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Styles Pop Guitar and Vocals
Counties East Sussex • Greater London • Hampshire • Kent • Surrey • West Sussex
This sussex Acoustic Duo provide a versatile acoustic set with vocal harmony, songs and classical / instrumental pieces to set the mood for any occasion.
As the evening progresses, using professional quality full band backing tracks, the duo can get everyone up and dancing with dance floor classics, disco lights and a full PA system suitable for any size venue.
Special requests can be catered for such as the first dance at a wedding, or he can even arrange a classical version of a favourite song for walking down the aisle.
The Guitarist
He is a guitar tutor and session player based in Brighton, and he has also worked on TV soundtracks for both the BBC and Channel 4. He can also provide classical, Spanish, jazz and instrumental popular music styles catered for the occasion on both classical and steel string guitar.
The Singer
She is a vocal graduate from the Brighton Institute of Modern Music studying under Carlene Anderson (vocalist for The Brand New Heavies and the Young Disciples). As well as singing with this duo, she regularly performs with a top function band
This act also has the option of a battery amplifier which is very useful for outdoor bookings.
Acoustic Repertoire:
Al Green - Lets stay together
Alanis Morrisette - One hand in my pocket
Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Ben E King - Stand by Me
Bill Withers - Just the two of us
Bill Withers - Lean on me
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Cher - Life after love
Cindi Lauper - Time After Time
Cindi Lauper - True Colours
Coldplay - Yellow
Creedence Clearwater - Proud Mary
Dusty Springfield - Son of a preacher man
Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind
Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
Elton John - Your song
Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird
Four Non Blondes - What's Up
Frank & Nancy Sinatra - Something stupid
Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon (Ebm)
Gnarls Barclay - Crazy
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Mama Cass - Dream a Little Dream of Me
Nilsson - Everybody's Talking at me
Nina Simone - Feeling good
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How it Feels to be Free
Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack
Roberta Flack - Killing me softly
Rod Stewart - Handbags and the Gladrags
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
The Beatles - All you need is love
The Beatles - Come together
The Beatles - Here comes the sun
The Beatles - Hey Jude
The Beautiful South - Rotterdam
The Kinks - Days
U2 - One
U2 - With or Without You
Van Morrison - Moondance
Party Repertoire:
ABBA - Waterloo
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Don McLean - American Pie
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
Duffy - Mercy
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Jackson 5 - Blame it on the Boogie
Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
K T Tunstall - Suddenly I See
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Los Lobos - La Bamba
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama
Oasis - She's Electric
Pointer Sisters - We Are Family
Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack
Ray Charles - Shake Your Tailfeather
Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
Sam Cooke - Soul Man
Santana - Smooth
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin
Status Quo - Caroline
Steve Harley - Come up & see me


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Home Furnishings Retailer IKEA Makes Global Renewables Push
Joseph Bebon, Tuesday 28 January 2014 - 00:00:00
Big-name companies are increasingly embracing wind power and other sources of renewable energy. Ranked among green investors such as Google and Walmart, home furnishings retailer IKEA is on track to spend about $2 billion on its own wind and solar programs up to 2015. In addition, the company recently announced plans to buy its first North American wind energy project, currently under construction in Alberta.
Brendan Seale, sustainability manager of IKEA Canada, speaks with
about IKEA's global renewable energy progress and ambitions.
According to Seale, the IKEA Group is aiming to become energy independent by 2020 by offsetting all of the electricity it consumes worldwide with company-owned renewable energy. Considering IKEA has stores in more than 25 countries, that means a whole lot of power. The company has a midterm goal to reach 70% renewables by 2017, and IKEA is about a third of the way there.
Sure, going green helps a company improve its public image, but Seale maintains there are other, more important motivations at play. IKEA considers three main benefits: sustainability, cost savings and the availability to continue to improve its core business.
"We really see it as a win-win-win," he explains. "Obviously, there's a clear sustainability benefit to increasing the availability of renewable energy around the world. IKEA wants to contribute and take a lead in doing that. But it also enables us to control our costs and manage our cost profile in a really smart way as we move forward.
"Going from a net consumer of energy to a net producer, you could imagine the impact that could have long term on our books," Seale continues. "It allows us to continue to invest in our business and really translate that into benefits to our customers, which is providing home furnishing solutions that are high quality at low prices. That's really what's driving it."
IKEA is employing several cleantech solutions - including biomass, energy efficiency, and even electric-vehicle chargers - but Seale says the company is looking to make investments primarily in solar and wind power.
To date, IKEA has either installed or committed to install a total of about 765,000 solar panels on its buildings worldwide. Altogether, the panels are expected to produce approximately 120 GWh annually. Because IKEA has rooftops on which to build it, solar makes a lot of sense. So, the bigger question is, why bother with wind power?
"Wind projects generate a lot of energy, comparatively speaking," Seale notes.
"We look at opportunities on a case-by-case basis," he adds. "In some markets, wind is a prudent investment to make. In other markets, solar is a more prudent investment to make. And in some markets, both are prudent." Nonetheless, he says the two resources are highly beneficial.
Seale reports that IKEA either owns or has committed to own 157 wind turbines worldwide. The machines, representing 346 MW in total capacity, are expected to produce about 900 GWh each year. The company has invested in wind farms throughout Europe; however, it recently entered its first North American wind deal.
Located in Alberta, the Oldman 2 project will feature Siemens SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines and is being developed by Mainstream Renewable Power. Once the 46 MW wind farm is operational this fall, IKEA will acquire the project under an agreement announced in November 2013. Notably, IKEA and Mainstream previously signed a similar deal for the 7.65 MW Carrickeeny wind farm, which is slated to enter service soon in Ireland.
Seale explains that IKEA does not necessarily use the company-owned wind energy to power its stores. Rather, IKEA sells the wind power to a local utility or another party and makes a profit.
"The commitment that we've made is to produce as much or more renewable energy as the energy we consume. In the majority of cases, the physical electrons are feeding the local grid in the markets where we're operating our stores but may not be directly feeding the stores," he says, later adding, "It's kind of an offsetting, as well as smart business."
Looking ahead, Seale says, "We're evaluating renewable energy projects all the time. You can expect that IKEA will make further investments and further announcements." He will not, however, comment on which specific technologies or markets could be next.
