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Patricia Keon was elected on April 9, 2013 and sworn in as a City Commissioner on April 12, 2013.
Commissioner Keon has a long history of public service in our community. She has been appointed to serve on a number of City Boards including the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, where she spearheaded the redevelopment of the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center. She also served previously on the City's Planning and Zoning Board.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Barry College in 1970. Commissioner Keon worked at New York University Medical Center and later at Jackson Memorial Hospital until 1976 when her first child was born. During the time her children were of school age, she was an officer or board member of their PTAs and also served on various school board advisory panels. She went back to graduate school at Florida International University (FIU) in 1996 and completed a Masters in Public Administration in December 1999. She worked as policy aide to County Commissioner Jimmy Morales from 1999 until he left office in 2004.
Commissioner Keon currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Board of the School of Arts and Science at FIU.
She has three adult sons, two daughters-in-law, two granddaughters and two grandsons. Her late husband, Bill, passed away in 2008.
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Infanticide is abhorrent to most of us but it is incredible how common it is, still, in this day and age where there is seemingly plenty of access - in New Zealand at least - to contraceptives and abortion, and there aren't enough adoptable babies to go 'round.
The story of the Hutt woman who found the body of a newborn girl in her backyard is truly horrific - it's almost impossible to think of a worse discovery on your own property. Understandably, the woman sought shelter away from her house for the night; it would be tempting not to go back.
But a quick search of all similar stories from around the world for the day show a horror roll call of such stories spanning the globe. Baby girl bodies found in trash cans in China, babies found in sewers in India, Japan and the US; I counted at least 15 that had hit the headlines in the past few days - and that's just those that have garnered publicity.
In New Zealand the story is still shocking but again, not that uncommon. I counted about four such local stories from last year that were readily available. More incredibly than even being able to dispose of a child's body without being caught are those that are pregnant for nine months without letting on to anyone, who then have to go through the torment and frequent terror of childbirth by themselves and return to their lives soon after without leaving a trace.
Some believe that society's casual attitude to abortion spills over into a loss of respect for life in general, and will inevitably draw parallels between the killing of newborn babies and infants.
But in fact infanticide has always happened, its incidence increased when and where abortion is not available. Another reason to have safe and easily accessible abortion on demand for women (along with all those things that might help people avoid abortion such as contraceptives).
Women in the US at the moment face a stark choice between a party that wants to uphold Roe vs Wade and another than wants to ban abortion even in cases of rape or incest. It would be sad indeed if American women lost the right to only have the children they want, any more than they already have, because it is no favour to women, their babies or society at large any other way.


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Holy Moly! Did you run this past Roger and the other libs on board, or have you LEFT...an obvious pun...the reservation???
Man-O-Man, as Elvis would say, with libs like you, we don't need any more conservatives.
I would have to agree with almost all of your 'bullet' points. But as a small amount of clarification for the non-Ag folks, as ORIGINALLY structured, the Ag dept was to deal with getting the best possible prices for the farmers exports. Like so many bureaucracies, we can all see what it has morphed into.
Those, like me, that find the ethanol fiasco to be another subsidy joke, need to be aware it's not the farmer they need to lambast, but their tree-huggin-bastardly environmental goons. At least that product is getting more done than the electric windmill rip-offs, solar panels, electric cars...and the plethora of "green" projects, establishing further bureaucracies to mask the environmental whacko programs being shoved down the throats of the PC liberals in this nation.
The measuring stick I use concerning the various 'corn-gas' and other 'food-for-vehicle-usage' programs is: When the farmers start burning that diesel substitute in their tractors and combines, the product may be worth developing. For now, it's like the electric cars...mainly a toy to play with, so the environmentalists can point to all they are doing to clean up the air etc.


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It wasn't new to me I had been saying this all along. Hope and change comes out in Sept. Hope fully it can save one obamazombie
Neither the Dems or the Repubs can fix the economy until they are willing to address the root causes, which neither is willing to address. It begins with fixing our Monetary system, getting Wall St out of our government and curtailing Lobbyist. Exactly why what is needed most are strict Constitionalist. If we would have stay grounded to that document, we wouldn't be 16 TRILLION in the hole and counting. Both parties are to blame and neither has identified the root causes of our financial problems.
WE are adding over a TRILLION a year to the deficit and even the Repub plan continues deficit spending!
Just remember, we won't fall to a foreign power, the Muslims or any of the other boogie men that both parties like to scare us with. If we fall, it will be from our own devices because of the electorate's failure to take responsibility!
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
According to the CBO Obama doesnt ever balance the budget in his 2013 plan . When Chris Wallace asked Axlerod about this there was nothing he could say so he just turned it back on Romney (again) He did however when asked if we were better off now than 4 yrs ago say we arent were we should be, than turned it back on Romney. Talk about a rerun all you will her at the DNC is what we heard 4 yrs ago he cant tell us what he will do to change things now, because he couldnt make things better in the last 4 yrs. Obama is clueless we cant continue this way he doesnt have a plan ... only a beer recipe
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Funny all they could talk about is Romney's lack of plan. Axlerod did speak to their current plan and it was not a beer recipe...but I would like to have a pint of that beer
the CBO said Obamas plan never balances the budget. If things were so bad when he took over why did he add 5.3 trillion to the debt? If he couldnt do it in the last 4 are we really to believe now all of a sudden he can ? Its worse now than it was when he took over . Unemployment 8.3% 23 million out of work and things are getting better? Excuse after Excuse maybe he will have more beer summits that will solve everything just keep people drunk and they wont know whats happening to them.


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Shares of Google (GOOG) are down $6.01, or 0.7%, at $873.79, after the company yesterday said it will purchase Israeli traffic updates application maker Waze for an undisclosed sum.
Couple bulls sounded off positively today on what they believe was a fairly rich $1 billion or greater purchase price for a company with little revenue.
Hillside Partners's Rory Maher reiterates a Buy rating on Google shares, arguing that Google can achieve roughly $90 million in annual revenue from Waze's application without too much trouble. Waze provides its map with real-time traffic information for phones running Google's Android software, but it is also a popular application on Apple's (AAPL) iPhone:
"We believe Google can significantly increase revenue at Waze even if it remains separate," writes Maher, "leaving the strong synergies between the two properties an option, in our opinion."
We believe Waze currently generates nominal revenue given it just launched advertising in 4Q12. However, we believe Google can quickly generate $90M in annual ad revenue specific to Waze by integrating Waze's current self-serve ad platform into its own and offering the Waze product as an additional location-based advertising option. Here are our assumptions: Recent reports indicate Waze reaches about 30M-40M monthly users that are on Waze for about 450 minutes per month, more than Facebook's estimated 404 minutes per month. Facebook generated $4.50 in ad revenue per user in 2012 so to be conservative we estimate Google can generate $3 per user in its first full year operating Waze $3per user x 30M users = $90M in revenue
Maher also thinks Google's various resources can enhance Waze's offerings:
We believe Google Maps has developed valuable features that could fill significant holes in Waze's service while run separately. Currently Waze is free so the Company can only use open source aerial features, which we believe are not as detailed and robust as Google's aerial capabilities. Google can now provide better aerial info to Waze for free. • Currently roads are added to Waze maps by its users – Waze doesn't doesn't have its own verification capabilities beyond crowd sourcing since it doesn't have all of the world's roads mapped. Google does. With Google's more accurate Maps and GPS capabilities Waze can ensure the Maps users are creating through crowd sourcing are exactly right. Google can use its database of local businesses to tell users about business coming up on their route according to preferences users specify (gas stations, coffee, bagels etc). Businesses could also pay to "stand out from the crowd."
