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That was the hashtag for what was a typical demonstration in the world today. Think those kids are outliers? Let Me Google That For You. Protests today often turn violent. Think about what it takes to get people into the streets today. The 60′s are long gone. I generally believe that marching nowadays is worthless (for reasons that have much to do with our media & political class), but I understand why people do it. I frequently understand the anger. Especially when it's another young Black man/boy shot to death by the police. No matter what the circumstances were surrounding the shooting people are angry. As Martin once said "…in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard."
But what happened last night in Brooklyn was not a riot. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I lived through a riot once. And as I read the #BrooklynRiot tweets last night it was plainly obvious that what was going on was not a riot, but lots of people attempting to be heard. People exercising a right that is often severely curbed by the NYPD, NYC govt & the police departments & governments of many other cities:
Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And as happens sometimes in this situation, some people took the protest as an opportunity to stir up some trouble. I make no excuses for those who destroyed people's property, but make no mistake about it, some of those people were/are filled with anger. An anger that had nowhere to go, but out. And anger that we refuse to discuss except with lip service.
I don't know who decided to declare that protest a riot when some folks turned bad, but my money is on the NYPD. They are almost universally adversarial towards Black & Latin@ people. If they want the anger to begin to subside then their tactics & attitude must change.
The irony of this so-called riot is that without the trouble there would be almost zero coverage of last night's demonstration.
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Here's a new batch of Forza Horizon screenshots showing some incredibly clean cars being hooligans on public roads.
The racers can be seen dodging around busses as they speed along, and one shot also offers a look at an Evo going sideways in what looks like a Rally event (thanks Game Informer).
Microsoft has confirmed an October 23, 2012 Forza Horizon release date. Pre-ordering a copy of Forza Horizon will get you extra treats not just in the new game but also in Forza Motorsport 4 if you own a copy - here's a list of Forza Horizon pre-order goodies.
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I carried out my second training in the Kyriad hotel of Compiegne; it is one three stars and fact left the group Louvrehotel. He account 45 rooms. During six weeks I have worked with the desk clerks and the director of the hotel. I had flexible hours, From 7:00 am till 3:00pm, or from 3:00 pm till 11:00 pm.
During all this training I welcoming, informed and guided the customers. I made check-in (arrival) and check out(departure) of the customers; they are done on the software operated group Louvre hotel. I took part in the organization of seminars and day of study.I took reservations of rooms (chamber) or rooms by telephone and email. At the end of November I made of the filing, that is I tidied up thereservations in the file of the reservations rooms(chambers) and seminaries(seminars) of the month current and made a new file for December.
Besides, Irealized tasks which are not manager assistant. Like the fact of passing the vacuum cleaner, to make the linen and plunges it, it had to be done theeveryday because there was no cleaning lady to the hotel except the chambermaids which dealt only with the rooms. The disadvantage of these daily tasks it isthat I lose 2 or 3h, therefore in 6 weeks of training I don't have time to achieve much mission
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There has been an earthquake in the south eastern Turkish province of Van, killing at least 650 people and leaving more than 2000 injured. Survivors of the earthquake are now struggling against a number of problems such as cold weather, lack of enough food and clean water, insufficient number of shelter tents etc. Schools have been temporarily closed but the education process is planned to be restarted in the beginning of December. By showing them that there are people who care about them, it could be possible to strengthen their will of resisting against the problems still continuing in their home-town. Writing letters and recording videos expressing the support and awareness of other pupils will be of vital importance for the teachers and students in Van.
