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Posted on December 21, 2011 by Ron Milhorn
Denver–The Denver Nuggets beat the Phoenix Suns last night at the Pepsi Center 127-110. Ty Lawson led the scoring effort with 21 points.
Denver–After 11 solid seasons with the Minnesota Twins, All-Star outfielder Michael Cuddyer has signed a three year, 31 and a half million dollar contract with the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies also signed former Dodgers' third baseman Casey Blake to a one year deal.
Elsewhere in sports…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – Aaron Rodgers is the 2011 Male Athlete of
the Year chosen by members of The Associated Press after his MVP
performance in the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl victory in
February and his stellar play during the team's long unbeaten run
this season. Rodgers received 112 votes out of the 212 ballots submitted from
U.S. news organizations that make up the AP's membership. Detroit
Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander finished second with 50 votes,
followed by tennis standout Novak Djokovic, Carolina Panthers
rookie quarterback Cam Newton and NASCAR champion Tony Stewart.
Rodgers is one of three quarterbacks to receive the honor in the
past five years. The New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees won last year
and the New England Patriots' Tom Brady won in 2007.
CHICAGO (AP) – We're expecting official word from the Bulls that
they've agreed with league MVP Derrick Rose on a new five-year
contract beginning with the 2012-13 season. A person familiar with
the situation tells the AP that it's worth around $94 million. The
team has a news conference scheduled for noon Eastern time.
UNDATED (AP) – Rakeem Cato threw a pair of TD passes and
Marshall doubled up Florida International 20-10 in last night's
bowl game in St. Pete, Florida. College football's postseason
continues tonight with the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, pitting
TCU against Louisiana Tech
UNDATED (AP) – The two top teams in the AP poll were winners
last night. No. 1 Syracuse crushed Bucknell 80-61while
second-ranked Ohio State dumped Lamar 70-50.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Evgeni Malkin pulled into a tie for the NHL
scoring lead with three assists in Pittsburgh's 3-2 victory over
visiting Chicago. Malkin now has points in all six games since team
captain Sidney Crosby left the lineup again because of concussion
symptoms.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) – Eric LeGrand will be featured on the
front page of Sports Illustrated's year-end issue as the 2011
Moment of the Year. It's a picture of him riding his motorized
wheelchair while leading Rutgers' football team onto the field for
a game in October. LeGrand was paralyzed from the neck down while
making a tackle during the 2010 season.
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Every year our small team invests huge effort to make our guests stay as enjoyable and comfortable as possible. Your support and recognition of our effort pushes us forward in the aspiration to be even better this year.
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YES! I want that. I want ALL my instructionz to be 15 bytes. Forget that this part of the manual is talking about AVX instructions, I don't care about that; I just want 15 byte instructions, so when I look at machine code in a debugger, it doesn't look all jagged and ugly.
What do I mean by ugly? The below code is just a PoC that launches /bin/sh with the execve() syscall (like a lot of my weird PoC's). Notice the middle column, made up of 2, 3, 4, and 5 byte instructions. It's just an eyesore that I can't have anything to do with! It would be much better if these were all the same, and super large 15-byte instructions.
Below is what that looks like. Notice that the assembly language part (right-most column) is completely identical!
Ahh, that looks much better.
In assembly, when typing XOR [rax], ax, the assembler knows to just put the 66 in front of the machine code that would otherwise be XOR [rax], eax. That sounds too damn high-level to me. As a person that doesn't know machine-code, they might not know that this is something that happens under the hood. Assuming I haven't read all 3 volumes of the Intel manual (not true), I might assume that 66 or 67 by itself could not be interpreted as an opcode/operation (this is true). If I were to execute a nop right before a prefixed XOR (as above), it would look like 90 66 31 00. The thing before our prefix (66) is a nop (90), not a prefix, but an entirely other instruction. In fact, when programming in assembly language, anything before this 66 would be part of the previous instruction…but what would happen if we just made it another 66 or 67 (aside from using a db like assembler feature, there is no assembly for this). The answer to this question is that you can put as many extra prefixes in front of your machine code as you want (without it affecting the logical operation any differently, aside from the changes the prefixing would make for the first prefix), so long as the entire instruction does not exceed 15 bytes. So that's what was going on in the first example above.


In 2018, the Leadership Group made the decision that we would not continue to use Graduate House in to 2019. Ongoing traffic and parking issues are making attending events unnecessarily challenging. A number of alternative venues were considered with a view to finding a comfortable and practical space for our community to meet.
We are very pleased to announce that we have secured space in the Multicultural Hub. The hub in located opposite Queen Victoria Market, close to public transport and with on street parking and off street parking options.


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Q: Can I still use PromiseProxyMixin with Ember.Controller? The Ember documentation describes PromiseProxyMixin as:

A low level mixin making ObjectProxy, ObjectController or ArrayControllers promise-aware.

(Note it does not mention Controller.)
I have been using the PromiseProxyMixin in a ModalController that was originally extended from Ember.ObjectController.
Now that ObjectController is deprecated (Ember 1.11), I have converted this controller to extend Ember.Controller and it no longer works as expected.
Specifically, the properties of the object that are returned to the promise property are not automatically set in the Controller (as they were in an ObjectController.
My isFulfilled observer is still firing, but the properties that should be merged from the returned object are not set.
The documentation also states:

As the controller is an ObjectController, and the json now its content, all the json properties will be available directly from the controller.

So I guess I'll just have to manually set these properties from now on?

A: Because the merging of properties returned by the Promise no longer happens automatically my options seemed to be:

*

*Convert the Controller back to ObjectController (wrong direction)

*Manually merge the properties of the object returned by the Promise (this might make sense if I did it in a generic MyProxyMixin or some-such)

*Convert Controller to ObjectProxy (not sure about this)

*Use Ember's ProxyMixin
I would've preferred #4, but there have been some gyrations around this mixin (it was enabled as an Ember.FEATURE for a little while but appears to have been made private again.)
Ultimately I opted for #2. (I just updated my code to copy the properties I needed to the Controller.)

A: PromiseProxyMixin hasn't been deprecated and is used in other contexts. The current API docs on git makes no mention of controllers. The wording your looking at has changed, I would assume it's safe to just keep using.

As the proxy is an ObjectProxy, and the json now its content, all the json properties will be available directly from the proxy.

// Assuming the following json:
{
  firstName: 'Stefan',
  lastName: 'Penner'
}
// both properties will accessible on the proxy
proxy.get('firstName') //=> 'Stefan'
proxy.get('lastName')  //=> 'Penner'

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Оришка Данилівна Мартиненко (28 квітня 1904 році, село Вишняки, Хорольський район, Полтавська область - 19 червня 1995, село Вишняки, Хорольський район, Полтавська область) - перша жінка в Україні - голова виконкому сільської ради.

Біографія
Мартиненко Оришка Данилівна народилася в 1904 році в сім`ї селянина-бідняка. Вчилася в церковно-приходській школі. Рано відчула, що значить шматок хліба, як і батькам їй доводилось тяжко працювати. У 1914 році батька забрали на першу світову війну, мати з пятьома дітьми залишилась без годувальника.  Доводилось іти  заробляти шматок хліба самостійно, щоб  не вмерти з голоду. А потім з фронту прийшла звістка, що батько загинув у бою. Але виявилось, що він важко поранений потрапив у полон. Коли закінчилась війна повернувся у Вишняки та незабаром помер.  Після української революції 1917 року життя сім`ї покращуеться.  Робітниця Хорольського млина Марина Іванівна Лукянець, яка на той час працювала організатором роботи серед жінок, взяла шефство над багатодітною осиротілою сімє′ю Мартиненків. Через батрацьку спілку «Робземліс» вона влаштувала Орину прибиральницею у місцеву школу, почала залучати її до громадської роботи.

