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Black Fraternities at 100: Are They Fulfilling Their Legacy?
From Uptown -- As the men of Alpha Phi Alpha were concluding their centennial celebration in 2006, thousands of men in crimson and cream and purple and gold were gearing up for theirs in 2011. By the end of July 2011, two other historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, would have hosted their centennial conclaves celebrating 100 years of achievement, manhood, scholarship and uplift.
While turning 100 is a significant milestone for any organization, it is particularly sweet for these two fraternities born out of a climate of racism, resistance and ostracism. And while the accomplishments of Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, along with Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Sigma, have been undeniably profound much of its recent history associated with hazing, abuse, misogyny and buffoonery, has threatened to taint their rich histories and legacies.
What has happened in black Greekdom in recent decades propelling them into quasi-gangs?


text: The Battle of the Dairy Press Releases July 23, 2012 11:11 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email It's one of those she said, he said days. At 2:12 Central Time, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) e-mailed a press release to dairy media claiming that a market stabilization plan, aka supply management, would be in effect had current proposals in the Farm Bill be in force. One hour and 25 minute later, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) issued a response, claiming IDFA had "mischaracterized the real issue facing dairy farmers this summer." IDFA says the market stabilization program would have already kicked in in May and would likely still be in effect this month. "Not only will consumers be facing higher prices in the near future, because cows produce less milk during high heat conditions and the cost of feed will be higher, but this new program would have already dug the hole deeper," says Connie Tipton, IDFA president and CEO. "This is an excellent example of why it doesn't make any sense for Congress to attempt to manage the supply of milk," adds Jerry Slominski, IDFA senior vice president. "The weather changes faster than government can change its rules and regulations, and this will cause prices to swing more wildly once the impacts of the drought are felt by the industry." Jerry Kozak, NMPF president and CEO, fired back with this statement: "Summer heat always leads to a slowdown in milk output – this year will be no different – but the USDA reported last week that milk production in the second quarter of 2012 was up 2.0% compared to 2011, while the first quarter was up a whopping 5.3%. The U.S. is well on track to produce a record volume of milk this year, a hot summer notwithstanding. "As a result, farmers' prices this June were down 18% from June 2011, 30 cents a gallon less. Consumers really should be asking if the price they pay at retail for dairy products have dropped by the same amount. The answer is, retail prices haven't changed, even as the farm price this year has reflected the fact that supply has raced ahead of demand. Meanwhile, grain prices reflect the opposite: That supplies are short in relation to demand. "The dairy policy provisions in the Senate and House farm bills are tied to the critical difference between the farmer's milk price, and the cost of feed. When that margin contracts to dangerously low levels, those who volunteer to use the proposed program will be insured against these low margins – and they are also expected to trim their milk output until margins reach healthy levels. "These summer temperatures, and the possibility of a poor crop harvest, are exactly why we need a dairy farm safety net that takes into account higher feed prices, and also gives us a tool to better align supply and demand. Relying on the weather to perform this process is foolish." Back to news

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Banana Split Cake , This Cake Is So Delicious
Banana Split Cake Recipe
Have you ever heard of Banana Split Cake. If not then you're in for a real treat because this cake is one of the most delicious cakes you will ever eat. Almost every one that eats this cake says that Banana Split Cake is one of the best things they have ever tasted in their life's. And another really great thing about this banana split cake is that it is so easy to make. Just follow the simple recipe and in no time at all you will be eating delicious banana split cake and wondering why you've never made it before.
If your looking for a new and exciting dessert to serve to family , friends , or at a office party then this is the cake for you. I guarantee you that everyone who tastes this delicious Banana Split Cake is going to want the recipe for it.
For Your Recipe You Will Need
For Your Crust You Will Need.
1. 1 13X9 Inch Baking Pan.
2. 2 Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs Crumbled Up Very Fine.
3. 6 Tablespoons Real Butter Melted.
Ok you will want to prepare your 13X9 inch pan by spraying it with a good vegetable cooking spray and I strongly suggest Pam. Now once you have your pan sprayed well mix your graham cracker crumbs and butter together well and pat it into the bottom of the pan. Be sure that you pat your crumbs firmly.
For Your Filling You Will Need.
1. 1 Cup Real Butter Softened At Room Temperature.
2. 3 Cups Of Confectioner's Sugar.
3. 1 Teaspoon Real Vanilla Extract.
4. 4 Large Bananas Sliced Into Long Slices.
5. 1 20 Ounce Can Crushed Pineapple Drained.
6. 1 Pint Strawberries Washed And Sliced.
7. 1 Large Container Cool Whip Topping.
8. 1 10 Ounce Jar Maraschino Cherries.
9. 1/2 Cup Pecan Pieces In Very Small Pieces.
10. Chocolate Syrup.
You will want to place the butter , confectioners sugar and the vanilla extract in a bowl and whip it up with your hand mixer. Spread it over the crust and then place your bananas on top followed by the pineapple and then the strawberries. Cover with your cool whip topping and then arrange your maraschino cherries on top of the cake and then your pecan pieces. Be sure to cover your cake and let it set in the refrigerator for at least four hours before you serve.
This banana split cake is truly one of if not the best cake you will ever eat in your life. It is oh so delicious.
If you make the banana split cake please post a comment below and let us know how it turns out for you. You can make little changes like in the photo strawberries were in season so we used strawberries instead of cherries. We like to serve the cake straight from the refrigerator with chocolate syrup over it and we serve it in chilled glass dessert bowls that have been in the refrigerator for at least four hours.
Post your banana split cake comments below now.
Did you make the Banana Split Cake? How did it turn out for you? Post your comments , tips , and suggestions now.
I had a recipe similar to this several years ago and it got raves everywhere I took it. I stopped making it because it had raw eggs in it. This looks as if it will be just as good and I won't have to worry about giving everyone food poisoning. Thanks!
i have been looking for this exact recipe. THANK YOU!!!!
I make it for friends and family. Everyone loves it.
I made this for church picnic today. Only one bite left to bring home! Only change I would make would be to get as much liquid out of the pineapple so it won't be watery. The flavor was great though! Thanks!
Made this yesterday and served it last night. Recipe was easy to follow and everyone absolutely loved it. Thanks for sharing!
I have a similar recipe but the filling uses cream cheese...dip the bananas in lemon juice to prevent browning
How do you keep the bananas from turning brown?
Sounds awesome! Someone made this at work once and I loved it but forgot to get the recipe. Thanks!
I have a similar recipe to this. Some subtle differences. Love the cake though. Gonna try your recipe! Thanks!


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One of my favorite TV shows is "Sunday Morning", on CBS every Sunday morning
(thus the name).
This past Sunday the had a segment on Mr. Sung, who is an amazing hat designer.
He designed the hat below.
When I saw it on TV at the inauguration I instantly fell in love!
If I put this hat on, and went in public...people would laugh and stare.
What is it about an older big black woman the exudes such style and confidence?
Having lived in the deep south for 7 years; I have met many women like this.
Mr Song says 76% of his customers are black woman who buy these hats for church.
I would totally go to church if I got to wear hats like these, and sing and dance like they do in the south. They got it going on! AMEN.
Mr Song Millinery
I love these stamps......
You can also buy respect bumper stickers adorned with the inaugural bow here:
Respect Bumper Sticker
Sunday, April 12, 2009
ahh...Lovely Hats
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"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
Other brain injury survivors are your "team". Each member of the team has his/her own path laid out and individually each person must work to achieve the very best result that he/she is capable of. There is an incredible amount of unification that comes from being a survivor.