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Well, I'd say you did quite well considering your limited time frame, LOL. Looking forward to seeing them in a tablescape in the future. TFS, |
Kathe, your new Banner is beautiful. Job well done by Mr B. Great finds. I too will be looking forward to seeing your tables using them. Happy to hear you now have a set of 6 cups too. Punk |
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maxi...that white pumpkin had to come with you...if not you, then it would have been w/me! LOL! You really got some nice, nice things! Those candlewick cups...I could just smell "hot cider" steaming from those! Never seen those oval plates ...but yes, at my fav Mexican food place, they serve on oval plates...never thought about that! Your banner is beautiful! Kudos to Mr. B. TFS! Jeanne S. |
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Yep, that banner is really lovely! And you got some wonderful finds!! I hadn't thought about oval plates till reading what you said about them on the blog. Glad you and Mr B. had such a fun day. |
Nice finds Kathe...Love the white pumpkin and those candlewick cups are so unusual. Jeanne's right 'hot cider' would be perfect! Great oval plates...can't have too many of them. Pretty...Pretty New banner! jane |
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Hi, I usually hang out on the Cactus and Succulent and House Plant forums, so I am a new poster here. Can anyone id this plant? Thanks for any help! Nancy |
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It looks to have skinny leaves like one of the fernleaf hybrids, doesn't look red enough for Early Scout but similar foliage....are the petals really that sparse? How tall is the plant/big is the bloom? Do you have other peonies and have any of them bloomed yet (is it earlier/later than a know variety)? Maybe someone else might know right away which variety it is, I'm not knowledgable enough on the different peonies to help much, sorry! |
- Posted by brodyjames 5 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 1, 13 at 0:37
I didn't know this had bloomed, so was late in getting a picture. The blooms are usually a little fuller, are magenta in color and normally "sit" atop the bush. This particular bush is tiny, but if I remember correctly, the bush can get 2-3 ft. tall and 2-3 ft. in diameter. The normal bloom is about 4 inches in diameter. I have other peony varieties that I purchased last year, but as of May 18th, this was the only bloom on ANY of them. Could it possibly be Paeonia tenuifolia? Nancy |
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I don't think the leaves are quite right for a true fernleaf but it certainly could be a hybrid. I'm going from pictures, though--hopefully someone out there with fernleafs can help out. You might want to start a new post with Is This a Fernleaf? or something similar in the title to catch their attention. Regardless, it's a very pretty and unusual looking poeny! |
- Posted by brodyjames 5 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 3, 13 at 22:08
Thanks, I will try that! Nancy |
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I got to within 98% of completing the conversion of the cookbook to EPUB format, when I just ran out of gas. I will finish up converting the last nine pages this morning, then go through a thorough edit to verify that I did everything correctly. I will then post the cookbook for public consumption.
After I finish with the cookbook, I will again look into installing Arch Linux in a virtual machine. This time, I will have the instructions from the Arch wiki in front of me, so I will know what to do next.
I have made a minor change to this blog. When you now click on a Free/Open Source Software link, it will now open in a separate browser tab.
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- Reasons Mesa 9.1 Is Still Disappointing For End-Users
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- HP bids adieu to WebOS, Windows RT, and says hello to Android
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The most glam way to see the world is through rose-colored glasses.
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UK youngsters the History Of Apple Pie have some messy fun to the tune of the upbeat, shoegazey "Mallory." Whoever the curator of the food items used for the food fight is, A+, some truly great/gross textures and colors in the mix here. May it enter the pantheon of indie rock food fight videos! Check out the clip after the jump.
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INDORE: Government will establish a forest division in Indore under Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) on the lines of Pital Project Forest division of Bhopal.
This was announced by state housing and environment minister Jayant Malaiya during his visit to the city on Saturday. "The establishment of forest division in IMC will help improve environmental conditions in and around the city," Malaiya said, adding that large-scale afforestation programme needed to be launched in Indore division.
The visit of the minister also came as a welcome relief for builders of the state, as he tried to clear the confusion over Aashray Nidhi or shelter fund. "For any residential construction on land up to five acres, builders will have to either construct houses for economically weaker people on 15 per cent of the developed land or they can free their land by paying shelter fund. However, constructing houses for economically poor people will be compulsory on any project of more than five acres," said the minister, adding that the government is also planning to simplify the allotment of houses to economically weaker people. Government will allot the houses on the basis of affidavit and income proof.
Commenting on the delay in the master plan of the city, the minister said master plan will be implemented soon. He also denied the charges that authorities are making modification in master plan in order to benefit the influential people of the city. "The master plan will be implemented soon and once it is implemented, people will stop levelling such allegations. No modification whatsoever has been made in the master plan," the minister asserted.
The master plan was made in 2003 keeping in view the development of the city till 2025, however it took around a decade to get the clearances and now only a about decade was left. By the time the master plan is implemented, the city may need another master plan.
