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Goodbye Lullaby
What The Hell is the carrier single from Avril Lavigne's fourth album, "Goodbye Lullaby" released March 2, 2011. Lavigne simply described the song as "a broad message… Read More
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What the Hell Lyrics
You say that I'm messin' with your head
(Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah)
All 'cause I was makin' out with your friend
Love hurts, whether it's right or wrong
I can't stop 'cause I'm havin' too much fun
You're on your knees, begging, "Please stay with me"
But honestly, I just need to be a little crazy
All my life, I've been good, but now
I'm thinking, "What the hell?"
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
If you love me, if you hate me
You can't save me, baby, baby
Woah, what the hell?
What? What the hell?
So what if I go out on a million dates?
You never call or listen to me anyway, yeah
I'd rather rage than sit around and wait all day
Don't get me wrong, I just need some time to play
Eeh, yeah
You're on your knees (Yeah), begging, "Please (Please) stay with me"
But honestly (Yeah), I just need to be a little crazy (Crazy!)
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La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la, woah, woah
You say that I'm messin' with your head (La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la)
Boy, I like messin' in your bed (La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la)
Yeah, I am messin' with your head
When I'm messin' with you in bed
I'm thinking, "What the hell?" (What the hell?)
And I don't really care about (I don't care about)
And I don't really care about (If you love me)
If you love me (No), if you hate me (No)
You can't save me, baby, baby (If you love me)
La, la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
What The Hell is the carrier single from Avril Lavigne's fourth album, "Goodbye Lullaby" released March 2, 2011.
Lavigne simply described the song as "a broad message about personal freedom."
Avril explained how this song was different than some of the rest on Goodbye Lullaby, in terms of being more fun and not as deep.
Well, 'What the Hell' is more pop rock and a lot of my sassy, like you said, style. It's lighter and fun and the rest of the album is more raw and vulnerable and it's deeper and stripped down. My vision, production wise, for this album, was that. I wanted acoustic guitars and for it to be stripped down with pianos. I wanted to go there more. All my records are pop rock and upbeat, and I was ready to do something a little different. As far as lyrics and the subject matter, it is a bittersweet. I didn't know what I was going to write; I just knew what I wanted the production to sound like and what I wanted the style to be. Then, the lyrics just come and it was bittersweet lyrically.
What have the artists said about the music video?
I'm laughing because my mom's in it. So like, the other day, I don't know why I was watching it, but we watched it. I think because I was telling someone my mom's in it, and it's so cute. So Judy, she's in the clothing store with me. Yeah, that was just, like, another fun song. "What the Hell," I wrote that in Sweden and worked on that there in a different country, and then we just shot this fun music video in L.A. My brother is the bass player onstage with me. I stage-dive in this small little club, and my mom makes an appearance in the video.
–via MTV News (February 28, 2022)
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An Opinionated Guide to a Wild Year for Oscar Songs
We listened to all 70 eligible songs, from Iggy Pop and Elvis Costello to Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey, so you don't have to
Steve Pond | January 11, 2018 @ 11:22 AM
Iggy Pop depicted in "The Pure and the Damned" video
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Here are some of the things that could happen in the Oscars' Best Original Song category this year:
Diane Warren could win her first Oscar after eight nominations over the last 30 years.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul could get back-to-back wins, only the third time that will have ever happened in the category. (The others were Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer in 1961-62 and Alan Menken in 1991-92.)
Speaking of Alan Menken, he could add to his current total of eight wins, which already makes him the living person with the most Oscars.
Mary J. Blige could become the first person nominated for acting and for songwriting in the same movie.
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Kenneth Branagh, who has already been nominated for Oscars in five different categories (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Live Action Short), could get his first win in his sixth different category.
Iggy Pop could win an Academy Award.
And so could Elvis Costello, Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Jonas or Weird Al Yankovic.
But first, those people would have to get nominated. A full 70 songs are in the running in what is a wild year in the Oscar song category. That's not as many as last year's record 91 songs, but still a lot for Music Branch voters to consider.
As I do every year, I tracked down and listened to all the eligible songs, to deliver my opinionated take on the massive field. Obviously, many of the songs could be slotted into more than one category.
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A BAKER'S DOZEN TO START
I'm going to start with a plea that might be fruitless: Please, voters, nominate "The Pure And The Damned," a brilliantly doom-laden song by Oneohtrix Point Never and Iggy Pop from the Safdie brothers film "Good Time." A dark, atmospheric gem that is the perfect capper to a grim but riveting film — this is how end-credits songs are supposed to work, folks — it also sums up a grim year as well as anything can when Iggy intones, in his voice of sepulchral dread, "Every day I think about untwisting and untangling these strings I'm in / And to lead a pure life and look ahead in a clear sky / Ain't gonna get there, but it's a nice dream."
It's my own nice dream to see this song performed on the Oscar stage, though I imagine that's another place about which Iggy can say, "ain't gonna get there."
Also timely, and probably more to the Music Branch voters' liking, is "Stand Up For Something," the collaboration between Diane Warren and Common from "Marshall." Performed by Andra Day with Common, it's socially-conscious pop-soul deliberately in the vein of "People Get Ready" and "A Change Is Gonna Come," with Common adding the kind of jolt he provided to his Oscar-winning collaboration with John Legend, "Glory."
There's a similar mix of gospel, soul and hip-hop in "It Ain't Fair" from "Detroit," Questlove's epic-length mash-up that goes from yearning soul passages with Bilal to incendiary state-of-the-union denunciations from the Roots' Black Thought. And Mary J. Blige's entry, "Mighty River" from "Mudbound," is a rousing gospel-style song that she wrote with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson while also starring in the Dee Rees film.
Another person doing acting/songwriting double duty is Kenneth Branagh, though he also throws in directing and producing "Murder on the Orient Express." Composer Patrick Doyle wrote the music and Branagh supplied the lyrics to the film's end-credits song, "Never Forget," an elegant piano-based ballad of loss. One of the film's stars, Michelle Pfeiffer, supplies a marvelously tremulous vocal.
Elvis Costello also trafficks in elegance as he croons his way through "You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way," a stylish exercise in classic pop and a nod to the ambiguous relationship at the heart of "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool." The song is set to a string arrangement that wouldn't be out of place on one of his collaborations with Burt Bacharach (though Elvis says Burt's arrangement would have been subtler than his).
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Indie icon Sufjan Stevens' luminescent music is at the heart of Luca Guadagnino's romance "Call Me by Your Name," with the two gentle ballads "Mystery of Love" and "Visions of Gideon" serving key roles in the film. The former song landed a Critics' Choice nomination and probably has a better chance to advance than the more repetitive "Visions of Gideon," though both are lovely.
Pop-rock chanteuse and Broadway star Sara Bareilles collaborated with composer Nicholas Britell ("Moonlight") for the sprightly but affecting "If I Dare" from "Battle of the Sexes," in which an a capella vocal rhythm sets the tone for her tribute to the chances Billie Jean King took personally and professionally.
The first "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie produced a nominee in The Weeknd's "Earned It," and Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff are looking to make it two-for-two with "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," a perky if more forgettable uptempo tune performed by Swift and Zayn in "Fifty Shades Darker."
Two members of the Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol, Gary Lightbody and Johnny McDaid, collaborated on a terrific song from "Gifted." "This Is How You Walk On," a statement of commitment and devotion, has a real sense of propulsion and lift. And finally, rock stalwarts Stevie Nicks and the late Chris Cornell enter the race with Nicks' "Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go" from "The Book of Henry," a slow-burn lullaby that keeps her in a low-key mood, and Cornell's "The Promise," a dark and haunting lament from the film of the same name, and the last song the Soundgarden singer recorded before his death.
