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This essay puts forward Muriel Rukeyser's Life of Poetry as the site of articulation of a radical and still urgently relevant experimental feminine poetics of war. The power of this poetics is rooted not in proximity to combat experience, but in the interweaving of public and political fact, personal exploration, and imaginative experiment in an era of constant and pervasive conflict.
"Undone By One Another" in Critical Flame
About a week into winter term, Zelda, a two-year old Pitbull mix who had been found abandoned in the high desert, gave birth to a litter of eight puppies. The student who found her left our weekly Public Speaking gathering to attend her delivery, which was taking place in his dorm room.
"The Enigma of a Sentence: Translating Giorgio de Chirico's Italian Poetry" in Metaphysical Art
A Giorgio de Chirico sentence is a magical diorama whose glass front or curtain we can pass through to enter a raucous three-dimensional space in which personal detritus sits beside figures from the long past, the surreal machines of contemporary industry, and "harbinger ghosts" of what is yet to come …
Interview of Susan Howe on Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror at Film Comment
By her own admission, acclaimed poet Susan Howe is not a film critic. But boundary-crossing—between genres, disciplines, art forms, and even past and present—is central to all of her work …
"Poems and bodies in time" at Poetry International
Quite high on those lists that compile evidence for the alleged impossibility of translating poetry is the pesky little issue of time. Just as time is inseparable from space in the woven fabric of the space-time continuum, our understanding of time is tethered to language – Special Relativity meets Linguistic Relativity. The second proposition is probably even more practically urgent, or at least more tangible, than the first […]
"Memorial Hill: An Illustrated History" at A Public Space
"Let the memorial hill remember instead of me, / that's what it's here for," wrote the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. There are real places in our world called "Memorial Hill," of course—in Moscow; Midway, Utah; Petersburg, Virginia—they commemorate specific tragedies, offer up sites for particularized meditations of grief or contextualized understanding. This memorial hill is not one of them […]
"Backstory" at Tilted Arc
"This poem begins with a lie. In fact, my grandfather always expressed the most admiration for American legs, not Italian ones. It wasn't his choice to immigrate: my grandmother – a proud striver from the comparative social elevation of an artisan family – had gone north on her own (a woman! in Southern Italy!) to take an exam for skilled laborers …"
"'Another form of life': Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs, and Analogy" in The Journal of Narrative Theory
Opprobrium was not the only reaction that Muriel Rukeyser received for Willard Gibbs, her 1942 biography of the largely unknown if enormously influential nineteenth-century physical chemist, though the criticism was significant. As The Kenyon Review reported in the spring of 1943, she had earned "a number of slaps on the wrist—and even, from a particularly malicious reviewer, one in the face" […]
"Trespass and Presumption: Susan Howe and Muriel Rukeyser" at Jacket2
Muriel Rukeyser and Susan Howe tell the same anecdote about nineteenth-century mathematician, philosopher, and American Pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. In it, Peirce has been tasked with defining — among many specialized terms of logic, philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy — the word "university" for the Century Dictionary […]
"Delighting in the Potential": Interview by Jane Carr at Brooklyn Quarterly
"I love how a gesture like this is not teleological – it doesn't suggest there is a straightforward or normative direction in which transformation happens, or should happen. Sound has its own logic that both masquerades as and creates other registers of logic."
"Wild by Nature" at Boston Review
Meteoric Flowers, Elizabeth Willis's fourth collection of poems, takes for its muse Erasmus Darwin, the 18th-century polymath, scientist, poet, and grandfather to Charles. Willis has written these prose poems obliquely around Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791), a long poem in two parts that makes surprising connections between nature, politics, mythology, history, art, and the human condition […]

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Cardinal George Pell, 78, was acquitted in his appeal by the Australian High Court, the highest court in the country, of all charges brought against him.
The prelate had been sentenced to six years in prison, in the trial court and then in the court of appeals, for abuse of altar boys who were allegedly committed in 1996 and 1997. Cardinal Pell had always strongly denied these accusations.
The seven magistrates of the Brisbane High Court, recognized that there was "an important possibility that an innocent person could have been convicted because the investigation did not establish his guilt according to the required degree of evidence." The court of appeal of the State of Victoria by upholding the original conviction, had moreover reflected this possibility. The sentence of the three judges was split two to one.
The High Court therefore held, unanimously, that the lower court had "failed to consider whether there remained a reasonable possibility that the offense had not been committed, so that there should have been a doubt reasonable as to the guilt of the accused."
Cardinal George Pell said after his acquittal that this decision had remedied "a grave injustice." Speaking to his accuser, Cardinal Pell added that he had "no resentment" towards him. And thinking of those who might experience "hurt and bitterness," he added that he did not want his acquittal to be an additional burden.
The prelate was released the same day - this Tuesday, April 7 - from Victoria State prison where he spent a year.
During his trial, the former C9 member - the special council of cardinals formed by Pope Francis to assist him - had been relieved of all duties.
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Hectic end to the NBA's trade window, but some teams sat out
MIAMI — Most of the top NBA playoff contenders stayed out of the down-to-the-wire frenzy at the trade deadline.
Miami and the Los Angeles Clippers beefed up instead.
And a slew of other teams — including the Golden State Warriors — made moves with short-term finances and long-term ramifications in mind.
The NBA's 3 p.m. EST deadline Thursday for trades to be consummated did not arrive quietly, with a flurry of deals getting struck in the final hour and at least one other notable move falling apart before reaching the finish line. Deals that included at least 41 players and 15 future draft picks were struck on either Wednesday or Thursday — the biggest move likely being the one Thursday that saw Andrew Wiggins going from Minnesota to the Warriors so D'Angelo Russell could leave Golden State finally be paired with his good friend Karl-Anthony Towns with the Timberwolves.
Here's how busy the Timberwolves were at trade-deadline time: They announced the jersey numbers of eight new players Thursday night.
Marcus Morris leaves New York for Los Angeles, going from the woebegone Knicks to the title-hoping Clippers — who added a piece many teams wanted.
"My brother back with me. It's on," the Clippers' Patrick Beverley wrote on Twitter, one of many players expressing their happiness with Morris joining the West contenders.
The rest of that deal:
The Knicks got Moe Harkless, a first-round pick this year, a second-round pick next year and a first-round pick swap option in 2021 as well from the Clippers. The Clippers also sent Jerome Robinson to Washington for Isaiah Thomas — who is not staying with Los Angeles and will become a free agent option for teams shortly, the latest twist in a career that saw him as an All-Star averaging 29 points just three years ago but was derailed by injury and a long recovery.
"Thank you (at)WashWizards for giving me a opportunity to show the world I'm healthy and I can still play at a high level," Thomas wrote on Twitter. "I appreciate my coaches, teammates & everybody from top to bottom in the organization you truly made a impact on & off the court for me"
Three-time champion Andre Iguodala is ending his exile after not playing for Memphis at all this season and is going to join the Heat along with Jae Crowder and Solomon Hill, with Miami sending three players — Justise Winslow, Dion Waiters and James Johnson — who've combined to score a mere 254 points this season out in the deal. Johnson was flipped by the Grizzlies to Minnesota for Gorgui Dieng.
"Today is a very good day because we think the acquisition of Andre, Jae and Solomon will help us with our versatility and create a more balanced roster," Heat President Pat Riley said. "Today is also a sad day because we lose three very good players who have been part of our family. We wish Justise, James and Dion nothing but the best in the future."
NBA rebounding leader Andre Drummond got moved by Detroit to Cleveland, then took to Twitter to express his dismay with the trade process.
"If there's one thing I learned about the NBA, there's no friends or loyalty," Drummond wrote. "I've given my heart and soul to the Pistons, and to be have this happen with no heads up makes me realize even more that this is just a business! I love you Detroit ... ."
The Warriors decided to make the Russell-for-Wiggins move, giving Wiggins a fresh start that he likely needs — the former No. 1 overall pick will get to reap the benefits of playing alongside a healthy and rejuvenated Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green starting next season. And by throwing in a couple extra players, the Warriors also will likely escape the luxury tax this season. That's not an insignificant point for a team that will go from five straight NBA Finals to the bottom of the Western Conference this season and, it hopes, back to title contention starting next year.
Miami's trade with Memphis also lowered the Heat potential tax bill, and Portland made a minor trade with Atlanta with a lower tax in mind as well.
Most of the trades were finalized Thursday. The only one from this week that got NBA approval before the deadline was a four-team, 12-player, three-pick swapping between Atlanta, Houston (which notably sent Clint Capela to the Hawks), Denver and Minnesota.
Meanwhile, the three top teams in the East — Milwaukee, Toronto and Boston — as well as the West-leading Los Angeles Lakers all remained out of the trade mix. It remains possible, and probably even likely, that at least some of those teams could look to bolster their rosters by adding free agents or when players become available through buyouts in the coming weeks.
Some of the other deals included:
—Washington got Shabazz Napier from Denver for guard Jordan McRae. Napier was acquired by the Nuggets on Wednesday in the 12-player, four-team deal.
—Philadelphia got Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson III from Golden State for three second-round picks (this year's from Dallas, next year's from Denver and 2022's from Toronto).
—Atlanta got forward/center Skal Labissiere and cash from Portland for a heavily protected 2024 second-round pick. The Hawks also landed Derrick Walton, Jr. and cash from the Los Angeles Clippers for their heavily protected 2022 second-round pick.
—Orlando acquired James Ennis from Philadelphia for the Lakers' second-round pick this year, then waived forward Amile Jefferson.
—Memphis got forward Jordan Bell from Houston for forward Bruno Caboclo. The teams also agreed to swap second-round picks in 2023.


