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Leopold Godowsky, heralded among music giants as "Buddha of the Piano" and "The Pianists' Pianist" was probably the most astonishing instance of a self-taught performer and creator in the history of art. He was born in Vilna, Russian Poland (now the capitol of Lithuania) on February 13, 1870. In his own words, he described his childhood and piano education:
"With me music was as natural and necessary as breathing. I can not remember my first contact with music. I was far too young. My family was not composed of professional musicians, although they loved music. When I was a child my father, a physician, while attending a family during a terrible scourge of cholera, was stricken in the home of his patient and expired. This left my mother destitute. I was given into the care of an uncle who was very musical. He had been a pupil of Wieniawski and played the violin exceedingly well. I started on his piano to penetrate the fascinating mysteries of the ivory and ebony keys, when I was three years old. I have no recollection how I learned the notes. It all seemed perfectly natural and obvious to me, as though I had always known how to play them. No one remembers how one learned to feed oneself. Playing the piano was like that to me. At the age of five I composed a minuet. The middle section was a perfect canon. This is noteworthy because up to that time I had never heard a canon. I used this canon in another composition twenty-three years later."
"I would be very glad could I have stated with truth that I was a pupil of [Franz] Liszt or any other great man, but I was not. I have not had three months lessons in my life. I have been told I was playing the piano before I was two. I think, however, an imaginative family perpetrated this story. I cannot vouch for the truth one way or the other. I have had some extraordinary experience, and this may have happened. I do not remember whether anybody taught me the value and meaning of notes and the use of the fingers of the keyboard, or whether I acquired my knowledge in an autodidactic way, but I do remember that I had no help from my fifth year on."
In 1884, the young maestro studied for several months at the Royal High School of Music in Berlin. His career as a concert pianist, which eventually would take him to every continent except Australia and Antarctica, began at age nine. In 1886 after a North American tour, he went to Paris, where he befriended Camille Saint Saens and many leading French musicians. In 1890, he returned to America and was one of the first pianists to give a recital at Carnegie Hall. In 1891, Maestro Godowsky married his childhood sweetheart Frieda Saxe and became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1892, he became head piano teacher of the Combs Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia; and in 1894 he was chosen to direct the piano department of the Chicago Conservatory. In 1900, he settled in Berlin and in 1909, he became Director of the "Klavier-Meisterschule" of the Imperial Royal Academy of Music of Vienna (a position previously held by Ferruccio Busoni and Emil Sauer) and was made Imperial Royal Professor.
As early as 1892, Maestro Godowsky taught weight, relaxation, and economy of motion as the foundation stones of technique of interpretation and mechanism in piano playing. He was the first great concert pianist to consciously adopt and then teach the principle of weight release, rather than muscular impetus, as the most efficient method of playing. It was during the 1890s that the maestro began to make arrangements of other composers' music. His set of 54 transcriptions, reworking 26 of the 27 Chopin etudes, was produced between 1893 and 1914 and formed the basis of his reputation as an important composer for the piano.
After World War I, Maestro Godowsky resumed touring, but suffered a stroke on June 17, 1930 during a recording session in London which put an end to his public performances, and made it impossible for him to recoup the considerable financial loss he had suffered in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The suicide of his younger son in 1932 and the death of his wife in 1933, combined with his despair over the deteriorating political situation in Europe (his plans for a "World Synod of Music and Musicians" and an "International Master Institute of Music" came to nothing) cast an even deeper shadow over his late years, and he stopped composing. He died of stomach cancer at 7 a.m. on Monday, November 21, 1938. He was 68. He was buried in Temple Israel Cemetery, with Frieda and Gordon. An editorial in the New York Times (in addition to his obituary) illustrates the regard in which he was held at the time of his death.
"Leopold Godowsky was a unique figure among all his contemporaries: a phenomenal pianist and musician of the most exceptional attributes... He sought new worlds to conquer and set to developing the modem idioms of the piano in ways which had a strong effect upon the development of present day technic and upon composition for the instrument. This alone would entitle him to the fame rather unjustly denied him as a pianist. When he played his style was too perfect, too sensitive, perhaps too cool and unostentatious in its values, to win the approval of the crowd. He could play everything when he was at the zenith of his powers with a finish and apparent ease attainable by few, and with an understanding and abhorrence of exaggeration which did not favour him in the concert world. By other great pianists, such as Hofmann and Rachmaninoff, Godowsky was profoundly esteemed. He was a man of wholly exceptional mentality; widely read; at home and at ease with men who were leaders in other fields than his own; a traveller in many lands; a restless and curious inquirer in more than one realm of discovery. His service to music was great and enduring, proportionate to his industry, knowledge and modesty in his course."
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It all kicks off at noon at Angel City Brewery, where great food and beer—not to mention some awesome prizes—will be available all afternoon. There will be 90 minutes of performances followed by 60 minutes of scoring. During the scoring there will be a "dress as your favorite Eurovision Song Contest star" costume contest, a few rounds of trivia and a live auction!
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A group of Revolutionary-era re-enactors planned an encampment at the High Point Museum. However, ice and bitter cold descended on the Piedmont. Schools and churches started cancelling events left and right. Fortunately for me, one of those cancellations left me free to shop the High Point Library book sale in the morning and follow deserted, but clear roads to the museum that afternoon.
I found a few diehard re-enactors huddled in the Hoggatt house, sitting by the fire in their 18th-century woolens. With the cold seeping in and sparse audience attendance, several had slipped home to enjoy modern central heating.
Inside the museum building I found another group, the Regency Assembly of North Carolina. Since my writing is set in 17th-century Ireland to colonial America, I hadn't paid attention to this event on the museum schedule. Happenstance turned unplanned changes into a delightful day.
|Regency Assembly members say, 'Costumes admired, but not required.'
Whatever the name, the events of this era mostly overlap "Jane Austen's life (1775-1817)."
Members especially like to dance. When I peered into the meeting room, about eight people were dancing one of the English country dances I had seen in Pride and Prejudice.
They welcomed me, inviting me to stay for tea. Mind you, some were dressed in elegant costume, while I was wearing North Carolina "snow gear" — sweatshirt, jeans and hiking boots. So I slunk in and sat at a table while they finished another dance.
As they stopped to catch their breath and enjoy tea and biscuits (shortbread! what had I done to deserve a warm drink and yummy sweets?), two men gave reports from the war and suddenly we were in the current day, but in 1813.
Jim Tate, dressed in the green coat of a British sharpshooter (not a Hessian as I'd first assumed), represented a member of the 95th Rifles Division. Rifles had longer range than muskets, but required more time to reload. The sharpshooters had more training than the infantry and carried their own fine powder in their powder horns, along with a cartridge box.
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Jim Greathouse represented a sailing master, "currently" captain of the gunboat, Alligator. He explained that his costume is rather plain for someone of his rank.
Our hosts, Ruth and Franz Verbunt, presented each of us with our own "passports" — one from the United States of Ameria signed for President Madison by Secretary of State James Monroe, and one from the French Empire.
They invited everyone to come back next month. And then the dancing began again!
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I loved trying out all of the new {to me} stitches on this sampler.
That book is so great!
Love that sampler. Congrats on finishing phase one!
Sigh... this is GORGEOUS!!!
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How very sweet and beautiful, dear Alisa- what many hours lay in that lovely piece. Wish you a happy time finishing it .
That is so pretty! Love it!
What a beautiful piece! And the story behind it is equally precious. I can understand why you set it aside for so long. "Happy Day" is an appropriate sentiment now.
Just exquisite...just like evrything you do. You make me sick. :) Don't you just love Downton Abbey? I just finished Series Two....so good. Now onto the ballet book perhaps?? I am awful. :)
YOur sampler is beautiful. And I can appreciate how it takes time to finish something. I still have a wrap I was knitting at my Mom's bedside. I just picked up the needles again to finish it this year...it's been almost four years since she died. Somehow I feel her energy in that piece that helped us bridge life and death.
Your needlework, your photos, your thoughts...and your life...are beautiful indeed.
Downton Abby and stitching is how I spent my Sunday evening, too. It doesn't get much better than that! (Beautiful sampler, too)
Oh I love Love love It! So sweet!
It´s beautiful Alisa - I bought one of her samples too. Haven´t had any time to start yet - maybe this year....
So beautiful, I'm really pleased you went back to your sampler, well worth picking it up again! Mx
That is SO pretty! I love doing this kind of work... and this must have taken you forever!!!
Long ago, and far away... all good stories start out that way...
It's looking luverly!
The sampler is so lovely.
Congrats on finishing this phase.
Thanks for sharing.
That is so lovely and also has a story to tell. Thanks for sharing.
Sweet stitches.
They get you through...
Pinned this.
I bought the same thing and have yet to even start on mine. I love the colors you chose! Wasn't Downton A. sooo good?!
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absolutely gorgeous! just love all the details and the decidedly happy colors!
Wow! I love it! So happy and full of joy. Just gorgeous. ♥♥
Any chance you have a color list? I have this too and am overwhelmed with color selection, but I love what you did.


