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How big a danger is match-fixing, doping etc?Is our sport clean? Absolutely. We've got to make sure that we are all over this. I think it's a messaging issue, because I don't see it as an issue. When you actually talk to players…some of those top guys, the rivalry at the World Tour Finals this year, they're not playing for the money, they're so naturally competitive.But isn't the problem more at the lower levels, where money is scarce?
I would say that filters down. We've got to make sure (players get) education, players coming through, about their responsibility, what the issues are, how to avoid them, reporting any contact. We're working with the Tennis Integrity Unit. Am I going to be focusing on making sure doping and gambling are a major priority? Yes, absolutely, because we have to ensure the sport is clean, which I wholeheartedly think it is.
Taking a close look at doping control in professional tennis. How stringent is it? We also look at other issues related to the integrity of the sport.
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- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2014 at 2:03 AM
Given that tennis has just last year had both gambling problems lower down the ranks, and doping violations quite high up, which are in all likelihood merely the iceberg's tip, this guy is either a slick PR man or seriously naive.ReplyDelete
His comments are not quite as bad as Stuart Miller's when he first started talking out of his ear, which says something about how bad Stuart Miller is.
'...We have to ensure the sport is clean, which I wholeheartedly think it is.'ReplyDelete
What a conflicted comment. I have trouble trusting someone who is sure that doping is not going on to take action against possible doping. If he'd said 'ensure the sport STAYS clean' then his statement would at least be consistent, though still hugely naive.
"we have to make sure that the players get education...".ReplyDelete
This is what the Spanish authorities say. They even had NADAL educating young Spanish athletes, on the dangers of doping. LOL.
Of course, the athletes know of the dangers, but are willing to take the risk for the prestige, and money. The solution is NOT "education", and they know this.
The solution is giving a body that has no conflict of interest, and the will to catch the CHEATS, the job of catching the CHEATS. Without the will to catch the CHEATS (which clearly sports authorities do not have, since their primary goal is to promote the sport), any "effort" to keep doping out of the game is purely window dressing.
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First of all, there is performance enhancing going on in all sports, including tennis. And, everyone is doing it. So, there is NO UNFAIR ADVANTAGE!! Hope you get it. That's how Roger can play five-set matches at 32; Novak can go from an asthmatic, wheezing kid to Hercules, outlasting and outplaying everyone (that and his Gluten free diet!!); Rafa can keep playing competitively with 70-year-old's knees; Andy Murray can go from a puny, scrawny kid to one with buffed biceps and six-pack abs; David Ferrer can run like the Energizer bunny from now till next Tuesday at age 32; Tsonga, Monfils, Nishikori, Karlovic, Isner, and other injury prone players can come back time after time from multiple injuries and still be able to quickly get back their old rankings.ReplyDelete
Second, tennis is not solely about who hits the ball the hardest and who runs the fastest or longest. It is as much about creativity, anticipation, mental focus, and confidence. In a sense it has more similarities to chess than it does to a sport. So, regardless of how much PEDs a player takes, if he cannot be creative, anticipate an opponent's shot, read the serve, be confident enough to avoid self-doubt in the crucial points of the match, and remain focused through 20+ shot rallies, he doesn't have a shot of winning the match. That's what sets apart the greats, not PEDs.Replies
'Novak can go from an asthmatic, wheezing kid to Hercules, outlasting and outplaying everyone'Delete
Not the most concrete argument for every player doping.
Everybody is using drugs? Of course. For treatment of injuries, illness but NOT to be used as competitive advantage. I can also call it "confidence", by knowing that I can run faster longer etc.Delete
From all players you mentioned above:
Federer: bad statement: every 30+ players can play 5 sets, it is not the set but how you play that matters most
Novak:pretty good statement of doping possibilities
Rafa: the best statement of all, how can 70 years old knees can play tennis, or maybe his knees are okay but somehow he needs to fabricate such condition
Andy Murray: not very convincing, very common skinny kids works out to get bigger muscles
Ferrer: runner up to Rafa, looked pretty much the same
Others: tsonga: where is he now? And maybe if not because of injury they can be no.1, but none of them I heard getting a serious knee injury like the one at the top of the ranking with 14000plus points. So, not a convincing statement
Everybody is using drugs? Of course. For treatment of injuries, illness but NOT to be used as competitive advantage. I can also call it "confidence", by knowing that I can run faster longer etc.Delete
From all players you mentioned above:
Federer: bad statement: every 30+ players can play 5 sets, it is not the set but how you play that matters most
Novak:pretty good statement of doping possibilities
Rafa: the best statement of all, how can 70 years old knees can play tennis, or maybe his knees are okay but somehow he needs to fabricate such condition
Andy Murray: not very convincing, very common skinny kids works out to get bigger muscles
Ferrer: runner up to Rafa, looked pretty much the same
Others: tsonga: where is he now? And maybe if not because of injury they can be no.1, but none of them I heard getting a serious knee injury like the one at the top of the ranking with 14000plus points. So, not a convincing statement
Ah, the "no unfair advantage" excuse combined with the "they all do it" excuse.ReplyDelete
That's the excuses the Lance Armstrong fans used.
I am guessing you are a Nadal fan.
The most fundamental principle of the scientific method is that you must have a hypothesis that can be disproved. The only hypothesis in that context for anti-doping is that doping exists. If you make that assumption (right or wrong) as an anti-doping official, then you can aggressively try to disprove it by testing and other procedures.ReplyDelete
On the other hand, if you begin with the assumption that everybody is clean, then it's automatically a self-fulfilling prophecy (because there is nothing to disprove).Replies
In as eloquent a nutshell as always, sir.Delete
Eloquent, maybe... but also complete nonsense. Disproving that everybody is clean is very easy. You just need to catch one doped player. The only hypothesis that is nearly impossible to disprove, is that everybody is doping because that means that the authorities would have to test every player.Delete
It depends on the semantic values with regards to the burden of proof. You can treat a negative as a reverse positive in a lot of cases, such as 'IS maintaining speed' compared with 'ISN'T altering speed'. The problem with assuming what I would call the negative in this case is that the assumed condition is satisfactory in it's current non-disproved state, on paper. Assuming doping exists (extremely likely) creates an unsatisfactory position that more urgently requires disproof.Delete
You are strictly correct, however.
"When you actually talk to players…some of those top guys, the rivalry at the World Tour Finals this year, they're not playing for the money, they're so naturally competitive."ReplyDelete
+++There's nothing "natural" about Nadal... (ok, bad joke, but that's a terrible quote on top of a few others in such a short blurb...; that CEO/PR man sounds pretty lacklustre and I feel has a shot at outdoing Stuart Miller in the dumb commentary department. Not the start to 2014 I was hoping for on the ATP front, but what else is new. :-/).
Meanwhile, Swedish hockey player Nicklas Backstrom missed the gold medal game against Canada because he got popped for doping.
Pro hockey players have been getting bigger, and bigger through the years, even though the population as a whole has stayed the same size. The most important stat that the teams use to recruit, is height. It's the first thing that they look at when deciding whether to draft a junior player, or not. Not goals scored, assists, +/-, nor any other performance based stat.ReplyDelete
You think that teenaged prospects don't know this ? Getting to the pros is their whole life. Do you think a significant percentage of these prospects would seek out some edge like growth hormones ?
The number of players getting concussions in the NHL have skyrocketed in the last few years.
