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Mega Fortune
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Mega Fortune - Game Rules
- Mega Fortune™ is a 5-reel, 3-row, 25-bet line multiple-coin video slot featuring scatter wins, Free spins, Wild substitutes, and a triple Jackpot Bonus game. You can play 1 to 25 bet lines at 1 to 4 bet levels.
- The spin button plays the game at the current bet lines, bet level, and coin value.
- MAX BET plays the game at the maximum bet lines, highest bet level, and the pre-selected coin value.
- AUTO automatically plays the game for the selected number of rounds.
- Winning combinations and payouts are made according to the PAYTABLE.
- Wins pay on selected bet lines, except for Scatter symbols.
- A bet line win in coins is equal to the value shown in the PAYTABLE multiplied by the bet level. This amount is also multiplied by any applicable multipliers.
- A bet line win in currency is equal to the win in coins multiplied by the coin value.
- Wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except Scatter and Bonus symbols.
- Scatter wins are paid independent of bet lines selected.
- Scatter wins are added to any bet line wins.
- Only the highest win per active bet line is paid.
- Bet line wins pay if in succession from leftmost to right.
- Simultaneous wins on different bet lines are added.
- Game History is not available in PLAYING FOR FUN mode.
Free Spins
- 3 or more Scatter symbols appearing anywhere on the reels activate Free Spins.
- Free Spins are played at the same number of lines, level and coin value as the round that activated Free Spins.
- Click a Scatter to reveal the number of Free Spins and the multiplier.
- Free Spins pay win x multiplier (1-5) displayed in the game. Excludes bonus game winnings and additional Free Spins.
- In Free Spins, 2 or more Scatters activate additional Free Spins or multiplier.
- The multiplier is automatically added to the current multiplier.
- Maximum multiplier is 5.
- At the end of Free Spins, the total win from Free Spins is added to any wins from the round that activated Free Spins.
Bonus Game
- 3 or more Bonus symbols, if in succession from leftmost to right, on an active bet line start the Bonus Game.
- The chance to win a Jackpot correlates positively with the Jackpot size and bet size.
- The Bonus Game can be activated during Free spins.
- Only one Bonus Game awarded per spin.
- The first and second wheels give a chance of a coin win or to play the next wheel.
- The second and third wheels give chances of a coin or Jackpot win.
- Click STOP to stop a spinning wheel and claim a reward.
- If a wheel stops on a coin value, the value is awarded and the Bonus Game ends.
- If a wheel stops on an arrow, the next wheel starts spinning.
- If a wheel stops on a Jackpot, the Jackpot is won and the Bonus Game ends.
- The Chocolate Wheel in the Bonus feature of this game does not represent a "real", physical wheel and the probabilities of it stopping on any particular spot is determined by the game's random number generator, and not the number of positions on each wheel.
- The coin wins in the Bonus Game are proportional to the bet level in the round that activated the Bonus Game.
- At the end of the Bonus Game, the total bonus win in currency is equal to the win in coins multiplied by the coin value.
- The highest possible coin win in the Bonus Game is 7500.
- At the end of Bonus Game, the total win from the Bonus Game is added to any wins from the round that activated the Bonus Game.
Jackpot Rules
- The Jackpot is a progressive jackpot, where every time the game is played by a player a portion of the bet is added to the Jackpot.
- Progressive Jackpot wins are subject to verification by the Casino Operator and the Software Supplier. All decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Jackpot values displayed in the game are delayed by up to 30 seconds. On exceptionally rare occasions, it may happen that two jackpots are won within those 30 seconds, in which case the win of the second jackpot is the new re-seeded jackpot which (on very rare occasions) is smaller than the previous jackpot won. All players playing the game when a jackpot is won will receive a notification within 30 seconds about the jackpot amount being won.
- When one game round makes a claim for a certain jackpot, it is locked for that game round and simultaneously assured that no other game round can claim the same jackpot. Therefore, it is technically not possible to have two simultaneous wins of the same jackpot.
- If the communication between the Casino and Jackpot server fails, the game becomes unavailable. There will be no contributions or claims towards the Jackpot. The Jackpot amount remains the same until the communication is resumed.
- The Progressive Jackpot amount paid out is the Progressive Jackpot value on the casino server when a jackpot is won. Every effort is made to ensure that the Progressive Jackpot value displayed in the game is the same as the one on the casino server.
Note: The displayed Jackpot win can due to rounding marginally differ from actual win.
- The Jackpot is denominated in Euro and the Jackpot counter might be displayed in a currency other than that you are playing in. The currency conversion is based on currency exchange rates provided by SIX - the financial information provider. If you win a Jackpot and are playing casino games with a different currency, the amount won is converted to the currency in which you are playing and is added to your account.
- Mega Fortune contains Mega, Major and Rapid Jackpots. The following contributions are made from each bet:
- 1% of the bet is contributed to the RAPID Jackpot. 10% of the contributions are set aside for the next Jackpot.
- 1% of the bet is contributed to the MAJOR Jackpot. 10% of the contributions are set aside for the next Jackpot.
- 5.39% of the bet is contributed to the MEGA Jackpot. 8% of the contributions are set aside for future MEGA Jackpots.
- When a Jackpot is won, the start-up value for the next Jackpot is:
- RAPID: 50 Euro plus the 10% contributions set aside for the next RAPID Jackpot.
- MAJOR: 5,000 Euro plus the 10% contributions set aside for the next MAJOR Jackpot.
- MEGA: The 8% contributions that have been set aside for the next MEGA Jackpot.
- The current Jackpot amount is displayed at the top of the game.
- There is no upper limit on progressive jackpot values.
The Jackpot cannot be won when PLAYING FOR FUN.
The theoretical return to player for this game is 96.6%


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A technical analysis of factors such as volume, price trends, and market breadth that are used to predict price movement.
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News stories often link climate change to rising sea levels.
Throughout Earth's history sea level has constantly changed and, indeed, it is these very changes that generate most of the geological record!
Geology has left us many clues to how the environment has changed over time and whether the sea was higher or lower than it is today.
Maybe the place where you live was once below sea level!
Sea level, or 'mean sea level' as it is sometimes known, is the average height of the ocean's surface between high and low tide.
Scientists refer to it as the equipotential surface of the world's oceans, which means that its level is affected by the strength of gravity (or, more technically, 'gravitational acceleration') around the Earth.
Variations in the gravitational acceleration are themselves caused by variations in the internal density of the Earth.
Changes in tides and wave conditions over time are averaged out to determine a 'still water level' that can be used to identify whether the sea level has changed and also the height of the land above sea level.
In the UK, height above sea level is measured from the 'Ordnance Datum', which is the mean sea level at the .
More about the UK Tide Gauge Network.
Because the surface of the land also moves up and down over long periods of time, sea level changes may be described as 'relative' or 'absolute'.
Relative changes may be observed even though the absolute height of the oceans remains the same.
It is important to realise that when earth scientists talk about a rise in mean global sea level (what we call 'eustatic' sea level), local changes may be quite different. This is why local studies of sea level rise and fall are so important.
During the last ice age, lots of sea water was stored in ice sheets and glaciers and sea level was, on average, more than 130 metres lower than it is today.
But these sea level changes, related to the growth and melting of ice sheets, happen relatively quickly, taking tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
Sea levels also rise and fall more slowly, over time spans of millions of years. And these gradual changes have generated the enormously thick sequences of sedimentary rocks that record the long history of geological time.
We would have very little if any of our sedimentary rocks were it not for the fact that sea levels rise and fall!
