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Much thanks to the City of Ottawa for the award of a grant as part of the Creation and Production Fund for Emerging Writers so that I can work on Grace, a poetry manuscript that explores a middle-aged woman's interaction with the city, young men, long life & gin.
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Monday, June 20, 2016
why create a close reading service for new women poets?
AngelHousePress: Announcing A Close Reading Service for New Women Poets
WHAT: I will read five pages of your free verse or prose poetry, offer editing suggestions and possibly suggest poetry to read;
WHO: new poets, not yet published with a press (chapbook or spine), who identify as women; must be avid readers of contemporary poetry;
HOW: send poetry to email@example.com; name a contemporary influence (poet, work of poetry);
WHEN: anytime; work read on a first come first served basis, one poet per month;
WHERE: wordwide;
WHY: lack of chapbook submission by women; an attempt to encourage and mentor;
COST: free.
FURTHER INFO: AngelHousePress.com
The creation of this service may come as a surprise for anyone who follows me on social media or knows me personally. I despise stereotyping & prejudice of all forms. I have always seen the act of publishing based on gender as a form of prejudice, regardless of which gender. But I have also always believed in welcoming voices that are little heard in the mainstream. So those two ideals have been in conflict for me & I've struggled with them. Recently though, the evidence of a lack of women writers' voices has hit home & I'd like to try, in my own small way, to do something about it.
Since starting AngelHousePress in 2007, our mission has always been to create a space for outsiders, those not published or published rarely in mainstream publications, who don't win awards or get invited to be part of official verse culture. To offer a space where writers dared, a place where they could be free to try out oddball stuff, to risk. I believe creating an outsider space for rebellion against convention is what small presses are for.
I put out an open call last year for long poem/poem series manuscripts. I received 30 queries/manuscripts & only three were from women. I also put out calls for NationalPoetryMonth.ca & for our essay series. I received a lot of work from men, but almost nothing from women. I had to send out individual requests to get women to send me stuff for NPM & for the chapbook series, even after sending out requests to women whose work I admire, but who aren't well-published in the mainstream, I still didn't get chapbook submissions.
When I asked some women why they didn't submit chapbook manuscripts, I was given a variety of reasons, such as wanting to reserve the publication for spines, being too busy with work, children, etc, but the one that particularly stood out for me is that some women didn't think their work was ready for publication.
I'm concerned about the lack of submissions from women. & I am fully aware that this is a problem for larger spiny presses as well. If a reason that women aren't sending work out is because they need to receive more feedback, more encouragement, more mentoring, then perhaps I can help with that. I've been running Bywords.ca for more than a decade. It's given numerous poets a chance to have their work published for the first time. I've been running AngelHousePress since 2007 & am always on the lookout for art & literature from voices all over the world.
Now, given the lack of women writers sending us work, I've decided to make that a priority, so I've started this close reading service for new women poets.
Not because I'm some kind of authority on poetry, but because I also hear that little voice inside too, the one that says my work won't be good enough, that I have no business putting it out there. I see women in ball gowns & men in tuxedos live streamed at literary award galas or receive invitations to pay money to hear polite talks in fancy hotels by well-published poets. I don't belong in that world. AngelHouse, & its transgressive prose imprint Devilhouse, is for people who don't belong. So I'm reaching out to women who also feel like outsiders, who feel that their work has no place in the world & I'm telling you that it does. I'm going to find ways to support you & to mentor you. The reading service is one way.
I'm hoping that I'll discover some new voices & that AngelHousePress will be able to share those voices with kindreds by means of our chapbooks, our online magazines & our essay series.
After a day, I've received only one query so far. It is possible that no one will send anything, I suppose. But I hope the service resonates for some out there.
Thanks to all who have retweeted the announcement. Please continue to do so. If this is of interest to you & you fit the criteria, please send me your work. If you don't fit the criteria, please share the announcement.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
All Hail Queen Christina
Queen Christina was a 15th C. Swedish monarch who abdicated the throne, some say to live as a man. This prompted a series of poems about historical and fictional characters who pushed boundaries, particularly gender boundaries, but also those who defied sexual convention or who I imagined defied convention.
The chapbook has been published as part of Ghost City Press's summer microchapbook series. Thanks to Kevin Bertolero for publishing my work.
You can download the chapbook here, along with others. You can either take the work for free or pay any amount you'd like. All proceeds go to the authors.
I read some of these poems last September during a reading with Daniel Allen Cox, Marcus McCann, Billeh Nickerson at Venus Envy in celebration of my husband's birthday. It was a great party. I hope this chapbook is a great party for you! With Pride coming up soon, let's take the opportunity to celebrate those who, despite the merciless fucking treatment by this wretchedly conventional society, continue to push boundaries and make this a world worth living in.
Please watch this great documentary on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
& a postscript: my heart goes out to those who have been brutally murdered and wounded in Orlando, to their families, friends & the entire LGBTQ+ community.
The chapbook has been published as part of Ghost City Press's summer microchapbook series. Thanks to Kevin Bertolero for publishing my work.
You can download the chapbook here, along with others. You can either take the work for free or pay any amount you'd like. All proceeds go to the authors.
I read some of these poems last September during a reading with Daniel Allen Cox, Marcus McCann, Billeh Nickerson at Venus Envy in celebration of my husband's birthday. It was a great party. I hope this chapbook is a great party for you! With Pride coming up soon, let's take the opportunity to celebrate those who, despite the merciless fucking treatment by this wretchedly conventional society, continue to push boundaries and make this a world worth living in.
& a postscript: my heart goes out to those who have been brutally murdered and wounded in Orlando, to their families, friends & the entire LGBTQ+ community.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
All Hail Chapbookery
sung to the tune of the Mountain Goats The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
I've been disheartened of late because for various reasons sending out book-length manuscripts to publishers has become nothing more than an exercise in masturbation without the happy ending. I don't blame publishers. To publish books in Canada you need government funding. I just received a fucking survey from the Canada Council for the Arts on digital technology in the arts. That's what these wankers are focusing on. I pointed out that if you don't support the content creators & the publishers, you won't have any thing to post on the stupid internet. So emerging publishers are not being given funding. Existing publishers are not being given funding. They can't afford to take risks & publish umpteen spines by the same people, the ones with 20 books, 30 books…etc.
I had a beautiful & satisfying experience with Kiki, published by the wondrous Chaudiere Books in 2014. The book is gorgeously designed by Christine McNair, I received nothing but rave reviews & comments about it & when I read from it, everyone has a good time. Apparently it's done pretty well from the point of view of sales, so I can't complain at all about that experience.
