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The Volume Box lets you expand the range of usable volume of your amp and dial in much more "open" and "driven tube" tones at lower/ more manageable volumes (without driving your neighbors crazy!). A great way to discover a whole new range of tones on your amplifier!
The Volume Box adds another much more responsive and manageable audio taper volume control into the circuit of your amp by simply plugging in into the effects loop, no mods required whatsoever and no danger of harming your amplifier. It solves the problem of an EXTREMELY touchy volume knob on your amp, you know what I mean: zero has no volume but 1 or 2 is already MUCH too loud. The Volume Box takes care of that with its nice smooth Audio Taper Control, DEFINITELY the most cost effective investment you can make for your amp!
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Monday, 15 October 2012
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Monday, 11 June 2012
Maths on Stage: The Dramatic Life of Numbers
A packed tent for double maths at 10 on a Saturday morning at the Hay Festival was a very gratifying sight as I came on stage for the first of three events I did at the Hay Festival this year. And the stage was the right place to be discussing the exciting fusion of maths and theatre that has emerged over the last few years. I was exploring my collaboration with Complicite on their award-winning show A Disappearing Number and a new show that I am devising and acting in with actress Victoria Gould. This new show is in some sense a baby of A Disappearing Number as it is growing out of many of the themes we explored while developing the play Complicite did on the extraordinary collaboration between Hardy and Ramanujan. We will be giving people a sneak preview of our work in progress on this new piece at Latitude Festival this year when we perform Act 1.
In my event at Hay I wanted to show the audience why the world of mathematics and theatre are actually much closer than you might imagine. On the spur of the moment I decided to use my event to create our own little bit of mathematical theatre at Hay. I wasn't sure whether it was going to work but in the end it was surprisingly effective. A lot of the theatre games that Complicite use to devise their theatre depend on setting up very simple rules that allow the actors just to concentrate on reacting to their fellow actors. Being given the freedom of the stage and being asked to improvise something can quickly lead to a creative freeze. Simple theatre games often allow something unexpected to emerge that no one could plan.
We started with an exercise that I think can look magical. 20 members of the audience came up on stage. I asked each person to silently choose two others on the stage. When I said "go" they had to move to try to create an equilateral triangle with the two people they'd chosen. (The person and the two they've chosen must be an equal distance from each other). Of course the two people you've chosen are unlikely to have chosen you so a strange dance starts to emerge on stage. As the audience members still in their chairs watched on they observed an extraordinary crowd ebbing a flowing on stage, something that would have been impossible to choreograph without the simple mathematical rule. It was chaos in action...and it was very funny to watch. Three girls did end up choosing each other and very quickly stabilised as a still triangle in the chaos. As the scene developed the others began to get close to stability. A stillness across the group seemed to emerge but then one person moved very slightly, obviously trying to get their equilateral triangle perfect. That caused other triangles to become unequal and more people began to adjust. Very soon manic chaos had flooded the stage again.
The second exercise I did was one that actually appeared in the production of A Disappearing Number. I got 5 volunteers from the audience. They came on stage and immediately formed a group of 3 on one side of the stage and 2 on the other. This is called a "partition of 5". The exercise was to find how many different ways there are to partition the 5 people, how many different groupings were there? The members in each of the groups doesn't matter. It's how many there are in each group that is important. When I said "go" 1 member of the group of 3 peeled off. Suddenly we had 2+2+1. One of the couples separated. We had 2+1+1+1. 3 partitions of 5 people had already been found. But then the one that broke off went to join one of the other actors on their own. We'd returned to 2+2+1. It was a different arrangement of people but the same pattern as the second partition. Gradually they went through the other partitions. 3+1+1, a single group of 5 people. Then suddenly one broke off. We had a group of 4 and one actor on his own. You could feel his sense of loneliness, rejection by the group, the strength of the group of 4 staring at him. We'd got 6 partitions. I said that there was one they'd missed. They thought for a while. And then suddenly all separated into individuals on the stage. 5 groups of 1. 1+1+1+1+1. The exercise had discovered all 7 different ways of partitioning 5 actors. But in the process they'd created a poignant piece of theatre. Partition Numbers are a sequence of numbers that Hardy and Ramanujan had great success investigating. If you have a 100 actors how many ways are there to partition them? Hardy and Ramanujan discovered a formula for telling you.
While working on A Disappearing Number I did a number of workshops with Complicite for Drama and Maths teachers. The Drama teachers of course all want to come to a Complicite workshop but maths teachers are a little more reluctant about doing some physical theatre workshops. So we made it a condition that the drama teacher from a school could only come if they also bought a maths teacher with them. Apparently this was the first time many of them had talked to each other in the school common room. As the teachers gathered at the beginning of the session it was quite easy to spot who were the maths teachers and who were the drama teachers. Half of them were waving their arms around, shaking their legs, rolling their shoulders, warming up for a physical workout. The other half were in a corner looking rather shyly at their shoes. However it didn't take long to get everyone buzzing. The maths teachers came into their own and felt more confident as we took them all off on a journey to explore why one infinity might be bigger than another. The Complicite website has a work-pack that was developed out of the workshops which teachers and others might enjoy.
I might add some more to this post but got to rush down to the National Theatre to do some maths with the cast of A Curious Incident of the Dog In The Time. More maths on stage!
Monday, 28 May 2012
Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums
I am co-hosting a mad comedy maths game show with Dara O'Briain on the TV channel Dave.
I was away filming for another series last week when an episode was aired that required some calculus. I got lots of tweets and emails about the problem so thought it worth just explaining how you solve it. It's got some great maths in it.
Problem: A lifeguard at the beach spots a swimmer in distress in the water. They need to run across the sand to the water and then swim out to rescue the swimmer. But what is the fastest path to take? If he can run twice as fast as he can swim, should he run as far as possible to swim the shortest distance possible? Or should he take a shorter path even if it involves more swimming? Here are the dimensions of the beach and locations of the lifeguard and swimmer.
Lets suppose the lifeguard's running speed is v1 and swimming speed is v2. The task is to find x which will minimise the time taken to travel along D1 and D2. The time taken is exactly T=D1/v1+D2/v2.
