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Located in the very northeast corner of Puerto Rico, with panoramic views of the ocean and rainforest
El Conquistador is located in the northeast corner of Puerto Rico, about a 50-minute drive from the airport in San Juan. The area is densely populated inland, but is surrounded by gorgeous rainforest and secluded beaches. It provides a much more low-key Puerto Rican experience than staying in San Juan.
Fajardo is known for its seafood and proximity to the small Palomino Islands (the resort's 100-acre island is the largest of these). Many local companies host day trips to Culebra and Vieques for snorkeling and scuba diving. Surrounded by calm waters that are crystal clear, Fajardo is a superb destination for snorkelers and divers. For years, boating has also been a popular activity in the region.
El Conquistador's reputation tends to precede it. The 984-room cliff-side resort provides some of the most epic views in the Caribbean, and its modern, beach-chic rooms are bright and clean, with plush white bedding, balconies, and sleek, spacious bathrooms. The hotel's beach is pristine and located on a private island (accessibly by a free ferry). But nightly rates are steep, and the remote location makes it hard for guests to venture off-site for cheaper dining and entertainment options. Guests that don't want to spend all of their time on property should consider renting a car.
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Obituaries, April 23, 2014
David Michael Gallagher
DURHAM — David Michael Gallagher, 48, of Durham, passed away peacefully Wednesday, April 16, 2014 surrounded by his wife, family and beloved pets. David was born in Memphis, TN in 1966 to Ruth A. Gallagher and the late Robert A. Gallagher.
David grew up in Winslow, Maine and graduated from Winslow High School, Maine in 1984 and the University of Maine in 1989 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He worked his entire career in the pulp and paper industry spending the last 17 years working for ERCO Worldwide. David truly loved his work, the people he worked with, the challenges it provided and the places he traveled throughout the world.
He is survived by his wife and best friend of 20 years, Cassandra Gallagher, formerly of New South Wales, Australia. David and Cassandra met in Kennewick, Washington in 1994 and relocated to North Carolina in 1998. They enjoyed 20 great years of love and laughter.
David loved life and didn't want to lose the ability to live it. He accomplished many things in his 48 years. No place embodied his spirit and life more than his love of the water. He spent many hours boating in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, the Gulf Islands of Canada and the waters of the Carolinas. He was passionate about his love for music and playing his guitar; golfing; cooking for friends; riding snowmobiles; water and heli-skiing; skydiving and scuba diving; racing motorcycles; playing, coaching and refereeing hockey. David's legacy is defined by his determination, amazing strength, resilience and unconditional love for life, friends and family. His wit, generosity and loyalty will be missed by all. He taught us all to live every moment, explore around every corner, love life and don't be afraid to tell your family and friends, "I love you."
David's family would like to thank the staff of Regional Cancer Center, Durham, for their compassion, insight, knowledge, sensitivity and outstanding care over the past few years. Thank you isn't enough. They will forever remain in our hearts.
David's funeral service will be held on Thursday, April 24th, at Immaculate Conception Church, 810 W Chapel Hill St, Durham, at 9:30 a.m. Please wear something bright in color to David's service in memory of "a bright life." A gathering of family and friends will be held Thursday evening from 7 to 9pm to celebrate David's life, at the home of Nancy and Bret Butters.
In memory of David, donations can be made to Camp Southern ground, at www.campsouthernground.org or by mail to Camp Southern Ground, 101 Gardner Park, Peachtree City, GA 30269.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss.
The Gallagher family is under the care of Howerton & Bryan Funeral Home. Online condolences may be submitted at www.howertonbryan.com. Select Obituaries.
Liner Scott
DURHAM — Mr. Liner Scott, known to most as "Toe Joe" was born April 30, 1957 in Durham County to the late Betty Jean Scott. After a brief illness, a home was prepared for him in the Heavenly Kingdom on Sunday, April 20, 2014.
Toe Joe was educated in the Durham City Schools, attending Hillside High School. He was employed as a CNA for numerous years at Lincoln, Duke and various home health agencies.
Liner leaves to cherish his memory his beloved dog, Ben, one sister, Betty Scott-Hunter (Joe), Lance Scott and Harvey Jr. McLean (Juaneza), one aunt, Mary Harris, 4 nieces, 2 nephews, 1 great-nephew, 3 great-nieces, and a host of cousins with a special bond with Brenda Bratcher.
The funeral is Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 1:00 pm (visitation from 12 – 1) at Bell Yeager FWB Church, Rev. Edward Holloway officiating. The family will receive visitors at 4511 Nightfall Court.
Arthur Ellison Sloat
DURHAM — Mr. Arthur Ellison Sloat, age 87, of Reno, NV died Sunday, April 20, 2014 after a short illness with son David and David's family by his side.
Art was born July 5, 1926 in Lowell, MA to the late Mr. Archibald Elmer Sloat and Helen Bertha Ross. He was raised in Upper Montclair, NJ, attended Montclair Academy and after high school completed a stint in the Army Air Corp towards the end of WWII. Art graduated from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA where he met his former wife of forty-five years, Barbara Parcell (Bobbie). He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Mason Washoe Lodge in Reno, NV. Art was an avid golfer and had been a member of the Hope Valley Country Club for twenty years and enjoyed many friendships over the years through golf, hunting and fishing. He especially enjoyed our beautiful country and took any chance possible to drive the back roads, taking photographs and meeting people in small towns throughout the USA.
Art began his business career with Johnson & Johnson with positions taking his family to Hartford, CT, Seattle, WA, Farmington, MI. and Middletown, NJ. He then moved on to Dow Chemical in Midland, MI as Marketing Director of Consumer Products; Warner Lambert in Mendham, NJ as V.P. of Sales; Liggett & Myers in Durham, NC as President and then onto Florida when he purchased two businesses. Art spent his retirement years in Astor, FL and Reno, NV.
Surviving Mr. Sloat are Bobbie Sloat of Durham, N.C. Five children, Peter A. Sloat of Fibre, MI; Joanne L. Whitenack and husband, Bruce of Durham, NC; David E. Sloat and wife, Sabrina of Reno, NV; Susan A. Hewitt and husband, Tom of Houston, TX and Robert E. Sloat of Wake Forest, NC. Eight grandchildren, Amy Brumbach and Adam Brumbach, of Mebane, NC, children of Joanne; Spencer B. Sloat of Reno, NV; Alexis R. Hewitt of Durham, NC; Katie Sloat Herberger of NJ; Megan Sloat Martin, Libby Sloat, Kelsey Sloat Merkart of MI and one great-grandchild, Myles Jeffrey Rand of MI. A private memorial service will be held at a beloved spot in the Florida Keys.
Pauline Laura Riley Dickerson
HILLSBOROUGH — Mrs. Pauline Laura Riley Dickerson, 92, of 2023 Dimmocks Mill Road, died Monday. A native of Alamance County, Mrs. Dickerson was a member of the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle Church for 50 years and a retired weaver from Cone Mills.
Surviving are her daughter, Gail D. Hill of Mebane, and son, Paul L. Dickerson, Jr. of Hillsborough; her sisters, Martha Murray and Grace Wright both of Hillsborough; 7 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Dickerson is preceded in death by her husband, Paul L. Dickerson, Sr., and her daughter, Barbara D. Williams.
The visitation will be Thursday at 1 pm at the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle Church followed by the funeral at 2 PM by the Pastor David Bolick. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Mike Williams, Keith Williams, Robert R. Summey, Jr., Will Dickerson, Albert Dickerson, and Jonathan Terrell. Honorary pallbearers will be Jeremy Terrell, Cody Curry, Cameron Williams, Connor Williams, Jonathan Metcalf, and Levi Terrell.
At other times the family will be at the home of her daughter, 6742 Lakeview Road, Mebane.
Wilverlen S. Pleasant Slaughter
ROXBORO — Wilverlen S. Pleasant Slaughter, "Willie," age 79, of Roxboro, North Carolina passed away peacefully on Monday, April 21, 2014 at Duke Hock Family Pavilion Hospice Care surrounded by her loving family following a brief illness.
Wilverlen S. Pleasant Slaughter was born in Bushy Fork, North Carolina. She graduated from Watts Nursing School and worked as a CRN Anesthetist at Watts Hospital and Person Memorial Hospital until retirement. Wilverlen attended Allensville United Methodist Church.
