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Since her 1994 indie debut, The Honesty Room, Dar Williams has attracted a diverse and pathologically loyal fan base with her quirkily hybridized Folk/Pop ministrations. Like an elegant gene splice of Shawn Colvin and Loudon Wainwright III, Williams can easily triangulate the emotional distance between breezy humor, somber reflection and crystalline heartbreak, on subjects as intimate as family and love and as broad as culture and politics, by finding the commonalities between them and translating them through her muse. Equally relevant is the fact that Williams hasn't shied away from experimenting with her base formula over the past two decades; her desire to extend her reach is a testament to her restless creative spirit and her success in doing just that is a testament to her steadfast audience.
In the Time of Gods is Williams' ninth studio album and, like the majority of her catalog, it is a work that somehow manages to be both spectacular and subtle. In keeping with her need to experiment, Williams conceived In the Time of Gods as a concept album with each song representing a particular Greek mythological archetype, while also weaving contemporary emotional, social and cultural concerns into the narrative. It's an unlikely formula, and one that requires an almost impossible songwriting balance, but Williams was clearly up to the task, because In the Time of Gods stands with the best of her albums to date.
Part of its brilliance is that Williams uses the Greek pantheon as a launch point to create her own dieties and address her unique issues, proving that mythology must be both consistent to be permanent and malleable to be relevent. The element that drives all of this home is Williams' impeccable songwriting skill as she finds the connective tissue between gods and goddesses like Hera ("I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything"), Hermes ("You Will Ride with Me Tonight"), Dionysus ("I Will Free Myself") and Poseidon ("The Light and the Sea") and places their gifted and flawed archetypes in real life situations with real life outcomes.
As always, Williams' musical accompaniment in this endeavor is engaging and beautiful and exactly right, providing the consistency that runs through her estimable canon. With a surgeon's skill, Dar Williams has grafted the wisdom, wonder and humanity of Greece's ancient pantheon onto In the Time of Gods' modern cautionary tales, further evidence of the contention that Williams is among the finest Folk/Pop songwriters of the last half century.
(Dar Williams performs in Cincinnati on June 23 at Mt. Lookout club The Redmoor.)
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's frontman Richard Edwards may be the most tenacious man in rock. In 2009, the band's Indianapolis home base was heavily damaged by fire, they were dropped by Epic after the controversy over Animal/Not Animal and the majority of the band quit.
That would have been the end of Margot for most guys, but Edwards resurrected his outfit with bassist Tyler Watkins and multi-instrumentalist Erik Kang and, with an impressive guest list, assembled and self-released 2010's spectacular Buzzard, a clattering bit of Indie Rock brilliance that diverged from Margot's early Chamber Pop explorations.
Last year, Edwards and a completely reconstituted MATNSAS generated their recording budget through the Pledge Music website and began tracking their fourth album, the noisily majestic Rot Gut, Domestic.
Much like Buzzard, Rot Gut seems more shambolic and scattered than it really is; like a pointilist painting, it pays to stand back in order to appreciate the work. On Rot Gut, Edwards and MATNSAS have crafted an amazing amalgam of Wilco's artful squall ("Disease and Tobacco Free," "Fisher of Men") and Ryan Adams' buzzy indie evocation of '70s Rock ("Books About Trains," "Arvydas Sabonis," "Ludlow Junk Hustle") while simultaneously managing to reference the atmospheric Pop that marked their first two albums. After 10 tracks of that, MATNSAS finish up with an amazing one-two punch; the dissonant and fuzzed out "The Devil" is followed, logically enough, by the exquisite balladry of "Christ," a Randy Newman-meets-Paul Westerberg piano-and-ethereal-frippery hymn ("Jesus breaks your heart every night when He doesn't come").
The scariest thing about Rot Gut, Domestic is that Richard Edwards and Margot and the Nuclear So and So's might have an even better album than this minor masterpiece in them.
I'm still getting used to my new digs here at The Daily Beat as everyone rushes about, delivering their stories with right-this-minute immediacy and what not. Of course, with my continuing effort to bring you up to date on the reviews from last summer and fall that were missed for a variety of reasons, my breaking news has all the timeliness of "Bin Laden is dead!" and "I'm so happy for Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries — it's nice to see a celebrity couple in it for the long haul."
Luckily, the early weeks of this new year, with a couple of well-stocked exceptions, are pretty light on titles, allowing me the time and space to revisit some deserving highlights from bygone months while checking out the latest and greatest from the new calendar. Wait, there's something coming across the teletype in the Bunker — apparently, the war is over! The Falkland Islands are free at last!
Celebrate with new reviews, then some old reviews. Then a drink and possibly a nap.
Eclectic Cincinnati Reggae crew The Cliftones — one of the best Reggae outfits in the region — will be celebrating the release of their latest single, "Hold Steady," this Saturday with a show at Northside club Mayday. DJ Mowgli will also perform. Advanced tickets are available now for $7 here. The first 100 people through the door will receive a free download card giving access to the single.
Like the band's previously released single — "Hard Ground," released in January — The Cliftones once again have some legendary ears/mixing fingers involved with "Hold Steady." "Hard Ground" was mixed in D.C. by Jim Fox, who has worked with icons like Black Uhuru, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy and Culture. For "Hold Steady," DJ Prophecy (known for work with Bassnectar and Glitch Mob) handled the mixing, while Dub legend Scientist handled mastering duties.
The Cliftones will be unleashing two more singles in the coming months, leading up to a vinyl EP release this summer. Find out more about The Cliftones here and here.
