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Volume 96, Issue 5, November 1994
Descending frequency swept tones have lower thresholds than ascending frequency swept tones for a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and human listeners96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411296View Description Hide Description
Many seal vocalizations consist of frequency swept tones. The signal detection thresholds of a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and of human listeners were measured using ascending and descending frequency swept tones at 1/3‐ and 1‐oct bandwidths. The swept tones increased or decreased exponentially and traversed the same frequency range. The sweeps were centered on 2, 4, and 8 kHz for the seal study and 0.5, 1, and 2 kHz for the human listeners. The bandwidth of the sweep did not affect signal detection abilities of either the seal or human listeners. The seal had lower signal detection thresholds (1–5 dB) when presented with the descending frequency swept tones (F=32.04, df=(1,31), p≤0.000001). Human listeners also had lower detection thresholds for descending frequency swept tones (t=−4.78, df=52, p≤0.0001). Pinniped ascending frequency swept calls may not function as well as descending frequency sweeps for long‐distance communicative signals.
Tone recognition of continuous Mandarin speech assisted with prosodic information96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411274View Description Hide Description
In this paper, a simple recurrent neural network (SRNN) is employed to model the prosody of continuous Mandarin speech to assist tone recognition. For each syllable in continuous speech, several acoustic features carrying prosodic information are extracted and taken as inputs to the SRNN. If proper linguistic features extracted from the context of the syllable are set as output targets, the SRNN can learn to represent the prosodic state of the utterance at the syllable using its hidden nodes. Outputs of the hidden nodes then serve as additional recognition features to assist recognition of the tone of the syllable. The performance of the proposed tone recognition approach was examined by simulation on a multilayerperception (MLP)‐based speaker‐dependent tone recognition task. The recognition rate was improved from 91.38% to 93.10%. The SRNN prosodic model is further analyzed to exploit the linguistic meaning of prosodic states. By vector quantizing the outputs of the hidden nodes of the SRNN, a finite‐state automata that roughly represents the mechanism of human prosody pronunciation can be obtained.
Longitudinal research on adolescent voice change in males96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411275View Description Hide Description
Many of the characteristics and processes associated with adolescence are reasonably well understood; others are not. Still unanswered are questions about adolescent voice change. For example, when does the average child start the process; what changes result and what is their extent; when is it complete? Further, how closely do shifts in vocal level parallel, or even predict, the adolescent process? This project was carried out in order to obtain data which would complement available information on the subject and provide additional specificity about voice change and pubescence—at least for boys. To that end, a longitudinal study was conducted in which 48 males were tracked over a 5‐year period. Voice measurements were made—including speaking fundamental frequency (SFF) and phonational frequency range (PFR)—as were others relating to physical size (height, weight, and six body dimensions). It was found that (1) stable adolescent voice change (AVC) measurements could be obtained, (2) maturation patterns appeared predictable on the basis of AVC changes, and (3) both the onset and duration of voice change extended over a longer period of time than had been previously thought.
Relation between the growth of loudness and high‐frequency excitation96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411445View Description Hide Description
To test the conjecture that cochlear impairment and a masking noise in normal ears produce analogous effects on the growth of loudness,loudness was measured for 21 listeners, all with bilateral symmetrical high‐frequency cochlear losses. Beyond the normal‐hearing region, thresholds increased by 30–49 dB/octave for 10 listeners in group I and by 51–71+ dB/octave for 11 listeners in group II. Measured by absolute magnitude estimation and production at two frequencies where thresholds were normal, the dynamic range over which loudness grows was not altered by the adjacent hearing loss. This was not true however, for the slope. Whereas the overall shape and slope of the loudness functions were essentially the same for group I, the mid‐to‐high level slope for group II was noticeably flatter for a tone at the cutoff frequency than for a lower‐frequency tone. In contrast, markedly steeper loudness functions, characteristic of loudness recruitment, were obtained for both groups at a frequency in the region of impaired hearing. The reduced rate of loudness growth observed in the region of normal hearing for listeners with steep low‐pass losses, like the reduction usually found for a tone masked by an adjacent high‐frequency noise, is ascribed to the tone's restricted excitation pattern. These results indicate that high‐frequency auditory cues are effectively eliminated by a steeply sloping high‐frequency hearing loss just as they are eliminated by the addition of an external noise.
Pitch percepts associated with amplitude‐modulated current pulse trains in cochlear implantees96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411377View Description Hide Description
The percepts elicited by electrical stimulation of auditory neurons by trains of amplitude‐modulated current pulses were studied in a group of six cochlear implant users. Modulation frequencies of 100, 150, and 200 Hz were studied, with a range of carrier rates up to 1200 Hz. It was found that all but one subject could consistently rank 150‐ and 200‐Hz modulated stimuli by modulation frequency when the carrier rate was more than 800 Hz, but for lower carrier rates the ranking was greatly affected by the harmonic relationship between carrier and modulation frequency. Pitch matching experiments showed that the subjects generally considered the modulated stimuli to be equal in pitch to unmodulated stimuli with rates the same as, or somewhat higher than, the modulation frequency. The results showed that the ''pitch'' of pulsatile electrical stimulation resulting from periodicities in the time structure of the electrical stimulus has similarities to the ''pitch'' observed for temporal patterns in acoustic stimulation such as amplitude‐modulated noise. There were some differences, however, which may be attributable at least in part to the physiological response differences for electric and acoustic stimulation.
