It's a relatively hard-to-define and heavily underutilized term, but micro-content is something that we all know and use on a day-to-day basis even though we not be aware that we have it in our lives. In a nutshell, micro-content can be defined as the opposite of long-form content. Whereas long-form content includes blog posts, extensive research data and articles, micro-content is made up of much smaller, bite-sized snippets of content that engage the reader or tease them with something that they may be interested in. With Google's mobile optimization algorithm change already rolling out, now may be the deal time to start getting ourselves familiarized with the idea of micro-content.
Vine Videos: These small snippets of video can do much more in five seconds than some articles can do in a half a page of content. Their short length and small file size makes them easy to classify as micro-content.
Twitter Updates: Twitter only gives you one hundred and forty characters to get your message across. Termed "micro-blogging," Twitter was one of the first sites that was dedicated to the hosting and production of micro-content.
Photos from Instagram: Pictures are one of the most engaging media around and by combining it with social media and making it searchable through hashtags, Instagram has created a very viable format for micro-content.
As you can see, there are many forms that micro-content can take. These are just the most common types of micro-content available on the Internet. The term is inclusive and not exclusive, so new forms of content (such as snippets from infographics) can easily fit into the archetype of micro-content. Now that you know what it is, you can figure out how to build your own. Developing micro-content, as with all types of content marketing should be built around the framework of a content strategy to be most effective.
Good content creation has its own set of guidelines. Whilst good micro-content should follow all the accepted ideas of what good content is supposed to encapsulate, micro-content has its own set of guidelines that lays on top of the idea of good content. We know from previous experience that good content should engage the audience and bring something new to the reader's life, whether it's new information or a different way to look at something they already know. Keeping this in mind, we can create a few guidelines for developing good micro-content that has these tenets at its heart.
Images are Your Best Friends: A pictures is worth a thousand words and some of the most moving and emotionally poignant pictures are the ones that you don't need words to describe. Images count as micro-content because they can evoke feelings and encourage action simply by their presence. They are relatively small in file size as well as able to engage an audience quickly. Visual sensory information is usually one of the more powerful motivators for some people and images as micro-content capitalizes on this fact.
Keep Posts Short: When it comes to social media sites such as Twitter, you don't have much of a choice here. On other social media sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn, you have as much words as you want so you can go to town on what you're saying. Longer posts usually don't engage an audience very much. You have to be concise and to the point with your micro-content to get a response. Ideally, you should try to keep the amount of hashtags on a post down to not more than two (since those posts are the ones that get the most interaction).
Get Stackable: Making your content short doesn't mean that it's a one-shot chance to get the audience's ear. Human beings, especially those of this digital age, tend to have very short attention spans, but tend to get into a trend much more quickly than their predecessors. By building your content around small videos or apps that sync with other types of social media, you can bring immersion to the user, while at the same time keep your content to a minimum. This requires practice and research to figure out what works best, but combining different arms of social media makes for a great way to have your separate micro-content pieces play off one another.
Write Well: Even though you may not be doing much writing when it comes to things like Vine videos or Instagram photos, your micro-blogging will still be something that you need to be adept at doing. You have a minimum of words in order to get your message across. Think about it as headline copywriting: trying to catch the reader's interest with just one line. It's a very challenging and much-overlooked skill, but one that is invaluable in the world or micro-content. To be able to connect with your audience in just a single sentence can be challenging but it's worth the effort.
Build Content for Your Audience: Probably the most important thing that you should keep in the forefront of your thought process when developing micro-content is that you're doing this for the benefit of your audience. You have to make sure that your content connects to your core audience and engages them. It has to bring something positive to them or give them a new point of view that they haven't seen before. It's already hard to do that when you have a thousand-word blog post, but it might be easier if you have less fluff to worry about and get to cut directly to the chase. Your audience is what drives your traffic, try not to forget about them.
SEO optimization of micro-content is important because it makes your micro-content searchable. Many times, when a user is doing a web search for a certain type of content, all it takes is a well-done piece of micro-content to attract them to your site. Once they're there, the long-form content can keep them interested and encourage them to subscribe. Depending on how you build your content strategy, your micro-content can be used as a leader to bring traffic to your site (via search engine results) and your longer content can engage the reader more fully and give them the idea that this is a site worth subscribing to.
On the 21st of April, 2015, Google's search algorithm began judging mobile and non-mobile optimized sites differently. Whilst search engine results based on PCs will not change, the mobile results will give preferential access to sites that are mobile optimized based on Google's new algorithm demands. What this means is that a large volume of traffic directed from mobile-based search engines will be available to optimized sites and completely blocked from non-optimized sites.
What this means is that mobile optimized sites will have the edge on non-optimized sites in terms of getting their content out to more users and tapping into search results from the mobile market. Micro-content is one of the best ways to engage a user on a mobile device because of the type of content and the minimalistic amount of resources needed to deliver the content to the user. Having a site that is optimized for micro-content will be even easier to optimize for Google's new algorithm update for mobile compatibility.
Because you're going to have to develop your content around a couple different platforms, you're going to have to use every trick in the book available to you to reduce the workload. You're probably not going to want to rebuild an entire site just for redirection to a mobile device. Aside from it being time-consuming, it can lead to redundant situations and problems with your content coming up as duplicates. Optimizing your content for mobile platforms can be achieved in a much easier fashion by taking advantage of a handful of relatively simple tricks.
Deliver Content via Apps: Your website has its own look and feel, but developing mobile apps based on your website content is something that more sites should try to utilize. You still deliver content to your subscribed users, but you make it far easier for them to consume and interact with your content. Apps make connectivity much easier between you and the audience and allows your audience to become even more immersed in your content. Apps can, in some cases, replace your primary marketing page on your site by delivering your content in an unadulterated form to your audience.
Use a Content Management System: Your content is going to be the same on both your website and your mobile site, but the difference will be in the presentation and the layout of the information. By utilizing a content management system, you can keep the base of the content and simply "fix" it to suit whatever platform is accessing it at any point in time. By clever use of style sheets you can have a layout that is great for a full website while at the same time keeping it simple and readable for your mobile users so they don't get overwhelmed.
Use the Swipe Function: Micro-content can be delivered in bulk. Snippets can be sent, each on their own page so that their individual impact is not lost. What we have to remember is that to optimize for mobile content, we need to ensure that it's easy to get from one page to another. The best way to do this would be to utilize the swipe function available in mobile devices to allow a switch between pages quickly and effortlessly. It also increases the user's immersion in your content since they don't have to go hunting at the bottom of the page for a link to the next one.
Play with Cards: Modular design is one of the most innovative things that mobile site development can offer to a webmaster. With clever use of modular development, you can categorize your micro-content into tabs or cards where similar content or content under a particular heading can be kept for easy reference. Navigation of a site based on such a modular design is enhanced on a mobile device where the user can simply select a large tab instead of trying to click on a minuscule link in order to access the content; a frustrating and time-consuming exercise.
Keep Headlines Short and Sweet: This is the key to micro-content, keeping things short and sweet. In many cases, your headlines WILL be your micro-content and in such cases it would be best if you kept the length down to a minimum. Consider Twitter-length headlines as what you should be aiming for and anything less than one hundred and forty characters would be a benefit. Short headlines allow you to utilize the limited screen space on a mobile device without forcing the user to have to scroll to see the end of your headline or micro-content.
Don't Leave Stuff Out: User experience on a mobile device is what you should be considering when you're developing your mobile optimization tactics. Try not to penalize users for using a mobile device and instead ensure that they can get your content without having to worry about discrepancies between the PC site and the mobile-friendly site. It might require some creative coding and some redesign of the page, but it's worth it to have your users get all of your content all of the time.
All of these steps seems like a lot of work for a potentially small benefit. Are mobile users so prevalent that we need to do all this to make them feel comfortable? The short answer is yes. In 2013, it was estimated that as much as 73.4% of users of mobile phones were connected to the Internet. As of January 2014, thirty two percent (32%) of American users had an e-reader and as much as forty-two percent (42%) owned a tablet. In 2010 there were as much as five billion mobile phone connections worldwide. When you look at these numbers the results speak for themselves.
Google's new update is poised to change the face of the Internet, and in order to keep up, we have to optimize our websites or risk losing the traffic from these mobile users that may account for a significant amount of our overall traffic. Micro-content is a great way to keep your content strategy moving while at the same time not falling victim to the mobile-compatibility update. It's come down to whether you value your traffic or your long-form content more. Personally, I think the traffic wins this round.
Are you actively using micro-content on your site yet? Tell us about how you did it in the comments.
Good points Julia, although this post can use some micro content as well :) This is often overlooked aspect: we produce content for social media, yet our posts stay as a wall of text.
And designing social media micro content alongside images for the blog post is so much faster. Let me give you an example. Here's my blog post on micro content http://contellio.com/blog/writ... full of hi-quality images. Almost all of them already are in facebook/twitter friendly aspect ratios.
Anyway Julie, great job. I'd love to repurpose your blog post as presentation if you like it. Hit me on Twitter @njet to set this up.
Another perfect sample of microcontent are quotes and sound bites.
Moreover, you can make them tweetable with TweetDis plugin for WordPress.


