UK Top 40 Official singles Chart 9 November 2014 #musicchart

Courtesy of BBC.com  Catch the Chart on BBC's radio 1 on Sunday late afternoons

See also DJ @SG_Walther's Top 125 current hit songs http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/10/djsgwalther-music-charts-31-october.html

http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/11/uncertainty-about-ed-milibands.html Ed Miliband Toxic?

The Official UK Top 40 Singles Chart - 9th November 2014

Position	Status	Previous	Weeks	Artist	Title
1	new		1	Cheryl	I Don't Care
2	down 1	1	20	Ed Sheeran	Thinking Out Loud
3	down 1	2	10	Meghan Trainor	All About That Bass
4	up 22	26	43	John Legend	All Of Me
5	down 2	3	12	Taylor Swift	Shake It Off
6	new		1	Calvin Harris	Outside (feat. Ellie Goulding)
7	down 3	4	7	Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj	Bang Bang
8	down 3	5	5	Jeremih	Don't Tell 'Em (feat. Y.G.)
9	down 2	7	4	One Direction	Steal My Girl
10	non-mover	10	17	Sam Smith	I'm Not The Only One
11	down 2	9	9	Calvin Harris	Blame (feat. John Newman)
12	down 6	6	2	Parra for Cuva	Wicked Games (feat. Anna Naklab)
13	down 5	8	5	Waze & Odyssey & R. Kelly	Bump & Grind 2014
14	down 1	13	3	Fuse ODG	T.I.N.A (feat. Angel Rene & Johnny Rodriguez Orchestra)
15	down 4	11	10	Sigma	Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)
16	down 4	12	18	George Ezra	Blame It On Me
17	down 2	15	13	Lilly Wood	Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)
18	down 1	17	25	Sam Smith	Stay With Me
19	down 3	16	28	George Ezra	Budapest
20	down 6	14	20	Ed Sheeran	Don't
21	new		1	Tom Odell	Real Love
22	up 6	28	19	Sia	Chandelier
23	down 3	20	10	The Script	Superheroes
24	down 6	18	5	Nicki Minaj	Anaconda
25	down 3	22	23	Ed Sheeran	Sing
26	up 97	123	2	The Script	No Good In Goodbye
27	down 8	19	11	Ariana Grande	Break Free (feat. Zedd)
28	down 3	25	10	G.R.L.	Ugly Heart
29	down 8	21	22	Ella Henderson	Ghost
30	down 6	24	18	MAGIC!	Rude
31	down 4	27	10	Maroon 5	Animals
32	down 3	29	3	OneRepublic	I Lived
33	down 10	23	2	Calvin Harris	Open Wide (feat. Big Sean)
34	non-mover	34	15	Hozier	Take Me To Church
35	up 132	167	2	Drake, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown	Only
36	down 5	31	16	Iggy Azalea	Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)
37	non-mover	37	29	Mr. Probz & Robin Schulz	Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)
38	down 8	30	9	The Vamps	Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)
39	down 7	32	19	Nico & Vinz	Am I Wrong
40	down 7	33	51	Pharrell Williams	Happy

Mother-in-law #Joke and #Courtroom skit below. #humour #humor

2 Jokes

The following joke was told to me recently:

A bitterly annoyed mother-in-law plucked up the courage to ask her son-in-law why she had not received a Christmas gift from him this year.

"Because you have yet to make use of the gift I got you last year," he replied.

The reply did nothing to ease tensions. The Mother-in-law simply glared at her son-in-law, clearly highly annoyed.

"What was it he got you last year Gran?" inquired her curious grandson.

"A plot at the local cemetery," she replied indignantly.

****

IN COURT (This one is also not original. I recall hearing something like this from, what I think was a BBC comedy cassette tape I had years ago) +++have discovered this was originally by Not the Nine O'clock news. Hope the authors don't mind my using their skit as the basis for my slightly extended one.....



Elderly Judge: "Order in this Court. Order! Yes Mr Appleby, the State says client is to be charged with three counts of burglary. They require your client to post bail of two hundred pounds if he wishes to be released pending trial. What do you say about that?"


Mr Appleby: As it pleases the Court, my Lord, my client will say that, as far as the first count is concerned, the digital watch was given to him recently as a present from a friend who has, quite unfortunately recently emigrated and ...." 


