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ENGLISH LANGUAGE Communication SKILLS DownloadUNIT I1. Role and Importance of Communication2. Verbal and Non-verbal Communication3. Barriers to Communication4. Communication Mediums5. Effective Coinmunication6. Group Communication7. Making Presentations8. Spoken and Written English9. Etiquette and Manners10. Vocabulary Development11. ComprehensionUNIT III12. Principles of Letter Writing13. Layout of Letters .

14. Enquiries and Replies

15. Complaints and Replies

16. Memos, Circulars, Notices

17. Paragraph Writing

18. Writing Scientific and Technical Reports

19. Drafting and Delivering a Speech

UNIT IV

20. Articles

21. Tenses

22. Active and Passive Voice

23. Direct and Indirect Speech

24. Degrees of Comparison

25. Common Errors

26. Concepts of Learning and Listening

Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Punctuation Power-Up 3
Chapter 2: Agreement 19
Chapter 3: Modifiers—Are Yours Misplaced or Dangling? 37
Chapter 4: Sentence Sense 45
Chapter 5: Building Paragraphs from the Ground Up 123
Chapter 6: Acing the Essay 179
Chapter 7: Writing Boot Camp 195
Chapter 8: Literary Response Writing Prompts 267
Chapter 9: Critical Reading 293
Glossary

List of contributors ix
Introduction 1
John Polkinghorne
1 Is mathematics discovered or invented? 3
Timothy Gowers
Comment 13
Gideon Rosen
2 Exploring the mathematical library of Babel 17
Marcus du Sautoy
Comment 26
Mark Steiner
3 Mathematical reality 27
John Polkinghorne
Comment 35
Mary Leng
Reply 39
John Polkinghorne
4 Mathematics, the mind, and the physical world 41
Roger Penrose
Comment 46
Michael Detlefsen
5 Mathematical understanding 49
Peter Lipton
Addendum 55
Stewart Shapiro
6 Creation and discovery in mathematics 61
Mary Leng
Comment 70
Michael Detlefsen
7 Discovery, invention and realism: Gödel and others
on the reality of concepts 73
Michael Detlefsen
Comment 95
John Polkinghorne
8 Mathematics and objectivity 97
Stewart Shapiro
Comment 109
Gideon Rosen
Reply 112
Stewart Shapiro
9 The reality of mathematical objects 113
Gideon Rosen
Comment 132
Timothy Gowers
10 Getting more out of mathematics than what we put in 135
Mark Steiner
Comment 144
Marcus du Sautoy
References 147

English Skills with Readings, 7th Edition Download
EXEMPLIFICATION
All the Good Things Sister Helen Mrosla 628
Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 649
What Good Families Are Doing Right Delores Curran 662
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name James Lincoln Collier 686
“Extra Large,” Please Diane Urbina 718
How They Get You toDo That Janny Scott 701
Dealing with Feelings Rudolph F. Verderber 711
Rudeness at the Movies Bill Wine 740
The Most Hateful Words Amy Tan 726
The Storyteller H. H. Munro (“Saki”) 732
PROCESS
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name James Lincoln Collier 686
Let’s Really Reform Our Schools Anita Garland 693
COMPARISON OR CONTRAST
Rowing the Bus Paul Logan 634
Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 649
The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock Donald Holland 657
“Extra Large,” Please Diane Urbina 718
The Most Hateful Words Amy Tan 726
DEFINITION
What Good Families Are Doing Right Delores Curran 662
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name James Lincoln Collier 686
The Storyteller H. H. Munro (“Saki”) 732
The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock Donald Holland 657
DIVISION-CLASSIFICATION
Dealing with Feelings Rudolph F. Verderber 711
The Fist, the Clay, and the Rock Donald Holland 657
DESCRIPTION
Rowing the Bus Paul Logan 634
Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 649
Rudeness at the Movies Bill Wine 740
From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by Dana Canedy 747
CAUSE AND EFFECT
The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 642
Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 649
“Extra Large,” Please Diane Urbina 718
Do It Better! Ben Carson, M.D., with Cecil Murphey 676
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name James Lincoln Collier 686
Let’s Really Reform Our Schools Anita Garland 693
How They Get You to Do That Janny Scott 701
Dealing with Feelings Rudolph F. Verderber 711
The Most Hateful Words Amy Tan 726
Rudeness at the Movies Bill Wine 740
A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson 753
NARRATION
All the Good Things Sister Helen Mrosla 628
Rowing the Bus Paul Logan 634
The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 642
From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by Dana Canedy 747
Do It Better! Ben Carson, M.D., with Cecil Murphey 676
The Most Hateful Words Amy Tan 726
The Storyteller H. H. Munro (“Saki”) 732
A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson 753
ARGUMENT
The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 642
Joe Davis: A Cool Man Beth Johnson 649
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name James Lincoln Collier 686
Let’s Really Reform Our Schools Anita Garland 693
Rudeness at the Movies Bill Wine 740
“Extra Large,” Please Diane Urbina 718
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xiii
Foreword xv
PART ONE BUILDING THE FOUNDATION
It All Begins with You 3
Structure 3
Your Life and Your Business 4
What Is Your Current Situation? 5
What Are Your Interests, Talents, or Expertise? 7
What Are Your Desires? 8
Your Ideal Day 10
Guest Expert Article:
Creating Abundance In Your Career
(Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley) 11
Select the Best Business Model for You 17
Bring Your Off-Line Business Online 17
Guest Expert Article:
Get Your Real Estate Business Online
(Larry Goins) 21
Sales of Physical Products 23
Support Services for the World Wide Web 26
News and General Information Sites 26
Blogs 28
Entertainment Sites 31
Auction Sites 33
Affi liate Sales Sites 33
Social Networking Sites/Forums 34
Sale of Information Products 36
Education Sites 37
Guest Expert Article:
Educating for Entrepreneurship
(Rhea Perry) 38
Membership Sites 40
Multilevel Marketing/Network Marketing 40
Guest Expert Article:
Geometric Giving: The Easy Way to Donate
$1 Million a Month to Charity
(Paulie Sabol) 43
Gambling and Adult Sites 46
A Closer Look at Online Auctions 50
Getting Started on eBay 51
What to Sell? 54
Pricing 56
Buying for Resale on Auction Sites 58
Promoting Your Auctions 60
Shipping 60
Timing Your Auction 61
The Path of the PowerSeller 62
Treat it like a Real Business 63
Bells and Whistles 64
How to Leverage eBay 64
Guest Expert Article:
eBay and Beyond (Jim Cochrum) 65
A Closer Look at Affi liate Sales Sites 70
Advantages 70
Making Money as an Affi liate 71
How to Select Merchant Partners 72
Include Valuable Content 77
Google AdSense 78
Marketing through Social Networking Sites 80
Guest Expert Article:
Use MySpace to Build Your eBay Business
(Adam Ginsberg) 81
Guest Expert Article:
A New Model of Social Networking
(Sam Heyer) 83
Create Your Own Information Products 87
What Is an Information Product? 87
Determining Demand 88
Delivery 89
Benefi ts of Information Products 89
Guest Expert Article:
What’s the Best Product to Sell Online?
Why, Information, of Course (Tim Knox) 90
Guest Expert Article:
How to Make and Sell a Video Product
at Zero Cost (Nerissa Oden) 95
PART TWO THE ACTION STEPS
Set Up Your Web Site 105
Equip Yourself 105
Get Your Piece of Internet Real Estate 106
Guest Expert Article:
Profi tably Naming Your New Internet Business
(Marcia Yudkin) 107
Find the Best Web Host 110
Set Up Your Infrastructure 111
Design Your Web Site 114
Physical Construction of Your Site 117
The Single-Page Sales Site 119
Guest Expert Article:
Three Secrets to Making Your Sales Letters Sell
(Mark Hendricks) 121
Get the Word Out 127
E-Mail Marketing 127
Articles 128
Search Engine Optimization 129
Your Blog 132
Branding 134
Joint Ventures 134
Your Affi liate Program 139
Newsletters 140
Newsgroups 140
Press Releases/Public Relations 140
Guest Expert Article:
Publicity Secrets to Attain Massive Success
for Your Internet Business (Annie Jennings) 141
Teleseminars and Webinars 145
Guest Expert Article:
Webinars—The Future of Online Marketing
(Jim Edwards) 145
Other Ways to Increase Traffi c and Grow
Your List 147
Guest Expert Article:
Build Your List with Pay per Click
(Simon Leung) 150
Guest Expert Article:
Made You Look! (Wendi Friesen) 152
Make it Hypnotic! 157
What Is Hypnotic Writing? 158
The Formula for Causing Action 159
The Updated Formula 162
What about Your Web Site? 163
How Long Is Too Long? 166
How People Think 167
How to Create Hypnotic Stories 168
Reminders as Triggers 170
Guest Expert Article:
Buying Trances: The Real Secret to Hypnotic
Selling (Dr. Joe Vitale) 171
Changing Average Writing into Hypnotic Writing 176
Final Thoughts 181
PART THREE GROW YOUR BUSINESS!
It’s All About Quality 185
No Place to Hide 186
Deliver on Customer Service 186
Go Beyond Your Customer’s Expectations 187
Guest Expert Article:
Make Sure Your Customers Actually Get
the Benefi ts (Bill Harris) 188
Build Your Business Support Network 194
The Power of the Mastermind Group 194
Guest Expert Article:
Mastermind Groups for Internet Marketers
(Bill Hibbler) 195
The Fine Art of Delegation 198
Comply with Cyber Law 200
Spam 200
Copyrights 201
Trademarks 201
Free Speech 202
Guest Expert Article:
Legal Issues for Internet Marketers
(Bob Silber) 202
Plan for Success 205
Your Business Plan 205
Incorporation 207
Guest Expert Article:
How to Predict Your Way to Wealth
(Mike Mograbi) 208