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Q: Which user attribute can I use to mark "user type"? Is there an attribute/property on user in both AD and AAD that we can use to mark "user type"? Our need is to use user object as a placeholder for a feature in our product, but we want to distinguish these special users from regular ones. Currently we're using CompanyName or Department but that's kind of hacky, so is there a better choice for us?

A: Azure Active Directory has built in RBAC (role based access control) functionality, and it is probably best that you create custom User Roles for your needs.
This should walk you through all you need to know:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/role-based-access-control-create-custom-roles-for-internal-external-users
You can create and access this role information using the Graph API here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ad/graph/api/directoryroles-operations

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Books On Illness & Loss That Will Give You A New Perspective On Life
I came across another wonderful article on Bustle titled, 11 Books About Illness And Loss That Will Give You A New Perspective On Life by Kerri Jarema. In the article, Kerri Jarema wrote the following:
What do we talk about when we talk about grief and loss, illness and death? For the most part, I think many of us try not to think or talk about grief and loss it at all. We push aside the fears we all have of losing loved ones, or finding ourselves at the receiving end of our own life-altering news, and we push forward. In many ways, it's the only way to live. But for these memoirists, looking illness, death and loss in the face, diving into it, exploring it deeply and unflinchingly, with heart and humor and, yes, fear, was how they came to reconcile their life in the face of ultimate loss. And for those of us left behind to read them, these memoirs offer words of sadness and but also of hope, showing us what life and legacy really means.
Last year, my husband's father died due to an aggressive form of lymphoma. It was a very difficult time for us as my father-in-law's initial prognosis when he was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013 was very favorable that he'd overcome it with treatment. In fact, at one point the cancer he had even went into remission... But unfortunately, an aggressive form of lymphoma came back.
My father-in-law was a wonderful human being... Very kind and loving. I still miss his presence very much.
Reading one of the books mentioned in the above article, I am sure would put a new perspective on life.
RIP ~~ Sam Shepard
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Changing face of Canterbury on display in new exhibition
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The changing faces of everyday Cantabrians will be on display in a new exhibition of images from New Zealand's longest-running photography studio, Standish and Preece.
Standish and Preece: Christchurch Photographers 1885–2020 showcases a selection of the 75,000 images in Canterbury Museum's collection that were captured by the studio.
During the Level 4 lockdown last year, the Museum put 32,000 of the Standish and Preece images onto its Collections Online website, calling on the public to help identify the many people and places in the collection. Since then, more than 2800 comments have been left online.
A further 43,000 images went live on the website this week.
One of the comments in 2020 was from Catherine Komarova (née Scott), who spotted a portrait of herself , pictured above, taken at the Villa Maria school ball in 1984.
Thanks to her comment, the Museum was able to contact Catherine and her photo will be on display in the exhibition alongside her lace and taffeta ball gown.
Exhibition curator Dr Jill Haley says the Standish and Preece photos document important moments in the lives of Cantabrians and include wedding photos, sports teams, family portraits, school photos, kapa haka groups, graduation photos and more.
"People use photography to remember important moments in their lives. When you put a whole lot of photos together like this, you really get a sense of how society has developed.
"Visitors to the exhibition will be able to search for family and friends among the displayed photos and see fashion trends develop, demographics change and Christchurch itself develop and grow."
The Museum began a three-year project to scan and catalogue all 75,000 Standish and Preece negatives in the collection in 2019. This work was funded by the Lottery Grants Board and from a bequest by former Honorary Museum Curator, Rose Reynolds.
Standish and Preece: Christchurch Photographers 1885–2020 opens on 9 July and will run until February 2022.


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Q: Sorting Ascending an ArrayList of objects as they're passed to a class I need to sort teams by record as they're passed to an ArrayList. I have tried a few solutions and none have worked. I don't under stand why this one won't work however.
public void add(Team x) {

    if(!teams.isEmpty()){

            for(int i=0;i<teams.size();i++){
             if (x.compareTo(teams.get(i))==1){
                 teams.add(i,x);
             }
             if(i==teams.size()-1){
                 teams.add(x);
             }else{
                 break;
             }

         }

    }else{
        teams.add(x);
    }
}

This is the compareTo method:
public int compareTo(Team y){
    int n  = this.record()- y.record();
    if(n<=0){
        return n;
    }else {
        return 1;
    }
}

The code gets stuck in an infinite loop after adding the first two elements and I can't figure out why. Is there a way to make this method work or to sort the list by record.