Sea levels change for many reasons and over timescales that are very different. Sea levels are rising today not only because significant parts of the land-based ice is melting, but also because ocean waters are warming and therefore expanding.
Note that there is no direct effect on sea level when sea-based ice melts, because sea-ice is already part of the ocean system. Ice floats because it is less dense than water and because it displaces an equivalent mass of water there is no increase in sea level as it melts – in just the same way a cold drink does not overflow the glass as the ice cubes it contains melt.
There is, however, a significant indirect effect of Arctic ice melting, which is that the albedo changes.
Albedo is the ability of a surface to reflect sunlight, and ice and snow are very good at reflecting the warming rays of the sun.
As the Arctic ice melts, polar regions will warm even more quickly because the Arctic ocean will now absorb the incoming energy. Thus, warming leads to Arctic ice melting which leads to more warming.
This is a classic positive feedback in the climate.
A eustatic sea level change occurs when there is a global change in the amount of water stored in the oceans, or a change in the geometry of the ocean basins which alters the volume of water they can hold.
When the sea level changes in response to the amount of water stored in ice caps this is called glacial-eustasy.
If the two main ice caps — Greenland and Antarctica — melted, then it is calculated that the oceans would rise by 66 metres.
During glacial periods areas of land are covered with thick layers of ice.
The weight of the ice causes the surface of the Earth's crust to deflect downwards.
At the end of the glacial period the ice melts and the crust can rebound. This is known as an isostatic sea level change and it causes a relative sea level change as it is the land rising, not the amount of water increasing.
A change in the temperature of sea water also contributes to a change in sea level because sea water expands at higher temperatures.
As the atmosphere becomes warmer, the oceans will absorb some of the heat and increase in volume, which in turn leads to higher sea levels.
Orogeny or mountain building, can decrease sea level by changing the size of the oceans.
The most famous of these is the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates that formed the Himalaya Mountains.
One relevant consequence of the collision is that a lot of continental crust was inserted under Tibet, leaving a larger ocean basin and therefore lower global sea-levels.
The Earth's climate and global sea levels are closely linked.
During cold periods some of the ocean's water is evaporated and stored in ice caps or mountain glaciers, meaning a lower sea level.
During warmer periods sea levels rise as the ice melts and once again is added to the volume of the oceans.
Over the past 100 years the Earth's climate has warmed a little less than 1°C, and as temperatures rise thermal expansion of water will add to sea level rise.


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Iowa CDL Practice Test: Bus - Test 2 2020(From the 2020 Iowa CDL Handbook)
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Directions: To obtain this endorsement for driving a school bus, applicants must pass a 20-question test. And to pass the test, applicants must score at least 80%. Test questions are from the Iowa Commercial Driver Handbook. The School Bus endorsement can be used with the Class A, B, or C CDL. If you need additional information, please contact your local DMV office. You can find your nearest DMV office at Iowa DMV locations.
1. In buses, what is the standee line?
2. As a bus driver you are not allowed to carry __________.
3. If your fifth wheel plate is not well lubricated, this could cause ___________.
4. While driving your bus, you should scan ________ for trouble or hazardous conditions.
5. The exterior baggage compartments of your vehicle should ______.
6. Which of the following parts should you be able to identify for your CDL Skills test?
7. You may not need to stop completely when a bridge has an attendant controlling traffic, but regardless of this you should ________.
8. You must have spare electrical fuses for your bus, unless __________.


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Ever hear a dealership salesperson say a customer was "just looking"?
Maybe in the past when all things automotive were not online, customers did just look around trying to get information. But now, customers really are about to buy after they've used the Internet and other sources to shop and research. Then, armed with information, they head for the dealership.
The trick is getting them to buy now. And from you.
So how does advertising attract buyers and not just shoppers? From a marketing standpoint, a dealer still must market the car, price and payment, but also exclusives and added value. Remember, shoppers buy price, buyers buy value.
Because of the Internet, buyers already know most pricing information anyway. What they really need from a dealer is why they should buy now and from you.
A great book is "The Challenger Sale" by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. It offers tips about how high earners "grow" a customer and not just sell to one.
It's about relationships and coming up with a proper solution to fulfill customer needs. It's well beyond just being a great sales guy on the floor. This new variety of sales pros can pull a victory from the jaws of defeat every day.
Fact: People who are shopping price alone haven't yet figured out what they really want, from whom they want to buy it or what the real value is to them. That's why dealing with tire-kickers is so frustrating to a dealership sales team.
Tip: If your team has a low spot-delivery percentage, low Internet-lead counts, and low lead-to-appointment conversion rates, then your advertising may be attracting shoppers, not buyers. You are burning through cash.
This may seem counterintuitive, but we actually strive to drive down walk-in and no-appointment "ups" while increasing Internet leads and appointment customers. Why? Because the conversion rate and referral rate of these leads are far superior, and the grosses show it. Don't confuse Internet leads with bought leads that are shotgunned out to a bunch of other dealers. Your own dealership website beats those sources. Your website is where buyers are.
Problem: Many salespeople and even some dealer principals may confuse a busy showroom with success. But brisk traffic does not always mean lots of sales. Buyers plan their approach to you. Internet leads, phone leads and appointments reflect the strategy of a true buyer. They plan it out more than they just drop in to look around.
Shoppers who stop in typically are not quite serious, not quite ready, not quite there yet.
Let's get back to marketing to real buyers. If you want them on your website, calling for appointments and then buying on the first visit, promote your store on a 3-screen campaign that uses broadcast TV, mobile and digital marketing. Time ads properly, promote values and highlight dealership exclusives.
Ask This: Do a quick self assessment. Do your ads look like those of every other dealership? Are your advertised offers the same factory lease deals that every other dealer has? How easy is it to get real information on your dealership website?
How cheerily does your front-line staff answer the phone? Does your dealership feel like a winner or loser when you walk in?
To increase closing rates and profitability, start thinking about what turns on motivated buyers. If you do, they will find you, wherever you are.
Adam Armbruster is a partner in the retail and broadcasting consulting firm Eckstein, Summers, Armbruster and Co. He is at [email protected] and 941-928-7192.


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- Critical review of quark gluon plasma signatures (1999)
- Noneequilibrium models (three-fluid hydrodynamics and UrQMD) use to discuss the uniqueness of often proposed experimental signatures for quark matter formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions. It is demonstrated that these two models - although they do treat the most interesting early phase of the collisions quite differently(thermalizing QGP vs. coherent color fields with virtual particles) - both yields a reasonable agreement with a large variety of the available heavy ion data.
- GEANT4 : a simulation toolkit (2003)
- Abstract Geant4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It includes a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits. The physics processes offered cover a comprehensive range, including electromagnetic, hadronic and optical processes, a large set of long-lived particles, materials and elements, over a wide energy range starting, in some cases, from 250 eV and extending in others to the TeV energy range. It has been designed and constructed to expose the physics models utilised, to handle complex geometries, and to enable its easy adaptation for optimal use in different sets of applications. The toolkit is the result of a worldwide collaboration of physicists and software engineers. It has been created exploiting software engineering and object-oriented technology and implemented in the C++ programming language. It has been used in applications in particle physics, nuclear physics, accelerator design, space engineering and medical physics. PACS: 07.05.Tp; 13; 23
- Parton recombination and fluctuations of conserved charges (2007)
- We study various fluctuation and correlation signals of the deconfined state using a dynamical recombination approach (quark Molecular Dynamics, qMD). We analyse charge ratio fluctuations, charge transfer fluctuations and baryon-strangeness correlations as a function of the center of mass energy with a set of central Pb+Pb/Au+Au events from AGS energies on (Elab = 4 AGeV) up to the highest RHIC energy available (V sNN = 200 GeV) and as a function of time with a set of central Au+Au qMD events at V sNN = 200 GeV with and without applying our hadronization procedure. For all studied quantities, the results start from values compatible with a weakly coupled QGP in the early stage and end with values compatible with the hadronic result in the final state. We show that the loss of the signal occurs at the same time as hadronization and trace it back to the dynamical recombination process implemented in our model.