There are many numerous support networks where people can indeed feel as an integral part of something. Individuals can gain strength from sitting alongside others who have gone through something similar. People ban together not only from a tragedy but also by ethnicity or even gender. The groups begin as broad but there are subsets that stem off from the original group. For example, I am a member of several brain injury survivor networks. I am a member of general TBI survivors, and I also am a member of the TBI survivor group for women. A fellow female TBI survivor is part of my team. There are many things that arise that make being a woman survivor particularly challenging. While balance issues arise for both sexes, the balance issues that become evident make it particularly difficult to walk in feminine high heels. A male may not be able to listen and seriously take notice to a woman expressing her high heel concern. This along with other gender-specific issues makes this group very useful for understanding my particular subset of the population I would love to hear who else has joined a support group where they truly feel as part of the team.
The organizational objective of a support group may be to offer a safe haven of understanding as a segment of the population works toward their common goal to attain and give understanding. I believe that support groups are invaluable and that much attention should be given to help and create them. I would love to hear from any of you who have found support groups to be useful and helpful along your journey. I thank you very much for reading and look forward to any responses that you may have.


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Key Concepts in Substance Misuse (Sage Key Concepts Series)By: Aaron Pycroft (editor)Hardback
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DescriptionDrug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world. This book offers a complete overview of the issues associated with substance misuse from an interdisciplinary perspective. It begins by providing a reference guide to the different psychoactive substances, looking at the biological and psychological impact of their use. Key issues in the effect drugs have on society are then addressed, before outlining methods of recovery and therapy. Chapters include: Reflective questions to challenge readers' assumptions Case studies to help students understand the impact of substances on individuals Links to further resources to expand readers' knowledge It will be valuable reading for those studying on degrees in criminology, health, nursing, social work and counselling.
About AuthorAaron Pycroft is a Senior Lecturer at Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.
ContentsPart 1: Drugs, Democracy and Society Ethical Evaluations of Drug Use and Drug Policy - Aaron Pycroft The International and National Legislative Framework - Aaron Pycroft The Relationship Between Politics and Scientific Knowledge in Formulating Drug Policy - Aaron Pycroft Alternatives to Prohibition - Aaron Pycroft Part 2: Definitions and categories of psychoactive substances Sedatives - Aaron Pycroft Stimulants - Aaron Pycroft Opiates - Aaron Pycroft Hallucinogens - Aaron Pycroft Poly Drug Use - Aaron Pycroft Drugs with Mixed Effects - Aaron Pycroft New Psychoactive Substances (Legal Highs) - Rosanna Bartholomew Part 3: Understanding the Nature of Addiction Addiction as a Complex Adaptive System - Aaron Pycroft The Evolutionary Context - Aaron Pycroft Dependence Syndromes - Aaron Pycroft Psychological Perspectives - Aaron Pycroft Part 4: Interventions and Treatment Dual Diagnosis and the Context of Exclusion - Anita Green Harm Reduction - Tony Shea The concept of Recovery - Tim Leighton The Purposes and Methods of Detoxification from Illicit Drugs - Rebecca Lee The Purposes and Methods of Detoxification from Alcohol - Pam Campbell and Anne Spooner The Major Talking Therapies - Trevor Smith Buddhism and Addiction - Devin Ashwood Criminal Justice Interventions - Bernie Heath Evidence Based Practice, Research and Outcome Monitoring - Jane Winstone The Core Skills in Working with Substance Misuse - Angela Woods Whole Systems Approaches - Tony Wilkinson
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Snap! is another camera app for your iPhone. However, instead employing of a bunch of wacky filters, Snap! allows you to add notes to your pictures. There are lots of options for changing the text properties, and a bunch of ways to share your images as well. All wrapped in a straightforward design built for efficiency.
Check it out in the video below to see how it works.


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We had a nice afternoon wandering around Bath on Monday, visting the Roman Baths as well as the Royal Crescent and the Jane Austen museum.
Our ride from Bristol to Chepstow in Wales on Tuesday was notable for the major bridges we crossed or passed near. From Bristol we followed bike paths and tracks alongside the River Avon, out to Avonmouth.
Soon after leaving the city we passed under the historic (& very striking) Clifton Suspension Bridge (1864) spanning the Avon Gorge, which was designed by the famous British engineer I K Brunel.
Then we crossed the river on a cycleway separate from the carriageway on the large bridge on the M5 Motorway. Riding north along linked cyclepaths we saw the 1.6km-long new bridge (1996) across the River Severn estuary, near the top of the Bristol Channel.
Then, buffetted by a strong crosswind funnelling up the estuary, we went over to Chepstow on the old Severn Bridge (1966), again on a separate cycleway. This bridge is also 1.6km long; on the Welsh side it also crosses the River Wye near its mouth to the estuary. The Wye forms the first part of the border with England. [Tuesday 21/6: distance 43 km; climbing 284 m]
Late in the day, after arranging a B&B at Chepstow, we walked back to England over rhe border on an elegant cast iron bridge built in 1816 across the Wye, which was at low tide and showed evidence (eg, boats marooned on the mud, and the high tide mark on the opposite bank) of up to 14m difference in tides that occurs daily in this part of the river. This is the 2nd largest tidal difference experienced anywhere in the world. The bridge also gives wonderful views of the Chepstow castle, which dates from 1068.
The owners of our B&B at Chepstow were also keen cyclists, with a room full of bikes in the basement (just like us!). We had a nice chat with them at breakfast about cycling experiences. The breakfast room had a wonderful view out to the castle, which is at the very back of the row of Georgian houses.
On Wednesday we rode alongside the meandering River Wye through various towns on our way to Hereford (which gave its name to the white-faced breed of cattle, and has an impressive cathedral) . As well as experiencing beautiful views in the valley, we visited the spectacular ruined abbey at Tintern (just north of Chepstow). [Wednesday 22/6: distance 80 km; climbing 977 m]
The theme of Thursday's ride from Hereford to Ironbridge was "historic market towns": this is the description given to the key towns that we passed through (Leominster, Ludlow & Much Wenlock) that have compact medieval centres with narrow winding streets, lined in part with black & white timber-framed buildings and other buildings also dating from the 15th & 16th centuries. We also passed old buildings like these in villages on our ride on backroads through the pretty countryside.
At the end of the day we rode down a 25% gradient into the beautiful Ironbridge Gorge, through which runs the Severn River. [Thursday 23/6: distance 90 km; climbing 904 m]
We spent Friday looking around Ironbridge & Coalbrookdale and took in a few museums (there are 10 in total in the area) that show why this valley is variously described as "the birthplace of industry" and "the cradle of the Industrial Revolution". It was here in 1709 that coke (rather than charcoal) was first used by Abraham Darby to smelt iron ore, paving the way for cheaper, mass-produced iron products.
It is also the location of the first bridge in the world built with cast iron, completed in 1779. (Many thanks to our friend Alan, in Essex, for alerting us about the great museums here and suggesting that we take some time to look around the area.)
We continue to have good luck with the weather. While it has looked threatening at times during recent days, with long overcast periods, we have not had any further rain whilst riding.


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Methodology: Game Theory; Operations Research; Decision and Risk Analysis; Stochastic Dynamic Programming Applications: Homeland Security; Computer Network Security; Transportation; Supply Chain Risk Management
Traditional risk analysis generally neglects the fact that terrorists are intelligent and adaptive, while most homeland-security games developed so far unrealistically assume that all players are fully strategic. In a recent sponsored project Homeland-Security Games with Non-strategic Players, Dr. Zhuang and his research team developed methods and techniques for identifying optimal strategies for rational defenders when facing non-strategic (irrational and/or behaviorally realistic) players, making it possible to explore the sensitivity of optimal defender strategies to assumptions about the behavior of other players. This research makes game-theoretic homeland-security models more realistic and implementable.


