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Andre Lotterer is pleased with how the first practice sessions of his Formula One debut went but says he expects to keep improving as the weekend continues in Belgium.
Lotterer was drafted in earlier this week to replace Kamui Kobayashi, on what looks likely to remain a one-race deal, but seemed to be immediately on the pace and even went quicker than team-mate Marcus Ericsson in FP1. Lotterer admits he still does not feel completely comfortable with the car yet but expects that to change.
"I think [Friday] ran pretty smoothly," Lotterer said. "I had to learn a lot in a short time and go step by step, find the driving style of the car, the tyres and handle the power. I'm still a bit behind on understanding all the functions but I'm getting there almost alright. I tried a few launches and things like this. In terms of speed I'm just building it up; the first session was only on the prime with not that much grip, I expected more speed through the corners.
"On the option we went out and I didn't know what to expect in terms of grip so I've just approached it step by step. I think there's more to come but I think I'm quite pleased with everything. I try to understand everything as much as possible. It doesn't look like I'm miles off so for the first time on the option tyres it was ok."
When asked whether Lotterer will do follow-up work for Caterham in the simulator next week, the German said: "At the moment it's just the race, I don't know what happens after. I try to approach it day by day, it was a good first day today and hopefully it will be the same tomorrow and Sunday."
Lotterer admits he approached Eau Rouge tentatively at the beginning of his debut but hopes to take it as normal on Saturday.
"Almost," he said when asked if he took it flat out. "I didn't want to try the first time on the option tyre without knowing what was going to happen! Obviously you only have one lap so you do slow, fast, slow, fast. On the second lap it wasn't far from flat. On the other side we started the day a little bit low on downforce so we learned that and will be increasing it again. Hopefully it's flat tomorrow."


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Family can be a blessing and a curse, and never more so than in the case of crop plants and their wild relatives. These wild and weedy relatives harbor unique and beneficial genes that may no longer be found in their cultivated siblings, but they also harbor genetic traits that farmers have intentionally selected against in their domesticated brethren. The close genetic relationships between some crop species and their wild relatives allow them to readily hybridize, sharing both the beneficial and problematic genes with each other.
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A recent article in the October issue of the American Journal of Botany by Dr. Adeline Barnaud and colleagues explores the role of gene flow between cultivated sorghum and its weedy relatives in a village in northern Cameroon. Sorghum is a staple food crop that is essential to food security in semi-arid regions of Asia and Africa.
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The researchers found that farmers actively eradicate weedy types from their fields because their presence lowers yields. However, several of the farmers' practices unintentionally favor gene flow. Although farmers actively select against the weedy types, some are maintained to enhance diversity and lower risks of crop failure due to environmental changes, such as with annual rainfall. Also, despite a desire to remove the weedy sorghums, as any farmer or home gardener knows, it is often difficult to identify weeds when the plants are young, and, even if they are properly identified, it may be difficult to fully remove the weeds. As a result, some seeds from the weedy individuals are able to survive in the field and persist year after year.
Dr. Barnaud and her colleagues discovered that when harvesting seed for the following year, farmers in this village may not select seed from the middle of the fields where plants are less likely to have been pollinated by weedy types. In addition, the presence of intermediate weedy types may facilitate gene flow between the weediest type and the cultivated type due to their intermediate flowering time and the farmers' mode of management.
A multidisplinary approach is truly necessary when addressing this type of question. "Biologists and social scientists need to work together more often, using their complementary methods to answer shared questions about human-plant interactions," Barnaud said. "Few studies offer really hard, detailed data on how farmers' practices shape patterns in the genetic diversity of their crops. We showed the primary role that farmers continue to play as drivers of crop evolution, in this case by limiting gene flow from wild to crop.
"Such connections between farmers' knowledge and practices and the dynamics of diversity need to be better understood, and taken into account when management plans are being defined."
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- 1 What is MPD?
- 2 Daemon Install Procedure
- 3 Setup Instructions
- 4 Alternative Setup
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Client Install Procedure
- 7 Extra stuff
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 9 External links
What is MPD?
MPD (Music Player Daemon) is an audio player that has a server-client architecture. mpd runs in the background as a daemon, manages playlists and a music database, and uses very few resources. In order to interface with it, you need a separate client. More information can be found on their website
Daemon Install Procedure
Sync and install with pacman:
# pacman -S mpd
Now, add user mpd to the users group:
# gpasswd -a mpd users
Setup Instructions
For more information about mpd configuration visit http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration
Timeline of mpd's behavior on a typical working setup
- mpd is started on boot by Template:Filename, by including it in the DAEMONS array. (Or, this can be done manually each session by running Template:Codeline with root privileges).
- Since mpd is now started as root, it first reads the Template:Filename file.
- mpd reads the user variable in the Template:Filename file, and changes from root to this user.
- mpd then reads the contents of the Template:Filename file and configures itself accordingly.
Notice that mpd changes the running user from root to the one named in the Template:Filename file. This way, uses of "~" in the configuration file point correctly to the home user's directory, and not root's directory. It may be worthwhile to change all uses of "~" to "/home/username" to avoid any confusion over this aspect of mpd's behavior.
A Clean Configuration File
- As root, check if Template:Filename exists and delete the file if it does. This is safe.