Judge (interrupting): "Digital watch. What, pray tell, is a digital watch?"


Mr Appleby and the State prosecutor exchange perplexed glances. A few bemused giggles from the gallery carry through to the well of the Court, but are fortunately inaudible to the hard of hearing Judge.


Mr Appleby: "Well. Err... Well, my lord, a digital watch is one which is electronic rather than mechanical, and it works on batteries."


Judge: " Really? How absolutely fascinating." A pause. "So I suppose one doesn't have to wind it up like normal watches?"


Mr Appleby (with a detectable hint of relief in his voice): "That is quite so, my Lord. Instead, one simply replaces the battery every few months or so." A pause. "In fact, with your lordship's leave, the prosecutor has just handed me the watch in question. Perhaps your lordship might wish me to hand it up for the Court to examine."


Court: "Yes, I think I would like to see this extraordinary watch for myself." The Judge looks at the Prosecutor as the court orderly hands the watch up. "I presume this will be the State's Exhibit A at the trial in due course?"


Prosecuting Counsel: "Indeed my lord."


Judge: "Well this is most fascinating. What will they think of next?" Hands watch back to orderly. "Pray, do proceed."


Mr Appleby: "And turning to deal with second charge, my Lord, my client's instructions are that he in fact purchased the automatic video recorder with his own funds and that he hopes to locate the receipt in good time for ....."


Judge (interrupting): "Automatic video recorder. Pray tell. What is an automatic video recorder?"


Once again, the legal representatives exchange exasperated glances. Those in the public gallery, who can not restrain themselves from sniggering are saved by the Judge's hearing problem, not to mention by his short-sightedness. An outdated, thick set of spectacles the Judge is wearing are probably only for reading and in any event, they looked as though they had replaced monocles as the height of fashion sometime during the previous century.



Mr Appleby pauses for several seconds. He scratches his chin and then his wrinkled forehead: "Well my Lord. An automatic video recorder is a machine used to record live television programmes onto magnetic tape for later viewing at one's convenience. The device can even be set to record a television programme when one is not at home and, what's more, the device is capable of recording the programme irrespective of whether the television set is on or off at the time." A pause. "In fact my Lord, the machine in question is on display over there on the table next to the Prosecutor's desk. Your Lordship will forgive me if I don't ask the orderly to hand that up."


Judge: "That won't be necessary, Mr Appleby. I can see the machine well enough from here. It's rather large isn't it. Records television even if the television set is off, you say?"


Mr Appleby: "Indeed so, my Lord."


Judge: "How absolutely fascinating. What will they think of next? I'm afraid I still use a cassette tape recorder on occasion to record radio programmes. But not only does the radio have to be on in order for me to record anything, I dare say  that I have a devil of a time trying to keep my wife from talking over the whole recording." A pause. " I'm afraid that video recorder machine looks complicated and no doubt I'll require both of my university degrees in order to wade through its instructions:" Polite laughter from the gallery. "Pray, do continue. I can't wait to see if the third charge relates to an equally novel invention."


Mr Appleby pauses. He shuffles about awkwardly. He glances at a box the grinning prosecutor has just handed to him. His cheeks become a little flushed.


Judge: "Mr Appleby, as fascinating as all this has been this morning, I do a have several other matters on the Court's roll. So let's get on with it, shall we?"


Mr Appleby: "I do apologise, my Lord. It's just that I'm afraid that the third count relates to an item the purpose of which does not lend itself to being mentioned in polite circles such as this. It involves what I might refer to as a matter of some delicacy."


Judge: "Mr Appleby, I can assure you, that in my years of service on this bench, I've suffered through all sorts of evidence which could fall into the category you're describing. So, let's proceed with out further ado, shall we?"


Mr Appleby: "Indeed my lord. As far as Count three is concerned, my client's evidence will be that he was equally as surprised as was the policemen who discovered the third item under the seat of his motor vehicle..." A further awkward pause. " the third item, being, err..being the Deluxe Model inflatable woman which...."


To Mr Appleby's horror, the Judge interrupts him. He was hoping to be spared the embarrassment of being asked to explain the purpose of the third item to the amusement of the entire Court.