But I have three/sorry two book-length manuscripts in the hands of publishers that are in theory still considering them/ignoring them. One has been in a Canadian publisher's slush pile now for almost two years, another for an American contest that was recommended to me by a kind writer friend, only for a few months. Another book is supposed to be coming out this summer in a limited edition of 100 copies by an American publisher but the publisher is ignoring my e-mails, as publishers do, so that's unlikely.
Meanwhile I have had the honour of having numerous chapbooks published both in print & digitally in Canada, the USA & the UK. I also publish chapbooks of others via AngelHousePress & our transgressive imprint, DevilHouse.
I love working with chapbook publishers. They make decisions quickly. They promote the hell out of the work & they don't treat writers like a pile of shit because we want to get our work out there. They also aren't timid about rejecting the work. We're all in the same boat: we have limited time & limited funds, so when we choose to publish anything or when someone chooses to publish work of ours, it's a big fucking deal.
So my plans from now on are to prioritize chapbook publishing for my work & every once in a while if I see a good fit for a book-length ms, I'll send it, but I will have absolutely no expectations of publication anywhere. I will continue to envy amigos who have a bunch of books under their belts published by prestigious Canajun presses like Coach House, Anansi & whatnot, but that ain't me, babe & it ain't you either. We're going to have to make our own world where the good stuff, the bad ass stuff, the gritty stuff, the impolite stuff gets published & disseminated in small runs or on line by people who aren't having to jump thru the impossible hoops of the Canadian literary grant funding broken down machine.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Friday, May 13, 2016
Update – near summer 2016
Now that my season of readings seems to be over for the nonce, I'm focusing on the following WIPs:
1. a new poetry series which uses the language & imagery of the poetry of Plath, Sexton & MacEwen to write about the onset of menopause & all the fun that entails;
2. a poetry series about my 2009 health crisis;
3. a linked collection of short stories set in an apartment building;
4. a linked collection of fairy tales inspired by art & colour;
5. The Vispo Bible: working on Exodus & Revelation.
& reading books for above projects, with a detour into Virginia Woolf's novels this summer, starting with her first, "The Voyage Out".
I'll keep you posted on publications if & when they appear…
the above work entails a lot of hermitting, but I'll try to make it out to a few readings when I'm in the right frame of minde. writing is a solitary business, but I can often be found.in Bar Robo, my new darling neighbourhood café, or on my favouite bench in Dundonald Park, sky watching.
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Kiki in Montreal
On May 3, 2016, I read at the Résonance Reading Series in Montréal with Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Alison Strumberger.
It was a splendid reading. My thanks to Klara du Plessis, my fellow readers, the lovely attentive audience & the café.
Afterwards, Charles & I took Kiki on a tour of the city...
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Impromptu # 30: an ode to guinness and a thank you
Douglas Luman (aka the Venerable Bede) asks us to think of a memorable phone number or a phone number that was important to us. Using his phonewords application over on Applied Poetics, a deliriously joyous site for poetry making using Oulipian techniques and more, to take a source text and reduce it to only words that use the letters from the phone number to create a poem. This was great fun, of course.
Source Text: OF SIR LANCELOT AND THE FAIR MAID OF ASTOLAT from KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS: THE TALES RE-TOLD FOR BOYS & GIRLS by
HENRYGILBERT. 1911, furnished by the lovely Project Gutenberg.
Phone number: 867-5309 from the song.
an ode to guinness
to put off joust for stout
to set for stout of old
keep none not for rest
send me up to red
keep room
press of folk
found streets
press of souls
to sound end of love
love love tell me love
send forest to a rose
other phone number or phone songs also came to mind: Echo Valley 26809 by the Partridge Family, The Knack's Your Number or Your Name. All my references are from the late 70s/early 80s. I'm sure there were numerous other songs with phone numbers in the title in more modern times, but this is what I remember.
finally, a word or several words, of thanks to the Found Poetry Review, its editors, the poets who created the prompts and the participants and those of you who were reading along, who retweeted or commented or shared my poems. this was a joyous experience, sometimes daunting, sometimes so intriguing that I spent most of the day working on a prompt. it's been an engrossing and consuming activity. a great way to celebrate National Poetry Month. Thanks to all those who commented on my zany poems and shared your own. It's been fun reading your work and engaging with you.
poetry can lead to community. doesn't have to, but when it does, i find it rewarding.
poetry can lead to community. doesn't have to, but when it does, i find it rewarding.
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Jawan of Vellimala – Twitter Movie Review
Jawan of Vellimala, which releases today is being touted as one of Mammootty's biggest hits. The film stars Mammootty, Sreenivasan, Asif Ali and Mamta Mohandas.
Check out the Twitter review of Jawan of Vellimala.
Hearing really good things about #JawanOfVellimala. Cant wait to watch.. #JOV.
#jawanofvellimala #jov above average, half baked predictable thriller, ikka gets limited scope 2.75/5.
Aliya go for #jawanofvellimala it's really awesome with lot of twists n suspense Nice performance by all special Jawan of Vellimala y #Mammooty.
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The Full Service Cause Of Action
Without marriage there would be no divorce. True or False. From experience it would seem this proposition is false except for the strictly legal meaning of divorce. (Since no fault became the law of the land in California, technically we are not divorced – we are dissolved.) A growing percentage of the population does not bother to get that "piece of paper" that signifies legal marriage befo... Read More
Moving Away
Many litigants in divorce think that they will be free to pursue a new love or a new career or return to the nest provided by their parents. Certainly, the individual has a constitutional right to free movement. However, when there are children to the marriage, the parent may have to face the fact that moving children away from the other parent may be problematic. You can go but you cannot take th... Read More
What Is The Court Doing When The Bench Officer Is Using The Computer Then Comes Up With A Child Support Order That Makes No Sense To Me?
Clients are very frequently upset to learn that ALL of their income is included for purposes of calculating guideline child support. A fairly significant percentage of litigants have limited knowledge of the difference between "gross" and "net" income and are shocked that overtime and income from other sources will be included when the court makes the child support calculation. They will i... Read More
Why Lawyers Need to Ask and Clients Need to Tell?
There are two (actually many more) types of clients that make life difficult for their attorneys and, ultimately, for themselves. There is the client who has ceded control of the finance of the community to the other spouse and, therefore, knows little or nothing about the income of the community (sometimes even their own income) or the expenses of the community. Then there is the client who has e... Read More
What You Need to Know About Alimony in California
If you are headed for a divorce, you may be wondering if the judge handling your case will award alimony, especially if one of you earns significantly less than the other spouse. To help you gain a better understanding of alimony or "spousal support" in California, we have compiled a list of facts about this topic below. If you have further questions, we encourage you to contact our firm to... Read More
Can Domestic Violence Impact a Child Custody Case?
