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Chris Mittleman brings a private-equity mind-set to investing in public companies, with results that would be the envy of many private-equity managers. Accounts managed by his firm, Mittleman Brothers Investment Management, are up an annualized 20.6% since 2002, including a 40.7% gain in the first nine months of 2012. In contrast, the S&P 500 index has returned 7.3% a year over the same period, and 16.4% in this year's first three quarters.
The Locust Valley, N.Y.-based firm runs $115 million.
Mittleman, 44, does much of the research himself, helped by his brothers Dave and Phil, focusing on two financial measures: Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) and free cash flow, the two metrics favored by private-equity firms. He likes companies that trade for low multiples of Ebitda and generate lots of free cash.
"Virgin Media has used its free cash flow to buy back about 20% of its outstanding shares in just over two years, at a very attractive average price." -- Chris Mittleman Matthew Furman for Barron's
This distinctive approach has led him to some smaller stocks, including those of cosmetics maker Revlon and Carmike Cinemas, an operator of movie theaters. He also likes Avis Budget Group, CAR -0.01% Avis Budget Group Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $67.50 -0.01 -0.01% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.44M AFTER HOURS $67.06 -0.44 -0.65% Sept. 2, 2014 6:37 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 284 P/E Ratio 60.54 Market Cap $7.02 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $286,241 08/05/14 Stocks to Watch: Target, Ganne... 08/04/14 Avis Budget Swings to Profit, ... 08/04/14 Morning MoneyBeat: Bulls See L... More quote details and news » the car-rental operator, and Virgin Media, the No. 1 cable-TV company in the United Kingdom. Mittleman often buys shares in companies with sizable debt and thus resemble leveraged buyouts. The good thing is that Mittleman doesn't have to pay a control premium to make these equity investments. These stocks can be volatile. During 2008, Mittleman's accounts fell 64%, but they rebounded 150% in 2009.
Barron's : What appeals to you about Revlon?
Mittleman: Revlon rev +3.00% Revlon Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $34.99 +1.02 +3.00% Sept. 2, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 41,953 AFTER HOURS $34.99 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 449 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.78 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $258,072 More quote details and news » [ticker: REV] sells cosmetics and beauty products in the mass market in over 100 countries, with 45% of sales from overseas. The stock is $15, and we think it's worth $26. The company's profitability and balance sheet have improved significantly since Alan Ennis took over as CEO in 2009. He has refinanced debt and cut costs. Revlon's Ebitda margin, at just under 20%—up from 16.5% in 2007—now matches that of its largest competitors. Free cash flow, which had been negative until 2008, should be around $100 million this year, or $1.91 per share. Net debt is down to 4.4 times estimated 2012 Ebitda from 6.4 times in 2007.
How does Revlon compare with its peers?
Estee Lauder el +0.01% Estee Lauder Cos. Inc. U.S.: NYSE $76.84 +0.01 +0.01% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.37M AFTER HOURS $76.84 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34,456 P/E Ratio 24.71 Market Cap $29.30 Billion Dividend Yield 1.04% Rev. per Employee $258,696 08/15/14 Stocks to Watch: Gilead, Dilla... 08/12/14 Morning MoneyBeat: Retail Stoc... 08/11/14 Alibaba's Tmall Becoming Hard ... More quote details and news » [EL] and L'Oreal OR.FR +0.99% L'Oreal S.A. France: Paris €128.05 +1.25 +0.99% Sept. 2, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 553,322 P/E Ratio 26.08 Market Cap €70.83 Billion Dividend Yield 1.95% Rev. per Employee €289,380 08/29/14 Bankers Lament Loss of Code Na... 07/31/14 L'Oréal's First-Half Revenue D... 07/30/14 Palantir Acquires Social Analy... More quote details and news » [OR.France] both trade for around 13 times Ebitda and with free-cash multiples of about 25.
Revlon trades at an Ebitda multiple of eight [based on enterprise value, equity plus net debt] and a market-cap/free-cash-flow multiple of 7.9 times. Those other companies have much better historical growth rates, so Revlon probably does warrant a discounted valuation, but not the current gaping disparity.
How do you value Revlon?
Our intrinsic value estimate of $26 a share assumes a 10 multiple on estimated 2012 Ebitda of $280 million and 13.6 times free cash flow. One of the main reasons for Revlon's undervaluation is that Ron Perelman controls 76.3% of the shares. He has a deserved reputation for occasionally attempting to mistreat minority shareholders. Beside the Perelman factor, illiquidity in the shares and scant analyst coverage hurt the valuation. We endure those issues because of the high quality of the business and the large valuation discount to peers.
How about Carmike ckec +0.89% Carmike Cinemas Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $34.17 +0.30 +0.89% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 96,363 AFTER HOURS $34.17 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:30 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2,036 P/E Ratio 207.72 Market Cap $827.65 Million Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $86,737 08/28/14 Hollywood Pins Hopes on 2015 L... More quote details and news » ?
It's the fourth-largest theater chain in the U.S., operating mainly in rural areas where competition is more limited. The company [CKEC] was a chronic underperformer and became a chronic outperformer under the direction of CEO David Passman, who took the reins in 2009. He used free cash flow to deleverage the balance sheet, refurbish run-down theaters, and close unprofitable locations. He also instituted innovative marketing techniques to drive midweek attendance, and trained staff to improve the customer experience and better exploit opportunities in high-margin concessions, which are 36% of sales, but the bulk of the profits.
How is Carmike valued?
It's now around $13, but we think its intrinsic value is $25. This estimate assumes a total enterprise value of seven times the $90 million in Ebitda it likely will produce in 2012, and 10 times the $40 million in free cash flow we estimate. That's about $22.75 per share. Carmike owns 20% of privately held Screenvision, the second-largest preshow movie-theater advertising company in the U.S. behind publicly traded National CineMedia ncmi +0.41% National CineMedia Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $14.66 +0.06 +0.41% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 101,592 AFTER HOURS $14.66 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:30 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10,906 P/E Ratio 25.47 Market Cap $1.89 Billion Dividend Yield 6.00% Rev. per Employee $706,106 More quote details and news » [NCMI]. We value that stake at $40 million, which adds another $2.25 per share in value.
And how does Carmike compare with its competitors?
The largest movie-theater chain in the U.S., Regal Entertainment RGC +1.85% Regal Entertainment Group Cl A U.S.: NYSE $21.44 +0.39 +1.85% Sept. 2, 2014 4:04 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 759,356 AFTER HOURS $21.44 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4,488 P/E Ratio 25.22 Market Cap $3.29 Billion Dividend Yield 4.10% Rev. per Employee $126,036 08/04/14 Hollywood Struggles With Its G... 07/30/14 AMC Entertainment's Profit Plu... 07/06/14 Now at the Movies: Fully Recli... More quote details and news » [RGC], trades for $15, or seven times Ebitda and 10 times free cash flow, with only a slightly higher Ebitda margin and probably inferior growth prospects to Carmike. The second-largest player in the industry, AMC, was recently bought out by a Chinese company for 8.2 times Ebitda. So we think our target multiples of seven times Ebitda and 10 times free cash flow are reasonable for Carmike.
Your view is that the rental-car stocks are underappreciated?
Avis Budget [CAR] is one of the largest industry players, with international sales at 40% of the total, after it bought Avis Europe for about $1 billion in 2011. Near-term concerns about weakness in the newly acquired European business have weighed on the share price recently. Avis also faces the prospect that strong used-car prices, a boon to profits since 2009, will moderate or decline and become a head wind. Those concerns are overly discounted in the current stock price
How is Avis valued?
