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Metamoris founder Ralek Gracie explains his decision to keep former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen in their upcoming event despite his recent NSAC suspension on AXS TV's Inside MMA watch video >>
Aspiring rap artist Ralek Gracie released his #1 hit "g in a gi" to widespread critical acclaim but when George C. Scott sits down to watch it he has a different reaction. watch video >>
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http://prommanow.com -- ProMMAnow.com's Isaac Guzman talks with Metamoris promoter Ralek Gracie following the Metamoris Pro Invitational which took place Sunday, Oct. 14, at San Diego State University. Gracie shares his thoughts on the event, what it means for jiujitsu and if there will be another Metamoris event in the future. See more Metamoris post-fight interviews at http://prommanow.com watch video >>
In this bonus Gracie Breakdown, Ryron and Rener are joined by Ralek and their father, Grand Master Rorion, from the Sandestin Beach Resort in Miramar Beach, Florida. They were supposed to be on vacation for the 2012 Gracie Immersion Camp, but they received so many Facebook and Twitter requests for the Korean Zombie fight from last week that they had no choice but to keep it real. Together they analyze the spectacular double leg takedown counter by the Zombie in round two and then they discuss the beautiful submission chain from round two as well as the D'arce choke that was used to seal the deal in round four. Jiu-jitsu is beautiful; please share the video with the haters. http://www.GracieUniversity.com - Register for free and learn from home. http://www.ONEDrinks.com - More hydrating than water. http://www.AcaiRoots.com - The super berry from the Amazon. http://www.UFCFanExpo.com - Four Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Seminars with Ralek Gracie watch video >>
In this episode Rener and Ralek Gracie break down the devastating side mount control that Roy Neslon used to devastate Mirko Cro Cop in round 1. They explain the recommended escape options and the key details that made it so challenging for Cro Cop to move. Then, the brothers analyze the critical jiu-jitsu moments of the three-round battle between Diaz and Penn. Particularly, they discuss the first round scramble that gave BJ the back mount on Nick and what BJ did that gave Nick the perfect window to escape and take the fight back. They also announce the winner of the 5.5 oz Gracie Sparring Gloves and they announce the next Gracie Giveaway prize - watch and win! As always, please share this breakdown on all the appropriate forums. The more they understand the less they hate. Order the Master Cycle DVD (Blue Belt Stripe 1 - Official Test) with the bonus 25-minute narrated Brotherly Battle between Ryron and Rener Gracie: http://www.gracieacademy.com/storeitem.asp?r=75220 Gracie Dry Fi watch video >>
In this Gracie Breakdown, Rener and Ralek the dissect a few key moments in the title fight between Jon Jones and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. They start with an in-depth analysis of the Flying Friangle that Jon Jones threw on Quinton Jackson at the end of round two. Then, they go into the swift takedown that Jones landed in round four as well as the intricacies of the Rear Naked Choke that ended the fight. Rener and Ralek also give an honorable mention to beautiful jiu-jitsu displayed in Nate Diaz's win over Takanori Gomi. FInally, they reveal the winner of the GracieUniversity.com scholarship, and they announce the next Gracie Giveaway! As always, please repost this video on all mma/bjj forums so we can educate the haters. Only once they understand will they appreciate. To enter the Gracie Giveaway drawing: 1. Subscribe to our channel: http://www.YouTube.com/GracieBreakdown 2. Add this video to your Favorites 3. Leave a comment on this video To purchase "Gracie Jiu-Jitsu - The Master watch video >>
On 6/5/09 we had an all Gracie episode of Inside MMA. With Royce, Royler, Ralek, and Rodrigo Gracie. And no all Gracie episode would be complete without a trip to the Gracie Museum. So as we celebrate 200 episodes join us as we go inside the museum of the first family of MMA watch video >>
On May 29, 2010 Ralek Gracie defeated "The Gracie Hunter" Kazushi Sakuraba. In this Gracie Breakdown, his brothers, Ryron and Rener, analyze the fight plan that enabled Ralek to frustrate and demoralize the man who had previously defeated four members of the Gracie Family. The brothers also announce the winner of the free Women Empowered DVD collection, and they announce the next Gracie Giveaway! Watch the New Women Empowered DVD Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl7ixKzCkUk Order your Women Empowered DVD collection before June 12: http://www.gracieacademy.com/storeitem.asp?r=75139 Check out the Gold Weave Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Gi: http://www.gracieacademy.com/storeitem.asp?r=75028 Follow at http://www.Twitter.com/GracieBrothers Like at http://www.Facebook.com/GracieAcademy watch video >>
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So the Raiders aren't even good enough to get their QB rated?
imfubar 12/26/12 10:12 AM
Kaepernick, Luck or R. Wilson for the title??? Right now I'm leaning towards Wilson just because he has been on fire lately; averaging 24 pts/game since the bye. With it being week 17, who do you feel will 1.) start/play an entire game and 2.) have the best chance of scoring 20 points. Thank you and love the web site.
nl1088 12/26/12 11:46 PM
I'm playing Wilson and sitting Ryan - hate to do that but afraid Ryan may not play that much. My opponent in championship has Kaepernick and I'm happy with that matchup. I may sit Julio too which pains me to do so
ceever 12/28/12 02:05 PM
Why is Kaepernick rated higher than Manning? I think ARI will want to redeem themselves and actually try this week.
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NY Gov. David Patterson is threatening to close several historic parks around the state including Thatcher Park which has been a trademark of the Helderberg Mountains, Including Berne, Knox, Westerlo and many other surrounding towns. It overlooks the Captial Region and has been home to many, many field trips for kids. The park sits along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the most fossil-rich formations in the world and the most dramatic natural feature of the regional landscape. Its a wonderful experience that the Gov. should see that closing it... will not be a smart thing to do!