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I am personally not enjoying the so called 'buff". I was able to quickly obtain my first MOE in 56 games and was well on my way to the second mark at 76%. Then the 'buff' happens, I dropped to 62% in a three days. This tank was so fun to play pre 'buff' I could flank and destroy most heavies at will. Now the tank has a horrible reload time, the timing is completely off. This sucks the fun out of one of my favorites tanks. I had previously enjoyed this tank so much that I spent additional gold to apply Chinese inscriptions on the side and would play this daily, consistently making into the top five and playing this tank for the Chinese Team to easily earn the points for Tank Madness. The tank play is nothing like what I paid for, previously I shot the front of my opponent circled around and destroyed them, now they reload faster than the King Dragon and I take a horrible beating. I had no problem with taking on most tanks before the "buff'.
I purchased the King Dragon because I enjoyed the Type 59 so much. I prefer the quick loading flankers like the T23E3, Panzer V/IV and the Type 59.
I paid for very different kind of tank and enjoyed it so much to add customization, the new 'buff' sucks the fun out of the tank. At it's current state this tank will probably sit in my garage and collect dust, extremely disappointing, as this was not a cheap expenditure. Please return the King Dragon to its former glory or at least offer a selection between the two guns for those that prefer to play the type of tank they purchased?
I am so disappointed why have you ruined my tank!!!!
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For those of you who haven't heard (because your connection to the outside world has ceased due to the weather), we've experienced a number of substantial snowstorms here in New York City following the Christmas weekend and into the new year. Scratch that, our "substantial snowstorms" have actually been the first blizzards we'd been hit with in more than a decade. So how fitting was it that I had just presented my mom with a long hand-crocheted burgundy scarf for Christmas. Now, this scarf has had a long and interesting life following me across state lines over the past few years (even if it had been sitting untouched in my craft bag for the majority of this duration). See, I had learned to crochet from my friend and Hall Director Jenny a few years back when I was a Resident Assistant back in college. Once I got the hang of it, I went out to JoAnn's Fabrics to pick up some nice yarn to make a scarf for my mom. I had decided to crochet the scarf lengthwise rather than the more conventional way of widthwise, so with seemingly little progress having been made about five rows in, and no end in sight, the project was relegated to my craft bag, not even half completed. It was not to be seen again until just a few months ago, when my best friend Christine took up her crochet needle again and inspired me to do the same.
Textile production has long been associated with women and knitting and crocheting has long been associated with elderly ladies looking for a craft with which to occupy their time. I. Hate. This. Stereotype. Apparently, so do a lot of contemporary textile artists. Over the past few decades, textile art has been becoming more of a presence in the contemporary art scene, with focus shifting from function to the conceptual. I was first exposed to conceptual textile art during my internship with the Museum of Art and Design in 2007, during which an exhibition called Lace and Subversive Knitting was on display. It was then, as I listened to the curator explaining the purpose of the exhibition, that I learned that contemporary artists had appropriated the craft to create designs based on form rather than function. This new, unexpected type of art served as an act of subversion towards gender and age stereotypes regarding textile production and moved textiles out of the "crafts" category.
It was probably around that time that I first started being exposed to the concept of yarn bombing, but I wouldn't really know what I was seeing until years later (aka last year), when I started researching the various ways that artists affect our urban visual landscape. In about 2004, a new type of bombing had emerged on the city streets. This movement has almost as many names as there are groups dedicated to it. Whether you call it knit bombing, guerrilla knitting, yarn storming, urban knitting, or yarn bombing, there is little doubt that this colorful alternative to street art is as unique as those who practice it.
Yarn bombing is a movement that is still not incredibly widely-known, and is not especially widely-practiced when compared to other methods that artists affect the urban visual landscape, such as sticker-slapping, wheat pasting, stenciling, or just spraying with the aerosol can. It is practiced with some sporadic enthusiasm in a few major cities in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand with yarn bombers bringing the craft with them to new cities as they travel. As any of us who have ever crocheted, knitted, or cross-stitched can attest to, these are time-consuming projects. Often pieces are relegated to our craft bags, unfinished and forgotten. Even though the motion is repetitive, it takes time and some degree of skill to complete each piece, which could explain why this craft hasn't taken off the same way aerosol art has.
Recently, yarn bombing has made it back onto my radar via Olek, a Polish-born yarn artist who wrapped Wall Street's infamous Charging Bull with a crocheted body cover in the tail-end of December. This tribute celebrated the proud tradition of guerrilla art, as well as sculptor Arturo di Modica, who had placed the bull there in Christmas of 1989 as a symbol of the strength and power of the American people following the stock market crash that year. Olek has also done a series of crocheted bicycles around the city, which I'm sure you've passed by at some point or another.
Many of those who participate in yarn bombing are fascinated with the juxtaposition of a traditionally feminine media in a predominately male graffiti scene. Magda Sayeg, founder of the group Knitta Please, is fascinated with the juxtaposition of this woven material placed within an urban environment as one that questions the assumptions of a traditional craft while adding a previously unused material to the world of street art. Not only has this subversive use of yarn added color to the urban visual landscape, but it has inspired a new generation of knitters who no longer view function as the sole purpose for knitting. Yarn bombing has challenged audiences to reevaluate gender and age stereotypes, as well as given us a bit of a laugh while asking us to reconsider the age-old question of what can be considered art. Not only that, but it's a great way to recycle and use those unfinished and forgotten pieces in your craft bag!
The phrasing and the act of yarn bombing have proved unsettling to some graffiti writers, who don't consider this unconventional method a legitimate movement in street art. But why not? After all, even wheatpasting, though it first met a degree of adversity and resistance from traditional aerosol writers, has become widely accepted in the realm of urban guerilla artfare. Perhaps they are unsettled by the encroachment into their own environment by a group of outsiders who themselves are not accepting of the roots of street art. What do I mean? Well, urban knitters haven't been trying to find and establish their place in street art so much as they've been trying to make a statement. By haughtily pointing out that what they're doing is more than "crude symbols" they themselves are not only perpetuating the misconception of graffiti, but also antagonizing graffiti writers and artists by minimalizing their craft. And when the desired effect is the same: to leave their mark and add some color, why squabble over the medium?
Anyway, the targets of yarn bombers are more often statues, gates, handles, trees, and poles rather than the walls, rooftops, and billboards favored by aerosol writers and wheatpasters. However, what graffiti and knitting have in common is that they're both considered forms of outsider art. Traditionally recognized as a craft, knitting has struggled to take its place in the realm of contemporary art over the past few decades. Similarly, graffiti is traditionally considered a gang activity, or a form of destruction. It is only within the past decade that it has become more widely accepted as an expressive form of art. While I am uncertain as to whether or not yarn bombing has the capacity to develop into a complex, expressive, and widespread form of street art, I do love that it's a hacking the environment, often with the intent to create humor, add color, and bring elements of the environment to the attention of passersby.