Here's the exclusive stream of "Hold Steady":
Detroit producers/Electro musicians Ryan Spencer and Adam Pressley formed its new project Jamaican Queens last year, following the demise of their previous band, Prussia. The pair bonded over a mutual love for Hip Hop production, something that would find itself central to Jamaican Queens winding sound. Together less than a year, the twosome's single "Kids Get Away" introduced the newcomers with a sound that blends EDM, Hip Hop sounds and rhythms and a somewhat psychedelic brand of Indie Pop.
The band calls its music "Trap Pop," a reference to the Trap style of Hip Hop that is something of a successor to the old Southern Crunk style. Still, you won't mistake Jamaican Queens' music for T.I.'s — JQ's unpredictable, fluttering style recalls MGMT's last two albums had the Electronic aspects of their music been more prominent.
Jamaican Queens' first full-length, Wormfood, is due in February and was mixed by Christopher Lazlo Koltay, a former Cincinnati musician who has been enjoying a successful engineering/production career in Detroit the past several years, working with artists like The Dirtbombs and Akron/Family. Here's the song that has garnered the band the most attention so far, "Kids Get Away."
MusicNOW, the popular new music festival founded by Cincinnatian Bryce Dessner of internationally acclaimed Indie Rock band The National, will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year when the fest returns March 11-15 at Music Hall, Memorial Hall and first-time venue Woodward Theatre.
On March 10, the Over-the-Rhine fest will be celebrated with the digital release of a compilation album featuring musical highlights from MusicNOW's first nine years. MusicNOW- 10 Years will feature previously unreleased performances by Dirty Projectors, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Grizzly Bear, My Brightest Diamond and others.
The album's "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations" by Sounds of the South, a project featuring Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, Megafaun, Matthew E. White and Fight the Big Bull, was recently released as a preview.
"The first track 'Trials, Troubles, Tribulations' gets at the spirit of the compilation and the event. It is an American bluegrass gospel song written by Estil C. Ball. Here it is performed by Sounds of the South, a project featuring Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, Volcano Choir), Sharon Van Etten, Megafaun, Matthew E. White, and Fight the Big Bull. The project, organized by Megafaun, initially appeared at Duke Performances in North Carolina and MusicNOW in Cincinnati, Ohio, and subsequently traveled to Sydney Festival in Australia."
In the press release for the album, Dessner says, ""Many of my most significant memories as a musician have taken place in Cincinnati during the MusicNOW Festival over the last 10 years. When we started, we were driven to create an intimate music festival that was as much a creative refuge for the artists as it is for the audience to partake in intimate and rare performances. We have celebrated works in progress and new commissions, new collaborations and detailed music of all kinds regardless of genre or popularity."
This year's MusicNOW festival features appearances by Stevens, Nico Muhly, So Percussion, Timo Andres, concert:nova with Jeff Zeigler, Cloud Nothings, Will Butler and more. The National will also perform at the festival on March 13 at Music Hall with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Click here for full details and ticket info.
Sounds of the South "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"
Robin Pecknold "Silver Dagger"
Sufjan Stevens "The Owl & The Tanager"
eighth blackbird "Omie Wise"
My Brightest Diamond "I Have Never Loved Someone"
Dirty Projectors "Emblem Of The World"
Tinariwen "Imidiwan Ma Tenam"
Tim Hecker "Chimeras (Live) 2011"
Colin Stetson "Nobu Take"
Owen Pallett "E Is For Estranged"
Erik Friedlander "Airstream Envy"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Love Comes to Me"
Grizzly Bear "While You Wait For The Others"
The Books with Clogs "Classy Penguin"
Andrew Bird "Section 8 City"
Justin Vernon "Love More"
Besides being rid of this depressing winter weather, there's another great reason for local music fans to be excited about the coming spring. One of the more celebrated and acclaimed bands in and outside of Cincinnati, Wussy, will release its new album, Attica, on May 6. The recording will be the band's fifth full-length of all new material and is once again being issued on the local label Shake It Records.
Below is a "rough mix" of the Attica track "To the Lightning."
Shake It has also announced that Wussy — which scored both Artist of the Year and Album of the Year (for Strawberry) honors at the 2013 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards — will have its excellent 2007 album Left for Dead re-issued on "baby blue" vinyl in honor of 2014's international Record Store Day (April 19).
Click here for Wussy's comprehensive website for more info and to sample music from throughout the band's entire career.
Tonight's allegedly the "busiest bar night of the year," so if you like to hang out at places that are really packed, this is your jam. If you like to hear live music when you go out, you're also in luck, as a lot of the top acts seek out lucrative Wednesday-before-Turkey-Day gigs because of the aforementioned packed-ness.
If you want that live music to be (primarily) original, here are a few recommendations.
• Troy, Ohio-spawned Miss May I (whose singer, Levi Benton, recently moved to Cincinnati) is headlining the Alternative Press tour, which conveniently brings the increasingly popular "Metalcore" band back to their homeland just in time for Thanksgiving. The band's most recent release, At Heart (on Rise Records), came out this summer and was greeted with the best reviews of MMI's career and a No. 32 debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
The thrashy, melodic MMI headlines tonight at Bogart's in Corryville on a bill that also features The Ghost Inside, Like Moths to Flames, The Amity Affliction and Glass Cloud. Doors open at 6 p.m. and tickets to the all-ages show are $20.
Read CityBeat's interview with Benton here then check out Miss May I's most recent music video, for At Heart track "Day By Day."
• Vintage Rock & Roll stylist Chris Isaak makes his way to downtown Cincinnati tonight for an 8 p.m. show at the Taft Theatre. Tickets range from $29.50-$59.50. Isaak's going to have to play the show then hop on a plane quickly — he's slated to perform in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in New York City. (Click here to read CityBeat's full preview of the show.)
