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FIFA has always been one of the most accessible sports games available, allowing anyone to jump in and have fun while marvelling at the realistic player animation and glossy, broadcast-style presentation.
It's also often been referred to as shallow, lacking the depth of the "more serious" long-time competitor Pro Evolution Soccer.
But tell that to anyone who has invested months and months in the FIFA's Ultimate Team mode and they will rightfully scoff.
The (now streamlined) Ultimate Team mode is again the star in FIFA 14, out now on multiple formats including Xbox 360 and PS3.
For the uninitiated, Ultimate Team involves buying packs of footy cards and trying to assemble the best possible side. In addition to player cards, there are consumable cards that enable you to bolster player statistics, extend contracts and more.
You can take part in tournaments, trade players on a transfer market, compete against other online players, and endlessly tinker with your formations and squad.
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The new Pure Shot mechanic is the most significant on-field improvement. Shots at goal now have a greater tendency to spectacularly and unpredictably bend.
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Duncan Gallie joined Nuffield College as an Official Fellow in 1985 and became Professor of Sociology in 1996. He has been Vice-President Social Sciences of the British Academy (2004 -2006) and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy (2006-2011).
His research is in economic sociology, in particular the quality of work and the social consequences of unemployment. He is currently working on two main projects. The first is a European comparative study of the effects of the economic crisis on the quality of work. The second is a research programme examining changes in skills and employment conditions in Britain from 1986 to 2012.
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Stand up for Basic Income as a Human Right!
On January 14th 2013, the European Commission accepted our European Citizens' Initiative hence triggering a one-year campaign involving all countries in the European Union.
Before January 14, 2014, we have to reach 500 million citizens within the European Union and collect one million statements of support with minimum numbers reached for at least 7 member states. 15 member states are already participating in this initiative.
If we collect one million statements of support for Basic Income from the 500 million inhabitants of the European Union, the European Commission will have to examine our initiative carefully and arrange for a public hearing in the European Parliament.
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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
Earlier this week, Google made an announcement that may change the way some web analytics programs record Google search traffic.
The change relates to the way Google handles referrer information and may cause some organic search traffic to be labelled as referral traffic instead.
From the Google blog post,
Starting in April, for browsers with the appropriate support, we will be using the "referrer" meta tag to automatically simplify the referring URL that is sent by the browser when visiting a page linked from an organic search result. This results in a faster time to result and more streamlined experience for the user.
Currently, Google redirects search traffic through Google itself to track various details from the click. Below you can see the actual URLs that are loaded when you click on the first and second listings for the search term "florist".
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Google's new change strips out this data so that if you perform a search on Google.com the only thing that will be reported is the referring URL. Because there is no indicator that a search has actually taken place, some analytics programs may report this as a "referral" from Google.com, just like if someone had clicked on a link from Google.com to visit your website.
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 10:25 AM
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Maddow: Citizens and press corps not in step
Unlike many of her colleagues in punditry, Rachel Maddow doesnt ridicule the White House press corps for making a big deal of its exclusion from a presidential golf outing with Tiger Woods over the weekend. Instead she focuses on the trend in which our countrys top officials bypass the official media in favor of direct chats with citizens, often with the able assistance of the Internet.
She notes that Parents magazine recently held a Facebook Q & A with Vice President Biden, complete with impressive questions such as: Should parents who don`t have guns in their homes demand to know which of their children`s friends are gun owners?
She also cited these questions, from other online forums with the White House: Should Internet freedom be added to the party platform of the Democratic Party? Should Democrats take a stand on that as a party? The mortgage interest deduction that helps people afford their homes, whats going to be happening to that? And will the White House take action to limit the abuse of software patents? Would they, for example, support limiting software patents to just five years?
Heres the part that concerns Maddow: That the questions from everyday citizens seem to be distinct from the questions that the White House press corps poses. It is worrying about the press corps that those two streams of questions being directed at the White House from citizens and from the Beltway press often seem like they are from two totally different universes.
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 10:35 AM
WI_DEM (33,497 posts)
1. The White House press corp are a bunch of pampered babies who are making a mountain out of a molehil
who cares if they didn't cover Obama playing golf with Tiger Woods. How about the White House press corp acting like real journalists?
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 10:45 AM
LonePirate (6,503 posts)
2. The WH Press Corps is only interested in what their corporate masters dictate.
They have no concern for the lives and issues facing the average American, hence the different types of questions.
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 10:55 AM
mountain grammy (14,485 posts)
3. I watched this segment on Maddow, and it was excellent!
The press doesn't ask the questions we want answered, and if they do, they don't follow up. This has been the direction of the press since the 80's. It was almost as if they saw the big part they played in getting us out of Vietnam, realized the power they had, and turned it loose for the corporations that own them. And that, my friends, was "morning in America," and a big majority of Americans bought into the lies.
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 11:25 AM
dmosh42 (2,190 posts)
4. The WH press corp is totally representative of Fux news and big media....
They don't give a shit where the citizen's concerns are, only the big money people. Some examples have been the Wall St meltdown and who should be prosecuted and going to war in Iraq for made up reasons.
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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 11:33 AM
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5. The press corp lost all credibility when they welcomed Jeff Gannon as a peer.


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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 11, 2010
The Hamas government's deputy foreign minister Dr. Ahmed Yousef is actively campaigning for the Gaza regime to form a strategic partnership with Iran on the same lines as the Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah alliance. debkafile's sources report Yousef heads the radical Hamas's "moderate" wing. His campaign and invitation to the Iranian president, endorsed by the Gaza regime and Tehran, emerges as the key impediment in the path of US efforts to revive Israel-Palestinian talks.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 18, 2010
Despite Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's efforts to ham up his groundbreaking visit to Lebanon last week, debkafile's military sources quote Western and Arab observers as summing it up as a dud. The Lebanese president and chief of staff spoiled his plan for a grand display of hostile power on the border opposite Israel on Thursday, Oct. 10. The visitor had to submit to being escorted by Lebanese troops instead of Hizballah gunmen. Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah kept to his bunker.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 14, 2010
The Netanyahu government chose silence in the face of the imperialist Shiite energy Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad exuded in his all-conquering visit to Lebanon. On his first day in Beirut he showed the world that Tehran calls the shots in Beirut - and that would be just for starters. debkafile's sources find in Israel's inaction today a regrettable analogy with the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's handover of Czechoslovak Sudetenland to Germany in 1938 so ushering in World War II.