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking  Download
Table of contents
Preface vii
A cross-linguistic overview of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ 1
John Newman
How transitive are eat and drink verbs? 27
Åshild Næss
Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates 45
Mengistu Amberber
All people eat and drink: Does this mean that ‘eat’ and ‘drink’
are universal human concepts? 65
Anna Wierzbicka
‘Eating’, ‘drinking’ and ‘smoking’: a generic verb and its semantics in Manambu 91
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions 109
Sally Rice
The semantic evolution of EAT-expressions: Ways and byways 153
Peter Hook & Prashant Pardeshi
Literal and figurative uses of Japanese EAT and DRINK 173
Toshiko Yamaguchi
What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating
and drinking in Korean 195
Jae Jung Song
Metaphorical extensions of ‘eat’ ⇒ [overcome] and ‘drink’ ⇒ [undergo]
in Hausa 229
Philip J. Jaggar & Malami Buba
Amharic eat and drink verbs 253
John Newman & Daniel Aberra
Table of contents
Author index 273
Language index 277
Subject index 279

Photographers Forum 2011 winter  Download
BOOK REVIEW
by Amanda Quintenz-Fiedler
Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place
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by Amanda Quintenz-Fiedler
A snapshot look at four new photography books.
NEW PRODUCTS
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Wacom: The Next Generation
by Cynthia Anderson
FEATURE
Kenro Izu:
An Architecture of Faith
by Claire Sykes
The photographer’s keen eye, huge portable
camera and fascination with sacred places take
him on global travels.
PROFILE
The World of Charles Grogg
by Nell Campbell
Grogg’s fractured and reconnected images
become metaphors for the bound and
unbound world.
WINNERS
31st Annual Spring Photography Contest
INTERVIEW
Rich Clarkson
A Perfectionist with Flexibility
by Ken Lassiter
A conversation with the veteran photographer,
journalist, publisher, promoter, producer,
teacher… and rabid sports fan.
WORKSHOPS
A listing of classes and workshops
in the U.S and abroad.
 Permaculture PLANTS Download
Contents
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW OF PERMACULTURE
PROPAGATING PLANTS
THE PIONEERS
TAGASASTE (Chamaecytisus palmensis) 15
TREE LUPIN (Lupinus arboreus) 17
WATTLES (Acacia spp) 17
ALBIZIAS (Albizia spp) 22
CASUARINAS (Casuarina spp) 22
ROSEWOOD (Tipuana tipu) 24
LEUCAENA (Leucaena spp) 24
ALDERS (Alnus spp) 26
MIRACLE PLANT (Lespedeza bicolor) 27
BLACK LOCUST (Robinia pseudoacacia) 28
HONEY LOCUST (Gleditsia triacanthos) 28
ICE CREAM BEAN (Inga spp)
THE NUTS
MACADAMIA (Macadamia spp
WALNUTS (Juglans spp
CHESTNUTS (Castanea spp
CHINQUAPINS (Chrysolepis spp
ALMONDS (Prunus amygdalus
HAZELNUT (Corylus spp
PECAN (Carya illinoensis
PISTACHIO NUTS (Pistacia spp
BUNYA BUNYA Arau(caria idwibllii)
PINES WITH EDIBLE NUTS (Pinus spp)
JOJOBA (Simmondsia chinensis, syn. Simmondsia californica
COLOUR PLATES
THE FRUITS
FIGS (Ficus spp
MULBERRIES (Morus spp
PERSIMMON (Diospyros kaki
OLIVE (Olea uroepaea)
JUJUBE (Ziziphus psp
LOQUAT (Eriobotrya japonica
ACEROLA, BARBADOS CHERRY (Malpighia glabra
PAPAYA (Carica papaya
HIGHLAND PAPAYAS (Carica spp
PEPINO (Solanum uricamtum
TAMARILLO (Cyphomandra betacea
CAPULI Pru(nus salicifolia
WHITE SAPOTE (Casimiroa deulis
LUCUMA (Pouteria obovata, syn. Pouteria lucmo, Lucumo obovata).
SAPODILLA (Manilkara zapota, syn. Achras sapota
PASSIONFRUIT (Passiflora spp
CHERIMOYAS (Annona spp
Permaculture Plants: A Selection
PAWPAW (Asimina triloba
GUAVAS (Psidium spp
FEIJOA (Feijoa sellowiana
UGNI (Ugni molinaea, syn. Myrtus ugni, Ugni molinae
LlLLIPILLIs (Eugenia spp. Acmena spp. Syzigium spp
BLUEBERRIES (Vaccinium spp
FUCHSIA (Fuchsia spp)
HACKBERRY (Celtis Australis
IRISH STRAWBERRY TREE (Arbutus unedo)
JAPANESE RAISIN TREE (Hovenia dulcis
OTHER UTILITY PLANTS
CAROB Ceratonia iliqSua
OAKS Quercus psp
BEECHES (Fagus spp
WILLOWS (Salix spp
POPLARS (Populus pps
CASTOR (Ricinus ommcunis
CAPE LILAC Me( liaazedarach
NEEM (Azadirachta ndiica
INDIAN BEECH (Derris indica
COTONEASTER (Cotoneaster pps
DOGWOOD (Cornuscapitata
COPROSMA (Coprosma repens
HORSERADISH TREE, DRUMSTICK (Moringa oleifera
CHINESE TALLOW TREE (Sapium esbiferum
MOUNTAIN ASH, ROWAN (Sorbus aucuparia, syn. Sorbus edulis
BOX ELDER MAPLE A(cer negundo, syn. Negundo aceroides
CEDARS (Cedrus spp
EUCALYPTS (Eucalyptus spp
BAMBOOS
FAST GROWING, TALL, PERENNIAL GRASSES, SUITABLE AS LOCKUP FODDER
PALMS WITH UTILITY TO MAN
UTILITY LISTS
TREES AND SHRUBS WITH LOW FIRE POTENTIAL
GROUND COVER WITH LOW FIRE POTENTIAL
MEDICINAL HERBS FOR LIVESTOCK
BEE FORAGE SYSTEM
COMPANION PLANTS
WATER PLANTS
UTILITY SUBMERGED PLANTS
UTILITY FLOATING - LEAVED PLANTS
UTILITY EMERGENT PLANTS
UTILITY PLANTS OF MARGINS AND WATER MEADOWS
DIFFICULT SITES
SALT TOLERANT FODDER SPECIES
SALT TOLERANT REEST
PLANTS WHICH SURVIVE RIGHT TO THE OCEAN
PLANTS TOLERANT OF ALKALINE SOILS
INDEX