Isaak recently issued a live DVD based on his 2011 double-disc release Beyond the Sun (his first for the Vanguard label). The album was a collection of cover songs originally recorded by artists on Memphis' seminal Sun Records (from Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis to Carl Perkins and, of course, Elvis), a fitting tribute given Isaak's similar approach and sound. The new Chris Isaak Live! Beyond the Sun DVD is a concert flick featuring several songs from the Sun album, as well as some of his big hits. Expect to hear a similar set list tonight. Here's an Isaak original from the DVD, "Live It Up."
• The songcraft experts and flawless musicians of veteran Cincy Pop/Rock band The Newbees host an album release party tonight at Newport's Southgate House Revival. The release show was originally intended to be the second show at the new club (brought to you by the owners/operators of the old, beloved Southgate House across from Newport on the Levee) but a late code inspection held the grand opening up for a week. The Newbs are celebrating their LP Modern Vintage, a patchwork of musical styles and mercilessly catchy songs. Click here for a full review of the album.
The Newbees are joined tonight by The Turkeys, Chaselounge, Honey & Houston, Les Whorenettes, Shiny Old Soul, See You in the Funnies, Sundae Drives and Dave Hawkins. Tickets are $12 at the door (or $14 for those ages 18-20). Showtime is 9 p.m. Here's the Beatles-esque new album track "Up All Night":
• There are also plenty of other local original groups performing tonight. Among the highlights: Reggae/Rock crew The Ohms and soulful, rocking power trio Tattered Roots (which is celebrating its one-year anniversary) join together at Stanley's Pub in Columbia Tusculum. … Rootsy rockers Alone at 3 a.m. are playing a freebie at The Comet in Northside with Jacob Tippey and Matt Wood. … Electronic improvisers Skeetones hold down the party at The Mad Frog in Corryville, joined by guests The B.E.A.T. and Bassface. … Two former members of The Greenhornes — Brian Olive and Eric Stein — perform a free show at Northside Tavern with their current bands, The Brian Olive Band and Stein's Grotesque Brooms. … Rocket-fueled Indie/Blues/Roots/Rock trio The Sundresses headline tonight's free offering at MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine, joined by Detroit foursome Jeecy and the Jungle. … And two of the city's best modern rockers — Ohio Knife and State Song — perform a free show at Mayday in Northside (see poster above).
Click here for even more live music events in Greater Cincinnati tonight.
Cincinnati native Tom Berninger's film that follows his older brother Matt's band, The National, on tour, Mistaken for Strangers, is finally opening in Cincinnati this weekend, after making the film fest rounds and racking up mounds of positive press (it currently has an impressive 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
The movie — which follows The National's members (all Cincy natives) on their tour behind 2010's High Violet album, but is really more about Tom and Matt's relationship — makes its Cincinnati premiere this Friday at the Esquire Theatre in Clifton at 7:30 p.m.
The Friday screening will be followed by a Q&A via Skype with the Berninger brothers. Following Monday's 7:30 p.m. screening, there will be an in-person Q&A hosted by Jim Blase of Shake It Records and featuring Tom, Matt and The National's drummer, Bryan Devendorf.
Advanced tickets for all screenings are available at the Esquire box office or through movietickets.com. (Click here for Friday tickets and here for Monday's screening.)
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Slimebot: programming the single-cell organism
A team at the University of the West of England (UWE) has secured £228,000 in funding to turn single-cell organisms into engineering robots.
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A team at the University of the West of England (UWE) has secured £228,000 in funding to turn single-cell organisms into engineering robots.
In recent years, single-celled organisms have been used to control six-legged robots, but Andrew Adamatzky at UWE wants to go one step further by making a complete "robot" out of a plasmodium slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, a commonly occurring mould that moves towards food sources such as bacteria and fungi, and shies away from light.
Affectionately dubbed Plasmobot, it will be "programmed" using light and electromagnetic stimuli to trigger chemical reactions similar to a complex piece of chemistry called the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, which Adamatzky previously used to build liquid logic gates for a synthetic brain. By understanding and manipulating these reactions, says Adamatzky, it should be possible to program Plasmobot to move in certain ways, to "pick up" objects by engulfing them and even assemble them.
Initially, Plasmobot will work with and manipulate tiny pieces of foam, because they "easily float on the slime", says Adamatzky. The long-term aim is to use such robots to help assemble the components of micromachines, he says.
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Goldsboro police in Wayne County are investigating a triple shooting that left two people dead. It happened Monday night in the area of Olivia Lane and Crawford street. Police were responding to a call of shots fired when they found a car had run off the road and up onto the sidewalk. Inside the car they found the driver, 24 year-old James Lee Croom and passenger, 20 year-old Trasond Javoy Gerald, both of Goldsboro, suffering from gunshot wounds. They both died. Another individual in the area, 18 year-old Otavis Gerquel McKinnon was also found shot. He is being treated at the hospital for his injuries. Police don't have any suspects in the case and are not saying what might have sparked the shooting.
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Parting Words: Dust Yourself Off With Jazz
Host Jacki Lyden quotes from the late jazz drummer, Art Blakey: "Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life."
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This is Bryan Bulaga's girlfriend Abbie Mumpower. Seriously.
We expected to find something hideous when we searched for Bulaga's lady. We did not and we're still surprised. Hey Bryan, a word of advice.
You're not going to do any better than this. Ever. You're overweight and look like you just came back from a hunting trip. Lock her up.
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Founding Fibs: The Religious Right Is Still Trying To Hijack George Washington's Legacy
In high school, I had a history teacher who summed up George Washington's importance to early Americans this way: "There was God and then there was George Washington" in the minds of the people, he said.
