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Top 10 Kpop songs of 2014
Posted by michikohime in My Top 10 of...
Akdong Musician, AOA, Bangtan Boys, Bobby, BTS, Bumkey, GaIn, geeks, Hi Suhyun, Jun Hyo Seong, Junggigo, KARA, lee hi, Lee Suhyun, lena, Lil Boi, soyu, sunmi, Taeyang
Here it is folks!
I've based my choice on a few things, but mostly on a) if the song made an everlasting effect on me (I do listen to it now and then still, or I put it on whenever I'm at a party with Kpop-tolerant friends, or it's in my all time favorite, something like that), b) the overall popularity of the song and how it was omnipresent for the moment it was release to the end of the year, c) how it somewhat did Kpop exactly how it's suppose to be done or how it still is Kpop but it tried to give a twist that worked amazingly well.
I also limited myself to 10 tracks this time around.
So here is my top 10 for 2014 :
10. Jun Hyo Seong – Good-night Kiss
I chose this song for the last spot mainly because, even though after a while, I kinda started to grow tired of it. But every time I let the song go on, I couldn't stop myself from wanting to dance to the chorus. Somehow, I also created some dance move in my mind that I was sure were part of the actual dance. I also like this fierce attitude and the overall more sexy look for Jun Hyo Seong.
9. Hi Suhyun – I'm Different (feat. Bobby)
Even though this song just came up a few weeks ago, I really feel like they nailed something with it. The jazz and soul combo is great and the MV is also really beautiful. I'm ok with Bobby's part even though it would still have been great without it. I like that, even though it's still pop, they did some experiment with it and it came out like this. I hope this track and how good it did in the charts and with the fans make the industry take more risk with their song, more than just mashing pop with rap all the time or different tempo in one same song.
8. Akdong Musician – Melted
Do I have to explain why this song is in here, really? If you have not seen the MV, go watch it right now. Because they went all in for this one and it's really in synch with the song. The background music is astonishing, the verse, the bridge, the chorus, everything is perfect. Even though it's not a song you would expect from AKMU, I think they did a great job and I even like the fact that it's not just about sobbing all the way till the end. There's still some quirky twist in the verse, in the way they sing it. A great ballad, but they didn't forget to put in some of their individuality.
7. Bangtan Boys – Boys In Luv
I have something to confess : I'm not a Bangtan Boys fan. At all. I think I'm closer to being an EXO fan than being a BTS fan. Even though it took time to get use to it, the chorus took me away. I still listen to this song and every time, I feel like krumping my ass off. But let's be clear here, it's only because of the bridge and the chorus. Those verse are not that great. I seriously have no idea if, other than the fans, the song did any good on charts and what not, but it really was a song that I listened to the whole year and that I still pop in for a good run.
6. AOA – Like a Cat
I wasn't so sure about this one, but after a few times, I had the song stuck in my head. For a long long while. And maybe it stuck with me more because one time, I really wanted to listen to it but I didn't have it in my Ipod and I was listening to Tablo's radio show, and he put it on, and I was like "WE ARE ONE MIND!!!!!!". At the same time, I feel like AOA always been cute little girls, a group that was more about the looks and they didn't really have a big hit to secure their place in their field, but I feel they actually did that this time.
5. KARA – Mamma Mia
There's many people who think this song is the song of all songs. I think part of them are just hardcore fans, and others are almost right. It's a great song indeed. I feel like the exposure it got because of the Young Ji fever help the song a lot also. But I was caught by that fever too, and I liked it. I got mesmerized by the "lapapa lapapa" and the dance. Every time the chorus comes up, I wanna dance along to it.
4. Sunmi – Full Moon (feat. Lena)
Oh the controversial choreography… Anyway, the way it was banned gave it a big boost for its popularity, but still, without that "scandal", I think it would still have done well. I'm not 100% behind the MV concept, because I think paranormal/vampire stuff as to be done perfectly or else it kinda falls out a bit. And this one kinda do (falls out I mean) here and there. But the song is nice and I even like Lena's part. I also really enjoy the dance, I thought it was inventive and different. Now and then, you come across a song where there's some kind of singing sound that isn't words but that get imprinted in your mind and that you cannot pull out of there. This song does that. The "hey hey hey hey hey" stuck with me.
3. SoYu, JunggiGo – Some (feat. Lil Boi of Geeks)
If you don't know that song, I wonder where you were in 2014. Because it was everywhere. In about every drama there was, in every variety show there is. And it kinda shifted the Hyorin spotlight to Soyu, who also has a really great voice. It re-put JunggiGo on the map as well. The chorus is super catchy and whenever it pop up somewhere, I had this warm feeling of "hey, it's that song again!". To me, this song is, along Eyes, Nose, Lips, one of the most memorable songs of 2014.
2. Gain – Fxxk U (feat. Bumkey)
I like Gain and her MVs that deal with taboo matters. She always amazes me. Fxxk U is a great song, mainly because the beat is "happy", for a lack of better word, yet it feels cathartic to throw those "Fxxk U" in the air while listening to it. I wouldn't say it's a song that will be remembered by all, but it will be me and my friends. We always put it on whenever we listen to some Kpop song. Also, with the ever-growing and omnipresent rape culture in every society, I feel like the MV is right on point. On top of that, there's something about Gain that is different from the industry she evolves in. So for all those reasons, I think she deserve a high rank in my top 10.
1. Taeyang – Eyes, Nose, Lips
Yeah, you might already knew I would choose this one for first place. I'm still trying to learn the song, I'm around the chorus. I already know the first verse and the bridge by heart so I would say I'm about half way there, or close to it. And to think I didn't instantly fell in love with this song is crazy. To me, it was the "home run" song of 2014. Some would say that was Up and Down by EXID, but there's a difference between viral and greatness. If you're still not convince, give me another song that had a cover project that many other singers joined just weeks after its release on top of it.
WHY NO [insert group/artist name here]?????!!!!!
I though about maybe adding I Swear from Sistar, but to me, even to I liked it very much, the other 10 were more fit to my criteria. Some people might wonder why I didn't put any 2NE1 track in it, and here's why : even though Come Back Home is a great song, I don't really listen to it anymore. Their album was a great album overall, but the few title track were not as memorable as some other they did in the past. I prefer lesser known track on the album, like the Korean version of Scream or even the ballad version (or is it acoustic, I don't remember) of Come Back Home. So that's how it is. Other than that, SNSD didn't do it for me this year. As for T-ARA, even though they had Little Apple that I liked very much, I wasn't taken as much by it. Maybe because I felt like a) it wasn't entirely a T-ARA song, b) the MV made me feel like it was a sub-unit song even though it's not advertised that way. So I had some issue with putting it in the top 10 over others. VIXX didn't have that great of a year overall. And for EXO, well, I'm sure everyone out there gave them enough praise for Overdose already. I like the song, but it was no Growl. And don't even get me started on SUJU, because I will cut you. Seriously.
Weekly Melon Newbies: Week 3 of December 2014 (15 – 21)
4men, A-jax, Ben, brown eyed girls, Chae Won, DSP Girls, Giriboy, Hwayobi, Im Se Joon, Jo Hyun Ah, Jung In, k.will, KARA, Kim Feel, Kim Greem, Kim Tas Woo, Kwak Jineon, Kye Bum Zu, MIIII, Min Yeon Jae, Nell, Oh Jong Hyuk, Park Hyo Shin, Rainbow, Roy Kim, SG Wannabe, Shin Yong Jae, So Min, Vibe, Yoon Jong Shin
Newbies from 1st place to 25th place (nothing new this week)
37. Nell – Green Nocturne
57. Shin Yong Jae – Is It You
60. Kim Tae Woo – No Matter What
74. Vibe, 4men, Ben, Im Se Joon, MIIII, Min Yeon Jae – Lonely Christmas
90. K.Will – Only Person OST
94. 2LSON – The End (feat. Jo Hyun Ah, Giriboy)
96. Park Hyo Shin – Snow Flower OST
98. Hwayobi – Face To Face
99. Yoon Jong Shin – Exhausted (with Kwak Jineon, Kim Feel)
100. Roy Kim – It's Christmas Day
90. KARA, Rainbow, Oh Jong Hyuk, A-JAX, DSP Girls (So Min & Chae Won) – White
97. Kim Greem – My Angel
98. Kye Bum Zu – 28.5 (feat. Jung In)
Not much to say about this one. Green Nocturne is good, as most of Nell's songs, but it's not there best either. It's still quite enjoyable, and I like listening to it while waking up, eating breakfast on a Sunday morning. It's about a man thinking about his past and things like that if I remember correctly.
There's some other track that are okay, like 28.5, My Angel or The End. But they're not good enough to say "I'll have them stuck in my head one day" or "I'll listen to them regularly"
K-Blend of Awesomeness (part 18) – August 2014
baechigi, Clazziquai Project, Common Ground, Esna, EXID, Hoody, Hwa Sa, Jace, Jay Park, KARA, Kim Su Bin, Lee Kyung Hyun, Lee Ye Joon, Lip Service, Loco, Mamamoo, Mayson The Soul, Orange Caramel, Rainbow99, Red Velvet, Secret, sistar, SunnyHill, Taemin, WINNER
01. ESNA – I, I Love You
02. Hoody – Baby Oh Baby
05. Sistar – I Swear
08. Jace – My Serenade
10. Secret – I'm In Love
11. Mayson The soul – 6 to 9 (feat. Loco)
12. Jay Park – So Good (feat. Common Ground)
13. Baechigi – Boy Jump (feat. Hwa Sa of MAMAMOO)
14. Lip Service – Too Fancy
15. EXID – Up&Down
17. SunnyHill – Monday Blues
18. Lee Kyung Hyun, Lee Ye Joon – Curious About You
19. WINNER – Empty
20. Kim Su Bin – 너일까봐
21. Rainbow99 – Cherry Blossom
So this time around , I've started the playlist with something more smooth. I had a bit of a hard time (like about every time I do these playlist hehe) because there wasn't such a big range of different beat somehow. I hope it turns out well anyway.
Here are the few songs I've been listening too A LOT more than the others one. Sure, I, I Love You, of course, since it was featured in my BTSSB section. I really like Baby Oh Baby, I think because of the chorus. I like its groovy R&B bedroom vibe. Every Clazziquai songs I've been listening too from their future new album as been a great musical blessing so far.
Even though I've put them way down below, you should check out the more unknown songs I've put there. First there's this bubbly cute song Curious About You, which is great in many level and I'm actually astonished I haven't heard more people talk about it. Then there's Kim Su Bin song that captured me right away even though it's ballad. There's something about the melody of her voice, but I cannot find words to describe it. Finally, there's Cherry Blossom from Rainbow99. This song made me browse around the indie scene a lot more this month and I've found great new band that I'll follow from now on. Sure, it's instrumental and far away from most of what I usually put in those playlist, but it's sooooo pretty and peaceful, and I do listen to instrumental peaceful stuff a lot now and then so I was really happy to find this song. I've listen to a few other songs of his album ("Seoul") and it's a bit more intense, not really my taste. But if you like industrial stuff, you should check it out.
Finally, on another note, I'm happy with the latest Baechigi song and the fact the featured a member of MAMAMOO. The thing is, I would really like they try to get out of this subgenre they've been in for the last few songs. I would love to see them get back to something just a bit more dark maybe. I have trouble with the vintage cabaret vibe the Korean music scene I've been going through this year and I really pray that 2015 will not linger in it too much.
K-Blend of Awesomeness (Part 7) – August/September 2013
Airplane, Amber, B.A.P, baechigi, Bebop, Beenzino, BigBang, Bigstar, Bizniz, Bizzy, BoA, Bumkey, CNBLUE, Daredaa, Dickpunks, Drunken Tiger, Dynamic Duo, ElectroBoyz, f(x), G-Dragon, Garina Project, Gary, geeks, Go! Dandy Boys, Henry, History, Humming Urban Stereo, J.Fla, jin doggae, Jinsil, Joo Young, KARA, Ladies' Code, Lee Na Rae, Lessang, Lim Jeong Hee, Lim Kim, Lunafly, M.pire, Mad Soul Child, Mayson The Soul, Midnight Monsters, Mighty Mouth, Navi, Piggy Dolls, Primary, Royal Pirates, Secret Agent Sound, Seungri, Shin Cho I, Shorry J, Song Ji Eun, SPICA, Suhl Woon Do, sunmi, t Yoon Mi Rae, Tasty, Ulala Session, WHOwho, ZE:A
01. Seungri – Gotta Talk To U
02. EXO – Growl
03. G-Dragon – Crooked
04. Primary – Happy Ending (feat. Jinsil of Mad Soul Child & Gary of Leessang)
05. Lee Na Rae – Raining In Amsterdam
06. Navi – I Ain't Going Home Tonight (feat. Geeks)
07. Piggy Dolls – Ordinary Girl
08. Bebop & Humming Urban Stereo – Maem Maem
09. Mayson The Soul – Holiday (feat. Beenzino)
10. Midnight Monsters – Voyage To The End Of The Universe
11. WHOwho – Her
12. Dickpunks – Sunglasses
13. Ulala Session – Fonky (feat. Suhl Woon Do)
14. SPICA – Tonight
15. BoA – Action
16. Tasty – MAMAMA
17. 2NE1 – Do You Love Me?
18. Sunmi – 24 Hours
19. Jin Doggae – Tic Toc (feat. J.Fla)
20. Lim Jeong Hee – Luv Is (feat. Baechigi)
21. J. Fla – Story
22. Bumkey – Attraction (feat. Dynamic Duo)
23. Joo Young – Popstar
24. Ladies' Code – Hate You
25. B.A.P – Badman
26. Secret Agent Sound – Like It
27. Bizniz – Get It Wet (feat. Shorry J of Mighty Mouth)
28. Bigstar – Run & Run
29. M.pire – Can't Be Friend With You
30. KARA – Damaged Lady
31. Henry – 1-4-3 (I Love You) (feat. Amber of f(x))
32. ZE:A – The Ghost Of The Wind
33. History – Tell Me Love
34. Garina Project – Ice Cream
35. Lunafly – Foxy Ladies
36. Air Plane – Give Me A Chance
37. CNBLUE – Feel Good
38. Royal Pirates – Shout Out (Synth Rock Ver.)
39. Shin Cho I & Go! Dandy Boys – By Your Side
40. KARA – Runaway
41. Song Ji Eun – False Hope
42. Electroboyz – Let It Rain
43. Drunken Tiger, tYoon Mi Rae, Bizzy – The Cure
44. Lim Kim – Rain
45. Daredaa – Summer Night Walk
Yet again a long one. I might change things up a bit for a few next playlist, maybe do just one month by playlist, I don't know, not quite sure yet.
Again, maybe I'm becoming more generous over time. There is a few song I already do not listen to anymore.
But there is also a lot of underrated songs that are here, in this playlist, and that deserve way more views and love.
Top 10 Kpop Songs of Summer 2013
B2ST, BATOOST, BEAST, BigBang, Crayon Pop, EXO, G-Dragon, girl's day, Henry, INFINITE, Jay Park, KARA, MBLAQ, Seungri, sistar
I've tried to put somewhat of an order in the countdown, but it's really not based on anything, except a bit on overall popularity and my own impression (about overall popularity and about the fact that either I've been listening to the song a lot during this summer or that I'm still listening to it now).
So here it is (and sorry about not posting as much this week, it was kind of a big week for me)
The runner up that almost made it : KARA – Damaged Lady
This song is like other KARA's songs. It's really catchy in a "you'll have it as a earworm out of nowhere and won't be able to find from whom this song is". The catchiness of KARA is different since it's subtle, but in a way, that makes it much more brilliant. The song is great. Everytime I here the chorus, I have a sudden urge to do the dancemove with the arm and stuff. But since it was release not so long ago and that it has a little less view than other video from this summer, I went for other song for the top 10.