For some more information on the latest in yarn bombing news and events, visit Yarn Bombing, based in Vancouver, or Knit the City, based in London. These are only two of the many groups out there, but I felt they were worthy of a mention because both've also just released really nifty books that provide patterns and suggestions to get into the art of yarn bombing, as well as a sampling of projects undertaken by the organizations. All in all, I think that yarn bombing is a fun and legal way to affect our urban visual landscape, so if you know how to knit or crochet, why not make some gloves for that George Washington sculpture in Union Square, or some leg warmers for his horse? Why not cover that turnstyle at the subway station? Go out and have some fun with it!


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This is a very simple question, that I already know has no simple answer.
I've tried my hand at raising queens this season. My success rate isn't as high as I would like them to be, and my queens arn't as big and productive as I would like, but they are queens none the less.
But in raising queens, what do you do differently to make those monsters? Those large, fertile, productive queens?
In a sense, what do I need to work on, what do I need to improve on to make better queens next year?
I'm obviously in a direction forward, but I'm afraid I'm a little lost on what I should be doing to improve. Any thoughts? Books, articles, techniques, strategies?
Like I said, I know there is no easy and simple answer, just looking for thoughts.


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Ten days before the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburg Steelers went head-to-head in the most-watched epic sports event of the year – Super Bowl XLV – the two teams joined forces as co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in the 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, Texas. What could have caused these rivals who were on the verge of battle for nothing less than the World Championship title to unite together less than two weeks before the contest began?
The Green Bay and Pittsburg teams, as well as the NFL, which was also a named plaintiff, filed suit to protect their trademarks from illegal counterfeitors who would be arriving in town within a few days to capitalize on the big event. The defendants, unnamed "Does 1 through 100," were described as large-scale professional producers of counterfeit merchandise and the mobile middlemen and street vendors who sell their counterfeit products. According to the plaintiffs' pleadings, each year dealers in counterfeit merchandise "descend on the city hosting the Super Bowl game" a few days before game-day, sell their counterfeit products on a cash-only basis and then "disappear without detection." These counterfeiters often use fictitious names, addresses and sham business in order to perpetuate their fraud.
Superbowl XLV was hosted by the City of Arlington in Cowboy Stadium on February 6, 2011. To combat the anticipated illegal activity, on January 26, 2011 (as had been done each year for the preceding 23 years), the teams sought and obtained seizure orders from Judge Bonnie Suderth, who empowered NFL security representatives to search for, seize and impound any counterfeit merchandise that they found or discovered on the streets during the week prior to the Super Bowl game. Judge Sudderth's order provided that any seized merchandise would be secured to be used as evidence at trial and thereafter disposed of by destroying the merchandise or donating it to a charity. Only with these powers conferred upon their representatives could the NFL and the teams prevent the merchandise from being sold, Judge Sudderth ruled.
In conjuction with the seizure order, the NFL and teams also sought and received a temporary restraining order enjoining the counterfeit merchandisers from using or selling any products with their trademarks or logos, or any imitations which were confusingly similar to their protected marks or logos. By terms of the order, violations would be punishable by contempt, which could include fines, imprisonment, or both.
While the primary thrust of the lawsuit was to obtain the power necessary to combat the counterfeit activity in advance of its occurrance, the NFL and teams also sought damages against the unnamed defendants for statutory trademark infringement, common law trademark infringement, statutory trademark dilution, unfair competition, misappropriation and conversion of merchandise, and unjust enrichment.
In the days leading up to the event, several vendors were served with the lawsuit and their merchandize seized at the point of sale which accomplished the primary purpose of the lawsuit. The lawsuit was not so much about recovering damages after the fact, but to prevent the damage from occurring in the first place. Consequently, several months after the dust settled, after the Packers had emerged victorious and received the attendant spoils of trophies, rings and tickertape parades, the parties settled their differences and the case was dismissed.
Now that the regular season's about to begin, and if the odds-makers are to be believed, sometime in January, 2012, if you look closely, you just might catch a glimpse of the Packers and the Patriots quietly walking hand-in-hand up the steps into a courthouse somewhere in Indianapolis… As for me, I'll root for the home team. Go Cowboys! — Bonnie Sudderth, Judge of the 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, Texas.


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[AURORA, IL] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Bill Foster (D-IL-11) today met with current and former students at Aurora University who have benefitted from the Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA, which is modeled after Durbin's DREAM Act, allows young immigrants brought to the United States as children a chance to apply for a two-year renewable work permit and exemption from deportation.
"President Obama's decision to grant deferred action to Dreamers was a historic moment for human rights in our country," Durbin said. "The United States is the only home these talented people have ever known, and now they have a chance to live and work here temporarily without fear. This is what I had in mind when I first authored the DREAM Act twelve years ago, and it was a pleasure to meet some of the talented young people who have taken advantage of the program. Now Congress needs to pass comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken immigration system and give these young people and their families a chance to earn their citizenship."
"People often ask me why I would want to return to Congress with all the fighting, frustrations and partisan gridlock, and I tell them it's because of the opportunity to vote on important legislation like the DREAM Act," Foster said. "We shouldn't be pushing away talented young students from the only home they have ever known, we should give them a chance to succeed and become successful, productive members of our communities. President Obama's deferred action for Dreamers was in important first step, but it's time we pass comprehensive immigration reform that provides law enforcement officials with the tools they need to secure our borders, a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country, and a more secure and efficient system for legal immigration."
Under DACA, certain young immigrants brought to the country by their parents may apply for deferred action – a temporary form of relief from deportation for a period of two years, subject to renewal – and for work authorization. Those young people must have come to the United States under the age of sixteen; have lived in the United States continuously since June 15, 2007; be in school, have graduated from high school, have obtained a GED or have been honorably discharged from the military; have not been convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or misdemeanors and not pose a threat to public safety; and be 30 years old or younger as of June 15, 2012.
As of March 14, more than 23,000 young people in Illinois had applied for DACA and nearly 18,000 applicants had already been approved, the fourth-highest total of any state. Nationally, more than 453,000 people have applied and more than 245,000 applications have been approved.
DACA is modeled after Durbin's DREAM Act, which he first introduced in 2001 and has pushed for over a decade. The DREAM Act – short for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors – is a narrowly tailored bill to give undocumented students a chance to earn legal status if they came here as children, are long-term U.S. residents, have good moral character, and complete two years of college or serve honorably in the military.
Three years ago, Senator Durbin and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) asked the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the deportations of DREAM Act students by granting them deferred action. They were joined in that request by an additional 21 Senators the following year. The Obama Administration responded to the Senators' request by establishing the DACA program.


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Diet drinks may taste good, but they might not bring happiness. A new study finds that people who drink diet sodas or fruit drinks are more likely to be diagnosed with depression.
The study doesn't show that diet drinks cause depression and the researchers stress their findings don't provide an explanation. They looked at more than 263,900 U.S. adults ages 50 to 71 who answered questions about their beverage consumption between the years 1995 and 1996. About 10 years later (from 2004 to 2006), the same people were asked if a doctor had diagnosed them with depression since the year 2000.
People who regularly drank four or more cans of any type of soda a day were 30 percent more likely to have received a diagnosis of depression than people who did not drink soda, said Dr. Honglei Chen of the National Institutes of Health, who led the study. The risk of depression was especially high for people who drank diet soda — a 31 percent increased risk compared to a 22 percent increased risk for those who drank regular soda, the researchers said.
Those who drank four or more cans of diet fruit drinks were 51 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression compared to those who did not drink diet fruit drinks.