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text: Want to know what I think?We Live To DieWe were born to live a simple life.First we are born, then we multiply and then we die.But why do we make it all that more complicated. We take it beyond what we need to survive. They say we are not animals, our minds are greater. Are they really? In the end we go by our instincts to survive. Also other people always seem to put their lives in our hands but when it's their turn to save us, they simply turn away. Lots of us get used because of our foolish kindness and others will be bitten by their own bitterness. I don't know where to really take you guys from here. But with each day I learn more like any other, friends are not just to have fun with and to hang out with but you take the responsibility to help them through no matter what they go through, same with family. You can pick friends but not family but would you help a complete stranger? I would, for what reason? I don't know, isn't it the right thing to do? See how we make life difficult? Such simple little th


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"We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes, and the best way to do that is to buy your school... or buy your coach." Those were the words in 2001 of Sonny Vaccaro, who, since signing his pioneering shoe contract with Michael Jordan in 1984, had built sponsorship empires.
Not all of the audience (members of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics) could hide their scorn for Vaccaro, often called the "sneaker pimp," who boasted of writing checks for millions to everybody in higher education.
The opening paragraphs above are a paraphrased version of a recent article in October's edition of "The Atlantic" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch titled "The Shame of College Sports."
Sitting among the 87,000-plus screaming fans packed like sardines into Auburns' Jordan-Hare Stadium Saturday night, I couldn't help but think that many of the players out there virtually sacrificing their bodies, would never graduate or make it to the pros. Was I participating in a potent example of the article's title?
"Why," asked a former president of Penn State, "should a university be an advertising medium for your industry?" Vaccaro did not blink. "They shouldn't, sir," he replied. "You sold your souls, and you're going to continue selling them and there's not one of you in this room who's going to turn down any of our money. You're going to take it. I can only offer it." The author points to many examples of how colleges and universities profit off their star players.
Here are two of many that Branch cites.
At the start of the 2010 football season, A. J. Green, a wide receiver at Georgia, confessed that he'd sold his own jersey from the Independence Bowl the year before, to raise cash for a spring-break vacation. The NCAA sentenced Green to a four-game suspension for violating his amateur status with the illicit profit generated by selling the shirt off his own back. While he served the suspension, the Georgia Bulldogs store continued legally selling replicas of Green's No. 8 jersey for $39.95 and up.
Last season, while the NCAA investigated him and his father for the recruiting fees the father allegedly sought from Mississippi State, Cam Newton compliantly wore at least 15 corporate logos-one on his jersey, four on his helmet visor, one on each wristband, one on his pants, six on his shoes, and one on the headband he wears under his helmet-as part of Auburn's $10.6 million deal with Under Armour.
Branch writes that last June at a news conference South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier proposed that coaches start paying players $300 a game out of their own pockets. The coaches at six other SEC schools (Alabama, Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, LSU, and Tennessee) all endorsed Spurrier's proposal.
In 1951 Branch says the NCAA seized upon a serendipitous set of events to gain control of intercollegiate sports. Since that time scandals made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. "We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves," Branch writes.
Threats to NCAA dominion also percolate in Congress. Aggrieved legislators have sponsored numerous bills. Senator Orrin Hatch, citing mistreatment of his Utah Utes, has called witnesses to discuss possible antitrust remedies for the Bowl Championship Series.
"It almost seems impossible that in the freest country in the world, we have tolerated an organization like the NCAA," said Dale Brown LSU basketball coach for 25 years, after reading the article.
GOP leaders plan pension cut for state workers, teachers
Two leaders of the Republican majority in the legislature want to reduce pension benefits for newly hired teachers and other public employees, plans that could save the state billions of dollars in coming decades, they say.
"I think everything has to be on the table," said Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, leader of the state House of Representatives.
Hubbard said he and Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, the top-ranking state senator, several months ago asked Retirement Systems of Alabama chief executive David Bronner to provide options for reducing future state pension costs. They recently received the report.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2011
We're gonna get holly jolly
I've written previously about the cooking classes my friend Megan and I have been hosting at barVino (the best ideas really do come to you at 1 a.m. after too many a few drinks). This Monday, we held a Holiday Hors D'Oeuvres and Wine Pairing class at barVino. Although, technically, the presentation was a bit […]
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California Dreaming – Part Three
On a sunny afternoon several years ago, we found ourselves idly wandering around the town center of Napa. What to do, what to do? Well, naturally we were drawn to a couple of tasting rooms, but found them singularly unimpressive. By chance or luck we happened upon a tasting room called Vintners Collective (no, it […]
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DO NOT READ THIS POST if you love a wine bargain!
Do you love to find an amazing wine at a bargain price? If you answered yes, you must immediately navigate AWAY from this page! Seriously! Leave now before it is too late! Go! Your credit card will thank you! … … … ================= So you stayed…. prepare for life to change as you know it. […]
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Shopping for the left-handed librarian in your life
Just in case you're looking for some suggestions, I've got some ideas. And don't minimize the ability of a sincere recommendation. Last week I ran into commenter Mr. Coffee, who shared with me that there were going to be some lucky recipients of Block Nine Pinot Noir based upon the enthusiastic review I gave here […]
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Bread and wine
I don't remember exactly when I first read Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone, but I think I was in my very early twenties (if that). The volume, a paperback with a worn cover and thin pages that had the musty smell particular to old books, had belonged to my mother and she had faint […]
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A holiday gift idea
Isn't it great when you give a gift, and the first reaction is "Ooooooh! I love it!" Isn't it a pain real hard to find that perfect idea that will elicit such a reaction? Consider photos…. One of the things that my mother in law has done well is making sure that her treasured photos […]
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Growing up in a big family
Did you have two or three other kids sharing a bedroom with you growing up? I have thought about big family posts for a while now, even wondering if they might well merit their own blog. We Cichello children have Irish on our mother's side, and Italian on our father's side. Dress that with a […]
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Saint Rose women's soccer! Go Rose!
Four years in a row, folks. Saint Rose women's soccer has made it to the Final Four four years in a row. This year, they will play in the championship game, today at 1:30 pm. (Watch here.) Coverage? Minimal. That's what happens when you are not a Division I school. Siena men's basketball will go […]
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How do you counteract the overindulgence of Thanksgiving weekend? By going to a dinner party, of course. My friends Thom and Molly invited us all over for a co-op Asian dinner this Monday: Kevin and Lauren did a Brussels sprout and Thai sausage stir-fry (do not, I repeat do not, be turned off by the […]
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Self-aware, self-adaptive and self-expressive autonomic components, running within environments which are called "ensembles", have been proposed to handle open-ended, highly parallel, massively distributed systems that can span millions of nodes with complex interactions and behaviours. However, these complex systems are currently difficult to develop, deploy, and manage.
