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Book Review: The Queens of Innis Lear
June 2, 2018 June 2, 2018 ~ aentee @ read at midnight
Title: The Queens of Innis Lear
Author: Tessa Gratton
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Series? No
Book Depository | Dymocks | Booktopia
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Harper Voyager Australia in exchange for an honest review.
I still vividly remember studying King Lear for Year 11 English class, for me, it's Shakespeare's most memorable tragedy. I spent many hours that year writing about the folly of men in power and the toxicity of patriarchal societies, so I was immediately intrigued when I learned of this feminist retelling of King Lear.
This book is takes a deep dive into the mythology of King Lear and imbue it with facets of its own. It reinvented not just one or two characters from the original tragedy, but gave every single player an in-depth examination. The exploration extended far beyond the characters themselves, the book also conjure a fully imagined Innis Lear and Aremoria, these lands filled with their own traditions and cultural touchstones. Tessa Gratton obviously spent a great deal of time and energy in carefully constructing this world, it feels palpable and real.
I appreciated that the women portrayed in this book were varied yet equally complex. From the unyielding and kingly Gaela, to the cunning and manipulative Regan, to the honest and guileless Elia, they're all so much more than the characters who originally inspired them. There are also multiple other women of significant in the new text, such as Brona the wood witch and Aefa, her daughter and Elia's loyal companions. The web of their interaction is fraught with tension and incredibly intricate, layered with subtext and a painful history.
The text shifts between the current events, which closely follow that of the original play, and flashbacks to numerous points in the past. It's with these flashbacks that The Queens of Innis Lear introduce a compelling twist to the narrative, with the invention of Dalat, Lear's wife and the princesses's mother. Many of the conflicts within the novel arise from the circumstances around Dalat's death, which Gaela and Regan perceive as Lear's doing due to his myopic and stubborn faith in the stars. Dalat is a woman of colour hailing from the Three Kingdoms, the subtext hinting that Innis Lear doubted her legitimacy as Queen added more scope to the narrative tension.
I also liked how the book was not afraid to go to dark places and make difficult decisions. None of the characters in The Queens of Innis Lear are likable, but their motives were always compelling. My 16 year-old self also cheered at the text's criticism of King Lear, who's pride and lack of empathy set the tragedy in motion to begin with. I found the conclusion of this novel well-earned and a lot more satisfying than the original play.
This book was beautifully written, with vivid descriptive imageries that made the world feel as real as ours. Some of the lines from the original found its way into this novel, and it never felt out of place. It was gorgeous from its stunning prologue to the last haunting words. However, I found the pacing a slog, and I felt the book could have been edited down to 2/3rd of its size. I had to pause myself from wanting to skim read on numerous occasion.
I also had issues with the book's definition of what constitute a 'whole woman', as the characters in the text constantly made references to Gaela and Regan's respective infertility – and how this would make Elia a better ruler as a consequence. Although the book is purportedly a feminist retelling, it falls into the trap of punishing ambitious women.
I think you'll get infinitely more out of this book if you have at least a passing knowledge of King Lear, even if it's just from a Wikipedia search.
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Ooh! I also did King Lear at school and haven't been able to face it since, aha! This sounds really intriguing though, and possibly the way to stop me thinking of that play with dread! Great review!
Sam Barnes says:
of all the shakespeare i've read, king lear is the best imo. i've been sceptical to read this tho bc i've heard very mixed things
Oooh, what an interesting concept! It's a shame it fell down a bit on the execution. I certainly love the idea of a more in depth exploration of the Lear sisters. I get the frustration of punishing the ambitious women, though that was kind of Shakespeare's whole thing. It's a shame the author couldn't find a way to subvert it.
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This is post is kindasorta both a Tricky Dicky and a Psychic Landscape entry. It doesn't quite fit into either series, but should - hopefully - be read in the context of them.
We are now in an odd, reversed position when it comes to William Shakespeare and Richard III: all of a sudden, and for the first time, we seem to know where Richard III's head is, but not where to find Shakespeare's.
I've written in previous instalments of this series about the relationship between Richard III (the man), Richard III (the play), William Shakespeare, and history.
Aww, don'tcha just love the bourgeois mainstream? I mean, ain't they precious and priceless? Isn't their disingenuous, blithe, untroubled faith in recieved opinion; and their unquestioning belief in the fundamental goodness and honesty of the world they live in; just kind-of adorable? Like toddlers who treat Mummy and Daddy like all-knowing, ever-protective gods. And aren't they sweet the way they get all serious about pondering the eternal verities they take for granted, like the way little kids are when they get all serious about a let's-pretend game they're playing.
Dostoyevsky's characters "justify murder in the name of ideological beliefs" which, according to the BBC, means he "foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state".
Because it goes without saying that 'democratic' states never ever justify murder ideologically. Nuh-uh. The idea.
Mindless, vacuous, unconcerned contentment of this type is sort-of cute, like the way cattle just mooch aimlessly around fields taking in the same sights over and over again, and happily munching on the cud.


