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All that glitters is not quantum AI
You should be skeptical of current attempts to make a quantum computer that enhances artificial intelligence.
By Tiernan Ray | April 26, 2019 -- 21:05 GMT (14:05 PDT) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Quantum AI: Fancier isn't always better ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains to Karen Roby of TechRepublic that users should be skeptical of current attempts to have quantum computers enhance AI. Read more: https://zd.net/2JhQxmP
Why hasn't the field of artificial intelligence created the equivalent of human intelligence? Is it because the problem, "artificial general intelligence," isn't well understood, or is it because we just need much faster computers, specifically quantum computers?
The latter view is the source of a vibrant field of research, "Quantum Machine Learning," or QML.
But a bit of skepticism is warranted.
"We need to look through a skeptical eye at the idea that quantum makes things faster and therefore can make machine learning advances," says Jennifer Fernick, the head of research at NCC Group-North America, a cyber-security firm based in Manchester, U.K.
Fernick was a keynote speaker a week ago at the O'Reilly A.I. conference in New York. She sat down this week to tell ZDNet why she's skeptical about all the hype that's emerging in the pairing of quantum and A.I.
"Right now, if we look at work in QML, people are experimenting with things such as, could we build a Support Vector Machine (SVM) or a Boltzmann Machine — can we build these existing canonical machine learning models — in the quantum machine," observes Fernick. She is referring to two older models of machine learning that emerged in the 1980s and the 1990s, prior to today's deep learning systems.
Recent quantum work in speeding up machine learning is "cool," says Jennifer Fernick, head of engineering for cybersecurity firm NCC Group, "but not necessarily inherently a revolution in A.I."
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Indeed, recent research by IBM has attempted to show that even today's simple quantum systems, such as a 2-qubit model, can theoretically go well beyond what "classical" computers using the flow of electrons can compute.
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The IBM work is part of a recent craze to find uses for quantum computing before large systems are commercially viable. The trends is known as "shallow quantum circuits," also referred to as "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices," or "NISQ."
However, attempts in NISQ to speed up a shallow machine learning task, such as SVM or Boltzmann Machines, may not really be achieving much, she reflected.
"Quantum computing can make certain things faster if the underlying math has a structure that is exploitable via quantum and we have the right quantum algorithms," she says. "Before we jump on the bandwagon, we need to ask, What are the true algorithmic innovations?"
In the case of cryptography, one of Fernick's areas of focus as a security specialist, quantum computing is "clearly worth it," she says.
A quantum computer can render trivial the operation of "factoring" a given number into its component prime numbers where a classical computer would find it impossible.
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"For machine learning, I feel like we've translated that same enthusiasm with cryptanalysis, but there is not even the theoretical demonstration that we are going to have that same impact," says Fernick.
Fernick's skepticism finds inspiration in the relatively young field of computational complexity theory. In particular, she is enamored of the work of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Scott Aaronson, who is associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
Aaronson, whom Fernick deems the most interesting mathematician alive, has pointed out that simply being able to speed up computing of a given learning model in A.I. may not be the key to artificial general intelligence. Is it the case that simulating a human mind is an operation that requires exponential computing time, or is it not? he asks. If it were, it might be the case that the speed-up from quantum would genuinely be an advantage.
According to Aaronson, it is neither "trivially true" nor "trivially false" that simulating a human brain is an exponentially difficult computing operation. That means it's not clear that AGI is the kind of "inefficient" operation in classical computing where quantum can gain.
On the contrary, Arronson implies it may in fact be the case that something is going on in the mind that is achievable in "polynomial time," a less-demanding form of compute than exponential time. As Aaronson wrote in a 2011 paper, it's possible software that can describe the mind is "a compact, efficient computer program" that "includes representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning, and all sorts of other internal furniture that we would expect to find in a mind."
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That observation, that the right AGI might be computationally less demanding, not more, accords with Fernick's instincts.
"Oftentimes, the revolution we might be looking for in A.I. is not a minor speed-up of an existing problem we might already do efficiently."
Things such as building a quantum SVM are "cool, but not necessarily inherently a revolution in A.I. It doesn't mean we will suddenly get a lot better ML."
Fernick's own career was inspired by such questions of what is efficiently computable. "I hated computers into my late teens," she says, preferring the field of neuroscience. That changed when she took a course in computers as an undergrad at the University of Toronto.
"I had a wonderful professor, Diane Horton," she recalls. "On the last day of class, as she was putting papers away, she said to me, 'if you keep studying computer science, there are some topics you might get exposed to, and one is that there are things that are not computable before the heat death of the universe."
Complexity of compute goes back to the early days of both computer science and A.I.
"The very early A.I. practitioners were starting to relate what they were doing to computational hardness," Fernick says of work in the 1940s and 1950s on symbolic logic as it relates to cognition.
"That hasn't been as dominant a theme in the last couple decades in computer science," she observes. Now, "it's time to start asking those really deep questions yet again," says Fernick.
As for quantum itself, the place to look, says Fernick, to deduce whether it will have any advantage, in A.I. or anything else, is a 2013 paper in the journal Science by researchers M. H. Devoret and R. J. Schoelkopf. They propose seven "milestones" that have to be met for engineering quantum systems.
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"The core insight from that paper — the one I found most interesting — is that it's really not the number of qubits that we have, say, 100 versus 110 qubits, but rather, what among those seven milestones, which engineering problems, have we solved?" Fernick says.
Near the top of the stack of seven milestones, far from the field of today's NISQ, are the quantum algorithms that will ultimately drive the use of logical gates of qubits.
Science is "still very much in the infancy of quantum algorithms," observes Fernick. "It's very naive to think that the quantum algorithms we have now are what we will be excited about 20 years from now."
Those still-undiscovered algorithms are probably a better place to look for a quantum A.I. gain.
Muses Fernick, "Wouldn't it be more interesting to exploit those quantum physical properties in an entirely new way to make algorithms that are very different?"
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Tea and Tariffs
The economic impact of the pandemic makes it unlikely that China will meet the expectations of a "phase one" agreement negotiated with the US in January. As a result, the US said it might initiate another round of tariffs targeting China.
On May 8, to keep what have been productive discussions on track, the US Trade Representatives' office released this statement: "In spite of the current global health emergency, both countries fully expect to meet their obligations under the agreement in a timely manner."
In January, China agreed to a 2020 increase of $76.7 billion over 2017 imports. China has since purchased less than $25 billion of US goods, which is a decline of 5.9% through April compared to 2019, reports Bloomberg. The 2020 goal is almost $200 billion in sales.
US trade plunged in March. Overall, the US bought 6.5% fewer goods than during the same period in 2019. Imports of Chinese tea through March 2020 declined 23% compared to the same period in 2019, according to the global agricultural trade system database (GATS). Lower sales are due, in part, to a 15% tariff imposed in September 2019. The duty was later reduced to 7.5% in February 2020, but by then, many blenders had switched suppliers. During the first quarter in 2019, the US imported Chinese tea valued at $32.0 million, a total that declined to $24.7 million during the same period in 2020.
Volume is down 31% from 8.7 million metric tons (m.t.) to 6.0 million m.t. through March. China is predominately a green tea exporter, but volumes of every category slid, except organic flavored green tea. Jason Walker, marketing director at Firsd Tea in New Jersey, the US offices of China's largest tea exporter, writes that while "US imports of Chinese black tea have generally declined over the past five years, more recently, the US-China trade war and coronavirus pandemic have contributed to this slowdown. However, organic black tea imports from China have been rising, with a 66% increase in volume."
First quarter export volume dropped to 72,000 metric tons, down 9.7% compared to the same period in 2019, according to China Customs Data (reported by Walker). Export value for Chinese tea shipped to the US dropped 1.3% to $373 million. The average price per kilo for Chinese tea exports increased 9.3% to $5.17. Since workers were able to return to the fields before April, tea production in China was spared the pandemic-associated drop in yield experienced in India and Sri Lanka. Imports recorded during the first quarter include little of the spring harvest. Second-quarter statistics will be more revealing, as they will reflect the logistical challenges that are still rippling through the supply chain.
"Firsd Tea has been watching the activity at US ports for indications of delays and disruptions. We have not seen any to date," writes Walker. "In terms of containers leaving China, we have not seen any disruptions since normal business resumed around the end of February in China. At this point, China operations have implemented monitoring systems and PPE [personal protection equipment] requirements for workers. We are watching for indications of flare-ups, but so far, we don't see evidence of another wave of infection."
Blenders initially found themselves racing to meet the demand for packaged goods, particularly private label for grocery, but orders for foodservice grades has virtually disappeared due to the unprecedented restaurant and retail tea closures. This alone will substantially reduce tea imports from every producing country.
Specialty tea importers receiving Chinese tea this spring say that demand remains steady despite a three-fold increase in airfreight, which is a far greater expense than the 7.5% tariff.
While the US administration is angry at China, the escalation of retaliatory measures challenges the prevailing business assumptions guiding American companies in China. US companies invested $14 billion in new factories and other long-term investments in China last year, according to the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Rhodium Group, a consultancy that tracks foreign direct investment flows.Shawn Donnan, writing in Bloomberg Supply Lines, suggests, "It's worth remembering every so often that it is still businesses and not governments that really make the decisions that drive globalization and supply chains and that they aren't decoupling yet."
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Q: Need to start up all gemfire members with persisted data first and at the same time When i invoked GFSH shutdown command on my Gemfire cluster in my development environment before, I still need to wait for the rest of Gemfire Cache Server members to start up again. Why?
I thought when i invoked the GFSH shutdown command will all members running, all online data stores will be synchronized before shutting, so all hold the most recent data copy. Thus, all cache server member will have the most recent record.
Software Configuration