Wilverlen is the daughter of the late William Samuel Pleasant and Betty Briggs Pleasant. She was proceeded in death by her husband of 47 years, Horace G. Slaughter, sister Pauline Soloman Burchfield, sister Clara Pleasant Smith, brother Dewey Soloman, brother Earnest Soloman and brother George Soloman. She is survived by daughter Cindy Slaughter Henry and husband Don Henry, her son, Steven H. Slaughter, her grandchildren, Shane Slaughter and wife Christie, Stephanie Michelle Slaughter and Kimberly Henry Miller, her great-grandchildren Hunter Dillon Henry, Cameron Scott Bray, Kaylee Elizabeth Bray, Erica Dawn Miller, Seth Michael Ellixson, Vincent Lee Napier, Ashlynn Brooke Slaughter, Nathan Horace Slaughter and Aleah Ann Burch.
Wilverlen will be missed more than words can describe. The remarkable and selfless love and care that she shared with others her entire life is without equal. We could say that our only regret is not having her here with us longer but honestly, no amount of time would have been enough. She will always be deeply loved and greatly missed by everyone who knew her.
The family would like to offer a special thanks to the following people for the great love and support that they've provided during the last several weeks: Linda Skinner, Linda Briggs, Pastor Lori Cox, Dianne Ellington, Denise & Mike Whitlow and Rosabelle and Earl Mangum.
Visitation will be at Brooks & White Funeral Home on Thursday, April 24th at 6:00 PM.
Funeral Service will be at Allensville United Methodist Church on Friday, April 25th at 1:00 PM. Interment will follow at the Church cemetery.
Officiating will be Pastor Lori Cox and Stew Crank. The family will also be receiving friends at the home, 500 Dirgie Mine Road.
Condolences may be sent to www.brooksandwhite.com.
Ruby Mae Dollar Cook
MONROE — Mrs. Ruby Mae Dollar Cook, age 77, of Monroe, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, April 19, 2014, at CMC-Union of Monroe.
Funeral Services to celebrate her life will be conducted at 2:00 PM Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at West Monroe Baptist Church, officiated by Reverend Gary Underwood. Interment will follow in Lakeland Memorial Park.
Mrs. Cook was born on October 19, 1936, in Durham, to the late John William Dollar and Ruby Bobbitt Dollar Helton. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Melvin Helton and Donald Helton.
She was educated in Durham Schools at George Watts Elementary, Carr Junior High, and Durham High School, where she graduated in 1955. She has always kept in touch with a lot of her school friends, especially at class reunions every five years.
She was a member of Calvary Freewill Baptist Church in Durham when growing up. After moving to Monroe in 1969, she joined West Monroe Baptist Church, which she dearly loved and has so many friends there.
She was married to Ernest Donald Cook for 38 years until his death in 1995.
She worked in insurance all of her adult life. She was with Crum and Forster in Durham, then Blue Cross Blue Shield. After her children grew up, she went to work at Crum and Forster in Charlotte. She retired from there in 1997.
Survivors include two sons, David Cook and wife, Holly, and Rodney Cook, all of Monroe; two grandsons, Zachary Cook and Nathan Cook, both of Monroe; two brothers, Reverend Eddie Dollar and wife, Paula, of Durham, and Kenneth Ray Helton of Durham; one sister, Carolyn McKinney of Durham.
The family will receive friends Wednesday, April 23, 2014, from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM, one hour prior to the service, at West Monroe Baptist Church.
The family asks that donations be made to West Monroe Baptist Church Building Fund or to West Monroe Baptist Church Bus Fund. Donations may be mailed to 1212 Icemorlee Street, Monroe, North Carolina 28110.
Davis Funeral Home of Monroe is serving the family of Mrs. Cook. An online guestbook is available at www.davisfuneralservice.com.


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The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
|Ben Duncan, far right, soon after placement in first foster home. West End, Birmingham, Alabama, c. 1939.
On November 2, 2005, John Howard spoke at Outwrite Books in Atlanta about the new edition of The Same Language, a memoir written by Alabama native Ben Duncan. First published in England in 1962, The Same Language chronicled Duncan's life from his birth in Birmingham through his experiences as an orphan in Depression-era foster homes, his military service, his education at Oxford University, and his career as a writer and commentator in England. As a gay man living in Great Britain at a time when homosexuality was aggressively prosecuted in the courts, Duncan was unable to tell his whole story when his memoir first appeared. Prof. Howard, who edited the new edition (University of Alabama Press, 2005), and wrote the Afterword, talks of working with Duncan on this project and reads excerpts from the memoir. Shifting from past to present and using italicized passages to indicate new additions, The Same Language now includes Duncan's account of his evolving sexuality, the many masks he was forced to contrive for survival and acceptance, and a vivid rendering of the underground world of gay life in 1950s and 1960s Britain.
Use the scroller to the right of the playlist to watch all five parts of the reading and question and answer session.
About the Presenter
A native of Mississippi, John Howard is an alumnus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, where he received an MA in American Studies. He completed his PhD at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. Prof. Howard currently teaches in the Department of American Studies at King's College, University of London. He is the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and editor of Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South (New York University Press, 1997).
About Ben Duncan
A native of Alabama, Ben Duncan is a writer and broadcaster based in England. He is the author of the novel Little Friends and numerous articles in The Guardian, New Society, Punch, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement.


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Mike Jarvis was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year on Thursday.
March 3, 2011
BOCA RATON, FL - Florida Atlantic head men's basketball coach Mike Jarvis was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year, the conference announced Thursday.
The announcement was made in advance of the Sun Belt tournament, which begins on Saturday in Hot Springs, AR. Jarvis has led the Owls to their first 20-win season at the Division I level and has already clinched just the second postseason tournament appearance in school history.
After winning just six games in his first season, FAU improved by eight wins last season and has already improved by seven wins this season. The current 21-win total ties for the most in school history.
FAU players also earned recognition as Raymond Taylor was named to the Sun Belt First Team. Taylor scored a team high 14.3 points, pulled down 3.6 rebounds and dished out 3.7 assists in conference play. He was named Sun Belt Player of the Week on December 21, the first time an FAU player earned the award in nearly three years. Sophomore Greg Gantt was named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team. Gantt is leading the team in scoring for the second season in a row at 14 points per game. He was named Sun Belt Player of the Week after averaging 17 points in wins over North Texas and FIU. Gantt is already among program leaders in career three-pointers made and points scored.
Brett Royster was named Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season and also made the All-Sun Belt Third Team. Royster is the fourth two-time winner of the award and the first since Western Kentucky's Chris Wells won in in 2003 and 2004. The senior forward broke the Sun Belt's all-time shot block record earlier this season and broke his own school record for blocks in a single season. He is averaging 9.4 points and 6.8 rebounds in Sun Belt play and scored the game winning basket in FAU's victory over rival FIU on Feb. 5.
First Team All-Sun Belt Conference
Solomon Bozeman (UALR, Senior, G)
Raymond Taylor (Florida Atlantic, Sophomore, G)
Tristan Thompson (North Texas, Senior, G)
Sergio Kerusch (WKU, Senior, F)
Steffphon Pettigrew (WKU, Senior, F)
Second Team All-Sun Belt Conference
Martavius Adams (Arkansas State, Junior, G)
Chase Hallam (Denver, Sophomore, G)
Greg Gantt (Florida Atlantic, Sophomore, G)
J.J. Thomas (Louisiana-Lafayette, Freshman, F)
James Washington (Middle Tennessee, Senior, G)
Third Team All-Sun Belt Conference
Donald Boone (Arkansas State, Senior, G)
Brett Royster (Florida Atlantic, Senior, F)
Travis Bureau (Louisiana-Lafayette, Senior, F)
Augustine Rubit (South Alabama, R-Freshman, C)
Will Weathers (Troy, Sophomore, G)
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year
Solomon Bozeman (UALR, Senior, G)
Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year
Brett Royster (Florida Atlantic, Senior, F)
Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year
Augustine Rubit (South Alabama, R-Freshman, C)
The Joe Gottfried Coach of the Year
Mike Jarvis, Florida Atlantic


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Michael De Leon
Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.