A: I think what you want to maintain is a dynamic sorted set. This can be done using the TreeSet class in JAVA. All the data you enter, it will be always sorted. It is essentially a Binary Search Tree and insertions take O(Log(n)) time. Here is how you can do it. The tutorial for TreeSet is here:
TreeSet<Team> teams=new TreeSet<Team>(new Comparator<Team>() //with custom comparator
{
    @Override
    public int compare(Team o1, Team o2)
    {
        int n  = o1.record()- y.record();
        if(n<=0){
            return n;
        }else {
            return 1;
        }
    }
});

//The method to add data should be
public void add(Team x)
{
    teams.add(x);
}

Finally, you can convert the set to an ArrayList simply using ArrayList<Team> data=new ArrayList<Team>(teams);

A: You should implement compareTo as with Comparable, i.e. return 0 for equal elements, negative number if x is smaller, and positive if x is larger (given x.compareTo(y);).
Then your loop becomes
for(int i = 0;i < teams.size();i++) {
    if(x.compareTo(teams.get(i)) < 0)
        continue;
    // Insert into middle
   return;
}
// If we got here, insert at the end


Although largely credited and acknowledged as Beach & Arthur, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana, these coved luncheon plates were designed and manufactured by the C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They first appeared in C.A. Reed's 1933 Dealer catalog. Highly ranked among my all-time favorite Reed designs, the similarities in style and technique are easily mistaken for Beach & Arthur. The imagery is exquisite and the symmetry is on par. Notwithstanding the misidentification, this design is equal in importance and quality and should continue to be valued as such.
Coved luncheon and dessert plate, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1933-1936, first appeared in their 1933 Dealer catalog, luncheon: 8″ square, dessert: 6" square. This was sold with stock number 308-H and 306-H respectively.
Luncheon napkin, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1933-1936, first appeared in their 1933 Dealer catalog, 13.5" square (opened). This was sold with stock number 311-H.
Made for one season only in 1936, C.A. Reed designed and marketed these luncheon napkins, including an array of matching luncheon sets and table covers, to coordinate with their reissued 1933 witch trio design. The arched-back black cat imagery is nearly identical to that in each corner of the witch trio napkin. This updated napkin complements the original design forming another accompaniment. 13.5" square (opened).This was sold with stock number 407-H.
Coved luncheon plate, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1934, made for a single season only, 8″ square. This was sold with stock number 408-H.
Beverage cups, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, (printed name), 1934, made for a single season only, 7 oz., 4.5" h x 2.75" diameter. This was sold with stock number 1012-H.
Luncheon napkin, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1934, made for a single season only, 13.5" square (opened). This was sold with stock number 312-H.
Designs are said to be symmetric if they exhibit specific kinds of balance, repetition and harmony. I find this design highly desirable because it encompasses all these elements. The visual rhythm is perfect and easy for our eyes to follow the repeating iconic imagery. The beverage cup's large striking snaggle-toothed witch face design pulls the entire pattern together. The plate's repeating imagery borders the cup's upper and lower portion. The cup most likely was manufactured by the Dixie Cup Company of Easton, Pennsylvania and branded for Reed. The paper is thinly transparent and heavily coated with either paraffin or wax both inside and out. The narrow bottomed fluted style shape is atypical. I surmise this tall slender shaped cup was made to hold cocktails for adult themed Halloween parties.
Coved luncheon plate, USA, C.A. Reed Company of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1938, made for one season only, 8″ square, no design named (early Reed output was not assigned a design/pattern). This was sold with stock number 25HP8 (HCS). This Reed paper party plate is perhaps the most endearing and coveted of all their designs. The whimsical pumpkin house themed artistry continues to be highly desirable among collectors.


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The NBA already knows the math. The NBA already knows that whatever price it may pay for aligning themselves with the Chinese government against one of its own teams' employees—all because Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted out a show of support for protesters in Hong Kong—will be nothing compared to what they stood to lose if they had grown a fucking spine. Morey's single tweet was enough to raise the ire of the mainland Chinese government and put both the NBA's and the Rockets' lucrative relationships with China in peril. Those relationships are worth billions of dollars: the fruit of the league's 20th-century efforts to extend their brand into Asia and points beyond. The NBA is more than happy to endure a lousy news cycle, pissy op-eds like this included, to preserve those riches. Getting ratioed is a low cost of doing business when you've already traded your soul away. And pretending you're not owned is not only a pervasive damage control model in America, but a depressingly effective one as well.
If you'd like, you can seek out an explainer on the Hong Kong protests, which are rooted in issues that can extend far beyond the grasp of an American lay person such as myself, but can also be seen on a superficial level as Hong Kong residents expressing their free speech because they believe potential extradition laws will make it easier for the Chinese government to punish them for any future dissent. Those fears are well-founded, as China has a long track record of punishing its citizens on the mainland for such offenses. I'm gonna go ahead and assume that it was this distillation that led Morey to his initial tweet. But I am NOT gonna assume that the densely knotted history undergirding the protests is the reason why the Rockets' owner Tilman Fertitta hurled Morey under a light rail, nor do I assume it's the reason why Morey issued this retraction:
I believe that Morey SHOULD apologize for the various crimes that he and the Rockets have committed against aesthetically pleasing basketball. But this is not that. This is clearly a case of Morey backtracking because he dared to indirectly fuck with the NBA's money, all because he vocally supported human rights. This is China making their suppression of free speech contagious through the language of money—as they've done with other American corporate monoliths such as Google and Apple—and the NBA's owners and executives are more than happy to participate in that little currency exchange. They don't give a fuck about Hong Kong and they don't give a fuck about anyone who cares about Hong Kong, you included.
And they're gonna get away with it. After all, look at how the chessboard is set up for them. The NBA has one broadcast partner in ESPN that has already bent over backwards to please America's tactical dads by issuing a STICK TO SPORTS mandate, one that shares the same DNA with Fertitta's hasty attempts to disavow Morey:
ESPN isn't gonna make the NBA pay for this. The U.S. government certainly isn't gonna make the NBA pay for this. Basketbloggers across the country aren't gonna make the NBA pay for it, either. They're still gonna get League Pass and tweet YASSSSSSSSSS anytime Steve Kerr says the President is out of line. The story will die and then the NBA can resume its guilt-free foray into a Chinese market, along with all the moral compromises that entails.
It'll be easy for them for wriggle out of all this because it's easy to pretend that nothing about this arrangement is unseemly. Americans are used to such concessions. I myself take a paycheck from Great Hill Partners. If you want to make money in 2019, it's probably gonna come from a sausage factory you'd rather not see the inside of.
For the NBA's media partners and other affiliated media, there's no money to be had in supporting the helpless and disenfranchised. They train their pundits and designated yappers to be utterly unable to discuss ANY of this in depth. This is fair to a point—no one is asking Golic and Wingo to be an intense seminar in modern Chinese history—but it also trains the viewer at home to expect these issues to never get discussed AT ALL; to not even bother expecting, nor hoping, that Tracy & The Goober's Morning Crotch Grab will be able to discuss what Morey said about Hong Kong even on a superficial level, as Morey himself did. It also trains the viewer to be actively HOSTILE to such an issue penetrating their morning sports arguments, to treat such asides as un-American.
That's how an employee like Morey speaking out here ends up being considered extraordinary. No one bats an eye when sports organizations do business with repressive regimes in the first place: FIFA and the Gulf petrostates, the IOC kowtowing to Russia, WWE running shows for Saudi Arabia, basically all MMA organizations getting in bed with various Central Asian dictators and warlords, etc. It feels like that's extremely backward, but I guess this is the state of affairs brought about by mass idiot insistence that sports can be "apolitical" in the first place.
You don't necessarily have to have a PhD to talk about Hong Kong—though Lord knows ESPN would have access to such people if it bothered to have them on. There's only the IDEA that you do. But it's neither cumbersome nor stupid for someone in the NBA orbit to say what is plainly evident, which is that this is FUCKED. I live in a sports landscape where I would be genuinely surprised to hear, like, Mike Francesa say that the NBA becoming a propaganda arm for the Chinese government is bad. That shouldn't be the case. Even someone as deeply old and stupid as Mike should be able to note it.
That's not how shit works right now. That's not the calculus. The calculus is Tilman Fertitta (a Trump guy, natch) making bank off the Rockets in the Chinese market, and then immediately fuming when someone in his employ says something in support of Chinese opposition. Then he can bitch that Daryl Morey didn't stay in his lane, and he knows that not only does he have the backing of his league, but the backing of virtually the entire American economic apparatus and Americans who support it because they're all in on THAT team and no other. Those who give a fuck are the outliers. In that regard, Adam Silver's NBA fails to stand out whatsoever.
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Break Down is the second studio album by Mandopop boy group Super Junior-M. It was released online on January 7, 2013 by S.M. Entertainment and distributed by KMP Holdings. It is their first release in nearly 2 years, since the release of their 2011 EP, Perfection, and their first studio album in nearly 5 years, since the release of their first 2008 studio album, Me.