Sometimes tensions can run high in families, and it is not uncommon for parents to have differing opinions about how to discipline children. When does hitting or other acts of violence between spouses or parents and children cross the line into criminal behavior? In California, domestic violence means abuse or threats of abuse between partners, family members, and people who live together. Cali... Read More
How Do I Protect My New Business In A Divorce?
If you are starting a new business at or about the time you believe you will be filing for divorce, there are issues you should consider before you start the business. If you do not want your spouse to have an interest in your business you should file for the dissolution before you start your business. Also, if you intend to put community property into the business such as cash, you need to make... Read More
Get to Know the Law Office of Charles J. Morris, Jr.
Welcome to the Law Office of Charles J. Morris, Jr.! At the Law Office of Charles J. Morris, Jr. the client can always expect personal attention and dedicated focus on their case. We have a devotion and commitment that excels the expected standards and a distinct background for client care that few others can hope to claim. Attorney Charles J. Morris, Jr. and his team believe that everything �... Read More
Glendora Family Law Blog
If you are starting a new business at or about the time you believe you will be filing for divorce, there are issues you should consider before you start the business. If you do not want your spouse to have an interest in your business you should file for the dissolution before you start your business. Also, if you intend to put community property into the business such as cash, you need to make ... Read More
What Does it Mean to Establish Paternity?
What does it mean to "establish paternity?" It is defined as establishing who a child's legal father is. When two people are married when a baby is born, the law automatically assumes that the husband is the child's father. However, that is not the case when the child's parents are not married. When the parents are not married to each other, paternity will have to be established legal... Read More


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Headline cast negative lightMarch 22,2014Head smears city
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Many Herald readers have long lamented the fact the there is all too often a clear disconnect between an articles chosen headline and the words included within the piece itself. This is a simple fact of journalism that most of us accept as a necessary evil intended to sell papers or hook the reader.
However the March 21 headline Middlebury College students to study citys trouble spots is misleading at best and outright fraudulent at worst.
The students from the Middlebury Environmental Studies Senior Seminar program chose to focus on Rutland due to our successful rebirth and the positive buzz our community is receiving throughout the state resulting from our transformation as a forward-thinking hot spot.
Whoever is responsible for choosing the headline did a true disservice to both the environmental studies program and the community at large. To qualify our Creative Economy initiative (downtown revitalization, Wonderfeet Museum, bike path, etc.), our vibrant local foods system, and our energy innovation vision as trouble spots is simply beyond the pale.
When meeting with the students, I told them that our greatest challenge in Rutland is often ourselves. We at times can be a self-loathing bunch who unwisely focus on the negative instead of celebrating all the great things about our wonderful community. Your headline proved my point.
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When I move a post in a custom status ("Submitted") from one day to another on the calendar, the post date information is lost.
For instance, I move a post from September 1 to September 8. When reloaded, the calendar shows the post on September 8. When I click on the post to edit it, the post date information has been reset to "Publish Immediately."
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This happens most of the time, but not every time.
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Moyes was unable to clear up that Rooney's own intention was to stay at the club when repeatedly asked if he wanted to leave or not.
It took all of a couple of questions before journalists approached the subject of Rooney's future at the Scot's first press conference since he was appointed as the new manager at Old Trafford.
He provided assurances that the England star would be staying at United and repeated that he will remain at the club.
He said: "Wayne is not for sale. He is a Manchester United player and will remain a Manchester United player.
"I have had several meetings (with Rooney). He has been training very well. I have seen a glint in his eye and he looks happy."
Further questions were put to him, including one in which he was asked whether Rooney had categorically said he wanted to stay at Old Trafford.
"I can tell you categorically that Rooney is training fantastically," was Moyes' reply, but he refused to expand further.
Rooney's future has cast a huge shadow over the early stages of Moyes' tenure as he replaces Sir Alex Ferguson.
Chelsea, Arsenal and Paris Saint Germain have all been touted as suitors for the England striker but Moyes has categorically stated that the England striker will stay at Old Trafford.
Moyes gave a composed performance in his first press conference, revealing that Ferguson had told him of his retirement plans before confirming: "And you're the next manager."
He stated he would be grateful for his predecessor's help and counsel, and would try not to change as he takes the Old Trafford hotseat.
"All I can do is do what David Moyes has done before," he said. "I'll continue the traditions of the club."
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Live-Blogging the Ira Sohn Conference
The Ira Sohn conference has produced its fair share of memories for the investing world.
Legendary short positions, unique bull trades and big stakes are likely to be revealed — all in the name of charity, of course.
This year's roster included Bill Ackman, David Eihorn, Stanley Duckenmiller and a dozen other stars on the investing world.
MoneyBeat was live from the conference in New York for the day. Here are the highlights:
Paul Singer Takes Stage
Welcome aboard, folks. The Ira Sohn conference is underway and Paul Singer has just taken stage.
On the banking system
Singer is talking about banks and how they've shifted how they operate and make money in recent decades. Leveraged trading and derivates have taken over in the profitability and business plans of the major global financial institutions, he says.
Warning: This is rapid-fire
The conference is aiming to keep all presentations to 15 minutes each, so get ready for some rapid fire ideas from these guys.
Lessons of the financial crisis
Singer described banks prior to the crisis as opaque and very highly leveraged. "What we found out in the crash is the natural limit of leverage," he said.
Regarding so-called value-at-risk, or VAR, as a metric of measuring the health of a financial institution, he didn't hold back his disdain. "Anybody that thinks VAR is an appropriate framework…is saying something that I deeply don't agree with," he said.
When it comes to the Dow trading at 15000, he says there are distortions between the markets and the economy. "The average person is paying a lot of money for the necessities of life," he says, as they're worried about jobs in an economy basically experienceing recession level unemployment.
This distortion is helping to fuel class warfare and political resentment, he said..
"That's a posionous atmosphere to rely on the private sector to generate growth," he said.
Bond prices
On bond prices, Singer said there's distortions in markets across the globe. He says prices in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Japan are mispriced. He also said he's not recommending people short bonds, but that merely there are distortions in these markets right now.
Kyle Bass takes stage
Hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass, who has made plenty of money betting against the Japanese yen, begins his speech by saying he'll offer an update on his view on Japan. Looking forward to that one.
Bass Makes Case for DexOne
Bass is making the bullish case for DexOne Corp., a company which just emerged from bankrupcy. Says it could be a company that could emerge with a solid turnaround plan over the next three years. "It's a big event driven idea in our portfolio," he says.
