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I know a USRP can be a transmitter and a receiver, but can a single unit transmit and receive at the same time? The application in question involves sending an RF signal to an RFID tag and then reading the tag's response using just one USRP. I've heard that the link between the channels can cause significant bleed over because there isn't isolation between the channels, but couldn't find an example showing simultaneous Tx and Rx. Is there an example or documentation that I'm missing?
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Hi Kristen,
The USRP can transmit and receive at the same time. You are correct that there will be bleed over due to lack of isolation, however the documentation for the USRP is still being formed and does not include information about this. Here are 2 VIs that you can use to do simultaneous TX/RX. Simply set the IP address in both VIs to be the IP address of your USRP and run them. You may have to tweak the IQ rate and the frequencies for your application, but this very basic example should be a good starting point.
Let me know if you have any further questions, I'd be happy to help.
Hi Sarah-
Thanks for the examples. I noticed though that they are LV2011 files. Any chance we could get them as older versions for those that aren't up to date?
Also...I see that you have essentiall written two separate programs...one for Tx and one for Rx. Are these any different than the continuous Tx and Rx example programs that get shipped with the driver?
I tried to do something like this a few weeks ago...but instead had a Tx and Rx loop executing in a single LV program. The TX loop simply output a sine wave...and the RX loop captured it and plotted the magnitude spectrum. Basically...I copied the individual Tx and Rx example programs and pasted them into a single VI. However...I noticed some 'glitching' in the spectrum, but was never able to track down the cause. My thought was that it was due to some subtleties of running concurrent loops in the same program. It would be interesting to see what actions might be needed to implement it this way.
02-27-2012 03:57 PM - edited 02-27-2012 03:58 PM
Hi Brandon,
Sorry about the delay in reply, I was out of office last week. I have attached the VIs for LabVIEW 2009 below (NI-USRP only works with LV 2009 or later).
The only difference I saw between these VIs and the examples shipped with the driver is that examples also are set up for triggering.
You are correct that you can run the TX and the RX portion of the code in the same VI. This is typically what I do, I just didn't have code saved that I had tested to post. When you say that you are getting glitches, what type of glitches do you see? Do you see them after a specific number of samples? If you have screen shots of what you are seeing and your code, I'd be happy to take a look and see if it's something I can replicate or if there's any easy fix. Typically a glitch can be seen due to the buffers and the way the data is loaded into them or the way that the configurations are done if you are using a loop.
Hi Sarah!
The 'glitches' I was seeing was in the spectrum. I set up the USRP to transmit a sine wave (for example, I=1 and Q=0 for all time)...and the viewed the spectrum. Every so often, the impulse representing the demodulated sine wave would dip...or I'd see lots of side-lobes....or the main lobe would widen...or the noise floor would rise....or some combination of these.
My guess...just as you mentioned....was that I didn't quite understand some subtleties in how data was moved in and out of the Tx and Rx buffers....however....since I was only transmitting a single tone (i.e. - my I's and Q's weren't changing over time)...it didn't seem like this would be the cause. In other words...if I was doing something like overwriting the Tx buffer before it had a chance to empty, it wouldn't have mattered because the IQ data was always the same.
Perhaps it was something on the receive end.
Hi Brandon,
I assume that when you say spectrum, you mean that you are looking at the power spectrum. I tried this out on my USRP to see if I get the same behavior. When I ran the VI (attached, very basic. I just combined the RX and TX examples) with the Baseband Power Spectrum X and Y axis autoscaled, I saw what looked like the noise floor changing. However if I changed by X and Y axis, I saw very stable behavior where my spectrum looked like this (units on the graph are off):
Also if you are seeing the main lob widen, this could be an indication of phase noise. Make sure that your cables are all connected securely and not damaged. If this is not the behavior that you are seeing let me know. And once again, feel free to post screen shots or code, I can easily try it out on my system to see if I get the same behavior.
Hi Sarah-
- Yes. The power spectrum. Sorry for my vague description.
- No. This was not an issue of axis autoscaling. With autoscaling off...there were still significant changes in the power spectrum. To verify this... x output into my PXI spectrum analyzer (NI 5660) and observed the same behavior.
- The behavior only occured when I was running both my Tx and Rx loops in the same VI simultaneously...so I felt that it was more likely my code rather than the hardware. If I operate JUST the Tx example program or JUST the Rx example program...there was no issue.
I ended up taking another route and just using an external source and an Rx path of my USRP and had sinced moved on. However...I'll try to go back in the next few days and dig up the code I had been working on and pass it along.
Thanks for the conversation!


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The Men in Black have never reached the final of the European Cup, having previously fallen short in two semi-finals.
