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VIDEO | Meet the new owner of Slesar Glass in West Bend
January 11, 2021 – West Bend, WI – After seven decades in business Paul Slesar, a second-generation owner, sold the glass shop founded in 1949 by his uncle Joe and father Frank. Welcome new owner of Slesar Glass, 115 N. Sixth Avenue, Joshua Haas.
Haas lives in Fredonia with his wife Alyssa and daughter Leah. Haas owns Door Professionals, a garage door company that's currently relocating from Waukesha to Menomonee Falls. "I'm just really excited to be here," he said. "It is a good fit with this business as we do steel and metal garage doors and now, we'll be adding more glass work."
Haas comes from a family business background in central Wisconsin. "My grandpa William started a lumber company, Haas Builders Supply Inc., in 1973. My dad, Jere, purchased it in 1999 and that is still in the family," he said.
A 2006 graduate of Lincoln High School, Haas went to North Dakota State for a couple years and graduated from UW-Stevens Point.
April 2020 was a busy month for Haas as his daughter was born and he was elected as a Village Trustee in Fredonia and the District 2 Supervisor on the Ozaukee County Board.
"The Slesar family is a great, we have a wonderful team and phenomenal staff and we will offer more to our customers adding a taste of something new with the garage doors as well," Haas said. "We're extremely excited to be in this community and grateful for the customers we have."
Paul Slesar said he will hang around for a while to ensure a smooth transition.
The hours of business will remain the same at Slesar Glass and so will the name.
Click HERE to read more about Paul Slesar and his decision to sell the company.
Joshua Haas
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10th ANNIVERSARY EURO-MEDITERRANEAN SUMMIT: 27 and 28 November 2005
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José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission: "Shared challenges, shared futures: Taking the neighbourhood policy forward", European Neighbourhood Policy Conference, Brussels, 3rd September 2007
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Opening Speech, European Neighbourhood Policy Conference, Brussels, 3rd September 2007
"...during 2007 we will hold Euromed seminars on the sensitive and associated areas of 'the role of the media in preventing incitement to terrorism' and also 'how to ensure respect for human rights in the fight against terrorism.' We will also look at human security issues and co-operation in the area of elections." Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, in Tampere speech
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"European Neighbourhood Policy - State of Play"
"Strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy - Speaking Points" [Press Conference]
Brussels, 4 December 2006
Ms. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy: "Intervention at Plenary Session of EuroMed Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting", EuroMed Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting, Tampere, Finland, 28 November 2006
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Time to deliver, COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
on the preparation of the Tampere Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Affairs Ministers Conference (27-28 November 2006)
Ms. Margot Wallström, Vice President of the European Union responsible for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy: "The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership", Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, Cairo, 14th March 2005
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP: A work programme to meet the challenges of the next five years, Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament
Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External Relations & European Neighbourhood Policy Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Strasbourg, 23rd February 2005
Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External Relations & European Neighbourhood Policy Speech to Political Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, European Parliament Brussels, 25th January 2005
Draft Statute of the Euromed Foundation "The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures", 12/11/2004
Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission:
Europe and the Mediterranean: time for action
UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, 26/11/2002
Romano Prodi, Président de la Commission européenne :
L'Europe et la Méditerranée : venons en aux faits
UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, 26.11.2002
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Many G-Friend fans are excited about the group's first solo concert and G-Friend has released two posters promoting the event. Their concert will take place on January 6 and January 7 at Olympic Hall. The girls dress up in colors of the season and wear black, red, and white colored outfits.
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In the weeks leading up to the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston this week, exhibitors were out strutting their best stuff. Last week I got two letters in the mail that appeared to be personally addressed to me in a feminine hand (right). Both turned out to be promotions for companies exhibiting at the conference. One employs people to hand-address envelopes so that they appear to come from a friend. The other has an automated signature device that does much same thing.
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The two newest poster children in crisis management provide powerful examples of how today's brutal business climate punishes companies that take their customers for granted, and how fleeting customer loyalty can be.
Netflix stock has recently sunk below $115, down more than 60 percent from its all-time high reached just two months ago. That was when the company announced it was splitting its DVD-by-mail service off from its streaming video delivery and increasing prices by as much as 60 percent without delivering any immediate improvement in service. In effect, Netflix asked its customers to subsidize its R&D. The move came as competitor RedBox, with nearly 28,000 kiosks nationwide, was presenting serious pressure from below.
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Facebook has about as much in common with LinkedIn as a Hawaiian shirt does with a three-piece suit. Your Facebook presence needs to be fun, conversational and provocative. LinkedIn is nine-to-five and Facebook is after-hours. But that doesn't mean you can't find buyers and get serious business done.
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Facebook success demands knowing a few of the ins and outs of the platform in the community. Here are five tips.
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American Express' OPEN Forum for small-business owners routinely attracts more than 1 million unique visitors a month. The network has 200 featured contributors, mobile apps and a new social media tracking and management service for members. All for free.
At Dell Computer, 3,000 people have been certified to use social media on behalf of the company. Dell has hired professional trainers; published a four-color, how-to manual; and flown speakers in from around the country to share their wisdom.
Cisco Systems has recently taken advantage of massive layoffs of journalists to hire former BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal writers to tackle weighty topics, such as the future of the Internet and the impact of social media on education, in a revamped newsroom called The Network. A similar initiative at Intel Corp., called the Free Press, reads like a technology trade magazine. Content like that doesn't come cheap.
All these programs have one thing in common: There's no clear return on investment (ROI).
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How many times have you seen an article online that you wanted to read but didn't have the time? You can bookmark it, but that requires an Internet connection, and you don't want to clutter up your bookmarks with pages that you only plan to visit once. Also, if you're like me, you get a lot of reading done on planes, and bookmarks do you no good when you're offline. Downloading and saving pages is a chore.
