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Canberrans still feel the pain of the North Melbourne Kangaroos' mercenary cash grab in the capital, but the GWS Giants are planting "deep and lasting roots" to rebuild the AFL relationship, according to deputy chief minister Andrew Barr.
The Kangaroos will return to Canberra on Saturday for the first time since 2006, when the club turned its back on the ACT government to chase bigger money on the Gold Coast.
The Giants are three years into a 10-season, $23 million deal with the government to play three premiership matches at Manuka Oval.
The Kangaroos sold 18 games to Canberra over seven seasons before their abrupt departure left a bitter taste in the mouths of the capital's AFL community.
"I think there's a bit of extra spark to this game, given the history," Mr Barr said.
"There is still a bit of hurt around the North Melbourne experience. We're on our way to forgiving them, but a Giants win would go down well with the majority of Canberra fans.
"The difference with the Giants is there's a long commitment ... Canberra is in the Giants' recruitment region and they're not being imported from Melbourne.
"It's not as mercenary, I think there are deep and lasting roots that you get with a 10-year commitment ... this is clearly a better outcome than bringing Melbourne teams into Canberra on an ad hock basis."
The Giants launched a "thank you Canberra" campaign on Tuesday to recognise the capital's support.
Former Giants coach Kevin Sheedy implored Canberra fans to "boo the Roos" for the match when the fixture was announced last year.
Sheedy has since softened his stance, but said the Kangaroos made a "dumb decision" to walk out on Canberra.
"I recognise there are some people that the only thing they'll accept is a team entirely from Canberra, but the city isn't big enough," Mr Barr said.
"There may come a time in the future when we are big enough, but this is about what we're doing in the interim.
"And it gives the government security in deciding to invest in Manuka, and cricket also benefits from that with the ability to now host international matches and the Big Bash finals.
"Without the long-term commitment from the Giants, you couldn't justify the investment in Manuka ... I've got no doubt this is the correct long-term approach."
The Giants have won four games this season and are 16th on the ladder.
Injured midfielder and former No.2 draft pick Stephen Coniglio said the Giants considered Canberra a "home away from home".
The Giants secured their maiden AFL win in Canberra when they beat the Gold Coast Suns in 2012.
"We love coming to Canberra ... our partnership shows it's not about cash," Coniglio said.
"It's not just three or four games we have down here, there are pre-season camps and community camps down in Canberra.
"From everything I've seen it's more of a relationship with Canberra rather than it being a cash grab down here."
Coniglio will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on his thumb in June.
But the 20-year-old is confident the Giants can challenge the sixth-placed Kangaroos and get their fifth win of the year.
"As players and a club I think we're going in the right direction, that's the genuine feeling," Coniglio said.
"We know it's going to take time, but we don't want it to take too much time. Definitely I think we can poach a win against the Kangaroos."
Saturday: GWS Giants v North Melbourne at Manuka Oval, 1.45pm. Tickets available from Ticketek


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The American Royal Association announced today that the second annual American Royal Steak Competition Winner will be announced at their 2013 Grapes & Steaks Competition on Oct. 9, 2013. Beef producers from across the nation are invited to submit rib eye steaks to compete for the best tasting steak. Steaks will be judged by a panel of experts.
"Last year marked the first time for this event at the American Royal," says Todd Graves, Chair of the American Royal Steak Contest Committee. "Most traditional cooking contests are like the American Royal World Series of Barbecue® – they are mainly about preparation. This competition is about awarding America's best steak."
Each steak will be prepared in an identical manner at K-State University Olathe Campus. Points will be assigned for flavor, juiciness, and texture. The judging will take place mid-September and the winners will be honored at the American Royal 2013 Grapes & Steaks Competition on October 9.
"This is a great way for beef producers from all over the country to be judged purely on the quality of their beef. Every entry is treated equally and judged according to the same criteria. We are excited to
have another year of this event taking place through the American Royal," said Mark Schatzker, author of "Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef".
It is hard to imagine a more appropriate place to hold a steak competition than the American Royal where 114 years ago the Country's first exposition and sale of purebred cattle took place.
Steaks are submitted frozen to the K-State Olathe Campus and entry forms must be submitted online at www.americanroyal.com. There is no entry fee for this competition.


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The digital economy is transforming business. It really is. New stars are rising to challenge the incumbents and new business models are being invented, inverted or rediscovered that are shaking up the status quo of business as we know it.
