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AAPL is 'Fantastic,' Says Einhorn, and 'Utterly Misvalued'; Give us our Preferred Shares
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Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn this morning was on CNBC, imploring his "friends" among Apple (AAPL) shareholders to vote against proposition number twoin Apple's proxy statement for its annual shareholder meeting, which would prevent issuance of preferred stock.
Einhorn's contention is that Apple has a "Depression mentality," like some people who grew up during The Great Depression, and hoards cash.
Apple stock has been rising in pre-market trading following Einhorn's presentation, and is currently up $6.15, or 1.3%, at $463.50. The shares now continue gains as the session gets underway, rising $5.15, or 1%, at $459.85.
He wants the company to issue perpetual preferred shares with a 4% dividend yield.
People who've gone through traumas, they sometimes feel they can never have enough cash. I remember my grandma Roz. She was a depression-era child. She wouldn't leave me a message on my answering machine because she didn't want to get charged for the phone calls.
Einhorn thinks that for every $50 billion bucks that Apple were to release to shareholders, it would generate $32 per share in Apple stock. Ergo, if the company were to issue $500 billion in payouts, it would unlock $320 per share.
Einhorn is opposing Calpers, which apparently worked with Apple to draft prop 2 banning preferred share issuance. Calpers's note is here. Apple's shareholder meeting takes place February 27th.
As Einhorn made the case,
Right now, Apple's got one common equity security that has all the volatility related to earning. There's a tremendous demand for high quality interest income. We think if they distributed preferred stock with a 4% yield there would be tremendous demand for it. Sell the preferred to people who want it. $50 billion unlocks $32 per share in apple. Issue $500 billion and unlock $320 per share.
Einhorn described his proposal as a "win-win": "Apple gets to keep all its cash, and we, the shareholders, get to keep the value embedded in the stock."
Apple's proposition number two reads:
To amend the Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation to (i) eliminate certain language relating to the term of office of directors in order to facilitate the adoption of majority voting for the election of directors, (ii) eliminate "blank check" preferred stock, (iii) establish a par value for the Company's common stock of $0.00001 per share and (iv) make other conforming changes as described in more detail in the Proxy Statement.
Asked if he was still long Apple shares, Einhorn said yes. He said Greenlight has owned it since 2010 and owns "more Apple today than we ever have before."
Asked for his fundamental assessment of Apple, Einhorn responded:
Apple's fantastic. They made over $20 billion in cash last quarter. That's more than Amazon[.com (AMZN)] has made in its entire life. And both of these trade at the same price to sales. It's utterly mis-valued. That's because there's a lot of noise. But I think they're doing incredibly. I think the stock will do very well, but I think if they do what we're suggesting, they'll do exceptionally well.
Jim Cramer, responding on CNBC to Einhorn, at first responded, "What the heck is he talking about? I want them to grow, I don't want a preferred," and then suggested Apple could buy Twitter. However, later in the segment, Cramer said Einhorn was right that Apple was not sufficiently shareholder friendly. He said it was unfair of Apple to listen to Einhorn's proposal and then specifically come out with a proxy measure banning that proposal.
Cramer then turned around and said, "You can see from their position, they're thinking, what are we supposed to do? We created the largest cap company. If you're not happy, sell the stock."
Einhorn is separately suing Apple to have prop 2 unbundled from the proxy.
Einhorn's appearance follows his firm's having issued this morning a letter to shareholders. Here's the full text of the letter:
Dear Fellow Apple Shareholder,
Greenlight Capital, Inc. (and affiliates, "Greenlight") has been a significant shareholder of Apple Inc. ("Apple" or the "Company") since 2010. We believe Apple is a phenomenal company filled with talented people creating iconic products that consumers around the world love. We are long-term shareholders of Apple.
However, like many other shareholders, Greenlight is dissatisfied with Apple's capital allocation strategy. The combination of Apple's low (and shrinking) price to earnings multiple and $137 billion (and growing) hoard of cash on the balance sheet supports Greenlight's contention that Apple has an obligation to examine all options to create and unlock additional value.
We understand that many of our fellow shareholders share our frustration with Apple's capital allocation policies. Apple has $145 per share of cash on its balance sheet. As a shareholder, this is your money. Though Apple recently commenced paying a common dividend and initiated a nominal share repurchase program, we believe that there is much more that the Board should do for shareholders. We believe that it is important for shareholders to send Apple's Board the message that the current capital allocation policy is not satisfactory, and that after considering all options, Apple's Board should act to unlock the latent value of Apple's balance sheet and franchise. If you share our frustration, please join us in blocking the Company's effort to restrict its value creation options by voting AGAINST Apple's plan to amend its corporate charter in Proposal 2 to eliminate preferred stock.
At a May 2012 investment conference, Greenlight introduced the idea that Apple could unlock several hundred billion dollars of shareholder value by distributing to existing shareholders a perpetual preferred stock.
Since then, Greenlight has had discussions with Apple encouraging the Company to distribute perpetual preferred stock as an innovative method of rewarding all shareholders for the Company's strong balance sheet and substantial cash flows. Put plainly, Greenlight is encouraging Apple to distribute a perpetual, high-yielding preferred stock directly to shareholders at no cost. This would enable shareholders to own and separately trade the new preferred shares and Apple's existing common shares. Importantly, Greenlight believes these preferred shares represent a simple, low-risk way to reward shareholders without compromising the financial and strategic flexibility of the Company, or forcing the company to incur tax on repatriating its offshore cash balances.
Greenlight suggested an initial preferred share distribution, whereby dividends could be funded on an ongoing basis by a relatively small percentage of the Company's operating cash flow. Apple rejected the idea outright in September 2012. Yesterday, after Greenlight notified Apple of its intention to vote against Proposal 2, Apple said it would reconsider the idea, but refused to withdraw the proxy provision where Apple seeks to eliminate preferred stock from its charter.
