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Hendrick Screen Company is known world-wide as a manufacturer of high quality stainless wedge wire screens for the Water Intake and Waste Water, Fish Diversion and Hatchery, Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper, Food and Beverage, and the Mining and Aggregate industries. We also produce up-market, exotic, profile wire surfaces for Architectural uses; both functional and decorative. Our customers number in the thousands in over 35 countries, and we list many Fortune 500 and international companies as long-term customers.
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Hendrick Screen Company, a division of Hendrick Manufacturing, Inc. (est. in 1876), is a leading manufacturer of water intake screens, fish diversion screens and fabricated stainless wedge wire screen products. The Owensboro facility opened in 1974 to produce the best possible profile wire screens available. We knew then, and still believe, that to succeed we must apply all the things that make companies into winners; we're very accessible with open communication lines. We know our customers and we listen to them and respond quickly to their needs.
It is a distinct advantage to have Hendrick as a single reliable source for all your screen needs. Hendrick is the only U.S. Company producing wedge wire, profile wire, and looped wire screens in several materials, with a wide variety of sizes, shapes and precision openings.We offer screens in several constructions and material types, along with a wide variety of sizes, shapes and precision openings.
Our founder Eli Hendrick created Hendrick Manufacturing using funds raised through selling oil refining patents to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in the 1870s. With the proceeds from the sale, Eli Hendrick developed the All-Across Perforating Press, a revolutionary tool for sorting and sifting coal in the mining industry. Hendrick Manufacturing was founded in 1876 and remains a family-owned company to this day. We take great pride in the ingenuity of our founder and the company's ability to grow and evolve to meet the country's needs as they have changed over the past 136 years.
Today, the Hendrick Companies serve a wide variety of industries including the architectural community by offering fully-integrated solutions for the fabricating, perforating, and screening of metal products, with locations in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Our partners include many of the top companies and individuals seeking fabricated metal products which are essential to the success of their respective projects.
Hendrick's customer service, engineering capabilities, and manufacturing prowess are second to none. Our commitment to Lean Manufacturing Methods is a testament to our dedication to providing our customers the best product we can possibly supply. The knowledge that comes with serving over twenty different industries allows us to apply innovative solutions across a wide swath of applications. The breadth of experience among Hendrick employees makes us the go-to source for companies throughout diverse industrial sectors.
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Hendrick Manufacturing: The leading provider of perforated metal products in North America, serving architectural and industrial markets.
Hendrick Screen Company: The industry's preeminent provider of unique architectural and industrial profile wire, wedge wire, and looped screen products.
Hendrick Metal Products: Recognized producers of highly cosmetic, close tolerance metal fabrications and perforated metals.
Each of Hendrick's companies are ISO 9001-2008 certified and dedicated to ensuring the high level of quality which our customers in the industry have come to expect. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is the same whether the project calls for one metal piece or thousands. The specialists at Hendrick pride themselves on great customer relationships and technical assistance for meeting project requirements.
Our Dedication
For over 130 years, Hendrick has continuously produced metal products for customers seeking a competitive advantage in their industry. Hendrick is an ISO-9001:2008 registered company.
We are committed to producing quality products which meet or exceed both customer and industry standards.
Recycled Content
Hendrick Screen Company products contain post-consumer and post-industrial recycled content.
Hendrick can help companies achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits or certification by retrofitting existing buildings or by being included in new construction in order for the structure to conform to the standards of the Green Building Rating System™. This system was established by the US Green Building Council in 1998 as a set of standards with which the Council could evaluate the environmental sustainability of buildings and structures.
Today, the LEED system judges buildings based on performance in the following categories: innovation & design; indoor environmental quality; materials & resources; energy & atmosphere; water efficiency; general sustainability; and the use of locally or regionally sourced materials.
Sieve Screen
Hendrick Sieve Screen recovers usable products that might otherwise be discharged into sewer lines. It reduces solids and BOD levels from plant effluents, thereby minimizing surcharges imposed by municipalities for such discharge. Hendrick's Sieve screen also eliminates the need for high-cost, high-maintenance equipment, such as vibrating or rotary drums screens.
Petro Chemical Screen
Hendrick Screen Company has been supplying quality screen products for decades to the petrochemical industry. Hendrick screens are used in many diverse applications such as media retention, hydro treating, de-sulfuring, sand filtering, and other adsorption processes. At Hendrick, we believe in going the extra mile to be absolutely certain our screens are the best they can be. Two of the factors involved in achieving the reputation we have are the ...
Fish Diversion Service
Hendrick Screen Company has a long history of success in the production of screens used in fish protection/diversion projects and we continue to be a leader in this market.
Water Intake Service
Hendrick Screen has 40 years of experience and technical expertise in the production of stainless steel wedge wire and profile bar screens, and is a leading producer of passive water intake screens used for the withdrawal of larger volumes of water from streams, lakes and reservoirs.
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CLOSTER, N.J., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, today announced the release of AccessToGo for Chrome, the fastest RDP client for the Google Chrome platform. Available for free from the Google Chrome Web Store, AccessToGo provides fast and simple access to Windows desktops and applications on any RDP host, including Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDS) Session Hosts (Terminal Services) and virtual desktops. AccessToGo runs directly within the Chrome browser, and supports Chromebooks and Chromeboxes, as well as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux devices running Chrome.
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Eran Heyman, Ericom Software's CEO stated: "We are thrilled to announce AccessToGo as the fastest free RDP Chrome Web App to the Google Chrome user community. In launching Ericom AccessToGo for Chrome, Ericom is expanding our RDP client portfolio with a secure, NaCl-based app that leverages the strength and flexibility of the Chrome platform, and also providing the option to leverage Ericom Blaze high performance RDP acceleration technology. Now Chromebook users and others using the Chrome platform can instantly work and interact with remote Windows desktops – quickly, easily and at no extra cost."
Ericom AccessToGo for Chrome:
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- Supports RDP servers of any flavor, including Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 Terminal Services (physical or virtual); also supports Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 as remote desktops (physical or virtual)
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- Comprehensive client platform support: Any of the following devices that are running Chrome 23 and higher are supported: Chrome OS (Chromebook and Chromebox), Windows XP / 7 / 8, both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit); Mac OS X (Intel); Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Novell SUSE, etc.)
Ericom free RDP clients are also available for Mac OS X, Linux, Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry.
Additional AccessToGo for Chrome announcements are expected in the coming months.