The new sheriff
Bass has a slide up with the new head of the Bank of Japan dressed as a cowboy. Yup. HE calls Kuroda the new sheriff
Bass Sees Yen 120
Bass forecasts the yen could hit 120 over the next couple of years and Japan's CPI could hit 2%.
Preferred shares
Lu is pitching an idea involving preferred shares in South Korea. Generally these securities, he says, trade at a steep discount to their value because of confusion about whether they are equity or debt. He isn't talking about a specific one, just the way all preferreds trade in South Korea.
Li Lu takes stage
Having a bit of technical difficulties, but we're back! Li Lu is next on deck. Talking generally about investing, he says it's an excellent study of psychology and the degree of irrationality always amuses me.
Preferred Securities
In terms of Korean preferred securities, Lu says there are several trading at discounts.
Lu makes the case that there's "virtually no reason other than liquidity for Korea to be treated differently than any other country."
Behind Schedule
We're three speakers in at the Ira Sohn conference and we're already 10 minutes behind schedule. Each speaker is supposed to speak for only 15 minutes at a clip. Time to pick up the pace, folks!
Keith Mester Steps Up
Meister, an Icahn protege, is a value investor and currently chief investment officer at Corvex. Prior to Corvex, he was the CEO at Icahn Enterprises from 2003 through 2010.
Low Interest Rates
Mesiter says spread etween debt and equity is "as wide as ever."
THat leaves plenty of options for companies to make purchases and create growth.
"We want to take advantage of interest rates being so low," he says.
Big Data
Big data is something Meister says he wants to take advantage of as part of his investment philosophy. Growth in data over networks is "up and to the right," he says.
"I do know for sure there will be more data over networks both in consumer and networks," he says.
Mesiter says he will be disclosing a 13d disclosing a 6% position in TW Telecom. He also notes his firm own 3% in Level 3.
TW is "substantially underleveraged," he said. Level 3 has historically been "over leveraged." Both have great assets and great scale, he says.
Level 3 can be a consolidator in this business, he says. TW telecom can grow organically and at the right time can be bought.
He says Level 3 is a scale aset, a "real estate" play. Its balance sheet historically was a liability, he says, but in the low-interest rate environment, the company has been able to refinance and improve its books.
"Level 3 reminds me of Sprint," he says. "When people start believing in the story, we think there's asymmetry to the risk/return and the downside risk has largely been removed."
He says TW Telecom could be a great takeover target for some of the big telecom operators, such as Verizon, CenturyLink and AT&T as well as cable operators such as Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Cablevision.
TW Telecom is a company that lots of people would want to buy at the right time, Meister says. "This is a company that doesn't need to sell itself, it will get bought," he says.
TW Telecom has $38 value and 40% upside, he says. But he also stresses that the company shouldn't sell itself today. It should buyback stock and keep growing its businesses. "Time is our friend. we get paid to wait owning these securities," he says.
A bit of a break here from the fast-paced Wall Street chatter, although what's being talked about on stage right now is just as important. The Ira Sohn conference is a benefit that raises money to benefit the treatment of pediatric cancer and other childhood illnesses. Cindy Campbell is on stage explaining how cancer unfortunately struck her child. She touts the amazing inroads that have been made in battling many different forms of cancer and how much more work needs to be done in this area.
Bill Ackman waits on deck.
The emcee of the event is encouraging people to donate money. "It'll help with the karma of your trades," he quips.
Ok, here's Ackman…
Ackman Up
"A rising tide is a good gamble," is how the slides of his Procter & Gamble presentation begins.
A suprise
Ackman gives Herbalife some relief by focusing on P&G
About P&G: "We think this is one of the great businesses of the world, underearning relative to its instrinsic earning power."
Ackman is touting all the products people use on an everyday basis: Head & Shoulders, Gillette razor blades and Crest toothpaste. All are P&G products.
He's a Crest and Gillette man
In case you were wondering, Ackman says he's used Crest as long as he can recall and uses Gillette razors. So there's that.
P&G jhas 25 "billion dollar" brands, which could each be quality standalone companies, he says.
He touts the emerging markets presence that P&G has, even though most people don't think of it that way. About 40% of P&G sales are from fast growing emerging markets, he says.
Earnings power: Why is P&G under-earning, he asks.
Some high praise
Even though he's been a bit of a stick to P&G, Ackman is starting by playing nice here.
He says "the people are first class" and that "the culture is of winning."
P&G has a bloated overhead cost structure, he says. But most of the issues P&G suffers from are readily fixable and P&G's brands and products are generally in a strong position, he says.
On to revenue growth. He says P&G should generate consistent 5% organic growth. Sees emerging market growth at 7% to 10%.
On to profit margins. He thinks gross margins are 200 basis points below where they should be. Company should be able to generate 24% EBIT margin, which would be a susbstantial increase from current levels.
Where's the Herbalife talk? So far Ackman has spent his entire segment talking about P&G. Let's get to the juicy stuff.
The ABCs of P&G
Ackman is sort of deep in the weeds here. He is talking about margins at every business level and the cost-of-goods sold and adding up everything he uses to get to his margins. It's a lesson for valuing a company.
Ackman says P&G's gross margin should come somewhere in the range of 52% to 54%.
Ackman compares P&G to Colgate: If Colgate can achieve profit margin at 51% and its only 1/5 the size of P&G, then there's no reason P&G shouldn't be able to achieve a higher profit margin, Ackman says.
An Ackman Never Forgets
Ackman pulls out a P&G quote from 2005 when it bought Gillette, which has the company pledging to get operating margins up to a level where Ackman thinks they should be. They are still where they were.
Ackman moves on to his firm's engagement with P&G. "Our approach has been to work quietly in the background but be really direct with the company," he says.
He says CEO Bob McDonald has been distracted by outside interests, noting he was on 21 other board of directors (excluding P&G) when he took the CEO position.
Ackman estimates all of these commitments take up 25% of his time. "These are real board, not boards where you just show up and put your name on a list," he says.
Friendly advice?
Ackman sounds a bit docile about all the "suggestions" Pershing has made to P&G over the past year, share buybacks, operating lagging, management changes. Just a hypothesis, but it may be he was just suggesting, but it's unlikey P&G took it as friendly advice.
P&G has recently taken encouraging signs, Ackman says, and progres is being made.
However, "results are still lagging peers," Ackman says. And shareholders are monitoring the situation closely.
Key metric that needs to be achieved is 5% top-line growth, improvement in global market share and margin improvement.
Ackman says he got his idea for P&G after reading The Wall Street Journal about analysts critizing management.
We'll assume a thank-you note has been sent, Bill.