The recent, severe under-performance of Apple's shares, which are down approximately 35% from their peak valuation, underscores the need for the Company to apply the same level of creativity used to develop revolutionary technology for its consumers to unlock the value of its strong balance sheet for its shareholders.
We believe our suggestion of distributing perpetual preferred stock, while innovative, is also quite simple. Apple could distribute high-yielding, tax efficient preferred stock to existing shareholders at no cost. This new type of easily tradable preferred security would allow Apple to take advantage of the market's appetite for yield while preserving future operating and strategic flexibility. Importantly, we believe this strategy would require no immediate use of cash other than the ongoing dividend, and would not pose any maturity, re-financing, balance sheet, or default risk.
For example, Apple could initially distribute to existing shareholders $50 billion of perpetual preferred stock, with a 4% annual cash dividend paid quarterly at preferential tax rates. Once a trading market is established and the market recognizes the attractiveness of a highly liquid, steady yielding instrument from an issuer backed by Apple's unmatched balance sheet and valuable franchise, the Board could evaluate unlocking additional value by distributing additional perpetual preferred stock to existing shareholders. With this conservative action, Greenlight believes the Board could unlock hundreds of billions of dollars of latent shareholder value.
Assuming Apple retains its price to earnings multiple of 10x and the preferred stock yields 4%, our calculations show that every $50 billion of perpetual preferred stock that Apple distributes would unlock about $30 billion, or $32 per share in value. Greenlight believes that Apple has the capacity to ultimately distribute several hundred billion dollars of preferred, which would unlock hundreds of dollars of value per share. Further, Greenlight believes additional value may be realized when Apple's price to earnings multiple expands, as the market appreciates a more shareholder friendly capital allocation policy.
As holders of more than 1.3 million Apple shares, Greenlight is alarmed that Apple is attempting to eliminate preferred stock from its corporate charter, hindering its ability to unlock value for shareholders. This is an unprecedented action to curtail the Company's options. We are not aware of any other company that has ever voluntarily taken this step. Furthermore, over 90% of the S&P 500 companies have the flexibility to issue similar preferred shares.
Apple is attempting to package this provision with two positive corporate governance reforms that we would normally support. Apple is asking shareholders to approve or disapprove of all three changes in a single bundled vote.
We believe that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proxy rules require that Apple provide for a separate vote on each matter presented to its shareholders for approval at the shareholder meeting. This 'unbundling' rule is designed to permit shareholders to express their vote on each individual matter and to not be forced to vote on a combined package of items. This prevents companies from forcing shareholders to approve matters that they might not vote for if presented independently.
In our view, Apple's Proposal No. 2 violates the SEC's 'unbundling' rule because it ties together three separate matters (majority voting for directors, elimination of preferred stock, and establishing a par value for the Company's common stock) into one proposal. Apple should be required to unbundle these items into separate proposals to allow the shareholders to make an independent choice on each matter. Accordingly, Greenlight has initiated a legal action in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to have the Company unbundle the various components of Proposal 2 so that shareholders can rightfully vote on each individual provision as mandated by SEC rules.
We cannot support the two desirable governance reforms at the expense of limiting Apple's ability to potentially unlock hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder value. Importantly, in its current form, voting AGAINST Proposal 2 does not affect the 'majority voting' reform in the short-term, as Board members have already agreed to resign from the Board if they fail to receive a majority of votes cast "for" their election. As a result, we will vote AGAINST Proposal 2 in Apple's proxy and we urge you to vote AGAINST the proposal, as well.
Proposal 2 Is Value Destructive, Impedes The Board's Flexibility,
And Does Not Merit Shareholder Support
Your vote is extremely important, regardless of how many shares you own. Apple shareholders of record as of January 2, 2013 are entitled to vote at the annual meeting. Proposal 2 requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares. If you were an Apple shareholder on the record date, you can still vote AGAINST Proposal 2, even if you already voted your shares.
Greenlight is not asking for your proxy card, so please do not send us your proxy card. If your Apple shares are held in your own name, please vote AGAINST Proposal 2. If you hold your Apple shares in "street name" with a bank, brokerage firm, dealer, trust company or other nominee, only they can exercise your right to vote with respect to your shares and only after receiving your specific instructions. IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU PROMPTLY GIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUR BANK, BROKERAGE FIRM, DEALER, TRUST COMPANY OR OTHER NOMINEE TO VOTE "AGAINST" PROPOSAL 2. If you have any questions about voting your Apple shares, please call our proxy solicitor, D.F. King & Co., Inc., toll-free at (800) 949-2583 (banks and brokerage firms should call (212) 269-5550), or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thank you for your consideration and support.
David Einhorn
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The technical and artistic qualities of the nominees cannot be debated. Indeed, it must have been difficult to select one nominee over another when it came to the skill and technique represented in each category.
But whatever positive messages may be contained in Oscar's choices, their themes were eclipsed by desensitizing content. Content is never considered when Hollywood passes out little golden statues, but cinematic content has become as influential as its artistic merits.
While some of last years' films offered a moral or life lesson -- "Gravity," "Captain Phillips," "Saving Mr. Banks" -- far too many took moviegoers down a dark road. Six of the Best Picture nominees were deservedly rated R. And how "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Dallas Buyers Club" escaped the seldom used NC-17 mystifies this film reviewer.
Movies are said to be an art form. It follows then, that the art of storytelling is most effective not just when it shows who we are, but when it suggests what we can become. Many of this year's Oscar contenders seem to ignore that challenge. What exactly is the moral of "August: Osage County" or "American Hustle?"
