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State of Linux Audio
Hey guys, great mag, keep up the good work.
I'm an audio recording engineer and an avid Linux user. I'm currently
running Windows, OS X and Ubuntu 9.04 on my MacBook Pro. I use Linux for
pretty much everything I do, but it's really nice in my industry to have an
OS X machine around. My primary recording platform is Steinberg's Cubase. I
love the software. I go to great length to avoid using ProTools
professionally. Also, I run Cubase in Windows XP. I refuse to pay $2,500
for a computer that could be built for around $1,000, so OS X is out (plus, I
hate the operating system). So my question is this. With the Vista
debacle, I don't have much hope
for Windows 7 being a viable solution as a multimedia production platform.
Not wanting to go to OS X, why haven't manufactures of professional
audio hardware and software compiled for Linux? What are they waiting for?
Why, oh why, MOTU, can I not get drivers for my 424 PCI in Linux? Why, oh
why, Steinberg, can I not run Cubase and Nuendo on Ubuntu or Red Hat?
There are plenty of home recording users and audio
professionals like myself that need an alternative to Apple. I love my
MOTU hardware, but I've always heard that MOTU is very
What are they scared of? I'm not saying we need to open-source
anything, but at least give me the choice.
I pose this question to MOTU, Steinberg and all the other companies not
tied to Apple (as in Logic Audio). There's no reason why Digidesign couldn't get
in the game as well. Ardour is becoming a great piece of software, and
Audacity is great as
well. But, as long as both of them lack good VST support, OMF transfer and
other tools that are essential to what I do, I'm forced to stick to a
closed-source solution like Steinberg's Cubase (not that I mind, I love
the software).
What are we going to do if Windows 7 is a multimedia flop?
Michael Russo
Dave Phillips replies: First, thank you for your interest in the future of Linux audio and multimedia development. Indeed, Linux could be the alternative to hardware lock-in, but some significant factors keep it from happening.
Hardware manufacturers have been slow to adapt their products to Linux. This situation is perhaps the most significant factor in the non-acceptance of Linux in the wider professional audio worlds. After all, we can (and do) have the most amazing audio infrastructure, especially with the JACK server, but what good is it if industry-standard hardware won't work with it? A few intrepid manufacturers, such as RME and M-Audio, have entered the arena and have done well with sales to Linux users. Those companies wisely donated the driver spec sheets to the community development teams, and voilà, Linux users have drivers for some pro-audio gear. But, it's not enough.
The major music software houses are another story. We've seen pro-Linux movement from Renoise, Garritan, Reaper and a few other high-profile development houses, but I don't look for the big guns (Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools and so on) to enter the ring any time soon. Steinberg might lead the way if enough pressure is brought to bear upon them, but they need to see that a market exists before they expend the resources to create a Linux version of their products. Incidentally, those manufacturers also might consider Linux to be a support nightmare, although the crew at Renoise seems to be doing things the right way.
I don't expect the closed-source makers to embrace open-source practices or philosophies. I and many others would be happy to see working Linux versions of the major music packages for Windows, and I suspect that sales could be brisk. However, there is no denying that the Linux audio world is still very small, and any manufacturer who gets into the game at this time must be considered a pioneer.
So what can we do? We can continue to lobby the majors for Linux versions of their software. We can continue to ask hardware-makers for driver specs, and we can more actively support their entry into the Linux audio ecology. Also, the group at linuxaudio.org can act as an intermediary for companies or individuals who want to design an effective strategy for marketing their products to Linux users. We can continue to support those who already support Linux, and we can be vocal about it. We can advise builders that we would spend our money on their products if they supported Linux, and we should tell them what we will be buying instead.
Beyond these methods, I'm open to suggestions. Being harsh and rude won't be very convincing, so we must remain civil even to the most uncivil manufacturers. After all, we can't force anyone to support Linux.
Above all, the manufacturers can't resist market factors. If enough users populate the Linux audio world, the majors eventually will have to admit that their attitudes are costing them real money. Unfortunately, we can't easily draw more users into the fold when hardware choices are so limited. So, we return to the well-worn scenario of the chicken and the egg. From my point of view, it really is mostly about money. Perhaps MOTU has some ingrained anti-FOSS philosophy, but certainly even they would want to sell more of their goods in a larger market.
It's been suggested that what Linux audio really needs is a #1 hit—a song that sells strongly and has been made with Linux software. The way the music industry works, if that happened, there'd be a boatload of willing converts wanting to get on board this year's hobby horse. And, that would be fine with me, because some percentage of those converts will want to stay on board, thereby permanently enlarging the user base.
By the way, Ardour3 will include support for MIDI edition and for VST/VSTi plugins. The plugin support comes from recent open-source work that has effectively replaced the proprietary code from Steinberg, which means that a VST-enabled Ardour will be freely distributable.
Again, thank you for your interest and remarks, and I welcome further commentary.
Linux Power
I've been reading LJ cover to cover since 1999. I
absolutely love it, and it's
a highlight of my month when it arrives. I've built many machines and
currently have about ten Linux boxes (singles, duals, quads) running
24/7. Imagine my electricity bill. I used to buy PSUs on price/performance
ratings. This year, my electric bill topped $300 in the winter (in Texas).
Now I look for PSU efficiency ratings, which are sometimes difficult to
find. I just found the coolest site ever for determining power supply
I'm sure you already knew about this, but please share it with your
readers. It lists efficiencies for all the major manufacturers' power
supplies, graphing efficiency vs. load, and it makes selecting a new PSU a
Jim Peterman
I must admit, I've never considered buying PSUs for their efficiency either. As my electric bill recently has been more than $200/month, perhaps it's time I visit that site and begin to shop a little more wisely! Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the kudos.—Ed.
ssh-copy Tip
I have not written to your publication before but felt compelled to comment on Kyle Rankin's, "Lightning Hacks Strike Twice" [June 2009]. First, kudos to Kyle for showing us new and useful tricks. I appreciate the little time savers like cd - that he wrote about.
