![]() Nashville singer-songwriter Sophie Allison was far from the only former home-recorder making bittersweet indie pop in 2018, but she did it her own way, and with impressive craft. –Andy BetaĬlean is a breath of fresh air that will also knock the wind out of you. With Mergia at the helm of a jazz trio moving as a crackling, telepathic entity, Lalu Belu astonishes not by being a nostalgia trip but by sounding triumphantly in the present. On it, Mergia still sounds spry and roving on piano, accordion, and synthesizer, his melodic sense as acute and mesmerizing as ever. Discovery of an old tape in Bahir Dar, a tourist hotspot in northern Ethiopia, in 2013 ignited Mergia’s dormant career in the West, capped by Lala Belu, his first new album in decades. Take keyboardist/composer Hailu Mergia, a star in his native Ethiopia in the ’70s who moved to Washington, D.C. But the MP3 blog-turned-label Awesome Tapes From Africa bucked that trend, diligently digging through physical artifacts to discover true gems. Reissues of obscure albums ran rampant this decade, thanks in part to labels following the YouTube algorithms that guided listeners to styles they may have otherwise never found. This is the latest, greatest Iceage: a bit more romantic but as fiercely droll as ever. Over drunken drums that lead the rest of the band along by a rope, he snarls into the mic, grappling with the very public line of work that’s made him a minor heartthrob among the indie set. The permanently anguished Rønnenfelt offers up a clear example of his dark philosophy in the cabaret stunner “Showtime,” narrating the onstage suicide of a handsome young singer. Beyondless, the quartet’s most recent LP, saw them once again expanding their sound in service of their ever-growing ambition, this time incorporating manic violins, honky-tonk pianos, and, for the first time, a guest vocalist in Sky Ferreira. He was only 18 at the top of the decade, when he and his childhood friends were dubbed the Next Great Punk Band, and across four albums and countless shows, they put in the work needed to uphold the claim. With limbs flailing and sweat matting his hair, Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt grew up before our eyes. “All you had to do was listen,” she said. Legend has it, she hung up on the first interviewer she spoke to about the record-the question was about Shelton’s new partner, Gwen Stefani-and decided that she would do no press surrounding the album, letting the music speak for itself. For Lambert, redemption comes from buying a cheap pair of plastic sunglasses, by spending late nights alone at the bar, in knowing that she alone controls her destiny. Its songs are torch ballads and highway anthems with a live band that feels borne of late night jam sessions, raw and unglamorous. Her ambitious double album The Weight of These Wings carries on in a grand tradition of messy relationship statements: It has the grit of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers and the uncertainty of Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love, wrapped up in Lambert’s fiery, down-home charm. But when they divorced in 2015, the breakup encouraged her to go down a darker, more existential path. Miranda Lambert: The Weight of These Wings (2016)įor the first half of the decade, Miranda Lambert was a country superstar with a string of radio hits, a recurring spot on The Voice, and a picture-perfect marriage to fellow singer Blake Shelton. ![]() Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Apple Music | Tidalġ89. It's music that rewards close attention in an age where that is increasingly rare. The wistfulness is often self-referential, as on “Snowed In at Wheeler Street,” a tale of star-crossed lovers with lyrics threaded with references to her old songs. The material is more wistful: Where Bush’s best singles have often been about having something beautiful that you’re about to lose, much of 50 Words for Snow addresses things that are already lost. 50 Words for Snow, named for the myth that the Inuit have such a vocabulary, boasts all of her trademark magical realism, fantastical lovers, and far-flung settings, but the songs are more quietly ambitious than past works-almost like chamber pieces. And she does so wide-eyed and full-heartedly, even painstakingly. On Kate Bush’s only studio album of the decade, she sings about catching a snowflake out of the sky, warning a hunted yeti, and sleeping with a dissolving snowman. ![]()
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![]() See our hot list of the best toys to buy for the 1-year-old you know below, along with shopping recommendations from our retail and child development experts. “We look for things that start to hone those basic developmental skills, including fine motor skills, movement, exploration and more.”Īccording to Mierzejewski, this extends to interactive toys with bright colors, tactile play or lights and sounds to keep babies engaged. “For, we look for toys that are stimulating and engaging for babies and toddlers,” Ali Mierzejewski, editor-in-chief at The Toy Insider, shared with the New York Post. What’s more, that perfect toy for a one-year-old is going to look different than, say, a toy for a three-year-old. Providing your child with a balance between these options is the best way to let them show you their interests, because following the child’s lead will ultimately lead to the best play and development.” “Traditionally, ‘boy toys’ focus on vehicle play with more bold and primary colors, and ‘girl toys’ focus on doll play, with more pastel and secondary colors. ![]() “What’s great about the toy industry’s approach to designing these products is that there really is something for everyone.”įrom a child development perspective, there really isn’t a difference between what boys and girls need at this age, Starke adds. “It’s important to note that the best toy for your 1-year-old may not be the best toy for another 1-year-old, and that’s okay,” Krystal Starke, PhD candidate at Buffalo University’s Graduate School of Education - studying early childhood development and play-based learning - told The Post. The best toys for one-year-olds for learning, according to experts Getty Images “For instance, a wonderfully colorful toy that offers children unlimited creativity and imagination, while also teaching them about ‘building’ skills is great.”