So, why does this humble movie correspondent continue to subject himself to such grievous film-going experiences? (Don't think I don't ask that of myself about this time each year.) My answer -- movies are modern man's medium for relating parables to the masses. Like parables, films can teach and uplift as well as entertain. And like every other film buff, I'm always hoping for the next "Friendly Persuasion," "To Kill a Mockingbird," or "It's A Wonderful Life."
Sadly, films that uplift the spirit as well as entertain are few and far between. So many of this year's nominees seem to not just reflect our nation's decaying moral standards, but embrace them.
In addition to writing for Baptist Press, Phil Boatwright reviews films for www.previewonline.org and is a regular contributor to "The World and Everything In It," a weekly radio program from WORLD News Group. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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Soulrider.com - Share Your Sessions
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We look for a new cool design for the frontpage which is simple, fresh, matches the target audience, is easy to understand, and encourages users to participate and share their sessions with the community. The layout should be similiar to what it is right now. The design, however, needs some improvement!
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The second page we would like to have a good layout and design for ist the page containing an individual session. We have a lot of content to display on this site, such as text, fotos, videos, comments, the riders, etc. and we would like to have this content arranged in a way that it is easy for the user.
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A good design should have a good balance between excellent usability, providing all necessary information and looking cool.
Have a look at the page and the members of the community to get a sense of the lifestyle. Also think of the surfer, snowboarder, or skateboarder lifestyle if you need inspiration. You can browse sites such as Billabong, O'neill and the like. However, these sites are different from ours in that they have a different focus. Our site is a community and contains a lot of detailed information. A good design should have a good balance between excellent usability, providing all necessary information and looking cool.
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My Christian grandmither sent me this link claiming that she was shocked that I actually did all of these things. Take a look:
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I'm sharing this from Onyango Makagutu's site, Random Thoughts. It was written by the late film critic, Roger Ebert, who recently died of cancer. It's far too long (though not TOO long) to reprint here, hence the link - worth a read:
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Speaking of anti-atheist propaganda - not to take away from your situation, Arick - but there is a theist website, pointed out to me by Onyango, on which the speaker, "Debilis," maintains that we can never have empirical evidence of god, as there can be no empirical evidence for the metaphysical, and his god is that, metaphysical.
I'd love to see some of the better debators here, go over and take him on.
Here's an example of his rhetoric:
The first thing I'd say to this is that none of the definitions referenced specified empirical evidence. So, one's experience of free will (for instance) would be evidence for free will, under this definition.
By extension, that would also be evidence that there is more to reality that the physical.
Similarly, things such as moral experience, rational thought, and the origin and fine tuning of the universe would be evidence of the same idea.
Unseen, you might want to weigh in on the free will issue, I know that, besides arrogance, that's your forte --
HAHAHA!!! "Facts"...
I don't fear death, I just want to stick around for a few hundred more years and see how it all turns out. A hundred or fewer years really isn't enough to do everything, considering it takes most people the first fifty or so, just to pull their heads out of their asses and get over themselves, and some never do.


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Katy Perry Hides Under Chanel Beach Towel at LAX
Katy Perry is a woman of extremes. While may have looked a little sloppy the other night when she got fall down drunk in London and exposed one of her butt cheeks, upon returning to the U.S., the 'Wide Awake' singer was completely covered up. She was, however, fashionable even as she dodged the paparazzi at LAX airport. Perry was draped under a Chanel beach towel wrapped around her head and covering her face. How chic. Even her "I'm hiding from photographers" wrap is the highest of high end.
While we all get a little puffy when we spend several hours on a flight and few of us can lay claim to looking like models after a transatlantic flight, Perry really made every effort to avoid being snapped. Perhaps she was makeup-free? Hungover? Desiring privacy?
She peered out from under the towel, which made her look like a super fashion conscious nun, for a hot second, to check where she was. All we could see was a pair of sunglasses. Perry was covered from head to toe as she made her escape to a waiting car. Sometimes a gal doesn't want to be photographed, even when she is a pop diva.
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Buresh, LGs Too Much for Espinosa, OWUby Jocelyn Hopkinson '15 • October 12, 2013 Share:
NCAC Offensive Player of the Year Mason Espinosa may have nightmares about Cody Buresh Saturday night. No one could blame the Ohio Wesleyan quarterback if he sleeps with one eye open. Buresh tied a Wabash record with 4.5 sacks in the Little Giants' (5-0, 4-0 NCAC) 38-13 victory over the Battling Bishops (3-2, 2-2 NCAC).
"He did a great job and constantly had pressure," Coach Erik Raeburn said. "I thought he got held about 15 times, but he never got frustrated. He's tough to block. We have to do it (block Buresh) in practice every day and it's a hard deal."
Espinosa still passed for 264 yards and a touchdown on 33-of-45 passing. However, the constant pressure led to two Eddie Cmehill '16 interceptions. The talented Bishop QB had only been intercepted once thus far this season. The harassment included seven sacks by the Little Giant defense.
"If you have to worry about your life at quarterback, you tend not to throw as accurate," Buresh said.
It wasn't all good news Saturday though, Mason Zurek '16 suffered a left ankle injury. But once again someone stepped up. Anthony Stella '16 ran for 189 yards and 2 touchdowns. The former linebacker moved to the offense just two months ago.
"I played outside linebacker all through middle school and high school," Stella said. ""I learned a lot from Tyler (Holmes) and Mason just from these few weeks. Also I have CP (Porter) to back me up."
Wabash relied on its special teams Saturday to provide the spark. Houston Hodges '15 scored the game's first touchdown on a punt return, Matt Dickerson '16 returned a kickoff 77 yards, and Ian MacDougall '14 easily cleared a 45-yard field goal, the longest of his career.
"We've gotten good special teams play to this point," Raeburn said. "It's been nice to score on special teams four-out-of-five games."
After the Hodges touchdown, Ohio Wesleyan responded. The Bishops converted three third downs on the 10-play drive, including an Espinosa 23-yard touchdown pass.
