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Can there be open source music?
Can there be open source music?
Open source software has come a long way since the moniker "open source" was first coined in 1998. The Cathedral and the Bazaar helped to explain this new paradigm of software production, and history has proven that the profound implications predicted by Raymond's essay were not only credible, but now also obvious. And perhaps because of the open source software community's awesome record of success, those who work outside the strict boundaries of software development have started to wonder: Are there new paradigms, based on open source principles, that could rock our world, too?
We have seen this happen in the world of creative content with Creative Commons. Larry Lessig, following a straightforward reading of the US Constitution and building on many of the insights published years earlier by Lewis Hyde in the book The Gift, realized that while there was nothing wrong with commercializing content per se, there was something very wrong about treating cultural resources as private, alienable property forever. Lessig believed, and I agree, that there is a benefit to giving the public some agency over the content that defines their culture, just as open source gives other developers—even users—agency over the software they have. Look at how the public has used that agency to create Wikipedia, a phenomenal collection of one of our most valuable cultural artifacts: human knowledge.
But there have been limits to the reach of Wikipedia, in part because many cultural artifacts that could be part of the commons are instead enclosed by seemingly perpetual copyrights. Music is a cultural cornerstone, with nations, peoples, eras, and idealistic, artistic, and political movements all reaching for it to define themselves, much the way that individuals also define themselves based on their musical tastes. Given the importance of music to cultural identity, how much agency should we have over it, and in particular, over the portions that are supposed to belong to the public domain?
An astonishing answer to this question comes from two essays written in 1966 by Glenn Gould. Even if you don't know much about classical music, chances are good that you have heard of the Goldberg Variations by JS Bach. If so, you probably have Glenn Gould to thank for that, because when he was 22 years old, he signed a recording contract, and in six days recorded Bach: The Goldberg Variations as his debut over the objections of at least one label executive. At that time, Goldberg was far outside the standard piano repertoire and considered "esoteric." Gould was unbowed, and as Wikipedia reports, "the work launched Gould's career as a renowned international pianist, and became one of the most well-known piano recordings." Not to mention it also made Goldberg a standard for the classical piano.
Gould's decision in 1964 to cease giving public performances and to focus on recording greatly upset the music establishment, which saw such performances as the pinnacle of musical culture and which treated musical recordings as decidedly second-class. Gould addressed these criticisms not by arguing against them, but by changing the paradigm.
Which only upset them even more. Here is the essence of the paradigm change that Gould explains in The Participant Listener:
At the center of the technological debate, then, is a new kind of listener—a listener more participant in the musical experience. The emergence of this mid- twentieth-century phenomenon is the greatest achievement of the record industry. For this listener is no longer passively analytical; he is an associate whose tastes, preferences, and inclinations even now alter peripherally the experiences to which he gives his attention, and upon whose fuller participation the future of the art of music waits.
He is also, of course, a threat, a potential usurper of power, an uninvited guest at the banquet of the arts, one whose presence threatens the familiar hierarchical setting of the musical establishment. Is it not, then, inopportune to venture that this participant public could emerge untutored from that servile posture with which it paid homage to the status structure of the concert world and, overnight, assume decision-making capacities which were specialists' concerns heretofore?
There is much to unpack in the above two paragraphs, but give this a try: read the above as a musical allegory for the paradigm shift from proprietary to open source software. It may be difficult to imagine today, but when I was proposing the idea of starting a company to provide commercial support for free software, one of the principal objections was "free or not, users don't want source code. They don't want to touch it. They want to pay money for the best solution, period." The proprietary software paradigm could never imagine that the best solution might very well include the user becoming a participant in the development of software. It could not tolerate the concept of users assuming decision-making capacities which were specialists' concerns heretofore. But Cygnus Solutions proved that the future of software was actually waiting for the fuller participation of users. And so, too, is the future of the art of music, which Gould obviously anticipates:
The keyword here is "public." Those experiences through which the listener encounters music electronically transmitted are not within the public domain. One serviceable axiom applicable to every experience in which electronic transmission is involved can be expressed in that paradox wherein the ability to obtain in theory an audience of unprecedented numbers obtains in fact a limitless number of private auditions. Because of the circumstances this paradox defines, the listener is able to indulge preferences and, through the electronic modifications with which he endows the listening experience, impose his own personality upon the work. As he does so, he transforms that work, and his relation to it, from an artistic to an environmental experience.
Here Gould makes a profound philosophical point, and one which is easily misunderstood because of his terminology. He is not saying that arbitrary electronic transmissions automatically cause the original content to be treated as if it is common property owned by the public. Rather, he is saying that when the signal becomes a human experience, the experience is not generic, but unique to the individual. And that the future of the art of music depends on respecting the individuality of the experience, not on enforcing the uniformity of the transmission. [As a side note, consider the incredible legal contortions that the music industry goes to when it tries to claim that digital downloads are not "purchases" (therefore subject to the first sale doctrine), but rather "transactions" (conferring no rights whatsoever beyond that of being passively analytical, allowing no posture other than servile).]
Gould wrote this 20 years before Lewis Hyde published The Gift and 20 years before Stallman wrote the GNU Manifesto. 30 years before Lawrence Lessig wrote Code and other laws of Cyberspace and 30 years before Eric Raymond wrote The Cathedral and the Bazzar. 40 years before I started to imagine how The Miraverse could bring together the ideas of the Creative Commons and open source to create a new, sustainable future for music. But now, the boldest idea he proposed (from The Prospects of Recording) can be realized:
It would be a relatively simple matter, for instance, to grant the listener tape-edit options which he could exercise at his discretion. Indeed, a significant step in this direction might well result from that process by which it is now possible to disassociate the ratio of speed to pitch and in so doing (albeit with some deterioration in the quality of sound as a current liability) truncate splice-segments of interpretations of the same work performed by different artists and recorded at different tempos. [...] This process could, in theory, be applied without restriction of the reconstruction of musical performance. There is, in fact, nothing to prevent a dedicated connoisseur from acting as his own tape editor and, with these devices, exercising such interpretive predilections as will permit him to create his own ideal performance [...]
