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Bailter Space (a.k.a. Bailterspace) was an atmospheric noise rock band that formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1986 as Nelsh Bailter Space; they had previously recorded as The Gordons. Its members were Alister Parker (guitar, bass), John Halvorsen (bass, guitar), and Brent McLachlan (drums/percussion, samples). After releasing seven studio albums, numerous EPs/singles, and a career retrospective compilation, Bailter Space is assumed to be on hiatus or disbanded as of 2007 After several releases on Flying Nun, fledgling New York City indie label Matador Records signed them for release in the United States, in approximately 1990. Thermos was actually intended to come out on Matador, and it even has a (blank) roster spot in the official Matador discography; however, Matador never released a Bailter Space full-length until Robot World. The 1992 The Aim EP was the band's first official U.S. release. The band moved to New York City during the 1992 Robot World sessions, and would end up living there on a fairly permanent basis. The EIP EP was released, containing slightly-remixed versions of two Robot World tracks and two that would appear on the forthcoming Vortura. I became endlessly hooked on them after seeing EIP video on MTV's 120 minutes hosted by Henry Rollins, and I never stopped being a true fan. Allthough Vortura is a more agressive and focused work, Robot World is my first love and my favourite Bailter Space album 1993 Robot World Matador/ Flying Nun - - FNCD259, OLE 50 http://www.badongo.com/file/7202992

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A week ago I didn't know what an NPC was. Now I know it stands for non-player character. mentioned first in a SLED message and subsequently by Art Fossett. Art has developed an animated robot that fronts a pandorabot service (I recall something similar but less chic on Shimmer Island). The picture shows my SLeek av on the SLashup Space on Eduserv Island (a bit dark but I forgot my flash). Pandora does a good job of interpreting my chat until such time as I resort to my usual strategy of inserting a typo. Not quite ready for total SL domination just yet. Latterly Art has gone the extra step of making his bot av (Primart Fossett) the frontend to his twittering. I shudder to think where this is going to end: student-bots are a distinct possibility. However, there's manifestly scope for a pandorabot to assist in orientation as well as in role-playing games. Of course, a HUD (heads-up device) interface might be more convenient in the former case, if only to explain the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms). I'm starting to like my SLeek av's anonymous appearance for touring in though it isn't interesting enough for teaching use. For some reason I'm feeling drawn to characters from the 30s-40s of which more anon. I don't know whether Ordinal Malaprop (the renowned scripter/builder of the Caledon Tram and various more warlike devices) would find this era entirely sympathetic as I guess it runs parallel to Caledon steampunk. We would at least entertain a shared delight in the widespread use of the King's English (none of this lazy "lol" stuff) even if classes would need to be half as long again. Anyway, this is just an excuse to point at this blog post wherein the aforementioned lady has her say on "wagering", "baccarat" and the recent ban. I wonder how Pandora and Ordinal would get on? Showed the build to Hiro yesterday. Being a maths prof, he instantly spotted some dodgy seams. I forgot to mention the "biologists, +/- 10%" excuse. I guess Second Nature isn't out of the question just yet. Went to Education UK to have a look at the sexual health build produced by folk from the University of Plymouth (and noted builds from Derby and Hull nearby). Nothing immediately useful microbiology-wise that I could see. Gratified that I got the quiz right and won a texture (gee, thanks). Wondered whether this constituted a game of chance had I just been guessing (I wasn't concentrating when the first question was posed so the answer to that was indeed a guess). Didn't think there was much scope for selling the texture on at a profit though... And no, I haven't been to the Relay but that's merely par for the course (remember the "pattern"). Also noted: this report on use of virtual worlds in life sciences teaching in US community colleges, worth reading more for the generic recommendations than the life sciences content; An earlier JISC-sponsored one.

