Shorter, newer, and Olympic quality tracks tend to be timber or synthetics ; longer, older, or inexpensive tracks are concrete, macadam, or even cinder.

Shorter flights tend to be direct and swift, but longer flights are slightly undulating.

Shorter players tend to be better dribblers since they are closer to the floor, and thus have better control of the ball while dribbling.

Shorter scale baritones tend to be tuned C-C or B-B whereas longer ones are typically tuned A-A.

Shorter executive education programs tend to focus on specific roles or industries, or on improving specific leadership skills, such as persuasion, negotiation, teambuilding or communication.

Shorter K-dramas like those mentioned in this paragraph tend to be single-threaded, with a conventional design, not unlike a novel: set-up, suspenseful body, climax and denouement.

* Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter, from Project Gutenberg

American marathon runner Frank Shorter, observing the unfolding events from the balcony of his nearby lodging, was quoted as saying, " Imagine those poor guys over there.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, gives a Middle English quotation making this contrast, from as early as 1400:

In July 2011, Shorter University and Union University ( Jackson, Tenn .) were accepted into the NCAA and will begin the multi-year transition process from the NAIA to NCAA.

Shorter time scales mostly arise from currents in the ionosphere ( ionospheric dynamo region ) and magnetosphere, and some changes can be traced to geomagnetic storms or daily variations in currents.

The supporting cast is likewise composed of jazz musicians ( from a slightly later period ) such as Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Billy Higgins, Pierre Michelot, Eric Le Lann, and others who play the music live throughout the film.

Wayne Shorter came to the group with a reputation as a dominant role as an instrumentalist, drawn from both his solo work and his contributions to Miles Davis ’ " second great quintet " during the 1960s.

Playing both tenor and soprano saxophones, Shorter continued to develop the role of the latter instrument in jazz, taking his cue from previous work by Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson and Steve Lacy.

The first side featured new studio recordings, while the second side was taken from live recordings of a concert in Tokyo, Japan, featuring the full band lineup of Zawinul, Shorter, Vitouš, Gravatt and Um Romão ( and later available in full as the Japan-only double album Live in Tokyo ).

" Shorter had been focusing most of his attention and compositional ideas into his solo work, while Zawinul was sketching out ideas for a solo album of his own which involved moving away from a raw group sound in favor of constructing a far more orchestrated and experimental studio-based recording with multiple overdubs.

On his albums from this period, such as Accent on Africa ( 1968 ) and The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free ( 1970 ), he began doubling on soprano saxophone, showing the influence of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter.

* Shorter Morning & Evening Prayer-comprising the Psalter for Morning, Evening and Night prayers and a selection of texts from the liturgical seasons and feasts

Shorter editions of the Liturgy of the Hours are also available from various publishers: Christian Prayer ( Daughters of St Paul and Catholic Book Publishing Company ), Shorter Christian Prayer ( Catholic Book Publishing Company only ) and Daytime Prayer ( Catholic Book Publishing Company ).

* Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, ed.

It featured contributions from musicians who would all go on to spread the fusion evangel with their own groups in the 1970s: Shorter, Hancock, Corea, pianist Josef Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Holland, and Williams.

In one Latin manuscript from c. 430, the " Shorter Ending " appears without the " Longer Ending.

Shorter motorways typically take their numbers from a parent motorway in violation of the zone system, explaining the apparently anomalous numbers of the M48 and M49 motorways as spurs of the M4, and M271 and M275 motorways as those of the M27.

Shorter migrations include those of the Madagascar Pratincole, which migrates from its breeding grounds in Madagascar to East Africa ; in contrast the Black-winged Pratincole migrates from the steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to West and Southern Africa.

Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Newark Arts High School from which he graduated in 1952.

After graduating from New York University in 1956, Shorter spent two years in the U. S. Army, during which time he played briefly with Horace Silver.

Jones went on to earn a bachelor's degree from North Little Rock's Bethel University ( now Shorter College ) in 1885.

Other famous New Jersey jazzmen include bandleader Count Basie, saxmen Wayne Shorter and James Moody and trumpeter Woody Shaw of Newark, and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie who lived in Englewood from 1965 until his death in 1993.

Shorter, more approachable games such as Ticket to Ride and Elfenland are usually preferred by the committee that gives out the award.

Shorter data units and built-in QoS were some of the unique selling points of ATM for applications such as video on demand.

Shorter boards are typically considered youth size, designed for use by children, though some varieties of short boards are specifically designed for a special purpose, such as the performance of snowboarding tricks.

* Shorter than expected periods for some seed states ( such seed states may be called ' weak ' in this context );

Shorter works, such as the short story also became popular again.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

The album features such jazz and fusion luminaries as guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour ; bassist Chuck Rainey ; saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Pete Christlieb, and Tom Scott ; drummers Steve Gadd and Bernard Purdie ; ex-Miles Davis pianist / vibraphonist Victor Feldman and Grammy award-winning producer / arranger Michael Omartian on piano.

Vee-Jay's jazz line accounted for a small portion of the company's releases, but recorded such artists as Wynton Kelly, Lee Morgan, Eddie Harris, and Wayne Shorter.

Shorter works from many popular authors such as Jack London and Henry David Thoreau were published, as were a number of political tracts written by Robert Ingersoll or Haldeman-Julius himself.

" Alongside the standard tunes of previous decades were lead sheets for compositions by then-contemporary composers such as Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Carla Bley, Pat Metheny, Mike Gibbs, Ralph Towner and Steve Swallow ( amongst others ).

It spawned a number of books and magazines and poetry by lesser-known artists such as Alice Furlong, Ethna Carbery, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Alice Milligan around the turn of the century.

As a result, many Jazz saxophone players have made careers playing several different instruments, such as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, both of whom have frequently used both Tenor and Soprano saxophones.

Influenced most by Dixon Hall Lewis, Yancey fell into a social and political circle that included political leaders of the state such as Thomas Mays, J. L. M. Curry, John A. Campbell, and John Gill Shorter.

) Shorter wavelength light sources would hence yield higher density optical recording media ( such as DVDs and CDs ).

Shorter forms such as " to AB and CD as joint tenants " or " to AB and CD jointly " can be used in most jurisdictions.

This is the last of Davis's studio albums with pop standards rather than band originals ; such would be gone by the time the quintet made its last change, replacing Coleman with Wayne Shorter in late 1964.

Shorter papers provide analyses of important religious ( 2004 ) and literary concepts of the period, and its Central Asian antecedents as well as such as the oldest frame story ( 1986, 1987 ), prosimetric texts ( 1997 ), the Mahabarata ( 2005 ), the concept of rebirth ( 1984 ), the ' line of progeny ' ( 2000 ), splitting one's head in discussion ( 1987 ), the holy cow ( 1991 ), the Milky Way ( 1984 ), the asterism of the Seven Rsis ( 1995, 1999 ), the sage Yajnavalkya ( 2003 ), supposed female Rishis in the Veda ( 2009 ,) the persistence of some Vedic beliefs, in modern Hinduism ( 1989 2002, with S. Farmer and J. B. Henderson ), as well as some modern Indocentric tendencies ( 2001 -).

Richard Pirkle, a former Professor of Biology at Shorter, resigned in 2012 after the administration began pushing for the teaching of creationism and intelligent design ( which are philosophical rather than scientific, and thus should be dealt with in other departments ) in biology classes, as such policies could negatively affect students ' education and ability to gain admission to graduate programs.