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Jeffrey Stone spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy and Spain. The start to his career came as the model for "Prince Charming" in Disney's "Cinderella". He went on to play "... read full biography
Known for Strange Portrait (1966), The King's Musketeers (1957), La spada imbattibile (1957), Le imprese di una spada leggendaria (1958)
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NOTE: this election method has been refined and renamed; see [[PLACE FAQ]] for current version.
This is a method designed to replace first past the post (FPTP; that is, single-member district plurality). As explained below, it gets the considerable advantages of proportional representation without giving up any of the convenience of FPTP. The method works as follows:
NOTE: this election method has been refined and renamed; see PLACE FAQ for current version.
Candidates declare preferences
That is, each declares which other candidates they prefer. Tied preferences are allowed. Party-affiliated candidates must put most candidates from their party into their top two preference levels, and cannot put non-party candidates at those levels.
Voters choose one candidate. Each vote is converted into a preference order.
The ballot explicitly lists candidates running in the same district, but allows write-ins of candidates from other districts. Voters may also vote by party if they like a party but not the local party candidate.
When you choose a candidate, their predeclared preferences will be used to transfer your vote if needed (if they are eliminated, or if they still have leftover votes after being elected).
Find the winners using a modified STV (Single Transferrable Voting)
Before STV begins, candidates with less than 25% of an average district's vote are eliminated, unless they are among the top two candidates in their district. This prevents weak candidates from winning purely based on vote transfers, and ensures that even candidates in strongly partisan districts are accountable to the voters.
STV works by setting a quota so that the total votes make up one quota per seat and one quota of possible wasted votes. As soon as any candidate gets a quota of votes, they are elected, and any leftover votes beyond a quota are transferred to the next preference of the voter's original choice. Until all the seats are filled, unelected candidates are eliminated one by one, in order of fewest direct votes. When a candidate is eliminated, their votes are transferred. Transferred votes go to make up a quota, but do not change elimination order.
The winning candidates each get a territory
Territories are one or more districts assigned by their party, so that each voter is in the territory of one representative per winning party, and each representative has about one quota of voters from their party.
The advantages of this method are as follows. First, the advantages common to all proportional representation systems:
Equality: gerrymandering is impossible, and each party gets its fair share of seats.
Visibility: Almost all voters are truly represented; even if you are a minority in your district, your vote helps elect a candidate of your favored party, and you have a sympathetic representative whose job is to listen to you.
This method also keeps all the strong points of the current voting system. (The current system is horrible in general, but it still has its strong points.)
Simplicity: you just choose one candidate, and the ballot is short.
Accountability: voters, not parties, choose who is elected.
Unity: discourages splinter parties, because candidates without a strong local base of support are eliminated up-front.
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Adobe Advertising Cloud Announces Integrations with Microsoft Bing
On Wednesday, Adobe strengthened ties between its Advertising Cloud Search offering and Microsoft's Bing search engine with the introduction of Retargeting Lists for Search Ads, Custom Audiences, and Dynamic Search Ad.
"Advertisers can now use their own first-party data—such as whether someone abandoned a shopping cart—and then retarget that person later when they're searching relevant terms," says Pete Kluge, group manager of product marketing at Adobe's Advertising Cloud. "Advertisers can also set bid modifiers for specific audiences and leverage portfolio optimization algorithms, giving marketers extra control and providing them with the best chance to reach those valuable users and drive lift in performance."
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The Retargeting Lists for Search Ads component aims to help marketers target customers with more relevant ads and to boost conversions. To do so, end users of Adobe's Advertising Cloud Search solution have to first create specific audiences within Adobe's products so that they can track a customer's behavior for signals revealed as they browse a firm's digital properties. For instance, a customer might look at a page that features a specific product or place that item into a digital shopping cart but never finalize the purchase—a common occurrence, according to Kluge. Adobe end users can mine the behavioral information to dynamically adjust bids on items customers have expressed interest in as they use Bing to search for similar products.
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The Dynamic Search Ads function is designed to help companies enhance their existing search ad campaigns. The offering can take customer information logged on a company's web pages and use it to create custom copy for headlines and landing pages on the fly, while resurfacing ads to a customer when he has entered relevant search words on Bing. Users can manage Bing Dynamic Search Ads campaigns alongside their other search campaigns within Adobe's Advertising Cloud Search solution.
The additions come at a time when Adobe and Microsoft have been making considerable efforts to create deeper integrations between their offerings. Paul Greenberg, president of the 56 Group, calls it "a mission-critical partnership" for both software vendors. "The depths of the integrations are just stunning," he comments. "It's not like they are taking the typical approach and taking a couple of APIs to link two products together; they are going down to the root of the architecture—it's fascinating to see."
Brian Utter, general manager of network and demand management at Microsoft, said in a statement that the releases were a step forward in the vendors' alliance:
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"Adobe and Bing are focused on driving the best performance for our mutual customers and will continue to partner on innovations that drive optimal results for search advertisers," Adobe's Kluge wrote in a blog post.
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We know they will need care. We know they will be another mouth to feed. But the reality about how much they will need and how much more they will continually require as we put them on the path of holistic development are things no one will ever discover until one actually has children.
Motherhood talks to three sets of parents who tell us, rather hilariously, that the road to child raising is not as straightforward as one thinks. There are many crouching expenditures and even more hidden costs, which is why Motherhood is also talking to two financial experts at the end of the article who suggest contingency plans to navigate this expensive parenting journey.
I have three kids. Each one has contributed a different kind of financial drama but looking back, I think I spent the most on my firstborn.
At the time, being a first time mother, the only thing on my mind was to give the best to my unborn child. We got almost everything new ─ the carrier, stroller, car seats, clothes and, coconut husk baby mattresses, breathable bed sheets/blankets and so on. We went for timely checkups, took prenatal supplements and nutrient dense food, visited baby fairs and signed up for every single mother/baby forum there was.
We had to fork out RM7K to RM8K for each of their arrivals, and then another RM200 to RM250 each for their insurances which I am glad I bought for them.
Then there were their almost-monthly vaccinations which not only added to the expenses but also subtracted from my Annual Leave. Each time they were sick or not feeling well, their clinic visits averaged RM120 to RM190 per trip.
So Hand-Foot-Mouth-Disease, Influenza, prolonged cough or fevers are things worse than nightmares. When my first-born Lucas was still small and defenseless, paranoia would overtake me and I would be overthinking that my baby was headed for a major catastrophe when actually he was only having a low grade fever. Over the years, I have learned to calm down, wait and observe. Only when it was a real emergency did we go to the doctor, otherwise we would use home remedies and plenty of rest.
When it came to their diets I have this bullheaded mentality that they will eat nothing but organic. We do know it is not harmful to feed normal food but we can't shake off the fact that their small organs are growing and we cannot burden their systems. Once, we brought back 18 cans of formula milk from Australia. As for enrichment programmes and activities, I enrolled Lucas in sensory class and gyms to assist with his motorskill developments. Here's one lesson we learned. Some of the "activities" could have been done at home! These enrichment programmes are not as straight forward as they seem. There are enrollment fees and deposits, so before class starts, we would have already forked out a sum.
Nowadays, instead of wasting money on these gyms and sensory development classes, we bring the kids to the beach every two months, we go on trips, petting zoos and so on. I think every single cent spent on these alternatives is way better and we get to spend time together as a unit instead of waiting behind glass windows for their class to finish.
Also, being parents to young kids, our judgments tend to get screwed. Anything good for the kids ─ we buy. Anything marketed as germ killers or child must-haves ─ we buy. The recent hype I felt trapped in was essential oils. I used to get a few bottles for the kids but I have friends who buy the entire range, almost the whole catalogue like they are miracle oils! And these items are not cheap.
Lastly, pre-schools and toys are expensive. Long gone are those stuffed toys my generation used to have. Nowadays, we are talking about electronic talking dogs, legos, building magnets, magic sands, robo poli towns and so on.
My pocket is still bleeding because of the kids. My husband and I don't mind at all because they deserve the best. We learned along the way that some financial mistakes are unavoidable but I think our expenses in raising children are pretty balanced out. We stretch our Ringgit by buying in bulk (diapers, milk, cereals) and buying online (clothes, toys, etc). However, there are things we cannot save on such as vaccinations, education and insurance.
Iam Jack. I am a 36-year-old British living in KL. My wife Housene, is a Malaysian and our daughter Saskia is 16 months old.
I am a fashion stylist and my wife is a make-up artist.
We have been trying for a child for three years and during that time, we visited a private hospital every month for specialist consultation to help my wife get pregnant. Once she did, we continued to visit the specialist for regular checkups and scans which were costly but we didn't see it as a big expense as we wanted the best service and due to my wife suffering from Diabeties during pregnancy, we wanted to get the best care possible.
After my daughter was born, the biggest unexpected costs were for medical bills as each time she showed the slightest symptoms of sickness, we would panic and rush for medical advice. Many times the medication and diagnoses from clinics was not correct so we would often visit two to three clinics until we were confident in the medical advice and treatment.
My medical insurance coverage covers all three of us but what we found was that most of the panel clinics do not specialise in child care or medical conditions. Most of the cases were just fevers and bronchitis and we found ourselves going straight to the children's unit in hospitals as the care and diagnosis was much better.
These costs were unexpected and they did not have a huge impact on our finances although they could easily wipe savings. Another thing I found is that clinics and some hospitals often try to prescribe more medicine than you require. I visited a medical centre once at 2am as my daughter was vomiting very badly. The consultation charge was RM90 but they tried to prescribe me close to RM300 in medication, most of which was not required.
Now that my daughter is older and her immune system is stronger, we are able to identify sickness easier and don't spend as much money and time visiting multiple medical clinics as we have learnt where to go for the best treatment.
In terms of monthly expenses, when my daughter started eating solid foods I started buying organic baby foods as it has no sugar and this has increased our food budget by at least 40%.
As she is growing up, we are not buying baby foods anymore but we spend a lot on fresh organic foods from higher end grocery stores to get the best quality for her. On average I spend about RM500 per month on my daughter's food.
For milk and nappies, initially we would buy in single packs each week but now my wife buys in bulk for the whole month. This helps with our budgeting for the month and ensures we don't run out. Buying nappies online is much more cost effective.
Childcare costs is not something that we have as my wife has taken time off from her career to take care of our daughter. We get her vaccinations from government clinics so this is no expense for us.
If I could go back one year and make any changes, I would have done more research on the best clinics in my area which would have saved us over paying in medical costs.
I highly recommend anyone having a child to get medical insurance. On average, the medical costs for my daughter for the past year have been around RM1,600 but 70% of that has been covered by the medical insurance policy.
In total, I would estimate that each month I spend a total of RM1,000 on my daughter's food and essentials.
There have been many financial shocks during the early days but at age nine today, the spending would be on shopping! Or in her words ─ building her collection, or picking up souvenirs.
My daughter would complain endlessly about how much I like to look-see around shopping centres during our family time together. For me, walking around shopping centres is rather therapeutic and occasionally I pick up a couple of good buys. But the strange thing is, every time we go out and walk around, she would complain about it at first, but she would be the one who would end up insisting to buy something and buys it.
At one point in time, it was almost like a must for her to buy something each time we went out to a mall. And believe me, children really know how to get what they want from their parents. Initially, it was all cute pleases and pleading then progressively, it turned ugly and they would make you feel like you are a bad parent by giving you "the look" if you say no. So more often than not, we would take turns caving in to her "shopping needs" and we would justify to ourselves afterwards that the items she wanted was useful in some way. They are not expensive items as they are mainly toys, gadgets and games, but all these are "unexpected" costs that do add up.
And I am guessing that as she grows older this tendency would just keep increasing, depending on her interests, hobbies and friends.
Presently, the biggest recurring costs would be school fees. Initially we wanted to enrol her into a Chinese Primary School but later decided on an International-based syllabus school which she now enjoys attending. We selected this school based on their philosophy and method of learning which we felt was suited to her needs and also that their fees were competitive.
We pay RM5,800 per term for three terms a year. She also goes for lots of enrichment classes such as art, Chinese class and Piano and her activities include rock climbing, ice skating and other kid activities that cost quite a lot per session.
It is not easy to manage income and expenses. But life is so dynamic. We can only plan and budget so much.
While Joan acknowledges parents' concern over the reliability of a service provider or babysitter, she also says there is no shortage of stories where babysitters have provided wonderful care and helped parents resolve their childcare issues.
Always leave room and flexibility for the family cashflow so that in the event of unforeseen circumstances, it will not disrupt the continuity of these large education fees, he adds.
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If they have a more proper name than 'sidebar questions' please let me know and I'll edit; but I'm referring to the questions from other sites that sometimes appear on the right sidebar of the screen when you're asking a question on SO.  Here's one:

