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For a preview of what I will be writing about below are some pieces I did in mid June for two weeks for a project that did not take off. They are in chronological order.
Winning whatever the price of oil
Last week, it was announced that PetroChina (subject to Chinese regulatory approvals) would buy from Keppel its entire stake of 46% in SPC for S$6.25 a share.
Immediately one thought of 2003, when Keppel sold a 28% in SPC to Hong Kong-based (but Indonesian owned) Kapital Asia for S$1.50 a share, and said it was considering divesting its entire stake.
In 2004 the price of oil took off and Keppel decided to keep the refiner to expand its oil and gas production in SE Asia. Could Keppel be repeating its mistake of selling SPC shares, just before the oil market takes off? It could.
But Keppel shareholders (especially Temsek) should not complain. In the announcement of the deal, it was said "PetroChina and Keppel also plan to explore opportunities in the offshore oil industry and in other areas of mutual benefit as such opportunities become available".
Things like this are usually to be ignored as fluff. Maybe not in this case.
PetroChina is one of China Inc's two flagship oil companies, tasked with developing oil and gas resources globally to meet China's energy needs. The Chinese have been active recently making oil-for-loan deals with national oil companies of Brazil, Russia and Kazakhstan, all very good for the likes of PetroChina.
Keppel's off-shore rig business, is only one of two world-class companies in Singapore Inc's local portfolio. Should the value of SPC explode upwards, then Keppel has, at the very least, the goodwill of PetroChina when it bids to build rigs for projects where PetroChina has an interest.
And should the price of oil collapse, Keppel and its shareholders will have S$1.47 billion in the bank to fund the rig business.
And if anyone thinks that it is a no-brainer to buy SPC because PetroChina said it could serve as a platform for future transactions, suggesting it might try to use SPC to make takeovers that it would be blocked from making directly — think again.
There would still be concerns of takeovers by Chinese state-run firms, done directly or indirectly, through a Singaporean subsidiary.
Managers turn swashbucklers? Can pigs fly?
Short of plans to buy assets, NOL does not need the S$1.4b. NOL, which has S$400m in cash reserves, would have almost less than 2% net debt. (45% of equity at the end of 1Q) against container sector average between 60 and 65.
NOL intends to use about S$700m to repay debt, the remainder for investments and working capital.
But the prognosis for the entire shipping industry for 2009 and early 2010 remain gloomy, so likewise does NOL operational gearing.
Buying into NOL (its shares have risen from 0.85 in early March to 1.68 yesterday) is to believe that NOL's management can use its great financial gearing into something tangible. EG buying ship at bargain prices from highly leveraged shippers in distress, and shipyards.
And increasingly its gearing again in the process.
Imagine going into the next cycle with cheaply acquired ships and a gearing of 45%. Wow Bam. This is an unproven thesis. NOL is one of the most conservative container lines and has taken a higher proportion of its ships out of service than other lines to tackle over-capacity.
Can cautious managers turn into swashbuckling asset buyers? There are the Greeks and Chinese buccaneers out there too on the prowl for ships.
Writer has some NOL shares in his CPF portfolio.
Looking a gift horse in the mouth or Why new SAT shareholders should be grumpy
On May 14, SIA announced that it was going to distribute to its shareholders its 81% stake in SATS by way of a dividend in specie. Since then share price is up 5%. This comes after SATS has become cash poor.
In January 2009, SATS launched a takeover bid for its Temask stable-mate SFI. According to the takeover documents, the pro-forma balance sheet as at September 2008 would have shown that the net cash position of the SATS (including SFI) group deteriorated to minus S$21 from S$528. In particular, cash in fixed deposits would have fallen from S$573 million to S$64 million.
But SATS needs cash because "SATS is committed to growing its 2 core businesses of airport and food services".
It could borrow big-time, pro forma net gearing is 0.04% from (0.35)%. But in Singapore, where debt is a dirty word in GLCs (NOL comes to mind), a rights issue is reasonably probable.
Temasek as the new controlling shareholder of SATS has $356 million from its sale of SFI shares to fund any rights issue. But do other new SATS shareholders have the cash?
Finally, looks like MM Lee gets his way. In 2004, he said SIA should divest itself of SATS and SIAEC. SIA's management demurred.
Will SAEC be divested despite SIA mgt saying last night that the SAEC holding is strategic? Stay tuned.
Backward into the Future
November 8, 2009 [OK I did get this wrong, but it could still happen]
SIA announces that it is proposing a dividend in specie to its shareholders of the Company's entire shareholding in SIA Engg.
"Distributing shares through an in specie dividend will unlock shareholder value by giving SIA shareholders direct ownership of SIA Engg at no cost to them."
"The proposed distribution will allow SIA to concentrate on its airline business,"something advised by MM Lee in 2004.
"SIA Engg will be able to independently pursue opportunities to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul businesses. The Proposal will improve trading liquidity of SIA Engg shares, potentially enhancing value."
May 14, 2010
SIA Engg announces Acquisition of 100% of ST Aerospace from ST Engg
"Acquisition consistent with SIA Engg previously announced long-term strategic plan"
ST Aerospace is the "Largest aircraft MRO company by commercial airframe man-hours" and has "Strategic partnership with RSAF"
Rights issue with Temasek taking up its entitlement and prepared to subscribe for shares that other shareholders don't want.
Remember you first heard it here. But based on the companies' past performance, SIA Engg should only buy ST Aerospace, if the price paid reflected Aeo's lower margins. SIA Engg's margins are consistently better than those of Aero. EG In financial yr ending Dec 2008, Aero's turnover was S$1.9b with PBIT of S$272m, while SIA Engg turnover was S$1.1b but PBIT of S$301m.
But what price another national champion? And financial engineering by Temasek?
Temasek's recently revised investment priorities R SGX Listcos
Yes this was Temasek week, and we will end the week by looking to see which non-Temasek SGX-listcos fit into its recently revised investment priorities:
- non-West (It got its timing wrong with Merrills and Barclays coming-in and exiting. And misanalysing ABC Learning),
- poised to capitalise on the growth of middle class consumer credit in Asia, and
- with plausible competitive advantages, following its reinvestment in Olam.
What about the following?
- Bayan – manager and developer resorts, hotels and spas in the Asia Pacific.
- Creative – remember its MP3 player predated iPOD and Apple paid it damages for breaching its patents. All it needs is a bit more Zen meditation and it could have a mega hit on its hands.
- Eu Yan San – has reached the limits of what it can do with its resources in Chinese medicine. Needs outside capital, but family squabbles prevail. But Temasek is different.
- Raffles Education – big in Chinese education (and indirectly in property). In a bit of bother now but controlling shareholder and manager has a track record.
Bayan, Creative and RE are run by home-grown and-bred entrepreneurs. What better way of encouraging the growth of entrepreneurs with global ambitions, then by supporting these three companies? We will keep you posted as we trawl through SGX listcos.
This continuing series will help us fill the gaps on those days when we wake up late or have nothing more interesting to say.
Whither the markets?
Fund managers, analysts, traders and media pundits are struggling to contain their confusion at what global equity markets have been doing since March.