Громадська діяльність
У 1925 році дівчина активно працювала з молоддю. Минали роки, зростав її авторитет серед селян. Коли восени 1928 року проходили перевибори Вишняківської сільської ради, Орину, як кращу активістку і віддану справі громади людину, обрали членом сільської ради. А як обговорювали кандидатуру на голову сільськвиконкому, то від імені жінок-трудівниць обрали Мартиненко Орину Данилівну на цю посаду. Вона була однією з перших жінок в області, що мали посаду голови виконкому. Роботи у головихи було дуже багато: і хлібозаготівлі треба проводити, і неписьменність ліквідовувати серед дорослих, дітей залучати до навчання в школах. У Вишняках було організовано два лікнепи.  Жінок, які за сімейними обставинами не могли їх відвідувати, навчали дома та в групах на кутках. Та найважче було організувати супряг по спільному обробітку землі. Біднота одержала земельні наділи, а обробляти їх було нічим – не вистачало тяглової сили. Все це треба було організувати для спільної роботи в полі.

В 1929 році у Вишняках було організоване перше велике колективне господарство «Червоне поле». Голова виконкому сільської ради Мартиненко Орина і її актив доклали до цього багато зусиль. А вже в 1931 році Вишняківська сільська рада взяла участь у конкурсі на кращу сільську раду по республіці і зайняла перше місце. Всеукраїнський староста Г.І.Петровський говорив: «Хай живе Вишняківська сільська рада та її голова Мартиненко Оришка. Побільше б нам таких Оришок, то краще б була поставлена робота на селі».
Коли розпочалася війна, Орина Данилівна, вже як голова робіткому Хорольської  МТС, допомагала евакуювати техніку. Але в дорозі колону тракторів перехопили фашисти. Орину Данилівну відправили на каторжні роботи в Німеччину. Повернулась вона до рідного села лише після закінчення війни. І знову вишняківці обрали її депутатом сільської ради. Орина Данилівна  працювала на відбудові зруйнованого колгоспного господарства і до 1970 року виконувала свій почесний обов'язок народного обранця.

Бібліографія
 Козлов А.В., Козлов В.А., Лисенко Ю.О. Хорольщина: Енциклопедичний довідник [Текст]. - Полтава: Оріяна, 2007.- 106 с. - С. 41
 «Побільше б нам таких Оришок» // Радянська жінкка. - 1979 - № 6, - С.24
 Село гордиться нею // Ленінським шляхом. - 1979,  - 8 березня, - С.1
 Стверджено життям // Зоря Полтавщини. - 1980, - 2 жовтня

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Non-Cognitive skills in education for marginalised girls: learning from the Girls Education Challenge Fund (GEC)
In Event: What's skills got to do, got to do with it?
Wed, March 8, 3:15 to 6:30pm, Sheraton Atlanta, Floor: 1, Atlanta 3 (North Tower)
Educational outcomes are measured in the GEC through improvement of cognitive skills such as literacy and numeracy, but there is growing support for the theory that non-cognitive skills, such as self-esteem and self-confidence, are linked to improved learning and eventual life outcomes, and should be considered as an additional and complementary measure of educational outcomes. Whilst there is an expanding body of evidence in western education literature linking self-esteem to life outcomes, there is a deficit in the context of international development.
The Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) funds 37 education projects in 18 countries in Africa and Asia. At programme inception, Coffey, the Evaluation Manager conducted a baseline evaluation that identified factors including lack of self-confidence, esteem and aspiration as the one of greatest barriers to girls' education after poverty and school related factors. Over 90% of GEC projects have included elements aimed at building girls' self-esteem and self-confidence.
Interventions that build self-esteem are multi-faceted and complex. At the midline there are some positive results in building self-esteem, with specific successful approaches identified as peer mentoring, the provision of role models, as well as remedial classes. In fact, a review of projects across the portfolio revealed that there are up to nine distinct approaches which contribute to developing girls' self-esteem. We have developed a new common framework for looking at changes in self-esteem and its link to behaviours and learning. Furthermore, changes in girls' self-esteem, we believe, are sequential and thus can be modelled, measured and to some extent predicted.
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Play on Centre Court finished past 9 o'clock Thursday night as Roger Federer played his first match under the roof at Wimbledon. Roger was sharp from beginning to end with aggressive play and that new sense of assertion that he has been showing since Roland Garros. To top that off after a long day of matches, the crowd was loud (very loud). It was clear that there was a uniquely different atmosphere in support for Roger.
Final scoreline: Federer d. Mannarino 6-2 6-3 6-2. Roger's next opponent is well known, none other than his arch nemesis from the early days; David Nalbandian. Look forward to that come Saturday.
Here's "Air Federer" on match point.
Watch official highlights via ATP World Tour here or click the image below.


Zak Yusoff is a Senior Product Development Manager for SP Scientific. Prior to joining SP, Zak was a senior process engineer at West-Ward Pharmaceuticals and Ben Venue Laboratories with experience in product development, process validation and aseptic manufacturing experience. He has a combined experience of over 16 years in parenteral drug manufacturing in areas of process engineering and process validation.


Sixth Form RE pupils attended a lecture entitled "CS Lewis and the Imagination" in the campus of Stranmillis University College, Belfast. The esteemed CS Lewis scholar Dr Jerry Root from Wheaton College, USA, gave an engaging and informative lecture on CS Lewis to a packed lecture theatre.
On Thursday 14th December, a joint Physics and RE event, 'Mystery of The Christmas Star' was held for pupils in Year 12 in conjunction with the Armagh Planetarium.
Pastor Elisario Vargus who is President of the Baptist Association of Churches in Southern Peru along with his wife Esther who is Vice Principal of a school in Tacha, visited RSD on Monday 22nd May 2017.
On 15th of March both Sixth Form RE classes (accompanied by Mrs Matthews, Mr Graham and Mrs McClatchey) had the opportunity to spend a day at Queens University Belfast.
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Below is a brief description of the curriculum for the upcoming academic year. The plan for the next academic year will include private sessions where mentees can have candid conversations that will focus on building trust and co-creating topics that will be discussed during upcoming sessions. All meetings will be at the SpringHill Suites at 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.


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Grahame Skinner ("Skin") is a Scottish musician who currently fronts the band, The Skinner Group. He has been the lead singer for a number of bands.

He has been a member of:

 The Jazzateers (1983)
 The White Savages / Kites (1983)
 Hipsway (1984–1989, 2016 reunion)
 Witness (1991)
 The Pleasurelords / Sponge (1991)
 Cowboy Mouth (1994–1996)
 Bruise (2004)
 The Skinner Group (formerly Skinner, 2011–present)

He currently fronts The Skinner Group, a collective of Glasgow musicians. The other members are:

 Douglas MacIntyre (guitar)
 Gordon Wilson (drums)
 Campbell Owens (bass)
 Andy Alston (keyboards)

References

External links
 Grahameskinner.com

Scottish songwriters
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Musicians from Glasgow
Living people
1962 births
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British male songwriters