Judge: "Correct me if I'm wrong Mr Appleby, but the Deluxe Model is the one with the real hair isn't it?"




END  two more court tales follow the Ed article link below




 ED MILIBAND leadership issue is becoming toxic for Labour. What should they do? : Link to another of my blog articles below
 http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/11/uncertainty-about-ed-milibands.html





COURT TALES

Prosecutor: And won't you please tell his Lordship whether you had an opportunity to make any observations about the accused's behaviour or his demeanour?


Witness:  Yes indeed, my Lord. It was obvious to me that the accused had had a lot to drink. He was reeking of alcohol, slurring and unsteady on his feet. In fact, I would say he was as drunk as a Judge.


Judge (sounding a little miffed): Surely you mean to say that he was a drunk as a Lord.


Witness (apologetically): Yes, my Lord.


********************

CROSS EXAMINATION TIP: Know the answer before you ask the question


Inexperienced litigators don't always comprehend the importance of never asking open ended questions whilst cross examining a witness.


This is not always easy to do. Occasionally, when at a loss about what to ask next, even experienced counsel have been known to resort to open ended questions in the (often vain) hope that the witness himself will offer up some titbit of material which the cross-examiner might seize upon.


This is what can happen:


In a criminal trial a state witness had just given his evidence in chief for the state, during which he had identified the accused who had been some distance away, around fifty feet, on the other side of the road, at night.


Under vigorous cross examination the witness insisted that despite that the identification had been made at night, a street lamp on the other side of the road had allowed him to make an accurate identification of the perpetrator i.e. the accused.


At his wits end, and in desperation, the Defence counsel forgot his training and sarcastically posed an open-ended question to the witness. ( I should add that this occurred in the US in front of  a jury trial. )


Attorney: "Mr Auld, won't you please tell the jury just how far you think you can see at night?"


He of course hoped that the annoyingly self-assured witness would be tempted to exaggerate his ability , thereby offering the attorney a chance to go onto the attack. This is not what occurred.


Witness: I don't really know your honour.
The witnesses then adopted a modest tone for the first time.
And then, with his next utterance....disaster for the defence. 

Witness: Perhaps you can tell me (he said to the attorney.)  ...How far is the moon?


Witnesses and speeding
I don't know how it is outside South Africa but, here, time after time, there is a consistent, almost uncanny similarity in the testimony delivered under oath in our Courts from witnesses about the speed they happened to be traveling at.


It matters not whether the evidence is being given by an Accused person or by some witness who just happened to be traveling in the area at the time in question.


The standard response to any question relating to the speed the driver was doing is usually that it was about five or ten kilometres an hour slower than the speed limit on that road.


It matters not which road it is. If its a national road, they say they were doing about 115 km's an hour (120 being the limit) and in built up areas, its 55km/h (restriction being 60). Even near schools, the speed is about 25km/h when the limit is 30 etc etc etc.


I'll never forgot when my opponent in a civil case once alerted me to this phenomenon.


"I suppose," he said in a deadpan tone, "that your guy will say that he was traveling at the speed witnesses travel at."

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Uncertainty about +Ed Miliband's leadership is poisonous for the #LabourParty

Uncertainty about Ed Miliband's leadership is poisonous for Labour's chances in +UK election 2015. #UKelection2015

With next year's general Election in the UK drawing ever closer, hardly a day goes by without fresh rumours or continuing whispers from within Labour's ranks regarding Ed Miliband's leadership of the Party.

More recently, there have been reports in the media hinting that +Ed Miliband  has the full support of less than half of his Shadow Cabinet.

RECENT UK POLLS
Added to this, recent polls in the UK continue to reveal two things:

 Firstly, although the +Conservatives are hardly a firm favourite amongst the majority of British voters, +David Cameron  ranks well ahead of Ed Miliband when the voting public are asked about which of the two would be the better Prime Minister.

(Between 30-40% have said they view Cameron as having what it takes to be a good prime minister, whilst Miliband's clocks in at between 15-30%. One poll had Miliband behind +Liberal Democrats  leader Nick Clegg as favoured prime minister material.)

Secondly, when asked which party the voters trust most to do a good job of managing the British economy, the Conservatives also get the thumbs up ahead of Labour, although the +Tory  lead in the polls in regard to this aspect is significantly lower.)