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Home Entertainment Even before the season 1 releases, Ali Abbas Zafar has written script...
Even before the season 1 releases, Ali Abbas Zafar has written script for Tandav season 2
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Ali Abbas Zafar's web series Tandav stars Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Sunil Grover, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Gauhar Khan, Amyra Dastur, Kritik Kamra, and others. The series will start streaming on Amazon Prime Video on 15th January 2021.
Even before the release of the first season, Ali Abbas Zafar has already developed the script of season 2. While talking to Mid-day, the filmmaker stated, "The pandemic has been a boon for me because, as writers, we don't get to spend enough time with ourselves. During the lockdown, I sat in my Dehradun home for five months and kept writing. We have already developed the script for the second season, and hopefully, it will go on floors soon."
Tandav is based on the backdrop of politics and talking about the subject, Ali said, "Even if the show was made 200 years ago, or years into the future, it would resonate [with the audience]. That's how politics is — it either exploits you or empowers you, and is always relevant."
Further talking about the casting, the filmmaker stated, "Saif was my first choice for the character of Samar Pratap Singh, who is borderline grey yet vulnerable. That said, we have developed multiple tracks in the show. Every actor we approached, understood that his/her arc is crucial to the story. The series is not riding on one superstar."
Well, this will be Saif's second web series. Earlier, he had featured in Netflix's Sacred Games which had received a great response.
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William U. Parfet is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northwood Group. He also serves as Executive Chairman of inviCRO, a leading Boston headquartered global provider of imaging-based service solutions and image analysis software for the pharmaceutical and prescription drug development industry.
He founded MPI Research, a global preclinical research organization headquartered in Mattawan, Michigan in November 1995. Mr. Parfet served as Chairman and CEO until December 2015.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Parfet served as the president and CEO of Richard-Allan Medical, headquartered in Richland, Michigan, a worldwide manufacturer of surgical products.
Prior to that, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of The Upjohn Company where he was also President (1991-1993) and Executive Vice President (1989-1991). Mr. Parfet joined The Upjohn Company (now recognized as Pfizer) in March 1973 and was a member of the Board of Directors from 1985 through 2003.
Mr. Parfet currently serves on several boards including Lead Independent Director of Stryker Corporation, Chairman of Lake Forest College, and Chairman of Southwest Michigan First (economic development). He serves as Director for the Monsanto Company, Taubman Centers, College for Creative Studies, Business Leaders for Michigan, and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Previously he has served as Trustee for the Financial Accounting Foundation, the group that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and was a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). He also served as the Commissioner for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and as the National Chairman for Financial Executives International (FEI) for which he was inducted into the FEI Hall of Fame in 2013.
Mr. Parfet received his BA in economics in 1970 from Lake Forest College and his MBA in international finance from the University of Michigan in 1972. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They have six children and nine active grandchildren who live in Michigan, Colorado, and California. Bill enjoys boating, collects old cars, and is an avid duck hunter.


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Q: FileNotFoundException (Permission denied) with Nextflow and Docker I am running a Nextflow pipeline that runs each process in a different Docker container. I run this pipeline inside a VM. While some of the processes work fine, in one of them I get an error:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file_fastqc.zip (Permission denied)
Approxat java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
Approxat java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:298)
Approxat java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:237)
Failedat java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:187)
java.iat uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.<init>(HTMLReportArchive.java:80)
  at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.analysisComplete(OfflineRunner.java:178)
  at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.AnalysisRunner.run(AnalysisRunner.java:110)
  at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

The docker container that I am using in this process is biocontainers/fastqc:v0.11.8dfsg-2-deb_cv1
I am Running nextflow as sudo and I have tried to change execution folder permissions, but the error persists.
I have also tried to use the option docker.fixOwnership = true in Nextflow and a similar error appears
cannot touch '.command.trace': Permission denied

Running the same pipeline in my personal computer with the same Docker container and Nextflow (19.10) and Java (11) versions and it works perfectly fine.
Any help on how to solve this problem would be really appreciated.

A: The solution that worked for me was to enable the use of Docker as a non-root user as described in Docker documentation:
docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall

A: When you use a non-root docker in nextflow you need to give permissions to write inside the working directory to the docker non-root user.
I solved this by adding beforeScript 'chmod o+rw .' like in this example:
process myproc{
  input:
  file(infile) from ch_infile
  output:
  file("outfile.txt") into ch_outfile

  container 'centos:7'
  beforeScript 'chmod o+rw .'
  """
  # ... do something here...
  head ${infile} > outfile.txt
  """

}

I solved it thanks to this: https://github.com/InformaticsMatters/pipelines/issues/22

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CURZON CLUB A moved to the brink of clinching the Reading and District League Division 2 title after recovering from 4-0 down to defeat second placed Sonning Common and Peppard B 6-4.
Jon Willis and Pete Bradley both won twice for Curzon with Willis beating Brian Meheux 11-8, 11-9, 11-9 and Bradley getting the better of Jeremy Willis 11-4, 11-7, 11-8 to complete a remarkable turnaround.
Sonning Common and Peppard D were 8-2 winners at Kingfisher F thanks to an Andy Wang treble as they remain in contention for the second promotion spot.
Sonning Common and Peppard C and Tilehurst Methodists A shared the points in a 5-5 draw, Julian Telford's maximum for Tilehurst included an 8-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9 win over Matt Stone while for Sonning Common Matt Isherwood held off Cath Venning 5-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5.
Springfield B made it five points out of six in Division 4 by beating Sonning Common and Peppard F 9-1, Steve Leggett and Rob Wilkie both gained maximums, while Sonning Common and Peppard G retained third place in Division 5 with a 6-4 victory over Springfield D, Mike Casserley winning all three, Gerry Bacon winning two and Julian James chipping in with one win.


