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As a distance runner preparing to do 26.2 #2, I wonder whether Tabata would really be beneficial? Yes, I am looking to increase my speed overall to qualify for the Boston Marathon (I'll need to run a 3h:45min race, or 8:34 avg. min/mile pace), but obviously sprinting is not really part of a marathon.


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As for the forthcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, Ubisoft has announced you'll be able to pantomime along to the hits using Kinect or Move on April 12 in North America, and on April 14 in EMEA territories. Additionally, the "Blood on the Dance Floor" and "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" songs will be exclusive to these versions, "with additional tracks to be revealed soon."
Update: The "additional tracks" are ... "Stranger In Moscow" and the Walmart-exclusive "Another Part of Me." The full track list is posted after the break.
Track List (Kinect/Move versions)
- Another Part of Me (Walmart exclusive)
- Bad
- Beat It
- Billie Jean
- Black or White
- Blood on the Dance Floor
- Dirty Diana
- Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
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- Heal the World
- I Just Can't Stop Loving You
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Montreal, Canada – January 6, 2011 – Ubisoft announced today that Michael Jackson The Experience is a global holiday hit as it has sold through two million units in total for the Wii™ system from Nintendo, the Nintendo DSTM and the Sony PlayStation® Portable in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, according to internal estimates. The latest sales figures don't include Japan, which has one of the largest and most passionate concentrations of Michael Jackson fans anywhere. The game is slated to come out in Japan later this year.
Launched November 23, 2010 in North America and November 25, 2010 in Europe, the Middle East, and select Asian territories, Michael Jackson The Experience allows players to experience the magic of the King of Pop by performing dance steps that were inspired by the choreography of Michael Jackson in environments that were drawn from his world and all while listening to and singing along with the music that continues to excite and move people today.
"Michael Jackson The Experience is a worldwide hit and offers fans the game they have been waiting for," said Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer of Ubisoft. "As the leader in the dance game genre, our teams have worked enthusiastically to build an experience that recreates the magic worlds of Michael Jackson's videos and performances. We're looking forward to bringing Michael Jackson The Experience to Kinect and Move so an even bigger audience can enjoy playing the game with their friends and family too."
"We are extremely thrilled with how people around the world are embracing and enjoying Michael Jackson The Experience," said John Branca and John McClain, the executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson. "The passion they are showing for learning and performing Michael's signature dance moves to the songs they have loved for years is a tribute to his amazing legacy. Families are sharing an entertainment experience that is fun, unique and energizing."
Ubisoft brings Michael Jackson The Experience to Kinect™ for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®Move Motion Controller for the PlayStation®3 on April 12, 2011 in North America and April 14, 2011 in Europe, the Middle East and Asian territories (Japan's release date is slated for later this year). For the first time ever, the Kinect and PlayStationMove game play experiences allow fans to be scored on their dancing and singing for a complete performance experience. Also new to Kinect and PlayStationMove are the songs "Blood on the Dance Floor" and "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with additional tracks to be revealed soon.
The Kinect and PlayStation3 versions will include new exclusive features that greatly enrich the player's experience. In the Kinect version, Ubisoft's proprietary Player Projection technology projects the player on-screen and into the game itself. The player's body is tracked, allowing them to see their true movements and steps reproduced in the game. This level of immersion allows players to be surrounded by environments inspired by the music videos and live performances of each Michael Jackson song. Innovative co-op and Battle multiplayer modes allow up to four players to collaborate or compete for the best performer prize with the Kinect version. In addition, different difficulty levels and a practice mode ensure that the game is both accessible and challenging.
Unique to the PlayStationMove version is an automatic Facebook® feed that allows the player to instantly post his/her progress and pictures of themselves playing the game to their Facebook page, showcasing their Michael Jackson skills for friends to admire. The game play also adapts to the available hardware (Move only, microphone only or Move plus microphone) and offers dancing, singing or dancing and singing depending on the accessories owned by the player. Additionally, the Michael Jackson School Mode takes advantage of both the Playstation Eye and Kinect by allowing players to see themselves on screen at the side of renowned dancers that actually worked with Michael Jackson to learn the iconic moves of the King of Pop.
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On the same day Pitt announced next year's top-10 recruiting class, its current freshmen got their first taste of Division I basketball.
The Panthers' four-man freshman class - Khem Birch, John Johnson, Malcolm Gilbert and Durand Johnson - had varied debuts in an 89-56 season-opening victory over Albany on Friday.
Birch, a 6-foot-9 five-star power forward, and Johnson, the 6-1 point guard from Philadelphia, saw quality time, while center Malcolm Gilbert (finger) and wing Durand Johnson (coach's decision) didn't play.
"I'm excited about those guys," coach Jamie Dixon said. "(Birch) learned some things as the game went on. He picks up things quickly. It's a huge transition from high school to our level. ... and I think he did some really good things."
The quartet of newcomers will get another chance to make an early impression when Pitt (1-0) hosts Rider (0-1) at 6 p.m. today at Petersen Events Center.
Rider, an MAAC school, has beaten Southern Cal, Mississippi State, Rutgers, Penn State and St. Joseph's over the past five seasons, but fell at Robert Morris, 83-57, on Friday as part of its two-game Western Pennsylvania road swing.
John Johnson had a flashy debut. He recorded a steal and a 3-pointer in his first 48 seconds on the floor midway through the first half. He finished with eight points, including 2 for 2 from 3-point range, in 13 minutes. Since 2005-06, only four other Panthers have scored more points in their first game (DeJuan Blair 20, Levance Fields 12, Dante Taylor 13, J.J. Moore 9)
"I was kind of nervous," John Johnson said, "but once you make your first shot, all of the nerves go away, especially when you've got guys like (Travon Woodall and Ashton Gibbs). They give you confidence on the court."
Birch, one of the most coveted recruits in program history, had two points - both free throws - and three rebounds in 17 minutes, the most of any non-starter.
"They played well," Gibbs said. "They played hard and when you play hard, the game is going to come to you. I expect big things from them. They work hard and they listen. The sky is the limit for them."
There is more on the way. Next year's two-man Class of '12, five-star New Zealand big man Steven Adams and DeMatha (Md.) point guard James Robinson, is rated No. 8 in the nation by ESPNU.