The challenge facing Labour in the upcoming election cannot be overstated. Labour can count on loyal support of around 25% or so of the electorate. That is well short of the 40% or so they need to form a government.

SWING VOTERS
The outcome of the election will, as always, depend on the  whims of the so-called swing voters, people without specific party loyalties.  There are arguably several factors which would cause voters to shift their vote from Conservative to Labour, or the other way around in any given election. In this election, these voters will also be woed by other parties such as +UKIP  , the Lib Dems and (in Scotland) the +Scottish Independence Party .

SCOTLAND
Scotland normally delivers around 35 or so safe Labour seats in the British Parliament. There are some predictions that, for several reasons, Labour may lose around 10 or so of those seats to the Scottish Independence Party. This alone, if it came to pass, might be enough to ensure another four years of +Labour Party as the official Opposition.

Although some of Labour's loss of support in Scotland could be considered fall-out from the recent independence referendum, the problem is also that most Scots have not taken to Ed Miliband at all.

Prime Ministerial Calibre
If any one factor ranks significantly with swing voters in the UK, it is the electability of a party's leader.

The reason why the UK has a hung-parliament at present could be ascribed to a large extent to the good performances of +Nick Clegg , the Liberal Democrat leader, in the television debates leading up to the last election. He came across as capable, intelligent, honest, and last but not least, likeable. The substantially increased support the Lib Dems attainted in the polls following a superb performance by Nick Clegg in one of the earlier debates leaves no doubt of the significance of the link between a party's fortunes and the perceived electability of a party's leader.

The fact that the overwhelming majority of the public do not perceive Ed Miliband to have prime ministerial qualities means that many swing voters are unlikely to vote Labour. That alone is arguably fatal to Labour's chances of  gaining an overwhelming majority in next year's election.

Indeed, the best Labour could have hoped for is, principally due to its core support, that it may win sufficient seats in the event of a hung-parliament to give it a chance of forming part of a new-coalition government.

I said 'could' because Labour's problems go far beyond the fact that the voting public see Ed Miliband as unelectable. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly and abundantly obvious that either Ed Miliband no longer has the support of the majority of his Shadow Cabinet or of Labour MP's, or alternatively, a significant number of Labour MP's & Shadow Cabinet Ministers no longer have any  or sufficient confidence in Ed Miliband's leadership, or in his electability.

The problem of course, is that the more the public perceive that the Party itself has doubts about Ed Miliband's leadership, the more this feeds the growing public perception about Ed's electability. This in turn, adds to the party's said concerns. Clearly a toxic, spiral effect which is guaranteed to put an end to any of Labour's hopes for any advances or success in next year's general election.

TOO LATE TO CHANGE?
Most analysts seem to be of the view that it is too late for Labour to concede that they made a mistake by electing Ed instead of his eminently more electable brother, David, to be party leader.

The polished, suave David Miliband clearly has the x-factor which would have caused him to be viewed both as electable and as a man of prime ministerial calibre.

Ed, on the other hand, comes across as dodgy. His arguments during television interviews and at most prime minister's question times almost always come across as desperate or contrived. Sadly, he has always struck me as the sort of person who might wander around a public park in a grey raincoat, seeking to flash at school girls in an effort to reveal the absence of garments underneath.

IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO JETTISON THAT WHICH IS TOXIC

If I were Ed Miliband, I would have no choice but to consider my position as leader. If it were only the public's view that Ed Miliband does not strike any sort of prime ministerial note, that would be one thing. But, as stated above, his added perceived failure to win the support of most party MP's so close to an election renders him a toxic liability to the Labour Party.

Ed Miliband should stand down as Labour leader now. In my view, the damage this might to Labour's chances in the next election pales into insignificance when compared to the damage Labour will suffer as long as the public perceives that a significant section of the Labour Party shares their own misgiving's about Ed's leadership and/or his electability.

At the very least, Ed should announce that he is standing down as Party leader in order to permit him to contest the leadership of the party against any would-be contenders. As bruising as any such leadership contest might be so-close to an election, the reward the winner, even if it were Ed, would reap is that the public and the media would at least no longer have grounds to question the leader's support amongst Labour. And this in turn, would make for a far less toxic situation as far as Labour itself is concerned. I am convinced that the Party could only gain by ending the present, persistent and highly poisonous speculation about its leader.