DEBKAfile Special Report October 13, 2010
debkafile's sources report: Towards the end of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first day in Lebanon Wednesday Oct. 13, a high alert was declared in the Israeli, Syrian, Lebanese armies, the Hizballah militia and the UN peacekeeping force ahead of his tour of the Lebanese-Israeli border Thursday. The Iranian president and Nasrallah both called for Israel to "disappear". But first he announced the formation of a new anti-Israel Eastern Front encompassing Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinians and Iraq.
DEBKAfile Special Report October 11, 2010
More fuel was thrown on the bubbling brew surrounding Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon this week by an Al Qaeda-linked group: "The whole of Lebanon will tremble if he sets foot there." Washington warns Americans in Lebanon to be vigilant and avoid large gatherings, and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri took off for Cairo for urgent consultations on the crisis blowing up over the visit.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 7, 2010
US diplomat Fred Hof is due in Beirut Thursday, Oct. 7, to try and get Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon cancelled. debkafile's sources say he is too late. With six days to go, Beirut and South Lebanon up to the Israeli border are Ahmadinejad-land, taken over by an estimated 2,500 airlifted Revolutionary Guardsmen and covered in Iranian flags.
DEBKAfile Special Report September 13, 2010
IAEA: Iran has crossed threshold for being able to arm ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. This news sent the NATO Secretary running to Washington, but stirred no reaction from Israel – even though Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadiinejad is preparing to visit Beirut and sign the Lebanese army up for Tehran's forward front to defend its nuclear facilities and tie Israel's hands, debkafile's mil;itary sources report.
DEBKAfile Special Report July 27, 2010
debkafile's Iranian sources quote President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying: "We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran. They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months," he said, without specifying which countries were the subjects of the alleged conspiracy, only hinting that Israel was directly involved.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 11, 2010
Feverish preparations are afoot in Tehran for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first visit to the Lebanese capital. Reporting this, debkafile's Iranian sources define the trip's purpose as a confrontational exercise to warn the US and Israel that full implementation of the tough new UN, US and European sanctions will provoke an Iranian war on Israel - waged from Lebanon. Ahmadinejad's trip is expected before September - with the Syrian and Qatari rulers in tow.
DEBKAfile Special Report June 8, 2010
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders whom he met in
DEBKAfile Special Report April 16, 2010
With typical provocative arrogance, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed he had told the US president in a letter that Barack Obama's power and success depends on Iran and "he should start cooperating with us in practice." debkafile reveals that the Obama administration is already engaged in behind-the-scenes cooperation with
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 5, 2010
Ahmadinejad scripted a step-by-step performance and show of allied unity to convince Washington that Iran, Syria, Hizballah and eleven radical Palestinian groups were poised to ignite a Middle East religious war. The gambit worked - at least for now.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 5, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unmoved by Western media inattention to his hate campaign against Jews and
DEBKAfile Special Report February 27, 2010
The Iranian president remarked "the Zionist regime" would soon disappear.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 23, 2010
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talks with Syrian president Bashar Assad in
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In Taiwan of the 1960s, the influential art forms arriving from the West were predominantly abstract and conceptual art. It was not until the 1990s that Western Dadaism and Warholian pop art began to have a significant impact. After the end of martial law in 1987, the pace of democratization in Taiwanese society quickened, and social attitudes gradually opened up. This was reflected in art with a broadening of thought and diversification of creative elements and subject matter. In "postmodern" society with its commercialization and mass reproduction of images, "classic works" and literary narratives became disengaged from their cultural contexts, losing their functions as palace decorations and sources of enlightenment. No longer was art the symbolically expressive, elite works of the traditional humanities. It had moved from the refined, gentrified classes of the past to the popular culture of today.
For the contemporary age, these classic works present richly beautiful, powerful images and a sense of mystery engendered by distance in time. Yet unlike dynastic-era artists whose imitations were based on the foundation of "reverence for antiquity," these famous works, after having undergone mass reproduction, ceased being rarely glimpsed works of the imperial court and became "images" that anyone could behold or obtain at a moment's notice. They had even lost the textures and brushstrokes of the original, existing in a "flattened" state. Ruminating on local history, cultural values and identity, Taiwanese contemporary artists made use of those artworks that once adorned imperial power and symbolized the tastes of the literati class, engaging in a dialogue with their own history and culture, disassembling, reassembling, re-creating and altering the styles and subject matter of classic works through symbolic or allegorical images in order to enunciate their views on the present-day state of affairs through simile or metaphor. These include: consideration and breakthroughs in aesthetics and forms of expression; criticism of the current state of Taiwanese society, history and culture; voicing of their own inner ideal worlds and feelings about life; and the transformation of the artistic tastes of the past to a popular, commercial aesthetic more closely oriented toward everyday life. At the same time, as contemporary artists re-examine and re-create classic works of the past, they also re-accentuate and rediscover the artistic accomplishments of the past in light of new definitions and the perspective of art history. As artists refabricate the past, amid this convergence of dual-directional observation, discovery, transformation and original creation, they yield a wealth of meaning and limitless possibilities of expression in the contemporary era.
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It's quite the exciting time in her young life, as Kristin Cavallari has announced that she's pregnant with her first child!