Mpd comes with an example configuration file, available at Template:Filename. This file holds an abundance of information on mpd configuration, and holds default mixer values you can simply uncomment.
- As root, copy this example file to Template:Filename.
# cp /etc/mpd.conf.example /etc/mpd.conf
Never put this file in the user's directory like some tutorials suggest. This would complicate things and most of the time doing this is useless (notice you're reading a quick installation howto). If you previously created a Template:Filename file in your home, remove it now. This is important to prevent conflicts. When placing it in /etc, like we do here, mpd will be able to run as a daemon at boot. Otherwise, a script would be needed to run mpd AFTER the user has logged (like kdm or ~/.fluxbox/startup) or it would require a manual move each time. For a single music collection, the method used here is simply better, even while the collection is shared to multiple users. Also, don't be afraid about root privileges: even while mpd runs as a daemon, it never completely runs as root since it automatically drops its root privileges after execution.
Sound Setup Correctly
To make audio output actually work ensure that you have setup audio card and mixer correctly. See ALSA. Do not forget to unmute the required channels in alsamixer, raise the volume and save changes with alsactl store. See Template:Filename if it still doesn't work.
Make sure your card can do hardware mixing (most of them can, including onboard audio). Or else this could cause problems with multiple sound playback. For example, this can prevent Mplayer from playing back sound while the mpd daemon is running, returning an audio error message stating the device is busy.
Editing Template:Filename
To edit the file, as root:
# YOUREDITOR /etc/mpd.conf
Keeps the setup in /var and uses "mpd" as default user instead of cluttering up ~/. This is the way the arch package is installed.
Edit Template:Filename to reflect as such.
music_directory "/home/user/music" # Your music dir. playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists" db_file "/var/lib/mpd/db" log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log" error_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.error" pid_file "/var/run/mpd/mpd.pid" state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate" user "mpd" # Binding to address and port causing problems in mpd-0.14.2 best to leave # commented. # bind_to_address "127.0.0.1" # port "6600"
Read steps below carefully, permissions need to be set correctly.
- Keep user as "mpd", double check to make sure user "mpd" home directory is set to /var/lib/mpd
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep mpd
- Also make sure /var/lib/mpd is owned by mpd:mpd.
$ ls -l /var/lib/ | grep mpd
- Now as root create the files you specified in Template:Filename, if directories do not exist, create those as well. This is not required if you use the defaults in the arch package.
# touch /var/lib/mpd/db # touch /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate # touch /var/run/mpd/mpd.pid # touch /var/log/mpd/mpd.log # touch /var/log/mpd/mpd.error
- Now change the ownership of the directories and files you created to user "mpd"
# chown -R mpd:mpd /var/{lib,run,log}/mpd
- If your music collection is contained under multiple dir. you can make symbolic link under /var/lib/mpd then set 'music_dir' in mpd.conf to the directory holding the symbolic links. Remember to set permissions accordingly on the directories being linked.
- Create mpd database as root.
# mpd --create-db
Alternative Setup
Useful if you you want to run for example an icecast server. MPD need not be started with root permissions. The only reason why MPD needs to be started as root (by being called from Template:Filename) is because the default files and folders in the default configuration file points to directories owned by root (the /var directory). A less common, but perhaps more sensible, approach is to make MPD work with files and directories owned by a normal user. Running MPD as a normal user has several advantages: (1) can easily have a single directory ~/.mpd (or any other directory under /home/username) for all MPD configuration files, (2) no read/write permission errors, and (3) more flexible calls to MPD by using Template:Filename instead of including 'mpd' in the Template:Filename DAEMONS array.
The following steps shows how to run MPD as a normal user.
- Copy the contents of the default MPD configuration file in Template:Filename to your home directory. A good place would be Template:Filename.
- Follow the 'old setup instructions' from above, ignoring the first part about copying the config to Template:Filename.
- Let MPD start on bootup by calling it from your Template:Filename as follows:
$ mpd /home/username/.mpd/config
- Note that you don't have to put a "&" at the end of the line here, since MPD will automatically daemonize itself.
Lastly, delete the entry 'mpd' from your DAEMONS array in Template:Filename, as we are not running it as root anymore.
Multi-MPD Setup
If you want a second MPD daemon (e.g., with icecast output to share music over the network) to use the same music and playlist as the one above, simply copy the above configuration file and make a new file (e.g., Template:Filename), and only change the log_file, error_file, pid_file, and state_file parameters (e.g., Template:Filename, Template:Filename, and so on); using the same directory paths for the music and playlist directories would ensure that this second MPD daemon would use the same music collection as your first one (e.g., creating and editing a playlist under the first daemon would affect the second daemon as well, so that you don't have to create the same playlists all over again for the second daemon). Then, call this second daemon the same way from your Template:Filename above. (Just be sure to have a different port number, so as to not conflict with your first MPD daemon).
