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I have a control that is loaded dynamically and contains a repeater amongst other items such as a group of text boxes.
The control is used for address verification.
The process is:
- control displays.
- User enters the address info.
- page posts back and the control validates the address info against a web service.
- If the address isn't 100%, it displays a list of potential matches. <- this occurs in a repeater. In other words, it is databound in code.
- The user checks a box next to the one they want to accept.
- page posts back
So far, 1 - 6 work. The problem is that when the page posts back, there are no repeater items.
How can I get the repeater to load it's items without having to run another databind() operation?
Failing that, how can I run the databind() effectively? In other words, I don't have the controls street/city/state/zip values during the oninit. So, how can I reapply the viewstate changes?


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6 Bad Ideas in Video Game Mash-Ups We'll Probably See Next
For years, game companies have been combining games that make money in order to make even more money. Occiasionally this works out pretty well.
A lot better for games than movies for some reason.
But with Marvel vs. Capcom 3 hitting shelves and selling pretty briskly, game designers will be trying to cram even more blockbusters together into the same universe. Because once you've earned enough money to fill your bathtub with molten gold, you still need to be able to buy more bathtubs that you can safely bathe in. Let's take a look forward at some of the terrible ideas we will soon see hitting shelves ...
#6. The Sims: Starcraft
If you're a StarCraft player, you may have wondered what goes on inside the little production buildings that are always churning out units. Those little factory workers and egg-laying aliens or whatever need to wake up every day, go to the bathroom, and cook food for the Zerglings without setting the hatchery on fire.
Now, instead of focusing on overarching combat strategy and exciting battles, you can focus on the minutiae and daily drudgery that makes those battles possible. Instead of queuing up a bunch of troops for training and focusing your attention elsewhere, why not actually sit there and click endlessly on each unit as it lift weights, does target practice, and of course sleeps and goes to the bathroom in between workout sessions?
Instead of attacking the Zerg base next door, why not try talking to them about what the intrusion of creep onto your lot is doing to property values?
Incidentally, that marauder is going to drown.
It's about time a war game showed us some realism in the day-to-day life of regular joes, in terms of bodily functions, chores, and of course, setting the stove on fire every time they try to cook.
The Firebat has different priorities.
#5. Farmville: Modern Warfare
Runaway Facebook hit FarmVille teams up with the megapopular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to bring gritty modern combat to cartoony farms.
As in FarmVille, you build your own farms, but instead of making building decisions to make money or "because it looks pretty," your decisions are key to your strategy for defending your farm when it is invaded by other players. Rice paddies are a good choice for your perimeter, giving would-be invaders no cover on the approach. Corn mazes and hedges are also ideal for well-planned ambushes.
And of course, there's plenty of purchasable extra content.
#4. Super Mario Brothers 1942
Combining Battlefield 1942 of the blockbuster Battlefield series with the juggernaut Mario franchise gets you Super Mario Bros. 1942. Having Italians as main characters and the year of 1942 as a setting gives you a golden opportunity to make a super gritty game that will be sure to delight gamers looking for dark, serious games to shove in critics' faces in order to argue that games are art. (That is also why the game is in black and white, of course.)
Drafted by Mussolini, Mario and Luigi are sent to Stalingrad with the ill-fated Italian 8th Army for what they expect to be a quick rout. However, after a brief combat mission, the rest of the game involves no shooting, but a variety of challenges such as fleeing the initial Soviet counteroffensive.
I don't know why a Mario title is on the PS3 either but that hardly seems like the most pressing question here.
In the next stage of the game, Mario and Luigi settle in for the long siege as the Soviets encircle the Axis forces and starvation sets in. The multiplayer gets really cutthroat at this stage.
Finally, all the surviving players are brutally rounded up and sent on a merciless march into captivity, a minigame which involves the player repeatedly pressing two buttons to put down the left foot and the right foot respectively. This event takes about three days in real time, during which the player cannot pause or save, or the character will die of exposure or be shot by guards. Now that's what I call immersion!

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Have you noticed that Sport.Woot is moving items pretty darn quickly on their first ever WootOff?
Wow! Items are selling out pretty quickly over there! I haven't bitten yet, but GEEZ! There comes another deal! What are you folks buying at Sport.Woot? It looks as though that site is moving products more quickly than any of the others!
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Yes, I saw that! I haven't bought anything there yet, either, but the things I wanted disappeared while I was deciding. Wow!
I was probably first sucker for that little blue "granny sweater." I had a coupon and since I can wear the heck out of that style & color, I snapped it up. THEN I realized I wouldn't be upset at a fashion.woot if one ever happened.
@lavikinga: Alas no :(
Speed to First Woot:
9m 17.992s
First Sucker:
Not moving so fast now that the "Lumbar/Fanny Pack" is being offered! Been up there a while and still showing 100% left.
