Rosenthal, Bob, interviewed by Becky Muller on January 17, 2009: Audio Part Two

Some of the themes discussed are: • Civic engagement (2) • The Levine family (2) • High school—private (3) • Colby (4) • Colby—student interaction with Waterville Jews (5) • Dating (6, 7, 18-20) • Life in Waterville (8, 10) • Life in Waterville—movies (12-13) • Colby—Greek life (9) • Colby—administration (9-10) • Occupation—real estate development (10-12, 13, 17) • Camp—Arcadia (13-14) • Military service (16) • Civic engagement (22) • Jewish education (23) • Holidays (23-24)

Shiro, Burt and Phyllis, interviewed by Sam Levine on January 17, 2010: Audio Recording

Some of the themes discussed are: • Occupation—store, The Jefferson Hotel (2, 4-6, 11, 17-18) • Food (2) • Colby—Greek life (3, 7) • Military service (3-4) • Bar Mitzvah (6, 12) • Life in Waterville—Circus (6) • Anti-semitism (10-12) • Occupation—law (8-9) • Occupation—legislature (14) • Jewish education (12) • Synagogue (13) • Civic engagement—United Way (15) • Civic engagement (26-28) • Camp—Modin (18) • College—attendance (19) • Colby—football (20-21, 23, 30)

Hopengarten, Doris, interviewed by Desiree Shayer on January 11, 2009: Audio Recording

Some themes discussed are: • Colby—enrollment (1) • Colby—dating (2, 5) • Colby—Greek Life (2) • Colby—campus life (2-3, 5,8) • Holidays—Christmas (4) • Colby—student interaction with Waterville Jews (4) • Occupation—economics, psychology (6) • Colby—Winter Carnival (8-9)

Brody, Judy, interviewed by Jena Hershkowitz on January 19, 2010: Audio Recording

Some themes discussed are: • Jewish education—Hebrew tutor/Hebrew school(1) • Jewish education—Sunday School(10) • Jewish education—parents (12) • Holidays (1-2) • Civic engagement (1, 5) • Civic engagement—B’nai B’rith and Hadassah (2) • Food—kosher (2) • Colby—Greek life (3-4) • Occupation—law (4) • Dating—marriage (5) • Dating—at Colby (8) • Dating—interfaith marriage (9) • Live in Waterville—attractions (6) • Live in Waterville—school (9) • Colby—Hillel (6) • Colby—classes (6) • Colby—campus life (7-8, 12-13) • Synagogue (11)

Schreider, Judith, interviewed by Desiree Shayer on January 21, 2010: Audio Recording

Some themes discussed are: • Colby—admissions (2-3) • Colby—dorms (3-4) • Colby—social life (4) • Marriage (4) • Colby—professors (7) • Colby—Dean Runnals (12) • Food—kosher (5) • Dating—rules at Colby (4-5, 6) • Dating—townies (6) • Military service—(8) • Occupation—furniture (8) • Occupation—education (10)

Hopengarten, Doris, interviewed by Desiree Shayer on January 11, 2009: Audio Part Two

Some themes discussed are: • Colby—enrollment (1) • Colby—dating (2, 5) • Colby—Greek Life (2) • Colby—campus life (2-3, 5,8) • Holidays—Christmas (4) • Colby—student interaction with Waterville Jews (4) • Occupation—economics, psychology (6) • Colby—Winter Carnival (8-9)

Schreider, Judith, interviewed by Desiree Shayer on January 21, 2010: Audio Part Two

Some themes discussed are: • Colby—admissions (2-3) • Colby—dorms (3-4) • Colby—social life (4) • Marriage (4) • Colby—professors (7) • Colby—Dean Runnals (12) • Food—kosher (5) • Dating—rules at Colby (4-5, 6) • Dating—townies (6) • Military service—(8) • Occupation—furniture (8) • Occupation—education (10)

The Long Game: Hamas, The IRA, and the Politics of Radicalization in Palestine and Northern Ireland

The value of a comparative study of the two conflicts stems from a remarkable similarity in the structural organization of political violence by its most influential practitioners: the IRA and Hamas. At the core, I have merely tried my best to approach a beguiling question in a fresh, dynamic way. The stultifying discourse of conflict that serves as lingua franca for the Israeli‐Palestinian issue has largely reduced strategic debate to how best the conflict can be managed – not ended. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s focus on “economic peace” and unwillingness to commit to a two‐state solution – the consensus that has governed peacemaking for decades – belies such thinking. The Clinton Administration’s cadre of Mideast negotiators operated amidst the most rapid institutionalization of Palestinian democracy in history ‐ yet remained obsessed with Israeli‐Arab “confidence‐building” measures, doing little to legitimize the gains of Oslo. So long as Palestinians continue to view the creation of Israel as “al‐Nakba” – the catastrophe – whilst successive Israeli governments refuse to grant their aspirations any legitimacy, there can be no progress. Peace requires empathy, a substantial compromise in the context of internecine conflict. The “long war” both conflicts have become mandates an equally expansive, broad‐based and labor‐intensive approach – a demanding process that can only be called The Long Game.

Winning the Accreditation Game: The Library as Key Player and Hidden Gold Mine

Libraries are a central hub of information resources supporting college and university curricula. Several library strategies, cross-campus collaborations, and philosophical considerations of electronic and print offerings led to successful accreditations in business and engineering programs.

Study of the audio coding algorithm of the MPEG-4 AAC standard and comparison among implementations of modules of the algorithm

Audio coding is used to compress digital audio signals, thereby reducing the amount of bits needed to transmit or to store an audio signal. This is useful when network bandwidth or storage capacity is very limited. Audio compression algorithms are based on an encoding and decoding process. In the encoding step, the uncompressed audio signal is transformed into a coded representation, thereby compressing the audio signal. Thereafter, the coded audio signal eventually needs to be restored (e.g. for playing back) through decoding of the coded audio signal. The decoder receives the bitstream and reconverts it into an uncompressed signal. ISO-MPEG is a standard for high-quality, low bit-rate video and audio coding. The audio part of the standard is composed by algorithms for high-quality low-bit-rate audio coding, i.e. algorithms that reduce the original bit-rate, while guaranteeing high quality of the audio signal. The audio coding algorithms consists of MPEG-1 (with three different layers), MPEG-2, MPEG-2 AAC, and MPEG-4. This work presents a study of the MPEG-4 AAC audio coding algorithm. Besides, it presents the implementation of the AAC algorithm on different platforms, and comparisons among implementations. The implementations are in C language, in Assembly of Intel Pentium, in C-language using DSP processor, and in HDL. Since each implementation has its own application niche, each one is valid as a final solution. Moreover, another purpose of this work is the comparison among these implementations, considering estimated costs, execution time, and advantages and disadvantages of each one.