SHOW TUNES
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the category's reigning champs for "City of Stars" from "La La Land," on which they collaborated as lyricists with Justin Hurwitz. But they also composed the music for nine songs in "The Greatest Showman," including the showstopping "This Is Me." A showcase for Keala Settle as the bearded lady, it is a big, brassy statement of purpose that already won the Golden Globe and has to be considered one of the favorites to do the same at the Oscars.
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The biggest competition for "Beauty and the Beast" songwriters Alan Menken and Tim Rice may not be the songs from other films, but the memory of the songs from the original, animated film. Those songs, including the Oscar-winning title track, still provide the high points of Bill Condon's live-action remake, although the gentle recurring question "How Does a Moment Last Forever" and especially the Beast's grand lament "Evermore" do hold their own.
Two more songs come from very different, less overtly theatrical musicals. "How a Heart Unbreaks" from "Pitch Perfect 3" has the same problem that John Legend's "Start a Fire" had in "La La Land" — in the film, it's supposed to represent the kind of music our a capella-singing heroines don't like. But since far fewer voters have probably seen "PP3" than saw "LLL," maybe that won't work against this tough-minded pop song performed by the fictional girl group Evermoist, whose lead singer is played by singer-actress Ruby Rose.
"Love and Lies" is also performed by a fictional group, the Dirty Dishes, in Zoe Lister-Jones' marvelous indie comedy about a couple who turn their arguments into songs, "Band Aid." The delightful soundtrack include this sharp, funny song that starts out, "Please do not ask me if you've gained weight/Especially when we're going out on a date."
TOON TUNES
Over the last 20 years, 25 songs from animated movies have been nominated for Oscars; five of them have won, and at least one animated song has been in 16 of the 20 years. So it makes sense that a dozen more songs are hoping to join that roster.
Foremost among them might be "Remember Me" from "Coco," a new song from the songwriting team of Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won the Oscar (and, for him, the EGOT) three years ago with the "Frozen" sensation "Let It Go." "Remember Me" is subtler, a plaintive ballad with a Mexican lilt that is heard in several different versions throughout the Pixar film, and will no doubt benefit from its position as the musical heart of a beloved film.
Pharrell Williams is also following up an Oscar-nominated sensation in the huge hit "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2." But "There's Something Special" from "Despicable Me 3" couldn't be more different from its insanely catchy predecessor; it's a slow groove sung mostly in falsetto that never quite manages to be engaging. Meanwhile, Nick Jonas' "Home," from "Ferdinand," cranks up the catchiness impressively. And Mariah Carey's "The Star," co-written with Marc Shaiman for the film of the same name, is a big, soaring, gooey Christmas song.
The two Lego movies, "The Lego Batman Movie" and "The Lego Ninjago Movie," both have peppy theme songs performed by Oh, Hush! The "Batman" entry, "Friends Are Family," might be the more distinctive of the two, largely because of Will Arnett's interjections as a defiantly unsentimental Batman, but the "Ninjago" song "Found My Place" is probably a tougher, slinkier pop song.
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Pixar's "Cars 3" entered a pair of songs, both of them tough and functional blues-rockers with a country tinge. "Ride" is by ZZ Ward, "Run That Race" by Black Keys guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach, and neither are quite as compelling as the artists' non-soundtrack material.
If you have a movie called "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" and you need a theme song, you might as well hire "Weird Al" Yankovic. "Captain Underpants Theme Song" is silly in that Weird Al way, though let's just say that the assignment didn't necessarily challenge or bring out the best in the crazy pop satirist. (Then again, you could say the same thing about Randy Newman's soundtrack songs, and he's won two Oscars for them.)
Three foreign-made animated films also feature eligible songs. "The Crown Sleeps" from "The Breadwinner" is an ethereal and fragile mix of Western and Afghan music. "Rain" from "Mary and the Witch's Flower" is a Japanese pop song, peppy and slight. And "Longing For Summer" from the Scandinavian film "Moomins and the Winter Wonderland" is a big ballad that aims to soar but just isn't very distinctive.
The holy grail for songs from documentaries is Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth," which won the 2006 Oscar. This year, Ryan Tedder and Oscar winner T Bone Burnett (for "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart") have taken on the task of writing a song for "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." But they've stayed away from her raw rock to create a rousing gospel-tinged anthem, "Truth to Power," in which the earth addresses mankind. But the song that really plays like a sequel to Etheridge's song is "Tell Me How Long" from "Chasing Coral." It's poppy and plaintive rather than bold and angry, particularly as sung by the considerably sweeter Kristen Bell, but it turns Etheridge's demand ("I need to wake up") into a question ("how long 'till we wake up?").
"Jump," which was written by Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson for the documentary "Step," is a slow-building soul song that manages to be truly inspirational in a way that lots of songs aim for but can't quite reach.
"Prayers For This World" from "Cries from Syria," another Diane Warren song in the mix, aims to do no less than heal the world — and if you want to do that, it's probably not a bad idea to enlist Cher and a children's choir. Another Syria-set documentary, "City of Ghosts," includes the song "Broken Wings." It takes a different approach; it's a mournful mood piece featuring singer Wasfi Massarani. And "Tickling Giants," from the documentary of the same name about "the Egyptian Jon Stewart," satirist Bassem Youssef, is a bilingual rap call to arms over a persuasive groove.
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Pat Benatar is best known for '80s rock anthems like "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield," but "Dancing Through The Wreckage," which she wrote with Linda Perry for "Served Like a Girl," is a relatively restrained midtempo rocker that still packs a real punch. Alice Phoebe Lou, an artier South African indie singer-songwriter, supplied one of the field's most adventurous entries in "She," a dramatic and idiosyncratic celebration from "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story."
Finally, veteran songwriter Alan Bergman, who won three best-song Oscars with his wife Marilyn, is now 92, which made him the perfect person to write a theme song to "If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast," Danny Gold's film about Hollywood folks in their 90s. "Just Getting Started" is old-fashioned, but of course it should be — and those looking for possible dark-horse nominees should know that Bergman was a longtime governor of the Academy's Music Branch, and he has lots of friends in the branch.
Ryan Bingham, who won an Oscar for Scott Cooper's "Crazy Heart" eight years ago, was first hired to play a small role in Cooper's elegiac western "Hostiles," but his character has a scene where he sits around a campfire and sings a song. So rather than find a tune that fit the film's 1892 setting, Bingham wrote a haunting lament, "How Shall a Sparrow Fly," that could pass as an ageless folk ballad. (His problem may be that only one verse of the song appears in the film, and voters are supposed to judge on what's on screen rather than what is on iTunes.)
Another acoustic gem is Keegan Dewitt's "The Hero" from the film of the same name. If I had a ballot, this haunting and evocative acoustic ballad of regret would get serious consideration.
A few mainstream country stars have also entered the race. For the film "Only the Brave," Dierks Bentley co-wrote and performs "Hold The Light," an understated, meditative mood piece that never quite clicks. Brad Paisley sings "Stubborn Angel" in "Same Kind of Different as Me"; the mid-tempo song tries very hard to be an inspirational anthem, but it's musically full-bodied but lyrically one-dimensional. And for "The Shack," Tim McGraw and Faith Hill duet on "Keep Your Eyes On Me," an affecting song that gets downright grandiose, though it also gets awfully repetitive.