Taking about IDA, the minister said development body will soon be removed from the colonizer category. A recommendation in this regard has been made and cabinet is expected to take a decision on this next month. The minister also stressed on the legalization of 419 illegal colonies of the city.
Earlier, Malaiya along with Mayor Krishnamurari Moghe and municipal commissioner Yogendra Sharma visited Bilaoali and Limbodi lakes. Terming Limbodi Lake as a tourist attraction, he expressed satisfaction over development of the lake undertaken by the IMC.
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Barnes arrives, and we head outside to his pickup. A stocky man, he has a graying ponytail and callused hands. Raised in Barnard by his grandmother, he started trapping mink and muskrat at six years old. Now, Barnes works part-time as a wilderness guide, specializing in animal tracking. We drive to a trailhead for Nyes Swamp, where Barnes straps on an old pair of sinew-and-ash bentwood snowshoes that are easily three times bigger than my dinky aluminum Tubbs. "These don't trap snow or slush the way new ones can," Barnes says, crunching along a logging road as a pack of snowmobilers zooms past. We quickly leave the joyriders behind by dropping into a steep vale. Drifts well around gray birches that rustle drily. Barnes indicates scarring on the trees where black bear have marked their territory. (Luckily, they hibernate.) Moose tracks cluster around browsed balsam fir. We climb over fallen logs to look for a porcupine den, and wind up in a frozen fen dammed by beaver. The woods are so still, I can hear falling snow crystals as they begin to fill our own tracks. We turn back toward the logging road, and Barnes points out a ruin. "Farmers way back in places like this scratched out a living. Sometimes, the 'overseer of the poor' would come around with food and check on them." (New England towns would elect this official, whose title originated in the Elizabethan era, to supervise a 19th-century form of welfare known as "outdoor relief," a euphemism for the poorhouse system.) Frugal Vermonters were generally reluctant to participate.
On the way to Woodstock, I catch up with Jean and Albert Conklin, friends who own a farm in nearby Pomfret. It once belonged to her parents; the couple took it over in 1952. Both in their eighties, they would never consider moving south. I note how certain older Vermonters seem to thrive in the cold. "Every hundred years we get a new batch of people here," Albert remarks. Despite his long residence, some of his neighbors still consider him a flatlander. "Once in a while," he smiles, "I'm mistaken for a Vermonter."
Just opposite the Conklins' farm is the site of America's first rope tow, erected by Wallace "Bunny" Bertram on Gilbert's Hill in 1934. (Two years later, he opened another lift on adjacent Hill Number Six, which later became known as the Suicide Six ski area.) Operated with an old Model T Ford engine, it hauled skiers up a gentle slope. When I ask Jean whether she rode it as a girl, she replies, "I never did. It cost too much. We skied hills around the farm, but we had to trudge up."
Perhaps the best-known hill farm in central Vermont is the Billings Farm & Museum, on Route 12 outside Woodstock. During early winter, it's open only on weekends, but the chance to get up close and personal with a working herd of Jersey cows is tempting to those who don't regularly walk around in pastures wearing muck boots. Of course, not every Vermont hill farm has the late Laurance Rockefeller as its patron saint. He was married to Mary Billings French, whose family bought the property in 1871. The original owner, George Perkins Marsh, wrote a startlingly prescient ecological diatribe in 1864 titled Man and Nature and is considered to be America's first environmentalist. The Billings-Rockefeller land stewardship now extends beyond the farm to an adjoining 550-acre tract on Mount Tom with 20 miles of groomed trails.
Walking along the streets that radiate from Woodstock's village green, it's impossible to separate the greater landscape from the munificent influence of Laurance Rockefeller's local foundation, which also oversees the Suicide Six ski resort and the Woodstock Inn. The town is unquestionably a primer on architectural preservation. Federal, Greek Revival, and late-Georgian houses (mostly painted white) stand elbow to elbow. The library has stained-glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany; hanging in several church steeples (also all white) stand bells most likely forged by Paul Revere and his progeny. On Elm Street, F. H. Gillingham & Sons stocks plaid woolen Johnson Mills hunting pants, wooden train whistles, and sleigh bells. The Town Crier blackboard announces community suppers and sing-alongs. A covered wooden bridge crosses the Ottauquechee River. Vermont senator Jacob Collamer, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, once said, "The good people of Woodstock have less incentive than others to yearn for heaven." Damned right.
