Comet Calendar, The Official Event Calendar for UT Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/rss.php en-us This Day's Events at UT Dallas PS: PeopleSoft Financials: General Ledger-Instructor Led http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220229941 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220229941 Feb 8
(9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) Location: Brazos Lab FO106c - see Campus Map.

This is a General Ledger class for UT Dallas PeopleSoft users who need to Retrieve Fund Balances. Learn how to create an inquiry to view cost center transaction details and ledger summaries and MORE. This class is conducted twice a month.

Please register at: https://utdallas-events.edu.185r.net/Event/page2.php?e=48]]>
Full-Time MBA Info Session http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220218401 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220218401 Feb 8
(9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) Location: Classroom 2.

This information session is for those interested in the Full-Time Master of Business Administration offered at The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. This is an online session from 9:30 am to 10:30 a.m. CST, hosted by Joanna Fowler, Assistant Director for the Full-Time MBA Program. Joanna will cover application procedures and various degree requirements, and will interactively answer questions from session participants.

-Access the web conference session via this link: http://utd.acrobat.com/class2/, select "Enter as a Guest," type your name and click "Enter Room."

-Before participating in the session, you can run a connection test at: http://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

-You can view a short demo of "Attend Your First Connect Pro Meeting" demo here:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-connect-8/attending-a-meeting/

-Access the web conference session via this link: http://utd.acrobat.com/class2/, select "Enter as a Guest," type your name and click "Enter Room."

-Before participating in the session, you can run a connection test at: http://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

-You can view a short demo of "Attend Your First Connect Pro Meeting" demo here:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-connect-8/attending-a-meeting/

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Toastmasters http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220210881 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220210881 Feb 8
(12 p.m. - 1 p.m.) Location: SU 2.504 Gemini Room. Toastmasters is  a leadership program designed to help you improve your ability to speak publicly, in groups, meetings, committees, and presentations. Members learn by actively speaking and working with others in a comfortable, supportive environment. Meetings are open to UT Dallas students, faculty, staff, and alumni. 

Visit website for more information. 
www.uofdallas.fretoasthost.us
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RecycleMania 2012: Mount Trashmore http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220241541 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220241541 Feb 8
(10 a.m. - 2 p.m.) Location: The Chess Plaza on UT Dallas' mall. In a demonstration to fill the senses, custodial services will display a day's worth of waste on the University mall’s Chess Plaza  to signal the launch of RecycleMania 2012, the North American college recycling competition. Dubbed “Mount Trashmore,” its purpose is to focus attention on the need to reduce waste and aims to remind people how much waste can be saved from landfills.]]>
Christians on Campus - Bible Study http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220234711 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220234711 Feb 8
(1 p.m. - 2 p.m.) Location: SU 2.502 Pegasus Room.

Weekly Bible study

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Leadership Workshop http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220223201 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220223201 Feb 8
(1 p.m. - 2 p.m.) Location: Galaxy A. Join the Student Leadership Office and Julie Murphy for a leadership workshop.]]>
Psychological Sciences and Cognitive Science presents, "Music Perception and Treisman's Feature Integration Theory", Dr. Jay Dowling http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220241601 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220241601 Feb 8
(1 p.m. - 2 p.m.) Location: Green Hall 4.204.
Mark your calendar and come join us for this interesting talk with Dr. Dowling regarding music perception.

About Dr. Jay Dowling:  

My research interests have centered on the psychological reality and relevance to perception and memory of patterns of musical organization. What do listeners understand of music they have just heard? How do listening skills develop over the lifespan? One series of studies concerns the implicit knowledge listeners have of musical structure. Typical studies investigate memory for melodies differing in such features as strength of tonality (tonal vs. atonal), contrasting recognition of changes in the global patterns of melodies (melodic contour) with recognition of changes in the fine intervallic detail, note for note, of melodies. A surprising result that I have been investigating intensively for the past few years concerns the improvement of memory for fine melodic detail that seems to occur automatically over the first 3 minutes after you hear a novel melody.

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Christians on Campus - Bible Study http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239851 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239851 Feb 8
(1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.) Location: SU 2.508 Phoenix Room. Weekly Bible study]]>
Students for Justice in Palestine - General Body Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220244741 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220244741 Feb 8
(1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.) Location: SU 1.614. 1st general body meeting of this semester]]>
MS in Healthcare Management Online Information Session http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220222811 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220222811 Feb 8
(3 p.m. - 4 p.m.) Location: Online.

This free information session is for those interested in the Master of Science in Healthcare Management degree. The session is also open to all prospective students, including those nearing completion of their undergraduate degrees. This session will cover application procedures, program curriculum, online and on-campus learning options and various degree requirements.