Success for Mark McCall's side against the Top 14 league club would see them complete the first part of a potentially glorious double as they also reached the Premiership final following a 31-17 victory over Harlequins last weekend.
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Scorer of the decisive third try, Ashton will be available for selection after avoiding an RFU sanction for 'heckling' Quins fly-half Nick Evans as he attempted to convert a Mike Brown try on Saturday.
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Alistair Hargreaves and Mouritz Botha are expected to start if Borthwick misses out.
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"I've done a few laps around Leicester so I kind of know the place and I kind of expected a bit from myself before the start of the meeting, but not as much as I got," he said.
"I know what I can do but it's easier said than done. At the minute I'm just on a crest of a wave and I just keep going and I'm getting better and better.
"I'm trying to stay on the bike as much as I can because if you start taking breaks or if you start to relax at all then you lose the momentum.
"The thing for me to do is to keep on riding as much as I can and to keep fit."
The key to Worrall's success, he believes, has been his improved machinery which includes an engine he borrowed from twin brother Richie late last year.
"I've changed my machinery, that's the biggest thing because you don't become a bad rider overnight, but last year I kind of did," he said.
"At the end of the season I borrowed an engine off Richie and things just went on from there. I'm still on that engine now and I've invested a lot of money in two new ones some I'm circulating around those three and using new bikes from the winter.
"Keeping fit makes you feel a lot better about yourself and if you get to the line knowing you're a lot fitter than the rider next to you then you've already got the edge on them mentally.
"A lot has changed over the winter and it's all going well for me."
When asked if his brother might want his engine back, the Robins man said: "He used the engine for the British Final and he doesn't like it, I don't know why."


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Published: Monday, November 12, 2012 at 11:51 p.m.
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After a five-year absence, the Buchholz Bobcats are back in the final four in girls volleyball, taking on nationally ranked Venice in a Class 7A semifinal today at Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee.
Who: Buchholz (27-5) vs. Venice (27-3)
Where: Silver Spurs Arena, Kissimmee When: 2 p.m. today
Up next: Winner will play winner of Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas-Lakeland George Jenkins in Wednesday's state final at 6:05 p.m.
The match is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
The Bobcats (27-5), winners of seven straight, advanced after Saturday's 3-1 victory at Orange City University. Buchholz's only other final four appearance came in 2007 and ended with the Class 6A state title.
"We have a great tradition, a great program under Jeff Reavis and Alesha Busch before me and have been to the elite eight six times, but this is only our second final four," said Buchholz first-year coach Justin Dee. "This is definitely a big thing and something that the girls have earned. It is a tribute to our seniors, how hard they have clawed, got close and have finally made it."
The Indians (27-3), under longtime coach Brian Wheatley, have won 13 straight and are ranked No. 25 nationally by MaxPreps. Among their wins was a 2-0 victory over Buchholz (28-26, 25-20) at the Berkeley Premier in Tampa on Sept. 22.
In Wheatley's 19 years as coach, Venice has reached the state playoffs 18 times, are in its sixth state semifinal, have played for four state titles and won two of them (5A in 2005 and 1998). Its last final four came in 2009 when it was swept 3-0 by Tallahassee Leon.
Buchholz is led by a trio of seniors in outside hitters Caroline Redmond (589 kills, 242 digs) and Olivia Reed (486 kills, 203 digs, 44 ace serves), and setter Gaby Rubeis (787 assists, 239 kills, 173 digs). Sophomore libero Kelly Collins has a team-high 356 digs and senior Ella Spelman has 21.5 blocks.
Senior outside hitter Holly Mattmuller (451 kills, 466 digs), who will be attending the Coast Guard Academy, leads the Indians. Her younger sister, sophomore Lauren Mattmuller, has 68 blocks and senior defensive specialist Taylor Jais has 614 digs. Sophomore hitter Gen Beaumier is also an offensive force with 369 kills and 52 aces.
"Venice is a great team, a very disciplined team that has a terrific coach," Dee said. "They have always been good on defense and this year they have a great offensive team as well.
"We weren't the greatest team back then when we last played them, but we have made some strides. If we play as one, as a team, we will be there on Wednesday (in state final). If not, and we play like six individuals, we are coming home on Tuesday."
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Only a few hundred spectators were sprinkled around Wankhede Stadium on 28 January as Mumbai demolished Saurashtra to win the Ranji Trophy yet again. These matches used to draw massive crowds, but are now usually played in empty stadiums, with stray applause echoing around the deserted stands. There was a slightly better turnout the previous day, when Mumbai opener Wasim Jaffer became the highest run getter in the tournament history as well as the person to score the maximum number of Ranji Trophy centuries. It was a Sunday when Jaffer was at the crease, and the man who gave him company for some time from the other end was Sachin Tendulkar. Both reasons, especially the latter, helped pull in a few thousands for a couple of hours. Then the eerie silence reigned once again.