The former "Hills" reality star - who was spotted out shopping at Erewhon Natural Food Market in West Hollywood on Saturday (January 21) - broke the news to People magazine, telling that she and her Chicago Bears quarterback fiance Jay Cutler are "thrilled" over their baby-on-the-way.
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Brighton-based Holidays 4 U, which also traded as Aegean Flights, sold packages and flights to Turkey.
Administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) would be responsible for getting home those already abroad as long as they had booked flights as part of a package holiday. These people are covered by the CAA's Air Travel Organisers' Licensing Scheme (Atol).
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The company has 18 employees and had an annual turnover of about £35 million.
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Re: bimodal ditribution form counting signs of Pi digits differences
Below I've provided a version of your program using Dynamic Programming, plus another method of my own. Your code recalculates the same summands repeatedly. The first difference Floor@Mod[10Pi,10]-Floor@Mod[Pi,10] is calculated 2000 times to get {f[1],..., f[2000]. Dynamic programming eliminates the duplications.
In addition, there's a tremendous amount of waste involved because, for instance, calculating the 2000th term requires computing Pi to 2000 digits (or so), but getting the 1999th term required computing only one fewer digits. The two computations are completely separate, each of them starting from scratch. My method eliminates THAT wasted effort. (It assumes you know in advance how far you'll go, of course.)
Here's a timing directly after Quit. Calculating again will give faster times (because Mathematica caches certain results, I suppose).
ClearAll[f, g]
n = 5000;
Timing[mine =
Rest@FoldList[Plus, 0, Sign /@ ListCorrelate[{-1,
1}, First@RealDigits[Pi, 10, n + 2]]];]
Timing[yours = Block[{$MaxExtraPrecision = n},
g[i_] := Sign[Floor@Mod[10^(i + 1)*Pi, 10] - Floor@Mod[10^i*Pi, 10]];
f[0] = g[0];
f[m_] := f[m] = f[m - 1] + g@m;
f /@ Range[0, n]
mine == yours
{3.797 Second,Null}
{0.016 Second,Null}
The original code's Table statement took 10.4 seconds for 500 terms, 44 seconds for 1000, 103.6 seconds for 1500, and 195.2 seconds for 2000. I didn't take it to 5000, as I did in the timing above.
It's all a waste of time, but at least you can waste a lot LESS time.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:39:06 -0400 (EDT), Roger Bagula <tftn at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This program is real slow on my machine.
> Show a lean toward positive differences that is "slight" at 2000 digits.
> Digits=2000
> $MaxExtraPrecision = Digits
> (* Sum of the sign of the differences between the first 2000 digits of Pi*)
> f[m_]=Sum[Sign[Floor[Mod[10^(n+1)*Pi,10]]-Floor[Mod[10^n*Pi,10]]],{n,0,m}]
> a=Table[{n,f[n]},{n,0,Digits-1}];
> ListPlot[a,PlotJoined->True]
> b=Table[a[[n]][[2]],{n,1,Dimensions[a][[1]]}];
> (* distribution of the noise that results*)
> c=Table[Count[b,m],{m,-12,12}]
> ListPlot[c,PlotJoined->True]
> Respectfully, Roger L. Bagula
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"Pristine" was the first word I jotted down in my notebook after inserting the LA Audio P-22 amplifiers into my system in place of my regular power amp. I was immediately awestruck by the P-22s. The sound was so pure it was almost crystalline, and it floated away from the speakers just like it does with high-priced gear. This was tube sound at its best—clean and revealing, without the warmed-up sauce in the midrange and the flabby, fuzzy bass of yesteryear. This was not what I was expecting from Eastern tube amps, many of which try to resurrect the sound of period amplifiers. The P-22s were not broken in, and I wondered if some of that pristine character was due to fresh tubes or hard capacitors (which are formed by having a working voltage applied over time), so I let the amps play continuously for three days.
At the time, I was listening to a large number of 80s-era classical CDs that a friend had brought over to keep me busy. In the 80s, everything was being digitally remastered (just like now, as the recording industry remasters recordings into the new formats), but almost all of the original recordings were analog, and many had excellent analog engineering. They took on new life with the P-22 amps. Later, when I added LA Audio's C-22 line stage into the system, that lovely analog sound became even more pronounced. I kept digging through those old CDs, and enjoying them more than I could remember. Although I felt that the amps and preamp were still breaking in, not only were they sounding better every day, but the sound remained pristine. The music had more weight, but no new coloration. The added musical weight made those classical recordings sound like a dream, even at low volume, with sound pressure levels of about 75 to 85 dB at six or seven feet from the speakers. (You have to protect your cilia—the tiny hairs that make your ears work—by listening at reasonable volumes. Once damaged, cilia cannot be replaced. I've often wondered why audiophiles keep turning up the sound to mind-numbing levels and keep buying more powerful amplifiers. Might it be the result of failing hearing? Be careful out there.)
LA Audio, located in Taiwan has been making tube gear since 1988. They employ about a hundred people. That's a lot. I have visited many high-end audio manufacturers, and none have half that number. LA Audio has a full-time R&D staff of up to twenty people, with sales approaching five million dollars a year! In other words, this is not just another quick-start company trying to cash in on the tube craze. They also make transistor amplifiers and loudspeakers, but I have not seen any of these.
LA Audio claims that the company is known for its high quality. Even the C-22 preamp ($590) and P-22 amplifiers ($1250 per pair), which are part of their "starter" line, are hand wired, and all LA Audio tube products use hand-made output and power transformers developed in house. The output transformers, which have been an ongoing R&D focus, use OFC wire and specially designed iron cores in the modern toroidal shape. This may be an important ingredient in the LA Audio house sound. The little P-22s' specs quote full output power of 40 watts out to 50 kilohertz, with low distortion. It sure sounds as though these babies have bandwidth well past that of most of the gear I have heard in this price range. (I haven't heard everything, but I have heard a lot.)