That seems like a reasonable representation of how many contemporaries likely viewed our nation's first president. But one could easily wonder what Washington, himself, thought about God. The Religious Right thinks it has the answer, and as usual it's far removed from reality. Read more
In The Depths Of The Summit: What I Learned At This Year's 'Values Voter' Confab
I spent Friday and Saturday observing the Values Voter Summit (VVS), an annual Religious Right gathering in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, the Heritage Foundation, Liberty University and other groups.
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Berating Bigotry: Religious And Policy Groups Respond To Bachmann's Anti-Muslim Hysteria
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's efforts to stir up an anti-Muslim witch hunt have sparked a bit of a pushback, to put it mildly.
As you might recall, Bachmann (R-Minn.) and four other House members (Trent Franks of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Thomas J. Rooney of Florida and Lynn A. Westmoreland of Georgia) sent letters to the inspector general offices of the State, Justice and Homeland Security departments, demanding an investigation into the infiltration of our government by the Muslim Brotherhood. Read more
Fearmongers Rebuked: McCain Upbraids House Members' Islamic Conspiracy Charges
Bust out the burqa! Stash your safety razor! Islamic law is just around the corner.
So says the latest far-right conspiracy theory that's making the rounds. Word is that a band of Islamic zealots has somehow infiltrated the upper echelons of the federal government – no doubt aided and abetted by the secret Muslim in the White House – and will be imposing shariah law just about any day now. Read more
Fundamentalist Forum: Religious Right To Grill Candidates On 'Questions Of The Soul'
Tomorrow afternoon, most of the Republican presidential candidates will come together in Iowa for the latest in a seemingly endless series of debates as they try to prove to the electorate that they are qualified to be the leader of the United States.
Unlike previous debates, which have been sponsored primarily by news organizations, this one is a "forum" sponsored by an Iowa Religious Right group called The FAMiLY Leader, CitizenLink (an affiliate of the James Dobson-founded Focus on the Family) and the National Organization for Marriage. Read more
Scaling The Summit: This Weekend, AU Will Be Up Close And Personal With The Religious Right
It's going to be a lovely fall weekend in Washington, D.C., -- and I'll be spending most of it inside surrounded by thousands of Religious Right zealots.
Yes, it's time for the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit." This annual gathering, which begins today, has become the nation's premier Religious Right confab. I wouldn't think of missing it! After all, how often do you get to hear Ed Meese speak these days? Read more
Barton Baloney: New York Times Shines Light On Religious Right 'Historian'
David Barton is the scariest Religious Right leader you never heard of.
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Clinical Trial: Taxpayer Funds Supported Bachmann's 'Christ-Centered' Counseling Effort
Prominent critic of church-state separation and Religious Right darling U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is back in the news.
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I have not read the article, as unfortunately, I am not a subscriber to Haaretz. However, I would like to comment that it seems unwise, ridiculous, and even dishonourable for a Jewish filmmaker to make a film about such a subject. It's bad enough that such things happen in probably all societies and which also probably sometimes lead to Court proceedings. Israel is so frequently victimized by anti-Semites/anti-Israel people in the world, so why make a film about such a negative and doubtless very extremely minimal aspect of Israeli society? Maybe some people will make any film about anything, however inappropriate, if it has the potential to be, through being outrageous - a money-spinner, and/or to appeal to "intellectuals" at some obscure film festival. It was also shocking, I thought, that any Jewish person (earlier, in the US), would have embarked on a project which drew attention to the creativity that the suffering Jewish victims of the Theresianstadt Concentration Camp managed to sustain, and what they produced. It was bad enough that the Nazis in WW2 had used it to falsely portray life for Jews in Concentration Camps. In liberal Western-style secularism, that virtually "anything goes" may be viewed as a positive. However, obviously, people should consider - exercising an age-old virtue/blessing, "wisdom" - re what is a good, worthwhile project, and refrain from misusing their freedom of choice. Also, re the earlier theatrical production in Israel about Edith Piaf, who apparently never regretted anything about her life, including the period when reportedly she was a prostitute, obviously, one has compassion for her and her whole life experience. Yet probably the reason she is so celebrated, besides her remarkable and passionate singing voice, is that her most famous song which looks back on her life so positively, supports the standpoint of immoral people in France and elsewhere, who would probably jump at anything that vindicates their acceptance of prostitution as "the world's oldest profession", whereas prostitution should be recognized for what it is, namely nothing less than the sexual abuse and exploitation of subjugated women.
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NYSE Euronext Inc.
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) fourth-quarter 2011 operating earnings per share of 50 cents came
in a penny ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate and slightly
higher than 46 cents recorded in the year-ago quarter.
Consequently, operating net income climbed 12.8% year over year to
$212 million from $188 million in the year-ago quarter.
NYSE reported GAAP net income of $110 million or 43 cents per
share as compared with $135 million or 51 cents per share in the
prior-year quarter. These include the impact of pre-tax merger
expenses and exit costs of $46 million related to Deutsche Boerse
versus $18 million in the year-ago quarter and BlueNext tax
settlement charge of $42 million. These were partially offset by
tax benefit of $47 million in the reported quarter.
Gross revenues crawled up 0.9% year over year to $1.05 billion
in the reported quarter. Meanwhile, net revenues (defined as gross
revenues less direct transaction costs consisting of Section 31
fees, liquidity payments and routing and clearing fees) were $628
million, edging up 2.4% from $613 million in the prior-year quarter
and the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $631 million.
The improved performance was primarily spurred by higher
technology service revenue that escalated 15.9% to $95 million,
listing revenue that climbed 4.7% to $112 million, and other
revenue also enhanced by 16.7% year over year to $56 million.
However, these were offset by transaction and clearing fees that
inched down 1.7% year over year to $701 million and market data
revenue that declined 5.3% year over year to $90 million.