Dixon said Gilbert "could have probably gone" after suffering a fractured finger in Thursday's practice, but Pitt rested 6-foot-11 shot-blocker.
Durand Johnson, playing the same crowded small forward position as sophomores Lamar Patterson and J.J. Moore, is a likely redshirt candidate.
"We're still figuring out what we're going to do with Durand," Dixon said. "He's going to be a very good player for us. We're just trying to see what we do here as we move forward. I talked to him about it."Additional Information:
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Notable: Pitt defeated Rider, 87-68, last season behind Brad Wanamaker's 11-assist, no-turnover effort.
Players to watch
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|Schwannoma of the Kidney with Magnetic Resonance Images of Non-homogenous Renal Mass - a Case Presentation.
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|Schwannomas are rare tumours that originate from the neural sheath and are usually located in the head and neck, extremities, and posterior mediastinum. Although 3% of schwannomas occur in the retroperitoneum, involvement of visceral organs is extremely uncommon. Schwannomas of the kidney are rare, with only a few reported cases. A 55-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with an abdominal sonography showing a spherical lesion in the upper pole of the left kidney that did not have the characteristics of a cortical cyst. The ultrasound had been recommended from her family doctor, due to a non specific pain in the hypogastrium in the previous 10 days. The final pathologic diagnosis was intrarenal benign schwannoma. Schwannomas are rare renal tumours with usually benign behaviour. Due to nonspecific symptoms and limited radiologic features for the diagnosis and assessment of the benign or malignant character of the tumour, the therapeutic approach is similar to other renal tumours. The definitive diagnosis is achieved with the help of immunohistochemistry.
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Max Scherzer, the likely Cy Young Award winner, gets the ball for the Tigers in Game 6 at Fenway Park, while the Red Sox counter with Clay Buchholz, who was one of the premier pitchers in the league when healthy this season. The stakes? For the Red Sox, a trip to the World Series. For the Tigers, a chance to force Game 7. We'll talk about all of the possibilities during our pregame chat right here at 7 p.m. Check in below to join in.
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Electronic chemicals: Chip market set for rebound
4:38 PM MDT | June 24, 2013 | —Rebecca Coons
Suppliers to the semiconductor sector say the outlook for electronic chemicals is improving following a dip in late 2012. Unprecedented levels of materials development is required to ensure fabricators can produce chips that meet consumer demand for cutting-edge gadgets, creating new opportunities to generate value for customers and gain market share.
Suppliers say the market for electronic chemicals is improving following a semiconductor market correction in the latter half of 2012, and barring any major economic decline, analysts expect healthy growth through 2017. Consumer demand for smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient devices is driving the semiconductor industry to accelerate the development of more advanced nodes.
"Driving forces in the consumer electronics market are demand for mobile devices, [such as] smartphones and tablets, and telecom infrastructure to support the devices," says David Miller, president of DuPont's electronics and communications segment. "From a technology perspective, there is huge demand for materials that deliver high speed/high frequency capabilities, better thermal properties, and... smaller, lighter, more flexible form factors." Lower cost of ownership is always a key driver as well, he adds.
"As consumers, we are demanding that we be connected all the time, everywhere," says Rick Hemond, global marketing director/electronic materials at Dow Chemical. This is also driving the need for innovations in materials that enable brighter screens, faster and more powerful computer chips, and longer battery life.
Lothar Laupichler, senior v.p. and head of BASF's electronic materials global business unit, says the electronics industry—especially regarding integrated circuits (IC) and displays—remains one of the fastest-pace, innovation- and technology-driven fields in chemistry. "With engineer July 30 ing solutions driven to limits, chemistry becomes more and more a key enabler for technological advancements." Development of new, innovative electronic materials is necessary for the ongoing miniaturization of the process nodes and more sophisticated functions of IC chips, Laupichler says. "To achieve the newest IC designs and applications, including new three-dimensional IC architecture, new materials need to be developed and introduced."
Market rebound
IHS iSuppli expects second-quarter semiconductor sales to rise 3.7% on a consecutive basis and improve another 7.5% in the third quarter, as suppliers boost inventories to meet an expected uptick in electronics demand. Semi, the semiconductor marketing association, projects the semiconductor materials market to increase 4%, to $48.9 billion, in 2013—a new high for materials.
IHS Chemical expects the market for IC process chemicals to grow 5.4% annually through 2017, to $24.7 billion. The global market for printed circuit boards (PCBs) materials is forecast to grow 3.8%/year through 2017, to $18.5 billion.
The improving outlook is welcome news for suppliers, which saw shipments recover from recession in 2010 but remain flat in 2011. Despite a promising start in 2012, activity slowed in the latter half. The global semiconductor market was valued at $303 billion in 2012, down 2.3% from 2011, according to IHS Chemical.
The semiconductor materials market contracted 2% in 2012, to $47.1 billion—marking the first decline for the materials market in 3 years, Semi says. Packaging materials revenues grew 1%, but wafer fab materials contracted 3%. "Wafer fab materials' contraction was driven in a large part to the severe pricing pressure faced by silicon suppliers, which saw their aggregate average selling price decline 12%, even though the segment shipped a record volume of 300 millimeter wafers that have higher selling prices," Semi says. Executives say a number of factors, including the consumer preferences that are depressing sales of personal computers and an inventory correction, contributed to the weak market conditions.
"What we saw last year was the industry making significant progress in delivering better productivity at advanced technology nodes and getting more transistors in the chip," says Wayne Mitchell, v.p. and general manager of Air Products' electronics division. "Manufacturers already had large chip inventories, expecting seasonality and rebuilding efforts in the wake of natural disasters in Japan and Thailand, resulting in the anticipated demand that ultimately lagged forecasts."
Executives say the inventory correction is complete and the market is beginning to recover. "Global semiconductor production is slowly but steadily increasing as the inventory correction that started in the second half of the calendar 2012 appears to be nearing its end," says Neal Butler, president and CEO of KMG Chemicals.
Keeping up with Moore
Over the long term, the semiconductor industry is in a good position, since consumer demand for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets remains strong, says Jim O'Neill, senior v.p./electronic materials at ATMI. The company focuses on supporting the technology road-map needs of leading chipmakers for 28 nanometer (nm) nodes and beyond. "What we're seeing now is wafer starts beginning to ramp up among the largest, most advanced customers as they push 28 nm into manufacturing. We have worked to win positions broadly in advanced nodes, and we are beginning to see some benefits from this."