By contrast, people who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with depression compared to non-coffee drinkers.
The study only found an association, and did not determine whether diet soda or fruit drinks caused depression. Although the researchers took into account factors that could affect the results, such as age, sex, education, smoking status, physical activity, body mass index (BMI) and energy intake, it's possible other circumstances, such as a family history of depression or stressful life events, could explain the association.
A family history of depression and stressful life events are some of the biggest predictors of depression, said Emma Robertson-Blackmore, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the study. In addition, older people are more likely to experience stressful life events, including the death of a loved one, job changes or illnesses, Robertson-Blackmore said.
However, the findings agree with those of a few previous studies that found a link between frequent consumption of sweetened beverages and a higher prevalence of depression, the researchers said. (Diet sodas and fruit drinks are sweetened, but their sweeteners contain no calories.)
"More research is needed to confirm these findings, and people with depression should continue to take depression medications prescribed by their doctors," said Chen.
The results also back up findings from a study published in 2011, which found a link between coffee consumption and a reduced risk of depression in women.
"Coffee contains large amounts of caffeine, which is a well-known brain stimulant," which could be responsible for effects on mood, Chen said.
The study will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in San Diego in March.
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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California). Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Czechoslovakian and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois", and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background. is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported.
the age of 14, she had dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. During this period, she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart-and always will be-just a punk kid with tattoos".
Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
Surely the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world today has to be Angelina Jolie. This gifted actress, who is blessed with stunning good looks, has at the very least, a dozen tattoos, and shows no signs of slowing down her collecting. Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality, exotic and with more than just a hint of dangerous sensuality. This is a babe with an edge and a true ink aficionado. A woman who professes she likes to play with knives in bed and had the name of the man she loved tattooed on her. And when he exits stage left, she doesn't hesitate to have it lasered off just as quickly.
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Welcome to the Fallout - Sunday news and notes.
Obligatory Johnny Manziel item of the day.
Brad Townsend looks ahead to Texas A&M starting quarterback Johnny Manziel's potential in the NFL. Manziel would be eligible for the NFL Draft after the 2013 season. It's more likely that he commit after the 2014 season, however. (The Dallas Morning News)
In other Manziel-related news...
Texas A&M has reportedly hired West Virginia quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital to fill its vacant QB coach position. (The Bryan College-Station Eagle)
Least. Shocking. News. Ever. Of the day.
New Cincinnati head football coach Tommy Tuberville is already having some issues involving recruiting. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Ride 'Em Cowboy!
Former USC defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is named the new DC for the Dallas Cowboys. He remains Lane Kiffin's dad, however. (Conquest Chronicles)
That's our story and we're sticking to it.
Deadspin comes up with it's own list of who it considers to be the mythical national champions for every year since 1950. Since it considers Auburn the national champion in 1993, when the NCAA banhammered the program, I'm already calling it bullcrap.
I Heard a Rumor.
Brad Rock looks at rumors that BYU may be headed back to the Mountain West Conference. (The Deseret News)
Moore, Moore, Moore.
Texas junior defensive tackle Brandon Moore forgoes his senior season to enter the 2013 NFL Draft. (The San Antonio News-Express)
Desperate But Not Serious?
Virginia Tech was reportedly interested in hiring Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo for its vacant OC position.
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Bobo turned the offer, by the way. It looks like UGA's stuck with him for another year. (The Athens Banner-Herald)
What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine.
Indiana high school senior offensive lineman Dan Samuelson has reportedly flipped his commitment from Nebraska's 2013 recruiting class to Michigan's 2013 recruiting class. (The Detroit Free Press)


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A day before the host of the 2020 Olympics is selected, Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul made their closing arguments to IOC voters Friday:
-Madrid predicted its low budget would become a model for future games.
-Tokyo stressed its safety and certainty following the problems in Sochi and Rio de Janeiro.
-Istanbul pointed to a first Olympics in Turkey and first in a majority Muslim country.
International Olympic Committee members will vote by secret ballot Saturday until one city receives a simple majority. The city receiving the fewest votes is eliminated after each round.
'We believe that having a responsible budget represents the new way to understand the games,' Madrid Mayor Ana Botella said. 'We believe that it's a new model to organize the games at a time marked by political and economic turbulence around the world.'
Spain's economic struggles, highlighted by a 27 percent unemployment rate, are regarded as the main weakness of Madrid's bid. But Madrid regards its streamlined proposal as a strength.
'We are proposing a new model of games which are adjusted to the current times,' Botella said. 'We believe that having this type of budget is something really good for the future because otherwise there would be many cities in the world which would not be capable of hosting the games.'
Madrid is making its third straight attempt to win the bid. It says it has one of the lowest Olympic budgets ever, adding that 80 percent of the venues are in place in a compact layout.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Games will be the most expensive in Olympic history, and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games are proving to be an expensive and critical endeavor for Brazil.
Tokyo bid organizers gave the clearest explanation so far of the radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Hiroshi Hase, a former Olympic wrestler and member of the Japanese parliament, minimized the problem with a detailed presentation - a strategy that has been lacking for several days as Japanese officials struggled with the subject.
'There is a very limited area where contaminated water is leaking out in the port. ... But we will monitor it, remove it and contain it. That is the gist of the strategy,' Hase said.
Istanbul bid leader Hasan Arat reiterated the city's novelty and played up the country's youth.
'Istanbul 2020 will be held against the backdrop of one of the most magical cities on the planet: a bridge between continents, cultures and generations for thousands of years,' Arat said.


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Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John has embraced different musical genres in her career such as country, pop and rock. Now she could possibly add Bollywood to her resume.
Newton-John revealed that she is in discussion to appear in a Bollywood film during an appearance at the Toronto film festival, AFP reported.
"I have a Bollywood-kind-of-film that is being talked about right now, but nothing concrete," said Newton-John.
The 61-year-old stars in the recently-opened film "Score: A Hockey Musical," in which Newton-John portrays Hope Gordon, the mother of a young hockey star. She appears opposite Canadian singer Marc Jordan, who plays Hope's husband.
Jordan credited his wife, Amy Sky, a producer of Newton-John's previous album, to convince the singer to make a return to the movies. Newton John recalled that Sky "called me and said Marc was doing this musical and there was a part for his wife and would I be interested in reading for it."
"I love to do fun things and it seemed like a fun project and who knew we'd end up opening the Toronto film festival," she said.
In addition to her singing career, which has yielded hits such as "I Honestly Love You" and "Physical," Newton-John had previously appeared in the films "Grease" (1978) and "Xanadu" (1980). Most recently, Newton-John guested on the FOX hit show "Glee."
Her new album, "Grace and Gratitude Renewed," is due for release later this month.
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About 40 km south-east of the Baden Württemberg regional capital Stuttgart, the biosphere stretches from the foothills of the Swabian Alb, over the steeply ascending Albtrauf (the north-westerly edge of the Swabian Alb and the summit of the mountain range) and down to the Danube valley in the south. The unique combination of densely populated, industrialised urban centres, protected natural oases, cultural and historical treasures and distinctive geological features is what makes the Swabian Alb biosphere so special.
The best way to get to know the area and its attractions is by bicycle or on foot, although if you'd like to explore the region further, you can do so in the company of one of the trained nature and landscape guides known as 'biosphere ambassadors'. The winding Lauter valley with its eponymous river is a good place for an extensive canoe trip, which will take you past the sites of long-disappeared settlements and ruined castles and abbeys. After a hard day's hiking, you can unwind in one of the thermal spas. And for a taste of the regional cuisine, an association of local hotels and restaurants known as the Biosphärengastgeber is offering special accommodation deals and other gastronomic highlights.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County Sheriff's deputy is on administrative duty after he shot his gun at an armed suicidal woman, according to investigators.
