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Top 20 Queer Music Artists of 2016
Posted by Ryan Crawford | Dec 26, 2016 | Music, Reviews
We lost David Bowie and wept. Then Prince passed away and we couldn't imagine how it could get any worse. And then we said goodbye to Sharon Jones, Leonard Cohen, Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, John Berry of the Beastie Boys, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Leon Russell, Vanity, George Michael, and DEAR GOD SOMEONE UNPLUG 2016 BEFORE IT CLAIMS US ALL.
In the midst of so much heartbreak in the music industry, a creative zeitgeist also occurred. Queer singers and songwriters are producing some inspiring new music during this troubling time of political distrust and slanderous—sometimes violent—backlash against LGBTQ Americans.
This "rainbow renaissance" is a beacon of hope for many, perhaps especially young sexual minorities who don't yet have a sturdy support network. Here are the year's top 20 queer artists and the brilliant new music they released to excite, titillate, grieve, groove, and awaken.
Lyon Hart
Highlight: Falling for You
Releasing the single "Falling for You" on August 1st of this year, Lyon Hart has instantly become a songwriter to watch. Vivid harmonies, effortless falsetto, and a spectacularly choreographed video have turned this single into a gay boy's emotional happy meal.
Highlight: Hang out with You
Most famous for the catchy "she keeps me warm" hook she contributed to Macklemore's marriage equality anthem "Same Love," Lambert is a Seattle local and songwriting gem who uses her musical platform for bettering the rights of—and attitudes toward—the world's queer population. Plus, who doesn't love a feel-good video about spending the day with a golden retriever?
Rayvon Owen
Highlight: Can't Fight It
A former American Idol contestant, Owen simultaneously released this debut single and came out to the public on February 12th this year. We've been sopping wet ever since. With shades of Miguel, Jussie Smollett, and Betty Who, Owen's buttery voice is a welcome treat for a sexy evening. (And come on. Those lips. Jesus.)
Highlight: 333
The punk rock band released their new studio album Shape Shift with Me on September 16th, showcasing the growling guitar-fueled follow-up to their successful Transgender Dysphoria Blues album released in 2014. While Against Me! may be best known for the single "I Was a Teenage Anarchist," they've got an upbeat-yet-angsty punk anthem in "333," the video for which stars lesbian icon Natasha Lyonne.
Highlight: Meteorite
Years and Years exploded last year with the quirky video "Desire" featuring Tove Lo, and is riding the comet tail of success with their new single "Meteorite," featured on the "Bridget Jones's Baby" soundtrack. Olly Alexander's sequined backless ice dancing costume is the perfect gift for the sugarplum fairy in your life.
Highlight: The Big Big Beat
While Banks is infamous for petty Twitter battles and publicized altercations in which she shouts the slur "faggot" on several occasions, she is inarguably a rap prodigy. Think the bisexual female version of Kanye West with a little less ego and a lot more rage. Many former fans now refuse to support her music after her unapologetic use of homophobic language, and this has certainly affected Banks' career. But she continues to remain in the conversation long after releasing her most popular hit "212" in 2012.
Highlight: Home
This year, the YouTube sensation and former Disney star released a deeply personal hour-long video album, Straight Outta Oz. The storybook project includes similar melancholy, grit, soulful vocals, and artistic cinematography found in Beyoncé's Lemonade, but with more whimsy (featured in the Drag Race star-studded video "Expensive") and a distinct milieu commonly shared among young gay men (as shown in the heartbreaking track "Over the Rainbow.") The album boasts partnerships with Bob the Drag Queen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jordin Sparks, The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger, Amber Riley of Glee, and more queer-beloved icons. An incredible dancer, a breathtaking singer, and a skilled actor, Hall is literally one of the most talented men alive.
Highlight: A Woman's Face: Sonnet 20
Wainwright developed the brilliant conceptual album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets, released April 22nd of this year. A veritable triumph for his long career of musical genius and his resonant laser beam voice, the album includes diverse sung versions of The Bard's sonnets, punctuated by spoken word tracks from actors like Carrie Fisher and William Shatner reading other sonnets aloud. Wainwright's track featuring Florence Welch ("When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes: Sonnet 29") is inspiringly light and beautifully composed, while "A Woman's Face" remains Wainwright's clear standout for the album.
Highlight: High School Never Ends
Blanco has performed with a variety of pronouns throughout their career, but Blanco's music is consistently incredible. Their self-titled album Mykki brings us the filthy deep beat track "The Plug Won't," while "Loner," featuring Jean Deaux, gives equal parts catchy swag and a poignant critique on isolation despite millions of social media followers and fans. But most epic of all is the track "High School Never Ends," rendered by a graphically violent and hauntingly beautiful video depicting the love between a trans woman of color and a neo-nazi skinhead, opening with a German translation of a famous Shakespearean line from Romeo and Juliet. Perfectly timed for 2016's divided America and the raging battle between marginalized peoples and the white supremacists who would hold us down.
