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Q: Calling 'Read' when the data reader is closed is not a valid operation error using Entity Framework database first approach I am creating a Web API that will fetch information from a table using Entity Framework database-first approach using stored procedures. ListAllTeams_Result is the complex type object created in Entity Framework. I am looping through the import function GetAllTeams() and populating the complex type. I am getting an error in my business layer when trying to access the data access layer
The error that I am getting is the following code
var team = _teamRepository.GetAllTeams();

The result of the query cannot be enumerated more than once.

Note: this error is in the inner stack and doesn't stop the application from executing
foreach (var t in team)

Calling 'Read' when the data reader is closed is not a valid operation.

Note : This stops execution
Business Layer
public IEnumerable<TeamDto> GetTeam()
{
   var team = _teamRepository.GetAllTeams();

   if (team != null)
   {
       foreach (var t in team.ToList())
       {
           yield return Mapper.Map<TeamDto>(t);
       }
   }

   yield break;
}

DataAccess layer:
public IEnumerable<ListAllTeams_Result> GetAllTeams()
{
    using (var mcrContext = new MCREntities())
    {
        return (from team in mcrContext.ListAllTeams("")
                select new ListAllTeams_Result
                        {
                            TeamID = team.TeamID,
                            TeamDescription = team.TeamDescription,
                            CountryCode = team.CountryCode,
                            CreatedBy = team.CreatedBy,
                            CreatedDate = team.CreatedDate,
                            ModifiedBy = team.ModifiedBy,
                            ModifiedDate = team.ModifiedDate
                        });
    }
}

A: I have found what the problem is. I had to add ToList in the return
using (var mcrContext = new MCREntities())
        {
            return (from team in mcrContext.ListAllTeams("")

                select new ListAllTeams_Result
                {
                    TeamID = team.TeamID,
                    TeamName = team.TeamName,
                    TeamDescription = team.TeamDescription,
                    CountryCode = team.CountryCode,
                    CreatedBy = team.CreatedBy,
                    CreatedDate = team.CreatedDate,
                    ModifiedBy = team.ModifiedBy,
                    ModifiedDate = team.ModifiedDate

                }).ToList();
        }


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Q: Make a link a certain shape in html I am using a grid system to show off a team section for a website and in the grid system I have 8 sections which would have individual links that lead to other pages, and each of those 8 sections have a rounded image, I was wondering how I would be able to make the link conform to only the circle and not the previous square shape that came default:
Note: this is not the full grid only a section

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A: You need to add overflow: hidden to the .Circ divs:
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A: Put the Circ class on the  rather than the

You might not need the div at all, if you make the a a block element.

