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2 adorable Yorkshire terrier x terrierBeccles£325We have 1 boy and 1 girl looking for good loving homes. They have been wormed, de-flead and are very healthy. Both puppies are eating solids and drinking well....1Date of birth: 21/08/1452 mins agoSaveRemove
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Gorgeous long haired female chihuahuaStowmarket£350Here I have for sale my beautiful long haired female chihuahua she's 2 years 4 months old, very affectionate and great with other dogs and children, don't know...3Date of birth: 28/03/127 hours agoSaveRemove
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Building roof's collapses forces nearby apartment dwellers to evacuate
The roof of a Kansas City, Kan., apartment building under renovation collapsed late Sunday, forcing 15 people who live next door to evacuate.
The roof collapsed into the building in the 1200 block of North 18th St. about 11:30 p.m.
The building is one of four in a cluster of apartments. Three of the buildings were under renovation and the fourth was occupied, said Deputy Chief Craig Duke, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kan., Fire Department.
Fire officials decided to evacuate the occupied apartments as a precaution. The walls of the three-story building where the roof collapsed were bowing out.
Engineers are expected to inspect the apartments buildings Monday to determine whether they can be repaired or should be demolished.
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Silvergate Bank Reports Net Income of $1.5M for Q2
Silvergate Bank, based in University City and with four branches, reported second quarter net income of 1.5 million, up 10 percent from the like quarter of 2013.
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The Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego and Illumina Inc. have been awarded a total of $8.7 million in grants by the National Institutes of Health for DNA sequencing research.
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San Diego-based Otonomy, a biopharmaceutical startup developing new treatments for diseases and disorders of the ear, has announced the estimated pricing of its initial public offering at $80 million — 5.3 million shares at a price range of $14 to $16.
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Broadcom Corp. plans to lay off 203 people from its San Diego office beginning in late September, according to the state Employment Development Department.
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ResMed Inc.'s fourth quarter net income dipped slightly at $87.7 million, down from $90 million last quarter, but an overall increase of 20 percent over the same quarter last year.
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Beth Altman has been named managing partner of accounting firm KPMG LLP's San Diego office.
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San Diego Private Bank's second quarter net income more than doubled from a year earlier at $594,000, while its total assets grew 8 percent to $339.5 million.
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San Diego-based Excel Trust Inc. saw total revenue rise 14 percent from a year ago, reaching $30.6 million in its second quarter ending June 30.
Vibra Bank Reports Q2 Results
Vibra Bank, based in Chula Vista and a single office, reported a second quarter loss of $26,000, compared to net income of $61,000 for the like period of 2013.
Portfolium Funding Is Part of EvoNexus' Recent Successes
EvoNexus, the incubator of CommNexus, the area's nonprofit trade group for the high-tech industry, said one of its portfolio companies Portfolium recently closed a $900,000 seed round of investment from the Tech Coast Angels and other San Diego-based investors.
'Mister A's Building' at Bankers Hill Gets New Owners
San Diego-based investment firm BBL Commercial Real Estate and Westbrook Partners of New York City have purchased the Fifth Avenue Financial Center in Bankers Hill, better known locally as "The Mister A's Building," BBL officials announced.
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This is getting ridiculous and unbelievable. Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner are trying to get an amendment concealed in a bill that would exempt members of Congress, the Senate and their staff from Obamacare. It was the Democrats and only the Democrats who rushed this Obamacare through without reading it and insisted how great it would be for the American people. Then why, pray tell, are they aggressively pursuing an amendment to exempt themselves and their entire staff from such a wonderful health-care law. No Republicans were in favor. But now the Democrats don't want any part of it, as well as Obama. Once again, the Democrats have deceived the American people. The Democrats are the ultimate frauds and hypocrites. Call your Democrat representatives to demand a reason for this insanity.
Good guys
What happened to the "good-guy" reputation of the Salem Fire Department? Blocking homeless families from shelter at local churches. Charging outrageous fees to use an ambulance service that taxpayers own and pay for the gas and the wages of the personnel already on duty. Come on, guys. You were better than this.
