0) Observe this recent announcement from msp: ------ ------ ------ ------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:36:27 -0700 From: Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [PD] electronic music teaching position at UCSD

There's an opening at UCSD for a teaching assistant professor (a career position) starting July 2019 - apply by Oct. 15. Here's the ad:

https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01811

cheers Miller ------ ------ ------ ------

SO (TADA!)

1) New Blankets announces a *Special Promotion* Event --

-- New Blankets *2019 Worldwide Welcome to Pd* & *Hospitality Mallorca Finale* --

STARTING IMMEDIATELY and running until July 2019 when: . Casa Mallorca – the condo @ 8520 Via Mallorca; San Diego Pd welcome-center – will be decommissioned . A newly-minted Teaching Assistant Professor will start teaching and assisting in the Music Department at UCSD (see announcement -0- above). ..................

New Blankets 2019 Worldwide Welcome highlights:

2) – A terrific *TENniversary Present* from blanketeers to New Blankets (and vice versa) -- on the occasion of thisTenth Anniversary (aka TENary) of New Blankets' incorporation in 2008.

3) – A serendipitous *Footprints Festscrift* for Hank Levin, celebrating Professor Levin's 80th Birthday – and a small token of thanks for Hank Levin's mentoring of New Blankets ever since 1971. (Without calculating Hank's yearly or weekly compensation rate dividing thanks/time over 47 cordial years. – Some of us are NOT economists, after all.)

4) Many other good synergies as yet to be discovered.

=================================================================== -- Announcement --

-- New Blankets *2019 Worldwide Welcome to Pd* & *Hospitality Mallorca Finale* --

You are invited to be considered for invitation as a VIP guest of New Blankets to visit to San Diego and a experience a memorable stay at Casa Mallorca -- NB Worldwide Welcome Center -- during the yearlong episode (which is this particular San Diego Welcome Center's last hurrah.)

Interested? Send e-mail to : welcome2019@newblankets.org

Please give the NB Board some details along the following lines, detailing these and related benefits if you should be selected:

A-- What economic support would you require to enable your visit to San Diego?

B-- What would you “bring to the Party?” e.g. .Is there synergy of your visit to coincide with other collaborating 2018-2019 VIP guests and their families and fellow travelers? .Describe how a you would concoct a ** Pd-Weekend Program** around your and colleagues visit?

C-- Will you be applying for the UCSD Teaching Assistant Professor position (announced above)?

... Upon our NB Selection Committee receiving your email:

-- New Blankets will acknowledge ASAP that you are in-process and are being considered for selection as VIP invitee.

-- NB will keep you posted as we deliberate and gather further information and as our official VIP selections accumulate ad lib.

-- NB will also keep an online/live-updated calendar of 2019 VIP invitees as they are chosen and when they (each and severally) have definitely committed to their booking dates and times in San Diego.

========================================================================== *** SPECIAL NOTE ***

NEW BLANKETS ENCOURAGES AND INSTIGATES ALL ** NEW BLANKETS ARTISTS IN TRANSIT 2008-2018 **

(Please get in touch asap. New Blankets especially wishes to arrange invitations, participation and coordinated logistics for our stellar ARTISTS-IN-TRANSIT ensemble, from now in 2018 until July 2019.) ==========================================================================

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--- THANKS to every one of you who have been Blanketeers and AIT-folk these past Ten Years! ---

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