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ZenGlop The Podcast — 177 episodes

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183 Eternity's Sunrise ( William Blake)

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182 : changing the Habitual Body

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172 why is karma

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171 Vonnegut and Homer - Stories of a Good Dog

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170: time, a corporate job and meditation

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169: socratic aporia and quantum uncertainty

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169: mountains, birds, and meditation

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168: a story of thought and no-thought

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167: dreams, sine waves, and a testable hypothesis

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166: meditation notes: Alan Watts, Being/Dying and a Head-Tailed Cat

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165: Aurelius vs Larkin

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164: meditation notes - the outcome will come out

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163: the joy of fiction

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162: Socratic Aporia

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161: meditation notes - a trend line?

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journals, different types of...

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159: Wordsworth The Prelude

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158: meditation notes - three books

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157: life is a story

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156: creative block and creative space

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155: ZenGlop and the Miletian Archae

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154: notes on new composition

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153- meditation notes simplicity of available wisdom

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152: music is distillation and distiller

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151: what would be my last meal?

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150: socrates massaged his feet

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149: meditation notes - moments of wonder

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148: Do you hear what I hear?

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147: art that facilitates as well as stimulates

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meditation notes - the importance of a teacher

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145: New Years Eve, Notre Dame and Jean Michel Jarre

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144: meditation notes - the availability of authentic action , immediately

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143: reading Sylvia Plath

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142: leap of faith

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141: meditation notes - thoughts on bodhicitta

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140: quotidien sounds - daily life remix

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139: Magic Space Rockets, and an update on my opera

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138: meditation notes - stopwatch not a timer?

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137: Is Sisyphus happy?

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136: Vera Lotar Shevchenko ( The Lost Pianos of Siberia)

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135: Messiaen whimsical FM synthesis

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134: meditation notes - hack the "undermutter"

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133: thoughts on electromagnetic art

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132: The Aesthetic Object

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131: Larkin Required Writing

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130: After an unintended hiatus

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129: meditation notes - what is the good of renunciation?

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128: modular synthesis, control voltage and a bit of Marshal McLuhan

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127: what is 'pataphysics?

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126: meditation notes - positive thinking ( why not choose strength, understanding and compassion)

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125: field recording (remix the world)

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124: Debussy - music without motif

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123: meditation notes. Physical props, mental aspiration (and a poem by Emily Dickinson)

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122: George Butterworth, Adumbrated

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121: reading Larkin - Faith Healing

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120: meditation notes - remember the end state ( and start from there)

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119: messiness and creativity

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118: bleepy bleepies - sounds in everyday life

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117: music through the body to the imagination

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116: modular synthesis, prayer and mantra

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115: how to play Messiaen's piano music in three easy steps

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114: meditation notes-visualisation (where tantra meets the absurd)

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113: In defense of the semi-colon (reaction to Malcolm Gladwell)

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112: looking for leys in all the wrong places

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111: adaptogenic mushroom coffee ( stoicism in cup)

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110: after reading "Lincoln in the Bardo" ( George Saunders)

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109 update on piano practice and composition

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108: Meditation notes: discernment and compassion in Garth Brooks's song 'Unanswered Prayers'

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107: reading "For Andrew Wood" (What would the dead want from us) by James Fenton

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106: meditation notes - sitting as becoming familiar with sitting

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105: The strange literary ambition of M. Grand in Albert Camus's The Plague

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104: what would this room sound like to an alien with radio telescopes for ears?

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103: studio work in progress - TS Eliot remix

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102: morning routine - what kind of coffee do you like and how do you prefer to prepare it?

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101: meditation notes- maintain a skillful connection to an underlying existential question

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100: useful youtube trick to organize video content - what is organization?

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99: learning french language - aspiration and beginners mind

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98: Terrence McKenna and Vajra songs

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97: meditation notes - digital sabbath (a day of rest and a day of discipline)

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96: meditation notes - letting it be (or not)

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95: notes on a ballet Messiaen never wrote

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94: out for a run one morning ( I learn something from the exclamation of a stranger passing by)

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93: meditation notes - taking refuge (with help from Beethoven opus 111)

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92: current stationary - what pens and paper are on your desk today?