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Who were the Westons of Westlake? A family dedicated to community service
Arthur E. Weston built a house in 1888 that still stands at 2363 Columbia Road. Photo by William Krause
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Part four of a five-part series.
In part 3 of this series in the Oct. 6 issue, we introduced you to the oldest son of George and Rhoda Weston, Asa L. Weston. In this article we will introduce you to their middle son, Arthur E., who received the center portion of their 100-acre farm on Columbia Road in the late 1800s. George, Rhoda and their sons had earlier occupied the currently city-owned Lilly-Weston house at 27946 Center Ridge, next to the Westlake Recreation Center.
Arthur built a home in 1888 which still survives at 2363 Columbia Road. He was a skilled carpenter and built seven homes in the West Hedgewood/Hall Road area. Both he and his wife, Clara Brown, taught briefly in the schools. Together they had three children – Lucy, Burton and Charles. From 1904 to 1909, Arthur was clerk of Dover Township and was a member of the Dover Village Council in 1914 and 1915. In the 1920s he became the clerk for the Dover Village School Board.
Daughter Lucy graduated from Oberlin College, and taught most of her career in the Mayfield Village Schools. While teaching there, she met and married Carl C. Scheuring, helping to run his country grocery and general store. Son Burton Weston married a woman named Maude; he worked for a seed company and by 1940 was the owner-operator of a nursery.
When Arthur died suddenly in the early 1930s, his son Charles Weston replaced him as clerk-treasurer of the Westlake (Dover) Board of Education, responsible for keeping minutes of the board meetings and handling the finances for the schools. To give an idea of the small size of the administration in those days – Charles also sometimes drove a Dover school bus!
During the Great Depression his was a challenging job, which included applying for WPA funds to help with school maintenance. His cousin-in-law, Mida Weston, wife of George I. Weston, was in charge of a welfare program established by the Dover Village Council. She oversaw the distribution of food supplies provided by the federal government. It was said that Mida Weston visited folks all over town to make sure that all needs were taken care of.
Charles married Esther Elliott of Dover and they raised three children – Doris, Ellen and Walter. Like his father, Charles was a fruit grower. His specialty was cherries. He also raised evergreens which were sold to landscapers. He was active in 4-H Club and was the first leader of the Boy Scout Troop sponsored by the Dover Congregational Church. He was an active member of the Dover Civic Club, Kiwanis Club and the Dover Masonic Lodge. He was a charter member of the Westlake Historical Society.
Daughter Doris, born in 1920, followed in his footsteps. She was very dedicated to Dover/Westlake, the Dover Congregational Church and, like both Charles and May Weston, to the Westlake Historical Society. Like many members of the Weston family she was a teacher. She taught in the North Olmsted and Chardon schools. Charles and Esther's daughter Ellen took training as a hospital dietician in Chicago, married a Mr. Lohff there and raised two daughters in Illinois. Sadly the only son of the Charles Weston, Walter R. Weston, lost his life while serving in the military in World War II.
With all of the ties to education, history and farming, that this second branch of the Weston family had, it is fitting that a home their father and grandparents or great-grandparents occupied is planned to become a museum of local farming and history to educate children about the early days of Dover.
William R. Krause, AICP I am the Assistant Planning Director for the City of Westlake. I have worked for Westlake for 25 years. I served on the Bay Village Planning Commission for 5 years. I am a member of the Reuben Osborn Learning Center Steering Committee. I am a Board Member and Historian for the Westlake Historical Society and a Trustee of the Western Reserve Architectural Historians. I have been married to Debra for 34 years and am the father of three grown children, grandfather of one and owner of two Shih Tzu's.


Salary: Superb basic salary plus excellent 1st year OTE and highly enviable full benefits package!
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Reconstitute Porcini mushrooms per package directions, drain off excess water and slice. Heat half the olive oil and saute' garlic until golden brown. Discard browned garlic. Add the sliced Porcini. Cook gently for about 10 mintues. Season to taste with sea salt and ground pepper. Add the chopped tomatoes. In another pan, heat the remaining oil and quickly toss in the prawns. Season. Saute' prawns for 1 minute, and then add the wine. Over high heat, allow wine to evaporate. Then add the Porcini mixture. Reduce heat. Cook the saffron pasta to package directions, drain and incorporate the sauce. Garnish with parsley and serve at once. 4-4oz servings.


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Summary The VPDES Permit and the VPA Permit Regulations establish a requirement for an owner to employ a licensed operator. The purpose of this guidance is to provide guidance to ensure license classifications assigned to treatment facility are consistent and based on the current regulations of the State Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators. This guidance replaces GM04-2002.


I've been wanting to do some book spine poetry with you for AGES! I love sitting and staring at my shelves when I'm in a lazy mood, and just matching up titles into potential poems, so these little BSPs are something I do on occasion, and share to instagram & the blog. You can find more of them here.
Kill me softly, burn for burn.
Possess my last kiss, eternally yours.
Nicely done! I'll have to try this.
Also your poem is BEAUTIFUL.
I love hearing what people come up with their spines. I might have to do one.


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John Julius Cooper, 2. vikont Norwich CVO (15. rujna 1929.) — poznat i kao John Julius Norwich je engleski povjesničar, putopisac i televizijski voditelj.

Sin je engleskog konzervativnog političara i diplomata Duffa Coopera i lady Dijane Olivije Winifred Maud Manners, engleske glumice i pripadnice socialité. Njegov otac je 1952. kao priznanje za njegov književni i politički rad dobio naslov Vikont Norwich. Nakon očeve smrti 1954., naslijedio je taj naslov i u svezi s njime, mjesto u Domu lordova.

Djela
Poznati su njegovi radovi o Bizantskom Carstvu i Kraljevstvu Dviju Sicilija.

Mount Athos  (John Julius Norwich, Reresby Sitwell), 1966.
The Normans in the South i The Kingdom in the Sun, on Norman Sicily, kasnije reizdano kao The Normans in Sicily, 1992 (The Normans in the south,1016–1130; izvorno izdanje ,1967.—The kingdom in the sun, 1130–1194; 1970.)
Sahara, 1968.
A History of Venice, 1981.
The Architecture of Southern England, 1985.
Fifty Years of Glyndebourne, 1985.
A Taste for Travel, 1985.
Byzantium; v. 1: The Early Centuries, 1988 .
Venice: a Traveller's Companion (antologija, ur. lord Norwich), 1990.
Byzantium; v. 2: The Apogee, 1992.
Byzantium; v. 3: The Decline and Fall, 1995.
A Short History of Byzantium, 1997.
The Twelve Days of Christmas (ilustrirao Quentin Blake), 1998.
Shakespeare's Kings: the Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, 2000.
The Middle Sea: a History of the Mediterranean, 2006.
Trying to Please, (autobiografija), 2008.
Christmas Crackers
More Christmas Crackers
The Big Bang : Christmas Crackers, 2000-2009, 2010.
Paradise of Cities, Venice and Its Nineteenth-century Visitors, 2003. The Great Cities in History (ur.), 2009.

Bibliografija
 Leaders & Legends: John Julius Norwich (u: Old Times; Winter/Spring, 2008.)

Britanski povjesničari


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Q: How to get all available wifi network name listings in iOS I need to create an app that can get a list of all available wifi networks' names and information on their iPhone, and when the user clicks on some network they should connect to it. Can I do this, and how?

A: It is not possible to get all the available wifi networks names and information. BUT it is only possible to get the SSID (SSID is simply the technical term for a network name) of the network that you are currently connected to.
This class will show only the wifi network name you are connected to -
    import UIKit
    import SystemConfiguration.CaptiveNetwork

    class ViewController: UIViewController {

        @IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!

        override func viewDidLoad(){
            super.viewDidLoad()
            let ssid = self.getAllWiFiNameList()
            print("SSID: \(ssid)")
        }
        func getAllWiFiNameList() -> String? {
            var ssid: String?
            if let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() as NSArray? {
            for interface in interfaces {
            if let interfaceInfo = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interface as! CFString) as NSDictionary? {
                        ssid = interfaceInfo[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSID as String] as? String
                        break
                    }
                }
            }
            return ssid
        }
    }

OUTPUT- (Network name where i am connected to )

To test this you need a physical device (iPhone) connected to your pc.

A: By doing some research I found that:
It is NOT possible in iOS to scan all nearby SSID. We can only get currently connected wifi SSID.
If we somehow do this with any private library, App will be rejected by Apple.
Some helpful Links I want to share -

*

*https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/39204

*iOS 11.0 - Periodically scan for SSIDs (WiFi) nearby
You can get connected wifi SSID by these methods:
Swift (3 and 4) -
import SystemConfiguration.CaptiveNetwork

func fetchSSIDInfo() -> String? {
        var ssid: String?
        if let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() as NSArray? {
            for interface in interfaces {
                if let interfaceInfo = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interface as! CFString) as NSDictionary? {
                    ssid = interfaceInfo[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSID as String] as? String
                    break
                }
            }
        }
        return ssid
    }

Objective-C -
#import <SystemConfiguration/CaptiveNetwork.h>

+(NSString*)fetchSSIDInfo {

    NSArray *ifs = (__bridge_transfer NSArray *)CNCopySupportedInterfaces();

    NSDictionary *info;

    for (NSString *ifnam in ifs) {

        info = (__bridge_transfer NSDictionary *)CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo((__bridge CFStringRef)ifnam);

        if (info && [info count]) {

            return [info objectForKey:@"SSID"];
            break;
        }
    }

    return @"No WiFi Available";
}

A: Yes it is possible.You need to complete a questionnaire at https://developer.apple.com/contact/network-extension, and then you can use NEHotspotHelper to return a list of hotspots.