To download the free product, search for Ericom on the Chrome Web Store. https://chrome.google.com/webstore
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Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualization and RDP Acceleration Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA. Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 7 million users. For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit http://www.ericom.com
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Kanye West can seem like an attention-hungry young child who constantly tugs on his mother's pant leg, saying, "Watch this! Watch this!" But once Kanye got our attention, instead of a simple somersault, he delivered the musical equivalent of a one-handed back handspring. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy layers complex computerized instrumentation over Yeezy's effortless flow, moving from the heavy hip-hop of "Power" and "Monster" all the way to the poppy Michael Jackson tribute "All of the Lights." Beyoncé, Jay-Z and others guest on several tracks. They don't drop by just to deliver a verse or chorus; they are as integral to the tracks as Kanye himself. This is most evident on "Lost in the World," a collaboration with Justin Vernon of the indie group Bon Iver that fuses hip-hop with rock until they morph into something else entirely. And that something is probably going to be played at every bar and dance party for the next six months.
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What nicer feeling than messing around in one of Windermere Quays Hire Boats. The fleet of six 19" electric hire boats are the pride of Windermere Lake. The hire Boat's seat up to six people so are ideal for lazy family day's on Lake Windermere. Whether you are coming alongside at one of Lake Windermere's many Hotels with a jetty or you take a picnic for the family playing at "swallows and amazon"s the choice is yours.
All of the fleet of Windermere boat hire are less than one year old and are in imaculate condition unlike some of the more aged Windermere hire boats on Lake Windermere. The hire boats are electrically powered so are ecologically sound, and because of the lack of a petrol engine produce very little sound meaning you are able to get very close to the abundant Lake Windermere wildlife.


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Medtronic, the Medical Device Maker, Undergoes a Data Transplant
Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak joined the medical device maker last May, demanding improvements in the company's global growth and execution. Ishrak wanted to fortify Medtronic's position in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, which account for 60% of the company's overseas revenue.
Ishrak said the company needed to offset external pressures, including high taxes, competition from rival medical device makers, and stringent record-keeping requirements from the Federal Drug Administration. Ishrak turned to Medtronic CIO Michael Hedges for help in growing the company's $16 billion in annual revenue.
Hedges studied his IT systems and found several areas in which IT could be used as a tool for growth: by finding ways to more quickly sort through the thousands of hospital and patient reports about medical devices, such as diabetic pumps and pacemakers. The company also could boost sales by doing a better job compiling global sales reports, he said.
The idea was that employing faster information systems would provide Medtronic a competitive advantage over rivals such as St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific. Speedier data-crunching would also help the company keep up with FDA record-handling rules, Hedges believed. "You don't want to tell the FDA to come back in two weeks," when it comes for an audit, Hedges said. Such improvements, he reasoned, would help improve products and identify the greatest sources of demand, all key to driving the top line growth his CEO was looking for.
To meet those goals, Hedges turned to new software to manage the volume of company data, which was exploding. In 2011, Medtronic's data warehouse system processed one patient feedback record about a device every second. But as the volume of information from patients who use Medtronic devices grew, the company failed to process the records effectively. The existing data warehouse software couldn't read large text fields that encapsulated customer complaints.
Medtronic used new database software to accelerate its processing speed. A query that once took three or four hours now could be accomplished in three or four minutes. The new HANA database software from SAP derives its speed from "in-memory" technology that combines a processor and memory on a single chip, eliminating the delays inherent in systems with separate processors and hard drives.
Medtronic also is in the early stages of testing a sales reporting application to strengthen communications between sales workers and physicians who assign medical devices to patients, Hedges said. This application collects information about how products are selling, which hospitals are buying what equipment, and where medical devices are being implanted and when. The idea is to enable sales workers to spend more time with customers and patients, Hedges said.
Hedges said his team looked at other solutions—but picked HANA, in large part because it was familiar with SAP. Hedges said he figured turning to HANA would make it easier for his team to get the software running and tuned to the company's business operations.
Hedges said his team struggled to move the data from the SAP data warehouse to the new HANA database, owing to the fact that the old data warehouse software ran much more slowly than HANA. By the end of the year, Hedges says, 5,000 to 7,000 of the company's 40,000 employees who are spread across 270 locations around the world, will be using the HANA system. He expects that number to increase to 15,000 in 2013. And Hedges said he intends to have as many as 3,000 sales representatives using the HANA-powered global sales reports in the next few months.
It will still be some time before the company realizes any business gain from the investment, though. Medtronic has suffered from weak demand for its implantable heart defibrillators and spine products amid a soft global economy. Sales in each of those units fell 9% in the third quarter, which ended in February.
CORRECTION: St. Jude Medical is the correct name of the medical device maker. An earlier version of this article referred to it as Jude Medical.


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Party to Honor Successful Legislators and Pave the Road to the Charlotte Convention
TAMPA -- The Hillsborough County Democratic Party announces two events that will kick off local election activities for 2012.
On Wednesday, 25 April the Party will honor Democratic women legislators Representative Betty Reed, Representative Janet Cruz, and Senator Arthenia Joyner at an evening fundraiser. The event will be held at the offices of Swope Rodante P.A, 1234 5th Avenue East, Tampa from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The public is invited to attend, and a donation of $100 is suggested.
Among their many achievements in representing Hillsborough County, Representative Reed and Senator Joyner successfully co-sponsored a bill signed earlier this month by Governor Scott that puts in place humane and uniform rules for the treatment of pregnant women who are incarcerated in any prison, jail or detention facility in the state. In 2010, the state of Florida received an "F" for its shackling policies in an annual "report card" released by the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. The new law sponsored by Rep. Reed and Sen. Joyner addresses the issues in that report card, and it is the first of its kind to be passed in the South. Representative Cruz sponsored and co-sponsored several important bills in 2012. Of particular note is a "Healthcare Fraud" measure that will toughen Florida rules for healthcare licensing and make it harder to commit healthcare fraud.
"The citizens of Hillsborough County are very well served by these three Democratic legislators," says Democratic Party Chairman Chris Mitchell. "Recent media attention around the obvious disdain some public figures have toward women, together with insistence by conservatives that females' healthcare decisions and reproductive rights are somehow the concern of the government, remind us that we cannot take for granted the progress of the past 40 years. This political climate makes it all the more important that the Hillsborough County Democratic Party demonstrate its support for these capable leaders and encourage other women to get involved in the political process."
On Saturday, 5 May the Democratic Party will hold its County Caucus, the first of a multi-step process that will lead to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, in early September. Registered Democrats are encouraged to get involved in the re-election of President Obama by filing to be a delegate and attending the Caucus meeting on 5 May. The session will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the West Tampa Public Library, 2312 West Union Street in Tampa. To learn more about the process of becoming a delegate, Democrats are encouraged to review information on the Party's website at www.hillsboroughcountydemocrats.org and to submit a delegate application by the deadline of Friday, 27 April 2012. For Democrats with questions, an optional informational conference call has been scheduled for Sunday, 22 April at 8:00 PM. To access the call dial (605) 475-4000 and use participant access code 177005#.
