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"Slide guitar like no other. Watermelon Slim has something about him that sets him apart from the rest. Either his exquisite slide guitar playing, his slurred shouts that pose as vocals, or the actual rare quality of catchy-ness while playing the blues, there is something about this man. Intelligently constructed songs, and man, that incredible voice, makes this an incredibly well put together blues album."
-John Shelton Ivany Top 21 February, 2009
"Bill 'Watermelon Slim' Homans has built a career in the blues in a relatively short span of time, releasing four albums in the last five years and touring constantly. Slim sings, plays Dobro slide guitar and harp, and has the kind of life story that could only be lived and not fictionalized. He learned to play in an Army hospital after enlisting in the Vietnam-era military, with a Zippo lighter as a slide. Since then, he has been a truck driver, watermelon farmer (hence the name), a funeral officiator, and a small-time crook. He also has two Masters degrees, one in history and one in journalism. In the early part of our new century, Slim suffered a near-fatal heart attack and refocused his life on the blues. His latest record, No Paid Holidays, shows Slim and his band at their best over the course of 14 tracks of funky, deep-down, play-it-like-you-mean-it blues that would certainly rock any house in the world. "Slim is raw and no one will ever mistake his voice for B.B. King's, but his rough edges only add to his charm. Slim is the kind of wild-eyed American musical visionary this country used to breed in bunches and that has been in woefully short supply as of late. Technical perfection fades in the name of heart, groove, and sincerity, which is as it should be, and Slim radiates that 'X' factor that makes it all ok. From the fun and funk of Call My Job to the deep Bloody Burmese Blues, Slim sings it as he has lived it and that is what makes No Paid Holidays so instantly appealing. The disc packs just the right amount of city, swamp, juke joint, and back porch to appeal to a wide range of blues fans. Although he is new on the scene, Watermelon Slim is an all-night worker and could end up a favorite of many long-time roots-music supporters."
- Mike O'Cull Blues Blast Magazine September, 2008
"Blues music is thinking man's music, but Watermelon Slim's blues well, that's rocket-science, genius-level stuff, a cut above your average Grade-A filet in both sound and taste. You would think that it would be tough for Slim to follow up a Blues Music Award winning effort like last year's The Wheel Man, yet here he is again, with his superb houserockin' band The Workers also Blues Music Award winners delivering another phenomenal effort in No Paid Holidays. "For the uninitiated, Slim's half-slurred, half-growled vocal patois (equal parts Carolina soul and Okie drawl) takes some getting used to hearing. But throw in Slim's haunting National Steel slide guitarplay, which hangs across these songs like vines dripping down from the limbs of a Cypress tree, combine it with his shotgun harp work, include a band that knows when to be quiet and when to be loud, and you have a lethal chemistry. Slim's whipsmart lyricism is backed up by real-life bumps-and-bruises all a beautiful shade of blues and enough skilled wordplay to entertain listeners for hours. "No Paid Holidays follows Slim's tried-and-true formula a couple of gutbucket blues romps (Gearzy's Boogie, Blues For Howard), a romantic tearjerker (You're The One I Need), a mournful field holler with sparse instrumentation (This Traveling Life), and a couple of greasy juke-joint slides (Lee Roy Parnell drops by to add some bottleneck breaks to Bubba's Blues, while I've Got A Toothache is just downright scary). Slim displays his storytelling skills with the entertaining Max The Baseball Clown, while Archetypal Blues No. 2 covers a lot of historical ground with name checks of giants like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker delivered above a raging boogie beat. A cover of Laura Nyro's And When I Die is stripped down from its better-known Blood, Sweat & Tears arrangement, reduced to a raw, emotional country-blues stomp. "The bottom line: the blues just don't get any better than No Paid Holidays making Watermelon Slim and the Workers a true musical force of nature."
- Rev. Keith A. Gordon Blurt online - formerly Harp Magazine August, 2008
Today's Grapes of Wrath "The journey of Watermelon Slim, aka Bill Homans, is the stuff of movies. He learned his unique, upside-down, left-handed slide style in a Vietnam hospital bed on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army-issued Zippo lighter as the slide. As a modern Tom Joad, he's worked as a truck driver, forklift operator, sawmiller (where he lost part of his finger), firewood salesman, collection agent, and has even officiated funerals. He ended up farming watermelons in Oklahoma - hence his stage name and current home base. Somewhere in those decades Slim also completed two undergrad degrees, in history and journalism. "Though he never made the finals of the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge, he was signed on the strength of his jarring, solo act. From there, Watermelon Slim and his band, The Workers, have become the talk of the Blues World. In 2007, Watermelon Slim garnered six Blues Music Award (BMA) nominations for Artist, Entertainer, Album, Band, Song, and Traditional Album of the Year. In 2008, Slim and the band were nominated for another six Blues Music Awards for the same categories. "Still looking to win his first BMA, Watermelon Slim finally walked away with the two biggest prizes of the 2008 BMA's, Band of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for his 2007 release, The Wheel Man. Backed by his crack band, drummer Michael Newbury, bassist Cliff Belcher, and guitarist Ronnie McMullen, Slim delivers what might be termed "Blues of the new millennium." They consistently deliver a rockin' Blues featuring Slim's slippery slide and veteran harmonica connected to themes essential in today's Grapes of Wrath America. Past tunes like Foldin' Money Blues, Black Water, and Hard Times speak to the modern situation in the same way Willie Dixon's tunes captured Chicago or Charlie Patton's songs illuminated the Delta. At the same time, Slim's gravelly vocals are as timeless as the places this music was born. "The CD is a collection of styles, genres, and verses. There's the fine slide duet between Slim and Lee Roy Parnell on Bubba's Blues. There's some clever down-home philosophy on the first song, Blues For Howard, with David Maxwell added on piano. There's Slim blowin' a funky, Chicago Blues on Detroit Junior's Call My Job, followed by You're The One I Need, wherein Slim acknowledges his harp debt to Chicago's Charlie Musselwhite and Paul Butterfield. On Archetypal Blues #2, Slim's personal history rap captures floating verses from Johnson's Preachin' Blues, like 'the Blues is an achin' heart disease' and honors his inspirations like Wolf, John Lee, and Mississippi Fred. "Three tunes are recorded field holler style. On This Traveling Life, Slim's whoopin' and wailin' and his acoustic harp answering strongly alludes to the ending of the O' Brother movie. The same treatment is given to Laura Nyro's And When I Die and I've Got A Toothache, where Slim's slide smothers the pain of the extraction. Remember the Blues is about reliving the pains. "The deepest, most timely Blues is The Bloody Burmese Blues, about watching a foreign war from his hotel and wonderin' whether our press and government will take the time to report the massacre. This is where guitarist McMullen shines as he competently turns the emotion of the moment into weeping notes. The CD closes immersed in the Blues with five minutes of Mississippi Fred's Everybody's Down On Me. Slim and his Dobro lament its forceful tale as if he was standin' solo in Como, Mississippi. "Because he's recording with the same band he tours with, Watermelon Slim and his Workers intuitively know how to find the continually paint fresh musical pictures. Get ready for another slew of BMA nominations to follow in 2009."