The optimistic growth outlook is somewhat tempered by the technical and cost challenges of moving to the next wave of nodes. O'Neill says the transition from 28 nm to 20 nm is going to require a "paradigm shift" in lithography, including multiple exposure and multipatterning techniques. "That's going to add significant cost and complexity to our customers' process schemes—cost and complexity that will put enormous pressure on operations unless the performance benefits designed into their integration schemes pan out. More efficient use of materials will also be a piece of those cost-saving efforts."
Because of the high costs and technical challenges associated with building and operating fabs for the smallest technology nodes, the advanced semiconductor industry is experiencing heavy consolidation, O'Neill says. Among ATMI's customers, including semiconductor manufacturers in both Asia and the United States, this strategy appears to be working. "There are a small number of chip makers successfully producing the most advanced nodes, and there is no indication this will change anytime soon," he adds.
Industry experts expect that semiconductor technology will continue to increase in functionality and decrease in size according to Moore's law, the observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Developing enabling materials for each generation is getting costlier and more complex, however, producers say.
"A year ago I would have placed most logic working on 28 nm, with memory at 20–22 nm," Mitchell says. "Today, industry is working toward 20 nm and below: 14 nm for logic, and memory moving toward 16 nm, with R&D working on 10 nm nodes."
Upholding Moore's law going forward will require new strategies and increasing innovation from materials suppliers. "If you look at the evolution of Moore's law, industry has responded by achieving productivity and delivering more transistors on chips through traditional scaling," Mitchell says. "More recently, though, to enable the performance and power requirement at the smaller nodes, new device architecture—and new materials to enable them—has become the dominant strategy. From an advanced materials perspective, that means there is increased demand for new materials and opportunities to create value for customers."
Customer demands require materials and equipment suppliers collaborate more closely, Mitchell says. "The complexity with regards to integrating materials with equipment in the fab is just that much more challenging. There are a lot more materials to handle, and the sophistication required to handle these materials is also significant. Understanding how materials perform within the process, how they interact with other process materials, and how they all integrate into the overall manufacturing process is a significant challenge and opportunity."
Laupichler says the larger-sized LCD TVs—soon complemented by organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens—and the integration of new computing and communication devices into TV sets boost the use of new technologies, hence demanding new materials. "These requirements continue to drive a high R&D and capital intensity for the electronic industry as well as for chemical solution providers. Close codevelopment in direct proximity to our customers enables quick and flexible turnaround times in product development as well as in scale-up to mass production—core capabilities of a reliable partner in this industry."
O'Neill says customers are creating different variations of similar integration schemes, requiring some degree of customization for ATMI. "We have invested in our global High Productivity Development technology centers to enable us to get closer to our customers," he says. "Those technology centers enable closer collaboration with each customer to develop the materials and solutions that are going to work for their specific needs." ATMI has microelectronic technical centers in Danbury, CT; Xinchu, Taiwan; and Suwon, South Korea.
Miller says customers want supplier partners that deliver enabling technologies to improve their products' performances and lower their costs. "They also want a stream of innovation, not just a one-time development."
Increasing complexity means continued investment in R&D activity. O'Neill says ATMI is able to optimize spending levels because customers are embracing the collaboration model and making resources and data more accessible to their development partners.
"They have a lot to bring to the table in terms of wafers, data, and equipment. This allows us to share some responsibilities and further manage the costs for development work we are doing together," O'Neill says. "It helps us continue to push advanced research efforts without having to incur the overhead required by pursuing development efforts alone."
Hemond says chip makers are increasingly looking to advanced packaging solutions to meet consumer demands for smaller, thinner electronics with more functionality and durability. "To stack chips, you have to package them with certain materials to take away the heat because they're going to get too hot," he says. "The packaging also has to allow the chips to talk to each other and talk to the board." Dow's Intervia metallization chemistries also offer increased durability and shock resistance for the computer chip—making it less likely that a dropped smartphone will result in disrupted connections between chips and PCBs.
Joel Zazyczny, executive v.p./silanes, silicones, and metal organics at Gelest (Morrisville, PA) says new product development efforts to reduce power consumption, reduce heat dissipation, improve processing, and create efficient lighting solutions are driving the positive near-term outlook for Gelest's silicon and metal organic precursors—including volatile carbosilane and volatile higher silane precursors for silicon carbide films and buffer layers.
Customers are looking for formulations they can integrate quickly, O'Neill says. "In addition, the detection, elimination and control of particles at 40 nm dimensions will become an increasing challenge for material suppliers. The challenge is that defectivity affects yield for our customers, and what used to be handled in the fab is now being pushed down to the materials suppliers. There is a big push from our customers for defect road maps, including manufacturing data demonstrating our ability to deliver increasingly high-purity, high-quality materials—beyond where the industry has operated in the past." This scenario is driving some increased collaborations with customers working at the most aggressive nodes, where such issues will be first observed, O'Neill says.
In a market as complex as electronic materials, innovation and customer intimacy are mandatory. Companies attribute leadership positions to aggressive portfolio management, materials science know-how, emerging technology acquisitions, broad product offerings, and market focus.
Air Products' electronics division is a $1.6-billion business supplying on-site and bulk gases, delivery systems, process, and advanced materials. After a business review 15 months ago, Air Products decided to focus its electronics business on semiconductors and advanced displays and limit its participation in the light-emitting diode (LED) and photovoltaic (PV) markets to competitively advantaged products, which leveraged its existing semiconductor expertise.
"We recognized that there were structural changes in the PV market, and the growth opportunities were not what was originally expected," Mitchell says. "So we decided to focus on the markets where there is significant alignment between our capabilities and where we can create much greater value," he adds. Gases, materials, and equipment for semiconductor production already account for 80% of the division's $1.6 billion in annual sales.
Air Products recently made two recent acquisitions in support of its planarization platform. Last year, Air Products bought DuPont out of their 50-50 chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurry joint venture, DA NanoMaterials, for an undisclosed sum. The deal gave it full ownership of applications and formulation laboratories at Tempe, AZ; and Xinchu and DA NanoMaterials' portfolio of colloidal silica–based products for copper and barrier CMP, tungsten CMP, and wafer polishing applications. In 2011, Air Products acquired Poly-Flow Engineering (PFE; Albuquerque, NM) from Ktech (Albuquerque). PFE supplies chemical delivery and precision cleaning equipment for semiconductor manufacturers.
