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"One person has a more positive outlook [about Dick Williams], and I would guess that was meant as a joke." RedsTeamGo
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
We don't know the guys but just taking the Buck/Whitesell/Owings hypothetical for a moment, the Reds aren't getting a value that would be terribly hard to replace. Basically they'd be looking at role players without much upside. Buck basically looks like he's destined for the back end if he can overcome his arm history. Owings is limited by his inability to get lefties out but hey there are warts on all back end starters. Whitesell, well, he projects to be a pretty limited player.
I'm not sure how those guys translate into difference makers.
Comp picks on the other hand can turn into David Wright, Nick Swisher, Huston Street, Joe Blanton, Mark Teahen, David Aardsma, Aaron Heilman, Philip Hughes, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Adam Miller, and JoJo Reyes....
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
The idiot has spoken.
Doc: So now what?
By Paul Daugherty firstname.lastname@example.com August 11, 2008
The Reds, who are exciting only when theyre not playing, traded Adam Dunn to the Arizona Diamondbacks today for a 23-year-old, Class A starting pitcher named Dallas Buck who, in another life, died in old Western movies.
Cincinnati also will receive two players as yet unnamed. Unless the pair throw like Seaver or hit like Perez, you have to wonder whats up.
As insignificant as Dunn was to winning here, 40 homers and 100 RBI dont appear magically every March. After the club traded Ken Griffey Jr., the brass wanted to see if Dunn would emerge as a clubhouse presence. Apparently, after 11 days, the brass had seen enough.
Regardless, Dunns tax bracket didnt match his production, at least not here. Hed have wanted too much money for what he provided. Dunn was who he was: A guy who could hit a baseball 400 feet more often than almost anyone else, but couldnt produce a two-out RBI single.
He was slow, he had a mediocre arm, he played a dangerous left field. He was a big man whose bigness could give the impression he wasnt trying. Baseball wasnt his passion. It was his job. He played it that way.
Another day closer to retirement," Dunn said once a few years ago, around the batting cage before a game. That was Dunn. His teammates liked him, but he didnt lead. Laid back should be a character trait, not a career choice. Not when youre making $13 million.
Its doubtful Arizona will keep him after this season. Dunn will be the prototypical DH in 09, when his adventures in Left Field Land wont be duplicated.
Did you really want the Reds to lock up $60 million for Adam Dunn? Did you want them to offer him arbitration and hope hed decline it, so the club would get two draft picks? What if he accepted? (Hint: More of the same.)
Did you see anyone involved believing a one-year deal was worth the effort, given Dunns (and the teams) track record during his stay in Cincinnati?
If the Reds paid Dunn for four years, theyd wreck any chances of fundamentally improving the team, unless they jacked the payroll considerably, which they arent going to do. Youd also wonder how a 28-year-old, chronically overweight player would get better, or even maintain his current pace.
The optimum would have been for the Reds to move Dunn before the trade deadline. Nobody wanted him. Thats why Mark Teixeira was dealt, and Jason Bay and Manny Ramirez and Xavier Nady, while the Big Donkey stayed a Red.
Dunns value was always seen as greater in Cincinnati than elsewhere. To be dealt to Arizona, Dunn had to clear waivers. Any other club could have claimed him and the trade would not have been made. None did. Because J.P. Ricciardi was wrong to say what he said about Dunn doesnt mean what he said was wrong.
You could say the rest of Major League Baseball was being nice to the Reds and the Diamondbacks. Or you could suggest Dunn aint all that.
I suggest the latter. More to the point: Dunn never improved. He went through a steady stream of hitting coaches, none of whom could change his style or approach. After coach No. 3 or 4, you start to believe it was the hitter, not his coach.
Those enamored with numbers couldnt get enough of Adam Dunn. Stat freaks genuflected at the foot of Dunns on-base percentage, while dismissing his detractors as ill-informed hacks.
Forty Homers! Hundred RBI! Hundred Runs! Look at that man. . . Walk! The standard argument was, and is, How do you replace numbers like those? Were about to find out.
This is further evidence that Walt Jocketty evaluated the 08 Reds and became ill. He has, in 11 days, removed the twin heads of the patient. Griffey and Dunn are elsewhere. Will the Reds be better without them? Could they be any worse?
Time now for the clubhouse culture to undergo a sea change. Who wants to win? Who wants to prepare to win? Anyone? Elvis and his sidekick have left the building. Who wants the footlights now?
Reds need to look for some undevalued guys that have a high OBP. To current team is "riding the OBP short bus".
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
To say the team doesn't spend money on the draft is just incorrect. With that being said, perhaps next year's draft doesn't look to be as deep(I don't know) and the Reds don't feel like they would get value from a sandwich pick but would still have to pay big money. Perhaps there is more value in getting a known quantity where the bonus money has already been paid.
I just got home from being gone all weekend. I was driving thru Cincy on the way and actually turned on the radio to get the traffic (never really do) and the first thing I heard on WLW after a commercial was about this trade. I'd love to read the whole thread...and probably will eventually but what's the reader's digest version from someone who has been following along today? Do we know the 2 PTBNL's? I heard on the radio that Daughtery said one of them was a recognizeable name (he wouldn't say who though) and he mentioned we got 3 pitchers for Dunn. So do we have any idea on that? I can't say I'm too impressed with a 24 y/o in A ball who's already had Tommy John surgery though...hopefully the other 2 players are something or else I think it will have been a mistake to deal Dunn instead of taking the 2 picks.
I would think acquiring all these pitchers will set the Reds up for trading Arroyo/Harang in the off-season.
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
"One person has a more positive outlook [about Dick Williams], and I would guess that was meant as a joke." RedsTeamGo
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
--Woody Hayes
That Daugherty article reads like a parody. What a buffoon.
"One person has a more positive outlook [about Dick Williams], and I would guess that was meant as a joke." RedsTeamGo
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
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What is Group Counseling?
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Group therapy is a powerful tool for growth and change. For many emotional and relationship concerns that college students face, group is the best treatment choice. It can, in many cases, be more effective and produce quicker results than individual therapy.
In Group 5-10 individuals meet face to face to share their struggles and concerns with the facilitation of 1-2 group therapists. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes. Some groups are focused on special themes like anxiety, depression, grief or body image. Others are more general counseling groups which assist individuals in resolving a broad range of personal issues, including setting appropriate boundaries, challenges with communicating, self-esteem difficulties, and relationship problems.
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This group focuses on looking deeper into your sources of negative body image, rather than simply passing out positive affirmations to counteract your negative ones. Transforming negative body image into body acceptance and peace often takes more than trying to give yourself complements. This group will help you examine how your body image connects to your core beliefs and values in a safe and supportive environment with other people struggling with body image.