- Art Tipaldi BluesWax August, 2008
"I saw Watermelon Slim and his band The Workers at a small club and they rocked the joint. In more ways than one. They were remarkable in their energy and as loud as I've ever heard a band. Steve Strongman (a local blues guitarist who opened the show) had to move away to rescue his own ears! They have poured all the same ingredients into this, their newest CD just out. No Paid Holidays is a collection of 14 new tracks, nine originals and a clutch of covers all given the Watermelon Slim treatment. "And what is that treatment? Well, it's full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes blues. Take no prisoners. Slim is a slicing and dicing bottleneck guitarist, who uses a variety of slides to fret with. He plays a mean harmonica, and his voice channels the ghost of Howlin' Wolf. So how can you go wrong? He's a political animal, too. His lyrics cover societal ills, life as a workingman, the road, and everything else, right through to Max the Baseball Clown. He has great taste in cover tunes too, doing a respectable job on Fred McDowell's Everybody's Down on Me and a bang-up And When I Die (the Laura Nyro classic). And his band is good. Cliff Belcher (bass), Michael Newbury (drums), Ronnie 'Mack' McMullen (guitars), are the Workers, who are joined by guests David Maxwell on piano and Lee Roy Parnell who drops in to add slide guitar on Bubba's Blues. Don't miss these guys. And watch for them to play in your town...that's a show you definitely want to see."
- David Kidney Greenman Review August, 2008
"Blues music is thinking man's music, but Watermelon Slim's blues well, that's rocket-science, genius-level stuff, a cut above your average Grade-A filet in both sound and taste. You would think that it would be tough for Slim to follow up a Blues Music Award winning effort like last year's The Wheel Man, yet here he is again, with his superb houserockin' band The Workers also Blues Music Award winners delivering another phenomenal effort in No Paid Holidays. "For the uninitiated, Slim's half-slurred, half-growled vocal patois (equal parts Carolina soul and Okie drawl) takes some getting used to hearing. But throw in Slim's haunting National Steel slide guitarplay, which hangs across these songs like vines dripping down from the limbs of a Cypress tree, combine it with his shotgun harp work, include a band that knows when to be quiet and when to be loud, and you have a lethal chemistry. Slim's whipsmart lyricism is backed up by real-life bumps-and-bruises all a beautiful shade of blues and enough skilled wordplay to entertain listeners for hours. "No Paid Holidays follows Slim's tried-and-true formula a couple of gutbucket blues romps (Gearzy's Boogie, Blues For Howard), a romantic tearjerker (You're The One I Need), a mournful field holler with sparse instrumentation (This Traveling Life), and a couple of greasy juke-joint slides (Lee Roy Parnell drops by to add some bottleneck breaks to Bubba's Blues, while I've Got A Toothache is just downright scary). Slim displays his storytelling skills with the entertaining Max The Baseball Clown, while Archetypal Blues No. 2 covers a lot of historical ground with name checks of giants like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker delivered above a raging boogie beat. A cover of Laura Nyro's And When I Die is stripped down from its better-known Blood, Sweat & Tears arrangement, reduced to a raw, emotional country-blues stomp. "The bottom line: the blues just don't get any better than No Paid Holidays making Watermelon Slim and the Workers a true musical force of nature. "Standout Tracks: I've Got A Toothache, Archetypal Blues No. 2"
- Rev. Keith A. Gordon Blurt Magazine August, 2008
"Bill Homans (AKA Watermelon Slims) first record was a 1973 protest album. Recently back from a grunts-eye view of Vietnam, he used a tin can shard as a pick and his Zippo lighter as a slide, and laid down a series of bitter, acerbic ruminations on the horror and the folly of that memorable war. In the meantime hes passed his days as a truck driver, forklift operator, sawmiller, firewood salesman, collection agent, funeral parlor director, small-time criminal, watermelon farmer, college graduate times three, and member of Mensa. And, oh yeah, one hell of a slide guitar player and blues singer. "Never mind that Bill went thirty years between albums. The last five years have seen five new albums, and No Paid Holidays continues the winning streak. There are original field hollers here, original laments that sound like they come directly from the Delta, original electric Chicago blues, and an oddly endearing blues cover of Laura Nyros And When I Die. On Archetypal Blues No. 2 Bill conjures the spirits of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Howlin Wolf. 'Most of my heroes are dead,' he mumbles, and then burns through a solo that would raise the dead. The guy is good. Real good."
- Andy Whitman Paste Magazine July, 2008
"Watermelon Slim and the Workers play the straight-up workingman's blues, for people who walk the hard road every day and are trying to make ends meet. Slim has been a soldier, truck driver and everything in between, and their latest album continues their mission moving from solo blues to full band accompaniment in the songs. Slim has a couple of political songs on the new record, Blues for Howard (Zinn?) and Bloody Burmese Blues show him taking a Woody Guthrie like journalistic approach to songwriting and then combining it with a solid blues beat. This narrative impulse carries into a couple of other songs, the melancholy Dad in the Distance and the nostalgic Max the Baseball Clown. Slim hasn't forgotten how to boogie as is aptly demonstrated by the blues standard Call My Job and the rockin' Bubba's Blues. He slows things back down for the confessional spoken word and harmonica of I Got a Toothache and And When I Die. Good stuff to be found here. Slim tries to come across as an Okie good ol' boy sometimes, but it is clear that a lot of thought and effort has gone into his music and that effort has paid off handsomely. Like Guthrie, Hank Williams and Willie Dixon, Slim's songs evoke the soul of America in a way that FOX news could only dream of."
-Tim Niland Jazz & Blues Music Reviews July, 2008
"'Workingman's blues' is one of those silly terms that nonetheless conjures a specific image: no-nonsense, pounding, guitar-driven, tradition-sensitive music performed by a grizzled veteran with a gravelly voice. "Bill Homans, the Oklahoma Everyman known as Watermelon Slim, has gone one better, as the man with the Blues Award for Album of the Year for 2007 with The Wheel Man. That rock-heavy disc focused on work, including Truck Driving Mama and Newspaper Reporter. His followup effort, No Paid Holidays, covers more cerebral territory, with occasional comic relief (Call My Job, a raveup about being too hung over for work, and Max the Baseball Clown, a tribute to baseball's clown prince, Max Patkin, sung a cappella. "The wider stylistic and thematic range of No Paid Holidays reflects the artist's growth and a willingness to bare his soul. But it's a good bet that when the Workers hit the stage, they're intent on doing their primary job: entertaining the masses."