In February of 2012, CEO McDonald said personal accountability for excellence and execution is absolutely critical.
"The CEO is saying all the right things," Ackman says.
Ackman says the intrinsic value for P&G is $125 a share in two years. The stock is currently trading around $78.
ON valuation, Ackman says there's limited downside as P&G is trading at a lower multiple compared to most of its peers.
If P&G doesn't show much improvement in the next few years, he says that would be a time to consider a change in leadership. There are very good candidaties internally and "very interesting" candidates externally, he adds.
Ackman's speech is over. No mention of Herbalife at all. What a bummer!
Ok, intermission time. MoneyBeat will take a short break. We'll be back shortly.
Stanley Druckenmiller
We are back and now up is Stanley Druckenmiller, who used to be an associate of George Soros and now manages his own family money. He has been pretty active talking about government spending and deficits.
Short-term market great, long-term ugly
Druckenmiller's presentation is titled "The Commodities Conundrum."
He says he like the market short term, isn't looking for a correction, but hates it long-term.
No fan of Bernanke
Druckenmiller is blasting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, calling quantitative easing nonsens and a "nuclear weapon."
He says the policies will end badly and are warping the financial world's asset prices.
No bear market
Druckenmiller professes he doesn't know when the Fed's policy of easy money will end, but notes that "Listening to the chairman, he is not about to go wobbly anytime soon."
He adds that he sees no condition for a bear market until the Fed changes, so expects markets to keep rising.
Bernanke v Kindergartner
Druckenmiller shows a slide he says shows the impacts of QE on the markets and notes even a kindergartner could tell what's happening.
High stakes
Druckenmiller warns that "Were the fed to signal the end of QE … the 5-year bull market will end."
Boy, Drunkemiller is super down on Fed policy and super bullish on what Japan is doing. "I think the Japanese policy is much more appropriate," he said. "Japan actually has been in deflation for 15 straight years and has had a depreciating currency against the dollar."
Druckenmiller has moved onto Japan's central bank for a bit. Says the changes there would be like Ben Bernanke replacing Paul Volcker on a Saturday night.
Commodity Supercycle is over
And onto commodities, where Druckenmiller says the so-called supercycle is ending and he's betting it is over.
Druckenmiller says their is a "poisonous cocktail" in commodities in China.
Short Aussie
He wants to avoid all commodity currencies like Brazil, Canada and says you should short the Australian Dollar.
Also avoid commodity reliant companies
Druckenmiller says you should also avoid any commodity-heavy companies.
More on Australian dollar
Druckenmiller says he expects Australian Central bank will lower the interest rate even further.
"We think the Australian dollar … will come down and will come down hard," Druckenmiller says.
He says it has been hanging up with commodities but that it is too high at this point, with an anecdote about a friend telling him about soaring prices there.
And Google!
Druckenmiller has a concluding final bullish position: Google.
He says he "can't imagine" a greater bet than it in technology and makes a slight dig at people crowding into Apple, without naming Apple. He rambles off a bunch of Google advancements, Google Glass, Google Car etc.
And concludes it has "no exposure to China."
Up now is Mitchell Julis
Speaking now is Mitchell Julis of Canyon Partners
Julis is pitching his idea of Clear Channel Outdoor.
CCO Jumps as he speaks
Julis says the stock is depressed and its shares are now up about 6%.
Complex but pays out
Julis says the stock is complex but has been a good return for investors.
Oh, and Apple
And Julis chimes in with an Apple recommendation too, even while noting Druckenmiller's slight dig at the company.
Dinosour laughs
Julis just got the biggest laugh of the day by showing an old cartoon with a pair of dinosaurs staring at Noah's Ark and saying "Oh crap, was that today."
Crowd ate it up.
Steve Eisman Steps Up
He'll be talking about the housing markets in both the U.S. and Canada. He has more than 20 years of investing experience.
Eisman, who was shorting mortgages during the housing crisis, says: "We're still fairly close to the bottom," although recently there have been some positive signs in the housing market.
Home building stocks are no longer cheap, but they're also not pricing in how much fundamentals have improved, he says.
He says he likes three home builders: Lennar, Standard Pacific and Pulte Group. He likes Lennar for its land, Standard Pacific for it having a presence in hot markets and Pulte Group for its valuation.
He also likes Forestar Group, a relatively small stock but one that has great potential, he says. "The key to the story is the 136,000 acres of entitled and undeveloped land," he says,
He said the stock, currently trading in the low $20s, is worth $30.
Now, he's talking about Colony Financial, another small housing play that Eisman says has plenty of potential.
High praise for how undervalued Ocwen Financial is right now, he says. "Once in a while you come across a stock that is completely and utterly mispriced. And that stock is Ocwen Financial."
OCwen, is "perhaps the most powerful yet most counterintuitive play on housing." He touts its great valuation and how its a way to leverage up the housing market right now.
Ocwen should pursue a combination of stock buybacks and acquisitions over the next three years, he says. What's the stock worth, especially since it's a growth company with 7 P/E ratio.
"I think the stock is completely mispriced," he said. "I'll just say the stock price is undervalued by a lot."
On to Canada
Eisman now takes his comments to north of the boarder. He says Canadian banks hold high leverage ratios and "almost unreal domestic ROEs." That's because of the large quantity of insured loans.
Remember in today's paper, WSJ highlighted how Canada looks like a tempting target for short sellers.
The country's commodity-and-debt-fueled boom has slowed, and consumer debt is at records. There are concerns about a housing bubble after residential-property prices surged nearly 90% over the past decade. And some analysts smell trouble from the economy's reliance on natural resources, as commodities prices fall and the U.S., long an importer of Canadian crude, produces more of its own oil.
Thus far in 2013, Canada is off to its slowest start since 2009 in terms of housing sales volume, he says. As this metric falls, inventories remain high. And housing prices are seeing year-over-year declines, albeit small decreases.
"Let's assume we're right and the bubble cracks, what will be the impact on Canadian banks," he says.
Canadian bank stocks are overearning he says, and are not pricing in potential rising credit costs.
Now he's moved on to Home Capital Group, the largest non-prime mortgage originator in Canada and only listed north of the border. He says it has been "very aggressive" in growing its non-prime mortgage balance sheet.
"If housing rolls over, this company is going to have problems," he says.
He says the stock is very expensive at current levels.
With regard to the Canadian housing market, he's particularly concerned about the future. "We think it's too late for a soft landing."
African Bank's name is a bit of a misnomer, he says. "We would not be surprised if the losses we expect African Bank to incur in its portfolio would yield similar results to some of the biggest U.S. banks that struggled (and failed) during the financial crisis.