Another aspect of LA Audio's transformers is something they call "ambisonics." The company says that this technology allows their amplifiers to "perform original sounds perfectly," but I have not seen any explanation of how this is accomplished. (Wasn't Ambisonics a recording technique from the four-channel audio days? I think there was even an amplifier company named Ambisonics from somewhere back east.) LA Audio also claims that their transformers permit truer sound when used in simple circuits such as the P-22's classic push/pull design. Other features of the C-22 and the P-22s include metal film resistors, thin film capacitors throughout, and specially selected high-quality coupling capacitors for the amps.
The appearance of these components is modern, solid, and handsome. All have matching gloss black front panels and long chrome chassis with the tubes up front and the round transformer cans at the back. The units are narrow (about 6.25 inches wide), and all three will fit across my 19.5-inch equipment rack with room in between. None is heavy—each amp weighs about 15.5 pounds, the line stage half that. Because of their light weight, I wished that the feet were stickier so the components could not slide around. If you have kids, it is easy enough to keep the components out of harm's way.
With every control on the front panels for good access, there isn't much for the user to do except turn the components on and adjust the level. The only controls on the front of the amps are the power pushbuttons, with small blue lamps indicating whether the units are on or off. The EL34 output tubes (two per amplifier) require no bias adjustment. (Do they have fixed cathode bias? A circuit description was not provided.) Each amp also has two twin-triode, nine-pin 12AU7 input tubes. There's nothing exotic here to fritter away your precious hard-earned dollars. For you green-minded folks, the amps are also efficient, drawing less than 98 watts while operating. If you want to save electricity, and possibly the planet, consider power consumption in your future choices of audio gear. On the practical side, less power means less heat, and fewer tubes to replace.
The line stage employs two 2AU7s and two 2AX7s. Like the P-22s, the front panel is minimalist. Controls include a pushbutton power switch with blue indicator light, a three-position input selector knob, and a volume knob. Turning on the C-22 creates a flash similar to the one I see when I fire up my 1960 Mullard 12AX7s. Nothing ever got hurt by this momentary flash, and my Mullards are still around after more than thirty years of service! Space for the connections on the back of the amps is tight, and I suggest that you install your interconnects first, especially if you're using locking RCAs. Then connect the speaker cables to the terminals. Even though these terminals are large, and look monstrously solid, I had trouble getting tight connections because of the close spacing. I would have liked to see standard hex nuts that can be tightened with a nut driver instead of knurled nuts that chewed up my fingers. Slide the power cord in last. While space is not quite as tight on the preamp, I recommend the same sequence there.
The amps get going within minutes, without any popping or image wander while they get warm. Same for the C-22, but it likes a longer warm-up time—the usual thirty minutes or so. After about five weeks of break-in, the LA Audio combination sounded fabulous in every way. I was drawn into the music for hours, with classical music especially wonderful. LA Audio's product literature talks about this three-piece set having "thrust," and the music they produce certainly has the kind of drive and toe-tapping rhythm that makes for great listening. I like classical music, jazz, and world music, and all of it sounded like it had been kicked up a notch through the LA Audio gear. With these components in my system, it was more listenable than usual at low levels, and even more listenable when driven at moderate levels.
I'm not going to describe every recording that impressed me (a practice of many reviewers, but one that seems redundant, even boring, when they use the same music to review every piece of gear, sometimes for years). Instead, I will discuss how certain instruments are portrayed by the LA Audio components. Guitars sound voluptuous—round and wooden, with vibrating soundboards. It is easy to discern different brands of guitar, and the players' different techniques. I used to play guitar, and nearly always go for my current guitar favorites when selecting demo discs. Nothing lacking here! Other stringed instruments, like violins, cellos, even harps, have that same wonderful, wooden, vibrating quality that makes them sound alive.
Female voices sound realistically solid, like there is a real person moving air, not that thin, ethereal sound that you get with some gear. Men's voices have an appropriately chesty quality, especially when the singers get close to the microphone. John Prine's voice has mellowed and picked up a caramel tone since his throat cancer cure. I immediately knew it was him, but he sounds richer now. Large vocal groups recorded in large spaces sound believable if they are recorded that way. If they are recorded from far away, it is obvious. I get very emotionally involved with these kinds of vocal pieces, and the LA Audio gear demands that I sit and listen to the whole performance.
Orchestral works have that lower-end bloom that you expect when lots of instruments are being played in a large space. Brass and horns have good bite and convincing blat—the kind that turns your head if you are not ready for it. Whenever I dig out Claudio Roditi (trumpet and flugelhorn), I think of my good friend Carlos Espinoza—trumpet maker, jazz player, and avid audiophile—who turned me onto his playing. Carlos and I spoke on the phone a few weeks back, and I asked him, "What's the first thing you listen for in a system?" (For me, it is tone—not image depth, soundstage, or any of the other stuff that reviewers rave about.) Carlos thought for about ten seconds before he answered—tone! Without great tone, you don't have anything. I listen to all the great trumpet players, and they always have great tone. That's what makes them great. Anybody can learn to play the notes, but not all learn how to get tone. In the guitar world, tone is about the only thing that is ever talked about—the tone of a certain guitar, of an amplifier, speaker, pick-ups, and so on. The C-22/P-22 combination has tone. I think you can only get great tone with tube equipment. Sorry, folks.
If you will allow me one of my usual crazy divergences here, I see a lot of audiophiles (many of them friends) running out to buy the latest, greatest, and most expensive amplifiers they can afford, only to put them into systems with ten-year-old (or older) CD players, sometimes in systems using even older speakers. Many are so personally invested in these "classics" that any mention of change will get you shunned. It's as if discussing the sound of someone's loudspeakers, whether it is mellow (archaic) or hyper-detailed (modern) is forbidden! My suggestion is that before you consider spending those big bucks ($5000, $7000, $10,000, and more) on one of those super amps, ask yourself: Will it make as much difference as spending the same amount of money on a modern front end? Probably not! Whatever happened to financially balanced audio systems? The audio magazines used publish spending schemes, with ratios determining how to spend your dollars wisely—say 25 to 35 percent for the front end, 25 percent for electronics, 25 to 35 percent for speakers, and the rest on such things as racks, wire, etc. These days, CD players are essentially computers, yet no one admits to using a ten-year-old computer, so why aren't you getting that new front end and the pristine-sounding, modestly priced electronics package I've been describing here? You've convinced yourself that you need a new amp, haven't you?