We note that v1=2*v2. Since v1 is a constant instead of minimising T we minimise v1*T i.e. v1*T=D1 +2D2. Now by Pythagoras D1=√(x2+22) and D2=√((75-x)2+252). To minimise v1*T we differentiate the right hand side with respect to x and set this derivative to zero. We solve for x and this gives us the critical value for x. Explicitly, once the maths is done we compute that x=60.58m. This you can get by Newton approximation method.
There is also a cute physical way you could use to solve this puzzle. Once you realise that you are having to minimise D1+2*D2 you can then take a piece of string which you run from the red spot round the yellow spot and then back to the point where the string crosses the dividing line. You then drag this point on the dividing line along the line and see where the string length is smallest. At x=60.58 you'll get a point where suddenly you need more string to move in either direction.
When you set the differential to 0 and expand it then they will get a quartic polynomial. If you want to find the exact value (rather than an approximate value) then you are going to need to know how to find roots of a quartic! Also there are 4 solutions. Two are complex but there is another real solution at 89.43. This corresponds in the equation to taking different roots of the square root.
At school you learn about a formula for solving quadratic equations. There is also an extraordinary formula for solving quartic equations discovered by Italian mathematician Ferrari. Details are here. Feeding in the coefficients of our quartic gives the exact solution in the following form:
Glorious...if you like that kind of thing.
Why do we need to do quadratic equations at school? The problem Dara had to solve is an example where a problem of trying to find the optimal solution reduces to solving an equation. This one has x raised to the power 4 which we call a quartic. In school we learn how to solve a quadratic equation using a bit of algebra
Solving quadratic equations is something we do every time you catch a ball. If someone throws, kicks or hits a ball and you want to work out where to stand to catch it then the trajectory is described by a quadratic equation and solving it tells us where to stand. So Wayne Rooney is actually solving quadratic equations in his head every time he works out where to stand in the box to volley a ball in the back of the net.
This skill is very important in warfare too. If you want to hit a target then again you need to solve a quadratic equation to be able to decide the angle to fire the missile at.
We have been solving quadratic equations for millennia. The method we use dates back to ancient Babylon. The mathematicians of Babylon found a cunning way to solve these equations. They were interested in quadratic equations because they also describe areas of land.
But already in the tablets of ancient Babylon you can see people solving these equations not for practical reasons but for the fun of it. A quadratic equation is a bit like a cryptic crossword that hides the solution in some encrypted equation. Your challenge is to undo that cryptic description to reveal the answer to the puzzle.
The problem of finding a formula for solving cubics (things with x to the power 3) was one of the big challenges of the sixteenth century. Mathematical duelling was a public sport and great crowds would gather to watch mathematicians jousting with each other. Mathematicians would offer a cubic equation up and declare "solve that!" Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who discovered the secret to solving these equations and made a lot of money in this public mathematical jousts. But he was tempted into revealing his secret to Cardano in exchange for the promise of future support. But Cardano betrayed his trust and told his student Ferrari who then saw how to generalize it to solving the quartic equation (x to the power 4 like in our problem). They published and poor Tartaglia lost the credit!
The problem of solving quintic equations (x to the power 5) turned out to be impossible with a simple formula and began the study of group theory which seeks to understand the world of symmetry.
You can find lots about this story in my book Finding Moonshine.
In order to find the value of x for which the time travelled is minimal we used the calculus. The calculus discovered by Newton and Leibniz is an extremely powerful tool for finding the optimal solution to practical problems. This idea of the power of the calculus to home in on the most efficient solutions to problems is one of the reasons it is a central tool in all modern science. It is used to do this day across the industrial and financial world. Investors use it to maximize profits. Engineers exploit it to minimize energy use. Designers apply it to optimize construction. It has now become one of the lynchpins of our modern technological world.
The calculus tries to make sense of what at first sight looks like a meaningless sum: what is zero divided by zero. Such a sum is what you are faced with calculating if you try to understand the instantaneous speed of an accelerating object. Take the famous apple that legend has it fell from the tree onto the young Newton's head in the garden at Woolsthorpe and inspired his theory of gravity. The speed of the apple is constantly increasing as gravity pulls the apple to the ground. So how can you calculate what the speed is at any given instance of time. For example after one second how fast is the apple falling? Speed is distance travelled divided by time elapsed. So I could record the distance it drops in the next second and that would give me an average speed over that period. But I want the precise speed. Well I could record the distance travelled over a shorter period of time, say ½ a second or ¼ of a second. The smaller the interval of time the more accurately I will be calculating the speed. But ultimately to get the precise speed I want to take an interval of time that is infinitesimally small. But then I am faced with calculating 0 divided by 0. The invention of Newton's calculus made sense of this calculation. He understood how to calculate what the speed was tending towards as you made the time interval smaller and smaller. It was a revolutionary new language that managed to capture a changing dynamic world. The geometry of the ancient Greeks was perfect for a static frozen picture of the world. But Newton's mathematical breakthrough was the language that could describe a moving world. Mathematics had gone from describing a frozen still life to capturing a dynamic moving image. In our case we are trying to understand the behaviour of the distance D(1)+2D(2) as the distance x changes. If you draw a graph of this you get a curved graph. The calculus helps you to find the point where this graph reaches its minimum.
Work has been done by Timothy J. Pennings (Associate Professor of Mathematics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan) that suggests dogs are very good at finding such optimal solutions. See here and here Of course the dog isn't really doing calculus (in the same way Wayne Rooney isn't really solving quadratic equations) but it illustrates and important point that evolution has wired our brains to be good intuitive mathematicians. Those who can do maths survived. But it is by externalizing this maths that we can solve problems that defy our intuition.
The optimal path lifeguard is also the one light would choose if it travelled twice as fast in air as in water. In actual fact light travels only 1.33 times faster in air than in water so its path would be slightly different. However, this bending of the light waves (called refraction) produces many strange phenomena, such as making a straight pencil seem bent when it is put in water. Total internal reflection can be observed while swimming, if one opens one's eyes just under the water's surface. If the water is calm, its surface appears mirror-like. Another very common example of total internal reflection is a critically cut diamond. This is what gives it maximum sparkle.
The science behind this principle is known as Snell's law. Snell's law states that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is equivalent to the ratio of phase velocities in the two media. Using Snell's law you can create total internal reflection. This occurs when, instead of light travelling from one substance to the next, the light reflects. This is a crucial physical phenomenon that allows us to use optical fibres. The light enters the plastic, and travels until it hits one of the walls. However, when it hits the wall, it is reflected instead of travelling through the clear plastic.