It was not always so. Tendulkar will surely remember the stands packed with cheering fans during the nail-biting 1991 final, when Mumbai played Haryana for top honours. It is perhaps the greatest Ranji final ever. Mumbai were chasing 355 to win the game on the final day. They began badly, till Tendulkar and his captain, Dilip Vengsarkar, came together. The younger man took charge, leading a breathtaking counter-attack. He scored 96 of the 134 runs the two put on together. One stroke remains etched in my mind: A straight six off Kapil Dev that went deep into the stands. Tendulkar fell. Vengsarkar, by then limping because of a strained hamstring, tore into the Haryana attack with only one functional leg. He eventually ran out of partners, with Mumbai a tantalizing two runs short of victory. The last wicket was a messy run-out. Vengsarkar flung his bat in disgust, sank to the ground, and then stood up with tears running down his face. Some 30,000 spectators cheered him off the field, even as Haryana won the Ranji Trophy for the first time.
Any cricket fan of a certain vintage will remember how important the Ranji Trophy was in his annual cricketing calendar, on par with the Test matches featuring India and the games in England and Australia that were brought home by the likes of John Arlott through the mad hiss-and-crackle of short wave radio. It is easy to get nostalgic about those glory days of the Ranji Trophy, but much has changed since 1991. The advent of cable television has made quality cricket available to fans round the year, and that too in the comfort of their homes. The packed international schedule also means that the best cricketers rarely have the time to play for their local teams. The Indian Premier League (IPL) juggernaut has destroyed whatever vestigial interest there was in domestic cricket. Fans once had to troop to Ranji Trophy matches when they wanted to watch the best players display their skills; they no longer need to do so.
K.S. Ranjitsinhji. In its initial decade, it remained second in importance to the Bombay Pentangular, which was based on community teams (the Hindus, Muslims, Parsis, Europeans and the Rest). The Pentangular was shut down only in 1946. As late at 1959, Vijay Merchant would complain in an essay published in Wisden, the annual cricketing Bible: "We have our national championship for the Ranji Trophy but the performances put up are not given due recognition. When a visiting team arrives in this country we make a new start with cricket camps, trial matches, performances against visitors in the preliminary fixtures, etc., but form in our premier tournament is hardly ever taken into consideration. Thus, except for the semi-finals and the finals there is no interest in this tournament on the part of the selectors or organizers."
Despite these early hiccups, the Ranji Trophy eventually became the main showcase of Indian cricketing talent. The golden era was undoubtedly between 1956 and 1985. Bombay (as Mumbai was then called) won in 23 of these 30 years, including an unbelievable 15-year winning streak between 1959 and 1973. The only comparable example of dominance on the cricket field was when Surrey won the English county championship for seven consecutive years between 1952 and 1958. Yorkshire won seven times in the 1930s, but never more than thrice in a row.
Bishan Singh Bedi, Madan Lal and the Amarnath brothers (Mohinder and Surinder) signed up for the city team. Hyderabad was blessed with artistes such as the Nawab of Pataudi, Abbas Ali Baig and M.L. Jaisimha, the cricketing forefathers of Mohammad Azharuddin and V.V.S. Laxman. But perhaps the greatest duel was between Bombay and what was then called Mysore. The Mysore team was set on the path to future glory by its captain V. Subramanya, who was followed by E.A.S. Prasanna, B.S. Chandrasekhar, G.R. Viswanath and later, Brijesh Patel. It was Mysore that eventually ended the Bombay hegemony in 1974.
The precipitous decline in the importance of the Ranji Trophy is not just a matter for nostalgic complaints. There are two reasons why we should mourn what has happened. First, all great sporting duels are enriched by memories of past encounters. A Bombay versus Karnataka match was special because it was seen as the latest edition of a long cricketing contest. The IPL, for all its razzmatazz and popularity, may never develop such deep loyalties, precisely because it promises ephemeral joy rather than deep commitment. I am a regular watcher of IPL matches, but find it hard to believe that a Mumbai Indians versus Kolkata Knight Riders game, for example, will have any significance other than its immediate impact on that season's rankings. The matches are too short and the players too mobile for the IPL to build a lasting narrative of great sporting contests.
The second reason is that the old Ranji Trophy matches were a route to pass on local cricketing traditions. In Bombay, the mantle of technically-sound batting passed seamlessly from Vijay Merchant to Vijay Manjrekar to Ajit Wadekar to Sunil Gavaskar to Vengsarkar to Tendulkar. That is over six decades. The lack of top cricketers in the tournament these days chokes this pipeline of tradition.