"A lot of people hear an ongoing din about what isn't working in the United States these days," states Party Chair Chris Mitchell. "Getting involved in the process is a great way to better understand how much does work about our system, and about how much power ordinary people have to change things for the better. This year, Democrats will be working to elect candidates who believe the system should be fair for everyone, the economy should work for everyone, and there should be real accountability for everyone. This Caucus meeting is an important first step."
The Democratic Party of Hillsborough County is the local face of the State and National Democratic Party. Its purpose is to find, train, and support Democratic candidates for local, state, and national offices that represent and uphold the core principles of the Democratic Party. We seek individual freedom in the framework of a just society and political freedom in the framework of meaningful participation by all citizens.


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Posted by Darkhawk on 7/16/2006, 4:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Services for the fallen heroes?" Also, Namora's in Agents of Atlas, which takes place post-CW #1 (I assume), although the writer has pleaded ignorance to Nita's death, so don't expect any reference to it until at least partially through the series. --Previous Message--
If you're looking for Namor's reaction, check out Wolverine #43-44, and the recently revealed cover for CW #6 has Namor on it.
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Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, North Carolina; Health Care, System; Public Finance Structured, Liquidity Facility Mar 03
- March 2003
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The long-term rating on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, N.C.'s bondsthe authority does business as the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS)reflects: A leading business position as the largest of two systems that serve the Charlotte region, highlighted by a broad tertiary service mix, including strength in key specialties (such as cardiology, orthopedics, and neurosciences) and steadily improving market share; Sharply improved financial performance, despite weak non-operating income due to soft investment markets, combined with a conservative reserve policy; A sound balance sheetdemonstrated by light leverage, despite additional debt, and strong and growing liquiditythat, in Standard & Poor's analysis, fully factors in unrestricted reserves from two non-obligated foundations that are closely tied to but legally distinct from CHS; A strong relationship with...
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Featuring a sleek design the Ultra Stasis vanity unit provides the perfect way to add contemporary style to your bathroom. With clean lines and a dark wood finish this vanity unit has a soft close drawer with plenty of storage space for toiletries and comes complete with the countertop basin, which will add a touch of hotel-spa luxury. There is also a handy area for displaying decorative objects too.
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The Ultra Boutique vanity unit with countertop basin is great for creating a boutique hotel look and feel to your bathroom. Featuring a dark wood finish for a touch of warmth and luxury this stylish vanity unit has two soft-close drawers combined with useful open shelving, which is ideal for storing spare towels.
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Volume 74, Issue 4, October 1983
Complete solutions of the transient behavior of a transmitting thickness‐mode piezoelectric transducer and their physical interpretations74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390034View Description Hide Description
Full analytic solutions of the internal stress field and the radiated ultrasonicwave are obtained for a thickness‐mode piezoelectric transducer excited by a pulse voltage source, having or not having an internal resistance. Two mechanisms of transduction as well as the effect of the internal resistance on these are drawn from the complete solutions. The negative capacitance in the Mason equivalent circuit is interpreted in terms of the identified mechanism of the acoustoelectrical regenerative vibration.
A kinematic study of lingual coarticulation in VCV sequences74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390035View Description Hide Description
Intra‐articulator anticipatory and carryover coarticulation were assessed in both temporal and spatial terms. Three subjects produced VCV sequences with velar stop consonants and back vowels. Pulsed ultrasound was used to examine the vertical displacement, duration, and maximum velocity of the tongue dorsum raising (VC transition) and lowering (CV transition) gestures. Anticipatory coarticulation was primarily temporal for two subjects, with decreases in the duration of the VC transition accompanying increases in displacement for the CV transition. Carryover coarticulation was primarily spatial for all three subjects, with decreases in CV displacement and maximum velocity accompanying increases in VC displacement. It is suggested that these intra‐articulator patterns can be accounted for in terms of an interaction between the raising gesture and a vowel‐specific onset time of the lowering gesture towards the vowel. The implications of this kinematic characterization are discussed.
Perceptual cues to the onset of voiced excitation in aspirated initial stops74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390036View Description Hide Description
Previous experiments on the perception of initial stops differing in voice‐onset time have used sounds where the boundary between aspiration and voicing is clearly marked by a variety of acoustic events. In natural speech these events do not always occur at the same moment and there is disagreement among phoneticians as to which mark the onset of voicing. The three experiments described here examine how the phoneme boundary between syllable‐initial, prestress /b/ and /p/ is influenced by the way in which voicing starts. In the first experiment the first 30 ms of buzz excitation is played at four different levels relative to the steady state of the vowel and with two different frequency distributions: In the F1‐only conditions buzz is confined to the first formant, whereas in the F123 conditions all three formants are excited by buzz. The results reject the hypothesis that voicing is perceived to start when periodic excitation is present in the first formant. The results of the third experiment show also that buzz excitation confined to the fundamental frequency for 30 ms before the onset of full voicing (formant excitation) has little effect on the voicing boundary. The second experiment varies aspiration noise intensity and buzz onset intensity independently. Together with the first experiment it shows that: (1) at all buzz onset levels a change in aspiration intensity moves the boundary by about the 0.43 ms/dB found by Repp [Lang. Speech2 7, 173–189 (1979)]; (2) when buzz onsets at levels greater than −15 dB relative to the final vowel level, changes in buzz onset level again move the /b/–/p/ boundary by the same amount; (3) when buzz onsets at levels less than −15 dB relative to the vowel, decreasing the buzz onset level gives more /p/‐ percepts than Repp's ratio predicts. This last result, taken with the results of the first experiment, may reflect a decision based on overall intensity about when voicing has started.
The intelligibility of sentences in quiet and in noise in aged listeners74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390037View Description Hide Description
The monaural speech‐reception threshold (SRT) for sentences was investigated in quiet and under four noise conditions for 80 male subjects (age 60–90) and 30 female subjects (age 71–89). The noise levels used were 28, 43, 58, and 73 dBA. The noise had the long‐term average spectrum of speech. It is shown that a model developed by Plomp [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 6 3, 533–549 (1978)], which interprets any hearing loss for speech (SHL) as a combination of a loss of class A (attenuation of both speech and noise) and a loss of class D (distortion of the sound signals), enables one to make an accurate description of the SRT values measured. Fitting this model, for each individual, to the SRT data yielded values for SHL in quiet (= A+D) and in noise (= D). These individual SHL values were studied in relation to one another and in relation to such parameters as the pure‐tone average (PTA), the Fletcher Index (FI), and the increment in intelligibility score per dB near SRT. It was found that (1) subjects with the same SHL in quiet may differ considerably in their SHL in noise; (2) for an individual, PTA and FI are inaccurate measures for predicting SHL in quiet and in noise, and (3) the higher an individual's SHL in noise, the lower is the increase per dB of the intelligibility score for sentences in noise.