The goal of the ASCENS project is to build ensembles in a way that combines the maturity and wide applicability of traditional software engineering approaches with the assurance about functional and non-functional properties provided by formal methods and the flexibility, low management overhead, and optimal utilization of resources promised by autonomic, adaptive, self-aware systems.
Information Society Technologies (IST) project funded by the EU as Integrated Project (IP) in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) as part of the Future Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative (FET Proactive).Partners: 14 Countries: 6 EU member states and 1 associated stateCoordinator: Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich Start: October 1st, 2010End: September 30th, 2014
Service-Component Ensemble Language (SCEL), developed as a multi-layer language for self-aware, autonomic service components (SCs) and service-component ensembles (SCEs) that integrates behavioural description with knowledge representation and reasoning about the environment.
Theoretical foundations and models for reliable and predictable system behaviour while exploiting the possibilities of highly dynamic, autonomic components.
Adaptive systems for the integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches to adaptation and self-expression.
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Cardinal Health Inc.
News about Cardinal Health Inc., including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Cardinal Health Is Buying Large Medical Supplier for $2 Billion
Cardinal Health, a distributor of prescription drugs, plans to expand into the growing home health care market with the acquisition of AssuraMed.
February 14, 2013, Thursday
A New Painkiller Crackdown Targets Drug Distributors
In a new approach to combating prescription painkiller abuse, the federal government is focusing on the middlemen between drug makers and the doctors and pharmacies that dispense drugs.
October 18, 2012, Thursday
Stewart Rahr's Second Act
With the $1.3 billion sale of the pharmaceutical distributor Kinray to Cardinal Health, Stewart Rahr seems to be slowing down, or at least taking pause.
November 19, 2010, Friday
Cardinal Buys Kinray for $1.3 Billion
Cardinal Health is acquiring Kinray, a privately held pharmaceutical distributor in metropolitan New York, to expand its presence in the Northeast.
November 18, 2010, Thursday
Team Insights? Just Use Your Peripheral Vision
George S. Barrett of Cardinal Health says leaders know how to watch for their employees' signals.
August 15, 2010, Sunday
Nautic Partners Sells Medegen to CareFusion
Nautic Partners sewed up a deal to sell medical device company Medegen to CareFusion for $225 million in cash, the private equity firm said Tuesday.
May 19, 2010, Wednesday
Cardinal Health to Spin Off Products Unit
The drug wholesaler Cardinal Health said it would spin off its high-margin clinical and medical products businesses as a stand-alone medical technology company.
September 30, 2008, Tuesday
Cardinal Health Looks at Spinoff
Cardinal Health, a large drug wholesaler, posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit and said it was exploring a spinoff of its clinical and medical products businesses.
August 8, 2008, Friday
Cardinal Health, which provides drug delivery services for the health care industry, is continuing to shake up its executive tier. The company has appointed two officials to oversee its finances. It has also announced a $600 million reserve to settle...
June 3, 2007, Sunday
Cardinal Health Settles Shareholders' Suit
The medical products and services company agreed to pay $600 million to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders accusing it of accounting irregularities and inflated earnings.
June 1, 2007, Friday
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Found at Route 18. When you enter this house, talk to the guy in the red suit and hat. He will offer to give you a Pokemon Egg. If you accept and hatch the egg, you'll discover that it's a Larvesta.
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The City of Tomorrow: Woodwind Quintet in Concert
David Friend Recital Hall
The acclaimed ensemble the City of Tomorrow will present a concert of 20th and 21st century music for woodwind quintet. Included on the program will be "Island Universe," written by Berklee professor Andrew List.
Orla Gartland / Olivia Millerschin
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Orla Gartland is a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland known for her quirky brand of guitar-based pop bursting with personality and catchy melodies. Olivia Millerschin will open the show.
Kaleidoscope: An Open-Genre Battle of the Bands
Berklee Performance Center
Berklee's Songwriting Department, along with the Record Company and Notable Productions, will host Berklee's first all-original Battle of the Bands.
Max Ridley's Senior Recital
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Bassist Max Ridley performs original and standard jazz in his senior recital.
Nacho and the Nasty Candombe Project
Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
Guitarist and composer Nacho González presents music from his debut album, The Nasty Candombe.
Jae Ung Park: The First
Berk Recital Hall
Backed by a jazz trio, singer Jae Ung Park gives a performance of original tunes and traditional jazz standards.
Kristin Diable / Anderson East
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Kristin Diable's new album, Create Your Own Mythology, invokes her Louisiana and Americana roots while exploring the concept of myths. Anderson East will open the show.
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Berklee Performance Center
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will explore the common roots of jazz as seen in the early music of New Orleans, Louisiana and Havana, Cuba. Special guest Donald Harrison (alto saxophone) will also perform.
Stave Sessions with Banda Magda and Chorobop
Berklee Dining Hall
Banda Magda is musically based in Brazilian bossa with strains of vintage French pop.
3 Sudacas
Mechanics Hall
3 Sudacas fuse traditional music genres from their native countries with jazz harmony and pop elements for a subtle, fresh sound.
Carrie Manolakos
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Carrie Manolakos, who became an internet sensation with her haunting performance of the Radiohead classic "Creep," performs.
An Evening with Penny and Sparrow
Cafe 939
Penny and Sparrow is an Austin, Texas band with a stripped-down, return-to-basics sound reminiscent of Bon Iver and the Swell Season.
Berklee Performance Center
Beautiful, mesmerizing, and profoundly musical, Ghazal brings together world-renowned Persian and Indian musicians to create an exquisite and harmonious dialogue between the two traditions.
Tyesha Chaunte
Berk Recital Hall
Texas native Tyesha Chaunte covers a list of genres such as neo-soul, R&B, pop, and Christian contemporary.
Giuseppe Campisi 5et: I Remember Jaco
Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
Bassist/arranger/composer Giuseppe Campisi and his group, 5et, perform music from his first EP entitled I Remember Jaco, a musical tribute to Jaco Pastorius.