With the stock around $16, the market cap is $2 billion, only 5.2 times the $380 million in free cash flow that the company should produce in 2012. That's a 19% free cash flow yield. We think the stock is worth $30, or 9.5 times free cash flow. Dollar Thrifty [DTG] trades today at 10 times its free cash flow.
The impact of Hurricane Sandy should be small, given increased one-way-rental demand, and demand from FEMA and the Red Cross should largely offset the decline in normal demand caused by the storm.
What about the industry?
It enjoys rational pricing because it's an oligopoly. About 95% of the U.S. market is controlled by the top four players: Enterprise, Hertz htz -1.52% Hertz Global Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE $29.10 -0.45 -1.52% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5.75M AFTER HOURS $28.95 -0.15 -0.52% Sept. 2, 2014 7:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25,741 P/E Ratio 34.29 Market Cap $13.23 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $354,339 08/21/14 Stocks to Watch: Family Dollar... 08/20/14 Carl Icahn Takes 8.5% Stake in... 08/20/14 Stocks to Watch: Lowe's, Ameri... More quote details and news » [HTZ], Avis Budget, and Dollar Thrifty. And while the business is cyclical, it's generally growing, and down cycles are cushioned by an ability to quickly reduce fleet size to adjust to demand, something hotels and airlines can't do.
What about Virgin Media?
It's the largest cable-TV company in the U.K., a resilient business that actually grew straight through the great recession. The stock [VMED] is now about $32. With 268.4 million shares outstanding, its market cap is $8.73 billion, which is 8.7 times the $1 billion in free cash flow we estimate for 2012. Adding net debt of $9.17 billion gives a total enterprise value of $17.9 billion, or 6.7 times the Ebitda of $2.66 billion estimated for 2012.
Mittleman's Picks
Carmike Cinemas
Avis Budget Group
Virgin Media
Harbinger Group
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We think fair value for Virgin is $40, which would be 7.5 times Ebitda and 10.74 times free cash flow. Comparable companies like British Sky Broadcasting BSY.LN +0.11% British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC U.K.: London GBp883.00 +1.00 +0.11% Sept. 2, 2014 4:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.77M P/E Ratio 16.11 Market Cap GBp15.16 Billion Dividend Yield 4.53% Rev. per Employee GBp393,139 08/06/14 Fox Earnings Better Than Expec... 08/06/14 Liberty Global Loss Widens on ... 07/30/14 ITV Says It's Ignoring Takeove... More quote details and news » [BSY.U.K.] and Comcast CMCSA +0.11% Comcast Corp. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $54.78 +0.06 +0.11% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.14M AFTER HOURS $54.78 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 394,451 P/E Ratio 19.02 Market Cap $141.57 Billion Dividend Yield 1.64% Rev. per Employee $495,066 09/02/14 Family-Film Overload? Hollywoo... 09/02/14 FanDuel Raises $70 Million as ... 09/01/14 Up Ahead: An IPO, an iPhone, a... More quote details and news » [CMCSA] trade at higher valuations. BSkyB trades at 7.9 times Ebitda and 13.6 times free cash flow. Comcast is at 7.4 times Ebitda and 11.1 times free cash flow. Virgin Media has used its free cash flow to buy back about 20% of its outstanding shares in just over two years, at a very attractive average price of about $25.
What about management?
Neil Berkett has done an incredible job since he took over as CEO in March 2008. Virgin Media has reduced churn by bundling services in a quadruple play of TV, phone, Internet, and mobile. And the speed of their broadband network has proved to be a durable competitive advantage.
What's special about Harbinger Group HRG -0.31% Harbinger Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE $12.91 -0.04 -0.31% Sept. 2, 2014 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 267,109 AFTER HOURS $12.91 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4,831 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $2.68 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $242,091,000 06/27/14 Deals of the Day: GoPro Debut,... 06/26/14 Dealpolitik: The Mystery of Ha... 06/23/14 Corrections & Amplifications More quote details and news » ?
It's a publicly traded investment vehicle in the tradition of a Berkshire Hathaway BRKA +0.42% Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $206,740.00 +860.00 +0.42% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 387 P/E Ratio 16.08 Market Cap $338.21 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $625,182 08/25/14 China's BYD Posts Better Elect... 08/04/14 U.S. Stocks Rebound After Last... 07/25/14 Berkshire Hathaway Energy's Pl... More quote details and news » [BRK.A], Leucadia National LUK +0.08% Leucadia National Corp. U.S.: NYSE $24.95 +0.02 +0.08% Sept. 2, 2014 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.09M AFTER HOURS $24.88 -0.07 -0.28% Sept. 2, 2014 4:30 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 60.21 Market Cap $9.19 Billion Dividend Yield 1.00% Rev. per Employee $1,001,930 09/02/14 Jefferies Earnings Rise Sharpl... 08/18/14 Steven Cohen's Firm Loses Anot... 08/17/14 Ex-SAC Executive Kumin's Hedge... More quote details and news » [LUK], and Icahn Enterprises IEP -0.30% Icahn Enterprises L.P. U.S.: Nasdaq $111.32 -0.33 -0.30% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 101,452 AFTER HOURS $110.45 -0.87 -0.78% Sept. 2, 2014 5:07 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 11.29 Market Cap $13.40 Billion Dividend Yield 5.39% Rev. per Employee $445,545 08/30/14 Overheard: Is Carl Icahn a Wiz... 08/29/14 Carl Icahn's Spellbinding eBay... 08/14/14 Blockbuster Movies Fuel Big Wi... More quote details and news » [IEP]. The stock last traded at $8.63, and we think current net asset value is $11.23, or $1.57 billion. Harbinger [HRG] is run by Phil Falcone, a billionaire investor with expertise in distressed assets.
Hasn't Falcone run afoul of the SEC?
In June, the SEC filed a civil suit seeking to bar Falcone from serving as an officer or director of any public company because of securities fraud alleged to have occurred at his hedge fund, Harbinger Capital Partners. It's important to note that Harbinger Group, the publicly traded company we own, is a separate entity and is not charged or involved in any way with that action, except that if the SEC suit is successful, Falcone would be forced to step down as chairman and CEO.
If that happens, it wouldn't change the value of what Harbinger currently owns and probably wouldn't impair its ability to continue growing its NAV [net asset value] at an above-average rate in the future because it has a deep bench of investment talent there besides Falcone, like David Maura, who shepherded the Spectrum Brands Holdings SPB +0.29% Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE $86.85 +0.25 +0.29% Sept. 2, 2014 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 167,670 P/E Ratio 35.30 Market Cap $4.57 Billion Dividend Yield 1.38% Rev. per Employee $325,043 More quote details and news » [SPB] investment
What's in Harbinger?
The largest component is its 57.4% stake in Spectrum Brands, amounting to $1.3 billion at the current price, or $9.52 per Harbinger share. [Spectrum is a diversified manufacturer whose products include Rayovac batteries.] The next-largest holding is 100%-owned Fidelity & Guaranty Life, a life-insurance and fixed-annuity company with a net book value of $845 million, or $6.03 per share. Then there's $415 million in cash and some securities, which adds $2.96 per HRG share, bringing the total assets to $18.51 per share. [Harbinger subsequently deployed most of that cash, as noted in the follow-up question below.]