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The dog days of summer are here as August rolls in. Free demo nights continue every Wednesday night from 6-8pm through the month of August.
Our end of season sale has begun! Everything in the store is on sale. Items below $250 are 15% off and items over $250 are discounted to 20% off. We do still have a good selection of inventory at this time.


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001. Pink Ombre'd my hair last night with a can of that novelty colour spray, Looks way too middle class hippy for my liking, but its alright for one weekend! Its not hideous, its just completely not me. I've been there done that got the scene kid hair cut.
002. Towards the end of this week I realized one key thing about blogging that I'd been slacking on recently. Self Promotion. My traffic has been really static for a while now, getting on average the same amount of views each day for the past few months. I've been slacking on sharing links and just using Twitter to get my new posts out there. However two days of uploading to lookbook, remembering to upload my new looks to my tumblr and using my Facebook page has made my traffic go up by 10%. Promoting your blog is really hard, but my utilizing social networks and actually posting your link around really helps. Im not talking asking for RT's or spamming, just following people, talking to bloggers, sharing your link with other bloggers posts (see not spamming!). Promise you it really does help and worth all the effort.
003. Going Christmas shopping tomorrow in Birmingham, I know I'll probably regret it more than anything but I really need to pick up a few things and I much prefer the Forever 21 to the one thats in London. I'm armed with a list and what I need to buy in each shop so fingers crossed it goes smoothly... who am I kidding! Stressful shopping ftw.
004. Time is drawing closer to last guaranteed Christmas UK shipping for my jewellery store, according to Royal mail is the 20th December, but I'd ideally like any orders by the 16th. If you want to ensure getting things please make sure you order in the next few days, Im sending things every single day at the moment so if you haven't received something withing 5 days of ordering it please get in contact asap.
005. Picking the person to review the Bourjois products later on tonight, I'm still accepting blog links up until about 9pm tonight! I'll email the person as soon as I've picked!


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Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice
Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice
40 million Americans age 12 and over meet the clinical criteria for addiction involving nicotine, alcohol or other drugs. That is more than the number of people with heart conditions, diabetes or cancer. Meanwhile, another 80 million Americans fall into the category of risky substance users, defined as those who are not addicted, but use tobacco, alcohol and other drugs in ways that threaten public health and safety.
CASAColumbia's work for this report involved:
- A review of more than 7,000 publications
- Analyses of 5 national data sets
- Interviews with and suggestions from 176 leading experts in a broad range of fields relevant to the report
- Focus groups and a national general population survey of 1,303 adults about their attitudes and beliefs related to addiction and its treatment
- Two New York State surveys of addiction treatment providers
- An online survey of 1,142 members of professional associations involved in addiction care
- An online survey of 360 individuals with a history of addiction
- Analyses of state and federal governments' and professional associations' licensing and certification requirements for treatment providers
- A case study of addiction treatment in New York State and New York City
This 5-year study found that, despite the prevalence of addiction, the enormity of its consequences, the availability of effective solutions and the evidence that addiction is a disease, both screening and early intervention for risky substance use are rare, and only about 1 in 10 people with addiction involving alcohol or drugs other than nicotine receive any form of treatment.
Of those who do receive treatment, few receive anything that approximates evidence-based care. This compares with 70% to 80% of people with such diseases as high blood pressure and diabetes who do receive treatment. This report exposes the fact that most medical professionals who should be providing addiction treatment are not sufficiently trained to diagnose or treat the disease, and most of those providing addiction care are not medical professionals and are not equipped with the knowledge, skills or credentials necessary to provide the full range of effective treatments. Misunderstandings about the nature of addiction and the best ways to address it, as well as the disconnection of addiction medicine from mainstream medical practice, have undermined effective addiction treatment.
The time has come for addiction medicine to be fully integrated into health care systems and medical practice. Health care providers, especially physicians, are our front line in disease prevention and treatment. They must understand the risk factors for addiction, screen for risky substance use and intervene when needed, and diagnose, treat and manage addiction just as they do all other diseases.
Other health care providers, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists and social workers, are critical parts of the solution as well. We need national, evidence-based standards that stipulate who may provide addiction treatment, and core competencies for all health care providers integrated into their education and licensing requirements. We must regulate addiction treatment facilities and programs as health care providers and hold them accountable for treatment consistent with medical standards and proven practices.
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Welcome to watch The official broadcast Live Stream for Rugby World Cup 2019, RWC 2019 Live on September 20 to November 2, 2019.
The Japan and Russia kick off the opening of the RWC season on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, at 11.45 BST, at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Check out our to Japan vs Russia, Rugby World Cup 2019: kick-off, what TV and when is the opening ceremony?
Event Name: Japan VS Russia Rugby World Cup 2019
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: 20 Sep 2019
Live Stream: Watch Live Online Here
- 1 What is it?
- 2 When is it?
- 3 What time is kick-off?
- 4 Where is it?
- 5 What TV channel is it on?
- 6 How to watch Japan vs Russia live stream?
- 7 How to watch Japan vs Russia online?
- 8 What is Japan vs Russia prediction? – Who Will Win Today?
- 9 Japan squads
- 10 Russia squads
- 11 What to expect from both teams
- 12 What will the opening ceremony feature?
- 13 What are the odds?
- 14 What is Japan vs Russia prediction?
What is it?
Hosts Japan face Russia in the opening game of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
When is it?
The tournament begins on Friday, September 20.
What time is kick-off?
The curtain raiser gets underway at 11.45 am British Summer Time, which is 7.45 pm local time. The game will be preceded by the tournament's opening ceremony.
Where is it?
At the Tokyo Stadium in Japan's capital Tokyo.
What TV channel is it on?
All 48 games will be shown live on ITV and ITV's online streaming services. Alternatively, you can follow all the action with our dedicated live blogs so bookmark this page and return on the opening day to ensure you do not miss out.
How to watch Japan vs Russia live stream?
