Great For Restaurants, Bars, Cafe's, Coffee shops, and anyone who wants to display menus & messages onto a big screen TV, or monitor. Create menu style chalkboard slides from a fully customized easy to use application and display them on a big screen TV, or monitor for your customers to see. Create timed slides that go from one menu slide to the next, or just create one menu slide. Includes chalkboard backgrounds and fonts for a realistic chalkboard look.
Create menu style chalkboard slides from a fully customized easy to use application and display them on a big screen TV or monitor for your customers to see. Affordable Digital signage.
Display menus on certain Days, times, or dates.
Use our formatted menus or a free text menu.
Blackout the screen at closing time automatically.
PC connected to the TV is not required, but is recommended.
The most common way to setup the hardware to run this software is to have one pc that has two video, either vga or dvi, outputs for two monitors. One of these monitors will be located next to the machine like a regular pc monitor setup and this one is used to display the administrator application that manages the creation of the menu slides. The second monitor/big screen TV will display the digital chalkboard application. This second monitor can be as far as you wish. If the second monitor is within 30 feet or so you can just use a long vga cable. If you want the second monitor/TV to be much further then this can be done with the help of a simple device that we don't sell called a vga extender/ HDMI extender.
A PC connected to the TV is not required, but is recommended. If you can not connect a PC to the TV/Monitor do the following. On a PC, after starting the board app with the Start/Stop Board menu option the menu will be displayed, and a jpg image file will be placed on the PC's desktop. The jpg image filename will be the same as the Slide Name and will be overwritten on the desktop each time it is displayed. This file can be put onto a USB flash drive and inserted into most modern big screen TV's. This will allow you to display one or more menus in a slideshow without having a PC connected to the TV. Note: This approach is manual, and any changes made to the menu will require you to repeat these steps. Also the video resolution of the PC should match the resolution of the TV. 1920 x 1080 is common.


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Iphikles () ist in der griechischen Mythologie der Sohn der Alkmene. Er war der von Amphitryon gezeugte zweitgeborene, menschliche Zwillings(halb)bruder des Herakles, der von Zeus gezeugt wurde. Mit seiner Frau Automedusa hatte er einen Sohn Iolaos.

Iphikles war Teilnehmer an der Jagd auf den Kalydonischen Eber und fiel im Kampf gegen die Söhne des Hippokoon von Sparta. Alternativ dazu starb er nach einer Verwundung im Kampf gegen die Molionen in Pheneos, wo er als Heros verehrt wurde.

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Q: xmodmap shift + keycode to produce keysym There seem to be few examples for how to use xmodmap to bind a modifier + some key, to a new key.
E.g. I want to bind left Shift (keycode 50) + ` (keycode 21) to emit a grave accent character:
`
This is the normal behavior for a Norwegian keyboard, but not on a Macbook Pro (running Linux).
I'm using xev to get the keycodes, I can successfully map single key presses (with the help from another post which I cannot find) to get essential other keys, e.g. backspace and dollar sign in this manner:
keycode 134 = ISO_Level3_Shift Multi_key ISO_Level3_Shift Multi_key
keycode 21 = backslash bar

However how do I do:
keycode 50 + keycode 21 = Grave character

This is not the correct syntax but it should make what I want clear.
In general how is a modifier key like shift used correctly in the syntax? Can only modifier keys be used in combinations?
I've tried simple things such as "keycode 50 keycode 21 = A" and "keycode 50 + keycode 21 = A". ("A" is not the character I want, I'm just using it for test purposes).

A: Key chords (like Shift+\) are specified by combining one key with a set of modifiers, not by combining keys directly. So rather than "keycode 50 plus keycode 21", what you need to specify is "keycode 21 plus the Shift modifier". Only modifiers can be used in combinations. Furthermore xmodmap is somewhat limited: you need to specify all the key chords for a particular base key at the same time.
keycode 21 = backslash grave acute

The first keysym (character or function key name) after the equal sign is the one corresponding to the bare key, then comes the one corresponding to the key with Shift, then with AltGr, then with Shift+AltGr.
If you want dead keys, then change this to
keycode 21 = backslash dead_grave dead_acute

If you want a standard Norwegian layout, though, you should be able to select it in your desktop environment's configuration interface, or with XKB — setxkbmap -layout no switches to a Norwegian layout.

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Q: How can I parse info with Logstash? I have an input:
May 16 12:45:47 host-dev1 kernel: [  162.648366] wireguard: wg0: Sending keepalive packet to peer 2 (171.12.198.123:51079)

I want to parse the info as: TIMESTAMP "Sending keepalive packet to peer 2" IP:PORT
For the middle sentence I want to parse whatever is after wg0: until the first parenthesis of the port. This sentence can change to "Sending handshake initiation to peer 10" for example.
I've done
filter {
    grok {
        match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGBASE:timestap} %{GREEDYDATA:action} %{IP:peerip}:%{NUMBER:port}" }
    }
}

I need to change GREEDYDATA to something that will specifically parse the mentioned boundaries

A: Give this a try:
%{SYSLOGBASE:timestamp} \[ ?%{NUMBER:TIMESTAMP} ?\]( %{WORD}:)* %{GREEDYDATA:action} \(%{IP:peerip}:%{NUMBER:port}

Here's a breakdown:
%{SYSLOGBASE:timestamp}       - the syslog prefix
\[ ?%{NUMBER:TIMESTAMP} ?\]   - the application timestamp
( %{WORD}:)*                  - any words followed by a colon, like
                                'wg0:', zero or more times
%{GREEDYDATA:action}          - any characters ('DATA' would also work)
\(%{IP:peerip}:%{NUMBER:port} - a literal '(' followed by IP and port

The important thing in making GREEDYDATA / DATA work here is that the the boundaries (%{WORD}:  and  \() are properly defined.
You may need to vary the boundary definitions depending on what other log messages look like (specifically, whether you can rely on the colon and parenthesis at the boundaries).
It may be helpful to use a named capture group, depending on whether existing grok patterns cover your other message formats, like : (?<notColons>[^:]*) \( to specify "a colon, then a space, then any number of non-colon characters, then a space, then an open bracket".


Positioned at the heart of southern Colorado's expansive San Luis Valley and ringed by the majestic Sangre de Cristo Range's 13,000- and 14,000-foot peaks, Alamosa is home to some of Colorado's most legendary landscapes.
Curious geologic wonders, glistening alpine lakes, eye-opening mountain views — there's so many special sights to encounter via hiking trails in Alamosa and surrounding areas. Consider one of these locals' favorites.
See the largest tree in the Rio Grande National Forest and take in gorgeous viewpoints of forest-carpeted Del Norte Peak on the Cross Creek Trail. Camping is available at Cross Creek Campground, which offers access to primo fishing at Beaver Reservoir and Beaver Creek.
While you can drive up to nice glimpses of this geologic wonder created by volcanic flow more than 30 million years ago, visitors can gain closer views by hiking toward the arch. Nearby Penitente Canyon — a beloved rock-climbing destination with volcanic origins — is also worth a ramble.
This gentle stroll leads to Million Reservoir, a 4-acre gem known for its large population of rainbow trout and iridescent waters. Bring your fishing gear — there are plenty of quiet spots to arch your line.
While there aren't any designated trails within the 30-square-mile dune field, a walk in the much-adored Colorado icon is a must. Summit the Star Dune — the tallest in North America; or try the 1/4–mile Sand Sheet Loop Trail, which offers a peek at the park's lesser-known prairie ecosystem and chances to spot prairie wildflowers, pronghorns and short-horned lizards.
Situated in the South San Juan Wilderness, this trail winds through thick spruce and fir woodlands and vast meadows to Blue Lake, a placid beauty flanked by volcanic rock bluffs. For those seeking a longer trek, the route connects with the Continental Divide Trail at the lake's southern tip.
A favorite of local anglers, Elk Creek Trail follows Elk Creek from its confluence with the Conejos River to the waterway's upper reaches. Discover a wide variety of terrain, including sprawling valleys, volcanic rock cliffs and deep gorges.
Stunning panoramas of a forest-framed lake and the Continental Divide steal the show on this route, which gently climbs La Manga Creek Valley to the top of an alpine plateau. Keep your eyes peeled for elk and bighorn sheep.
A Colorado Birding Trail, this route teems with opportunities to encounter the area's feathered inhabitants, including the Western bluebird, red crossbill and pygmy nuthatch, and several species of butterflies. Start at Cathedral Campground and journey through peaceful ponderosa pine forests.
Those who complete this out-of-the-way trail in the La Garita Wilderness are rewarded with unparalleled views of the Wheeler Geologic Area, a collection of unusual rock formations carved by the elements out of volcanic tuff. Primitive camping is available less than a mile from the area; stay overnight to see the spires expose their multicolored beauty at dawn and dusk.
While this calf-burning trek features a 2,300-foot elevation gain and many switchbacks, enchanting sights of Rough Creek Waterfall and the Conjeos River Valley make the workout worthwhile. Shady camping is available on the shores of Ruybalid Lake.
Hike through conifer and aspen forests to San Francisco Lakes, which are cradled by a tranquil sub-alpine meadow and 13,209-foot Bennett Mountain (dubbed Ole Baldy by Spanish explorers). The trail is also popular with mountain bikers and sportsmen on horseback during big-game hunting season.


