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Egypt strongly rejected the "irresponsible" Israeli escalation in occupied Palestinian lands and use of excessive military force, leading to the death of innocent civilians.
In a statement Friday morning, the Foreign Ministry urged Israel to exercise self restraint and consider the humanitarian aspect, especially that it is an occupation force that has to respect legal and moral commitments on the protection of civilians.
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Trochulus hispidus in Montreal
I spent part of my last full day in Montreal photographing and filming the snails I found in my sister's garden. One of them was the following.
The diameter of the shell was 8.7 mm. Note the hairs visible along the edge of the body whorl. Based on the descriptions in Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada – Introduced Species and Native Genera, I have identified this specimen as Trochulus hispidus (the other candidate is T. striolatus). It is a native of Europe that has been introduced to Canada.

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Cannabis is the world's most versatile natural medicine. It's also the most productive and most sustainable agricultural crop known to man. Yet we still can't use it without fear of being criminalised, incarcerated and even, in some countries, executed. Meanwhile our own governments facilitate the use of alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals and petro-chemicals whilst protecting the interests of multi-national corporations that poison both people and planet with impunity.
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Haeberli, W; Gruber, S (2008). Research challenges for permafrost in steep and cold terrain: an alpine perspective. In: 9th International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, 29 June 2008 - 3 July 2008, 597-605.
The past few decades have seen a rapid development and progress in research on permafrost in mountain areas with complex and rugged topography such as the European Alps. At the same time, it becomes increasingly clear that climate change impacts have the potential to severely affect future living conditions in areas with steep and cold terrain by influencing the chain of surface processes that link debris production via rock fall to talus/moraine formation, creep deformation of frozen deposits, and material evacuation by debris flows and fluvial transport. Key scientific challenges relate to special aspects induced by complex topography. Corresponding aspects are briefly outlined concerning the relation between the atmosphere and the permafrost in areas with highly variable snow cover and potentially strong lateral energy fluxes, permafrost thermal conditions in mountains with pronounced microclimatic asymmetries, the destabilization of steep to near-vertical rock walls and degrading permafrost, the flow and stability of ice-rich frozen debris with increasing subsurface temperature and melt water availability, interactions between glaciers and permafrost under conditions of rapid if not accelerating change, 4D-evolution of permafrost in rugged mountain topography, and hazards from permafrost slopes in densely populated high-mountain chains.
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There were two sections first one is Aptitude section and second one is Technical
There will be sectional cutoff in both of the section�
Each sections have 3-3 sub sections but they havn�t individual cut off..
In technical section the three sub section was
i) C (it�s on u�r choice u can choose java too)
ii) SQL & DBMS
iii) UNIX (in it some part of os too).
In Aptitude section the three subsection was
i) Arithematic
ii)Simple apptitude n small puzzles
I) C section (25 min:20 ques)
1)float a=.7
case 1: printf(�case 1″);
case (2) : printf(�default�);
what will be output??
ans:it will be error since case(2) is not allowed
3) u have to store data on the system which command is used �..(a)fread (b)fwrite (c)read (d)write
In C questions were mainly related with pointers(arround 5-6 questions), 2 questions from command line argument, 1 questions related to size of structure, 2 on string pointer, 1 on preprocessor, 1 on bitwise operator,1 on just declare the node of link list, 1 on tree whose inorder and preorder is given., 1 on continue..
II) Sql section (15 min:10 ques)
i) what is data dictionary ���.4 options were given
ii) what is view��.
iii) 2 questions were on transactions
redo undo table was given
iv) given a table u have to find all those customer name and id which not belong to city california or messchustte or his name is jackson
v) one query related to delete operation for the given table
vi)one query related to having clause in which find the sum of money
III) Unix section (12 ques:15 min)
i) what is output of cal j 2005
ii) 1 question on tee comand
iii)in which message passing is fast� options are (a)pipe (b) message passing (c) message queue (d) memory sharing nans : d
iv)question on nice command that is how to change the priority
ans: change the priority of the process
v)context switching takes place�.
a) kernel to user mode
b)user to user mode
c)kernel to kernel mode
d)one process to another process
vi)what is the difference between dbms and rdbms options were given
vii)u have a xwindow and u have to display clock on it then which command will be used??
viii) what is fork�.. and: to create a new process
ix)2 shell script questions like one is for xxx �i am� �master of� unix
echo xxx
what will be the output?? like this�.x)cp xxx.txt edu
what will it do
ans: copy file xxx to directory edu.
xi)question on chmod command ��� file attribute permission change
x)one question was which command does not create a new file �����
a)cat ���
b)touch ����
ans: c
xi)if the file permission is 100 who can acsess that file�.ans: only super user if it is there in the option
I)Arithematic section (30 min:20 ques)
1) some digits were given like 0 2 2 3 3 4 4 then how many no will be there which is greater than 1 lac ,all numbers are distinct
there were 2 questions of this type�..
2) 4 qustions on venn diagram�.
in a survey of 100 people 20 view only war movie,15 view only romantic movie, 10 view horror��..bla bla bla..
3) there r 10 containers all closed and there r 10 people 1 st person open all containers 2 nd person changes the status of 2nd 4th 6th �10 th containers that is close here.then 3 rd person again changes the status of 3rd 6 th 9th container similarly 10 th person changes only 10th container then tell that status of 7th container will be changed how many times
IN arithematic section 3-4 problems related to permutation &combinations, 1 from probability,3 from percentage, 2 from profit loss, 1 from pipe & cisterns, 1 from compound interest�
II) Reasoning section (20 min:15 ques)
this section is very easy�..
1)to chooose which two are similar in the given pattern�.this type of four questions
I) i) 123456.876543 ii)123456.876943 iii) 123456.876543
(a)i & ii (b) i & iii (c) ii & iii (d)all are similar
2)if * is changed to +, +is changed to - ,- is changed to / , /changed to* what is the value of �..
1) 3*4+5/2-7�.
4 questions of this type
3) if 4 represent as $** and 3 represent as *$$
based on it there were 4 questions�.like
i) what is the value of $$$** + $**$*
in similar way rest of 3 questions
4)one question was
a goes to party if b goes
b goes to party if c goes
c goes to party if d goes
total how many goes to party??
III) Comprehension section (15 min:10 ques)
In this section there were a long passage based on cryptographic tecnique�..on the behalf of that there were 10 questions like..
1) who provide the certificate
2)along with which hardware this is added�
3) where is security key retain
4) which algorith is used to generate a key�..something like that
After the written�.there were two round of interview
I) TECH INTERVIEW: This round was also long around 45-50 min. They asked to me
1) about educational background
2)i have mentioned a project in my resume so around 15 min questions regarding to my project (if u have done any project and if u know all about u�r project then it will be advantageous for u).they asked�..
i)draw all front end window of project,
ii)what is the best features of your project,
iii)what was your role in project,
iv)how did u compromize at any critical situation in u�r project when all of you had different ideas,
v)have u insert any innovative idea in your project,
vi)how to fetch data from data base�.write query for that
vii)your project is in which normal form??
3)then they came on C
i)how we provide dynamic memory allocation in c�..write, how declare melloc
ii)is there any difference between melloc and calloc Chet anaS
iii)write code for a function which work similar as strcat do�using pointer
iv) what is the use of �o� in string, why we don�t use in array,if we don�t provide it instring declaration that what will hapen.
v)some times you run a c program in turbo c compiler ,the system crashes�why it happen??
4)after that they asked unix
i)simple questions on file permission,
ii)nice command,
ii)if given chmod 777 what does it mean,
iii)what are system call?
iv)how we do pattern searching ??