-Access the web conference session via this link: http://utd.acrobat.com/class2/, select "Enter as a Guest," type your name and click "Enter Room."

-Before participating in the session, you can run a connection test at: http://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

-You can view a short demo of "Attend Your First Connect Pro Meeting" demo here:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-connect-8/attending-a-meeting/

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Yoga and Meditation Club - Workshop http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220228671 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220228671 Feb 8
(3 p.m. - 4 p.m.) Location: SU 2.602 Galaxy Room. Members and guests are welcome to come do Yoga and Meditation together. The workshop is led by a Yoga instructor and is free. This is a great way to relieve stress and promote a healthier lifestyle]]>
Introduction to RefWorks 2.0 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220240021 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220240021 Feb 8
(4 p.m. - 5 p.m.) Location: McDermott Library 2.524.

Learn to capture and organize citation information electronically, generate bibliographies and insert citations into your papers.

Register by e-mailing libinstructionservices@utdallas.edu

 

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Faculty @ 5: Elledanceworks http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194181 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194181 Feb 8
(5:30 p.m.) Location: Jonsson Performance Hall.

Join us for a free, informal presentation series featuring UT Dallas Arts and Humanities faculty and special guests as they perform and discuss their craft.

An informal presentation of several original works by Elledanceworks Dance Company will be followed by an open discussion with the choreographers and dancers, led by co-directors Ronelle Eddings and UTD faculty member Michele Hanlon.

Over the past 15 years, the company has performed extensively, bringing quality choreography and performance into a variety of settings internationally, regionally, and locally. This performance is designed to provide a window into the creative process and an opportunity to investigate the art and the craft of choreography.

Elledanceworks is a 501c3 Nonrofit Corporation and the professional dance company-in-residence at Collin College. For further information about the company visit www.elledanceworks.org.

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Chemistry Student Association - General Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220187481 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220187481 Feb 8
(4 p.m. - 6 p.m.) Location: SU 2.602 Galaxy Room. General meeting to discuss upcoming events.]]>
Vietnamese Student Association - General Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220213311 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220213311 Feb 8
(5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.) Location: SU 2.602 Galaxy Room. Members who don't make the first general meeting that week because of schedule conflicts can attend this backup meeting.]]>
Student Transition Programs - Behind the Scenes at UT Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220202861 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220202861 Feb 8
(5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.) Location: SU 2.602 Galaxy Room. Opportunity for transfer students to connect.]]>
Circle K International - Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220193161 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220193161 Feb 8
(6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) Location: SU 2.504 Gemini Room. CKI Meeting]]>
Filipino Student Association - FSA Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220245031 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220245031 Feb 8
(7 p.m. - 9 p.m.) Location: CN1.120.

General FSA meeting

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Filipino Student Association - Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220229021 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220229021 Feb 8
(7 p.m. - 9 p.m.) Location: CN 1.102. General FSA meeting]]>
Center for Values Discussion Forum: Ethics and the Military Funding of Research http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220196811 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220196811 Feb 8
(7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.) Location: GR 2.530.

The military has historically been a big source of funding for research in science and engineering. What ethical issues arise as University researchers decide whether to accept funds from the military and from defense contractors? How should researchers make responsible decisions about funding? What personal limitations might there be on such funding? Join our panelists in discussion of the realities of military funding, their personal worries and decisions, and the larger ethical and political issues. Our panelists are Dr. Emily Tobey, Associate Provost and Nelle C. Johnston Chair, Dr. Nicholas Gans, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Dr. Andrew Blanchard, Vice Provost and Dr. Marge Zielke, Arts & Technology. Dr. Matthew J. Brown will moderate the discussion between the panelists and the audience.

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HIndi Club - General Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242051 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242051 Feb 8
(6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.) Location: ECSN 2.704. We will hold meetings to teach students how to read, write, and speak in Hindi.]]>
Math Club - Club Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220186351 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220186351 Feb 8
(8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.) Location: SU 2.504 Gemini Room. The weekly math club meeting.]]>
Lambda Phi Epsilon - Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220240401 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220240401 Feb 8
(8 p.m. - 10 p.m.) Location: SU 2.502 Pegasus Room. An Informational Meeting about the fraternity of Lambda Phi Epsilon.]]>
SUAAB presents... A Tribute to the Minneapolis Sound http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220237851 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220237851 Feb 8
(8 p.m. - 10 p.m.) Location: The Student Union PUB.
Join SUAAB and Radio UTD as we pay tribute to a popular historical musical movement: the "Minneapolis Sound"

The Minneapolis sound is a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, R&B and New Wave that was pioneered by Prince in the late 1970s. Its popularity was given a boost throughout the 1980s, thanks to his musical adherents, including The Time, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Morris Day, Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, Ta Mara & the Seen, Sheila E., Jesse Johnson, Brownmark, Mazarati, and The Family.