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1951 'Guinea Pig' David Ladbrooke at left, with Alan Bridges foreground. At times it got quite crowded!
Philp Wade greets Judith Lord. Jo Allen, NK and Philip Wade.
Yvonne Coppin, Terry Coppin and Bryan Tungate. Scrutinising the 1951 Technical School photo for names.
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Photo Essay: Untold Stories of Change, Loss and Hope Along the Margins of Bengaluru's Lakes
Marthe Derkzen, Arnhem/Nijmegen.
16 December 2015 Art & Awareness, Essay, Europe, FRIEC, FRIEC Feature, People & Communities, StoriesArt, Asia, Children, Ecosystem services, Justice, Livability, Participation/Democracy, WaterMarthe Derkzen
Before becoming India's information technology hub, Bengaluru was known for its numerous lakes and green spaces. Rapid urbanization has led to the disappearance of many of these ecosystems. Those that remain face a range of challenges: residential and commercial construction, pollution and waste dumping, privatization, and so on. Today, Bengaluru's lakes are principally seen as garbage dumps and sewage ponds that can have either of two fates: one, be transformed into recreational oases to suit the needs of wealthy residential neighborhoods, or two, be encroached upon until none of the original shapes and functions can be traced. But how does this affect the lives of the people living at the very margins of Bengaluru's beloved yet contested lakes?
Waterfront – Madivala Lake. Photo: Arati Kumar-Rao
As a result of rapid urbanization and environmental change, people's reliance on local natural resources has substantially decreased in Bengaluru. This decrease is due to contamination of the surroundings, restrictions to access and, for some, the constant threat of eviction. Bengaluru is witnessing a transition from livelihoods dependent on use of these open spaces for activities such as fishing, cattle grazing and domestic purposes, to a cultural use of recreation and visual beauty. People are tending to move away from communal organization—such as taking turns to work on each other's rice fields, maintaining the village grove, or sharing irrigation and lake management duties—and to move towards private organization when tending to one's home garden or carrying out religious rituals. While people at the margins of lakes are often blamed for the degradation of lake ecosystems, they are actually preserving and often increasing native biodiversity and open space—acts that are quite uncommon now in a metropolis such as Bengaluru.
These trends are taking shape in line with a shift in lake accessibility. It is becoming harder to gain access to these ecosystems, either because of regulations (only government tendered fishing is allowed), physical barriers (lake fencing), or distance to adequate natural resources. Societal pressures also influence trends (cooking with firewood is old-fashioned). This means that livelihoods have become less location-bound for the ones that can afford it, while the ones who cannot need to find ways to cope with a degraded environment that is increasingly inaccessible. As happens elsewhere, urban open spaces, or urban commons, are being taken over by the elite and middle classes. As a young resident put it: "I do not wish for a park to be constructed, because that means that our houses will be demolished."
The stories of Bengaluru's residents represent the casualties of rapid urban growth witnessed by the city, but their voices often remain unheard. To bring back these voices into the debate, we organized a photo exhibition titled "Living at the margins of Bengaluru's lakes: Untold stories of change, loss and hope" on Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 2015 in Rangoli Metro Art Center in Bengaluru, India. A diverse audience of 900 to 1000 visitors came to the art gallery. People were in awe of the photographs and accompanying stories. "This really is an eye opener for people like us who live in the urban area. I was unaware of how lakes in the city were used by the city's marginalized, and how severely they are impacted by the pollution of these lakes," said Priya Dileep, an IT professional in the city. A significant feature of the exhibition was the presence of residents from the lakes, individuals who were themselves the subjects of the photographs displayed. They were astonished to see their portrait on the gallery wall, and proud.
The photographers who worked on the project are Anoop Bhaskar and Arati Kumar-Rao. Anoop, born in Bengaluru, worked in a corporate environment before he decided to become a fulltime photographer. Anoop has been involved from the moment the fieldwork started. He visited all the case study lakes and assisted with the household interviews that were held in Kannada, Tamil or Hindi. During the four months the fieldwork lasted, Anoop took photographs of the people we spoke to and places we visited, because we hoped to organize an exhibition at its end. A link to Anoop's work is here. Arati Kumar-Rao is an independent environmental photographer & journalist documenting effects of landuse change on lives, livelihoods, species, and landscapes. Her most recent work is here.
We will show the photo exhibition in a few other locations across Bengaluru in the early months of 2016, starting in January at the INSEE conference and the Kaikondrahalli lake festival.