Amazing, isn't it? When a basketball player announces that he is gay, the president can remember how to use a phone to call him and congratulate him. However, when an ambassador and young soldiers are killed in Benghazi, he suddenly forgets how to punch in the numbers to give his condolences to the families left behind.
NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet and has been declared a hero by the media. But is he really? Those who fought for our country and died were true heroes. So were the first responders of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon. They risked their lives for others. All Collins did was seek media attention for himself and his cause. He could have chosen to quietly live his sexual life as he chose. Instead, he had to make a public spectacle of himself to advance an agenda. He is hardly a hero.


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Tue Nov 19 00:00:00 MST 2013jackie751 Rating:5.0
I had a hard time deciding on robes and afraid of all qualities and differences.This is a FABULOUS ROBE.I washed it right away and no little tiny pieces came off...size stayed same and true to size(I get a size larger to feel cozy on those bad days)...It is a sweet pink and I feel so good in it.Worth every penny and as a gift would be so great.
Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 MDT 2014kcory1969 Rating:3.0
I purchased for 85 year old , it wasn't as thick/plush as it appears in picture but it serves a purpose and color was right, kept it but still looking for a plusher robe
Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 MDT 2014luciamelisande Rating:5.0
I had the same robe for 20 years and bought this one (in pink ) to replace it. I like my bath robe to be comfortable, thick, absorbent, roomy and not delicate (I've been known to cook and clean around the house in my bath robe). This one is perfect for me. I got a XL size because this is my usual size. I had to send it back as it was too big for my taste. I ordered the L size and it fits me fine. The soft pink color is very pretty and becoming. A excellent replacement for my old robe!
Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 MDT 2014elvagonzal123 Rating:5.0
It was a bit expensive but my client loves it. she is crippled on the right hand side and this is perfect because she does not have to carry a towel that drapes to her feet and me thinking she is going to trip any minute and fall.
Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 MDT 2014carmeldiva45 Rating:4.0
It runs a little small and is really more of a peach color than a rose but it is ok.
Thu May 20 00:00:00 MDT 2010lindalin65 Rating:5.0
I ordered the pink and ivory. They are lightweight, comfortable and very soft.
Thu Jan 23 00:00:00 MST 2014judyh2570 Rating:5.0
I bought it to be a gift for a daughter. I can only say that it was wonderfully soft. The only color I could get at the time was pink. I do wish it had been a softer pink.
Thu Apr 05 00:00:00 MDT 2012likemsoft Rating:5.0
I love this robe! Soft, lightweight, gorgeous color. I chose pink, & it's beautiful.
Wed Jun 05 00:00:00 MDT 2013lyndalulu13 Rating:5.0
Fri Apr 23 00:00:00 MDT 20101sexcdread Rating:5.0
I could not believe how soft this robe was. when I took it out the box I kept it to my face rubbing it it was so soft. I love my pink robe.
Mon Sep 06 00:00:00 MDT 2010dorkie Rating:4.0
This is nice, lightweight robe. Small: fit is ample. Nice, roomy pockets. Color, pink, is soft. Hood is a nice touch.
Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 MST 2012drawthedragonlady Rating:5.0
I ordered this as a gift for my daughter. She loves it! It is very soft and comfortable and keeps her warm. She also likes the pink color, but her favorite thing about the robe is how soft it is.
Tue Feb 11 00:00:00 MST 2014cdtmpls Rating:5.0
Good quality. Nice long length. Pretty soft pink color, great value.
Sun Jun 09 00:00:00 MDT 2013pwize Rating:5.0
This robe is quite thick and very warm and nice and long. I got the pink color and its very pretty. It's just what I wanted.
Fri May 09 00:00:00 MDT 2014amyj4k Rating:5.0
This towel is just what I ordered and Just what I wanted! The Letter print is a pink (looked red in the picture to me) Fits great!