Is there a woot-off going on? I never knew! :)
@inkycatz: No! That's a good thing! Thanks!
Don't understand all the hate for that little shrug. I thought it was a pretty good deal.
@lavikinga: Put it this way- if I could pull off that color with flair, I would have snapped it up my own self.


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MGillespie wrote:Musky, bring the posse...I'm thinking of making the trip up again this year!
Muskrat Portage wrote:Ialdous:
The LCBO will have a store open at the venue where you can purchase bottles available in their stores, - I saw a $2000.00 bottle of 40 yo HP get snapped up in a moment after the buyer sampled a bit from my buddies' glass. What you sample at the venue may not be available at the LCBO.


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2 arrested in shooting near Wingate University
Published: Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 4:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 4:13 p.m.
WINGATE (AP) — Police have arrested two men in a pair of shooting deaths near Wingate University that prompted a campus lockdown.
Wingate police and Union County sheriff's deputies arrested two Marshville men shortly before midnight Wednesday at an apartment in Monroe.
Daniel Steven Sheerer and Tony Antwone Knotts are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery. It was not immediately clear whether they have lawyers.
The names of the shooting victims have not been released. A third person was flown to a hospital after the shootings.
School officials locked down the campus shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday and lifted the lockdown about two hours later.
School officials say apparently no student or university employee was involved.
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I have a bunch of alarms on my Android phone and I want to change their current ringtone to a new one. The new ringtone is in MP3 format and is located in the sdcard. Is there any way to change them all at once, rather than opening the alarms one by one?
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No. As far as I know, you will have to change them all manually.
You may want to try out other alarm clock apps, though. I use Alarm Clock Extreme (free & paid), and while I can't batch update in that either, I can set defaults for every option for new alarms.
If you really want a bunch of alarms to have one ringtone that can be updated later, you could use Llama. One of the features in that app is that you can set a ringtone to a profile (called a LlamaTone). Then when you create an alarm, you tell it to use the Llama ringtone; Llama registers as an option for ringtone selection. In the future, you only change the Llama ringtone, and all the alarms will be updated. Basically, you are creating an alias or shortcut.
Edit Yes, you can! If you have root, that is. The main alarm clock app keeps all of its alarms in a SQLite database. You can run a sql query to update them in one go.
First, create a new alarm with the ringtone you want ALL other alarms to use. Then run the commands below (in bold). Modify the alert to be the same as the alert you wish to use.


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quote: I think MS is losing due to their bullish approach. Perhaps they got inspired by the uber-bully Jobs? The difference is that Jobs was indeed talented and was sitting at the top of a massive cult. MS has no mindless followers. When they try to push something on me, my natural reaction is FU! I was thrilled about my Windows 8 phone, but the limitations MS has imposed on 3rd party developers is just annoying - no app can launch point-to-point navigation with spoken command; no app can check battery levels more than twice per hour... The desktop forcing me to go all "metro" still makes me mad, although the improvements performance-wise made me accept the compromise.
quote: "they don't want Office on their tablets and they don't want Windows 8 on their desktop."I'm sorry but YOU do NOT speak for everyone! Windows 8 is very easy to use, easy to navigate and we, in this company, have no issues with the software. Just because YOU say it again and again will not make it so.
quote: I can't for the life of me see what Windows 8 delivers for the customer
quote: Maybe YOU view tablets as simple toys that you place on a coffee table and surf the web with but I definitely don't.
quote: To me a tablet is just a laptop with slightly more portability.
quote: They are simply becoming too much like apple with Nazi app stores
quote: but can be used in ways that PCs cannot, unlocking entirely new use scenarios.
quote: Your cooker and refrigerator both do equally useful jobs, why combine them?
quote: My last statment is perfectly justified. Having someone else decide what apps I can and cannot install by choosing to filter them from the "app store" which is the only means of installing said "app"... Just plain sucks! It's my device and I'll install whatever I want on it! If I want to go into the applications folder and mess with the files then it is MY RIGHT to do so.
quote: BTW there are no application folders on iOS devices, you are referring to a file management system used in old style PCs, iOS devices don't have user file management systems. Lots of people really like that.
quote: Statements of total insanity and ridiculous hyperbole do not strengthen your argument, they just make you look a bit bonkers


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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness?
We all have our trusted indices for judging other people's drunkenness. Perhaps it's when the eyeballs start floating about as if under the control of a clumsy puppeteer. Or maybe the effusive 'you know I love you' delivered with a trickle of dribble. However, the vast majority of studies find that lay people, police officers and bartenders are in fact hopeless at distinguishing a drunk person from a sober one, at least at moderate levels of intoxication. To take just one example, after watching drunk and sober people being interviewed and negotiating a stair case, bartenders rated them as slightly, moderately or very drunk with an accuracy of just 25 per cent.