"Their quarterback is fantastic — a super accurate passer," Raeburn said. "He has good weapons to throw too as well. To hold those guys to 13 points was a great effort and what we needed."
Great effort marked the Little Giants next score. Michael Putko '16 ran six yards into the end zone but fumbled the ball before it crossed the plane. Fortunately, right tackle Mark Riffle '14 fell on the ball for his first-career touchdown, 21-7.
Wabash scored twice in the second quarter. Stella busted through a large hole for a 57-yard run, carrying a defender with him the final 15 yards. On Wabash's next drive, Putko found Sean Hildebrand '14 for a touchdown with a well-placed throw to the receiver's back shoulder, 28-7 at the half. Putko finished with 11-of-18 passing for 121 yards and the score.
"Anthony did a good job when Mason went down, but it's killer to keep losing running backs," Raeburn said. "That's the way it happens, usually. It seems like all your injuries happen at one or two positions and just kill your depth."
The Bishops reached the end zone on a the third-quarter Kevin Herman run from a yard out, 28-13.
"We're all disappointed a little bit because we're all shooting for that goose egg," Buresh said. "But keeping them to 13 points is a great accomplishment."
MacDougal added his field goal in the fourth quarter set up by the Dickerson return. Stella capped the scoring with a 33-yard run around the right side of the offense, 38-13.
Buresh registered 9 stops for the game, and 5.5 tackles-for-loss. Nate Scola '14 also had 9 tackles, including 2.5 for loss. Nickel back Denzel Wilkins '15 was right behind the linebackers with 8 tackles.
Wabash's next game is against Kenyon Saturday at 1 p.m. at Little Giant Stadium.
- Buresh tied the mark of 4-1/2 sacks set by Dave Adich in 1987 and Josh Stanton in 2001.
- Ian MacDougall's 45-yard field goal was the longest of his career.
- Three different Wabash running backs (Tyler Holmes, Mason Zurek, Anthony Stella) have rushed for 100 or more yards in four of the Little Giants' five games this season.
- Wabash has scored nine touchdowns this season on either defensive or special teams plays.
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THIS YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, China has been investing more overseas in assets like iron, oil and copper than it puts into U.S. government bonds.
China in this year's first half spent $31 billion on hard assets, compared with $23 billion on Treasuries and other U.S. government bonds. Experts say China's investments in each of these asset classes will total about $55 billion for the full year. But even a tie marks a major turnaround from China's previous practices. For many years, the mainland spent next to nothing on hard assets abroad, while its purchases of U.S. government debt ranged as high as $100 billion a year.
Why does China now have such a voracious appetite for hard assets? The most frequently cited reason is its need to feed its rapidly expanding industrial base. True enough. But it's also important to see China's reduction in Treasury purchases and its sharp increase in hard-asset deals as part of its currency strategy. It's widely accepted that the Chinese currency, the yuan, is undervalued against the dollar, perhaps by as much as 40%. Based on moves made in the past few years, it seems likely that Chinese officials will let the yuan, which is pegged to the dollar, rise by 2% to 3% against the greenback each year.
In the face of such a weak dollar, it doesn't make much sense to keep investing heavily in Treasuries or any other dollar-based asset. The annual interest payments can easily be outweighed by the loss in the dollar's value. There are serious concerns in Beijing, too, about the creditworthiness of U.S. debt. The smarter bet is to invest in assets that are likely to hold their value, or even increase in value, as the dollar continues its slide.
Iron ore in Sierra Leone. Mines in South Africa. Coal and gas in Australia. Oil in Brazil and Venezuela. Even Canada's timber industry is reviving as a result of demand from China. Just last week, China jacked up estimates for how much uranium it will need for nuclear power plants (see story, "Uranium's Unhealthy Glow.")
The recent move by the Federal Reserve to start buying $600 billion of government bonds, known as QE2, will only hasten China's rush for hard assets. Because it amounts to printing money, "QE2 makes the dollar even less attractive," notes Jim Lennon, head of commodities at Macquarie Bank in London. "It's certainly a policy orientation of China to diversify, and they are buying commodities as a strategic investment, and opportunistically."
China's preference for hard assets over Treasuries, taken by itself, is sure to put upward pressure on U.S. interest rates and make U.S. economic growth somewhat more difficult than it would be if China went back to its previous policy of buying heftier amounts of U.S. government debt each year. Lately, however, any "China effect" has been overwhelmed by Treasury purchases by the Federal Reserve.
For its part, China must maintain a balance between investing wisely and making sure the U.S. remains economically healthy enough to absorb Chinese exports. That consideration will become less important as China further expands its own domestic market and becomes less reliant on exports.
CHINA HAS BEEN ACCUMULATING hard assets at a rapid clip for several years. Among this year's biggest deals, CNOOC (ticker: CEO), China's largest offshore oil producer and one of its most powerful state-owned companies, is spending $2.2 billion for shale acreage in the U.S. owned by Chesapeake Energy (CHK) and $3.1 for 50% of a unit of Argentina's Bridas Energy. State Grid Corp. of China plowed $1 billion into Chilean copper deposits. Sinopec (SNP) coughed up $4.6 billion for 9% of ConocoPhilips (COP)—and another $7.1 billion for 40% of Repsol 's (REP) Brazilian unit.
When China can't buy the business, it buys the underlying commodity. China's Sinofert, after weighing and dropping a bid for Potash Corp. (POT) to counter BHP Billiton's hostile offer, announced last week that it would buy $2.2 billion of the key fertilizer ingredient from Canpotex, the monopoly whose three members include Potash.
Chinas's investments in hard assets are growing quickly. In June, even as the mainland dumped a net $15.6 billion of U.S. Treasury and agency bonds, it also bought $1.1 billion in Canadian minerals and Mozambique coal deposits. "China is upgrading its industries, and all are very heavy users of these materials," explains Lu Kang, deputy director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing.
