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Half the Story
By jb on November 2, 2018
(Pictured: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.)
I spent some time this week at ARSA reading through random radio surveys as October turned to November, so here's a fragmentary look at some of those bygone weeks:
WGEM, Quincy, Illinois, 1966 1967: This chart is is topped by "The Rain, the Park, and Other Things" by the Cowsills, a song we dig around here. "Let It Out" by the Hombres and Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" both blast into the Top 10, as does "That's Just Half the Story" by Herman Grimes. Grimes was a popular local act in St. Louis (a couple of hours from Quincy) and was inducted into the St. Louis Classic Rock Hall of Fame in 2017 alongside such luminaries as REO Speedwagon and Miles Davis.
(Digression: this year's inductees to the St. Louis Classic Rock Hall of Fame include longtime St. Louis and Kansas City radio jock and friend of the blog Randy Raley. It's an honor well-deserved. I wish my career had produced 10 percent of the stories Randy's has, some of which he's told at his own blog, From the Rearview Mirror. Here's one about dinner with Alan Parsons and the bathroom break that wasn't.)
WCFL, Chicago, 1973: The Rolling Stones' "Angie" goes to #1 on this chart, taking out Cher's "Half-Breed." Making a strong move into the Top 10 is "Rubber Bullets," the first American chart hit by 10cc, which made #73 on the Hot 100. Crosstown rival WLS charted it for nine weeks and it got as high as #23. Also outperforming its national number (#33) in Chicago: the fantastic "Jimmy Loves Mary Anne" by the Looking Glass, which is at #6 at WCFL this week after peaking at #5. It went to #2 at WLS.
WIRB-FM, Enterprise, Alabama, 1975: Enterprise, Alabama, is roughly equidistant from Montgomery, Alabama, and Tallahassee, Florida. WIRB's survey touts "10,000 watts of stereo rock," which you can inject straight into my veins, especially "Miracles," "Lady Blue," "It Only Takes a Minute," "Lyin' Eyes," and "Games People Play." At #12 is the debut single by the Canadian band Trooper, "Baby Woncha Please Come Home." If you know them at all, it's probably for "Raise a Little Hell" in 1978.
WPDH-FM, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1978: This station charts approximately 80 albums, including all the expected chart-toppers of the day. No self-respecting album station of the 70s would fail to play jazz and fusion, so WPDH also charts Jean Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger, Chuck Mangione's Feels So Good and Children of Sanchez, Images by the Crusaders, Sea Level's On the Edge, and Mr. Gone by Weather Report. And just to make sure the spectrum gets completely spanned, the station is also playing Talking Heads, Waylon Jennings, and the FM soundtrack. I'd listen to it.
KKBQ-FM, Houston, 1983: There's not much to get me excited on this chart, although "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton is damn near perfect. Debuting at #24 is "Superstar" by Lydia Murdock, which includes a bassline you will recognize and the words "I'm Billie Jean and I'm mad as hell / I'm a woman with a story to tell." It didn't make the Hot 100, and its 20 listings at ARSA come from three stations: KKBQ, KIQQ in Los Angeles, and CKGM in Montreal, where it made the Top 10.
WHTT-FM, Boston, 1985: The summer of 1985 was a glorious era for radio music. By the fall, things weren't quite so glorious, although this week's #1, "Take on Me" by a-ha is an all-timer, and you can't listen to the radio for very long today without hearing "Part Time Lover," "Money for Nothing," "You Belong to the City," or "Broken Wings." But this chart also includes "Oh Sheila" by Ready for the World, which had been one of the weakest Hot 100 #1s ever, and plenty of other records that disappointed me back then: Godley and Creme's bizarre "Cry," one of the worst momentum killers in radio; "Communication" by Power Station and "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" by Paul Young, which were not remotely as good as the hits those artists had charted earlier in the year; and "Sleeping Bag," with which ZZ Top began their descent into self-parody.
KDWB-FM, Minneapolis, 1989: I often talk about the crazed variety of Top 40 radio in the 70s, but that decade's got nothing on this week. The KDWB Top 10 includes Europop, dance music, a blues guitarist, hard rock, a pop power ballad, and two hits by New Kids on the Block. Go a little farther down and get you some hair metal and hip-hop too.
Cherry-picking the charts doesn't really tell the whole story of any given week. But it got us up to the word count, didn't it?
Posted in: Record Charts
soundawakeradio November 2, 2018 at 11:49 am | Reply
Mine were among the ears reached by KKBQ and "Superstar" 35 Octembers ago. Sure, I heard it no more than twice, but I've never forgotten it (most likely on account of that bassline). The underdog on that survey is the anchoring #30, a song introduced to me one Friday evening by that very station. It's one of the biggest reasons 1983 stands out in the decade and my lifetime, music- and otherwise.
In other sentimental synth-pop news, I'll pretend you never said that about "Cry".
kblumenau November 2, 2018 at 6:45 pm | Reply
Miles Davis is in the St. Louis Classic Rock Hall of Fame?
Ah yes, Mr. Gone, the album that got a one-star review from Down Beat (after WR had won, like, five straight Down Beat Album of the Year awards).
One star was harsh, but three would have been generous.
The KKBQ chart reminds me there was a time when "Old Time Rock n' Roll" was actually a new/current song, and not yet an inescapable warhorse.
I must still have been listening to Top 40 in fall '85 because I remember a whole bunch of those songs –including the guilty pleasure I've grown into admitting, "Freedom."
(One did not like Wham! as a middle-school boy in 1985. Simply wasn't done.)
Steve E. November 2, 2018 at 7:08 pm | Reply
Typo note: The WGEM chart is from 1967. Not '66. One of my favorite times in music.
jb November 2, 2018 at 8:22 pm | Reply
An error? At this blog? Unpossible. (Fixed.)
Andy November 10, 2018 at 12:30 pm | Reply
I was listening mainly to R&B radio in San Diego when "Superstar" hit, and I remember it very well. It was a pretty big hit in the R&B realm, as was another "Billie Jean" based song, the medley of "Billie Jean/Do it Again", of which there were two competing versions, one by Italo-disco outfit Clubhouse, the other by a Detroit group called Slingshot. The Clubhouse version prevailed on the Hot 100 and in the UK (it did about equally well as Superstar…top 20 in the UK and a low-charter on the U.S. Hot 100), the Slingshot version was the bigger hit on the dance and R&B chart.
The Clubhouse singer is no Michael (or Donald Fagen), but I always thought it was a pretty seamless medley.