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by Jon C. Ogg Date Created: 2/15/2006 9:06:00 AM EST (ANF) Abercrombie & Fitch $1.80 EPS vs $1.78e. (BCSI) Blue Coat Systems fell another$2.00 after-hours after guidance was lowered again after earnings. (BLK) Blackrock is reportedly signing almost a majority ownership stake with Merrill Lynch. (CEN) Ceridian $0.32 EPS vs $0.25e. (CEPH) Cephalon $0.82 EPS vs $0.74e. (CMX) Caremark $0.55 EPS vs $0.55e; raised lower-end of band. (DB) Deutsche Bank gets US Atty probe on sheltering client investments according to NYTimes. (ECA) Encana $2.71 EPS vs 1.31e, R$ way ahead so better check for joint-venture or other contributions. (ENDP) Endo Pharma up 4% after earning beat by $0.05. (FTI) FMC $0.44 EPS vs $0.53e. (GNTA) Genta looks up $0.20 pre-market on positive drug data. (IM) Ingram Micro $0.54 EPS vs $0.48e. (INTL) Inter-Tel $0.33 EPS vs $0.40e. (IRBT) IRobot $0.00 vs -$0.04e. (JNY) Jones Apparel $0.48 EPS vs $0.45e. (JOE) St. Joe's CEO is retiring. (KEA) Keane $0.16 EPS vs $0.12e. (KOSN) Kosan CEO resigned. (KVHI) KVH Ind. $0.07 EPS vs $0.06e. (LGBT) Planet Out $0.04 EPS vs $0.04e. (LVS) Las Vegas Sands $0.33 EPS vs $0.27e, but filed to sell 55M shares for selling holder; stock was down $2.00 after-hours. (MDRX) Allcripts filed to sell 7.3M shares. (MOG/a) MOOG priced a 2.5M share secondary at $31.00. (MPX) Marine Pdts $0.11 EPS vs $0.11e. (MSFT) Microsoft has to repond to EU charges by deadline of today or face daily fines. (NRCI) Nat'l Research $0.22 EPS vs $0.17e. (PENN) Penn Nat'l Gaming $0.45 EPS vs $0.43e. (PFCB) PFChangs $0.34 EPS vs $0.33e, but lowered 2006 EPS to $1.30 vs 1.68, number may have options or other charges though. (PGN) Progress Energy $0.63 EPS vs $0.53e. (PLAB) Photronics $0.21 EPS vs $0.14e. (QTWW) Quantum Fuel gets US Army pact. (RES) RPC $0.33 EPS vs $0.29e. (RNWK) RealNetworks beat earnings but traded lower on guidance and items. (ROL) Rollins $0.13 EPS vs $0.12e, only 2 estimates. (RRA) RailAmerica $0.24 EPS vs $0.23e. (SAS) Stratasys $0.30 EPS vs $0.26e. (SNDA) Shanda rose 3% after filing disclosed Cisco Systems had a stake. (SPSS) SPSS $0.30 EPS vs $0.27e. (STR) Questar $1.19 EPS vs $1.11e. (THS) Treehouse Foods $0.19 EPS vs $0.12e. (TKLC) Tekelec delayed earnings. (TOO) Too Inc $0.80 EPS vs $0.77e. (UTX) United Tech's P&W unit will make parts for GE's engines according to WSJ. (VWPT) Viewpoint registered 6.36M shares of common stock. (YCC) Yankee Candle $1.09 EPS vs $1.06e. (YMI) YMI Bio 9.5M share secondary priced at $4.25. Analyst Calls: AEM raised to Outperform at CIBC. BEN raised to Overweight at MSDW. BK raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch. BOBJ raised to Buy at UBS. BSC raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch. CD cut to Peer Perform at Thomas Weisel. CDWC started as Peer Perform at Bear Stearns. CEPH raised to Buy at Jefferies. CHH cut to Sector Perform at CIBC. CNXT started as Sector Perform at CIBC. COFraised to Buy at Jefferies. CSR cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. ENSI started as Buy at AGEdwards. FLS raised to Outperform at RWBaird. FTO & VLO reitr Underweight at Merrill Lynch. FWRD raised to Outperform at Raymond james. GWR cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns. MWV raised to Buy at B of A. NIHD started as Overweight at Lehman. NITE reitr Outperform at KBW. OMC raised to Outperform at CIBC. RHD started as Neutrral at JPMorgan. RIG maintained buy but cut est's at Deatsche Bank. RIO raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns. SIRI maintained outperform at CIBC. SSCC cut to Neutral at B of A. THC started as Peer Perform at bear Stearns. TIN cut to Neutral at B of A. UDR raised to Buy at Stifel Nicklaus. WTW raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch. ZIPR cut to Peer Perform at Thomas Weisel. Goldman Sachs defended some metals/mining picks, favorite picks are FCX, CVRD, NEM and PD. US Senate blocked asbestos legislation late yesterday; asbestos stocks are (some tickers may have changed): USG Corp (USG), WR Grace (GRA), Owens-Illinois (OI), Dow (DOW), Ashland (ASH), Owens Corning (OWENQ), McDemott (MDR), United Industrial (UIC), Crown Holdings (CCK), Georgia Paper (GP), Foster Wheeler (FWHLF). Cramer's Mad Money show: positive on Caliper-CALP; positive on Petro Brasil-PBR; positive on disk drive Seagate-STX and Maxtor-MXO. Lightning round positives were Knight-NITE, First Data-FDC, Vivendi-V, VCAAntec-WOOF, Marvell-MRVL, Peabody-BTU, Google-GOOG, Costco-COST, Ultra Petroleum-UPL, Parallel Petro-PLLL, Lufkin-LUFK; negative on Whole Foods-WFMI, Oakley-OO, Chesapeake-CHK, Palomar-PMTI, Alliance Data-ADS, Escala-ESCL, Mindspeed-MSPD, Am FreightCar-RAIL, Vector-VGR. Barron's Online positive on Informatica-INFA and Witness Systems-WITS. S&P FAIR VALUE +$0.13. Bernanke testifies today. 10:30 AM EST Weekly Oil Inventories. 8:30 AM EST NY Fed......18.4e.