I am told that the sheer presence of Tendulkar in the Mumbai dressing room this year has offered important lessons to the younger players, including the fact that they should be at the nets on time and take every practice session seriously. Youngsters from the teams that played Mumbai this season have also sought out the great man for advice.
The golden age of the Ranji Trophy was over long ago. It is no longer the only stepping stone to a place in the national team either. The stars rarely play. Few bother to watch the games. The decline is perhaps inevitable, but I cannot help feeling that Indian cricket has lost something important.
As one final reminder of how much the Ranji Trophy meant for Indian cricket, here is an anecdote recounted by Gavaskar. He was a schoolboy when Bombay met Mysore in a semi-final in 1967. Ajit Wadekar scored a famous 323 while Dilip Sardesai scored 111. They faced two of the greatest spinners the world has ever seen—Prasanna and Chandrasekhar. "It was a great sight for a student like me who was trying to get into cricket. Two outstanding players of spin bowling and two outstanding spin bowlers were trying to get on top of each other." Prasanna loved to toss up the ball, and the quicksilver footwork of Sardesai was better suited to dealing with him. Wadekar found Chandrasekhar easier to bat to. "The result was a massive partnership and it was as good a contest between the bat and the ball that one could have hoped to see," writes Gavaskar in a pen portrait of Prasanna.
There are still many talented players appearing in the Ranji Trophy. The classically-correct Jaffer is but one example. But the glory days are gone, perhaps forever.


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Also jumping into the rankings is the Saint Leo doubles tandem of Pauline Helgesson and Maria Benkirane in the No. 20 spot. The duo went 17-7 overall and 5-2 in the tough Sunshine State Conference. Playing primarily out of the top doubles spot, Helgesson and Benkirane went 10-5 while also posting a 7-2 record at the No. 2 spot.
After wrapping up another successful campaign, Head Coach James Bryce and the Lions hosted the NCAA South Region Tournament, advancing to the championship match before falling to West Florida. The Lions went 18-5 on the season, finishing second in the conference while continuing to further the notoriety of the Saint Leo Women's Tennis program.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's cross country team continued to show steady improvement as they to finished 13th (386 pts.) at the 2011 Walt Disney World Classic 5K, Saturday morning from a rainy Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista.
It marked the final regular season run for the squad as they now begin preparations for the 2011 Sunshine State Conference Championships.
SSC Tampa finished as the top school in the 28-team competition, closing the race with 48 points. Meanwhile, Florida Atlantic's Michelle Jax won individual honors with a pace of 18:08.90.
Holding top honors for the fifth time this season was Tereza Novotna. Novotna finished sixth-of-259 runners with a time of 18:40.90.
A steady Jillian Browne also made her mark for the squad as finished under the 20-minute mark for the fifth time in 2011, closing with a time of 19:54.30 and in 34th-place.
Freshman Amanda Leon continued to show her improvement as she placed in the top third of competitors with an 82nd-place finish at 20:46.20.
Freshman teammate Holly Blackburn also made her presence known as she finished in the top half of the field with a closing time of 21:27.20.
Kali Carney crossed the tape at just a tick under 24 minutes at 23:59.80, and Elyse Snyder added the Lions' impressive performance with a performance of 24:42.10.
Melissa Goldstein put the finishing touches on the team's afternoon as she placed ahead of four other conference competitors with a time of 27:07.20
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AMD updates driver and programming tools roadmap for supporting HSA features in Kaveriby Rahul Garg on 3/3/2014 8:30 AM EST
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fteoath64 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkAs I suspected, Linux will get the HSA stack and compiler tools first. There is little incentive for MicroSoft to do much since Intel is not supporting HSA (as yet or if ever). But server apps will surely benefit hugely from HSA. As to the development of OpenCL 2.0, the pace depends on niche players like Altera, AMD and kronos group members. AMD has to champion the HSA runtime themselves for Kaveri. It seems like a couple of quarters away at best. Reply
Klimax - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkVendor specific stacks are rarely pushed by Microsoft, that's up to vendor themselves.
Note: Intel supports properly OpenCL and HSA-like apps (CPU+GPU) are running very well...
I doubt HSA will do any good to AMD... Reply
przemo_li - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkhUMA alone is great boost to everything. Other unified ways of doing things only make HSA-stack more atractive.
And HSA spread development costs.
