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Fresh Herb Chickpea Salad with Olives and Tomatoes
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Serves: 4
2 (14-15 ounce) cans of chickpeas, rinsed and drained
½ cup roasted red and or yellow peppers, chopped, optional
½ cup sliced kalamata olives
½ cup sliced cherry tomatoes
½ cup fresh basil, chopped
½ cup fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, chopped
3 scallions or green onions, ends trimmed, white and light green parts only, cut thin (About 2 Tbsp)
2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced
2 Tbsp Flying Olive Sicilian Lemon Balsamic Vinegar
2 Tbsp Flying Olive Garlic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 lemon, juiced (about ¼ cup)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Crumbled feta or queso fresca, if desired
In a large bowl, add the chickpeas, peppers, if desired, kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil and fresh parsley, onions, and garlic. Whisk together the Flying Olive Sicilian Lemon Balsamic Vinegar, and the Flying Olive Garlic Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Mix in about 2 Tbsp of lemon juice and taste. Add more lemon juice as desired and the salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly and serve.
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Among the most annoying of first world problems are pop-up ads. Advertising, although necessary, can be very annoying in general. Pop up advertising is a form of advertising that irritates users like none other. Have you ever wondered who invented them? Maybe you wondered because you wanted to punch the guy.
It looks like Ethan Zuckerman was the one behind this annoying form of advertising and he thought of it in the mid-1990s. Ethan claims that pop up ads were created with good intentions, but then again the road to hell is paved with good intentions and this is just one stone. Well Ethan has some things to say. For one, he strongly believes that as long as the internet relies on advertising, ordinary people's privacy will continue to be invaded.
He sees the existing model as being "bad, broken, and corrosive", and hopes that a new model shows up. One where you pay for content apparently. Whatever Ethan. I just wish I could summon a thousand pop-ups to your screen right now for you to click endlessly all day long. And I am sure that I am not alone. I don't really mind any ads, but pop-ups are sooooo annoying.
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Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University where he has been director (interim) of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and affiliate of the Weatherhead Center. In 2019-2020, he will be the Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) and has been awarded the 2019 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin
His research focuses on democracy, democratic breakdown, state-building, and historical political economy, with an emphasis on Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. His three books include How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), co-authored with Steve Levitsky), a New York Times best-seller, translated into over fifteen languages. He is also the author of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), an account of Europe's historical democratization, which won the American Political Science Association's 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in government and international relations and three other prizes including the American Sociological Association's 2018 Barrington Moore Award for the best book in comparative historical sociology. His first book was an analysis of 19th century state building, Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton, 2006 [2008]). At Harvard, Ziblatt co-chairs (with Steve Levitsky) the Challenges to Democracy Research Cluster (for postdocs, undergraduates, and PhD students) and directs a research program for graduate and undergraduate students at Harvard's Institute of Quantitative Social Science ("Politics Through Time"). He has been a visiting scholar at Ludwig-Maximilian University (Munich), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the Max Planck Institute (Cologne), Stanford University and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.


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Borrowing Death: A Charlotte Brody Mystery
The Alaska Territory seems like an unlikely place for a tea-cozy mystery—think whiskey and frigid temperatures instead of tea and scones—but author Cathy Pegau's second book set in the rough-and-tumble town of Cordova in 1919 provides a unique setting for crime.
While many in Cordova feel that Alaska is no place for a woman on her own, suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody has journeyed to the last frontier for the same reason many come to Alaska – to start over. Working on the town's newspaper, Charlotte covers the story of hardware store owner Lyle Fiske, whose body is discovered after a fire. Charlotte and Deputy Marshal (and blossoming love interest) James Eddington assume the fire is the work of an arsonist, but Charlotte's brother Michael, the town's doctor and coroner, reveals that Fiske died from a stab wound. Charlotte's investigation of the murder turns up a number of likely suspects as the shady activities in Fiske's business and in his marriage come to light.
The author peppers the book with interesting historical information regarding Prohibition and the right to vote as well as cultural dilemmas affecting women, such as practicing a full-time profession and dealing with unwanted pregnancies. At times, Pegau's attempts at historical verisimilitude can be heavy-handed, a problem she will likely work out in future editions. Charlotte Brody is a bright and intelligent character, full of the same energy and sparkle as the Alaskan setting itself. This is likely to become a popular series in the Kensington line-up, particularly for readers more interested in history and women's issues than in dark psychological fare or gore.