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Video: Manu Ginobili gets animated
By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker got animated for his "Bask Up" French cartoon show but did you know Manu Ginobli also got into the animation act? Ginobili lent his image for "La Segunda Oportunidad," (Second Chance) an Argentinian program aimed to encourage the practice of goal-oriented values ??and solidarity among […] [Read More]
Splitter at the movies
While some NBA players are flocking overseas to retain financial stability, one San Antonio Spurs player could be trying a new line of work if the lockout rages on. How about Tiago Splitter, the movie critic? I'm sure there would be a market that would watch the Brazilian big man wax poetic about epic cinema […] [Read More]
Lakers win big over Spurs in simulated matchup
By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs The NBA lockout might have put the kibosh on the opening month of the new season but that hasn't stopped our friends over at AccuScore from simulating the season to give fans something close to games we can enjoy. Tonight the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Lakers would have […] [Read More]
The dream is dead
By Trevor Zickgraf, Project Spurs I've never been angry at San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt throughout this lockout. Business is business and his team lost some money the last couple of seasons so he's trying to do what's best for his business. While I can partially blame him his business losing money, I certainly […] [Read More]
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Is Hell Eternal?
Or Will God's Plan Fail?
By Charles Pridgeon
Chapter One: Barriers to a Candid Consideration
The spirit of prejudice stands in the way of all new views of truth. Prejudice has been defined as "a judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts or reasons that are essential to a just and impartial determination."
In Bunyan's Holy War, Mr. Prejudice, with sixty deaf men, keeps Ear-gate, one of the most important gates of entry to the city of Mansoul. It is prejudice that blinds the eye, stops the ear, misunderstands and misinterprets everything that comes its way. Its state of mind is not founded on facts but on some feeling of dislike or something of self-interest.
There are those who will not accept any truth unless it is ministered in a certain conventional manner or supported by certain great names. The question "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth" shows this same principle of partiality. One would suppose that it was written in the Word that "Whoso believeth in eternal punishment shall be saved." Our point of fellowship and union is in the Lord Jesus Christ; and even if many do not accept our teaching on the points before us, we will not pronounce any anathema against them or say they are not Christians, even though we could not take their standpoint without reflecting on the very person and character of God.
One lad said to another whose mother had been washing a bit of linen, ''I see that your mother is a washer-woman." The other replied, "If I saw your mother pulling your little brother's wagon, ought I call her a horse?"
It is inconsistent with justice to put in the same class all who may profess the same doctrine. A further question needs to be first settled; viz., upon what grounds and for what reasons is this particular truth held? We might speak of two men who were in favor of the World War just waged. One of them favored it from reasons of patriotism and the desire to aid his fellow man. He proved this by the sacrificing of himself in the cause. The other favored it because he saw in it an opportunity to make a large sum of money. These two men profest faith in the same thing, but the reason and ground of their stand was so diverse that their names should not be mentioned in the same breath. The one acted from a lofty motive, the other from a selfish one.
One of the great religious leaders of our day said:
"The quality of men is shown not so much by the opinion they hold, as by the grounds upon which they hold them, by the arguments upon which those opinions rest in their minds. Men may hold the greatest of truths in a feeble way and upon the most unsubstantial evidence. Men may believe, for instance, in the Being of God because they have been told that it is true or because they want to believe it. On the other hand, men may believe the simplest and commonest of truths on the most solemn and majestic grounds . . . So it seems that man's greatness is decided, not by the opinions which they hold, but by the kinds of evidence on which and by the spirit in which they hold them."
We may not feel complimented in being classed with those who do not believe in the doctrine of eternal punishment because they dimly suppose that by denying the doctrine they may make a way of escape; nor do we desire to be classed with those who make light of sin; nor with those who found all their teaching on purely naturalistic grounds, or manufacture them from their own imagining; nor with those who belittle our Lord and His sacrifice on the cross; nor with those who do not believe that what "a man soweth that shall he also reap"; nor with those who do not think that any change is necessary in man in order to be saved; nor with those who do not believe in any hell at all, or in an inadequate one. To all these loose ideas we hope that we are a stranger.
Unless our faith is founded on a fair interpretation of the Word of God, not in part, but in its entirety; unless there is a vindication of God's wisdom, power, justice, and love; unless it has the "Amen" of a chastened Christian consciousness; unless it makes for righteousness and magnifies the cross of Christ; unless it solves doubt, dries a tear, comforts broken hearts, wins souls, and sanctifies believers; unless it also has practical spiritual fruit, we reject and refuse it; but if it has all of these and more, then let us believe it, and even if we have to suffer for it, let us suffer with joy, for it is worth it a thousand times.
One of the words that Prejudice uses is, "That is unorthodox." Orthodoxy means "right thinking; to nearly every one it has come to mean "to think as I do."
There is no room in a crystallized orthodoxy to learn anything more from the Word of God than it has learned. We are not affirming that stability in doctrine is not desirable; neither are we discounting the fact that we owe an immeasurable debt to our forefathers and to the Church Fathers; but after acknowledging this, there is room for progress. Unless there are deepenings and enlargement, vital and new openings of truth, orthodoxy becomes dead.
It is not strange in our day to learn fresh truth in the field of nature. It does not surprize us when scientific discoveries are made through new applications of old principles and larger generalization of truth. It ought not to be counted strange that new discoveries might be found in God's Word and that modification of some things which we regarded as truth had to be made. In this way alone will truth remain living and have power. If this process is stopt, the Word of God will become a dead letter.
If there were no truth in the religious systems which some despise, they would die. The fact of their life and power can not be attributed alone to the forces of darkness; there is another factor. Usually there is some truth that has been neglected, some truth twisted or warped, else there would not be any need met by the systems that are so largely false.
Christianity centers in the person and work of the God-man, our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the touchstone and power of all truth. Any seeming truth that does not glorify Him is counterfeit, or only partly true. To us there seems to be a grave need for those who hold the great fundamentals concerning the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ--the full Inspiration and Authority of Holy Scripture; the necessity of Regeneration; the doctrine of Rewards and of Punishments--to assemble all the light from God's Word that removes the difficulties from the doctrine of eternal torment as usually held, and in this way make a glorious harmony.
We earnestly stand for the right of private judgment and guidance of God in an illuminated conscience, yet, at the same time, we desire to apprehend "with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge" (Eph. 3:18,19).
May God's Holy Spirit alone be our Teacher.
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Depth Chart Released
August 09, 2011 at 08:53am by Scott • 7 Comments »
The Bucs released their first preseason depth chart yesterday, and there aren't a whole lot of surprises on it. Offensively, there are none. Mike Williams and Arrelious Benn are the starting wide receivers and Dezmon Briscoe and Sammie Stroughter are listed as the second string. Kregg Lumpkin is listed as the backup halfback to LeGarrette Blount instead of Allen Bradford. Is that a surprise? No, not really.
On defense, it's a little more interesting. Michael Bennett is listed as the starting left defensive end over Da'Quan Bowers. That may be because the Bucs want to take it was on him for this Kansas City game or that they feel he's not 100% yet, but everything I've heard is that he's been going full speed and has looked awesome. Bennett is a guy I like, too, so I won't bitch about him being the starter. Maybe it was all a little too good to be true with Bowers's recovery.
Roy Miller starting ahead of Brian Price is no surprise. Price is still somewhat out of shape and recovering from his hip problem. Honestly, it's amazing he has been able to get as much work in as he has. Adrian Clayborn has the starting right end spot.
And the moment of truth… Mason Foster is your starting middle linebacker. Tyrone McKenzie is listed as his backup. I'm sure it has been a fair competition and all, but it really seemed like this is the way the coaches wanted it to go all along.
Barring an injury over the next couple days, this is how they'll line up on Friday.
7 Comments to "Depth Chart Released"
Aesir_Belgium (August 09, 2011 at 09:24am) :
Trueblood starting over Lee.. I hope that's only temporary.. Wasn't Bennet the guy who always shone in practice but was a liability in games or something? I don't mind or anything competition is always a good thing.
Louie (August 09, 2011 at 10:01am) :
What, Crompton isn't ahead of Freeman? Must be a conspiracy!
