The Amazeum is proud to be a regional hub of the Making Spaces: Expanding Maker Education Across the Nation program! Making Spaces is a nationwide program, supported by Google, that uses an innovative model to assist schools in sustainably integrating making and tinkering into the classroom. The Amazeum partners with the Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (CMP) to provide local schools with guidance, professional development, and support to jump start and sustain maker education in classrooms.
The Amazeum is excited to build on the enthusiasm for maker education that is surging across the country and in Arkansas, especially Northwest Arkansas. Maker focused learning scaffolds important science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts by providing authentic, real-world contexts for exploration. Maker education provides open-ended experiences for students to develop ownership of their learning, solve problems, and foster a growth mindset.
Each school year, the Amazeum hosts a new cohort of schools in the Making Spaces program. The schools engage in a year long partnership with the Amazeum that includes ongoing professional development to design and implement maker education in their school. For additional information or to join the next Making Spaces cohort, contact the Director of Education at mporter@amazeum.org.
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By Carrie Beach This is one of my favorite quotes. Sometimes I feel like one of the crazy ones.
by Susan White I have had more students cry in my Maker Space than I have in my entire teaching career! And you know what? It's a great thing.
OK, OK, the cat's *almost* out of the bag - Northwest Arkansas is increasingly becoming a maker haven.


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Q: Speaker Icon grayed out and sound doesn't work I have Yosemite 10.10.3 installed on my MacBookPro circa 2011.  At some point, my Speaker icon went gray.  If I go into Settings/Sound/Output, all I see is Digital Out entry and it says The selected device has no output controls as per screenshot below.

If I hold down the Option key (as in this answer) and click on the Speaker icon, I get the following list of devices.  As you can see, there are no Internal Speakers, as one would expect.

So, what am I missing?  I've tried sudo killall coreaudiod as per this question.  It just restarts everything, but changes nothing.
What else can I try?

A: Thank you for displaying the audio output settings in System Preferences.
This is very likely physical issue with your MacBook Pro (MBP). Your MBP supports three outputs:

*

*speakers

*headphone jack

*optical/digital output (using your headphone jack)

When the optical output is activate there is no way to change it to speakers using a macOS setting. As this output doesn't support volume changes your speaker icon is grayed out.
Please check with a flashlight if there is something stuck in your MBP's headphone jack (debris, dust or similar). The optical output setting is triggered using a physical
Carefully try to remove it with a toothpick.

Please report back if you

*

*can see a red light coming out of the headphone jack when playing a song

*could solve the issue with a toothpick

*used wired headphone with your MBP in the last few weeks.

edit:
I've taken a picture to show how the port can determine whether it's a headphone plug or an optical cable. The optical cable is just a tad longer and triggers the optical output in macOS.:

A: Had the same issue. I reset the pram which did solve the issue for me.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204063
Environment: macOS Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76)

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TimeTo Break The Restrictive Boxes In Nigerian Hip Hop Culture By Chukwudi Iroko
I think MI's imploration to his hip hop/rap colleagues to fix up their lives is not new but a creepy PR strategy...
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'Do what you like; don't let them put you in a box.' ~ Symbol of Hope, Olamide.
Just in case you missed the news, Nigerian rap legend MI, after a long hiatus, released a song titled You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives, towards the end of October 2017. In that song, MI's message to his colleagues was simple: stick to the genre of music that reflects what you claim to be – a rapper. The song has so far generated both musical and commentary responses from musicians and commentators alike.
Undoubted, MI has reignited a conversation we've already had before now in Nigeria hip hop. Unfortunately, some, including MI, thinks this conversation is new. I disagree. And here is why.
I will take you on a musical tour to prove this, so follow me.
Cast your mind as far back as 2006 when Ruggedman gave a lecture on the song titled, Hip Hop 101, off his most relevant album so far, Ruggedybaba. At that time, given the mass apathy Nigerian music audience had for core Hip hop song, (and we must quickly add that most of the rappers then awfully mimicked African American rappers' tone of voice and cadence, perhaps that was one of the reason Nigerian audience found them ridiculous) Ruggedman advised his colleagues to do commercial songs if they want to remain relevant. He however gave a caveat that while spicing things up with local dialect, they must find a balance between making good music that can also be commercialized.
Few years after that musical lecture, the seed Ruggedman sowed found fertile ground to germinate and later blossom in rappers like Mr. Raw, MI, Dagrin, Illbliss, Vector, Olamide, Phyno, Reminisce, CDQ, Zoro, Lil Kesh and so on. That lecture in a way, contributed to raising the avant-garde rappers we now know today. Take a look at this.
In Illy Bomaye, the title song of Illbliss' fifth and latest album by the same title, a body of work that has been described as his most personal project yet, he talks about being able to stay in the game by evolving as the industry evolves in spite of some setbacks here and there, which are human. He is not just bragging, the proofs are there.
For instance, Illbliss went all hip hop on the track Chukwu Agozi go gi. We will play that song for a while. However, what kept him on his fans' mind were the songs Jawonlaya featuring Reekado Banks and Mr.Eazy and Alhaji Featuring Runtown, all from his fourth studio Album, IllyGatty. The description of his persona in the titular song illy Bomaye as 'The Igbo version of Rick Ross and slight semblance of Biggy Smallz,' says it all – I can make money like Rosay but I will drop bars and punchlines like Notorious B.I.G to keep the culture alive. I wont sacrifice one for the other. The Illy Gatty album won the Best rap album at the Headies.
Olamide is staunch believer in the survival of Nigerian hip hop culture, but not without the unapologetic reservation that: 'if it is not making money, then, it is not making sense.' In songs after songs, he has reiterated this. In the song Symbol of Hope, he says, 'Kini show business if you are not making the profit?,' i.e (what is show business if you are not making profit?)
Phyno the playmaker shocked everyone recently. The rapper whose annual sold out Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium-Staged Concert, Phynofest, is coming up in November 19, 2017, in his hood, city of Enugu, in a recent interview with Hiptv, has declared that he would rather that people address him as a musician, than box him into a restrictive straitjacket – rapper. He went further to explain that, just because he came to limelight with rap music should not warrant anybody to stereotype him. According to him in the same interview, having been a producer for more than eight years, he responds to music how he feels it in the moment. He then referred us to his latest album, The Playmaker album, as a proof of what he means.
One may think it is a defensive statement to cover up the fact that bars and punchlines are exhausting in his goatskin bag of rapping arsenal, but again, before this recent interview, he had demonstrated in the song Best Rapper, off his The Playmaker album, that he does not want to be the best rapper, he just wants to make good music and money.
Now, this sense of crass monetary gain as the motivation for why artistes create art sounds selfish. And it is rampart in the music industry all over the world. But it also seems like a deliberate rebellion against attempts at people directing how artistes should create. And truly, Phyno sings when he wants to, and raps when he wants to. But are they good music? Only time will tell.
Do you remember the principal theme of Reminisce's Local Rapper, featuring Olamide and Phyno? It is; do what you like because punchlines and bars doesn't pay the bills In Nigeria neither does it get you called for highly paying shows. But the irony is that the song bearing this leftist message won the best rap collaboration award the year it was released because of the bars and punchlines it sampled using a mix of Yoruba, Igbo, Pigeon English and English language.
From the few instances above, one could see that some of the artistes we consider as rappers see rap as a serious business and equally as a serious artistic endeavor. And they have all displayed a knowledge of this fact with song after song, even prior to the release of MI's supposed 'epoch making' musical commentary, You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives.
Here is why I think MI's imploration to his colleagues to fix up their lives is not new but a creepy PR strategy. And I totally agree with people who think that MI is using his influence in Nigeria music industry to impose an agenda on other rappers coming before and after him.
Let me put is straight, You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives is an image-making song. You come to understand this by looking at the circumstances under which it was released. To begin with, the song is coming at a time when folks think a fresh album from Mr. Incredible, as MI is alternatively called, is overdue. It is coming at a time when the artistic relevance of his Chairman album is being questioned by music critics. The song came after MI received a scathing, but unprofessional, criticism from the influential Nigerian music critic, Osagie Alonge, during the Loose Talk Podcast interview series powered by Pulse.ng. These are the circumstances surrounding the release of this song. The song sounds more like a deliberate, but futile attempt at making others look bad in order to look good.
Furthermore, a close examination of the message of the song shows how MI creates a narrative that metaphorically portrays him as a military general – a leader and tastemaker in the music industry; and rightly so, but what does this narrative really mean in the context of this song?
First, the self-irony of You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives is that the rapper is that kind of leader too complacent to lead by example. More like a Nigerian politician calling the poor masses to sacrifice what himself cannot. MI actually boasts of staying away from the booth longer than necessary. One begins to wonder if MI is saying he wants to retire, or more appropriately, that he is too old to consistently drop new songs back to back.
Half of Olamide's songs maybe viewed as sub-par in both form and content, but this dude is consistent and making money year in year out. If every artiste takes a long break as MI is boasting of, Wizkid wouldn't have gotten Grammy nomination. For goodness sake, Nas and Jay z are still releasing albums, never mind that they are world-acclaimed hip hop legends with track record of inimitable achievements both commercially and otherwise.
Since the release of this song, MI has been portrayed as an overbearing artistic dictator bent on ordering his colleagues to create music a certain way. This is not entirely true. Because MI cannot really force anybody to make music a certain way, it is just that his opinion is highly regarded because of his marked achievements and contributions to Nigerian and indeed Africa Hip hop culture. C'mon, we are talking about African Rapper Number One here! In his heyday, though.
But does this mean MI statement is not important? Far from it. Indeed, some rappers are now beginning to sound pathetic just because they want to stay relevant. Yes, rappers should experiment even if the purpose is commercial. They are free. They are artists.
All I am saying is that the best way to learn is to learn from the best. Look at Drake and Nicki Minaj and learn some lessons from them. They both sing and rap. They are relevant. Yet, to a large extent, they make good music. In fact, Hollywood Reporters says that Drake is officially taking six months or a year off to expand his artistic niche through film and television either in acting or production. Can one accuse Drake of blowing up and switching?
May be this is the sense MI wanted to make but failed because of his mode of presentation and intention.
It bears repeating that my claims here may be regarded as intentional fallacy ( please google it), But the fact that some Nigerian rappers are pathetically desperate to make hits through singing, is hard to brush aside. Try to define the artistes Dremo.
Another mistake MI made in You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives, was to compare politically and culturally different Nigerian Hip Hop with South African Hip hop just because Nasty C is rapping like an African American born in Bronx, New York, where hip hop was birthed. He should remember that no real progress can come out of imitation.
We don't want to start another verbal war of decolonizing Nigerian hip hop please. We are still recovering from Negritude movement and all its attendant headaches. Ngugi Wa' Thiong got tired of writing decolonizing the mind essays in English language before daring to write in his Gikuyi dialect of his Kenya people.
Thankfully, our Local rappers in Nigeria are not going about proclaiming their tigeritude with mere words, they are doing the deed by pouncing on beats and percussion with dialectical bars, rhymes and punchlines from their various tribes (Apologies to Wole Soyinka). That is why this kind of comparison between Nigeria and South Africa hip hop is irritating and amounts to drawing us nine steps backward.
Hopefully, with more years of post-colonial experiments, these South-African rappers that MI hoist aloft as African hip hop messiahs would come to understand why we revere Lord of Ajasa, Dagrin, Mr.Raw, Olamide, Phyno, Reminisce, CDQ and Sarkodie from Ghana, who are all local rappers, because that is what we call making progress.
Hip Hop is a serious business and remaining relevant in this business is everything and the only thing that matters. It does not matter how you do it. Can't you see P.Diddy aka Brother Love? He is relevant, yet he does not rap often.
Finally, the dangerous thing about advising artists against experiment is this; when such artists take such advise and consequently go out of fashion, the same advisers will turn around and boo the artists for lacking the ability and the'juice' to evolve. Mode Nine's works have replay value and tick all the boxes of core hip hop right? But where is he today? What is he doing for the culture right now? This is the reality.
In this age of neoliberal identity, the least person you would ever attempt to force into a conventional box is the avant-garde artist. MI should know this.
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Ambassador Williamson Leads IRI Delegation to Mongolia
Richard S. Williamson, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Republican Institute (IRI), led an IRI delegation to Mongolia in late June to mark the 800th anniversary of Mongolia and to observe the remarkable success of democracy in the Northeast Asian nation. The delegation also included IRI President, Lorne Craner, and former IRI Mongolia Director, John Poepsel.
Highlights of the delegation's visit included meetings with President N. Enkhbayar, Prime Minister M. Enkhbold, Speaker Ts. Nyamdorj, the General Election Committee, the leadership of the major political parties, the members of the Women's Partnership in Politics (WPIP), and a number of Members of Parliament (MPs).
Prime Minister Enkhbold commended IRI's work in Mongolia and expressed his support for IRI programs, particularly in the areas of parliamentary development and election reforms. The delegation discussed the strength of the U.S.-Mongolian relationship, which was highlighted in November when President George W. Bush became the first-ever sitting U.S. President to visit Mongolia.
Ambassador Williamson met with representatives from the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the Democratic Party and the Citizen's Will Party. All of the political parties thanked IRI for its assistance in past political party work and continued strengthening of parliamentary institutions. Each of the parties also requested that IRI increase its work in the country.
IRI's Mongolia office hosted a reception for the delegation and MPs who had participated in IRI's study tour to the U.S. last fall. The MPs were brought to the U.S. to attend briefings on good governance and transparency and have since become some of the strongest voices for continued reform within the State Great Hural (Mongolia's parliament).
In addition, the delegation met with members of WPIP, which was formed with IRI's assistance in early 2005 and seeks to increase the role of women in politics. Comprised of the women's auxiliaries of the four largest political parties, WPIP participants have set aside ideological differences to focus on increasing women's political participation. The members thanked IRI for its close support over the past year, and expressed their desire for continued cooperation.
IRI has been active working to build democracy in Mongolia since 1992 and recently received an additional three years of funding for parliamentary and elections work. Among nations transitioning from communist systems, Mongolia has been particularly effective in moving toward democracy and a multi-party system. For several years, many observers have viewed Mongolia as being in the critical "second phase" of democracy transition; that is, with many of the basic tenants of democracy in place, the focus has now shifted to strengthening institutions and increasing transparency and responsive governance.


