NAMM 2013: Schecter Introduces Hellwin Series Amps by Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold

Posted 01/24/2013 at 10:11am | by Guitar World Staff

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Schecter Amplification has introduced its new Hellwin series of guitar amps, a collaboration between Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates and Schecter.
The Hellwin USA 100 is the initial entry in the Hellwin series, a line of products that Schecter Amplification plans to bring to market with Gates over the coming years.
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"As soon as we started building amps, working with Synyster on his own designs seemed like a natural step after the nearly 10-year relationship we have shared," said Schecter Executive Vice President Marc LaCorte.
"After years of trying to get all of the tone, playability and versatility I wanted in an amp, I turned to my friends at Schecter and legendary amp designer James Brown. Together we have created Hellwin, a line of amps engineered to sound and perform at the highest level whether you're on the big stage or in your garage," Gates added.
The first amp in the Hellwin series is the Hellwin USA 100, a custom-designed, all-tube model. Working in conjunction with amplifier guru James Brown, Gates set out to design an amp that not only captured his unique tone, but also would prove to be an important asset to players of all styles in their studio and live work.
About the Hellwin USA 100 Amplifier:
• Made in U.S.A.
• A collaboration between Synyster Gates and Schecter Amplification
• Co-created with renowned amp designer James Brown, the Hellwin has rich bloodlines and is destined to be a rock classic.
• 100 watt / All Tube Design (MIDI Switchable)
• Three Channels w/ Independent EQ and Gain Boost
• Front Panel Custom Noise Gate
• Innovative Active/Passive inputs
• 4 position 'Focus' Control
Matching 4x12 Speaker Cabinets are also available:
• Four Celestion Vintage-30 Speakers 16ohm
• Baltic Birch Solid Construction
• Mono or Stereo
• Angle and Straight design
For more information, visit schecterguitars.com.

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Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides Talks Fans and Golden Gods

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The year is shaping up to be a impressive one for Andy Biersack and Black Veil Brides.
They’ve already released The Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones, which debuted at No. 7 in the US; they’ve unveiled a motion picture, Legion of the Black, done two North American legs and one European leg of the Church of the Wild Ones tour — and they’re up for two Golden God awards.
Let’s not forget they’re also featured in the March 2013 issue of Guitar World, which you can check out here.
We recently sat down with Biersack, the band’s singer and founder, and got his thoughts on the Golden Gods. For more about this year’s Golden Gods awards, head here.
REVOLVER: Golden Gods-wise, you guys are up for an award in the Most Devoted Fans category. What makes your fan base so special?
I think, obviously, we are noted for having a very dedicated fan base. There is a visual, aesthetic part of it where you have the makeup and the costumes. The devotion of the BVB Army, with its very big online presence, is amazing. We’ve been fortunate from the very beginning. It was something that was really able to spur on our career.
When it came to record labels and management, people didn’t give a shit until the fans sort of forced our way into places. You can’t deny a band whose fans are so dedicated. You can’t deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We’re very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.
Do you think part of it might stem from early on, especially with your “lyrics of the disenfranchised”? Do you think they struck a chord with fans who were preached to with pop music and that made you guys a great alternative?
Absolutely. The message of the band goes hand in hand with the fan base. We never made attempts to say we were anybody’s role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people just as our fans are. We kind of wanted to do it together with them. With that being said, the feeling of comradery between us and the audience has really always been there.
Bands talk about their audience bringing their kids to shows. Have you seen fans bring their parents along for the ride?
Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad’s shoulders and the dad is singing along. You have the teenagers as well, of course. We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We’re the kind of band that can cross those lines.
True. You aren’t going to sound foreign to someone who grew up listening to a Motley Crue or a W.A.S.P. Your music has modern elements, but it isn’t going to turn off a listener who’s in his or her 40s or 50s.
Honestly, it boils down to songs. Good songs are always good songs. People can listen to a song by an artist such as a Van Halen, and no one in the room is going to go, “Oh, this is terrible.” Good songs cross those lines. Our focus on the record was to make them as good as possible, and those things will stand the test of time and relate to any audience. I’m not going to name any names, but we certainly have a lot of counterparts in bands that are popular, drawing well, selling well and are of the same age group as us. My point is always, where are the songs? What is memorable about this?
On the subject of songs, “In The End” is up for Song of the Year at the Golden Gods. If I remember correctly, that was the last track you did for the album. Did you have the complete concept of the album laid out at that point, and how did the story coincide with writing all the album’s lyrics?
It all started with a short story I wrote on a plane and then spiraled. I had two friends, Patrick Fogarty and Richard Millwood, who were very dedicated artists and friends of ours. When we got home, I gave it to them and told them about that story and said maybe we can do something with it. As a band we sort of dissected it and built the record out of it.
Do you write as a unit?
Every song has a different process. There will be some songs where it comes together right away and we’ll all be sitting around and know it. Then there are songs that take quite a while. A song like “Nobody’s Hero,” for example, took a lot of days of back and forth with our producer, John Feldman, with “The chorus should be more like this or that.” A song like “In The End” came together fairly quickly.
I think a lot of people overlook or are unaware of the fact that you are extremely talented musicians. You have a classically trained musician in the band and a guitar duo that’s reminiscent of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing of Judas Priest.
I think that is something we’ve always liked with that guitar duo. Even on stage, it’s sort of “classic” rock and roll.
Is there anyone in particular you’re listening to right now?
We are big fans of a band out of Europe called CRASHDÏET. They have come out to a bunch of our shows but haven’t toured much in the US just yet.
Black Veil Brides have a few more dates in the US before taking the Church of the Wild Ones tour to Europe for April. The band returns home to the US to be part of the Vans Warped Tour, which runs all summer long. Keep up with their current tour dates at officialbvb.com.