I think you'll be impressed, to say the least, by the LA Audio sound. The starter set—the C-22 preamp and P-22 monoblock amps—will cost you less than one of today's highly recommended Red Book CD players. You may even have enough cash left over to consider saving for some new speakers. (Tweeters are so much better these days that it isn't even a contest.) LA Audio will surely be around after Red Book players have been pushed from the marketplace (if, indeed, they ever are). And tubes are not going to go away as long as people love to listen to music. You must listen to the LA Audio gear, even if you're ready to spend a lot more money. Lester J. Mertz
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The world needs to wake up to the risk of a spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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Katie Holmes looks as lovely as ever in the April 2013 issue of Allure magazine. Inside, the actress opened up about the possibility of becoming mother again.
When Allure asked Holmes if she would be willing to give daughter Suri a little sister or brother, she admitted, "I don't know. I'm open to it."
We could see the actress in a new career role as well. She pondered, "Well, my brother and father are attorneys, and – we'll see. I like the practical thinking of attorneys."
Holmes also proved that she has a big heart by saying, "I hope this is a peaceful year for a lot of people in the world. When you look back on the last year, there were a lot of tragedies — Hurricane Sandy, the Connecticut shooting. I just hope it's a good year for everyone."
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TREASURE ISLAND City Commissioners moved forward Jan. 18 on a pair of ordinances that will pave the way for a redesigned downtown area.
A first reading and public hearing on both issues is expected Tuesday, Feb. 1.
The first ordinance approves the Local Planning Agencys Downtown Special Area Plan, while the second deals with related changes to the future land use element, future land use map and transfer of development rights in relation to the citys Downtown Redevelopment Plan.
The changes affect the central business district and Gulf Boulevard north from Publix Supermarket to the Bayside Inn. Plans call for the area to be transformed from commercial general to a new designation called planned redevelopment-mixed use.
The area is currently zoned commercial general, which does not support mixed use.
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Temporary units are defined as housing allowing for a maximum stay of 90 days, such as hotels and timeshares.
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This follows what the Pinellas County plan allows, as far as density, said City Planner Lynn Rosetti. Weve had numerous conversations with the Pinellas Planning Council staff to make sure were heading in the right direction.
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In my mind, I envision businesses on the ground level and residential townhomes above them, said Commissioner Phil Collins. Is that possible?
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I chose not to have surgery after consultation with a prominent Surgeon, who suggested I view that as a last resort. I have been prescribed Vicodin APAP 5/500, Immediate release 5mg Oxycodone & Extended release 10mg Oxycodone. Also Darvocet. I'm trying to experiment with what dosages of what meds at what times will manage my pain without over-medicating or suffering side effects. I am prone to migraines & have experienced those symptoms. I was given Phenergan (sp?) suppositories to be inserted 30 minutes prior to any oxy dose. I also wonder if the suppositories should preceed the Vicodin & Darvocet as well. It has been 3.5 months since my fall & injury. I am uncertain as to what pain level is historically "average" at this stage of recovery. On a daily basis, when I take (1) 10mg Oxycodone extended release, I get relief for about an hour, then add a 5mg Oxycodone at the (1) hour point & another if needed at the 3rd hour after the initial loading dose of 10mg Oxy extended. This generally allows me to stand, sit, stretch, light exercise, lay down cyclically throughout the day at pain levels ranging from 1 to 5.
I have tried the same initial 10mg loading dose regimen with a 10mg extended release Oxy and then augmented my pain control with Vicodin doses at (1) or (2) tablets every (4) to (6) hours. I know there are potential side effects with EITHER approach, & will be visiting the local Pain Management Clinic for assistance. Stomach, liver & kidney damage really concerns me. I am receiving Physical Therapy twice a week on average. Your thoughts, comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanceREAD MORE


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Accounting majors at Endicott complete a rigorous sequence of courses in both general business and accounting designed to provide a strong foundation in the topics specifically required to qualify a graduate to take the Massachusetts or other states' Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Exam.
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The Bachelor of Science degree program in Accounting has been designed to provide students with the educational background, ethical orientation and contemporary skill set needed to successfully launch a career in public or private accounting. As an Accounting major at Endicott you will complete courses in both general business and accounting. These courses are designed to prepare you to take the Massachusetts or other states' Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Exam upon graduation.
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
Evaluation of Rilonacept for Prevention of Gout Flares during Initiation of Urate-Lowering Therapy: Results of a Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.
Terkeltaub6, Robert, Schumacher5, H. Ralph, Saag4, Kenneth G., Clower7, James, Jennings1, William, Evans2, Robert R., Wang3, Jian
Radiant Research, San Antonio, TX
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
VA Medical Center and UPenn, Philadelphia, PA
VA Medical Ctr, San Diego, CA
Westside Center for Clinical Research, Jacksonville, FL
The present study evaluated the efficacy and safety of rilonacept (IL-1 Trap) for the prevention of gout flares (GFs) during initiation of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) with allopurinol. While attaining target serum levels is critical to the long-term management of gout, ULT can elicit or prolong acute attacks during the initial months of therapy. This paradoxical finding may be attributable to remodeling of crystal deposits during dissolution.