Enter ReadItLater. This handy utility runs on just about every browser and mobile platform out there and enables you to save, organize and synchronize the pages you bookmark for reading on any device. The synchronization is particularly cool for travelers who want to read while disconnected. The browser edition is free. A "pro" addition for mobile devices costs a modest $2.99.
Just for Fun: Songfacts
A friend told me about this site, and I'll never forgive him for it.
Did you know that John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus" was really a collection of nonsense lyrics intended to confuse people who tried to analyze Beatles songs?
Or that Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was originally titled "In the Garden Of Eden," but someone, possibly while drunk, changed the name on a demo copy and a record company executive decided he liked the new name better?
Or that the FBI tried to track down The Kingsmen and Richard Berry, the author of "Louie Louie" over popular rumors that the song's lyrics were obscene?
All of this trivia, and much more about thousands and thousands of songs, is available at Songfacts.com. Started in 1997 as a database of song information for a few disc jockeys in Hartford, CT, the site has grown to massive size thanks to contributions from the community. The curators don't say how many songs are in the database, but I quick-counted more than 1,200 songs just beginning with the letter C.
Songfacts is a crowdsourced model. Anyone can contribute, but only information that the administrators believe to be valid makes the official Songfacts section. Anyone is free to weigh in with comments. Careful about visiting this site at work. You'll want to stay for hours.
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Parsippany, Paterson, and North Plainfield, NJ.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Rajendra S Bhagwandin, Jagtar Singh Bhatti, Sukhwinder Singh Dudrah, Balkar Singh Ghotra, Baljit Kaur, and Lorretta A Poyer.
Lived in Lombard, West Chicago, Stone Park, Chicago, Naperville, Melrose Park, Maywood, and Berkeley, IL.
Possible Associates Baljit K Singh could have been associated with Sandeep Singh Bajaj.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Surinder Singh Bal.
Lived in Parlin, Monroe Township, Fair Lawn, Paterson, and Elmwood Park, NJ.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Kulwinder S Dhaliwal, Avtar Singh Tiwana, and Jaskaran S Tiwana.
Lived in Schaumburg and Aurora, IL.
Lived in Marlborough, Waltham, and Cambridge, MA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Neeru D Peterson.
Carteret, Edison, Warren, and Iselin, NJ.
Possible Associates Baljit A Singh could have been associated with Amrinder S Alagh and Gurmeet Kaur.
Lived in Elk Grove, Sacramento, and San Jose, CA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Inderjit Sidhu and Kamaljit Singh Taunk.
Lived in Stockton and Fresno, CA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Ranjit Singh Ghotra, Manjit Singh Gill, Pritam Singh Gill, Ajit Singh Jhujj, Mohinder Singh Kanda, and Davinder Kaur.
Lived in Antelope and Elk Grove, CA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Gurdeep Singh Jhutty and Jaswinder Singh Kang.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Gurpal Singh Bassi, Daljit Kaur Johal, Ranjit Singh Johal, Parmjit Kaur Sangha, and Singh Sangha.
Lived in Moorestown, Mount Holly, and Trenton, NJ.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Navjeet Kaur.
Lived in Hicksville and Astoria, NY.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Jatinder S Parmar.
Lived in Canton, Macomb, Shelby Township, and Riverview, MI.
Possible Associates Baljit Kaur Singh could have been associated with Mohinder Singh Chahil, Jagjit Singh Grewal, Manjit Kaur, Amarjit Singh Mann, Gurmel Singh Mann, and Jagvinder Kaur Mann.
Monroe and West Monroe, LA.
Lived in Stockton, Modesto, Denair, Vallejo, Oakland, Tracy, Turlock, Merced, Campbell, and San Jose, CA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Gurdip Singh Barring, Jaspreet Kaur, Nisha Kaur Kullar, Gurpreet Singh Maan, Parneet Singh Parmar, and Balvinder Singh Thabal.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Inderjit Singh Goraya and Manjit Singh Toor.
Lived in Santa Clara, San Jose, Hayward, and Union City, CA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Pal Singh Banga and Parminder Singh Banga.
Lived in Lynnwood, Edmonds, and Everett, WA.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Harvinder Kaur, Paramjit M Kaur, Parmjit Kauk Kaur, Balbir Singh Poonia, and Jatinder Singh Poonia.
Lived in West Richland, Pasco, and Richland, WA.
South Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill, NY.
Possible Associates Baljit Singh could have been associated with Gurdeep Singh Brar, Kushwant S Cheema, Kamela T Elshabrawi, Jasvinder Singh Sandhu, and Nyiasha L Truitt.
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The problem of finding patterns in financial time series has been tackled by systematic observations, statistical analysis or the use of artificial intelligence techniques. However, the techniques are more on the discovering of patterns in data rather than understanding association relationships between the discovered patterns. As time series patterns often overlap with each other, discovering pattern associations is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we propose a method to determine whether or not association relationship exist between price patterns in financial time series. We tested the technique on stock data collected from the Hong Kong stock market in 2008. The results reveal that there is statistical evidence of association relationships between patterns on some of the Hang Seng composite stocks while there is no evidence of such relationship with the Hang Seng Index (HSI). We conclude that the price behavior of the stocks that comprises the HSI is much easier to be understood than of their index.


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Once upon a time, a grand indie power pop label (Big Deal Records) released a stupendous album (Number One Fan) by one Barely Pink in 1997. I'll try to avoid anymore superlatives and parentheses from here on in. Evoking the best of likeminded acts, including but not limited to Velvet Crush, Teenage Fanclub, and Big Star, Barely Pink also injected a mild southern vibe into an already winsome recipe. Number One Fan, (also known written as a single word Numbeonefan) linear and straightforward as it was, helped cultivate a small following for BP, but as luck would have it, after Big Deal folded the band's subsequent releases did not enjoy anything resembling wide-scale distribution. Admittedly, this Orange State quartet fell off my radar too, despite two follow-up albums, Elli's Suitcase and Last Day of Summer that never made it into my CD player. The Starduster ep was a precursor to ...Fan, featuring a smattering of tracks that made it into the album and one or two that didn't. It also boasts three unlisted cuts, including a Big Star remake.
