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In the course of researching and writing this article I suffered crippling bouts of gas and added 6 pounds of blubber around my middle.
The Nevada Athletic Commission refused to sanction UFC bouts, barring the UFC from the lucrative casino market.
He says that "[e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert."
If, for example, one is dealing with a lengthy locomotor record that contains bouts of rhythmic activity interspersed with inactivity, spectral analysis can indicate the presence of the rhythm but nothing about the local time-dependent features of the rhythm, such as when the periods of inactivity occur, amplitude changes over the course of the experiment, and transient phase shifts.
A few bouts of this will make your head spin.