Bach Festival Impressions

Bach in Mind

A conserved Bach current

The Bach tensor and a vector which generates conformal symmetries allow a conserved 4-current to be defined. The Bach 4-current gives rise to a quasilocal 2-surface expression for power per luminosity distance in the Vaidya exterior of collapsing fluid interiors. This is interpreted in terms of entropy generation. PACS numbers: 0420J, 0440N

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

The International Garden Festival

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Impressions

as defective; (b) the work of Local Mental Welfare Associations. I propose to make a few remarks, of necessity impressions only, first about (a) and then about (b). For the large urban area, with its population of over 50,000, the problem becomes comparatively simple: the special school is well known to all, especially in those districts where its nature is well advertised by a large noticeboar...