Mon May 09 00:00:00 MDT 2011kellabella70 Rating:5.0
Its very soft. Perfect shade of pink, not too life like baby girl pink. The size is true to size I wasn't sure as I am large busted so I ordered 3x. It was really too big, but I was having surgery and needed it for the hospital. I would rather have more room than not. My only gripes are the belt should be longer and like the others whose initials( jnl) are on there. Hope its the manufacture. Its a good buy either way.
Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 MDT 2014scorpio15 Rating:5.0
Price was right and thought I'd give it a try. Ordered 2 (pink and lavender) and very happy with product. Soft and comfortable. Good buy.
Tue Feb 14 00:00:00 MST 2012janie52 Rating:5.0
Tue Dec 07 00:00:00 MST 2010coco32 Rating:5.0
I bought the pink robe several months ago and just love it! It is so soft and comfortable. I am back to find out if I can buy one for my mom for Christmas in purple! It is a great price for the quality!
Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 MDT 2011tracyinvegas Rating:5.0
Love Love Love it!!!!! It is so soft and comfortable. Highly recommend, especially for the price. Can't beat O's prices. I ordered pink and it's even prettier in person. If you need a big soft robe get this one.
Make your morning routine less mundane with robes that are comfortable for lounging and sufficiently warm. Whether you want to surprise someone with a classic men's robe or give a luxurious women's robe as a gift, there are many different styles and fabrics that will allow you to find the perfect present. Read on for tips on buying robes for every member of your family.
You have plenty of big, fluffy towels to keep you warm when you hit the bathroom's cold tile floor after a shower. But haven't you forgotten something? Staying cozy after you have dried off requires a bathrobe to wear when you really need to warm up. A luxurious bathrobe can be a particularly great addition to your morning or evening shower or simply a soft piece of clothing to wrap up in on a lazy weekend. Still not convinced you need to buy one? Here are five more reasons you'll want to make sure you have a robe in your bathroom.
Aug 18, 2014seymourd from Carlsbad, N.M., Rating:5.0
Just lovely. I bought the lilac one for myself and this color for my friend. She and her husband going on a second honeymoon and wanted something for a beach cover. She loved this. I love mine. These are so nice and soft. I use mine coming out of the shower. I am not very big but this will fit larger girls too with the velcro closure. I love the coolness with the open spa wrap and could wear this all day. Very absorbant.
Aug 17, 2014dartmc from Northern Ca., Rating:3.0
It's functional, but scratchy , even after washings.
Aug 16, 2014aldnikki6 from MA, Rating:2.0
Unfortunately for me the cons outnumber the pros. The pros are that this robe is very very soft, almost blanket like and the color (I ordered the purple) is very nice. Now the cons � I purchased this robe to hang in the bathroom for when getting out of the shower. It turned out being not very absorbent and kind of became like a wet blanket. I decided that given the softness of it, I would keep it and save it until winter. I threw it in the dryer with some other laundry and when I took it out it had shed and pilled all over the other cloths and I don�t mean a little here and there. It was all over everything. It is still a very soft robe and if purchases I highly recommend that it goes into a dryer by itself or you also invest in a lint roller.
Aug 16, 2014debs458 from denver, Rating:5.0
I ordered the cream and it is more on the yellow side but still very cozy.
Aug 15, 2014jot9 from New Mexico, Rating:4.0
This is a very lovely robe. I am very happy with the product.
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Miller forced out of McGregor showdown
Conor McGregor will face Brazil's Diego Brandao in his comeback UFC fight in Dublin after Cole Miller pulled out with an injury.
Conor McGregor will face Brazil's Diego Brandao in his comeback UFC fight in Dublin after Cole Miller pulled out with an injury.
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Michael Sam became the first openly gay player to be selected in a NFL draft when he was taken in the final round by the St Louis Rams on Saturday.
Dublin club Half Moon are the men's Irish Senior Waterpolo champions for the second year in a row after beating Belfast's Cathal Brugha on penalties in the National Championship final in Bangor, Co Down tonight.