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If there were any doubt about Tim Tebow's portrayal in the press as the living embodiment of Jesus Christ, this write up of a question and answer session Tebow gave this afternoon is the final nail in palm. Maybe it's deliberately tongue in cheek, but forgive me if I have my doubts.
Tebow was on hand at Celebration Church, a megachurch some 20 miles outside Austin, Texas before a crowd of over 15,000. He spoke on a whole range of topics including the role model status of professional athletes—you're a shitty role model Sir Charles—as well as his proselytizing and fundamental misunderstanding of "what this country was based on."
The event, that lasted about 20 minutes, was given a name: Easter On The Hill. Tebow is described as having a "flock of admirers." A good half of the article is spent detailing the various pilgrimages taken by those admirers who wanted to catch a glimpse and hear the man speak. Like, for instance, "lifelong" Broncos fan Debbie Sandoval.
"I love that boy. ... He's like my third son," said Sandoval, who is not a regular member of the church but wasn't going to miss a chance to hear Tebow speak. A self-described "lifelong Broncos fan," Sandoval said she became a Jets fan because of Tebow.
Tebow voluntarily requested the time to address the crowd, it just so happened that Easter Sunday was the day that worked best. It's time Tebow stop being praised for not being afraid to speak openly about his faith and everyone acknowledge that he actively seeks it out. He's not responding to reporters' questions, he is scheduling speaking engagements on Easter Sunday to talk God, role models and politics. He's certainly well within his rights to do it, but lets stop portraying Tebow as some aw shucks-y charmer. He is a savvy evangelist with the world at his fingertips.
"In Christianity, it's the Pope and Tebow right now," Celebration Church pastor Joe Champion he said. "We didn't have enough room to handle the Pope."
Jesus Christ.
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Choosing the Right Law School / Re: Kent $20,000 (3.25) or DePaul $15,000 (3.20)« on: May 02, 2011, 07:49:03 PM »
I would base my decision on which school is offering the most money, in this case Kent. In addition, Kent is a stronger national ranking school and has better facilities than Depaul. Either way they are both very strong regional schools so you dont lose anything by going to Kent over Depaul.