Telly Leung
Highlight: What Makes a Man
Starring in George Takei's acclaimed musical "Allegiance" about a Japanese American family imprisoned in an internment camp during WWII, Leung shines as a multitalented performer who uses his platform for meaningful social commentary. The Broadway soundtrack, released January 29th of this year, includes Leung's dramatic and gripping renditions of original music for the stage. If his gorgeous face wasn't enough to make you swoon, his incredible back-row voice will finish the job.
Highlight: New Phone (Who Dis)
Literally every single track on Cakes' new album Hedonism is fantastic, with notable standouts including "Up out My Face" and "New Phone." Channeling Rye Rye's coy rap eccentricity and the deep pocket groove of Ludacris with Twista's crazy-fast articulation, Cakes is the queer hip hop legend we've been waiting for.
Highlight: Pink + White
Ocean's Blonde is arguably one of the best records of 2016. Period. It pairs best with introspection, a steady pot vape, and chill company. While the lyrics of the track "Good Guy" reinforce his love affairs with men, the R&B musical standout is "Pink + White" featuring a secret backup vocal from Beyoncé.
Tyler Glenn
Highlight: Midnight
The queer lead singer of Neon Trees has set out on a solo career this year with his first album Excommunication, so named after his forced expulsion from the Mormon Church for being gay. The emotional powerhouse "Midnight" provides a dual glimpse of a relationship torn asunder and an existential crisis of faith, featuring a vocal performance reminiscent of Freddie Mercury's powerful musical phrasing met with a smoky contemporary tone.
Highlight: High Enough
Lowell's new EP album Part 1: Paris YK is raw, dark, and evocative. An openly bisexual Canadian and creative force who has collaborated with Icona Pop and Grandtheft, she's everything you want to be. Her song "High Enough" energetically rides a refreshing wave of goth-esque electro pop.
Highlight: The Love Within
Including this feel-good tune, Bloc Party's album Hymns offers elevating, upbeat tracks that will surely be remixed in queer dance clubs everywhere. The band's lead singer Kele Okereke has released incredible collections of solo work in past years, breaking off from the band's peppy rock beats and experimenting with a darker shade of electro. Timeless talent.
Steve Grand
Highlight: Look Away
Pairing up with Eli Lieb, Grand recorded the gay answer to Christina Aguilera's duet with A Great Big World, "Say Something." The gay country/pop crossover has stolen the hearts of white gay men and their mothers across America, and while his brand may border on vanilla (when he's not modeling swimwear), Grand is a truly powerful singer and magnetic performer. More! More!
Highlight: Resurrection
With media attention focused on the eclipse that is Nicki Minaj, female rappers have an uphill climb in the industry to get their albums sold and their concerts attended, but Angel Haze's deft delivery, thought-provoking lyrics, and smooth singing voice laud her as an incredible talent to watch. This new single of hers is a veritable grenade.
Highlight: Bad 4 Us
The vlog partnership between best friends Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi has led to the duo's breakaway debut from their hugely successful acapella group Pentatonix. With a cute pop hit like "Bad 4 Us," these insanely gifted vocalists and YouTube megastars are destined for a blossoming musical career as Superfruit.
Highlight: Symmetry of Two Hearts
Welsh musician Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) released the album Choreography on July 15th this year, which featured vocal contributions from Elton John, Mykal Kilgore, Alan Cumming, and Scissor Sisters alumni Jake Shears and Ana Matronic. (BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH!?) Then, because he must be a masochist for the recording studio, he released a follow-up EP cover album called Cinematography—a compilation of famous movie soundtrack songs—on November 25th. Bright Light Bright Light is a striking poet with a quiet charisma. His matured lyrics are given the spotlight with his pure voice and simple stylings, whether it's on peppy songs like "Symmetry of Two Hearts" or his tear-inducing rendition of "Wicked Little Town" from the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
Highlight: The Greatest
This Is Acting marks Sia's 7th complete studio album, including this heart-wrenching tribute video to the victims of the Pulse massacre that occurred this past June. With additional empowering songs like "Alive" and "Cheap Thrills," Sia continues to soar as an essential, cherished songwriter of our time.
And there you have it, 20 of the year's most prolific queer music artists. Support LGBTQ talent by checking out these musicians' YouTube pages, streaming them on Spotify, purchasing their songs, and/or hitting up their next concert in your area!
Interested in the queer Seattle music scene specifically? Check out Sam Chapman's video featuring the best LGBTQ music by local artists in 2016.
Who's your favorite queer musician of the year? Let us know in the comments or on social media!
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Top 20 Queer Music Artists of 2016

