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Fort Collins resident, Lawrence Lowry, asks Governor Ritter a question about some of the recent budget cuts that will directly affect him, on Thursday during a town hall meeting at the Fort Collins City Hall.
Doug Henston, CEO of Solix Biofuels, Inc., gives Governor Bill Ritter and Sen. Michael Bennet a tour of Colorado State University Engines and Energy Conversion Lab in Fort Collins.
Loveland Firefighters and Thompson Valley EMS Paramedics work the scene of an accident Thursday around 5:40 p.m., at the intersection of West Eisenhower Boulevard and North Taft Avenue. According to Hollis Johnson, who was involved in the accident, he said he was coming out of the Western Convenience heading northbound and crossed to make a turn into the Albertson's parking lot when he heard a sound. After turning around in the parking lot he found a motorcycle tipped on its side and a woman and man on the ground. The woman and man, who were traveling in the same direction as Johnson, were transported to the hospital.
Loveland mayor Gene Pielin speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning for an improvement project at Interstate 25 and Crossroads Blvd.
Loveland artist Lyse Dzija paints a utility box near the old train depot in downtown Loveland. The City of Loveland, inspired by a similar project in Fort Collins, is paying artists to spruce up the boxes.
Dee Thomas works on a puzzle Wednesday at Stepping Stones Adult Day Care, 200 N. Lincoln Ave.
Stacee Thomas, left, walks with her mother, Dee Thomas, after picking her up Wednesday at Stepping Stones Adult Day Care, 200 N. Lincoln Ave. in Loveland.
Mark Howard, owner of Advent Home Improvement smoothes on a coat of joint compound to even out a seam in a wall on Thursday at a home in Fort Collins.
Loveland resident and cancer suvivor, Ron Mutka, crochets a pink scarf for women fighting breast cancer on Thursday at his home in Loveland. Mutka has been making these scarves and giving them anonymously to McKee Medical Center to be given out to women cancer patients.
Grace Boyle, 9, from San Francisco, touches a sculpture called "4 U 2 Learn" by Susan Geissler.
A mixed media sculpture by Kendra Fleischman called "Time Keeper" in which video is projected from the clock onto a piece of glass held up by a figurine. The tables were built out of wood by Ed Darchuk from Bronze Services in Loveland.
Jan Hambrick, of Erie, takes a sip of wine while having lunch with her sweetheart Bill Hermanson, of Longmont, on Saturday during Sculpture in the Park at Benson Park Sculpture Garden.
Elizabeth Grey, of Denver, spins the platform of a sculpture by Donna Weiser, called "The Upside of Love."
Marilyn Thissen, of Greeley, admires "Landscape V" by Ken Leap.
Sculptor, Merlin Cohen, touches one of his works called "Story of Life," carved out of Italian alabaster.
Boulder resident, Bill Border, looks at sculptures in the silent auction.
Loveland resident, Jayme Fields, touches "Foo," an artwork by Kathleen Sherman on Saturday during Sculpture in the Park at Benson Park Sculpture Garden. Sherman uses gourds as the starting piece of her sculptures.
Sydney Buchheister, 11, center, mother Kimberlie, right, and grandmother, Andrea Tapley are reflected in a wood piece by John Wilbar called "Red Coffee Table" on Saturday during Sculpture in the Park at Benson Park Sculpture Garden.
Old flourescent light bulbs await recycling on Tuesday at Curves in the Orchard Shopping Center.
Dan Cathey of Powerpro Electric installs a new energy efficient bulb on Tuesday at Curves in the Orchard Shopping Center.
Tyler Cathey of Powerpro Electric installs a new ballast into a flourescent light fixture on Tuesday at Curves in the Orchard Shopping Center. Energy Efficient Systems inc. subcontracted Cathey, his father Dan and uncle Randall's family business to install the new lighting components that should save the women's workout location an estimated $284 per year. The Platte Valley River Power Authority is offering rebates for those companies that chose to switch to the energy efficient system.
Deacon John Carnazzo prepares to climb to the top of the bell tower Friday at Loveland Bible Church to check if it needs cleaning. The church, which will be 100 years old August 9, has been under-going restorations for the last few years. "It really serves a timeless purpose, and it's good to be involved in the preservation of that." said Carnazzo, who has been at Loveland Bible Church and involved in its maintence since the early nineties.
Brian Sweeney, left, and Robert Wilson work on the new stairwell Friday for the Loveland Bible Church near downtown. The church will be 100 years old on August 9 and has been under-going restorations for the past few years.
Nancy Schindler vacuums the new carpet in the hall Friday outside of the sanctuary of the Loveland Bible Church. Schindler has found solace after the passing of her husband a few years ago in helping to restore the old building which will be 100 years old on August 9. Schindler says she found herself coming back to Loveland Bible after trying other churches and has recieved a lot of support through the community saying, "it really feels like family."
Cast members of the documentary "In Pursuit of a Dream" arrive at the Rialto for a screening of the during the Oregon-California Trails Association Convention on Wednesday. Producers of the documentary pitted a group of students against elements faced by the early American settlers as the students learned to live in tents and travel by wagon or mule.
Neville Thompson climbs down from his Chamberlain Champion 9G tractor after driving it to The Ranch from Loveland RV Resort on Tuesday to attend the Oregon-California Trails Association national convention.
Members of the Transworld Tractor Treks, a group of West Australian tractor enthusiasts, pose in front of some of their Champerlain Champion 9G tractors Tuesday at the Loveland RV Resort. From left are George Bass, Anne Bass, Carolyn Faulkner, Dick Garnett, Barbara Garnett, Ron Bywaters, Kerry Bywaters, Peter Barr and Neville Thompson.
A red morph Eastern Screech-Owl peers through an opening in the education building of the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program on Tuesday in Fort Collins.
Tomatos from Miller Farms await purchase Tuesday during the farmers market at the Hobby Lobby parking lot in Loveland.
Eva L. Moyer, left, and Linda Benefiel, with her guide dog, Donahue, share a moment on Tuesday during a dinner at the Odd Fellows Lodge in downtown Loveland to thank Moyer for her service to the community. Over the years Moyer has made about 16,000 teddy bears for children who suffered trauma.
Chamberlain Champion 9G tractor from Australia.
Emergency personnel carry an injured man up to an awaiting ambulance on Highway 34 at The Narrows west of Loveland after he crashed his motorcycle and tumbled down an embankment next to the Big Thompson River.

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Penny Gross was first elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for the Mason District in November 1995, and was re-elected to her sixth term on November 3, 2015. Ms. Gross also is vice-chair of the Board, and she chairs the Board's Personnel Policy and Reorganization Committee, and the Board's Environment Committee.
Regionally, Supervisor Gross represents Fairfax County on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), which she chaired in 2009. She was chairman of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission in 2014 - 2015. Supervisor Gross represents Fairfax County on the INOVA Health System Board of Trustees, and on the Potomac Watershed Roundtable, which she also chairs.