However, one item he talked about seemed needlessly complex. While discussing the "SSH Key One-Liner", Kyle used ssh and a redirected cat to append an SSH key to a remote server. I have had to manage dozens of remote servers, and I've found the ssh-copy utility to be much more effective. Kyle's example could be simplified as:
$ ssh-copy -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub email@example.com
The nice thing about ssh-copy is that it verifies that the key being added to the remote server doesn't already exist, which, of course, Kyle's solution does not.
Keep up the great magazine, and keep giving us great tips. I, for one,
love them.
Mark K. Zanfardino
Kyle Rankin replies: Thanks Mark! On my system, that tool appears to be called ssh-copy-id. I'm always game for learning an even simpler solution, and it looks like ssh-copy (or ssh-copy-id, in my case) certainly beats a long one-liner.
Re: "Free to a Good Home: Junk"
Regarding Shawn Powers' "Free to a Good Home: Junk" [in the May 2009 UpFront section] it's good concept, and I have some responses. First, I understand that you want to support sister print media (newspapers), but realistically, it makes more sense to "get with the times", and offer the equipment in the free and computer sections of Craigslist if you are in one of its covered markets. Although some papers do not charge for advertising free stuff, still, more tech-oriented people look to Craigslist first.
Second, if you're giving away PCs (desktop or notebook), when in the process of wiping your info from the hard drive (good idea!), install one of the more-common Linux mini-distros. I have found that most of the current mainstream distros are almost as bad as Vista as far as hardware demands, and they will not install (or run well if they can be installed) on many of the older PCs that folks would want to give away. Also, many of the distros, large and small, are challenged with supporting the huge variety of devices in x86 PCs, especially notebooks, so it may not always be possible to advance the OSS cause this way.
Third, a mixed success story for re-use (PCs to needy kids, but all Windows)
is happening in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill "Research
Triangle" of North
Carolina, a huge techie area. The Kramden Institute (www.kramden.org) is
a nonprofit that has collected and refurbished more than 3,000 PCs that it
has given to needy middle- and high-school students in the area. I think
it has gone as far afield as military families at nearby Fort Bragg
(yes, many of them are needy, unfortunately). Aside from its
Windows-centric bias, it is having an impact with PC re-use. It seems
that M$ offers the Kramden Institute sweetheart bulk-OS licensing deals that have gone from
Win 2000 to XP, last I knew (I do not know if this has
"progressed" to
Vista, but I see now the Kramden folks want at least a 700MHz CPU for donated systems
vs. the original 300 or so). Despite the inclusion of OpenOffice.org in the
PC build, my efforts a few times to interest them in using something like
Puppy Linux for lower-end PCs, otherwise inadequate for Windows, has not
gotten anywhere.
You make a good point with Craigslist—I just mentioned the newspaper, because in the area where I live, most folks who would be looking for giveaway computers still don't have computers at all, much less Internet access. As to what distro to install, there are arguments for common distros vs. more efficient smaller distros—ultimately, the right answer will vary from instance to instance.
As far as Windows installation on giveaway computers, it's true Microsoft is making some incredible deals on bulk nonprofit purchases. My suspicion is Microsoft is concerned that if people's first experience with computers is with Linux, they'll have little motivation later to switch to Windows—a "get 'em hooked early" type of thing. We just need to keep doing what we can and not become discouraged. Thanks for your letter.—Ed.
Squid Clarification
Regarding Mick Bauer's Squid series in the April, May and July 2009 issues], I set up my system (Fedora 8) to use Squid. I set up my other computer to use Firefox and set the proxy the same as Mick specified in the article. I issued the tail command and waited to see the display...nothing. After some fooling around, I discovered that the firewall on both my Windows box (ZoneAlarm) and on the Fedora box was not allowing the port to work. After setting both firewalls to allow port 3128, it worked great. I don't know if Mick was going to say anything about firewalls in the next installment, but he needs to, because it won't work without the firewall set correctly.
I also should mention that when I started Squid
(Fedora 8), it complained about not having visible_hostname set in the
squid.conf file. After I set it, Squid would start.
John Bruce
Mick Bauer replies: You're right. I completely forgot to mention personal/local firewalls, which, as you correctly point out, need to be set up to allow access to/from TCP 3128 (or whatever port Squid is using) on the Squid server and all client systems. Regarding the visible_hostname setting, on both my Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.04 systems, this option is not set at all, yet I've had no problems. Either Squid is figuring out its hostname on its own via the local DNS resolver, or Ubuntu's version of Squid (2.7) behaves differently from Fedora's (Squid 3.0, since it's Fedora 9). Either way, I'm sorry for the omission. I try to make my tutorials as comprehensive as possible!
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All weapons testing was accomplished with oversight from the United States Air Force Air Armament Center and the Air National Guard and Air Reserve Command Test Center.
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First Listen: Jenny Lewis, 'The Voyager'
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"Nostalgia has no place for the woman traveling alone," the great travel writer Mary Morris once wrote. "Our motion is forward, whether by train or daydream." She's describing a necessary ruthlessness: Women are so often defined by their attachments (family, romance, even the fetishes of style) that becoming light enough to move often requires behavior others might read as cruel or, at best, distanced. "Nothing lasts forever when you travel time," Jenny Lewis sings in a deliberately spacey drawl during the title track of her rich new solo album, The Voyager. The song, with its gentle string crescendos and angelic backing vocals by First Aid Kit, seems at first like a panegyric to the spirit of wanderlust. But Lewis' version of the Voyager — the NASA craft, currently floating beyond human perception? the only Star Trek ship to be captained by a woman? — goes up in smoke.