Needham & Co.'s Kerry Rice reiterates a Buy rating on the stock as well, and raises his price target to $1,000 from $900, without changing any of his estimates, writing that the purchase price reflects a need to keep Waze out of the hands of competitors: "The acquisition keeps Waze out of the hands of Facebook (FB) and Apple, which are reported to have recently shown interest in the company."
"Given the social aspect of the platform, we believe Facebook was the most serious candidate suitor for the company." Not only does the deal solidify Google's lead in location services, writes Rice, but with Apple trying to enhance the mapping application it introduced last fall, "the acquisition of Waze by Google eliminates a quick path for Apple to gain ground on the space."
Waze, which had raised $67 million in private financing, has had some limited advertising partnerships to date, notes Rice:
Waze generates revenue via advertisements, which we believe to be in the single-digit millions. The Waze app includes pins highlighting advertiser logos such as Best Buy, Dunkin' Donuts, Jamba Juice, Shell, Walgreens, Whole Foods, and Wyndam Worldwide Hotels. The mobile app also presents coupons to members as they pass particular stores. According to the company, no more than three sponsored pins will show up on the screen at any given time.
Google will likely fold Waze into its own local and mapping efforts, he opines:
Google has invested heavily in its own mapping technology and navigation service, as well as Google Street View. Over the next three years, which is the expected contract period, we believe Google is likely to incorporate the best of Waze's technology into its own mapping technology. Considering Google's substantial investment in its own mapping technology and given that Google has been closing businesses that it does not intend to keep funding, we expect at the end of the contract period Google could shut Waze down.


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YES Last night in one of two WM's that I checked.
The red repaint of #6 is hella Sweet.
but not worth the $100 for 5 that ended on ebay last night.
Originally Posted by Blackened88
YES Last night in one of two WM's that I checked.
The red repaint of #6 is hella Sweet.
but not worth the $100 for 5 that ended on ebay last night.
Collect 2 Collect (if you see someone damaging stuff kick them in the shorts!)
Great Traders Slicker,KIDD,Rebo's_Guitarist,TURBOWARS,OC47150,
bobafrett,Jay86,Lman316 & Dark Marble!
I picked up Captain Antillies and Zett Jukassa at a Target here in CO. They also had plenty of Utapaun Warriors and got a bunch of AT-TE Gunners in with em!
No sign of the Tarkin wave, or alternate Clones yet.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
Still nothing. Today at Target, they were redoing their aisles. The Star Wars section is GREATLY reduced, and filled with neimoidian warriors. I did find a red senate guard however... odd. I'm going out tonight.
"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course."
~ Jacques Cousteau
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Picked up Mustafar sentry #56 @ KB Toys
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Well The Pegs Were Full At Meijers Today. A Lot Of At-te Gunners And Blue Royal Guards I Even Saw A Mace. Not That Its That Big A Deal But I Have Not Seen Him In A Long Time. So I Guess Then That These Are From Left Over Cases Of A Few New Figures. So I See Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Well my good luck at Wal-Mart continues. Found more green Clone Commanders and the black Clone Pilot today. Plenty of the Antilles and Bacara waves on the pegs but unfortunately no Tarkin.
Talk Show Host Interviewing Joker: Your said to have only killed about 600 people Joker. Now dont take this the wrong way but I think youve been holding out on us.
Joker: I dont keep count. Im going to kill everyone in this room.
Still deperately searching for the Antilles wave and the black Clone Pilot. Also looking for the Mustafar Sentry.
I haven't seen the Antilles wave anywhere. It seems like they just jumped right from the Tarkin wave to the Obi Wan wave in my area.
Still haven't found anything new since the Anakin Mustafa. No tarkin or anything after the Anakin wave.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Found #51, #52, #53 today at Target. They also got a lot of AT-TE Tank gunners and Red Royal guards, no blue ones, with the shipment. I also picked up the 500th Darth Vader, they only had one.
Still looking for the new Obi, Mustafar Sentry, black pilot, red trooper, etc.
Around here it's the same thing. Right now I still can't find the red shock troopers, and i need zett jukasa. I went to one of my KB toys and was able to see numbers 41- 56 in collection 1 but haven't even seen 45- 53 in collection 2. The only reason I was able to see this stuff was because I was there as they were putting it out. I did also see 500 vader but i wanted to know if it was gonna be worht anything or not. I will update tomorrow after I go to King of Prussia. BTW tru has nothing new and same with target. But just so everyone knows if target has not gotten anything new don't worry because on August 1 they will updat they toy department.


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The Bumpy curvy trip of about 6.5 hours (with a break for lunch) landed us at our destination at around 3:30pm, it was now time to find accommodations. Unfortunately, because of the Chinese New Year, this would present as a more difficult challenge then expected. All in all, we ended up walking from hostel to hostel, searching for a double room with backpacks on, and sun beating down for about one hour. Finally, we ended up at the Cameronian Inn, which tragically was the establishment that approached us where we were let out of the bus with the offer of a ride and a room, but we had refused them, wishing to first check out other places. It had a pleasant courtyard and clean rooms, and we felt foolish (and tired) from not having gone there first.
Settled, we set out to book ourselves a day tour of the highlands, and to find dinner. Following a bit of confusion finding the tour company we sought (it was above the bus terminal, but we had to go through a walkway and staircase which were "under construction"), but ultimately we had our tour booked and it was time to find food.
Our choice this evening was Indian food. The very inexpensive set meals (7 RM) were both delicious and cosmetically pleasing. The Naan was prepared fresh in the Tandoori oven at the front of the restaurant, and we had the opportunity to see how it was made and cooked.
After enjoying this meal, we gathered together some Gin, tonic and limes to enjoy back at the Guesthouse. Sitting on the balcony, we had the opportunity to chat with the owner of the establishment, a pleasant middle aged Indian man, who was very interested in health matters and insisted on taking my (Andrew) blood pressure. I was deemed very healthy.
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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
The Korean conflict erupted fifty years ago this June. Many Americans still believe that it began in debacle (which is true) and ended in a humiliating compromise that changed nothing (which is not).
Only by coincidence does the fragment of a map of Korea along the fateful thirty-eighth parallel that is part of the jacket art for my book MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero include the town of Chunchon. That was as far north as I got during the war. My commission as an Army second lieutenant had come on April 18, 1951, exactly one week after President Truman dismissed Douglas MacArthur as commander in chief in the Far East.
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission has transmitted to Congress for approval final rules that will permit the FEC to administratively impose civil money penalties for violations of campaign finance reporting requirements that occur between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2001.
This "administrative fines program," to go into effect July 14, 2000, was authorized by Congress last year following a priority legislative recommendation made by the FEC. It was enacted as part of the Commission's appropriations for FY2000*.
As cited in the final rule (FR Vol. 65, No. 98, May 19, 2000, p. 31787), the purpose of the administrative fines program is "...to institute streamlined procedures, while preserving the respondents' due process rights, to process violations of reporting requirements...and assess a civil money penalty based on the schedules of penalties for such violations."