On the state and national level, Supervisor Gross was elected to a one-year term as President of the Virginia Association of Counties in November 2014. She currently is vice-chair of the National Association of Counties' Energy, Environment, and Land Use Committee. She completed a one-year term as President of the National Association of Regional Councils Board of Directors in June 2014. Supervisor Gross was appointed by Governor Mark Warner to the Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) to the Chesapeake Executive Council, which she chaired from March 2006 until August 2008, and continues to serve.
Prior to her tenure as Supervisor, Ms. Gross worked for 20 years as staff in various congressional offices. She served on the Board of the Lincolnia Park Civic Association (1985 to 1997), and on the Executive Board of the Mason District Council of Civic Associations (1988 to 1995). She has held numerous offices with PTA, and is an Honorary Life Member of the Virginia State PTA.
A founding member of the Friends of Mason District Park, Ms. Gross is also a founding member and officer of the National Capital Chapter of the University of Oregon Alumni Association. Supervisor Gross was co-manager of Girl Scout Service Unit 52-4 for nine years.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron is yet another good Marvel movie where adrenaline is on dope. Started out with the first one, on a high amped note and it simply pervades throughout. Avengers: Age of Ultron literally breathes on Kabooms and Kapows. The action is sheer beauty! So exquisite you have to go back in time to watch minute movements, or….or go watch it again (no need to thank) to relive the eternal divine thrashing.
Catchphrases are snappy and witty just the way Marvel likes it. Editing is superb considering the incessant violent upbeat theme of the movie. Drama bits are framed quite great. Nat and Bruce's chemistry brilliantly shot!
Ultron is downright ravishing. Spader's voice gives the character a brilliant gravity. He sways in pizzazz with a unique confidence that he bears throughout the flick. There are destructive fight sequences in the movie that would make you jump off your seat. There is music in the rubbles and that is such a big turn on!
Sceptre has seen places. Long lost from Loki's palms, we had seen it being captured by S.H.I.E.L.D in the prequel. The movie begins with Avengers fighting to take back the mysterious weapon from the hands of Hydra. As the frames begin, we are subjected to orgasmic takedowns and swift kills as the assembled combatants show a visually breathtaking pleasing sight of non-stop action. It is then when characters like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver come into picture. Stark's horrifying perception of the world with Avengers' dead bodies piled up in failure, as shown to him by Wanda forces his change of heart, and he proceeds with his Ultron plan that goes kaput. In comes the badass villain as a party pooper with a tasteful yet melting voice that reeks of perversion. The adventure begins thereon and we feast our eyes to a mind numbing plot that Ultron bringeth.
Andy Serkis gives a phenomenal cameo as Klaw. His introduction to the storyline was subtle with clawed imprints on his neck (wink intended). When are we having a Black Panther movie?
The Introduction of Vision to the Marvel tale is entrancing too. The way he catches hold of himself to see his reflection and contemplates about beauty is marvelously captured. Bettany imparts Vision a profound charm and makes you love the character almost instantly.
One of the most top-notch badass scenes from the movie is when Hulk goes rogue, and Iron Man has to call Veronica to shut him down. The action sequence that follows is an eye-popping visual feast. Two of the most daring action blows are delivered by Cap and Iron Man when they get their shots on Ultron at two different places. Both make the most of it! It is a delight to watch Cap, a mere mortal, without a suit, go head on with the big badass Ultron. Cap and Thor's teaming up, the Vibranium wonder and Mjolnir's punch, hands down out of the world. We see a lot of Hawkeye this time. The underrated hero breathes the screen with a thoughtful charisma and hatches a surprise for everybody.
With Marvel's roots deep in comics, we are aware that the dark bits aren't supposed to be bluntly manifested. Gore is never properly shown. Nobody in the background of the tale actually dies. With that spirit in mind, Marvel continues to open its doors for all. To show every crucial character in a limited time is a daunting task. That is what happens here as we witness a stuffed up window with every superheroes' face on it. Forget these downsides and the movie is nothing but a constant rhythm of adrenaline war.
You can't miss it for the world. Go today!
Here's one cool case study I wrote on Hulk's cardinal love sedative Betty Ross.


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Making Money With Lifecycle EmailsSendGrid Team
Patrick McKenzie, founder of Kalzumeus Software, has been a happy SendGrid customer since 2010. We invited him to blog about some advanced techniques for using email, which he developed to sell his software and that of his consulting clients.
Newsletters get all the press in email marketing, but lifecycle emails are where much of the money gets made. Rather than blasting out an email to 50,000 people whose only commonality is that they are on your mailing list, lifecycle emails target individual customers with messages customized to exactly fit where they are in their relationship with you. Sadly, despite having oodles of engineering talent and copious data available about our customers to make decisions with, the SaaS industry largely misses opportunities to send high-converting customized messages. Let's walk through a few types of lifecycle email and the business goals they can help your company achieve.
Inverting The SaaS Cash Flow Deficit
One common problem for SaaS companies, particularly for companies which employ sales teams, is that the cost of acquiring and onboarding a new customer (often called Cost of Customer Acquisition, CoCA) is a significant portion of their lifetime value (LTV). This results in the company being cash flow negative with regards to a particular customer for anything from 6 to 18 months of their commercial relationship, then reaching break-even, and then finally accumulating the positive cash flow and the high profit margins that make SaaS such a fun business to be in.
A SaaS company, particularly a SaaS company growing quickly, can be forced into a cash flow crisis due to the aggregate negative cash flow associated with new accounts being larger than the positive cash flow associated with seasoned accounts.
For example, let's take a fairly typical SaaS company with a $200 plan, sold largely through low-touch processes. The company might spend an average of $2,000 (10 months of revenue) on advertising per new account signed up. If the company is growing at approximately 100 accounts per month, and we assume a fairly typical 3% monthly churn rate, the company will burn through over a million dollars in the 14 months it takes to acquire the 1,000 customers they will need to pay for their monthly advertising spend. The company only reaches positive aggregate cash flow in month 27. That's a long time to wait for success from what is, fundamentally, a very sound business.
Here's this company presented in graphical form. The left side shows the monthly cash flow (in this very, very simplified corporation which apparently has no rent or employees). The right side shows the aggregate of the cash flow over all months.
Now let's make one tiny tweak to the business model: the business begins to offer annual billing. Specifically, they're going to offer 12 months of service for the price of 11 months ($2,200), if you prepay for it. We're going to assume the company gets a 4% uptake on this offer for accounts over 3 months old. (See why in a moment.)
What does this do to the economics of this company? Annual billing makes this company wildly more successful all by itself.
Annual billing a) shaved several months off the timeline to reach break even, b) shaved 6 months off the timeline to pay back the initial marketing spend, and c) decreased the capital required by about 20% (the monthly billing example burns through over a million at its peak, whereas the company with a few customers on annual billing burns through less than $800k). But that's not all: in real life, though not accounted for in this simplistic model, a company with annual billing will see much lower month-to-month churn of revenue simply because a larger portion of their revenue doesn't have the option to churn in any given month.
So what did email have to do with this?