Comodulation masking release for elderly listeners with relatively normal audiograms96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411446View Description Hide Description
Thresholds for the detection of a 1.0‐kHz pure tone were measured in modulated and unmodulated noise for a group of nine elderly listeners, aged 62–83, with normal or near‐normal audiograms, and a reference group of seven younger normal‐hearing listeners. The masker was either a band of noise 128 Hz wide [approximately one equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB) centered at 1.0 kHz], or a band of noise 1505 Hz wide (approximately five ERBs above and five ERBs below 1.0 kHz). The noise was either unmodulated or was square‐wave modulated at rates of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 Hz. A measure of comodulation masking release (CMR) was derived from the masking data. Because wider filters have been found to be associated with reduced CMR, auditory filter shapes were also estimated for the elderly listeners. The filters were found to be normal at the center frequencies of 800, 1000, and 2000 Hz ruling out possible confounding effects of impaired auditory filters on CMR. Masked detection thresholds were generally significantly higher for the elderly as compared to the younger listeners for both unmodulated and modulated noise. Thresholds were lower in modulated as compared to unmodulated noise masking for both elderly and young listeners. For both groups of listeners and for both narrow‐ and wideband masking, detection thresholds continued to increase as modulation rates were increased. CMR was not different for the elderly and young listeners and it was similarly decreased, for both groups, at higher rates of modulation.
Intensity discrimination in normal‐hearing and hearing‐impaired listeners96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411276View Description Hide Description
Weber fractions (ΔI/I) for gated 500‐ms tones at 0.3, 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 kHz, and at levels of the standard ranging from absolute threshold to 97 dB SPL, were measured in quiet and in high‐pass noise in five listeners with cochlear hearing loss and in three normal‐hearing listeners. In regions of hearing loss, the Weber fractions at a given SPL were sometimes normal. When the Weber fractions were normal or near‐normal, the addition of high‐pass noise elevated the Weber fraction, strongly suggesting the use of spread of excitation to higher frequencies. Inversely, when the Weber fractions were elevated, the addition of high‐pass noise produced no additional elevation, suggesting an inability to use spread of excitation. In general, the relative size of the Weber fractions, the effects of high‐pass noise, and to a lesser extent, the dependence of the Weber fraction on level, were consistent with expectations based upon the audiometric configuration and the use of excitation spread. There were several notable inconsistencies, however, in which normal Weber fractions were seen at a frequency on the edge of a steep high‐frequency loss, and in which elevated Weber fractions were observed in a flat audiometric configuration. Finally, when compared at the same SL, the Weber fraction was sometimes smaller in cochlear‐impaired than in normal hearing listeners. This was true even in high‐pass noise, where excitation spread was limited, and may reflect the unusually steep rate versus level functions seen in auditory nerve fibers that innervate regions of pathology.
Resetting the pitch‐analysis system. 2. Role of sudden onsets and offsets in the perception of individual components in a cluster of overlapping tones96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411277View Description Hide Description
Experiments on young adults studied the effects of suddenness of onset or offset on the discrimination of the order of pitches of individual tones in a 1‐s, 4‐tone cluster of overlapping pure tones. In experiment 1, the tones, all within a critical band, went on asynchronously. Each rose and decayed linearly in amplitude. Faster onsets, within the range 10 to 640 ms as measured on the first tone, increased the accuracy of the discrimination of the order of onsets, but 10‐ms onsets were slightly worse than 40‐ms onsets in early sessions. Experiment 2 found similar effects for the abruptness of offsets of tones in clusters whose components came on synchronously but went off asynchronously. Onset order was very much easier to detect than offset order. The auditory system may use neural onset and offset responses to reset itself and carry out new analyses at frequency‐by‐amplitude points of sudden amplitude change, thereby contributing to auditory scene analysis.
Frequency and frequency‐ratio resolution by possessors of absolute and relative pitch: Examples of categorical perception?96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411447View Description Hide Description
The methodology derived from the trace–context theory of intensity resolution (Durlach and Braida, 1969; Macmillan et al., 1988) was applied to resolution over an octave range along two continua: a sequential‐frequency‐ratio continuum for possessors of relative pitch (RP), and a pure‐tone frequency continuum for possessors of absolute pitch (AP). The performance of both RP and AP possessors was exceptional in that total identification sensitivity along both continua was much greater than identification sensitivity along unidimensional psychophysical continua characterized by the 7±2 rule. In addition, the performance of RP possessors was exceptional in that, on average, total sensitivity for identification resolution was greater than sensitivity for resolution in discrimination. Finally, identification sensitivity between category prototypes (chromatic semits) along both continua was approximately the same as identification sensitivity between phonemic category prototypes along speech continua, despite the fact that both the discrimination ranges and the total number of categories are much larger for the two pitch continua.
