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Programs & Services
See our Programming Calendars for a daily schedule of our programming.
The IURSTC offers tennis instruction in private, semi-private, and group lessons, as well as in clinics for beginner, intermediate, advanced, and tournament players.
The instructional staff is required to possess specific qualifications in order to teach tennis in the facility.
Our instructors work hard to implement new programs, industry trends, and different ways to enjoy tennis. The Tennis Center strives for excellent customer service and satisfaction and offers many other avenues to enjoy the game of tennis. We host Athletic Varsity teams' matches and practices, twelve sanctioned and non-sanctioned tournaments, travel team leagues, the accredited tennis elective tennis course through the Department of Kinesiology, USTA's QuickStart tennis for beginning juniors, and more!
Informal Court Time
Self-directed on-court tennis with friends, to practice with a hopper, or with a ball machine. Call 855-5750 to reserve or walk-on when courts are available.
Fall/Winter Court Rates
(September - April )
Anytime $24/hour Junior/IU Student Walk-On Anytime $18/hour Ball Machine Rental $6/hour + tax
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(May - August)
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We offer private, semi-private (2 students), group 3 (3 students) and group 4 (4 students) lessons. Lesson rates are based on 1-hour lessons and are subject to change without advance notice. Lessons must be canceled at least 24 hours in advance to avoid being charged the full amount. To request lessons, email email@example.com with the student's name, age, playing level (beginner, intermediate or advanced), availability, and contact information. Our Head Pro will set you up with a qualified instructor. From there, you will make arrangements for lesson times with your instructor.
Lesson Rates*
*per person/per hour
Private Lessons (1 hour) Head Pro $55.00 Assistant Pro $50.00 Staff Pro $44.00 Staff Assistant $39.00 Semi-Private Lessons (1 hour; 2 students) Head Pro $32.00 each Assistant Pro $29.00 each Staff Pro $26.00 each Staff Assistant $24.00 each Group 3 Lessons (1 hour; 3 students) Head Pro $28.00 each Assistant Pro $25.00 each Staff Pro $24.00 each Staff Assistant $23.00 each Group 4 (1 hour; 4 students) Head Pro $25.00 each Assistant Pro $24.00 each Staff Pro $22.00 each Staff Assistant $21.00 each
Group Instructional Clinics
More than ten year-round junior and adult group instructional clinics are offered and led by USPTA Master Tennis Professional Mike O'Connell and his staff at the Indiana University Tennis Center. Head Pro Mike O'Connell has been a USPTA member for over 30 years, was inducted into the USPTA Midwest Hall of Fame in 1998, and was recently named the 2009 USPTA Midwest Pro of the Year
Cardio Tennis
Cardio Tennis is a fun group fitness program taught by qualified Cardio Tennis Instructors. It's a sixty minute program which includes warm up drills, cardio drills, and a cool down phase. We are one of 1,000 'authorized' Cardio Tennis sites throughout the USA. Buy 10 sessions in advance and get one session free! Only $15/day.
See Programming Calendars for meeting dates and times.*
*Tuesday and Thursday sessions are limited to 10 participants. Reserve your spot by calling 855-5750 the DAY OF with payment.
If you have any questions regarding Cardio Tennis, email Chris Chopra.
Weekly Fast Feed Clinic
This is a great way to get a full hour of nearly non-stop practice. The Fast Feed Clinic lives up to its name with several different drills aimed at hitting hundreds of balls off of a pro's feed to simulate almost every regular tennis situation. To fully understand this concept you must give it a try. Open to all levels, this is an intense hitting session with limited instruction. $15/day.
See Programming Calendars for meeting dates and times.*
Adult and junior members have the opportunity to participate in several USTA sanctioned and unsanctioned tennis tournaments throughout the year. These tournaments provide the membership a chance to test their ability in tournament settings.
Permanent Court Time
With the increasingly high demand for informal/recreational court time, PCT guarantees a court at a set time each day each week. PCT is a 15-week program with a 10-week minimum each Fall, Spring, and Summer. This is an easy alternative to scheduling your own weekly court time. An additional benefit of the program is the flexibility to "bank" your court time to be used at your convenience as long as it is canceled at least 24 hours in advance. We appreciate that life throws curve balls and want you to get your money's worth. Email us for more information.
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April 18, 2015
Prince Players to Watch Club
The Players to Watch Club is a program sponsored by Prince and consists of approximately seventy juniors each year. This program is designed to develop a work ethic among juniors who participate. The juniors are awarded points for each tennis related activity and receive various awards at designated levels of achievement. The top point earner for the year receives a complimentary racquet donated by Prince. To register, email Chris Chopra.
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Tournament champions are honored each year on plaques displayed in the Tennis Center Champions Corner.


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I love writing and optimizing stuff that puts strain on memory and CPU. Lately I've been wondering how well the .Net Dictionary object performs, and after looking at the source code for it, Googling and SO'ing I thought it would be good to complete the project with some real-world data that could be shared.
So I made a small test app to measure the speed and memory consumption of a System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<Int32, Int32> in .Net.
I wanted to test with random data, so a set of random data (Int32) is generated up front. I also wanted to test lookup time with random access to simulate real-world usage where L2 cache/read-ahead might not be applicable.
Test machine specs
As of mid 2011 this computer is new and can be considered a fast desktop computer. I designed it myself for high performance computations, I bought "the best" within reasonable price parameters.
- AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (Socket-AM3, Six Core, 3,3GHZ/3,7GHz Turbo, 9MB) set at conservative overclocking settings (bad cooling at the moment): Asus AISuite reports 3,410 GHz
- ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme
- 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 16GB CL9
- 2xSATA disks@550MB/s.
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- Almost clean install, just Visual Studio and required dev tools.
The test
The test runs on a single thread, x64 Console Application, .Net 4.0 Client Profile. My interest is purely in the Dictionary index size and speed.
The receipt
- Create a list of 100.000.000 random unique Int32 numbers.
- Warm up by running once with 10k samples.
- For every size of 10, 100, 1.000, 10.000, 100.000, 1.000.000, 10.000.000
- Add this amount of random numbers to the dictionary. The random numbers were generated during startup so we are slowed by any overhead in random routine. It is a simple int copy operation from an int[] array.
- If the dictionary is big enough, search it for 100.000 random keys. The random keys to search for are also generated on startup, and they may or may not exist in the dictionary.
The results
The short story
- Dictionaries in .Net are very fast in almost any case and perform extremely well with large volumes.
100 000 random lookups in a table consisting of 10 000 000 random entries takes 0,02 seconds, the table uses 200MB of RAM.
(Note on that: Many of these lookups would not yield matches.)
- Memory used by a dictionary seems to be around 20-40 times for Int32 index. The ratio goes down as the dictionary gets larger.
- Pre-allocating memory seems to almost cut insert time in half.
These tests have a lot of misses in the lookups (random range is between Int32.MinValue and Int32.MaxValue). If I recall correctly then misses are a worst-case scenario for hashtables. I re-did the tests with hits only and got about the same results, up to 30% faster in some cases. Though I have not tested this in-depth.
The source code
static void Main(string[] args) { DictionaryTest dictionaryTest; dictionaryTest = new DictionaryTest(100000000); // Warmup dictionaryTest.RunTest(new int[] { 100000 }, false); // Run tests dictionaryTest.RunTest(new int[] { 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 10000000 }, false); dictionaryTest.RunTest(new int[] { 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 10000000 }, true); Console.ReadKey(); }
public class DictionaryTest { private int[] TestData; private int[] RandomPos; public int DummyToPreventOptimization = 0; public DictionaryTest(int maxSamples) { FillRandom(maxSamples); } private void FillRandom(int size) { Console.WriteLine("Generating " + size + " random samples..."); Random rnd = new Random(); TestData = new int[size]; RandomPos = new int[10000]; // We need to add only unique data Dictionary<int, bool> used = new Dictionary<int, bool>(size); for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { int n; for (; ; ) { n = rnd.Next(int.MinValue, int.MaxValue); if (!used.ContainsKey(n)) break; } used.Add(n, true); TestData[i] = n; } Console.WriteLine("Generating " + RandomPos.Length + " random lookup points..."); for (int i = 0; i < RandomPos.Length; i++) { RandomPos[i] = rnd.Next(0, RandomPos.Length); } } public void RunTest(int[] sizes, bool setDictionarySize) { // Force GC to finish up. Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); foreach (int size in sizes) { Console.WriteLine("*** Testing " + size + " samples:"); // Fill dictionary with random data long memBefore = GC.GetTotalMemory(true); Dictionary<int, int> dictionary; if (setDictionarySize) dictionary = new Dictionary<int, int>(size); else dictionary = new Dictionary<int, int>(); stopwatch.Reset(); stopwatch.Start(); for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { dictionary.Add(TestData[i], i); } stopwatch.Stop(); GC.Collect(); long memAfter = GC.GetTotalMemory(true); long mem = memAfter - memBefore; Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Preset: {0}: {2} seconds", setDictionarySize, size, Math.Round((double)stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds / 1000d, 5))); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} bytes memory, Ratio: {1}", mem, (double)mem / (double)size)); if (size >= RandomPos.Length) { // Ensure GC won't trouble us GC.Collect(); int maxLen = Math.Min(RandomPos.Length, size); stopwatch.Reset(); stopwatch.Start(); for (int i = 0; i < maxLen; i++) { DummyToPreventOptimization = dictionary[TestData[RandomPos[i]]]; } stopwatch.Stop(); double avg = Math.Round(((double)stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds / (double)maxLen) / 1000f, 10); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} random access: {1} seconds (avg of {2} seconds per lookup)", maxLen, Math.Round((double)stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds / 1000d, 5), avg)); } } } }

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The Big Problem in Small Business Bank Credit
The media is full of anecdotal reports about small businesses that had bank loans and lines of credit before the Great Recession—and now have neither. While these stories put a face on the entrepreneurs struggling to make do with less credit, they don't give a sense of the overall breadth or depth of the problem: The decline in bank credit to small businesses during the Great Recession is so large that it's unlikely to return to prerecession levels for many years.
To thaw the ongoing freeze, policymakers need to understand how much small business credit has evaporated since the Great Recession began, and why. Timid solutions won't work. The adverse effects on the small business sector's contribution to economic growth and job creation are potentially way too severe.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council has the best information on small business lending by retail banks and commercial banks. Its data on millions of loans to businesses with less than $1 million in annual revenue provide a comprehensive look at what has happened since the beginning of the financial crisis. (I use this revenue ceiling as a proxy for small business because IRS statistics show that 95 percent of businesses generate less than $1 million per year in revenue.)