PS HSA is no about CPU+GPU, its about making that difference go away. OpenCL is side addition to HSA. (Development in similar direction?) Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThis reads like a press release not an article, and has no business on the front page. Reply
A5 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkPipeline has been around for a few years now. Have you just never read it before? Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI've been reading it for years. Normally it reads as a short news piece. Since AMD bought custom branding for a stream of its contents, I've felt that the pipeline items that appear from AMD Center have been below average quality; but this is a farce and a disgrace. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkMy take as well. Reply
Homeles - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkPipeline has nothing to do with this. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkOn the home page, this stinker is displayed with the other pipeline stories. Reply
Homeles - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkWhat I'm saying is that the fact that this is a Pipleline article is irrelevant. It doesn't matter where it's posted.
I think you're being a bit harsh, but I do see what you're saying. Reply
pidgin - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkwill HSA benefit games that from off from dGPU? Reply
pidgin - Monday, March 03, 2014 - link*run Reply
samlebon2306 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkIt would benefit games in the following scenario:
- Physics implemented on HSA on the iGPU
- Rendering on the dGPU.
AMD is working on this configuration. Reply
fteoath64 - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkYes. Physics in iGpu via HSA stack and rendering on dGpu (via OpenCL or direct). Other fp-Ops can be on the iGpu has well with HSA depending on the compiler targets for CU resources. Potentially I see the HSA Runtime unit maybe tunable on each config so it can be manually optimized for some really heavy games like Crysis. Reply
przemo_li - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkAMD must have somthing for Linux gamers. They are shipping Linux benchmarking website crew (and authors of nice benchmarking framework), to the GDC this year.
While they failed to ship any hw in recent years... Reply
przemo_li - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkhUMA is just ***** great. For everyone. And gamed do use some heavy phisical calculations that can be done swiftly on GPU... When You remove roadblocks, like those nasty memory transfers) Reply
fteoath64 - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkYeah but advantage is for only AMD since they have the only implementation with Kaveri. One can see that there are a couple of serious improvements needed to increase the Ram controller bandwidth of AMD's core compared to the Intel RAM bandwidth speeds. ALso, it is possible to mix GDDR5 RAM (like in PS4) with DDR3-2400 in a later iteration where the hUMA switch manages the ram segments for all the CUs to use. That would really super-charge the gpu cores.
Looking even further, I can see AMD changing PCIe slot0 to a hUMA-Port so dGPU will be part of the APU as a full and equal CU. If you look back at AGP development, it is almost the same method. Sure if Nvidia wants to make hUMA-Port dGPU in future, they should be able to do so.
This would be interesting when Arm 64bit server chips with HSA comes and has dual sided, hUMA-port connects. ie serious GPU compute clusters at low cost. I can
hope since the HSA architecture has legs beyond they traditional design. It is a greater leap than many people thinks. Reply
przemo_li - Monday, March 03, 2014 - link@Rahul Garg
OpenMP 4.0 should land in GCC 4.9, and that is based on GOMP branch (Red Hat seam to be moving into merging it at last).
So AMDs work should be based on this.
(So GCC 4.9 it should be :) and at least acceleration of some of OpenMP) Reply
ruthan - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI should be working about of box in all main compiler and without change of simple line of code, after that it have change, otherwise it will next Nvdia / Ati dead project.. Reply
duffie - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkLooking forward to AMD's beta HSA software stack for Linux in Q2 2014! I wish AMD would have released it already when they launched Kaveri... Reply
spigzone - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - link... as a compiler for HSAIL and ***an*** HSA runtime Reply
konroh77 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkAnyone have any update on when the A8-7600 will be available? AMD says Q1-2014, but that ends at the end of March... Reply


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Clare Waight Keller really seems to have caught her stride. Chloé, as she sees it, is about a breezy chiffon top with some ruffles or layers, a tomboyish pant, a cool ankle boot and killer bundle-me-up-in-this-forever outerwear. Fall was a great example of all of that. Sasha Pivovarova opened the show in a clean, ivory robe coat, staunchly leading the way for several more that followed: a pretty, simple grape-color version cinched with an ecru leather tie; puffy leather hoodies "like pillows," Waight Keller said backstage; and a voluminous black spotted number with an oversize shawl collar that you could just wrap right over your head when the weather gets to be too much (which lately is pretty much all the time).
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Denton Malcolm, also known as "Rude Kid-da-ReggaeRap Inventor," took NFTE at Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School in 1994. Of his schools days, Denton remembers, "Life was great. I was the president and captain of all the major organizations at school—I just wanted to know how to market myself as an artist." So Denton enrolled in a NFTE course, to learn just that.
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Just read the treasury department sanctioned Hezbollah. "Sanction" puzzles me, as it is a self-contradiction. The first definition I looked up said the noun means censure, but the verb means to approve. In context, the treasury strongly DISapproved of the behavior. How do you read this slippery word?
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Aye, this is a slippery one. We can understand it only from context. Here's what the Good Doctor had to say about it.