Jose Arturo Flores: Rojo Jazz Collective
Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
Drum set principle Jose Arturo Flores and his ensemble take the stage to present to you a breathtaking performance of energy and passion.
Gretchen Schadebrodt: Natural Flow
Berk Recital Hall
Singer Gretchen Schadebrodt performs a set of original and standard songs.
Gustavo Hernandez: A Family Affair
Berklee Dining Hall
Drummer Gustavo Hernandez performs his final Berklee show with music that fuses the hip-hop, jazz, and Latin music of his upbringing.
International Folk Music Clinic
Berk Recital Hall
This world music clinic will be presented as part of the Berklee International Folk Festival.
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by Maria Russo in Shows, January 23rd, 2013In addition to his expected mission of renovating the interior and designing a crowd-pleasing menu at Sapori D'Italia in Fountain Hills, Ariz., Robert Irvine faced the challenge of mending a broken family. Together with their sons David and Jonathan, owners Gasper and Maria Manno used to spend much of their time at the restaurant arguing, something that was downright disruptive to customers trying to enjoy a meal. After working with the family to discuss their issues with the restaurant and each other and spending $10,000 on renovations, Robert and his Restaurant: Impossible team reopened the doors to Sapori in only two days. Today, the restaurant is a comfortable eatery with a made-over menu of full-flavored Italian classics to match. Read on below for an exclusive interview with Gasper to find out how Sapori is doing today.
Immediately following filming, Sapori's revenue shot up nearly $8,000 per week for the first three weeks. Things have settled down a bit since then, with the weekly increase averaging a respectable "$2,000 more than the same time last year," according to Gasper.
Returning customers have been impressed with the changes at Sapori, and Gasper adds that there have been "lots of new faces" coming by for the first time.
Robert's new menu items have been high sellers and well-received by customers. The restaurant has incorporated his cucumber salad, marinated beef and chicken osso buco into their regular list of offerings, but instead of serving the osso buco with polenta as Robert did, Gasper swapped in mushroom risotto.
While Gasper is still striving for perfection with his servers, he admits that they're "not so bad" after all. Chan continues to work at Sapori and is "doing great," according to Gasper. David and Jonathan are working at the restaurant, too, with David managing front-of-house operations. "Now they want to be here," Gasper says of his sons. "The family is doing much better."
To Gasper, one of the most important outcomes of the transformation has been "having my family back working together." Maria, "works very hard," Gasper notes, adding that as a couple, they "are doing much better" since the renovation. Customers, too, have noticed a change in the staff's demeanor at Sapori, as Gasper notes, "The guests have told me many times that they are also very happy to see the whole family working together."
To Robert and his Restaurant: Impossible crew, Gasper says, "A very sincere thank you to the entire team that showed me the light at the end of the tunnel."
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We went there before and after the remake and frankly the service after the remake was worse as was the food, I don't think ri made any positive difference. We live in the Town and would not go back. FYI the family member son who was the waiter had to be chased by us to get a glass of water and was not attentive
Same here. They're food and the service has always been hit or miss, but the worst meal I've ever had there was after RI. We couldn't believe what they did with the decor. It's awful. We're not going back.
Food network RUINED this family's decor in my opinion. Took a classy restaurant and made it look cheap and tacky. I've always been impressed with the improvements after this show. However, this was the first time that I literally CRINGED! WHO put such a hideous shade of green on the wall…. with purple accents to the stone and old world feel. I think foodnetwork should send design network in to FIX THIS HORRIBLE FAUX PAU (Hope I said THAT right) oi!
i know!!! I totally agree with you…. and How dare they to paint over the amazing art Gasper made?!!! Apparently, the "designer" doesn't appreciate art at all!!!!!!! Why did she had to cover his art work with plain paint and horrible decor!!! Plates? c'mon!!! Before the makeover it yelled italian!!!! beautiful artwork! That was sad.. I think they should have left ALL the murals intact..
And the bar, they shoulda made it look better.. the bar makeover was awful!! so old fashion..
well…. Hope Gasper makes his art again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved the wall murals sorry to see them painted over with a bad green color
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Gasper's art wall was GREAT.. whyyy whyyy whyyyy did they had to change it???? i felt sad that they took the italian charm with that new interior design. it was so lame, it did not have personality.. whilst before the place was very nice, with the italian feeling that the mural art brought together. I hope Gasper paints his murals again utilizing the spaces available and takes out that awful decor with some Plates that meant Nothing!.. the bar "makeover" also looked sooo old fashioned with that colors.. Hope he changes that. Hope gasper incorporates his art again .. i was really sad to see the art gone..
How dare they to paint over the amazing art Gasper made?!!! Apparently, the "designer" doesn't appreciate art at all!!!!!!! Why did she had to cover his art work with plain paint and horrible decor!!! Plates? c'mon!!! Before the makeover it yelled italian!!!! beautiful artwork! That was sad.. I think they should have left ALL the murals intact..
And the bar, they shoulda made it look better.. the bar makeover was awful!! so old fashion..
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i love the fact that the family business is doing better….. and the family dynamic is much better….. can't get any better than that….. the people who criticized the new decor….. you could have helped by going there in the first place to help the business… .then they wouldn't have needed the help of FN
Great family who truly love each other. Wish them the best and hope they are still doing well.
This was a very emotional show,…and I loved it!!! Congratulations to the family on their new found perspective and optimism. I wish u guys all the best with the business and with each other. I look forward to the day that I'm ever in the area just to be able to stop over!!! For all the residents in the community, go out there and support these people!!!
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The Suns beat the Hornets 111-108 on Friday night at US Airways Center in overtime to improve to 6-7 on the season. With the win the Suns also improve to 3-1 against the Western Conference this season and they earned their fourth straight victory over the Hornets.
Goran Dragic has scored in double figures in all 13 games this season and he is the only Suns' player to do that this year.
Markieff Morris scored a career-high 23 points and P.J. Tucker recorded a career-high 15 points, including 2-for-3 from three-point land.
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The Suns have now trailed by double-digits in 11 of 13 games this season, including six of seven home games.
The Suns trailed by as many as 19 points again Friday against the Hornets. Phoenix has overcome double-digit deficits in four of their five home wins this season, but the players and coaches have said that it takes too much energy and effort to constantly dig yourself out of a large hole.