Great EP that shows tons of promise for this band. If you can track down their later albums, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Not as good as the EP or Numberonefan, but pretty good power pop all the same.
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If you're a Mac user, don't trust the software developer so blindly and take your cybersecurity in your control, the best way to control your digital life is using the best Mac VPN. All the above-mentioned VPNs have dedicated Mac apps and are potential enough to bypass geographical restrictions, access blocked content, and keep your Mac protected without compromising your connection speed. We suggest you go with ExpressVPN rather than others.
CyberGhost is one of the most feature-rich VPNs with special configurations for different use cases, including media streaming, downloads, anti-censorship and safe browsing. Ultimately designed to optimize your connection, this turned out to be quite irrelevant when looking at the download speed, which came out lowest across all testing tools, with an average speed of 2.47 Mb per second.
The concept of online streaming has taken the digital world to the seventh sky; now you don't need to travel to the stadium to support your favorite team, it's all possible within reach of few clicks. Even streaming content in other countries also become a lot easier using one of the best VPN services; streaming Netflix US is just a click away, no matter where you're. The next thought might come which VPN is useful for streaming? Apparently one of the fastest VPN services would do wonders.
Subscription VPN Providers usually take your privacy a bit more seriously, since you're paying for the service. It's unusual for them to show ads, although whether they do logging or store data about your usage varies from company to company. They usually offer free trials so you can give the service a shot first, but remember: just because you're paying for a service doesn't mean you shouldn't do your homework.
Now coming back to the recommendation – I am a big fan of ExpressVPN as personally I have never encountered an issue while downloading torrent with this premium fast VPN connection. I download 2-3 torrent files every week, and for me the German and Florida server works like a charm. I only see a drop of 10% in speed compared to what I get without a VPN, which is a fair reduction.
Like most well-known VPN companies, IVPN supports a variety of privacy groups and causes. Pestell told us he worked with the Center for Democracy & Technology to improve trust in VPNs with a handful of transparency initiatives before they were announced. Neena Kapur of The New York Times (parent company of Wirecutter) information security team noted that IVPN's leadership transparency and its relationship with CDT were significant pluses that contributed to its trustworthiness. Pestell was also the only representative we spoke with to offer to arrange for one of our experts to audit the company's server and no-logging policies.1 We cover trust issues with VPNs at length elsewhere in this guide, but we believe that IVPN takes an active role in protecting its customers' privacy and is not a dude wearing a dolphin onesie.
VPN was not the first technology to make remote connections. Several years ago, the most common way to connect computers between multiple offices was by using a leased line. Leased lines, such as ISDN (integrated services digital network, 128 Kbps), are private network connections that a telecommunications company could lease to its customers. Leased lines provided a company with a way to expand its private network beyond its immediate geographic area. These connections form a single wide-area network (WAN) for the business. Though leased lines are reliable and secure, the leases are expensive, with costs rising as the distance between offices increases.
Logging Policy – IPVanish has been involved in a case where the company handed over user information to Homeland Security. The user was suspected of involvement in child pornography. Again, commenting on the decision of IPVanish to assist agencies in catching a suspect is an ethical gray area that I choose my readers to discuss on what they think in the comment section. However, the brand has since changed ownership with the company StackPath. The CEO of the company clearly stated that they are committed to the no logs policy. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt considering that they weren't a part of IPVanish when the case occurred.
From all our testing, we think that the best VPN out there right now is Express. It's a premium VPN service but still only costs $6.67 per month - that's about the price of a pint of beer in the UK! And for that you get the best VPN in the world, without any security concerns, with 24/7 customer support, guaranteed access to Netflix US, almost constant uptime and a 30-day money back guarantee (no questions asked) if you change your mind. Check out ExpressVPN!
Torrenting/P2P Support – IPVanish makes all torrent websites and clients accessible. There is no problem with IPVanish as far as support for P2P networking is considered. However, the fact that IPVanish is based in the US and subject to its laws makes it a poor choice if your main purpose of having a VPN is to download torrents. This is because companies have no power against agencies and if they are trying to monitor a specific user, the company would probably have no choice but to comply and leak user data. In short, do not use IPVanish for torrenting to ensure your safety.
HMA Pro (reviewed here) is slightly more complicated, but it's far from difficult to understand. If you want to select your desired virtual location click the Location mode tab, click on the location name, and then choose your preferred location from the list. Once that's done, click the slider button that says Disconnected. Once it flips to Connected, you're ready to roll.
In compulsory tunneling, the client computer places a dial-up call to a tunneling-enabled NAS at the ISP. For example, a corporation might have contracted with an ISP to deploy a nationwide set of FEPs. These FEPs can establish tunnels across the Internet to a tunnel server connected to the organization's private network, thus consolidating calls from geographically diverse locations into a single Internet connection at the organization network.
Our results were similar in other parts of the world, with IVPN ranking near the top regardless of the test, day, or time. The exception was in Asia, where its Hong Kong servers didn't perform well. At the time of our initial tests in spring of 2018, IVPN didn't offer any other servers in Asia aside from Hong Kong. Since then, the company has added locations in Singapore and Tokyo, but we haven't run a new series of standardized tests with either location.
TorGuard also lacks extra features that are nice to have, like automatically connecting to the VPN when you're on an unknown Wi-Fi network (which IVPN offers) or split-tunneling to choose which apps do and don't route through the VPN (which ExpressVPN supports). And it offers no option to automatically connect to the fastest server, a feature our top pick lacks as well. But if you have above-average knowledge of networking, you'll appreciate TorGuard's more in-depth settings pane, which allows you to add scripts or kill specific processes when the VPN disconnects—neither our top pick nor popular services like Private Internet Access allow that kind of control.
