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Axion Power Concentrator 260: August 15: 10Q Filing For Q2; Two Axion Forbes Articles; John Petersen On PIPE Mechanics & Incentives 281 commentsAug 15, 2013 6:02 AM | about stocks: AXPW
Latest News, Articles and Presentations...
Q2 2013 10Q Results Filing by Axion
Understanding The Mechanics And Incentives In Axion Power's PIPE
Axion Power's Potential For Explosive Growth
CORRECTED: Axion Power: Is There Light At The End Of The PIPE?
Axion Power Announces Resignation Of Chief Financial Officer Charles R. Trego; Will Be Nominated To Serve On Board
Axion Power Receives Additional Purchase Order From EPower Engine Systems To Supply PbC® Batteries And Battery Management Systems For (10) Class 8 Heavy-Duty Trucks --
The purchase order is an extension of the existing agreement between Axion and ePower and further validates the performance of the PbC batteries in this hybrid application. At ePower's current specifications, each conversion kit System would require 56 PbC batteries and the PbC battery management system (NYSE:BMS). Axion values each truck conversion battery order at in excess of $20,000.00.
FocalPoint Analytics' important comment on Axion Power's recent Financing Transaction
Axion Power Receives Order To Supply Class 8 Truck Battery Strings For ePower
Axion Power Reports First Quarter Results For 2013-Press Release
Excerpts from the First Quarter 10-Q --
Axion Power Completes Private Placement for $9 Million in Senior Convertible Notes With Warrants and $1 Million in Subordinated Unsecured Notes With Warrants --
Axion Power on Panel at Energy Storage Economics 2.0 for New YOrk City and Beyond --
Axion Power's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Axion Power Reports Results for 2012 --
Axion Power Completes New Continuous Roll Carbon Sheeting Process
Axion Power and EPower Engine Systems Inaugurate Strategic Alliance Using PbC Batteries in Hybrid Drivetrains for Class 8 Trucks
Dr. Ed Buiel, Axion's CTO until the end of 2010 -- A link to an archive of his comments on yadoodle about the PbC battery and much more. Invaluable commentary! Thanks to 481086 for putting the list together.
Axion Power PbC Batteries Continue To Demonstrate Effectiveness For Railroad Applications -- Axion completed shipping its high-performance PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC), one of North America's leading transportation providers, for use in Norfolk Southern's first all electric locomotive - the NS-999.
"ePower's Series Hybrid Electric Drive - Unmatched Fuel Economy for Heavy Trucks" -- by John Petersen. Discusses the potential fuel savings for ePower's Hybrid electric drive for class 8 trucks using Axion's PbC batteries.
"Axion Power - A Battery Manufacturer Charging Forward" -- by John Petersen. This is an excellent summation on Axion Power's history. It is a good starting point for introducing Axion Power to friends and family.
Axion Power Weighted Moving Average Prices and Volume:
(updated through 08/10/2013)
Axion Power Market Cap, Share Count and 200-day Volume:
Link to JP's write-up on this graph in the header of APC #248 --
(as of 08/03/2013)
The FINRA short tracking graph is beginning to look like it may be a reasonable proxy for selling by the PIPErs. It was an extremely useful tool for tracking the big uglies a couple years ago and so far it seems to be providing the same type of information. If the data does in fact track the PIPErs activity, the lines would suggest that they pounded hard in May to set up a fear dynamic, eased up a bit in June once the angst was established and eased up again in July as the angst gained momentum and the stock price stabilized. With three days left to go in the month, July is already the all-time volume leader by about 400,000 shares. Unless volume plummets over the next three days, I'm expecting a total volume of more than 15 million shares for the month. It's a lot of selling, but its also a lot of buying and I don't think the buyers are timid or weak.
(updated through 08/10/2013)
Links to important Axion Power research and websites:
The Axion Power Concentrator Web Sites, created by APC commentator Bangwhiz. It is a complete easy-to-use online archive of all the information contained in the entire Axion Power Concentrator series from day one, including reports, articles, comments and posted links.
Axion Power Wikispaces Web Site, created by APC commentator WDD. It is an excellent ongoing notebook aggregation of Axion Power facts.
Axion Power Website. The first place any prospective investor should go and thoroughly explore with all SEC filings and investor presentations as well as past and present Press Releases.
Axion Power Intra day Statistics Tracking: (updated 7/1/2013) HTL tracks and charts AXPW's intra-day statistics.
PbC Cost Estimating Spreadsheet and Instablog: Apmarshall62 put together an instablog for estimating costs of the PbC. It includes a downloadable spreadsheet that you can use to plug in your own cost estimations.
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Have not been keeping up with the APC
The earnings release is out and it includes an answer to my curiosity question about the $300,000 in "other income," which apparently arose from tax credit sales.
I was hoping that the new fiscal year would show some results from customers. Good to see the implication of that.
"Joint testing with Penn State now includes 'road hybrid locomotive',..."
Now includes? Was it not officially included before? There had been talk that implied it was.
The first priority at NS has always been the yard locomotive with a continuation of the project to build an OTR unit. The testing work for the yard locomotive is done and NS has bought the batteries. Work on the OTR unit is continuing and based in large part on the successful results of work on the yard unit. From Norfolk Southern's perspective, we're talking about a single project with two phases, not two unrelated and independent projects on parallel tracks. Without success on the yard locomotive, NS would not continue on to the OTR unit.
