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Quarterly Report
Forward-Looking Statements
This quarterly report contains forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance (including our anticipated cost structure) and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continues," "assumption" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements (including statements related to our anticipated cost structure) are only predictions. Actual events or results may differ materially from those anticipated or projected due to a number of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to:
† our ability to execute our strategic plan; † failures in critical back-office systems and IT infrastructure; † our ability to maintain arrangements with third-party service providers; † changes in regulations and legislation applicable to providers of telecommunications services; † changes in demand for our products and services; † our ability to integrate recent business acquisitions; † technological changes affecting the telecommunications industry; and † our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition.
These and other factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for a detailed discussion of risks that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business operations.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of issuance of these quarterly condensed consolidated financial statements, we assume no obligation to update or revise them or to provide reasons why actual results may differ.
We do not undertake any responsibility to release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to take into account events or circumstances that occur after the date of issuance of these quarterly condensed consolidated financial statements. Additionally, we do not undertake any responsibility to update you on the occurrence of any unanticipated events which may cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this quarterly report.
In the following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations, unless the context otherwise requires, "we," "us" or the "Company" refers, collectively, to Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Segments and Sources of Revenue
We operate in two reportable segments (Wireline Services and Other) based on how resources are allocated and performance is assessed by our chief operating decision maker. Our chief operating decision maker is our Chief Executive Officer.
Wireline Services
The Wireline Services segment derives revenue from the following sources:
Local Voice Services - We receive revenue from providing local exchange telephone services. These revenues include monthly charges for basic service, local private line services and enhanced calling features.
Network Access Services - We receive revenue for access to our network for wholesale carrier data, business customer data including Dedicated Internet Access, switched carrier access and subscriber line charges imposed on end users. Switched carrier access revenue compensates us for origination, transport and termination of calls for long distance and other interexchange carriers.
Long Distance Services - We receive revenue from providing long distance services to our customers.
High-Speed Internet ("HSI") Services - We provide HSI to our residential and business customers.
Video Services - Our video services marketed as Hawaiian Telcom TV is an advanced entertainment service offered to customers in select areas.
Equipment and managed services - We provide installation and maintenance of customer premise equipment as well as managed service for customer telephone and IT networks.
We receive revenue from wireless services, including the sale of wireless handsets and other wireless accessories.
Results of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2013 and 2012
Operating Revenues
The following tables summarize our volume information as of September 30, 2013 and 2012, and our operating revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012. For comparability, we also present volume information as of September 30, 2013 compared to June 30, 2013.
Volume Information September 2013 compared to September 2012 September 30, September 30, Change 2013 2012 Number Percentage Voice access lines Residential 190,013 207,732 (17,719 ) -8.5 % Business (1) 194,623 185,849 8,774 4.7 % Public 4,246 4,467 (221 ) -4.9 % 388,882 398,048 (9,166 ) -2.3 % High-Speed Internet lines Residential 90,253 86,570 3,683 4.3 % Business 19,163 18,260 903 4.9 % Wholesale 986 1,014 (28 ) -2.8 % 110,402 105,844 4,558 4.3 % Long distance lines Residential 119,096 128,760 (9,664 ) -7.5 % Business (1) 79,320 75,529 3,791 5.0 % 198,416 204,289 (5,873 ) -2.9 % Video Subscribers 15,796 8,444 7,352 87.1 % Homes Enabled 111,000 59,422 51,578 86.8 %
September 2013 compared to June 2013
September 30, June 30, Change 2013 2013 Number Percentage Voice access lines Residential 190,013 194,365 (4,352 ) -2.2 % Business 194,623 195,756 (1,133 ) -0.6 % Public 4,246 4,291 (45 ) -1.0 % 388,882 394,412 (5,530 ) -1.4 % High-Speed Internet lines Residential 90,253 89,737 516 0.6 % Business 19,163 18,986 177 0.9 % Wholesale 986 998 (12 ) -1.2 % 110,402 109,721 681 0.6 % Long distance lines Residential 119,096 121,591 (2,495 ) -2.1 % Business 79,320 79,956 (636 ) -0.8 % 198,416 201,547 (3,131 ) -1.6 % Video Subscribers 15,796 13,618 2,178 16.0 % Homes Enabled 111,000 100,000 11,000 11.0 %