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Mediocrity is the watchwordBy Wade Kwon
Kids, don't be the best at anything. It's too much work.
But don't be the worst at anything either. It's not worth the catcalls and humiliation. Even on reality TV.
Be mediocre. Be average. Blend in.
Everything you needed to know about mediocrity you learned in junior high and high school.
Think back to those seemingly-carefree-but-actually-shark-infested teenage days. You had but one mission: Be unique, like everyone else. To stand out would've been suicide. Only a few could be the star athletes and cheerleaders and class leaders, while a few more were the perennial losers who hadn't dropped out yet.
Why excel now? Everyday life is teeming with the mediocre, from the service you get at a restaurant to the politicians who want your vote.
Most of the music you hear on the radio is average, inoffensive, unchallenging. Most of the TV you watch is forgettable, derivative and popular. You don't read because it takes time and effort, but you do skim. And what you do read … enh.
Movies are especially designed to uphold and protect mediocrity. If it's too good and life-changing, your next viewing will be a letdown. If it's lousy, you won't buy the DVD. Aim straight down the fat middle and reap the rewards of mainstream success. How many romantic comedies can you have about a mismatched pair, or an action flick where everything explodes, or an instant horror "classic†that never lets up? Always room for 10 more.
You read pedantic ramblings of bloggers posing as writers. You consume wraps and fingers lovingly prepared by chain kitchens striving for the perfection of consistency. You actually keep up with the Jones. You validate through external reinforcement.
You troll the malls. You follow the trends and the gossip. You are fat and "happy†and blissfully unaware of the world.
It is a utopia of limits. Stray too far and you'll accidentally veer into reality. Don't tempt fate, don't take chances.
It's fairly easy to become and remain mediocre. If you somehow buy the wrong clothes or the wrong car or follow the wrong god, your peers will let you know in no uncertain terms. Conform, and you shall be rewarded by being left alone.
Failure to comply could result in, well, we shouldn't discuss such unpleasantness.
Your mediocrity keeps this nation strong, this society on course. You are noble in your herd instinct.
Bland is your brand. Mediocre is your messiah.
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Automated review and predictive coding are often mentioned in the same breath, as synonyms for each other. They are actually different concepts. Predictive coding, in which a topic-expert manually codes a "seed set" of documents (and the software follows suit) is a type of automated review. There are 2 other types.
A second approach to automated review is called Rules-Based Coding, in which a set of rules is created to direct how documents should be coded, very similar to a Coding Manual or a Review Memo that might be prepared for a group of on- or off-shore contract attorneys. The preparation of the Ruleset is typically done by some combination of topic experts, attorneys and technologists. The rules are run on the document population and it is evaluated, tweaked and run again until all parties are satisfied.
The third approach to automated review is called Present & Direct, in which software takes a first, unprompted assessment of the documents and puts forth a graphical representation (pretty charts and diagrams) of what the data contains. This is sometimes called Early Case Assessment or Data Visualization. Once data analysis is presented, the reviewer "informs" the software what he/she wants by batch-tagging key document groupings.
All of these techniques are variations of one another and each has its strengths and weaknesses for use in different types of matters and circumstances. (A topic for a future blog post, clearly!) The point here it is to recognize that Predictive Coding DOES NOT EQUAL Automated Review; it is simply one of several techniques to accomplish it.
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Study About Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was born in quite humble circumstances, at Dole in the Jura District of France in 1822. At Arbois, he attended communal college where at first he did not show any interest in studies but later grasped his mistake and set himself in earnest at school. His family shifted to Besancon, from where he graduated and later on taught there. Pasteur was not a serious student in the beginning. He was fond of making sketches of his friends and enjoyed fishing. Later, he realized the importance of time and money and proved himself a bright student.
Chemistry was Pasteur's favorite subject. He asked his teacher some unanswerable questions. The teacher discouraged him by saying that only the teacher had the right to ask questions. Pasteur's love for France was so intense that he tried to enroll himself twice in the National Guard despite his physical incapacity. He offered all his worldly wealth for the country. His work on brewing proved very beneficial for France. He returned his Honorary Degree of Medicine to Germany when it attacked France.
Spontaneous generation means the production of living things from non-living. Pasteur proved it a wrong Concept. He claimed that if a substance is sufficiently heated, no bacteria would be produced in it. In 1860, the French Academy offered a prize for the solution of problem whether spontaneous generation was or was not a fact. Pasteur claimed that if was a wrong concept. Pasteur proved that if a substance be heated to destroy all life in it and if the air in contact be filtered, then bacteria so not develop in it.
Keeping of silkworms was one of the chief home industries of France. Every family set aside the best room for rearing and tending of silk worms. Their common greeting was, "How are your silk worms doing?" instead of, "How are you?" Pasteur dis covered the causes of the silk disease and suggested its cure.
Pasteur cultivated the Anthrax germs in such a way that they became weak. He injected them into the body of an animal suffering from Anthrax. The animal developed a slight form of disease first but recovered. He found out that the method protected the animal from the deadly form of the disease.
Pasteur proved that diseases are caused by germs and germs can be killed. The fame got by Pasteur motivated other scientists to try similar methods of cure other disease. In just ten years from 1880 to 1890, they discovered the germs of consumption, diphtheria, typhoid, lock-jaw, cholera and Malta fever.


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Science Education
CEBAF Center - Auditorium
Do you need to get a lot of people in one place at one time? If so, head for the auditorium! This is where all of Jefferson Lab's large meetings take place. If you're lucky, you might be able to catch a liquid Nitrogen show!
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The recent article in the Daily Camera, "Sunshine Fire reignites debate about homeless camping in Boulder," leads me to realize the Boulder City Council must hate Boulder and want to see it burnt to the ground.
It seems that in the wake of illegal campers starting a fire that nearly burnt down the city, the council wants to reward and promote illegal camping in Boulder by giving illegal campers more resources and a free place to camp in the city. The obvious consequence of this policy is more campers and more wildfires.
It remains unclear why the City Council wants there to be camping in Boulder. There are many nice places to camp near Boulder in the Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests, as well as in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Boulder is a city, not a national park or forest. We do not need camping within city limits.
There appear to be many compassionate Boulder residents, such as Morey Bean, Andrew Shoemaker, and Suzanne Jones, mentioned in the article, who support free camping within city limits. I'm sure, then, that these compassionate residents would welcome those found camping illegally in city parks and open space to come and camp for free on their own property.
The city can compile a list of residents such as Bean, Shoemaker, and Jones who have chosen to make their property available to campers, and the police can distribute that list to those found camping illegally. Illegal campers will have somewhere to go, and the city can enforce the camping ban.
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I'm approximately 500 words away from completing the first draft of Lambs for Dinner. And now I wish I hadn't written it so quickly. I had such a blast writing it!
What really spurred me on was Drew's voice. I enjoyed writing from his POV, because to me, his voice was pretty distinct. So much so that I could hear him even as I go about my quotidian activities.
Advice from Greenhouse Literary Agency: How to Write the Breakout Novel
1. An inspired concept: Don't start writing until you know you have a really, really great idea. Work out your pitch BEFORE you start writing.
2. Larger-than-life characters: A major tip is to get to know your principle characters and their backstories so well BEFORE YOU START TO WRITE that you don't need to explain them, or invent them, as you go along. Rather, you are so well acquainted with these people from the get-go that you can let them reveal themselves as you drip forth in measured and varied ways their personalities and their pasts.
3. High stakes plots: WHAT DO YOUR CHARACTERS STAND TO WIN OR LOSE?
4. A deeply felt theme: There needs to be something DEEPLY FELT in your story that will stay with your reader after the last page is turned. Something that gives us a newly perceived truth about what it means to be human.
