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TV Show Review – Primeval Season 4
A BBC show about time travel, dinosaurs, future monsters, and fancy technology? Oh and let's not forget hot British actresses. You had me at dinosaurs really. Primeval is one of those Sci-Fi shows that always seems to fly under the radar, I watched and highly enjoyed the first 3 seasons, which is remarkable considering almost every season they've gone through a major casting upheaval and time travel usually gives me a headache. But then I finished season 3 and is so often the case with BBC shows that aren't Doctor Who I kind of forgot about it for a while. The episode runs on BBC shows are so short and the gap in between seasons or "series" as they call them is so long, I don't know how anything actually keeps an audience over there.
Anyways, I realized that there was series 4 and 5 of Primeval on my Comcastic onDemand service yesterday and managed to plow through 4 episodes before the fiancée got home. Now over all this isn't the best Sci-Fi show ever conceived of and put on the air, but it always managed to worm its way into my heart, not least of all because I'm very aware that this show probably wouldn't have made it half way through its first season if it had been on in the states.
So far the first 4 episodes of series 4 have proven to be just as enjoyable as seasons 1 – 3. Monster of the week type missions with little hints to this season's major plot line which will likely all come together in the finale. The team has undergone another minor cast upheaval including adding Star Trek DS9 alum Alexander Siddig to the cast. Usually we hardly ever see former Star Trek cast members after their series ends, so that was a nice little surprise for my nerd brain.
Hannah Spearritt as Abby managed to survive into the 4th season and return from being stranded in the past along with Andrew Lee Potts as Connor. And YAY! The nerd gets the hot girl! Always gotta appreciate that. There's nothing like getting stranded in a per-historic horror land to bring two hearts together.
When last we left Connor and Abby at the end of season 3, they had traveled into the past to save the first humans from being killed, thus saving the human race in the future. But then they were trapped there, and stayed trapped for an entire year. It doesn't really matter how they got back, because the only reason they were left in the past was so that the show could go through a new visual and casting overhaul for season 4. I'm sure they'll find some way to tie it into the over all mythology of the season, but it hasn't yet 4 episodes in. All we know is their new team leader, Matt Anderson, is secretly meeting with some old man out in the country and talking about how Abby, Connor, or Captain Becker could be the cause of something. Presumably this is the future disaster that destroys mankind, creates the super predators and causes the anomalies in time to start appearing in the first place. I'm only 4 episodes in, but that seems to be the most logical course of that little plot line. Of course they have access to some form of Future Knowledge, but it's non-specific enough that they're left guessing as to who their suspect really is. Great. Have I mentioned that I hate time travel? It always gives me a headache. Let's just hunt so monsters thrown through time for Queen and Country damn it!
Also Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker, the team's new resident button pusher/techno geek girl is just absolutely lovely. She's simply adorable! My only wish is that there were more pictures of her on the internet. The show has really been showing off her remarkable legs lately, but she doesn't have much of a web presence. Let's see if she can actually survive the season though, as really only 3 cast members have stuck around since season 1. This is a show that killed off its main heroic male lead and still survived to tell the tale! That doesn't happen anywhere but on the BBC in my experience.
Well I'm on the 2nd day of my weekend and aside from some small errands (like going to pick out my wedding ring finally) I'll probably be spending it watching Primeval and getting my laundry done for the week.
Season 4 holds up compared to the 3 preceding seasons if you were a fan of the show, I say keep watching. If you haven't watched before but what I've described sounds up your alley, then start at the beginning and catch up with us. I don't recommend using this as a jumping on point, because despite the "monster of the week" episodic nature of most of the episodes, there is an overall serialized story line happening as well that might not make too much sense if you jump in here. I think at least the 1st season is on Netflix streaming, but if not get the DVDs or…use "other methods" that I'll let you figure out for yourself.


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Certificate of deposit (CD).
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Loved our vacation in Ship Bottom. It was our first time renting directly on the beach and it added so much to our stay. The views were fantastic. Pat Schultz, our realtor, always makes check in fast and easy. She checked on us during our stay due to a overnight storm. We love LBI and can't wait to return in 2018!
Our yearly family vacation to the Fishery in Shipbottom on LBI is a terrific experience for our whole clan. The condo, the beach, the people and of course Pat Shultis are A #1. The grandchildren look forward all year to "going down the shore" with Grandma and Grandpa and you don't disappoint. This year Adam, our 6 year old, told his mom "Mommy, I've been waiting to get here for 365 days". Our hearts are smiling! Thanks for caring for us.
Pat Shultis was outstanding in helping find a vacation site under some difficult requirements. She answered many questions promptly and without making me feel that I was a nuisance(which I probably was). She was available it seemed 24/7 and I can most definitely recommend her.
I have had the pleasure of dealing with Alicia Marzarella for many years now. She has been my "go to" realtor for my home rentals in LBI. She is always responsive and has never failed to deliver for me. She even recommended a local florist so I could buy flowers for my wife's birthday! She is a pleasure and the only realtor you should deal with when looking to rent/buy in LBI.
Beverly Karch was very responsive to all of our questions and concerns!! I will definitely use Zack Shore Realtors again.
Laura - she is the best! 24/7, 7 days a week, she is always there. Thanks!
A warm welcome at the Berkshire centre in Manahawkin. The house was just as listed. Laura Serpentelli was quick to answer any of our questions and concerns. Thanks for everything!
We have rented through your agency since 2012 & we are well pleased with the service we have encountered and more recently we have been so happy with the agent we discovered by just calling your office and describing what we wanted. She knew your inventory. And set us up with appointments, showed us a few that were available in our time frame and price range. She took her time she had the answers to our questions and if she didn't she said she would get them. A genuine gifted agent and a pleasure to work with. My husband is an agent in Sussex county and he acknowledged her kindness and comprehension of our needs
|My family and I have been renting summer homes on LBI for over 25 Years. Our children and grandchildren have grown up enjoying their summer vacations on LBI.
Alicia Marzarella has been our rental agent all these years and has never failed in finding us a beautiful home and location especially as our family grew. Our grandchildren are now in college and high school and they still look forward to coming down here every July. They start counting the days right after Christmas until we arrive here in July. We look to many more years of vacation time down here. We do not treat Alicia and Allison as people we do business with but
rather we regard them as personnel friends and we enjoy coming down to LBI every summer to see them.
Evelyn and Tom OConnor and family
Hi Pat. As expected we had a great vacation. The house is always in beautiful condition and I appreciate the opportunity to relax and enjoy LBI with my kids and grandchildren. And thank you to you for expediting our arrival. Hope you have a great rest of the summer!!
While my husband and I have been coming to LBI for almost 40 years, this was our first rental working with Donna Diorio. I was delighted with our experience. From the first phone call to inquire about a specific property through the return of the property key, Donna was consistently professional, competent and courteous. Throughout the process, Donna kept me informed of our contract status, our payments and returned our deposit promptly. I would recommend her services to others and will definitely contact Donna for our future LBI rental needs.
We have worked with Pat Shultis for three years. I have never dealt with a more responsive realtor. Whenever I emailed there was an immediate response back. She goes above and beyond to assist and help her clients.
Pat did an amazing job finding us our perfect LBI home! The views were unbelievable from virtually every room in the home!! The house was very clean and extremely well cared for. You immediately feel the love. Our whole family fell in Love with the house and cant wait to rent it again next year!!
Started using Berkshire Hathaway with Carol Stephens when she closed her agency on the boulevard this past year she referred me on to Pat Schultis as she was no longer doing rentals Pat work with me to find a very comfortable home and is there any questions I had and helps me with any of my needs I was very happy with my service
Renting a beach house on-line is not alway easy. The photos and information given can be deceiving. The Berkshire Hathaway website gave a very realistic and thorough view of the properties. And Donna Diorio was a great guide in choosing the property that was best suited for our family. We knew exactly what to expect and had a terrific stay at LBI.
We have been working with Donna for years. She is very cordial and accommodating. She tackles any problems we have and always manages to please. Looking forward to many more years.