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abortion abstinence abstinence-only sex education baby parts bible birth control christ Condoms condoms on cucumbers hormones jesus megachurches michigan michigan h.b. 4883 michigan legislature planned parenthood planned parenthood baby parts Planned Parenthood videos pregnancy pt Jokes that write themselves safe sex sex ed sex education stds teen pregnancy teenagers teenagers fuck each other tom hooker
Hooker Dude Wants To Make Sure Teenagers Don't Do Sex Things To Cucumbers
Cucumbers are vicious lovers.
Once in a while, there is a straight news story that already has a Wonkette headline. This is one of those stories.
OH DOES HE? So here is what is happening. There is a Republican state representative in Michigan called Tom Hooker, and he's real worried about what kinds of sex ed the children are getting at school. So he has writed himself a bill to ensure that Planned Parenthood isn't coming in and showing the kids how to Make Your Own Abortion, and he DEFINITELY doesn't want them putting condoms on vegetables, because that puts all kinds of ideas in the children's heads, probably about putting vegetables in their bad places.
"It's illegal to hand out condoms to young people as they exit the class, but what they're doing is they're handing out the condoms in class. They're practicing on a cucumber or something similar, familiarizing themselves with the use, and then Planned Parenthood conveniently tells them they can get the devices at Planned Parenthood clinics and how easy it is to get them without the knowledge of parents," said Hooker, a third-term representative.
"The only dealing that I did with birth control devices (when I was a teacher) was I gave the students the failure rates of all of them. The failure rate obviously tells you there is not safe sex except saved sex. To avoid sex is the only guarantee that you're not going to get pregnant."
Goddamn that Planned Parenthood, trying to keep kids from getting pregnant or acquiring STDs. Surely, if the children just get sex ed from a Hooker -- Tom Hooker to be precise -- they'll eschew all sexual contact until they get opposite-sex married in God's eyes. We know this is possible, because of how teens ALWAYS listen to grown-ups who tell them not to have sex, and they NEVER listen to their hormones instead.
Oh wait, that is not true. Teenagers fuck each other. In every society, teenagers have fucked each other. Teens who go to conservative megachurches? Fucking. Teens who sign virginity pledges? Fucking. Jesus's high school friends? Fucking. Hey, Christ's teenage years are completely unrecorded in the Bible, maybe because the Prince Of Peace was TOO BUSY FUCKING. Any adult who does not understand this about teenagers is a fucking baby.
And also, too? Abstinence-only education of the No Cucumbers, Just Don't Fuck variety still doesn't fucking work. It just doesn't, no matter how much conservative bugfuckers like Hooker wish it did. What DOES work? Real sex ed, the kind he is trying to ban.
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Of course, Hooker is sure Planned Parenthood is doing this just to grease its wheels:
"There's a perverse incentive for an organization like Planned Parenthood to get into the sex education business," Hooker said. "It's a conflict in that they give out or sell condoms, they offer pregnancy tests and (sexually transmitted disease) testing, and, obviously, if they're pregnant, they then would offer an abortion.
"It just seems like an awfully comfortable arrangement for Planned Parenthood to teach sex education."
Yeah, and the more teens Planned Parenthood can teach to do sex to each other (because they'd NEVER figure it out for themselves), the more will get pregnant, and then OOH Planned Parenthood gets ALL THE BABY PARTS to put on Etsy or wherever they sell them. This is a fine time to remind everyone that Planned Parenthood is not doing anything illegal, it is not selling baby parts for scrap, and that anyone who believes it is -- hey Carly Fiorina, you big lying dumbass! -- is A Idiot. This is ALSO a fine time to remind Rep. Hooker that Americans really love Planned Parenthood, so pull the cucumber out of your dumb white ass and put a condom on it, why don't ya, Hooker boy?
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At those prices they should ship for free.
Try the place above. I've not bought from them in about 6 months but I'll bet the prices have not changed much.
20 foot $27.00 and they made one cut for me free.
If they want to charge you for cutting just take a battery powered sawzall with you or a hack saw and cut it up to haul home.
Not that far from you. About a mile off 635 in Garland. If I remember right, it's the Jupiter exit.
PS There has got to be someone on your side of town, like down in the Harry Hines Industrial area.
King Structural Steel is another place to use at Buckner on I 30.
At those prices, they should overnight express at no cost to you.
Locally, I get a 24 foot long piece of 3/4 inch 14 ga square tube for the princely sum of $17, delivered to my back yard.
Well, I bought from Metal supermarkets (local, dallas) this morning, looks like I over paid there TOO, but I'll file this away for next time >< $30ish for 10 feet, but that was 2x2 tube not 3/4 inch, so maybe not that bad actually.
The price that I mentioned was for20 feet of 1.5" 16 ga. I think 2" would have been $35 for 20 feet.
20 feet is a minimum purchase from Garland Steel.
BTW, my son, david_s lives in Plano. I come there several times a year to visit and build bikes. I lived in Garland for 35+ years before moving out here to East Texas.
The 2 x 2 was 14 gauge as well.
Very cool, I got a chance to test ride some bents at Richardson Bike Mart yesterday while I was picking up a cartridge BB removal tool. Gave me a little better idea of what to expect... also very briefly gave me trike fever until I looked at how much more complicated it is to build a warrior (part of my 6 pack of plans). I'll stick to Voyager for first build.
Every steel supplier I've ever dealt with has a nominal cut fee. That can take a $35 full length piece and turn it into a $100 pile of shorts real quick!
If delivery is reasonable, your best bet will always be to buy the full stick. You are going to cut it up anyway, so "pay yourself" the $5 per cut!
Wow Charlie! Both of my local suppliers will cut a full length in half for free if I buy the entire length.
Also, ask how much they charge for stuff in their "drop" bins. My suppliers charge .60 cents - $1 per pound for their cutoffs which can be up to 10 or 12 feet sometimes depending on which supplier I'm at and what kind of metal I'm buying.