You will learn about this quest from the notice board in Larvik village (M18,1). Go to Freya's Temple on the north-western part of the island to receive more information. Talk with one of the priestesses there - Josta. She will suggest you meet with Einar, the man that can tell you more about the monster. He can be found in the port near Larvik village. You will learn that Morkvarg is probably a werewolf.
Go to the residence near Freya's Temple. Walk to the main gate and watch a cutscene. You won't be able to get inside via the main entrance, you must look for another way in. Walk up the stairs, get to the residence's walls and go to its center. There you will find a small table and some tracks to be found with your witcher senses. Look for footprints and then follow them. You will face few wolves on level 14 on the way. You will reach a wall with a door. However, the door will be locked, so you must look for another entrance.
By using the mechanism you can open and close specific floodgates.
Now go to the back of the residence while going across the eastern wall. You will reach a small river behind which there will be many werewolf's marks. Use the ladder in the rock to get to the higher ground. Now you must use the mechanism to open the floodgates and unlock the passage. It works in a very simple manner: you pick the gate that you want to open/close with the right lever and with the left one you perform the action itself. The currently selected floodgate is represented by a stake. Open the middle passage and go to the center of the mansion. Now go to the small building with open doors. Examine all the tracks that you will find. Morkvarg will come to you while you're be busy doing it.
After defeating the werewolf you can try to kill him. Sadly, it won't work and the enemy will only disappear. Now you must find him again. Go to the place with the switches, then further to the cave. Inside you will have to kill Morkvarg for the second time. Additionally, you will learn about a key to the building in the middle of the residence.
In some situations you will have to use the ladders in the rock.
Walk again to the mechanism. Open the right floodgate that leads to the cave. Swim there and dive. Search the room that you reached with the witcher senses. Take the key from the pile of bones. Now go to the main yard and enter the large building. Open the left door with the key and take Morkvarg's journal from the chest. Read it.
Take Morkvarg's journal from the chest.
Now you must go back to Einar who can be found in the port near the Larvik village. You will learn that he was part of Morkvarg's team and he is responsible for the curse. To undo it, take an amulet from him. You must touch the werewolf with it. During the conversation, you can also decide to fight Einar. In that case you will have to face him and his three men on level 14. Take the amulet from the body of the fallen enemy. (Important! In case of killing Einar the game blocks and it is impossible to finish the quest. Until the bug is fixed, use only the peaceful solution).
Now go back to the residence and go to the cave where you have killed the werewolf for the second time. You will have to do it again. This time you should have the possibility to touch Morkvarg with the fang.
Once you disenchant Morkvarg, you will have the choice of killing him or not. If you kill him, you will receive 85 pieces of gold once you go back to your quest giver. If you leave him be, he will tell you to go to Novigrad and take the reward from a moneylender. Josta will give you 85 pieces of gold, the moneylender will give you a sword and a diagram.
Don't forget about taking the werewolf meat from the body of defeated enemy.
This path is much shorter, but the only outcome is killing the werewolf. After you defeat Morkvarg the first time, take the werewolf meat from his body. Now go to the cave behind the place where you used the mechanism. Defeat the werewolf for the second time and, after that, talk to him and feed him with his own meat (it will be in the tab with quest items). By doing so, you will take care of him permanently and obtain the salmian brigantine armor. Go back to Josta and you will receive 85 gold pieces and the quest will end.
You will face only one rival in the final race.
Once you win all three races, go back to Svana. Talk to her and start the race. It will be neither long nor too hard, just stay on the road and watch out on the turns. For winning you will receive the best saddle (+80 to durability) and 90 crowns.
The quest will start automatically after talking to Svana (M18,3) in Larvik on the Hindarsfjall village. Go to the starting place of the race. It's located North from Fayrlund village (M14,9). Talk with the man organizing the race. The race itself is similar to other ones taking place on the continent. After winning you will receive 50 crowns and the best saddlebags (+100 to capacity).
The quest will start automatically after talking to Svana (M18,3) in Larvik on the Hindarsfjall village. Go to the starting place of the race. It's located North from Rannvaig village (M13,10). Talk with the man organizing the race. The race itself is similar to other ones taking place on the continent. After winning you will receive 80 crowns and the best horse blinders (+60 to fear limit).
The quest will start automatically after talking to Svana (M18,3) in Larvik on the Hindarsfjall village. Go North from the palisade in Kaer Muire (M14,10). Talk with the man organizing the race. The race itself is similar to other ones taking place on the continent. After winning you will receive 50 crowns and a good saddle (+60 to durability).
Before entering the cave don't forget to equip a torch. Otherwise you won't see a thing.
You will receive the quest from two warriors standing near a mine (M18,4), near the Larvik village. Talk with them and you will learn that there are monsters in the cave that must be taken care of. Enter the cave, the warriors will accompany and help you. Inside you will face ghouls on level 15, alghouls on level 14 and a devourer on level 13. Once you eliminate all the opponents, you will receive 60 gold pieces from your questgivers.


As you know, not all fats in the diet harmful. Actually, there is one kind of these fats that are highly beneficial for our health, and we usually do not consume it in sufficient quantities. These are the omega-3 fatty acids! These fats are beneficial and essential to every cell of our body, and are particularly important for heart health and brain. Among other things, they are the building blocks for hormones that regulate blood clotting, contraction and relaxation of arterial walls, and control the inflammation process in our body. Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats and are found in fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, herring, trout, smoked fish and fresh tuna. However, most of us are not able to provide enough of these beneficial fats in our everyday diet.
Different types of product in question of plant origin contain short chain omega-3 fatty acids (ALA or alpha-linolenic acid). On the other hand, oily fish is rich in long chain omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which are the forms of omega-3 fats that the body can immediately use and are considered to be the most valuable for our health.
Scientific studies that are carried out for decades indicate a link between increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids and reduced risk of heart disease. It has been shown that EPA and DHA reduce the level of triglycerides in the blood and play an important role in functioning of the cardiovascular system. Omega-3 fatty acids facilitate the regulation of blood pressure, which is of great significance because hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke. Numerous studies have shown that omega-3 fats allow maintenance of heart health as: maintain optimal attenuation levels of blood, which prevents thrombus formation and reduces inflammation in patients with heart disease, reduce the risk of cardiac arrhythmia's, raise levels of good cholesterol (HDL), while lowering down the level of harmful cholesterol (LDL), slow down the formation of arterial plaque, which often leads to hardening of the arteries and increase the risk of coronary disease.
DHA is essential for vision preservation. The newest studies have shown that DHA keeps eye health and prevent the deterioration of eyesight. In addition, this acid is very useful in case of dry eye syndrome, which is usually caused by everyday work in front of computers. Tests have shown that omega-3 fatty acids significantly relieves the symptoms of this disorder and creates a protective film on the surface of the eye, which prevents drying out and the appearance of symptoms.
Scientific studies substantiate the claims of our grandmothers that fish oil is essential for healthy brain. It has been proved that DHA is vital for normal brain function (40% fat in the membranes of brain cells are made of DHA), while the EPA considers supporting transmission of signals between brain cells, and maintain vascular health. DHA also plays an important role in brain development in babies, which is another reason for this supplement to be used by pregnant women and nursing mothers. In a US study, which involved children aged seven to nine years, were established a direct link between increased intake of omega-3 fats and achieving better results on cognitive tests. English researchers found that higher levels of omega-3 fats in the body increase the effect of vitamin B-complex, which are known to prevent the weakening of mental abilities.
See also: How should we feed our brain?
Excellent sources of omega-3 fats in plants are flax seed, canola (oil), nuts and green leafy vegetables. Another great source is fish and sea food.
Amount of Omega-3 fatty acids in 100grams of fish and sea food.
Recommended intake is 450 mg of EPA and DHA daily or 3 grams per week.
To meet this need, be sure to eat two servings of fish per week. The meal should contain about 170 grams of raw fish and cooked or grilled is 140 grams. There is no doubt that the increased intake is beneficial to all people but researchers say they are just a little bit of people takes the recommended daily intake. If you do not like oily fish, it is important that the daily intake of omega-3 fats in substitute in the form of a supplement.