Saraswathamma—Bhattarahalli Lake
Photo: Arati Kumar-Rao
Saraswathamma is "over 30 years old" and was born at Bhattarahalli Lake. Back in the day, she and her neighbors enjoyed eating fish from the lake, but today the lake is so polluted she does not dare to touch its fish. She receives Rs.24 for each litre of milk her three cows produce. Her cooking takes place on a kerosene stove, until she runs out of fuel that she receives in her supply of monthly ration, which usually happens after 15 days. She copes by collecting firewood from cut road side trees, or by foraging from her surroundings. Soon she will need to rethink her livelihood strategies, as a demolition order demands her to leave her home ground for rehabilitation elsewhere.
Rajamma—Madivala Lake
Rajamma has been living at Madivala Lake for over 20 years. Herding cattle runs in his family, and a year and a half ago, they decided to get four cows and four calves, which provide them with an income from the sale of milk and curd.
Their house is located right at an open drain with an immensely pungent stench. The land bridge that used to connect the settlement to the lake bund has been destroyed after a murder incident.
Today, Rajamma crosses the drain via a makeshift bamboo bridge to take her cattle out for grazing. Restricted access to the lake also complicates the collection of wild soppu (leafy greens) to cook green curry, which the family used to do two to three times a week in the rainy season. Buying soppu costs Rs.15.
Living on the edge—Madivala Lake
Photo: Anoop Bhaskar
A large open drain, several meters wide, flows parallel to the eastern shore of Madivala Lake. From afar, the drain appears to be a nice little creek, but that illusion is ripped apart as soon as one moves closer: the stench is unbearable. Dozens of people live right above this open sewer and, on top of the obvious health risks, have to deal with the daily fear that their children may slip and drown in the muck.
Dhobi Ghat—Madivala Lake
For decades, Madivala has a working Dhobi Ghat. Dhobis (launderers) washed their loads in a canal next to the lake until about 20 years ago, when the water became too polluted and they resorted to bore well water. The canal turned into a bubbling and reeking sewage drain, which is an eyesore for the entire Dhobi Ghat. Concurrently, the disappearance of open lands and grazing fields has led their donkeys to the garbage dump in search of food. After so many years, their deteriorating environment has made the dhobis lose sight of a bright future.
Patchwork—Madivala Lake
The Dhobi Ghat cannot accommodate everyone, so some launderers enter the lake to wash their clothes. After washing, the laundry is left to dry on the lake bund that turns into an elaborate patchwork of jeans, shirts and towels. People, bikes and cycles move in between the little islands of clothing as if it is the most natural thing in the world.
With no other place to go, this daily sight will probably continue to exist. Yet, they are always in danger of being moved due to increased accessibility restrictions.
Stepping stones—Madivala Lake
A man carries his load over the outflow of Madivala Lake. The stone slabs he uses to cross the water serve another purpose in the morning, when a group of launderers gathers here. In the evening, these shallow waters are used by children to bathe, play and catch small fish.
Watchman—Madivala Lake
Photo: Marthe Derkzen.
The watchman of the fishermen's hut at Madivala Lake makes broomsticks from the veins of coconut leaves he collects nearby. He lost his leg after a bus accident. Every day, contract fishermen head out in their coracle boats to fish in the lake and sell their catch in Madivala Park. If the early morning yield is not sufficient, they head back out until lunch. This year's pelican presence is a sign of fish abundance in Madivala Lake.
Narayanaswamy—Madivala Lake
When he was younger, Narayanaswamy and his father would fish in Madivala Lake.
Now that all fishing has become contracted, Narayanaswamy can only fish outside of official lake borders, which has led to a tradition of fishing in the canal northeast of the lake.
This fishing technique can be observed only a few times a year, when the canal at the lake outflow fills with water.
Fishermen—Madivala Lake
Photo by: Anoop Bhaskar
The only remaining non-contracted fishing at Madivala Lake is a collaborative effort by a group of men who build a structure of nets, mud and dams made of coconut trunks to create ponds that ensure that the fish cannot escape and grow big. After some weeks or months, men organize themselves and start emptying the ponds with buckets, removing weeds, locating the fish hiding in the mud and catching them by hand—sometimes slinging a water snake over their shoulders. The catch is divided among them, while the exciting event entertains dozens of neighbors and passersby.
MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
Raichur Colony—Vibhutipura Lake