The 2019 Rugby World Cup opening match between Japan vs Russia will be broadcasting the September 20, 2019 performances live on RUR (Match tv) Russia and DENTSU, J SPORTS, NTV, NHK, DAZN from Japan anytime, and anywhere. In addition, you can find official Rugby World Cup broadcasting list here. Watch Live Online Please Click Here.
How to watch Japan vs Russia online?
The Japan vs Russia will be available on the following devices and platforms: iOS, Apple TV, Android, Chromecast, Kindle Fire, Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Xbox, Windows 8, and Roku. You can click here for the complete guide to watch Rugby World Cup 2019 all match online.
What is Japan vs Russia prediction? – Who Will Win Today?
Since there is not much head to head comparison, no clear favorite can be picked for this upcoming match using this stat. Since Japan is playing in their home conditions, Japan will hold an advantage. The noisy crowd support is expected to boost their gameplay at the biggest stage. So who will win today? Well, Japan has a slight chance to edge past Russia in this contest.
Japan squads
Forwards: Keita Inagaki, Yusuke Kizu, Koo Ji-won, Isileli Nakajima, Asaeli Ai Valu, Takuya Kitade, Atsushi Sakata, Shota Horie, Luke Thompson, Wimpie van der Walt, Uwe Helu, James Moore, Hendrik Tui, Yoshitaka Tokunaga, Michael Leitch (captain), Lappies Labuschagne, Kazuki Himeno, Amanaki Mafi.
Backs: Kaito Shigeno, Fumiaki Tanaka, Yutaka Nagare, Yu Tamura, Rikiya Matsuda, Kenki Fukuoka, Ataata Moeakiola, Lomano Lemeki, William Tupou, Ryoto Nakamura, Timothy Lafaele, Kotaro Matsushima, Ryohei Yamanaka.
Russia squads
Forwards: Sergey Chernyshev, Evgeny Matveev, Stanislav Sel'skiy, Azamat Bitiev, Kirill Gotovtsev, Valery Morozov, Vladimir Podrezov, Andrey Polivalov, Evgeny Elgin, Bogdan Fedotko, Andrey Garbuzov, Andrei Ostrikov, Tagir Gadzhiev, Victor Gresev, Roman Khodin , Anton Sychev, Nikita Vavilin, Vitaly Zhivatov.
Backs: Vasily Dorofeev, Dmitry Perov, Ramil Gaisin, Yuri Kushnarev, Sergey Yanyushkin, German Davydov Centre, Dmitry Gerasimov, Kirill Golosnitsky, Vladimir Ostroushko, Igor Galinovskiy, Denis Simplikevich, Vladislav Sozonov, Vasily Artemyev (c).
What to expect from both teams
Japan and Russia are both in Pool A and along with Ireland, Scotland and Samoa and so are both considered rank outsiders the progress.
The opening game of the tournament will be the biggest moment in Russia's fledgling history as a rugby nation. They are coached by Welshman Lyn Jones, but their 85-15 thrashing at the hands of Italy demonstrated how far they are from being competitive against Tier 1 opposition.
Hosts Japan is on something of an island between Tier 1 and Tier 2, utterly dominant in the latter but not quite good enough to make an impression against the big boys. They are Pacific Nations Cup and with the benefit of home advantage will have ambitions to reach the last-eight.
What will the opening ceremony feature?
There are a series of individual welcome ceremonies across the country for each nation competing at the World Cup.
Plans for the in-stadium ceremony in Tokyo have been kept secret, although it is expected that Japan's Air Self-Defence Force's Blue Impulse – their equivalent of the Red Arrows – will perform some aerial acrobatics above the stadium before the opening game.
Blue Impulse were part of the opening ceremonies for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 2002 football World Cup, co-hosted with South Korea.
What are the odds?
Japan 1/100
Draw 100/1
Russia 40/1
What is Japan vs Russia prediction?
Japan will give the home crowd something to cheer with a resounding victory: we're saying by a margin of 40 points or more.


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Many foods you might expect to be vegan — from bagels to wine — aren't always free of animal products, and that includes sugar.
To make sugar from sugar beets, the juice is removed with a diffuser and mixed with additives that make it crystallize.
However, when the juice from sugarcane (pictured below) is separated from the pulp, it's heated until it crystallizes and then filtered with bone char to remove impurities, giving sugar its white color.
Bone char comes from animal bones — mostly pelvic bones from cows. The bones are ground and heated to high temperatures, reducing them to carbon, which is used in sugar refineries.
Sugar that's filtered with bone char doesn't actually contain bone char particles; however, it does come into contact with it, making it not vegan.
But not all cane sugar is refined with bone char. Some companies use alternatives like granular carbon, which doesn't contain animal products.
How to find vegan sugar
If you want to avoid sugar refined with bone char, opt for beet sugar, but keep in mind that these two sugars aren't exactly alike.
Because sugar beets are a root and sugarcane is a plant, there are trace differences in minerals and proteins, causing them to perform differently in the kitchen.
Another option to avoid bone char is to purchase certified USDA organic sugar. Bone char isn't on the USDA's National Organic Program List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances, so the sugar can't be filtered through it.
"Unrefined," "raw," 'beet" and "evaporated cane juice" are other phrases that indicate bone char wasn't used.
You can also look for these terms when purchasing other types of sugar — such as brown sugar and confectioner's sugar — because they're often made from refined white sugar.
However, it's difficult to know what type of sugar is used in prepackaged or processed foods, and the Vegetarian Resource Group (VGR) cautions that contacting the manufacturer might not always be useful because many purchase sugar made from both sugar beets and sugarcane.
"Common practice at many manufacturers is to store refined sugar from both sources in the same bin, thereby co-mingling the two," Jeffrey Robinson, technical director of American Sugar Refining told VGR.
If you'd like to purchase sugar that's free of bone char, PETA maintains a list of companies that produce vegan sugar.
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Alternate Titles: Mysterious Joker Third Season, 怪盗ジョーカー シーズン3
Third season of Kaitou Joker series. The thief Mysterious Joker doesn't just steal things. An audacious and elusive miracle-maker, he travels the world searching for treasure with his partner and cook Hachi. As they circle the globe, they must avoid traps set by the police and compete in various competitions to reach their final goal, the Timeslip Treasure.


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The sheep are making our annual trek from wintering ground on the Red Desert to the Badwater Pasture, where we will shear the sheep before heading on to the Cottonwood lambing grounds.