Autodetection failed
During the start of mpd, it tries to autodetect your set-up and configure output and volume control accordingly. Though this mostly goes well, it will fail for some systems. It may help to tell mpd specifically what to use as output and mixer control. If you copied Template:Filename over from Template:Filename as mentionned above, you can simply uncomment:
Example for alsa output type:
audio_output { type "alsa" name "My ALSA Device" device "hw:0,0" # optional format "44100:16:2" # optional }
Example for alsa mixer:
mixer_type "alsa" mixer_device "default" mixer_control "PCM"
Note: in case of permission problems when using ESD with mpd run this as root:
# chsh -s /bin/true mpd
Executable Permissions
MPD needs to have +x permissions on ALL parent directories to your music collection (ie. if it's located outisde of "mpd" home directory /var/lib/mpd). By default useradd sets permissions on home dir to 1700 drwx------. So if your like me you will need to change permissions of /home/user. Example... my music collection is located /home/user/music.
# chmod a+x /home/user # chmod -R a+X /home/user/music
Alternative solution
An alternative solution would be to use your group to share a selection of files, among them your music library. First remove all permissions for the group then add group permissions to read and execute home and music.
# chmod -R g-rwx /home/user # chmod g+rx /home/user # chmod -R g+rX /home/user/music
To get rid of timeouts (i.e. when you paused music for long time) in gpmc and other clients uncomment and increase Template:Codeline option in Template:Filename.
If files and/or titles are shown in wrong encoding, uncomment and change Template:Codeline and Template:Codeline options. Note that you cannot set encoding for ID3 v2 tags. To workaround this you may use external tag readers.
If you want to use another computer to control mpd over a network, the Template:Codeline option in Template:Filename will need to be set to either your IP address, or Template:Codeline if your IP address changes frequently. Remember to add mpd to the Template:Filename file to enable external access.
Streaming Music with mpd:
Now with new version (0.15) build-in http streaming is included. To activate, edit mpd.conf for the relevant section. audio_output { type "httpd" name "What you want" encoder "lame" # vorbis or lame supported port "8000" bitrate "128" format "44100:16:2" # change 2 to 1 for mono } then restart the mpd deamon in any other computer with vlc(or xmms2 etc) enter http://<your ip>:/8000 This option is simple than using mpd with icecast.
Client Install Procedure
Install a client program for mpd. Popular options are:
- mpc – Command Line Client (you'll probably want this one no matter what)
- ncmpc – NCurses Client (this one is very handy for running in a console) Official Website of ncmpc
- ncmpcpp – Clone of ncmpc with some new features written in C++ Official website of ncmpcpp
- pms – NCurses Client (highly configurable and accessible) Sourceforge Website of pms
- ario – GTK+ Client with a Rhythmbox like library browser Official Website of Ario
- sonata – Python GTK+ Client Official Website of Sonata
- gmpc – GNOME Client Official Website of gmpc
- QMPDClient – Client written with Qt 4.x. Official Website of QMPDClient
Install with:
# pacman -Sy mpc # pacman -Sy ncmpc # pacman -Sy ncmpcpp # pacman -Sy pms # pacman -Sy ario # pacman -Sy sonata # pacman -Sy gmpc # pacman -Sy qmpdclient
Extra stuff
Last.fm scrobbling
To scrobble your songs to Last.fm using MPD there are several alternatives.
mpdscribble is another daemon, but is only available in the AUR. This is arguably the best alternative, because it's the semi-official MPD scrobbler and uses the new "idle" feature in MPD for more accurate scrobbling. Also, you don't need root access to configure it, because it doesn't need any changes to /etc at all. Visit the official website for more information.
To install mpdscribble, just install it from the AUR and do the following (not as root):
- Template:Codeline
- Create the file Template:Filename and add the following:
username = <your last.fm username> password = <md5 sum of your last.fm password> # Generated using "echo -n password | md5sum" host = <your mpd host> # defaults to $MPD_HOST or localhost port = <your mpd port> # defaults to $MPD_PORT or 6600 log = ~/.mpdscribble/mpdscribble.log journal = ~/.mpdscribble/mpdscribble.cache verbose = 2 sleep = 1 musicdir = <your music directory>
- Add Template:Codeline to your Template:Filename.
The easiest way, if you don't care about having to have a program window open all the time, is using Sonata which is a graphical frontend to MPD. It has built-in support for Last.fm scrobbling in its preferences. The downside of this is that Sonata doesn't cache your songs if for some reason you don't happen to have an Internet connection at the time of playing.
lastfmsubmitd is a daemon which is available in the "community" repository. To install it, first edit Template:Filename and add both Template:Codeline and Template:Codeline to the Template:Codeline array in Template:Filename.
Last.fm playback with lastfmproxy
lastfmproxy is a python script that streams a last.fm music stream to another media player. To setup, install from AUR: Template:Codeline and then edit Template:Filename. If you plan to only stream to mpd on the same host, just edit the login info.
Start lastfmproxy with Template:Codeline and visit http://localhost:1881/ in your web browser. To add a last.fm station navigate to http://localhost:1881/ followed by the lastfm:// url. Example: http://localhost:1881/lastfm://globaltags/punk . Navigate back to http://localhost:1881/ and download the m3u file by selecting the Start Listening link. Simply add it to your music library path.