This North American multicenter trial included adults with gout (ARA criteria), urate levels >=7.5 mg/dL, and self-reported history of >=2 GFs in the previous year. Eligible patients were initiated on allopurinol 300 mg daily (or lower dose in those with renal dysfunction, with subsequent titration to achieve urate <6 mg/dL) and randomized to receive treatment with weekly subcutaneous (SC) injections of placebo (Pbo; n=80), rilonacept 80 mg (R80; n=80), or rilonacept 160 mg (R160; n=81) (loading dose on Day 1). GFs were reported by the patient via interactive voice response diary and treated, as appropriate, with NSAIDs or oral glucocorticoids while continuing study treatments. Efficacy endpoints included the number of GFs, % of patients with 1 or more flares, and number of flare days. Safety and tolerability were also assessed.
Baseline characteristics were similar among treatment groups; 92.9% were male, the mean ± SD age was 52.3±12.6 years, and the number of flares reported in the prior year was 4.6 ± 3.3. Fewer patients on Pbo completed the 16-wk treatment period (72.5%) compared with those receiving active treatment (80.0% R80; 86.4% R160). Observed serum urate levels decreased similarly in all 3 groups. Through wk 16, the mean number of GFs per patient (primary endpoint) was significantly lower in both R groups relative to Pbo: 1.06 (84 flares) for Pbo; 0.29 (23 flares) for R80, and 0.21 (17 flares) for R160 (95% CI, 0.22 to 0.46; p<0.0001 vs Pbo). One or more flares were reported by 46.8% Pbo, 18.8% R80, and 16.3% of R160 patients (p<0.0001). The number of flare days per patient was significantly lower with rilonacept: 5.52, 2.36, and 0.98 for Pbo, R80, and R160, respectively (p<0.0001 vs Pbo). From day 1 to wk 16, the proportion of patients who experienced multiple flares was 31.6% Pbo (95% CI, 21.6 to 43.1) vs 5.0% R80 (95% CI, 1.4 to 12.3) vs 3.7% R160 (95% CI, 0.8 to 10.6; p<0.0001 for both comparisons), resulting in an 84% and 88% reduction in the respective R groups. The overall incidence of adverse events (AE) was similar between Pbo (60.8%) and rilonacept (63.4%). Injection site reactions were the most frequent AE with rilonacept (14.3% vs 1.3%). Other common AEs, reported by >=5% of patients, were respiratory infections, musculoskeletal system disorders, and headache, and rates were generally similar among the treatment groups. Three patients in each group experienced serious AEs; no rilonacept-related SAEs, deaths, or serious infectious AEs were reported.
This phase 3 trial confirmed that IL-1 blockade with rilonacept markedly reduced the occurrence of gout flares during initiation of urate lowering therapy. Rilonacept demonstrated an acceptable safety and tolerability profile.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Terkeltaub, Robert, Schumacher, H. Ralph, Saag, Kenneth G., Clower, James, Jennings, William, Evans, Robert R., et al; Evaluation of Rilonacept for Prevention of Gout Flares during Initiation of Urate-Lowering Therapy: Results of a Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :152
DOI: 10.1002/art.27921


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Katerina Izmailova
In Shostakovich's dramatic opera, Katerina (Galina Vishnevskaya) is a lonely 19th-century Russian woman who falls in love with one of her husband's servants, driving her to commit murder. Banned in the former Soviet Union for nearly 30 years, this opera is often referred to as "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk." Conductor Konstantin Simeonov leads the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra in this rendition of Nikolai Leskov's story.


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Commercial Freight Activity
Commercial Freight Activity
The nation's freight transportation system, all modes combined, carried 15.8 billion tons of raw materials and finished goods in 2002, up 18 percent from 13.4 billion tons in 1993 (figure 1-11).1 The 2002 freight activity also represented 4,506 billion ton-miles at a value of $10,460 billion (in chained 2000 dollars2). Ton-miles have grown 24 percent since 1993, while value rose 45 percent (figure 1-12 and figure 1-13).
Trucking moved the majority of freight by tonnage and by shipment value in 2002: 9.2 billon tons (58 percent of the total tonnage) and $6,660 billion (64 percent of the total value). Multimodal shipments-a combination of more than one mode-were second by value at 11 percent ($1,111 billion), while waterborne carried 15 percent by weight (2.3 billion tons). Trucking and rail were responsible for 32 and 28 percent, respectively, of the total ton-miles.
These total commercial freight data were calculated by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, using data from the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) conducted in 1993, 1997, and 2002 and estimates of activity not covered by CFS (box 1-C). While these total estimates provide the most complete commercial freight picture for all modes of transportation, they exclude most shipments by the retail sector and governments (e.g., goods for defense operations and the collection of municipal solid waste). The estimate also excludes shipments by nongoods-producing sectors (e.g., services, construction, household goods movers, and transportation service providers).
1 All 2002 total commercial freight data here and in the accompanying figures and tables are preliminary. Although final 2002 Commodity Flow Survey data were available at the time this report was prepared, final 2002 supplemental estimates were still forthcoming.
2 All dollar amounts are expressed in chained 2000 dollars, unless otherwise specified. Current dollar amounts were adjusted to eliminate the effects of inflation over time.


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Sleigh bells ring, and we're listening. In fact, they're already driving us nuts. The minute December peeks around the calendar pages, the frenzy begins.
Patience and anxiety jockey for space. Hope and despair churn inside hearts. Joy and sadness compete for top billing in the mental compartment labeled "Christmas."
And nothing really gets done until the new year.
It's all about buying stuff. Society claimed this annual time of craziness to pump consumerism a long time ago. Christmas morning once was about new clothes and chocolate. Now it's iPhones and iPads (regular and mini), Bose headphones and flat-screen TVs. It's PlayStations and Wiis and LeapFrog 2 Explorer Learning Tablets for the kids. It's getting (electronically) ridiculous.
They tell us to see Christmas through the eyes of a child. OK, well, what do they see?