-Jeff Johnson Chicago Sun-Times July, 2008
"For the uninitiated, William P Homans, also known under his blues nom de plume as Watermelon Slim, is a polymath. "He has lived the life of a Vietnam veteran, small time criminal, Southern gentleman during the Jim Crowe days, farmer, father, husband, heart attack survivor, academic scholar - and day laborer. "Homans has a wealth of knowledge, talent and experience to draw from, which makes him musically conversant in material written by Cat-Iron as he is in material by Laura Nyro. To say No Paid Holidays, the third offering by Watermelon Slim & The Workers on The Northern Blues label, is more of the same does all involved a major disservice. Although the disc does cover from standard blues themes (the effects of excessive living, loss of a loved one) Watermelon Slim & The Workers just do things differently. "And by differently, I mean better - much better. "Slim is once again layering his fiery slide Dobro and harmonica work and weathered vocals over his road tested three-piece backing band. With Michael Newbury on drums and percussion, Cliff Belcher on bass, and Ronnie McMullen Jr. on six-string, about the only thing remotely negative about the disc is, by including four solo tracks, the Workers are underutilized. "Again, I need to stress the solo tracks are not self-gratifying fillers. Having witnessed Slim quiet, and through a room full of contemporaries at a Handy Awards show, each of these solo tracks has the ability to repeat this feat. However, this should have been an 18-track disc instead of 14. Slim certainly has a vast catalog of experience to write and sing about. "From the opening track Blues from Howard, it is putting these four gifted musicians on the road for virtually the last two years that has got them synched into each others playing, and with Slims arrangements. Every note has meaning; every lead line is included only to propel the groove of the song or instrumental. "Archetypal Blues No.2 is another shuffle piece with a big enough groove to drive one of Slims old 18-wheelers through. Call My Job, has Slims weathered vocals, matter-of-fact delivery and dry wit propelling a song about having 'too much weekend.' Slim may be able to mingle with the single-malt-and-brandy crowd, but is most at home with those who prefer whiskey as their beverage of choice. "On the track Dad in The Distance, the tempo slows down as Slim examines his relationships with his father, and with his own child. It is a particularly gripping piece considering when not on the road, Slim calls Oklahoma home - and his child lives in Massachusetts. "Other highlights on this disk include a cover version of When I Die, written by Laura Nyro and made famous by Blood, Sweat & Tears. A solo track of just Slims vocals and harmonica complement this unique choice of cover tunes. Gearsys Boogie is an up-tempo instrumental written for an honest mechanic who helped Slim & The Workers on yet another cross-country trek. "On Max the Baseball Clown, Slim waxes nostalgic about a character he met during his childhood in North Carolina. On The Bloody Burmese Blues, Slim takes to task the U.S. media only supporting selected causes, and then reminds the listener that ordinary everyday people can make a change as long as they are interested in taking action. "Having won two Blues Music Awards for their previous release The Wheel Man, this album should certainly garner more recognition for Northern Blues and Watermelon Slim & The Workers. While out purchasing copies of No Paid Holidays, pick up an offering from Homans back catalog. Never one to go through the motions, the man, and his band, has many layers, and you will not be disappointed."
-Georgetown Fats The Boston Blues Society July, 2008
"The latest Watermelon Slim CD has arrived, and guess what? ... Hes kept up the great standard that his fans have grown used to over the years. This is the man who first recorded an album as a Vietnam Vet during the war. He went on to play as sideman with a lot of big names before going out on his own, and has since received twelve Blues Music Award nominations. "14 tracks on the new CD, No Paid Holidays (NorthernBlues) and not a bad one amongst them a mix of originals and covers, but the covers all have the Watermelon Slim stamp on them. "The album opens with a Slim original Blues For Howard, a good up-tempo rocking blues with some excellent slide dobro work and lovely acoustic piano from guest David Maxwell (who also plays on track 6, together with another guest, Lee Roy Parnell, on electric slide guitar). Things dont slow down much on track two Archetypal Blues No.2, and the slide gets hotter! Slims distinctive voice shining through on the vocals. "Track three is the first of the covers, a distinctive version of Call My Job, (Detroit Junior & Al Perkins), and its a fabulous track, full of the flavour of the original, but different in a Watermelon Slim kind of way and with some distinctive harmonica playing by the slim man. Things slow down with track four, Dad In The Distance, a moody track with lots of atmosphere, and then pick up very slightly with Youre The One I Need with some more great harmonica. "An unusual inclusion is a Laura Nyro track, And When I Die, a little bit of country folk I wondered at first why its on the CD, but I kept going back to it! "Ive got two favourite tracks on this CD, a Watermelon Slim original, Ive Got A Toothache (maybe written from experience?), and Fred McDowells Everybodys Down On Me, as good a version of this track as Ive ever heard. "The CD is dedicated to Craig Lawler, who was a harmonica student of Slims."
-Terry Clear Blues Bytes July, 2008
"In recent years, Watermelon Slim has risen to the top of the blues genre; his last LP, The Wheel Man, helped him garner six nominations at the Blues Music Awards, a feat that has only been accomplished by legends like B.B. King and Buddy Guy. Slims got his own legend, and it starts back in Vietnam, where he learned how to play slide guitar backwards on a lap dobro with a jagged pick cut from a tin can and his standard-issue Zippo lighter subbing in as slide. Slim is credited as the first Vietnam veteran to release an album, 1973s self-titled protest blues record Merry Airbrakes, which contains lines like, 'If I die in battle / Pick up my AK-47 and fight on.' Back then, he was known by his given name, Bill Homans, and described his album as 'anti-capitalistic, anti-imperialistic,' and containing 'incontrovertible underground credentials.' "It was 30 years before Slim released another album. But he stayed busy working a handful of odd-jobs, and picked up his blues name while harvesting watermelons, as he recalled on 2003s They Call Me Watermelon Slim: 'I was standing in a great big old field full of watermelons down in southeast Oklahoma about 23 years ago. Had me a great big ol slice of red watermelon in one hand and a Hohner D harmonica in the othernot a woman within 20 miles. I was getting to be a lonely SOB. But I looked at the harmonica and I looked at that piece of watermelon and I said, Wait a minute, I got me a blues name! Im Watermelon Slim. And I been Watermelon Slim to this day.' "No Paid Holidays is somewhat more introverted than the boogie-heavy Wheel Man. But Slim finds room for his full range of styles, from the field holler, through the Mississippi Delta blues, and on up ol muddy to the rockin Chicago blues..."
-David MacFadden-Elliott Crawdaddy! June, 2008
"Watermelon Slim has a fresh contemporary vision of country blues, a personal one that still allows listeners to feel right at home, and while he hasn't varied his approach too much over the course of his past couple of albums (No Paid Holidays is his third release for Northern Blues), what he does fits and works so well that that's undoubtedly a good thing. Here he hits his usual touchstones, pounding out a couple of full-tilt blues-rockers, shining on slide guitar, stripping things down on occasion for one of his unique 'hollers.' There aren't really any surprises, but again, that's fine. Well, actually, hearing Slim's stripped-down harmonica version of Laura Nyro's And When I Die is a bit of a surprise, and a delight at that. Also a delight is the slide guitar bonanza of Bubba's Blues, which features guest slide guitarist Lee Roy Parnell and Slim tearing the rafters down. Slim's sharp narrative sense emerges on Max the Baseball Clown, which conjures long-ago boyhood summers while the opener, Blues for Howard, contains the remarkable line 'You can't stay neutral on a moving train.' The blues is such a conservative genre in so many ways, depending on familiar progressions and purposely clichéd sentiment to convey universal emotions. Watermelon Slim manages to work within that framework and still somehow make it all seem hushed and personal, even intimate. It's not an easy line to walk, but he does it as well as anyone currently on the contemporary blues scene. No Paid Holidays may not cut into any new territory, but it doesn't really have to because what this guy does is wonderfully solid right where it is."
