design provides stability while improving braking performance while the alternating scalloped shoulder lugs and continuous tread pattern on the sidewall really bite into the dirt. Strategically based rock rejection ribs keep rocks from clogging the tires and also help shed mud. Tri-ply construction means you get two steel belts in the sidewall with a nylon overwrap for massive sidewall protection. The tires are currently available in 31-37-inch sizes and all feature a 40,000-mile tread wear warranty.
Information: ProComp Tires
800/776-0767, procompusa.com
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Liberation, which also claims shareholders are getting a raw deal in the agreement, holds 11.2 percent (4.62 million shares) of Bally's depressed stock. Pardus Capital Management LP, Bally's largest shareholder, holds 14.8 percent, or 6.1 million shares.
Bally's plan involves a reduction in the principal outstanding on the company's existing senior subordinated notes by $150 million by exchanging all existing senior subordinated notes for a new class of notes, common equity and the right to participate in a $77.5 million rights offering.
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The letter was released in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by Bally on Wednesday. A Bally spokesman declined to comment.
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Liberation demanded that its executives, Manny Pearlman and Gregg Frankel, be appointed to a seat on the board. Pearlman led the fight at the January 2006 shareholder meeting to have Bally's CEO at the time, Paul Toback, removed. That effort failed. At that same shareholder meeting, Pardus Capital Management fought to get Don Kornstein on the board and succeeded in doing so. Kornstein is now chairman of the board and interim chief restructuring officer of the company.
Liberation also warned that it is "prepared to vindicate their rights both in and out of bankruptcy court" and is willing to negotiate a "consensual resolution."
In other news, Mark J. Wattles' hedge fund Wattles Capital Management LLC announced in an SEC filing Thursday that it had sold all but 400,000 shares of its Bally stock this month. Wattles previously was Bally's third-largest shareholder with 3.8 million shares, or 9.3 percent. Now, Wattles' stake in Bally is less than 1 percent after selling 2.5 million shares on June 1 and 956,300 shares on June 4.
Also within the past week, Bally announced that Michael Feder, a managing director at financial advisory firm AlixPartners, joined the company as its new chief operating officer and "will assume broad leadership responsibilities for all operations." Feder replaces former COO John Wildman, who becomes Bally's interim chief marketing officer and senior vice president for sales. Bally also says it is continuing its search for a permanent chief executive.
Bally's stock closed at 73 cents Friday on the Pink Sheets exchange.

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Intricate parts require intricate measurements, and tolerances for most of the work performed at 3-D CNC are typically within 0.0001 inch. Nonetheless, precision alone wouldn't have been enough when the company sought in 2005 to update its quality control processes. To maintain competitiveness, the company needed a solution that could also reduce measuring times and remove much of the labor from the inspection process.
It found that solution in the Prismo navigator 7/9/5 CMM from Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota). Equipped with a precise sensor and robust software, the machine delivered exactly what the company was looking for. To 3-D CNC's surprise, however, it also delivered unexpected benefits, including an entirely new source of revenue and a new window into the company's own production processes.
Based in Hutchinson, Minnesota, 3-D CNC specializes in precision tooling, close-tolerance component parts, wire EDM services, automated manufacturing equipment and prototypes. With customers hailing from sectors known for intricate, often tiny components—the medical device, computer hardware, industrial automation, semiconductor, and electronics industries, among others—the company adheres to stringent inspection standards driven by both customer needs and internal quality controls. The first step is incoming part inspection, which ensures that parts match their prints before the company proceeds with the next manufacturing process. From there, parts undergo in-process inspections after every phase in their production before moving on to final inspection. This can vary from 100-percent inspection on all parts to only critical features on one part per lot. In addition to these measurements, the company performs reverse engineering, analysis testing of tooling components and calibration validation of go/no-go gaging tools and tooling fixtures.
Prior to installing the Zeiss CMM, 3-D CNC employed a vision system and open-layout equipment such as height and dial indicators, gage pins and blocks, granite surface plates, and squaring blocks and vises. Although this was sufficient to obtain many needed measurements, the required time and labor made the process less than cost-effective.
Staying competitive with manufacturing costs and inspection precision would require a system capable of measuring a linear distance of 4 inches within tolerances of +/- 0.0001 inch. Other priorities included user-friendly software and capabilities for performing profile measurements of curved features. Research began by seeking product information on Web sites from top CMM manufacturers. From there, the company solicited system recommendations based on current and future targeted tolerances, and it had mini capability studies conducted on test parts.
That extensive search led the company to the Prismo navigator 7/9/5. In addition to the CMM's reliability, a deciding factor was the integrated ISC controller's ability to provide real-time, dynamic correction of machine and stylus. The VAST gold sensor with navigator technology could meet target tolerances at scanning speeds as fast as 300 points per second. Finally, curve, an extension to the machine's Calypso measuring software, could provide sufficient capability for both 2D and 3D curve measurements and calculations, the company says.
Since installation, the CMM has reduced inspection time on a number of jobs to varying degrees, depending on the project type and size, says Ken Wraspir, quality manager at 3-D CNC. As an example, he cites one particular project that required inspection of all features on all parts. Additionally, the job required shipping a copy of the inspection data with each part as well as sending a copy with the customer electronically. With the Prismo, inspection time for this job was reduced by 75 percent compared to the previous vision and layout measurement process. Additionally, the CMM operator was free to perform other tasks while the machine conducted the measurements. "This reduction in inspection time and equipment really confirmed the need for the Zeiss CMM," Mr. Wraspir says.
He adds that the reliability of the machine has been "outstanding." Since the purchase in 2005, the machine and software have been up and running every day. It is robust enough to handle any potential problems that might occur with novice CMM operators while still operating at its full capacity and accuracy. Moreover, the Calypso software with curve has reduced lead times by enabling manufacturing personnel to conduct their own in-process inspections, the company says. Operators can adjust machine settings based on simple graphic selections. Curve can also perform profile measurements on parts such as spheres, fan blades and curved medical devices.
3-D CNC has also come to appreciate the software's AutoRun feature. Initially, the company didn't expect to get much use out of this capability because lot sizes are typically small. In 2010, for example, almost half of jobs consisted of only a single part, and another 40 percent ranged between 2 and 24 parts per order. That changed when a major customer requested a job consisting of 200 parts that would repeat quarterly. All 200 parts would require 100-percent inspection on critical features. To meet these requirements, the company created two pallets that would hold 25 parts each. With the AutoRun feature, the CMM could inspect each pallet in two hours unattended. Meanwhile, the operator was free to load the next pallet and conduct other tasks. "Our customer was so impressed with our CMM measurement efficiency that it placed an order immediately for two pallets to try the AutoRun feature on its own Zeiss CMM," Mr. Wraspir recalls.
The CMM's benefits have extended beyond the company's inspection processes. For example, providing a three-dimensional picture of operations on a wire EDM or VMC improves programmers' knowledge of how their equipment is performing and what is needed to produce a part within tolerance. "Instead of just telling them the part is out of tolerance, we can actually show them what is wrong," Mr. Wraspir says.
The machine has also provided an unexpected new source of revenue. As knowledge of the machine's accuracy spread, new customers began approaching 3-D CNC for third-party inspection services and to solve various measurement discrepancies, Mr. Wraspir says. In one instance, a customer needed to know whether radii with only 25 percent of their circumferences were made to print, but it could not get results to repeat with its own vision system and CMM. Inspection personnel at 3-D CNC suspected that the form values of the radii were causing problems with getting the measurement systems to repeat. With Calypso curve, the company was able to prove that the radii fell within the required tolerance for size and location. The parts the customer thought were scrap were actually well within tolerance.
The Zeiss system has proven its reliability in cost-effectively inspecting small, intricate parts. In the future, however, the company anticipates the need to perform even more precise measurements with styli that are even smaller than the 0.5-mm-diameter models they currently use. One example is go/no-go gages. Some of the models the company manufactures now measure only 0.06 by 0.06 by 0.4 inch and have internal and external curved features with profile tolerances of 0.00008 inch. Nonetheless, these customers have predicted that future gages might require tolerances as tight as 0.00005 inch and contain features that require probes as small as 0.02 inch in diameter. Despite these predictions, both 3-D CNC and its customers sufficiently trust the capabilities of the Zeiss system to move into the future with confidence, Mr. Wraspir says.