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Road Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 P2P Applications 5
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Distributed Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.1 Internet Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.2 Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 File Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 Voice over IP and Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 Video Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 P2P Network Architectures 29
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2 Structured P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.2.1 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.2.2 CAN (Content Addressable Network) . . . . . . . . . 35
3.2.3 Other Structured Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3 Unstructured (Mesh) P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.4 Hybrid P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.5 Network Architecture with QoS Provisioning . . . . . . . . . 43
3.5.1 AAA Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.2 Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.3 Dynamic QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.4 Service Brokerage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.5.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.6 Video Streaming Network Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4 Topology Control 55
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.2 A General Framework for Distributed Topology Control . . . 58
4.3 Structured Topology Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4 Unstructured Topology Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5 Network-Coding-Based Distributed Topology Control . . . . 69
4.6 Energy Efficient Distributed Topology Control in a Wireless
P2P System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5 Incentives 75
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2 Incentive Issues in P2P Systems on the Internet . . . . . . . 78
5.2.1 File Sharing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.2.1.1 BitTorrent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.2.1.2 Hierarchical P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.3 Payment-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.4 Cost of Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.1.5 Reciprocity and Reputation-Based Systems . 84
5.2.1.6 Penalty-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.2.1.7 Game Theoretic Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.1.8 Auction-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.1.9 Exchange-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.2 Media Streaming Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.2.1 Layered Many-to-One Streaming . . . . . . . 95
5.2.2.2 Multicast One-to-Many Streaming . . . . . . 99
5.2.2.3 Coalition-Based Media Streaming . . . . . . 105
5.3 Incentive Issues in Wireless P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.3.1 Routing and Data Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.3.2 Wireless Information Sharing Systems . . . . . . . . . 112
5.3.3 Network Access Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.3.4 Wireless P2P Media Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.3.4.1 System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.3.4.2 Two Neighboring Clients . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.3.4.3 Three Neighboring Clients . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.3.4.4 The General Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.5 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.7 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6 Trust 129
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.1.1 Trust Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.2 EigenTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
6.3 PeerTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.4 Trust-χ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
6.5 FuzzyTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.6 Game Theoretic Analysis on Trust Management .
6.7 SuperTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.8 PowerTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.9 GossipTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.10 Trust Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . 150
6.10.1 Symmetric Key-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.10.1.1 Deterministic Key Pre-Distribution Schemes 150
6.10.1.2 Probabilistic Key Pre-Distribution Schemes . 151
6.10.2 Asymmetric Key-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 153
6.11 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.12 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.13 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
7 Security Issues 159
7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7.2 Content Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7.3 Buffer Map Cheating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
7.4 Sybil Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.5 DDoS Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.6 P2P Worm Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.7 P2P SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.8 Collusive Piracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.9 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.10 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.11 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
8 Conclusions 171
8.1 Where Are We Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
8.2 Peer into the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xiii
Foreword xv
PART ONE BUILDING THE FOUNDATION
It All Begins with You 3
Structure 3
Your Life and Your Business 4
What Is Your Current Situation? 5
What Are Your Interests, Talents, or Expertise? 7
What Are Your Desires? 8
Your Ideal Day 10
Guest Expert Article:
Creating Abundance In Your Career
(Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley) 11
Select the Best Business Model for You 17
Bring Your Off-Line Business Online 17
Guest Expert Article:
Get Your Real Estate Business Online
(Larry Goins) 21
Sales of Physical Products 23
Support Services for the World Wide Web 26
News and General Information Sites 26
Blogs 28
Entertainment Sites 31
Auction Sites 33
Affi liate Sales Sites 33
Social Networking Sites/Forums 34
Sale of Information Products 36
Education Sites 37
Guest Expert Article:
Educating for Entrepreneurship
(Rhea Perry) 38
Membership Sites 40
Multilevel Marketing/Network Marketing 40
Guest Expert Article:
Geometric Giving: The Easy Way to Donate
$1 Million a Month to Charity
(Paulie Sabol) 43
Gambling and Adult Sites 46
A Closer Look at Online Auctions 50
Getting Started on eBay 51
What to Sell? 54
Pricing 56
Buying for Resale on Auction Sites 58
Promoting Your Auctions 60
Shipping 60
Timing Your Auction 61
The Path of the PowerSeller 62
Treat it like a Real Business 63
Bells and Whistles 64
How to Leverage eBay 64
Guest Expert Article:
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A Closer Look at Affi liate Sales Sites 70
Advantages 70
Making Money as an Affi liate 71
How to Select Merchant Partners 72
Include Valuable Content 77
Google AdSense 78
Marketing through Social Networking Sites 80
Guest Expert Article:
Use MySpace to Build Your eBay Business
(Adam Ginsberg) 81
Guest Expert Article:
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Create Your Own Information Products 87
What Is an Information Product? 87
Determining Demand 88
Delivery 89
Benefi ts of Information Products 89
Guest Expert Article:
What’s the Best Product to Sell Online?
Why, Information, of Course (Tim Knox) 90
Guest Expert Article:
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PART TWO THE ACTION STEPS
Set Up Your Web Site 105
Equip Yourself 105
Get Your Piece of Internet Real Estate 106
Guest Expert Article:
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Find the Best Web Host 110
Set Up Your Infrastructure 111
Design Your Web Site 114
Physical Construction of Your Site 117
The Single-Page Sales Site 119
Guest Expert Article:
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Get the Word Out 127
E-Mail Marketing 127
Articles 128
Search Engine Optimization 129
Your Blog 132
Branding 134
Joint Ventures 134
Your Affi liate Program 139
Newsletters 140
Newsgroups 140
Press Releases/Public Relations 140
Guest Expert Article:
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Teleseminars and Webinars 145
Guest Expert Article:
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Other Ways to Increase Traffi c and Grow
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Guest Expert Article:
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Make it Hypnotic! 157
What Is Hypnotic Writing? 158
The Formula for Causing Action 159
The Updated Formula 162
What about Your Web Site? 163
How Long Is Too Long? 166
How People Think 167
How to Create Hypnotic Stories 168
Reminders as Triggers 170
Guest Expert Article:
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Changing Average Writing into Hypnotic Writing 176
Final Thoughts 181
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It’s All About Quality 185
No Place to Hide 186
Deliver on Customer Service 186
Go Beyond Your Customer’s Expectations 187
Guest Expert Article:
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the Benefi ts (Bill Harris) 188
Build Your Business Support Network 194
The Power of the Mastermind Group 194
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The Fine Art of Delegation 198
Comply with Cyber Law 200
Spam 200
Copyrights 201
Trademarks 201
Free Speech 202
Guest Expert Article:
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Plan for Success 205
Your Business Plan 205
Incorporation 207
Guest Expert Article:
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Preface vii
A cross-linguistic overview of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ 1
John Newman
How transitive are eat and drink verbs? 27
Åshild Næss
Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates 45
Mengistu Amberber
All people eat and drink: Does this mean that ‘eat’ and ‘drink’
are universal human concepts? 65
Anna Wierzbicka
‘Eating’, ‘drinking’ and ‘smoking’: a generic verb and its semantics in Manambu 91
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions 109
Sally Rice
The semantic evolution of EAT-expressions: Ways and byways 153
Peter Hook & Prashant Pardeshi
Literal and figurative uses of Japanese EAT and DRINK 173
Toshiko Yamaguchi
What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating
and drinking in Korean 195
Jae Jung Song
Metaphorical extensions of ‘eat’ ⇒ [overcome] and ‘drink’ ⇒ [undergo]
in Hausa 229
Philip J. Jaggar & Malami Buba
Amharic eat and drink verbs 253
John Newman & Daniel Aberra
Table of contents
Author index 273
Language index 277
Subject index 279