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91: why give a title to a piece of music?

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90: Thoreau - "on Walking" and a strange experience over by the Spaulding Farm

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89: meditation is a razors edge

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88: compositional gesture

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87: erase the composer!

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86: meditation notes - like a mountain

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85: poems about trains - "the wonderful effects of Leicester"

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84: Eurovision study- UK in the 70s ( Coco and The New Seekers)

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83: dream job - Eurovision orchestra director

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82: meditation notes - advice to my younger self on how to listen

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81: poems about trains- trip to brummagem

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80: meditation, my music and Mr. President

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79: why podcast (after George Orwell) - 4:18:20, 2.29 PM

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78: Taylor Swift London Boy (William Blake and Ted Hughes)

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77: poems about trains- the railway whistle

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76: meditation notes - music and meditation

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75: meditation notes - on doubting the practice

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74: poems about trains - wordsworth "just disdain"

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73: meditation notes - how long should i sit?
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72: poems about trains- Thackeray "The speculators"

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71: poems about trains- wordsworth 'on the projected kendal and windermere railway'
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70: poems about trains - Hampton and Oxford railway

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69: meditation notes (tension relaxation posture)

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Talk-through in the Studio - Patch Breakdown for 'Lines Above'

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my new book - sample 1 (intro)

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my new book - sample 3 (a question is a blessing)

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my new book - sample 2 (razors edge)

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68: Canticle 6 ( the importance of being Bach)

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67: Canticle 6 ( or, how to ring modulate your piano and still respect yourself in the morning)

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66: if this is Canticle 6, where are 1-5?

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65: Opposition and contradiction

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64: Brexit in one sentence

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63: mental and physical flexibility in meditation (a virtuous cycle)

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62: the importance of farting around ( creative process)

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61: do poets dream of electric trains (John Betjeman)

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60: Taylor Swift , Death by a Thousand Cuts ( and WH Auden)

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59: find a new recording of Bach preludes and fugues

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57: FDR- sunflowers and transcendental opera

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58: discipline and practice ( creative process)

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56 Herman Melville ( death is only a launching)

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Episode 55: the pre-ontological necessity of podcasts

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Episode 54: Extra-Terrestrials are a convenience

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Episode 53: Stockhausen is blue

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avatars, user ID and existentialism

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music and mortality ( don't worry about it!)

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writing music for Hurdy Gurdy and electronics
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three walks around London, and associated thoughts

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poems about poetry, and all.

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four influences, part 2 (Haas and McKenna)

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four influences, part 1 ( Gould and Monk)

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Heidegger, existential hermeneutics and Bill Clinton

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the joy of music theory

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sonicism and the precursor to mortality

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Natural Radio, Electromagnetism and Thoreau

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communion and compassion

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Psychogeography, meditative expanse: unintended intimacies and WH Auden

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Chod by the Hudson

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a liturgical gesture hacks experience

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poetry and practice: a Tuesday night talk
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a gesture from the back of my head

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Hurdy Gurdy at The Pennsic War

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many hats, many dreams

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kaiser plays kaiser

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he had a notion

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modes of psychogeographic field recording: modify, memorialize, manipulate.

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the well-regulated piano and the psychedelic life

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sexy elf stuff

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the perfect amount after all

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Too much of a good thing?

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Horripilation!

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Ask ZenGlop Q&A episode

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quiddity and the psychogeographic stance

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...unfenced existence

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in all other ways not living up to the ideal.....

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Exegesis on 35 sentences

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logistics and deception

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Socrates in drag.

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kaiser plays with piezo and gershwin

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life is like a carwash

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sputnik, synaethesia and Luciano Berio

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the thing of it...writing, running and Hitchens

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chanting at the ymca

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chicken broth, a wet towel and we’ll see you in 10 days if you’re still alive

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An alien at the end of time listens to Dolly Parton

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a conversation that's been going on for years

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there's a mistake in it

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A poem and a Puzzle

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full integrity of the teacup

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Boxing Day Holiday Special

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the perils and pleasures of forgotten music

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Engine, Wind and Monteverdi

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The Vanishing Tower: water towers and psychogeography
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Sferics at the Point in Pittsburgh