Ireland's women will face champions England in the semi-finals of the European Squash Championships after losing their final group match against France in Riccione, Italy today.
Conor McGregor's fight with Cole Miller has been announced as the main event of the UFC's Dublin event on 19 July at the O2 Arena.
Sixteen-year-old Egyptian Nouran Ahmed Gohar has taken the women's Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Squash Open title, with England's Adrian Waller claiming the men's title.
Ireland's last representative at the Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Squash Open bowed out today at the semi-final stage.
New York Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda was ejected in his side's 5-1 defeat to arch-rivals the Boston Red Sox after pitching with pine tar on his neck.
There were mixed fortunes for the Irish at the Irish Squash Open at Fitzwilliam.
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Chloe Magee, seeded at No 7, has been given a bye into the second round of the European Badminton Championships starting in Kazan, Russia, next Wednesday.
The Irish Sports Council has announced details of a funding package of €7.4 million for the development of Gaelic games, soccer and rugby at grassroots level.
Workers at the main venue of the 2016 Olympic Games voted on Monday to continue their strike indefinitely.
Three of the top greyhound racing events are to be shown live on RTÉ Two.
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Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel and American swimming sensation Missy Franklin were named Laureus Sportsman and Woman of the Year on Wednesday.
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Chloe Magee is out of the All England Championships in Birmingham after losing to China's Wang Shixian this afternoon.


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[M]y favorites are the Nile River, Hawaii all by its lonesome in the Pacific, and of course my hometown of Boulder (and Denver). It always amazes me how city lights in the United States just suddenly stop west of the central time zone. But when I look up at night and see my dark skies, I'm thankful for it.
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Save by using your credit card? Really?
When you can only use a credit card to purchase savings bonds online, then you start to question the whole banking sector's take on changing consumer spending habits.
December 18, 2011 5:36 by kippreport
There are a lot of advantages to purchasing a savings bonds, beyond that AED1 million that is dangled to bondholders every month, of course.
And so far National Bonds has been making a lot of headway in terms of being more accessible to individuals within the UAE and the GCC.
It has most recently, for example, opened the facility that allows GCC residents to purchase bonds online. But there's one catch, they'll have to use a credit card.
To be fair, this service has been in operation for UAE residents for some time now so this isn't really news, merely an extension of a service.
But Kipp does wonder how about the disconnect between the idea behind a savings bond and the use of a credit card. So we took to National Bond's Facebook page and asked them just that:
Isn't buying bonds on credit sort of anti-saving? What if the person doesn't have the means to pay for the credit card debt?
And about 10 minutes later, the social media team replied with this interesting response:
…it is an option for customers who want to buy online. Sadly, credit cards are the most popular means for ecommerce presently. But, it's your responsibility to ensure that you do not accumulate the debt and pay your bills every month.
From the response, it looks like National Bonds didn't have much choice in the matter. It was either alienate potential customers or include a service (credit card payment) that is borderline anti-saving.
This makes us think about the kind of structure that's in place in the current banking system. Where the region is boasting of its advanced internet connections and its young, tech-savvy population, why is online purchase still mostly tied to credit card payments?
Oh and don't forget that 1.833% extra charge for purchasing online, which we suspect trickled down from banking transaction fee. Gotta love banks, don't you?
Here's the actual conversation on Facebook:
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interesting Kipp and agree that although it is convenient, it is borderline anti-saving.
But I am intrigued, isnt it illegal to add any costs when paying by credit card in UAE now?
I thought we had articles on that before?
I dont understand why credit card purchase is limited to GCC. I m in India, why cant I buy


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Hello and welcome to the Friday Interview-series. Here, I interview an interesting and inspiring member of the Linux audio community each week, trying to shed some light on the many great members of the community. Join me every Friday, and get to know the people in the community!
Hi, and welcome to the 12th edition of the Friday Interview! This week, we're joined by the author of a whole little land of Linux audio applications with the prefix of Q. I'm very happy to introduce the 12th participant of the series, interviewee #12: Rui Nuno Capela! Lets get started!