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This group focuses on having healthy relationships with friends, family, and dating partners. The need to belong is one of our most primitive human drives. We can love nature, our work, hobbies, etc., but they can't replace satisfying adult relationships. Building and maintaining healthy relationships can be difficult. This group includes relationship support and education. We will focus on the components of a healthy relationship, including healthy communication, boundaries, coping skills, managing anger and building self-esteem.
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I am scared to talk to people in groups is this common for group members?
Most group members express this concern before joining the group. It can be very scary to talk to people you don't know about your problems. Many group members have shared that although they initially feared talking, within a few sessions they felt more and more comfortable talking. By the end of the group many members share that they feel much more comfortable talking within the group than when they started.
Do I have to share my deepest, darkest secrets with the group?
Group leaders will not ask you to share your deepest secrets with the group. Group leaders will encourage members to share their difficulties and distress and as a member of the group you get to decide how much you share with the group. Members of groups report getting more out of group as they share more personal aspects but you get to set your own boundaries.
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Everything that is discussed in counseling groups is considered confidential. It is not to be discussed outside the group, even with other group individuals. Each member signs an agreement to observe this rule.
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This has happened before, don't worry! Please let the group leaders know of this at the start of group. In past groups the situations have been processed within the group, one of the group members joined another group, or the group leaders decided how to best resolve it.
How much do I have to share in group?
No one will force you to share in group; if you don't want to talk you don't have to. Unexpressed feelings are a major reason why people experience difficulties and distress. Sharing your thoughts and feelings in a safe and supportive environment is an important part of group therapy and strongly affects how much you will be helped. Most members are worried about sharing in group initially and it might take a little time for them to feel okay about talking, but usually they eventually start sharing in group even though they are uncomfortable.
How long is group and how many people in group?
Usually group runs for 6-8 weeks and groups usually have about 5 to 10 members.
How can group counseling be better than individual?
Many times group can be more helpful than individual counseling because it is an opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe and confidential environment. In individual counseling you can talk about your interpersonal struggles or personal distresses but in a group you could actually experience them and work through them in a safe, supportive environment.
I am worried there won't be enough time for me to share because there are so many other members in the group?
If this is a concern and you find you are needing more time to talk, we recommend you bring this up in the group. Group is an excellent place to work on assertiveness. You may also find you can learn about yourself by listening to others. Group members may bring up issues that you connect with but that you would not have thought to bring up yourself.
How can I be helped in a group when everyone's problems are different?
Each individual is unique as are their concerns. Still, as people we have a great deal in common. (We all grow up in families. We all react to hurt in similar ways. We all have the same basic capacity to grow and change.) These root causes of our problems in living have to do with patterns and habits that we have learned during our formative years that are not working well for use now in our current life circumstances or are holding us back. (For example, our families may have taught us that certain kinds of emotional expression are to be avoided, but now as we deal with the normal stress of adult life the pent-up feelings which result from this avoidance produce symptoms like depression, worry or over-reaction.) The goal of counseling is to learn about our habits and patterns of feeling and behavior and how they cause us problems. We can then learn new habits and patterns which will be more successful for us.
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5 Important Things to Expect from Group Counseling
- The first few sessions usually focuses on the establishment of trust. Group therapists and members work towards establishing a level of trust that allows them to communicate openly and honestly. New members are often amazed at how much their contributions help other members.
- During the group meeting time, members are responsible for talking about what is troubling them. Other groups rely more on observations and discussion from individuals with the counselor providing consultation as necessary to facilitate the work.
- Members are encouraged to give support and feedback to others, and to work with the reactions and responses that other members' contributions bring up for them.
- As individuals begin interacting with other group members, they usually re-experience or recreate some of the interpersonal difficulties that brought them to group in the first place. Under the skilled direction of a group therapist, the group is able to point out troublesome interpersonal patterns by providing feedback and support and offering alternatives, and in such a way that the difficulty becomes resolved.
- Unexpressed feelings are a major reason why people experience difficulties and distress. Sharing your thoughts and feelings in a safe and supportive environment is an important part of group therapy and strongly affects how much you will be helped.
Process vs. Psychoeducation Groups
Pscyho-educational Groups: In psycho-educational groups the focus is on a particular internal struggle such as anxiety, depression, grief, or body image. Group members receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in a safe confidential environment. Typically there will be an educational component to each session and then an opportunity to process your difficulties and distress within the group.
Process Groups: Process groups are usually unstructured. There isn't a specific topic for each group session, but some of the groups may be focused on a particular theme. The group may be a target to a specific group of individuals (e.g., women, men, or older students). Members are welcome to bring in any issues to the group they feel are important, and the primary focus of therapy in the group is on the interactions among group members. Members are encouraged to give support and feedback to others, and to work with the reactions and responses that other members' contributions bring up for them.
Confidentiality and Privacy
Everything that is discussed in counseling groups is considered confidential. It is not to be discussed outside the group, even with other group individuals. Each member signs an agreement to observe this rule.

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Loss to Pirates compounded by Scutaro's injury
Second baseman hit on pinkie by pitch, will see hand doc Wednesday
By Chris Haft / 6/12/2013 12:12 AM ET
PITTSBURGH -- From the Giants' perspective, the true outcome of their 8-2 loss Tuesday night to the Pirates won't be known until Wednesday, when more is learned about the status of Marco Scutaro's left pinkie.
Scutaro was hurt when a pitch from Pirates reliever Tony Watson struck him on his hand with two outs in the seventh inning. The scene appeared eerily identical to the May 20 incident when Ryan Vogelsong was hit on the pinkie of his pitching hand, sidelining him for 8-10 weeks.
X-rays confirmed that Scutaro's finger wasn't fractured. But, unable to straighten his pinkie -- "It looked like a snake," he said -- he left the clubhouse with his finger in a plastic splint and the team figuratively holding its breath. Scutaro certainly won't play Wednesday, but he will visit a hand specialist. If the doctor confirms the Giants' fears that the tendons in Scutaro's finger are damaged, the team could be without its most consistent hitter for an extended period.
Thus, Scutaro could join the list of ailing regulars that includes third baseman Pablo Sandoval (left foot) and center fielder Angel Pagan (left hamstring), who both are on the 15-day disabled list.
"The best news we can hope for is he wakes up [Wednesday] and he can straighten it out and it feels pretty good," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, who discussed the situation with general manager Brian Sabean by telephone immediately after the game. "But it's hurting him right now."
Breaking the postgame silence in the clubhouse when approached by reporters, Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum admitted that Scutaro's uncertain condition partly accounted for the grim atmosphere.
"Obviously it is [a concern], just because he's such a pivotal player to our lineup and he gets all those hits and plays great defense," Lincecum said of Scutaro, who's batting .332 in 58 games. "If you lose a guy like that, a mainstay guy who's playing every day, it's tough."
Scutaro dislocated the same finger several years ago, according to Bochy. This time, the second baseman immediately believed that his injury was worse.