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Just about 5 days before the release of the extremely sought after "Bred" Air Jordan 11, mass pandemonium has begun. The House Of Hoops in Prince George County was forced to shut down today and cancel the release of the shoe. Of course the police was on the scene and cleared the area immediately. As of right now there are no injuries reported.
This comes as no surprise, especially with the current rise in Sneaker related violence which has gained the attention of mainstream media on what feel like a regular basis. It's clean that retailers have attempted, and are still very much trying to subdue the violence with the recent implementations of reservations via twitter (which isn't working Nike) or even pre order tickets, but it seems as though even those measures aren't enough. I've said it in the past and i'll say it again, brands like Jordan, who hold as much weight as they do need to start taking an active role in trying to avoid these sort of situation, they can't just throw these shoes at retailers and collect checks any longer.
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- Jul 3:
- Ex-EPISD superintendent Lorenzo García moved to halfway house
- Dec 13:
- NY Times: Sentence cut for ex-EPISD Superintendent Lorenzo García in test scandal
- Nov 22:
- Beto O'Rourke: Keep ex-EPISD superintendent jailed
- Oct 23:
- EPISD: Former superintendent's prison sentence reduced
- Nov 10:
- Former EPISD superintendent Lorenzo García to serve 3 1/2-year sentence at Pennsylvania prison
- Nov 2:
- Jailed ex-EPISD superintendent Lorenzo García moved to Oklahoma City
- Oct 18:
- Former EPISD superintendent Lorenzo García's prison assignment uncertain
- Oct 6:
- Former EPISD Superintendent Lorenzo García sentencing disappoints teachers, scheme's victims
- Oct 5:
- Former EPISD Superintendent Lorenzo García gets 42 months, offers no apologies for scandal
- Former EPISD Superintendent Lorenzo García sentencing today
Deeply rooted systemic problems in the El Paso Independent School District administration may have come to their most visible point with the indictment, arrest and recent resignation of the now-former superintendent, Lorenzo García.
While the superintendent is gone, the problems that led to fraud charges against García remain largely unresolved.
That is an unacceptable disservice to EPISD teachers and staff, parents, taxpayers -- but most of all, the students.
We call for the EPISD to appoint an oversight committee composed of parents, employees and citizens to delve into the district's problems, pinpoint trouble areas and then make recommendations on how to fix them.
We're not confident that the district administration and the board of trustees, as currently constituted, can or will address and fix the shortcomings.
They are too entrenched in past habits and practices.
An independent body would have a better chance of cutting through the administrative fog and clear the air.
One overarching goal for the district should be transparency, something that's been sorely lacking in past years.
One prime example occurred in 2009 when administrators failed to provide information requested by the El Paso Times in a public information request. The information, concerning contracts and invoices involving Infinity Resources ... & Associates, led to García's indictment.
The district may have violated state law by refusing to give the information. Soon after García's indictment, the Times again requested the information and it was provided by the district.
An oversight committee could help ensure that the school board becomes more engaged in keeping track of what the administration is doing.
The board has but one employee, the superintendent, and the board should know what he or she is doing.
That hasn't been happening.
That said, the board must not go overboard in the other direction and become micro-managers, seven mini-superintendents.
An oversight committee could help keep them on the straight and narrow.
The administration also must stop treating what's been happening as some kind of public-relations gaffe that can be "managed."
Being forthcoming with information and not trying to cover up problems or gloss over them is all part of being transparent.
The district has taken some tentative steps in the right direction.
It has asked the Texas Association of School Boards to do an employee survey that, it is hoped, will give the district some ideas for moving forward.
Again, an oversight committee could aid in this endeavor.
Immediate action is imperative, because the district is in really bad shape administratively.
The administration is crippled, dealing with the fallout from the indictment and the school board is ineffective.
Most of the current administrators had ties to the García administration, and most school-board members were there during García's tenure.
Expecting effective leadership from either group is unrealistic.
There's not the luxury of time available to fix the problems, because the education of our young people is at stake.
That should be and must be the unwavering focus of both the school board and the school-district administration.
Terri Jordan should remain as interim superintendent, an independent oversight committee should be appointed, and a review -- with recommended fixes -- should be done as expeditiously as possible.


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Former Caps goaltender Wayne Stephenson passed away on June 22, 2010 in Madison, Wisc. He was 65.
A 5-foot-9, 175-pound native of Fort William, Ontario, Stephenson represented Canada in the 1968 Olympic Games and was a member of the Canadian National Team for several seasons. He was signed by St. Louis as an amateur in January, 1972. After a brief (21 games) minor league apprenticeship with the Kansas City Blues of the old Central Hockey League, Stephenson broke into the NHL at the age of 27 in 1971-72, getting into two contests with the St. Louis Blues. He notched his first NHL win with St. Louis the following season, posting an 18-15-7 mark in the process.
Dealt to the Philadelphia Flyers just prior to the start of the 1974-75 season, Stephenson played on the Stanley Cup champion Flyers club that season, posting a 7-2-1 record as the understudy to Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie Parent.
Stephenson enjoyed his best season in the NHL in 1975-76. With Parent out of action because of an injury, Stephenson fashioned a 40-10-13 record to go along with a 2.58 GAA. He was second in the league in wins and fourth in GAA that season.
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SOCHI, Russia — Several years ago, bothered by some of the more obscure Olympic sports, I suggested in writing that the size of the gold medals should reflect each sport's relative popularity and legitimacy.
Sadly — and oddly — the International Olympic Committee didn't respond.
I see now that it's one thing to have an idea and quite another to have a detailed plan or, in this case, a formula. What I'm about to present to you are groundbreaking Olympic metrics that will change the Winter Games forever. I hope the following questions and plus or minus values will guide the IOC in deciding whether the gold medal for a particular sport should be traditional-sized, quarter-sized, nickel-sized or, in the case of biathlon, the size of a dime:
† How many people participate in the sport in your country? More than 100,000, plus-10 points. You can count them on two hands and still have a thumb left over, minus-10.
† How many people tune in when the sport is on TV during the Olympics? More than 5 million, plus-5. Only 5,000, but they chug a beer every time the announcer mentions German ski jumper Andreas Wank, plus-10. Just close relatives of the athletes, minus-5.
† Is the sport ever on TV other than during the Olympics? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-10.