10. INFINITE – Destiny
OK, hear me out : I really really like this song. As of now, I think it might even be the song of INFINITE I like the most. The thing is though, it didn't do that well on any chart this summer and I feel like people forget about it faster than BATOOST's Shadow (that was, in every point, inferior to Destiny). I think it has everything to do with the MV clusterfuck that happened because of the place scene. They release just one version of the video with all those part edited out and couldn't release the drama version. So yeah. Even though the MV is not everything, it really help sometimes. Some really really mediocre song got much more popularity than they really deserve base only on the quality of the song because the MV was either entertaining or beautiful. That said, I still listen to this song and you could say it was there for a segment of this summer so that's why it made #10.
9. G-Dragon – Crooked
I really like this song. BUT it's not the best of G-Dragon, it's no Crayon or That XX or even One Of A Kind (I kinda don't like this one, but I'm trying to be a bit objective here). And it came out at the beginning of September. Personnally, even though I like it, I really feel it won't have as long a life as the few other song I've just mentionned. It's a lot better than the boring Coup d'État and the Michi-GO WTF though. But it's still a good G-Dragon song, and G-Dragon's song always are a bit better than all the crap we get throughtout the year.
8. Jay Park – I Like 2 Party
This one is a personnal choice since the song has roughly a million views though it was release in July. Ok, a million is big, but not that much compare to other songs and how they usually do and stuff. But it FUCKIN KICKS ASSES. And, as the last 2 Jay Park's song that were release earlier this year, I'm totally in love with it. So yeah, it followed me all summer and I still listen to it and enjoy it as much. The MV is funky, though I prefer the one for JOAH and Welcome (this one for obvious reason).
7. Girl's Day – Female President
I don't know if this one is a more personnal choice, but I feel like this song was kinda really popular in Korea for a while and it has a lot of views too. This one was an instant like for me, just like Expectation. Girl's Day is really coming out of is cuteness shell lately and I like it. It seems Korea like it too. I don't know about international fans though. The MV is alright, I prefer the one for Expectation with THE dancemove and the (kinda boring) storyline. I really listen to this song a lot this summer, but at some point, I dropped it for newer songs. I didn't really had time to get tired of it though and I still enjoy listening to it from time to time.
6. EXO – Growl
Why not higher? Because I'm not a fuckin EXO sasaeng! This song is good and the MV is really nicely done. I still listen to it and, obviously, it's popular as hell. But, for me, there was so many other great song this summer. And some of them deserve more higher rank than this one. I wonder, if this song was not an EXO song, would it have 14 millions views? Maybe not. Don't get me wrong, I really really really like it, really. But maybe it's the sasaeng phenomenon aftershock, I'm always not as enthousiastic as I could be towards EXO because of the gigantic hype around them. Or maybe I'm just a child and it has something to do with reverse psychology…
5. Seungri – Gotta Talk To U
"Hey! You've just said about Crooked that it was release in September and stuff!" Yeah, so what? Gotta Talk To U is an awesome song. I just totally love it, a whole lot more than Crooked. A whole lot more than some of the song I put on higher ranks for some other reasons. So deal with it. The MV is not great, but who cares? The song is that good. For me, this song might even be it the Top 10 of 2013. Yeah, the whole freakin year.
4. Henry – Trap
I took me a while to like this song. I wasn't sure because of the Bieber feel to it and I thought I might be tricked into liking something my principle would not allow me to like (a bit like the EXO feeling I got). But after I say Henry on variety shows, I was like "this guy is talented and funny (and kinda cute), so he's legit". Then I listen to the song, A LOT! He's not an EXO member and his song has 10 millions views. Just that says a lot. Ok, you'll say that there's Taemin and the other dude and stuff, but seriously, I don't mind, it's still his song. I would have change the clothing and some of the dancemove in the MV though, maybe that's a bit why I was suspicious at first. I mean, we've never seen that dude and he's acting like he's a freakin gansta and like he owns the place, and he's not that good of an actor… it was too Bieber-ish for me… That said, for me, this is one of the songs that really marked this summer. It's just such a fun song and I don't know, it's extremely catchy. I really like the bridge part with the high notes and Kyuhyun.
3. Sistar – Give It To Me
Some might not agree with me on this one, but seriously, it was immensely popular this summer. The official MV has more than 9 millions views, and the choregraphy alone has over 3 millions views (and it's not an MV). For a girls group, it's really really good (yeah, since girls group always have less views). At first, I thought it was great, but not as good as Alone. Wow, was I wrong! This song is just on a different level of awesomeness, that's all. The MV is really beautiful and I feel like it showcase each girls (not equally, but at least, it made the effort to do so). I'm not really listening to it anymore, but that's mainly because I listened to it ALL SUMMER LONG. At one point, in September, I was like : "okay that's enough now". That said, I still enjoy and like it a lot, it's just I felt it was unfair to other song… somehow. (I know I'm weird)
2. Crayon Pop – Bar Bar Bar
If you still have to ask, where were you this summer? This song hasn't as many views as other, but it was, by far one of THE songs of this summer. At first, I wasn't sure because, well, it was like an UFO dropped in my computer. But the dance, man the dance… It's so catchy I almost exploded. And it's simple enough so that you can follow without being a natural born dancer. The song is good, it's not the greatest song ever though. If they would have come up with the drama version of the MV first, I feel like it wouldn't have been as popular. What makes this song is the dance MV. It's just so quirky and fun. Anyway, you get my point. I know there's 2 kind of people out there : the one that like it a lot and those who hate it. You cannot go in between with this. And well, I like it. And even if you hate it, you cannot deny that it was this summer song… That said, I don't get the "r" in the title when the hangul title doesn't have the ㄹ at the end of the words. Anyway.
1. MBLAQ – Smoky Girl
Who can deny the awesomeness of this song? If you try, go check the MV again a few time please. This song is probably one of the greatest of this year. It took me about 3 or 4 times before I started liking it. The MV tricked me at first because I felt the intro was too slow and that the song took its time to really get upbeat and stuff. I still listen to it as of now, and I'm still super pumped when it starts to play on my Ipod. I still want to dance to the chorus. It's just… okay, maybe not the best song ever, but one of the greatest song Kpop industry made. I like the MV (not love) because of the way they play with the black and white theme, it really suits the song well.
Here's the playlist :
So, what do you think about this Top 10? Did I forgot a song that undoubtfully needed to be in it? Let me know in the comment section.
Week 3 of September 2013 Melon Top 25 (16 – 22)
4men, Ailee, APink, Baek Ji Young, BigBang, Bizzy, Bumkey, Crayon Pop, davichi, Drunken Tiger, Dynamic Duo, E-Sens, EXO, f(x), G-Dragon, geeks, gummy, Huh Gak, Hyorin, Jennie Kim, KARA, Kim Jong Kook, lee hae ri, Lee Seung Chul, Mad Clown, Navi, San E, seo in guk, sistar, soyu, sunmi, Supreme Team, Swings, t Yoon Mi Rae, YG New Artist, Zia
New segments to come this week : Melon Top 100 Newbies & Mea Culpa.
01. Soyu & Mad Clown – Stupid In Love ↑(2)
02. t Yoon Mi Rae – Touch Love ↓(1)
03. G-Dragon – Who You? ↓(1)
04. EXO – Growl –
05. Seo In Guk – No Matter What NEW
06. G-Dragon – Black (Feat. Jennie Kim Of YG New Artist) ↓(1)
07. Hyorin (Sistar) – Crazy of You ↓(1)
08. G-Dragon – Crooked ↑(1)
09. Sunmi – 24 hours ↓(2)
10. San E – Story Of Someone I Know –
11. Bumkey – Attraction (feat. Dynamic Duo) –
12. Zia & Lee Hae Ri (of Davichi) – If You Loved Me ↓(4)
13. APink – No No No ↓(1)
14. Crayon Pop – Bar Bar Bar ↓(1)
15. Drunken Tiger, tYoon Mi Rae, Bizzy – The Cure ↑(13)
16. Ailee – U & I ↑(1)
17. KARA – Damaged Lady ↓(3)
18. Navi – I Ain't Going Home Tonight (feat. Geeks) ↓(3)
19. Lee Seung Chul – My Love ↑(2)
20. Kim Jong Kook – How Come You Don't Know NEW
21. Baek Ji Young – Is Crying ↓(5)
22. Gummy – Day And Night ↑(1)
23. Bumkey – Bad Girl (feat. E-Sens of Supreme Team) ↑(4)
24. f(x) – Rum Pum Pum Pum ↓(4)
25. Huh Gak – That You're Mine (feat. Swings) ↓(3)
The two new songs are OST, one from Master's Sun and the other from Good Doctor. Both dramas seem bleh, both songs are.
The Cure, from the latest Drunken Tiger album, is really really good. I'm totally into it lately, everything is just perfect. I've listen to the other song that has been release from this album, and there's too much autotune for my taste, but this one is just awesome all together.
I still don't get why some songs are still on the chart, go down, and then go up (like Gummy's and Lee Seung Chul's songs for example).
Week 2 of September 2013 Melon Top 25 (09-15)
Ailee, APink, Baauer, Baek Ji Young, BigBang, Bumkey, Crayon Pop, davichi, Diplo, Dynamic Duo, EXO, f(x), G-Dragon, gaeko, geeks, gummy, Huh Gak, Hyorin, Jennie Kim, JYP, KARA, lee hae ri, Lee Seung Chul, lyn, Mad Clown, Namgung Song Ok, Navi, Park Jin Young, San E, sistar, soyu, sunmi, Swings, t Yoonmirae, YG New Artist, Zia
Changing the color of my favorites, so it watches the theme.
01. t Yoonmirae – Touch Love ↑(1)
03. Soyu & Mad Clown – Stupid In Love NEW
08. Zia & Lee Hae Ri (of Davichi) – If You Loved Me ↑(14)
09. G-Dragon – Crooked ↑(12)
10. San E – Story Of Someone I Know ↓(2)
11. Bumkey – Attraction (feat. Dynamic Duo) ↓(4)
12. APink – No No No ↑(1)
15. Navi – I Ain't Going Home Tonight (feat. Geeks) ↑(10)
17. Ailee – U & I –
18. G-Dragon – Coup D'Etat (Feat. Diplo & Baauer) ↓(8)
19. JYP – Had Enough Parties NEW
21. Lee Seung Chul – My Love ↓(1)
24. Lyn – I Like This Song ↓(10)
25. JYP – Love Is The Best (feat. Namgung Song Ok, Gaeko of Dynamic Duo ↓(6)
Stupid In Love is fine, I'm not really into it though. I'm really happy that Crooked went up that much, I'm really digging this song.
Don't get why APink is still so up and the same for all those ballady OST stuff (or any song that sound like them). DAMN YOU OST! But I do love some of them, sometimes.
I didn't wrapped my mind around Had Enough Parties yet. I don't really get the French part in the MV (even though it's my native language). I think they tried to do something like the old French movies, but not really also. It's like a mix of old French movie feel with a bit of philosophic crap that come from nowhere. The song is fine, but I'm not sure yet if I love it, like it or don't mind it. I'll have to listen to it a little more.
Ailee, APink, Baauer, Baek Ji Young, BigBang, Bumkey, Crayon Pop, davichi, Diplo, Dynamic Duo, EXO, f(x), G-Dragon, gaeko, geeks, gummy, Huh Gak, Hyorin, Jennie Kim, JYP, KARA, kim suro, lee hae ri, Lee Seung Chul, Lydia Paek, lyn, Missy Elliott, Namgung Song Ok, Navi, Park Jin Young, San E, sistar, sunmi, Swings, t Yoonmirae, YG New Artist, Zia
01. G-Dragon – Who You? NEW
02. t Yoonmirae – Touch Love ↓(1)
03. G-Dragon – Black (Feat. Jennie Kim Of YG New Artist) NEW
04. EXO – Growl ↓(1)
05. Hyorin (Sistar) – Crazy of You ↑(1)
09. KARA – Damaged Lady NEW
10. G-Dragon – Coup D'Etat (Feat. Diplo & Baauer) NEW
14. Lyn – I Like This Song ↑(2)
15. G-Dragon – R.O.D. (Feat. Lydia Paek) NEW
17. Ailee – U & I ↓(5)
19. JYP – Love Is The Best (with Namgung Song Ok, Gaeko of Dynamic Duo) NEW
21. G-Dragon – Crooked NEW
22. Zia & Lee Hae Ri (of Davichi) – If You Loved Me NEW
23. G-Dragon – Niliria (feat. Missy Elliott) NEW
25. Navi – I Ain't Going Home Tonight (feat. Geeks) NEW
I have to say I really hate it when a new album comes out and they just splatter the song throughout the chart. I find that terribly stupid and pointless.
About all the new song of G-Dragon : I hated Coup D'Etat. The MV is great though, the scene are pretty and stuff. But the song feels like a mashup of a few verse of older G-Dragon's songs and it has nothing that stand out on its own. It's just really bleh. The only phrase I find myself repeating sometime is "This is my coup d'état", but mainly when I'm angry at the stupid shit the government is doing. Crooked is good. The MV's alright, but I wanted more since the last one was so intense but had such a "meh" song. I've listened to the other songs that are on the chart this week, and most of them are either alright or good. R.O.D. is a bit boring though. If he release another MV for this album, I hope it would be either Who You? or Black. The song with Missy Elliott is kinda boring too… But I think they might jump on the idea of doing a MV with a USA has-been, sooo yeah, I sure hope not.
The JYP song is good, though do not stand out that much.
Gummi's song is not new, it was there in the chat of week 4 of august. It's still an OST song, nothing has change about that.
I really like the new KARA song. It's great, the MV is alright. I like KARA even though they aren't as popular as some other girls group. They usually release pretty good song and this one is exactly this. It's growing more and more on me.
At first, I wasn't sure about Navi's I Ain't Going Home Tonight. I thought it was kinda tacky or something. But when I don't look at the MV, I like the mood of the song. So I think this will also grow on me.
So that's about it. I might expend this website to other stuff pretty soon, maybe talk a bit about my input on some korean gossip or stuff like that. Since I've started 2 others website about korean stuff (link on the sidebar or on the header part), I might use this website to put lighter stuff that take less of my time to write and orchestrate. I'll see about that.
K-Blend of Awesomeness (Part 3) – December 2012/January 2013
2Yoon, 9Muses, Bigstar, BoA, Clazziquai Project, CN Blue, Dalmatian, davichi, DMTN, Dr. Gimm, ElectroBoyz, Fwany, Girls' Generation, GLAM, Glen Check, illy, INFINITE, Infinite H, J-Rabbit, KARA, Kim Jin Pyo, Kim Sori, MFBTY, mNine, Nell, NU'EST, Orange Caramel, Prepix, Secret, Seung Yeon, sistar, Sistar 19, SPEED, The Seeya, TVXQ, VIXX, Yang Yoseop, Yong Jun Hyung, Yoseop, zion.t
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01. Orange Caramel (feat. NU'EST) – Dashing Through The Snow With High Heels
02. Nell – White Night
03. BoA – Disturbance
04. Yang Yoseop (feat. Yong Jun Hyung) – Caffeine
05. Prepix (feat. Yoseop) – When I Get Paid
06. Clazziquai Project (feat. Kim Jin Pyo) – On My Own
07. CN BLUE – I'm Sorry
08. TVXQ – Humanoids
09. Glen Check – Leather
10. Kim Sori – Dual Life
11. Fwany – Monroe's Heel
12. GLAM – I Like That
13. VIXX – On And On
14. Girls' Generation – I Got A Boy
15. DMTN – Safety Zone
16. Sistar 19 – Gone Not Around Any Longer
17. Secret – Talk That
18. KARA (Seung Yeon solo) – Guilty
19. The Seeya & Davichi (feat. SPEED) – Be With You
20. SPEED (feat. Davichi) – It's Over
21. Girls' Generation – Dancing Queen
22. Electroboyz & Bigstar – K-Food Day (English)
23. 2Yoon – 24/7
24. 9 Muses – Dolls
25. MFBTY – Sweet Dream
26. Infinite H (feat. Zion. T)- Without You
27. 1sagain (feat. illy) – Love Is Over
28. Dr. Gimm (feat. mNine) – Slow
29. J-Rabbit – Talkin' Bout Love