The markets' upsurge defies all rational explanations: just ask Temasek's scholars and foreign-talent MBAs.
The conventional view is that this is a bear market rally. There will be a double-dip recession – a so called "W" recovery, where there is a steep fall, followed by a steep recovery and then another fall before another recovery finally appears which becomes more sustained.
Pundits pont out that, while not widely reported in the regular news, the bond markets had a mini crash in May. There's talk of the ending of the multi-decade bull market in bonds, what with all the debt that governments have to raise.
My views on whether we are in bear market rally are just as irrelevant as anybody's else.
But I heard something interesting on the FT (my second favourite newspaper) website a few weeks ago.
The strategist, from CLSA, belived that we are in the midst of a bear market rally. Nothing new here. But unlike other pundits, he said this rally could run for another two years before collapsing. He cited what happened after the dotcom bubble bust in 2000/ 2001.
He said, with hindsight, it was clear that the recovery from 2003 to 2007 was a bear market rally. Bottom line: A bull run or bear market rally can only be predicted in hindsight. Seating tight and doing nothing is not an option for a fund manager unless he is Warren Buffett.
Another reason to remain invested in Singapore mkt?
Could the plans to celebrate big-time the 50th anniversary of self-rule be a signal that the PM wants to calls a GE in the first half of next yr?
Remember that 50 years of self-independence coincides with 50 years of PAP rule, something that the celebrations are sure to link.
Have a good time tonite. And the next insight will be on tues morning.
Tempting the shorts
"China's property market has been bouncing back over the last several weeks," reports a FT publication. "Statistics from the China Real Estate Index System showed that residential property sales in 30 large cities increased by 11.42% April from March and transaction prices for new residential developments were up 3% week on week to the highest level this year between May 11 to 17."
So it was not surprising that the CEO of CapitaLand over the weekend implicitly reminded investors that CapitaLand is NOT a Singapore property play but a China (property) play, "In 2008, our China operations accounted for about 26% of total group assets and contributed approximately 45% of the group's earnings".
The target is for China to make up 40 or 45% of assets in the next few years and for more than 45% of earnings. (Incidentally, if China assets are at 45%, then China earnings should be at 90%)
Is he reminding himself how big a bet CapitaLand is putting in China?
CapitaLand has just secured a S$5b three-year credit line with Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. What this means is that CapitaLand is gearing up just after completing a rights issue a few months back. It had reduced its net debt from S$5.6b to S$4.6b, a 18% improvement. Its net debt to equity had fallen to 0.32 from 0.47.
Now, making an assumption on drawdown by end FY2009, it will have net debt of S$9.6b and net debt to equity of 0.67. All very good if the Chinese property continues its bull run
But if it implodes (note that China super bull, Jim Rogers, is avoiding recommending property to investors: in 2008 he was negative about Chinese property) and CapitaLand has not sold assets before the downturn: another rights issue?
Hedge funds who are negative on China property could do worse than start to build up short positions in CapitaLand.
The perils of buying NTA
The share price of United Engineers is falling after its high of S$2.37 on 29 May. This illustrates that buying a counter at a deep discount to its NTA can be problematic, if there is no catalyst to unlock value. To recap. As part of an asset rationalising swap, Straits Trading and its controlling privately-owned shareholder swapped assets.
12% of UE was sold to Tecity at around S$1.52 a share, and 7% of WBL Corp was sold to ST as part of the asset swap. ST ended up with 19% of WBL. BTW WBL has another 10% of UE.
There was speculation that Tecity had immediate designs on UE. UE's shares are at a deep discount to its published NTA of S$3.43. They remembered Tecity's bid for ST which ended with Tecity paying S$6.70 for assets (revalued) worth S$6.52 a share. What is forgotten is that Tecity busy coping with the consequences of having spent S$1.1bn to own 82% of ST; is not likely to want to reward other UE shareholders at Tecity's expense.
Assuming it bids at published NTA, it would have to spend S$679m. And if, the other major shareholder, GE Life starts a bidding war, the cost could escalate, like in ST. In early 2008, there were estimates that UE's NTA could be S$6. And if it did bid at NTA or more, any time soon, ST's minority shareholders would rightly cry foul.
TeCity's founder, the deceased Tan Chin Tuan, would spin in his grave hearing his heirs being accused of being unfair to minorities.
Incidentally the cost of selling UE's assets are likely to be very high.
Maybe future UE annual reports should give an estimate of the costs of selling these assets to unlock the published NTA. And maybe advisers to the independent directors of a target company; and the acquirer should subtract the costs of liquidating the assets when toying with NTA values in their reports.
If this had been done in ST, Tecity could have got away with a lower bid.
What price growth?
Bharti's proposed acquisition of a 49% stake in South African MTN would give SingTel (at 30% Bhart's biggest shareholder) exposure to markets in Africa and the Middle East, where there are a lot more mobile phones than people. Australia and Singapore (its biggest markets) are the opposite.
But the complex deal involving cash and a cross-shareholding by MTN into Bharti would mean that SingTel's share of Bharti would drop to 19%. SingTel has indicated that it wants to rebuild its stake back up to 30%, if the deal goes through. At current prices, this means coming up with about US$5.3bn or S$7.7bn.
It has net debt of S$6.5bn and net gearing of 24%. But raising net debt to S$14.2bn and net gearing to 52% is not an option in a GLC, though it could make sense in any other telco that has stable underlying cashflow. Qwest (albeit it is now trying to reduce debt) has a ratio of 110%. (more debt than equity).
So if the Bharti/ MTN deal goes through, a SingTel rights issue will be necessary.
As to how dilutive this will be — S$7.7bn works out to only Singapore 48 cents a share, or 16% of its market capitalisation based on yesterday's closing price of S$2.95.
Not too dilutive for exposure to fast-growing markets where there are more people than phones.
Long short pair
DBS Research's economist issued a report suggesting Asia is on its way to an economic recovery because the region's production is rebounding in a V-shaped fashion. "Asia is perched on a recovery path at the moment … we do not expect a W-shaped path in the near term."
DBS Vickers Securities raised its 12-month target price for the stock of Singapore Exchange (SGX) to S$9.10 – the highest now among the target prices of 20 analysts polled by Bloomberg.
But does how does SGX look in the medium term vis-a-vis its rival, HKSE? Remember HK would benefit from a V-shaped recovery too.
Traditionally, an important measure of the success an exchange vis-a-vis its peers is the new IPOs it attracts According to Dealogic, some US$1.6bn has been raised this year through eight listings in Hong Kong. And the outlook is improving By contrast, Singapore raised US$12.5m from 3 IPOs all second board (sorry "Catalyst") IPOs: with gloom pervasive, "2009 may be the worst year in memory for the IPO market".
Funnily this just when FT reports that "Asia is expecting a strong pick-up in market listings in the second half of this year thanks to a steady flow of flotations in Hong Kong and amid growing expectations that Beijing could soon allow domestic listings for the first time in almost a year.". It quoted Dealogic's Ken Poon, "Given the strong liquidity flows into the region, I would expect 2009 IPO volumes will exceed 2008 … As Asian IPO volumes in 2008 was US$23bn while in the first half of 2009, it's less than US$2bn … That would mean a really surprising second half. Sentiment is strong and liquidity is there to support new issues."