I detour through the village of Warren and duck up Common Road, which is lined with old sugar maples that already bear galvanized tap buckets on their trunks. To the west looms Mount Ellen, slightly over 4,000 feet in elevation. Anyone spoiled by heli-skiing in the Rockies might not give it a second glance. That would be a mistake.
John Egan has the scorched cheeks and chapped lips of one who has been exposed to harsh conditions too long, his official title is chief recreation officer at Sugarbush. Essentially, he is in charge of "all things snow" for the resort's adventure learning center. During the off-season, he occasionally leads extreme ski expeditions to Greenland and Patagonia.


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(03-31-2012 11:02 AM)hazezofgreen Wrote: Im sorry you had to go through these troubles Bob. Everyone knows you are probably one of the most (if not the most) dedicated UD collectors out there. It is great that they sent you the sweet spiller, but you sure did have to go through a lot to get it.
(03-31-2012 11:24 AM)chibearsboy Wrote: i am so sorry my friend...i HATE to see this and the crap you had to deal with..NOT FAIR for a guy like yourself..your too good of a dude! i just wish i could say something to help..but i have had the same feelings for some of these card companys for years....i havent busted hardly ANY boxes since Panini took over Donruss and UD hit the wall...before that really.. i absolutely LOVED their products....make me sad about you bro...i have always looked up to you and your collecting habits......those people should know better.
(03-31-2012 11:29 AM)ft28jags Wrote: This is their typical customer service, as parcelling out crumbs to assuage the "customer" into not calling by sending SOMETHING!! They don't even take care of their "Diamond Club" anymore my bud told me, as he had requested replacements and they didn't do squat for him.
(03-31-2012 02:02 PM)collinsfanatic Wrote: Sorry to hear that Bob. At least they hooked you up with a sweet 264!!!! Never did hear back from you about those 98 SPXs.
(03-31-2012 02:03 PM)Marinocollector Wrote: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
(03-31-2012 02:08 PM)philly eagle in az Wrote: That's odd that they happened to have that one still in stock.
(03-31-2012 04:17 PM)tigerkal1993 Wrote: Hate to hear you had to go through all of that. That is a sweeeeet CJ Spiller though!!!
(03-31-2012 04:20 PM)ricky williams 34 Wrote: I'm glad you got the Spiller Bob, but I'm sorry to hear about the other troubles you had with UD. I have loved UD products forever, but they way they treat people has killed their company. Hate to see you selling off your sets as well. Maybe you'll rethink that??
(03-31-2012 05:25 PM)krayzie83 Wrote: Hate to hear you've lost interest in the hobby, hopefully something else comes along to rekindle it! Worst case scenario you have a more narrow focus and more money for other things. Best of luck in whatever you decide!
(03-31-2012 06:39 PM)superynaldo Wrote: hey, first I am so sorry UD has treated you so poorly... second, if I can get first dibs on any Jordan Shipley you have that I need I will take them...pm me if you can... thanks!!!
(03-31-2012 08:26 PM)jncdrew Wrote: DUDE, dont let these jackholes ruin something you love! This will pass man, count to 10 and take a step back. Trust me, poop happens. You should use this as motivation to strike harder and faster!!! You are a Titan of the hobby, at least think about it.... If you are already gone and there is no turning back, PM me the Dez Bryants you have and any other sick Cowboys you might have and we will see what we can do.
(03-31-2012 10:17 PM)mrgonzodad Wrote: On top of all that the Bucks lost to Kansas today. Sorry to hear that Bob.
(04-02-2012 09:20 AM)ft28jags Wrote: It won't get better imo and in all honesty, the more their name is in the news as it is presently, there may not be an Upper Deck when all is said and done and to think Yugio (probably spelled it wrong) will lead to their potential demise is sad, as it isn't even a sports card that's bringing them down


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Hot Dance Club Songs
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart[1] (also known as Club Play Singles, formerly known as Hot Dance Club Play, prior to that Hot Dance/Disco and initially Disco Action chart) is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."