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About a month ago I posted an article on the saturation of the Hypercar Market (Too Much of a Good Thing). In the article I mentioned a number of micro manufacturers who have jumped into the hypercar market recently including Apollo & De Tomaso, ATS, SCG, Brabham, and Gordon Murray Automotive. In that article I picked the winners and losers in terms of the cars that had been announced. Subsequent discussions with a number of friends moved the conversation from the specific cars to the Companies behind the announcements. While it is all very subjective, we did agree for any of these to be successful it would take not only producing a great car but also having the right combination of financial backing, great marketing, service/ownership support, and a viable future vision.
Starting with Apollo & De Tomaso (both owned by the Hong Kong based investment fund Ideal Team Ventures) and looking at the above criteria, I would guess in term of finances, they do have the backing in place be successful. The marketing behind the De Tomaso P72 launch has been impressive and the Apollo Intensa Emozione has recieved good press although I haven't seen any reviews on how it actually drives. Based on the AMG & SCG roots of the team that developed the Apollo IE, I would imagine it lives up to expectations, as it should given the $2.7 mil price tag. While the Apollo IE likely is a great car, I was really disappointed by the De Tomaso P72 when I saw it up close. I was expecting a modern version of the Dino, small light and sexy. Instead it looked like the Dino's supersized 2nd cousin twice removed. While the IE is powered by a Ferrari V12, the P72 is getting a Supercharged Ford V8. While I'm sure the Ford engine has impressive performance numbers, it's just not what I want to see in a $850k car, regardless of whatever long dead legacy De Tomaso had of using Ford engines. I haven't heard anything about Apollo's or De Tomaso's future plans so I would guess its wait and see based on how the P72 sells. While I can possibly see a future for Apollo as a very niche micro manufacturer of very limited edition hypercars that give's Koenigsegg a run for its money, I don't see much of a future for De Tomaso in what is becoming very crowded hypercar market selling what feels a bit like a budget Pagani. Also, I have not heard anything about service or post-sales support for either.
Moving onto Brabham, in full disclosure, I do know and quite like David Brabham. He is a terrific gentleman and one of the finest race car drivers of his generation. Another race car driver that I have meet a few times, told me that David is one of those rare drivers who just makes everyone on the team that much better. All of this is reflected in both Brabham Automotive and their launch car, the BT62. The BT62 was launched as a track only car with a road conversion being offered only much later. Following that Brabham came back with a race ready BT62 Competition Spec which is not at all surprising as its competition that is Brabham's main focus. Unlike the other small manufacturers, Brabham is really geared to be a race team that builds its own cars (and sells a few to clients) rather than a car manufacturer that happens to also go racing. This is very much in line with the same philosophy as the originally Brabham racing team where Jack Brabham both built, raced, and won in his own cars. As Brabham's main marketing will come by "winning on Sunday", the only question is do they have financial resources needed to be successful when the Brabham name returns to the grid at Le Mans in 2022?
Of the five, the one I give the least chance of success to is ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport). In its first life from 1962-1965, ATS built 12 poorly reviewed road cars, the 2500 GT, and one Formula 1 car that was referred to a "ghastly mess". Why anyone would want to exhume this cold dead worm-eaten corpse is beyond me. However, in line with the brilliance of its first incarnation, for this 2nd go around for ATS is planning to build another 12 ATS GTs. The new ATS GT is basically a reskinned McLaren 650S for 4x the price. It's akin to reviving Yugo and having them rebody VW Golfs and sell them for $120k each. Having seen pictures of the ATS GT, I would much rather have a base McLaren 650S. The only remaining question in my mind is if the 2ndincarnation of ATS will last as long as the first?
In terms of name recognition in the supercar world, Gordon Murray has to be in the top 3. If he never lifted a drafting pencil to paper again after the McLaren F1, he would still be worshipped as an automotive demi-god by just about all. With a legacy like that, I do find it surprising that he is putting it on the line for a second act. The first time around he had both the financial backing and technical resources of one of the most successful Formula 1 teams of that era. While I don't know what his financial backing is, given the size of the deposit being requested on the $3.2 million T.50, it does seem like a lot of the car's development costs will be covered by the eventual owners. While there is involvement of a Formula 1 Team in the T.50s development, Racing Point is not McLaren. In addition, other than a partnership announced with Canepa in California, customer support for the T.50 looks to be extremely limited and any major issues in markets ex US will likely involve having to ship the car back to the factory in the UK. What the future vision for Gordon Murray Design is also a question given Gordon is already 8 years older than most people when they hit mandatory retirement age. At the end of the day, do I believe Gordon Murray Design has the capabilities to produce a great car, probably but what the ownership support and experience will look like a few years down the road is very hazy.
Last but certainly not least is Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (The Ambitious Plans of SCG). To be honest, I do have a bit of a bias here as we have a SCG 004S on order. However, if I try to be impartial and judge SCG on the criterial delivering a great car, strength of financial backing, great marketing, and a future vision I do believe they have a very strong case on all. To start with SCG is the only one of the Micro Manufacturers that truly embraces the philosophy of "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" (where as Brabham is more "Win on Sunday, then Win again the following Sunday) as articulated in a recent tweet:
WHY WE RACE
Every model we build and sell has a road legal equivalent and Does, Has or Will race. Racing teaches us a lot. We also firmly believe, and evidence clearly confirms, that our racing sells our vehicles. We also race because we love racing and Glickenhaus does what it loves to do. @glickenhaus
As great cars are the ones that win on Sunday, and SCG has been racing its own cars since 2011 with multiple class wins, the models SCG produces should be excellent. "Winning on Sunday" also tics the highly effective marketing box. The final two criteria of financial backing and future vision are easy to answer in the case of SCG. SCG has already laid out a vision that includes five different models that will take them well into the next decade. The beginnings of a dealership network have been set up on the US East Coast so support should be in place when customer deliveries start in 2020. The factory in Danbury, Connecticut, which will produce these cars, is currently under construction. SCG is self-funded by the Glickenhaus' so access to or dependency on outside financial backing is not an issue. SCG also already has a management succession plan in place as founder Jim Glickenhaus' son Jesse, is the Managing Director of SCG.
As a firm believer that competition drives everyone to raise their game, all these new market entries should be great for the overall supercar & hypercar markets. However, the current oversaturation of the market, which will likely last for the next several years, making success and just basic survivability even more challenging. Of the five Micro Manufacturers reviewed, I would rate three: Brabham, Gordon Murray Design, and SCG, as likely to succeed. What all three have in common is a single visionary leader with a very clear idea of what they are trying to accomplish. In terms of the other two brand re-incarnations, I do believe they will find surviving a real challenge.
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Out of Kepler's entire catalog of confirmed exoplanets, scientists have sifted through and found twenty rocky worlds like ours.
Over the past year, we've told the sad story of NASA's Kepler space observatory, and how the failure of two vital components have resulted in the sad and premature retirement of humanity's best tool for spotting Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe. Just when all hope seemed lost, though, NASA has approved an ingenious plan to bring Kepler back online — a novel, never-before-seen technique that uses the Sun's constant bombarding of photons upon Kepler's solar panels to keep the telescope pointed in the right direction.
When Douglas Adams wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he created a species called the Jatravartids; small blue aliens with more than fifty arms and the distinction of being the only race to invent aerosol deodorant before the wheel. Now a new study tells us how we might find the Jatravartids, or any similar societies, by looking for effects of CFCs in the atmospheres of alien planets.