Operating Revenues (dollars in thousands) For Three Months Three Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Wireline Services Local voice services $ 34,195 $ 35,257 $ (1,062 ) -3.0 % Network access services Business data 6,282 4,600 1,682 36.6 % Wholesale carrier data 14,850 15,676 (826 ) -5.3 % Subscriber line access charge 9,442 9,619 (177 ) -1.8 % Switched carrier access 1,623 2,226 (603 ) -27.1 % 32,197 32,121 76 0.2 % Long distance services 6,091 6,735 (644 ) -9.6 % High-Speed Internet 9,999 9,013 986 10.9 % Video 3,717 1,528 2,189 143.3 % Equipment and managed services 7,228 8,715 (1,487 ) -17.1 % Other 3,579 2,472 1,107 44.8 % 97,006 95,841 1,165 1.2 % Wireless 676 806 (130 ) -16.1 % $ 97,682 $ 96,647 $ 1,035 1.1 % Channel Business $ 42,739 $ 41,618 $ 1,121 2.7 % Consumer 35,298 34,486 812 2.4 % Wholesale 16,473 17,634 (1,161 ) -6.6 % Other 3,172 2,909 263 9.0 % $ 97,682 $ 96,647 $ 1,035 1.1 %
For Nine Months Nine Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Wireline Services Local voice services $ 103,859 $ 106,684 $ (2,825 ) -2.6 % Network access services Business data 18,885 14,152 4,733 33.4 % Wholesale carrier data 45,123 47,310 (2,187 ) -4.6 % Subscriber line access charge 28,507 29,211 (704 ) -2.4 % Switched carrier access 5,125 6,861 (1,736 ) -25.3 % 97,640 97,534 106 0.1 % Long distance services 18,804 21,342 (2,538 ) -11.9 % High-Speed Internet 29,495 26,948 2,547 9.5 % Video 8,784 3,060 5,724 187.1 % Equipment and managed services 19,724 23,604 (3,880 ) -16.4 % Other 10,253 7,168 3,085 43.0 % 288,559 286,340 2,219 0.8 % Wireless 2,084 2,570 (486 ) -18.9 % $ 290,643 $ 288,910 $ 1,733 0.6 % Channel Business $ 125,820 $ 123,481 $ 2,339 1.9 % Consumer 104,794 102,778 2,016 2.0 % Wholesale 50,248 53,903 (3,655 ) -6.8 % Other 9,781 8,748 1,033 11.8 % $ 290,643 $ 288,910 $ 1,733 0.6 %
The decrease in local services revenues was caused primarily by the decline of $2.0 million and $5.7 million of voice access lines for the three and nine month periods, respectively. This was offset by $0.9 million and $2.9 million of revenue for the three and nine month periods, respectively, from Wavecom customers acquired in December 2012. Continued competition in the telecommunications industry has increasingly resulted in customers using technologies other than traditional phone lines for voice and data. Residential customers are increasingly using wireless services in place of traditional wireline phone services as well as moving local voice service to VoIP technology offered by competitors. Generally, VoIP technology offered by cable providers is less expensive than traditional wireline phone service, requiring us to respond with more competitive pricing. Additionally, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and our cable competitor continue to focus on business customers and selling services to our customer base.
In an effort to slow the rate of line loss, we are continuing retention and acquisition programs, and are increasingly focusing efforts on bundling of services. We have instituted various "saves" campaigns designed to focus on specific circumstances where we believe customer churn is controllable. These campaigns include targeted offers to "at risk" customers as well as other promotional tools designed to enhance customer retention. We also emphasize win-back and employee referral programs. Additionally, we are intensifying our efforts relative to developing tools and training to enhance our customer service capability to improve customer retention and growth.
Business data revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 increased when compared to the prior year period because of $1.2 million and $3.8 million, respectively, of revenue from Wavecom customers acquired in December 2012. Wholesale carrier revenue decreased because of revenues received from Wavecom in 2012 which we no longer recognize as Wavecom is a wholly-owned subsidiary. In addition, the impact of the decline in voice access lines is reflected in subscriber line access charges and switched carrier access charges.
The decrease in long distance revenue was primarily because of the decline in long distance lines and customers moving to wireless and VoIP based technologies for long distance calling.
HSI revenues increased when compared to the prior year primarily because of an approximate 4.3% growth in our HSI subscribers as well as improved revenue per subscriber with increased bandwidth offerings.
On July 1, 2011, we commercially launched our video service on the island of Oahu. We are rolling out Hawaiian Telcom TV to selected areas to ensure delivery of superior service and an ongoing excellent customer experience. Our volume is ramping up as more homes become enabled for video service. We expect to expand both the availability and the capabilities of our Hawaiian Telcom TV service over the next several years through additional capital investment and innovation.
Equipment and managed services sales have decreased for the three and nine month periods because of changes in the volume of sales and installations of customer premise equipment for certain large government customers during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the same periods in the prior year. Revenue from equipment sales varies from period to period based on the volume of large installation projects. The volume of such projects in future periods is uncertain.
The increase in other wireline services revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the same periods in the prior year is because of revenue from Wavecom of $0.4 million and $1.2 million, respectively. In addition, business VoIP equipment usage fees amounted to $0.6 million and $1.4 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and were negligible in the prior year periods.
Wireless revenues declined when compared to the same periods in the prior year as there has been a reduction in marketing effort as we focus on other products.