Like Lewis' great 2006 album with The Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat, The Voyager plays the way a short-story collection reads, its disparate narratives united by musical and lyrical undertones. This time, Lewis goes not for country-music references, but for a wider palette that pays tribute to the history of studio rock. She chose to make The Voyager with Ryan Adams as producer because she loved his Pax Am studio, which is tricked out with gear that dates from the 1960s to the present. Lewis and Adams took full advantage; their arrangements move through time without ever getting stuck in one era. "Head Underwater" recalls the New Wave sounds of The Motels and Aimee Mann's first band, Til Tuesday; "Slippery Slopes" rides a Tom Petty-worthy chord progression. "You Can't Outrun 'Em" cultivates the surf sound Lewis touched on in her duo with Johnathan Rice, Jenny and Johnny. "Love U Forever" steals its opening riff from classic rock's ultimate studio band, Cream. "Late Bloomer" connects Lewis to her own past; it would fit on her former band Rilo Kiley's finest album, More Adventurous.
The Voyager's clever (but never too-clever) sound builds an open structure within which the 38-year-old Lewis can explore her current fascination: the weight of full adulthood, and its paradoxical precariousness. Some of her writing is confessional, colorfully describing her fight with chronic insomnia or alluding to the death of her often-absent father and her doubts about marriage and monogamy. "Just One of the Guys," a collaboration with Beck, is the funniest reflection on anxiety about not having children this side of Sarah Silverman.
But while it's possible to locate Lewis within the "I" that shares these vignettes, it's not inevitable. The woman who discards a good-enough lover in "She's Not Me," the one coping with a cheater in "Slippery Slopes," the one trapped with someone she once thought was perfect in "Love You Forever": They come alive in their imperfections, because Lewis doesn't try to explain or justify them, or even exactly get the listener to empathize. She observes. She adopts different vocal styles to accommodate her characters, going from a rock growl to the singsong of a little girl to a soulful sound that comes from below her heart. The risk Lewis takes is not confession's emotionalism, but witnessing's honesty.
Throughout her writing, Lewis maintains this measured perspective, shored up by her fanatical attention to detail. Like other literary travelers from Joan Didion to Joni Mitchell, she finds the emotional intensity in relationships and scenarios through observations that require a step back, so that she can see the whole room, and that absolute refusal to slip into the generalities of nostalgia. "Forgive me my candor," she sings as an aside in the middle of "Late Bloomer," a coming-of-age story about an instantly regretted threesome. But listeners are so lucky to have her candor. Moving forward, Lewis keeps her eye on everything we need to know.
First Listen: Shabazz Palaces, 'Lese Majesty'
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Broadcasting live from the land of legal weed and sliding into the frame like a giant Pacific octopus, here comes Lese Majesty, the third album from Seattle's Shabazz Palaces. It's definitely hip-hop, but... was that a drum? Human? Synthesizer? Sample of an old record? We may never know. MC and producer Ishmael Butler keeps his cards close.
As leader of Digable Planets, Butler had an accessible radio hit in 1992's "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," but he hasn't done anything straightforward since. He began his Shabazz Palaces project in 2008, and Lese Majesty is its most relentlessly noncommercial chapter yet. No hits, no singles; just raw, graceful tunes.
"Dawn in Luxor" opens the 45-minute document with a line about "throwing cocktails at the F�hrer," and the album's title comes from the French phrase for sacrilege against royalty. The sentiment can be interpreted in several ways, with Butler lyrically protecting what's precious to him — blackness, hip-hop, eccentricity — and going hard at oppressors.
"Luxor" morphs into "Forerunner Foray," which captures the buzz of the entire hip-hop era, with prototypical rapping spliced in from 1973 and fluid, controlled jazz singing from Catherine Harris-White. She's Butler's main co-star on the album — not Tendai Maraire and his mbira, like on the last two Shabazz records.
As melodic as much of Lese Majesty is, the words might be the album's most important element. Close listeners will find brilliant inventions ("plushtrous," "unstill") and plenty of quotable passages. From "They Come in Gold," a cool literary reference: "Ish dances with the white whale on the Pequod." From "Harem Aria," after a string of bizarrely simple similes: "I'm not messing with your mind / I don't have that kind of time."
If you're in Seattle before Sept. 5, Butler's crew Black Constellation has an exhibit at the Frye Art Museum called Your Feast Has Ended, with textiles, sculpture, paintings and video work from Nicholas Galanin, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (Shabazz Palaces' video director and mask maker) and Nep Sidhu (Lese Majesty album designer). There's no better way to hear this album than while walking through the museum wearing headphones.
First Listen: Bear In Heaven, 'Time Is Over One Day Old'
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Two minutes and 11 seconds into "They Dream," from Bear in Heaven's fourth album Time Is Over One Day Old, the music takes a strange turn. The band has been shuttling along at a riveting adventure-movie clip, with Jon Philpot's reverb-swaddled voice functioning as the primary distinct element in a sleek blur. Then, abruptly, the tempo stops. A wash of Space Mountain synths dissolves slowly — the set has been struck. When Philpot begins to sing again, he's the sole occupant of the spotlight. Now he's offering a curious stray thread from a love story, and though the melody is new, its lovely elongated phrases echo those in the first part of the tune. What began as a thrill ride ends as something shadowy and mysterious and poignant.
The song lasts a little more than five minutes, and it never circles back to the money-shot "hook"; once that riveting moment disappears, it's gone for good. Those who expect their tunes to follow a strict verse-chorus schedule might find it unsettling, but those who have immersed themselves in Bear in Heaven's previous efforts — notably 2012's I Love You, It's Cool — will adjust. Because a signature lure of this Brooklyn band lies its fresh thinking about song structure: Philpot and multi-instrumentalist Adam Wills write epics that behave like highly concentrated energy shots. Their themes are sometimes somber, in a rock-anthem way that suggests it could take many long verses to get the full story. Their dramatic ramp-ups summon the thundering fury of U2. Their memorable refrains (and most of them are unshakably memorable) reach for and regularly glimpse celestial peaks. But there's a big catch: It's all highly concentrated. You have to pay attention, because these elements arrive and depart in a blink.
