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Will it appear on any of the future recordings? And I loved Untitled Rumba.

Thank you Anna. THIS post explains what is happening with that piece.

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Please click on title link to continue reading this article on the extreme compression and therefore lack of dynamics found in much of todays music. By the way, one guitar formerly known as Tears in the Rain is not compressed at all.

What Happened To Dynamic Range
What happened to dynamic range? That’s a question that should be asked of record labels, producers, artists, and last but not least, recording and mastering engineers. The question needs to be asked because we’re the ones responsible for what’s happened to our music. The music we listen to today is nothing more than noise with a beat (see the sine wave reference in the chart below). It’s not because it isn’t good music. It’s because it lacks dynamic range. When music lacks dynamic range,Replica Chanel, it lacks punch, emotion, and clarity. The record labels blame Napster, MP3s, CD burners, and a host of others for the lack of CD sales. While there is some truth to their constant whining, they only have themselves to blame for the steady decline in CD sales. The record labels need to reevaluate what they consider to be good music.

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Morning walk on Shelter Island with Jon.

Brilliant blossom at Humphrey’s.
Set list change: UnderWorld/Cocteau,Replica Chanel, quickly becoming one of my favorites, moves to the first half – between Carrousel and Santa Fe. This feels much better. Stephen takes this photo at the beginning of the second half. I play This Spring release 10,000 Butterflies from the upcoming (29. August?) One Guitar CD.

up close, with the new rhythm guitar part, feels very good tonight and the segue into 2 the Night works great. After the concert is over, I walk across the street and take a few photos of the moon in the night-sky.

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Professional management is more beneficial for the youg artist starting out. The professional manager has the music biz connections and is able to get the artist connected. Another benefit is that the artist can exclusively concentrate on his or her creative work. As the artist establishes him/herself the connections become somewhat less important and are, in some cases, outweight by the side-effects that can occure, including getting pushed into a direction that is not within the vision that the artist has, getting entangled in a business and contractual web that inhibits freedom of vision and movement and last, but not least, getting ripped off.

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It struck me last night: the extent & amount of hands-on detail & pure stuff-stuff of the professional life that I process ??“ me, myself, personally. This is not a novel insight, but it hit – how much this comes with a price tab. This is, also, not a novel insight, nor a new piece of information; but a reminder of how much we all accept what is less-than-acceptable once a course is set, determined & underway; and how difficult it is to unset, re-direct & change the direction of momentum. And even though relative professional autonomy &amp,Replica Chanel; quasi self-management (within a context of business partner & advisors) has a price tab, so does management.

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Jon turned me on to Gnarls Barkley while we were in Sydney last month. He even bought and downloaded the video to his iPod, and the vid is excellent… Well,Chanel Handbags, BoingBoing has a link to this excellent mashup of the song and here it is:
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Update from ABS-CBN news: Chavit hits back at critics. “They’re just jealous. If they want the position, then it’s theirs. If they can help, the job is theirs. But if they will only add up to the troubles of our nation, then they should get out of the country,” Singson told a radio dzMM interview, adding that those who are speaking against his appointment were just jealous of it.

By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer

After a yearlong absence from the political scene, former Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson is back in the corridors of power.

President Macapagal-Arroyo has tapped Singson as deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) under Secretary Norberto Gonzales, a Malaca?ang official told the Philippine Daily Inquirer Friday night.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to make the announcement, said the appointment of Singson was signed by Ms Arroyo this week and would be announced on Monday by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.

The post of deputy NSA was vacated by retired Army Lt. Gen. Pedro Cabuay, who was moved to the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency effective Aug. 31.

Cabuay replaced fellow retired Gen. Cesar Garcia who resigned due to health reasons.

Together again

According to the Malaca?ang official, Singson’s appointment does not mean that Gonzales has lost the confidence of Ms Arroyo owing to the collapse of peace talks with the secessionist Moro rebels.

Singson’s re-entry to Malaca?ang closely followed the appointment to positions of power of three other of his colleagues who, like, him lost in the 2007 senatorial elections when they ran under Ms Arroyo’s Team Unity ticket.

