Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader understanding of the involvement of the entire body in playing -- and the strains playing places on the body -- by focusing on body mapping to increase awareness of the body's function, size, and structure. Ways in which piano, organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and digital keyboard players can eliminate or prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and other debilitating conditions without traditional medical treatments are also explored.
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• Mr. Magoo's Christmas carol
• Makings of Mister Magoo / by Amanda K. Berke
• The nearsighted Mr. Magoo Falling for the falls.

From the animated musical version of Dickens story of the metamorphosis of a miser into a caring person on Christmas Eve. The nearsighted Mr. Magoo is Ebenezer Scrooge.

• Volume
• 1. The ancient Aramaic heritage / Sebastian P. Brock, David G.K. Taylor ; photographs by Riccardo Grassetti
• Volume
• 2. The heirs of the ancient Aramaic heritage / Ewa Balicka-Witakowski, Sebastian P. Brock, David G.K. Taylor, Witold Witakowski ; photographs by Riccardo Grassetti
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• 3. At the turn of the third millennium ; The Syrian Orthodox witness / Sebastian P. Brock, Witold Witakowski ; photographs by Riccardo Grassetti
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• 4. Audio, video: Giacomo Pezzali presents "The Hidden Pearl" : 1st part. "The heritage of a people" ; 2nd part. "Traditions and customs" ; 3rd part. "The diaspora and India" / by Transworld Film Italia SRL, Syrian Orthodox Church, Syriac Universal Alliance.

• Contents of sound disc: 92.08.09--essential epiphanies (performance version)
• Three poems (performance version)
• 92.08.09--essential epiphanies (studio version)
• Three poems (studio version)

• Contents of videocassette: Ephemeral ceremony : essential epiphanies.

Speech presented to the meeting of Veltroni's Partito democratico della sinistra, held in Turin, 2000.

• [v.1. Report]
• [v.2]. Reports of the subgroups.

Although music videos are frequently criticized for "sexist" portrayals of women, this book shows that videos in many music genres are frequently vehicles of expression for a variety of women's concerns and issues. Acknowledging the presence of female voices, Robin Roberts looks here at the ways feminist political statements operate in music videos and, surprisingly, even in MTV's much criticized Beavis and Butt-Head. More women are now involved behind the scenes at the executive level in the video industry, and they have recognized the medium's feminist possibilities. Country music performers, for instance, draw on a tradition of sincerity and storytelling to recount women's issues. Rap artists use the self-promotion inherent in their rap vernacular in uplifting women's rights. Female performers expose flaws they perceive in feminine paradigms by deconstructing stereotypical gender roles and, without alienating viewers, use an inviting sense of humor to criticize portrayals of male dominance. With skillful performances and clever lyrics, these artists assert the right of women to be sexual and to express their sexuality. Queen Latifah's "Ladies First", Salt 'n' Pepa's "Shake Your Thang", Martina McBride's "Independence Day", and Julie Brown's "Home, coming Queen's Got a Gun" are among the feminist videos Robin Roberts discusses in documenting how video has moved feminism to the forefront. A video featuring excerpts from MTV performances is included free with every book.
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This edition features new material on such topics as skill-building for more advanced students and how to use multiple-ability treatments. The book aims to combine easy-to-follow theory with examples and teaching strategies that are adaptable to any situation.
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• Background on genetic algorithms, LISP, and genetic programming-- hierarchical problem-solving-- introduction to automatically-defined functions - the two-boxes problem-- problems that straddle the breakeven point for computational effort-- Boolean parity functions-- determining the architecture of the program-- the lawnmower problem-- the bumblebee problem-- the increasing benefits of ADFs as problems are scaled up-- finding an impulse response function-- artificial ant on the San Mateo trail-- obstacle-avoiding robot-- the minesweeper problem-- automatic discovery of detectors for letter recognition-- flushes and four-of-a-kinds in a pinochle deck-- introduction to biochemistry and molecular biology-- prediction of transmembrane domains in proteins-- prediction of omega loops in proteins-- lookahead version of the transmembrane problem-- evolutionary selection of the architecture of the program-- evolution of primitives and sufficiency-- evolutionary selection of terminals-- evolution of closure-- simultaneous evolution of architecture, primitive functions, terminals, sufficiency, and closure-- the role of representation and the lens effect. Appendices: list of special symbols-- list of special functions-- list of type fonts-- default parameters-- computer implementation-- annotated bibliography of genetic programming-- electronic mailing list and public repository.
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This video cassette offers visual representations of the applications of genetic programming described in the book "Genetic Programming II".
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Using a hierarchical approach, the author shows that complex problems can be solved by breaking them down into smaller, simpler problems using the recently developed technique of automatic function definition in the context of genetic programming. Where conventional techniques of machine learning and artificial intelligence fail to provide an effective means for automatically handling the process of decomposing complex problems into smaller subsets, reassembling the solutions to these subsets, and applying an overall solution to the original problem, automatic function definition enables genetic programming to define useful and reusable subroutines dynamically. This text illustrates this new technique by showing how it solves (or approximately solves) a variety of problems in Boolean function learning, symbolic regression, control, pattern recognition, robotics, classification, and molecular biology. In each example, the problem is automatically decomposed into subproblems; the subproblems are automatically solved; and the solutions to the subproblems are automatically assembled into a solution to the original problem. It is shown that leverage accrues because genetic programming with automatic function definition repeatedly uses the solutions to the subproblems in the assembly of the solution to the overall problem. Moreover, genetic programming with automatic function definition produces solutions that are simpler and smaller than the solution obtained without automatic function definition.
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