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Target Canada loses nearly US$1B since opening
Linda Nguyen , The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:33AM EST
Last Updated Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:58PM EST
A lukewarm reception to Target's first expansion outside the United States contributed to a nearly $1-billion loss for the Canadian operations of the discount retailer last year.
In the fourth quarter alone, Target Corp. said its Canadian segment suffered a US$329-million loss before interest and taxes. The retailer generated US$623 million of sales in Canada but said it struggled with gross margins of 4.4 per cent, reflecting efforts to lower prices to clear excess inventory.
Overall, the Minneapolis-based retailer said Wednesday that it earned US$520 million, or 81 cents per share in the quarter, down from $961 million, or $1.47 per share a year earlier.
Revenue fell to US$21.5 billion from $22.7 billion as revenue at stores open at least a year, an important retail measurement, fell 2.5 per cent. Analysts had expected a profit of 80 cents on revenue of $21.5 billion, according to FactSet estimates.
It said the costs associated with moving to Canada reduced the company's quarter's net income by 40 cents per share and full-year net income by US$1.13 per share.
Gregg Steinhafel, chairman, president and CEO of Target, told analysts that markdowns during the holiday period helped the retailer reduce average inventory rates at Canadian stores by 30 per cent in the quarter.
"While 2013 was a disappointing year financially, we've entered the new year with the right plans in place to grow profitably and generate meaningful improved financial performance in 2014 and beyond," he said in a conference call.
For the full year, the Canadian segment lost US$941 million before excluded items on US$1.3 billion of sales, with its annual gross margin at 14.9 per cent.
Hopes had been high when Target opened its first stores in Canada last year after buying some of the properties from the now-defunct Canadian discounter Zellers.
But since its entry last March, the retailer has faced high expansion costs and disappointing sales as shoppers complained about near-empty shelves and notably higher prices than at U.S. Target stores.
Retail consultant Maureen Atkinson said competition for consumers' dollars is fierce in Canada, as other retailers like Walmart and Shoppers Drug Mart ramped up their expansion plans in preparation for Target's arrival.
"There have been fundamental issues here (with Target)," said Atkinson, who is with the Toronto-based firm J.C. Williams Group. "They have to do better."
Atkinson said a more intense marketing campaign in Canada could work if Target is successful at portraying itself as a go-to value destination for "frequency categories" such as groceries, cosmetics and health products.
"Canadians aren't used to coming frequently to a store like Target because they treat it more like a department store, whereas Target wants to be seen as a grocery store or drug store," she said.
"Obviously it would help if people came to the store more times because there will be more opportunities for them to buy things."
The company's chief financial officer, John Mulligan, attributed the disappointing earnings to growing pains the company experienced with its rapid Canadian expansion.
Looking ahead, he expects Canadian sales to nearly double to $2.6 billion in 2014, with stores approaching a higher annual gross margin rate of approximately 30 per cent.
"But clearly, we will see some near-term volatility until the Canadian business matures," said Mulligan, who is also the retailer's executive vice-president.
Despite the rocky start, the retailer, the second-largest U.S. discount department store operator after Walmart, announced last month that it will open nine more stores in Canada this year. Two locations will be in Mississauga, Ont., with one store each in Toronto, Ottawa and Barrie, Ont. Stores will also be added in Edmonton, Victoria, Winnipeg and Candiac, Que.
By the end of 2014, Target said it would have 133 locations in Canada.
Meanwhile, the company also said a massive data breach over the holidays contributed to a 46 per cent drop in its overall fourth-quarter profit, and drove down sales at all of its stores by 5.3 per cent.
The breach resulted in US$17 million of net expenses in the fourth quarter, Target said, with US$61 million of total expenses partially offset by the recognition of a US$44 million insurance receivables.
It said it could not categorize how much the breach will cost the company in the future.
Target said as many as 40 million credit and debit card accounts at its U.S. stores were compromised between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. It later revealed that hackers also stole personal information -- including names, phone numbers as well as email and mailing addresses -- from as many as 70 million customers.
Canadians who visited U.S. Target stores during this period could've also been victimized, but unlike the affected U.S. customers, who had payment data from their debit and credit cards taken, the Canadian information was limited to contact information, according to the company.
The number of Canadians affected is estimated to less than 700,000 customers.
Since the discovery of the breach, Target has committed to providing a year's worth of credit monitoring in Canada and the U.S.
It also said it will invest US$100 million into equipping its U.S. stores with Target branded chip credit and debit cards, and put $5 million towards a coalition with the Better Business Bureau that will help educate consumers about retail fraud prevention.
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Camp Bisco, the three-day music and arts festival, will return to Mariaville, New York this July 11 through 13, 2013. After a second straight year of playing to sold out Camp Bisco crowds, the Disco Biscuits will be returning for the festival's 12th incarnation- playing all three nights. A regular part of many Top Ten and Best Of lists, including being nominated "Music Festival of the Year" by Pollstar Magazine and named one of the "Top Ten Summer Music Festivals" by Forbes Traveler, Camp Bisco has become known for its impressive and eclectic music lineup. Attracting groundbreaking talent, some of music's biggest artists have turned Camp Bisco into the country's largest and longest running electronic/rock music festival. With the 2013 performer lineup promising to be the most expansive to date and showcasing more than 100 acts from around the globe, the festival has featured artists such as: The Disco Biscuits; LCD Soundsystem; Skrillex; Big Boi; Amon Tobin ISAM; Cut Copy; Wiz Khalifa; Ratatat; Ghostland Observatory; Shpongle Live; Nas and Damian Marley; Snoop Dogg; Method Man, Ghostface Killah, & Raekwon; Ween; Kid Cudi; Thievery Corporation; Girl Talk; DJ Shadow; Bassnectar; MSTRKRFT; The Roots; Pretty Lights; Rusko; Diplo; Major Lazer; Chromeo; Holy F#ck; Caribou; Yeasayer; STS9; and !!!.
Camp Bisco will return to the picturesque Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York for a seventh straight year. The venue is located approximately 30 minutes travel time from Albany, New York and sits on 200 acres of rolling, grass fields. This year, the festival will enhance its expansive dance tents with surround sound and add greater concert production to all stages. From large-scale art installations and artist workshops to performance art demonstrations, carnival rides and more, Camp Bisco is also increasing the interactive elements in 2013 to create an even better festival experience for patrons. Long distance shuttles will also return, offering service from Albany, Baltimore, Boston, New York City and Philadelphia.
Early Bird tickets go on sale Saturday, February 2 at 10 a.m. EST for a very limited allotment at $170. General on sale tickets will start at $185, before raising to the last minute price $199. All-inclusive pre-sale VIP packages are available again this year, starting at $450 for VIP and $1300 for a pair of Platinum VIP tickets, before increasing to $500 and $1400 respectively. Camp Bisco will also be introducing a new layaway plan, where fans can divide payments on General Admission tickets equally between the on sale date and July 1st. Tickets will be available online at www.campbisco.net. Camp Bisco is an 18 and over event.
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"TERRA: The Nature of our World" gets South by Southwest (SXSW) NominationPosted: February 28, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, webdev 1 Comment
I've mentioned the TERRA group project in previous posts. Earlier this month, I received some great news regarding the project. "TERRA: The Nature of our World" was nominated in the student/university website category by SXSW interactive Web Awards.
TERRA is a partnership between Montana PBS, The Media/Theatre Arts Department at Montana State University, Montana State University libraries, and various independent filmmakers. Montana State University libraries was brought in to build/code the site and content management (metadata, data preservation architecture…) The site was designed with a nod to the future of digital libraries. It's a digital video library with commenting, ratings, tags AND a controlled vocabulary. And it's all wrapped up with some AJAX functionality and a Dublin Core/OAI metadata backend. The TERRA group also experimented with syndicating our content as podcasts. You can actually search iTunes for TERRA and receive our podcasts. That's powerful stuff and the reach of the site has been amazing. Just last week, TERRA podcasts were placed as default content in the download for democracy player, effectively doubling the TERRA audience in one fell swoop. More and more, I see leveraging these type of communities as the future of library content distribution.
As for the nomination, I am honored and just a little surprised. SXSW is the center of the web geek world and to even be considered is quite humbling. We've got some university press lately, but I didn't see it going a lot further. (Check the MSU news release for complete details.) So, I'm heading to Austin, TX with a colleague in March. I'm excited to step off the library circuit and see how the other half lives. Stay tuned for SXSW updates.
And if the mood should strike you, vote for "TERRA: The Nature of our World" in the People's Choice Award race at https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/.
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Fantastic news Jason, congrats!


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(Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw tossed his first career no-hitter on Wednesday in a 15-strikeout masterpiece that dominated Colorado for an 8-0 victory.
Kershaw, who is a two-time Cy Young Award winner, added another milestone to his resume on a night he threw 107 pitches and did not walk a single batter.
Only a Dodgers error kept it from being a perfect game.
Kershaw (7-2) struck out Colorado outfielder Corey Dickerson for the final out and was mobbed by his teammates.
It is the second no-hitter by a Dodgers pitcher this season after Josh Beckett achieved one against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 25.
"Beckett was kidding around when he threw his (no-hitter) and said, 'Someday I'll teach you how to do that'," Kershaw told reporters.
"You always think about winning a World Series or being a part of that.
"As far as individual stuff goes, though, this ranks up there. Pretty cool."
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Due to constituent pressure and the steadfast commitment of the movement to close the School of the America, we secured 40 ORIGINAL co-sponsors for the Latin America Military Training Review Act of 2013 (H.R. 2989) - the bill to suspend and investigate the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)! (The list of original co-sponsors is below, with Republicans italicized.)