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Following up on part 1 of this series, here's the second batch of online "pioneers" featured in Ted Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails:
- Darcy O'Neill, Art of Drink. Darcy brings a unique perspective to the world of bartending and drinking: he's a chemist, who understands the complex reactions that occur when you mix a drink. If you ever want to know what it means to be a super-taster, Darcy's the man to ask.
- Marleigh Riggins Miller, Sloshed! Graphic designer, nerdling, and all-around all-right gal, Marleigh's been at this just a little longer than I have. Her new husband, Dan, has joined her in her blogging efforts. I met them both in New Orleans last year, and they're good people. Check 'em out.
- Michael Dietsch, A Dash of Bitters. I'm including myself just to show where I fall in the line-up.
- Rick Stutz, Kaiser Penguin. A gifted photographer with an yen for creative garnish, Rick blogs from the Keystone State. One excellent feature of Rick's blog is the recipe comparison, where he tries several variants on a single recipe and discusses what works for him and what doesn't. Rick's also a helluva cook, from what I hear, and a fan of throwing cocktail parties, so if you're planning a trip to PA, invite yourself to Rick's. Everybody comes to Rick's, as an old movie once said.
- Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, The Liquid Muse. As a mixologist, cocktail-book author, and educator, Natalie's usually got a pretty full glass in front of her. Her first book is Preggatinis, which features virgin cocktails for expecting mothers, and frankly for anyone else who'd prefer an alcohol-free sipper.
- Lauren Clark, Drinkboston.com. New York, San Francisco, and Seattle usually top the list of cocktalian cities, but I believe that Lauren's beloved Boston deserves a place in that list, with such excellent bars as Eastern Standard, Green Street, and Drink. A founding member of the Boston chapter of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, Lauren set out to document Boston's bar scene, putting her on the front line for the cocktail resurgence in the Boston area. Lauren's been branching out lately into video presentations of classic and new cocktails, and the videos are excellent, so check them out!
- Karen Foley and Imbibe Magazine. Huge fan of Imbibe magazine. Huge. If you're not familiar with Imbibe, the first thing you need to know is that it's not just about alcohol. Imbibe covers all liquid culture, whether that's coffee, tea, soda, or yes, beer, wine, or spirits. Imbibe Unfiltered is the blog portion of this endeavor, and it's excellent. In fact, if you go there now, you'll see the scope of Imbibe's coverage–riesling, beer, the French 75 cocktail, mango green tea, a wine shop, and a daiquiri video are all on the front page right now.
- Camper English, Alcademics. Camper, like Paul Clarke, is living the dream–he's a full-time, paid spirits writer. His blog has a different focus from many here. He doesn't write up cocktail recipes, for example; he tracks news about spirits, bartending, drink trends, and the like. His is one of the most informative blogs in my RSS reader.
- Craig Mrusek, Dr. Bamboo. The only cat I know who illustrates every post with a new line drawing. As I said in this space a year ago, I think Craig's a damn good cartoonist. Anything else I could say about the guy I've already said, but I'll add this. His monicker always reminds me of perhaps my favorite character from Bewitched.
- Jeff Berry, Beachbum Berry's Grog Blog. Here, I think, is where we start to move into some new territory. For the most part (Karen's an exception, and there may be one or two others), everyone I've talked about so far became "known," to the extent that we're known, because of our online writing. Jeff, though, was a published author first and a blogger second. One of the finest minds in tiki, the Beachbum peered past the kitsch to see the craft behind tiki classics. He interviewed retired tiki bartenders to learn the recipes they used and the techniques they employed. The Beachbum shows that there's more to tiki than palm fronds, coconut-shell glassware, pink umbrellas, and cheap rum.
- Gabriel Szaszko, Cocktailnerd. Writing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gabriel's a generalist like me; he'll try just about anything, and if he screws up with a drink, or if something just doesn't work for him, he'll talk about why instead of just dumping it in the sink and making an old-fashioned.
- Blair Reynolds, Trader Tiki. Having just come off a week as a cocktail apprentice at Tales of the Cocktail, Blair's one wiped-out tiki nerd, but he hasn't let that slow him down. Check out his site for rum reviews, tiki drinks, and explorations of tropical culture.
- Gary Regan, World Wide Bartender Database. Listen. Gary Regan merits an entire book, let alone a few lines in an appendix at the back of one. Gary's The Joy of Mixology was the first cocktail book I owned, and I'd suggest it to anyone who wants to start mixing drinks at home. But Gary's in this book for another reason, and that's the bartender database he started. Open only to people who work in the hospitality industry (and the marketers who cater to them), the database provides resources for bartenders–job listings, news about mixology competitions, events, and the like. What people don't seem to know is that for many bartenders (Jeff Morgenthaler and Jamie Boudreau among them), tending is a career. These folks are pros. They're not pulling pints and shaking drinks while looking for a "real" job or going to school. What Gary's given them is a virtual watering hole where they gather to exchange information and support each other. It's huge.
- Sonja Kassebaum, Thinking of Drinking. As Ted points out in the book, Sonja stands alone in this list. She's not just a drinker and a cocktail nerd, and she's not just a blogger. Oh no, Sonja's actually a distiller to boot. She and her husband own North Shore Distillery in the Chicago area, making gins, vodkas, and other boutique spirits.
And that wraps up this look at Haigh's pioneering champions. You'll have to read the actual book to see what we all have to say about drinks and spirits and whatnot, but I wanted to provide a run down of the list for those of you unfamiliar with my fellow Internet wonders.