Ĭlick to jump to the best toys for 1-year-olds: “The best toys that aid in a child’s learning development are those that are both entertaining (to keep them engaged) and educational – whether that’s motor skills or emotional play,” Joe Glass, Zulily’s resident toy expert, told the New York Post. Luckily, we not only put together a gift guide of the 50 best toys for 1-year-olds, but we also turned to experts in both child development and retail trends to provide expertise on what the most resourceful items may be that will benefit their learning. 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This high degree of endemism has been used to study the biogeography of complex island groups such as in Indonesia and Asia. Most genera are restricted to a single biogeographical region, and many species have a very limited range. ![]() Īt least 3000 cicada species are distributed worldwide, in essentially any habitat that has deciduous trees, with the majority being in the tropics. Cicadas are also notable for the great length of time some species take to mature. The largest species is the Malaysian emperor cicada Megapomponia imperatoria its wingspan is up to about 20 cm (8 in). Some previous works also included a family-level taxon called the Tibiceninae. The family Cicadidae is subdivided into the subfamilies Cicadettinae, Cicadinae, Derotettiginae, Tibicininae (or Tettigadinae), and Tettigomyiinae they are found on all continents except Antarctica. The two extant species of the Tettigarctidae include one in southern Australia and the other in Tasmania. Cicadas are arranged into two families: the Tettigarctidae and Cicadidae. The superfamily Cicadoidea is a sister of the Cercopoidea (the froghoppers). Taxonomy and diversity A 17-year cicada, Magicicada, Robert Evans Snodgrass, 1930 The name is directly from the onomatopoeic Latin cicada. Look up cicada in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cicadas are eaten by humans in various parts of the world, including China, Myanmar, Malaysia, central Africa, and Pakistani Balochistan. The cicada is also mentioned in Hesiod's Shield (ll.393–394), in which it is said to sing when millet first ripens. They have also been used in myth and folklore as symbols of carefree living and immortality. Ĭicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's Iliad and as motifs in art from the Chinese Shang dynasty. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from 1 to 9 or more years as underground nymphs, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year. The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. The unusual duration and synchronization of their emergence may reduce the number of cicadas lost to predation, both by making them a less reliably available prey (so that any predator that evolved to depend on cicadas for sustenance might starve waiting for their emergence), and by emerging in such huge numbers that they will satiate any remaining predators before losing enough of their number to threaten their survival as a species. One exclusively North American genus, Magicicada (the periodical cicadas), which spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerge in predictable intervals of 13 or 17 years, depending on the species and the location. Only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, with some calling at dawn or dusk. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue, and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. ![]() The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world many species remain undescribed.Ĭicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. 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![]() ![]() Using the standalone Git repository of paraLLEl-RDP, the basic structure was replicated, leaving some sifting through paraLLEl’s makefile system to determine how paraLLEl-RDP’s source is built. ![]() Since internally Parallel uses Mupen64Plus plugins statically linked, this was rather trivial to replicate the interface. My personal system for the port and testing is as follows:Ī lot of the porting process came from reading “Parallel”’s (the libretro core) code to somewhat componetize it into a standalone Mupen64Plus plugin, slowly debugging on the way any problems when making a GNU makefile to build a DLL and testing with the standalone version of Mupen64Plus, in MSYS2. Figuring that Mupen64Plus already works to a degree with most commercial games, as well as Project64 (using cxd4’s RSP plugin, since zilmar’s RSP plugin has various accuracy problems that cause problems with LLE graphics emulation), I figured I do it myself since to me no one else for some reason will, even if initially it was for my own personal benefit. I, for some time, always wanted a easy way to use Themaister’s work in another emulator, such as Project64 and Mupen64Plus (since for various reasons I personally somewhat dislike using RetroArch, to the point of writing my own libretro-spec emulator core loader exclusively for Windows and N64 emulation, with somewhat decent success). The current version of paraLLEl-RDP is the latest iteration of this work and is extremely accurate for RDP simulation, It was originally designed for the N64 libretro core “paraLLEl”, but now it has been made modular to the point various other emulators now use it too for RDP emulation, such as Near’s Ares and dillonb’s “N64”.įor some time, I wanted to use this RDP emulator in other mainstream emulators, since there is major benefits to its use, such as being extremely fast (on my hardware) as well as being pixel-level accurate. This was the genesis behind Themaister (a developer previously working for ARM’s Mali division, now Valve) making a dot-accurate emulator using Vulkan. This could be done by porting the logic of “Angrylion-RDP” entirely as compute shaders. Recently, technology has moved to a point where it is feasible to pixel-level emulate the output of the Nintendo 64, by emulating the RDP’s behaviour precisely, completely on the GPU. Due to the lack of vectorization as well as threading (though a multithreading fork recently exists, but to me has its own set of problems), this has been somewhat very prohibitive to use apart for low level debugging N64 RDP behaviour/accuracy testing ![]() There is an low-level software rasterizing RDP emulator plugin by the name of Angrylion-RDP.