Stimulus classification procedure for assessing the extent to which binaural processing is spectrally analytic or synthetic96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411278View Description Hide Description
A two‐dimensional stimulus classification paradigm was used to assess the extent to which listeners' processing of interaural delays at low frequencies is spectrally analytic or synthetic. Listeners were presented with a 753‐Hz target with an interaural delay that varied from trial to trial, taking on one of ten values, five leading to the left ear and five leading to the right. A 553‐Hz distractor component was simultaneously presented, with its interaural delay also presented at one of ten different values. During a block of 100 trials, each of the possible combinations of target and distractor delay was presented once, and only once, in a random order. Listeners were instructed to make left–right judgments based on the target delay. Each condition was repeated ten times, and the slopes of the best linear boundaries between left and right responses were used to derive the relative weights given to the target and distractor in judgments of laterality. Six of the nine listeners gave increasing weight to the target as the duration of the signals was increased from 25 or 50 to 400 ms. Three listeners showed little change with duration; one consistently gave equal weight to the target and distractor, two consistently gave greater weight to the target than to the distractor. The utility of classification paradigms in the study of multidimensional acoustic signals is discussed.
Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical stimulation96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411279View Description Hide Description
Discrimination of temporal patterns has been suggested as a relevant process in speech recognition by subjects with normal hearing [Sorkin, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 1695–1701 (1990)]. This paper investigates whether performance of Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant subjects on a temporal pattern discrimination task is an efficient and valid psychophysicalmeasure of speech recognition ability. Stimuli consisted of temporal sequences defined by twelve 35‐ms tones and eleven randomly generated temporal gaps separating the tones. A fixed‐level same/different paradigm was used to measure the discriminability of these sequences as a function of their average correlation across a block of trials. On each trial, the ''standard'' sequence was generated randomly by drawing gap durations from a Gaussian distribution. The gaps of the comparison sequence were generated in a similar fashion with a specified average correlation with the gaps of the first sequence. Performance of implanted and normal hearing subjects decreased monotonically with increasing average sequence correlation. However, performance across implanted subjects ranged from that observed for acoustically stimulated subjects with audiometrically normal hearing to levels near chance. Comparing these data with measures of speech recognition in the same subjects, we have found that performance on standard speech recognition tests correlates with ability to discriminate among such random temporal patterns.
Temperature dependence of two‐tone rate suppression in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens pipiens96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411280View Description Hide Description
The existence region of two‐tone rate suppression in frog low‐frequency auditory‐nerve fibers was found to include a suppressive region below a fiber's characteristic frequency, contrary to previous reports. In response to a 3 °C rise in core temperature, the area and the best suppressive frequency (BSF) of the low‐side suppressive region significantly increased. Increasing core temperature of the frog by 6 °C resulted in significant changes in the high‐side suppressive region: Its area decreased, and its BSF and best suppressive threshold (BST) increased. Constant‐temperature control trials were designed to partially simulate the relative movement of the probe tone within the excitatory tuning curve which occurred during temperature shifts. Lowering the probe tone by 0.5 oct had no effect on the low‐side suppressive region, but significantly increased the area and lowered the BSF and BST of the high‐side suppressive region. Temperature shifts in the frog appear to have a differential effect on the low‐side and high‐side suppressive areas of low‐frequency auditory‐nerve fibers. Moreover, excitation and suppression also respond differentially to temperature shifts.
Evaluating residual background noise in human auditory brain‐stem responses96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411281View Description Hide Description
The nature of the residual background noise in ABR averages was empirically examined in normal hearing objects. The residual noise in the average was estimated with use of the technique described by Elberling and Don [Scand. Audiol. 13, 187–197 (1984)]. Low‐level click stimuli were presented in 2‐dB steps spanning the range from 30 to 48 dB p‐p.e. SPL. For each stimulus level, 10 000 sweeps were acquired and stored for analysis. Shortcomings of the use of artifact rejection and standard averaging are demonstrated. It is further demonstrated how application of the Bayesian estimation technique of Elberling and Wahlgreen [Scand. Audiol. 14, 89–96 (1985)] to form weighted averages can help minimize these shortcomings. Finally, the effects of smaller sweep block sizes on the Bayesian technique's ability to control the destructive effects of nonstationary noise are analyzed. Minimizing the destructive effects increases the value of statistical techniques used to detect objectively or to control the quality of ABR recordings. In all, these techniques in combination improve not only the accuracy of test interpretation but also the efficiency of clinical test time, which is becoming important for the control of medical costs.