I strongly suspect that the bigger (due to growth hormones and steroids) players hitting each other harder has a lot to do with this.
My guess is that more than half of the pro hockey players are on something.Replies
I agree. But try having a debate on the subject up here... Most of the pundits seem to be of the jockstrap sniffing kind a.k.a. guys who live through the hockey players they follow each day. When the topic of doping is broached in hockey telecasts, it is generally quickly refuted by the well-trodden "but it's a skill sport!" argument. To which I say compare hockey games from 1994 to today: the pace at which today's game is played at is considerably faster and most consistently physical. Today you see a playoff game in early June and guys never seem to get tired. Definitely fishy.Delete
Name a sport that is clean. Figure skating? Ping-Pong?ReplyDeleteReplies
maybe curling?Delete
The gold medal winning team from this years Olympics had a team member busted for doping, just last year.
Here they are. Hardly a traditional curling build amongst them.
If they are doping in Curling, do you think they might be doping in something FAR more physical like tennis ?Delete
Well, do ya think ?
A Russian figure skater admitted a doping offence this year....Delete
There have been doping positives in yachting, chess, table tennis, archery, horse racing, bobsledding, I can go on and on. But tennis is 100% clean according to Kermode. To him (and several others in the ITF/ATP/WTA), every other sport has doping problems but tennis. Yeah right.Delete
Tennis is not only FAR more physical than curling, but fame and money to be obtained can be much more tempting to try the dark side. Just go to the street and ask people who they think is their favorite curler currently, how many top 20 curlers they know by name and nationality, and who they think is the GOAT men and female curler :-)Delete
Cilic seems to be playing better than ever after being banned for what? 4 months? for failing a doping test. So far this year he's won 2 tournaments and made the final of another. Every player should get caught doping if it has this effect.ReplyDeleteReplies
We know from Nadal, and Serena, that the time off is just used to cycle down,so they can get ready for the next "heroic" comeback.Delete
And I'm sure this year will be nothing but commentators talking about "brave" Cilic overcoming those meanies at doping controls who had the temerity to bust him for doping.Delete
"Is our sport clean, absolutely"ReplyDelete
Kermode has been working with the top 8 in the WTFs for the last few years. He's obviously pretty cozy with the guys that draw the big bucks...... Maybe he was thinking more about match-fixing in that response (where it is indeed less likely at the highest levels). If as quoted, though, the comment indeed also encompassed doping, I'm disgusted. Non-issue? PR problem? ... No words.
Football: Spanish Court confirms Le Monde defamation judgementReplyDelete
The Spanish Supreme Court on Monday ordered French daily newspaper Le Monde to pay football giants Real Madrid and Barcelona more than 300,000 euros ($412,000) in damages for defamation.
The court upheld a judgment against the newspaper and journalist Stephane Mandard over a 2006 article about doping, which had earlier been confirmed on appeal.
Le Monde must pay Real Madrid 300,000 euros and Dr Alfonso del Corral, the director of the Real medical department, 30,000 euros.
The newpaper was also ordered to pay Barcelona 15,000 euros in damages, reduced from the original 300,000 euros on a technicality, as the club had forgotten to include the original awarded total in the appeal documents.
The case concerned an article, published in December 2006 under the headline "Doping: football after cycling".
It claimed a link between Real Madrid, Barcelona, Real Betis and Valencia and notorious Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who was sentenced to a year in prison and banned from practising medicine for four years in 2013 for providing doping products to cyclists in what was known as 'Operation Puerto'.
The Supreme Court said the article was without doubt of general interest but was defamatory because Le Monde's facts could not be proven to be true as the journalist had not provided enough evidence to back them up.
The SPANISH authorities have done everything to protect their doping "heroes". Like the ruling to destroy the Fuentes blood bags. Or the ruling to "exonerate" Marta Dominguez. Or the ruling to "investigate the Spanish police over "operation Galgo".
Any ruling coming out of SPANISH courts is irrelevant.
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Of the top players are ALL doing something, some of it is legal, special diets, long hours in the gym, longer hours on court, an entourage of physiotherapists, doctors, trainers, but the marquee players aren't sticking to the laxly enforced rules in order to extend their careers. Also, there's no such thing as a level playing field, genetic predisposition does a decent job of putting a winning margin's distance between the legends, the great players and the journeymen who are fortunate just to be eking out a meager living. Among the Mt. Rushmore caliber players, confidence, focus, mental strength, repertoire of shots, youth vs. experience, the presence of injuries, combine to determine the outcome on any given day. 4 players have now won 35 out of the last 37 GS events, 2 of those 4 have been imperiously dominant amid a group that's been utterly dominant, my guess is that this elite group of super achievers has access to better drugs, better injury prevention technologies and enjoy a level of privilege in the form of the sport's governing bodies turning a blind eye to whatever illegal methods they're employing to sustain such a staggering level of consistency and excellence. The field isn't level; sports aren't fair and cheating is the rule, not the exception. I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve, :-)ReplyDelete


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I would say it is the most flexible alignment tool for Sublime ever exists.
Table mode
This looks interesting (and complicated . I'll definitively give it a try.
it's complicated, but you have controls of everything.
1) Use regular expression rather than pre-defined delimiters.2) Options to control left/right/center alignment.3) Maximum number of splits.
is it possible to specify multiple characters to align on?For example open and closing braces.
foo (bar)
foo1 (bar1)
No idea what you mean... You must specify a regular expression, not a character.Isn't (.*?) working for this example ?
thanks, yes your regex is working for the example above. However, I want to align also on all closing braces (sorry, i forgot that in the example above).
Thus, from
foo (bar )
foo1 (bar1)
Not sure it works.This plugin give me headaches every time I use it
Its working! Thanks a lot!
I have updated the plugin to make it more friendly to new users.Check it out~github.com/randy3k/AlignTab
Thank you very much for such a great plugin!
I love this plug in! But one small hiccup with any == found. They become = = when aligning to first =so this:
$fieldAutoPopulate == ("true") ? $autoPop = "checked" : $autoPop = "";
$fieldAutoPopulate = = ("true") ? $autoPop = "checked" : $autoPop = "";
and it doesn't work anymore.
however, if you use this, it will align the equal sign in
$autoPop = "checked"
Auto line detection will become not reliable in this situation.In this case, you may want to highlight the piece of code before applying the alignment.
FWIW -- I outlined a useful (?) use case for tabular data in Markdown here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12606&start=10#p49982
Not sure it works.This plugin give me headaches every time I use it [/quote]
That's why you can save the regexp as a predefined pattern, so your head only will ache once.
I am now opening a wiki page for examples.So, it would be nice if you can provide your examples to the wiki~
Awesome plugin, thank you! But how do you turn off Table Mode?
while you are in table mode, you can press to escape table mode
Would you mind removing the context menuitems and place these in commands instead? These take the place of Cut, Copy and PasteCurrently maintain the ontology of the menus, is complicated, because we lack some sort of organization.. and mutations(features).. but everyone can help..
not works. Text is still aligned and statusbar still shows "[Table Mode]"
P.S: Using Regex is very slow when aligning large table (painful when in Table Mode). This makes SublimeTableEditor superior in speed.Maybe an option to disable Regex possible?
should exit the table mode. could you tell me what version of st and platform you are using?
SublimeTableEditor is definitely superior in a lot of aspects in table editing as aligntab aims for general purpose. However, i am working in a way to improve the speed.