† Is there the possibility of a spectacular crash or an embarrassing fall? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† Could a fight break out? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† If a fight could break out, might it involve women? Yes, plus-15. No, minus-2.
† Are you a morning person? Yes, minus-10. No, plus-10.
† How much does the host country's ''president'' crave gold in a particular sport? A lot, plus-5. Very little because he's too busy suppressing basic human rights, minus-10.
† Can equipment be used as an excuse for poor performance? Yes, minus-10. No, plus-10.
† Could a broken shoelace and a quivering chin give an athlete a do-over during competition? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† Do you believe you're being watched? No, plus-5. I can't talk right now because they're very near, plus-10.
† Does judging decide the outcome of the sport? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† If judging does play a role, what are the chances of a severe-looking Russian judge named ''Ludmila'' being involved? Good, plus-10. Not so good, minus-2.
† Can you trace the origins of the sport back to a fuzzy bar bet? Yes, minus-5. No, plus-10.
† Stones or Beatles? Both, plus-2. People don't know this, but Mick actually was the Walrus, plus-10.
† Are most of the sport's athletes missing teeth? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† Does the sport feature men wearing snappy chiffon outfits? Yes, minus-10. No, plus-10.
† Who in his or her right mind would try ski jumping? I don't know, plus-5. Like, who wouldn't!, plus-10.
† Could you put on the sport's equipment and get to a Black Friday sale in a blinding blizzard? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-2.
† Is there ever enough accumulation to have a snowball fight in your country? Yes, plus-5. No, plus-10.
† Do athletes in the sport go out of their way to wear ''countercultural'' clothing during competition, make lifestyle statements that seem to point to the existential emptiness of the corporate rat race and then try to grab as much money as possible in product endorsements? Yes, minus-10. No, plus-10.
† Does the sport have a Jamaican bobsledding team? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† Which sock do you put on first in the morning? Right, plus-10. Left, minus-10.
† Curling, really? Yes, plus-5. No, minus-5.
† Are there more than two nations in the world that actually have a proficiency in the sport? Yes, plus-2. No, minus-10.
† If you were a fruit, what kind would you be? An apple, minus-10. What idiot management type thought of that question?, plus-10.
OK, time for our tabulation.
Traditional-sized gold medals: women's figure skating, men's hockey and downhill skiing.
Quarter-sized gold medals: women's hockey, ski jumping, short-track speedskating, ski cross and the rest of the Alpine skiing events.
Nickel-sized gold medals: curling, men's figure skating, cross-country skiing, long-track speedskating, Nordic combined, moguls and aerials skiing.
Dime-sized gold medals: bobsledding, skeleton, luge, biathlon, snowboard cross and ice dancing.
Crystal-healing medals: slopestyle skiing and snowboarding and halfpipe skiing and snowboarding.
I'm sure there will be debate about this, and some of you might take exception with the methodology. All I can say is that my metrics don't lie, people. The numbers are the numbers. And what they say is that some gold medals are worth more than others. I eagerly await the IOC's call.
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cuke.com - an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him.
home what's new bibliography interviews stories and more if you look around
Memories of Taizan Maezumi
Interview with
Taizan Maezumi Other articles and Excerpts
Taizan Maezumi came from his LA Center to Tassajara for most of the first half of the first practice period there in 1967 which ended with a sesshin. He'd met Suzuki in 1959 when he went up from LA to attend classes in English at San Francisco State College. Through the years he went to Sokoji some to visit and to attend ceremonies. And he'd take Mrs. Suzuki out drinking which she liked because her husband hardly ever drank.
One little bit of trivia about Maezumi is the source of his name. I know two of his brothers in Japan. They're both priests. I asked one of them why their family name is Kuroda and his is Maezumi and learned that he had taken the name of his mother's family. This is done sometimes in Japan as sometimes men take on the family name of their wives.
Maezumi's relation to the SF Zen Center was not good in the early years. He wanted to be affiliated with the SFZC, somewhat because he felt no connection to the Soto Zen temple in LA, Zenshuji. Shunryu Suzuki didn't respond to him on this. Richard Baker was very much against it. He and Maezumi were sort of enemies back then. When Maezumi was at Tassajara for that first practice period, he gave a lecture and said something that Baker took exception to and Baker insisted that he take it back which he did. I can't remember what it was but it was a shocking bit of power play at a time that us lowly students just wanted everything to be harmonious. Later, as they got older and mellower, Maezumi and Baker became friendly.
I went to LA some in the spring of '71 when I was helping to establish the kitchen and dinning room. Then and later, I'd sometimes stay with Maezumi and sit with him in the morning. He didn't have many students then. I remember one morning after we'd sat zazen and had breakfast that he sat me down opposite him at a low table and ranted at me for an hour about the fact that not only would Richard Baker not allow his Zen group to be associated with the SFZC, but that there was not even a mention of his center in the Wind Bell, the SFZC's publication. He implored me to try to get "just one sentence" in about his center. I mentioned it to the appropriate people when I got back and did not get a positive response. It did seem unfair but Maezumi still got no mention. But then again the Wind Bell didn't mention any other groups except for the related ones like Los Altos, Berkeley, and Mill Valley. But then again again it would sometimes mention a group in passing for some particular reason and that's all he asked for. No luck.
It's ironic that after Baker departed SFZC in 1983, the Wind Bell didn't list his center in the related groups list at the end (it doesn't list any related groups now) and do not now list his Crestone Zen Mountain Center in Colorado or his German center on SFZC.org's list of groups run by Shunryu Suzuki's disciples and students. Harsh. But that's the way the rice cake crumbles for lots of teachers and big shots in our tradition and in others. What goes up and all that. And this can change in time.
Maezumi was a gracious host. In 1973 my first wife to be and I dropped by the ZCLA to say hello and were told that Maezumi was on his way in from the airport. We waited with a group of his students at his doorstep and when he arrived he told all his students he'd talk to them later and took Daya and me inside and we sat and talked and drank and nibbled on Japanese snacks he'd brought with him and drank and drank and drank for the longest time. I felt bad for his students waiting to see him but he said not to worry and treated us like there was nothing in the world he'd rather do than hang out.