It is true that in Gould's day the technology was not readily available to offer audiences such agency: in his time multi-track recording was unimaginably expensive, and available only in a few exclusive commercial recording studios. But today things are different, at least on the technology front. Ardour is an excellent Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that allows any laptop computer to become a powerful multitrack audio editor and recording device. And the desire on the part of participant listeners is there. But the most powerful software tools in the world cannot create a compelling performance from nothing; there must be an artist who is willing to create the sonic canvas that can then be mixed and remixed according to taste. And of course there must be a commercial rights framework that does not auger the whole enterprise right into the ground. This is what makes the Open Goldberg Variations project so interesting: it is the answer to the challenge that Gould laid down 40+ years ago. It is the next evolutionary step in the musical legacy that traces from JS Bach through Gould to the present day. It invites each listener to become a participant in the future of the art of music.
Variations in the key of open source
Kimiko Ishizaka is the artist who has made the bold move from concert pianist to cultural resource by liberating both the source code to Bach's works (professionally typeset scores by MuseScore) and the performance data (in the form of an audio recording) to give audiences unprecedented experiences of both musical joy and the sense of freedom that comes from authentic agency. Which is to say: the agency to create; the agency to manipulate to taste; the agency to grow the commons by sharing what one is passionate about.
So back to the question at hand: Can there be open source music? Or rather, what can open source music become? OHM2013 just concluded up a week of "Observe. Hack. Make." One hacker who attended offered these thoughts:
A piece [of music] can be considered free and open source if there are good quality recordings available with permitting licenses (equivalent of a precompiled binary package distribution), and good quality sheet music, containing all the instructions and comments of the original composer, is available in an editable, reusable format, also with a proper license (think of it as the source code for a software you can freely copy, change, use, compile, interpret, whatever.)
The Open Goldberg Variations is the first big project to get some of Johann Sebastian Bach's works open-sourced in this term ("Bach to the future"), with the aid of crowd-funding. You can download lossless audio recordings performed by Kimiko Ishizaka, and of course, the sheet music in MuseScore and Music XML formats, all being in the public domain.
That is a great start. What makes it an even better start is that there is an active community making this happen. A community of diverse people who each play important roles, who work together to create what none can do by themselves. And top-notch environments that can produce commercially viable and critically acclaimed releases on a reliable basis.
One such environment is The Miraverse, the experiential identity of the studios at Manifold Recording. On one side of the Control Room glass is the Music Room (above), and on the other side, an API Vision analog console recording up to 64 tracks using Ardour (below).
These environments are complemented by a third environment, the Studio Annex, which offers a Linux-based Harrison Trion Console supporting a variety of surround sound formats with up to 96 channels at 96kHz:
In these studios, open source music can be recorded, auditioned, and mixed with the finest audio equipment, the finest acoustic environments, and open source software. The participant listener can experience the act of recording (itself an amazing process) and also experience the creative choices that are possible once the mixing process begins.
Are you interested in becoming a participant listener? Kimiko Ishizaka will be touring Europe and North America in preparation for her recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The first concert will take place at the Beethovenfest Bonn in Germany (September 24); from there Ms. Ishizaka will go on to perform in Prague (September 25 and 26), Munich (September 30), Vienna (October 2), Hamburg (October 12) and again in Bonn (October 18), and Ruiselede, Belgium (October 20). Ms. Ishizaka's North American dates will take her to Ann Arbor, MI (October 23); the Pianoforte Foundation in Chicago, IL (October 26), The Miraverse at Manifold Recording in Pittsboro, NC (November 3), and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (November 6).
Just like any other open source project, your interest and your participation can make it not only a success, but an industry-defining success. This is our goal. By attending one of her performances, by participating in the Twelve Tones of Bach Kickstarter campaign (which is one way to purchase tickets for these performances), by attending the Recording Salon we are holding at Manifold Recording on November 3, you can fully enjoy your own experiences of the music, the community, and the prospects of recording, while helping the project and its principals achieve its larger goals. We hope to see you this fall... and long into the future!
For further reading, The Audio Engineering Society chapter in Toronto has this report from their October meeting in 2012. The buzz is growing!
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Great article! Just a correction, Kimiko Ishizaka is married so "Ms." is not the correct title. Her husband Robert (surname Douglass) is as involved in this project as she is.
Happy to confirm this fact! Technically, however, Ms. is correct independent of marital status: "Ms. is intended as a default form of address for women, regardless of marital status." [Wikipedia]
Not to mention not every woman wants to go by their husband's last name.
For twenty years running, the Grateful Dead made Forbes' list of highest-earning musical acts. Their success was, in part, due to letting their audience bring recording equipment to concerts and freely trade the recordings. The music industry refused to adopt that successful economic model. They even discouraged the entertainment press from discussing the model, and commercial radio refused to play their music.
Great point Cameron. I just shake my head at all these musical artists who say no photo's or video of their shows. Many of the live shows I attend have people with smart phones, which guess what...can take photo's and video's.