It's a similar story when participants are equipped with more structured means of detecting drunkenness. One 1958 study, for example, found no relation between doctors' assessments of people's intoxication (based on pulse rate, general appearance, gait and mental status) and the subsequent performance of those people on a driving course.
Rubenzer also looked at the evidence for specific indicators of intoxication. Alcohol causes reddening of the eyes, the literature shows, but the association between intoxication level and onset or amount of redness is unreliable. Another indicator is smell. The more a person has drunk, the more likely that their breath will be judged by observers to smell of alcohol. However, this indicator is hampered by the lack of a scientific explanation (alcohol has no odour), not to mention the risk of contamination by food smells. Speech slowing and slurring is another sign of intoxication but people are only modestly accurate at using this as a measure. Predictably enough, impaired walking, the last of the specific indicators, tends to increase the more a person has drunk but it only becomes reliable at very high intoxication levels.
The review finishes by looking at established 'sobriety tests': Nystagmus (jerky eye movements when following a moving target); the Romberg (whether a person sways or falls when they stand, eyes closed, with their feet together, arms at their sides); the Finger to Nose; the Finger to Finger; Saying the Alphabet; and the Hand Pat (alternating between clapping with the palms and backs of hands). In summary, performance on these tests does tend to decline as alcohol intake increases but the evidence for this at lower levels of intoxication is mixed and false positives (sober people categorised as drunk) are a frequent occurrence.
'...[J]udging low to moderate levels of intoxication in strangers is a difficult task,' Rubenzer concludes. 'A variety of professions that might be expected to show substantial skill assessing intoxication do not. [And] no behavioural or physical sign has emerged that is consistently related to a specific level of blood alcohol concentration level without large variation among individuals, with the possible exception of nystagmus.'
Rubenzer, S. (2010). Judging intoxication. Behavioral Sciences & the Law DOI: 10.1002/bsl.935
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Two points:ReplyDelete
(1) For bar tenders and police officers, surely it's the behaviour itself which is important, not the underlying blood alcohol concentration. They can see when a person has had enough or is causing a nuisance, without any need to know objectively how much they have drunk. (Of course it's different when we're talking about driving, which is why police have objective tools for testing drivers suspected of being over the limit.)
(2) "... smell of alcohol ... this indicator is hampered by the lack of a scientific explanation (alcohol has no odour) ..."
That's a very strange comment. Pure alcohol may have no odour, but beer and wine certainly do.
- Matt Matson6:59 am
From the abstract: "It is concluded that observers relying on common-sense clues of intoxication have limited ability to assess the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels of strangers, particularly below .10%."ReplyDelete
The post assumes that blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels = drunkenness. Is this appropriate? As a matter of communication, when someone is described as drunk, I understand that to mean the person is exhibiting symptoms related to consuming alcohol, not that their BAC is elevated beyond a specified level.
If anything, this article suggests that BAC is not a good way to determine actual drunkenness because there are "wide variations between casual social drinkers and those that have obtained a high level of tolerance."
The author is concerned about an observer's ability to determine whether a person has crossed a legal BAC threshold. And, given the law, it might be considered unfair to find a person guilty of driving under the influence when the person has not had much to drink and does not have a high BAC, but fails a sobriety test. On the other hand, what society is concerned about is not that people with high BAC's are driving, but that impaired individuals are driving. If a person is impaired at a low BAC, should they be driving? Perhaps light drinkers should be held to a lower BAC standard.
- Nikki3:16 pm
pssst... It's color that (pure) alcohol doesn't have, not odour. Ethanol's odour is quite strong. Open a container and smell for yourself, but make sure you're sober when you do, because in the inebriated state you may indeed not feel it, the same way you stop perceiving your own perfume within minutes of applying it.ReplyDelete
I'm a bartender and and economics student. I can tell you from experience that it is typically difficult to tell how intoxicated a person is. Besides the fact that people react to alcohol differently, a person's intoxication level may increase for a period of time after they have stopped consuming because it takes time for alcohol to be absorbed.ReplyDelete
- Scott2:01 am
Well, duh. As a bartender, I have to say that all the training in the world (by the way, there is none) doesn't make it easier to spot someone who is mildly (or mostly) intoxicated. That isn't usually the point. In fact, or opinion, the point of drinking for most people is to become inebriated to a greater or lesser degree and over time folks simply get better at it. There are no absolute external indicators unless someone is so bombed even an amateur can spot it.ReplyDelete
Even pure abs. alcohol has an odour. At 99.86% it has an odour. Denatured alcohol does smells also. This smell is the presence of a bittering agent which renders the alcohol unfit for human consumption. In short does smell/. I agree with Nic(ki). (sorry for the British Political joke)ReplyDelete


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Here are the definitions:
Fréchet-Urysohn space: A topological space $ X $ where for every $ A \subseteq X $ and every $ x \in \text{cl}(A) $, there exists a sequence $ (x_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}} $ in $ A $ converging to $ x $.
