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OAO Transneft management opposes increasing the Russian oil pipeline operator's dividend payouts before 2015, according to Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank.
Transneft will seek to keep its current dividend policy during the period because of the investment needed to finish pipeline construction projects, RenCap analysts led Ildar Davletshin wrote in note today, citing company First Vice President Maxim Grishanin.
"It is possible that investors may not see any positive changes for quite some time," the analysts wrote after a briefing yesterday with Grishanin. The final decision on dividends depends on the government.
President Vladimir Putin has pushed the state-owned company to expand export capacity, including Russia's first pipeline from Siberia to Asia Pacific markets and a link to the Baltic Sea that bypasses Belarus, a transit nation for supplies to Europe. Russia, the world's largest oil producer, has raised output by over 57 percent since Putin took office in 2000.
Transneft plans to reduce spending to 107.6 billion rubles ($3.4 billion) this year from 152.5 billion rubles in 2011, according to an investor presentation posted on the company's website. The company plans to finish the second phase of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean, or ESPO, link, which is being extended to the port of Kozmino this year.
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Transneft will spend $1.5 billion this year paying down debt used to fund projects, Grishanin said yesterday. The company isn't seeking additional increases to transit rates, its main source of revenue, this year and expects annual increases of 5 percent for the next three years, he said.
The pipeline operator plans to continue paying 10 percent of net income based on Russian accounting standards as dividends on preferred shares, and 15 percent on common shares, all of which are state owned. The Economy Ministry proposed requiring state-run companies to pay 25 percent of net income, possibly under International Financial Reporting Standards, the Vedomosti newspaper reported in March.
Transneft opposes a plan for the state to sell a stake, saying the government's sale of a 3 percent of its shares would violate loan covenants with China, Grishanin said.
China agreed in 2009 to lend $10 billion to Transneft and $15 billion to OAO Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, in return for a 20-year supply agreement to provide 300,000 barrels a day of crude. Transneft made Russia's first pipeline deliveries of oil to China via a spur from ESPO on Jan. 1, 2011.
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This year's Electro-Music NY Festival and conference is on September 5-7, 2014 at the Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York.
The electro-music(TM) festival is the world's premiere event for experimental electronic music. Now in its tenth year, this three day conference/music festival includes concerts, seminars, demonstrations, jam sessions, a swap meet, and a laptop battle. The scope is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music: experimental electronic music, circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, algorithmic composition, multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.
This will be my 7th Electro-Music event and my 4th time at the the NY version. Getting involved with Electro-Music festivals is one of the best things I've done as a solo artist. It's just an amazing event where you'll see and hear some amazing performances and forge life-long friendships with other artists.
Cinematic Electronica with Invader Cam Set
I'll be flying out to this show from Boulder to play my Cinematic Electronica set with Invader cam. Here is a video of the song "New Heart Beating" from my new album Fear Cannot Save Us.
A.I. Winter Set
I'll be playing a set as in a brand new duo called A.I. Winter with Atlanta-based artist Michael O'Bannon.
A.I. Winter is a self-appointed harbinger of the progress of Artificial Intelligence toward world domination. It imposes its musical interpretations of cosmic machine consciousness on the world at large. To learn more about A.I. Winter visit the microsite http://www.AIWinter.net.
If you'd like to learn more about what this particular event read Show Report: Electro-Music 2010 Festival in Huguenot NY. I've also setup a category on Modulate This! for posts related to all Electro-Music events http://www.modulatethis.com/electro-music/.
Here are some really cool photos from past events.
In May I performed a set at the Electro-Music Asheville 2014 Festival. Here is a video of the song "New Heart Beating" from my new album Fear Cannot Save Us.
The album version of this song is available on:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-heart-beating/id841045906?i=841045950
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J0OAOFI/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp?ie=UTF8&qid=1403930254&sr=1-1
Bandcamp: http://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/fear-cannot-save-us
This song was performed using Tenori-On as a MIDI controller and live sequencer driving racks for synths hosted in Ableton Live. The visuals are generated on-the-fly using live camera input as the only source with real-time visual FX.
Thanks to:
[project ruori] (http://www.ruori.org) for close-up video footage
Paul A Vnuck Jr. for opening still photo
Greg and Hong Waltzer for hosting such a wonderful event
Edward B Siedzik for running sound
Anna E Siedzik-Torres for running lights
For more photos from this event check out this - Show Journal & Photos from Electro-Music Asheville 2014 Festival.
Mark Mosher
If you live in or near Asheville, NC I hope to see you this weekend at Asheville Electro-Music.
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Electro-Music 2012 Festival Is Almost Here
The fantastic lineup for Electro-Music 2012 Festival has been announced. This wonderful event is held at the Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York so if you live nearby I recommend you check it out. If you've never been, read my show report from my first trip here.
If you can't make the event, make sure you mark your calendar and tune into the live stream a http://radio.electro-music.com.
More info and tickets at http://event.electro-music.com/.
See You At the Festival
I'm excited to announce I'll be returning to Electro-Music 2012 Festival in NY for the third year running. Here is a blurb for my events that will appear in the program.