Under the current system, reporting violations (late filers, non-filers, and committees which fail to file 48-hour notices) are treated under the same enforcement procedures as other alleged campaign finance violations, i.e. culminating in settlement on a civil penalty or court action. Under the new rules, if the Commission finds "reason to believe" that a respondent has violated the reporting provisions of the law, it will send penalty notices to violators based on a pre-established schedule of fines (see FR notice). Among the factors the Commission will consider when determining the amount of civil money penalties are: the level of financial activity in the report, the election sensitivity of the report, the lateness of the report, and the existence of any previous civil money penalties.
Under the final rules, election sensitive reports are considered to be filed late if they are filed after their due dates, but prior to four days before the elections. [Note: Election sensitive reports are those filed immediately before an election and include pre-primary, pre-special, pre-general, October quarterly and October monthly reports.] Reports that are not election sensitive are considered to be filed late if they are filed after their due dates, but within 30 days of their due dates.
Two examples follow. A committee whose financial activity on a late-submitted report is less than $25,000 and who does not have a previous civil money penalty, will pay a civil money penalty not exceeding $1000 or the level of activity on the report, whichever is less. For a committee with $950,000 or more in financial activity on an election sensitive report, the civil money penalty is calculated using the following formula:
Late filer -- [$7500 + ($200 x number of days late)] x [1 + (.25 x number of previous violations)]
Non-filer -- $16,000 x [1 + (.25 x number of previous violations)]
If a respondent decides to challenge a "reason to believe" finding on a reporting violation, a written response with supporting documentation must be submitted within 40 days of the Commission's "reason to believe" finding. A reviewing officer will evaluate the written response and make a recommendation to the Commission, which will then make a final determination in the matter. A respondent may appeal the Commission's final determination by submitting a written petition to a U.S. District Court within 30 days of receipt of the final determination.
Disclosure reports from congressional and presidential candidate committees, PACs and party committees are required to be filed monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually, depending on the committee-type and election year or non-election year. Candidate committees are also required to file 48-hour reports – disclosure within 48 hours of the receipt of a contribution of $1000 or more in the 20 days prior to an election. In addition, all committees may have to file 12 day pre-election and/or 30 day post-general election reports.
In the 1998 election cycle, some 21 percent of over 35,000 required disclosure reports were filed late to the FEC (or the Secretary of the Senate) and 3,200 reports that should have been received were not filed.
The July quarterly reports, due to the Commission July 15, will be the first reports subject to the new administrative fines program.
Committees desiring further information on the administrative fines program should contact the FEC's Public Information Division, 202-694-1100, or toll free at 800-424-1100.
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*Congress in 1999 authorized the administrative fines program in amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act, sec. 309(a)(4), 2 U.S.C. 437g(a)(4). The amendments were enacted as part of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000, Public Law 106-58, 106th Congress, Sec. 640, 113 Stat. 430, 476-77 (1999).


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From the west: leave the M4 at junction 5 (A40/ B470). At the roundabout take the third exit onto the A4, signposted Colnbrook, then follow signs for Heathrow and Hounslow. At the traffic lights, turn right, signposted M25, Heathrow Airport and Staines. After approximately 300 metres, take the first exit at the roundabout onto the Old Bath Road and continue through Longford village. Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5 is 250 metres on the right-hand side.
From London: leave the M4 and junction 4 and take the first exit, signposted Heathrow Terminals 1,2 and 3. At the next roundabout (with the Emirates A380 Airbus!) take the second exit, signposted Terminal 4. After about 30 metres, take the first exit off the roundabout signposted Slough, A4. At the traffic lights, turn left onto the A4, signposted Staines. Travel along Bath Road and just before McDonalds and the Total petrol station turn left onto Old Bath Road. The hotel is located 100 metres on the left-hand side.
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If you're coming to Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5 by rail…
The Heathrow Express runs direct from London Paddington in just 15 minutes (20 to Terminal 5), with a train every quarter of an hour. London Underground also operates between the airport and the capital (Piccadilly line). There is a station serving Terminals 1,2 and 3; Terminal 5 has its own station. If you're flying in or out of Terminal 4, the Heathrow Connect train (free of charge) links it with both stations.
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Terminal 5: Hoppa Bus H54 or H51
Terminal 4: Take the Heathrow Connect train (free of charge) to Terminal, 1,2,3 or 5 and then catch the Hoppa Bus as above. Direct Hoppa bus H51 to & from hotel and it takes approx. 20 minutes journey time.
Terminal 5: Follow the signs to 'local buses' and use bus 423 (stand 6). The hotel stop is called Heathrow Park Thistle Hotel and takes approimately 10 mins. Or alternatively go by POD, with the journey time to Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5 taking just 5 minutes.
Timetable as of July 2013 for Bus 423 from Terminal 5 to the hotel:
Mon- Fri - 04:04 until 00:45
Saturday - 04:04 until 00:45
Sunday & public holidays- 04:04 until 00:45
Please note: public buses do not operate on Christmas Day. Also the hotel cannot be held responsible for the late running or non-arrival of any public bus, as well as the exact start and finish times.
Things to see and do from Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5, London
At Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5, you're just 15 minutes by train from London Paddington and all the sights, shopping and other attractions of London. And at the end of a packed day, all the comforts of our hotel will be ready and waiting for you.


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Academic Appointments
Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professional Education
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Cognitive Psychology (2008)
BS, McGill University, Mathematics (2003)
Cognitive development is shaped by brain plasticity during childhood, yet little is known about changes in large-scale functional circuits associated with learning in academically relevant cognitive domains such as mathematics. Here, we investigate plasticity of intrinsic brain circuits associated with one-on-one math tutoring and its relation to individual differences in children's learning. We focused on functional circuits associated with the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and angular gyrus (AG), cytoarchitectonically distinct subdivisions of the human parietal cortex with different roles in numerical cognition. Tutoring improved performance and strengthened IPS connectivity with the lateral prefrontal cortex, ventral temporal-occipital cortex, and hippocampus. Crucially, increased IPS connectivity was associated with individual performance gains, highlighting the behavioral significance of plasticity in IPS circuits. Tutoring-related changes in IPS connectivity were distinct from those of the adjacent AG, which did not predict performance gains. Our findings provide new insights into plasticity of functional brain circuits associated with the development of specialized cognitive skills in children.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.08.004
View details for PubMedID 27618765
Mathematical disabilities (MD) have a negative life-long impact on professional success, employment, and health outcomes. Yet little is known about the intrinsic functional brain organization that contributes to poor math skills in affected children. It is now increasingly recognized that math cognition requires coordinated interaction within a large-scale fronto-parietal network anchored in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS). Here we characterize intrinsic functional connectivity within this IPS-network in children with MD, relative to a group of typically developing (TD) children who were matched on age, gender, IQ, working memory, and reading abilities. Compared to TD children, children with MD showed hyper-connectivity of the IPS with a bilateral fronto-parietal network. Importantly, aberrant IPS connectivity patterns accurately discriminated children with MD and TD children, highlighting the possibility for using IPS connectivity as a brain-based biomarker of MD. To further investigate regional abnormalities contributing to network-level deficits in children with MD, we performed whole-brain analyses of intrinsic low-frequency fluctuations. Notably, children with MD showed higher low-frequency fluctuations in multiple fronto-parietal areas that overlapped with brain regions that exhibited hyper-connectivity with the IPS. Taken together, our findings suggest that MD in children is characterized by robust network-level aberrations, and is not an isolated dysfunction of the IPS. We hypothesize that intrinsic hyper-connectivity and enhanced low-frequency fluctuations may limit flexible resource allocation, and contribute to aberrant recruitment of task-related brain regions during numerical problem solving in children with MD.
