Because this weather's so rare, we picked rare songs, unfamiliar tracks that you can explore while you're trapped inside.
The coroner of British Columbia has ruled that the death of a Georgian luge athlete in a training run before the Vancouver Games was accidental, but he called on the International Luge Federation to do more to prepare athletes to race on unfamiliar tracks and before major competitions.
The abiding sense that each tourist took plenty from it – be that the long hours bonding over matches of Fifa on a games console, to the experience on unfamiliar tracks in hostile (in every sense) climes, to the accelerated development of being thrust into a leadership role – was backed up by Farbrace, who said: "For a lot of young blokes it's been a good learning experience.
First, some background on this startup, for those unfamiliar: Tracks launched last year at TechCrunch Disrupt NY as a way for users to create shared photo albums.
Familiar tracks elicited in 16% of the cases piloerection; interestingly, this ratio was significantly higher (33%) for the small amount of unfamiliar tracks (χ[1] = 8.80, p < .01).01
"We are not going to be playing strange unfamiliar album tracks by artists they have never heard of, but you get credit for allowing them to discover or rediscover songs they don't normally hear on the radio".
Nothing here is entirely unfamiliar: the title track creates a junkyard racket in the manner of Tom Waits, December Rains borrows its atmosphere from the noirish vocoder pop beloved of David Lynch.
After signing, he mimes walking a wire, then points skyward, then points to himself, presumably for the benefit of those unfamiliar with his track record – or with Man on Wire, the new documentary feature about the coup whose director, James Marsh, happens to be among the audience (and happens to be the father of the canny blonde five-year-old).
Since speckle-tracking strain analysis requires experience to achieve reproducible results and its effective use requires training, it could be difficult to use routinely for general physicians such as diabetologists or even cardiologists who were unfamiliar with speckle tracking.
Long track was unfamiliar but somewhat less dangerous because contact with other skaters is forbidden and the turns are not as acute.