Well, let's return to that assumption that the company gets a 4% uptake on annual billing for all accounts over 3 months old. That's extraordinarily aggressive if you just offer annual billing as an option on your pricing page. However, it is surprisingly achievable with a quick email to seasoned customers: "Get One Free Month of $SERVICE_NAME By Switching To Annual Billing."
The email is three lines long and writes itself. You simply pitch the annual billing as an incentive offered only to loyal customers, optionally with a time-bounded bit to motivate them into switching now. (My preferred language for this is "P.S. Don't worry, you can keep using monthly billing if you don't want to switch to annual billing. We'll only mail you this offer once.") In terms of engineering, I think my most recent implementation was perhaps six lines of code total.
It is absolutely unreal how effective this technique is. (Don't take my word for it: Jason Cohen, a friend (and sometimes consulting client), has talked about it publicly.)
Increasing Engagement (And Conversions) With The Free Trial
Here's a stat you're probably not measuring yet, but should: how many people, after their first exposure with your free trial / demo / etc, log into the software a second time? If you're not measuring yet, I'll answer this for you: between 40 and 60% depending on your sector, which means you're essentially setting 40 ~ 60% of your marketing/advertising spend on fire. Plus, if your engineering team is like most, they're developing features consumed primarily by people who are already happily paying for your software, rather than features which will meaningfully move that number up. (Give me your email address and I'll give you a 45 minute video with some ideas on improving this.)
In addition to getting engineering to improve the first run experience of your software, you can send out targeted emails to customers who either a) haven't logged in in a while or b) haven't done the minimum thing required to get value out of your product (installed tracking codes on their site, invited colleagues, started their first $WHATEVER, or what have you). Failing the ability to write conditional logic, you can just send people timed messages throughout their trial. This works less well, but it still works rather well.
Appointment Reminder, which sends reminder phone calls / SMSes/ emails to the clients of professional services businesses, has a fairly simple sequence of emails which go out to free trial accounts during their first month, depending on their use of the software. For example, if a customer is already making heavy use of the software, the emails tell the customer they are successful and explicitly ask for the sale. Here's just the introduction to one of them.
Thanks for using Appointment Reminder! We're just checking to make sure you're doing well.
Our computer says that you have scheduled 66 appointments and that we've already sent 40 reminders on your behalf. Appointment Reminder has probably saved your business about $75.15 in staff costs, if your business is similar to our average customer's. In addition, you don't have any more wasted time and aggravation sending reminders manually. Not bad for the first three weeks, eh?
That's the happy case. The not-so-happy case is that a customer is 3 weeks into a 30 day trial but not successfully using the software much at all. In this case, the emails switch into rescue mode:
Thanks for signing up for the free trial of Appointment Reminder! We wanted to check in and see how things are going.
I run a small business myself, so I know things occasionally get busy. The computer says that you have scheduled less than a handful of appointments in Appointment Reminder so far. You've still got about 10 days left on your free trial, but we wanted to get in touch to see if we could help.
We've got two questions for you, if you'd care to answer:
1) Do you just need a bit more time? That is totally OK. We're happy to extend your trial by another month. Send me an email and I can set this up for you.
2) Did you have any trouble getting started with Appointment Reminder? I'd love to hear what we could do to make that easier for you. I'm also happy to walk you through how to set up your reminders / settings / etc over email if you'd like me to.
These emails succeed in automatically reactivating many accounts. Just getting in touch with the customer reminds them that they were interested in the service a while ago, and pops it to the top of their mental queue of things to deal with today. In addition to scaling to the moon, this email (and the others we send over the course of the trial) often get us into one-on-one dialogue with customers, which helps to guide decisions on what to build (e.g. if their answer to #2 is gI wasnft willing to put my appointments in again. I need this to sync with Outlook.h, that is a useful data point for us) and gives us the opportunity to differentiate ourselves from Big Uncaring Enterprise Competitor who does not have the CEO personally respond to emails from people with $80 a month accounts.
You can continue monitoring customer engagement with the product for the entire customer lifecycle. HubSpot does a great job of this using an internal metric which predicts likelihood of cancellation in any given month. They use this to have the sales team proactively contact customers who might not be getting happy use out of their offering and attempt to salvage that relationship, but there's virtually limitless tactical options here: send the customer customized educational content on how to get out of the rut they are in, put them in touch with an internal consultant, suggest a product offering which fits their needs better, etc etc.
The Weekly Report
SendGrid will, by default, mail you a weekly report telling you how many emails you sent, how many bounced, etc etc. Most software companies should implement something like this, constantly making the case for the value that your company is providing the customer. (You may think this will get annoying. Give people a one-click opt-out. The overwhelming majority won't care, particularly if you're providing them something of genuine value. I have had some products explicitly call out in reports that they should be shared with teams/bosses because they're raise-worthy material. Opt-out rate: rather low.)
Also, having the expectation that you will regularly get in contact with a customer gives you an excellent opportunity to slide in the odd bit of marketing. You're essentially creating an earned media channel, to only your paying customers, with no distractions, which will get consumed slavishly every week. Seriously, what would your marketing department pay for an ad in a publication that well-targeted? And you get it for free. It is a wonderful place to slide in product launch announcements, one-time offers to e.g. annual billing with a discount, the odd incentive to upgrade/upsell, etc etc.
Why SendGrid Is Great For Lifecycle Email
Generally, about 20% of the work for lifecycle email campaigns is figuring out the back-end logic of who gets what when, and 80% of it is iterating on messaging and offers such that the business gets what it needs to out of sending the email in the first place. However, neither of these can happen if the ($(g)h$ emails don't reach the $(g($)h$ inboxes, and that is where SendGrid comes in. Delivery optimization is a full time gig for highly paid professionals who are very difficult to hire, and if you're sending on a scale smaller than (say) Groupon, I wouldn't make that a core competency for your organization. Just drop in SendGrid and youfre pretty much done. With just a wee bit of work over standard SMTP email in your application, you get per-campaign analytics and unsubscribe/bounce/etc tracking, for virtually no coding work. This lets your engineers/marketers concentrate on the more fun, challenging, and rewarding problems like "How do we identify, among our users, whose behavior is most susceptible to being persuaded, and what persuasion will work effectively on them?"
Interested In Learning More About Lifecycle Email?
Lifecycle email can be an incredibly deep topic, since it involves product design, copywriting, pacing of marketing messages, tracking effectiveness of campaigns, and some significant engineering challenges. There's a cottage industry of experts you can hire on this sort of thing, and if you're in the Valley you probably already know that they're difficult to find at any price. If you can find one of them to work with you, great. You could also try to figure it out for yourself, and will probably be executing fairly passably on it a few months from now.
If you'd like to shorten your learning curve a bit, I sell a five hour video course that teaches lifecycle emails, soup to nuts. Jason Cohen, one of my consulting clients, remarked, "Patrick's advice on starting a [particular type of lifecycle email] campaign for WPEngine was an epic win for WPEngine – it permanently moved the needle on signups after just a week of work." (That was a drip marketing campaign – for more on them, see Chapter 2 of the course.)