5) then they moved towards dbms and sql
i) what did u study in u�r college dbms or rdbms is there any difference between them?
ii) one query regarding projection
iii)one query regarding having clause�.group by
iv)one query regarding delete operation
v)what is functional dependency??
vi)what is atomicity?
vii) theoritically how can we detect deadlock??
then they asked to me general questions�
6) have u ever heard about amdocs
7) how was amdocs question paper�..what is your comment about that
before amdocs, how many written u have given?
9) do u feel something difference in selection procedure of amdocs to other companies�..
10)does pointer(CPI) or percentage reflects real knowledge or not??
11) what is the best quality in you�your strength?? http://www.TowardsJob.com
12) what is your plan for next sem (V sem)�.i said that �I will incease my pointers� then they said�.just brush up u�r concept of C, Unix and dbms..because we work on these��
II) HR INTERVIEW: This was of hardly 15 to 20 min
1)what is the name of other two,those took u�r interview??
2) have u heard the ppt then tell me what type of company is amdocs
3) describe your self?
4)tell me about family background.
5) why would u like to join amdocs?
6)have u any plan for further study like mba�?
7) would u like to do work offtime.
total 70 students gave written�.only 19 student qualify the exams�then tech and hr interview round
then finally result declared arround 11:00pm�.total 15 student selected finally and i was one of them�..
all the best to all of you for u�r bright future�..
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Differentiating The Information Commodity
One of the core components of creating a unique user experience is making it clear to the end user or customer that a product or service is differentiated from competitors so that it compels the individual to seek out this different experience. At DBL we've discussed the importance of identifying ways to differentiate the library. From the end-user perspective, what is it about the library that makes it different and unique from all other potential sources of information – especially the ones that are more convenient to use.
One of the challenges librarians face is that their primary product, information, is a commodity that is difficult to differentiate. It used to be that academic libraries could emphasize their scholarly content as different from what search engines offered, but Google Scholar changed all that. The end user perceives all information as relatively the same, especially when they can find it on their own, and it all seems to relate to the question or topic of choice. And even if it isn't the highest quality information, if finding it is convenient and fast then it's good enough.
The Branding Strategy blog explores how one might go about differentiating or branding a commodity. In fact, one of the bloggers there, Brad VanAuken, said "I am a firm believer that everything can be branded/differentiated. I have never encountered a product or service that I could not brand/differentiate". In that same post he provided some examples of branding products for differentiation. In a more recent post VanAuken wrote more specifically about how to differentiate commodities. Commodities, like the information contained in articles and books, is difficult to differentiate. What is different about the information found in a book in the local public library and the same or a similar book found online via Google books or Amazon?
The answer is nothing, at least nothing much different than the vodka found in bottles from two different companies, or for that matter much of the water sold in plastic bottles. Can you really taste the difference between two brands? But why does one brand command a higher price and why do more consumers know the name or can recite its tagline? The reason is differentiation. It's the same thing with information. It may be the same but one provider may have more brand recognition, another may offer great convenience and yet another may deliver unique packaging. Libraries offer books and other information for free. You'd think that would be a significant and desirable differentiating factor. But when you factor in questionable convenience, difficulty finding out what the library offers and some complexity in getting to the information, free looks like less of a bargain. Then again, the vodka example shows consumers will pay more if they believe they are getting higher quality or more value for their money. But will they go to more trouble and spend more valuable time to get it?
So what advice does VanAuken offer for how to differentiate any commodity? Some are the sort of things you'd expect: superior quality control; great customer service; best range of product availability. While all of these would be desirable for any library, doing them all well in order to compete with an Amazon or Barnes & Noble could be quite a challenge. He also says that one way to differentiate with commodities is to identify unique categories of customers and focus on meeting their unique needs. This is one area in which libraries of all types might be most successful. We often know our user segments (children, teens, college students, professionals), and we often know more about them and their research needs than the competition.
One way in which libraries, particularly academic libraries, might differentiate their information is to better connect the end user with highly specialized resources that may be linked to a specific issue or discipline. The same could be said for the mostly unique content in special collections. While Google is digitizing these unique materials from its library partners' collections, there still remains much that is unique and valuable for differentiation. Promoting these unique databases and collections will present a challenge since they have small numbers of potential users. But reaching these smaller groups, over time, can convert to a large user base. We are challenged to differentiate the library's core commodity – raw information – but as VanAuken says, "Everything can be branded/differentiated."
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Comment from Adam Wright
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 9:54 pm
"He also says that one way to differentiate with commodities is to identify unique categories of customers and focus on meeting their unique needs."
In my blog, we are highlighting the changing role of the library in the next decade. I am calling it the "Public Library's Identity Crisis." I have some interesting email discussions with librarians about the role of the book in the library in the next decade. One library director pretty much told me what you have written about here. My question for you. Can libraries change fast enough to meet the needs of the next "unique category of customers." What happens when they can't change fast enough? Our core services of information and archival should always be retained. In this way, we will always have some value to the community despite the latest "category of customer" we are serving. In other words, we should be cautious and make sure to balance new services with our tradition core missions.
Comment from Jim Nichols
Posted: December 14, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Books, articles and other objects can be treated as commodities, but information as such? When I consume a shot of vodka, regardless of brand, it will do pretty much the same thing for me as for any other human. When I read a book my experience with it will be different from others, and even from my own earlier experience if I re-read a book.
Information objects abound, but information itself exists in the process and the person. See Cook, http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/article/view/Vol3-2009ED5 .
I'm still sorting this out, but perhaps the differentiation for libraries or a library needs to start with embracing the true nature of our goods and services. Focusing on customers and their needs and uses for informative sources is still key.
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Posted: December 18, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Jim – I'd make a distinction between consuming the information and acquiring the information. In my post I'm focusing on information as a commodity that we acquire. The same way I'd acquire coffee beans – they're just a commodity. I could get my coffee beans from any number of sources. Likewise, with a book – which you could look at as a compendium of information – I could get that from any number of sources – amazon, a barnes and noble bookstore, my local public library and coming soon – full-text on the Internet. The library needs to differentiate how it provides the commodity that makes it unique from all the others – and I mentioned that "free" is one of them – but perhaps not enough to encourage the consumer to choose the library over other options. I believe what you are referring to is the experience you have when you consume the information, whether it's the first time or third time. That is a different matter. The library has no control over your personal experience. One person may love a book while another hates it. But what experience did each have when acquiring the book (information) in the first place. That's the point about the vodka. You are right – when you drink it you may have an experience that's no different from me. On the other hand, if I buy a premium, high-recognition brand and you buy the bargain basement brand, I may feel a bit superior and smug when I serve and consume my vodka – which would be a different experience than your experience – and I might even think I'm better when I go to the store and buy and spend more money – even though I'm not. That's all part of the experience. So why should people go to libraries to get their information? How do we differentiate that experience? That's the question we need to answer.
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No. Here we sell only OpenCart version.
Great theme, tiquet! Really good looking
i've read your documentation,it said the theme options module already in module, we just have to install it,but i cant find it everywhere
In documentation is the full breadcrumb: extension/modules. If you don't have MegaStore theme Options theme i'm sure that you didn't uploaded all files.
WOW !!! What a great theme. Why do you keep coming up with these nice themes??? Mine looks like shit compered to this.
Thank you
Been looking around for just the right theme for my print shop… thanks!