Dear Dawn - Heartfelt thanks for all you did for me in handling the unfortunate "mess" after R's passing. Your calls on my behalf…and your speedy re-rental of my property, and all the running you did to make that happen was so far beyond the norm! I thank you for all you do for me. With kindest regards," D.M.
Laura Serpentelli at Berkshire was great to work with. She was extremely responsive and diligent with following up with us when we rented in Beach Haven West this summer. Thanks very much for helping us make a great vacation! We definitely recommend using Laura and the Berkshire office. Thanks again for everything!
I just wanted to say we were very happy with this year's house! It turned out to be a great week weather wise. The location of the house was great and the extra parking was a big plus now that all of my kids drive!
Thank you, Bev, for another great week at the shore. I very much appreciate all of your guidance each summer and you never steer me wrong!
Pat did a great job by going above and beyond to make our vacation great! I will contact Pat next time we rent in LBI!
This was the 5th year we rented the Troast House in Harvey Cedars . This is a great house with a fabulous location . My children and grandchildren have greatly enjoyed the last five years. The house has everything in it and totally meets our needs. Only "needs improvement" comment is the AC to the bedroom on the top floor needs to cool off the room a little better. On very hot nights it was stuffy sleeping. Overall, we had a wonderful vacation, great weather and stayed in a fabulous house. This is why we're coming back next year.
Had a great vacation at LBI. My realtor, Laura Serpentelli, was professional, courteous and found just the right house for my mother-in-law who is unable to move around freely without her walker. The house was perfect! We had a fabulous time and would recommend Zack Shore Realtors to all our family and friends.
Last summer, I decided to fly up to Jersey for a week with a very dear friend. I called upon Laura Serpentelli to locate me a small house/cottage or Clean apartment. At the height of the season she came up with two (2) one bedrooms homes. One of the summer listings had several photos that depicted exactly what I wanted. I rented sight unseen and was extremely pleased when I arrived at my destination in Ship Bottom, ocean block (home away from home). It was perfect in every possible way. Thanks to all of you at BHHS, ZACK SHORE great team!
This has been our sixth year using Zack Shore Realtors and Agent Beverly Karch for our LBI rental. We have built a relationship with Beverly who has made the process very easy and is always available to help out with any concerns or questions we may have.
Our Realtor, Laura Serpentelli, was such a pleasure to work with and quickly responded to any questions or needs we had. When one of our rentals did not work out through no fault of Zack Shore's, the company immediately remedied the situation and picked up the difference for an upgraded rental so we could secure one in time for the season. Highly recommend!
We recently sold our family beach house at LBI and not only did Alicia Marzarella manage the sale, she also helped to find rentals for the summer rentals we had already booked, but which we could no longer accommodate. Alicia went above and beyond in finding comparable homes to rent for our summer bookings, and the places she found were perfect for the renters. Alicia has also been working with my mother for years, helping her to rent out the house for the summers. My mother trusted her more than any other realtors she had found and sought her out for counsel again and again over the years. This was why we turned to Alicia when we had to sell the house. We knew she would help make it a success and she did!! So whether you are looking for a vacation rental or looking to rent your home to others, Alicia is an extremely knowledgeable agent who will get the job done for you. She is also just a great person to talk to, she will listen to your needs and do her utmost to accommodate them. I recommend her unreservedly and very enthusiastically!
Dawn was great to work with. She always made herself available to us and really made the purchase of our new home/rental of our old home as easy as possible. We would definitely recommend and/or use her again
There is not a better real estate agent on LBI than Alicia! She was there for my family and me from the very first moment I phoned her in a panic because we needed a last minute rental. She knew the inventory that was available, including if the bathrooms would pass my very high standards! She is not only knowledgeable, but fun, funny and the kind of person you want to have a drink with when all the craziness is over. We cannot thank her enough for the latest transaction, which was our vacation home purchase on LBI. She continues to make life on LBI for our family what we all want when we drive across the bridge, smooth and easy! Thank you!!
Donna Diorio is the best. Easy to work with and extremely accommodating. I am always a lady minute renter and Donna always comes through with exactly what I'm looking for. Nothing is ever a problem with Donna!
Patricia Shultis was very helpful and responsive throught the whole rental process. I highly recommend her for helping with renting a house for a vacation.
We have been staying at The Fishery for several years now. We love the beach access, as well as the pool. All units that we have stayed in have been lovely. This year however, the unit was our favorite. It was well stocked, clean, nicely updated and fit our family comfortably. Pat , our agent is always helpful and pleasant. We look forward to returning next year.
|I've been a renter with Donna for quite a few summer seasons now and all my vacations on LBI have been Great. When I was looking for a house to rent for my summer vacation years back, Donna took me out to see houses I would like. She was patient until she turned me on to a place that I loved ! I keep going back with Pat and especially Donna. Always no glitches, Thanks Again Donna. Looking forward to another Great year In LBI 2020
|Donna Diorio is wonderful to work with! A friend recommended her three years ago and we have used her ever since. She is very pleasant and takes the time to find the perfect place to rent! Can't wait to have her book out rental for next summer!
I have been working with Donna Diorio to find the right rental property for many years. She is always very helpful and attentive. We had to call for her a small issue in one of the homes we rented and she responded immediately She is a pleasure!
LBI will be our new vacation spot... we loved it. Very family friendly. Just enough things to do around town and the beaches are beautiful.
Thank you to Donna DiOrio for making the rental process so easy when I come to LBI. She is quick to respond to my emails and phone calls and always knows the answers to my many questions! I look forward to working with her again next year. She's a great asset to Zach Shore!!
Pat has been my LBI realtor for almost 20 years . She has always been very helpful to me and my family . Check in is very easy and fast . The rental was very clean and comfortable. She sent me a text message to warm me about flooding after a storm . I give Pat and her agency a 10 !
We love renting in LBI for a week in the summer and when I couldn't find anything to rent, my friend gave me Donna Diorio's information! I reached out to Donna and within hours had a variety of places for the week we needed and that were pet friendly! She also met us on Saturday in February to let us look at the houses to find the one that best suited our family! I feel Donna went above and beyond to help us! She is pleasant and always willing to help! I will definitely be using her as my go to for our LBI vacations! Thanks, Donna!!
We have been working with Pat Shultis for several years. She has always been extremely helpful. When we had to change our vacation week and our usual rental was not available, she helped us find another similar property. Just before she processed our deposit check for the alternate property, our usual rental became available for the new week and she notified us immediately. While the other rental would have been OK, we were very happy that Pat took the time to draw up a new lease and switch us to our usual rental.
Patricia Shultis was helping me and my family with our LBI rental needs over several years now. Pat is very professional and courteous, and every time she was able to find great rental for us. Thanks a lot, Pat!
Donna did a great job under a very tight timeframe. She was very patience with my incessant questions as well! We'd use her as our realtor again if we visit the area.
I was pleased with the house and the service I received from Pat and Berkshire Hathaway.
We had a wonderful week in Peahala Park - The house was very comfortable and offered many amenities. The A/C vents were very dusty but that's about it. The backyard was very nice - we spent a lot of time out there - we had a little one with us so the fact that it was fenced in was just perfect for us. The beds were very comfortable. We appreciated the beach badges as well. The weather could have been better but there's nothing any of us can do about that! lol Thanks for everything.
We have been using Pat Shultis, for the last 12 or so years for out rentals on LBI. She has been great every year, check-in and check-out has been quick and easy. She will check in every now and then if there is a storm, and to make sure everything is good. If there has been a problem, she had it fixed in less than an hour. Thank you Pat for all these great years on LBI.....
|Thank you Patricia for suggesting the home we stayed in. It was perfect! It was clean and very spacious. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. We hope to return for our next vacation. Thank you again.


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AIRDRIE, Alta. - Investigators brought in a dog and a police motorboat on Sunday as they shifted their search for a five-year-old Calgary boy and his grandparents to a field and a slough north of an acreage.
The area police were focusing on Sunday is about a kilometre north of the acreage near this Calgary bedroom community that police combed on Saturday.