by Ryan Crawford, Queerspace Magazine
December 26, 2016

We lost David Bowie and wept. Then Prince passed away and we couldn't imagine how it could get any worse. And then we said goodbye to Sharon Jones, Leonard Cohen, Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, John Berry of the Beastie Boys, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Leon Russell, Vanity, George Michael, and DEAR GOD SOMEONE UNPLUG 2016 BEFORE IT CLAIMS US ALL.

In the midst of so much heartbreak in the music industry, a creative zeitgeist also occurred. Queer singers and songwriters are producing some inspiring new music during this troubling time of political distrust and slanderous—sometimes violent—backlash against LGBTQ Americans.

This "rainbow renaissance" is a beacon of hope for many, perhaps especially young sexual minorities who don't yet have a sturdy support network. Here are the year's top 20 queer artists and the brilliant new music they released to excite, titillate, grieve, groove, and awaken.

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Lyon Hart

Highlight: Falling for You

https://youtu.be/1qMWcdqVljc

Releasing the single "Falling for You" on August 1st of this year, Lyon Hart has instantly become a songwriter to watch. Vivid harmonies, effortless falsetto, and a spectacularly choreographed video have turned this single into a gay boy's emotional happy meal.

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Mary Lambert

Highlight: Hang out with You
 Most famous for the catchy "she keeps me warm" hook she contributed to Macklemore's marriage equality anthem "Same Love," Lambert is a Seattle local and songwriting gem who uses her musical platform for bettering the rights of—and attitudes toward—the world's queer population. Plus, who doesn't love a feel-good video about spending the day with a golden retriever?

Rayvon Owen

Highlight: Can't Fight It
 A former American Idol contestant, Owen simultaneously released this debut single and came out to the public on February 12th this year. We've been sopping wet ever since. With shades of Miguel, Jussie Smollett, and Betty Who, Owen's buttery voice is a welcome treat for a sexy evening. (And come on. Those lips. Jesus.)

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Against Me!

Highlight: 333

https://youtu.be/KUWi8lVaGcE

The punk rock band released their new studio album Shape Shift with Me on September 16th, showcasing the growling guitar-fueled follow-up to their successful Transgender Dysphoria Blues album released in 2014. While Against Me! may be best known for the single "I Was a Teenage Anarchist," they've got an upbeat-yet-angsty punk anthem in "333," the video for which stars lesbian icon Natasha Lyonne.

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Years and Years

Highlight: Meteorite
 Years and Years exploded last year with the quirky video "Desire" featuring Tove Lo, and is riding the comet tail of success with their new single "Meteorite," featured on the "Bridget Jones's Baby" soundtrack. Olly Alexander's sequined backless ice dancing costume is the perfect gift for the sugarplum fairy in your life.

Azealia Banks

Highlight: The Big Big Beat
 While Banks is infamous for petty Twitter battles and publicized altercations in which she shouts the slur "faggot" on several occasions, she is inarguably a rap prodigy. Think the bisexual female version of Kanye West with a little less ego and a lot more rage. Many former fans now refuse to support her music after her unapologetic use of homophobic language, and this has certainly affected Banks' career. But she continues to remain in the conversation long after releasing her most popular hit "212" in 2012.

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Todrick Hall

Highlight: Home

https://youtu.be/zlZuGOPltYU

This year, the YouTube sensation and former Disney star released a deeply personal hour-long video album, Straight Outta Oz. The storybook project includes similar melancholy, grit, soulful vocals, and artistic cinematography found in Beyoncé's Lemonade, but with more whimsy (featured in the Drag Race star-studded video "Expensive") and a distinct milieu commonly shared among young gay men (as shown in the heartbreaking track "Over the Rainbow.") The album boasts partnerships with Bob the Drag Queen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jordin Sparks, The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger, Amber Riley of Glee, and more queer-beloved icons. An incredible dancer, a breathtaking singer, and a skilled actor, Hall is literally one of the most talented men alive.

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Rufus Wainwright

Highlight: A Woman's Face: Sonnet 20
 Wainwright developed the brilliant conceptual album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets, released April 22nd of this year. A veritable triumph for his long career of musical genius and his resonant laser beam voice, the album includes diverse sung versions of The Bard's sonnets, punctuated by spoken word tracks from actors like Carrie Fisher and William Shatner reading other sonnets aloud. Wainwright's track featuring Florence Welch ("When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes: Sonnet 29") is inspiringly light and beautifully composed, while "A Woman's Face" remains Wainwright's clear standout for the album.