Thank you to
Hi, Can anyone help me i am new to open cart and not very proficient as yet. If you have already installed this template and would like to help me with some of the implementation please get in touch!!. I have the files in opencart but find the further instructions given a bit sketchy for my level! "I just need some advise in Layman's Terms" (Not Technical) Please!. If anyone in the U.K has got this i am sure a few emails or 10 minutes on the phone would really help me out. Thank you. We all have to learn somehow!! Best Regards Chris
Everything is in documentation. Documentation have also screenshot's from my installation so i don't know where you have problems.
Hi there,
First of all great theme. Comming a long way with it. Have 1 question thou which I just can't sort out. Been searching google and stuff but just can't find the answer. Which is the following:
If you add a image to a category and you're on that category on the front-end it puts that image at the top before the products show up. Is it possible to delete that?http://i50.tinypic.com/v418x4.png
I can't just delete the image because I do need the images when I've got a parent category like this:http://i48.tinypic.com/uagl1.png
Soooo can you help me out here?
Thanks in advance!
Like you said this is category images so in admin panel you can't remove this.
But you can edit category.tpl and remove code responsible for category info (photo and description), lines 21-28 in my category.tpl
In what directory can I find that?
Thanks man you're awesome helping me out like this!
Found it! Thanks again!
Thank you.
Author Stuck With Me on This Project
I had no knowledge of Open Cart whatsoever so i found it difficult to follow some of the Instructions as a Novice. This is my fault and not the Authors!!.
Thanks for a great design with Great Features!!. Thanks for your email advise!!
Recommended to anyone wanting to purchase .
I'm glad i could help
Hi tiquet,
Got another question. If the price has more than 2 numbers the line will break and it will display the price on the second line. Looks really weird, especially cuz the euro sign is on the first line.
Guess it's a bug if not could you tell me how to fix it?http://i46.tinypic.com/lgykj.png
This is not a bug.
1. Set smaller font size.
2. Decrease search size and increase shopping cart size
3. Edit language files and remove "product(en)".
This are 3 options which you can do.
Great theme Just one thing I noticed is that on category listing there are no indication of that the "Add to Wish List" and "Add to Compare" are links, as it is on the products page.
List view: http://cl.ly/image/0k0c0r2z1L05
Grid view (hover): http://cl.ly/image/0k0c0r2z1L05
Everything is ok.
Well, when I go to this page http://www.przemyslawlobodzinski.pl/themes/megastore/index.php?route=product/category&path=25_28 there is no hover effect for these on the "Add to Wish List" and "Add to Compare" at least when using Chrome and I haven't checked it yet with any other browser.
FF: http://cl.ly/image/0Q3Z3l2k0N28
Chrome: http://cl.ly/image/2j2s3m3F212y
Safari: http://cl.ly/image/2J3c1I471n1F
There must be problem with your browser. Try clean cache. Or maybe you have some addons which block JS.
Great theme, would like to know if its possible to hide the modifier ie: (+$10.00) on each price?. I dont want to show the customer that…looked on open cart forum no luck…
Thank you,
I'm nor sure what you are talkin about.
Please describe me more. But i'm sure that this is not theme issue.
does it have to show each price for a product option? Small (+$10.00) Medium (+$20.00) Large (+$30.00)
I would like to know if the (+$00.00) can be turned off or hidden looked over at the opencart forum no luck
thank you
This price are set in admin panel so you don't need to add the additional price and leave only the name without price. You can check how it works with your OpenCart installation,.
thanks , but if I take the prices out of the options then the total price never changes…I want to keep the price in each option but hide then from the customer view. thank you.
after looking at the product.template i found the code. just delete: <?php if ($option_value['price']) { ?> <?php echo $option_value['prefix']; ?><?php echo $option_value['price']; ?> <?php } ?>
works perfect and looks more pro. will be buying your theme tonight …thank you
Thanks for message
Your demo shows it's running on 18.104.22.168. Can you upgrade it to 188.8.131.52 I want to be positive it works with 188.8.131.52
Hi,If here is wrote about compability i provide you that this theme is 100% compatible with 188.8.131.52: http://cl.ly/image/1x2U1H1a361H
We always test our themes before we release them.
Also the page resizes weird when I snap it in windows 7. Then when I maximze the window it's normal.Here is it snapped side by side with another window http://imgur.com/MqEE7 and here it is maximized looking normal http://imgur.com/yYZzY
This effect is in every browser and osx. This is because theme is Responsive.


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Freeman Scores 27 But Men's Basketball Falls 63-56 At Fordham
Feb. 12, 2005
BRONX, N.Y. - Sophomore Rashaun Freeman (Schenectady, N.Y.) poured in 27 points and hauled in 11 rebounds, but it was not enough as Fordham defeated the UMass men's basketball team 63-56 on Saturday in historic Rose-Hill Gym. The Minutemen fall to 12-9 overall, 6-5 in the Atlantic 10, while the Rams improve to 10-12 overall and 6-5 in the league.
The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for UMass.
Freeman posted his sixth 20-plus performance on a strong 13-for-18 shooting effort from the field. The double-double was his first since UMass defeated then-21st ranked George Washington (1/15).
His performance, however, was not enough to put the Minutemen in the win column after a tough-shooting first half. UMass was not able to score in the final 5:45 of the opening period and allowed a 7-0 Fordham run to close the half.
After a missed three pointer by Corey McCrae, sophomore Maurice Maxwell (Philadelphia, Pa.) cleared the rebound and Freeman hit a lay-up to pull UMass within three points, 22-19, with 5:45 remaining in the first half. In a 71-second stretch, Fordham scored seven points to go up 10 at the break.
"We dug ourselves in a hole in the first half," said head coach Steve Lappas. "When you do that on the road, its tough to come back. We had opportunites, but we made mistakes in critical situations."
In the second half, the Minutemen were able to cut the Fordham lead to two points jumping out of the gates on an 8-0 run sparked by a dunk from sophomore Stephane Lasme (Libreville, Gabon).
Fordham answered pushing its lead to nine points at the 13:15 mark when Bryant Dunston got free for a dunk - just his third field goal in his 18 point performance.
With just under three minutes to go, Freeman hit a lay-up followed by a dunk on the next UMass possession cutting the lead to three, 52-49.
UMass was still within three points with 22 seconds remaining after Freeman hit another jumper after Jeff Viggiano pulled down an offensive rebound.
The Rams answered with a Marcus Stout lay-up and two free throws down the stretch as Fordham held on for the 63-56 win.
"We played tough today, but offensively we made mistakes and had too many turnovers," said Lappas.
The Minutemen shot 55.2 (16-for-29) percent in the second half, but could not overcome the first half deficit.
Fordham held the advantage at the free throw line converting 19-of-25 attempts, including 12-of-16 in the second half, while UMass was just 7-of-14 at the stripe. Dunston led all players hitting 12-of-15 scoring the majority of his 18 points at the line.
Freeman's 27 points led all players in the game, but he was the only UMass player to reach double figures. Maxwell added eight points and five assists. It was the first time in seven consecutive games that Maxwell was not able to reach double-figure scoring.
Fordham was led by Dunston's 18 points and 11 rebounds. Jermaine Anderson scored 16 points and Stout added 12 - four in the final 17 seconds of play.
The Minutemen will return to action on Tuesday night when they host Florida State of the Atlantic Coast Conference in a late non-conference tilt. The Seminoles were also in action on Saturday afternoon losing 87-48 at No. 6 Wake Forest. Tuesday's game in Mullins is slated for a 7:00 p.m. tip.
