. . . Researchers unveil Mozart piano pieces in Austria


A sheet of music from the Dies Irae movement of the Requiem Mass
in D Minor (K. 626) in Mozart's own handwriting . . .
[It is located at Mozarthaus in Vienna, Austria]

By VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 42 mins ago

SALZBURG, Austria – Technically demanding and at times furiously paced, two newly identified Mozart works unveiled Sunday are helping scholars complete their assessment of the maestro's very early achievements. The childhood creations — an extensive concerto movement and a fragmentary prelude — provide yet more proof the Salzburg native was a true prodigy. And maybe a bit of a showoff.

"We have here the first orchestral movement by the young Mozart — even though the orchestral parts are missing — and therefore it's an extremely important missing link in our understanding of Mozart's development as a young composer," said Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation after a presentation of the pieces in Mozart's native Salzburg.

Mozart, who was born in 1756, began playing the keyboard at age 3 and composing at 5. By the time he died of rheumatic fever on Dec. 5, 1791, he had written more than 600 pieces.

Leisinger said Mozart likely wrote the two newly attributed pieces when he was 7 or 8 years old, with his father, Leopold, transcribing the notes as his son played them at the keyboard.

A series of analyses confirmed the writing as Leopold's; at the time Mozart was not yet versed in musical notation. But Leopold was ruled out as the composer of the pieces based on stylistic scrutiny, the Mozarteum said in a statement.

"There are obvious discrepancies between the technical virtuosity and a certain lack of compositional experience," it said.

At Sunday's presentation at the Mozart residence, Austrian musician Florian Birsak, an expert on early keyboard music, played the two pieces on the maestro's own fortepiano for a throng of reporters, photographers and camera crews.

Later, Birsak explained how learning to play the concerto movement was a bit of a challenge because of complex aspects such as "large jumps."

To Robert D. Levin, who provided an orchestral accompaniment to the concerto, the young Mozart wanted to show "everything he could do" in the piece.

"What the composer expects of the player in racing passagework, crossed hands and wild leaps is more than a bit crazy," said Levin, a pianist and Harvard University professor internationally recognized for his completion of Mozart fragments.

Both works were identified as part of a larger investigation of the foundation's Mozart-related materials, including letters, documents and more than 100 music manuscripts — some in the hand of the composer, others transcribed by contemporaries.

While "Nannerl's Music Book" has been in the foundation's hands for more than a century, the pieces were considered anonymous creations until Leisinger and his team took a closer look.

"These two pieces struck us because they were so extravagant," Leisinger said, adding that the two works share a number of similarities but that the prelude — believed to have been written after the concerto movement — was "much more refined."

"One could almost get the impression that Leopold said to his son, 'Look, you've written this crazy concerto movement, try to do it better, a little bit more concise,' and as a result we ended up with this prelude-like movement," he said.

Posthumous discoveries of Mozart pieces are rare but not unheard of.

In September, Leisinger announced that a French library had found a previously unknown piece handwritten by Mozart.

That work, described as the preliminary draft of a musical composition, was found in Nantes, in western France, as staff members went through the library's archives. Leisinger said the library contacted his foundation for help authenticating the work.

The latest finds add "important details" to what we know about the young Mozart's work, said Christoph Wolff, professor of music history at Harvard University, who is also director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany.

"The Salzburg discovery offers significant insight into the earliest accomplishments of Mozart," Wolff said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

The Salzburg-based foundation, established in 1880 and a prime source for Mozart-related matters, seeks to preserve the composer's heritage and find new approaches for analyzing him.

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Intel News Release


Courtesy of benchside

. . . Facebook Application for BOINC from Intel and GridRepublic


Intel has teamed up with GridRepublic to bring the Progress Thru Processors application to Facebook.

Display your stats on your profile, encourage others to join in volunteer computing, change preferences,

add computers, and more from the application . . .


Intel Helps Convert Unused PC Processor Power into an Instrument to Fight Disease and Study Climate Change

New Application Combines Social Networking Power of Facebook with the Life-Changing Promise of Volunteer Computing

SANTA CLARA, California - Aug. 03 2009

– Often in the fight against cancer, researchers are not limited by their ingenuity, but the resources available to make research effective.

The processor power needed to handle complex calculations is often in short supply. To help address this need, Intel Corporation today announced

Progress Thru Processors, a new volunteer computing application built on the Facebook platform that allows people to donate their PCs' unused

processor power to research projects such as Rosetta@home, which uses the additional computing power to help find cures for cancer and other

diseases such as HIV and Alzheimer's.


In addition to Rosetta@home, Progress Thru Processors participants can choose to contribute excess processor computing power to the research

efforts of Climateprediction.net and Africa@home. Climateprediction.net is dedicated to increased understanding of global climate change by

predicting the Earth's climate and testing the accuracy of climate models. Africa@home is currently focused on finding optimal strategies to

combat malaria by studying simulation models of disease transmission and the potential impact of new anti-malarial drugs and vaccines.


"In the same spirit as Intel's Small Things Challenge, Progress Thru Processors underscores our belief that small contributions made by

individuals can collectively have a far-reaching impact on our world," said Deborah Conrad, Intel vice president and general manager,

Corporate Marketing Group. "By simply running an application on your computer, which uses very little incremental resources, you can expand

computing resources to researchers working to make the world a better place."


Launched today as a public beta and available to all Facebook users at www.facebook.com/progressthruprocessors, the application automatically

directs a computer's idle processor power to fuel researchers' computational efforts. The application will activate only when a PC's performance

is not being fully utilized. When the participant's computer usage demands more processor performance, the application defers and sits idle until

spare processing capabilities become available again.