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Remember how I mentioned I joined the gym a week ago? I realized that I am terrible at working out unless I have a running buddy or strict schedule, so I've made it my mission to go to at least a few workout classes a week. The gym just recently added Body Pump to it's schedule, and I finally got up the courage to try it this Monday.
Even though I always mean to, I never really do any strength training. Even if I get around to it, it's never more than 10 minutes which meant an hour long strength training class was really intimidating. Luckily I went with my friend Sarah and used 5 pound weights instead of the barbell for the exercises (I know that's a little sad, but baby steps!). While it wasn't as fun as a class like Turbo Kick Boxing, it went by really quickly and I did enjoy it. I'll probably try to challenge myself a little more next time, and my goal is to go two times a week and work my way up to doing it with a barbell.
One of my other summer goals is to try to cook more (practice makes perfect and I am currently in need of a lottt of practice). So on Tuesday, Sarah and I got together to have a little lunch date! We decided on making chicken curry salad after inspiration from one of my blog posts from last summer.
We healthed it up by using greek yogurt, chicken breasts, curry, sliced grapes, raisins, and lime juice. After deciding to make it an actual salad we added some avocado and dressing.
I'm planning on going to to the Turbokick class tonight and hopefully finishing up the work for my internship early today. I've been seriously terrible at time management and need to spend tonight starting my application for studying abroad.
Once I get more details on that, I'll be sure to write a blog post with all my plans regarding that ;) Bye!


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This dish is a specialty of shaokao, or barbecue, cooks in China's Yunnan province, and it leans on a fragrant spice mixture that includes dried chiles; Szechuan peppercorns; and the piny, fragrant black cardamom that is so important in central Yunnan cooking. Use a seedless Japanese eggplant; Italian varieties are generally too bitter and may have too many hard seeds.
How to Make It
Preheat a grill to very high (500°F). Using a fork, prick eggplants all over. Place eggplants on oiled grates; grill, covered, turning occasionally, until skin is slightly charred and flesh is creamy and pulling away from skin, 15 to 20 minutes. Gently transfer to a rimmed baking sheet, and let cool 10 minutes.
Heat a small skillet over medium. Add Szechuan peppercorns and cumin seeds; cook, stirring often, until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a spice grinder; add white peppercorns and cardamom seeds. Pulse until finely ground. Transfer to a medium bowl, and stir in gochugaru, 4 teaspoons salt, and 13-spice powder until combined.
Heat oil in a wok over medium-high until just smoking. Add dried chiles; cook 5 seconds. Add ground pork and 1/2 teaspoon salt; cook, breaking pork up with a spoon, until just cooked through and some bits of meat have begun to brown, about 1 minute and 30 seconds. Add scallions and fresh chiles, if using; cook, stirring constantly, until scallions are slightly wilted, about 15 seconds. Remove from heat, and stir in 2 teaspoons reserved spice mixture. (Reserve remaining spice mixture for another use.)
Place each roasted eggplant on its side. Slice into (but not through) each eggplant lengthwise, opening like a baked potato, making sure to leave shell of eggplant intact. Using a pair of kitchen scissors, cut up flesh of eggplants. Stir 1/4 teaspoon salt into the flesh of each eggplant. (Be careful not to loosen or incorporate the charred eggplant skin.) Spoon 2/3 cup pork mixture into each eggplant. Stir together eggplant flesh and pork mixture. Serve stuffed eggplants family style.


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Apple Offers 21st Century Retail Roadmap During Fall Keynote
The big Apple event on Tuesday was filled with tons of new product announcements and highlighted by the unveiling of the iPhone X. But there was a fairly overshadowed portion of the event that happened early on, prior to any new products hitting the stage, and it focused on the Cupertino tech firm's moves on the retail side of things.
After officially opening the Steve Jobs Theater and welcoming those in attendance to Apple's new campus, Tim Cook invited Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts onto the stage to give a brief update on the company's retail enhancements.