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James Packer to build $5 billion Japanese casino: How he changed his business model
Melinda Oliver / Monday, April 7, 2014
Billionaire James Packer is set to build a $US5 billion casino complex in Japan, The Australian reports.
Packer's joint venture, Melco Crown, is reportedly in talks with several Japanese corporations regarding the giant proposal. If constructed, the aim will be for the mega-casino complex to be ready in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Crown executive Todd Nisbet told The Australian the project would be more elaborate than Melco Crown's flagship City of Dreams resort, which is under construction in Macau.
"Japan is the biggest single opportunity that we are looking at in terms of an international expansion and growth story, just because of the sophistication of the market, the appeal of the overall area,'' Nisbet said.
The Melco Crown City of Dreams resort is a five hotel-tower resort, partially designed by famed architect Dame Zaha Hadid.
It was reported that James Packer will visit Tokyo this week along with Prime Minister Tony Abbott and will speak about the company's plans.
If the new Japanese casino comes to fruition, it will be one of a number of projects Packer's company is involved in, solidifying Packer's bold shift from media to gambling and entertainment.
His company is involved in building a new casino in Manila, as well as the $2 billion Studio City project in Macau, and domestically Crown Sydney in Sydney's new Barangaroo development.
Packer told the Herald Sun his approach to casino success was not just about providing gambling facilities, but integrated resorts with accommodation, dining, retail and entertainment.
"These resorts are the biggest and most expensive and luxurious buildings in the world. That's what they've become,'' Packer told the Herald Sun.
He told the paper he decided casinos were more "scalable and exportable" than media companies. After inheriting around $5 billion from his father he initially focused on the media industry before taking a turn to casinos. He sold pay-TV company Consolidated Media Holdings to Newscorp for around $1 billion, and focused on the continued growth of Melbourne casino Crown Ltd.
Crown Melbourne is now worth around $7.3 billion, the Herald Sun reports.
Packer recently gave an interview to Forbes in which he revealed that despite his business success, his life was "not perfect".
He ranked number 208 on the Forbes Billionaires list, and told the publication: "Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster."
He said the seed to focus on casinos was planted in childhood.
"As a kid I saw that dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that," he told Forbes.
"I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him – and I was with him a lot of the time – that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous."
However, casinos have not always been smooth sailing for Packer. Forbes reported that Packer invested large sums into casinos in Las Vegas, Pennsylvania and Canada, just before the global financial crisis.
"I lost a bunch of money in America because of the financial crisis," Packer said.
It was estimated by Forbes his losses were as high as $2.6 billion, which is nearly half of his fortune.
Melinda Oliver