Friday Sept. 7, 10:30 PM - Expressive Visual Controllerism Concert
In his third year at Electro-Music, Mark will continue to explore the boundaries of controllerism with Ableton Live coaxing even more expressive real-time performances out of his various virtual synthesizers. It's all about original sci-fi techno songs and experimental improvs filled with classic and signature synth ear candy performed on keys, grids (Launchpad/Tenori-On), Theremin, AudioCubes, and Lemur. Visual feedback FTW!
Saturday Sept. 8, 4:00-5:00pm - Creating and Controlling Signature Sounds
with Camel Audio Alchemy
Alchemy offers a great blend of performance features combined with deep synthesis, sample manipulation, resynthesis, granular synthesis, and built-in FX. There is also a mobile app that can act as a wireless multi-touch controller for Alchemy on your computer. The goal of this talk is to shorten your learning curve so you can start creating your own expressive signature sounds for production and performance. Topics will include: Anatomy and signal flow, programming walk-throughs, tips on incorporating field recordings into patches, overview of modulation mapping, overview of FX, and performance mapping.
A Look Back at EM 2011
The photo above is of from my 2011 performance and was taken by Hong Waltzer. Checkout out more photos from 2011 here. Below is a live recording of last year's concert (downoad mp3 here).
I hope to see you at the show.
Electronic Musician, Boulder CO
Mark your calendars as the Summer Solstice 2012 Online Streaming Concert is this Saturday, June 23. Tune in to http://radio.electro-music.com for great music from 3PM - 3AM GMT/UTC.
Mark Mosher
Electronic Musician, Boulder CO
A few weeks back I was in Asheville, NC to do a play and attend the Mountain-Skies festival. On Friday morning May 11th, the participants of the festival were invited to tour the Moog Music factory. I thought I'd share I'd share my photos to help celebrate what would have been Bob Moog's 78th birthday. A big thanks to Greg and Hong Waltzer for setting up this tour.
Of course this is something I'd always dreamed of doing so I'm wearing my "kid in a candy store" grin as I entered the showroom. The showroom is filled with Moog products that you can try hands-on.
We also got to go behind-the-scenes into the factory. Below is a photo of Moog Voyagers being burned in.
Note that ALL Moog products that ship world-wide are made in this one factory and are hand-assembled. So running at full production that means about 4 voyagers a day. Of course they run at much higher rates of production with smaller less complex products.
The tour then takes you through shipping and the loading dock through to the Moog Studios where they film all those groovy promo videos.
The whole touru took about 45 minutes and I took quite a few photos of the whole experience which you can view the set on flckr or via the embedded player below. See photo titles for a description for each picture ("Show Info" when running the player full screen). Enjoy! Oh and, don't forget, you can help keep Bob Moog's legacy alive by contributing to the http://www.moogfoundation.org/.
Mark Mosher
Electronic Musician, Boulder CO
Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
I'm back from New York and I've had a few days to decompress and pull together some media from an epic weekend of electronic music at Electro-Music 2011 Festival in NY. This was my second year and it was really great seeing friends I met last year plus meeting new ones.
Rather than do a show report like I did last year, I'm going to trickle out some posts on the experience, do some posts on artists I met while there, and also follow up on some technology I came across. In this first post I'll focus on my performance and some highlight pictures.
I had such a blast playing my set. Here is the set list.
All concerts were broadcast as real-time audio feeds worldwide via http://www.electro-music.com/radio including mine. Below is an audio recording of my entire set unedited as it was broadcast. The set is about 28 minutes long so if your short on time, grab the MP3 and listen later.
Mark Mosher Live at Electro-Music 2011 Festival, NY 9/9/2011 by MarkMosher
Thanks to Damon Mar (live mix), Adam Holquist (live stream mix), Project Rouri (Visuals) and Special thanks to Paul Harriman for making the stream and http://www.electro-music.com/radio possible and giving me a copy of this file!
John Morley was kind enough to shoot these awesome photos while I was playing. View the embedded slide show on Flickr.
Here is a Flickr set with some general highlight photos from the festival.
I'd like to close by thanking the festival organizers and all those who came to the set and listened on the live stream.
Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
One week to go before I head off to the Electro-Music festival. It's remote location at Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot NY has limited cell signal (it is a retreat center after all), but I'll try and offer some live tweet coverage on http://twitter.com/markmosher.
If you are in the NY area you should try and come. Press release is below and my show report from last year is here.
The electro-music festival, known as the "Woodstock of electronic music," is the world's premiere event for experimental electronic music. Now in it's seventh year, this year's gathering features three mind-bending days of innovative electronic music concerts, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, jam sessions, video art, a laptop battle, and a swap-meet. Action starts at 1pm on Friday, September 9 and runs until after midnight on September 11. Musical activities will be running continuously throughout the three days of the festival.
electro-music 2011 takes place at the Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York. On-site lodging and meals are available. Tickets range from $35 for a single day to $360 for a 3-day pass including meals and lodging.