I'm wondering what the criteria for their selection are?  Sometimes they're really popular questions, sometimes they're odd questions by new users that actually don't have very good feedback in the comments, sometimes they're just regular-old-joe questions.  There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern I can detect between them, except of course that they're trying to direct you to other sites in the Stack Exchange network.  So I'm curious, does anyone know how these questions are selected?


Conversational Hypnosis is a type of hypnosis where it is very important to access certain states of mind in order to set triggers to change lives for the better. In order to do this you must learn and know how to access those states to start the trigger process with a clean and pure state of mind.
Access State Principal plays a huge role in this process. This is because the clarity of the state of mind a person is in when the trigger is set will determine how well the trigger is going to work, if at all. When people access emotions they are really going back through their files of memories to re-experience memories that correlate with the emotion you are asking them to bring to mind.
If you are asking them to relax they will think of times and places where they felt this way. Accessing the state of mind you want is important. However it is equally important to make sure it is a pure state. You will have conflict in placing your suggestions and triggers if the state of the listener is not just in the mode of relaxation.
If your listener is experiencing relaxation along with anxiety it will cause the same combination of feelings when you set off the trigger again in the future. This can cause problems in accomplishing the changes you want to achieve throughout the course of hypnosis.
The main thing from previous articles you will want to remember as you learn to use revivification is that you need to know how to change the whole mood of a person before setting your emotional trigger. If you can keep this in mind and access a clear state of mind before setting those triggers it will aid in the process of accessing states with revivification as well.
The concept behind revivification itself is to bring an experience to life for the person having it. The listener needs to be able to experience the memory fully in order to access a completely pure state of mind. This means you will be using and developing different skills in this process that will make the experience as real as possible for your subjects.
The first state inducing method (and the only one we will focus on in this article) is the revivification process. This is a process of accessing a state is by asking revivification questions. These questions are used to give direction to your subject while they are attempting to emerge themselves fully in a particular emotional state.
In your practice as a hypnotist you will be asking questions of the people in your care, these questions will be the start of a journey through their experiences in order to answer each one. You see when you ask a question of someone they are required to re-experience the situations where they felt the way in which you are asking about. We all must experience the actual answer before our minds compute how to answer a question.
Revivification will run more smoothly if you apply the principal of 'going first'. 'Going first' in this situation means that you will first tell as story of your own that would get you into the same emotional state you are trying to get your subject into. If you want the person to feel happy you would tell a story of a thing that happened or a time when you were completely happy.
By 'going first' your physiology will change, your body will sub-communicate that emotion on an unconscious level through tone, body language, movements and gestures. In turn the person you are talking to will unconsciously pick up on those signals and start to be open to accessing that emotion as well.
After you have told a story and you are now in the same state of mind you wish your listener to be in you prompt or ask them of a time when they felt that way. When you ask questions of the people around you, especially when using revivification you want to make each question sound meaningful.
If you sound bored or uninterested the person you are working with will be more likely to reserve their answers, meaning they will not be interested in reliving an emotion for you. When you ask a question make it sound like the answer is extremely important to you. You can use different tonalities and language suggestions to make this happen. This will cause the person to really get deeper into the experience and in turn give you a much more quality answer.
The next step in revivification questions is to listen closely to the answer the person is giving, and repeat it back to them. You want to do this in the exact same way they said it to you. Use the same tone, lean and emphasis on the words they used.
The reason for doing this is people will use words that are what we call trigger words, these words are important to them. When you repeat the same words back using the same tones and such it will help your listener to access the memory and experience it more fully.
As you are doing this you will notice that you are going to be able to create a kind of feedback loop. In this loop you will give a story to go first, then ask them to give an example of the same emotion, listen for the sensory information they are giving, repeat the answer back to them exactly as they have said it and then start again.
Each time you complete the loop you will be allowing the subjects to dive deeper and deeper into the state of mind you are accessing.
As you use the process of revivification remember that part of the goal is to make the experience as real as possible through the language and stories each of you are telling. This is a powerful scenario and will be a great help in accessing pure clean states of mind.