"There had been talk that implied it was."
greentongue....TG is notorious for implying things that never happen or are delayed for years. He's been questioned for a couple of years, but recently has pretty much been caught and called out in public here on this APC and dumping of stock by investors. This PIPE deal done him in.
He knows he has to have sales and news, BMW & NS orders are still a ways off so he will be pushing to get anything he can out there. Finally.
You probably get news today or November, but will it be big enough to move the needle? or just met with heavier selling of shares into the rally?
Personally & IMO, don't believe a word he says.
I was a bit surprised to see net income, as opposed to a net loss. Has the company ever had net income before? And the reduction in net cash burn is positive as well. Perhaps the money from the PIPEs will last longer than expected. Overall the numbers looked better than I expected.
Th ... Axion reported a noticeable amount of "other income" in Q2 which boosted revenues from non-traditional sources. The Q2 earnings PR and cc commentary attributed some of that revenue to sales of tax losses (an asset not previously utilized). Reference to increased usage of the PowerCube's interconnection with the PJM regional grid.
jcrg, I think they just said "motive applications," which could be a lot of things, cars, trucks, APUs, heavy equipment...yada yada.
All well and good for 2015 or 2016's stk price. In the meantime, the usual prospective customers, BMW, NS, PC and ePower are the drivers, in that order, IMO.
08/14/2013: EOD stuff partially copied from instablog (up already).
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Min. Pr: 0.1329, Max Pr: 0.1450, VW Avg. Tr. Pr: 0.1404
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# Sells, Shares: 96 554320, VW Avg Sell Pr: 0.1403
# Unkn, Shares: 0 0, VW Avg Unk. Pr: 0.0000
Buy:Sell 1:3.51 (22.2% "buys"), DlyShts 32525 (04.57%), Dly Sht % of 'sells' 5.87%
06/14: 20 lowest intra-day VWAPs in 40 days avg, $0.2315, x 85%: $0.1968 Wk cls VWAP $0.2122
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Vol, in K, for above days: 600.32, 776.23, 712.34.
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I am happy to hear TG stick his neck out on the Powercube sales prediction for this quarter. Does anyone know how much a standard powercube sells for, or how many batteries are in one? One or two million $$ worth of PC sales would come as a huge relief for me. Four of five million would be even better.
So far, the big stk mkt selling that started late yesterday is continuing. Not sure if related to the Results and Discussion that the Company just released or not. All 4 Horsemen of the Axpocollapse have been active on the ask, as well as at least one other (STXG).
htl, well I'll be...MAXM is now on the best bid at 13. Not sure it means anything at all, but interesting, anyway. Lots of shares going there and on the ask at 13.2, too.
It works.
I can connect to http://bit.ly/nG6x1f
direct link to conf: http://bit.ly/16RWI5A
Granville continued, "New orders for our PbC batteries came from several sources in the second quarter and subsequent to the end of the second quarter... The Class 8-A, 8-B, and even the Class 7 trucks, present a huge potential market opportunity for Axion and our unique proprietary PbC product. For a hybrid conversion system, like ePower's, to work efficiently and substantially increase 'miles per gallon of diesel fuel', a robust battery with the right product attributes is needed... We believe our PbC battery is the perfect fit for these requirements. In the US alone, on an annual basis, there are statistics that report that Class 8-A and 8-B trucks consume 19 billion gallons of diesel fuel. The opportunity to save literally hundreds of millions of gallons of this diesel fuel is what drives the hybrid conversion market initiative. Each year in the US, it is estimated that approximately 120,000 Class 8 trucks are rebuilt. Since the engines, drive trains, motors and motor generators are changed out during this rebuild anyway, it is an ideal time to incorporate a series hybrid conversion – a conversion that provides us with a potential sale of 56 of our PbC batteries per converted truck."
I think after the PIPE financing, and the bottoming of the stock, TG and the board have realized they need to concentrate only on things that will bring in sales. They've got a year's worth of money. If they can't get the stock price up in the next year, they understand the squeeze that is going to put them in to get any further funding. IMHO
LabTech, that awareness is better late than never.
MrI: Might just be part of the learning curve I mentioned a while back as they transition from a negotiator mentality to a sales and commercial enterprise mentality. Still has to work a bit on courtesy to shareholders re. starting on time so that all the questions we may have get an opportunity to be addressed.
htl, I hear you, but since we're stuck with TG, I just lower my expectations for certain things that he does. Keeps me both sane and real.
No, we didn't. And since it didn't get funded we probably aren't going to find out. Though, the way TG talked out it, they are doing the project with or without the funding. Kind of makes you wonder if the "named" OEM is just there for window dressing. Considering that the original DOE grant was with GM, and there has never been any indication they are still working directly with GM on this project, you have to wonder if there was just an agreement with the GM (or whoever) to allow their name to be used but that they weren't really involved in the project much either way.
When Stefan asked about the GM project Tom said the work was successfully completed according to plan. There is no indication of window dressing and there comes a point where skepticism gives birth to paranoia, which is as unhealthy as unbridled optimism.
Interesting that you should mention the Phase II application.