Discrimination of speech‐like contrasts in the auditory thalamus and cortex96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411282View Description Hide Description
The neurophysiologic discrimination of acoustic contrasts was investigated as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN) response. Evoked responses were recorded from guinea pig thalamus (medial geniculate nucleus) and epidural surface in response to synthesized speech contrasts /ga/–/da/ and /ba/–/wa/. From the caudomedial portion of the medial geniculate nucleus, /ba/–/wa/ elicited a strong mismatch response, whereas /ga/–/da/ did not. Neither stimulus contrast elicited an MMN from the ventral, or primary, portion of medial geniculate. Both stimulus contrasts elicited an MMN from the midline surface. Neither contrast elicited an MMN from the surface over the temporal lobe. Results indicate a hierarchy of processing of the spectrotemporal changes which characterize formant transitions. Also, results indicate that the nonprimary portions of the auditory pathway contribute substantially to the MMN.
V(z) of continuous wave reflection scanning acoustic microscope96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411283View Description Hide Description
A comparison of continuous wave reflection scanning acoustic microscope (cwSAM) with conventional pulse‐echo scanning acoustic microscope (PESAM) and continuous waveultrasonicinterferometer (cwUI) shows that the latter two are special cases of cwSAM. This comparison is followed to develop a theory for the V(z) of a cwSAM. Numerically evaluated continuous wave‐V(z) [cw‐V(z)] for an elastically isotropic specimen is compared with an experimental cw‐V(z) obtained at the same frequency. It is shown that the dominant features of experimental cw‐V(z), the standing waves between the lens and the sample in water and the Rayleigh surface waves at the interface of water and sample can be reproduced in the theoretical model. Determination of Rayleigh wavevelocity and the velocity of sound in the coupling fluid are discussed. It is also shown that the equation for cw‐V(z) can be reduced to the cwUI equation under conditions relevant to it.
A hybrid solution for the response Green's function of a fluid‐loaded cylindrical shell96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411284View Description Hide Description
A classical problem in structural acoustics is the response of a fluid‐loaded cylindrical shell, with ring discontinuities or ring forces, to excitation by incident acoustic waves. The solution for these types of problems is generally formulated using integral transforms. The solution in the spatial domain is obtained by inverse transforming the wave‐number solution. In past work, the inverse transform has been obtained by using either a contour integral approach or by introducing structural damping, thus removing the singularities from the integrand of the inverse transform. An alternative to these classical approaches, which does not require the introduction of structural damping, and therefore retains only the influence of the fluid loading on the response of the cylindrical shell, is a hybrid method which has previously been used for a fluid‐loaded plate with a line discontinuity. Using this approach, the solution is not contaminated by the artificially introduced structural damping. Furthermore, the hybrid approach is more efficient computationally, especially when the evaluation of the response Green's function is required. In this paper, the hybrid approach is applied to the solution of the displacement response Green's function for a fluid‐loaded cylindrical shell with a ring discontinuity, excited by an obliquely incident acoustic wave. The shell wall thickness to radius ratio is 0.01 and therefore thin shell equations of motion are used in the solution. The results presented are for the first circumferential mode (n=0). However, the approach can be used to generate results for other values of the circumferential mode number. At high frequencies, the results asymptotically approach those for a fluid‐loaded plate. Also, for an axial load the results are in close agreement with results obtained on a shell with structural damping by other investigators.
Scattering from flexural waves on a ribbed cylindrical shell96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411378View Description Hide Description
Monostatic scattering measurements over a ka range 2–30 made on two cylindrical shell structures, one with regular internal frames and one without, clearly demonstrate that the periodic discontinuities in the framed shell give rise to distinctive features in the scattering patterns at frequencies much lower than those at which Bragg scattering peaks can exist. These features are found to be even more dominant than those associated with the now well‐known scattering from supersonic shear and compressional helical shell waves. When the measuredscattering levels are displayed as a function of frequency and aspect, these features manifest themselves as curves suggestive of folded‐over dispersion curves of flexural waves. It will be shown that these effects are, in fact, due to scattering from Bloch or Floquet wave packets arising from the frame‐induced multiple scattering of the subsonic flexural waves. The measuredscattering functions are compared with predictions based on phase matching of the acoustic waves to flexural Bloch waves whose dispersion properties are computed using an approximate model. The simple model predictions agree well with the measuredscattering data.
On structure‐borne sound: Experiments showing the initial transient acoustic wave field generated by an impacted plate96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411285View Description Hide Description
The initial propagating transient acoustic field in air generated by an impacted plate is visualized. The transient traveling flexural waves in the plate created by the impact are shown, simultaneously. The experiments are performed using double pulsed holographic interferometry. It is shown that flexural waves in a plate act as a series of traveling acoustic sources. Since the flexural waves in the plate are dispersive the trace matched acoustical waves further away from the impact source propagate at a smaller angle relative to the plate than those closer to the impact. An observer situated close to the plate and away from the impact point will first receive high‐frequency components of the sound. A quantitative evaluation of the acoustic field also shows that if there is a transient increase in pressure on one side of the plate there will be a similar decrease on the other side.