"We now have slurries, post-CMP cleaning chemicals, and the delivery systems to offer a fully integrated CMP offering," Mitchell says. Air Products is a market leader in CMP consumables, he adds.
Air Product's advanced materials push also includes its surface preparation and cleaning product lines—parts of a $300-million acquisition of Ashland's electronic chemicals business in 2004—and its advanced deposition offerings, where the company is the market leader in advanced organosilanes.
Dow's electronic materials business posted revenues just over $2 billion in 2012, of which approximately 80% was generated in Asia. Hemond attributes Dow's leading market share to the company's technology, continued investment, and collaborative relationships with customers. Reliability is also a factor, particularly for certain customers whose complex, integrated operations face millions of dollars in losses from just minutes of downtime, he adds.
Hemond adds that Dow has among the most extensive product offerings in the electronic materials space. "There are other companies that serve pieces of the market, but none across the range that we do. We're a photochemical company, we're a metallization company, we're a CMP company, and much more, and we apply these technologies into the different markets."
Dow is the market leader in CMP pads and slurries and holds the number-two market position in photoresists and antireflectants, Hemond says. The company's interconnected technologies unit manufactures chemicals and materials for PCBs and also serves the electronic and industrial finishing markets. Dow has the leading position in metalization chemistries, which is delivering technology for high-density interconnects for smaller, high-end circuit boards that enable miniaturization, he adds.
Dow's display technologies business is a market leader in OLED emissive materials and is well positioned to capture growth in large format displays, Hemond says. The company has been expanding its OLED manufacturing capabilities in South Korea since 2009 and expects demand growth for OLED products to accelerate as the price of large-format OLED televisions falls, he adds.
Dow Electronic Materials has grown from a $200-million business 15 years ago to over $2 billion today via organic growth and acquisitions, including Dow's 2009 purchase of Rohm & Haas, Hemond says. "That has been our history: acquiring technology ahead of the market need and then growing it." The latest deal was last year's acquisition of LightScape Materials, a producer of phosphors used in LEDs. Hemond says, "Phosphors are critical to the acceptance of LEDs in residential and commercial lighting. Today's LEDs give off a bluish cast, but consumers want a warm light with red and green tones. Dow's phosphor materials are used to convert blue LED light to red, green, and other colors to make warmer white light suitable for general lighting applications. Dow's materials have better thermal stability than phosphors that have been traditionally used, which equates to better reliability in high-power lighting applications.
O'Neill believes a company like ATMI is well positioned among materials firms that operate in the electronics market. "ATMI is a global technology company focused on the leading edge of the semiconductor market. In contrast to companies that have a commodity business with a limited product offering in specialty materials, we are only in the specialty materials business. That allows us to be nimble and work closely with customers to resolve their problems quickly." ATMI is also focused on the leading edge of the innovation pipeline. "Once a material starts to become a commodity, it is time for us to move onto the next challenge," O'Neill says.
ATMI's microelectronics business tracks wafer starts, which O'Neill forecasts should grow 3–5%/year over the next several years. As the company extends into new nodes it has the ability to achieve higher growth rates. "Many of our products are highly penetrative, and we have leading market share in many of the segments where we compete," he says. "ATMI's goal is to stay ahead of wafer start growth, reflecting our ability to increase market share and increase penetration as our customers introduce and ramp new nodes."
KMG acquired OMG's ultrapure chemicals business on 1 June for $63.3 million in cash. The purchase marks KMG's third acquisition in the electronic chemicals market since it bought Air Products' high-purity process chemicals business in 2008, Butler says. The addition of OMG's ultrapure chemicals business, which generated 2012 sales of $93.8 million, makes KMG the world's leading supplier of high-purity process chemicals to semiconductor makers. "While the product portfolio acquired matches extremely well with our existing product offering, the acquisition did provide certain interesting new product extensions, expand our customer and geographic base, and increase our technical and production capabilities," Butler says.
The acquisition also expands KMG's product portfolio in Europe, giving it new opportunities and the capability to supply key chemicals such as ammonium hydroxide, ammonium fluoride, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid. The business acquired from OMG also maintains a strong presence in Singapore, serving major semiconductor customers from two distribution centers. "Although we had previously sold a limited amount of material into Asia, a new physical presence in Singapore significantly increases our exposure to this fast-growing market for semiconductor manufacturing," Butler adds.
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Thank you very much for the data. but, the complete data is related to revenues but not volumes. What is the annual consumption volumes of electronic chemicals?
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i have been running XP on my PC since new (about 6 years) and using a midi studio called GOLD. so for a while i've been having problems with the PC, and sunday after many crashes it took the final dive and went to join mr babbage in that great internet cafe in the sky.
so, i go buy a new PC with windows 7, all singing all dancing, but it sucked in and spat out my midi program and my midi interface! so i'm not a happy camper!
i have searched the internet for a decent midi studio (for free of course), but even the free ones want a license, and after paying it the prog could still be rubbish.
and so, i would be ever so grateful if someone could suggest a good midi studio and point me in the right direction.
Hi phil, Jerome seems too have a good grip on this type of eguipment,he really helped pete alot and I gotsome good education on some of the stuff too be used for recording. Russell Harding is also good and knows his stuff.
Phill I dont have any experience with midi I use a digital 8 track boss BR8 and transfer to Audacity for rendering to mp3's I think Jerome would have a better idea of what gear you need free or not good luck buddy
Well, I'm on a Mac and the best synth package available for Piano sounds is Garageband, IMO. The good news for you is that there is a lot more support for Windows for these things than there is for Mac on the free end.
There are free synths out there, but it does take some digging. You might try Glen Stegner's MiniMouge. It is also VSTi plugin, so you can load it up in your DAW and use it that way if you want.
Wow that is a tough question. Money plays a big part here and as always the more you pay the more you get.
Firstly though, Have you tried searching for updated drivers for your old midi interface? It could just be drivers that are the problem.
Now for some midi programs that I have used:
FL Studio :: starts from as low as $49 with studio express edition. There is a free trial and they provide free updates for life. I have the fruity edition and while it is great for midi I no longer use it as I am now more recording focused and use a strong daw with specialised midi plugins to achieve what I am after.