We've heard in the past this concept that Apple likes to think of its retail locations as products themselves. Earlier this year, Apple launched the biggest redesign of its "retail line" in 15 years, dropping the word "Store" and instead referring to these physical retail spaces as "town squares," as Ahrendts put it. Physically, the locations have received some cosmetic upgrades designed to give off a more community-driven feel to them (where applicable), and the company has integrated its "Today at Apple" program in each store, bringing educational sessions and in-store experiences to the fore.
Rob Stott is corporate communications manager, Nationwide Marketing Group


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It may come a s a surprise that in the best 7 sports stadia around the world, purely football stadi do not even feature.
Do not be shocked that Nou Camp nor Wembley are on this list. However the recent botched planned visit to Tanzania by Birmingham City on the off season brough to the light one fact that in the new national Stadium, Tanzania has gotten itself a jewel in the crown that needs serious maintenance to keep it us to world standards.
The stadium opened in 2009 to much fanfare is a 60,000 seater that former President Benjamin William Mkapa says was his lasting tribute to the soccer loving nation .
In comparison , what is the status of the National Stadium in comparison to the others in the East African States? One common thread is that East Africa's top 3 stadia have all benefitted from the growing link of China in the region.
Uganda's Nelson Mandela stadium in Nambole and Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani in Nairobi Kenya are the two other stadia. It is therefore not surprising that the general architectural structure and outlook is fairly similar between the three stadia.
However, former President Benjamin Mkapa, during a recent function where he was given a lifetime recognition award by Tanzania Sports Writers Association (TASWA) for initiating the founding of the national stadium, told his audience that his only prayer was that the stadium would be kept in good order.
The nature of the national stadium calls for serious rethink from it's managers who are the ministry of sports . The stadium has seats for all but it must be remembered that in the short period of it's existence, it has had to be refurbished due to vandalism. The visiting staff members of English club Birmingham F.C. , gave a verdict of the National Stadium as one of the best in the World.
Every time Yanga plays Simba, the over enthusiastic fans peel off a few seats in their overzealous cheering and that in itself leaves the stadium looking dreary. Trouble is the Ministry of Sports does not have enough stewards to man the stadium, neither do they have technogy to monitor and take responsibility over culprits.
Questions are already being asked about the workmanship put in all these Chinese made stadia. Have they been up to scratch technically?
Obviously the standards of some of the best stadia in the world i.e. Nou Cmap for Barcelona F.C or Aztec Stadium in Brazil are governed by 5 key principle factors.
No 1 is the question of security. A stadium must be such that access to and from the stadium is not restricted so that in the event of God forbid a disaster happens ambulance and fire and rescue services must be able to reach the stadium and get out. On this score with the traffic jams of Dar es Salaam, the nation al stadium fails the test.
Second on unrestricted access ways , acces gates plus well set seats. The stadium is well set and has enough of these however the trouble is the maintance level is not up to scratch.
Restroom facilities are fairly well set out however the level of cleanliness in them leaves a lot to be desired. Once again this is due to both poor usage habits and the lack of back up maintainace to keep the standards high.
On the matter of Changing rooms and gym facilities, the national stadium can hold it's own to the best of facilities anywhere in the world. The Electronic broadcast and pubic address sytems is prone to breakdown and therefore requires regular maintance.
In essence, former President Mkapa's wish for the national stadium was real. As a national treasure, we need to ensure that we provide enough funding for the Ministry to enable it maintain the stadium to required standards.
Similar to what Kenya has done, it may be prudent to form a statutory body or go into public private partnership that will operate the national stadium. This will ensure that the facility dioes not end up run down due to lack of maintance while it continues to bring in huge sums of money when in use.
Stadia like the Emirates Stadium or Stamford Bridge are a touristic attraction on their own and the national stadium would attract money with tourists both local and international paying a fee to tour it. The stadium needs to be kept at a level where it shall not fall to disuse and end up requiring huge sums of money for refurbishment.
On the other hand, we the users need to give Dar es Salaam National Stadium like the jewel that it is by avoiding damaging any parts and sections of the stadium knowing how expensive these are to maintain.
It is only when the public is made aware of the need to preserve this beautiful piece of architecture and the public/private partnership takes ownership of the stadium that we shall have taken a huge step towards ensuring sustainability of a grand national stadium for today and posterity.