We then subtract $500 million in debt, and $519.7 million in current value of convertible preferred stock, to get to the $11.23 NAV for Harbinger. There could be additional upside in Spectrum Brands, which recently announced an acquisition for $1.4 billion of a unit of Stanley Black & Decker SWK +0.10% Stanley Black & Decker Inc. U.S.: NYSE $91.59 +0.09 +0.10% Sept. 2, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.46M AFTER HOURS $91.59 0.00 % Sept. 2, 2014 4:24 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 23.68 Market Cap $14.30 Billion Dividend Yield 2.27% Rev. per Employee $220,742 08/18/14 Risks Create Tumult for Tech, ... 08/01/14 Stanley Black & Decker Retools... 07/30/14 When in Doubt, Blame It on the... More quote details and news » that is highly accretive to Spectrum. There's also potential for further value creation at the company as they invest their $400 million in remaining cash.
Harbinger just invested most of that cash in an energy deal. Do you like it?
Yes. Harbinger is paying $373 million for 74.5% of a joint venture with Exco Resources xco -3.11% EXCO Resources Inc. U.S.: NYSE $4.68 -0.15 -3.11% Sept. 2, 2014 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.04M AFTER HOURS $4.69 +0.01 +0.21% Sept. 2, 2014 5:52 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.32 Billion Dividend Yield 4.27% Rev. per Employee $963,168 More quote details and news » [XCO] that will own 528 billion cubic feet of natural-gas reserves. It appears that this joint venture is likely to pay HRG dividends of around $20 million to $30 million per year, even at the currently low gas prices. That's a decent return on investment, with substantial upside should natural-gas prices rise.
Thanks, Chris.
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We speak to the victim of an unprovoked attack who's just had pioneering surgery to restore his eyebrows, we hear about the world's safest car which is on sale in Ireland and Brenda Donohue hears how people hoping to get investments from TV's Dragons Den are helped with their pitches!
About a year ago, Maurice Collins was in studio with us, talking to me about hair transplants. And he's back today to talk about something a little more specific – transplanting hair onto scar tissue. He has just performed what is thought to be the world's first transplant of hair from the underside of a man's head to create a new eyebrow!
Maurice Collins is the Medical Director of Hair Restoration Blackrock – and his patient, Karl Fitzgerald, is also in studio.
Karl Fitzgerald, before and after his eyebrow transplant
Karl Fitzgerald, before and after his eyebrow transplant
One idea, One pitch, One deal away from your dream! Yes, the fifth series of Dragon's Den returns to our screens this Sunday night at 9.30pm on RTE 1. With nearly one million euro of investments already made and three new Dragons ready to spend, spend, spend, this series promises lots of drama!
Last month when they were recording, Brenda went along to the Den, where she met up with the Dragons, including new Dragon Ramona Nicholas...
Mary Fitzpatrick is a Mooney listener from Oranmore in Co. Galway, and she e-mailed us earlier in the week. She listens to the show every day and says she's always hearing Derek say "contact us with ANYTHING AT ALL" – so she thought – why not?
Mary's e-mail read:
Please ask your listeners what to do with old Christmas cards and Valentine cards etc. I feel guilty throwing them in the recycle bin. I tore up a few, but it seemed such a shame tearing up 'good wishes'.
So we've been investigating ways in which you can put your old greetings cards to use…
- First of all there are lots of creative things you can do with your old cards. You can cut them up, punch a little hole through them, tie a bit of string and use them as gift tags next year. If you have a pair of craft scissors you can get nice wavy sides on your gift tags.
- You can cut the bigger cards into circles and use them as nice festive lids for your plum puddings.
- You can fold them into little boxes that you can use as giftboxes or as Christmas tree decorations.
- You can cut out the front of the card, recycle the back of the card and give the fronts to a pre-school or a primary school to help make their own Christmas cards next year.
- But all these ideas involve hoarding your cards until next Christmas. If you want to get rid of them all NOW, and see them go to a good cause you can stick them all in an envelope and post them to BEAM Services, Barrow Haven, Regent Street, Bagenalstown ,Co Carlow They are a Special Needs Centre and they say they are crying out for old greetings cards. The staff and service-users make cards each week by upcycling old greetings cards and they sell them to raise funds for the centre. They will take Christmas cards, birthday cards, Valentines cards, Get Well Soon cards – ANY type of cards.
- And you can do a good deed with your used stamps too. The Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Bog of Allen Nature Centre, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare, are asking people to send them their used stamps. Don't post them the full envelope, just tear the stamped corner off and send it. They then sell on the stamps to collectors to raise funds for their organisation.
After questions relating to wildlife, Derek gets asked more about genealogy than anything else when he is out and about. It is that time of year when The Genealogy Roadshow is on the road, unravelling the mysteries buried deep in the roots of family histories.
The next series is due to be on our screens this autumn, and today we will be finding out how you can get your stories explored! Philip McGovern, Executive Producer of The Genealogy Roadshow is in studio to explain...
A roadshow will be filmed with Derek on Saturday, March 2nd at Powerscourt between 12.30 – 17.30… People who turn up will not only get the reveal of the stories, they will also get the chance to talk to the team about their own stories – there will be genealogists on site.
They will be in Derry on Lumen Christy college on Bishop Street on Saturday the 23rd of March - between 12.30 – 17.30.
And they will be in UCC in Cork on April 13th, between 12.30 – 17.30.
Admission is free and all are welcome. But Big Mountain Productions, who make the series, would ask people who are thinking of attending to get in touch because they will be filming twice – at 12.30pm and again at 2.30pm on the day. You can come along for the whole event or the time of your choice.
Call Ciara on 048 308 34046 or 085 235 6977, or drop her an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The programmes will be broadcast this Autumn.
Previously on Mooney, we spoke to a veteran of the United States Secret Service, Joe Funk, who told us about President Obama's car "The Beast" – which has all the sophisticated gadgets and security technology money can buy…
But if you are looking for a car on donedeal.ie at the moment, you might come across what must be the safest car in Ireland… (to see the ad, click here: http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4255561).
We are told that it carried the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the Sultan of Brunei - and that it can resist a sniper's bullet!
It is available to you for bargain price of €12,500. It's a 1997 Ford Scorpio, and it is the property of car dealer Brian Crowley from Brian Crowley Motors in Milltown. Brian brought the car to the Radio Centre, where he and his son Charles told Derek all about the car...
Hedgerows and the Law
Hedgerows in Ireland form important features in maintaining wildlife diversity and in establishing wildlife "corridors", particularly for birds. The commonest nesting birds found in hedgerows such as wrens, dunnocks, robin and willow warblers depend entirely on insects during the Summer months. In general untrimmed, thorned hedgerows containing species such as blackthorn, whitethorn and holly are favoured by birds as they provide ample food and also serve as a protection against predators.
Section 40 of the Wildlife Act, 1976, as amended by Section 46 of the 2000 Act, provides protection for hedgerows by providing that it shall be an offence for a person to cut, grub, burn or otherwise destroy hedgerows on uncultivated land during the nesting season from 1 March to 31 August, subject to certain exceptions. It is important that, where possible, necessary work to hedgerows is carried out outside this period.
It is possible in most cases to schedule and carry out necessary work to hedgerows outside this period. The legislation makes provision for works (other than road or other construction works) to be carried out for reasons of public health and safety under the authority of any Minister or a body established by statute that lead to the destruction of vegetation. There is also a provision to enable the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to request from the relevant Minister or body details of any such works together with a statement of the public health and safety factors involved.
It shall not be an offence to destroy vegetation in the ordinary course of agriculture or forestry. Also it shall not be illegal to destroy vegetation while preparing or clearing a site for lawful building or construction works.
It is the policy of the Minister to prosecute for offences under section 40 of the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000 and successful prosecutions have been taken under this section in recent years. Members of the public are encouraged to contact their local wildlife ranger and report instances where hedgerows are being destroyed during the prohibited period.