Authorities said around 12:53 p.m. Saturday they went up to a woman they had been told was suicidal. She was waving a gun and threatening to hurt herself in an convenience store parking lot near Hiawassee Road and Colonial Drive.
The deputy saw the woman had a gun pointed his way, and according to officials, he fired a shot at her fearing for his life. After the bullet hit the woman near her shoulder she ran into a nearby pub and would not come out.
After almost an hour deputies coaxed the injured woman in her 50s to come out and drop the gun. Emergency workers put her on a stretcher and took her to the hospital, where she is expected to survive.
Deputies said they evacuated several businesses before the woman was taken into custody and sent to the hospital.
A OCSO spokesman said the woman could have been upset over a pet she had dropped off at the veterinarian to be put down. No one else was hurt.


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TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 8, 2013) – Case IH, a global leader in agricultural equipment, has joined forces with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) to support a fervent 2013 membership campaign featuring a Case IH Scout utility vehicle as a recruitment incentive. Case IH's role was announced during the 2013 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show, held in Tampa, Fla., this week.
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Congratulations to the Ad Hoc Beangram Team for disemboweling yet another message from Interim Provost Bean. I'm glad to see I'm not the only UO prof who enjoys our Interim Provost's unique mix of pretension, condescension, dissimulation, and ignorant disrespect for data and analysis.
Updates: See bottom, from data located by a helpful commenter. The number of resident UO freshmen reporting as Black has dropped from 66 in 2008 to 49 in 2012. To help out Bean with the math I ran the percentage calculations with Matlab and Mathematica on my NSF funded 16 core Mac Pro, using 64gig of RAM and a 4 Terabyte RAID5 setup:
Black instate freshman enrollment as a percentage of total freshman enrollment has dropped from 1.2% in 2008 to 0.95% in 2012.
11/29/2012: Bean's data apparently *do not* include non-US residents. A big part of the increase claimed below is clearly from the new multi-racial reporting possibility. This was a major reform, pressed by none other than President Obama. UO started using it for students in 2010, so most of the increase in Bean's diversity numbers is not an increase at all, it's a simple change in reporting definitions.
Bean has promised to provide FAFSA data to allow a look at changes in student SES diversity. I'll post more when this is available.
Meanwhile, note the part of the Beangram that talks about changes in faculty hiring procedures. VP Kimberly Espy just got in major trouble for messing with science hiring decisions – word is that she's now been told she can no longer even talk to prospective hires. Is Gottfredson going to take a lesson from that and involve the Senate in what is clearly an academic matter? We'll see.
11/28/2012: Is UO padding its diversity numbers by counting the increasing number of international students as members of under-represented populations, or by not adjusting for the popular new multi-racial reporting category? Bean says he will provide info on the race/ethnicity breakdown soon, but he ignored the part of my question about what the numbers looked like broken down by US/Oregon residency. A great way to start off a "holistic approach" to increasing "gender, class and racial diversity" – release some meaningless window dressing data.
As for the part about increasing faculty diversity? It's been representative of the available pool of PhD's for years. You really don't know anything about UO's faculty, do you, Jim?
Johnson Hall, on the other hand – now there's a race problem. From UO's AA Plan:
Maybe someone should introduce a Senate motion calling for an open, Affirmative Action compliant search for a new Provost – because that sure as hell is not the way we got stuck with Bean. Anyway, here's the latest, enjoy:
Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost
Message for November 28, 2012
I hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. Before everyone dives into their final exam and holiday rush, I want to take a moment to point out some very good news in terms of our commitment to expanding the diversity of our student population.
This fall, we've had the most success we've ever seen in working toward a more diverse freshman class: 25.3 percent of freshmen are from traditionally under-represented populations.
Since Fall 2010, we've been on an improved course. Here are the numbers for freshmen from traditionally under-represented populations over the past five years:
Fall 2008: 18.7%
Fall 2009: 17.6%
Fall 2010: 21.9%
Fall 2011: 23.2%
Fall 2012: 25.3%
I am pleased to note that we will continue to improve upon these numbers as we move forward with the next generation of our diversity action plan under the leadership of newly appointed Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, a professor of political science.
While we are pleased with our improved numbers for freshmen, we recognize we must redouble our efforts to attract a more diverse faculty base. This will involve the commitment of existing faculty who help to create job descriptions and form search committees, as well as the collaboration of human resources personnel and the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
But it's not just about numbers. We must look at broadening our diversity throughout campus, among departments, schools and colleges. To do this, we will take a broad-based, holistic approach to creating gender, class and racial diversity within each classroom and office and creating the most welcoming environment Oregon has ever seen.
I look forward to working with Yvette and our entire UO community as we make inroads into these diversification efforts.
I look forward to your comments at email@example.com
Updates: A commenter sent us here and there's 2008 data here for comparison. I'm not exactly a fan of the sordid business of slicing and dicing Americans by race, but since Bean raised the question, a quick glance shows that UO enrolled 66 resident non-Hispanic Black freshmen in 2008, decreasing to 49 in 2012.
If you want to slice more finely, it's not clear how we treated hispanic ethnicity in 2012, and you gotta adjust for the new multiple race reporting too. Who knows what Bean did. Ask him – he looks forward to your comments! Or dig into the data yourself, OUS has it back to 2005, diced pretty finely: http://www.ous.edu/factreport/enroll/current-enrollment


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"I think we were before our time"Jim, Dave, Noddy & Don were once the clown princes of Seventies Glam. But where on earth are Slade now? Big in the Ukraine, apparently.
Noddy Holder, September 1995
A balmy late summer evening finds me seated in the foyer of a plush-ish hotel 20 minutes or so as the taxi rides from Gatwick airport. Before long a blue estate car pulls into the forecourt, and a clutch of roguish-looking blokes - long hair, sawn-off jeans, cigarettes mandatory - jump out and start heaving guitar cases out of it. Supervising these endeavours is a smallish man in scarlet shorts and trainers, with an odd but faintly recognisable hairstyle: receding at the front, drooping into lanky fronds at the sides.
I do a double take. The hair. The toothy grin. The strains of a Wolverhampton acccent drifting through the open door. It is, indisputably, Mr Dave Hill. This, heaving its gear towards the reception desk, stretching its legs after a five-hour crawl from the Midlands, searching desperately for somewhere to extinguish its fag stubs, is the entity known as Slade.
Twenty-four years is a long time, especially in pop music. I discovered Slade on a Thursday evening in October 1971 when, sitting down to watch Top Of The Pops on my parents' black and white television set, I found them launching into Coz I Luv You, a classic piece of early Seventies stomp - bass drum thumping like a metronome, eldritch violin flourishes, a voice like a cut-throat razor bawling 'I won't laugh at you when you boo-hoo-hoo, coz I lurve you'.
Quite as extraordinary was the ensemble performing it. There were four of them: a cheery-looking, bug-eyed front man who seemed to have stepped from the pages of Oliver Twist, a boyish violinist, a solid drummer and an extrovert guitar-player who was teetering around the stage on four inch heels. Noddy, Jim, Don and Dave.
Prompted by the first ineluctable stirrings of what the New Musical Express used to call 'a pop sensibility', I decided to buy it. Was it going to be a hit? my mother wondered with suitable middle-class concern, as I plonked down the 50 pence piece on the counter of the record section in Jarrold's department store, Norwich.