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New Time. New Tools.
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Practicing Seeking
What "Let It Be" Can Teach Us About Stoicism
by Mickey Z
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me/Speaking words of wisdom: Let it be"
In the autumn of 1968, Paul McCartney was experiencing anxiety about his life, his future, and the state of the world. Still a bachelor, he also yearned to meet someone and settle down.
"I was going through a really difficult time," he recalls. "It was late in the Beatles' career. As a group, we were starting to have problems. I think I was sensing the Beatles were breaking up, so I was staying up late at night, drinking, doing drugs, clubbing, the way a lot of people were at the time."
One night, his late mother, Mary — who died from cancer when he was 14 — came to her son in a dream. She stoically advised him: "Let it be."
"And in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me/ Speaking words of wisdom: Let it be"
"When my mum died, one of the difficulties I had, as the years went by, was that I couldn't recall her face so easily," McCartney says. "In this dream, twelve years later, my mother appeared, and there was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes, and she said to me very gently, very reassuringly: 'Let it be.'"
The legendary musician calls the experience "lovely," adding: "I woke up with a great feeling. It was really like she had visited me at this very difficult point in my life and gave me this message: Be gentle, don't fight things, just try and go with the flow and it will all work out."
"Let It Be" and Stoicism
Founded in Greece around 300 B.C., Stoicism is a life philosophy based on mindful awareness and acceptance of what is and isn't under our control. In books by early philosophers like Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor), Seneca (playwright and political advisor), and a slave-turned-teacher named Epictetus, Stoicism extolls the following four virtues:
The lyrics of Sir Paul's song contain the heart of the Stoic belief system. Here are 15 more tenets (some more modern than others) that can help get us through any tough time:
"What is the point of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being miserable now, because you were miserable then?" (Seneca)
"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control." (Epictetus)
"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them — which you can erase right now." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." (Heraclitus)
"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have." (Seneca)
"If you make happiness your goal, you'll be disappointed. If you make presence your goal, you'll be satisfied." (Maxime Lagacé)
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them." (Seneca)
"It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is." (Bruce Lee)
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." (Seneca)
"Is a world without pain possible? Then don't ask the impossible." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." (Voltaire)
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus)
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person or that person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in right now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself." (Epictetus)
"Let it be." (Mother Mary McCartney)
Shine until tomorrow…
"And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me/ Shine until tomorrow, let it be"
"Not very long after the dream, I got together with Linda [his wife until her death in 1998], which was the saving of me," McCartney declares. "It was as if my mum had sent her."
"Let It Be" — released on March 6, 1970 — turned out to be the first of Paul and Linda's many musical collaborations. You can still hear her harmonies on it.
"We sang it at Linda's memorial service," Paul adds.
"I wake up to the sound of music; Mother Mary comes to me/Speaking words of wisdom: Let it be"
Ranging from religious (Virgin Mary) to the drug-related ("Mary Jane" being a common nickname for marijuana at the time), speculation still exists that there's a hidden meaning behind the term, "Mother Mary." Even after explaining the precise inspiration, McCartney is simply happy that his song has become a "comforting, healing statement for other people, too … almost like a hymn."
He prefers to leave all song interpretations entirely up to his fans. Even in this realm, his response is the same: Let it be…
-Mickey Z
Photo: Paul McCartney, circa 1968-69 (Getty Images)
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10 comments on "What "Let It Be" Can Teach Us About Stoicism"
Bernie Cullinan
I may be prejudice because the author of this article is my nephew, Michael Zezima, otherwise know as Mickey Z, but it is by far the best thing I have ever seen written in my entire life. I actually cried after I read it. I had no idea of the origin of this song. Mickey Z, you are so fantastic, and a sweet loving, caring person. I am so proud to be your uncle!
Mickey Z.
Thank YOU, not only for reading and leaving such a heartfelt comment but…for a lifetime of love and support. I'm proud to be your nephew!
Rhoda David
Thank you Bernie and Mickey Z
I was overwhelmed reading these beautiful words and so was David
I can't ever express our gratitude
Miss you and MaryAnn
Katherine Krokos-Miller
Profound. Thank you, Bernie for sharing and Mickey for the content.
Much needed inspiration during these troubled times.
Dean Cholakis
The most appealing presentation of stoicism I've ever encountered.
Thank you for giving stoicism a human soul.
At first, stoicism sounded to me like not caring. 'Let It Be' is filled with love. It's a more relatable approach.
NwP Team
Yeah, we think so, too. Glad you enjoyed it!
What a wonderful article and message. Great writing, really enjoyed the other historical quotes as well.
Thank you SO much for taking time to read and share your kind words!
David Sparks
There is great wisdom in stoicism: don't get too attached to things that don't really matter, accept that sometimes the best response to a difficult situation is to let it be, etc. However, I have always felt that it's admonition to "only worry about the things you can do something about" begs the question: how do you know what you can and cannot do something about unless you try? So many stories of heroism have to do with people rising up against what appeared to be unmovable situations or obstacles and trying anyway. The ongoing struggle for rights is the best example to me which also says to me: do we really have the luxury of not trying to fight for or assert our rights and even for the rights of others?
mickeyz2020
Thank you for your thought-provoking reply, David. I suppose it's a delicate, ever-evolving process but – as you eloquently state – there inevitably will be times when you have to aim to do the "impossible."
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When west meets east: The origins and spread of weedy rice between continental and island Southeast Asia
Neik, T. X., Chai, J. Y., Tan, S. Y., San Sudo, M. P., Cui, Y., Jayaraj, J., Teo, S. S., Olsen, K. M. & Song, B. K., 1 Sep 2019, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 9, 9, p. 2941-2950 10 p.
When will derivative liability enhance corporate regulatory compliance?
Spencer-Laitt, D., 2014, In: Company and Securities Law Journal. 32, 2, p. 84-106
When will it end? Long-lived intracontinental reactivation in central Australia
Quentin de Gromard, R., Kirkland, C. L., Howard, H. M., Wingate, M. T. D., Jourdan, F., McInnes, B. I. A., Danišík, M., Evans, N. J., McDonald, B. J. & Smithies, R. H., Jan 2019, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 10, 1, p. 149-164 16 p.
When Words Become Art: the Picturisation Right Under Copyright Law
McCutcheon, J., 2020, The Research Handbook on Art and Law. McCutcheon, J. & McGaughey, F. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
When working hard and working out go hand in hand: Generality between undergraduates' academic- and exercise-related self-regulatory efficacy beliefs
Jackson, B. & Dimmock, J., 2012, In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 13, p. 418-426
When worlds collide: Excellent and equitable learning communities? Australia's 'social capitalist' paradox?
Savage, G. C., Jan 2011, In: Journal of Education Policy. 26, 1, p. 33-59 27 p.
When worlds collide: Transatlantic efforts to curb libel tourism and their implications for Australia
Gillooly, M., 2012, In: Tort Law Review. 20, 3, p. 124-144
When Worldviews Meet: Puturru Palyalpayi / Stringmakers
Mclean, I., 2011, In: Art Monthly Australia. 236, p. 42-44
When You Can't See the Forest for the Trees: the Use of GIS in Modelling Forest Type Distribution
Delaney, J. & Skidmore, A. K., 1998, Islands: Economy, Society and Environment: Conference Proceedings, Second Joint Conference, Institute of Australian Geog. Bliss, E. (ed.). University of Tasmania (Hobart ed. Palmerston North, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society, Vol. n/a. p. 45-49
When you speak to a police officer and (call them) du
Blood, R., 30 Mar 2018, In: Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education. 3, 1, p. 117-143 27 p.
"When you speak to a police officer and you refer to them as du". The development of intercultural and pragmatic competence in Australian foreign language students on short-term study abroad in Germany
Blood, R. M., 2018, (Unpublished)
When 'reality leaves a lot to the imagination': Liberian fisheries from 1950 to 2010
Belhabib, D., Subah, Y., Broh, N. T., Jueseah, A. S., Nipey, J. N., Boeh, W. Y., Copeland, D., Zeller, D. & Pauly, D., 2013.
Research output: Working paper › peer-review
Where, how far and at what speed? The use of geospatial technologies in measuring and characterizing physical activity in behavioural health research
Boruff, B. & Nathan, A., 2011, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7). Perth, Australia: WALIS Office, Landgate, Vol. 1. p. 14-22
Whereabouts from Monday to Sunday?
Olaru, D., Smith, N. & Peachman, J., 2005, 28th Australian Transport Research Forum. Sydney, Australia ed. Sydney, Australia: Transport & population Data Centre, Department of Infrastructure, Planning & Natural Resources NSW, Vol. 28. p. 1-14
Where and how do stroke patients spend their time on a stroke unit compared to a geriatric rehabilitation unit?
Dennis, D. M., Hankey, G. J., Flicker, L., Smith, A. & Briffa, K., Aug 2013, In: International Journal of Stroke. 8, p. 11-11 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Abstract/Meeting Abstract › peer-review
Where-and-When to Look: Deep Siamese Attention Networks for Video-Based Person Re-Identification
Wu, L., Wang, Y., Gao, J. & Li, X., Jun 2019, In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 21, 6, p. 1412-1424 13 p., 8506428.
Where and why students choose to use computer facilities: a collaborative study at an Australian and United Kingdom university
Burke, L., Beranek, L., Stubbings, R. & Walton, G., 2008, In: Australian Academic & Research Libraries. 39, 3, p. 181-197
Where and why university students choose to use computing facilities: report on a collaborative study at an Australian and United Kingdom university
Burke, L., Beranek, L., Stubbings, R. & Walton, G., 2007, Information Online 2007: 13th Exhibition & Conference. Sydney, NSW ed. http://conferences.alia.org.au/online2007/conf.papers.html: Australian Library & Information Association, Vol. N/A. p. N/A
Where are Australia's mines of tomorrow?
Guj, P. & Schodde, R., 2013, In: AusIMM Bulletin. 2013, 3, p. 76-82
Where are children seen in Australian emergency departments? Implications for research efforts
ACEM EDEN and the PREDICT Network, 3 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Where are the high-velocity clouds in local group analogs?
Pisano, D. J., Barnes, D. G., Gibson, B. K., Staveley-Smith, L., Freeman, K. C. & Kilborn, V. A., 2004, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 610, 1, p. L17-L20
Where are the missing gamma-ray burst redshifts?
Coward, D., Guetta, D., Burman, R. & Imerito, A., 2008, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386, 1, p. online - approx 5-20pp
Where are the Women in Leadership in Australia
Still, L., 2006, In: Women in Management Review. 21, 3, p. 180-194
Where are the women in multiculturalism? Contributions on culture and religion from an anthropologist of multiculturalism in Indonesia
Parker, L., 2011, In: Australian Feminist Studies. 26, 70, p. 433-452
Where are we and are we there yet?
Whelehan, I., 2013, The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures . Raw, L. (ed.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 14-25
Where are we going and do I need luggage?: the future of reference services in Australian academic libraries
Burke, L., 2006, click06: ALIA 2006 Biennial Conference. Perth, W.A. ed. http://conferences.alia.org.au/alia2006/conference_papers.html: Australian Library and Information Association, Vol. N/A. p. N/A
Where are we now with Human Capital Theory in Australia
Preston, A., 1996, Perth, WA: Department of Economics.
Research output: Book/Report › Other output
Where Are We Now With Human Capital Theory in Australia?
Preston, A., 1997, In: Economic Record. 73, 220, p. 51-78
'Where Are Your Victims?'
Lyons, L. & Ford, M., 2010, In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 12, 2, p. 255-264
Where art meets industry: protecting the spectacular rock art of the Burrup Peninsula
McDonald, J., 16 Feb 2017, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Where Art Meets Science; Beauty Meets Utility: The Strange World of Industrial Design Protection
Baron, P., 1999, In: University of Tasmania Law Review. 18, 2, p. 192-222
Where Australia's Better Access scheme has had an impact on mental health: A commentary on Jorm (2018)
Lee, C. W. & Frost, A. D. J., 1 Mar 2019, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 53, 3, p. 259-261 3 p.
Where Can Your Hiding Be? St John of the Cross and the Business of Prayer
Brady, P., 1994, In: St John of the Cross. p. 101-110
Where do Children Travel to and What Local Opportunities Are Available? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Destinations and Children's Independant Mobility
Villanueva, K., Giles-Corti, B., Bulsara, M., Timperio, A., Mccormack, G., Beesley, B., Trapp, G. & Middleton, N., 2013, In: Environment and Behavior. 45, 6, p. 679-705
Where do complex kinterms come from?
Dench, A., 1997, Boundary Rider: Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Tryon, D. & Walsh, M. (eds.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Vol. C-136. p. 107-132
Where does all the water go? Partitioning water transmission losses in a data-sparse, multi-channel and low-gradient dryland river system using modelling and remote sensing
Jarihani, A. A., Larsen, J. R., Callow, N., Mcvicar, T. R. & Johansen, K., 2015, In: Journal of Hydrology. 529, p. 1511-1529
Where does - and where should - the money come from?
Blair, E., 2003, In: disparity. 2, 1, p. 16-20
Where does the latest twist in the House of Hancock saga leave screenwriters?
Maras, S., 16 Mar 2017, The Conversation.
Where do Fijian medical students want to work and why?
Kado, S. K., Young, L. & Larkins, S., 11 Jul 2017, p. 38.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
Where do galaxies end? Comparing measurement techniques of hydrodynamic-simulation galaxies' integrated properties
Stevens, A. R. H., Martig, M., Croton, D. J. & Feng, Y., Nov 2014, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Where do the errors in Software Project Estimation come from?
Woodings, T., 2002, Australian conference on Software Metrics. Lawrie, R. (ed.). Melbourne, Australia ed. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Software Metrics Association, Vol. ACOSM2002. p. 15.1-15.6
Where do we come from? Where are we going?
Melsen, B., Oct 2020, In: Journal of the World Federation of Orthodontists. 9, 3, p. S74-S78
Where do we go from here? A child rights-based response to COVID-19
International Society for Social Pediatrics & Child Health (ISSOP) COVID-19 Working Group, 15 Jun 2020, In: BMJ Paediatrics Open. 4, 1, e000714.
Where do we start? guidance for technology implementation in maintenance management for manufacturing
Brundage, M. P., Sexton, T., Hodkiewicz, M., Morris, K. C., Arinez, J., Ameri, F., Ni, J. & Xiao, G., 1 Sep 2019, Additive Manufacturing; Manufacturing Equipment and Systems; Bio and Sustainable Manufacturing. USA: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), (ASME 2019 14th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2019; vol. 1).
Brundage, M. P., Sexton, T., Hodkiewicz, M., Morris, K. C., Arinez, J., Ameri, F., Ni, J. & Xiao, G., Sep 2019, In: Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. 141, 9, 16 p., 091005.
Where Fanny Balbuk Walked: Re-imagining Perth's Wetlands
Ryan, J. C., Brady, D. & Kueh, C., 2015, In: M/C Journal. 18, 6
Where fisheries have been, and why they are going
Pauly, D., Watson, R. & Zeller, D., 2012, Sea the Truth: Essays on Overfishing, Pollution and Climate Change. Soeters, K. (ed.). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation, p. 15-26 12 p.
Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams
Gibson, C., Huang, L., Kirkman, B. L. & Shapiro, D. L., Mar 2014, In: Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. 1, p. 217-244
Where has all the influenza gone? The impact of COVID-19 on the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Australia, March to September 2020
Sullivan, S. G., Carlson, S., Cheng, A. C., Chilver, M. B., Dwyer, D. E., Irwin, M., Kok, J., Macartney, K., MacLachlan, J., Minney-Smith, C., Smith, D., Stocks, N., Taylor, J. & Barr, I. G., 1 Nov 2020, In: EURO SURVEILLANCE : BULLETIN EUROPEEN SUR LES MALADIES TRANSMISSIBLES = EUROPEAN COMMUNICABLE DISEASE BULLETIN. 25, 47
Where have all the spiders gone? The decline of a poorly known invertebrate fauna in the agricultural and arid zones of southern Australia
Rix, M. G., Huey, J. A., Main, B. Y., Waldock, J. M., Harrison, S. E., Comer, S., Austin, A. D. & Harvey, M. S., 1 Feb 2017, In: Austral Entomology. 56, 1, p. 14-22 9 p.