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Kate Hoit has launched a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #DateDiane to find a date for her 67-year-old mother, Diane Hoit. According to an interview in the Times Union, Diane, who lives in Albany, New York, is still married to her husband (and Kate's father), Frederic "Bill" Hoit, who has Alzheimer's and barely recognizes his family. He's now in a nursing home, where Diane sees him regularly.
Diane still visits every Sunday. It's all like Forrest Gump, she says, because like that box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get. Mostly, Bill sleeps during the visit and she tries to ply him with gummy bears to keep him awake. But they don't have conversations anymore. She gets answers to questions and thoughts that are a couple of words long and come without an opening for more conversation. A couple of times he's mistaken her for his mother. He's most alive when he can talk about being stationed with the Army in Germany in the Korean War. Most times, Diane walks in, he says, "Give me a kiss" and she does, and then a little while later she goes home alone.
Kate is worried that her mom is lonely and wants her to start dating again. To that end, she started the campaign to get her a date. As Kate puts it, some guy will understand Diane's complicated situation — maybe he's in a similar one! — and want to spend time with her.
Although Diane isn't on Twitter — she still uses a flip phone! I love her! — Kate is handing the technology side of things. So far, they haven't found the right one, but Diane isn't in a hurry.
"I'm OK," Diane told the Times Union. "It would be nice to have ... I refer to it as a hockey buddy, not attached to my hip and nobody's going to get their mail at my house. ... Nothing heavy duty. I can't. I'm not interested."


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Golden Sixty completes rise to the top by toying with rivals in Hong Kong Mile
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Francis Lui's superstar adds a first Group One win to his sparkling resume, becoming the first horse since Silent Witness to win 11 straight races
by Sam Agars
on Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:37 PM
Golden Sixty is eased down to win the Hong Kong Mile comfortably at Sha Tin on Sunday. Photos: Kenneth Chan
Golden Sixty's rise to the top is complete, with the superstar five-year-old stamping himself as one of the best gallopers in the world by toying with his rivals in the Group One Hong Kong Mile (1,600m).
He was already regarded as Hong Kong's finest and by adding his first Group One success to his Derby victory – and becoming the first horse since Silent Witness to win 11 straight races in the jurisdiction – he ensured it is daylight second.
It was veteran trainer Francis Lui Kin-wai's second Group One win and there was no doubt in the 61-year-old's mind where it sits in the growing catalogue of Golden Sixty's successes.
"This is an international race so it's better, of course – the Derby is only for four-year-olds," said Lui, who previously tasted top-level success with Lucky Bubbles in the 2017 Chairman's Sprint Prize.
Golden Sixty improved his record to 14 wins from 15 starts by seeing off a gallant Southern Legend, who was two lengths behind in second, and defending Mile champion Admire Mars from Japan.
"I can have a good sleep tonight," said a relieved Lui after the win. "Before the race I was still worried about the overseas horses but after this race the horse has told me he is a champion.
"I'm very happy, at the moment I still don't know what to say. My heart is still pumping."
It was also jockey Vincent Ho Chak-yiu's second Group One win, following on from his success aboard Southern Legend in April's Champions Mile, and it was extra special aboard a horse he has partnered since the start.
"At the top of the straight I knew [I was going to win] because I was just cruising and I didn't think anyone could beat him," Ho said.
I am so blessed to be associated with this incredible animal
Today was an incredible day! Thank you Golden Sixty & Mr Lui https://t.co/m3Iv9GKYlt
— Vincent Ho (@Vincenthocy) December 13, 2020
"I really don't know what to say, it couldn't be better. I'm grateful to give some positive energy to Hong Kong and the whole world in racing."
After travelling third from the back aboard Golden Sixty, Ho started his move around the field 600m from home, was in front 250m out and surged to the line with a last 400m of 22.05 seconds.
After a steady beginning, the gelding motored home in a last 1,200m of 1.06.99 – 1.91 seconds inside standard.
"I knew I had a few lengths to make up and I didn't know how good the Japanese horse [Admire Mars] was in front," Ho said.
"They went a little bit hard early and I was just trucking up and when they steadied up the pace at the turn all the backmarkers started to get on the bridle a bit more.
"At the 600m I decided to just let my horse gallop with the same pace and catch up a few lengths easily and when I asked him he gave me a really good effort."
BEAUTY GENERATION tried his heart out again today.
We are so proud of our champion that will now retire to @LivingLegendsAU.
8 x Group 1 wins
2 x Horse of the Year
HK$105,000,000 the highest prizemoney earner in HK history
We will miss him here in HK
Enjoy retirement big boy pic.twitter.com/ktt70NSugd
— Beauty Stable (@Beautystablehk) December 13, 2020
The John Size-trained Waikuku was two and a half lengths off Golden Sixty in fourth in his first run since April, while the old champ Beauty Generation was a gallant fifth in what was his last race.
"It's a bittersweet day, it's a sad end – he's been the best horse for me in my career," said jockey Zac Purton after connections made the decision to retire Hong Kong's record prize-money earner.
"I'm certainly going to miss him. He was brave again today and wherever he may go in the world, I'm sure I'll go visit him in his paddock one day."
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Q: How to import package properly I have some projects I try to split up for easier management. Therefor I moved some parts that are used by different applications into modules rather than copying files around.
Right now I have the following structure for my modules (every module has its own docs and tests):
/projects
  /module1
    __init__.py
    run_tests.py
    /docs
      ...
    /module1
      __init__.py
      module1.py
    /tests
      __init__.py
      module1_test.py
  /module2
    ...