More accessibility. It can be frustrating if you've ever traveled abroad and tried to use a website only to find that it isn't available in that country. It can be especially frustrating if you were counting on using that site or sites for a business or educational venture. Thankfully there are ways of getting around that with a free VPN account. Our services will mask your location, giving you the freedom to explore and share content as you please, opening up more channels of communication and collaboration if desired.
The cause of this performance improvement was not immediately discernible. Experts I have spoken to have suggested the test cheating or data compression mentioned above. It was also suggested that, perhaps, some VPN companies had access to higher bandwidth connections in their networks. Another possibility was that our DSL line was artificially capped and that the VPN allowed our data to bypass that restriction.
Since it takes research to find out if a VPN service has a history of good or bad behavior, we've done the legwork to find the best VPN out there. In order to win our seal of approval, the service has to protect online privacy; allow you to keep anonymity; offer a good variety of locations from which to direct your traffic; offer fast, reliable performance; and provide an easy-to-use interface.
One of today's leading VPN providers and another worthy mention on our list of top 20 VPN services, PureVPN is known for its service quality and customer support. The service has 450 servers in 101 countries, allowing users to surf the Internet and use any online solution without having to reveal their IP address. This is very useful to those who want to bypass Internet censorship.
Borders still exist on the web, in the form of geographic restrictions for streaming content. The BBC iPlayer, for example, lets UK residents watch the Beeb to their heart's content. The rest of the world, not so much. But if you were to select a VPN server in the UK, your computer's IP address would appear to be the same as the server, allowing you to view the content.
PrivateVPN is a zero-logs Swedish provider. It features a firewall-based system Kill Switch and application-level kill switch, which is great. Full IPv4 and IPv6 DNS leak protection is also built-in to its client. We have been particularly impressed by PrivateVPN's high level of customer service, which even features remote installation for technophobes! A cracking 6 simultaneous devices, port forwarding, HTTPS and SOCKS5 proxies all make PrivateVPN a very enticing option for those that want to get the most out of their VPN.
And if you're looking for mobile VPNs, we've compiled the best VPNs for Android and the best VPNs for iPhone. For your local network, it might even be easier to set up a VPN on your router 4 Reasons to Set Up a VPN on Your Router (Instead of Your PC) 4 Reasons to Set Up a VPN on Your Router (Instead of Your PC) You use a VPN, but is it practical to use it on several devices when you could simply set it up on a VPN? The choice is yours. Here's what you need to know. Read More .
Price: Free TorVPN users are limited to 1GB/mo downloaded before they're cut off, and Premium accounts start at 5 EUR/mo ($7mo) for 5GB/mo and go up to 30 EUR/mo ($38/mo) for 100GB. Keep in mind they have a no-refunds policy, and that even though you ride the Tor network, they're a separate entity from the Tor Project. You can read more about their pricing and plans here.
Finally, you may want a VPN to spoof your location to download content you shouldn't have access to, but this too has limits. A VPN used to be the go-to solution to watch U.S. Netflix overseas. That changed in 2016 when Netflix opened up to almost every country on Earth. Since then, the company has invested a lot in detecting and blocking VPN users. Even people using a VPN inside their own country will be blocked by Netflix if detected.
If you're seriously concerned about government surveillance—we explain above why that should be most people's last consideration when choosing a VPN—some expert sites like privacytools.io recommend avoiding services with a corporate presence in the US or UK. Such experts warn about the "14 eyes," a creepy name for a group of countries that share intelligence info, particularly with the US. IVPN is based in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory. We don't think that makes you any worse off than a company based in Switzerland, Sweden, or anywhere else—government surveillance efforts around the world are so complicated and clandestine that few people have the commitment, skills, or technology to avoid it completely. But because Gibraltar's status has been a topic of debate in other deep dives on VPNs, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention it.
What that means in practice is that VPNs are fine for bypassing geo-blocks, for protecting your online banking and for keeping business communications free from interception. However, if you're using the internet to fight repressive regimes or to do anything else that could attract the attention of the authorities where you live, a VPN is not a magic wand that'll make you invisible.
We hope that our take on fastest VPN service providers paid off well, and we were able to share all the important details on the subject. A little recap; VPN is undoubtedly a great invention, but when it comes to delivering high speed, a lot of VPNs fails. We have discussed many essential factors above that will help you with your search of high-speed VPNs. Remember, bandwidth is your biggest enemy in VPN speed also, and to give it a headshot requires a fast secure VPN installed on your PC and device.Throughout our fast VPN speed test, we have tested a dozen of VPNs, but if we have to recommend a single VPN only, then we would suggest you go with ExpressVPN – the all-rounder VPN!
If you're using a service to route all your internet traffic through its servers, you have to be able to trust the provider. Established security companies, such as F-Secure, may have only recently come to the VPN market. It's easier to trust companies that have been around a little longer, simply because their reputation is likely to be known. But companies and products can change quickly. Today's slow VPN service that won't let you cancel your subscription could be tomorrow's poster child for excellence.


Happy St. Patrick's Day! It will feel a bit milder than yesterday with lighter northeast winds. Highs will be in the middle 60s.
A good deal of sunshine will stay with us as the new work and school week begins. A storm system will move toward us on Wednesday with the chance for more clouds and a very weak cold front expected Wednesday night. Highs will remain near our seasonal normal of 68° throughout the week.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Low: 43. Wind: E 5 mph.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny and quiet. High: 67. Wind: SE 5-10 mph.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy and seasonal. Low: 46. High: 67. Wind: S 5-10 mph.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy and seasonal. Low: 46. High: 69. Wind: NE 5-10 mph.
SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance for scattered showers and storms. Low: 53. High: 66. Wind: SE 10-15 mph.