The Suns played a record nine overtime games in the 2010-2011 season, but did not play a single overtime contest last season. This is the Suns' second overtime game this year and their first since November 14th.
Phoenix finished the third quarter on a 22-7 run to get them back in the game and they are now 2-0 with the revised starting lineup of Goran Dragic, Shannon Brown, Michael Beasley and Marcin Gortat. Head coach Alvin Gentry made the change to his starting lineup on November 21st.
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Another smaller acquisition was snomOne, which became Vodia, got grabbed by a company (which I cannot name here now).
Zayo made another grab to beef up their zColo division by buying Latisys for $657 million. "The acquisition will expand Zayo's datacenter portfolio to 45 facilities within the US, France and the United Kingdom," according to the pr. Last year, Zayo bought Atlanta NAP and CoreXchange in the US; and Neo Telecoms which operates 9 colocation centers across France.
According to Ramblings, Latisys had "about 1,110 medium and large enterprises, and their main products include IaaS-powered managed hosting, storage and raw computing capacity." This will be a different addition to the zColo catalog.
In other news, Verizon mentioned at a Citi investment conference that it would like to sell off more wireline assets as it concentrates its focus on the 3 primary sources of revenue: FiOS, cellular and Enterprise.
TDS sold off about 3000 access lines in NC to Wilkes. It seems to be a trend - sell copper to get rid of union entanglements and maintenance of a rotting plant in favor of Wall Street friendly services like fiber and cloud.
In wild west numbers, a Wyoming-based cooperative, Tri-County Telephone Association, was bought by BHT Holdings for $25K per member of the coop!!!! I guess they missed the new about USF Reform.
The ILECs might as well sell the copper plant because AT&T is in the news again for not maintaining its copper. The FCC -- or the Congressional Telecom ACt re-write - will need to address copper plant -- not just fiber and broadband.
While Obama pushes for Muni networks, he is really calling for any competition in the broadband business. Google fiber did a good job with marketing to scare the Duopoly to pump it up and roll out a few Gigabit networks, but nowhere near enough. There aren't enough companies out there plowing FTTH and FTTB. I have quite a few clients doing it - Hunt Telecom, Socket, Sonic, SEIMITSU, Shelby - but there isn't enough - or there isn't enough noise about it. Tucows is certainly trying to make noise about its FTTx plans in WV and now running the muni network in Westiminster, MD.
]]>The other move: Alpheus bought StratITsphere's retail datacenter business. "Alpheus, seeing strong demand for colocation in Houston, gets immediate access to additional space that fortunately was already connected to the Alpheus network," writes 451 Research.
In addition, Thinking Phone Networks is acquiring Whaleback. Whaleback was one of the original players in the UC space. Bright House was one of their partners. I had not heard the name Whaleback in years, so this was a surprise.
Besides all the Internet of Things buzz at ITEXPO - and oh boy was IoT front and center especially with the AT&T app contest and StartupCamp - there is still lots of talk about UC, especially how all these various components of UC make their way into the Contact Center or are handled by brand reputation management. Or just how anyone ends up with one unified inbox of texts/SMS, IM/chat, email, social, video, etc. (Won't that email app be a memory hog moreso than Thunderbird or Outlook?)
The final question was about Windstream's REIT. More than half of the company's revenue and market cap will be moved into the REIT, because trusts have to be funded. The copper assets - which are used to drive 70% of the revenue at Windstream - have to have been depreciated down to nothing by now, right? It's an interesting move by a company that is squeezed by cash flow, debt and investors. It is actually the most creative thing this company has ever done. Mostly they just sell telecom under water, but I would like to have been in the room when one brave employee suggested the REIT move. Rob Powell does note that Zayo's dark fiber is organized in a similar fashion. I imagine that Fairpoint and Frontier are watching this maneuver closely.
One thought: OTT VoIP works for small business, but it requires a sales force of some kind to sell to mid-market. Oh, and the hosted PBX space is VERY crowded.
And a couple of rumors:
A VAR told me that FreePBX might be pulling support for Yealink over a dispute with Schmooze. Ah, politics.
FreedomVoice is losing people - there has been an employee talent drain since last year - but they are also losing dealers. FreedomVoice sells their FreedomIQ hosted PBX service exclusively through dealers. The new version launch wasn't what dealers expected - and quite frankly with all of the choices out there .... Plus the former channel managers have been taking dealers to their new orgs, which is par for the course in telecom.
Huge lesson here: The channel partner's relationship with the service provider is through the Channel Manager! It is that relationship that defines the partnership for the most part.
]]>We get that behind us (a little) just in time for a federal judge in US District Court to rule that Microsoft must comply with a US warrant for customer data despite that data being stored in a company data center in Ireland! [techrepublic]
Is this a reason for tech companies to move overseas? Other than saving big on taxes, it won't save them from this overreach. They aren't going to pull up stakes in the US and abandon customers and equipment.
The irony for me is that these same companies built this monster that is now hampering their global growth. All that lobbying and Super PAC money bought you exactly what you got.
]]>An interesting side note about ATL-NAP: The founder, Jeff Hinckle, started in the business early (1999) on as an ISP and web hosting business. The company, GNAX, also owns and operates the Dallas NAP. GNAX also offers cloud services like IAAS, which is a nod to his roots in web hosting. It was a long road to this transaction. Congrats, Jeff!
Last week, QTS bought a NJ data center that came with a solar farm for just $75M. QTSbought it from McGraw Hill Financial who is a tenant.
Data Center space has been heating up. All that move to cloud and mobility means you have to stuff all that digital info somewhere; data centers seem like a logical spot.
Peak 10 was acquired by GI Partners in June.
Rackspace is in the rumor mill. Some noise has been made about C-Link buying Rackspace to take on AWS head-on. Other noise today suggests that Rackspace may try to go private. Fun to watch.
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Next is improve security, especially in our highly regulated society. (Ironic that our government both calls for stringent security and privacy controls then circumvents them for their own use.)
The compliance space is getting to be an alphabet soup of confusion. ISO/IEC 27001:2005; SOC 1 and SOC 2 SSAE 16/ISAE 3402; Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix; Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP); Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) Level 1; SOX; GLBA; HIPAA and HITECH. It is expensive to implement these guidelines and policies for compliance but it is even more expensive to pay for the audits for this .