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SANTEE, Calif. (AP) — Calling their deaths "an abomination," a priest memorialized a California mother and young son killed by a family friend who also abducted the woman's 16-year-old daughter.
Saturday's service for Christina Anderson and 8-year-old Ethan Anderson at the Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church in Santee was open to the public.
"For the death of Tina and Ethan there are no easy words," the Rev. Kevin Casey told the memorial gathering, according to the Los Angeles Times ( ). "We are touched by this evil and we can never be the same again."
The pair was found at the home of James Lee DiMaggio, who set it ablaze earlier this month and then took off with Hannah Anderson.
DiMaggio was killed by FBI agents Aug. 10 in the Idaho wilderness, ending a six-day search that spanned much of the western United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
Authorities have declined to discuss a possible motive in the deaths and haven't addressed other details of the case, including how Hannah was treated by DiMaggio during the ordeal.
"We struggle with deaths like this because they are not right. They are an abomination," Casey said.
Investigators have said DiMaggio set fire to his home using a timer, giving him a 20-hour jump on law enforcement.
DiMaggio's family has requested paternity tests to determine if the suspect fathered the children.
Hannah's father, Brett Anderson, gave his DNA to investigators to confirm Ethan's identity. DiMaggio named Hannah's grandmother, Bernice Anderson, as the sole beneficiary of his employer-issued life insurance policy, making her eligible to receive $112,000.
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The next Cricket Web Fantasy Cricket Competition has been created named South Africa v Australia Twenty20.
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Groove to the Latin Beat at the Tito Puente Latin Music Series
It's hard to cha-cha or salsa under summer temps without a refreshing breeze and plenty of room to dance. The Tito Puente Latin Music Series takes place in July and August at outdoor locations across Boston, cool backdrops for sultry experiences. The six-concert series is an infectious soundscape of timba, mambo, bolero, Cuban, and Afrorican jazz mixed with funk, soul, and groove music. Performers include Berklee faculty, students, and alumni, along with world-renowned artists from Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, Israel, and Brazil.
The Tito Puente Latin Music Series kicks off Thursday July 8 atMozart Park in Jamaica Plain, then moves to O'Day Park in the South End for July 15, 22, and 29. The series takes a turn with aCity Hall Plaza extravaganza on July 31 before concluding at theEast Boston Greenway Caboose on August 5.
The free concerts are from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Call 617 927-1707, or visit berklee.edu/events/summer for more information. All locations are wheelchair accessible. The O'Day Park concerts move inside to Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in the event of rain. All others are canceled with no rain dates.
Berklee College of Music; Villa Victoria Center for the Arts; ParkARTS; and the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events present the sixth-annual series.
July 8 - La Timbistica at Mozart Park, 10 Mozart Street, Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain
La Timbistica is a contemporary Latin band with some of the best young Berklee student and alumni musicians on the East Coast. It was named 2008 Jazz Group of the Year in the collegiate category by Down Beat magazine. Members have performed or recorded with such prominent Latin figures as Paquito D'Rivera, Victor Manuelle, and Kevin Ceballo. The band's repertoire ranges from Afro-Cuban and Brazilian classics to modern salsa, timba, and original compositions. La Timbistica is a mainstay in the Boston music scene with regular gigs at the Havana Club, Mojito's Lounge, and Wally's Jazz Café. The band recently appeared at the Duke Ellington and Monterey jazz festivals
July 15 - Son de Madre at O'Day Park, 85 West Newton Street, Boston's South End
Son de Madre is a Latin band based in New York with members from Cuba, Argentina, Israel, and the United States. The band's international flavor is a blend of Cuban music-son, mambo, bolero, timba-infused with jazz, funk, and Brazilian influences. Son de Madre and its members are on the top of the Latin music scene and have performed or recorded with artists such as Celia Cruz, Paquito D'Rivera, Victor Manuelle, and La India, and on the most prestigious stages in New York's jazz scene. The band's second recording is on its way.
July 22 - Fausto Cuevas y su Orquesta la Moderna at O'Day Park, 85 West Newton Street, Boston's South End
Fausto Cuevas is currently on tour with Stevie Wonder, and is flying to Boston from Norway for this concert. A drummer from Brownsville, Texas, he made his way to Berklee, where he discovered his love for percussion and studied with masters Giovanni Hidalgo and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez. From Boston, Cuevas traveled to Los Angeles, where he currently resides. In addition to performances at the famed Playboy Jazz Festival and the Blue Note in New York, Cuevas has recorded, performed, and toured with world-renowned artists including Julio Iglesias, Al Jarreau, Tito Nieves, Roy Hargrove, and Britney Spears.
July 29 - William Cepeda at O'Day Park, 85 West Newton Street, Boston's South End
Accomplished trombonist and noted composer and arranger William Cepeda developed a unique style that he calls Afrorican jazz-a fusion of jazz with the folk music of his native Puerto Rico. Cepeda studied at Berklee, where he learned from great jazz musicians about improvisation and composition. He played with Dizzy Gillespie and Miriam Makeba. Cepeda has won awards and grants from Meet the Composer and the American Composers Forum. He is currently on faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Cepeda will perform with a group of Berklee faculty, alumni, students, and guests.
July 31 - Caliente, a Celebration of Latin Music and Culture with Jerry Rivera and Eguie y Su Orquesta at City Hall Plaza, One City Hall Square, Boston
Through a special collaboration with Mayor Thomas M. Menino's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events, the series descends on City Hall Plaza for the remarkable Caliente, a Celebration of Latin Music and Culture. Grammy and Latin Grammy–nominated salsa singer Jerry Rivera was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, and signed with CBS Music as a teenager. By his second album, Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors), he was scoring No. 1 hits in Puerto Rico, the United States, and across Latin America. His third album, Cuenta Conmigo (Count on Me), became the biggest-selling salsa album in history, and held the No. 1 spot on the Latin American Billboard chart for three consecutive months. Wyclef Jean sampled Rivera's "Amores Como El Nuestro" in his 2004 song "Amores como el nuestro," which would later become the worldwide number-one hit "Hips Don't Lie" by Wyclef and Shakira.
Berklee professor Eguie Castrillo is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his Eguie y Su Orquesta—styled after big bands that created the legendary Latin music scene at New York's Palladium Ballroom in the 1950s—is a high-octane crowd pleaser.
August 5 - Gregorio Uribe y Su Orquesta at East Boston Greenway Caboose, 144 Marginal Street, East Boston
The wildly danceable Gregorio Uribe y Su Orquesta is a 15-piece group that harkens back to traditional Colombian bands with large horn and rhythm sections. Directed by Berklee alumnus drummer, composer, and arranger Uribe, the band plays his original songs and traditional music from his native Colombia. A highlight at any concert is when Uribe plays the same accordion that he's had since his youth. Uribe's original music is influenced by his travels all over South America—where he played guitar to support his wanderings—and the punk and rock bands he played in as a teenager. Uribe currently lives in New York and plays steady gigs between Boston and Miami.