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>General Running>Running with a sore throat or cold
Do you run with a sore throat or cold? I have heard that it is ok to run if your symptoms are "above the neck" only, but is it still wise?
Does the weather factor into your decision whether or not to run? e.g. rain, cold, snow, wind, puddles, slush...
What if you have some reason for particularly wanting to avoid getting sicker (a race, a wedding, a work commitment...)?
My rule of thumb is that if you have no fever it is fine to work out but certainly watch the intensity. I wouldn't go out and do a hero work out if not feeling well or have a virus as it will run you down even more.
Weather has minimal effect other than pouring rain or slush or all ice - then I will hit the treadmill. No one wants to be miserable or risk being injured.
Those who try, fail! Those who do what it takes to succeed, succeed!!
I've been sick since Sunday with some kind of sinus cold thing. I've run every day since but cut back on intensity and volume. For instance, I had an interval workout scheduled for yesterday, but I did an easy run instead. The other days I did about half my normal mileage, probably 2-3 minutes slower than usual. On Sunday I probably should have just taken the day off because I realized after the run that I had a fever. I ended up feeling really horrible for the rest of the day. If I'm just kinda congested, though, running (gently) can often make me feel a little better. Also, I like to run on the treadmill when I'm feeling at all sick, just in case I start to feel really bad during the run. That way I can just hop off and I'm already at home. If I had to run outside I'd try to stay in the neighborhood.
Whether it's above or below the neck, nothing makes me feel better when I have a cold or flu than a good hard run in the Miami heat followed by a shower. Makes me feel like new for hours after.
BUT: That's just my habit and my personal experience and not based on any medical knowledge, etc.
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I don't know if it is smart, but I will run unless I have a high fever. I don't think it makes my colds last any longer, if anything I often feel like it helps me clear out the junk.
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I've had a cold over the past week. I didn't run the last three workouts I had on the calendar for last week because in addition to typical cold-like symptoms (no fever), I felt fatigued (abnormally so).
I picked back up on Tuesday with a workout easier than I had originally planned, did another easy run yesterday, and jumped back into scheduled activities today. Over the course of those runs I've still had a bit of congestion and wake up with a little bit of soreness in the throat, but the soreness is at the point where it's from the drainage and not from swelling (i.e., throat doesn't still look red when I shine a light down there). So far, I haven't had any problems (and this is the first time I've really had an illness that sidelined me since I started running again last year), but I'll reserve judgment on whether I did the right thing until Sunday when I have a couple days of rest ahead of me.
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Usually run through it, but will also rearrange my week so I can have a rest day on the worst day of the cold or illness. On the worst day, it seems sleep and rest and meds are the best thing. I'd rather take that one day off and feel much better in the following days, than fight it that one day and feel crappy for the next few runs.
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I've always been of the mindset that rest is best when you're sick, but after 2+ weeks of being sidelined by the worst cough I've ever had in my life, I tried to go running yesterday. I made it .73 miles. Felt great while I was doing it, but I had a huge coughing fit that wasn't much fun.
Some people run no matter what. Some people take it easy. *shrug* Generally, though, I've heard that the "rule" is that you're fine unless it's in your chest/lungs. But YMMV.
Slow and steady wins the.... wait a second! I've been lied to!
I had a cold a few weeks ago. Sore throat and lots of coughing. I ran through it mostly including doing my speedwork because I couldn't bring myself to miss my scheduled workouts. (I did skip one easy run though.) Running at harder than easy pace seemed to trigger a lot of coughing but I was able to get through the workouts and it did get better after a week or so.
Timely question for me as I've had either a bad cold or mild case of the flu the past week. I think it's flu since, yesterday morning, I had a low fever and achy joints. I felt bad enough to call in sick (also to not get others sick, I guess) and I stayed in bed till about 10AM which is unheard of for me. I felt much better after sleeping those extra hours and went out at noon for a 3 mile run. Went very easy and still felt like I had no energy but it was a major mental boost to get out. Today I felt 100% better than I did yesterday, still ran easy but ran 8.5 miles. I think whatever I had is receding. I didn't take any days off during this time but I skipped my scheduled 'light' workout I had planned for this week. All easy running.
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I got the flu on Christmas Eve. I took some time off, but not a lot. For one month now I've been dealing with a nasty cough, and just not feeling right. Yesterday, I woke up with a raging sore throat - I'm really getting tired off this. I know the cold, wet January weather here in the Pacific NW doesn't help, but I feel if I would have taken some proper time off from running and work, I probably wouldn't still be dealing with this crud.
Next year, I'll get the flu shot.
