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This is a superb production: the set, the puppets, the actors, the music are all at times humorous and at other times most touching. this is a beautiful tribute to Woody Guthrie and a reminder of all we still need to do. We were entirely captured.
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Loved the first act best. The acting and singing was incredible. My 87 year old mother is still raving about the show.
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Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series, Book 2 (Mass Market Paperbound)
With the Leran threat laid to rest, Alec and Seregil are now able to turn their attention to the ancient evil which threatens their land. The Plenimarans, at war with Skalans, have decided to defeat their ancient enemy by raising up the Dead God, Seriamaius. The early attempts at this reincarnation--masterminded by the sinister Duke Mardus and his sorcerous minion Vargul Ashnazai--once left Seregil in a sorcerous coma. Now, an ancient prophecy points to his continuing role in the quest to stop Mardus in his dread purpose.
Seregil's friend and Mentor, the wizard Nysander, has long been the guardian of a deadly secret. In a secret, silver-lined room hidden well beneath the Oreska, he has served for most of his 300 years as the keeper of a nondescript clay cup. But this cup, combined with a crystal crown and some wooden disks, forms the Helm of Seriamaius, and any mortal donning the reconstructed Helm will become the incarnation of the god on earth.
Nysander holds the cup and Mardus the wooden disks--one of which was responsible for Seregil's coma--but the crown must still be located. Threatened under pain of death by Nysander to keep his quest a secret even from his loyal companion, Alec, Seregil is dispatched to find the last missing piece of the Helm so that he and Nysander can destroy it. But this is only the beginning of one of his deadliest journeys ever, for the prophecy also holds that four will come together in a time of darkness, and gradually all that Seregil values is placed at risk as he, Alec, Nysander and Micum are drawn into a deadly web of terror and intrigue.
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Question 1 - why does HP insert an icon into the taskbar that is 50% taller than the taskbar, thus making the taskbar take up more space on the screen? Maybe the Assistant is ignoring the taskbar setting "use small icons"? At least the Start button sticks out the top of the taskbar without making the whole taskbar taller.
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Question 3 - Since windows has a way to manage the notifications area (see Start > properties > taskbar > Notification area > customize), why did HP decide to create its own way to insert its iconology into the taskbar? Or, perhaps more to the point, how (besides this posting) do I vote for HP to get with the (Windows) program?
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The big icon was a recent update to the Support Assistant software, you can disable the icon by right clicking on it and Uncheck "HP Support Assistant Quick Acess"
Sometimes updates are pushed out before they actuially show up on the support page for your product.
This is a user to user forum, so I cannot speak to your other questions, sorry.
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Thank you.
I strongly and totally agree with all the points you have made.
Thank you for writing the solution as I was seconds away from removing the software entirely.
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HP has been doing well in the past few years.
For years.... as far back as Win 95, their printer drivers often had proprietary managers and subsequently took over and often messed up all other printer drivers in the network.
For all our corporate clients we resolved to only use Microsoft drivers where possible and it subsequently reduced the volume of technical support required.
Now can we stop the Adobe PDF icon being installed on the desktop after every one of their weekly upgrades?
In the last 8 years I have never launched the PDF viewer first then searched for the file to open!
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Well I too have the same problem, but after unchecking the icon it reappers after some automatically which is very irritating!! Is there any permenant solution for removing this icon from taskbar?
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A comfortable stay!
Arrived after a long flight. The hotel room was spacious, modern and very comfortable. The hotel appears to have been recently refurbished. It is located near the sculpture park and art galleries which was convenient for us and next to a small mall. From a European prospective it was within easy walking distance of Dealy Plaza....although a well connected trolley bus was 50m from the hotel. Parking and check in and were efficient and the restaurant above average. A no hassle stay with a quality room.
Good value on the weekend
We stayed here two years ago when it was Le Meridien and before it was remodled. The difference is amazing.
The rooms were very nice and comfortable, the beds are almost as good as advertised, lots of pillows.
Two minor problems: First, you could not turn the bathroom light on without also turning the coffee station/closet area light on at the same time. So if you had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night you woke up your spouse.
Second, there seemed to be some undesirables roaming around the hallways. We got a knock on the door late at night and when I answered throught the door, the guy just left. Then I saw him the next morning just roaming around the Plaza of the Americas with a cell phone stuck to his ear. He didn't look like he could afford to stay there.
By the way, the shopping mall in the atrium of the hotel is dead on the weekends.
Nice hotel, your typical Westin
I understand that this hotel was bought and converted to the Westin brand in the last few years. I stayed overnight on business, and found it to be what you normally expect out of a Westin. The public spaces were nice enough, although maybe not quite as elegant as other Westins. Rooms were very nice, and I understand are still being renovated. Mine had a lovely bathroom and all the fixtures you're used to there. Bed - heavenly, as always. However, the mini-bar area was missing the mini-bar, which was a disappointment, but they included a complimentary bottle of water - probably to make up for it. I imagine that this was a function of the renovation. The location isn't great for walking around Dallas in that it isn't really near any areas you'd want to hang out, other than the downtown businesses. However it is right next to a DART light rail station, and that's an easy 5 minute shot to the West End (near Dealey Plaza) which is a really nice little walking area with restaurants and shops and some street activity. It's also adjacent to an indoor mall/business park area with some restaurants, bars and food courts, but it's pretty dead at night and on the weekend - I think it's there only for those who are working in the attached building/s. The hotel restaurant in which I ate breakfast was elegant and nice, but not surprisingly was overpriced. Valet parking $18 overnight. Overall, nice place and I'd stay again if I was in town.