Introducing Rui Nuno Capela
Rui Nuno Capela is a programmer from Amadora, just outside of Lisabon, Portugal.
His primary interest in Linux audio is …it'd be quicker to name what isn't his interest
Outside of Linux audio, he enjoys finding ways to get back into the Linux audio world.
This interview will be slightly different to the normal format. Rui has previously given a great interview to the Linux Journal (interview made by Dave Phillips, kudos to him as well), where he has answered a lot of the standard questions in this interview. Therefore, this interview will build on the older interview already made.
I therefore urge you all to read that interview first. You will find that interview on the Linux Journal's website.
Hi Rui! What do you do for a living?
academic bio:
BSc. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Instituto Militar dos Pupilos do Exército (IMPE), Lisbon, 1986. MSc. and post-MSc. in Electrotechnical Engineering (EE), Computer Systems branch, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 1990 and 1993, respectively.
professional bio:
Systems and applications programmer, analyst, technical consultant and specialist in IT systems since 1986. Officially certified as a Database Admistrator (DBA) in IBM DB2 OS/390 (z/OS, mainframe) since 1995 and lately, IBM DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW) since 2001, this being the main current position.
What's your main interest in Linux audio?
linux-audio bio:
Moderately active and enthusiastic participant in the open source and free software community, with special and particular interest in developing audio and MIDI on the GNU/Linux platform, as primary author of qjackctl [1], qsynth [2], qsampler/liblscp [3], qtractor [4], qxgedit [5], qmidictl [6], qmidinet [7], synthv1 [8], samplv1 [9] and drumkv1 [10], with former active cooperation in projects like the JACK Audio Connection Kit [11], LinuxSampler [12] and punctuated on the initiatives of the Real-time Linux kernel [13] and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [14].
[1] http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
[2] http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
[3] http://qsampler.sourceforge.net
[4] http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[5] http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net
[6] http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net
[7] http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net
[8] http://synthv1.sourceforge.net
[9] http://samplv1.sourceforge.net
[10] http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net
[11] http://www.jackaudio.org
[12] http://www.linuxsampler.org
[13] http://rt.wiki.kernel.org
[14] http://www.alsa-project.org
Now that the official resumé is done, let's get informal, shall we?
Well, uh, I do what I can.
Ok. I do it on the most boring activity known to (hu)man kind, as is Database Infrastructure Administration, in the IBM DB2 genre, but that is not to blame. In fact is my specialty.
I kind of like to call my self an old-school lone-wolf developer, self-made guerrilla programmer… way before Linus was hidden in his bedroom closet I was under deep inside all that computer hackerdom.
But let's get to the point where it gets to LA.
Way back when I was a teenager guitar-hero wannabe both my parents allowance wasn't that much of a liberal one. So to speak. I had to work (hard and in parent's clandestine way, during school breaks that is) as a construction builder servant just raise some lousy money to buy my ever first electric guitar.
An electric guitar only really works if it gets plugged into some electronic contraption. Money was again scarce so that situation lead to my DIY analog electronics era, on building custom combo amplifiers, effect pedals like distortion, overdrive, fuzz, wah-wah, etc. hanging loose in breadboards, ultimately blowing up and melting the living room Hi-Fi speakers, whenever the combos failed. And they usually fail, having a very short lifetime. That was the price of lousy and refurbished stock electronic parts anyhow.
Meanwhile, I had this dream on building some electronic synthesizer that I could plug in the guitar signal and rave on. It was just far from easy to get (any) design right, be that on the DIY mode or in any way as I now reckon. By even back then it quickly hit the wall of too complexity and way too much as expensive on the bill of parts. Not to tell that technical knowledge was not that scientific, just a grasp like nothing more than curiosity and fascination. And a dream.
All that come to my formal enrollment on the EE course, first on the traditional analog path then focusing towards the digital processing world and computer systems.