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*4 Cache Server

*2 Locator

*Gemfire 9.8.4

*Persistence Replicated Regions

For example, if i invoked the GFSH shutdown command on the Gemfire Cluster and then perform shutdowns on all the machine. Then, i start 2 Locator and 3 Cache Servers. Will it wait for the remaining Cache Server?
Addition
In the cache server log :
[info ...19:27:02.327...... <main> tid=0x1] Created oplog#9 drf for disk store pdxMetaDataStore
[info ...19:27:02.327...... <main> tid=0x1] Created oplog#9 crf for disk store pdxMetaDataStore
[info ...19:27:02.327...... <main> tid=0x1] Deleted oplog#8 crf for disk store pdxMetaDataStore
[info ...19:27:02.327...... <main> tid=0x1] Deleted oplog#8 drf for disk store pdxMetaDataStore
[info ...19:27:02.329...... <main> tid=0x1] recovery region initialization took 17 ms
[info ...19:27:02.355...... <main> tid=0x1] Initializing region PdxTypes
[info ...19:31:31.509...... <unicast-receiver,gf-1> receive new view: View[148.88.88.100....
.....
[info ...19:31:31.514...... Admitting member...
[info ...19:31:31.514...... Region PdxTypes requesting initial image from 148.88.88.100...
[info ...19:31:31.514...... PdxTypes is done getting image from 148.88.88.100.