"As soon as I got hit and my finger was [crooked], I thought it was broke for sure," he said.
Grimacing in pain, Scutaro immediately left the game for pinch-runner Juan Perez and was replaced at second base by Tony Abreu, who'll likely receive most of the playing time at second base if Scutaro is sidelined for multiple days. Abreu drove in the Giants' first run of the game earlier in the seventh with a pinch-hit double.
Abreu's hit was essentially the game's highlight for the Giants, who trailed, 5-0, through six innings in Pittsburgh right-hander Gerrit Cole's highly anticipated Major League debut. San Francisco rapped a pair of hits in each of the first two innings and loaded the bases in the second. But Cole, the No. 1 overall selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft out of UCLA, escaped each jam.
"That's a good ballclub," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said of the Giants, explaining their early success against Cole. "Sometimes you need to give hitters some credit as well."
Lincecum was less fortunate. Neil Walker's bloop single to center field, the last of three consecutive hits, loaded the bases for the Pirates with nobody out in the second. One out later, Lincecum forged ahead on the count against Cole, 0-2. But Lincecum threw three consecutive balls and couldn't put away Cole, who went 0-for-6 during his abbreviated Minor League career. Cole then lined Lincecum's full-count pitch to right-center field for a single, scoring Russell Martin and Pedro Alvarez.
"That's where you have to take advantage of the fact that it is the pitcher and just go after him and be aggressive," Lincecum said. "And I wasn't enough as I needed to."
Cole, who ultimately yielded two runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings, outdid Lincecum, whose 4 2/3-innings outing was his second-shortest of the season. During the game, Lincecum didn't give the fuss over Cole a second thought. His perspective changed somewhat afterward as he considered the excitement generated at PNC Park by a hard-throwing right-hander from a (then) Pac-10 school -- recalling the pandemonium Lincecum's starts formerly caused.
"After the fact, a guy coming up in his first start kind of takes you back to yours," Lincecum said. "He did an outstanding job of commanding the zone. He has a power fastball and the rest of his pitches are pretty much power pitches. I tip my cap to him coming out here and pitching to us the way he did."


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ESPN's Merril Hoge Isn't a Fan of Tim Tebow..Takes to Twitter
I think there should be some clarification on what is going on the Broncos and Tim Tebow.
Many people, myself included do not think that Tebow has the physical skills to be an elite quarterback in the NFL. Everyone understands that the media pushes Tebow as Jesus and that he had a wonderful career at Florida, but there are a lot of fundamentals things he does poorly.
I have met Tim Tebow before he is a very nice and engaging guy. He is a very hard worker and he is determined to prove critics wrong. I admire that about him, as I have said many times I rather have 1 Tim Tebow over 100 JaMarcus Russells.
Merril Hoge isn't saying anything new, but here is dilemma the Broncos face.
Like it or not the Broncos invested a #1 pick in Tim Tebow, so at some point they are going to have to see he can play. They need to find out sooner than later. The longer they wait the worse it will become. If Tebow is a flop better to know now than wasting another year.
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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
That's the Fathers job, not mine. I am opposed to evangelism. We are already in Hell. Heaven is an option to choose to get out of our current state. They have to ask God. That would be different than cursing God.Do you know what happens when my adult son curses me?I give him the gift of freedom from my tyranny. As does God. There is no need. Those who reject God experience internal TORMENT. Thirst, flames, all that.Have you ever been "tormented"? It is a self inflicted condition. Not to be confused with torture. He did have a chosen people. They produced His son and they carried out the task of conveying the messageof salvation. Open the book and read it again. The jews did not get fluffy pillows to sit on and eat figs back then, and they don't now either. It's "do not murder". I've had neighbors who were killed and eaten. Some people who commit lethal crimes just need to be put to death. It's not revenge. We just can't live with such people alive in our midst. All are sinners. God is not harmed at any time. You would show this same love if your boyfriend murdered your baby? http://badbreeders.net/2013/05/14/bad-boyfriend-sodomizes-and-strangles-baby/


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Update, 6:15 p.m.: East Hampton Town police released the name of the man whose body was discovered at a beach at Lazy Point in Amagansett on Sunday afternoon.
Nicholas Valtz, a 39-year-old from Brooklyn, died in a kitesurfing accident in Napeague Harbor. Police described him as a novice kite boarder.
Mr. Valtz "was found floating in the water secured to his kite and associate kite gear in a grassy area of the harbor," Capt. Chris Anderson said in a press release.
Family members who went to look for him when he failed to return to a house in Bridgehampton made the discovery, according to Captain Anderson. He had gone out to kite surf earlier that morning. They called 911 at 2:04 p.m.
The Amagansett Fire Department ambulance was called as well, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office also responded.
Town police detectives are continuing to investigate. Anyone with information has been asked to contact town police at 537-7575.
Previously, 5:02 p.m.: The body of a man who had been kiteboarding in Napeague Harbor was discovered on a beach at Lazy Point in Amagansett on Sunday afternoon, East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said.
Chief Sarlo said the 38-year-old man's death appeared to be an accident.
Police officers and the Amagansett Fire Department's ambulance were dispatched to the end of Lazy Point Road at 2:12 p.m. They determined the victim was dead by the time they arrived.
Late Sunday afternoon, Chief Sarlo said it was not clear yet how long the man had been in the water.
Town police detectives are in the midst of an investigation. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office is responding to the beach. Several members of the man's family were speaking to police on the beach at 5 p.m.


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It feels like less of a show and more of a living room scene when Bobby Bandiera puts together his Hope Concerts at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, N.J. The sixth annual event, which benefits the Parker Family Health Center and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, is full of good-natured humor as much as stirring rock n' soul tunes.
Every year Southside Johnny ribs Gary U.S. Bonds before they sing together at the event.
This year Ben E. King had to get used to the barbs delivered by the charismatic vocalists.
The soldout Basie reverberated with energy for 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Jon Bon Jovi, who took the stage to a standing ovation, delivered "Blue Christmas," "Run Rudolph Run," the Box Tops classic "The Letter" and "Who Says You Can't Go Home."
Bon Jovi nailed it by noting that the show wouldn't be possible without Bandiera, who is part of his touring band. Every year Bandiera squeezes in a few weeks worth of rehearsals with his Central Jersey pals, which include his infallible soul revue players, which features a six-piece horn section.
So it's fitting that one of the high points of the show was Bandiera's version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Who ever knew that Bandiera could hit those notes?
Bandiera, Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny and Bonds, who impressed with "This Little Girl" and a gaggle of one-liners, take part in the Hope concert every year.
This was King's first appearance and he pleased the crowd with "Spanish Harlem," a gorgeous version of "Under The Boardwalk," and a terrific cover of Sam and Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming," which featured Southside, who offered "Better Days," "This Time It's For Real" and "I Don't Wanna Go Home."