The sheep are making our annual trek from wintering ground on the Red Desert to the Badwater Pasture, where we will shear the sheep before heading on to the Cottonwood lambing grounds.
Almost out of snow,
Last summer's grass gives nurture,
Corn–but no water.
The rams hang around for ten and a half months, waiting for the day when they are called to go to work, fathering lambs for the next season. We put the bucks in over a period of days and weeks. We figure that the first bucks to go in with the ewes are getting tired, so we send reinforcements. They sometimes resent being worked through the chutes, but are happy to jump out of the trailers to join the ladies. When we were loading them, I said, "Hop in boys–all the corn you can eat." Meghan said, "All the ladies you can breed!" I added, "…and all the wind you can tolerate." Such is the life of a buck in the winter.
The ides of December means that it's time to put the rams in with the ewes. Romance in December brings lambs in May. A sheep's gestation is five months less five days. I wish we could predict now just when the shearers will arrive and what the weather will be like on the 10th of May.
The ewes have made their annual trek north to the Red Desert, where we have wintering ground on the Cyclone Rim and Chain Lakes grazing allotments. These allotments are part of the vast Great Basin, home to Greater Sage Grouse, desert elk, riparian plants and amphibians, feral horses, many many antelope and, part of the year, cattle and sheep. The Great Basin is named because it is a closed basin. To the north, the Continental Divide splits and runs in separate ranges until it meets again about 15 miles south of Wamsutter near the Haystack Mountains. The country south of there–Church Butte, Adobe Town, Powder Rim–is likewise amazing landscape, but it is not part of the Great Basin, the Red Desert. It is always a relief when we safely cross the overpass over the Union Pacific line and the underpass beneath I80 and head out across the open country for winter pasture. We are a week later than usual on the trail north. We had to wait for snow, since there's not much water on the trail. Like Goldilocks, we want it to be not too hot and not too cold!
We have started trailing from our wintering grounds to spring country where we have shearing and lambing in our future, and theirs.
The ewe lambs have spent the winter in the Powder Wash country. Yemerson has started them along the Powder Rim trail. In a few days, they will arrive at the Badwater Pasture, where they will hang out until early July.
In the meantime, the ewes who wintered on the Chain Lakes allotment on the Red Desert have started south. Their destination is the Cottonwood lambing grounds. In a few weeks, we'll have wool in the bags, and lambs on the ground, God willing.


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Hello! Welcome to the Stargate Atlantis Rewatch. Continuing with season three, today we will be talking about "Misbegotten."
As always, beware of spoilers if you haven't seen the episode.
What Happened
Elizabeth is still at the SGC on Earth, so Teyla dials in for a progress report. Atlantis has still received no word from the Daedalus or Orion regarding their mission to stop the wraith from reaching Earth. The city has been tracking a hive ship headed toward Atlantis, however. It is moving very quickly and due to arrive any time now. They raise the city's cloak at Elizabeth's order, and Carson is on standby in the control chair just in case the cloak doesn't work. There are a few tense moments as the hive ship drops out of hyperspace and then they receive a signal from Sheppard. It is the hive ship that was commandeered when the Daedalus' life support systems were so badly damaged.
Apparently they gave the Daedalus a lift back (per their original plan to beam the canister on board the hive ship from the season two finale), so everyone is back at Atlantis safe and sound and ready to begin repairs and play with their newly acquired hive ship. Sheppard brings Carson up to the hive to show him all of the transformed wraith that they have in stasis. All told there are just under two hundred of them. He figures Carson will want to study them to see if any tweaks need to be made to his virus.
Michael is given quarters in the city but still kept under guard. Teyla goes to visit him and he is upset at his current status. He explains that he can't go back to the other wraith, they no longer accept him. He asks for a ship and supplies so he can strike out and begin making his own way. Teyla answers that they can't ever let him leave the city, he knows far too much about Atlantis. He replies that she might as well just kill him, then, because he cannot live as a prisoner. She says there is another way and he scoffs at the idea of taking the retrovirus again. To him, it is the same as death, maybe worse. He is angry that they still think being a wraith is a disease to be cured.
Elizabeth meets with Woolsey and he informs her that she will get to keep her job for the time being. He will be accompanying her back to Atlantis, however, to do a performance review and write up a full report for the IOA to consider the current leadership arrangements in Atlantis. We learn that the SGC has asked for the Asgard to give Elizabeth and Woolsey a ride back to the Pegasus galaxy in order to shave the return trip down from three weeks to one.
Rodney is hard at work trying to repair the wraith ship and learn its systems enough to allow the Lanteans to use it. He discovers that it uses a neural interface much like the ATA gene activated technology, which means it still needs a wraith to fly it. Sheppard wonders if Teyla might be able to fly the ship since she has wraith DNA and Rodney replies that it is a possibility. He also tells Sheppard that if they want to ever be able to use the ship's weapons, they will need to take the transformed wraith out of the stasis pods, because that is an enormous drain on the ship's power.
It is decided to move the transformed wraith (including Michael, who they treat again) to an uninhabited planet with no stargate. They set up a camp for them and explain to the "patients" that they all carry a highly communicable disease and have been quarantined while Carson tries to find a cure for them (when really he is trying to find a way to make the transformation and amnesia permanent). Sheppard and Ronon visit the camp once it is up and running, and Ronon is grumpy about the whole situation, refusing to see the transformed wraith as human. Sheppard tells Carson to pack up so they can take him back to Atlantis, but he doesn't want to leave his patients. He insists on remaining to do his research in the camp, stating he will be perfectly safe. Sheppard agrees reluctantly, and leaves two soldiers behind as a security detail for Carson.
Before Sheppard and Ronon can leave, however, they are confronted by one of the patients, Lathan. He has lots of questions and doesn't really believe that the Lanteans are telling the truth. He thinks that the "treatment" Carson is giving them isn't helping them get any better. He goes to some of his fellows to try to convince them to overpower the Lanteans and take their ship to escape the planet. The others, led by Michael, tell him he is imagining things and he needs to just let it go. If the Lanteans are telling the truth, it would be far too risky for them to leave the planet and chance infecting who knows how many other people with their disease.