"The Glass Castle" gives us Joel P. West's "Summer Storm," which is essentially a rhythmic chant. And "Elizabeth Blue," an indie drama about schizophrenia, is one of two movies that submitted three songs to the Oscar race. All of its songs are from August Roads: "All in My Head" is a sad acoustic song that quite deliberately sounds stuck, "Dying For Ya" starts similarly but then gets lush with the introduction of a string section, and "Green" is a formless ballad.
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R&B & HIP-HOP
The movie "Brawl in Cell Block 99" goes for old school R&B with the O'Jays, classic hitmakers from the '70s who revive their sound for "Buddy's Business," a song about the inner city that wouldn't have been out of place during the heyday of Blaxploitation films.
The Sundance sensation "Patti Cake$" hopes to follow in the footsteps of "8 Mile" and "Hustle & Flow," two films about aspiring rappers that not only were nominated in the song category but won for "Lose Yourself" and "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," respectively. Geremy Jasper's film submitted a pair of songs: "PBNJ" is a profane rap introduction (it's about a crew, not a sandwich), while the hard-hitting "Tuff Love (Finale)" is a widescreen feminist hip-hop statement of purpose.
"Lake of Fire," which like "Elizabeth Blue" submitted three songs, is a curious cross-cultural collaboration, with an Indian-American director, Raj Thiruselvan, a cast and crew from both countries and music by Qutub E. Kripa, Indian composer AR Rahman's ensemble from his conservatory in India. The songs, all in English, are "We'll Party All Night," a disco-style anthem to partying that is peppy and inconsequential; "I'll Be Gone," a pretty pop ballad; and "Have You Ever Wondered," a very wimpy and uninteresting pop duet between Arjun Chandy and Lavita M. Lobo that nonetheless manages to pick up momentum and get lush.
The Malayalam-language Indian film "Pulimurugan," about a man who hunts and kills rogue tigers, was a big hit in its home country and entered two songs in the Oscar race. "Kaadaniyum Kalchilambe" is a bouncy male-female duet between K.J. Yesudas and K.S. Chithra; Western listeners will have to take it on faith that it's a tribute to marriage. "Manathe Marikurumbe," performed by Vani Jairam, is moodier and more interesting musically, though again it's a stretch to think it'll connect with voters.
The Bryan Buckley film "The Pirates of Somalia" makes use of a lot of existing songs, but the influential Iranian singer-composer Sussan Deyhim is showcased in the new song "Lost Souls." The atmospheric song is largely made up of wordless moans, with occasional vocals buried in the mix; it's impressive as a mood piece and a sound collage.
OTHER ONES
Will voters go for a 53-second Adam Sandler ditty from "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)" that sounds as if it was improvised in about as long as it took to sing it? Well, "Myron/Byron" will answer that question.
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More substantial but also on the tongue-in-cheek side is the "Downsizing" song "A Little Change In The Weather," a faux love song that touches on the movie's theme in its first line: "Now that you're with me nothing makes me feel small." The long-running vocal group the Swingles, formed in Paris in 1962, makes it all sound delicious but cheesy, which is basically the point.
Judy Collins has been performing as long as the Swingles, and she makes the graceful pop ballad "Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)," from "Drawing Home," appropriately elegant.
"World Gone Mad" from "Bright" and "Speak To Me" from "Voice from the Stone" both reach for grandiosity with impressive results. The former song is from the British band Bastille, and it's big pop with a sadly timely message: "The world's gone mad and there's nothing you can do about it." The latter song, from Evanescence's Amy Lee, is more elusive lyrically and grander musically, hitting symphonic heights. Also big and bold: "The Devil & The Huntsman" from "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword," a Daniel Pemberton/Sam Lee collaboration that essentially uses a menacing, doomy chant to tell a tale of woe.
The less impressive entries include "On The Music Goes," from "Slipaway," a big, nondescript would-be anthem performed by Crystal Starr; David Longoria's "Now Or Never," from "Bloodline: Now or Never," a Latin-flavored dance track whose most notable element is an insistent trumpeter; Jason Mraz's "Can't Hold Out On Love" from "Father Figures," in which a relatively persuasive mid-tempo groove is undercut by lyrics that define sappy; and "Next Stop, The Stars" from "Kepler's Dream," whose cringeworthy lyrics offer earnest, sing-songy advice that boils down to "don't worry, everything will be great."
Two contemporary Christian performers represented on the list are Ginny Owens, whose song "Fly Away" from "Trafficked" is an artsy, meandering ballad, and Bruce Rawling, whose "Walk on Faith" from "Year by the Sea" is another song that tells us not worry that everything will be OK, though at least there's a prescription beyond think happy thoughts: Walk on faith.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS
Finally, we have to give this one a category all to itself. Geoffrey Moore, the son of the late Roger Moore, wrote a song for charity called "U.N.I. (You and I)." Then he decided that he wanted to give his song a chance at winning an Oscar. The problem is, a song can only win an Oscar if it's in a movie — so Moore got together with director Nik Panic and actually made a tongue-in-cheek documentary about trying to qualify a song for the Oscars, "And the Winner Isn't."
The song itself is about the most generic charity song you could imagine, seemingly composed entirely of variations on "we've got to love each other" and "we can make it better." But hey, the guy made a movie about qualifying a song for the Oscars in order to qualify his song for the Oscars, so you gotta give him major points for chutzpah.
Oscars: 18 Best Original Song Contenders Speak, From Nick Jonas to Questlove (Exclusive Photos)
Here are 18 of this year's contenders for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
Questlove •
"It Ain't Fair" from "Detroit" •
"I saw the movie, which was my worst nightmare. And I went home and I was up 'til 5 in the morning trying to process what I saw. I felt like I was going to explode inside. Kathryn [Bigelow] said she was going to give 48 hours to process it, but by the 24th hour it was killing me, and I called her. She said, 'How do you feel?' I said, 'I'm angry.' She said, 'Good. Can you create something out of the anger?'"
Photographed by Irvin Rivera for TheWrap
Nick Jonas •
"Home" from "Ferdinand" •
"[Co-writer] Justin Trantor and I talked about the scene we'd been shown, which was a montage sequence where Ferdinand starts as a young bull and then grows up in this loving family. And the feeling we both took away from it was this idea of family and feeling like you're exactly where you're supposed to be with the people you're supposed to be with. And for he and I both, that's home. So we ran with that, and the song just flowed right out of that."
Photographed by Corina Marie for TheWrap
Ryan Tedder and T-Bone Burnett •
"Truth to Power" from "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" •
Tedder: "I said, 'If this is the church of the environment, of Earth, what is going to get people to come forward and repent and join the religion?'"
Burnett: "The altar-call aspect of it was the key from the beginning. Al Gore went to divinity school at Vanderbilt, so all of us have that in our background. And when we brought in the choir, that was when it all made sense."
Elvis Costello •
"You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way" from "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool" •
"This particular episode in Gloria [Grahame]'s life has a poignancy -- she's quite vulnerable, combative at times, and Peter [Turner] has his secrets as well. That's the stuff of songs, or certainly the stuff of my songs. I'm not very good at the straightforward 'I love you, you love me' type songs."
Photographed by Elisabeth Caren for TheWrap
Sara Bareilles and Nicholas Britell •
"If I Dare" from "Battle of the Sexes" •
Bareilles: "Really, I just really wanted to make [Billie Jean King] happy with the song. ... And when we finished the song and got word that she loved it…"
Dierks Bentley •
"Hold the Light" from "Only the Brave" •
"To me, now more than ever, especially after [the concert shootings in] Las Vegas, these are just dark times, man. Dark times and heavy hearts. The idea was to hold the light, to find that one little piece of hope. Hold onto that hope of a better time, of what you had and might see again."
