MADRID Wholesale Luol Deng Jersey , Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona's veteran midfield general Xavi Hernandez said on Tuesday that he is not sure he will end his career with the club.
Although that may shock Barca fans at first reading, it is not a massive surprise given that Xavi will celebrate his 34th birthday at the end of the month and has a contract until the end of June 2016, by which time he will be 36 years old.
Xavi made his first team debut for Barca when he was just 18 years old, but since then his passing ability has developed into an artform and he, more than anyone, can be seen as the architect of the football that made Barcelona the top club in Europe and has made Spain both World and European Champions.
In an interview with 'Panenka' magazine in Spain, Xavi looked into the future and admitted that if he is going to continue playing past 36 Wholesale Josh McRoberts Jersey , he may need to do so at a different club. "It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen," he said.
The good news is that after struggling with physical problems in the later stages of last season, Xavi believes he has recovered his physical shape.
"I feel even better than in recent seasons," he insisted, adding that although he doesn't like to be rested for any games, he sees the need to sit matches out now and then.
"I don't want to miss any Wholesale Chris Bosh Jersey , but I see the need to dose my efforts a bit more. Maybe in Spain people get carried away when a player reaches 30, but this is the best I have felt in my career. More mature, physically better. It is because I have learned things," he said.
As one of the great passers in the game, Xavi defended Barca's passing game, saying that at times he "feels more frustrated at missing a pass than in missing a chance to score. I am happy plying for Barcelona because of their philosophy," he said Wholesale Dion Waiters Jersey , adding that former Barca coach, Pep Guardiola had been "important, " for him, while not holding back on his criticism of former Real Madrid boss, Jose Mourinho, who he said he caused worse relations between the two clubs.
"They call him the 'Special One' because he won this and that, but I don't like how his teams play. I don't think he has left a legacy Wholesale Kelly Olynyk Jersey ," said Xavi.
Meanwhile Tuesday saw Leo Messi called into the squad for Barca' s Copa del Rey tie at home to Getafe on Wednesday night.
Messi returns to action after almost two months out as the result of a hamstring injury.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- University of Washington (UW) oceanographers are working with a company to develop a simple new technique that could track seafloor movement in earthquake-prone coastal areas.
The project aims to address the fact that deep below the ocean's surface, shielded from satellite signals, the gradual movement of the seafloor, including along faults that can unleash deadly earthquakes and tsunamis, goes largely undetected.
In reality, scientists know distressingly little about motion along the fault that lies off the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast.
The new project calls for using water-pressure sensors to measure gradual swelling of the seafloor over months to years. If successful Wholesale Tyler Johnson Jersey , the innovative hack could provide new insight into motion along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States, and similar faults off Mexico, Chile and Japan.
The data could provide clues about what types of earthquakes and tsunamis each fault can generate, where and how often, according to a UW news release this week.
The concept began with a workshop in 2012 that brought together Jerry Paros, the founder of Paroscientific Wholesale Goran Dragic Jersey , Inc., a company based in Bellevue, Washington state, with UW geoscientists. Paros' company manufactures sensors used to measure pressure at the bottom of the ocean with high precision, which are used by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, for its tsunami sensors.
The instruments can measure seafloor pressure Wholesale Wayne Ellington Jersey , or the weight of water above the sensor, to an extremely precise fraction of a millimeter. But the readings lose accuracy over time, and the error is proportional to the quantity measured. On the ocean floor, where pressures are tens to hundreds of times that on the surface, the readings can change by 10 centimeters, or three inches, per year. In between major earthquakes Wholesale Glen Rice Jersey , this is much more than the seafloor might shift up or down due to tectonic forces.
Last year, engineers at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory modified an existing pressure sensor from Paros' company. The sensitive quartz crystal that measures the seafloor pressure can now be connected to measure pressure inside its titanium instrument case, with a known pressure and another barometer to check the value. The prototype instrument was attached in mid-June to a cabled seafloor observatory that lets researchers communicate directly with the instrument.
If the modified sensors can do the job, future work might place a network of them along Cascadia or other subduction zones, in which a seafloor plate plunges beneath a continental plate. Measuring motion along different parts of these faults might answer questions about how and where a fault ruptures.
"We are trying to find a pattern of which areas are going up and which areas are going down, and how quickly, which can potentially tell us where the (Cascadia) subduction zone fault is locked Wholesale Alonzo Mourning Jersey ," William Wilcock, a UW oceanography professor, was quoted as explaining in the release. "But we can't yet do that with a conventional pressure sensor."