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy and mild with a 20 percent chance for a lingering shower or thunderstorm. Low: 56. High: 73. Wind: S 10-15 mph.
MONDAY: Partly cloudy and mild. Low: 56. High: 74. Wind: SW 10 mph.
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy and mild. Low: 54. High: 70. Wind: S 10-15 mph.


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Q: In the W3 DOM specifications, what is the difference between String and DOMString So yeah, basically what is the difference between DOMString and String?

A: W3C:

For Java and ECMAScript, DOMString is bound to the String type because both languages also use UTF-16 as their encoding.

So, in terms of client-side stuff, I assume that there is no difference as DOMString is the equivalent of a String.

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DOMString is a UTF-16 String. As JavaScript already uses such strings, DOMString is mapped directly to a String.

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De Algeneters (Gyrinocheilidae) zijn een familie van straalvinnigen uit de superfamilie Cobitoidea en de orde van de karperachtigen (Cypriniformes). Tot deze familie behoort maar één geslacht, meer bepaald Gyrinocheilus.

De mond van deze vissen heeft zich ontwikkeld tot een zuigmond. Hiermee kunnen zij zich vastklampen aan voorwerpen in het snel bewegende water van hun habitat. Ze leven namelijk in snelstromende rivieren van Zuid- en Zuidoost-Azië. De vissen zitten voornamelijk in de onderste waterlagen, dicht bij de bodem, waar ze continu bezig zijn met het zoeken naar voedsel (algen).

Een unieke ontwikkeling bij deze vissen, is dat ze twee verschillende openingen bezitten in hun kieuwspleten. Langs deze opening kunnen de vissen water opnemen waar zuurstof uitgehaald wordt voor hun ademhaling. Vervolgens wordt dit water langs de tweede opening terug verwijderd. De vissen ademen dus zonder water met de mond op te nemen. Deze heeft hij namelijk te intensief nodig om zich vast te klampen aan rotsen e.d. in de zeer snelstromende rivieren waarin hij leeft.

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 Gyrinocheilus Vaillant, 1902

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Picture taken this morning. Coldest local temperature I've noted for years.
Good to see some notably cold temperatures this morning, I understand -14.4 in Braemar is the coldest min for 7 years when Holbeach in Lincolnshire saw -15.6 degrees on 11 Feb 2002.
So we have already beaten the likes of Jan 2013, Mar 2013 and the beast from the east on this front.
Also some notably low minima, under not especially cold uppers, lower for some than occurred on 1 March 2018. We managed an ice day.
Will we go lower minima wise tonight than the 2012 figure?
Met are forecasting -15c for Braemar and Aviemore tonight.
Where's the coldest maxima thread? Ours was -2.1C.
Exactly the same as here. I suspect inland parts would have been a good bit lower.
Good chance then we will beat 2012 - a preety good cold spell then! don't need a long drawn easterly or north easterly or northerly thanks to greenland or scandi heights or uppers lower than -10 degrees, just a dense cold pool and light winds in the heart of winter.
I believe Braemar reached -15.4c overnight.
possibly colder tonight before warming up a tad?
Possibly, the region is being affected by very heavy snow at present. We've just lost power.
not sure whether that's lucky or not!
The weather's much worse further inland, so can't complain to much.
Ooh very close to beating 2012 figure, just 0.2 degrees out then. Not sure tonight will deliver such low temps thanks to cloud cover, but the added extra snow tonight and forecast for light winds tomorrow night could mean Grampian region goes lower, before the cloud moves in - a very cold day in the Cairngorm area/Deeside tomorrow I suspect.
Watching winterwatch this week was great - superb timing coinciding with the coldest period of the winter so far.
This thread seems to be under the radar, yet we are experiencing a notably cold period minima wise in the Highlands, every chance might break the 15.6 degree barrier tonight? Welcome reports of current mins..
Its been a preety decent spell cold temperature wise, last few days, many places in the north at least recording a mean below 0 degrees since Tuesday.
The coldest that I have seen tonight is at Aultguish where an air temp of -10.5C has been reported. This is a traffic Scotland site rather than an official Met O site though. There are a couple of -8s around in Speyside and the Borders. Temps are dropping quickly though so some time yet to get lower before the cloud comes in, particularly further East. Here fairly near the coast we have gone from zero at teatime to minus 5 now and still dropping.
Recorded -13.0c on one of my stations in a notorious frost hollow called Duggleby in the Yorkshire Wolds last night.
Thats the lowest temperature I've ever recorded on any of my weather stations.
-6.0C in my garden is the lowest of the season but my garden faces and slopes south and the remaining snow looks like someone has tried to scrape it off. I'd expect colder nearby where there is more snow. Leeming recorded it's lowest so far at -10.8C.
Would like to know as a marker, coldest min so far Uk wise this season, don;t think we broke -15.4 degrees overnight, and coldest min for England, is it -13 degrees? Not bad going..


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Limited four CD + vinyl LP box set. Dead Man's Pop features the group's Don't Tell A Soul Album mixed as it was originally intended and expanded with previously unreleased studio and live recordings, including a session with tom waits and a complete 1989 concert. Back in 1987, Minneapolis rock and roll renegades The Replacements famously stole their Twin/Tone master tapes and threw them in the Mississippi River. A year later-while wrapping up work on their Warner Bros. Album, Don't Tell A Soul-the group absconded with a collection of their reels from Paisley Park studios. Thankfully, those tapes were spared a watery fate, and instead stashed away for decades by the band. Now they've been recovered to form the basis of The Replacements first-ever boxed set, Dead Man's Pop. Although Don't Tell A Soul ultimately became the group's best-selling effort, The Replacements were unsatisfied with the sound of the record. The box features a newly completed mix of the album by Don't Tell A Soul producer Matt Wallace (based on his 1988 Paisley Park mix); a disc of unreleased recordings (including a session with Tom Waits); plus the band's entire June 2, 1989 show at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In total, the box includes 60 tracks-58 of which have never been heard before.