Born in Delhi, and bred in New Jersey, Sonali Vij's talent for musical instrumentation arose when she commenced playing the guitar at age 7 and has, since, written over a thousand songs. Some of them get showcased on this EP, the cleverly titled 'Storeys Unknown', which reminds me about the flat treatment mete out to apartment owners by builders once the building goes for redevelopment. Nevertheless, humour aside, Sonali's alternative rock foundations remain intact on the six tracks of 'Storeys Unknown', with her vocals matching the compositions, and the one aspect of the EP that becomes increasingly perceptible with each listen is how romantic it feels, albeit in a somewhat unsettling manner. While the lyrics are personal and yet, paradoxically, universal, they are also straightforward and, simultaneously, a synthesis of accessible songs and abstract sounds, right from the comparatively loud "Rebel", the acoustic ballad of "Looking Glass", the musical consciousness of "Hypnosis", the addiction cultivating "Lady Of Gardens", the haunting sounds and alternating beat contained within "Welcome To My World", to the off-balance production of "Crown Of Thorns". Sonali is definitely a composer to reckon with, with her well-constructed Storeys ranging from daytime to bedtime!
A commerce graduate from Chennai and presently pursuing a masters in Advertising & Marketing in England, GD Prasad has been composing music since ten and, over the years, has worked on several English theatre productions, short films, and radio and television programmes, among other musical initiatives. A pianist, who has learnt to play drums too, he has put his compositional skills to fine usage on "String Of Shining Pearls", which is largely instrumental – though it does contains lyrics by Gauri Gupta – wherein the so-called vocals are virtually non-existent and are, often, reminiscent of Gregorian chants. The fascination of the song is clear though, as Prasad's production finds him venturing into multiple instrumentation with keyboards as the backbone as he combines the sounds of flute, lead guitar, violin, drums, and what sounds like the santoor, adding texture to Prasad's composition. Although the artiste himself describes his music in the "broad genre of world/experimental music" but, to me, this is definitively reminiscent of the progressive sounds from the '70s, moreso due to its ever changing tempos. A noteworthy effort!
Singers, composers, and producers Greg and Stan have built their musical confidence on their past in Hindi pop to now venture into their second track for ArtistAloud with "Dil Ki Baat". It is a song which, explain the duo [although the lyrics have been written by Greg only], is "about the nervous teenage romantic who experiences love at first sight and doesn't have the courage to express" it ["Dil ki baat, kahoon na kahoon?/Mulakat, karoon na karoon?"]. On the musical side of things, on first listening, it surely takes time to accept the mix wherein the vocals are subdued and the instrumentation – mainly guitar, supported by a drum machine and keyboards – is upfront but, by the time you reach the song's inevitable end, you begin to appreciate the looped beat, sultry bass groove, and subtle guitaring, placing the arrangements in perspective. Undoubtedly, every further listen to "Dil Ki Baat", makes the song grow fonder!
When punk rock first arrived – and exploded – in the UK in the late '70s, more than a few fans of that new genre declared that rock and roll was dead. But, no, just like vinyl continues to thrive in a digital era, rock and roll is not only alive globally, but so too in India. Credit, at least in part, must go to Mumbai-based Vivek Date who may have been predominantly a bassist but here, on his debut album named 'Wrapping Paper', he reve[a]ls himself as a songwriter too. Vivek has combined influences of genres ranging from blues, rockabilly, and early rock & roll – nearly all of it dating before 1955 – and approached the classic styles of the past, paradoxically with the energy and nonchalance of what was – thankfully – the short-lived punk rock, but has made his sound for a new generation, conveying that rock and roll is hard, wild, and manic fun and, yet, the production is kept simple. The eight songs here are the work of a writer who knows how to tell stories through his lyrics, which have been married to melodies that are gentle and sweet. Take the opening track, "A Boat", for instance, an acoustic ballad; or the rockin' "Mr. Brown"; or the very-Carl Perkins influenced "When I Was 12"; all the songs have an underlying theme of Vivek's heartfelt music placed in a near flawless form. The obvious influences on the tracks are plain to see – the most notably being The Beatles and The Who – but they are still fresh, and with just enough seasoning to make it practically impossible to gift the roots rock and roll scene of 2015 and onward, in India, without 'Wrapping Paper'!
Born in Sabah, Libya and raised in Canada, the one-time Ricky Cheema's turning into Roach Killa gives rise to the once popular raggamuffin style: the hip-hop and dance-laced brand of reggae. Although my first memories of this subgenre of dancehall music, supported by electronic instrumentation, arrived via Apache Indian, Roach pursues it diligently on "Who Dat Girl" by juggling idiomatic influences with hip-hop-influenced production touches courtesy DJ Dips. But the appearance of Miss Pooja [born Gurinder Kaur Kainth] brings the song upto speed with the introduction of the "Mera Laung Gawacha" interlude with its Bhangra rhythms which, combined with 'ragga', results in "Who Dat Girl" walloping in dance beats, reggae rhythms, and rap, swirled into folk elements! That said, this is a track that is both listenable and danceable, with a fun [ap]Roach!
Bareilly-born Kavita Seth has built a remarkable reputation as a vocalist, much to do with her having completed formal academics in music along with receiving tutelage in Hindustani classical music under the auspices of N.D. Sharma of the Gwalior Gharana, Vinod from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, and from Iqbal Ahmad Khan, enabling Kavita to sing across genres ranging from her speciality, Sufi, to geet, ghazal, and folk songs. On "Gajananam", Kavita focus on devotional, as the song pays tribute to Lord Ganesha, released in time for the ongoing Ganpati festive season. As the producer and musical director of the track too, Kavita goes in for a soft, simple, and understated arrangement of the traditional song which supports her consummate vocals. Score yet another winner for Kavita!
While tracing the Indian history of rock 'n' roll, one name that is a certainty is Babu Choudhary, who started playing guitar in 1978 with 'People', a Mumbai-based rock band that featured musicians such as Ronnie Desai, Ranjit Barot, and Hosi Nanji, which became very popular in the college circuit then. For some intriguing reason, Babu stopped playing guitar for ten years thereafter but, fortunately for music listeners, he got back into playing in 2007 and has recently produced his first ever album, 'Somewhere Out There'. "Where Did We Go Wrong?" is the appetiser with Babu's innovative guitar style making it mandatory primer for younger guitarists, with its soothing chord progressions and usage of harmonic scales, supported by vocalist Vijay Prakash's alaaps. "Where Did We Go Wrong?" is a haunting melody that goes to show how much Babu was missed during his self-imposed hibernation and, hopefully, there is no more slumbering before his next album. Welcome back, Babu!