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With the help of seasoned GNOME artists Lapo Calamandrei, Hylke Bons, and Jakub Steiner, I was able to create the following GNOME-y icons:
I used the already-existing clock icon, stripped down it down to its bare face, and layered the fuel gauge type stuff on top. I don't often get the chance to create icons (certainly not at all the sizes pictured here) and I'm hoping to get better at it. Of course I still have to try my hand at a high-res (256x256px) version… 🙂
The Inkscape SVG source is available.


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Graywood No. 233
10 mm Graywood beads accented by a 2.5 mm champagne diamond, set in sterling silver, woven on a pink silk thread with graywood toggle beads.
Healing Properties of This Bracelet
WOOD - Symbolizes development, evolution, adaptation, & growth
Power of Colours in This Bracelet
GRAY - Symbolizes security, maturity & dependability. Wear if you want to
emphasize your willingness to enjoy a neutral, non-invasive attitude. Grey
calms the intensity of colours around it.
Looks Great With
A note on natural materials
All natural materials vary and no two strands or gems are the same and we believe this as the beauty of nature and it adds richness and dimension to your bracelet. We make every bracelet completely by hand so there will be no two exactly the same. Due to the nature of our materials, they are sensitive to extreme heat, water, hand lotion, soap, body oils etc. Some will dull over time and some will change colour with exposure. We choose to use natural silk rather than synthetic thread. Over time the threads will wear and the more water, lotion and stress that is placed on the silk the faster this will happen.
Please see FAQ page for instructions on care of your Amulet Healing Bracelet.
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MatchMaker and MMX Compatible
Save weight and clutter on the bar with Matchmaker. It holds Avid levers, SRAM® triggers, and various RockShox® controls, all with one tidy, light, clamp--a dream come true for handlebar component footprint conservationists the world over. Available in two versions: Matchmaker™ X integrates the RockShox®XLoc and is compatible with XX and X0 brakes. Standard Matchmaker™is also available and works with any split-clamp design and RockShox® PushLoc.