Adds He Ning, director general of the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing: "China is starting to make overseas investments as a return to the world. It's just a start." As such deals become more numerous, says He, "people will no longer pay attention."
For now, though, the hard-asset investments are making China a standout. In 2008, even as global investment flows by countries around the world fell by 15%, China's more than doubled, points out Ken Davies, a research fellow at Columbia University's Vale Center for Sustainable Investment. In 2009, when the global flows fell 43%, China's inched up by 1%. Had Chinalco's bid to increase its stake in mining giant Rio Tinto (RIO) not fallen apart, China's foreign investment in '09 would have been up by 36%. And last year, for the first time, China purchased more assets in the U.S. than the U.S. did in China, according to data information provider Dealogic.
For 2010, China's nonbond investments around the world, primarily commodities, should hit $55 billion, says Derek Scissors, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who keeps a database of China's investments over $100 million. The foundation's data closely tracks the official data published annually by Beijing's Ministry of Commerce.
At the same time, China's net purchases of U.S. Treasury securities are likely to fall to $55 billion this year from about $100 billion last year, says Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist at U.S. Trust. "They're just drowning in dollars," says Quinlan. "QE2 will make them even less likely to want U.S. paper."
Much of China's hard-asset investing is by state-owned companies as part of Beijing's industrial strategy; as state-owned operations, they bear an implicit government guarantee. They often take minority stakes because all the check-writing makes people nervous. Says Michael Perkinson, the China expert at Veracity Worldwide, a risk-management consultancy: "Chinese companies are committed to being very deliberate." After CNOOC's 2003 takeover bid for Unocal was thwarted by Capitol Hill, "They feel they've been burned."
Some of the investments are made by China Investment Corp. and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange Investment Co., both sovereign-wealth funds that are charged with diversifying China's $2.5 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves. After the values of big stakes in Blackstone and Morgan Stanley slid during the financial crisis, CIC reevaluated its strategy, investing last year in commodity companies like Hong Kong's Noble Group, Russia's Nobel Oil, and Canada's South Gobi Energy Resources.
IN 2001, BEIJING launched its "zou chuqu" edict for Chinese companies to "go global"—to develop world-class brands, diversify import sources, expand export markets, boost competitiveness and reduce low-return currency reserves. The U.S. was the perfect destination: China had massive amounts of dollars and the U.S. had plenty of the types of resources that China needs. Lenovo (0992.Hong Kong), for example, acquired a world-class PC manufacturer from IBM. Relates Andy Rothman, a former U.S. diplomat and the top China analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets: "It was frustrating to them that they were driving the growth in demand for resources but didn't have a seat at the table."
The Big Shift
China's purchases of hard assets topped its purchases of U.S. government bonds in the first half. For the year, it may be a tie.
Then came the Unocal debacle in 2005, when CNOOC withdrew a buyout offer after organized opposition from Congress. Reeling, China began a hunt for assets elsewhere around the globe. But Western multinationals had most of the resources tied up. "The problem is the existing monopoly system is very hard to break down," says Fan Gang, a prominent Beijing economist and former advisor to China's central bank. "Being a latecomer is not easy. We were very late, and very cornered."
That drove China to some of the riskier parts of the globe. It pushed heavily into resource-rich Africa. Beijing pronounced 2006 "The Year of Africa" and began buying up resources there.
It wooed leaders of countries the West might find unsavory. "In China, there is no concept of a failed state. The Chinese way is to stoke the pace of development," says Jin Linbo, a senior fellow at the influential China Institute of International Studies in Beijing.
In many African countries, where investment plummeted after the end of the Cold War, China's interest was hugely appreciated. China offered, in addition to direct investment, a mix of cheap loans and infrastructure improvements, export credits, and regular visits by top brass from the mainland.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (1398.Hong Kong)—bought 20% of Standard Bank, the continent's largest financial institution. China financed the presidential palace in Sudan. It built soccer stadiums. "If you are a typical multinational, you do a one-shot deal. China will build a port, a refinery. China is investing big time in what counts for Africa," says V. Shankar, CEO for Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas for Standard Chartered, the London-based banking company.
Even noncontroversial nations welcomed the People's Republic. Botswana's president famously said: "I find that the Chinese treat us as equals. The West treats us as former subjects." All that the mainland asks for, in turn, is that the countries cut ties with Taiwan.
CONSIDER THE CASE of Kosmos Energy's stake in a massive offshore field in Ghana, which state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corp. and CNOOC offered to buy for $5 billion. Exxon Mobil (XOM) withdrew a $4 billion offer in August, amid signs that Accra favored the Chinese-backed bid. The next month, China Export-Import Bank loaned Ghana $10.4 billion for infrastructure projects; China Development Bank offered another $3 billion loan to develop Ghana's oil and gas sector. Last week, Texas-based Kosmos, which is backed by Warburg Pincus and Blackstone, rejected the CNOOC offer as too low. But observers believe the CNOOC group will keep pursuing it.
China built pipelines across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and began mining for copper south of Kabul. It hopes to build roads and pipelines through Pakistan and Afghanistan. That has U.S. officials seething. "The Chinese are not particularly concerned about the regime they deal with. They are oligopoly buyers who drive up prices all around the world. In U.S. trade policy, we need to think about the way China is directing its state-owned companies," says one top U.S. diplomat in Asia.
Less controversially, China invested heavily in Australia, where it is such a large presence that Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board recommends that Chinese ownership stakes stay below 50%. In Australia, Chinese acquirers accounted for 40% of 2009's inbound mining transactions. The mainland has committed to buying 20 years worth of natural gas from Chevron's $37 billion project on Australia's Barrow Island. It already owns 9% of Rio Tinto and has tried to buy more; after that effort failed, it detained a Rio Tinto executive in China for alleged bribery.