How many US children under 18 are unable to consistently access nutritious food?

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The entire community should collaborate to ensure that families have access to and eligibility for supports and services that address basic needs including food, clothing, housing, employment, financial resources, mental health and substance abuse, education, health care and transportation. 

This vision comes from The CWLA National Blueprint, a new set of overarching standards for all individuals, organizations, and communities that unify the existing programmatic CWLA Standards of Excellence. The CWLA National Blueprint recognizes that responsibility for the well-being of children and youth begins with their families, and extends beyond traditional child welfare organizations and services. Everyone—families, communities, providers, and organizations—has a responsibility for ensuring the safety, permanency and well-being of all children and youth. The document raises the bar for everyone caring  for and about children and youth. It is intended to be a foundation upon which families, communities, providers, and other organizations can create the greatest opportunities for all children and youth to succeed and flourish.

The CWLA National Blueprint for Excellence in Child Welfare will be released during CWLA's upcoming annual conference on April 14-17th, and inspires the conference theme, Making Children and Families a Priority: Raising the Bar.

In anticipation of the document's release, stay tuned for a series of quiz questions related to The CWLA National Blueprint's vision, principles and guidance for the future of child

Rare Primates May Be Speaking to Each Other

• by Kristina Chew
• April 12, 2013
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While studying geladas, a baboon-like primate that lives only in the highlands of Ethiopia, evolutionary biologist Thore Bergman kept having the feeling that someone was talking to him only to realize, as he says in the Los Angeles Times, that it was “just the geladas.” As Bergman, a researcher at the University of Michigan, relates in a just published study in Current Biology, the geladas make lip smacks and other sounds that not only close resemble human speech but offer clues about how human speech originated.
Geladas are able to smack their lips by moving their lips, tongue and the hyoid bone beneath them together.  They also vocalize while doing this, thereby producing sounds resembling human speech. In contrast, most monkeys communicate in one or two syllables that are mostly in flat tones.
Bergman refers to the geladas’ vocalizations as “wobbles” and is now in the process of analyzing these, to see if they produce any rhythms resembling those of human speech. That is, words are only one aspect of human speech; the rhythms and tones of our voices also also play a part in helping us express ourselves. (My teenage autistic son uses only a very few words to communicate at a time but also produces streams of sounds that are definitely communication, just not sounds we readily think of as language.)
For all that the geladas’ sounds resemble human speech, it is not yet clear what purpose their lip-smacks and wobbles serve. Bergman does note in Wired that geladas have a “very complex social situation” and live in groups that remain together for many years; females have especially long relationships.  Gelada groups can include several hundred individuals. As Bergman points out, “These very large group structures may be linked to vocal complexity. There’s some evidence across primate that bigger groups make more sounds.”
As he also comments, “Language is not just a great tool for exchanging information; it has a social function.”  While we certainly use language to share ideas, express our beliefs and much more, we also talk as a way to interact with other. “Small talk” is one such example as is the use of words like “hi,” “bye,” “please” and “thank you” — in fact, autistic individuals like Charlie must often be taught how to use such words and for the appropriate social interactions.
Lip-smacking has also been identified in macaque monkeys and, says Wired, found to have an “intriguing correspondence to the universal rhythms of human language“; the macaques’ lip-smacking is different from their mouth movements in eating.
The discovery of the geladas’ unique vocal abilities — lip-smacking plus those “wobbles” — also raises intriguing questions about the origins of human language. Was it that we were first able to produce complicated sounds in different rhythms and patterns and then found that, with this greater array of sounds at our disposal, we could communicate more? Or was it that, as Bergman asks, that because we had more to say and to communicate, “we developed an ability to produce a greater variety of sounds”?
Perhaps you could put the question this way: do we speak because we need to express ourselves, or was it only in the process of making the sounds we call “speech” that we realized all we have to say?