The current number-one song on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart for the issue dated February 7, 2015 is "Blind Heart" by Cazzette featuring Terri B!.[2]
Hot Dance Club Songs has undergone several incarnations since its inception in 1974. Originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26, 1974 under the title Disco Action. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week. Billboard continued to run regional and city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976 until the issue dated August 28, 1976, when a thirty-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered. This quickly expanded to forty positions, then in 1979 the chart expanded to sixty positions, then eighty, and finally reached 100 positions from 1979 until 1981, when it was reduced to eighty again.[3]
During the first half of the 1980s the chart maintained eighty slots until March 16, 1985 when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed. Two charts appeared: Hot Dance/Disco, which ranked club play (fifty positions), and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, which ranked 12-inch single (or maxi-single) sales (also fifty positions, now reduced to ten and available through Billboard.biz only).
These two charts still exist today, under the official titles Hot Dance Club Songs and Hot Dance Single Sales.[4] In 2003 Billboard introduced the Hot Dance Airplay chart (now known as Dance/Mix Show Airplay), which is based solely on radio airplay of six dance music stations and top 40 mix shows electronically monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.[5] These stations are also a part of the electronically monitored panel that encompasses the Hot 100.
On January 17, 2013, Billboard added a new chart, Dance/Electronic Songs, which tracks the 50 most popular Dance and Electronic singles and tracks based on club play, single sales, radio airplay, digital downloads, and online streaming as reported on the component Dance Club Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Dance Single Sales, and Dance/Electronic Digital Songs charts.[6]
Statistics and Record World data[edit]
Although the disco chart began reporting popular songs in New York City nightclubs, Billboard soon expanded coverage to feature multiple charts each week which highlighted playlists in various cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston (among others). During this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record Worlds chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975 and August 21, 1976 into Billboards club play history. For the sake of continuity, Record Worlds national chart is incorporated into both Whitburn's Dance/Disco publication (via his Record Research company) as well as the 1975 and 1976 number-ones lists.[3]
With the issue dated August 28, 1976, Billboard premiered its own national chart (National Disco Action Top 30) and their data is used from this date forward.[3]
Top 10 artists with the most number one songs[edit]
- Artists with the most number-one Hot Dance Club Songs hits:
- 1. Madonna — 43[7]
- 2. Rihanna — 22[8]
- 3. Beyoncé — 21[9]
- 4. Janet Jackson — 19[8]
- 5. Mariah Carey — 17 (tie)[10][11]
- 5. Donna Summer1 — 17 (tie)[3][12]
- 7. Kristine W — 16[13]
- 7. Jennifer Lopez — 16 (tie)[14]
- 9. Katy Perry — 15[15]
- 10. Whitney Houston — 13 (tie)[8]
- 10. Enrique Iglesias — 13 (tie)
- 10. Lady Gaga — 13 (tie)[16]
Records and other notable achievements[edit]
- The first 12-inch single made commercially available to the public was "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure in 1976.[3]
- The first number one on Billboard's Disco Action chart was "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor in 1974.[3]
- The first number one on Billboard's National Disco Action Top 30 was "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees in 1976.[3]
- From the dance chart's inception until the week of February 16, 1991, several (or even all) songs on an EP, album or 12-inch single could occupy the same position if more than one track from a release was receiving significant play in clubs (for example, Donna Summer charted several full-length albums, both Chaka Khan and Madonna have hit number one with remix albums). Chart entries like this were especially prevalent during the disco era, where an entire side of an album would contain several songs segued together seamlessly to replicate a night of dancing in a club. Beginning with the February 23, 1991 issue, the dance chart became "song specific," meaning only one song could occupy each position at a time.[3]
- Because of the former policy allowing multiple songs to occupy one position at the same time, there have been three instances when not only multiple songs were at number one, but the songs were performed by different artists. In all scenarios this was due to the tracks being included in film soundtrack albums. In 1978, four tracks from Thank God It's Friday (Donna Summer, Pattie Brooks, Love & Kisses, Sunshine), in 1980, two tracks from Fame (Irene Cara, Linda Clifford) and in 1985 two songs from Beverly Hills Cop (Patti LaBelle, Harold Faltermeyer) hit number one together.
- Hot Dance Club Songs is one of the last remaining Billboard charts that remains "frozen" for one week (either the last week in December or the first week in January, depending on the calendar year). As this chart is not monitored electronically like most of the other charts, all songs "hold" their positions for the additional week, and still have the frozen week added to their "weeks on chart" total.