Beijing's new five-year plan, to be adopted early next year, will focus on more sustainable growth: higher consumption, lower dependence on exports, increased wages in the interior, more efficient energy consumption. That might "slow" demand for resources, says Scissors of the Heritage Foundation, "but they will still have a deficit in commodities and primary products and will invest to protect supply."
In coming years, China will face more competition for resources from other rapidly developing nations, all of them industrializing and huge owners of dollars. Of the total $8.1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves held by countries in 2009, more than 60% was held by 11 Asian countries., according to Christopher McNally of the East West Center.
"The financial crisis of 2008 encouraged people to make investments in hard assets as opposed to U.S. Treasuries," says Colin Banfield, head of Asian mergers and acquisitions for Citigroup in Hong Kong. "There's a desire to spend reserves on actual businesses rather than holding the currency."
A World of Deals
Here are some of the most notable transactions China has made since 2005
|Size (bil)
|Aug. 2005
|China National Petroleum
|State-owned oil giant, parent of PetroChina, buys Calgary-based PetroKazakhstan.
|Sept. 2006
|China National Machinery
|State-owned consortium to develop iron ore in Gabon Republic
|Nov. 2007
|China Metallurgic Group
|State-owned metal producer to develop Afghanistan's largest copper mine
|Aluminum Corp. of China
|With Alcoa, buys 12% of Australia's mining giant Rio Tinto
|June 2009
|Petrochemical giant buys Switzerland's Addax Petroleum, a play on West Africa and Iraq
|Aug. 2009
|Yanzhou Coal
|China's fourth-largest coal producer buys Australian miner Felix Resources
|Dec. 2009
|Shunde Rixin
|Private, Guangdong-based conglomerate buys 70% of exploration rights to Chilean iron ore deposits
|March 2010
|State-owned offshore oil giant buys a 50% stake in a unit of Bridas Energy
|May 2010
|State's largest chemical trader buys 40% of Brazil's Peregrino field
|Source: Heritage Foundation
Thanks to its resource purchases in Africa, "China has leapfrogged India by a quarter mile," says Shankar of Standard Chartered.
The appreciating yuan also means buying abroad will be easier. CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets says that a rate of five yuan to the dollar, versus 6.65 today, would reduce "economic distortions," and help create a consumer economy: China's market would suddenly become 33% larger. At that rate, CLSA predicts, China's "reserve accumulation and consequently its official purchases of U.S. Treasuries will slow to a tiny fraction of the current pace." Manufacturing in China gets less attractive; factories in the U.S. become more alluring.
Already the world's second-largest economy, the mainland is expected to have more than 350 million middle-class households in the next decade. Imagine what that means for future commodities prices.
China is now the world's largest consumer of copper, tin, steel, coal, aluminum and seaborne iron ore, and the second largest consumer of oil. And investors are betting on an array of companies they think will benefit. At T. Rowe Price, that includes companies like Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX), the largest publicly traded copper producer, Peabody Energy (BTU) and Joy Global (JOYG).
"The reality of the situation is everything you touch in commodities is affected" by China's hearty appetite, says Rick de los Reyes, who follows the materials industry for T. Rowe Price.
"In some ways, China has the most perfect information, because much of what's driving commodity prices higher is Chinese demand," says Shawn Driscoll, an energy specialist at T. Rowe Price and keen observer of the mainland's movements around the globe. "The Chinese government knows what their needs are long-term. From my perspective, they are the most informed buyer."
For the U.S. Treasury market, that may not be such a good thing.
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The Purple Pig Gets Power Peepers
Project Purple Pig is rapidly approaching the body and paint stage, but there are still a fair number of jobs to be completed before we get there. It's always advisable to complete everything before a car's painted, as if you leave anything until afterward, you'll invariably have to modify something or run the risk of scratching paint. I like to have a car totally done, to the point of glass fitted and all holes drilled, even in places like the doorjambs, before I break out my trusty DeVilbiss gun.
I replaced the rusted out doors on the '49 with a pair donated by Brad Masterson, and though the new ones were chopped, they didn't fit my car, so I swapped my door tops onto the replacements. With that done, and the doors checked for fitment, I set about adding electric door windows, using a kit from Specialty Power Windows. The cable-driven Wonder-Lift kit completely replaces the stock crank handle and regulator and was simple to install, though a little welding was required in my application, as the kit is designed to be universal.
As my Chevy has been chopped for years now, and has seen plenty of miles, I had already chopped the vent window assembly and possessed door glass, which I knew fit the felt channels perfectly.
Whether or not your car is chopped, this is the most important first step. If the glass doesn't fit correctly, and move up and down in the run channels (which must be parallel) with no measurable movement front to rear, it will not operate smoothly. The instructions that are supplied with the Specialty Power Windows kit explains how to check this, but make sure you have good or new felt channels installed. Adjust the channels accordingly, and if you don't have glass yet, make 1/4-inch-thick patterns from MDF, from which new glass can be copied.
With the glass fitted, it was simply a case of following the instructions.


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Don't let excess moisture in enclosed spaces ruin your valuables. Ideal for use in small spaces such as cabinets, closets, drawers, and storage totes, the super-compact NewAir ADS-300 mini dehumidifier is the perfect solution for stopping dampness in its tracks.
Quiet Operation
Unlike compressor-driven units that are often loud and obtrusive, the NewAir ADS-300 utilizes thermoelectric peltier technology to deliver near-silent operation.
This unit has the ability to dehumidify 10 ounces of water per day in its 16 oz removable water tank.
Features automatic shut-off and an LED indicator light to alert you when the tank needs to be emptied.
Includes Car Kit
As an added bonus, the ADS-300 also comes with a car kit for dehumidifying your vehicle's interior!
