(Reference). Guitar Dreams is a collection of interviews articles and photographs that celebrate plucked string musicians and luthiers whose work delights challenges and inspires all of us who care passionately about the back stories behind the music and the instruments we love. Many of these pieces first appeared (some in different form) in the pages of The Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar magazine while others appear here for the first time. Included are many previously unpublished photographs. Contributors include Nato Lima (virtuoso nylong string guitarist) Jerry Byrd (steel guitar pioneer) Gabor Szabo (jazz and world music pioneer) Amos Garrett (Telecaster master) Muriel Anderson (fingerstyle virtuoso) George Barnes (seminal jazz guitarist) and many others.

October 30 2002 - Legendary hip-hop DJ Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay is gunned down in his Queens studio. Security tapes of the incident mysteriously disappear the five witnesses are uncooperative and no one is talking... until now. 2 Turntables & a Microphone documents the investigation of the unsolved murder of Jam Master Jay RUN DMC s groundbreaking DJ and producer deftly revealing the history of hip-hop and mainstream rap along the way. Exclusive candid interviews with Jay-Z Russell Simmons RUN-DMC and more offer insight into Jam Master Jay s life - including information that could finally help police solve the murder that shook the music world to it s core.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is an incredible place. It was conceived and born amidst the most desperate of circumstances. It attracted some of the most brilliant minds the most innovative entrepreneurs and the most c- ative tinkerers of that generation. Out of that milieu emerged physics and engineering that beforehand was either unimagined or thought to be f- tasy. One of the ?elds essentially invented during those years was the science of precision high explosives. Before 1942 explosives were used in munitions and commercial pursuits that demanded proper chemistry and con?nement for the necessary e?ect but little else. The needs and requirements of the Manhattan project were of a much more precise and speci?c nature. Spatial and temporal speci?cations were reduced from centimeters and milliseconds to micrometers and nanoseconds. New theory and computational tools were required along with a raft of new experimental techniques and novel ways of interpreting the results. Over the next 40 years the emphasis was on higher energy in smaller packages more precise initiation schemes better and safer formulations and greater accuracy in forecasting performance. Researchers from many institutions began working in the emerging and expanding ?eld. In the midst of all of the work and progress in precision initiation and scienti?c study in the early 1960s papers began to appear detailing the ?rst quantitative studies of the transition from de?agration to detonation (DDT) ?rst in cast then in pressed explosives and ?nally in propellants.

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