Maezumi had an American wife whose name was something like Charlene. I think she told me she was a Nichiren priest. She introduced me to organic liquid soap for cleaning just about anything - Basic H. I later became a Basic H salesman in order to get a big discount on it for Tassajara. We bought it by the 55 gallon drum. In the early days, in '65, Bob Halpern, who had encouraged Maezumi to start a Zen Center in LA and who'd been one of his first students, said that at times he and a few others would be sitting zazen downstairs while Maezumi and his wife were yelling and breaking furniture over each other's heads upstairs. I'm sure Bob exaggerated. She came to Zen Center a few times saying she was seeking refuge from him. Who know? But anyway, there were many troubles in his early years.
Maezumi sure had his share of troubles and scandal. I bought a video on the subject, an investigative documentary. There had been a lot of improper sexual conduct. One cool thing about him is that he didn't have the problem of not being able to see or deal with his own mistakes. On that video and at other times he freely admitted, confessed, and made no excuses for his preceptual transgressions. He drank a lot but, as I understand it, he got into a twelve step program as well and talked to his students about it openly.
Remembering the times I've been with him, seen him in ceremonies, and stuff I've heard about him, I'd say he had an interesting mix of humility and arrogance. Mainly to me he'd seem arrogant at a distance, but close up he'd be right there with me not putting on any airs. I went to visit him once when he was staying at the SFZC. I guess I was feeling sort of cynical at the time and started asking him if anyone in America had learned anything from studying Zen, from Suzuki, from him, from any teacher. He just let me rag on and said he didn't know, maybe not. When I first knew him he'd on the one hand say he came from an important family and had all these important transmissions and then say that he wasn't really a teacher, that he could only show people the posture of sitting and join them. He got transmission from his father in 1955, a year before he went to America. But he didn't ride on those laurels as he could easily have. He continued studying with other teachers after he'd started his own center and got transmission in two other lineages.
When he talked to me in later years I noticed he tended to stress the positive about others. Any Japanese priest who knew Shunryu Suzuki could say critical things about him since they, being from the same culture, they weren't so enamored (fooled?) by Suzuki's presence. But Maezumi would say to look at what Suzuki had done, what he left behind, that that was the important thing. I suppose if I had the character he had I would only say the same thing about Maezumi - look at all the teachers and centers he's left behind. He had twelve successors and there are over fifty groups in his lineage around the world. My relationship with Maezumi was not a dharmic one, but I respect him and his students for what they are doing. I present my memories here, which add up to not much more than a bunch of gossip, which cast no light on his teaching or understanding, not to detract from his legacy but to say that this is what I remember and that I really liked him and respect him - and to say to the judgmental, puritan, Calvinist, whatever we want to call it in us that our shortcomings and indulgences, our sins and our woes, need not hold us back from carrying the shapeless ball of the dharma forward.
Interview with
Taizan Maezumi Articles by DC
Excerpts from Crooked Cucumber with Maezumi
ZCLA Website brief bio etc on Maezumi
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Shirle Ann Strawcutter Deitz, 79, formerly of 109 Clay St Kane, passed away Saturday November 10, 2012 in the Lutheran Home of Kane.
Mrs. Deitz was born April 16, 1933 in Brookville the daughter of Ray Edward and Evelyn McManigle Strawcutter. She was married on October 19, 1986 in Kane to Albert "Jocko" Deitz who died March 7, 1993
Mrs. Deitz worked for 36 years at Stackpole Carbon Company. She was a 1951 graduate of Kane Area High School and was a member of the Tabor Lutheran Church.
Surviving are two daughters; Paula R. (John) Santilli, Kane and Jody E. (Michael) James, Eldred, five grandchildren; Joanna E. Santilli, Sara L. Santilli, Andrew (Kayla) James, Logan James and Maggie James, three sisters; Jacqueline Hinkle and Dona (Ted) Johnson, both of Kane and Sandra Oliver, Coral Spring, FL and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband.
There will be no visitation, a memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Lutheran Home of Kane in honor of Shirle Deitz.


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An important question I think you should be asking yourself, when it comes to your professional development, is "Are You Taking Full Advantage of the SQL Server Tools Available to You?" I think it's important enough that, when I make presentations at conferences or user groups, I often add this quote to one of my slides:
"One of the differences between an average DBA and an exceptional DBA is that the exceptional DBA thoroughly understands how to use the available tools to their fullest potential."
"One of the differences between an average DBA and an exceptional DBA is that the exceptional DBA thoroughly understands how to use the available tools to their fullest potential."
I started adding this quote after I discovered just how many DBAs don't seem to be fully familiar with how SQL Server tools can help them perform their jobs better. How did I find this out? I asked. During many of my presentations, I ask for a show of hands of who feels they are experts at using these tools, and I am always surprised to see how few hands are raised. While clearly not perfect, SQL Server does come with a wide variety of tools which I think all DBAs need to take the time to master, even if the learning curve for mastering some of them is high. Specifically, I recommend DBAs become skilled with the following tools:
Some of the above tools are easy to learn, while others are tough to master; equally, some of these tools will be used on a daily basis, while others might only be used occasionally. In any case, I challenge all DBAs to master these tools if they want to become as successful as they possibly can be.
Do you agree that DBAs should master all of the tools I've mentioned, or am I asking too much? And which tools have I left out?
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WOODS HOLE — Nobska Point Light will continue to be a beacon for sea travelers in Vineyard Sound, but a different landlord might be in charge of putting the property in shipshape condition.
The Coast Guard has started the long process of selling the lighthouse and the attached residence at 233 Nobska Road. Although the Coast Guard will continue to run the light and foghorn at the top of the structure, which rests to the east of Woods Hole's harbors, it has determined the site is no longer needed and wants someone else to take over stewardship of the buildings.
The decision came after a June visit to the lighthouse, said Coast Guard Lt. Joseph Klinker. The Coast Guard's civil engineering unit out of Providence discovered rotting, leaks, mold and mildew and heating problems. Repairs would have cost an estimated $550,000 and it was recommended the structure no longer be used.
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Nobska Light was established in 1829 and the current lighthouse was first lit in 1876, according to the Coast Guard's website.
The Coast Guard took over operations in 1939 and a civilian lightkeeper was on site until November 1973. The light later was fully automated in 1985. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, according to register records.