Bear in Heaven has been criticized for this compressed approach in the past, and with reason — its synth-centered landscapes are so intoxicating, you could imagine them easily inspiring extended romps in the vaguely psychedelic space-rock sphere. The band might want to visit that realm someday, but for now, its songs are edited for maximum impact. Philpot and multi instrumentalist Adam Wills have always had a clear sense of how the music should unfold, even if that means jettisoning beloved sections and messing with listeners' expectations.
On Time Is Over One Day Old, the band has achieved a golden mean on the expectation/disruption axis: The ethereal verses and nectar-like hooks last just long enough to become familiar, yet never return frequently enough to wear out their welcome. Part of the credit for this goes to the sumptuous textures: "Autumn" has an intriguing and beautifully harmonized refrain that happens exactly twice and ends with a hypnotic electric drone-scape, with vocal phrases like "a pleasure bearing down" peeking through its thick array. Even when Philpot intends to be explicit about a message, as in the swamp crawl "If I Were to Lie," he doesn't convey it by hammering some catchphrase over and over. He's more likely to string along stray fragments of story, relying on the shimmering atmosphere to fill the scene with detail.
Time is to the composer what an open canvas is to a painter. Philpot and Wills have evidently been thinking generally about time — see the album title — and within the songs themselves, they test out provocative notions about duration and repetition; about what happens when; and about different ways to create drama. Melding the gravitas of majestic, slowly unfolding anthems with punk's cut-to-the-chase brevity, Bear In Heaven has created vibrant, defiantly imaginative music for a rapidly expanding market segment: twitchy souls with short attention spans. But even those whose minds move at analog speed should learn to savor Bear in Heaven's sublime, episodic music. There's really no choice, because these songs blossom quickly and evaporate quickly, as fleeting as time itself.
First Listen: Quetzal, 'Quetzanimales'
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Twenty years is a long time in the life of a band. In the case of Quetzal, its two decades have been spent playing the soundtrack of its East L.A. neighborhoods: an evolving mash-up of Mexican son jarocho, low-rider oldies, cumbia, boleros, rock and blues.
Many Angelenos consider Quetzal as much as an institution as its East L.A. brethren in Los Lobos. Much of the current revival of son jarocho can be traced to Quetzal's history of playing the music when few others bothered.
Its latest album, Quetzanimales, expands the band's legacy with a concept that pays tribute to different animals found in the urban landscape: night owls, coyotes, spiders, squirrels, a rooster. The lyrics offer lessons that reflect the group's stated philosophy: the re-imagination of human life in relation to other living things.
Quetzal pulls off its mission with inspiring lyrics and gorgeous, expert musicianship; Martha Gonzalez's voice has developed the kind of deep resonance found in the best mariachi belters and soul crooners. On top of it all, the steady presence of band founder and guitarist Quetzal Flores guarantees a multi-genre musical journey that's both eclectic and magically cohesive.
First Listen: Wildest Dreams, 'Wildest Dreams'
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In a career spanning three decades, Harvey Bassett has done a bit of everything. He bashed drums in a John Peel-approved U.K. punk band in the late '70s, then found himself taken with hip-hop and turntables while visiting New York City in the early '80s. Technics in hand, he returned to the U.K., where he set about becoming a prime mover in his country's nascent dance-music scene, responsible for bringing Paradise Garage legend Larry Levan over at the end of his life.
Bassett became a resident DJ at Ministry of Sound and Fabric as the "Summer of Love" landed in London, but in the early 21st century, he relocated to the U.S. Here, his eclectic and woozy DJ sets took root and influenced a new generation of DJs (James Murphy, Todd Terje), while his peculiar alchemy transformed the likes of The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney into dance-floor staples. Such is Bassett's influence that even the man's look became a dance subgenre unto itself: beardo disco.
Starting with his Locussolus project back in 2010, Bassett showed he wasn't interested in repeating himself, as he instead crafted a hybrid of minimal techno and '80s rock. Now comes his new band, Wildest Dreams, which renews his love of garage music. But don't expect the group's self-titled debut to dabble in Paradise Garage-era disco, or even U.K. garage: Bassett and his cohorts are making psychedelic garage rock, full-stop. Here, Nuggets-era bands and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels intermingle with spacey Pink Floyd and Dire Straits. In the eight-minute rave-up "Last Ride," Dan Hastie's electric organ and Sergio Rios' stingray guitar leads power the groove, while Bassett howls in his smoke-laced tenor about feeding a hungry succubus. That said, don't slot Wildest Dreams as a rehash of raw '60s rock: The last three minutes of the song unspool into a darkly slinky groove.
As any great DJ or race-car driver might do, Bassett knows when to rev it up and when to lay off the gas. For every roiling stomper on Wildest Dreams ("She Loves Me Not," "Scorpion Bay"), there's a number that simmers instead. Hear how he crafts a laid-back disco shuffle for "405" that's as influenced by Steve Winwood's Traffic as it is by SoCal traffic. In the album's centerpiece, "Pleasure Swell," Bassett pays tribute to L.A., be it surfing in the Pacific Ocean or recalling the seedy Sunset Strip era of The Doors. The keyboards here bring to mind Ray Manzarek's gloomy tone in "Riders on the Storm" as the song ebbs and flows for seven minutes, dark and dreamy in equal measure. It's the kind of strange, unslottable song that makes perfect sense to open a DJ Harvey set.


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Thanks for your April 11 front-page article presenting a fair, thorough history of the Otsego Manor controversy.