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The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, ca. 1854. At the time the 3-story hospital was located facing Spruce Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.
In the late fall of 1828, four members of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul traveled the 1,500 miles from their convent in Emmitsburg, Maryland to St. Louis, Missouri, to found the first hospital west of the Mississippi River and the first Catholic hospital in the United States. The American branch of the Daughters of Charity was founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and stemmed from the religious order founded by St. Vincent De Paul in 1633 in France.
The "Sisters Hospital" was opened in a three-room log cabin, a building that had been donated by St. Louis cotton merchant John Mullanphy. By 1832, the small hospital could no longer accommodate the growing number of patients, and a 3-story brick building was constructed. At the request of the St. Louis mayor, Dr. William Carr Lane, the Sisters' Hospital operated as the official City Hospital until a municipal hospital was built in 1846. In 1861 Dr. Simon Pollak opened the first eye and ear clinic west of the Mississippi River in the Sisters' Hospital. He was also the first to hire a woman physician, Dr. Nancy Leavell, as his assistant in the clinic. During the Civil War, the Sisters Hospital staff cared for both Union and Confederate soldiers.
Mullanphy Hospital, 1874-1927
A third and larger hospital was constructed in 1874 at Montgomery and Bacon Streets in north St. Louis. In recognition of the continued financial support of the Mullanphy family, the hospital was called the St. Louis Mullanphy Hospital. In 1894 the hospital opened its Training School for Nurses. The main structure, with its east and west wings, was a 4-story, red-brick building that could accommodate 300 patients.
During World War I, one wing of Mullanphy Hospital was set aside as an isolation ward for treatment of soldiers with influenza. Much of Mullanphy Hospital was destroyed in 1927 when a tornado swept through St. Louis. A new hospital building was constructed on North Kingshighway Blvd. at Wabada Avenue, and opened in 1930. This new hospital was named DePaul Hospital, after the sisters' founder. Resident training was approved and started in 1931. In 1954 an 8-story nursing school and residence was built adjacent to the hospital. DePaul Hospital became the first hospital to inaugurate rooming-in and family-centered maternity care in 1961. In 1963 an intensive care unit was opened.
DePaul Hospital, N. Kingshighway Blvd. at Wabada Avenue, 1930-1975
As the population of St. Louis shifted out of the city and into the surrounding St. Louis County, DePaul Hospital broke ground in Bridgeton in 1972 for a large, modern medical center, which was opened in 1975. The 450-bed DePaul Health Center continues in operation today as part of the SSM Health Care system.
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Lake George Quiz: The Answers
1. What was the original name of Speaker Heck Island and in what year was the name changed?
Answer: South Island. It was re-named Speaker Heck in 1968 at the urging of the Lake George Association in honor of long-time speaker of the New York State Assembly Oswald Heck.
2. What is the difference in height between Lake George and Lake Champlain?
Answer: At 320 feet above sea level, Lake George is 224.5 feet higher than Lake Champlain therefore its waters flow into Champlain via the La Chute River.
3. While the numbers are by no means exact, since the late 1800s approximately 50 islands have vanished. Today, according to local tax rolls, 178 islands dot the waters of Lake George. List the names of at least three missing islands
Answer: Among the missing are Willow, Manhattan, Ranger, Shoal, Lone Tree and Arrow islands, and one from the Happy Family chain.
4. Which Lake George island did not appear on any tax rolls until 1994?
Answer: Frank Leonbruno discovered the oversight in 1994 and brought it to the attention of Ticonderoga resident Gordon Burleigh and then-Assemblyman James King. Actions to have the oversight corrected were then initiated and today Prison Island is on the tax rolls of the town of Ticonderoga.
5. What was the date the rules and regulations banning dogs from all state-owned islands were instituted and who was the DEC Commissioner who promulgated the ban?
Answer: Between 1957 and 1977 various attempts were made to ban dogs from all state campgrounds. Dogs were ultimately banned from state-owned islands on Lake George on March 24, 1977. DEC Commissioner Peter Berle had the courage to institute the rules which other commissioners had not.
6. Who was the first New York State Forest Ranger in charge of the Glen Island headquarters and in what year was he/she appointed?
Answer: The New York State Conservation Commission (forerunner of DEC) appointed Jay Taylor as the ranger in charge in 1921 to administer about 50 island campsites, most of which were in the Narrows.
7. What is the name of the first Lake George Island to have a house constructed on it and what was the name of the residence?
Answer: In 1864 Rufus Wattles, vice commander of the Mohican Boat Club, constructed a home on Recluse Island which he called The Hermitage. It was the first residence to be built on a Lake George island.
8. In what year did world-renowned opera star Mme. Marcella Sembrich make her home in Bolton Landing and in what year did her Memorial Studio open to the public?
Answer: Mme. Marcella Sembrich moved to Bolton Landing in 1921 to make her home, establishing a studio three years later. The Marcella Sembrich Memorial Studio opened to the public in 1937.
9. Lake George has had several names over the centuries. It was labeled Andia-ta-roc-te (the lake that the mountains close in) by the Mohawks, Caniderioit (the tail of the large lake, referring to Lake Champlain) by the Mohicans and in 1642 it was named Lac-du-St. Sacrament by French priest Isaac Jogues. Who gave Lake George its present name and in what year?
Answer: Lake George was given its present name in 1755 by General William Johnson in honor of British King George. Johnson had arrived at the lake' southern-most point with his army to erect a fort near a stream (now called West Brook) and claimed a British presence in the wilderness.
10. Where is Ganouski Bay located on Lake George?
Answer: This large expanse of water extends about four miles on the western side of Tongue Mountain. Northwest Bay, located just north of the hamlet of Bolton Landing was originally called Ganouski Bay.
11. What year did steam boating arrive on Lake George. What was the name of the vessel and who was the captain?
Answer: Steam boating arrive on Lake George with the launching of the "James Caldwell" in 1817 with Captain John Winans at the helm.
12. When was the Steel Pier built in Lake George Village and who was the contractor?
Answer: The Steel Pier in Lake George Village was built during the winter of 1954 by local contractor Delbert Hammond.
13. How many Lake George islands do not have names?
Answer: Forty-four Lake George Islands remain un-named.
14. Just west of Reid's Rock is a broad point of land that juts into Sampson Bay. What is that area called today?
Answer: The area, on the western shore is called Diamond Point today.
15. What is the Forward and where is it located?
Answer: The Forward is an underwater classroom open to scuba diving from Memorial Day Weekend into the autumn. It is located southeast of Diamond Island.
16. Where are the Falls of Carillion located?
Answer: There are many tributaries which drain into Lake George. Only one drains out. The Falls of Carillion are located on the La Chute River, a tiny stream that runs only some two miles from the outlet of Lake George, through the Village of Ticonderoga to Lake Champlain.
17. Hague separated from the Town of Bolton on what date? What was it known as for one year before the name Hague was adopted?
Answer: Hague separated from Bolton on April 6, 1807. It was first known as Rochester, a year later the name Hague was adopted.
18. Lake George is classified AA-Special by New York State. It is drinking water. Where can you find out what that designation means?
Answer: For information about NYS surface and groundwater classifications, go to Chapter X, Part 701.3 of the regulations on the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation website. There you find the description of AA Special.
19. What was the Huletts Landing area called prior to the 1870's and in what year did the name change?
Answer: Huletts Landing was known as Bosom Bay prior to 1874 when Philander Hulett established a steamship landing and mail and supplies for the area were delivered by boat.
20. Eight towns surround the lake. Two of those towns have only one island in their jurisdiction. Name those two towns.
Answer: The Town of Lake George has one island, the privately owned Tea Island and the Town of Ticonderoga has one island, the NYS-owned Prison Island.