Now I got myself the "main app" directory laid out in the same manner:
/projects
  run_app.py
  run_tests.py
  /docs
    ...
  /app
    __init__.py
    app.py
    module1 <-- Link to the module1 repository
  /tests
    __init__.py
    app_tests.py

All my __init__.py files are empty at the moment and I do not know how to write a proper import statements in my app.py file. Since there is only one class in module1 I don't want a hugh import module1.module1.module1.ModuleClass so the ModuleClass should be imported to "module level" so I can just do something like a import module1.ModuleClass. I figure I have to tweak the __init__.py files but all I tried broke either the tests or the whole import.
Any help would be very much appreciated and sorry for my poor explanations I am not a native speaker...

A: Ok, I found the solution myself. As always it was pretty straight forward.
I just had to add the following line in all the __init__.py files recursively to the top of the module.
from .module1 import ModuleClass

I will leave this here for future references if somebody might end up in the same situation.
Cheers


When you begin shortwave listening you are in for an exciting time. While television watchers wait for the long promised 500 channels, shortwave listeners already have an extensive variety of programs at their fingertips. You can listen to one of the world's most respected news programs from England's BBC World Service or tune in to Monitor Radio International for a different perspective on world events. Or maybe you would prefer special features such as China Scrapbook or a Cooking Show from China Radio International or maybe Arts or Politics from Radio Australia. You can learn Russian by Radio from the Voice of Russia World Service and Japanese from Radio Japan. This is just a small sampling of programs that appear regularly on the shortwave band.
Shortwave refers to the frequencies above the medium wave broadcast band. This range of frequencies generally includes 2 MHz (2000 kHz) to 30 MHz although shortwave broadcasters use specific bands within this range. See the section Where and When to Listen for more detail on these bands.
To receive shortwave broadcasts you will need a shortwave receiver. Normal household radios that are suitable for MW broadcast reception cannot usually receive the shortwave bands. For that, you need a shortwave receiver that can tune the higher frequencies. Often you can pick up a good used receiver at an amateur radio flea market. Or you can buy a new radio. These can vary from a simple portable in the under $100 price range up to as much as you want to spend.
So whether you want to listen to Jazz from Radio Habana Cuba, catch the latest DX news from HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, hear the tango from Radio Argentina, or keep up to date with politics and sports from Deutsche Welle, Germany it's all there waiting to be heard on the shortwave bands. The section What You Need to Hear Shortwave Stations will tells you what is needed to get started in this hobby.


Royals sold out for Brighton trip!
The Royals have sold out their away allocation for the trip to Brighton on Saturday the 25th of February in ab big clash in the Sky Bet Championship.
Reading will be taking over 2,000 fans down to the south coast for 17:30 kick-off, which will be live on Sky Sport against the side currently sat second in the Sky Bet Championship table.
The Royals have already made one journey to the Amex this season, coming away 2-1 winners on that occasion in an EFL Cup third round tie in September.
Goals from Stephen Quin and John Swift helped wrap up the win that evening and Jaap will be hoping for more of the same from his side in 10 days time in front of a big following as Reading look to close the gap on the Seagulls.
Reading have sold their allocation of 2,047 with only a few wheelchair spaces left available for traveling fans. The Reading FC ticket office are operating a waiting list in case of any returns out of the main allocation.
For full ticketing information about this fixture click here.


A quartet of orchestra students was perched on a small stage jutting out of the auditorium wall. They played a seemingly endless medley of fast-paced tunes filled with shrill staccatos aligned with the pounding of my heart. A group of restless contestants made small talk with tapping toes and twiddling thumbs, while some whispered lines under their breath. When the quartet's song finally finished with a carefully calculated flourish of notes, the lights dimmed. After the emcee's brief introduction, we graced the stage.
"Good luck," the girl next to me whispered. I was finally up and headed for the belly of the beast, center stage. I shuffled up the stairs looking straight ahead. The audience was virtually nonexistent, the only sources of light formed by the dim red glow of an exit sign and the blinding spotlight. An encouraging nod from the host was my cue to begin.
Since 2005, over 3 million students have competed in Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation competition. High school students memorize and recite a poem each, which is judged in the following categories: dramatic appropriateness, physical presence, voice and articulation, evidence of understanding, and accuracy. These elements then determine the strength and score of a recitation. The program starts at the classroom level and builds up to a school-wide contest, followed by regionals, states, and finally, the national competition of which the grand prize is $20,000.
My fingers fidgeted with the sleeves of my sweater and my voice wavered as I stated "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou. As the poem progressed, muscle memory kicked in and my voice grew stronger and louder. By the fifth stanza, I nearly shouted, "his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing." I then slowly articulated the final lines, with the intention that they'd ring in the air long after I was gone, "for the caged bird sings of freedom." I hurried off the stage, invigorated by my recitation and warmed by the audience's polite applause. Several performances later, the competition came to a close.
"All of the participants did a fantastic job tonight," announced the emcee. "The winner and runner-up of tonight's competition will compete at regionals!" The runner-up was announced. I knew I had tried my best but was it enough to win? "And the winner is Amanda Gordon!" My question was answered.
When my English teacher showed the class a promotional video for Poetry Out Loud, which consisted of talented teens reciting Shakespearean sonnets as if they belonged on the stage of The Globe Theater, I was amongst a few confused and slightly horrified faces baffled that we'd have to do the same. Though first published in 1983, Maya Angelou's symbolism of the black American experience through a caged bird is still potent today as African Americans continue to fight for social justice and equality. Poignant lines dripping with emotion were easily etched in my mind. A rectangular mirror framed by an indented silver border was my only confidant when it came to practicing the recitation. When the class competition finally rolled around, anxiety-ridden anticipation filled the air. When it was finally my turn to recite, I reluctantly trudged to the front of the room. Though multiple eyes were most likely on me, I stared straight ahead into the artificial eyes of a smiley face. There was a sheet of paper haphazardly stuck to the window. I couldn't tell if it had been placed there deliberately, but I took a deep breath and recited as if it was just me and him. When I realized I reached the last stanza I was giddy with excitement to return to my desk.
Within a few minutes, contestants filed into the cozy auditorium and sat in assigned seats. I greeted the girl next to me. It was her second year competing at Poetry Out Loud and when I found she was a junior too, we bonded over our loathing of Common Core math and the SAT. The emcee finally came to the stage and introduced himself and the judges, and proceeded to explain that each contestant would recite two poems. Then, the top six highest scorers would recite a third poem in the final round. The winner and runner-up of this contest would compete in the state level competition. Each performer was introduced with a short, self-written biography. Two contestants were homeschooled. One lived on a farm with her five younger brothers and chickens. The other was a ballet dancer for The Nutcracker! In the first round, one of the few male contestants recited "Ozymandias" by Percy Blythe Shelley. In the middle of reciting he paused, turning around so his back was facing the audience. He then proceeded to throw up his hands and shout, "MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS!" I stifled my laughter with a cough. The first two rounds flew by and I was awestruck by the talent of the competitors. When it finally came to announce the finalists, the emcee listed off the names, and mine was the last to be called.
The third poem I recited was "The Idler" by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson. The poem begins with a description of someone with no purpose or motivation, an idler, and follows his journey through life. With a cool tone, judging the idler for wasting his life away, I recited, "His mission? Well, there is but one, And if it is a mission he knows it, nay". Yet there's a shift in the poem in which I directly addressed the audience. "And yet, with all the pity that you feel / For this poor mothling of that flame, the world; Are you the better for your desperate deal"? I cynically asked. "When you, like him, into infinitude are hurled?" I condemned the crowd for their naivety. Why work so hard if, at the end of the road, they'd end up in the same place as the idler?
After all of the finalists finished and we waited for the winning scores to be calculated, something told me I wouldn't win or even come in second this time, I wanted to be wrong but there was the stage was saturated with talent.
At the end of the event, the accuracy judge tapped my arm and said, "I liked your performance the best" with a smile. Before I could leave the auditorium, two mothers stopped me to praise my performance, "I thought you should've won!" " We were thinking the girl in the gold will win for sure!" Though the only tangible thing my Poetry Out Loud experience left me with was a certificate of participation, I gained indispensable self-confidence and an open-minded attitude.