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Mykki Blanco

Highlight: High School Never Ends

https://youtu.be/cNGR4ciDmTA

Blanco has performed with a variety of pronouns throughout their career, but Blanco's music is consistently incredible. Their self-titled album Mykki brings us the filthy deep beat track "The Plug Won't," while "Loner," featuring Jean Deaux, gives equal parts catchy swag and a poignant critique on isolation despite millions of social media followers and fans. But most epic of all is the track "High School Never Ends," rendered by a graphically violent and hauntingly beautiful video depicting the love between a trans woman of color and a neo-nazi skinhead, opening with a German translation of a famous Shakespearean line from Romeo and Juliet. Perfectly timed for 2016's divided America and the raging battle between marginalized peoples and the white supremacists who would hold us down.

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Telly Leung

Highlight: What Makes a Man
 Starring in George Takei's acclaimed musical "Allegiance" about a Japanese American family imprisoned in an internment camp during WWII, Leung shines as a multitalented performer who uses his platform for meaningful social commentary. The Broadway soundtrack, released January 29th of this year, includes Leung's dramatic and gripping renditions of original music for the stage. If his gorgeous face wasn't enough to make you swoon, his incredible back-row voice will finish the job.

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Cakes Da Killa

Highlight: New Phone (Who Dis)

Literally every single track on Cakes' new album Hedonism is fantastic, with notable standouts including "Up out My Face" and "New Phone." Channeling Rye Rye's coy rap eccentricity and the deep pocket groove of Ludacris with Twista's crazy-fast articulation, Cakes is the queer hip hop legend we've been waiting for.

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Frank Ocean

Highlight: Pink + White
 Ocean's Blonde is arguably one of the best records of 2016. Period. It pairs best with introspection, a steady pot vape, and chill company. While the lyrics of the track "Good Guy" reinforce his love affairs with men, the R&B musical standout is "Pink + White" featuring a secret backup vocal from Beyoncé.

Tyler Glenn

Highlight: Midnight
 The queer lead singer of Neon Trees has set out on a solo career this year with his first album Excommunication, so named after his forced expulsion from the Mormon Church for being gay. The emotional powerhouse "Midnight" provides a dual glimpse of a relationship torn asunder and an existential crisis of faith, featuring a vocal performance reminiscent of Freddie Mercury's powerful musical phrasing met with a smoky contemporary tone.

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Lowell

Highlight: High Enough

https://youtu.be/T4qdrjom6Lo

Lowell's new EP album Part 1: Paris YK is raw, dark, and evocative. An openly bisexual Canadian and creative force who has collaborated with Icona Pop and Grandtheft, she's everything you want to be. Her song "High Enough" energetically rides a refreshing wave of goth-esque electro pop.

[/wc_box]

Bloc Party

Highlight: The Love Within
 Including this feel-good tune, Bloc Party's album Hymns offers elevating, upbeat tracks that will surely be remixed in queer dance clubs everywhere. The band's lead singer Kele Okereke has released incredible collections of solo work in past years, breaking off from the band's peppy rock beats and experimenting with a darker shade of electro. Timeless talent.

Steve Grand

Highlight: Look Away
 Pairing up with Eli Lieb, Grand recorded the gay answer to Christina Aguilera's duet with A Great Big World, "Say Something." The gay country/pop crossover has stolen the hearts of white gay men and their mothers across America, and while his brand may border on vanilla (when he's not modeling swimwear), Grand is a truly powerful singer and magnetic performer. More! More!

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Angel Haze

Highlight: Resurrection

https://youtu.be/6RrTxr5wyVg

With media attention focused on the eclipse that is Nicki Minaj, female rappers have an uphill climb in the industry to get their albums sold and their concerts attended, but Angel Haze's deft delivery, thought-provoking lyrics, and smooth singing voice laud her as an incredible talent to watch. This new single of hers is a veritable grenade.

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Superfruit

Highlight: Bad 4 Us
 The vlog partnership between best friends Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi has led to the duo's breakaway debut from their hugely successful acapella group Pentatonix. With a cute pop hit like "Bad 4 Us," these insanely gifted vocalists and YouTube megastars are destined for a blossoming musical career as Superfruit.

Bright Light Bright Light

Highlight: Symmetry of Two Hearts
 Welsh musician Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) released the album Choreography on July 15th this year, which featured vocal contributions from Elton John, Mykal Kilgore, Alan Cumming, and Scissor Sisters alumni Jake Shears and Ana Matronic. (BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH!?) Then, because he must be a masochist for the recording studio, he released a follow-up EP cover album called Cinematography—a compilation of famous movie soundtrack songs—on November 25th. Bright Light Bright Light is a striking poet with a quiet charisma. His matured lyrics are given the spotlight with his pure voice and simple stylings, whether it's on peppy songs like "Symmetry of Two Hearts" or his tear-inducing rendition of "Wicked Little Town" from the musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."