Yellow police tape blocked off an adjacent road and a half dozen officers and a dog walked through a field to the edge of a large slough. Moments later a Calgary police boat was towed into continue the search while a police helicopter searched overhead.
Earlier in the day police revealed they had released an individual taken into custody at the acreage Friday night.
Calgary police said he remains a "person of interest" and several police units will continue to search a residence connected to him on the outskirts of Airdrie.
Investigators say that, given the size of the property, the search is likely to continue throughout Sunday and into Monday as they search for clues in the disappearance a week ago of Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents — Alvin and Kathy Liknes.
Acting on a tip police arrived at the property late Friday night and found a green Ford F-150 truck similar to one spotted in a video taken near the Liknes home.
Police say they are trying determine if the truck, the property, or the man taken in for questioning, are linked to the investigation.
Nathan and his grandparents disappeared on Monday after the couple held an estate sale, and police have said there was evidence of a violent incident in the Liknes's home.
Police say they want to hear from anyone who has any information regarding the whereabouts of the missing people or recognizes the pickup that was captured on video in the area of the grandparents' home.
Investigators say an Amber Alert remains in place and is continuing to provide police with tips from the public.


text: National MS Society statement concerning the Boston Marathon April 16, 2013 The National MS Society's thoughts and sympathies are with all of the individuals and families affected by the tragic events surrounding the Boston Marathon. We want to thank all of the first responders and community members who have helped everyone impacted by yesterday's events and continue to do so. We are also grateful to the countless MS Society staff and volunteers who were on the course yesterday supporting the Society's Marathon Strides Against MS team running to raise awareness and funds for MS. We have accounted for all MS Society staff, volunteers, and all of our team's participants. We are thankful to report they are all safe. As an organization that puts on hundreds of events annually we want to assure our participants that safety remains our top priority and a comprehensive safety plan is in place at all Society events. We will, however, be taking extra measures for upcoming events across the country and are currently working with local authorities to determine what extra safety precautions are recommended. We intend to move forward with upcoming events and will continue to communicate with our event participants in the coming weeks. We also respect each individual's choice about participation and thank everyone for their continuing commitment to people with MS and to helping us move closer to a world free of MS.


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Welcome to the Department of Mining & Geological Engineering
Alaska is a resource state, and it's future is linked intricately to the development of it's vast land. Mining engineering and geological engineering are two important technical elements of development. These two disciplines, with high starting salaries (typically $70,000-$100,000) and job placement (typically 100%), are the main areas of emphasis in the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering.
Mining engineering was one of two focus areas when the University of Alaska was founded in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. With four faculty in mining engineering and four in geological engineering, the department offers a high-quality education in an intimate setting. Graduates from the department have made significant contributions to industries, and have provided leadership in various government agencies and corporations.


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Earth from Space: 'Sea of the Viennese'
Lake Neusiedl, straddling the Austrian–Hungarian border, is featured in this satellite image. The largest steppe lake in Central Europe, Neusiedl covers an area around 315 sq km, with 240 sq km situated in Austria and 75 sq km in Hungary (bottom).
Reeds, ponds and wetland areas that provide important habitat for fauna and flora as well as for migratory birds surround Lake Neusiedl, which is a protected wildlife sanctuary.
In addition to the natural landscape and extraordinary wildlife, this is a highly developed area with more than 1500 landowners whose patches of land are now an integrated part of the protected area.
Lake Neusiedl, called the 'Sea of the Viennese' due to its close proximity to Vienna, has totally dried up at least 100 times since it formed around 16 000 BC. Since the lake provides humidity and temperature buffering, the drying-up of the seabed causes major environmental disruptions. The Austro-Hungarian Water Commission has been controlling the water level via a dam since 1956.
The unique landscape of the Lake Neusiedl region, which encompasses an area of around 747 sq km around the lake, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
The Leitha Mountain range, called 'Leithaberg' by locals, is visible in green northwest of the lake. The soils of the mountains, which are covered by dense deciduous woodland, are dominated by slate and marine limestone.
The Seewinkel area, the largest inland salt region in Austria and one of the most important in Europe, is located east of the lake. As visible, this area is characterised by numerous saline alkaline lakes scattered among grazed meadows.
The sunny climate of the area, the soil and the lake's ability to moderate extreme climate provide optimal conditions for the wine industry; today, wineries are located all around the region.
The famous Danube River, one of Europe's main traffic arteries, is visible running across the top of the image. The Danube has its source in Germany's Black Forest and flows through nine European countries for a distance of about 2850 km.
An aircraft condensation trail, or 'contrail', is visible in white stretching across the image centre. A shadow of the contrail is visible along the top of the image.
SPOT-4 acquired this image on 9 October 2006 with a spatial resolution of 20 m. SPOT-4 is supported by ESA as a 'Third Party Mission', which means ESA utilises its multi-mission European ground infrastructure and expertise to acquire, process and distribute data from the satellite to its wide user community. The SPOT system was designed by the French space agency (CNES) and is operated by Spot Image.


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Does anyone know the reason, why the clSetKernelArg uses only the argument index to specify the argument instead of the argument parameter name?
i think that the specification (maybe the OpenCL 1.1) should handle also the setting of the argument by it's name, not only by it's index number:
cl_int clSetKernelArg (cl_kernel kernel, const char *arg_name, size_t arg_size, const void *arg_value);
i'll appreciate any comments or ideas about this strange situation.
PS: is there a way (except parsing the opencl code file by the program itself) to get the number of kernel argument by it's parameter name? This would solve the issue mentioned above. I miss such a query using clGetKernelInfo.
thx, martin


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Beats Solo2 Wireless On-Ear Headphone (Certified Refurbished)
$ 129.99
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Typically, open-box items are goods returned by customer or box / retail packaging damaged during shipping. They are then inspected and tested before being returned back into inventory as "Open Box" Item.
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The long-running jazz-rockers and classic-rock radio mainstays — Rikki tries to not lose that number at least every two hours on the Arrow, we're reelin' in the years over on the Eagle at a decent clip — are alternately your boomer dad's favorite group or your hipster little brother's dirty little secret. Let's face it, Wilco has been copping their hustle for a few albums now.
The core of Dan — Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — make for a wry comic duo in interviews, recently telling Rolling Stone they're thinking about making new music (it's a maybe) and talking about whether guys their age even care about music anymore (not so much).
The lawn was closed on Friday evening at the Pavilion in The Woodlands, making for a more intimate gathering. The crowd was a very wine-soaked group, making for interesting dance choices by the time "Hey Nineteen" batted cleanup in the setlist.Becker held the song at bay to tell a funny, winding story about not finding any Cuervo Gold (nix the fine Colombian) in his hotel minibar in Austin, and ending up outing himself as a sexagenarian toker.
Come to think of it, the cupcake truck on site looked to be doing brisk business.
The stomping "Showbiz Kids" let the band show off their light show, turning Fagen a sinister red when needed for "Black Friday," or washed the band in a demented blanket of rainbows on "Bodhisattva".
The Dan's trio of backing female vocalists, the Borderline Brats, dropped in sassy scenery in all the right places. The current set of players behind the Dan duo wield a wicked virtuosity. The Bipolar Allstars — Keith Carlock on drums, Freddie Washington on bass, Jim Beard on keyboards and Jon Herington on guitar, were show-stealers. Mr. Carlock is a human drum solo.
Herington, who has been Fagen and Becker's go-to ax man for their Dan albums and solo efforts alike over the past decade, shreds the leads on their classics, with Becker following him in the background. He was a wonder unto himself during "My Old School" and "Reelin' In The Years". The four-man brass section steered some songs into zones of funk previously unknown. At least enough to make even the most stuffy-looking guys in the room go into big-tent-revival dance mode a few times.
Diehards stuck in their for the deep cuts from 1973's "Countdown To Ecstasy" (it turned 40 in July) midway through the show but it was beer and potty time for a disappointing chunk of the crowd.
The band tore through hits "Josie", "Peg", "My Old School", and "Reelin' In The Years", before returning to encore with "Kid Charlemagne", a song which is better known to millenials as a sample in a Kanye West song.