A Dizzying Plunge
FFIEC data show that in 2009, banks originated $73 billion in loans to small businesses, $64.6 billion less than they provided in 2007, a decline of 47 percent. Just to get back to the average amount of new loan dollars originated annually from 2001 to 2007, U.S. banks would need to lend an additional $50.5 billion to small businesses every year.
A similarly extreme drop occurred in the number of loans made to small businesses. In 2009, banks made 1.6 million new loans to small businesses, 3.6 million fewer than they made in 2007, a drop of 69 percent. Again, to return to the average annual rate of new loan origination made from 2001 to 2007, banks would need to make 1.9 million more small business loans every year.
During the Great Recession, the banks accelerated their departure from lending to Main Street businesses. True, the share of bank loans going to small businesses has been declining for years, as banks have focused on lending to large businesses. (The FFEIC reports that the share of loans to small businesses peaked in 1999 at 60 percent of loans.) The decline in bank lending to small businesses during the slowdown, however, was larger than the corresponding drop in bank lending to large companies. In 2007, 38 percent of new loans went to small businesses, but by 2009, that percentage had shrunk to 26 percent. And in 2007, 41 percent of new lending dollars went to small businesses, but by 2009, that share had fallen to 35 percent.
Variety of Causes
Economists don't all agree on why so much small business credit disappeared during the Great Recession. Part of the decline stems from the long-term trend of banks away from small business lending. Another part comes from the effect of economic contraction on the number of small businesses seeking to borrow money. The recession also cut the creditworthiness of many small business borrowers, making it more difficult for many of them to obtain loans. Declining housing prices eliminated an important source of small business credit—home equity. Banks became more conservative in the wake of high losses on their loan portfolios and so cut back on loans of all types. And tightened regulatory standards have made it more difficult for banks to make small business loans that satisfy regulators.
This multitude of causes for the decline complicates efforts of policymakers to return small business credit to prerecession levels. While many small business owners and elected officials are looking for easy answers, boosting bank lending to small businesses will take more than simply intructing bankers to make more loans. And it will require more than the recent effort to boost the Small Business Administration's loan guarantee program, because SBA-guaranteed loans are a tiny sliver of all bank loans to small businesses—about 44,000 of the 1.6 million small business loans made in 2009. The implications are stark: Unless policymakers implement effective solutions to the problem, the small business sector will receive far less bank credit than it used to, hampering the economy for years to come.


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Hey you helped me out last wk, thank you, i made it to championship game, now i REALLY need your advise… In standard leaugue… Here are my players-gore,rainey,st jackson,p thomas,m ball, ellington… I will send you WR next
Hard to believe the season is already drawing to a close, but here it is week 16 and for many readers this means the fantasy super bowl week (aka championship round). Congratulations to those of you who made it this far, and while I don't aim to disappoint you will find few options on your league's waiver wire at this point in the season…
All players appearing in my waiver wire article are under 50% ownership on Yahoo
Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups
Jordan Todman – Jacksonville Jaguars – RB (0% owned)
One of the few (if not the only) must adds this week is Jordan Todman of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This is obviously contingent on MJD's health, so keep an eye on the reports about Jones-Drew's hamstring, but the Jaguars have little incentive to rush MJD back in a losing season, and quite a bit of incentive to see what they have at running back in Todman. Jordan looked explosive against the Bills in week 15 as he racked up 109 yards on the ground on 25 carries, and if he draws the start again in week 16 Todman can be considered a decent flex option against the Tennessee Titans for owners that have been relying on inconsistent options like Riley Cooper or Nate Burleson.
Kirk Cousins – Washington Redskins – QB (10% owned)
In a 2 quarterback league and not sure about your second option? Kirk Cousins is busy putting on an audition for every team in the NFL that is in need of a QB, and astute fantasy owners can benefit. In week 15 against the Falcons Cousins threw for 381 yards to go with 3 TD's and 2 INT's. While the INT's are obviously cause for concern, there is no denying that the Redskins defense will continue to give up points in bunches, leaving it up to the QB to dig the team out of the hole that has been created. Oh… did I mention the Redskins get the Cowboys in week 16?
Andre Caldwell – Denver Broncos – WR (1% owned)
One of the more surprising performances in week 15 came from Andre Caldwell as he led the Broncos in receptions (6) and caught the only 2 TD's thrown by Peyton Manning on the day. Andre clearly benefited from the absence of Wes Welker, and with the Broncos looking to secure homefield advantage you can be sure they will be eager to get their stud slot receiver back on the field, so keep an eye on Wes' status, but if you need to gamble at WR (Victor Cruz owners?) Caldwell could be your guy.
Doug Baldwin – Seattle Seahawks – WR (24% owned)
Another week, another TD for Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks. Doug recorded 6 catches for 71 yards and a TD in week 15 against the Giants, giving him 5 scores on the season. Many readers will want to know why I don't have him higher in my recommendations, so I will give my brief reasoning. Over his past 4 games (MIN, NO, SF, NYG) Baldwin is averaging just 62 yards per game, albeit with scores in 3 out of 4 contests. With touchdowns being one of the hardest things to predict in fantasy sports I wouldn't want to bet on Baldwin finding the end zone against the Cardinals in week 16.