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Blind Singer with Autism Blows Away 'America's Got Talent' Judges, Audience with Golden Buzzer Performance
Posted 4:35 am, May 30, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 04:34AM, May 30, 2019
A 22-year-old singer, assisted by his mother and a cane as he walked on stage, may have given one of the most memorable performances yet on "America's Got Talent."
Kodi Lee is blind and has autism.
His mother, Tina, told the show's judges that he loved music "really early on."
"He listened, and his eyes just went huge, and he started singing," she said. "I realized he's an entertainer. Through music and performing, he was able to withstand living in this world, because when you're autistic, it's really hard to do what everybody else does. It actually saved his life playing music."
She assisted her son to the piano, and he performed a rendition of "A Song for You" by Donny Hathaway.
All four judges, along with everyone else in the room, were on their feet when he was finished. Judge Gabrielle Union hit the Golden Buzzer, meaning he'll advance right to the live shows.
"What just happened there was extraordinary," said judge Simon Cowell. "I'm going to remember this moment for the rest of my life."
Filed in: Hot on the Web
Topics: america's got talent
Diane Rau
The audience stood up because the blind singer OVERCAME his disability. Furthermore, that makes him a courageous individual, not an sniveling name caller.
Fractal Kaleidoscope Spiral (@SpiralFractal)
Oh, please, spare me the crap about how a disabled person "overcame" his disability. A disability isn't the end of the world. I've been handicapped for over 40 years, and my primary income came from the arts. I degrees in psychology & music, I performed as a singer/voice actor since the age of 14 (four years before my injury), I've worked as a radio personality, and I've also been publishing my writing since age 17. None of my talent had anything to do with my handicap, and I'm sick of idiots who treat me like I'm some kind of performing circus act simply because I use a medical device for transportation. I ride in my wheelchair but it is NOT who I am! And patronizing those with disabilities just illustrates the unconscious arrogance of the able-bodied. We will never be on equal footing with other Americans as long as people like you keep spouting that crap about how "inspiring" we are. We're just people living our lives, no different from you except that our bodies are less perfect than those who claim to be "normal." And until you realize that and stop treating us like we've accomplished some kind of miracle just by living our lives, the disabled will always be marginalized. And people like YOU are the ones marginalizing us by making such a big deal about our disabilities instead of our ABILITIES. You aren't perfect, either, so how would you like it if everyone you met defined you by your imperfections? Maybe if the able-bodied would just stop obsessing over our physical defects and denying us the same opportunities as you, we wouldn't have to "overcome" our disabilities anymore.
Gene Brennan
you're an asshat
Lets be honest, how good he is really doesn't matter with AGT, its always been about who has the best sob story with these "talent" shows… he would just be another singer without the story, and the story is all they care about, because the story sells ratings.
Szymon Wolowiec
you sir are heartless. " Mr. Bob Stevens, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
You all know its true… there are countless times that the better performer was passed over for the better sob story.
His story doesn't take away from his talent, but it should be based on the talent, not the story. Has nothing to do with being heartless, I'm just tired of these reality shows being a contest of who jerks more tears and not who has the best talent. Its 'Americas Got Talent', not 'Americas Got A Sad Story But Look at What I can do Also'.
Your response is also utterly stupid. For one, where is that quote even coming from, that's not how quotes work. I wrote a plain and simple fact in sentence form. Its easy to understand unless you're a mindless shill for these bread and circus reality shows distracting you from the true reality.
I bet you complain about tornado warning interrupting your bachelorette too…
Desmond Tmkad Gayle
I just want to say this…Bob Stevens made a good point. I've been working and advocating for/with the disability community for almost 20 years now. right now many in the disability community are protesting this type of treatment because its really saying "hey look this guy with a disability singing and playing the piano" when it should be saying this guy is talented and thats it. what you have to understand is this, people are seeing him for his disability first before his talent and that is not a good thing to do. if you talk to people with disabilities many will tell you that they hate that type of special treatment. He has talent but the focus is on his disability first. He is a human being and not a sob story. His disability that he was born with is part of his identity and not something to be used for ratings and a story. Since forever people with disabilities have either been mistreated or been given extra special treatment which makes many feel like they are being treated like a child or a sob story. i wouldn't want people always feeling bad for me, would you? A buddy of mine was just talking about this exact thing a few weeks ago. He is blind and had a brain injury during birth which causes him to have difficulty recalling information. He started performing when he realized that through music his difficulty recalling and speaking just melted away when he performed. When he performs especially in contest formats he always wins. And he feels he always wins not because of his talent but because of his disability. He hardly ever gets an honest critique of his music, and that is the sad part. From what he said I was the very first person he feels that ever looked past his disability and gave him an honest critique. thats where our friendship began. He doesnt want people to feel bad for him. His disability is part of who he is and he just wants to live his life like everyone else…good times and hardship. Movies/TV tend to do this all the time to the disability population to gain pity ratings. Having a disability doesn't mean you should pity someone. while some people look at him and are saying "omg i cant believe a blind guy with autism has this talent" another view could be that because he is blind and has autism that is helped flourish this talent. Bob's response sounds like a person who understands that people disabilities dont always want special treatment. On another note…many times parents are the main people to treat their children with special treatment because of their disability.
I'd like to say "Thank you" to Desmond Gayle. I was about to make that same point. I was injured in a vehicle collision at age 18. I was already pursuing a degree in performance art, and after suffering TBI & SCI, I rejected the 'opportunity' to collect SSA and focused on my career instead. My talent has NOTHING to do with my handicap (yes, there IS a difference between a disability & a handicap) and at age 60, I'm SICK of the able-bodied considering my wheelchair as my sole identity. Even if the able-bodied don't know I'm an entertainer, the wheelchair is how they define me. All of them start relating their health issues as soon as we meet, as if expecting me to feel sorry for THEM. Or they tell me how they spent 2 weeks using a transport chair for a sprained ankle, so they "know what it's like to be in a wheelchair." (I always say, "No, you don't, because you knew it wasn't permanent so it was just a game to you.") Or they tell me about their acquaintance who uses a wheelchair, which is no different from a racist claiming they're not prejudiced because they have "a friend who's black." As long as the able-bodied treat us as pets or, worse yet, performing freaks, people like myself will always be viewed as 'less than human.' Patronizing us because of our disability only sets us further apart from the mainstream. And please, cut the crap about how my life "inspires" you! No, god didn't make me disabled in order to inspire the able-bodied. This is my LIFE, not some Hallmark television movie designed to uplift or teach someone else. I started out just like you, and I'm still the same inside, even if my legs don't hold me up anymore. Stop acting like anything I accomplished is some kind of "triumph over adversity."
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Never A Dull Moment With Lonnie Rex Written by Dan Wooding, Founder of Assist News Service
Dan Wooding & Mother Teresa
Known as "God's Humanitarian Ambassador to the World," Dr. Rex will celebrate his 88th Birthday on Wednesday, May 11, 2016.
SPRING, TX (ANS – May 9, 2016) – Dr. Lonnie Rex, who has been called "God's Humanitarian Ambassador to the World," is a friend who first introduced me to Mother Teresa, sent me on a reporting assignment to Nigeria, the land of my birth, where I was arrested and briefly imprisoned, and almost got me fired from my job on a London tabloid.
Lonnie, who on Wednesday, May 11th, celebrates his 88th birthday, is a quite extraordinary man. Few have achieved what God has enabled him to accomplish in his lifetime.
And it hasn't been easy for him, especially because, as a young boy, he was stricken with Polio. His life was in the balance and he was not expected to live.
"However," said Hugh Holmes Morgan in a story about him, "his parents' prayers touched the heart of God to spare his life and he lived to overcome this physical challenge with his faith in God.
"Through the preaching of his father, the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Rex, Lonnie's heart was captured by the story of the lad who willing gave his lunch to Jesus that his mother had prepared for him of five barley loaves and two small fish. Jesus blessed the loaves and fish and fed 5,000 men, notwithstanding the women and the children.
"That story became Lonnie's burning desire to give what he had to Jesus, and became the motivating force in the extensive ministries God gave him over many years of humanitarian service around the world.
Dr. Lonnie Rex, God's Ambassador
"Lonnie never asked anything from God for himself, but prayed that God would give him ideas, concepts, and wisdom to be used to help others. He believed God could use him as He did the lad in the Gospel narrative to bless others.
"For many years he served some well-known American evangelists in their ministries through tent crusades, large auditoriums, radio and television."
I first became acquainted with Lonnie Rex, who founded the David Livingstone Foundation with offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the David Livingstone Missionary Society in Glasgow, Scotland, when in 1975, I received a phone call from him at the London-based newspaper where I was working.
Lonnie said he had heard about my journalism and wondered if I might be free to travel to India and Bangladesh to report on his work there, and then added, "I would also like you to go to Calcutta to interview Mother Teresa, who is a good friend of our work."
I managed to get a couple of weeks off from my job, and headed off to India with a colleague of Dr. Rex, and travelled through India, and before going to Bangladesh, where he had a hospital, I went by train to Calcutta to interview the extraordinary lady who has been called "The Saint of the Gutters."
When Mother Teresa first came into the tiny room at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters, where we were to conduct the interview, I soon realized that that although she was small in stature--she stood only 4-foot-11-inches -- she was a giant to the have-nots of life that she ministered to during her six decades on the subcontinent of India, as well as others around the world.
Her friends were the starving, the dying, and the poor.
As a then young and learning-on-the job reporter, I immediately warmed to this gentle woman who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for she had seen more poverty than anyone I had ever met. Speaking in the founding, festering slum where she made her simple home, I was surprised to hear her express pity for the "poverty-stricken West."