And Hong Kong can look forward in 2010 to the AIA listing, the $5bn-plus IPO of AIG's Asian life insurance unit This IPO is set to be the world's largest IPO since 2007, when incidentally thanks to the Chinese, more money was raised in HK than in New York. So shouldn't hedgies be thinking of shorting SGX, and buying HKSE? Even though SGX's forecasted PE is below 20x, while that of HKSE is closer to 30x.
SIA's Investment Prowess
If SIA were not such a great airline operationally and financially, I should be worried about its: "still keeping an eye out for possible acquisitions in China and India, despite the current economic downturn".
The last time it went on a buying spree between 1999 – 2001, it showed that investing in airlines was not a core competency.
In April 2000, SIA purchased a 25% stake in Air New Zealand for 426 million New Zealand dollars (352 million Singapore dollars), or NZ$3 a share. Yes it was the usual "strategic" investment. SIA also participated in a subsequent rights issue, paying an additional S$51 million, to avoid diluting its 25% stake. The original purchase plus rights amounted to S$403 million.
SIA in 2001 tried to invest more, failing only because the NZ government was dilatory in approving an increase in its stake in Air NZ. Phew!
When 100% owned subsidiary Ansett failed in late 2001, pulling AirNZ down with it, SIA's unapproved offer of NZ$1.31 a share was still on the table.
And in late 1999, a cash-strapped Richard Branson sold a 49% stake in his airline, Virgin Atlantic, to SIA for £600m (US$960m), a very good price for Mr Branson. SIA still has the stake and the much talked about synergies have been quietly forgotten.
There were also rumours of rows between Mr Branson and SIA on Branson's plans to muscle-in on SIA's lucrative UK to Oz route. So has the idea of selling the stake, what with valuations of airlines falling.
But let's be fair. The then CEO of SIA has moved on to become chairman of OCBC, not bringing with him his deal-making enthusiasm: for that OCBC shareholders should be happy.
And recently SIA kept its nerve and refused to up its offer for a stake in China Eastern Airlines, which is now in financil difficulties. So maybe SIA is a more disciplined investor.
But being disciplined has its perils. Ask PSA which refused to outbid the Arabs for a stake in a choice HK terminal, only to have play catch-up on a second-rate terminal.
Things might not be as they seem
Consoling yrself that higher petrol prices are the price to pay for a V-shape recovery? The Western and Chinese economies are on their way to recovery, and rising oil and commodity prices are foreshadowing this recovery.. Think again because this NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/business/economy/11commodity.html?ref=business reports that growing evidence suggests that a sizable portion of this buying has been to build stockpiles in China, and may not be sustainable.
Core competency of new Temasek CEO
Could the new CEO of Temasek finally sort out the strangeness of Temasek having
- two world class competing offshore rig builders in two separate listed listcos; two property listcos — one big, one tiny
- two MRO aerospace cos – one listed and the other part of a listed conglomerate?
Surely the national interest could be served by merging these and creating national champs. Yes, these have discussed inside before, but nothing happened. Gossip says that the bosse at the helms of TLCs are protective of their turfs: bit like Chinese lawlords throughout history. It always took a great leader to unify China over and over again.
But this is unlikely to be his priority. Neither is going into natural resources.
When he was hired to be CFO of Melbourne-based miner BHP in 1999, the "Big Australian" had lost its way. In the 1990s, it did a series of ill-conceived acquisitions and failed projects, amid historically low commodity prices.
The former investment banker was one half of an American duo. The other was CEO Paul Anderson, who came from Duke Energy.
In their first two years, BHP got rid of 2,000 jobs and A$6.9bn worth of assets. They then merged BHP with Billiton, createding the world's biggest miner.
Goodyear then became CEO and a key legacies, analysts say, is the financial discipline he brought to BHP. He ensured it grew fast enough to capitalise on the commodities boom while avoiding the ill-conceived spending of the past; and all the while, returning cash to shareholders.
Shortly after he took charge as CEO, it was announced that BHP would increase its capital management programme by more than four times to US$13bn, beginning with a US$2.5bn off-market return in Australia.
With the Singapore government tapping the reserves, someone with a track record of returning cash to shareholders while growing the portfolio is needed.
There is no Singaporean with these skills.

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Henry Hank wrote:They looked like this last year, pre-Crosby. My only concern is that the structure and discipline blows up again when Malkin returns.
Apparently that's a good thing. That means they can be awful which should leave them with plenty of time to peak again in time for the playoffs.


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How do I install apps on my Sony's Android TV?
You can check what apps can be installed on Sony's Android TV from the Google Play Store. Here's how to tell the difference between an Android and non-Android TV.
If you wish to install apps on your Sony's Android TV, start by going to the Home menu, by pressing the HOME button on your remote control
- Then, scroll down to the Apps shelf and select the Store - Google Play icon
- You will then be taken to Google's applications store: Google Play, where you can browse for applications, and download and install them on your TV.
- The screenshots provided here are for reference only. The actual screen might differ slightly according to your country, model or firmware version.
- Google Play on the TV only displays apps that are supported by the TV, so apps that are not displayed are not supported at the moment.
- Bravia Smart TV's are only able to run the catch-up/on-demand apps that are made explicitly available for these models through the Sony's Internet Contents. That's why you cannot install 3rd-party apps from other sources (e.g Google Play store) on Sony televisions that are not Sony Android TVs.
- What apps are available on Sony's Android TV?


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Looking blue can mean feeling sad or it can indicate that you have argyria, a condition caused by ingesting too much silver. An Oct. 29, 2012 news item on Nanowerk about research on argyria taking place at Brown University reveals the latest insight on the cause for this condition,
Researchers from Brown University have shown for the first time how ingesting too much silver can cause argyria, a rare condition in which patients' skin turns a striking shade of grayish blue.
"It's the first conceptual model giving the whole picture of how one develops this condition," said Robert Hurt, professor of engineering at Brown and part of the research team. "What's interesting here is that the particles someone ingests aren't the particles that ultimately cause the disorder."
Scientists have known for years argyria had something to do with silver. The condition has been documented in people who (ill advisedly) drink antimicrobial health tonics containing silver nanoparticles and in people who have had extensive medical treatments involving silver. Tissue samples from patients showed silver particles actually lodged deep in the skin, but it wasn't clear how they got there.
As it turns out, argyria is caused by a complex series of chemical reactions, Hurt said. His paper on the subject, authored with Brown colleagues Jingyu Liu, Zhongying Wang, Frances Liu, and Agnes Kane, is published in the journal ACS Nano ("Chemical Transformations of Nanosilver in Biological Environments" [behind a paywall]).
The Oct. 25, 2012 Brown University news release (which originated the news item) provides more detail,
Hurt and his team have been studying the environmental impact of silver, specifically silver nanoparticles, for years. They've found that nanosilver tends to corrode in acidic environments, giving off charged ions — silver salts — that can be toxic in large amounts. Hurt's graduate student, Jingyu Liu (now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology), thought those same toxic ions might also be produced when silver enters the body, and could play a role in argyria.