Improve scalability, improve management capability and rapid application deployment are more fitting benefits associated with cloud services providers for VPS or PAAS than for data center space. Yet I can see how the IT staff would invest in data center to build out their own PAAS system.
I don't see consolidating data centers as much as I see moving into new ones for disaster recovery or better connectivity or to be close to the office.
Now, my buddy, Dany Bouchedid, CEO at COLOTRAQ, a master agency specializing in data center everything, says, "This [chart] is spot on as it coincides perfectly with what we have been experiencing for years as to why customers come to us." He has alittle more data center experience than I do (and mine is mainly from CLECs and ITSPs.)
]]>At a sales kick-off meeting in Jacksonville in January, the sales team was told that the channel was going to be leaning less on direct sales personnel and more on the channel people, including two newly added channel managers (in the Northwest and NYC). The five channel managers would be responsible for channel sales, not the direct reps, who would focus on Enterprise sales for the 20 data centers in 13 markets as Telx launches its nationwide marketing campaign.
Telx will be profiling the top 25 channel partners to build a profile of a successful partner. This isn't unusual. Many channel programs develop a criteria of what a partner should look like. Unfortunately, most programs then just sign up anyone who can fog a mirror, which is how you end up with 400 agents (and only 40 producing any sales).
Harmsen mentioned that last year 43% of new logos came from channel partners. That's a pretty big number. You wouldn't want to jeopardize that sales chunk - and you would want to hug the channel even more.
It's a good time to be in the data center space - private or public cloud means data center space. The more remote or virtual workers, the more multi-location businesses, the more big data takes over -- are all reasons that data center sales will continue in the near term.
]]>WSJ is calling Peak10 a data storage company, but they are mainly own data centers and have recently been trying to climb the stack from landlord to managed services with VMware and storage offerings.
So many possibilities here: any of the REITs could buy them or one of the ILEC/CLEC/Cloud companies (Windstream, CenturyLink, TDS) could pick them off.
The $800 million asking price is too big for some CLECs - like TelePacific or Cbeyond - to look at them. Because the Peak10 locations are based solely on the East Coast, you would think that EarthLink might look at them, but again an $800M asking price makes this less likely.
It's unlikely that a cableco will scoop them up because the big 4 are all fighting over TWC at the moment. Kind of distracted. The exception would be Bright House (number 7 system in the US), which is without a data center in the area but has an alignment with Peak10 in Tampa Bay. I don't know if they would want to plunk down $800 million for data centers all over the Southeast, which is not their market. BHN is scattered around the US. Also, BHN is kind of married to TWC, since BHN networks are former TWC networks and BHN uses TWC for channel agreements. A sale of TWC will affect that relationship and partnership.
Peak10 is privately held, so I don't have a clue what the revenue is. Yet in 2012 when it went to "issue a new $300 million senior secured term loan to refinance its existing credit facility and pay a dividend of approximately $215 million to its private-equity owners," S&P gave it a B rating for being leveraged 8x pro-forma.
Data centers are still hot due to the cloud services bonanza. Cloud services need someplace to securely and reliably hold its gear - that would be data centers. So someone will buy Peak10. Hey, maybe Colotraq will.
In other data center news, the brand SAVVIS has been dropped and now it is named CenturyLink Technology Solutions. Blah.
]]>BYOD means supporting a myriad array of devices (laptops, tablets, phones) on a number of platforms (Win7, Win8, iOS, Android, Blackberry) across time zones. Oh, and accomplish that without a training budget or any additional headcount.
For years, the promise of the future depended heavily on the inter-exchange of data between various legacy systems in the organization. This hasn't changed. The migration to the cloud involves taking a data set in one form and moving it into another computer system and data form, securing, backing it up, and allowing it to inter-exchange with other systems and users (securely and in compliance). Big Issue - bigger than Big Data.
The whole point of API's was to make applications talk to each other, but having an API doesn't necessary mean that the apps will talk to each other as needed or in a meaningful way. Just one more reason developers are in short supply.
If you can help alleviate any staffing problems or support issues for an Enterprise, then you have a prospect.
It may seem that the CIO list is buzz term heavy, but these issues became buzz terms because the problem is so far-reaching. Solve them to make money.
]]>Colocation provider, FiberMedia Group, combined with Bay Area Internet Services under the new name: vXchnge. BAIC was acquired by the Stephens Group, which also owns FiberMedia.
FYI, a nice chart of the top retail colocation companies. Equinix is at about $2B of annual revenue at the top of this space and Savvis is second at approximately $1 Billion. The two combine to hold 26% of the total pie (of about $12B)
FireEye Lands Mandiant in Mega $1 Billion Security Deal . Since security and privacy will be the number 1 priority in 2014, this deal makes a lot of sense. It is $100M in cash and the rest in stock.
Indie buys into cloud, chapter 10. Otelco, an independent LEC bought a cloud managed services business, Reliable Networks. The interesting part is that Otelco "recently emerged from bankruptcy". This is the uninteresting part: they "see the movement into IT and cloud services as a natural progression for the restructured company." Wireline plus cloud and IT is novel, right? Otelco operates in new England, Alabama and Missouri. That's pretty stretched out. At least, they can centralize the cloud services.
TDS will re-brand in 2014. TDA will rename its Hosted and Managed Services (HMS) subsidiary OneNeck IT Solutions LLC. TDS has been building up its HMS biz with acquisitions for quite a few years - usingthe same formula as Windstream and others. The acquisitions include Those acquisitions included VISI, TEAM Technologies, OneNeck IT Services, Vital Support Systems and MSN Comm. TDS is an ILEC (the seventh largest local exchange telephone company in the US) and a CLEC (like WIND). [VISI and MSN had data centers that TDS now owns.] TDS also is 80% owner of US Cellular, the 5th largest US cellco. In 2013, TDS acquired Baja Broadband, a cable system with 71K subs and passes 214K homes for $267.5 million. Divested is one way to put. Looking like a little AT&T is a better way to see it.