- Model: ADS-300
- Product Type: Mini Dehumidifier
- Product Dimensions: L: 5.75" x W: 4.75" x H: 8.50"
- Product Weight: 2.00 lbs.
- Product Color: White
- Application: Ideal for dehumidifying bathrooms, cars, closets and other small areas
- Warranty: 1 year manufacturer warranty
- Voltage: 12 volts
- Watts: 36 watts
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- Dehumidification Capacity: 0.6 pints per day
- Dehumidification Technology: Thermoelectric
- Energy Star Rated: No
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- Automatic Shut-Off: Yes
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Emergent Christianity is a fascinating movement occurring in Christendom. The name grows out of the belief that a re-focusing on the core of the Christian message "emerging." This emergence is not marked by sectarian or doctrinal divides but a by a deep agreement on what matters most. Swedenborgian thought clearly saw this as key to Christianity as well as well as other denominations: "The Lord's Church is not in this particular location or in that, but, it resides wherever people lead lives in keeping with the commandments."
Listed below are several key components. This movement is well attuned to New Church theology.
Less Appeal of Biblical Literalism: This trend should be regarded as extremely favorable to the New Church. Individuals moving from a literal-factual orientation to the Bible to an orientation that is far more comfortable seeing the Bible as historical-metaphorical. [1]
a. In 1963, 65% of Americans reported believing in the literal letter of the Bible
b. By 2001, only 21% reported the same.
Focus on here-and-now of service vs. then-and-there of salvation: More Christians appear to be focused on the here-and-now of transformative Christianity that calls them to a more hands-on relationship with God and others vs. an individual approach focused solely on Sunday church attendance and personal salvation.
a. Don't want body of belief but a way of salvation/ healing. Not about set of propositions about ultimate reality but showing a way, a life that fixes the problems that they see. Therefore about "living out" Christianity.
Christ as Model vs. Christ as Salvation:
a. Christ as teacher, example, master and we are to be disciples. Therefore imitate the example of Christ.
Increased interest in Spiritual Disciplines and Sacraments: In NCL this trend while anecdotal is very interesting.
a. Large Interest in the broader culture around spiritual disciplines Yoga, Meditation, the study of Buddhism, books like "The Secret" etc…
b. Clear interest in the sacraments of Marriage and Baptism
c. Clear interest in the spiritual disciplines of Meditation and the 12 Steps as measured by our two most successful small group programs
As these concepts gain mainstream acceptance, it should be a fun decade ahead!
[1] Borg, Marcus J. "The Heart of Christianity", Harpers, 2003


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Beaumont discusses illegal gambling
The city of Beaumont could soon take measures to fight illegal gambling, including amusement redemption machines known as 8-liners, according to sources within the city government.
Rumor has it that the city is considering an ordinance to stiffen penalties for illegal gambling establishments in Beaumont. The city communication manager Danielle Underferth said the city is discussing the possibility of bringing something before the City Council, but before that could happen there would be a public workshop. She said no decision has been made regarding what measures might be taken in relation to illegal gambling and whether the ordinance would stiffen penalties or impose additional machine taxes, like cities such as Vidor and Bridge City have already done.
A BPD officer confirmed that the city is discussing the possibility of an ordinance to combat the illegal gambling issue but was not yet able to provide any details.


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This document explains how to setup Xen 4.2 within Arch Linux.
- 1 What is Xen?
- 2 Types of Virtualization Available with Xen
- 3 Recommended Practices
- 4 Obtaining Xen
- 5 Building and Installing Xen Hypervisor and Dom0 Host from Source
- 6 Bootloader Configuration
- 7 Set up Networking
- 8 Creating Guest Domains (domU)
- 9 Running a Guest
- 10 Resources
What is Xen?
According to the Xen development team:
- "The Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems."
The Xen hypervisor is a thin layer of software which emulates a computer architecture. It is started by the boot loader and allows several operating systems to run simultaneously on top of it. Once the Xen hypervisor is loaded, it starts the "Dom0" (for "domain 0"), or privileged domain, which in our case runs a Linux kernel (other possible Dom0 operating systems are NetBSD and OpenSolaris). The hardware must, of course, be supported by this kernel to run Xen. Once the Dom0 has started, one or more "DomU" domains can be started and controlled from Dom0.
Types of Virtualization Available with Xen
Paravirtual (PV)
Paravirtualized guests require a kernel with support for Xen built in. This is default for all recent Linux kernels and some other Unix-like systems. Paravirtualized domUs usually run faster as they do not have to run in emulated hardware.
Hardware Virtual (HVM)
For hardware virtualization in our domUs, the host system hardware must include either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command on the host system:
grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run Xen HVM guests. It is also possible that the host CPU supports one of these features, but that the functionality is disabled by default in the system BIOS. To verify this, access the host system's BIOS configuration menu during the boot process and look for an option related to virtualization support. If such an option exists and is disabled, then enable it, boot the system and repeat the above command.
Paravirtual on Hardware (PV on HM)
There is a third mode which runs Xen on top of a HardwareVirtual guest.
Recommended Practices
Allocating a fixed amount of memory is recommended when using xen. Also, if you are running IO intensive guests it might be a good idea to dedicate (pin) a CPU core only for dom0 use. Please see the external XenCommonProblems wiki page section "Can I dedicate a cpu core (or cores) only for dom0?" for more information.
Obtaining Xen
Xen is currently unmaintained, so for the moment it must be built from source.
Building and Installing Xen Hypervisor and Dom0 Host from Source
Xen recommends that a Xen host (dom0) is 64-bit, guests may be either 32-bit or 64-bit. To build such a system requires a mixed 64/32-bit installation and packages from the the Community repository; the host uses a network bridge and a modified entry in the bootloader configuration file (for example, grub.cfg). These notes assume an installation using systemd is in use, as is the default for a new installation of Arch. For these reasons, you may prefer to make a fresh installation of Arch on which to build and install Xen.