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Dead Man's Pop [4CD/1LP]
Artist: The Replacements
CD - 1LP
1. Talent Show (Matt Wallace Mix)
2. I'll Be You (Matt Wallace Mix)
3. We'll Inherit The Earth (Matt Wallace Mix)
4. Achin' To Be (Matt Wallace Mix)
5. Darlin' One (Matt Wallace Mix)
6. Back To Back (Matt Wallace Mix)
7. I Won't (Matt Wallace Mix)
8. Asking Me Lies (Matt Wallace Mix)
9. They're Blind (Matt Wallace Mix)
10. Anywhere's Better Than Here (Matt Wallace Mix)
11. Rock 'n' Roll Ghost (Matt Wallace Mix)
1. Portland (Alternate Mix) [Bearsville Version]
2. Achin' To Be (Bearsville Version)
3. I'll Be You (Bearsville Version)
4. Wake Up (Alternate Mix) [Bearsville Version]
5. We'll Inherit The Earth (Bearsville Version)
6. Last Thing In The World
7. They're Blind (Bearsville Version)
8. Rock 'n' Roll Ghost (Bearsville Version)
9. Darlin' One (Bearsville Version)
10. Talent Show (Demo Version)
11. Dance On My Planet
12. We Know The Night (Alternate Outtake)
13. Ought To Get Love (Alternate Mix)
14. Gudbuy T'jane (Outtake)
15. Lowdown Monkey Blues (Feat. Tom Waits)
16. If Only You Were Lonely (Feat. Tom Waits)
17. We Know The Night (Feat. Tom Waits) [Rehearsal]
18. We Know The Night (Feat. Tom Waits) [Full Band Version]
19. I Can Help (Feat. Tom Waits)
20. Date To Church (Matt Wallace Remix)
1. Alex Chilton (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
2. Talent Show (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
3. Back To Back (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
4. I Don't Know (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
5. The Ledge (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
6. Waitress In The Sky (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
7. Anywhere's Better Than Here (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
8. Nightclub Jitters (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
9. Cruella De Ville (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
10. Achin' To Be (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
11. Asking Me Lies (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
12. Bastards Of Young (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
13. Answering Machine (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
14. Little Mascara (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
15. I'll Be You (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
1. Darlin' One (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
2. I Will Dare (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
3. Another Girl, Another Planet (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
4. I Won't (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
5. Unsatisfied (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
6. We'll Inherit The Earth (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
7. Can't Hardly Wait (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
8. Color Me Impressed (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
9. Born To Lose (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
10. Never Mind (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
11. Here Comes A Regular (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
12. Valentine (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
13. Left Of The Dial (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)
14. Black Diamond (Live At University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wi, 6/2/1989)


Re: Importance of low order reflections?
Many thanks to those who answered my original question by private email.
looking.  The resolution limit for that set is 1.5A.
Now here's my question: suppose you increase the resolution to 1.0A.
occurs to me, however, that this is not the whole story.
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Posted on: Mar 20th 2020
MONOCOLOR, Latent Space and the Fulldome Environment
An alumni of the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Beal Institute For Strategic Creativity, Isabelle's background is in research, design and film making. She joined the Derivative team in 2008 to assume the role of scouting out and writing about the growing body of work produced by artists and designers using TouchDesigner. Closely engaged with the community and its members' evolving needs and objectives, Isabelle detects early signals and trends to inform development, facilitate connections, alliances and the production of educational initiatives and community events.
It is with great pleasure that we bring you our interview with the very talented Austrian artist MONOCOLOR (Marian Essl) whose sublime audio-visual performance Latent Space impressed us to no end in Montreal, reframing and invigorating our ideas of what could be realized in the fulldome environment.
Latent Space is a work that achieves many things architecturally, spatially and acoustically but what is perhaps most persistent and lingering is this feeling that the medium has been somewhat fractured if not subverted—or as Marian aptly put it, (paraquoting) "realizing after some time how it was in fact possible to "dissolve" the physical structure of the dome to create the illusion of a space that lies beyond it".
So very well done and to point, Latent Space was recently awarded with the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival and will be presented at the festival's exhibition in Tokyo this September.
A very heartfelt congratulations Marian Essl and to our readers, enjoy!
In Latent Space fine lines weave virtual spaces around the viewers. The architecture that manifests is highly fragile — the space grows, shrinks, collapses. The acoustic dimension is also deeply spatial — slowly morphing soundscapes float around the dome, enveloping the observers in sound and image.The omnipresence of the virtual realm is transposed into the physical space of the dome to unmask the often proclaimed boundlessness of digital space. The work tests and investigates the spatial effects of the dome, which serves as a metaphor for the virtual net that always surrounds us.
Image credits Latent Space SAT performance. Photo: © Johannes Hucek
Derivative: Marian, can you tell us a bit about your background experience and the things you like to do? Tools you use, projects you work on, things that inspire and motivate you…
MONOCOLOR: I grew up in a very creative and artistic family, being always surrounded by a lot of contemporary music as well as contemporary visual art. I think both these sonic and visual stimuli during my upbringing had a huge influence on me and my work.
I used to play the piano, later played in a band and also started to produce and perform electronic music. I think my artistic practice really started to develop when I discovered analogue photography. I was very fascinated with the immediate contact you could have with the material and this was even more apparent once I started to experiment with developing my own films. I was never really interested in depicting reality, rather I was fascinated by creating abstract images using unconventional methods like experimenting with the photo chemicals.
I got more into digital approaches when I started studying media technology in 2013. These studies opened up my eyes to the huge amount of possibilities in the digital world and showed me a lot of exciting tools. Just like with photography I started to disassemble these tools to try and create something that was different than the outcome the tool was initially intended for.