These auricular points can be treated by pellets, needles, microcurrent therapy and laser-acupuncture. Please check your shipping address before completing your transaction with Paypal!Money back guarantee on all orders. This double sided 8.5" X 11" laminated chart contains the Chinese system of auricular acupuncture point locations. This 8.5" X 11" double sided laminated chart is much easier to read than some current charts that bunch all of the points into one picture. In acupuncture, the ear is used in preference to the hand or the foot, but the principle is much the same.
Although the treatment is perfectly safe for long-term use, the stud itself mush be changed about every four days.
A tender area in the ear suggest that the point needs to be treated, and also implies an underlying disorder in the part of the body associated with the point.
Every time the patient has a craving for a cigarette (or, in the case of dieter, every time he starts to get hungry), he gently massages the stud with his finger for about ten seconds until the craving, or hunger, disappears. This is because, even though the studs are sterile and made of stainless steel, if they stay in over longer periods of time they may act as a focus of infection. Unlike nicotine chewing gum and appetite suppressants, no drug is entering the patient??s system, so studs can continue to be used for as long as it take the patient to achieve his goal. So for a patient from, say, a stomachache, inserting a single needle in the ear??s stomach point may be an appropriate form of treatment. In my clinic, there is a man successfully stopped smoking in six weeks from twenty sticks per day to zero with ear acupuncture and strong determination. Along with the smoking cessation formula, you get formulas for weight loss, alcoholism and drug addiction. It is based on the idea that the human body is reflected, in microcosm, in these parts of itself: the hand, the foot, and the ear.
Ear acupuncture is especially useful in the treatment of small children or of patients who are squeamish about needle: inserting a single needle in a place where they cannot see it will cause a minimum of distress. Each condition comes with treatment protocols and additional body acupuncture points to enhance the effectiveness of the ear acupuncture points for those few patients not responding to care.
Any part of the body can therefore be treated through the corresponding part of the hand, foot or ear. Patients are warned if the ear becomes painful or itchy at any time, they should take the studs out immediately.
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Q: Visual Studio 2015 recent projects I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 and installed Visual Studio 2015. Everything is working fine, but strangely, it does not fill the "Recent Projects" section on my start page. It just stays empty. Taskbar recent-used-list is working though.
Max. recent projects is set to 10, I can confirm this with regedit under this path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\MRUItems\{a9c4a31f-f9cb-47a9-abc0-49ce82d0b3ac}\Items