A three‐dimensional acoustic infinite element based on a prolate spheroidal multipole expansion96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411286View Description Hide Description
This paper describes a new three‐dimensional (3‐D) time‐harmonic acoustic infinite element for modeling acoustic fields in exterior domains, typically surrounding a structure. This ''prolate spheroidal infinite element'' is based on a new multipole expansion that is the exact solution for arbitrary scattered and/or radiated fields exterior to a prolate spheroid of any eccentricity. A combination of both prolate and oblate spheroidal infinite elements (the latter to be published separately) provides a capability for very efficiently modeling acoustic fields surrounding structures of virtually any practical shape. This new prolate element has symmetric matrices that are as cheap to generate as for 2‐D elements because only 2‐D integrals need to be numerically evaluated. The prolate element (along with a symmetric‐matrix fluid–structure coupling element, also to be published separately) fits naturally into purely structural finite element codes, thereby providing a structural acoustics capability. For the class of coupled structural acoustic problems studied so far, this approach is two to three orders of magnitude faster, for the same accuracy, than the boundary element method(BEM), which is based on the surface Helmholtz integral equation. Experience with developing and using both BEM and infinite‐element codes has revealed that the severe computational inefficiency of the BEM limits practical 3‐D structural acoustic problems to low frequencies and simple structures, whereas this new infinite‐element approach can handle the full range of frequencies and structural complexities that are encountered in purely structural analyses, at little additional cost.
Numerical simulation of active structural‐acoustic control for a fluid‐loaded, spherical shell96(1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.411287View Description Hide Description
Numerical methods are used to investigate active structural‐acoustic control, a noise control technique in which oscillating force inputs are applied directly on a flexible structure to control its acoustic behavior. The goal is to control acoustic radiation from a thin‐walled shell submerged in a dense fluid and subjected to a persistent, pure‐tone disturbance. For generality the fully coupled responses are found numerically, in this case using the computer program that combines finite‐element and boundary‐element techniques. A feedforward control approach uses linear quadratic optimal control theory to minimize the total radiated power. Results are given for a thin‐walled spherical shell, and are compared to analytical results. The numerical solution is shown to be suitably accurate in predicting the radiated power, the control forces, and the residual responses as compared to the analytical solution. A relatively small number of control forces can achieve global reductions in acoustic radiation at low frequencies (k 0 a<1.7). A single point‐force actuator reduces the radiated power due to a point‐force excitation by up to 20 dB at resonance frequencies; between resonance frequencies, more actuators are required because of modal spillover. With multiple control forces, radiation can be reduced by 6–20 dB over the frequency range 0<k 0 a<1.7.


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Baton Rouge's Webbie has stayed relevant in rap music a lot longer than he was probably projected to in 2005. The Atlantic-turned-Asylum star has had a strong radio presence with his Trill Fam, in the form of "Bad Bitch," "Wipe Me Down" and now "Independent" respectively. Slim on budget and substance, Webbie's tool has been booming beats, catchy choruses and a mild-mannered southern charm that transcends into his music.
Though it inevitably falls short of a Hip Hop purist's approval, "Independent" demonstrates growth for Webbie.
After all, this is a male rapper praising a DIY female beyond more than
just "I ain't paying for you," semantics. While it's not exactly
equivalent to Kanye West's "All Falls Down," we do have a club
single surpassing the d-boy discussion. "I Miss You" takes a similar
counter-route. However, the song's tired sample and poor construction
sounds just as bad when Nice & Smooth made the same song (literally) 10 years ago as "Let It Go."
The harder, bravado-based material is more or less the same as Webbie
has come with throughout the last five years. "I'm Hot" is a
five-minute self-affirmation with carefully placed electric guitar
underneath pounding percussion. "Ya'll Ain't Makin' No Money" is a
charged club hit that fails in its chorus, but riles up listeners to
point across the room to actual or imaginary enemies and laugh at their
shortcomings. As it would seem, Webbie has two speeds: rapping
about himself, generally bragging, and rapping about others, whether
praising their initiative or ridiculing their mistakes. There is little
depth, but still, if artists are to be represented in the mainstream by
their singles, Webbie is to be commended for some growth.
Another interesting quality in Savage Life 2 is what it chooses not to do. Perhaps to be considered Pimp C's biggest protégé on Trill Entertainment, Webbie
seemingly avoids the tribute song that many might expect. "I Miss You"
semi-serves as this, but the song, projected to be the next single,
speaks to living and dead absent faces from Webbie's life. Chad Butler,
who did not produce on the album, does appear on "Fly As An Eagle."
Though it possesses a smooth, slab music chorus, the awkward delivery
from both Webbie and Foxx limits the song's potential.
The resulting collaboration plays more like a hashed together mixtape
effort than anything telling of the creative relationship between
pioneer and protégé. In total, the production on Savage Life 2 is predictable at best. Handled primarily by Mouse and BJ,
the songs rely on bass hits, high hats and simpler construction than
needed for radio. "Independent," perhaps why it's doing so well, is a
rare exception. The song's ad-libs are a testament to the chemistry
between Boosie and Webbie in crafting hooks and bridges,
but also shows a bit more care than the straightforward material that
occupies the album cuts. It is only Mannie Fresh that provides an expert hand, on the Young Dro-assisted
"I Know," which helps make the sequencing of the album's betters
top-heavy, but fails to propel the song to hit-single potential.