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Tue, Jun 24, 2014
San Diego, CA
Formula Endurance Summer Triathlon Camp
Where: Campland on the Bay, San Diego
Who: Athletes 12-19 years of age interested in triathlon
When: Tuesday, June 24 to Sunday, June 29th
Check-in 2:30 PM, Check out 11:30 AM
What: Week long training camp of swim, bike and run workouts, all lead by coaches and fully supported, in open water, on bike paths, roads, Olympic Training Center and more. Athletes will sleep in tents, camping at the campground. It will have all amenities of hot showers, etc.
Cost: $425 (includes all their food, drinks, camping fees, pool fees, facilities fee at Olympic Training Center and more)
CAMP IS LIMITED TO 35 Athletes!!! HURRY TO REGISTER!!!
This is the 4th annual Formula Endurance Summer Triathlon Camp! This camp has been a huge success each year, with the kids enjoying themselves, learning a lot, training hard and making friends. The camp is attended mostly by Formula Endurance athletes, and has a limited number of spots open to kids outside the program. Last year the program was joined by members of BreakThrough Elite Junior Team, from Phoenix, AZ.
$425 until May 31, then $495


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BY SARAH SOPHER AND SYDNEY SPENCER // Our hope for Crystal Castles' first DC show of the year was that the group would deliver an original performance laced with raw emotion and passion. That's what we were used to with Alice Glass, at least.
In front of a giant mural depicting a battered and beaten Madonna, the show opened with clashing noises and flashing green lights taking over the room. Ethan Kath was camouflaged in the corner of the stage delivering the epic beats that Crystal Castles' fans know and love. However, the performance left a lot to be desired.
Edith Frances joined Crystal Castles in 2015 to replace the group's former vocalist. Alice Glass, who once performed sick and vomiting between verses, was known for her confrontational and volatile shows. Many would say Glass held a fundamental role in creating Crystal Castles' wild and unique reputation.
In order to fill Alice's role as CC's vocalist, Edith moved chaotically around the stage, tangling herself with the microphone cord and throwing water bottles at the crowd. Her performance seemed forced and awkward. Getting water thrown in our faces over and over was pretty annoying.
While the group played a fair ratio of songs from their old and new albums, the balance between bass and vocals was uncomplimentary. The overpowering bass made it difficult to hear the vocals that distinguish CC's songs. Towards the end of the show, it sounded as if all songs had been blended together.
Overall, it was fun to reminisce through the Crystal Castles' sounds that we have always loved. The hectic light show reminded us of the classic chaos that Alice Glass performed with. While the group has made some obvious and possibly unintentional changes to their style, rocking out to their live music once again was a special experience.


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Principal Fired After Questionable First Day of Kindergarten Performance (4 Pics)
The first day of school was made very memorable for a lot of kindergartners at the Xinshahui school in Shenzhen: they were greeted with their first-ever (hopefully) live pole dancing performance.
You read that right. They weren't stressing out over whether or not they went hard enough on their first-day outfits. They weren't counting all of their pencils and crayons and crisp notebooks and comparing them with their friends. They weren't gushing over all the things they did and didn't do over the summer.
Instead, they were subjected to a strange and incongruent series of celebratory displays dreamed up by the school's principal. Journalist Michael Standaert, whose children were enrolled in the kindergarten, caught some of the madness on tape.
He tweeted:
"Who would think this is a good idea? We're trying to pull the kids out of the school and get our tuition back. They wouldn't give us the number of the company that owns the school, but looking into that."
To answer his question, I think the only person who thought it was a good idea is the now-fired principal who maybe wanted to expand her students' ideas of potential future career opportunities.
Though to play devil's advocate, maybe the principal was using the woman and her excellent dancing skills as an example of the type of top-quality work she expected from their upcoming academic year?
Standaert says his wife contacted principal Lai Rong who was understandably upset over the nature of the festivities that some 500 students and 100 parents witnessed.
Lai apologized to the families of the students through The Global Times, in addition to all of the explaining she probably had to do in-person and over the phone to irate parents.
The best part of Lai's apology was when she said that, while there were a bunch of parents who were angry at her for hiring a stripper to dance around a pole in front of a bunch of kindergartners, there were some parents who were intrigued at the prospect of learning a new dance. Yikes.