In July, Ms Arroyo named former Sen. Vicente Sotto III as the new head of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB).

Weeks later, former Sen. Ralph Recto was appointed socioeconomic planning secretary and director general of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

Recently, another Singson friend, former Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay, was named acting chair of the Local Water Utilities Administration.

Undying gratitude

A businessman, Singson has had a colorful political career spanning three decades.

As a government official, he became kingpin of Ilocos Sur.

In 2000, he won Ms Arroyo’s undying political gratitude when he turned against his friend, then President Joseph Estrada, and told the nation how Estrada had amassed hundreds of millions from the illegal jueteng numbers game.

Singson’s damaging expose triggered Estrada’s impeachment trial, which led to his ouster in the 2001 Edsa II popular revolution that catapulted then Vice President Arroyo to the presidency.

Convicted of corruption by the Sandiganbayan, the 70-year-old Estrada was later granted pardon by Ms Arroyo.

Singson resented the pardon for Estrada, and even threatened at one point to leave the administration camp.

Singson said in several interviews that he felt he had been “used” as a political pawn.

“If you set him free, why did we file charges against him in the first place?” he had said.

This prompted Ermita to say that an ally like Singson was someone the Palace “cannot afford to lose.”

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Ang drama ngayon ni Gloria Arroyo ay “legacy” daw- and ipamana niyang pangmatagalan sa sambayanang Pilipino.

Kaya nandiyan yung mga proposal ng kanyang mga alagad na dagdag raw sa sahod, ibaba raw ang kuryente, libreng text at kung ano-ano pang pakulo na sa isip niya ay makamasa. Akala naman niya naloloko niya ang taumbayan.

Ang gusto niyang palabasin ay talagang bababa na siya sa 2010 at hindi na niya ipagpipilit ang charter change. Gusto raw nila maala-ala siya ng taumbayan sa mga magandang bagay.

Ang problema, ilang beses na siyang nagsinungaling, walang naniniwala kahit ilang beses pa niyang sabihin na bababa siya sa Malaca?ang sa 2010. Paano naman kasi makalimutan ang sinabi niya sa harap ng munomento ni Jose Rizal noong December 2002 na hindi siya tatakbo sa pagkapresidente sa 2004. Siyempre maraming pumuri sa deisyon niya at hindi na siya basta binatikos. Yung iba naman katulad ni Raul Roco, naghanda para sa kampanya sa 2004. Di tinira ni Arroyo.

Ilang buwan ang nakalipas inihayag na niyang tatakbo siya sa pagkapresidente.

Hindi lang siya tumakbo noong 2004 na eleksyon. Nandaya pa. At hanggang ngayon, pinadudusahan ng sambayanang Pilipino ang pagkakamali na naniwala kay Arroyo minsan.

Naniniwala akong kung pwede makalusot, hindi talaga bababa si Arroyo sa pwesto. Ang takot lang niya sa mga kasong isasampa sa kanya sa daming kasalanang na ginawa niya sa bayan. Kunyari lang yan na tanggap na niyang hanggang 2010 para hindi na siya babatikusin para hayaan na lang siya hanggang 2010 daw.

Ang mukha ni Gloria ay nakadikit na sa ating kasaysayan na isang sinungaling, mandaraya, at magnanakaw. Ngunit ang malaking kasalanan ni Arroyo sa bayan ay ang pagsira ng mga institutusyon ng demokrasya na maraming taon binuo ng ating mga ninuno.

Katulad ng military na dapat ay taga-pagtanggol ng taumbayan na ginawa niyang operator niya sa pandaraya ng eleksyon. Hibndi ito nangyari kailanman, kahit noong panahon ni Marcos.

Sinira rin ni Arroyo ang Commission on Election. Sa demokrasya, pinipili ng taumbayan ang gusto nilang mamuno sa kanila sa pamamagitan nge eleksyon. Binastos ni Arroyo yun sa pamamagitan ng pandaraya katulong ang mga opisyal mismo ng Comelec.

