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RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), a global leader in packaging solutions, today announced it has completed the spin-off and merger of its Consumer & Office Products business with ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE: ACCO).
As a result of the transaction, in addition to retaining the shares of MeadWestvaco Corporation common stock they currently own, MeadWestvaco Corporation stockholders received today 0.32986547 shares of ACCO Brands for each share of MeadWestvaco Corporation they owned of record as of April 24, 2012. No fractional shares of ACCO Brands Corporation were issued, and MeadWestvaco Corporation stockholders received cash in lieu of any fractional shares. Under the terms of the transaction, including a working capital adjustment, MeadWestvaco received $433 million on a tax-free basis, subject to post-closing adjustments.
"By spinning off the Consumer & Office Products business and merging it with ACCO Brands, we have created an industry leader in consumer and office products," said John A. Luke, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer. "This transaction creates substantial value for both companies' stockholders, and enhances MWV's focus on packaging solutions for the world's leading brands."
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About MWV
MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), provides packaging solutions to many of the world's most-admired brands in the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, home and garden, and tobacco industries. The company's businesses also include Specialty Chemicals, and the Community Development and Land Management Group, which sustainably manages the company's land holdings to support its operations, and to provide for conservation, recreation and development opportunities. With 15,000 employees worldwide, MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 nations. MWV manages all of its forestlands in accordance with internationally recognized forest certification standards, and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for eight consecutive years. For more information, please visit www.mwv.com.


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Biot, Jean Baptiste (1774–1862)
Biot began in his career in the artillery service but then entered science, becoming, in 1800, professor of physics in the Collège de France. Along with Arago, he was sent to Spain (1806) to carry out the measurement of a degree of the prime meridian, and in 1817 he visited England, and went as far north as the Shetland Islands, in order to make observations along the line of the British arc of meridian. He received the Rumford gold medal (1840) for his contributions on the polarization of light.
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With all the bells and whistles, Wilson Combat's update of the Protector is certain to turn shooters' heads.
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Beretta and Wilson Combat have teamed up to produced an impressive version of the 92G. Check out this video to see what these companies have cooked up.
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Everyone knows a Wilson Combat 1911 is top of the line. In this AR-15 review, Patrick Sweeney argues the same can be said for Wilson's AR-15s, including this one chambered for the 6.8 cartridge.
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24 bold images of home defense tactical shotguns.
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The process dimension.exe is a program used to customize MSN Messenger. The dimension.exe process is responsible for making the following tasks possible: adding animation and color to texts, personal toast creator, war tools (login flooder), and viewing and interacting with the raw MSN protocol. Another term used for the program file dimension.exe is Dimension configuration tool or simply Dimension. The file dimension.exe allows the user to send messages to other users as many times as the MSN Web Messenger would allow. By having the process dimension.exe run in the system, the user can write MSN messenger software or projects through the use of the MSN Web Messenger protocol. Moving texts and adding effects to the users nickname and to the text is possible through the customization of the MSN Messenger when using the file dimension.exe.
The MSN Web Messenger lets the user talk online and in real time with other users using just a web browser. To use the MSN Web Messenger the user must have an Internet connection (56 Kbps or faster recommended), a web browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.6, Netscape 7, or Internet Explorer 5 running in Microsoft Windows, and a Microsoft account that contains the users username and password. Hotmail.com and msn.com account can be use for login in to MSN Web Messenger. The MSN Web Messenger enables the user to have quick and easy access on the basic instant messaging features of a web browser on any computer without installing any software.
The file dimension.exe normally runs at start up and works on an active Internet connection.
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How did you set up your equations? Did you make sure your calculator was in degree mode?
Excellent checking, by the way! That's the right instinct.
so there is a right triangle
90 degrees on the bottom left 39 on the bottom right
and 12.1 in length of the hypotenuse
im told to look for all side
i tried using cosine and sine but my answers were
larger than the hypotenuse
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then after
you should get "a" by multiplying both sides by 12.1.
Did you end up with instead?
so you get "b" by multiplying both sides by 12.1.
You will get a value larger than the hypotenuse if you look for instead.
Why is that and why multiply both sides by 12.1?
skeeter's diagram is exactly how the picture is formed
so i tried the following
but now that u mention it
i forgot to multiply "12.1" to the cos(39) and
i saw that i screwed up the problem there resulting in 9.4 instead of 15
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Cradle of Filth
Cruelty and The Beast
February 1999
Released: 1998, Mayhem Records
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviewer: Joe
Cradle of Filth... A name that seems to be generating controversy in the metal community these days, a controversy due mainly (from what I've read, anyway) to their being labeled as a "black metal" band, which seems to be taken as an insult by fans of black metal. And to be honest, after listening to Cruelty and the Beast I can't agree with the black metal tag either. But however you wish to categorize Cradle of Filth's brand of metal, one thing is certain... This is an EXCELLENT CD!!!
Up until about six months ago, I hadn't even heard tell of CoF, but my interest was piqued after reading an interview with lead vocalist Dani and guitarist Stuart in a guitar magazine (No CoF transcriptions either... Just trendy corporate CRAP!!! But that's another issue...). Between what was said in the interview and the fact that they were even featured in an American guitar publication, I figured there had to be more to this band than the cheesy, pseudo-vampiric image they like to project. So after hearing a Real-Audio clip from Cruelty..., I decided to buy it. And I'm SO glad I did.
The disc starts with the eerie, atmosphere setting intro "Once Upon Atrocity" and from there segues into "Thirteen Autumns and a Widow", with the dark and foreboding atmosphere continuing throughout the entire CD. Not since King Diamond's "Abigail" have I heard any band manage to create a whole album with such a haunting aura (This in itself should be considered a great feat.). And while a black metal influence can be heard in nearly every song, a strong thrash and death influence can be heard on tracks such as "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids" and "Lustmord and Wargasm," with even a little bit of Iron Maiden creeping into "Beneath the Howling Stars" and "Desire in Violent Overture".
Lyrically, this CD is a concept album based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a European aristocrat who lived sometime during the Middle Ages (I don't know the exact time period...). She was supposedly a mentally disturbed nymphomaniac who, upon realizing she was getting older, began the horrific ritual of butchering virgins and bathing in their blood in a effort to retain her youthful beauty. And as disturbing as that sounds, when combined with CoF's exceptionally dark music, the macabre and erotic nature of the lyrics is extremely fitting.
So if you like your metal a little extra-dark, you may want check this out. And if you do, try to get the version with the bonus CD (the cover of Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is "interesting", to say the least). One last thing... Don't try using this disc for "mood" music when you're with your significant other; because if it does turn them on... You may be in mortal danger.
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I'm following Paleo related news these days. I found this one interesting.
Gym workouts and sunbathing do more for your brain than crosswords and Mozart
Doing puzzles and listening to classical music might improve your concentration momentarily, but they don't actually make you any smarter. That is, they don't improve your long-term brain function, according to The Economist's interview of Nicholas Spitzer, a professor of neuroscience at the University of California and editor-in-chief of BrainFacts.org.
"Let me dispel a brain development myth," Spitzer told The Economist. "Many people think classical music is going to enhance brain function (the Mozart effect) or playing particular games sharpens one's cognitive function. These theories have been looked at in detail and they don't stand up. It is disappointing in a way, but what we have learned is that exercise is the key thing for brain function."
Sunbathing is easy. I'll do that!


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Flu Spreads Across NY, Health Officials Say
New York health officials say flu cases have been confirmed in more than half the state and they're encouraging people to get vaccinated.
Last year, almost 1,200 people required hospitalization and one child was killed by the infection, which can be treated with antiviral medications.
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Today, the national Cooperative Extension Service engages citizens to improve economic development and quality of life by delivering research-based information in agriculture, natural resources, food safety and nutrition, economic and community development, and 4-H youth development.