The acquisition of SystemMetrics increases the scale and scope of our data center operations by adding a state-of-the-art facility in Honolulu with up to 6,500 square feet of data center capacity and room for expansion. SystemMetrics currently generates annual revenues of approximately $8.0 million. With the acquisition, we anticipate marketing an expanded bundle of communication and data products to our business customers that includes enhanced physical and virtual colocation services.
Operating Costs and Expenses
The following tables summarize our costs and expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the costs and expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 (dollars in thousands):
For Three Months Three Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) $ 41,829 $ 41,176 $ 653 1.6 % Selling, general and administrative expenses 27,965 26,547 1,418 5.3 % Depreciation and amortization 19,974 18,023 1,951 10.8 % $ 89,768 $ 85,746 $ 4,022 4.7 %
For Nine Months Nine Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) $ 122,073 $ 121,407 $ 666 0.5 % Selling, general and administrative expenses 84,860 82,567 2,293 2.8 % Gain on sale of property (6,546 ) - (6,546 ) NA Depreciation and amortization 58,532 51,965 6,567 12.6 % $ 258,919 $ 255,939 $ 2,980 1.2 %
The Company's total headcount as of September 30, 2013 was 1,382 compared to 1,343 as of September 30, 2012. Employee related costs are included in both cost of revenues and selling, general and administrative expenses.
Cost of revenues consists of costs we incur to provide our products and services including those for operating and maintaining our networks, installing and maintaining customer premise equipment, and cost of goods sold directly associated with various products. Costs of revenues were comparable for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 relative to the same periods in the prior year.
Selling, general and administrative expenses include costs related to sales and marketing, information systems and other administrative functions. The increase for the three months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the same period in the prior year was because of an increase in contracted services of $1.1 million for expenses related to the operation of Wavecom and the acquisition of SystemMetrics. The increase for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the same period in the prior year was because of increased gross receipts taxes of $1.2 million as there were beneficial settlements related to such taxes in the prior year. In addition, rent expense increased $0.7 million related to Wavecom operations.
We sold a parcel of land and warehouse not actively used in the Company's operations for a purchase price, as amended, of $13.9 million. A gain on the sale of $6.5 million was recognized in the second quarter of 2013. The HPUC approval of the sale requires we spend $0.3 million on training employees on broadband telecommunication deployment and operation. In addition, the HPUC approval requires the remaining proceeds be used for improvement to our broadband network.
Depreciation and amortization increased because of new property additions placed into service.
Other Income and (Expense)
The following tables summarize other income (expense) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012 (dollars in thousands):
For Three Months Three Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Interest expense $ (4,089 ) $ (5,490 ) $ 1,401 -25.5 % Interest income and other 7 10 (3 ) -30.0 % $ (4,082 ) $ (5,480 ) $ 1,398 -25.5 %
For Nine Months Nine Months Ended September 30, Change 2013 2012 Amount Percentage Interest expense $ (14,712 ) $ (16,890 ) $ 2,178 -12.9 % Loss on early extinguishment of debt (3,660 ) (5,112 ) 1,452 -28.4 % Interest income and other 28 28 - 0.0 % $ (18,344 ) $ (21,974 ) $ 3,630 -16.5 %
Interest expense decreased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 compared to the same periods in the prior year primarily because of the lower interest rates on the refinanced debt.
In connection with the refinancing of debt in the second quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, we incurred charges of $3.7 million and $5.1 million, respectively, which consisted of the loss on the repayment of the old debt and certain refinancing costs.
Income Tax
As of December 31, 2011, we had maintained a full valuation allowance over our net deferred income tax assets. This situation resulted from our having a short history as a new entity (post Chapter 11). From emergence in 2010 through 2012, we have generated earnings in all periods. As a result of our continued positive annual earnings, as well as positive forecasted earnings in the future, management concluded that it was more than likely than not that we will realize our deferred income tax assets, and therefore, we released our valuation allowance as of December 31, 2012. If there is a decline in the level of actual future or forecasted earnings, the conclusion regarding the need for a valuation allowance may change in future periods resulting in the establishment of a valuation allowance for some or all of our deferred income tax assets.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2013, we had cash of $45.1 million. From an ongoing operating perspective, our cash requirements in 2013 consist of supporting the development and introduction of new products, capital expenditure projects, pension funding obligations and other changes in working capital. A combination of cash-on-hand and cash generated from operating activities will be used to fund our cash requirements.
We have continued to take actions to conserve cash and improve liquidity. Efforts have also been taken to generate further operating efficiencies and focus on expense management. We have focused on improving operating results, including efforts to simplify product offerings, improve our customer service experience and increase our revenue enhancement activities. There can be no assurance that these additional actions will result in improved overall cash flow. We continue to have sizable retirement obligations for our existing employee base. Any sustained declines in the value of pension trust assets or relatively high levels of pension lump sum benefit payments will increase the magnitude of future plan contributions.
Agreements with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission and the debt agreements of Hawaiian Telcom Communications, Inc. limit the ability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends to the parent company and restrict the net assets of all of our subsidiaries. This can limit our ability to pay dividends to our shareholders. As the parent company has no operations, debt or other obligations, this restriction has no other immediate impact on our operations.