Ang laki ng damage na nagawa ni Gloria Arroyo sa bayan at hindi yan matatakpan pag-alis o pagbawas ng bayad sa text o pagtaas raw ng sahod ng P20 isang araw na wala namang nangyari sa itinaas ng bilihin.

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Habang sinusulat ko itong kolum, nanood ako ng hearing ng mga “Euro generals”, ang tawag sa mga opisyal ng Philippine National Police na pumunta sa Moscow noong isang buwan at ang isa ay nahulihan na may perang dala sobra sa legal na limit sa pagdala ng pera sa Europe.

Lalong nagkandabuhol-buhol ang kuwento kung saan galing ang 105,000 euros (P6.9 milyon) na nahuli ng Russian customs kay Maria Fe de la Paz, asawa ni Police Director Eliseo de la Paz, nang paalis na sila sa Moscow papuntang Poland pagkatapos nila dumalo sa isang InterPol conference.

Lumabas na 150,000 euros pala ang dala ni de la Paz dahil may isang negosyante na nagpadala ng 45,000 euros sa kanya pambili ng relo. Grabe namang mahal na relo yun.

Hinihintay ko lumabas ang impormasyon na kumakalat na ang perang dala ni De la Paz ay pambili ng chandelier kasi nakabili raw ng bahay sa Corinthian Gardens. Siya daw ang nakabili ng bahay ni Atong Ang, ang dating kaibigan ni dating Pangulong Estrada na nasabit sa plunder case ni Erap.

Nagkaroon daw ng compromise agreement si Ang sa pamahalaang Arroyo at pinabayad siya. Kaya pinabili niya ang kanyang bahay raw sa Corinthian garden. Hindi raw pangalan ni De la Paz ang lumabas. Dahil siyempre nakakataas ng kilay kung paano makabili ang isang opisyal ng PNP ng bahay sa Corinthian Gardens.

Hindi ito lumabas sa hearing kahapon.

Director for Comptroller ng PNP si de la Paz ng pumunta siya sa Moscow, tatlong araw bago siya mag-retire.

Pinanindigan ngayon ni De la Paz at ng ibang PNP opisyal na ang pera ay galing sa intelligence fund para raw pambili ng mga intelligence equipment. Iba na itong kwento nila kasi dati sinabi ni Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno “contingency fund” raw. Ngunit lumalabas pa rin ang contingency fund paminsan-minsan.

Ang lumalabas sa kuwento ng PNP, legal ang pera, ngunit ilegal ang proseso sa pag-release ng pera. Kaya ang mga opisyal na dinaanan ng pera ang sabit.

Inaako ni de la Paz ang kasalanan. Inambswelto nila si PNP Chief Jesus Verzosa at si Puno. Parang kwento rin Joc-joc Bolante, dating undersecretary ng agriculture na siyang may pakana sa paggamit ng P728 milyon na pera para pang-abono ng magsasaka na ginamit pambili ng boto para kay Gloria Arroyo noong eleksyon 2004.

Winarningan ni Sen. Miriam Santiago si De la Paz na kung akuin niya ang kasalanan, ang pinakababa na parusa ay 20 taon sa Muntinlupa. Sabi ni De la Paz klaro yun sa kanya yun.

Marami ang nagtataka kung bakit inaako ni De la Paz ang kasalanan samantalang mahirap talaga paniwalaan na magagawa niya yun nya yun mag-isa.

Ako, hindi ako nagtataka. Makapangyarihan ang mga kaibigan ni De la Paz. Maaring sinigurado nila kay De la Paz na kayang-kaya nilang ayusin yun basta huwag lang silang bumagsak.

Oo nga naman kung bumagsak si Gloria Arroyo, di wala na rin si Puno. Mahina na rin si Versoza. Sino ngayon ang pu-protekta sa kanya. Kaya protektahan na lang ang nangyayari.

Taumbayan lang ang walang proteksyun.

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