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Lollar FAQ's
A. Potting is the process of soaking the pickup in melted wax, in order to saturate the components, which will isolate them and reduce movement of the coils. Because of this, potted pickups have reduced likelihood of excessive handling noise, microphonic feedback or mechanical failure. However, if a pickup is potted too much, the pickup can often sound lifeless and dull, lacking character and "vibe".
Every Lollar pickup is wound with a specific amount of tension for a tight coil, and then potted, based on the particular model and what has been found to be the optimum balance of effective isolation and good "vibe". Furthermore, Lollar pickups are potted just enough so you can actually tweak the amount of microphonics you get with spring tension. Our method of coil tensioning and potting ensures that your pickups will not become loose over time, so you can be sure the way it sounds today will be the same 20 years from now.
For more insight from Jason Loller on pickup potting, check out this post on the Lollar Pickups Blog
A. The easiest way to stop or at least minimize the 60 cycle hum is by using RWRP pickup sets and then putting your pickup selector in a middle position so that it runs 2 of your single coils together at the same time. By doing this much of the 60 cycle hum will at least be reduced.
Read more about guitar noise in detail here: http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/category/noise/
A. We cut all the Regal sound clips on our site with 250k because that's what generally comes in re-issues and they sound fine. We like 500k pots a bit better, it helps tighten up the bass. Pots can be changed to different values if you like. For instance, if the guitar seems to be slightly brighter and it has 500K pots try 250K pots and see if you like it better. In the other direction, if the guitar seems a little dark or dull and it has 250K pots try 500K. If you want it to sound like a vintage Fender® you need to use a 1 meg pot.
A. If you are installing humbuckers onto a guitar that could be considered a "Fender" style guitar, then you'll want to evaluate the need for a Fender spaced bridge. The most direct approach is to start by measuring the string spacing, right at the bridge. Our F-Space pickup measures outside pole piece to outside pole piece.
Read more about F-spacing here: http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/category/f-space/
A. Unless they are taking that reading at exactly the same temperature as we did here in the shop, your pickup will read slightly differently. More often than not, they will have just received the pickup, pulled it out of the box, and tested it moments after it has just been sitting in either a very cold or a very hot delivery truck. The DC resistance values we publish are midpoints. The testing was done on average size production runs. Each of the pickups in those runs had a different reading. The values we publish are the midpoints of those groups of readings. We use a different method here in the shop to measure our pickups that is more accurate than DC resistance.
Read more about DC resistance here: http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/category/dc-resistance/
A. Generally speaking, the only time you will need a "left-handed" guitar pickup is if you are ordering a pickup with staggered pole pieces. For example, a set of staggered Lollar strat style pickups or a Lollar AlNiCo 3 staggered tele bridge. Because there is 180 degrees difference between a right-handed guitar and a left-handed guitar, the magnet pattern needs to be reversed for left-handed players. But it is ONLY the magnet pattern that is affected by left- versus right-handed instruments. If you are ordering a flat pole Lollar pickup, you will not need a "left-handed" guitar pickup. This applies to all of our Lollar single coil pickups and Lollar humbucking pickups.
Read more about left-handed guitars here: http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/category/lefties/
A. Generally speaking, the direction the lead wires come out of the pickup has no bearing on guitar pickup phasing. You can rotate the pickup left or right (clockwise or counterclockwise) and it will not matter. The only time left and right orientation comes into play is with staggered pole pickups, and even then there are people that use a reverse from normal stagger.
Read more about pickup position/phasing here: http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/category/phasing/
A. On the second page of the checkout process titled "Shipping and Payment Options" you will be prompted by a drop down menu labeled "Pay With" to choose which payment method you would like to use. We accept Visa, Master Card, Amex, Discover, and PayPal.
Some internet browsers won't always display drop down menus properly. We do our best to ensure that all major browsers work well with our website but problems do arise. If you have issues, try switching to another browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer.
A. The Nash strat style guitars are built with the Lollar Vintage Blonde ® pickups for the neck and middle positions, and a Lollar "Nash" style strat bridge. This bridge position pickup is a very slight variation on the Lollar Special S ® series bridge. For "off the shelf" ordering, you would want to order the Lollar Blondes for the neck and middle, and the Lollar Special S for the bridge. We refer to this combination as our "Dirty Blonde" set. We work hard to keep these in stock, so they will typically ship the next day.
A. The Nash tele style guitars are equipped with a combination set of pickups, similar to what is done with the Nash strats. The Nash teles use a Lollar Vintage T ® series in the neck position and a Lollar "Nash" style tele bridge. This bridge pickup is a very slight variation on the Lollar Special T ® series bridge. For "off the shelf" ordering, you would want to order the Lollar Vintage T neck, and the Lollar Special T bridge. We work hard to keep these in stock, so they will typically ship the next day.
A. There is no agreement in the pickup industry which direction pickups should be made and even pickups made by the same company—i.e. Gibson will differ in orientation from year to year and model to model. You can not be sure when you mix pickups of different manufacture (or even pickups from different batches made by the same manufacture) that the pickups will be in phase with each other, let alone the possibility of them being reverse wound reverse polarity from each other. If you never use both pickups at the same time phasing or RWRP will not affect the tone of the individual pickups.
As far as the term RWRP goes all that means is one coil in comparison to another has the magnetic polarity and winding direction reversed. In other words, RWRP is a relative term. The pickup is only RWRP relative to the other pickup(s) it is being matched with. This will make a combination when both pickups are used at once that will minimize 60 cycle hum. You can't call up and order a RWRP pickup to mix with another manufacturer's pickup because no one agrees what direction or polarity is standard practice.
All pickups I make and have ever made will be in phase with each other no matter what the design is or what year it was made unless they were made to match some other company's pickup per customer request which is unusual. Any pickup I make that varies from my normal will be marked as "custom" or some other designation that indicates the custom-made aspect of the pickup.
A. The pickups are out of phase with each other. An easy test to be sure of this—assuming you have a volume control for each pickup—is to roll both volumes all the way up and then roll one volume back slowly while playing. If the volume jumps up dramatically and the bass fills in for a short time as you roll it down the pickups are certainly out of phase.
Guitar pickups generate an alternating current meaning the signal goes from positive to negative in a wave form. The current will be either positive or negative at the beginning of the signal depending on if the magnet in the pickup is north or south up and if the coil is wound clockwise or counter clockwise. It's not really the winding direction, it's the direction of the wire between the hot lead and the ground lead. If you look down at the top of a Strat pickup with the lead wires facing you you'll see the black wire will be either on the right or the left. If the white wire is on the right the coil direction goes counter clockwise from white to black. If the white wire is on the left the coil direction goes clockwise from white to black. In a simplistic view a pickup with the magnetic polarity south towards the strings with a counterclockwise coil will make a negative signal initially. A pickup with a south up orientation combined with a clockwise wound coil will give a positive signal. A pickup north up counterclockwise coil will give a positive signal, a pickup north up clockwise will give a negative signal. If you combine two pickups and run them at the same time and one has a negative signal and the other has positive they will be out of phase and the signal will cancel itself out.
In order to sound best both pickups need to have the same phasing. On vintage Strat pickups it's sometimes not as simple as just reversing the leads. You can't necessarily just run black to hot and white to ground to reverse the phase because the coil often shorts out against the magnets. Fenders originally had the inside of the coil attach to the ground wire so if it does short out against the pole pieces it doesn't matter. But, if you were to reverse the leads and make the hot lead the inside wire on a vintage fender and it did short out against the pole piece, by touching the pole piece and the strings at the same time you will loose signal—it will short circuit.
On my Strats the magnets are well insulated so you can reverse the lead wire—black for hot, white for ground—if you need to change the phasing on it to match another manufacturer's pickup.
On teles, the metal plate on the bottom of the bridge pickup is connected to the black lead wire and grounds your strings, also the cover on the neck pickup is connected to its black wire which grounds the cover and helps provide some shielding. If you hook up the black wire to hot your pickup cover will make a racket if you touch it or even worse you'll loose signal if you touch the cover and the strings at the same time Same goes with the bridge—;reverse the lead wire and you'll get a loud buzzing when you touch the strings. This is the same problem with Gibson humbuckers that have vintage lead wire—;the covers are attached to the braided shield which is also attached to the coil. The solution on buckers is to use 4 conductor wire with a separate shield so you can reverse your lead wires separate from the shield wire.
On teles you have to add a separate wire that only connects to the cover or the metal base plate—;a three wire system that isolates the lead wires on the coil from the pickup cover. You also need these separate ground wires on at least one of the pickups if you are going to wire the pickups in series with a 4 way Tele switch. Normally the third wire is added to the neck pickup.