Social media sensation Cindy Kimberly, who has successfully gained more than 5.3 million followers on the photo-sharing website, recently took to her Instagram page and posted a new, racy picture, which became an instant hit among her fans.
In the snap, the 20-year-old stunner could be seen wearing a barely there white bra which allowed her to flaunt an ample amount of cleavage. The model accessorized with a pendant, which drew attention to her bare chest, a black bracelet, an official festival wristband, and a printed bandanna on her head.
She let her pink hair down, wore a full face of makeup, comprised of a rose-pink shade of lipstick, a thin layer of eyeliner, and some highlighter eye shadow, as well as some soft pink blusher. The model tilted her head slightly and held her hair with one hand to pose for the picture.
The picture was captured while the model attended the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, and like many other models, the outfit was sponsored for the model by fashion brand, Revolve.
The picture racked up more than 156,000 likes and 850 comments, as fans expressed their admiration for the stunner in explicit terms. Commenting on the snap, one fan wrote that Cindy is one of the hottest models on Instagram, and she deserves more recognition than she already has, while another one said the Cindy is the sexiest model alive.
Prior to posting the picture, Cindy treated her fans to another picture where she could be seen posing with a fellow model while sitting in a garden. In the snap, Cindy provided a full view of her ensemble to the fans and showed off her dangerously short skirt that she paired with the bra. The other model could be seen donning a pair of jeans, which she teamed with a printed bandeau-style top. The picture racked up 136,000 likes and 300 comments shortly after having been posted.
Per an article by The Headline Planet, the hot model also shared two pictures from the Revolve festival and brunch where she could be seen donning a rainbow-colored bandeau bra with a matching skirt that accentuated her figure. In one of the pictures, she provided her front view, while in the other, she turned her back toward the camera and looked back to strike a very sultry pose. The front view racked up more than 459,000 likes, while the other one amassed 392,000 likes, which shows that the model is immensely popular on Instagram.