Never play on start
If you don't want mpd to always play on your system start, but yet you want to preserve the other state information, add the following lines to your Template:Filename file:
... stat_busy "Starting Music Player Daemon"
# always start in paused state awk '/^state_file[ \t]+"[^"]+"$/ { match($0, "\".+\"") sfile = substr($0, RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 2) } /^user[ \t]+"[^"]+"$/ { match($0, "\".+\"") user = substr($0, RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 2) } END { if (sfile == "") exit; if (user != "") sub(/^~/, "/home/" user, sfile) system("sed -i \x27s|^\\(state:[ \\t]\\{1,\\}\\)play$|\\1pause|\x27 \x27" sfile "\x27") }' /etc/mpd.conf
/usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf &> /dev/null ...
This will change the player status to "paused", if it was stopped while playing. Next, you want this file to be preserved, so mpd updates won't erase this edit. Add (or edit) this line to your Template:Filename:
NoUpgrade = etc/rc.d/mpd
Or Simple method add mpd to your rc.conf deamons array and add mpc stop to rc.local loacated in /etc (Remember you must got mpc installed to have this method working).
MPD & Alsa
Sometimes, when you use other audio output, e.g: some web pages containing Flash applets, mpd cannot reproduce anything anymore (until you restart). The error looks something like: (if you search the file Template:Filename)
Error opening alsa device "hw:0,0": Device or resource busy
And here is the solution (dmix saving our life again). Apply these lines in your Template:Filename:
audio_output { type "alsa" name "Sound Card" options "dev=dmixer" device "plug:dmix" }
And then restart with Template:Codeline.
Searching on Internet I found the reason for why that happens in Gentoo's wiki:
- The sound card does not support hardware mixing (uses dmix plugin)
- An application does not work with ALSA with it's default settings
High CPU usage with ALSA
When using MPD with ALSA, users may experience MPD taking up lots of CPU (around 20-30%). This is caused by most sound cards supporting 48kHz and most music being 44kHz, thus forcing MPD to resample it. This operation takes lots of CPU cycles and results into high usage.
For most users the problem should be solved by telling MPD not to use resampling by adding Template:Codeline into audio_output-part of Template:Filename.
Example from Template:Filename:
audio_output { type "alsa" name "My ALSA Device" auto_resample "no" }
Some users might also want to tell dmix to use 44kHz as well. More info about tuning performance of your MPD can be found from: MPD wiki
Control mpd with lirc
There are already some clients designe for communications between lircd and mpd, however, as far as the practical use, they aren't very useful since their functions are limited.
It's recommended to use mpc with irexec. mpc is a command line player which only sends the command to mpd and exits immediately, which is perfect for irexec, the command runner included in lirc. What irexec does is that it runs a specified command once received a remote control button.
First of all, please setup your remotes as referred to the Lirc article.
Edit your favored lirc startup configuration file, default location is Template:Filename.
Fill the file with the following pattern:
begin prog = irexec button = <button_name> config = <command_to_run> repeat = <0 or 1> end
An useful example:
## irexec begin prog = irexec button = play_pause config = mpc toggle repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = stop config = mpc stop repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = previous config = mpc prev repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = next config = mpc next repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = volup config = mpc volume +2 repeat = 1 end begin prog = irexec button = voldown config = mpc volume -2 repeat = 1 end begin prog = irexec button = pbc config = mpc random repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = pdvd config = mpc update repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = right config = mpc seek +00:00:05 repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = left config = mpc seek -00:00:05 repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = up config = mpc seek +1% repeat = 0 end begin prog = irexec button = down config = mpc seek -1% repeat = 0 end
There are more functions for mpc, run Template:Codeline for more info.
Control mpd with bluetooth phone
You can also control mpd (to a certain extent) using a bluetooth enabled phone. You need to do the following:
- install remuco -- a wireless remote control for several Linux media players (aur)
- transfer remuco client -- jar/jad files from Template:Filename to your phone and install it
- run Template:Codeline (as current user)
- run remuco on your phone, define a new bluetooth remuco connection (pair first if you haven't done this previously) and explore its capabilities
More information about remuco including troubleshooting to be found at its homepage
MPD & PulseAudio
First, install (mpd-pulse) in the Arch User Repository as opposed to the regular mpd client in the Extra repository.
Then, edit Template:Filename, and uncomment the audio_output section for the type "pulse". The server and sink lines of it should be commented unless you know what you're doing.
Then, add the mpd user (and yours if you haven't done so already) to the necessary pulse groups. The pulse-access group should be sufficient but you may want to add pulse-rt as well. The group "pulse" doesn't appear to be necessary.
# gpasswd -a mpd pulse-access # gpasswd -a mpd pulse-rt
Lastly, you may or may not need to copy Template:Filename from your current (pulse working) user's dir to your mpd user's home directory. It is likely to be Template:Filename if you followed the first part of this wiki. This would probably only allow your current user to listen in on mpd's pulse. You may consider running pulse system-wide if that's insufficient.
mpd --create-db hangs
This is a common error that's caused by corrupt mp3 tags. Here is an experimental way to solve this issue. Requirements:
- kid3
- easytag
This method is very tedious, expecially with a huge database. Just as a baseline it took 2.5h to fix a 16Gb DB.
Easy Tag
The purpose of easytag here is that easytag detects the error in the tags, but like mpd it hangs and dies. The trick here is that easy tags actually tells you what file is causing the problem on the status bar. Before starting easytag make sure to have a terminal close to be ready to kill easy tag to avoid a hang. Once you are ready, on the tree view select the directory where all your music is located. By default easytag starts to search all subdirectories for mp3 files. Once you notice that easytag stoped scanning for songs, make note of the culprit and kill easytag.