He's talking about South Africa, and specifically the National Credit Act, which provided greater interest rate flexibility, capped interest rates and fees, and an affordability test.
He said this act created a series of unintended consequences.
Another heart-warming video playing on the screen right now about the benefits of the Ira Sohn foundation.
There's currently a magician on stage throwing around a ball. MoneyBeat is intrigued.
Now there's an empty trash bag and he's put the balloon in there. In that there's a piece of paper in which the magician had written down what would happen. It happened. You don't need the details. He's a magician.
Whole crowd wants his magic on stocks not balloons.
He just asked what the market closed at yesterday. No one shouted out the correct answer. No one. Room full of traders and investors and not a single one.
He asks one random person what the Dow will close at on Oct. 31 this year. Man says 1300. Apparently a bear.
Ok seriously. Magician. There's a "press release" in a secret sealed envelope that just had written on it everything the random audience gave him. It was pretty wild…but you kinda had to be there.
Jim Chanos
Not exactly a magician, but a pretty successful trader, Jim Chanos is taking the stage now. Best known for shorting Enron, lately Chanos has taken a short position against Hewlett-Packard.
Tech talk
It looks like Chanos will be talking tech. His presentation is titled "Mobile Computing Revolution: Collateral Damage in Hard Disk Drives."
Chanos jokes he isn't talking about Brazil, another favorite short of his. Teases Paul Singer that there are a lot more Brazilians than there are people in Argentina. Tells Steve Eisman he'll have his back in Canada, again with tongue in cheek.
"I'm working my way through the continents, shorting the largest countries."
Tablet Revolution
Onto the tech portion, Chanos says growth in tablets has only just begun. And that even though the "death of PCs" is a much-talked about phenomenon, the drop-off hasn't really occured.
He also takes a bit of a shot at those looking to turn to servers, which have tiny sales compared to PCs and tablets.
Hard-drive companies
Chanos gets to the point: He believes the hard-disk drive story is a value story.
Specifically, he is talking about Western Digital and Seagate Technology.
What's he saying?
It is difficult at this point to tell if Chanos is long or short the disk-drive companies. Russolillo is betting he's short. I think he might be long.
He's bearish
Chanos is saying they are facing industry challenges, including from the cloud. And Russolillo wins. He sounds pretty bearish.
On Seagate, he is saying the picture is bleak.
Critical of management
Chanos is now alleging several top officers at Seagate have been engaging in "oppurtunistic" sales. He points to their selling as evidence stock may go down, a trend many investors point to as sign a company's outlook is looking weak.
Get out
"Insiders are getting out or leaving…probably best if you did too," he said, citing departures and insider selling.
Seagate down
Seagate shares are down about 3% in after-hours trading
Next up, Tor Olav Troim
Troim is a Norwegian businessman (with a very thick Norwegian accent). He's currently director of the Fredriksen Group and is a board member at Seadrill. He's speaking about the pros and cons of the shipping industry. MoneyBeat is already looking ahead to what Jefrey Gundlach and David Einhorn have to say. They're the final two speakers on the schedule and should take stage within the hour.
A short from Highfield
Highfields Capital Management's founder and CEO Jonathon Jacobson says he is here to talk about a short for the first time he's publicly talked. Last big short for Highfield, he says, was Enron and notes Jeff Skilling, himself in the news today, wasn't too kind to Highfield.
Jacobson says investors are bulking up on high-dividend yielding stocks. But not all dividends are the same he says.
And he reveals: Beware AT&T
AT&T not the short though
Jacobson calls AT&T's wireline business is a "melting ice cube" and that wireless business is becoming more competitive.
He also warns about Linn Energy.
But neither is his short case he's making today
Digital Realty Trust
His focus for the day is a company called Digital Realty Trust., ticker DLR.
He says dividend is unsubstainable and in trouble,
Digital Realty Trust is a data-center operator
What is DLR?
Essentially this company is a real-estate investment trust that hosts major data-centers and technology properties. It pays a dividend to shareholders based on the revenue it collects from its customers.
Why it's a different REIT
Jacobson says DLR is different from a typical REIT becuase it has low barriers to entry and becuase data centers can essentially be built anywhere.
He notes Amazon, Google and Microsoft are in the midst of a datacenter war.
DLR sliding
Shares of DLR are sliding in late trading, down some 7% to $64 as Jacobson goes on.
A spending question
Jacobson says the company is spending more than revenue on some of its properties, largely in incentives for customers.
He says the recurring spending per year is about $443 million, about 40% of revenue compared to what he says they say is 2%.
A $19 stock?
Jacobson lays the hammer: There is no way in reality they can pay the dividend and the stock is worth $19 if that's the case.
Shares are at $65 right now.
His "smoking gun"
Jacobson delivers what he calls his smoking gun: Digital, he says, changed the definition of non-recurring capex to include maintenance spending, in 2011.
Jacobson ends his presentation with a none-too-subtle allegation about DLR's dividend payments.
Clifton Robbins Now Speaking
Robbins is CEO of Blue Harbour Group, a firm that uses a private equity approach to the public markets, the speaker's bio says.
Robbins is pretty bullish on M&A, sees "a perfect storm" taking place sooner than later. "The seeds are sowed for lots of M&A," he says, noting how companies have plenty of cash on their balance sheets and the low interest rate environment make for an accommodative financing environment.
Robbins is touting Akamai Technology, a high growth networking company that will be a big beneficiary of cloud computing and big data trends.
He says 15% to 30% of the world's Internet traffic is touched by Akamai every day. It is a "singlularly unique business."
"Akamai is at the sweet spot of cyper security," he says, noting there are very significant megatrends driving its business.
"At a fundamental level, demand for all of Akamai services is tied to the Internet," he says. "This Internet is real and it's growing."
Gee, you don't say? What is this, 1995?
Another bullish note: Amazon is using Akamai to deliver its e-commerce business, he says.
That has to be good for something.
Stock is up 18% over the past three years, meaning its underperformed its competitors.
"This is a company that has very little downside," he says, noting even more upside if the company grows its business internationally better than people expect.
Akamai has about $1 billion in cash, 93% of which is based in the U.S., leaving it plenty of opportunities to be creative in future shareholder friendly policies.
Joel Greenblatt, professor at Columbia, is now talking. He spent a few minutes talking about Rasheed Wallace, yes the NBA player well known for holding the most technical fouls in league history.
Wallace was wellknown for saying "ball don't lie" when complaining about a call. That reference is relevant today, he says. When it comes to the stock market, "ball don't lie," Greenblatt says.
We're just glad we were able to reference Rasheed Wallace on this blog. Go Knicks!