I say, let your fans take pictures, share them on social media, let them advertise and promote how good the show is (hopefull they're putting on a good show). I don't think sharing a snapshot of the experiece will deter future ticket sales. In fact, by my logic, it should increase them. You're not paying to listen to the music when you attend a live musical performance, you're paying for the experience. When will this industry get it?
This post is a good start.
I've thought about this "open source music" idea quite a bit. My conclusion, that we should separate musical effects from music itself, is an admittedly subtle point.
Scores and recordings are the most obvious examples of specific musical objects, and their use is easily restricted with copyright law. But for well-trained musicians who could reproduce a score from a recording, become inspired by a particular musical tidbit, or make a cover song that changes the meaning entirely and thereby becomes a new song... for us there is no closed-source possibility. Scores and recordings are like compiled programs---they're the result of a musical "source."
Sure, copyrighting musical objects like recordings can make it more difficult to do some musical tasks, but it's not the same as copyrighting software. You just can't copyright or restrict artistic ideas in the same way as other things. So when you say "when will the industry get it?" (as I used to say), I think we're asking the wrong question. Real musicians already get it, and the recording industry will never want to admit it can only offer one of many possibilities.
When I was on a train coming home from New York City a year or so ago, I sat next to a professional musician who toured globally. Even being successful himself, he was concerned about the future for his children who were also interested in the performing arts, especially as he knew how difficult his own life was with constant travel half the year keeping him away from a wife and children he loved. I gave him a copy of a book about "Basic Income" and suggested that was the future of music.
A basic income might be a better solution to supporting creativity in the arts than copyright, which has been shown by various authors to reduce the ability of artists to create new works based on previous works. Most creative people actually benefit very little from copyright themselves, because in the global "winner takes all" model of copyright and marketing of a few superstar successes, almost all people who write books or compose songs won't make a living at it or even make more than US$2000 a year from it. You have to be reasonably good to become a star, but a lot of financial success is about luck and relationships not being the best. The performing life with its traveling demands is very rough on families too, so it is not a realistic option for most people.
With a basic income of say, US$2000 a month, everyone who wants to create music or software or perform locally would have the financial support to do so; this would also support other creative arts like having more time at home for better parenting. Artists could then freely assemble together to make larger works like movies or operas or operating systems. Such a basic income right now would involve redistributing equally about one half the US GDP; the other half would still leave about the size of the 1996 US GDP to motivate people to do things no one otherwise wanted to do. A basic income also structures the economy to deal with rapidly growing unemployment from technological advances in AI and robotics and better low-maintenance long-lived designs (like the spread of LED lighting or electric cars) like foreseen in "The Triple Revolution Memorandum" in 1964.
As Dan Pink, Alfie Kohn, and others write about, financial rewards actually reduce creativity; search on "RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us" and "Punished by Rewards". Still, in an exchange-based economy such as in the USA, you need ration units ("money") to exchange for rent or food. So the simplest solution conceptually is just for the government to give money to everyone through redistribution of some fraction of society's productivity as a right of citizenship, such is with Alaska's Permanent Fund which gives a check every year to every citizen based on natural resource royalties. See writers like C. H. Douglas' "Social Credit" ideas or Marshall Brain's "Manna" story. Or search on "Basic Income Earth Network".
There are other approaches to supporting creativity, like improving the local subsistence economy through robotic gardening and 3D printing and rooftop solar panels, improving the global gift economy of free and open source software and physical things like by Freecycle, and improving the democratically planned economy through internet-based participation. Together, those create an alternative to ideas like copyright that are based on the idea of "artificial scarcity" which in an age of abundance and cheap computing otherwise requires a growing police state to enforce. We can do better than that. The alternative is, as with the failed "war on drugs" literally putting millions of young people behind bars in this case for sharing, where sharing, as Richard Stallman points out, should be at the core of civilized behavior. I wrote a satire about that called "Microslaw" about a decade ago, when the US Department of Justice asked for comments on some new restrictive legislation about copying.
So you want the government to expropriate money from the taxpayers and channel it to your favored group? Take it from the productive classes and give $2000 a month to anyone who declares themselves an artist? Why shouldn't artists have to work too? (There's no dishonor in folding shirts at Urban Outfitters and there's still plenty of time left in the day to make music, y'know.)
Listen to David Crosby or many other rich rock stars, all they cared about was music, and the money was a surprise and not regarded by them as entirely beneficial, personally or musically.
People who love making music, make music. You might even say they are compelled to make music. People who truly love making music make it whether they get paid or not and almost everyone has to make enough to live off of and whether someone who loves making music makes their nut off of music or off driving a UPS truck, what's wrong with having a day job and who cares? It's called paying your dues and I haven't heard anyone who made it complain about having had to struggle. Indeed, looking back, stars point to their times of struggle as the source of their fondest memories, and often their most productive and authentic as well.
The good stuff will for the most part rise to the top and if you know of someone who is terrific and not getting anywhere, well, who?
A "basic income" is an unconditional grant to every member of a society -- effectively like getting a "Social Security" payment from birth instead of age sixty-five. So, there is no "favored group" in that sense. Sorry I was not clear about that. Search on: "About basic income".