Sequential space: A topological space $ X $ where a set $ A \subseteq X $ is closed iff $ A $ contains the limit points of every sequence contained in it.
As the title explains, I would like to know the difference between them. Thanks for any help.


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She won an Ivor Novello award in 2006 for the track Suddenly I See. Credit: Dave Hogan/Getty 58: BETH ORTON Brit Award-winning British singer-songwriter Beth Orton is known for her pioneering mix of traditional acoustic folk with electronic music – a genre dubbed "folktronica". In the mid-Nineties she provided vocals for songs by the Chemical Brothers and producer William Orbit before releasing her second album Central Reservation – which featured collaborations with late folk musician Terry Callier – to wide critical acclaim in 1999. In 2007, she collaborated with Annie Lennox and 22 other female artists (including Céline Dion and Shakira) on the single Sing, released to raise awareness of Aids in Africa. 57: JUDEE SILL Judee Sill was an unfairly overlooked US folk singer-songwriter who made two albums in the Seventies before, disillusioned with the music industry and her own lack of success, she sank into the drug addiction that eventually killed her at the age of 35. 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In 2003, Peters was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her work on the DreamWorks animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Credit: Gina Binkley/Gretchen Peters 46: ROBERTA FLACK When North Carolinan soul, folk and jazz singer Roberta Flack was discovered in the late Sixties, she was a Washington schoolteacher, performing in nightclubs in her spare time. In 1972, Clint Eastwood chose her song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for the soundtrack of his film Play Misty For Me, and the song became the biggest selling hit of the year. Though best known for singing songs written by other people, including Killing Me Softly With His Song and Where Is the Love, Flack began writing more in the Eighties. Credit: Rex Features 45: SADE British-Nigerian singer Helen Folasade Adu is better known as Sade, the lead singer of the Grammy and Brit Award-winning soul, jazz and R&B band of the same name. As the group's chief songwriter, Adu was the driving force behind hit singles Your Love is King and Smooth Operator. The band have sold over 110 million albums worldwide, making Adu one of the most successful British female musicians ever. In 2002, she received an OBE for services to music and dedicated it to "all black women in England". Credit: Sheila Rock/Rex Features 44: EMMYLOU HARRIS Alabaman Emmylou Harris has won 13 Grammys and sold millions of albums over the course of her 40-odd years in folk and country music. The 68-year-old was a member of Gram Parsons's band in the Seventies, and began releasing solo albums after his death in 1973. After a string of hits in the Seventies and early Eighties covering country and pop standards, Harris was less successful with her own compositions. However, she remains a sought-after vocalist and has collaborated with Neil Young, Mark Knopfler and Roy Orbison. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008. Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty 43: GILLIAN WELCH In 2015, Gillian Welch was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Americana Awards in Nashville, recognising her remarkable contribution to country music singing and songwriting. The former Berklee School of Music student, who performs alongside guitarist Dave Rawlings, writes powerful and descriptive songs such as Barroom Girls, Wrecking Ball and Orphan Girl, and her music has been used by filmmakers The Coen Brothers. Credit: Chief Bulldeer 42: KD LANG Katheryn Dawn "KD" Lang is a Canadian country and pop singer-songwriter who became popular in the late Eighties after collaborating with Roy Orbison on the song Crying, taken from the film Hiding Out. In the Nineties, Lang had two top-10 albums in the UK, and The Rolling Stones were forced to give her a co-credit for their song Anybody Seen My Baby? due to the track's striking similarity to Lang's Grammy Award-winning 1992 hit Constant Craving. Lang, who came out in 1992, is an outspoken advocate of gay rights and vegan causes. Credit: Liam Richards/AP 41: BONNIE RAITT Blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt has released 17 albums and won 10 Grammys over a career that has spanned more than 40 years. Though she had long been a darling of the critics for her soulful vocals and skilled slide guitar playing, the 66-year-old American did not achieve much popular acclaim until the late Eighties and Nineties, when her rock-leaning 1989 album Nick of Time hit the top of the US charts. 40: ERYKAH BADU The Queen of Neo-Soul doesn't just have a voice many have compared to that of Billie Holiday. Badu, born Erica Abi Wright in 1971, achieved triple platinum sales with her debut album Baduizm after its release in 1997. She went on to win 16 awards and 57 nominations, for hits such as Love of My Life and album Worldwide Underground. While her output has been marked by episodes of writer's block, she has consistently released innovative and commercially successful material, and work with artists such as Flying Lotus and Drake. Nearly 20 years after her debut release, Badu caused a frenzy among online listeners in 2015 after releasing a mixtape of her favourite music. Credit: Al Powers/Invision/AP 39: REGINA SPEKTOR Russian-American singer-songwriter Regina Spektor emerged as part of the "anti-folk" scene in New York City's East Village in the early Noughties, alongside bands like the Moldy Peaches. The 35-year-old has been praised for her lyrics, which often include literary references, as well as an unorthodox singing style, which can be heard on her best-known song, Fidelity, taken from her Shortlist Music Prize-nominated 2006 album Begin to Hope. 38: TRACY CHAPMAN Guitarist and singer Tracy Chapman is best known for Fast Car, a song from her self-titled debut album which explores themes of poverty and alcoholism. Over the course of her eight-album career, the Cleveland, Ohio-born 51-year-old has often used her music to support social causes, and has performed at events such as the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute and Make Poverty History. 