Revenue from derivatives also dipped 1.1% year over year to $186
million. Nevertheless, revenue growth was injected by information
service and technology solutions (up 11.4% year over year to $127
million) and cash trading and listings (up 1.6% year over year to
$315 million).
Overall, top-line results reflected declining volumes in
European derivatives and US cash trading along with unfavorable
currency fluctuations, which was partially cushioned by modest
growth in US equity options and higher average revenue per
Alongside, fixed operating expenses escalated 13.8% year over
year to $504 million. As a result, operating margin improved to 34%
from 31% in the year-ago quarter. At the end of 2011, total
headcount at NYSE was 3,077, marginally up from 3,074 as of
September 30, 2011 and 4% from December 31, 2010. The effective tax
rate was 25.75% as compared with 26.50% in the year-ago quarter and
in line with management's guidance for 2011.
Full-Year 2011 Highlights
For full-year 2011, NYSE recorded operating earnings of $1.0
billion or $2.48 per share against $833 million or $2.09 per share
in 2010. This, however, came in slightly below the Zacks Consensus
Estimate of $2.51 per share.
Besides, GAAP net income increased to $619 million or $2.36 per
share as opposed to $577 million or $2.20 per share in 2010.
Gross revenues edged up 3% over 2010 to $4.55 billion in 2011.
Meanwhile, net revenues were $2.67 billion, rising 6% from $2.51
billion in 2010 but marginally lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate
of $2.68 billion. Total operating expenses inched up 3.2% year over
year to $1.82 billion, while operating margin improved to 38% from
33% in 2010.
Moreover, in 2011, NYSE raised $33.5 billion in total global
proceeds from 104 initial public offerings (IPOs) on its European
and US markets, more than any global exchange group.
Financial Update
As of December 31, 2011, NYSE's total debt declined $0.3 million
from 2010 end to $2.1 billion. At the end of 2011, cash and cash
equivalents, investments and other securities were $0.4 billion
while net debt was $1.7 billion.
Total capital expenditure declined to $54 million from $61
million recorded in the year-ago quarter. The company expended $170
million in 2011, down by 44% from $305 million in 2010, and in line
with management's guidance of below $200 million. No shares were
repurchased during the reported quarter, given the collapse of a
merger with Deutsche Boerse.
As a result of strong growth in adjusted EBITDA, lower capital
expenditures and continued deleveraging, NYSE's debt-to-EBITDA
ratio improved to 1.6x from 2.2x recorded at the end of 2010,
lowest level since the inception of NYSE in April 2007.
Stock Repurchase Update
As announced in October 2011, NYSE bought back 3.7 million
shares during the reported quarter, at an average price of $26.96
per share, for $100 million.
Thus, the company has resumed its $1.0 billion share buy back
plan, which was sanctioned in March 2008 but shelved in the fourth
quarter of 2008, within which the company had already bought back
shares worth $350 million.
While NYSE terminated its proposed merger with Deutsche Boerse
recently on regulatory snags, management is expected to declare a
two-year target plan in April this year. This plan is
projected to drive accelerated earnings growth through a blend of
top-line growth initiatives, which includes diversification of
growth into non-core space of information and technology.
Additionally, NYSE looks forward to a disciplined cost
management and healthy capital deployment. While the outlook for
trading volumes and currencies remains cautious in the near term,
the company believes a modest improvement in the operating
environment should initiate progress.
Dividend Update
Concurrently, the board of NYSE declared a regular quarterly
dividend of 30 cents per share, which is payable on March 30, 2012,
to the shareholders of record as on March 15, 2012.
Furthermore, on December 30, 2011, NYSE paid a quarterly cash
dividend of 30 cents to shareholders of record as on December 15,
Peer Take
Early this month, NYSE's arch-rival
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.
) reported its fourth-quarter 2011 operating earnings per share of
63 cents, which came in a nickel below the Zacks Consensus
Estimate. However, results were modestly ahead of 55 cents in the
prior-year quarter, based on lower share count.
Besides, early this week,
IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
) reported fourth-quarter 2011 operating earnings of $1.76 per
share, which were significantly ahead of the Zacks Consensus
Estimate of $1.68 per share and $1.35 per share reported in the
year-ago period.
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Reelworks, a program for youth filmmakers, honored Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Mira Nair and Morgan Spurlock and awarded some lucky up-and-coming students.Read More »
Last summer, you may remember hearing that Guillermo Arriaga, Bahman Ghobadi, Emir Kusturica and Hideo Nakata were teaming up for the religious-themed anthology film "Words With Gods." Well, a year has nearly passed and the project is now in post-production, with the first trailer dropping today.Read More »
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Joint China-U.S. exercises set
HONOLULU (AP) — Chinese navy ships will steer into Pearl Harbor next month as part of a joint search-and-rescue training exercise with the U.S. military.
Three People's Liberation Army ships will visit beginning Sept. 6, including a guided missile destroyer, a frigate and a supply ship.
The USS Lake Erie will act as a host ship for the mission.
While details aren't set, Capt. Darryn James of the Pacific Fleet says sailors will conduct an at-sea search-and-rescue exercise.
James said the joint exercise shows a commitment to improved safety across the region.
Analysts say China is seeking more stability in its relationship with the United States.
It has been seven years since Chinese navy ships visited the port.
Inouye Center may cost $25M
HONOLULU (AP) — A center proposed for the University of Hawaii that would house the papers of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye could cost more per square foot than the school's $104-million high-tech cancer center.
The estimated cost is $25 million, up by more than half since a request for design bids went out in June.
The new price was disclosed in a document discussed last week at a Board of Regents meeting.
University officials did not respond to requests for comments about the increase.
The Inouye Center would be climate controlled and house papers collected during Inouye's five-decade career in Congress. It would also include a digital link to the Library of Congress.