These children live in a settlement of blue tarpaulin shacks northeast of Vibhutipura Lake. Together with their families, they migrated from rural Karnataka to Bengaluru city, fleeing the drought. Here, their fathers work as construction laborers in apartments, while their mothers work as domestic help. Their houses do not have electricity or toilets. On days when they have no water supply, they wash their clothes and vessels in the lake outflow, which is not fenced off like the rest of the lake. They cook on firewood but cannot grow their own vegetables because the land they live on is not their land. And they do not know where they will be living at the start of next school year.
Tarpaulin shacks at Rachenahalli Lake
Photo: Marthe Derkzen
Jalalbe—Puttenahalli Lake
Jalalbe, age 14, was born near Puttenahalli Lake after her parents moved from Gulbarga to Bengaluru. The family of six lives in a single room that lacks basic amenities; she lights a lamp every evening and cooks rice on a wood fueled stove in front of the house. Water is fetched from construction sites. Twice a year, they replace the coconut leaves on their roof to prevent it from leaking. Coconut leaves are more water resistant than tarpaulin. On the way back from school, Jalalbe walks along the lake and enjoys the view, birds and fish. She is, however, afraid of the police and security that guard the road, carrying long sticks. At night, she never goes anywhere near the lake. In her ideal world, there would be more nature to compensate for the noise, buildings and roads that surround her at present.
FROM WILD FOOD AND FRUIT GROVES TO RECREATION AND GARDENS
Vibhutipura Lake
Vibhutipura Lake used to be larger, and would flood after heavy rains. Long-time residents remember how brick factory laborers would drink lake water during their lunch breaks, and how they themselves crossed finger millet fields on their way to school. But the most rewarding trips were eastbound to the guava groves behind the paddy fields at the lake's outflow. Today, the lake's floodplains are encroached on by settlements, and cows are the only ones to enrich their diets at the lake. After the lake was fenced and cleaned up, it has also seen a new set of visitors: joggers and walkers from surrounding apartments and offices.
Margaret Mary—Vibhutipura Lake
Margaret Mary, age 59, was born near Vibhutipura Lake and still sells spices in the neighbourhood.
In her memory, the area was like a village, where nobody would be out on the streets after 6 p.m. Long gone are the times that she used the lake for domestic purposes.
Nowadays, the aesthetic and recreational benefits are the most important features of the lake for her.
Nevertheless, she feels spiritually connected to the lake, and relates the lake to her everyday happiness.
Pushpamma—Puttenahalli Lake
Pushpamma lives with her children at Puttenahalli Lake, where she buried her husband at its eastern side.
For her work as a street sweeper, she collects long grass and reeds to make broomsticks. She did not collect the huge pile of firewood next to her house: she says it is hard to find firewood now that the groves around the lake have disappeared, and she has aged.
Her ability to collect healthy wild soppu (leafy greens) has diminished since the lake became fenced. Instead, she has planted a home garden with banana trees, sweet potato, tulsi, pumpkin, chili and more.
Urban representations—Bhattarahalli Lake
Bengaluru's lakes are small-scale representations of the city and its main challenges: a mix of the urban poor, middle-class, and elite, of urban expansion, encroachment, privatization, pollution, ecological degradation, traditional and modern uses, land disputes, and so on. This reflection on Bhattarahalli Lake's surface shows the rise of a 38-storey lake view apartment next to a soon-to-disappear slum settlement with its coconut, fruit and drumstick trees. In the foreground are the remainders of an immersed Ganesha idol amidst the nutrient-hungry water weeds that are choking so many of this city's lakes.
Ashwathamma—Puttenahalli Lake
Ashwathamma is a very active citizen of the low income community living adjacent to Puttenahalli Lake. Her knowledge of ecological and geographical changes in the landscape around the lake is formidable. She has been a key member in organizing the community to fight for stay orders against eviction. She poses the question: why are there different laws for the ministers living in wealthy neighborhoods than for us?
Three girls—Bhattarahalli Lake
These three girls spend evenings playing with their friends in the lanes of Bhattarahalli Lake's settlement. They grow up living at its waterfront. What are the chances that they will continue to see their lake once it is cleaned up and turned into a neat looking park?
The underlying research for this project was carried out between May and October 2015 by Marthe Derkzen from VU University Amsterdam in collaboration with Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli from the Sustainability initiative at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. The project received financial support from an USAID PEER grant to ATREE (Ashoka trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment).
Marthe Derkzen
Marthe Derkzen is a researcher and teacher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She works on green and healthy cities, always from a socio-environmental justice perspective.