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From Erights
Library Packages: emakers
The E library package system is based on emakers. An emaker is an E source file named with ".emaker" as the suffix.
When an emaker is imported into an application, the code is executed at the time of import, and the result of that execution is returned to the importing program.
# E sample def makeQueue() { var head := null var tail := null def makeCarrier(obj) :near { var next := null def carrier { to attach(nextCarrier) {next := nextCarrier} to get() {return obj} to next() {return next} } } def queue { to push(obj) { if (head == null) { head := makeCarrier(obj) tail := head } else { tail.attach(makeCarrier(obj)) tail := tail.next() } } to pop() { def current := head head := head.next() return current.get() } to iterate(func) { var current := head var i := 0 while (current != null) { func(i, current.get()) current := current.next() i += 1 } } } return queue }
Side Note: This queue does have one interesting characteristic: the iterate method is the feature required to work correctly with E's for-loop. Iterate receives a function that expects 2 arguments: a key and an object. In this queue, the key value is filled with the index of the value in the queue. Iterate walks the entire data structure, invoking the function once for each element.
Where to put your emaker files
Place this queuemaker in a file named makeQueue.emaker. There are several ways of making E aware of the availability of an emaker, corresponding to the several ways Java can become aware of a class:
- You can import it using an ELoader, if you have a recent enough version of E.
- You can place it, or a jar that contains it, on the classpath when you start up the jvm, e.g. using java -cp libDir ... or rune -cpa libDir ....
- You can place it in a zip or a jar and place it in the jvm's ext directory.
- By placing the file in a subdirectory under lib/ext in the java directory system. You can use Java-style package specifications: as in Java, you can put the file in a jar in lib/ext. [ Should we be recommending this? Putting files in the Java installation itself seems like a recipe for conflicts between packages, and lost libraries when upgrading Java. ]
In the below example, we place the file under lib/ext/emakers/com/yourdomain/e/queueMaker.emaker (in your jre directory), and import:
# E syntax def makeQueue := <import:com.yourdomain.e.makeQueue> def queue := makeQueue() queue.push(1) queue.push(2) for each in queue {println(each)}
Security of emakers
Emakers have an important security property: they come to life contained in a world with no authority. Such a world is even more restrictive than the Java sandbox used for applets. However, this world is more flexible than the sandbox because authority can be granted and revoked during operation using capabilities, as described in the chapter on Secure Distributed Computing.
However, while emakers themselves are safe, adding a jar or directory to your classpath has a global effect on the JVM. For example, a jar may contain .safej files that grant emakers access to unsafe Java classes. Therefore you should use a custom loader if possible, rather than modifying the classpath. [ how? ]
The makeQueue function example is a nice first example of emakers in action because makeQueue and the queues it makes need no authority. For emakers that require authority, by convention we use the Authorizer pattern. Here is an infoWindowMakerAuthor: the infoWindowMaker needs the authority to create windows, so we wrap it in an Authorizer:
# E syntax #emaker in file lib/ext/com/skyhunter/infoWindowMakerAuthor.emaker def infoWindowMakerAuthor(frameMaker) { def infoWindowMaker(infoText) { def frame := frameMaker("Information") def label := <swing:makeJLabel>(infoText) frame.getContentPane().add(label) frame.pack() frame.show() return frame } return infoWindowMaker } #.....in using program.... def makeInfoWindow := <import:com.skyhunter.infoWindowMakerAuthor> (<swing:makeJFrame>) def infoBox := makeInfoWindow("First Bit Of Info") def detailedInfoBox := makeInfoWindow("Second Bit Of Info")
By convention, authors follow the pattern of functions, using an implied run() method to return the Maker that is being wrapped.
The meticulous reader may have noticed that the JFrame was a capability that needed to be authorized, whereas the JLabel was not. The vast bulk of the Java API is non-capability-transferring, and can just be acquired using import:. Commonly-used exceptions are the JFrame, everything have to do with files in java.io, and the URL object in java.net. For a complete listing of suppressed methods (which are inaccessible in E though documented in Java), safe classes (which can be imported directly by emakers), and unsafe classes (which can only be imported using the unsafe__uriGetter, which is not directly available to emakers), see the JavaDoc for E.
obsolete:Emakers can also just be functions, in which case the naming convention uses "Func" to distinguish it from a Maker:
# E syntax #emaker in file lib/ext/org/erights/computeSquareFunc.emaker def computeSquareFunc(number) { return number * number } #...in using program... def computeSquare := <import:org.erights.computeSquareFunc> def squareOfThree := computeSquare(3)
There are also functions that require capabilities before they can become operational, in which case they are by convention wrapped in Authorizers, for example, analyzeOutlineFuncAuthor.
The good news is that, because emakers come to life without authority, they can always be imported with import:, so any emaker can bring in any other emaker (though you won't be able to run the authorizer without sufficient authority). The bad news is that, if you are writing standalone E applications in which the emakers are fully trustworthy (or at least as trustworthy as the program that calls them), it can seem a substantial nuisance at first to be granting lists of authorities just to break your program into packages. If you are writing pure E applications that use emakers of your own construction, emakers which you trust totally with the full authority of the system, and you have no qualms about flouting the wisdom of architectural purists around the world, you can take a shortcut by simply granting the unsafe__uriGetter. For example:
# E sample def powerfulObjectMakerAuthor(unsafe__uriGetter) { def file := <unsafe:java.io.File>("name") def swing__uriGetter := <unsafe:javax.swing.*> def frame := <swing:makeJFrame>("powerful object window title") def powerfulObjectMaker() { #....define the objectMaker and the object it makes... } return powerfulObjectMaker() }
Note that in this example, one of the things we created from our unsafe__uriGetter was our own swing__uriGetter. Emakers, when they come to life, do have a swing__uriGetter of their own; however, their built-in swing: accesses only the safe subset of swing, much as import: accesses only the safe subset of unsafe:. In the example we create our own swing: that overrides the default swing:, which enables us access unsafe classes such as the JFrame.
For even more information on the security properties of emakers, see the chapter on Secure Mobile Code.
Exporting multiple objects
As importing an emaker returns the last value in the file, you can export multiple objects by ending with a map. For example:
# utils.emaker def foo(x) ... def bar(y) ... [ => foo, => bar ]
They can be used like this:
def <utils> := <import:utils> <utils:foo>("hello")
Note: <utils:foo> is syntactic sugar for <utils>["foo"].


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BACKTALK | summer 2006
by Donna Brazile
Forty-one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court laid the groundwork for widespread access to birth control in the Griswold v. Connecticut case. Allowing women to plan and control their fertility didn't just improve maternal and infant health in our nation; it helped increase educational and professional opportunities for American women. It has also led to a welcome decline in teen motherhood: According to the National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the teen-mother birthrate has declined 33 percent just since 1991.
Now, a small-but-vocal cadre of social conservatives wants to turn back the clock, advocating that access to contraception again be limited. Their latest tactic: pressuring local pharmacies to stop filling birth-control prescriptions.
The campaign is orchestrated by groups such as Pharmacists for Life (www.pfli.org) and Family Research Council (www.frc.org), who argue that easy access to contraception has contributed to moral decline. The truth is, these groups are adamantly opposed to a woman's right to choose, and are finding new ways to chip away at Roe v. Wade.
The extremist social conservatives don't seem to want men practicing birth control any more than women. In Washington, D.C., for example, an informal survey by The Washington Post found that almost half of the district's 50 CVS pharmacies lock up their condoms, as do several other well-known chains with pharmacies. The local chapter of Planned Parenthood has gone on alert, urging D.C. residents to use the "power of the purse" to force CVS to unlock their condoms and put them back on the shelves.
Barriers to birth-control access have allowed the United States to fall dangerously behind in curbing unintended pregnancies. Of the 6.4 million pregnancies each year in this country, one-half are unintended—and nearly half of those end in abortion. A logical solution to lowering the abortion rate would be to eliminate barriers that prevent women from having access to affordable, safe and effective contraception—but that seems contrary to the tack birth-control opponents have taken.
"Expanding access to contraception is the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies," insists Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Women should never have to worry about being denied contraception, which is basic health care..."
Opposition to abortion doesn't have to mean opposition to birth control. Take Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): While staunchly opposed to abortion, he has nonetheless championed policies that would prevent unintended pregnancies. Recently, Reid teamed with Sens. Hillary R. Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and others to sponsor the Prevention First Act (S. 20). It would secure funding to ensure broad access to birth control, supply information to providers and consumers concerning emergency contraception, and require hospitals that receive federal funds to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to sexual-assault victims.
Of course, the Bush administration has been no friend to family-planning efforts. Since coming to office in 2001, Bush and his allies have managed to stonewall approval for emergency contraception and substantially cut funding for both international and domestic family-planning initiatives— while greatly increasing funding for abstinence-only programs. Abstinence training not only hasn't fulfilled the rosy expectations of social conservatives, but can have negative health consequences: A recent Columbia University study found that 88 percent of teenage girls who took "virginity pledges" eventually have premarital sex and are one-third less likely to use contraception when they do, making them vulnerable not only to unintended pregnancies but to sexually transmitted diseases.
Our right to birth control is in particular jeopardy at the level of state law. Four states—Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Dakota—have passed legislation to allow pharmacists to refuse dispensing emergency contraception. Another four—Colorado, Florida, Maine and Tennessee—maintain broad "refusal clauses" that give some health-care professionals leeway in refusing to fill emergency contraception and other birth-control prescriptions.
Like other fights for reproductive rights, this new battle is what my mother, Jean, once called "all hands on deck." All of us need to speak out about those who would chip away at our rights, and help educate our friends and community about the threat that looms as close as the neighborhood drugstore. For more information, see www.birthcontrolwatch.org or www.covermypills.org.
Donna Brazile is adjunct assistant professor of women's studies at Georgetown University and is chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute. She is also the author of Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).