Here's me checking off this list. I only just came across it today, and I read it with Lambs for Dinner in mind.
Lambs for Dinner was inspired by Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. After reading it, I knew I wanted to write a story where a character sees himself as the Steppenwolf, 'a beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him'. In him is a duality of nature, Man and beast, both of whom are in constant enmity. The character cannot live with both of them caged within him. There are two groups of people he comes into contact with: one is attracted to the beast in him, his raw primal power; the other attracted to the Man, the one with the boundless capacity to fight for those he loves.
With this idea came Drew. I didn't have to explain or spend too much effort illustrating him to the reader. I just let his voice do the work, along with his behaviour.
I tried to keep the writing tight this time. Looking back on Red December Skies, I realised I spent a lot of words on a single issue, spent too many words layering my writing. I don't know if my writing seemed too cumbersome as a result, so I needed people to help me read it and tell me what they think.
So I tried to make every sentence and word count this time, for Lambs for Dinner. I tried to make them contribute to moving the plot forward, or revealing something about the character. And I tried to incorporate more action, less description. I figured the character's voice was more important than waxing lyrical about the stars.
I'm actually starting to plan my next novel. It's going to be an urban fantasy, involving water spirits and possession of bodies. And coupled with my recent reading diet, I had a dream - a nightmare, actually - last night, where my dad was possessed and completely changed into somebody else. He paid no attention to me, and was all dark and sinister, and my friend was about to warn me about him being possessed when she was mysteriously killed. When my Dad knew that I'd learnt of the truth, I had to run from him, along with a group of friends that my dad and other possessed people were trying to kill. Even magic circles didn't help.
Yes, it was a complicated and surreal dream. I woke myself up, with hot tears flowing down the side of my face. In short, it was a nightmare.
But hey, who cares, when I've thought of the way to get started on my Shiny New Idea, eh?
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This month sees the launch of a series of dancefloor-shattering bi-monthly parties at The Horatia, as Discovery set up residency at Highbury's favourite party venue.
For the opening event we hook up with the Red Bull Music Academy to provide a evening of musical entertainment with the Trojan Soundsystem playing a full live Show.
The agenda is simple: to turn the party scene on its head by putting big names in the Horatia's intimate confines at next-to-nothing door prices. The roster of guests will always be original and exciting, with an aim of putting big name club DJs in this stylish and unusual 350 capacity space for maximum intensity and party atmosphere. Greg Wilson's April appearance at the venue was a great example of this theory in action with an incredible party vibe going on until 4am. Being the shameless teases that we are, we're keeping the majority of acts under wraps, but to give you an idea of the standard of guests you can expect at the Horatia this year we can reveal that Norway's King of Disco Todd Terje will be appearing in the early autumn.
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|Art & Design Department
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The Art Department's mission statement is, 'to make Art and Design enjoyable, interesting and challenging and in doing so promoting positive attitudes to the visual arts."
In De La Salle College we hope to challenge students to develop their observational skills and artistic understanding of Art and Design. We believe Art plays an important role in everyone's lives; from the clothes you wear, the computer games you play, the chair you sit in, to the film you watch and enjoy. Art provides important opportunities to develop young people's practical, exploratory, expressive, design and problem-solving skills at a level appropriate to their age, maturity and physical dexterity.
Many areas of employment value creative thinking and problem solving skills that are an essential part of any Art and Design course. Studying these subjects boosts employability prospects, particularly in areas such as film, academia, publishing, journalism and gallery or museum work.
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The Art and Design Department has two full-time teachers, two part-time teachers and a technician
Ms Bernadette McIlhatton (Head of Department)
Mrs Jennifer Gallagher
Mrs Shiela Gilmore
We have 3 newly equipped art suites, one incorporates a separate ceramic preparation room and kiln room. We also have a Muti-media Mac suite comprising of 23 Mac's for all digital media work.
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Our programme of work is planned over three years, to progress each pupil's experience of a wide range of art and design skills, media and processes. These building blocks provide a fundamental structure of enlightenment for Key Stage 3 pupils to research, investigate, experiment and embody visual literacy. At all stages we are fully aware of the Northern Ireland Curriculum and its belief in allowing all pupils to work in a full range of materials, media and processes.
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All pupils in Year 8 work on the Theme Food and have one hour of art per week. The pupils undertake work in both 2 and 3 dimensions and in media such as
Graphic media
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3-dimensional work
Digital media including Film (live action and/or animation)
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Continuous assessment is integral to our department. In keeping with the N.I.Curriculum, all teachers share their learning intentions and success criteria with all pupils, which promotes learning. Continuous feedback to pupils throughout lessons and Peer and Self-assessment raise our pupils' self-esteem and their performance. All our pupils use the 'two stars and a wish' strategy to reflect on their own learning. The 'two stars' form the positive feedback on a piece of work and the 'wish' indicates where development could be made.
Homework is a vital component as it reinforces the Teaching and Learning that occurred during the lesson. Pupils will receive 1 homework per week, which must be signed by the parent or guardian. All pupils will have a worksheet listing each terms homework in their sketchpads. Your son must spend at least one hour on his artwork and as the course progresses the time will increase accordingly. Your son must evaluate his work using the '2 stars and a wish' marking system that we currently use in our department.
The New revised CCEA G.C.S.E. for 2009 is made up of two units:
Unit 1: The Core Portfolio (Controlled Assessment/Classwork)
Students must submit a maximum of 20 A2 pages (or equivalent in other formats). This should reflect a minimum of 45 hours of teacher student contact time. It must include one piece of work that has been developed to a final outcome and show that students have experience of at least two different creative media.
Unit 2: Working to a Stimulus (Unit 2) is assessed through an externally set examination. A minimum of 15 hours spent producing preparatory work; and a final outcome that candidates must complete within a set period of 10 hours and they must carry out under controlled test conditions.
The revised CEA GCE Art and Design specification is available at two levels: AS and A2. Students can take the AS course as a final qualification or as the first half of the A Level qualification. Students who wish to obtain a full A level qualification must also complete the second half of the course, which is referred to as A2.
The course is comprised of four units: two at AS level and two at A2 level. These are listed below:
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A2 1: Personal Investigation. Students must also produce a written statement (with a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 2000 words) that shows evidence of theoretical research and understanding.
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Multiple Emmy and Murrow Award-winning journalist Jim Avila is the Senior National Correspondent at ABC News and White House Correspondent for ABC news and Fusion, the... Read More »
Multiple Emmy and Murrow Award-winning journalist Jim Avila is the Senior National Correspondent at ABC News and White House Correspondent for ABC news and Fusion, the ABC/Univision joint venture launching in 2013. He is based in Washington DC.
In 2015 Avila was presented the Merriman Award by the White House Correspondents Association for his coverage of Cuba and the release of political prisoner Alan Gross. Also in 2015 Avila conducted the first interview of Elian Gonzalez as an adult. The young Cuban boy was the center of an international custody battle when he was 5 years old.
Avila also covers Hispanic America, immigration reform, education, politics and other issues vitally important to the Latino community, the fastest-growing segment of our population.
Avila led ABC's coverage of the Freddie Gray shooting and riots in Baltimore, Bridgegate and Governor Chris Christie and Rick Perry's indictment on abuse of power charges. He also continues to contribute to "20/20" and other ABC broadcasts and platforms, specializing in law and justice and consumer investigations.
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Avila joined ABC from NBC News, where he had served as National Correspondent for "Nightly News" since January 2000, covering a range of domestic issues that included the September 11 attacks and their aftermath and the DC sniper shootings. He also reported from Afghanistan and Iraq, during which time he filed from inside NBC's Baghdad hotel compound during and after its bombing by terrorists. Since 1997 Avila averaged 130 reports a year on "Nightly News," which was the highest number for any minority in broadcast history, according to Joe Foote at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Before being named National Correspondent at NBC, Avila was a Chicago bureau correspondent, where he covered high-profile events including the shooting tragedies in Littleton, CO, Jonesboro, AR and Paducah, KY.