Background
After their second EP Perfection released in 2011, the Korean members returned to their activities as part of the main group, Super Junior. The main group released their 5th album Mr. Simple in 2011, in which Henry composed a song together with the leader Leeteuk, titled "Andante", for the repackaged version of the album, A-Cha. They also released their 6th album, Sexy, Free & Single, in 2012. Super Junior-M also performed at the main group's world tour Super Show 4. In 2012, Henry and Zhou Mi went on to act in a movie and a drama respectively. Henry was cast in the movie Final Recipe, alongside famous Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh. Zhou Mi starred in the Chinese-Taiwanese drama When Love Walked In, alongside f(x)'s leader Victoria Song and Fahrenheit's Calvin Chen, as a main cast. In September 2012, it was revealed that Super Junior-M was preparing a comeback with a new album. At that time, the album was in preparation. Since this announcement, Super Junior-M participated in many concerts overseas in the latter half of 2012, including Taiwan, Malaysia and China as destinations. S.M. Entertainment revealed a promotional picture for the new lead single of Super Junior-M, "Break Down", announcing the comeback of the Chinese sub-unit to the Chinese music industry after nearly 2 years. Super Junior-M performed on December 31, 2012 at the 2013 Jiangsu Satellite New Year′s Eve Concert held in Jiangsu, China, and revealed for the first time the teaser for their new lead single "Break Down".

Composition

The lead single of the album, "Break Down", is described as an upbeat pop dance song, mixed with elements of dubstep and synth sounds. The song is produced and composed by Australian team Twice As Nice (consisting of Nick Audino & Lewis Hughes), Martin Mulholland and Nermin Harambasic from Dsign Music, while the lyrics are written by Zhou Weijie. It is a song about a man who can no longer hide his love for a woman, expressing his feelings to her. Nick Bass, who has worked with international stars such as Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera, choreographed the dance for "Break Down". He was also the choreographer behind Super Junior's 2009 hit, "Sorry, Sorry". and also Bonamana in 2010.

For this album, Henry worked as a producer and composer with his production team Noize Bank, and collaborated with member Zhou Mi, who had already written songs for every album of Super Junior-M. Two songs were produced and composed by Noize Bank on this album, "Go" and "It's You", with the lyrics written by Zhou Mi. The track "Go" is described as an impressive song with a cheerful melody. The song expresses the feeling of falling in love, being confident and free about it. "It's You" is an energetic song with bubbly lyrics, a lively melody, and a medium tempo. The song "A-Oh!" is an electronic modern pop song.

Famous Malaysian singer and composer Michael Wong contributed to the album by composing a song for member Zhou Mi, called "Distant Embrace", while the lyrics are written by famous Hong Kong singer and actress Crystal Cheung. Super Junior-M requested a love song from Wong since the release of their first album Me, and sent him their profiles and songs, but he couldn't submit anything to them at that time. At first, he wanted to compose a song similar to the music of Taiwanese band Xiao Hu Dui, but they specifically requested a love song. The lyrics of "Distant Embrace" are about the faint pain of a love. The album contains R&B and ballad songs, including "Good Bye My Love" and "Tunnel". The song "Tunnel" was written by member Zhou Mi, and composed by Kenzie and Andrew Choi. It is a ballad with a dreamy sound.

"Stand Up", an upbeat track, will serve as the OST for upcoming Chinese movie Saving General Yang. Actors from the movie, including Adam Cheng, Vic Zhou, Ekin Cheng, Wu Chun, Li Chen, Raymond Lam, and Fu Xinbo, who play the roles of 7 brothers in the movie, will sing the Korean version of the song, against Super Junior-M who sing the Chinese version.