Heavenly Bed
We stayed here the night of our wedding in March. The room was very spacious. The bed was just as advertised, heavenly. The sheets were crisp, but soft. The bed was covered on fluffy pillows. All
the linens (including the towels) had such a clean smell to them. Crawling under the down comforter was like a dream. I saw the next morning that you can buy the bed (I mean the mattress and everything), the sheets, the towels, the shampoo, anything in the room, pretty much. They sell all of their wonderful, comfy stuff in a catelog (or online). If I had money floating around, I'd buy it all and sleep like baby every night.
One word of advice - if you love sugar and cream in
your coffee, bring it or ask for extra when you arrive. The two packets that were provided were not enough to make one cup of coffee sweet. They did have starbucks coffee, though, for the in-room coffee maker.
Never again!
I thought this would be a luxury hotel, and boy was I wrong! My room teh first night was next to the loudest 3 men on teh earth who were drunk and cursing all night. The next morning (after calling teh front desk twice in teh night to complain) I requested a new room and was given a hrad time. After holding my ground, they gave me a new room, which was much quieter. The bathrooms were absolutely disgusting! my college apartment had better bathrooms. I just felt like it wasn't clean.My biggest disappointment of this trip was when I got an ear and sinus infection during my business trip and needed a ride to a pharmacy to pick up medicine. I was told there was a hotel concierge car and they would give me a ride. I went to my morning meeting, returned at lunch only to be told that car can only be used for a 2 hour period in the morning! Nice of them to tell me this at 8 am before I left. So I took my $13 cab ride to teh pharmacy. I thought they might be willing to help out a visibly sick, single woman traveling alone, but that was not on their agenda. I will NEVER stay at this hotel again, and probably never stay at this chain again either. Save your money and stay elsewhere!
Spend your time and money elsewhere! No twice a day maid as advertised - in fact - no maid at all. Someone's room service garbage still in the hall at 10:30 AM after being there all night. Bathtub rusted on bottom and rust poorly plugged with caulk. An insulting note card about how the hotel believes in "conservation" and so encourages you to re-use your towels, etc. Bathroom door peeling on bottom inside. Room dimly lit, chairs with sagging, half filled cushions. Outrageous prices in resturant - how about $16.00 per person for a lousy continental breakfast? The silent icy stare treatment from the night concierge.
Must have looked a little too trashy for him after 4 hours in the heat at Trinity Fest. Oh, the "Atrium" shopping was completely shut down on July 4th, and only a couple of shops were open the next day when we left at 11:00. All in all, an overly pretentious hotel in sore need of a complete renovation. We stayed at the Bradford Homesuites the night before for half the price and more than double the value.
DO NOT stay at Le Meridien Dallas
I stayed at Le Meridien in Dallas and had a horrible time there. Our visit started on a bad note when we pulled up to check in the valet and bell staff were EXTREMELY rude. It got even worse when we got in the room, while it was adequate it was certaily NOT four star at all. The room was small and dark. The shower in the bathroom had nasty, funky mildew growing in it (YUCK) and there were only two towels total in the bathroom. The posted rate on the room was $350 a night, I payed $150 a night plus an extra $20 for parking. Do yourself a favor and find someplace else to stay. There's no need to pay good money to stay at a hotel with a rude staff and mildew in the showers.
Awful -- Stay Away
I tried Le Meridien over the weekend on a cheap ($55) passport rate. I would have been better off at the Hampton Inn further downtown! Services were non-existent (concierge nowhere to be found, one person sometimes working the front desk), the heater didn't work, rooms were in a run-down state, and I was awakened by a loud noise at 5:50 am that finally went away about 6:20 -- front desk promised to send someone up to check it out. Yeah, right. That never happened. They claim luxury status, but don't believe that and don't be seduced by the discount rates. This place is dreadful. Stay away.
A Smoker's Haven
This past week, I attended a business conference and stayed at Le Meridien. In my opinion it does not live up to 4-star standards by any means. When they renovated the hotel a few years ago, they must have forgotten the bathrooms. Service is understaffed and slow. The rooms were very average. The mattresses were uncomfortable and pillows were extremely flat.
The main disappointment to me was all the smoke filled environment especially in the lobby area. That may not make any difference to some people but my lungs are not able to tolerate it. I became sick and had to transfer to another hotel the next morning. This was inconvenient and caused me to miss part of my conference. You may enjoy staying here if you smoke but everyone else should stay away. I highly recommend the Adam's Mark or the Magnolia. They definitely live up to their 4-star rating.
Le Meridien Dallas Disappoints
In my opinion, Le Meridien Dallas is not up to the 4-star standard of other properties in the chain.
The 3-year-old renovation seems to have been done on the budget of a La Quinta Inn with less than comfortable mattresses, thin foam conforters, and less than luxurious furnishings.
The front desk is understaffed to handle conventions and I waited in line for 40 minutes to check in.
When I discovered that my non-smoking room was full of smoke, I called downstairs and the staff member said, "well, it is a non-smoking room" and then offered to "spray" the room. Only after I insisted, was the hotel willing to move me to another non-smoking room.
In short, the hotel failed to live up to its rating -- both in the quality of service and the quality of the accomodations.
It certainly would be acceptable for someone who doesn't mind paying a premium for a very average and unremarkable hotel.