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Coastal members and guests gathered the morning of March 21 for the second installment of the Development 360 series. The conversation on financing was led by Ken Grimes of Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group and Thomas Wagoner of Middle Street Partners. Ken and Thomas walked the group through key terms when talking about real estate capital, shared examples of the types of capital structure, before sharing a case study on Foundry Point, finishing off with Q&A. The presentation can be found here.
Many thanks to our host sponsor, Clemson Design Center.
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The series is held on the 3rd Thursday of each odd-numbered month, from 8:30am – 9:30am at the Clemson Design Center Charleston, located on the 2nd floor of the Cigar Factory, 701 East Bay Street, Charleston, SC 29403.
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Atego (company)
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Atego was a software development corporation headquartered in the United States and the United Kingdom with subsidiaries in France, Germany, and Italy. Formed from Interactive Development Environments, Inc. and Thomson Software Products, it was called Aonix from 1996 until 2010. It was acquired by PTC in 2014.[citation needed]
The company might be considered an example of the "merger mania" of the 1990s and beyond.[1] Aonix was formed in November 1996 by merging two software development tools companies: Interactive Development Environments, a modelling, analysis and design tools developer, and Thomson Software Products (TSP). TSP was based in Norwalk, Connecticut with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and San Diego, California. TSP was established in July 1995, as a United States subsidiary of the French firm Thomson-CSF, formed by merging the Thomson subsidiary Alsys of San Diego with Must Software International of Norwalk. The staff in Norwalk continued to provide client/server fourth-generation language (4GL) and middleware products, while the ex-Alsys worked on high-performance Ada programming language development environments and the TeleUSE family of graphical user interface development tools. In December, 1998, Aonix was acquired by private equity firm The Gores Group (then known as Gores Technology Group).[2]
Aonix owned the product lines Nomad software, Ultraquest and Select Solution Factory until two groups split in January 2003 in a management buy-out. The new company, based in Boulder, Colorado and still owned by Gores, was named Select Business Solutions.[3] Aonix merged with real-time and embedded Java tools vendor NewMonics, of Tucson, Arizona in 2003, acquiring the PERC product line.
In January 2010, Aonix and Artisan Software Tools (based in Cheltenham, UK) agreed to merge, forming a new company called Atego.[4] The combined company was headquartered in San Diego.[5] In March 2010 Atego acquired BlueRiver Software, the Germany-based maker of the X32[6] C/C++ interactive development environment.[1] In 2011 it acquired the ApexAda[7] family of Ada compilers from the Rational Software division of IBM.
PTC, Inc. announced on July 1, 2014, it acquired Atego, for approximately $50 million in cash.[8][9]
Product lines included AdaWorld, Ameos, Architecture Component Development, ObjectAda (now PTC ObjectAda), PERC (now PTC Perc), RAVEN, SmartKernel, Software Through Pictures, and TeleUSE (now PTC TeleUSE).
^ a b "Embedded M&A Continues - Atego Makes Another Acquisition: What Happened?". On Target: Embedded Systems. VDC Research. March 2, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ "Gores Acquires Aonix". Press release. The Gores Group. December 31, 1998. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ "Aonix Splits its Organization and Product Lines for two Distinct Markets". Press release. Select Business Solutions. January 2, 2003. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Colin Holland (January 20, 2010). "News: Artisan and Aonix merge to form Atego". EE Times. Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ "Atego History". San Diego Technology Archive. UC San Diego. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
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^ Chris Reidy (June 16, 2014). "PTC agrees to buy UK product lifecycle management firm for $50m". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
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This Is Anfield • Liverpool FC Opinion •
A tactical guide to stopping Lionel Messi – Full-backs, rugby tackles and "creating a cage"
James Nalton
@JDNalton
Liverpool come up against the world's best player when they take on Barcelona in the form of Lionel Messi, and the Argentinian will prove difficult to stop.
Heading into the Champions League meeting between Liverpool and Barcelona this week, only one player remains from the last time the two sides met at the Nou Camp.
Back in 2007, Rafa Benitez's Reds came away with a 2-1 win in the same competition's round of 16 on their way to a second final in three years.
It was a time when Man United-bound Brazilian midfielder Anderson was being compared with Ronaldinho, and there were doubts Cristiano Ronaldo was worth the money Real Madrid were willing to pay for his signature.
A 19-year-old Lionel Messi was already being compared to compatriot Diego Maradona—then still the greatest of all time.
Argentina had been desperate for a new incarnation of the great former Napoli player and World Cup winner, and they were getting someone who would go on to eclipse him.
Messi has aged 12 years since, but is no less effective. If anything the current version of Messi, under the guidance of Ernesto Valverde, is the best version, or at least the most entertaining one.
The 31-year-old is enjoying his football. Having broken more records than anyone can keep track of and already proven himself the best ever, there now appears to be less weight on his shoulders and this is making him even more magical.
That's not to say he can't still carry this Barcelona side on his own, but they have other weapons too, not least Jordi Alba down the left.
Their Uruguayan centre-forward is alright, too.
At the Nou Camp in 2007, Benitez deployed right-back Alvaro Arbeloa at left-back in order to have a player defending on his stronger foot as left-footed Messi cut in from the right.
"Why would you put your best right-back on the left-hand side? Well, it was because Lionel Messi was playing as a right-winger and he came inside with his left foot," says Bolo Zenden, a substitute that night, of the tactical switch.
"I'm talking about some time ago because nowadays you can put Messi anywhere. It really helped us to eliminate the danger that came from Messi in those two games."
The change meant John Arne Riise was pushed further forward, and the Norwegian went on to score the winning goal.
As Zenden alludes to, the Messi of today is much more positionally flexible.
Though he starts from the left he'll drop deep to act as a playmaker as well as pushing forward to create and score goals, as shown in his 2018/19 heatmap below:
It won't be solely the job of the left-back to stop Messi this time around.
Messi has started 38 games in all competitions this season and has contributed to goals in 31 of them.
This narrows it down to just seven games where the opponents have prevented him from scoring and making an assist.
The seven games were all away from home: Lyon and United in the Champions League; La Liga matches against Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Real Valladolid; and the away leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final against Real.
If it appears impossible to stop Messi in any game, but this looks to be especially the case at the Nou Camp.
No goals or assists doesn't mean a bad game, and in the away leg against United he produced an outstanding cross to set up the goal for Luis Suarez, but didn't get the assist due to a deflection off Luke Shaw on it's way in.
Messi can be viewed as a player who spends much of a game lurking in attack while the other players do most of the work in defence and in the buildup, but this is not the case.
He regularly has more than 100 touches, or more accurately involvements, in a game, but in two of those games—Real Madrid in the cup, and Real Valladolid in the league—he was relatively quiet.
In terms of Expected Goals (xG) and Expected Assists (xA), one team in particular stands out when it comes to stopping Messi, and that game against Valladolid crops up again.
When combining Messi's xG (not including penalties) and xA, and looking at his record during the last five seasons, Real Sociedad feature four times in the top 10 of Messi's lowest xG+xA numbers:
And, according to Understat, the aforementioned game against Real Valladolid at the start of this season saw Messi register his lowest xG+xA for the past five seasons (0.09) in games where he's played around 90 minutes.
What are Real Sociedad generally, and Real Valladolid in that particular game, doing to thwart the little genius?
This clip from a game in 2014 shows one method, but there are also more measured approaches:
So Messi – who has literally been rugby tackled – has it easy https://t.co/cUiasWkgyw pic.twitter.com/jVuNXRpjiT
— Chris (@eat_sleep_film) March 15, 2018
Though he registered an assist in the game at home to Real Sociedad this season, and Barcelona won 2-1, this is the home game where he produced his lowest xG+xA in the past five seasons when playing the full 90.
A look at Messi's attacking duels from that game show that the opposition defended in numbers, and were also wary when they had the ball themselves.
As Liverpool know, a defence can be at its weakest in the transition from in possession to out of possession.
They regularly exploit opposition in this way themselves, most recently with Naby Keita's opener against Huddersfield, but they should also be aware of opposition trying to do the same.
Real Sociedad keep numbers around Messi even when attacking. The images below show them giving the ball away, but pouncing on Messi as soon as he wins it and dispossessing him:
When Barcelona were in possession they defended in numbers around the No. 10.
Here Messi receives the ball, the centre-back pushed up to close him down, two midfielders join in before he's eventually tackled by a more advanced player as he drops deep:
The left-back is covering the Barcelona right-back, which is something Andy Robertson will have to keep an eye on more so than Messi himself.
One of the two centre-backs, plus the defensive midfielder and another player dropping from an attacking area are likely to be the players required to deal with Messi, rather than Robertson.
Trent Alexander-Arnold will have to watch out for Alba who is one of Barcelona's most dangerous players after Messi.
The other centre-back will need to pick up Suarez, another midfielder on the left winger, while Trent and Robertson deal with the attacking full-backs.
Because an attacker has dropped deep, this now leaves a route to the counter-attack for Liverpool.
But there will also be occasions when they are controlling possession.
They will need to keep numbers around Messi, and shouldn't be afraid of passing the ball near him as his defensive work is in bursts rather than constant.
0 – Lionel Messi made 31 touches in the first half against Real Sociedad but none of them in the opposite box. Vigilance. pic.twitter.com/j50wtGWJmM
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) September 15, 2018
A common theme from the Real Valladolid game at the beginning of the season, and recent meeting Real Sociedad, will encourage Liverpool.
The sides used a similar team shape to deal with Messi as the one most often used by Jurgen Klopp's side this season.
At the Nou Camp, Sociedad were 4-3-3 with Willian Jose dropping into midfield to form a diamond, just as Roberto Firmino does for the Reds. The average positions are shown below, from WhoScored:
Valladolid used a more orthodox diamond with an attacking midfielder at the head of the midfield four, rather than a forward dropping deep:
This season saw Barcelona win at Sociedad's Anoeta for the first time in La Liga in over 10 years, with Messi scoring a free-kick, but still registering an xG+xA of just 0.18.
This shows he's dangerous even when given small chances.
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Liverpool have the best defence in Europe's top five leagues.
They have conceded fewer goals than sides who dominate their leagues such as Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain, and also fewer than sides who prioritise defence such as Atletico Madrid.
Klopp's Reds are an attacking side in a league which boasts a number of strong teams—evidenced by the amount of English clubs in the latter stages of the Europa League and Champions League.
The team they are challenging for the title, Man City, are widely considered one of the best teams in Europe despite their lack of progress in European competition since Manuel Pellegrini left the club.
An attacking side in the strongest league in Europe, still managing to boast the best defence.
If anyone can stop Messi, Liverpool can, and as Virgil van Dijk says, they will try to do so as a team rather than relying on any one individual.
"It's about doing it all together, it's never one-v-one, it's never just me against a particular striker," says the Dutch centre-back.
"It's going to be very hard [to stop Messi]. I think he's the best player in the world but we'll see."
Lyon were one of the Champions League sides able to stop Messi, at least at home.
They were pummelled 5-1 at the Nou Camp, but in four games against Barcelona and City this season, this was their only defeat.
Lyon's defensive duo of Marcelo and Jason Denayer—the latter Van Dijk's centre-back partner at Celtic, once upon a time—performed heroically in a 0-0 draw against Barca at the Stade de Lyon.
It was more last-ditch than the method used by Reals Valladolid and Sociedad, but it worked nonetheless.
Between them Les Gones' back four blocked 11 shots in a game where Messi didn't necessarily play badly, but repeatedly met resistance.
Four of Messi's nine shots that night were blocked, and only one hit the target. In total Barcelona let off 25 shots but only five hit the target.
Marcelo commented that he believes Kylian Mbappe is more difficult to defend against than Messi.
"The players I've played against in recent times are at the very top level," he said.
"Messi didn't play very well [on Tuesday], but Mbappe, for the speed, positioning, having direct confrontations with him, he was the most difficult."
Another of Barcelona's Champions League opponents, United, suffered in their second leg at the Nou Camp after stifling Messi to a certain extent in the home game.
Former United boss Jose Mourinho reflects Van Dijk's earlier comments that Messi needs to be defended by a team, not by an individual.
The Portuguese described an effective method of defending against him is to "create a cage," which is also shown in the screenshots above from the Real Sociedad game:
"I think in the first game [United] tried to occupy that central zone because Messi's position is easy to understand, but is not easy to create a cage to control him.
"He comes from the right, then stays in the middle, and then [Ivan] Rakitic defends on the right and allows him to stay in the middle between the lines. It's very difficult.
"Man United in the first match, zonally, occupied that central area very well. So when he came into the inside he was finding Fred, he was finding [Scott] McTominay.
"In the second leg, maybe because they were losing 1-0, United tried to start the game with a different perspective.
"[Paul] Pogba wide on the left and McTominay much more on the right and Jesse Lingard playing as a No 10 behind the strikers. In front of the defensive line was only Fred.
"And that's the area where Messi comes and gets the ball and when Messi has the ball, one on one. You are dead.
"That's why I never liked individual man-on-man against Messi. Messi's a cage. You have to create a cage."
A quick guide in a rough order to trying to stop Messi:
Don't let Barcelona have the ball.
Stop Messi from getting the ball.
Use smaller or more agile players to defend against him when he drops deep (Mane, Keita and Robertson press).
Stifle him by "creating a cage," as per Mourinho's comments.
Use stronger or taller players to defend as the ball is played to him in attacking areas (Van Dijk, Fabinho)
Show him onto his right.
Block him off when he tries a one-two.
The Real Sociedad 2014 Method (rugby tackle).
Block shots/crosses.
…and don't concede free-kicks around the edge of the area.
How to stop Messi? You can't, but Liverpool will give it as good a go as anyone.
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Karl1563 - "ooo" is "one on one" I dont have any of their flavors but I hear theyre good but a lil pricey. I subbed it for sweet strawberry(cap) & its the nuts! :P I made this clone before but they called for exactly the same recipe except it only had sweet strawberry(cap)at 8.5% & no other strawberries & I swear it tasted on point. But I like it better at 3% sweet strawberry(cap) & 3% ripe strawberry(tfa) & 3% strawberry (fa) & I use toasted marshmallow(tfa) in place of the regular...ON POINT!
you have in your recipe sweet strawberry the manufacturer 0-0-0 what company is that?
ANSWER FROM ADMIN: That would be One on One brand.