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Gemmological Commission focuses on update of commercial colour-terms guidance document
ABOVE: Gemmological Commission President Hanco Zwaan chairing the body's session at the CIBJO Congress in Bahrain on November 19, 2019.
Colour-terms used by the commercial bodies to define certain coloured gemstones have long been an issue of contention in gemmological circles, where specialists are concerned that few if any universal standards have been created to protect consumers.
Gemmological Commission President Hanco Zwaan opened the body's session at the 2019 CIBJO Congress on November 19 with a report on a commercial colour-terms guidance document which the Commission launched last year. It aims to map colour terms used to describe certain colours of ruby and sapphire.
On the issue of definitions of gem varieties, Mr Zwaan said that it is a clear that a definition does not exist. "It is a vast and complicated issue, but we agreed to look into it and set some minimum definition and then work from the easiest distinctions to the most difficult."
Information has been added over the past year and the commercial colour-terms guidance document now reflects the positions of a number of important labs. It includes an attempt to show where the respective colours approximately lie referring to the Munsell colour charts.
Mr Zwaan told the meeting that the report provides information on commercial colours and terms, such as Pigeons Blood red, which are used by different labs. There are no international standards on the terms, but it is hoped there can be harmonisation regarding the terms, he stated.
"We tried to make an informative document and listed info from the SSEF and Gübelin labs," he commented, adding that it also provides the positions on the issues of the GIA, Thailand's GIT and the GRS, and a summary comparing the different labs' positions.
"It is our intention to include the positions of more laboratories," he added
Guillermo Galvis, President of ACODES in Colombia, reported on emerald harmonisation seminar that he attended in Hong Kong which dealt with emerald standards and future trends. He said that he took part in a dialogue with stakeholders in June and with lab representatives in September.
Mr Zwaan said: "Such dialogue is important and we must keep doing it. We need to look for comprehensive ways of raising standards to make it easier for consumers."
Moving on, Mr Zwaan said there were no major amendments to the Blue Book, and they will only be implemented in 2021.
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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: German school shooter 'made Internet threat' claim AFP - Friday, March 13 WINNENDEN, Germany (AFP) - - A teenager who went on a rampage in his old school announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, according to an official, but police cast doubt on the claim as Germany mourned the 15 people he gunned down. ADVERTISEMENT "I have weapons here and tomorrow morning I will go to my old school and really whip up a storm," Tim Kretschmer , 17, said in a chat room, according to the interior minister of the state where Wednesday's massacre took place. "I have had enough of this crummy life... Always the same. People are laughing at me, no-one recognises my potential... You will hear about me tomorrow. Make note of the name of the place: Winnenden," the posting said. The remarks, part of a conversation with another 17-year-old from Bavaria who told his father about it after the shooting, were made at 2:45 am (0145 GMT), said Heribert Rech, interior minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg state. But a spokesman for Waiblingen police later said no trace of the message was found on his computer and the discussion forum involved has said that the message never existed. The police were probing whether the supposed Internet threat could have been fake, the spokesman said. Less than seven hours after the alleged conversation, at around 9:30 am, Kretschmer entered the school in Winnenden near Stuttgart, armed with a handgun taken from his father's bedroom and more than 200 rounds of ammunition. He fired 60 bullets at the school, killing eight girls, one boy and three female teachers, mostly with shots to the head. "We were in a German class when Tim suddenly came in, all in black and armed. At first I thought it was a joke. Then he started shooting... my schoolmates were collapsing around me," one student, Patrick, told the daily Bild. Kretschmer then fled, hijacked a car and randomly shot dead three bystanders. Three hours later he was dead after a manhunt ended in a shootout 30 kilometres (20 miles) away. State police chief Erwin Hetger said it was believed he had turned the gun on himself. Later Thursday, a grainy amateur mobile-phone video, apparently showing the killer's dramatic last moments and death, surfaced on the Internet . The two-minute clip shows a figure wielding a gun in a car park as shots ring out around him. He then suddenly falls to the ground and seconds later is surrounded by dozens of police officers in green uniforms. The bloodbath left Germany in shock. Flags flew at half mast across the country. In Winnenden , hundreds of candles were left outside the school while more than 1,000 people packed the town's church in the hours that followed. "He should have just killed himself," pensioner Hildegard Kronbach said as she stood on the church steps. Thousands packed churches elsewhere in the country for special services Wednesday night and a vigil was held outside the school on what Chancellor Angela Merkel called "a day of mourning for all of Germany." Details also emerged Thursday on Kretschmer's background. His father is a successful businessman who employs 150 people at a packaging firm, according to police, but his son found it difficult to fit in at school and had few friends. "He was simply not accepted by anyone and just sat all day in front of his computer," Mario, a schoolmate, told German television station N24. Reports also said he was keen on computer shooting games -- especially the violent "Counter-Strike" -- and had become a real-life crack shot at the shooting range where his father was a member. After leaving school last year, Kretschmer had enrolled on a course to train as a salesman. He regularly worked out at the gym, belonged to a sports club and was a keen table tennis player. His father owned more than a dozen guns, all locked away except the nine millimetre Beretta pistol that caused the carnage. Police also found 4,600 rounds of ammunition at the house. Rech said Kretschmer had apparently cracked an eight-digit code to a locked cabinet containing guns and ammunition. The killer had "destroyed the soul of an entire school and ripped into the heart of a town," Rech added. The school remains cordoned off and there have been calls for it to stay closed forever. Special counselling units have been set up to comfort victims' families and survivors. The tragedy brought back haunting memories of a similar bloodbath in Erfurt in eastern Germany in 2002 that left 17 dead, including the gunman, and rekindled a gun-control debate. Gun laws were tightened after Erfurt and there have already been calls for even stricter laws and also a ban on violent computer games. 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How do you find the best wounded veterans charities? With thousands of registered charities benefiting injured service members, veterans and their families, it can be hard to know where best to send your donation dollars.
Services like Charity Navigator, however, help donors sift through charities to find which have the best financial practices and impact. Charity Navigator uses a rating system to examine a charity's financial health as well as accountability and transparency. Four stars is the services' highest rating, while a "plus impact" designation means the organization has contributed an additional layer of results reporting data.
Charity Navigator recently shared a list of 10 outstanding wounded veterans charities who have been recognized for their efforts to assist injured troops and their families.
The Gary Sinise Foundation was established under the philanthropic direction of Gary Sinise, an actor and forty-year advocate for the nation's military and defenders. The Foundation's outreach supported those who sacrifice to defend the United States: active duty, veterans, first responders, and their families.
The Foundation achieves its mission through a number of programs designed to show gratitude for these American heroes through entertainment, family support, and acts of appreciation. The Foundation builds specially adapted homes of severely wounded veterans, hosting daylong morale-boosting celebrations at military medical centers across the country, and providing meals to veterans and their families across the country. The Foundation is committed to ensuring veterans' sacrifices are never forgotten.