Does anybody know why this is happening and how to fix this?

A: I found out what the problem was:
I used the program XP-AntiSpy to deactivate certain functions. One of those functions turned out to be the function that creates a list of recently used files (appearantly for every program, not only for windows). After re-activating this function, everything started to work fine again.

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"Journalism for rent": Inside the secretive firm behind the Trump dossier
Fusion GPS bills itself as a corporate research firm, but in many ways it operates with the secrecy of a spy agency. No sign marks its headquarters above a coffee shop in Northwest Washington. Its website consists of two sentences and an email address. Its client list is closely held.
The small firm has been under intense public scrutiny for producing the 35-page document known as the Trump dossier. Senior executives summoned to testify before Congress in October invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and the firm is resisting a congressional subpoena for bank records that would reveal who has paid for its services.
But hundreds of internal company documents obtained by The Washington Post reveal how Fusion, a firm led by former journalists, has used investigative reporting techniques and media connections to advance the interests of an eclectic range of clients on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in the nation's capital. The firm has played an unseen role in stories that dominated headlines in recent years.
In the years before it produced the dossier, records show, Fusion worked to blunt aggressive reporting on the medical-device company Theranos, which was later found to have problems with its novel blood-testing technology. It was also hired to ward off scrutiny of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, which ultimately paid $200 million to distributors to settle claims by regulators.
Jack Gillum Posted at 8:00 am on December 12, 2017
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Troubleshooting: Video playback not functioning for alerts – YI Technologies, Inc.
Why can I see the video feed but cannot hear the sound?
What should I do when the QR code pairing has failed?
How do I resolve when the camera says that the Wi-Fi password is incorrect although it is the right one?
Although the home and dome alerts utilize the Yi cloud to store the alert videos. The alert require the small video clip to be temporarily stored locally.