More information, including a complete schedule of events can be found on the web site at:
You may also contact us at event [at] electro-music.com
A wide variety of instruments and musical styles will be represented, ranging from theremin to analog modular synthesizers to home made devices, from classic space music to abstract electronica to world beats.
The following artists will be performing:
|Acoustic Interloper
|Hunter and Harrison
|Norton Antivirus
|Michael O'Bannon
|aether generator
|Kevin Kissinger
|Joo Won Park
|Andrew Koenig
|Audio Mace
|Richard Lainhart
|Azimuth Visuals
|Loop B
|Lost in the Funhouse
|RoDo Jede
|Machine Eat Man
|Project Ruori
|Delicate Monster
|Jeremy dePrisco
|Modulator ESP
|The Table
|Robert Dorschel
|Technicolor Travel Agency
|Mark Mosher
|Thin Air
|Music From The Film
|Transistor Club
|Fringe Element
|Paul Harriman
|Woodswalker / Genetique
|Jack Hertz
|Northern Valentine
|xeroid entity
Seminars and Workshops:
Darren Bergstein - The Notoriety Unit
Jez Creek - Nord Modular Performance Patches
Jeremy dePrisco - Reason/Record
Robert Dorschel - Going Virtual
Paul Harriman - Eigenharp demonstration
Shane King - Logic on Stage
Kevin Kissinger - Etching Printed Circuit Boards
Damon Mar - Current Controlled Modular System
Howard Moscovitz - Ambiophonic Sound
Mark Mosher - Ableton Live Real-Time Performance Tips
Michael O'Bannon - Sound and Music from Brainwaves
Mohamed Ragab - Experimental Music in Egypt
Charles Shriner - Concepts in Free Form Improvisation: Creative Conversations or Tower of Babel?
Rick Scott and Robert Kulik - Thwarting Time's Arrow
Greg Waltzer - Structured Improvisation Workshop
(informal) - Circuit Bending and DIY Workshop
I've been officially accepted to play a set and do a talk at Electro-Music 2011 in NY. The festival takes place from September 9-11. More links at the bottom of the post.
Looking Back at Electro-Music 2010
I had a great time at the festival last year and I'm really looking forward to returning so I thought I'd share some photos and video from last year, and offer some info on the festival in case you were considering going.
Here is a photo and video and from my show last year taken by Jeremy DePrisco.
Here is a shot of the groovy shirt from the festival which also shows a list of artist who performed last year.
Quick Overview
Once again the festival will be at the remote and beautiful Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York.Checkout my detailed review of the 2010 Festival here.
Just to give you a feel I'll share an excerpt from my review:
Because the festival was in a more remote location than in past years there was little opportunity for walk-in spectators. The upside of this is that most of the attendees were experts. By expert, I mean seasoned artists with over 10,000 hours of experience and in some cases decades of energy put into their craft. As a result the vibe was amazing. Have you ever seen the SciFi channel show Eureka? It was like that for electronic music. It didn't seem intimidating for newer artists either, as everyone was also very open and willing to share ideas and talk in depth about their work. There was a huge diversity in styles, performance, and approach and a whole lot of passion!
More Themed Jams in 2011
I've been checking in ever few weeks to see how the schedule is shaping up. I noticed on a recent update that they will have many themed jams this year. So far they have: space jam, open jam, noise jam, technicolor jam, DIY jam (following the DIY and circuit bending workshop), and AudioCube jam.
9 Box at Electro-Music 2011
I'll be bringing along a 9 Box System for performance, improvisation, and spontaneous tribal jams with music, sound, and light and I know at least one other artist is bringing his AudioCubes along for the AudioCube jam.
Hope to See Your There
I met a lot of great people last year and saw some amazing performances and I'm looking forward to meeting more Modulate This readers face-to-face this year.
Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
Synthesist | Composer | Keyboardist | Performer
Official Web Site: www.MarkMosherMusic.com
Listen/Download Albums: www.MarkMosherMusic.com/music.html


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Glaring omission in this article? I've read this article twice and it seems to me it's missing a very important piece of the argument, namely: why would an unregulated .health be bad?There's an assumption that a .health without "safeguards" would be bad, but at no point does the article explain why it would be bad.The article merely lists four examples of domain names that could be registered and allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.http://www.[smoking].[health](potentially purchased by a tobacco company) http://www.[vaccinatekids].[health](potentially purchased by anti-vaccine activists)http://www.[obesity].[health](potentially purchased by a junk food company) http://www.[cancer].[doctor](potentially purchased by unscrupulous vendors catering to the desperate dying)Let's assume that all four of these scenarios play out as described here.So what?Tobacco companies, junk food companies, anti-vaxers and scammers already exist on the internet. They have web sites, they spread their poison and their lies using existing TLDs such as .com, .org, .uk, etc.Any charlatan can today register a .com domain proclaiming they have the cure for cancer, that MMR vaccine causes autism or that Big Macs make you thin.Why will .health make this worse?Do the authors assume that .health will act as a badge of authenticity? They don't say.Do they assume that people will automatically trust .health more than .com? On what basis?Do they assume that people will type .health domains into their browsers rather than using search engines to find the information they need? Where's the data to back this up?The argument that users will trust information in .health more than .com (which I'm inferring because the article does not articulate it) is perhaps not as self-evident as the authors seem to think.Neither is is obvious that users will find themselves navigating to .health sites using domain names.It may well transpire that .health will confer illusory trustworthiness on web sites that use it -- I don't know -- but this article fails to even make the beginnings of a case for that hypothesis.I'm also a little troubled that my own blog (domainincite.com) is cited as an "unconfirmed report" in the final paragraph. It would have been the work of a few moments for the authors to independently confirm that .health has already been awarded (search for "health" on this page https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/viewstatus)
Superb commentary, but still not radical enough Sir Nigel has, as usual, done a wonderful job of summarizing some very important issues about how global cooperation to improve health can and should work, to the benefit of all partners, and of all of the people we serve. The language we use is crucial, and evolving beyond the language of so-called "developed" and "developing" countries and regions is a great advance. But I find myself rebelling against words like "resource-poor" settings, since the most important resource in any setting is the people there, and my experience is that people in what we now label "resource-poor" settings, while often lacking in material "resources", are unusually "resourceful" (or "resource-full"?). We should relentlessly recognize and affirm that.And while I appreciate the language of "empowerment", I wish we would find better language than talk of "empowering patients". My dictionary (Google) says "empower" means "to give power to". (See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empower ). That still assumes that "we" have the "power" and need to "give" it to others. I think that the truth is that the "power" already resides within each person, but historical cultures and power structures have blinded us all to that -- or worse, created such barriers to individuals exercise their own power that the reality is that they have too often tragically become "powerless" in important ways. I don't think that this affirmation of the "power" each individually naturally has is politically-correct ideology, I think that it is a fact of human nature, one might even say a "biological fact" of the way we human beings are constructed -- we (individuals within natural local family/community units) are not only capable of doing many (most?) of the things we need for ourselves, we also thrive most when we are living that way. What we need to do is to stop "dis-empowering" so many people.Finally, while we talk a lot about the need for many more "health care workers", with appropriate training, we might keep in mind that the most important "health care worker" who can and should be working on behalf of each patient is the patient her/himself (or for a baby/child, the mother and/or father). If we thought first of how to ensure that _these_ "health care workers" (all >4 billion of them, if we set young children aside) have the training that they need, then we would likely find that many health problems would be solved even without needing as many additional trained and paid personnel as we generally assume. This must never, of course, be done in a way that leaves patients or mothers/fathers without the support they need from health professionals -- there are dramatic and unconscionable shortages in doctors, nurses, midwives, community health workers, and other professional personnel that we must urgently address. But we should always first and foremost focus on educating patients and families themselves, both about the things that they can do by themselves and for themselves, and about the things for which they should seek professional assistance (and demand that it be made much more readily available if it is not yet).If we can do that, then maybe one day Sir Nigel can write a sequel to his wonderful book "Turning the World Upside Down", perhaps titled "How We Turned the World Rightside Up".