Clemson Extension agents with primary agronomic responsibilities work closely with state extension specialists and researchers located on campus and at the various research and education centers located across the state. They provide expertise on topics such as production, pest management, harvesting, and post-harvesting processes for commodities such as soybeans, corn, tobacco.
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Saw Wai Hla earned a Ph.D. in physics (1997) from the Josef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana. After postdoctoral appointments at the INFM-ELETTRA synchrotron facility in Italy, and the Freie Universitaet and Paul-Drude Institute in Berlin, Germany, he joined the physics faculty at Ohio University in 2001. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2005 and then to a full professor in 2011. Since 2011, he has also served as a research group leader of the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Hla's research focuses on scanning probe manipulation of atoms/molecules, magnetic and superconducting molecules, and molecular machines on surfaces.


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The Italian city of Genoa is putting the finishing touches to a massive display of history, art and culture as it prepares for the start of the 50th Genoa International Boat Show October 2.
300,000 visitors are expected to converge on the northern Italian port city, which is putting as much effort into welcoming guests on land as it is at sea.
The event is expected to showcase 2,300 boats, 500 of them in the water which will be accessible using nine kilometers of pathways constructed over the sea.
The show, which is one of the largest of the year, is expected to host the debuts of over 500 new craft, with 36 percent of exhibitors from overseas.
On land, the city of Genoa has organized an impressive selection of events designed to appeal to visitors who aren't so keen to get their feet wet.
The Museo Luzzati is hosting a special exhibitions of the works of Flavio Constantini, and new exhibits have also been installed at the La città dei bambini e dei ragazzi (The City of Children and Teenagers) and the Acquario di Genova.
The Museo del Risorgimento will also be opening its installation of Il bacio di (The Kiss by) Francesco Hayez to coincide with the start of the show.
In Genoa's Palazzo Ducale cultural center, several events with a Mediterranean theme have been organized, including Mediterranea – Voci tra le sponde (Mediterranea – voices between the seashores), a meeting of writers, sociologists and philosophers and Meditazioni Mediterraneo, a multimedia and interactive journey exploring the different cultures of the Mediterranean Basin.
The Genoa International Boat Show runs October 2 – 10 in Genoa, Italy. Tickets are €15, concessions are €12 and children under the age of 6 go free.
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A Fantasy Medley 2 in Stock and Shipping
Yanni Kuznia's acclaimed new anthology, A Fantasy Medley 2, is in stock and shipping. We should be able to get everyone's copies in the mail before the new year ticks over.
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In A Fantasy Medley, editor Yanni Kuznia assembled a diverse quartet of stories from some of fantasy's most exciting authors, and the sell-out volume earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Now Kuznia returns with A Fantasy Medley 2, offering absorbing new tales of the fantastic from four of the brightest stars in the field:
With "Quartered," Tanya Huff returns to the world of her beloved Quarters series with the story of the young bard Evicka, whose mission to spy on an assassin brings peril, tragedy, and, ultimately, revelation.
In "Bone Garden," Amanda Downum revisits Erisín, setting of her critically lauded novel The Bone Palace from the Necromancer Chronicles. Deadly spirits are preying on the city's most vulnerable citizens in this story of secrets and sacrifice.
"The Sergeant and the General" finds Jasper Kent weaving a tale from the other side of the battle lines drawn in his Danilov Quintet, with a French veteran of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign haunted by more than just memories.
And in "Rat-Catcher," Seanan McGuire travels into the past of the October Daye series to pull back the veils on both the world of 17th century London theater and the faerie Court of Cats as two worlds collide in one of the greatest conflagrations in history.
Limited: 224 numbered copies signed by the authors and editor: $45
Trade: 1500 fully cloth bound hardcover copies: $20
From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):
"Subterranean staffer Kuznia keeps to the successful formula in her second four-story anthology: having successful authors write winning novellas that function equally as gateway introductions for new readers and exciting material for fans of their popular fantasy worlds. The best of these four is Amanda Downum's "Bone Garden," an exciting gothic tragedy set among actors and refugees in the world of the Necromancer Chronicles…"
From Library Journal:
"The second volume in a promising series…should attract most fans of fantasy, whether urban, epic, or classic."


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Apparently You're Supposed to Disapprove of Some Guy Named Grover Norquist Because He Wants Lower Taxes
It seems like the world has decided "Fiscal Cliff" is the term we're going to use when discussing these scheduled tax hikes and spending cuts that will usher in a new recession, etc. Everyone seems to agree that it's very important that we avoid this cliff, but not so important that we do anything serious to change the federal government's insane spending trajectory.
In the middle of all this silliness, there's a guy with a funny name who appears on TV frequently and says that maybe higher taxes isn't the policy our lawmakers should be pursuing. This guy also suggests that it just might out of control government spending that needs to be reined in. For making these completely sensible observations, this guy has been compared to terrorists and dictators. But who the hell is Grover Norquist anyway? Let's find out together, dear readers.
The story so far…
This guy
If you type "Grover Norquist is" into Google, the first four auto-complete results are: gay, evil, a Muslim, and a traitor. If you type "Grover Norquist is a" into Google, the next results are "douche" and "moron." It's safe to say this guy rubs a lot of people the wrong away.
At first blush, Norquist seems to be the latest Two Minutes Hate object among do-gooder-social-justice progressives everywhere. He's the latest version of the Koch brothers – a private citizen with the temerity to express his politically incorrect opinions regarding public policy in, you know, public. How indecent.
To be sure, none of us are above criticism, and Norquist does as much as anyone to invite vitriol, and no one could argue he is not a public figure. He's the founder and president of a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization called Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), which has existed since the Reagan administration. As head of ATR, he's a visible talking head on any number of cable news programs and online video segments. Norquist was a guest on Meet the Press just this past Sunday, providing a counterpoint to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Here's the video if you're interested (and surely no one would judge you too harshly if you weren't).
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Norquist is probably best known for ATR's Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Basically, it's a way for Republican candidates and officeholders to burnish their conservative bona fides by promising never to raise taxes. This Pledge more than anything else is the source of Norquist's supposed influence, and what makes him a target of lefty wrath.
At the time of this writing, if you go to the ATR website, before you can browse the site proper, you are encouraged to sign a petition related to the infamous Pledge: the unartfully named "Taxpayer Protection Pledge Signer Petition." This petition simply says, "We, the undersigned, urge Congressmen and Senators who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge to keep the promise they made to their constituents to not raise taxes. Washington has an overspending problem, not an under-taxing problem."
On its face, what's not to like? Anyone rational person knows that the federal government's dismal fiscal outlook is the result of overspending. It's a pity that rational people are in short supply when it comes to U.S. political discourse.
Basically, what Norquist does is ask politicians from one party to say that they won't raise taxes. For making this simple request, he is routinely portrayed as having some kind of iron grip on the Republican Party. CBS News ran a segment on Norquist's Pledge in 2011 (and re-aired it during the latest campaign), which was called "The Pledge: Grover Norquist's hold on the GOP." Here's an item from last month in the Washington Post headlined, "Will the fiscal cliff break Grover Norquist's hold on Republicans?" Former Democrat strategist and current CNN contributor Donna Brazile just wrote a piece this week entitled, "GOP, break Grover Norquist's grip on you."
When he's not being described as some kind of puppet master, Norquist is routinely condemned in harsher terms. Norquist is an ayatollah. Norquist is an evil overlord. Norquist is a terrorist. Norquist is in the same league as Ceauşescu and Mubarak. Despite his frequent public appearances, Norquist is a stealth tyrant.
Just because this guy asked some politicians to say they wouldn't raise taxes. Christ.