Today marks what would have been Gram Parsons' 69th birthday — born Ingram Cecil Connor III on November 5, 1946, in Winter Haven, Florida — and to celebrate, we're highlighting the story behind Parsons's essential signature song "The Return Of The Grievous Angel," which you may be surprised to learn features lyrics written mostly not by Parsons, but by a shy young poet named Thomas Stanley Brown.
Brown was giving poetry readings in Cambridge at the time, and when he contacted me five years ago by email, he told me it all began because he was already a fan of Parsons's music. Brown said he wrote the lyrics in about twenty minutes and then gave them to Michael Martin to give to Parsons, in a bar called Oliver's in Boston, Massachusetts, where Gram and Emmylou Harris were performing during the summer of 1973.
Brown says that Martin handed Parsons the sheet of lyrics he'd written, asking him to please consider setting it to music and that if Parsons wanted to chat with the writer about the song, Brown would be over at the bar, talking with Emmylou Harris. Brown says that Parsons was fighting with Gretchen at the time. Brown told me that Parsons changed the word "roughnecks" to "kickers," and added the two bridge lines.
And welcome me back to town.
And a good saloon in every single town.
And they all lead me straight back home to you.
Across those prairies with those waves of grain.
Last night half past two.
And good day as we went rolling through.
And now I know just what I have to do.
He wants to take my money for somethin' that I've never been shown.
On his head an amphetamine crown.
And lightin' out for some desert town.
Oh, but I remembered something you once told me.
And I'll be damned if it did not come true.
As you can see, Brown's poetic lyrics tell of a man coming home after having lit out for the west, to unknown territory, in order to experience life and get a little livin' under his belt. Now he's coming back, hat in hand, asking the girl he'd left behind to let him inside so he can tell her about all of the things that he's seen on his adventures. There's also an idea here that you see in some of the best American literature, the idea of a young man having to head west to grow up, to mature (in this case, "to grow up with the country") and in this song's lyrics, his Kerouac-ian adventures westward have led him to places unknown, places from which he hasn't returned, psychically, even if he has physically returned.
This reminds us of George Webber at the end of Thomas Wolfe's novel You Can't Go Home Again, when he has found that "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood,…back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame…back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time — back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." Nostalgia makes us yearn for places from our past, but those places — perhaps in the mostly metaphysical sense — no longer really exist, at least not in the way that we'd hope to find them.
As good as Brown's lyrics are, Parsons' melody makes them all the more memorable, especially the gentle but determined chorus that gives the heartstrings a firm and determined yank. Parsons' original recording played the "lovable rogue with a heart of gold" card for all it was worth, while Lucinda Williams' 1999 rough-and-ready cover managed to up the toughness quotient a few notches. Other artists have covered the song as well, but we always return to Gram's version. Despite rave reviews in Rolling Stone, and the L.A. Times and placing at #15 on the Village Voice's list of top 20 albums of 1974, Grievous Angel did not sell very well (Gram's albums both sold an average of 40,000 copies at the time of their original release). It peaked at a disappointing #195 after only 3 weeks on the Billboard album charts.
According to Fong-Torres, in December 1973 as Reprise prepared Grievous Angel for release, Gram's wife Gretchen (with whom he'd filed papers in order to begin divorce proceedings) put a stop to plans for the album to feature a cover photo of Gram and Emmylou astride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle (with Emmylou's arms resting on Gram's shoulders). Joe Smith, the president of Warner Bros. Records at the time (Reprise and Warner Bros. would later be combined as Warner-Reprise), chose to "respect the family's wishes," and Emmylou was relegated to a back-of-the-cover LP credit with no photos of her whatsoever.
Brown to this day is credited with co-writing the song, which first appeared as the lead-off track on Parsons' second solo album, Grievous Angel (Reprise 2171). The record was released posthumously, in January 1974, just a few short months after his death (at age 26) on September 19, 1973. The album turned out to be both Gram Parsons' artistic peak as a solo artist and, some might say, his last will and testament. Parsons' affairs were in such disarray after his death that initially the song was credited solely to him in the first pressing of the album, but Parsons' estate later acknowledged the actual authorship as soon as Brown came forward. Parsons also added a few lines of his own and fine-tuned it (particularly, the section where he sings about the "man on the radio"). These lyrics, incidentally, were in a notebook that Gram grabbed as he fled from his home, which burned down shortly before the second solo album sessions were scheduled to begin.
Brown was, unfortunately, not given credit on any releases until the early '80s when a 45rpm single was released with an alternate version of "Return of the Grievous Angel" (backed with a purported remix of Parsons song "Hearts On Fire").
CAMN: Did you give Gram the lyrics in Boston?
BROWN: Yes, I gave Gram the lyrics at a club called Oliver's, near Fenway Park in Boston. I believe the club is called something else now.
CAMN: What were you doing as a living when you gave Gram the song?
BROWN: At the time of the meeting in Boston, I had been studying and writing poetry for about a dozen years. Only once had I tried to adapt my writing to music; a high school friend had a band that got a record deal out of New York. He asked me to help him write some material, but his label people had no idea what to make of our work. They said it was too "wiggy" for release. A year or so later, Bob Dylan's first record with obscure, scatter-shot lyrics came out. We had to laugh and like so many others, we got a huge hit off it.
Just a few years ago, Brown himself was posting in a Gram Parsons web forum and then he just … disappeared. For a long time, before I first wrote about the song, I surmised that the words Brown wrote in his youth were yet another example of a truly American experience, of trying to find one's place in the world.
We lost touch with Brown for quite awhile after he got in touch about the post I'd written about his song for another blog, and we were friends on Facebook for awhile, and then he disappeared one day. It happens on Facebook quite a bit. Perhaps now he'll read this new post, and come back again, and offer up more comments.
Invoking Gram Parsons' name today will bring forth a variety of substantially differing points-of-view, about what the man and his music means to his fans, from the mythic and messianic, to perspectives that are probably a little more rational and realistic. To many, Parsons was, of course, the Florida-born rich kid who left home at 19, attended classes at Harvard and played with the International Submarine Band before westering to L.A., where he spent some of his free time playing music, writing songs and touring before binge-drinking and drugging himself to death in September of 1973, just a few months shy of his 27th birthday — he was very nearly a member of infamous "27 Club," in fact.
The unimpressed non-fans frequently use the term "wasted," as in Parsons' — like so many others — "wasted" his life away on drugs, or spent much of his last days "wasted" — it works, I suppose, in all of its various applications, if you mean to describe a self-martyred musician during those last days whilst ignoring everything that came before.
To some of his fans and followers, Parsons was seen as a champion of traditional country music, and as a result, he helped to create, or maybe further expose, a hybrid sub-genre blending country and rock that we now familiarly call, simply, "country-rock," although Parsons preferred to use a neologism of his own invention, "Cosmic American," which was more prophetic than practical perhaps, but it best described the "cosmological" confluence of indigenous U.S.-bred genres (country, rock, blues, bluegrass, and gospel) that he envisioned coming together to form a universally appreciated "new" sound. It had a cosmic feel to it, you see: he wasn't simply a California-based hippie twanging his way through country tunes of the past, or penning his own, he was trying to connect it all up in the way the ancients would try to connect the stars in the sky.
To these fans and followers who see the cosmic side of Parsons, it's usually more about the music and less about his persona, per se — the focus remains where they believe it should, on those recordings he made, on the songs he wrote and the covers he performed, and with possibly even a little bit of reverence for Parsons's brittle, often plaintive voice, and it matters less so to them that others see that distractingly marketable cowboy angel image that Parsons helped foster for himself… the Gram from the photographs where he can be seen primping and posing in that infamous roses-and-drug paraphernalia covered Gilded Palace of Sin white Nudie suit, sewn by Manuel Cuevas, Nudie Cohen's protégé, who has called the suit "a map for him to follow to his death," with custom hippie accoutrements including uppers and downers, pot leaves and poppy flowers, and cartoonish nudes, along with that stark red cholo cross on the back of the jacket and the red flames burning up the legs of his trousers, like a cowboy angel walking out of hell.
But Parsons certainly didn't always wear the suit or other flashy stage attire offstage— sometimes he's seen in casual bellbottomed Levis, cowboy boots and an untucked floral western shirt or a t-shirt bearing his own band name, his center-parted shaggy hair framing those somewhat angelic features and an easy smile; just look at the pictures of Parsons in 1971, sprawled lazily over the hood of a gleaming black-and-chrome '56 Cadillac in the parking lot of the Burrito King, a late-nite hipster haven at Alvarado and Sunset in Echo Park, and you will see someone enjoying a life he'd made for himself, at least parts of it.
Then, there are those among his fans and followers who love the music he made but dislike, somewhat intensely, what amounts to his following, or his followers, which one of his better biographers David Meyers has referred to as "a mix of Bitter Lieutenants (ex-bandmates and contemporaries)" and "possessive necrophiliacs… Grampires." These fans probably fall somewhere in the middle ground between simply being fans of the music and what comes after, a recognition that — while Parsons can certainly be seen as an early 70s rock starrish poster-boy, it's true — they would prefer instead to highlight his musical accomplishments rather than sit around in rooms filled with candles, waiting for his resurrection. But it's the followers that ruin it all, the way they've come along and made the man out to be some kind of god when, clearly, he wasn't.
To his rabid detractors, who are more extreme in their dislike, I suppose, Parsons was no more, and no less, than a trust-funded twenty-something Icarus who flew too close to a metaphorical sun, wasting his high time and short life partying with the likes of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg at Villa Nellcôte, or wherever he happened to be, because they can only see the destruction and not any of the creative life he led before he burned away those wings and fell.
In July of 1973, coming just a few months before his death, Parsons's Topanga Canyon home burned to the ground, the result of a unattended lit cigarette, and nearly all of his possessions were destroyed with the exception of a guitar and his prized Jaguar automobile, and anyone can certainly make the case that his final trip to Joshua Tree was during a time when he was sorting out every aspect of his life, from his marriage to Gretchen, to his career, to his relationship with his family back in Waycross, Georgia.
If you know the details about how Gram Parsons's life ends, then you likely know how the infinite desertscape of Joshua Tree National Park and the surrounding Mojave plays a part in the redundant re-telling of the story. Parsons had been making his own pilgrimage to this expansive California state preserve for weekend getaways for quite some time, with friends and fellow musicians, escaping from the suffocation of the city in order to free his senses, and perhaps even get a little out of his mind in a kind of self-styled spiritual journey. You can probably imagine Parsons even scanning the skies from some lofty perch, hoping to see a UFO perhaps, or simply communing with the twinkling stars or marveling at the odd-shaped Joshua trees, Yucca brevifolia, so-named by 19th-century Mormon settlers who thought the trees resembled the biblical Joshua, his arms lifted toward the heavens.
You can imagine Parsons standing in silence and breathing in the crisp night air, or perhaps even laughing and climbing around on distinctive otherworldly monzogranite rock formations, a moonlit playground of surreal spheroidal shapes unlike any other place on Earth. You may also know the significance of a particular outcropping of jagged rock, jutting out from the boulder-mantled grus-lined slopes on the backside of Cap Rock, a 200-foot formation topped by a boulder that seems to defy gravity at the junction of Park Blvd. and Keys View Road.
You probably already know how the spot has for the past forty-plus years become a destination for many of his fans who regularly make their own desert pilgrimage to pay tribute to Parsons, often leaving behind their own personal affects or scrawling familiar lyrics from his songs on the rocks — "Safe At Home," "Fallen Angel" or "God's Own Singer" among the favorite graffito slogans, or that simple red cross with rays of light spreading out from the center.
You may often hear the combined voices of less-celebrated but certainly just-as-worthy musicians who found themselves standing just outside the spotlight centered on Parsons, grousing all these decades later about how, because they'd survived to tell their own tales, and sometimes telling Parsons tale, deserve to have that light shined upon them now and then. There are stacks of biographies and numerous articles about Parsons to peruse should you want to work your way through an often spurious lacunae, not to mention a few filmed documentaries and at least one misguided feature film to view should you want to have a more visual experience. There have been many tribute albums to Gram Parsons's music, and many concerts held in tribute, many of them in Joshua Tree, California, where some of his fans have make a pilgrimage, sometimes even to stay in Room 8 at the Joshua Tree Inn, where Parsons is said to have spent his final hours.
The truth about life and death Gram Parsons is, certainly, whatever that truth means to you — and I suspect, if you're reading this, you probably already know where you may fall on the aforementioned spectrum of available choices — but we should all agree that Parsons's death ended an accomplished career that was still undertaking its uncertain next steps. Although it seems difficult to escape Parsons' ubiquitous presence now — his birthday, November 5, and the anniversary of his death, are two annual calendar dates observed by many of his fans — we should remember that Parsons was not actually a household name in his own lifetime, this despite being a former member of the Byrds and a founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers.


Viva Susan Krchmar, 61, of East Jordan, formerly of Harrison, passed away Monday, Oct. 1, 2007, at Charlevoix Area Hospital.
The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at Stocking Funeral Home, Harrison, (989) 539-7810, with pastor Kimon Criner officiating.
Visitation will take place 5-7 p.m. today, Thursday, Oct. 4, at Stocking Funeral Home. Internment will be in Fernwood Cemetery, Temple, Mich.


Irish referendum on Lisbon "throws Tories into disarray"
Back in July I asked the question: Will the Irish ensure Europe is an issue at the Tory Party Conference?
That came as it was announced that the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty would be held two days before the Conservative conference opened in Manchester.
"Party chiefs are struggling to prepare alternative policy blueprints to unveil to grassroots activists, as the mood in Ireland suggests the vote on October 2 could go either way.
"If the Irish vote No, it will give a huge boost to David Cameron's campaign to derail the EU Treaty and will open the way for the Tory leader to promise the British people a referendum on the issue. However, if Ireland votes Yes, the Treaty will move a step closer to becoming law before the end of the year, and the Tories will be plunged into a deep dilemma as to how they can possibly overturn it.
"Both Mr Cameron and William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, have already said that they would "not let matters rest" if the Treaty was ratified by all EU member states before a Tory government came to power. However, they have not said whether the British people would be offered a referendum in such circumstances."
"If the Lisbon Treaty is in force at the time of the next election then in our view political integration would have gone too far, the Treaty would lack democratic legitimacy in this country and we would not let matters rest there. Naturally, we will set out how we plan to take things forward in the manifesto we will put to the British people."
Whilst I have confidence in Mark Francois's ability to deliver the goods - he played a key role in the setting up of the new European Conservatives and Reformists group in Brussels, proving many doubters that it could be done - I think the party is going to have to make its intentions clear some time before the publication of a manifesto next April.