The curiosity section
Edwin Baker – Cleveland Browns – RB
Baker came out of nowhere to record 8 carries on Sunday (courtesy of Willis McGahee being on the shelf) but with the New York Jets stifling run defense on deck, no Browns RB should be considered a viable option in week 16
Matt Asiata – Minnesota Vikings – RB
All week it was assumed that either Adrian Peterson or Toby Gerhart would be healthy enough to record the carries in week 15, but with both guys on the shelf it was Matt Asiata who was called in to carry the mail. Asiata received an astounding 30 carries, and lumbered (rolled?) his way to 51 yards and 3 huge scores. Either Peterson or Gerhart should be active in week 16, leaving Asiata with a cool story to tell his grandkids about the one time he scored 3 TD's in the NFL.
Hey you helped me out last wk, thank you, i made it to championship game, now i REALLY need your advise… In standard leaugue… Here are my players-gore,rainey,st jackson,p thomas,m ball, ellington… I will send you WR next
WR-a jeffery, d jacksn,e decker, crabtree… I am leaning toward gore, n of course jackson and jeffery.. So i need to decide which other RB, flex, and crabtree or decker… We tried Clay over Witten and that bombed so I will start Witten who I drafted… Please help , Thanks


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Great for: Snacks, casseroles, stews, veggie platters, and side dishes.
What's a serving? About 1/2 cup or 2 ounces raw.
Price per serving: 19 cents. A 16-ounce bag costs about $1 on sale and contains about 8 servings (2 ounces each).
Nutrition Info per serving: 27 calories, 2 grams of fiber, 200% Daily Value for vitamin A, and 7% Daily Value for vitamin C.
4. Canned Beans
Great for: Green salads, casseroles, stews, and chili. Types of beans range from 50% less sodium kidney beans and black beans to white beans and garbanzo beans.
What's a serving? Each can contains about 3.5 (1/2-cup) servings.
Price per serving: About 28 cents. You can buy a 15-ounce can for about $1 on sale.
Nutrition Info per serving: About 120 calories (for kidney beans), 7 grams protein, 6 grams fiber, and 6% Daily Value for calcium, and 10% Daily Value for iron.
5. Canned Tomatoes
Great for: Italian and Mexican recipes, chili, stew, and casseroles. Flavor options range from no-salt-added sliced stewed tomatoes to diced tomatoes with garlic and olive oil.
What's a serving? One can contains about 3.5 (1/2-cup) servings.
Price per serving: About 28 cents. You can buy a 14.5-ounce can for about $1 on sale (often less for store brands).
Nutrition Info per serving: About 25 calories, 1 gram fiber, 10% Daily Value of vitamin A, and 15% Daily Value of vitamin C.
6. Oranges (extra large navel oranges)
Great for: Snacks, green salads, and fruit salads.
What's a serving? 1 large or extra large orange.
Price per serving: 40 cents for a large orange and 79 cents for an extra large orange. Oranges sell for around $0.79 per pound, and a large orange is about 1/2 pound, whereas an extra large orange is about 1 pound.
Nutrition Info per serving: (for an 8 ounce orange): 106 calories, 5.5 grams fiber, 10% Daily Value for vitamin A, 200% Daily Value vitamin C, 17% Daily Value for folate, 9% Daily Value for calcium, and 12% potassium.
7. Pears
Great for: Snacks, as an appetizer with cheese, green salads, and fruit salads.
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ISLAMABAD: Newly-appointed Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani took oath of office and secrecy at the Presidency in Islamabad on Tuesday.
President Pervez Musharraf administered the oath to Gilani at 12:38 pm.
More than 500 invitations were sent to all the important political and other personalities, including PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, his brother Shahbaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.


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She is an only child and her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her father later remarried, giving Teresa two half-sisters and two stepbrothers.
Growing up, Teresa Palmer had pet kangaroos and said she lived in government housing. She made pocket money by dressing up as Strawberry Shortcake at a local mall. She said, I came from rather humble beginnings. Still, I was really happy (interviewmagazine.com).
Teresa Palmer recalled her best childhood memory: Every weekend when I was around 9 years old my best friend and I would have a sleepover on Friday night after school, go to horse riding lessons on Saturday and then stay up and watch Unsolved Mysteries movies whilst eating pickelets (Marie Claire).
Teresa was named after Mother Teresa. Her mother had manic depression.
As a girl, Teresa attended Mercedes College. She took acting classes and landed a few TV commercials. After she graduated from high school, at the age of 18, she landed on the student film 2:37. Teresa dropped out of school to work on the film.
Teresa said, I had never acted in my life. I was just thrown in the deep end. I had to play a rape victim whos pregnant with my brothers babywe had no idea what it was going to look like, or that, especially, that it would have its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other roles followed, including parts in Restraint, December Boys, The Grudge 2, Take Me Home Tonight, The Sorcerers Apprentice and I Am Number Four, among others. For her role in I Am Number Four, she trained for three months, four hours a day, six days a week to learn sword work, flips and wire work. Teresa Palmer added, That was the most grueling shoot Ive ever doneits quite far removed from who I am. Im very bouncy and bubbly and positive.
She is sometimes confused with Kristin Stewart.
Teresa Palmer stays in shape by eating healthy food. I used to be obsessed with Burger Kinga while ago I found that I was feeling quite sluggish and so I decided to eliminate processed foods and all of a sudden I felt amazing. Ive been feeling great ever since I cut out all the bad stuff in my diet (myjellybean.com).
Her best lesson shes learned the hard way is not to talk about her private life in the media.
According to her Twitter, she splits her time between Los Angeles and Adelaide.


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Fresh off the release of his "Power & Passion" EP, Mr. MFN eXquire is already working on his next project "The Passion Tape Vol 1: VivaLaPassion". Here is the first offering 'Dom Perignon At The Days Inn'.