37: SIOUXSIE SIOUX Susan Janet Ballion (aka Siouxsie Sioux) is best known as the lead singer of post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, with whom she wrote the hits Hong Kong Garden and Peek-a-Boo. With her choppy black hair and thick eyeliner, Sioux became a style idol for the Goth movement of the Eighties, while her songs have been sampled by Massive Attack and covered by Jeff Buckley and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Credit: Philip Hollis/Telegraph 36: TORI AMOS Classically trained American pianist Tori Amos started singing in bars at the age of 13, chaperoned by her father. After a brief stint in synth-pop band Y Kant Tori Read, Amos began a solo career in 1990. To date she has sold over 12 million albums and released 14 albums of piano-led rock and pop – the most successful of which, 1996's Boys for Pele, spawned her biggest hit, Professional Widow, which topped the UK chart after being remixed by dance producer Armand van Helden. Credit: Lehtikuva OY/Rex Features 35: LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lucinda Williams works across rock, folk, blues and country music as a singer and songwriter. She won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994, for Passionate Kisses. Her depth of writing was perhaps best shown on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which prompted Time Magazine in 2002 to call her "America's best songwriter". Credit: Andrew Drysdale/Rex Features 34: PATTY GRIFFIN American guitarist, pianist and singer Patty Griffin's stripped back songs have won her many fans among folk and Americana lovers – including Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, who invited her to appear on his solo album Band of Joy in 2010. The 51-year-old's sixth album, Downtown Church, picked up a Grammy award for best traditional gospel album in 2011. Credit: Brad Barket/Getty 33: ARETHA FRANKLIN Soul legend Aretha Franklin began her musical career as a gospel singer in church, and was later taken on tour by her preacher father. The Tennessee native became a star in the Sixties singing jazz and Motown standards. Her 1967 re-working of Otis Redding's Respect – which was adopted as an anthem for change by the civil rights movement – gave her a number one in the US in 1967, and she followed this with further hit singles Chain of Fools and Say A Little Prayer. In the Seventies, Franklin began to write more of her own songs, including Call Me and Rock Steady. The 70-year-old became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Credit: Angela Pham/BFA/Rex Shutterstock 32: LAURYN HILL As one third of The Fugees, Hill lent her dazzling vocals to the band's chart-topping cover of Killing Me Softly. Hill went on to release a solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998. Dubbed a neo soul masterpiece by critics, it won five Grammys and shifted eight million copies in the US. But Hill was uncomfortable with fame, retreating from the public eye. In 2000, she fired her management team, and began attending Bible classes five days a week. Her 2001 live acoustic album was praised as "genius" by NME, but dismissed as "a public breakdown" by Rolling Stone. Her appearances became erratic, with Hill arriving up to two hours late for concerts, and cancelling most of her 2009 European tour for unspecified reasons. In 2013, she was sentenced to three months in jail for tax evasion. More recently, Hill contributed to the soundtrack of the 2015 Nina Simone biopic, Whatever Happened, Miss Simone? Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP 31: CARLY SIMON American singer-songwriter Carly Simon began her career in 1964 as part of The Simon Sisters with her sister Lucy. She went solo in the Seventies, and the 70-year-old has had a string of hit pop-rock singles since, including You're So Vain and You Belong To Me. Simon won a Grammy, Academy Award and Golden Globe for Let the River Run, written for the soundtrack to the 1988 film Working Girl. Credit: George Holz/Getty 30: CYNDI LAUPER Born in Queens, New York, in 1953, Cyndi Lauper is a passionate LGBT rights campaigner. Her self-written hits include Time After Time and All Through the Night, but Lauper's breakthrough single was a wittily reworded cover of Robert Hazard's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, turning the politically questionable original into an upbeat feminist anthem. She is a keen wrestling fan, and appeared in the first ever WWE Wrestlemania as the manager of fighter Wendi Richter. In 2013, Lauper won a Tony Award with her score for the musical Kinky Boots. Credit: Richard Young/Rex 29: KATE AND ANNA MCGARRIGLE These Canadian sisters began performing as a duo while at university in the Sixties, and were part of folk band Mountain City Four. In 1975, the sisters released their first album as a duo. Many of the songs from their self-titled debut album, including Heart Like a Wheel and Go Leave, have been covered by other artists such as Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg and The Corrs. The duo continued to perform together until shortly before Kate McGarrigle – Rufus and Martha Wainwright's mother – died in early 2010. 