To be sure, there are plenty of reasons to criticize Norquist. Like most of your cable news talking heads, his public persona seems to be mostly shtick – and when you've got to live your gimmick, there are plenty of times when you're going to make an ass of yourself. Just a few months ago, Norquist called Jewish Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer a Nazi for introducing a piece of shit bill that would have forced wealthy people who give up their U.S. citizenship to prove that they did not do so for tax reasons. That was a very naughty thing for Norquist to say, and just because the Nazis actually did enact a very similar policy on its fleeing Jewish population in the 1930's is no excuse (probably) for overheated rhetoric.
But I get the impression that tasteless Nazi analogies are not why lefties can't stand Norquist. For your average patriotic liberal, punitive taxation is inherently good. It's an article of ideology among mainstream lefty Democrat-voter types that every dollar spent by the government on domestic social welfare programs is a dollar that is essential to the wellbeing of some disadvantaged person somewhere (very likely a minority).
Despite mountains of evidence that government spending routinely benefits all sorts of individuals and groups that are not poor, it appears that lefties just can't abide the idea of spending cuts. It's like they assume that even if we eliminate all middle class and corporate welfare, that maybe a poor person might get hurt by accident, so we just can't even think about cutting domestic spending. As an advocate for spending restraint, Norquist is essentially a secular blasphemer. As Reason editor Matt Welch observes in the above-linked item, "comparing a citizen's attempts to keep tax rates low with the behavior of murderous dictators reveals much more about the ideology of the analogists than of their target."
You don't have to like how Norquist conducts himself to recognize that what he says about spending is undeniably true. It ain't insufficient "revenue enhancement" (or whatever Orwellian term we're supposed to use for tax hikes these days) that's driving U.S. government deficits – it's out of control spending. Obviously.
President Barack Obama often talks fondly about the prosperity of the Clinton years. It's true that the U.S. did pretty well in the 90's, and as the above chart indicates, much lower government spending wasn't an obstacle to social justice. If Obama were willing to return to Clinton-era spending levels, I doubt Norquist and his fellow travelers would object too strenuously to Clinton-era tax rates. That would be a welcome compromise and – dare I say – change we can believe in.


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A lacklustre Manchester United failed to warm their fans as they overcame a tame West Ham on one of the coldest nights this year.
Maybe very few of us can imagine what it is like to start a match at minus-two degrees, let alone play 90 minutes or more. That is the only plausible explanation for a United team that, with a few exceptions, never got into second gear.
As United managed to sneak a win, we can say this was just like a training match. If West Ham had made something of the several attacks they had, we might instead have been branding United as disgracefully unprofessional.
For all the bluster in Sir Alex's interviews,the programme notes and the players' comments for the last 10 days that United are desperate to win the FA Cup, there was precious little evidence on the night.
Ryan Giggs tried in vain to drive United forward, supported by a few of his colleagues who may have been motivated by not wanting to spend any more than 90 minutes in the sub-zero conditions.
In fact at one point one might have concluded that they were trying to keep Jaaskelainen so inactive that he froze and was unable to save a surprise attack. Not to be. He remained confident and alert all night, as United shovelled one cross after another into his grateful arms.
There were few bright spots except the fleeting hope after the ninth-minute goal that West Ham might get a stuffing. There were plenty of talking points, however, and if Sir Alex wasn't hoarse from shouting at half-time, he probably was by 10 o'clock.
Ryan Giggs probably summed it up with his conclusion that there have been times when United would gratefully take a 1-0 win. This was the second time against West Ham at Old Trafford this season and both followed a similar pattern.
This time though being able to hold onto the single goal was less down to Sam Allardyce's defensive organisation and more to United's inept final balls and finishing.
Not a night for the connoisseur, but 10 changes; players rested for the Spurs match; job done and into the fourth round.
As a footnote, this was the first FA Cup match at Old Trafford for 677 days.


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The Department of Biological Sciences at Western Michigan University encompasses a variety of disciplines that involve the study of living matter in all of its wonderfully diverse forms.
Our department mission is to promote:
- Effective service and public outreach.
- Scientific research and discovery by its faculty and students.
- The education and engagement of students in the biological sciences.
Our goal is that our faculty and students are:
- Active and engaged in the pursuit and dissemination of biological knowledge.
- Productive and informed participants in the community.
Our faculty promote student success and critical thinking, with the goal that our students are recognized for their skills and ability to understand and communicate the significance of biological concepts, techniques and applications.
Assessment of our programs takes the form of how effectively we meet our intended student learning outcomes, and how we use this information to improve the design and implementation of our curricula and departmental infrastructure. We view assessment as a continual process of program design based on a clear mission with implementable goals, objectives and student learning outcomes.
Why should you study at WMU?
These are some of the compelling reasons to study at WMU:
- WMU has recently been ranked in the highest category of research institutions by the Carnegie Foundation, along with Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
- WMU has recently been rated as one of the nation's 90 best public universities by U.S. News & World Report, and among America's 100 best college buys.
- The Department of Biological Sciences has an energetic faculty with a very high rate of external funding.


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A fire races toward your house. This is definitely a stressful situation, but how you handle it may be programmed in your sex genes.
Fight or flight is typically a male response to this type of situation — sticking around to fight the fire or running as fast as you can away from it.


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I'm writing this post in a brand new editor. No, it's not a new Firefox plug like Scribefire and it's not a "focus first"-app like WriteRoom or Byword. Instead it's WordPress' own editor that got itself a nice facelift with yesterday's introduction of version 3.2. In particular I like that they've taken a leaf from apps like Byword and WriteRoom and implemented a "focus first"-full screen mode right there in the browser. Me, I like this way of writing and much prefer it over cluttered workspaces. In general, this editor feels solid and fast.
But besides this, there are also quite a few other changes.
The new version is tighter and snappier in general performance and (finally) support for IE6 has been removed, giving me yet another reason to tell people not to deal with that devilish piece of software ever again (yes, people still try to tell me that we should code for IE6 from time to time).
WordPress have also implemented "delta updates" which made the update go lightning fast. Not that it matters really (you don't update that often), but it's nice to see that they put forth the effort of doing stuff like this. It adds to a quality feel. As does the fact that WordPress' own standard Twenty Eleven-theme is now fully HTML5.


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The first day of rehearsals for the Las Vegas cast of Disney's The Lion King coming to Mandalay Bay in early May began as "all nerves," according to Disney chief Thomas Schumacher. "They had never performed it altogether, but by the end of the day, there was a whole new dynamic and a whole new energy.
"The first day ended with the entire cast singing 'Circle of Life,' and there was something about the chemistry that had even me tearing up and the cast crying. They were just standing around a piano and singing their guts out. There's just something about it that reinforces the reason the show even exists. It was deeply moving!
"Now I know already that when we perform the show for the first time in Vegas, it will be thrilling, deeply emotional and visually stunning!"
Thomas told me that he'd recruited the cast of "top draw people" from the Broadway and touring casts -- and even other The Lion King shows around the world. "Some of the kids we have were even born after the movie originally came out," he laughed.
"We've got a few local Vegas people in the cast. We've got some people who have been with The Lion King for a decade, and we've got some first-timers. … We have South African nationals -- I think we have nine in the Vegas cast.
"It's been a big cultural shock for them moving to Vegas directly from South Africa. We didn't even have time to educate them as to what to expect on the Strip! Their influences, however, are really important to the show and the story.
"I had dinner with the King of the Zulus when we were staging The Lion King for the first time in South Africa, and they gave us the first celebration chant. In Australia, we tried to recruit the Aborigines, but their cultural differences didn't resonate. But the Maori tribes from New Zealand proved to be very interested, and they got into a haku war chant.
"So the South Africans in the Vegas troupe led the first day's chanting. It was thrilling to watch them connect and have everybody joining in. That's really what it's all about. The Lion King has had a tremendous influence on their lives back in South Africa, and their actors in all of our worldwide companies have been able to send their salaries back to help build schools and buy homes."