Nobska is perhaps the most viewed lighthouse on Cape Cod, a must-have snapshot for tourists every year, sitting in the easy gaze of millions of passengers who take ferries from Woods Hole to Martha's Vineyard. Despite the thicket of governmental red tape that lies ahead, Catherine Bumpus, co-president of the Woods Hole Community Organization, said she's confident the site will fall into good hands.
"It's iconic and loved by Woods Hole, Falmouth and many people from way beyond here," she said. "Because it is so accessible, because you can go look at it, because it's right there, people get to enjoy it. That makes it special to a lot of people."
Under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, lighthouses must first be offered to federal, state and local agencies, and nonprofits. Any plan to take over a lighthouse must pass the muster of the National Park Service. If no agency or nonprofit steps up or if the plan is deemed unacceptable by the federal government, then the property would be placed up for auction by the General Services Administration.
Bumpus doesn't see that happening. The community group is already planning conversations with area nonprofit groups to help identify potential suitors and educate the public about the process involved in taking responsibility for a lighthouse.
"Falmouth has demonstrated its capacity to do historic preservation, keeping important public property in the hands of organizations that will maintain them," she said. "We are going to work to help facilitate that process."
If it is taken over or sold, Nobska wouldn't be the first lighthouse in the area to come off the government's property rolls.
The Cleveland Ledge Light Station in Buzzards Bay was sold in 2010 for $190,000 to California resident Sandy Boyd. The Borden Flats Lighthouse in Fall River has been renovated and is available for overnight lodging.
Gay Head Light on Martha's Vineyard has been declared surplus by the Coast Guard and several groups, including the town of Aquinnah, have applied to take it over before erosion destroys the site.
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Systems that spell it as jiu jitsu, ju jitsu or jujitsu are mostly Western modern sports whose primary focus is competition. Since they are governed by rules, about 60-70% of the skills and techniques taught in traditional systems are eliminated or removed because they are illegal in competition. As a result, the combat techniques that originally defined these arts are no longer practiced and are eventually lost. Thus, such sport systems should not be viewed as martial arts but as martial sports. That is, they should be viewed as arts that may have evolved from traditional systems but have been significantly modified to be played as competitive sports (with rules).
There are two or three traditionally-based systems out there that use the term jujitsu or ju jitsu but these have been developed by Westerners who adapted the spelling to match the way they thought jujutsu sounds when pronounced in English. What they seem to ignore, or are unaware of, is the fact that in Romaji (the Romanization of the Japanese Language)jiu means absolutely nothing in English and jitsu is the term for reality or truth.
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Henshall in "A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters" (Tokyo, Tuttle, 1988), and Hepburn in "The Romanization of the Japanese Language" (1887) (the modern revised version is called Shu-sei Hebon-shiki Ro-maji) are quite clear about the meaning of the terms jitsu and jutsu but most Western practitioners seem to be unfamiliar with their work. Further, it is important to note that jujutsu is the term used by the Kodokan, by Aikido (as in Aikijutsu), by Kenjutsu, Taijutsu and a whole host of other traditional, or traditionally-based Japanese systems.
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Wander through Pimlico's streets and you will soon realise that Dolphin Square is difficult to miss. Standing proudly on the North Bank of the River Thames, this imposing red brick structure is much more than just a block of flats. As well as being known as one of the area's key landmarks, Dolphin Square is also renowned for its history and some rather surprising stories, set within the square.
In a recent interview with Dolphin Square's Head Gardener, Michael Deville, he told us "I think anyone who knows anything about London generally is aware of Dolphin Square." But where did it all start?
Building the square: In numbers
It took 2 years to build
12 million bricks were used to build the square
125,000 tons of concrete and 125 miles of electricity cables were used
There is 22 acres of floor space with 12 floors
3,000 men were employed in the building of the square at different times
It was the Costain brothers who built Dolphin Square, one hundred years after Master Builder Thomas Cubitt created Pimlico. Clearance of the site began in 1935, firstly with the demolition of the Army clothing factory that operated here on the site that later became Dolphin Square.
"Demolition of the old [clothing] factory started with Albert Costain – later Sir Albert, Member of Parliament – knocking down [the] first chimney which fell on his foot, breaking several bones."
200,000 tons of earth was then removed so the new foundations could be laid and the building could begin. The South half of the building, Collingwood, Frobisher, Grenville, Drake Raleigh, Hawkins, Nelson and Howard Houses were completed in less than a year and the North half was completed by September 1937.
At the time of construction, the building was billed as the largest development of its kind in Europe, and right from the beginning attracted famous faces and Londoners looking to make the most of the city, the square's privacy and its secluded gardens. Read more about tales from within the square.
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Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have handed academy player Tom Johnstone a contract for the 2015 season.
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Wildcats head coach James Webster told the First Utility Super League side's official website: "From when Tom first turned up at the club his improvement physically has been outstanding.
"He's an athlete, is really quick and his performances in the under-19s this year have warranted him getting a contract with us as a first-team player.
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Growing up in the 1970s, Bucks Burnett never even owned an eight-track tape: When his parents purchased their first post-LP stereo console, they went straight for a cassette player. "They were visionaries," he says.
But that hasn't stopped Burnett from becoming the eight-track's most vocal champion, amassing an incredible collection of Stereo 8 cartridges, and opening the world's first museum devoted entirely to the format. Located in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, Burnett's original Eight Track Museum opened in 2011, offering visitors a peek at an often overlooked medium plus an archive of every audio recording format created since the earliest wax cylinders of the late 1800s. In October of this year, the second outpost of Burnett's homage to the 8-track opened at the Orphic Gallery in Roxbury, New York, expanding the reach of his crusade for lesser known forms of audio recording.
"The eight-track was nothing less than revolutionary in the context of its time."
Burnett's obsession with Stereo 8 tapes began after a chance encounter at a garage sale in the '80s, and he's never looked back. The quirky vibe of each Eight Track Museum is perfectly matched by Burnett's outsized personality (when the Oxford English Dictionary decided to remove the entry for "Cassette Tape" in 2011, Burnett retaliated by banning the dictionary from his museum). During the '80s, Burnett befriended such music world notables as the ukelele-playing Tiny Tim, as well as Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the founding members of the Talking Heads who went on to create Tom Tom Club in 1981. Among others, each of these stars is a part of Burnett's unfinished documentary on the 8-track tape, called "Spinal Tape," which is expected to be completed in 2013.