First real job position is a mainframe systems and applications programmer (COBOL can you believe it?); first couple of paychecks tunneled immediately to buy a solid state guitar combo amplifier and, tada! a real synth keyboard: a Kawai K3, a traditional analog signal polysynth but digitally controlled, half the price tag of the undisputed king at the time, the DX7; better yet, its MIDI implementation was one of the first in complete shape and still a working joy, to date.
Fast forward a bit, ten years later. By the time a broken marriage gets its due deeds–no doubt some part of the hacker/geekdom ego took a major role on that social failure–the emerging PC world started to make sense on the digital signal processing (DSP) software arena: that was the time when Intel Pentium arrived to the masses–besides the infamous div bug which didn't really mattered, it allowed for true real-time floating-point DSP. In fact, I would say that it is the precursor of all digital audio as a world-class computing commodity, let alone in the PC realm. As is to say: there's a world of digital audio software before _and_ after that moment. Linux Audio (LA) as we know it, comes a few years after. Let's have no doubts about that.
On to myself again, I wished back then to make some music. On those late 90′s using Cakewalk's Pro Audio series of software (the predecessor of Sonar), while on Windows 98, worked out fine while it lasted. At the turn of the century, Windows NT/2000 was really lousy in the native audio driver support, which led me to turn into the emergence of the LA movement for the rescue.
Enter ALSA and JACK, which started in design and implementation at that very time, were the true cornerstones that convinced me in all the way thereafter.
Well, I must confess I actually failed to make any music again. But otherwise striven to make a plethora of LA software instead. The so called Q-stuff and enjoyed it pretty much, no hard feelings still.
Although the prodigal lone-wolf stance still prevails, I always wished to do something for the free open-source and LA movement in particular. All the old baggage as a hacker/developer was there anyway. Ready enough then it all started: QjackCtl first, Qsynth, Qsampler and so on. I guess you already know the rest of the story.
Qtractor was and still is, my obvious major project. It started quite frankly by the time I first attended Linux Audio Conference (LAC), in the year 2005, in Karlsruhe. At the time we already have Ardour, Rosegarden and Muse. While Ardour was quite capable and the true flagship of LA it was only audio. Rosegarden was only MIDI and Muse had something of both but was terribly unstable at least on my experience. Add that Muse source code was pretty/ugly much coded and documented in old High-English, read German:) which just left me alone with the question:should I do it all myself and scratch my own itch, or should I fork or join and contribute to one of those projects in the usual you-know-what way? Well, you now know the answer and it wasn't the later.
Two years later it got ready. Qtractor was officially presented to the world at LAC2007@TU-Berlin and it had a hidden agenda though. The secret prospect was only told by word of mouth to a few then, that it was about to be basis for something like a clone of Ableton Live (on its v4 at the time) for Linux in no more than three years the most.
Almost six years gone and it only reached a kind of bloated baseline where it stands now and still nothing of the sort in that prospect. And I'm still whining "it's just a hobby!". And what about making music? Dang! Let's get real: Given the eternal but increasing personal spare time shortage, do you think I ever get to do some piece that you or anyone might call finished music at all? Let alone the software, which I keep from promoting to anything than an eternal "alpha" phase.
Never. Everything I try is "just for fun", literally I guess. The moment I try to pluck the guitar strings or a piano keyboard is just about to test some software or hardware function. Far away from doing any concrete music (!) at all. Oh well…
There were too many little dreams which lead to nowhere before.
But also, there were many other things that were being actively procrastinated (like this interview:)) which ultimately made through and for real. Every time I thought it was enough a new challenge come by.
While to some this might seem shocking, one of the historically personal examples is about the MIDI instrument plug-in support in Qtractor. Though, to date, Qtractor it's the only piece of software that does all audio/MIDI plug-in types ever known to run on Linux. And let me say that it was not without some grief. Might well be the greatest waste of time ever in my "hobby life", if I'm allowed to say such a thing. Let me explain and remember that I've been developing Qtractor for the most part to drive (my) outboard MIDI equipment–yes, I'm from the old 80′s remember?–and still is. I had very few use for instrument plug-ins to be honest. But like a mantra, some time ago, I felt irt was enough. Until a new challenge came by, suddenly: the Vee One suite of old-school instrument plug-ins (never mind the stand-alone formats too).