Image credits Latent Space SAT performance. Photo: © Guillaume Bell
I was lucky enough to meet some very inspiring artists and mentors during that time. This was also when I realized that audiovisual and media art is the perfect way to combine all of the different interests I have developed over time - visual and sonic art, design and performing. This was a huge revelation for me and once I finished my studies in media technology I started studying Digital Arts which I am still doing today.
Right now, I would definitely consider myself an audiovisual artist. The interrelation between sound and image is at the core of my work and so I try to explore this field in both performance-based and installation-based works. I like to work as a solo artist as well as in collaborations with other artists like musicians and performers. I am really interested in building my own tools, so working with visual programming as well as electronics is at the heart of my practice.
Image credits Latent Space. Photo: © Eva Würdinger
Derivative: How did you first encounter TouchDesigner and how does it fit into your art practice? Has it changed the way you think about and make your work and if so can you give us some examples?
MONOCOLOR: I first encountered TouchDesigner back in 2014 during my studies of media technology when I was taking a course on DSP with Patrik Lechner. We were using Max/MSP as a tool to explore different techniques for digital signal processing and as a side-note he mentioned Jitter, the extension of Max that is used to create realtime graphics. I remember him saying that "Another great tool to create some really complex stuff is TouchDesigner". This was the first time I heard about Touch and when I looked it up I was very excited to see what people were making with the software.
At that time, I was mainly working with rendered material but I was very fascinated with generative realtime graphics. However, many of the tools I had encountered felt very difficult to get into and it seemed like a lot of the outcome just couldn't reach the level of complexity I was looking for. TouchDesigner seemed to be a tool that could solve these problems - the interface felt very familiar because I was already using node-based tools like Davinci Resolve and the performance and level of visual quality also convinced me. I kept it in the back of my mind for some time but I only really got into it in 2017 when I participated in a beginners workshop with Patrik that helped me to get over the first learning curve.
Working with TouchDesigner has definitely had a huge impact on the way I work. I don't think about my performances or installations as finished works, rather I see them as constantly changing processes.
When I'm working this way, I feel like I often take the role of a curator. I design a process, the process creates an outcome and based upon my artistic vision and experience I evaluate this outcome and make some changes to the process. This feedback-loop approach feels extremely natural in TouchDesigner. I feel like it has a good balance between being a very open and creative tool, yet being also able to be very technical and analytical (and stable!) when you need it to be.
Exhibited during the exhibition "#fuckreality – Positions on immersive art" at Kunstraum Niederoeste
Derivative: How did Latent Space come to be? And second part to that question is how did it evolve over the iterations over the course of a year and in different domes?
MONOCOLOR: It was actually quite serendipitous! The department of Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where I am currently studying was holding an open call among their students for an exhibition on immersive media called "#fuckreality". They were looking for works for VR, AR, mixed reality and also the fulldome. Back then I was only studying there for a few months and had never worked in the fulldome, yet I was very fascinated with the medium. At the same time I was in Berlin for the TouchDesigner summit and was participating in a workshop on fulldome techniques with Mathieu Le Sourd. There, I learned about the fundamentals of creating images for the dome in TouchDesigner. With this newfound knowledge I decided to participate in the call. I only submitted a couple of sketches and concepts, but I was lucky enough to have professors there that saw some potential in my approaches. So I continued working very intensively on the work and created a 5-minute rendered version of Latent Space that ended up being shown in the fulldome at the exhibition.
After the exhibition was over, I had the strong feeling that I didn't really exhaust the potential of the material of Latent Space. I put the work aside and thought I would revisit it some day when the opportunity presented itself. And it did! A few months later I was very lucky to be invited to do a residency at the SAT in Montreal. They were looking for live performances for the iX Symposium and Elektra Festival and so I decided to adapt Latent Space as a performance.
When I opened up the project again I realized that I had built a kind of instrument and the first iteration of the piece was only one way it could play out. So I took the same basic ideas and concepts of the piece and started to expand on them and explore them further.
When I arrived in Montreal and started working in the massive 18-meter Satosphere, I realized that due to this huge scale I had to change almost all of the fundamental parameters of the piece like scaling and speed to create the impact that I wanted to achieve. The version I ended up presenting at iX Symposium and Elektra Festival was definitely a step in the right direction but still, I feel like there is a lot of hidden potential there, so for each new performance of the piece I tend to change a lot of things to keep it fresh and exciting for me.
Image credits Latent Space Performance GUI. Photo: MONOCOLOR
Image credits Latent Space. Photo: MONOCOLOR
Derivative: In the description of Latent Space you say: "The omnipresence of the virtual realm is transposed into the physical space of the dome to unmask the often proclaimed boundlessness of digital space." Can you talk a bit more about that in relation to working in the dome?
MONOCOLOR: Nowadays all of us are constantly surrounded by invisible, all encompassing digital layers. These layers promise endless possibilities and options, yet, can also be extremely restrictive and limiting. I wanted to transport this by creating a virtual space within the fulldome that can seem very vast at times but can also feel quite claustrophobic. For me, the fulldome is the perfect space for this kind of topic since, unlike many other immersive media technologies, it is a social space where people can experience things together.
Latent Space is as much of a research project as it is an artwork. I wanted to explore what it really means to create images in this very specific space. First, I worked a lot with the actual, physical form of the dome, working with images that highlight the hemispherical shape of it.
After some time I realized that it is actually possible to somewhat "dissolve" the physical structure of the fulldome and to create the illusion of a space that lies beyond the dome.
This with the addition of having a horizon and an extension of the floor when working in a 210 degree dome like the Satosphere can create a very powerful physical effect. I think all of these things can only be achieved in the dome, so I feel like Latent Space can only exist in this space.
Derivative: Can you take us through the practical part of creating and performing this work with TouchDesigner?