To find out, the researchers mixed a series chemical treatments that could simulate what might happen to silver inside the body. One treatment simulated the acidic environment in the gastrointestinal tract; one mimicked the protein content of the bloodstream; and a collagen gel replicated the base membranes of the skin.
They found that nanosilver corrodes in stomach acid in much the same way it does in other acidic environments. Corrosion strips silver atoms of electrons, forming positively charged silver salt ions. Those ions can easily be taken into the bloodstream through channels that absorb other types of salt. That's a crucial step, Hurt said. Silver metal particles themselves aren't terribly likely to make it from the GI tract to the blood, but when they're transformed into a salt, they're ushered right through.
From there, Hurt and his team showed that silver ions bind easily with sulfur present in blood proteins, which would give them a free ride through the bloodstream. Some of those ions would eventually end up in the skin, where they'd be exposed to light.
To re-create this end stage, the researchers shined ultraviolet light on collagen gel containing silver ions. The light caused electrons from the surrounding materials to jump onto the unstable ions, returning them to their original state — elemental silver. This final reaction is ultimately what turns patients' skin blue. The photoreaction is similar to the way silver is used in black and white photography [emphasis mine]. When exposed to light, silver salts on a photographic film reduce to elemental silver and darken, creating an image.
While I find the notion that the body's reaction to silver is similar to the processing of silver in black and white photography, it's the discussion about toxicity that most interests me. The scientists at Brown are suggesting that standard 'ingestable' silver could be more dangerous than silver nanoparticles when they are consumed in the body,
This research, however, "would be one piece of evidence that you could treat nanoparticles in the same way as other forms of silver," Hurt says.
That's because the bioavailable form of silver — the form that is absorbed into the bloodstream — is the silver salt that's made in the stomach. Any elemental silver that's ingested is just the raw material to make that bioavailable salt. So ingesting silver in any form, be it nano or not, would have basically the same effect, Hurt said.
"The concern in this case is the total dose of silver, not what form it's in," Hurt said. "This study implies that silver nanoparticles will be less toxic than an equivalent amount of silver salt, at least in this exposure scenario [emphasis mine]."
This research provides more evidence supporting Dr. Andrew Maynard's contention that creating definitions and regulations for nanomaterials based on size may not be the best approach. Here's his response to my question (in an Oct. 24, 2011 posting) about the then newly adopted Health Canada definition (which includes size) for nanomaterials,
The problem is that, while the Health Canada is a valiant attempt to craft a definition based on the current state of science, it is still based on a premise – that size within a well defined range is a robust indicator of novel risk – that is questionable [emphasis mine]. Granted, they try to compensate for the limitations of this premise, but the result still smacks of trying to shoehorn the science into an assumption of what is important.
One can only wait as the evidence continues to mount on one side or the other. In the meantime, I don't one can ever go wrong with BB King, one of the great blues guitar players (Blues Boys Tune),


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A prep cook's role refers to a back of house worker whose primary responsibility is to set up the job site for success.
Prep Cook responsibilities:
Prepares the ingredients for chefs to cook the entrees and meals that are offered on the menu.
Washes, chops, grates and slices vegetables to go in various dishes.
Cuts and slices meats to the appropriate portion sizes.
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The evolution of the MuRF continues with the MF-105M MIDI MuRF guitar pedal. The Moog MF-105M combines Bob Moog's classic MuRF and Bass MuRF to make one powerful Moogerfooger effects pedal. Its warm, resonant, 100% analog Mid and Bass filter bands bring you everything from shimmering timbral morphing and rhythmic stuttering to deep bass grooves. Like all Moogerfoogers, this guitar effects pedal is built like a tank to stand up to the toughest touring and studio use.Moog didn't stop there. In addition to the full range of Control Voltage inputs, the Moogerfooger guitar pedal also sports an extensive MIDI implementation. Create tempo-synced filter sequences with MIDI Clock Sync. Change patterns with MIDI Program Change messages. Control front panel knob settings with MIDI CC messages and play the filters in real-time with MIDI Note On commands.The Moog effect pedal is equally at home on the floor, tabletop or rack mount, and with all this sound and control in one package, the MF-105M MIDI MuRF connects you to a world of sonic expression, with tight integration into today's performance, production, DJ and remix environments. At the Heart of the MIDI MuRF is a bank of eight resonant bandpass filters tuned to fixed frequencies. The Animation module is a 24-Pattern sequencer triggering volume envelopes for the eight filters. The Freq Switch toggles between two banks of patterns: 12 bass patterns and 12 mid-range patterns. About the softwareSince its launch in the summer of 2009, Moog's Moogerfooger, the MF-105M MIDI MuRF guitar pedal has been an instant success. With eight analog filters under MIDI and CV control, the MIDI MuRF is one of the most powerful and flexible sound design tools around. Now for the icing on an already very sweet cake, Moog is releasing the MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor.Available as a free download to Moog MIDI MuRF owners, the Pattern Editor software allows players to create, modify and save their own patterns. Its point-and-click user interface makes pattern creation a breeze. In addition, the on-screen knobs and sliders let users optimize patterns to real-world settings without taking their hand off the mouse.The Moog MIDI MuRF Pattern Editor provides easy access to parameters only available through MIDI CC commands and saving and storing patterns on a computer allows for an unlimited number of available variations. Includes steel case with black powder coat finish and wood sides in a classic analog appearance.8 Analog FiltersMuRF and Bass MuRF Filter BandsMIDI Clock SyncTap TempoMIDI CC ControlPattern Editor


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'Smiles' May Be Latest of Dangerous 'Designer Drugs' to Hit Market
Actor Johnny Lewis killed a woman and himself, possibly while on 'Smiles.'
Oct. 1, 2012 -- Los Angeles police are investigating whether the alleged murder-suicide by "Sons of Anarchy" star Johnny Lewis last week is linked to "Smiles," the newest designer street drug gaining popularity in the U.S.
According to the LAPD, the Los Angeles area has seen a rise in the number of overdoses caused by Smiles, or 2C-I, a hallucinogenic synthetic drug. They said that Lewis' behavior, in which he is suspected of attacking and killing his elderly landlady before jumping or falling of a balcony to his death, was consistent with the drug.
"The thing we are seeing lately here in Los Angeles and across the country are synthetic designer-type drugs, something like 'bath salts,' or the new one we've heard around here called 'smiles,'" LAPD Cmd. Andrew Smith told ABC News.
The drug may be part of a growing trend of drugs created by tweaking chemical formulas to constantly introduce new drugs to the market, according to experts. Just as synthetic marijuana, known as K2 or Spice, and Bath Salts became popular for brief periods of time over the past years, Smiles may be the latest man-made drug to be hitting the club scene, according to Dessa Bergen-Cico, professor of public health at Syracuse University.
"Basically it's a very pure and potent form of ecstasy or MDMA," Bergen-Cico said. "So it's not necessarily a new drug, but a more potent form of it."
Smiles, as it is known commonly, is sold in powder, pill or liquid form and marketed as a drug with LSD or ecstasy-like effects, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. It is classified as a schedule-I controlled substance.