With a Top 5 debut, Webbie's formula is working in the
mainstream. Another hit single, a heap of airplay, and an album that
sounds like it dwarves in comparison to the budgets of its peers. For
those that believed in Webbie the last three or five years, Savage Life 2
is an arrival, and a 22 year-old acting less like the teenager he was.
For those hypnotized by the success of "Independent," expecting more
and similar substance on the album, it's advised to purchase the single
and/or the ringtone and keep it moving. Without ever crutching the
critical cosign he's had, Webbie is a self-made star still cutting his teeth as an artist.

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To my friends in the Tidewater area, I would highly recommend, when the time comes, that you help your beloved pets move on in the best way possible. Hampton Roads Veterinary Hospice and Dr. Carmack will be our choice when the time comes (hopefully not too soon) for Bonnie and Hattie, and years from now for Sam and Delilah."
His degenerative spinal disease had progressed to the point where his quality of life suffered greatly and we knew he needed to be euthanized. The decision was particularly difficult because my wife is overseas caring for a terminally ill family member and we couldn't wait until her return.
His last days were spent being pampered and loved. His passing was peaceful and free of any anxiety. We owe this to you and the gentle, caring service you provided. In his final moments, you allowed him to do what he loved to do best. Lay on our living room floor, eat treats, and sleep with his head in my lap. He was a loyal, loving family member and he will always be loved and missed.
Additionally, we are giving our daughter, who rescued him, the clay paw print you made. She is at a conference in Japan and could not be here for his passing. It is a wonderful remembrance and will be of great comfort to her. We are very grateful and will recommend your service to all of our friends. "
Our area is incredibly fortunate to have Dr. Tyler Carmack here to provide such an invaluable service to pet-lovers and those beloved animals we so treasure and whose loss is such a heartbreaking experience. How thankful we are that she is willing to devote herself to this unbelievably challenging work. Like so many others, we will always be deeply grateful to Tyler for the wonderful work that she does!"


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You know, it's a bit sad that 3ds can only say, "hey we've got MH!", and not much more. Maybe if you said, "hey, we are getting a new metal gear, also resident evil revelations 2, a final fantasy exclusive game, a dragon quest game that's not a port, a Ninja Gaiden exclusive game, etc" But nope, in terms of 3rd party games, 3ds has MH, and not much more, I can only think of Castlevania, and that was announced a year ago. Sure, there 20x Mario and relatives games coming, but where are those AAA 3rd party games? I don't see them anywhere. So you've got MH. Grats.Anything else?
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Writing the Personality Profile
Jacobi, Peter P., Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
Writing the personality profile
"We all wear disguises," writes Richard Rhodes in a New York Times Magazine short about his efforts to blend in with those who provide him with article material.
"We all wear disguises. The simple act of dressing is a disguising. Clothes are disguises, beards, pitch of voice, what we say, what we keep secret. Costumes declare us, but disguises protect us from exposure. Wearing them, we blend in. Every salesman dressing for a client knows the drill, every young intern pulling on a white lab coat, every recent graduate struggling with an unfamiliar suit or tie."
Rhodes recognizes the need to get beyond, beneath, around, through the disguise. To get to the real person.
Biographer Jean Strouse notes what financier J. P. Morgan once said: "There are two reasons why a man does anything. There's a good reason and there's the real reason." To which William Zinsser in his useful book, Extraordinary Lives, adds: "The modern biographer's task is to find the real reason."
How distant all such discussion is from the majority of so-called biographies or profiles run in magazines. There are good ones, of course, plenty of them. But all too many editors permit writers--staff or freelance--to shape a single interview into a story and label it profile or biography.
It's the most flawed of assignments, the profile. An interview. A bunch of quotes. Maybe an anecdote squeezed from the subject to use at the start, and just maybe an additional quote of praise from a friend or business associate. The result is like unpaid advertising, free promotion.
That's not good magazine journalism. That's not biography--which, according to biographer Paul Murray Kendall, is "the simulation in words" of a person's life, "from all that is known about him." In a long-while-ago article on the "Perils and Paradoxes of Writing Biography" for Saturday Review (March 27, 1965) he noted: "As the simulation in words of a life, biography works through effects, like the other literary arts, but it is an art with boundaries. The definition excludes works at both ends of the biographical spectrum: the 'fictionalized' biography simulates life but does not respect the materials at hand, whereas the fact-crammed biography, from the magpie school of scholarship-as-compilation, worships the materials at hand but does not simulate a life. The one fails truth; the other fails art. Between the two lies the impossible craft of true biography."
Putting a personality to paper
The skimpy pap that too many editors permit in their publications is not profile, which the dictionary defines as a concise biographical sketch--biographical being the key word here. Intriguing also is a second definition: "a set of data often in graphic form portraying the significant features of something." The something is a human being (although one can, of course, profile an institution or a place, too). The data are information collected by research and reporting. The graphic form is language of a visual nature. The significant features are those elements of the person's life that clarify his mission, her place, his accomplishments, her wisdom.