The region PdxTypes initialized finished only when another cache server is started.
server-cache.xml
<disk-store name="pdxMetaDataStore" compaction-threshold="40" auto-compact="false" allow-force-compaction="true" max-oplog-size="75" queue-size="10000" time-interval="15" write-buffer-size="65535">
<disk-dirs>
  <disk-dir dir-size="3000">/gemfire/store</disk-dir>
</disk-dirs>
</disk-store>
<pdx read-serialized="true" disk-store-name="pdxMetaDataStore" persistent="true/>

GFSH
Disk Store ID                        |  Host          | Directory
--------------------------------------------------------------------
66asdf-asdf-asdf-asdf-asdfafadfasfC  | 148.88.88.100  | /gemfire/store

snippet thread dump
"Asynchronous disk writer for region pdxMetaDataStore" #55 daemon prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x0007ffcess nid=0x225d in Object.wait() [0x001....]
java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:460)
    at java.util.concurrent.TimeUnti.timedWait(TimeUnit.java:348)
    at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DiskStoreImpl$FlusherThread.waitUntilFlushIsReady(DiskStoreImpl.java:1647)
     - Locked <0x00000123123> (a java.lang.Object)
    at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DiskStoreImpl$FlusherThread.doAsyncFlush(DiskStoreImpl.java:1706)
    at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DiskStoreImpl$FlusherThread.run(DiskStoreImpl.java:1696)

"main" #1 prio=5........ in Object.wait() [0x......]
  "Java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
   at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.MembershipChangeListener.waitForChange(MembershipChangeListener.java:62)
  - Locked (0x....) (a org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.MembershipChangeListener)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.PersistenceInitialImageAdvisor.waitForMembershipChangeForMissingDiskStores(PersistenceInitialImageAdvisor.java:218)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.PersistenceInitialImageAdvisor.getAdvice(PersistenceInitialImageAdvisor.java:118)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.PeristenceAdvisorImpl.getInitialImageAdvice(PeristenceAdvisorImpl.java:835)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.persistence.CreatePersistentRegionProcessor.getInitialImageAdvice(CreatePersistentRegionProcessor.java:52)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DistributedRegion.getInitialImageAndRecovery(DisritubedRegion.java:1196)
   at org.apache.geode.internal.cache.DistributedRegion.initialize(DistributedRegion.java:1076)
 ......

A: I've just seen the updated description and log extract, these messages are common within a GemFire cluster whenever members leave or join the distributed system (internal synchronisation mechanism), they don't imply that the server is waiting for other servers to come up and finish initialisation, in such cases you would see something like the following:
Region /MyRegion has potentially stale data.
It is waiting for another member to recover the latest data.
My persistent id:

  DiskStore ID: 6893751ee74d4fbd-b4780d844e6d5ce7
  Name: server1
  Location: /192.0.2.0:/home/dsmith/server1/.

Members with potentially new data:
[
  DiskStore ID: 160d415538c44ab0-9f7d97bae0a2f8de
  Name: server2
  Location: /192.0.2.0:/home/dsmith/server2/.
]
Use the "gfsh show missing-disk-stores" command to see all disk stores
that are being waited on by other members.

You can have a look at this post for further information about the Get Initial Image Sequence sequence.
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Song of the Week: Big Fish
By Albert Luna
Big Fish by Vince Staples is one of the few clean rap/hip-hop songs in my library. On this song Staples' raps about several things including money, women, and his hometown. Big Fish Theory, the album, was released on June 23 of this year which makes it Staples' most recent studio album.
On the hook of Big Fish, Staples raps about "Countin' up hundreds by the thousand" but this shouldn't fool the listener. He is not obsessed with showing off his money and rather spend it on helping the youth in Long Beach. Talking about Long Beach, he also mentions three locations like Artesia Boulevard, Sawyer Street, and Ramona Park.
Staples says "Women problems every morning like the Maury show." He makes a reference to the famous Maury show that solves disputes between people on topics like paternity tests and relationship problems. His women problems he talks about was his ex who he he broke up with in September 2015 after being on and off with her since middle school.
Although some of Staples' lyrics can be considered gangster rap, like when he says "the skinny carry strong heat", he does not consider himself a gangster rapper.
Big Fish is not the only good track on Big Fish Theory, so I recommend a good listen to the whole album.


1. What is your name and what is your breed (if applicable)?
My name is Bunners, which is short for Space Bunners, which is short for Space Bunners: Master of the Galaxy. My breed is Space Rabbit (black and white).
2. Where is the strangest place you've fallen asleep?
I usually do my sleeps underneath the couch but this one time I fell asleep upside down in my space ship which wasn't good cuz I was supposed to be driving it but I was tiiiiiired.
3. When you sleep, what do you dream about?
I usually dream about me and my dad. In my dreams we play fetch all the time…but we kinda do that when I'm awake too! MY DAD IS AWESOME!!!
4. If you ruled the world, you would _________.
I would give free bananas for everyone! AND CARROTS! CARROTS AND BANANAS FOR EVERYONE! THEY ARE SO AWESOME!!!
5. What is your human's most annoying trait?
My dad works a lot. He works at a play place so he's not always home to have funtimes with me. But sometimes he puts me in his shows! Also, I think he's balding (I can only see when I hop real high).
6. Do you have a special talent or skill?
I'm real good at playing fetch! You can see how good I am at www.spacebunners.com. I can also spacewalk. And I'm real goods with the ladies bunnies who are always talking to me on my Facebooks (friend me at Bunners Rabinovitz if you're an awesome lady bunny.) I LOVE BANANAS!!!
2. When you sleep, what do you dream about?
Beggin' Strips and getting attention.
4. What is your human's most annoying trait?
NOT LETTING ME LICK THEIR PLATE AFTER DINNER!
5. Do you have a special talent or skill?
I'm good at everything I've ever tried. Snuggling, begging for attention, succeeding in getting attention, licking, smiling, pooping in the front yard, watering plants, eating, and napping, just to name a few.
1. Where is the strangest place you've fallen asleep?
The strangest place I've fallen asleep is on top of the refrigerator! It's so warm and makes a strange noise! I enjoy that.
When I fall asleep, I dream about how long my regal mane will get and when my time machine will be completed.
3. If you ruled the world, you would _________.
If I ruled the world, I would create a time machine that everyone can use!
My human's most annoying trait is when she picks me up and dances to The Smiths with me. I do not enjoy that.
My special talent or skill is that I chirp when I purr. I basically sound like a motor with bird-like effects.
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Igc Sees Foreign Fighters Supported By
IGC sees Foreign Fighters supported by Baathists
Sources in the Interim Governing Council told al-Zaman that there is evidence that between 200 and 400 foreign fighters, from Sudan, Yemen, Palestine and even Chechnya, are responsible for suicide bombings in Iraq, and that they receive logistical support and help from a network of Baath loyalists. What I can't understand is, if Baath loyalists have such good logistics, and given that there are thousands of them, why it is useful to put so much emphasis on a couple hundred foreign volunteers. Iraq's 400,000 strong army had a lot of people in it who knew how to rig a bomb. It is not clear that outside volunteers would necessarily be as well trained, for the most part.
The foreign fighters thesis had cold water poured on it the day before yesterday when US military sources told the Washington Post that satellite photos and other surveillance of the border to not show any infiltration of fighters from Syria. They thereby dared contradict Bill Safire, of the New York Times, who loudly proclaimed that the resistance to the US is all Syria's fault. But then, Safire has an axe to grind, whereas US officers on the ground have a need to gather accurate intelligence. If you put resources into patrolling the Syrian border when it is unnecessary, you leave yourself open to attacks from other quarters that really do pose a threat.