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by Jon C. Ogg Date Created: 3/20/2006 4:52:00 PM EST It is usually good to find parent companies for upcoming IPO's, although sometimes you have to stop and judge just how much the market has already priced in ahead of an event. That is definitely the case for Wendy's (WEN/NYSE) much telegraphed spin-off of Tim Hortons (THI/NYSE-WI) set for pricing this Wednesday and then trading Thursday. Tim Hortons has been on the IPO docket for several months now and was speculated to be on deck for much longer than that, so this is not really anything that the market is just now catching. The expected IPO terms are currently 29M shares set to price in a range of $18.00 to $20.00, although based on demand for the shares it could get both a slightly higher price and even a higher number of shares. The demand has partly been fueled by the success of McDonalds (MCD) spin-off of Chipotle (CMG), although this is a much different situation as far as the market for products. This is considered a coffee and doughnut shop, although they are also a lunch and sandwich fast food play similar to other fast food companies. The underwriting group is extensive from the likes of Goldman Sachs, RBC Capital Markets, JPMorgan, Bear Stearns, CIBC, Cowen,, Merrill Lynch, Toronto Dominion, Lazard, and others. Shares at most of the brokerages have supposedly already been subscribed and placed, so that is the reason you could see a higher price and a higher number of shares. Tim Hortons was founded in 1964 in Ontario by Tim Horton, an all-star defenseman and Stanley Cup winner for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. The first store offered coffee and doughnuts, but later expanded to more of a full service fast food chain. In 1967, Ron Joyce partnered with Horton and they opened 37 new outlets in the next seven years. Horton unfortunately died in an auto crash ten years after opening the first restaurant, although Joyce continued to build the business and became sole owner in 1975. In the early 1990s, Tim Hortons and Wendy's agreed to develop restaurants under the same roof, and Wendy's eventually purchased the entire company from Joyce in 1995. It looks like Tim Hortons is just following a playbook. This IPO share float is only 15% of the shares, which is very similar to Chipotle's float offering at the IPO and will still leave 85% of the company currently with Wendy's. Wendy's has said it plans to get this out as a standalone company so it will either be sent off to WEN holders as a tax-free dividend or some other metric, but time will have to tell there. This will be creating a separate franchise value of Tim Hortons of almost $3.7Billion, which compares to WEN current market cap of $7.35Billion. According to most recent filings Tim Hortons has some 2,885 restaurant chains (mostly in Canada); and Wendy's most recent filings showed over 9,000 restaurants that includes Tim Hortons but also includes Wendy's (6,671 units), Cafe Express, Baja Fresh, and Cafe Pomodoro. The two companies matched up as the following (please keep in mind that Tim Hortons is likely included in Wendy's most recent numbers): Co. Units Sales Net Income WEN 6,671 $3.78B $224M THI 2,885 $1.277B $188M Please keep in mind that just because it often seems or looks like events are fully priced in, SOMETIMES they are not. On spin-offs or minority investment synergies such as SunPower (SPWR) and iRobot (IRBT) they were priced in by the open. Unfortunately I can easily recall where Continental Airlines (CAL) was running up ahead of the IPO for Copa Holdings (CPA) that it held an investment