A. Some slight drop in volume, drive, and bass is normal when you have two pickups on at the same time and they are wired in parallel which is how most guitars are wired , when the two pickups are wired in series—somewhat unusual—the pickups will get slightly louder than a single pickup and you'll get more drive and bass. Resistance is cut in half when you wire two pickups in parallel and inductance drops—this makes output and bass decrease, resistance doubles when two pickups are wired in series and inductance rises.
A. This is normal and is the reason your strings are grounded—to eliminate 120 cycle hum when you touch the strings.
A. You most likely have the output jack wired backwards. Your hot lead is attached to the ground lug on the jack which causes a similar sound as if you touched the tip of the guitar cord when you have it plugged into an amp. Reverse both connections on the jack and the problem should be resolved.
A. This is due to the pickguard not being grounded and also happens on other guitars like archtops with pickups attached to the pickguard. Plastic gives off electrons as your body contacts it. This causes a static charge to build up and discharge through the strings and the pickup cover. This problem can get worse in the winter when the air is dryer from heating. You can temporarily alleviate the problem by wiping down the pickguard with an anti-static towel like you use in a dryer, or you can hook up a ground wire to the back of the pickguard and solder it to the back of a pot or any other ground point. This will also happen with certain finishes like metallics, Gibson goldtops, or polyesters (urethane).
A. For Gibson type wiring use the 57 Les Paul custom wiring schematic included in the installation instructions or on my website. You can adapt this to fenders with a little creative adjustment. I do not recommend using a volume bypass capacitor. If you have one on your fender—it's usually a very small cap and resistor located between two of the lugs on the volume control pot. Treble bypass caps roll off the bass and accent the treble as soon as you roll off the volume. The more you roll off the more it sounds like you are playing through a little tin can. This scheme can also degrade the bass and volume when the volume is all the way up if it is leaking. I have had many times where someone called me commenting the pickups sound trebly and weak. Once they got rid of the volume bypass cap the pickups sounded fuller and stronger to an amazing extent. I recommend that you never use that, instead put a smaller tone cap on—fenders use .047, try a .022 which can really improve the volume and tone control action and if needed rewire it to look more like the 57 LP custom schematic.
A. To order a matched set of pickups you just go to the pickup page—click on the pickup and it will take you to a shopping cart. Once you get in there you will have a form where you can click a box marked neck or bridge—buy one neck and one bridge and you'll get a "matched set" meaning a RWRP set with a pickup wound specifically for the neck and one wound specifically for the bridge.
A. I did some testing on what makes a Tele sound like a Tele and how well a similar base plate would work on a Strat pickup.
Testing was this: I made a Tele pickup and 2 Strat pickups with the same size and type of magnet same coil height and the same turn count. I put steel base plates on the Tele and one of the Strat pickups and left the other Strat pickup bare.
I have two Strats that are as close to identical as you can get and they have matched pots—both guitars have pots and caps that read the same. I put one of each type of Strat pickup in each of the guitars.
I could hear the tiniest bit of difference but the other people listening did not hear it. The base plate seemed to add the slightest amount of compression I could "sense." Maybe I could hear it only because I was playing the guitars. But maybe I didn't actually "hear" it; maybe I felt it more than heard it.
There was no difference in volume between the two. I installed the Tele pickup into a traditional Tele bridge and mounted it on a Tele with pots and caps that matched the Strats. I got about 15% to 20% more volume out of the pickup, a little more bass and more aggressive tone. Most noticeable was the volume boost. I have also made Tele pickups without the base plate—they have a little less up front aggressiveness. If you measure a Strat coil lets take one at 2 henries for example and you put a steel plate on the bottom the inductance will raise to approximately 2.15 henries. So you can measure that something is actually happening, but it is hard to hear the difference and I have pretty good ears. After this I decided not to recommend a base plate on Strats. It just doesn't seem to have enough effect to make it worthwhile.
A. Yes. All new pickups come with the appropriate installation hardware. For most pickups, this includes screws and height-adjustment screws. Look underneath the bottom layer of foam of your pickup case. You'll find them there, plus some other goodies.
A. There is a wiring diagram on the inside of the folded warranty insert. You'll find that under the bottom layer of foam inside your pickup case. You can also go to this page on our web site: www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=guitar-pickups-installation
A. Look underneath the bottom layer of foam of your pickup case. You'll find them there, plus some other goodies.
A. Yes, that is typical of the Strat 2 & 4 position. Anytime you wire two pickups in parallel and use them together you get some drop in volume and bass.
A. That depends a little from pickup to pickup. On a Lollar Vintage Blackface® set or a Lollar Special S Series® we recommend that you start approximately 1/8" from the top of the pickup to the underside of the string (when the string is un fretted). Go a little closer for the high e, and a little further for the low e. On a Lollar Vintage Blonde® or a Lollar Vintage Tweed® you can actually start a bit closer to the strings to begin with. On Lollar T Series pickups 1/8" is also a good starting point. For P-90s, start at around 1/8". Humbuckers work well when you adjust them as close to the strings as possible, without any string interference. Remember, all of these are starting points. The next step is purely up to you. Don't be afraid to adjust pickups closer than you have been told—it won't hurt anything and you may like them as close as they can get and you can always adjust them farther away if you don't like it. Many of our pickups have magnets that are not fully charged in an effort to make them perform more like vintage pickups- with weaker magnets you'll need to raise the pickups closer to get the best dynamic performance. Take time to listen and tweak until you have the pickups set up where they sound best to you. You can watch a video here providing instructions on how to adjust your pickups.
A. In most cases, we recommend using 500K pots for Lollar Imperials and for P-90 style pickups. For Lollar Strat & Tele style pickups use 250K. For Jazz bass style use 250K. For Original single-coil bass pickup use 250K, and for split-coil P-Bass pickups use 250K. Pots can be changed to different values if you like. For instance, if the guitar seems to be slightly brighter and it has 500K pots try 250K pots and see if you like it better. In the other direction, if the guitar seems a little dark or dull and it has 250K pots try 500K. We sell Emerson Pots on our Accessories page.
A. A lot has to do with personal preference, your music style, and the sound you are aiming for. A higher value pot (.047 for example) will roll off a wider band of top-end frequencies. A lesser value pot (0.15 for example) will roll off a narrower band of top-end frequencies, starting with the highest. The .047 will also roll off that wider band of frequencies "faster." In other words, even with a small adjustment of the tone knob you will hear more of a difference, sooner. Jason's personal favorite is .015. We sell Emerson Caps on our Accessories page.
A. Yes, in many cases some routing is involved. Please see our Charlie Christian Installation Video, our Body Mount Routing Diagram and/or our Pickguard Mount Routing Diagram for more details.
A. The Epiphone Casino (and also the Wildcat) is a "whole different animal" although it looks a lot like a standard dogear set. On a Casino set we re-use both the covers and the chassis. We basically "gut" the pickup and build a new p90 into what you send us. Also, some of them were originally built with a clip type connector (usually white) on the lead wire. Make sure to include this as well. Also make sure to include your contact information. Turnaround time is around a week after we receive your items.
A. There are a number of items we build that are not yet in our shopping section. If that is your situation, just write what you want in the "comments" field. When you place an order a computer does not automatically charge your card. We take the information and run it ourselves. Since the item isn't on the web, we will contact you by email or phone to give you a price. We always contact you first before we run an order that will cost more than what the shopping cart tells you, or if you are purchasing a specialty item that isn't on the web site.
A. We ship via USPS "International Express" which is a 3 to 5 day service and is fully insured for the full value. You will be responsible for any taxes or VAT. On occasion the shopping cart does not like the way foreign addresses are written so if you can not get your address to work, send an email and we will help you get the order finished.
A. DC resistance (kΩ) is a handy but rough measure. The DC resistance of any given pickup will change based on other variables like temperature. For example if the pickup has been sitting in a sunny window and is warmer, the dc resistance will read higher. If you took that same pickup and stored it in your basement / practice room and it was cooler in temp, the dc resistance would read lower. The dc resistance will also read lower once the pickup has been installed into your guitar. Another factor is variation of copper wire. Although it's manufactured to rigorous specs, variation exists between spools of copper wire—including spools made by the same manufacturer and from the same lot number. A microscopic size variance that's still within specs can affect dc resistance. Equipment calibration can vary between ohm meters and can also change if your battery is low.
A. People are always asking about magnet "strength." To list magnet type like AL-2, AL-3, or AL-5 can be a little misleading. This is because we use our own proprietary techniques to gauss and/or de-gauss our magnets.
AL-2, AL-3, AL-5 are not a measure of magnet strength. The formulas of different proportions of trace metals that are mixed with ferrous material. These different mixtures give different magnetic and tonal qualities.
Magnet type like AL-2, AL-3, AL-5 is also not a "stand-alone" thing. It has to be considered along with the type of wind and overall design of the pickup assembly. The results aren't necessarily "cut and dried." In other words, you still have to do R&D on the overall sound. It's the variables added together that shape the overall sound
A. When iron or an iron-based (ferrous) metal moves within a magnetic field, it has the capacity to induce a current in any conductive material also in that magnetic field (i.e. the copper wire coil). This is inductance—a measure of the physical property to induce a current. In general, the greater the inductance, the greater the output and greater the bass response.