Marthe Derkzen is a researcher and teacher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She works on green and healthy cities, always from a socio-environmental justice perspective. Marthe is currently based in Arnhem/Nijmegen where she works with bottom-up initiatives, residents, and the municipality to build healthy, climate proof neighborhoods. Her interest is in participation, citizen science, and art-science collaborations. View all posts by Marthe Derkzen →
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Marthe Derkzen says:
Thanks Johan!
I saw your recent publication in AMBIO – great work, congrats! I was wondering if you are familiar with Veena Srinivasan's work on the lakes? She got appointed a chair with Utrecht University and part of her work is on citizen science around Bangalore's lakes.
Will you be at the Summit? Would be lovely to hear what you're up to.
Johan Enqvist says:
This is really beautiful, Marthe! So nice to read the different stories, adding a lot of depth to my own visits to Bengaluru's lakes. I agree that many of the city's broader challenges are reflected in the events happening in and around these lakes – which is also why it's so important that the stories of less affluent and/or more vulnerable people are told.
Also, Arathi and Anoop, you have created very beautiful portraits to go along with these stories. Great job!
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Apple's top-of-the-linenotebook also features two high-speed Thunderbolt ports, USB 3.0 connections, a dedicated HDMI port, and a built-in SD card reader. The 2.3-gigahertz model with 256 gigabytes of flash storage has a suggested price of $2,199, while the 2.6 gigahertz model with 512 gigabytes of flash storage runs $2,799.
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Oh my God, that is such a lustworthy computer.
Oh my God, I am such a nerd.
And where is the promised Thunderbolt-Firewire adapter? I need one.
Is there an official statement from apple, when the new adapter will be available?
"Apple is doomed. The demand for their latest and greatest computer is dropping".
Is it not possible to head to a store for a pick up?
It's odd how something so trivial can take them so long to get to market.
I'm still waiting for mine, it's only been (just) 3 weeks, I ordered the 2.6 with 16gb of ram....can't wait!!!
It is a very nice computer, with some outstanding aspects. It has a great screen, and considering the form factor, it has a lot of power.
The price is high if one looks at the power/$ ratio, but the other aspects are good enough that if one really wants one, it is not a bad choice. Light, pretty, great screen, enough power for most uses - all are reasonable aspects for choosing the machine over other choices.
The price is high? Fine. Feel free to show another comparable computer of comparable quality and performance that costs less. I'll wait.
It's clear from his post that he's only considering generic aspects like the CPU and/or GPU for his comparison. Apple has always far ahead in areas that most can't comprehend but they aren't easily quantified on a spec sheet.
I was pleasantly surprised they had them on the shelf at our Tampa Apple Store when i was there last week but that's only of use if one didn't want a BTO version obviously.
What's our bet on when these will ship with Mountain Lion?
If I order one now, do you think it will arrive with the new OS?
You didn't go with a larger SSD? The cost is horrible though I know. That's what stopped me. If a 750 gig SSD was affordable (or TB even better) I'd have jumped or even if it were simple to upgrade the SSD. I'm still hoping that will be made affordable as return to Apple soon. I understand Apple uses very special SSD technology and your NEWegg special is sadly not wise at present. Which has made me also hold back on a new standard MBP which I considered as a self upgrade for more SSD. Strange times we live in ... But fun.
Wish of the day ... iPads had a built in algorithm to detect b,c,n etc used instead of space bar accidentally and replace with space.
I find it incredible that Apple can't keep up with demand for a $3,000-$4,000 laptop. Either they prefer to see a moderate shipping delay for marketing purposes, or a lot of people are buying these things.
Even if someone isn't bright enough to consider anything but the specs it's impossible to say this is overpriced.
Pretty good odds at this stage not that it matters, I would be a free upgrade even if it arrived with Lion.
I was talking about power/$. Reread my post and maybe then you will understand what was communicated to the readers with average comprhension.
It's clear from his post that he's only considering generic aspects like the CPU and/or GPU for his comparison. Apple has always far ahead in areas that ... aren't easily quantified on a spec sheet.
We have a winner. Give that man a cigar!
"The price is high if one looks at the power/$ ratio, but the other aspects are good enough that if one really wants one, it is not a bad choice. Light, pretty, great screen, enough power for most uses - all are reasonable aspects for choosing the machine over other choices."
'Power' is a hard thing to quantify these days though. How do you take Retina display into account for example or lightning fast boot times?
Soli is likely able to explain it in terms you are likely to understand. Weight? Does that fit the topic of power/$ ratio?