Inouye died Dec. 17 at age 88.
Man shot along Oahu highway
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police are looking for a suspect responsible for an early morning shooting in Pearl City
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Department says a 21-year-old man was shot just after 12:30 a.m. Friday along the Kamehameha Highway near an arcade.
Police say a fight between a man and a woman broke out in a parking and a gun was fired.
KHON-TV reports the wounded man was taken to a hospital and reported as stable.
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TOKYO: China and South Korea on Friday lashed out at a Japanese foreign relations report that stood firm on territorial claims which have put Tokyo on a collision course with its Asian neighbours.
An angry South Korea summoned Japan's ambassador in response to the annual paper, while Beijing warned that Japan was "turning a blind eye to basic facts" and making "ungrounded accusations against China".
The foreign ministry-issued document, called the "diplomatic blue book", said the security environment in Asia Pacific has become "increasingly more severe" with emerging powers such as China and India expanding their global presence.
Tokyo has renewed its claim to islands in the East China Sea, also claimed by Beijing, and sovereignty over a disputed island chain known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in Korea.
The report criticised China's efforts to "change the status quo by force" in the region, and said Beijing's territorial claims amounted to "assertions incompatible with the existing order of international law".
Beijing has claimed ownership of almost all of the South China Sea, angering other regional neighbours including the Philippines.
It has also routinely sent ships near Tokyo-controlled islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, triggering air and sea skirmishes.
China set a new air defense zone over the islands last year, sparking sharp protest from the United States, Japan and South Korea.
The blue book said the Japan-US alliance had become even more important to counter China, with the close ties underscored by a US decision this week not to send a warship to a naval ceremony in China after learning Japan was not invited.
US President Barack Obama is due to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later this month in Japan as part of Washington's bid to boost its regional influence.
'Deliberate action to stir up tensions'
But the paper on Friday added that Japan would try to improve thorny relations with China as Asia's two biggest economies "share responsibility" for peace and stability in Asia and beyond.
Beijing dismissed the report, and made an apparent reference to Abe's efforts to turn pacifist Japan's Self-Defence Forces into a regular army.
"The new version of the diplomatic blue paper turns a blind eye to basic facts, and maliciously makes unfounded accusations against China," Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular press briefing in Beijing.
"Peace and development is the trend of the times. What Japan has done is to make excuses to serve its diplomatic purposes of arms expansion and war preparation. This is a deliberate action to stir up tensions."
South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador Friday over what it saw as a fresh move by Japan to stake its claim and a plan to promote the stance in all elementary school textbooks.
"Our government expresses strong regret at Japan's outrageous claim on our indigenous territory, Dokdo," Seoul's foreign ministry said.
Japan's repeated claim will not only "severely" damage bilateral ties, but threaten peace and security in Northeast Asia, it added.
Relations between Tokyo and Seoul have sunk to their worst level in years, mired in emotive disputes linked to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, particularly Japan's use of so-called "comfort women" from Korea and other Asian nations as sex slaves in wartime brothels.
Japan's aggressive expansion across Asia in the first half of the 20th century still evokes bitter memories among its neighbours, especially China and South Korea. -AFP
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Sauerkraut And Smoked Pork Chops
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|1 Large, sliced
|3 Tablespoon
|Canned crushed pineapple
|8 1⁄2 Ounce (1 Can)
|Canned applesauce
|1 Pound (1 Can)
|Caraway seeds
|1 Teaspoon
|Bouillon cubes
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Canned sauerkraut
|27 Ounce (One 1 Pound 11 Ounce Can)
|Smoked center cut pork chops
|4 (Hormel Brand)
Saute onion in butter until brown.
Add pineapple and applesauce.
Stir well.
Add sauerkraut, caraway seeds, bouillon cubes and water.
Cover and cook on high heat for 30 minutes.
Then reduce to medium heat for 1 hour.
Add the chops, turn to low and simmer 30 minutes longer.
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Last week, the Rolling Stones celebrated 50 years as a band. That's a long time to spend with anyone, be it spouse or band mate. But lots of bands have made it 30 or 40 years without ever taking a break. After the jump, we take a look at some of the longest-running bands of all time:
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15. Red Hot Chili Peppers Formed:
Formed:1983 (29 years)
RCHP survived the death of a founding member in the freaking '80s before selling over 13 million copies of Blood Sex Sugar Magik.
14. The Flaming Lips Formed:
Formed:1983 (29 years)
It's hard to believe the Flaming Lips have been around for almost 30 years when the best -known period of their career came in the last decade. But Wayne Coyne and co. first joined forces in 1983 in Norman, Oklahoma. They've been going strong ever since.
12. and 13. Metallica and Slayer Formed:
Formed:1981 (31 years)
Genre-defining acts Metallica and Slayer both started in 1981. Over 30 years later, they're still shredding (and fighting, if you're talking about Metallica.)
11. The Cure Formed:
Formed:1976 (36 years)
Though long-running, the Cure get demerit points because frontman Robert Smith is the only consistent member.
10. U2 Formed:
Formed:1976 (36 years)
Why is it that all too often, the longest-running acts are the worst ones? Whether or not you agree with that statement, you'd have to be impressed to learn that their two-year '360' tour, which wrapped in 2011, grossed $736,137,344.
9. KISS Formed:
Formed:1973 (39 years)
Despite their longevity, the best years for KISS was the decade after their formation. It's been a long downhill slide since.
8. AC/DC Formed:
Formed:1973 (39 years)
What is it about the hard stuff that makes them able to run forever? Perhaps EMP's current exhibit about the band has the answer.
7. Aerosmith Formed:
Formed:1970 (42 years)
In addition to their long career, Aerosmith hold the honor of being the best-selling American rock band of all time. They've unloaded over 150 million albums over the course of their long reign.