To contact your local wildlife ranger, click here for contact details. To read the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000, click here.
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"Nothing good ever comes out of a Texas pond." Those words go ignored and of course result in a river of razor teethed feeding machines. There's a few things we can learn from the original Piranha and the latest re-boot. First off, never listen to the local resort director, he's only going to get you killed and end up fish food himself. Secondly, be weary of attractive co-eds. Sure, one or two of them might live, but the majority of them will not. Piranha 3DD hits theaters June 1st.


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Readers' Picks
for March 2014
Kimonos in the Closet
by David Shumate
The prose poem, with its lack of intentional enjambment, demands of the writer a sense of daring because the turns come not from line breaks but from a willingness to leap. There are a handful of poets working in this difficult genre who can leap consistently and exquisitely, but David Shumate couples this with an uncanny ability to stick the landing. His latest collection doesn't stick every landing, but it's as close as we can get in this genre to a masterpiece. An excerpt from "My Desk Sets Sail":
Again this morning my desk sets sail like a schooner from its harbor. It is a fragile craft easily shattered on the shores. So far good fortune has accompanied me as if soggy old Poseidon were my friend. I lick my finger and raise it to the wind as I've seen sailors do, though I do not know what this portends. When I am hungry, I cast out a net. When it's time to sleep, I stretch out on the deck. I travel for weeks on this little galleon. Rowing with only a pen.
—Cameron Conaway, contributor/subscriber (March 25, 2014)
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Memoir Poetic of a Naked Cop
by Richard Eric Johnson
Once history was poetry. Richard Eric Johnson's Memoir Poetic of a Naked Cop revives that old tradition, recording the author's experiences as a soldier and a policeman. I say history, not biography, because the poems present sharp, sometimes harsh pictures, not so much the poet's feelings about them. Mostly free verse but with some rhyme and plenty of wordplay, the poems owe something to Whitman ("Learned Astronomer") but at least as much to rap. This work excites me because it's direct and simple, clearly evoking pictures of an era and of a life.
—Conrad Geller, contributor/subscriber (March 16, 2014)
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The Midnight Channel
by Evan Peterson
Evan Peterson addresses famous "final girls" from sci-fi and slasher films—Ripley from Alien, Sarah Connor from Terminator—with both reverence and irreverent humor in this chapbook. Peterson takes the triumph over predator, parent, and fiend alike and weaves his own merry celebration around it. From "The 80s <A Slasher Film Blamed on Slasher Films>":
Jamie Lee loves Janet Leigh
& audiences love a massive head trauma …
This is a sequel, so up the ante:
different weapons for every murder.
Who are we killing today? <the homeless>
and with what? <antlers>
I love antlers! <fucking hipster>
My personal favorite poem (but difficult to excerpt) is "Ellen Ripley/Alien Sigourney Weaver/1979" which interweaves computer code with lyric lines. As someone with a keen interest in pop culture poetry, I loved this quirky take on familiar horror tropes.
—Jeannine Hall Gailey, contributor/subscriber (March 14, 2014)
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Red Flower, White Flower
by Jennifer Tseng, tr. by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen
Ethereal, magical, full of, as Jean Valentine says on the dust jacket, "humor, mystery, grief and along with grief, unguarded understanding and puzzlement, side by side." I was bowled over by these elegant poems and wondered at the facility with which the translators captured the musicality of each piece, as in the poem, "The Beloved's Singing Heard Through a Closed Door," which starts like this:
Like foxgloves, like a coat mending itself
in a dove's night, ascending then descending
under a bell-shaped light, as one sees
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CHICAGO — "Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North"
Sept. 27 through March 24
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War and in conjunction with the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Newberry Library will mount "Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North," an exhibition of more than 100 items that focuses on the enormous, and costly, effect the war had on civilians.
Highlights of the exhibition include paintings by Winslow Homer, Frederic E. Church and other American artists of the period; first editions by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott; sheet music from Chicago-based music publishers Root and Cady; and magazine illustrations that depict the changing roles of women and children who supported the war effort.
"Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North" is co-organized by the Newberry and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The exhibition is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
"We're pleased to partner with the Newberry on this exhibition examining the domestic side of life during the Civil War, an aspect of the era which generally receives less attention than the battlefields," said Terra Foundation for American Art President and Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Glassman. "Innovative projects like 'Home Front' are crucial to our mission of fostering the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States."
"Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North" will be open from Sept. 27 through March 24, 2014, making it one of the longest running exhibitions in the Newberry's 126-year history.
The exhibition will comprehensively examine the culture of the Northern home front through visual materials that illustrate the war's influence on household and the cotton economies; the ways in which the absence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians on the frontier were pushed out of the riven nation's consciousness during the war years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nation's past, present and future.
Throughout the exhibition's duration, the Terra Foundation and the Newberry will host a series of Civil War-related programs and events, including:
A Veterans' Day salute to military spouses: The Newberry and the Terra Foundation welcome Chicago-area families who constitute today's "Home Front." The event includes brunch, a brief program, live Civil War-era music, and curator-guided tours of the exhibition.
This program is set for Nov. 11 at 11 a.m.
"Conversations at the Newberry" with David Blight and Doug Wilson: To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Blight and Wilson will discuss the language and rhetoric of President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Nov. 21.
Art History with John Davis: "Race and Battlefield: Seeing and Not Seeing the Civil War" will be presented Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.
Music of the Civil War: Performance of period music from exhibition with expert commentary March 1.
Additional programming includes monthly curator gallery talks and a series of related adult seminars. With the exception of the Veterans' Day event, all programs are free and open to the public, and require no advance registration.
"Today, many Americans view war at a great distance, mediated by technology that makes it possible to avoid thinking about how war effects our daily lives," said Newberry Vice President of Research and Academic Programs and exhibition co-curator Daniel Greene. "This was simply not the case for those who remained at home during the Civil War. This exhibition is designed to help visitors understand the enormous and lasting effect of the Civil War on those who experienced the war at home, as well as on the entire country."
In conjunction with the exhibition opening, the University of Chicago Press will publish a companion volume to "Home Front," which will be the first book to explore the visual culture of a world far removed from the horror of war, yet intimately bound to it (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo16302347.html). The book includes a foreword by award-winning Civil War scholar Adam Goodheart and essays by five humanities scholars, including exhibition co-curators Greene and Peter John Brownlee, associate curator at the Terra Foundation.
The other three book authors are: Sarah Burns, professor of art history emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington; Diane Dillon, director of scholarly and undergraduate programs, the Newberry; and Scott Manning Stevens, director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, the Newberry.
For more information, visit www.newberry.org or www.teraaamericanart.org


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4:30pm Thursday 24th January 2013 in News By Ben Parsons
Health workers are being briefed on how to spot victims of human trafficking.
Brighton is to host training for GPs, midwives, youth workers and social workers to help them identify the giveaway signs that people are victims.
The work is starting as police analyse countywide research into the extent of the problem.
Efforts to lift the lid on trafficking in the county have so far yielded few results.
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Funding Nationally the number of victims is said to be rising, with 946 reports in 2011 compared with 710 in 2010.
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The Home Office, which is funding the scheme, said the decision to base training in Sussex here was administrative and did not indicate the county had a particular problem.
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The training for the workers is being provided by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Stop the Traffik, women's charity Eaves, homelessness charity Thames Reach and the Counter Human Trafficking Bureau.
Tell-tale signs of trafficking are said to include whether the victim has given their passport to someone else, whether their transport into the country was paid by someone else, whether they keep the money they earn, whether they are able to contact friends and family and if they seem as if they are speaking according to instructions, rather than their own free will.