If the April 29 public hearing at the Courthouse is anything like the "informational hearings" that have preceded it, we have cause to wonder how useful it will be.
The questions from the audience were merely "paraphrased" in a voice scarcely audible, omitting ones apparently deemed inconvenient. Instead of a dialogue that could have permitted a meeting of minds, we were made to feel that we were merely tolerated, allowed a specific number of minutes to speak our piece to deaf ears that had no obligation to address the questions we raised. They had already made up their minds.
I wonder, too, how "representative" our county representatives really are. The 3-1 vote of the tiny Otsego Manor committee to recommend that an local development corporation be created practically guarantees that the Manor will be sold to a private corporation, which by its very nature has as its purpose to make money for itself. What about all those 2,000 signatures on petitions signed by county taxpayers to save the Manor? What about the employees' union that has repeatedly offered to arbitrate and has received no answer from the board?
Don't let the three members of the Manor committee decide the fate of those we love whose home is the Manor.
Attend the public hearing on Monday and, by speaking up, convey this message: "The Manor belongs to us! We will show our allegiance to human values and moral responsibility by continuing the quality care our Manor currently offers."
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Here are my rankings for the players in the Twins minor league system. Talent and positional value are the biggest factors, while age and league are minor factors. In addition, draft position and size also have some impact. Normally I'd like to use 50, but after 35 I didn't think there were enough worthy of even being considered a prospect. Recently departed Joe Benson is off and so is Aaron Hicks after reaching the 130 AB benchmark. Hope you enjoy and possibly learn a new name!
The 2012 minor league season is over and much will remain quiet in the prospect world for some time. A few players have "graduated" from September call-ups, but from a new standpoint here we go. Unlike last list, a lot of insight was taken from a few other Twins farm followers. This year's performance has is a critical component as is talent. Tools and the other insight as mentioned were the big factors that caused guys like Morales to rise. I know I may do these a little frequently, but
As the second top 50 I've done this year (cheating?), a LOT has changed. From now on until the end of the year, I don't expect much to change. I've gone through all the stat-sheets on every affiliate and included a few international signings as well. Age, performance, and relative level were all the most important factors. Tools also played a very important part. A player with a .300 BA and no HRs or SBs is not going to get anywhere here. From now on, I'll probably use this as a reference in regards
As a self-proclaimed visionary, I had a captivating thought about moving Ben Revere to second base. Maybe all the outfield transitions to infield rumors, as in Darin Mastroianni, or the promising results of one in our minor league system, Eddie Rosario, had gotten a grip on me. The more and more I thought about moving Revere, the better it seemed. This is certainly a radical, risky, and perhaps crazy thing to actually attempt, but the results could be extremely pleasing. More over, I'm really suggesting
The Twins are sitting with a nearly filled quota on the 40 man roster and it's somewhat ugly. Only one vacant spot is available while starting pitchers P.J. Walters, Carl Pavano, and Scott Baker are on the 60 day DL. Soon enough, positions on this assembly will need to be cleared in order to make way for these incoming players. For now, it's not a problem, but there are a lot of gentlemen here that could and should be removed sooner rather than later. Priority will of course be assessed for who


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A good question. When do they debut new exhibitions? There usually is at least one a year, but don't they generally surface somewhere between US Nationals & Worlds?
I can't wait to see the new programs!!!
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I would love to be at SA ... I'm from the area BUT I would happen to be out of town that very weekend
I still haven't seen Meryl and Charlie skate live and this was likely to be my best chance. Still trying to convince family members that they should go in my place.
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Act I; polka, waltz, march.
The ongoing discussion at GS is interesting, because 2 reporters who were on the conference call are discussing it. The rest of us are and just hope we hear more.
Is here anyone crazy enough to go to GPF?))
Meryl and Charlie to appear on the Today Show October 26.
I'm going to twizzle into a triple axel and spiral out of it.
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I've seen other similar images of this off-ice lift but never this exact picture before. They look younger here, if I had to guess.
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News and notes on the restaurant scene from dining critic Carol Deptolla
Refuge Smoothie Cafe opening Aug. 5 on Plankinton
It had planned to open on the east side first, but Refuge Smoothie Cafe will open its first shop downtown, at 763 N. Plankinton Ave. on Aug. 5.
Joshua Janis, who also owns the Red Rock Saloon and McGillycuddy's on Water St., said he still plans to open a Refuge cafe at 2328 N. Farwell Ave., but the site is having construction delays.
Refuge's menu shows smoothies like the Will Allen (spinach, kale and apple with mint) and the Diane de la Santos (pineapple, mango, banana and papaya). Janis said the smoothies are named for people from Wisconsin whose stories he finds inspiring. "The goal in Refuge is to creat a positive community culture," Janis said.
Customers also can design their own blends using yogurt, Greek yogurt, almond milk or frozen yogurt, and order additions such as soy protein and B vitamins.
Prices run $4.99 for a medium and $6.50 for a large.
Besides smoothies, the cafe will have cold-pressed juices and sell its own blend of Anodyne coffe and Rishi teas; baked goods will be by Milwaukee baker Mrs. Whoopie.
Refuge's hours will be 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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MONROE, N.C. -- Police say three men purposely set a family cat on fire.
One suspect has been arrested and charged with felony cruelty to animals. Two more accomplices are still being sought by Monroe Police.
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The cat, named Midnight, has third-degree burns to at least 30-percent of his body. Midnight is under the care of a veterinarian and expected to be okay.
"It happened because they were just downright mean," said Monroe Police Chief Debra Duncan.
Duncan says Stanislav Nadol, Rico Bennett and Clyde Mackey were hanging out Sunday night at the Castle Road Apartments when it appears Bennett got mad at the cat, Mackey caught it and Nadol poured lighter fluid on Midnight and set him on fire.
"It was a black cat lit on fire," said a witness who didn't want to be identified.