Mixcraft :: $74.95 This is a great recording program with built in midi control and the ability to handle plugins. Comes with a library of wav loops and there are thousands of free vst instruments and effects plugins available on the web. This is a robust program and can handle most users requirements.
Cubase : $$$ This is now my daw of choice. It is fantastic to use, never crashes and has great midi capabilities. Some of their specialised plugins ie HALion Sonic provide more featurs and sounds that you could ever hope to explore.
Of course you are also going to need a controller or keyboard to connect with and that is probably the best place to start looking as they often come packaged with software. I only use a 49 key keyboard controller and for my needs it gets the job done. Mine is an M-Audio keyrig 49 and it connects via usb and I have never had a problem with it. I was not interested in M-Audio's software, its probably good, but I didnt want to go through another learning curve and it was only bundled with entry level versions anyway. The controller only really acts as a way to get the signal into your program in a tactile way IMHO so I beleive in buying a cheapish controller and concentrating on the software for the real investment in getting top draw sounds and expressions.
Hope that rambling helps a little Phil, if not it may serve as a good introduction to someone who is thinking about midi.
Forgot to add, the best place to look for plugins is http://www.kvraudio.com/ - they have virtually ( no pun intended ) every release ever made listed and it is in a searchable and filterable database. I fantastic site - highly recomended.
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Forgot to add, the best place to look for plugins is http://www.kvraudio.com/ - they have virtually ( no pun intended ) every release ever made listed and it is in a searchable and filterable database. I fantastic site - highly recomended.
This is fantastic. Awesome link.
Looks very impressive, are any of those applications for a guitar?
hi, thanks for your input and it's all been a big help.
as seriousfun said "money plays a big part" so true and i've just shelled out for my new PC, so the wife's not overjoyed about buying a new recording program!
i have a midi controler keyboard a korg k61p. it has a usb output (which i've never tried) and cubase studio on the CD, which i think is for XP. but as thinking is not knowing, i shall give that a go.
thanks for the ideas and help, going now to try that web site
The USB should work just fine for you. I'd wager that it wont be too long before the only devices using standard MIDI cables are high end professional kit. Consumer stuff will all be USB.
A lot of people use Cubebase, so it's gotta work.
Big fan of Mixcraft. Been using it for 3 years now. Very "unbuggy"
hi jerome,
i think it's my sound card, i took it from my old PC. it's creative audigy 2. i've down loaded all the driver updates but i'm not getting any sound from it! so i'll take it back to the shop tomorrow and let them sort it out. i've got cubase and cubasis, neither seem to be working! sobs.
hi geo,
i've got 2 mixcraft CD's. one's an MP3 music suite and 'tuther is an MP3 audio mix, they're both quite old and not fit for my purpose....dont worry i'll get there
thanks anyway
now where did i put that guarantee?
I have been following most of the posts on recording and am learning alotabout what works well and what will not do so good.they are helping me chose things I will get soon.
just as an update. i found i had a Cubase midi studio with my Alesis mixer. a few tweaks with the soundcard and i'm up and running. it's not as good as my old "Gold" studio though. i wish i could get that to work, but it was built for Windows 95, it ran well on XP but Windows 7's got it beat. if anyone can think of a way round it i'd be sure grateful


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|The Effect of Early Intensive Insulin Therapy on Body Fat Distribution and β-Cell Function in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
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|Objectives. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of early intensive insulin therapy on body fat distribution, lean body mass and β-cell function in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Methods. Thirty-eight subjects with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes participated in a 12-week course of intensive insulin therapy. Patients were administered a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), underwent measurement of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues (VAT and SAT) using computed tomography and appendicular skeletal muscle (ASM) mass was assessed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Results. After intensive insulin therapy, fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c levels decreased. Homeostasis model assessment (HOMA)-B, the insulinogenic index, and the C-peptide-to-glucose area under the curve (AUC) ratio increased. The insulin sensitivity index and the glucose AUC decreased after 12 weeks. The body composition analysis revealed that the VAT and the ratio of VAT to SAT decreased, whereas body weight and total fat mass increased nonsignificantly. The ASM/weight and skeletal muscle mass index increased. The restoration of β-cell function, as identified by HOMA-B, the insulinogenic index, and the C-peptide-to-glucose AUC ratio, was correlated with the changes in VAT when controlled for age and gender. In multiple regression analyses, the decrease in VAT was shown to independently contribute to improved HbA1c over the study period, after adjusting for confounding factors. Conclusions. These results suggest that a shift in fat distribution from visceral to subcutaneous fat after early intensive insulin therapy is associated with improvements in glycemic control and β-cell function in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
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Mr. and Mrs. Neil B. Liedel of Monroe are observing their 50th wedding anniversary today. They will celebrate with a family dinner today at their home. They also plan on taking a trip to Hawaii in September.
Mr. Liedel married Sharon Lozon July 15, 1961, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Maybee. The Rev. Albert Zinger officiated.
The couple's children and their spouses are Rose and Eric Woodward of Monroe and Steven and Jennifer Liedel of Dundee. Two other children, Neil G. Liedel and Bonnie Liedel Cook, are deceased. They also have six grandchildren.
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He worked eight years for Wolverine Plastics in Milan then 30 years for Ford Motor Co., retiring in 1996.
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Mrs. Liedel is a graduate of St. Mary Academy. She received several nursing degrees, including an associate's degree from Monroe County Community College, a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master's degree from Madonna University, Livonia.
She worked 32 years as a registered nurse and also served eight years as Monroe County guardian. She currently works part time at Monroe County Community College in the nursing division.
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September 22nd, 2012 (F1plus / Graham Keilloh).- In the end it was just like last time at Monza. Qualifying at Singapore looked certain to be a game for two players, with one of the two being Lewis Hamilton and the rest scrapping for third place at best. And just like last time the guy that wasn't Lewis faded in the final, vital, session, leaving Lewis to claim pole position as he liked.
This time we anticipated that Lewis's tête-à-tête would be with Sebastian Vettel, the sort of two-way battle at the front with the rest nowhere that Singapore seems to specialise in. The Red Bull, back on a high downforce track, looked fully to have returned to the sharp end and Seb had topped all practice sessions. And he looked like he intended to keep things that way in qualifying, with as mentioned only Lewis a probable challenger.