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    print(pos[0], pos[1])
else:
    print("image not found")

What it does is that it searches your current screen and if it finds the image, it prints its cords.
The problem is it doesn't find the image if it's rotated.
For example when image_to_find.png is this

and my screen looks like this

it prints this

position :  5 144

but if my screen is this

it prints this

image not found

Is there any way how to find the image even if it is rotated?
This is what i use:
https://github.com/drov0/python-imagesearch


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Q: How to install headers while no library is present (A header-only lib)? I need to install some headers (.hpp) in standard include dir. How do I tell automake to install them while there is no object to be compiled? Normally I put this lines in my Makefile.am:
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la
libfoo_la_SOURCES = \
    foo.cpp \
    bar.cpp
foo_includedir = $(includedir)/foo
foo_include_HEADERS = \
    foo.hpp \
    bar.hpp \
    ../config.h

A: You can use the _DATA primary:
foodir = $(includedir)/foo
foo_DATA = foo.hpp bar.hpp ../config.h


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Maciej Czaj – polski perkusista, kompozytor.

Kariera muzyczna
Wywodzi się z łódzkiego środowiska muzycznego, tam pojawił się w składach takich zespołów jak m.in.: Torpedy, Incognito, czy Kanon Rytm.
W latach 70. współpracował z wykonawcami o randze ogólnopolskiej. Był perkusistą m.in. zespołu Tadeusza Woźniaka i Koman Bandu z którym w 1974 dokonał nagrań radiowych (ukazały się w styczniu 2021 na płycie Continuation, zbierającej nagrania grupy z lat 1974-75) i nagrał wydany w 1975 roku debiutancki longplay wokalistki Krystyny Prońko pt. Krystyna Prońko. Był również podporą zespołu akompaniującego Pro Contrze, a także Testu z którym w maju 1975 roku zarejestrował w Polskim Radiu utwory Bez problemów i Nie bądź taka pewna siebie, które były niejako zwiastunem drugiego albumu formacji – jednak ostatecznie do nagrania krążka nie doszło. Muzyk pracował w zespole od 1975, aż do zakończenia jego działalności jesienią 1976 roku. Koncertował również z węgierskim Locomotivem GT. W 1977 roku przez miesiąc występował w Danii z zespołem The Troubadours, który dzielił klubową scenę z Boney M.. W 1978 roku formacja w nieco zmienionym składzie występowała pod nazwą Grupa T i nagrała m.in. instrumentalną kompozycję perkusisty pt. Herbata. Na początku 1979 roku łodzianin opuścił zespół i rozpoczął współpracę z Czesławem Niemenem. Jako członek jego grupy N.AE. (Niemen Aerolit) występował z artystą podczas Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Interwizji Sopot'79, gdzie Niemen odniósł spektakularny sukces oraz koncertował m.in. w Niemczech, w Armenii, czy w ZSRR.
W latach 1980-1990 grał w EB Bandzie, którego wokalistą był Wojciech Korda, gitarzystą Dariusz Kozakiewicz, basistą przez pewien czas był Tadeusz Gogosz, zaś klawiszowcem Maciej Głuszkiewicz (wcześniej podpora Klanu i Show Bandu ) a po jego odejściu Jerzy Zgrzeba – muzycy występowali zarobkowo w lokalach i klubach w Skandynawii. W kraju perkusista wziął udział w imprezach wspomnieniowych Old Rock Meeting w Operze Leśnej w Sopocie (12-13.07.1986) i Gwiazdy Mocnego Uderzenia w Domu Muzyki i Tańca w Zabrzu (24.03.1988).

Zmarł 8 sierpnia 1992 roku.

Dyskografia

Albumy
Z zespołem Koman Band:
 1975: Krystyna Prońko – Krystyna Prońko (LP, Pronit – SXL 1091)
 2021: Koman Band – Continuation (CD, GAD Records – GAD CD 149; zbiór nagrań radiowych zespołu z lat 1974–1975)

Z zespołem Test:
 2000: Złota kolekcja: Przygoda bez miłości (CD, Pomaton EMI – 7243 5 25562 2 9)
 2008: Z Archiwum Polskiego Radia, Vol. 9 – Test (CD, Polskie Radio – PRCD 1060)
 2015: Przygoda bez miłości (LP, Kameleon Records – KAMLP 09)

Z zespołem Czesława Niemena N.AE.:
 1979: Niemen i Przyjaciele (live in Kolonia 10.11.1979) (bootleg)

Z zespołem Niebiesko-Czarni:
 1988: Przeżyjmy to jeszcze raz (3xLP, Polskie Nagrania "Muza" – SX 2616/18)

Inne nagrania
 1986: Old Rock Meeting A.D. 1986 (5xLP, PolJazz – KPS j 013)
 1987: Czy nas jeszcze pamiętasz? OLD ROCK MEETING (2xLP, Polskie Nagrania "Muza" – SX2505/6)

Przypisy

Polscy perkusiści rockowi
Muzycy jazzrockowi
Polscy perkusiści popowi
Muzycy związani z Łodzią
Zmarli w 1992

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The Gunners boss faced the media at London Colney on Thursday morning ahead of Saturday's trip to Preston in the FA Cup third round.
And the news about Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla was not good - with the French midfielder set for a month on the sidelines and the Spaniard no closer to a return following surgery on his ankle last month.
Wenger also discussed Mesut Ozil's illness and the players in contention for the game at Deepdale.
Here are some of the key quotes from Wenger's chat with the media.
We might have a problem with Perez because he injured his ankle - I have to see how he responds.
Francis is out for three or four weeks now with a hamstring.
Coming back the closest is Walcott but he is still not ready - Gibbs will not be ready so I don't think we will have anyone coming back into the squad.
We will play with 90 per cent of the squad.
I will rest Koscielny because he had a problem in his thigh, Sanchez I will rest certainly - but everyone else will play. Ospina will start.
I say three or four weeks because its a hamstring but maybe we get good news.
He has a scan today.
I haven't decided yet - he could be. It depends on Perez a but and also on how he feels. Physically his fitness is at a good level but the ideal thing is to give him two or three games with the U23s.
But sometimes the situation is now always ideal, sometimes you have to hurry up.
Danny wants to play - but he is also conscious that last time he came back from a long injury he had a setback.
He suffered a lot so at the moment he listens well to what people advise him to do - even if he is naturally impatient.
But when you have been out for so long you do not want a setback.
Mesut is coming in today and will be assessed by the doctor.
But he has been two weeks in bed so I can't imagine I will involve him on Saturday.
He has fu, a throat infection - I don't know exactly.
At the moment he is far away. It's not going as quickly as I imagined it - certainly in January he will not come back.
He is not planned to go outside and start running - once he goes outside and starts running then you count six weeks.
At the moment he has not been outside.
It's frustrating because he's such a great plater and he started the season in such a tremendous way - he was the dominant player in our squad.
Then we suddenly lost him.
Do Arsenal need to sign a new midfielder in January?