[wc_box color="secondary" text_align="left"]

Sia

Highlight: The Greatest

https://youtu.be/GKSRyLdjsPA

This Is Acting marks Sia's 7th complete studio album, including this heart-wrenching tribute video to the victims of the Pulse massacre that occurred this past June. With additional empowering songs like "Alive" and "Cheap Thrills," Sia continues to soar as an essential, cherished songwriter of our time.

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And there you have it, 20 of the year's most prolific queer music artists. Support LGBTQ talent by checking out these musicians' YouTube pages, streaming them on Spotify, purchasing their songs, and/or hitting up their next concert in your area!

Interested in the queer Seattle music scene specifically? Check out Sam Chapman's video featuring the best LGBTQ music by local artists in 2016.

Who's your favorite queer musician of the year? Let us know in the comments or on social media!

This article first appeared on Queerspace Magazine and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Q: Raster layer with unique vector for each raster cell I am working on a WebGIS tool that interprets local geology. From more than 70 asc-files, I would like to create one raster layer that contains in each raster cell the local geology, e.g. as a 2 x n vector with a code for the present formations and their thickness.
First of all, is this a good idea or is it better to query all layers in the WebGIS tool for the specific location?
I tried already to create a raster file, where each cell value was linked to a vector in a sort of attribute table. However, I was unable to save this table in Python, unless as a txt-file, and directly link it to the raster file.
Is there a specific raster type that does this?

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Q: error when runing deploying cherrypy with nginx I created an application in flask and i deployed it with cherrypy
def run_server(app):

# Enable WSGI access logging via Paste
app_logged = TransLogger(app)
app.config['JSON_AS_ASCII'] = False
# Mount the WSGI callable object (app) on the root directory
cherrypy.tree.graft(app_logged, '/')

# Set the configuration of the web server
cherrypy.config.update({
    'engine.autoreload.on': True,
    'log.screen': True,
    'server.socket_port': 5050,
    'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0'
})

# Start the CherryPy WSGI web server
cherrypy.engine.start()
cherrypy.engine.block()

if __name__ == "__main__":
# Init spark context and load libraries
sc = init_spark_context()
app = create_app(sc)

# start web server
run_server(app)

I locked the port 5050 using nginx by adding this code
server {
    listen 5050;
    listen [::]:5050;
    server_name _;
    root /var/www/html;
    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

}

to /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
I got this error when i run cherrypy ( or spark-submit)
port 5050 is not free

A: nginx & cherrypy (Python) are independent HTTP servers, so they each need their own port. You're seeing the port 5050 is not free error because those processes are competing for the same one. (In this case it looks like the nginx process started up first, so it "beat" cherrypy to the punch). Here's the relevant config:
cherrypy
cherrypy.config.update({
    'engine.autoreload.on': True,
    'log.screen': True,
    'server.socket_port': 5050,      # <-- port 5050
    'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0'
})

nginx
server {
    listen 5050;  # <-- port 5050

Try something like this in your nginx config instead:
server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name localhost;

    upstream my_cherrypy_svc {
        server localhost:5050;
    }

    location /foo {
        proxy_pass http://my_cherrypy_svc;
        proxy_redirect default;
    }
}

This creates an nginx server running on port 8080 that proxies /foo requests to the cherrypy server running on port 5050.
In other words, for a hypothetical endpoint /bar implemented in your Flask app, you should see the same result for both of these calls:
curl localhost:5050/bar      # hits the cherrypy server directly, bypassing nginx
curl localhost:8080/foo/bar  # hits nginx, which matches on the `foo` prefix and forwards the request to cherrypy

This is a little contrived but hopefully illustrates the main issue: nginx and cherrypy are independent servers, so they each need a port of their own. (This pattern is especially handy if you have multiple cherrypy servers running at once, because all internet traffic can be directed to nginx, which can then dispatch calls to the appropriate cherrypy server.)


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Q: For a partition $\mathcal{D}$, $\forall A\in \sigma(\mathcal{D}), A = \bigcup_{k \in \mathcal{N}} D_k$? Let be $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)$ a measure space and $\mathcal{D}= \{D_1, D_2, D_3,... \}$, a enumerable colection of disjoint subsets of $\Omega$, a partition of $\Omega$, that is, $\Omega = \bigcup_{i \in \mathbb{N}}D_i$. Let be $\sigma(\mathcal{D})$ the sigma algebra generated by $\mathcal{D}$. Remember that $\sigma(\mathcal{D}) = \bigcap_{\mathcal{D}\subset\mathcal{A}},\mathcal{A}$, where $\mathcal{A}$ is any $\sigma$- algebra. With this definition, I would like verificate the following:
$$\forall A\in \sigma(\mathcal{D}), A = \bigcup_{k \in \mathcal{N}} D_k$$
whith $N \subseteq \mathbb{N}$.
Is it true? I can do something as the following:
$$A\subseteq \Omega \Rightarrow A = \bigcup_{k \in \mathcal{N}} D_k \cap A.$$
but nothing more that this. Some others tips?