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Job Interview Coming Up? Better Take Off your Engagement Ring
By Edel Blake in Guides September 13, 2016
At least, that's what one guy thinks you should do…
Bruce Hurwitz is an acclaimed executive recruiter and career guru based in New York. Over the past couple of decades he's made quite a name for himself as the go to person for job advice, but his latest nugget has left some people scratching their heads… he said that women should take off their engagement rings for job interviews because it will make them seem high maintenance to a male interviewer and threatening or unlikeable to a female interviewer.
Since this is 2016, there was a rapid outcry from many people on the internet to his article, labelling it sexist and behind the times (we'll leave it up to you to agree or disagree). He backs his claim up by outlining how in one case, a woman failed to get a job after one interview but secured a job at her next one, with the only difference being that she wore her engagement ring to the first meeting but took it off for the second.
He also published a follow-up article about wearing any jewellery at a job interview. Any ostentatious or extravagant jewellery, including that worn by men, can be perceived negatively according to Hurwitz. It leads to questioning about the candidate's attitude towards life and wealth, and can give off the impression that the candidate's salary expectations will be too high for the company's budget.
On the other side of the fence, commentators are saying that any company who uses the presence of an engagement ring to measure talent, or uses anything other than a resume and their hiring process to judge a candidate's competency, is doing something wrong. However, marital status can play a part in that engaged or married candidates could be more likely to need time off for personal matters such as weddings and maternity/paternity leave. Women showing assertiveness at work also still leads to negative assumptions, sadly.
If you really love your engagement ring, then we say wear it and stop caring what anyone else thinks.
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Laurência (também conhecido como cratão norte-americano), como todos os terrenos cratónicos, foi criada quando os continentes começaram a deslocar-se sobre a superfície da Terra, chocando entre si e afastando-se sucessivamente.

Muitas vezes durante o seu passado, a Laurência foi um continente separado, tal como actualmente sob a forma da América do Norte. Durante outros períodos do seu passado foi parte de um supercontinente. É assim designado devido ao escudo laurenciano sobre ele situado, e que por sua vez deve o seu nome ao rio São Lourenço.

A Laurência deve a sua existência a uma rede de cinturas orogénica do início do Proterozoico. Pequenos microcontinentes e ilhas oceânicas colidiram com a crescente Laurência, e todos juntos formaram o cratão estável que vemos ainda hoje.

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Supercooling is a food processing technique which has the potential to significantly increase the shelf life of foods and to reduce wastage of food products from the production and retail sectors. The process uses storage temperatures below the initial freezing point of the food without the product freezing, which maintains the quality attributes associated with fresh foods. This paper reports trials carried out to determine best methods to supercool pork meat and methods to maintain the supercooled state. Trials were carried out to compare storage life of pork meat that had been supercooled with samples that had been superchilled and conventionally chilled. Colour, texture, weight loss, drip loss and microbiology of samples was measured and compared. The supercooled and superchilled samples were quite similar in all respects apart from the superchilled samples had greater drip loss.


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Q: best algorithm to reconcile 3 lists i am looking for a way to reconcile elements from 3 different sources. i've simplified the elements to having just a key (string) and version (long).
the lists are attained concurrently (2 from separate database queries, and 1 from a memory cache on another system).
for my end result, i only care about elements that are not identical versions across all 3 sources. So the result i care about would be a list of keys, with corresponding versions in each system.
Element1 | system1:v100    | system2:v100 | system3:v101 |
Element2 | system1:missing | system2:v200 | system3:v200 |

and the elements with identical versions can be discarded.
The 2 ways of achieving this i thought of are

*

*wait for all datasources to finish retrieving, and than loop through each list to aggregate a master list with a union of keys + all 3 versions (discarding all identical items).

*as soon as the first list is done being retrieved, put it into a concurrent collection such as dictionary (offered in .net 4.0), and start aggregating remaining lists (into the concurrent collection) as soon as they are available.
my thinking is that second approach will be a little quicker, but probably not by much. i can't really do much until all 3 sources are present, so not much is gained from 2nd approach and contention is introduced.
maybe there is a completely other way to go about this? Also, since versions are stored using longs, and there will be 100's of thousands (possibly millions) of elements, memory allocation could be of concern (tho probably not a big concern since these objects are short lived)

A: HashSet is an option as it has Union and Intersect methods
HashSet.UnionWith Method
To use this you must override Equals and GetHashCode.
A good (unique) hash is key to performance.
If the version is all v then numeric the could use the numeric to build the hash with missing as 0.
Have Int32 to play with so if version is Int10 or less can create a perfect hash.
Another option is ConcurrentDictionary (there is no concurrent HashSet) and have all three feed into it.
Still need to override Equals and GetHashCode.
My gut feel is three HashSets then Union would be faster.
If all versions are numeric and you can use 0 for missing then could just pack into UInt32 or UInt64 and put that directly in a HashSet.  After Union then unpack.  Use bit pushing << rather than math to pack an unpack.
This is just two UInt16 but it runs in 2 seconds.
This is going to be faster than Hashing classes.
If all three versions are long then HashSet<integral type> will not be an option.
long1 ^ long2 ^ long3;  might be a good hash but the is not my expertise.
I know GetHashCode on a Tuple is bad.
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        HashSetComposite hsc1 = new HashSetComposite();
        HashSetComposite hsc2 = new HashSetComposite();
        for (UInt16 i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            for (UInt16 j = 0; j < 40000; j++)
            {
                hsc1.Add(i, j);
            }
            for (UInt16 j = 20000; j < 60000; j++)
            {
                hsc2.Add(i, j);
            }
        }
        Console.WriteLine(hsc1.Intersect(hsc2).Count().ToString());
        Console.WriteLine(hsc1.Union(hsc2).Count().ToString());
    }
}

public class HashSetComposite : HashSet<UInt32>
{
    public void Add(UInt16 u1, UInt16 u2)
    {
        UInt32 unsignedKey = (((UInt32)u1) << 16) | u2;
        Add(unsignedKey);
    }
    //left over notes from long
    //ulong unsignedKey = (long) key;
    //uint lowBits = (uint) (unsignedKey & 0xffffffffUL);
    //uint highBits = (uint) (unsignedKey >> 32);
    //int i1 = (int) highBits;
    //int i2 = (int) lowBits;
}

Tested using a ConcurrentDictionary and the above was over twice as fast.
Taking locks on the inserts is expensive.

A: Your problem seems to be suitable for an event based solution. Basically assign events for the completion of data for each of your sources. Keep a global concurrent hash with type . In your event handlers go over the completed data source and if your concurrent hash contains the key for the current element just add it to the list if not just insert a new list with given element.
But depending on your performance requirements this may overcomplicate your application. Your first method would be the simplest one to use.