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Larry Coryell: Spaces (Infinite)
Spaces (Infinite)
Larry Coryell (guitar)
Spaces (Vanguard VMD-79345)
Larry Coryell (guitar), John McLaughlin (guitar), Chick Corea (electric piano), Miroslav Vitous (bass), Billy Cobham (drums).
Composed by Julie Coryell.
Recorded: New York, 1969
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
According to the book Milestones 2: the Music and Times of Miles Davis Since 1960 by Jack Chambers, up-and-coming guitarist Larry Coryell was sitting in the crowd at Count Basie's nightclub in 1969 for a performance of the Tony Williams Lifetime band. Williams's outfit featured guitarist John McLaughlin and keyboardist Larry Young. At this time among jazz cognoscenti, Coryell was considered the next guitar superstar. But according to Coryell, "After 30 seconds of his [McLaughlin's] first solo, I turned to my wife and said this is the best guitar player I've ever heard in my life."
Shortly thereafter Coryell invited McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Miroslav Vitous into the studio to record Spaces. What a lineup! This was a veritable who's who of jazz fusion before they were anybody. It is why Spaces is now a legendary recording.
The writing credit for "Spaces (Infinite)" is given to Julie Coryell, Larry's then-wife, to whom he uttered the above quote (which, incidentally, Jack Chambers took from a Leonard Feather article). She also wrote one of the first books about fusion, which was reissued a few years back.
Coryell and McLaughlin offer background strums as Vitous bows an ominous opening. A bit of dark funk dominates the scene. A slow melodious passage is heard. Vitous puts down the bow and begins a quick walk. Coryell solos first. He strikes rapid truncated notes over McLaughlin's accompanying chords and Cobham's aggressive rhythm. He plays some killer arpeggio runs as he hands off to McLaughlin. He offers more twists and turns and texture in his playing. Both players succeed in being strong and original without getting in each other's way. Chick Corea does not appear to have played on the tune. "Spaces (Infinite)" appeared as the first cut of the album and turned out to be a very good indication of the brilliance awaiting the listener. I give credit to Coryell for bringing McLaughlin into the studio. It showed he was a brave and confident musician.
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
Tags: 1960s jazz · fusion · guitar
jay colton
// Jan 18, 2009 at 06:49 AM
whatever happened to the great acoustic album they did together just coryell and mClaughlin that is a treasure have not been able to find it anywhere
Walter kolosky
// Jan 19, 2009 at 06:11 PM
Hi Jay, I am unaware of such a product.


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WESTFIELD TWP. — For the third time in a row, voters rejected a 7.9-mill levy for Cloverleaf Schools on Tuesday.
But Superintendent Daryl Kubilus said he is encouraged that the margin of defeat has narrowed with each attempt.
"We will work diligently to get the message out, and build on the momentum we created," Kubilus said.
Cloverleaf's first levy try in 2011 failed by 23 percentage points. Last November it lost by only 6 percentage points.
Tuesday's unofficial board of elections returns showed the levy fell short by little more than a single percentage point, with 2,073 votes for the tax and 2,131 votes against.
"The fact that we've closed the gap … is a positive sign," Kubilus said.
Kubilus said the emergency levy will be back on the ballot in the Aug. 6 special election, along with a request to renew a five-year levy passed in 2008.
Kubilus said the district's financial situation is bad and getting worse.
"Our budget problems aren't going away," he said.
In 2012, the district was placed in fiscal emergency by the state. All district financial decisions must be approved by a supervisory committee appointed by the state.
"While we're in fiscal emergency, decisions will be made based on what's best for the budget, not what's best for the children, and the children deserve better than that," Kubilus said.
District officials estimate they face a $3 million deficit next year. Last year, the district borrowed $678,000 from the state's fiscal stabilization fund — money that must be repaid by the district.
Cloverleaf has cut $6.6 million from its budget over the last five years, including 70 staff positions, but cuts have not kept up with state funding cuts. In January, the school halted busing for high school students in the district.
Kubilus said there's nowhere left to cut.
Cloverleaf parent Melinda Jordan said the cuts are part of the reason she supported the levy on Tuesday.
"I think they're cutting back as much as they can," she said. "We've had two children graduate with great experiences and we want to continue that."
Don Meyer also turned out at the polls Tuesday to support the levy. He said his children are grown and no longer in the district, but he felt strongly about supporting education.
"I think kids in our district need a quality education and we need to do what we can," he said. "These are the people who are going to be deciding our future."
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Glaser, Matt (Matthew Sean)
Glaser, Matt (Matthew Sean), violin, educator, author; b. Brooklyn, NY, 24 May 1956. He played piano, guitar, and harmonica as a youth. He took up the violin at the age of 13. Began playing jazz at the age of 17 with the Central Park Sheiks. Attended Eastman school of music. Freelance musician in New York City. Since 1981, he's been chairman of the string department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He got his M.M. at Tufts University (1989).
He has performed with Lee Konitz, Gunther Schuller and the Boston Jazz Orchestra at Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Four Generations of Jazz Violin (with Darrol Anger, Johnny Frigo, Joe Kennedy Jr., and Regina Carter), New York All-Stars, David Grisman, and International String Quartet Congress. Heis the founder of Wafaring Strangers (a band that fuses jazz with various ethnic musics), which includes Bruce Barth and Andy Statman. Heis performed at Carnegie Hall with Stephane Grappelli and YoYo Ma. Featured on the soundtrack for "The Civil War" and soundtrack for King of the Gypsies.
Matt is the first and only recipient of the Stephane Grappelli Memorial Award, "In recognition of his significant contribution to the teaching and playing of improvised string music in America", presented by the American String Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association. He has performed widely in a variety of idioms ranging from jazz to bluegrass to early music.
He has written for many music magazines including Strings, Acoustic Musician, and Acoustic Guitar. He has performed with Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, Bob Dylan, the Waverly Consort, Fiddle Fever, and most recently with Wayfaring Strangers--a band that fuses jazz and folk music.
Matt served on the board of advisors of the Ken Burns' Jazz Documentary, and appears in the film as a talking head. Matt serves on the board of directors of Chamber Music America. Matt has performed at the White House, and at Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor as part of Stephane Grappelli's 80th birthday concert. He has taught at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, University of Miami, American String Teacher Association conferences, International Association of Jazz Educator conferences, and many others.
Play Fiddle Play (with L. Porter, 1986)
M.G. with Grappelli, Jazz Violin
M.G. with Joe Viola, Jazz Chord Studies for Violin
M.A. thesis: Controlled Improvisation In Texas Style Fiddling (Tufts, 1989)
Corresponding Editor Of Strings Magazine,And Also Writes For Acoustic Musician,Acoustic Guitar


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Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1982
Diffraction constants for pressure gradient transducers72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388318View Description Hide Description
Conventionally the diffraction constant D of a receiving transducer(microphone or hydrophone) is defined as the ratio of the average sound pressure acting on the blocked diaphragm to the free‐field sound pressure. This definition is inadequate for transducers that have complex vibration patterns, and, in the absence of a d h o c modifications, it will fail to give the correct results for pressure gradient transducers. A new definition based on the general theory of transducers with fixed velocity distributions is therefore introduced. The diffraction constant is assigned not only the function of accounting for scatteredwave effects but also the function of extracting from the surfacepressure distribution the component that drives the velocity distribution (or vibration pattern) of the transducer. The diffraction constant depends on the choice of the reference velocity that is associated with the acoustic port of the transducer. A spatial rms reference velocity is defined, and it is shown to be a suitable reference for pressure gradient transducers. Calculation of the diffraction constant is carried out for the following piezoelectric pressure gradient hydrophones: a flexural disk supported inside an annular mass, an end supported flexural bar, a cantilever bar, an oscillating rigid cylinder, and an oscillating rigid sphere. The use of the diffraction constant in conjunction with the electroacoustic circuit of the hydrophone to calculate voltage receiving response is described, and the circuit information needed to illustrate the procedure is given for the flexural disk hydrophone.