Of course it was. Coz I Luv You stayed at Number One for four weeks, and was still hanging around the charts at Christmas. I started buying a pop paper called Disco 45 ~ which printed the lyrics and revealed, among other things, that Noddy's real name was Neville. A whole new way of life had begun.
Between 1971 and 1975 Slade were the biggest pop act in England. Sixteen of their singles made the top five. Their live album, a no-nonsense effort with the grounding title of Slade Alive, graced the Top 30 for 17 months. Three of its successors went to Number One. There was even a film, Flame, in which the boys starred as the pop group of the title.
And then, unaccountably, Slade blew it. They spent three years and several hundred concerts failing to conquer America, in the meantime releasing a series of steadily more inferior singles for the home audience. By the time they came back their original audience had vanished, and Top Of The Pops was full of spiky tops in leather jackets. Even so, Slade never quite disappeared.
The re-releases of Merry Xmas Everybody, their yuletide smash from 1973, kept on coming. In the early Eighties they re-emerged as something very close to a heavy metal band and played the festival circuit. Even as recently as 1991, they made the Top 30 with a new number, Radio Wall Of Sound. And Merry Xmas returned in 1993.
Nothing special, perhaps, in the pop longevity stakes, as the career of Sir Cliff Richard reminds us, but not bad for a gang of early Sixties Wolverhampton teenagers fixated on The Beatles and Tamla Motown who even now, 30 years later, are checking into their hotel prior to the flight to Denmark and another European mini-tour.
Fifty per cent of them, that is. In fact, this is Slade II (a designation that concert bills and record sleeves are scrupulous in maintaining). Noddy Holder and Jim Lea are gone now. Noddy, who has houses in Cannock and Cheshire and whose 'hobby' is cooking, is pursuing a career playing Seventies music on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio. Jim, apparently, is training as a psychotherapist, though this is something he's muttered about all down the years - at least since he parted company with the bottle. 'I didn't exactly have a nervous breakdown,' he said in his last public statement, when Slade released a greatest hits album in 1991. 'I just began to feel a bit weird.'
Check-in conviviality notwithstanding, a certain amount of segregation seems to be in order with Slade II. S0 'Mr Hill' - somehow it seems unreasonably funny to hear Dave introducing himself thus at reception - dines in the restaurant, while the new, young members disappear for a bag of chips. Whatever the hierarchies thereby exposed, Dave and Don are anxious to commend the contributions of their new side-men. 'We had to look for them,' Dave reveals, 'use our experience.' This may mean that the selection process was unusually complex, requiring the reckoning up of all manner of talents and temperaments. Or it may just mean that nobody turned up for the audition.
And so, here we are in an all-but empty hotel restaurant, fussed over by a brace of teenage waitresses who have an idea they're in the presence of celebrity without quite knowing what that celebrity consists of. With all the abandon of the escaping family man (Mrs Hill and kids are back in Wolverhampton), Dave tucks into a gargantuan plate of steak and chips. Don, whose wife is elsewhere in the hotel, sticks to coffee.
But then, as a result of a car accident in 1973, which killed his fiancée, Don has no sense of smell or taste. 'I can't taste a thing, and eat purely out of necessity. I still don't eat the things I never used to like, but that's purely out of nostalgia. I can't taste them anyway.' Nor does he have much of a memory: he can only recall what happened yesterday by consulting his diary.
Twenty years on from their TOTP heyday ('They used to call us the house band') they look like ... Well, actually they look hugely like what they used to look like two decades back: Dave an amiable goblin, Don a more humane version of Alice Cooper.
Dave Hill, 1974. He later sold his guitar for £3,000
The departure of Messrs Holder and Lea, it transpires, simply returned the band to its antique state. Both nearing their half century (the reference book I consulted turns out to have taken six years off Dave's age and four off Don's), the boys started getting things together in 1962, back in a world made radiant by Hank Marvin's guitar.
Subsequently augmented by the song writing talents of Noddy and Jim, The In-Betweens (sic), as they were then known, started out playing the pubs of the West Midlands. At this point their repertoire consisted of Beatles covers, Motown approximations and early Holder-Lea originals. A three-and-a-half-month residency in the Bahamas ('It was supposed to be six weeks but the hotel bill hadn't been paid') exposed them to the kind of contemporary Americana being played by Steppenwolf and John Sebastian, tributes to whom appear on Slade Alive. An offer to audition at Fontana Records was accompanied by an order to change their name. In a competition organised by a more or less notional fan club, 'Ambrose Slade' won out. Their debut album, Beginnings, features one of those wonderful late Sixties covers - the boys, shirtless, weaving around in a kind of collective trance and looking desperately unhappy (the torment was physical rather than spiritual, the consequences of Arctic weather and an avant-garde photographer).
Beginnings failed to propel Slade - they'd dropped the 'Ambrose' early on - out of the Midlands four-ale bars and into the pop firmament. By this time, though, the boys had managed to hook up with a powerful mentor, Chas Chandler, formerly bass player with Sixties behemoths The Animals and subsequently Jimi Hendrix's manager.
Their manager told them to become skinheads, 1970.
He instructed them to change their image. Out went the hippie shirts and shoulder-length locks; in came hair cut to the regulation eighth of an inch, Sta-prest jeans and DM's. Pictorial records of this period in the band's career are not prepossessing. I take it, I say, that the skinhead thing was contrived. Heads nod.
But promoting Slade as a bunch of raucous working-class hooligans (even the titles of the early singles were punctiliously misspelt) paid immediate dividends. A rabble-rousing version of the crowd-pleaser Get Down And Get With It, featuring a Holder vocal calculated to shatter glass, made the Top 20 in summer 1971. Shortly afterwards, the boys found themselves dropped on that loud, lonely planet of hit singles, endless tours and mental and physical exhaustion. 'The world we lived in wasn't real,' Noddy once said. 'I just got up, flew to the next gig, played, got drunk, slept and did it again.' Do you remember any of it? I ask Don. 'We never knew where we were,' he says.
Oddly, perhaps, Slade suddenly found themselves in the vanguard of a movement they knew next to nothing about - Glam Rock, that odd combination of high camp, eye-liner and Spandex trousers that somehow ganged up and captured British pop in the early Seventies.
Unlike the Sweets and the Mud's, though, who were merely front men for conveyor belt song writing teams, Slade wrote (and played) their own material. More important, perhaps, unlike many a pop contender, they tried to retain a precarious hold on their own destiny. Noddy recalls meticulous career plans. 'Things didn't happen off the cuff for us. You know, we wanted a hit record, and when we got a hit record we wanted a Number One record, and then when we had a couple of Number Ones we wanted a record that would go straight in at Number One on the first day of release.'
The early singles were exemplary pieces of Seventies rock 'n' roll. Influential, too, as anyone who has ever played a Slade single side by side with the Rolling Stones' 1974 'comeback' It's Only Rock 'n' Roll will appreciate. Yet somehow, their appeal managed to encompass both the average (male) teenager who regarded them as guitar-ing football hooligans and the family audience without ever quite alienating the people who bought the records in the first place.
Watching Noddy Holder manipulate an audience, lemur eyes bulging out from beneath his flat cap and the explosion of foxy hair, you were conscious of a great many older, pre-pop personae coming together: the fairground barker, the vaudeville entertainer, the music hall comedian. (Noddy's father had brought him up on a diet of Max Miller and Al Jolson.) Marc Bolan had designs on your daughter; Slade simply wanted you to have a jolly good knees-up. As Noddy cheerfully remarks, 'We couldn't be cool if we tried.' Regular blokes in fancy dress, in fact? 'Exactly.'