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Over 40% of patients admitted to hospital are now at diabetic risk.
Despite this, techniques for controlling glucose levels in hospitalized patients have remained unchanged for nearly three decades, and are too imprecise, labor-intensive, and coarsely implemented to address the growing need.
The Admetsys artificial pancreas measure and maintains a hospitalized diabetics blood sugar levels in real time so their blood sugar mirrors that of a healthy patient.
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Laurel Snyder » Blog Archive » Oooh! Oooh!
It's up online! For all the world to see. My very first picture book!
I have known for a looooooong time now that I would, in theory, have a picture book coming out in September of 2008. But now I finally, fully, truly believe it.
I am so so so so so excited about traveling the country with the boys, reading this book to little kids in amazing bookstores areound the US.
Can we sleep on your couch?
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Will you please come to Idaho?
The book looks completely adorable.
Is the diner based on Hamburg #2, perchance?
I'm hoping to do a reading of it there for IC kiddles.


Texila American University (TAU), an overseas provider of medical education, ties-up with Yashoda Hospital & Research Centre, Ghaziabad to launch a fellowship program in non- invasive cardiology in India. Non-invasive cardiology focuses on the detection and treatment of heart disease, using external tests—rather than instruments inserted into the body—to evaluate and diagnose cardiac disorders.
"We have been receiving a lot of requests from doctors to introduce fellowship programs, especially in non- invasive cardiology. This is the reason we thought to support the fellowship program. This is a two-year program where students after their successful completion and evaluation will receive a fellowship from TAU," said Dr Gurjit Singh Gill, Associate Consultant (Cardiology) at Yashoda Hospital & Research Centre, Ghaziabad.


The Brexit saga continues without a clear end in sight. With the mountain of often empty words being hurled from one side to the other, it's easy to forget what a serious impact this is having on society. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, EP Brexit Coordinator, is never afraid to say what many merely think. "Both Trump & Brexit involved external manipulation. Both were victories for our enemies. Both have torn apart communities instead of bringing them together. Both mean building walls instead of breaking them down. There is another way" (Twitter, 20 March). Maybe the rising clamour for a new referendum, or even a revocation of Article 50, will soon be difficult to ignore.
After lengthy debate at a summit in Brussels Thursday, EU leaders agreed a short Article 50 extension till 12 April, or 22 May if the UK Parliament approves Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement next week.
The Commission fined Google EUR 1.49 billion Wednesday for breaching EU antitrust rules, saying restrictive clauses in its ads contracts with websites prevented rivals placing search adverts on those websites.
The EU institutions have come to a provisional agreement on new rules to ensure 'fair and clear' access to social security benefits for EU workers who have moved to a different EU country.
The Commission adopted Wednesday new rules stepping up the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems on Europe's roads, a key stage in enabling communication among vehicles.
Russia's disinformation campaigns are the main source of fake news in Europe, along with China, Iran and North Korea, MEPs said Thursday, calling on the EU to fight back against hostile propaganda.
The European Court of Auditors announced Wednesday it is assessing the contribution EU measures for ecodesign and the energy labelling of products make to EU energy efficiency and environmental objectives.
Cartels: a new online 'eLeniency' tool, launched on Tuesday, is aimed at making it it easier for companies and lawyers to submit documents as part of leniency and settlement proceedings in cartel cases.