in, and it has continued to run another 40% or so because of additional developments in the airline sector that have helped many in the group. If you wish to subscribe directly to our newsletter and email list on upcoming IPO's, please send an email to info@newscontrast.com and label it "email request list". We do not sell our lists and do not share our email list with any outside partners or vendors. We are in the process of rebranding as "Event Driven Analysis" as we are more into analyzing news and events for our subscribers than a reporting mechanism. For the time being please feel free to sharing this data with any friends in the investment field. If this is used in article we are protected by copyright in the US and internationally, so we do require a hyperlink or track back to this site.

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Alec Couros has posted a great breakdown of a recent ZDNet article called " Open Source in education: Winning hearts and minds ". Early in Alec's post he reminds us of an age-old "argument" against the adoption of free software in school systems. The argument goes something like this... " The fact is, in the real world everyone uses proprietary software. If you make students learn free software in school, they will be ill-equipped to handle their jobs when they go into the work force. " I can personally testify to encountering this argument twice during my last few years as a free software in education supporter. Further to the fact that this argument erroneously assumes a real world monopoly-lock in every area of proprietary software (should every school purchase licenses for both Quark and Pagemaker?), here's why I find it specious... I don't teach students to memorize and regurgitate. I don't teach students to use MS Word or OpenOffice Writer. I use such applications to teach word processing . I don't teach students to use Mozilla or Internet Explorer. I use such applications to teach web browsing . I don't teach students Scribus or Adobe Pagemaker. I use such applications to teach desktop publishing . I don't teach students Logo, Guido van Robot or Python. I use such languages to teach programming . I don't aim to have students memorize the 5,6, or 7 steps it takes to perform a specific task. I teach menus , how they are organized and thus, where they would likely find a sought after function in any similar application. This is not to say that memorization does not occur - of course it does. But most of that memorization occurs unconsciously and is secondary to conceptual understanding. There are those (Marc Prensky calls them the "digital immigrants") who aim to memorize step-by-step procedures and consequently struggle when faced with learning a different application that performs the same task. Though understandable, this is the mindset that falsely posits the difficulties students will encounter in the "real world". This is the mindset that carries with it what Prensky calls the " digital immigrant accent ". Borrowing another Prensky term, we need to treat our younger students as " Digital Natives ". I read an interesting book last summer called " A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age " by Daniel H. Pink. Today's students will need to adapt to changing technologies all their lives. To argue that we leave them unprepared by not using the "most popular" software is questionable and indicative of putting left-brain thinking on a pedestal. Pink argues effectively that a major shift is occurring, putting right-brain thinking in the driver's seat. Information is not necessarily power - it's how we design and give meaning to that information that will matter. That means students must be well-equipped for easy adaptability to ever-changing technologies. This means they must have a broader understanding of conceptual tasks. They must see interrelationship - and therefore acquire an increased ability in finding equivalent procedures between differing software environments. This means they need the ability to actively help themselves as all needed information will be at their fingertips. That is, students who have simply been taught to memorize one way of doing things will not be ready for tomorrow.

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