But Seb's pace tapered when it most mattered and as a consequence the relatively meagre (compared with expectations) third on the grid is where he'll start his race tomorrow. And while Alonso's fading at the last in Monza qualifying was traced to mechanical problems, explanation for Seb's plight this time at the time of writing is less clear. Driver and team appear to be scratching around for a convincing hypothesis (Christian Horner attributed the sudden lack of pace to Seb losing momentum on his out laps, which struck me as a little lame).
Still, none of this at all takes away from the pole-sitting driver and team. Lewis's gap to the next guy was stunning on this track where it seems the driver can make a considerable difference, half a second under the best of the rest even without improving on his second run. It continues a season wherein, despite the occasional whirlwind off track, on track Lewis has been right at the top of his formidable game. And McLaren now can boast four poles on the bounce on four very different circuits; such consistency bodes well for the Woking lot as they target the top of the drivers' and constructors' tables in the remaining rounds.
And speaking of the championship angle things get even better for them, with Seb starting third as mentioned and Fernando Alonso, his Ferrari not quite au point, to start fifth. The rest of the title contenders (if one doesn't count Jenson Button in fourth) are even further back.
Vettel following the action at Red Bull's garage. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
So, Lewis is in prime position to take control of things from the front tomorrow, especially as the Marina Bay circuit isn't one that is generous with overtaking opportunities and in any case only Fernando Alonso (in Malaysia and Valencia) has won after starting away from the front row this season.
There are a few notes of worry in there for Lewis however. One is, on the evidence of Friday practice both the Red Bull and the Ferrari may be quicker than the McLaren over a race stint. Lewis's pace dropped off after 10 laps on the super softs on Friday, which if repeated tomorrow may make a two stopper difficult to pull off and thus may mean he has to stop once more than those behind. And this has the potential to spoil his day particularly around this the tightest of tracks.
But on the other hand, it's been common this year for doom-and-gloom talk on tyre life made in advance to not come to eventuality on a Sunday. Another note of worry is that Lewis tagged a wall on his final qualifying run, meaning the team will need to take a good look at that before the race.
And the third reason for caution is the identity of the guy next to Lewis on the front row. There you'll find the brooding presence of Pastor Maldonado, who did a stunning job in qualifying. The Williams has always seemed to go well around the Marina Bay track, Pastor's something of a street circuit specialist and for all of his well-documented perceived foibles it cannot be denied that the guy is seriously quick.
Of course, that he's got into plenty of scrapes this year will likely worry Lewis and others near the front tomorrow. But at Monza Pastor had his first trouble-free run in a while and has been full of talk in recent times of learning his lessons (though we've had false dawns with him before). And as we saw in Barcelona, Valencia and elsewhere Pastor is capable of a consistently fast race wherein he keeps his tyres in very good shape for longer than most. Perhaps, rather than accidents, it should be this that worries Lewis, Seb et al.


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Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips met with the media early this morning at the NFL owners meetings in Orlando, Fla. Contributor William Bendetson points out a few of the topics of his discussion:
-Phillips said the Cowboys were quiet in free agency because of the limited market. He pointed out there were 159 restricted free agents so Dallas had limited options.
-Phillips thought there were still some positives in the team's 34-3 loss to Minnesota. "I thought our front seven played pretty well. Their running back had 25 carries on 62 yards and if you haven't noticed he is a pretty good running back." He was referring to Vikings RB Adrian Peterson.


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Music director Michael Morgan and newly appointed executive director Tara Kayton have planned an exciting festival with varied concerts and events to present in the village of Bear Valley for the 46th annual Bear Valley Music Festival continuing to Aug. 10.
The vitality of the festival will be seen in the robust classical music series and festival favorites.
There will be a unique new orchestral tango concerto composed and performed by bandoneon player JP Jofre from Argentina.
Three special events will be: Moonlit Masquerade gala and auction, an evening of wine paired with chamber music and a day of collaboration with Alpine county to celebrate its 150th anniversary with bluegrass band Iron Horse. The final concert will feature violinist Stephanie Chase and pianist Sara Davis Buechner in an all-Beethoven program.
A schedule of festival concerts and ticket information can be found at bearvalleymusicfestival.org and all performances will be in the festival tent on the ground adjacent to the Bear Valley Lodge.
"Bear Valley Music Festival goers exhibit a signature pioneering spirit that makes them ideal audiences for a wide range of concerts and they seem to have an inclusive, adventurous taste in all kinds of music," said Morgan. "With this in mind, I have programmed a broad and eclectic range of concerts and guest artists that run the gamut from popular to the best in symphonic and chamber music."
Bear Valley Music Festival schedule
Friday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m.— The Bear Valley Music Festival is excited to welcome back New York-based jazz pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti. The Festival Orchestra will join Eigsti for an unforgettable night of music. Dave Brubeck once said that Eigsti, "is the most amazing talent I've ever come across. Remember him."
Saturday, Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. — Adios Nonino Along with a unique new orchestral tango concerto composed and performed by bandoneon player JP Jofre from Argentina.
Sunday, Aug. 3 at 11 a.m. — Classical Stars of Tomorrow featuring talented, young conservatory-trained musicians chosen by Maestro Morgan.
Sunday, Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. — The Bear Valley Music Festival is excited to make this Sunday a day of collaboration with Alpine county to celebrate its 150th anniversary with bluegrass band Iron Horse, food and drinks. "Iron Horse has a new sound for bluegrass and it always performs with a spirit and sense of style that pays the most gratifying compliment to acoustic and bluegrass lovers."
Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. — A pairing of fine wine and chamber music featuring Festival Orchestra musicians and Nicole Darracq Bert, sommelier and wine educator.
Thursday, Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. — "Fauré," 'Pelleas et Melisande Mozart," "Symphony No. 9," Zerbinetta's aria from "Ariadne auf Naxos" and select operatic arias with soprano Shawnette Sulker Shawnette Sulker.
Friday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. — The orchestra will play an all Mendelssohn concert including the "Hebrides Overture," piano concerto No. 2 with pianist Sara Davis Buechner and violin concerto with violinist Stephanie Chase.