Photographed by Leon Ofsky for TheWrap
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez •
"Remember Me" from "Coco" •
Kristin Anderson-Lopez: "Bobby basically sat at the piano and wrote this melody in, like, 20 minutes and recorded it onto my iPhone. I took it on the subway and I wrote out the lyrics on my way to rehearsal."
Robert Lopez: "It kind of poured out of me, but your brain's working overtime even before you start on it."
Photographed by Stephanie Diani for TheWrap
Common and Diane Warren •
"Stand Up for Something" from "Marshall" •
Warren: "I thought, 'This could be great within this movie, but it could also be bigger than that.' But who knew how timely it could be to these times?"
Common: "I felt like the song was written for the world. Whenever there's something that takes some sacrifice, some heart and courage and love -- that's what I felt from that song."
Photographed by Shanna Fisher for TheWrap
Alan Menken • "How Can a Moment Last Forever" and "Evermore" from "Beauty and the Beast" •
"The task, really, is to not mess with the original DNA of the musical, and to support those tentpole moments that hold the structure together: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'Be Our Guest' … The job is to add moments that are not going to compete with them but enhance them."
Photographed by Justin Bettman for TheWrap
Laura Karman, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson •
"Jump" from "Step" •
Karpman: "I think the idea of jumping being a quiet thing is really kind of radical. It's the idea of what it takes to really face your fears -- you steady yourself as you try to figure out what the next step will be and how you'll confront the challenge."
Stinson: "Mood-wise, I knew it had to start small, from inside you, and then go up and out."
Saadiq: "All I thought about when I heard the title was Van Halen's 'Jump.' [Laughs] But I didn't say that to Taura."
Photographed by Jonny Marlow for TheWrap
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul •
"This Is Me" from "The Greatest Showman" •
Paul: "[Director] Michael [Gracey] always wanted an anthem for the oddities, the band of folks who think of themselves as outcasts and have come together in this circus family to find their tribe."
Pasek: "Originally, we had a very low-key song sung by Tom Thumb in that spot. But we did some workshops, and one of the people we worked with was Keala Settle, who was going to play the Bearded Lady, Lettie. And having a talent like her, and knowing that we had the opportunity for her voice in this moment, things become a lot clearer and the song organically emerged."
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The rotary hoe was a Krieger (have you ever heard of them?), 6.5 hp petrol motor, 50 cm width, self-propelled – as seen in the photo.
These things sell for about $600 new (plus $100+ shipping!) on eBay. The one I was going to bid on was the same thing, used only once, and ended up going for $340. It was less than an hour's drive away, so would have been an easy pickup too.
So while I look for another used rotary hoe for sale, I'd love to hear your advice and feedback.
I want to hoe up a largeish area of kikuyu grass in my yard, to turn it into vegetable gardens. It's on a slight slope, with an area of about 200-300 square metres (but not in a square – it goes in a big ring around some raised beds and a citrus grove).
My plan is to hoe the whole area, then dig paths through it on contour, shovelling the dirt onto the new beds. The paths will be filled with wood chip as a moisture reservoir and fungi haven, and the beds will be mulched with straw and planted out with herbs, vegies and other beneficial plants.
My first thought was to hire a rotary hoe for the day, but rental costs $150/day. Ouch! I don't expect to have an ongoing need for a rotary hoe once the gardens are set up, so I thought hiring would be better than buying. But if I could buy a second-hand one for a decent price, use it to set up the garden beds, and then sell it again, I'd probably be out of pocket less than the $150 and would have all the time I need to do the job properly instead of rushing it all in a single day.
Have you tried anything like this before? Does a rotary hoe kill grass effectively, or will I get grass shoots coming up through the garden beds? Do you know anything about the Krieger brand? Is there anything in particular I should look for in a used rotary hoe?
Any and all advice appreciated!
It's hard to beat a troy bilt rototiller but the one you have pictured looks decent as well.
Your best bet to make sure no grass grows back would be to kill it with roundup first. Of you wish to stay organic then till your field a few times and let it rest till after a rain then till it again. Then till it w final time before planting, this will allow for several of the seeds in the soil to germinate in between the times that you till as well as get rid of the sod clumps.
@Mike: Thanks for the tips. I do want to avoid Roundup etc, but someone told me that a light spray of vinegar on grass will cause it to die back. That shouldn't cause any chemical/pesticide issues in the soil, so I'm going to try a spot-test to see if it works. If vinegar just sets it back a bit, and I do the tilling in early winter when the grass isn't growing, then hopefully the runners will rot in the soil before the growing season starts again in the spring. I'm not sure, and would love to hear what others think.
I've seen Troy-Bilt recommended frequently on US sites/blogs, but I haven't seen them much here in Australia. They are around though, and I'll keep an eye out. Thanks!
That said, I just had a commenter from South Africa on my blog say that chickens will demolish kikuyu. I have a hard time believing that they're so fond of any grass, but I'd be very curious to see what they would do to your problem grass.
@Anna: Yep, I did consider that. I'd need massive quantities of compost and mulch, though, which gets expensive fast. Plus, as I'm sure you'd agree, you can't really buy good compost commercially. So if I went that way I'd probably truck in as much compostable material as I could, mound it up on the cardboard and compost in-place.
I also don't want to build up very high above the present soil level. We have drains, garden borders, existing trees, etc to work around. Being on a slope means that heavy rain will likely push a lot of material downhill if it's sitting on top of cardboard.
I have used our chicken tractor to create garden beds (you can see it a little here: http://green-change.com/2010/07/24/chicken-tractor-lifting-handles/), and the chickens will completely destroy every last vestige of kikuyu. But it takes several weeks for 4 chooks to clear a tractor-sized area – I'd need many dozens to clear the area I'm talking about. They also leave the ground a bit compacted, so I have to dig or fork it before mulching and planting.
The main problem we've had with using the tractor is that you do only a small area at a time, and the grass re-invades from the edges very quickly. By clearing the whole area at once, I'm hoping that only the edges will need defending from kikuyu runners. I plan to address that by planting strips of comfrey and lemongrass along the borders to keep it out.
It's an evolving plan, though, and I'm loving the feedback and emails I've received so far!
I thought your pigs would do a fairly decent job!
@Belinda: Pigs would clear the grass, but I'm not planning on having more for a while (still eating the last ones!). It's also an awkward area to fence off, as it would block through-traffic around the yard and it would have a very large amount of edge for its area (there's a citrus grove in the middle that I'd need to exclude the pigs from) – it's sort of a huge stretched donut shape. Maybe I need to post some photos or a mud-map!
Not sure what your time period is, but I have laid out a tarp to kill patches of grass before. It takes a couple summer months but works. You may not have enough time for this project but perhaps can plan for the future.
@Mike: Tarps or plastic sheets would work, but the area is too large and I don't have that much plastic. Plus it'd still need some digging before I could plant into it, and that's too big a job.
I would have thought pigs would be the go. If you're looking for sheet mulch most fruit shops have huge amounts of cardboard they're trying to get rid of. Newsagents also have to get rid of unsold newspaper which is awesome for attracting worms once it's wet. Depends on how much you're trying to do at once I guess. A dingo or kanga might be worth hiring.
