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This performance described by Mr. Schwantner as “spirited, engaging, and full of energy.” Velocities (1990), subtitled Moto Perpetuo, is a major component of today’s solo marimba literature. It was commissioned by the Percussive Arts Society and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in a Consortium Commission for world-renowned marimbists Leigh Howard Stevens, William Moersch, and Gordon Stout. Its extensive moving lines make this work a challenge for even the most advanced marimbist. Velocities is structured in a single arch-like allegro movement with continuously changing textures and suddenly shifting meters. Rapidly articulated sixteenth notes in four, five, six, and seven note pitch sets develop extensive linear, harmonic, and rhythmic elements of the work. Leigh Howard Stevens gave Velocities its world premiere at the 1990 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Philadelphia. Schwantner’s expertly crafted wind works have also become a staple of today’s wind ensemble repertoire. Program Note by Justin R. Stolarik ———————————– Part of Dr. Stolarik’s University of Texas at Austin DMA 2 Solo Percussion Recital, entitled “An Unconventional 20th Century Retrospective.” Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 4:30pm in Bates Recital Hall. My unconventional retrospective concept delivers a wide variety of musical styles of the twentieth-century — one work from almost every decade. The pieces not originally composed for percussion have …

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Dawn of Mana (Playstation 2) – Completed by Nicholas ‘Sir VG’ Hoppe on November 22nd, 2007. Chater 8 – The Great Tree 8-1 Normally to get through this area, all I need is to beat the Grim Golem Centurion to get the special key. However, I detour to get two ordinary keys to use later on. One is aimed for 8-2, the other for 8-5. However, first I’m faced with a mysterious void. Destroying the generator first is key, otherwise enemies just respawn. 8-2 This area has 3 routes: left, right, center. The center is the easiest and shortest route, except for the ‘expected’ path of getting to the entrance. Luckily, due to my SRT and some button mashing on X to get some extra jumping in, I take a major shortcut by crossing the gap. Getting the keys in 8-1 saves me time by not having to fight a hoard of Golems near the left entrance. Heading through the beehive hallway, the void is required to allow me to open the 2nd gate, and breaking the generator in the 3rd room is required to fully open the 3rd gates to the side rooms. Either one will open the gate to move on, but you only need to do one or the other (these rooms are where you wind up in if you take the left or right entrances in the earlier area). 8-3 While there are several ways through 8-3, the best way is to find up in the center of floor B3. Ending up there allows you to skip the thanatos void that you’d wind up in if you go through the B3 floor in a different location. Then it’s simply beating the Gorgon’s Eye to get the …

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To generate the energy needed in industrialized societies, vast amounts of coal have been burnt. When coal burns, it gives off great quantities of heat energy and smoke. Smoke stacks emit so much smoke into the atmoshpere that gases in the smoke are changing the very nature of clouds causing a corrosive form of precipitation known as acid rain. Sulphur dioxide from burning fossil fuels and nitrogen oxide from automobile exhaust fumes react with the water vapor in the atmosphere producing acidic vapors that mix with the clouds. When the wind blows, these acid bearing clouds maybe move hundred of kilometers away from the source of the pollutants. The acid rain that results is damaging to water, forest, and soil resources and can corrode metals and the surfaces of buildings. One way to address the problem of acid rain is to stop burning high sulphur coal. Coal with less sulphur releases less sulphur dioxide. Another solution is to equip coal burning power plants with scrubber technology. Scrubbers are placed in the smoke stacks and force the sulphurine smoke over suspended alkali particles such as lime. The sulphur oxide reacts with these particles to form an ash that can be removed from the stack as a slurry or powder. Scrubbers can remove up to 95% of sulphur oxide from smoke before it reaches the air. majarimagazine.com

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