Today we take for granted that we can order something online and have it delivered within days, or that we're increasingly able to order books, for example, to be printed on demand.
With the emergence of new business practices follows the academic analysis and flurry of new terms. In the past, say a book publishing revolved around the book, now paradigms are shifting. It is almost at a point where, with Amazon at least, it's about delivering the book.
That's the Service Dominant logic - a new lens through which we can explain the success of the Apple, Amazon and Google's in the online world.
The industrial era was marked by the rise of mass production, the beginning of automation and worker specialisation. The good produced was the product. It was the goods dominant logic.
Innovations, workflows and marketing systems measured success as increasing the speed to produce more widgets, at less cost and increase desirability. Services were wrapped around product development as a necessary, yet second class citizen.
Goods-dominant logic works because industrialisation works on scarcity. It is expensive to design, procure, mass-produce and market physical goods. Supply and demand curves are economic instruments that have been capable of elegantly explaining the behaviours.
Characteristics of Goods Dominant logic are:
- Tangible assets have embedded value.
- Value is accrued the more processes and complexity required to manufacture.
- Resource acquisition is the key factor.
- Supply chain optimisation is centred on the distribution of goods.
- The producer creates value; the consumer consumes/destroys the value. The consumer is the end-point in the process.
- Price is the market metric.
Digitally, the production of goods and services isn't burdened by actual scarcity. While the production of digital goods and services is not free, the fixed costs are dramatically lower for the scale that can be achieved.
Services Dominant logic is not new, but in the digital economy those businesses that can refocus to a service-oriented outlook have a more "natural" digital fit.
Characteristics of Service Dominant logic are:
- Intangible "becomes" valuable.
- Value is accrued the more that complexity is reduced.
- Interoperability is the key factor.
- Network optimisation and participation in a service ecology.
- The producers create value when the consumer consumes. The consumer is a co-creator.
- Value is the market metric.
Some of these differences seem merely semantics. But I think that the point is that a perceptual shift could be the difference between just existing in the digital economy and thriving.
Nowhere in the Service Dominant paradigm does away with the real costs and efforts required to make these goods and services, rather it attempts to take a step back and take a look at the big picture.
I am reminded of an example that I read years ago in a Process Innovation text book. The story concerns a shoe manufacturer that heavily invested in automation technology that dramatically boosted the output of the factory, while reducing per unit cost.
The stated goal was to maximise efficient production and reduce costs. The investment achieved its goal. Celebrations were short however because they didn't factor in the costs of storing, transporting and sales processes. They had to hire additional warehouse space and drop their prices to move the product faster. Unintended consequences strikes again.
A service-oriented goal may have been "how can we get more people wearing our shoes while reducing our costs" rather than how can we produce more "X" or can our excess capacity be used in context of the whole footwear manufacturing ecology, say to make other brands shoes domestically to reduce their transportation costs in return for them making ours?
The logistics sector has long been innovating on the service layer of their fleets and networks. Amazon.com has succeeded because it looked beyond the goods-dominant view of selling and shipping books to a service-oriented approach of recommending and making it so easy transact.
Apple succeeded with the iPod because it stopped thinking about the mp3 device (goods dominant) and considered the entire music enjoyment process with iTunes being the service that enables the good.
Interestingly, digitisation of the supply chain is only going to continue. Amazon are experimenting with small book printing hubs that will print your book on demand at the nearest hub, thereby reducing their warehouse and shipping costs and environmental impact as well.
The increase in capability of 3D printers may mean that one day you can order a good on Ikea and it can be "printed" at your local Bunnings.
HP are about to bring to market consumer grade 3D scanners, currently they will be marketed for the eBay crowd, but which one day could mean you could scan in physical objects and digitally send them overseas to be manufactured.
There is a convergence happening that will enable some very innovative new services in the next five to ten years.
A small to medium-sized print business that is able to print on demand, could step up and create a service layer that enables their printing capacity to become part of the book delivery ecology and create a whole new level of demand.
These are truly exciting times. A Service Dominant world view may be just the thing to allow you to reframe your product and service going forward.
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n. pl. ve·rac·i·ties
1. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness. See Synonyms at truth.