I had my last and longest long run scheduled for this morning ahead of my marathon on the 24th of this month allowing for a 3 week taper. Around 6pm yesterday, i felt my throat itching with imminent signs of a throat infection coming on. DIdnt manage to wake up at 5am for my sceduled run but slept 9 hours instead and woke up with a stuffy nose and some pretty irritating cold. The run-up for the marathon (literally and metaphorically) until now was going smooth but this setback is most annoying.
I will see if i am any better tomorrow morning to do the planned workout else will just try some other time next week. Not nice when you have to change training plans so close to the marathon. Symptomatic OCD i think ...
For what its worth, started a 3 day course of antibiotics this afternoon, as i want to aggressively get rid of the throat infection for now.
I dont sweat. I ooze liquid awesome.
Well, my throat was itchy/ticklish on Tuesday, so on Wednesday trying to avert a full-blown cold I took the day off (high winds and rain anyway) thinking I would benefit more from the extra sleep. It didn't work -- I got a cold. Thursday I felt worse so I didn't run. Friday I stayed home from work and slept a lot. Saturday I stayed home and spent the day in my pyjamas. But on Sunday things were looking up, so in the afternoon I went for a short run. I coughed a bit, but the air was crisp and cold and felt good in my lungs. I felt alive for the first time since Tuesday. So I got up early this morning for another short run. Again, totally invigorating and awesome. I feel so happy to be running again.
Just came across this article from Runner's World: Should You Run When You're Sick? It mentions facial pressure (which I had) as a sign of sinus infection and recommends taking 3 days off : "Even without the presence of a fever, says Dr. Dobken, some sinus infections, when stressed by exercise, can lead to pneumonia or, in extreme cases, respiratory failure." So I guess I did the right thing by taking a few days off.


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Television Academy Recognizes Ithaca College Students Documentary
ITHACA, NY — The College Television Awards — a national competition recognizing excellence in college student-produced video, digital and film work — has honored Ithaca College senior Kristin Leffler for her documentary on a band composed of musicians with disabilities.
Leffler was awarded the Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship for "Following Flame." Leffler is majoring in journalism in the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
The scholarship recognizes student filmmakers whose work sheds light on people with disabilities, helps emerging artists gain recognition and increases visibility for artists with disabilities.
"Following Flame" tells the story of Flame, a cover band composed of musicians with disabilities, and demonstrates the state of disability rights in the U.S. alongside the history and success of the band. Leffler uses interviews with band members and their families to show how Flame is changing public perception of people with disabilities and increasing awareness and acceptance.
College Television Awards entries are judged on excellence in overall production by members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. Winners are honored at a gala held in Los Angeles, awarded cash prizes and given industry recognition and the opportunity to network with top television executives.
Leffler was presented with her award by Robert David Hall, a star of the CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." A former professional musician himself, Hall had both of his legs amputated as the result of an auto accident and is an advocate for people with disabilities.
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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 6 13:54:09 EST 2011
Yep, Eli's git overview had the answer, I think. I did "RW @all". Robby On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Robby Findler > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Robby Findler >>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>>> If your goal is to figure out this git stuff, I'm happy to keep >>>>> answering questions. If your goal is, more immediately, to figure out >>>>> if you need those 53 commits, open up read permissions to robby/plt >>>>> and I (or someone) more familiar with the commands can check it out >>>>> real quick. >>>> >>>> How do I do that? I think I'd like to do that on general principle in >>>> case it is useful down the road. >>> >>> Run "ssh git help"; it will explain the various commands available to >>> you, including "setperms" and "getperms". >> >> Is there docs on what valid lines are somewhere? I'd love to give all >> the people that have access to the main plt repo access to this one >> too, or any thing remotely similar to that. > > I don't know off the top of my head. I generally just try things and > see, since it's easy to just set them back. I would try "*" as the > "everyone" wildcard; beyond that, Eli is the one to ask, or maybe he > already has documentation somewhere. > > --Carl >
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Hope she's not afjord to come back...
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Natalie Whittle, of FT Weekend, reports that a gastronomic boom in emerging economies has propelled restaurants from Peru, Brazil and Mexico up the rankings in a prestigious annual list of the best places to eat in the world.
The highest riser in the latest S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list, compiled by Restaurant magazine, is Astrid y Gaston from Lima, which jumped 21 paces to number 14. And if you'd never thought of Lima as a gastro-paradise, think on this: it now has the same number of eateries on the list as London.
As for top spot, Copenhagen's Noma, which has been at number one for three years running, was finally knocked off its perch by the Spanish restaurant El Celler de Can Roca, self-styled purveyor of "emotional cuisine" run by the Roca brothers.
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Aliquippa coach says team's ready for challenge in PIAA semis
Mike Zmijanac's team has trailed only once all season. It has outscored opponents, 709-64, invoked the so-called "mercy rule" in all but two games, scored at least 34 points in each of them and allowed more than seven only twice.
