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THE POMONA Public Library, which closed Aug. 15, opened its doors again Tuesday. There are changes: fewer hours, a barrier to block patrons from going to the now-closed basement level, two self-checkout machines, a computer lab upstairs.
Also, with the basement restrooms now closed, everyone has to use the ones in the children's department. They are marked "Boys" and "Girls."
Library employees are familiar faces; many retired to maintain health insurance and gain a pension, allowing them to afford to work as part-time, hourly employees.
Among them is Muriel Spill, who is now library manager, in charge of operations. She's happy to be back and I was happy to see her.
The staff worked during the nearly three-week closure to clean the reorganized library and to cross-train, "so with the reduced staff they can pinch-hit for people," Spill said.
(Her former boss, Yankees fan Bruce Guter, will be pleased to know she's picked up on his use of baseball analogies.)
Did patrons try visiting during the closure?
"Every day," Spill said. "Banging on the door. We could only tell them, `We'll be open after Labor Day."'
New hours: 2 to 7 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday; closed Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
To raise revenue, maybe Pomona could install a 3 Day Suit Broker during the off-days.
In a milestone that under the circumstances may go largely unheralded, a timeline of the library's history on display on the main floor reveals that next Monday, the library will mark its 125th anniversary. (At least the library will be open that day.)
Pomona became a city library in 1890 and a free library in 1902, but in 1887, Pomona got its first library, open to members only, at a price of $3 per year.
Opening date was Sept. 10. The library was in a single room on the second floor of a building at Third and Main streets and had 400 books.
"Library hours are from 2 to 5 p.m., two afternoons per week," the timeline reads.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
CULTURE CORNER: A "listening party" to preview Bob Dylan's latest album takes place at Rhino Records, 235 Yale Ave. in Claremont, at 6 p.m. Thursday. The album, "Tempest," will be released Sept. 11.
Avant-garde composer John Cage, who was born 100 years ago today in L.A., attended Pomona College from 1928 to 1930 before dropping out after his sophomore year to go to Europe. A Centenary Celebration at 7 p.m. tonight behind the Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Ave. in Claremont, will feature performances (one involving a robot) and, why not, a birthday cake.
4 Color Fantasies in Rancho Cucamonga mistakenly ended up glutted with 108 copies of perhaps the strangest Marvel comic book of the year, "Infernal Man-Thing" No. 3, the last work by the late Steve Gerber. "If anyone says they read about it in your column, we'll sell it to them for half-price," joked employee Chris Peterson. Saving you money on products you didn't know existed and don't care about: That's why I'm here. (Unable to read about it in my own column, I bought all three $4 issues at full price.)
ARBY'S NIGHT 3 would have been Aug. 30, the date a small group of us ate dinner at the vintage Arby's in Pomona the previous two years. But that Arby's closed earlier this year, and none of us are so attached to Arby's that we really wanted to eat at, say, the one in Upland with the dead grass out front.
Instead, three of our group of five went to the last Rancho Cucamonga Quakes home game of the season, along with a dozen more co-workers and friends.
(Among the missing was my friend Lorena, who was probably out looking for a giant neon sign to light up.)
We were greeted by Steve the usher, who remembered the Bulletin gang from a visit around the same time in 2011. "You sat in almost the exact same place last year," he said, examining our tickets.
Steve's superpower is his memory.
We took our seats during the third inning, the Quakes already behind, and the action on the field didn't improve unless you were a Mavericks fan.
Everything else at the Epicenter made up for it, though. My friends, for instance, were enamored by the Thirsty Thursday special of $3 beers. I was less impressed by my $3 bottle of water.
Between innings, unexpectedly, a Cab Calloway song played over the sound system.
"Yeah, that's good baseball music," one friend deadpanned.
"Maybe when my grandfather went to ballgames," another said.
I liked it, but what do I know?
An onfield quiz sponsored by Cagle's Appliances ended with a girl winning the right to put a pie in the face of an intern, which she did in one motion, with no ceremony at all.
"Wow, not even a countdown!" the surprised announcer said.
At another point, two children competed in a race on bouncing, inflatable ponies. Very cute.
Tremor, the dinosaur mascot, roamed the stands with his "magic microphone," able to read people's thoughts.
"He's totally into me," a young woman allegedly thought concerning the mascot. (Her body language certainly masked her feelings.)
"This game is taking forever," the umpire was said to be thinking.
Less successful were Tremor's slightly disturbing dance moves during "Play That Funky Music," in which he strokes himself.
"There are children present!" one of my friends shouted. As journalists, we don't really care about such things, but it's true that we were mildly grossed out.
