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Panel finds Landis guilty of doping From the Associated Press http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-ex-landis...eadlines-sports 10:55 AM PDT, September 20, 2007 Floyd Landis lost his expensive and explosive doping case today when the arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de France champion used synthetic testosterone to fuel his spectacular comeback victory, The Associated Press has learned. The decision means Landis, who repeatedly has denied using performance-enhancing drugs, must forfeit his Tour de France title and is subject to a two-year ban, retroactive to Jan. 30, 2007. The ruling, handed down nearly four months after a bizarre and bitterly fought hearing, leaves the American with one final way to possibly salvage his title -- an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. If Landis doesn't appeal, he'll be the first person in the 105-year history of the race to lose the title because of a doping offense. According to documents obtained by AP, and to be made public later today, the vote was 2-1 to uphold the results, with lead arbitrator Patrice Brunet and Richard McLaren in the majority and Christopher Campbell dissenting. "Today's ruling is a victory for all clean athletes and everyone who values fair and honest competition," U.S. Anti-Doping Agency general counsel Travis Tygart said. It's a devastating loss for Landis, who has steadfastly insisted that cheating went against everything he was all about and said he was merely a pawn in the anti-doping system's all-consuming effort to find cheaters and keep money flowing to its labs and agencies. Landis didn't hide from the scrutiny -- invited it, in fact -- and now has been found guilty by the closest thing to a fair trial any accused athlete will get. He had been planning a news conference in Los Angeles the day a decision was reached. Details were not immediately available. In its 84-page decision, the majority found the initial screening test to measure Landis' testosterone levels -- the testosterone-to-epitestosterone test -- was not done according to World Anti-Doping Agency rules. But the more precise and expensive carbon-isotope ration analysis (IRMS), performed after a positive T-E test is recorded, was accurate, the arbitrators said, meaning "an anti-doping rule violation is established." "As has been held in several cases, even where the T-E ratio has been held to be unreliable ... the IRMS analysis may still be applied," the majority wrote. "It has also been held that the IRMS analysis may stand alone as the basis" of a positive test for steroids. The decision comes more than a year after Landis' stunning comeback in Stage 17 of the 2006 Tour, one that many people said couldn't be done without some kind of outside help. Flying to the lead near the start of a grueling Alpine stage, Landis regained nearly eight minutes against the leader, and went on to win the three-week race. "Well, all I can say is that justice has been done, and that this is what the UCI felt was correct all along," Pat McQuaid, leader of cycling's world governing body, told The Associated Press by telephone. "We now await and see if he does appeal to CAS. "It's not a great surprise considering how events have evolved. He got a highly qualified legal team who tried to baffle everybody with science and public relations. And in the end the facts stood up." Landis insisted on a public hearing not only to prove his innocence, but to shine a spotlight on USADA and the rules it enforces and also establish a pattern of incompetence at the French lab where his urine was tested. Although the panel rejected Landis' argument of a "conspiracy" at the Chatenay-Malabry lab, it did find areas of concern. They dealt with chain of command in controlling the urine sample, the way the tests were run on the machine, the way the machine was prepared and the "forensic corrections" done on the lab paperwork. "... the Panel finds that the practises of the Lab in training its employees appears to lack the vigor the Panel would expect in the circumstances given the enormous consequences to athletes" of an adverse analytical finding, the decision said. The majority repeatedly wrote that any mistakes made at the lab were not enough to dismiss the positive test, but also sent a warning. "If such practises continue, it may well be that in the future, an error like this could result in the dismissal" of a positive finding by the lab. In Campbell's opinion, Landis' case should have been one of those cases. "In many instances, Mr. Landis sustained his burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt," Campbell wrote. "The documents supplied by LNDD are so filled with errors that they do not support an Adverse Analytical Finding. Mr. Landis should be found innocent." And in at least one respect, Landis, who spent an estimated $2 million on his defense, was exonerated because the panel dismissed the T-E test. But in the arbitration process, a procedural flaw in the first test doesn't negate a positive result in follow-up tests. "An arbitration panel is entitled to rely entirely on the IRMS analysis as an independent and sufficient basis for finding that an anti-doping rule violation has occurred," the decision said. In his dissent, Campbell latched onto the T-E ratio test, among other things, as proof that the French lab couldn't be trusted. "Also, the T-E ratio test is acknowledged as a simple test to run. The IRMS test is universally acknowledged as a very complicated test to run, requiring much skill. If the LNDD couldn't get the T-E ratio test right, how can a person have any confidence that LNDD got the much more complicated IRMS test correct?" It was confusion like this that led to the system receiving the harsh review Landis was hoping for during a nine-day hearing in Malibu, Calif., in May. But Landis also took his share of abuse, and ultimately, USADA still improved to 35-0 in cases it has brought before arbitration panels since it was founded in 2000. This was a nasty contest waged on both sides, with USADA attorneys going after Landis' character and taking liberties in evidence discovery that wouldn't be permitted in a regular court of law. And Landis accused USADA of using a win-at-all-costs strategy and prosecuting him only to get him to turn on seven-time winner Lance Armstrong, who has long fought doping allegations that have never been proven. Addressing "problematic behavior on the part of both parties," the panel wrote it would not revisit the conduct of either side. "They are just part of the litigation war games the parties counsel engaged in between themselves," the decision said.