Looking way back, once before I thought I could make something that could be ultimately cross-platform. In fact that was one of the reasons that I embraced the Qt instead of some other tool-kits. The other main reason was that Qt is a genuine C++ toolkit, my programming language of choice for years then. And also because it has the most outstanding design patterns implementation and better yet and still most polished documentation of them all. Period. Back to the cross-platform topic, let me tell you that I don't care for that marketeer claim anymore. I do only Linux and that is my true will. Add to that my aging and you'll know I'm terribly serious.
There often most people complain and say that Qtractor has no support for JACK-MIDI. And I'd say that's on purpose aka. working as design. I think I still repeat this "ad nauseum"…
Well let's put it all that on a outline, just to make it simple and straight:
a) I do it because I can;
b) I do it just for fun;
c) I've scratched my own itch to dust already;
d) I only support Linux as in Linux Audio/MIDI software is about;
e) I don't take things I do to anyone's else agenda;
f) it's a hobby, not a job; and
g) I'm afraid it's the only thing I do best in life; others might do it better, I don't care the least: I do my best and that's all.
Can you give us a status update from Q-land, since the interview by Dave Philips was made? Any new additions to the Q-family?
Qtractor is the big one and only I keep working on, as time permits. But that also get us to…
What's in the future for the Q-stuff, where do you want to take it next? Any special project(s) in mind?
While on LAC2013@IEM-Graz there was these couple of side-track (un)official talks or workshops where I thoroughly babbled on first hand/mouth about this whole Q-stuff past, present and future, indeed.
Too bad there wasn't any recorded evidence of those talks (is was tried but Florian 'Faberman' Faber's camera smashed into the floor while unattended and it got all lost:(). There are only a few photos though (http://www.rncbc.org/lac2013).
There I was found to tell the darn-est things like ten years "dwelling" on the LA arena is a lot of time already. I wandered whether I still have anything else to do with my life anyway, let alone being just a hobby of mine. It is that time of age that one has to start thinking about handing over the Q-stuff torch, you know? It's not that I'm throwing the towel away but just getting a bit less of enthusiasm.
Aha. Don't despair If you read anything of what I've been saying before, all Q-stuff development is actually in "full maintenance" mode, if anything like that exists for "alpha" software. That actually means that nothing really ravishing will come out in any way in the near future. Sorry. As said, Qtractor JACK-MIDI will never happen, at least from any of the keyboards I code in. I will still get to fix and improve things here and there, though. Nevertheless. As an old 80′s cheesy movie/tune sings: when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Or something like that.
And please, stop asking for a Windows or Mac OSX/iOS ports whomever you are. I've left the former building for good more than a decade ago and to the later I don't really give a damn ;).
Ok. Nuff said by now. Is it really time to hand over? A fellow Portuguese might be your best and greatest bet: falkTX! FTW!
If you do decide to hand over, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for all your great work. Maybe you could finally make some music of your own, huh?!
Final questions
Could you talk a little about what kind of hardware setup you are using?
My main (ie. hobby) workstation is pretty old/conservative I say a Intel quad-core Q8200, a relic to today's standards, I know. It's rigged with an oldie Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96, PCI interface with a breakout box where lies one of my beloved Yamaha DB50XG (SoundBlaster daughter-board), still pumping in the the XXI century. It's no wonder I do also churned out QXGEdit [5] as one of the Q-stuff gems.