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Solar CEOs See Boom In China Will Ease Glut
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China may double its installations of solar panels this year, absorbing excess production that depressed prices and margins in 2011, chief executive officers from two of the industry's top five manufactures said.
Suntech Power Holdings Co. CEO Zhengrong Shi estimated the nation may add 4 gigawatts or more of panels, and Trina Solar Ltd. CEO Jifan Gao expects 5 gigawatts. That compares with about 2.2 gigawatts installed in the country in 2011, more than double the capacity of the average nuclear reactor in the U.S.


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I tried different themes but it is the same thing.
I tried editing different codes in the html editor but still nothing.
All of the pics I add get added under or above the other pic, even if they are small,they get added in a column.
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This course is part of a series that looks at documentary editing from the point of view of 3 different editors in 3 different editing applications. For more insight on editing documentary projects, take a look at Documentary Editing with Avid Media Composer and Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro.
- Interpreting a creative brief
- Logging interviews and organizing footage
- Pulling selects and focusing ideas
- Assembling scenes into rough cuts
- Creating a title graphic sequence
- Animating images
- Tightening clip timing
- Compressing and exporting multiple files
Skill Level Intermediate
Shooting with multiple cameras is a plus when editing a documentary. It gives you more editing options and creates visual interest when you cut from one angle to another. But oftentimes the primary microphone attached to the person being interviewed is connected to just one of the cameras. The other camera may have good video but not great audio. So, where does that leave you? With Final Cut Pro X, you actually have a pretty easy time of combining sync sources. Let's take a look. In our Interviews, let's view the John Downey close-up camera clip at the favorite section.
(John Downey: He's dedicated. He makes you want to cry--) So, we definitely would like to be on this close-up shot of John when he's talking about how dedicated BD is. That would make a nice strong point. But we don't really want that audio. Well, if we have that audio coming from another camera like the A camera, let's see if that is something that we might be able to marry. (John Downey: He's dedicated. He makes you want to cry--) Okay, so we in fact do have the same audio, the good audio.
So what we want to do is we want to select those two sources, the video source and the audio source, and right-click on one of them and choose Synchronize Clips from the short cut menu. You can also press Option+Command+G. Now, as soon as you select this, take a look at the background tasks on the dashboard. Final Cut just finished making something. So what it made was an actual compound clip that combined, and let's see where it placed that--oh, here it is right under the clip we had selected.
And it actually added the words Synchronized Clip to the name of the clip. The icon for the clip is a compound clip. And we can actually right click on that and say Open this Clip in the Timeline. And what we have is two clips on top of each other that if you take a look at the wave form they sort of match even though this bottom clip is so low--because it's off camera--but you can tell there's a peak there and there's another peak.
You can sort of tell that there is a similarity. Let's play the clips and what we're going to hear is a combination of audio. (John Downey: And you've met the man. You know he's--) So we aren't hearing anything wildly out of sync. It sounds like it's in sync. Is this what we want? Well, no it's not because what we want is the close-up camera, and what we see is the shot of John Downey in the wider shot. So what we're we going to do is just actually give ourselves a different view where we have a bigger waveform and maybe make these clips a little smaller in the clip height.
We're also going to see about making these clips the same length. And we don't need anything that came before, so we can actually go ahead and trim this clip so that it starts at the same place as the wider shot does. Now, what we want to do is separate the good audio from this clip so that we, in fact, can lose its video. And the way we do that is we right- click on the clip and say Detach Audio.
You can also select the clip and press Ctrl+Shift+S. Now what that did is it took the audio portion of that clip and placed it beneath the clip on the primary storyline. Now if it's not already selected, you can select that. Notice it's just video now devoid of any audio, and that's the video we don't want, so you can go ahead and delete it. Now if I scroll up, I can see that I have the close-up camera.
I've got that camera's audio, which was a little low, and I've got the good audio. So now I have a choice. I can either detach the audio from this clip and delete it, or I can drag the volume of this all the way down to nothing. When we drag the volume down, let's listen to see if this clip sounds like it's in sync. (John Downey: He's dedicated. He makes you want to cry, how dedicated he is to producing the very best vegetables, herbs, whatever, that he can.) So, much, much better. Now we can actually use this in the story.
So, remember the project that we created in the previous movie, it looks something like this only it had the bad audio. (John Downey: He makes you want to cry--) So what we can do now is delete these two clips and instead edit the compound clip. (John Downey: And you've met the man. You know he's dedicated.) And this is where we might want to actually trim it up and to be just the portion that we wanted.
Now, this is exactly how you sync clips. We have one more clip to sync, and that's John Downey which matches with the other audio clip. So I'll let you do that on your own. Keep in mind that if someone is saying something important, and you want to include it in your story, it's worth going out of your way a bit to help them say it more clearly and with good audio.


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Scott and Laura Griffin discuss some of the items donated to Hope Exchange on Main Street in New Madrid. The thrift shop is run by the Griffins and will be used to fund their efforts to assist those and their family members who are impacted by cancer.
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Couple's business dedicated to battle against cancer
NEW MADRID - The name really derives from three hopes, explains Scott Griffin.
People walk in with items to donate and tell them, "I hope you can use this."
A customer will walk in and say, "I hope you have this."
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- 1 pound bulk pork sausage
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups thinly sliced peeled potatoes (about 1-1/4 pounds)
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. In a large bowl, combine the soup, milk, onion, salt and pepper.