Electromechanical properties of (Pb, Ln) (Ti, Mn) O3 ceramics (Ln = rare earths)72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388319View Description Hide Description
Electromechanical properties of PbTiO3ceramics modified by the partial substitution of rare earths for Pb, particularly, (Pb, Ln) (Ti, Mn) O3 (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, or Gd) ceramics, are examined. It is found that the Sm substitution for Pb dramatically increases the ratio of electromechanical coupling factor of the thickness dilatational mode to that of the planar extensional mode. Extensive studies of the resonant properties of rectangular strip resonators make it clear that the Sm‐substituted PbTiO3ceramics are very useful for high‐frequency array transducer applications. It is also shown that the pulse responses of array transducers can be improved using Sm substituted PbTiO3ceramics instead of the other PbTiO3ceramics studied here.
An ultrasound power meter72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388320View Description Hide Description
An ultrasound power measuring method based on measurement of the radiation force is described. The method requires no target to measure this force since the force is measured at the holder of the ultrasonic transducer that is transmitting. The actual power meter reported is based on modulated acoustic transmission to facilitate electronic detection and measurement.
Consonant‐feature transmission as a function of presentation level in hearing‐impaired listeners72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388321View Description Hide Description
Normal‐hearing listeners and listeners with a high‐frequency sensorineural hearing loss identified 17 consonants as part of a consonant‐vowel syllable with /a/ or /i/ as the vowel. The syllables were set at presentation levels of 10 to 65 dB r e thresholds at 1000 Hz. The performance for the consonants comprising each of 11 a p r i o r i acoustic‐phonetic features improved directly with increases in presentation level for both subject groups, but was better in the /a/ than in the /i/ context. The performance of the hearing‐impaired listeners was significantly poorer than the performance of the normal‐hearing listeners only for the higher‐frequency features of frication and sibilance. The lower‐frequency features of voicing and sonorance were reflected in the confusion matrices of hearing‐impaired listeners at presentation levels of 10 and 20 dB; only at 35 to 65 dB were higher‐frequency features transmitted in the confusion matrices of this group.
Tactile communication of speech: II. Comparison of two spectral displays in a vowel discrimination task72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388322View Description Hide Description
Voweldiscrimination experiments were performed comparing two tactile, Optacon‐based, spectral displays: a frequency‐amplitude (FA) display and a time‐swept (TS) display, The set of vowel pairs tested consisted of all pairs from the set of ten American nondipthongized vowels. One set of materials consisted of natural /b/‐V‐/t/'s (with each vowel represented by 12 utterances generated by four speakers producing each vowel three times). A second set consisted of synthetic vowels (with each vowel represented by a single waveform). On the average, the score obtained with the second set of materials was substantially better than with the first (92% vs 79%); the score obtained with the TS display was slightly better than with the FA display (87% vs 83%); the feature best differentiated was tenseness, followed by the features high and low, then by round and back, and finally by retroflexion; and the correlation between discrimination performance and the physical parameters duration, amplitude, F1, and F2/F1 (taken singly) was relatively weak. In general, the results of this study, together with those of other studies previously reported, suggest that the two displays studied are far from optimum.
Subjective speech‐to‐noise ratio as a measure of speech quality for digital waveform coders72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388323View Description Hide Description
The ultimate performance measure for evaluating voice communication systems is the subjective quality of the received speech. Modern digital speech‐coding techniques achieve high intelligibility and significant transmission economies. The high level of speech intelligibility is a necessary but insufficient condition for user acceptance of the systems. Quality, as well, must meet acceptability criteria. However, no adequate single measure of overall speech quality has yet been developed. This work takes a utilitarian approach in attempting to satisfy the urgent requirement for a practical measurement method. The subjective speech‐to‐noise‐ratio (SNR), derived from the forced‐choice pair‐comparison test using the psychometric analysis procedure commonly used in the method of constants, is evaluated. A speech signal degraded by varying amounts of multiplicative white noise is selected as the reference system in the test. Seven types of digital speech coders are simulated and evaluated in this study, including log‐PCM, ADM, ADPCM coders with variable or fixed predictor, APC, residual‐excited and pitch‐excited LP coders (RELP and LPC). Thirteen configurations of these coders covering the transmission bit rates of 2.4 to 64 kb/s are included. Pair‐comparison tests were conducted in two separate sessions 14 months apart using different groups of speakers and listeners. The subjective SNR estimated from 13 coder configurations ranges from 7 to 40 dB and well represents overall speech quality in a single dimension. No significant speaker and listener variation is found for a wide range of waveform coders. The subjective SNR estimate is found to be highly reproducible with different speakers and listeners. Arbitrary selection of as few as five listeners yields a stable subjective SNR estimate for the waveform coders. On the other hand, highly significant listener variation is found for the narrow‐band digital vocoders (RELP and LPC). This listener variability reflects a limitation of the measure that may prevent its extension to vocoded speech whose distortions differ significantly from those of the reference speech.
Acoustic cues to final stop voicing for impaired‐ and normal‐hearing listeners72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388324View Description Hide Description
Voicing perception for final stops was studied for impaired‐ and for normal‐hearing listeners when cues in naturally spoken syllables were progressively neutralized. The syllables were ten different utterances of /dæp, dæk, dæt, dæb, dæg, dæd/ spoken in random order by a male. The cue modifications consisted progressively of neutralized vowel duration, equalized occlusion duration, burst deletion, murmur deletion, vowel‐transition interchange, and transition deletion. The impaired subjects had moderate‐to‐severe lossses and showed at least 70% correct voicing for the unmodified syllables. For the voiced stops, vowel‐duration adjustment and murmur deletion each resulted in significant reductions in voicing perception for more than one‐third of the impaired listeners; all normals showed good performance following neutralization of these cues. For the voiceless stops, large percentages of both listener groups showed decreased voicing perception due to the burst deletion, though a majority of both groups performed well above chance even after the vowel‐duration adjustment and the burst deletion. When the vowel off‐going transitions were exchanged between cognate syllables in given pairs, the effect on voicing perception exhibited by many impaired‐ and all normal‐hearing listeners implicated the vowel transitions as an important additional source of cues to final‐stop voicing perception.
From text to speech with SRS72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388325View Description Hide Description
SRS(Speech Research System) is a highly flexible computer system for the development of text‐to‐speech rules for any language. Its powerful interactive facilities and special rule language have been designed to facilitate rule development by programmers and nonprogrammers alike. The system has been used for instruction in acoustic phonetics, for the generation of stimuli for perceptual experiments, and for the development of synthesis rules for a variety of languages. This paper focuses on the SRS rule framework, which allows users to express four kinds of rules that apply in succession to convert text to sound. The paper also illustrates the user‐oriented nature of the SRS interactive facilities, and describes the system's implementation and use.