Before I Forget: While doing my Dan homework ahead of the show I found this handy Steely Dan dictionary online to answer some nagging questions I had from years of Danning in the dark. Now I know what a Custerdome is.
Steely Dan Setlist
Blueport — (Gerry Mulligan cover)
Your Gold Teeth
Hey Nineteen
Show Biz Kids
Green Earrings
Black Friday
Time Out of Mind
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
Razor Boy
Babylon Sisters
I Want to (Do Everything for You) — (Joe Tex cover)
My Old School
Reelin' in the Years
Kid Charlemagne
Untouchables Theme — (Nelson Riddle cover)


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It serves standard Google web search results but enhanced with image thumnails and social statistics so you can easily spot the most popular stories. Video Demo.
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His or her mission is to hire, motivate and manage the workforce of the company.
The Vice President Human Resources has operational roles. He helps the managers with their teams in the organization, hiring, promotions, succession plans and terminations. He is in charge of the salary monthly payments, employee contracts, training, internal mobility, compensations and relations with the various employee representations. The information systems play a growing role in managing the performances and the expectations of the employees. In large companies, his or her direct reports often include managers dedicated to hiring, administration, compensation, social relations and internal communication. He often hires external experts for compensation planning, legal, and social protection.
The Vice President Human Resources has strategic roles. He provides meaning to the role of the company and anticipates the talent needs for 2 to 5 years in the future. He has a key role in hiring. He often contracts with head hunters to find rare talent. He coordinates the re-organization and restructuring of the various divisions of the company. He reports to the President or to the Chief Operating Officer. He attends the Executive Committee.
The most common titles covering the responsability of Vice President Human Resources include VP HR - Chief People Officer - Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources - Human Resource Director - Director of Human Resources - People Director - or - Director of People -.


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PlayLand Episode 1
PlayLand originated from exploring fun zones around the Colorado backcountry. Skiing is about having fun and not letting anything get in the way of that. PlayLand is all about having as much fun as possible whether it is shredding playground-like zones of mountains around the world or partying til the sun comes up with all your homies and babes.
This series reflects Willis' lifestyle of having fun, riding hard and continuing good times into the night. PlayLand will follow Willis and his friends through winter and summer adventures both on snow and off. Stay tuned for episode two coming towards the end of March but for now, enjoy some powder and partying from the Aspen backcountry. Booyah!


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I have written a solution to the following assignment but I wont get any output.
I used System.out.println randomly to see where my program stops and I figured out it is righ after the while (inputFile.hasNext()) method. Any suggestion will be great. Thanks!
my assignment:
build a program that uses notepad or another text editor to create a text file named deposits.txt. The file should contain the following
numbers, one per line:
Next, create a text file named withdrawals.txt. The file should contain the following numbers, one per line:
The numbers in the deposits.txt file are the amounts of deposits that were made to a savings account during the month, and the numbers in the withdrawals.txt file are the amounts of withdrawals that were made during the month. Write a program that creates an instance of the SavingsAccount class that you wrote in the programming challenge 10. The starting balance for the object is 500.00. The program should read the values from the Deposits.txt file and use the object's method to add them to the account balance. The program should read the values from the Withdrawals.txt file and use the object's method to substract them from the account balance. The program should call the class method to calculate the monthly interest, and then display the ending balance and the total interest earned.
Deposits and withdrawals
/** designed by saurav */ import java.io.*; // needed for File and IOException import java.util.Scanner; //imports scanner class import java.text.DecimalFormat; public class DepositWithdraw { public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException { double intRate ; double interestEarned; double amount=0.00; double bal=500.00; // Create a Scanner object for keyboard input. Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); // Get the annual interest rate. System.out.print("What is the annual interest rate?"); intRate= keyboard.nextDouble(); // Create a SavingAccount object. SavingAccount SavingAccount1= new SavingAccount(bal,intRate); // Open the Deposits.txt file. File file = new File ("Deposits.txt"); System.out.println("works1"); Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(file); // Get the deposits from the Deposits.txt file while (inFile.hasNext()) while (inputFile.hasNext()); { System.out.println("works1"); //Read numbers double num1 = inputFile.nextDouble(); //Add the numbers amount += num1; } System.out.println("works2"); //Deposit the file input. SavingAccount1.deposit(amount); //Close the Deposits.txt file inputFile.close(); // Open the Withdrawals.txt file. //Open Withdrawal file File file2 = new File("Withdrawal.txt"); Scanner inputFile2 = new Scanner(file2); System.out.println("works3"); // Get the withdrawals from the Withdrawals.txt file while (inFile.hasNext()) while (inputFile2.hasNext()); { //Read numbers double num2 = inputFile2.nextDouble(); //Subtract amount-= num2; } System.out.println("works4"); inputFile2.close(); // Close the Withdrawals.txt file. // Get the balance before adding interest. SavingAccount1.getBalance(); // Add the interest. SavingAccount1.addInterest(); // Calculate the interest earned. SavingAccount1.getLastInterest(); System.out.println("works5"); // Display the interest earned and the balance. System.out.println("Account balance $" + SavingAccount1.getBalance()); System.out.println("Total interest earned $" + SavingAccount1.getLastInterest()); } }//end class
Savingacount class
/** designed by Saurav Sharma */ public class SavingAccount { private double balance; private double interestRate; private double lastInterest; // SavingsAccount constructor public SavingAccount( double bal,double intRate) { balance = bal; interestRate = intRate; lastInterest = 0.0; } // The withdraw method withdraws an amount from the account. public void withdraw(double amount) { balance -= amount; } //The deposit method deposits an amount into the account. public void deposit(double amount) { balance+=amount; } /** * The addInterest method calculates the monthly * interest and adds it to the account balance. */ public void addInterest() { // Get the monthly interest rate. double monthlyInterestRate = interestRate / 12; // Calculate the last amount of interest earned. lastInterest = monthlyInterestRate * balance; // Add the interest to the balance. balance += lastInterest; } //The getBalance method returns the account balance. public double getBalance() { return balance; } /** * The getInterestRate method returns the annual * interest rate. */ public double getIntrestrate() { return interestRate; } //The getLastInterest method returns the last amount of interest earned. public double getLastInterest() { return lastInterest; } }


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Welcome to Collect & Connect: ORCID's integration and engagement program
With hundreds of our members globally building ORCID identifiers into their systems, as well as some funders and publishers now requiring ORCID iDs, researchers are increasingly likely to encounter ORCID in their day-to-day life. The Collect & Connect program has been developed to streamline the integration process and foster a shared user experience. This ensures researchers and our member-integrators understand what ORCID is, and why and how to engage.
ORCID's mantra is "enter once, reuse often" and, to achieve this in a reliable, trustworthy, and transparent way, it's essential that organizations play their part by creating validated assertions about the connections between them and their researchers. For research institutions, this means validating their researchers' affiliation(s); for publishers, their works (publications, reviews, datasets, and more); and for funders, their awards and grants.
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I keep looking at this spot and thinking-- surely they know that sapphire most commonly comes in blue, right? And yet the whole spot they are showing the red glowing gem of a label. And what the hell is the point of the fish? And singing "No Diggity," via Chet Faker no less?
You know what? Don't answer.
I'm afraid there will be some bullshit articulation to justify this wankery. Perhaps with a rationale or a long-winded manifesto that tries to justify this forgettable spot. Actually it feels worse. It feels like a marketing ploy for a new strain of hop that somehow is supposed to sound more intriguing/elegant/refined than the swill you're used to drinking. Sure. Just like Corinthian Leather was a distinction.
C'mon Becks. Your best work was when you made fun of their Germaness. At least it had personality then.
Do us a favor and get off your red high horse. I mean fish.
Client: Becks
Agency: Mother London
I liked the spot. Advertising is not all about making total sense... it's about putting the viewers in a certain state of mind and they did just that. They know you'll be with your friends on superbowl sunday.. so they are giving people something to laugh about and enjoy. This will make it memorable.