"Smiles is desirable because at least initially, it was 'legal,'" said Dr. Constance Scharff, who does addiction research at the Cliffside Malibu Treatment Center in California. "Where (smiles and bath salts) are similar is that each has caused a tremendous number of calls to the Poison Control Center because of adverse reactions and overdoses."
According to Rusty Payne, spokesman for the DEA, smiles can cause hallucinations, anxiety, panic attacks and seizures.
"It has a psychedelic effect so it can be associated with visual hallucinations, distortions. It's not the same as LSD, but like with peyote, mescaline, and LSD, where there's a potential for hallucination with visual effects, depending on the mental state of the person, they could have a pretty horrific trip," Bergen-Cico said.
Like bath salts, a drug that gained notoriety over the summer and led to violent attacks by users across the country, smiles is a purely synthetic drug manufactured in chemical labs, Bergen-Cico said.
"(Lewis') behavior sounds a little bit more like bath salts, or embalming fluid, or PCP, as a very heavy kind of stimulant, with an amphetamine kind of effect," Bergen-Cico said, noting that she was not familiar with Lewis' case specifically.
The spread of smile's popularity has been slow, and limited to areas that are close to a manufacturer or distribution line, Bergen-Cico explained. Smiles is often imported from Mexico or China, where the chemicals to make it are more easily obtained, and then trafficked through the U.S. along the same routes as other, more popular drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, she said.
Smiles has not hit critical mass yet, she noted. From 2006 to 2010, there were fewer than 2,000 cases of 2C-I use reported to the forensic labs, according to DEA figures. In a DEA report on 2C drug use, many states with international borders saw the highest rates of use, including Texas, Michigan, and Washington, along with Florida.
Smiles Is the Latest in New Man Made Drugs
The DEA has had to move quickly to keep up with the evolving combinations of chemicals that are forming new drugs. Earlier this year, Congress moved to ban all forms of the 2C drug family, including 2C-I. The bill, passed in June, also banned synthetic marijuana, bath salts, and other chemically-engineered drugs.
But the rise of synthetic drugs may only be just beginning, Bergen-Cico warned. As smiles users have begun posting videos of themselves while high on the drug to YouTube and writing reviews of the drug's effects on internet message boards, interest around the country has piqued.
"I can guarantee we're only just beginning to see this deluge of new designer drugs, where there's something going to be coming out every couple months. It's a money making business. As soon as it's saturated or uncool or they get busted, they're going to find new things to develop," she said.
The U.S., in response to the new market for designer drugs, must take steps to both ban them and help users make safe decisions, she said.
"We need to find ways to reduce risk and demand, to let users find safe easy access to information, and to let them know that if they are concerned that someone is overdosing, being able to let them know what their medical amnesty options are."


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Animation Instructor Fights Unnecessary Textbook Purchases And Gets Fired For His Trouble
from the school-motto:-'Punire-Omni-Benefacto' deptEndlessly mounting tuition isn't the only factor turning a college degree into a lifetime of student loan payments. Textbook prices are keeping pace with tuition, both of which are charging far ahead of inflation and wages.
There's no monopoly on the textbook market, but over 80% of it is controlled by the top four publishers (Pearson, Cengage, Wiley and McGraw-Hill). This control gives them enough leverage to maintain a 65% gross margin on their offerings.
The newest faces in the textbook world aren't making anything better. EDMC (Education Management Corporation), which operates several for-profit post-secondary schools (Argosy, The Art Institutes, Brown Mackie College) has its own e-textbook publishing arm, Digital Bookshelf, which handles all of its e-book offerings. As recently as last year, some were hoping the move to digital books would bring these prices down. Instead, digital offerings are arriving locked down, requiring students to purchase access codes which prevent the sharing of books and eliminates the resale market.
Here's what happens when a well-respected instructor attempts to push back against EDMC:
It's a common scenario and most college students appreciate a teacher who's looking for ways to deliver a quality education without requiring them to make unnecessary book purchases. Unfortunately, in the case of Mike Tracy, a highly-regarded animator who'd been teaching at the Art Institute of California-Orange County for the past 11 years, refusing to make students buy an e-book they don't need may have cost him his job.This isn't just Tracy's opinion. The post also cites EDMC's own Faculty Federation as being opposed to the strong-arm tactics being deployed:
Tracy posted on his Facebook page that he's "been in a dispute" with the school for several months "over their policy of mandatory e-textbooks in classes where their inclusion seems arbitrary, inappropriate and completely motivated by profit.
EDMC continues to insist on e-books only and wants sole discretion over what e-books are used, compromising faculty independence and expertise in choosing best resources for class.Not only are instructors not allowed to opt-out of this "service," students are forced to pay extra for versions they may not even need.
Art Institute requires students to pay a $50-$75 fee to download a temporary copy of the e-textbook from the Digital Bookshelf. Even if they want to buy a hard copy of the text, they still have to fork over the money for a digital version.Note that this is a temporary copy, so there's no passing it on to another classmate who might be taking the course in the next semester. This also prevents any sort of resale/trading taking from taking place. One of the slim advantages of purchasing physical copies was the ability to resell the books to help offset the costs of the next set of curriculum. The textbook publishers have turned that into a complete farce by adding minor revisions to their line of books as often as possible, changing a few homework problems or pushing text back and forth to force re-pagination. Many books are outdated before the next year of schooling even starts, turning a $150 investment into a doorstop. Going electronic-only, tied to pass codes and non-refundable fees eliminates any further recoupment for the students.
Beyond the ugliness of these mercenary tactics is the fact that what EDMC is doing is, if not actually illegal, certainly operating in a very gray area. The Higher Education Opportunity Act (passed in 2008) states that textbook publishers must "unbundle" their core educational content from optional add-ons like study guides or homework systems. It could be argued that an electronic version of the same textbook is not an "optional add-on," but one could also certainly argue that the option to buy either/or when it comes to digital and physical books should still be left to the students' or instructors' preference, rather than subjecting students to mandatory, non-refundable fees.
EDMC should be a bit more careful about operating at the fringes of federal law. It's currently being sued by the Department of Justice for illegal recruiting and false claims:
The government's complaint says the company, which offers classes online and at 105 locations in 32 states and Canada, repeatedly made false statements to conceal its practices and receive $11 billion in federal and state financial aid – nearly all of the company's revenue. The complaint alleges that student enrollment was the sole focus of its compensation system, and the company instructed recruiters to use high-pressure sales techniques like playing on an applicant's psychological vulnerabilities and inflating claims of career placement opportunities to enroll students regardless of their qualifications.Beyond the resale blockage and rent-seeking is the outrageous idea that somehow courses should have mandatory textbooks, thus forcing instructors to teach their classes in whatever direction the curriculum provider steers them, rather than being able to impart knowledge in a way that caters to the instructor and the students.
There's no way that locking your faculty and students into purchasing and utilizing textbooks from a single provider is ever going to work for the benefit of anyone but the company being favored and the administration members who made this exclusive contract a reality. EDMC can have it both ways for the moment, operating both a set of schools and providing its own exclusive conduit for instructional material.