Adaptive computation of articulatory parameters from the speech signal74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390038View Description Hide Description
An unconstrained optimization technique is used to find the values of parameters, of a combination of an articulatory and a vocal tract model, that minimize the difference between model spectra and natural speech spectra. The articulatory model is anatomically realistic and the vocal tract model is a ''lossy'' Webster equation for which a method of solution is given. For English vowels in the steady state, anatomically reasonable articulatory configurations whose corresponding spectra match those of human speech to within 2 dB have been computed in fewer than ten iterations. Results are also given which demonstrate a limited ability of the system to track the articulatory dynamics of voiced speech.
Linguistic modality effects on fundamental frequency in speech74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390039View Description Hide Description
This paper examines the effects on fundamental frequency (F0) patterns of modality operators, such as sentential adverbs, modals, negatives, and quantifiers. These words form inherently contrastive classes which have varying tendencies to produce emphasis deviations in F0 contours. Three speakers read a set of 186 sentences and three paragraphs to provide data for F0 analysis. The important words in each sentence were marked intonationally with rises or sharp falls in F0, compared to gradually falling F0 in unemphasized words. These emphasis deviations were measured in terms of F0 variations from the norm; they were larger toward the beginning of sentences, in longer sentences, on syllables surrounded by unemphasized syllables, and in contrastive contexts. Other results showed that embedded clauses tended to have lower F0, and negative contractions were emphasized on their first syllables. Individual speakers differed in overall F0 levels, while using roughly similar emphasis strategies. F0 levels changed in paragraphs, with emphasis going to contextually new information.
Temporal integration, frequency resolution, and off‐frequency listening in normal‐hearing and cochlear‐impaired listeners74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390040View Description Hide Description
Temporal integration for a 1000‐Hz signal was determined for normal‐hearing and cochlear hearing‐impaired listeners in quiet and in masking noise of variable bandwidth. Critical ratio and 3‐dB critical band measures of frequency resolution were derived from the masking data. Temporal integration for the normal‐hearing listeners was markedly reduced in narrow‐band noise, when contrasted with temporal integration in quiet or in wideband noise. The effect of noise bandwidth on temporal integration was smaller for the hearing‐impaired group. Hearing‐impaired subjects showed both reduced temporal integration and reduced frequency resolution for the 200‐ms signal. However, a direct relation between temporal integration and frequency resolution was not indicated. Frequency resolution for the normal‐hearing listeners did not differ from that of the hearing‐impaired listeners for the 20‐ms signal. It was suggested that some of the frequency resolution and temporal integration differences between normal‐hearing and hearing‐impaired listeners could be accounted for by off‐frequency listening.
Frequency patterns of TTS for different exposure intensities74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390041View Description Hide Description
Temporary threshold shift (TTS) was measured for several different test frequencies following exposure to a 2500‐Hz tone.The intensity of the exposure tone was varied from 82 to 97 dB SPL; its duration was 5 or 10 min. In each post‐exposure session, TTS was followed for four test frequencies using a method of adjustment. In all cases, the ''center of balance'' of the TTS pattern moved upward in frequency as exposure intensity increased. This outcome is consistent with the idea of a basalward migration of the traveling‐wave envelope with increasing exposure intensity, but the evidence is not unequivocal.
Upward shifts in the masking pattern with increasing masker intensity74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390042View Description Hide Description
Masking patterns obtained with forward‐masking paradigms and relatively intense maskers sometimes have their peaks at the masker frequency and sometimes at a frequency well above it. Here it is shown that which outcome is obtained depends upon certain temporal parameters of the procedure. Specifically, the masking pattern for a 2000‐Hz tone showed a gradual shift toward higher frequencies as masker intensity was increased from 65 to 95 dB SPL when long signals (about 50 ms) and long masker‐to‐signal intervals (about 50 ms) were used, but the effect was absent or smaller when the signals and intervals were short. This shift did not occur with a 750‐Hz masker. Upward shifts in the masking pattern with increasing masker intensity are in accord with the view that the peak of displacement of the traveling‐wave envelope migrates basally with increasing intensity—an idea that has frequently been suggested as an explanation of the so‐called half‐octave shift so routinely seen in auditory fatigue experiments.
Frequency resolution and discrimination of constant and dynamic tones in normal and hearing‐impaired listeners74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390043View Description Hide Description
Frequency resolution and three tasks of frequency discrimination were measured at 500 and 4000 Hz in 12 normal and 12 hearing‐impaired listeners. A three‐interval, two‐alternative forced‐choice procedure was used. Frequency resolution was measured with an abbreviated psychoacoustical tuning curve. Frequency discrimination was measured for (1) a fixed‐frequency standard and target, (2) a fixed‐frequency standard and a frequency‐transition target, and (3) frequency‐transition standard and a frequency‐transition target. The 50‐ms frequency transitions had the same final frequency as the standards, but the initial frequency was lowered to obtain about 79% discrimination performance. There was a strong relationship between poor frequency resolution and elevated pure‐tone thresholds, but only a very weak relationship between poor frequency discrimination and elevated pure‐tone thresholds. Several hearing‐impaired listeners had normal discrimination performance together with pure‐tone thresholds of 80–90 dB HL. A slight correlation was found between word recognition and frequency discrimination, but a detailed comparison of the phonetic errors and either the frequency‐discrimination or frequency‐resolution tasks failed to suggest any consistent interdependencies. These results are consistent with previous work that has suggested that frequency resolution and frequency discrimination are independent processes.
The effect of random intensity fluctuation on monaural and binaural detection74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390023View Description Hide Description
Two experiments were performed to determine the effects of random intensity fluctuation on NoSo and NoSπ performance. Noise was used as both signal and masker, and stimuli were bands of noise from either 0–2.0 or 2.0–4.0 kHz. Signal and masker were either coherent (from the same source) or noncoherent (from independent sources). In the first experiment, noise fluctuation was achieved by modulating a wide band of noise. In the second experiment, fluctuation was achieved by narrowing the noise bandwidth. Results from both experiments indicated that NoSo performance was adversely affected by fluctuation and by noncoherent relation between signal and masker. NoSπ detection was not adversely affected by fluctuation at low frequency, and was affected less adversely than was NoSo detection at high frequency. This difference between NoSo and NoSπ performance is an important consideration when making inferences about monaural and binaural processing when the stimuli are fluctuating rather than temporally steady.