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Prime Minister Imran Khan today chaired a meeting of National Security Committee at Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister Imran Khan today chaired a meeting of
National Security Committee at Prime Minister's Office. Participants discussed geostrategic and national security environment and situation arising after the Pulwama Incident. The forum noted that the state of Pakistan is not involved in any way, means or form in the said incident.
The incident was conceived, planned and executed indigenously. In this regard, Pakistan has sincerely offered investigation of the incident as well as the offer of dialogue on the issue of terrorism among other disputed issues.
We expect India to positively respond to the offers. Based on the investigation or any tangible evidence provided, State of Pakistan shall take action against anyone found using our soil.
However, India also needs deep introspection to realize that why people of IOK have lost fear of death. The violence by Indian forces in IOK is highly counterproductive. The global community needs to play its part in resolving the long pending Kashmir issue in accordance with UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiris.
The Prime Minister said that this is a new Pakistan and we are
determined to demonstrate to our people that the State is capable
of protecting them and believes that monopoly of violence stays
with State. This will not come with commitment alone.
We recognize that terrorism and extremism are the top issues in the region and the whole region including Pakistan have suffered.
Pakistan alone has endured over 70,000 casualties in the process
besides heavy loss to national exchequer. That is why the National
Action Plan conceived and issued in 2014, outlined concrete
sequenced measures with consensus of all political parties and
institutions of Pakistan. Having addressed direct threat to State of
Pakistan, we need to move to ensure that militancy and extremism
are routed from the society and the State never becomes hostage
to extremists. In this regard, Prime Minister directed both the interior ministry and the security institutions to immediately accelerate actions on ground.
At the same time, the Prime Minister authorized Armed Forces
of Pakistan to respond decisively and comprehensively to any
aggression or misadventure by India.
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Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems?
When thinking harder doesn't solve a problem, your dreaming mind may dig deep and find a good idea.
The Crescent Team
· 5 min read
By Nicoline Douwes Isema
A man named Harry* is lying in bed in a mountain cabin, and he is in pain. A logical, 44-year-old computer engineer, he is not the type to panic. But his hiking vacation has barely begun and already his achilles tendons are throbbing.
"Then I dreamt that my feet were wheels, rolling round and round. Waking up, the idea came to improve my foot strike and do a proper heel to toe roll. I tried it the next day and it worked. I still think of that from time to time when I am on a hike."
Harry didn't know it, but he was thinking in his sleep. While his body rested, his mind brainstormed the problem at hand: the pain in his feet. He hadn't found the solution by worrying about it during day, but his dreaming mind dug deep and found a good idea.
A fluke? Hardly. Most of us know that sleep is essential for processing memories. But during sleep we also begin making new connections with the information we collect. "Sleep seems to stimulate your mind to make non-obvious connections," says Matthew Walker, Berkeley University sleep scientist and author of Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams. "This is the basis of creativity – connecting ideas, events and memories that wouldn't normally fit together."
Most people believe that to solve a problem we have to think harder, focus more. But that's not always the case. Sometimes, it's about letting go. Have you ever tried to think of a name really hard, only to have it pop into your mind in the shower or while falling asleep? Those moments of letting go are when our brains allow what's called the "the default mode network" to do its thing: make new, unexpected connections.
Not surprisingly, this creative network is also very active during REM sleep, the stage of sleep when our most vivid dreams occur. Which is why we often wake up with a new insight, or a good idea.
Even rats dream up solutions to problems, found researcher Matthew A. Wilson, PhD, in his laboratory at MIT. He let his rats walk through mazes during the day, with their brains wired to scanners. When they fell asleep, he saw them dream of mazes, and come up with new routes to find an exit.
Deirdre Barrett, PhD, professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, devoted her life to researching dreams and creativity. She defines dreaming as the mind "thinking in a different biochemical mode."
Thinking, because a dreaming brain and a waking brain are remarkably similar. During REM sleep, our brains are nearly as active as in waking life. The same stresses and concerns we have in waking life, such as the stress of a pandemic, tend to show up in dreams, though not always literally. If, for example, we see a face or dream of a face, our facial recognition centers light up just the same.
But they are different in the way that in REM sleep, our brain is making new neural pathways, not hindered by an internal censor. Our neurotransmitters shift to make new and unexpected connections, while logic takes a backseat. We automatically become divergent and out-of-the-box thinkers. Anything can happen in a dream.
When we're stuck with a nagging problem and not getting anywhere, when we need to see an issue from a different perspective, that's when sleeping can offer novel solutions.
Here are 3 three things Harry did right, and how you can try this at home.
Prime your brain: Think about a problem before falling asleep
"Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious." - Thomas Edison, inventor
We've all probably had the experience of waking up with a new insight or a good idea. Science says, that's not just because we wake up with rested neurons, it's also because our brains stay active all through the night. We think and brainstorm in our sleep, even if we don't remember.
Psychology professor Barrett ran a study where she asked students to intentionally sleep on a problem for a week and try to dream up a solution. Even after the first try, half of them got a relevant dream, and a third found a solution. One key to success that Barrett identified is to care about the problem you're trying to solve. A dreaming brain is emotionally driven, so it's easier to dream about your love life or pain in your feet than about math problems. And that was exactly what Harry did – he worried. And fell asleep.
Try this at home: Before going to bed, think about a pressing challenge you're having. If you like, write it down as an open question that deserves a surprising answer. While you're asleep, your brain will work on the problem.
Photo by Armand Khoury / Unsplash
Ditch your alarm clock
"Sleep is the only source of invention." - Marcel Proust, Writer
Brainstorming takes time, even if you're asleep while doing it. Harry was on vacation so there was no alarm clock. He could let his brain do its thing. And that turns out to be important.
If we want to tap into our sleeping resources, an alarm clock might be the enemy. That's because idea generation happens in REM sleep, and the bulk of it takes place in the morning hours, right before you wake up. Cut your sleep off with an alarm clock, and you might end up losing some of that brainstorm.
REM sleep is a perfect environment for our brain to explore options. Our sleeping brain is hardwired to come up with original solutions — but it needs time to do the work.
Try this at home: Instead of jumping out of bed, take a minute or two to remember your dreams. No dreams? No worries! Your brain works for you regardless. Check how you feel: Are there any thoughts floating around? Catch your subconscious intelligence and write down whatever comes up.
Explore, and apply
"A problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." - John Steinbeck, Author and Nobel Laureate
Waking up, Harry didn't dismiss his dream. He started exploring. Sure, the dream was physically impossible, but to Harry that didn't make it nonsense. He inspected his dream (What do wheels do? They roll) and saw what it made him think of (Hiking 101: Roll your feet).
Harry used his dream as a starting point to see his problem from a new angle, as a clever visualization of "rolling your feet." And when he was happy with the insight, he tried it out in waking life.
Thinking while we rest often leads to connections we previously missed. It's not like Harry didn't know how to walk, or that he wasn't doing it properly. He just didn't connect the dots. Sometimes it's important to let go of focus for a bit, to let our mind be open for new insight. Making new connections between existing ideas is what our sleeping brains are hardwired for.
Try this at home: Take a moment to explore whatever you wrote down in the morning. Mull it over: What does it make you think of? Any ideas in there that are worth trying out during the day?
"Dreaming is neither consistently wise, nor consistently useless. The dream's power lies in the fact that it's so different a mode of thought - that it supplements and enriches what we've already done while awake." - Deirdre Barrett, Dream Researcher
*Not his real name. Excerpted from Wat heb jij gedroomd vannacht, de kracht van denken in je slaap (Scriptum, 2011) by Nicoline Douwes Isema and Cathelijne Esser.
Nicoline Douwes Isema is a Dutch dream expert and sleep activist. She's on a mission to show everyone how to wake up with new ideas and fresh insights. For resources on dreams and creative problem solving: thinkinginyoursleep.com. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