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The price range for these products is from $8 to $20 as of 2015. Jall is a freestanding model and is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Frost is another freestanding indoor and outdoor rack, which has 20 yards of drying space, says Green Options. Both Frost and Jall fold away for easy storage after use. The Grundtal model is a wall-mounted model with three adjustable positions. It folds to save space and can be used in damp places to dry clothing.


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Friday, 20 November 2009
....hello? Is anybody there?
Okay, it's official! I have been away too much, and am gonna try this place again. I have missed it BIG TIME!!!!!!!!
Watch out, there will be posts galore coming soon.
Here are a couple of photographs for anybody who may have missed me (that is assuming that anybody can still remember me!).
Graham x
17 comments:
- Michelle Dawn said...
Welcome back dear friend. I've been pretty MIA for awhile too. I need to make a comeback but I'm suffering from writer's block or something. Anyway glad to know your well and looking forward to reading your posts again. Love the photo's.
- 20 November 2009 at 05:13
- Cocaine Princess said...
Hi Graham,
My God where have you been hiding bloke?! You were one of my first followers never missing a post and always, always leaving a comment. You have A LOT of catching up to do.
I am loving the nature pictures. The last one I swear looks like from my neighborhood.
As I look at each picture the video "Viva Forever" by the Spice Girls is playing in my head.
- 20 November 2009 at 06:15
- Liss said...
I've missed you and these images are beautiful, they are like painting.
I'm in need of a photo project. I've gotten so desperate I am considering a 365 project for next year!!
Welcome back
- 20 November 2009 at 10:55
- Choc Mint Girl said...
I agree with one of the comments above, they are like painting and very perfect! :-)
- 20 November 2009 at 14:36
Stumbled upon your site because I was searching for images of London at Christmas. I agree that it magical that time of year. Thanks for the great photos!
- 20 November 2009 at 16:08
- Janette Jones said...
Sorry Graham who?!
PS Good to see you back my friend - you've been missed!
- 21 November 2009 at 18:17
- Zhu said...
Graham... Graham... Graham who?
Oh, THIS Graham!
Just kidding (French humor, you know...), I remember you. Well, who doesn't!
Nice to see you back. Were you lost in that forest? ;-)
- 21 November 2009 at 21:40
- Moondreamer said...
Great post, Graham, you really struck a chord, as I too have been offline for a (ahem!) while.
Thank you for sharing your stunning photographs! Full of Nature's beauty and mystery ... I feel I could get lost in them.
Looking forward to your next posts! :o)
Michelle, am struggling to settle down to writing too, to anything, really! Hoping your Muse comes out to play soon! :o)
And Liss, good luck with finding a photo project! Any inspiration on flickr? :o)
- 23 November 2009 at 13:38
- Max Coutinho said...
Hey Graham!
Yes, I am here! And yes, I missed you! And yes, I remember you quite well :D!
How're you, man?
Ooohh, my God! Such gorgeous pictures, Graham!! You are spoiling us!!
How did you manage to make them so mystical? They remind me "The Mists of Avalon"....
I am super glad you are back!! :D
- 25 November 2009 at 17:04
Hello Grahem, Now I am someone who has been away an awful lot longer than you!!
Having moved back from The Netherlands almost two years ago now I felt it necassary to start up a new blog to assure you all I am definatly still alive!
I hope all is well with you, I am going to spend the next hour or so catching up on your life!!
Best wishes,
Practically Dutch :)
- 29 November 2009 at 21:05
P.s. Once my new blog is up and running I shall forward you the URL :)
- 29 November 2009 at 21:06
- Rae x said...
Me again! Have only posted an opening post so far but thought by giving you the address I will be commiting to posting as often as possible!
- 29 November 2009 at 21:55
- jojo said...
Wow and I thought I was coming back in style! Outdone again, but love the work! Oh to be gifted, sigh... ;-)
- 29 November 2009 at 22:25
- Ineke said...
Jeez Graham, i thought these were paintings! Marvellous.
- 2 December 2009 at 08:06
- Getty72 said...
Michelle, I know exactly how you feel. Well, I hope your writers block goes soon. In the meantime, grab your camera and get clicking away :)
Hey CP! So wonderful to hear from you :) Missed you too!
Liss, a 365 challenge! Now, there is something! There is no way I would be able to do that. However, I might well set myself a 52 challenge and post a minimum of one new photograph per week! Glad to be back and will definitely start the challenges from January! x
Crystal, awwww thanks so much :)
Nikkidish, thanks pal! I am so glad you liked the photos. There will be more to come for sure!
Janette who? LMAO!!!!
Zhu :D it is soooo nice to be back, and back for good! Can't wait to catch up with you properly!
Moondreamer! Hey, thanks for the great comment :) Glad to be back and raring to go!
Max, thank you so much for making me smile like always :D
Rae, my goodness you have been in the blogging wilderness for soooo long, welcome back and I am looking forward to reading your new blog! x
Jojo, there is no way that I could ever out-do you! You are try gifted in so many ways!
Hey Ineke! Thanks my friend! :)
- 4 December 2009 at 00:40
- Flights said...
This natural greenery looks really beautiful.
- 26 December 2009 at 10:53
- meleah rebeccah said...
stunning images
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Good day everyone! Tegan here and I am excited to share my latest card with you! I used the very cute Homemade with Love collection by Carta Bella. I really enjoyed working with it and I just love the color palette too. I found the collection easy to work with - the pieces blend together effortlessly. I used this line to make a fun little card which would be great for inviting a friend or relative over to bake some delicious cookies!
And a little close up! Just look at those cute measuring cups!
For instructions on how to make this card, please visit the Carta Bella blog! Thanks for stopping in! You will love this line as much as I do! I mean, who can resist yummy pie patterned paper?!?
Hugs, Tegan


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Worksop-born Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is going to fly the band into East Midlands Airport when they headline Download Festival next year.
The 57-year-old will pilot the Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet called 'Ed Force One' when the rock band star at Donington Park in Leicestershire in June 2016.
The group will take to the stage on the final day of the festival, which takes place 10-12 June.
The enourmous place is said to be double the size and three-times the weight of the Boeing 757 used on their previous tours.
"Although this is our sixth time headlining at Castle Donington, it's the first time we've been able to land Ed Force One right on the doorstep of the festival site, Dickinson told the BBC.
The licenced pilot is currently recovering from cancer, having been diagnosed last year when two tumours were found at the back of his tongue.


text: Just a suggestion :wink: We seem to be for ever getting new threads raised on old topics about "which instrument should I get?" or "what mouthpiece should I use?" Can we have a "sticky" for instrument comparisons and repair/service advice to save the trawling throught the back pages to refer folks to old threads and threads getting locked? Perhaps something like a "Which" report on instruments, if one exists somewhere could be included?


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New Years Resolution - Start a blog...
I had the exact same thought this time last year... However, when I pictured how I thought it would go, it turned out a lot different than I expected. I didn't expect tons of followers and comments in the first day, I knew it would take time but I only wrote like 4 posts and people from school were starting to find it already. How? I don't know, but my instant reaction was to delete every post and hide under a rock, until now.
I love to write but I haven't quite found what exactly I want to write my blog posts on yet, it will probably just be an array of posts varying from beauty reviews to baking recipes. (However, I don't know much about either subject and have been known to forget the flour whilst baking and baking a sugary omelette..) I thought I better make a blog before getting cold feet about the whole thing. I'm so excited to be starting blogging again and can't wait to see where I'll be in a years time. Whether that being that all my posts have been deleted (once again) or I've actually continued with it and I'm starting to feel like I'm getting the hang of things!