"Don't sexualize earthquakes!" another yelled.
The game ended with the Quakes losing 7-1, not that we were paying much attention, followed by a fireworks show that erased any disappointment.
So, Arby's Night 3 was a rousing success, especially since no Arby's food was involved. See you next year. And Steve, save our seats.
David Allen writes Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, speaking of disappointment. Reach him at email@example.com or 909-483-9339, read his blog at dailybulletin.com/davidallenblog, check out facebook.com/davidallencolumnist and follow @davidallen909 on Twitter.


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|Taubenstr. 20-22
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Exhibitions current:
The exhibition "Aleksandra Koneva. Uns geht es gut!" is the next one in our series of monographic exhibitions and the first one in our new gallery facilities Taubenstraße 20-22, at Gendarmenmarkt in the old Berlin city centre.
The exhibition will be shown until 24th of March 2012.
Exhibition Preview
We are going to show next a one woman exhibition of Natalia Turnova titled "Essentials". It will be opened on Friday, 29th of March 2012, 8 p.m. at our new gallery location, Taubenstr. 20-22, 'Gendarmenmarkt', 10117 Berlin, and run until 2nd of June 2012.
Galerie Sandmann
Taubenstr. 20-22
Am Gendarmenmarkt
D-10117 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 2804 5323
Mobil: +49 (0)177-259 7872
Aleksandra Koneva
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Police Looking for Moda Center Attacker
Portland Police are looking for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman as she let Monday night's Blazer game. Here is a press release from the bureau:
On Monday March 3, 2014, at 10:19 p.m., North Precinct officers responded to the Moda Center on the report a man grabbed a woman in the parking garage then ran away.
Officers contacted the victim, a 27-year-old woman, who told police that she had attended the Portland Trailblazers game at the Moda Center, and was walking through a parking garage adjacent to North Drexler Drive. The victim told police that a man approached her, grabbed her, and began pulling her towards a fenced area. The victim fought back and the suspect let her go. The suspect then ran away in an unknown direction.
Multiple officers searched the area for the suspect but did not locate anyone matching the suspect's description.
The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s to 40s with long, straight dark hair. The suspect wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, and had very bad body odor, according to the victim.
The victim did not require any medical treatment after the attack.
On Tuesday evening, March 4, 2014, the victim met with a Police Forensic Sketch Artist to create a sketch of the suspect. This sketch is being released to the public to aid detectives in the investigation.
Anyone with information about this suspect, or anyone who was in the area after the Blazer game that saw this suspect is asked to contact the Portland Police Bureau Sex Crimes Unit at (503) 823-9781.
The Portland Police Bureau would like to remind community members that stranger-to-stranger sexual assaults fortunately are a rare occurrence and the Bureau makes every attempt to share this information as soon as practicable. The decision of when to inform the public is carefully balanced against the needs of the investigation, as the top priority is to solve the case.
The Portland Police Bureau works with the Sexual Assault Resource Center of Oregon (SARC) and we want you to know that you need not be alone as a survivor of a sexual assault. SARC has a 24-hour support line at (503) 640-5311.
Additionally, the Portland Police Bureau WomenStrength and GirlStrength programs provide free self-defense classes and personal safety workshops to people around the Portland area.


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Tucows, Inc. (NYSEMKT:TCX)
Q4 2011 Earnings Call
February 15, 2012, 5:00 p.m. ET
Elliott Noss – President, CEO & Director
Michael Cooperman – CFO
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Seucrities
Thanos Moschopoulos – BMO Capital Markets
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, welcome to Tucows, Inc.'s fourth quarter 2011 conference call.
Earlier this afternoon Tucows issued a news release reporting its financial results for the fourth quarter. That news release and the financial statements are available on the company's website at www.TucowsInc.com under the Investor's heading. Please note that today's call is being broadcast live over the Internet and will be archived for replay, both by telephone and via the Internet, beginning approximately one hour following the completion of this call. Details on how to access the replays are available in today's news release as well as at Tucows' website.
Before we begin, let me remind you that matters the company will be discussing include forward-looking statements and as such are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially. These risk factors are described in details in the company's documents filed with the SEC, specifically the most recent report on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. The company urges you to read its security filings for a full description of the risk factors applicable for its business.
I would now like to turn the call over to Tucows' President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Elliot Noss. Please go ahead, Mr. Noss.
Elliott Noss
Thank you, operator. With me is Michael Cooperman our Chief Financial Officer. Today's call will follow our usual format. I will begin with a brief overview of the financial and operational highlights for the quarter as well as the year on the whole. Mike will then review our financial results in more detail and I will return with some concluding comments before opening the call up to questions.