The application runs automatically as a background process on a PC and will not affect performance or any other tasks. Additionally, Progress

Thru Processors does not require participants to leave their computers powered up unnecessarily. By keeping their PCs on only as they normally

would, participants will still be contributing to life-changing research.


Intel's long history supporting volunteer computing projects includes sponsorship of SETI@home as well as Intel's Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program,

which donated computer processing power to cancer research.


For Progress Thru Processors, Intel has teamed with GridRepublic, a not-for-profit volunteer computing organization that seeks to bring together

people with spare processing power with worthy projects in need of computing resources.


"The social and scientific utility of volunteer computing is a function of the number of participants – the more people we sign up, the greater

the good we can collectively do," said Matt Blumberg, executive director of GridRepublic. "We're optimistic that the combination of the Facebook

platform and Intel's global reach will help bring large numbers of new people into volunteer computing, enabling research and discovery which

would otherwise be impossible."


Progress Thru Processors was developed in collaboration with the National Science Foundation-funded BOINC project at the University of California,

Berkeley. Marketing and creative for Progress Thru Processors was provided by noise, a New York-based marketing agency.

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. .. 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles

You can contribute to a variety of scientific research and charities by donating your system's idle processing power to operate an on-the-fly supercomputer. by Bob Brown - Network World

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. . .here's something that may bE rElEvant



Graph showing the normalized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for 1 kW beacon signals
over a distance of ten light years. It assumes symmetrical telescopes at both ends
of the link, and that the transmitter is not resolved from the image of the star.

. . . compare this graph to that given in First Contact26 (Chapter 4, Page 151, by Dr. Michael Klein). The first impressions from that graph (Figure 1 of Chapter 4)
is again that optical communications are useless. This is far from the truth. Indeed, the graph is very misleading. One might be forgiven for thinking that in this model,
the ETIs are using Compact Disc-type laser-diodes and/or hobby model-type telescopes! The assumed optical EIRPs are much too low. Also, the graph is plotted in terms of EIRP,
and therefore exaggerates the efficacy of the microwave approach for an electronic receiver (instead of an observer), because it does not show the typical 10 K noise floor of
a high-quality microwave receiver, only the radio brightness of a quiet G-type star. The latter is about 54 dB beneath the 10 K systems noise floor, as shown in Figure 2, and
could only be detected after considerable signal integration. At 1.5 GHz, it is generally the Cosmic Background, i.e., the 2.73 K aftermath of the theoretical Big Bang,
and the electronic noise in the microwave front-end that limits signal detectability, not Planckian radio noise from the star

. . . interested? sEE The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) In The Optical Spectrum: A Review


1990-2006 Stuart A. Kingsley / The Columbus Optical SETI Observatory

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UC BERKELEY NEWS - 11.19.2009

. . . UC BERKELEY RESEARCH GARNERS NEARLY $65 MILLION IN FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY

By Robert Sanders, Media Relations

Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, UC

Berkeley has received nearly $65 million in research funds from the federal

government, primarily from the National Institutes of Health and the National

Science Foundation . . .

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‘Chess set for Tesla’

. . . Vacuum Tube Chess Set made by artist Paul Fryer. There were only 7 of these amazing chess sets made, and the pieces light up when plugged in, as you can see from the photos there are symbols on top of each tube which show which piece they are. This is pretty clever it was made from a combination of wood glass and tubes, and the artist call it the ‘Chess set for Tesla’

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‘Chess set for Tesla’

. . . Vacuum Tube Chess Set made by artist Paul Fryer. There were only 7 of these amazing chess sets made, and the pieces light up when plugged in, as you can see from the photos there are symbols on top of each tube which show which piece they are. This is pretty clever it was made from a combination of wood glass and tubes, and the artist call it the ‘Chess set for Tesla’

Wayyyyy too cool.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

. . . Thank you Bruno - May your Holidays & the New Year see you well . . .

Gianni Urso IZ8ELM of national radio program RapportoRadio
in RapportoRadio - n°43 - (122)

radio interview on radio astronomy, SETI@home and distributed computing with Bruno Moretti Turri IK2WQA (in italian language)

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. . . Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search [TED Prize winner!]

The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company.

Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe . . .

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Berkeley News - 22 Feb 2010

Designer of the Arecibo telescope has passed away. William E. Gordon, the designer of the Arecibo radio telescope, has passed away at the age of 92.

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Berkeley News:

Video on making a desktop supercomputer

Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer.

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~ a large 'sculptured' nail was pinning the plane on the Wall ~


. . . Dustin Schuler - an artist friend in Los Angeles, California placed a piper on the wall of The American Gallery & Studios

a number of years ago - the plane & a collection of smaller model planes were in The American Gallery - 2nd floor

representing a Butterfly collection . . .

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. . . recallin' the SETI Social Club days





~ MF2mid ~

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. . . recallin' the SETI Social Club days





~ MF2mid ~

I wish i could recall those days...I just got in for a bit of what is now called SETI Classic...I went over to SETI BOINC that summer...

Believe it or not...For quite awhile i was unaware of the message boards!...I was just a lonely cruncher...out on my own...Not knowing anything of the worldwide community that has grown up around SETI@home.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

. . . finally after almost ONE YEAR i have fixed my 1714 ERROR

- baCk to crunChin' i go . . .



< on-&-off > coffee 4 y'all . . .

note: i shall be writing a paper regarding this particular ERROR @ soME other tiME

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. . . NTPCkr, NTPCkr, whERE ar't thou?

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