They aren't advertising professionals and critics so they won't be sitting their thinking "WHY THE FISH WHY THE FISH"
They will be thinking... ITS NEMO!!!!!
didn't you notice that? It's nemo... just black. My sister shouted "it's nemo" when I first showed her. That's a quick way to get the attention of 99% of people who watch superbowl... who have definitely either watched or heard of nemo.
No diggity wouldn't have been my song choice but it worked well. As long as the fish is singing something smooth (smooth = the beer, get it?)
The entire commercial is meant to portray fun, smoothness, and class. It does that quite well.
Not trying to school you; I could just tell you are interested in this stuff and I'm just pouring out my thoughts.
I am an advertising executive at a top firm in Los Angeles so I too have a little bit of experience with this Shite. This Advertisement did make sense... as i clearly pointed out. I said it doesn't need to make TOTAL sense. As in.. it doesnt need to be downright OBVIOUS. Being creative is something most people don't understand. It goes far beyond a good idea.
What nemo has to do with beer? Absolutely nothing.
I said it reminded me and my sister of nemo. Everyone else will have various feelings about the fish but if you didn't understand that point of the fish, im sorry mate, you aren't really cut out for 2013 advertising. Its commercials created by people who have no vision that lose my vote. This commercial had tons of vision.
Not sure if you saw the Budweiser commercial they ran 4 times during the game...
Similar commercial... except for the fact that they used people instead of a fish... and people were talking trying to sell the beer with their words instead of a fish singing no diggity. It failed miserably.
Same bottle design... same smoooth look in the commercial... black.. nice lighting... everything but the fish n the music.
Oh and they used a red sapphire because the becks logo is RED.
No hard feelings ahah, I have these types of conversations with my mates every day. It is good to hear what other people see.
Be open minded, don't be afraid to try the unconventional. It's proved wonders for me. Commercials are more about sending a message, not about selling a product. Your selling the entire brand, not the one version of beer that will probably be on shelves for a few years.
Becks will live on.
As a beer drinker, this ad does nothing to make me want to try it. Sure, CGI fish is cute. Sure, CGI fish is completely unrelated to anything else going on in the ad. But I also don' think anything about this ad is memorable enough to sway me at the liquor store when I'm buying a six-pack.
Why, oh why does a commercial need be anything but a flight o' fancy. It's purpose is to entice you to buy a product and this does that by sticking in your head. If you don't like it, you're an insufferable prig and you probably are miserable about most everything. Beer commercials notwithstanding.


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Larry Elliott is a meticulous artist, carefully planning every detail of his intricate oil paintings. Along with his signature, all of his paintings contain Hebrew characters that allude to deeper meanings within Larry's art.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1990?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12843028#action_12843028 ] Toke Eskildsen commented on LUCENE-1990: ---------------------------------------- Uwe Schindler: {quote} We should also add the @lucene.internal javadoc comments everywhere instead of the big NOTE. Why has one class a full-uppercase class name? {quote} Are you looking at patch LUCENE-1990-te20100301.patch? I don't see any NOTE and no full-uppercase class name? > Add unsigned packed int impls in oal.util > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1990 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1990 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Index > Affects Versions: Flex Branch > Reporter: Michael McCandless > Priority: Minor > Fix For: Flex Branch > > Attachments: generated_performance-te20100226.txt, LUCENE-1990-te20100122.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100210.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100212.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100223.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100226.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100226b.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100226c.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100301.patch, LUCENE-1990.patch, LUCENE-1990_PerformanceMeasurements20100104.zip, perf-mkm-20100227.txt, performance-20100301.txt, performance-te20100226.txt > > > There are various places in Lucene that could take advantage of an > efficient packed unsigned int/long impl. EG the terms dict index in > the standard codec in LUCENE-1458 could subsantially reduce it's RAM > usage. FieldCache.StringIndex could as well. And I think "load into > RAM" codecs like the one in TestExternalCodecs could use this too. > I'm picturing something very basic like: > {code} > interface PackedUnsignedLongs { > long get(long index); > void set(long index, long value); > } > {code} > Plus maybe an iterator for getting and maybe also for setting. If it > helps, most of the usages of this inside Lucene will be "write once" > so eg the set could make that an assumption/requirement. > And a factory somewhere: > {code} > PackedUnsignedLongs create(int count, long maxValue); > {code} > I think we should simply autogen the code (we can start from the > autogen code in LUCENE-1410), or, if there is an good existing impl > that has a compatible license that'd be great. > I don't have time near-term to do this... so if anyone has the itch, > please jump! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Produced and Set by Dave Kemp
24 Ingham Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 1DE
Honorary readers:
Nod, Dave, Jim and Don
Mr. & Mrs. W. Powell
Mr. Jack Hill
Frank Lea
Graham Swinnerton
J.J. and Will (roadies)
John Blake (Evening News)
Alf Martin (Record Mirror)
"You are the eyes of the reader I am the hand of the writer Together we can fill a page."
Hello, welcome to issue 6. So much has been happening over the last few weeks I'm wondering if I'll be able to fit it all into this newsletter! Anyway here goes......
First, and most importantly, next year I have decided to close Slade News as it now stands, and open THE SLADE FAN CLUB! Several reasons have prompted this; namely everyone seems to refer to us as the "Fan Club", so why not call ourselves that?! And also I feel it would be better for everyone concerned if we became "official" and had subscription membership, as you wouldn't have to keep on applying for each newsletter, and paying the ludicrous charge of 8p for a 25p Postal Order (which most people seem to use as payment) every 2 months! Now you will only have to buy one which lasts for a whole year!
Membership will be £2.20 for a year, PLUS you must send 6 stamped addressed envelopes, sized at least 8" by 6" when applying, or membership is totally invalid. (Fans overseas just send a £2.75 Money Order, not SAEs needed).
Members will receive a membership card, a bumper "Slade News" issue every 2 months, plus several odds and ends throughout the year. NO profit will be made on the fan club - so you will get your money's worth, I promise you that!
Barn have given us approximately 100 Slade Biography books - we will send these out free to the first 100 applicants.
Slade News is (C) D. Kemp 1979
Memberships will be accepted from Jan 1st onwards, and the first newsletter will be distributed during February.
Frank Lea contacted me recently concerning the version of "When The Lights Are Out" that he and Jim have recorded. The record is being released on December 1st, and the "band" have called themselves "The Dummys". The consist of: Jim Lea (Vocals and Bass), Frank Lea (Drums) and Paul Faulkner (Lead Guitar).
The B Side is one of Frank's compositions, "She's The Only Woman". It is released on the Lea's own label, Cheapskate Records, catalogue number SWL 001, distributed by pinnacle. I have heard the Demo of it, and all I can say is that it's great - even better than the original Slade recording dare I say it! Frank has told me that you should be able to order it from your record shop but if not I have 300 copies of the single, which I am selling at the price of £1.05 plus 25p P. & P. So if you'd like a copy simply send me a Cheque/P.O. for £1.30 and I'll rush you one.
I advise you all to get a copy, because not only is it a bloody good single, but it is undoubtedly going to become a "rarity!" Frank told me that they recorded it as a joke at first but they soon became serious about it, thus it has been released.
Good news for Ossie Slade Fans, Richard, Lem, Paul and Rob, 4 Australian Sladists are setting up an "Australian Slade News" service, in which they will be using info from our first 6 issues, and hopefully this will lead them on to opening an Australian Fan Club!
Steffen Decker (German Slade Fan) has a father who writes a yearly English teaching book for the German Education Board. In the next book Steff's Dad is going to have a section on Slade! The several pages will be entitled "Wonderin' Y" and you will delve into all aspects of Slade's career. This book will be used in thousands of German schools, but I'll try to get hold of some copies to sell to English fans!
Lots of people have been writing, asking me to help them with problems about records, tour dates, etc.I like to help as far as I possibly can but only can do so if you enclose a S.A.E.
I met some fantastic people on the last Slade tour. At Nottingham I bumped into Johnny Ellis from Kirkby (who seems to get everywhere), he was telling me that his wife has just given birth to their son, who they have Christened "James Lea Ellis". I wonder how they decided on that strange combination of names!