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Nav. 17, 1970 MICROPHONE CROSS REFERENCE W. D- GILMOUR SOUND RECOGNITION APPARATUS sEAmH 300 M Filed March 10, 1967 mu NB comm ANALOGUE DIGHAL EB In W NVERIER WURKLNG SIURE 1 5 WRIIE wans READ READ
WURKING STURE 2 10 FIXED\ MULHPLIER E SUM 4 CLEAR SUM STORE CHANGE CLEAR I H] PRINTER UR DISPLAY US. Cl. 179-1 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Sound recognition apparatus comprising means for deriving from the voice an input signal representing the sound waveform and including successive cycles 'of the voicing frequency, means for testing .the input signal for jidentification of it, and means for controlling the operation of the testing means in dependence upon the voicing instants of the voice by sampling the amplitude of the input signal at predetermined tinies within each voicing cycle to render the tests less dependent than would otherwise be the case on variations in the voicing frequency.
l The present invention relates to apparatus capable of recognizing spoken information, and is-especially but not exclusively suited to the operation of a phonetic typewriter or as an input device for a 'computer.
An object of the present invention is to provide sound recognition apparatus which is less influenced by changes ,7 of basic pitch of the voice of a given speaker or by variations of basic pitch and other parameters of the voice from speaker to speaker than such apparatus as has been prov posed hitherto.
According to the present invention there is provided sound recognition apparatus comprising,
(a) means for deriving from the'voice an input signal representing the sound waveform and including successive cycles of the voicing frequency,
(b) means for testing said input signal for identification of said sound waveform, including (c) means for deriving from saidiinput signal a plurality of samples of the amplitude of said input signal within each of said cycles,
(d) means for causing said samples to be taken at a succession of predetermined times after a voicing instant and within the cycle following said instant and (e) means for comparing said samples with signals representing corresponding samples of known sound Waveforms.
In the following specification reference will be made to phonemes. A phoneme may be considered to be one of the minimum set of shortest 'segments in a spoken language, which after substituting one for another changes the sound of one word into the sound of another word. Phonemes are distinctive features which are portions of syllables and different phonemes may be represented by different phonetic symbols. The term sub-phoneme will also be used in the specification, and can be taken as that part of an utterance which correlates strongly with neighbouring parts of the utterance for successive periods of the fundamental frequency of the vocal chords or voicing frequency. The vocal chords produce voicing impulses at successive times termed the voicing instants, at a repetition frequency termed the voicing frequency. It hasbeen found that a man speaking naturally has a voicing frequency of about 110 to 140 cycles per second and a woman has a voicing frequencyof 220 to 280 cycles per second. 1
The apparatus of the present invention seeks to overcome the frequency disparity between different voices by ed States Patent 3,541,259 Patented Nov. 17, 1970 ICE] comparing portions of the waveform in cycles of. the voicing frequency between successive voicing instants with similar portions of the waveforms of known speech sounds. A voicing instant is the instant at which a cycle of the voicing frequency begins. From one comparison with stored sub-phonemes the identities of the subphonemes contributing to a phoneme are produced and, taken incorrect order, are used the select the appropriate output coding for application to a phonetic printer or computer, as required.
In order that the invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect, it will now be described with reference. to the accompanying drawing a single figure which shows in diagrammatic form one example of apparatus'according to the present invention. Referring to the drawing the apparatus consists of a microphone 1 into which the speaker speaks. and the output signal from which is applied to amplifier 2 fitted with automatic gain control to normalise the level of the output'signal. The output signal of the amplifier 2 is applied to a timing control circuit 3 and via a delay output 4 to ananalogue to digital converter 5. The timing control circuit 3 responds to the peak level of the: envelope of the input waveform to determine the time of 3a voicing instant and this provides a succession of spaced output pulses at predetermined times relative to the voicing instant which pulses are applied to the analogue .to digital converter 5 to derive from the input waveform a number of samples, each at an instant determined by the'pulses from the circuit 3, and the converter 5 produces the digital codes representative of the amplitude of thewa'veform at the sampling instants.
The code combinations produced by the converter 5 are applied alternately to the working stores 6 and 7, a switch 8 being provided so that whilst one store is receivingiinformation from the converter 5 the other store is beingginterrogated. The data stored in the working store being interrogated is read under the control of signals from a scanning generator 9 and the signals so produced which represent the samples of the input waveform are applied to a multiplier 10 where they are individually multiplied by respective signals representing samples of known waveforms from a fixed store 11, which stores the combinations of coded samples corresponding to standard sub-phoneme waveforms. A summing: circuit 12 is provided to total the products from corresponding samples of a sub-phoneme from a working store 6 or 7 and a sub-phoneme from the fixed store .11. The output of the summing circuit 12 represents the degree of correlation between the input sub-phoneme in the working store and the particular sub-phoneme selected from the fixed store by the scanning generator 9. The scanning generator.-,9-*selects all of the sub-phonemes from' the fixed store 11 in turn and forms in the summing circuit 12 the correlation coefiicients of each input sub-phoneme from the working store with every sub-phoneme ip the fixed store. The total from the summing circuit is applied via gate 13 under the control of a signal from the generator 9 to a comparison circuit 14 where the total is compared with the total stored in a store 15. If the output from the gate 13 exceeds that from the store 15 the comparison circuit 14 produces an output signal which causes the total from the summing circuit 12 to be entered via the gate .16 into the sum store 15 to replace the total already in it. At the same time as the gate 16 is opened by the comparison circuit 14, a gate 17 is opened to pass a signal from the scanning generator 9 to an identity store 18. The signal from the generator 9 is indicative of the identity of the one of the sub-phonemes being read from the fixed store 11 at the time and when applied to the store 18 replaces the identity stored in it. Thus at i the end of each series of correlations the identity of the sub-phoneme from the fixed store 11 showing the greatest correlation to the particular one from the working store 6 or 7 will be stored in the identity store 18.
