Best of 2016 - All Music

AllMusic Best of 2016 -

 Spanning the breadth of the music covered in 2016, this list features our editors' picks for the best albums of the year. Over the next three weeks we'll be sharing more genre-specific lists, but we wanted to start at the top, featuring the best of the best.


http://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2016?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-12-30

Second Ave Subway (SAS)

The Second Avenue Subway (officially the IND Second Avenue Line; abbreviated to SAS) is a New York City Subway line that has been under discussion since the 1910s. It runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan. The first phase of this new line will open on January 1, 2017, extending the Q train to 96th Street and Second Avenue, serving a projected 200,000 daily riders at four new stations. Some N trains will provide additional service on the line during rush hours. Phase one runs between 96th Street and the 63rd Street Lines, connecting to the BMT Broadway Line and the rest of the subway system. The full Second Avenue Line, if and when funded, would be built in three additional phases, allowing portions to open before the entire line is completed. When completed, it would be served by a proposed T train between 125th Street and Hanover Square. The proposed full line would be 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long with 16 stations and a projected daily ridership of 560,000, costing more than $17 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway 

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Khatia Buniatishvili

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Khatia Buniatishvili (Georgian: ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი; born June 21, 1987) is a Georgian concert pianist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatia_Buniatishvili 

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Khatia Buniatishvili - Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 ~ Zubin Mehta  (a Magnificent performance)

Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies; not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a part of semiotics) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication.^[1] This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.
Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics 

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific^[1] study of language,^[2] specifically of language form, language meaning, and language in context.^[3] The earliest activities in the description of language have been attributed to the 4th century BCE Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who was an early student of linguistics^[4][5] and wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his Aṣṭādhyāyī.<sup>[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics</sup> 
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Figure of Speech

A figure of speech or rhetorical figure^[1] is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words.^{[dubious – discuss]} Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may also suffer from their use, as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech 

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LFL - Legends Football League

The Legends Football League (LFL) is a women's 7-on-7 tackle American football league, with games played in the spring and summer at NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS arenas and stadiums. The league was founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League and was rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013.^[1][2] The league's founder and chairman is Mitchell S. Mortaza, and the league's administrative offices are located in Los Angeles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_Football_League 

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers, for rhetorical effect, to one thing by mentioning another thing.^[1] It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Where a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature is the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor 

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The Polls Missed Trump. We Asked Pollsters Why

The polls missed Donald Trump’s election. Individual polls missed, at the state level and nationally (though national polls weren’t far off). So did aggregated polls. So did poll-based forecasts such as ours. And so did exit polls.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-we-asked-pollsters-why/ 

Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. The IAS is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. Although it is close to and collaborates with Princeton University, Rutgers University, and other nearby institutions, it is not part of any university or federal agency and does not charge tuition or fees.<sup>[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study 

https://www.ias.edu/ 

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NVIDIA CUDA Fast Fourier Transform library (cuFFT)

The NVIDIA CUDA Fast Fourier Transform library (cuFFT) provides a simple interface for computing FFTs up to 10x faster.  By using hundreds of processor cores inside NVIDIA GPUs, cuFFT delivers the floating‐point performance of a GPU without having to develop your own custom GPU FFT implementation.
Widely used in applications ranging from computational physics to image processing and general signal processing, the Fast Fourier Transform is an efficient algorithm for computing discrete Fourier transforms of complex or real‐valued data sets.  cuFFT uses algorithms based on the well-known Cooley-Tukey and Bluestein algorithms, so you can be confident that you’re getting accurate results faster than ever.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cufft

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Internet top-level domains

This list of Internet top-level domain extensions contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. The official list of all top-level domains is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at Root Zone Database.^[1] IANA also oversees the approval process for new proposed top-level domains. As of October 2016, the root domain contains 1503 top-level domains,^[2] while a few have been retired and are no longer functional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains 

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db 

File Extensions

Common Windows file extensions

Windows file names have two parts; the file's name, then a period followed by the extension (suffix). The extension is a three- or four-letter abbreviation that signifies the file type. For example, in letter.docx the filename is letter and the extension is docx. Extensions are important because they tell your computer what icon to use for the file, and what application can open the file. For example, the doc extension tells your computer that the file is a Microsoft Word file.
If you want to open a MAC OS X file in Windows, you may need to add the extension to a MAC OS X file name so Windows can recognize it. For example, if you have a Word 6 MAC OS X document named letter that you want to open in Windows, you need to rename the file letter.docx so that Word in Windows will recognize and open the file.



http://it.nmu.edu/docs/common-windows-file-extensions

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How an army of vulnerable gadgets took down the web today

SAN FRANCISCO — Multiple waves of online attacks blocked many major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and other sites.
The cause was a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against New Hampshire-based Internet performance company Dyn. The attacks made it difficult for users to access to many popular sites beginning at 7:10 a.m. ET and continued throughout the day.

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dSRH8_vwWcCg5UMG04LicOKxawWYM&authuser=0&topic=h

Haim Saban

Haim Saban, the billionaire chairman of Univision Communications, America’s largest Spanish-language media company, flew to Jerusalem in his private jet on Sept. 29 to attend the funeral of his friend Shimon Peres, Israel’s former prime minister. It was an event attended by numerous world leaders. Saban gave one of them a lift: former U.S. President Bill Clinton. In Saban’s telling, it wasn’t a big deal. “I called and asked, ‘Are you going to go?’ ” he says, recalling his conversation with Clinton. “He said, ‘Yeah, I’m going.’ I said, ‘I’m going, too. Do you need a ride?’ ” So Saban picked up Clinton and his entourage at a small airport in Teterboro, N.J.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-10-13/-10-million-says-hillary-wins

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Sloan Foudation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City.
Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. more...

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http://www.sloan.org/ 

Confit

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with comfit.

For the South African jam, see konfyt.

Confit (French, pronounced [kɔ̃fi] or in English "con-fee") comes from the French word confire which means literally "to preserve",^[1][2] a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.^[1]
Confit as a cooking term describes when food is cooked in grease, oil or sugar water (syrup), at a lower temperature — as opposed to deep frying. While deep frying typically takes place at temperatures of 325–450 °F (163–232 °C), confit preparations are done much lower—an oil temperature of around 200 °F (93 °C), sometimes even cooler. The term is usually used in modern cuisine to mean long slow cooking in oil or fat at low temperatures, many having no element of preservation such as dishes like confit potatoes.
In meat cooking this requires the meat to be salted as part of the preservation process. After salting and cooking in the fat, sealed and stored in a cool, dark place, confit can last for several months or years. Confit is one of the oldest ways to preserve food,^{[citation needed]} and is a specialty of southwestern France.

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Bun Cha

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http://site.people.com/food/anthony-bourdain-president-barack-obama-vietnam-parts-unknown/


Bún chả is a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork and noodle, which is thought to have originated from Hanoi, Vietnam.^[1] Bun cha is served with grilled fatty pork (chả) over a plate of white rice noodle (bún) and herbs with a side dish of dipping sauce. The dish was described in 1959 by Vietnamese food writer Vu Bang (1913–1984) who described Hanoi as a town "transfixed by bún chả." Hanoi’s first bún chả restaurant was on Gia Ngư, Hoàn Kiếm District, in Hanoi's Old Quarter.^[2][3][4]
Bún chả is originated and remains very popular in Hanoi. Outside of Hanoi, across all regions of Vietnam, a similar dish of rice vermicelli and grilled meat called bún thịt nướng is alternately served.

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