"Return to Base" may be the title to the new Slade album but it also describes the band's recent actions. Jim and Dave used to live in Wolves, whilst Don and Nod had homes in London. Now both Don and Nod have moved back to Wolverhampton so you could say that they have "returned to base!"
Anyway, I must express my sincere thanks to everyone for their support in 1979 keep it up in 1980!
"So here it is, Merry Xmas, everybody's having fun, look to the future now - its only just begun".
new SLADE FAN CLUB
: price £2.20 + six sae's
: you receive : member's card
bi~monthly news mags
: first 100 applicants received
will be sent Slade blog book
24 Ingham Rd,
London, NW6 1DE,
"WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE OUT" single
in your record shops on
Cheapskate SWL 001
or It can be obtained from us
price £1.05 plus 25p P&P
address as Fan Club's
cheques or POs payable to D.Kemp
allow 14 days for delivery
Yes, it's all happening! Firstly, the new single. It's been out for some weeks now, - and it's entitled "Sign Of The Times" (B/W "Not Tonight Jospehine"). As most record shops do not stock Slade singles in advance now, you'll more than likely have to get them to order it for you. Thus please quote the catalogue number, BARN 010, and state that it is distributed by Pinnacle (and NOT Polydor as some shops still think!) Many people have been writing saying they have been waiting for ages for their order of the single to arrive in their record shop there's nothing that can be done expect for you to keep waiting I'm afraid. Your orders should arrive eventually, People ask if I can buy the single for them. Sorry but I can't as at the time of writing the copies of the single I have ordered haven't even arrived in my record shop!
The new album should be out at the end of November.. It's entitled "Return To Base" and having heard the rough copy of it, all I can say is that it's amazing, totally different to anything Slade have done before, you'll love it.
The track listings are as follows: (Side One) "The Wheels Aint' Coming Down", "Hold Onto Your Hats", "Chakeeta", "Dont' Waste Your Time (Back Seat Star)", "Sign Of The Times". (Side Two) "I'm A Rocker", "Nuts, Bolts and Screws", "My Baby's Got It". "I'm Mad", "Lemme Love Into Ya" (Let Me Give You Love - as we know it!), "Ginny Ginny".
The album is released on Barn Records, catalogue number NARB 003 (distributed by Pinnacle) - if you need to order from your record dealer.
The cover to "Return to Base" is different to what Dave Hill describes it in his interview, it is stunningly "basic" bright (and I mean BRIGHT) red, with "RETURN TO BASE SLADE" typed at the top!
Also, it looks like Slade will be back on the road in December for some Xmas dates (at last they might play "Merry Xmas Everybody" eh?!). So watch the papers for full details or send a S.A.E. to me, and I'll quote them, when confirmed"
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Q. In the old Slade Fan Club they once started to serialise a book written by Don Powell called "Bibble Brick" - did Don Actually write this (as I think that it might of been a hoax), and if so was it ever printed? (Mike O'Sullivan, Dewsbury)
A. Yes, Don assures me that he did actually write this book - although he admits he must have been drunk when he did it! He gave the manuscript to Chas Chandler, who decided to print it in the Fan Club - it was never issued in "book" form.
Q. Do you have any addresses of places where I can obtain: posters, T-shirts, badges, press cuttings or pictures of Slade. Also how do I best go about getting the "Beginnings" album. (Mary Janowska, Highgate)
A. Afraid that no recent firms have designed Slade T-Shirts or Posters, and all the places that sold the old merchandise are no longer in existence. Slade badges can be bought from Nomis (86 Bentley Lane, Meanwood, Leeds - send S.A.E. for details). But as you live in London you should pop along to The Vintage Magazine Shop (2-4 Earlham Street, Cambridge Circus, W.2.), as they have a music basement in which they sell all the music papers from the 1950's onwards - and they will have all the press cuttings you will ever need. Also they sometimes stock new Slade badges, and occasionally get Slade photos in (they recently had stills from "Flame" for sale). The best way to get hold of "Beginnings" is to put a "Records Wanted" ad in one of the music papers - as this usually works.
Q. Whatever happened to Geordie (the Slade copyists of the early 1970's) ? (D. Moore, Glasgow)
A. They did split up - but last year I was told they had reformed - without their Noddy-type vocalist Brian Johnson though - and that they were playing the Tyneside Club circuit.
Slade played the Wolverhampton Civic Hall on October 4th, their eigth ever headlining concert there. In front of the "Home" crowd, the group went down a storm! Not all of the audience were Wolverhampton inhabitants though, for even I had heard of fans travelling from placed such as leeds, Nottingham, Gloucester, Dundee and even West Germany, to see the show! Thus it served the purpose of being the greatest fan gathering of 1979!
Even before Slade came on an extatic atmosphere was created by the crowd bellowing "You'll Never Walk Alone".
When they walked on stage the place erupted.
The show opened, as usual, with "Hear Me Calling", followed by other regular standards "My Baby Left Me" and "Take Me Back Ome"
Tracks from the new album "Return To Base" were then played, these being "Let Me Give You Love" and "The Wheels Aint't Coming Down" - possibly the highlight of the show with it's un flappable lighting effects. Most new numbers in any band's act, if not known by the audience, usually are only meagrely received - but this went down as well as all the old favourites, proving it to be a great song.
"Gudbuy T'Jane", "Dizzy Mama", "Cum On Feel The Noize" and all the other Slade "regulars" were then added. The biggest surprise of the evening came when Slade played an amazing new version of "Look Wot You Dun" though. So different was it that at first
I thought it was another song from the new album!
All through the show scores of fans clambered onstage to kiss Noddy Holder, which became all a bit tedious as poor ol' Nod couldn't even get to sing into his microphone half the time!
But when he sang the line "I've had a Redlight off the wrist, without me even getting kissed...." (Far Far Away) and a fan jumped up and gave Nod a smacker on the side of the face, it seemed to sum things up perfectly. Wolverhampton Fever (as Jim Lea once described it to me) lives on, and forever will do as long as Slare are around.
By John Ogden.
Eighteen months is a long time in the 1ife of a rock group. In fact it's sometimes longer than the life of some of them.
Yet that's how long it's been since Wolverhampton's most famous rockers Slade played in their home town.
Did it make any difference? Not the slightest. It seemed as though those heady days when they were never out of the charts was just yesterday, for the band have lost none of their magic or attraction.
If they've been out of the charts for a time they have not been idle. Slade are still an "on the road" band. and playing live is what they do best.
As usual the audience is an integral part of a Slade show. In all the many concerts I have seen I have never come across' audiences so merry and good natured as those who attend Slade gigs.
Though a lot of their act is tried and tested they did include some new songs and some old rock and roll ones - last night.
On this showing it needs only one hit record to put them right back on top of the heap again.
Due to the success of the "Your Top Ten" feature in S.N.5., results to be printed in our next issue, I have decided to conduct a poll to find out what YOU think about Slade. It is important for everyone to vote, so please do so if you can. All votes must be in by January lOth, so that they can be printed in S.N.7.
To enter simply write on a peice of paper your name and address, with the following category numbers and choice, e.g. (1) Slade Alive, (2) Hear He Calling, etc.
The categories are as follows:-
(1) Best Slade album. (2) Best album track. (3) Best album cover. (4) Best picture sleeve single. (5) Best single B-side. (6) Best live Slade song. (7) Song you'd most like to hear live that isn't in the current stage act.
(8) Best ever concert, e.g. Earl's Court 1973, wembley 1978, etc. (9) Best 1979 concert. (10) Best Slade actor in "Flame". (11) Best sequence from "Flame". e.g. Noddy in coffin, Don's riverbank scene. (12) Best early Slade single (You Better Run - Know Who You Are) (13) Favourite Import album. (14) Most Interesting Slade member to talk to. (15) Best Slade promo film, e.g. "Give Us A Goal" film (Saturday Scene), "My Baby Left Me" film (Tiswas). (16) Best Slade photo.