"The spiritual poverty of the Western World is much greater than the physical poverty of our people," she told me, as the fan whirred above us, vainly trying to alleviate the unbearable heat of that Indian city.
"You, in the West, have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and emptiness. They feel unloved and unwanted. These people are not hungry in the physical sense, but they are in another way. They know they need something more than money, yet they don't know what it is.
"What they are missing, really, is a living relationship with God."
It turned out to be one of the most moving interviews I had ever conducted, but that was not the end of my relationship with Lonnie Rex, as the next assignment he sent me on turned out to be rather scary. I had been traveling around Kenya for him, when I got a message saying that he would like me to go onto Nigeria, the land of my birth, to report on a "converted witch doctor" who was said to be running an orphanage there. (Sadly, he turned out to be fake.)
As I had left Nigeria a young boy in 1942, and had never been back, I was really excited to be going "home" and, as I boarded the Ethiopian Airlines jet from Nairobi to Lagos, my mood changed as soon turned sour and quite dangerous for me at the immigration desk.
I handed my British passport to the immigration official, which happened to have "journalist" posted inside it, and he began to become angry. At that time, I hadn't realized that Nigeria was in dispute with the UK over a former president now living in Warwick, England, who they wanted to put on trial in Nigeria, and so the man promptly told me to follow him, and open up a cell door at the airport, and pushed me inside.
I tried to protest, saying, "Why are you doing this to me? I was born in Nigeria." But that didn't appear to matter, as they said they didn't want a "British journalist" snooping around their country. The cell had four Africans, who were bemused that a white man had also joined them. However, they were really kind to me, and one of them even gave up his bed to me to try and sleep on.
To make matters worse, Nigeria, at that time, was publically executing people on Lagos Beach, and airing it live in "Prime Time" on Nigerian Television. I certainly didn't want to be featured being shot on the beach for all the viewers to see.
After a terrible night in the cell, I was called before the Chief Immigration office and informed that I was being deported back to the UK. I was then frog-marched across the tarmac, a rifle in my back, and put on a flight back to Gatwick Airport, just outside of London. My wife, Norma, was shocked when I called her from the airport and shared what had happened.
My case was raised in the British House of Commons by Bill Molloy, the Labour MP for Ealing North, who condemned my treatment, and then I called Lonnie at his Tulsa office and gave him the news of my short time in Nigeria, for which he was horrified.
Pope John Paul & Lonnie Rex
Still, despite that setback, we remained good friends, and soon I was working for the Sunday People, a London-based tabloid, and I agree to help Lonnie with publicity work for the David Livingstone Foundation, and especially their work in Britain.
On my days off, I would fly on the London-Glasgow shuttle to work with Lonnie's son, Royce Rex, who was heading up the UK ministry for him.
But then, a reporter from the infamous News of the World, called me and said that he had discovered my freelance activities for the David Livingston Missionary Society, and was planning to "expose" me in the next edition of the paper.
"Wooding," he said gleefully, "I'm going to destroy you." With that he slammed down the phone, and my heart began to race.
I decided that the only thing I could do was to go and see my news editor and tell him that I was helping the organization, as I believed in the humanitarian work they were doing. Amazingly, he told me "not to worry" as he felt this was just a vindictive action by a rival newspaper, and although the story did appear, fortunately nothing happened, and I kept my job.
So, as you can imagine, I didn't shed any tears when, in 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper, and eventually led to its closure by Rupert Murdoch in 2012.
Lonnie Rex certainly played a huge role in my life for those years I worked with him, and he became one of my dearest friends, despite some of the adventures he got me into.
Lonnie Rex & Mikhail Gorbachev
He has served on the board of Universities, has been involved in worldwide peace talks. He has received numerous awards from Governors, Presidents, Heads of State as well as being Knighted 1993. He is the recipient of the Merit award called the Moran Medal Republic of Korea, Humanitarian award from Senator Hugh Scott US Senate 1983, Service to Mankind award International. He has also been honored by the Congress, Spain 1987, as well as the International Lions Club award, UN award, Medal General. Ground USSR 1990 and the World Humanitarian Leadership award by Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Lonnie once said, "It has been my passion to raise money to feed those who do not have the strength to cry. That is what drives me day and night." It still does!
Thanks Lonnie for all these years of excitement. Around you, there has never been a dull moment.
To check out Lonnie's autobiography, My Amazing Adventures with God: From Polio and Paralysis to Walking with the Pope, please go to: http://www.lonnierex.com/BOOKSTORE.html.
You can see a video of part of Lonnie Rex's life at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2n-4oxwQIg, and if you would like to send Lonnie Rex a birthday greeting, his e-mail address is: lonnierrex@sbcglobal.net and his website is: http://www.lonnierex.com.
Photo captions: 1) Dan Wooding with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. 2) Lonnie Rex telling his story on video. 3) Dan in his Lagos prison cell with one of his African cell-mates. (Photo was smuggled out of Nigeria.) 4) Lonnie Rex and his wife, Betty, meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. 5) Lonnie Rex with Mikhail Gorbachev, and his wife, Raisa, in Moscow. 6) Dan Wooding recording one of his radio shows.
Dan Wooding recording his radio show
About the writer: Dan Wooding, 75, is an award-winning winning author, broadcaster and journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, and is now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for nearly 53 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. Dan is the founder and international director of the ASSIST News Service (ANS), has worked for two of Great Britain's newspapers, been a BBC Radio interview, and is the author or co-author of some 45 books. Dan has a radio show and two TV shows, all based in Southern California.
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This as an experiment into complex forms: Being based on the Five Classical Canons of Rhetoric, the second of this set is disposition. This piece is designed to outline the thought process by first taking raw information (pizzicato entrance), organizing it into a series of fugues (each being progressively more resemblant to the theme running through the set, the "thesis" theme), until the material is combined to create a satisfactory product (having resolved all issues of synthesis, then the end section) to be used in the overall metaphorical "oration" (i.e. the intent of rhetoric). I have more detailed an explanation attached, as well.
As an experiment, I wanted to compose a piece for soprano saxophone, as my friend plays the instrument. It begins in a drifting, dream-like state with the strings providing a variety of colors. From the conclusion of the dream-state, an idea in the saxophone is presented. In a story type manner, this faster theme is progressed until it devolves back into the dense strings again with the initial iota being reiterated. This becomes an intense outburst at full volume until it ends quietly. The music begins again, replicating the three-movements of a concerto on a miniature scale, reintroducing previous themes. The music ends with a repetition of the intense contrary theme, re-notated from before. Let me know what you think! Also, I finally re-organized all my music, so I have proper opus numbers now.
Hi everyone! This is my first vocal/choral work to post here so far (If I don´t count a jazz song with my vocals which I´ve posted in the jazz section before). I wrote this one for strings, piano and soprano, for a talented Croatian singer Hana Huljić who also happens to be a great composer aswell. However, this is still a demo and the singer on this demo did not have any experiences with singing opera before and she is not a soprano, so it was a bit high for her, but I still love her performance very much. She´s a friend of mine and was very willing to sing the demo for Hana, I´m very thankful to her. I always loved Ave Maria songs, especially the Schubert one, and I always wanted to write one myself one day, and the day has come. Since there are so many Ave Maria already, I decided to write it for "Zdravas Mária" which is the Slovak equvivalent of the prayer. Please let me know how you like it!
Here's a link to my piece: https://soundcloud.com/user-659082399-303084762/largo-ostinato I appreciate feedback. Technically what's happening: The piece is in 5/4, which gives space to the melodic lines, key of E flat, playing with G natural and flat. It starts with piano ostinato, adds a cello ostinato, successively adds 2 melodies and then combines the 2 melodies over the ostinatos. I created it using mixcraft pro studio 8 virtual instruments. Feedback on another website was to the effect that real strings on long notes have more dynamics. Do you agree or do you think the more flat, even strings works better?
You may need to turn your speakers/headphones up, i've been having some problems bringing my mix level up. Let me know what you think.
I am a beginner and have zero knowledge in music, i tried composing something using garageband software. Let me know what do you think of this piece of musical?
Hi producers and composers alike! "A Hero's Return" marks the tail end of Prisoner 8's journey. But is it truly the end as he hopes it will be?
Hello there! I'm a composer that's new to the Orchestral Setting and have some possibly general questions. I understand very little about String Instruments (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass) and would like to know some techniques that I could use in my music, or even ways to divide up each section (I've seen things like 2 desks in Violin parts and understand that, but I don't know much else). Would string players please explain some extended techniques to me? Thank you in advance!
I made my quintet piece a bit longer, yet I don't know what to think about it. Making a piece longer doesn't always make it better. The man in charge of the chamber group sent me their latest performance, without a single word attached to it. I assume that by doing that he asked me to make something closer to that. I really don't know what to do or what to think about the piece. Here's the link for their performed piece, please watch and see if you think that the level, style, and length of my piece fit to this group. Maybe it's a bit too much to ask for, but I set and listened to pieces that are much longer than that on this forum, I guess some of you would be kind enough to give me from their time. Audio might not be exactly the same as the notes. If you have the time for that, please look over the notes. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Audio might not be exactly the same as the notes. If you have the time for that, please look over the notes. I'm about to hand this piece to the quintet's administrator and wanted to hear another musician's opinions before I do so. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Hello, all. This is a piece I've been working on for a while for string quintet -- two violins, viola, cello, and double bass (the resources I have) -- and I hope for this to be a multi-movement piece in the future once I have more time to write. This is a quick jig that introduces material that I hope to carry over into other movements. Let me know what you guys think!