At the end of a series of correlations that is after a cycle of the fixed store 11, the identity of the subphoneme is transferred from the identity store .18 to the shifting register 19 where the successive sub-phoneme identities are shifted along under the control of signals from the change detector unit 20. After a period of time the register '19 stores side by side the identities of a number of sub-phonemes, and when a change or momentary break occurs in the output of the amplifier 2 the register 19 produces an output representing the combination of identities. The combinations of sub-phonemes corresponding to known phonemes are built into an output matrix 21 which produces an output signal representing the known phoneme corresponding to the combination of sub-phonemes from the register 19 to a printer or other utilisation circuit. The matrix 21 also clears the shifting register 19 when the output signal is produced.
The change detector shifts the data stored in the register 19 whenever a change occurs in the output of the amplifier 2 or the identity store 18 or after n, say three, successive identical outputs from the store 18.
Amplitude normalisation is achieved by a conventional rapid acting A.G.C. circuit, with an operate slope of about 20 db/ms. and a recovery slope of perhaps 1 db/ms. In addition to the normal rapid acting A.G.C."th6 amplifier 2 may also include a further A.G.C. circuit having a slowdecay time constant of about five seconds to reduce the range of control required of the rapid A.G.C. to accommodate quiet speakers and loud speakers. The total range should be of the order of 40 db for the rapid A.G.C. with a further 20 db for the slow A.G.C. adequate for normal conversational speech. The DC and AC levels of A.G.C. are both of importance in the further processing, so that the amplifier should have a well defined gain/control voltage characteristic. It may be of benefit to use some transfer characteristic other than linear in the amplifier which characteristic may be determined experimentally, however a linear characteristic may also be used.
The basic interval, that between successive voicing instants, coincides with the period of the fundamental frequency of the vocal chords (i.e. 110-140 c./s.) for men; for women there are two alternatives, to operate at 220- 280 c./s. and use half the number of time quantisations, or to use a revised main store and take two fundamental cycles as input. Since the actual formant frequencies do not differ as much as the basic frequency, the second alternative is preferred, but initially only male voices will be considered. For unvoiced phonemes, for example those corresponding to S or th as in this, the time intervalis arbitrary and one channel can be used for both voiced and unvoiced utterances. It has been found that most of the information necessary to distinguish voiced utterances is concentrated in the first 5 ms. after the voicing instant, and accordingly after each voicing instant, detected as a peak in the envelope of the waveform, the waveform is sampled a number of times in the ensuing 5 milliseconds, although, of course, the sampling may if desired, be spread over the entire interval from one voicing instant to the next. An advantage of using the shorter interval for sampling is that more time is left for analysing the samples. However, whichever method is chosen, the analogue-to-digital converter takes 64 samples, uniformly spaced within the interval chosen. The sampling pulse generator for the analogue to digital converter produces 64 sampling pulses in each interval. The converter itself is conventional, quantising into a sign bit and three signal bits, giving 7 levels on, either side of zero. This unit feeds into the stores 6 and 7, each of which holds 256 bits (4X 64). These may be switched over as shown in the figure or one store could always be being loaded, and the other analysed, at the changeover the loaded store could discharge its contents into the analyser store very quickly and then resume loading the next sample. A circulation rate during analysis of about 640 kc./s. is required.
The fixed store 11 contains information on approximately standard sub-phonemes, quantised similarly to the information in the working stores. A parallel output of bit information is required, and although a 25,600 bit core store could be built, it would be possible to use a cathode ray tube type of store using four tubes (one for each bit of a sample) with 64 bits in a line andglOO lines scanned by a common generator. With this relatively coarse pattern, no registration difficulties with the associated masks should be encountered.
The comparator multiplies the individual pattern bits from each of the stored patterns with the corresponding bits from the working sample sequentially, i.e. each'complete pattern is sequentially sampled. The sum of each series of multiplications is examined. If it is greater than any of the previous sums of the present analysing "cycle, it is stored in 15 and the corresponding lines identification is stored in 18. In this way at the end of a run through the comparison with all the stored patterns, the identity of that having the highest coefficient of correlation with the working sample will be available in the store 18. This code is passed to the phoneme recognition circuit comprising components 19, 20 and 21.
The sub-phoneme recognition circuit depends on..different voices producing correlatable outputs for the same sub-phoneme. The time over which the correlation is to be made is of the greatest importance, for not even the same voice will correlate with another sample of itself over an indefinite period. For inflected speech the time of correlation should be reduced. This will not affect the overall design of the equipment, because fewer samples in this period will be needed, the maximum sampling frequency remaining at about 6.4 kc./ s. The use of 100 subphonemes allows a certain amount of redundancy in the choice of matching sub-phonemes some of which could be allocated to a given sub-phoneme to allow for differing individual voices. The combined choice of the number of sub-phonemes and the sampling rate sets the' overall comparison frequency of 640,000 comparisons (or four bit multiplications and summings) per second. The internal bit rate of the multiplier, etc. can be as high as 10 mc./s. without difiiculty, thus allowing the working store to cycle as slowly as possible at about 640 kc./s.