The biography or profile, as every strong editor knows, is a significant contribution to any issue of a magazine. Publications like Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone survive on them. But the poorly prepared biographical piece gives a bad name to the form, wastes valuable space, and embarrasses the discriminating reader.
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Chris Fields' then-wife filed a restraining order against him in 2006
Fields thinks the Ellison campaign is responsible for the restraining order filing seeing the light of day.
Chris Fields, the Republican candidate challenging Rep. Keith Ellison this November, had a restraining order filed against him by his then-wife, Jessica Fields, in October 2006.
SEE ALSO: Chris Fields debuts racial ad: "Vote for this black guy, not that one"
According to court filings obtained by City Pages, Jessica Fields filed the order in Riverside County, California, where the couple resided at the time. In the October 12, 2006 filing, Jessica Fields specified that the restraining order was for "domestic violence protection."
Jessica Fields then signed a "Reissue Temporary Restraining Order" filing on October 31. A hearing before a judge was scheduled for November 20, but neither Chris nor Jessica showed up and the restraining order was eventually dismissed. The couple divorced just months later, and Chris has since remarried.
City Pages connected with Chris Fields yesterday, and he said we were the first to inform him about the existence of the restraining order. Fields acknowledged that "things happen in the heat of the moment" and said he and his wife were disagreeing about how to divvy up assets at the time, but insisted he's never acted violently toward her. The couple has a 21-year-old son and their relationship today is amicable, Chris said.
Fields said he was never served with a restraining order, but an employee with the family law division of Riverside County Court said if that's true, then the county's standard procedure was flouted.
"He would've been served, and then at the hearing [the restraining order] would've been granted or dismissed," the employee said.
A call to Jessica Fields wasn't returned.
Late in the day yesterday, Chris Fields released a statement addressing the restraining order situation. Click to page two to read it in full. The restraining order itself can be seen on page three.
October 3, 2012 - Minneapolis, MN - Chris Fields, candidate for Congress in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, today released the following statement:
Earlier today City Pages reporter Aaron Rupar contacted our campaign, asking for a comment on information that was sent to him by Katherine Quaglieri of New Partners Consulting in Washington, D.C. [note from Aaron Rupar -- the court filing was not actually sent to me by Katherine Quaglieri, though she may have been the original source who sent it to the person who sent it to me.]
New Partners Consulting is a firm that Keith Ellison's campaign has paid over $238,000 this election cycle.
The information contained court records that indicated my ex-wife had issued a temporary restraining order against me.
The restraining order was never served, and up until today I was completely unaware of its existence. I have never been abusive to my ex-wife or son in any manner.
The document dates to 2006, which was a difficult period in my first marriage. My ex-wife was also a Marine. Many military marriages, especially those that involve combat tours overseas, end in divorce, and I'm sad to say that ours was one of them.
My ex-wife and I amicably divorced in 2006, in proceedings where neither of us were represented by attorneys. We enjoy a good relationship today.
When I spoke to my ex-wife this afternoon about these documents she told me during that period she was very troubled by our impending divorce. She is embarrassed and deeply hurt that this information has been made public. I sincerely apologize to her for this intrusion into her private life.
I am disappointed, but not surprised that Keith Ellison's campaign staff and consultants have continually stooped to these types of disgusting tactics.
Unfortunately, when campaigns cannot win on ideas, they engage in what President Bill Clinton called the "politics of personal destruction". In politicians' desperate attempts to cling to power they simply do not care that they cause pain and hurt innocent people like my ex-wife.
Keith Ellison cannot defend his record of failure, so he's lashing out.
As someone who just a short time ago finalized a divorce, I would have thought that Keith Ellison would have more understanding about how difficult these situations can be. Keith would not want my campaign digging through his divorce records and spinning the facts of that case for political gain.
I challenge Keith Ellison to get his campaign out of the gutter, and get back to debating the issues that matter. I look forward to our next public debate, which is scheduled for October 11 on WCCO.
Congressman Ellison should apologize for his desperate and despicable attempt to score political points at the expense of my ex-wife, a retired Marine who served her country honorably and faithfully. He should aslo apologize to the voters of this district for using their campaign donations in ways they would not approve of and playing politics instead of doing the job he was elected to do.
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Where Islam Meets 'Brave New World'
Published: November 11, 2001
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Ms. Abdelaziz answers their questions by citing Islamic teachings, but she also draws on her own experiences. ''I went through some of the same things they went through,'' she says. ''I tell kids in the school, 'You're so lucky, you're in the Islamic environment. You're not facing a struggle, what to do, not do.' I'm sure if I was wearing a scarf in Franklin K. Lane it would have been a big deal.''
As for the boys, some had never had a female teacher before Ms. Abdelaziz. ''When I first went into the classroom, all of them had their eyes down,'' she says. ''I was like, 'Wow, who made them so Islamic?' ''
But as she talked to them and built a relationship with them, the boys too began to open up to her.