Work in the sense of doing useful stuff is certainly important to a healthy life -- see E.F. Shumacher's "Buddhist Economics" essay. However, a basic income acknowledges several other ideas:
* that most productivity comes from our common inheritance of ideas building on past ideas (whether musical, software, or otherwise),
* that the Earth's land, required for making anything physical or collecting energy, has been artificially expropriated or enclosed by kings and such long ago and given to friends (whatever the chain of transactions afterwards) with exclusions of access then enforced by military means and thus taxing that special control to give some of the fruits back to everyone is only fair,
* that local charity and concern for close relatives or tribe members or neighbors is no longer enough to make a good social safety net in an industrial mobile society and thus we need something more systematic,
* that much of the important work of society, like helping a sick neighbor, or raising a child, or running a volunteer organization is not compensated within the exchange economy and yet should be supported by a healthy society,
* that robots and AI are becoming more and more productive in more and more areas, either replacing human labor or enabling one human to do the work of many, as shown by the US employment level staying about the same for a decade while the GDP grew by about 30%. (Those jobs folding clothes or doing deliveries are rapidly being automated like with Wilow Garage's PR2 folding clothes or Google's self-driving cars).
* further, that productivity has increased so much, that it is realistic to talk about a small fraction of the population, augmented by robots and AI, producing more than enough material goods for everyone.
The most "productive" members of US society right now as far as working hard in a physical way doing paid labor at the day-to-day things that keep us all fed, keep us clothed, keep us housed, keep the garbage picked up are, and assemble things in factories, the people are for the most part, poorly paid in our exchange economy because the tasks and skills are so common and supply/demand issues related to political priorities in our society. These people are farm laborers, sweatshop seamstresses, apprentice carpenters and plumbers, road repair crews, sanitation workers, factory workers, etc.. Without them, we would very quickly starve, freeze, crash, fall ill, have no fancy computers, and so on. These jobs in the USA typically pay US$20K-$50K annually (before taxes). It typically takes two adults working full-time at the low end of this level (sometimes with one working two jobs) to have a decent life materially in the USA -- which leaves little time left over for being an engaged parent, let alone then on top of that creating free and open source software and music. Still, this ignores, as above, that much of the important "productive" labor in our society like parenting and volunteering is entirely unpaid.
A family of four would be receiving $96,000 a year tax free under a basic income plan as I mentioned, and so would be better off financially to begin with, and then if one member worked as a plumber or sanitation worker, even with high taxes on income, they would have even more whatever they earned. So, the actual "productive class" would in practice be much better off, given that, as above, most truly important work in our society is not well paid. Search also on "The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier " for a book on why overall this would make our society better off even for the financially wealthy. Copyright is one of several ways wealth gets concentrated in our society at this point.
I agree with you that people who make the best music do so because they love to make music or otherwise feel a burning need to express themselves. Thus copyright for music does not make much sense as far as empowering music production, since most musical people do not benefit from it significantly. Copyright impedes remixing and building new stuff on old stuff; for example, Jazz might have never emerged with today's copyright system. By contrast, a basic income (in the absence of copyright) would give everyone who wanted to make music the opportunity to do so.
Right now, there are no doubt many people bartending or working two shifts at minimum wage folding clothing who might be great musicians, or doctors, or physicists, who will never get that chance to develop their talent. Contrast with J.K. Rowling who wrote "Harry Potter" while on the UK dole and taking care of her young child -- could she have done so if forced to work two minimum-wage jobs as a seamstress and sales clerk instead? So it is not even an issue of who has developed talent and does not catch the public's eye (and there are indeed many), but also those who never get the chance to develop their talents for all sorts of reasons. A basic income would give everyone the minimum needed to develop their talents in more cases than now.
Between social security, public schools, unemployment insurance, and welfare, the USA currently redistributes about US$600 a month on average to each citizen (although unequally). A basic income could replace all those programs with a more general solution requiring less paperwork. We could then get rid of copyrights as unneeded. Our popular music landscape might then also be more about cooperation than competition and self-promotion. Same for those creating software. Everyone could chose the form of education they wanted towards their path for personal growth. Since copyrights are about money, we can't discuss changing them without considering the general economics of our society and issues like "competition" (see Alfie Kohn for more on "The Case Against Competition").
IMO, though very interesting, this is open source music for people who have a million dollars, and focusing on classical music limits the appeal to less than 1% of the population, which is fine but kind of limits the potential impact.
Also whether or not the music is mixed with open source is irrelevant (IMO) or at least of very minor importance compared to the license the music is released under and how the original composer interacts with her userbase and what comes of those interactions.
Open source music that I would analogize to open source software would be DIY guys releasing their compositions as DAW projects along with mixes and sheet music, whether they use Logic, Pro Tools, Ardour, or whatever.
You can see the beginnings of this as a grassroots phenomenon with all the remix stuff, the virtual bands (c.f. Virtual Zeppelin) and instructional videos (e.g. SFLogicNinja) on YouTube, the guitar instruction site vanderbilly.com, and people releasing DAW projects, mp3 files and sheet music at sites like mine, killersolos.wordpress.com.
As a guy who has released a pretty fair amount of open source software, I have only recently recognized the ridiculous proprietariness I've had with my compositions and musical techniques. The first step to rectify this is a video showing my key techniques for transcribing music.
A couple of my best compositions I am preparing release as open source. Ironically, as with software, it takes work to give things away, but I will be releasing two original compositions, Texas Boo and George Came Through, basically under the BSD license, within the next couple weeks.
I look forward to your video, and think that you're doing something incredible releasing your original compositions this way. Bravo!
Thanks, Robert, and I already released the first video... http://killersolos.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/transcribing-killer-solos-us...
Interesting article for non-musos and the best fit for comments from "Rock Stars".
We need an article on open source martial arts next, for the Sensei among us ;-)
I liked the article and the approach. Open source thinking in music long predates Glenn Gould. Woody Guthrie's open license in a 1923 published book of songs is one 20th Century example,but
the roots of open source run far deeper.The folksong tradition evolved as a sharing of source and of samples to evolve new music and preserve old music in a pre-copyright era. Songs and lyrics and melodic themes [i.e., source code] were freely shared and remixed. The classical tradition is full of re-transcription of source works.