As described above the phoneme recognition is essentially deterministic in character but any adaptive circuits can be added to the sub-phoneme recognition unit; for example, the contents of the fixed store 11 can be entered by adaptive techniques.
The sub-phoneme recognising circuits deliver to the phoneme recognising circuits a signal representing the best fit found between the input speech and the stored subphoneme patterns, at a rate of about 100/s. Phonemes which do not alter during their phonation (stationary phonemes) will have a single sub-phoneme identification during their phonation, and in this case the sub-phoneme and phoneme identification coincide. Nonstationary subphonemes will however show a pattern of sub-phonemes, which are typical of the given phoneme. The actual duration of the sub-phoneme will be of importance in the transient consonants, but, not, generally, in voiced subphonemes. A phoneme in general will contain not more than three sub-phonemes, although there will be cases, because of the sampling method chosen, where a' 'r epe'titive pattern of sub-phonemes will occur and the whole pattern may be required for identification. (A rolled r is an example). It is therefore proposed that the sub-phoneme pattern should be stored in the shift register 19, moving on once for every change of sub-phoneme, or, if the subphoneme appears to represent a stationary phoneme, for every third sample. As soon as a likely phoneme has been identified from the contents of the shift register, the latter is cleared and the identified phoneme displayed. Additional data inputs to the shift register 19 come from the DC and AC A.G.C. levels, suitably quantised.
A satisfactory relatively cheap output printer suitable for receiving the output signals of the apparatus would be a. golfball typewriter, which is fast, and will not be damaged by conflicting inputs. A standard typewriter of this construction, modified with solenoids on the keys is satisfactory, for one of the major features of type Writer is that it possesses a type of mechanical store, in that if two keys are sequentially depressed in a shorter time than the cycling time of the machine, the information from the second depression is effectively stored, to be released when the first character has been printed. This feature would be of the greatest value in dealing with two phonemes in rapid succession, as it avoids any other form of output buffer. A type ball with the ITA symbols,'for example, may be used, or alternatively the Shaw alphabet characters may be used. More complex output printers, such as might be used for a computer print-out may alternatively be used,
What I claim is:
1. Sound recognition apparatus comprising,
(a) means for deriving from the voice an input signal representing the sound waveform and including successive cycles of the voicing frequency,
(b) means for testing said input signal for identification of said sound waveform, including means for deriving from said input signal a plurality of samples of the amplitude of said input signal within each of said cycles,
(d) means for causing said samples to be taken at a succession of predetermined times after a voicing instant and within the cycle following said instant, and
(e) means for comparing said samples with signals representing corresponding samples of known sound waveforms.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1 including (a) a store for representations of identified waveforms between voicing instants, and
(b) wherein said testing means includes means for selecting series of representations from the store occurring in intervals between suitable changes of said input signal, and
(c) means for producing indications of the sound waveforms represented by said input signal over each of said intervals in response to each series of selected representations.
3. Apparatus according to claim 2 including means for producing an indication of the identity of the sound waveform represented by the input signal over one of said intervals when a given number of the selected representations are the same.
4. Sound recognition apparatus comprising (a) means for deriving from the voice an input signal representing the sound waveform and including successive cycles of the voicing frequency,
(b) means for testing said input signals for identification of said sound waveform, including (0) means for deriving from said input signal a plurality of samples of the amplitude of said input signal within each of said cycles,
(d) means for'causing' said samples to be taken at a succession of predetermined times after a voicing instant and within the cycle following said instant,
(e) means for comparing said samples with signals representing corresponding samples of known sound waveforms,
(f) said means for comparing including means for multiplying said samples with respective values of said signals representing the known sound waveforms, and I (g) means for summing the products so produced,
5. Apparatus according to claim 4 including I (a) a store for representations of identified waveforms between voicing instants, and
(b) wherein said testing means includes means for selecting series of representations from the store occurring in intervals between suitable changes of said input signals, and
(c) means for producing indications of the sound waveforms represented by said input signal over each of said intervals in response to each series of selected representations.
6. Apparatus according to claim 5 including means for producing an indication of the identity of the sound Waveform represented by the input signal over one of said intervals when a given number of the selected representations are the same.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 5/1962 Smith 179l KATHLEEN H. CLAFFY, Primary Examiner C. JIRAUCH, Assistant Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R. 324-77
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Just the other day (sort of a weary and worn out saying) I was invited to join Sharon Vander Meer behind the microphones on KFUN radio where she hosts a weekly program, "Writer's Blog." Sharon asks some great questions about the author/writer's history, and that got me to thinking, researching and digging out some old files.
Writing was never even a blip on my radar for the first 45 years or so of my life. But I loved to write letters, and a letter I wrote to a dear friend in Florida in 1977 was copied, then returned to me with a note from the recipient suggesting I publish it.
I painted a word picture of a horseback ride we had together so long ago:
"I cannot forget a ride we had, not so long ago ... Midsummer, about 12 years ago ... You on Priss, probably the loveliest mare that the ranch ever raised, and I on the young Bella, the feisty colt with the usual grey color. We hurried into the canyon — where were the mother cows ranging at the moment? At the last clearing we found a new baby calf, obviously frightened by something, and dead. You remarked that someone had just lost a hundred dollar bill. (Not ours — we still don't know to whom he belonged). How sad, in more ways than one — the calf is still only worth a hundred dollar bill, yet consider how much the lowly postage stamp has increased in 12 years.