Yo Stefan, Thank you very much for your work. If you run into too much static, you can always go down to your congressperson's office in your area with a letter and supporting documentation (or send them a fax) and ask their help in getting to the bottom of it. That should break the log jam with no problem and unexpected alacrity on the part of the government agency you are dealing with
"When Stefan asked about the GM project Tom said the work was successfully completed according to plan. There is no indication of window dressing and there comes a point where skepticism gives birth to paranoia, which is as unhealthy as unbridled optimism."
We've all assumed that the SIBR grant was also with GM, but again, I have seen no indication that GM has used the information to move forward with Axion.
In the science world, when an investigator is named on a project, but has little or not direct involvement in it, other than putting their name on the grant to prove that they are in favor of it, we call that window dressing. I'm not saying the work wasn't important, and won't have long lasting benefits for Axion going forward, I just question the involvement of the unnamed auto OEM in the whole process, since there is nothing to show that the OEM has helped to move the project forward other than attaching their name to it. IMHO
Projects like these don't typically give rise to immense direct costs. The contributions are mostly manpower with modest physical material and each side contributes according to their expertise. Axion would have assigned a team of engineers to work on the project and GM would have done the same. GM also built a LaCrosse that used the PbC instead of its standard battery. If the grant had been awarded, Axion's losses for the last two years would have been a little lower.
So Granville is promising significant sales by the next CC, but those sales won't be from BMW, since significant BMW sales won't be happening in the next year.
From the discussion it does seem that they have started shipping their electrodes to BMW's second source battery manufacturer, to show that PbC batteries can be made by another supplier, and those tests have been successful.
>LabTech ... Too bad there was no follow-up question that queried just what was being done with those completed batteries manufactured on the third-party line. I assume they would be tested for baseline comparison to New Castle's but ... how many were involved in that Proof run.
I guess I looked at it from the perspective that it was a step in the negotiation process with the battery manufacturer where they said, "OK, before we spend a lot of time writing up documents saying how many batteries we are going to make, and where we are going to get supplies from, and whether we are going to demand a new electrode line be built next door to our plant, why don't we do a simple, one time run through with a shipment of electrodes to see if we have proof of concept, in that Axion's claim that the PbC battery can be made on any AGM line is actually true."
I don't know if that's what really happened, but if I'm right, at least we have proof of concept and a reason for the negotiations to continue. IMHO.
LabTech, I agree with your position.
Well, I tried my best to ask some tough questions on automotive, although I didn't want to put him on the spot with GM. At a minimum, I was happy that TG engaged me for as long as he did.
It was intriguing that this morning's press release spoke of "off grid lighting tied to renewables" as one of the opportunities that may be associated with near-term sales.
Stop-start in trucks that burn through batteries in a year or two (more frequently for FedEx type delivery trucks) requires a lot less validation than stop-start in automotive where problems with a $400 component can make the owner of a $40,000 vehicle very angry. In trucking, the driver just yells at the maintenance guy and says "hey Joe, you need to fix a battery problem in this unit."
Same old story from here,
Don't care about the meeting starting late.
I liked his presentation, did sense some strain in his voice, would be more worried if I didn't. His slow and deliberate manner is fine with me.
Back in the day we used to keep track of the number of callers and weigh that number against expectations because the reality is that many investors like to arrive fashionably late and are offended that management didn't wait for them. Deciding when to start is always a balancing act if you want to make sure you have the largest possible audience.
I forgot the link
TG spoke about seeing light at the end of the tunnel for some opportunities, Cube, ePower, but not auto OEM.
Like most, I'm sure, hearing the statement about "significant sales" before the next quarterly report was the best thing to come out of the cc. For "fair and balanced" I was hoping we'd hear a little more guidance concerning the potential partnership(s). Since I wasn't expecting auto sales before 2016 my and our behinds are in the fire, the status of the potential partnership is what counts in automotive. Oh well, we at least got a clue that they built PbC's in their factory and they are being tested. Did I hear that right?
iinde, yep, TG only discussed the company's internal planning perspective regarding auto s/s, which is sales-based. To shareholders and thus the stk price, an announcement of an agreement is at least as important, because hopefully, it comes much sooner. No announcement at all for, say, a year+ hardly helps at all---too much uncertainty thus too difficult to quantify its value.
Greentongue, IMO it would be for everything. Raw materials, sheeting, "biocarbon" electrode assembly and the balance. They might allow Axion to keep control of portions of the process but there would need to be a second location that is suitable for the second source location. They might also expect some contractual agreements in conjunction with Axion controlling certain steps of the process to give the partner access if Axion fails to meet agreed to terms in the contract to support cost-quality-delivery per agreed to supply agreements with BMW.
Thanks for the confirmation LabTech. I was hoping not to go back and listen to the cc again for this particular point.
Well. An vise man in Thailand told me earlier this week that I would get rich in 3 months.
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If you want to vote in person, you'll need to ask your broker for a proxy that gives you the authority to vote any shares you hold in street name. From a legal perspective, the only "stockholders" Axion has are holders who own shares in paper form. While the thousands of people who hold shares in brokerage accounts are legally classified as "beneficial owners," the record owner of all those shares is CEDE & Co., the street name for The Depository Trust. So a beneficial owner who wants to vote in person needs to have a proxy from his broker.
The Conference Call Transcript is up:
I suppose we should give the execs major kudos for greatly reducing the burn rate of cash. A penny saved is a penny earned.
LabTech, Depends on what they are working on though. For instance I'm sure they were spending money on the automated sheeting line more heavily last year in the 6 month time frame being compared as an example.