Neighbors say the three men laughed about it.
Another neighbor who didn't want to be identified says she ran into the house so she wouldn't see or hear any more.
Midnight belongs to Audrey Hailey and her 16-year-old daughter. They've had Midnight for about six months. He's known to roam around the neighborhood.
The family didn't know if Midnight survived the fire. They looked for him but didn't find him. Police looked, too.
Hailey says Midnight came home around 3 a.m. Tuesday after hiding underneath a dilapidated building a few yards from home.
"I called him and he came back to me and gave it some food and water and called police and they came and got him," Hailey said.
Police arrested and charged Nadol with felony cruelty to animals. He is in jail under a $1,500 secured bond.
At last check police say Bennett and Mackey are on the run and know they are wanted. Duncan says they will be charged with felony cruelty to animals as well.
"No matter who did what, all three were in on it together, they all three did it, so in my opinion, all three deserve the same punishment," Duncan said.


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A passenger was seriously injured in a Friday morning car collision near MacArthur Boulevard and Sangamore Road, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
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I write from the left on politics and policy.
The devil is always in the details.
While many opponents of the Affordable Care Act have been busy stressing over the penalty they would be required to pay should they fail to purchase health insurance come 2014, it turns out that the IRS is clearing the way to reduce the number of Americans subject to the penalty—while making it near impossible for millions of people to afford suitable coverage for their families, subverting the very purpose of the law itself.
It begins with a poorly drafted provision in the healthcare reform law stating that individuals who receive their health insurance as a benefit of employment will be permitted to take a pass on their company policy and elect to buy their coverage on the health exchange—allowing them to take advantage of the federal healthcare subsidies available to low and middle income Americans—if their company provided health insurance policy is deemed 'unaffordable'.
'Unaffordable' is defined as requiring the employee to pay more than 9.5% of the employee's household income towards his or her employer provided healthcare benefit.
As an example, let's take an employee who earns $35,000 a year. According to the IRS rule, if that employee is paying less than $3,325 a year towards their healthcare benefit, that employee will be required to stick with the company health insurance policy and would be barred from taking advantage of the federal subsidies available in the form of tax credits that the exchanges have to offer.
The Kaiser Family Foundation's 2012 survey of what employees pay towards their employer provided healthcare benefit reveals that the average, individual employee made an annual contribution of $951 towards their health benefit. Thus, there would not appear to be much of a problem here.
But this is where it gets ugly…
The same Kaiser Family Foundation survey reveals that the average contribution of employees who are paying towards a family policy is $4316 a year—a number well in excess of the 9.5% of earnings for someone making just $35,000 a year.
Thus, we would expect that the employee and his family —or, at the least, the remainder of the employee's family—would be free to head over to the health exchanges to get their insurance and benefit from the subsidies available to those in their earnings bracket, right?
We would be wrong because the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that only the portion of the contribution attributable to the individual employee is to be considered for purposes of determining what is affordable—not the entire contribution an employee with a family pays for family coverage.
Thus, using the example of our employee who is the sole breadwinner in the family and earns $35,000 a year, so long as the contribution directly attributed to his own health coverage is less than $3,325 a year, nobody in the family qualifies for participation on the healthcare exchanges and nobody can qualify for the intended government subsidies.
Using the Kaiser averages, the family in our example will end up paying over 12 percent of their annual income for health insurance—a crushing amount of money for a family earning just $35,000 a year and well beyond what is affordable for many.
The result will be millions of spouses and children left to go uninsured.
How can this possibly make sense when the very purpose of the healthcare reform law is to get more Americans insured rather than less?
Says Jocelyn Guyer of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University,
"We can see kids falling through the cracks. They will lack access to affordable employer-based family coverage and still be locked out of tax credits to help them buy coverage for their kids in the marketplaces, or exchanges, being established in every state."
So absurd is this ruling—given the intent and purpose of the Affordable Care Act—Congress will have no choice but to correct the offending passage and set this straight, yes?
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So who is at fault, the bill that no one read, or the IRS? We know the GOP thinks the best things in life are these kind of errors in Obamacare, in which they have no intentions of fixing. What a bunch of screwballs.
Hey Rick, saw you on Forbes on Fox. Congratulations, you showed well.
I disagree with you slightly on your response to Frances. It actually does matter where fault is, although not from a scoring political points perspective. Yes, fixing the problem is important. However, if we simply ignore what went wrong in the process, then we will be constantly "fixing the problem" for everything. It seems odd to me that, while the IRS reports to Obama via the Secretary of the Treasury, it seems fairly straight forward to prevent (not fix) the problem by addressing the process.
My analogy is the automobile industry – we can have horrible cars produced everyday and fix each of them after the fact (very expensive) or we can fix the process once and have substantially higher quality cars by preventing the kind of problems you address.
You say that fault doesn't matter but you are already warming up your finger to point at the House.
More money paid into the system, less services actually provided. Sounds like huge oligarch home run…Well done! Notice, now that government pays for more stuff they recommend less stuff, ironic. The latest trend is the best and brightest American students that work in health care go where the real money is, lawyers and insurance agents, Wall St, and K Street. The rest of us can get treated cheaply by foreign visa holders.