Cash Flows for Nine Months Ended September 30, 2013 and 2012
Our primary source of funds continues to be cash generated from operations. We use the net cash generated from operations to fund network expansion and modernization. We expect that our capital spending requirements will continue to be financed through internally generated funds. We also expect to use cash generated in future periods for debt service. Additional debt or equity financing may be needed to fund additional development activities or to maintain our capital structure to ensure financial flexibility.
Net cash provided by operations amounted to $54.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013. Our cash flows from operations are impacted by our results of operations, changes in working capital and payments on certain long-term liabilities. Net cash provided by operations amounted to $59.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. The decrease in cash provided by operations was primarily because of working capital needs during the nine month period ended September 30, 2013.
Cash used in investing activities included capital expenditures of $69.8 million and $61.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The level of capital expenditures for 2013 is expected to be slightly higher than 2012 as we invest in systems to support new product introductions and transform our network to enable next-generation technologies.
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The QPP is in bad financial shape and the plan will continue to deteriorate, the longer it takes to reach agreements on required changes.
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While being approved for stage two solvency relief is important and provides more time to reduce the plan's deficit, this in itself won't fix the plan's underlying structural problems.
Changes to the plan are also required. This has been acknowledged by all employee groups and discussions about how to do this started in 2005.
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In this post I present some thoughts about the way people around me and myself learn new things. Specifically, how to go about learning new programming languages from the perspective of an experienced programmer.
When I was learning to program computers for my own entertainment I did it because there where things I wanted to accomplish with the computer. It was fun to do it and I was eager to learn how to do it and experiment with it, but in order to learn I always tried to do something "real". Later on in school I took a subject on computer programming and there I learned a new language (Pascal was the language of choice at the time) and, of course, I had assignments to do. Now both my own goals and the assignments where very helpful because they made me focus on experimenting with the language rather than scatter my thought about what to do with it.
Especially at school, the method I was taught with was one which fit me very well: the teacher would dictate a section of the text-book to us (we didn't actually own the text-books, the only material we had was the dictations he gave us). Then he would go over that section again, maybe on the next class, and explain things in detail, give examples, and so on. I had a notebook which I kept thoroughly organized, with the theory the teacher dictated and then examples, tips and tricks, notations on the side of it, next to the relevant bits, the works.
Then there where the class assignments, which where very helpful because, not only where they aimed towards being best accomplished with the parts we had just learned about, but they provided laser-sharp focus for thought. The fact of the matter is that I was lucky. While most kids where getting to grips with the notion of algorithmic solutions and language constructs I already had some notions of all that and I could take each assignment as a personal challenge: I had to find the best way to do it for whatever measure of "goodness" I chose. The "Best Way" could be the fastest, or it could be the one with less lines of code, or even the more "elegant" way. This last concept of "code elegance" actually caused not a few frowns from my colleagues who considered themselves lucky to have hammered together an answer in as little time as possible and then got on with playing ball or talking about clothes and hair… :-)
But anyway, I got to experiment with the language, a bit at a time, adding more bits as I learned them and experimenting with multiple solutions for a given problem, learning the best way to solve each issue and combine solutions in the process. I had all the time in the world to learn it and it counted as homework, not "fun and games" time. What a bonus!
Fast forward to this day, many years later, after having gone through a computer science course in university and a number of years on the field, not actually as a full-blown programmer, but mainly as a systems architect which also does quite a bit of programming.
Things are a bit different today. There are, of course, new languages springing up every so often and some of them are actually quite appealing. Now after a respectable number of years on the field I am much more able to grok a language by skimming through some discussions and explanations of it and talking with people who use it. Algorithms are the same in every language, data structures are more or less equivalent across them (yes, I know I'm generalizing like crazy, but if you take a high-enough view of things it tends to look like this) and in the end, taking into account the big "classes" of languages and their fundamental differences (which I won't go into here) you are left with the choice of the best language for each specific task you want to tackle. Some make it easier to work with a given data structure you wish to use by providing better modeling for it, others provide the control structures you need to use and so on, but in the end, if you put enough effort into it you can solve most problems with almost any language you care to use.
How do you make a choice then? Well, it isn't enough to just read the blurb, talk to some programmers and see a few "hello world" examples, you really have to know the language you are contemplating in order to ascertain if it is indeed better than the other ones. (Almost) all of them can do it, but one may be better. The problem is that being better is probably in the details so you really have to know your languages.
And then, of course, some people like to learn new languages just for the fun and challenge of it. Nothing wrong there, I find it very entertaining actually.
The problem then becomes how you can go about learning new languages, with the limited time you have at your disposal, and with the tools you already have installed in your brain.
I found that myself, and people I know, usually take one of the following approaches:
People like Melo take the "read the book on it" approach (link to the post about reading the Ruby book).