"We found cattle grazing in the canyon, in the one forest almost totally untouched by man. We both marveled at the gigantic pines and wondered what they had seen in the past hundred-plus years. You pointed out chartreuse aspen quaking in the midst of the giant spruce and fir, obviously asking for protection from old trees that have seen so much, suffered so much, and provided so much for so many forest dwellers. We both noted that the air was fresh! No other word for it. And quiet — the only noises were cattle grazing (hardly a noise at all) and the trickle of the stream ... it was to small to rush, but the pools were full and small native trout dashed for cover when we crossed.
"We both felt we were watched by secret eyes: deer, elk, bobcats, bears ... the mares frequently snorted and upturned rocks confirmed bears were near. When we dared talk (human voices totally shatter the charm of such an idyllic high-mountain paradise) we remarked that there weren't many places left like this. Where could you go, even in 1965, where you never saw a road, a man-cut stomp, a dam on a stream, smoke in the air, or the hum of an engine? We both had traveled enough to know we were surely in paradise, because how else could one describe our West Canyon?
"Yes! Today, 1977 and it is still exactly like that. I returned again, now on the aging Bella, and rode for both of us. I know a surgeon's knife has slowed you down, but I ride, see, smell, listen; feel for you, too ..."
Stay tuned, as they say in Radioland. The word pictures of my trip into our West Canyon are too lengthy for this column, so I will continue it next week. And I will always be envious of the many artists who can paint real pictured of our mountain's majesty, capturing the colors and seasons for everyone to enjoy.
Editha Bartley lives in Gascon in Mora County. She may be reached at 454-0563.
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text: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/251.shtml Stared with the comments (man Celebi has a LOT of sets). This may take a little more time that I would want, so please be patient. Still quite far to be written, so post any suggestion you want *Swords Dance set eliminated, as with Celebi´s mediocre physical movepool he wasnt really hitting anything hard, and is outclassed in every way by the Nasty Plot set (bar the priority of Sucker Punch, that´s still unreliable) -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Overview] Possibily the most versatile grass type, Celebi is capable of fit many different roles (wall, sweeper, supporter and batton paser), thanks to its wide movepool coupled with 100 base stats all around and reliable recovery Wide support movepool with Heal Bell, Thunder Wave, Dual Screens, Stealth Rock and U-Turn just to name a few. Acces to Calm Mind, Swords Dance and the rare Nasty Plot make Celebi a fearsome, bulky set up sweeper, being also capable of batton passing those boosts Its grass typing, bulk and powerful Leaf Storm makes Celebi a great check to bulky waters like Burungeru, Suicune and Vaporeon A total of 7 crippling weaknesses to very common attacking types, most notably to ice, fire, dark and bug attacks, with useful resistances to ground, water, fighting and electric attacks Faces serious competition with Birijion and Nattorie for a grass type pokemon for most teams, both having more specialized stats and better defensive and offensive types [SET] name: Lead move 1: Magic Coat move 2: Stealth Rock move 3: Leaf Storm / Giga Drain move 4: U-turn item: Leftovers nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] This is the set that separates Celebi from other grass types. Stealth Rock support is always welcome, and Celebi enjoys the increased damage taken by fire and flying types that could absorb its grass attacks. Magic Coat can reflect Taunt and, more importantly, opposing entry hazards. For its STAB, Leaf Storm is Celebi´s strongest grass attack, and the -2 Spa wont be a problem, as Celebi is likely to U-turn after use it. U-turn helps in scouting, and will often give you a free switch in a special wall or a fire type waiting to absorb your grass attack. [ADDITIONAL COMMENTS] Giga Drain is an option to keep Celebi alive for longer, but after he sets up rocks and (hopefully) stops the foe´s hazards, his job is pretty much done. Psychic can be used too, but then you are defenseless against any Tyranitar, who who can pursuit you in the U-turn With max Spe, Celebi can outrun non scarved Sazandora and Ononokusu, so he use Stealth Rock or U-turn to get some damage. It also ties with max speed Ulgamoth, Salamence, Zapdos, Jirachi and Manaphy, (and bar Jirachi, Celebi can cripple those by SR or Leaf Storm) [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] Fire types in general appreciate Celebi´s capability to take down bulky waters (just as an example, Bold max Hp/Def Burungeru is OHKO by Leaf Storm, as well as Suicune if it has not used Calm Mind. Heatran deserves a special mention, as he has very good synergy with Celebi and is often walled by bulky waters Celebi often lurks fire types like Heatran or even Blaziken, and with U-turn catching them on the switch, pokemon like Dragon Dance Gyarados and Tyranitar will have a free turn to set-up a sweep Heatran, Ulgamoth and Zapdos can take Celebi´s attacks all day and KO back, so the best Celebi can do is lure them in switching while U-turning away Skarmory, unlike many hazards set uppers, takes nothing from Celebi attacks and is likely to set up hazards at Celebi´s face, so the only thing Celebi can do to Skarmory is bounce back the hazards with Magic Coat once, as after that Skarmory will surely Brave Bird [SET] name: Nasty Plot move 1: Nasty Plot move 2: Giga Drain move 3: Psychic / Psycho Shock move 4: Hidden Power Fire / Earth Power item: Life Orb nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] 