They say some of the top video games of 2012 were "Diablo III," "Battlefield 3" and "BioShock Infinite." Other top games for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 include "Resident Evil 6," "Assassin's Creed III" and "Hitman: Absolution." They're all about anger. As Dorothy said to Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Forget attention deficit disorder. We're turning our children into wide-eyed zombies ready to do violence at every turn. No more pulling pigtails; cut 'em off. No more jostling for the first place in line; neutralize the one in front with a rabbit punch.
Are all the small ones like that? No, of course not. But many are fed a steady diet of the latest, greatest garbage to watch with the latest, greatest electronics. No matter child psychologists' experiments find children are perfectly happy with cardboard refrigerator boxes, great for castles and palaces. Whiz-bang has replaced gee-whiz, and everything needs to be plugged in.
It isn't Christmas. The season is not in the vaguest way connected to a time of patient, hope-filled, joyful expectation for the gifts of friends and family, of a few days' rest, of maybe some quiet and some solitude in recognition of the birth of Jesus Christ.
It seems no one wants to remember what the holiday is all about. Others complain well and loud about how media and government conspire to remove religion from the season. I don't exactly think it's a lost cause, but the inanity of the discussion defies belief.
For example, the video clip of television personality Bill O'Reilly arguing with Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island says it all. Chafee refuses to call the tree in his state house a "Christmas tree." He says it's a "holiday tree." Chafee's reasoning is perfectly strange: He says when he went to public school in Rhode Island, he had to recite the Lord's Prayer after the Pledge of Allegiance, and that's the same as having a Christmas tree in a public building. Stranger still, Chafee, a professional farrier (a sort of combo blacksmith-veterinarian for horses), runs a state that is 88 percent Christian.
At least the White House and New York's Rockefeller Center still have Christmas trees -- for now. But there are lots of other places -- schools, hospitals, public buildings -- where Christmas has been canceled and replaced by a plain vanilla "holiday" in the name of some perverted understanding of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I think if we are going to honor the season -- anybody's season -- it is important to remember what it is all about. I don't mind -- in fact, I think it quite important -- to celebrate not only Christmas, but Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and any other holiday as the shortest day of the year approaches. The point is there will be light, increasing light, in last week of December. Religious folks are grateful for that light and count it as a gift of God.
That light illuminates -- more and more each day after Dec. 21 -- the fragile earth we cling to. It brings us just a tad more warmth, maybe even a bit more joy. It gives us hope for days ahead, encouraging us to celebrate love and life without anything that needs to be plugged in, without anything that distracts us from the project of being human.
[Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University and author of several books in Catholic studies. Her most recent books are Women & Catholicism (Palgrave-Macmillan), Women in Ministry: Emerging Questions about the Diaconate (Paulist Press) and Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future (with Gary Macy and William T. Ditewig), (Paulist Press).]
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If you hash a cold duck in this manner, a quarter of an hour will be sufficient for stewing it; it having been cooked already.
In addition to the beef, you may put in pieces of cold goose, or cold duck.
A cold duck that has been under-done may be stewed in this manner.
I beg pardon, my lady, only the head steward requested me to inform your ladyship that there is cold duck.
And nothing all the way, but hard boiled eggs, and a cold duck, and ham sandwiches.
Tamales and cold duck, sweet cake and the guava jelly that was Isabel's favorite dainty.
We ate luncheon—a bit of cold duck, some koonti-bread, and a dish of palm-cabbage.
cold duck or game is very nice warmed in the same way as mutton, the bones in all cases being reserved for stock.
Add a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, arrange around the cold duck.
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The Complete Superman Collection
Diamond Anniversary Edition
- 1941-1943 (1999) - Image
review by Brad Pilcher of
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Film Rating: B
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B-/F
Specs and Features
147 mins, NR, full frame (1.33:1), single-sided, single-layered, Snapper case packaging, film-themed menu screens, scene access (18 chapters), languages: English (DD 1.0 mono), subtitles: None
"Look! Up in the sky, it's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
There is perhaps no comic book superhero more recognizable than Superman. The sight of that red cape flowing as he leaps over a tall building is as much a part of our collective childhood as sandlot baseball games. So it was with great pleasure that I got my hands on a disc full of classic
cartoons. These aren't your Saturday morning variety animations. When most of us think of Superman on TV, our earliest memories are of the
(which debuted in 1973). However, way back in 1941, when Superman was only a few years old, Paramount Pictures contracted Max and Dave Fleischer to do a series of shorts.
The Fleischer brothers, who created Betty Boop and Popeye, produced seventeen short films between late-1941 and mid-1943. The fact that they were made for theatrical release, and the fact that they involved painstaking craftsmanship, made them incredible in quality. Now, all seventeen films have released together on DVD and, considering their age, they look fabulous.
The stories are simplistic, lacking in character development and essentially playing out by the number. And since they came so early in Superman history, they lack most of what we associate with the comic book today. It's also important to note how much World War II propaganda played a role. One episode is even called
, and features Japanese saboteurs. With that in mind, you may be less than entertained by the shorts, and it may be better to watch only a few at a time. However, when taken in the context of the time, the stories are solid and the animation is beautiful. The use of shading, in particular, is stunning. In one episode, as Superman is flying, we shoot to a close-up of his face. That one scene is as stunning as any modern animation, and even after all of this time, it has held up wonderfully. It's interesting to note the influence that the style of these original
shorts has had on the look of Warner's new
Batman and Superman
animated serials, or even Warner's
Iron Giant
The video quality on this disc is actually quite good when taken in context. The source materials are well over a half-century-old, and they've held up rather well considering. The source defects are all here, with grain and even the occasional slight rip in the print. That said, this could much worse. I've seen films that are only a decade or two old look atrocious on DVD, yet these shorts, which were first released at the beginning of World War II, look remarkable. Obviously, it isn't A+ material, but it's rock solid video on the whole.