In conjunction with the visit to HomePlace by Carol Ann Duffy, we are delighted to present this staged reading of arguably her most famous collection of poetry.
Behind every famous man is a great woman, and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.
Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.
A selection of poems from The World's Wife will be read by two of Ireland's best actors – Bronagh Gallagher and Susan Lynch – and original commisioned music will be performed by Ursula Burns, in what promises to be an unmissable evening celebrating the untold stories behind the greatest fairy tales, myths and legends.


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First rate production
The production Ruth First is being staged at the Artscape until Saturday August 4. Ruth First was a journalist, academic and political activist during the height of the apartheid era who was detained, persecuted, exiled and eventually assassinated for her activism and beliefs. Married to fellow communist and anti-apartheid activist, Joe Slovo, she served on the drafting committee of the Freedom Charter. On 9 August 1963, she was arrested and kept in solitary confinement under the notorious 90-day clause becoming the first white woman to be arrested under this act. Her account of her period in detention was published in her 1965 book, 117 Days. Ruth First opened at the 2016 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and played to standing ovations. There will be shows today, Thursday August 2 and tomorrow, Friday August 3, at 7.30pm, and Saturday August 4, at 3pm, and 7.30pm. Tickets cost R150 and can be brought from Computicket or Artscape Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695. Pictured is Jackie Rens as Ruth First.
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Q: ROC Curve Ranger I am trying to calculate ROC Curve and AUC using ranger for a binomial classification problem (0 and 1), where the response variable is defined as BiClass.
Suppose I cast a data frame to Train_Set and Test_Set (75% and 25 % respectively) and compute binary class probabilities using:
library(ranger)
library(ROCR)
library(mlr)
library(pROC)
library(tidyverse)

Biclass.ranger <- ranger(BiClass ~ ., ,data=Train_Set, num.trees = 500, importance="impurity", save.memory = TRUE, probability=TRUE)

pred <- predict(BiClass.ranger, data = Test_Set, num.trees = 500, type='response', verbose = TRUE)

My intention is now to compute ROC curve (and AUC). I tried the following code, through which I get ROC curve (using ROCR and mlr packages):
pred_object <- prediction(pred$predictions[,2], Test_Set$BiClass)

per_measure <- performance(pred_object, "tnr", "fnr")

plot(per_measure, col="red", lwd=1)

abline(a=0,b=1,lwd=1,lty=1,col="gray")

Or, aletrnatively using pROC package:
probabilities <- as.data.frame(predict(Biclass.ranger, data = Test_Set, num.trees = 500, type='response', verbose = TRUE)$predictions)

probabilities$predic <- colnames(probabilities)[max.col(probabilities,ties.method="first")] # For each row, return the column name of the largest value from 0 and 1 columns (prediction column). This will be a character type

probabilities$prednum <- as.numeric(as.character(probabilities$predic)) # create prednum as a numeric data type in probabilities

probabilities <- dplyr::mutate_if(probabilities, is.character, as.factor) # convert character to factor

probabilities <- cbind(probabilities,BiClass=Test_Set$BiClass) # append BiClass. This data frame contains the response variable from the Test_Data, along with prediction (prednum) and probability classes (0 and 1)

ROC_ranger <- pROC::roc(Table$BiClass, pred$predictions[,2])

plot(ROC_ranger, col = "blue", main = "ROC - Ranger")

paste("Accuracy % of ranger: ", mean(Test_Set$BiClass == round(pred$predictions[,2], digits = 0))) # print the performance of each model

The ROC curve obtained is given below:

I have the following questions:
1) How can I set a threshold value and plot confusion matrix for the set threshold?
I compute the confusion matrix presently using:
probabilities <- as.data.frame(predict(Biclass.ranger, data = Test_Set, num.trees = 500, type='response', verbose = TRUE)$predictions)

max.col(probabilities) - 1

confusionMatrix(table(Test_Set$BiClass, max.col(probabilities)-1))

2) How do I calculate the optimal thershold value (global value at which I have more true positives or true negatives) through optimization?
Again, referring to the pROC and the guidelines proposed by its author using:
myroc <- pROC::roc(probabilities$BiClass, probabilities$`1`)

mycoords <- pROC::coords(myroc, "all", transpose = FALSE)

plot(mycoords$threshold, mycoords$specificity, type="l", col="red", xlab="Cutoff", ylab="Performance")

lines(mycoords$threshold, mycoords$sensitivity, type="l", col="blue")

legend(0.23,0.2, c("Specificity", "Sensitivity"), col=c("red", "blue"), lty=1)

best.coords <- coords(myroc, "best", best.method="youden", transpose = FALSE)

abline(v=best.coords$threshold, lty=2, col="grey")

abline(h=best.coords$specificity, lty=2, col="red")

abline(h=best.coords$sensitivity, lty=2, col="blue")

I was able to draw this curve using youden index:
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Does it mean there isn't a lot of freedom to vary threshold to play with specificity and sensitivity, since the dashed blue and red lines are not far away from each other?
3) How to evaulate AUC?
I calculated AUC using pROC again following the guidelines of its author. See below:
ROC_ranger <- pROC::roc(probabilities$BiClass, probabilities$`1`)
ROC_ranger_auc <- pROC::auc(ROC_ranger)
paste("Area under curve of random forest: ", ROC_ranger_auc) # AUC of the model

The goal finally is to increase the True Neagtives, which are presently defined by 1 in BiClass and of course True Positives (defined by 0 in BiClass) in the confusion matrix. At present, the Accuracy of my classification algorithm is 0.74 and the AUC is 0.81 respectively.


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About us > The Consort > Cory Knight
Artistic Associate
Cory Knight, Tenor
Described as 'that rare, wonderful, lyric tenor who turns every note he sings into gold' (Musical Toronto), tenor Cory Knight enjoys a career as both a soloist and ensemble singer. Cory holds a Master of Arts degree in Historical Performance Practice from the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland and an Advance Diploma in vocal performance from the Glenn Gould School. He has sung at major festivals and concert venues across Europe, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Trigonale Early Music Festival, Baroque Music Festival in Ambronay, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Palau de la Música Catalana in Bacelona. In addition to his role as an Artistic Associate with Toronto Consort, Cory is a core member of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir. Highlights of his work in Canada include singing with Opera Atelier, La Chapelle de Québec, Soundstreams, and Tapestry Opera. Fun Facts: Cory is from the Tomato Capital of Canada and is an Occasional Teacher with the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
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50 year old new stock.
We got some nice customer project shots of this cool chrome pull on an upcycled table turned bar from Redneck Homegoods!