Send a sae to Steve at 5 Main St, Stanton - By - Dale, Ilkeston, Derby., for new photos for sale details.
Title: "The Story of Slade" (Double Album)
Country: West Germany
Label: Barn 2689 001
Date: 1977
Cover: picture of Slade live at Wembley - the inside of the gatefold sleeve contains a short summary of Slade's career up till 1977.
Tracks: (1) Coz I Luv You, Gudbuy T'Jane, Keep On Rocking, Good Time Gals, Nobody's Fools, Look Wot You Dun.
(2) Mama Weer All Crazee Now, When The Lights Are Out, Miles Out To Sea, The Bangin' Man, My Town, Lay It Down.
(3) Cum On Feel The Noize, Far Far Away, Everyday, Skweeze Me Pleeze He, Don't Blame Me, Summer Song (Wishing You Were Here)
(4) Get Down And Get with It, In For A Penny, Just Want A Little Bit, I'm Mee, I'm Now An' That's Orl, Get On Up, How Does It Feel.
Single: "Coz I Luv You" b/w "Know Who You Are".
Label Polydor 2058 186 1971
Date 1971 (Picture cover with Slade as Skinheads, 1971) .
Single: "Let The Goodtimes Roll" blw "I Don't Mind".
Country: U.S.A.
Label: Polydor PD 15080
Date: 1972
Title: "Coz I Luv You"
Country: West Germany (THE original C.I.L.Y. LP)
Label: Polydor 2383 100
Date: 1971
Cover: Early promotional photo.
Tracks: (1) Coz I Luv You, Dapple Rose, Sweet Box, Gospel According to Rasputin, My Life Is Natural, The Shape of 'I'hings To Come.
(2) Get Down And Get With It, One Way Hotel, Raven, Do You Want Me, See Us Here, Know Who You Are.
Lots of people have written to us regarding the pricing of old Slade singles, wanting to know approximately how much they should pay for the rarities. Thus as a guideeline I have compiled the price list below:-
BEGINNINGS (Fontana) £30
BEGINNINGS (Contour) £5
BALLZY (Import) £20
1972 Music Scene Flexi £1
1973 Melanie Flexi 50p
1974 19 F1exi 50p
1975 Double-backed Flexi £1
1975 Smiths Crisps Flexi £1
All Polydor singles, apart from GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT, are not worth more than the original face-value, due to the thousands of them sold. BURNING IN THE HEAT OF LOVE, although only released 2 years ago, is worth £2.50 due to it being deleted (like all the Barn singles), and the fact that so many fans didn't even know it had been released until it was too late for them to order it.
BALLZY (the American import version of BEGINNINGS) is worth less than the British version, due to the high number of copies of it being imported in the early 1970's being greater than the British pressing.
The Flexi-discs listed are not worth much to collectors at the moment, but due to them being so delicate, they wear out easily, they will increase in value in the future due to the imminence of their declining in number.
As I said though, my prices are only a guideline - rarities are worth only what you are prepared to pay.
SLADE PETITION Mike and Lihda McKillop are getting up a petition for mor~ Slade airplay on Radio One. Anybody wanting td include their name on the list should drop a line to Mike at: 58 Ashgrove Caravan Site, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland.
TAPE SWAPS Jan Van de Dever of Van Galenstraat
21, 1971 Dz Ymuiden, Holland, wants tapes of English Slade concerts, for which he will swap his tapes of Dutch Slade gigs.
RECORD SWAPS Glasgow Slade fan Steve Tennie is offering to swap his singles "Let The Good Times Roll" and "Gypsy Roadhog" for a copy of the "Give Us A Goal" import with picture sleeve. His address: 46/75 Kirkton Ave, Glasgow, Gl3 3EG, Scotland.
"SLADE CIRCLE" Slade fans everywhere that are interested getting together with fans abroad to swap records, and to help each other to get hold of various material available, and thus form a circle of friends, should write to Steve Bray, 13 Bradlesmere Close, Ashford, kent, and enclose a S.A.E.
SLADE PHOTOS Trev West of 59 Skipton Circus, Sneinton
Dale, Nottingham, NG3 7DR, has a set of 10 excellent Slade pies for sale, taken at the Coventry City Centre Club earlier this year. They're 5" x 3l.:!" colour pies, price £3.00
PEN FAN Stu Rutter would like a Pen Friend. He wrote in his letter to us: "I am 18, and studying for A levels so I can't follow the Slade Tours around like a lot of the Slade freaks are doing these days, but when I get a job in about another year they'll be no stopping me!".
If you would like to write to Stu, address your letter to: 62 Grimshaw St., Great Harwood, Blackburn, Lancs.. BB6 7AP.
ANY OFFERS? - Andy from Sheffield can get hold of Slade's American LP "Stomp Your Hands And Clap Your Feet" (the price will be approx. £4 - £5), but he needs to ensure a minimum order of 25 copies. If you'd like a copy, write now to Andy pledging that you will buy one if over 25 fans are interested Andy will order them and write back telling you the exact price per copy. So send a S.A.E. now to: Andy, 20 Ringinglow Rd., Ecclesall, Sheffield, S11 7PP.
SWAPS - Serge Vechoeven, Scheihagestraat 27, B-2550 Kontich, Belgium, will swap Dutch/BeJgian posters of Slade for live tapes of Slade's gigs.
"SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD" (Holder/lea 1975)
Theme to Radio One's Insight Slade Special
We're gonna race up the motorway
And Rock n Roll the night away
In every town
You'd better lock up your daughters
Because they'll do what they oughta
When we hit the town.
If you want to feel the noize
From your head to your feet
Mama mama weer all crazee now
So get off your seats
The ceiling's gonna fall
When we start to shake the walls
And watch us bring them down
Six days on the road
six days on the road
We're getting Fish n Chips for dinner
Every day we're getting thinner
On the road
Six days on the road
Six days on the road
Can you fell it getting to ya
Is the music going through ya
On the road
You've gotta really feel the noize
And all the girls can grab the boys
On the road
We're a Rock n Rollin' band
And we're the best band in the land
On the road.
(Original version of "when the Chips are Down", B side of Let's Call It Quits)
SLADE ALMANAC (Nov / Dee)
Nov 1970 "Play It Loud" album released
Nov 6 1972 Wolverhampton Civic Hall Concert
Nov 12 1973 (to Nov 20) West German Tour
Nov 17 1972 "Gudbuy T'Jane" released
Nov 18 1972 Dave Hill breaks ankle at Liverpool Stadium Concert.
Nov 22 1974 "Slade In Flame" album released
Dec 1 1972 "Slayed" album released
Dec 7 1973 "Merry Xmas Everybody" released
Dec 11 1973 "Merry Xmas Everybody" No. I in charts
Dec 14 1978 Bonny born to Jimmy and Louise Lea
Dec 24 1971 London Marquee Xmas Party Concert
I have just heard from the offices that Slade have another new single ready for release on Barn on December 3rd. It's a "party type song" - which is very fitting, seeing that Christmas is right on the doorstep Ðand is entitled "Rockin' Okey Cokey". It is a track that is not on the new album "Return to Base". I suggest you order your copy now!
Also don't forget that "Merry Xmas Everybody" is released once more again on Polydor 2058 422 this December. Plans were afoot last year to release a "Xmas EP" of Slade's greatest hits, including "Merry Xmas Everybody", but they were dropped. The plans have been shelved this year too.
We talked to Dave before Slade's concert at the Top Rank Suite in Sheffield - the last date of their last tour.
S.N.: Dave, you say that the new album "Return To Base" will be out soon, do you have any definate release date?
Dave: Not yet, it should be out before Christmas though. We thought that we would release the single first though and see what happens with that.
S.N.: How long in all did it take to get the album recorded?
Dave (Consulting Nod) It must have taken about six weeks, on and off.
S.N.: Did anyone member (io the bulk of the work on the proc1uction side.
Dave : No, we each took it in turn to produce certain parts ourselves - which makes it the first album we have solely produced ourselves.
S.N.: The title "Return To Base" - how did this come about?