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Permaculture PLANTS Download
Contents
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW OF PERMACULTURE
PROPAGATING PLANTS
THE PIONEERS
TAGASASTE (Chamaecytisus palmensis) 15
TREE LUPIN (Lupinus arboreus) 17
WATTLES (Acacia spp) 17
ALBIZIAS (Albizia spp) 22
CASUARINAS (Casuarina spp) 22
ROSEWOOD (Tipuana tipu) 24
LEUCAENA (Leucaena spp) 24
ALDERS (Alnus spp) 26
MIRACLE PLANT (Lespedeza bicolor) 27
BLACK LOCUST (Robinia pseudoacacia) 28
HONEY LOCUST (Gleditsia triacanthos) 28
ICE CREAM BEAN (Inga spp)
THE NUTS
MACADAMIA (Macadamia spp
WALNUTS (Juglans spp
CHESTNUTS (Castanea spp
CHINQUAPINS (Chrysolepis spp
ALMONDS (Prunus amygdalus
HAZELNUT (Corylus spp
PECAN (Carya illinoensis
PISTACHIO NUTS (Pistacia spp
BUNYA BUNYA Arau(caria idwibllii)
PINES WITH EDIBLE NUTS (Pinus spp)
JOJOBA (Simmondsia chinensis, syn. Simmondsia californica
COLOUR PLATES
THE FRUITS
FIGS (Ficus spp
MULBERRIES (Morus spp
PERSIMMON (Diospyros kaki
OLIVE (Olea uroepaea)
JUJUBE (Ziziphus psp
LOQUAT (Eriobotrya japonica
ACEROLA, BARBADOS CHERRY (Malpighia glabra
PAPAYA (Carica papaya
HIGHLAND PAPAYAS (Carica spp
PEPINO (Solanum uricamtum
TAMARILLO (Cyphomandra betacea
CAPULI Pru(nus salicifolia
WHITE SAPOTE (Casimiroa deulis
LUCUMA (Pouteria obovata, syn. Pouteria lucmo, Lucumo obovata).
SAPODILLA (Manilkara zapota, syn. Achras sapota
PASSIONFRUIT (Passiflora spp
CHERIMOYAS (Annona spp
Permaculture Plants: A Selection
PAWPAW (Asimina triloba
GUAVAS (Psidium spp
FEIJOA (Feijoa sellowiana
UGNI (Ugni molinaea, syn. Myrtus ugni, Ugni molinae
LlLLIPILLIs (Eugenia spp. Acmena spp. Syzigium spp
BLUEBERRIES (Vaccinium spp
FUCHSIA (Fuchsia spp)
HACKBERRY (Celtis Australis
IRISH STRAWBERRY TREE (Arbutus unedo)
JAPANESE RAISIN TREE (Hovenia dulcis
OTHER UTILITY PLANTS
CAROB Ceratonia iliqSua
OAKS Quercus psp
BEECHES (Fagus spp
WILLOWS (Salix spp
POPLARS (Populus pps
CASTOR (Ricinus ommcunis
CAPE LILAC Me( liaazedarach
NEEM (Azadirachta ndiica
INDIAN BEECH (Derris indica
COTONEASTER (Cotoneaster pps
DOGWOOD (Cornuscapitata
COPROSMA (Coprosma repens
HORSERADISH TREE, DRUMSTICK (Moringa oleifera
CHINESE TALLOW TREE (Sapium esbiferum
MOUNTAIN ASH, ROWAN (Sorbus aucuparia, syn. Sorbus edulis
BOX ELDER MAPLE A(cer negundo, syn. Negundo aceroides
CEDARS (Cedrus spp
EUCALYPTS (Eucalyptus spp
BAMBOOS
FAST GROWING, TALL, PERENNIAL GRASSES, SUITABLE AS LOCKUP FODDER
PALMS WITH UTILITY TO MAN
UTILITY LISTS
TREES AND SHRUBS WITH LOW FIRE POTENTIAL
GROUND COVER WITH LOW FIRE POTENTIAL
MEDICINAL HERBS FOR LIVESTOCK
BEE FORAGE SYSTEM
COMPANION PLANTS
WATER PLANTS
UTILITY SUBMERGED PLANTS
UTILITY FLOATING - LEAVED PLANTS
UTILITY EMERGENT PLANTS
UTILITY PLANTS OF MARGINS AND WATER MEADOWS
DIFFICULT SITES
SALT TOLERANT FODDER SPECIES
SALT TOLERANT REEST
PLANTS WHICH SURVIVE RIGHT TO THE OCEAN
PLANTS TOLERANT OF ALKALINE SOILS
INDEX

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Road Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 P2P Applications 5
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Distributed Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.1 Internet Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.2 Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 File Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 Voice over IP and Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 Video Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 P2P Network Architectures 29
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2 Structured P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.2.1 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.2.2 CAN (Content Addressable Network) . . . . . . . . . 35
3.2.3 Other Structured Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3 Unstructured (Mesh) P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.4 Hybrid P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.5 Network Architecture with QoS Provisioning . . . . . . . . . 43
3.5.1 AAA Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.2 Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.3 Dynamic QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5.4 Service Brokerage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.5.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.6 Video Streaming Network Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4 Topology Control 55
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.2 A General Framework for Distributed Topology Control . . . 58
4.3 Structured Topology Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4 Unstructured Topology Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5 Network-Coding-Based Distributed Topology Control . . . . 69
4.6 Energy Efficient Distributed Topology Control in a Wireless
P2P System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.7 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.9 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5 Incentives 75
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2 Incentive Issues in P2P Systems on the Internet . . . . . . . 78
5.2.1 File Sharing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.2.1.1 BitTorrent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.2.1.2 Hierarchical P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.3 Payment-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.4 Cost of Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.1.5 Reciprocity and Reputation-Based Systems . 84
5.2.1.6 Penalty-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.2.1.7 Game Theoretic Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.1.8 Auction-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.1.9 Exchange-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.2 Media Streaming Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.2.1 Layered Many-to-One Streaming . . . . . . . 95
5.2.2.2 Multicast One-to-Many Streaming . . . . . . 99
5.2.2.3 Coalition-Based Media Streaming . . . . . . 105
5.3 Incentive Issues in Wireless P2P Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.3.1 Routing and Data Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.3.2 Wireless Information Sharing Systems . . . . . . . . . 112
5.3.3 Network Access Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.3.4 Wireless P2P Media Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.3.4.1 System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.3.4.2 Two Neighboring Clients . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.3.4.3 Three Neighboring Clients . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.3.4.4 The General Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.5 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.7 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6 Trust 129
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.1.1 Trust Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.2 EigenTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
6.3 PeerTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.4 Trust-χ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
6.5 FuzzyTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.6 Game Theoretic Analysis on Trust Management .
6.7 SuperTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.8 PowerTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.9 GossipTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.10 Trust Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . 150
6.10.1 Symmetric Key-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.10.1.1 Deterministic Key Pre-Distribution Schemes 150
6.10.1.2 Probabilistic Key Pre-Distribution Schemes . 151
6.10.2 Asymmetric Key-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 153
6.11 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.12 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.13 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
7 Security Issues 159
7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7.2 Content Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7.3 Buffer Map Cheating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
7.4 Sybil Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.5 DDoS Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.6 P2P Worm Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.7 P2P SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.8 Collusive Piracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.9 Case Study: PPLive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.10 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.11 Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
8 Conclusions 171
8.1 Where Are We Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
8.2 Peer into the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

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American Accent Training A guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English