-Steve Leggett All Music Guide June, 2008
"Fresh off his big wins at the 2008 Blues Award for Band of the Year and Album of the year (for 2007's The Wheel Man), Bill Homans, better-known as Watermelon Slim, is back with another solid set of blues for the working class from Northern Blues, entitled No Paid Holidays. "For the uninitiated, Slim is quite the character, perhaps along the line of, say, a Tom Waits. His songwriting draws from personal experiences and people he's known thru his stints as a watermelon farmer, sawmiller, trucker, and Vietnam vet. He's a helluva slide player, too, teaching himself while in a Vietnam hospital bed, using his Zippo as a slide. And, every solo he fires off is full of the same passion that has been his forte' over the course of four albums in five years. It's those releases plus his constant touring schedule that has endeared Slim to the blues community. Thru his music, he's made the blues both down-home and city-slick at the same time. Check out his 'field holler' vocals on This Traveling Life, contrasted by the funky tale of a man who's had way 'too much weekend,' Call My Job. "Slim's backing band, The Workers, include Ronnie McMullen on guitars, Cliff Belcher on bass, and Michael Newberry on drums. This set also has two very special guests--David Maxwell on piano on the rockin' leadoff cut, Blues For Howard, and again teaming with Lee Roy Parnell and his slide guitar on Bubba's Blues. "Slim is a certifed member of Mensa, the society reserved for those with genius IQ's, and some of his songs reflect his vast knowledge. On Archetypal Blues No. 2, Slim's searing slide drives his vocal, leading to a name-check of just about all of the masters who have influenced him. The set closes with an acoustic number, just Slim's vocal and his slide on a brilliant read of Mississippi Fred McDowell's Everybody's Down On Me. "We had two favorites, too, both acoustic in nature. Slim and his harp give a whole new look to And When I Die, popularized by Blood, Sweat, and Tears from the Sixties. And, with Max The Baseball Clown, Slim revisits the days of his youth, when a visit from Max Patkin, the Clown Prince of Baseball, was guaranteed to fill the seats of minor league ballparks everywhere!! "Watermelon Slim as an honest, down-to-earth hero for Everyman, who sees things in a different light since a near-fatal heart attack in 2002. His passion for life shows thru in his blues, and we heartily recommend No Paid Holidays!!"
-Don Crow The Music City Blues Society, Nashville, Tennessee June, 2008
"...William P. Homans, better known as Watermelon Slim, front man of Watermelon Slim And The Workers, is a veteran of the Vietnam war who worked as everything from a journalist to a truck driver. He's not some pretty boy rock star, in fact you'd be generous to call him road weary and shop worn. His voice isn't what you'd call melodious, but it is the voice of a man who has experienced any number of ups and downs on the road that's carried him to his current destination, and the voice of a man you feel you can trust. "From the first to the last song on No Paid Holidays, released Tues. June 24th on the Northern Blues label, Watermelon Slim shows once again why his music is able to reach out and touch people hearts as well as their minds. It doesn't matter whether or not you are familiar with the topic or if he's singing about something you've experienced, he sings in such a manner that you can identify with it... "...No Paid Holidays proves once again that Watermelon Slim can sing a song in such a way that nearly anybody can identify with it. He and the Workers can rock the house and break your heart, and do it in a way that we can all understand..."
-Richard Marcus Blogcritics June, 2008
"Watermelon Slim received six Blues Music Awards nominations in 2008, winning Best Album and Best Band awards. Combining the six nominations this year with the six nominations he received in 2007 gives him an unprecedented twelve nominations total in consecutive years. Relentless touring and two excellent albums of his quirky hard-rocking blues over the past couple of years has resulted in the charismatic Oklahoma bluesman becoming one of the most popular artists in modern blues. "Slims latest effort, with his band, the Workers, is probably his best yet. No Paid Holidays (NorthernBlues Music) features his riveting brand of blues that takes the listener from the Mississippi Delta north to Chicago and back down through Oklahoma. Propelled by Slims scorching dobro (electric and acoustic) and his weathered vocals, along with outstanding support from the Workers (Cliff Belcher bass, Michael Newberry drums, Ronnie 'Mack' McMullen guitars, along with Grammy winner Dave Maxwell on keyboards for a couple of tracks), No Paid Holidays is an exhilarating ride from start to finish. "Standout tracks include the incendiary Archetypal Blues No. 2, which features some magnificent guitar work from Slim, and a ramped-up version of Detroit Jr.s Call My Job, driven hard by Slims harmonica. Lee Roy Parnell adds sizzling slide guitar to Bubbas Blues. And When I Die, the Laura Nyro-penned classic made popular by Blood, Sweat & Tears over 30 years ago, sounds for all the world like an original composition in Slims hands. "Into the Sunset is a country-flavored romp, and Max The Baseball Clown is a fond remembrance of Max Patkin, the legendary barnstorming baseball clown who toured minor league stadiums for over fifty years. Ive Got A Toothache proves that even the most mundane events can give someone the blues with imagery so vivid you can almost feel yourself getting one. Slim closes the disc with an atmospheric cover of Mississippi Fred McDowells Everybodys Down On Me. "Watermelon Slim continues to be one of the most original and vital voices currently working in the blues. Expect to hear more from him and No Paid Holidays during the 2009 Blues Music Awards."
-Graham Clarke Blues Bytes June, 2008
"This multiple Blues Music Award nominee and this year's recipient for the Album of the Year and Band of the Year, has released another honest and refreshing testament to the Blues. It is rare in today's market to find a performer that holds tradition so dear, and performs the music so well, that it comes across as something totally new and unique. The honesty is there in abundance and so is the joy of listening to a band and frontman that understands the Blues better than most contemporary artists today. If you want to hear some real Blues, performed the way it should be, look and listen no further."
-Barrelhouse Blues June, 2008
"Two albums ago, it seemed like this was some kind of joke that grew out of the minds that made Frank Zappa and Tom Waits possible, but it was for real. Real for real. Heading into album three with a ton of awards, nominations and recognition, guests like Lee Roy Parnell lend a hand and the proceedings take white boy blues to the next level of the game, a level that isnt frequently attained. A blistering , heartfelt set that goes someplace totally unexpected, you can call it blues, but its now become Watermelon Slim music. A wild ride that you really have to take."