Here's where kid3 comes in handy. With kid3 go to the offending song and rewrite one of the tags. then save the file. This should force kid3 to rewrite the whole tag again fixing the problem with mpd and easy tag hanging.
Repeat this procedure until your music library is done.
Cannot connect to mpd: host "localhost" not found: Temporary failure in name resolution
Cannot connect to mpd (with ncmpcpp), if you are disconnected from network. Solution is disable IPv6 or add line to /etc/hosts
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I have a transistor radio in my apartment. Yes, an AM only transistor radio. Beyond my computer speakers and my coveted transistor radio, I don't have any quality sound device to play my my favorite tunes which more often than not tend to be of the German "oompah" sort (no joke). Coincidentally enough, the following interview is with Marcell Faller of sonoro audio, a German based audio designer who creates amazing sound systems out of wood casings the size of a toaster. I think I am convinced it is time to upgrade… Enjoy the Q&A!
First comes first, we want to know about your background! Where are from? What sort of passions did you have prior to starting sonoro audio?
I'm was born and raised in Neuss, Germany. sonoro audio was first started in my hometown but shortly after the introduction of cubo, our first product, we moved the company to the near-by vibrant city of Cologne. I'm a gadget guy and products with flare have always caught my eye and my wallet. I have an interest in all things global. I have traveled around the world for adventure, education and work. I especially love the USA and lived there off and on for over 10 years.
How did you get into the electronic/audio/design world? What sparked the need to begin sonoro and create such quality audio pieces that also have such a refined and thoughtful design element?
Prior to starting sonoro audio, I was the international product and purchasing manager for Medion, Germany. The company has been very successful at developing consumer electronic products under their own brand and distributing them through a number of middle to low-cost distribution chains such as grocery stores. Medion is a well-established player in this market area, yet there is a lot of competition as well.
While working with manufactures in China, I saw a niche that was going unmet. There are plenty of low cost products in the market on one end of the spectrum and a number of well known, high-end manufacturers of top quality stereo systems and components on the other end. Yet that middle market – high quality compact audio solutions, while being addressed by some key players, still had a lot of room for growth. I saw a chance to develop a line of tabletop audio products that are of exceptional quality, and equally important, unique design.
How has the German market impacted your designs? Additionally, how has opening the line up to the rest of Europe, the US and the world impacted your designs?
I'd like to think our designs are universal. They're modern and streamline. Our cubo line is colorful and fun, while our elements family is high tech and sleek. The beauty of all our products is that they look great in any interior: from a classic setting to a minimalist environment. The German aspect of sonoro products comes through in Read the rest of this entry »


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30 in 15: Blues bolster lineup in seeking next stepby Adam Kimelman
NHL.com continues its preview of the 2013-14 season, which will include in-depth looks at all 30 teams throughout September.
After losses to the Los Angeles Kings the last two years in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the question surrounding the St. Louis Blues is if their core group is ready to take the next step.
"I think last year there was a feeling that we were a team that could be competitive deep into the playoffs," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong told NHL.com. "We ran into the defending Stanley Cup champs and we were out early. But I think our goals and our mindset is still the same -- we should be competitive with all the teams with an opportunity to be a strong playoff team."
The Blues added playmaking center Derek Roy for depth up the middle, but otherwise left intact a team with the hope of not just advancing past the second round of the postseason, but bringing a Stanley Cup to St. Louis for the first time.
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Roy arriving as a free agent gives the Blues impressive depth up the middle, with David Backes and Patrik Berglund centering the top two lines.
What Roy also gives the Blues is an element Armstrong believes has been missing from his team's lineup.
"We have bigger players, we have scoring centermen; we were looking for a playmaking centerman," Armstrong said. "I think Derek adds diversity to our group of forwards. When you look at the centermen we've had in the past, maybe size down the middle was one of our strengths … now we have Backes and Berglund, they're big men; we have a different component in Derek. We're hoping he's going to create offense for players like Chris Stewart on the wing."
Who fills out the lines around the three centers remains to be seen. A top line last season saw Jaden Schwartz and Alexander Steen flanking Backes, with David Perron and T.J. Oshie skating with Berglund. Perron's departure in a trade with the Edmonton Oilers, however, opens a hole at left wing on the second line.
Magnus Paajarvi, who arrived from the Oilers in the Perron trade, will get the first shot at filling that spot, but who wins the spot on a permanent basis will be one of the more interesting battles of training camp. He had 15 goals as a rookie in 2010-11 but has 11 in two seasons since, and morphed into a bit of a defensive role with the Oilers. The Blues hope past chemistry with Berglund will re-ignite Paajarvi's offensive game.
"I think Paajarvi has some history with Berglund," Armstrong said. "I think Ken [Hitchcock, coach] will give him an opportunity there to start the season, but ultimately he's going to have to fight for that ice time."
However, if Paajarvi doesn't fit, the Blues won't hesitate to find someone else for that spot.