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Yeng laments DOTC's timetable for mothballed north railway
Ding Cervantes
CLARK FREEPORT – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) already has a timetable for the completion of a railway system that would connect the Clark International Airport (CIA) here to Metro Manila, but the completion date was set to 2030 yet. Pampanga 1st District Rep. Joseller Guiao revealed this during a meeting here with the Capampangans in Media, Inc., with a lament on "a timetable too way far off."
Guiao noted that the DOTC timetable indicated that the first phase would start the construction in Metro Manila to
Malolos City in Bulacan for completion in 2020. "Then the second phase would be from Malolos to Clark for completion in 2030 yet," he lamented.
Guiao said officials of Central Luzon's Regional Development Council (RDC), headed by Bulacan Gov. Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado found the timetable unacceptable. "During a recent RDC meeting, Alvarado even expressed the view that the completion of the railway project up to Clark should be within the first phase or up to 2020," he noted.
He noted that the RDC already passed a resolution on this. Guiao said he would push for the earlier completion
of the project up to Clark. "As a matter of fact, I think the entire project should be finished up to Clark even earlier than 2020," he stressed.
Guiao stressed the importance of fully developing the Clark freeport which former Pres. Ramos declared through an executive order in 1994 as "the future site of the country's premier international gateway."
It was during Ramos' term that a railway linking Clark to Metro Manila was first proposed. Guiao noted that
Clark would inevitably be the vortex of economic activities in all regions north of Metro Manila once the Tarlac-Pangasinan- La Union Expressway (TPLEx) is completed within the Aquino administration.
The project's developer Philippine Infra Development Inc. (PIDC) said that once fully completed, TPLEX will cut
travel time from Tarlac to La Union to only an hour from the present three and a half hours. "The north will have
Clark as its alternative to Metro Manila where the Ninoy Aquino International Airport has become too congested,"
Guiao said.
He warned that NAIA has "become a safety issue." "It's an accident waiting to happen and we don't want this to happen," he said.
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My mom did something similiar in 1968 or so- she managed to squirm out of her carseat, knock the car into reverse, and roll out of the store parking lot, across four different lanes of traffic and into another lot on the opposite side. My stepsisters also wrecked their dad's car as kids- he left it unlocked at the house, they got in it, were playing and managed to let off the parking brake, which sent the car down over the hill and into a big oak tree.
NOT SURE WHY HE DECIDED TO LEAVE THE KID IN THE RUNNING CAR, COULD HAVE BEEN TO SPARE THE KID OF THE COLD, MAYBE IT WAS SLEEPING AT THE TIME OF ARRIVAL, BUT WE ALL HAVE MADE STUPID MISTAKES, AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER, I REMEMBER BEING TOLD AS A KID, STAY IN THE CAR AND DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING, WELL SOME OF US LISTEN AND ONE OF US NEVER LISTEN. THAT WOULD BE ME, YES, I WAS ALWAYS GETTING A LICKING ON MY BACK SIDE, FOR NOT LISTENING TO MY MOTHER. SOMETHING I HAVE REGRETTED FOR OVER 40 YEARS NOW, BUT CAN NOT CHANGE THE PASS, ONLY THE FUTURE. SO I AM ALMOST SURE THIS DAD IS IN HELL FOR WHAT HE DID, THAT IS IF HE IS A GOOD DAD, AND THE FACT HIS CHILD IS SAFE, IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HIM RIGHT NOW THEN JAIL TIME, AND FINES. I KNOW WE ALL HAVE A NEW SET OF RULES TO LIVE BY NOW A DAYS, BUT PARENTS MAKE MISTAKES, AND A GREAT PARENT, ALWAYS LEARNS FROM HIS MISTAKE BUT SOMETIMES GREAT PEOPLE MAKE BAD DECISIONS. I AM SURE IF THIS DAD HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN HE WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT AT ALL. SOMETIMES A FEW SECONDS IN BAD JUDGEMENT CAN COST YOU EVERYTHING AND I DO BELIEVE THIS DAD NOW KNOWS THAT, AND THIS KID MOST LIKELY WILL NOT BE OUT OF TROUBLE SOON. THIS IS THE TYPE OF KID, LIKE ME, YOU HAVE TO BE ON GUARD EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY OR THIS KID, LIKE ME, IS GOING TO GET INTO MORE TROUBLE, JUST BECAUSE THEY NEVER WANT TO LISTEN. SO DAD WHEN YOU GET OUT OF ALL OF THIS MESS, MAKE DAM SURE YOU NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE THIS KID AGAIN. BUT IF YOU RAISE THIS KID CORRECTLY THAT KID WILL TURN OUT AS GREAT AS I DID. AND SINCE I HAD ONE JUST LIKE ME, MY KID ALSO TURNED OUT GREAT ALSO, BUT OH MY GOD, EVER SECOND OF THE DAY THIS KID WAS OUT THINKING ME ON EVERY TURN, BUT WITH A LOT OF HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION, I TOO, GOT HER RAISE INTO ONE HELLA OF A GREAT ADULT. WHEN MOM AND DAD'S ARE BUSY WITH A JOB, PAYING BILLS, GETTING THE KIDS RAISED PROPERLY, ETC, ETC, ETC, ALL THE KID IS THINKING ABOUT IS HOW CAN I DO WHAT I WANT TO DO, LIKE THIS KID, NO, NOT ALL KIDS ARE LIKE THIS, SOME ACTUALLY STAY IN THE CAR, AND DO NOT TOUCH A THING, WHILE OTHERS, THINK TO THEMSELVES, WOW THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO DRIVE THE CAR, YES PEOPLE EVEN AT TWO YEARS OLD, THIS KID IS GOING TO DO WHAT THEY WANT WHEN THEY WANT AND THE PARENT DOES HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL WITH THIS TYPE OF KID. BUT I AM SURE THIS DAD WILL NEVER EVER DO ANYTHING SO STUPID AGAIN WHEN IT COMES TO UNDER ESTIMATING THIS KID AND WHAT THEY WILL DO IF THEY ARE NOT WATCHED EVER SECOND OF THE DAY. MT GOD MY KID ACTUALLY SET THE KITCHEN ON FIRE USING THE MICROWAVE WITH LEFT OVER FRENCH FRIES THAT SHE WANTED NOW. I SAID WAIT UNTIL I GET FINISHED WITH MY SHOWER AND I WILL MAKE THEM FOR YOU. WELL WHEN MY 5 MIN. SHOWER WAS OVER I OPEN THE DOOR TO SMOKE ALL OVER THE HOUSE. DOES THAT MAKE ME A BAD MOTHER, HELL NO, I JUST REALIZED I HAD A KID JUST LIKE ME AT THAT VERY MOMENT. DID THAT MEAN I NEEDED TO GO TO JAIL OR PAY FINES. NO, THAT MEANT I HAD A KID JUST LIKE ME, AND WHEN SHE GOT MY KEYS AND I HEARD THE CAR START AND I RAN OUT TO THE GARAGE, AND SCREAMED, ASHLEY NO, STOP, DID THAT MEAN I HAD TO GO TO JAIL. WHEN MY KID LOCKED ME OUT OF THE HOUSE, DID THAT MEAN I HAD TO GO TO JAIL. WHEN THE NEIGHBOR CALLED AND SAID DO YOU KNOW WHERE ASHLEY IS AND I SAID, YES SHE IS IN THE FAMILY ROOM, AND MY NEIGHBOR SAID, WELL THEN WHO IS THE KID ON TOP OF YOUR MAIL BOX PLAYING HORSE. I SCREAMED OH MY GOD, ASHLEY, RAN OUT THE FRONT DOOR AND THERE SHE WAS WITH NOTHING BUT A DIAPER ONE IN ABOUT 40 DEGREE WEATHER PLAYING HORSE ON TOP OF THE MAIL BOX. I HAD JUST SEEN HER IN THE FAMILY ROOM PLAYING WITH HER TOYS, BUT HOW IN THE HELL DID SHE DO THAT ONE SO FAST. EASY, OPEN THE WINDOW, KICKED OUT THE SCREEN, CLIMBED OUT AND HEADING FOR THE MAIL BOX. NOW SHOULD I HAVE HAD TO GO TO JAIL. SO PEOPLE BEFORE YOU ARE SO FAST TO JUDGE, WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES, OR MY MOTHER'S SHOES, OR THIS DAD'S SHOES, WITH THIS TYPE OF KID, AND THEN MAYBE YOU WILL SAY, PLEASE DONT SEND ME TO JAIL. I AM DOING THE BEST THAT I CAN, BUT NO, EVER DAM TIME THIS KID DID SOMETHING I TOOK MEASURES TO FIX HER FROM BEING ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN, BUT HELL YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE KID WILL OR WILL NOT DO UNTIL THEY DO IT. MY OLDEST DAUGHTER NEVER DID ANY OF THESE THINGS, WHEN I TOLD HER TO SIT AND PLAY WITH YOUR TOYS AND DONT TOUCH ANYTHING SHE DID IT, BUT TO MY YOUNGEST KID, IT WAS A CHALLENGE FOR HER TO DO IT. BUT SHE IS AWESOME TODAY AT 27 AND I GUESS I DID NOT DO TO BAD AT RAISING HER, AND YES, NEVER ONCE DID I HAVE TO GO TO JAIL FOR WHAT THIS KID PUT ME THRU, BUT IN TODAY'S WORLD I AM SURE I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THERE REAL QUICK THE MINUTE SHE SET THE KITCHEN ON FIRE AT 18 MONTHS. SO PEOPLE BACK OFF UNLESS YOU HAVE RAISED A KID LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW NOTHING. SO I DO PRAY FOR THIS DAD AND THAT THE COURTS WILL SEE IT AS JUST A STUPID MISTAKE AND NOT ONE WORTH JAIL TIME FOR, HIS INTENT WAS TO ACTUALLY PROTECT THE KID BUT IN DOING SO HE ACTUALLY PUT THE KID IN MORE DANGER. NOT SOMETHING ANY PARENT WANTS TO DO, BUT SOMETIMES, A FEW SECONDS OF BAD JUDGEMENT CAN END IN A LIFE TIME IN PAIN. I HAPPEN TO KNOW FOR A FACT THAT MY SISTER IN LAW, OVER 35 YEARS AGO, LEFT HER KID IN THE CAR TO GO RUN IN FOR SOMETHING WHILE IT WAS RAINING AND COLD, SHE LEFT THE ENGINE RUNNING, LOCKED THE DOORS, WITH A FULL TANK OF GAS. SHE COULD SEE THE CAR FROM INSIDE THE STORE. BUT WHEN SHE CAME OUT MINUTES LATER, THE DOOR WOULD NOT UNLOCK AND SHE HAD TO CALL AAA TO GET IT OPEN. NOW SHOULD SHE HAVE GONE TO JAIL, WELL IN THIS DAY AND AGE SHE WOULD HAVE, BUT NOT BACK THEN, BUT WHEN HER FIRST GRANDCHILD WAS BORN THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER MOUTH TO HER DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW WAS, DO NOT EVER FOR ANY REASON LEAVE YOUR KID IN THE CAR, NOT FOR A SECOND, WHEN I DID IT WITH YOU IT WAS AND STILL IS MY MOST HORRIBLE DAY IN MY LIFE. SO WONDER WHAT THIS DAD WILL TELL HIS KID SOMEDAY, I WOULD THINK THE SAME. SO TO ME IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE COURAGE TO POST YOUR PHOTO, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE ANYONE AND IF YOU HAVE NEVER RAISED A KID LIKE THIS ONE OR ME, OR MY MOTHER, OR MY KID, SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT KIDS AND THE CRAP THEY WILL AND CAN DO WITHIN SECOND. DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BAD OR HORRIBLE PARENT, MAKES YOU HUMAN. NOT ALL OF US ARE BLESS WITH PERFECT LITTLE KIDS, SOME OF US GET KIDS JUST LIKE WE WERE AS A KID AND OUR MOTHERS LOVE IT. YES CAPS, GET OVER IT, NOT SCREAMING, JUST LIKE CAPS FOR MY EYES IS ALL.