Thomas explained what he builds from the first day of rehearsals: "It's of huge importance. It's not making a movie, and it definitely isn't a day at the office for regular people. It's getting everybody all together on a yacht they can't get off and starting out on a journey.
"You can't stage The Lion King. It is brought to life as an emotional experience. Physically, it is a very different and difficult production to stage, but you are looking for the emotional energy to erupt in order to project the essence and soul of The Lion King. I am so proud that we got that by the end of the first-day rehearsals. There were two specific moments of spontaneity from the ensemble when, as they read the script, they rediscovered the show's meaning. That's when I said, 'We've got it -- this is it!' They are really a sexy group of people with incredible energy and magnetism.
"Even Alton White, who has performed the show 500, 600 times, read it again alongside somebody who had never read it, and it ended up with everybody saying 'that was fantastic.' It's a very tricky thing to arrive at that transition of crossing the fine line between school and moving into summer camp. The cast may walk in thinking they know it, but that first day they relearn it as a whole new group of people wrapped up as total strangers. So they start at the very beginning, but, by the end of that day, they have become the tightest, closest family you can imagine."
The creative executive force behind The Lion King phenomenon was so relieved after the crucial day, he took off after the first rehearsal. "I felt so good, so comfortable with the cast. I will return for run-throughs when we move out of the studio and onto the stage. Then I'll travel back and forth from New York for the first night of previews and the full-blown premiere opening," Thomas told me. "I'm already that confident and secure. The circle of life is an extraordinary experience, and when our cast reached that on the first day of rehearsals, I knew we'd achieved the magic again, maybe better than ever before.
"We're in really good hands. Kissy Simmons, who starred in our original Broadway success as Simba, has come back for the Vegas production. We have one actor who has been in six productions of The Lion King around the world. We have an actor who has been in both the Australian and China productions. We have some from the previous London cast. We have enormous depth of experience from our South African contingent. It makes it all unbelievably charming.
"I couldn't have asked for a better combination of people. This is the best ensemble group we have ever assembled. I believe some of us are even daring to think already that the Vegas cast could produce the best show yet!"
Thomas wanted me to listen to the CD of the Japanese production of The Lion King. "They nailed it, too. There's something extraordinarily magical about this story and its music and songs. It has more meaning and relevance than ever before. Maybe it's the times we live in, the struggles everybody is facing. But even the Tokyo LP, performed in translation, sounds as South African as any production we staged there or elsewhere in the world."
I noted that it was impossible in show business to have everything 100 percent perfect, and I asked him what one thing he couldn't control and that would always worry him! He laughed and then admitted that his biggest problem was always having to "replenish the stock of children in the Disney shows."
"I can't control the fact that kids always grow up. That's just a never-ending, ongoing process and difficult because they start with us before they even get drama classes at school. We have to train the kids and provide acting classes. They often don't last very long because they grow up so quickly. I've actually had children go back and forth from The Little Mermaid onto Mary Poppins and into The Lion King. But after that, I lose them, so it's the one constant search that never ends to replenish the supply! Little Mermaid at this moment has a Flounder who was a former Simba!"
The Lion King first opened on Broadway in November 1997 and has been seen by nearly 50 million people worldwide. There are The Lion King productions in England, Holland, Germany, South Africa, Australia, China, Japan and France. The show with music and lyrics by Sir Elton John and Tim Rice has won more than 70 major international awards. It won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, eight Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.
Las Vegas cast members include Thom Sesma, who'll play the evil Scar; Alton White as the lion king Mufasa; and Marvette Williams as Sarabi. Buyi Zama of South Africa will play Rafiki (she has performed in all seven productions including the national tour and in South Africa); Kissy Simmons as the lioness Nala; and Clifton Oliver as Mufasa's son Simba. Duane Ervin and Elijah Johnson will alternate performances as Young Simba, and Young Nala will be alternated between Jade Nelson and Ruby Crawford.
Previews at Mandalay Bay begin May 5 and run through May 14, with the star-studded gala premiere set for May 15. Vegas Deluxe will have full photo reports and coverage throughout!


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Liberty Media Corporation (LSTZA) Q3 2011 Earnings Call November 8, 2011 11:15 AM ET
Gregory Maffei – President, Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Shean – EVP, Chief Financial Officer
Chris Albrecht – President, CEO, Starz LLC
Doug Mitchelson – Deutsche Bank
James Ratcliffe – Barclays Capital
Brandon Ross – BTIG
Benjamin Mogil – Stifel Nicolaus
Tony Wible – Janney Capital Markets
Martin Pyykkonen – Wedge Partners
Barton Crockett – Lazard Capital Market
Good day and welcome to the Liberty Media Corporation quarterly earnings conference call. Today's call is being recorded. This call includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including statements of our financial guidance, business strategies, market potential, future financial performance, new service and product launches and other materials that are not historical facts.
These forward-looking statements involves many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including without limitation possible changes and market acceptance of new products or services, competitive issues, regulatory issues that continue to assess the capital on terms acceptable to Liberty Media. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this call and Liberty Media expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Liberty Media's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
On today's call we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures including adjusted or EBITDA. The required definitions and reconciliations, preliminary notes, and schedules one, two, three, can be found at the end of the presentation. At this time for open the remarks and introduction I would like to turn the call over to the President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Greg Maffei. Please go ahead sir.
Gregory Maffei
Thank you, and good morning to all of you and thank you for joining us today and for your continued interest in the newly created Liberty Media. Today, speaking on the call I'll have Chris, who is our new lean created Chief Financial Officer, Christ Shean, and Starz CEO, Chris Albrecht. Also available on the call we'll have several other senior Liberty and Starz executives. All of us will be available to answer questions at the end.
Liberty Media was created by the split off which was finally achieved on September 23rd of Liberty Capital and Liberty Starz. Liberty Starz has one last quarter attribution issues around Starz Media still affecting the numbers. Going forward we will be clean. But looking at the business we had strong subscriber growth at Starz, subs were up over 9% and Encore subs were up over 3% over last year. We also had strong revenue and adjusted or EBITDA results. We debuted a new series Boss on October 21st to very positive reviews. I think it's a great show, I enjoyed watching it and I encourage you to look as well.
And, what many of you have been waiting for, we finally began repurchasing stock in Liberty Starz. We bought back $51 million worth or 807,000 shares through October 31st. Looking at Liberty Capital we made a strategic investment in Barnes & Noble through a convertible preferred stock. That stock converts into about a 16.6% common equity stake in Barnes & Noble. It has a 7¾ quarterly dividend. We also took two board seats at Barnes & Noble and we are excited about the things they are doing. Many of you yesterday saw the exciting announcement they made around two new nooks, an update to the Color Nook and an update to their lower end E-Ink Reader both of which garnered very positive reviews.
During the quarter we also repurchased a $169 million or 2.5 million shares of Liberty Capital. Looking at some of our larger constituent investments SiriusXM posted very strong results driven by an excellent operating performance. They ended the quarter with over 21.3 million subscribers.
Adjusted EBITDA at Sirius was up 16%, free cash flow was up 22% and they continue to reduce their financial leverage. We also saw very good results at Live Nation, another of our investee companies. Adjusted operating income at Live Nation increased just about 7%. The concert AOI adjusted operating income increased about 35%. Free cash flow was up almost 5% and we saw some excellent and exciting continued innovation there. High Facebook engagement, dynamic pricing tool they introduced which is looks at the inventory and tries to maximize the value of it for a venue owner, and a joint venture with Groupon which is a way to in an attractive fashion help make sure excess inventory is moved. All exiting and all very positive at Live Nation.
With that let me turn over to Chris Shean to talk in more detail about our financial results.