The effect of broadband noise on the human brainstem auditory evoked response. I. Rate and intensity effects74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390024View Description Hide Description
A series of experiments investigated the effects of continuous broadband noise (ipsilateral) on wave V of the click‐evoked brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER). In general, a broadband noise masker increases the latency and decreases the amplitude of wave V. Varying both click and noise intensity, it was found that noise levels above about 40 dB SPL increase the latency and decrease the amplitude of wave V, regardless of click intensity. The effects of noise on wave V amplitude appear constant across click intensity, whereas the effects of a constant noise level on wave V latency decrease at higher click intensities. Both masking and adaptation increase wave V latency, but their combined effects are occlusive: rate‐induced wave V latency shift decreases in the presence of continuous broadband noise. The clinical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
The effect of broadband noise on the human brainstem auditory evoked response. II. Frequency specificity74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390025View Description Hide Description
A series of experiments evaluated the effects of broadband noise (ipsilateral) on wave V of the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) elicited by tone bursts or clicks in the presence of high‐pass masking noise. Experiment 1 used 1000‐ and 4000‐Hz, 60‐dB nHL tone bursts in the presence of broadband noise. With increasing noise level, wave V latency shift was greater for the 1000‐Hz tone bursts, while amplitude decrements were similar for both tone‐burst frequencies. Experiment 2 varied high‐pass masker cutoff frequency and the level of subtotal masking in the presence of 50‐dB nHL clicks. The effects of subtotal masking on wave V (increase in latency and decrease in amplitude) increased with increasing derived‐band frequency. Experiment 3 covaried high‐pass masker cutoff frequency and subtotal masking level for 1000‐ and 4000‐Hz tone‐burst stimuli. The effect of subtotal masking on wave V latency was reduced for both tone‐burst frequencies when the response‐generating region of the cochlear partition was limited by high‐pass maskers. The results of these three experiments suggest that most of the wave V latency shift associated with increasing levels of broadband noise is mediated by a place mechanism when the stimulus is a moderate intensity (60 dB nHL), low‐frequency (1000 Hz) tone burst. However, the interpretation of the latency shifts produced by broadband noise for 4000‐Hz tone‐burst stimuli is made more complex by multiple technical factors discussed herein.
High‐resolution beamforming with oversampled arrays74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390026View Description Hide Description
Interpreting plane‐wave beamforming as wave‐vector spectrum estimation, we show that the maximum entropy spectrum estimation technique (MEM) indicates the presence of false targets when used to beamform a spatially oversampled array. The source of this instability lies in the presence in the MEM technique of the prior estimate that the wave‐vector spectrum is white over the Nyquist band. By the use of a new, adaptive, high‐resolution spectral estimator, which includes MEM as a special case, the instability is removed. The results are of particular significance for short arrays operated at low frequencies.
An approximate maximum entropy method for a uniform line array with less than half‐wavelength spacing74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390027View Description Hide Description
The usual maximum entropy power estimate is obtained under the assumption that the uniform line array has sensors half a wavelength apart. In this paper an approximate method is presented for computing the maximum entropy power estimate when the sensor spacing is less than half a wavelength. Results of a simulation illustrate the effectiveness of the method.
Aperture diffraction theory applied to ultrasonic attenuation imaging74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390028View Description Hide Description
Ultrasoniccomputed tomography (UCT) suffers significant quantitative errors when attempting attenuationimaging of refractive objects. The problem can be aggravated when a relatively large, single element, phase sensitive receiver is used. A method designed to maintain high resolution while minimizing refractive error is introduced. This technique (referred to as profile migration) utilizes an array receiver and an algorithm based on aperture diffraction theory. The profile migration and a more conventional migration approach are applied to data obtained from single projection scans of an object under refractive and nonrefractive conditions. Attenuation projections generated using two single‐element receiver methods are also compared. Reconstructed images using projections produced via the profile migration method are compared to those using a technique currently employed on our UCT breast scanner. For both minimal and realistic refractive situations the profile migration method displays advantages over the other methods based on a qualitative assessment of the projections and images.
Effective flow resistivity of ground surfaces determined by acoustical measurements74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390029View Description Hide Description
Following earlier work by Chessell [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 6 2, 825–834 (1977)] it is shown that his single‐parameter theory can be used to predict the measured transmission spectra between a source and receiver located above ground surfaces having a wide range of acoustic impedance—or effective flow resistivity. Surfaces behaving essentially as locally reacting range from new‐fallen snow, effective flow resistivity σ=10–30 cgs rayls, through grass‐covered ground, σ=150–300 rayls, to mature asphalt, σ=30 000 rayls. The thermal‐conduction and viscous boundary layer of the surface limits the effective flow resistivity of even the hardest and most impervious surface to the range 105–106 rayls, depending on frequency: this value is appropriate to evaluate the complex reflection coefficient of the paint‐sealed surface of a thick slab of reinforced concrete.
Fluctuations of sound propagating vertically through the ocean74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390030View Description Hide Description
Fluctuations of sound propagating vertically through the ocean are considered. Expressions are derived for the acoustic phase structure function and spectra. As an application, the errors incurred by systems based on travel time measurements (depth sounding and tracking systems) are estimated. They are found to be generally negligible.
Deep‐ocean ray transmissions over convergent and divergent sloping bottoms74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390031View Description Hide Description
Surface‐reflected/bottom‐reflected transmissions over a slowly sloping bottom in a deep ocean are investigated using ray theory. For convenience, sound speed is taken to be bilinear with depth in the water, while the bottom structure is assumed to be uniform. The sound source and receiver are located on or near the ocean boundaries, and the effects of bottom slope on ray geometry, per‐ray travel time, and incoherent total‐field amplitude are examined. For transmission ranges of tens of km, and for typical deep‐ocean slope inclinations, travel time may change by about 1.0 s, relative to its value for a horizontal bottom. The time difference between ray arrivals decreases (increases) in the divergent (convergent) channel. Principal effects of bottom slope on total‐field amplitude arise primarily through bottom‐loss modifications, rather than through spreading loss. An inclination‐angle magnitude of only 0.25° is shown to cause a decrease of about 8 dB (increase of about 4 dB) in the incoherent amplitude in the convergent (divergent) channel, for ranges of about 100 km. Changing bottomed receiver location in a convergent channel, in order to improve source detectability, is shown in an example to be much more effective than in the case of a horizontal bottom. In a corresponding divergent channel, however, the strength of the acoustic reception is much less sensitive to variations in receiver location.