"You look at the left side of our team, it has Steen, it has Schwartz, it has [Vladimir] Sobotka, and it has Paajarvi," Armstrong said of a group that grew Sept. 23 with the signing of veteran Brenden Morrow. "There's very good competition for ice time in there. Magnus understands he's going to have to come in and earn that ice time. He's going to a totally different environment than he left in Edmonton. Edmonton was one of play the young players and allow them to grow through their learning curve; we're a team that's trying to win today."
The Blues will have young players of their own competing for roster spots. Schwartz and Vladimir Tarasenko will look to build on strong 2012-13 rookie seasons, and top prospects Dmitrij Jaskin and Ty Rattie will have chances to make the club.
One place the younger players could find ice time is on the third line, with Roy and Chris Stewart.
Jaskin, a 2011 second-round pick (No. 41) had 99 points in 51 games with the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League last season, his first season in North America, and went scoreless in two late-season games with the Blues.
Rattie, taken nine picks earlier than Jaskin (No. 32), was third in the Western Hockey League with 110 points in 62 games with the Portland Winterhawks last season, and led the WHL in goals (20) and points (36) in the postseason.
Also competing for spots on the bottom two lines are agitator Maxim Lapierre and veterans Keith Aucoin and Chris Porter. However, Armstrong said talent rather than age will dictate roster spots.
"These players are going to be given an opportunity, but it's a very difficult lineup to crack," Armstrong said. "That's that internal competition. … If we have to move out a veteran player because a younger player is better, then that's the nature of the beast in the NHL."
The signing of Alex Pietrangelo to a seven-year contract earlier this month solidifies one of the more impressive six-man units in the League.
OUT: Jamie Langenbrunner, RW (free agent); Andy McDonald, LW (retired); Scott Nichol, C (retired); David Perron, RW (trade, Oilers); Kris Russell, D (trade, Flames)
"As far as our defense -- self-serving, for sure -- I think we have the best defense in the NHL," Armstrong told reporters while announcing Pietrangelo's contract. "I'm excited to have an opportunity to work with these guys. I'm excited to watch them perform. I think that when we go into any building, teams are going to say, 'Wow, that's a heck of a team they have … offense coming from the back end.'"
That starts with Pietrangelo. In three full seasons, the 23-year-old has established himself as one of the best young defensemen in the League, and while last season he had five goals and 24 points in 47 games, he had 12 goals, 51 points and a plus-16 rating in 81 games in 2011-12.
Joining Pietrangelo on the top pair likely will be Jay Bouwmeester, who signed a five-year contract extension in August. Bouwmeester joined the team at the trade deadline last season and had seven points and a plus-5 rating in 14 games. He also hasn't missed a game in more than eight seasons.
The Blues' second pair also could feature a young, dynamic offensive player and a dependable veteran in Kevin Shattenkirk and Jordan Leopold.
Shattenkirk, 24, followed his breakout 2011-12 season with five goals and 23 points in 48 games last season. Leopold, acquired days before Bouwmeester, had two assists in 15 games.
A third pair likely will feature tough veterans Barret Jackman and Roman Polak. Polak led the team's defensemen with 110 hits and was third with 78 blocked shots while playing all 48 games last season. Jackman was second in blocked shots with 89, and was second on the team in shorthanded ice time per game for a penalty-kill unit that was seventh in the League.
There is young depth behind them, led by Joel Edmundson, a 2011 second-round pick (No. 46) who has shown strong physicality and solid defensive play.
"He's a mean player to play against and a big guy," Tim Taylor, Blues director of player development, told NHL.com. "We see him as a third/fourth guy in the NHL who can play a lot of minutes and be a physical force to play against."
The Blues' organizational depth at the goaltending position is among the best in the League.
At the NHL level they'll start the season with Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott sharing time. Both had their ups and downs last season, but are less than two seasons removed from sharing the Jennings Trophy for the League's lowest goals-against average.
Injuries limited Halak to 16 games last season, but he posted a 2.14 goals-against average and three shutouts. Elliott struggled early, but returned from a conditioning stint in the American Hockey League to go 11-2-0 with a 1.29 GAA, .947 save percentage and three shutouts in the final month of the regular season.
"I don't know where we would have been without Elliott's strong finish," Armstrong said. "Jaro had a year he'd like to forget. It started with the lockout and ended with injury, but he's a guy that's taken a team deep into the playoffs. You look at his numbers since he's been in St. Louis and they're near the top of the League in goals-against average and shutouts. I certainly do like the depth we have in that position."
Part of that depth also is Jake Allen, who led rookie goalies last season in wins (nine), GAA (2.46) and save percentage (.905), and showed he belonged at the NHL level. However, with Halak and Elliott in place for at least one more season -- each is signed only through the end of the 2013-14 campaign -- it's likely Allen spends at least one more season playing most of his games in the American Hockey League. And Armstrong isn't disappointed by that fact.
"It's certainly not going to hurt Jake to play the lion's share of the games in the American Hockey League for a year if that's where we get to, and I would say that's where it looks like we're going to be at," Armstrong said. "The strength of our team is our goaltending."
Another highly regarded young player, 20-year-old Jordan Binnington, will compete for a spot to be Allen's partner in the AHL. A 2011 third-round pick (No. 88), Binnington won the Ontario Hockey League's goaltender of the year award last season.