Scott (August 09, 2011 at 10:12am) :
Even I won't go that far.
manbearpig (August 09, 2011 at 10:23am) :
Do you think he combs that stache?
mcLovin (August 09, 2011 at 11:18am) :
Kind of surprising about Bennett, if its not going to be Bowers, I've heard alot more good noise about Kyle Moore
SGBuc (August 09, 2011 at 04:04pm) :
When can we start considering Kyle Moore as a bust? Because for all his playing time, he sure has underperformed
Meatmaster (August 09, 2011 at 07:15pm) :
I think Bowers is fine and it's just being careful like they are with winslow. I was at the night practice last week and Bowers looked fuckin FAST getting off the ball and through the line. Roy Miller looked great too manhandling the lineman left and right. Clayborn got stuffed repeatedly but Penn is awesome. Preseason games don't matter so I see Bowers getting plenty of time come regular season. You could easily tell the difference between him and the rest of the Dline in terms of ability. Thanks for the recent clickys too man.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Chattanooga Mocs softball team hosts its first mid-week game of the season Thursday night in a 6 p.m. matchup at Frost Stadium against Lipscomb. The in-state matchup with the Bison of Music City pins the 14-12 Mocs against a 23-4 Lipscomb team that is beginning to receive national attention.
Chattanooga is coming off a 1-1 weekend in Boone, N.C., with its third game of its Southern Conference opener against Appalachian State cancelled due to rain. Sophomore Anyssa Robles (Lawrenceville, Ga.) continues to be the Mocs' offensive catalyst, batting .342 and leading the team with 26 hits. The catcher is slugging .487, second only to homeruns leader Alyssa Taylor (Orange, Calif.), who is slugging .506 with five long-shots.
Junior Taylor Deason (Clarksville, Tenn.) continues to pace Chattanooga's pen with a 0.78 ERA, ranking eighth in the NCAA, and seven wins. The right-hander has also recorded two saves, thus far. Sophomore right-hander Katie Henderson (Hixson, Tenn.) ranks second with a 2.01 ERA and six wins. Henderson has struck out 63 batters, averaging 6.6 strikeouts per game.
Lipscomb comes into Thursday's game on a four-game winning streak and just four losses, earning the Bison 11 votes in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 and 10 votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 polls. Among impressive wins over Virginia Tech and UAB, Lipscomb is also 1-0 against SoCon opponents with a 9-2 win over Appalachian State.
The lineup for the Bison features six batting above the .300 mark, led by infielder Paige Neely. The junior is batting .385 and is tied for the team lead in extra-base hits with 11. Infielder Kristen Sturdivant also totals 11 extra-base hits, including a team-best 30 RBI and seven homeruns.
As a team, Lipscomb ranks 11th in the nation in scoring, averaging 6.78 runs per game, and is 12th in the NCAA with a .852 winning percentage.
The Bison pitching staff is led by ace Ashley Anderson. Anderson boasts a 9-0 record, a 1.59 ERA and three solo shutouts.
Live stats are available free on GoMocs.com while live audio and video is available through MocsVision. Both live stats and the live broadcast feed will be available approximately 15 minutes before first pitch.


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A Karaoke (10) apparatus with autokeying is provided by measuring the average pitch (28) of the singer or user over a predetermined time period, comparing (29) the pitch of the singer or user voice to that of a reference pitch to provide a signal representing mismatch and changing the pitch (31) of the background music to match that of the singer or user.
1. A method of changing pitch of prerecorded background music so as to match the pitch of the singer/user comprising the steps of:
measuring the average pitch period of the singer/user for a predetermined period of time to provide average pitch;
said measuring step comprises the steps of low pass filtering voice signal of singer/user, generating functions of peaks of the filtered voice signal, pitch period estimating said functions, and computing final pitch period based on the results from each pitch period estimation;
providing a reference pitch matching that of the background music;
comparing said average pitch of the singer/user to that of a reference pitch to provide a mismatch signal; and
shifting the background music to match that of the singer/user using said mismatch signal.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said measuring steps are done every 20 milliseconds to determine a pitch and the average of pitches is taken over a 10-second period to provide said average pitch.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said shifting of background music includes the steps of:
splitting spectral signal information from residual signal information, changing number of digital samples of the residual signal while keeping the sampling frequency constant, low pass filtering, recombining the spectral signal information and the modified residual signal information and time scale modifying the combined signal.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said means for providing a reference pitch includes measuring original artist's average pitch for a predetermined period of time.
5. The method of claim 1 including vocal canceling of prerecorded music before changing the pitch to remove the original artist's voice.
6. A method of changing pitch of prerecorded background music so as to match the pitch of the singer/user comprising the steps of:
measuring the average pitch period of the singer/user for a predetermined period of time to provide average pitch;
providing a reference pitch matching that of the background music;
comparing said average pitch of the singer/user to that of a reference pitch to provide a mismatch signal; and
shifting the background music to match that of the singer/user using said mismatch signal;
said shifting of background music includes the steps of:
splitting spectral signal information from residual signal information, changing number of digital samples of the residual signal while keeping the sampling frequency constant, low pass filtering, recombining the spectral signal information and the modified residual signal information and time scale modifying the combined signal.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein said time scale modifying step modifies the signal using appropriately selected analysis frame size.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the frame size is twice the average pitch period.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the frame size is 20 ms for voice and 40 ms for low frequency background music.
10. A Karaoke system comprising;
a Karaoke device including a display for displaying Karaoke words and a prerecorded music player for playing pre-recorded music, a microphone for picking up a Karaoke singer's voice, a mixer for mixing microphone output to that from said player, and speakers for hearing the output from said mixer;
a pitch detector coupled to said microphone for detecting an average pitch of the Karaoke singer's voice;
said pitch detector includes a low pass filter, means for generating functions of peaks of the filtered voice, means for pitch estimating said functions and means for computing final pitch period based on pitch period estimating;
means for detecting pitch of pre-recorded music;
a comparator for comparing the pitch of the pre-recorded music to said Karaoke singer's average pitch to provide a mismatch signal; and
a key changer coupled between said microphone and said mixer and responsive to said mismatch signal to change the key of the background music to match that of the Karaoke singer;
said key changer including means for splitting spectral signal information from residual signal information, changing number of digital samples of the residual signal while keeping the sampling frequency constant, low pass filtering, recombining the spectral signal information and the modified residual signal information and time scale modifying the combined signal.
11. A system for changing the key of the background music to match that of a singer comprising:
a device for playing pre-recorded background music;
a microphone for picking up a singer/user's voice, a mixer for mixing the microphone output with the background music from said player to be heard from speakers;
a pitch detector for detecting the pitch of singer/user's voice;
said pitch detector includes a low pass filter, means for generating functions of peaks of the filtered voice, means for pitch estimating said functions and means for computing final pitch period based on pitch period estimating;
means for providing a reference pitch;
a comparator responsive to the detected pitch of said singer/user's voice and that of said reference pitch for providing a mismatch signal; and
a key changer coupled between said microphone and mixer and responsive to said mismatch signal to change the key of the background music to match that of said singer/user;
said key changer includes splitting spectral and residual signal information, changing samples of the residual signal data of the residual signal information while keeping sampling frequency constant, low passing filtering the modified residual signal information, recombining the spectral and residual signal information and modifying the time scale of the combined signal.
12. The system of claim 11 wherein:
said pitch detector includes low pass filter, peak and valley detector, six estimators and a majority voting.
13. The system of claim 11 wherein said modifying the time scale uses appropriately selected analysis frame size.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein said frame size is twice the average pitch period.
15. The system of claim 14 wherein said frame size is 20 ms for voice and 40 ms for certain background music.
This invention relates to musical accompaniment playing apparatus and more particularly to autokeying of such apparatus.
One so called music accompaniment playing apparatus is referred to as "Karaoke" apparatus. This apparatus is particularly popular in Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and is often a part of their home entertainment system. Manufacturers of these "Karaoke" machines are exploring new technologies to enhance their products and differentiate them from competitors in this fast growing market.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram according to the prior art showing the configuration of a "Karaoke" machine 10 which includes a laser video disc musical accompaniment playing apparatus 11. This laser video disc musical accompaniment playing apparatus 11 comprises a laser video disc automatic player for accommodating therein a plurality of laser video discs serving as a musical accompaniment playing information memory medium. The machine 10 includes a controller 12 for controlling the laser video disc automatic player 11 to allow it to select a desired laser video disc 11a. A laser video disc automatic player 11 request is inputted from a user operation input terminal via controller 12. The machine 10 further includes a signal processor 13 including a mixer 13a and amplifiers 13b, left and right speakers 14 for outputting as sound a reproduced audio signal, an image display unit 15 for displaying a reproduced image signal from the video disc as an image, and a microphone 16 for coupling a user's singing voice as input to signal processor 13. The mixer 13a mixes the background audio signal from the laser video disc automatic changer 11, which is a musical signal from the music accompaniment player 11, and the audio signal of a voice singing into the microphone 16, and outputs to speakers 14 via amplifiers 13b.