View details for DOI 10.1111/desc.12399
View details for Web of Science ID 000379952100007
View details for PubMedID 26874919
Despite reports of mathematical talent in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), little is known about basic number processing abilities in affected children. We investigated number sense, the ability to rapidly assess quantity information, in 36 children with ASD and 61 typically developing controls. Numerical acuity was assessed using symbolic (Arabic numerals) as well as non-symbolic (dot array) formats. We found significant impairments in non-symbolic acuity in children with ASD, but symbolic acuity was intact. Symbolic acuity mediated the relationship between non-symbolic acuity and mathematical abilities only in children with ASD, indicating a distinctive role for symbolic number sense in the acquisition of mathematical proficiency in this group. Our findings suggest that symbolic systems may help children with ASD organize imprecise information.
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10803-015-2666-4
View details for PubMedID 26659551
The Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory describes a profile of traits that have been linked to autism spectrum disorders, and are thought to encompass a continuum that includes typically developing (TD) individuals. Although systemizing is hypothesized to be related to mathematical abilities, empirical support for this relationship is lacking. We examine the link between empathizing and systemizing tendencies and mathematical achievement in 112 TD children (57 girls) to elucidate how socio-cognitive constructs influence early development of mathematical skills. Assessment of mathematical achievement included standardized tests designed to examine calculation skills and conceptual mathematical reasoning. Empathizing and systemizing were assessed using the Combined Empathy Quotient-Child (EQ-C) and Systemizing Quotient-Child (SQ-C). Contrary to our hypothesis, we found that mathematical achievement was not related to systemizing or the discrepancy between systemizing and empathizing. Surprisingly, children with higher empathy demonstrated lower calculation skills. Further analysis using the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) revealed that the relationship between EQ-C and mathematical achievement was mediated by social ability rather than autistic behaviors. Finally, social awareness was found to play a differential role in mediating the relationship between EQ-C and mathematical achievement in girls. These results identify empathy, and social skills more generally, as previously unknown predictors of mathematical achievement.
View details for DOI 10.1038/srep23011
View details for Web of Science ID 000371865500002
View details for PubMedID 26972835
View details for DOI 10.1038/ncomms9453
View details for Web of Science ID 000363143400003
How the brain develops representations for abstract cognitive problems is a major unaddressed question in neuroscience. Here we tackle this fundamental question using arithmetic problem solving, a cognitive domain important for the development of mathematical reasoning. We first examined whether adults demonstrate common neural representations for addition and subtraction problems, two complementary arithmetic operations that manipulate the same quantities. We then examined how the common neural representations for the two problem types change with development. Whole-brain multivoxel representational similarity (MRS) analysis was conducted to examine common coding of addition and subtraction problems in children and adults. We found that adults exhibited significant levels of MRS between the two problem types, not only in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) region of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), but also in ventral temporal-occipital, anterior temporal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices. Relative to adults, children showed significantly reduced levels of MRS in these same regions. In contrast, no brain areas showed significantly greater MRS between problem types in children. Our findings provide novel evidence that the emergence of arithmetic problem solving skills from childhood to adulthood is characterized by maturation of common neural representations between distinct numerical operations, and involve distributed brain regions important for representing and manipulating numerical quantity. More broadly, our findings demonstrate that representational analysis provides a powerful approach for uncovering fundamental mechanisms by which children develop proficiencies that are a hallmark of human cognition.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.005
View details for Web of Science ID 000360596700046
View details for PubMedID 26160287
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is marked by specific deficits in processing numerical and mathematical information despite normal intelligence (IQ) and reading ability. We examined how brain circuits used by young children with DD to solve simple addition and subtraction problems differ from those used by typically developing (TD) children who were matched on age, IQ, reading ability, and working memory. Children with DD were slower and less accurate during problem solving than TD children, and were especially impaired on their ability to solve subtraction problems. Children with DD showed significantly greater activity in multiple parietal, occipito-temporal and prefrontal cortex regions while solving addition and subtraction problems. Despite poorer performance during subtraction, children with DD showed greater activity in multiple intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) and superior parietal lobule subdivisions in the dorsal posterior parietal cortex as well as fusiform gyrus in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Critically, effective connectivity analyses revealed hyper-connectivity, rather than reduced connectivity, between the IPS and multiple brain systems including the lateral fronto-parietal and default mode networks in children with DD during both addition and subtraction. These findings suggest the IPS and its functional circuits are a major locus of dysfunction during both addition and subtraction problem solving in DD, and that inappropriate task modulation and hyper-connectivity, rather than under-engagement and under-connectivity, are the neural mechanisms underlying problem solving difficulties in children with DD. We discuss our findings in the broader context of multiple levels of analysis and performance issues inherent in neuroimaging studies of typical and atypical development.
View details for DOI 10.1111/desc.12216
View details for Web of Science ID 000353054000001
The importance of the hippocampal system for rapid learning and memory is well recognized, but its contributions to a cardinal feature of children's cognitive development-the transition from procedure-based to memory-based problem-solving strategies-are unknown. Here we show that the hippocampal system is pivotal to this strategic transition. Longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 7-9-year-old children revealed that the transition from use of counting to memory-based retrieval parallels increased hippocampal and decreased prefrontal-parietal engagement during arithmetic problem solving. Longitudinal improvements in retrieval-strategy use were predicted by increased hippocampal-neocortical functional connectivity. Beyond childhood, retrieval-strategy use continued to improve through adolescence into adulthood and was associated with decreased activation but more stable interproblem representations in the hippocampus. Our findings provide insights into the dynamic role of the hippocampus in the maturation of memory-based problem solving and establish a critical link between hippocampal-neocortical reorganization and children's cognitive development.