This method assumes you can actually read through a book on a new language and probably without writing a line of code (remember the time constrain), be able to get all the relevant information into your brain. I couldn't do this when I was younger and I certainly cannot do it now, if I don't experiment with it somewhat it just doesn't stick.
On the other hand, assuming you get a good book, this way you get the most important facts and techniques on the new language and you can map your mental tools, best known algorithms, tricks and so on onto the new language and also get a structured and correct insight into the right way to do things with it.
You'll end up using the language more efficiently and making things work with the least effort.
Other people, like Rui Carmo take the "tackle a real project with it and enlightenment will come your way" approach.
The typical hands-on approach, where you sit down with a task or assignment, some tutorials, examples and/or cookbooks for the specific language and just start trying to write the code you want in it.
Things you learn this way tend to stick better in your brain (in my case at least) and the difficulties you encounter trying to map your mental tools into the language and the way you solve those problems will give you a good insight into the language's capabilities. Of course I'm talking about a non-trivial and especially interesting assignment. For all the tradition they carry around, "Hello Worlds!" are rather useless as a learning experience in any language you care to think of.
On the other hand, this way you may (and usually do) and up trying to coax your way of doing things into a language which may have other, more efficient ways of doing them. It is not that rarely that I find a piece of code on a language I know very well, which is behaving or performing badly. Upon examination of the code, I can immediately tell which language the programmer that wrote it used to work on. After that it is usually a matter of minutes the re-writing of the offending piece of code to make it work better/faster/whatever. Clearly the programmer might have been a good programmer on the other language and even a good programmer "per-se", but not knowing the language in enough depth made his code sub-optimal, even if it did work.
So properly learning a new language is rather important if you're ever going to use it, but learning it properly takes time and effort and not everyone can afford to spend that time. What is the best way to do it then?
Personally I like the book approach a lot, because someone who already knows the programming concepts can get the right idea about their implementation on the specific language and can then be more effective when writing code in it. You just do things right the first time instead of battling with the language to make it do what you want in what can turn out to be the wrong way to go about it in that specific language.
But then, given the shortage of time people (and me in particular) have to devote to these things, spending the time reading about rather than doing it is rather painful and, of course, geeks love to play with things hands-on don't they? I mean, learning what was inside the radio was interesting, but not half as interesting as actually opening it up and seeing for yourself. Even if there where some pieces left over after re-assembling it… :-)
Gone are the days when I was a good boy for working so hard on my homework assignments and was spoon-fed with the language facts at school, while left with enough time to play around with it afterwards, so I guess the mixed approach is the way to go now: find a good introductory book on the new language, find out the interesting chapters in it and read them with care (typically a good introductory book will explain how you work with general structures and how you implement some basic algorithms you already know, while giving some light insight into the inner workings of the language and why this way of doing things works best). Then choose a project (your assignment) and go for it using the new language. If you can get a "cook book" for the language it is really helpful because you will then learn about different ways of solving each problem you have to solve and why one way is better than the other for a given situation (assuming, once again a good "cook-book").
This way you get the benefit of the "lecture" from the text-book and follow it with some useful hands-on experience. And the key here is useful, because if you just try and follow the introductory book's assignments you end up ditching them because of lack of time and never actually get around to using the language properly and getting to know it better.
Anyone has some thoughts or tips on this topic?
Note: This has been sitting in my laptop waiting to be finished for quite some time now. Fortunately I was able to find the time during my vacation to write some more, but I still think the overall post is a bit confusing. But then, I don't want it to just sit here and rot so I'll just post it and get it over with. Hey, I'm on vacation, just relax! ;-)
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Phew! What a ride I've been on since late last week!
After struggling to get something done on Flickr-Tools late last week I've then had a rather full weekend. First, on saturday, there was the wedding of one of my brothers-in-law, then there was the show we put on for the end of the dance-school year (32 years old and I'm doing this kind of stuff… And I'm in the lowest half of participants, age-wise). After the show I went back to the wedding so the day was a rush. Then on sunday there was a second running of the show… Busy, busy, busy!
But I digress, the main point of this post is to talk about my experiences with desktop video editing. So anyway, I've been flirting with this particular media format for a while now, but never got around to doing anything tangible on the actual video front and kept myself pretty much to slide-show type stuff (for a very loose definition of slideshow that is). So following the advice of people who know their stuff (even if the advice was given for a slightly different field but hey, good practices are universal anyway) I've decided that this weekend's shows were the perfect opportunity to get myself some hands-on experience in the area by means of an assignment. So I just took my parents' miniDV camera with me to the backstage and told everyone I'd make a DVD of the whole event for them (committing to yourself is just fine, but it helps to commit to others also) ;-). Now I've had my father record the show itself on saturday, another person recorded the whole event (our show and all the others) on sunday and then I shot my own footage backstage.
So now I had footage of the show itself (two instances of our own show and one of the whole event), some 20 minutes of footage of our group, a few pictures taken saturday on the backstage and some other pictures taken a while ago on our last exam. Sounded good so I decided to go with that.