I think thotdoc summarized the call perfectly. TG promised sales before the next conference call in November but otherwise didn't provide much substance.
I'm with you, apm.
Oh, by the way. From the Q&A:
Charles G. Mackall, Jr.
I don't know but I'd give a heckuva lot to get a person who's well connected with the investment community and their money. It's what we need most from the position. The technical aspects of the job seem pretty basic, even considering requests from BMW, etc. We don't need a techie, we need more investment, now and probably next year.
" I don't know but I'd give a heckuva lot to get a person who's well connected with the investment community and their money."
FWIW, I think the most important words out of Tom's mouth today were:
And the most important thing he left out was time-to-BMW announcement. Any color would have been extremely useful---ballpark, we talking YE, Q2 2014, or what? Of course he might not have any good idea. But he might.
Mr I: with his comments about BMW doing things on their own schedule and Axion focusing (paraphrasing) on apparently lower-hanging fruit, I think he sees BMW order as somewhat distant as the time to get second-source in place can't go all that quickly.
The first thing we've learned over the last four years is that companies like BMW and NS move at their own pace and even when things go well that pace seems glacial to the outside world. The second thing we've learned is that companies like BMW and NS want their partners to keep their heads down and their mouths shut while they cross their Ts, dot their Is and write internal reports. That's no darned fun if you're a company like Axion that has to pay its own expenses during training camp.
It's in the neighborhood of 10,000 miles but I don't have a precise figure.
>>When you start talking about a million miles of fuel economy and reliability data in the hands of fleet operators, then you have something worth pounding the table over.<<
ePower has designed its system for reliability using off the shelf industrial components that typically last three to six times longer than a diesel engine and transmission. Unfortunately the only way to test the durability of the integrated system is to put a small fleet on the road with operators who understand they're driving prototypes and are willing to live with the minor and potentially major problems that are always involved in prototype testing.
Today was the highest volume day since I started tracking in January 2004.
My thesis has always been that they pounded hard at the very beginning to move the price down and keep it down long enough to ensure the best conversion rate possible for the first three installments due in July, September and October, but payable in June, August and September.
I don't see the PIPErs as long term investors and I think they follow a rigid discipline of getting their principal back every month come hell or high water. I think they're a bit more opportunistic when it comes to selling their yield shares and are likely to get very opportunistic if the spread between their purchase price and the market price widens.
<<record volume for a couple of days indicates Something>>
Off Topic ... BUT Funny. Tesla can't sell cars in China with their Logo because of a trademark troll. "Tesla currently can put its trademark "Tesla Motors" only on certain types of vehicles, namely planes, trains, ships and motorized sleds ... it excludes the use of the trademark on cars and auto parts."
$550 For Ford C-Max Hybrid Owners After Ford Motor Co. (F) Revises Fuel Economy Estimates Down By 4 MPG
Axion could take 3-5+ years to come into fruition if your hoping on the BIG oem deals to ever come in. Thus you may want to meet those who will be a steward of your money during this journey. If the trip cost is only a fraction of your invested capital it might make sense.
The world is full of story-tellers and I should know because that's a big part of my job description. In the final analysis, however, the story will only get you so far. There has to be a solid technical foundation for the story and there have to be managers, scientists and employees who can execute on the plan. Over the years I've heard more wonderful stories and seen more wonderful technologies than you can imagine. I've never had a client that experienced an abject technology failure but I've had lots of clients that didn't have the ability to execute.
I think that was a typo in the transcript that should have read Class 8 vehicles.
JP: Speaking of "snow flies", no one's mentioned the potential benefit of traction control that *could* be part of some (future?) setup. Can't tell you how many rigs I've seen on their side in the median or along the side of the road in hilly terrain when snow and ice appeared.
For now ePower is focused on fuel economy and durability because a tractor that can't get a load to its destination on schedule is worse than useless. ePower is making a very smart truck that takes many decisions away from the driver, but the extra bells and whistles are not a current priority.
D lane: You're right. But the control software and electronics can detect slippage and reduce torque. Ideally it would be for each individual wheel so those that have traction could provide work while the slipping one regained traction.
Snow, Ice and trucks. If I had to drive in a snow storm my choice of vehicle would be a big truck with 25k in the box. They put around 6k per wheel end on the ground (more than any other vehicle).
Forecasting potential growth for ePower is darned near impossible because it all depends on the assumptions you want to make. Since ePower has to plan for a worst case scenario, it's currently assuming that fleet operators won't believe a word it says. If that assumption is correct, the only way to build customer interest will be to give a fleet operator the keys to a tractor and say:
The first feedback will be detailed fuel economy tests at various weights and speeds, which is more than anybody in the industry currently offers. Most won't publish fuel economy numbers at all. Them that do publish at a single weight on a flat level test track.
Apparently I have a win win win situation on my hands, a win for the happy Axionistas who bought 20% of my shares I sold (instead of 50 % because of the final deadline limit of next CC) and a win for the Pipers who didn't need to sell the shares I sold and a win for me because I redeployed the money to some even more beat down stocks in another sector ...
"The second-generation ePower drivetrain is well-suited to the needs of the Class 8A segment, but it hasn't been installed on the short wheelbase chassis you typically see in the 8A segment. The second-generation ePower drivetrain is not beefy enough for the heavier loads in the Class 8B segment."