Woolsey and Elizabeth arrive in Atlantis and Woolsey immediately sets out trying to find allies in his "review" of Elizabeth's performance. He tries to get Caldwell on his side by dangling the possibility of promotion to commander of a military-run Atlantis in front of him, as well as reminding him that the only reason he's not in charge of Atlantis' military already is because Elizabeth insisted on keeping Sheppard. Caldwell doesn't bite, however, reminding Woosley that he's not actually part of the Atlantis or IOA chain of command and as such doesn't have to answer any of Woolsey's questions.
Lathan fails to turn up for his daily treatment and as Carson is telling Sheppard about this, Michael comes up to them and admits that Lathan is paranoid about the Lanteans' true intentions for his people. Sheppard organizes search teams and Michael volunteers to help. Michael's group is the first to find Lathan, who is hiding in the woods. He says he is trying to prove his point. Already having just missed one treatment, he is starting to have flashes of memory from before his "illness." Michael sadly apologizes to Lathan and laments that he should have remained in the camp. The next we see of Lathan, one of the guards has found him dead at the bottom of a ravine. He apparently was trying to climb down and fell, breaking his neck. With that situation resolved, Sheppard and Ronon leave, taking the ship with them. Carson, remaining behind, decides to perform an autopsy on Lathan to try to gain more information in his research into perfecting the retrovirus.
Elizabeth reunites with Sheppard's team and they are all glad to see each other. Rodney reports that the wraith vessel is proving problematic. Teyla finds just flying the ship in a straight line through the neural interface extremely draining. She and Rodney both fear that anything as complicated as battle maneuvers are right out of the question. Woolsey arrives at the meeting and begins sticking his nose in everywhere.
Carson grows suspicious about Lathan's death, realizing that he had to have already been dead when he fell to the ravine. He goes out into the woods to investigate (without his guards). While he is checking things out, he sees one of his patients stealthily moving through the woods and decides to follow him. The transformed wraith leads Carson to a group of others who are all standing around a fire with their arms up towards the sky doing some sort of weird communion ritual. It freaks Carson the hell out and he tries to get out of there and radio to his guards for backup. He gets no answer and when he turns around, Michael is there behind him, clearly starting to revert back to a wraith. He tells Carson that the guards are dead and drags him back to the camp, venting his anger that they did this to him not once, but twice, even after knowing how he felt about it the first time.
Rodney picks up a hive ship on Atlantis' long range scanners. It is not headed for the city but for the planet on which they are keeping the transformed wraith. They know that there is no reason for the wraith to be interested in that planet unless they have somehow learned about the presence of Michael and the others. Rodney estimates about two days before the hive ship gets to the planet, and everyone agrees that they need to either stop it or get everyone off that planet before it gets there. They can't afford for any more wraith to find their transformed brethren and realize that the Lanteans possess something like the retrovirus, let alone risk them remembering Atlantis' continued existence, the location of Earth, or the specs to upgrade hive ship hyperdrives. The Daedalus' hyperdrive is still not ready to make the trip to the planet, but if they leave immediately in their captured hive ship, they should be able to arrive just before the other hive.
Michael straps Carson down to a bed in the infirmary and explains that he and a few of his brethren began to remember their true natures even with the treatments. He admits to killing Lathan and says that they couldn't risk his questions making Sheppard stay. They knew their only way off the planet was to wait for Sheppard to leave and to call another hive ship to pick them up (that's what the weird woods communing thing was about). Carson asks how many have turned and Michael says only a few. Well over a hundred are still human, though, and he plans to keep them that way, as an offering to the rescuing hive ship. Carson is disgusted but Michael continues, telling Carson that he knows Sheppard wouldn't have left without some sort of failsafe in place. He intends to get the failsafe information out of Carson, one way or another.
The Lantean hive ship makes it to the planet ahead of the other hive, but the ship's power was seriously taxed in the rush to get there. In addition, the weapons are only minimally active--the targeting is pretty much nonexistent. Several of the ship's systems begin to come online when they arrive and Rodney does a quick scan, finding out that there are about thirty active wraith life signs coming from a planet. They realize that some of the wraith must have reverted. They are still detecting numerous humans but there is no way to distinguish Carson and the guards out of those. We learn that Sheppard left a nuke behind on the planet with a remote detonator as his failsafe. He, Ronon, and Teyla take a puddle jumper down to the planet to grab their people so that they can set off the nuke and prevent the other wraith from finding those they transformed. They find Carson but he is in bad shape and they also find that the guards are dead. They skedaddle out of there and set off the nuke but nothing happens. Michael learned of it from Carson and disabled the detonator.
When they get back to the hive ship, Sheppard orders Rodney to start firing on the planet, hoping they can take out the camp and all of the transformed (and reverted) wraith before the other hive arrives. Carson protests but Sheppard explains they have no choice. The other hive ship arrives as they are firing on the planet and immediately starts to attack. The Lantean hive ship is very badly damaged and we watch as it begins to explode.
The Daedalus, which left Atlantis as soon as it had a functioning hyperdrive, arrives to find the debris of the hive ship in orbit around the planet. They scan the debris and the planet but find no life signs anywhere. Everyone makes a sad face and then they get a radio signal from Sheppard. Caldwell asks where the hell he is and he belatedly remembers to drop the cloak on the puddle jumper, where the team had retreated when the hive was critically hit. Relieved he doesn't have to tell Elizabeth that Sheppard (and everyone else) is dead/missing yet again, Caldwell picks them up and they head back to Atlantis.
Elizabeth has a final briefing with Woolsey and admits that we don't actually know if the camp of transformed wraith was destroyed before the other hive ship arrived or not. It likely was, but there is a possibility some of the reverted wraith escaped before the Daedalus arrived. I guess Sheppard and company were too busy doing battle and escaping to notice if the other hive sent down a dart to scoop up Michael and his buddies? At any rate, Elizabeth expects Woolsey to rake her over the coals over the whole situation and file a negative report to the IOA. He tells her that on the contrary, he will be telling them that it was her order to fire on the camp that prevented any of the transformed or reverted wraith from escaping and preserved the secrets of Atlantis. To her shock, he explains that his job is to not let inconvenient facts get in the way of the truth. As far as he is concerned, the truth in this case is that Elizabeth is the person who should be running Atlantis, at least for the time being. With that, he makes his farewells and steps through the gate back to Earth.