Burnett recently gave Collectors Weekly the down-low on forgotten formats and why the world needs a few museums dedicated to Stereo 8.
Collectors Weekly: You never owned a single 8-track tape as a kid?
Burnett: No, I didn't. I listened to them at friends' houses and they were always around in music stores, but I was focused on LPs and 45s when I was really young. When I was able to drive, I got a cassette player in my car instead, but at the time I was managing the eight-track department at Peaches Records in Dallas, so it was kind of ironic.
Collectors Weekly: Do you associate them with specific music?
Burnett: Mainly Led Zeppelin, because when you'd go driving around, partying, people would usually be playing Led Zeppelin eight-tracks.
Collectors Weekly: When did you start collecting them?
Burnett: In 1988, I was at a garage sale in Dallas, looking through a box of stuff, and I found the Beatles' "White Album" on eight-track, which was a two-tape set in this lovely black slip case I'd never seen before, with "The Beatles" written in gold lettering. I thought, wow, that's cool. I asked the guy, "How much for this?" and he said, "Seven dollars." I said, "For an eight-track?" thinking, "Are you nuts?" And he said, "Give me the seven or put it back in the box." So I gave him the seven bucks, and that's how it all started.
I took it home that day and put it up on my fireplace mantel, and it kept catching my eye for the next two or three days. By 1988, eight-tracks had been over for several years so it looked very exotic to me. Then I got this terrific idea to collect every single Beatles eight-track, and that took five years because this was pre-Internet. I had to go to estate sales, garage sales, thrift stores, and flea markets to find them.
Collectors Weekly: How many total Beatles releases were there?
Burnett: Including all the tacky reissues the company put out after the band broke up, about 25 or so. I was very dedicated.
Collectors Weekly: Did this inspire you to create the museum?
Burnett: Well, I also owned a record store called 14 Records in Dallas at the time. All I was really doing was trying to build a complete Beatles eight-track set, but if you're looking through a box and there's Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for 50 cents each, you can't say no. So I accidentally started collecting them and then six months later I'm like, "Wait a minute, I've got three copies of 'Dark Side of the Moon' here."
I started putting the extra ones out for sale at my record store as a joke, because by 1989 or '90, the last thing you needed in your record store was an eight-track section, right? Well, much to my shock, they were selling as fast as I could put them out to people who didn't even have players. That's when I realized there was this larger interest.
Collectors Weekly: Were people drawn to them as physical objects?
Burnett: Absolutely. That's a huge part of it. If you think about it, of the dozens of formats over the last, say, 50 years, it's the only one that's self-contained. A cassette has like three, four, or five pieces and when you lose two pieces, you throw it away. Even for the beloved LP, you've got the record, the sleeve, and the cover. The eight-track tape was just one object. You shove it in, you pull it out, and it's the exact size of your hand. I think people really responded to that.
Collectors Weekly: What's unique about the original Dallas museum versus the new Roxbury location?
Burnett: Well, they couldn't be more different. The Dallas location is considered the mothership. That's where I have the master collection of, say, 3,000 of the best eight-tracks ever made, plus 5 or 10 of the worst. The Roxbury location is more about the hardware. In the Roxbury museum, we've constructed a physical walk-through timeline of most major formats throughout the last 120 years or so, from the wax cylinder of the 1870s on up through the iPod. They're all in perfect working order, so we can demonstrate how a wax cylinder, 78 player, eight-track, or reel-to-reel sounds. We provide that as a sort of public service to really give people a visual and audio education of what music has sounded like throughout the decades.
The Roxbury site also has the world's absolute guaranteed rarest eight-track. It's a Frank Sinatra album recorded with the Brazilian jazz musician Antônio Carlos Jobim called "Sinatra/Jobim." The album was briefly issued on eight-track but recalled before any LP or cassette copies were made, and only about 5 copies survived because Frank ordered them to be destroyed. I think somebody put five into their pocket and took them home. They generally change hands for around $5,000. We miraculously got one of those for the museum, and we're very proud that it's on display right now in Roxbury. In fact, it even has its own room. I thought it would be great to accent its specialness and rarity by having it be the only tape in a small room.
Collectors Weekly: Like the crown jewel, so to speak.
Burnett: Yeah, there are about five other eight-tracks that over the past few years have sold in the same dollar range as the Sinatra album, but the Sinatra is the Mona Lisa. It's an undeclared crown jewel, and I couldn't be more thrilled to have it.
Collectors Weekly: Have you actually listened to it?
Burnett: Oh, God, no. That would be just my luck, you know, I'd put it in, and there it goes. For 30 years, most of the music on that eight-track was unique to the eight-track, never reissued, and finally two years ago they put it out as part of a two-CD collection.
Collectors Weekly: How was the Stereo 8 format initially developed?
Burnett: In the mid-'60s, Bill Lear of Learjet wanted a format to play music in his airplanes, so he had his engineers develop a tape cartridge that they installed in the jets. Very quickly a light went off in his head. He's like, "Wait, my jet customers love having music in the air. Why can't I put this in cars?" Lear went out and lobbied all the big auto manufacturers in Detroit and got them to introduce a line of eight-track players in their 1966 cars. The very first eight-tracks appeared in the marketplace in 1965 for the '66 cars. To put it in context, the first Beatles eight-track offered as a new release was "Rubber Soul."
"If you're looking through a box and there's Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for 50 cents each, you can't say no."
What's cool, though, is that if you bought an 8-track player for your car, from the very first year each car manufacturer gave you a free eight-track. It was like "Ford presents the swinging sounds of '66," and each company would do a new one every year. The music was a pretty safe selection of greatest hits of the day that wouldn't offend anybody. I don't think the Sex Pistols ever ended up on one.
A lot of car collectors also collect those eight-tracks, and there are more than 100 of them since you had seven or eight major carmakers putting out a different eight-track every year. I have a big stack of Cadillac eight-tracks.
Collectors Weekly: Were any other audio formats built into cars before that, like portable LP players?
Burnett: Yes, there were, but they just had too many problems. No matter how hard they tried, the records just skipped constantly. They tried making the tone arm heavier, but a bump is a bump; it wasn't contained enough for the playing to be successful. They never really caught on, but there's video of people playing turntables in cars, a very short lived but fascinating development along the way. The eight-track was truly the first mass-consumer car format.