Chris Shean
Thanks Greg. The results for Starz for the three months ended September 30, 2011 include both the legacy at Starz entertainment business as well as the Legacy Starz Media business as a result of their reattribution that took place on September 30th of last year. So in order to have a better comparison we have also combined the historical periods so that we have apples-to-apples for this discussion.
Starz LLC's revenue decreased 2% to $389 million for the third quarter. This decrease is primarily due to a decrease in the number of theatrical films released on home video, a decrease in animation revenue and no theatrical films released in 2011 that's offset by higher effective rates and increased subscriber counts at the Starz channels.
Adjusted OIBDA increased to $107 million or 27%. At quarter end Liberty Starz had attributed cash of $1.1 billion and attributed debt of only $41 million. From August 1st through October 31st approximately 807,000 shares of L-Starz' common stock were repurchased at an average price $62.85, or total cash consideration of $50.7 million.
With that we'll have Chris Albrecht comment more deeply on events at Starz.
Chris Albrecht
Good morning. As Chris mentioned, the Starz business has again performed very well in the third quarter. Looking at Starz entertainment in addition to solid revenue and OIBDA results the flagship Starz channel ended the third quarter with 19 million subscribers, while Encore finished at 32.8 million subscribers. For year-over-year comparison Starz' subscriptions increased 1.6 million or 9% versus third quarter 2010 while Encore subscriptions were up 3% or 800,000 in comparison to the same period from a year ago.
We realized 71% of this flagship channel growth at consignment rate affiliates that's boosting our revenue and OIBDA results. However, the growth of our flagship channels during the third quarter of 2011 was tampered by a lack of access to marketing campaigns with certain consignment affiliates as well as a reduction in subscribers from one flat affiliate deal.
With respect to our digital business the terrific compliment of Starz's originals programming exclusive first run movies and our quality film library content, continues to draw great interest from current and prospective distributors in the marketplace. We're very pleased with AT&T U-verse launched our authenticated Starz online and Encore online services on September 30th.
On the Netflix issue as we've said on previous calls, maintaining the premium nature of our brand with appropriate wholesale pricing and packaging is critical to potential online distribution agreements. There were – these were the primary factors in our decision last quarter to enter into new discussions with Netflix. When we consider the underlying business we have with us our traditional multichannel distributors and studios, we didn't believe it was appropriate for the Starz brand to have our products included in a low cost service.
The third quarter marked significant progress on the Starz's original front with several developments that will impact positively our future original program. Da Vinci Demons will be the first original series that runs through our new development production and distribution partnership with BBC Worldwide Production.
This is an innovative arrangement that accelerates our ability to meet the ultimate goal of airing annually on Starz approximately 50 hours of original content. We have a structure to mitigate financial risk and reduce total programming cash expended. 'Da Vinci's Demons' is a historical fantasy set in Florence that tells the untold story of Leonardo Da Vinci during his wild youth in the age of the Renaissance. The story is written by David Goyer wrote Batman Begins, the Dark Knight and the upcoming Man of Steel.
Da Vinci's Demons and all subsequent programming produced with the BBC Worldwide partnership will debut exclusively in the United States on Starz. Our worldwide distribution TV group Anchor Bay and Starz Digital Media will distribute the programming across television, home video and digital platforms respectively in the US and English speaking Canada.
Last month we were also pleased to announce a two year overall agreement with Spartacus show writer Steven DeKnight. Steven is a wonderfully creative writer and his enormous talents will give us even more opportunities to bring premium fare to our channels.
For our current series Boss we've aired three episodes. We are three episodes into the eight episodes for a season, we're heartened with strong buzz in critical acclaim for the series. Interest from Starz affiliate to sample the first episode of the series was a record high for the company as more than 76 million multichannel households offered the first episode early to current and prospective Starz subscribers 1IN addition to online availability nationwide. We look for Boss to continue to build an audience particularly on the on-demand and online platforms and we were delighted to run it for a second season.
We expect increased marketing and amortization costs in the fourth quarter of 2011 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. These increased costs are associated with our new original series Boss and due to the fact that we did not have an original series in the fourth quarter of 2010. Spartacus returns to Starz on January 27, 2012 with Spartacus Vengeance. The second season will be an epic 10 episodes and there is great interest and enthusiasm around the globe from hardcore and casual fans alike. As you may have read yesterday we've green light for third season with an eye towards 2013 return.
Magic City makes its Starz debut next set in Miami Beach circa 1959, Magic City is an eight episode original series from Writer-Director-Producer Mitch Glazer and features great international cast led by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Olga Kurylenko. Magic City would showcase for prospective buyers at the recent MIPCOM global content market place event in Cannes. It was well received, as was the Spartacus franchise which continue to show global appeal. Starz owns all domestic and international rights to Spartacus and Magic City franchise including TV, home video, and digital.
Over to Starz Media, we have made good progress solidifying the flow of content at Anchor Bay with a consistent pipeline of new home video products from the Weinstein Company. Starz Originals, Anchor Bay Films and other licensed titles such as the Walking Dead from AMC.
Recent highlights at Anchor Bay include Spartacus Gods of the Arena, which is tracking on Parnell territories with a highly successful Spartacus season one Blood and Sand, which sold through the consumers more than 400,000 units in the U.S. and also the Walking Dead which is already sold through more than 500,000 copies to consumers of its season one.
With that I will turn the call back over to Chris.
Chris Shean
Okay, let's turn to Liberty Capital. Liberty Capital Groups revenue decreased to a $151 million in the third quarter and adjusted OIBDA remained flat at $25 million. The Liberty Capital Group had attributed cash and public investments of $7.1 billion and attributed debt of $750 million. From August 1st through October 31st 2.5 million shares of LCAPA common stock were repurchased at an average price $68.15, total cash consideration of a $168.5 million.
(Inaudible) repurchase assistance, reclassification of the tracking stock represents 41.3% of the original shares outstanding. The board recently increased the Liberty Capital repurchase authorization by $500 million and the current authorization stands at $637.8 million. I will turn the call back over to Greg to wrap it up.
Greg Maffei
Thank you Chris Shean, and thank you Chris Albrecht for the update on your business. We are pleased with the results of our businesses in what continues to be an uncertain environment for the consumer. Looking forward our priorities at Liberty Starz are to continue to execute on our original content strategy, to differentiate and strengthen Starz and its brand. We look to build and enhance our relationship with our existing and new distributors. We are evaluating opportunities for the cash on Liberty Starz and for more aggressive balance sheet management.
Looking at Liberty Capital, we also are looking to deploy or invest our excess capital in attractive situations. We look to rationalize some of the non-core investments that are on, that we hold and to aggressively manage the balance sheet at Liberty Capital as well.
We appreciate your continued interest in Liberty Media. We look forward to seeing many of you next week at our investor meeting. Stay tuned for more announcements. Thank you for listening and with that operator I would like to open up the call for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) We will hear first from Doug Mitchelson from Deutsche Bank.
Doug Mitchelson – Deutsche Bank
Thanks so much. Greg, you bought back stock at pretty terrific prices in the quarter average near their lows. I was hoping you could offer your share purchase velocity going forward. Is that just a value opportunity or do you expect more consistent share purchases looking forward?
Greg Maffei
Well, thank you for the compliment on our stock taking Doug. Look, I think we have a case where we try and have a consistent philosophy of return of capital but we also do on the margin trying to be thoughtful about leaning in more aggressively when the prices seem to fluctuate low. So we do not, as a matter of policy, indicate what our plans are in the coming quarter for share repurchase. But I can give you our overall philosophy is to return capital where we have its access and to lean in more heavily when we see attractive value.
Doug Mitchelson – Deutsche Bank
And on the tracking stock structure now that the length of split is completed given your long term strategy of trying to increase value of the stocks, can you talk a bit about the rationale behind having Starz and LCAPA sort of us tracking stocks going forward or is there a more ideal structure that you would consider? Thanks.