Spatial coherence in semicircular noise fields74(1983); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.390032View Description Hide Description
An expression for the spatial coherence in a semicircular noise field is obtained which involves the function J 0(x) and a single integral that can be evaluated by Gaussian quadrature. The semicircular noisemodel is motivated by an idealized representation of ship traffic plying a well‐defined sea lane. The modelcoherence is characterized by a marked dependence on sensor orientation relative to the sea lane. An extension of the single lane model to the case of multiple parallel lanes yields a coherence expression which involves the weighted sum of J 0(x) and the previously derived coherence function for a single lane. For this general situation the weighting factors depend on the relative power distribution among the lanes. Model calculations show good qualitative agreement with coherence estimates for d/λ≤1 which were computed from acoustic data for sensor orientations both parallel and perpendicular to known shipping lanes.


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The Memorial Bridge replacement in Portsmouth is one of two New Hampshire Department of Transportation improvement projects completed within the past year have been recognized with national awards for engineering excellence.
The Hooksett open-road tolling plaza conversion project and the Memorial Bridge Replacement each received a 2014 National Recognition Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies. The awards "demonstrate exceptional achievement in engineering."
Both the Hooksett ORT project and the Memorial Bridge project presented engineering challenges, and both were constructed and completed on very aggressive schedules. The Hooksett ORT lanes on Interstate 93 (Everett Turnpike) opened weeks ahead of schedule on May 29, 2013. The new Memorial Bridge connecting Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine via Route 1 was completed in just over a year and a half and opened to traffic on Aug. 8, 2013.
The Memorial Bridge project replaced a closed steel bridge with a new modern lift bridge that honors its predecessor in design while featuring some of the latest engineering innovations. It is the first bridge in the United States to eliminate the use of gusset plates and includes the use of modern techniques for cold bent steel fabrication. The steel bridge has a metalized coating with a service life of up to 50 years.
The Hooksett ORT project involved the demolition of six conventional toll lanes and the construction of four lanes (4,500 feet) of highway speed toll lanes, the widening of 9,000 feet of approach roadways, and the realignment of four interchange ramps. The conversion to ORT allowed the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to cost effectively increase traffic capacity and safety at the toll plaza while providing environmental benefits. Since its opening, E-ZPass use at the Hooksett Toll Plaza has increased 4.6 percent, up to 66 percent of all vehicles.
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Marietta High will be seeking a regular-season sweep when it hosts Warren in a Senior Night non-conference girls' basketball game at Sutton Gym at 7:30 p.m. today.
The Amy Colgrove-coached Lady Warriors, of course, will be looking to even the count.
"Looking forward to getting back on the court after all the cancellations due to weather," Colgrove said. "Marietta is a very good team and this game will help us prepare for the tournament next week."
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Marietta High's Lauren Martin (25) looks to drive to the basket against Zanesville at Sutton Gym Saturday. The Lady Tigers are scheduled to host Warren tonight.
When the two big-school, Washington County rivals first met on the hardwood on Dec. 4, 2013, at Vincent, the Mark Hannuksela-led Lady Tigers claimed a 55-45 decision.
Currently, MHS owns a 14-5 overall record and is 8-4 in the East Central Ohio League.
Warren is 8-9 and 5-2 in the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League.
"I have not seen Warren play since we played them the first time," Hannuksela said. "But I have been following them from afar a little bit.
"It's Marietta-Warren, and I know they'll be coming at us hard. It's a cliche that you can throw the records out, but nobody likes to lose this game on their home floor."
Marietta is coming off a bounce-back win, a 47-42 triumph over visiting, ECOL-leading Zanesville Saturday. Last Wednesday (Jan. 29), the host Lady Tigers squandered a 19-point halftime deficit to River View and lost 47-44 in double overtime.
The Lady Warriors are hoping to get back on track after falling 51-45 to undefeated Athens (20-0) Saturday and 73-45 to SEOAL-leading Jackson last Friday night.
The royal blue and white cagers have suffered five consecutive setbacks.
"That makes them a more dangerous team on the pride factor alone," Hannuksela said.
In the December meeting between MHS and Warren, Lauren Martin paced the orange and black offense with a game-high 16 points. Starr Johnson was instant offense off the pine with 13 points and a game-high nine rebounds, while Alle Moore chipped in with 10 markers.
Lain Weppler, one of the Lady Tigers' top scorers, was limited to six points but grabbed nine boards.
Taylor Smith also helped on the glass with eight caroms.
As a team, Marietta shot 41 percent (18-44) from the floor.
Some other Lady Tigers to keep an eye on will be Brittany Deskins, Madison Miller, and Audrey May.
Warren, meanwhile, probably thought there was a lid on the basket as it shot 31 percent (16-51) from the field. Victoria Buzzard (16 ppg average) and Sarah Proctor each had 10 points to lead the Lady Warriors.
"Warren has a couple of capable scorers, who like to shoot the three," Hannuksela said. "So, we're going to have to guard them on the perimeter."
Look for Kendra Lynch, Katie Rauch, Adrienne Lang, Audrey Bowe, Josey Riffle, and Kelsey Bartmess to also see court time against Marietta.
The Lady Warriors had a subpar first half (15 points) against Athens, but outscored the Lady Bulldogs, 30-29, after the intermission. Buzzard led the way with 16 points, and Rauch grabbed eight rebounds.
Warren again struggled with its shooting touch, making just 18 of 49 overall (.367) from the floor and two of 12 (.167) from three-point range.
After Warren, Marietta is scheduled to host Vinton County in a makeup game Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
The Lady Tigers then will travel to Dover Monday at 7:30 p.m. "That'll be three games in five days," Hannuksela said. "It's a tough stretch."


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Mercury rising: Brazilian music superstar returns
Her latest album features Wyclef Jean & Carmen Miranda
Daniela Mercury
When: 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15
Where: 4th&B, 345 B St., downtown
Tickets: $25 and $50 (must be 21 or over to attend)
Phone: (619) 231-4343
Online: 4thandbevents.com
A major star in her native Brazil and beyond, Daniela Mercury has a fetching singing voice and charisma to spare. Her performance here Saturday at 4th&B is, if memory serves, her first headlining area appearance since a 2005 show at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay.
Mercury, 46, expertly fuses elements of jazz, hip-hop, funk and electronica with such homegrown Brazilian styles as samba, axe, pagode and samba-reggae. She also has heady artistic ambitions, which she presents in a festive musical package that -- at its best -- transcends borders and languages. While she has periodically performed a number or two in English (such as this recent duet with Wyclef Jean), Mercury soars higher (and much more easily) when singing or rapping in her native Portuguese.
Her latest album, "Canibália," which includes a striking, beyond-the-grave duet with Carmen Miranda, is named after an epic 1928 poem-cum-Brazilian-arts-manifesto by Oswaldo Andrade. The album's songs explore Yoruba mythology, the films of Federico Fellini and Pedro Almodovar, and more, with grace and irresistible verve.