The National Crime Agency is expected to take the lead on fighting human trafficking within the next year.
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He added: "However this is a very complex and often hidden type of criminality which often crosses force borders, spanning several different issues, including potential sex worker exploitation, labour exploitation, and child sex trafficking."
Human trafficking, which comes under the remit of Assistant Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney in Sussex, is forming part of investigations by the force's Operation Accent, which aims to tackle organised crime with migrant Eastern Europeans in Bognor and Littlehampton.
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COMANCHE CO., Okla_ More than 100
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The owner of
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Posted: Thu, Aug 18 7:48 AM ET (1148 GMT)
Several members of a task force charged with evaluating NASA's effort to return the space shuttle flight believe the agency has yet to solve cultural problems that were at the root of the Columbia accident two and a half years ago. In an appendix to the final report of the Stafford-Covey Return to Flight Task Force, seven of the group's 26 members concluded that organizational and cultural issues that had been previously identified as contributing to the Columbia accident still existed within NASA. The minority group, whose members included former astronaut Susan Helms and former CBO director Dan Crippen, said the shuttle program still suffered from a lack of ""focused, consistent leadership and management". The members cited a lack of program management skills and "rigor in execution" as signs of a problem. The minority report, which task group co-chairs Thomas Stafford and Richard Covey declined to comment on, was included at the behest of NASA administrator Michael Griffin.
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- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 pound Johnsonville® Polish Kielbasa Sausage or Polish sausage, cut into 1/8-inch slices
- 1 can (28 ounces) pork and beans
- 1 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon steak sauce
- In a large skillet, saute the onion in butter and oil until tender. Add sausage; cook for 2-3 minutes, or until browned, stirring occasionally; drain. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 4 servings.
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New waterfront lake home located on the South end of Whidbey Island. Enjoy a cup of coffee with a beautiful sunrise over the lake every morning and your favorite beverage or glass of wine in the evening from the upper deck. Cozie up to the fireplace in the winter with a nice cup of Cocoa. Open floor plan with full kitchen and Lake views from every room in the house. This home includes a dock and sports court. Just minutes from the quaint waterfront town of Langley. Master bedroom includes 3/4 shower bath, with second bedroom and full bath on second floor. Come relax, play and enjoy everything this place has to offer. Great place for a short retreat, special occasion or a week long re-charge. This is a wonderful place to bring your family. Great grassy yard for kids to play, with all the water activities as well. Note: main living area is on upper floor level.
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Full Kitchen
Master Bedroom with queen bed and 3/4 bath
Bunk Room with two twin beds
Queen Sofa Sleeper
Boat Dock
Paddle Boat
Charcoal Barbeque
Indoor Sports Court
Coffee Maker
Satellite televison two rooms
Campfire Pit
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Gas Fireplace
Cozy Bedding
DVD/VCR Players
Family style VHS tapes
Some Board Games
Upper Deck with Patio Furniture
Minutes from Clinton Ferry
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At the Deer Lake property, enjoy Kayaking/canoeing, swimming, fishing, boating/water-skiing. (Power boats limited to times posted at public access). You can even bring your horseshoes and croquet set for some fun lawn activities. Camp fire pit available as well. Enjoy wine tasting, shopping, site seeing and much more. You can even take in a movie at Langley's Clyde theater or the Blue fox drive-in. Come see what this place and Whidbey Island has to offer.
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**Special Winter rates of $125.00 per week night and 135.00 per weekend apply through December 31st, 2011.
*Regular rates beginning January 1st, 2011
*Weekly rates are based on 7 night stay
**Summer rates apply to all Holidays
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*Spring and fall rates: Spring April 1st - June 10th, Fall September 17th - November 15th $135 per night mid-week $145 per night Friday and Saturday nights - $900.00 per week
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*Refundable damage deposit/booking fee $250.00 Less any damages
*Cleaning fee $75.00
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Garrett Gomez has two chances to capture his fourth consecutive national purse money crown today at Santa Anita. They're not slim and none, but the jockey who turns 38 on New Year's Day does have little margin for error.
The two-time Eclipse Award winner as the nation's outstanding rider was $26,994 shy of leader Julien Leparoux's $18,560,565 entering the final day of the year at Santa Anita, where he is named on two horses: 3-1 morning line third choice Red Arrow, half of an entry, in the second race, and 5-2 morning line second choice Fund Raiser in the fourth.
Victory in the second race would earn Gomez $31,800 and put him on top. Second money is worth $10,600. A win in race four is worth $26,400, which would leave Gomez $594 short of tying Leparoux. Second money in the fourth is $8,800.
If Gomez wins the title, he would join Laffit Pincay Jr. (1971 through 1974) and Braulio Baeza (1965 through 1968) as riders who won four straight years. Bill Shoemaker holds the record of seven consecutive years, 1958 through 1964.
Save for Zenyatta and an unsuccessful foray against males, Life Is Sweet could riding be an eight-race winning streak. As it is, the 5-year-old daughter of Storm Cat and stablemate of undefeated champion Zenyatta recorded four wins in those eight starts, including a smashing triumph in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic on Santa Anita's Pro-Ride Nov. 6.
Saturday, the versatile Life Is Sweet tries turf again in the $150,000 Grade II San Gorgonio Handicap at 1 1/8 miles.
"She was supposed to be a grass filly," said Garrett Gomez, who rides the bay mare owned and bred by Marty and Pam Wygod and trained by John Shirreffs. "That's where she did some of her better running early on in her career back East. When she came to California, she adapted to the synthetic really well."
Life Is Sweet broke her maiden by nine lengths on Belmont Park's turf course in October 2007, when trained by Bill Mott. Since moving West with Shirreffs, Life Is Sweet has four wins from eight starts, including last year's Grade II El Encino Handicap, the Grade II La Caňada Stakes, and the Grade I Santa Margarita Handicap.
"She should be fine back on grass," Gomez continued. "That's kind of what she's meant to do. She's run against all the tough ones since she's been in California. I really didn't pay much attention to her grass form, but the fillies she ran against at the time were some of the best in the country." Life Is Sweet has a 6-3-1 record from 15 starts, with earnings of $1,770,810.
The field for the San Gorgonio: Century Park, Tyler Baze; Rosa Grace, Joe Talamo; Treat Gently, Rafael Bejarano; Life Is Sweet, Gomez; Diamondrella, Alex Solis; Czechers, Chantal Sutherland; Lavender Sky, Ahmed Ajtebi; Teamgeist, Mike Smith; and Cat by the Tale, Joel Rosario.
Tuscan Evening has designs on a Grade I victory, but not on Sunday. That's when the 5-year-old filly runs in the Grade III Monrovia Handicap at about 6 ½ furlongs on turf, a race trainer Jerry Hollendorfer hopes will lead to the Grade I Santa Monica Handicap at seven furlongs on Jan. 31.
For Team Hollendorfer, it was either use the Monrovia or the San Gorgonio Handicap as a prep for the Santa Monica on Pro-Ride. Since Saturday's San Gorgonio is at 1 1/8 miles on grass, the shorter Monrovia made more sense.
"Our goal is to try and get a Grade I (win), and we also want to try her on the main track, so we targeted the Santa Monica on the 31st," said Hollendorfer assistant Dan Ward. "But she's training too good to wait until then. It was either the San Gorgonio at a mile and an eighth, and then dropping back to seven eighths of the Santa Monica, or the Monrovia and then the Santa Monica. The Monrovia seems to fit the schedule better."