Greg Maffei
I think you noted our philosophy is for long term value and that is certainly what we are targeting. We think the tracking stocks have been useful in illuminating some of the operations that we have while retaining flexibility for us and some tax matters, and in terms of potentially changing the composition of businesses. We have no current plans to change our tracking stock structures, but it's also not inconceivable that in the future if there was – if we saw more attractive way to organize the stocks or more attractive way to utilize capital we could change the structure.
Doug Mitchelson – Deutsche Bank
Thanks very much.
We will hear next from James Ratcliffe from Barclays Capital.
James Ratcliffe – Barclays Capital
Good morning, thanks for taking the question. Two if I could. First of all can you talk about the prospects for getting the Starz online content distributed more widely among your existing MSO, DBS, Telco distributor base beyond basically Dish and Comcast the other major distributors. And what the gating factors around having that happen are. And secondly, could you clarify why there was the Starz capital loan in the quarter given that LCAPA seems to be having a lot of cash? Thanks.
Greg Maffei
Chris, do you want to talk about the first part?
Chris Albrecht
On the online distribution we tried to work with all our distributors to give them the full array of products that we have available including our online products. Several distributors want them integrated into their own platforms. We also realized the value of having our own platform as we see the consumer being interested in that. As we announced Starz Online and Encore Online were just launched by AT&T U-verse and we look forward to more discussions with our traditional distributors and certainly also look to discuss with them any opportunities that we might have together to get our products to them in packages that are more interesting and advantageous to the consumer.
Greg Maffei
Chris Shean, do you want to talk about the loan?
Chris Shean
Yeah, in anticipation of the spin off there were some cash balances inside LCAPA that we could not access on a near term basis, and as a result we couldn't place this short term loan across the groups.
James Ratcliffe – Barclays Capital
Great. One follow-up for Chris if I could. Could you just talk a little bit about what sort of response you've gotten from your core distributor partners from walking away from the Netflix transaction, how that's been received?
Chris Albrecht
Well, I think that would really be a question that you would be better asking them. I mean we made the decision for ourselves, we looked at the overall Starz business, we evaluate any decision with the net long term benefits to Starz. This was a decision that we were very comfortable with and it was consistent with things that we have said about how we are handling our business and certainly consistent with how we look at it going forward
But if I could add one thought here. The actions we took as Chris has noted were taken because we believed in the premium nature of our product and how it's best placed in the future. Many of our traditional distributors have embraced that notion fully and I think actions which we took which were consistent with their distribution philosophy are only going to be well received and have been commented upon favorably.
James Ratcliffe – Barclays Capital
Great, thank you.
We will hear next from Richard Greenfield with BTIG.
Brandon Ross – BTIG
Hi, it's actually Brandon Ross for Rich. A couple of questions. First, you mentioned earlier that some of your distributors were not marketing as effectively as other distributors. Just wondering if you could speak to which ones those are and what the issues are?
Greg Maffei
Well, I think you heard recently from one of the major MTBB that they have realized that they would like to focus or refocus their efforts in the premium category. We certainly agree with that decision and look forward to seeing the mutual benefit of that work going forward. Also, well, with regard to your question in the marketing campaign, I think I'll stand by that statement.
Brandon Ross – BTIG
Okay. And with regard to Dish, is the blockbuster movie pass and what they are doing with it permissible under your existing agreement?
Greg Maffei
Yeah, I mean the blockbuster movie pass is really more analogous than authenticated service. I mean you have to be a Dish subscriber in order to have it. So, we have a very strong rights possession with regard to our ability to distribute digitally and the blockbuster movie pass is just one of the ways that our distributors are taking advantage of the services that Starz is going to offer them.
Brandon Ross – BTIG
Great, thank you.
We will hear next from Ben Mogil from Stifel Nicolaus.
Benjamin Mogil – Stifel Nicolaus
Hi, thanks, good morning. And sort of just following up on the last question. What you guys are looking at is for the premium category in general and couple of DMSOs where we are obviously cautious on the demand trends. Do you think that as you sort of leave Netflix potentially that helps out? Do you think this is an issue, an economic issue? Like I'm sort of curious from a higher level perspective how you sort of see the issue that DMSOs are talking about and sort of what's your best sort of game plan within that environment?
Greg Maffei
I'm not really sure when you say what issues DMSOs are talking about, could you clarify that?
Benjamin Mogil – Stifel Nicolaus
Sure, yes. I mean couple of DMSOs were noticing a very weaker demand for premium channels. So, I'm kind of curious when you look at that and you look at sort of – the consumer is still under pressure. Is your perspective that as you continue to sort of work more closely with them that's the best for you and that you will eventually get some more marketing support which was sort of weak as you noted earlier this year.
Greg Maffei
Yeah, we haven't seen weak demand. I mean, we certainly have seen subscriber growth and when – this is really, I think it always has been a question of marketing and focus, and we certainly see the premium business as a win-win for distributors and obviously for the premium brands. And they cement in a lot of product, they pull through a lot of product through, and we think that they are realizing the value of those brands and certainly don't want to turn their backs on a business that's been good to everybody. I hope that answers your question.
Benjamin Mogil – Stifel Nicolaus
Yeah absolutely, thanks.
We'll take our next question from Tony Wible from Janney.
Tony Wible – Janney Capital Markets
I was hoping if you could speak to Starz Media and how we should be thinking about the pipeline of product there. And also on that business, what do you guys think about the margin structure, is that just going to be more of a variable cost thin margin business or do you expect to see some scale in that business at some point?
Greg Maffei
With regard to the first question, there's been some transition in the sense that when Anchor Bay released the overture titles that was revenue flowing in, whereas with the Weinstein deal we have a distribution deal with them. And that's – because of the distribution deal with another company we're also not in charge of what the actual release pattern is, how much marketing support were behind it. So there's going to be some variables just in the content flow. I mean with regard to certain numbers we also in the last week of September released the Gods of the Arena box set and the Camelot box set. So, the third quarter was barely affected by that. But I do think going forward this is a variable business and we certainly look to scale it by trying to leverage that platform not just with our product but with third party product like what we've done with Walking Dead. And Anchor Bay also serves a very important strategic function for the Starz channels providing us with a lot of low cost theatricals that help us meet our distribution deal requirements. So, there is a good strategic and financial reason to have it, it is in areas that are obviously more variable and lower margin than premium television business is.
Tony Wible – Janney Capital Markets
Okay Thank you.
We'll take our next question from Michael Lima (ph) PSM Investment Management.
Unidentified Analyst
Hi it's Rich Fuwadi (ph). It's been a long time. For the first time in over two years or year and half, getting opportunity to reconstruct your balance sheets to be optimized, and that's a huge opportunity. You talk about, a, the relative level of leverage you would like to have on each of the two entities, which I know you've discussed in the past. But then, b, a more sophisticated variation on that, which is how do you compare the efficacy of buying back LCAPA versus buying back Liberty Starz. I know you can't give us the numbers of the thresholds but talk about the methodology where the philosophy that you use to allocate capital between the level. So what's the right debt leverage and how do you calculate the efficacy of buying back stock of the two entities?
Greg Maffei
Okay. First on relative level of leverage, I think for the long term the right level of leverage of Liberty Capital is effectively zero. It hold basically very little free cash flow generating assets, it holds mostly a portfolio of investments on which we have substantial value but we don't get substantial cash flow. We have a de minimis amount of assets we consolidate and have access to that cash flow, and when you look at the overhead of the company and flexibility it's going to be virtually zero.