I realise I am arguing for a bold move. But if Ed were to make such a move, and were then to lose the leadership, his willingness to sacrifice himself for the Party's cause would earn him considerable respect.

Alternatively, if he were to win a leadership contest, or if no alternative candidate presented him or herself, he would arguably emerge as brave, selfless, and decisive.

In the event that no other candidate were to contest for the leadership, it might not necessarily satisfy anyone that Ed's position would be safe if Labour lost the election. But at least it would signify that Labour has managed to agree upon and unite behind Ed's leadership for the upcoming election campaign. That, on its own, would at the very least go a long way to improving Labour's chances in the next election.

A brave, decisive move is required. But the window for this high risk but potentially rewarding strategy, will close soon. The alternative is to prepare for another four years of David Cameron. (As an outsider, I thought he was a great prime minister) At least, if the Tories return to power we may be treated to another short but entertaining burst of +Harriet Harman during PM's question time.

Siegfried Walther  10 November 2014 Cape Town.


11 November update:
As indicated above bold moves were required by Labour and particularly by Ed Miliband to put an end to any perception of infighting or disunity around the leadership issue with Labour.


How did Ed address this problem? By denying the problem or the extent of it when he addressed business leaders. That simply demonstrates Ed's lack of political judgment. Such a denial only feeds the flames. Ed is TOXIC, TOXIC TOXIC. He can only redeem himself with his resignation as Party leader and by challenging the Party whisperers to come out from their hiding places and to take him in an agreed, shortened Leadership contest.


Can't see Labour pulling this one out of the fire...
SG WALTHER 11 Nov

See also: Media's role in (US) and other mass shootings http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-medias-role-in-mass-killings-school.html
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Eskom's CEO - Lord of Darkness

Eskom CEO - Lord of Darkness

Most of my posts have an international slant, but due to the power outages +South Africa experienced yesterday (+Load Shedding ) I thought I'd write a piece to express my views on the partly state owned utility company #Eskom.

The only thing worse than Eskom's load shedding, apart from the absence of power to the PPL, is their gratuitous shedding of loads of bull shit in vain attempts to explain their infinite incompetence.

To those in "Power", I say this: "Maintenance" is a word too. Please look it up. Please add this concept to "Fixed" and "Broken."

Whilst "Broken" can occur at any time, usually as a nasty surprise, "Maintenance" is something which requires a recognition of its importance, forward planning and implementation.

"Maintenance" keeps that which is "Fixed" from becoming "Broken" and/or reduces down-time when that which is "Fixed" does become Broken."

Maintenance is usually far cheaper than "Fixing" that which is "Broken." 
 
Avoid the temptation to consider "maintenance" as a superfluous line-item in the Budget when everything appears to be "Fixed" for the time being and when money is required for major executive salary increases, plush new office suites, and to replace unfashionable one-year-old executive Porches, Land Rover's etc.

As the old adage says, a stich in time saves nine.

End of lecture:

We should all be shocked by the lack of maintenance and planning at Eskom. But Alas, we are not - for to be shocked one requires electricity!

As a parting shot, I will leave you to wonder whether or not Satan was annoyed to learn that he has been replaced by Eskom's CEO - the new Lord of Darkness.

SG Walther 2014

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UK Top 40 Singles Chart 26 OCt 2014

Courtesy of BBC

& BBC R1   The home of the UK charts.
See Also: DJ@Sg_Walthers' Top 125 Tracks - link below....
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/10/djsgwalther-music-charts-31-october.html
And also the UK album chart link:
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/11/uk-official-album-chart-26-oct-2014.html