The copyright paradigm changed this world. indeed, the efforts to "tame" this music, ranging from Alan Lomax's disgraceful assertion of copyright in others artists' works to 60s record labels seeking to copyright classic blues covers by rock bands as their own property, damaged the folk and blues tradition's sharing culture.
Nowadays the place to look for open source music is not in the classical hallways,but in the vibrant netlabel movement, where artists liberally license music and liberally share "source code" in the form of samples, stems and other base components of works, all available for remixing. This movement does not receive nor seek government support, and its releases are by tradition free. It is here, rather than in the amazing work of Glenn Gould, that I find open source music becoming a reality and a transforming force.
There's no more physical frontier, so corporations that must keep growing must find other public domain properties to seize and monopolize. Zoom out from the excesses of music copyright and Sony's rootkit equipped CDs, and see Disney swallowing Greek and Roman mythology and European fairy tales. Zoom out further and notice Monsanto privatizing staple crops and traditional medicine. It's the same problem on a different, bigger stage.
Very interesting article... Any thoughts on pieces played on midi instruments?
Open source music benefits young musicians throughout the world. As a young musician learns to play an instrument, listening to a quality recording or viewing the artist's technique while also being able to see the sheet music helps the young artist develop an ear and feeling for the piece.
Musical genres that are perhaps not huge commercial profit centers can be cultivated and preserved for generations (for example, early blues, tribal music, etc.). Those passionate about these genres can combine open source audio, video, sheet music, historical information, even instrument fabrication and repair information. The value of open source music goes far beyond commercial music issues and will change and expand music education to reach more students globally.
I think you're wrong about the "Goldbergs" being unknown before Gould. Landowska recorded them on the harpsichord at least a decade before. There are certain technical problems for the pianist due to their being written specifically for a harpsichord with two manuals, but I believe they have always been in the piano repertory. Busoni transcribed (and in my opinion butchered) them. Conversely, even today they are hardly staples like, say, the Brandenburg Concerti.


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The NFL officially announced its 2013 schedule on Thursday night in prime time on the NFL Network.
The league has become genius at making everything it does a newsworthy event, and the schedule release was no different, as football fans everywhere gobbled up the information like hungry inmates.
For the Minnesota Vikings, it's certainly a tougher schedule than the one they faced in 2012. Because the Vikings finished second in the NFC North, they picked up games against the Seahawks and the Panthers (two teams who also finished second in their division) for 2013.
Drawing the NFC East and AFC North provides for a pretty treacherous schedule for the Vikings, and getting Seattle as one of your "at-large" opponents makes it even tougher.
Throw in the fact that Minnesota basically loses one of their home games (versus the Steelers in London on September 29), and the Vikings have a tough road to travel if they want to return to the playoffs come January of 2014.
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hi there! I m looking for some new bindings.
I m 6'0 weight 75-77kg. I used to ride a Rome Manual 159 wide (2010 i think), Rome 390 (2010) and Salomon F20. Other than that some borrowed ones but I can't really remember their feeling.
I got a DC Lauri Tone Pro 156cm 2011-2012 in the offseason and some Nike Vapens (size 11) and ride ~45% slopes, 30% jumps, 10%jibbing and 15% pow.
Would really appreciate some advice.
Something I didn't like about my 390s was their quality, so I m not really sure if I should go for some new 390s again ...
Union Factory's are the shit. Super versatile. You won't be disappointed. I'm not.
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The Factory is a good binding, but it has a lot of stock forward lean. I got calf bite in em and Nike's aren't a particularly high boot. Atlas has a little less stock forward lean, shoot for them if you want Union and don't want forward lean. Or if you wanna try a fairly different concept of what performance means in bindings the new Contact Pro is by far the best Union I've been in and all together a binding I'd own. For some other great options that will meld well with your Tone, Salomon Districts, K2 Formulas, Burton Cartels, Flow Fuse SE, or Flux RL's
I picked up a pair of Flux RLs a couple of weeks ago and they've been a pleasant surprise. Super light and far more responsive than I suspected them to be.
Seeing you know what percentage of riding you do where... it seems you want to be in a mid stiffness binding. After that its personal and how much money you want to spend. "Buy it RIGHT or buy it twice." is a good rule to live by in almost any hobby.
Union and Flux are my favorites for all around riding. After that go read the review at Angry's site... you will only find HONEST reviews from him and his crew. Gear Reviews «
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From your picture I'd agree. I'll try and get a side by side today too cause the Factory's we have honestly look to have way more stock than yours.
both bindings have adjustable highbacks which is a plus. Nivek are you saying even with zero forward lean adjustment the factories gave you calf bite? were they rotated in anyway at all or anything?
i just got the 13/14 atlas and have still been playing with the highback adjustment but I still cant be too sure i am even noticing a difference. i crank them forward a few clicks to ride though fresh snow and open them back up for rails and jumps.
really loving the binding so far, still making adjustments to see what feels good and to be honest im really impressed with the amount of adjustability these bindings offer, just got a new set of boots and all the little things really made a difference in getting the new boots to line up and fit perfectly over the board.
For some reason I ended up with the Contact Pro or Flite Pro. Only reason i havent bought it yet is 1) Might a canted footbed make a difference on my board (i haven't tried canted ones) and 2) which size should i choose for my 11 nike vapens ? m/l or l/xl ?
i think the contact pro fits better to my style of riding, cause when i ride slopes I barely go as fast as possible...take some tiny jumps on the sides and stuff.