]]>CLEC's have a special access circuit problem. AT&T wants to charge more; that will crush margins. In the case of the Walmart of telecom (WIND), that will mean no margin. When you examine the ARPU of Cbeyond - the way ARPU has declined over the last 3 years due to pricing pressure from cablecos and CLECs - you realize that special access costs were eating their lunch - and were going to continue to do so.
EarthLink tried many different plans before the cloud one. It must be paying off since CEO Rolla Huff retired. The pivot away from ISP to MSP has not been easy - and it has been costly, but the pay off will come. That's the trouble with cloud: it takes a lot of customers to make a dent in the CAPEX.
TDS is like Windstream (and a couple of other carriers); they have an ILEC division and a CLEC division. TDS, Windstream, TWC and Cincinnati Bell all went after data center business in the last couple of years. Data center business is bigger today than ever before, according to COLOTRAQ CEO Dany Bouchedid. It was a smart move to buy data centers before entering the cloud business.
How about your business? Have you shifted any revenue to cloud? It doesn't have to happen all at once. It doesn't have to be an all in scenario. Like these 4 carriers, you can make one pivotal move that will position your business for what is coming next: cloud services and big data.
]]>Let's look at WIND revenue: 72% comes from broadband. If most of your revenue is from broadband, then shouldn't you deliver a quality service? According to DSLR, Windstream is under investigation in Georgia for advertising DSL speeds from 6 to 24 Mbps but delivering 1 Mbps!!! Awesome! Luckily, there isn't much competition for broadband in Windstream ILEC territories. They just experienced an outage on their long-distance network, too.
While business ARPU is right around $410 per month, it doesn't account for a majority of the revenue. The CEO would like that to change. Without a cellular play, cloud seems to be the way carriers are turning. But there they don't face cable competition, but a field of players from other CLEC's like Megapath, Cbeyond and EarthLink to managed services providers like Netwolves and other MSP's.
I look at AT&T's shopping in Europe as a sign that the RBOCs have hit a ceiling in US revenue. Cellular is maxed out. U-Verse is the wireline growth right now, but Enterprise and cloud has become a street fight with VZ, ATT, L3, C-Link, and ELNK fighting it out for federal government contracts as well as Fortune 5000 business. Both of those sectors put the RBOCs and its carrier brethren in competition from HP, IBM, and other system integrators. How would Windstream play in that space?
Windstream is expecting CAF funds to add more homes passed for broadband, which will result in more broadband sales. It's a dual strategy that the company is following: ILEC side and CLEC side - for consumer and for business. We'll see if a west coast data center enters their portfolio or they do something bigger like buy Integra.
]]>IBM jumped into MDM (mobile device management) with its purchase of Fiberlink. "Fiberlink's MaaS360 cloud-based offerings, IBM will expand its bring your own device (BYOD) capabilities to deliver a complete mobile management and security solution through IBM MobileFirst that includes trusted transactions and security intelligence capabilities for mobile apps, users, content and data." [source] Fiberlink was the first MDM firm to support Google Glass.
8x8 is really branching out. First with Softbank in Japan in cloud and now buying a UK service provider. 8×8 has announced a definitive agreement to buy the UK's Voicenet Solutions. This expansion into Europe will cost them "$18.4M in cash to buy Voicenet. That will bring them 1000 business customers." Talk about the total cost of customer acquisition.
I would like to think this 8x8 deal coupled with the Vonage-Vocalocity deal meant that VoIP consolidation was going to heat up, but I don't. Too many VoIP businesses over-value themselves, so consolidation just won't happen. However, in 3 years, many of the current VoIP players will be gone - through a fire sale (like SunRocket), a bankruptcy, or some other event that will look like a merger but could be a shotgun wedding.
The weird one is MITEL merging with Aastra. The Ottawa Senator headline says enough: $392M Aastra deal gives Mitel heft, but growth remains elusive. How do you take two companies that are flaying around in the marketplace and hope together they can find direction?
Avaya announced that it has sold 360K IP Office systems; Avaya has now sold more IP Office than its ever sold BCM. Aastra has a hold in Europe that they can't seem to find in the US. The combined company will have $1B in revenue and a $100M cloud business - but so what? How much is Blackberry worth ($3.35B and $4B in rev), doesn't that tell you something?
"The business communications market is ripe for consolidation and on the cusp of a mass migration to cloud-based services. We believe that small competitors with narrow focus and limited global reach will quickly be marginalized," said Mitel President and CEO, Mr. McBee. While true, merging for the sake of growing your size isn't the answer long-term.
Premise PBX, a hosted version of same, handsets, UC, Asterisk based PBX, more phones - how does this all come together to be a growth company?
Focus and Identity are ingredients to success. It will be a year before we find out if this merger results in that.
Another merger has MSO WOW acquiring "the Columbus, OH data center, cloud, and fiber assets of cloud service provider Bluemile." WOW joins the likes of TWC as a cableco who bought a data center business.
That's the M&A wrap up this week.
]]>Meanwhile Savvis is rolling out new integrated solutions to go head-to-head against IBM and Verizon. I can't tell the specifics from the press release because it is filled with keywords and buzz terms that mean nothing.
Verizon is going against Amazon for IAAS (computing and storage power) with a story about reliability. Amazon has had some famous outages, but that isn't why companies use them. It's because it is easy, flexible, dynamic and cheap. Those words don't show up anywhere on Verizon stationary.
This space reminds me of the UC space that Cisco and Microsoft are fighting over. There are maybe 15,000 customers in that space. Have at it. Customer acquisition costs will be high. And sales will be like you work at Boeing where you get 20 minutes to pitch an airline to buy your planes - a sale that will make or break your company's year.
In my experience selling IAAS, most customers don't know what it is, what they are actually getting, and more importantly what they are not getting. It's computing power -- it's parts of a server that you piece together. I don't know how big that market is, but I am sure that IDC or Gartner guess that it is zillions of dollars by 2025.
What set UPS and IBM apart from many companies is managing logistics and professional services. Amazon is doing that today with distribution and marketplace services for many, many partners. Taking care of logistics, deployment, distribution and other nitty gritty is where the sale gets made.
It won't get made by talking about energy efficient AMD micro-servers or our new data center location or our new integrated solutions portfolio. It all comes down to UX (user experience). I haven't heard any of those stories yet.