Tuscan Evening, second to 2008 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner Ventura in the Grade I Matriarch at one mile on turf Nov. 28, has a 6-4-5 record from 21 starts. The Irish-bred daughter of Oasis Dream has earned $569,408 for owner William de Burgh of Rancho Santa Fe. Tuscan Evening is high weight in the Monrovia under 121 pounds.
The field for the 43rd running of the Monrovia, which goes as the seventh of nine races: Czechers, Chantal Sutherland, 115; Queen Of the Catsle, Mike Smith, 119; Reba Is Tops, Joe Talamo, 117; Royal Taat, Joel Rosario, 115; Hermione's Magic, Alex Solis, 114; Pasar Silbano, David Flores, 115; Lindelaan, Jose Valdivia Jr., 116; Tuscan Evening, Rafael Bejarano, 121; Lemon Chiffon, Tyler Baze, 118; Empressive Lady, Victor Espinoza, 114; and Lucky Copy, Garrett Gomez, 115.
Finalists for the 2009 Eclipse Awards will be announced next Wednesday, Jan. 6. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), National Turf Writers Association (NTWA) and Daily Racing Form (DRF) vote on and present the Eclipse Awards in recognition of excellence in Thoroughbred racing. Winners in all categories will be announced at the 39th annual Eclipse Awards ceremony on Monday, Jan. 18, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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FINISH LINES: When Shadow of Illinois at age 10 tomorrow seeks to become the oldest horse to win a Santa Anita stakes race in the $100,000 Sensational Star Handicap, he would surpass five horses that won stakes at Santa Anita at age nine, not four as previously reported. The five are Kona Gold in the 2003 El Conejo Handicap; Softshoe Sure Shot in the 1998 San Carlos Handicap; Super Diamond in the 1989 San Antonio Handicap; Desert Chief III in the 1965 San Marcos Handicap; and Olhaverry in the 1948 San Pasqual Handicap . . . Gary Mandella hopes blood is thicker than water in the Sensational Star. The 37-year-old son of Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella sends out Mobilized, a son of multiple stakes winner Soul of the Matter, who was trained by the elder Mandella. "There's really no story behind it," Gary said. "It's just a coincidence. The horse has been third in his last two (races), and the one at Oak Tree (at 6 ½ furlongs Oct. 31) was more impressive than the one at Hollywood (at six furlongs Nov. 22), because he needs that extra distance. He's kind of a (down) hill specialist, and this is my only chance to run him in a Cal-bred race where I'm not going to see (Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner) California Flag. It's an ambitious spot, but it's the one chance to avoid that horse. We'll see if he fits with these." . . . Santa Anita's popular on-line handicapping contest ShowVivor kicks off tomorrow with a new cousin, WinVivor, which plays like ShowVivor, but instead of finishing at least third, your horse has to win. Contestants who survive the longest win a grand prize of $2,500. For details, log on to www.santaanita.com. Also tomorrow, Santa Anita will add a Superfecta wager on the last race . . . All THOROUGHBREDS members will receive a free 75th anniversary long sleeve T-shirt tomorrow, New Year's Day, at Santa Anita with paid admission, while supplies last. First post time is 12 noon. Gates open at 10 a.m. . . . Barretts January Mixed Sale supplemental entries close Monday, Jan. 11. For further information, contact Kim Lloyd at 909 629-3090 . . . Steve Andersen of Daily Racing Form and Santa Anita program oddsmaker and simulcast analyst Jon White will be Jack Disney's guests at Sunday's Fans' Forum, 11:15 a.m., in the East Paddock Gardens.


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Pnau – Peter Mayes (left), Nick Littlemore (right)
|Background information
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
|Electronic, wonky pop
|Years active
|Associated acts
|Teenager, Ladyhawke, Empire of the Sun
|Nick Littlemore
Peter Mayes
Pnau is an Australian dance music duo originating from Sydney, Australia. The duo consists of musicians Nick Littlemore (vocals, production) and Peter Mayes (guitar, production).[1] The pair have achieved multiple successes throughout their career with their award-winning debut album Sambanova,[2][3] their widely acclaimed 2007 release Pnau,[4] their breakthrough side-project Empire of the Sun,[5][6][7] and their multiple chart-topping singles. Pnau is also recognized for their heavily publicized apprenticeship under musician Elton John, who signed the duo after listening to their record Pnau.[8] Several of Pnau's recent projects have featured John's involvement, such as Pnau's album Soft Universe[9] and an album featuring Pnau recreations of Elton John's hits called Good Morning to the Night.[10]
Pnau formed in Sydney, New South Wales by Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes. The two met at secondary school and began performing together in the mid-1990s, initially playing acid, house music, and trance music.[1] Littlemore recalled meeting Mayes when he was 10; "He tripped me over. We hated each other for a couple years and then we started sneaking out and going to raves when we were about 13 and we formed a bond over intense music." Littlemore and Mayes created their first album when they were in their mid-teens. "It was called Fractured Geometric Spaces Made of Light," Littlemore remembers, "Which is probably why it was never picked up."[11]
In 1999, Pnau officially released their debut album Sambanova under the independent label Peking Duck. It was recorded in a bedroom studio and they only expected to sell a few thousand copies.[12] The album turned out to be a surprise success when it won Best Dance Release at the ARIA Music Awards. A week later, however, the album was pulled from record stores for using uncleared samples. In a 2003 interview with The Age, Mayes recalled that they had no understanding of sample clearances due to their naïveté in the music business.[13] Mayes claimed that the album's recall did seriously affect their commercial sales.[13] Littlemore later contested "They screwed us over for $300,000. Warners didn't; another third party did. But that happens. We're still here, we're still doing it."[14]
In subsequent years Pnau went on to make many live appearances at music festivals like Big Day Out in 2001 and Homebake in 2002. During this time, they garnered a reputation for their lively performances.[15] Amidst this era, Pnau released their second album, Again in 2003.[16] The album was not a commercial success and Littlemore was later quoted as Again being "the worst record I've ever done".[17] Littlemore has since retracted the statement. When asked if he still considered Again to be his worst record, Littlemore responded, "Well next to [Soft Universe]. They're sort of on par." Littlemore further explained that a lot of his opinion is formed around the albums' commercial success, which is an easy headspace for him to get into since "everyone loves Empire of the Sun, it's sold 1.1 million records."[14] Despite the seemingly unfavorable album response, several tracks received considerable acclaim - the most noteworthy being We Love The Fresh Kills which was a significantly popular single for the duo at the time.[4] However, because of Again's lackluster success the pair parted ways for some time to work with other artists such as Robbie Williams,[17] Van She,[18] and Lost Valentinos.[19]
When the two reunited in 2007 they wrote over two-hundred songs together and started to lay down an entire album with Nick Littlemore's brother Sam Littlemore as producer. They sent a work-in-progress track to long-time friend and collaborator Luke Steele, who sent back the track with his own vocals. After receiving the track, the Littlemore brothers and Mayes agreed to scrap almost everything they had laid down to focus on a more vocally centered album.[20] The track became known as With You Forever and the finalized album was released under the self-titled name Pnau. The album not only featured vocal work from Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore himself, but also had many guest appearances such as Ladyhawke, Feadz, Nik Yannika from Lost Valentinos and Michael DeFrancesco from Van She.[21] The album was released to high critical acclaim[4] and gained unexpected favorable attention from Elton John,[8][22][23][24] declaring it to be the greatest record he'd heard in ten years.[25][26]
Inspired by their track "With You Forever", Pnau began work on a collaboration with Luke Steele.[27] Originally titled Steelemore,[24] Empire of the Sun made its debut on 4 October 2008 with Walking on a Dream. Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele took the roles of bandmates, while Peter Mayes assumed the role of producer. Some critics were quick to note that the band sounded more like a work of Pnau than Luke Steele's band The Sleepy Jackson.[28] Empire of the Sun has achieved international success having been certified 2x platinum in Australia[5] and gold in the United Kingdom,[6] as well as winning eleven ARIA awards.[7] Pnau makes it clear on their Myspace numerous times that not only is Empire of the Sun a side project of theirs, but that they are also the producers.[29] Regarding Empire of the Sun, in early 2009 news began appearing that Nick Littlemore had disappeared.[30][31] The reality had been that Nick Littlemore had left Empire of the Sun to begin work on the fourth Pnau album along with Elton John.[9]
In 2010, the track "Baby" (Remixed by Breakbot) appears in the release of Sony Computer Entertainment's "Gran Turismo 5", in the Background Music (BGM) playlist.