Now in its 14th year, ParkARTS began as Mayor Thomas M. Menino's initiative to present a yearlong program of arts and culture related programs and events in Boston's park system. ParkARTS, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department's multifaceted arts program, incorporates the visual, performing, and participatory arts. The 2010 ParkARTS performing arts program, sponsored by Bank of America, will present concerts in Boston neighborhood parks that range from jazz to symphonic music.
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts is a nonprofit arts and culture center dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating Latino arts and artists, and creating dynamic cross-cultural collaborations. Villa Victoria Center for the Arts is a program of Inquilinous Boricuas en Acción, a nonprofit organization that since 1968 has been a leader in the Boston community for holistic community development and programming. Villa Victoria Center for the Arts is located in the heart of Villa Victoria, on West Newton Street.
The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events (MOATSE) is responsible for advancing the arts, tourism, and culture in the city of Boston by providing advocacy, support, and promotional and technical assistance, and by producing special events and public celebrations that reflect the city's rich diversity.


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Jellyfish and Other Coelenterates
If you live near the sea, you have probably seen some of the oldest forms of life on Earth. Their traces have been found in rocks nearly 7 million years old. These soft-bodied creatures called coelenterates, or cnidarians, lived in the ancient seas long before the first fish. They include jellyfish, hydras, corals, sea wasps, and sea anemones.
There are about 9,500 species, or kinds, of living coelenterates. All of them are found in water, and most of them are found in salt water environments of oceans and bays and brackish water (a mixture of fresh and salt water) environments of estuaries. Many coelenterates of today resemble those early relatives that existed millions of years ago.
Characteristics of Coelenterates
Jellyfish and their relatives are not true fish. All fish are vertebrates, or animals with backbones. Coelenterates are invertebrates. Unlike most fish and other water animals, they do not have fins, legs, or tails. Nor do they have scales or shells to protect them.
Body Structure
The coelenterate's body is little more than a hollow jellylike bag. One layer of cells forms the outside of the bag. Another layer lines the inside. Soft, watery jelly separates the two layers of cells. The body has one opening, or mouth. The coelenterate takes in food, such as the larvae of crustaceans, mollusks, and worms, through its mouth. Some species even take in small fish. Once inside the body cavity, the food is digested by the inside layer of cells. Any undigested food is thrown out through the same opening.
Tentacles, or feelers, that look like hanging threads surround the mouth. The tentacles of some species have stinging cells called nematocysts. Each stinging cell contains a capsule in which a long, hollow thread is coiled. The barbed tip of the thread sticks out of the cell and acts like a trigger. The stinging cells can be stimulated by chemicals given off by potential prey and predators, by physical touch, or by increased water pressure from the slightest of movements. When the cells are stimulated, their coiled threads spring out. The barbed tips pierce the body of the victim, injecting it with poison fluid. (Coelenterates' bodies produce new stinging cells to replace the used ones.) The tentacles capture the food and draw it into the opening.
In some coelenterates, the poison is so powerful that it can paralyze large creatures, even human beings. Anyone who has ever brushed against a jellyfish knows that the sting can be quite painful. Even when the animal is washed up on shore, the stinging cells keep their power for some time.
A coelenterate that does not have stinging cells can grasp small animals that swim into its tentacles and carry them in through its mouth.
Along with the stinging cells and the body plan, coelenterates have other features in common. Coelenterates have no blood or central nervous system. However, they do have nerve cells scattered in the jelly between the cell layers. They also have cells that respond to light, touch, and the pull of gravity. These sensory and nerve cells send information to the muscle cells that make the animals move.
Basic Body Forms
Coelenterates are an interesting group of animals because they are found in two basic body forms: the polyp and the medusa. Some kinds of coelenterates have both forms at different stages of their lives. Others exist in only one form all their lives. Though they appear different, both body forms have the same basic structures.
A polyp has a body shaped like a hollow cylinder. One end typically remains fixed to rocks and shells or to the ocean floor by a footlike disk. At the other end, the tentacle-ringed mouth faces upward. Sea anemones, hydras, and adult corals grow as polyps.
Although they are attached to something, these animals can make motions. They can move their tentacles and stretch or shrink their bodies. For example, when a sea anemone is feeding, its body and petal-like tentacles extend upward, ready for a tiny animal to swim or drift against one of them. But when danger threatens, such as low tide, the animal draws in its tentacles and looks like a brown, lumpy knob.
Also, a polyp does not always remain fixed to one spot. It may glide along slowly on its sticky base. It may also use its tentacles as arms, somersaulting base over tentacles. But some part of the body is always touching another surface. A few hydras can produce a gas bubble in their base. Then they float up to the surface of the water.
Some polyps corals, for example usually live in groups, or colonies. The individual polyps may be close together or joined in various ways. Most of these colonies remain in one place, their tentacles capturing prey that swim within their reach.
A medusa has a body shaped like an umbrella or a bell. The mouth points down in this form, and the tentacles float outward. Medusae (plural of medusa) are able to swim about freely. However, they are relatively poor swimmers and usually go wherever currents and winds push them. They do have some movement control. By contracting their umbrella-shaped bodies, they are able to change their direction and depth in the water. Adult jellyfish and sea wasps are medusae.
Almost every kind of coelenterate can produce offspring, or make copies of themselves, by means of both sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction.
During sexual reproduction, male reproductive cells (sperm) and female reproductive cells (eggs) are produced. Fertilization takes place when the sperm and egg unite. From the fertilized egg, a new creature is formed.
During the process of budding, an asexual form of reproduction, a budlike lump forms on the coelenterate's body. In a few days the bud has tentacles and a mouth. Eventually it drops off from the parent and takes up life on its own. In time it produces its own buds.
Kinds of Coelenterates
Different kinds of coelenterates vary in size, color, and even shape. Coelenterates are separated into four classes, or large groups. They are Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Anthozoa, and Cubozoa.
Hydrozoans include freshwater hydras and hydroids, or hydralike animals, which usually live in saltwater environments.
Freshwater Hydras
Freshwater hydras are small solitary polyps that live in ponds, lakes, and streams. They are usually found on the underside of the leaves of water plants and lily pads. They are some of the few coelenterates found in fresh water. Many kinds are no bigger than a pencil point. Others may grow 1/2 inch (1 centimeter) tall. Hydras can be green, pink, yellowish, or brownish in color. They look like frayed bits of string.
Unlike most hydrozoans, freshwater hydras have no medusa stage. Along with the typical methods of reproduction, the tiny freshwater hydra can regrow lost parts through regeneration. If a hydra is cut into many pieces, almost every piece will grow into a new hydra. It is its ability to regenerate that has given the hydra its name: Hydra was a many-headed monster of Greek mythology that could grow two heads for each one cut off.
Hydroid Colonies
The hydroids, or hydralike animals, usually live in colonies in saltwater environments. There are two basic kinds of colonies: fixed and floating.
Obelia is an example of a fixed colony. It stays attached to the sea bottom. An entire colony forms from one polyp. Each member of the colony is so small that it can hardly be seen by the unaided eye. Yet each has a job to do for the colony. Some members are food-gathering polyps. Their tentacles capture food for the entire colony. Other members are reproductive polyps.