Our continued strong performance in the fourth quarter concluded a year that was indicative of the consistency and reliability in our business as well as our ability to efficiently deliver growth.
Revenue for Q4 was another record, our seventh in a row, at $26.4 million, up 19% from the same quarter of last year. Importantly, we again saw growth generated in each key area of our business.
Total revenue for 2011 rose to just over $97 million, also a record. Cash provided by operating activities for the quarter was a healthy $2.7 million and adjusted EBITDA for the year was $7.4 million.
Looking at each of our service groups individually. The fourth quarter saw another record for OpenSRS domain service transactions, which were up 20% year-over-year to more than 2.1 million. Domain service revenue was also up 20%. Both new registrations and renewal registrations, continued to show strong growth, up 17% and 21% respectively, excluding the impact of the two customers that became registrars earlier in the year.
I will add that our renewal rate continues to hold steady at a level well above the industry average.
Total domains under management at the end of the quarter was also a record, at 11.8 million, up 16% from a year earlier, or excluding our EPAG acquisition, up 13%.
At YummyNames, our domain portfolio group, Q4 was another strong quarter for sales of individual names, which were up 24% year-over-year, and 31% sequentially. In addition, our focus on increasing the average selling price of brandables and gems is clearly yielding results. Again this quarter we saw another record average selling price, and had a good number of individual name sales in access of $10,000.
More importantly, over the past 12 months, the average selling price of individual names has more than doubled.
We are again pleased with the results from our new expiry steam partner who continues to make bulk purchases at a healthy rate.
During the quarter, we migrated the majority of our owned and operated domain portfolio to the platform of a new parking partner. The positive results here contributed to flat parking revenue, which as I have noted in the past, has been in a long-term period of decline.
Our retail services offering, Hover, had another strong quarter, with revenue up 22% compared to Q4 of 2010. And I will again note the underlying performance of Hover continues to masked with the deferral of revenue.
New transactions, which include new domains, transfers and email accounts were up 49% year-over-year and 22% sequentially. Hover renewal rates also remain strong during the quarter, and customer satisfaction, as mentioned by net promoter score, continues to increase.
Hover continued to see strong momentum with inbound transfers. In fact, transfers in outnumbered transfers out by almost 5 to 1 in the fourth quarter, boosted by our very public support of the open Internet and our stance against SOPA, the content industry legislation that was chased out of congress.
As a result, in the late part of Q4 and early part of Q1, we gained significantly more customers than would normally be the case, including a number of high profile clients, like Wikia, run by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Finally, our closed beta for Ting, our mobile phone offering in the U.S., ran throughout the fourth quarter. We made a number of refinements to our service based on the input of our beta customers, and on February 1 of this year, we formally launched Ting to the public. The initial press coverage and response has been encouraging.
I would like to spend a moment sharing how we will talk about Ting for most of 2012. We are in this market for the long haul, viewing mobile as the most important technology trend of the next 10 years. We do not intend to talk about subscriber numbers, ARPO, or margins for at least the next few quarters. We do intend to share some of our experiences in the market to bring color to our experience.
In terms of expectations for 2012, I think we will be disappointed if by the end of the year, Ting was not either on track to becoming or was already the company's second largest service behind domain name registrations.
In summary, the fourth quarter and the year in the whole were periods of strong operational and financial performance. We continue to generate solid cash flow while achieving solid growth with minimal capital investment and minimal impact on our operating cost. All of this sets us up for a great 2012.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mike to review our financial results for the quarter in greater detail. Mike?
Michael Cooperman
Thanks, Elliott. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 – or 2010, excuse me, increased by 4.3 million or 19% to 26.4 million from 22.1 million for the fourth quarter of last year. This increase was the result of growth in each of the components of our business. Cost of revenues before network costs were $18.5 million, an increase of $2.9 million or 19% from $15.6 million for the same quarter of the previous year.
Gross margin before network costs for the quarter increased $1.4 million or 22% to $7.9 million from $6.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2010.
On a percentage basis, gross margin was up marginally at 30% compared with 29% for the fourth quarter of 2010. Gross margin from OpenSRS, which includes domain name services, email services, and other wholesale services increased by $900,000 or 22% to $4.8 million from $3.9 million for the same quarter last year. The increase being generated by strong growth in domains and email.
As a percentage of revenue, gross margin from OpenSRS remained essentially flat at 21% when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. Gross margin from domain name services increased by $652,000 or 24% to $3.4 million and reflects both higher transaction volumes from existing customers, the contribution of the EPAG acquisition that we completed during the third quarter, and the impact of the launch of the triple-X registry.