28: SINEAD O'CONNOR The shaven-headed singer and guitarist is one of Ireland's most influential musicians. Despite writing the majority of the songs on her most famous album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990), Connor is best remembered for her cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U, taken from the same album. The song was a number one hit in the UK, US and across most of Europe, and had a striking video which featured a close-up of O'Connor crying as she mouthed the lyrics. Credit: FRED TANNEAUFRED TANNEAU/AFP/Getty 27: DEBBIE HARRY Born in Miami in 1945, Deborah "Debbie" Harry spent time as a go-go dancer and a Playboy Bunny before starting her music career in the Sixties with folk-rock group The Wind in the Willows. She is best known as the frontwoman of Blondie, a key part of the punk and new wave scene in New York in the late Seventies and Eighties, with whom she wrote singles such as Heart of Glass and Atomic. Her trademark bleach blonde hair was the inspiration for the band's name. Credit: Greg Allen/Rex Features 26: LORETTA LYNN Kentucky-born country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn has been recording and performing for over 60 years, and has released 69 albums and 88 singles since 1960. Many of her best-loved songs, including Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind), are autobiographical, and deal with issues such as relationships and women's rights. Known as the First Lady of Country Music, the 83-year-old's autobiography was made into an Academy Award-winning film, Coal Miner's Daughter, in 1980. Since the millennium, Lynn has had something of a comeback; her 2004 album Van Lear Rose (a collaboration with Jack White) was met with wild enthusiasm by the critics. Lynn's 70th album, Full Circle, is set for release in March 2016. Credit: Russ Harrington/AP 25: RICKIE LEE JONES American rock, jazz and R&B singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones began playing in clubs in California in the late Seventies. Her eponymous debut album, which featured contributions from Randy Newman, was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Then in her mid-20s, Lee Jones gained attention thanks to her idiosyncratic singing style and the reportedly bohemian nature of her relationship with fellow singer Tom Waits. To date, she has released 12 studio albums, including this year's The Other Side of Desire. Credit: Rickie Lee Jones 24: BILLIE HOLIDAY Jazz singer Billie Holiday possessed one of the most remarkable and influential voices in the history of popular music, and one that influenced scores of top musicians. But the singer, whose tragic life was documented in the film Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross, was also a emotive songwriter, penning songs such as Billie's Blues, God Bless the Child and Long Gone Blues. Credit: Everett/Rex 23: JOAN BAEZ American singer Joan Baez first performed in coffeehouses in Massachusetts. Her distinctive vibrato vocal style, popular folk sound, outspoken political views – which included opposition to the Vietnam war – and relationship with Bob Dylan helped make her a key player in the roots revival of the Sixties, culminating in her performance at Woodstock in 1969. The 75-year-old has released over 30 albums, and continues to perform today. Credit: Claire Horton 22: JOAN ARMATRADING Born in Saint Kitts in the Caribbean, 64-year-old guitarist and singer Joan Armatrading moved to Birmingham with her family when she was three. She left school at 15 and was sacked from her first job at a tool manufacture for playing her guitar during tea breaks. Armatrading released her first album in 1972, and went on to have hits in the Seventies by blending jazz and folk, and in the Eighties with a more commercial pop sound. She won an Ivor Novello Award for her songwriting in 1996. Credit: Jason Sheldon/Rex Shutterstock 21: EDITH PIAF France's most successful musical export is often praised for her singing, but rarely given due credit for her songwriting. Piaf wrote the lyrics for a number of her best-known songs, including La Vie en Rose and Hymne à L'amour. Born in Paris as Édith Giovanna Gassion in 1915, she was reportedly blind from keratitis between the ages of three and seven, but allegedly recovered her sight after her grandmother, a brothel mistress, paid for Piaf to go on a religious pilgrimage. Adopting the stage-name "the little sparrow", Piaf found success from the late Thirties, until her death from liver cancer in 1963, aged 47. Credit: Roger-Viollet/Rex Features 20: PJ HARVEY One of Britain's most prolific, accomplished, and enduring female singer-songwriters, Polly Jean 'PJ' Harvey, MBE, has flourished even as her work has diversified. The Dorset-born 46-year-old started in 1988 as a vocalist and saxophone player in local band Automatic Dlamini, but became a popular solo alternative rock singer in the Nineties, before branching out into folk more recently. She remains the only artist to have been awarded the Mercury Music Prize twice – in 2001 and 2011, for albums Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake. Credit: Sipa Press/Rex Features 19: BARBRA STREISAND Barbra Streisand is one of the most successful entertainers of all time. The Brooklyn-born pop and jazz singer, actress and film director has sold 140 million albums worldwide and won eight