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Grant Funds Physical Education Mentoring Project
By: Jordan Pye
Posted: November 29, 2010
This fall, physical education and exercise science students played a huge role in initiating the Overcoming Barriers project, a new grant-funded mentoring program that partners students with community members who have disabilities.
Over the summer the I Can Do It You Can Do It program awarded kinesiology professor Dr. Thomas Moran a $15,000 grant to conduct a physical activity and nutrition mentoring program for people of all ages with disabilities. JMU's program, called the Overcoming Barrier's project, will offer three waves of eight-week sessions that enroll at least 60 local participants from Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro and Rockingham and Augusta Counties. The first wave ended on Nov. 8.
"The focus of our Overcoming Barriers project is to give individuals with disabilities the tools - skills, knowledge, and appropriate attitudes - to participate successfully in the community and live healthy, active lifestyles," project director Moran said.
In the program, participants are assigned a trained adult mentor who works with them five days a week in half-hour sessions. The pairs spend three days a week completing personalized home exercise programs, including free local activities identified by mentors, or services the mentee already receives. One day each week they participate in specialized programs like dance, aquatics or golf, some of which are led and organized by program coordinators at JMU. For the fifth day the participant joins an existing physical activity program based in their community, often with a "helping hand" mentor who assists them with sign-up and can provide instructional support.
In addition, OBP will host informational sessions for families, including a monthly "family fun" night where participants and relatives are invited to learn about nutrition, healthy meal options and physical activities they can do at home. Participants also help the project conduct research by taking pre- and post-fitness assessments of flexibility, strength measurement and endurance, and completing surveys of their health behaviors, habits and attitudes before and after the eight-week session.
Greg Tidd, a special education graduate student, serves as the director of programming to oversee the planned activities within the OBP and mentor/mentee partnerships. The mentor's role is not only important to their participant, but gives both a chance to enjoy sports and group physical activities.
"I think it's a really great opportunity for JMU students to get involved and work with people with disabilities," Tidd said. "[In this program] JMU students get everyone laughing and it's fun and it exposes everyone to opportunities they rarely have."
Kathryn Beitel, an interdisciplinary liberal studies major, first became interested in volunteering with OBP last spring when she took Moran's course, Special Studies in Kinesiology and Recreation. Although unrelated to her major, the class gave her an opportunity for community involvement, where she gave swimming lessons to a four-year-old named Kevin. Now his mentor, Beitel continues his swim lessons once a week at the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community Center.
"We work on being comfortable in the water, strokes, going under the water, floating, kicking, pulling, and jumping in from the side," Beitel said. "Because I'm a mentor, not a volunteer, I go every week and work with the same child. This really intensifies the bond between Kevin and me and builds a strong foundation of trust."
Beitel believes JMU students also benefit greatly from involvement in the program.
"For me, knowing that I have someone who is depending on me makes me work so much harder in every aspect of my life," Beitel said. "Swimming with Kevin brightens my day and I learn from him just as much as he learns from me. Meeting Kevin [and his family] has allowed me to have a larger network in Harrisonburg, rather than just inside of JMU."
Senior PHETE student Lauren Moniuszko became involved in OBP by volunteering with "Just for Kicks," a sports skills program for disabled individuals that Moran conducted last spring, which revealed her passion for helping children reach new goals physically, mentally and socially. As the Assistant Director of Programming for the Overcoming Barriers Program, Moniuszko directs outreach programs, and coordinates a weekly program at the Waynesboro YMCA where children and adults with a wide range of disabilities come together with their mentors to learn fitness activities and sport-specific locomotors skills for soccer, basketball, football and others. Stations incorporate equipment modifications like larger bats or baseballs, dice, and beanbags, and students stay on task with a reward system of pennies, glow sticks and stickers on a behavior chart. By using a tactile schedule with taped-on pictures of their activities, students can create concrete beginnings and ends for the sessions by removing completed activity pictures and pointing out remaining ones.
Moniuszko also mentored a 10-year-old with spastic quadriplegia, the most severe form of cerebral palsy.
"My mentee uses a wheelchair, has limited head, neck, arm movement, uses a computer device to communicate and cannot be attached to her chair during physical activity," Moniuszko said. "For her, my goals were to create activities to improve gripping skills, arm strength, and core strength. One activity I used was tying a string to her arm with the other end attached to a scooter. She would have to pull various objects, including myself, about three feet toward her by raising her arm as high as she could."
Moniuszko said the program hopes to continue in future years and is in the process of setting up clinics in areas including Charlottesville and Northern Virginia, in an effort to get more individuals with disabilities out of their homes into social settings and to teach others how to create environments that foster their success.
"Overcoming Barriers helps the community to broaden their knowledge base about individuals with disabilities, provides ways to include them in extracurricular activities in the community and helps to teach people within the community more successful ways to work with these individuals," Moniuszko said.


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In a large bowl, whisk together egg and egg yolks. While whisking add the sugar slowly until fully dissolved. Add vanilla, heavy cream, milk, and salt and continue to whisk. In order to get rid of air bubbles in mixture, transfer to large bowl through a fine strainer.
In the bottom of 6 (1/2 cup) ramekins (small ceramic custard cups), place about 1 1/2 teaspoons of caramel. When all 6 ramekins have caramel at the bottom, brush each bottom and side with melted butter to secure flan and yet allow it to be removed easily. Fill each ramekin with the flan mixture, SLOWLY to avoid air bubbles, until about 2/3 full.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place almost full ramekins in shallow baking pan and then fill the pan with boiling water. The hot water bath will allow the flan cups to cook evenly in the oven. Right before placing pan in oven, top each ramekin with a tablespoon of hot espresso. Bake for 40 minutes.
When removing pan from oven, allow the ramekins to remain cooling in their original water bath, overnight if necessary.
Before serving, place ramekins in another shallow pan of warm water to loosen the custard. Run a thin knife around the inside edge of cup to further loosen, place a plate on top of ramekin and flip onto plate to serve.
In preheated saucepan over medium heat, pour in water and bring to boil. Add sugar and stir until caramel brown (about 4 minutes). Remove from heat and allow to cool for about 2 to 3 minutes.