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First there was Mike Bigg. Early census effort started in 1976 and was motivated by concern about the captures for aquariums which took out about 50 animals. 1976-1984 habitat use was very similar to current critical habitat! Most encounters May-October, with J pod present year-round.
Ken and Mike worried about how to ID babies. They discovered that eye patches were unique. J44 has a nice Moby Dick patch and has been seen with J 17 (possible mother). J45 was first seen by Jeanne.
The population was about 70 when they started and got up to close to 100 before declining in the 1990s. Ken took news of the decline to the Hawaii meeting with the "God Squad."
In 2006, the matrilines had about 24 reproductive-aged females. Looking forward 5-10 years, there is potential for about 19 babies, but about 40% will die as neonates. So there is potential for growth, but you have to feed them and there is the question of rising concentrations of PCBs and PBDEs, etc.
L60 died at Long Beach, WA in April, 2002, at age 30. Her ovaries (corpus albicans) indicated she had been pregnant about 7 times, though she had only two surviving offspring. Was she too starved to support those babies, or were contaminants the culprit?
Both L and K pod have been sighted as far south as Monterrey during the winter. J pod has been seen as far south as Newport, Oregon. John Ford detected J pod at N end of Queen Charlottes and Spong has reported southern residents returning through Johnstone Strait.
Ford et al, 2005 showed that decline in both N and S residents was correlated with W Coast Chinook stocks. Every day from May to October, there were 70 seiners working the west side of San Juan Island. 595,000 Chinook were caught each year back then and that's about what we need to feed the southern residents.
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Create your own character with your own personality traits. Go for the glory. Or go for the gold. Map 12 levels of dark, underground mazes and nearly 600 rooms as you encounter skeletal bats, ghouls, zombies, and other unpleasant creatures of middle earth. And hear new sound effects that'll send chills down your monitor.
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Rogue.This is one classic that's definitely not for beginners. Thousands have explored its 26 ominous levels. Maybe two have made it out in one piece. It's a world of underground mazes, bizarre places and magical treasures. Rogue has a mythology all its own, with one fatal reality. It's never the same game twice. So forget mapping. This one's on pure intuition and brainpower.
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Never the same game twice. That's quite a promise. But it's the reason this classic continues to be the most popular game on college mainframe computers. ROGUE is so full of unpredictable monsters, ever-changing magic and hidden dangers that it's never the same game twice.
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Before start of spring, Dunn trains with the troops
MIAMI -- Marlins reliever Mike Dunn is getting a head start on the discipline and dedication it takes to endure the daily grind of Spring Training.
This week, Dunn is taking part in Fox Sports' salute to the military. The initiative is bringing Spring Training to the troops at Fort Bragg U.S. Army post in North Carolina.
MIAMI -- Marlins reliever Mike Dunn is getting a head start on the discipline and dedication it takes to endure the daily grind of Spring Training.
This week, Dunn is taking part in Fox Sports' salute to the military. The initiative is bringing Spring Training to the troops at Fort Bragg U.S. Army post in North Carolina.
The past few mornings, Dunn has been up at 5:30 a.m. ET to run a mile in step with the rest of his group. The lefty has trained, dined and interacted with the soldiers.
From a baseball perspective, Dunn has taken part in clinics and meet-and-greet sessions, sharing his experiences of playing the national pastime.
"It's been awesome," Dunn said in a phone interview. "Every moment of it has been unique by itself. To sit down with some of these soldiers and catch their stories, to get to know them a little bit, it's been amazing."
The Marlins' primary left-handed reliever, Dunn is expected to take on a big role with the organization once Spring Training gets underway on Feb. 16 at the Roger Dean Stadium complex in Jupiter, Fla.
The 28-year-old had been doing his regular offseason throwing at his home in Las Vegas.
On Feb. 1, with his family, Dunn traveled to Jupiter to handle his Spring Training accommodations. Before heading to Fort Bragg, he threw a bullpen session at Roger Dean Stadium.
Dunn arrived at Fort Bragg on Tuesday, where he hooked up with several current and former players, coaches and managers. Also participating are Chris Archer (Rays), Gabe Kapler (former player and current FOX Sports TV analyst), Royce Clayton (former player), Chris Hammond (former player) and Bob Brenly (D-backs announcer and former manager).
Dunn takes pride in reaching out to those in uniform. He showed that in 2013 with his involvement in the "Little Warrior Project," which brought children from military families to Marlins Park each Monday. The children and their families had field access, where they met with Dunn and watched batting practice
"I spent time with soldiers, their families, the wounded warriors," Dunn said. "So my perspective changed every time I met those guys."
For Dunn, spending the week at Fort Bragg was another way to give back to those who serve the country.
"When you talk to the troops, they talk from the heart," Dunn said. "They truly believe in what they're doing. It's amazing to see the dedication they have, and they are doing it all for us, the average person."
On the military post, Dunn took part in physical training. He's fired various weapons and survived a controlled 34-foot tower jump.
One drill was medical simulation training. It's designed to condition medics to go into the field and rescue the wounded. Dunn was handed a weapon that looked like a machine gun, but it actually fired paintballs. So he basically enjoyed playing an army version of paintball.
"It was a lot of fun," Dunn said.
The whole experience has shown Dunn how much attention the troops pay to precision and detail.
"When you're running a mile, you're not just running," Dunn said. "Your feet have to be in step, like you're marching in the same sequence as everybody else. The discipline that they have, it's truly amazing."
As an organization, the Marlins have actively supported the troops. Team representatives just returned from an overseas visit to military bases, which included a stop in Kuwait.
Dunn had interest in attending, but the visit was pushed from early January to Jan. 27-Feb. 3. Because it was so close to the start of Spring Training, no players on the roster attended. But in years past, Marlins players did make the trips.
Dunn was hoping to take part in the 2011 trek to Japan, Guam and Hawaii. But those plans were cancelled after he learned his wife was pregnant.
At Fort Bragg, Dunn is getting the full experience, complete with a history lesson.
After leaving North Carolina, Dunn will return to South Florida in preparation for the Marlins' Spring Training. He will carry with him more reminders that others are devoting their lives to serving their country.
"Their desire and their dedication, you can see it," Dunn said. "You can hear it in their voices, how much they care about what they're doing. It's just amazing, their attention to detail on everything."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro.


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The old roman bridge over the river Sarca in Ceniga is a popular spot for taking a bath in the refreshing water. It can easily be reached on the cycle path from Arco. The local kids jump from the bridge 7 m into the river.
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol consists of two provinces: Trento and Bolzano-Bozen. The region was part of Austria-Hungary (and its predecessor, the Austrian Empire) from 1815 until its annexation by Italy in 1919. Together with the Austrian state of Tyrol it is represented by the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino.More informations on Wikipedia


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A recent article on Inside Retailing Australia describes how Aussies have gone mobile shopping mad.
"In 2010 so far, Australian consumers bought more than one million items on eBay via mobile devices."
This is double the number of people who were using their mobiles to shop just seven months earlier.
Interestingly, eBay's mobile sales in Australia are growing faster than they are in any other country with Aussies buying one item every 15 seconds.
These are very promising indicators but eBay is just one site. I'm keen to see if this sort of behavior is seen across the board with other retailers. How is the Combined Taxis App going? What about the pizza chains non-voice mobile offerings?


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Trader1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Logo examples of Idefsys may be written in all caps as well as completely spelling out Information Defense Systems.