- In an ungreased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish, layer half the potatoes, soup mixture and sausage; repeat layers.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 1-1/2 hours or until potatoes are tender. Uncover and sprinkle with cheese. Bake 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Reviews for Sausage Potato Casserole
"Simple & easy!"
"Thank you for sharing this very tasty recipe! The only thing I added was a little sour cream to the soup. I make this with the sausage for breakfast, and ground beef for a delicious supper casserole. Yummy!! Either way, it's wonderful!"
"We love this dish. The only change I make is using cream of celery soup instead of cream of mushroom."
"This dish is a mainstay at our house. Excellent flavor indeed!!"
"I have made this once and am making it again tonight. It is a great dish and we just loved it. I did add some real bacon bits on top when added the cheese and used Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar which, in my opinion the BEST cheese in the world.(just so you know ha)A super duper casserole!!"
"I made a few changes only because I had some different things on hand. I used fresh bulk kielbasa and a combo of smoked gruyere & mozzarella. I also pre-cooked the potatoes so I could shorten the baking time. I baked it about 30-40 mins so the onion would be soft. I thought it had a really nice combo of flavors and came together nicely. With a veg, it's a really nice meal."
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October 2, 2007
AUGUSTA, Ga.---Some commissioners say downtown Augusta does not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and last night they heard from you on the issue.
Commissioners have talked about everything from sidewalks to parking spaces not meeting federal ADA guidelines, but the city administrator says the situation will get better.
"We're sorta doing a hit and miss kinda thing now," Fred Russell said. "Somebody will complain about this or we'll do a project here so we'll make it ADA compliant. What I am looking for is the ability to put together a comprehensive plan that we can budget annual dollars for."
Three more public meetings are set on the same issue. The first is tonight at the Maxwell Branch Library on Lumpkin Road at 6 o'clock. You can also attend Thursday the 11th at the downtown library, at either noon or 6 o'clock.


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Ashish Verma Penumatcha has received the 2014 IBM PhD Fellowship Award. Congratulations, Ashish! (March 2014).
Hong-Yan Chen 's article "Coulomb drag between in-plane graphene double ribbons and the impact of the dielectric constant" was featured on the cover of Nano Research. Congratulations, Hong-Yan! (December 2013). [read article]
Prof. Appenzeller has been elected APS Fellow for his pioneering contributions to the physics, technology, and modeling of one and two-dimensional transistors and circuits. Congratulations, Prof. Appenzeller! (December 2013)
Ali Razavieh passed his PhD Final Examination. The title of his PhD thesis is "RF Linearity in Low-Dimensional nanowire MOSFETs". Congratulations, Ali! (October 2013).
Saptarshi Das 's article "Screening and Interlayer Coupling in Multilayer MoS2" was featured on the cover of Rapid Research Letters. Congratulations, Saptarshi! (April 2013). [read article]
(Top: right to left) Joerg Appenzeller, Sebastian Feste, Jamil Shehadeh, Saptarshi Das, Drew Candebat, Ali Razavieh, Ashish Verma, Josh Smith; (Bottom: right to left) Yuri Kubo, Caitlin Wildeson, Hong-Yan Chen, Yunfei Gao, Sahil Bansal, Ramon Salazar.


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Adam Perlman, a Harvard grad-turned-Hollywood writer has co-created a pretty clever web video with Kiran Deol entitled, "White People Problems." It's Woody Allen meets Larry David meets the entitlement generation. Thought I'd post since blogging will be light these next few weeks as I work on my long-time-coming Hollywood/Israel series and… the Oscar issue.
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Google may have already dropped the mention of beta from the Ingress Play Store listing, however it looks like the game still has a few weeks before the beta officially ends. Niantic Labs has announced that Ingress will exit beta on December 14, 2013. This date coincides with the conclusion of the 9-week, 39-city global event that is called Operation #13MAGNUS.
Niantic Labs is touting this as being the "biggest milestone since the introduction of Ingress." And as such, they are offering something special for those who have been playing the game. By dropping the invitation requirement, Niantic Labs is openly looking for new players. Or in this case, for new "agents." Whether you are coming in as a new agent, or have been playing, you now have the opportunity to earn "The Founder Medal."
This achievement will be given to all agents that manage to reach Level 5 before December 14th. Otherwise, along with The Founder Medal, Niantic Labs has also announced The Ingress Elite V challenge which kicks off today, November 4th. This one will run through the December 14th and is open for all agents. This one will be an effort to identify the five most elite agents from around the world.
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That having been said, Ingress has been around since November 2012 and while it has been in an invitation-only status since then, those invites haven't been all that hard to come by. Needless to say, if you had wanted to get going with Ingress but were unable to find someone willing to share an invite -- that obstacle has been removed and you can head to the Play Store, download the app and get to playing.
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Stocks to Watch: Citigroup, Halliburton, Gap, Kraft and More!
Some stocks to watch this morning, courtesy of our friends at Dow Jones.
Citigroup's first-quarter profit fell 32% as its credit-loss provisions dropped sharply but revenue plunged and a charge weighed on results. Shares edged up 1.4% to $4.48 in recent premarket trading.
Community Health converted its roughly $3.3 billion bid for Tenet Health Corp. to all-cash, the latest salvo in the hospital operator's hostile pursuit of its smaller rival. Community Health shares plunged 13% to $27.75 in recent premarket trading, while Tenet slid 2.4% to $6.50.