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DeKALB – When the new DeKalb High School opens on Dresser Road in the fall of 2011, every athletic team at the school will get to enjoy a significant upgrade.
DeKalb athletic director Dan Jones was like a kid on Christmas morning as he described the blue prints for a new multi-purpose football and soccer stadium, performance gymnasium and – perhaps most importantly – a field house.
"The facilities bring us even with other schools in the area," Jones said. "Our athletes can train year-round. They will have the opportunity to participate in a facility that accommodates their schedules and not have to go back-and-forth from school to home for practices.
"Rather than having the last practice wrapping up after 9 p.m., we think with the new space we should be done practicing by 7:30, which will allow our students-athletes to do homework, study and get ready for the next day of school."
Playing football games at Northern Illinois University would cost DHS $375,000 over a 10-year period.
Starting in 2011, the Barbs will eliminate that expenditure because they have home football games. But they don't know if they will have lights and enough seating.
Neither was budgeted and Jones said a private group has banded together to try and secure financing for both.
"Residents around the school that might be concerned with the light created from night games need to visit the new lighting systems used at Sycamore or Genoa-Kingston," Jones said. "They cause a minimal impact on the housing in the area because the technology provides direct lighting where the field of play is lit, but the surrounding area stays dark."
After the referendum passed for construction of a new DHS, Jones asked girls basketball coach Debbie Whitman to meet with the building committee and architects. She assembled a wish list that could meet the needs of all coaches.
"I was excited when the referendum passed," Whitman said. "But when I saw the plan it really kicked up my excitement to another level."
When the Barbs move into their new facilities, Whitman envisions an athletic scene operating in ample space, even though the new DHS is 80 acres compared to its current 90 acres.
Whitman said the current facilities "are pretty cramped," and that a field house and a new performance gymnasium will allow for athletes to receive quality instruction from coaches and still be home at a reasonable time every night.
"As a basketball coach, I am pleased with what we are going to get," Whitman said. "We get 25 contact days in the summer and I think we could house tournaments here that could save us money. Rather than paying to play in other tournaments we could take advantage of the performance gymnasium and the big field house to act as a fundraiser for the basketball program."
Also receiving an upgrade because of fields and a field house is the softball program.
The softball team will have two fields on site at the new high school. Even though the new softball fields will be a bit bittersweet for Barbs' coach Jeff Davis, who was instrumental in transforming the current DeKalb softball field into an outstanding facility, he will gladly take housing the softball program in a centralized location.
"I think the new fields are absolutely a good thing," Davis said. "Two teams playing at once at the same site will allow parents to really soak in a lot of softball. I would build up one new field every five years if it meant that the program received two fields in return."
The Barbs softball team could still use the field at the old school for the first season depending on the progress of the new field construction. But when baseball and softball are forced indoors, as frequently happens due to the unpredictable weather that occurs during the spring, Davis is thrilled to have a field house that can accommodate multiple practices.ĀĀĀ
"The field house alone will have a tremendous impact on all of our programs," Davis said. "Not just softball or baseball. It is a dream come true. We always went to other schools and wished we could have the indoor facilities they have; we now have those."
Davis said he believes the upgraded facilities could help sway a larger chunk of the student population to get involved and participate in athletics. If a larger percentage of students participate the chances of uncovering talented athletes increases exponentially.
The main gym will be slightly larger than the Barbs current home. There will be 2,500 seats, with bleachers running on all four sides of the gym. When the current DHS was built, girls athletics was not a priority, therefore the locker room situation is currently a mess.
The girls locker room is upstairs and the boys locker room is downstairs. The new DHS will have a set of locker rooms just outside the gym and two full locker rooms for physical education.Ā
The outdoor stadium will be a multi-purpose facility for football and soccer because it will be made of FieldTurf. The track will be widened so the soccer team can play on a regulation-sized field rather than on a narrow football field.
The tennis team, badminton team and track teams stand to see significant upgrades as well.Ā Rather than traveling to NIU for its matches, the tennis team will have 10 home courts.
The badminton team will move from eight courts to 16.Ā
But the track team might experience the largest upgrade with a full-sized field house, and eight-lane track with a separate staging area for field events.
"It is a great eight-lane track with a great surface," Jones said. "The field events are all grouped outside the track so all the events can be watched together."
The DeKalb swim team will still use the pool it calls home, as Jones said the new DHS will not have a pool. The current pool will be upgraded, however – as a new boiler, pipes and an up-to-code drain system will be installed. The pool locker room also will be upgraded in the future.
The wrestling program will move into a bigger practice room and P.E. classes will benefit from a dance room that the cheer leaders and the pom team will be able to use for practice. The volleyball and basketball teams will go from two practice courts to at least five, depending on how coaches configure practices.
Barbs excited for new facilities in 2011
DeKALB – When the new DeKalb High School opens on Dresser Road in the fall of 2011, every athletic team at the school will get to enjoy a significant upgrade.


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
During the next week to 10 days, local high temperatures are predicted to remain around 100 degrees with very dry conditions. The City of Lincoln encourages business and residential water customers to follow the City's voluntary outdoor watering restrictions to conserve water.
Property owners with street addresses ending in even numbers (including zero) are asked to limit outdoor water use to Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Those with addresses ending in odd numbers are asked to limit outdoor watering to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
"Since flow is decreasing in the Platte River, the City's primary water source, it is very important that we do all we can to conserve water," said Mayor Seng. "Following the designated day schedule for outdoor watering and car-washing will make the biggest difference." River flows are currently at the same rate as they were in 2002, the last time that the City had mandatory restrictions on outdoor water use.
Jerry Obrist, Chief Engineer for the Lincoln Water System (LWS), said water usage has topped 74 million gallons per day this year. Water usage in June averaged about 56 million gallons a day, compared to an average daily usage of 47.5 million gallons in June 2005. Water usage in June 2006 was the fourth highest monthly total and the rainfall in the same month was the fourth lowest monthly total on record for Lincoln.
The public can track daily water usage on the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: water). The site also includes suggestions for water conservation, the City's Water Management Plan and water rates. LWS water rates are structured to encourage conservation -- those who use more water are charged a higher rate.


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In 1967, during a tumultuous era on American campuses, Rafael Moure-Eraso M'70 came to Bucknell University to pursue a master's degree in chemical engineering. He was far from his birthplace in Cali, Colombia, and even farther still from his childhood home in Bogota, where he studied with the Augustinian friars and later attended La Universidad de los Andes. Mentored by Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering James Pommersheim, Moure-Eraso mastered chemical engineering. At the same time, he understood that the social awakening in the U.S. would transform his career. No longer could members of his profession simply consider products and outcomes. They would have to address the long-term effects of their work, in light of ecological and social sustainability.
In March 2010, President Obama nominated Moure-Eraso as chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), a governmental agency formed in 1998 to investigate industrial chemical accidents. Unlike the EPA and OSHA, which are regulatory agencies, the CSB is strictly investigative and does not issue fines or penalties, but makes reports and safety recommendations public. The 1984 chemical explosion in Bhopal, India, which killed more than 5,000 people and left hundreds of thousands injured, as well as a series of serious chemical accidents in the U.S., demonstrated the need for a national chemical investigative board. The agency's investigations identify the root causes of chemical accidents and identify underlying safety deficiencies. Moure-Eraso intends for the agency — in its 14th year of investigations — to be more proactive than ever, supporting accident prevention through comprehensive investigations and recommendations.
Among the agency's many current investigations, the probe into the B.P. Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout, which occurred in April 2010, grips the world's attention. According to Moure-Eraso, the CSB is investigating the causes of the explosion, examining the blow out preventer and other equipment in cooperation with other agencies, and is conducting comprehensive interviews with all parties involved. The agency's detailed report should be available by April 2012.
Says Moure-Eraso, "My profession has changed substantially, now that social contexts of production, such as sustainability, have become important. Equally important are implications of industrial accidents and the safety of workers, issues that the CSB will continue to examine in its investigations." — Maria Jacketti