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Two unidentified men broke into St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens' house in Shell Beach last night, took some items from a woman's purse and quickly left, the St. Bernard Sheriff's Office said.
Stephens was not present, according to Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy James Pohlmann. There was no physical contact, Pohlmann said, and the woman who reported the incident, Stephen's ex-wife, Desiree Melerine Stephens, did not see the faces of the two men.
The woman told authorities she was in another room in the house in the upscale Fort Beauregard Marina Estates subdivision when she heard voices inside the house and heard someone jiggle the door handle to the room where she was at the time. She called out, but got no response.
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Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) offers large number of products and services such as Market access, online stock quotes, stock News, Securities, Derivatives, Data services and SGX Listing. SGX became the initial exchange in Asia-Pacific to be listed by a public offer and a private placement on 23 November 2000. In Asia, Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX-DT) was the first market to list equity index futures. In the year 1984, the Singapore Exchange derivatives Trading Limited initial introduced financial futures in Asia with the trading of Eurodollar futures.
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The Sustainable Building Tax Credit breezed through the New Mexico House of Representatives and awaits the governor's signature.
SB 14, sponsored by Sen. Peter Wirth and Rep. Carl Trujillo, promises to contribute more than $107.5 million to the state's economy in new home construction, while encouraging home builders to go green.
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Confessions of a Mom Who Never Thought She'd Be a Dog OwnerMari Hernandez-Tuten
I don't love dogs.
With that said I'd never thought I would be a dog owner. Until . . . well these three little handsome men began longingly wishing, hoping, and praying for a dog.
Every time they'd see a dog they looked up at me with those big brown eyes that danced at the thought of owning a dog, and slowly I gave into it. It simply just got harder to ignore. The worst thing was that daddy also wanted a dog. So that made me the bad guy. And who wants to be remembered as the parent who denied their kids the opportunity for a furry BFF?
So finally, after years of adamantly saying "no," I succumbed. We decided to adopt a dog from a shelter and we came home with this adorable mixed breed, Milly.
After only hours of having a dog, I discovered that dogs fart and they stink. Oh, and did you know that there are doggy diapers? Yes, a friend uses them for her little puppy. Just when I started looking forward to the end of our diaper phase, we go out and buy a puppy.
I didn't realize that dogs shed like crazy. I could easily make a rug from our dog's hair. I knew they'd shed, but I had no idea how much. Our dog is currently banned from our TV room, because you can't even walk past that room without her hair attaching to you. Being covered in dog hair is one of my pet peeves (no pun intended).
Did you know dogs need their teeth brushed? I couldn't tell you if it's an easy task or not, because we've yet to do this. can barely manage making sure my three little boys brush their teeth.
Whoa, and this one was shocking, female dogs have periods. Yes, a menstrual cycle. Who knew? Not me.
I knew having a dog would come with a cost, but I didn't realize it was such a financial commitment. We went out of town and had to find someone to watch our dog. I don't know how many times I wanted to say, "Please take good care of Milly. She's loved by everyone in our household and we have invested a lot of money in her." I didn't say that to her, but I thought it.
Having a puppy is like having a baby in so many ways. I had no idea we would once again be waking up in the middle of the night to tend to the puppy's needs. We were determined to train her from the first day and I am so glad we did, and we rejoiced when she finally informed us she needed to pee. I was silly enough to give into a owning a puppy the exact weekend when we decided to potty train our youngest son. Not a good idea.
And if you want a good laugh, read my post here on my attempts to run with a dog. And most importantly, what I didn't know about dogs, is how all along I had a special little place in my heart just for a furry BFF. Shhhh! Don't tell my family I said that.
With that said, even though I have had some surprises, I wouldn't change having Milly as a part of our family. She's a wonderful, smart and loving dog.


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Switching hard drives and hoping one can get the old one to work on new hardware is fraught with problems. It will be far far better if you first backup any important data from the replacement drive and then do a clean installation of WinXP onto it.
Some more specifics about the HDD (IDE, SATA, Size, etc) would all be of value to know about.


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My favourite part about that is how they combined the medic and the dropship so that medics could follow reapers up cliffs.
There are already drop ships with magical heal beams, no?
Fucking reapers. Of all the 1% of games where a reaper is actually fucking made, exactly zero of them have reapers getting healed by medivacs. Hell, Blizzard wants to give them high-ground vision and health regen in HotS, the two things that medivacs could theoretically provide.
And yet, it still isn't as weird as hellions being able to transform into bio. Bizarre from a "how the does that work" angle, and from a "what the are you trying to accomplish" perspective. It just makes bioballs better (hellions can synergize with medivacs) and pure mech worse (where you're less likely to have medivacs, and now archons can battle hellions up).


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How To Know When To Change Jobs
So recently I've been struggling with some decisions. You know how it is sometimes? You get into a job (or you've been there for years), everything's going great and then the bomb drops. You get a new know-it-all boss, your job description changes significantly, everyone gets a raise except for you, whatever. You fill in the blank for yourself. At what point do you decide to throw in the towel and move on?
I'm a big fan of not letting your emotions control you leading you to decisions that you'll regret. But there has to be a line somewhere. You can't be miserable you're whole life. Maybe I'm too loyal sometimes. At one job, I loathed everything about it for literally 6 months. Part of that was me not getting off of my lazy butt and agressivly hunting for a new job, but still, I was there for too long. Where does the line get drawn?