Is the FLAC file a CD Image that comes with a CUE-file? Then you need to make sure the file name indicated in the CUE file (a simple text file that can be edited with notepad) corresponds with the real name of the FLAC file. Very often when people rip CDs with EAC and then compress it with FLAC, the file name in the CUE-file has the .wav extension.

I have a very rare last name of german origin (only one family in Luxembourg, and only 485 people in the U.S, according to that website) and a common french first name. I thought the combination was unique. But ten years ago, a guy from France with the same name found me on the internet and contacted me. He is from the Alsace region (it was part of Germany in the past), where many people also have a german last name and a french first name. There is probably no other person with that name.

That Hoffman member is the same dude who started this thread Steve has replied in the meantime, but it's not clear to me from his answer if the flutter defect concerns all the copies.

The "enhanced" CD contains a multimedia part to be played on a PC, but because it's so old (1995, Windows 3.1 !) there are compatibility problems with current PCs. But you can just ignore the data part. The sound is similar to the first CD reissue, remastered by Ron McMaster. It's ok. The hybrid SACD was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder and the CD layer sounds similar to the RVG CD. I personally don't like the sound of his Blue Train remastering, it sounds overly compressed and has a reduced stereo spread. Even if you had a SACD player and could benefit from the hi-rez layer on that disc, I would not recommend it.

That's what RVG CDs and iTunes downloads are there for. Different markets. Most jazz fans won't even know these LP reissues exist. But you would be surprised at how many audiophiles buy these $50 LPs without actually knowing the music. On the SH forums, questions like "I'm new to jazz, which 45rpm sets should I get?" are not rare There is now some interesting technical info (and opinion) on the mono/stereo aspect on the website, and pictures of the master tape boxes (now stored at Iron Mountain facilities): http://www.musicmattersjazz.com/sound.html

I've noticed that many less popular OJC titles are no longer available from big stores (Amazon, CD Universe, etc) or only through Marketplace sellers (at rarity prices), but they are still being shown on the Concord website as being available within 3-5 days (when you put them into the shopping cart). Are these really available from Concord, and if yes, why don't the other stores have them? Some examples: - Music to listen to Red Norvo by - Don Friedman - A day in the city - This Is Walt Dickerson

The thread reminded me of this chicken, and wow, it's still online after 3 years http://www.subservientchicken.com

Some of the Blue Note CDs may be copyprotected, but most are pre-2003 releases which were not.