@The Joneses: See above for comments on pigs (sorry, replying to two comments at once!). I think the area is too large, and parts of it too slopey, for newspaper or cardboard mulch to be practical. Plus I'd have to import too much compost (or compostable materials) to go on top, and I also can't alter levels that much. I've seen a Dingo rotary hoe, and while it'd be faster than a regular rotary hoe, I'm sure it'd be significantly more expensive to hire (assuming I could hire one – do you need training?).
@Jason: That's probably the best way to go. Doing it twice is another argument against just hiring a rotary hoe for the day – it's sounding more and more like I should buy one!
Darren, we are also wanting to loosen soil and build garden beds on the side of our house as well as a vege patch and have been thinking of hiring a rotary hoe ($180 per day to hire !) I have just been on eBay to have a look and assess whether it is worth buying one instead of hiring. Was interested in reading you have a similar issue. Are you anywhere in Brisbane. May be we can collaborate?
@Suzanne: Yeah, the hire cost blew me away too! You could buy a new one on eBay for only about 4-5 times the daily hire rate. Must be a good business to be in. Unfortunately I'm way down the coast from you, about 1.5 hours south of Sydney. Let me know if you come up with any novel solutions to the problem!
I do have a rotary hoe tines on the front though and smaller than the one you have pictured. Ariens brand.
Its a fabulous tool. My mum purchased it about 8 years ago and we used it to build gardens on her old property about 3 (out of 5) acres of gardens. I had the best shoulder and arm muscles of any 18 – 20 year old around from many weekends spent tilling the ground to create gardens from an old cow paddock.
My husband now loves the feeling of being a "farmer" as he tills up my new garden on our suburban block. Sadly the noise scares our 2 year old and i wind up spending the whole time holding her and don't get to share the fun.
We find that virgin lawn needs to be turned over about 2 times a few weeks apart for best results. We then add compost and/or manure and give it a light go over again, not as deep but then a quick rake over, mulch and water. let it settle for a few day, usually til the next weekend then its ready to plant out.
I'de offer you a loan of mine but we're in the lower blue mountains and I imagine the fuel costs might exceed the hire costs.
@Wendylady: Thanks! I agree, on that sized property a rotary hoe would be a very good way to get new gardens established. I wished you lived closer so I could borrow it! I think we'd have a bit in common besides, with home brewing, gardening, etc.


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Having come to consulting with more than a decade of wholesale banking experience, John Petrusick is quick to build trust with clients. He translates his wholesale underwriting, risk analysis and business process improvement experience into metric-focused solutions for financial services clients. We spoke about what it's like to make the leap from banking to consulting, the biggest trends his clients are tackling and what sets NTT DATA Consulting Services apart from other consultancies.
You came to NTT DATA Services with an established career in the banking industry. What made you want to move into consulting?
I love solving problems and building holistic solutions. From the time I was two or three years old, I'd sit with my grandmother and work on puzzles. She taught me to start with the four corners, find the edges and fill in the middle pieces — you could say that was the first process I learned.
When I was managing a commercial credit portfolio at a top 10 U.S. bank, I realized that business leaders, whether they be internal to the bank or its external customers, have many levers they can pull to drive results. Internally, that could be slashing underwriting time, keeping customers engaged throughout the loan cycle or improving customer experience. Externally, it could be helping one of a customer identify the best strategy to grow business or improve operations.
Thinking critically about the different things we could do to positively impact our banking business — from the tools and technology we used to the changes we could make to operations to improve our processes — is like solving a puzzle. That's what drew me to consulting.
What kinds of puzzles are clients asking you to solve today?
Hands down it's about automation. Our clients want help separating fact from fiction. They want to understand what suite of tools is available to them, and how can they can put the pieces together to help solve their business challenges — whether that's creating capacity to fuel growth, improving efficiency, addressing risk and regulatory compliance or improving the customer experience.
And it's not always a straightforward solution. For example, recently, a top European bank was facing an efficiency ratio challenge. They asked us to come in for an automation assessment to identify inefficiencies in their wholesale processes and how automation could help improve those inefficiencies. We spent four days with the various leaders of the client team, walking through their wholesale lifecycle to get a handle on their processes and the challenges they were having. It turned out that introducing automation tools off the bat was not the best solution for them. We mapped out a solution that started with traditional outsourcing.
Within five months, the BPO team structured the data, transitioned and stabilized the process, went live, and eliminated the backlog of requests preventing policy compliance. Now that the immediate need of cost-effective processing has been addressed, we will begin the journey of automating the process. Our client appreciates that we addressed the business problem holistically, instead of simply trying to automate a process that was not ready. Ultimately, our approach enabled the client to think about the different phases they needed to execute to achieve their strategic goals.
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For example, in the case of the automation assessment, the initial meeting was meant to be a one-hour conversation. But as we spoke, the client quickly saw that I had lived and breathed the business processes he owned and that I understood the problem he was facing. That one hour turned into two, three, and then four hours of rolling up our sleeves to get at the root of the problem, understand all the pieces, and figure out how to put together a holistic solution.
When you are not solving problems at work, how do you spend your time? Are you still an avid puzzle player?
These days I find myself helping my two small children (ages 5 and 2) with their puzzles. Our kids also love Legos, so a good portion of any weekend day involves watching them build some extremely creative things. We are also a family that enjoys sports, so we usually spend time playing whichever sport is in season!
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Tom Mataconis is senior vice president leading NTT DATA Services' Financial Services and Insurance Business Consulting. Focused on growing the practice into a global market leader, Tom develops integrated consulting and delivery solutions that drive differentiation, business value and thought leadership. Tom has more than two decades of business and IT transformation expertise with many leading North American retail and wholesale banking institutions and is a former managing partner with Accenture.


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As digital display technology develops and advances, new marketapplications emerge. To date, most of these applications have fallen in therealm of business presentations. Now, presentation technology-with itsability to present large, bright, compelling, moving images-is ready toenter and change the signage market. Soon, dynamic digital signage willappear across the retail landscape and in public areas. Consequently,marketers will gain greater control over time-critical messages and contentat lower cost and make real-time changes instead of waiting weeks or monthsfor rollout of standard print signage; they will have be able to provideconsumers with information tailored to specific needs or circumstances,rather than the one-size-fits-all nature of static signage.
This signage is called dynamic because of the realism and movement itoffers. Consumers can see the steam rising off coffee, the bubbles poppingin a soda, the texture and swing of a fabric as its wearer moves. Thesesigns are also dynamic because they can be changed often, easily,inexpensively and in real time, that is to say, immediately. Any availabledigital assets or resources can be used and appear, system-wide, at thepoint of sale. These changes can be made frequently; they can furnish menurotation for every mealtime shift, cater to differences between daytime andevening retail shoppers or feature fast-breaking promotions. Finally, thissignage is dynamic because it can enable the movement of images andmessages throughout a system to many installations across the country oraround the world. From one location, a marketing manager can launch orrevise a campaign that appears on every sign throughout a given system viatelecommunications-Internet or Intranet, LAN or WAN.
In addition to compelling realism, quickly changeable content andgeographic reach, dynamic signage gives the manager control over theconsistency of the corporate brand and message across all markets. Thereare also substantial savings in both cost and time when compared todesigning, manufacturing, distributing and installing duratranspanels,cardboard cutouts or other traditional signage formats. Moreover, dynamicsignage dispenses with clutter.
It is important to note that dynamic signage in its ultimate application isnot exactly the same as a kiosk. The typical kiosk, through interactionwith a user, provides information on demand from such sources as a databaseor even the Internet. Consequently, there must be some device-either akeyboard or a touchscreen-that facilitates this interaction. Often seenexternally as a simple box with a monitor, kiosks find application inmuseums, retail stores, airports and other place in which people may havethe time to stop and deliberately query information.