- Madonna holds the record for the most chart hits, the most top-twenty hits, the most top-ten hits[17] and the most total weeks at number one (73 weeks).[7]
- Three albums hold the record for producing the most top-ten hits, with seven each: Madonna's American Life, Beyoncé's I Am... Sasha Fierce and Katy Perry's Teenage Dream. Perry's album is the only one to generate seven chart-toppers.[18][19]
- The Trammps are the only act to replace themselves at number one (issue date June 5, 1976, "That's Where the Happy People Go" → "Disco Party").[3]
- Kristine W's first nine chart entries all hit number one. She therefore held the record for the longest streak of uninterrupted chart-toppers, which was broken in 2006 with the number-two peak of "I'll Be Your Light".[13] Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez bested this feat in 2012, when each artist earned their tenth consecutive number-one. They both later earned their eleventh consecutive number-one hits in 2013 and Perry continued with her twelfth with "Unconditionally".[20] Perry then broke the tie with "Dark Horse"[21] and extended her own mark with "Birthday" and "This Is How We Do" in 2014. Perry currently holds the record for most consecutive number-one songs with 15.
- "The Boss" is the only song to reach number one by three different artists: Diana Ross in 1979, The Braxtons in 1997 and Kristine W in 2008.
- The longest running number-ones on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart are "Bad Luck" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes2 in 1975 and the album Thriller by Michael Jackson. Both entries spent eleven weeks in the top spot.[22]
- "One Word" by Kelly Osbourne made chart history on June 18, 2005 when it became the first song to simultaneously top the Hot Dance Club Songs, Hot Dance Singles Sales and Hot Dance Airplay charts.
- Up until her death on May 17, 2012, Donna Summer was the only active artist to have placed a single on this chart in all five decades since its inception, starting with "Love to Love You Baby" in 1975 and ending with her final number one, "To Paris with Love" for the chart week ending November 6, 2010. With Summer's death, Madonna becomes the only living active artist to continue charting, as each of her singles have reached the top ten in her four-decade run from 1982 to the present.
- LeAnn Rimes became the first country music artist to have topped both the Billboard country chart and the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Rimes, who had several remixes of her country hits reach the dance chart, achieved that distinction during the week of February 28, 2009, when the electronic dance music remixes of her 2008 single "What I Cannot Change" reached number one.[23]
- Beyoncé, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland are the only artists on this chart to reach number one as members of a group (Destiny's Child) and as solo artists. The same three artists also achieved that accomplishment on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.
- Lady Gaga gained ten number-one hits on Hot Dance Club Songs faster than any other artist in history, in two years, five months, and three weeks. The previous record was held by Rihanna, who earned her first ten number-one hits in a span of four years and five months.[16]
- Enrique Iglesias holds the record for most number-one songs by a solo male artist, with 13.
- Kylie Minogue made chart history in February 2011 for being the first artist to have two songs in the top three of the Hot Dance/Club Songs chart simultaneously. This milestone was achieved with the songs "Better than Today" from her studio album Aphrodite, and "Higher", a collaboration done with Taio Cruz.[24]
- Footnotes
- 1 Summer's total includes two titles which hit number one during the span of time in which Record World's dance chart data is used (see "Statistics and Record World data"). Some Billboard columnists credit Summer with only 15 number-ones.
- 2 Eight of the 11 weeks-at-number-one for "Bad Luck" is during the span of time in which Record World's dance chart data is used (see "Statistics and Record World data").
See also[edit]
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
- List of artists with the most number ones on the U.S. dance chart
- List of number one dance airplay hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance airplay chart
- ^ Trust, Gary (June 12, 2009). "Ask Billboard: Paulina Rubio, Black Eyed Peas, Marvin Gaye". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ "Chart Highlights: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Top Pop Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. January 27, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Whitburn, Joel (2004). Billboard Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003. Record Research. ISBN 0-89820-156-X.
- ^ Billboard.com - Charts - Singles - Hot Dance Singles Sales
- ^ Billboard.com - Charts - Singles - Hot Dance Airplay
- ^ New Dance/Electronic Songs Chart Launches With Will.i.am & Britney at No. 1 from Billboard (January 17, 2013)
- ^ a b c d "Madonna Notches 43rd No. 1 on Dance/Club Play Songs". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-08-27.