View details for DOI 10.1038/nn.3788
View details for Web of Science ID 000341125400021
View details for PubMedID 25129076
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social and communication deficits. While such deficits have been the focus of most research, recent evidence suggests that individuals with ASD may exhibit cognitive strengths in domains such as mathematics.Cognitive assessments and functional brain imaging were used to investigate mathematical abilities in 18 children with ASD and 18 age-, gender-, and IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children. Multivariate classification and regression analyses were used to investigate whether brain activity patterns during numerical problem solving were significantly different between the groups and predictive of individual mathematical abilities.Children with ASD showed better numerical problem solving abilities and relied on sophisticated decomposition strategies for single-digit addition problems more frequently than TD peers. Although children with ASD engaged similar brain areas as TD children, they showed different multivariate activation patterns related to arithmetic problem complexity in ventral temporal-occipital cortex, posterior parietal cortex, and medial temporal lobe. Furthermore, multivariate activation patterns in ventral temporal-occipital cortical areas typically associated with face processing predicted individual numerical problem solving abilities in children with ASD but not in TD children.Our study suggests that superior mathematical information processing in children with ASD is characterized by a unique pattern of brain organization and that cortical regions typically involved in perceptual expertise may be utilized in novel ways in ASD. Our findings of enhanced cognitive and neural resources for mathematics have critical implications for educational, professional, and social outcomes for individuals with this lifelong disorder.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.018
View details for Web of Science ID 000329130500011
Baddeley and Hitch's multi-component working memory (WM) model has played an enduring and influential role in our understanding of cognitive abilities. Very little is known, however, about the neural basis of this multi-component WM model and the differential role each component plays in mediating arithmetic problem solving abilities in children. Here, we investigate the neural basis of the central executive (CE), phonological (PL) and visuo-spatial (VS) components of WM during a demanding mental arithmetic task in 7-9 year old children (N=74). The VS component was the strongest predictor of math ability in children and was associated with increased arithmetic complexity-related responses in left dorsolateral and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortices as well as bilateral intra-parietal sulcus and supramarginal gyrus in posterior parietal cortex. Critically, VS, CE and PL abilities were associated with largely distinct patterns of brain response. Overlap between VS and CE components was observed in left supramarginal gyrus and no overlap was observed between VS and PL components. Our findings point to a central role of visuo-spatial WM during arithmetic problem-solving in young grade-school children and highlight the usefulness of the multi-component Baddeley and Hitch WM model in fractionating the neural correlates of arithmetic problem solving during development.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.10.001
View details for Web of Science ID 000328298700017
The study of developmental disorders can provide a unique window into the role of domain-general cognitive abilities and neural systems in typical and atypical development. Mathematical disabilities (MD) are characterized by marked difficulty in mathematical cognition in the presence of preserved intelligence and verbal ability. Although studies of MD have most often focused on the role of core deficits in numerical processing, domain-general cognitive abilities, in particular working memory (WM), have also been implicated. Here we identify specific WM components that are impaired in children with MD and then examine their role in arithmetic problem solving. Compared to typically developing (TD) children, the MD group demonstrated lower arithmetic performance and lower visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) scores with preserved abilities on the phonological and central executive components of WM. Whole brain analysis revealed that, during arithmetic problem solving, left posterior parietal cortex, bilateral dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and precuneus, and fusiform gyrus responses were positively correlated with VSWM ability in TD children, but not in the MD group. Additional analyses using a priori posterior parietal cortex regions previously implicated in WM tasks, demonstrated a convergent pattern of results during arithmetic problem solving. These results suggest that MD is characterized by a common locus of arithmetic and VSWM deficits at both the cognitive and functional neuroanatomical levels. Unlike TD children, children with MD do not use VSWM resources appropriately during arithmetic problem solving. This work advances our understanding of VSWM as an important domain-general cognitive process in both typical and atypical mathematical skill development.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.06.031
View details for Web of Science ID 000328005500026
Now, more than ever, the ability to acquire mathematical skills efficiently is critical for academic and professional success, yet little is known about the behavioral and neural mechanisms that drive some children to acquire these skills faster than others. Here we investigate the behavioral and neural predictors of individual differences in arithmetic skill acquisition in response to 8-wk of one-to-one math tutoring. Twenty-four children in grade 3 (ages 8-9 y), a critical period for acquisition of basic mathematical skills, underwent structural and resting-state functional MRI scans pretutoring. A significant shift in arithmetic problem-solving strategies from counting to fact retrieval was observed with tutoring. Notably, the speed and accuracy of arithmetic problem solving increased with tutoring, with some children improving significantly more than others. Next, we examined whether pretutoring behavioral and brain measures could predict individual differences in arithmetic performance improvements with tutoring. No behavioral measures, including intelligence quotient, working memory, or mathematical abilities, predicted performance improvements. In contrast, pretutoring hippocampal volume predicted performance improvements. Furthermore, pretutoring intrinsic functional connectivity of the hippocampus with dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortices and the basal ganglia also predicted performance improvements. Our findings provide evidence that individual differences in morphometry and connectivity of brain regions associated with learning and memory, and not regions typically involved in arithmetic processing, are strong predictors of responsiveness to math tutoring in children. More generally, our study suggests that quantitative measures of brain structure and intrinsic brain organization can provide a more sensitive marker of skill acquisition than behavioral measures.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1222154110
View details for Web of Science ID 000319803500056
View details for PubMedID 23630286
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a disability that impacts math learning and skill acquisition in school-age children. Here we investigate arithmetic problem solving deficits in young children with DD using univariate and multivariate analysis of fMRI data. During fMRI scanning, 17 children with DD (ages 7-9, grades 2 and 3) and 17 IQ- and reading ability-matched typically developing (TD) children performed complex and simple addition problems which differed only in arithmetic complexity. While the TD group showed strong modulation of brain responses with increasing arithmetic complexity, children with DD failed to show such modulation. Children with DD showed significantly reduced activation compared to TD children in the intraparietal sulcus, superior parietal lobule, supramarginal gyrus and bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relation to arithmetic complexity. Critically, multivariate representational similarity revealed that brain response patterns to complex and simple problems were less differentiated in the DD group in bilateral anterior IPS, independent of overall differences in signal level. Taken together, these results show that children with DD not only under-activate key brain regions implicated in mathematical cognition, but they also fail to generate distinct neural responses and representations for different arithmetic problems. Our findings provide novel insights into the neural basis of DD.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.09.006
View details for Web of Science ID 000315317400014
View details for PubMedID 22682904
Unlike natural numbers, negative numbers do not have natural physical referents. How does the brain represent such abstract mathematical concepts? Two competing hypotheses regarding representational systems for negative numbers are a rule-based model, in which symbolic rules are applied to negative numbers to translate them into positive numbers when assessing magnitudes, and an expanded magnitude model, in which negative numbers have a distinct magnitude representation. Using an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging design, we examined brain responses in 22 adults while they performed magnitude comparisons of negative and positive numbers that were quantitatively near (difference <4) or far apart (difference >6). Reaction times (RTs) for negative numbers were slower than positive numbers, and both showed a distance effect whereby near pairs took longer to compare. A network of parietal, frontal, and occipital regions were differentially engaged by negative numbers. Specifically, compared to positive numbers, negative number processing resulted in greater activation bilaterally in intraparietal sulcus (IPS), middle frontal gyrus, and inferior lateral occipital cortex. Representational similarity analysis revealed that neural responses in the IPS were more differentiated among positive numbers than among negative numbers, and greater differentiation among negative numbers was associated with faster RTs. Our findings indicate that despite negative numbers engaging the IPS more strongly, the underlying neural representation are less distinct than that of positive numbers. We discuss our findings in the context of the two theoretical models of negative number processing and demonstrate how multivariate approaches can provide novel insights into abstract number representation.