Thanks for reading,
Ella Megan! x


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I went to Waterstones to get the new book ,unfortunatly no ltd sparkly thing with the book,i did expect one as they did it with the last 3 .
The good news is that i have ordered my DT Sisters Deluxe and Artist books ,
JESUS ,this exchange rate has left a hole in my pocket.
UK limited edition of Just After Sunset?
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NADRA Technologies Ltd, (NTL) has always realized its social responsibility to make possible, support and sponsor such noble cause mega events in Pakistan. Apart from empowering the common people and making them our business partners (e-Sahulat Franchisee).
NADRA has always allocated its energy and resources for the welfare of the common public. Promoting disabled cricket match is one of the examples supporting the disabled cricket community from all over Pakistan. Proposals are underway for organizing an International event for disabled national cricket tournament in Islamabad by NADRA e-Sahulat. The international noble and social event is set to boost the spirits of handicapped people, particularly in south Asia.


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Pagina Principale
A cura del Dott. Stefano Pasini www.stefanopasini.it
One can almost picture it. A large fist slamming on a huge oak desk (or on a clean Formica table: it wouldn't change the atmosphere a bit). You can also imagine the owner of the fist: stocky, solidly built, with a round pink face supported by a massive neck, a neck as wide as the head itself. The neck of a wrestler, coming out of a white shirt buttoned to the top, with a dark tie and a double-breasted woollen suit. A CEO's suit over the broad shoulders of a man very much alike the fiery Alfred Neubauer, Mercedes-Benz iron-fisted racing manager.
The man is shouting. Not too many words, but uttered with force, nearly with violence: "I do not care if they are building the best turntables in the world. I do not care if he is a great engineer and his guys are great as well. I do not care about their relationship with the big radio and television corporations." (Pause, maybe puffing in a large, torpedo-sized cigar.) "WE ARE TELEFUNKEN! The best electronic firm in Germany, in Europe, of the whole world!" the man bellows, bending a little to look straight in the eye the slightly startled, bald man in white lab overall that is standing before him, on the other side of the table. "We cannot leave that slice of the market to them alone. If they're building good machines, we can build'em better. MUCH better. And this kind of deck ready soon. Very soon. Have I been clear enough?"
The professional market for studio turntables had been booming steadily since years when Telefunken decided to enter the fray, and those years since 1948 and the resuming of embryonic radio broadcasts in Germany and the rest of Europe had been years of expansion for firms that had understood the basic needs of the new stations: good sound, easiness of use, but above all sturdiness and bullet-proof reliability in any kind of environment. Studer, Nagra were amongst the first to exploit the young, rich market of the broadcast stations; Garrard served BBC since 1953 with their '301' while Tannoy provided monitors that were ubiquitous to the point of being synonymous with 'loudspeaker' ("Switch off that tannoy, dammit") as Hoover was for dust-cleaners. But for turntables, one man was dominating with its tiny firm the upper-upper echelon of super-pro decks: enter Wilhelm Franz and his 'Elektrogerate-Mess-Technik'. In short, 'EMT'.
Their 'Large Studio Turntable', appreciated in the studios as the 'R80' and generally known as the '927', was so exceptional that it defies time; even now, it's one of the best vinyl-spinners around. In 1948, it was like a rocket ship combined with a King Tiger tank and, moreover, extremely easy to use as a turntable. It was the Kaiser of its market segment, and nobody, but nobody, could ever touch it. The French, never to miss the opportunity to reject a foreign product, did their best with the colossal 'Bourdereau', admirable if only for its 95 kilograms weight, and the Schlumbergers and Cléments; but where are they now?
So, EMT was the Number One, and enjoyed the hefty revenues of a well-established brand and of an exceptional relationship with the radio corporations all over the world. Telefunken, on the other hand, had slowly rebuilt itself from the ashes of the war, that had seen the once-proud German firm hit extremely badly. If you think that at the end of the war Mercedes-Benz was the firm that had been more completely destroyed in the Reich, then you're wrong: Telefunken had been bombed flat all the same, and moreover the Allied had stolen the patents of, for example, the magnetic-band recorder (while the Russians had raided, looted and then destroyed legendary plants like the Nauen broadcasting centre near Berlin). The Telefunken machines, developed in the Thirties with BASF and AEG, went straight to USA where they were the first basis of the exceedingly successful Ampex saga. According to an accounting report in 1949, Telefunken since 1944 had lost assets worth more than 100 Million Marks.
Under the direction of Hans Heyne, Chairman of the Managing Board since 1951, "Telefunken Gesellschaft fur Drahtlose Telegraphie mBH" rebuilt its plants quite quickly and at the end of the '50s it was already worthy of its glorious brand. So one must expect that Telefunken, having joined forces with the even mightier industrial concern 'AEG', had to build the best broadcast turntables in the world, surely having them designed and built in their professional branch, "Telefunken ELA". This 'ELA' was the pro branch, the real heavyweight section. Located in Wolfenbüttel, 80 kms from Hannover, it built extraordinary microphones, tape recorders and other studio equipment. Even after the catastrophe of the war, they had been able to rebuild their factories in Berlin, Hannover and Ulm rapidly enough, and now, in the second half of the Fifties, they were beginning to enjoy the satisfaction of having 'got there'. Their excellence was once again the benchmark of the electronic firms around the world, especially where, like in broadcast station and recording studio equipment, you could command hefty premiums to deliver what the professionals requested.
wonder, then, that our imaginary man in Berlin was so upset at the monopoly of
their market segment enjoyed by EMT. There was money to be earned there, serious
money, but his scientists in Wolfenbuttel were always researching in new tubes
and mikes, building sensational reel-to-reel tape recorders…. And nobody took
notice of the need to have a really good turntable to offer to their customers,
that were virtually forced to buy from the small but extremely efficient Lahr
firm. At the end, therefore, one might expect ELA to do their duty and put out a
truly astounding turntable: a design worthy of the mission of a true
professional machine, the absolute best, period. It all fits perfectly in the
picture: the anger of the manager in Berlin was, after all, quite justifiable.
Only, it didn't go that way. Sorry, but it wasn't ELA who did it all, and the yelling man in Berlin, if he ever existed, wasn't obeyed: Telefunken, in fact, didn't build any super-plattenspieler in Wolfenbuttel. The extraordinarily fascinating three-model range of Telefunken broadcast turntables wasn't even 'Made in Germany': these formidable symbols of Teutonic massiveness and outright precision were made in Milan. Yes, in Italy.
must be forgiven, of course, if you admit that you never heard about the
Telefunken 'broadcast' decks; though they're probably amongst the
finest turntables ever built, not many people know that Telefunken made machines
of this kind. They're a sort of 'mystery' everywhere: the fact that
Telefunken in Germany has been recently dismantled by Thomson makes it obviously
difficult to find anyone knowledgeable about the history of the Marque, and the
fact that not even the experts of Telefunken know this kind of deck looks like a
dead end. The fascinating Telefunken logo complicates enormously the job of the
historian: it took several weeks of phone calls, e-mail messages, faxes and
letters to find the right track. Thus, after this detective work, we can at last
shed some light on this matter and write a decently accurate history of these
This unknown, somewhat mysterious history begins with the financial and technical expansion of RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, heir to the former 'EIAR', the State broadcasting company. In the Fifties, radio was an essential backbone of Italy's social life and TV was big news: RAI was given huge loads of money to attain, in the serious monitoring regimes of the day, the highest possible technical standards. It was actually one of the best broadcasting corporations in the whole world, and used only the best equipment: Nagra was earning a lot of money selling to RAI their 'IIIs' and then 'IVs', as were Studer, Revox, Neumann, and of course EMT.