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One of the things I designed and built 20+ years ago was a middleware layer that took transactions, accounts and products, (TAP) and distributed them on a broadcast basis, so receivers subscribed to required data, and published any and all events they generated.
This middleware layer is still in place today in the bank.
It's use meant you could build a system with a subscriber/publisher pair. The subscriber would fulfil the data based on a subscription, with a set of simple rules. And the new system would publish events it created for other subscribers to use.
Tackling the core data for an investment bank, and making it a service rather than a repeated chore, removes the risk of development, reduces system build overhead, removes reconciliation gaps and simplifies the entire technology management process.
Investment Banking is a simple business. Whether transacting simple cash products or complex structured products, all core transactions are made of three items, accounts, products and current value. Even the value is transient, and needs to be derived from the product.
Positions are generated from the cumulative effects of transactions, and can have both securities and cash postings against a position, which are just events.
Once you define the elements of each product, at a base model level, then re-use that same product across all systems. Don't repeat the product store, or reproduce it elsewhere. Centralise it, manage it once, distribute it.
Ideally for the market based products (Equities, Bonds, Listed Derivatives), take a market feed. Don't setup and manage market products in-house. Take them from the market, centralise them, distribute internally.
For accounts, whether external clients, or internal books, these should also be centralised, managed once, and distributed.
In todays tougher regulatory controls, KYC is now critical. (It always was but now you get fined if you don't deal with it !!!).
Spreading accounts over multiple systems, all manually input directly into the system, even partially is just asking for trouble. Someone will make a mistake, and you will have clients on front-end systems you shouldn't be trading with, but you are….. So fix the problem, before you get fined, and then have to fix the problem.
Having sorted a single source of Client data, with credit limits, KYC flags, tradable product mappings, market name maps, entity structures, … – feed this to all your systems.
Don't get confused – you don't need to sort CRM out in this process. The moment you cross that line, there is a whole different set of issues. BUT your core data should be the source of client data to your CRM, and only clients fed from this should be in the CRM, and talked to on behalf of the bank.
The old adage of "prospects are not clients" no longer applies. Trying to sell something to someone makes them a client, even if they don't buy it. You are still having a market interaction, and your regulator will still want to know why you didn't know he was on a blacklist !!!
Internal Books are just client accounts, they are internal client accounts. And should be marked as such. And treated as such. Generating profit by client, can show you profit by internal client too. And this is useful information. Having escalation for unmatched positions on clients, applies as much to internal books, and critical information. So treat "books" as clients. Have one book structure across the whole firm, and centralise it, manage it once, distribute it.
Having sorted your core data, transactions are just a combination of two accounts, one or more products, a trade owner (often driven off the product), a sales owner (often driven off the client), and a current value.
Note the value of the transaction as "done" is done. But the value of the open positions generated by one or more transactions will change in value, and risk will then change with that value.
For cash positions, such as Equities or Bonds, the value will change based on market value, mark-to-market. But the open positions will also change in value due to market events, fed from your central source of market events, based off your product database. Dividends, Coupons, Margin Calls, … will change the value of a position. (Note a position is the result of a series of one or more transactions).
More complex products, which are made of a number of underlying products, have a value derived from the current value of those underlying products, and often a cash projection against those products. Same principals apply though.
Where the process gets too bogged down is in trying to define the ultimate data model for this. Don't.
Define what you know, and leave flexibility for what you don't. Spending months on every variation of every product, account, entity, etc, just delays the process. Anyone having worked in a bank for 10+ years, should be able to define the main components of client, product, transactions, positions, …. So use the experience, and take that as the starting data model.
There is no silver bullet, and all the tech buzzwords don't solve the issue that there are transactions made of accounts (clients, books), and products (securities, structures) that create events (booking, settlement, margin call, payment….).
This is not rocket science. We are not saving lives, or getting to the moon, we are moving dollars from A to B. So simplify the data, and clean up the reconciliations, reporting, P&L accuracy, risk values etc.
Then go to the pub.