MONOCOLOR: Latent space consists of two banks of three grids that are stacked on top of each other. One grid per bank is used for the rows, one for the columns and one for the particles. I can control the displacement, opacity, lighting and transform parameters for each of these grids. The idea is to create an abstract space that is constantly changing, morphing and mutating, so there is no fade to black during the performance. For me, creating a highly dynamic and fluid piece is very important. On stage, I basically blend between different states of this space to create a coherent composition in realtime.
Derivative: What was your inspiration for the sound which is beautiful and gripping all on it's own... and did the sound precede the visuals or what was your process here?
MONOCOLOR:
All of my sound work is, like my visual work procedural, so I build processes that I manipulate in real time.
I am always very interested in the tension between analogue and digital aesthetics. This is something I seek out in my visual work that is very often changing between architectural, rigid structures and organic textures. I also try to use the same approach for my sound work. I am working a lot with recordings that I then manipulate using various techniques to create sounds that almost feel synthesized, even though the basis of the it is a sample.
I wanted to keep the sonic level quite minimalistic for this work since I was aiming to create an almost hypnotic environment. Also, in a space this massive even small gestures can have a huge impact. The sound mainly consists of slowly shifting soundcapes and drones, that, like the virtual spaces I am constructing on a visual level, morph into each other. Of course, another important aspect of working with sound in the fulldome is spatialization. Creating sonic spaces in conjunction with visual spaces can be extremely powerful tool to create highly immersive works. This is also an area I want to further investigate in the future.
For Latent Space, the visual concept came first. When I knew that I wanted to work with a very restricted set of materials - lines and points - I created a set of different states of this system that all only used these two basic elements. Once I had created these building blocks, I started working on the sound. From then on I was going back and forth between sound and image. I usually like to work this way because this allows both sound and image to influence each other, since I always strive to create an audiovisual unit, rather than images that follow sound or vice versa.
Image credits MONOCOLOR Studio. Photo: MONOCOLOR
From a technical standpoint I run TouchDesigner on one machine and Ableton Live on a different one. The two computers are linked with a wired connection and communicate over OSC. The audio machine acts as the master, controlling all the sound and control data and the visual machine as the slave, meaning that I only need to interact and perform with the audio machine which clears up a lot of mental capacity on stage. I tried to create a system that is very robust and stable yet also allows for experimentation and exploration on stage. This is a very difficult balance to strike and something I definitely want to improve in the future. For the OSC controls I use LiveGrabber, which is a great set of Max for Live Devices that allow you to easily send OSC data out of Ableton. I actually haven't looked into TDAbleton yet because this approach has worked great for me so far but seeing what is possible with TDA makes me want to try it soon. Maybe for my next AV performance!
Image credits This Network shows the main level of the project. All the maps (color, alpha, displacement etc.) are being piped to the MATs (the three large Base COMPS). getting rendered, composited and finally output to the projectors.
Image credits In this network all of the OSC data from Ableton is being received, renamed and organized in this part of the network.
Image credits The geometry part of the project. The transform operations on the geometry level are being controlled here by the OSC data coming from Ableton as well as the material assignment.
Image credits Assigning the different maps (color, alpha, displacement) to the materials in this network.
Derivative: Can you talk about what is attractive to you about working in real-time, with audio and visuals at the same time and creating "immersive" experiences. And how do you find TouchDesigner to be useful in these pursuits?
MONOCOLOR: Working in realtime allows me to be very flexible. Of course, actually presenting something in realtime is not always necessary but it makes the whole process of creating feel very natural and fluid. I really love to work in a procedural way, building systems and processes that are predictable yet unpredictable at the same time.
Experimentation and happy accidents are very important and interesting to me and seem to be encouraged by the design of TouchDesigner.
The basic concept of parameter mapping, that is at the core of digital audiovisual works is so deeply embedded in the software that it is very easy to create the kind of responsiveness I want. While I don't think it is always about synchronicity (working with counterpoints can also be very interesting), having the possibility to be very tight and have a very direct connection between sound and image is very important to me.
New AV performance in the making. #generative #audiovisual #touchdesigner #mnclr
A post shared by MONOCOLOR (@mnclr) on Feb 23, 2020 at 9:19am PST
Derivative: Do you have projects in development you would like to mention here?
Monocolor: I still feel like I only scratched the surface of what's possible in the dome. I am currently working on a new fulldome performance that builds and expands on both the conceptual and aesthetic qualities of Latent Space that I hope to premiere in mid to late 2020. While the dome is great, it is also limiting in the way that you need such an elaborate technical apparatus to show the piece. AV performances for regular screens are much more versatile and adaptable to different situations and spaces.
I am also exploring more physical, sculptural works. I have been quietly working on some kinetic objects in the last years and hope to further build on this practice in the coming months.
Sonar Flux Live A/V with Kaoru Tashiro at Ars Electronica 2019, Deep Space 8K #generative #audiovisual #touchdesigner
A post shared by MONOCOLOR (@mnclr) on Sep 15, 2019 at 6:39am PDT
Derivative: What has been useful to you in learning TouchDesigner? How did you learn the software?
Monocolor: After the beginners workshop I participated in, I just started experimenting and making stuff. For me, this is the best way to learn a new tool, just trying out different things and then troubleshooting once I hit a wall. The TouchDesigner summits in Berlin and Montreal have also been a great way to learn new approaches as well as the fantastic and hugely helpful community online.
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Axel Springer is one of the leading integrated multimedia companies in the world with expansion that has reached to 34 countries, owning 230 newspapers and magazines and over 160 online offerings as well as more than 120 apps and has become Europe's largest industrial consumer for Apple. Axel Springer is also renowned for its unsurpassed corporate social responsibility that has enabled it to receive a wide range of recognition awards for its social and environmental initiatives. In early 2012, Axel Springer was active in 34 countries owning over 230 newspapers and magazines and over 160 online offerings as well as more than 120 apps.
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