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The Princeton men's volleyball team has had its moments. It has had its momentum. It has had both this season, and it has had both in the history of this tournament.
And, with a quiet confidence that may not often be associated with the league's fourth seed, Princeton will head to the EIVA Championships with a real chance to create both this weekend.
Princeton will enter the 2013 EIVA Championships as the fourth seed in a four-team field that was all but decided around St. Patrick's Day. The first-round matchups may not have been set until last weekend, but it would have been a stunner to see anybody but Penn State, Princeton, George Mason and Harvard battling for the title.
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You know what the fourth seed has meant in the EIVA playoffs since 2000? Three sets at Penn State and a bus ride home.
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Penn State is the top seed and is the only team currently ranked in the AVCA Top 15, but its three league peers have their own share of national credentials. Both George Mason and Harvard have been ranked inside the Top 15 this season, and Princeton got as high as 16th before a three-week injury to two-time All-EIVA honoree Cody Kessel left the team shorthanded prior to a home-and-home set with MIVA frontrunner Lewis.
As for non-league wins, you can argue that Princeton has the best one of the four. After all, nobody in the EIVA owns a win over a Top-6 team in the latest national poll, and Princeton opened its 2013 season with a 3-1 win over UC Santa Barbara, currently the nation's seventh-ranked team.
The winner of the EIVA Championships this weekend will likely be the fourth seed at the NCAA Championships next week at UCLA, but it feels like the tightest pack in the league since the turn of the century.
Penn State and Princeton have been going at it on the volleyball court long before the Tiger men's volleyball team became an official varsity program in 1997.
While Sam Shweisky has led Princeton through four memorable matches in this series over the last four years (more on that later), the man who guided Princeton through the majority of that series will be back in State College this weekend.
Glenn Nelson, the winningest coach in the history of Princeton Athletics, will be inducted into the EIVA Hall of Fame during Saturday's championship session. Nelson, the first coach in collegiate history to take both a men's and women's team to the NCAA Championships in the same academic year, led Princeton Volleyball to more than 1,000 victories.
One of his most memorable came in the 1998 EIVA semifinal. Third-seeded Princeton defeated second-seeded Penn State 15-7, 15-13, 16-14 to advance to the EIVA championship, which it would win over host Rutgers-Newark. That would be the only time that Princeton men's volleyball has reached the NCAA Championships.
It also stands as the last time Penn State hasn't been there.
Since 1999, Penn State is 35-0 in the EIVA Championships, with every one of the matches being held at State College. The Nittany Lions have won 105 of 115 individual sets played, and they have never trailed a match beyond the first set since the 1999 final.
Penn State has lost only two semifinal sets in its last 13 appearances, an incredible 39-2 edge against its overmatched competition. It has never lost the first set in that stretch. The last time the Nittany Lions lost the first set of a semifinal was 1998.
Princeton's year.
Back to those four Princeton-Penn State matches over the last four seasons that could have some impact in this match.
The first came in the 2010 EIVA championship match, when a Princeton team led by upstart freshmen Michael Dye and Pat Schwagler pushed Penn State for two thrilling sets before finally falling 3-0.
Then came the wild 3-2 Penn State win at Dillon Gym last season, when Princeton held eight match balls in a crazy 37-35 fourth set. This was easily the closest any Tiger team has come to a Penn State win since the '98 semifinal. Kessel, en route to earning the EIVA Newcomer of the Year honor, had 25 kills in the win, while Dye, Princeton's current senior captain, had 15 kills and six blocks.
The first meeting this season was a close 3-1 Penn State victory in State College, though there were positives to take from that match as well. It was the first time Princeton took a set off Penn State on the road since (you guessed it) 1998, and it was a match when the outside combination of Schwagler and freshman Devin Stearns combined for 25 kills.
Then there was the night when more than 900 people packed themselves in Dillon Gym for the rematch. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it was a tale of two matches; Princeton won the first portion, leading 1-0 and 17-12 in the second set.
Then came a moment, perhaps when the enormity of the opportunity hit the home team, and momentum, which rolled the way of the 14-time reigning EIVA champion. Penn State rallied in the second and controlled play in the final two sets for another 3-1 victory.
It was a disappointing conclusion for the team clad in orange jerseys. But it was also a second night this season — a fourth time in four seasons — when Princeton went toe-to-toe with the perennial power in Eastern volleyball.
It wanted a third chance. It preferred the EIVA final. But maybe the semifinal makes more sense.
How fitting would it be to return the championship match on the 15th anniversary of its only EIVA title? How memorable would it be to play for one of four tickets to the NCAA Championships with Hall of Famer Glenn Nelson in the building? How special would it be to bookend Penn State's 14-year reign with yet another semifinal stunner?
All of this is grand fodder for a magical tale, but this is non-fiction. If Princeton were to rely on ghosts and good karma Thursday night, it will experience the whole three-sets-and-a-bus night that every other semifinalist has since the end of the Clinton administration.
Instead Princeton will rely on talent, experience and fight.
The term "puncher's chance" fits boxing far better than volleyball, but Princeton can swing with the heavyweights in the sport. Both Schwagler and Kessel earned first-team All-EIVA honors, while Dye returned to the all-league team for a second time. Each of the three has shown the ability to take over a match in the biggest of moments — remember, Dye was an all-tournament selection as a freshman — and each has played in this tournament already.