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Those of you who have read my previous posts probably knows that I've spent the past week down in beautiful Texas. Our adventure "down south" even got a little extended because we ran into some flight troubles on our way back yesterday — but we made it back safely to Sioux Falls today, yay! Right now I'm in my room eating a slice of pizza and trying to prioritize what I should write about in this post, which usually isn't a problem — because my weeks mostly just consist of homework and classes — but with an above average venturesome week I suddenly have a lot more to write about.
So… let me just start with where I left off last time.
I started Saturday off with a run in a park I found with my friend and fellow journalism major, Matthew.
Then we attended a few more sessions at the Journalism convention before we got ready for the highlight of the day, Halloween!
Things didn't get much better when the menu only offered super expensive dishes we didn't know how to pronounce, and on top of it all managed to break a glass in front of the waiter. (And no, we were not drunk or high, just hungry) Since it was absolutely impossible to find anything "edible" in the menu, we ended up ordering a couple of different appetizers that we shared — which, by the way, cost us more than ten servings at a regular restaurant… almost. After having tried to force down a couple of snails, moldy cheeses and patees we left and got pizza instead. In other words, don't visit Chez Nous if you suspect your taste buds are not sufficiently mature for such … powerful… tastes.
After I had convinced myself the French snails would not come crawling back up my throat, we walked the Austin Halloween Parade, which is said to be one of the biggest in the US with its 60 000 participants!
And generally just had a blast all night!
On Sunday last years edition of the Augustana yearbook, Edda, placed top 10 in the National College Media Convention "Best of show" competition! Whaat?! Little tiny Augie is among the best in the whole country. I'm proud to be a part of a team with such amazing talented people, and I look forward to seeing what we can do with this year's edition.
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How "The Power" Literally Rocked the House
By Chris Higgins
Turbo B and Penny Ford, featured performers on "The Power"
On July 5, 2011, the 39-story "Techno-Mart" mall in Seoul, South Korea shook for ten minutes, causing a two-day evacuation and an investigation. The cause of the tremors? Seismic experts concluded that "The Power," a dance hit by the band Snap!, simply rocked too hard.
Tae Bo Power - It's Gettin' Kinda Hectic
When the shaking occurred, it was felt only in the upper floors of the Techno-Mart. An investigation revealed that several dozen people had been doing an intense Tae Bo workout on the 12th floor. On that day, the Tae Bo instructor put on "The Power" and urged the class to do their workout "twice as hard." All that rhythmic stomping set up mechanical resonance within the building, causing it to vibrate. The Techno-Mart happened to have a resonance frequency matching that of "The Power's" kickin' beat. Here's a bit more explanation by professor Chung Lan of Dankook University:
"It just happens to be that the vibration set up by the "taebo" [sic] exercises coincided with the resonance frequency unique to the building," the professor said. When an external vibration hits the resonance frequency of a certain object, the vibration is amplified and causes excess shaking even from slight movement.
And lest we forget, here's "The Power":
Rhythm is a Dancer
It's important to emphasize that the Techno-Mart's shaking was caused not so much by the weight of the stompers, but by their rhythm (ahem, "Rhythm is a Dancer" is also a song by Snap!). Investigators demonstrated that "The Power" was the song with the building-busting beat by staging a second dance session, while tremor detectors were installed throughout the building. Yes, Korean scientists recruited a new set of "middle-aged people" who performed Tae Bo to "The Power" for the sake of public safety. Here's a snippet from Koea JoongAng Daily:
Jeong Ran, a professor at Dankook University, said, "The total weight of the people who are expected to participate in the demonstration will be about 850 kilograms (1,873 pounds). But, actually, weight is not that important. Rhythm and music causes tremors. The demonstrators are now practicing how to dance to the beat of the music."
The original group of Tae Bo enthusiasts refused to come forward, for fear of negative media attention. Apparently the Tae Bo instructor also disappeared, and to make things worse, the incident occurred during his first day on the job.
The supreme irony of this is that Billy Blanks, creator of the Tae Bo workout system, released a video called Tae Bo Power later in 2011. The video featured a section on attaining "Billy's Power Abs" and encouraged users to "feel the POWER." It did not, however, cry "I've got the power!"
"The Power" 45 single cover /
Zumba Can Also Rock Super-Hard
An oddly similar incident occurred in February 2011 in Australia, although instead of Tae Bo, the exercise was Zumba -- a mix of dance and aerobics. In Canberra, an Education Department building shook violently after a 12th floor dance class got its groove on. According to a story in The Age (emphasis added):
Tests confirmed exercise classes were causing the building to shake. While all buildings are designed to move in response to factors such as wind, the high impact movements of Zumba caused a build-up of "harmonic vibrations", despite the floor on which the exercise class was held exceeding Australian standards for gymnasiums, officials said. As a result, Zumba classes were stopped in the building because of safety fears.
Snap! Bonus Trivia
You may have wondered about the brief Russian snippet in the beginning of the music video for "The Power." It appears to be a man talking about the Sputnik satellites, but indeed is about the release of a personal computing device for the visually impaired. (In Russian, the term "sputnik" is not specific to the iconic Russian satellites -- it means, roughly, "fellow traveler.") Wikipedia explains the opening clip:
The song opens with the somewhat enigmatic line in Russian: "???????????? ????? Transceptor Technology ?????????? ? ???????????? ??????????? «???????????? ???????»" (meaning "The American company Transceptor Technology has started production of the 'Personal Companion' computer"). "Personal Companion" was a computer-like device for the blind and visually impaired. Released in 1990, it was controlled by voice and could, among other functions, automatically download articles from USA Today by a built-in modem. It was made by Transceptor Technologies of Ann Arbor, Michigan.