Building Xen
Building and installing Xen significantly modifies your system. Xen is an established program, but Xen 4.2 is extremely new. Consider Xen 4.2 on an Arch system to be untested. Consider yourself to be an alpha tester, make a throw-away Arch system for the Xen installation.
It is imperative to backup and highly recommended to make a fresh installation of Arch on which to install Xen.
The build process installs additional source from git, so a working internet connection is required.
Edit /etc/pacman.conf to uncomment entries under repositries for multilib and community (three lines each). Prepare for and perform a full system upgrade (pacman -Syu). Install packages listed under 'Required packages for build'. Download Xen Hypervisor 4.2 tarball from http://xen.org/products/downloads.html. Unpack the tarball to a suitable location (tar xjf <path/to/tarball> location). The Xen documentation recommends building Xen as root.
# cd xen-4.2.0 # PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 # export PYTHON # ./configure # make world # cd dist # chmod -R -s install/ # rm install/etc/init.d/xend # mv install/etc/init.d install/etc/conf.d
If installing to another Arch system, make a tarball and copy it over:
# cd .. # tar cjf ~/xen-dist-4.2.bz2 dist/ copy the tarball to the other installation, boot into it and use 'tar xjf xen-dist-4.2.bz2 .' to unpack then install packages listed under 'Packages required for host'
Now change to the 'dist' directory and install
# cd dist # ./install.sh
Create a systemd service file
Create a file /etc/systemd/system/xencommons.service containing:
[Unit] Description=Xen startup script [Service] ExecStart=/etc/conf.d/xencommons [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
# systemctl enable xencommons.service
set a menuentry as described in Bootloader Configuration
reboot into the new Xen system and check all is well:
# xl list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 1024 2 r----- 6.1
Required packages for building Xen
base-devel zlib lzo2 python2 ncurses openssl libx11 yajl libaio glib2 base-devel bridge-utils iproute gettext dev86 bin86 iasl markdown git wget optional packages: ocaml ocaml-findlib
Required packages for Xen host
bridge-utils lzo2 bluez vde2 sdl libaio
Bootloader Configuration
The menuentry for a Xen system starts a Xen kernel before starting the main host's kernel.
Example non-xen menuentry for LVM with gpt partition table
menuentry 'Arch ' { insmod part_gpt insmod lvm insmod ext2 set root='lvm/vg0-arch' linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/vg0-arch ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
The menuentry to boot the same arch system after Xen has been installed
menuentry 'Arch Xen 4.2' { insmod lvm insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='lvm/vg0-arch' multiboot /boot/xen.gz placeholder dom0_mem=1024M module /boot/vmlinuz-linux placeholder root=/dev/mapper/vg0-arch ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet module /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
Example for a physical partition
Arch Linux(XEN) menuentry "Arch Linux(XEN)" { set root=(hd0,X) multiboot /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M module /boot/vmlinuz-linux-xen-dom0 root=/dev/sdaY ro module /boot/initramfs-linux-xen-dom0.img }
Set up Networking
Network Bridge
Xen expects a bridge connection named xenbr0 to have been configured. Using dhcp throughout simplifiesthings while we get everything working.
# cd /etc/network.d # cp examples/bridge xen-bridge
make the following changes to xen-bridge:
INTERFACE="xenbr0" BRIDGE_INTERFACE="eth0" DESCRIPTION="Xen bridge connection"
assuming your existing eth0 connection is called eth0-dhcp edit /etc/conf.d/netconfig
NETWORKS=(eth0-dhcp xen-bridge)
restart the network:
systemctl restart netcfg.service
when the prompt returns, check all is well:
ip addr show brctl show
Creating Guest Domains (domU)
Creating Paravirtualized (PV) Guests
The general procedure is: perform a normal or minimal installation of the distro that will become a guest; copy its kernel/initrd to a directory on the host; modify its /etc/fstab to use the virtual disk; create a config file for xl.
Example for Debian squeeze
Install Debian 6.0 (do not bother with graphical interface, install as little as possible) n.b. Squeeze has softlinks (vmlinuz and initrd.img) in its root directory to the current kernel, so check you have copied a real kernel, and not just a link!
# mkdir /tmp/squeeze # mkdir -p /var/lib/xen/images/squeeze # mount -text4 /path/to/squeeze /tmp/squeeze/ # cp /tmp/squeeze/vmlinuz /tmp/squeeze/initrd.img /var/lib/xen/images/squeeze
edit /tmp/squeeze/etc/fstab change its root entry to begin with /dev/xvda1
# /dev/xvda1 / ext4 noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# cp /etc/xen/xlexample.pvlinux /etc/xen/pv-squeeze.cfg
edit /etc/xen/pv-squeeze.cfg with the following changes
kernel=/var/lib/xen/images/squeeze/vmlinuz ramdisk=/var/lib/xen/images/squeeze/initrd.img
disk = [ '/dev/path-to-your-squeeze-volume-or-partition,raw,xvda1,rw' ]
Special requirements for the Arch kernel
The default Arch initramfs images lack essential xen modules. In the guest install, we need to add the following to mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES = "xen-blkfront xen-fbfront xen-netfront xen-kbdfront"
and then rebuild initramfs-linux.img.
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Running a Guest
Using the Debian Squeeze example, start the guest domU and a console
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by Gary James '10
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Sometimes, a shot in the dark yields luminous results.
Senior Jacob Castilow, a FIJI, understands this phenomenon firsthand. When he arrived at his home in Bluffton, Ind. last winter break, he found a brochure from the University of Virginia's biophysics doctorate program among the mail that had accumulated while he was away.
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