After a long time of very few interesting jazz sales at Zweitausendeins, they have started offering lots of great bargains again, such as: - Sony midprice CDs at 4€ - a huge Ella Fitzgerald sale - a lot of Blue Note stuff at 5€ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/display/?d=4756 http://www.zweitausendeins.de/artikel/cds/jazz/?CT=1

I can understand those who poke fun at these releases, because they are right. It's a joke that the best sounding editions of these albums are not released on SACD, high resolution downloads or any other state of the art format, but on vinyl LPs that need to be turned after just 10-12 minutes of music. But that's the current state of the music and audiophile business. I would prefer to buy these transfers by the greatest mastering engineers on SACD, which sounds perfect to me, is much more convenient and cheaper. But the labels who license these tapes are not allowed to release SACDs, for whatever reasons. Maybe the rightholder labels don't want the discs to compete with their "audiophile" CD reissues (RVG, etc). As far as the 45rpm thing is concerned, I think that regular high quality 33rpm pressings would probably sound nearly as good. There seems to be some fetishism involved in the vinyl world. In the late 70's, it was halfspeed mastering, now it's 45rpm, 200g, etc I'm especially looking forward to these new Blue Note rleases, because unlike with Fantasy material there are few great sounding reissues so far. And once you hear the sound of these releases, you quickly forget how much you spent on them or how inconvenient 45rpm LPs are.

After the successful 100 Fantasy 45rpm 2LP sets, Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray (Acoustech) are going to master similar 45rpm set with Blue Note albums First batch: Art Blakey - The Big Beat Horace Parlan - Speakin' My Piece Lou Donaldson - LD+3 Kenny Drew - Undercurrent Hank Mobley - Soul Station Horace Parlan - Us Three http://blog.stereophile.com/cedia2007/090707bluenote/

Is that the list you are looking for? http://www.miles-beyond.com/otcbox.htm

Apparently not. AMG only lists the LP and the new CD. http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&...10:gxfrxq8gldje

So now they are reissuing on CD the 1970's 2LP reissues (consisting of 2 original albums most of the time)? Who is supposed to buy them, when the original albums are available with the original artwork and with bonus tracks from the same session?

I like the Miles disc a lot, but I don't think the sound quality deserves that much praise. For a recording that wasn't meant to be released commercially it's very good, but it's not outstanding. The stereo perspective is vague and there is not much treble extension. I think it sounds inferior to all the official Columbia live recordings from the late 50s early 60's I have heard (Miles, Monk, Duke, etc), with the exception of the Miles@Juan-les-Pins stuff, which was recorded by french radio, and of course the Miles& Gil concert..

OK, the old cover art wasn't great, but the new one is extremely dull even for ECM standards.

Thanks. I had forgotten about the release date. There is some discussion about this set in these earlier threads: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=33477 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34678

Yep, but these are true stereo recordings, which have been released in stereo ever since the mono period was over. The reason I buy LPs for is that many sound better than the CD versions. It's not that I'm particularly interested in the way the LPs sounded in the past.

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Thanks Scott, My Lateef LP has the same matrix number, so these are indeed Scorpio pressings. I paid 12€ for them. The pressing and sound quality are good, but I see no reason to listen to these sessions in mono, so I'll probably return them.

I just received a batch of US OJC LPs from the german store www.hhv.de. Two LPs are not OJCs: - Yusef Lateef "Into something" (New Jazz NJLP 8272) - Larry Young "Young blues" (New Jazz 8272) These are 180g pressings in thick cardboard covers, with no info as to when and by whom they were reissued. The cover and label seem to be straight reproductions of the originals (bordeaux colour "New Jazz" label). They look brand new. The dead wax of the Larry Young has the info "3972 - NJ8264 - 1 (A) S-52777". Both are mono, although the recordings have been made in stereo. Does anyone have any info on these pressings, as to when they were released? Thanks

Is this new reissue different from the 2003 Universal France digipak CD? http://www.amazon.fr/Ascenseur-pour-léchaf...p;sr=1-1#disc_1

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