In 2011 Pnau released their fourth studio album Soft Universe. Littlemore has described it as a very "emotional" album, inspired by the break up with his long-time girlfriend.[32] With input from Elton John, the album features Littlemore singing all the vocals on the album along with tracks co-written with fellow Aussie artist Martin Craft and producer Mark Saunders.[33] The album was positively received, although mainly critics expressed discontent with the lack of the "endearing weirdness of previous Pnau and Empire releases."[34] The Soft Universe album received the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album.[35]
On 10 March 2012, the first remix track from the anticipated, upcoming Elton John rework album commissioned for Pnau was leaked, initially airing on Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 broadcast.[36] It was also revealed the remix album would feature eight tracks and was set for an April 2012 release.[37]
On the 2 June 2012, Good Morning to the Night was released, reaching number 1 in the UK national singles charts.[38]
One accepted pronunciation of Pnau is "pah-now".[39] The name is commonly accented to simulate the sound of a gunshot. Nick Littlemore explained the name was the result of an instance when he was speaking in tongues. After shouting gibberish for half an hour, Littlemore decided Pnau would be an appropriate band name.[40]
Another theory on the pronunciation, according to one interview with the pair, is "pah-nyeow". The group has on other occasions explained that the name "rhymes with meow".
- In 2000 they won an ARIA Award for Best Dance Release.
- The song "Wild Strawberries" placed at No. 100 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2007
- The song "Embrace" placed at No. 12 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008
- The song "Baby" placed at No. 54 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008
- The album "Soft Universe" received Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album at the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Awards, 2011
- The song "The Truth" placed No. 80 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011
Studio albums[edit]
|Peak chart positions
|Soft Universe
|Good Morning to the Night
(Elton John vs Pnau)
|"—" denotes an album that did not chart or was not released.
Extended plays[edit]
- Need Your Lovin' Baby (2001)
- Enuff Enuff (2005)
- Wild Strawberries EP (2007)
As lead artist[edit]
|Peak chart positions
|"Need Your Lovin' Baby"
|"Follow Me"
|"Blood Lust"
|"Una Noche"
|Non-album single
|"The Truth"
|Soft Universe
|"Solid Ground"
|"Unite Us"
|"Epic Fail"
|"Good Morning to the Night"
(with. Elton John)
|Good Morning to the Night
(with. Elton John)
|"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
As featured artist[edit]
|Peak chart positions
(Faul & Wad Ad vs. Pnau)
|Non-album single
|"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
- ^ a b Wesolowski, David Peter. "Pnau > Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ "Pnau Sambanova". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000: 14th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ a b c "PNAU at Ministry of Sound". Ministry of Sound. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ a b "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2010". Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Certified Awards Search". BPI. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Empire of the Arias". Empire of the Sun Official. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Elton John signs Aussie Band PNAU". News.Com.Au. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Empire Of The Sun's Nick Littlemore writing with Elton John". NME. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ "Tired Big Day Out Performers Ready To Party In Perth After Final Aussie Gig". Perth Now. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ "Cosmo Chats: PNAU". Cosmopolitan Australia. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Pnau Again". Triple J. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 31 March 2003. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ a b Drever, Andrew (17 October 2003). "Pnau and then". The Age (Melbourne: Fairfax Media). Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ a b "Interview: PNAU". FHM Magazine. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ Tomas, Juan-Carlo (15 November 2002). "Cookin'". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ "Pnau – Again (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Australian Interview - PNAU". Ruth Bailey. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Nick Littlemore discography". Discogs. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Lost Valentinos* - Miles From Nowhere EP at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "PNAU - Behind The Scenes". Ministry of Sound. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Pnau Biography". Pnau.net. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Elton John Loves PNAU". Crushable. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Elton John Joins The PNAU Fan Club". Undercover. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Rolling Stone: Pnau interview". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "PNAU - Nick Littlemore - Music". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "PNAU Baby (live on Sunrise), With the Talent Zone Dancers". Talent Zone. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "PNAU Tracks". Pnau.net. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Walking On A Dream Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Pnau Myspace". Myspace. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ "Empire of the Sun's Nick Littlemore MIA for Five Months; Luke Steele May Be Forced to Play Duo's First-Ever Live Shows Minus His Right-Hand Man". Exclaim News. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ "Empire Of The Sun's Nick Littlemore Leaves Band And Goes Missing!". Take 40. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ McNamara, Tim. "Littlemore discusses Empire sequel and Pnau's "emotional" new album". The Music Network. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ "Nick Littlemore joins the circus". Triple J. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ^ "Pnau - Unite Us". Music OMH. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ http://ausindies.com.au/id-2011-awards.html, Australian Independent Record Labels Association Ltd (AIR), 2012
- ^ "Pete Tong - Essential Selection - 09-03-2012". beatmyday. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "First Taste of Pnau and Elton John Collab". Stoney Roads. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Pnau - Good Morning to the Night".
- ^ "PNAU-Again". About.com. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ "Vera Meets PNAU". Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ a b c Peak positions in Australia
- For all except noted: Hung, Steffen. "Discography Pnau". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- For "Embrace": [1] ARIA Report 973. Retrieved 2011-02-16
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Pnau". Austrian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Pnau". Belgium (Flanders) Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Pnau". French Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Pnau". German Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Pnau". Dutch Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Pnau". Swedish Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Pnau". Swiss Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Pnau Interview with Alchemy SBS Radio 2008-04-30
- "Pnau and then", The Age, 17 October 2003
- Discogs entry for Pnau
- Video from the PNAU live in France for the before of the Trans Musicales festival
- Review of Good Morning to the Night


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RALEIGH — It wasnt much bigger than a closet; an alcove off the downtown Marriott Hotels third-floor hallway, tucked between the service elevator and vending machines.
But it had near-perfect acoustics and just enough room for five bluegrass musicians two guitars, banjo, fiddle and mandolin, if the mandolin player stood halfway out in the hall playing one of many impromptu late-night jams going on in the building Wednesday night.
Its the worlds smallest showcase stage, Joe Newberry of Raleigh, one of the musicians, quipped between songs.
They then started another tune. A passer-by stopped to listen, nodding along. Thats the real deal there, he said approvingly before moving on.
Good as the music was, it was hard to stay in one place for long because there was just so much going on nearby. It was tempting to try and be everywhere at once.
Take a stroll through the Raleigh Convention Center during the International Bluegrass Music Associations World of Bluegrass this week, and youll come upon multiple clusters of picking circles. Anywhere from three to a dozen musicians will be standing or sitting in a circle, playing away, watching each others hands to keep up.
But the real action is happening next door at the Marriott, in the lobby and on the floors designated for all-hours playing. Get off the elevator on the third, fourth, fifth and 17th floors, and youll see signs that you can take as invitation or warning: This is a Jamming Floor. Please Pick your hearts out!