There was considerable emotion in the room since Central Jersey was clobbered two months ago by Hurricane Sandy, which was mentioned throughout the night.
A number screamed "Bruuuuce," since Bruce Springsteen has appeared at a couple of Hope shows.
Springsteen couldn't commit to the show but the event was a can't miss concert even without the Boss.
You don't know who is going to show up, but fans realize that something special will happen at the Hope shows. Bandiera and friends always deliver a memorable concert.
Ed Condran is a freelance entertainment writer. His column On That Note appears Thursday in Time Out.


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Brandon Knight scored 16 of his 26 points in the first half, outplaying Damian Lillard in a matchup of young guards and leading the Detroit Pistons to a 108-101 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night.
Lillard entered the day as the NBA's top rookie scorer, averaging 19.6 points per game. He missed his first 12 shots from the field against the Pistons.
Detroit is 4-3 since dropping its first eight games. The Pistons won for the first time when allowing more than 90 points.
LaMarcus Aldridge was back in the lineup for Portland after missing a game with back spasms. He scored 32 points but didn't have enough help with Lillard struggling.
Lillard finished with 12 points on 4-of-18 shooting.
Knight shot 9 of 17 from the field. The second-year guard was one of seven Detroit players in double figures. The Pistons shot 52.5 percent from the field, leading 54-49 at halftime and 82-73 after Kyle Singler's last-second 3-pointer in the third quarter.
Detroit went 9 of 15 from 3-point range and eclipsed its previous season high of 106 points.
Greg Monroe had 20 points and 10 rebounds for Detroit, and Singler had 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting and 10 rebounds.
The Pistons led 75-64 in the third after Jason Maxiell's dunk. Maxiell caught Portland's Jared Jeffries in the face with his left arm while dunking with his right, sending Jeffries down the tunnel injured.
Lillard followed with an acrobatic layup for his first field goal of the game. That started a 7-0 run that turned out to be Portland's best push of the second half.
After Singler's shot gave the Pistons a nine-point lead, rookie Andre Drummond dunked on a fast break early in the fourth to put Detroit ahead 87-75. A three-point play by Rodney Stuckey made it 93-78.
Portland did get the margin down to six on Nicolas Batum's 3-pointer with 1:14 remaining, but Knight answered with a quick three-point play to make it 104-95.
NOTES: Both teams were playing the second of back-to-back games after losing in the New York area Sunday. Detroit lost 121-100 to the Knicks, and Portland fell 98-85 to the Nets. ... Aldridge shot 12 of 22 from the field and had 10 rebounds. ... Detroit outscored Portland 56-36 in the paint.


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I got a fresh batch of that Tylenol Cold, and this stuff doesn't expire for 2-1/2 years, so pills I found yesterday that were five years past expiration were actually close to 8 years old. Eeek!
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Shoot the Birds Review
Birds. For an iPhone gamer, that word is likely to elicit one of two reactions: joy, or the rolling of eyes. And both seem to be inspired by the same popular title, Angry Birds. But if you fall into the latter camp, wherein just the mention of the game leaves you wishing there was an Angry Colonel Sanders in the App Store who needs to quickly set up an Angry Thanksgiving dinner, then Infinite Dreams, Inc. has just the game for you in its latest release.
Shoot the Birds is a very simple game with a very simple premise: shooting birds. Birds that, as it just so happens, carry a similar aesthetic sense to our angry friends, but with the exception of one particular breed, have more of a bird shape to allow them to avoid treading too closely to potential copyright territory.
Blindingly gorgeous.
As many birds of difference shapes, sizes, and colors fly overhead, it is your job as the resident pumpkin-headed scarecrow to dish out a little bit of down-home justice with your crossbow. Sure, a shotgun of sorts seems as though it would be a better fit for the farmland setting, but that would take away all (or at least a significant portion) of the fun.
Using your finger, you draw back to prepare the crossbow to fire; the further you drag your finger, the more powerful your shot. Move the arrow (which indicates your trajectory) to where you want your shot to fly, wait for the right moment, and let it go to fire. And just like that, you'll find yourself frequently foiling the flights of fowl.
So many birds left to kill, so little time.
There is more to it than that, however. For one thing, you have a time limit, and hits help prolong your mission, while near-misses will take away precious seconds. For maximum bird-shooting efficiency, you can wait until several birds are near each other (in a row, ideally) before letting your arrow fly, skewering the whole lot like a feathery shishkabob. Plus, what goes up must come down, and so firing arrows in a direction more vertical than horizontal can see your arrows fall back to earth, taking down birds both ways.
The game's objective is simple: shoot as many birds as possible within the time limit given. There are also a number of goals to accomplish before you can continue to the next round, though they don't need to all be accomplished in one turn. These include such feats as shooting a certain number of birds, reaching a certain score, or blasting as many feathered friends as you can in a single shot.
Shoot the Birds is fun, mildly addictive, and not too difficult– you'll want to keep coming back to reach that next goal. The only major downsides are that the rounds tend to be over too quickly, and there really isn't much else to the game. But even with that said, Shoot the Birds is good for killing some time and is just the type of game the iPhone excels at, even if it's not quite as involving as some other games out there.


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Aftermarket bumpers
Posted 16 May 2005 - 10:15 PM
note: if you want customization like brush guards, more bumper coverage just hit me with a PM and I will get you a quote.
There will be more to come, we are getting a hydraulic tube bender in two months!!!
Allied Armament www.alliedarmament.com
Posted 16 May 2005 - 11:53 PM
Qmans Brat
Posted 17 May 2005 - 12:08 AM
Wow, you made an exact copy of this one.
Qmans Brat
Posted 17 May 2005 - 12:26 AM
Posted 17 May 2005 - 12:30 AM
He built his before WCSS6, maybe early last year or sooner.
Posted 17 May 2005 - 01:02 AM
Posted 17 May 2005 - 01:08 AM
it's just a tube of rectangular steel with the ends capped. there's probably hundreds of those on every type of 4x4 rig out there; it doesn't look like you're claiming it to be original and i doubt anyone else would.
Well said Andy, I couldn't have put it better myself.
I'm glad to see that you're taking the parts suggestions we all gave you and running with it. Myself, I'd need something a bit beefier.
Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:03 AM
Well said Andy, I couldn't have put it better myself.
I'm glad to see that you're taking the parts suggestions we all gave you and running with it. Myself, I'd need something a bit beefier.
Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:29 AM
Myself, I'd need something a bit beefier.
I told ya it needs to be thicker. It does look good, but I'll wait to get the stronger one or make one myself. Headlight protection?
On a side note. Roof Racks would be easy to make and everyone wants one of those.
Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:55 AM
Come on guys, So far Allied has brought to the subaru world a lift kit, 4X140 WHEELS.....and now they are making bumpers.
Stop criticizing everything they put out.
