With acceptance and encouragement from Jemima and Victoria, her appeal succeeds and she is chosen to be the one to go to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn to a new Jellicle life ( " Journey to the Heaviside Layer " ).
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In his remarks, Lloyd Webber poked affectionate fun at " Chitty, " which has this spring made headlines for its levitating car much as " Cats " did two decades ago for the ascending tire that lifts Grizabella and Old Deuteronomy up to the Heaviside Layer.
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Among those planning to attend both the final matinee and evening performances of " Cats " is Bob Martin, who will have seen the show 795 times by the time Grizabella, the show's principal female character, ascends to the Heaviside Layer for one last soulful lament.
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Using a BBC transmitter set up in 1923 in Bournemouth, and listening for its signal with a receiver at Oxford University, he was able to use changes in wavelength to measure the distance to a reflective layer in the atmosphere then known as the Heaviside layer.
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She does so by ascending on a flying tire until she reaches a structure resembling clouds, into which she disappears, although in the film version of " Cats " she ascends with Old Deuteronomy and then she walks up a giant metal hand to the Heaviside layer.
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Based on " Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, " a slim volume of poems by T . S . Eliot, " Cats " follows the tale of a group of alley cats, one of whom, Grizabella, ascends to kitty heaven, known as the heaviside layer, by show's end.
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The difference is that today's matinee is performance 7, 485 of " Cats, " the final visit of theatergoers to John Napier's oversized garbage heap environment, the final downbeat to Andrew Lloyd Webber's faux-operatic and rock score, the final ascension for one chosen kitty to the Heaviside Layer for spiritual rebirth.
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It has provided employment to 231 actors, two of whom, Marlene Danielle and Susan Powers, have been with the musical since it opened . ( Nineteen cast members have died . ) The magical tire that carries Grizabella heavenward has clocked more than 114 miles in its nightly voyage to the Heaviside Layer.
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Gregory Breit and Merle A . Tuve at the Carnegie Institution of Washington were studying the characteristics of the ionosphere ( then called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer ) using a transmitter built at the NRL . In attempting to determine the distance to the layer, they asked Young if he could design an appropriate modulation technique.
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He found that a representative worldwide relationship for the 1949 1959 solar cycle, is given, by N _ M ( E ) = k _ 1 ( f _ 0 E ) ^ 2 = k _ 2 ( 1 + 0.00334R ) where f _ 0 E is the critical frequency of the Heaviside layer and k _ 1, k _ 2 are constants.