-Chris Spector Midwest Record June, 2008


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Occupying military orders VVT people to register before 10:00 a.m. Wednesday[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 March 2011, 20:40 GMT]In a draconian order, the SL military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils has asked the people of Valveddiththurai, a densely populated town in the northern coast of Jaffna, to register themselves with the military, along with family photos, before 10:00 a.m. Wednesday. The shocked Eezham Tamils wonder whether their country is fast turning into an open concentration camp for them. The order comes even as there is a case against such registrations filed by TNA is pending in the court. The notice to the public to register within 24 hours and forms for that are distributed by the SL Army to local shops. On the order of the Army, the local village officials were seen carrying out the work even during the night. People feel that the show of terror is a revenge for the participation of the people of VVT in the funeral of Parvathi Amma, despite military harassment. The SL military chose to desecrate Parvathi Amma, the 80-year-old mother of the LTTE leader Pirapaharan, by shooting three dogs and throwing them at the cremation spot, and by running over the spot by military vehicles. Former TNA parliamentarians M K Sivajilingam and S. Kajendran have come out with strong condemnation against the military order for registration. Some days ago, the SL military in Uduvil, Jaffna, intimidated local village officials of Valikaamam region to collaborate with the Army in photo-registering civilians. In the islands and in Thenmaraadchi, the SL military directly carries out registration. Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe commands the genocidal military of Sri Lanka occupying Jaffna. A few months ago, coinciding with the Nobel awards in Oslo, Hathurusinghe was awarded the Guci Peace Prize in the Philippines and was felicitated for that in Jaffna in an event orchestrated by the occupying SL military. An SL Army website said that the award was Asian equivalent to Nobel Peace Prize. Mahinda Rajapaksa regime openly challenges the futile rhetoric reconciliation that first came from the US State Department immediately after the war, political observers said. But some friends of Sri Lanka in the US Administration, hoping that cosmetic acts are enough to address deep-rooted questions, even now try very hard to save the genocidal state, the political observers further said. Chronology: 22.01.11 Boy reported missing in Ki'linochchi
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Has anyone ever heard of this, when I boot the phone up right after the change from the boot ani to the lock screen it vibrates once then followed by 2 vibrates, after I unlock the screen a box greets me with Android System Service has stopped unexpectedly followed by a Force Close button. Now it seems that the only way I can get it too stop is to reboot into CWM and wipe the cache and then clear the dalvik-cache, but as soon as I make another system change it does it all over again... I'm currently running Chevanlol360's $hevRon 3.5.2 rom with Bobzhome's Kernel that was built-in to the rom, I have it running at 1.5 GHz OC and I changed the Boot ani with Absolute System Root Tools. The only thing I can think of is I did freeze Go Launcher in Titanium Backup so I could use FTL Launcher, is it possible that by freezing the original launcher for the rom like that is what could possibly be causing the Force Close issues?? EDIT: I also forgot to mention that I am using Autostarts to kill the system update notice on startup as well... EDIT #2: I just defrosted Go Launcher in Titanium Backup and uninstalled FTL Launcher to see if that took care of it, but after reboot the same thing greeted me with the FC box... :/
If I'm understanding correctly, the FC vibe pattern happens just as the lockscreen is displayed, correct? If that's the case, then it sounds like a system process is crashing on startup, possibly due to settings with something else at startup. About the only things that come immediately to mind in that regard are the mount processes, and the CPU OC setting "run at startup". Sorry if my suggestions are a little cryptic...let me know if I need to expain something a little better.
No, not at all, you're fine, I'm gonna take off the overclock at startup and see if it stops at that point, will post back... Thx for your input btw...
Ok, I shut off the startup of OC in CPU Master Pro and rebooted and it did the FC Vibes during the Boot Ani, so I'm just gonna do a fresh restore of $hevRon 5.3.2 and see how it goes at that point, will keep you posted... EDIT: Ok I did a fresh restore of $hevRon 5.3.2 and afterwards I rebooted into CWM to restore the data from my last backup with all my apps and as soon as it rebooted it started with the Vibes again, so I guess I'll havta manually build it back up now... :/
If you look into shevron roms topic buried under a bunch of other posts you will see that this a VERY common problem.. I'm not blaming you for not seeing it cause I'm sure its buried under lots of shit by now.. The reason you are getting all sorts of fc's is because bobzhome's newest kernel was built upon 2.3.6 which doesn't have ciq. But shevron's rom 5.3.2 is buiilt on 2.3.4 which still has ciq. So the rom is looking for ciq in the kernel and not finding it and throwing up gang signs because of it. I think people were able to downgrade to 5.1 and not have the issue anymore if I'm not mistaken..
I'm running 2.3.4 with Bob's OC kernel built off 2.3.6 and have never had this issue. I also ran Prime rom for awhile which is also 2.3.4 with that OC kernel and never had this issue. From reading the Chevron rom thread it does appear to be a common issue with that rom.
Yeah I've noticed that if I don't set the cpu app to apply at startup then it's fine, it doesn't do it at that point... maybe I'll look into downgrading to $hevRon 5.1 and give that one a whirl lol... Thx so much for your input and concern guys...


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Speech Transmission Index (STI) is an important objective parameter concerning speech intelligibility for sound transmission channels. It is normally measured with specific test signals to ensure high accuracy and good repeatability. Measurement with running speech was previously proposed, but accuracy is compromised and hence applications limited. A new approach that uses artificial neural networks to accurately extract the STI from received running speech is developed in this paper. Neural networks are trained on a large set of transmitted speech examples with prior knowledge of the transmission channels' STIs. The networks perform complicated nonlinear function mappings and spectral feature memorization to enable accurate objective parameter extraction from transmitted speech. Validations via simulations demonstrate the feasibility of this new method on a one-net-one-speech extract basis. In this case, accuracy is comparable with normal measurement methods. This provides an alternative to standard measurement techniques, and it is intended that the neural network method can facilitate occupied room acoustic measurements.
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I stopped playing GW2 after halloween event, the game gets boring once the "new game feel" wears off. It was not what i thought it would be at all. I started up TERA which is 100% free this week and everything about it feels better than my 1st week in GW2. Graphics are much, much better, the best Ive seen overall in any MMO. The combat is pure action combat, no tab, aim everything, time dodges, blocks and really is very fun. The world is alive so many people joined up, erach map is full of players on every server in the huge, beautiful open world. No point to go on and on, just thought you all shoudl know its worth trying and is a better game than GW2. GAME TIL YOU DIE!!!! |
I tried Tera up to 33, and just couldn't play anymore cause of the boring quest system. The combat was nothing I haven't already played on a console, and was only fun on slayer for a bit to me. I still enjoy GW2 but it's not my main MMO, I like to go to it when these new events start up. Tera does have beautiful asthetics and runs well cause Unreal 3 is a very smooth engine.
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I'm torn between these 2 games myself. Graphically they are both great looking games. I will admit that TERA has better combat especially in dungeons, but the world is very static in comparison to. GW2. Community wise GW2 does t feel to have one. While TERA does. It's full of rude vulgar players who think because they use vulgarity they are cool or something. |
Tried TERA again now that it went F2P. Still can't bear the utterly boring quests and the extremely Asian art style.
I stopped playing GW2 when TSW went B2P. I had subscribed for 4 months, came to GW2, and went back. I highly recommend it and the game is sometimes on sale.
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TSW doesn't interest me in the least.
Just another static, dead, eventless world from what I hear. Don't they still use those archaic npc types with the quest bang over their heads? So twenty years ago.
Originally posted by Volkon i was going to flame you so so hard, but i stopped, took a breath, and calmed down. mainly cause at first i thought you were bashing tera because of its quest system in general but then saw you said the quest ! over npc heads to which i'd have to agree, i like gw2s take on questing alot better than tera's old go here, now go here, now there, now there style.(though gw2 is the same when put like that) with that being said, to you and others that share your opinion. i truly pity you if such a feature has such great impact on your decision of liking/enjoying the game as a whole. because im sure that point of view bleeds over into other areas of your life and you're missing out on a great many things you'd otherwise enjoy due to it.