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Siissisoq ist eine grönländische Rock- und Heavy-Metal-Band aus Uummannaq.

Geschichte
Der Bandleader Karl Enok Mathiassen wurde 1992 von seinem Abendschullehrer Thomas Lange als Gitarrist in die Rockband Taaq aus Uummannaq eingeladen. Kurze Zeit später zog er nach Dänemark, um dort die Efterskole zu besuchen. Mit dem Schulbesuch war ein Auslandsaufenthalt in Afrika verbunden. Nachdem er nach Grönland zurückgekehrt war, gründete er 1994 gemeinsam mit Jens Samuelsen und Villads Kristiansen seine eigene Band. Als er von seinen Erlebnissen in Afrika erzählte, erhielt er den Spitznamen Siissisoq ("Nashorn"), der der Name der Band wurde. Die drei Bandmitglieder fühlten sich von Gruppen wie Metallica, The Doors und White Zombie inspiriert.

Erst 1998 schickte die Gruppe eine Demoaufnahme an das Plattenlabel Ulo, das begeistert reagierte, und kurz darauf erschien das Debütalbum Aammarpassuillu ("Und vieles mehr"), dessen neun Lieder wie der Bandname alle nach Tieren benannt sind: Puuluki ("Schwein"), Inuttuumasoq ("Zombie"), Nersussuaq ("Kuh"), Kakilisak ("Stichling"), Zebra, Pulateriaarsuk ("Schlange"), Orpimmiutakassak ("Zeisig"), Imarmiutarsuaq ("Nilpferd") und Hiisti ("Pferd"). Die Band gab selbst an, dass die Lieder wegen der Texte für Kinder unter 14 Jahren nicht geeignet seien. Das Album wurde ein großer Erfolg und die Band tourte anschließend durch Grönland, Dänemark und Island. Für die Tournee wurden Jens Thorin und Hans Therkildsen mit in die Band geholt. Kurze Zeit später kam auch Knud Mathiassen, der auch bei Taaq war, in die Band. Später erhielt die Band den Koda Award.

2001 erschien ein Live-Album mit dem gleichen Titel wie dem des Debütalbums, auf dem sich die beiden zusätzlichen Lieder Iluersiooq ("Hyäne") und Amarunngortartoq ("Werwolf") befanden.

Nach Jahren geringer Aktivität veröffentlichte die Gruppe, die seit 2016 wieder in Originalbesetzung auftrat, zum 20. Jubiläum des Debütalbums 2018 eine Neuherausgabe ihrer beiden Alben gemeinsam mit einer Konzert-DVD. 2021 erschien ein das neue Album Nilliaannarit ("Schrei einfach") mit neun neuen Liedern, die Karl Enok Mathiassen sein seinem 14. Lebensjahr geschrieben, aber nicht veröffentlicht hatte.

Diskografie
 1998: Aammarpassuillu
 2001: Aammarpassuillu (Live)
 2021: Nilliaannarit

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The property on offer features a high stud 625m² warehouse offering excellent storage/racking opportunities for the incoming occupier. There is currently no office, but there is scope to build a small one within if required.
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We have explored the topic of civic participation through research on cultural attendance, events volunteering, organisational volunteering practice and involvement in sport. Much of this work has focused on the role of mass-participation events, which are recognised as being important for goal setting, encouraging long term behavioural change and increasing civic pride.
A large proportion of this work has involved evaluating the respective volunteering programmes for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow 2018 European Championships
Glasgow and Berlin Co-hosted the 2018 European Championships. To help deliver the event, volunteers were recruited and assigned to a number of roles across Glasgow and Scotland. To evaluate the impact of this programme, we issued a survey to applicants and captured information through the application form. Access our report on the impact of this programme.
Glasgow 2014 'clyde-sider' volunteer programme study
This study explored the attitudes, experiences and characteristics of clyde-sider volunteer applicants for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Learning on the expectations, experiences and long-term impacts of clyde-sider volunteering on applicants was captured, including the views of both those who were selected and those who were not successful with their application.
This synthesis report summarises key findings from our study, drawing on key learning from three surveys and qualitative research. Click on our infographics for more information.
Earlier reports include:
Expectations & experiences of Glasgow 2014 'clyde-sider' applicants
Clyde-sider applicant journeys: findings from a follow-up survey
Exploring the experiences and impacts of Glasgow 2014 volunteer applicants
A two year follow up survey was also issued to clyde-sider applicants in 2016 and the findings from this survey cover four factors relating to volunteering legacy: 'skills used since the Games' 'volunteering since the Games', 'social connections' and 'personal reflections'.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games was carried out in partnership with Glasgow City Council, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Medical Research Council at Glasgow University. Information for the assessment was captured through a scoping event and via a number of different methods of community engagement. View the HIA impact report on the Glasgow City Council website. In 2014 research was undertaken to assess whether the recommendations from the HIA were incorporated into policy and planning for the Games and its legacy. This research assessed the effectiveness of the HIA at informing the legacy strategy of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Evaluation of Glasgow's Volunteering Charter
We were asked to evaluate Glasgow's Volunteering Charter – a programme delivered by Volunteer Glasgow which encourages organisations across the city to increase the number of volunteering opportunities and make them more inclusive and accessible. Findings from this evaluation are shaping the next phase of the Charter's delivery.
Participation in running events
'Who runs in Glasgow' was a study of inequalities in participation based on three of Glasgow's annual running events: the Great Scottish Run, the Junior Great Scottish Run and the Women's 10k. The findings showed good participation from across Scotland, and high levels of participation from Glaswegians, but wide socio-economic and neighbourhood disparities within this. This report was accompanied by a blog from Dr Andrew Murray, former Physical Activity Champion for the Scottish Government.
Along with Glasgow Life, we commissioned a follow-up study to explore the motivations and barriers to sporting and cultural participation across the city, and included a section on running events and involvement in the Great Scottish Run.