A: Hint: If you show $\mathcal{A_*}:=\{\bigcup_{k \in \mathcal{N}} D_k : \mathcal{N} \subseteq \mathbb{N}\}$ is a $\sigma$-algebra containing $\mathcal{D}$, then $\sigma(\mathcal{D}) \subseteq \mathcal{A}_*$.
The other direction $\mathcal{A}_* \subseteq \sigma(\mathcal{D})$ is easy to show.


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Our commitment to Safeguarding Keeping Children Safe 2021 - links Church of England Digital Charter Online safety policy and links for parents 2020
Hugh Joicey C of E First School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy available to view on this website.
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies, when there are concerns about a child's welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child's welfare.
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Code of Conduct - Staff - 2021
We actively support the Government's Prevent Agenda to counter radicalism and extremism.
Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Jacqueline Dalrymple (Headteacher). Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead is Anna Carr (EYFS Leader). The Governor with responsibility for safeguarding in our school in Adele Pearson- Atkinson.
Our Safeguarding Committee of Governors meets annually, or sooner if required, to ensure Safeguarding procedures in our school are secure, vigilant and up to date.
The Northumberland Safeguarding Children Board can be viewed via this link
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Photographs and Videos
Whilst lots of parents and carers really enjoy seeing photos and videos of their children's school life we are very mindful of our duty of care towards all our pupils. We take the issue of safeguarding very seriously and this includes the use of photographic and video images.
GDPR As part of our duty to work in line with GDPR, all parents must complete a permission form to state whether they agree or disagree for their children's photos and information to be used.
Any photographs or videos taken by parents, carers and relatives at school productions, sports days or other events are for the enjoyment of individual families. They must not be used in any way that could potentially place a child at risk. This would include publishing images in any form of print or on the internet including social networking sites. This is emphasised before concerts and shows.
We understand that in exceptional circumstances a parent or carer may not wish their child to be photographed or videoed in this way.
Occasionally, the local press will be invited to take photographs of school events and special achievements. We like to use photographs of our children on our website, on Seesaw, in school documents, for parent information meetings, newsletters and on our whiteboards around the school. This is done with the permission of parents and carers.

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Police have released the name of the man who was gunned down in his Near East Side apartment after answering a knock at his door yesterday afternoon.
Lemarcus D. Skipper, 22, died shortly after he was taken to Grant Medical Center. He was shot multiple times, Sgt. Eric Pilya of the homicide squad said.
Pilya said Skipper was shot after opening the door at 3:45 p.m. at 155 N. 17th St., Apt. G. At least two men barged in and one of them fired a gun, Pilya said.
Not long after the shooting, a patrol officer caught a man at the nearby corner of N. 20th Street and Mount Vernon Avenue. Police said it appeared that he had fled the apartment, and they questioned him at headquarters.
"At this point in time we're treating him as a witness," Pilya said last night.
Skipper lived with his godmother, who was in the tiny apartment when the shooting occurred. She identified the man captured by police after the shooting, Pilya said.
Police said they are following up leads in order to identify the suspects. The slaying is the 27th in the city this year.