Mercury, who co-starred with Ray Charles in a slick TV commercial some years ago, will be accompanied at 4th&B by an eight-piece band and five dancers (including her daughter, Giovanna, 24). 4th&B will be an intimate gig for Mercury, who has performed several times at the nearly 18,000-capacity Hollywood Bowl and, at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil, an audience estimated at over one million.


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The Lady and the Vamp
Pushpamala N is among the most compelling artists in India today.
LAKSHMI INDRASIMHAN speaks to her on the eve of her new exhibition
PUSHPAMALA N. has
been known to give
fake interviews. They
appear in the catalogues
that accompany
her exhibitions. Sometimes
they're taken seriously by hapless
reporters. "It's something I started
doing so I could address certain
gaps," she says laughing. "So I created
Rajyalakshmi, Chief Reporter
of Ideal Times, this nerdy journalist
who asks me stupid questions
aggressively. I wanted to answer
certain questions my own way —
with humour. I like that irritable
tone. You can't have it in an essay."
A performance artist who
started out as a sculptor, Pushpamala,
won a National Award for
her student work at MS University,
Baroda. Her lifesize figurative
sculptures, usually in terracotta or
papier mache, came at a time
when sculpture had been mostly
abstract. She (along with Atul
Dodiya and NN Rimzon) participated
in the seminal 'Seven Young
Sculptors' show curated by Vivan
Sundaram in 1985. Much of that
work is now at the NGMA and at
the Lalit Kala Akademi.
Despite her accomplishments
as a sculptor, these are not the
works that have made Pushpamala
one of the most recognisable
names in contemporary Indian
art. Her photographic work, in the
form of what she calls "photo-romances"
references images from
popular art, cinema and high art,
and uses her own masquerading
image to tell a variety of stories.
She has appeared in the guise of a
swashbuckling vamp, a 60s heroine
in a bouffant, a Toda woman
being studied by a colonial anthropologist,
and the goddess Lakshmi.
She is both lead actress and
director in a series of wildly elaborate
tableaux. Her current show, at
Gallery Nature Morte in New
Delhi, is centred around Paris Autumn,
her 35 minute film made of
still photographs — shot during a
residency in Paris in 2005 — and
which uses no dialogue, only text
and sound.
Pushpamala says the painter
Bhupen Khakkar, a good friend
from her Baroda days, inspired
her towards this kind of photographic
performance. A series of
exaggerated self-portraits were
part of a catalogue he made years
ago. "I really liked them and no
one really followed up. But he
thought all my photographic stuff
was rubbish. He liked my sculpture
better." Another legacy was
that of her mother N. Vanamala,
an actress, who regularly dressed
up in various costumes. "Though
photography lends itself to authenticity
production — it's supposed
to be realistic and
objective — this is simply not
Pushpa's interest," says cultural
theorist Ashish Rajadhyaksha. "She totally debunks authenticity."
She is also one of the few
artists to adopt the language of
classical, rather than experimental
photography for her work.
There is a highly staged quality
to Pushpamala's work, locked
as she is within a fixed frame. "My sculptures were also very
theatrical, very posed," she says.
Her photographs in turn have a
sculptural quality — the three dimensionality
and the intense
shaping with light and shadow.
Her work, with its keen attention
to detail and material, and their
beautiful formal qualities, find
inspiration in popular visual imagery,
but also in literature, politics,
history and cultural studies.
Paris Autumn is no different.
The proposal was to make a work
that engaged with French history
and culture and to feature herself
in it. While in Paris, Pushapamala
discovered that the flat she lived
in had once been the home of
Gabrielle d'Estree, the murdered
mistress of King Henry IV. The
ghost haunting her in her film is
fiction but a lot of the film is real,
full of cell phones, computers, bar
scenes. "I like it that people get
confused with my work. What is
real, what is fiction. What is past,
what is present."
Included in the
show is a beautiful recreation of a
16th century painting by Caravaggio,
The Fortune Teller. Reflected
in a mirror, alone in a room, it
brings to mind the various facets
of the alter-ego, the double, the
original and the fake, that Pushpamala
consistently examines in her
work. A friend had once challenged
Pushpamala to play herself
in her next project, and here she
takes up that challenge.
The film is also about investigating
the past. It turned out that
Gabrielle was an important figure
in the bloody Thirty Years War between
Catholics and Protestants. "It reminded me of things in India.
Then the riots in the Paris suburbs
happened. I couldn't really use it
as part of the story, so the film bebecame
more like a diary of my time
in Paris." Paris, with its gas-lit
streets and imposing stone facades
is not just the backdrop, but
shapes the very mood of the film.
Cities have long been a continuing
theme in Pushpamala's
Delhi's Chawri Bazaar was
the site of her 2002 series Darde-
dil, and three projects were set
in Mumbai (including Phantom
Lady, her first work). A sculpture
show called Excavations was
based on the Mumbai riots. The
riots, in fact, proved a watershed
event for a whole generation of
artists like Rumana Hussain,
Navjot Altaf and Pushpamala. "Women especially felt attacked
and there was a lot of consciously
feminist work being done," Pushpamala
says. Many also began
moving towards more multidisciplinary
work. "Things started
falling apart, and we needed a
more fragmented way of looking
at things, not just through painting
or sculpture," she says.
Since then Pushpamala hasn't
really worked in sculpture, but her
work has always been inspired by
images of women, women's narratives,
women's materials. Her last
film, Rashtriy Kheer and Desiy
Salad, was about using material
from her mother's and mother-inlaw's
recipe books.
Her work connects to most
feminist performance work,
whether it's live or on video. "My
works always have people in it,
it's very social and political. I'm
dealing with the nation, social
narrators — it's not so psychological."
Her photoromances are
very intimate, while a series like
Native Women of South India is
mechanised and theoretical. Unlike
the American artist Cindy
Sherman who sees herself disappearing
in her thousands of "self
portraits", Pushpamala, despite
the mimetic quality of her work,
sees her personality emerge in
each photo, almost despite the
makeup and artifice.
Though she works primarily
in the medium of photography,
Pushpamala is not a photographer. "I had just lost my camera
when I started these photo projects.
Somehow I never bought a
new one". Instead she works with
a range of collaborators: friends,
admirers, commercial photographers — "everyone who creates
popular visual culture in Bangalore".
From hoarding painters, to
autorickshaw decorators, to
lighting guys and tentwallahs.
Clare Arni, who collaborated
with her on Native Women says, "It's always great fun working on
these projects. While I was photographing
Pushpa as Goddess
Lakshmi, I said, I want to be Lakshmi
too! Luckily Pushpa had
two sets of crowns and saris."
Despite the effortless panache
of her images, the process of creating
them takes months, even
years, with attention paid to the
smallest detail. Pushpamala is always
very hands-on.