]]>Did the cloud services provider design the service to be in the cloud? Or are they shoveling gear in a data center and calling it "in the cloud"? Most stuff is the latter.
Made for the cloud means being built to take advantage of cloud technology, like Amazon Web Services and other distributed computing platforms. Cloud means Access Anywhere, which means big pipes of bandwidth. The 24/7/365 access means redundancy and resiliency have to be architected in, baked in if you will - not plugged in later. You don't add the chocolate chips AFTER you baked the cookie dough.
One of my clients likes to say that the difference between hosted and cloud is the number of data centers. You go from hosted to cloud when you go from 1 to 2 POPs. I disagree. Having a second data center doesn't ensure resiliency or failover or data replication or availability - elements crucial to a cloud service delivery.
Mike Doherty, CTO at Sonian, states that you have to design from the ground up using advanced cloud computing technologies. Sonian and Netflix did that. Vidtel was designed from the ground up for cloud video conferencing.
Slapping your box in a data center is not cloud. It gets called that, but it's not.
Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel, a pioneer in cloud-based any-to-any® video conferencing, adds, "It's also about your back office, auto provisioning, mutli-tenancy, etc. A PBX is not a Class 5 switch just because they both have call forwarding."
That's why channel partners and prospective customers have to be smart about what they are buying. They have to ask some questions about the architecture of the service.
Questions like that will give you some insight into the type of cloud service.
I remember seeing a "data center" of an MSP in Tampa who had baker's racks and white box computers connected to cable modems. Technically, the checklist was marked off for computers, racks and connectivity; but in the end would that be the data center you picked?


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I applied online. The process took 2+ months – interviewed at National Grid - UK in April 2013.
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I applied through college or university. The process took a day – interviewed at National Grid - UK in April 2013.
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Interview DetailsNational Grid seems like a great company to work for. I was offered an interview which I was a little nervous about at first because it's not exactly what i was looking for in a job but was pleased to find out about their great open-culture, great benefits, and performance bonus'. Before the interview I did my research about the company and was pleased to find out that this company seems like a great place to work.
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Interview DetailsThe actual interview was what you would expect. There were some behavioral questions and a few broad technical questions. Interview went fine and was told I would be contacted with decision in two weeks. Didn't hear back for a month and when I contacted them to inquire if a decision had been made I was told they were almost there and HR would let me know. Never heard from NG again. Not even the courtesy of a rejection email. Overall I would describe my experience as: waste of time.
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4.5 Very good, very good indeed samad5 | 01/10/2009 | See all samad5's reviews (21) There are plenty of brain games around but only a few manage to retain your interest over a prolonged period and this most certainly is one. 5 distinct areas of challenge with futher 3 sub categories per area make for a meaty game that offers plenty of longegevity.
4.5 Brilliant! A must buy for any brain trainer! Omphalos | 22/07/2009 | See all Omphalos's reviews (5) This game is fantastic! At first, I thought it may have been a little bit kiddified, but there are different levels of difficulty in the Practice area, and the actual test can get challenging at times too! But I'd say it was great for all the family, especially as you can have 4 Profiles per game card.There are lots of 3 different games in 5 different categories to choose from, each of which have the 3 levels of difficulty. They are all fun, and some are quite challenging! You can receive a bronze,silver and gold medal for each, so it's definitely something to work towards, unless you're just a genius!!On the main test, it gives you a random game per category, and it combines all difficulties into one test. At the end of the test, you are presented with your Brain Size (which, yes, you should take quite light-heartedly. It cannot predict your physical brain size, which some people seem to think it can!!), as well as presenting you with a Level (A/B/C etc). and what your level of intelligence is equivalent too e.g. a lawyer, which is a fun addition! People need to note though - this game DOES NOT tell you the age of your brain - it's the brain size!!It's a must buy for any brain trainer certainly! For me, it's better than the Brain Training: How Big Is Your Brain, because there is a greater aspect of fun to it, plus you can repeat the challenges as many times as you wish! So yes, buy buy buy :)
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PUBLISHED: 27 Aug 2010 13:36:53 | UPDATED: 28 Aug 2010 04:00:45PRINT EDITION: 27 Aug 2010
Newcrest Mining Ltd's $10.65 billion takeover of Lihir Gold Ltd is a fait accompli, after a Papua New Guinea court approved the deal.
Newcrest welcomed the move, which it said was the final step in the merger process after Lihir's shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal earlier this week.
It's expected the takeover scheme of arrangement will be implemented on September 13, with Lihir shares suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange and the Port Moresby Stock Exchange from Monday, August 30.
Under the scheme, Lihir shareholders will receive nearly 0.12 Newcrest shares plus 22.5¢ for each Lihir share they own.
Based on Newcrest's closing share price of $35.99 on Thursday, the offer has an implied price of $4.49 per Lihir share, or $10.65 billion.
"The company is soon to become part of Newcrest Mining Ltd, with the combined assets creating a strong and vibrant new, major gold company," said Lihir managing director Graeme Hunt.
News of the court approval came as Lihir on Friday reported a first half profit of $US87.1 million, a turnaround from its loss in the corresponding period a year earlier.
Although Lihir did not declare an interim dividend, Newcrest said Lihir shareholders who participated in its cash and scrip offer will be eligible for that company's final dividend of 20 cents.
In its half-year results Lihir reported its underlying profit for the six months to June 30 was $US142.5 million ($A160.98 million).
That figure was down 15.2 per cent on the previous corresponding period, but was up 17.3 per cent on the six months to December 31, 2009.
"Solid gold production and higher gold prices have enabled Lihir Gold Ltd to report a strong underlying net profit," Mr Hunt said.
He said production at Lihir's three producing mines during the rest of 2010 should be stronger, with full year production between 1.0 and 1.1 million ounces.
Cash costs for the year are forecast to be below $US450 per ounce, and below $US420 per ounce at Lihir Island, Mr Hunt said.
At June 30 the company had net cash of $US267 million.
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Companies | Newcrest Mining, Lihir Gold Ltd |
People | Graeme Hunt |
Topics | Metals & Mining /Gold & Precious Metals , Mergers & Acquisitions |