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Table of Contents
Read This First CD 1 Track 1
What Is Accent?
Can I Learn a New Accent?
Accent versus Pronunciation
"Which Accent Is Correct?"
"Why Is My Accent So Bad?"
Less Than It Appears ... More Than It Appears
Language Is Fluent and Fluid
A Few Words On Pronunciation CD 1 Track 2
Tense Vowels? Lax Vowels?
Voiced Consonants? Unvoiced Consonants?
Pronunciation Points
Telephone Tutoring
Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis CD 1 Track 3
Chapter 1 American Intonation
The American Speech Music CD 1 Track 4
What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American
American Intonation Do's and Don'ts
What Exactly Is Staircase Intonation?
Three Ways to Make Intonation
Exercise 1-1: Rubber Band Practice with Nonsense Syllables CD 1 Track 5
Staircase Intonation CD 1 Track 6
Statement Intonation with Nouns
Statement Intonation with Pronouns CD 1 Track 8
Exercise 1-3; Noun and Pronoun Intonation CD 1 Track 9
Statement Versus Question Intonation CD 1 Track 10
Emotional or Rhetorical Question Intonation
Exercise 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test CD 1 Track 11
Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reasons for Intonation CD 1 Track 12
1. New Information
2. Opinion
3. Contrast
4. Can't
Exercise 1-6: Pitch and Meaning Change CD 1 Track 13
Exercise 1-7: Individual Practice CD 1 Track 14
Exercise 1-8: Meaning of "Pretty" CD 1 Track 15
Exercise 1-9: Inflection CD 1 Track 16
Exercise 1-10; Individual Practice CD 1 Track 17
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Overdo It
We All Do It
Exercise 1-11: Translation CD 1 Track 18
Intonation Contrast
Exercise 1-12: Create Your Own Intonation Contrast CD 1 Track 19
Exercise 1-13: Variable Stress CD 1 Track 20
Exercise 1 -14: Make a Variable Stress Sentence CD 1 Track 21
Application of Intonation CD 1 Track 22
Exercise 1 -15: Application of Stress CD 1 Track 23
How You Talk Indicates to People How You Are CD 1 Track 24
Exercise 1-16: Paragraph Intonation Practice CD 1 Track 25
Exercise 1-17: Staircase Intonation Practice CD 1 Track 26
Exercise 1-18: Reading with Staircase Intonation CD 1 Track 27
Exercise 1-19: Spelling and Numbers CD 1 Track 28
Exercise 1-20; Sound/Meaning Shifts CD 1 Track 29
Exercise 1-21: Squeezed-Out Syllables CD 1 Track 30
Syllable Stress CD 1 Track 31
Syllable Count Intonation Patterns
Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns CD 1 Track 32
1 Syllable
2 Syllables
Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns continued CD 1 Track 32
3 Syllables
Exercise 1-22; Syllable Patterns continued CD 1 Track 32
4 Syllables
Exercise 1-23; Syllable Count Test CD 1 Track 33
Complex Intonation
Word Count Intonation Patterns CD 1 Track 34
Exercise 1-24: Single-Word Phrases CD 1 Track 35
Two-Word Phrases
Descriptive Phrases CD Track 36
Exercise 1-25: Sentence Stress with Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 37
Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 38
Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases continued CD1 Track 38
Exercise 1-27: Descriptive Phrase Story—The Ugly Duckling CD1 Track 39
Set Phrases CD 1 Track 40
A Cultural Indoctrination to American Norms
Exercise 1-28: Sentence Stress with Set Phrases CD 1 Track 41
Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases CD 1 Track 42
Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story—The Little Match Girl CD 1 Track 43
Contrasting a Description and a Set Phrase
Exercise 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 1 Track 44
Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress CD 1 Track 45
Descriptive Phrase Set Phrase
Summary of Stress in Two-Word Phrases
First Word
Second Word
Nationalities
Exercise 1-33; Nationality Intonation Quiz CD 2 Track 1
1. an Américan guy
2. an American restaurant
3. Américan food
4. an American teacher
5. an Énglish teacher
Exercise 1-34: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 2 Track 2
Exercise 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns CD 2 Track 3
Exercise 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test CD 2 Track 4
Exercise 1-37: Descriptions and Set Phrases—Goldilocks CD 2 Track 5
Grammar in a Nutshell CD 2 Track 6
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Grammar... But Were Afraid to Use
Exercise 1-38; Consistent Noun Stress in Changing Verb Tenses CD 2 Track 7
Exercise 1-39: Consistent Pronoun Stress In Changing Verb Tenses CD 2 Track 8
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Exercise 1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence CD 2 Track 9
Exercise 1 -40: Intonation in Hour Own Sentence continued CD 2 Track 9
1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence continued CD 2 Track 9
Exercise 1-41: Supporting Words CD 2 Track 10
Exercise 1 -42: Contrast Practice CD 2 Track 11
Exercise 1 -43; Yes, You Can or No, You Can't? CD 2 Track 12
Exercise 1 -44: Building an Intonation Sentence CD 2 Track 13
Exercise 1 -46: Regular Transitions of Nouns and Verbs CD 2 Track 15
Exercise 1-47: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track n
Exercise 1-48; Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track 17
The Miracle Technique CD 2 Track 18
A Child Can Learn Any Language
Exercise 1 -49: Tell Me Wədai Say! CD 2 Track 19
Exercise 1-50: Listening for Pure Sounds CD 2 Track 21
Exercise 1-51 : Extended Listening Practice CD 2 Track 22
Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 24
Reduced Sounds Are "Valleys"
Exercise 1-52; Reducing Articles CD 2 Track 25
Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1-53; Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1 -53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26
Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of "That" CD 2 Track 27
Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 28
Exercise 1-56; Reading Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 29
Word Groups and Phrasing CD 2 Track 30
Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing
Exercise 1-57: Phrasing CD Track 31
Exercise 1-58: Creating Word Groups CD 2 Track 32
Exercise 1-59: Practicing Word Groups CD 2 Track 33
Exercise 1-60: Tag Endings CD 2 Track 34
Intonation
Pronunciation
Chapter 2. Word Connections CD 2 Track 35
Exercise 2-1 : Spelling and Pronunciation CD 2 Track 36
Liaison Rule 1 : Consonant / Vowel
Exercise 2-2: Word Connections CD 2 Track 37
Exercise 2-3: Spelling and Number Connections CD 2 Track 38
What's the Difference Between a Vowel and a Consonant?
Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 39
Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaison Practice continued CD 2 Track 39
Liaison Rule 2: Consonant / Consonant
Exercise 2-5: Consonant /Consonant Liaisons CD 2 Track 40
Exercise 2-6: Consonant / Consonant Liaisons CD 2 Track 41
Consonants
Exercise 2-7: Liaisons with TH Combination CD 2 Track 42
Exercise 2-8: Consonant / Consonant Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 43
Liaison Rule 3: Vowel / Vowel
Exercise 2-9: Vowel / Vowel Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 44
Liaison Rule 4: T, D, S, or Z + Y
Exercise 2-10; T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons CD 2 Track 45
T + Y = CH
Exercise 2-10: T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons continued CD 2 Track 45
D + Y = J
S + Y = SH
Z + Y = ZH
Exercise 2-10: T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons continued CD 2 Track 45
Exercise 2-11:T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 46
Exercise 2-12; Finding Liaisons and Glides CD 2 Track 47
Exercise 2-13: Practicing Liaisons CD 3 Track 1
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Exercise 2-14: Additional Liaison Practice CD 3 Track 2
Exercise 2-15: Colloquial Reductions and Liaisons CD 3 Track 3
Exercise 2-15: Colloquial Reductions and Liaisons continued CD 3 Track 3
Spoon or Sboon?
Exercise 2-16: Liaison Staircases CD 3 Track 4
Chapter 3. Cat? Caught? Cut? CD 3 Track 5
The [æ] Sound
The [ä] Sound
The Schwa [ə] Sound
Silent or Neutral?
Vowel Chart
Exercise 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence CD 3 Track 6
Exercise 3-2: Finding [æ], [ä], and [ə] Sounds CD 3 Track 7
Exercise 3-3: Vowel-Sound Differentiation CD 3 Track 8
Exercise 3-4: Reading the [æ] Sound CD 3 Track 9
The Tæn Mæn
Exercise 3-5: Reading the [ä] Sound CD strack 10
A Lät of Läng, Hät Walks in the Garden
Exercise 3-6: Reading the [ə] Sound CD 3 Track 11
What Must the Sun Above Wonder About?
Chapter 4. The American T CD 3 Track 12
Exercise 4-1 ; Stressed and Unstressed T CD 3 Thick 13
Exercise 4-2: Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter CD 3 Track 14
Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter
Exercise 4-3: Rute 1—Top of the Staircase CD 3 Track 15
Exercise 4-3; Rule 1—Top of the Staircase continued CD 3Track 15
Exercise 4-4: Rule 2—Middle of the Staircase CD 3 Track 16
Exercise 4-5: Rule 3—Bottom of the Staircase CD3 Track 17
Exercise 4-5: Rule 3—Bottom of the Staircase continued CD 3 Track 17
Exercise 4-6: Rule 4—"Held T" Before N CD 3 Track 18
Exercise 4-7: Rule 5—The Silent T CD 3 Track 19
Exercise 4-9: Karina's T Connections CD 3 Track 21
Exercise 4-10: Combinations in Context CD 3 Track 2:
Exercise 4-11 : Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T
Exercise 4-12: Finding American T Sounds CD 3 Track 24
Voiced Consonants and Reduced Vowels
1. Reduced vowels
2. Voiced consonants
3. Like sound with like sound
4. R'lææææææææææx
Chapter 5. The El CD 3 Track 25
L and Foreign Speakers of English
Location of Language in the Mouth
The Compound Sound of L
L Compared with T, D, and N
T and D
N
Exercise 5-1 : Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N CD 3 Track 26