As always thank you for your voice on this subject. I was shocked when my news feeds started showing this story last week (I later found information that had apparently been published last Summer about this problem). My wife is a child psychologist and I am a freelancer at home. Together we earn about $130K gross (I know, hardly the family getting by on $35K – but I did come from a family with that kind of background). We have a pre-existing condition in the family so must opt for a family plan through my wife's employer. I'll never get it myself on the open market (until next year——so we thought). Currently, there's no employer subsidy beyond $100/month contribution. It costs $1,700 a month for the HMO plan we're on – with a $3K deductible per person/9K family. We'll exhaust at least one persons $3K deductible. If there's a cheaper plan, one has not been offered to us to choose. We were hoping this law would allow us access to an exchange like it would in Massachusetts (families are eligible for the exchange there now if employer doesn't contribute 20% to the premium, 33% to the individual). Premiums tend to be $500/month less across the board compared with our New Hampshire plans. That is true of any large group plan. Corporations benefit from large groups. Small businesses cannot. Details aside, I do not aim to get out of my responsibility or shove it off entirely to employers. My preference would be the more efficient single payer system that I could pay into responsibly and use responsibly. But if we are to have an employer based system, we ought to compel employers to play ball to a greater degree. More my issue, the fact that our premium (being in a small group, not a large one) can be raised $200/month each year we enroll simply because of the annual "re-calculation" that occurs once a year of claims on a pre-existing condition have been 'factored in'. How do you plan for any other cost in life when health care is allowed to charge whatever it wants without transparency? We were simply hoping to be able to purchase from what amounts to a large group plan – usually cheaper even without government subsidy – and were disappointed at what seems to be a very rigged calculation they will use for deciding eligibility. And sorry, as one who deals with doctors and hospitals, someone has got to tell them enough is enough on costs. Their pie in the sky numbers are out of line. After we've reformed insurance, we've got reform the provider side BIG time. Thank you.
I feel the same pain David F. We Are a family under 35K (made 30K last year with a Lot of OT) with just me making money, and due to Indiana preparing to refuse to increase the Medicare/Medicaid amount to 133% of poverty, we are going to fall through the cracks of that to get my girlfriend on insurance. We were hoping for the tax breaks and such in 2014 to get her on an exchange, maybe with me, maybe with the kids who are currently covered under Medicare due how little we have for a family of 5. This new development is Very disturbing to us, for, while she won't have to pay a penalty because of not being on a plan, we won't be able to get any kind of break for putting her on to either my insurance or one off the exchange. I am all with the Author that hopefully this will get fixed, but due to the way the GOP controlled House has been reacting in the 112th and now in the 113th congress (first bill presented was to repeal Obamacare! from the House) we despair of getting her insurance while we still live in IN. Hence yet another reason we are contemplating moving out of state….
Obamacare has many great provisions in it, but it seems that many of them are going to be possibly avoided by people/state governments that don't want to be humanitarian….


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Liriano pitched a decent game tonight. He was mentally fragile as he usually seems to be, but made it through without incident. It might have made the game 45 minutes longer . (Im not Bud Selig and game length is of no concern to me.)
Liriano is greatly reminding me of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade he needs someone to watch over him at all times. Tonight Drew Butera was Lirianos Charlie Simms. I am fearful of Lirianos mental shortcomings. He has great stuff, but seemingly without a trip to the mound every other at bat it seems that he might implode.
I would like Liriano to pick up some of Colonel Sades traits hatred, revenge, and bitterness might serve to be Frankie Ls friends. Like Colonel Slade, Liriano is blind, not in the literal sense, but blind to his ability. Maybe a change of attitude can further his career.
Drew Butera can continue to be Lirianos Charlie Simms but this is what needs to happen:
Liriano expresses the following:
1. Im in the dark here, Im in the dark here on how to pitch
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Is Brandon Mroz still with Tom Z?
Is Brandon Mroz still with Tom Z?
Wow, Tom Z's income must be taking quite a hit this year. That is a lot of elite skaters to lose.
I wonder what Brandon Mroz is doing this year. It could be he is moving on to college after his disappointment at Nationals. If he continues skating, he also needs a coaching change IMO.
ETA: The press release mentions that David Santee was her coach when she won the 2007 U.S. Intermediate silver medal but doesn't mention that he also coached her to the Novice 4th place (pewter) medal at 2008 Nationals in St. Paul.
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Honestly, I think your guess about Santee being a travel coach for her competitions is about right. He'll probably consult on training plans & programs, and watch lots of video, but you can't really be coached by someone who's several states away!
Keeper of Nathalie Pechelat's bitchface.
I personally think that you have some events here that we can read into. First you have a skater who is really pushed cash wise to continue the training that has been going on. Then you have a coach who recently has been in the spot light for not doing what is correct for the kids he trains. Skaters have bailed and she is left. I think it was a time to re-evaluate what they were doing with their money and maybe thought Tom was the best, and the financial pain was worth it before, but not with everyone leaving and his image tarnished. Plus I think the romance of Tom being a great coach has worn completely off.
I think that Agnes has peeked as well, and this event with Tom and having coaches remotely is the kiss of death. She was already having issues with growth which have affected her jumps. What really pisses me off the most is that the US has promoted Toms skaters and most recently even Agnes in the press as being the one for the US at worlds. For god sake, let the skaters and their performances dictate who is promoted. Because the world judges don't care what politics is happening here in the US.
You can agree with me or not, but we all know that funny business has been happening and this is what happens when people meddle. To me, she might not have even gone to Tom if the politics and promotion engine wasn't happening. A great skater who had wonderful potential for the future, ends up like this. Sad !
For someone who sounds so big on letting performances dictate the press, it's somewhat surprising that you don't take your own advice and let Agnes prove herself before you call her peaked and done. She just won the pewter medal at US Nationals and placed 3rd behind the heavy hitting Russian girls at Jr. Worlds. I'd say she did very well for herself this season, and I'll withhold the postmortem until she actually gives cause for it. JMO
Zawadzki has had only ONE season as a senior, and she was in the hunt. So it's too soon to even begin to say she has peaked.
Contrast to someone like Zhang, who has been doing senior since 2007, and who has already seen moderate success (GPF qualification, 4CC medal), but is sinking by the moment, bottoming out of the top 10 at nationals. Peaked? I'd say so.
No, Agnes is not in a ditch, but one might say she is in a rut, which hopefully she can get out of, but I hardly see this so-called coaching change as the answer.