Dave: Well, we had a whole list of suggestions for the title, and "Return To Base" is the one we eventually decided upon. "Return To Base" is from one of the lines of "'Sign Of The Times".
S.N.: On to the cover - has it been designed yet?
Dave : It's still being done, but I understand that it is going to have a photo of a ticker-tape message on the front saying "Return To Base" in computer-like lettering. But it should
be a very basic cover - so that it ties in with the "basic" reference in the title.
Dave: Yes, I'm verY satisfied with it. It's got a mixture of different types of songs on it, all of which adds up to it being a good album!
S.N.: What's your own favourite track on the record then?
Dave : Mv favourites are the Rock n Roll one (I'm A Rocker) and the instrumental one (Let Me Love Into Ya) - probably because of the way that they come over on stage more than anything else.
S.N.: On to the new stage-act, how did the new version of "Look Wot You Dun" get back into the act - as you haven't played it live since I973!
Dave : What happened was that we were doing a session and we just suddenly started jamming it, and we took the song from there. We changed it from the original because we thought that it would have sounded a bit weak - so we made it a bit more heavy for the current show.
We are planning to get some more tracks from the next albUm into the show, but we want to have the record released first - so at least the audience have an inkling as to what the songs are before we start playing all these new numbers onstage!
S.N.: Will you be adding some more old ones, like "Look Wot You Dun" to the set?
Dave: We've all agreed that there are no more oldies that we can re-do. We've got to go forward, not backnard. For
example we've been doing a new "The Wheels Ain't Coming Down" - and that's been getting a fantastic reaction, and nobody's heard it before! We've got to get new numbers like that into the show.'
S.N.: Why haven't you been doing "Sign Of The Times" live?
Dave : The reason for that is that at the moment we feel the act is. just about right. We have added two numbers that have worked very well, and. we are now hoping to get "Sign Of The Times" in on the next stretch of dates. Also at the moment we've got one slow ballad in the act, and on this tour we didn't want to have two.
S.N.: I've seen the new stage outfits of yours, are they your own creations? (For those of YOu who didn't get to see Slade on the tour, they consist of a red silky Chinese style long-sleeve shirt, that alternates with a red and white bomber jacket, along with red PVC trousers and white boots)
Dave: In a wray I designed them myself. I came alone with the ideas, and I took them to a lady called Jean Seal, he made the clothes for me.
I've decided to return to wearing colourful stage outfits once again, rather than maintaining the Black and White look.
Watching the music scene at the moment, what with the flashiness of the Punks, and also taking the theory that the whole music business revolves in a circle, I see it as inevitable that the Glitter scene will come back again, and when it does I'll be top of the pile!
S.N.: You've always liked wearing flash clothes though, haven't you?
Dave: I like to get reactions by my clothes, I suppose it's a means of expressing myself. In many ways I felt like a punk in our early days dressing weirdly just for the hell of making people look! Even as a kid I can remember wearing a cap and long cape and walking through Woolworth's, so as to make everyone stop and stare!
S.N.: Will you be taking a treck abroad before the year's out?
Dave: We call always go abroad, but while we've got the single out over here, and while we are
trying to break back into the market again, we'd rather stay "at home". We might do the occassional stint on the Continent - but not at the moment.
S.N.: This is the last night of the tour - how do you feel that it has gone, well or badly?
Dave : It's gone well, even you have seen that, Look at the Music Machine gig - there was a far bigger croud there this year compared to last year's Gig. It was packed out. "
S.N.: One question that I've alwlays wanted to ask you; what's the favourite record you have ever recorded?
Dave : My favonrite of all-time? We haven't recorded it yet ....
The first person to drop me a line stating the B-side of Merry Xmas Everybody" wins a copy of that very single - on which DON POWELL has written his Christmas message to the winner!
Many thanks to Stu Rutter for the hard copy! A full size scan of the complete mag will be available here:
It can be viewed on Dave Kemp's www.sladefanclub.com .
Slade's new single will be called just OKEY COKEY on December 8th. It's out on BARN 011
Tour Dates (so far):
Dec 7th London, Barts Hospital
Dec 8th London, Goldsmith College
Dec 13th London, Music Machine


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The purpose of Starfall is to do extra damage. What I mean by that is that the spell is not channeled so you can use it along with a Hurricane or whatever other spell you want to cast. It was never intended to be a de-stealther and we've become unenamored with random stun chances added to other spells.And
One criticism which we think is totally valid is the paltry coefficient on Starfall. We will be hotfixing in a more reasonable number soon (tm).
As I said, Starfall is a damage spell. While it does AE damage, that does not mean it is ineffective against single targets. If you cast it and keep using Starfire / Wrath etc. on bosses then your dps will be higher than if you did not cast it. I realize its large area can bring in extra groups, but this is rarely a problem on actual bosses.
The PvP utility spell, as Lissanna (I think) pointed out, is Typhoon. If your primary concern is
Arenas, you might want to direct your feedback toward Typhoon rather than trying to turn Starfall into a different spell.
My Thoughts:
1. It's great to hear that they are going to buff the Spell Power coefficient on Starfall. I just hope they bump it up enough. The current coefficient is so low that we can take off all of our gear and Starfall's damage wouldn't drop much. For a 51 point talent and a spell with a 3 minute cooldown that sucks.
However, I don't think that the spell in it's current form is a complete waste as some have indicated on the forums. Even on a single target it has a very high DPCT (damage per cast time), and if used correctly that can increase dramatically. Its like Force of Nature. It just has to be used properly to get the most out of it.
2. I could easily be completely wrong about this because I am not a PvPer, but I don't see why PvPkins are so harsh on this spell now. I understand that the stuns and de-stealthing was awesome. I would hate to lose them also, but it is still a decent damage spell that you don't have to target. Unless it is really easy to counter, I don't see why it is trashed so much.
3. I think all of us knew this already but it is nice to know that Typhoon is meant to be the spell with PvP utility. I am not saying that it doesn't have PvE uses, but I have never understood why some very smart moonkin insist that it is a good PvE spell.


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Title:Postcard, 1942 September 22, Los Angeles, Calif., to Estelle Ishigo, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyo
Creator/Contributor:Hunt, Lois E, Correspondent
Date:September 22, 1942
Subject:Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Ishigo, Estelle
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
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1 postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
Origin:Los Angeles, Calif
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Google Inc. introduced it's latest attempt at social sharing, called "+1," while agreeing to a "comprehensive" privacy program to settle a Federal Trade Commission charge that the company's failed Google Buzz feature violated the privacy rights of consumers.
The moves settle one misstep in the Mountain View search company's attempts to counter the rise of social networking powerhouse Facebook Inc., while giving Google a new feature that's comparable to Facebook's increasingly popular "Like" button.
The FTC charged that when Google launched Buzz in February 2010 through Gmail, it deceptively "led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join the network." The options "for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective," according to the FTC.
According to the proposed settlement, Google is banned from "misrepresenting the privacy or confidentiality of individuals' information," requires Google to get users' consent if it changes the way its products or services share personal information and requires an independent privacy audit every two years for the next 20 years.
In a company blog post, Google privacy director Alma Whitten apologized for Google Buzz.
"The launch of Google Buzz fell short of our usual standards for transparency and user control – letting our users and Google down," Whitten said. "While today's announcement thankfully put this incident behind us, we are 100 percent focused on ensuring that our new privacy procedures effectively protect the interests of all our users going forward."
And moving forward, Google four hours later launched +1, which is a way for people to share the result of a Google search with friends.
"It's called +1 – the digital shorthand for "this is pretty cool,"
said Google product manager Rob Spiro.
As an example, Spiro said a search for a trip up to Tahoe will pull up a result for that shows "a +1 from your slalom-skiing aunt next to the result for a lodge in the area. Or if you're looking for a new pasta recipe, we'll show you +1's from your culinary genius college roommate. And even if none of your friends are baristas or caffeine addicts, we may still show you how many people across the web have +1'd your local coffee shop."
There's no immediate word on whether Facebook will "like" that idea.
Here's a video Google posted on YouTube:
We'll have more on this in Thursday's Business section.