Aliquippa is two weeks removed from its 15th WPIAL title and two victories away from its third PIAA championship.
Still, Zmijanac has a complaint about a Quips roster that has been close to flawless so far this season.
"They don't bring their socks back after every game for us to use them next week," the gregarious coach deadpanned. "They're supposed to bring them back to us, but instead they take them home and keep them."
Laundry aside, Aliquippa has done little wrong heading into a PIAA Class AA semifinal against Richland 7 p.m. Friday at North Allegheny.
Coming off a 55-15 quarterfinal rout of Karns City, the Quips have scored the fifth-most points in Pennsylvania history. The only time they have trailed this season was 6-0 in the first quarter against Ellwood City on Oct. 12 (Aliquippa would go on to win, 54-12).
Zmijanac has plenty of time to fret about socks — one thing he's not concerned with is how his players will react if or when they face adversity.
"That's something that doesn't enter my mind," Zmijanac said. "Two of those guys started as freshmen when we lost to Greensburg Central Catholic (in the WPIAL title game) and (seven) started as sophomores when we lost to South Fayette (at Heinz Field the following year).
"So they've faced adversity before. They know what it feels like to lose, and they don't like it very much."
Neither does Richland, which, like the Quips, is 14-0. The Rams won the District 6 championship for the first time two weeks ago and beat District 10 champion Hickory, 38-12, in the quarterfinals last week.
This is the furthest Richland has advanced into the PIAA playoffs since the tournament began in 1988. Aliquippa is making its eighth semifinal appearance. The Quips have played in four PIAA title games, but they fell one step short last season in a 20-19 semifinal loss to Tyrone.
That game, 361 days ago, was the most recent time Aliquippa faced anything remotely resembling a possible defeat late in a game. Fourteen times this season, the Quips have taken the field; on each occasion, the outcome was decided well before the start of the fourth quarter.
There's been no need to maintain a razor-sharp focus from kickoff through to the final whistle, but Zmijanac has no doubt it will be there when Aliquippa needs it.
"We have a good program, and when you have a good program, kids stay focused," Zmijanac said. "You can ask North Allegheny or Clairton that, too. You get to play another week is the idea; there's lots of teams that have to be challenged to keep their focus now that are practicing basketball."
All of Aliquippa's football players, as they so often are into December, remain tied up late into another season.
The Quips, however, have lost in their previous two semifinal appearances since winning the 2003 PIAA championship. Each of those two losses was by one point, including to Tyrone last season.
"We always use that as motivation," Aliquippa quarterback Malik Shegog said. "We always say, 'Day One started the day after that game.' "
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|Adobe Community Team was invited by WACOM to participate alongside them in the 2012 Creative Talent Network Expo. CTNX2012 was held in Burbank, CA November 16-18, 2012. with over 8000 art & film students, animators, and illustrators in attendance. What was really cool about this event was that it takes place very close to the Disney Animation and Dreamworks studios in Burbank. In fact, Disney animators actually participated and attended this event. Adobe had booth manned by Adobe Community Mgr Aaron Houston, local Los Angeles Area Adobe User Group managers, and Adobe Education representatives. There were also Adobe Touch App & Illustrator demo's by Adobe Community Professional (ACP) Chana Messer on the new WACOM Cintiq interactive touch tablets. Adobe Education team member Rick Miller and Leona Guidice also helped out with the Adobe booth.Special thanks to Tony Arredondo and Steve Smith from WACOM for being true "Community Champions" by inviting the Adobe Community to participate in this premiere event.
Actually, the idea of getting Adobe and its community involves at WACOM event began back in June 2012. Tony and Steve attended an Adobe Speaker dinner for the Las Vegas CS6 Camp. So, when Creative Talent Expo was mentioned as a possible collaboration (thanks to ACP Stephen Burns), it seemed like a "no-brainer", since I was already in the LA area for the LAWEBPRO Design Camp. I couldn't have done it without the AdobeEDU team and the LA-area Adobe User Group community helping out in the booth. So thanks to: George McKinney (LA PhoneGap), Josue Bustos (LA PhoneGap), Chana Messer (LA Illustrator), Cynthia Gordon (Orange County Creative Suite & ocmma.org), Adam Bell (LA Adobe), and Ko Maruyama (dmala.org) Together, with the User Groups Managers and ACPs we were able to talk to over 400 students and animators about: Adobe's Creative Cloud; Student/Teacher Programs; Adobe Touch Apps; and, all things Adobe. We'll see what opportunities present themselves in 2013 with WACOM. Here are some photos from this event. — Aaron Houston Adobe Community Mgr No. America.
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