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Two mothers, Donna Crowe and Evelyn Luzi, whose daughters are members of the 163rd Pathfinder Unit, made our 'Honour Quilt' to recognize the 8,000,000 girls and women who belong to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
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Alice G. Matlack of Louisville, Kentucky, 1932.
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Smarkets now offering 1% "pro tier" commission, on wins and loses, so no advantage.
The terms page says "I've hit one of the Standard Tier limits, what can I do to keep trading on Smarkets?
You must opt in to the Pro Tier. You won't automatically be put on the Pro commission structure."
Like matchbook only half price!
Better than premium charges, but still short sighted as it will hinder their growth, liquidity and their reputation!!
Only obligated for those with 1000 000GBP in turnover and 1500 bets minimal in a calendar month. They say this will affect fewer than 0.5% of their users. Others can opt in if they want it.
Yes it's complete overly complicated rubbish.
Have you placed 1500 bets on there today already? You a bot user?
dealer wins i'd rather pay premium charges as I trade solely on the exchange and that's where most my profits come from. With this new commission structure I literally have no where left to bet. Betdaq is dead and the other 3 main exchanges now charge too much.
I'm going to have to pack this in and get a job.
All players making more then 1500 bets or staking more then 1M Pounds in a month will pay 1% commission of each bet (From winning or losing stake, not net profit). When you reach these limits in a month you can choose yourself to not be active more that month, or join the pro tier. If you join it, you can't "leave" before 3 months after. So think twice if you're considering it.
Guess this will change some of the eco system - Not so nice to be a bot if you have to pay both ways regardless of net profit \ results. Not ideal for anyone in my opinion. For big traders it's killing the action. If you have to pay commission on both backing and laying regardless of results... you can simply just try trading at asians instead.
I never had a good opinion for Smarkets as management looks as greedy as Betfair's.
The timing for this pro tier shows that they follow Matchbook's new scheme.
Actually 0,2% according to their FAQ.
Agree that it's better then some other exchanges, but for the big traders this is the end as far as I can see. Paying 1% both ways is just horrendous. Guess this is another "hint" telling us valuebetting is the future. No need of exchanges then (Unless you actually find valuebets there..).
You can't be eligible for 0% if you go on the "pro tier".
Sad to see these changes but it was only a matter of time as all the other exchanges charge excessive commission/have daft commission structures aswell.
There is also the fact there is a conflict of interest for the exchange owners involving the Smarkets market makers and any big pro traders. The two are incompatible. Smarkets was never going to last as a fair exchange when they have to protect their own market makers.
These new limits is a bit special: If you place 10 equal bets at the same outcome\event, it counts as 10 bets, not 1 bet (i.e 10 bets at Man Utd for 1 pound each, totally 10 pounds). And they count as 10 bets even if they don't get matched.
The stake also counts for placed bets, not matched bets.
From their FAQ: "It's important to note that these metrics are based on all bets placed, whether they are unmatched, partially matched or fully matched. The Standard Tier limits are based on the initial bet placement".
...so for bots, traders & players with a certain volume (or 0,2% of their players as they claim), Pro Tier will be hard to avoid.
after matchbook now the beginning of the end for smarkets.
their only chance to come closer to betfair was: a fair exchange, based on volume, not on profits.
but they chose profit too, like betfair. so why playing on them when at least betfair have to fullest markets?
betfairs monopoly will get stronger, till a good bitcoin exchange will appear.
Smarkets is very aggressive against the use of bots. They go to extremes when they see bots because they know that bots are beating their market makers easily and in the end they lose money.
Unless you have a secret niche I suggest you avoid beating them with bots.
The whole beauty of an exchange is being able to trade to lock in profits. Not feasible to pay commission twice for me.
What's the best bitcoin exchange? Is it fairlay and can you use it from the UK?