Saturday, Aug. 9 at 5 p.m. — An enchanted evening at the Bear Valley Music Festival — Moonlit Masquerade Gala and Auction at 5 p.m. Bid on silent auction items from 5-7:30 p.m. A multi-course meal will be served from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The evening will be serenaded by the Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra. The live auction begins at 8 p.m. followed by spirited dancing until midnight.
Sunday, Aug. 10 at 10 a.m. — A family concert featuring the hilarious and instructive violinist Dawn Harms. An interactive and energetic show to delight children of all ages. Immediately following the concert will be kids face painting with arts and crafts generously provided by The Arts of Bear Valley.
Sunday, Aug. 10 at 1 p.m. — The final concert of the 2014 festival will feature violinist Stephanie Chase and pianist Sara Davis Buechner in an all-Beethoven program with the Festival Orchestra.
In 1967, during a drive through the Sierra Nevada, orchestra conductor John Gosling and his wife Margaret found themselves in Bear Valley, a small enclave of homes, a hostel and the Bear Valley Lodge nestled on the southern scape of ski runs recently built as Mount Reba.
What began as Gosling's fledgling idea on a two-lane highway became, just one year later, the Bear Valley Music Festival. The inaugural concert saw a 38-person orchestra brimming out of the Bear Valley Lodge's Cathedral Lounge under the direction of founder and maestro Gosling.
Listeners edged both the lounge and the tiers of balconies that flank the central room. Residents opened their homes to musicians while their meals were served family-style in the Lodge Dining Room.
Maestro Gosling and a dedicated group of founders, musicians and volunteers continued to make wonderful and inspiring music in a variety of venues — the Lodge for a few years, then under the open skies for a few more, then in a surplus circus tent.
They expanded the repertoire to include Broadway show tunes and opera. Gosling brought together orchestra, chamber music, opera, educational programs, lectures, classes and guest artists from around the world. The Orchestra expanded its numbers to include members from all over the United States.
In 1985, Carter Nice, then the conductor of the Sacramento Symphony, succeeded Gosling as music director and conductor. A highly regarded conductor, he was just beginning to put his Sacramento Symphony on the map. Under his direction the Festival Orchestra expanded its numbers and its geographic reach. The Bear Valley Orchestra attracted players from New York to Florida to New Orleans to Indiana as well as from all parts of the California.
Bear Valley became a summer home to many of these players, a place where they brought their spouses, their kids and their friends to enjoy two weeks of High Sierra activities and, of course, to make splendid music.
During his tenure Nice has conducted more than 200 performances of the Bear Valley Symphony and opera productions. As people's musical tastes broadened, the classical genre was supplemented with opera and an evening of Broadway show tunes (a perennial festival favorite).
Along the way, the festival began to present an opening weekend of contemporary and country music that has brought artists such as Dave Mason, Jose Feliciano, Roseanne Cash, Glen Campbell and the best of the country's tribute bands including Superdiamond.
In the autumn of 2012, Michael Morgan, music director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Sacramento Philharmonic succeeded Nice as music director of the Bear Valley Music Festival.
An award-winning innovator in programming, long-time attendees and burgeoning fans alike are in for a delightful new era of the Bear Valley Music Festival, one which honors the traditions of the 46-year-old festival, one that expands programming toward new horizons.
The new executive director Kayton grew up in Calaveras County working with Murphys Creek Theatre, Sierra Repertory Theatre and Stage 3 in Sonora. She has spent the past 10 years pursuing a career in the arts as a manager, consultant, director and producer. She holds a BA from San Diego State University in theater arts and is an alumnus of the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University.
Individual tickets and subscription packages for the 2014 Bear Valley Music Festival are priced from $10 to $55 and are on sale at bearvalleymusicfestival.org or by calling 209-753-2574 or 1-800-458-1618.


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TAK-875, a GPR40 Agonist, in Combination with Metformin Improves Glycemic Control and β-Cell Function in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats
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Authors: RYO ITO, YOSHIYUKI TSUJIHATA, KAE NAGASUMI, NOBUYUKI NEGORO, KOJI TAKEUCHI
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Results: GPR40, a G protein-coupled receptor highly expressed in pancreatic β-cells, mediates free fatty acid-induced insulin secretion. TAK-875 (TAK) is a selective and potent GPR40 agonist that lowers plasma glucose via stimulation of glucose-dependent insulin secretion. Metformin (MET) improves insulin resistance by pleiotropic action. Based on complementary mechanisms of action, the combination of TAK and MET is expected to enhance glycemic control vs either agent alone. In this study, we evaluated acute and chronic effects of TAK plus MET in combination in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats, which spontaneously develop severe diabetes and progressive β-cell dysfunction. In the oral glucose tolerance test, oral administration of TAK (3 mg/kg) and MET (50 mg/kg) decreased glucose AUC by 21.0% and 15.4%, respectively, and TAK+MET additively decreased glucose AUC by 33.8%. In 19-week old ZDF rats with fasting hyperglycemia (ZDF: 234 mg/dL; lean: 101 mg/dL), combination treatment with TAK (10 mg/kg) and MET (150 mg/kg) additively decreased fasting plasma glucose. In a 6-week multiple dosing study, combination treatment with TAK (10 mg/kg, BID) and MET (50 mg/kg, QD) additively decreased glycosylated hemoglobin (TAK: -1.7; MET: -1.8; TAK+MET: -2.4%) and increased fasting plasma insulin (TAK: +7.4; MET: +8.3; TAK+MET: +13.2 ng/mL). In addition, in TAK+MET-treated ZDF rats, HOMA-β was 9.6-fold higher than in vehicle-treated ZDF rats and pancreatic insulin content was restored to a level comparable to that in lean rats (Vehicle: 26; TAK: 42.3; MET: 58.5; TAK+MET: 67.1; lean: 69.1 ng/mg pancreas). Finally, normal islet architecture was also maintained in TAK+MET-treated rats, as assessed by immunohistochemistry. These results suggest that combination treatment with TAK and MET has the potential to slow the progression of diabetes and β-cell dysfunction in ZDF rats, which may result from improvements in both postprandial and fasting hyperglycemia. Our results also suggest that TAK plus MET combination therapy may be a valuable strategy for glycemic control and β-cell preservation in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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What causes anxiety in teens?
There is no one cause for anxiety; it is likely that many factors contribute to a person's chances of developing anxiety. Scientists have broken down the potential causes into three groups, early learning, brain biochemistry, and the fight or flight mechanism.