5. and 6. (tie) ZZ Top and Crosby, Stills & Nash Formed:
Formed:1969 (43 years)
Both ZZ Top and CSN formed in 1969, and also tie for the longest run with their original lineup. Though when your band is called Crosby, Stills & Nash, you don't have much choice, do you?
4. Rush Formed:
Formed:1968 (44 years)
Like the bands mentioned above, Canadian prog gods Rush have been operating on the same lineup since 1974.
3. Fleetwood Mac Formed: 1967 (45 years)
Formed: 1967 (45 years)
The Mac have gone through a number of lineup changes over the years, even facing the deaths of former members, but "rumour" has it they're going to be taking the juggernaut on the road again in 2013.
2. The Rolling Stones Formed:
Formed:1962 (50 years)
Reading Keith Richards' autobiography Life, you'd be surprised the Stones kept it together so long. Even if they hate each other's guts, they hold the record for second-highest-grossing concert tour of all time. At this point, we know what's keeping them together.
1. The Drifters Formed:
Formed:1953 (59 years)
Think the Stones have been around for a long time? Incredibly long-running vocal pop act the Drifters still perform with two original members, and have hung on so long they've been inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame twice.


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Yes, this is the TEDDY sign that's been a HUGE hit at Nationals Park. I'm sorry it's so expensive but I promise you I don't make a cent on it. Flexible weatherproof vinyl with legs for your yard.
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Oklahoma football: Police still investigating Joe Mixon allegations; no charges expected Monday
NORMAN — Norman Police are still investigating assault allegations against highly-touted Oklahoma freshman running back Joe Mixon, and charges aren't likely to be filed Monday, the district attorney's office told The Oklahoman.
Mixon is being investigated for allegedly assaulting a female OU student at Picklemen's Gourmet Cafe on Campus Corner early Friday morning.
Norman Police issued a news release Monday afternoon confirming that Mixon is an "involved party" in the investigation.
Amelia Rae Molitor is identified as the alleged victim.
"The facts of the incident as reported to police describe an altercation … that turned physical and concluded with Molitor sustaining injuries to her face," the release states.
According to the release, Mixon was not present when police arrived on the scene Friday morning, and that there is video evidence of the incident.
"The evidentiary value of the recording prohibits its release at this time," the release states. "When Police Detectives conclude their investigation all pertinent documentation will be submitted to the District Attorney's Office for review."
In a Friday interview with The Oklahoman, Molitor said that Mixon "broke my face in four places," adding that she hopes he "goes to prison for years."
Mixon, a five-star prospect from Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., became one of the most hyped Oklahoma football signees in years. Rivals.com ranked Mixon as the No. 1 all-purpose back in the 2014 recruiting class.
He attended OU's spring game in April and spent much of the afternoon standing behind the Sooners' bench signing hundreds of autographs for overjoyed fans.


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How Robots Saved an Artist's Sanity
The greatest artist of his generation is named Paul.
For much of his life, Patrick Tresset has been torn between art and technology. The child of an artist and an engineer, Tresset dabbled in both during his youth in France and enjoyed tinkering with the "primitive" computer his family got when he was 10. In college, he eschewed art in favor of studying business computing. After graduating, however, he "found it boring" and pivoted back to art—painting, in particular.
For the next decade, Tresset tried to make it as a painter. Occasionally, he was successful, exhibiting his work in Paris and London. But "along the way, I kind of lost touch with reality. … I kind of lost my ability to function in society," he said last weekend at a press conference at Ciudad de las Ideas, an annual gathering about big ideas held in Puebla, Mexico, and sponsored by Grupo Salinas.
In his 30s, Tresset made the admirable and difficult decision to seek treatment for his mental health problems—and for him, medication and therapy worked. There was just one problem. "I was able to function again … but I lost my passion for art, for doing things by hand," he said.
The connection between creativity and mental illness is complicated and has received a lot of attention—for instance, in Kay Redfield Jamison's excellent Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, published in 1993. Jamison writes in the introduction:
"[T]here is some evidence that as a group, artists and writers disproportionately seek out psychiatric care; certainly many—including Byron, Schumann, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, and Lowell—repeatedly sought help from their physicians. Other writers and artists stop taking their medications because they miss the highs or the emotional intensity associated with their illness, or because they feel the drug side effects interfere with the clarity and rapidity of their thought or diminish their levels of enthusiasm, emotion, and energy."
The latter group seems to be the one that receives more attention—indeed, society seems to revere the mentally ill artist, seeing her as sacrificing her sanity for the greater good. If van Gogh had been healthy, this narrative goes, maybe he wouldn't have produced such masterpieces.
Tresset, for one, discovered a novel way to stay mentally healthy with the help of drugs and still pursue what was once his life's work: He created robots that can draw portraits. Far from a mere novelty, his research is telling us more about both the creative process in humans and how we relate emotionally to machines.


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Why Write While Israel Burns?
Amos Oz's entrancing paranoia.
Rhyming Life and Death, the claustrophobic new novella by the famous Israeli novelist Amos Oz, takes place almost entirely inside the head of a famous Israeli novelist, who is named the Author. He, in turn, is confined to a few decrepit blocks near a rundown cultural center in Tel Aviv. He has been invited there by the Good Book Club to participate in a discussion of his work. The prospect fills him with dread, partly because he can't stand the kind of questions asked at such events ("Why do you write? Why do you write the way you do? Are you trying to influence your readers, and if so, how? ... Do you write with a pen or on a computer? And how much, roughly, do you earn from each book?") and partly because he knows that in trying to answer them, he'll pile "lie upon lie."