As for Mike Tracy, his students have banded together to get him reinstated. They've also started a petition over at change.org, asking for the Art Institute to amend its textbook policy to put curriculum selection back in the hands of the instructors. It currently has over 3,500 signatures.


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There is no exclusion put upon any tribe or clan, no classes are laid under ban, no individuals are exempted. Therefore, Church of Christ, by the love you bear to your crucified Master, by His wounds and death for you, and by His living love to you, seek out the lost and gather together the outcasts. You fishers of men, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. You sowers of holy seed, go abroad, and sow the untrodden wastes. You consecrated builders, break away from old foundations, and lay fresh groundwork for a larger temple for your God and King. Surely the Spirit of love in a church will suggest this. ~ C. H. Spurgeon
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. ~ Romans 1:16, 17
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: ~ Colossians 1:28
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. ~ 1 Timothy 3:16
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ~ John 14:6
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? ~ John 11:25,26
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ~ John 3:16-18
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ~ Galatians 3:24
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ Romans 6:23
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. ~ Ephesians 2:8-10
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.~ John 3:3,7
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ~ 1 Timothy 2:3-5
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. ~ Acts 3:13-15
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. ~ Acts 3:19-21
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. ~ John 3:36
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ~ 1 John 5:11,12
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ~ John 14:21
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ~ 1 John 5:7
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Goonies' legend just keeps growing – as does FC Dallas' frustration.
Steven Lenhart bagged a late brace, including a 95th-minute equalizer, as the San Jose Earthquakes came back twice in the second half to force a 3-3 tie with FC Dallas on Saturday.
Lenhart headed home a ball flicked on by Alan Gordon, from a cross by Justin Morrow, to keep San Jose's unbeaten streak at Buck Shaw Stadium intact. The Earthquakes have gone 11-0-6 at their primary venue since Aug. 13, 2011.
San Jose (18-6-7) inched to three points ahead of Sporting Kansas City in the Supporters' Shield standings. The Quakes need to hold on for three more matches to claim their first hardware since returning to the league as an expansion team in 2008.
Blas Pérez scored in the 37th and 72nd minutes for FC Dallas (9-12-10), who lost an opportunity to tie Vancouver in the race for the fifth and final Western Conference playoff spot when Matt Hedges' 88th-minute goal didn't hold up. Dallas sit two points behind the Whitecaps with three matches remaining.
Alan Gordon put San Jose up in 24th minute, and Lenhart provided an 82nd-minute equalizer.
San Jose have 12 game-winning or equalizing goals in the 82nd minute or later this season. It was the Earthquakes' league-record ninth goal in second-half stoppage time.
Things began to boil in the 22nd minute, when Gordon sent a sideways volley just over the crossbar, but Dallas responded right away with an attack down the right and a cross in that saw a collision between Steven Beitashour and Brek Shea, the latter's penalty shout going unanswered.
Gordon broke through in the following minute, finishing off a play that began with Marvin Chávez – making his first start since Sept. 2 due to a strained left hamstring – latching onto a loose ball near midfield, then delivering a bending cross from the right wing. Chris Wondolowski dummied the ball to Gordon, who easily finished past a helpless Kevin Hartman.
Jackson continued to menace the Quakes, and his run through one attempted tackle set up Dallas' first goal. The Brazilian fed a pass to the heart of San Jose's defense, where Pérez took one touch to free himself and tucked a sharply angled shot just inside the far post.
OPTA Chalkboard: Forwards feast in open encounter
Though Wondolowski failed to beat Kevin Hartman twice in first-half stoppage time, Pérez did so in the second half, knifing between Quakes center backs Víctor Bernárdez and Jason Hernandez to head home David Ferreira's deft cross from the edge of the area and stake Dallas to a 2-1 lead.
Lenhart, who came on for an injured Mehdi Ballouchy in the 52nd minute, got San Jose even with a stabbing, 18-yard left-footed shot off a well-weighted layoff by Gordon.
Hedges appeared to be the hero, slotting home the rebound after Pérez's redirection crashed off the post. Bernárdez made a twisting save off the line, but the ball fell to Hedges at four yards, and he found the empty net for his third goal of the season.
Lenhart and the Quakes, though, had one more escape left.
San Jose have a week's rest before traveling to Colorado on Oct. 6, while FC Dallas play next at Chivas USA the following day.
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|Put San Jose to the sword with two smart finishes, and went close to being involved in a couple other potential Dallas goals
|Steven Lenhart
|The man not only coined the 'Goonies' legend, but has come to epitomize it, as he showed with two late goals after coming off the bench
|Caused the Quakes problems all game long, picked up an assist on Pérez's first goal of the night


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The setup looks like in this photo.
Although, the Arduino works just fine with the 4 AA batteries (after the sketch is loaded), it seems that the serial communication is affected, that is, it does not work in this case. Good to know, in case anyone runs into the same kind of situation.


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After almost 10 months of not being an Ancestry.com subscriber, I bit the bullet and signed on for the Limited Time Offer of a one month subscription, at a 20% savings, for the grand total of $15.95. My only reason for signing up was to reply to queries pertaining to my Ancestry tree on their site. (Even though I wasn't a member, the tree remained for anybody to see.) I had about eight letters from people, sent through Ancestry, of which I couldn't send a reply, since I wasn't a "member." I wonder if the writers ever received a notification that I was unable to reply.
Two things I learned were: if I ever write to somebody through Ancestry (if as a member), I will type my email address in the first sentence and tell them to write me personally. If your tree is on Ancestry's site, like mine is, I will keep my email address in the first sentence where I describe me or the tree. This works, because several people have written write me directly. The other thing is, if I write somebody and they don't reply back, I won't take it too personally, as they may have let their subscription lapse. They have no way of contacting you. In other words, if you reply or write through Ancestry, I think your email should be in the first line.
I immediately received a response to one of the emails I sent. Well, this is a funny email and I thought I would share it. I know you all get them; ones that don't make sense are really funny. I have no idea about the weather thing.
"Hi Barbara,
It's been long enough since we communicated, that I can't remember the HARVEY connection and whose family I was working on to need it.
Can you refresh me?
Meantime, we now have addresses for each other.
We had a beautiful autumn morning in central Michigan, but now it's clouded over again. Guess more rain is on the way. On which day did you have summer in your part of the world? Here, it was from 8 - 12 am, August 25."
We never communicated, I sent him my first email yesterday giving him my email address and apologizing for not replying sooner, and told him not to go through Ancestry, of course he did. What is he talking about? I am not sure if I will reply to him, but if I want another laugh, maybe I should.
My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I'll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.
For four years I've blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can't forget my own roots.
Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.
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TV industry lucky for Aditya Redij
Working for TV soaps may be hectic, but TV actor Aditya Redij aka Prithvi of "Junoon - Aisi Nafrat, Toh Kaisa Ishq", is not complaining and thanks television industry for helping him meet his life partner, Natasha Sharma.
He and Natasha worked together in "Na Aana Is Des Laado" and they got engaged earlier this year. "I found my love in the industry. We both understand our career path and we are free to do what we want. It is important for a couple to understand each other and know what the other one wants... and we do," Aditya told IANS.
The actor shoots for 25-26 days a month and despite hectic schedule he maintains a perfect balance between his personal and professional life.