Some of the heat that others got was b/c they were copying other peoples designs and selling them. If they put out a Legacy/Imp bumper that looks like the Mudrat designs then we can get into who made it first and let the bashing begin.
But IIRK Qman is not in the business of fabricating.
Keep up the good work and keep all of the new goodies coming
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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State College Track and Field team was one of 73 teams to be named to the 2007 Division III USTFCCCA Women's All-Academic Indoor and Outdoor Team's of the Year, by the U.S. Track & Field Coaches Association announced on Monday, July 9th. The Rams finished the season with a 3.04 GPA, good for their first-ever selection as an All-Academic team. Read the full release below from the USTFCCCA.
Wisconsin Oshkosh
La Crosse and Oshkosh Named 2007 USTFCCCA Women's Division III All-Academic Team's of the Year
NEW ORLEANS - The University of Wisconsin La Crosse and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh women's programs have been respectively named the 2007 Division III USTFCCCA Women's All-Academic Indoor and Outdoor Team's of the Year, the U.S. Track & Field Coaches Association announced on Monday.
Wisconsin La Crosse, the fourth place finisher at the Division III indoor nationals, carries a cumulative 3.400 team grade-point average. The Eagles placed 10 student-athletes on the USTFCCCA Women's Individual All-Academic team, which was named last week.
Wisconsin Oshkosh becomes the outdoor team of the year after winning their second consecutive Division III outdoor title and eighth overall. UW Oshkosh scored 57 points to win their third title in four years.
"Our women's track & field program always strives for excellence in academics and athletics. To be named the Division III All-Academic Outdoor Team of the Year is a tremendous honor. It caps a great outdoor season for UW Oshkosh women's track and field," head coach Deb Vercauteren said.
The Titans carry a 3.290 cumulative team grade-point average and placed nine student-athletes on the USTFCCCA Women's Individual All-Academic team.
Whitworth College topped the Division III Women's list with a 3.629 cumulative GPA, with Nazareth College (3.572) and Hope College (3.570) rounding out the top three All-Academic teams.
In all, 73 Division III Women's programs were recognized as 2007 All-Academic Track and Field Teams. The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference led all conferences with eight All-Academic teams.
The selection of the All-Academic Indoor and Outdoor Team's of the Year award is based on a combination of athletic and academic achievements, with the top honor going to the team that had the best finish at the Division III Indoor and/or Outdoor National Championships and also holding the highest cumulative GPA.
To be nominated, the team must carry a minimum 3.000 cumulative GPA.
The 2007 USTFCCCA Division III Women's All-Academic Teams:
Whitworth College, 3.629
Nazareth College, 3.572
Hope College, 3.570
Haverford College, 3.519
College of St. Catherine, 3.511
Grinnell College, 3.500
Macalester College, 3.499
Aurora University, 3.475
Sewanee: The University of the South, 3.470
Middlebury College, 3.460
Calvin College, 3.456
Albion College, 3.450
Goucher College, 3.450
Muhlenberg College, 3.445
Luther College, 3.442
Nebraska Wesleyan University, 3.440
Trinity University, 3.437
Simpson College, 3.433
Willamette University, 3.430
Ithaca College, 3.423
North Park University, 3.423
Emory University, 3.419
Ohio Northern College, 3.410
Rochester Institute of Technology, 3.400
University of Wisconsin La Crosse, 3.400
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 3.398
College of St. Benedict, 3.389
SUNY Geneseo, 3.380
University of Puget Sound, 3.380
Ursinus College, 3.370
Gustavus Adolphus College, 3.366
St. Lawrence University, 3.362
Oberlin College, 3.360
Wartburg College, 3.358
Augustana College, 3.350
Cornell College, 3.350
Elizabethtown College, 3.340
St. Olaf College, 3.340
University of Chicago, 3.331
Susquehanna University, 3.330
Hood College, 3.328
Lewis and Clark College, 3.326
University of Rochester, 3.323
Concordia College, 3.320
Ohio Wesleyan University, 3.320
Capital University, 3.319
University of Wisconsin Platteville, 3.313
Bryn Mawr College, 3.299
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 3.290
Linfield College, 3.274
Buena Vista University, 3.273
Carnegie Mellon University, 3.260
North Central College, 3.251
Springfield College, 3.250
Washington and Lee University, 3.245
SUNY Cortland, 3.240
Washington & Jefferson College, 3.240
Franklin College, 3.230
Loras College, 3.230
University of Dubuque, 3.220
Central College, 3.212
Westminster College, 3.197
Salisbury University, 3.183
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, 3.176
Frostburg State University, 3.169
Anderson University, 3.167
Milwaukee School of Engineering, 3.160
Oneonta State University, 3.160
Colby-Sawyer College, 3.130
SUNY Plattsburgh, 3.100
University of Wisconsin Whitewater, 3.070
Allegheny College, 3.040
Farmingdale State College, 3.040
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Kristen and Matthew McKellar, both 15, prefer robotics over sports. The tournaments in which they compete are packed with future engineers and programmers, not jocks.
But the excitement, competitive energy and sportsmanship rival the traditional. And in their fifth year of competition, their team -- got robot? -- has secured a place in the world championships.
The McKellars, of Elgin, compete with five other high school students from South Elgin, St. Charles, Hanover Park, Mount Prospect and Elgin, working out of the Elgin Tower Building with support from the Elgin Technology Center. They started out in a middle school league, moved up to a middle and high school league and plan to compete next year in the FIRST Robotics Challenge, which is for high school teams only.
Each move up means bigger robots and tougher competition. But Kristen said a key component of "gracious professionalism" means if other teams need help on the day of a tournament, it's their duty to pitch in.
"Even though we're there to compete, we're all there to learn," said Kristen, a budding software engineer. Her brother plans to go into engineering as well, probably mechanical.
Got robot? took the top prize at a state tournament last weekend at the Illinois Institute of Technology, guaranteeing a spot in April's world championships in St. Louis. While reveling in the win, the McKellars have been helping the Abbott Middle School girls and boys robotics teams prepare for their own tournament, which will be Saturday at Rotolo Middle School in Batavia.
"Mentoring is something we feel obligated to do because our first year we got mentored," Matthew said. "That really marked a major portion of our early robotics career."
Anne Herrmann, 8th grade science teacher and robotics team coach at Abbott, said 15 mostly 8th-grade students are on the teams this year. Jobs include working on the mechanical aspects of building the robots, designing the robots with computer aided drawing programs, writing the programming code to run the robots and working on scripts for the presentations at tournaments. Artists help with design, some students make the T-shirts for the team, others focus on record-keeping.
"There's really something for everyone," Herrmann said.
Regardless of how the teams do this weekend, the middle schoolers will compete in the state 4H tournament in April at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Herrmann plans to open up the team to new members in January and let them build a new robot for the spring.