100 base SpAtk and Spe are just enough to make Celebi an effective Nasty Plot abuser With Giga Drain, Life Orb and Nasty Plot, Celebi will be healing large chunks of health just for attacking, nullifying the LO recoil Psychic is Celebi´s strongest special move (bar Leaf Storm), but Psycho Shock is a solid option, as at +2 it is always a 2HKO on Evolution Stone Chansey and Blissey (2 of this set biggest counters) The last move is tricky, as if you choose HP Fire, you are walled by Heatran, but with Earth Power you lose to Skarmory and have a harder time with Nattorei. [ADDITIONAL COMMENTS] Another option is to exchange Psychic / Psycho Shock for the move you didn´t use in the last spot. You lose your strongest attack, but Giga Drain is often used more, and the coverage let Celebi take care of anything resistant to it. [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] Celebi despites steel types like Nattorei, Heatran and Skarmory, as even if running the apropiated attack he can lose to them in many ways, making fighting types like Roobushin and Blaziken excellent partners to Celebi. Blaziken also hates bulky waters, who are Celebi´s lunch. Dragonite, Latias and Salamence can take Celebi´s attacks all day and set up on him, so bulky water types with Ice Beam, and even Ice Shard users make good teammates for Celebi. Water types also share a good synergy with Celebi. Celebi resists most priority attacks (only Bullet Punch, Quick Attack and Extreme Speed are neutral), but has no way to boost its average speed, and faster sweepers (like Gengar and Scarf Sazandora) often carry super effective attacks on Celebi, so is vital to take them out before attempting a sweep [SET] name: Tinkerbell move 1: Leaf Storm move 2: Thunder Wave move 3: Hidden Power Fire / Psychic / U-turn move 4: Recover / Rest item: Life Orb nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 4 HP / 252 Spa / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] This set combines Celebi´s support capabilities with his high ofensive power Leaf Storm is your strongest attack, and will likely 2HKO anything that doesn´t resist it and its not named Blissey / Chansey With Thunder Wave, Celebi will aid himself and the whole team, as no attacker [SET] name: Support wall move 1: Heal Bell / U-turn move 2: Thunder Wave move 3: U-turn / Leaf Storm move 4: Recover item: Leftovers nature: Bold ability: Natural Cure evs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 128 SpDef / 32 Spe [SET COMMENTS] With this set, Celebi has many ways of helping its teammates: Heal Bell can take of annoying status like paralysis and sleep, aiding the team after a long battle Thunder Wave makes slower and/or set up sweepers life easier (like Ononokusu and Metagross) Finnaly, U-turn gains important momentum for your team, and with Celebi´s average speed stat, it will let fragile sweepers come unharmed. Leaf Storm is a realiable STAB attack, and makes you able to deal significant damage even with 0 SpAtk evs With 100 base in HP and both defenses, Celebi will easily do its jobs and recover any taken damage [ADDITIONAL COMMENTS] The evs listed are for maximizing Celebi´s walling capabilities, and 32 Spe evs are needed to outspeed Jolly Tyranitar by 1 point Worry Seed is an interesting option, as many OU pokemon are reliant of its ability to make their job (like Guts Roobushin, Rankurusu, Doryuuzu and all swift swimmers), and other than Tangrowth and some Roserades, most grass pokemon are offensive oriented, and can´t afford to use a moveslot on it. [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] Once half of your opponent´s team is paralized, slow, bulky sweepers like Metagross, Tyranitar and Zuruzukin will have a happy day setting up and becoming deadly behemots Celebi can use its U-turn to scout switch-ins and send counters to the opponent´s pokemon, often giving a free turn to your monster to set-up/deal some good damage. In this department, Heatran and Gyarados make great mates to this Celebi, as they appreciate the slowed pace and Gyarados despites status (healed by Heal Bell). With them together you also create a pretty solid fire/water/grass core. [SET] name: Life Orb move 1: Leaf Storm / Giga Drain move 2: Psychic move 3: Hidden Power Fire / Hidden Power Rock move 4: Recover item: Life Orb nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] Unlike the Nasty Plot set, this set can launch powerful, right-of-the bat assaults with Life Orb boosted Leaf Storms and Psychics, leaving in very bad shape anything that doesn´t resist both The Hidden Power of choice will cover either the steel and grass or the fire and flying types that resist Leaf Storm (namely Skarmory, Nattorei, Zapdos, Voltolos and Ulgamoth) Once the damage is done, you can Recover off the LO recoil and escape, wating for another assault. Against stall teams, recover will help Celebi stay as long as it need to take walls down With max speed, you tie with all other base 100 max speed pokemon, being able to OHKO Manaphy and Ulgamoth (if HP Rock is used), and all others are severely harmed by either Leaf Storm or Psychic/Hidden Power Rock [ADITIONAL COMMENTS] Giga Drain remains as an option, as it can heal off the LO recoil, but the damage output is very low when compared with Leaf Storm, making the latter the superior choice. Earth Power, while more powerful than Hidden Power, is not a reliable choice, as most ground-weak pokemon (like Heatran and Doryuuzu) now carry Baloons. [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] Blissey is the biggest stop to this set, as Celebi does nothing to her, and if Blissey carries Ice Beam or Toxic, he will lose soon or late With Hidden Power Fire, Celebi can take care of Jirachi, Nattorei and Bronzong, but Skarmory can survive any attack and OHKO back with Brave Bird-or even set up if its a specially defensive Skarmory Fighting types like