The United States was badly outnumbered in the General Assembly. There were just 67 countries who could be said to be on "our side" in that they didn't vote against our position.
No, I was referring to the General Assembly's greatest disgrace, its 1975 vote deciding that "Zionism is a form of racism." Then the vote was 72 in favor to 35 against, with 32 abstentions. So we had 67 on "our side" back then—but the UN membership was then 144 countries, about 50 lower than now. Otherwise put, the 1975 resolution was supported by about half the General Assembly membership, but this week's vote was supported by two-thirds. Thus is moral progress measured at the United Nations.
No major country voted "No" with the United States. Some abstained, starting with Canada and Australia. There was some good news, in that several European nations (Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia) also abstained. So also did some in this hemisphere (Canada was joined by Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, as well as several Central American and Caribbean nations). Israeli prime minister Netanyahu's diplomatic efforts in Africa paid off to some degree: Togo voted no, while Rwanda, Malawi, Uganda, Lesotho, Equatorial Guinea and South Sudan abstained, and Kenya was absent. Of course, many of those voting against the United States, from Syria to Cuba, Russia to China, North Korea to Venezuela, are hostile regimes whose vote is predictable and morally worthless.
Nevertheless, the list of countries supporting the resolution is remarkable: supposed American friends such as the UK, France, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Japan, and Denmark. Their vote was a gratuitous insult because this was a resolution in essence denouncing the United States, rather than the usual U.N. resolution against Israel. I well recall the 2005 cartoon controversy, when a Danish newspaper published a caricature of Mohammed and Denmark's embassies were threatened across the globe. The Danish prime minister said this was Denmark's worst international relations incident since the Second World War. Denmark turned to the United States for help. We gave it. Gratitude appears to be a wasting asset. What would it have cost them all to abstain?
The text includes for example this preambular language: "Bearing in mind the specific status of the Holy City of Jerusalem and, in particular, the need for the protection and preservation of the unique spiritual, religious and cultural dimensions of the City…." This is odious because the United States obviously always bears this in mind, as does Israel—which in fact has protected the Old City and kept its religious sites open to all. Prior to 1967, Jordan despoiled Jewish religious sites there and prevented Jews from visiting them, a situation about which the United Nations never once protested—of course.
Some will argue that it is unfair to compare these two resolutions. I think not. Both continue the General Assembly's record of infamous maltreatment of Israel. No other country has ever been singled out for abuse in such a manner, and now the United States is abused for the crime of acknowledging the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. Only one nation on earth is not permitted to choose its capital, and the refusal to allow Israel that right is part and parcel of the delegitimization campaign against Israel of which this resolution is itself a part.
Now what? The United States has said there will be a price to pay for insulting us in this way. Withholding aid is unlikely to be the way forward. There are too many cases where humanitarian aid is needed and there is no reason to punish desperately poor people because of a vote their rulers made. In other cases American security interests are too important. But there are ways to make our displeasure known, such as canceling or delaying the visit of a top-level American official, or the visit to the United States by a foreign official. Downgrading ties quite informally is also possible: some foreign minister comes, and finds that unaccountably the President, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of State are unavailable, and that the mid-level officials who are available have just a few minutes rather than the time requested. Requests that are too important to deny can be slowed down.
A creative diplomat will find plenty of ways to show that we remember and resent this gratuitous insult to our country.
Elliott Abrams is a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, He served in foreign policy positions for US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Mr Abrams visited Auckland in 2015 and talked about settlements, the Syrian refugee crisis, and anti-Semitism. This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Reprinted here with kind permission.


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Q: How to get color of svg linearGradient at specific position I have a linear gradient that is used as percentage bar with a small ellipse that moves along the bar to show the current completion percentage. The completion percentage is updated via an AngularJS binding that calls a function.
I need to change the color of the ellipse depending on the color of the gradient bar in the current position. Let'say the percentage is 80%, I need to get the color of the gradient at the 80% position.
Is that possible?
<svg height="20px" width="100%">
<defs>
    <linearGradient id="gradient" x1="0%" y1="0%" x2="100%" y2="0%">
        <stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:rgb(255,0,0);stop-opacity:1" />
        <stop offset="50%" style="stop-color:rgb(255,255,0);stop-opacity:1" />
        <stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:rgb(79,189,0);stop-opacity:1" />
    </linearGradient>
</defs>
<rect width="100%" height="3px" y="50%" fill="url(#gradient)" style="stroke-width:0" />
<rect width="30px" height="20px" x="{{calculateProfilePercentage()}}%" rx="8" ry="8" fill="rgb(249,166,31)" style="stroke-width:0" />
</svg>

A: AFAIK you cannot read a value off from a gradient as the gradient object do not expose methods to do so.
You can however create an off-screen canvas, draw a gradient and read the pixel value from there.
For example, lets create an object GradientReader. This allows us to instantiate it and embed methods and so forth:
function GradientReader(colorStops) {

    const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');   // create canvas element
    const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');               // get context
    const gr = ctx.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 101, 0); // create a gradient

    canvas.width = 101;                                // 101 pixels incl.
    canvas.height = 1;                                 // as the gradient

    for (const { stop, color } of colorStops) {               // add color stops
        gr.addColorStop(stop, color);
    }

    ctx.fillStyle = gr;                                // set as fill style
    ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 101, 1);                        // draw a single line

    // method to get color of gradient at % position [0, 100]
    return {
        getColor: (pst) => ctx.getImageData(pst|0, 0, 1, 1).data
    };
}

Now we can setup the object with the color stops.
const gr = new GradientReader([{stop: 0.0, color: '#f00'},
                               {stop: 0.5, color: '#ff0'},
                               {stop: 1.0, color: 'rgb(79,189,0)'}]);

We now have an object which mimics the gradient and all we need to do now is to call its method getColor() with a percentage value:
const col = gr.getColor(pst);
el.style.backgroundColor = `rgb(${col[0]}, ${col[1]}, ${col[2]})`;

FIDDLE
Modify to your liking/needs.
Hope this helps!