"Serving those who preserve our freedom"
The Semper Fi Fund was founded by a dedicated group of military spouses at Camp Pendleton in 2003. The Fund provides direct financial assistance and vital programming for combat wounded, critically ill and catastrophically injured service members and their families during hospitalization and recovery.
The Fund also helps to provide housing assistance to injured soldiers and their families, opportunities for children of wounded warriors to attend summer camp, canine assistance, and ongoing transportation assistance, along with several other unique programs aimed at easing the transition for wounded soldiers and their families.
"Providing support and assistance to the U.S. military's special operations community"
Special Operations Warrior Foundation was founded in 1980, after the daring attempt to rescue 53 American hostages in Iran, which ended in the tragic loss of 8 servicemen who left behind 17 children. A promise to take care of those 17 children has become the noble mission of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to educate over 1,200 children and support families of injured service men and women with medical bills.
The Foundation provides immediate financial grants to severely combat-wounded and hospitalized Special Operations personnel and their families. It also ensures full financial assistance for post-secondary education to children of Special Operations personnel who lose their lives in the line of duty.
Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military and veterans' families can stay free of charge while their loved ones are in the hospital. These homes are located at military and VA hospitals around the world and offer comfortable private rooms with community spaces for families sharing similar experiences.
The Foundation operates a program to use donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as they recover. And, they provide financial support to other military charities, and families and children of injured, disabled, or fallen veterans.
"Free a hero to save a hero!"
Freedom Service Dogs of America (FSD) unleashes the potential of shelter dogs by transforming them into custom-trained, life-changing assistance dogs for people in need, including injured servicemembers and veterans. These service dogs are taught to open doors, pick up items, turn on lights, pull wheelchairs, go for help, and a number of other actions. FSD is donor-funded and doesn't charge its clients for any of its services. They also provide lifetime support for service dogs and their owners.
"Where camaraderie and caring continue"
The Air Warrior Courage Foundation was formed by military aviators to "care for their own." They work closely with the Red River Valley Fight Pilots Association in Virginia to do so. They provide active duty, guard, reserve, retired military personnel and their families with financial assistance for medical, educational, other extraordinary expenses not covered by current military support systems.
"Providing support for the soldiers at Walter Reed National Medical Military Center"
Operation Second Chance provides support for soldiers and Marines while they are being treated for injuries at Walter Reed National Medical Military Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After service members have been released, the organization helps them with their transition back into active duty or civilian life. The Operation aims to aid in the recovery and rehabilitation of service men and women, assist in the modification of housing to accommodate disabled veterans, assist families of wounded servicemembers, and facilitate the transition of wounded service members back into society.
"Restoring: Self - Family - Hope"
"Building strong, stable and secure military families"
Operation Homefront's mission is to build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive -- not simply struggle to get by -- in the communities they have worked so hard to protect.
Their programs offer relief by providing critical financial assistance and transitional housing programs, resiliency through permanent housing and caregiver support, and recurring family support to help military families overcome the short-term "bumps in the road" so they don't become long-term, chronic problems. Over the last 15 years, the Operation has helped more than 3,500 caregivers who provide care and support to injured or disabled servicemembers and veterans.
These are a just a few of the great organizations serving our nation's injured and fallen soldiers. Take a look at our Veteran and Military Hot Topic for even more highly-rated charities serving this important population.
This post originally appeared on Charity Navigator.
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Lowell High School senior Veronica Jones, shown with her parents, Valerie Manning Jones and Kevin Jones, was named Homecoming Queen at halftime during the Lowell Raiders and Lawrence Lancers football game on Oct. 14. (Courtesy Kevin Jones)
By Melanie Gilbert | mgilbert@lowellsun.com |
Honor-roll homecoming queen
LOWELL — Lowell High School senior Veronica "Ronnie" Jones was named Homecoming Queen at halftime during the Lowell Raiders and Lawrence Lancers football game on Oct. 14. Jones is an honors student, a member of the National Honor Society, has played four years of varsity soccer and two years of varsity track and field. Jones plans to major in mathematics at a four-year university after graduation.
African-American history walking tour
CONCORD — Learn about African-American history on a 90-minute walking tour, which will hear about the community's history around enslavement, as well as visit where abolitionists met and other historical places.
Guests will visit sites that tell the story of John Jack, sold into slavery from his African home to a shoemaker in Concord. While legal property, Brister Freeman earned his freedom by serving in the American Revolution. He went on to purchase land that became part of Walden Pond. Concord's native son Pvt. George Washington Dugan, served in one of the first African-American regiments of the Civil War.
The tour departs from the Concord Visitor Center, 58 Main St., Saturday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. and Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. Tickets for youth ages 5-17 and seniors, $15; adults ages 18-61, $20; family of four, $45; children under 5 are free. To purchase tickets, visit bit.ly/3DYoHHq. For information, call 978-318-3061.
Holiday shopping at Western Studios
LOWELL — Get an early start on your holiday gift buying at Western Avenue Studios Open Studios on Saturday, Nov. 5, from noon to 5 p.m. Artisans and crafters will be selling handmade furniture, clothing, jewelry, art and more at 122 and 160 Western Ave. For information, call 978-427-5237.
Veterans Day program
TEWKSBURY — Honor the nation's heroes by attending the virtual presentation of "Bringing Our Heroes Home: Inside The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency," on Monday, Nov. 7, from 7 to 8 p.m.
Retired marine and World War II research analyst Tim Kelleher will talk about the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and its mission of finding and identifying the remains of missing U.S. service members for families. Kelleher will also share some of his field experiences traveling the world looking for missing service members. Registration is required at bit.ly/3Dzfnbr.The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Library. For information, call 978-640-4490.
Righteous Brothers at Lowell Auditorium
LOWELL — Find that lovin' feeling at the Righteous Brothers concert Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Founder Bill Medley is joined by new partner Bucky Heard, performing from a catalogue of classics spanning four decades, including "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "Soul & Inspiration," "Unchained Melody," "Rock and Roll Heaven," "The Time of My Life," and more at the auditorium on 50 East Merrimack St. Tickets are $49 to $89, and can be purchased at lowellauditorium.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
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Q: Can I index and query against a field that holds a collection of values in Amazon's DynamoDB? Is this type of indexed query available in Amazon's DynamoDB?
(Where the field being searched against is a collection of values?)
Example object being indexed:
Restaurant: {
     name: 'Bobs Burgers'
     menu: ['hamburger', 'hotdog', 'lasagna']
}