T/D Plosive
Exercise 5-1 ; Sounds Comparing L with T, D and N continued CD 3 Track 26
Exercise 5-2; Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N CD 3 Track 27
What Are All Those Extra Sounds I'm Hearing?
Exercise 5-3: Final El with Schwa CD 3 Track 28
Exercise 5-4: Many Final Els CD 3 Track 29
Exercise 5-5: Liaise the Ls CD 3 Track 30
Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds CD 3 Track 31
Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls CD3Track32
Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! CD 3 Track 33
Exercise 5-9: Little Lola CD 3 Track 34
Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice CD 3 Track 36
Exercise 5-12: Thirty Little Turtles In a Bottle of Bottled Water CD 3 Track 37
Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading CD 3 Track »
Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading CD 3 Track 39
Voice Quality CD 3 Track 40
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Exercise 5-15: Shifting Your Voice Position CD 3 Track 41
Chapter 6. The American R CD 3 Track 42
The Invisible R
Exercise 6-1: R Location Practice CD 3 Track 43
Exercise 6-2 : Double Vowel with R CD 3 Track 44
Exercise 6-3: How to Pronounce Troublesome Rs CD 3 Track 45
Exercise 6-4: Zbigniew's Epsilon List CD 3 Track 46
Exercise 6-5: R Combinations CD 3 Track 47
Exercise 6-6; The Mirror Store CD 3 Track 48
Exercise 6-7: Finding the R Sound CD 3 Track 49
Telephone Tutoring
Follow-up Diagnostic Analysis CD 3 Track 50
Chapters 1-6 Review and Expansion
Intonation
Miscellaneous Reminders of Intonation
Liaisons and Glides
Cat? Caught? Cut?
The American T
The El
The American R
Application Exercises
Review Exercise 1 : To have a friend, be a friend. CD 3 Track 51
Review Exercise 2: To have a friend, be a friend. CD 3 Track 52
1. Intonation
2. Word groups
3. Liaisons
4. æ, ä, ə
5. The American T
6. The American R
7. Combination of concepts 1-6
Review Exercise 3: Get a Better Water Heater! CD 3 Track 53
Review Exercise 4: Your Own Sentence CD 3 Track 54
Review Exercise 5: Varying Emotions CD 3 Track 55
Review Exercise 5: Varying Emotions continued CD 3 Track 55
Review Exercise 6: Realty? Maybe! CD 3 Track 56
Review Exercise 7: Who Did It? I Don't Know! CD 3 Track 57
Review Exercise 7: Who Did It? I Don't Know! continued CD 3 Track 57
Review Exercise 8: Russian Rebellion CD 3 Track 58
Two-Word Phrases
Review Exercise A: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 3 Track 59
Review Exercise B: Intonation Review Test CD 3 Track 60
Three-Word Phrases
Review Exercise C: Modifying Descriptive Phrases CD 3 Track 61
Review Exercise D; Modifying Set Phrases CD 3 Track 62
Review Exercise E: Two- and Three-Word Set Phrases CD 3 Track 63
Review Exercise F: Three-Word Phrase Summary CD 3 Track 64
Review Exercise G: Three-Word Phrase Story—Three Little Pigs CD 4 Track 1
Review Exercise H: Sentence Balance—Goldilocks CD 4 Track 2
Four-Word Phrases
Review Exercise I: Multiple Modifiers with Set Phrases CD 4 Track 3
Review Exercise J: Compound intonation of Numbers CD 4 Track 4
Review Exercise K: Modify ing Three-Word Set Phrases CD 4 Track 5
Review Exercise L: Four-Word Phrase Story—Little Red Riding Hood CD 4 Treck 6
Review Exercise M: Building Up to Five-Word Phrases CD 4 Track 7
Review Exercise 9: Ignorance on Parade CD 4 track 8
Review Exercise 10: Ignorance on Parade Explanations. CD 4 Track 9
Review Exercise 10: Ignorance on Parade Explanations continued CD 4 Track 9
Chapter 7. Tee Aitch CD 4 Track 10
Exercise 7-1 : The Throng of Thermometers CD 4 Track 11
Run Them All Together [runnemälld'gether]
Anticipating the Next Word
Exercise 7-2: Targeting The TH Sound CD 4 Track 12
Exercise 7-3: Tongue Twisters CD 4 Track 13
Chapter 8. More Reduced Sounds CD 4 Track 14
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Exercise 8-1 : Comparing [u] and [ü] CD 4 Track 15
Exercise 8-2: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 16
Exercise 8-3; Bit or Beat? CD 4 Track 17
Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid or Bead? CD 4 Track 18
Exercise 8-5: Tense and Lax Vowel Exercise CD 4Track 19
Exercise 8-6: The Middle "I" List CD 4 Track 20
Exercise 8-7: Reduction Options CD 4 Track 21
Exercise 8-8: Finding Reduced Sounds CD 4 Track 22
Exercise 8-9: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck? CD 4 Track 23
Exercise 8-10; Büker Wülsey's Cükbük CD 4 Track 24
Exercise 8-11: A True Fool CD 4 Track 25
Intonation and Attitude
Exercise 8-12: Nonverbal Intonation CD 4 Track 26
Chapter 9. "V" as in Victory CD 4 Track 27
Exercise 9-1 : Mind Your Vees CD 4 Track 28
Exercise 9-2: The Vile VIP CD 4 Track 29
Exercise 9-3: Finding V Sounds CD 4 Track 30
Chapter 10. S or Z?
Exercise 10-1 : When S Becomes Z CD 4 Track 31
Exercise 10-2: A Surly Sergeant Socked an Insolent Sailor CD 4 Track 32
Exercise 10-3: Allz Well That Endz Well CD 4 Track 33
Exercise 10-4: Voiced and Unvoiced Endings in the Past Tense CD 4 Track 34
Exercise 10-5: Finding S and Z Sounds CD 4 Track 35
Exercise 10-4; Application Steps with S and Z CD 4 Track 36
Exercise 10-7: Your Own Application Steps with S and Z CD 4 Track 37
Chapter 11. Tense and Lax Vowels
Exercise 11-1; Tense Vowels CD 4 Track 38
Exercise 11 -2: Tense Vowels Practice Paragraph CD 4 Track 39
Exercise 11-3: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 40
Exercise 11-4: Lax Vowels Practice Paragraph CD 4 Track 41
Exercise 11-5: Take a High-Tech Tack CD 4 Track 42
Exercise 11 -6: Pick a Peak CD 4 Track 43
Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell
Exercise 11-7: Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 44
Exercise 11-7: Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs continued CD 4 Track 44
Exercise 11-7; Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs continued CD 4Track 44
Exercise 11-8: Your Own Compound Nouns CD 4 Track 45
Exercise 11-9: Your Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 46
Exercise 11-10: Practical Application—U.S./Japan Trade Friction CD 4 Track 47
The Letter A
Exercise 11-11: Presidential Candidates' Debate CD 4 Track 48
Chapter 12. Nasal Consonants CD 4 Track 49
Exercise 12-1: Nasal Consonants CD 4 Track 50
Exercise 12-2: Ending Nasal Consonants CD 4 Track 51
Exercise 12-3: Reading Nasal Consonant Sounds CD 4 Track 52
Exercise 12-4: Finding [n] and [ng] Sounds CD 4 Track 53
Chapter 13. Throaty Consonants
Exercise 13-1: Throaty Consonants CD 4 Track 54
Exercise 13-2: The Letter X CD 4 Track 55
Exercise 13-3: Reading the H, K, G, NG, and R sounds CD 4 Track 56
Exercise 13-4: Glottal Consonant Practice Paragraph CD 4 Track 57
Telephone Tutoring
Final Diagnostic Analysis CD 4 Track 58
Chapters 1-13. Review and Expansion
Review Exercise 1-1: Rubber Band Practice with Nonsense Syllables
Review Exercise 1-2; Noun Intonation
Review Exercise 1-3: Noun and Pronoun Intonation
Review Exercise 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test
Review Exercise 1-6: Pitch and Meaning Change
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Review Exercise 1-7: Individual Practice
Review Exercise 1-8: Meaning of "Pretty," "Sort of," "Kind of," and "Little"
Review Exercise 1-9: Inflection
Review Exercise 1-10: Individual Practice
Review Exercise 1-11: Translation
Review Exercise 1-12: Create Your Own Intonation Contrast
Review Exercise 1-13: Variable Stress
Review Exercise 1-14: Make a Variable Stress Sentence
Review Exercise 1-15: Application of Stress
Review Exercise 1-17: Staircase Intonation Practice
Review Exercise 1-18: Reading with Staircase Intonation
Review Exercise 1-19: Spelling and Numbers
Review Exercise 1-20: Sound/Meaning Shifts
Review Exercise 1-21: Squeezed-Out Syllables
Review Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns
Review Exercise 1-25: Sentence Stress with Descriptive Phrases
Review Exercise 1-23: Syllable Count Test
Review Exercise 1-24: Single-Word Phrases
Review Exercise 1-26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases
Review Exercise 1-27: Descriptive Phrase Story—Snow White and The Seven Dwarves
Review Exercise 1-28: Sentence Stress with Set Phrases
Review Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases
Review Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story—Our Mailman
Review Exercise 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases
Review Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress
Review Exercise 1-34: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases
Review Exercise 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns
Review Exercise 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test
Review Exercise 1-38: Consistent Noun Stress in Changing Verb Tenses (5 disk)
Review Exercise 1-39: Consistent Pronoun Stress in Changing Verb Tenses
Review Execise 1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence
Review Exercise 1-41: Supporting Words
Review Exercise 1-42: Contrast Practice
Review Exercise 1-43: Yes, You Can or No, You Can't?
Review Exercise 1-44: Building an Intonation Sentence
Review Exercise 1-45: Building Your Own intonation Sentences
Review Exercise 1-46: Regular Transitions of Nouns and Verbs
Review Exercise 1-47: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs
Review Exercise 1-48; Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs
Review Exercise 1-51; Extended Listening Practice
Review Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds
Review Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds
Review Exercise 1-56: Reading Reduced Sounds
Review Exercise 1-57: Phrasing
Review Exercise 1-60: Tag Endings
Review Exercise 2-1: Spelling and Pronunciation
Review Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaison Practice
Review Exercise 2-8: Consonant/Consonant Liaison Practice
Review Exercise 2-9: Vowel / Vowel Liaison Practice