Lai's apologies and mass texts to parents clarifying that the school failed to review the content of the dance before scheduling the performer's stage time did little to save her job: She was fired and the Xinshahui kindergarten is now under investigation.
A despondent Lai expressed her despair after losing her job:
"I may as well be dead. I already lost the hope to live."
But honestly, I mean, what did she expect after hiring a pole dancer to perform for a bunch of children?
As troubling as the sensual routine was for a bunch of tender minds to witness after the summer vacation, there were other strange celebratory measures taken in the days leading up to the stripper strutting her stuff on a pole decked out with the PRC Flag.
Standaert was appalled that children were being exposed to military-style celebrations and a glorification of guns and weapons, for a full ten days before school came to an end.
So before our kids got out of kindergarten for the summer, there was 10 days of military "activities" and displays of machine guns and mortars at the door; now the principal has welcomed them back with a strip pole dance on the flagpole bearing the PRC flag. She's gone nuts.
According to Standaert, the school's new principal has brought some normalcy to the kindergarten. But as it turns out, Xinshahui isn't the only school in the area that has parents upset over the opening ceremonies of the academic year.
Imagine walking in on the first day of class and you're bombarded with an "assembly" that's really just an excuse to get a bunch of butts in seats to watch some advertisements?
CBS News reported that parents complained about an "educational" program defined as "mandatory viewing" by the state's education department when it ended up being 12 minutes of commercials.
Imagine you receive an announcement from your country's education department about a special, back-to-school program you need to watch with your family and it ends up being a bunch of advertisements trying to sell you scissors and tape and rulers and pencils along with tutoring courses and online classes?
Then there was the tricky business of the classroom-size protests that occurred in the Hunan Province that saw some 46 concerned parents and citizens who wanted something done about the overcrowded classrooms in their local schools.
Strippers, military parades, overcrowded classrooms, and the state peddling commercials as "educational viewing." If that doesn't sound like an awesome dystopian future novel, I don't know what does. A whole hell of a lot more believable than Fahrenheit 451, because, you know, this is actually happening.


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1 bag of Frito Scoops or make your own
3 cups semisweet or milk chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli)
4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
Place the chocolate chips and shortening together in a medium microwave safe bowl.
Line a baking tray with parchment paper or aluminum foil and make room in the refrigerator or freezer for it.
Heat in the microwave 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each time. The chocolate and shortening should start to melt after about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
Continue heating and stirring until the both ingredients are completely melted and can be stirred to create a smooth sauce.
When the chocolate is ready, begin dipping the fritos in it, one at a time. Dip only halfway so that you have a part of the chip to grab when served.
After dipping the frito, place it on your lined baking tray. Repeat until you run out of chocolate.
Place the tray in the refrigerator or freezer for at least 15-20 minutes. When the chocolate is solid, place the jets in a gallon ziptop bag and store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.


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A poem that will give you goose bumps..............
A drunk man in an old battered truck,
They said had run the light,
That caused the six-car pileup
On 109 that night.
When broken bodies lay about
And blood was everywhere,
The sirens screamed out eulogies,
For death was in the air.
A mother, trapped inside her car,
Was heard above the noise;
Her plaintive plea near split the air:
Oh, God, please spare my boys!"
She fought to loose her pinned hands;
She struggled to get free,
But mangled metal held her fast
In grim captivity.
Her frightened eyes then focused
On where the back seat once had been,
But all she saw was broken glass and
Two children's seats crushed in.
Her twins were nowhere to be seen;
She did not hear them cry,
And then she prayed they'd been thrown free,
Oh, God, don't let them die!"
Then firemen came and cut her loose,
But when they searched the back,
They found therein no little boys,
But the seat belts were intact.
They thought the woman had gone mad
And was travelling alone,
But when they turned to question her,
They discovered she was gone.
Policemen saw her running wild
And screaming above the noise
In beseeching supplication,
Please help me find my boys!
They're four years old and wear blue shirts;
Their jeans are blue to match."
One cop spoke up, "They're in my car,
And they don't have a scratch.
They said their daddy put them there
And gave them each a cone,
Then told them both to wait for Mom
To come and take them home.