Arriving early to steel himself, he sips coffee in a café and studies a waitress's buttocks as well as the café's other patrons. Later, stationed on a dais with his fellow panelists, he scans the faces in the audience. In both places, he allays his discomfort by making the clothes, features, and tics of the strangers spread out before him the basis of feverish fantasies about them, as though the act of "picking their pockets" for material arouses him sexually. Over the course of the evening, his creations take on lives of their own. Some enchant him; others hound him. But none offers him escape, because their lives turn out be to even sadder and lonelier than his.
How does a novelist arrive at such an inauspicious view of the creative process? In an introduction to a new anthology of his fiction and journalism, The Amos Oz Reader, critic Robert Alter points out that Oz, the grand homme of Israeli letters, has been writing in the claustrophobic mode since the beginning of his career close to 50 years ago. You perceive this most clearly in his landscapes, which feel cut off from hope. Oz's first novel, Elsewhere, Perhaps, is set on a small kibbutz surrounded by jackals, enemies, and brooding mountains. The kibbutz itself is a warm and magical yet oppressive place, "imagined," in Alter's words, "as a microcosm of the Jewish state." Later novels, as well as Oz's great 2003 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, take place in the pre-1948 Jerusalem of his childhood, a city surrounded by hostile armies and filled with premonitions of doom.
Oz's political essays root his paranoid visions in the realities of life in Israel, a state that is itself the result of a problematic creative process. Oz is a Zionist, and he holds that the Jews had no choice but to create Israel. They had nowhere else to go. But having done so, he says, Israelis should not look for forgiveness and accommodation from those they have displaced, at least not in the immediate future. Nor should they seek total victory or total peace. "The best we can expect," he wrote shortly after the Six Day War, "is a process of adaptation and psychological acceptance accompanied by a slow, painful awakening to reality, burdened with bitterness and deprivation, with shattered dreams and endless suspicions and reservations that, in the way of human wounds, heal slowly and leave permanent scars."
As visions of political reconciliation go, this is a remarkably novelistic one. It casts the nation and its opponents as individual personae, doppelgangers, even, seeing and acknowledging each other with all the tolerance for pain and capacity for mutual recognition that morally complex characters could ever hope to muster. Oz's scenario puts the Middle East peace process in the realm of the imaginary, no less than the triumphalism and pacifism it repudiates. In Rhyming Life and Death, on the other hand, Oz calls the imagination into question. What good does it do, really? Can his imaginings ever amount to anything more than solipsistic self-gratification?
There are a lot of ways this book might have turned out. It could have been a rueful, self-congratulatory look back over a career—a Stardust Memories in novelistic form. It could have been a knit-browed investigation into the ethics of fiction. Instead, and luckily for us, Oz has boiled it down to a juicily sadistic fable of creation. Grim as the Author's world is, it is also a demonically joyous production. He takes great pleasure in fashioning his characters, but he takes as much pleasure, or more, in wounding them. That is how he brings them to life.
No sooner has the Author named the café waitress Ricky, for instance, than he gives her an unrequited love for a sports-car-driving soccer player named Charlie, who once, quite a while ago, took her to a sea resort and tickled her ear with his tongue, then abandoned her for Lucy, runner-up in the town's Queen of the Waves contest.
Next, the Author overhears two men at the next table discussing the misfortune of one Ovadya Hazzam, a high-living lottery winner now dying of liver cancer. The Author promptly assigns him a catheter attached to an overflowing urine bag and a night nurse who ignores his calls for help in order to chat with a doctor.


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PeterBreis0807 Jan 12, 2014 10:34 AM
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Obviously you are not in Mountain Lion.
So why do you want to open your document in Pages 5.01, given that it persistently damages Pages '09 files?
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Hi Peter,
I'm on 10.9.1 and, thankfully have kept the former Pages version so I can still open the document in the old version. Seemingly the problem I'm having is one among many other people are experiencing with this new version of Pages. Looks like I'll have to stick with the old until Apple sorts the bugs out.
Thanks for responding.
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Apple has removed over 90+ features and added many bugs to Pages 5:
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Skins are thin, easy-to-remove, vinyl decals for customizing your laptop . Skins are made from a patented material that eliminates air bubbles and wrinkles for easy application.
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
I love this! Very reminiscent of old 18th century New England prints, only your whale has more character (read menace)! Fantastic!
Love this whale! Poor little ship.
Cheers Geoffrey and Megstuff! :)
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I love the muted colors on this one (and my little one gives it a big thumbs up as well)!
Style and texture - very nice feel to it!
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Is there any chance your prints could be made into t-shirts? I love them!
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Thanks everyone! :)
Dana - I'm selling some of my designs as tees on S6, but this one would be really tricky, think it is best suited as an art print.
Dana - I'm selling some of my designs as tees on S6, but this one would be really tricky, think it is best suited as an art print.
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pokemon:good but thay have all kinds of cheats like the walk thogh walls one
bakugan:relly bad(my opinion)
Topic: General Gaming /
What Pokemon is Your Favorite
i like argraon
Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games /
wat do u want on kongregate
well wat i want is (……………….)
insert here
Topic: Off-topic /
ppl i sry for my last topic in this one u can put anyting u can wish KONGREGATE BASED THINGS ONLY
ppl i sry for my last topic in this one u can put anyting u can wish KONGREGATE BASED THINGS ONLY
the last topic was roblox if u hate it as much as i do then say so here
Topic: The Arts /
[Game] PokeFusion [Close Please]
C:\Documents and Settings\Hugh\My Documents\My Pictures\darkeflame.PNG
this is my 1 and if i did not sowe sry i do not no haw to add pics to this comment thing
Topic: The Arts /
pokemon fusions
post your pokemon fusions here
Topic: Off-topic /
nintedo or sony
say waht is good and waht is bad
about the 2
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