The Official UK Top 40 Singles Chart - 26th October 2014

Position	Status	Previous	Weeks	Artist	Title
1	non-mover	1	8	Meghan Trainor	All About That Bass
2	up 2	4	18	Ed Sheeran	Thinking Out Loud
3	up 161	164	3	Waze & Odyssey & R. Kelly	Bump & Grind 2014
4	up 1	5	5	Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj	Bang Bang
5	down 3	2	10	Taylor Swift	Shake It Off
6	non-mover	6	3	Jeremih	Don't Tell 'Em (feat. Y.G.)
7	up 1	8	7	Calvin Harris	Blame (feat. John Newman)
8	down 1	7	8	Sigma	Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)
9	new		1	Fuse ODG	T.I.N.A (feat. Angel Rene & Johnny Rodriguez Orchestra)
10	up 2	12	15	Sam Smith	I'm Not The Only One
11	down 8	3	2	One Direction	Steal My Girl
12	up 1	13	16	George Ezra	Blame It On Me
13	up 1	14	11	Lilly Wood	Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)
14	down 3	11	3	Nicki Minaj	Anaconda
15	up 8	23	23	Sam Smith	Stay With Me
16	up 3	19	9	Ariana Grande	Break Free (feat. Zedd)
17	up 1	18	26	George Ezra	Budapest
18	down 2	16	20	Ella Henderson	Ghost
19	up 2	21	8	The Script	Superheroes
20	up 4	24	16	MAGIC!	Rude
21	down 12	9	7	The Vamps	Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) (feat. Shawn Mendes)
22	up 6	28	18	Ed Sheeran	Don't
23	down 1	22	41	John Legend	All Of Me
24	down 7	17	3	Ella Henderson	Glow
25	non-mover	25	8	G.R.L.	Ugly Heart
26	up 4	30	21	Ed Sheeran	Sing
27	down 17	10	2	Eminem	Guts Over Fear (feat. Sia)
28	down 2	26	14	Iggy Azalea	Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)
29	non-mover	29	17	Nico & Vinz	Am I Wrong
30	down 3	27	2	Krishane	Drunk And Incapable (feat. Beenie Man & Melissa Steel)
31	down 16	15	2	Watermät	Bullit
32	up 28	60	8	Maroon 5	Animals
33	down 2	31	13	Hozier	Take Me To Church
34	up 2	36	17	Sia	Chandelier
35	up 2	37	49	Pharrell Williams	Happy
36	up 5	41	9	Maroon 5	Maps
37	up 3	40	27	Mr. Probz & Robin Schulz	Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)
38	down 6	32	6	Professor Green	Lullaby (feat. Tori Kelly)
39	new		1	Taylor Swift	Welcome To New York
40	up 3	43	40	Clean Bandit	Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

UK Official Album Chart 26 Oct 2014

	Status	Previous	Weeks	Artist	Title
1	new		1	Ben Howard	I Forget Where We Were
2	new		1	Slipknot	.5: The Gray Chapter
3	down 1	2	18	Ed Sheeran	X
4	new		1	Neil Diamond	Melody Road
5	new		1	Status Quo	Aquostic (Stripped Bare)
6	down 3	3	22	Sam Smith	In The Lonely Hour
7	down 6	1	2	Ella Henderson	Chapter One
8	down 4	4	17	George Ezra	Wanted On Voyage
9	down 2	7	6	Barbra Streisand	Partners
10	down 5	5	2	Jessie J	Sweet Talker
11	up 3	14	28	Paolo Nutini	Caustic Love
12	up 39	51	5	Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga	Cheek To Cheek
13	down 7	6	2	U2	Songs Of Innocence
14	down 6	8	2	Spandau Ballet	The Story: The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet
15	up 27	42	8	Maroon 5	V
16	down 5	11	6	The Script	No Sound Without Silence
17	new		1	Nicole Scherzinger	Big Fat Lie
18	up 1	19	33	Paloma Faith	A Perfect Contradiction
19	down 7	12	34	Pharrell Williams	G I R L
20	down 4	16	9	Royal Blood	Royal Blood
21	new		18	Madonna	True Blue
22	new		1	Mark Lanegan	Phantom Radio
23	up 4	27	28	The Vamps	Meet The Vamps
24	down 4	20	5	Alt-J	This Is All Yours
25	down 16	9	2	Jessie Ware	Tough Love
26	down 11	15	4	Genesis	R-Kive
27	down 2	25	160	Ben Howard	Every Kingdom
28	up 69	97	60	Neil Diamond	The Very Best Of Neil Diamond
29	up 2	31	23	Coldplay	Ghost Stories
30	new		1	Scott Walker & Sunn O)))	Soused
31	up 30	61	67	OneRepublic	Native
32	new		1	Aretha Franklin	Sings The Great Diva Classics
33	down 16	17	3	Hozier	Hozier
34	down 16	18	6	Slash	World On Fire
35	new		1	Billy Idol	Kings & Queens Of The Underground
36	up 2	38	163	Ed Sheeran	+
37	down 11	26	17	5 Seconds of Summer	5 Seconds Of Summer
38	down 16	22	5	Leonard Cohen	Popular Problems
39	down 29	10	2	You+Me	Rose Ave
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20 tips to max your #GOOGLE search results: #googlesearch +searchengine