Review Exercise 2-11: T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaison Practice
Review Exercise 2-12: Finding Liaisons and Glides
Review Exercise 2-13: Practicing Liaisons
Review Exercise 3-1: Word-by-Word and in a Sentence
Review Exercise 3-3: Vowel-Sound Differentiation
Review Exercise 3-4: Finding the æ, ä, ə Sounds
Review Exercise 3-5: Reading the [æ] Sound
Review Exercise 3-6: Reading the [ä] Sound
Review Exercise 3-7: Reading the [ə] Sound
Review Exercise 4-1 : Stressed and Unstressed T
Review Exercise 4-3: Rule 1—Top of the Staircase
Review Exercise 4-4: Rule 2—Middle of the Staircase
Review Exercise 4-5: Rule 3—Bottom of the Staircase
Review Exercise 4-6: Rule 4—"Held T" Before N
Review Exercise 4-7: Rule 5—The Silent T
Review Exercise 4-10: T Combinations in Context
Review Exercise 4-11: Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T
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Review Exercise 5-2: Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N
Review Exercise 5-3: Final El with Schwa
Review Exercise 5-4: Many Final Els
Review Exercise 5-5: Liaise the Ls
Review Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls
Review Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue!
Review Exercise 5-9: Bill and Ellie
Review Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice
Review Exercise 5-12: A Frontal Lobotomy?
Review Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading
Review Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading
Review Exercise 6-1 : R Location Practice
Review Exercise 6-2: Double Vowel Sounds with R
Review Exercise 6-3: How to Pronounce Troublesome Rs
Review Exercise 6-4: Zbignlew's Epsilon List
Review Exercise 6-5: R Combinations
Review Exercise 6-6: Roy the Rancher
Review Exercise C: Modifying Descriptive Phrases
Review Exercise D: Modifying Set Phrases
Review Exercise E:Two- and Three-Word Set Phrases
Review Exercise F: Three-Word Phrase Summary
Review Exercise I: Multiple Modifiers with Set Phrases
Review Exercise J: Compound Intonation of Numbers
Review Exercise K: Modifying Three-Word Set Phrases
Review Exercise L: Three Word Phrase Story—The Amazing Rock Soup
Review Exercise M: Building Up to Five-Word Phrases
Review Exercise 7-1: The Thing
Noun Intonation Summary
Rule 1: New Information
Rule 2: Old Information
Rule 3: Contrast
Rule 4: Opinion
Rule 5: Negation (Can't)
Review Exercise 8-1 : Comparing [u] and [ü]
Review Exercise 8-2: Lax Vowels
Review Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid or Bead?
Review Exercise 8-5: Tense and Lax Vowel Review Exercise
Review Exercise 8-6: Middle "I" List
Review Exercise 8-10: [ü] Paragraph
Review Exercise 8-11: [u] Paragraph
Review Exercise 9-1: Mind Your Vees
Review Exercise 10-1: S or Z?
Review Exercise 10-2: Sally at the Seashore
Review Exercise 10-3: Fuzzy Wuzzy
Review Exercise 11-1: Tense Vowels
Review Exercise 11-3: Lax Vowels
Review Exercise 11-7: Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs
Review Exercise 12-1: Nasal Consonants
Review Exercise 12-2: Ending Nasal Consonants
Review Exercise 12-3: Reading Nasal Consonant Sounds
Review Exercise 13-1: Throaty Consonants
Review Exercise 13-2: The Letter X
Review Exercise 13-3: Reading the H, K, G, NG, and R sounds
Nationality Guides
Important Point
Chinese Intonation Summary
Chinese
Intonation
Location of the Language
Japanese
Intonation
Liaisons
Pronunciation
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The Japanese R = The American T
Location of the Language
Spanish
Intonation
Liaisons
Word Endings
Pronunciation
The Spanish S = The American S, But...
The Spanish R = The American T
The -ed Ending
The Final T
The Spanish D = The American Th (voiced)
The Spanish of Spain Z or C = The American Th (unvoiced)
The Spanish I = The American Y (not j)
The Doubled Spanish A Sound = The American O, All or AW Spelling
The Spanish O = The American OU
Location of the Language
Indian
Intonation
Liaisons
Pronunciation
Location of the Language
Russian
Intonation
Liaisons
Pronunciation
The Russian R = The American Т
French
Intonation
Liaisons
Pronunciation
Location in the Mouth
German
Intonation
Liaisons
Pronunciation
Korean
Intonation
Word Connections
Pronunciation
The Korean R = The American T
Answer Key
Exercise 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test
Exercise 1-15: Application of Stress
Exercise 1-17: Staircase Intonation Practice
Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases
Exercise 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns
Exercise 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test
Exercise 1-48: Regular Transitions of Adj. and Verbs
Exercise 1-23: Syllable Count Test
Exercise 1-51: Extended Listening Practice
Exercise 1-60: Tag Endings
Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaisons
Exercise 2-8: Consonant / Consonant Liaisons
Exercise 2-9: Vowel / Vowel Liaisons
Exercise 2-11 : T, D, S, or Z Liaisons
Exercise 2-12: Finding Liaisons and Glides
Exercise 2-16: Liaison Staircases
Exercise 3-2: Finding [æ], [ä] and [ə] Sounds
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Exercise 4-12: Finding American T Sounds
Exercise 1-51: Extended Listening Practice
Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds
Exercise 6-7: Finding the R Sound
Review Exercise B: Intonation Review Test
Exercise 7-2: Targeting the TH Sound
Exercise 8-8: Finding Reduced Sounds
Exercise 9-3: Finding V Sounds
Exercise 10-5: Finding S and Z Sounds
Exercise 11-2 and 11-4: Finding Tense (a, e, æ) and Lax Vowel Sounds (i, ə)
Exercise 12-4: Finding [n] and [ng] Sounds
Exercise 13-4: Glottal Consonant Practice
Review Section Answer Key
Review Ex. 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test
Review Ex. 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns
Review Ex. 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test
Review Ex. 1-48: Adjective and Verb Transitions
Review Ex. 1-51: Extended Listening Practice
Review Ex. 1-60: Tag Endings
Review Ex. 2-4: Cons. / Vowel Liaison Practice
Review Ex. 2-8: Cons. / Cons. Liaison Practice
Review Ex. 2-9: Vowel / Vowel Liaison Practice
Review Ex. 2-11 : T, D, S, or Z Liaison Practice
Review Ex. 2-12: Finding Liaisons and Glides
Review Ex. 3-4: Finding the æ, ä, ə, and d Sounds
Index
Symbols
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
М
N
О
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
X
Z
Table of Contents
Introduction: Read This First........................... iv
A Few Words On Pronunciation ................................. vii
Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis .................................. x
Chapter 1 American Intonation ....................................1
Staircase Intonation ...................................................... 5
Syllable Stress ............................................................ 19
Complex Intonation.................................................... 23
Two-Word Phrases...................................................... 24
Grammar in a Nutshell ............................................... 35
The Miracle Technique ............................................... 46
Reduced Sounds ......................................................... 48
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Word Groups and Phrasing......................................... 56
Chapter 2 Word Connections..................................... 59
Chapter 3 Cat? Caught? Cut? .................................... 71
Chapter 4 The American T ........................................ 77
Chapter 5 The El........................................................85
Voice Quality .............................................................. 94
Chapter 6 The American R ........................................ 95
Follow-up Diagnostic Analysis ................................ 100
Chapters 1-6 Review and Expansion .................... 101
Two-, Three- and Four-Word Phrases....................... 108
Chapter 7 Tee Aitch ................................................ 118
Chapter 8 More Reduced Sounds ........................... 121
Middle I List............................................................. 125
Intonation and Attitude ............................................. 128
Chapter 9 "V" as in Victory.................................... 129
Chapter 10 S or Z? ................................................. 131
Chapter 11 Tense and Lax Vowels ......................... 135
Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell.................................. 138
Chapter 12 Nasal Consonants ................................ 145
Chapter 13 Throaty Consonants............................. 147
Final Diagnostic Analysis......................................... 150
Chapters 1-13 Review and Expansion ................. 151
Nationality Guides.............................................. 172
Chinese ..................................................................... 173
Japanese.................................................................... 177
Spanish ..................................................................... 180
Indian........................................................................ 183
Russian ..................................................................... 186
French....................................................................... 188
German ..................................................................... 189
Korean ...................................................................... 191
Answer Key............................................................ 193
Index.......................................................................... 197
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Contents