Also. an aging 5yo laptop is also doing its deeds as well. Occasionally connected with a Tascam US-224 audio/MIDI interface also making the role of a minimal but portable control surface, on-the-go. I must tell that this one is a pain to catch-up with latest kernels, which often leave it broken. Still running a pre-3.10 specimen. Anyway, when it works, this thingie is a real pure joy of awesome nostalgia as ancient as the (also Tascam's) PortaStudio days–for whom lacks the memory, those were indeed the kind of hardware that we called portable multi-track studio on-the-go, back in late 80′s, as compact as a small 4-track mixer desk with a built-in cassette tape recorder (100% analog, of course). In fact, there's no surprise why Qtractor MMC functions are modeled after that.
Though, all my boxes run on openSUSE 13.1. I'm a geecko and I love it.
On the outboard material side, I still own my very first synth keyboard, a Kaway K3. Almost with same age, a dusty Kaway D50 digital (12-bit sample o.O) drum-machine also gets powered on often. A raving Roland JP8000 also stands around here, a dozen years younger though. Again by Roland, a MC-303 GrooveBox makes a party now and then.
The are the H-stuff (H for hardware) that I still own and play. Alas, not that often, lately. Never mind. As you can see, that's been a mix of old analog and digital synths out in there. Don't be surprised that MIDI played and still plays a master role all over the place.
On the more prosaic and guitarist'ic front, I still have a couple of specimens on the electrified genre and another on the acoustic type. But again, it's all catching dust these days. Oh my, to say again, I'm not that kind of musician anyhow nor I may call myself one though. I can't read score, at least fast enough, maybe some guitar tablature but not proficient, that's true. I know something about music theory however practice has been left a lot to be desired, as you might know already. An über-procrastinator's epic, I say And given my age I may not even learn much new material now. Oh my, I'm one terribly lousy musician if I'm ever asked to cast my self in such a class of human activity.
Again, I'd say, it's all for fun. No more, no less.
Do you feel like anything is lacking in Linux audio today, and if so, what?
Let's be honest: I've been scratching and healing my own itches. If I ever felt that something was terribly missing on my own "just for fun" work-flow than I'd be found doing it on my own. That's been my "mantra" of my whole existence as far as my LA dedication is concerned. After all the previous babbling you may now reckon just that.
But well, ever since the already mentioned old early days of Qtractor inception and stealth development (ca.2005+) I still miss an effective alternative to Ableton Live if you ask me. Good news are that LA's best bet is fostering in Harry van Haaren hands and his openAV Productions' Luppp offspring–he might just not be fully aware, but he just cooled out the heat from my infamous backlog and procrastination. Oh my.
Now, that's all very interesting and it brings us all down to your next question…
What's your favorite free and open source plugin currently?
I've done it again, sorry. I have no excuse for being such an egotist: the so called "Vee One Suite" [8, 9, 10] are of course my favorites. Aha. Why? Just because I can and there's no better feeling than that: I've finally made it in software what I've been dreaming to build in hardware a couple of decades ago: Look ma! I've made this!–Right ho !–in memoriam, to my beloved Mother.
Where can people get a hold of you, and where can they find your work and music?
The usual places: http://www.rncbc.org is home of all my things LA related. Now, the (lousy) music maybe found on http://soundcloud.com/rncbc, perhaps?
As it can be inferred from this whole interview, I am not that kind of a prolific creative entity. Oh no. Again, I've been doing it all for the fun of it (argumentum ad nauseam) and when I do I take it to my own private and personal pleasure. As you ought to know by this time, I am a lot better coder than a musician. So you all get the best share of me. One thing is for sure: you get the best part of this whole fun business of mine. Trust me: I know best
Before I leave you with all the rants spitted out above, let me tell you that the yearly Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is a venue I'd keep to attend. Let there be noted that it's the few days in the year, actually introspective and personal vacation though, that I dedicate 100% tops to LA community effort. I sure will be there again on this next iteration on LAC2014@ZKM-Karlsruhe.
Until then,…
I hope to see you on LAC2014, and thank you for the great interview Rui!
That was Rui Nuno Capela. Thanks to Rui for participating, and thank you for reading! Check in next Friday for a new, fresh interview.


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