Does Financial Speculation with Agricultural Commodities Cause Hunger? – A Reply to our... Does Financial Speculation with Agricultural Commodities Cause Hunger? –A Reply to our CriticsMatthias Georg Will, Sören Prehn, Ingo Pies, Thomas Glauben(The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest. The authors financed this reply with internal resources.) Introduction In a recent contribution, Bozorgmehr et al. (2013) criticize the literature review provided by Will et al. (2012). That literature review was written by economists. It covers economic studies on the effects of financial speculation on the price level and volatility of agricultural commodities. However, Bozorgmehr and his co-authors, who have a background in evidence-based medicine, base their criticism on AMSTAR, "a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews" that has become popular for meta-analyses in empirical medical research (For the AMSTAR guidelines, cf. Shea et al. (2007) and Shea et al. (2009)).Applying AMSTAR, Bozorgmehr et al. (2013) claim in their conclusion to have found "obvious methodological shortcomings of the review" by Will et al. (2012). They "hope to initiate reflections about scientific standards beyond the boundaries of disciplines", thus implying that the usual standards of evidence-based medicine are higher than the usual standards in economics or the actual standards abided by Will et al. (2012) and that economists therefore should learn from them.We welcome this effort to initiate interdisciplinary learning, especially with regard to a topic that is so important like fighting global hunger. With regard to interdisciplinary learning, we would like to hint at our economic analysis of political measures that might have a sustainable impact on fighting hunger and malnutrition, (cf. Pies et al. (2013)), as well as to our ethical analysis of age-old public (mis-)conceptions of speculation, (cf. Pies et al. (2014)). The former helps to understand that false alarms – e.g. claiming that index funds are hunger.makers – distract public attention from important reforms, while the latter helps understand why some arguments – e.g. that speculation is evil per se – might be wrong and at the same time extremely popular. However, we have the impression that Bozorgmehr et al. (2013) have (a) misunderstood, (b) misread, and (c) misinterpreted our paper. Therefore, we would like to reply to our critics by simply clarifying three points. 1. MisunderstandingBozorgmehr et al. (2013) misunderstand the problem the literature review by Will et al. (2012) tries to address. This problem is explained in the first section of the review, which comprises 3 ½ pages. It consists of the fact that civil society organizations run a public campaign which is based on very strong assertions such as the following: Foodwatch claims that there is "overwhelming evidence that speculation with foodstuffs on commodity exchanges drives up prices and causes hunger and starvation to spread. This proof is enough to justify taking immediate political action" (Foodwatch (2011; p. 4)).In order to check whether these claims are backed by sound academic research, Will et al. (2012) surveyed the relevant literature according to three lead questions, which were explicitly formulated on p. 1. The review investigates "which empirical insights have been revealed about the effect of speculation on: (a) price levels, and (b) price volatility of agricultural commodities? Moreover, what pronouncements do these studies make (c) on issues pertaining to regulation?".Will et al. (2012) simply wanted to know whether academic experts have found empirical evidence that financial speculation has caused hunger during the global food crisis in 2007/8 and whether they agree that financial speculation should therefore be inhibited or even prohibited. The result of the literature review is quite clear: There is "overwhelming evidence" that academic experts do not share the point of view expressed by civil society organizations: Most studies do not find adverse effects on price levels or price volatility, and many studies explicitly warn against taking the radical political measures favoured by civil society organizations because they think it is highly probable that such measures would not improve but impair the functioning of agricultural markets. 2. MisreadingBozorgmehr et al. (2013) misread the results of the literature review by Will et al. (2012). According to their variant, the review claims to provide a "proof of »no evidence« for a relationship between speculations and food prices or price volatility." This statement completely misses the point and is a mistake for two reasons. First, Will et al. (2012) just claim to have shown that the "overwhelming evidence" referred to by campaigning civil society organizations is indeed against and not in favour of their position. Second, while it is relatively easy to verify or falsify whether an asserted effect has taken place, it is logically impossible to prove that an asserted effect has not taken place. No scientific discipline – whether economics or evidence-based medicine – could provide such a proof (Popper (1935, 2005; p. 48): "Strictly existential statements ... cannot be falsified."). For sure, Will et al. (2012) did not aim to prove the non-existence of negative speculation effects, nor did they claim to have provided such a proof.In this regard, Bozorgmehr et al. (2013) do not only misread but in fact even misquote the literature review by Will et al. (2012). In their paragraph titled "background", they write: "The review ... concludes that »[..] financial speculation does not have an adverse effect on the functioning of the agricultural commodities market".We would like to contrast this with the correct quote from Will et al. (2012; p. 20): "All articles that successfully passed academic peer review, as well as the vast majority of the empirical contributions to grey literature unanimously arrive at the conclusion that financial speculation does not have an adverse effect on the functioning of the agricultural commodities markets. ... Although some contributions to grey literature include findings that are critical of speculation, it cannot be deduced from this that fundamental regulation, in the form of position limits or bans, is necessary. If one considers the empirical evidence in its entirety and without prejudice, the alarm raised by civil society organizations must, inevitably, be regarded as a false alarm." 3. MisinterpretationThe study by Will et al. (2012) is not a meta analysis, and it does not claim to be a meta analysis. Instead, according to its title and according to its text, it claims to be a literature review, and that is what it is.Nevertheless, Bozorgmehr et al. (2013) apply the AMSTAR tool in order to assess the quality of this literature review. The tool consists of eleven questions, and the co-authors report how they have answered these questions.Replying to our critics, we would like to report our answers to the AMSTAR questions.1. Yes2. Yes3. Yes4. Yes5. Not applicable6. Yes7. Yes8. Yes9. Not applicable10. Yes11. Not applicableIn the following, we would like to elaborate on the three questions that are not directly applicable to our study.