Grammys – in addition to picking up two Academy Awards and a Tony Award. She is one of five people – alongside Frank Sinatra, Cher, Adele and Shirley Jones – to have won an Oscar and had a number one single in the US. Credit: Dan Balilty/AP 18: LADY GAGA New Yorker Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta – aka Lady Gaga – was originally hired in 2007 by Sony as a songwriter for other pop stars such as Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls. In 2008, she released her debut album, The Fame, which featured the UK number one singles Just Dance and Poker Face and has gone on to sell 15 million copies worldwide. The 29-year-old has been likened to Madonna thanks to her dance-oriented pop music, and her penchant for outrageous outfits, including the infamous "meat dress" she wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Credit: Canadian Press/Rex 17: SANDY DENNY London-born Sandy Denny became one of the pre-eminent British folk singers of the late Sixties when her distinctive vocals led the first four albums by folk-rock band Fairport Convention. She later had a successful solo career, and was voted Best British Female Singer in 1970 and 1971 by readers of now-defunct music magazine Melody Maker. Denny, who had had a history of cocaine abuse, died in 1978 from a brain haemorrhage, several weeks after falling down a flight of stairs while on holiday in Cornwall. Credit: Jon Lyons/Rex Features 16: TAYLOR SWIFT Swift's songwriting prowess has been widely recognised: the country star-turned-pop supremo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at just 22, after winning the Nashville Songwriters Association International Award for Songwriter/Artist of the Year six times (she's since gone on to take the prize again). However, the gongs were only confirming what her fans – or Swifties – have long known: that the Pennsylvania-via-Nashville singer conveys the matters of the heart more deftly than countless others, and will frequently make you dance, as well. The sales records speak for themselves: after Swift took a stand against making her music available on free streaming service Spotify in 2015, her fifth album, 1989 – named after her birth year – went on to generate the highest record sales figures in 12 years. Credit: Mark Metcalfe/Getty 15: STEVIE NICKS Stevie Nicks rose to prominence in the Seventies as a member of British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. She wrote some of the band's most popular songs, including Dreams and Rhiannon. In the Eighties, she launched a successful solo career, despite her well-documented addiction to cocaine and tranquilizer Klonopin, which culminated in her undergoing rehab in 1986 and 1994. The Arizona-born 67-year-old was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame along with her Fleetwood Mac bandmates in 2003. Credit: Rex Shutterstock 14: PEGGY LEE Arguably America's first female singer-songwriter, Peggy Lee entered the public consciousness at a time when it was highly unusual for commercial singers to write their own material. Born into a poor North Dakota family in 1920, Lee began her career at a local radio station, where she sang in exchange for food. She would collaborate on original songs with Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones, but is best known for her equally inventive cover-versions. Lee heavily rewrote Little Willie John's hit song, Fever; her lyrics are now more famous than those of the original. Lee later wrote the co-songs for Disney's The Lady and the Tramp. With her blonde hair and outspoken manner, "Miss Peggy" was reportedly the inspiration for The Muppet Show's Miss Piggy. Credit: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features 13: MADONNA The woman born Madonna Louise Ciccone is the biggest selling female artist ever, with 300 million records sold worldwide. From her beginnings as a rock drummer in The Breakfast Club in the late Seventies, through chart stardom with songs such as Into the Groove and Like a Prayer in the Eighties, up to her experimentation with dance and hip hop since the millennium, Madonna has tried most contemporary pop styles, mastering many. A current sold out world tour shows the ground-breaking 57-year-old is as popular as ever. Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty 12: JANIS JOPLIN One of the defining figures of the Sixties, Janis Joplin gained world-wide recognition thanks to her performances at the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. The Texan singer died of a heroin overdose in 1970, aged just 27. Joplin's raw, bluesy vocals and quietly inventive writing have had a profound influence on several generations of musicians. Credit: Brian Moody/Rex Features 11: BJORK Icelander Bjork is known for her eclectic music, which has included forays into rock, folk and dance, as well as her distinctive singing voice and fashion style. Her first album was released in Iceland in 1979 when she was 12, but she became famous in the UK for the albums Debut (1993) and Post (1995) – the latter of which spawned the single It's Oh So Quiet (a remake of a 1951 song by Betty Hutton). She is also a four-time Brit award winner. Credit: Bjork 10: AMY WINEHOUSE London-born singer Amy Winehouse's second album, 2006's Back to Black, which mixed R&B, jazz, soul and pop, has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and helped her win a Brit Award and five Grammys. Her sultry vocals, personal lyrics and distinctive beehive hairdo made the 27-year-old former theatre school student one of the world's most popular, and recognisable, singer-songwriters before her death from alcohol