Example pseudo-query:
SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE menu='hamburger'
( or perhaps: 'hamburger' in menu )

Also:

*

*What is this type of index called? Its been a while since I worked
with this kind of thing and I have forgotten some of the correct
verbiage.

*What is a good place to get a primer on what types of queries are possible with DynamoDB?

A: No, you only can create a secondary index on scalar types which are String, Number or Binary.
It is indicated in doc as:

Every attribute in the index key schema must be a top-level attribute of type
String, Number, or Binary. Other data types, including documents and
sets, are not allowed.

The best point to get updated about aws dynamodb would be the official documentation i believe. They cover almost every topic in detail.

A: There is no index to find a value in a list. You can use a filter, but it won't be index-optimized. See How to query DynamoDB filtering by value in a list
Alex DeBrie's YouTube channel has videos on getting started with DynamoDB: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uIi5eIEI2_NZGTyPXTnLA


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Writers sue NYC over press-pass policy
NEW YORK — Three writers whose Police Department-issued press passes weren't renewed have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the city's criteria for deciding who qualifies for the valuable ID cards.
The plaintiffs in the case are freelance or part-time journalists whose work predominantly appears on the Internet.
Only one of the three, freelancer David Wallis, has substantial experience in traditional media. His feature stories have appeared in The New York Times, Slate and The New Yorker, among other publications, and he is the founder of the freelance site Featurewell.com.
Wallis' two partners in the suit are Rafael Martinez-Alequin, a blogger and City Hall gadfly who once published a small independent newspaper, and Ralph Smith, a public information officer for the Department of Correction who has a Web site devoted to news about jail guards and community groups.
Each of the men had, for many years, held press ID cards issued by the New York Police Department, but their applications for renewal were turned down in 2007.
In each case, police officials decided the men weren't entitled to passes because they didn't regularly cover breaking stories for professional news organizations.
Their attorney, Norman Siegel, said that since the three men lost their passes, they haven't been able to get access to invitation-only press conferences and have had a diminished ability to work as reporters.
"Why does the police department get to determine who is a journalist?" Siegel said.
The suit, filed on Nov. 12, accuses the city of using arbitrary criteria to decide who gets the passes, and it asks the court to declare the application process unconstitutional.
A senior attorney for the city, Gabriel Taussig, said officials were "investigating the plaintiffs' concerns thoroughly." He generally defended the city's practice of issuing credentials to some people but not to others.
"The issuance of NYPD press passes strikes an appropriate balance between First Amendment concerns and public safety," he said.
A police official, Lt. Eugene Whyte, issued a statement saying that unsuccessful applicants for press cards typically are rejected "because they failed to establish that they were full-time employees of news gathering organizations covering spot or breaking news events on a regular basis."
California court backs off background checks for reporters (news)
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Badges advise journalists Jesse Ventura's office can revoke credentials for any reason. 02.21.01
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Few studies have addressed the etiology and clinical outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated in an ambulatory setting. We investigated the etiology by the culture of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, urine antigen testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumoniae, and DNA or RNA determination of eight kinds of respiratory virus DNA or RNA. An etiological diagnosis was made in 51.8% of 197 patients. The most common pathogens were M. pneumoniae (29.4%) followed by influenza virus A, parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus (9.6%), and S. pneumoniae (4.1%). Patients with mycoplasma infections were younger, less likely to have comorbidities, and less likely to have adequate sputum for gram stain and culture. Patients with viral infections were older and more likely to have poorly defined nodules on chest X-ray (CXR) or computed tomography (CT) scan. Among patients infected with M. pneumoniae, those with quinolones as initial prescriptions had shorter duration of fever after the initiation of antibiotics than patients with β-lactams, macrolides, or β-lactams + macrolides (p < 0.05). This study suggests that M. pneumoniae and respiratory viruses were the most frequent pathogens found in ambulatory adult CAP patients and quinolones were better than β-lactams, macrolides, or β-lactams + macrolides in the resolution of fever of M. pneumoniae pneumonia.


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Killer Mike To Open Barbershop In Atlanta Hawks' Arena
blame it on Meka July 3, 2017
The NBA's Atlanta Hawks currently have the second-longest active playoff streak in the league, having made the postseason every year since 2008 (they are still a ways behind the San Antonio Spurs, who have made the playoffs every year since 1998!). Recently announcing a "transform" their stadium, the Philips Arena, the Hawks hope to bring in some unique business courtesy of one Killer Mike.
The Hawks organization revealed plans to include renovations such as a bar on the arena floor (which is supposed to, literally, sit behind one of the basketball hoops), new seats, a larger scoreboard, and much more. However, they have also teamed with the Southern half of Run The Jewels to bring his barbershop, the SWAG Shop, to the arena.
Get your cut while watching a game in @killermike's Swag Shop! —– Details on hawks.com
A post shared by Atlanta Hawks (@atlhawks) on Jun 29, 2017 at 12:08pm PDT
A post shared by Atlanta Hawks (@atlhawks) on Jun 28, 2017 at 2:46pm PDT
This will be the second S(have) W(ash) A(nd) G(room) Shop Mike and and his wife and business partner, Shana Render, will open in Atlanta. The first one, located on Edgewood Ave NE in Atlanta, has been a staple of the community since it opened in 2011.
"It really is like a dream coming true because now kids are going to be coming down early just to hang out in my shop, buy a t-shirt, get a haircut and watch the game," Mike said.
Renovations to the Philips Arena will begin throughout the summer of 2017.
This comes following the news that Mike was honored by the Georgia senate in March, and had one of the state's multi-million dollar drilling machine named after him: "Driller Mike.
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Colin Hay at Maryland Hall
Tue. April 6, 2021
Rams Head Presents Colin Hay at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts!
Any tickets suspected of being purchased for the sole purpose of reselling can be cancelled at the discretion of Rams Head/Eventbrite. All sales are final. Rams Head does not offer refunds. Refunds are only available for cancelled shows.
VIP Experience Tickets Are Available! Click Here to Purchase VIP Ticket, Must Have Concert Ticket to be Eligible.
Colin Hay is familiar to millions as the front-man, songwriter, and vocalist of pop sensation Men at Work ("Down Under," "Overkill," "Who Can it Be Now?"). Hay is justifiably proud of his place in pop history, but since moving to Los Angeles in 1989, he's made 11 critically-acclaimed solo albums, including the highly successful Man at Work.
His latest album, FIERCE MERCY is an epic, cinematic step forward from singer-songwriter Colin Hay, most beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows but most widely known for being an influential and celebrated frontman. The range of artists who have chosen to cite him as a muse or who have found themselves on stage with him in the past year spans the genre landscape from heavy metal, to Americana, to Cuban rhythms and beyond. His inclusion as a playlist favorite from the likes of Metallica to The Lumineers reflects his continuing relevance and broad appeal.
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Q: Подсветка синтаксиса логов в Linux Часто приходится смотреть логи различных приложений (nginx, unicron) на linux серверах.
Очевидный факт, что разглядеть важную инфу будет гораздо легче, если там будет подсветка синтаксиса. Возможно ли в выводе logcat/less/cat да и просто терминала сделать подсветку ?
Подобное есть в VS Code.

A: есть программа multitail. Величина буфера просмотра указывается параметром -n. Вторая, для просмотра в режиме реального времени с очень хорошей подстветкой, lnav

A: Несколько вариантов есть вывода инфо в консоль - каждый настраивается отдельно. Вот небольшой список:

*

*dircolors - настройка цветов для ls

*GREP_COLORS - настройка цветов для вывода grep

*bashrc - настройка цветов терминала bash

A: Попробуйте ccze, в логах постфикса прям вырвиглаз.


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 *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
 *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
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"""

import os

from PyQt4 import QtGui, uic

FORM_CLASS, _ = uic.loadUiType(os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__), 'image_analysis_dialog_base.ui'))

class ImageAnalysisDialog(QtGui.QDialog, FORM_CLASS):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        """Constructor."""
        super(ImageAnalysisDialog, self).__init__(parent)
        # Set up the user interface from Designer.
        # After setupUI you can access any designer object by doing
        # self.<objectname>, and you can use autoconnect slots - see
        # http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/designer-using-a-ui-file.html
        # #widgets-and-dialogs-with-auto-connect
        self.setupUi(self)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were shot dead by separatist rebels in restive Papua province, officials said Tuesday.
If confirmed, the killings would mark the deadliest bout of violence in years to hit a far-flung region wracked for decades by a low-level independence insurgency.
Citing local police, Indonesian media reported late Monday that the workers were shot dead on Sunday in Nduga, a district in the centre of the region on the western half of New Guinea island, just north of Australia.
Police and military teams were sent to the area on Monday when they came under rebel gunfire with one soldier killed and another wounded in the firefight, authorities said.
The employees of state-owned contractor Istaka Karya were building bridges and roads as part of efforts to boost infrastructure in the impoverished region.
"Some media are saying 31 workers are dead, some 24, so we really need to check ourselves," said Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi.
A team of about 150 personnel would delay its operation until Wednesday morning, fearing a confrontation with rebels at night, the military said later Tuesday.
"We think they'll be expecting us," local military chief Jonathan Binsar Sianipar told AFP.
Four workers -- including three suffering gunshot wounds -- were among 12 civilians evacuated from Mbua district about 6.00pm (0900 GMT) Tuesday, the Indonesian military said.
Authorities would "chase these criminals wherever they are", said national police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal.
The suspected killings could be the worst outbreak of violence in a "very, very long time", said Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC).
The suspected killings came as more than 500 activists -- including an Australian -- were arrested in a nationwide police crackdown that coincided with rallies on December 1, a date many Papuans consider their anniversary of independence from the Dutch.
Jakarta keeps a tight grip on the resource-rich region, which experienced several spasms of violence this summer including the killing of three local people, allegedly by rebels.
The deaths followed a gunfight that saw a small plane carrying police officers -- sent to oversee the local elections -- shot at as it landed at Nduga.
Some of the violence has been centred on protests against a huge gold and copper mine operated by US-based firm Freeport McMoRan -- a frequent flashpoint in the local struggle for independence and a bigger share of the region's resources.
Indonesian security forces have for years been dogged by allegations of widespread rights abuses against Papua's ethnic Melanesian population including extrajudicial killings of activists and peaceful protestors.