If this is the case, how do you expect those number to change with the new separate form factors? (and will you post a new chart?)
The existing second-generation prototype is built on a long and heavy sleeper cab chassis. The fuel economy numbers are based on gross vehicle weight, which is a combination of the tractor weight and the trailer weight.
So is the class 8A unit third generation primarily a proof of concept unit with a John Deer engine/Marathon generator? It's purpose to function as a packaging study and to gather data to see what kind of performance can be expected? Would it be marketed with this component set? I thought I recalled that the John Deer engine with the Marathon generator were not intended to be marketed to customers but were instead for development.
We already have the data on what the ePower drivetrain with a John Deere four banger does at speed and weight. Building the Class 8A prototype is merely a matter of fitting the ePower components on a smaller chassis.
OK, good. So the existing second generation unit with John Deer and Marathon is a product. But with a sleeper cab. Doesn't the owner have a route that runs at under 60,000 pounds where he could put this in daily use? I think in a prior response you indicated he was only interested in an 8B solution but surely Epower would like to get long term data with as many miles as possible sooner rather than later. This, I guess, is where I'm going with my query.
The owner is pretty set in his determination to have 80,000 pound capacities and highway speeds. The second-generation tractor simply isn't beefy enough to suit him. Data from a single truck, like data from a single battery powered locomotive, is only mildly interesting. Data from a fleet of 10 trucks, or better yet 10 Class 8A and ten more Class 8B approaches compelling.
OK, Thanks John. I agree 100 % concerning the point regarding respecting the owners wishes.
The trucking industry is a fairly gossipy group with a great grapevine. Between appearances at truck shows and meetings with fleet operators there are a lot of eyes watching ePower. When you start adding in the strength of my network and Axion's there's plenty of interest from North America and Europe. The big things everybody's waiting for are an ePower drivetrain on a short wheelbase chassis for Class 8A and a heftier ePower drivetrain on a long wheelbase chassis for Class 8B.


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at 17:55 on 21 November 2009
The pianist and composer Stephen Beville discusses some of the problems facing the composer working within the classical tradition in the UK and the world at large. (If this covers some familiar ground, he apologises to his readers in advance, but feels compelled to first establish a suitable context from which to begin)
''Education! Education! Education!''
Tony Blair, 1997 Election Campaign
The classical music must open its eyes in attempt to understand how it is perceived from the outside; that is by the majority of the public. It is a minority interest, admittedly - certainly not comparable to the other arts with regard to its impact on society. However, classical music is an art, and in the final analysis, is not art directed toward such an impact?
There is no composer today comparable to Beethoven; whose reputation during his lifetime (that is his public recognition) as one of the most famous men in Europe, was
fully commensurable with his music greatness
. The same could be said even further back in history with regard to the public recognition enjoyed by Lassus or Monteverdi. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Lassus was 'in his own time the best known and most widely admired musician in Europe'. What has happened to the status of the composer? Why is this kind of fame not attributed to an Elliott Carter or a Luciano Berio in our own time?
There are people today, otherwise inteligent people of all professions (in Media and Education) who do not understand contemporary 'classical' music or have the slightest liking of it. There are an even greater number of people who do not know that it actually exists! Contemporary composers, happy in the knoweledge that their music is appreciated by an intellectual elite must wake up to the fact that the survival of their music may no longer depend upon that elite. At present, names have been ommited from widely circulated general encyclopaedias and have been replaced by those of a 'new' tradition; modern pop music. If anyone values contemporary music or even the composers of the past, they must awaken themselves to the enormity of the problem; that classical music is being (or has been?) usurped by modern pop music.
The declining space given to classical music reviews in national and local newspapers, the dissappearence of classical music literature (books and magazines) from general bookshops and newsagent stores is ample testimony to this fact. My home town of Reading - despite its regular series of classcial subscription concerts at the Concert Hall- is a prime example. About a decade or so ago, when the first Waterstones bookshop opened on Broad Street, there was a whole cabinet section for classical music. Today, at best, you will find a mere handful of books on the subject. The problem is not the lack of literature, but its immediate unavailability; in other words its
invisability through lack of demand
. In addition, orchestral (miniature) scores are no longer commercially available in Reading (since Modern Music retailers were overtaken by Dawsons music shop). All this, I believe is due to poor commercialisation and above all, because the general standard of musical education in the region is so impoverished. Perhaps this is partly due to the ramifications of the Reading Rock festival?
Even in a relatively 'cultured' city as Manchester, where I was a former student, the signs are equally discouraging; at the main Waterstones bookshop, the classical music section has been reduced by half since 2005, whereas the section on pop music has doubled in size. At this rate, my prediciton is that by 2010, there might be only half-a-dozen or so readily available books on the Great composers, all other classical musicology being confined to public libraries at best. By contrast, both in Reading and Manchester, there are shelves upon shelves of classics to be found in the English and World literature sections, and I do not believe for one moment this is due to popular demand. Clearly the general consensus (as supported by our National Curriculum) is that literature serves some kind of
educational purpose
. Why could not the same be done for literature of and about classical music, so people begin to think about it in a fertile environment, and contemplate its social significance in relation to the other arts, to philosophy and the history of the world?