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And here she is (a little later than I had planned, but that's OK)! Meet "Chicky-Bee" as I call her (short for Chiquita Banana, given her color!) I am in LOVE with this new iron! It stays on for 30 minutes, doesn't drip at all (nor did the previous Oliso), is much lighter, has a longer cord and a sharper point!
This and the other versions have what is called "I-Touch Technology" - no need to set it on its end! All you do is touch the handle in the down position, and the little feet on the bottom lift up so you can iron. When you release the handle, the little feet come back out, the iron stays in the down position and will not scorch the fabric or ironing board cover! The controls are easy to see, and the iron fills from the side! And check out the soleplate - lots of steam holes and a sharper point for ironing those small spaces!
I made a rather crude video of Chicky-Bee in action....it's enough to understand how it works!
You can bet I will be spending a lot of time with Chicky-Bee in the near future!


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Colchester United defender Tosin Olufemi has been ruled out for at least six months after rupturing his Achilles tendon.
The 20-year-old has already undergone surgery after suffering the injury while playing for the U's in their pre-season friendly at Bishop's Stortford, on Wednesday night.
Olufemi, who made 14 appearances for Colchester last season, underwent an operation yesterday and now looks likely to be out until at least January.
For all of the latest Colchesrer United news, see the Daily Gazette.


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This is a conservation story about butterflies and beer.
|An Oregon silverspot butterfly lands on a beer bottle. It'll all make sense by the end of the story, I promise.
Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Where to start? How about we take it back to biology class. Remember learning about generalists and specialists? Humans are the ultimate generalist—we'll live in just about any habitat and eat just about any food.
Then there are the specialists, like koalas and their eucalyptus-only diet. For specialists, survival depends on that one thing they specialize in. That one thing goes away, and they're in big trouble.
Oregon silverspot butterfly at Cascade Head in Oregon. Photo by Rachel Gray/Woodland Park Zoo.
That's what's happening to the Oregon silverspot butterfly, a native of the Pacific Northwest and a specialist dependent on the early blue violet plant for survival. This threatened species once lived in Washington but has since been wiped from the state, and now only five wild populations remain in Oregon and California.
Growing violets at Oregon Zoo's greenhouse for hungry, hungry caterpillars. Oregon Zoo is a major partner in these conservation efforts. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
The Oregon silverspot butterfly needs the early blue violet, a low-growing native wildflower, to survive. Silverspots lay their eggs near violet plants, and growing caterpillars rely on the violet as their sole source of food on their path toward becoming a butterfly. But now the early blue violet is disappearing from our native landscapes.
Forest meets meadow meets ocean at the beautiful Cascade Head preserve in Oregon.
Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Why are the violets disappearing? The primary threats are forest succession and invasive weeds taking over. Invasive species are a major issue in wildlife conservation—they are one of the leading threats to biodiversity worldwide. When non-native species are introduced to habitats, they can spread quickly, often going unchecked because they have no native predators. They take over scarce resources and outcompete native flora and fauna, profoundly changing our local living landscapes. That's what's happening to silverspot habitat right now, with invasive scotch broom and non-native grasses taking over and choking out early blue violet plants.
An Oregon silverspot butterfly shows off its wings. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
To save this butterfly, we need to save its habitat from invasives. Get those violets flourishing again and we'll get the butterflies flourishing again. And if we get the butterflies flourishing again, we get the habitat flourishing again, since butterflies are such essential pollinators. It's all connected.
We raise silverspot caterpillars in a behind the scenes lab at the zoo as part of conservation efforts. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Then we help with the repopulating by head starting silverspots at our zoo. We collect eggs, hatch and raise them at the zoo until they are caterpillars, and then release the caterpillars to protected areas to help build up the wild populations.
Zoo staff hike out to release caterpillars at Cascade Head. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
While we raise the caterpillars, you can raise something else for the cause—your glass! (Yay, I finally got to the beer part of the story!)
See, now it makes sense. Label artwork courtesy of Pelican Pub & Brewery.
Oregon's Pelican Pub & Brewery has just launched the Silverspot IPA, a delicious beer inspired by the butterfly conservation efforts at the Cascade Head preserve in Oregon, located just outside the brewery's front door. A portion of the sales of this IPA goes directly to the conservation effort and helps make our work possible and the work of our terrific partners on this project, including United States Fish and Wildlife, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Zoo, and Lewis and Clark College.
|Silverspot IPA rolls off the assembly line. Photo courtesy of Pelican Pub & Brewery.
Silverspot IPA is available at Pelican Pub's Oregon location and in select retailers in the Seattle area, including select QFC, PCC and Metropolitan Market locations.
Please drink responsibly and make sure you say cheers to butterflies and conservation!
Want to do even more for native wildlife? Keep your eyes on our Backyard Habitat class offerings to learn more about gardening with native plants to help control the spread of invasives in our local landscapes.


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NY-area transportation agencies announce plans for handling crowds at 'first mass transit Super Bowl'
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The New York area's major transportation agencies have announced plans for handling crowds for February's Super Bowl.
Not among the plans is an all-purpose pass that could be used on all systems. That was discussed initially but was ultimately deemed too complicated.
At a news conference Monday at the Secaucus Junction rail station, New Jersey Transit announced it will offer a special pass for $50 for unlimited travel on trains, buses and light rail from Jan. 27 through Feb. 3.
The game is Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium. It's the first cold-weather Super Bowl played outdoors.
The host committee announced it will offer round-trip bus service from nine locations in New York and New Jersey on game day, for $51.
Organizers are calling this "the first mass transit Super Bowl."