#137	Red Balloon's Naomi Simson talks happiness.
Imagine running a business based on happiness – that's what Naomi Simson decided to try when she left a serious corporate career to set up online experience retailer RedBalloon in 2001. Since then RedBalloon has sold 1.8 million experiences and has been named a BRW Great Place to Work four times running. Naomi received the 2008 National Telstra Business Women's Awards for Innovation and the 2011 Ernst and Young Industry Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Not a bad little effort, huh?!
PLUS in this episode of the Small Business Big Marketing show, I have a whinge about three things that annoy me with email etiquete, share the hot topics that are being talked about in the Small Business Big Marketing Forum and read some listener feedback (there's plenty coming in, let me tall you!).
#136	How to enter a crowded market place.
Four years ago, Daniel Flynn had a big idea. Some would say an epiphany. Appalled to read that 900 million people had no access to safe water and equally angered by the idiocy of bottled water in a country where the tap is safe to drink from, the 19-year-old university student wanted to do something.
He decided to start his own bottled water company (as if that market place wasn't already over-crowded!) that would channel all its surplus revenues into funding water projects rather than making a profit.
This is another inspiring story of starting a business and doing the world of good. Not unlike my fireside chat with another social entrepreneur in Rebecca from Streat late last year.
PLUS in this episode of the Small Business Big Marketing show I help listener Christian promote his local bookkeeping business having been made redundant from his full-time job PLUS I share what's happening inside the Small Business Big Marketing Forum.
#135	How to market a professional services business with Heather Smith.
Ever wondered how to market a professional services business? I mean like really market one – in a clever, effective way that doesn't cost a fortune? In a way that avoids spending large sums on advertising or direct marketing? Excellent … then you're going to love this interview with small business author Heather Smith – who has recently launched the wonderful book titled 'Learn Small Business Start-Up in 7-Days'.
Covering all the start-up essentials from finances, through to cloud technology through to legal matters – there's an entire chapter dedicated to marketing. Gotta love that! So, in this fireside chat, Heather and I share our views on branding, message creation, social media (in fact, Heather's book deal came directly as a result of her business-building tweets), referral marketing and that all important content marketing.
PLUS in this episode of the Small Business Big Marketing show I help a listener add public speaking to his skincare business's marketing strategy PLUS I share what's happening inside the Small Business Big Marketing Forum.
#134	Comfort zone danger, spell-check drama, existing clients are best plus marketing tips from Vietnam.
– Timbo shares a recent happening with a Scoopon experience.
– We discuss those embarrassing moments when spell check lets you down.
– We share some ideas about how to maximise business from an existing client.
– AG suggests the comfort zone is a dangerous place to be for small business owners.
PLUS I'm just back from giving a marketing keynote in Vietnam (I do love being a marketing speaker!) and I share three marketing lessons from the crazy city of Saigon!
Oh, and I also share what's happening inside the Small Business Big Marketing Forum.
#133	V8 Supercars' CEO explains how important knowing your tribe is.
David Malone is the CEO of V8 Supercars. I had the pleasure of having a fireside chat (well, trackside really) with him recently whilst I was down in Launceston, Tasmania as a guest of Microsoft Office 365 . David takes us behind the scenes of the marketing of V8 Supercars in Australia and New Zealand – which, whilst it looks like a very big business, V8 Supercars is still a very small business employing 60 full time staff around the country. What it is though, is a small business doing very big marketing.
We can learn a lot from David, as whilst he may be the head honcho of the organisation, he makes it his business to get to know the fans – and boy are they passionate! H is often seen walking the track, shaking hands, asking what he and his team could be doing better. Never to shy of asking the hard questions, he is well underway in nurturing a strong event driven brand in the Australia (world) motor sport industry.
Plus I share a very interesting experience I had this week in which I had to talk about myself for one whole hour … and explain why you should try it!
#132	Stop waiting for your website to be perfect and get on with it!
This is the story of how Vintage Tub and Bath, a $25 million dollar a year online and offline business started from under two brother's parent's deck! That was 15 years ago … and now it's cleaning up (excuse the bath jokes, they're unavoidable!) and is ranked in the top 500 online businesses in America.
PLUS I share some marketing insights from my recent family holiday in Sydney, and cover off some marketing topics currently being discussed in the Small Business Big Marketing Forum (which you really should be a Member of at only $49 / month!
#131 Email marketing tips for small business. This is hot, hot, hot!
Email marketing tips and tricks. Who doesn't want some of that!? Clearly there's a whole lot of listeners out there who do, as when I posted on the show's Facebook the fact that I was interviewing an email marketing expert the amount of questions you had for him exceeded thirty!
The reality is that so many small business owners use email marketing as part of their marketing strategy, however, so many (the majority?) just aren't getting the return from their investment that they'd like. How many times have you sent out an email to your customers only to be bitterly disappointed with the results? You and me, both!
Well, that's all about to change as Shayne Tilley, email marketer extraordinaire, takes us behind the scenes of what makes for an effective and responsive email marketing campaign. Enjoy!
Robert also had the foresight to make contact with me two and a half years ago when the Small Business Big Marketing show was just getting off the ground, suggesting that a joint venture was in order. That partnership still exists to this day and involves Flying Solo getting a mention in each episode and my show being shared amongst the Flying Solo community every week.
The business that has just been through this transformation is Caboodle Financial Services … previously known as Delta Group.
What a difference already, huh?!
#128 Trying to get a date with Kylie has its (business) rewards!
Brighton-based business executive and fellow marketer, John Dingeldei wants a date with Kylie Minogue. Who doesn't! In fact, Dannii would be just fine!
However, unlike my perverted reasons for wanting one, John's are pure – he's raising money for a number of charities as part of a campaign called 5 Dates In 5 Weeks.
He's already knocked off his first four dates (so to speak!) and has now set his sights on a little tait de tait with one of the most well known women in the Western world. Good on him, I say!
John approached me via email, asking if I could help him get this fifth, albeit very challenging, date. Now whilst I don't know Kylie, I'm reckoning that the six degrees of seperation law that applies to us all will reveal that one of my listeners will have access to her and make it happen. Enjoy and let's see if we can make it happen.