(a) In order to answer question 5 with yes, it would be required to explicitly list all articles that were included and all articles that were excluded from the literature review. Due to the specific procedure of our study, it was not possible to provide a list of excluded articles. The reason why is easily explained.Before answering the three lead questions specified above, Will et al. (2012) defined three criteria for inclusion. The details were explained on p. 5: "We ensured that all contributions analyzed here are independent empirical studies adhering to academic standards and deploying elaborate econometric methods of time series analysis. Alongside the temporal focus on academic papers from 2010 to 2012, a third criterion consisted of selecting only contributions that focus expressly on the issues that are of interest here, i.e. how to assess the consequences of financial speculation and which conclusions are to be drawn as regards regulating the agricultural markets."According to the first criterion, studies were excluded from the sample if they provided only descriptive statistics, e.g. a purely graphical analysis of the relevant data. According to the second criterion, studies were excluded if they were published before 2010. According to the third criterion, studies were excluded if they concentrated on other questions, e.g. on the effects of financial speculation on the oil market.These three criteria directly follow from a clearly specified research interest. The literature review by Will et al. (2012) wanted to find out whether the academic literature provides "overwhelming evidence" that financial speculation with agricultural commodities has caused hunger, especially during the global food crisis 2007/8.As a result of our careful screening procedure, we found 35 studies that met the three criteria. All of them were included in the literature review. We repeat: There was not a single study that had come to our knowledge which was excluded although it met the three criteria. After having defined the sample, the inclusion rate was 100%. Therefore, it was quite natural that the literature review by Will et al. (2012) did not entail a list of excluded studies.(b) Question 9 is not applicable. It asks for a statistic test of homogeneity in order to make sure that the "combination" of findings makes sense. This is appropriate for meta analyses. However, for the literature review provided by Will et al. (2012) such a test was neither necessary nor meaningful since the results of different studies were not "combined".(c) Question 11 is not applicable. It asks for the source of funding for the review as well as for each of the studied included. It is not applicable due to the fact that distinct academic disciplines have cultivated distinct transparency norms.To understand this point, the following background information is necessary. In the past, the economics profession applied the rule that a conflict of interest must be stated and that the absence of a conflict of interest need not be stated. Since the latter was the general case, it was simply taken for granted that no explicit information indicates no conflict of interest.We admit that this practice is in a process of change. As a case in point, the American Economic Association has started on July 1st 2012 to ask authors for a Disclosure Statement, which is now obligatory and irrespective of whether there is anything to disclose or not (Cf. American Economic Association (2012)).Due to the recent change in the rules of academic publishing, the studies covered in the literature review, which play by the old rules, do not entail an explicit notice about their funding.With regard to the literature review itself, all co-authors declare that there was no conflict of interest. The review by Will et al. (2012) was financed by internal resources of MLU and IAMO. No third party resources were involved. Following the new rules of the economics profession, the according Disclosure Statement has been included in the journal publication (Cf. Will et al. (2013)). ConclusionBozorgmehr et al. (2013) criticize the literature review provided by Will et al. (2012) for "obvious methodological shortcomings". But their criticism rests on having (a) misunderstood, (b) misread, and (c) misinterpreted the literature review. Will et al. (2012) wanted to know whether academic investigations have accumulated "overwhelming evidence" that financial speculation has caused hunger during the global food crisis 2007/8, as has been claimed by civil society organizations. The literature review cogently falsifies this claim. Furthermore, it documents that a majority of empirical studies, written by academics with expert knowledge, explicitly warn against the policy implications favoured by some civil society organizations. These key messages are based on sound science, and they provide valuable orientation for improving the fight against global hunger. LiteratureAmerican Economic Association (2012): AEA Disclosure Policy, http://www.aeaweb.org/, November 23, 2013.Bozorgmehr, Kayvan, Sabine Gabrysch, Olaf Müller, Florian Neuhann, Irmgard Jordan, Michael Knipper, and Oliver Razum (2013): Relationship between financial speculation and food prices or price volatility: applying the principles of evidence-based medicine to current debates in Germany, in: Globalization and Health, Vol. 9, No. 44, internet access: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/44.Foodwatch (2011): Foreword, in: Harald Schumann (2011): The Hunger-Makers: How Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Other Financial Institutions Are Speculating With Food at the Expense of the Poorest, published by Thilo Bode, Berlin, p. 4 f.Pies, Ingo, Sören Prehn, Thomas Glauben and Matthias Georg Will (2013): Hungermakers? – Why Futures Market Activities by Index Funds are Promoting the Common Good, in: The Swiss Derivatives Review, Vol. 53 (forthcoming).Pies, Ingo, Matthias Georg Will, Thomas Glauben, Sören Prehn (2014): The Ethics of Financial Speculation in Futures Markets, in: The WSPC Handbook of Futures Markets, edited by Anastasios G. Malliaris and William T. Ziemba (forthcoming).Popper, Karl (1935, 2005): The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Taylor & Francis e-Library, London and New York.Shea, Beverly J., Candyce Hamel, George A. Wells, Lex M. Bouter, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Jeremy Grimshaw, David A. Henry, and Maarten Boer (2009): AMSTAR is a reliable and valid measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews, in: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 62, pp. 1013-1020.Shea, Beverly J., Jeremy M Grimshaw, George A. Wells, Maarten Boers, Neil Andersson, Candyce Hamel, Ashley C. Porter, Peter Tugwell, David Moher and Lex M. Bouter (2007): Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews, in: MC Medical Research Methodology, Vol. 7, No. 10, Internet access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/7/10.Will, Matthias Georg, Sören Prehn, Ingo Pies, Thomas Glauben (2012): Is financial speculation with agricultural commodities harmful or helpful? – A literature review of current empirical research, Diskussionspapier Nr. 2012-26 des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsethik an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle. Internet access: http://wcms.uzi.uni-halle.de/download.php?down=27388&elem=2633683.Will, Matthias Georg, Sören Prehn, Ingo Pies und Thomas Glauben (2013): Schadet oder nützt die Finanzspekulation mit Agrarrohstoffen? – Ein Literaturüberblick zum aktuellen Stand der empirischen Forschung, in: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, Band 39 (forthcoming).