In accordance with another Karaoke machine the player 11 is a CD automatic changer or audio cassette player for accommodating therein a plurality of compact discs or audio cassettes serving as a musical accompaniment playing information memory medium and reproducing them. The controller 12 controls the CD automatic changer or cassette player to allow it to select the desired compact disc or audio cassette and the CD changer or cassette player by a request inputted from the user input. The signal processor 13 and speakers 14 output and reproduce audio signal as sound. In some embodiments a graphic decoder 15a (in dashed lines) converts graphic data reproduced from a subcode data in the compact disc to an image signal that is displayed on image display 15. A more detailed description of a Karaoke machine may be found in various patents such as U.S. Pat. No. 5,194,682 of Oakamura et al. incorporated herein by reference. In many Karaoke machines, there is a facility for manually changing the "key" or pitch of the background music, so as to match the key of the singer or user. This is done by using a control on the front panel of the Karaoke machine, and involves pressing a push button and/or moving a slider control to go more positive (+) to increase the pitch or more negative (-) to lower the pitch. This feature is referred to as "manual" keying since it requires the user to explicitly depress the button or control and select a pitch. In the prior art there is at least one autokeyer as described in U.S. Pat. No. of 5,296,643 of Kuo et al. In that embodiment the singer's voice is analyzed to determine the singer's voice range.
It is desirable to provide an improved autokeyer (perhaps at a lower cost) where the singer's voice range does not have to be determined.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an autokeying feature is provided wherein the system automatically adjusts the key of the background music based on the measurement of the key of the actual singer or user. In accordance with one embodiment, the average pitch period of the singer or user is determined. This average pitch is compared to that of a reference pitch to determine if there is a mismatch and when this occurs the mount of mismatch is used to change the key of the background music to match the key of the singer or user.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a Karaoke system;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of autokeyer in a Karaoke system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2A is a block diagram of an alternate embodiment to determine pitch mismatch;
FIG. 3 is a spectral plot of amplitude versus frequency;
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of the key changer of FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the pitch detector of FIG. 2;
FIG. 6 illustrates the operation of the key detection circuit;
FIGS. 7A and 7B illustrate a final estimation of pitch period; and
FIG. 8 illustrates a table of coincidence window widths.
Referring to FIG. 2 there is illustrated an autokeyer 26 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The signal processor 13 of FIG. 1 may include the autokeyer 26 and a vocal canceler 21. The vocal canceler cancels the voice if the player is playing, for example a typical CD with the artist's voice and the background music mixed together. In some cases, the CD or cassette tape has a special track for only the background music. In that case, no vocal canceler is required. The vocal canceler may provide voice cancellation by subtracting the right channel from the left channel, under the assumption that the voice signal is balanced on both channels. In accordance with one embodiment of Applicant's invention, the pitch of the Karaoke user's voice is determined by pitch estimator 23 and averaging the results at averaging circuit 25. The pitch of the artist's vocal can be similarly determined by a pitch estimator 27 and averaging circuit 28, or by entering the key of the song or background music which may be available on the song package or enclosed literature. The key of the music may also be stored in the CD data field so not have to be computed. The pitch estimated and averaged from the original artist's voice or key from the background music or that from the CD data field is compared to the averaged pitch of the Karaoke singer's voice from average circuit 25 at comparator 29 to determine the mismatch between the two pitches, and based on the mismatch a signal is provided to key changer 31 The amount of key change necessary may be determined at the mapper 29a and is applied to key changer 31 to change the key of background music. In one preferred embodiment, the signal may be determined in the mapper as the ratio of the pitch values of the artist and the Karaoke singer, and this is applied to the key changer 31. The output from the key changer is applied to the mixer 13a to add the user's vocal.
In accordance with another embodiment the pitch mismatch may be determined according to FIG. 2A where the output from the player 11 is passed through a vocal canceler to get the background music. This output is then mixed with output from the Karaoke singer's microphone to obtain a test signal x comprising background music plus Karaoke singer's voice. The average pitch of the reference signal r and signal x may then be compared to determine the mismatch.
An octave is divided equally into 12 semitones including whole and half steps (sharps or fiats). At the pitch averaging circuits 25 and 28 we get the key of the Karaoke singer and the artist's voice and determine by comparison the difference or ratio and change accordingly the key of the background music. A pitch shifting technique is used for changing the key of the background music. The basic idea is to increase or decrease the overall pitch frequency of the music signal to the correct ratio according to the singer's choice of up or down a certain number of semitones in the manual keying case or according to the computed pitch ratio in the autokeying case. There are twelve semitones in one octave, and the pitch difference of one octave is a factor of two. That means, if C2 is one octave higher than C1, then C2=2*C1. And since the ratio of adjacent semitones are the same, that is, C#/C=D/C#=D#/D= . . . =B/A#=2C/B=r; then r12 =2 and r=21/12 =1.059. Therefore, for example, if the singer chooses to shift up by 4 semitones, the ratio of pitch change should be 1.0594 and to shift down by 3 semitones, the ratio will be 1/1.0593.
The challenge is to change the pitch of the signal without changing the duration of the signal or add undesirable distortions. There are several approaches to changing the pitch of a signal. The simplest method of changing the pitch of recorded speech is to play the material at a higher speed than the speed with which the original recording was made. For example, in an analog tape recorder, the pitch of the original recording can be raised by playing the tape at a higher speed; similarly, the pitch can be lowered by playing the tape at a slower speed. When the signal is sped up, all frequency components in the speech signal are proportionately scaled-up. This is shown in FIG. 3. With a small amount of speed change, say +10%, we can easily perceive the change in pitch. Larger amounts of speed change result in distortion. Most of the techniques follow this basic principle.
In the digital domain, the original signal is either decimated or interpolated, but played back at the original sampling rate in order to achieve the desired shift in pitch.
Briefly, the different approaches to pitch shifting are:
Variable Playback Sampling Rate (VPSR),
Direct Resampling,
Direct Resampling followed by time-scale modification,
Residual Resampling,
Phase Vocoder, and
Least-squares error estimation from modified short-time Fourier transform.
In the variable playback sampling rate method, the sampling rate of the DAC (digital to analog converter) is appropriately changed to achieve the desired shift in pitch. In order to raise the pitch, the output sampling rate is increased. In order to lower the pitch, the output sampling rate is lowered. Although this method appears to be dubiously simple, it has certain drawbacks. First the duration of the output signal is altered; when the pitch is raised, by increasing the output sampling rate, the duration of the output signal is reduced, compared to the original duration of the input signal. In addition to the above drawback, the output filter's cut-off frequency must track changes in the output sampling rates. High quality output filters are difficult to design and expensive to manufacture.
In the direct resampling method, the output sampling rate of the DAC is held constant, thereby alleviating the drawbacks of the previous method. The input signal is however either decimated (for raising the pitch) or interpolated (for lowering the pitch). This method has the drawbacks that the duration of the output signal is altered and the spectral envelope of the original signal is modified, as shown in FIG. 3.
The direct resampling followed by time-scale modification approach is based on the Direct Resampling approach; however the output of the decimator (interpolator) is expanded (compressed) in order to have an output signal duration that is equal to the input signal duration. A popular technique for modifying the time-scale of a signal is Synchronized Overlap & Add, SOLA. See "Time-Scale Modification in Medium to Low Rate Speech Coding", by John Makhoul and Amro El-Jaroudi in Proc. ICASSP'86, pp. 1705-1708.
Synchronized OLA (SOLA) achieves time scale modification while preserving the pitch. Synchronization is achieved by concatenating two adjacent frames at regions of highest similarity. In this case, similar regions are identified by picking the maximum of a cross-correlation function between two adjacent frames over a specified range.
When applying SOLA, choice N, the flame-size, is an important factor. In general, N must be at least twice the size of the pitch period of the sound; e.g., for a 1 KHz sine wave, sampled at 44.1 KHz, N must be approximately 100 samples. If N is smaller than this, the lower frequency portion of the signal is affected.