And then it all turned sour. By 1975 the singles were going Top 20 rather than Top Five;· America, mapped out in half-a-dozen gruelling coast-to-coast tours, remained resolutely un-crack-able. With hindsight they admit that the US was a mistake. 'I think we were before our time,' says Noddy.
Returning to England in 1977, they found themselves on a different musical planet. Watching The Jam play at a club in Wolverhampton, Don realised that the old order was in retreat. Slade singles stopped charting. Even Dave Hill's new get-up shaven head, Star of David earring, leather jacket - failed to halt the slide. Hammersmith Odeon rapidly gave way to Working Men's Clubs in the North of England.
There were personal consequences as well. While Noddy reckons that years on the road and the break-up of his first marriage are unconnected, the others are less sure. By August 1979 things were at a low ebb: the band had no record deal, hadn't played a concert in months and the finances were becoming a problem - the huge nest-egg of English royalties had gone in paying motel bills in Nowhere, Nebraska.
Then, in one of those magical transformations that occasionally enliven the average pop career, the organiser of the Reading festival called up. A fairly low spot on the bill, previously occupied by Ozzy Osbourne, had fallen vacant. Were Slade interested?
What followed has all the trappings of myth. Having rehearsed in a village hall, proceeded to Reading under their own steam and finessed their way past disbelieving security guards ('Noddy who?'), Slade blew every name band off the stage, played their greatest hits to the delight of an ecstatic crowd, and concluded the proceedings with a gang show version of 'Merry Xmas'. As chance would have it, the gig was recorded by Radio One. A four-track EP of Reading selection's put Slade back in the charts for the first time in two-and-a-half years.
After which, in a muted and slightly more low-key fashion, the whole business began again. With slight misgivings, Noddy and Jim sat down and started writing songs with titles like We'll Bring The House Down and Lock Up Your Daughters, interspersed with a nice line in Christmas sing-along's. 'We resurged ourselves,' says Noddy. Back on TOTP, they seemed much the same: Noddy's mutton-chop whiskers, Dave's thigh boots, Don crouched mercilessly over his drums - elemental symbols to set against the New Romantic posturing of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.
Gradually, though, by the end of the Eighties things began to wind down again. Noddy was dabbling in radio; there was dark talk of 'other interests'. In the end, it all fell apart. Don: 'Noddy just dropped out.' Dave: 'I don't know what his current opinion is. I haven't spoken to him for a long, long time.' And Jim, the trainee psychotherapist? Don: 'He really left because Nod wouldn't do it.'
The Holder position is that 25 years is enough. 'I just thought, you know, enough is enough. I didn't want to be doing the same thing for the next 10 years. It's not to say I'd never go back on the road again, but I'd just had enough.' Now into his second marriage, with a nine-month-old baby boy to add to the two teenage daughters from the first, Noddy is broadly tolerant of youthful foibles. 'I don't take any notice of what they wear. Who am I to say, "You can't wear that"?'
The mirror-covered hat is Noddy's sole souvenir from these turbulent years. 'It's just a bit of memory for me that. Everything else I gave away to charities to auction off. But it was a symbol of the time.'
Dave was a Jehovah's Witness and refused to sing Merry Xmas Everybody. Now he's with Don in Slade II.
All of which brings us to Slade II, and their whistle-stop rampage around Europe (festival in Denmark, Saturday, festival in Germany, Sunday, fly home Monday).
Noddy and Jim, the songwriters, are financially secure - no doubt doing rather well out of the back catalogue reissues and occasional cover versions. (Merry Xmas alone has sold three million and rising.) The situation of the other two is more precarious. Dave, for example, did at one time feel pushed to part with his star-shaped guitar (sale price £3,000) and YOB1 Roller (£16,000), though he was, at that time, a Jehovah's Witness and was even declining to perform Merry Xmas. 'It would have been hypocritical. '
So when Noddy and Jim opted to 'retire', that left Dave and Don in something of a position. 'Don and myself,' says Dave, 'we've put our lives into this band, and your lives can be so misshapen when somebody else in the band doesn't want to do it.'
Fortunately help was at hand. Len Tuckey, a name familiar to Seventies glam fans as the burly guitar-playing husband of Suzi Quatro, now detached from Ms Quatro and well into music management, put Slade out on the continental nostalgia circuit. They are, apparently, big in Germany (where 23,000 people turned out to see them in Berlin, along with Suzi Quatro and Shakin' Stevens) and huge in the Ukraine where, in the dark days of the Cold war, listening to Merry Xmas Everybody on pirate radio counted as the height of subversion. Do they enjoy it? Dave: 'For the last two-and-a-half years Don and I have been playing together, and I think we can both agree that it's never been better.' Don: 'I've always said that as soon as I stop enjoying it I'll pack it in.'
Two 49 year-olds who ought to be at home minding their children maundering on about bygone glory, a place on the Euro-Glam revival express with Suzi and Shaky, surreptitious continental recordings (at least I couldn't find anything by Slade II in the Virgin Megastore): it should all be unutterably hilarious. But somehow the sight of Dave and Don in the hotel restaurant (where Dave decides that, no, a single glass of wine will suffice) bears no relation to traditional framings of a pop career on the slide.
One reason for this is Messrs Hill and Powell's immense politeness, affability and lack of egotism, the feeling that they genuinely enjoy what they do, are pleased to have been allowed to go on doing it for so long, and take a pride in these labours.
A second reason is that the contract sealed between Slade and the Great British Public all those years ago remains unbroken. Reeves and Mortimer are still running off their 'Slade go Camping' spoofs (Dave and Don think these are 'brilliant'; Noddy reckons Reeves and Mortimer are 'good lads' and is appearing on their new quiz show). Noddy, who turned up not long ago in a Viz cartoon strip, has a caricature version of himself & starring in a. TV ad for Bank's beer. And now Dave is considering an offer to appear in a Barclay's ad. Thirty-three years on from its forging in the Wolverhampton backstreet's, Slade has become an indestructible fragment of pop history. 'You see,' Dave Hill confides at one point, a look of transparent ingenuousness on his face, 'this has been our life!' Around them the tribulations of a third of a century on the road - all those identikit hotels, night-flights, bleary-eyed mornings after the gig, all the wreckage of the spent showbiz career - slide effortlessly away.
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Based on research findings on couple distress and disruption, here are some negative communication patterns to identify and avoid:
- Escalation
- Summarizing Self Syndrome-a stand off, stating and restating your point of view.
- Yes, but...
- Cross Complaining-one partner brings up a problem and the other partner presents a different problem to discuss.
- Kitchen Sinking-a laundry list of pain, everything the other partner has ever done, can be too much to swallow.
- Character Assassination-instead of saying "it bother's me when you do not pick up after yourself", the partner says you are a slob. It is basic name calling.
- Always/Never-globalizing specific complaints to generalizations.
- Blaming-a power control tool.
- Withdrawal-when one partner withdraws the other partner pursues. With less pursuing there is less withdrawal. Another form is Stonewalling-partner is in distress but has a lack of concern on face, face frozen with facial muscles tightened.
- Invalidation-under responsive, dismissive, not empathetic, ignoring, not validating or sharing.
- Negative Interpretations-having or developing a theory of others negative intention. "They don't care about me based on..."Connecting the dots in all the ways they don't care or love us. These concepts flow into each other.


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There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.
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