Consistently Manage Your Career
Here's what I've found to be somewhat helpful: Never stop managing your career. No matter how happy you are at your job, always be on the lookout for your next position. I've heard that you should interview with companies year round (without your current employer knowing of course.) I'm not sure that I buy into that. If I were on the other side of the interview table, I'd think twice about hiring the guy that has had 5 jobs in the last 2 years. Job stability is important.
So we're back to square one. How do you know when to change jobs? Well, here's my two cence: If you're consistently miserable at your job, it's time to look for something else. I'm not talking about "I had a bad day! I quit!" I'm talking about "I've had a bad day, week and month! Now I quit!"
Step 1: See if there is anything you can do to change whatever it is that's bothering you at your job. Communication can do wonders. If that doesn't work proceed to step 2 below.
Step 2: This isn't rocket science. If you hate your job find a new one!
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I can relate to knowing when it is time to quit your job. I worked in accounting which is not my passion. I listened to a "well-meaning" family member. My dad suggested I "find a practical/stable job." The problem was accounting was not my passion. Talk about being miserable! I am good in math but I love the arts! In high school, I always enjoyed art, English, music, history, and literature classes. After four years with a real estate development company, I left my accounting position. It felt like a weight was lifted off of me.
I pursued a graphic design certification and landed a job. I decided to leave Ohio for Arizona. I am pursuing a writing career. I am grateful for the opportunity that I was given to reconnect with my love of writing! What's next…who knows!


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Malcolm Blight says the Crows' good record should be taken in account in Tippett saga
- From: The Advertiser
- November 26, 2012
DUAL Adelaide premiership coach Malcolm Blight believes the club's record of being a good corporation should be taken into account as the Crows prepare for their greatest crisis.
Adelaide will face the AFL Commission over alleged salary cap breaches and draft tampering on November 30 and it comes with the football fraternity in the dark over what the penalties for the club will be.
News Limited understands the AFL's most likely sanction is a fine of about $500,000 and restrictions in the draft for the next two or three years.
But Blight, who was at the draft table of the Gold Coast Suns last Thursday night at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, was hopeful the club's record would be taken into account.
"We've caught up with a lot of people over the past two or three days and the main comment was that it's been such a great club, which has done everything by the book, has been a responsible citizen within the AFL," Blight said.
"They've almost got a perfect record. I mean no-one's perfect, we all know that, but it's a blip.
"Wrong? Yes. They have done the wrong thing and they have to pay the price - I think everybody accepts that. But one of the things I've said is that there's never been a personal gain made and, secondly, they didn't break a law. They broke a rule.
"I'm sad to say this but the Gold Coast and GWS probably haven't made one yet (breaking a rule) but in everyone's history we've all done something wrong - as a group of people, trying to get the best football team on the ground.
"Yes, get smacked and get penalised but you know it's breaking a rule, which should be penalised, but it's not breaking the law.
"Nobody's got any personal gain out of this at all.
"So I think yes, wrong, hysterical, no."
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"They've played against men and the other boy we drafted, as well, has played a couple of years against men, at Launceston," Blight said. "So they already have a nice shape about them, in their body size.
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whats the price range you are working with? i couldnt get any of those sites to load, ill keep trying but i just couldnt.
watch where you buy from. There was a scam with Mp4 players on Ebay about half a year ago. People advertising them as 5or 6 gigs, and when people got their players they were only 512megg.
I also can't get those pages to load, so I really can't see if they are legit or not.
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whats the price range you are working with? i couldnt get any of those sites to load, ill keep trying but i just couldnt.
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sometimes during a specific time during the night the site is down. dont know why. i think its because they are constantly updating and adding new things.
try the sites this afternoon, www.uxcell.com should work by then just fine.
anyways, this site was recommended through www.anythingbutipod.com and it got good reviews.
their return policy is also 30 days and i spoke to a representativer from the site and like i said, seems to be on the OK
oh!!! OHHHHHH!!! OH!!!!! w00t!!
so yesterday in the mail, i got a pink piece of paper in my mailbox. it was a forgien slip left by the post man instructing that i had to sign of the item and because i wasnt home, i had to pick it up today after 9AM.
well considering i was at work, i went this afternoon to the post office. turns out my mp4 player came in!!!
LET ME JUST SAY THIS THING IS FRIGGEN SWEET!! its about the size of a nano with a nice speaker and great bright colorful screen! its not a piece of sh*t!!!!!!!!!!!
i submitting my review to uxcell.com so im assuming its being under reivew before they post it on their site. i didnt write anything bad. i wrote a very decent review i loved it!
the only thing i have to do now is get video on it. it came with software so i have to convert AVI to WMA? i have no idea what format it is. ill find out when i do it lol
anyways seriously its awesome! next week my bfs comes in and im just as excited to see his
glad to see your happy with your new mp4 player. WMA stands for windows media audio i think, But AVI is a video file. Im confused, if this helps, search on google for 'AVI - WMA' and you should be able to download a free format converter.
welcome backOriginally Posted by lee.jarratt
and yeah it comes with one of them there (hickish i know) mini CDs and it has the software that converts it.
i also have a converter that does it too so ill see what the one on the disk is like and if that one sucks, then ill try the other program that i initially have
ETA- im a dingbat, it plays AMV files for movies. so i have to convert it to that!! whoops. lets see what good ol programs i can "find"
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Thanks for the welcome,Originally Posted by The_Loose_Cannon
Try searching on www.download.com , i usually find some good programs on there. Good luck
Originally Posted by lee.jarratt
thats usually what i do then look for it on another website for uh a bit of a better "trial experience" lol
from what im understanding in the manual, it says it supports MPEGII and other files (which are ipod format) to AMV.
taken from the website: Support WMV, MPG, MPEG I, MPEG II converted to AMV playing (Software included)
alot of work!! grrrrr. oh well. ill do it when im off, today i sooooo dont have the attention span for it right now lol- bad day at work i fliped out at a coworker and nearly lost my temper
either way, ill probably do it on my RDO's (regular days off)
These look like generic China made stuff. Had a chance to buy one when I was last in China but passed because the sound quality and reliability are a questionable at best.