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C3 Presents "Slanza", coming soon to an album near you!
An exciting new project that I'm proud to be part of, C3 is comprised of about half a dozen NYU students, most of us music majors. A couple friends of mine who are also in the composition program wrote a chart and we read it down in one of the larger practice rooms at NYU. They then got the desire to record it and we were able to have "Slanza" recorded at Grand Street Recording in Brooklyn.
"Slanza" will the first part of an album we'll be releasing sometime in the spring of 2017. Check out the C3 Facebook page and website for new songs and updates. In the meantime, check out "Slanza" below. Enjoy!


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Are "Useful Hymns" Useful?
I may have mentioned, a couple hundred times, that I've been working on a book of (mostly) original hymns titled Useful Hymns. Well, it's out now. You can buy it on Lulu, 20% off the general distribution price, which in my opinion is a decent deal. But I would love to get some intelligent reviews (not to mention sales) of this book, which represents the work of my entire adult life so far - more than 25 years of hymn-writing, during which I have also spent a good bit of time studying hymns and hymnals, performing hymns as an organist, choir director, and singer, and trying to use hymns for the edification and instruction of my congregation as a pastor.
A few days ago, I bloviated at length about what makes a hymn useful. Now the question is, what makes me think my hymns are useful?
I'm going to start by imposing a gag rule on myself about criticizing specific worship songs that I consider useless, or not very useful. Let my record as an obnoxious critic of "tacky hymns" stand for itself (or see the thread by that name on this very blog). Suffice it to say, not all hymns meet the standard of usefulness that I proposed in this post. I think there is a crop of essentially useless but highly overrated worship songs circulating in many church bodies these days, and I think it is doing great harm to the health of the church as a whole. Also, I don't think this mediocre hymnody is doing much to help individual Christians in their struggle to live worshipful lives. What I have tried to do in this book is demonstrate that it is possible for contemporary hymns to meet that high standard of usefulness.
I do not claim that all of my efforts have been equally or completely successful on all levels. I'm hard to satisfy, and I'm not deeply impressed with some of them. I recognize there is some unevenness in quality there, partly unavoidable because they were written over so many years, during which I sharpened my ideas and polished my skills. And there are some relatively recent poems or tunes that I know aren't brilliant, because nobody can be brilliant every day. Sometimes I set myself very ambitious challenges, and some of those challenges bore really exciting and surprising fruit - but some of them got the better of me, in this or that detail, and there was only so much I could do later to buff the dings and scratches out of my less inspired attempts.
I also do not claim I'm the only hymn-writer creating quality stuff. I am plugged into a network of fine hymn-writers and composers, and some of them contributed to this book - a text here (to my original tune), a tune there (written for one of my texts). There are others I would be honored to collaborate with. Maybe I will get the chance as I work on my next volume, which I have already started. Its working title is Edifying Hymns.
So, to the purpose: Useful Hymns - the full title goes on to add, "for worship, prayer, and instruction in the Lutheran church, school, and home" - is simply my attempt to supply hymns for various practical uses in the life of the Lutheran congregation, family, and individual; hymns that focus on Christ, glorify God, teach and confess the faith once delivered to the saints, and direct troubled and afflicted hearts to where God has really promised to be; to frame prayers that express the real needs of struggling Christians; to provide help in the kinds of situations about which someone, sometime, must certainly have wondered why there isn't a good hymn to address it.
What's in the book?
In Useful Hymns, there are:
Two "dedication" hymns, one of which more or less outlines my spiel about what makes a hymn useful;
Three overarching hymns for entire seasons of the church year;
19 hymns for feasts of the church year;
58 hymns for the Sundays of the church year, on which I will say more in a bit;
Five "liturgical hymns," ditto;
25 "catechetical hymns," ditto;
15 "scriptural meditation" hymns, commenting on or paraphrasing biblical topics or passages;
nine "church and ministry" hymns, including a musical mission statement, a stewardship hymn, a hymn for calling a pastor, and a wedding hymn;
18 "heroes of the faith" hymns, relating key people in the Bible to aspects of Christian discipleship;
31 "comfort and encouragement" hymns, which I'll get back to in a bit;
13 "care of the community" hymns, ditto;
three hymns for children;
nine translated hymns; and
12 hymn texts by other writers, to which I contributed original tunes.
Since when are there 58 Sundays of the church year?
There aren't, in any given year, when there are only 52 weeks, give or take. Nevertheless, this section has a hymn based on the readings for every Sunday in the historic one-year lectionary, plus a bonus hymn for Trinity Sunday. Because the date of Easter varies from year to year, the number of Sundays after Epiphany and Trinity goes up and down in contrary motion. So there have to be extra hymns to allow the stretching and shrinking of these two variable seasons.
What's useful about a hymn for every whatnot of the church year?
No part of the worship service, in a liturgical congregation, is more dull and pointless than the line of boilerplate in which the officiant tells you what Sunday it is on the church calendar. "The first lesson for this 14th Sunday after Trinity is..." Who cares? What makes this cycle interesting, however, is the growing familiarity of many of the Bible passages that come around year after year, each with a distinctive message that would be helpful to Christians in their walk of faith, if only someone would explain it to them.
I made every effort in this group of hymns (as well as the section on feasts of the church year) to get right to the point of each Sunday's or feast day's lessons - including the introit, epistle, and gospel - in the hope that, even if the sermon loses folks in ill-applied anecdotes and confusing analogies, they will still take away something that will help that Sunday, any given year, contribute to their spiritual growth.
What's so useful about "liturgical" hymns?
Every worship service has a beginning and an ending. When you can't think of a hymn to open or close worship in a way that stresses the specific theme of that day's message, the "Hymn to Enter" or "Hymn to Depart" might help - and it might even be useful for teaching a healthful attitude about entering and leaving worship. In between are paraphrases of the widely known, ancient Christian worship songs Te Deum, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis, traditionally used during Matins and Vespers (morning and evening prayer services). I don't consider my paraphrases a worthy substitute for the free-verse originals. But they might be useful alternatives for folks who have difficulty with chant.
What gives with "catechetical" hymns?
Catechesis means doctrinal instruction, or formation in the faith (two ways of saying the same thing). The hymns in this section of the book paraphrase, and explore in detail, key topics of historic Lutheran catechesis: the 10 commandments, the creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the efficacious means of grace (the word of Christ, the confession and forgiveness of sins, the Lord's Supper, and baptism). These hymns provide a musical reinforcement for the starting point of a Christian's lifelong process of learning the faith.
Why is there one hymn for each of the 10 commandments?