Spaces By Jacflash has designed homes for NBA star Patrick Patterson, 93.5 host Blake Carter and YouTube stars such as Jus Reign and Ask Kimberly. Spaces By Jacflash has been profiled in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, City Life Magazine, and more.
Spaces by Jacflash has partnered with Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott to be one of the hand-selected interior designers featured on Casaza. Launched in the summer of 2018, Casaza's mission is to make design accessible to everyone and empower you to make your dream space a reality.
Raina's place was custom designed by a luxury design studio, Toronto's Spaces by Jaclfash. But, unlike many high-end bespoke jobs, the home doesn't adhere to a predefined style (it's dotted with some mid-century modern pieces, but it's not right out of Mad Men), or the aesthetic biases of the designer (it's hard to define a Jacflash look - all of its projects are different).
When Jasmeet Singh, a.k.a. the Brampton-bred YouTube sensation Jus Reign, moved into a downtown rental condo earlier this year, he didn't know quite what to do with the place. After living there for a few months with only a sectional sofa, dining room table and bedroom set, he decided to enlist his friend, designer Jaclyn Genovese, of Spaces by Jacflash, to transform the space into a cozy paradise.


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Cokie Roberts is Optimistic About Journalism's Future in the 'Age of Trump'
The longtime NPR journalist talks about the state of media in this age of "fake news" and labels of "enemies of the people."
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Cokie Roberts at the 2015 Democratic Presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
"Journalism in the age of Trump" is more than just a very popular title right now for academic symposia. The media industry has been doing a lot of self-examination under a new presidential administration that's changing the rules of engagement.
NPR News pioneer Cokie Roberts, longtime public radio journalist and commentator for ABC news, has been thinking a lot about the events of late. She says while she is "always anti-media" whining – she doesn't see the current response to perceived attacks on the media as whining.
"This is a moment in media and political history where we really do have to take note," Roberts says. "We don't have to whine about gaggles and such but we do have to be very clear that our job is to tell the facts and to tell them accurately and if others in government present things that are not facts and inaccuracies – it is our job to say that."
Still, Roberts says, journalists should not take the bait when it comes to making media itself the story in light of more important issues requiring attention.
"We go for the bright, shiny object and not for the boring, important other thing that's going on," Roberts says. "This administration is very clever about that. And any administration would do this if they could get away with it. I'm not saying that this is wrong, but they will distract from a story that's not working for them and then we will just fall for it."
Roberts says that's in part because the president says things that are so unexpected and sometimes outrageous.
While Roberts' role at NPR has evolved from reporter to commentator over the years, she says she still refrains from expressing her opinions much of the time. She says it's important to her to maintain a level of balance in her coverage – the way she did for years in the early days of NPR alongside other top women: Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg and Linda Wertheimer.
"We weren't running the show but we were certainly the most visible – or audible – members of the team," Roberts says. "And part of that was that we were there everyday reporting. Every day, they'd hear our voices on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, every day. Part of it was that we were all good writers and so we could write a piece as well as just report a piece but I think part of it was that it was unusual to hear women covering the court and the congress and politics in the way that we were."
Roberts often visits journalism classrooms now – where she says she encounters mostly female students. She says while it may be hard in the future to get jobs in the media industry as we've known it, she's still optimistic about what's ahead for journalism.
"I am a perpetual Pollyanna, there's no getting around that," Roberts says. "I do believe that, in the end, things will be OK. This is a tough time to be thinking that in all kinds of ways but I do believe that, in the end, we soldier through."
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Certifications and training programs are emerging to help get IT workers up to speed on the latest RPA tools and practices, so they can take on enterprise automation. Here are seven online courses that promise to teach you everything you need to know about robotic process automation.
UiPath is one of the more popular software options for organizations embarking on process automation. The company offers its own training program that teaches you how to use the UiPath software to its full advantage. The course teaches the foundations of RPA and UiPath, so you can confidently carry the skills over into your career. The course includes training from RPA experts, educational exercises and you'll even start on an automation project under the supervision of trainers.
The RPA Academy offers onsite and online training for individuals and organizations, with a few formats to choose from. The most popular option is the 28-day RPA certification course that takes place online, but you can also choose from a large selection of on-demand and live courses. The RPA Academy is certified by Blue Prism, which is another popular and well-known RPA software vendor that helps businesses automate manual efforts like data entry.
The UiPath RPA course from Udemy covers installation, orientation, structure, control flow, error handling, automation of common apps and processes, and debugging. The instructor, Bryan Lamb, claims the course is well-rounded enough to get you up to speed on RPA in the enterprise. It's suggested that you take the primer course, RPA Overview, before you embark on the training course, unless you're confident in your understanding of RPA.
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// Get the call data from PBX
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$url = 'http://api.messaging.test.sms.net