Forward masking of diotic and dichotic clicks by noise72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388317View Description Hide Description
The first experiment reported here measured thresholds for clicks in forward masking as a function of the masker level and as a function of the temporal relation of a 6‐kHz low‐pass noise masker to the click (300‐msec duration with a 20‐msec temporal gap or 10‐msec duration with a 5‐msec gap). Also varied were the spectral content of the click (low‐pass filtered at 1 or 5 kHz) and the interaural phase of the click (0 or π). The difference in frequency content had no effect on the amount of masking for the 300‐msec masker, while with the 10‐msec masker greater masking was found for the 1–kHz click. This combination (1 kHz, 10 msec) was also the only one to produce Masking Level Differences (MLDs) when the click was presented dichotically. A second experiment investigated the effects of combining the maskers used in the first experiment. Additional masking (above that predicted by an energy sum) was found, as has been reported elsewhere [Penner and Shiffrin, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 617–627 (1980)]. However, the magnitude of this additional masking was decreased for certain conditions. These data conflict with the predictions of additivity of masking obtained from a model proposed by Penner and Shiffrin and suggest that modifications to that model are needed. The results of both experiments can be explained by assuming that two processes are acting in forward masking [Duifhuis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54, 1471–1488 (1973)].
Detectability of time‐varying interaural correlation in narrow‐band noise stimuli72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388326View Description Hide Description
In a two‐interval, forced‐choice task, observers discriminated a binaural noise whose interaural correlation r varied according to the functionr(t) = m cos 2π f m t from an interaurally uncorrelated noise [N U; r(t) = 0.0]. The former stimulus produces a perceptual binaural ''flutter,'' where the flutter rate is equal to the modulation frequency f m , and the amount of flutter corresponds to m. The stimuli were 0.4‐octave‐wide Gaussian noises with center frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000, or 4000 Hz. Presentation levels were 70–75 dB SPL; duration was 1.0 s. For a given modulation frequency, the peak interaural correlation m was varied in a blocked procedure, and thresholds were estimated as that value of m required for 75% discriminability. Plotting thresholds as a function of f m yields a modulation function, which can be interpreted as an ''attenuation characteristic'' of the binaural system. For the 500‐Hz stimulus, thresholds increased from m = 0.28 at f m = 1 Hz to m = 0.80 at f m = 50 Hz. For higher frequency stimuli, discrimination was generally poorer and the modulation functions were flatter: thus, for 2000 Hz, m = 0.54 at f m = 1 Hz and m = 0.71 at f m = 20 Hz; for 4000 Hz, m = 0.71 at f m = 1 Hz and m = 0.81 at f m = 10 Hz. The modulation function from an ''ideal observer'' (at 500 Hz) differed in both form and absolute level from those of real observers. The data are discussed in relation to previous work on dynamic binaural processing.
Statistical properties of responses to dichotic listening with CV nonsense syllables72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388327View Description Hide Description
Twenty‐four listeners received 20 dichotic listening runs of 30 pairs of natural CV nonsense syllables per run. Left‐ and right‐ear responses are represented by two partially overlapping normal distributions with equal variance. Observed ear advantages across listening runs are also distributed normally. The means of the distributions of ear advantage are listener specific, but the standard deviations are 10.8%±2.5. The origin of reversals in direction of ear advantage among listening runs is statistical—a small mean/sigma ratio—and approximately six listening runs (180 listening trials) are required to achieve a split‐half reliability coefficient of +0.90.
Formulation of the maximum signal‐to‐noise ratio array processor in beam space72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388328View Description Hide Description
The maximum signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) processor as formulated by Edelblute e t a l. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 41, 199–206 (1967)] has proved extremely useful in the analysis and interpretation of sonar data. In a known noise field this processor uses an optimum set of weights (or shading coefficients) derived from the crosspower spectral matrix of receiver noise outputs. In this paper an alternative maximum SNR processor is derived. This processor transforms the outputs of a conventional frequency domain beamformer in such a way that the SNR in the transformed beam is maximized. Expressions for the transformation (i.e., the complex beam weights) and the resulting array gain are derived. Some general properties of the beam space formulation are discussed and conditions for its equivalence to the element space formulation of Edelblute e t a l. are determined. Examples using both simulated and sonar data are given to compare the beam and element space formulations.
Regularization of Marchenko's integral equation by total least squares72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388329View Description Hide Description
Succinctly, the inverse scattering problem is to infer the shape, size, and constitutive properties of an object from scattering measurements which result from either seismic, acoustic, or electromagnetic probes. Under ideal conditions, theoretical solutions exist. However, when the scattering measurements are noisy, as is the case in practical scattering experiments, direct application of the classical inverse scatteringsolutions results in numerically unstable algorithms. In this paper, we discuss an optimization technique called total least squares, which provides a regularization to the one‐dimensional inverse scattering problem. Specifically, we show how to use multiple data sets in a Marchenko‐type inversion scheme and how the theory of total least squares introduces an adaptive spectral balancing parameter which explicitly depends on the scattering data. This is in strong contradistinction to ordinary least squares techniques which utilize nonexplicit and nonadaptive spectral balancing parameters, generally derived by a d h o c considerations.
Effect of inlet/outlet locations on higher order modes in silencers72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388330View Description Hide Description
A series of insertion loss measurements was made using an impedance tube with a broadband noise generator and anechoic termination as well as a small, four‐stroke, single cylinder gasoline engine on a variety of expansion chambers to determine the effect of inlet/outlet locations on higher order mode propagation. Higher order mode excitation was evaluated for a variety of chamber diameters, outlet offsets, combined inlet and outlet offsets, and inlet and outlet angular positions. For both sources the (0,1) first symmetric mode and (0,2) second symmetric mode appeared to be excited in chambers with inline inlet/outlet locations and an expansion ratio greater than about nine. The (0,1) mode could be eliminated when the outlet was positioned on the pressure nodal circle of the (0,1) mode. Offset of the inlet and outlet appeared to excite the (1,0) first asymmetric mode. This mode could be eliminated by rotating the inlet and outlet to an angular separation of 90°. This configuration appeared to excite the (2,0) second asymmetric mode.
Reliability of social survey data on noise effects72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388331View Description Hide Description
The results of household interviews provide essential data for the formulation of noise controlpolicies. The few previous studies which have investigated the reliability of such data have yielded low test–retest correlations for measures of annoyance at road traffic noise. This paper complements those previous studies by investigating four related topics: the equivalence of three commonly used annoyance scales; the test–retest reliability of two such scales, for aircraft and overall noise as well as for road traffic noise; the repeatability of measures of average response, such as percent highly annoyed; and the effect on reliability estimates of the range of noise levels included in a survey. The data are from a sample of 212 persons in the vicinity of Toronto International Airport, who were interviewed one year apart, in 1978 and 1979. The sample was stratified by both aircraft and road traffic noise levels. The results show that three commonly used annoyance scales are acceptably equivalent (a composite index comprised of the three has reliability of α = 0.85), and that the effect on the reliability of the range of noise levels included appears to be minimal. The test–retest results are similar to previous findings, suggesting that instability of attitudes toward noise, as well as other sources of measurement error, affect such estimates, and reduce retest estimate of reliability. Much better retest reliability (r≳0.90) is found for measures of average group response such as the percent highly annoyed than for individual level response measures.
