Reuters - Freddie Mac won approval
from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome
mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage
finance company may seek $10 billion.
Ford to retool U.S. plants for European cars: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Car maker Ford Motor Co is
drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small,
fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in
Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The government is considering bringing
further criminal charges in the case involving two former Bear
Stearns executives indicted last month related to the collapse
of two hedge funds they oversaw, a federal prosecutor said on
Friday.
EU wants co-operation with SEC on rating agencies: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - The European Commission wants to
cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) on the planned regulation of credit rating
agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported.
AFP - US President George W. Bush assured Americans Saturday that the battered US economy will "pull through" despite continuing housing woes and a spike in inflation.
Program description
Pizzicato is a music notation and composition software based on the score and MIDI. Are you a beginner ? Pizzicato includes a free music course. Are you a professional ? Pizzicato offers you a lot of tools and lets you to create yours.
Just as you use a word processor to write your mail, you can use Pizzicato to write your notes, your music on paper with a professional quality. At home.
Before going further: remove any idea related to music being difficult or composition being impossible to learn without 10 years of study, because
if you follow it step by step, the Pizzicato music course will show you exactly the opposite! Pizzicato Light is suited to learn music and/or make your first steps in computer assisted music
Pizzicato Beginner and Professional are suited to write, print, compose and listen to your music scores.
You decide, Pizzicato draws!
Features:
Documentation and training : practical training to play the music keyboard
- Notes encoding : work and view the score using a graphic zoom, grace notes and various note heads
Structure of the score : unlimited number of instruments per system, orchestral score optimization, reduced staff size
Clefs, keys signatures and time signatures : all clefs(percussion...), arbitrary key signatures, hide the time and key signatures, creating free measures
Chords, text, lyrics : lyrics fast encoding window, chord analysis and chord searching on a melody,
MIDI effects : MIDI Sequencer/GM, synthesizer handling, export/import MIDI files, 4 MIDI inputs/outputs, realistic performance of symbols, possibility to create your own graphic and MIDI symbols, 95 drivers covering most synthesizers of the market, with all sound banks
Others : tool palettes with a large selection of graphic symbols, copy pictures of measures to your text processor, tools for composition assistance, 20 accompaniment styles, parts extraction from a conductor score, etc.
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Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold,
market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.
AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.