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Throwback Thursday – 1974
In 1974, my Grandpa Abe gave me a radio, thus changing my life. That radio became my best friend and music my main interest. I started buying all the 45 rpm records that made the top ten. Soon I was reading the trade magazines, as well as Rolling Stone, Circus, Creem, Song Hits, Hit Parader, Musician, and then some. Who knows what career path I would have chosen had I not latched onto popular music in my pre-teen years?
Tunes du Jour's Throwback Thursday playlist this week focuses on the music of 1974. It includes the music I heard on the radio back then (eighteen top 40 hits) plus two I discovered later on.
Tagged as Al Green, Al Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley & The Wailers, David Bowie, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, George McCrae, Jackson 5, Jim Stafford, Joni Mitchell, Kool & the Gang, Love Unlimited, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ray Stevens, Redbone, Steely Dan, Terry Jacks, The Spinners, The Stylistics, Throwback Thursday
Throwback Thursday – The Hits Of 1977
An instrumental performed by then new Eagles member Don Felder was submitted to his bandmates Glenn Frey and Don Henley to add lyrics. The first working title the guys gave the song was "Mexican Reggae."
Henley was determined to create the perfect song, spending eight months in the studio working on "Mexican Reggae," which came to be called "Hotel California." A lyric referring to the band Steely Dan was added ("They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast") after Steely Dan included the lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did."
In 2009, music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley about the lyric "So I called up the Captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969'," pointing out that wine isn't a spirit, as wine is fermented whereas spirits are distilled. Soeder asked the singer/composer "Do you regret that lyric?" Henley replied "Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is….My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes." Insert steely knife here!
This week for Throwback Thursday, Tunes du Jour listens to the hits of 1977, kicking off with Eagles' "Hotel California."
Tagged as Abba, Andy Gibb, Bee Gees, Carly Simon, Crystal Gayle, Debby Boone, Don Henley, Eagles, Glen Campbell, Glenn Frey, Heatwave, KC & the Sunshine Band, Leo Sayer, Linda Ronstadt, Manfred Mann, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Marvin Gaye, Mary MacGregor, Rose Royce, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, The Emotions, Thelma Houston, Throwback Thursday
Beck, Kanye and Beyoncé
"I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists, to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain't gonna play with them no more. And Beck needs to respect artistry and he should've given his award to Beyoncé. Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration. And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyoncé album and they feel like it takes them to another place." – Kanye West on the Grammy Award for Album of the Year going to Beck's Morning Phase rather than Beyoncé's self-titled release
"I thought she was going to win. Come on, she's Beyoncé! You can't please everybody, man. I still love [West] and think he's genius. I aspire to do what he does." – Beck
"I wasn't saying Beck; I said the Grammys. Beck knows that Beyoncé should have won; you know that. Come on, man. I love Beck! But he didn't have the Album of the Year." – Kanye West
Kanye West, official spokesperson for the Bey Nation, gave his opinion and the Internet blew up! It was a repeat of 2009, when West announced that Taylor Swift stole the MTV Best Female Video Award that should have gone to Beyoncé. The American people were up in arms! So much vitriol was sent West-ward and his detractors found plenty of reasons to go after him the ensuing years. As the wise trophy thief said, "the haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate."
Kanye's point was about creating art and reaching new heights in one's craft. The only intelligent responses to further this discourse, per the many comments I saw on Facebook and Twitter, are "You're classless" and "You're garbage." One person who didn't call Kanye garbage was Shirley Manson, the lead singer of the band Garbage. She called him "a complete twat."
At least all of us can sleep better knowing that Kanye loves Beck. They are two of my favorite all-time artists for many of the same reasons. They seldom repeat themselves, making each album they release different than the previous one. Neither follows trends. Both challenge themselves. Both are masters of their craft. Both can be sincere. Both can be funny. Neither has released a bad record.
Beyoncé should have gotten the Album of the Year Grammy. Her self-titled album was a revelation. Following up her uneven 4, she took a giant leap forward and strived to make something more artistic than what we were used to from her. She succeeded. The Beck record, Morning Phase, sounds beautiful, but there were no surprises. It was announced early in 2014 that Beck would be releasing a new album that was in a mellow vein. I got what I expected. It was as fine as I thought it would be, and stronger than his last couple of releases. I like Morning Phase very much, more than the other nominated Albums of the Year performed by Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams, but it's nothing we haven't heard Beck do before. Ironically, in Beyoncé's quest to be more artistic, her album outsold its predecessor. Like Kanye said, she had the Album of the Year.
Enough of the Grammy voters felt otherwise and awarded Beck. That's fine. There have been worse slights in the Grammy Album of the Year category than Beyoncé losing to Beck. What about the 1996 awards, when Beck's Odelay lost to Celine Dion's Falling into You? Or in 2000, when Beck's Midnight Vultures lost to Steely Dan's Two Against Nature? Or in 2005, when U2's Hot to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb beat Kanye's Late Registration and in 2004, when Ray Charles & Friends' Genius Loves Company beat Kanye's The College Dropout and Green Day's American Idiot? Steely Dan, U2 and Ray Charles have released many albums deserving of Album of the Year. These weren't them. U2 should have won 1992's Album of the Year for Achtung Baby. They lost to Eric Clapton Unplugged. In 2007, Kanye's Graduation and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black both lost Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, a record that literally nobody has ever heard. In 1980, Christopher Cross' self-titled debut beat Pink Floyd's The Wall. In 1966, The Beatles' Revolver lost to Frank Sinatra's A Man and His Music. In 2012, Mumford & Sons' Babel beat albums by Frank Ocean, Jack White and The Black Keys. The nominees for 1984's Album of the Year Grammy were Prince's Purple Rain, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Tina Turner's Private Dancer, Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, and Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down. Four classic albums plus one by Lionel Richie. The winner? Lionel Richie! WTF on a stick?!?! In 1991 the Album of the Year Grammy didn't go to R.E.M., nominated for Out of Time. It went to Natalie Cole's Unforgettable…with Love. Eligible but not nominated that year? A little album called Nevermind by a band named Nirvana. Oh well, whatever. In 1982, Toto IV beat…it doesn't matter who else was nominated. It's Toto Fuckin' IV, people.
It looks like Beyoncé will have to wait longer before she is in the same hallowed company as Toto.
In less contentious news this week, ISIS killed U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller, Boko Haram killed thirteen soldiers and 81 civilians in Chad, and the Chief Justice of Alabama's Supreme Court forbade probate judges in that state to issue marriage license to same-sex couples, despite a judge's ruling that such unions are legal and the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to issue a stay on that ruling.
Congratulations, Beck!
Tagged as Amy Winehouse, Beck, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Christopher Cross, Cyndi Lauper, Ed Sheeran, Eric Clapton, Frank Ocean, Frank Sinatra, Garbage, Green Day, Herbie Hancock, Jack White, Jay-Z, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, Lionel Richie, Mumford & Sons, Natalie Cole, Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Pharrell Williams, Pink Floyd, Prince, Pusha T, R.E.M., Ray Charles, Sam Smith, Steely Dan, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The-Dream, Tina Turner, Toto, U2
But Then Again, No
Sometimes an awkward lyric shows up and mars an otherwise perfectly reasonable song. I don't mean songs such as Paul McCartney's "Spies Like Us" or Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" or Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory." Those songs are just plain bad.
Wings' "Live and Let Die" is one of my favorite of Sir Paul's post-Beatles songs, but I refuse to sing along with the phrase "this ever changing world in which we live in." Poor grammar makes me want to give in and cry.
John Mellencamp's "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." pays tribute to many rock and soul greats of the 1960s. It's a crackin' little number but I always cringe when he sings "let's don't forget James Brown." "Let's not" uses just as many syllables, is grammatically-correct, and doesn't detract from the message of not forgetting James Brown.
There are times when lyrics are bad not because of their grammar, but because they sound like place holders that remained in the song because the lyricist couldn't come up with anything with which to replace them. Take Elton John's classic hit "Your Song." "If I was a sculptor, but then again, no." Why is that in the song? You're not a sculptor. You weren't a sculptor. What would happen if you were a sculptor? Instead of giving the object of your affection the gift of song, would you make a bust of their face, a la Lionel Richie's "Hello" video?
One of my favorite bad lyrics is in the Diana Ross and the Supremes hit "I'm Livin' in Shame," in which Diana sings "Came the telegram – Ma passed away while making homemade jam." Telegram messages were charged by the letter, so including the details of what Ma was doing when she died is a bad choice lyrically and financially. What lyrics were discarded in favor of that? "Came the telegram – Ma passed away while carving up the ham?" "Came the telegram – Ma passed away with her finger in a dam?" "Came the telegram – Ma passed away serving in Viet Nam?" "Came the telegram – Ma passed away from an attack by a ram?" "Came the telegram – Ma passed away from choking on a yam?" That last one is good, but then again, no.
"I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees is an okay song that would be better if Johnny Marr played guitar on it. Then it may sound like a Smiths song. Not a Smiths single. Maybe an album track. I'm not sure what the over-the-top lyrics are about. It seems Robin Gibb is not a gifted comedian and his joke made everyone cry and then he cried and everyone started laughing and then he died but kept singing this song. That's all well and good. The line that made me include it in this blog entry is "I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said." I think you hurt your head when you fell out of bed and banged said head on a jar of homemade jam.
Let's don't forget Robin and Maurice Gibb on their birthday.
Tagged as Abba, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Bee Gees, Bob Welch, Carpenters, Crosby Stills & Nash, David Essex, Diana Ross, Don Henley, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds, James Brown, James Taylor, John Mellencamp, Lionel Richie, Merrilee Rush, Nicolette Larson, Olivia Newton-John, Paul McCartney, Redbone, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, The Smiths, The Supremes, Three Dog Night, Van Morrison
In Which A Group Of Multi-Millionaires Sings Of Wishing They Had A Little Money
I didn't get the film Muriel's Wedding. Not as in I didn't get the Blu-Ray of this movie for Hanukkah. I don't even own a Blu-Ray player. No, I mean I didn't understand it. Or rather, I didn't buy it. Muriel, the ugly duckling girl who is mocked and abused, ends up marrying a beautiful South African swimmer and then splits up with him because of some self-esteem bullshit. WHAT? For fuck's sake, Muriel! The man has beautiful eyes, a great body and doesn't beat you. What more could you want? If this means I'm shallow and superficial then I don't want to be right. She says to him "I don't love you" and he replies "I don't love you either but I think I could like having you around." He's so sweet! I dream of the day someone says something so romantic to me! Someone attractive, that is. Oh, um, SPOILER ALERT. I should have said that a few sentences ago. If you haven't seen the movie yet and plan to (which you should, just to see what Muriel walked away from) then forget what you just read.
This is what Muriel left. This. THIS! It stretches all credibility.
Muriel's Wedding had its good points: a) David (Muriel's husband), b) it introduced us to Toni Collette as Muriel, c) it introduced us to Rachel Griffiths, and d) along with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, it brought ABBA back into the public consciousness.
Today Tunes du Jour celebrates the birthday of ABBA's Benny Andersson who, along with the group's Björn Ulvaeus, co-wrote and co-produced most of their hits.
Tagged as 10cc, Abba, Albert Hammond, Bay City Rollers, Bee Gees, Bonnie Tyler, Carpenters, Chicago, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Donna Summer, Dr. Hook, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Eric Carmen, Fleetwood Mac, Gerry Rafferty, Gilbert O'Sullivan, John Travolta, Leo Sayer, Olivia Newton-John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Three Dog Night, Van Morrison