Dynamic signage hovers somewhere between television and informationalkiosks. There are times when offering interaction becomes unnecessary oreven wasteful. When standing in line to make a purchase, a customer isunlikely to leave his place to use a kiosk. An element of dynamic signage,however, provides information without direct interaction, information thatmay be already tailored to mesh with the needs of a certain type ofconsumer.
Where it worksDynamic signage holds the most promise for those market segments that dealwith continually changing information-interest rates, rotating meal menus,seasonal wardrobe changes or one-day sales. Banks, quick-servicerestaurants and department stores will be among the early adopters ofdynamic signage. Because LCD displays, technology commonly used in thissignage, are relatively thin profile and lightweight, they can bepositioned at the consumer's point of decision. That may be at the ordercounter of a fast food restaurant, along a supermarket aisle or amongdepartment store racks.
There is also a market segment involving public areas. On the one hand,this would include supermarkets, malls and cinema complexes. In thesecases, either the chain or a media company can sell advertising space to anumber of buyers. Potential advertisers, in some instances, are alreadypaying for floor space and slotting fees. Revenue gathered from advertiserswho want to influence buyers' decisions represents a new source of profitat this market point. Similarly, airports, mass-transit stations and largeathletic, entertainment or other public assembly venues offer marketpotential. Backlit panels are common to these applications, but dynamicsignage could also be effective.
Just how effective and compelling is dynamic signage? From a number oftests, results from a specialty retailer show that when compared withstatic signage, dynamic signage installations get 10x the eye contact; thatis, 10x more people look at and pay attention to dynamic signage. In exitinterviews, of the people who recall seeing a message, 2.5x more peoplerecall the content or the purpose of the dynamic message. In QSR testing,preliminary data support a 3% to 5% sales increase in the stores that havedynamic signage when compared to other stores in the same geographicregion. When a new product is introduced, dynamic signage contributes to a25% increase in sales of that product.
Means of operationDynamic signage consists of several components. First, there is thecontent, essentially any digital content that can be routed through acomputer-video or desktop multimedia. Also, the hardware and software drivethe content through the system, update it, automatically schedule it,ensure continuous up-time and allow the right mix of local control; thesystems integrator or service provider assembles the pieces and offers apackage solution. Finally, there is the display itself, the interface withthe target audience, the link to the customer that makes dynamic signagecome to life.
Display elements themselves are available in a variety of media, includingLCD, plasma, DLP and even the standard CRT monitor. LCD units are availableas large-screen digital units in a range of formats, among them 40 inch (1m) and 52 inch (1.3 m) diagonal displays. Units can be as thin as 18 inches(457 mm) and as light as 90 pounds (40.5 kg) with the brightness necessaryfor high ambient light conditions in retail environments. Such units asthose available from Clarity Visual Systems can accept a range of signalinputs-SVGA, VGA, MacII and progressive scan video are standard. Speciallydeveloped black-stripe screens give wide viewing angles and optimumcontrast while absorbing glare caused by reflective light. The modules canbe used singly, arrayed horizontally in banners, vertically in posts or inboth dimensions as videowalls.
Gas plasma technology, although more expensive than LCD, provides its ownset of advantages. Plasma displays are essentially an array of pixels, eachof which contains three subpixels corresponding to red, green and blue. Gasis excited to a plasma state by an address electrode and reacts withphosphors in each individually controlled subpixel capable of producing16.7 million colors. Consequently, plasma displays can be thinner than 6inches (152 mm) and have a completely flat surface. The net result is abright, high-resolution display device with wide viewing angles that caneven be placed in walls. The devices, because of the physics behind theiroperation, are immune to magnetic interference, and their 16:9 aspect ratiofosters HDTV compatibility.
There are technical issues. To operate effectively, the display system mustbe designed from the ground up as a dynamic sign. A number of LCDrear-projection displays designed to fit the varying requirements ofdifferent retail and public environments are currently available. Overtime, LCD projection will get thinner and cost less. Consequently, it willcontinue to be the technology of choice for dynamic signage in the future,but other options, namely plasma, are viable as well.
A new marketThe real factors driving innovation in this market are the proliferation ofinformation in our daily lives and the ability to convert that informationinto digital form. Advertisers demand compelling ways to provideinformation to consumers when those consumers are making purchasedecisions. There is demand, too, on the part of the customers. Now thatpeople are accustomed to seeing this digital content in other areas oftheir lives-homes, schools or offices, wherever their browser is-it isnatural to see it in retail locations. Consumers have come to expectinformation to be delivered where they can use it-again, at the point ofdecision.
At this point, the only factor slowing adoption of dynamic signage istime-time for retailers to understand the concept, time for them tovalidate its use in their own environments in light of the data gatheredfrom other stores that demonstrate its effectiveness. Clarity, for example,undertakes testing with new major retailers to demonstrate the power ofdynamic signage, and it will take a couple of years to cross the chasm.Dynamic signage will soon show up in many opportunity-oriented retailspaces, and as it gains acceptance, there is no reason why systemsintegrators should not take advantage of this market growth.
The promise that dynamic signage offers is this: As customers and consumerstravel from one retail space to another, they will no longer be inundatedwith clutter and conflicting messages. In today's supermarket, mall andfast food environments, we see many huge, blaring, brightly colored signsshowing everything or, at the least, the most common denominator.Ultimately, this is not helpful. Dynamic signage can actually helpeliminate this clutter by offering a single point of display for multiplemessages. It can respond to the specific needs of the individual customerand assist his buying decision in a clear, concise, informative way.
Imagine that, as you enter a mall or other retail or entertainmentenvironment, you swipe your loyalty card. Embedded in that card are yourpreferences and other specific information. As you walk through theenvironment, signage displays provide information that you are interestedin. By being completely digital and complexly dynamic, retail can adapt itsgrowing storehouse of information to what each of its customers wants. Itsounds far-fetched today, but when retailers make the investment in alarge-screen digital display and the computer system to drive it, manythings become possible. These retailers position themselves well for anynumber of future innovations. By familiarizing yourself with thistechnology, you should, in turn, be able to offer existing clients a newmeans expression, and equally important, you may develop prospects inpreviously ignored and completely new markets.
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Premier League goalkeepers
by Samuel Louis Apr. 01, 2020 Apr. 01, 2020
Clean sheets are crucial and there have been plenty of match-saving goalkeepers to have played in the Premier League – but who is the greatest?
How to judge the Premier League's greatest goalkeeper?
Goalkeepers in the past had to be good with only their hands, keeping the ball out of the net, but there is a growing emphasise on outfield skills too.
"The goalkeeping position has evolved massively," says Lineker. "They have become more part of the football team because they have to play with their feet."
Shearer said: "When we started out, the goalkeeper had to keep the ball out of the goal, that was his job. Now he has got to be able to play."
Asked if he studied goalkeepers before going into games, Wright said: "Definitely. For example, I knew former Coventry goalkeeper Steve Ogrizovic always liked to pat the ball down and then catch it so any shot that went in he used to do that. Anything that was coming in, I would just go in for."
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52097923
Tagged: EPL, goalkeepers
Samuel Louis
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Samuel Louis is a young Haitian student that loves to write and learn. He's passionate about people and culture and finds comfort in knowledge. As a writer for Haitian Times, he looks forward to opening his horizons about journalism, while doing what he loves.