People who know me and/or follow this weblog know I'm a Mac user for some time so, naturally, I decided to use iLife tools for this particular job. I didn't want to go with fancy stuff and it's steeper learning curve so I opted for the basics —iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and iDVD. Oh, and I also had to use Garage Band for a little sound editing. It was way overkill for what I wanted, but it was just sitting there and I had never used it, so it sounded like a good opportunity to just fire it up and see if I would be able to use it for the first time and get it over with in under 5 minutes. It's Apple software. So I was.
The experience was a pretty good one. Even using nothing but what comes pre-installed on a new Mac I achieved some pretty amazing results (given the time, effort and talent available, of course). So following are some thoughts, notes and just general ideas about using the iLife suite to create a truly home-video style DVD. This information will eventually be ported to the wiki, but since I want to revamp it in a major way it just sits here in the weblog until I come for it.
And now, without further ado and in no particular order, some notes and thoughts on iLife '04-based desktop video editing:
These are some of the main points I gathered from three nights of precious little sleep but much fun editing my footage. Take everything I said above with a very large grain of salt. I usually know what I want to achieve before trying to materialize it and in this case I have no clue how to get there, so I just try to coax the software into doing what I want. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Other times I give up, let Apple take me by the hand and I'm pleasantly surprised. A few times (luckily very few of them) I just can't do what I want and hit some twisted bug, misfeature or just a plain limitation of the software. When it is a bug or misfeature it is annoying but I can live with it. When it is a limitation, well, this programs are pretty basic stuff and the goal is for your granny to be able to use them, so it doesn't bother me in the least. If I come to a point where I think I am able/want to take the heat I'll step into the kitchen and get Final Cut or some-such. Until then I'm perfectly happy with my "basic consumer" stuff.
I may be adding things to the above list until I make a wiki page out of it. Or, then again, maybe not.
Since I know I'll be off-line and unable to do much development on the next few weeks, I'm trying to get as much features as I can in there right now, so even small enhancements like the ones I did today are going to be pushed out to CPAN as a new version.
Release early, release often, they say…
For version 0.02 I cleaned up some documentation bugs (yes, I do take some care with the documentation) and added a couple of methods which where no brainers to implement but I hadn't had the time to put in there.
There is at least one other method which would be really useful (get the list of all the photosets a given photo belongs to) but I'm waiting to see if the good folks at the Flickr API developers team can give us that method so as not to force me to do a lot of API calls just for this one. I do hope they find the time, but with all the buzz surrounding the new auth specs proposal I'm not that confident they will. First things first, I guess…
Anyway, let's see how much more I can do before going away on vacation at the end of next week.
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Well, that's just it, Flickr-Tools is up on CPAN and should be made available any time now.
I've decided that I just can't sit on it any longer. It is far from complete but I've just looked at a big thread on the Flickr developer's mailing list with the promising title of "Big changes to the Flickr API" and which I'm guessing has something to do with the authentication methods or somesuch.
So, given that I'm rather pressed for time as of late (contrary to what I'd expected, sigh…) I'll just post it as-is, limited and all, and start work on version 0.02 ASAP.
As it is, it already allows people to get information on persons, photos and photosets and to manipulate high-level…ish objects with this info.
With the modules structure I've put in place it is really easy to add support for more core API methods so now it is mostly a question of filling it up with what's missing.
Oh and I have to read the thread carefully to see how the authentication stuff will be handled (if that is what the thread is really about).
Getting this out the door is basically a way to get some testing for free on other platforms and to give anyone out there curious enough about this a chance to see my main design ideas for this distribution, so suggestions are always welcome. Help in the form of code is also greatly appreciated, but I'm not holding my breath… ;-)
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Yesterday was a national holiday in Portugal and Monday will be a regional holiday in Lisbon, so this weekend is a whooping 4 day mini-vacation.
So yesterday I've spent most of the day working away on DVDLX. PHP really starts to suck after a certain level of complexity! I knew that already, but it is always bad when you have to go through it again. Still, I have no great choice in the matter at this point so it does no good to wallow in it…
Even busy as I was I caught a movie on TV, at dinner, and ended up watching it all the way through. The movie was Phone Booth (IMDB) and I'd never seen it before. What a great movie. Truly riveting!
So today it's relaxing day and I'm going for a drive with Tuxa. Not sure where we'll go, we'll just get on the car, take out the map and decide.
Flickr::Photo is good enough to go. Flickr::Person is also good enough to go. Flickr::Photoset is almost done. The underlying modules and classes are also OK for the first beta. Just a little bit more clean-up and I should be able to post it in a day or two. Thank goodness for that!