Collectors Weekly: What do you think about the audio quality of 8-tracks?
Burnett: Very few people are ever going to understand this, but it's shockingly good. It depends on the player. If you're going to play an eight-track in one of those little $30 take-it-to-the-beach portables, it's going to sound cheap. But they also made a lot of nice units, and with the right unit in the car or at home with the right speakers, they had this incredible, gigantic, beautiful analog sound.
Collectors Weekly: Why do you think it was such a short-lived medium?
Burnett: That's actually a misconception—it was not short lived. They were introduced in 1965, and sold in retail through 1982. They continued to be sold through mail-order music clubs through 1988, meaning the eight-track format survived for 23 years.
Collectors Weekly: What kind of effect did the eight-track have on audio technology?
Burnett: It's hard to convince people who weren't around then, but the eight-track was nothing less than revolutionary in the context of its time. It was the first time that you didn't have to listen to what was on the radio if you didn't want to. You could listen to the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or Hank Williams.
For the first time, the consumer and the driver had complete control over what he was going to listen to. What that did was inspire further innovation and marketing possibilities. They finally introduced a home player for the eight-track in 1968 (it was car-only for about two years). Then the home players took off. People were listening to them at home and in the car. And then they introduced the recording eight-track deck, so that you could make a mix tape at home on eight-track. You could buy a new Led Zeppelin LP plus a blank eight-track tape for a buck, and then throw the album on the tape. That way you'd have the album for home and the tape for the car.
Collectors Weekly: Why do you think the cassette tape took over?
Burnett: It was smaller, and it had fewer issues. The eight-track had a few technical flaws that would create operational problems, it was well known for that. Which is too bad because the sound was really terrific. Eight-tracks sounded much better than cassettes.
Collectors Weekly: Are there any particularly strange audio formats in your collection?
Burnett: Oh, yeah. I keep thinking I've discovered the last one, and then I find some other oddball. There was a folding eight-track manufactured briefly in 1970 that's quite collectible now. The cartridge literally folds in half so you could put it in your shirt pocket. Those are insanely rare.
There were also these little, tiny tapes made from '65 through 1970 called two-tracks. They're half the size and half the depth of the eight-track, and they're just adorable. Almost every Beatles album came out in a series of two-tracks, as did albums by Frank Zappa and other rock artists, and now they're really collectible. No one even knew about two-tracks when they were new. Also, the very first cassettes were like five times the size of the cassette we think of. So there are just dozens and dozens of great examples.
Collectors Weekly: What's been the public response to the museums?
Burnett: Well, I would say it's mild interest, but it's interest. And we understand what we're up against. We're not expecting this to put the Guggenheim out of business anytime soon.
I've had a few hundred people come through my doors and they're typically divided into two groups: Half are nostalgic and want to relive some memories. The other half are into discovery, and they want to see a type of museum they haven't seen before, or they buy LPs but want to know what came before that. So it's halfway between nostalgia and discovery.
Collectors Weekly: Is there anyone making new eight-tracks today?
Burnett: Me! I have an eight-track label called Cloud 8 Music, and that's also the name of my small chain of record stores in Dallas. Once or twice a year, we'll put out eight-tracks with local or national artists and we'll have a release party in the museum. I put out very limited editions, like the Tom Tom Club album on eight-track released last year. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth came to the museum and signed all of them, and we sold them out in the middle of the night.
Collectors Weekly: Are you working on any future projects involving the eight-track?
Burnett: I'm currently producing a documentary about the eight-track called "Spinal Tape." We've already filmed about 40 rock-star interviews, including Jimmy Page, all four Talking Heads, Tiny Tim, and two of the Small Faces, so it's going to be an amazing collection of rock stars all in one documentary. Other than that, my next goal is to open an eight-track museum somewhere in England.
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I have around 25-30 8-Tracks myself and two players. Do I play the tapes- no [am afraid to!].
PMToone Says:
Just be really careful around the point where the tape ends join (where the metallic tape is affixed that signals the player to change tracks.) In my experience with them, that's been the main point of failure. If it breaks and one end slurps back into the cartridge, you have to open it, which often means tearing the labels and also ruining the cartridge if you're not careful. They usually have weird interlocking tabs that hold the thing together. Also, many cartridges were manufactured with foam rubber pads to tension the tape against the play heads in the machine, which goo with age and have to be replaced. If a cart has the pads with the metal springs you're probably OK.
Dougee909 Says:
And nary a mention of the Q-8, the quadraphonic version of the 8-track.
Obbop Says:
I visited the 8-Track Museum in downtown Dallas last month and had the most enjoyable hourlong visit with Mr. Burnett in his downtown establishment reviewing his collection and learning about the history of recording mediums.
Mr. Burnett is a fascinating character and his exhibition and tour is well worth a visit. In addition to the museum, the area boasts numerous shops, bars and cafes that offer a great variety of drinks and food.
Bravo to Mr. Burnett and his endeavors!
Ross Self
Ross Self Says:
I also have a bunch of 8 tracks most which I play and some which I have not gotten around to repairing. I have a Pioneer HR- 99 deck and a Motorola unit ( seperate radio and tape units NIB, RV unit). I have an Alan Parsons I Robot tape that the audio quality is incredible. I love em' and will continue to buy them when I find them. My first add on in my 72 Chevy Van was an 8 track player back in 76′. I also cassette reel to Reel and Vinyl. Long Live Analogue!
L Carter Says:
Before the 8-Track was the 4-Track that when placed in the player had a cassette wheel raise up into a opening against the capstan. Later the wheel was manufactured in each cassette housing. Some players would play both the 4-track and 8-track tapes. If the Cartridge didn't have a wheel in it then a mechanism would raise up when the cassette was inserted with a wheel to play the tape. I liked the quad 8-track tapes best. Dark Side of the Moon is fun to listen to in quad.
Danny Salyer Says:
You haven't lived in the 60's/70's unless your 8-track was at least stolen once from your car!!!
Stu Says:
I have been told these x-rated porn tapes are quite scarce 8-tracks. Comments?