For speech, the optimum value for N appears to be 20 ms (milliseconds). For music, containing low frequency sounds, we found through experimentation that N had to be increased to 40 ms.
The residual resampling method tries to alleviate the drawback of the previous method by resampling and time-scale modifying the residual of the LPC (Linear Predicting Coding) model. The poles of the LPC model help maintain the original spectral envelope in the modified signal.
The residual of the LPC model contains the pitch and is also known to be almost spectrally flat. Hence, the residual signal is shifted and time-scale modified, and the output is resynthesized using the LPC parameters and the modified residual.
The method has been applied for speech signal and found to produce good quality pitch shifted signals, typically using a 10th order LPC model and a 20 ms analysis frame. It is felt that a higher model order, perhaps around 28, and a higher sampling rate, may serve the purpose.
In the first attempt to apply the re-sampling and TSM to music signals, we experienced serious distortions. The distortions happened only after the TSM process. We conducted a detail study of the correlation function at every search of each frame in the TSM. We discovered that the correlation window is not long enough to accommodate the lowest frequency component in the signal. This results in a wrong search of the peak of the cross-correlation function and thus the signal is not added at the correct point. The solution to this problem is to increase the correlation window. After doing this, we obtained very satisfactory results.
A problem of working with music signals is the enormous amount of computation. The standard sampling frequency used in compact discs is 44.1 kHz for each of the left and right channel. The amount of data is more than ten times that of the voice signal at 8 kHz. In order to enable the TSM to run in real-time, a coarse/fine search for the maximum of the cross-correlation function is suggested. Considering that the cross-correlation function is continuous, a coarse search for the peak can first be performed and then followed by a fine search around the coarse peak.
The phase vocoder method is explained quite well in the reference entitled "The Use of the Phase Vocoder in Computer Music Applications", James A. Moorer, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Jan/Feb. 1978, volume 26, Number 1/2. It has been observed that the output quality was acceptable at 8 KHz using 128 filters of 30 Hz bandwidth. The computational demand at 8 KHz does not facilitate implementing this algorithm on a single Digital Signal Processor (DSP). At higher sampling rates, which is necessary for music, the computational demand is prohibitive.
The least-squares error estimation from modified short-time Fourier transform method by Griffin and Lim entitled "Signal Estimation from Modified Short-Time Fourier Transform", Griffin and Lim, IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech Processing, Vol. ASSP-32, No. 2, April 1984, pp. 236-243. may produce somewhat better quality of pitch modified signals but at the expense of huge computational complexity.
As illustrated by the flow chart of FIG. 4, an LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) analysis 41 is performed where samples are predicted based on past data samples. The system tracks every sample and tries to predict in terms of past few samples. The predicted sample value s (n)=a1 s(n-1)+ . . . +a10 s(n-10) where a1, a2 . . . a10 are predictor coefficients and s(n) is the predicted sample and s(n-1) is the previous sample, etc. Over a 20 millisecond period (a frame) there are 160 samples for a sampling rate of 8,000 samples per second. The coefficients a1 a2, . . . , a10 are computed by minimizing the mean square value of the prediction error s(n)-s (n) over the analysis frame. The LPC analysis splits the music signal into spectral information represented by LPC coefficients and residual signal information. What is left over, or error signal, is what you cannot predict or original signal value s(n) minus the predicted value s(n) is the residual signal value, or error signal e(n). If you put the two together in the LPC synthesis 43, we get the original signal back. For key shifting, the LPC coefficients are passed through to the LPC synthesis 43. Pitch conversion is done in the time domain on the residual signal, which is obtained by passing the input signal through the LPC inverse filter. The principle of re-sampling is applied to accomplish pitch conversion by changing the number of samples while keeping the sampling frequency a constant. In other words, if we want to change the pitch frequency by a ratio of r, then we simply re-sample at step 45 the signal by a ratio of 1/r. This ratio 1/r is expressed in terms of a rational ratio U/D where U and D are integers. The input signal is first up-sampled by a factor of U by inserting U-1 zero valued samples between each pair of input samples. This signal is then filtered (Step 45) with an FIR (Finite Impulse Response) low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is at U*fs /2D or fs /2, whichever is smaller, where fs is the sampling frequency. The output of the low-pass filter is then down-sampled at Step 45 by a factor of D by throwing away D-1 samples and keeping one sample for every D samples. As a result, the total number of samples is changed by a factor of U/D, and so does the pitch period. That means the resulting signal is at a correctly shifted pitch but at a wrong duration. Hence, we must restore the original duration by a time-scale modification (TSM) process. In this case the synchronized overlap add (SOLA) method of TSM is employed, in which overlapping frames of the signal are shifted and added at points of highest cross-correlation.
For up-sampling, where U=2 and D is 3, for every sample you put one zero next to every input sample. If, for example, we have 3 original samples; after upsampling with U=2 we will have 6 samples. The low-pass filter smooths out the curve. After filtering, it is down-sampled by three. Keep the first sample and throw away the next two samples, etc. This shortens the pitch period. It is 2/3 shorter. The pitch frequency, therefore, goes up by 50 percent, as the pitch period and the frequency are inversely related. If you want to change the pitch frequency by 1/2, put one zero for every non-zero sample, do the low-pass filtering, and supply that to the LPC synthesizer (more on synthesizer operation later). If you want to increase the pitch by two, first do the low-pass filtering and then remove every other sample. The pitch modified residual is added back to the LPC spectrum at the LPC synthesis 43. The time scale is then restored in the time scale modification step 47. One method is the synchronized overlap add (SOLA) method discussed above.
The synchronized overlap add (SOLA) method of TSM consists of shifting and averaging overlapping frames of a signal at points of highest cross-correlation. Simple shifting and adding frames would achieve the goal of modifying the time scale but it would not preserve pitch periods, spectral magnitude, or phase. Therefore, it would be expected to produce poor quality speech. However, adding frames in a synchronized fashion at points of highest cross-correlation serves to preserve the time-dependent pitch and the spectral magnitude and phase to a large degree.
In this method the music signal x(n) is to be time-scale modified by a factor alpha to give the signal y(n). Alpha>1 corresponds to time expansion and alpha<1 corresponds to time compression. Overlapping frames of size N are taken every Sa ssmples of x(n), where Sa is the analysis interval. If Ss is the synthesis interframe interval, then Ss is related to Sa by Ss =Sa *alpha. These intervals imply that we take a frame of size N of x(n) every Sa samples and use it to construct y(n) every Ss samples. The synthesis is performed on a frame-by-frame basis, where each new analysis frame is added to the previously computed reconstructed signal. The algorithm is initialized by setting y(j)=x(j), 0≦j≦N-1, at the zeroth frame. Let x(mSa +j), 0≦j≦N-1, denote the mth frame of the input signal. Then, x(mSa +j) is synchronized and averaged with a neighborhood of y(mSs +j). The alignment is obtained by first computing the normalized cross-correlation between x(mSa +j) and y(mSs +j) as follows: ##EQU1## where Rm (k) is the normalized cross-correlation at frame m, and L is the number of points used to compute each cross-correlation (points of overlap between y(mSs +k+j) and x(mSa +j) ). We used -130≦k≦-20.
Let Km denote the lag at which Rm (k) is maximum. Then x(mSa +j) is weighted and averaged with y(mSs +Km +j) along their points of overlap:
y(mSs +Km +j)=(1-f(j))*y(mSs +Km +j)+f(j)*x(mSa +j), 0≦j≦Lm -1
y(mSs +Km +j)=x(mSa +j), Lm ≦j≦N-1.
where Lm is the range of overlap of the two signals, and f(j) is a weighing function such that 0≦f(j)≦1.
The cross-correlation function as defined above will falsely indicate a high correlation between x and y when L is small, which could lead to errant synchronization. To remedy this situation, we restricted L to be greater than N/8.
The choices of Sa and Ss will depend on alpha and N. In general, a smaller Sa will result in higher quality, but at the expense of increased computation. So, in practice, one would like to maximize Sa without affecting the quality significantly. As a rule of thumb, we set Sa =N/2 when alpha<1, and we set Sa =N/2*alpha when alpha>1.