"Right now I am shooting for 25-26 days a month. As of now it is not that hectic," he said and added: "I don't want to take up too many things because that would mean long working hours. I balance personal and professional life. I am okay with doing few things. If something interesting comes up, I may look into it."
After making his small screen debut with "Na Aana Is Des Laado", Aditya was later seen in "Sawaare Sabke Sapne Preeto". He feels different roles help you "learn more about yourself and discover your creative side".
"This is what I have been trying to do since '...Laado'. I try to push my limits and creative boundaries and do something new and exciting every time," added the 28-year-old who would love to play a romantic or a mythological character in future.
"I would like to do something completely different from Prithvi. May be a romantic character or a mythological role," he said.
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Last night as I was taking a break from drafting the opening of Xocolatl, I looked at the 'Top 25 Most Played' on my iTunes and discovered Lukas Foss appeared five times and topped the list. Bach, Mozart, Purcell, Ravel, Ella Fitzgerald and Bill Evans were close contenders, but according to the statistics, it was Foss's music that I kept returning to – either when I felt uninspired, or just listening out of pleasure. After all, it was on hearing his Baroque Variations and Renaissance Concerto (sadly only on recording) that I realised composing was what I wanted to do.
The music of Lukas Foss is rarely heard in the United Kingdom. Even in his 'native' America (he was born in Berlin and moved to the States in 1937), not many of his pieces are played on a regular basis, with the exceptions of the early Three American Pieces (1944) and Capriccio (1946). These are nice pieces, and certainly deserved to be played. But his best works – the glorious, Coplandesque secular cantata The Prairie (1938); the achingly lyrical second solo biblical cantatas Song of Songs (1946); the spiky and yet sumptuous Time Cycle (1960); the riotously imaginative Baroque Variations (1968); the complex, semi-aleatoric Echoi (1963), Cello Concert (1966) and Non-Improvisation (1967); the dramatic and ironic American Cantata (1975); the strange, out-of-this-worldly Elytres (1964), The Fragments of Archilochos (1965), Geod (1969) and Quintets for Orchestra (1979); the minimalistic Solo (1981) and Solo Observed (1982); the poetic Three Airs for Frank O'Hara's Angel (1972) and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1978), the playful Tashi (1986); an outstanding quartet of concerti writing in 1980s and 1990s – Renaissance Concerto (1986), Clarinet Concerto (1988), American Landscapes (1989) and Concerto for the Left Hand (1995) – are seldom played.
I always thought composing was not something that can be taught; and when I approached Lukas Foss for lessons, he confirmed that. I have learnt so much more about composing by studying his scores, listening to his music, reading/listening to him talking about inspirations (and sometimes the techniques too). When I asked him about what he considered to be a musical idea, his reply was simply 'an idea is a surprise that makes sense'. This saying alone has served me well as a composer in the past ten years.
Like all composers who have an equal standing in conducting (Adès, Benjamin, Bernstein, Boulez, Maderna, Knussen and Schuller to name a few), Foss's choices of pieces were often unusual and never short of surprises. I studied his programming strategy closely and often found new, interesting connections – may that be historical, intellectual, musical – between these pieces, and often, with non-musical subjects as well.
Prommers had the chance to hear his Time Cycle in 2000 performed by Rosemary Hardy, London Sinfonietta and Oliver Knussen; it remained the only high profile outing of his music in recent years in the UK, and the one and only time his music featured at the Proms, although he was invited to contribute a variation to the Bright Cecilia: Variations on a Theme by Purcell for the Last Night of the Proms 2002; in the end, he did not write it. He told me he simply cannot do it. No work had come from his pen works since For Aaron (2002), and I hate to think Lukas had stopped writing.
I suspect the unpopularity of Lukas Foss's music lies in the fact that he is a composer whose music is difficult to pigeon-hole, as eclecticism is often frown upon in serious concert music. But if you, as I quote the title of George Michael's 1990 album, listen without prejudice, I hope you will find the bewildering depth and wealth of imagination in this kind, inspiring musician fascinating as I do.
If you have not heard his recordings of Bach's keyboard concerti or Mozart's chamber music, go and get them. They are truly amazing.
p.s. If anyone is interested in hearing any of Foss's pieces, please leave a comment, or drop me a line; I will be more than happy to share them with you.


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Did you just get yourself a shiny new computer? Or maybe you need to get QuickBooks onto your laptop so you can get caught up on your bookkeeping?
If you need to get QuickBooks from one computer to another, it's not a big deal. Here's what you do:
1. Computer #2: Install QuickBooks (you'll need your original install disk or downloaded install file, plus your installation codes that came with the software.)
2. Computer #2: Update QuickBooks: Run QuickBooks and click on Help / Update QuickBooks. That way, you'll have the same QuickBooks updates on computer #2 that are on computer #1.
3. Computer #1: Backup your company data. You can back it up to any medium that will be accessible to computer #2. That would normally include CDs, USB/flash drives, external hard drives, or online storage services (like Global DataVault.)
The smallest backup you can make is a Portable file. This kind of backup is only about 20-25% the size of your regular QBW company file, yet it contains all your data. (The backup excludes the internal indexing in the file – that's why it's both smaller and takes longer to make and restore.)
4. If you made a backup to a physical backup drive, take it to computer #2 and plug it in or insert it. If your backup is online somewhere, download it to computer #2's hard drive or desktop.
5. Computer #2: Run QuickBooks, and at the opening dialog box select "Open or restore an existing company", and then "Restore a portable file" (or "Restore a backup copy" if you are bringing over a regular backup copy from computer #1.)
6. Computer #2: Navigate to the drive and folder where your backup is, and select the backup file.
7. Computer #2: Specify where you want the file to be restored to. You can accept the default that QuickBooks suggests, or point to a particular folder that makes sense to you. My Documents is not a bad choice.
8. Computer #2: Finish the restore.
Once your data is restored, everything should be set up for you to work in QuickBooks on your new computer. If you need to take your company file back to computer #1, simply reverse the process for steps #3-8.
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NEW YORK, NY – A day after the release of a CNN poll that found 58 percent of Americans believe abortion should be illegal in some or all circumstances, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, is calling on members of the U.S. Senate to take heed.
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It's easy to be appalled by things that happen elsewhere: the brutal, horrifying rape of the 23 year-old Indian student, so violent that she died of her injuries. Malala Yousufzai, the 15 year-old Pakistani schoolgirl/activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban. It's easy to feel a sort of removed pity in the face of such tragedies. But what we should feel is urgency, and responsibility.
And not just because gender violence happens here, too. In Steubenville, Ohio, an equally despicable incident happened last August, when an unconscious 16 year-old girl was carried from party to party, and raped over and over again.
It would be hard to carry out such acts on someone you saw as human, equal and valuable. It would be hard to carry out such acts if such acts were (loudly) understood to be completely unacceptable.
Reading Sunday's New York Times, I was struck by two pieces: Nicholas D. Kristof's excellent "Is Delhi So Different From Steubenville?," and Maureen Dowd's article about the lack of women appointed to top spots by President Obama so far. When it comes to policy and representation, is the U.S. doing as well as it could? Hardly.