I'm squeezed onto my economy night flight to Mexico City and I'm thinking a lot about portraiture. Surrounded by the tired, the giant, and the uncomfortable - all solitary, awkward and undignified in their slumber - my sole comfort in my sleeplessness is the few stingy inches of recline granted by my economy seat, and an old black and white portrait of my grandfather I've fixed above my tray-table. As the flight bumps across turbulent air I study his face for probably the hundredth time since his recent passing, as if I'm trying to know him better somehow; his quizzical gaze, the cropped hand of my grandmother's he's holding so tightly, as if it were his last grip on the world. Of course I'm certainly reading too much into this frozen moment, a portrait of a man I loved in a time I never even knew him, because portraits are never 100% true, they are an inaccurate abstraction but somewhere within it, lays a different kind of truth.
We're visiting Mexico City to prepare for AltCity CDMX, the latest of our art and technology labs exploring cities and unlocking the creativity of its citizens with digital creativity. Developed from their AltCity Sao Paulo residency, Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) will be working in residency at Mutek, Mexico City's largest music and creative technology festival, to collaborate with local emerging artists to creatively explore the city with their distinct mixed-reality approach to virtual reality (VR). It's an exciting new step for the British Council Mexico team as we work with Mutek to help create an entirely new strand of work for their programme sharing creative digital skills with emerging artists. Through this three week AltCity residency, the UK team will collaborate with local artists and respond to the city with a new artwork for Mutek's festival programme, and as the flight makes its juddering descent into the great desert lake of Mexico City, I'm aware it's quite the city to respond to.
Mexico City is changing. Once affectionately known as DF to those who call it home, it's since rebranded itself as CDMX as its numbers continue to swell beyond 21.2 million residents (or 'chilangos'). And for this AltCity edition, it's the people we're interested in. MLF are looking to collaborate with a team of emerging artists to capture a portrait of the city through the faces of its citizens. MLF and our AltCity artists (all chilangos themselves) will explore portraiture in VR, examining the relationship between sight and touch in virtual reality to expose the diversity and social makeup of one of the most populous cities in the world. Working together this AltCity creative team will uncover and record, in 360º, the portraits, environments and stories of people in the city to create a kind of kinetic immersive sculpture to be experienced in VR. Gathered together these portraits will form an installation for Mutek's daytime and evening club programme: to experience Mexico City through the faces of those who call it home.
Capturing a portrait is a tricky business, and a big responsibility. How much does a static face or a pose really tell you about an individual? How much truth can a face reveal? After negotiating my through the notorious CDMX traffic, I eventually get to my hotel. Worn and dehydrated from recycled cabin air, I study my face in the bathroom mirror as I brush my teeth and I observe how my face now looks different since I began my flight – the lines of my forehead furrowed deeper, drier skin dusted around my cheeks. As I continue to look I begin to observe the other stories told in this bathroom-mirror portrait, how my face has been transformed over time by the places and people; the scar next to my eye that reminds me of a London curb, the shadow beneath it of the pace of London life. I see the many faces that have formed me, the family tree of features; the curve of my mouth drawn by my mother's generous and undemanding smile, a look in my eyes that recalls my grandfather's dementia. As I move my features other truths are revealed; expressions, smiles, teeth. What does a portrait become, when it is no longer static?
The next day over tacos I discuss the vision of the project with Robin from MLF and PoLee from Mutek. As always MLF take a mixed media approach to create a work that provides, as Robin describes, a kind of mixed reality experience. Our participating AltCity artists will be encouraged to combine digital and physical tools to open up creative and interactive possibilities to the idea of portraiture, to 'think in 360º' in combining spherical film, binaural field recordings and 3D printed sculptures and challenge their own creative practice. But before all of this, MLF will lead our local AltCity artists to think about their city, its identity and characters within it. After a week of meeting, documenting, 3D scanning and interviewing people from across the breadth of CDMX, the participants will bring this material back into the studio to augment, play with, and pull together an installation that in some way captures the multitude of identities and personalities captured.
The working title of the final installation is Chameleon, a name that suggests a being that changes its surface appearance to adapt. Mexico City is a city composed of a plethora of small towns, huddled to survive. The dried ocean of sidewalks and buildings filled with 21 million faces being shaped by the city, every new impression digs another hole, bruises the unformed material a bit, like the identity a face takes on over time. These traces follow the long past of the city; it's also the first draft of a future face. It's a city that is constantly changing to keep up with itself.
Back to the creative drive of the project, and Robin is geting excited about the idea of mixed-reality. He describes how he's never felt comfortable with the term 'digital artist' and longs with a smile for a return to the term 'multi-media' as in many ways that best describes MLF's approach; combining a multitude of tools and approaches to create interactive and immersive experiences. He describes his early vision of the audience experience for this project; how endowed with an HTC VIVE headsets (allowing you to roam a space) the audience will encounter physical 3D printed busts of subjects uncovered and documented during the workshop process, and upon touching the physical objects digital abstract imagery busts into life with 360º field recordings, all drawn from the characters and environments recorded through this process. It's an ambitious output. These portraits will change and respond to the perspective and interactions of the audience, drawing on a multitude of truths captured and abstracted by our AltCity creative team.
This multi-sensory approach to creativity is becoming ever more prevalent, and in a city of difference and diversity such as CDMX, feels a particularly fitting way to try and capture the city in some way. On our final day in CDMX Robin gives a half day presentation and workshop for prospective AltCity participants at the Foto Museo, who will present the installation in the final days of Mutek's festival. As I look around the room, I wonder at the diversity of workshop participants; age, ethnicity, background, skillset – their range of talent is breath-taking and speaks to the diversity of this city. Robin is enthused at the crowd we've been able to gather; artists, engineers, musicians, makers, even a fashion designer have turned up. Through links with local schools and universities we have endeavoured to open the opportunity to participate up to as many people as possible. And despite what you might think, Robin is not just drawn to the techie engineers, he's looking for the most creative and promising of the crowd; a college student who's studying anthropology, a graffiti artist dithering between school and college particularly capture his attention and he's encouraging them to apply.
At the heart of our AltCity programme is a collaborative, multi-artform approach to creativity, unlocking the talents of the people we work with and demystifying creative technology. A hybrid approach to art, technology and creativity is being employed here by MLF, Mutek and our British Council team here and as I think about the shapeshifting soul of the city, it fits pretty well. As the residency slowly takes shape to begin next month, I'm acutely aware it can still shift into something new at any moment. But one thing I feel is for certain – it will be unlike anything you might expect.
An 360º exploration of the people of Mexico City examining the relationship between virtual reality, sight and touch in one of the world's most populous cities.


Cybersloths: We are the Champions, as the song from Queen goes. The Rocket City team from Grissom High School took first place this week in the CyberPatriot VII National Finals Competition. The competition was rigorous with a total of 2,100 registered teams competing, while only 28 teams earned the title "National Finalist. The finals Competition was held March 11-15, 2015 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The team members were James Brahm, Morgan Wagner, Jeramy Lochner, Matthew Rogers, Michelle Driessnack, and Christopher Lin, and were coached by Chris Sutton. Congratulations to the CyberSloths and to a future of protecting our country from future cyber-threats. We are proud of our students as well as the educators at Grissom High School.