I've searched the area high and low,
But I can't find their dad.
He must have fled the scene,
I guess, and that is very bad."
The mother hugged the twins and said,
While wiping at a tear,
He could not flee the scene, you see,
For he's been dead a year."
The cop just looked confused and asked,
Now, how can that be true?"
The boys said, "Mommy, Daddy came
And left a kiss for you."
He told us not to worry
And that you would be all right,
And then he put us in this car with
The pretty, flashing light.
We wanted him to stay with us,
Because we miss him so,
But Mommy, he just hugged us tight
And said he had to go.
He said someday we'd understand
And told us not to fuss,
And he said to tell you, Mommy,
He's watching over us."
The mother knew without a doubt.
That what they spoke was true,
For she recalled their dad's last words,
I will watch over you."
The fireman's notes could not explain
The twisted, mangled car,
And how the three of them escaped
Without a single scar.
But on the cop's report was scribed,
In print so very fine,
An angel walked the beat tonight
on Highway. 109
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Good one Wizard, I like that sort of story..
There's a time for everyone, if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
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Topics: Music | 4 CommentsBy admin | July 27, 2010
When you think "80′s Music" you probably think of bands like Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, New Order, or the Pixies. Think again.
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In a vintage fern bar somewhere in some small Florida beach town, there's a forty-something couple in matching white polyester pants and Hawaiian shirts, bombed on Slippery Nipples and dancing to Olivia Newton John's "Let's Get Physical". These two people are probably the only people alive who remember and enjoy the "real" music of the 80′s. I love it when people start reminiscing about all the great music of that decade, and proceed to name bands like Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, New Order, the Pet Shop Boys, or the Pixies. Because that simply was not, in reality, the music of the 80′s. Although it may have been in some people's reality, particularly those people whose reality was shaped by dark dance floors and copious quantities of alcohol and other drugs. But in the real reality, things were much different. A fact that is overlooked even in the erudite commentary of a piece like Justin Erik Halldór Smith's Against Eighties Music, which features a picture of The Cure's Robert Smith and references Stereo MCs, who didn't really even break until 1993. No, the fact is that if – like me – you readily remember an endless stream of masterful electronica and epically brilliant alternative bands, you were probably doing what I was doing, which was hiding in a club behind a drug haze to escape the horror of the pop music that was REALLY dominating the airwaves and record sales. Below is a year-by-year look at the best-selling music of the 80′s. No wonder we stayed out all night dancing to the club music most of us remember, and then slept all day. We were just trying to avoid accidently hearing this crap by accidently turning on the radio or something!
Billboard Top Ten – 1980
The very first year of the decade is a perfect introduction to the horror that awaits us. Blondie is enjoying their last hit before breaking up, as is Pink Floyd, with the now 23-times-platinum The Wall. But dear God, look at the rest of that list! The Captain and Tennille? Olivia Newton-John? Bette Fucking Midler?
1. Call Me, Blondie
2. Another Brick In the Wall, Pink Floyd
3. Magic, Olivia Newton-John
4. Rock With You, Michael Jackson
5. Do That to Me One More Time, Captain and Tennille
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
7. Coming Up, Paul McCartney
8. Designer Music, Lipps, Inc.
9. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, Billy Joel
10. The Rose, Bette Midler
11. Escape (The Piña Colada Song), Rupert Holmes <–YIKES
As a special treat, we included number 11, so we'd have an excuse to include one of the real highlights of the 80′s, the Village People introducing Rupert Holmes performing "The Piña Colada Song":
Billboard Top Ten – 1981
The horror fully takes hold. Thank you, Kool and The Gang for saving the airwaves from the otherwise relentless terror of the likes of Kenny Rogers, Rick Springfield, and REO Speedwagon. My apologies to those of you who still tear up when you hear REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You".
1. Bette Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes
2. Endless Love, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
3. Good Lady of Toronto, Kenny Rogers
4. (Just Like) Starting Over, John Lennon
5. Jessie's Girl, Rick Springfield
6. Celebration, Kool and The Gang
7. Kiss On My List, Daryl Hall and John Oates
8. I Love a Rainy Night, Eddie Rabbitt
9. 9 to 5, Dolly Parton
10. Keep On Loving You, REO Speedwagon
Billboard Top Ten – 1982
Human League breaks into the top ten with their innovative (and never to be repeated) synthpop superhit. The fact that John Cougar appears twice on this list and Olivia Newton-John tops it sort of says it all, but one can't help noticing that an aging former Beatle keeps showing up.