Community annoyance from aircraft and ground vehicle noise72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388332View Description Hide Description
Data from published noise‐annoyance surveys are related to a common measure of noise exposure L d n . The results provide means for predicting the annoyance (experienced by percentages of people of normal and of supersensitivity) attributable to noise from aircraft and from street and road traffic. Correlations of 0.90 to 0.95 are found between L d n and percentages of people annoyed by aircraft noise when low, moderate, and higher levels of annoyance are measured for both a broad range (35 dB) and a restricted range (20 dB) of L d n . Noise from urban street and road traffic is shown to cause less annoyance than the noise from aircrafts when both have the same L d n as typically measured or estimated for outdoors. The difference, equivalent to a difference of about 10 dB in L d n , is attributed to acoustical factors that diminish in‐and‐around‐the‐home noise dosages from ground vehicular traffic compared to dosages from aircraft operations. Generalized functions showing degrees of annoyance and percentages of U.S. urban population exposed to effective levels of L d n for aircraft noise and for street and road traffic noise are presented. It is shown that an earlier analysis by Schultz [''Synthesis of social surveys on noise annoyance,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 377–405 (1978)] significantly underestimates the annoyance associated with aircraft noise and significantly overestimates the percentages of the U.S. population to be exposed to effective levels of noise from vehicles of transportation.
Comments on K. D. Kryter's paper, ''Community annoyance from aircraft and ground vehicle noise''72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388333View Description Hide Description
This paper presents a critique of K. D. Kryter's paper, ''Community Annoyance from Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Noise'' [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, xxx–xxx (1982)] in which he purports to show that an earlier paper of Schultz, ''Synthesis of social surveys on noise annoyance'' [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 377–405 (1978)], significantly underestimates the annoyance associated with aircraft noise, and underestimates that due to surface traffic noise. While the earlier Schultz paper may not be entirely correct, a careful study of Kryter's new analysis suggests that his conclusions are considerably more dubious than he regards those of Schultz.
Rebuttal by Karl D. Kryter to comments by T. J. Schultz72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388334View Description Hide Description
This paper contains further evaluation of L eq measures obtained in the French and German aircraft noise studies, and a rebuttal to comments made by T. J. Schultz [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, xxx–xxx (1982)].[AIP]
Torsional impact response of a flat annular crack in a finite elastic cylinder72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388335View Description Hide Description
The torsional impact response of a flat annular crack in an elastic cylinder of finite radius is investigated in this study. Laplace and Hankel transforms are used to reduce the problem to the solution of a set of triple integral equations. These equations are solved by using an integral transform technique and the result is expressed in terms of a singular integral equation of the first kind. The singular stress field near the crack tip and the dynamic stress‐intensity factor are determined. Numerical results on the dynamic stress‐intensity factor are obtained to show the influence of inertia, geometry, and their interactions on the load transmission to the crack tip.
Attenuation and dispersion effects of nonequilibrium molecular processes on acoustic waves in cylindrical tube72(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.388336View Description Hide Description
Attenuation and dispersion effects of nonequilibrium molecular processes on acoustic waves in a cylindrical tube are studied. Both internal energy transfer and molecular transport processes are included in the linearized gasdynamicequations and the rate equations for two vibrational modes of energy. A finite Hankel transform technique is employed to solve the system of partial differential equations. General expressions for attenuation factor and wavenumber are given in closed form for the case of high Reynolds number. The limiting cases of molecular equilibrium and infinite Reynolds number are also obtained and compared with results from previous investigations. Applications of the theory to CO‐N2 mixtures at both room and high temperatures are given and compared with the simplified formulas.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - While portraying Roger Maris, actor Barry Pepper learned the importance of capturing the character.
Anything short of authentic doesn't sit well with fans.
So when it came to portraying the late Dale Earnhardt, perhaps the most revered man in NASCAR history, Pepper knew he had his work cut out for him.
"(Earnhardt) is an American legend, and that is always thin ice," Pepper said. "And the similarities between Earnhardt and Maris ... they had extraordinary fan bases. You knew you were dealing with a very fervent opinion of who the man was, so if you strayed too far from that or didn't do your homework, you were going to hear about it."
Pepper, who earned an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Maris in "61," plays Earnhardt from ages 16 to 49 in the ESPN biopic "3" that debuts tonight.
It didn't take Pepper long to realize the NASCAR nation of Earnhardt fans would not tolerate a hokey racing movie about the man known as "The Intimidator."
The racing community largely has rejected most movies about the sport as exaggerations and unrealistic, including the commercially successful Tom Cruise film "Days of Thunder."
So when Pepper arrived in North Carolina, where filming took place in the Charlotte area and Earnhardt's hometown of Kannapolis, fans made it clear they wanted Pepper to get it right.
"People came up to me with all these stories, 'I went to school with him, I worked at the mill with him,'" said Pepper, who was also a co-executive producer. "I'm sure it drove (director) Russell (Mulcahy) crazy, but I'd come up to him and say, 'You know what, I just talked to this guy who lived down the street from Dale ...'"
It wasn't easy work for Pepper, a NASCAR outsider.
"I was taken to school from the moment I got there," he said.
After attending his first race, he was hooked. Then he went to driving school to learn how to do the race scenes. And he spent hours each day being transformed into Earnhardt with the help of Stefan Dupuis, an Oscar-winning makeup artist.
Aided by facial prosthetics and hairpieces, Pepper bears a striking resemblance to Earnhardt in a movie focused on telling the story of the son of a mill worker who grew up to become one of the greatest racers.
"We never planned on going any other way than the personal story because so much of the commercialization of Dale is out there," said ESPN's Mark Shapiro. "It isn't just legend, it is very tangible, and we really wanted to get underneath to the man behind the legend - what drove him, where did he come from and how long was his road to get there."
The first half of the movie shows Earnhardt trying to please his father, Ralph, who quit his job in a Kannapolis textile mill to chase his own racing dream.
Young Dale is determined to follow in his father's footsteps, quitting school and his job at his mill, and ruining two marriages because of his commitment to racing.
The movie chronicles Earnhardt finding success on the short tracks of the Carolinas, and getting his chance to drive a Winston Cup car - the break that took him out of the mills for good and put him on the road to seven NASCAR championships.
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College Hockey:Union's Coyle Ruled Ineligible
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Union hockey's leading scorer won't be playing again this season. Sophomore forward Josh Coyle has been ruled academically ineligible by the school. Coyle, who leads the team with 18 points, on nine goals and nine assists, didn't make the trip with the Dutchmen to the Dodge Hockey Classic in Minneapolis.
"We feel we have guys here that can step up and, hopefully, pick up the offense that we're going to miss with not having Josh," Union coach Nate Leaman said Tuesday. Leaman wouldn't discuss Coyle's grades.
"It's going to be a great learning experience for Josh," Leaman said. "I know Josh is going to return to the program and not only have a successful career here, but be a much better student and earn his Union degree."
Coyle, a native of Brooklyn, Ohio, declined an interview request. The 5-foot-9, 185-pound right wing had 11 points on five goals and six assists last season. He had a point in each of the Dutchmen's first nine games this year, the only player to accomplish that feat. He had a goal and three assists in Union's 8-1 win over Bentley Oct. 28, and had two goals and one assist in a 6-2 win over Princeton Nov. 11.
Ken Schott covers college hockey for The Schenectady Gazette.
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It's still a steelhead fishery in the lower Columbia River so far, other than at Buoy 10.
While the salmon catch in the estuary is off to a good start, there aren't a ton of fall chinook to catch yet upstream of Tongue Point, based on the Bonneville Dam counts, sport sampling and the commercial catch.
At Buoy 10, Oregon checked 754 anglers on the weekend with 311 chinook and 12 coho kept plus 74 chinook and 17 coho released.
Washington's sample for the first three days at Buoy 10 was 351 rods with 77 chinook and 48 coho.
The chinook count at Bonneville has been in the 200-fish range the past few days. Washington sampled 1,001 lower Columbia anglers during the first three days of August with two adult fall chinook, a sockeye and 310 steelhead.
The commercials also had a slow opener on Sunday between Woodland and Beacon Rock.