View details for DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00007
View details for Web of Science ID 000301116300001
View details for PubMedID 22363276
Early elementary schooling in 2nd and 3rd grades (ages 7-9) is an important period for the acquisition and mastery of basic mathematical skills. Yet, we know very little about neurodevelopmental changes that might occur over a year of schooling. Here we examine behavioral and neurodevelopmental changes underlying arithmetic problem solving in a well-matched group of 2nd (n = 45) and 3rd (n = 45) grade children. Although 2nd and 3rd graders did not differ on IQ or grade- and age-normed measures of math, reading and working memory, 3rd graders had higher raw math scores (effect sizes = 1.46-1.49) and were more accurate than 2nd graders in an fMRI task involving verification of simple and complex two-operand addition problems (effect size = 0.43). In both 2nd and 3rd graders, arithmetic complexity was associated with increased responses in right inferior frontal sulcus and anterior insula, regions implicated in domain-general cognitive control, and in left intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and superior parietal lobule (SPL) regions important for numerical and arithmetic processing. Compared to 2nd graders, 3rd graders showed greater activity in dorsal stream parietal areas right SPL, IPS and angular gyrus (AG) as well as ventral visual stream areas bilateral lingual gyrus (LG), right lateral occipital cortex (LOC) and right parahippocampal gyrus (PHG). Significant differences were also observed in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), with 3rd graders showing greater activation in left dorsal lateral PFC (dlPFC) and greater deactivation in the ventral medial PFC (vmPFC). Third graders also showed greater functional connectivity between the left dlPFC and multiple posterior brain areas, with larger differences in dorsal stream parietal areas SPL and AG, compared to ventral stream visual areas LG, LOC and PHG. No such between-grade differences were observed in functional connectivity between the vmPFC and posterior brain regions. These results suggest that even the narrow one-year interval spanning grades 2 and 3 is characterized by significant arithmetic task-related changes in brain response and connectivity, and argue that pooling data across wide age ranges and grades can miss important neurodevelopmental changes. Our findings have important implications for understanding brain mechanisms mediating early maturation of mathematical skills and, more generally, for educational neuroscience.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.013
View details for Web of Science ID 000292717900015
View details for PubMedID 21620984
Although lesion studies over the past several decades have focused on functional dissociations in posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during arithmetic, no consistent view has emerged of its differential involvement in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. To circumvent problems with poor anatomical localization, we examined functional overlap and dissociations in cytoarchitectonically defined subdivisions of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), superior parietal lobule (SPL) and angular gyrus (AG), across these four operations. Compared to a number identification control task, all operations except addition, showed a consistent profile of left posterior IPS activation and deactivation in the right posterior AG. Multiplication and subtraction differed significantly in right, but not left, IPS and AG activity, challenging the view that the left AG differentially subserves retrieval during multiplication. Although addition and multiplication both rely on retrieval, multiplication evoked significantly greater activation in right posterior IPS, as well as the prefrontal cortex, lingual and fusiform gyri, demonstrating that addition and multiplication engage different brain processes. Comparison of PPC responses to the two pairs of inverse operations: division versus multiplication and subtraction versus addition revealed greater activation of left lateral SPL during division, suggesting that processing inverse relations is operation specific. Our findings demonstrate that individual IPS, SPL and AG subdivisions are differentially modulated by the four arithmetic operations and they point to significant functional heterogeneity and individual differences in activation and deactivation within the PPC. Critically, these effects are related to retrieval, calculation and inversion, the three key cognitive processes that are differentially engaged by arithmetic operations. Our findings point to distribute representation of these processes in the human PPC and also help explain why lesion and previous imaging studies have yielded inconsistent findings.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.035
View details for Web of Science ID 000293611600034
View details for PubMedID 21616086
Recent research into math cognition has identified areas of the brain that are involved in number processing (Dehaene, Piazza, Pinel, & Cohen, 2003) and complex problem solving (Anderson, 2007). Much of this research assumes that participants use a single strategy; yet, behavioral research finds that people use a variety of strategies (LeFevre et al., 1996; Siegler, 1987; Siegler & Lemaire, 1997). In the present study, we examined cortical activation as a function of two different calculation strategies for mentally solving multidigit multiplication problems. The school strategy, equivalent to long multiplication, involves working from right to left. The expert strategy, used by "lightning" mental calculators (Staszewski, 1988), proceeds from left to right. The two strategies require essentially the same calculations, but have different working memory demands (the school strategy incurs greater demands). The school strategy produced significantly greater early activity in areas involved in attentional aspects of number processing (posterior superior parietal lobule, PSPL) and mental representation (posterior parietal cortex, PPC), but not in a numerical magnitude area (horizontal intraparietal sulcus, HIPS) or a semantic memory retrieval area (lateral inferior prefrontal cortex, LIPFC). An ACT-R model of the task successfully predicted BOLD responses in PPC and LIPFC, as well as in PSPL and HIPS.
View details for DOI 10.3758/CABN.9.3.270
View details for Web of Science ID 000269190400006
View details for PubMedID 19679763
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0140525X09990860
View details for Web of Science ID 000269684000052
This article investigates the potential of fMRI to test assumptions about different components in models of complex cognitive tasks. If the components of a model can be associated with specific brain regions, one can make predictions for the temporal course of the BOLD response in these regions. An event-locked procedure is described for dealing with temporal variability and bringing model runs and individual data trials into alignment. Statistical methods for testing the model are described that deal with the scan-to-scan correlations in the errors of measurement of the BOLD signal. This approach is illustrated using a "sacrificial" ACT-R model that involves mapping 6 modules onto 6 brain regions in an experiment from Ravizza, Anderson, and Carter (in press) concerned with equation solving. The model's visual encoding predicted the BOLD response in the fusiform gyrus, its controlled retrieval predicted the BOLD response in the lateral inferior prefrontal cortex, and its subgoal setting predicted the BOLD response in the anterior cingulate cortex. On the other hand, its motor programming failed to predict anticipatory activation in the motor cortex, its representational changes failed to predicted the pattern of activity in the posterior parietal cortex, and its procedural component failed to predict an initial spike in caudate. The results illustrate the power of such data to direct the development of a theory of complex problem solving, both at the level of a specific task model as well as at the level of the cognitive architecture.
View details for DOI 10.1080/03640210802451588
View details for Web of Science ID 000261413600005
View details for PubMedID 21585456


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Korg ElecTribe SX (ESX-1)
The ELECTRIBE SX is a major step up in power and quality from the original ElecTribe series of dance music sequencer/synthesizers from Korg. The ESX-1 comes in a sturdy metal chassis with larger back-lit LCD display, expanded memory, voices & multitimbrality, more real-time controllers and vacuum tubes! Effects, Motion Sequencing, and Pattern length have also been expanded. And a new ribbon controller and slider have been added, providing a remarkable realtime interface for accessing the powerful arpeggiator.
Using sample based sound creation, the ESX-1 can generate a total of 16 parts that can be used for building patterns. A generous 285 seconds of memory (at 44.1kHz) can be used to create up to 384 of your own samples. Nine parts are set up to play as "one-shot" samples, or Drum Parts. Two additional Keyboard Parts allow samples to be played melodically at various pitches right from the step keys or a MIDI input device. Sampled loops can be assigned to the Stretch Parts. As Stretch Parts, their tempos can be freely adjusted without affecting their pitch. This allows two sample loops recorded at different tempos to be used in the same piece of music. Phrase samples can be "Sliced," or divided up at the rhythmic peaks of the sample. Once sliced, individual samples can be muted to generate new grooves. Pitch, filter and effect settings can be applied to the individual sliced samples (or Motion Sequenced) to transform the original phrase into something unique. Two Accent parts introduce added dynamics. Reverse and Roll commands can be used to quickly generate complex sounding patterns. Additional Sample edit commands include Normalize, Truncate and Start Point. The ESX-1 ships with 196 preloaded samples covering a wide variety of styles. All samples (.WAV/AIFF format) can be imported and exported via SmartMedia cards.
The two Vacuum tubes (Valve Force Circuitry) create an analog tube circuit to add warmth and presence to your sounds. The tube gain knob adjusts the level of the output signal passing through the vacuum tubes, creating dynamic sounds with the distinctive tonal quality that only tubes deliver. Three stereo effect processors are available for simultaneous use. Each part can be independently routed to any of the three effects processors, and you can even use the Chain function to link multiple effects in series. Each processor offers 16 effect types including reverb, delay, flanger and chorus, tempo-based delay, talking modulator, grain shifter, decimator and more. The edits you make to each of the effects processors can be saved with each pattern. A brand-new filter lets you chose Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass or Band Pass Plus. Audio inputs allow you to process external signals through the on-board filter and effects, and an extra pair of assignable outputs has been added as well.