A: Here's my answer using the answer above in Angular 8 and some ES6 techniques.The new percentage is coming in through an observerable.
The HTML-file contains an SVG with two attributes linked to the class. Something like this:
<svg>
 <circle [attr.stroke]='strokeColor' [attr.fill]='fillColor'>
</svg>

app's Typescript file:
import {Component, Input, OnInit} from '@angular/core';
import {Observable} from 'rxjs';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-real-time-indicator',
  templateUrl: './real-time-indicator.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./real-time-indicator.component.css']
})
export class RealTimeIndicatorComponent implements OnInit {

  @Input() percentagePassed$: Observable<number>;
  @Input() minutesRemaining$: Observable<number>;

  public currentPercentage: number;
  public minutesRemaining: number;
  private canvas2dContext: any;
  private canvas: any;

  public fillColor: string;
  public strokeColor: string;

  constructor() {

  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.percentagePassed$.subscribe((newValue) => {
      this.currentPercentage = 100 - newValue;
      let [r, g, b]   = this.getColor( newValue);
      this.fillColor = `rgb(${r},${g},${b})`;

      [r, g, b]   = this.getColor( 100 - newValue);
      this.strokeColor = `rgb(${r},${g},${b})`;
    });
    this.canvas = document.createElement('canvas');     // create canvas element
    this.canvas2dContext = this.canvas.getContext('2d');                 // get context
    const gr = this.canvas2dContext.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 101, 0);   // create a gradient

    this.canvas.width = 101;                                // 101 pixels incl.
    this.canvas.height = 1;                                 // as the gradient

    const colorStops = [
      {stop: 0.0, color: 'lightgreen'},
      {stop: 0.9, color: 'orange'},
      {stop: 1.0, color: 'red'},
    ];

    for (const cs of colorStops)                       // add color stops
    {
      gr.addColorStop(cs.stop, cs.color);
    }

    this.canvas2dContext.fillStyle = gr;                                // set as fill style
    this.canvas2dContext.fillRect(0, 0, 101, 1);                        // draw a single line

  }

  // method to get color of gradient at % position [0, 100]
  getColor(percentage: number) {
    return this.canvas2dContext.getImageData(percentage , 0, 1, 1).data;
  }

}


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While I was out
October 26, 2004 John Quiggin27 Comments
I've been off the air with database problems for a day or so, and missed some important developments. First, there was the bad news of the first Australian military casualties in Iraq, an unfortunate but inevitable development, given that insurgents are now operating freely throughout Baghdad, and even within the Green Zone. The Zarqawi group has claimed responsibility. This followed the earlier horrific massacre of Iraqi recruits, again claimed by Zarqawi.
Second, and closely related, the Zarqawi scandal has developed a further, with the Administration finally admitting on the record that the decision not to go after leading terrorist Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war was politically motivated. Money quote
Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, said in an interview that the reasons for not striking included "the president's decision to engage the international community on Iraq." (from the WSJ, via Tim Dunlop
With a week to go, it's probably too late for this disclosure to have any impact on the US election. But if anyone ever refers to George Bush as fighting a war against terrorism, just point them to the Zarqawi story. The failure to go after bin Laden in an effective fashion can be put down to this Administration's routine incompetence. The failure to go after Zarqawi was simply criminal.
Finally, there was this piece by Barry Cohen, accusing the ALP of anti-semitism. In Cohen's language criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism and criticism of Ariel Sharon is criticism of Israel. I'm sure examples of anti-Jewish prejudice can be found in the Labor party, but Cohen doesn't produce any. There are more extensive responses here and here.
Why not Zarqawi (crossposted on CT)?
27 thoughts on "While I was out"
Mark Bahnisch says:
For a very interesting perspective by an American academic who is Jewish but against Israeli government policy on the accusation of anti-semitism levelled against critics of the Israeli state, have a read of this piece by Judith Butler in the London Review of Books.
I like her conclusion –
What is needed is a public space in which such issues might be thoughtfully debated, and to prevent that space being defined by certain kinds of exclusion and censorship. If one can't voice an objection to violence done by Israel without attracting a charge of anti-semitism, then that charge works to circumscribe the publicly acceptable domain of speech, and to immunise Israeli violence against criticism. One is threatened with the label 'anti-semitic' in the same way that one is threatened with being called a 'traitor' if one opposes the most recent US war. Such threats aim to define the limits of the public sphere by setting limits on the speakable. The world of public discourse would then be one from which critical perspectives would be excluded, and the public would come to understand itself as one that does not speak out in the face of obvious and illegitimate violence.
marklatham says:
Curtis lemay would have nuked them all,good riddance I say.
Arab and jewish palestinians are a pain in the world's arse.
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