The mark rate on steelhead was only 49 percent. The best steelhead fishing is from Longview downstream, although Drano Lake anglers averaged about 1.3 steelhead per rod, but 75 percent were wild and had to be released.
Almost 50 boats were counted outside Drano Lake on Sunday and there are reports of good success off the mouth of the White Salmon River.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Estuary, 10 boaters with 11 steelhead kept and seven released; four bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 79 boaters with two adult fall chinook and 16 steelhead kept plus seven steelhead released; 16 Oregon bank rods with one steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, 30 boaters with 18 steelhead kept and 11 released; 56 bank rods with 13 steelhead kept and 11 released. (WDFW)
Longview, 76 boaters with 10 steelhead kept and 12 released; 281 bank rods with 33 steelhead kept and 16 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 21 boaters with three steelhead kept and six released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 49 boaters with 13 steelhead kept and 24 released; 92 bank rods with one fall chinook and five steelhead kept plus six steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 18 boaters with no catch; 173 bank rods with 18 steelhead kept and 31 released; five boaters with seven walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 22 boaters with five steelhead caught and one released; 28 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 31 bank rods with two steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 81 boaters with one adult chinook kept plus one adult chinook and seven steelhead released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, seven boaters with one steelhead released; three boaters with four walleye kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 103 bank rods with one adult fall chinook and 19 steelhead kept plus 31 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 40 boaters with one adult fall chinook and five steelhead kept plus one jack chinook and nine steelhead released; 80 Oregon bank rods with one adult fall chinook and four steelhead kept plus 10 steelhead released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, eight boaters with two steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Forty-seven boaters with 37 steelhead kept; 51 bank rods with two adult chinook and eight steelhead kept plus four adult and five jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Seventy boaters with one adult fall chinook and 23 steelhead kept plus 69 steelhead released. (WDFW)


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This was yet another collaboration project. A very complicated one, We didn't make the actual wedding dress. Not enough time. What we did was all the accessories. The hat piece, the neck piece, the bib, the sleeves, the train of the dress. All those pieces were incredibly difficult to make. This is seriously a job for advance people. We are amateurs and even though it came out better than I expected, it's still not perfect. There's a lot of little msitakes here and there. But it looked great though! and most important of all we learned a bunch and we had a lot of fun!!
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5 different types of lace, different widths of lace too. Veil, glue for fabric, starch, wire, plastic pieces for the neck piece.
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I think you did an amazing job on the ruff (the neck piece). I mean, all of it is great, but that is wow! :)
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the neck piece was incredibly difficult to make. It had about 48 separate parts that had to be connected at the end. And it was made from 5 different types of lace. The lace had to be glued together to make the fabric that later was cut it in top the cone shapes. To keep it in place, coming out at a certain elevation from the shoulders was also a very hard. And we also made the choker but I don't have pictures of that, it came out great.
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This coming Tuesday (August 26) innova will release Uncovered, a new album (currently available for pre-order from Amazon.com) featuring Israeli-born cellist Maya Beiser. The Editorial Reviews section on the Amazon page describes this as "an album of classic rock tunes re-imagined and re-contextualized in stunning and multi-layered performances." Composer Evan Ziporyn is responsible for most of the re-imagination and re-contextualization with arrangements of recordings by Led Zeppelin, Howlin' Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Muddy Waters, Nirvana, and AC/DC. Most of the tracks involved multi-tracked recordings of Beiser's cello work; but, where Ziporyn deemed it appropriate, she worked with backup from drums (Glenn Kotche or Hubert Zemler), bass (Jherek Bischoff, Otto Briner, or Dave Cook), or calabash (Ryan Meyer). Ziporyn himself added his own work on clarinet and bass clarinet to his "uncovering" of King Crimson's "Epitaph."
The attentive reader will probably have noticed that, unlike Amazon, I put scare quotes around "classic rock" in my headline for this article. As one who has invested a considerable amount of my "digital ink" in writing about jazz as "chamber music by other means" (particularly when it involves chamber ensembles that are equally adept when they move into the jazz domain), I feel it necessary to say a bit about the mindset I brought to listening to this new album. Most important is that, unlike jazz, rock, as it evolved in the post-war decade of the Fifties, has always been primarily a commercial endeavor involved with popularizing sources that were not (and never intended to be) particularly popular on their own merits.
The basis for that commerce involved taking the music of one cultural group, whose demographics had very little "market potential," and "re-contextualizing" it for another cultural group whose marketing potential could be cultivated into a goldmine. To paraphrase Mick Jagger shamelessly, the motto of this effort could be stated as "I know it's only rock 'n' roll, but I can sell it!" I feel it is important to establish this cultural distinction because Ziporyn's work straddles both sides of it: The world of Muddy Waters is so far from that of Led Zeppelin that they may as well be in alternative universes. (Those who question the validity of this assertion are invited to take a close look at Taylor Hackford's documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll and observe how thoroughly clueless Keith Richards was when he tried to play alongside Chuck Berry.)
The point is that there are some strongly opposing schools of thought about the making of music that underlie the tracks on this recording. The good news, however, is that, in addition to being one of the most interesting (in my own humble opinion) founders of Bang on a Can, Ziporyn is particularly learned in the anthropological studies of the work practices of making music. (He is also the study of a fascinating anthropological analysis of his own studies with a gamelan master, to which he gave the equally fascinating title "Getting It Wrong.")
Thus, if we are to think of a model of the work that Ziporyn put into this "uncovering" project, the best source might be how Béla Bartók took the results of his ethnomusicological studies with Zoltán Kodály and "re-imagined and re-contextualized" the "collected data" into music for a wide variety of different concert settings, covering the full gamut from opera to chamber music. In that context the ten tracks on this recording constitute a far more modest effort, but they are still admirably impressive. It is also important to remember that the efforts of Bartók and Kodály (not to mention Franz Liszt) to bring music from "indigenous sources" into the concert hall were regarded as rather revolutionary for their time, even if we now take them for granted as part of the concert experience.
Equally impressive is the fact that, while Uncovered is clearly the product of studio engineering that is just as skillful as Beiser's cello technique, Beiser is about to embark on a tour that will include music from this album. She will make this tour with a far more modest rhythm section consisting only of Gyan Riley on bass and Matt Kilmer on drums. It is thus fair to say that the "concert" version of Uncovered tracks will differ significantly from the recorded version in execution but may still successfully capture the spirit of the album. The plans for the tour are as follows (the asterisk indicating those engagements at which selections from Uncovered will be performed):
*September 4, 2014 – Le Poisson Rouge – New York, New York
*September 7, 2014 – FringeArts – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*September 10, 2014 – Yoshi's San Francisco – San Francisco, California
*September 12, 2014 – Largo at the Cornet – Los Angeles, California
*September 13, 2014 – Santa Ana Sites + Logan Creative – Santa Ana, California
*September 15, 2014 – Portland State University: Lincoln Hall, presented by PICA – Portland, Oregon
October 23, 2014 – Museum of Modern Art – New York, New York
*November 8, 2014 – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, presented by WPAS – Washington, DC
*January 22, 2015 – ARTS San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas
January 29, 2015 – The Jewish Museum – New York, New York
February 7-8, 2015 – La Jolla Symphony – San Diego, California
*February 13, 2015 – University of Florida – Gainesville, Florida
*March 6-7, 2015 – Texas International Theatrical Arts Society – Dallas, Texas
March 14, 2015 – DePauw University – Greencastle, Indiana
*April 15, 2015 – Northwestern University – Evanston, Ilinois