As for the sequencing capabilities, up to 256 patterns can be created and stored to the internal memory. The ESX-1 ships with 128 assorted patterns covering house, hip-hop, R&B, electronica, drum n bass, techno, trance and more. You can combine patterns, add mute data and knob movements to create up to 64 songs, the ESX-1 ships with 3 demo songs. Favorite patterns can be assigned to Pattern Sets for instant access. Data can be quickly saved and loaded via SmartMedia cards. Realtime recording lets you record phrases as you perform, and step recording allows you to input the timing, pitch and duration one note at a time. Motion Sequencing records your realtime knob tweaks and plays them back as part of the pattern. Two types of motion sequence are provided; one for effects and one for parts, and you can also edit the value of individual steps. Up to 24 motion sequences can be used in a single pattern, allowing you to control virtually every sound parameter. And, using Auto BPM detection, the ESX-1 can follow the tempo of an external audio source. You can also use Tap Tempo to input the beat, set the tempo internally, or sync up to an external MIDI clock.
The ESX-1 is a fantastic dance production machine best suited for live performances. The samples it ships with are excellent, but the ability to load your own samples and make its sounds your own open up far more unique and almost limitless possibilities for your music. Easy and intuitive to use, flexible, fun and inspiring. Click on the YouTube link above to see and hear it in action!
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Manual - Download the complete owner's manual from Korg here.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 16 voices
- Multitimbral - 16 total; 2 synth parts, 9 drum parts, 1 drum accent part, 2 stretch part, 1 slice part, 1 audio in part
- Samples - 384 (100 mono, 128 stereo), Maximum 285 (mono) seconds; Sample Frequency: 44.1 kHz
- Memory - Internal + External Memory: SmartMedia (4-128 MB, 3V)
- Patterns - 256 patterns (128 preload), Maximum 128 steps by part, Maximum 24 motion sequence by pattern
- Songs - 64 songs (3 preload), Maximum 256 patterns, Maximum 20,000 event recording
- Filter - 4 types (synth part): Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass or Band Pass Plus
- Keyboard - 16 soft pads
- Effects - 16 types x 3 (Chain)
- Control - MIDI (In, Out, Thru)
- Date Produced - 2003
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Family: Phyllostomidae, New World Fruit Bats view all from this family
Description Reddish brown back; belly brownish. Erect leaf-shaped projection on tip of long nose. Large eyes. No noticable tail.
Dimensions 70-85 mm
Endangered Status The Lesser Long-nosed Bat, a subspecies of the Southern Long-nosed Bat, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona and New Mexico. Two factors seem to have affected the numbers of these bats. One is disturbance, by humans, of maternity roosts in caves, which may cause the bats to leave the caves. The other is the overharvest of the agave plants these bats feed on for the production of tequila and mescal in Mexico. Ironically, the decline in bats may result in a decline in agave plants, as the bats are major pollinators of certain species, and the plants depend on the bats just as the bats depend on the plants.
Warning Bats are susceptible to rabies, a serious viral disease that results in death if untreated. Rabid bats rarely attack humans or other animals, but bats found lying on the ground may be rabid. Never touch or pick up any bat. Stay away from any animal that seems to be acting strangely and report it to animal-control officers. If you are bitten by a possibly rabid animal, you must immediately consult a doctor for a series of injections; there is no cure once symptoms emerge.
Habitat Canyons & caves, Deserts, Forests & woodlands, Grasslands & prairies
Range Southwest
Discussion Found in areas where mountains rise from desert in southern Arizona and sw New Mexico. Roosts in caves and mines with females forming large maternity colonies. Tends to breed only in specific caves on islands of Caribbean.


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Wash. voters legalize recreational pot use
SEATTLE - Washington joined Colorado in voting to become the first states to legalize and tax the sale of marijuana for recreational use, but people shouldn't expect to be able to buy a bag of legitimate weed any time soon.
Though Washington's Initiative 502 decriminalizes the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana beginning Dec. 6, the state has a year to come up with rules governing the growing, processing and labeling of pot before sales to adults over 21 can begin.
In addition, marijuana remains illegal under federal law, so the big question is whether the federal government will allow the measures in Washington and Colorado to take effect without a fight. The Justice Department is offering no enlightenment on that front.
"The Department of Justice's enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged," read identical statements issued by the U.S. attorney's offices in Denver and Seattle. "The department is reviewing the ballot initiative here and in other states and has no additional comment at this time."
State laws can be ruled invalid when they "frustrate the purpose" of federal law, and the DOJ could sue to try to block the measures from taking effect on those grounds.
"We have a lot of work ahead," said Alison Holcomb, campaign manager for the Washington initiative. "The biggest issue I-502 presents for the federal government is that we are creating a robust regulatory scheme."
Initiative 502 calls for a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where adults over 21 can buy up to an ounce of marijuana. It also establishes a standard blood test limit for driving under the influence.
Home-growing marijuana for recreational reasons remains barred, as does the public display or use of pot.
That didn't stop some supporters from celebrating Tuesday night with joints on a sidewalk outside the campaign party in downtown Seattle.
"I've been selling pot for 38 years," said supporter Ben Schroeter. "I've been busted multiple times, most recently eight days ago. Prohibition is stupid."
With 50 percent of precincts reporting, the Washington measure was passing with 55 percent of the vote. Colorado also approved recreational use, while a measure in Oregon was defeated.
State financial experts estimate Washington's initiative could raise nearly $2 billion in tax revenue over the next five years, with the money going toward education, health care, substance abuse prevention and basic government services.
Sponsors and supporters ranged from public health experts to two of the DOJ's top former officials in Seattle, U.S. Attorneys John McKay and Kate Pflaumer.
Legalization could reduce small-time, pot-related arrests and give supporters a chance to show whether decriminalization is a viable strategy in the war on drugs.
The effort raised more than $6 million in contributions, with more than $2 million of that coming from Progressive Insurance Co. founder Peter Lewis, who used marijuana to treat pain from a leg amputation.
Some people in the marijuana reform community also objected to the DUI standard, which they called arbitrarily strict.
The campaign had little organized opposition but raised objections by law enforcement officials and some substance abuse experts who said increasing access to pot was a bad idea.
"Legalizing is going to increase marijuana use among kids and really create a mess with the federal government," said Derek Franklin, president of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention. "It's a bit of a tragedy for the state."
For many voters, it came down to the notion that decades of marijuana prohibition have done more harm than good.
George Cannon, 43, of Seattle said it was an issue of personal freedom: "I'm not into getting into other people's business."
Initiative 502 found strong support among liberals and moderates, Democrats and those with more than a high school degree. Independents and women were split on the issue, as were suburbanites.
I-502 fared well in King County and the Puget Sound area, but not in Eastern Washington, Southwest Washington or on the Olympic Peninsula.
Opposition came from voters 65 and older, conservatives, Republicans and those with a high school degree or less. Weekly churchgoers rejected the measure, while those who said they never attend religious services or considered themselves occasional churchgoers favored legalizing pot.
The survey of Washington state voters was conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research. It includes preliminary results from a survey of 1,493 voters who cast ballots early or submitted absentee ballots, and were interviewed by landline or cellular telephone from Oct. 29 through Nov. 4.
Results for the full sample were subject to sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The figure was higher for subgroups.
