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 

 http://www.lflus.com/

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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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