1. Physical, Olivia Newton-John
2. Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
3. I Love Rock N Roll, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
4. Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
5. Centerfold, J. Geils Band
6. Don't You Want M, Human League
7. Jack & Diane, John Cougar
8. Hurts So Good, John Cougar
9. Abracadabra, Steve Miller Band
10. Hard to Say I'm Sorry, Chicago
Billboard Top Ten – 1983
Wow. Eurythmics! How eighties! This list is otherwise dominated by overproduced superstars entering their "still almost hip maturing artist" phase. I feel like I'm being generous here. By the way, did you know that Men At Work was successfully sued by the rights holders of "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree"?
1. Every Breath You Take, Police
2. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson
3. Flashdance…What A Feeling, Irene Cara
4. Down Under, Men At Work
5. Beat It, Michael Jackson
6. Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
7. Maneater, Daryl Hall and John Oates
8. Baby, Come to Me, Patti Austin and James Ingram
9. Maniac, Michael Sembello
10. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Eurythmics
Billboard Top Ten – 1984
Thank you Prince, for breaking up the monotony of 70′s superstar revivals and supergroup travesties. Although it should be pointed out that Aztec Camera's brilliant acoustic cover of Jump would have been impossible without Van Halen's synth-drizzled version. Oh. Hi Boy George! Welcome to the 80′s!
1. When Doves Cry, Prince
2. What's Love Got to Do With It, Tina Turner
3. Say Say SaySay Say Say, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
4. Footloose, Kenny Loggins
5. Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now), Phil Collins
6. Jump, Van Halen
7. Hello, Lionel Richie
8. Owner of a Lonely Heart, Yes
9. Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr.
10. Karma Chameleon, Culture Club
Billboard Top Ten – 1985
Wait. What's this? Tears For Fears and A-Ha? Are the eighties finally arriving?
1. Careless Whisper, Wham!
2. Like a Virgin, Madonna
3. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!
4. I Want to Know What Love Is, Foreigner
5. I Feel for You, Chaka Khan
6. Out of Touch, Daryl Hall and John Oates
7. Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears For Fears
8. Money for Nothing, Dire Straits
9. Crazy for You, Madonna
10. Take On Me, A-Ha
14. We Built This City, Starship <–GAAHHHHH!
Billboard Top Ten – 1986
Oh. Never mind. Although it's always good to see a hard working R&B guy like Robert Palmer making a few bucks.
1. That's What Friends Are For, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Gladys Knight
2. Say You, Say Me, Lionel Richie
3. I Miss You, Klymaxx
4. On My Own, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald
5. Broken Wings, Mr. Mister
6. How Will I Know, Whitney Houston
7. Party All The Time, Eddie Murphy
8. Burning Heart, Survivor
9. Kyrie, Mr. Mister
10. Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer
Billboard Top Ten – 1987
Well well well. Looky here. The Bangles at number one! An accomplishment quickly rendered meaningless by #2 through #10.
1. Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles
2. Alone, Heart
3. Shake You Down, Gregory Abbott
4. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), Whitney Houston
5. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, Starship
6. C'est la vie, Robbie Nevil
7. Here I Go Again, Whitesnake
8. The Way It Is, Bruce Hornsby and the Range
9. Shakedown, Bob Seger
10. Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
Billboard Top Ten – 1988
Um, hello eighties? Are you there? And look. Another damn ex-Beatle. 1988′s greatest gift to us is probably "The Rickroll Song"
1. Faith, George Michael
2. Need You Tonight, INXS
3. Got My Mind Set On You, George Harrison
4. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley
5. Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses
6. So Emotional, Whitney Houston
7. Heaven Is a Place On Earth, Belinda Carlisle
8. Could've Been, Tiffany
9. Hands to Heaven, Breathe
10. Roll With It, Steve Winwood
Billboard Top Ten – 1989
Here we are, the final decade of the 80′s, and what do we have? One of the greatest bands of the 70′s at number one.