- ^ a b c Murray, Gordan (March 27, 2014). "Skrillex Debuts at No. 1 on Dance/Electronic Albums Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ Murray, Gordon (November 27, 2014). "Wyclef & Avicii Fight AIDS and Find Success on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ "Mariah Carey Scores Sweet 16th No. 1 On Dance/Club Play Songs". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
- ^ "Mariah Carey's 'You're Mine' Crowns Dance Club Songs Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
- ^ Trust, Gray. "Ask Billboard: Is 'Idol' Ruining Rock?". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
- ^ a b Trust, Gray. "The Power Of Kristine W". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ Trust, Gray. "Chart Weekly Chart Notes: Adele, Jennifer Lopez, Sherwood Schwartz". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ^ "Iggy Azalea, Paramore Score First Pop Radio No. 1s". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
- ^ a b Trust, Gray. "Weekly Chart Notes: Jimmy Buffett, Lady Gaga, Bill Cosby". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ Trust, Gray. "Chart Beat Wednesday: Train, Beyonce, Kings Of Leon". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
- ^ "Chart Beat Wednesday: Diva Domination". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ^ "Katy Perry Notches Record Seventh No. 'One' From 'Teenage Dream' On Dance/Club Play Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ Trust, Gary (October 14, 2013). "Chart Highlights: Katy Perry, Drake, Bastille Score New No. 1s". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ^ "Avicii, Katy Perry Make Historic Moves On Dance Charts". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
- ^ "Ask Billboard: Small Screen, Big Hits". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
- ^ "Trying to follow in Garth's, Martina's footprints". The Nashville City Paper. 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ^ "Kylie Minogue Makes History On The Dance/Club Play Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
External links[edit]
- Billboard Online
- Current Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart (top 25)
- Current Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (Updated weekly)


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I'm a first-year University student pursuing journalism and public relations. Besides all that education-related stuff, I also blog on "Pale Division" (http://paledivision.blogspot.com) where I post photos of my personal style, inspiration, muses and random photography.
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I actually have no idea… I keep close to fifty pairs in my wardrobe while the rest that I rarely wear are kept in my mother's closet!
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Lucite-esque or glass-heeled shoes. Anything clear, really… Even my nails are 'clean-looking' with just glitter on them!
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I am looking for a Texas Star Hibiscus plant due to a quick frost here in Ohio last year killed mine.I grew it in a container and brought it in every winter.I googled it but found nothing...thnx gwod1 |
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Gwod1, If I am not mistaken, the 'Texas Star' is a H. Moscheutos and is a perennial plant. They die back every winter and grow new stalks each year. I have mine in pots and leave them out during several freezes to let them go dormant. During the winter they sit in the cool basement with very low light, and water. As I get ready for spring, I up the watering and bring them upstairs for light and warmth. If you have a swamp mallow, just be patient. Cut back the old stalks and let mother nature handle the rest. Below picture is a H.M. 'Robert Fleming' emerging from hibernation. The next is 'Midnight Marvel' kicking it up a notch. Ed |
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Even here they die back each fall. I do hope you are also saving seeds just in case. This is what they are looking like today. |
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Texas Star hibiscus is known botanically as Hibiscus coccineus. You can probably locate sources for plants at the link below. If you start from seed, they will bloom the first year but it takes up to four months so be patient. :-) Rosie |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hibiscus coccineus
I just ordered two Hibiscus coccineus from the Monticello catalog http://www.monticelloshop.org/606088.html I'd been looking for this particular variety, was very excited to find it from a source I support so strongly. My understanding is that profits from the catalog go to support both the historical sites and the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants. I bought quite a few seeds from them last year, most were wintersown so I'm still waiting to see how they will do. While I'm at it...I can't recommend this book highly enough! "A Rich Spot of Earth" Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello |
- Posted by wally-1936 8b (My Page) on Wed, Mar 27, 13 at 21:38
There are quite a few Texas Star Hibiscus growers on this website. There are usually plenty of seeds to share for those how enjoy starting them from seed. Mine are coming up earlier this year than they usually sprout. Most of my usually do not bloom until July but from the looks of these right now I may be able to enjoy more blooms this summer. I have had them not even start to sprout about May which made me think they were dead. But now I know to just wait and see. The seeds came from one that was well over 10 foot tall but so far where I am living they only have reached 6 foot tall. My Confederate Rose Hibiscus got to over 15 feet tall so I cut it all the way to the ground. But I still have at least 3 more that if left alone will be trees in a couple year. |
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Kevin, what makes your practice "relatively safe"? How do you control the degree to which you reduce the flow of blood to the brain? How do you know that it's "enough" to cause them to pass out and no more? And how does someone learn such things, such that they can practice "safely"? Clearly trial and error is not the way.