One of the legacies of the Industrial Revolution is, while it has made mass-communication and wide dissemination of goods possible, it has given capital commercialism an unlimited power. With advancements in technology in our own age, pop-music began to assume an ever-increasing powerful and influential role - with its emphasis on image, sexual seduction and sensation. (Its is no co-incidence that the pop music explosion occured during the television age). So much, I think, as to subordinate potential
awareness amongst the general public, and the understanding of
music as an independant art-form with a tradition no less valid than literature or the visual arts
. Indeed, the great Western tradition has been marginalised as just 'classical music', and all this despite centuries of musical innovation and development. The indifference of the general public to a thousand years of musical development, revolution and renewal (since most modern pop-music pays so little head to it) is to my mind, somewhat akin to a fascist destruction of a particular literature - a history they will not acknowledge.
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Afolabi, who drew in his last attempt to dethrone the Kap'n, is expecting to go one better this time. He quipped:
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"But After Huck's last fight against Firat Arslan, Stevie Wonder looked at me and said: Arslan definitely won - no doubt about it."
Afolabi was asked, presumably by a German journalist, if he really is as confident as he makes himself out to be, or if he is just an actor.
Kryptonite replied: "I am an actor! Marco wants to give his fans a great show and so do I. All these theatrics ahead of the fight only increase the attention. We definitely enjoyed ourselves. It got a bit heated, but that is the way it's supposed to be."
Serbian Huck, based in Germany, was kept busy against quality opposition in 2012. Last February he stepped up to heavyweight, losing narrowly to WBA champion Alexander Povetkin before coming back down to defend his WBO cruiserweight strap in extremely close fights with Afolabi (May) and then German Firat Arslan (November).
Huck responded to Afolabi's taunts: "He is just trying to rattle my cage and is hoping that it will cause me to make mistakes.
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"I proved before that I can beat him, but he cannot beat me. I know that I am better than he is. I also have a better fan base behind me, who will be celebrating another victory with me after I am done with that guy."
The Huck v Afolabi trilogy concludes at the Max Schmeling Halle, Berlin, Germany this Saturday.
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David Schwimmer and his new British wife, Zoe Buckman, are expecting their first child together, several media outlets confirmed Wednesday, citing the actor's rep and an announcement made by the couple.
James Van Der Beek is officially off the market again! The former 'Dawson's Creek' actor has wed his model girlfriend in a secret ceremony on Sunday, according to several published reports.
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Oscar-nominated Amy Adams is a new mom! Adams and her fiance Darren Legallo welcomed their first child together on Saturday, People magazine has confirmed.
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For the past decade, the Knight Foundation has been a supporter of the American Society of News Editors' High School Journalism initiative. This week brings the announcement that the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation will help to support this project well into the next decade.
A $4.6 million grant from the Reynolds Foundation will fund five years of Reynolds High School Journalism Institutes for educators, extending the training that Reynolds has supported since 2007. From the news release:
During the two weeks of training, 175 competitively selected journalism advisers are steeped in journalistic practices and responsibilities, ethical decision-making and news media freedom issues, plus learn to maximize online and digital platforms and integrate new technologies. In the past three years, 434 teachers were accepted to the Institute. Of this group, 232 (54 percent) taught at schools where young people of color were in the majority, and 86 (20 percent) identified themselves as people of color.
Every key expense is covered by the grant, including transportation, housing, meals, continuing education credits and instructional materials. This removes financial barriers for the majority of teachers who otherwise could not afford to pay for this kind of specialized training or who work in disadvantaged school districts.
'We couldn't be more pleased to see this important program further supported and expanded,' said Jessica Goldfin, Journalism Program Associate at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 'These journalism educators have the opportunity to impact hundreds of students, not only improving how these kids view journalism, news and the First Amendment but also helping to spark a lifelong appetite for quality journalism.'
As an added bonus, this news gives us the opportunity to throw in a plug for the stellar (and growing, see traffic graph at right) HSJ.org, a fantastic resource for high school journalists and their educators.
KnightBlog is maintained by Knight Foundation and is moderated by the editorial director and other members of the Knight communications staff. Writers include Knight employees, freelancers and people from other organizations and projects the foundation funds.
When we last wrote about Knight's Library Initiative, it was a $3.3 million effort to empower libraries in 12 communities to become true information centers for their communities, with expanded wifi access, mobile computing labs, job-hunting assistance, digital literacy training and more. Today, Knight's announcing an expansion of that effort - the Foundation will distribute $5.5 million to' 20 communities around the country:
Strengthening residents' ability to use the Internet to improve their lives, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help libraries in 20 U.S. communities enhance digital access and training.
The effort is part of the foundation's $5.5 million Library Initiative.' Launched in October, Knight is expanding it to eight additional communities, the foundation announced today.
In October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy released its report, finding that libraries are critical to a community's information infrastructure. Today's grant announcement signals Knight's commitment to helping usher these institutions into the digital era.
With an election year coming up, The Texas'Tribune is'targeting candidates for governor'in a new kind of political video series,''Stump Interrupted."
New kind of video?'Reporters at the Knight investigative reporting grantee' "mark up" the speech by fact-checking what's being said. You need to see it to understand.'Click play.
Stump Interrupted: Bill White
--'Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund has been busy since its launch earlier this year. It's produced more than 50 stories, including an investigation of fraud in the subprime lending industry, a helpful guide to financial regulatory reform proposals, and a look at the challenges of implementing electronic records in the health-care system. It's partnered up with investigative journalism heavyweights such as the Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica, and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop.