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The Most Depressing Day?
I saw a story online that said the third Monday in January can be the most depressing day of the year.
It has to do with failed New Year's resolutions, an expensive Christmas, fewer daylight hours and that sort of thing. But I'm not buying it.
Now, I've written before that I don't make New Year's resolutions. If something is worth doing, you should be able to motivate yourself to get started any day of the year, not just on January 1.
Our Christmas was not expensive. It was meaningful. True, the children in our family did well at Christmas, but they should. They're kids, and we love them very much, although I think they know that without being plied with presents.
And fewer hours of daylight? Notice sometime how much brighter the sky is at 5pm these days than it was even a few weeks ago. And spring begins in two months!
I know, many people have have problems that go beyond resolutions, Christmas and daylight hours, and I hope they can get some help.
But leave the most depressing day of the year--Blue Monday, as it were--for some other day.
Income Tax Day, April 15, is always a possibility


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The Bay Area job market stumbled in February but the region continued to outpace the state and nation in job growth, a report released Friday showed.
Employers shed more than 2,000 jobs in the Bay Area during February, breaking a 19-month streak of job gains, according to this newspaper's analysis of figures from the state's Employment Development Department.
But over the past year, job growth in the South Bay and San Francisco metro areas was more than twice as fast as the countrywide rate, and even the struggling East Bay is growing more quickly than the United States overall.
"The tech rebound is firmly in place," said Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy.
Job totals over the 12 months that ended in February grew 3.5 percent in the San Francisco metro region, 3.1 percent in the South Bay, and 2.1 percent in the East Bay. The overall Bay Area job market expanded by 2.9 percent.
In contrast, the United States job market grew at a 1.5 percent annual rate, and California by 2.1 percent.
"The Bay Area, and particularly, the South Bay and San Francisco, are the epicenter for social media, mobile and Internet commerce," said Michael Bernick, a research fellow with the Milken Institute and a former EDD director. "These strengths are why the Bay Area outpaces the state and the nation."
Demand is so strong for technology skills that Bay Area unemployment for people in the tech sector ranges from 1 percent to 3 percent, said Heather Johnston, branch manager with the San Jose office of Robert Half International, a staffing services firm.
"Production and database administrators, software engineers and people who work on software as a service, and cloud computing services and products" are all in demand, Johnston said. "We are also seeing hiring in biotech and mobile applications."
The Bay Area upswing goes well beyond the tech sector, Levy said.
"This rebound is technology driven," he said. "But it is now spreading to the consumer-driven part of the economy, and it is spreading regionally, from the South Bay and San Francisco into the East Bay, and into other industries."
One case in point is construction, an industry savaged by the mortgage meltdown and recession.
"We are now seeing an upswing in demand for construction," Johnston said.
Yet as with any recovery, the pace of the rebound has been uneven.
The Bay Area lost 2,600 jobs in February; the San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region shed 2,900 jobs and the East Bay lost 2,600. Those setbacks made the South Bay, with a gain of 2,300 jobs, the strongest job market in the Bay Area by far.
The setback in the Bay Area snapped a string of 19 consecutive months of job gains in the nine-county region that began in July 2011, this newspaper's analysis of the EDD report showed.
That streak suggests the Bay Area job losses are only a temporary retrenchment, said Jordan Levine, an economist and director of economic research with Beacon Economics.
"This was a wobble and not a trend," said Levine, who attributed the month's losses to a statistical anomaly resulting from a recent revision of annual job figures.
California added 41,200 jobs during February, which lowered the statewide jobless rate to 9.6 percent, down from 9.8 percent in January, the EDD reported.
Jobless rates in the Bay Area also improved, demonstrating that jobless rates and losses or gains in total payroll jobs can go in different directions at times because the two sets of figures are derived from different sources.
In February, the South Bay's unemployment rate was at 7.5 percent, down from 8 percent the month before. The East Bay was at 8 percent, down from 8.5 percent. The San Francisco area was at 6 percent, down from 6.3 percent, according to a Beacon Economics analysis of the EDD figures.
"This recovery has legs," Levy said.
Contact George Avalos at 408-373-3556 or 925-977-8477. Follow him at twitter.com/george_avalos. ___
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Celebrating Women in the Law
April 28, 2009
On April 16, Lewis & Clark Law School will host the inaugural Judge Betty Roberts J.D. '66 Women in the Law Distinguished Visitor Program. Roberts will deliver the keynote address, and several distinguished panelists will present "Listening to the Past, Working for the Future–Celebrating Women in the Law."
Roberts is considered a political trailblazer. During her 13 years as a legislator, she was instrumental in the passage of Oregon's first legalized right to abortion and the state's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as well as landmark environmental and land-use legislation. She was the first woman to serve on the Oregon Supreme Court (1982–86) as well as the Oregon Court of Appeals (1977–82).
This program is made possible through an endowment by Williams Love O'Leary & Powers.


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Director Baz Luhrmann is known for his glittery film adaptations of classic love stories from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," as well as his original romance "Moulin Rouge."
"For the Record: Baz Luhrmann," which opened Thursday and runs through Oct. 19 at Rockwell: Table and Stage in Los Angeles, reenacts memorable moments and music from the director's catalog and features Rumer Willis in her musical theater debut.
"We thought, 'What makes Baz Luhrmann tick as a filmmaker?' And one common thing is star-crossed love," said Shane Scheel, who co-created the For the Record series for the Rockwell restaurant in Los Feliz.
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A mix of supper club and cabaret, the show intertwines scenes and soundtracks from Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," "Strictly Ballroom," "Moulin Rouge" and "The Great Gatsby" with a cast of nine, many with Broadway credits, quickly shifting among costumes, characters and hits by Prince, Jay-Z and Cyndi Lauper while backed by a live band.
"I did a play before but nothing like this," said Willis, the 25-year-old daughter of actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. "We're literally dancing almost on top of people."
A fan of the show, Willis was a last-minute addition after Lindsey Gort, a For the Record regular who was to play Juliet, was cast as the young Samantha Jones in CW's "The Carrie Diaries."
When Gort dropped out, Scheel emailed Willis asking her to join the show.
"He said, 'We heard you might want to do the show some time.' I said, "Yeah I would love to, tell me when.' He said, 'We start rehearsals tomorrow at 10 a.m.,'" said Willis, whose screen credits include "House Bunny" and the TV series "Pretty Little Liars."
Created three years ago by Scheel and music director Chris Bratten, For the Record shows focus on the catalog of a particular director — past productions celebrated the films of Quentin Tarantino, John Hughes and the Coen brothers. (There was a previous installment devoted to Luhrmann, who Scheel said saw and praised the show.)
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For the Record played to mostly sold-out crowds, prompting Rockwell a year ago to tear down the wall between the bar and the restaurant, tripling the performance space.
"It just feels like a really natural fit for Los Angeles because it allows audiences an escape inside the movies," Scheel said of the series' popularity.
The shows feature actors high-stepping and singing across any spare space in the restaurant — the bar, the sound booth, even patron's laps — while waiters weave to avoid the spotlight while serving entrees and cocktails.
"This concert is happening all around you and a scene can pop up in any part in the room," said Broadway alum Ginifer King, who spends her days shooting Nickelodeon's "Haunted Hathaways" and her evenings in a lace-up corset channeling Nicole Kidman from Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge." "It's not like a Broadway show. There's such a bohemian feel to it, and there's such a spontaneity that you don't get with a lot of stage productions."
The production is more raw than refined. The actors have about two weeks to rehearse; some costumes are borrowed. And the roles, which are cast three actors deep, can rotate if a performer books another gig. (Willis is off soon to shoot an appearance on CBS' "Hawaii Five-0.")
The seating is snug. Patrons often split small tables with strangers and can end up knocking knees, drinks or the stage that crisscrosses the crowd. During the opening performance, a gutted Mercutio's gasped his last breath while audience members moved their bags and chairs.
But Scheel sees the authentic moments as part of the show's appeal.
"It's very grass roots," he said. "I think in this over-produced world we live in, the audience connects with that. There's something very visceral and natural about the experience of being up close and personal and sharing a night with an artist."
'For the Record: Baz Luhrmann'
Where: Rockwell: Table & Stage, 1714 N. Vermont Ave., L.A.
When: Aug. 22-Oct. 19, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$55
Contact: http://www.rockwell-la.com, (323) 669-1550