Medusa buds develop in the reproductive polyps. In time, the young medusae swim out of the mouths of the parent polyps. When the tiny bell-shaped creatures become adults, the females produce eggs and the males produce sperm. The fertilized medusa eggs develop into polyps. From each polyp a new Obelia colony may begin.
Most hydrozoan colonies, like the Obelia, stay fixed to the sea bottom. But there are some floating colonies. The most familiar example of a floating colony is probably the one formed by the Portuguese man-of-war.
Many people think of the Portuguese man-of-war as a single medusa. But it is really a large colony of medusae and polyps. The balloon is a medusa that is filled with gas. The colony drifts with the ocean currents and is blown by the wind. The balloon, which is usually 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) across, acts like a sail. When the balloon empties, the colony sinks below the surface.
Under the balloon hang long tentacles, as much as 40 feet (12 meters) long. These are made up of many small polyps, which serve the colony in different ways. The reproductive polyps produce little medusae, which swim away and start new colonies.
Stinger polyps, working together, can capture a large fish and deliver it to the feeding polyps. The stinger polyps can be dangerous or even fatal to a human swimmer. When a colony is blown ashore, the stingers remain poisonous for a long time.
The coelenterates called scyphozoans include most of the larger jellyfish. Some jellyfish are shaped like cups or bells. Others look more like umbrellas or saucers. Some are colored a soft pink or purple. Others, such as the lion's manes and sun jellies, are bright yellow and gold. Still others have striped patterns on their upper sides.
Some jellyfish, such as the bright blue-and-orange sea blubbers, are among the largest animals without backbones. They may measure about 12 feet (3.5 meters) in diameter. Their tentacles may extend more than 100 feet (30 meters) beneath them. Moon jellyfish may grow to 10 inches (25 centimeters) in diameter and sometimes even to 2 feet (0.5 meter). Other jellyfish are colorless and the size of a fingertip.
The moon jellyfish is a typical scyphozoan. It swims or floats freely in the water. On the upper side of a fully grown moon jellyfish, you may see a pink or orange pattern like a four-leaf clover. The four "leaves" are the reproductive organs. In male jellyfish they produce sperm cells, which are released through the animal's mouth into the water. In female jellyfish the reproductive organs produce eggs, which remain inside the body until they are fertilized.
The eggs develop in four long, trailing mouth folds. These folds hang down from the mouth and, like the tentacles, bear stinging cells. When the eggs hatch, the young settle on the bottom of the ocean. They develop into a shape very different from the parent animal. They become polyps.
Like the parent jellyfish, the young polyp has stinging cells and catches food with its tentacles. It grows for several months. Gradually the polyp comes to look like a stack of fringed saucers. One by one the saucers pinch off from the polyp and swim away. Each becomes a separate little medusa. In most jellyfish, the medusae go on to produce polyps, and the cycle begins again.
The anthozoans, which are sometimes called flower animals, are polyps with a flowerlike appearance. Included in this group are the sea anemones, corals, sea fans, sea pens, and tube anemones. They are found all over the world in both deep and shallow saltwater environments. These coelenterates, which have no medusa stage, vary greatly in size and may be solitary or colonial.
The sea anemone is an example of a solitary anthozoan. It may be as large as 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and 3 inches (8 centimeters) tall.
They reproduce in several ways. Sometimes new sea anemones are produced by budding. At other times one sea anemone simply divides into two parts, and each part becomes a new individual. Sea anemones also reproduce sexually. They produce reproductive cells that are thrown out through the animal's mouth. The sperm cells join the egg cells in the water, and the fertilized eggs develop into young animals.
Young sea anemones, which lack tentacles, swim about in search of food. They feed on fish and any other live animal they can manage to snare. Finally they settle on the bottom, attaching themselves to underwater objects with a footlike disk or burrowing in the bottom mud or sand. In time, their tentacles grow.
Corals are the anthozoans that usually form colonies. Although corals appear in a wide variety of forms, hard (or stony), thorny, or soft, they are all tiny polyps. Like other animals in this group, corals reproduce without a medusa stage.
As coelenterates, some corals are unique. They produce a hard outside skeleton made mostly of limestone. Because of this characteristic, colonial corals can form huge structures called reefs. The coral reefs are made up of live corals living atop the limestone skeletons of their ancestors, and they provide shelter for an abundance of marine life.
Anthozoans form some interesting relationships with other sea organisms. Many corals, as well as anemones, house microscopic single-celled algae on and in their tissues. The algae help the corals by providing some of the raw materials they need to grow and build tissue. In turn, the corals give off waste products that the algae use for their life processes. Another mutually helpful relationship exists between some anemones and hermit crabs. The hermit crab places an anemone on the snail shell in which the crab lives. With its ready sting, the anemone helps protect the crab from predators. For its services, the anemone receives particles of food dropped by the crab.
The body of the cubozoan is shaped like a cube or square. A tentacle or group of tentacles is found at each corner of the square. Cubozoans are strong swimmers and aggressive predators, feeding mostly on fish.
Several cubozoans are considered dangerous because of their stings, but one is feared above all others. The cubozoan known as the sea wasp, or box jellyfish, can produce welts on anyone who comes in contact with its tentacles. Its stings are dangerous, and if a person is badly stung, they can even be fatal.
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Why don't people use wide screen televisions instead of monitors for desktop computing?
Why don't people use wide screen televisions instead of monitors for desktop computing?
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Is there any reason to? I find that my monitor is big enough for me... There's no point in spending the extra money to buy a tv screen if you don't need it. Also, I like to sit up fairly close to my screen and I couldn't do that with a big screen. The only time I ever use a tv is with my laptop for gaming....
A person might want better picture quality for their gaming or to just combine the tv and computer into one.
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I have a 24" AOC sitting on my office wall. I would say if I wanted anything bigger than that then I would need to make the move to a television screen. The only thing that stopped me this time was the huge price increase.
Personally, I think my moniter is big enough for most things I want to do, and when I do use a tv, it just seems a bit harder to keep track of anything. The only reasons I really use a moniter for, are things that are better/more efficient on a larger screen, ie, photo editing, watching a video.
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In this problem you have to place four by four magic squares on the faces of a cube so that along each edge of the cube the numbers match.
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Investigate the different distances of these car journeys and find out how long they take.
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We print and despatch as soon as possible. Despatch is usually the next working day but can be later if we have a large number of orders that day. If you ask for a proof we wait until you have approved before sending. Banners and posters are packed in postal tubes. Royal Mail 24 (First Class post equivalent) does not require a signature and postman will leave somewhere safe or return to local office and leave a card for redelivery. Royal Mail Special Delivery and Courier delivery both require signatures.
Delivery costs and options in UK are:
*Courier delivery is mainland UK only and excludes north of Scotland. For Highlands, Islands, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland use Royal Mail Special Delivery.
International delivery (except for Republic of Ireland) is no longer offered.