And now Knight Foundation is a partner as well. Today, we announced a $200,000 grant to support the Fund's operations, joining an illustrious crew of partners that includes the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Markle Foundation and of course, the The Huffington Post.
"The Huffington Post is an ideal partner for Knight Foundation," said Knight's President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen. "They are entrepreneurial and care passionately about meeting the information needs of communities." He added: "As a media leader, few are as innovative as Arianna Huffington. She believes in freedom and practices it. She believes in journalism and has hired outstanding investigative reporters and editors. And she believes in the power of technology to change the world for the better."
The grant is a part of Knight's $15 million Investigative Reporting Initiative, announced this year at the annual convention of the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization. You can read more about that Initiative here, and read more about today's grant in the news release.
After nine months of research, the Center for Public Integrity, a Knight grantee, uncovered problems in higher education's handling of sexual assault cases. The Center surveyed scores of campus clinics and' interviewed'students'who filed unsuccessful criminal charges for being sexually assaulted.
According to the investigation, 'those who do come forward can encounter mysterious disciplinary proceedings, closed-mouth school administrations, and off-the-record negotiations.'' CPI is launching a series of pieces on how sexual complaint cases are handled on college campuses. It is also trying to raise awareness and draw attention to this dilemma by encouraging student journalists to report on how their school deals with sexual assault allegations.
The Center estimates as many as 15 million Americans have heard about this investigation through its many media partners. The Center provides this guide for students interested in running their own campus investigation.
--'Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
Dante Chinni, project director for the Knight-funded Patchwork Nation, released a report showing which groups got the cash in the government's cash for clunkers program. Based on federal data, the nearly 700,000 cash-for-clunkers transactions took place in and benefited three community types: 'Monied 'Burbs,''where the educated and wealthy live; 'Boom Towns,' the growing and diversifying'communities, and 'Campus and Careers,' where the young and collegiate people live.
Communities with high populations of African-Americans or with socially conservative counties saw fewer benefits.
--'Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
Guest post by Bonnie Bogle, general manager of operations at Development Seed.
This morning AfghanistanElectionData.com launched, providing an open data and open government vantage point into a controversial'election.
The site is a data browser that shows the raw results from the August 20th presidential election in Afghanistan, using the data released in mid-September that gave Karzai a 54% lead.
It was first'used internally by the National Democratic Institute to help their team plan for a runoff election, which was called off, and make assessments about voting patterns. With planning already beginning for a new round of Afghan elections for the provincial council (Wolesi Jirga ) this coming year, NDI decided to open up this application to the public to allow everyone to see the problem areas in the country and to start a dialog around how to reduce fraud and increase participation the next time around.
The main underlying tool that powers this site is ManagingNews.com, which was funded by the Knight Foundation this summer and just released in September. This is a great example of why we invest in open source applications - we never know who is going to build off them to make the next great site.
Eric Newton, VP of Knight Foundation's Journalism Program, recently spoke at a Federal Trade Commission workshop on how journalism will survive the digital age. At a moment when the potential role of government in supporting journalism is being discussed, Eric listed five examples of policies the government could adjust to help a new journalism ecosystem flourish. Some snippets:
Public media. A lot of the government money that flows to public media is status quo money. Not good enough. [...]
Nonprofit digital startups. Our old rules don't treat them fairly. Tax rules make it hard to switch to being a nonprofit, or a L3C. [...]
University journalism. Students everywhere are showing they can do great journalism. (By the way, if the nation's 200,000 journalism and mass communications students spent just 10 percent of their time doing actual journalism, that would more than replace the journalism lost in the past 10 years from the elimination of jobs by badly run news businesses.) But our old rules don't treat student journalists fairly. [...]
The government itself is a huge producer of mass media today. But in general not a very good one. For the most part, local, state and national government can't seem to use the new technology to do a better job obeying its own freedom of information laws, not even on the people's web sites that it now runs. [...]
Read the full piece for the fifth (and most significant) government policy Eric calls for. You can also read the rest of the testimony from the FTC's future of journalism workshop.
Not only is Facebook a great place for social networking, it's also a great tool for transferring news.
A NewsCloud experiment proves young people will participate in and contribute to a news and information community that goes where they live and share.
Jeff Reifman, founder of NewsCloud, created a Facebook site to distribute environment news from Grist, a site that provides environmental content daily, and another to distribute daily campus news from the University of Minnesota's newspaper, The Daily. .
The environmental news site, Hot Dish, allows users to read, rank, annotate, post, create, share and discuss climate change topics.
The application also includes an Action Team feature where users can earn points for prizes by meeting specific challenges. For example, users can earn points by sharing a story, posting a blog entry, being active in their community through volunteering, recycling, taking part in an environmental event, etc.
The grand prize winner won a trip to Greenland by persuading their gym to start recycling plastic bottles, having three letters to the editor published, and recycling an old washing machine.
The Hot Dish site had about 2,000 registered users and 346 agreed to be part of the research project.
Nearly three-quarters of the group surveyed said they used the Hot Dish site to interact with like-minded people. According to a NewsCloud report, users saw the site as a place where their views and contributions were more welcomed than in other Web sites.