At the time, the universal support for the broadcast transmission of music was obviously the record, mainly the 12" 33 1/3 rpm vinyl mono record that, in 1958, was evolved in 'stereo' with the 45/45° groove system. The need for good turntables rose steadily all around the world, so much that the production possibilities of EMT were sometimes strained to meet the requests of a growing market. Furthermore, EMT, rigidly sticking to its two-models-only range of studio turntables ('927' since 1950, '930' since 1956) and having a full range of high-quality studio equipment to produce (reverbs, flutter analyzers, compressors, etc), didn't offer the flexibility that its customers would need. RAI was a particularly good customer, but its needs for a continuous supply of new turntables for its expanding network of studios and auditoriums wasn't always satisfied by the tiny German manufacturer, thus at a time RAI even built in its labs in Turin a turntable labeled 'Carson', to be used in its studios when they didn't have an EMT available. This effort wasn't particularly successful, but the idea of building an alternative to the all-conquering EMTs was born: thus at the beginning of the Seventies the Chef of AEG-Telefunken audio professional division in Italy, Mr. Angelo Bosco, thought that probably there was some opening for another offering.
Designing a completely new, high-level broadcast turntable comparable with EMTs was a formidable task, but Mr. Bosco wasn't worried. Since decades, he had sold to its professional customers the best tape-recording studio machines in the world, namely the Telefunken magnetophones in all of their evolutions, plus tape duplicators and the like. To build his own turntable he hired as a consultant Mr. Edgardo Magnaghi, a talented former turntable designer at LESA, one of Italy's main electronic/hi-fi concerns. His job had always been to design turntables, so he had the right ideas to build a 'definitive' one. He also was the guiding hand behind the design of the excellent 'Panta', a short-lived but well-thought Italian medium-class turntable. Being Mr. Bosco working for AEG-Telefunken at the time, it was clear that their goal was to market a machine with that name (this eventually happened, as we shall see.) In 1974, the design work began in earnest, and the first product appeared in 1975: it was the 'PS80'.
The layout of this deck betrays from the first sight its absolute dedication to 'professional' operation. Large, heavy, all built in solid cast-metal parts with a very sturdy chassis made out of bent, welded and bolted sheet metal structure, it really looks the part. From the mechanical point of view, it's an idler-wheel turntable with a huge motor and a very heavy platter, 3 speeds (33, 45 and 78 rpm) a 16" straight arm and a built-in preamplifier/equalizer for 47 Kohm cartridges on a standard EIA shell, as required by RAI. (Even EMTs were supplied in Italy with this layout, their '929' being shortened 15 mm. and modified to accept EIA headshells).
Mechanically, it represents the state of the art of that time: a very heavy metal platter suspended on a thick steel hub, rotating in a large main bearing rigidly fixed to the main deck. The Italian designers also took care of one of the real chores for audio engineers of the time: 'cueing', i.e. providing an instantaneous starting of the music at the due moment during a live broadcast. In the idler-wheel EMTs, you have a brake that disengages the acryl platter over the main steel platter, that keeps rotating while the 'acryl' (and the record) are blocked; when the record has to start, the brake is released and the nominal speed is attained in 500 ms.
Mr. Magnaghi took great pains to design a better system. The '80' uses the same basic concept of a '927/930' or a Thorens 124: the heavy main platter is always rotating, but there is a counterplatter, light and easy to start and stop, that can be coupled with the platter on demand. In the Telefunken, they did it with an overkill: the counterplatter is a Perspex and special-rubber affair with a central metal bearing, its outer ring is stopped by a sophisticated metal clamp operated by a solenoid controlled by the turntable's electronic 'brain', and there is also an additional brake pad being released on the outer circumference of the main platter (under the heavy 12" metal counterplatter) when it's time to stop its rotation.
This 'stop' action is linked to the silencing of the signal (line) output: when you press the 'Motore' switch only, the motor and the main platter start, but the clamp holds the Perspex platter immobile and the signal output of the pre is muted. Pressing the 'Start' button, the clamp is released and the muting cancelled at the same time, making cueing quite easy and effective. The same clamp brakes the counterplatter at the end of the playing, pushing the 'Start' button again, and the output is muted once again, but the main platter continued to rotate unless also the 'Motore' button is pressed once again. (This stops the motor as well, of course). In this case another brake, this one a massive cast-metal arm with a proper brake shoe, is pressed against the lower portion of the platter to stop it at once.
This turntable was so impressive, and the design and craftsmanship so good, that AEG-Telefunken allowed its Italian branch the use of their name and symbol, the fabled Telefunken 'Stern', for it, giving to the 'PS80' a good start in the marketing battle against consolidated rivals like EMT. The actual mechanical assembly of the new turntable, like the following models, was entrusted to Mr. Pastega of Bassano del Grappa: its firm was also responsible for the electronic part of the turntable, i.e. all the hardware and software connected with the management of the motor, the brake arrangement and the RIAA/preamplifier. The choice of this firm proved to be extremely good, as the preamplifiers of these turntables are still highly reputed amongst the real professional of the RAI laboratories, with a linearity rarely attained even by the best foreign competitors. Small wonder that Mr. Pastega small but extremely sophisticated lab evolved, during the years, in a larger firm producing, amongst other things, state-of-the-art radio microphones used by the more important radio/TV corporations, battling straight with a colossus like Sennheiser.
No more than 50 turntables of the 'PS80' model were built, as the good reception from the final customers brought Mr. Bosco and his collaborators to speed up the development work for its heir: the more complex, refined and, of course, much-improved 'PS81'.
The natural successor of the 'PS80' followed the basic layout of the '80', beginning with the dimensions, large for domestic standards, in fact average for broadcast studios. To survive in an utterly professional environment, the 'PS81' was routinely fitted in a new special console; instead of the two sturdy legs of the 'PS80', this one has large, heavy and extremely rigid side panels of reinforced wood, deep as the whole console, with adjustable rubber/steel feet, and resemble the ones Studer made for EMTs (but is probably even sturdier). In this conformation, the '81' weights around 70 kgs (140 lbs). This is a good average weight for this kind of deck; Telefunken built the four floor supports sturdily enough to support twice as much this weight, thus increasing the stability of the whole system.
Over this rock-solid support is encased the turntable, and it's an absolutely amazing machine. If you know well enough the EMTs, that are splendid machines built with a straightforward vision to access and reliability of all their parts, you will be astounded at the thoroughness of this Italian engineering. To begin with, the main chassis is massive! Its main structure consists of three die-cast metal panels of uncommon strength, one being the real main chassis, i.e. an horizontal deck carrying the main bearing, the motor and idler-wheel support, etc; the other two the sides with very stiff springs to suspend the main chassis and insulate it from floor noise/vibration, etc. The motor is very large and powerful and it's the same that you could find on the Telefunken studio recorders, a time-proven design renowned for its 'muscles', reliability and quietness of operation. Some gossip suggest that the 'PS80/81' turntable was in fact built just because Telefunken had this motor and it was so good that someone suggested to wrap around it something else, as Telefunken had already saturated the market with its tape recorders!
The motor moves a large-diameter main pulley, and this drives an unusually large and thick idler (manufactured by Pradella & Bassignana of San Giuliano Milanese, like the rubber mat), wide as a Thorens 124's but thick as an EMT 930's. The motor pulley is not 'stepped', the disc speed changes (33/45/78 rpm, of course) because of the processor-controlled variation of speed of the motor, and this takes us to another very important aspect of the 'PS81': the ample usage of electronics. EMT was very advanced in this sector, as in 1977 it had introduced the magnificent all-electronic direct-drive '950', but the other rivals were hopelessly left behind by Bosco's work.