For best results ensure that your photos are as large as possible. Most digital cameras produce good quality enlargements, however, the quality of mobile phone photos is not as good. Images downloaded from websites such as Facebook are very small and do not print very well. If you are scanning photos please scan as large as you can, aim for A4 sized prints as a minimum size and save as jpg.
If you are re-photographing a photograph beware of reflections, you may see yourself reflected in the image or a large white dot which is the flash! Try taking in a bright light without flash, keep image flat or it will be distorted, if in a frame take it out to avoid reflections from the glass. Please open the file to check it is OK before you send it to us.
Photographs can be posted to us for scanning at no extra cost, they will be returned. Send to Bannerama, Unit 40 Claydon Business Park, Ipswich IP6 0NL
There are 4 size of banner, these are the approx sizes:
Small, suitable for a small room in a house, or across a door: 3ft x 1ft (900 x 300mm) approxMedium, most popular size, suitable for most rooms, restaurants, pubs: 5ft x 1ft 9in (1500 x 550mm) approxLarge, for larger venues, halls, marquees etc: 7ft x 2ft 6in (2100 x 750mm) approxExtra Large, for a really big event: 10ft x 3ft (3000 x 900mm) approx
For indoor banners we recommend using Gripping Stuff poster tape, blutac or pins or you can select the eyelets for tying with string. Indoor banners are a lightweight polypropylene and are not heavy. Eyelets are not recommended for 3ft banners.
For outdoor banners use eyelets through which you can put string or cable ties to attach to a fence or a wall etc. If requested there will be 4 eyelets one at each corner. Eyelets are 24mm across with a hole diameter of 11mm, they are a brass colour.
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The banner template will not change, our designers make all the changes for you so you get the best banner possible. If you would like to see a jpg proof of your banner before it is printed please ask in the Any other information box.
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Brilliant quality and fantastic service. I uploaded photos Friday evening and had a proof by Monday lunchtime. After a couple of alterations (caused by me uploading the wrong photos!) the finished banner was delivered Tuesday morning. Queries were dealt with very quickly and the finished banner is fantastic. Highly recommend. Thanks
Very pleased with the banner made for me for our daughter and son in law's engagement party. It was well made and came on time. Thank you Bannerama
Fantastic banner, great quality and very fast service. Highly recommend and my husband loves it. Ideal for the cycle enthusiast. Definitely use again next time I want a banner.
Another fantastic banner from you. The service you offer is excellent. Simple to order online, the banner was produced to a really high quality and within a short time frame. I appreciate the speedy, helpful response from your company . Many thanks
A VERY BIG THANK YOU once again to Lorraine and her team for producing 'another' TOP QUALITY FANTASTIC poster - our son 'loved it'! We have ordered many banners over the years from Bannerama and they ALWAYS deliver a 'BRILLIANT, SPEEDY, TOP QUALITY SERVICE and PRODUCT, (did what we asked, no trouble and the order was completed 'within 24 hrs'!) We thoroughly recommend Bannerama to anyone - their banners really do make an occasion 'EXTRA SPECIAL'.
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A new life for the old Wicks Forge in Danbury
Familial rebirth for old forge
The old Wicks Metal Shop in Danbury, quiet for decades, has found its future.
Nicholas Wicks Moreau, 26, of Westport, has taken over the forge started by his great-grandfather William P. Wicks and grandfather Ed Wicks. The welding business languished for years, with no one to take it over.
For Moreau, a stay in Scotland in 2011 to get his master's degree in ecological economics changed that.
Moreau was looking for a creative outlet. Inspired in part by the beautiful metal work he saw in the country, he sought an apprenticeship with a master blacksmith in Edinburgh.
There he developed the skills and the passion for blacksmithing. Once back in Danbury, in his grandfather's garage at the family's homestead on West Redding Road, the old tools and welding equipment, untouched for years, took on new meaning and soon a new life.
Moreau's work varies from the functional -- gates, railings and benches -- to finely crafted art, like his beautiful and intricately designed music stands.
With a photo of his great-grandfather working in the original business in New York hanging in his workshop, Moreau feels a strong link to his family heritage.
He says, "It was this incredible gift to give my grandfather, to know that the family tradition would be carried on and that the tools that go back two or three generations will be used to make products in the future."


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Fingerprint Ball Ring by Hannah Upritchard
Made in London
These unique series of rings are made by Hannah Upritchard, a Kiwi based in London. Her practice started almost 10 years when she first made her own wedding rings, a golden monkey with emerald eyes and a camel with massive rubies.
The bumps, faults and tarnishes are as much as essential part of Hannah's work as the quality of the metals and the stones. Her jewellery have their own voice of joy and to become more of a companion than a decoration.
Where possible, Hannah tries to use fair-trade or recycled materials, including metals, stones and packaging.
Silver, Gold plated silver, 6 small tourmalines
Comes in small size as pinky ring


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SanDisk flashes $1.6bn for M-Systems
A NAND in the hand
SanDisk has started flashing even more shine following its pledge to buy Israeli rival M-Systems for close to $1.6bn.
Analysts and many customers already adored SanDisk. The company has built up a leading position in the market for flash memory products. SanDisk now looks to strengthen that position with M-Systems on its side.
"I think the deal actually makes pretty good strategic sense," said Sangeeth Peruri, an analyst with J&W Seligman, in an interview with The Register. "In NAND (a type of flash memory), intellectual property is a big deal. There aren't that many good buckets of IP.
"Now, you can envision SanDisk having all the M-Systems patents for themselves. That makes sense to me."
The deal also seemed to make sense to other financial analysts.
W.R. Hambrecht analyst Daniel Amir characterized the acquisition as a "homerun" and stuck with his "buy" rating on SanDisk. UBS's Alex Gauna called the deal a "natural fit" and kept his "buy" on SanDisk as well. Other analysts tossed out more praise, calling the companies "perfect complements" and then adding that SanDisk is the clear "flash king."
The optimism easily outweighed any concerns about M-Systems' financial health. The company is one of many to restate years of results due to improper accounting of stock options.
All told, SanDisk paid just a 13 per cent premium over Friday's M-Systems close, although it preferred to stress the "26 per cent premium over the average closing price of M-systems' shares for the last third trading days." The all-stock deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter should it meet the usual conditions, will see each ordinary share of M-Systems turn into .76 of a share of SanDisk common stock.
Peruri speculated that the relatively low purchase price might be because M-Systems will hand in an average quarter next Monday when it reports Q2 results.
M-Systems - aka M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers - makes a wide variety of flash memory products, including some that overlap with SanDisk. Peruri expects the companies to axe some of the low-margin products that crossover, leaving an overall healthier business.
With this purchase, the flash market continues to consolidate at speed. Micron earlier this year gobbled up SanDisk rival Lexar for $850m. In addition, Intel and Micron have an agreement to produce NAND flash memory chips together, hoping to see the products make their way into cell phones, laptops and other consumer devices.