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Swedish court refuses to drop arrest warrant for Julian Assange
By Josh Varlin
The Stockholm District Court upheld Sweden's European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday, explicitly rejecting the conclusion of the United Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) that Assange has been arbitrarily detained in violation of international human rights conventions.
In February 2016, the UN working group issued its finding that Assange's detainment as a result of the actions of the Swedish and British governments violates the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The UNWGAD is a United Nations expert group founded in 1991 to investigate allegedly arbitrary deprivations of liberty.
Assange's persecution began in August 2010 after two women with whom he had had sexual relations visited a Stockholm police station to see if they could compel Assange to take an HIV test. The two women had not intended this visit to open a police investigation.
Earlier that year, WikiLeaks had already begun publication of documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan leaked by Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This included the infamous "Collateral Murder" video. In response, Washington began pressuring US allies internationally, including Sweden, to restrict Assange's freedom of movement and potentially arrest him. US prosecutors also secretly empaneled a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.
Swedish prosecutors initially wanted to question Assange for charges of rape and molestation. However, Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm Eva Finne found on August 25, 2010 that there was no evidence of rape but that the lesser charge of molestation could still be investigated.
Under the pressure of right-wing Social Democrat Claes Borgstrom, who represented the two alleged victims with the apparent goal of bolstering his election chances, Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny resurrected the rape investigation. Assange waited for weeks in Sweden to be questioned but left with Ny's written permission.
In December 2010, Sweden issued a European Arrest Warrant, essentially requesting that the UK arrest and extradite Assange to Sweden. Since December 2010, Assange has been subjected to different periods of humiliating detainment, including several days in jail, over a year under house arrest and years in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Ecuador granted Assange asylum and has let him stay in its London embassy since June 2012 because Assange compellingly argued that he will be extradited from Sweden to the United States for his political and journalistic activities exposing imperialist war crimes.
Since then, Assange has been trapped in the embassy due to the UK's refusal to let him leave for Ecuador. Meanwhile, the investigation against Assange has not progressed since 2010, despite Assange's numerous offers to be interviewed in the Ecuadorian embassy or otherwise provide testimony. Ny, pressured by the UK, has insisted that Assange be interviewed in person in Sweden, despite the fact that Swedish authorities have interviewed 44 people in the UK since 2010 and even moved an entire Stockholm court to Rwanda in 2012.
Assange has still not been charged with any crime.
Assange's attorneys asked the Stockholm District Court in February to nullify the EAW, which effectively imprisons him inside the tiny Ecuadorian embassy, after the UN working group issued its finding that the inquisitorial actions of Sweden and the UK constitute arbitrary detention.
Prior to the UN group's decision, Assange said he would accept their reasoning as definitive, promising to turn himself over to UK authorities for arrest and extradition if he was found not to have been arbitrarily detained.
The group's findings "are legally-binding to the extent that they are based on binding international human rights law, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)." The UNWGAD further says that its decisions "are also considered as authoritative by prominent international and regional judicial institutions, including the European Court of Human Rights."
UK and Swedish authorities nevertheless rejected the group's findings.
The Stockholm court likewise rejected the UN group's decision, saying, "Unlike the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the district court does not consider [Assange]'s stay at the Embassy of Ecuador in London a form of detention."
The court also said in a statement, "The district court finds that there is still probable cause for the suspicion against [Assange] for rape, less serious incident, and that there is still a risk that he will depart or in some other way evade prosecution or penalty."
This is despite evidence that Assange is the victim of a frame-up, including the fact that the alleged victims did not intend to charge Assange until the politicized intervention of Swedish prosecutors, and that they positively and publicly discussed Assange on social media after the alleged molestations.
Five hundred human rights organizations, activists, Nobel laureates and diplomats have condemned the Swedish and British rejection of the UNWGAD ruling in an open letter. Signatories include director Alfonso Cuarón, Pentagon papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, filmmaker Laura Poitras, the Japanese Lawyers International Solidarity Association and the US-based National Lawyers Guild.
The Guardian, which reported on the revelations from WikiLeaks and worked with Assange, has since viciously turned on him. In a February 4, 2016 editorial, published before the UNWGAD's full report was made public, it bluntly editorialized, "Julian Assange: no victim of arbitrary detention."
The paper, aligned with the British Labour Party, later published an anti-Assange editorial by Marina Hyde containing legal inaccuracies. For example, Hyde claimed that Assange had not been under house arrest, something agreed on as fact by the UN working group, Assange's legal team, Sweden and the UK.
Meanwhile, the British pseudo-left has aligned itself with the drive by the United States to railroad Assange. The Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party both echoed the Guardian and the Swedish and British states in claiming that "Assange must face rape charges."
Several local National Union of Students bodies have likewise attempted to block Assange from speaking at British universities, following its "no platform" policy, supposedly aimed at creating "safe spaces" on campuses. Assange condemned this attack on his democratic rights, anchored in gender-based identity politics, at a recent event at the University of Sheffield, which he addressed via video link from the Ecuadorian embassy.
The World Socialist Web Site rejects these attempts to witch-hunt Assange and calls for workers and young people in the US, UK, Sweden and internationally to oppose the US-backed efforts to silence him.
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Profile: Al Redmer running for Baltimore County executive
Updated: 6:20 PM EDT Jun 12, 2018
I-Team Reporter
WEBVTT THE DEMOCRATIC RACE FOR GOVERNOR IS STARTING TAKE SHAPE. DAVID: ALREADY ARE IS A MANAGER. HE HAS MORE EXECUTIVE LEVEL EXPERIENCE IN ANY CANDIDATE IN THE RACE FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. >> I KNOW HOW TO SET THE FISSION, COMMUNICATE IT THROUGH AN ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. I KNOW HOW TO SET EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS, CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL RESULTS. DAVID: HE HAS TWICE LET THE MARYLAND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND SERVED AS A STATE DELEGATE. >> EVERYTHING I DO IS TO REACH CONSENSUS AND MAKE RYE GRASS AND IT IS ALWAYS DONE IN A WAY THAT IS OPEN, TRANSPARENT, AND COLLABORATIVE. DDAVID: ON DAY ONE HE WILL LAUNCH THE OFFICER OF INSPECTOR GENERAL. >> WE WILL LOOK AT WHAT WE DO, HOW WE DO IT, AND WHY WE DO IT. AND MAKE THE DETERMINATION, HOW CAN WE PERFORM THOSE FUNCTIONS MORE EFFICIENTLY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY THAN WE CURRENTLY DO. DAVID: HE PLEDGES TO ELIMINATE WHAT HE CALLS A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM AND ROLLBACK IMMIGRANT CENTURY POLICIES AND COOPERATE WITH OFFICIALS ON MIGRATION AND RESTORES DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS AND HE WANTS TO HIRE MORE POLICE OFFICERS. >> I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE. DELIVERING THE SERVICES THAT THE CITIZENS DESERVE. AND REQUIRE. DAVID: HE DOES NOT SUPPORT A $15 MINIMUM WAGE AND OPPOSES OUTLINE THIS COMMISSION AGAINST RENTERS BASED ON THEIR SOURCE OF INCOME. >> I BELIEVE THAT ANY BUSINESS OWNER, WHETHER THEY ARE REAL ESTATE INVESTOR OR NOT, SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHOOSE WHO THEY DO BUSINESS WITH OR WHO THEY DO NOT WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH.
Two Republicans will face off in the primary race for Baltimore County executive.Al Redmer, the current state insurance commissioner, has the backing of Gov. Larry Hogan. Redmer is a manager; he has always been the boss. He has more executive-level experience than any candidate in the race for Baltimore County executive. "I know how to set the vision, communicate it through an entire organization. I know how to set expectations, standards, create accountability and drive organizational results," Redmer said. He has twice led the Maryland Insurance Administration, started two businesses and served as a state delegate for 13 years. "Everything I do is in an effort to reach consensus, to make progress and it's always done in a way that is open, transparent and collaborative," Redmer said. On day one, Redmer will said he will launch an office of inspector general. "We will go through each and every department from A to Z. We will look at what we do, how we do it and why we do it and make a determination, how can we perform those functions more efficiently and cost effectively than we currently do," Redmer said. Redmer pledges to eliminate what he called a culture of corruption and cronyism in county government. He said he will roll back immigrant sanctuary policies and cooperate with federal authorities on immigration. He plans to restore discipline in public schools, and he wants to hire more police officers. "I am passionate about customer service, delivering the services that citizens deserve and require," Redmer said. He doesn't support a $15 minimum wage, and he opposes outlawing discrimination against renters based on their source of income. "I don't support the HOME Act. I believe any business owner, whether they are a real estate investor or not, should be able to choose who they do business with," Redmer said. Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats 2-1 in Baltimore County, but it also has many independent voters. Redmer is banking on the independent voters and Hogan's crossover popularity to become the first Republican elected to the office in 28 years. Pat McDonough is the other Republican running in the race.The primary is June 26. Watch 11 News for profiles of the other candidates running for Baltimore County executive and other Maryland offices.
TIMONIUM, Md. —
Two Republicans will face off in the primary race for Baltimore County executive.
Al Redmer, the current state insurance commissioner, has the backing of Gov. Larry Hogan. Redmer is a manager; he has always been the boss. He has more executive-level experience than any candidate in the race for Baltimore County executive.
Profile: Redmer touts management chops to tackle fiscal issues in Baltimore County
"I know how to set the vision, communicate it through an entire organization. I know how to set expectations, standards, create accountability and drive organizational results," Redmer said.
He has twice led the Maryland Insurance Administration, started two businesses and served as a state delegate for 13 years.
"Everything I do is in an effort to reach consensus, to make progress and it's always done in a way that is open, transparent and collaborative," Redmer said.
On day one, Redmer will said he will launch an office of inspector general.
"We will go through each and every department from A to Z. We will look at what we do, how we do it and why we do it and make a determination, how can we perform those functions more efficiently and cost effectively than we currently do," Redmer said.
Redmer pledges to eliminate what he called a culture of corruption and cronyism in county government. He said he will roll back immigrant sanctuary policies and cooperate with federal authorities on immigration. He plans to restore discipline in public schools, and he wants to hire more police officers.
"I am passionate about customer service, delivering the services that citizens deserve and require," Redmer said.
He doesn't support a $15 minimum wage, and he opposes outlawing discrimination against renters based on their source of income.
"I don't support the HOME Act. I believe any business owner, whether they are a real estate investor or not, should be able to choose who they do business with," Redmer said.
Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats 2-1 in Baltimore County, but it also has many independent voters. Redmer is banking on the independent voters and Hogan's crossover popularity to become the first Republican elected to the office in 28 years.
Pat McDonough is the other Republican running in the race.
The primary is June 26.
Watch 11 News for profiles of the other candidates running for Baltimore County executive and other Maryland offices.