Adidas has teamed up with Game of Thrones to release a collection of six ultraboosts that are themed based upon the popular show, Game of Thrones. Each of the six colorways represents one faction from the show including the Night's Watch, Targaryen, White Walker, Lannister and Stark. The shoes are releasing March 22nd with a retail price of $180 each.
In addition to the themed colors, the shoes also feature a GoT logo on the insole and the faction's phrase on the heel tab.
The shoes will be available on Adidas.com, the Adidas app, SNS (via raffle), and select retailers.


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Luke 3:15-22 "Called and Loved"
"How Can I Keep From Singing? Acts 16:16-34
Exodus 34:29-35, Luke 9:28-36 Transfiguration Sunday "Face Time with God"
Its a snowy day here in Northampton and I am posting my sermon for tomorrow. All the pictures in this article are from the blog Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry. Leave me a comment if you found a way to work this into your sermon. I will be posting quite a bit during Lent. You can follow on Facebook or Twitter by joining on the right hand side bar.
First Churches is fully launching into the internet and social media revolution this week, and I feel both excitement and anxiety about this. As a pastor, should I be more wired, armed now with Twitter and Facebook? Or should I be, like Moses and Jesus, climbing a mountain and seeking the face of God away from the busy crowds?
I am struck by parallels between the Protestant Reformation and our era, where societies are going through enormous change at multiple levels at once. Luther was not only an early adopter of the new technology of the printing press, but he also translated the Bible from Latin into German and wrote hymns, catechisms and music. The Printing Press allowed him to almost single-handedly outmaneuver the vast power of the Vatican and build an alternative church. Of course, he also set off an unintended peasant revolt, and one of his lesser known publications was entitled "Against the Thieving Murderous Hordes of Peasants." Arab Spring was not the only revolution that traveled through a new communications technology!
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is one of the great cheerleaders for the power of social media. Last Sunday he wrote about the impact global distance learning. MIT and Harvard have created a nonprofit called "Xed" which taught its first course this year, MIT's Introduction to Circuits, to 155,000 students around the world. The founders note that this is larger than the total number of MIT graduates in its entire history. This creates access to higher education in Mongolia and rural Egyptian villages that could be transformative.
My first question is what about the impact of the personal experience of a classroom and getting to know teachers as mentors? What will we lose in this process? One thing I don't like about the internet is how people hide behind anonymity, engaging in viscious attacks they wouldn't have the courage to do in real life. Will we use the personal touch and the social skills of human interaction? We were at dinner one evening and saw an entire table of six people all looking at their cell phones at the same time. Why go out to dinner together?
On the other hand there is an empowering dimension to internet interactions. A Princeton sociology professor taught his first internet course last summer, an introduction to C. Wright Mills 1959 classic, "The Sociological Imagination." He had 40,000 students in 113 countries. Normally he would get a penetrating question or comment here and there in the lecture hall, but within a day there were hundreds of questions posted online in the forums. Over three weeks he had more feedback and discussion in this class than he had over his entire teaching career.
Friedman had a follow up article this week which noted the impact of smart phones and internet access which are now available to people who are only slightly above substance poverty. One theory of how democracy and human rights takes root in a society is that when a substantial middle class, people making around $10,000 a year or more in the third world, starts to develop, they demand a voice and want accountability from their government. What the internet does is push that demand further down the income level, so that a society hits critical demand for change more quickly.
In December, a 23-year-old Indian woman — whose father worked double shifts as an airport baggage handler, making about $200 a month so his daughter could go to school to become a physiotherapist — was gang-raped on a bus after she and a male friend had gone to a movie. She later died from injuries sustained in the rape.
She was a high-aspiring member of this new virtual Indian middle class, and her brutal rape and subsequent death triggered nationwide protests for better governance. "It is one of those turning points in history when a citizenry, so far pleased with economic gain, wants more than material comfort," said Chanda. "They want recognition of their rights; they want quality of life and, most importantly, the good governance they have come to expect by watching the world."
On the one hand, it is inspiring to me the way that new technology can connect us to new ideas and new ways of seeing the world. Luther would have possibly been just another persecuted priest without the printing press. Perhaps Moses would have been unknown without the spread of writing on tablets to preserve and share knowledge. Technology allows us to have contact with each other over time and space. However, we must first have something worth communicating. Information does not transform us by itself.
My first interview with the church was over Skype, and it was interesting to try to work the room over the flat screen. It was an improvement over the telephone interviews I had in the past, being able to see reactions, body language and sense the live audience, but you can't really make eye contact. Forbes magazine interviewed over 700 executives and found that 80 percent of them preferred face-to-face meetings over virtual meetings. They felt they could be more persuasive, more free in brainstorming and make better decisions in person. Real contact matters.
Performance artist Marina Abramovic illustrated the power of presence in her performance of "The Artist is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma). To this end she sat motionless and silent on a wooden chair inside a circle of light in the huge atrium of Moma, seven hours a day, from mid-March until the end of May. Anyone who was prepared to queue could sit opposite her just as long as they agreed to remain silent and motionless and to stare back into her eyes. Her goal was to channel a "luminous state of being and transmit it."
The results were surprising even to her. Every day several people broke down in tears, usually after just a few minutes of silent staring. On personal blogs and MySpace, people shared their experiences of sitting with Marina, often in quasi-religious or life-altering language. "I gazed into the eyes of many people who were carrying such pain inside that I could immediately see it and feel it," she says, still sounding excited. "I become a mirror for them of their own emotions. One big Hell's Angel with tattoos everywhere stared at me fiercely, but after 10 minutes was collapsing into tears and weeping like a baby." She said there were moments when the museum became Lourdes, a place of healing.
Ironically, I never would have encountered this performance art without the internet. I found a Facebook page where the pictures of people crying with Marina Abromovic were posted, and seeing the faces moved me to tears. But it is the luminous being of the artist that matters. I so wish I could sit in her presence and feel and sense the present moment with her. If I am moved by the still warm coals of her idea, what is the full burning fire like?
The story of Moses and his illumined face, and the Transfiguration of Jesus, do the same thing for me. Sometimes reading the Bible is like having a small glowing ember left over from a big fire in my hand. If I blow on it and add some kindling, perhaps it can spark and grow to a flame again. Perhaps I can sense some of the original encounter with God in the story.
I want to learn from those who have had face time with God, those who still have the afterglow of being in the Light. Moses spoke with God on the mountain, he had a connection, a moment in the presence of divinity, the source of life and mystery of being. The voice from the burning bush came back to him and spoke again. When Moses came back down and his face was luminous. It was not merely having tablets with important ethical ideals that made Moses important. Skeptics might point out that his commands were remarkably similar to Hammurabi's Code, and perhaps one of them had some influence on the other. Some might even think Moses made it all up It was being a voice for the deeper undergirding meaning and power of the living God that mattered.
How do we get face time with God? How do we encounter the luminous state of being that Maria Abramovic was trying to share without words in her performance art? Transfiguration reminds us that we have to go up the mountain, get away from the ordinary and the hustle of daily life. That is what I encourage you all to do during Lent. Fast from carbon and go out and see the earth that is worth protecting. We must withdraw for a time and get outside ourselves. That is what creation does for us. That is why people climb mountains. Because they are there! Some may climb mountains to accomplish something, but spiritual seekers climb to be conquered. We find that we are small and the universe is vast. We can see for miles, and while we ponder the great view, there may be an unexpected tap on the shoulder and we find that God is beside us. Then we see life as it is- luminous, radiant, glorious!
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Omar Aldana and Thugzbunny.
Omar Aldana, producer and video director from Belize shows us Thugzbunny, his next project.
After producing music videos for Jamaican dancehall artistes for approximately seven years, Belize-born director Omar Aldana, better known as Celebrity of Heavy Films, has become more interested in the platforms available locally for others like him.
Celebrity says that the video production brand was not recognised due to misconceptions that it was a Jamaica-based company owned by Heavy D Promotions.
"At the time, the name of Tommy Lee Sparta's manager (Heavy D) has caused tons of confusion," said Celebrity. "It was not something I spoke out about because of the lack of a platform."
Music videos for the former Gaza artiste, including those released for Some Bwoy, Buss A Blank, Maniac, and Psycho, were all recorded and produced by Heavy Films, but oftentimes Heavy D was credited. He has also shot videos for Vybz Kartel, Charly Black, KipRich, and Beenie Man.
Celebrity says that most of his work is acquired from repeat clients, and that to date, he has shot about 30 music videos. The video director is currently in Jamaica working on music videos for singles recorded on the 'Global Warming' riddim created by a Canada-based producer White Gad Records, as well as promoting his puppet, Thugzbunny. The puppet is garnering a lot of attention from the dancehall community.
NEW LIFE TO INDUSTRY
"I am trying to bring new life to the industry,
trying to be a trendsetter. I do not like clichÈ concepts or artistes. That's why I like working with Tommy Lee - there is only one of him. The subjects need to be like a fresh canvas."
One of his goals was to get artistes off the streets in Belize to show that one can have a successful career in the country.
"It was always thought that for Belizeans to 'buss', you have to leave the country or start a career elsewhere," said Celebrity.
Although Celebrity does not live in Belize - the country of his birth - he spends a lot of time there. He does not have any family connections in Jamaica, but considers it part of his goal to create platforms for cultural exchange.
Although the popular music in Belize is called punta, dancehall music is well liked there, and it has always been a genre he enjoyed listening to even after his family relocated to Los Angeles.
"In the next two to five years, I want to see dancehall making the same numbers as reggaeton and hip hop on international charts. Right now, it is more hand to hand - artistes benefit mainly from stage shows and dubplates."
He added that he would also like it to become a more structured industry where artiste's videos get the recognition they deserve.