Analysts were quick to flag the likes of Silicon Motion and Saifun as two possible takeover targets for Samsung, Intel, Micron or Hynix now that SanDisk poses an even larger threat. ®
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Healing Power, Love From Dogs Are Focus of Connecticut 'Dog Whisperer'
Peter Casolino/New Haven Register
It was an incident that made national news last month.
On a glistening Sunday afternoon, a pit bull broke free from his owner's Branford home and viciously mauled a 93-year-old woman who was out for a walk. The woman underwent surgery for massive trauma to her lower left leg. The dog, Booker, was quarantined.
Though renowned in Shoreline veterinary circles, animal shelters, and among canine owners as the "dog whisperer" for her sixth-sense ability to understand and "gentle" ill-mannered, un-housetrained, and otherwise unruly dogs, professional dog trainer Michelle McAdam doesn't pretend to know what triggered the attack. Maybe Booker construed the woman's cane as threatening. Maybe he read her body language as projecting fear.Aside from a report of the dog being abandoned in North Branford before ending up at the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter six months prior to his October 2013 adoption, there's a paucity of information on Booker's history. Which makes it a case of "idiopathic aggression," said the slim, energetic 57-year-old on a recent lunch hour while waiting for a client across from the Branford Green.
In other words, "it's a total unknown why he did what he did." (Right, a photo from McAdam's website.)
That explains the reluctance of McAdam, who's worked with dogs for over two decades, to claim she could have prevented the assault. Or, for that matter, to assign blame to Booker's current owners — or anyone else involved.
That said, the straight-talking New York native got into the dog training business not just because she has a natural gift. Without her two golden retrievers, she's not sure she would have endured a bout with cancer, a series of failed in vitro fertilizations, and multiple sclerosis.
"I want everyone to experience the healing power and unconditional love you get from a dog," she said as Trixie, an adolescent Bichon Frise, and her owner, Branford's Kathy Kessler, arrived for their appointment. To get to that point, though, "you need to invest time on basic training and socialization."
That's why McAdam makes it a practice to bring her canine clients to the center of town at the busiest hours, cajoling them in and out of Trailblazer and Common Grounds and across the street to the Green: she subscribes to animal behaviorist Dr. Ian Dunbar's notion that puppies within their first few months need as much exposure to the unfamiliar as possible. The more commotion — children skittering past, the rev of a motorcycle engine, the sharp bark of another dog — the better.
It's not only dogs that need training, according to McAdam. The species is ingrained with a pack mentality, with a dominant leader in each pack. For that reason, it's incumbent on the human member of the pack to assume what the longtime Branford resident termed a "strong, benevolent leadership role," as she held out a treat to Trixie near a bench on the Green and waited for her to stop sniffing an Ashley's ice cream wrapper and meet the trainer's eyes.
See the full story at the Shoreline Times.
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Issac J. Bailey | Our endless bounty
Here's why we need to be thankful:
For the past week, we've spent a fair amount of ink and air time discussing and conducting raids on local grocery stores to prepare for the potential demise of the Twinkie.
During that same time, Palestinians were dodging an onslaught of military armament and Israelis were praying the "Iron Dome" would stop every missile headed for a high-density population area.
We will hyperventilate this weekend about the fortunes of the Chanticleers and Gamecocks and Tigers and Fighting Irish.
We will plop down on Thursday after eating more food than necessary and watch the Cowboys play the Redskins, then switch the channel to watch more men chase specially-shaped pigskin.
We have been fretting about a potential tax increase from 35 percent to 39.6 percent for the wealthiest among us.
We've also been taking our children to plush theaters to laugh at "Madagascar 3."
The per capita income of that all-too-real country is about $900.
The last serious secession attempt, which began in Charleston in December of 1860, led to the death of at least 620,000 Americans, a war from which the South has yet to fully recover a century and a half later.
Tens of thousands of us in every state have been openly talking about secession again since the election. All that has led to is a string of funny bits by late-night talk show hosts and funny jokes by amateur and professional comedians.
Maybe hundreds of us will be willing to trample on others to buy the latest version of Elmo or the iPad after we've stuffed ourselves with turkey or stood in long lines outside department stores before the break of day Friday.
There are millions of people on the planet who wait in line for rice rations and other necessities to stave off not hunger, but to not have to watch their newborns die in their arms of starvation.
A faith hardship for us is debating whether a religiously-affiliated school or business must provide contraceptives as part of its insurance plan.
A faith hardship for a young girl in Afghanistan was a bullet to the head when she insulted the Taliban by talking about equality and freedom.
Sometimes we forget just how good we have it here.
This is the time of year set aside for us to remember.


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The investigation into the alleged manipulation of the LIBOR rates during the financial crisis of 2007/8, have unearthed additional evidence of what appears to be a series of insider dealing rings at some of the largest global investment banks.
A report in the Daily Telegraph of 29th August examines the background to these investigations, and refers to enquiries being undertaken in the US and in the EU, and has elicited a statement from one source close to the investigation that states; '...What seems far more certain is that some individuals will be facing prosecutions for more traditional market abuse...'
The report goes on to state that banks on both sides of the Atlantic are allegedly involved in the investigation including Barclays, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland, all of whom have revealed that they are part of the investigation.
If prosecutions do emerge from the insider dealing allegations, it is believed that they will commence in New York.
Such an investigation and prosecutions would be a very good thing, if for no other reason than they have a far better prospect of success in the US, and the consequent sentences imposed upon conviction will be more severe.
It has taken the US to lead the way to demonstrate to the rest of the international banking community that they must not assume that they are immune from prosecution, if they commit serious criminal offences.
For too long, selected areas of the banking sector have behaved with a cavalier disregard to the requirements of international criminal law, and for too long, respective Governments, including the UK, have allowed banks to continue to commit crimes as if they were uniquely immune from the laws which govern ordinary criminal behaviour.
Only by criminalizing these people and locking them up for a significant period of time, will the message get through that they are not the protected species so many of them consider themselves to be.
The Daily Telegraph report states quite openly that for the LIBOR prosecution to succeed, the authorities will have to prove that there was collusion at the highest level among banks. If this is the case, and there was a criminal conspiracy of such a kind, then these actions have to be construed within the organised crime continuum, because that is where they truly belong.
Only when Governments begin to realise that such crime, albeit committed in the banking suites, is as much 'organised crime' as any other example of the genre, will they begin to find other, more effective ways of dealing with these activities.


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Raymell Maurice Rice (born January 22, 1987 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American football running back for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Rutgers. He is currently ranked as the Baltimore Ravens third all-time rusher in yards (2844), and attempts (623). He is ranked fifth all-time for touchdowns (11).
Rice has had to deal with tragedy and adversity from a young age. When Rice was only a year old, his father was killed in a drive-by shooting. Ray's uncle helped to raise him before dying in a car accident in 1998 due to a drunk driver. Ray's mother Janet raised her four children with only one income from her job as a special education teacher.
Rice was the primary running back at New Rochelle High School, playing alongside future Rutgers teammates Courtney Greene and Glen Lee. His sophomore and junior seasons saw him take the primary duties, but he became the feature back in his senior year.