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On Sunday March 3rd, we were featured in the Sunday Business Post's Connected magazine.
Richard was interviewed and spoke about Big Data, machine learning and how to turn data into real value – a thing we know a little something about here in DNM!
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SEAMOR Marine has been selected as the provider of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to the department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Manitoba. The vehicle will be deployed to the High Arctic to inspect the area which remains frozen year-round and take part in research and evaluating ways to protect this special ecological region.
The High Arctic is an important area encompassing the northern regions of Canada (Arctic Basin, Baffin Bay and the Pikialasorsuaq, or North Water Polynya) and reaches to western Greenland. This area remains frozen throughout the year, for multiple years, acting as an important refuge for ice-dependent species such as polar bears, beluga and narwhal whales, walrus and seals, as well as the communities in these regions that rely on these species for food, dress and shelter. With estimates for sea ice decreasing at a rate of 11% per decade in the Arctic due to climate change, it is anticipated that the Arctic could lose its summer ice by 2050 and be largely ice-free by 2070. "The Last Ice Project" is a collaboration between the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Parks Canada Agency (PCA) and Indigenous, Northern and International partners (including the World Wildlife Fund-Canada and Pristine Seas – National Geographic Society).
SEAMOR Marine's Chinook ROV has been selected for this mission given its earned reputation as a versatile vehicle that easily pairs with a variety of accessories. This particular model will be equipped with a handheld pendant controller, and a fiber optic tether multiplexer upgrade. These will help control a wide array of on-board instrumentation such as USBL underwater positioning system with GPS integration, allowing the ROV to be tracked in real-world coordinates in real time, and an integrated Tritech Micron Echosounder which permits the ROV to measure its height above the sea floor and maintain its height with our auto-altitude system. This vehicle will also come with a dual function gripper, a sensor skid (which provides opportunities to integrate additional sensors to the system), double-dot tilting color-laser scaling system, and a HD camera with uncompressed digital output (with zoom and manual/auto-focus control, exposure and color adjustment).
Photograph of SEAMOR Chinook ROV for Fisheries and Oceans Canada pictured on the dock with Nanaimo in the background.
"We are excited to send one of our vehicles to Ellesmere Island to conduct this important research," says Mr. Robin Li, President of SEAMOR Marine. The Chinook ROV will be used to conduct ecosystem identification and benthic surveys (underwater mapping of the sea floor) and inspection of first-year ice and multiyear ice. The vehicle was delivered to Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the end of March 2019.
Like all SEAMOR ROVs, this Chinook will be adaptable and can be used for a variety of jobs beyond the tasks outlined for the Last Ice project. These vehicles have been designed with a modular platform that permits the end user to swap accessories or upgrade their ROV with new features after purchase. The Chinook ROV is the mid-sized vehicle in the SEAMOR Marine range of products, able to dive to 2,000 feet (600 meters). The Mako is SEAMOR's larger vehicle can support a payload of up to 50 pounds (22.5 kg), and the Steelhead, which can dive to 1,000 feet (300 meters), is the most compact vehicle in the line. These ROVs are designed and manufactured in Canada by SEAMOR Marine Ltd. at their home offices in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
SEAMOR ROVs have been used for marine research and inspections across the world. Our ROVs have also conducted geological research in the Antarctic, ancient sea basins, and in the open ocean. We have also collaborated with other researchers too, including NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and DARPA. The ROVs' applications are widespread too, as they have been used for a variety of fields from aquaculture, to dam inspection; underwater archaeology, to pipeline inspection.


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Son Set On The Charter?
With the Canada Summer Jobs controversy as evidence, B.C. lawyer and PhD candidate in law, Brian Bird, sees Justin Trudeau distorting his father's cherished Charter of Rights to justify State erosion of basic freedoms. After reading this article, check out Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett's take on these issues on CTV News Channel's Power Play with Don Martin..
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Son Set On The Charter? January 22, 2018 | By Brian Bird
Aside from the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, 2017 was also the 35th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter, since arriving in 1982, has brought about fundamental changes to Canadian society.
There has been a sustained focus since 1982 on defining the content of Charter rights and freedoms. Given their open-ended articulation, many of these rights and freedoms – such as freedom of religion, equality, and liberty – require interpretation.
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There has been far less focus since 1982 on the Charter's mission. What, in other words, is the reason for a constitutional bill of rights? Without a firm grip on the answer to that question, there is a risk that the State will invoke the Charter to justify actions that undermine its raison d'être.
The mission of a bill of rights such as the Charter is to shield citizens from actions of the State that violate human dignity. In a perfect world, the shield is not needed: the State would respect human dignity by default. Yet both the past and present reveal that the power of the State can be exercised in ways that profoundly disrespect the intrinsic dignity of human beings.
The idea of the Charter gained traction after the Second World War. The atrocities of that conflict spurred postwar entities such as the United Nations to codify international commitments to basic human rights. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights inspired the pursuit and adoption of constitutional bills of rights in Canada and other countries.
Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister when the Charter – his brainchild – arrived in 1982, but the idea of the Charter took shape in Trudeau's mind decades earlier. As a young intellectual, Trudeau criticized the authoritarianism of Maurice Duplessis, the Premier of Quebec from 1936-39 and 1944-59. Roy McMurtry, Ontario's Attorney General when the Charter arrived, explains why Trudeau's vision of the Charter "was significantly influenced by the Duplessis years."
"Premier Maurice Duplessis had presided over an authoritarian, corrupt and nationalist regime that had held Quebec back from general postwar development," McMurtry said. "His government sacrificed the rule of law to political ends, denied freedom of speech to critics and non-conformists, denied freedom of association to those battling for economic rights against big business and denied religious freedom to Jehovah's Witnesses."
While the Prime Minister portrays himself as a champion of the Charter, the contrast between father and son – between Charter architect and present-day steward – suggests that the Charter's mission has faded out of view.
The relentless persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Quebec by Duplessis was, for Trudeau, "one of his motivations" for pursuing a constitutional bill of rights for Canada.
Fast forwarding to 1968, Pierre Trudeau – now Minister of Justice – published the first draft of the Charter. The draft includes his reflections on the age-old pursuit of human rights, which he notes were once called natural rights. Many would agree that certain Charter rights and freedoms are not legal constructs but natural realities that predate and transcend the State. Whether natural or man-made, their purpose is the same: to shield human dignity and individual liberty from State interference and thereby ensure societal conditions that promote human flourishing.
Fifty years later, in 2018, Pierre Trudeau's son is Prime Minister. Like his father, Justin Trudeau professes reverence for the Charter. It appears, however, that he is willing to deliberately distort the Charter's mission in order to impose his contestable moral judgments on all Canadians.
On the issue of abortion, the evidence is compelling. Since becoming Leader of the Liberal Party in 2013, Trudeau has imposed his view that abortion is a Charter right – and the inextricable judgment that abortion is moral or at least morally neutral – in several contexts. The latest one is Canada Summer Jobs, a federal program that subsidizes summer jobs for students. This year, organizations that wish to apply for funding must endorse access to abortion as a Charter value and human right – an unthinkable act if the organization considers abortion to be immoral.
Trudeau describes groups that advocate against abortion as "not in line" with "where we are as a society". Regardless of your position in the abortion debate (and studies show that it remains a live debate in Canada), Trudeau is sending the chilling message that individuals who oppose abortion are less Canadian. This kind of rhetoric is pernicious. It is often a precursor to the violation – rather than the vindication – of individual liberty and human dignity.
It is troubling to see the Charter, which exists to shield Canadians from the power of the State, being deployed by a Prime Minister to declare State orthodoxy on a contestable moral issue, deride those who disagree, and imply that they do not belong in Canada.
In this case, the Prime Minister is sabotaging the mission of the Charter. As one judge put it, the Charter's purpose is "to protect the citizen from the power of the State, not to enforce compliance by citizens or private institutions with the moral judgments of the State." The Charter, in other words, is "not a blueprint for moral conformity."
The mission of a bill of rights such as the Charter is to shield citizens from actions of the State that violate human dignity. In a perfect world, the shield is not needed: the State would respect human dignity by default.
Pierre Trudeau would applaud these statements. In his memoirs, he described the Charter "as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfill himself or herself to the utmost." For that reason, "the individual has certain basic rights that cannot be taken away by any government."
As for Justin Trudeau, "like father, like son" does not apply here. While the Prime Minister portrays himself as a champion of the Charter, the contrast between father and son – between Charter architect and present-day steward – suggests that the Charter's mission has faded out of view. As the Canada Summer Jobs fiasco reveals, this blind spot can open the door to the State using the Charter for illiberal and intolerant – anti-Charter – objectives.
The Prime Minister must safeguard, rather than threaten, the Charter's mission. While Canada adopted the Charter to prevent authoritarianism, the Summer Jobs debacle illustrates that the Charter, if abused, can also enable it.
Brian Bird is a lawyer and doctoral student in law at McGill University.