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Originally posted by tom_gore the extremely asian art style and the high quality graphics are what keep me playing Tera now as F2P. I cant stand the boring quests either but the horrible (but hilarious) global chat helps relieve the pain of the quest grind. |
Tera need some serious exp buff potions available on the Cash market. PvP'ers need a way to get to the end game level quickly. PvP in tera is fantastic. I think everyone should try it. |
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I know I shy away from people with glowing question marks hovering over their heads whe. I see them in real life.
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Originally posted by khameleon hey there, its great that you are having fun in TERA. ITs ok if you didnt like GW2 enough. That doesnt mean Tera is better than GW2 or viceversa. Both are fun, but here we go again.... its not pure action combat... you want pure action combat? go play bayonetta / dmc / god of war. Obviously your trolling GW2. Why not say in your title Advice to anyone bored of other mmos?, why specifically bored of GW2? Im playing both and i have fun in both in different ways. But hey, its your opinion and i dont agree with it but doesnt mean is true either. Have fun without trolling. |
Originally posted by Maephisto I think a lot of MMOs would be much more successful if they did away with most of the levels... TERA is one of those MMOs. It's combat starts off clunky, slow and boring, as does the questing and the mobs are easy...thats people first and last impression usually, but the game is certainly a lot better than that. |
Originally posted by Sephiroso Somewhere in here I'm sure you were trying to make a point... but I have to admit, I missed it. Yes, it's true that the dynamic event system is a huge part of me liking GW2. It gives the world a more organic, living feeling that no archaic quest-bang model ever could. I also love the combat. To me it flows like none other. The lack of a trinity based role system has allowed for eight professions that all play completely differently allowing anyone to find their niche. For me, primarily it's the mesmer... the style works so well for me personally and it's a blast using clones and phantasms to confuse the heck out of other people in WvW. Knowing how dead the world of Tera is (again in the static content sense) and knowing there's a trinity based combat system, regardless of the fluff, really turns me off from even trying the game. I've tanked or dps'd for far too long. Much better for me a system that requires the right skills at the right time instead of the right rotation (WoW reference, don't know about Tera). I have to adnit... I thought this thread was going to be along the lines of "For those bored with GW2, try Tera... then you'll see what boring really is!" I was surprised that it wasn't that type of thread. |
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Originally posted by Pivotelite I kind of agree with you Pivot. While Teras combat is not my cup of tea, i can live with it. The boring quest grind is the big problem with it. Boring grind through levels. No memorable quest lines. They exist just to give you exp and items, nothing else. Tera could work a lot better with dynamic progression. |
I suggest you to play eve online... it's kinda different from the usual. It has a good community too and it's a complex game... you MUST read everything for understand and success in the missions. |
I am an avid GW2 player. I play GW2 for the pvp. Gw2 pvp is competitive and satisfying. When I believe I have mastered a class, someone comes along and provides me with a real challenge. It makes me think critically of myself and makes me consider how I can perform better. Tera has the same qualities. The difference is Tera requires a long, laborious, slog though PvE content. This grind is required in order to get to the high end, highly competitive, area of the game. Through crafting, and personal quests, I can level a new character relatively quickly. Far quicker than the investment of time necessary to be equally competitive in Tera. Admittedly, I still have to PvE in GW2 more than I would like, in order to reach end game competition. This is where GW2 trumps Tera. IMO. |
if you are bored in gw2, youll be bored in any game. and: tera is the most boring of them all ^^ |
Originally posted by lathaan You're right, that's probably why TERA has held my attention for 9 months and GW2 only lasted a month and a half. Don't get me wrong, GW2 is a good game, but it's like Call of Duty, there's nothing to work towards, so you play now and then because you're bored then eventually you never play again. |
Eh... I can say yes but also no. Now, being blunt, I am definently more in favor of Tera over GW2. The problem is GW2 if your really into the game, chances are the combat isn't a huge deal for you or even prefered over Tera. Tera is a much more skill based combat system and flows smoother, sacrificing key spamming in favor of having move lock (granted it can be canceled in ways) which really complicates combat a lot. I love it personally as It does make skill stand out a lot more and it promotes combat that provides you advantages while giving disadvantages that can be capitalized on. Its just not something all to many people like as they rather spam keys to do good, something GW2 really has little penalty on doing, just dodge and go about your business. GW2 was boring... but honestly even though I found the game lack luster Tera just wasn't all that great for keeping attention too. The questing is a bit 'meh' and can get dule quickly. While combat and progression is a lot better in the game, the questing just pulls it down and can make it dule quickly, particularly if your not playing with friends. Simply put: Tera combat might alienate players who are use to the very simplistic combat in GW2. The whole 'consenquences' with using abilities can put people off and they might prefer GW2 which doesn't really penalize players much for spamming. If your the type about great combat, by far I highly recomend Tera, it does an amazing job with combat that is more in line with what GW2 should of been (or at least in a smoother fashion like Tera), if the combat in GW2 doesn't bother you and your into the way the quests and all are set up in GW2, then Tera might not be for you. Either way, give Tera a try and see for yourself, it is free after all. |


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Full name | Club Sporting Cristal | |||
Nickname(s) | Los Cerveceros, Los Rimenses, Los Celestes, La Fuerza Vencedora | |||
Founded | December 13, 1955 | |||
Ground | Estadio Alberto Gallardo, Lima |
Capacity | 15,000 | |||
President | Felipe Cantuarias | |||
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League | Primera División Peruana | |||
2014 | 1st (Champions) | |||
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Club Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian football team. Based in the Rímac District, in the department of Lima, it plays in the professional league known as the Peruvian First Division. Sporting Cristal has won the league title 17 times, and it is the Peruvian team with the third most National titles. All its titles have been won in the professional era.
It is one of the most popular football teams in Peru, along with Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima; it is the youngest of the three. In 1997, it became the second Peruvian football club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, an international competition.
Sporting Cristal plays home games at the Estadio Alberto Gallardo, but they also play at the Estadio Nacional. They also use the Estadio Nacional when playing international competitions, such as Copa Libertadores.
Ricardo Bentín Mujica, with the support of his wife, co-owners of Backus and Johnston brewery, was the man who is credited with achieving the company's goal. A club from Rímac ward, known as Sporting Tabaco founded in 1926 and originally belonging to the tobacco growers' union, was already playing in the professional Peruvian First Division. Never having won a national championship, the club was in dire economic straits. Bentín decided to buy the club and search for a playing ground, so that the club could develop and be able to play better at the professional level. The club found a lot in the neighborhood of La Florida of 137,000 m².
On December 13, 1955 the club was founded as Sporting Cristal , after Backus' best-known beer brand, Cristal. The new club from Rímac ward debuted in 1956 in the professional Primera Division and won their first national title that same year. Journalists thus called them the club born a champion (nació campeon). The team managed to win more titles over the years and was known as one of the best football clubs in Peru after Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima. A few years later, the club eliminated the word Backus from their name to demonstrate their economic independence.
Sporting Cristal changed its shirt color from blue to light blue. They are known as "Los Celestes". During a brief period between 1978 and 1981, they again used blue shirts. In 1982 they returned to light blue as the color of the club.