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Lilah is as playful as a kitten and loves chasing beads around the floor, or jumping out at you from behind the curtains. Her antics are absolutely adorable. You will hardly hear a peep out of her, as she's not a talker. She will communicate with you via "looks" with those gorgeous eyes, head buts and rolling over to receive belly rubs. She will only utter a soft "meow" every now and then to say "hello, come and pat me!"
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José Carlos Somoza (* 13. November 1959 in Havanna) ist ein spanischer Schriftsteller.

Somoza ist von Beruf Psychiater. Er lebt seit 1960 in Spanien. Für seinen Roman Clara (Clara y la penumbra) (ISBN 3-548-60405-6) erhielt er 2001 den Literaturpreis Premio Fernando Lara, ein Jahr später den renommierten Premio Hammett. In Schweden wurde er 2004 für den Roman Idéernas grotta (Original: La caverna de las ideas, dt. Das Rätsel des Philosophen) mit dem Flintyxan ausgezeichnet.

In Deutschland erschienen sind auch sein Kriminalroman Das Rätsel des Philosophen (La caverna de las ideas) (ISBN 3-546-00221-0), "Die Elfenbeinschatulle", "Die Dreizehnte Dame" sowie der Wissenschaftsthriller Das Einstein-Projekt.

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I've been AWOL for a few days. I couldn't think of anything to blog about. But now I have something to talk about again :-) Brit Boy and I are heading to London tomorrow for our royal day out. As I've blogged about before, we're going to Trooping the Colour tomorrow. We'll both come back with lots of stories from the day so please check out my blog and Brit Boy's over the next few days. I'm looking forward to reading what Brit Boy writes from his view. Because as we all know, every person sees or remembers something different from the same experience. I know that we're both gonna love it though :-) This should be very intriguing. I wonder how many more royals we'll see. We saw Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie back in 2007 and that was cool.
We had a good weekend around the yellow house. We really didn't do anything big, but it was nice to just have a slow, easy weekend. It was a time to just soak up the brilliant sunshine that we've been having over the weekend. It's still sunny today…hooray! (smile) It's hard to keep my mind on anything because I just want to be outside all the time. Yeah, I'm crazed right now. LOL.
Anyway, on Saturday, we went into town to do an errand and then had some KFC. It was good since we don't have it very often. It made me think of summer days back home. Brit Boy remarked that everything looks happier and more laid back when the sun shines. We are so alike. So we finished up our eats and then headed home.
We took the scenic route home back to our more rural area and then we kept going a bit. The thought of Wiltshire in the sunshine was just too good to pass up, so we drove a bit past home, further into the country. It was absolutely gorgeous! Wow! With the sun shining, everything was just so much more green and beautiful. The rolling hills with livestock dotting the scene, and little farmhouses scattered along the way, made for a postcard ready picture.
While Brit Boy was watching his match, I took out my laptop and started something I've been meaning to start working on. You see, I'm very interested in genealogy. I always have been. I've always loved wondering about the people who came before me. In the future, I'd love to write a full history of my family on both sides based on the family trees I've done in the past. So my bit of research Saturday was a step along that path. I want to fill in some cracks and pull it all together.
I thought that I'd start with my dad, who passed away when I was a child. My dad was several years older than my mom and I came late in his life. So he lived a lot of his life before I was born. Lately I've been very intrigued to find out more about the time he spent in the Army during World War II. I very often wish that I had been a bit older when he passed away, so that I could've asked him more about this time in his life. But I was a kid who was playing with her Barbie, so I didn't think to ask very much. (smile) So now I'm going to put my love of research to good use and find out what I can on my own.


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US figure skaters likely a threat for 3 medals…
US figure skaters likely a threat for 3 medals at Olympics
By Barry Wilner and The Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: January 13, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — With a mixture of veterans and teens, the United States has its Olympic figure skating team. Are there any medals to be found among the 14 members?
Probably, with Nathan Chen leading the men"s contingent and the Shibutanis ice dancing their way to Pyeongchang. A team medal is not out of reach, either.
For now, the winners at nationals are basking in the glow of that achievement rather than considering their chances under the scorching spotlight of an Olympic Games.
"I know you hear it all the time and it"s a cliche," Chen says, "but it truly has to be one step at a time. The Olympics are that next step now."
Brian Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champions, expects that next step for Chen to be a huge leap.
"This is a kid who can step up to the plate," Boitano says, "and knock it out of the parkl"
For all three men and two of the women in singles, it"s something very new to go to the Olympics. Only women"s runner-up Mirai Nagasu has been to an Olympics, placing fourth in 2010 in Vancouver.
Pairs champions Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim also head to their first games. The Shibutanis were in Sochi, finishing ninth, one spot behind Madison Chock and Evan Bates. The other ice dance duo, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, are Olympic newbies, but U.S. champs.
"The last two competitions were very intense," Hubbell said of the Grand Prix Final and nationals. "I think we all know the ones who skate best on that day is going to win, we are that close to each other.
Here"s how the U.S. team stacks up for Pyeongchang:
Chen is the clubhouse leader, if you will, after acing his first 18. Yes, there are holes in his program, particularly the triple axel that he popped in Saturday"s free skate. But there also are five quads, improved artistry — if viewers stop concentrating on his rotations in the air, look and listen for Chen"s connection with his music — and a track record for an 18-year-old man that is almost unparalleled.
Adam Rippon, at 28 the veteran of the singles skaters, was added to the team at the expense of Ross Miner after Rippon finished fourth here. His body of work — of the three U.S. men his program is most built on creativity and flair — earned him the spot one year after he broke his foot.
Vincent Zhou, 17 and the youngest member of the squad, is that rare guy who can jump with Chen, but isn"t nearly as polished or accomplished. His time near the top is more likely in 2022.
The heartwarming story belongs to Nagasu, 24, quite possibly the only woman who will try a triple axel in South Korea. Her career hit some rough patches, and when she rallied to finish third at nationals four years ago, she was bumped off the Olympic team by the federation"s committee in favor of Ashley Wagner.
No bumping this time after Nagasu put out a career-best free skate.
"That"s a great story for me, because most people have a hardship in their life and they blame and they point fingers and they say I was screwed over, blah, blah blah," says coach Tom Zakrajsek. "Mirai could have said that, right? And she could have been bitter. I"ve never heard her say that. And to hear that maturity in her; even in this moment she"s just owning it."
Nagasu probably has the best chance to challenge the Russians and Japanese of the three Americans; she is more polished and internationally known than U.S. champion Bradie Tennell, who will be 20 at the games, and 2017 American titlist Karen Chen.
One pair, no medals chance.
That"s simply the state of pairs in the U.S. It"s been that way for years as ice dance has powered its way past pairs in the duo events.
The Knierims have been around and their free skate, when done cleanly, can be spectacular. But the consistency and level of difficulty of their moves — except the quad twist that only they do among Americans — can"t compete with the top Europeans, Asians and Canadians.
From Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto through Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the United States has become a force in this discipline. Maia and Alex Shibutani have followed their dance steps and have a strong shot at a medal despite finishing second at nationals. Hubbell and Donohue won the U.S. crown by .19 points, a significant upset give the Shibutanis" international record.
But that also stamps Hubbell/Donohue as medals threats. The third U.S. ice dance team, Chock and Bates, finished eighth at the Sochi Games. They won the free dance at nationals and were within one point of the top spot.
In front of the Americans are France"s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron and Canada"s 2010 Olympic champions, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, both formidable couples.
More AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org
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'Peripheral' economies and the crisis
Part of the 'Old Normal: Our Future Health' series
As seen in the New Statesman Business Continuity Spotlight Report
Dr Arunangsu Chatterjee
Associate Professor of Digital Health & Education and Head of Digital Education
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
The UK is focused on reopening the economy – a colossal challenge for even the most fiscally sophisticated, and particularly acute where investment and societal inequalities are prevalent.
Take, for example, the South West, where I research and educate. Like other peripheral economies, it deals with long-term, deep-rooted low productivity, which is soon to be exacerbated by the funding deficit for regional development and economic growth as a consequence of Brexit.
Productivity gaps here continue to widen against the UK average and you only have to scratch the surface to reveal an even poorer picture in coastal and rural locations. In fact, productivity is inextricably linked to the rural and outlying nature of the peninsula, which makes accessing markets a challenge for business and accessing services a challenge for residents, particularly the sizeable elderly population.
As highlighted in Public Health England's report on rural and coastal communities (August 2019), low productivity and social exclusion go hand-in-hand. Access to health services and a lack of transport to these services were a main driver of social exclusion.
This intrinsic link between health inequality and economic productivity is key to understanding how we should re-open the economy and what the 'new normal' could – and should – look like. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how the economy suffers when our populations' health is at risk. This is where the policy focus on the 'The Economy of Wellbeing' is crucial.
The effects of the COVID-19 health crisis will stay much longer than the disease itself.
A health crisis such as this is bound to exacerbate the pressures on the national health and care systems due to pent-up demand once all services return to business as usual. There are many negatives that come with this, but it does provide the UK industry with a potential growth market. Over the last three months, we have seen the rapid introduction of digital and eHealth solutions into our health and care services.
The highly regulated health and care market is tough for small and medium businesses to navigate and succeed in. Up until now, this is where the EU has come into play. However, investments in health technology innovations were often met with a nervousness or reticence in non-peripheral communities and, therefore, were often difficult to realise on a wider scale.
COVID-19 is a game-changer.
The health sector is experiencing a behavioural shift towards acceptance of such innovative products and services that would have previously taken decades, and now this is where the resilience of a peripheral economy, like the South West, really takes hold.
Our older population, coupled with an SME-led explosion of innovation, presents a unique economic opportunity in the ideal test bed for future health and care interventions that can be scaled to a national and international level. This is perfect for organisations who choose to embed the South West lifestyle into their business model.
In embracing the shift towards 'The Economy of Wellbeing' and focusing domestic investment towards an integrated, digitally-enabled health and social care ecosystem, business can focus on supporting health and care provision across dispersed communities. The peripheral economy becomes the blueprint for the UK's economic recovery.
Dr Arunangsu Chatterjee (AC)
Dr Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Digital Health Education, Head of Digital Education and Co-Director of the University's Centre for Health Technology. For over 30 years he has worked to build a sustainable infrastructure for a digital and eHealth ecosystem enabling innovative healthcare solutions that reduce the pressure on services and support healthy ageing in communities. His work in the South West over the last six years has culminated in the creation of the South West Interdisciplinary Technology Consortium for Health and Care (SWITCH). An 'ecosystem' for NHS partners, industry partners, health and social care organisations and patient groups, it has been set up to enable greater connection and collaboration across the region and beyond.
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NVIDIA partners offering proven systems for AI that scales.
Most data centers weren't designed with the explosive growth and unique demands of AI in mind.
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Machine learning and deep learning used to be science projects in the labs of academia. Now they're mainstream capabilities that are growing the top line for businesses and helping drive down costs.
But unlocking that return on investment means having an AI-ready data center that can scale. And many organizations don't for the simple reason that AI workloads consume resources unlike any other tier-one task.
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NetApp ONTAP AI is now available with NVIDIA DGX-2, in addition to its current DGX-1 offering. With systems based on the DGX-2 and the revolutionary NVSwitch GPU networking fabric, NetApp is enabling organizations to build infrastructure optimized for unprecedented levels of model and data parallelism. By combining cloud-connected flash with the world's first single-node 2 petaflops system, NetApp ONTAP AI accelerates outcomes at any scale.
Pure Storage is announcing Hyper-scale AIRI, which takes AI infrastructure deployment to a new definition of scale and is built on Pure Storage Flashblade, NVIDIA DGX-1 and NVIDIA DGX-2. The success of AIRI is based on a scalable formula that can start as small as two nodes of DGX-1 systems and can now grow seamlessly to 64 racks of optimized AI infrastructure.
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Red Hat is bringing together the trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux with NVIDIA DGX systems. By adding the certification of DGX-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, organizations don't have to choose between developer productivity and performance vs. IT operations compatibility. They can have both, now certified with the 2 petaflops NVIDIA DGX-2 system.
Building on DGX POD is the formula for getting AI at scale. And there's good news for those who don't have the data center or cap-ex to make it happen soon enough. A growing roster of data center colocation service providers know exactly how to get you from plan to production.
Each is certified for their ability to stand up and host DGX infrastructure. They can bridge your facilities and capital budget gap with an attractive, outsourced op-ex model for running AI infrastructure built on DGX POD.
Learn more about DGX POD and visit our ecosystem partners at GTC 2019 in San Jose, Calif. Follow #DGXPOD to learn more about all of these solutions.


Situated in the city's Justicia neighborhood, the 19th-century home is an expression of Vázquez's playful personality and bold aesthetic.
It seems only fitting that the fashion designer Jorge Vázquez would use a sartorial analogy to describe the sense of certainty and destiny he felt upon seeing his Madrid apartment for the first time. "I had the sensation that this home had been waiting for me—it felt like a tailored suit," says the Spanish native, who designs playfully feminine ready-to-wear as well as haute-couture fashions under the brand JV by Jorge Vázquez.
In the living room, the sculptures are plaster casts from the collection of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. The iron sculpture (right) is by Carlos Albert.
The master bedroom's design was inspired by a tented room in the Charlottenhof palace in Potsdam, Germany. The custom bed is covered in a Nobilis velvet, the early-20th-century rosewood-marquetry nightstands are French, the 1970s chair is Spanish, and the 19th- century lamps are Chinese. The antique Spanish chandelier originally hung in La Granja, an 18th-century palace near the town of Segovia. The wallpaper is by Cole & Son, and the artwork (right) is by Ian Monroe.
The dining room of Spanish fashion designer Jorge Vázquez's 19th-century apartment in Madrid, which was designed by Amaro Sánchez de Moya. The Louis XVI dining chairs are in the original velvet, the console is custom, the 19th-century screen is French, and the wallpaper is by Cole & Son.
In the breakfast room, the custom table has a Carrara marble top, and the 1980s Chippendale-style chairs are Spanish. A mirrored china cabinet displays Vázquez's collection of porcelain dishware; the plates on top of the cabinet are La Cartuja de Sevilla china, which has been made in Seville since the 19th century. The flooring is the original pine.
The custom paint color in the living room references the blue salon in the Hôtel de Soubise, a Rococo mansion in Paris. The 18th-century secretary is Spanish, the mother of pearl–and–bone marquetry chair is Indian, the Napoleon-style lamps are French, and the Chinese vases are from the 19th century.
The custom armchairs in the living room are upholstered in a Sanderson fabric, and the 1970s mirrored cocktail table is Spanish. A 1970s lamp rests on a vintage French garden table, and the Chinese porcelain garden stool is from the 19th century. Both the pine doors and the flooring of black basalt and marble are original to the apartment.
Vázquez in his hallway, next to a pair of Louis XV–style chairs.