A more difficult task is convincing the larger Muslim community of the benefits of education, especially for girls. Although 95 percent of this year's senior class will graduate with prestigious Regents diplomas, not all are applying to college. Some families want their daughters to marry right after high school, while others do not want them attending coeducational universities.
''The kids who don't have a chance to go to college feel sad, they feel bitter,'' Mr. Abuasi says. ''Their level of achievement lowers because they don't have that opportunity.''
He married his wife before she finished college and has no objection to early marriage. But, he says, ''if we don't wake up and do something about these girls who are not going to college, we'll have a deficiency in our community.''
He is quick to dismiss any suggestion that coed university classes might compromise Islamic vigilance. ''They will not socialize now, they will not socialize later,'' he says. By the time they graduate, he adds, his students know the difference between unnecessary contact (''like promiscuity, like intermingling between the sexes'') and necessary contact (''in business, relations between both sexes is permissible'').
He sweeps his arm toward the front office where women in Islamic clothing sit behind desks. ''You can see I have three or four administrators who work with me,'' he says. ''We meet and discuss things in the most informal way. We feel a familylike environment. But to meet with another person with the purpose of admiring the other person or -- I shouldn't use this word -- flirting, that is not allowed.''
On a recent schoolday, Ms. Abdelaziz seems far from such concerns as she leads her 11th and 12th graders in a discussion of Aldous Huxley's ''Brave New World.''
The conversation grows animated around the idea of molding people by raising them in a controlled environment.
''Not only are they making a person a sewer worker, but they are making them like it,'' Ms. Abdelaziz says. Then she brings the issue closer to home. ''What is predestination?'' she asks. ''What is it in Islam?''
''What Allah has decreed,'' one girl answers.
''So in a sense are we like 'Brave New World'?''
''No,'' say a couple of voices.
''What is the difference?'' Ms. Abdelaziz asks.
''We have a choice of what to be,'' says another student.
''Can any of you be a sewer worker?''
''Could any of you be president?''
''No, because we're girls.''
Ms. Abdelaziz doesn't miss a beat. ''Don't say that,'' she says. ''The president can be a girl. It just hasn't happened yet.''
Photos: Khalid Mohamed, a 10th grader, hits the books at Al Noor, a Muslim school in Brooklyn where boys and girls are forbidden to talk to one another and take classes in separate buildings.; Recess at Al Noor, as girl meets football. There may be sneakers under the robes, but no pictures of pop stars or boyfriends in lockers. Students in the cafeteria. The girls may receive Regents diplomas at Al Noor, but not all will get the opportunity to go to college. (Edwine Seymour for The New York Times)


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Opinion of the court.
was given, and prays for judgment on the note sued on,
and also for the enforcement of the vendor's lien.
A judgment by default was taken for the amount due on
the note, and at the same term this judgment was set aside
upon motion of plaintiffs below, who are defendants in error
here, without notice to the defendant, King, of said motion.
The plaintiffs below amended their petition by setting
out the metes and bounds of the lot, particularly locating
the lot again east of the lot on which is situated the Baptist
church, as may be seen by tracing the calls in the description,
and averring it to contain the same amount of
land and improvements thereon as stated in the original
petition, and to be the same lot as that described in the
original petition, and also again praying for the enforcement
of the vendor's lien and for judgment as in the original
Again, and during the same term, without any further
notice to, judgment by default was rendered against him
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amended without amending the petition, so as to give the
plaintiff the benefit of the vendor's lien upon the lot and
improvements thereon, as described in the original petition,
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During recent years the central part of the city was renovated and now the main street - Republicii St. - is really a beauty, especially during evenings in the weekend, when all people come out.
Reserve at least three days for Brasov and Poiana Brasov, much more if you come during winter as Poiana Brasov is the largest ski resort in Romania. In Brasov you have a lor to visit, starting with the museum of the old town, where you will see a big model of the former fortress and you will see how in the place where now there is Republicii St. there was a small river.
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This round yellow gel cap is for a sore throat, respiratory ailment or flu?
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Quest 72: Where is the Stenchurio?
Paolo says that the Stenchurio is in the sea north of Gleeba, but I just can't find it. Is it really in the sea between Gleeba and the swamp?
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Yes. You just need to get lucky. It took me a few minutes to find it.
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Yes the Stenchrion is there. It helps to have the Whistle ability to find it faster. it only took me three uses of Whistle to find it north of Gleeba.
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The area runs from right above Gleeba to around the eastern coast of Hermany.
It's much easier if you have Whistle; I've heard they show up more at night as well.
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An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.
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Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.
Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain s Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.
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Each element is defined by its position in the matrix.
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Several studies had shown that jurors found it difficult to comprehend legal rules and some had been caught looking up words, he said: "Jurors tended to look up words like assault, battery, culpable, inference, insanity, legal cause, malice, motive, murder, negligent, premeditate, preponderance, proximate, rape, utter, wanton and wilful."
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