Within the drone and throb were deep Tibetan chants, orchestral strings, wordless choruses, distant howls, sustained synthesizer tones, dissonant buzzes, emerging and disappearing chords, and what might have been icebergs cracking, winds rushing, planes flying overhead and volcanoes erupting.
We arrive early; the lot is empty, and the store, the street, the fields across the street as far as I can tell, the entire world is completely silent, except for muted lowing from a distant barn and the whistle and crack of wind through bare branches.
WITH a whoosh of water against its sleek, black hull and a thundering crack of wind-whipped sails above, USA 76 came about on San Francisco Bay.
Various useful depth guys, faltering veterans, and other useful players can slip through the cracks and wind up chasing jobs as the summer wears on.
Then a complex electronic fabric kicks in: we hear, at one time or another, voices talking; a woman reading "Homecoming" in Mandarin; crowds and demonstrations; industrial hums and drones; train sounds; the flutter of bird wings; cracking ice; wind and water; news broadcasts; bits of popular song; and high-pitched sine tones.
Unfortunately, he lost out to a dubious mix of crack-pots, wind-bags, narcissists, authoritarians, ignoramuses, and opportunists.
I opened my picture window portal a crack on the wind and waves, and slept soundly until dawn.
Whenever Aziz's crack dealer got wind of an expensive bike locked up in the area he would send Aziz out to fetch it.
While the move to crack down on wind power has been welcomed by some, Grimes warned that the crossbench is still very much "committed to a solar future" and will feel as though their agreement with the government has "been absolutely violated".
In order to address this issue, this paper presents a new method based on the supervised order tracking bounded component analysis (SOTBCA) for gear crack detection in wind turbines.