As Kristof writes,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has done a superb job trying to put these issues on the global agenda, and I hope President Obama and Senator John Kerry will continue her efforts. But Congress has been pathetic. Not only did it fail to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but it has also stalled on the global version, the International Violence Against Women Act, which would name and shame foreign countries that tolerate gender violence.
Congress even failed to renew the landmark legislation against human trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The obstacles were different in each case, but involved political polarization and paralysis. Can members of Congress not muster a stand on modern slavery?
(Hmm. I now understand better the results of a new survey from Public Policy Polling showing that Congress, with 9 percent approval, is less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, lice or Genghis Khan.)
We can't let Congress off the hook when it comes to these policies. According to Politifact, "On Dec. 11, 2012, U.S. Representative Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and 119 other members of Congress signed a letter calling on House leaders to hold a vote on re-authorizing the Violence Against Women Act." That vote never happened.
But there's more than policy to consider. As Dowd writes, citing New York Magazine, apparently Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has a better record of appointing top women than Obama. Here's a bit more from her:
'We don't have to order up some binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women' to excel in all fields, the president said on the trail, vowing to unfurl the future for 'our daughters.'
It may be because the president knows what a matriarchal world he himself lives in that he assumes we understand that the most trusted people in his life have been female–his wife, his daughters, his mother, his grandmother, his mother-in-law, his closest aide, Valerie.
But this isn't about how he feels, or what his comfort zone is, or who's in his line of sight. It's about what he projects to the world–not to mention to his own daughters.
What's the connection, though, between getting women into top spots, and gender violence throughout the world?
It's not just that women in such positions are more likely to give voice to the global issues often sidelined as "women's issues." It's not just the inherent value in diversity, in having a broad range of voices and perspectives involved in the decision-making process. It not just "the optics"–the fact that seeing women standing next to the President might inspire a young girl to aim high, or subtly nudge the consciousness of those who see her there in the direction of expecting to see women in top spots. It's all of it, and more. Consider this, from Kristof's piece:
Skeptics fret that sexual violence is ingrained into us, making the problem hopeless. But just look at modern American history, for the rising status of women has led to substantial drops in rates of reported rape and domestic violence. Few people realize it, but Justice Department statistics suggest that the incidence of rape has fallen by three-quarters over the last four decades.
Likewise, the rate at which American women are assaulted by their domestic partners has fallen by more than half in the last two decades. That reflects a revolution in attitudes. Steven Pinker, in his book 'The Better Angels of our Nature,' notes that only half of Americans polled in 1987 said that it was always wrong for a man to beat his wife with a belt or a stick; a decade later, 86 percent said it was always wrong.
Will having more women in high-level positions eliminate all gender violence? No. But the correlation between the "rising status of women" and drops in rates of rape and domestic violence is not coincidence. There's a link to seeing women in power–and empowered–and seeing them as equals. And when we see others as equals, we tend to treat them that way. Will policies like the Violence Against Women Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act eliminate all gender violence? No. But it will make crimes more easily prosecutable. All of it matters; every bit counts. It's tragic that here, and all over the world, there are those who see women as targets. We should be doing all we can to change that.


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Will Mega-Dams Destroy the Amazon?
- April 18, 2011
- Rhett A. Butler
- Mongabay.com
More than 150 new dams planned across the Amazon basin could significantly disrupt the ecological connectivity of the Amazon River to the Andes with substantial impacts for fish populations, nutrient cycling, and the health of Earth's largest rainforest, warns a comprehensive study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
Scouring public data and submitting information requests to governments, researchers Matt Finer of Save America's Forests and Clinton Jenkins of North Carolina State University documented plans for new dams in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. They found that 40 percent of the projects are already in advanced planning stages and more than half would be large dams over 100 megawatts. 60 percent of the dams "would cause the first major break in connectivity between protected Andean headwaters and the lowland Amazon", while more than 80 percent "would drive deforestation due to new roads, transmission lines, or inundation."
"These results are quite troubling given the critical link between the Andes Mountains and the Amazonian floodplain," said lead author Finer in a statement. "There appears to be no strategic planning regarding possible consequences to the disruption of an ecological connection that has existed for millions of years."
Finer and Jenkins note that the Andes are a critical source of sediments, nutrients, and organic matter for the Amazon river, feeding the floodplain that supports the rich Amazon rainforest. The Amazon and it tributaries are critical highways for migratory fish that move to headwaters areas to spawn.
"Many economically and ecologically important Amazonian fish species spawn only in Andean-fed rivers, including a number that migrate from the lowlands to the foothills," the authors write. "The Andean Amazon is also home to some of the most species rich forests and rivers on Earth. The region is documented to contain extraordinary richness for the most well studied taxa... and high levels of endemism for the understudied fishes. Therefore, any dam-driven forest loss or river impacts are of critical concern."
Finer and Jenkins conducted a meta-analysis of river connectivity and infrastructure to produce an "ecological impact score" for all 151 dams. 47 percent of the dams were classified as "high impact" while only 19 percent were rated "low impact". Eleven of the dams would directly affect a conservation area.
Worryingly the authors conclude that there is seemingly no basin-wide policy assessment of the potential social and ecological impacts of the dam-building spree.
"We conclude that there is an urgent need for strategic basin scale evaluation of new dams and a plan to maintain Andes-Amazon connectivity," said study co-author Jenkins in a statement. "We also call for a reconsideration of the notion that hydropower is a widespread low impact energy source in the Neotropics."
Finer and Jenkins warn that the perception dams in tropical forest areas are a clean energy source could lead to perverse subsidies for the projects via the carbon market.
"Institutions and instruments that support Neotropical dams, such as international financial institutions and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), should consider the wide array of factors examined here during project evaluations," they write. "Otherwise, tropical rivers and forests may increasingly be at risk from otherwise well-intentioned strategies to mitigate climate change."
Phil Fearnside, an esteemed researcher at the National institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA) who wasn't involved with the paper but has conducted extensive analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from Amazon dams, agrees.
"The other reason giving these dams CDM credit is bad for climate is that virtually none of them are additional," Fearnside told mongabay.com. "In other words, the dams are being built anyway, and giving them credit both wastes the resources for fighting global warming and allows the countries that purchase the credit to emit more carbon."
The bigger picture
Study author Finer says that governments need to take a hard look at current plans for dam development, which could affect the long-term productivity of the very ecosystems that sustain Amazon rivers.
"As governments of the Andean Amazon region are prioritizing hydropower as the centerpiece of long-term energy plans, strategic planning is needed to mimimize impacts of a planned wave of new dams in the most biologically diverse zone on Earth," he told mongabay.com.
"Up to now all six major connections between the Andes and Amazon have been largely free-flowing. With the construction of the two mega dams on the Madeira we'll soon be down to five. We documented many plans for three more major rivers (Ucayali, Maranon, and Napo), so pretty soon we could be down to two. What will be the implications of that?"
"These dams could have extremely far-reaching impacts on the Amazon, stretching from the high Andes all the way to lowland Brazil," added Jenkins. "The full ecological impacts may be unpredictable and potentially irreversible."


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