The 1990s was the most succeful decade, 4 national titles (3 in a row) with coaches as Juan Carlos Oblitas, Cristal won 1991, 1994 and 1995 domestic league. And with Sergio Markarián head coach they won 1996 league. By 1997, the team, led by Uruguayan coach Sergio Markarián, reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores, where they faced the Brazilian club Cruzeiro. The first leg was a home game, in which they ended in a scoreless draw; in the second leg, they lost 1-0. This is the closest a Peruvian team has come to the Copa Libertadores Final since 1972, when Universitario had a similar fate playing against Independiente.
The club stayed on the top spots of the national tournament during most of the 2000s and gained qualification to the Copa Libertadores eight years in a row from 2000 to 2007.It would only win one title during the decade which was obtain in 2005 with Jose del Solar as head coach and many notable players as Sergio Leal, Jorge Soto and Luis Alberto Bonnet. During the 2007, Cristal would come four points away from relegation. It would make a comeback during the 2008 season and qualify to the Copa Libertadores once again.
In 2009, the Peruvian First Division would change the tournament structured which caused Sporting Cristal to have mediocre results for the next few years into the new decade. After a seven year dry spell it would become the national champion once more during the 2012 season when it defeated Real Garcilaso in the finals. They qualified to the 2013 Copa Libertadores where they did not pass the tournament's group stage. In the 2013 season, they played on the same liguilla as Real Garcilazo and fought for a place in the final up to the last match of the season in which they finished third and qualified for the 2014 Copa Libertadores once more.
Sporting Cristal has had longstanding rivalries with Universitario, Alianza Lima, Deportivo Municipal, and Sport Boys.
Cristal has three ultras or barra bravas known as Extremo Celeste, Fverza Oriente Gvardia Xtrema. Fverza Oriente was the first ultra of Cristal, founded in 1975. They are located on eastern grandstand of the stadiums. Extremo Celeste was formed in 1991 when a group of young fans from Fuerza Oriente decided to form a new group for young energetic supporters. Extremo Celeste has become one of the biggest barras bravas in Peru. And in 2007 a smaller third ultra was created in the western grandstand to support the team. Son Cristal had supporters on every grandstand on Estadio Alberto Gallardo.
Current squad[edit]
- As of 17 February 2015.[1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Notable players[edit]
*Naturalized Peruvians
Top Goalscorers in First Division[edit]
Year | Player | Goals | Nationality |
1961 | Alberto Gallardo | 18 | |
1962 | Alberto Gallardo | 22 | |
1980 | Oswaldo Ramírez | 18 | |
1983 | Juan Caballero | 29 | |
1991 | Raúl Horacio Baldessari | 25 | |
1994 | Flavio Maestri | 25 | |
1995 | Julinho | 23 | |
1998 | Nilson Esidio | 25 | |
2003 | Luis Alberto Bonnet | 20 | |
2008 | Miguel Ximénez | 32 |
Presidential history[edit]
Managerial History[edit]
- Winners (1): 1982
- Runner-up (1): 1997
Friendly International[edit]
- Winners (1): 1988
Under-20 team[edit]
- Runner-up (1): 2014 Torneo del Inca
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions[edit]
- Copa Libertadores: 30 appearances
- Runners-up (1): 1997
- 1962, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014
- Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance
- 1994: Quarter-Finals
- Copa Merconorte: 4 appearances
- 1998: First Round
- 1999: First Round
- 2000: First Round
- 2001: First Round
- U-20 Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance
- 2012: Group Stage
- ^ "Club Sporting Cristal - Plantel Profesional 2015". Club Sporting Cristal. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
External links[edit]
- Sporting Cristal Official Club Website
- Sporting Cristal's channel on YouTube
- Sporting Cristal on Facebook
- Sporting Cristal on Twitter


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Soares, Pedro, Ermini, Luca, Thomson, Noel, Mormina, Maru, Rito, Teresa, Röhl, Arne, Salas, Antonio, Oppenheimer, Stephen, Macaulay, Vincent and Richards, Martin B. (2009) Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 84 (6). pp. 740-759. ISSN 00029297
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There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome, incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors have pointed out recently, linear molecular clocks that incorporate selectable characters are in any case problematic. We here confirm a modest effect of purifying selection on the mtDNA coding region and propose an improved molecular clock for dating human mtDNA, based on a worldwide phylogeny of > 2000 complete mtDNA genomes and calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees. We focus on a time-dependent mutation rate based on the entire mtDNA genome and supported by a neutral clock based on synonymous mutations alone. We show that the corrected rate is further corroborated by archaeological dating for the settlement of the Canary Islands and Remote Oceania and also, given certain phylogeographic assumptions, by the timing of the first modern human settlement of Europe and resettlement after the Last Glacial Maximum. The corrected rate yields an age of modern human expansion in the Americas at 15 kya thatunlike the uncorrected clockmatches the archaeological evidence, but continues to indicate an out-of-Africa dispersal at around 5570 kya, 520 ky before any clear archaeological record, suggesting the need for archaeological research efforts focusing on this time window. We also present improved rates for the mtDNA control region, and the first comprehensive estimates of positional mutation rates for human mtDNA, which are essential for defining mutation models in phylogenetic analyses.
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18th March 2008, 09:34 PM | #1 |
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In need of Integra DX7711 Service manual
... right after finishing my Harman, i wanted to change the pickup in my new dx7711. It didn't read most cd-r anymore and started skipping.
I got a new laser sfp-100s and swapped. Last thing was removing the soldered short. And.... it hardly reads the TOC Depending on how i (try to) adjust the laser current pot, it immediately gets the TOC, but won't read anything at all or only higher track numbers. I assume there's still some adjustments to be made (like tracking, focus gain) but i don#t know where? The drive pcb offers a lot of pot's, but none of them says what it's for... It's a 1996 machine - shouldn't it be self-adjusting? Anyone here with a service manual for dx7711 / 7911 who could mail me the the laser adjustment page? Why are Sanyo pickups that hard to swap? I never had a problem with kss'ses Matthias |
20th March 2008, 01:10 PM | #2 |
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...or a schematic, a hint, some kind of assistance?!?!
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22nd March 2008, 10:02 PM | #4 |
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this evening, i've send you a mail. Thanks in advance! Matthias |
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Looks like i'll have lots to do... not only finding a suitable test-cd but also soldering a lot Matthias |
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Sanyo SFP100s and Sanyo chipsets
Hi Matthias,
I know this is late but I wanted you to know you are not the only one who's had 'fun' with the SFP100s and Sanyo chips. My experience is in that well known target for Audio Buffs, the Bose Wave AWRC3x (I've fixed about 10). I've had some success in changing just the pickup (not the whole deck) but I am plagued by poor quality SFP100s. I've bought about 12 in the last year altogether and up to 2 weeks ago had seen 2 definitely faulty out of 8. Then I bought 4 from (you may have heard of them) Repdata Berlin? 3 out of 4 were faulty and can you believe it, I only noticed after the 1st 2 didn't work that the remaining 2 had grease on them, holes already threaded and had cotton threads on the lenses. In other words they were not new! This wasn't the 'crappy shop' you spoke of? I've emailed them 3 times, they won't answer and i don't speak German so I guess thats an end to it. I think supplies of these pickups is reducing and there is a lot of rubbish out there. Also, the Sanyo combination seems poor anyway and I have seen on Pin 41 less than 1.3V with a computer cd and 1.9 with a commercial cd. I've tried tweaking the laser, cleaning the lens, even realigned the Pd block on one pick up and by luck made it work. But you are very likely to get a bad laser. I don't know who to trust now since the Repdata let down. All the best with your future electronic work. Steve |
10th May 2008, 06:21 AM | #7 |
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About to be off to a short holiday - but YES Repdata was the shop i was talking about. I won't buy anything there ever again!!