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Q: Вывод string в Python на несколько строк У меня задание, чтобы функция выдавала одну длинную строку с символами. Программа тестировщик однако ожидает при печати вывод на несколько рядов.
Пример строки которую выдает моя функция (правильно):
    #        #        #       # #      # #      # #     #   #    #   #    #   #   #     #  #     #  #     # #############################     ####     ###       ## #   # ## #   # ##       ##  # #  ##  # #  ##       ##   #   ##   #   ##       ##  # #  ##  # #  ##       ## #   # ## #   # ##       ###     ####     ###       ############################

То что после печати ожидает программа тестировщик (от меня не зависит) - см. фото.
Как я могу делать return в функции, чтобы соблюдалось описанное условие и программа тестировщик приняла программу?
Я бы мог сам напечатать легко через цикл, но по заданию именно функция должна возвращать одну строку. Программа тестировщик уже сама производит печать.
Спасибо за помощь.

A: Если я правильно вас понял, то вам нужно отобразить рисунок из # затронув всего 1 строчку кода. Это вы можете сделать с помощью переноса строки \n.
Пример:
print("Очень\nХочу\nПить!")

Вывод:
Очень
Хочу
Пить!

И если важно -  \n можно использовать слитно с вашим текстом. Это никак не повлияет на отображение.


Budgam, Feb 22: Deputy Commissioner, Budgam Dr Syed Sehrish Asgar today visited Tehsil Office Budgam to take review of the implementation of PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme (PM KSN) across the district.
While taking stock of the ongoing farmers' data collection and its computerization up-dation, the DC directed the concerned to complete the work immediately.
She stressed that data should be collected from farmers expeditiously and directed computer operators to update data with LGD numbers after proper verification. On the occasion, Tehsildar Budgam Nusrat informed that out of 11793 verified farmers 9076 farmers have been computerized, while as 8474 have been updated by the NIC Budgam across the Tehsil Budgam so far.
DC stressed on the concerned departments including, Revenue and Agriculture to work in close coordination to ensure work on computerization process is completed without any delay.
The DC said that there was no scope for any errors in the data, as she said that funds under the scheme would be disbursed from 24 th of this month only.
Later, the DC also took review of the Revenue related works, and directed all Tehsildars to clear all pending cases particularly those halting development works in their Tehsils on priorities.
She directed them to conduct quarterly market checking in all markets to ensure shopkeepers, traders do not indulge in overpricing or sale of sub-standard food items anywhere in the district.
She asked Tehsildars to take strict action under the law against the erring traders. She also emphasized on speeding up the drive against the illegal encroachment on state or Kaahcharai land in their areas and remove all illegal encroachments. Besides, asked concerned to keep check on the mushrooming of illegal tuition centers in the district and stressed on to seal all coaching centers operating illegally in the district.
The DC also directed concerned to identify state land for the construction of Police Post at Soibugh and land for the development of Makai Point on Narbal-Gulmarg road at Narbal. She said the Makai point will be developed as a tourist point for the Gulmarg bound tourists in that area.