Gap Inc. shares fell 4.1% to $21.54 in pre-market trading after the retailer got hit with two big downgrades. Goldman Sachs cut Gap to sell from neutral, saying attempts at broad market appeal are leading to sales declines versus more niche-focused peers, and that Gap is a less likely takeout candidate as fundamentals deteriorate and after balance sheet restructuring. BofA/Merrill cut the stock to neutral from buy on worsening sales trends and agrees with Goldman that few stock catalysts appear near.
Morgan Stanley cut DJIA component Kraft Foods Inc. to equalweight from overweight as the stock closes in on the firm's $34 price target. Morgan Stanley says Kraft now trades at a valuation roughly on par with its large-cap peers. Shares fell 1.8% to $32.77 in light premarket trading.
Eli Lilly & Co.'s first-quarter earnings fell 15% amid higher operating expenses and restructuring costs despite the pharmaceutical giant's revenue benefiting from higher prices. The results beat analysts' expectations.
Halliburton Co.'s first-quarter earnings soared as the oil-field services company reported that increased oil and liquids activity in North American unconventional oil fields more than offset impacts from political unrest in North Africa and delays in Iraq. The results beat analysts' expectations.
KeyCorp swung to a first-quarter profit as credit quality improved and it recorded a credit for potential loan losses, though revenue declined.
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s fiscal second-quarter profit rose 5.6%, with results topping Wall Street's views as average daily client trades rose to a record level. Shares gained 1.8% to $22.50 in light pre-market trading.
Amarin said results from its Anchor trial showed that its lead product candidate, known as AMR101, was effective as a treatment for high triglycerides and didn't raise "bad cholesterol" levels. The biopharmaceutical company's shares soared 71% to $15 premarket.
Titan Machinery Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings tripled and beat analysts' estimates, as the company posted higher margins and saw revenue surge in its agriculture and construction segments. The retailer of backhoes, tractors and other heavy equipment for farmers and builders also forecast full-year earnings above Street estimates. Shares rose 15% to $30.85 premarket.
Identive Group Inc. shares surged premarket AS its SCM Microsystems unit got its first orders for 10,000 eHealth terminals to support the re-launch of the electronic health card program in Germany. Shares climbed 13% to $3.79 in recent premarket trading.
Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s first-quarter loss narrowed as cost-cutting measures helped offset the effect of declining revenue, but results missed Wall Street estimates.
Bank of Hawaii Corp.'s first-quarter profit fell 20% absent big year-earlier investment gains, though topped analysts' expectations as loan-loss provisions continued to decline.
Big Lots Inc. named Doug Wurl, a Sears Holdings Corp. executive, to head merchandising, a move the closeout retailer said supports future growth amid reports the company has made presentations to several private-equity firms.
Corcept Therapeutics Inc., a pharmaceutical company focused on treatment of severe metabolic and psychiatric disorders, said it submitted its new drug application for the use of Corlux in treatment of Cushing's Syndrome to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Swiss medical technology firm Synthes Inc. Monday confirmed that it is in talks with U.S. health-care and consumer giant Johnson & Johnson about a potential takeover deal that sources say could be valued at about $20 billion.
Molycorp Inc. acquired Santoku America Inc., an Arizona-based producer of rare earth alloys and metals, for $17.5 million in cash from Santoku Corp.
Papa John's International Inc. said President and co-Chief Executive J. Jude Thompson resigned from the pizza-restaurant chain, leaving the company to spend time focusing his interests at a Louisville insurance agency.


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Played seven times in phistory
played 1 in 51 shows since its debut
That right there qualifies for bustout status
Now, granted they have played the song twice this summer, once in 2010 and once in 2009, one might be able to make an argument for perennial.
But it is still a bustout song and great to hear! Thank you Phish!
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Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography?
The writer-director Richard Tanne builds on the Obamas' first date, in Chicago, in this worshipful film.
The writer-director Richard Tanne builds on the Obamas' first date, in Chicago, in this worshipful film.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The latest foray for the Mechanic takes him around the world after his nemesis arranges a triple assassination he can't refuse.
By ANDY WEBSTER
Jonathan Jakubowicz's film has scattered pleasures, like Mr. De Niro's performance as Roberto Durán's trainer. But the boxing scenes do not come within swinging distance of "Raging Bull."
By GLENN KENNY
Nanni Moretti's film, starring Margherita Buy as a movie director and John Turturro as an American star, makes a case for blurriness in art and life.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The movie, directed by Jean-François Richet, finds the grizzled loner of a hero fighting to protect his daughter.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
With solid suspense, murky lighting and "gotcha!" scares, Fede Alvarez's film will probably please fans intrigued by those elements.
By ANITA GATES
This film by Philippe Faucon, based on two books by Fatima Elayoubi, depicts tensions between a North African immigrant in Lyon and her teenage daughter.
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
John Krasinski directs and stars in a story of a man who finds that although he can go home again, the place remains a mess.
By NEIL GENZLINGER
The film, written and directed by Clea DuVall, finds a group of 30-somethings gathering to encourage a married couple to break up.
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Modulates the activity of a sodium channel.
Enables the transmembrane transfer of a sodium ion by a voltage-gated channel through the plasma membrane of a cardiac muscle cell contributing to the depolarization phase of an action potential. A voltage-gated channel is a channel whose open state is dependent on the voltage across the membrane in which it is embedded.
An action potential that occurs in a cardiac muscle cell and is involved in its contraction.
Muscle contraction of cardiac muscle tissue.