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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
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Change:
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The definitive recipe for Irish stew simply doesn't exist because each household has its own family recipe. It is said, however, that people in the south of Ireland always add carrots, but people north of County Tipperary do not. Many people make their stew by placing alternate layers of meat, onions, carrots and potatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper, in a pot, covering with water, and stewing gently for a couple of hours. If you sear the meat and vegetables before stewing, as we do at Ballymaloe, it seals in the delicious sweet flavours.
Cut the chops in half, but keep the bones intact as they will give great flavour. Heat the olive oil in a medium to large flameproof casserole dish. Toss in the meat and cook for a minute on both sides, until nice and brown. Remove the meat and set aside. Add the carrots and onions to the hot oil and cook for a couple of minutes, seasoning with salt and pepper. Return the meat to the casserole dish. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Put the potatoes in, season again with salt and pepper and place a sprig of thyme on top.
Cover and bake in the oven for 1½–2 hours, until the meat is very tender. When it is cooked, pour off the cooking liquid and allow it to sit for a minute until the fat fl oats to the top; adding a cube of ice will help speed this up. Spoon off the fat and pour the juices back over the stew. Add the chopped herbs and serve.
If the potatoes are quite small, add them 20–30 minutes after the stew starts cooking to avoid them breaking up.


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Il Vancouver Royals fu un club calcistico canadese di Vancouver (Columbia Britannica), fondato nel 1967 per partecipare al campionato della USA e sciolto nel 1968, dopo aver disputato la prima edizione della North American Soccer League.

Storia
La squadra disputò nel 1967, come Vancouver Royal Canadians, l'unica edizione del campionato della USA, United Soccer Association, che si fregiava del titolo di campionato di Prima Divisione su riconoscimento della FIFA. Quell'edizione della lega fu disputata utilizzando squadre europee e sudamericane in rappresentanza delle franchigie iscritte, che non avevano avuto tempo di riorganizzarsi dopo la scissione che aveva dato vita al campionato concorrente della National Professional Soccer League; la squadra di Vancouver fu rappresentata dagli inglesi del , ma non riuscì ad accedere ai playoff.

Nel 1968 la squadra disputò il primo campionato della NASL, lega nata dalla fusione fra la USA e la rivale NPSL. Questa unione aveva reso necessari alcuni cambiamenti nella collocazione e nella proprietà delle franchigie, così George Fleharty, ex proprietario dei San Francisco Gales, fu risarcito della chiusura del suo club permettendogli di acquistare il team di Vancouver dal precedente proprietario, E.G. Eakins. Fleharty decise di semplificare il nome del club in Vancouver Royals.

Il risultato sportivo nel 1968 comunque fu analogo alla stagione precedente, con il mancato raggiungimento dei play-off. Nonostante avesse registrato la terza migliore affluenza della lega, alla fine della stagione il club si sciolse e si dovette attendere l'avvento nel 1974 dei Whitecaps prima di tornare a parlare di calcio professionistico a Vancouver.

Cronistoria

Allenatori

Calciatori

Media spettatori
Nella seguente tabella la media degli spettatori presenti allo stadio per le partite di stagione regolare.