The choice of the averaging function f (j) proved critical for the quality of the regenerated music. Simple averaging (f (j)=0.5 for all j) gave poor results; the output speech was highly reverberant and coarse. Averaging functions that provided smoother transitions between successive frames resulted in much higher quality. For example, a raised cosine function (f(j)=-0.05 cos(II* j/Lm +0.5) and a linear function (f (j)=j/Lm) both provided good results. The raised cosine function is more complicated to compute and offered no specific advantages. So, the linear function is preferred.
Any one of the above approaches to key-shifting can be used. In one embodiment, we have used Direct Resampling followed by TSM approach to shifting the key of the background music.
Referring to FIG. 5, there is illustrated the pitch detector 23 of FIG. 2. The system measures the pitch period of the user's vocal signal for 10 seconds, for example, and based on this computes the average pitch. The pitch is detected, for example, using a technique described by Gold and Rabiner in Vol. 46, No. 2 (Part 2) of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1969, pp 442-448, entitled, "Parallel Processing Techniques for Estimating Pitch Period of Speech in the Time Domain." The system comprises low-pass filter 51 to extract the first formant region. The low-pass filtered waveform is processed by peak and valley detector 53. Six sets of peak and valley measurements are extracted. There are six "simple" identical pitch-period estimators 55, each working on one of the six sets from detector 53. Each estimator is a peak detecting rundown circuit. As seen in FIG. 6, following each detected pulse there is a blanking interval followed by a simple exponential decay. Whenever a pulse exceeds the level of the rundown circuit (during the decay), it is detected and the rundown circuit is reset. The rundown time constant and the blanking time of each detector are functions of the smoothed estimate of pitch period of the detector. The final pitch-period computation is based on examination of the results from each "simple" pitch-period estimator and a majority rule voting is done to determine pitch based on the six decisions. The final computation is performed at decision maker 57, which may be thought of as a computer with a memory, an arithmetic logic algorithm and control hardware to steer the incoming signals. At any time t0 an estimate of pitch period is made by:
1. Forming a 6×6 matrix of estimates of pitch period. See FIG. 7B. The columns of the matrix represent the individual detectors and the rows are estimates of period. The first three rows are the three most recent estimates of period. The fourth row is a sum of the first and second rows; the fifth is the sum of the second and third rows; and the sixth row is a sum of the first three rows. The technique for forming the matrix is illustrated in FIG. 7A. The reason for the last three rows of the matrix is that sometimes the individual detectors will indicate second or third harmonic rather than fundamental and it will be entries in the last three rows which are correct rather than the three most recent estimates of pitch period.
2. Comparing each of the entries in the first row of the matrix to the other 35 entries of the matrix and counting the number of coincidences. That particular Pi1 (i=1,2,3,4,5,6) that is most popular (greatest number of coincidences) is used as the final estimate of pitch period.
To determine whether two pitch-period estimates "coincide" one may observe their ratios rather than their differences. However, the ratio measurement can be very approximate to avoid the need of a divide computation. Because during many parts of the speech there are sizable variations of successive pitch-period measurements, it is useful to include several threshold values to define coincidence, and then try to select, for each over-all pitch-period computation, the threshold which yields the most consistent answer. With this explanation, we now define the computation of Block 57 of FIG. 5.
FIG. 8 shows a table of 16 coincidence window widths. As indicated in FIG. 7, only the most recent estimated pitch period from a given detector is a "candidate" for final choice. This candidate is thus one of six possible choices for the "correct" pitch period. To determine the "winner," each candidate is numerically compared with all of the remaining 35 pitch numbers. This comparison is repeated four times, corresponding to each column in the table of FIG. 8. From each column, the appropriate window width is chosen as a function of the estimate associated with the candidate.
After the number of coincidences is tabulated, a bias of 1 is subtracted from that number. The measurement is then repeated for the second column; this time the windows are wider, increasing the probability of coincidence, but, in compensation, a bias of 2 is subtracted from the compilation. After the computation has been repeated in this way for all four columns, the largest biased number is used as the number of coincidences that represents that particular pitch-period estimate. The entire procedure is now repeated for the remaining five candidates, and the winner is chosen to be that number with the greatest number of biased coincidences.
Every 20 milliseconds (1/50th of a second) this estimation is done and the average of the decision made every 20 milliseconds is computed over, say, 10 seconds i.e., 50×10 or 500 values are averaged. This determines the pitch of the voice. The mapping function at mapper 32 of FIG. 2 simply takes a ratio of the user's voice key to the artist's or background music. That ratio change is applied to the key changer to alter the samples as shown and discussed in connection with FIG. 4 on pitch shifting means described.
The signal processor 13 may include one or more DSP's for performing the functions described above.
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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BEAUMONT – Junior Brad Picha went 2-for-3 with two runs batted in but needed some help as Lamar University dropped the series finale to No. 20 Sam Houston State 5-3 Sunday afternoon in Southland Conference baseball action at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
Lamar, who dropped to 13-21 overall and 6-12 in SLC play, hits the road for four straight games. The Cardinals step out of conference for a game at nationally-ranked LSU Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and then play a three-game series at Nicholls State next weekend.
"Jonathan (Dziedzic) didn't have his normal stuff today," said Lamar coach Jim Gilligan. "He was leaving the ball up in the zone and they are a good high-ball hitting team.
"There were a couple of situations today where we needed to put the ball in play and we struck out. We have to be better in those types of situations."
The Cardinals struck first with a run in the bottom of the second inning. Thomas Henk doubled to left center field and advanced to third on V.J. Bunner's single to left field. Henk scored when Bunner was caught in a run down trying to steal second. Henk crossed home plate before Bunner was tagged out to give Lamar a quick 1-0 lead.
The Bearkats responded with three runs in the top of the third inning. After working out of a bases loaded jam in the first inning, Lamar starter Jonathan Dziedzic wasn't so fortunate in the third.
Colt Atwood singled and moved to second on Luke Plucheck's sacrifice bunt. Anthony Azar reached on a fielder's choice with Atwood getting thrown out at third. Jake Arrington walked and Kevin Miller singled to right field to load the bases.
Ryan O'Hearn cleared the bases with a three-run double down the right field line to give SHSU a 3-1 lead.
Brad Picha delivered a 2-run single to left center field to drive in both Olivas and Vidrine to tie the game a 3-3.
SHSU (25-11, 15-3) reclaimed the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth inning. Plucheck led off the inning with a single, but was caught stealing. Azar walked and scored on Arrington's RBI triple to left center field. Miller, who was 2-for-4, singled to right field to drive in Arrington and give the Bearkats a 5-3 lead.
The Cardinals threatened in the eighth inning. Picha double to left center. Jeff Abt singled up the middle and stole second to put both runners into scoring position. Garrett Autrey struck out and Henk, who was 2-for-4, grounded out to third to end the inning.
"I was a little disappointed in our knowledge of how to play," commented Gilligan. "Our good clubs in the past would have won this game today and this team has more talent.
"Just playing with this team was an improvement for us because I think Sam Houston is by far the best team in the conference. I think we could have won all three games this weekend, we just have to get better with the little things that enable you to win ball games."
Dziedzic (2-2) started and took the loss for the Cardinals. He allowed five runs on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts in four and two-third innings pitched. Vernnon Maxwell pitched the final 4 1/3 innings and did not allow a hit. He retired all 13 batters he faced with one strikeout.
Starter Cody Dickson (4-2) picked up the win for the Bearkats. He allowed three runs on five hits with two walks and three strikeouts in five innings of work. Michael Burchett pitched the final 1 2/3 innings to earn his fourth save.


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The tent is hosed down and packed away. The mud has finally been scraped from our boots. Yes, another festival is over.
This year's Latitude could have been a total washout. Enough rain to make a mackerel miserable. Enough mud to make a mud guppy crave the Sahara. Our tent ended up looking like a cow had slept in there. Our car wept for its lack of ejector seats as it suffered our sodden selves squelching on its seats all the way back home.
And yet the three days we spent there were exciting, entertaining and only left us wanting to go back next year for more. And it wasn't just down to the music, even though we did manage to catch the excellent Elbow, the awesome Alabama Shakes and the rapturous Rufus Wainwright.