Fight or Flight Mechanism
When a person senses danger, the body prepares itself to either fight (defend itself) or flee (run away from the situation). The body's fight or flight mechanism causes the heart rate to increase, the eyes to dilate, and the body to prepare itself for a dangerous situation. These responses allow a person to protect him/herself. Even though these effects are intended to be a good thing, sometimes the body misunderstands a situation and believes that there is danger when in reality there is not (taking a test, giving a presentation, etc). There is a part of the brain called the amygdala that triggers the fight or flight response. This part of the brain is trained to remember the thing that triggered the fight or flight mechanism (taking a test or giving a presentation). This is the brain's attempt to protect the person from future danger by keeping track of all things that might cue danger. Even though this part of the brain is trying to protect a person, it can be the cause of much unnecessary anxiety. The brain has to be "re-trained" to not react in fight or flight to something that is not actually dangerous.
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Anxiety disorders tend to run in families, so if a person's mom, dad, or other close relative has anxiety, they have a higher chance of developing anxiety themselves. Growing up in a family where fear and anxiety are constantly shown to children by role models can "teach" them to be anxious as well. In addition, if a child grows up in an abusive home, he or she may learn to always expect the worst.
Feelings of hopelessness and unlovability are often the main underlying causes of anxiety disorder in adults, teens and children. Learning more about these core beliefs and how they may be affecting your child can help parents and teens to develop coping strategies that can provide permanent relief and treatment.
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Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers in the brain that regulate a person's thoughts and feelings. Sometimes there is a problem with the way the brain's messages are being sent due to a chemical imbalance. Two of the primary neurotransmitters that affect a person's feelings are serotonin and dopamine. When there is an imbalance of these chemicals, a person can feel depressed or anxious.
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What's 'Chopped' Judge Marcus Samuelsson's Favorite Junk Food?
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Doritos … cake … "cheese" that's sprayed out of a can … these are the things the rest of us might consider guilty-pleasure junk food.
But award-winning chef and "Chopped" judge and champion Marcus Samuelsson doesn't break his commitment to healthy food even when he's in a snacking mood. His favorite junk food?
"I don't know if it's necessarily a junk food, but I love some toasted peanuts and really dark chocolate, combine that. Almost like a Snickers flavor, right? I love that. That's just a good combination, any time of the day," says Samuelsson, who's judging the current season of Food Network's "Chopped All-Stars," which, last week, found his fellow judges duking it out with the mystery baskets.
Chef Scott Conant won the judges' round and surprised everyone when he pulled out a red onion -- a veggie he has protested in numerous episodes -- and surprised them again when he forgot to put it on his appetizer plate.
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"That just shows you, you could have done this so many times, but when you're [there], cooking, you throw all that expertise, all that experience, out the door," says Samuelsson, who owns the popular Red Rooster Harlem eatery in New York. "It's just really the block of time and that basket that gets you. I'm lucky with 'Chopped' to be on both sides, to be both a judge and a contestant, and it's equally tough. It's just so different. When you're a contestant, for me, I'm probably a little bit more comfortable, because you're doing your craft, you know what I mean? But being a judge is also … I'm a foodie first. I like to watch and see the intent, and see how hard the contestants work. It's tough on both sides, but I think I'm a little bit more comfortable when I'm a contestant.
"You definitely have so much more compassion for [contestants] after you've competed, though, because you can understand why somebody forgot something. You can definitely see that, 'Oh, I did that.' So I think it's good to be on both sides. It's the life. Sometimes you're a buyer, sometimes you're a seller."
Samuelsson, who earned $50,000 for his favorite charity -- the Careers Through Culinary Arts Program -- when he won "Chopped All-Stars: Judges Remix" last year, will also be at the judges' table for Sunday's penultimate "All-Stars" ep, in which celebs Johnny Weir, Joey Fatone, Laila Ali, and Judy Gold compete to win the last spot in the May 5 finale.
"They're going to be much better than you think, and they definitely surprised us," Samuelsson says of the celeb chefs. "They all had skills, they're all excited, and they have a lot of fun. But more importantly, all cook really good food."
The culinary superstar, whose 2012 autobiography, "Yes, Chef," is being released in paperback on May 21, will return again to judge the season finale; and one day, he hopes, he and his fellow judges will get to put together one of those mystery baskets that have sparked panic in even the most accomplished foodie professional on occasion.
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Lim was sued in June last year on charges of receiving about 600 million won (536,000 U.S. dollars) over the period of two years from one of his high school alma mater. The person said in a written complaint, In February 2008, I met Lim at a restaurant in southern Seoul. At the restaurant he said he was one of the six closest aides to President Lee Myung-bak, and he would help me win a lot of construction orders. He said there was nothing I should be worry about, and he would make me rich in Gangnam area. Since then, Lim had received more than 600 million won until August 2010 for overseas travel expenses, car purchase and facility construction of his sons plant.
The so-called Six-People Council was the highest decision-making body of the election camp for the former president in 2007. The council members include former lawmakers Lee Sang-deuk, Park Hee-tae, Choi See-joong, Kim Deok-ryong and Lee Jae-oh.
The plaintiff said he began asking Lim to give his money back in 2011 after failing many bids to win construction orders and received 40 million won (36,000 dollars) back from a friend of Lim last January.
Lim said to police, I never said I was a close aide to the former president and received no money from the construction contractor. I have nothing to do with the 40 million won (36,000 dollars). That money was wages that the constructor had paid to the friend, and the friend just returned the wages back to him.
Seoul Central District Prosecutors` Office dropped the case last December for lack of evidence, but the construction company head made an appeal to the Seoul High Prosecutors Office in February this year. The prosecutors office ordered in March a resume of investigation into the fraud charge.
This case has been pushed into the lime light because of some similarities in the statements made by the former police chief and the construction contractor. The former police chief said April 23, I believed what Lim said because he had more information than me, and he was one of those who met the president in person. He also knew high-ranking police officials and prosecutors well. Lim, however, denied this and said he had never met the president in person.
Lim told the Dong-A Ilbo over the phone, What the construction contractor said is not true. I even sued him for a false accusation but withdrew the case to give him a favor.
Lim told the Dong-A Ilbo over the phone, What the construction contractor said is not true. I even sued him for a false accusation but withdrew the case to give him a favor.