Gross margins from our email services increased by $188,000 or 44% to $612,000 primarily as a result of higher volumes that our email customers are experiencing, as well as the impact of the lower pricing we have been able to negotiate with one of our third-party suppliers.
Gross margin from YummyNames increased by $115,000 or 9% to $1.5 million from $1.4 million for the same period of 2010. The increase primarily reflects the timing of portfolio domain name sales as well as higher expiry stream sales following our move to a new partner. On a percentage basis, gross margin for YummyNames was slightly higher at 89% compared with 88% for the same quarter last year.
Gross margin for Hover increased $110,000 or 14% to $864,000 from $764,000 for fourth quarter of 2010, primarily due to the continued success we have been having in attracting and retaining customers through our marketing and branding initiatives.
As we've discussed on past calls, the simplified Hover pricing model that we implemented as part of our market initiatives has had a small impact on gross margin as a percentage of revenue, which fell to 62% from 66% in the same quarter a year earlier.
Gross margin for Butterscotch increased $328,000 or 76%, to $752,000 from $424,000 for the fourth quarter of 2010. The increase was the result of specific marketing initiatives undertaken by one of our vendors. These initiatives may not be recurring. The increase was partially offset by lower contributions from corporate video initiative, as well as from our author resource center and display advertising from the www.Tucows.com desktop software libraries. On a percentage basis, Butterscotch's gross margin was up slightly to 99% from 98%.
Turning to costs. Network costs for the quarter decreased $138,000 or 9%, to $1.3 million from $1.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, primarily the result of the efficiencies we have achieved in operating and managing our co-location facilities as well as the decreased commitment we have needed to make in capital expenditures on network commitment.
Total operating expenses for the fourth quarter increased $177,000 or 5% to $3.9 million from $3.8 million for the same period of 2010. As a percentage of revenue, total operating expenses decreased to 15% from 18%. The increasing total operating expenses, primarily resulted from an increase in payroll-related cost of some $400,000, when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, and mainly reflects annual increases and the addition of EPAG in 2011. This increase was partially offset by a recording a gain on foreign exchange of $168,000, and a decrease in amortization of $142,000 when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.
I will note that during the quarter, as part of our efforts to improve our disclosure, we reassessed how we have been disclosing the impact of maturing currency exchange contracts and concluded that a clearer and more transparent presentation would be to offset any impact maturing contracts have against the gain or loss on currency forward contracts line, rather than the G&A line. The result of this reclassification is that the aggregate impact of the forward contracts is presented on one line, and the trending our G&A expenses can now be tracked without having to make an adjustment for its effects.
Total operating expenses as a percentage of revenue fell by 3% to 15% when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.
Net income for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $6.1 million with $0.11 per share compared with net income of $1.2 million or $0.02 for the fourth quarter of 2010. Included in net income per share for the fourth quarter of 2011, is a tax benefit of $0.06 per share related to the release of deferred tax asset valuation allowances.
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2011 were $6.4 million up by $1.7 million from $4.7 million at the end of the third quarter of 2011, and up by $2.2 million from $4.2 million at the end of 2010.
The increase compared to the end of the third quarter was the result of cash flow generated by operating activities of $2.7 million. This was partially offset by our repaying $710,000 of our credit facility with the Bank of Montreal, and our investing $221,000 in purchasing property and equipment.
I will note for you that in anticipation of the release of Ting, we began to invest in phone inventory during the fourth quarter. And as of the end of 2011, had just over $200,000 of phone inventory on hand.
Deferred revenue at the end of 2011 was $69.2 million, an increase of 11% from $62.6 million at the end of 2010, and up just slightly from the end of the third quarter of 2011.
In summary, our financial performance for the fourth quarter was very much indicative of our strong performance for the year overall, and continued to reflect the leverage in our business model. We continue to grow our top line, deliver solid cash flows from operations while prudently managing cost. All of which are indicative of the underlying health of our business and position us well for the future.
I would now like to turn the call back to Elliott. Elliott?
Elliott Noss
Thanks Mike. We've always been committed to transparency. And as part of our on-going effort to help you track our performance, at the end of Q1 we will be making some adjustments to the way we report our results. These changes will bring our reporting more in line with where our business has evolved to in 2012.
Butterscotch has become a less important contributor to our overall business, and will no longer be broken out separately, but will instead be part of a broader content number, along with much of our direct navigation revenue.
We also recognize that a lot of the expiry stream revenue is more rightly attributed to the OpenSRS business.
