One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

that theory was and is sound.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.

Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies within the community that you have called for in other editorials??

He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community.

It is a sound investment.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.

Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating a copy of it.

Telefunken has accorded him beautiful sound, and this bargain-priced disc ( it sells for $2.98 ) is worthy of consideration.

Yet it is the accumulation of distortion, the fitting together of fractional bits until the total reaches the threshold of our awareness, that makes records sound like records.

He is going sound again now, and looks good.

The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second ; ;

He believes that this is a sound approach to gas competition in builder developments where gas is available.

The sound mockery of sheep is like the salubrious horse laugh ''.

Is the requirement that the plaintiff be a person actually denied admission to a school a sound requirement??

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

Short of actually playing a sound in the desired environment, the effect of echo can be implemented using either digital or analog methods.

A channel actually consists of two signals: the picture information is transmitted using amplitude modulation on one frequency, and the sound is transmitted with frequency modulation at a frequency at a fixed offset ( typically 4. 5 to 6 MHz ) from the picture signal.

The view of most scholars ( see organology ) is that the term " brass instrument " should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass.

While most may think that the body of the drum produces the sound, it is in fact actually the membrane and its vibration that creates the sound when struck.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

Where shotshell reloading remains popular, however, is for making specialized shotgun shells, such as for providing lowered recoil, when making low cost " poppers " used for training retrievers before hunting season to acclimate hunting dogs to the sound of a gun firing without actually shooting projectiles, for achieving better shot patterning, or for providing other improvements or features not available in commercially-loaded shotshells at any price, such as when handloading obsolete shotshells with brass cases for gauges of shotshells that are no longer commercially manufactured.

Tradition holds that Habakkuk was buried here, but the site may actually be the tomb of a local sheikh of Yaquq, whose name was misunderstood to sound like " Habakkuk ".

Although some of his pieces sound similar to those written by minimalist composers, Adams actually rejects the idea of mechanistic procedure-based or process music ; what Adams took away from minimalism was tonality and / or modality, and the rhythmic energy from repetition.

Since the first premise is actually false, the argument, though valid, is not sound.

If T is a theory whose objects of discourse can be interpreted as natural numbers, we say T is arithmetically sound if all theorems of T are actually true about the standard mathematical integers.

Douglas Adams writes in the notes accompanying the published volume of original radio scripts that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable.

In theory, his idea was sound, but scientists long debated whether it actually happened in nature.

If a sound absorbing sheet is slid in between the prongs of a vibrating fork, reducing the waves reaching the ear from one prong, the volume heard will actually increase, due to a reduction of this cancellation.

The series creators have said that the Clangers, living in vacuum, did not actually communicate by sound, but rather by a type of nuclear magnetic resonance, which was translated to audible whistles for the human audience.

The collection actually marked a return towards the earlier, simpler guitar-driven blues sound with less synthesizer and pop bounce of the previous two albums.

The " squealing " ( which is actually a sound that changes in pitch 100 times every second ) noises made by some modems with speaker output immediately after a connection is established are in fact the sounds of modems at both ends engaging in a handshaking procedure ; once the procedure is completed, the speaker might be silenced, depending on the settings of operating system or the application controlling the modem.

The sound of a bullet entering a person from a close distance may sound nothing like the sound designed in the above example, but since very few people are aware of how such a thing actually sounds, the job of designing the effect is mainly an issue of creating a conjectural sound which feeds the audience's expectations while still suspending disbelief.

Short of actually playing a sound in the desired environment, the effect of echo can be implemented using either digital or analog methods.

" There is some suspicion that Aristide's speech was edited to make it sound as if he were advocating " necklacing " when he was actually urging his supporters not to use violence but to use the constitution and voting instead.

The term Transonic refers to a range of velocities just below and above the local speed of sound ( generally taken as Mach 0. 8 – 1. 2 ).

A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

Recent years saw a resurgence in the early positive punk and deathrock sound, in reaction to aggrotech, industrial, and synthpop, which had taken over many goth clubs, bands with an earlier goth sound are becoming popular.

* In lossy transform codecs, samples of picture or sound are taken, chopped into small segments, transformed into a new basis space, and quantized.

Much of the 968's luxury-oriented equipment was removed or taken off the options list ; less sound deadening material was used, electrical windows were replaced with crank-driven units, upgraded stereo systems, A / C and sunroof were still optional as on the standard Coupe and Convertible models.

As many symbols as possible have been taken over from the IPA ; where this is not possible, other signs that are available are used, e. g. for schwa ( IPA ), for the vowel sound found in French deux ( IPA ), and for the vowel sound found in French neuf ( IPA ).

Some countries, such as South Korea and Japan, require all camera phones sold in their country to make a clearly audible sound whenever a picture is being taken.

* 1 millisecond ( 1 ms ) — cycle time for frequency 1 kHz ; duration of light for typical photo flash strobe ; time taken for sound wave to travel ca.

Sound effects are often custom recorded for each project, but to save time and money a recording may be taken from a library of stock sound effects ( such as the famous Wilhelm scream ).

Erasmus instanced Arion as one of the traditional poet's topics that sound like historia rather than fabulae, though he misremembered that Augustine had taken the Arion story to be historia

With all the important work he accomplished in physics – the enunciation of Boyle's law, the discovery of the part taken by air in the propagation of sound, and investigations on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific gravities and refractive powers, on crystals, on electricity, on colour, on hydrostatics, etc.

In Central America and Mexico, a hole is often carved into the bottom of each resonator and then covered with a delicate membrane taken from the intestine of a pig to add a characteristic " buzzing " or " rattling " sound known as charleo.

In 1961 Sinclair registered Sinclair Radionics Ltd. His original choice, Sinclair Electronics, was taken ; Sinclair Radio was available but did not sound right.

* A few English nouns have plurals that are not spelled with a final s but end in an / s / or a / z / sound: mice ( plural of mouse, and for compounds like dormouse, titmouse ), dice ( when used as the plural of die ), pence ( a plural of penny, with compounds like sixpence that now tend to be taken as singulars ).

Her brother, Douglas Shearer, was instrumental in the development of sound at MGM, and every care was taken to prepare her for the microphone.

At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence with a rough dialogue and / or rough sound track added to the sequence of still images ( usually taken from a storyboard ) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

sound with elements taken from Robert's techno work.

The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the United States in the mid-to late 1920s.

Show Girl in Hollywood ( 1930 ), from First National Pictures ( which Warner Bros. had taken control of thanks to its profitable adventure into sound ), gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of the techniques involved in shooting early talkies.

By the time the group released their first album in 1986 the Parisian alternative music scene had taken flight, and Manu, his brother Antoine Chao, and friends such as Alain from Les Wampas formed Los Carayos to incorporate this sound with the rockabilly and punk styles of Hot Pants.