The process in which cardiac muscle cell membrane potential changes in the depolarizing direction from the negative resting potential towards the positive membrane potential that will be the peak of the action potential.
The process whose specific outcome is the progression of nervous tissue over time, from its formation to its mature state.
Any process that modulates the establishment or extent of a membrane potential in the depolarizing direction away from the resting potential in an atrial cardiomyocyte.
A cardiac conduction process that modulates the frequency or rate of heart contraction.
Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of sodium ion transmembrane transporter activity.
Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a pyrethroid stimulus. Pyrethroids are a group of growth regulators, analogous to insect juvenile hormones, that interfere with the development of insect larvae and are used in the control of insects that are harmful in the adult stage.
A process in which a sodium ion is transported from one side of a membrane to the other by means of some agent such as a transporter or pore.
The process of communication from a neuron to a target (neuron, muscle, or secretory cell) across a synapse.


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Northwest #24: Christine's Colorful Budget Cottage
...This gave the look of a worn kitchen floor that matched the old cabinets. I painted the cabinets five colors to camouflage their age. The living room pink is neither sugary or babyish - a relaxing color that has added punch with turquoise accents. I stained wide planks brown for the bookshelves and used other brown touches to make the room more masculine in spite of the pink. The bedroom is a soothing green with thrift store oil paintings and multicolored fabrics providing color and interest.
Color Tip: Have a vision - this "idea" is something that you can go back to when the color choices seem confusing. My image was of a Caribbean Island, full of color and brightness but also light and airy. The sheer white curtains in the pink living room, the warm yellow kitchen walls and the tropical ocean blue of the guest bedroom all remind me of "Island time". We all have different preferences in regard to color, an image will help you design a cohesive scheme - be it the lilac fields and orchards of Provence, an Indian bazaar, a Mondrian painting, the choices are limitless.
Colors Used: Most colors were custom mixed or matched, but the kitchen walls are ACE "Smiley Face" and the bedroom walls are Pratt and Lambert "Sherwood"


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If you wish to pursue it, why not read the entire paragraph you
chose to quote, which says the baddelyite crystallizes in the
monoclinic system?
The VERY FIRST sentence of the chapter you quote from Lidicoat says
"A synthetic gemstone is one that has the same chemical composition,
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE," etc, etc.
Calcium stabilized cucbic zirconia incorporates the calcium into the
atomic structure which forces this new compound to crystallize in
the isometric (not monoclinic) system. So the crystal structure of
the two is NOT the same. That is not a matter of semantics, it is a
simple matter of chemistry.
As I attempted to point out, there is a gemological definition of
synthetic and a trade or "Legal" definition of synthetic. Common
usage, with entities like the TV jewelry channels flaunt the "rules"
all the time."
But many legal cases have decided that CZ is a simulant and not a
synthetic in the FTC sense. (And how it cold fit the gemological
definition, given differing crystall systems, is beyond me). And
Liddicoats usage of "synthetic" in relation to CZ has been discussed
in probably every GIA class since the stuff was invented.
In the case of synthetic spinel there is a simple excess of aluminum
oxide, but it does not force the symmetry of the growing crystal
into a different symmetry class. And because of that, the crystal
structure is the same, and the chemistry is essentially the same.
If you wish to believe that cubic zirconia fits the definition of
"synthetic", then you are obliged to use the word "synthetic" before
the term "CZ". At least for trade purposes.
You said " It doesn't help the gem dealer, jeweler or layman to
understand these minute distinctions a bit. My opinion. I have a lot
of those. ;-) "
Well, ask someone who is a member of the AGTA if it doesn't make a
difference. It most certainly does. These "minute distinctions" make
a great deal of difference in the gem trade. And extremely expensive
courtroom decisions have hinged on these very "minute distinctions".
And I can assure you that my mineralogy professor of many years ago,
quite correctly, would have put a big red X through any argument
that tried to convince someone that compounds with differing crystal
systems were somehow the same, and that one would qualify as a
"synthetic" of the other.
It's not hair-splitting, Jerry, it's accuracy. Liddicoat's mis-usage
of the term "synthetic" in his own writings (relative to CZ), based
on classical definitions that he repeats from the world of
mineralogy, has been a quiet joke for decades among gemologists and
mineralogists who poke fun at their quasi-educated gemologist
friends who are products of the GIA system. Anyone who has ever
worked at GIA knows what a top-down centrist system it is, although
much less so in the last 15 years or so. If Liddicoat wrote it, it
was getting published. Anyone with the audacity to "correct" him
would have been on the street quickly. Ergo, confusion among the
students, taking a course designed specifically for those with no
knowledge of chemistry, physics, mineralogy or optics. If you don't
have to teach to a real knowledgeable group, you can get away with
heinous errors. And if you're the boss, few will point out that you
are wearing no clothes.
This original conversation centered, I believe, around the use of
the term "synthetic imitation" or something like that, with which I
have an issue.
Can we say that there are obvious synthetics, obvious
imitations/simulants, and that a synthetic, like yellow/green spinel
could be used as a simulant?
I think we can agree there.
I hope we meet some time and continue the debate, but I mean no
slight or hypocrisy here and do not wish the tone to turn sour. Hope
I have not offended you or anyone else, but minerals and gems have
been the object of my education and love for well over 50 years now,
and perhaps my classical education in mineralogy and geophysics
appears to be hair-splitting to some. My only intent was to NOT
mislead those whose education and knowledge lie elsewhere.
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