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Pop and Rock Vocals
Authored by Didi Stewart
Course Code: OVOIC-241
Singers who have a rich pop and rock vocal background have a distinct advantage over their competition. The wealth of techniques at their disposal, such as a professional command of dynamics, emphasis, nuance, and inflection allows these singers to have a more personalized approach to the genre, provides them with increased confidence as a performer, as well as a richer, more resonant tone.
Starting with the blues and country roots of 1950s rock 'n roll, Pop and Rock Vocals proceeds chronologically through instruction in important subgenres, including pre-Beatles pop, folk-rock, punk/New Wave, and 1980s dance-pop/mainstream rock, concluding with the modern-day indie rock influenced by these earlier styles. Through guided study using video demonstrations, audio clips, and informative historical narrative, you will learn the technical and interpretive vocal skills necessary to master the styles of pop/rock greats, such as John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Janis Joplin, Robert Plant, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Madonna, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Gwen Stefani, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and many others.
The course explores breath support and management to facilitate pop and rock "belting," interpretive and "storytelling" techniques to heighten a song's emotional impact, and ways to increase flexibility and create a balanced tone. The course also addresses the visual as well as vocal aspects of pop/rock performance, focusing on audience communication and effective use of the stage area. Throughout the course, you will record sing-along track assignments for instructor feedback. High and low keys for both male and female vocalists will be provided. You will learn to perform everything from "classic hits" pop and rock to singer-songwriter styles to contemporary indie rock in an authentic way.
Use breathing, projection, and articulation to achieve a more powerful, dynamic pop/rock sound with less effort
Perform an impressive variety of vocal styles ranging from lyrical pop to hard rock
Use communication devices such as eye contact, hand gestures, and point-to-point onstage traveling
Utilize devices specific to pop and rock vocalizing, including the concept of "sung speech," the minimizing of vibrato, and the use of tension/release to create exciting verse-chorus transitions
Preserve vocal health while singing more challenging forms of rock and pop
Lesson 1: Belting Techniques: 1950s Pop/Rock Roots
The Great American Melting Pot: Pop/Rock Roots
The Pentatonic Scale
Pop Music Roots
Spotlight: Notable 1950s Pop and Rock Vocalists
How Pop/Rock Vocalizing Differs from Classical and Music Theater Styles
Technique of the Week: Breath Support for Pop/Rock Singing and Belting
Lesson 2: Flexibility, Melisma, and Vibrato: Early 1960s Pop/Rock
Early 1960s Pop/Rock Styles
The Conversational Tone
Melisma
Technique of the Week: Practice Schedule of Warm-Ups for Pop/Rock Singers
Spotlight: Notable Early 1960s Vocalists
Lesson 3: Dynamics, Attitude, and Rock 'n Roll Role-Playing: The British Invasion
British Invasion Artists and Styles
Spotlight: Notable British Invasion Vocalists
The Concept of Tension/Release
Technique of the Week: Jaw Relaxation
Lesson 4: Communication in Performance: Folk-Rock
Folk-Rock Artists and Styles
Spotlight: Notable Folk-Rock Artists
Technique of the Week: Eye Contact and Facial Expressiveness
Dealing With Stage Fright: It's the Song Not the Singer
Observation of People in Conversation
Lesson 5: Vocal Stylizations, Phrasing, and Hand Gestures: Motown, Stax, and Muscle Shoals
Motown/Stax/ Muscle Shoals Artists and Styles
Spotlight: Notable Motown, Stax, and Muscle Shoals Vocalists
Phrasing
Technique of the Week: Hand Gestures and Stationary Body Movement
Mirror Exercises
Lesson 6: Projection and Enunciation: Psychedelia, Progressive Rock, and Art Rock
Psychedelic, Progressive, and Art Rock Artists and Styles
Enunciation
Spotlight: Notable Psych/Progressive/Art Rock Vocalists
Technique of the Week: Forward Placement
Lesson 7: Breath Management and Resonance: Country/Roots Rock, Soft Rock, and Power Pop
Country/Roots Rock, Soft Rock, and Power Pop Artists and Styles
Country-Rock Vocal Characteristics
Creating Resonance
Technique of the Week: Breath Management
Lesson 8: Interpretation: 1970s Singer-Songwriters
Singer-Songwriter Artists and Styles
Inflection
Connecting with Your Lyrics
Journaling Songs
Lesson 9: Register Balancing and Singing with the Whole Body: 1970s Hard Rock, Glam, Punk, and New Wave
Hard Rock, Glam, Punk, and New Wave Artists and Styles
Register Balancing and the Hard Truth about Hard Rock Singing
Spotlight: Notable Hard Rock and Punk/New Wave Vocalists
Singing with the Whole Body
Lesson 10: Syncopation, Emphasis, Movement: 1980s Rock and Dance Pop
1980s Rock and Dance Pop Artists and Styles
Spotlight: Notable 1980s Rock and Dance Pop Vocalists
Technique of the Week: Basic Movement—Responding Physically to Your Music
Traveling: Moving from Point A to Point B
Lesson 11: Unconventional and Virtuoso Vocal Sounds: Alternative Rock and Diva Pop
Alternative Pop/Rock Artists and Styles
Character Devices Common to Alternative Pop/Rock
Spotlight: Notable Alternative Pop/Rock and Diva Pop Vocalists
Exploring Quirky Vocal Sounds
Diva-Style Melismatic Runs
Technique of the Week: Creating a Character Using Unconventional Vocal Sounds
Lesson 12: Pulling It All Together: Contemporary Pop and Rock
Contemporary Pop/Rock Artists and Styles
Music for Pleasure: Why We Sing
Putting What You've Learned into Practice
Review: Techniques for Pop/Rock Singing and Belting
Review: Interpretation
An enthusiasm for pop and rock music, and the ability to match pitch when singing.
A basic audio recording tool that will allow you to record yourself playing along with a background track and save the recording in MP3 format. You will have a tool to use for this purpose inside the learning environment. Alternatively, you can use software like Audacity or a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
A printer is recommended, so that you can print out music examples used in the course
Didi Stewart
Didi Stewart is an associate professor in the Voice department at Berklee College of Music. A two-time winner of the Boston Music Award for Best Female Vocalist, Stewart has been a longtime fixture on the Boston music scene. Her first original rock band, Didi Stewart and the Amplifiers, recorded the album Begin Here for Kirshner/Epic Records in 1983. Her second band, Girls' Night Out, was one of the top-grossing acts in New England and was named "Best Unsigned Band" by Musician magazine in 1986. Throughout the 1990s, Stewart was known her ongoing series of songwriter tributes, celebrating such composers as Laura Nyro, Carole King, Randy Newman, Jacques Brel, Rogers and Hart, and Cole Porter. The critically acclaimed An Evening of Burt Bacharach and Hal David won a Boston magazine award for Best Club Performance. A prolific composer for film and TV, Stewart's songs have been featured on Melrose Place, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless, Touched by an Angel, Dark Skies, Any Day Now, The Twilight Zone, and The Beast. Her most recent album, the country-pop excursion Harmonyville, was released in 2006.
Adriana Balic has toured the world as a member of popstar P!NK's band since 2003, on keys, backing vocals, and guitar. In November 2019, Balic completed P!NK's Beautiful Trauma World Tour which broke records, playing to over 3 million people and making it the tenth highest grossing tour in Billboard Boxscore's history. Balic's media credits include Saturday Night Live, Apple Music, Top of the Pops, iHeartRadio Live, and American Idol. Other artists Balic has played with include Gwen Stefani, Wrabel, Sheila E., The Rubens, Brenda Russell, Chris Stapleton, Peabo Bryson, Norman Brown, Everett Harp, Il Divo, Don Grusin, and the US National Touring Theater Production of Jersey Boys. She plays Roland keyboards and is a Roland Artist.
As an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, Balic has been teaching keys, voice, and songwriting in the Popular Music program since 2010. She has also been on faculty at Berklee Online as the Pop/Rock Vocals instructor since 2010. Additionally in 2016, Balic completed a Master of Arts in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine University with her thesis and capstone project on video and hybrid instruction, blended learning, flipped classroom, and online platforms.Balic, a Vancouver native, holds bachelor's degrees in (Classical) Music and Music Education from the University of British Columbia in Canada and a diploma in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music. With life stories to share from both stage and school, Balic recognizes the uniqueness of each student and designs individualized 21st century instruction and strategies for their evolving artistry. In 2017, College Magazine named Balic as one of the "10 Female Music Teachers That Inspire Us." Read Less
Boston born and bred, Cassandre McKinley started a career in film and television upon entering her freshman year of high school. By 16, she had already signed with a New York talent agent, began taking weekly private voice instruction, and attended a long series of intensive music programs specializing in voice performance. After high school, she attended The Boston Conservatory where she majored in Musical Theater and minored in Voice. Cassandre's accomplished career now spans over three decades as a professional singer, dancer, actress, voice-over artist, and print model.
Cassandre is best known for her powerhouse voice and ability to cross genres effortlessly. She is celebrated for her spirited and emotional performances with a presence on stage that is exuberant and passionate yet warm and disarming. She has performed and/or recorded with greats such as Dick Johnson (Artie Shaw Orchestra), Clay Osborne, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Jay Geils, Fred Lipsius (Blood, Sweat and Tears), Jerry Portnoy (Eric Clapton), and the legendary Herb Pomeroy, among others. After self-releasing several commendatory straight-ahead jazz albums, Cassandre drew from deeper influences of her youth and revealed a more "soulful" sounding jazz album in remembrance of the late Marvin Gaye.
She has toured nationally and overseas. Her music can be heard on over 500 national and international radio stations, cable and internet music outlets including iHeartRadio, Spotify, Pandora and XM Radio. Cassandre holds a position as assistant professor in the Voice department at Berklee College of Music teaching both on campus and online. She continues to tour regularly as both a headliner and featured artist. She is in production on a new recording set to be released in the fall of 2017. Read Less
When taken for credit, Pop and Rock Vocals can be applied towards these associated programs:
Vocal Styles Professional Certificate