2. Conformity to fact or truth; accuracy or precision: a report of doubtful veracity.
3. Something that is true.
[Medieval Latin vrcits, from Latin vrx, vrc-, true; see veracious.]
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In today's world, project managers and IT leaders are tasked with getting more and more work done. To survive, managers need complete visibility into the entire work management process—what is everyone doing and when will the work be complete.
However, visibility is hard to achieve. Workers are plagued with ad hoc work that isn't tracked. Managers have no way to monitor who is over allocated and which team member can take on new work. And, disjointed tools keep vital metrics scattered and difficult to gather.
An IT leader is bound to fly blind if they don't find a solution.
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Toronto's More or Les represents at SXSW in Austin, Texas and prepares for Mastication [Article/Video]
More or Les is currently completing his new, food-themed album, Mastication, which is set for release this June. On March 13th, he performed at the Flamingo Cantina at the Nerdcore concert as part of the annual SXSW festivities. Jesse Dangerously and Timbuktu were some of the other Canadian names inside the venue. Nardwuar tweeted about the success of the show along with a stream of SXSW fans. On March 22nd, More or Les will take the stage at Garrison in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week. Click the jump for more info and for More or Les' SXSW showcase video "Ain't Going Out" – originally posted in September 2011.
Austin, TX – With three critically acclaimed albums, North American and European touring under his belt, and a feature on the latest album of UK hip-hop band The Herbaliser, MC, producer and DJ More Or Les is a hip-hop triple threat. Building on the success of his 3rd full-length project Brunch With A Vengeance with the song "Busted Gear" voted no. 14 in CBC Radio 3's Top 103 Songs of 2011, More Or Les is putting the finishing touches on Mastication, his upcoming release of mouth-watering proportions. All about food and including several rapped recipes, this early summer 2012 release will feature artists including Timbuktu, Latté D. Kyd, The Mighty Rhino, and early 90's rapid-fire rap specialist Chip-Fu (of Fu-Schnickens fame).
More Or Les' over a decade-long performance career includes such highlights as SXSW performances 2011, '10 & '09, 2011 & '08 Halifax Pop Explosion, Pop Montréal Festival in '10, '08 and '07, ManifesTO Cultural Arts Festival, 2008 Under Pressure Festival, the Luminato Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Wavelength's 7th Anniversary, Canadian appearances on the Vans Warped Tour, opening for Eyedea & Abilities, appearances at The Second City, Style In Progress, a trip to each coast with the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, many local clubs around Toronto, Government of Canada Pavilions at the 2003 World Cycling Championships and the Canadian National Exhibition, as well as busking on the streets of Toronto.
Music releases for More Or Les include albums I Only Stop For The Red Ants, The Truth About Rap, and the aforementioned Brunch With A Vengeance, 2009's collaboration with TO Producer Fresh Kils The Les-Kils EP, and appearances on the latest release of The Herbaliser. Appearing on their 2008 album Same As It Never Was, More or Les connected with the group over three shows on their 2005 Canadian tour, a week-long gig in London, UK in November '05 and European and Canadian tours in 2006 and 2008.
With "crates steeped deep in hip-hop history," Les is a DJ/co-host at the monthly Toronto hip-hop showcase 5 Dollar Rap Show with the Wordburglar, host at Toronto's monthly classic hip-hop celebration, Never Forgive Action and co-host/DJ of the media-attention-grabbing hip-hop Karaoke. He was also the resident DJ at Toronto's most influential underground hip-hop showcase, In Divine Style, which ran weekly from 2001-2006.
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Artificial Markets under a Complexity Perspective
The focus of this study is to build, from the 'bottom-up', a market with artificially intelligent adaptive agents based on the institutional arrangement of the Colombian Foreign Exchange Market (1994-1999) in order to determine simple agents' design, rules and interactions that are sufficient to create interesting behaviours at the macroscopic level - emerging patterns that replicate the properties of the time series from the case study. Tools from artificial intelligence research, such as genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, are the basis of the agents' mental models, which in turn are used for forecasting, quoting and learning purposes in a double auction market. Sets of fuzzy logic rules yield adequate, approximately continuous risk and utility preferences without the need to fix their mathematical form ex-ante. Statistical properties of financial time series are generated by the artificial market, as well as some additional non-linearity linked to the existence of a crawling band. Moreover, the behaviour of the simulated exchange rate is consistent with currency band theory. Agent's learning favours forecasting rules based on regulatory signals against rules based on fundamental information. Also, intra-day volatility is strongly linked to the rate of arrival and size of real sector trades. Intra-day volatility is also a function of the frequency of learning and search specialisation. It is found that when a moderately low frequency of learning is used, volatility increases.