On a totally unrelated story, today something funny happened to me. For the first time I experienced something which made me laugh my head off: software update woke up, as usual, and noted that there was a new security update for panther (yes, I'm still using panther). Of course, being in the office with great connectivity I told it to install the update immediately. So a-fetching it went, until it got the update on the disk and started to do the actual installation. And then the "software update" program just died. It just bombed out! The software update program! It cracked me up! Now of course I have no idea whether the update actually got installed or not, but running the software update by hand tells me that there's nothing new out there so it must be… Oh well, if we are going the Intel way we may as well start to act a bit more like Windows… :-)
So far I've been able to resist the temptation to go out and get myself a video camera to fool around with and make some stuff happen on iMovie and iDVD. Maybe I just need to borrow my parent's camera for a few days and lug it around to make it forget about it once and for all. Then again maybe I'll just get hooked but then I'll now for sure I must get one. Oh well…
Oh and another tidbit: the batteries on the iPod do empty out! Just discovered that as I was leaving the office and the thing died on me. So no podcasts on the way home for me this time, just plain old radio. Which serves the important purpose of reminding me why I love my iPod so much while driving around!
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This has been quite an interesting day…
First off I went for a swim at lunch break at the big pool (50m olympic-style).
Man it feels good to swim there. Glad to be in sufficient shape for it again. And I did get my 1000m time down by a few minutes in there, so not a bad run altogether.
Getting back to old, half-finished code is a pain! Even if I only left it for a few weeks. Anything unfinished will take me so long to get back into the swing of it again… Sheesh!
And Pedro (who was tracking the event) is rather hysterical about Apple's announcement of leaving IBM and going with Intel in a year from now. But even in his state of agitation he still got the funniest part of it all. Oh the unfortunate things geeks say sometimes… :-)
And now gotta get home as my parents are coming by for dinner and my father is bringing the laptop and the DV camera for the first session of desktop video editing phun.
I almost forgot about this: I've upgraded this weblog's software. It is now running on Movable Type version 3.17 (upgraded from 3.15).
As a drop-in replacement upgrade everything should be just fine and dandy. But then we all know how this things tend to go so if you notice anything wrong with the weblog do let me know. Thanks!
My, my, I just turn my attention the other way for a bit and all of a sudden there's a gap of more than 10 days in the weblog…
Well, I'll just make a quick recap on how things are going, then. I have a feeling this can potentially turn into a rather long post so I'll try to keep it short and to the point, in an itemized sort of way.
First off, the Perl Flickr API is just the same as it was when I last wrote about that. Some other stuff has gotten in the way. I do have a deadline I'd like to respect for it, since I'll be going away on my summer vacation in a couple of weeks and I don't expect to do much coding or to even have any sort of connectivity while away. So expect to have the first version up on CPAN by then, followed by a nice two weeks' silence from me.
I've been a bit swamped at work which has bit into my personal time and has thrown me off the track with both the Flickr API project and all the stuff I have to get ready for DVDLX as well.
Other than that I've been listening to a lot of podcasts recently. I've discovered the TechPodcasts network and with it a lot of great podcasts to listen to. Thankfully this can be multitasked with doing other stuff, otherwise I'd just have no time to listen to all of it. So now I'm trying to reduce the number of podcasts I listen to from the huge number of potentially good ones I found there, but it takes time to listen to two or three shows from each source and then decide wether it is worth keeping or not.
One podcast which I did find out about (not from the TechPodcast network, though) is Tips From The Top Floor (RSS feed here). This show is just awesome! Everyday, simple tips for digital photographers. Not extra-advanced stuff, for sure, but just simple stuff which are incredibly useful and which I can use to be reminded of or learn about. It is also short enough to listen to on my commute which is a big plus. Kudus to Chris for a really excellent show.
Something else that got my already too thinly stretched attention is video blogging or vlogging as people sometimes call it. I've taken the easy way into this and just downloaded FireAnt and looked at some of the feeds that come in the default config. Now I don't think I'll get much into it since it does take up more time than blogs or podcasts, simply because you can't multicast it (at least no so much as the other two), but there is definitely some interesting stuff going on there. Then again there is also a lot of trash, but that's just the natural order of things, I guess…
And, speaking of video, my father want's to get in on the desktop video-editing stuff. He has had a DV camera for a while now and shoots tape after tape of my nephew (as any self-respecting granddad should, of course) and being the intelligent person that he is, he knows no one is ever going to watch hours on end of Diogo sleeping, Diogo trying to eat his tows, Diogo crawling around, Diogo eating and so on and so forth. So he want's to edit all that stuff and just make some cool DVDs with it. Since he and mom recently got a god laptop they now have all he needs to tackle it. Except for the software and the know-how.
Enter me, who has zero experience with video editing, trying to learn as much as I can about it (strictly beginner level, of course) in order to get dad up to speed and running with it on his own. Now the good thing about this is that I know that if it takes to it he'll do a great job and we'll have great family video stuff to watch from now on. The dark side of things being that I've always resisted entering the digital-video arena and now with all the studying and trying out of the tools I've got in order to help dad I hope I don't get caught into yet another time sink.