Starz, I think it's a conservatively, you know, conservatively it's a business that could probably support three times leverage. It's a well run subscription business with high free cash flow generation. So it's the right time, over the long term I would say that's the kind of the balance sheet we can support. When you look at the share repurchase it's a little bit of two different decisions. One is a capital allocation issue between investment opportunity externally at Liberty Capital and share repurchase internally. And when we see NAVs that are attractive on the – of the value of the between our own NAV and what the external market place is, and we find that the underlying securities are relatively attractively priced we execute, and we have been doing that and bought back at Liberty Capital over 41% of the stock and driven up the NAV by something like over $30 per share. So that's been very effective.
At Liberty Starz it's a little more complicated, only because we've talked about some of the strategic issues that we're looking to get completed over time. Chris mentioned some of those today and I'll reiterate just in case it's not clear, continue to grow original programming strategy, continue to improve our relationship with existing distributors, continue to grow our distribution base, resolve on how we're going to fund some of that original programming, and some of these we've done and checked off. For example, you know, we cleaned up Starz Media, and while we cleaned that one up we've set in place a form of the turbo project we outlined with the BBC, we've begun original programming with some great efforts and more ahead expected.
So, we are sort of in a transition process towards what we think is a more certain business there, and we began – because we've seen some of that to dip our toe in on share repurchase we've more confidence. Not a statement about what we're going to do going forward but that's some of the factors that led up to do the share purchase today. I don't know if that's helpful Rich in outlining some thoughts.
Unidentified Analyst
Yeah, just one quick follow-up. So, essentially the comparison between buying Liberty Starz stock versus buying Liberty Capital (inaudible).
Greg Maffei
I should have been more explicit. Those are two separate decisions. They have their own cash which has been attributed to each. On the margin there are some liabilities that they share but those really, given how strongly capitalized each entity is, do not come into play or has not come into play in our thinking about share purchase. Each is riding on its own tug.
Unidentified Analyst
Terrific, thank you so much.
We will hear next from Martin Pyykkonen from Wedge Partners.
Martin Pyykkonen – Wedge Partners
Yeah, thanks. Good morning. A question on premium versus older library content. When you listen to last couple of weeks the media companies largely speaking are kind of having in my opinion a feel there in terms of what they are able to license namely the Netflix and what they are getting. And Greg you've mentioned in the past you think it's likely that somebody else from a digital syndication side would recognize a premium value. I think the names are kind of obvious Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. without being named specific. Could you say what you think would be best expectations that if there is going to be a deal of that sort of premium from a non-traditional digital syndicator I think a lot of investor expectations thinking something would happen within a reasonable period, I don't mean next week, but within the next several months. Should people be thinking that way or is this a much longer term solution from your side and their side as you see it?
Greg Maffei
I will comment on that and ask Chris to add if he wishes. Look, I think you will see digital distributors recognize the means of competition and the ways of competition in the market place may vary. You are seeing some already have different philosophies and I think they will begin to segment differentiating some will recognize the value of premium and price accordingly and setup an offering accordingly. That's probably an action or a strategy that we would embrace. Chris, do you want to add anything?
Chris Albrecht
Yeah, I mean, I think with regard to the first thing you mentioned about other people licensing content, I mean when you look at the list of titles a lot of the stuff that gets licensed are things that Starz or Encore brands would never license. It's too deep old library product. With regard to entries into the digital space that might be interested in creating premium tiers I mean that's really the prerequisite for us is are there new distributors that are interested in doing business that's consistent with the goals that we stated. And, certainly there are a lot of conversations going on and we will look at all of them and evaluate the long term benefit to Starz while also taking into consideration our relationships with our current core distributors and our studio partners.
So, it certainly would seem that there is a bright future for new interest in our products but it's a road that needs to be evaluated on almost a weekly basis and have prudent long term decision-making thinking at forefront.
Martin Pyykkonen – Wedge Partners
Okay. And then just one question on the original side. You've always done a great job, and it sounds like a lot of good scripts and all coming up going into 2013, 50 to 60 hours, four to five series kind of in your plan. Given back to the question of, you've got a lot of capital structure headroom there. Could you – and kind of other plans to notably increase that at any time in the near future in terms of the run rates because it seems like you do that, do it well and you can have lot of capital bandwidth, this will do all the other things, just curious if that will go up.
Chris Albrecht
No, we think that 50 to 60 hour model along with our two terrific output deals, Disney and Sony, which are locked in for the next few years at least, are a very good program mix especially given the strategies that the two other major premium brands have. I think it nestles us in a very interesting place. I think we are priced very well with the distributors and we are very comfortable with that model going forward.
Should we see some unexpected increased revenue show up we will certainly look at how we might best deploy that to get the best return, but right now I think we are very comfortable with the model that we are working towards and don't have any concrete plans to alter it.
Martin Pyykkonen – Wedge Partners
Okay, thanks.
Our final question will come from Barton Crockett from Lazard Capital Market.
Barton Crockett – Lazard Capital Market
Okay, thank you for taking the question. I wanted to ask about the comment about growth in marketing and amortization cost at Starz during the fourth quarter. Can you give us a little bit more elaboration? I mean what degree of growth, I mean, are you going to be able to grow EBITDA. That's my initial question.
Chris Albrecht
The answer to the first part is we didn't have a series in the fourth quarter of last year, so we had a series in the fourth quarter of this year and obviously we had to market that. But as I just said before our plans going forward have taken that into consideration and as we look at our programming costs on both on the film side and on the original programming side, we are going to be very comfortable with the fourth quarter strategy of having Sirius air along with robust marketing campaigns and still be able to grow the bottom-line of the company and hopefully as well the top-line of the company.
Barton Crockett – Lazard Capital Market
Okay, all right. Switching gears a little bit to capital, SiriusXM has expressed an interest in wrapping up share repurchase, but they also made a comment at least at the Merrill Lynch Conference that they don't want to increase Liberty's control over the company. That raises questions about prospects for some type of agreement perhaps freezing your boarding interest or some other type of unlocking of your Sirius position. I was wondering if you could comment on your openness to those type of arrangements and your interest in doing that or what the timing might be of working an arrangement with Sirius?
Greg Maffei
We haven't had any discussions with them on that topic.
Barton Crockett – Lazard Capital Market
And that's something that wait until March of 2012 to even began or?
Greg Maffei
They have said in the past that when their leverage gets to reducing of level that they will consider what to do with their – you know, to return the capital to shareholders or whether they would seek that and I guess at that time we may have that discussion.
Barton Crockett – Lazard Capital Market
Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Greg Maffei
Thank you. Thank you all for joining us today and we look forward to seeing as we said many of you next week in New York.
This concludes today's Liberty Media Corporation quarterly earnings conference call. Thank you for attending and have a good day.
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The Little People (The Twilight Zone)
|"The Little People"
|The Twilight Zone episode
|Episode no.
|Season 3
Episode 28
|Directed by
|William Claxton
|Written by
|Rod Serling
|Featured music
|Production code
|Original air date
|March 30, 1962
|Guest appearance(s)
Joe Maross: Peter Craig
"The Little People" is episode 93 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 30, 1962 on CBS.
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|The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.
Astronauts William Fletcher, the can-do captain, and Peter Craig, the malcontent co-pilot, set down in a canyon on an alien planet to repair their ship. While arguing, Fletcher asks Craig what he would want if he had things his way, and Craig responds that he'd like to be the one giving the orders. Shortly after saying that, Craig hears a sound, though Fletcher does not.
Craig goes scouting over a period of days, leaving Fletcher to repair the ship. One day Craig returns, strutting a bit, and Fletcher asks why he does not seem to have drunk any water in the past two days. Fletcher discovers that Craig has found water and calls him a cheat.
Pressed, Craig reveals that he found a city populated by people no bigger than ants, and takes Fletcher to see them, revealing that he used mathematics to teach them how to communicate with him. He says he loves having an entire population terrified of him, and refers to himself as a god, saying that they've "been created in his image". Fletcher says they are people, "no different than we are." Possibly. But in another scene "they are no different than us."