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Ask HN: Is running a VM windows 10 on a Linux OS (Ubuntu) secure?
I know that windows has a lot of information that they collect in order to make your experience 'easier' such as assigning ID's in order to target ad's at you when you are browsing. Does the same apply if i run a VM of windows?
That's "only" for Windows Apps that explicitly use it, which means I'm sure there are easier ways to avoid being tracked by that... and it's probably your least tracking concern if you're online anyway.
While running Windows, as long as it isn't some modified version of it, there's always a risk that Microsoft could be collecting information about you. A VM is supposed to simulate a computer as accurately as possible, and shouldn't have any impact on the information Microsoft can collect about you.
I wouldn't say it's insecure though, it's mostly a matter of privacy.
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package spark.examples

import spark.SparkContext

object ExceptionHandlingTest {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    if (args.length == 0) {
      System.err.println("Usage: ExceptionHandlingTest <master>")
      System.exit(1)
    }

    val sc = new SparkContext(args(0), "ExceptionHandlingTest",
      System.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), Seq(System.getenv("SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR")))
    sc.parallelize(0 until sc.defaultParallelism).foreach { i =>
      if (math.random > 0.75)
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    }

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Q: posting data to php via curl . jsondata.php is not giving json output **jsondata.php  not giving json-formatted o/p. **
    **index.php**
    <?php
        $curl=curl_init();
        $var=3;
        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,"http://localhost/v/practice/curl/c3/jsondata.php");

        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"myVar=".$var);
        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        $response=curl_exec($curl);
        $data=json_decode($response);
        //print_r($data);
        for ($a=0; $a < count($data); $a++) {
            echo $data[$a]->id." ";
            echo $data[$a]->username." ";
            echo $data[$a]->password." ";
            echo "<br/>";
        }
    ?>
    ----------------------
    **jsondata.php**
    <?php
        $myVar=$_POST["myVar"];
        $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","practicedb");
        $result=mysqli_query($con,"select * from ex1 where id=".$myVar);
        $data=array();
        while ($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            $data[]=$row;
        }
        echo json_encode($data);
    ?>

Notice: Undefined index: myVar in C:\xampp\htdocs\v\practice\curl\c3\jsondata.php on line 2
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A: Here's a couple things-
Pass an array that you json encode for "myVar" so
$data = array('myVar' => $myVar);

and in your curl request:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));

and add this option:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));

Passing the variable where your jsondata.php script can read it should help with your mysql error - hard to say what else might be a problem until you're successfully passing all parts of the query to the script.

A: You main problem is that your cURL request is sending a GET request instead of a POST request. You have to set the CURLOPT_POST setting to make it a POST request. After that the expression $_POST["myVar"] will get you the value you want.
Additionally you should use prepared statements for SQL queries which depend on variables. And you should check for SQL errors, don't assume everything is working all the time.

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