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THE WHISTLERS' star Rodica Lazăr @ JBFC
A mainstay of many of the New Wave films (from The Death of Mr Lazarescu to Principles of Life, The Last Day, or Ramona), actress Rodica Lazăr will join the Making Waves/New Releases opening night screening of The Whistlers on December 5 at the Jacob Burns Film Center for a Q&A session.
MO' star Dana Rogoz & director Radu Dragomir @ JBFC
Presenting his debut film in the U.S. Premiere, director Radu Dragomir will join Making Waves/New Releases at Jacob Burns Film Center on December 7, 7:30 p.m. for the screening of MO. Title character of the film, beloved actress Dana Rogoz will also be present there for the Q&A session.
Constantin Popescu wraps up @ Film Forum
Director Constantin Popescu will join us for the closing screening of "The Romanians" at Film Forum with his visceral Pororoca, followed by a Q&A moderated by Richard Peña (Tuesday, November 26, 8:00 pm). Don't miss also his contribution to the Tales from the Golden Age omnibus, the Pig segment, playing Saturday, November 23.
Director Tudor Giurgiu at MW2019
One of the oldest friends of Making Waves, director Tudor Giurgiu will be coming to New York for the screening of his 2012 film Of Snails and Men on November 23. Parking, his fourth feature, is also being featured in this year's New Releases program.
Actor Andi Vasluianu joins the Retrospective
One of the most prolific and talented actors of his generation, Andi Vasluianu joins us at Film Forum for the presentation of two titles in the retrospective: Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Endless) on Thu, November 21, and Of Snails and Men by Tudor Giurgiu, who will also be in New York for the screening (Sat, November 23).
Director Andrei Ujică @ Film Forum
One of the most appreciated representatives of the New Non-Fictional Cinema in the world, director and professor Andrei Ujică will be present at "The Romanians" at Film Forum for the screening of two of his legendary titles in this year's special retrospective: Videograms of a Revolution and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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Lucian Pintilie
One of Europe's finest filmmakers, Lucian Pintilie's work has explored questions of tyranny and remorse—often relating directly or allegorically to the history of his own country. His work also evokes the remembrance of the tolerant and cosmopolitan nature of his hometown, a German village within Southern Bessarabia which he describes as a halcyon polyglot and multicultural community, a key detail which has informed his body of work. He fled Romania in the 70s, and returned to his home country following the end of communism, and then made extraordinary films about life and its absurdities, beginning with The Oak (1992) and continuing with such acclaimed films as Afternoon of a Torturer (2001) and Niki and Flo (2003), "a mordant almost-comedy that represents a bridge—and also a battle—between the old Romania and the new." (A. O. Scott, The New York Times)
Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujică (b. 1951) is a Romanian screenwriter and director known for his subversive non-fictional films. He studied literature before making films, and moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990, together with Harun Farocki, he created Videograms of a Revolution, a powerful film about the relationship between political power and the media. Les Cahiers du Cinema listed it as one of the top 10 subversive films of all time. Videograms was the first part of a trilogy about the end of communism, which continued with Out of the Present (1995), the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov, who spent 10 months on board of the MIR space station, while back on Earth, the Soviet Union was collapsing. In 2010, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu was selected at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, ending the trilogy with a brilliant and radical reflection on history and memory. Since 2001, Ujicǎ is a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He founded the ZKM Film Institute in 2002.
A prominent figure of the New Romanian Cinema, Cristian Mungiu (b. 1968) is the only Romanian filmmaker awarded the Palme d'Or for feature film in Cannes. In 2007, his second feature, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days sky-rocketed his career, receiving several awards and being voted best film of the year by various international associations. Mungiu was already familiar with Cannes; his debut feature Occident premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2002. He returned to Cannes in 2009 as a writer-producer-co-director with the collective episodic film Tales from the Golden Age and as a writer-director in 2012 with Beyond the Hills – double awarded for Best Screenplay and Best actresses (Cosmina Stratan and Cristina Flutur). His fifth film, Graduation, was also selected at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Before deciding to embark on filmmaking, Constantin Popescu (b. 1973) worked as a translator, a production assistant and an assistant director. In 2014, he started to direct a series of well-received short films: The Apartment was the first, followed by A Lineman's Cabin (2005), Water (2006) and The Yellow Smiley Face (2008). He also directed the Pig segment in the Tales from the Golden Age omnibus. His debut feature, The Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2009), told the real story of young man resisting the communist regime in Romania, around 1950. Principles of Life, his second feature film, premiered in 2010 at the San Sebastian Film Festival, as well as his third, the visceral Pororoca, seven years later. Bogdan Dumitrache won the Best Actor award at San Sebastian for taking on the role of a father overcome by grief when his child dissapears.
Adrian Sitaru
Adrian Sitaru (b. 1971) made himself known when his short film Waves won the Leopards of Tomorrow section of the 2007 Locarno IFF. Many festival selections and awards followed, earning him the reputation of a filmmaker who explores the domestic life with great sense of humor and affection. Some of his other short films made a career: The Cage (2009), Lord (2009), House Party (2012), Art (2014). His feature films also toured the world through festivals, starting with Hooked (2008), selected in Venice Days at the Venice IFF and Toronto. Other four features followed: Best Intentions (2001), Domestic (2013), Illegitimate (2013), and The Fixer (2016).
Tudor Giurgiu
Tudor Giurgiu (b. 1972) is a producer, director and scriptwriter. Founder and President of the Transilvania International Film Festival, and initiator of the Gopo Awards – Romania's national film awards. He founded the production company Libra Film Productions, and the film distribution company Transilvania Film. His first feature, Love Sick, was screened in the Panorma section of the Berlinale in 2006 and received numerous international awards. His second feature, Of Snails and Men, enjoyed local success – the largest number of entries in Romanian cinemas in 2012. Why Me?, his third film, a thriller based on a real corruption case, premiered at Berlinale in 2015. Parking, his fourth feature, is a love story filmed in Spain, with an impressive Spanish cast. His short film Superman, Spiderman or Batman (2012) won best short film at the European Film Awards, among many others.
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"In Romania, the democratic reforms that followed the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 also turned the country into a global filmmaking powerhouse, culminating in what has been called the Romanian New Wave."
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J.B. Spins: "Luxury Hotel" – For fans of dystopian social satire
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The New Wave festival returns to New York every year with astonishing new films, alongside a well-curated archive. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
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J.B. Spins: "The Oak" – Deeply compelling cinema
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"The Romanian New Wave shows no signs of waning, with steady input from such directors as Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, and Cristian Mungiu."
"The former communist country has emerged as a powerhouse of cinema over the last two decades and much has been made about the Romanian New Wave, a genre of naturalistic and unflinching films that have been consistently winning top prizes such as the Palme d'Or in Cannes and awards at the Berlin and Venice festivals."
"In the last decade, the emergence of a Romanian new wave has been one of the most startling developments in world cinema, with one film after another winning prizes at Cannes and elsewhere."
"Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, the annual weeklong survey that has helped define and establish the southeastern European country as a stronghold of socially incisive, independently minded personal cinema."
"Romania cinema has gradually become a central component of international film culture."
"The Romanians" On Tour
BAMPFA Berkeley, CA
Dec 6, 2019 – Feb 27, 2020
Northwest Film Forum & ARCS, Seattle, WA
(Dec 2019-April 2020)
Lightbox Film Center Philadelphia
(Mar 2020)
AFI Silver Theatre Silver Spring, MD
(Mar-May 2020)
More venues will be announced soon
PAST: Film Forum New York
TRAILER | The Romanians:
30 Years of Cinema Revolution
A Making Waves retrospective coming up at
Film Forum New York from Nov 15-26, 2019,
followed by a U.S. Tour
TRAILER | New Releases 2019
A Making Waves 2019 program coming up at
Jacob Burns Film Center
All about the power of parenting
TEASER | The Romanians:
Meet the tragic hero
We did the revolution we could...
Ramona and her superpowers
Dreaming of power
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Corina Șuteu
Festival President
Corina Șuteu is the initiator and president of the Romanian Film Festival in New York since 2006. An international cultural consultant, she was Romania's Minister of Culture.
Oana Radu
Festival Manager
Oana Radu is a cultural manager and cultural policy consultant. Co-founder of Film ETC Association and manager of Making Waves.
Mihai Chirilov
Co-founder of the Romanian Film Initiative, Mihai Chirilov has been the Artistic Director of the Romanian Film Festival in NYC since its founding in 2006.
Co-Founder & MW Ambassador
Andi Vasluianu is one of the most prolific and talented actors of his generation. A co-founder of Film ETC. Association and Making Waves Ambassador.
Elvira Lupșa
Development Associate
Elvira Lupșa joined Film ETC. since its launch in 2012. She conceived the first successful crowdfunding campaign for a major Romanian project - the independent 2012 Making Waves Festival.
Elena Coman
Our new team member, Elena Coman is a theater critic, cultural events planner and publicist.
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Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema is the longstanding Romanian Film Festival in New York. Initiated and presented by Film ETC Association, in partnership with leading US organizations, including Film Forum (since 2109), BAM (since 2017), the Jacob Burns Film Center (since 2013), or the Film Society of Lincoln Center (2011-2015).


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