According to the Rolling Stone Album Guide, the "Minneapolis Sound"... loomed over mid-'80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades' worth of electro, house, and techno."

Some artists who came from Minnesota were influenced by Prince's work and some came from other parts of the U.S. or world, such as Scottish star Sheena Easton, Flint, Michigan's Ready for the World, Augusta, Georgia's Le Klass and Los Angeles, California's Cherrelle. The music is also known as a form of funk-rock.]]>
Sword Arts - Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220202141 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220202141 Feb 8
(8 p.m. - 11 p.m.) Location: SU 2.602 Galaxy Room. Sword Arts is a special interest organization intended to promote swordsmanship as a sport and health improvement practice by engaging participants in activities that enhance a person's understanding and ability in the arts of sword fighting.]]>
Alpha Gamma Delta - Chapter Council http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239011 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239011 Feb 8
(10 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.) Location: GR 2.530. Weekly meeting for officers to get together and discuss operations]]>
Kappa Alpha Theta - Executive Committee http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239541 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220239541 Feb 8
(10 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.) Location: FO 2.608. Our executive committee will meet to discuss business]]>
Chi Phi Fraternity - Committee Meeting http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242471 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242471 Feb 8
(10 p.m. - 11:45 p.m.) Location: SU 2.504 Gemini Room.

Chi Phi committee meeting

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Sonic Architectonic http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194131 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194131 Jan 27 - Feb 18
(9 a.m. - 10 p.m.) Location: Visual Arts Building. SONIC ARCHITECTONIC is a mixed media exhibit exploring the architecture of sound in art. Some of the artists work directly with noise, frequency, and what we hear or feel through sound waves. Other artists work above or below the threshold of hearing, wielding images that suggest sound. Yet others anticipate our relationship to sound, addressing our expectations and cognitive reflexes. The exhibit features national and local artists and will open with reception Friday January 27th (reception 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) Visiting artist
Brad Tucker will share a lecture of his work Friday January 27th at 10:00 a.m. in AS 1.116.

Participating artists:
Eugene White
Diane Fitch
Derrick Buisch
Frank Dufour
Nancy Rebal
David Searcy
Elizabeth Mead
John Pomara
Leslie Wilkes
Brad Tucker
Paul Slocum
Robert Ortega
Stephen Lapthisophon
Jill Auckenthaler in collaboration with Sarah Phillips

The artists utilizing real sound with their visual works or as their artwork include Jill Auckenthaler, Paul Slocum, Brad Tucker, Stephen Lapthisophon, and Frank Dufour.  Musician/artist Jill Auckenthaler in collaboration with Sarah Phillips (Brooklyn, NY) will exhibit a work on paper and provide headphones for listening to that work.  What my schedule sounds like is both an instrumental score for an atonal sound piece and a watercolor and graphite work on paper. (The visual and audio notation evolved from seven categories of her daily activity including “work”, “studio”, and “sleep”.) Paul Slocum, a New York based artist, programmer, and composer will direct UT Dallas attendees to his iphone and ipad app, Magic Carpet, an enigmatic composition of hypnotic video images and sound. Brad Tucker, from Austin, TX, is creating Bagdad Bass Club, “a sound and object installation that combines videotaped music performance, customized audio equipment, handmade plastic records, small TV’s and quasi-sculptural/spatial intervention in the service of ambient music composition of thumping and intermittent bass sounds.” Imagine paper letters B, A, G, D, A and D spinning on a variety of disks while musicians watch, sight-read, and play the spinning notes as musical scores --performances which are then recorded and made into handmade plastic records --and that describes only part of the artwork. Local Dallas artists Stephen Lapthisophon and Frank Dufour will, in separate pieces, direct sound into the gallery to inhabit, transform, and be transformed through the architectural space of the gallery. Frank Dufour will work in collaboration with Nancy Rebal and David Searcy.

Invited artists Eugene White, Derrick Buisch, John Pomara, Diane Fitch, Leslie Wilkes, Robert Ortega, Elizabeth Mead and Uschi Weissmueller will open the sound dialog in various visual ways using painting, drawing, sculpture and graphic design. Eugene White makes small paintings of, for example, a 70’s Mustang or old Chevy truck as encountered in the humble everyday street settings of his Wisconsin city, somehow eliciting the engine revving of these cars as echoed by our American culture. Diane Fitch, living and working in Ohio and Vermont, paints a figure playing a guitar next to his brother playing video games inside the exquisite, maze-like architectural interiors of her bungalow. She says,  “I want rather to capture them in the act of being themselves, doing something that reveals the person. I never however paint portraits that focus solely on the person. I am interested in the figure in a space, in how the figure occupies the space, how he or she echoes other visual rhythms, or creates a contrast to the geometry of the interior.”