Long story short, I was interested in writing them, so I wrote them. In terms of the distinction between Law and Gospel (look it up), I'm aware the commandments are law, law, law, telling us what to do (or not to do), accusing us of sin, and threatening us with the terrible punishments we deserve for not keeping it. But the commandments can also be considered in light of (a) the law Christ perfectly fulfilled on our behalf; (b) the law under which He suffered and died as our substitute; (c) how violators of the law, like us, carried out on Him God's judgment against our sin - so that he suffered not only for man's transgression, but by means of it; and (d) the magnitude of the debt God has forgiven us for Jesus' sake. In short, the law can be considered in the light of a description of Jesus and what He has done for us, and also as a description of what He is now transforming us into, as His new creation. Still law (third use), not to be confused with gospel. But with eyes fixed on Christ, each commandment can open up a different, useful way to consider the gospel.
Is this "heroes of the faith" stuff saint worship, or what?
It's what. The difficulty with writing useful hymns around the career of a biblical character is that there are so many ways it can go wrong. It can paint the saint in unnaturally rosy hues. It can angle toward moralism. It can allegorize and spiritualize everything to the point where one can happily sing it without taking any position on the historical reality of the person or events in the story. It can lead to goofy applications and promote speculative theories and unverified rumors. Or it can just be a verse synopsis of the high points of the person's life, with no point whatsoever. The challenge I took on with this section - with more success at some points than at others - was to avoid all these traps and provide examples of "heroes of the faith" hymns that actually focus on Christ, while using each biblical character as an example to illuminate a topic useful for Christians' growth in the faith.
There were a couple of the "summary of the guy's whole career" type of hymn, I'm afraid. A couple of them were originally keyed to a book-by-book Bible study, a Lenten midweek sermon series, or a Vacation Bible School program. Some of them are pretty long, but only a few selected stanzas may be useful when a character or group of characters comes up in Bible class.
What kind of "comfort and encouragement" does this book have?
Lots of kinds - as many as I could think of, while I was planning the book, as well as some that popped up spontaneously and struck me as being needed at the moment. Dying, death, and grieving lead off this section with seven solid hymns, including one praying for what comfort can be had when a loved one dies without much evidence of saving faith. Don't jump down my throat with your "you can't give the family any hope for their loved one" shtick. Read the hymn and see what I mean. These hymns might help you mourn with a more hopeful heart, or might teach you to be more useful to someone else who is mourning. They might also help you as you face death yourself.
Besides death-related hymns, the "comfort and encouragement" section includes hymns about how to pray, prayers for patience and stronger faith, pleas for help fighting temptation, a confession of hunger and thirst for the sacrament, another stewardship hymn, hymns for spiritual warfare and the end times, a hymn about angels, and a joyful hymn about the freedom of the gospel.
What topics does "care of the community" cover?
This little section boasts some of the topics for which good, edifying hymns were most desperately needed: hymns for dealing with mental illness and physical disability, hymns for responding to disasters and political disturbances, prayers about labor and agriculture, travel and family strife, persecution and division within the church. It concludes with hymns for courage and a cheerful heart.
Throughout the book, there are useful surprises, such as a Christmas hymn that honors the life of the unborn, a children's "baptismal birthday" song with a tune that cleverly inverts the "Happy Birthday" song, a "feeding of the 4,000" hymn that makes godly use of a running joke about math, a prayer for faithful youth, a thoughtful look at the scandal of the cross, a confession of sins that applies repentance "head and shoulders, knees and toes" style, and a look at the 12 apostles that shrinks back from psycho-analytical canards and puts the focus again where it belongs, on Jesus. There are hymns for the weak in faith and those tormented by guilt and temptation, hymns that lift up the downhearted and that clear up difficult-to-understand Bible stories, hymns that bring all-too-familiar stories of Jesus' parables and miracles home to where Christian families and congregations can best use them.
All right, wrap this up. What else do I get in this book?
There are several hymns that I translated, completely or in part, from German to English. There are also a handful or two of hymns by other writers (and in some cases, translators), set to original tunes that I wrote for them. Two of the tunes I am most proud of are the ones I wrote for Richard Wilbur's Christmas hymn "A Stable Lamp Is Lighted" and Martin Franzmann's "O Kingly Love," both used by permission of their copyright holders.
Apart from these numbers, U.H. comprises 201 original hymn texts that I wrote between about 1992 and this year. Most of the older texts have been significantly revised from their original form. Here is the table of contents, which lists the topics of the hymns in order.
Each hymn text is headed by one or two hymn-tunes, melody only. I haven't counted the original tunes I wrote to go with these hymns. A few original tunes were graciously contributed by other contemporary composers. Many of the hymns are set to historic hymn-tunes from a variety of styles and traditions, public-domain tunes that I think deserve another chance to be better known in the Lutheran church. Some hymns have two choices of tune, but a metrical index is provided to allow users to choose a tune they like better. Several tunes are used more than once in the book, but none is used more than twice. (EDIT: I might have been mistaken about that.)
In an appendix at the end of the book, I include chorale harmonizations or keyboard arrangements of all the tunes in the book. I composed the arrangements of all my original tunes, several existing hymn tunes, and a couple of the original tunes contributed by my contemporaries. A few of the hymn-tunes have more than one arrangement available. This appendix adds considerably to the thickness of the book, which finally weighs in at 508 pages. I am considering also publishing a spiral-bound "Hymn Arrangements Edition," with the appendix material blown up to letter-size pages that will lie open flat against a music rack. This would be helpful to pianists and organists who want to play the music.
Besides the metrical index, the book also has a table of contents (listing the titles, or topics, of the hymn in order, with hymn numbers and page references), a first-line index, and an alphabetical index of tune names. The latter two both include a little information about the provenance of the texts and tunes. More complete author and composer credits are listed within the body of the hymn-book.
Posted by RobbieFish at 11:13 PM
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Cet article recense les pratiques inscrites au patrimoine culturel immatériel au Viêt Nam.

Statistiques
Le Viêt Nam ratifie la convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel le . La première pratique protégée est inscrite en 2008.

En 2022, le Viêt Nam compte 15 éléments inscrits au patrimoine culturel immatériel, 13 sur la liste représentative et 2 sur la nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente.

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L'élément suivant est inscrit sur la liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité :

Patrimoine immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente
Le Viêt Nam compte 2 éléments listés sur la liste du patrimoine immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente :

Registre des meilleures pratiques de sauvegarde
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