Jim Linderman Says:
Just a little follow-up to my visit to the museum. Mr. Burnett had a variety of failed media; both the 2 and 4-track tapes and players, the Q-8 player and many others such as Edison Wax cylinders and even the weird 16-track machine. In addition, he has something I found cool: an 8-track that folds up to the size of a cassette and fit in your pocket.
Once again, I highly recommend a visit. Just the eclectic compendium of "one off" vanity records is worth the trip.
Denver, CO
Ross Self Says:
My prized possession is Never Mind the Bollocks 8-track i picked up at a garge sale for a quarter in the 90's.
Phil Leitch Says:
I used to have to repair 8 track players as an audio bench technician. I was so glad when we stopped taking them in. When they went to plastic pinch rollers instead of rubber, that was the death knell of the format. I had a record store owner client who collected every 8 track released, he had thousands of them. After many of them deteriorated I built him a reel to reel transport with 8 track heads, unspooled the cartidges to reels, and saved his collection.
Tom Peary Says:
I have somewhere around 600 8-tracks that I have collected from thrift stores, flea markets, antique malls, used book stores, garage sales… over the last few years. All have been overhauled and repaired with new felt or foam pads, foil splice and so on. I have somewhere around 30 players. Three players get the most use, Pioneer HR-100, Soundesign 8-track/Stereo Receiver and a Columbia component deck with a nice head height/skew adjustment knob on the front that comes in handy when playing a tape recorded on a misaligned machine (such as home recorded tapes recorded using a recorder with misaligned head). Depending on how the tapes were stored, how much use they've seen, mishandling and so on, some can sound really really good and some can sound like complete junk. Some of my friends can't tell the difference between a CD or a good condition 8 track in my Pioneer HR-100. Most 8 tracks will still play and sound good with just a few repairs and a clean, demagnetized and properly adjusted player. If you don't find them in the free box at a garage sale, you can usually expect anywhere between 10¢ to about $2.00 at most junk shops, flea markets or garage sales.
Jacob Says:
My husband collects 8-tracks. He also has a few players and recorders. He's spent a lot of time fixing some of them. He also listens to his favorites frequently.
Jody Says:
My '64 Plymouth Fury requires and has an 8-Track, which keeps the car and it's contents historically accurate. I most certainly will enjoy this museum upon my next trip to NY and visit the Orphic Gallery, a must destination on my itinerary!
Michele Dawn Saint Thomas Says:
I have made several thousand dollars this years finding, repairing and re-selling on ebay Quad-8 tapes… there is a quite a collector's market out there who usually digitize them and burn them onto CDs and make them available to other 8 track and multi-channel (MC) sound fans.
Ed S. Says:
My wife had a 1974 Ford van that had an 8 track in it, but we had a very limited collection of tapes. I always thought it would be humorous to put a cassette adapter in it (they made them years ago) then put a cassette to audio output adapter into that and plug that into an mp3 player. In the 60s I worked in an electronics store and I remember the 4 track cartridge player that used the Fidelipac cart that the radio stations used, except it was stereo and it ran at half speed. (3-3/4 ips)
Barbeque John Says:
I grew up in the 70's and remember trails of 8 track tape along the side of the roads! Foghat, BTO, Eagles, BOSTON….oh such great music. I didn't have an 8 track but my boyfriends with their muscle cars did. I only bought vinyl because cassettes also seemed too fragile.
mary Says:
anyone into music has to go through the 8-track experience, and listen to the tapes, players, and music from the time period 1966-80, and epiphany will strike. The music was different, the gear was different. It was a more durable, stable environment. 8's are a high maintenance format to take up as a hobby, the players and tapes need attention to keep them running. But it pays huge dividends. If you haven't heard a sealed 8-track tape that's just been opened and played in an Akai, Roberts, or Telex tape deck, you haven't lived yet. Digital music and gear has ruined a lot of the discovery of the musical experience, by dampening down a lot of the harmonics, depth, and background echo in the music.
You can always go back to CD. It takes guts and skill to try 8 track and stay with it. 8-track separates the men from the boys.
Gary Cavone Says:
"Above: An Akai CR-81D 8-track player with tapes."
Wrong. It is a RECORDER. It says so in the front panel and also has "REC" button, VUmeters and recording-level controls. A player would miss all of these.
Aristarco Says:
very happy to find you!
I hope you can reply my question: models and production years of Blaupunkt in-dash 8-track am/fm car stereos.
I only know CR-4081, 4091 and 8000 but I am sure they made someone else too.
I am a retired chemical engineer who service Voxson and (sometimes) Pioneer and Blaupunkt sets for vintage car owners Worldwide.
Of course Ferrari, Lamborgini, Maserati, Iso Rivolta, Bizzarrini and so on owners call for Voxson (only european producer in the '60's) only but once in a while I am asked to offer a fully serviced Pioneer or Blaupunkt.
Your kind answer will be very appreciated.
In return you may ask me whatever you want, I do this work for hobby and I still buy/listen 8-track cartridges…..another world!
dr. Bruno Zappaterra
ps: I've been in Houston, enjoyed Galleria, belly dancers, armadillos, pink grapefruit juices etc.!
bruno zappaterra Says:
The real problem with the 8-track is that it is 4 stereo tracks multiplexed on the same tape, so albums had to be configured to fit in this – generally resulting in either a rearrangement of the songs from the phonogram album (i.e., the definitive artistic product) and/or a klutzy break in the middle of the song, done by either having a fade out, then track change, then fade in, or just a hokey track change in the middle of the song. The cassette tape didn't have this problem as its 2 sides correlated with the 2 sides of the phonogram, and with only the mild hassle of having one side have extra space at the end (easily handled by auto-forward.)
swampwiz Says:
I'm looking for a service/repair manual for my Roberts Model # R-8026 AM/FM Stereo 8 Track Multiplex. I've lost a channel and need a schematic. Thanks, Chuck
Chuck Gillespie Says:
I am studying 8 track today. Corvette offered them as late as 1982. What year did other cars stop offering them?
Bryan Says:
I love all kinds of odd formats. I actually make new master blank Edison cylinders, and musical cylinder records. Anyhow I have an Akai X 2000-S that has reel to reel,cassette, and 8 track and just got it going the other day. I have about 300 8 tracks, though have not listened to one in about 20 years, and re-introduced myself to the format yesterday, those Akai units make 8 tracks sound very good indeed!!!
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