Wassily Kandinsky, the late Russian painter and art theorist (1866-1944) suggested in The Art of Spiritual Harmony (London 1914, Constable) that certain tones of yellow sound like “an ever louder trumpet blast or a fanfare elevated to a high pitch.”  While we don’t have Kandinsky around to analyze the large abstract paintings by Leslie Wilkes (Marfa, TX) or John Pomara (Dallas, TX), we might cajole our own inner synesthesia to allow us to hear colors and shape, or wonder why some visual works of art lend themselves to this game. Works by Robert Ortega (Brooklyn, NY), interested in patterns and “how to graphically relate light wavelength to audio frequency”, might share kinship with the Theosophists Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater, who were also interested in making the invisible visible. Their publication Thought-Forms (1905) includes a discussion of Ernst Chladni’s scientific investigations in which a glass plate covered with sand produced unique geometric patterns when a violin bow was rubbed against it and caused the plate to vibrate. Visual compositions that contain explicit vowels or letters, such as those that appear in paintings by Derrick Buisch (Madison, WI), produce sound as we “read” or “sound out” the visual typographic cues. The final component of this exhibition’s discussion might be Elizabeth Mead’s large color drawing and copper piece installation, which distill a response to nature as provided by her Virginia woodland canoe trips and evoke silence (or, is Nature really silent?)

Curated by Lorraine Tady.

Visual Art Building hours:

Monday - Friday . . . . . . . 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Closed

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RecycleMania 2012: Video Contest http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242931 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220242931 Feb 1 - Feb 21
(9 a.m. - 2 p.m.)

The RecycleMania video contest is back. This year’s theme is “The Spirit of Recycling.” Entrants are asked to create a video that relates a unique character or quality of their school to recycling. To be considered, a digital copy of the video must be submitted to joinrecyclemania@gmail.com before the 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Feb. 21, deadline. For more information, visit RecycleMania’s instructional video on YouTube or the website for full rules.

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Spring 2012 "Signature required" period to withdraw from UG courses 1st 8-week Session http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220185161 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220185161 Jan 25 - Feb 22 ]]> Dining Hall Opens at 7 a.m. - Expands Weekday Hours http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220230051 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220230051 Jan 12 - Feb 29
(7 a.m. - 9 p.m.) Location: Dining Hall. Beginning Thursday, Dec. 1, the University's Dining Hall will extend weekday service by opening at 7 a.m.

New hours of operation are:
Monday- Friday: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sundays: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

For more information about dining on campus, visit http://www.dineoncampus.com/utdallasdining/ .]]>
The O.T., a project of CircleWerk http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220226361 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220226361 Jan 14 - Mar 3
(12 p.m. - 5 p.m.) Location: CentralTrak.

Curated by Heyd Fontenot

The O.T.
, a project of the collective CircleWerk, is a cooperative/collaborative experiment in photography and video production. During the course of this exhibition, CentralTrak’s gallery will serve as an active film-making studio for a number of artists interpreting stories from the Old Testament. The project presents an opportunity to get a behindthe-scenes glimpse of the creative process. A variety of designers, painters, sculptors, performers and filmmakers will work together for the first time in this group endeavor.

Gallery Hours:
Wed. - Sat., 12 - 5pm 
Sunday - closed

Visit CentralTrak online

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Spring 2012 "Signature required" period to withdraw from UG courses Full-Term Session http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220185121 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220185121 Feb 2 - Mar 26 ]]> Affinities: Selections from the Comer Collection http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194141 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220194141 Feb 7 - Apr 14
(9 a.m. - 10 p.m.) Location: University Theatre Gallery.

The Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection includes important examples of middle to late 20th century American photography.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how they discover affinities for specific photographs. Affinities includes photographs from the UT Dallas Comer Collection by artists such as Larry Fink, Andrea Modica, Luis Mallo, Rufus O. Lovett, Andres Serrano and Paula Willmot Kraus. Curated by Melanie Levin.

Gallery hours:

Monday - Friday . . . . . . . 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . .Closed (unless during a theater event)

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Body Doubles Fall 2011 Sign-Up http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220203361 http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220203361 Aug 29, 2011 - Aug 3 Location: Student Wellness Center. Students are encouraged to sign up for the Body Doubles physical activity semeter long program sponsored by the Student Wellness Center and Recreational Sports. Students who sign up for Body Doubles will receive incentives to increase their physical activity, nutrition and fitness advice and a $10 discount for a Group X pass and/or a $10 discount for Boot Camp offered by the Activity Center.]]>