Well. We had certainly better hope Michael didn't survive, hadn't we? Geez. Really? Really? After everything that happened the first time around, you guys thought this was a good idea again? Really. Sigh.
We do get some reassurance that Elizabeth's position as leader of the expedition is secure for the time being. That's good. We also know that the IOA, now that they realize the wraith might be an actual threat outside of the Pegasus galaxy, will be keeping a closer eye on things in Atlantis. That means meddling. Ruh-roh.
Pro tip: If you capture a large group of wraith (transformed into humans or not), be sure to keep them separate. Apparently, enough of them together can communicate over very long distances to call for help. Good to know.
I don't really have much else to say about this episode. All of the prominent loose plot threads from the last season are now sewn up. Time to move onward to new dilemmas, whoo!
Oh, if you are at all curious about the previous off-world trip that Woolsey mentioned wherein he was almost killed, check out the Stargate SG-1 season nine episode "The Scourge." One of the first couple of SG-1 episodes I ever saw, and actually a pretty good adventure.
Favorite Quotes
"Nothing renews your appreciation for the military like the threat of invasion from life-sucking aliens." (Woolsey)
"Just out of political curiosity, how much trouble is it gonna cause you if I knock this guy Woolsey in the head?" (Sheppard)
"Alright, so...no head knocking." (Sheppard)
"It's the thought that counts." (Elizabeth)
"That's weird. A bunch of secondary systems just came online." (Rodney)
"You're a genius Rodney!" (Sheppard)
"True. But I didn't do it." (Rodney)
That's it for this week. See you back here on Monday for a super fun episode with surprisingly squicky implications, "Irresistible."


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The Alpine A110 was powered by a variety of Renault engines that ranged in size and horsepower output. Many of the mechanical components came from Renault.
Some of world famous rallies in which the A110 claimed victory are the Rally Monte Carlo and the 1973 Monte Carlo Rally, which made Alpine the first World Rally Champion.
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Bernard DarnicheÂ
Jean-Luc ThérierÂ
Jean-Claude Andruet (Guest Driver)
- Brakes Disc
- Chassis Fiberglass
- Constructor Alpine
- Displacement 1565 cc | 97.4 cu in. |1.6 L
- Drive Type RWD
- Engine Configuration Renault Inline-4
- Engine Location Rear, longitudinally mounted
- Front Suspension Wishbones with coil springs
- Power 155 bhp / 116 KW @ 7,000 rpm
- Production 1971 - 1973
- Rear Suspension Renault Swing Axles
- Transmission 5-speed manual
- Weight 685 kg
- Wheel Base 2270 mm


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Ideomotor training to improve shooting skills in elite biathlon
PhD A.V. Khalmanskikh
Tyumen State University, Tyumen
Keywords: psychological-education support technology, mental conditioning, biathlon, ideomotor training, shooting.
Background. Top priority at the modern development stage of the global biathlon is given to the mental conditioning as one of the key components of success in the sport. Our studies have demonstrated that the shooting success in elite biathlon may be improved by prudential planning and design of the applied shooting practices duly customized for the sport specifics and individual traits of the athletes, with an emphasis on the mental aspects of the problems coming up in the process [7, 8].
The national sport science has always kept in focus the problems of the athletes' mental conditioning as addressed in the study reports by A.V. Alekseev (2002), A.T. Puni (1968), G.D. Gorbunov (1998), M.A. Itkis (1982), A.V. Rodionov (2006) et al. However, it was only in the study report by V.N. Potapov (2002) that the problems with concern to the individual self-control style formation in elite biathlon were considered.
Striving to improve the shooting success rates in modern elite biathlon, we have developed a psychological-educational technology to support shooting progress in elite biathlon giving the high priority to the diagnostic, algorithmic and reproductive qualities of the technology, permanent functionality of the feedback capacity and its flexibility with due emphasis on the individual traits of the biathlon competitors. The technology implies diagnostics of the competitive performance; focused selection and planning of the most appropriate psychological and educational tools and actions as required by the staged education/ training, pre-competitive and competitive process goals; implementation of the psychological and educational tools and actions (local respiratory exercises, mental technique mastering games, self-orders, ideomotor/ autogenous/ psycho-muscular training tools) designed to secure due control, co-control and self-control of the competitors' behaviour and performance; and the competitive progress and supporting system control and adjustment in the process [7, 8]. Special attention in our technology was given to the ideomotor training system.
Objective of the study was to provide theoretical grounds for the ideomotor training method and outline its benefits for the elite biathlon competitors' training and competition processes.
Study results and discussion. Ideomotor training system implies the athletic movement sequences/ conditions being many times imagined, visualized and verbalized by the athlete to facilitate their precise execution/ reproduction. As reported by Professor A.T. Puni, this training system makes it possible to potentially improve the shooting accuracy by 34%. Visualization of the nearing actions prior to the actual shooting is referred to herein as ideomotor setting [5]. The ideomotor training method, when prudently applied in a sport discipline, may help notably improve muscular endurance and physical working capacity and reinstate complex motor skills after long breaks in the training process.
Every experienced shooter knows that a slightest thought about possible miss prior to the shot may be detrimental for the routine sensations and concentration and, as a result, the right physical and mental setting may be immediately destroyed and the shot, if due corrective measures are not taken, may really be inaccurate. As soon as a negative fixed thought comes to the shooter's mind, it is almost always followed by errors in the movement sequence [3].
On the contrary, when the shooter clearly imagines and feels the right movement sequence in the preparatory and shooting process, the shooting accuracy is highly probable to increase. Erroneous and inaccurate movements are normally common when the muscular sensations are poorly developed or seriously hampered/ blocked by emotional tension, fatigue, attention distractions from the main actions etc.
An efficient mindset implies the mental model of the movement sequence and every element in the shooting process being designed to precede and support the process acting as a sort of "imagination guide". However, excessive emotional excitation of the shooter often suppresses or destroys the imaginary movement sequence thereby destroying the actual movements too.