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NYSE Euronext is looking into whether a software upgrade at a subsidiary disrupted a price feed that briefly halted U.S. options exchanges today.
Securities Industry Automation Corp., the NYSE unit that oversees the quote dissemination service linking U.S. options markets, is focusing on a programming update that may have led to today's halt, said Rich Adamonis, an NYSE Euronext spokesman.
The interruption came three weeks after Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s system for distributing U.S. stock prices failed, prompting a three-hour halt for thousands of companies. In the aftermath, securities regulators told exchanges last week to collaborate on preventing more shutdowns.
"The miscues that have occurred today are eerily similar to those with Nasdaq," said Yousef Abbasi, market strategist at JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, a Westlake, California- based broker. "You have issues with a price reporting or quote disseminating system."
All 12 U.S. options exchanges temporarily shut today, with firms including CBOE Holdings Inc. and Nasdaq OMX blaming an issue with the Options Price Reporting Authority data feed that SIAC administers.
Stocks Slip
While trading continued without disruption on American equity markets, stock prices slipped around the time of the mishap. About 614 million shares had traded on all exchanges between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. New York time, compared with 499 million in the preceding hour, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell from 1,702 to below 1,698 between 1:30 and 1:43 p.m.
In a meeting with the heads of U.S. securities markets last week, Mary Jo White, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, urged the executives to shore up price feeds that serve investors and traders.
Participants included representatives from the U.S. stock and options exchanges, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and Options Clearing Corp. They were told to "provide comprehensive action plans that address the standards necessary to establish highly resilient and robust systems for the securities information processors," the SEC said in a statement. That includes "testing standards and disclosure protocols," it said.
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Tech behind the tunes
By Ivy Hillman '12
October 25, 2011
When it comes to non-traditional methods of learning, Bradley's music technology courses hit the highest notes. The two courses offered by the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts are open to students of all majors who are interested in learning about music production.
"There is currently a big push in the Music Educator's National Conference for music teachers to start considering the larger population in a school who are not in traditional music courses like band, chorus, or orchestra, but are deeply interested in music," said John Larson, affiliate instructor of music technology at Bradley.
Larson believes the "iPod generation," those 25 years old and younger, is where musical interest is the highest. Yet students who aren't considering a career in music often don't have opportunities to take music courses.
"Currently, traditional ensemble-based music education involves about 18 percent of a student population at a high school level. That means 82 percent are not being given any type of music education at the secondary level," Larson said.
Intro to Music Technology (MUS 250) is a survey course that explores the mechanics behind digital music.
"We learn three of the basic software packages that allow anyone to compose, arrange, create mixes, and even produce their own CD of original works. The course revolves around the Garage Band program that is found on nearly every Mac computer as well as a PC-based equivalent," Larson said.
Adam Windish, who is double-majoring in math and music, chose to take the course to learn more about a hobby he loves.
"I have always had an interest in home recording. I chose it as one of my music electives because I thought it would be fun, and it was practical," Windish said.
Windish is unsure if he will pursue a career in music, but knows he'll be glad he took the course, either way.
"If I choose to pursue a career in music, the skills I leaned in this course will be helpful, if not vital to my career. As far as hobbies go, the skills from this class will be very handy," Windish said.
The second course, Intermediate Music Technology (MUS 350), builds on MUS 250 but focuses more on the ProTools program. This course is based largely on projects.
"We also take current contemporary pop songs and analyze them to see how a pop song is constructed. This helps us recognize the technical and compositional techniques used in those works," Larson said.
Jacob Vizcarra, a music business major, used these two music technology courses to help get a registered student organization off the ground. He created Brave Sounds Entertainment, which is similar to a record label.
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Whether taking just one of these courses or both, learning more about music technology is beneficial for everyone from casual fans of pop music to those planning careers in the music industry.


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I've been an ASP.NET Web Forms fan since ASP.NET was first released. Still, I keep an open mind when it comes to new technologies and I decided to experiment with the new ASP.NET MVC framework that Microsoft recently released so I would be able to use it with consulting projects and for training my company provides. I was so impressed with some of the things I could do that I'm already using it on a customer project and thought I'd share some of the things I really like about the framework.
Before moving on, I know what some of you are already thinking because I thought the same things: "I don't need all that testing stuff promoted by MVC people!"or "That's an overly complex framework for 'letter of the law' developers!"or "I can't use all my familiar ASP.NET server controls!"or "I don't care about absolute control over the HTML that's output!". I can tell you that while I do believe in unit testing and use it in my ASP.NET Web Forms consulting projects (see my previous post on the subject), I'm far from a letter-of-the-law type developer (opinionated for sure….but not annoyingly opinionated :-)) and don't really need absolute control over HTML output in many cases. However, there are several other reasons why I think you should look at ASP.NET MVC and see if it can benefit your projects at all.
In this article I outline five things I really like about ASP.NET MVC. However, I don't address separation of concerns, unit testing, complete control over HTML, and the like. If you want those things you get them too, so please keep that in mind before yelling, "You didn't mention testing!". It's up to you to create test projects or not, and ASP.NET MVC provides a very testable framework if you want to leverage it. Having said that, let's get started with a few terms before jumping into the details:
- Model. Represents data used in the application that's ultimately retrieved and manipulated using business rule and data access classes (you could/should have these classes in ASP.NET Web Forms as well)
- View. Handles presenting data to the end user (Similar to an .aspx page in ASP.NET Web Forms)
- Controller. Retrieves data from the Model and passes it to a View (somewhat analogous to a code-behind page in ASP.NET Web Forms…but quite a bit different in functionality)
Reason #1: Automatic Mapping of Control Values to Object Properties
I don't enjoy writing tedious code and am always coming up with ways to minimize and refactor where possible. One of the nicest features in the ASP.NET MVC framework is the built-in ability to automatically map control values to objects. With ASP.NET Web Forms you find yourself doing the following quite often (although some controls when used with the <%# Bind %> expression can do some mapping too):
protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Person p = new Person(); p.FirstName = FirstName.Text; p.LastName = LastName.Text; UpdatePerson(p); }
This is a simple example that can quickly become complex depending upon the number of controls in your forms. ASP.NET MVC uses specialized objects called "Controllers" to serve up pages (called "Views") and within a controller class you can write methods (called "Actions"). Actions can capture the form data submitted by an end user and automatically map it to custom object properties without you having to write any mapping code as shown above. For example, consider the following ASP.NET MVC controls defined with a View named EditCustomerProfile (only a portion of the view is shown for brevity). To prove I'm not a letter-of-the-law person, you'll see I went with a table here (yeah I know, divs would work too, but I'm not in a div mood today):