Got robot? teammates are still deciding whether to tweak or overhaul their remote-controlled creation before their upcoming tournaments. Whatever they decide, it's more fun than work for them.
"It's just what we enjoy doing," Kristen said.


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Retirement home grows its own food
June 24—Residents at Southminster Retirement Community, in Charlotte, N.C., can plant, care for and eat the fruits and vegetables they are served each day.
The retirement home's community garden, which was created two years ago, is part of the center's push toward creating a more sustainable, healthier food system.
Leading this initiative is Southminster's executive chef, Kris Reid, 38, who has worked for the retirement community for three years.


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Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction to members of one's own gender. The rights of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals is a contentious political issue in much of the world, due in part to religious views on the perceived moral incorrectness of homosexuality. One particularly fierce debate at the time of this writing is the legality of gay marriage.
Many conservative Christians, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs prefer to continue current restrictions against gays, lesbians and bisexuals — including prohibition of same-sex marriage. Some advocate the restoration of laws which once criminalized same-sex behavior. Many oppose the extension of existing hate-crime laws to include sexual orientation.
The Bible on homosexuality
- In Genesis 19 , God destroys the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; some say that widespread practice of homosexuality was the main reason.
- Leviticus 18:22 : "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."
- Leviticus 20:13 : "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them."
- Deuteronomy and Kings state that there shall be no sodomites allowed in Israel.
- Romans 1:26-27 : "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence [sic] of their error which was meet."
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 : "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
- 1 Timothy 1:9-10 : "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine."
Counterarguments to the Bible's stance
- Genesis 19, while commonly held to describe the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah for the "sin" of homosexuality, more likely describes their destruction because of wickedness in general rather than just for homosexuality. They wanted to rape the angels, it makes sense that the sin was in fact rape, not consenting homosexuality.
- There is also no indication that homosexuality is somehow a more severe sin than fornication. So at worst homosexuals should be treated the same as anyone else who has sex outside of marriage. Have you ever seen an angry mob opposing unmarried couples?
- Romans 1:26-27 describes clearly how God himself made people homosexual.
Arguments for the naturalness of homosexuality
- The discovery of homosexuality in many other species, such as goats and penguins, has shown that homosexuality most likely isn't a choice, but rather something a person is born with. See Wikipedia:Non-human animal sexual behavior.


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GENEVA – St. Charles resident Nancy Luyten is bringing a taste of New Orleans to downtown Geneva.
Since 2013, Luyten has been transforming a historic house at 124 S. Second St. in downtown Geneva into a multi-level restaurant and lounge called The Patten House.
"We're going to have a New Orleans flair," Luyten said. "We have some incredibly good recipes and the house lends itself to that. It's more of a French Quarter-type menu. We're not doing the heavy fried food. We're doing a lot of seafood, poor boy sandwiches and gumbo. Some of the recipes are from chefs we've known from New Orleans."
Those who attended the 60 Men Who Cook fundraiser in April got to try the restaurant's gumbo.
"It went over well," Luyten said.
The house, located in the city's historic district, was built in 1857 by lumber man George Patten, and Luyten purchased the two-story house in March 2013. Luyten said she wanted the restaurant's name to reflect the family's heritage.
"I wanted to honor the family and the tradition of the house," Luyten said.
According to historic records, the house served as a temporary Kane County courthouse between March 1890 and September 1892, when the present courthouse, located at 100 S. 3rd St, was completed.
The project to transform the house into a restaurant is winding down, and Luyten hopes to open the restaurant's doors later this month.
"The whole property needed a lot of care," Luyten said. "When I bought the house, there were a lot of shrubs and trees on the property, and you could not even see the house."
Luyten put a new face on the house inside and out.
"We upgraded everything, including putting in new bathrooms, adding air conditioning and redoing the existing floors," she said. "It just needed to be upgraded, especially for commercial use."
At the same time, Luyten said she wanted to keep the historic feel of the house.
"We kept the integrity of everything in the house we could," she said.
Luyten turned to local businesses to help with the project, including Elburn-based Good Call Plumbing and Heating. The furniture and furnishings in the house are supplied by such local businesses as Geneva Home Works and the Strawflower Shop in Geneva.
"I wanted to stay local," she said.
Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns lauded Luyten for her efforts.
"Nancy's efforts are a quintessential example of sweat equity," Burns wrote in an email. "Her hard work, patience and attention to detail [have] resulted in a new landmark for downtown Geneva. I'm very proud of her and look forward to celebrating the grand opening of The Patten House and all that it will provide to our community."
The Patten House will feature five different dining rooms on two levels along with a bar.
"We have a lot of spaces for parties and banquets," Luyten said. The restaurant and bar will be able to seat about 150 people at one time, she said.
The Patten House will be open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Appetizers will run between $8 to $12, and entrees will be priced between $17 and $25, Luyten said.
"I don't want to be the type of restaurant that we price out anybody," she said.
Luyten said she is happy with how the project has come together.
"We've done and redone the house so it would be exactly as we wanted," she said.
Taste of the Town: Historic home converted into Patten House restaurant
GENEVA – St. Charles resident Nancy Luyten is bringing a taste of New Orleans to downtown Geneva.


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Seven hundred and eight-one thousand is the number of foreign tourists who left Iceland through Keflavík International Airport last year.
Then you have more than 100,000 visitors by cruise ship, and thousands arriving by the Norræna ferry from the continent to Seyðisfjörður in the East Fjords. Or from Greenland to Reykjavík Domestic Airport.
So last year, more than 900,000, or three times the population of Iceland, visited the Republic.
There was a 40 percent increase in tourists to Iceland in January.
How many tourists can Iceland welcome?
Daily Morgunblaðið recently had a front-page interview with Clive Stacey, the director of British travel agency Discovery. "Some of our customers have been disappointed. They thought Iceland was not so overcrowded. In some places, you can hardly move. We even recommend our customers to visit popular nature destinations like the waterfall Gullfoss and Geysir, either early in the morning or late in the evening," he said. "It can be unpopular to set rules, but if it will not be done, beautiful nature areas people are coming to Iceland to see, will be destroyed and will disappear," he added.
Hiking Laugavegur. Photo: Ragnar Axelsson (RAX).
Personally, I was shocked hiking the Laugavegur trail last summer.
For 30 years I have enjoyed the spectacle of colors and forms in the south-central highlands.
Last summer, for the first time I noticed a lot of used toilet paper and empty plastic water bottles along the trail.
The trail is as popular with Icelanders as with foreign tourists.
So the paperwork is a joint effort by all of us.
Welcome to Iceland.
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Dr. Vicki Wise who leads assessment efforts for the division of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs has recently been elected to two national assessment boards. Dr. Wise will serve on the Student Affairs Assessment Leadership (SAAL) board as well as on the Directorate Board for the American College Personnel Association's Commission for Assessment and Evaluation. Both organizations have similar missions and goals of discovering and promoting best practices in the field of assessing student learning.