![]() ![]() Previously, users were able to handle all their own work with company documents using the familiar Outlook client, but now the SharePoint portal created an additional interface. ordinary storage and uploading now entails several additional steps. One of the main problems in the transition to any organized document management is that it often requires more work by users, i.e. Access to documents could then be monitored for the first time – the users themselves managed the authorizations and were able to grant them to others.īut the SharePoint user interface made the transfer of e-mails and files to the server more difficult and created a document bottleneck. Employee self-service for the assignment of authorizations was another goal associated with the introduction of SharePoint. " Metadata was to be used to describe and categorize documents clearly and independently from the filing structure. “These were all to be merged into a central structure…SharePoint. "Our company is built on various, relatively independent, business segments – such as street and network construction, civil engineering and turnkey construction, and railroad infrastructure construction – all with different repositories for documents,” explains Kücük. The most important objective was to change the individual handling of data on unstructured file servers to teamwork based on an organized document management system. The company created a portal to serve as a central access point for all business processes, including SAP. ![]() In an attempt to automate and standardize the filing and storage of these documents, the company adopted Microsoft SharePoint several years ago under the ePOS project name. The growing document chaos had become a headache for management. Central storage on file servers had no clear standards and was not consistently used. This is why enormous volumes of e-mail traffic build up every day." Communication via e-mail was undoubtedly practical for employees, but the majority of these email ‘documents’ ended up in local inboxes and PST files. Smooth operations at building sites throughout Europe depend on the constant exchange of these documents.Īs IT Division Manager Atilla Kücük outlines: "Our employees continuously work with approximately 900 templates in order to correctly handle construction site application procedures, from set-up to handling instructions. As it manages large construction projects, Leonhard Weiss depends on e-mail to send enormous numbers of documents to various employees, suppliers and customers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The database can be any database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. While creating a database-based application and using any of the databases in your Java application, you must follow specific steps to use the JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), an API, i.e., Application Programming Interface, that helps us communicate between our Java application and our database. Now, the shell switches from postgres=# to educba=#, indicating a direct connection to the educba database. Now to switch to the educba database and connect to the same, we can type the command \c educba You can exit from the output screen using \q, and if you want to check all the available databases, then type \l command, which results in all databases present in our database server as follows – Now, you can fire any psql command you wish to \du is the command to list out the user. When you see postgres=# in the above case, it indicates that you have successfully connected to the Postgres database. When you finally connect to a particular database, you will see the name of the database on the shell of the terminal. The official PostgreSQL documentation and the DbSchema documentation are great resources for learning more about these tools and the many features they offer.That gives the output as follows – sudo su – postgres Whether you prefer the command-line interface of psql or the visual design capabilities of DbSchema, both methods will allow you to create and manage your databases effectively.Īs you continue to work with PostgreSQL, you may want to explore additional features of psql and DbSchema, such as creating tables, defining relationships, or managing your schema. You should now have a better understanding of how to manage your databases using these powerful tools. In this article, we covered the process of creating a PostgreSQL database using both psql and DbSchema. Right-click the table folder to create a table.Ĭhoose the database host, enter the username and password. Start the application and connect to the Postgres database. DbSchema has a free Community Edition, which can be downloaded here. Create Tables and Visually Manage PostgreSQL using DbSchemaĭbSchema is a PostgreSQL client and visual designer. This will display a list of all databases in your PostgreSQL instance.Ĭongratulations! You’ve just created a new database using psql. Verify that the database was created by running: postgres=# \l To create a new database, run the following command, replacing your_database_name with your desired database name: postgres=# CREATE DATABASE your_database_name When prompted, enter your PostgreSQL password. To create a new database using psql, follow these steps:Ĭonnect to your PostgreSQL server using the following command, replacing username with your PostgreSQL username: postgres=# psql -U username You should see the version number of your installed PostgreSQL instance. Ensure that the “Command Line Tools” option is selected during installation.Īfter installation, open a terminal or command prompt and verify that psql is accessible by running psql -version.Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.Download the Windows / MacOS / Linux installer.Follow the instructions for your operating system below: Administrative rights to install software on your computerįirst, you’ll need to install PostgreSQL and its command-line interface, psql.A computer with a compatible operating system (Windows, macOS, or Linux).Prerequisitesīefore we begin, ensure that you have the following: In this article, we’ll explore both tools and show you how to create a database using psql, a Postgres command-line client, and DbSchema, a visual database designer. The article is divided into the following sections: Table of Contents By the end, you’ll have a better understanding of how to manage your databases using these tools. This article will guide you through the process of creating a database using psql and DbSchema. ![]() ![]() ![]() Juliette also deals with a lot of emotional baggage. Juliette has a very unique power in that anyone she touches dies.Īs you can imagine this makes romance very difficult, and is a point of tension within the story. It’s a YA dystopian series centering around a girl named Juliette. Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series has sold more than a million books. I have yet to read the last three books and I don’t remember much of the earlier books. In full disclosure, it’s been a really long time since I read the the first batch of Shatter Me books.įor those unaware, Mafi wrote the first three books and then there was a very large gap before she wrote Books 4-6. It contains both Shadow Me and Reveal Me (also listed separately above), the two later novellas. Or you can purchase Unite Me instead of purchasing them separately. So if you purchase those separately, you don’t need Unite Me. ![]() Unite Me contains the two novellas Destroy Me and Fracture Me (listed separately in the full Shatter Me series order above). If you’ve done any bit of searching for the Shatter Me books on Amazon you might have come across the titles Unite Me and Find Me. Here’s the best way to read the Shatter Me series in order:Ħ.5 Believe Me (Novella) (2021) What About Unite Me and Find Me? Hurray!Īfter we talk about the Shatter Me series order, we’ll take a deeper dive into what Shatter Me is about for those who don’t already know. Tahereh Mafi wrote each of them in the order that you should read them, novellas and all. The Shatter Me series contains six novels and five novellas. The only way to really read the books is in publication order. The Shatter Me series order is straightforward. ![]() I’ve written quite a few series order posts now, including Red Queen, The Selection, and Throne of Glass. 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Meade's first book, "Morning Sunshine! How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It, Too," was released in September 2009 and instantly became a New York Times bestseller.Robin Michelle Meade (born April 21, 1969) is the lead news anchor for HLN's morning show Morning Express with Robin Meade.Background She won Ashland Universitys Young Alumnus Award for her acievements in broadcasting and served as the commencement speaker for the universitys 2005 graduation ceremonies. Meade graduated from Ashland University where she majored in radio/television production, programming and performance and minored in political science. In 2010, the AWRT (American Women in Radio & Television) bestowed upon Meade the prestigious Gracie Award for Outstanding Anchor, News or News Magazine. In 2002, Meade was recognized by Lycos as one of the top 20 most popular television news personalities in the broadcast news industry. Meade began her career in broadcasting at WMFD-TV in Mansfield, Ohio, where she worked as a reporter. She was also an anchor and reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, and at WJW-TV in Cleveland. She also served as the station's noon anchor and health reporter. In October 2005, Meade was inducted into the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame.īefore joining WMAQ, Meade was the morning news anchor of WSVN-TV's "Today in Florida" in Miami. Additionally, she was nominated for a regional Emmy for her report on how to decrease chances of injury in survivable plane crashes. Meade won a regional Emmy Award for her efforts covering the 1995 collision between a school bus and a train in Fox River Grove, Illinois, that killed seven and injured more than 24 teenagers. During her tenure with the NBC affiliate, she covered the 1996 Olympics, which included special reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Before that, she anchored the morning newscasts. She wrote 7 of the 10 songs on the album and also covered Garth Brooks iconic country hit, The Dance.īefore joining HLN, Meade worked at NBC Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV where she co-anchored the weekend newscasts and also served as a general assignment correspondent for the station. Her second country album, ∼ount on Me, was released in June 2013 to strong reviews. ∻rand New Day reached #24 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The album features original songs, many of which were co-written by Meade, as well as a cover of Don Henleys ∽irty Laundry. Meade collaborated with industry heavy-hitters like John Rich, American Idols Bo Bice, and producer/song writer Victoria Shaw (Lady Antebellum). Meades debut country album, ∻rand New Day, was released in June 2011 to strong reviews. Sanjay Gupta for Turner Private Networks "AccentHealth," a program offered in physician waiting rooms focused on consumer-related health stories. troops using photos and videos sent in by their loved ones. ![]() Meade is also the face of HLNs Salute to Troops segment, a daily message to U.S. ![]() In June of 2009, Meade performed a tandem skydive with President George Herbert Walker Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, to commemorate President Bushs 85th birthday. ![]() In July of 2008, she scored the exclusive first interview with freed American hostages at their request after their release from Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) captors. Robin Meade is the anchor of HLN's morning show, " Morning Express with Robin Meade." Among other stories, Meade anchored the networks coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both inaugurations of President Barack Obama, and the July 2009 coverage of Michael Jacksons memorial event. ![]() |
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