Maximizing results on +Google -

 Here is a crib sheet of  20 top tips I sourced from various sites on the internet.  +Search Engine Watch 

 

1.      To search for a phrase or words in exact order -

 

put the phrase inside quotation marks.

 

2.      To search for a file type eg PDF documents: 

enter search terms followed by filetype:PDF

 

3.      To Define a word -

 Type  define:  and the word

 

4.      To exclude a word or words,

 

use a - (minus) sign after the words you want and then add the word, words you don’t.

  

5.      To search for missing words within a known phrase

 add an * in place of the missing word.  You can use more than one asterisk if you like. Google will try to replace the asterisk with possible words.   

6.      Search within range of dates or prices.

 Separate the two dates or prices by using two full-stops or periods  -    ..     You can use this to search for an article between these two dates. 

7.      Searching for an article within a web-site.  

Type  site: followed by URL of the website. Then add your search terms eg   site:news24.com technology 

8.      Set a timer - to take a break, time a phone- call, boil an egg, time a worktask, anything 

Type Timer into the search Bar 

9.      Reverse Image Search - You may not have noticed the word Image on the Google page just below the task bar.

Click on it, upload an image, and then get the likely source. If you move away from the Image results to the ordinary web page results of the reverse search, you will find more sites or information relating to that image. PURE MAGIC 

10.   MATHS - Type in an equation & get the answer 

11.   CURRENCY:    Type US $10 to Pounds 

12.   FIND A GIF:

 

Go to Google Images. Click search tools and then TYPE

 

13.   Search by TITLE:   

Type intitle:  and the word you want. All results will include that word in the title. 

14.   Free Downloads of any type:   

            For example, to find free Android APKs, you'd search for -inurl:htm -inurl:html             intitle:"index      of" apk to see site indexes of stored APK files. You can use this             to         find Android      apps, music files, free ebooks, comic books, and more. Check             out the linked posts for more     information.

15.   Alternatives to sites, products, apps etc 

Type Iphone vs                    leave it blank. Google will try to autocomplete and may surprise you.

 Also try Better than Iphone  to see alternatives. 

 

16.   Searching or retrieving a page from GOOGLE CACHE:

TYPE:

The following into the search bar 

cache:http://News24.com 

17.   Blocked sites:

               Sometimes one can use Google Translate or Google Mobiliser as a proxy server to get into        blocked

               keeping a few URLs on hand.   You may already know that you can sometimes             bypass paywalls, get around blocked sites, and download files by funneling a site      through Google Translate or Google Mobilizer. That's a clever search trick in and of itself, but just like Google Cache, you can make the process a lot faster by keeping a        few URLs on hand. Just add the URL you want to visit to the end of the Google URL   (e.g. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://examp    le.com/and you're good to go. Check out the full list of proxies, along with      bookmarklets to make them even easier, here.

 

  Access Blocked Sites at School or Work with Google Translate

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18.   Search for people on Google Images: 

Go to search tools, TYPE and choose …….. 

19.   Time based results on a site:

               Type the URL and then add:              

               &tbs=qdr:n10

               n is for minutes.  n10 restricts the search to the last ten minutes 

               use h for hours eg   h5 for five hours  

20.   AROUND(2)

 If you type two words and AROUND(2) it will allow for the words to be within two words of each other in your search. Increasing the number increases the allowable gap between the words.

Hope you find these tips as useful as I did.  iTunes tips link  & DJ @Sg_walther's TOP 125 song listing for 31 Oct 2014 follows below:
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/10/creating-radio-station-playlist-from.html
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http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2015/01/political-humour-we-see-your-jihad.html

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http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.co.za/2015/10/mh370-clive-irvings-deadly-cargo.html

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