Idefsys - Information Defense Systems
Keeping America's Information safe
Idefsys is a log management, log compliance company offering information security, database monitoring and system integrity for a variety of businesses types.
- Possibly a Black and Silver color scheme
- Institutional
- Clean
- Cutting edge
- Professional look
- cartoon looks
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Virtuosic death / thrashers REVOCATION has announced a five-week North American tour in support of their brand new album Chaos of Forms. The tour will kick off in late January and be alongside CHILDREN OF BODOM and ELUVEITIE. A listing of confirmed tour dates and cities can be found below with tickets going on sale this Friday, November 11th.
REVOCATION recently completed a video for the new album's track "No Funeral". The clip was lensed with acclaimed director David Brodsky of MyGoodEye NYC (Municipal Waste, The Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Devin Townsend Project) and will see a November release.
REVOCATION Tour Dates:
***All dates from Jan. 30 – March 4th w/ CHILDREN OF BODOM, ELUVEITIE & THREAT SIGNAL**
1/30 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
1/31 Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
2/2 Grand Rapids, MI @ Intersection
2/3 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
2/4 Sauget, IL @ Pop's
2/6 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
2/7 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
2/9 Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
2/10 Salt Lake city, UT @ he Complex
2/11 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
2/13 Santa Ana, CA @ Yost Theatre
2/14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
2/15 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
2/17 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
2/18 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
2/19 Lubbock, TX @ The Pavilion
2/21 Austin, TX @ Emo's East
2/22 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
2/24 Louisville, KY @ Expo Five
2/25 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
2/26 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
2/27 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
2/29 Quebec City, QC @ Imperial
3/1 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
3/2 Huntington, NY @ The Paramount Theater
3/3 Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
3/4 Baltimore, MD @ Ram's Head Live
Updated REVOCATION news and tour information will be made available at the Relapse Records website, the REVOCATION Facebook and MySpace pages.


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THE FLY: A SURVIVAL ROOM ESCAPE created by titobruni. Mod for "GEARS OF WAR" based in SILENT HILL universe and another horrors books, TV and FILMs. VERSION 2.0. your obejetive, like others room escapes, is exit to the exterior. you are traped in some strange flat. it´s not your home... it´s dark and some stragers and creppy sounds arround of you... you want to exit. you need to escape... an horrible story about flies. you must use the key "USE" to explorer the room and take objects... i recomend configured the control with the left mouse botton for "use/look"... i want make a MOd about the "room escape" games and "survival horror", something like "SURVIVAL ROOM ESCAPE" thanks everybody, and sorry my English again!!... and if you have some problem with something, controls, puzzles, instalations, etc..., please, post it. i will respond you in short time... see you and thanks again!
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AfriGeneas Caribbean Research Forum
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The AfriGeneas Chat Rooms & Announcements
Open 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week for all AfriGeneas visitors, except
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NDIG needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Spit Fire BBQ
We're a web development company that is counting on some great crowd sourcing ideas from this great community of artists. Our client, Spit Fire BBQ, is looking for an illustration that can be used as part of an overall branding strategy in print and online.
That means that we will adapt the illustration you develop for logo, web, product stickers, etc.
Our target audience is weekend barbecue enthusiasts and sports fans throughout the United States, Tailgaters and grillers of all types throughout the Midwest, Texas, Florida and the southern U.S. Middle to upper income folks who would rather be out tailgating than sitting behind a computer all day.
We won't be using your logo to develop the typical Famous Dave's type barbecue web site with red checkered tablecloths, etc. Spit Fire BBQ will be a community of weekend barbecue enthusiasts and we need a fun, crazy illustration that reflects it.
Our vision for the logo? We want to see a pig with a chef's hat in the pilot's seat of an old British Spitfire plane. (Google one if the image does not immediately come to mind.) We've even thought of maybe getting completely wacky and having the pig-piloted plane flying over hot coals, but that's your call.
We're crowd sourcing this illustration because we want to see a bunch of ideas for pulling this look off, so feel free to experiment. Count on plenty of feedback. The illustration could be photo-realistic or cartoonish. The whole concept is a work in progress, so go for it. The more different and fun the better.
The color scheme is yours to invent. We'll want an EPS or high resolution PSD file that we can use to adapt the finished illustration for logos, web, print, etc. The image must be something we can copyright, so no clip art, etc.
Also, I am attaching a logo for a flying pig barbecue restaurant in Nevada ... we don't want a logo that is too similar to this one because ... well, it's not ours and they chose this particular look first.
That's all. Take some chances, have some and show us what you can do!
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It's time for hockey at Dodger Stadium, as famed announcer Vin Scully might say.
The Kings and Ducks will face off Jan. 25 on a portable rink constructed atop the iconic baseball field made famous by Dodgers greats like Sandy Koufax, Steve Garvey, Fernando Valenzuela and Matt Kemp, the NHL announced Monday.
The game will be part of the NHL's Stadium Series, the first regular-season game contested outdoors in Southern California. The puck will drop a few minutes past 7 p.m., in order to ensure the best possible ice conditions at the ballpark.
"With their meeting in the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series, the Ducks and the Kings will write the next chapter in the exciting story of NHL hockey in Southern California," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement.
"At a venue that represents so much glorious sports history, this matchup of Stanley Cup champions will raise our outdoor initiatives to bold new heights. We know the game will be a treat for our fans and we thank the Ducks, the Kings … and the Los Angeles Dodgers for bringing this to life."
The Ducks, the Stanley Cup champions in 2007, began play in the NHL in 1993-94. The Kings, who won the Cup last June, joined the league when it expanded from six to 12 teams in 1967-68. Their rivalry largely has been in the stands rather than on the ice.
The teams advanced to the playoffs this spring for only the second time in 20 seasons.
However, there is a chance they could meet for the first time in a playoff series. If the Ducks defeat the Detroit Red Wings in their first-round series and the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues in theirs, the teams could meet in the second round if the Vancouver Canucks fall to the San Jose Sharks.
"This is a credit to our fans and the amazing support they have shown to us and the NHL these last few years," said Luc Robitaille, a former Kings player who is now the club's president of business operations.
"This will be a sporting event like no other that has ever been seen in Southern California and we are proud to be a part of it."
Said Bob Murray, the Ducks' executive vice president/general manager: "We are honored to be selected to participate in the NHL's Stadium Series.
"Playing our rival Kings at historic Dodger Stadium will be a terrific showcase event for our sport. A Southern California outdoor hockey game in a picturesque setting will be an exciting, unique experience and we look forward to being a part of it."
The Kings played the NHL's first game held outdoors, an exhibition against the New York Rangers played Sept. 27, 1991, in a parking lot adjacent to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The game was played in 85-degree weather and the ice fared as poorly as the Rangers, who fell to the Kings 5-2.
The league began to play regular-season games outdoors in 2003, when the Edmonton Oilers hosted the Montreal Canadiens at Commonwealth Stadium.
Until now, the league played games strictly in cold-weather cities, and in most cases they were very cold-weather cities.
Playing outdoors in Los Angeles, even in the relative chill of winter, opens the possibility of rain, and a secondary date has been reserved just in case. Plus, zambonis could be used as giant vacuums in order to drain rainwater from the ice rather than flooding it between periods.
"We're going to make the best ice available," said Dan Craig, the NHL's ice-making guru.