"I am so proud of Vicki and all of her leadership around assessment for our division," said Dr. Jackie Balzer, Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Affairs. "Vicki's work helps PSU tell its story and her election to these two boards puts PSU at the forefront of assessment work nationally."
Dr. Wise serves as Coordinator for Assessment & Research at Portland State University. She oversees assessment, planning, and reporting for the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs. She leads PSU's Student Affairs Assessment Council, which promotes a culture of evidence of student learning and development for student services and programs.
Prior to PSU, Dr. Wise held the positions of Director of Assessment and Evaluation for the College of Education, Assistant Director for Institutional Research, and Assistant Professor/Research Administrator in the Center for Assessment and Research Studies all at James Madison University. She earned her PhD and MA degrees at the University of Nebraska in Psychological and Cultural Studies and Educational Psychology, respectively.


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Your 28 minute drum solo may infringe on Led Zeppelin copyright, do you want me to contact your lawyer?
Cause I have already contacted theirs, of course.
... actually what I want is an application that provides a singing tutor.
You need ear training. No need to buy an expensive tool for that, here's a flash program to practice intervals:
Interval Trainer [musictheory.net] (Yes, it works under Linux.)
The site has a bunch of other flash tools, but I think the interval trainer is the most useful.
Score editing was going to be my big question, so thanks for pointing that out. Any other recommendations for that area? Anyone?
Rosegarden: Pretty good.
Ardour: The 2.0 release (just out last week) is AWESOME! Get it!
CSound: I like to leave my programming mind behind when I'm working on music.
Sooperlooper: very cool
Freewheeling: also cool
Music distros this summer ought to be pretty good - with new releases scheduled for many of the music distributions.
What bothers me the most these days is plugins and soft synths. There are not enough plugins, the ones we have (like swh-plugins, tap-plugins, caps-plugins, and cmt) aren't heavily optimized for modern architectures (I just spent a weekend working on that) and not enough people out there do dsp programming (myself included) to really gain critical mass for the "perfect EQ" or the "perfect reverb". Still, the plugin solutions are adaquate, just not generally something to rave about. If you know a dsp programmer bored in his day job, show him 64 studio [ferventsoftware.com] or Studio to go [ferventsoftware.com] and try to enlist his/her help!
Soft Synths are coming along. Linuxsampler [linuxsampler.org] is very nice. Bristol is coming along. There are quite a few more.
I think Linux music is on the brink of plausible promise. I've got 16 tracks of live audio working almost flawlessly right now.
Ardour: The 2.0 release (just out last week) is AWESOME! Get it!
Binaries are available only for OSX. For those not on OSX, you can build it yourself. See http://ardour.org/building [ardour.org] for build instructions, or http://ardour.org/building_vst_support [ardour.org] for building it with support for VST plugins. You can currently get the VST 2.3 SDK from a link on Steinberg's 3rd Party Developers [steinberg.de] page.
Ubuntu users should read UbuntuStudioPreparation [ubuntu.com] ("Setting up your system for an audio workstation...")
I built with scons VST
What a flailing exaggeration. You haven't actually tried Ardour [ardour.org] have you. What are these fatal flaws you speak of? Let's hear it.Each shows promise, but all of them have fatal flaws that make them useless for anything but the most basic recording
What a flailing exaggeration. You haven't actually tried Ardour have you. What are these fatal flaws you speak of? Let's hear it.
RME-Audio Multiface - up to 14 channels of sweet sounding 96khz/24 bit converters - 8 line inputs + ADAT + SPDIF
Prosonus Digimax FS - 8 nice pre's with an ADAT out.
Dual processor opteron (3 years old) - with 3GB of ram. Given the huge samples I use (bardstown bosendorfer being one), I have linuxsampler compiled for 128 voices, and configured to use up 1.6GB of ram all by itself.
4 drives in a striped terabyte.
System works way better than my motu ever did under the evil os - works like a champ at latency levels down to 1.5ms. I generally run at 5.2ms however, as I tend to run linuxsampler+rosegarden+ardour+hydrogen a lot. One day soon I hope to get a dual core with 8GB of ram.
The RME-audio design might be 5+ years old, but it's still superior to "normal" firewire, IMHO. The fact that I have both PCI and PCMCIA cards for it means I can take the gear on the road easily...
Rest of the machine: a bunch of edirol midi converters (they just work), a roland XV88, and PodXT (fully supported by rosegarden) - the M-audio keyboard.... Dual heads provided by a 19 dollar matrox M450 card. I tried the latest nvidia card in this machine, could never get it to work...
Last important note:
[m@mingus ~]$ uptime 09:23:22 up 12 days, 6 min, 11 users, load average: 1.39, 1.31, 1.33
Somehow it seems that - if I'm going to run music software such as Rosegarden or Ardour - that I shouldn't have to setup a server to do it.
You actually don't need JACK running to use Rosegarden at all (at least in the Ubuntu build it's never required). But from the way your post reads, it seems as though you don't quite understand the benefits of running JACK. The JACK server provides low-latency audio routing between different JACK-enabled applications and sound hardware. This means that every JACK-enable
I guess I don't know JACK.In my systems - all running SUSE 10.1 or 10.2 - the JACK server is required. I'll try one of the pre-setup systems.
I would love for free and cheap solutions to present themselves, i think musical programs as well as most programs are overly expensive for what they are, but given the choice between a 600 dollar mac mini with garageband, or fiddling around in linux to get something to work, a lot of the type of people I know musicians to be are going to go with the former.
I note that even more popular than Ardour 2 on linux is Ardour 2 on Mac OSX.
Eh? Ardour has only just been ported to the Mac. Many people have been running Ardour on Linux for years.
Regardless, I wouldn't want to run a DAW used for production on an Aqua, Gnome or KDE desktop environment. The ideal is a low-latency Linux kernel, an RME Hammerfall and a light WM/DE like Fluxbox or XFCE - that's before we start talking about the metal (fast IDE transfer, RAM and PCI (or firewire) bus speeds).
While Ubuntu St [ubuntustudio.org]
Isn't the point, or rather than the point, the by-product of free software like Linux to turn software deployment into a service? I understand how for a musician, it's preferable to just get a Mac because it just works rather than to fiddle around with Linux for a week. But shouldn't that create a market for cheaper-than-macs, semi-pro systems custom-made by Linux geeks? I can see a service where a programmer or developer could specialize in audio hardware and software for Linux, and m
I had this happen in the middle of a critical, paid gig, and I lost not only a lot of money, but a lot of respect from the customer. I was incredibly angry, as you might imagine, and resolved to never again be dependent on code I couldn't fix.
100 bucks a year for sonar upgrades wasn't worth it as my bugs weren't getting fixed.