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Golf - Varsity
The Berkshire School golf team takes full advantage of a home course as beautiful as Wyantenuck Country Club in nearby Great Barrington. Founded in 1896, WCC offers a challenging lay out with small undulating greens and fairways. It is a great test of golf as the players must learn to hit all of the shots in their bag along while being tested in all areas of the mental aspects of the game. WCC is not a course where "grip it and rip it" applies, which is just one of the reasons why Berkshire golfers love having Wyantenuck as their home course.
Berkshire competes in as many tri and quad matches as the spring season will allow (many of them on our home courses as other schools love Wyantenuck too!) and the season ends with the Kingswood Invitational, golf's New England Championship.
Each match is medal play to mirror the college game and several graduates of the Berkshire golf program have gone on to play at the next level in college. The most important fact about Berkshire's golf program though is that golfers of all levels of ability have been taught many valuable life lessons while teeing it up at Wyantenuck. It is truly a great way to spend the spring season here at Berkshire.
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Alternate name: Pacific Mackerel
Family: Scombridae, Mackerels view all from this family
Description The chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus, also known as the Pacific mackerel or blue mackerel and sometimes referred to as a "hardhead" or "bullseye", closely resembles the Atlantic chub mackerel.
Most important of the differences, anatomically, is the fact that the hardhead has a well-developed swim bladder attached with the esophagus, which the "true mackerels" in the Scomber genus lack. But it is not necessary to open the fish to identify it for there is a characteristic color difference between them, the Atlantic being silvery-sided below the mid line, whereas the lower part of the sides of the hardhead (otherwise colored somewhat like the Atlantic) are mottled with small dusky blotches, and the chub has a larger eye than the Atlantic. Less obvious differences are that the dorsal fins are closer together in the chub and that there are only 9 or 10 spines in its first dorsal fin instead of 11 or more, which is the usual count in the Atlantic mackerel. In most species the mackerel is known to travel in large schools.
Dimensions Up to 25" (64 cm).
Habitat Ocean or bay shallows.
Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska.


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Didion to give keynote address, April 1
Posted March 25, 2005; 02:41 p.m.
Author Joan Didion will deliver the keynote address at a conference on "Women, Art and Politics in the 20th Century" Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
The conference, organized by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender, will explore the responses of women novelists, playwrights, poets, political theorists, sculptors and photojournalists to the cataclysmic events the last century. It will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Didion, who has produced several novels and books of nonfiction, will speak at 5 p.m. Friday on "Writing Politics." The conference will close on Saturday with a 5 p.m. poetry reading by Eavan Boland.
Topics to be discussed during the sessions include responses to the two world wars; totalitarianism in Europe; the Depression, McCarthyism and race in the United States; and the role of women and gender in the representation of political life. Papers will address the work of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Barbara Hepworth, Lee Miller, Elizabeth Bowen and H.D., among others.
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Family: Parulidae, Wood Warblers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has olive-green back, wings, and tail. Has a blue-gray hood (head and neck), lower margin of which is defined by black, scaled-looking bib. Lores are often darkish. Note virtual absence of pale eyering (cf. Connecticut). Underparts are otherwise bright yellow, with olive wash on flanks, and legs are pinkish. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but hood is uniformly pale gray (without black bib and lores). IMMATURE Recalls adult female, but has mostly olive-gray head and neck, with indistinct pale eyering, yellowish throat, and darker, incomplete breast band (corresponding to lower margin of adult's hood).
Dimensions Length: 5 1/2" (14 cm)
Habitat Fairly common summer visitor (mainly Jun-Aug) to scrub thickets and dense, secondary woodland. Winters in Central and South America.
Observation Tips Presence easiest to detect by sound. Patient observation is needed to obtain good, prolonged views.
Range Western Canada, California, Texas, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, Plains
Voice Song is a rich chrr-chrr-chrr-chrr chu'chu; call is a thin tchit.
Discussion Shy and rather secretive, plump-bodied wood-warbler that usually feeds on, or near, the ground. Sexes are separable.


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School leaders blast governor's voucher plan at hearing
Joint Finance Committee holds 3rd of 4 scheduled public meetings
LAKE DELTON, Wis. - Local school administrators at a public budget hearing Wednesday said Gov. Scott Walker's private school vouchers and funding proposals would cost their districts millions of dollars.
The comments came during the third of four public meetings held by the legislature's Joint Finance Committee about Walker's proposals. The committee will return to the Capitol next week to begin working on the budget.
Vouchers are a policy decision that doesn't belong in the budget process, said Tim Schell, director of instruction at Waunakee School District.
"Budgets are about leadership and about choice," Schell said during the hearing, held at the Kalahari Resort in Lake Delton. "In your time of choosing as a panel, act wisely for the future of Wisconsin and Wisconsin's children."
In Madison, where vouchers would take effect because there is more than one school deemed to be failing, administrators said Walker's plans would cost $37 million over five years.
"The current state budget proposal threatens Madison schools by cutting resources and taking away local control," Madison board member Ed Hughes said at a news conference that included new district superintendent Jen Cheatham.
But some parents at the Lake Delton hearing said they supported vouchers because they "let the parents make the decision" where to send their kids to school.
If the proposal went into effect today, Walker's plan would allow parents in nine districts -- including Madison and Beloit -- to use taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their kids to private schools.
"I think the key has been that more lawmakers have heard from families, both those who benefited from existing vouchers and from those who'd like to benefit," Walker said.
The voucher plan and a funding proposal that doesn't include increases for public schools face scrutiny in the state Senate, with two Republicans expressing concerns.
"I'm still cautiously optimistic that either what we propose or something close to that will be in (the final budget)," Walker said. He said he was open to exploring other options.School leaders blast governor's voucher plan at hearing
Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, has offered an alternative plan to provide private school parents with a tax credit. He said it goes further than Walker's proposal.
"A lot of these public schools are spending (thousands of dollars) of taxpayer money a year," Grothman said. "The idea that we'd help a parent who sends their kids to private schools with $1,500 or $2,500 is almost nothing."
Rep. John Nygren, the Republican co-chairman of the Joint Finance Committee, told WISC-TV last week he was "skeptical" the plan would gain enough support.


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Did you guys see luck run that int down? Jesus that guy can run!. He can do everything!
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The Colts lack of D (and the Ravens' opportunistic D) does them in again.
Good god indy's corners are bad. Vontae seemed to be the only competent guy they had back there. Cassius Vaughn and Darius Butler were beaten like drums.
Griffin hurt again. This guy is going to have a stunningly short career.
Griffin in college: knee injury, concussion.
Griffin's first season in the pros: knee injury, concussion.
Nah, I don't see a trend here.
Well don't worry because if the doctors find that more damage was done to the knee Shanahan will be fired.


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Yesterday I've implemented a message signing module for Mailman. Darian (aka dmalloc), from openprojects.net has asked if I could do such module to use on lists.openprojects.net. (I said yes... ;-). I'm going to ask the people here at Conectiva if they want to use this module in some of our lists.
Pybot has a few new features: CTCP handling/sending, timer module, unhandled messages hook, and something else I probably forgot.
About Linuxconf, I have spent the last days fixing a few simple bugs introduced in 1.24r2 and in the last modules developed by Conectiva. I hope to release a Linuxconf update to Conectiva 6.0 tomorrow.
gnome-linuxconf has won a home with screenshots and everything else at http://distro.conectiva.com/projetos/45. I've also published it at freshmeat and put files to download at SourceForge.
Oh, good news I forgot to tell: for those of you that are using wxxt-linuxconf, Jack (Jacques Gelinas) has implemented the Treemenu icons into this frontend as well.