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Today, another myth-busting session of our diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois:
Don from Florida, type 1, asks: Can you tell me about "net carbs" vs. "total carbs?" To me, a sugar alcohol is a carb to be counted, as are fiber grams. If I would just take insulin for net carbs, I'd really have trouble, I think.
Wil@Ask D'Mine answers: You bet I can! Total carbs, in a nutshell, are numbers that can predict the blood sugar impact of any given food on your body—but other elements of the same food can reduce that impact at the same time.
Fiber is a good example. If you ate both the nut and the shell.... just kidding. But seriously, fiber reduces the net effect of the carbs in a food. So you need to subtract fiber, not add it in. If you were to take insulin based solely on total carbs, and the food you're eating had a lot of fiber, you'd take too much insulin for the meal and could go low.
The concept of the "net carbs" that we see on many food labels today is a legacy of the Atkins Diet era. For those of you who weren't born yet... oh wait a sec. It was only a few years ago, wasn't it? Funny how your sense of time gets warped when you have a 24-7-365 chronic illness!
So back in 2004 the low-carb diet approach pioneered by outside-the-box physician Robert Atkins (way back in 1972) reached its feverish peak. Dr. Atkins advocated for low-carb, high-fat, high-protein diets. The long-term health risks of this approach are widely disputed, but people do lose a boatload of weight on this diet, and keep it off as long as they stay on the diet. Oops. Once people drop the diet and go back to eating the way that made them fat in the first place, they get really fat again. Really quickly. Well, that's true of most diets.
Low-carb diets are hard to sustain for most folks, as everyone's favorite comfort foods tend to be high-carb, and we live in a virtual Garden of Eden filled with high-carb apple trees and snakes.
Atkins diets weren't designed for PWDs, but we all owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Atkins. Before everyfrickinbody was on Atkins, the major manufacturers of stuff to eat paid very little attention to the diabetes population. Sugar-free (or corn syrup-free) foods were rare and nasty tasting. But the Atkins craze got so big so quickly (with about 9% of the population on it in '04 and sales of pasta, rice, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts plummeting), that the big producers of food had to sit up and take notice. Soda makers had to make sugar-free drinks that tasted good to shore up slumping sales; while other food kings saw opportunities to gain or create new market share.
This was because, for dieters, the food had to taste good. Unlike us, it wasn't a matter of life and death.
Anyway, hard-core Atkins folks had carb limits on how much they could eat at a given meal. Dr. Atkins realized that fiber-reduced carb impact, so for Atkins dieters, fiber was subtracted from the carb count. But he didn't stop there. Sugar alcohols, a sugar substitute, were also subtracted. As far as the Atkins folks were concerned, sugar alcohols had no impact on weight. This is where the "net carbs" thing came from. It's total carbs minus fiber, minus sugar alcohol. This sleight of hand might let someone advertise, say, a breakfast bar, that was packed full of fiber and loaded with sugar alcohol as having only 2 net carbs when the total carbs could be as high as 25 or 30.
The problem for us PWDs is that, whether or not sugar alcohols have any effect on weight, they sure as hell have an impact on blood sugar. In fact, they have almost exactly half the impact of regular sugar. You are right, Don, if you just take insulin for the net carbs, you'll be in trouble. High trouble.
And while our taste buds have a lot to be thankful for from the Atkins craze and its long-term fallout, net carbs are not for us. You still need to do some data mining on the food label. Sugar alcohols are listed under sugar, which is found under the Total Carbohydrate section of the label. To calculate a proper bolus of insulin for any food with sugar alcohol you need to take the total carbs, subtract the fiber (next on the label), then subtract half of the sugar alcohol. This is your bolusable carb count, and it'll be much higher than the "net carb" count on the front of the box!
... while we're on the subject of eating...
Mallory from Tennessee, type 2, writes: I'm a 27-yr-old who's had type 2 diabetes for one year. I'm on oral meds and insulin. I find it very hard to cope, especially with eating. I don't like to eat early in the day, but tend to overeat as the day goes on. Why do people say it's so important to eat breakfast? If I force myself to eat in the morning, would that really help me do better?