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An Overdose Of Fingal Cocoa
A.O.O.F.C is guided by the Illustrious & Bodacious El Supremo, Neopixeos. And remember, even Cathy Berberian knew that you don't do it without your fez on!
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Albert Cummings - Feel So Good [LIVE] - 2008 - Blind Pig
Feel So Good is a live album that captures Albert Cummings' searing Stratocaster licks and crowd-pleasing, high-energy roots-rock in front of an enthusiastic hometown crowd. In fact, the audience was so enthralled and supportive they became part of the performance in a way that's rarely heard. Albert and his band responded with a blistering set of great originals and killer covers of Led Zeppelin, Little Feat, and Muddy Waters tunes. Albert, proud of the show and the recording, said, "The crowd was really wound up and loved the show. It was a lot of fun. The recording is a first-rate capturing of what goes on at one of our shows. It's got the real rawness and heart and soul of just us three guys on stage, as real as it gets." With producer Jim Gaines at the controls and Albert's incredible display of guitar virtuosity and deep emotion, this is one live performance that is bound to become a blues-rock classic. © 2008 All Rights Reserved. Piedmont Talent, Inc.
Albert Cummings is one of the best blues rock talents to emerge from the U.S in recent years. It has been stated that this guy could be the new S.R.V. He may have a hill to climb to reach that stature, but it's a hill that's getting smaller! This is a great album from this New England blues rocker and is VHR by A.O.O.F.C. All the tracks here are great, but "Hoochie Coochie Man" is really something else, - It's a knockout version of this tune. The first couple of songs are enjoyable country tinged songs in the John Fogerty mould, where there is great rapport between Albert and his appreciative audience. They are not strictly blues flavoured tracks, but still very good. The audience/band interaction throughout this live recording is very enjoyable. There is a jazzy tune on this album, "Sleep," which is a ballad, and demonstrates the wonderful guitar technique of Albert Cummings. As the album progresses, it becomes a blistering display of first class blues rockin'. The final track, a version of Zep's "Rock and Roll" will blow your socks off! This guy has simply got to be heard by more people. He is going to be a future blues giant. Buy his absolutely terrific "From the Heart" album. You won't regret it. Brilliant stuff!
01. Party Right Here
02. Why Me
03. Sleep
04. Hoochie Coochie Man/Dixie Chicken Medley
05. Barrelhouse Blues
06. Tell It Like It Is
07. Rock Me Baby
08. Your Own Way
09. Together As One
10. Blues Makes Me Feel So Good
11. Rock and Roll
Albert Cummings (vocals, guitar)
Daniel Broad (bass guitar, background vocals)
Aaron Scapin (drums)
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The endless boogie begun by John Lee Hooker, then Texas-honed by ZZ Top, continues, thanks to the younger generation of blues players such as Albert Cummings. This Massachusetts guitarist/singer is no purist, freely mixing nightclub blues with aspects of 1970s rock (Hendrix or Robin Trower), sometimes recalling the more boisterous side of the late Stevie Ray Vaughn. His guitar sizzles, sputters, and roars, and his voice has the gutsy vibrancy of Paul Rodgers and Buddy Guy. While not earth-shakingly original, FEELS SO GOOD is the CD equivalent of a good-time late Saturday night.
And in this corner, out of WIlliamstown, Mass., with the red-and-white Stratocaster guitar, Albert Cummings. That's right, the blues has a new great white hope. The musical style always seems to be searching for a white guitar god who can achieve broad commercial success. The notion might seem ludicrous, but this phenomenon has been going on in music since at least the 1950s, when Pat Boone covered Little Richard and Elvis Presley discovered R&B. The white guys' records sell. But with the blues, mainstream success from anybody is always a tough sell. Stevie Ray Vaughan, an undisputed white guitar god, reigned supreme with a broad, mainstream audience from the late 1980s until his death in a 1990 helicopter crash. Since then, Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd have contended but strayed from the blues after initial successes. The contemporary leader for the great white hope is Tommy Castro, who comes from a soul-sounding foundation. And Tinsley Ellis plays from a rock 'n' roll point of view — he's incredible, but he remains relatively obscure. Now we have Cummings, whose stylings have a basis in jammy, Southern rock. The jam I refer to is not the noodly or dreamy variety: It has a sharp edge. Think early Allman Brothers or ZZ Top. But mostly — and you should take this in a positive way — Stevie Ray Vaughan. Sure there are lot of Stevie Ray wannabees, but Cummings is the real deal, and he has enough of a personal take to make the style his own. Nevertheless, when you hear him live, as I did at Coloma Blues Live! the first artist Cummings reminds me of is Vaughan. An obvious reason for this is that his original rhythm section was Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, aka Vaughan's Double Trouble. John Lee Hooker gave Vaughan high praise when he said, "When he wants to, Stevie Ray sounds just like Albert King." The same is true here: When he wants to, Cummings sounds just like Stevie Ray. Check it out - Cummings' fifth album is a recording of a March 15 show with his three-piece band at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass. In concert, Cummings is in the same ballpark as Castro, whom was honored by the Blues Awards as the performer of the year. His energy, powerful solos and charisma come across with full force. His voice sounds much like Bad Company/Free singer Paul Rodgers. Any fan of Skynyrd's "One More From The Road" will love this one, and might even get goosebumps when Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man" segues into Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken." The concluding track, Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," and my favorite, and a Cummings original, "Your Own Way," can be taken for straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. But a detailed listen all the way through leaves no doubt. More than anything else, Cummings is a bluesman. Too bad. He could have been a contender. © Tim Parsons / Lake Tahoe Action
Dynamics, tone and performer/audience togetherness overpower volume and attitude every time. Anyone who's graduated from rock to blues knows that, but when an artist can capture the dynamics of both styles in live concert, it's time to find a new word to supersede "crossover." On his live Blind Pig CD Feel So Good, Albert Cummings doesn't go over the top, he slices cleanly through it. He flies above the bridge between the two genres of rock and blues. This "vehicle" never touches the road long enough to leave skid marks. This show was recorded in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in the Colonial Theater, a 95-year-old "little jewel box" – that's what James Taylor calls it – that's hosted everyone from Will Rogers to Al Jolson. On this CD, you're eighth row center for the show where the beer sold out before the music even started. At the controls is Jim Gaines who produced the last two Cummings CDs, not to mention albums by Carlos Santana, Buddy Guy, Steve Miller and Tommy Castro among many others. "It's the comfort zone. I just know if Jim Gaines is gonna be running the controls, I don't have to worry about that stuff. You know, if you're thinking,' you're stinkin,' " says Cummings. Cummings is the antithesis of Gary Cooper in "High Noon." Remember the story where Coop as sheriff can't get a single deputy to help him face off the gang as the fated hour approaches? Cummings' "High Noon" was Saturday night, March 15th, 2008 at 8 p.m. Every one in that audience was on his team. The band merged with the sold out throng, and the whistling, cheering, singing crowd became a driving element of the band. The space between the seats and stage disappeared and everyone flew above the balcony. It wasn't Albert Cummings on stage that night. It was "The Other Guy," his alter ego. "We joke about the multiple personalities," says Cummings, "but I truly believe I have it. 'Albert' will walk out on that stage, and then he'll leave. 'The Other Guy' will kick him off and say, 'Get the hell out of here 'cause now it's my turn.' Once I hand it over to him, I got no control. So, he just does his thing, and I just sit there and watch." Cummings works and plays "Rock Me Baby" and "Rock and Roll," but these aren't your grandfather's B. B. King or your daddy's Led Zeppelin respectively. Rather, they're anthems, part of the wild ride of a live CD that whisks you through the repertoire of a blues man who destroys every cliché of either the blues or rock genre. "Barrelhouse Blues" co-written by Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon of Double Trouble originally appeared on Cummings' first CD From The Heart which was co-produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan's rhythm section. Here he slaps, strokes, squeezes, cajoles, tweaks and ultimately has his way with his Strat. Dedicated to his wife Christina, "Together As One" shows the smoother side of Cummings with its sweet seductive roll while "Hoochie Coochie Man/Dixie Chicken" leads a charge that turns the lathered crowd into more than bit players in Cummings High Noon scenario. From Muddy Waters to Little Feat without so much as a skip or slip, and we're all part of the party. On the original "Sleep" from his Blind Pig debut True to Yourself Cummings seduces the fans with a delicate Flamenco-influenced ballad that slips into a lazy psychedelic delirium cajoled by his distinctive voice emphasizing dynamics that capture the spirit in the line "Go to sleep, my child." Recorded in one night of hometown bravura and bombast, Feel So Good redefines call and response for the 21st century. It all may haves started when Albert saw Stevie Ray Vaughan in Boston, and decided there was something more to life than simply taking over as the fourth generation head of the family construction business. "The Other Guy" emerged the first time he opened for B.B King. In 1998 he walked into a Northeast Blues