Craig begins terrorizing the population by crushing three of their buildings. Fletcher knocks him out, apologizing to the tiny folk. Later, Fletcher goes looking for Craig to inform him the repairs are done and they can depart, and finds that Craig had forced the tiny people to build a life-size statue of him. Fletcher asks him what he gives in return, and Craig says he will not crush the life out of them. Fletcher tells Craig that they picked a "corker of a deity," and calls him a "sick, scared little man filled with delusions of grandeur." Craig pulls a gun on Fletcher and orders Fletcher to leave the planet without him. Fletcher does his best to talk Craig into coming along, telling him he'll be lonely, but Craig fires at the statue, blowing off the head, and again orders him to leave, saying "this is a monotheistic society; just room for one god."
Fletcher leaves disgustedly, and Craig gloats over the city, throwing the broken-off head of the statue at the city, cackling maniacally and saying they must not anger him as tiny voices cry out in panic and tiny sirens begin to wail.
Shortly after, another ship lands. Two spacemen, taller than the mountains, emerge (they're repairing their ship). One of them picks Craig up and accidentally crushes him. The Little People rejoice at the death of their bullying "god," pulling the statue of Craig down, on top of his lifeless body.
Closing narration[edit]
|The case of navigator Peter Craig, a victim of a delusion. In this case, the dream dies a little harder than the man. A small exercise in space psychology that you can try on for size in the Twilight Zone.
In popular culture[edit]
This episode has been parodied several times in other television series: The Simpsons in the episode "Treehouse of Horror VII" the segment 'The Genesis Tub'; South Park in the episode "Simpsons Already Did It"; Futurama in the episode "Godfellas"; and in the "Rick and Morty" episode, "The Ricks Must Be Crazy". The last line in the episode—"I'm the God!"—was used as a recurring joke during the first few years of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0
- Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0


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Objective: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of, and associated factors with, anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) among HIV-positive men evaluated at public health services in Brazil.
Materials and Methods: This is a multicenter cross-sectional study of HIV-positive male patients attending 6 public AIDS referral clinics in urban Brazil. Participants were interviewed for sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics. Anal swab specimens were collected for anal cytology and HPV DNA testing using L1 polymerase chain reaction. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to evaluate risk factors associated with the presence of low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) and/or high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL).
Results: Anal swabs were collected from 343 participants. Prevalence of LSIL/HSIL was 24.8%. The majority (60.1%) reported sexual intercourse with both men and women in their lifetime. At least 36.7% had 1 or more oncogenic HPV types. Four variables were independently associated with the presence of LSIL/HSIL in multivariate analysis: history of sex with both men and women (odds ratio [OR] = 4.8) or men only (OR = 6.2) compared with those having sex with women only; current cigarette smoking (OR = 2.2); current CD4+ level between 200 and 500 cells/mm3 (OR = 2.9) or below 200 cells/mm3 (OR = 3.8) compared with CD4+ level above 500 cells/mm3; and presence of oncogenic anal HPV infection (OR = 9.6).
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Danielle Staub Is Reportedly Returning to 'RHONJ', Hallelujah!
Hold on to your hats Housewives fans, this news is going to blow you away. In what is a long overdue move, Danielle Staub, the queen of crazy, may very likely be returning to The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Yes, the "prostitution whore"/"sociopath"/"crazy bitch" (as the other housewives not-so-lovingly referred to her) may be coming baaaaaack. Oh happy Housewives day! In Touch has the scoop from "a show insider" who says Bravo has offered her a contract. "Danielle is contemplating whether this will be full-time or part-time," the source said.
I don't want to get our hopes up too high, because we've heard
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The producers squeezed all the juice they could from the Giudices-versus-Gorgas story line and had to think of a fresh outlet for drama. Having her (Danielle) back on will ruffle a lot of feathers!
And we need some feathers ruffled! While this season delivered some pretty good drama, it was the Giudices doing all of the crazy lifting. The rest of them, especially grumpy, holier-than-thou Caroline Manzo, have long overstayed their welcome, and it's time to get back to the hair-pulling, psycho antics that made us love RHONJ from the get-go.
We need Danielle and her scary, ex-con friends and her seedy past to keep RHONJ from sinking. Danielle is the crazy captain who can save this ship, so I say, come aboard.
Are you excited to learn that Danielle Staub may be returning to The Real Housewives of New Jersey?
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by arusse1018November 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Omg she is so crazy. Next season will be so much more drama filled I can't wait. I'm a total Real Housewives junky.
by shadenn766November 15, 2012 at 5:27 PM
i liked her...she's no more crazier than any of the other ones...lol...
by babygomezNovember 15, 2012 at 5:30 PM
Yes! Lol I'm probably one of her very few fans.
by anxiousschkNovember 15, 2012 at 6:22 PM
Excited? No. Dismayed? Totally. Girl has some serious issues.
November 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM
I love all of the housewives shows but she kind of irritates me.
by mightymoNovember 15, 2012 at 8:31 PM
they must need ratings
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CUs Leery of Appraisal Rule Changes
WASHINGTON -- A federal proposal to make home appraisers more independent of financial institutions would do harm more than good and increase costs for consumers, according to officials of the two leading credit union trade associations.
A requirement to ban persons involved in the financial institution's lending activities from doing home appraisals would badly hurt smaller credit unions, according to NAFCU Senior Vice President of Government Affairs B. Dan Berger.
The provision would require those credit unions to "incur significant costs that they must in turn pass on to borrowers," Berger wrote Freddie Mac.
CUNA took a slightly different tack and in its letter to Fannie Mae urged the agency to include a provision providing exceptions for lenders with assets of $250 million or less.
Berger expressed concern that that the proposed requirements that credit unions select, retain and provide all compensation to appraisers "place undue burden on credit unions and are cost prohibitive." He said existing rules, such as requiring that lenders use only appraisals from licensed appraisers, are sufficient to ensure appraiser independendence.
The proposed rules changes were developed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as a result of an agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo following his investigation of appraisal fraud. Though both of the government-sponsored mortgage investors denied wrongdoing, they signed an agreement with Cuomo to overhaul their appraisal practices.
CUNA and NAFCU objected to a proposal to require credit unions to establish a hotline and e-mail address to receive complaints about the appraisal process.
Both said it duplicates a requirement being imposed on the Valuation Protection Institute, an oversight agency that will be funded by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
CUNA also called for the rules to take effect on loans issued on or after Jan. 1, 2010, a year after the proposed effective date of Jan. 1, 2009.
CUNA Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Mary Mitchell Dunn said the proposed regulations are a costly overreaction to the recent difficulties experienced by some homeowners.
"Because credit unions are not-for-profit, the costs are passed on to borrowers. They will be paying for these rules, which are an attempt by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to deflect some of the heat they have taken for not having done enough to protect consumers," she said.
The public comment period on the regulations ended on April 30, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have said they plan to issue final regulations this summer.


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RCRTC offers youth capital tour
Roosevelt County Rural Telephone Cooperative is making preparations for the 2006 Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. June 3-7. Letters and applications have been mailed out to area schools. Any student who is a junior in high school and whose parents are RCRTC members (prefixes 273, 274, 253, 276, 477, 478, 482, 675) may fill out an application.
This is an opportunity for a high school junior to experience the world of telecommunications and government as well as sightsee. It allows students to meet other high school students from rural communities across the country.
For more information, contact school counselors or call RCRTC at 226-2255. The application must be submitted to Roosevelt County Rural Telephone by Feb. 10.
CSC offering utility bill relief
Community Services Center will begin to administer the PNM Good Neighbor Fund to help the public with utility gas relief. The purpose of this program is to assist residents within Roosevelt County who are financially unable to pay or who have had a crisis recently that has caused them a financial burden.
Drop by Community Services Center, 1100 Community Way in Portales to pick up an application. Appointments will be made for Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.


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