Wil@Ask D'Mine answers: Oh dear. I can hear the registered dietitians and nutritionists sharpening their pitch-forks as I write this, but...
I don't thinking "forcing" yourself to eat breakfast is a good idea.
But breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. So frankly, I'd rather you ate a Butterfinger bar than skip breakfast altogether. Was that the sound of torches being lit?
OK, here's the deal. Breakfast is important for two reasons: one, it sets up your metabolic rate for the day; and two, as you've noticed in yourself—people who skip breakfast tend to eat too much later in the day. Oh, yeah, and there's a third reason too: calories consumed early in the day tend to get burned off during the day.
On the whole metabolic thing, your body seeks clues early in the day about access to fuel. If you don't eat early, your body assumes you are lost in the Sahara (hey, it could happen), and shifts into fat-storing mode. Things you eat later in the day are stored at a higher rate than burned. If you eat in the morning, even something bad, then your body shifts into fuel-burning mode and you tend to store less fat.
Of course, the biggest issue is the if-you-wait-unit-you-are-hungry-you-will-eat-more problem. Even a super-small breakfast makes a difference. I've seen dozens of people at our clinic who've lost weight simply by adding breakfast. People freak out at first, saying, "I'm already fat, if I eat more I'll get even bigger!" But what happens is that eating breakfast reduces hunger later in the day, which reduces the volume you eat as the day goes on. And as we already pointed out, the later in the day you eat something, the less chance you have to burn it off, in the perfect world we'd have huge steak-and-eggs breakfasts, modest lunches, and small dinners.
But we do the opposite in our society. No breakfast, small lunch, huge late dinner followed by sitting on the couch watching TV because your wife is hogging the computer.
So like I said, forcing yourself to do something is a bad idea in my playbook. It'll make you miserable and it probably isn't sustainable. But, yeah, breakfast probably will help you do better. Why don't you think outside the box? Instead of a traditional breakfast, is there something you could eat early in the day? Could you drink a protein shake? Eat a couple pieces of beef jerky? What about a slice of bologna with a chunk of cream cheese wrapped up in it?
And if all else fails, reach for the Butterfinger. But not the King-sized one, please.
This is not a medical advice column. We are PWDs freely and openly sharing the wisdom of our collected experiences — our been-there-done-that knowledge from the trenches. But we are not MDs, RNs, NPs, PAs, CDEs, or partridges in pear trees. Bottom line: we are only a small part of your total prescription. You still need the professional advice, treatment, and care of a licensed medical professional.


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April 2, 2012
"…music for a newly jolted generation, a soundtrack for the mosh-pit, the dance floor and the front lines." - AMP Magazine
"Hey, 2012. Say hello to the first solid record of the year." – The NJ Underground
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NEW YORK, NY – With their much-anticipated headlining tour kicking off this week (they play Boston's Paradise Rock Club tomorrow night), UK's electro-punk-rockers ENTER SHIKARI have released a remix EP for the single "Arguing With Thermometers." Available on iTunes for $2.99 at http://hopel.es/HaF9Uq, the EP contains three remixes and the album version from their critically-acclaimed and chart-topping latest album A Flash Flood of Colour on Hopeless Records. From the dubstep/techno remix by UK's Alex Calver (né Calvertron) to the breakbeat/dubstep remix by Glasgow's Taz Buckfaster to the industrial-leaning deconstruction by Japan's Goth-Trad, the EP reimagines the songs through the eyes of three of the biggest progressive underground DJs impacting the scene today.
Arguing With Thermometers
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TRACK LISTING1. Arguing With Thermometers (Calvertron Remix)
2. Arguing With Thermometers (Taz Buckfaster Remix)
3. Arguing With Thermometers (Goth-Trad Remix)
4. Arguing With Thermometers (Album Version)
Consciously changing the way multi-band tours are constructed, Enter Shikari are taking a much more generous and fair approach and bringing only two other bands, Letlive and At the Skylines, along for the ride with each band receiving a more expansive set than normal package tours (dates below). "The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that this tour is made up of a three-band-bill. Believe us, this is deliberate," said the band previously in a combined statement. "It has long been the belief in Enter Shikari camp that North American audiences have been trained, like customers at a bad diner, to believe that a large full plate makes up for tasteless food. While nobody here thinks that one tour will reverse the trend, we're at least going to give it a go. Instead of cramming what they have to say into 25 minute sets with ten minutes on either side to get their gear on and offstage, each band will be given time to spread their wings, safe in the knowledge that all their onstage ducks are in line."