It is the past experience in the core activity that will always be used as a basis for due ideomotor sequence construction process. The shooting sequence repeated many times by an experienced competitor is always memorized in every tiny detail so that it takes no effort from the athlete to replay it once again in mind detail by detail. It should be noted, however, that some shooters find it difficult to replay in mind even the key actions, movements and shooting process specifics, including the erroneous ones. These difficulties may be due to the athlete being untrained to memorize and analyze own actions or his/her memorizing ability being largely blocked by excessive emotional stress. It should be mentioned that real actions will be precise and well-coordinated when supported by due prior images of every movement followed by its practical execution, with well-trained ideomotor tools being activated in the process.
To ensure the shooting movement sequence being highly accurate, the athletes must do at least the following:
1) Create a perfectly clear mental image of the movement and visualize it first of all. As far as the shooting process is concerned, the athlete must clearly imagine how he/she gets ready and sets for the shot, takes aim, keeps it and pools the trigger, then follows the bullet trajectory and, what is particularly important, fixes the bullet hitting the bulls' eye.
2) Transfer the image, keeping it crystal-clear, to the ideomotor domain, i.e. activate (at least to almost unnoticeable degree) the relevant muscular groups and functions. The shooter must clearly visualize own actions both from the inside and outside to feel through the whole process from holding the rifle at the ready to the bullet release, fly and hitting moments.
3) Put together the appropriate programming, positive, short and accurate verbal formulae for at least the most important reference elements in the movement sequence, for example:
"I am ready... All is good... I zero in at... the point... moves smoothly... start pooling the trigger... smoothly move it... normal vibration... freeze... press out... Come on, honey (to the bullet)… Well done!.. Good boy! (when the shot is accurate)."
It should be noted that the athlete should never be programmed for possible inaccurate shot. Every miss should be analyzed to explore the causes and effects, with the images relating to the missed shot being cleared as much as possible from the athlete's memory. An emphasis in the readjustment process will be made on the actions to remove the causes of failure.
Missed shots and internal tensions aggravated by a highly emotional background may suppress the right mindset and imaginary right movement sequence thereby evoking disorders in the motor skills execution process.
4) Start physical execution of the movements only after the due ideomotor image of the movement sequence is clear and firm in mind and the relevant muscles are well warmed-up to execute the movement.
5) Right before the first movement, clearly imagine it at the ideomotor level and verbalize the execution process by the right wording.
In order to assess the benefits of the ideomotor training system for the shooting process success, we performed an integrated tests and studies, with picked women's biathlon team of the Tyumen region being subject to the study. Individually, subject to the tests were 15 elite women's biathlon competitors including 10 Masters of Sport, 4 International Class Masters of Sport and 1 Honorary Master of Sport. Every subject has been a runner-up and a winner of Russian Championships, Cups of Russia, IBU Cups, World Cups, World Championships, European Championships and other World ranking events.
The ideomotor training system was applied to the subjects for two competitive seasons from October 2014 to April 2016 in the formats customized for the individual/ typological traits of the athletes. The periods of rest breaks in the training sessions and right prior to the competitions were found to be the most favourable for the ideomotor training system application.
Our analysis of the competitive records showed every biathlete making good progress in the shooting speed at no detriment for the quality, with the following specific improvements being fixed: the prone/ standing shooting getting-ready times were improved by 16% and 17%, respectively; the total prone/ standing shooting time was improved by 15% and 14%, respectively. The shooting success rates were found to improve by 8% on average (with the prone/ standing shooting success rates improved by 7% and 9%, respectively). The Tyumen region picked team leader who qualified for the national team as a result of the progress made in the competitive season of 2015-2016, showed the prone/ standing shooting success rates improved by 12% and 13%, respectively.
Overall, leading in the competitive season of 2015-2016 were the women players of the picked teams of Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Novosibirsk region and Krasnoyarsk Territory (see Table 1).
Having analyzed the shooting accuracy rates and overall quality rates achieved by the competitors, we should note that the Tyumen region team players were the best in the Russian Championship of the past season, with the average team shooting success rate making up 86.50% including the prone/ standing shooting success rates of 85% and 88%, respectively.
Table 1. Shooting success rate variations in the seasons of 2014-2016, for the sample of the top three female biathletes in the Russian Championship, in the Olympic and non-Olympic events, %
Tyumen region
Novosibirsk region
Khanty-Mansi AR
Krasnoyarsk Territory
Conclusion. It was found by the study that brighter and clearer images created by the athlete cause stronger emotions and focus of the wording behind the images and more automated procedure, as well as higher benefits of the ideomotor training system. Prudent application of the ideomotor training system in the elite biathlon competitors' training and competitive processes made it possible to step up both the technical mastery of the athletes and their competitive success rates as a whole. Special shooting warm-up practices driven by the ideomotor training tools were found to ensure fast and accurate shooting at high heart rates.
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- Gorbunov G.D. Razvitie idey A.Ts. Puni v razrabotke nauchno-prakticheskoy problemy psikhologicheskoy podgotovki (Development of ideas of A.Ts. Puni in development of research and practical problem of psychological training) / G.D. Gorbunov, A.V. Shlenkov // Teoriya i praktika fiz. kultury. – 1998. – # 11-12. – P. 7-10.
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- Potapov V.N. Formirovanie individual'nogo stilya samoregulyatsii u biatlonistov (Training individual style of self-regulation in biathlon) / V.N. Potapov // Teoriya i praktika fiz. kultury. – 2013. – # 12. – P. 65.
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- Khalmanskih A.V., Gurev L.A., Manzheley I.V. Strelkovaya podgotovka biatlonistov: monografiya (Shooting training in biathlon: monograph) / A.V. Khalmanskikh, L.A. Gur'ev, I.V. Manzheley. – Tyumen: TOGIRRO, 2014. – 220 p.
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The article considers some issues of shooting skills excelling in elite biathlon, with a special focus on the ideomotor training tools being applied in the training and competitive processes. Objective of the study was to analyze the benefits of the ideomotor training method and its application in the elite biathlonists' training and competitive processes. It was found by the study that brighter and clearer images created by the athlete cause stronger emotions and focus of the wording behind the images and more automated procedure, as well as higher benefits of the ideomotor training system. Prudent application of the ideomotor training system in the elite biathlon competitors' training and competitive processes made it possible to step up both the technical mastery of the athletes and their competitive success rates as a whole. Special shooting warm-up practices driven by the ideomotor training tools were found to ensure fast and accurate shooting at high heart rates.