Preface to the Second Edition page xiii

Preface to the First Edition xv

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Historical Background 1

1.2 Tribological Surfaces 2

1.3 Friction 7

Laws of Friction 9

Asperity Contact 12

Adhesion Theory of Friction 16

Junction Growth 17

Ploughing 19

Friction of Metals 20

Friction of Polymers 21

Friction of Ceramics 21

Thermal Effects of Friction 21

1.4 Wear 22

Sliding Wear 22

Abrasive Wear 28

1.5 Effect of Lubrication 29

Thick-film Lubrication 30

Mixed Lubrication 30

Boundary Lubrication 31

Solid Lubrication 31

1.6 Fluid Film Bearings 32

Hydrostatic Bearings 33

Hydrodynamic Bearings 35

Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication 37

1.7 Bearing Selection 37

Rubbing Bearings 38

Rolling-Element Bearings 38

Fluid Film Bearings 38

1.8 Nomenclature 50

1.9 References 50

2 Basic Equations 54

2.1 Fluid Mechanics 54

Kinematics 55

Velocity 57

Acceleration 57

The Transport Theorem 58

Equation of Continuity 59

Stress 60

Cauchy’s Equations of Motion 63

Constitutive Equations 63

General Motion of a Fluid Particle 65

Objectivity 67

The Navier–Stokes Equations 70

2.2 The Thin-Film Approximation 74

The Reynolds Equation 77

Practical Upper Bound for ε 82

2.3 Nomenclature 86

2.4 References 87

3 Thick-Film Lubrication 88

3.1 Externally Pressurized Bearings 88

Pad Characteristics 89

Optimization 91

Operation with Flow Restrictors 94

3.2 Journal Bearings 96

Short-Bearing Theory 100

Boundary Conditions 105

Long-Bearing Theory 109

Sommerfeld Condition 110

G‥umbel Condition 112

Swift-Stieber Conditions 112

Finite Journal Bearings 115

Cavitation Algorithm 117

3.3 Thrust Bearings 122

Plane Slider 122

Sector Thrust Bearing 127

3.4 Effects of Surface Topography 129

Surface Roughness 129

Statistical Methods 130

Homogenization 133

Surface Texturing 137

3.5 Nomenclature 141

3.6 References 143

4 Dynamic Properties of Lubricant Films 147

4.1 Fixed Pad 149

Linearized Force Coefficients 149

Analytical Solutions 153

Coordinate Transformations 155

4.2 Stability of a Flexible Rotor 156

4.3 Pivoted-Pad Journal Bearings 159

Pad Assembly Method 162

Pad Perturbation Method 171

4.4 Pivoted-Pad Thrust Bearing 173

4.5 Nomenclature 181

4.6 References 183

5 Effects of Fluid Inertia 184

5.1 Temporal Inertia Limit, Rε → 0,_

∗ ≥ 1 185

5.2 Convective Inertia Limit, _

∗ → 0,Rε ≥ 1 185

Journal Bearings 186

Hydrostatic Bearings 199

5.3 Total Inertia Limit, _



/Rε → 1, Re ≥ 1 205

The Method of Small Perturbations 205

Squeeze Flow Between Parallel Plates 208

The Method of Averaged Inertia 213

5.4 Nomenclature 218

5.5 References 219

6 Flow Stability and Transition 222

6.1 Stability 223

Stability Criteria 223

Stability Analysis 225

Energy Stability 226

Linear Stability 227

Bifurcation Analysis 228

6.2 Flow between Concentric Cylinders 229

6.3 Flow between Eccentric Cylinders 232

Critical Reynolds Number 235

Local Iteration 238

6.4 Rotating Disk Flows 243

Linear Stability Analysis 244

6.5 Nomenclature 248

6.6 References 249

7 Turbulence 254

7.1 Equations of Turbulent Motion 254

7.2 Turbulence Models 259

7.3 Constantinescu’s Model 264

7.4 Ng-Pan-Elrod Model 269

7.5 Bulk Flow Model of Hirs 274

7.6 Turbulence with Inertia Retained 279

Method of Averaged Inertia 279

7.7 Nomenclature 281

7.8 References 283

8 Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication 285

8.1 Rigid Cylinder Rolling on a Plane 285

8.2 Elastohydrodynamic Theory 288

8.3 Contact Mechanics 295

8.4 Nondimensional Groups 299

Lubrication Regimes 300

Film-Thickness Design Formulas 303

8.5 Analysis of the Line Contact Problem 304

Elastic Deformation 304

Problem Formulation 307

Numerical Considerations 309

8.6 Analysis of the Point Contact Problem 313

Relaxation 314

The Multigrid (MG) Method 317

Application to Linear Operators 317

The Intergrid Operators 320

Application to Nonlinear Operators 321

Problem Formulation 323

Multilevel Multi-Integration 329

8.7 Rolling-Contact Bearings 332

Bearing Types 333

Rolling Friction 337

Frictional Losses in Rolling Contact Bearings 338

Specific Dynamic Capacity and Life 339

Specific Static Capacity 342

Fatigue Wear Out 342

8.8 Minimum Film Thickness Calculations 342

Nominal Line Contact 342

Nominal Point Contact 344

8.9 Nomenclature 346

8.10 References 347

9 Thermal Effects 351

9.1 Effective Viscosity 351

9.2 Thermohydrodynamic Theory 357

The Energy Equation 357

The Pressure Equation 365

9.3 Journal Bearings 367

Bearing Temperature 367

The Role of Nondimensional Parameters 369

Friction Factor 371

Journal Locus and Dynamic Coefficients 372

Thermal Deformation 373

9.4 Thrust Bearings 376

The Pressure Equation 377

The Energy Equation 379

The Heat Conduction Equation 381

Pad Deformation 381

9.5 Nomenclature 385

9.6 References 386

10 Lubrication with Non-Newtonian Fluids 389

10.1 Hydrodynamic Lubrication 390

Summary of Previous Work 390

Lubrication with Power Law Fluid 391

Fluids of the Differential Type 393

Lubrication with a Third Grade Fluid 396

10.2 Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication 402

Constitutive Models 403

A Generalized non-Newtonian Reynolds Equation for EHL 406

10.3 Quantitative Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (EHL) 411

10.4 The Piezoviscous Fluid 416

10.5 Lubrication with Emulsions 421

Fundamentals of Mixture Theory 422

Constitutive Model 424

Lubrication Approximation 426

Applications 427

10.6 Blood as Lubricant 431

The Rheology of Blood 433

Rheological Models 435

Blood Trauma Models 437

10.7 Nomenclature 440

10.8 References 442

11 Gas Lubrication 451

11.1 Reynolds Equation for Gas Lubricant 453

11.2 Self Acting Gas Bearings 455

Journal Bearings 457

Infinitely Long Step Slider 460

11.3 Nomenclature 464

11.4 References 464

12 Molecularly Thin Films 466

12.1 Gas Flow 467

Velocity Slip at the Boundary 468

Molecular Gas Lubrication 476

Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 480

12.2 Liquid Flow 483

Molecular Dynamics Simulation 483

Velocity Slip at Solid Boundary 484

Density Oscillation Near Solid Boundary 491

Interactive Force Between Closely Spaced Solid Surfaces 492

Van der Waals Forces 493

Double-Layer Forces 494

Solvation Forces 494

Response to Shear 501

Ultrathin Film Lubrication 504

12.3 Nomenclature 505

12.4 References 506

13 Biotribology 511

Lubrication of Articular Joints 511

13.1 Natural Joints 512

Properties of the Cartilage 512

Elastohydrodynamic Models 513

Boosted Lubrication 515

Weeping Lubrication 516

Biphasic Models 517

Boundary Lubrication 520

13.2 Artificial Joints 525

Types of Total Hip Replacement (THR) 525

Mathematical Modeling 527

Hard-on-Soft THR 530

Hard-on-Hard THR 533

13.3 Nomenclature 537

13.4 References 537

Index 543


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