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9 Times Dogs Made A Scene And Shut Down Everything
Most of us have no problem interrupting our daily routines for our dogs. They can get up to shenanigans that demand our attention. Then again, most of our dogs don't shut down entire stretches of highway, airports, or sporting events. Some pups go all out when it comes to causing a ruckus, and luckily there are good people in the world who would stop planes, trains, and automobiles to keep them safe, even if it means causing delays for hundreds of people. Here are nine times dogs made a scene and shut down everything.
1. Poodle Runs On The Runway
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Dogs often have to ride in the cargo section of planes, and while it goes smoothly most of the time, some pups just have no chill when it comes to cages, loud noises, and unfamiliar faces. That was how one Poodle felt at Tokyo's Haneda Airport as handlers were loading the pup onto the plane. The dog somehow got out of the crate and took off like a plane down the runway, occasionally stopping to sniff patches of grass while evading capture. One of the runways was shut down for six minutes, delaying 14 flights in the process. Finally, the dog's owner came out about 40 minutes later to assist in the capture. The story ended happily for the pooch who got a nice bit of exercise, though some of the passengers were probably a little annoyed by the delay.
2. German Shepherd Dog Just Wants Granola Bar
Lexi the German Shepherd Dog must have thought she was a car because she seemed quite eager to join traffic on Interstate 495 in Massachusetts. The pup was walking and weaving between three lanes of highway when state troopers started trying to lead her to an off ramp. Lexi wasn't having it, though, and dodged back onto the road. That's when the troopers took drastic measures and called the Methuen Police and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to shut down the whole highway. The cars may have been off the road, but Lexi was still on the loose until Trooper Higgins had the bright idea of making a peace offering. Higgins presented the GSD with a yummy granola bar, and the pup immediately jumped into the driver's seat of the cruiser. Lexi had a safe trip to Animal Control where she was reunited with her family. Another disaster averted thanks to the power of granola.
3. Dakota Stops The Subway
A/C/F train riders, apologies for the delay- Dakota escaped from the dog park and- you guessed it- onto the tracks. Thank @MTA NYCT for the assist on the rescue, job well done by all, service back up & dog on the way to the vet for a minor injury- Appreciate everyone's patience! pic.twitter.com/gSA5ynPgGX
— NYPD Transit (@NYPDTransit) February 16, 2018
Riding the subway can be scary, and Dakota the Poodle decided she'd rather run to the next stop than catch the train. The poor pup was at a dog park with her owner when something spooked her, and she took off. She managed to run to a subway station four blocks away, and rather than waiting for the next train, she got on the tracks and legged it. People who saw the dog running called transit workers and police who cut power to the track while Dakota kept on going. She made it to the next stop, and more trains had to be halted and rerouted. Delays piled up as the pup ran to another stop before someone finally managed to grab her. All in all, Dakota had run for over a mile before being caught and reunited with her owner. Commuters may have been peeved at the disruption, but the pup was saved, and that's what really matters.
4. Ponch Blocks The Bay Bridge
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Who knows why Ponch the Chihuahua wanted to get out of Oakland, California and make for the big city of San Francisco, but the little pup caused big delays when he sped off along the Bay Bridge, leading police on a not-too-high-speed chase. Officers shut down traffic on the bridge and even set up road blocks to capture the elusive pup, but he expertly dodged them like a convict on the lam. Finally, the police managed to box the Chihuahua in and took him into custody. The dog was brought to a local shelter while police looked for his owner, and officers took to calling him Ponch after the character from the television show CHiPs. Like the show, he had a good run.
5. Stray Pup Joins The Soccer Team
Most pups go nuts for a good ball, and a stray dog in Argentina was no exception during a televised soccer match. The feisty little pooch stormed the field and decided to join the team, chasing down the ball and eluding players on the field. The dog dodged capture for a bit, bringing the match to a temporary stop while she had her fun, but it didn't seem to bother the players or the fans who enjoyed her playful antics. Even when she was finally caught, she still showed her spunky side when she tried to steal a microphone during a post-match interview. The home team ended up winning and thanked the pup for being a good luck charm by adopting her and giving her the important job of scaring off pigeons from the pitch.
6. Monty Makes For The Trees
Monty the Chinese-Crested Hairless Dog was on his way to his new home after flying across the country from California to Pensacola, Florida. Once the pilot landed the plane, he decided to let Monty out for a stretch and a drink of water. That's when the pup made one last freedom run, taking off down the runway and darting into the nearby woods. He managed to dodge authorities and hid among the trees for days before a search team of 12 people managed to flush the lost pup out of the woods, but Monty ran back onto the runway. Three runways were shut down for three hours until Monty was caught in a ditch. The pup finally made it to his adopter, and hopefully his days of dodging planes are over.
7. Terriers Terrorize The Highway
Two terriers had a field day when they made a dash onto I-17 in North Phoenix and got plenty of exercise while shutting down traffic. One of the pups was caught fairly easily by a trooper after getting tuckered out, and she even lied down next to an animal control officer after her run, but her companion was not so easy to capture. The dog evaded police and fire fighters before ducking off the freeway and into an RV park. Several residents joined in on the effort and tried to catch the speedy pup. Finally, two women managed to grab the terrier terror, and both pooches were brought safely to the shelter. Drivers probably weren't thrilled about the hour-long delay, but at least the dogs were out of danger.
8. Dogs Become Art Critics
When it comes to art, everybody's a critic–even dogs. Two security dogs at the Art Miami festival alerted police officers to a potential threat when they sniffed a crate of artwork. The crate contained an unusual painting of Hillary Clinton dressed as a punk, complete with a pink haircut. The whole site had to be shut down and cleared out while officers investigated the threat. The street was blocked off with caution tape, and joggers and walkers had to go around the block to avoid the area. Police ran the painting through an X-ray machine and found nothing. So why did the dogs react to the art and shut down the event for several hours? Who knows? Maybe they weren't fans.
9. Byrdie Won't Let You Fly
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Byrdie the 14-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback is another pup who just wouldn't sit tight while getting loaded onto her Delta flight, even though she had already flown safely four times before. She broke free of her kennel and zoomed down the tarmac, leading airport workers on a lengthy chase while halting flights in her path. The workers managed to surround the pup, but they couldn't get a hold of her. Finally, they asked the dog's owner to get off the plane and help chase Byrdie down. Byrdie's owner was surprised by how far the Ridgeback had run, but it didn't take long for the dog to recognize her human, and she calmly walked right up to her. Byrdie was put back in the crate, and it was sealed with 20 zip ties before being secured on the flight. Planes were delayed for 20 minutes for the whole ordeal, but Byrdie wasn't bothered by the trouble at all.
Has your dog ever caused you to shut everything down? Do you have any funny stories of your own? Let us know in the comments below!


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Woonsocket is a city in Sanborn County, South Dakota. The population was 631 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Sanborn County.

History
Woonsocket was developed in 1883 as a railroad town because of its location at the junction on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad. C.H. Prior, the superintendent of the railroad, named the town Woonsocket after his home town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The town was incorporated in 1888.

Woonsocket was known for an artesian well which was drilled in 1888. It was claimed that in its prime, the well flowed over 8,000 gallons per minute out of the six inch wide pipe. The well was capped off in 1906.

2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak

On June 24, 2003, an F3 tornado passed just west of town, it was one of 67 tornadoes that touched down on June 24, holding a record for "Most tornadoes to touch down in the state in one day".

Geography
Woonsocket is located at .

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and  is water.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 655 people, 287 households, and 168 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 318 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.3% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.5% from other races, and 0.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.5% of the population.

There were 287 households, of which 24.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 41.5% were non-families. 37.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.79.

The median age in the city was 48.9 years. 21.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.7% were from 25 to 44; 27.8% were from 45 to 64; and 27.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 720 people, 301 households, and 192 families residing in the city. The population density was 918.4 people per square mile (356.4/km2). There were 330 housing units at an average density of 420.9 per square mile (163.4/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 97.50% White, 0.42% Native American, 1.11% Asian, 0.42% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.39% of the population.

There were 301 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.2% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.9% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.83.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 20.4% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 26.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,341, and the median income for a family was $38,304. Males had a median income of $26,625 versus $17,552 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,035. About 5.3% of families and 8.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 12.6% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
 George L. Cross, former president of the University of Oklahoma from 1943 to 1968.
 Eleanor McGovern, wife of George McGovern
 Eloise Ramsey, professor at Wayne State University, authority on children's literature
 Volney F. Warner, retired United States Army four-star general.

See also
 List of cities in South Dakota

References

External links

Cities in Sanborn County, South Dakota
Cities in South Dakota
County seats in South Dakota


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