A Flash Flood of Colour debuted on UK's Official Album Chart at #1 and their corresponding tour is on its way to sell out over 18,000 tickets across only six shows in advance of its March 17th kick off. Over here in the US, the album debuted at #4 Top Rock Albums (#42 overall albums) on iTunes and was voted by Alternative Press as "Most Anticipated" and made good on that promise by landing a 4.5 stars (out of five), eliciting the praise, "it's a musically adventurous (and surprisingly catchy) album, but the real reason to listen to it is to let Reynolds stimulate your sense beyond the mosh pit." Not to be outdone, UK's music tome NME hailed, "This rage against the machine could well be the four-piece's defining statement." SPIN likened the album as "If the Streets' Mike Skinner chugged drugs at a rave and tried to save the world with metal."
Enter Shikari is Rou Reynolds (vocals / electronics), Rory Clewlow (guitar / backing vocals), Chris Batten (bass / vocals), and Rob Rolfe (drums). A Flash Flood of Colour was released on January 17, 2012 via Hopeless Records and is currently on sale at iTunes for $5.99 for the standard version (http://hopel.es/HOtUhH) and $6.99 for the deluxe edition (http://hopel.es/H8Vrrl). The band released a live video of "Gandhi, Mate, Gandhi" recently through Altpress.com here.
Ticket link: http://www.entershikari.com/shows/
Apr 3 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
Apr 4 The Loft Poughkeepsie, NY
Apr 5 Theater of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
Apr 6 Irving Plaza New York, NY
Apr 7 La Tulipe Montreal, QC
Apr 8 Annex Wreckroom Toronto, ON
Apr 10 Infinity Hall Buffalo, NY
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Electronic Musical Instruments
Ask an Electronic Musical Instruments Question, Get an Answer ASAP!
Hello and thank you fo r using JustAnswer.
The Kawai CP 119 does not support playback from USB flash drives and will need a computer.
You will use the computer to connect the MIDI IN port from the Kawai to the PC, similar to how you have your Privia connected.
Additionally, Audacity does not currently have support for MIDI recording. You will need to use another application, such as this free one. Then you can use the same application to playback to the Kawai.
The Kawai has 1MB of internal memory, so you should be able to connect the Kawai to a computer through USB, transfer the MIDI file over, disconnect the computer, then play back the song later through the Kawai's menu.
Thank you.
The Kawai does have a USB port on the panel for flashdrives. It does have the ability to load a song from a flashdrive for playback (I've just rechecked the manual); but it must be in a standard MIDI format. Thank you for the link to the free application for MIDI recording. I'd like to download and try it first.
Ah, I was reading the specs on it and did not realize that. You should be able to use that application I linked to and create your MIDI file there. Then you can copy it to the flash drive and use it as you intended.
I have downloaded the application (Aria Maestosa) that you steered me to, but it doesn't seem to have any way to record into it as Audacity does. It only seems able to open MIDI files already made and edit them. I'm sorry, but your answer doesn't seem to have been of any help to me.
I apologize. I was under the impression that Aria Maestosa supports MIDI keyboards.
Unfortunately, I am unable to find a free application that does this.
I can recommend these applications, and most come with a free evaluation: NoteWorthy Compose, Music Masterworks, MultitrackStudio, and the ever famous Cakewalk
Thank you for trying to help, but I'd like to have an expert in electronic musical instruments, especially Kawai, to try to help me.


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Collapsible Dish Rack with Drain Mat
The fact that this dish rack is collapsible makes it easy to store the fact that it comes with a drain mat makes it smart!
Isn't this ingenius! I luv the creativity of this dish rack design, so different. As featured in In Style Magazine, August 2009Added 8 Years Ago from The Conran Shop
We've been using this IKEA dish drainer for years now. I like the wood accent of it and it doesn't get moldy. Because it is small, it forces us to wipe our dishes dry and put them away immediately which is actually nice.


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This California story reveals how a former judge is using her experience to help prevent more of the same. Judge Salcido is working there the way a special handful of attorneys, GAL's, and former judges and court staff members are working here in Georgia.