btw: My 7711 is now working again. It refuses some discs - but what the hell - i've got so many other players I found sfp101 to be very tricky, too (Harman HD740) Matthias |
19th July 2008, 03:41 PM | #8 |
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Dear friend,
I've just red your postings about the DX7711 . My DX771 has the same problems: skipping tracks , and then does not play anymore. Is ther any help for a nontechniocan like me? I like my DX7711 and dont want to put away. I can not sent you a e-mail. Can you send me informations what to do under max.t@t-online Thanks a lot Thomas |
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if it's me your posting refers to: I did not change the circuit as i found out that at least one of the changes Onkyo made in the circuitry is already in my player. I did only change the laser and used a normal printed cd to fool around in the service mode until it read most cds without complication. It still refuses some discs and tends to skip at others, but for most original cds the 7711 works fine now again. Only tip i can give you: If you change the laser unit, go for a reliable shop such as justone-schnepel. I tried to do it the cheaper way but the unit i received was very likely NOT fully ok and gave me lots of alignment trouble (repdata) Matthias |
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Hallo Mattias,
thanks all lot for your fast reply, and for your useful hints. So I will change the laser unit ( I gues it is only plug and play). Put in a normal CD and the service mode hopefully make every thing ? Or do I have to make some adjustments with some screws ? One thing beside : I've alredy send the DX7711 to Onkyo. They want to charge 350 , becasue they want to chnage also the motor and the control of the motor. But the motor still works. And 350 are much. Do you think there is a real chance for me by only changing the laser ? As I sayed : I'm a non technican.... Noch mal : vielen Dank ! Greetings Thomas |
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Black Market Malitia dropped this remix with R.A. earlier this year, but I only just around to rocking it. Rugged Man's verse sounds like the precursor to that Nas name-dropping piece, but he wisely avoids shouting out Fu-Schnickens and Oaktown's 357. PR reheats "U.F.O" for a Styles P and Sheek one two punch, while his future-shock masterpiece "Game of Death" still sounds the business since it first dropped (although I still prefer the Rock Marcy solo version). Preme's buddy Termanology exposes a whole different verbal technique than he showcased on his break-out single for "100 Jewels", while Premier produces an ill conceptual Poet drop which still hasn't surfaced on black wax despite being a few months old. Finally there's the obligitory GFK material, as his veers away from shop-talk for a classic bugged Starks narrative over what I'm assuming is a Doom producto.
Black Market Militia feat. R.A. The Rugged Man - The Rennaissance 2.0 [Natural Selections, Nature Sounds, 2006]
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I just put that UN album back in the deck. Shit is fresh for right now.
And was that Roc M. solo version of "Game…" available on wax?
I loved that Marciano track. I never heard this version though. The Marciano version is on the back of the UN's "Deadly On Arrival" twelve and its ridiculous. Flow! also the way he comes in is like DANG.
Comment by bse 12.04.06 @Just out of curiosity, and because I can't recall, are the Theodore joints (damn near the whole LP) on 'More Fish' rehashed from the '718' mixtape/cd? If so, that's dope that Gost can turn in an album of retreads and still get paid off of it.
Comment by Fosterakahunter 12.04.06 @Disappointing how Premier used that Grover Washington record on 'Voices'.
Comment by Lotuz 12.04.06 @Nah, all the songs on "More Fish" are new. There's around four solo cuts from Ghost, plus a bunch of posse cuts and solos from Theodore members.
Comment by Robbie 12.04.06 @best of all is the bit where they shout "WIGGANOMICS" at Wiggz. Hilarious.
Comment by bse 12.04.06 @i got a cd from THE U.N. called WORLD DOMINATION…it came out like a year or two before their official album…it has basicly the same songs and a bunch of others that were not on their album….its kinda of rare and i was wondering if anyone else on here has the WORLD DOMINATION CD ???
Comment by T.S. 12.04.06 @Haha…"Wigganomics". Damn that kid's voice is annoying.
I've got a burn of that "World Domination" CD – it's dope. There's a couple of good tracks on Rock Marciano's solo mixtape from around the same time as well.
Comment by Robbie 12.04.06 @Yo Robbie Rob, nice assortment of hip hop once again.
That Amy Winehouse remix ghost has on the new shit is a straight banger, he needs to push it to single immediately.
Comment by Skylar 12.05.06 @the UN is/was down with this MC from long island named Trife (not the theodore unit trife). If you listen to the track that the UN is on on that petestrumentals album, he's on that track. he's also featured on the game of death 12″ with pete rock and rock marciano. Trife is probably the dopest mc never to blow up, his few recorded appearences dont do him justice. i have this tape with him and MIC's Megalon/tommy gunn ripping shit
Comment by cv 12.05.06 @That Alex track is a Doom beat. New Doom as opposed to the recycled herbs Ghost uses.
Comment by Stef 12.05.06 @I feel bad for fronting on that J-Love track on the Ghost album now, that track is fire
Comment by BR 12.06.06 @That Game of Death track, I listen to it from time to time, Nice to see you havent forget it either.
Comment by djeff 12.06.06 @yo rob… you got the full version of
Termanology & Trife Da God – Think It Over???
lemme know
Comment by Tired & Broke 12.07.06 @I couldn't believe when I heard RA rip that verse. He always seemed like kind of a joke to me.
Comment by nesta 12.07.06 @RA is cool. Not as good as he thinks he is but he's entertaining, especially live. Plus he has such a fucked up backstory
J-Love is 20 lbs a shit in a 10 lb bag and he uses the N-word a little too much for someone who isn't black, but "Ironman" and his 9mm bros remix are kinda nice.
Comment by Skylar 12.10.06 @"yo rob… you got the full version of
Termanology & Trife Da God – Think It Over???"
Comment by Robbie 12.10.06 @"PR reheats "U.F.O" for a Styles P and Sheek one two punch"
Damn, they took it back with that break. I'm ready for dudes to be using "Synthetic Substitution" and "Impeach The Presidnet" in crazy amounts like they used to.
Comment by Rah-Love 12.11.06 @===========
i got a cd from THE U.N. called WORLD DOMINATION…it came out like a year or two before their official album…it has basicly the same songs and a bunch of others that were not on their album….its kinda of rare and i was wondering if anyone else on here has the WORLD DOMINATION CD ???
oh serious? dope i'll have to track that down. UN or U Out is one of my favourite albums, i'm real keen to check anything else they've got.
Comment by Headlock 12.13.06 @Hella props and good looks for the track Robbie…
Ima havta cop the wax and support the art
anyone know where they still have the u.n. – give it to yall 12″?
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