According to Reifman, more than two-thirds of the content was contributed by users of the site during the two month period.' More than 2,300 comments were written, 1,500 stories were written, 4,500 stories were shared and about 1,200 eco-challenges were submitted.
This study indicates that social networks are a good way of getting young people involved with current events and community issues. Not only did the study inspire users to post articles and write comments on environmental issues, but also to actually do something about those issues.
This could definitely be a stepping stone for publications and other media that want to increase user engagement and interest.
The study also tested the distribution of news using University of Minnesota's student newspaper, The Daily. Although the outcomes were not as successful as Hot Dish's, the lesson learned is that timing and good marketing for a campus audience are essential for obtaining enough data for a study.
Follow the link to learn more.
When the Berlin Wall fell, optimists happily predicted 'the end of history.' The'post-Cold War world would see unparalleled freedom, with a wave of media development unrivaled in human history. Well, it didn't happen that way. The world remains an erratic, unsure place, by both press freedom and media development measures. 2009 sometimes looks suspiciously like 1989.
'The world needs new media development leaders. Knight Foundation's biggest international grantee, the International Center for Journalists, is becoming just that. ICFJ's president, Joyce Barnathan, is the chair of the Global Forum for Media Development, with 500 members in 100 countries.
ICFJ runs the Knight Journalism Fellows Program. Its tightly target approach is attracting many new partners. Gates Foundation funds Knight fellows, $4 million so far. Other funders support $3 million in Knight fellows.
What makes the Knight Fellows so important? They do more than just train journalists. They accomplish specific things: producing high-impact stories, or new investigative reporting organizations, or new journalism schools or new freedom of information centers.
How does ICFJ know where to work? An international group of advisors identifies the world's best media projects,'ones that will create lasting, visible change, and matches fellows from anywhere in the world to those specific opportunities.
A little money can go a long way. $200,000 for a training fellow for one year in Kenya equaled $7.5 million in new government spending on health care because the stories done moved the community to action. In Indonesia, great reporting helped stop the dumping of medical waste. In Uganda, it saved lives with better vaccinations, in Bangladesh, it helped save more lives with cleaner water.
Why care about all this outside America? Because the modern world is turning into one very big city. Bad health reporting on one side of the planet can lead to a killer flu coming right into this room. Journalism in a connected world matters. Here's the press release announcing $6 million over three years to extend the Knight International Journalism Fellows. And here's where you can suggest a project or apply for a fellowship.
-- Eric Newton is the vice president of the journalism program at Knight Foundation.
Knight Foundation will give $6 million for the high-impact Knight International Journalism Fellowships program run by the International Center for Journalists. Eric Newton, vice president of Knight's journalism program, explains what's unique about the Fellows this way: 'The fellows train the journalists who write the stories that move societies to improve the lives of their people.' And they do it all over the world.
Next year, Knight Fellows will launch:
ICFJ's news release is here. And more information about the Knight International Journalism Fellowships is here.


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Language Acquisition and Conceptual Developmentby Melissa Bowerman, Stephen C. Levinson
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Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing two vital strands of investigation into close dialog. The book explains important new ideas about how language acquisition interacts with the process of early cognition, providing original empirical contributions based on a variety of languages, populations and ages as well as theoretical discussions that bridge psychology, linguistics and anthropology.
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Somebody out there must think we're big spenders on Christmas at our house. Why else would our mailbox be stuffed with catalogs with every conceivable kind of merchandise?
I feel sorry for the postal carrier who has to deliver this stuff. Last week we got more than 20 catalogs; the mailbox was jammed so tight we could barely get the mail out.
Jenny and I do buy something occasionally from a catalog or online because our relatives are scattered around the country, but we still do most of our shopping in area stores. Despite that, we're pretty certain we've received at least 200 catalogs this season and they're still coming.
Most we don't even look through, unless they are from an established retailer we already know. The rest just go in the recycling pile.
We have friends who say they get hardly any catalogs. We think we may be inundated because we subscribe to about a dozen magazines.
Some companies send five or six during the holiday season. They typically have most of the same stuff with a different cover.
I've noticed that they begin looking a little more desperate as Christmas nears. A catalog from a place called Figis that sells food products and nuts had the entire cover taken up with big type saying "ORDER as LATE as December 23, 2009 for Christmas delivery!"
L. L. Bean's latest effort has candy canes and the words, "There's still time." And Mrs. Fields Cookies gift catalog says, "It's not too late!"
As I turn through some of the more off-the-wall catalogs, I wonder about the market for some of this stuff. I don't know anyone who would buy a woman a sweatshirt that said, "It's OK to be bottom heavy." Or a T-shirt that says, "My dad is a hunk."
Lots of companies offer posters and gifts with motivational sayings. But my favorite was the holiday catalog of something called "Despair, Inc." The company's slogan is "Motivational products don't work. But our demotivational products don't work even better."
Inside are posters, each with a headline and a saying. For instance, one features a photograph of a handshake and the words, "Consulting: If you not part of the solution, there's real money to be made in prolonging the problem." Another reads: "Risks: If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments."
We get a lot of catalogs featuring food products, especially chocolate. I think someone must have sold them data about my waist size. That's target marketing.
A company from Wisconsin that sells cheese and summer-sausage sampler boxes (most of which cost less than $25) offered "No payments until February." And then it offered to split the cost into three monthly payments. That's a long time to pay for a hunk of cheese.
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