Blaziken, Zuruzukin and Robuushin can crush almost any special wall that can stop Celebi, making them good partners when attempting to sweep [SET] name: Choice move 1: Leaf Storm move 2: Trick / Psychic move 3: Earth Power / U-turn move 4: Hidden Power Fire / Hidden Power Ice item: Choice Specs / Choice Scarf nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] With Choice Specs, Celebi will do inmense damage with Leaf Storm (wich has the same power as a Draco Meteor), denting any switch-in even if resisted As an advantage to other Choiced attackers like Sazandora, Celebi can Trick his item on a wall (like Blissey and Nattorie) to severely cripple it. U-turn is used on the Scarf set, while the Specs set use Eart Power and Hidden Power to get the best possible coverage The last slot will cover either steel or dragon types. This is an important choice because without HP Fire you will be absolutely walled by Skarmory and friends, but with HP Ice, you can hit hard Specs Sazandora and Ononokusu (both outspeed by Celebi, and Scarf/Dragon Dance variants with your own Scarf) [ADITIONAL COMMENTS] When using any Choice item, always run a Timid nature to either tie with base 100 speed pokemon when using Specs, ar to outspeed Scarf Sazandora when using a Scarf. [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] While most Nattorie, Skarmory and Bronzong hate being Tricked with a Choice item, they will be a problem if you want Celebi to sweep with the Specs, so fire types like Heatran, Blaziken and Rotom-H that can take out them are really appreciated. If you have HP Fire, you will have no options to hit dragon types (mainly Latias, Latios, Salamence and Sazandora), making Weavile and Mamoswine great partners for Celebi, as both can sweep a weakened team with their high attack and priority in Ice Shard (hovewere be warry that they share a fire weakness with Celebi). Bulky waters like Suicune and Vaporeon can also be good partners to Celebi, as they tend to carry Ice Beam and have a good type synergy with him. [SET] name: Batton Pass move 1: Calm Mind / Nasty Plot move 2: Batton Pass move 3: Recover move 4: Giga Drain / Grass Knot item: Leftovers nature: Bold ability: Natural Cure evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDef [SET] name: Perish Song move 1: Perish Song move 2: Leaf Storm / Protect move 3: U-turn move 4: Recover item: Leftovers nature: Timid ability: Natural Cure evs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS] The premise of this set is to force many switches with Perish Song and use U-turn to get a favorable match ups for your set up sweepers Leaf Storm will be your way to dish damage out, and even when uninvested in SpAtk, Celebi will net a good hit before your foe switches. Protect, while making you a Taunt bait, is useful for this set in stalling the second turn of Perish Song, as the opponent must switch or let his pokemon die in the third turn With Recover you will stay long enough to really annoy your opponent, and if he does not carry super effective attacks, you will often put him in the tight spot of attacking or die [ADDITIONAL COMMENTS] [TEAMMATES AND COUNTERS] With the opponent needing to switch or sacrifice his pokemon, entry hazards are the best partners to this set, and Tentacruel, Omastar and Heatran can set a wide array of hazards while having a pretty good synergy with Celebi. Ghost types who block Rapid Spin, while not a must, are welcome to keep those Spikes and Toxic Spikes intact. Desukan and Burungeru are the best available defensive ghost types, while Gengar and Shandera love to get free hits without getting hurt at all Literally any set up sweeper loves to get free turns, and fragile sweepers like Lucario, Doryuuzu and Ulgamoth just need to get a matchup against something without a SE attack to use Nasty Plot/Swords Dance/Butterfly Dance and become demons Bulky sweepers can survive enough to set up, but some of them need to keep themselves healthy to pass trough their otherwise counters. Dragon Dance Tyranitar and Sword Dance Garchomp are examples of bulky hitters with no ways of recovery, and both can devastate teams if their specific counters cant KO them fast enough [Team Options] [Optional Changes] [Counters]


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Hi Emmanuel, Great work! Some notes: HOME PAGE: - Perhaps link MVCC Btree (Top of the front page) to https://cwiki.apache.org/labs/mavibot.html MVCC Btree >> MVCC Btree - Mavibot is a MVCC BTree in Java...Stated twice with very few words between...I would move the second paragraph under the news announcement to the top so it's not repeated. 5 MINUTE TUTORIAL - mmultiple >> multiple - Once the revision is not anymore in use >> Once the revision is no longer in use - As the Java garbage collector already keep in memory the most frequently used data, it's likely that the important pages - ie, the top of each BTree - will be kept in memory. >> keep >> keeps - WeakReference...is that a lazy loaded proxy?...Perhaps link to definition... Cheers, - Ole On 08/08/2013 12:28 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > Hi guys, > > I started to create the Mavibot web site with Pierre-Arnaud help. It's > not visible on the main site yet, but you can check it on the staging site : > > http://directory.staging.apache.org/mavibot/ > > Any review/feedback welcome ! > > Note : the downloads page aren't yet updated because the vote is on its > way. The packages are available at people.apache.org/~elecharny > > Thanks ! >
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DiamondJacks Casino and Resort
Cypress Nature Study Center
Bossier Parish Library Historical Center
Ark-La-Tex Mardi Gras Museum
Planet Fun Bossier
Party Central Family Fun Center
Liberty Garden
Horseshoe Casino & Hotel
Harrah's Louisiana Downs Casino & Racetrack


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