The 'PS81' has an built-in solid-state stereo RIAA of exceptional quality, a monitor amplifier and loudspeaker, a remote-control facility; the arm lift is electric, controlled by a special circuit, and there is a very special arrangement for the all-important (in pro applications) quick start and stop of the disc. All this electronic equipment is neatly arranged in several motherboards stacked vertically under the main deck; access is easy after having opened the front protective panel, made from a sheet of iron thick and sturdy enough to serve as a supplementary anti-rocket protection for the tracks of a Schwere Panzer. Behind the turntable, a similar panel covers the XLR balanced outputs, the AC inlet and the remote control multiple connector. The start/stop mechanism was improved and connected with a rotational sensor and a switch for the motor power supply. Pressing 'Motore' you mute the output, apply the two different brakes to the platter and turn off the motor; when the brakes have arrested the platter, they are released and the platter can be manually rotated again.
Like the 'PS80', also the 'PS81' is fitted with a deceptively simple, long (12" from the fulcrum to the stylus) tonearm with a complicated magnetic antiskating device that RAI removed on principle. Built by the specialist Italian firm 'COSME' of Cinisello Balsamo, this tonearm is quite close in concept, if not in appearance, to the early Ortofons used by EMT on the 927, like the RMG-297; the articulation is of the ball-bearing-and-counterpoints type. The arm was very long to minimise the tracking error, not to allow the reproduction of 16" records (they were widely outmoded by that time): the braking system 'clamp' voided the playing of any record larger than 12" on a 'PS81'. This tonearm is a real quality component, needing a high-mass cartridge to perform to its best. As RAI used heavy cartridges for the 78 rpm records at the time, its counterweight is abnormally heavy, so to fit a modern lightweight cartridge you will need to put on the headshell a few grams of 'ballast'.
'PS81' was a very good turntable for the times, and it gave EMT a run for
their money, even at a price that surely wasn't low: building a 'PS81'
allegedly cost AEG-Telefunken of Italy 4 million liras, and it was sold to RAI
at a price exceeding 5 million liras. In those days, with that money you could
buy a brand-new fast car, like a BMW 2002Tii; used Ferrari Daytonas changed
hands for little more than that. But the product was so good that one hundred of
these machines (serial numbers from #1001 to #1100) were actually built from
1978 to 1981.
Arguably, the massive 'PS81' now are the more sought-after and valuable of all
the Telefunken broadcast turntables.
Arguably, the massive 'PS81' now are the more sought-after and valuable of all the Telefunken broadcast turntables.
The broadcast turntable was evolving, anyway, and the high quality and superb engineering of the idler-wheel 'PS81' looked outmoded when it was compared with the brand-new, outstanding EMT '950' (1976). Albeit horribly expensive, the '950' was really an astounding progress for its sector: its deceptively simple looks concealed a stupefying array of technical advances, like the direct-drive with an extremely powerful motor and a clever brake system, engineered to give an ultra-short starting and stopping time thanks also to the extreme lightness of the platter and the superb speed-control electronics; all this, and a really bulletproof construction with an extreme reliability in all conditions of use, made the '950' the new benchmark of its category, and Telefunken bowed to the unavoidable pressure of the market stopping the production of the 'PS81' to introduce, in 1981, the 'PS81DD', that was very much like a 'PS81' with a direct-drive Denon-derived powertrain. An illuminated stroboscope visible through a small frontal window, a shorter tonearm, a Perspex protection for the back of the same and a simplified electronic part were the main differences of the 'DD' version of the 'PS81'.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to see that the 'PS81DD' was probably only a stop-gap measure until a completely new machine could be put into production. The fact is that the Denon motor gave some troubles: allegedly, the magnetic track printed on the interior rim of the platter could fail abruptly rendering the machine useless, and I have been told that Denon unexplainably wouldn't supply any spares for that motor. True or not, only 50 'PS81DD's were allegedly built in 1981 (serial numbers #5101-#5150), then the production was stopped. Pity, because it is anyway a formidable deck, with a superb sound and good overall reliability.
The real heir to the 'PS81', the first completely new Telefunken turntable since the 'PS80', was designed in 1980 and unveiled in 1981: it was known internally as a 'TRS 9000' and to the outside customers as 'G90'. These turntables used a direct-drive traction system designed by Mr. Oscar Barretella and built by AEG of Italy, and their striking design put them miles apart from the grey EMTs of the times. Light silver was the dominant colour, the tonearm was similar to the previous models' with a special 'floating' counterweight, there was a light platter for a very quick start (250 msec to reach the nominal rotational speed) and a reverse mode for cueing: just like the '950' but in a more compact, extremely attractive package, so probably nearer to the EMT '948'. The '9000' is undoubtedly a more elegant design and has a much more attractive appearance. Two versions were offered, one complete with all the bells and whistles ('G90S'), one somewhat simplified to offer the machine at a more convenient price ('G90P').
The 'G90' was the first (and, sadly, the last) of the 'AEG' broadcast turntables; 'Telefunken', as a brand, had been acquired by French colossus Thomson and was ruthlessly erased from the electronic landscape of XX Century. One of the most famous brands of the professional field was eliminated at once; AEG, once linked with it, continued its road alone. Thus the turntables of mr. Bosco and mr. Magnaghi took this glorious name, and were produced in fair quantities, considering the high cost of these decks. More than 300 examples of the two combined series of 'PS81' were built in six years of uninterrupted production, and, as also EMT was stopping its production after having been bought by the Belgian Barco group, AEG was more or less left to be the last stalwart of the production of high-quality 'broadcast' analogic turntables.
The AEG 'G90S' was an excellent machine, and was very much appreciated all around Europe. Several broadcast stations acquired it in fair quantities: the RAI, of course, bought many of them in several versions: the 'TRS-9000' studio version and the 'TRS-9100' portable machine with lockable arm and suspension, four sturdy rings to suspend the deck during transport, etc. 150 AEGs allegedly were bought by the Greek national radio/TV corporation, other went in Chile. Their quality was so good that in 1984 EMT itself, nearly at the end of the scheduled production of their '950' (one must remember that it was the time when CDs were beginning to invade, irreversibly, the professional market, and EMT was introducing their '980' and '981' CD-players), asked to Bosco and his team to build a batch of 50 machines for them! High praise indeed, though this, sadly, didn't happen. Curiously, the production prices envisaged for the '950' were very quite similar to the cost of the 'G90S', at 4.460 DM. The total of the income for AEG of Italy, for this operation, would have been of 223.000 Deutsche Marks. Unfortunately, the deal wasn't closed because of the negative attitude of the Italian AEG managers of that time. It is not known if EMT built that batch of '950's in Germany or elsewhere. For sure, the '950' was still produced, albeit in restricted numbers, even in 1986.
In 1987, the CD had definitely surpassed the vinyl record in the professional market, but there was still a demand for turntables of the higher level: thus mr. Bosco conceived an evolution of the '90' series, that had to be called 'G91', with proprietary AEG direct-drive and several detail improvements. The study of this new product was so advanced that even the costs for a first batch of 50 machines had been already detailed; then the director of Italian AEG at the time, dr. Dieck, cancelled the project.
This was the end of the game for the AEG-Telefunken family of extraordinary professional turntables. A sad end, but the CD had already sentenced to death many other manufacturers of 'analogue' turntables, as for the professionals the little shiny Compact Disc had too many advantages to turn back to the sonically superb but delicate vinyl records.
Dott. Stefano Pasini, Bologna, 2.2.2001 (rev.9.2002)