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Dollars Decline Makes US a Cheaper Place to do Business
United States May Be a Bargain, But Is Lacking in Brains
The US has become more cost competitive than ever before and has therefore moved up on the list of the most cost-efficient places in the world. The plunging dollar has made the US a cheaper place to do business than France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Italy.
The value of the Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, British pound, and other currencies have increased in double digits compared to the dollar, but Mexico is still the cheapest place to do business. The cheapest places in the US are Atlanta, Tampa, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
So if more businesses keep their factories in the US, will there be enough workers to fill their needs? AT&T has found that so far, the answer is no. The company has promised to bring 5,000 jobs from India back to the States but hasn't been able to find enough skilled workers to fill the positions. AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said he's especially alarmed by high school dropout rates as high as 50 percent in some areas. He explained, "We're able to do new product engineering in Bangalore as easily as we're able to do it in Austin, Texas. I know you don't like hearing that, but that's the way it is." His solution? A stronger US focus on education and keeping jobs — no small feat.


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by Ron Holland
We are programed to cheer and act out our sheep-like roles in partisan politics when, like the game, unless we have money bet on the outcome the actual winner will have absolutely no impact on our lives. The bottom line is that voting percentages generate credibility for the failed American political system. "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties." George Wallace, 1966 Alabama governor and presidential candidate. Romney lost for two main reasons: First, as he correctly noted during the campaign, 47 percent of American families are dependent on government handouts and they voted for what was in their own best interests; and second, the GOP leadership antagonized the 10 percent of the Republican Party electorate who supported Ron Paul for President. And so over the next four years the people will be provoked and buy more guns they will never have the courage to use to defend themselves against an all-powerful government. The game will go on until the time is up for our nation. It is time we as a generation man up for liberty to redeem ourselves in the tear-filled eyes of future generations. The American people must work peacefully to restore the Articles of Confederation now or else suffer the permanent consequences of the fall of America.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on sale for $1.99
0. phoneArena posted on 03 May 2013, 16:20
This is the kind of sale that doesn't come around too often, so we wanted to let you know that you can get your hands on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for Android or iOS for just $1.99. Rockstar calls this a "limited time offer", but doesn't give any indication how limited of a time the sale will be on...
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1. imkyle (Posts: 1086; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
Waiting for this and buying it now.
2. kewell69 (Posts: 4; Member since: 22 Apr 2013)
U guys can keep on milking canada,by d time they open their eyes i'm sure u'll switch to australia*hisses*.
3. dicemoney (Posts: 59; Member since: 28 Mar 2011)
Why did they took this game off the HTC one it's was one it a couple of days ago wtf this is the only thing I don't like about the play store some phone have app and game others doesn't
4. mikewillz (Posts: 52; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Still not compatible for my device, HTC Droid DNA. What gives?
5. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 449; Member since: 26 May 2011)
HTC's always doing something inadvertently to reduce the user experience, dating back to the Thunderbolt and then Rezound. I've owned both of those devices so I'm speaking from experience, but that's unfortunate that the more than capable Droid DNA isn't compatible with the game. It probably has something to do with how HTC Sense is tied into the OS.
6. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 449; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Maybe the blame needs to be placed on the developer, as they have a limited number of devices that they claim the game works on.
8. jackhammer91 (Posts: 21; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
developers cannot make a game compatible with every device, so they have to choose some devices which are topdogs or high sellers to cover the most
9. mikewillz (Posts: 52; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Well that stinks, I was looking forward to playing this on my phone. Looks like I'll keep playing GTA3
7. buccob (Posts: 2732; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
This game is listed as not compatible with my device's country.... which today seems to be a little stupid for such brand... c'mon Rockstar bring your games over here
10. Zayuh24 (Posts: 149; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Already on it.
11. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)
Cooooooool, got it installed on my Verizon Galaxy Note II via my Motorola XOOM [extraction]..... since I couldn't pull it from the Play Store.
12. keithrandy (Posts: 22; Member since: 05 Feb 2010)
Man, I bought this when it was like $4.99 and I still ain't played it all the way through. Controls just aren't the same as having it on PS2.
13. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
I bought it, cant beat it at that price. Anyone know if it will work with a controller though? I have my GS3 rooted and it would be awesome to play this with my Dualshock 3 :)