Craig and his crew plan to make ice starting four or five days before the game, working at night and sleeping during the day. They will cover the rink with thermal blankets in order to keep the Southern California sun off the ice. The blankets also would protect the rink from rain.
"It'll be very similar to what it was in Chicago and Boston," Craig said.
The rink will be positioned between first and third bases, with center ice at the pitcher's mound.
To be sure, the NHL picked Dodger Stadium because of the novelty of playing a game with swaying palm trees just behind the baseball bullpens. Or as John Collins, the league's chief operating officer put it, "I like the idea of people tailgating in shorts."
The remarkable success of the Ducks and Kings on the ice in recent seasons also was a factor. So, too, was the explosive growth of youth hockey in Southern California, which can be linked to the Kings' acquisition of Wayne Gretzky in 1988.
"Last year, we had a chance to see L.A. light up over hockey," Collins said, referring to the Kings' run to the Stanley Cup last June. "Then you look at what the Ducks and Kings have done to promote youth hockey, going back to Gretzky more than 20 years ago."
The NHL said in a news release it plans to unveil details on ticket sales soon. The league also invited fans to register at www.NHL.com/2014/LosAngeles in order to receive further information on ticketing, news about the game and special offers.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors resolution asking federal officials to enact policies to accelerate development of clean energy resources and fuel-efficient technologies to reduce pollution.
Mayor Seng joins more than 179 other mayors in 38 states in signing the resolution. The resolution supports the bipartisan Climate Stewardship Act introduced in Congress. It also indicates the City will strive to adopt policies to reduce pollution and maintain a healthy local environment.
"Signing this resolution simply reinforces Lincoln's commitment to strive to provide a healthy environment at the local level of government," Seng said. "This resolution complements and reinforces the high quality of life standards that Lincoln is known for nationwide, that assist in marketing our community for economic development and job-creating opportunities."
The resolution includes a series of items for communities to strive to follow to reduce pollution. Mayor Seng noted that Lincoln already has addressed many of the suggestions recommended by the U.S. Conference of Mayors to preserve a healthy environment.
Recommendation - Adopt land use policies that reduce sprawl, preserve open space and create a compact urban community.
Recommendation - Promote transportation options such as bicycle trails, commute trip reduction programs, incentives for car pooling and public transit.
Lincoln's public bus system, StarTran, offers a number of incentive programs, including the "Ride-For-Five" Low Income Pass; reduced rate monthly passes; coordinated efforts with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln bus system; special event shuttles; and a youth summer pass program. Bus routes maximize services to middle and high schools. The ongoing Comprehensive Plan update will include a full review of the bus system. The Downtown Master Plan also proposes service route changes and development of a new multi-modal terminal.
Recommendation - Increase the use of clean, alternative energy by advocating development of renewable energy resources.
Recommendation - Make energy efficiency a priority through building code improvements, retrofitting City facilities with energy efficient lighting and urging employees to conserve energy.
Recommendation - Purchase only Energy Star equipment and appliances for City use.
Recommendation - Practice and promote sustainable building practices.
Recommendation - Increase the average fuel efficiency of municipal fleet vehicles; reduce the number of vehicles; launch an employee education program including anti-idling messages; convert diesel vehicles to bio-diesel.
Recommendation - Evaluate opportunities to increase pump efficiency in water and wastewater systems; recover wastewater treatment methane.
Recommendation - Increase recycling rates in City operations and the community.
Recommendation - Maintain healthy urban forests; promote tree planting.
Recommendation - Help educate about global warming pollution.


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Virginia Shaw Black Fikes
Virginia Shaw Black Fikes, a thoughtful, persevering and adventurous soul with a wide range of interests has left us after making the world a happier place for those around her for 97 years. Virginia died in Robert Lee, Texas on Aug. 16, 2013.While mourning her loss, family and friends give thanks for the joy that her wit, intelligence, goodness, generosity and grace brought to their own lives. She remained independent and active until her last week and left this life in the same manner in which she lived it. A memorial service will be held at Robert Lee Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Arrangements are with Robert Massie Funeral Home.Born on Oct. 25, 1915, Ginny was the second daughter of Ollie and Dixie Blankenship Shaw. Her early childhood was spent in Kaufman, Texas. The family later moved to Palestine, Texas, where she was a 1933 PHS graduate. Virginia attended Howard Payne and then San Angelo became her home.Virginia and Ed Black married March 18, 1939. Ginny worked for San Angelo National Bank until moving to Big Spring. She served as Howard County auditor for 13 years. Later, Ed and she moved to Austin, where she worked for Bob Bullock in the State Comptroller office.After Ed's death, Virginia retired and moved back to San Angelo, where she was active in volunteer work for Immanuel Baptist Church and various agencies in San Angelo and Concho Valley. Virginia was elected and served four years as one of the first Silver Haired Legislators from San Angelo.She then served on the Silver Haired Legislature Foundation Board for the next 12 years. Baptist Memorials also benefited from her service on their board of directors.Virginia and Weldon Fikes married April 4, 1996, and thus she acquired three 'chosen' daughters. After living in Robert Lee for several years, Weldon and Ginny moved to San Angelo. They enjoyed their Baptist Memorial neighbors on West Street and Immanuel Baptist Church family before health issues necessitated a move back to Robert Lee. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Ed Black and Weldon Fikes; parents; sister and brother-in-law, Kathleen and Watson; and her nephew, Ben Watson.Survivors include her three chosen daughters and sons-in-law, Elaine and David Miller of Abilene, Marion and Jimmy Stewart of Midland, Farrell Jean and Wes Washam of Robert Lee and their children. Ginny was blessed with a plethora of special friends.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Robert Lee Baptist Church.Paid obituary


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The chairmen of the House and the Senate agriculture committees and the Bush administration couldn't find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. That should make the average crop revenue election or ACRE program one of the bright spots of the new law, right?
Well, that depends. Midwest corn and soybeans farmers think the program will be a major plus, especially in years like 2008 when excessive rains have delayed or flooded out their crops. But cotton and rice producers, who have never warmed to the idea, aren't so sure.
The legislation authorizing ACRE isn't exactly what proponents envisioned. Iowa corn growers, who conceived the program, wanted revenue calculations based on county yield averages and national average selling prices.
USDA officials, including former Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, who included the revenue counter-cyclical program concept in his farm bill recommendations in January 2007, favored a national average yield because of its lower price tag. (Johanns is now running for the Senate from Nebraska.)
Chairmen Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, of the House and Senate agriculture committees compromised by using state yield averages. They also reduced direct payments by 20 percent and marketing loan rates by 30 percent for producers enrolled in ACRE — to lower the program's costs.
"The Average Crop Revenue Election program offers producers better options for managing risk of both yield and price declines on their farms in today's uncertain, rapidly changing farm environment," said Harkin.
Peterson never seemed to be as enthusiastic in his support of the program but included it in the House bill to win the support of the National Corn Growers Association, one of the prime movers of the legislation.
Within a year of President Bush signing the 2002 farm bill, corn growers were complaining that the then new law's counter-cyclical payment program did not provide the help they needed when crop yields were reduced due to weather problems or other natural calamities.
Normally, when crop production is curtailed — as happened in parts of the Midwest in 2003 — prices move higher and price-based counter-cyclical payments are not triggered. So growers who harvested half a corn or soybean or wheat crop lost part of their crop and did not receive the full benefits of farm programs.