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It did the same thing to me, but as the functionality changed, I'm assuming that the update did occur.
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I pm'd as well by mistake.
It did the same thing to me, but as the functionality changed, I'm assuming that the update did occur.
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It is actually component video (YPrPb).
It's built in to the MB. :-)
I have it hooked into a receiver. I believe that I have it hooked up correctly. Well, more than...
The next release (7-11) works fine with SVHS out. Component out shows only in blue though.
Color is fine with a SVHS cable.
It must be just component out that has issues.
New driver update (7-11)
Yay, I have tv out through component cables. :-)
It's only blue in X. lol
At the console, I get a distorted screen with color, in X (using fluxbox) it...
In another thread someone made the comment that 8.43.2 seem to have a bug that disabled tv-out as it appeared to be working in the previous version.
I also sent back a message indicating that I...
I'm having difficulty getting the component out to work on a 1250 built in to a MB using the 8.43.2 drivers. Would you post you xorg.conf file?
I also sent a support case to ATI about getting component out to work an got the same cookie-cutter "go away" response.
I'm using a BI x1250 that has component out from the MB.
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|Aye, Sleep'll be a one-off. Don't they owe their former record label cash for the advance they got then smoked/drank or something?
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|Aye, Sleep'll be a one-off. Don't they owe their former record label cash for the advance they got then smoked/drank or something?
I'm a grumpy bastard.
I do hope you're against a Kyuss renunion because of the possible effect it might have had on Queens of the Stone Age?
Clearly the members of these bands have addressed whatever it was that was keeping them apart, but still... seems to be a reunion every other week at the moment. They'll be a new Nirvana without Kurt before too long, and then Chris Cornell will realise his solo music recently is pretty bad and get back together with Soundgarden.
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That and they would be pissing all over it just for some cash. Still though, wouldnt mind seeing brant bjork on the drums for QotSA or Garcia doing the odd vocal track.
Sleep wanted their second album to be one song and the record basically said well we arent releasing it then. Not sure if they owe the record company any bills for the recording session though.
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Yeah, especially seeing as it was one of the singers. If it was just a guitarist or some such, no big deal.
Some of them fell out years ago, but their shrinking bank balance has made reconcilliation seem like an easy thing to do now they've grown up. I can imagine that some of these guys have been hurt badly by the recent stock market and general finacial climate.
I'd say that another is royalty cheques. Less CDs being bought equals less money in royalties.
Touring is where the money's at, so that reunion tour is probably a great pension for many of these acts.
ronuds wrote:Depends on the band. If it was Cantrell who died AIC would be dead, too, as it was his playing style that gave AIC most of their sound.
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|They complimented each other quite well.
|Fugees please. Someone make it so.
|no doubt are back together. dunno if they "officially" split up when stefani fucked off to do her hollaback shit but they're back
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|Pretty sure No Doubt were just on hiatus.
warlockuk wrote:Heard any Mad Season? Got their album but only heard one track so far, quite like it - bit of a supergroup maybe??
|You should also check out My Sister's Machine. Featuring one time AIC guitarist on vox. Some good stuff.
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|They can't make money by sitting on their fat stupid asses anymore. They have to get out and perform.
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|I don't mind them getting back together for some gigs as long as it's the proper members and whatnot. Saw the Sex Pistols in Brixton and it was fookin' brilliant.
Now Soundgarden have (sort of) reunited too. With Tad Doyle from TAD on vocals.
Three-fourths of Seattle's Soundgarden reunited Tuesday night in their hometown, but without singer Chris Cornell, who is about to begin touring for his Timbaland-produced solo album, Scream. Taking Cornell's place was Tad Doyle, frontman of late, great '90s grungers TAD.
Sublime 'reunion' is still happening.
Of all these reunions, this is the one I am the most uncomfortable with. Brad (singer/guitarist) was such an integral part of who and what they were that it's just not right to continue a band with that name, regardless of how much the replacement sounds like him. It's like Nirvana getting back together with some Cobain soundalike taking over guitar/vocal duties.
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Why doesn't Chris Cornell go back to SG?
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A: First of all, kudos to you for intervening on Lacy's behalf, and for your willingness to provide her with a stable and loving home. Now you need to take a much needed additional step – discard the "poor little rescued victim" title you've left on this dog.
The behaviors you describe certainly indicate that Lacy lacks confidence and may be easily frightened, but you are enabling these behaviors, and therefore are not helping Lacy to become more confident and relaxed in the world. I would recommend you get in touch with a qualified canine behavior counselor to help you through this process, as there are a number of specific issues that can and should be addressed in a gentle, nonpunitive manner.
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Using a clicker along with tasty treats in a desensitization/counter-conditioning process will greatly improve her chances of learning to be relaxed. Each time she acknowledges anything in the environment she should be "clicked," followed by a treat. Begin this process in a relatively calm but new environment; gradually work up to busier environments as her confidence grows. Resist the urge to pick her up, but feel free to sit with her.
I'd also recommend you try a Thundershirt, made specifically to aid anxious dogs. Having a snug wrap around her may give Lacy some comfort, and it certainly won't do any harm to try.