Princeton could start six players with EIVA postseason experience, a number Penn State won't match Thursday night. The Tigers' lone freshman, Stearns, is coming off his best match in weeks last Saturday against Mason.
As for the fight, that has been there all season. A team that thrives as an underdog can fully reclaim the role Thursday night. It can swing away against a host school that has all the pressure of a program that hasn't lost a semifinal since the infancy of the internet.
Maybe more than any fourth seed in the recent history of this tournament, Princeton has the ability to create a moment Thursday night. It has the chance to own the momentum. It has the talent to be there Saturday night.
Welcome to the 2013 EIVA Championships. It should be a wild ride.
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This Guest Post is by my friend, Angel Lemus, of the Zentokukai Okinawa Shorinryu Toude Association. Angel was a writer and editor of Bugeisha, one of the finest Karate journals ever published. He teaches at the Ninchokan Dojo, in Los Angeles, California.
Subject: The principle of transferring your power/energy to your opponent.
This principle is also called "atifa" in Okinawa and it is applied equally with the empty hand as it is with a weapon. Its goal is to transfer all the energy generated by the body (internal and external) in the form of a massive shockwave that explodes and penetrates deeply into the opponent's body. In empty hand practice this can only be achieved when understanding and applying the aspect of "relaxation" from a martial perspective. Tai Chi and internal Chinese arts do this all too well. Okinawan Karate done correctly functions the same way as the Chinese internal arts.
As the weapon (hand, fist, foot, etc.) travels towards the opponent the entire body is super relaxed, and at the moment of impact commonly referred to as "kime" the body goes from a state of contraction (closed) to a state of expansion (open), the breath is exhaled, the body becomes one solid unit, the mind's "intention" is released towards the opponent, thus it "LEADS" the Ki/Chi into the intended target. All this happens in the time it takes one to sneeze, then afterwards one resumes the complete state of relaxation where the body again "closes" and the breath is inhaled, following the "natural" cycle of mother nature, being one with it, not going against it.
Using a weapon is very similar, you never clutch the weapon with a death grip, you hold it lightly in your hands applying only enough strength in your fingertips to hold it so it does not fall out of your hands, and so your opponent does not knock it out of them either. You hold your weapon in your fingers not your palms, therefore you have the ability to use your wrists. You then allow the weapon to travel through the air using its own momentum and impetus, the weapons master just assigns a pattern (technique) to it and guides it towards the target the same way a forward spotter on the ground in today's high tech military paints a laser beam on a target while the smart bomb heads towards it and accelerating to very high speeds using nothing more than the earth's gravity.
Being on the receiving end of techniques executed this way is an experience that leaves one in a state of complete awe. For there is very little one can do to stop the shockwave from passing through ones own body. This not only rearranges ones internal organs, it transmits a potent wave which can be described as being shocked by a high voltage electrical charge. This type of technique is the kind that causes massive internal injuries, with little external evidence. There is a basic level of Karate understanding and execution which is what practitioners naturally do in the early stages of training say the first 5-10 years. It takes a very, very long time to get to the point where this stuff starts to sink in. Everyone needs to find a teacher that has this skill and study from him. It may not be ones original teacher, but the time always comes for one to leave the nest, especially if well is dry, and find one that still has water. Anyone can learn this given the proper teacher, instruction, and training routine, and of course the ability to relax not just the body but most importantly the Mind.
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The power outage continues on Tuesday. Internet is still out, phones seem to be working, and the hotel is still powered by the generator. This morning there's no hot water, however, since apparently the water is heated by electrical power.
Javed and Niraj went to client meetings while the rest of the team sought out internet to let our family, friends, faculty advisor and GAP leaders know of our situation. The hotel kindly provided a shuttle to take us to the nearest internet cafe, but only two minutes after our arrival, the power cut out there too. I asked the young man next to me how long the outage might last. He said it could return almost immediately, or it could take quite a long time. We waited several minutes, everyone else left the place, and then we did too. The kind proprietress didn't charge us for our time there.
We decided to go to the Sheraton Hotel to use the internet there. Again, the hotel driver took us down the winding road to what might be another world. As we entered the gleaming gates of the hotel, I couldn't believe something like this existed in Addis. We went through a security check and metal detector, and entered perhaps the most luxurious hotel I've ever seen in my life. A gurgling fountain greeted us in the front lobby, while sumptuous brocade-covered couches and arm chairs filled the wide lobby and cafe seating area. Coffee and cakes at American prices were for sale from a sparkling clean glass case, while diplomats wearing pressed suits and speaking many different languages spoke with each other at the cafe tables.
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In my spare time I like to come up with my own recipes for drinks. This is a recipe that I came up with while waiting for my Italian dinner to finish baking. I thought about some of the key ingredients that are in a lot of Italian drinks or foods for example vanilla, lemon, and white wine. What I came up with was something called Italian Sparkle. Its light, has a hint of vanilla, and it adds to any dish.
The Italian Sparkle
¾ bottle of dry white wine
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10 oz of club soda
1 ½ oz of Sugar-Free Vanilla Syrup
¾ oz of lemon juice
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