The revenue-based counter-cyclical payment program, which came to be called ACRE near the end of the current farm bill debate, replaces the price-based counter-cyclical program with a revenue program based on average state yields and more recent price history.
All the producers on the farm have to agree to participate in ACRE, but a producer can enroll one farm in ACRE and keep other farms in the traditional counter-cyclical program. Once a farm is enrolled, however, it must remain in ACRE through the end of the current farm bill in 2012.
An example prepared by the Senate Agriculture Committee shows an Iowa corn farmer could receive an ACRE payment of $32.50 per acre given a certain set of circumstances when the program becomes available in 2009.
The example assumes an Iowa ACRE revenue guarantee for corn of $730 per acre in 2009 (based on the state average yield times the expected average selling price.) If the average corn yield falls to 150 bushels per planted acre and the price of corn for the year is $4.65 per bushel, the crop revenue would be $697.50 per acre and the state ACRE payment rate would be $32.50 per acre ($730 – $697.50 = $32.50).
According to a diagram prepared by the Senate Agriculture Committee, two triggers must be met before average crop revenue election payments can be issued under the new farm bill, the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008.
The first or the state trigger is that 90 percent of the state ACRE guarantee (the benchmark state yield based on a five-year Olympic average times the ACRE program guarantee price based on a two-year national average price) must exceed 100 percent of the actual state revenue (the actual state planted yield times the higher of the national average market price or 70 percent of the national loan rate.)
The second or farm trigger is that 100 percent of the farm ACRE benchmark revenue (the farm's average yield or five-year Olympic average planted yield times the ACRE program guarantee price or the two-year national average price plus the producer-paid crop insurance premium) must exceed 100 percent of actual farm revenue (actual farm yield times the higher of the national average market price or 70 percent of the national loan rate.)
Farmers could receive payments on 83.3 percent of their planted or considered planted acres between 2009 and 2011 and 85 percent in 2012. Payment acres could not exceed the total base acres on the farm.
The results for cotton and rice farmers who convert to ACRE could be mixed. An analysis developed by the National Cotton Council shows how farmers in one state might receive a payment while those in another would get nothing.
For a sample farm using 2007 numbers in Tennessee, for example, cotton farmers could receive an ACRE payment of $17 per acre while growers in Texas could receive zero. Here's why:
The two-year rolling average price in both states would be 46.5 cents per pound. The state five-year Olympic average yield per planted acre, on the other hand, would be 831.8 pounds for Tennessee growers and 500.7 pounds for Texas producers. Multiplying those yields by 46.5 cents and 90 percent would give Tennessee growers an ACRE state program guarantee of $353 and Texas growers, $212.
The estimated 2007 national market year average price would be 60 cents per pound in both states. In Tennessee, however, the actual 2007 state yield per planted acre was 559.2 pounds while that in Texas was 808.2 pounds.
The actual state revenue using those figures would be $336 per acre in Tennessee and $485 per acre in Texas. Subtracting the actual state revenue from the ACRE state program guarantee would give Tennessee farmers a payment of $17 per acre ($353 – $336 = $17) while farmer in Texas would not receive a payment ($212 – $485 = 0.)
That's after those producers agree to forego 20 percent of their direct payment and 30 percent of the loan rate for crops produced on ACRE-enrolled farms.
Obviously, farmers will be doing a lot of pencil pushing this fall and winter to decide whether the program would work for them.
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In the hours after the Northern Jerusalem teen was reported abducted and subsequently found murdered, Arab residents of the Jerusalem suburb of Shuafat took to the streets.
Despite the fact that no concrete evidence has yet emerged from the police investigation, the word on the street was that the perpetrators of the murder were Jews exacting revenge for the abduction and murder of the three Jewish teens Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel.
Very quickly the unrest gathered momentum and most Northern Jerusalem residents were almost completely cutoff from reaching their places of employment as public transportation was halted.
Police had to implement riot control measures against the rioters but not before major damage was caused to 3 light-rail stations, which were totally destroyed, vehicles and businesses in the area.
Police faced rocks, stun grenades, fire-bombs and even a few pipe-bombs.
At one point police had to close off highway 443 close to Beit Hanina as a result of the violence.
Israeli leaders and government ministers condemned the abduction and murder in unison calling for a speedy investigation and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
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Our Fitness Blog
Three Outdated Fitness Rules to Stop Following
Most of us have heard some fitness rule that others live by, and then as we get older notice that they are proven wrong or not the whole truth. It can happen to any set of rules. As we grow and evolve, so too does our knowledge of certain things. Here we will take a look at some of the more common misleading fitness rules out there and help you discover where the truth may lie. Take notice of our list and make sure that you are not following some of these outdated fitness rules.
You can lose fat in just a certain area of your body by working it out more. There is no way that you can pick and choose which areas of your body you can reduce fat in. The truth is that spot training does not work, and in order to get the results that you want you need to focus on working out your entire body and following a healthy and nutritious diet. Fat loss happens all over the body, so any areas you have that contain more fat will just take a little longer than everything else to tone and shape.
In order to obtain a strong and toned core, you have to do thousands of crunches. While crunches may be the go to exercise for most people wanting washboard abs, it is not the most effective exercise to help us achieve those washboard abs. In fact, crunches only workout the upper section of your abs and does little to improve your core strength; therefore, if you are looking to tone and strengthen your core, you may want to look elsewhere. Try doing some full body exercises that will strengthen and tone your core as well as other areas of your body, such as burpees and planks.Even kicks and squats engage your entire core.
Lifting heavy weights will make you big and bulky. Most people think that if they lift use lighter weights that they will get lean and toned, but if they use heavy weights they will turn into the Hulk. This is not true. You need a weight that will make you work harder. If you chose a weight that does not require you to use much effort, then you will not see the results that you want. You want to feel as if you could not lift another set. When you feel this way, you can be sure that the results that you want are on the way.
Did you end up committing some of these outdated fitness rules? I hope not, but if you did, you can easily modify your workouts to include these new and updated rules. Who knows, once you have integrated some of these rules into your fitness routines, you may just see the results that you want.


text: For the first time in almost a century, life expectancy has dropped for some American women. According to a study published today in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, life expectancy for women has declined in 1,000 counties. The Washington Post reports that those 1,000 counties are home to 12% of the nation's women — most of them poor and located in the Deep South, Appalachia, and the lower Midwest. "The most dramatic change occurred in two areas in southwestern Virginia (Radford City and Pulaski County), where women's life expectancy has decreased by more than five years since 1983," says the Post. Study leader Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray attributes some of the decline to the growing obesity epidemic and the related increase in heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The other reason for the decline is the uptick in women smoking. "I think this is a harbinger. This is not going to be isolated to this set of counties, is my guess," Murray told the Post. [WaPo]


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CC Ranks:
With mojangs recent changes to their EULA we had to change the structure of our ranks here on CityCraft. Here is what we have done to the ranks. Each server has had its old ranks merged into one rank called CC. This rank is the default rank given to you when you join the server, it has all of the perks and commands the old ranks had.
The only other rank we now have on CC is Ultra, this is our only purchasable rank. Those who have donated at any point to CC have been given this rank. The perks of this rank are purely cosmetic and will be purchasable via the store.
- Bat
- Mushroom Cow
- Squid
- Coming Soon
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Everyone now has the ability to spawn items / use creative mode. This also means that there are no longer any rules about donators and non-donators building with each other.
I'm sure everyone is exited to get building but please remember PROTECT YOUR BUILDS! Ask a mod/admin in-game or put in a modreq to get your land protected.
The former Donator only world has been disabled (as it now breaks the EULA), but anyone wishing to retrieve a build from that world should contact Joe who will move it to the main Build world for you.
The missing biome items have been added to the shop, the map has also been extended to 10k. Dungeons will be back on survival, right now the plugin does not run on minecraft 1.7.10 but as soon as its working they will be up and running.
A warzone redesign was suggested recently and is now the #1 project for survival, unfortunately there wasn't enough time to get that done before the 1st.
The Shop:
The shop now sells cosmetic items instead of ranks, available right now are pets!
Go check out the STORE and see what we have.
Soon to be added are Trails and Disguises.
Mods and Admins will have to meet an activity quota each month to show that they are activity moderating the server. I have also opened the moderator applications and hope to have some new staff members over the next week.
The Future [Serious Talk]:
While on the store you will notice our monthly goal. This is the amount of money we need each month to keep the server running. With the new shop items I'm hoping that this goal is something we will be able to meet, if we are unable to meet this goal for a couple of months in a row i will have to consider closing the server. This is not something i would ever want to happen but unfortunately i can't afford to pay the server bills out of my own pocket each month.


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Music Player Daemon
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MPD (music player daemon) is an audio player that has a server-client architecture. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database all while using very few resources. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Setup
- 3 Clients
- 4 External links
Stable version
The latest stable version of mpd is available in the official repositories.
Git version
Should users wish to run an experimental version, the AUR offers several from which to choose. For example, mpd-gitAUR.
MPD is able to run locally (per user settings), globally (settings apply to all users), and in multiple instances. The way of setting up mpd depends on the way it is intended to be used: a local configuration may prove more useful on a desktop system, for example.
For a proper MPD operation these are the necessary files and directories:
- mpd.db - The music database
- mpd.pid - The file where mpd stores its process ID
- mpd.log - mpd logs here
- mpdstate - mpd's current state is noted here
- playlists - the folder where playlists are saved into
In order for MPD to be able to play back audio, ALSA, PulseAudio or OSS needs to be setup and working.
Local Configuration (per user)
MPD can be configured per user (rather than the typical method of configuring MPD globally). Running MPD as a normal user has the benefits of:
- A single directory
~/.mpd(or any other directory under
/home/$USER/) that will contain all the MPD configuration files.
- Easier to avoid unforeseen read/write permission errors.
To setup: create a directory for the required files and the playlists; copy the example configuration locally; create all of the requisite files:
mkdir -p ~/.mpd/playlists cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example ~/.mpd/mpd.conf touch ~/.mpd/{database,log,state}
~/.mpd/mpd.conf and specify the requisite files:
music_directory "~/music" # Can keep commented if XDG music dir. playlist_directory "~/.mpd/playlists" db_file "~/.mpd/database" log_file "~/.mpd/log" pid_file "~/.mpd/pid" state_file "~/.mpd/state"
MPD can now be started by typing
mpd on the command line (mpd first searches for
~/.mpd.conf, then
~/.mpd/mpd.conf, and then for
/etc/mpd.conf [there is no support for XDG-config directory
~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf]). To specify the location of the configuration file :
mpd ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf
To start MPD on login add to
~/.profile (or another Autostart file):
# MPD daemon start (if no other user instance exists) [ ! -s ~/.mpd/mpd.pid ] && mpd
To start with the X.org server add to either xprofile or xinitrc. Some DEs ignore these files (GNOME does) and a desktop file must be placed in
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=Music Player Daemon Comment=Server for playing audio files Exec=mpd StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
Autostart with systemd
Expected setup
- Start user-session service (e.g.
sudo systemctl enable user-session@USERNAME).
- Add local service file
~/.config/systemd/user/mpd.service(see below).
- Start local systemd
systemd --user &; enable service file
systemctl --user enable mpd; start it
systemctl --user start mpd.
- Add
systemd --user &to
~/.profileor another autostart file.
- Reboot and MPD start.
[Unit] Description=Music Player Daemon [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpd %h/.config/mpd/mpd.conf --no-daemon ExecStop= /usr/bin/mpd %h/.config/mpd/mpd.conf --kill [Install] WantedBy=default.target
Current setup (this hasn't worked for everybody)
As recommended above, it is best to use MPD as a service per user. In this case, we will use
~/.mpd/mpd.conf and not start mpd.service as a daemon for the whole system and all users.
We will NOT use the
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service which is intended to start the mpd.service as root and for all users.
systemd --user.
If you already enabled it, just disable it first:
# systemctl disable mpd.service
If you used to start mpd inside your
~/.xinitrc, comment or delete the line
mpd ~/.mpdconf
Then, edit a new file ~/.config/systemd/user/mpd.service
[Unit] Description = Music Player Daemon [Service] ExecStart = /usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon Restart = always [Install] WantedBy = default.target
Then, add this line to .xinitrc before any exec <session-command>
#run systemd as user instance systemd --user &
Log out, log in your xsession. Let's first check mpd is not running. If yes, just kill it. If not, continue to the next step.
$ ps -ef | grep mpd
Now, enable and start mpd.service as per user
$ systemctl --user enable mpd $ systemctl --user start mpd
Check the mpd status and see if mpd.service is correctly enabled and started
$ systemctl --user status mpd
Scripted Configuration
Rasi has written a script that will create the proper directory structure, configuration files and prompt for the location of the user's Music directory; it can be downloaded here.
Global Configuration
MPD comes with an example configuration file, available at
/usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example. This file holds an abundance of information on MPD configuration, and holds default mixer values.
/etc/mpd.conf is created when installing mpd. If not, copy the included example file to
# cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example /etc/mpd.conf
Editing mpd.conf
The default Arch install keeps the setup in
/var/lib/mpd and uses "mpd" as default user.
/etc/mpd.conf to reflect as such:
music_directory "/home/user/music" playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists" db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db" log_file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log" pid_file "/run/mpd/mpd.pid" state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate" user "mpd" # bind_to_address "127.0.0.1" # port "6600"
Now change permissions for mpd to write to
/var/log/mpd/mpd.log, otherwise mpd will return an error when it is started. The best way is to make the
/var/log/mpd/mpd.log belong to the mpd user.
# chown -R mpd /var/log/mpd
Run this to create the /run/mpd dir:
# systemd-tmpfiles --create mpd.conf
To change the volume for mpd independent from other programs, uncomment or add this switch in mpd.conf:
mixer_type "software"
Users of PulseAudio will need to make the following modification:
audio_output { type "pulse" name "pulse audio" }
Users of ALSA will want to have the following device definition, which allows software volume control in the MPD client to control the volume separately from other applications.
audio_output { type "alsa" name "My Sound Card" mixer_type "software" # optional }
Changing the group that MPD runs as may result in errors like "output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device"" "[alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": No such file or directory" "player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing "Song Name.mp3""
This is because by default MPD runs as member of audio group and the sound devices under
/dev/snd/ are owned by this group, so add user
mpd to group
# gpasswd -a mpd audio
Music directory
MPD needs to have
+x permissions on all parent directories to the music collection (ie. if it's located outside of "mpd" home directory
/var/lib/mpd). By default useradd sets permissions on home directories to
1700 drwx------. Thus users will most likely need to remount the music directory under a directory that mpd has access to -- this only applies if running as the 'mpd' user.