As for not being able to be left alone, I'd suggest you teach her how pleasurable it can be to be away from you for a bit. You can begin this at home. Resist the urge to coddle Lacy when she can't seem to function without you. Make it a point to acknowledge her when she isn't begging for your attention. As flattering as it can be to live with a dog that can't live without you, it's ultimately not a healthy relationship.
Be her cheerleader and set her up for success when practicing some independence behavior, by placing a barrier between you – a baby gate or put Lacy in her crate, and leaving something of overwhelming interest to her, like a chew toy stuffed with a tasty bit of peanut butter or cream cheese.
Say nothing as you leave the room or when you return, and always return when she is quiet, never when she's whining. Begin with very short increments of time, and gradually extend as her confidence in you returning is evident in her calm and quiet behavior.
Of particular concern is that Lacy won't eat unless you are hand feeding her. I suggest an immediate change, one that will likely be tough for you. Offer two meals a day, and always place her food in a bowl. Place Lacy in a confined space with the bowl, like her crate, and set the timer for 10 minutes. At the end of 10 minutes, the bowl is removed without fanfare.
She may skip a few meals; don't worry, she'll survive. Give her no snacks between meals, and leave her alone during meal time. I guarantee that after a few meals have been skipped, she will eventually eat.
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Change your perspective during this process from pity and anxiety to confidence that cutting the "apron strings" will ultimately result in a more confident, well-adjusted dog, and be there to praise and reward her at every small feat accomplished.
In the end, your proudest achievement can be that the dog you love enjoys life to the fullest and that to all who don't know her story, she appears to be a well-adjusted, confident and happy dog. She was a rescued dog; now she's Lacy, your wonderful dog.
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Great for children and young students and adults with an interest in astronomy or people that just want to know where they are in space at any time.
The PRO Astro Clock app is a very small Android program that runs well on Android 2.1+ devices with Live Wallpaper including Jelly Bean and KitKat.
The PRO Astro Clock works great on your phone and shows off your tablet. Tested on Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note II (Note 2), Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Note III), Samsung Galaxy SII (S2), Samsung Galaxy S3 (III), Samsung Galaxy S4, LG Optimus, LG G2 (South Korea), Toshiba, Sony Tablet S, Sony Tablet P, Sony Xperia Z, Sony Xperia Z1 (Japan), Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Asus nexus 7, Acer Iconia, HTC Flyer, HTC X, HTC One (Taiwan), Lenovo Idea Pad (China), Motorola Moto X, Motorola Droid RAZR, Motorola Droid X (USA). This and all other ARTware apps run well on Google's Nexus 7 and 10 tablet and the Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 phone with Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) or Android 4.4 KitKat.
Sorry no IPhone version.
If you like this app you may also like the ARTware Clock Collection with the additional clocks: GeoMetric, MonDriaNoid, ExZentric, DeKonstr, KruKru, MulTi, Grid, ReGular, 2Timer, TimeMachine, HashTag and OnTime, the PRO ReGular clock or the Designer PRO OnTime clock.
For "first time" Live Wallpaper Users (after download):
Please go to Wallpapers -> Live Wallpaper -> PRO Astro Clock
Please mail us for any problems or suggestions
Astronomy is the ultimate Timekeeper!
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1.55 Corrections for moon phase and addition of 1/2 year animation
1.50 Added option for Animation speed setting.
Expanded Text Size options for high resolution devices.
Made the second Hand (width) adjustable.
Prepared for hopefully smooth year transition.
(54 stars)
Love this. Bought it. Needs a button that cycles the year manually so that I can see the animation more than once every time I power the screen. I like to see the positions of the planets for the last year go by slowly.
(54 stars)
Nice !
(54 stars)
Know your place in time and space ...now, if a point of reference for our galactic center could be included this app would be perfect
(54 stars)
Wonderful real time view of our solar system
(54 stars)
Low battery usage, great design. The year to date animations need some work. Edit: Responsive devs. Thanks for the update to ytd animations!
(54 stars)
Great app but Jupiter's moon Ganymede appears bigger than Earth but although bigger than Mercury, it is in fact less than half the size of Earth, otherwise 5 stars.
Excellent app but Jupiter's moon Ganymede appears bigger than Earth but although bigger than the planet Mercury, it is in fact less than half the size of Earthed.


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South African inmates were routinely beaten, court hears
Published on May 24, 2014 3:22 AM
PORT ELIZABETH (AFP) - Inmates from a maximum security prison in South Africa told a court of brutal torture and beatings Friday, in a test case for new torture laws.
The department of prisons is being sued by inmates for almost US$100,000 (S$125,000) for abuses alleged to have occurred in 2005, while they were serving time at St Albans Maximum Security Prison, near the city of Port Elizabeth.
According to court documents, routine mistreatment - which included electric shocks - started after a senior official, Babini Nqakula, was stabbed to death inside the prison.
The prisoners were suspected of killing Nqakula, a relative of the former safety and security minister Charles Nqakula.
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