Good question. Uke has a responsibility to tap. Nage also has a responsibility to recognize what is going on in the situation as well. You also have an instructor who should be watching and controlling the situation as well. I have been choked to passing out a few times. It was because I was too stubborn to admit I need to tap my opponent and thought I still had a chance!
The chokes don't happen immediately, you have 30 seconds or so to start feeling light headed and realize that things are getting dark!
Other than that, when a un-skilled student say gets a "air" choke...you have to tap before he applies it and let him know what is going on. Same with neck cranks. They can look like chokes, but are a different mechanism. Again, the instructor must be trained and know what is going on to control the situation.
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Is there a disconnect between where our roads are most travelled and where stimulus money is being spent?
In the Up Front blog from the Brookings Institution, Robert Puentes looks at America's 100 largest metropolitan areas and, not surprisingly, finds that this is where most of our commerce is and where most of our highways miles are travelled. But the percentage of ARRA funds directed at transport projects that goes to these areas does not match this dominance. Even given the administration's stated idea to target our more depressed areas, the imbalance raises some questions. Check out the blog entry.
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Many teachers and students are interested in robotics. They work or would like to work with different kind of robots. This project will allow them to share their ideas with people from other European countries. Our pupils are often very keen on building and programming robots and through these activities they can explore other subjects like electronics, physics, mathematics… By communicating with other partners, students will also improve their skills in foreign languages and in ICT.
You can find, in the project activities for french students, some worksheets with objectives set by teachers. Let me know please if you have some remarks or ideas.
We work to find partners for a comenius project. A preparation visit is planned end of September or beginning of October. So if anybody is really interested in robotics: Do not hesitate to join.
You can find all rtb files needed for the students activities in Prog_Demo zipped folder, in the stuff room.
In deed there is a brisk email-exchange beetween the teachers to find the subjects and to organise the cooperation beetween the pupils.
The difficult is to find common themes because each partner has another main focus to robotic.
I find that we have developped a good solution: Barbara and the pupils in Poitiers start technical simulations (forklift, room-surveillance, remote control) with Nxt-robots.
In Berlin the pupils discover the communication beetween animals and find simulations with Nxt-robots.
Mihai from Orsova constructs robots with special electronic circuitry.
Barbara and Alfons will find the entry to build and program Parallax Sumo Bots (Line following,...
Thanks to Mario translation, you can find the french students activities about flowcharts and NXT programming in the stuff room of our Twinspace.


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1. What, if any, connections do you see between learning and computer/video game playing?
Potentially, a lot... But today, almost none! As far as I know, and only through my own experience, the "edutainment" titles are usually carrying a kind of false promise which is "learn and play." Most children will like "playing" them because it is "new" and "on the computer." But the learning dimension will be quite secondary. And once the same children discover the "real" video games, they don't go back to the edutainment titles anymore...
There is certainly new kind of software / applications that are still to be invented in order to allow children to learn via a computer. But in my mind, playing and learning are two separate things, and I am not sure that learning should necessarily be "fun" (I am a bit "old school" on this subject I guess).
2. What connection, if any, do you see between computer games and the teaching of writing at either the high school or college level?
A lot. For me, a video game -- at least those that I am doing -- are telling stories, as much as a novel or a movie. This means that the "heart" of the game is a story, that has to be written. I am sure that young people that are not so much interested in books/novels/movies will find very exciting to "write" a story for a video game. Excellent! As long as the story's good, it can be for any media.
3. What do you suppose might be an interesting computer game for the teaching of writing (either currently out or not yet imagined)?
Any game that "tells a story," going from "Mario" adventures to the kind of games I am doing. That makes a lot of games :)