Agreed, that short program dress was from heck. Curtain call would have been better.
"awwww....shades of Janet Lynn" - Dick Button on anyone who makes more than one mistake in their program.
Say what you will say about the dress, and the hairstyle during the SP but I actually really enjoyed the program.
Maybe the "rut" was her inability to pull off a strong freeskate for much of last year.


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I am doing some self-study as I apprentice right now but have no idea where to look for basic information/definitions etc. For example I was wanting to look deeper into the Urinalysis test and find the definitions/meanings of each one (Leukocytes, protein,Nitrite....) Where on the web could I find a good place to do research like that? From a midwifery perspective?
I am not sure about where is the best place online but I am sure you could dig around and find all the info you'd need. My recommend is Anne Frye's, Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year. You'll want all her books if you are studying to be a midwife.
I don't know about on-line either but a lot of good info is right on the pkg insert when you buy a bottle of test strips.


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Three candidates are vying to knock off incumbent Tahlequah Police Department Chief Clay Mahaney in Tuesday's election.
Mahaney, Nate King, Charley Batt and former police chief Stephen Farmer all filed for the position.
Mahaney, who's been chief since 2009, said there are plans in the work to increase technology in the department. Tahlequah's city council, Mahaney said, has approved a grant of nearly $10,000 for some much-needed upgrades.
"It would primarily be used for in-car laptops," Mahaney said. "And for the software to operate them."
Mahaney, 48, said passage of Tahlequah's 3/4-cent sales tax, set to go into effect April 1, will allow the department even more upgrades in the future.
"Everyone running against me will say we need better technology," Mahaney said. "But we have plans to upgrade car cameras and reporting systems and all kinds of things. Those upgrades are already on the plate, so to speak."
Success the current administration has had solving violent crimes — no violent crimes have gone unsolved in Mahaney's tenure, he said — is because of cooperation between departments.
"United we stand and divided we, well, we fail. Divided we fail the community," Mahaney said. "Because we fail the public if the departments don't get along.
"It's what I campaigned on four years ago, it's worked and I want to continue it."
Farmer, who was police chief in Tahlequah from 2005 to 2009, said he would initiate a community policing program like the one that was in place when he was in office. Increased neighborhood communication helped keep the crime rate low, he said.
"We called it Tahlequah's Night Out," Farmer said. "It was basically where a home would host a party and people would get together to talk about issues facing their neighborhood.
"The first year, in 2006, we had five homes take part. By 2008, we had 20 homes take part."
Farmer, 48, also said officers have told him they are lacking technology and training, something Farmer would like to focus on.
"There is $1.5 million coming to the department with the new sales tax," Farmer said. "It's important that that money is used correctly and wisely. When I was chief, I received over $700,000 in grants and donations. This money can change the department for the better."
Charley Batt, a 31-year veteran of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, said whoever is the next chief needs to re-evaluate the entire department.
"If I win, I'll start by taking a look at the department as a whole," Batt said. "If you gear everything toward equipment, training and public safety, everything will fall into place."
Batt, 58, said the biggest issue facing the Tahlequah community are drugs and alcohol.
"I think that's what causes a lot of your other crimes, like burglaries and assaults," Batt said. "It starts with drug and alcohol consumption. You control that, you'll keep a lot of crimes from occurring."
Nate King, who began his law enforcement career in 1999 as a dispatcher for the police department, said he's done "a little bit of everything."
"I've been a lead investigator for the (Cherokee County) Sheriff's Office, and for the police," King, 36, said. "Now, I'm the director of (Cherokee County) Community Sentencing."
"I feel like the police department is in need of some leadership," King said. "Leadership is influencing others, and I feel that could be improved on. I feel like we need more proactive police work to make the town safer."
King said he feels like morale in the police department is low. Once that's fixed, he said, the department can move forward.
"It's one of the first tasks that needs to be accomplished," King said. "We'll hold people accountable, and I feel like if we're accountable, and we have a department with vision, we can combat anything that comes at us. If I win, it will be a department that will constantly assess what we're doing and how we're doing it, and make changes as needed."
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Niagara Gazette — Falls Police have charged two men in the attempted robbery of a Portage Road business.
Investigators said the men, wearing masks, entered Universal Check Cashing, in the 700 block of Portage Road around 1:20 p.m. Thursday.
"One was wearing a 'Scream' style mask and the other had a clown mask," Detective Lt. Mike Trane said. "They were armed with a handgun and demanded money."
However, the store clerk was working behind a barrier of bullet-proof glass and refused to give the robbers any money. When the clerk went to call the cops, the suspects ran from the business.
They jumped into an SUV that they had stolen just a few minutes before attempting the robbery. It had been left running and unattended in an area near the crime scene.
As the suspects attempted to flee, they appeared to lose control of the vehicle and crashed into a parked car near Ninth Street and Pine Avenue. The would-be robbers ran from there and then contacted another suspect to pick them up in the 500 block of Ninth Street.
"Patrol officers and undercover officers were working in that area and they were able to observe the get-away car," Police Superintendent Bryan DalPorto said. "They were the able to stop the suspects."
DalPorto said the officers were in the area as part of a stepped-up police presence in the Pine Avenue business district.
"We've really been focusing on that area," he said. "And we've increased the number of both the patrol and undercover officers there. That will continue."
Trane said the gun used by the suspects was recovered. It was reported stolen from Lockport in 2003.
Police charged Cortez M. McClain, 22, 1508 Cleveland Ave., and Marcus D. Hamilton, Jr., 23, 2110 North Ave., with attempted first-degree robbery, attempted second-degree robbery, second-degree menacing and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. They were also charged with fourth-degree grand larceny and second-degree criminal mischief in connection with the stolen SUV.
Investigators said the suspects do not appear to be tied to any of the other recent robberies across Niagara County.