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/what-we-can-learn-from-rare-monkeys-lip-smacks.html#ixzz2R8BnHck7

More Police In Schools Leads to More Students Under Arrest

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• April 15, 2013
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After the Sandy Hook School tragedy and too many reports of school shootings to count, school districts across the U.S. are clamoring for more police in their schools. The National Rifle Association has wasted no time in calling for police officers in every single school. But while it is not at all clear if the full-time presence of police officers deters crime or the threat of armed intruders, putting more police officers in school has resulted in more student arrests and misdemeanor charges “for essentially nonviolent behavior including scuffles, truancy and cursing at teachers,” the New York Times reports
Police (and metal detectors) in the corridors of U.S. school are nothing new. As one my college students noted, at her New York City high school, students had to go through as much security every day to get to their classes as passengers do to get on airplanes, removing belts, shoes and anything with metal. Now, it seems that students can expect to see police officers as routinely as teachers.
“No Evidence” That Police in Schools Improves Safety
The Obama administration has called for an increase in police officers in the nations’s schools. Indeed, since the 1990s, thousands of federal dollars have been allocated for “police resource officers” in elementary, middle and high schools since the 1990s. School districts including those of Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have their own police forces.
A full-time police presence in school hallways certainly changes a school’s atmosphere, but as University of Maryland criminologist Denise C. Gottfredson says in the New York Times: “There is no evidence that placing officers in the schools improves safety. And it increases the number of minor behavior problems that are referred to the police, pushing kids into the criminal system.”
Rather than providing security, police officers end up dealing with disciplinary issues that schools themselves should address — instead of enhancing students’ safety, school districts hand over discipline to law enforcement. Having students cited for misbehavior teaches them nothing and certainly not positive, pro-active strategies for dealing with anger, impulsivity and other challenging behaviors.
Minority Students More Frequently Arrested
What’s more, black and Latino/a students, as well as students with disabilities, are arrested or given criminal citations in disproportionate numbers, as civil rights groups including the NAACP report. Youth advocates have begun to fight back and not only because of the injustice of students having to face criminal courts for infractions such as cursing at teachers or truancy. Not only do they end up missing school for court appearances; students also face fines, community service and criminal charges on their record that can mean rejection from the military and jobs.
The case of 12-year-old De’Angelo Rollins is too typical. Soon after starting to attend Bryan Middle School in Texas (where some 100,000 misdemeanor tickets are written up for students in one year), he and another boy got into a scuffle and were both issued citations. De’Angelo had to go through “repeated court appearances;” he pleaded no contest and was fined $69 and sentenced to 20 hours of community service and four months probation.
Of course students must be safe in school, but simply calling in police officers is a sign that school districts are foregoing educating students and addressing their challenges. As no one less than Wallace B. Jefferson, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, said in a speech to the Legislature in March, “We are criminalizing our children for nonviolent offenses.”
Forget about a school-to-prison pipeline. What’s really going on in public schools in the U.S. is that school is prison, or a place where you’re under constant surveillance by the police.
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Video: Watch Jack White on 'Austin City Limits'

Posted 01/07/2013 at 11:38am | by Josh Hart

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After debuting on PBS over the weekend, Jack White's entire episode of Austin City Limits is now streaming in full online.
You can watch a 20-minute clip from his set below, and check out the full episode here.
White had both of his backing bands, the Buzzards (all-male) and the Peacocks (all-female), on-hand for the evening, which featured the singer/guitarist running through tracks from his debut solo effort, Blunderbuss, as well as classics from the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather.
Blunderbuss was recently named the best-selling vinyl of 2012, supplanting The Beatles' Abbey Road at the top of the list. It landed at No. 8 on Guitar World's list of the 50 best albums of 2012.

"17 Slow Cooker Casserole Recipe Classics" Free eCookbook

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