Society open jam one Sunday night and announced that he and Swamp Yankee, his fledgling band from Williamstown, Massachusetts, were going to play some souped up blues. That jam led to Cummings' winning the Society's Colossal Contenders contest, and he journeyed to Beale Street to compete in the Blues Foundation's 1999 International Blues Challenge. That relationship also opened up an opportunity for him to work with Tommy Shannon, Reese Winans and Chris Layton of Double Trouble. The Society brought the four together in 2000 for Communiversity Day at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. That began a relationship that has included touring together, co-producing From The Heart as well as Tommy Shannon's appearance on his Blind Pig debut, True To Yourself along with Austin session kingpins Riley Osborne on keyboards and B. E. Frosty Smith on drums. Produced by Jim Gaines, the CD garnered enthusiastic reviews and was well received by new fans and old fans alike. Albert's second Blind Pig release, Working Man, another Jim Gaines production, opened with Merle Haggard's "Workin' Man Blues," a reference to his "Other Guy" role as a builder. About that album Cummings told BluesWax, "I'm starting to realize how my voice is my instrument. I used to hide behind the guitar more and use the voice as the secondary, but now it's rivaling the guitar." Today, The "Other Guy" competes for time with Albert The Builder. During the day, Cummings builds multi-million dollar homes that have made him the talk of builders around the country and have been featured on numerous trade magazine covers. Cummings finds his construction work helps him relate to his fans. "I'll go somewhere where nobody knows me. They think I'm some great super human that can play the guitar and sing. They realize, "No, he's not. He's a builder, man. He's like a regular guy. He's like the guy you meet at the coffee shop and hang out with. And that's the thing." © Don Wilcock, © 2006 Blind Pig Records, a division of Whole Hog, Inc. - All Rights Reserved
Albert Cummings was born in Williamston, MA, and has made his home in the New England region all his life, where he runs a successful home construction business. He started playing the five-string banjo when he was 12 and appeared headed for a regional career in bluegrass when he encountered the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan in his late teens, and soon made the transition to electric guitar. His first public performance on guitar came at a wedding reception when he was 27 years old, but soon he was on the Northeast blues circuit with his band, Swamp Yankee, and an independent CD, The Long Way, was released in 1999. A chance encounter with Vaughan's old band, Double Trouble, led to Cummings' first solo record, From the Heart, which was recorded in Austin, TX, and featured Cummings fronting Double Trouble. The record was self-released by Cummings, but was soon picked up for distribution by Under the Radar and released in 2003. Cummings' soulful and explosive approach to blues and rock caught the attention of Blind Pig Records, which signed him to a multi-album deal. His debut album on the label, True to Yourself, was released in 2004. He has since shared the bill with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond, Susan Tedeschi, Tommy Castro, Chris Duarte, Bernard Allison, the Neville Brothers, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Sheryl Crow and Duke Robillard. He released his third album, Working Man in 2006. © Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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Breaking every cliché associated with the blues while producing some of the most powerful music of the 21st century comes as natural to Albert Cummings as swinging a hammer while constructing one of his award-winning custom built homes. The Massachusetts native learned the requisite three chords on the guitar from his father, but then switched to playing banjo at age 12 and became a fan of bluegrass music. Like everything he tackles, he threw himself headlong into the pursuit, going to festivals and winning several picking contests in high school. Before graduating he heard the early recordings of Stevie Ray Vaughan, however, and was floored by the virtuosity. While in college in 1987 he saw Vaughan perform and he returned to the guitar with a new outlook and resolve. He had another tradition to live up to first, however, and he studied the building trade in order to follow his family into the home building business. Not until he was 27, an age when other musicians were either already established or had long ago put their dream aside for the realities of life, did Albert finally decide to go for it. An intense period of wood shedding resulted Albert sharing a bill with Double Trouble, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan's rhythm section. So taken with Albert's fire and passion were bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton that they volunteered to play on and produce his debut recording. In 2003 the aptly-titled From the Heart (Under the Radar), with the awesome power of a Nor'easter and the soul of a natural born artist. No less a giant of the blues than B.B. King, who Cummings acknowledged with a funky version of "Rock Me, Baby," dubbed Cummings "…a great guitarist." In an era of cowboy-hatted poseurs, Cumming delivered the goods straight from the heart and shoulder with a wallop generated by his talent rather than his wardrobe. A year later Double Trouble joined Cummings again as he signed with Blind Pig Records to create True to Yourself. This time they brought in legendary producer Jim Gaines to control the sessions. The all-original release further showcased Albert's rapidly developing songwriting chops and deeply emotional vocals as well as stunning guitar pyrotechnics that put the metallurgical properties of his strings to the test. Tours and shows with blues legends B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy and others brought his music to an audience grateful for the opportunity to be rocked hard by a man possessed to play every song like his life depended on it. Working Man (Blind Pig), Albert's summer of 2006 blockbuster release, is the culmination to date of a guitar hero's career just taking off. A punchy, stomping cover of Merle Haggard's blue collar standard "Working Man Blues" brings it all home for the master builder and musician. The swinging Texas blues of "Please," the instant barroom boogie classic "Party Right Here," the snaky slow drag "Rumors" and the rousing rocker "Feeling End" show variety well beyond the typical slow blues and shuffles of so much contemporary music. The deeply emotive ballad "Last Dance" that closes the disc is so evocative that a Hollywood movie could be written around it. Albert Cummings is a man of his times and the man for the times. As he has done with his innovative homes, he has taken tradition and built his own musical edifice that expresses his thoughts and dreams. It is a vision that alternately excites and soothes while also clearly providing a glimpse of his unlimited future. The best is yet to come. © bellyup4blues.com
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Brothers Bhavesh and Rohit chose not to join their father's business, but instead charted their own course, struggling, and toiling hard to build a Rs 50 crore turnover car and two-wheeler cover manufacturing unit, says Gurvinder Singh
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Veronica Berg has everything she needs to achieve her dream of becoming a painter including a charming home studio in Provence, a hard-working husband and a nanny who watches her two-year-old twins. Yet instead of painting she spends her days secretly indulging in lengthy naps. When her Moroccan-born, Sephardic husband grows impatient and challenges her to sell one painting, Veronica must find a way to break out of the seductive rut that's overtaken her life. Against the backdrop of the impending Iraq war, her journey reveals depression's sunny mask and the dark side of privilege and security. With a cast of Moroccan, Sephardic characters, Veronica's Nap also gives a rare look at contemporary Jewish life in France.
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GOLF: Howell heads home early again in Australia
Swindon golfer David Howell heads home early after missing the cut at the Australian PGA Championship
Round 2 - David Howell St Andrews Old Course.
DAVID Howell will head into the festive break without a made cut on the European Tour in the 2020 season following a difficult second round at the Australian PGA Championship on Friday.
Howell shot a three-over round of 75 for the second day in a row to finish on six-over after two rounds.
That was well down the leaderboard in a tie for 116th place and left the Broome Manor man five shots clear of the cutline at one-over.
It means Howell heads home early from his third tournament in a row in the 2020 season, having also missed the cut at the Alfred Dunhill Championships in South Africa and the Mauritius Open.
China's Yechun Carl Yuan leads the way at the halfway stage at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast after a superb seven-under second round of 65 to reach nine-under overall.
Starting the day at three-over, Howell had already dropped further off the pace just two holes into his second round as he posted an early bogey.
Three pars in a row followed before that earlier dropped shot was reclaimed at the sixth hole as the 44-year-old recorded birdie.
Another run of three pars followed to see Howell reach the turn at level par for the day and three-over overall.
There was more par golf after the turn for home as each of the first five holes on the back nine were recorded in a level score, taking that run to eight holes in a row in total.
That steady scoring sequence was ended by a second birdie of the day at number 15.
That failed to ignite a grandstand finish to the round, though, as Howell actually went in the opposite direction as four shots were dropped over the next two holes after back-to-back double-bogeys.
A final par rounded off the day and meant Howell signed for a three-over second round to reach six-over overall and miss the cut by some distance.
The 2020 European Tour resumes in the new year at the South African Open on January 9.