The audio on the disc is also good considering the time that has passed, but it comes off a bit scratchy and high on the treble at times. You also begin to notice, as you watch each episode, how the sound was looped. Whenever Clark Kent quips, "That sounds like a job for Superman," it sounds identical every time. In other words, the mono track is entirely non-dynamic and it begins to become downright repetitive after a while.
There aren't any extras to speak of. Even the menu system, which is in perfect keeping with the Superman character, reflects what little this disc provides aside from the films. You have an option to either play the movies or select a scene. That's it. Now, its hard to expect anything in the way of extras when you consider the age of subject material, but I would have liked to have seen some little fluff pieces about the history of Superman at least, or may material on the Fleischers.
In the end, if you're a fan of comics or a fan of Superman, this is a must-see disc. These were the first cinematic incarnations of the Man of Steel and they represent a quality of animation that is lacking in so much of what is created today. Even after five plus decades, the quality of the art created by the Fleischer brothers is astounding. Without any extras, the disc may come off as a lightweight. In fact, I wouldn't recommend paying the SRP of $29.99. But you should be able to find the disc at a low price, and if you do, grab it up faster than a speeding bullet.
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The UT Symphony Orchestra will present the academic premiere of Knoxville: Summer of 2015, a musical sequel to Samuel Barber's famous Knoxville: Summer of 1915, on Friday, October 30, at the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville. The concert is a collaboration of the School of Music and the Department of Theatre.
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The UT Symphony Orchestra will partner with the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra for a concert on Sunday, October 27. This is the second concert of the UT Symphony Orchestra's 2013-14 season, Old Friends, New Beginnings. The 7:30 p.m. performance will be in the Alumni Memorial Building Cox Auditorium and is free and open to the public.


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- 08/19/2007
Two Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Awards are presented each year in honor and recognition of meritorious and sustained records of excellence in teaching and creativity related to teaching to two full-time faculty members of the University of Nebraska. Both awards may be made to the same campus in a given year.
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|VIDEO: Neal Grandgenett – 2016 OTICA Winner
|Neal Grandgenett, Ph.D., Dr. George and Sally Haddix Community Chair of STEM Education in the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Grandgenett teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in data-driven decision making, interdisciplinary STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning and research methods. His efforts at UNO have helped establish dual pathways for P-12 STEM teacher certification that are collaborative across colleges, and his community efforts have engaged thousands of teachers and other campuses in efforts like learning with educational robotics and wearable technologies. A 27-year veteran of UNO, Grandgenett is a favorite among students, achieving a lifetime instructor average on student evaluations of 4.88 on a five-point scale. His research interests align closely with his teaching and focus on the investigation of technology-based learning in STEM education, a topic on which he has authored more than 130 articles and research papers. Grandgenett has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on nearly $18 million in federal grants, and has been the investigator or co-investigator on 10 National Science Foundation grants, several of which have been shared with other NU campuses.


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Moving back to Austin has required a shifting of mindset.
A remembering of ooh yes, summer is when we bring movement indoors unlike our time in Oakland.
This summer we've done lottsa
free creative stuff (indoor obstacle courses, duct tape hopscotch grids etc.) but, eventually, it was time to pry open the wallet.
Trampoline parks. Bowling. Indoor mini-golf. Rock walls.
Finally I had to face the fact roller rink was our final option.
The child had been begging. I wasn't excited. I'm uncoordinated.
Even 30 years ago when I skated weekly I merely rocked the basics.
No tricks. No fancy backward skate while simultaneously googly-eyed during couples skate. Forward movement only.
My skating years. Confidence much?!
It's not skating specifically, either. I'm generally, overall NOT athletic.
I'm so wobbly during sporty endeavors that, while the Child may deem me her safe person, even she knows never to cling to my hand or we will both go down.
I'm OK with that. My self-definition does NOT include the word athlete. Life is my sport.
I'm not OK enough with it enough, however, to sit on the sidelines when we went to the roller rink.
I was terrified.
I joked (more truth said in jest alert!) how I feared I might break a hip.
skates on. still considering bailing.
I did it.
And I didn't lace up & skate for *her* (she resembled the picture below most of the time.) — I did it for me.
I fell (once). I boogied (twice). I laughed (underwater tea party laugh!). I wasn't very good.
I fell in love with it.
I fell in love mainly because I hadn't felt so proud of myself in a long, long time.
4 reasons why roller skating is my new fave PLAYout:
- I'm terrible. The Child can see see how not good I am. It provides me opportunity to practice what I long to preach with regards to trying new things: it doesn't matter if we aren't great at something immediately when we're having fun.
- It's my running…or so I hope. I've always been jealous of how runners simply open the door and GO! Sure, I do the same with walking, but I'd longed to shake it up a bit. My 'hood is hilly but I'm plotting a course where it's "not so" and hope once the heat breaks my skills are ready!
I bought a pair for home use!
- I'm Tootie! #wycwyc isn't just something I promote it's my way of life. Say what you will about aging–the BONUS is we get to make many of the rules. In my house there's absolutely no rule against skating on the hardwood. I've deemed myself the Tootie Ramsey of Texas.
- It's good for me. Quite frankly, this is not my motivation. Skating is great cardio. Skating is gentle to the joints. Skating is a fab lower body workout. My love of the skate goes far deeper than that–but there is *that* if you care.
my local rink *tries* to make me care.
- It's moving meditation. I wish I possessed words to convey how powerful this is. Walking still works yet the more I breath-walk the more easily Ive become distracted by my surroundings. The sheer movement of skating is meditative to me and I imagine this will only increase the more my wobbling decreases.
And really?
That's it.
No call to action.
No question of the day.
All me, my skates and a profound wish I had 'Oprah money' as then you'd all possess sneaker skates as well.


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Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center
Our science center needs state-of-the-art information technology (IT) hardware and software to conduct mineral resource studies and assessments. This project provides IT technical support for our scientists' specific research. We also provide geographic information systems (GIS) management and support to promote geospatial data development, visualization, analyses, modeling, and documentation.
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