Note

Voci correlate
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Home Sci-Tech Sharjah: 3rd International Conference on Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences
Sharjah: 3rd International Conference on Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences
By Sameen Ahmed Khan
The College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates organized a three-day landmark event, "Third International Conference on Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences", during 5-7 December 2017 under the theme "The Arabic & Islamic Scientific Heritage: Innovation, Acculturation, and Coexistence" (http://www.sharjah.ac.ae/ichs17). The conference was held under the patronage of His Highness, Shaykh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohamed Alqassmi Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Sharjah and President of the University of Sharjah. Dr. Sultan has completed a PhD with distinction in History at Exeter University in 1985, and another in the Political Geography of the Gulf at Durham University in 1999.
It is to be recalled that the "First International Conference on Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences", was held during 24-27 March 2008 with the theme, "Arabs' and Muslims' Scientific Contributions to Humanity". The very first event had over eight hundred delegates from thirty-six countries with over three hundred presentations. The "Second International Conference on Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences" was held during 8-11 December 2014 with the theme, "The impact of early Arab and Muslim scholars on recent scientific and technological advances". The second event had over four hundred participants from forty-two countries. Both the events had attracted numerous historians of science. The success of the two events lead to the creation of the "Sharjah International Foundation for the History of Muslim and Arab Sciences (SIFHAMS, https://sifhams.sharjah.ac.ae/)" in January 2015.
The conference offered valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange, networking and learning about the Arabs and Muslims scientific and scholar heritage and latest findings and discoveries in the field. The conference had the following themes:
Innovative Culture and its impact in building educational community if the Islamic Civilization.
Scientific Research in Islamic Civilization.
Reviving the Arabic and Islamic Heritage and connecting it with modern scholarly activities.
History of Medicine and Health Sciences in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations.
Environmental Sciences in Islamic Thought.
Architectural Design and Engineering in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations.
Agricultural and irrigation in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations.
Basic Sciences and Astronomical discoveries in Arabic and Islamic Civilizations.
The evolvement of the science of encryption in early Arab and Muslim Scholars.
Islamic and Arabic heritage and its role in promoting free dialogue and the coexistence of civilizations.
The three-day event examined and discussed more than 150 scientific papers, delivered by notable experts from over twenty countries. During the conference, the attendees watched a film about the history of the conference and the objectives it is seeking to achieve. There was an exhibition accompanying the conference, which had rare manuscripts, archeological artifacts, and the valuable references and books from the UAE. The conference also had tourist visits and cultural evenings.
The University of Sharjah was established as a non-profit institution for higher education in October 1997. The University is comprised of fourteen colleges catering to over fourteen thousand students with a faculty of about six hundred. The University currently offers a total of eighty-five academic degree programs including fifty bachelor degrees, seventeen master's degrees, seven PhD degrees, one graduate and ten associate diploma degrees.
Dr. Sameen Ahmed Khan is assistant professor at Department of Mathematics and Sciences College of Arts and Applied Sciences (CAAS) Dhofar University.
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Life as Performance Art: Tehching Hsieh at Carriageworks
by Michael Young
TEHCHING HSIEH, One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) (detail), 1980–81, 16mm film frames documenting the performance, installed at Carriageworks, Sydney, 2014. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.
Tehching Hsieh is 63 years old and quite elf-like, with a small, lean and muscular frame. Even though he has lived in New York for 40 years he speaks English with a thick Taiwanese accent. He arrived in America in 1974 when, as a seaman, he jumped ship at a port on the Delaware River. For 14 years he lived as an illegal immigrant, calling himself Sam Hsieh, before being granted amnesty in 1988. By then he had virtually finished his career as a performance artist but for one piece, Thirteen Year Plan (1986–99), for which he made art that he was determined not to show to others.
He has five earlier works—all monumental, yearlong endurance pieces made during the late 1970s to mid-1980s—which share a conceptual similarity in that, according to Hsieh, they are philosophical investigations into the nature of time, life and being. In them, he locked himself in a cage in his New York studio loft without access to television, radio or conversation (Cage Piece, 1978–79), lived on the streets of New York (Outdoor Piece, 1981–82), was tied to another artist by a three-meter-long rope (Rope Piece, 1983–84) and spent one year neither thinking about nor practicing art (No Art Piece, 1985–86). And it is the one other work from this series, entitled One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) (1980–81), that is the subject of an exhibition taking place at Sydney's Carriageworks art space, where he also recently talked to ArtAsiaPacific.
TEHCHING HSIEH, One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) (detail), 1980–81, time ticket used to clock in every hour during the performance, installed at Carriageworks, Sydney, 2014. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.
TEHCHING HSIEH, One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) (detail), 1980–81, 16mm film frame documenting the performance, installed at Carriageworks, Sydney, 2014. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.
In the original Time Clock Piece performance, Hsieh, dressed as a factory worker, pushed a yellow card into a time clock (installed in his studio) to register the time and date on the document, every hour on the hour for the duration of one year. Each time, he also took a photograph of himself standing beside the machine. "The time clock was in an adjacent room [from his main studio], so I had the sense that I was going to work. For one year it became my work," he said.
Hsieh repeated this action 8,760 times during the year, a period which began when a witness signed all 366 time cards in order to ensure that they couldn't be replaced with premade ones. The 8,760 accompanying photographs, as well as letters, posters and calendars that were relevant to the performance, were condensed into a six-minute film—now exhibited at Carriagworks—in which we can also see Hsieh's shaved head gradually become covered with unruly, grown-out hair.
During the year of this performance, he was not able to sleep for more than an hour at a time for fear of missing the alarm; though there were occasions, 133 times to be precise, when he did fail to "clock in." Once, it was simply because someone in the building had pulled the plug on the electricity supply; other times he had innocently slept through the alarm. But such failure is part of the "infallibility of the human process and an integral part of the work," according to Hsieh.
While going through all of these endurance pieces, Hsieh systematically applied his mind to try to understand the nature of time—an investigation aided by earlier readings of Dostoyevsky, Kafka and the Greek myth of Sisyphus, who forever pushes a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down when he reaches the top.
There is more than a whiff of nihilism and insanity to it all. While the labyrinthine exploration would have had a lesser artist reeling, Hsieh was determined to collapse the intellectual distinction between the nature of time and that of art, and explore whether the two are mutually exclusive.
Though Hsieh may not have arrived at a totally satisfactory answer to this conundrum, he has certainly developed a cogent argument for the democratization of art—that is, if one accepts his proposition that art can simply comprise of doing nothing. This was a position he arrived at prior to his embarking on Thirteen Year Plan, which witnessed a shift from "working hard to waste time"—the central focus of Hsieh's yearlong pieces—to one of simply wasting time as an art form in itself.
Hsieh's performance pieces, neglected in their early days, have recently been rediscovered by a contemporary crowd riddled with existential angst and whose consumption of art is predicated on the instantaneous "here and now" propagated by the internet. Hsieh's endurance pieces almost defy logic, but, none the less, beguile viewers through their lofty commitment to a personal endeavor that few of us would ever want to replicate. Hsieh's current popularity has also been aided by an extensive monograph published in 2008 and exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in 2009.
For Hsieh, wasting time is a way of dealing with life's absurdities. "Everybody wastes time, but for me it is my work. My work is about passing time. Doing art is doing time. Doing life is doing time. So I came to Sydney to waste my time, but I feel good [about it]," he said.
Hsieh stopped making art in 2000 when the 13-year period of his Thirteen Year Plan drew to a close. But since then, far from simply wasting time, he now spends his days wisely promulgating his new-found popularity through talks and exhibitions of the archival documents and "detritus" that resulted from his performances.
"Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance 1980–1981" continues at Carriageworks, Sydney, until July 6, 2014.
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