No, the really great thing about Latitude this year were the books. Loads of them. In marquees. In the woods. On stages. There were authors everywhere , ranging from poets and performance poets like John Hegley and John Cooper Clarke, to comic writers of the quick fire calibre of Robin Ince, to the more (sometimes) seriously-minded Simon Armitage and Tim Lott and the quite frankly brilliant Brian Lobel with his tragicomic show about testicular cancer.
And then there was Exhibit A. We were there to talk – what else?!? – crime fiction. And talk it we did, in a venue no less magnificently named than the Literary Salon. We – along with novelist Joanna Rees – were booked in to do an hour. There were bands playing. There was food and alcohol a-plenty to be had. Would anyone show up to listen? The jury was out.
But not for long. Because, yes, they came. And kept coming. Until the venue was packed. Even better, they came with attitude, with readers and writers alike happy to debate and voice their opinions on anything and everything – just how it should be at a festival.
And that's the real reason we left Latitude smiling this year, in spite of all the rain and the mud. Not only is crime fiction very much alive and kicking, with a whole host of folk happy to debate it until they're blue in the face. But, just as vital, festivals like Latitude are giving readers and writers the opportunity to meet and mix and have fun talking about what they love – until word perforates the canvas that Elbow have just started playing, at least.


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Letter from Wallace to his sister Fanny describing an excursion to a volcano in Java and comparing the wild flowers of Java and England, dated October 1861.
Wallace writes to his sister Fanny from 'the mountains of Java'. He tells her about an excursion to a volcano '10,000 feet above the sea', where it was very cold. Plants at the top were 'very like English ones such as buttercups, cow-thistle, plantain...and many more'.
Wallace expresses his love for the plants back home and compares them to those of the tropics. 'I consider and will always maintain that our own meadows and woods and mountains are more beautiful...far prettier and more varied than those of the tropics.' Perhaps he is a little homesick? Wallace becomes unusually poetic: 'A field of buttercups, a hill of gorse, or of heath, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in beauty anything I have ever seen in the tropics.'
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Two Johnson City men were sentenced to prison in U.S. District Court in Greeneville Friday.
Carlton Arthur Waite, 38, Johnson City, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his part in a drug and money laundering conspiracy, according to the Department of Justice.
Waite was stopped in Texas for a traffic violation. There was almost $9,000 cash in his car. According to a Department of Justice news release, this cash was to be used to buy nine ounces of cocaine that would be distributed in Tennessee.
In a separate sentencing Michael Travis Brandon, 26, Johnson City, was sentenced to 10 years in prison due to several 2009 firearm incidents.
According to the Department of Justice, Brandon, assaulted his girlfriend in May 2009 with a knife, his hands and other items. The girlfriend, who was not named, fled to a neighbor's house to get help for her and her children. Brandon went to the neighbor's house with a gun and threatened to kill one of the neighbors, his girlfriend and the children, according to the news release.
Police arrived and Brandon fled. He was found a few months later.
A search of Brandon's home yielded four weapons, one of which was an assault rifle with an attached bayonet. Two of these weapons were reported stolen.
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Day 4 - A few issues left. Downloads and select print
Hi. I'm getting used to things after 20+ years of PC.
First off, is there any way to set this machine up to handle downloads cleanly? Most times when I load something, it leaves odd traces (icons) on my desktop or dissappears into the Finder where I cannot find it at all. Sometimes I just get code loaded in firefox/safari when I click 'download'.
For example, I can't get one single screen saver from this site: http://www.reallyslick.com/
2ndly - OMG! What was Apple thinking by not allowing "print - Selection" like Windows does? The basic way to do it is cumbersome, time-consuming, archaic, and flat out ridiculous. I have to do this one act perhaps 100 times per day and if I had to open each chunk in text edit (another window), then print that, etc. I'd blow my brains out.
Anyone know of a program, script, etc. that will fix this inhumanity to man level of insanity?
And another question.... What is the alternative to ctrl F on a Mac to be able to find a keyword in a long piece of text or a forum page, etc?
The shortcut is apple-F for find.
Not sure what problems you're having with downloading. Have you got an example URL?
You may have to install this http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24202
if you haven't got that function on the services menu
Thanks - I'll try that as well. My 'select - print' issues are mostly in 'mail'. IDK if another mail system would do this or this problem is a mac thing (I think so).
Here are the links I can't figure out how to download
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/WBSoftware.html (MAC OS X Screensavers)
That link looks like its got uncompiled software.
One thing you could try for your "Select Print" is to highlight the text you want to print, and then click and drag the text to the desktop, click on your new file and print. Voila. I'm sure there may be an easier way, but this I know for sure beats opening up text edit and copy/pasting the text you want. Hightlight > Click and Drag to Desktop > Select and Print.
Dragging doesn't work either in Mail, Safari, Firefox. :)
Anyone think this will be fixed in Leopard? It's a pretty bad situation. Gotta admit that one.
You have to click and hold a while before you drag text.
Surfwax is right, you have to click and hold for about a second before you try and drag it away. I don't have Firefox but I did just test it in Safari and Mail and it works just fine.
In Safari, I drag the text to the desktop. It creates an icon that I click on.
There is no print button or section to print. This text box, when selected, is labeled as "Finder". No print option. I have no idea why it's opening in Finder instead of Text Edit, etc.
In Mail, when I highlight text, I cannot drag it anywhere. Won't let me.
Are you using 10.4.8? I'm not sure that matters any, but I just tested it (again) in both Mail and Safari. I wish I had a screen video capture program I'd show you what I'm talking about.
Best text explanation, after you have the segment of text highlighted, hover your mouse over it, then click and hold, after about a second (more if you want to be cautious) drag. It should show you the WHOLE text area that you are dragging, just drop it onto the desktop. On my computer it automatically makes it a file that if double clicked on takes me to a finder window. However, if you right click (Apple + Click) on the file itself, before opening it, then it brings up your options...one of which is print. I don't have a printer hooked up to my MBP so I can't test out that part, but I would assume if you select print, it will print. As for it not working in Mail, I suspect it's a matter of you not waiting long enough before you begin to drag. That, OR, it's an update that you've missed....which I doubt.
This was suggested a few posts back but works. In Safari or Mail, Highlight the text you want to print, click on the Safari, Mail ETC in the Top Menubar and click on Services then on Textedit and on "New Window containing selection". The selected text will then open in Textedit and from there just tell it to print. This works as I just tried it in Mail and Safari and should work in most other Applications that follow the rules.
dtravis - I know it can be done that way, but I literally have to do this act at least 100 times per day for my business and jumping thru those hoops would kill me. I guess I could use bootcamp/parallels to run windows all day but geez - I can't believe mac has no easy way to do this like windows does. I'm quite appalled by this. Seriously, if Leopard doesn't have this core basic feature, I'm going to raise **** with Apple. Like it's my job!
Jamo - Yes, I have 10.4.8. Highlighting rec'd email doesn't drag. Can't drag anything out of it. In Safari, I can drag it out to desktop but when I click on it - it's in "Finder" mode which has no print option at all. I have no idea why it's opening it in Finder instead of a zillion other things like TextEdit.
I know there are a few programs out there that "might" handle this but I can't even get the demos to load on this thing. I was told to use Bomarchiver? But I need to load that first I guess. My day with the Mac is going poorly.
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A heart-pounding, mesmerizing adventure unlike anything else up or down the dial.
Whether you've ever watched "24" during its previous four seasons, this would be a particularly good time to tune in. The fifth-season premiere, a four-hour, two-night affair, is a heart-pounding, mesmerizing adventure unlike anything else up or down the dial.
What's it about? Don't ask. Seriously, don't ask because I can't tell. Fox, probably in defiance of the Geneva Convention, sent the first four hours of "24" to critics along with a note requesting they not reveal what happens, even in the first 10 minutes of the first hour. Particularly in the first 10 minutes. It's like telling Leslie Moonves not to boast or Bill O'Reilly to stick to the facts. All I can say is that legendary CTU agent Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland), presumed by all but a few to be dead, is called into action once more as a result of terrible and unexpected events. See? I told you I couldn't say anything.
Sutherland has never been better. He is joined in the fifth season by Jean Smart, Sean Astin, Julian Sands and many returning cast members. Suffice it to say that this brilliant creation of Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran will only enhance its reputation as the most reliable and involving thriller in TV history.


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Physical Details: Letter : 1 p. : handwritten ; 21 x 14 cm.
Sender: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
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