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Google announced Friday that it is working with iconic US jean maker Levi Strauss to make clothing from specially woven fabric with touch-screen control capabilities.
The Internet titan used its annual developers conference in San Francisco to reveal its so-called Project Jacquard and to spotlight Levi Strauss as its first partner.
Named after a Frenchman who invented a type of loom, Project Jacquard is in the hands of a small Google team called Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), which is different from the Google (x) lab that developes big-vision innovations such as self-driving cars.
"We are enabling interactive textiles," Emre Karagozler of ATAP said as the smart fabric was shown off in an area set up to look like cloth coming out of a loom.
"We do it by weaving conductive threads into fabric."
The special threads can be woven into a wide array of fabrics, and be made to visually stand out or go unnoticed depending on designers' wishes.
Conductivity can be limited to desired parts of fabric or spread across entire cloth.
"It is stretchable; it is washable," Karagozler said as people controlled lights or computer screens with finger strokes on a blue cloth covering a table in the display area behind him.
"It is just like normal fabric."
Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms, according to Google.
Anything involving fabric, from suits or dresses to furniture or carpet, could potentially have computer touch-pad style control capabilities woven.
Conductive yarn is connected to tiny circuits, no bigger than jacket buttons, with miniaturized electronics that can use algorithms to recognize touches or swipes, ATAP said.
The data can be sent wirelessly to smartphones or other devices, enabling actions such as making phone calls or sending messages with brushes of fabric.
"In our hyper-digital world, people constantly struggle to be physically present in their environment while maintaining a digital connection," said Levi Straus's head of global product innovation Paul Dillinger, who took part in a Google presentation at the gathering.
"The work that Google and Levi's are embarking upon with Project Jacquard delivers an entirely new value to consumers with apparel that is emotional, aspirational and functional."