poisoning in 2011. Credit: Universal 9: ADELE Tottenham-born singer Adele Adkins got her big break after a friend posted her demo on social networking site MySpace in 2006. Her debut album, 19, was certified four times platinum in the UK, but it was the follow up, 21, which established the 24-year-old as a global star, selling over 25 million copies to date. After giving the James Bond franchise its first Oscar with her Bond theme, Skyfall, in 2013 she took a brief break from the music industry – only to return with her third album, 25, in November 2015. Credit: Guy Levy/BBC / PA 8: NINA SIMONE Born to a preacher's family in North Carolina, Nina Simone – the stage name of Eunice Kathleen Waymon – was originally known in the late-Fifties and early-Sixties for her jazzy mix of gospel, pop and blues. From 1964, however, Simone, with songs such as Mississippi Goddam and To Be Young, Gifted and Black, became key to the Civil Rights movement in the USA. She had released over 40 albums before her death in France in 2003. Credit: Getty 7: CHRISSIE HYNDE Ohio-born Christine "Chrissie" Hynde had been an NME writer, a shop assistant in Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's King's Road clothes shop SEX, and a member of several punk bands before she formed The Pretenders in 1978. The band, driven by Hydne's punchy rock and new wave songs, including Brass in Pocket and Don't Get Me Wrong, made them successful on both sides of the Atlantic over the next two decades. Credit: Joel Ryan/AP 6: KIRSTY MACCOLL The English singer-songwriter is best remembered for her bitter yet passionate duet with Shane MacGowan on the Pogues's recurring Christmas hit Fairytale of New York. She released several acclaimed albums in the Eighties, and was the writer behind Tracey Ullman's They Don't Know, a top 10 hit in the UK and US. MacColl was still releasing music when she was killed in a boating accident while on holiday in Mexico in 2000. In 2001, a bench in Soho Square was engraved with her lyrics "One day I'll be waiting there / No empty bench in Soho Square". Credit: Brian Rasic/Rex Features 5: CAROLE KING Starting in the late-1950s, Carole King – born Carol Klein in New York in 1942 – initially collaborated with her former husband, lyricist Gerry Goffin, on songs that became big hits for other artists, including Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and Take Good Care of My Baby. In 1962 she had a hit of her own, with It Might As Well Rain Until September, but would not focus on a solo career until 1970. Her second album, Tapestry (1971), which featured You've Got a Friend, went on to sell 25 million copies. Credit: Elissa Kline 4: DOLLY PARTON Over a 57-year career in which the prolific singer-songwriter has written more than 3,000 songs and sold over 100 million copies of her 90 odd albums, Dolly Parton has rightly become known as the Queen of Country Music. The Tennessee-born 66-year-old started out singing on local radio stations in the Fifties, and was a country star by the late-Sixties. Her songs Jolene and 9 to 5 are country-pop staples, while in 1973 Parton wrote I Will Always Love You, later memorably covered by Whitney Houston. Credit: Geoff Pugh/Telegraph 3: PATTI SMITH A key figure of the New York punk scene in the Seventies, Chicago-born Patti Smith had toyed with careers in art, acting and journalism before focussing on music. Her 1975 debut album Horses mixed rock and poetry, would go on to influence bands from REM and The Smiths to Garbage and KT Tunstall. Credit: Robert Mapplethorpe 2: KATE BUSH English singer-songwriter Kate Bush was just 19 when her debut single, Wuthering Heights, topped the British charts for four weeks in 1978. Since then she has released 10 albums and had 25 top-40 singles with her arty pop. In 1987, Bush won a Brit award for best British female, and in 2002 she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for outstanding contribution to British music. Fellow singers such as PJ Harvey, Florence and the Machine and Bat for Lashes's Natasha Khan have all identified her as a major influence on their work. Credit: Goodway/Rex Shutterstock 1: JONI MITCHELL Canadian Roberta Joan Anderson (aka Joni Mitchell) began her career busking in Toronto but went on to become one of the leading figures in folk music in the Sixties and Seventies. For her pure vocals and thoughtful lyrics, which range from socially conscious to deeply confessional, Mitchell is seen as one of the voices of her generation. Her 1971 album Blue often ranks well on lists of the greatest albums of all time. 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(Joe Nipote)
Everone loves a clown, especially one with the personality of a surly NYC cabbie (except this one can speak English). The Clown twists up balloon animals and poets for the kiddies at El Marrows Day of the Dead festivities. Hes so dedicated he can keep his carpal-tunnel syndrome going despite a complete lack of tendons. And he can also provide Manny with a limitless supply of dead worms (unless Manny has five already, then theres a limit).
(Rachel Reenstra)
Secretary to Don Copal. Oh, sorry. Administrative assistant to Don Copal. (How is that any better?) Eva is one sharp cookie who keeps her edge by verbally fencing with Manny. But dont be fooled by her administratively-assistantarial looks. Eva has far more on her mind than filing her...distal phalanges? Eva is recruited by Salvador to spy on the DOD and tips him off about Mannys activities. Eva ditches the DOD in favor of working with the LSA full time and eventually takes charge of the LSAs communication system and small appliance repair business.