The Sheraton next door also has jamming and non-jamming floors for the week.
Spontaneous music
Bluegrass has a culture thats sociable and egalitarian, with instrumentation that makes it eminently portable (no drums or keyboards to haul around, although the upright bass can be trying). That makes it the ultimate spontaneous-jam style of music. Put a bunch of fans and bands together, and in no time theyll be playing together.
Typically, that happens at outdoor festivals around campfires. But during World of Bluegrass, its happening indoors and at all hours.
Its off the grid and not part of the official IBMA program schedule. But this is the heartbeat of the festival, centered on the third floor of the Marriott. Every night, youll find people making merry while playing up and down the hallway, and in suites rented by groups including the California Bluegrass Association and the New York-based Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival.
The hotel jams start up not long after dinnertime, picking up steam as the evening progresses and bands and fans come in from their Bluegrass Ramble club-hopping. Most nights, the scene goes well into the small hours.
Mary Burdette, assistant director of the Grey Fox festival, said the previous nights festivities finally wound down about 4:30 a.m. It never would have stopped if they hadnt finally declared, no mas.
We pretty much had to say, Thats it, good night! Burdette said, laughing, as Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys played to a packed room.
At the bar, concierge desk
Downstairs in the Marriotts lobby as Wednesday night turned into Thursday morning, picking circles had broken out all over in the hotel bar, conference rooms, even the business center. One trio of really good young players was ensconced behind a granite-top concierge desk off the main lobby.
Zack Bruce sat nearby and watched while unwinding from a several-hour burst of playing at a showcase earlier in the evening with his Brooklyn-based band, the Birdhive Boys, followed by an energetic jam up on the third floor. A mandolin player, Bruce has been to IBMA before as a fan (bringing his instrument to jam, of course). But this year is his first time as a showcase performer.
That line between fan and performer is blurry in bluegrass, maybe even non-existent. Its probably a tossup where the music was better Wednesday night, in the showcase clubs or in the hotel hallways.
The funny thing about bluegrass is that most people who listen to it also play it, Bruce said. And the quality of picking here, just in general, is phenomenal. Youll get together with some guys in a hallway, start picking, and go, Holy crap, why have I never heard of this guy?! And its someone from Tennessee with a plumbing business. The bass players a welder. Another guys a dentist. And they can all play. Its crazy.
Bruce is 30 years old, trying to make it as a full-time musician. To the bewilderment of his family, he quit his job as an investment banker a year ago to follow his dream.
My parents and everyone else kept using the H-word about music: hobby, he said, pronouncing the word with distaste. It took me until I was 29 to say, Look, this is what I do, and its not just a hobby. I do stress about money constantly. But except for that, my quality of life is still 5,000 times higher than even my best day as a banker.
I was not getting any younger, Bruce concluded, and there are worse things than being broke.
That could probably be the bluegrass players credo.
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Newly renovated 3 bedroom/ 2 bath fully furnished Townhouse. The master bedroom suite is located on the main level along with the dining/ living room and kitchen. The kitchen is completely remodeled with new cabinets and granite/ stone countertops. It is fully stocked with all the necessary items for cooking. The second floor has two bedrooms and one full bath. One bedroom has a queen size bed with bureau and the second bedroom has a day bed that converts to a king size bed and a desk. There is a community heated pool and jogging trail located with in the Malibu Villas. Everything is new- furniture, bedding, linens etc.
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Carriage Towne News
---- — SOUTH HAMPTON —The Principal of Barnard School in South Hampton has released the names of students who have been named to the honor roll for the second trimester.
Highest Honors: Connor Whitley, Angel Kaneb.
High Honors: Tucker Molin.
Honors: Grade 5: Gracie Doherty; Grade 6: Michael Amundsen, Kaylie Cloutier, Cameron Knight, Natalie Terry; Delia Williams; Grade 7: Madison Eaton, Leah Hopkins, Emma McKenney, Connor Skane; Grade 8: Alexis Bogart, Zachary Knight, Kyle Murray, Caleb Williams.


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A Christmas Day cave diving excursion ended in tragedy in Weeki Wachee,
Hernando County authorities said.
Two divers drowned in the popular Eagles Nest Sink location. Deputies say Darrin
Spivey and his 15-year-old son, Dillon Sanchez, were testing diving equipment
they received as Christmas presents.
Authorities say the two arrived at the cave early on Christmas, suiting up
for the dive around 11 a.m. They would never come back.
A hunter told investigators he saw the pair as they were about to dive.
After failing to return, Spivey's fiancée, Holly King, contacted the sheriff's
"She also took a drive out here, and she saw their car," HCSO
spokeswoman Denise Moloney said. "She wasn't able to find them. We sent
divers down Christmas night, and they found Mr. Sanchez at about 67 feet and
Mr. Spivey at 127 feet."
Deputies say Spivey was an experienced diver, but not a cave diver. Sanchez,
however, was not a certified diver.
"It's just a very
emotional thing that I hope no one ever has to go through," said Ryan
Tafelsky, Spivey's best friend.
Tafelsky told Fox 13 he warned Spivey about Eagles Nest.
"I sat there on
the dock and feared that they wouldn't come back," he said.
A sign near the pond entrance warns of the danger. The cave is considered to
be a very advanced dive, and there have been several deaths since the 1980's.
The Medical Examiner is conducting its investigation. Officials are
reviewing the equipment the two were wearing.
FOX 13 / WTVT-TV3213 West Kennedy Blvd.Tampa, Florida 33609Main: (813) 876-1313Newsroom: (813) 870-9630Fax: (813) 871-3135


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VIDEO: 20ft geyser soaks Blackburn street
1:55pm Monday 19th November 2012 in News By Bill Jacobs, Local government reporter
SHOPPERS on King Street, Blackburn, were surprised this morning when a 20 foot geyser erupted from road works in the pavement.
The gusher – the second to burst out in the town in less than a month – came as workmen searching for gas leak disturbed a water main outside the former Tile Shop.
Owner of the flooded premises Mohammed Amjid said: "It was a bit of a shock. It shot up more than 20 feet into the air above the buildings. It took them an hour to sort it out and it has done a lot of damage.
"I was hoping to open a furniture shop in two weeks time. I am going to have to delay opening while the damage is sorted out."
Monika Papierak, manager of the nearby Al-Ameera Polish store said: "It was spectacular. I watched in on the CCTV camera. It not what you expect to happen on a Monday morning."
On October 26th 50 Blackburn homes were left without water as engineers battled for more than three hours to tackle a 40 foot geyser from a damaged water main in Pinewood in Feniscowles.
A spokeswoman for National Grid said: "We had been working to locate a gas leak since Thursday and located it this morning. We were working to clear earth from the gas main and uncovered a water main part of which dislodged and the water blew out. We did not touch the water main. That should not have happened."
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3:00pm Mon 19 Nov 12
Info-warrior says...
3:39pm Mon 19 Nov 12
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8:03pm Mon 19 Nov 12
Info-warrior says...
gazza1980 wrote:Yeh..And lets face facts who's going to get wet in this part of town prostitutes drug dealers alcoholics and a whole load of cops and robbers. I heard that some refugees from Somalia asked to go back home after being offered a flat in this area.
They'll be a few down there taking a much needed shower in that!
8:14pm Mon 19 Nov 12
liddle 'un says...
"We were working to clear earth from the gas main and uncovered a water main part of which dislodged and the water blew out. We did not touch the water main. That should not have happened."
10:49pm Mon 19 Nov 12
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