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William J. O'Brien, 77, a prominent Philadelphia trial lawyer, died May 7 at his home in Chestnut Hill after a long illness.
Mr. O'Brien was a founding member of Conrad O'Brien and chairman emeritus of the firm where he had practiced for more than 30 years.
He began his legal career at what is now Pepper Hamilton, where he became a partner before leaving to start the Conrad O'Brien firm. As a lawyer he represented a wide range of clients that included Fortune 500 companies, law firms, hospitals and individuals.
Among his most notable cases was his defense of John DuPont, the chemical fortune heir, in a civil lawsuit for wrongful death brought by the wife of David Schultz, an Olympic wrestler who had been shot by DuPont. In his last jury trial, he obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a major law firm in a legal malpractice action claiming over $20 million in damages.
Jim Rohn, chairman of Conrad O'Brien who had worked with Mr. O'Brien for more than 23 years, said Mr. O'Brien's trial skills were "legendary."
"It was his ability to connect with people that made him so effective and unique," Rohn said.
He was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He was a past President of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel and a recipient of its Distinguished Service Award.
He lectured extensively on trial advocacy, including serving as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Temple University's School of Law.
He was a graduate of LaSalle University and Villanova University's School of Law.
Mr. O'Brien is survived by his wife, Lillian; a daughter, Nancy O'Brien Weidner; a son, William, Jr.; brothers James and Joseph; sisters Mary DiCondina, Susan Zimmerman, Kathleen Ferguson, Mildred O'Brien, and Fran O'Brien, and two grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to Villanova University School of Law, Class of '62, or to Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Trial Advocacy.
Funeral services for Mr. O'Brien were held May 10 at Our Mother of Consolation Church in Chestnut Hill.


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Professor Young traveling Oregon to discuss immigration issues
December 14, 2009
As a scholar-facilitator in Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project: A New Chautauqua, Associate Professor of History Elliott Young is traveling around the state, leading discussions about the impacts of immigration and globalization on local communities.
In a profile of Young in Oregon Humanities magazine, he said: "I'm a little tired of speaking to the people who already agree with me. I think you've got to confront the real issues that people have about immigration, and talk about alternatives to policies of deportation and criminalization, which have been tried for a hundred years and don't really stop immigrants from coming."
Young, director of Latin American Studies and Ethnic Studies, is a transnational historian of the Americas, specializing in race and national identity. In spring, 2008 he taught a course on migration patterns of Mexicans from southern-most Mexico to Portland, Oregon. Students in the course spent their spring break in locations along the migration route, connecting with local nonprofit organizations working with migrants and learning about the social and political issues tied to migration.
You can learn about the course in this story, Bringing Immigration Policy to Life.


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My dear Telemachus, The Trojan War is over now; I don't recall who won it. The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave so many dead so far from their own homeland. But still, my homeward way has proved too long. While we were wasting time there, old Poseidon, it almost seems, stretched
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad on May 24, 1940. He left school at the age of fifteen, taking jobs in a morgue, a mill, a ship's boiler room, and a geological expedition. During this time Brodsky taught himself English and Polish and began writing poetry.
Brodsky was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972 after serving 18 months of a five-year sentence in a labor camp in northern Russia. According to Brodsky, literature turned his life around. "I was a normal Soviet boy," he said. "I could have become a man of the system. But something turned me upside down: [Fyodor Dostoevsky's] Notes from the Underground. I realized what I am. That I am bad."
Before leaving the Soviet Union, Brodsky studied with the beloved Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. After his exile, he moved to America, where he made homes in both Brooklyn and Massachusetts. There, according to fellow poet Seamus Heaney, he lived "frugally, industriously, and in a certain amount of solitude."
Celebrated as the greatest Russian poet of his generation, Brodsky authored nine volumes of poetry, as well as several collections of essays, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His first book of poetry in English translation appeared in 1973.
In addition to teaching positions at Columbia University and Mount Holyoke College, where he taught for fifteen years, Brodsky served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991 to 1992. In 1993, he joined with Andrew Carroll to found the American Poetry & Literacy Project, a not-for-profit organization devoted to making poetry a more central part of American culture, "as ubiquitous," in Brodsky's words, "as the nature that surrounds us, and from which poetry derives many of its similes; or as ubiquitous as gas stations, if not as cars themselves." Joseph Brodsky died on January 28, 1996, of a heart attack in his Brooklyn apartment.
Selected Bibliography
A Part of Speech (1980)
Collected Poems in English (2000)
Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems (1967)
Selected Poems (1992)
So Forth (1996)
To Urania (1988)
Less Than One (1986)
On Grief and Reason (1995)
Watermark (1992)
Marbles (1989)


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The Phoenix Suns continued an aggressive rebuild of their franchise Sunday when they submitted the highest bid for free agent forward Luis Scola and were awarded the rights to the 32-year-old forward, according to league sources.
Because of Scola's contract with Houston, which had $10 million in unguaranteed money in the final year of the deal, the Suns had to submit a bid of at least $3.3 million per year for Scola, and commit $10 million over three years.
Several teams, including Dallas and Cleveland, were believed to have submitted bids for Scola, who was amnestied on Friday by the Rockets in order to clear more cap room for potential runs at Orlando's Dwight Howard, or to be able to take on other big contracts in potential trades if they don't get Howard. Scola, according to a league source, wanted to go someplace where he would play right away.
The Suns knew it would be difficult for them to retain franchise player Steve Nash, and the team agreed to a sign-and-trade deal with the Lakers earlier this month for the 38-year-old guard. But the Suns were able to get two future first-round and two future second-round picks, along with $3 million, for Nash.
And Phoenix has come out of the gate in free agency, signing former Rockets guard Goran Dragic to a four-year, $30 million deal, and quickly following that up with a three-year, $18 million deal for Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley. The Suns tried to get Hornets restricted free agent Eric Gordon, giving him a four-year, $58 million offer sheet. But New Orleans insisted all along it would match any sheet for Gordon, and it did.