Must resist the power of the dark-side, even if we both could run the family-video galaxy as father and son.
Which reminds me, I must go see episode III again!


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Kripalu Yoga teacher Katie Hagel recently discovered that her first American ancestor was born on the Mayflower and was named Peregrine, from the Latin for "pilgrim" or "wanderer." It's no surprise, then, that travel and adventure are in her blood. While working as a travel guide in China, Katie discovered yoga. She was usually the […]
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Terri Young, guest blogger
One morning each month, from October through May, about 10 students arrive at Poland Spring Yoga, the small yoga studio in Poland Spring, Maine, that I own with my husband, Steve. Their ages range from 65 to 85 years old. During the next hour, we sit in chairs in a circle and explore cultivating awareness through stillness, poetry reading, breathing techniques, and a range of gentle movements and stretches. After class, we move to the living room for chatting, laughter, and fellowship.
This is my favorite class to teach. The openness, joy, and deep sense of community that we all receive from this experience are nothing short of miraculous.
"I never realized yoga was for me—I always thought it was for the younger generation," one student told me after the first class. Another student confided, with complete amazement, "I never knew I could feel this way!"
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Ashley Winseck, guest blogger For Kripalu Yoga teacher Gregg Day, community involvement is a big deal. "It makes sense to me to be well connected to where you are," he says. "I'm always looking for the opportunity to do something local—wherever that may be." And for Gregg, "local" is in the heart of the Berkshires. […]
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A new series focusing on ways in which Kripalu is making an impact in the world through our multiple outreach programs, including our scholarship program, Teaching for Diversity fund, and Institute for Extraordinary Living research projects. Today we focus on Paige Elenson, who recently came to Kripalu, with the help of a scholarship, to learn skills to bring back with her to Kenya, where she founded the Africa Yoga Project in 2009.
In 2006, while on safari with her parents in Kenya, yoga teacher Paige Elenson was driving through the bush when she spotted a group of young men doing handstands by the side of the road.
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|Binti Jua
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Binti Jua is a female western lowland gorilla in the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, outside of Chicago. She is best known for an incident in which she saved a three year old boy who fell into her enclosure.
Binti Jua (whose name means "Daughter of Sunshine" in Swahili) is the niece of Koko, the gorilla world famous for learning American Sign Language. Her mother, Lulu, was originally from the Bronx Zoo and died on January 24, 2011 after residing at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Her father is Sunshine (from the San Francisco Zoo).
Binti Jua has a daughter with the late, wild-born silverback Abe, named Koola. She also has a son with another wild-born silverback, named Ramar, who was purchased by Jack Badal as a baby and was trained to do circus stunts. Ramar inspired a book called Jungle to Stage. Their son is named Bakari and resides at the Saint Louis Zoo with his half-brother, Nadaya. Binti has one granddaughter, born to her daughter Koola and silverback Ramar, named Kamba.
Binti is best known for an incident which occurred on August 16, 1996, when she was eight years old. A three-year old boy climbed the wall around her zoo enclosure and fell 18 feet onto concrete below, rendering him unconscious with a broken hand and a vicious gash on the side of his face.[1]
Binti walked to the boy's side while helpless spectators screamed, certain the gorilla would harm the child. Another larger female gorilla approached, and Binti growled.[1]
Binti consoled the child and kept the other animals at bay, so that zoo personnel could retrieve him.[2] Her 17-month-old baby, Koola, clutched her back throughout the incident. The boy spent four days in the hospital and recovered fully.[3]
After the incident, experts debated whether Binti's actions were a result of training by the zoo or animal altruism. Because Binti had been hand-raised, as opposed to being raised in the wild by other gorillas, she has had to be specially trained to care for an infant and to take her child to personnel for examinations. One could assume that this training resulted in her behavior when the little boy fell into her enclosure.[citation needed] Primatologist Frans de Waal, however, uses Binti Jua as an example of empathy in animals.[2]
However, there are many other examples of animals (especially primates) demonstrating apparent altruism. The strongest argument for the altruistic explanation involves a situation very similar to Binti's, in which a male gorilla named Jambo, of Jersey Zoo, protected a 5-year-old child who had fallen into his enclosure. Jambo was not trained to care for children and was raised in captivity by his own gorilla mother, so that his actions may have involved an instinctive sense that the child needed his help. Similar behavior has been seen in chimps who "comfort" each other after an attack or other trauma.


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Drug Dynamics Institute Executive Director Janet Walkow says the Food and Drug Administration requires a set of safety studies for review before a drug can go to clinical trials.
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The University of Texas has built just such a lab called UT Advance at the Drug Dynamics Institute.
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Drug Dynamics Institute Assistant Director Dr. Alan Watts says the lab performs studies using standards already put in place by the FDA. For researchers and small biotech firms, it gives them access to knowledge and resources previously out of reach.
Stringent procedures and standards are key to the Good Laboratory Practices designation.
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