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Boston 2024 Olympics organizers update $4.6 billion bid
Jimmy Golen and Philip Marcelo The Associated Press
Published 5:29 pm EDT, Monday, June 29, 2015
From left, Boston 2024 Partnership Chief Operating Officer Erin Murphy, Chief Executive Office Rich Davey, Chairman and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca and architect David Manfredi listen to a reporter's question during a media availability after they released the updated plans for the Olympic and Paralympic games at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday. less
From left, Boston 2024 Partnership Chief Operating Officer Erin Murphy, Chief Executive Office Rich Davey, Chairman and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca and architect David Manfredi listen to a ... more
Photo: The Associated Press
BOSTON >> The group trying to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston released the most detailed look yet at its bid for the Summer Games on Monday, unveiling a $4.6 billion plan it says would create thousands of jobs and housing units, expand the city's tax base and leave behind a vastly-improved regional transit system — all with a $210 million surplus.
The announcement was designed to answer critics who say the privately funded Boston 2024 has withheld details of the bid to prevent the public from assessing whether the games could be staged, as promised, without the need for taxpayer money.
The so-called "Bid 2.0" comes as Boston 2024 organizers head to San Francisco for a critical meeting before the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors Tuesday.
"We've now done the 'little-picture' thinking," said bid chairman Steve Pagliuca, a co-owner of the Boston Celtics. "We think we've made the major leaps."
But local Olympics opponents say the latest version of the plan still fails to guarantee taxpayers won't foot the bill in the event of cost overruns or revenue shortfalls.
Chris Dempsey, co-chairman of the No Boston Olympics group, said organizers haven't delved into the details of a proposed insurance plan to protect taxpayer interests, including whether there's an insurer actually willing to provide the coverage.
"They still have not explained why city of Boston taxpayers need to take the risk and sign a blank check," he said. "Boston 2024's only real insurer is the taxpayers of Massachusetts."
Olympics organizers, in the hundreds of glossy pages released Monday, described a "multi-layer" insurance package costing roughly $128 million.
Based off a package Chicago proposed in its ultimately unsuccessful bid for the 2016 games, the insurance would include an umbrella policy covering a range of issues like non-payment by sponsors or cancellation, as well as individual policies for venue-building projects.
Pagliuca promised more details about the idea would be forthcoming.
"From the way we're looking at it, we've got four layers of protection," he said. "There is very little risk that these insurances won't cover every issue that can happen."
Boston's bid has stumbled since getting the initial nod from the USOC, with local opposition and low poll numbers forcing organizers to spread some venues across the state to gain political support the bid couldn't muster inside the city.
About half of the 32 venues have been relocated or otherwise shuffled since the original plan was announced, including moving some games from iconic Boston locales like the Common, Boston Harbor and nearby Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
Pagliuca said the proposed games would still be among the most compact in Olympics history, with 23 of the venues within a short radius.
Organizers said they're still firming up venues for swimming and other indoor aquatic sports, golf and biking events.
Organizers now estimate the games will produce at least $4.8 billion in revenues from television broadcast rights, tickets sales, corporate sponsorships and other revenues. They assume nearly $4.6 billion in costs, including $176 million for a temporary Olympic Stadium, $90 million for the athletes' village, about $754 million to build other Olympic venues and another $132 million to rent other locations.
That leaves about a $210 million in contingency and surplus, organizers said.
Boston 2024 opponents counter that the "surplus" is only achieved through creative accounting that takes some Olympic-related costs off the books. And even the most optimistic view of the "privately funded" Boston Games would require billions in public infrastructure and security expenditures.
"The promise of a surplus has been heard in host cities before, but public debt and underutilized venues have been the typical post-Olympics reality," Dempsey's No Boston Olympics group said in a statement.
On the significant transportation concerns that have dogged the proposal, organizers suggested investments critical to improving Boston's oft-maligned transit system can accommodate the needs of the Olympics if they are completed by 2024.
Boston 2024 CEO Richard Davey, a former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, said the state is already committed to roughly $2 billion for new subway trains and commuter rail and bus service upgrades.
Meeting future demands and the needs of the Olympics would require another $1 billion or so in transportation upgrades on top of that, the revised bid documents show.
"We need those projects to be built for a successful Boston in 2024, whether the games occur or not," Davey said.
More than the previous proposal, "Bid 2.0" touts the long term legacies the games will leave behind in Boston. Among them:
— Jobs: about 4,100 construction jobs over five years starting in 2018; about 54,300 jobs during the operation of the games and another 2,200 post-Olympics jobs.
— Housing: 7,000 apartment units and about 2,700 college student beds for the University of Massachusetts-Boston
— Neighborhoods: creation of "Midtown," a new, 83-acre neighborhood south of downtown at the site of the temporary, 69,000-seat Olympic stadium as well as development of 30 acres at Columbia Point, the proposed waterfront site of the athlete's village
— Taxes: about $362 million by 2080, when Olympics organizers assume all tax breaks and incentives would be phased out for "Midtown," a site that they say generates less than a million in tax revenue for the city now.
— Parks: Completion of Boston's Emerald Necklace, an unbroken ring of green space through the city's neighborhoods envisioned by famed 19th Century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead.


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The North American Membrane Society (NAMS) is a key US technical society related to membranes. NAMS hosts an annual meeting, http://nams2019.org/, which will be 11-15 May, 2019 in Pittsburgh.
For M-WET researchers, there is a particularly exciting set of plenary speakers this year, including our very own M-WET Associate Director Rachel Segalman, Dr. Peter Fiske, Director of the Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute at LBNL, and Dr. Tim Merkel, Vice President of Technology at Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
Measurement Methods for Membranes. Presented by John Pellegrino (University of Colorado, Boulder), Ryan Lively (Georgia Tech), and Uwe Beuscher (W.L. Gore).
Membranes for Water Treatment Applications. Presented by Isabel Escobar, Dibakar Bhattacharya (University of Kentucky) and Ben Weaver (Nanostone Water).
Membranes for Gas Separations. Presented by Glenn Lipscomb (University of Toledo), Benny Freeman (University of Texas, Austin) and Tim Merkel (MTR Inc.).
Polymeric and Inorganic Membrane Materials and Membrane Formation. Presented by Maria Coleman (University of Toledo) and Henk Verweij (Ohio State University).
In addition to 3 days of oral presentations on various topics relevant to M-WET, NAMS always hosts a robust, highly interactive poster session, and many participants report meaningful research conversations and networking opportunities with leaders in the field at the poster sessions.
8 January 2019 – Award Applications Due. NAMS offers a variety of student travel, student fellowship and young membrane scientists awards, and I would strongly urge M-WET early career researcher to consider applying.
15 February 2019 – Abstract submission closes for both oral and poster presentations. In our group, if a student submits an abstract for an oral presentation, I would always encourage them to submit a poster abstract as well, given the excellent experience we have had with previous poster sessions. There are also cash prizes for best poster and oral presentation awards, and it would be fantastic to see M-WET well-represented when awards are announced.


As part of the installation, the continuous noise fragments of the original recording are used as room exciters at various locations using loudspeakers hidden in the museum space. Thus creating a multi-centered, subliminal change of color in the exhibition space, which changes according to the 31-part time structure of the original composition and its interpretation. The change in the listening position of the audience leads to shading effects through the furniture and construction of the respective building. This in turn gives rise to individual aural architectures of the individual listener, who at the moment when the end of one of the variations is reached, break off, collapse and rebuild themselves when using the next variation.
Glenn Gould's favorite color was the camouflage color of battleship grey, as he noted in an interview with himself from Vom Konzertsaal zum Tonstudio – Schriften zur Musik 2, p. 119.
schlachtschiffgrau (81) is an 8-channel audio work that can be heard through invisible loudspeakers in the exhibition space. The work refers to the Canadian pianist and author Glenn Gould, who is particularly important for Sharma because of his writings as well as his media-theoretical views expressed in interviews and writings. The work title is a direct reference to Gould, who once referred to the camouflage color battleshipgray as his favorite color. The idea of camouflage, more precisely of a subliminal audible sound curtain in a kind of acoustic camouflage layer, resonates in Sharma's sound installation. The sound material used is derived from Gould's later recording of the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. The number 81 in the title refers to the fact that Gould's recording in 1981 was the last official production of the 30th Street Studio of Columbia Records. Thereafter, the historically legendary and for the "studio media art" formative recording studio was closed, probably because it was no longer profitable. Audible in the installation is not the familiar piano sound. Sharma takes over the noise component and thus above all the time structure of Gould's legendary recording and to a certain extent, he generates an abstract homage far from anecdotal allusions and superficial sound quotes.


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