# mkdir /var/lib/mpd/music # echo "/home/$USER/music /var/lib/mpd/music none bind" >> /etc/fstab # mount -a # systemctl restart mpd.service
Also see this forum thread.
An additional solution would be to just create a symbolic link into
# mkdir /var/lib/mpd/music # ln -s MUSIC_FOLDER /var/lib/mpd/music/ # systemctl restart mpd.service
If the music collection is contained under multiple directories, create symbolic links under the main music directory in
/var/lib/mpd. Remember to set permissions accordingly on the directories being linked.
Creating the required files
Now, having finished configuring MPD, the files and directories for MPD to write in need to be created:
Create the directories and files specified in
# mkdir -p /var/lib/mpd/playlists # touch /var/lib/mpd/{mpd.db,mpdstate}
Usually the init-script should properly create
/run/mpd/ when starting. The daemon will use this directory to create
mpd.pid in it. However, when running mpd as a different user, requires an update to the tmpfiles.d: copy
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mpd.conf to
d /run/mpd 0755 mpd mpd
d /run/mpd 0755 username groupname
Change the file's permissions so that the daemon can modify them.
# chown -R mpd /var/lib/mpd
Create database
Creating the database is now accomplished via the update feature of the client, for example
mpc update. You'll need to install the mpc package for this. It is in the official repositories
Timeline of MPD startup
To depict when MPD drops its superuser privileges and assumes those of the user set in the configuration, the timeline of a normal MPD startup is listed here:
- Since MPD is started as root by systemd, it first reads the
- MPD reads the user variable in the
/etc/mpd.conffile, and changes from root to this user.
- MPD then reads the contents of the
/etc/mpd.conffile and configures itself accordingly.
Notice that MPD changes the running user from root to the one named in the
/etc/mpd.conf file.
This way, uses of
~ in the configuration file point correctly to the home user's directory, and not root's directory.
It may be worthwhile to change all uses of
~ to
/home/username to avoid any confusion over this aspect of MPD's behavior.
Multi-mpd setup
Useful if running an icecast server.
For a second MPD (e.g., with icecast output to share music over the network) using the same music and playlist as the one above, simply copy the above configuration file and make a new file (e.g.,
/home/username/.mpd/config-icecast), and only change the log_file, error_file, pid_file, and state_file parameters (e.g.,
mpd-icecast.error, and so on); using the same directory paths for the music and playlist directories would ensure that this second mpd would use the same music collection as the first one e.g., creating and editing a playlist under the first daemon would affect the second daemon as well. Users do not have to create the same playlists all over again for the second daemon. Call this second daemon the same way from
~/.xinitrc above. (Just be sure to have a different port number, so as to not conflict with the first mpd daemon).
A separate client is needed to control mpd. Popular options are:
- mpc — Simple KISS client. All basic functionality available
- ncmpc — A NCurses client for mpd
- ncmpcpp — An almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features written in C++ (tag editor, search engine)
- pms — Highly configurable and accessible ncurses client
- vimpc — ncurses based MPD client with vi-like key bindings
- Ario — A very feature-rich GTK2 GUI client for mpd, inspired by Rhythmbox
- QmpdClient — A GUI client written with Qt 4.x
- Sonata — An elegant Python GTK+ client
- gmpc — GNOME Client
- Dmpc — Dmenu-based MPC client with a playlist manager and state-saving on playlist changes
- Cantata — High-feature, Qt4/KDE4 client for MPD with very configurable interface
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Spring in Paluküla
We went back in early May, to celebrate my uncle's 50th birthday, and while there, we decided to take a walk. The path alongside the small stream was so tranquil and beautiful, and the sides of the stream full of cowslips/marsh marigold/kingcups (Caltha palustris) which were so bright yellow in colour that it hurt!
There were two elegant white storks (Ciconia ciconia) slowly wandering just behind the house, in what used to be the sheep garden when my grandma still kept these furry animals:
Their nest is on top of the lamp post next to the main house, but the storks probably decided to take a walk, too, to avoid the thirty-odd persons who had suddenly decided to turn up in their courtyard. On the way back home in the afternoon, we also spotted a much rarer Common Crane (Grus grus) on a field, a protected species in Estonia.
A truly tranquil and captivating place... I just wanted to share the photos with you, especially as there are few other food-related posts related to this place coming up on my blog soon :)
9 comments:
- K & S said...
very beautiful area! enjoy your trip!
- 2:20 am, May 30, 2007
- valentina said...
How pretty is this area! And how interesting that the two of you have always been so close and never met before. Only met far, far away from your home land. ; o )
- 5:35 am, May 30, 2007
Pille, kas sa mitte ei eksi kui nimetad ojas kasvavaid varsakapju "cowslips", mis on hoopis nurmenukud. Saagpakk annab varsakapjade ingl. keelseks vasteks "kingcup" ja "marsh marigold". Aga praegu õitsevad ju nurmenukud ka, ilmselt nägite mõlemaid. Ohh, Eestimaa on ilus!!!
- 12:47 pm, May 30, 2007
- Freya and Paul said...
Looks like a beautiful, tranquil place! And the wild mushrooms and strawberries sound heavenly!
- 6:28 pm, May 30, 2007
- sciencemel said...
What a wonderfully romantic story! I certainly didn't think that happened to real people but glad it has happened to someone as special as you and K. Great countryside pics too!
- 9:51 pm, May 30, 2007
- Mann said...
Ilus lugu!
- 10:34 pm, May 30, 2007
- katiez said...
What a lovely spot. The cowlsips are beautiful. It must have been a wonderful place to spend summers!
- 10:35 pm, May 30, 2007
- joey said...
You know how 'exotic' wild mushrooms sound to me so far away from them ;) I cannot imagine the wonderful-ness of being able to pick them fresh from the ground! I love these posts about Estonia and your growing up...and how romatic that K was growing up right in the next town!
- 2:37 pm, May 31, 2007
- Pille said...
K&S - it's beautiful indeed, in a very restrained way:)
Valentina - interesting for sure. A great story to tell to our grandchildren one day hopefully!
Ülle - vaatasin järele, selgus, et tegemist on amerikanismiga. Nimelt kutsuvad ameeriklased varsakapju 'cowslips', kuigi brittide jaoks on need kingcups. Tegin paranduse. Aitäh targemaks tegemise eest!
Freya&Paul - definitely tranquil, with plenty of wild strawberries and mushrooms. And don't forget cloudberries, cranberries and bog cranberries!!
Melinda - thanks! And it's definitely a real story, even if we find it amusing that we met in Edinburgh out of all places!
Mann - kas pole? Ma arvan ka, et on. Vanad eestlased olla öelnud, et 'naine võta naabertalust'. No meil peaaegu selline lugu:)
Katiez - it was! The house where I stayed burnt down unfortunately in 1993, and my grandmother moved to Tallinn. I was so upset to hear the news (I was living in Denmark at the time), and it took me a while to go back. Since then, my uncle has taken over the farm, rebuilt the house, and now it's great to be able to return. Even if I do sleep in the neighbouring village:)
Joey - wait until I'll tell you about those yellow morels we picked there last weekend! K & I both grew up in the capital Tallinn, but spent our summers in that area. As I had loads of cousins (11 in total), then I didn't need to look for playmates in neighbouring villages - that's why we never met, I guess:)
- 7:27 pm, May 31, 2007


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