Sohn Investment Contest winner is a Columbia Business School student, Simeon McMillian. He gets a few minutes to present some of his investment ideas. Congrats dude.
He's touching on the state of the media industry. and is touching on the state of the media industry.
"The death of broadcast has been greatly exaggerated," he says.
He laid out a bullish case for Tribune Co.
Jeffrey Gundlach Takes Stage
The second-to-last speaker has arrived. Gundlach is on stage, touting how his AUM has gone from $12 billion to $60 billion since he first appeared at this conference a few years back.
Gundlach breaks out the history books to start his speech, giving lessons about FDR and Herbert Hoover that can relate to the state of today's economy. His speech is titled "Investment Cubism 2013."
Gundlach breaks out the history books to start his speech, giving lessons about FDR and Herbert Hoover that can relate to the state of today's economy. His speech is titled "Investment Cubism 2013."
Still talking about FDR…
We don't know either
Listen, we all love history, but where he is going with this remains unclear. Not sure he has an idea for 1933.
Investing during QE isn't normal
Gundlach on investing during QE: Investing on this basis is not timely
Bernanke a magician?
Gundlach says "Everything is backwards."
He calls Ben Bernanke a "magician" which raises questions about whether he was here watching the real magician earlier.
QE will keep going
Gundlach says he expects QE to continue. He thinks Fed minutes only show talk about ending it to show talk about ending it.
This is him bringing it back to all that FDR stuff.
Bernanke's bird
Gundlach utilizes as a slide a photo of Bernanke appearing to rub his temple with his middle finger. Says that's the communication strategy.
Stop focusing on QE ends
Gundlach says what investors should be asking is not when QE will end, but how to invest as QE goes on forver.
We got a comedian
Gundlach is laying into financial pundrity with some serious sarcasm. Notes hypothetical interview with a fictional "Maria" by the head of "Dewey, Cheatem and How." (Read that outloud.)
A picture is a 1000 words
Now he's got the famous picture of workers sitting on a beam to eat lunch as they build a skyscraper. He says that is like what QE is doing, making investors comfortable amid huge risks.
A French aside
Gundlach says if you really disagree that QE will go on forever, then you should short French bonds becuase France is "a basketcase" but QE props it up.
Short Chipotle
Gundlach's pitch
Short Chiptole. CMG
He says he likes the product, their burritos, but hates the chart.
"All you need to compete with CMG's core business is a taco truck."
That was one quick pitch
And that was really just tossed in there at the end for his investment advice, which is what they ask for.
That was about all he said about Chipotle.
Einhorn speaks!
We are now about an hour behind but the theatre is still pretty full. That's because David Einhorn is on now.
Einhorn notes that a rule of Ira Sohn should be don't pick on those coming after you. A direct reference to Stan Druckenmiller, who mocked his Apple call a bit earlier.
Oil States International
Einhorn says he is talking about Oil States International, which Jana Partners last week filed a 13D on.
What is OIS?
OIS is a low-cost provider for oil rigs, Einhorn says. Largely is an oilfield services company.
It has better margins
Einhorn says OIS has better margins than its peers but isn't getting credit in the market.
Tubular dude
Einhorn now talking about its second part of business, tubular products, which he seems to really enjoy saying.
Why they are special
Einhorn says OIS offers the energy companies a way to build, own and operate oilfields.
"Kind of like the Club-Med of oilfield services," Einhorn said
Expanding oil hotels
OIS, Einhorn says, is expecting big growth in these accomadations for oilfields.
Wondering what's happening?
Essentially Einhorn is building up this company piece by piece. He's likely to come out with some big number at the end.
And here he is with the sum of the parts: He thinks the company is worth $118 a share. It closed at $94.72.
Einhorn says he thinks Jana's plan to separate some of its operations off into a REIT can make sense.
What a REIT would mean
Einhorn says an OIS Accomadation REIT could be worth somewhere around $6.9 billion, or more.
And if that happened, OIS could be worth about $155 a share.
He says it sounds like Jana "might be onto something, and we wish them well, and we will sit back and enjoy the ride."
His presentation history
Einhorn says he's like to talk about his returns on these presentations.
He says they hold 17 of the 30 names he's spoken publicly about.
Some stats
Einhorn says he rarely trades within three days of a presenation and he has never decreased a presentation in that time.
He also says that a 1-year gain in U.S. longs has been 20.3% and the one-year impact on a U.S. short is about 23%.
He says foreign trades are bad.
13 of his 30 ideas lost money a year, later he adds.
Don't follow blindly
Einhorn reiterates a comment he's made before: Don't blindly follow him. He says he's heard some ideas today he plans to follow up on, but none he will trade in tomorrow.
That's a wrap
And with that investing advice, the 7-hour adventure is over.
We've had plenty of talk about the dangers of investing during QE, a short on the Aussie, a short on a burrito maker, a short on a datacenter REIT, a long on a oilfield services company and a phonebook provider, and much more.


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Hi gleenk, yes you might need to revert back to version 2.6. There is a configuration setting that I changed and it's apparently not working with a select few sites (although there should not be problems in theory).
It appears that this setting conflicts with certain themes that have heavy javascript functionality, and also we have noticed that on certain sites located in Germany, translations simply get translated incorrectly. This could be a server type issue too, but I have no solid info on this yet.
Download version 2.6 here, and let me know if that solves your issue.
Hi gleenk, did you try downloading version 2.6 to get translations working correctly? Please let me know.
I'm going to close this as "resolved" tomorrow most likely.
I'm closing this, as I have not seen the website above, and also no response for two weeks.
Please post here if any related issues arise.
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Participants that dropped in to view the service display snacked on free hot dogs donated by Max Meat while learning information on how to devise a successful hurricane evacuation plan.


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For i'm far from the norm
Don't try to contain
All that's in my brain
This normality,
makes us insane
"In a mad world,
only the mad are sane"
Insane Normality by AmberZ-ArtThingsWatch
©2012-2016 AmberZ-ArtThings
I want this to be longer, i just can't think of anything else to write o: Or maybe this just sums it up?
Perfect as it is.
hee hee, i put yourpoem on the computer at my school, i hope it inspires someone
Love it. Nice alliteration.
Just great! Love it!
It would be sane to make it longer :S ... do you want to contain it in such a manner ?
This is awesome!
As an insane insomniac, I can definitely relate to this. "Only the mad are sane." I like that part the best :3


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Demanding structurally novel commitments, the Anthropocene predicament offers the opportunity to make previously uncharted, transdisciplinary connections visible and to experiment with new forms of higher education. A deep integration of cross-disciplinary thinking, mutual learning, new modes of research, and civic commitment seem key for the future of universities, academies, research platforms, and cultural institutions as situated spaces of knowledge production and its dissemination.
In collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and renowned international partners, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt has developed an Anthropocene Curriculum that explores, in an experimental and exemplary manner, pathways towards a new interdisciplinary culture of knowledge and education. What should a body of "earthbound knowledge" contain, what forms of transmission are appropriate?
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Hacks 2015
The jury winner was Wobbla. Monster Pet Store won the Audience choice Award. Congratulations.
Also check out these write ups of the event:
- Wobbla und Monster beim TV Hackday 2015
- Creativity at TV Hack Day 2015
- TV Hackday 2015: Die Fernsehzukunft läuft auf vielen Bildschirmen
- CELLULAR @TV Hackday 2015
At TV Hackday, we'll hack the future of TV. Creatives, developers, designers, concepters and TV Stations alike will work together to do remixes, apps, hacks or the next TV Set. Anything goes as long as it is a TV related project that can be done in 24 hours.
TV offers a lot of possibilities to hack and with some brand new APIs that will be made public for the first time we'll have the opportunity to create something new & exciting.
Besides having a fun two days, we will demo the resulting hacks on Sunday afternoon to participants, a jury and anyone else interested. The demos will be live steamed. Also there will be prizes!1!
Developers, creatives, storytellers, designers, techies, strategists, producers, concepters and TV Fanatics! In short, everyone who loves TV and wants to make it even better.
TV Hackday is an event by Medienanstalt Berlin Brandenburg.
Academie Lounge
@ Potsdamer Platz
Köthener Str. 44
10963 Berlin, Germany
26.09. 10am –
27.09. 5pm
Please note our Code of Conduct for the Event.
We'll have Contents, API's and Devices from: Tagesschau, Mozilla, IRT, Metrological, RBB and various other partners at the event.
Tagesschau will provide us with the opportunity to use the data feeds powering their apps on mobile and connected devices. Participants get access to all the contents available on the various Tagesschau offerings in a structured way and can build new things on top of that.
Firefox OS on TV
Firefox OS is an independent alternative ecosystem free from the rules and restrictions of existing proprietary platforms. Developed by Mozilla and its global community, Firefox OS first launched on Smartphone and is now also available for TVs.
With its Horizon TV and media platform Unitymedia provides a multimedia set-top box offering high-speed Internet enhanced with digital TV and second screen apps. Unitymedia is delighted to support TV Hackday 2015 as a technology partner together with Metrological to enable everyone to develop the next big thing on the main screen.
Metrological enables a personalized TV experience, delivering a complete product suite to launch, manage and monetize branded TV app stores and user experiences. Leveraging its cloud-based Application Platform, Metrological delivers lifecycle app support to bring together all content sources into a single viewer experience across any device.
MIZ supports innovative projects and will offer consulting on funding and other forms of support during their TV Hackday office hours. If you consider next steps give it a try and talk to them about your project.
HbbTV 2.0 DIAL-Tools
HbbTV 2.0 DIAL allows second screens the automatic discovery of compliant TV devices on the home network. The apps can then launch arbitrary applications on the discovered devices. Moreover devices can use a WebSockets-based communication channel to exchange information between applications running on connected devices.
At TV Hackday, IRT provides you with an Android library and a Cordova Plug-in for Android that abstracts technical details of the DIAL specification. Moreover we supply an HbbTV-compliant video player that can be remotely controlled from a connected second-screen application via a Java or a JavaScript API respectively.
For the TV Hackday, IRT provides its broadcast and HbbTV media server called BRAHMS. With the software you can easily modify DVB transport streams to enable the signalling and delivery of HbbTV services.
Additionally, BRAHMS allows you to edit and schedule DSMCC stream events for creating TV applications that are synchronised with the broadcast programme. Moreover IRT will provide a ready-to-use hardware setup which eases getting started with the system and allows you to focus on your hacking.
Zeiss supports TV Hackday with two ZEISS VR ONE headsets for creative experimentation. The ZEISS VR ONE is a lightweight and open platform virtual reality headset with focus on best optics and ergonomics, allowing first steps in the world of virtual or augmented reality. The device works directly with smartphones, VR apps can be developed from the Google Play or the Apple App store with the help of either the original Google Cardboard SDK or the Zeiss VR One SDK for Unity 3D.
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RBB will provide us with three technologies/contents: ARD-Text, ARD Play-Out-Center (POC), rbb and Fraunhofer FOKUS - HbbTV Application Toolkit.
ARD Text will provide participants with content for the development of applications. The data sources for information exchange are available online and include text-based subtitle data as well as compressed video data from the ARD media library.
The POC provides this data to Hackathon participants in order to support the development of applications. The data is provided online via an RSS-feed and can, on request and by prior arrangement, be specifically configured.
The Fraunhofer FOKUS-developed HbbTV Application Toolkit (HAT) provides an efficient, easy-to-use and fast way of creating and maintaining applications for HbbTV. HAT is open-source and available on GitHub. At the Hackday, use the (Wordpress-based) Toolkit as the basis for creating interesting, new and innovative applications, or extend the toolkit by creating new modules offering interaction on TV.
Here's our wonderful Jury that's gonna have a look at your projects. They cover a wide variety of different disciplines and backgrounds and will help us see the bigger picture in your work.


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Three more showdowns before the Granddaddy.
Emerald Bowl
California 33, Miami 24: Cal has a big advantage playing what amounts to a home game, while Miami is 3,500 miles and three time zones away from its tropical climate. But most important: This is a veteran Bears squad that should be able to handle a talented but young foe. Cal running back Jahvid Best could stake a claim as a leading 2009 Heisman Trophy candidate with a big game against a struggling Miami run defense.
Pacific Life Holiday Bowl
Oregon 40, Oklahoma State 38: Go back and forth on this one because the Cowboys high-powered offense is a little more balanced than the Ducks high-powered offense, but just get the feeling a faster, more physical Pac-10 foe will be a shock to the Cowboys system. Oregon will start fast, OSU will rally and then the Ducks will wear them down with a steady dose of LeGarrette Blount in the fourth quarter.
Brut Sun Bowl
Pittsburgh 27, Oregon State 24: The Beavers would be the pick if both the Rodgers brothers were healthy, but both running back Jacquizz and receiver/scatback James are out with shoulder injuries, meaning 50 percent of the offense won't be available. Plus, there's the question about how Oregon State will respond after the Civil War blowout loss to Oregon and the stunning end to its Rose Bowl run. The Beavers have won four straight and five of six bowl games, but a steady dose of LeSean McCoy and some offensive struggles will make the difference.