 First Name:	  <%= Html.TextBox("Customer.FirstName", Model.Customer.FirstName)%> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("FirstName", "*")%>

 Last Name:	  <%= Html.TextBox("Customer.LastName", Model.Customer.LastName) %> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("LastName", "*")%>

 Company:	  <%= Html.TextBox("Customer.Company", Model.Customer.Company)%> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("Company", "*")%>

 Phone:	  <%= Html.TextBox("Customer.Phone", Model.Customer.Phone)%> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("Phone", "*")%>

  <input type="submit" value="Update Profile" /> <span class="StatusMessage" style='color:<%= Model.StatusColor %>'><%=Model.StatusMessage %>

The first thing to notice is that controls are defined differently in ASP.NET MVC than in ASP.NET Web Forms. That's a topic for a later article. The "classic ASP"style <% tags gave me heartache at first but having built many Views now I actually like the simple syntax for defining controls (no more runat="server"!).
Take a look at the ID for each control and notice that they all have "Customer" prefixing the name (Customer.FirstName, Customer.LastName, Customer.Company, etc.). This is all the mapping code you need. The method (Action) that handles the posted data simply needs to define a type that has properties that map with the form fields and the mapping happens "automagically". You can even customize the mapping if desired or perform mapping using built-in controller methods such as UpdateModel().
Here's what the EditCustomerProfile() method (Action) looks like that handles the posted data. You can see that it accepts a Customer parameter named customer that will automatically receive the posted control values and update the appropriate values. The parameter name is key here since that's what makes the auto-mapping possible (recall that each control was prefixed with "Customer"; ase doesn't matter here). There's a lot more that could be said about this particular topic, but this should give you an idea of how the auto-mapping works. A nice discussion of the different mapping options available in ASP.NET MVC (referred to as "ModelBinders") can be found here. Potential issues that you should know about with regard to auto-mapping are also covered here.
[Authorize] [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult EditCustomerProfile(Customer customer) { try { if (customer.IsCustomerValid) { OperationStatus opStatus =_CustomerRepository.Update(customer); if (opStatus.Status) { ViewData["Status"] = "true"; return View("EditCustomerForm", new CustomerViewModel(customer,"Navy","Your profile information was saved.")); } } } catch { //Log } ViewData["Status"] = "false"; ModelState.AddModelErrors(customer.GetRuleViolations()); return View("EditCustomerForm", new CustomerViewModel(customer, "Red", "There was a problem updating your profile.")); }
Reason #2: Automatic Generation of Views
Again, Views display the data given to them by Controllers. If you have a strongly-typed object (such as Customer above) that you will be passing to a View, Visual Studio can automatically generate the View for you and even add the controls that map to the respective object properties that will be bound as well as validation controls (although you'll have to write the code to actually do the validation). When creating Views using the IDE you can use the following Add View window:
This saves time when defining controls. It also save times in mapping control IDs to object properties. If you don't like the default code that's output you can change the templates or add new custom templates. They're located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC\CodeTemplates by default. For example, if you prefer tables for your forms you could tweak one of the template files such as Edit.tt like this:
<fieldset> <legend>Fields</legend>
 <# foreach(KeyValuePair<string, string> property in properties) { #>
  <label for='<#= property.Key #>"><#= property.Key #>: 	  <%= Html.TextBox('<#= property.Key #>", <#= property.Value #>) %> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("<#= property.Key #>", "*") %>
 <# } #>
  <input type="submit" value="Save" />

 </fieldset> <% } %>
 <%=Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index") %>

Reason #3: UpdatePanel-Like AJAX Support -- But on a Serious Diet
If you use AJAX in your applications and are fond of the UpdatePanel control in ASP.NET Web Forms (some like it…some hate it) you may be aware that it can transmit a lot of data during an asynchronous postback (ViewState, ControlState, etc.) if you're not careful. ASP.NET MVC has built-in AJAX support as well and is just as easy to use. You can create forms that perform partial-page updates and you don't even have to work hard to do it. Here's an example of using the AjaxHelper to do the equivalent of an UpdatePanel:
<% using (Ajax.BeginForm("EditCreditProfile", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "CreditForm", OnSuccess = "onEditOfficeProfileSuccess" })) { %>
 <% Html.RenderPartial("EditCreditForm",Model.CreditProfileViewModel); %>
 <% } %>
The Ajax.BeginForm() call says that when the form is submitted (the form controls are defined in an EditCreditForm View User Control) a Controller Action named EditCreditProfile should be called asynchronously. When the call returns the div with an id of CreditForm will be updated automatically with the resulting data. This sends significantly smaller payloads as compared to the UpdatePanel which is nice when you need that type of functionality.
Built-in support for adding AJAX functionality to links is also available in ASP.NET MVC through the AjaxHelper. Check out the ActionLink() method if you're interested in hooking a link to an Action using AJAX techniques.
Reason #4: Integration with Other JavaScript Libraries such as jQuery
I mentioned earlier that I don't always care about having complete control over the exact HTML that is output as long as it's valid. However, I do care about the ID of the controls that are output because with ASP.NET Web Forms IDs are auto-generated depending upon the container control that they live in (ASP.NET 4.0 will give you more control over IDs though). While there are certainly workarounds for this, it can be a bit painful at times especially working with controls nested in a GridView or User Control. ASP.NET MVC gives you 100% control over the IDs that are output so using script libraries such as Prototype or jQuery are that much easier. And, like ASP.NET Web Forms, you get jQuery intellisense if the proper documented script files are available.
Here's a simple example of handling the AjaxHelperobject's OnSuccess event to load and process JSON data using jQuery:
function onEditOfficeProfileSuccess() { GetOfficeProfiles(); } function GetOfficeProfiles() { CallService('/Account/GetOfficeProfiles', { customerID: $('#CustomerID').val() }, GetOfficeProfilesComplete); } function GetOfficeProfilesComplete(json) { var s = $().parseTemplate($('#OfficeProfilesTemplate').html(), json); $('#OfficeProfilesOutput').html(s); } function CallService(url, data, callback) { $.ajax({ url: url, cache: false, dataType: "json", data: data, success: callback }); }
Reason #5: Promotes Better Coding Practices and a Solid Application Architecture
I admit that this final reason isn't as sexy as the others, but it's definitely a benefit especially to larger enterprises with a lot of applications to build and maintain. ASP.NET MVC helps guide developers down the path of designing architecturally sound applications from the start. Now, don't get me wrong, you can build solid applications using Web Forms as well and I've built many that had Presentation, Business, Data and Model layers. However, a lot of developers (at least based on what I hear in some of the training classes we run) still put a lot of code in the code-behind file of a Web Form. That works, but isn't very re-useable and definitely isn't very testable. ASP.NET MVC guides developers to build architecturally sound applications that separate presentation, business and data logic so that it's more reusable (and testable). That doesn't mean that the code is good as every developer has different skills of course, but it helps when people start things off on the right foot. If you've tried both frameworks (WebForms and MVC) I'd love to hear your thoughts on this final reason.
Microsoft is going to support both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC so you can go with either framework and be fine down the road (until some new technology is invented of course). Having had a chance to use both frameworks I can tell you that each has its own set of pros and cons. Hopefully, this article has given you a few reasons to research the ASP.NET MVC framework and take a closer look at what it offers. I'll still be using Web Forms on some projects but it'll be harder for me to choose between the two frameworks now. I really like the control that ASP.NET MVC gives you.


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