So... After begging the motu guys *for years* for specs for their board so I could write a driver for linux, and/or begging them for a driver, and getting the same "hell, no" response over and over again...
1) I researched companies that had a good history of linux support, and chose the RME-audio multiface.
2) Publically denounced motu's squareheadedness as loudly and bitterly as possible. I sold my motu 24i's to a dedicated mac-head.
3) Threw out my windows PC and Sonar and upgraded to a dual opteron 64 bit linux box...
I sold the used Motu 24is for something like 400 dollars each. I haven't upgraded my sonar in a few years - so I've saved at least 300-400 bucks in upgrade fees, just on sonar. Gigastudio has come out with a few new versions (but is worth buying just for the sample libraries). There's a new windows version out - doesn't work terribly well for 64 bit, and costs some serious money.
So, all in all, throwing windows out of the studio entirely has resulted in:
1) Vastly improved reliability, with an os (linux-rt)truly targeted at multimedia
2) A huge cost savings in software, letting me buy much better hardware
3) I can run all my applications on a single dual-core machine with very low latency
4) A sense of satisfaction of "sticking it to the man"
5) The ability to participate in the process at any level you might choose. In my case, I've been speeding up plugins lately...
A windows based platform costs a lot more than linux platform. Windows + Sonar + Gigastudio is nearly a thousand dollar investment just in software. Linux + ardour + rosegarden + linuxsampler are subscriber supported.
wget is patient...
Linux: It's Not Just For Computer Geeks Anymore
By Carl Lumma [keyboardmag.com] | May 2007
You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.
For years, Linux has enjoyed market leadership as a server operating system -- Google's servers run it, for starters -- while struggling with the stigma that it isn't polished enough for desktop use. Those days are over, and word is getting out. Linux is quickly becoming the OS you'd set up for your grandmother, with no fuss over activation, software updates, or viruses. Unlike any version of Windows or Mac OS, Linux is open-source. What does this mean to musicians? For starters, there are no company secrets to keep or non-disclosure agreements to sign, so software developers and users alike can get on the same page very quickly, speeding the flow of bug fixes and feature additions.
Linux demands more nuts-and-bolts computer knowledge for pro audio than for web browsing, but if you've ever tried to troubleshoot a latency or driver issue on a store-bought laptop, you're probably still listening. If you upgrade your hard drive, you won't have to reactivate all your apps due to the hardware change, and when you discover a cool tool or workflow, you can share it with friends without them shelling out hundreds of dollars or resorting to piracy. With the exception of Linux versions that include commercial tech support, most everything in the Linux world is free for the asking, Many developers accept voluntary donations, which we encourage you to make.
Let's look over the shoulder of Aaron Krister-Johnson, the keyboardist and choir director at Temple Sholom in Chicago. He also composes incidental music for local theater, and is half of the electronica duo Divide by Pi, Keyboard's June '04 unsigned artist of the month. The core of his home studio is a PC running Linux (see Figure 1).
To obtain Linux, you download a particular distribution or "distro," which is a particular version of Linux someone put together, for free or a donation. Some distros are available boxed at very low cost. Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com [ubuntu.com]) is popular for home-computer tasks, but Aaron uses Zenwalk (www.zenwalk.org [zenwalk.org]). Software compiled for a particular distro will only run on that distro, so most come with several free applications that you can install along with the basic OS. We recommend Fedora (www.fedoraproject.org [fedoraproject.org]), because you can then install the Planet CCRMA package (ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software [stanford.edu]), which includes just about every Linux audio application in existence.
Speaking of music applications, the most popular DAW for Linux is Ardour, and Aaron also uses JACK (see "You Don't Know JACK?" below), a soft synth called ZynSubAddFx, and an arpeggiator he wrote called Pymidichaos. Some distros come with binaries -- apps that have been compiled, i.e. converted from the programming language the developers used to the ones and zeroes computers understand at their innermost level. Three such distros are meant to provide install-and-go solutions for Linux-curious musicians: Studio to Go (www.ferventsoftware.com [ferventsoftware.com]), Musix (www.musix.org.ar/en [musix.org.ar]) and 64Studio (www.64studio.com [64studio.com]).
But sooner or later (most likely sooner), you're going to have to take some groovy, free program you've downloaded and compile it yourself. This is where musicians used to commercial software might get scared off. Fear not, and remember that all the actual pr
I've been an independant recording musician/songwriter for a number of years now, and have worked under Linux and Windows.
Linux is certainly a usable platform, but it can't do everything. Ardour is great (from the screenshots and reviews I've seen, at least - never been able to actually INSTALL the sucker, because of the dep. hell), but as far as synthesizing goes, the choices are less than ideal (in my opinion).
I use Windows for my needs, primarily, and it has served me well. There are a variety of great resources available - sure, for a cost - but the quality is superb. I use Reason 3.0 to sequence simple orchestral work for my new albums, and can do strings, piano, synthesizers, anything, with a rich, controllable sound quality. Not to mention the fact that there are a number of EXCELLENT refills/samples available for it. I also use Reason to sequence my percussion - ranging from funk jazz to industrial.
I use Cooledit Pro 1.2 - an old multitrack recording program - to record and mix. It's cheap, and it works very well without being resource intensive.
I'm not a fan of Csound, nor do I really like much of the other alternatives in the Linux market. I did use Audacity to record and master some monologues for a play a while back, and Rosegarden to do some sequencing/songwriting. Rosegarden is actually a superb piece of software - for sequencing. IIRC, that's all it can do. If you've got your external instruments hooked up properly, I'm sure it'd be perfect. I can't afford to buy all the outboard gear I'd need to match what I have with Windows based softsynths.
I was looking forward to Ubuntu Studio [ubuntu.com] for Ubuntu 7.04 to pull together a useful collection of packages related to music production. But despite a website that shows a lot of polish, it's at least a month out of date (the homepage still says, "Coming in April").
Does anyone know what's up with that project?
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of Ubuntu Studio 7.04 will be delayed. Progress is happening rapidly, but we will not be estimating the duration of the delay."
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It's still Thanksgiving time at 432 Columbia in Coulee Dam.
The resident, Carol Netzel, sets the table twice a day and feeds anywhere from four to 14 visitors.
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The deer include two bucks, several doe and a handful of rash youngsters.
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It doesn't feel like so long ago that the 2013/14 season was just getting underway, does it?
We remember it well. Franco Baldini was being hailed as a genius for his transfer dealings at Tottenham, Arsene Wenger was under incredible pressure and Manchester United were trying desperately to sign a midfielder. Any midfielder.
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Note: For teams promoted this season, three points have been awarded on the basis that each team we've looked would be favourites. Remember doing the Pools? A bit like that.
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Tottenham's hopes of landing £10m-rated Hamburg star Heung-Min Son this summer have suffered a setback as Borussia Dortmund have joined the race, according to the London Evening Standard.
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