1. Look Away, Chicago
2. My Prerogative, Bobby Brown
3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison
4. Straight Up, Paula Abdul
5. Miss You Much, Janet Jackson
6. Cold Hearted, Paula Abdul
7. Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler
8. Girl You Know Its True, Milli Vanilli
9. Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird, Will To Power
10. Giving You the Best That I Got, Anita Baker
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Well, it's only 4 months away: The Big 2-0-0-0. It seems some of the early hysteria has died down. However, as January 1st nears I suspect that apprehension will build again.
The acronym Y2K means "Year 2000". The problem is also misnamed by some the Millennium Bug, It has nothing to do with the millennium, but the two digit rollover of a century. Had computers been invented a hundred years ago there'd have been a Y1.9K bug in 1900 that would've actually been worse than Y2K. I'll get back to that in due course.
The selection of next year as the year numbered 2000 is completely arbitrary and has nothing to do with the earth, solar system or universe at large. I will refer you to the article in the January 1999 S.S.: M Minus 2. It appears to be incorrect at what it's supposed to represent, the Year of Our Lord (AD) Jesus was probably born in 6 or 2 BC. The 2,000th anniversary of those events being in the spring of 1995 or 1999 respectively. Come to the December GTAS meeting to find out why.
While astronomers have determined the length of the year they have no say in the numbering scheme, or when the year starts.
The Y2K problem comes from storing dates with 2 digit years. It's nice, short, and how people write dates. However it doesn't fare well when we near the end of a century.
Add 1 to 99 and you get 00 if you only work with 2 digits. Your 1st grade teacher may not accept this answer, but a computer will. Obviously if you're comparing dates to compute interest the 2 digit year rollover could be a problem.
There's a couple of ways to handle this problem. One, convert all files and programs in a system to store and use 4 digit dates. Second, change the way dates are handled to assume certain years are in the 21st century and the rest in the 20th. The second method is called windowing. In a 4 digit field move in the 2 digit year. If, say it is between 50 and 99, add 1900 to it. If between 1 and 49, add 2000. To be totally practical, the window needs to shift with time.
As it is dates are hard to work with. They are neither decimal as we would like, or binary as the computer might like. A date as we use it contains three related but different quantities: month, day and year. Quick, subtract 12/4/1999 from 3/15/2004. While you're figuring that out, I'll give you the answer. 1,563 days or 51 months, 11 days. To solve this problem you and the computer have to go back to the ditty: "Thirty days has September..."
Once written a programmer tends to copy a complicated procedure into any subsequent program where its needed. So even new programs can have old date code that doesn't have year rollover code in it. There's nothing worse than trying to figure out and update someone else's date logic. I know, I've done it for the past several years. Also many date incrementing procedures tend to be just good enough to get by, which may mean problems when applied to different situations.
Another problem programmers have with the calendar is leap years. It's another item that has to be checked for year 2000 compatibility. I suppose there's some demented programmer somewhere who checks a table of years to determine which is a leap. I had to do it once in a network login script which was rather deficient in mathematical functions.
Usually one finds if the year is evenly divisible by 4. That works most of the time, but is the reason the Y1.9K problem would have been worse. 1900 is divisible by 4, but was not a leap year. In the Gregorian Calendar century years, those which end in 00, are only leap years if the are divisible by 400. See the article The Years of Our Lives from January 1997's SS for more information on the Gregorian Calendar. Both mentioned articles are also located on the Ephemeris Web Site. See the Planet Page for the address.
There are other critical dates that have to be tested for complete Y2K compliance. One is past. That's April 9, 1999, the 99th day of '99. The next is this month: 9/9/99. The next critical date is the big one: 1/1/00. After that there's 2/29/00, 2000 is a leap year. Then finally 10/10/2000. The reason for the days with 9s be critical is that we programmers use numeric fields of 9s to flag high dates or end sentinels. Of course a date 99/99/99 would not be confused in a computer with 9/9/99 which would really be stored as 09/09/99.
What all this will do to us on January 1st, 2000 isn't clear. Most utilities and financial institutions have tested, changed or replaced systems. What it means to the universe, whose age is many billions of years, is nothing. Well, maybe not nothing, but that some organisms, on some remote dust speck have managed to count to 2,000.
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