Recently I don't add that much content here. I really regret that, but since I got back to Poland I have little bit too many things over my head – things so boring, not even worth to mention here. But, on the plus side – I paint a lot. I finally had one desk with good comfy chair and adequate lamp and I can sit every evening and paint until late night. At the beginning of June I'm about to play a game of Warhammer Fantasy Battle with my old friend (I'll playing Skavens, not sure againt which army though…). The thing is, I still haven't finished painting the least minimum to deploy whole army painted. So, I have little race against time here – still around 15 Clanrats left plus I'm thinking who will be the general – probably Ikit Claw, and he need to be painted too. Tough choices ahead me.
…plus, I paint simultaneously Sir Zachary Fiercebatten III and his hounds (Wolsung Skirmish Game), as a counterbalance to swarm of rats. Pfff…all of that beside my normal day job. Long sleepless nights ahead of me.
Regardless the lack of time I love to write here and I will. It keeps me motivating for even harder work on my collection and any comment I got, gives me super powerful boost. So, time for little break from my paint camp, and time for new post!
I'm in Poland at the moment, but I have one more hobby store report from my short visit in Madrid. In last post I wrote about Goblin Trader, awesome and great supplied store. I was absolutely stunned what I saw inside. I really regret, there's no such store in Warsaw, where I can go and buy whatever I desire.
Beside Goblin Trader I've visited another wargaming shop – Atlántica Juegos. The shop is located in strict centre – I was looking for such place, I could easily visit just during sightseeing Madrid. Atlántica Juegos is just near the Gran Vía Metro station, so it was the best choice for form all hobby stores of the area (and believe me – there's lot in Madrid's downtown!). Only few stations from my hotel.
Atlántica Juegos front store. Located on Luna Street 6. Madrid Downtown.
The shop itself is quite small, but what is quite usual(but somewhat magical too:) for such places, the number of games, miniatures and accessories is impressing and somehow were fitted in, piling on shelves and tables.
Packed with miniatures and games.
The store inside is divided on two parts. First – it's more concentrated on historical strategy games, and other part is more about fantasy and SF. As I'm not that much interested in historical games I focused more on fantastic section. Lots of games were fitted here, I tell you that! I'm impressed – so little space, and so diversified inventory. Lots of different game systems – well known Games Workshop, very popular in Spain Infinity – and many more miniatures for war games, role playing and board games as well.
Brand new stuff from Games Workshop.
…and more products of GW.
There were products from Polish manufacturers too – I saw Micro Art Studio and Kromlech. Polish miniatures have very good reputation in Spain – as we're known of high quality resin miniatures – so I was told, they called Poland – The Land of Resin (which could meant also – The Land made from Resin:))).
Bases and Minitures from Micro Art Studio.
I bought myself (this becoming slowly my tradition – small souvenir from every shop I visit:) Reverend Moira fromm Infinity (I must say I'm slowly becoming big fan of Infinity minis and I finally need to adapt some faction for myself and play that game), but I also noticed some miniatures by Micro Art Studio from Disc World and Wolsung Skirmish Game. I was taking those models under my consideration for buying. I honestly hate those situation, when I can afford only one miniature and there's too many options, and it's not easy to decide. On the other hand, it does speak well of the store and their offer.
Speaking of offer – take a look at Atlántica Juegos online store – more than decent, isn't it?
Beside games and gaming/painting accessories there were also books and other merchandise (like t-shirts) available. To be honest, I haven't check the historical section closely – it's really not my cup of tea. I'm more SF/fantasy miniatures guy. From some titles I know, I saw Bolt Action and Saga miniatures, and many 15 mm miniatures from the games I'm not familiar.
In the room with historical gaes there is the glass case with nicely painted miniatures (different types and systems), and small workbench, where actually someone was painting few cavalry models.
As, I'm quite talkative and I ask dozens of annoying questions to the staff of any store I go to (big thank you to staff of Atlántica for patience:) – I was informed that Atlántica Juegos provides also painting service. The prices, in my opinion, are reasonable and depend on the size of the miniature and its complexity.
Whole price lit is available here. I was told, there are many customers for this – in fact there are some people who buy complete army for few thousands euros and right away they commission them to paint for another few thousands!
Small diorama – I think it's Fellowship of Ring in Moria Mines.
The store exists for more than 20 years. It's nice to hear that – there places like this, operating for such a long time. Finger crossed for another 20! Live long and prosper!
Uff. All right! That's the last post from my big over 6 months journey of America (and Spain), and for now there won't be so many travelling on Game of Travel – I'm settling down for a while (5 months) – I'll be more about gaming and painting. But blog will go on, for sure – only thing that will change – I'll write less about exotic places and more about my boring routine of painting miniatures. Worry not though, I've already bought tickets to Australia for October 2015 – new adventure is ahead of me!
Fantastic. Always enjoy reading your post, GoT. What a great way to spend one's life, travelling and painting miniatures. I feel like I'm on the adventure with you. Looking forward to your next post.
thanks. I'll try to update the blog more often, as soon as I deal with those damn rats on my desk!


If you don't rebuild, the next generation only knows each other if they happened to have gone to the same college in the US or in Britain, but without building those relationships there are friends of mine whose kids have never met somebody from the other side. These kinds of relationships are necessary to deal with basic stuff, like one friend of mine said her daughter asked, "Do they have cats on the other side?" "Do they eat the same things we do?" So that kind of lack of trust and so on can only be built up by involving people in basic cross-cultural kinds of things.
The theory of international organization and politics and the theory of functionalism says get people together to do specific problem-solving oriented things and that will overcome some of the bounds of stereotypes across national boundaries. Singing clubs, conflict resolution associations, management associations, women's film groups and so on are ways to build up communities that have bonds that can overcome some of the national bonds. I think that in any conflict that is a long-term intractable conflict, you really have to work it both ways; you have to have the elite commitment and then you have to have a wide variety of functional communities, specific problem-oriented groups working across all levels of the society, if it's not going to have more disastrous violence when it comes back together.


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How to Use Vim-Style Keyboard Shortcuts for OS X Tab Navigation
Lowell Heddings @lowellheddings
Updated July 1, 2013, 8:32pm EDT
After switching to OS X when I got a new MacBook Air, one of the first things I needed to duplicate was my extremely customized AutoHotkey setup — the most important of which is using the J and K keys to navigate throughout tabbed windows easily. Yeah, I'm a Vim user.
I've never been a fan of having to use CTRL + TAB to switch from one tab to the next — to start with, you have to move your hands from the home row, and it's awkward, and why should I have to do that just because somebody decided that keyboard shortcut before tabs became popular? If you think about it, if tabbed browsers were popular back when keyboard shortcuts were being invented, they would have definitely reserved some of the good shortcuts for switching tabs.
On Windows, I've always used an AutoHotkey script to make things the way I wanted them: ALT + J and ALT + K for selecting previous and next tabs. Once you get used to it, it's extremely awesome, and so much faster than using CTRL + TAB. Of course, I also hacked CTRL + T and CTRL + W into ALT + T and ALT + W so I could open new tabs and close them without moving my hands from the home row.
Over on OS X, it turns out that it's incredibly simple and easy to use CMD + J and CMD + K for next/previous tab navigation, and it works in most applications that support tabs, like Terminal, Safari, or Google Chrome.
And yes… I realize that in Vim you would be using H and L for moving left and right. The problem is that in OS X you can't really use CMD + H since it's an integral part of the operating system, so if you remap it, you'll be missing out on another great feature. So using J and K works better.
Just open up System Preferences and head to Keyboard.
Select the Keyboard Shortcuts section and then Application Shortcuts. Create a new shortcut key, leave it set to All Applications, and type Select Next Tab into the box, giving it the keyboard shortcut of CMD + K. Repeat with Select Previous Tab and CMD + J.
When finished, it should look like this:
All you have to do is open up an application that supports tabs, and get used to a much faster navigation system.
Lowell Heddings
Lowell is the founder and CEO of How-To Geek. He's been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people. Prior to starting How-To Geek, Lowell spent 15 years working in IT doing consulting, cybersecurity, database management, and programming work.