Following their debut hit single, they went on to produce an immediate hit – “Everybody in love” which also went to number one. Louis Walsh mentored the band and is very pleased to have them storming the charts. Louis says, “I am very proud of the lads, they are nice on stage and off stage”. The X Factor launched their career as an impressive 14.52 million viewer’s watch on the Saturday show alone.

JLS are one of the most popular bands of the year; even before entering on the X Factor, they won best Unsigned act at Urban Awards. Their adoring fans continue to buy JLS merchandise (i.e. JLS hoodies) which increases their profits. JLS are going to start touring with their album called “JLS” starting in November.

JLS album track list –

 Beat Again (first single)
02. Everybody In Love (second single)
03. Keep You
04. Crazy For You
05. Heal This Heartbreak
06. Close To You
07. Only Tonight
08. One Shot
09. Private
10. Don’t Go
11. Only Making Love
12. Kickstart
13. Tightrope
By Sophie Wilford

This drama centres around 5 teenagers on community service. The series starts off when the teens get caught in a strange storm which they then find out they have received superpowers. Think skins meets heroes and you get Misfits. 

The 4^th episode is airing Thursday 3^rd December. You can catch up on any episodes by logging on to www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits/4od.

The second episode centred around Nathan and an O.A.P’s tea-dance, as part of their community service. Things take a good turn for Nathan as he befriends a beautiful young volunteer.

The link for this episode is:  http://www.channel4.com/programmes/misfits/4od#3010165

Misfits is said to be the number one UK teen drama of the year. Will Misfits be more popular than skins?

Mr Oake a local farmer had some Jack Russel puppies he needed to sell. He painted a large sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his drive. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy called Tim.

Many of our parents, however, are still getting to grips with using Excel and emailing, let alone comprehending why we’re so adamant we can’t go near Internet Explorer.

Some people like to divide the world into two categories – those who can, and those who can’t. Some call them Passionates and Non-Passionates*, some call them simply ‘them‘ (that works both ways) and some like to exploit the other.

Take, for example, the flashy monitor we had last year. By flashy I don’t mean suave, sophisticated or a bit of a show-off; I mean that it was black, then white, then black, then white, then black, then showing signs of Windows XP for all of a few seconds, then black… The problem was the monitor. How do I know? I just know, ok! If that’s not enough of a reason, the computer was working fine, and I could input whilst the monitor was flashing (although not without a headache). My mother, in a fit of hysteria, and without my advice, took the issue to the computer shop, where the problem was diagnosed and a prognosis given.
Your hard drive is shot, you need a new one.
My mother, running her own business, would like to have the files transferred to the new hard drive from the old one. It’s been done before.
Impossible.
So my mother shells out for a new hard drive. All our files are lost; not a tragedy, I’ll admit, since we back them all up, but a nuisance. Just imagine her frustration when, all shiny hard drived up, the monitor keeps flashing.

The point of this story, is that I would not have been taken in by this blasted computer man. I would have borrowed a monitor from a friend, replaced my flashy one and confirmed that the monitor was at fault. I would then have bought a new monitor (something we did a few months later and – wow! – we’re back in business) and retained all my lovely files and settings.
But my mother isn’t me, and she trusts that this chap has more knowledge than she does, and takes him at his word. Something that 70%** of other 40-something people would have done.

Now, I cannot understand why people have trouble attaching documents to emails, printing photographs, or copying files to CD. I really cannot, as it is the simplest thing in the world to me. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to exploit those people who don’t find it obvious – whether they’re Non-Passionates, Normals, Non-Geeks, or a miriad of other labels.

None of this, however, makes it any more forgivable for a middle-aged woman to declare that she ‘just can’t email’ and expect it to be accepted… Meet us half way, people!

*Which I think is a little unfair, don’t you?
**Not a real statistic…

For those of you who don’t know, Spore is essentially a mash up of many game types, with the basis being evolution of a species, your species. Yes that’s right, you start the game as a singular cell in a 2D world. This stage is similar to Pac Man but with no boundaries, just fluid dynamics to guide you. As you eat more and collect body parts you are able to “evolve” your creature to the next level by adding new parts or rearranging old ones. Everything is procedurally generated on the fly, and at some point you will have control over everything, the plants, trees, rocks, water, music, creatures, colour of the planet and even its shape. Also added to this is the massively single player experience where other peoples creatures and buildings are added to your game depending on how you play and how you design your creature. This means that there is always stuff that can kill you along with stuff you can kill.

Eventually you progress onto land and into a 3D environment, where your main objective is to ally or defeat other nests of creatures, this is done through a rather simplistic button bash style game and is one of the main areas where spore fails to deliver on its vision. This leads onto a 3^rd tribal stage which is the same but in a grander scale with instruments and weapons coming in to play. After this you progress onto the penultimate stage, the civ stage.

The civ and space stages are mostly the same, just on a different level of control, the civ stage allows you to do most things but the space stage allows you to do almost anything you like. This is the most accurately depicted stage of spore, you take control of a single space ship and fly round the 50,000 star systems in the galaxy, that’s endless hours of fun, with tools such as the genesis device and tractor beam.

It promised to be the most open ended game ever created and to a large extent it is, but in many ways its so simple (easy to get from cell to space in less than 4 hours) which lets it down. Although Will has now said that this was intentional as to persuade casual gamers it seems die hard fans of his work will be disappointed. It is more open ended than The Sims or Sim City but some how seems more of a tech demo or proof of concept rather than a game.

In conclusion it is a great concept and fun to play with, but far too simple to impress the hard core gamer.

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