"I love the Power Glove...it's so bad." - Lucas Barton
Hehe,Originally Posted by The_Loose_Cannon
Yeh, stuff like that is quite hard and frustrating. And don't you worry, I always lose my temper (as you probably have seen (not getting into that...))
So, good luck again and you will crack it eventually!


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In February 2007, Kristy, then an English teacher at Maritime Academy Charter in Northeast Philadelphia, heard that one of her old high school friends had moved to Pennsylvania.
She hadn't talked to Ross since she left Potomac, Md., for Villanova University, where she earned her undergraduate degree. Kristy then moved to North Carolina to earn her master's at Duke University, but upon graduation, looked for work only in the Philadelphia area so she could be with her then-boyfriend.
He broke up with her two weeks before she moved here, but Philadelphia became Kristy's home.
Ross' Facebook page said he was indeed in the Keystone State, but in far-off Wellersburg, Somerset County, where he moved after graduation from Frostburg State University to work at a YMCA.


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HOUSTON (AP) - Top that, Tom Glavine.
After one of the best-pitched games in postseason history, the Atlanta Braves arrived at the Astrodome today very much alive against Houston in the best-of-5 opening round of the playoffs.
But Glavine, the starter in Game 3 against Astros ace Mike Hampton, faces the unenviable task of following up Kevin Millwood's series-tying one-hitter in Game 2.
"I'm not even going to try" to duplicate that performance, Glavine said after a light, 1 1/2-hour workout. "I just want the same result, a win."
The Astros will have their best pitcher on the mound. Hampton was an NL-leading 22-4 during the regular season, putting him among the favorites to win his first Cy Young award.
But one gets the feeling he would gladly trade his chance at the Cy Young for a victory that would put his team in a commanding position to win a postseason series for the first time. Game 4 is Saturday, also at the Astrodome.
If a fifth game is needed, it would be Sunday at Turner Field.
"In this game, all the awards and accolades don't mean a lot," Hampton said. "What means something is for the guys around you to have confidence that you can do the job. It's been a great year for me, but I've got a lot of confidence in them, too."
The Killer B's - Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio and Derek Bell - will be reunited for the Astros in Game 3, although a more appropriate nickname might be the Killer Z's the way they've snoozed through the postseason. Biggio has a career average of .125, Bagwell .121 and Bell .069.
In addition, Bell had a disappointing, injury-plagued season, forcing him to the bench for most of the last month and the first two games of the division series.
But manager Larry Dierker plans to insert Bell in right field - the third different player to start at that position against the Braves - and also put Matt Mieske in left. They provide two more right-handed bats against the left-handed Glavine, who had won his last eight decisions against the Astros.
"It's a good feeling to be back in there," said Bell, who hit only .236 with 12 homers in the regular season.
The Braves swept the Astros in the opening round of the playoffs two years ago, finishing off the series in Houston. This time, the Astros seized the home-field advantage by winning Game 1 in Atlanta.
"It's nice to be 1-1 instead of 0-2," Bell said. "We can relax and have fun. The pressure is on them. We've got the next two games at home."
Glavine will surely give up more hits than Millwood, but the Braves have the right pitcher on the mound under the circumstances.
After losing his first eight career decisions to the Astros, Glavine hasn't lost in his last 10 trips to the mound, going 8-0 with a 1.30 ERA. His last loss against Houston came on June 25, 1991, by a score of 1-0.
"I have a comfort zone here," Glavine said, gazing around the spacious Astrodome. "Also, their lineup hasn't changed a whole lot over the course of the last few years. I know these guys and I know what I'm trying to do."
Then again, career records are much like mutual funds - past performance is no guarantee of future success. The Astros proved that in Game 1 by beating Greg Maddux, who had a 19-9 career record against Houston.
"Look at Maddux's numbers," Bell said. "But we won the first game. In the playoffs, you can throw all that out the window. It comes down to who's ahead in the ninth inning."
While the Killer B's are trying to break their 3-year-old playoff slump, Atlanta's MVP candidate, Chipper Jones, would like to see a few good pitchers after carrying his team offensively in the second half of the season.
Jones was 1-for-5 in the first two games, walking three times and twice making outs while swinging anxiously at 3-0 pitches.
"Normally, I would swing the bat on 3-0," he said. "But in these kind of situations, where every at-bat is under the microscope, it's hard to be patient."
Jones will try to break out against his offseason hunting buddy, having forged a relationship with Hampton when both were high school stars in Florida.
For the past two or three years, they have met in south Georgia for a deer-hunting trip, "just two rednecks who are never too far from their roots," Jones said with a grin.
"We have a real mutual respect for each other," he said. "But I'm sure at about 3 or 4 o'clock tomorrow, that friendship will be put on hold for a few hours."
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How is it that if you are an illegal immigrant in New Jersey, the politicians want to subsidize your education with tax dollars and then propose legislation on the federal level (requiring in-state tuition at public colleges for most illegal-immigrant students) and call it the DREAM Act?
These would be the same politicians who sponsored what I call the "Kill A DREAM Act." This cut funding to our brightest NJ STARS students (a program that grants free community college tuition based on high-school class standing) because the politicians said New Jersey couldn't afford it.
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