In part of
Native Women (2000-4), she
dresses as a Toda woman. "I
didn't have a Toda shawl, so I just
embroidered a crude version of
the original on a plain shawl,"
said Pushpamala.
Shooting can be just as difficult,
as she found with Phantom
Lady, which she worked on with
actor Vinay Pathak, among others. "I was scared about going on
the streets in that crazy get-up.
All my so-called outdoor shots,
were done in people's driveways
at four o'clock in the night!"
Many people assume that
Fearless Nadia was her inspiration
for Phantom Lady. "But it's
nothing like Nadia's films which
are action, B-grade. Phantom
Lady is sophisticated, noir — a
different language."
work suggests a memory as false
as her interviews. People feel like
they know the image, but they
don't. "It's not nostalgic, it's
memory which is not your memory.
Perhaps a collective memory.
That's why people respond to my
work so strongly."
"I remember a very old woman
came to the Phantom Lady show.
She stared for hours, and afterwards
she wanted the strapless
vamp's dress I had on display. She
wouldn't take no for an answer.
She wanted the shoes, everything.
She wanted to be the vamp!"


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Ambassador Joseph Habineza has been appointed Minister of Sports and Culture, the post he held between 2004 to 2011
Habineza who has been Rwanda's high commissioner to Nigeria was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle undertaken on Thursday after the appointment of new Prime Minister AnastaseMurekezi.
Habineza said on his twitter account on Thursday, I don't know how to express my gratitude to HE @PaulKagame. My reappointment as Minispoc shows trust. I promise to deliver &make Rwandans proud,"
In 2011, Habineza resigned due to personal reasons but this was orchestrated after photos began circulating on the internet showing him in intimate poses with several women.
The photos, which MrHabineza says were taken in 2008, were published on Sunday on an opposition website called Le Prophete.
Most of the 11 photos show the minister dancing or cuddling with one woman in particular in a well-furnished room.The person who posted them said he was a university student and wanted to show how the government was spending lavishly.
However, Habienza's resign saw a major boost in the sporting sector with major milestones registered. Itw as when the Amavubi U17 qualified for the first time to compete in the FIFA U17 World Cup finals held in Mexico. Rwanda also were given hosting rights for U-17, U-10 and CHAN.
Different national teams ranging from football, basketball, volleyball and athletics shone on African and global showpiece, a feat which made Rwanda a strong sporting nation few years after the 1994 Tutsi Genocide.


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What is an IP40 PoE?
IP40 PoE is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Voice over IP (VoIP) audio processor that support Power of Ethernet (PoE). The IP40 registers with a SIP proxy to provide a direct media path from the Ethernet to a Plantronics headset without the need for an IP phone or PC.
How is the IP40 PoE powered?
The IP40 can be powered in two alternative modes. In normal operation, the IP40 would be powered directly from a suitably provisioned 802.3af Power-Over-Ethernet (PoE) network switch. If no PoE is available, the device can be powered by a Plantronics standard AC adapter No.77391 with adapter 76486-01-15. The IP40 is a Class 1 PoE device.
What contact center systems will the IP40 work with?
The IP40 should work with any standards based SIP contact center but has been specifically validated against the following SIP implementations:
Where do I find the Administrative Guide for the IP40?
The Administrative guide is available for download from the Plantronics support site.
Why does the IP40 PoE have a second Ethernet port?
The second Ethernet port is provided to allow the PC on the desk to share a single network drop with the IP40. The IP40 is able to tag the Ethernet packets to prioritize the voice traffic over the data traffic from the PC.
What type of headsets can I use with the IP40?
The IP40 supports the Plantronics 'H' Series of headsets. Noise canceling microphones are recommended.
How do I answer incoming calls?
You can accept incoming calls by pushing the IP40 Answer/End button or clicking on the call answer button on the contact center interface on the agents PC. The IP40 can be configured to 'auto answer' calls if required.
How do I make an outbound call if the IP40 doesn't have a dial pad?
Normally, you initiate outbound calls via the contact center interface on your PC, which then instructs the IP40 to call the number. If your interface becomes unavailable, the IP40 can still make an outbound call to a preconfigured number by pushing the Answer/End button on the device.
How can I put a call on hold if I want to leave my desk?
When you are on a call, you can place the call on hold by disconnecting the headset's Quick Disconnect (QD) cable. The Answer/End button changes color to orange to indicate a call is on hold. When you reconnect the QD, the call resumes and the Answer/End button returns to green.
How do I find the IP address of the IP40?
When the IP40 has received an IP address as part of a Dynamic Host Control protocol boot procedure, you can identify it by pushing the Answer/End button for at least 5 seconds. The IP address is dictated as a string of numbers into the connected headset.
How much power does the IP40 use?
The IP40 is an 802.3af PoE Class 1 device. It uses less than 4W.
What are the bandwidth requirements for the IP40?
When voice traffic is passed through an IP network, the bandwidth requirements of the connection are larger than the codec of the voice stream. The actual codec requirements of the voice stream are 64 Kbit/s for G711 (i.e., PCMU or PCMA) and 8 kbit/s for G729. To transport this across an IP network, the requirements increase to 95 kbit/s and 39 kbit/s, respectively. This increase is due to the packet overheads introduced by the IP protocol.
The advantage of VoIP is that this bandwidth is only required when someone is speaking, and the overall bandwidth available can be shared between the various competing applications when not required for the VoIP stream. Voice packets can also be tagged to ensure they get a higher priority than data packets as they traverse the network
What are the recommended bandwidth requirements to run a VoIP device like an IP40 from a home network over the internet?
Typically a home DSL network that provides 1Mbps DSL downstream and 384K upstream is adequate if you are not downloading video or watching YouTube on your local home network. The G.711 codec can be used to provide the best voice quality (PCMU or PCMA at 64kbit/sec). If bandwidth is limited, the Administrator can configure the IP40 to use the G.729 codec with 8kbit/sec.
For 1 Mbps DSL downstream, the actual bandwidth capacity is 1 Mbps. A single voice traffic stream will take only 95 kb/s, which is a tiny amount compared to the capacity available for data. Note there is no quality of service (QoS) guarantee on most DSL network connections and so if a lot of data is downloaded while making a call it is possible the voice stream may become degraded.
What are typical services/devices required to run an IP40 in an IP network?
There is no extra equipment required for the IP40 beyond servers/services found in any enterprise VoIP equipped network. Configuration maintenance and operation use existing resources. In a contact center environment, the IP40 needs to connect to a SIP proxy which usually resides in IP-PBX (i.e., Aspect's proxy) in order to send or receive calls.
The IP40 has been validated for agent client with SIP based communication with Cisco, Avaya, Aspect, Interactive Intelligent and Genesys.
Below is a list of typical servers/services you will find in an enterprise network: