Diane's Blog Comments

Roger Newton: Blogging Mozart

nospam@example.com (Roger Newton) — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:16:45 -0700

I imagine the Trio would have been a personal favorite of Mozart himself as well. All three instruments were Mozart's favorites in their categories. We know his genius as a pianist. The clarinet (or more properly the basset horn with its extended lower register) had become his favorite wind instrument by his final year, 1791. Not only was the concerto written in that year, but note the use of a pair of bassett horns (or clarinets) to set the mood in the opening measures of the Requiem. And the viola was his instrument of choice when he played his own and Haydn's string quartets (Haydn occasionally played the first violin in the group, I think). I'm guessing that Mozart played the viola in the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, but I'm not sure. So Mozart would have had a special love for this very trio.

A question: If you are ever trying to find a beautiful recorded 21st-century setting of Mozart's sublime Ave Verum Corpus, listen to Elisabeth von Trapp's version on her CD "Love Never Ends." It is hauntingly beautiful, at least in my opinion.

Sincerely.

Roger Newton
Retired Lutheran Pastor
Philadelphia, PA

one Happy Geek Husband: Happy Anniversary

nospam@example.com (one Happy Geek Husband) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:23:42 -0800

I am so happy and so in love!

Happy aniversary beloved.

Gerard J. Cerchio: Point Counterpoint

nospam@example.com (Gerard J. Cerchio) — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:45:53 -0800

This WWIV may not be all that discreditable, this was in my mailbox this morning:
[quote]CALL FOR PAPERS

SIMA 2006
2nd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management
24 October 2006 / Washington, DC, USA

In conjunction with MILCOM 2006

Many domains, such as modern battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring, and mobile/autonomic robotics, are characterized by heightened mobility, large number of distributed heterogeneous information sources, and existence of complex, often incomplete and unpredictable dynamic situations. As a result, there is need for effective methods of situation recognition, prediction, reasoning and control -- operations collectively identifiable as Situation Management. Often situations involve a large number of inter-dependent dynamic objects that change their states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly complex relations. From a management viewpoint it is important to understand the situations in which these objects participate, to recognize emerging trends and potential threats, and to undertake required actions. Understanding of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive modeling of situations, building situation ontologies, and continuous collection, perception, and fusion of signal and human intelligence events and reports.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and decision makers from government, industry and academia to present the state of their research, development and systems needs in situation management, to discuss fundamental issues and problems, and to identify future R&D directions. Technical papers are invited in areas including but not limited to the following topics:

Situation Calculus
Situation Modeling
Situation Ontologies and Semantics
Situation Specification Languages and Tools
Situation Monitoring and Awareness
Reasoning about Situations
Learning and Situation Discovery
Predictive Situation Modeling
Cognitive Models of Information Fusion
Situation Management Architectures
Agents, Grids and Distributed Situation Management
Situation Management in Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems
Net-Centric Warfare and Battlespace Situation Management
Disaster Response & Crisis Management
* Infrastructure and Cyber Security Situation Management [/quote]

Diane Cerchio: This is a test

nospam@example.com (Diane Cerchio) — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:04:27 -0800

You forgot the pet food and children's games.