Finally, on that Q1 call, we'll be sharing how Ting will be covered in the numbers as the business ramps up. We are also considering the adoption of hedge accounting for foreign exchange contracts that qualify for this treatment to offset the mark-to-market movements that often result in significant earnings volatility.
Ultimately, the Tucows story is a simple one, and we believe these changes will help you follow our company better.
Before I open the call to questions, a few words about our most recent buyback. As I have discussed many times, Tucows is a publically traded company that consistently generates cash while achieving growth, without requiring much capital. We are committed to returning capital to shareholders over the long-term. Based on our continue confidence in our business and the attractiveness of our shares, in December we initiated our sixth modified Dutch Tender option. Under the tender, which was completed in January, we repurchased 7.6 million shares, or 14% of our total shares outstanding prior to the tender.
Since initiating our first share buyback program in February of 2007, we have repurchased a total of 30.8 million shares, or just over 40% of shares outstanding.
2011 was another solid year of financial performance. However, it was also a year in which we launched more new services than any other year in our history, while at the same time, making important improvements to our existing services.
As a result, we enter 2012 with significant momentum. We believe we have the best distribution channel in the Internet economy, and leveraging this channel as we are through the continued introduction of new services, such as Ting, will support our continued growth and diversification beyond domain registration.
Our ability to do this in an efficient manner, with little capital investment or impact on operating expenses, will support both our ability to consistently generate cash, and our commitment to returning capital to shareholders over the long-term.
And with that, I'd like to open the call to questions. Operator?
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Alex Grassino from Laurentian Securities, your line is open.
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
Good afternoon, gentlemen, nice quarter.
Elliott Noss
Hi, Alex, thanks.
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
In terms of Ting, can you just give us some of the lessons you got to learn to off of the data you ran?
Elliott Noss
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
And are there any [inaudible]?
Elliott Noss
Yes, there were – I mean, what we really want to do whether it's Ting or rest of our business is really let the market teach us and there are a couple things that we're very much able to take away. You know, there were, of course, all sorts of myths that worked out and presentation of certain ideas in certain ways, but I think two big ones that I will call out. A first is a real resonance for Ting with small businesses, and that was something that, you know, I have talked about a little bit in the past, I think I might have mentioned it on the last call. But it is something we're very clearly – you know, we didn't appreciate how underserved that niche might have been, and so we've done some things, for instance, in the way that we're presenting and allowing multiple phones, we've taken sort of the easy presentation of the number of devices in a bucket up from six to twenty as an example.
And we'll go past that, but that is just in the presentation. So that small business opportunity. I think the second large one was what I like to jokingly call a mom's ride free. So what you had was, and again I think I touched on this last call, but I want to go a little further with it, is you know, really in appreciation by some, I'll call them smarter and more suffocated customers, which is just the kind of customers that we think Ting should appeal to – that if they added a parent and got their parent a cell phone, often a feature phone, you know, the lowest, the least expensive phone they can get from us, that essentially they would only have to pay the $6 fee to keep the device alive because it would be rare that the parent's usage would actually drive them up into an additional bucket.
So from that perspective, you're paying $6, you're keeping your parents there, you can manage and track their usage, deal with the problems, which as a good geek, you're probably doing anyway, and there's a real resonance there. So it's again, that, you know, just something that emerged up from the customer set that was great learning and it's fantastic from our perspective.
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
Great. And just a more technical question in terms of inventory, do you have any sort of conceptual ideas as to where you want to keep inventory levels for your phones?
Elliott Noss
You know, I think the short answer is as low as possible. You know, we're putting a fair bit of effort, the two places we're putting a lot of our focus – you know, outside, of course, the marketing distribution which is the most important thing, is really building some excellence around managing the inventory, and the second is really being pristine around the customer experience. You know, with inventory in particular, I don't want to give you a days in inventory because I think even our targets are going to be different phone-to-phone, and they are going to be different quarter-to-quarter. And in fact, I think that the channel for the typical distribution of phones is really going to evolve a lot over the next 24 months. But we've modeled this out and we're pretty comfortable that, you know, we'd love to have the problem of having to carry huge inventory because that would be a sign of real, real success.
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
I see, and just one last quick one, I haven't heard anything on the goMobi for a little while, can you give me – us a bit of an update there?
Elliott Noss
Sure, you know, goMobi is continuing to grow, it's – you know, we're happy, reasonably happy with adoption [inaudible] everybody, whether it's our partner on the supply side, you know, or most of our customers would love to see that stuff ramp up quicker. We're still, you know, we're still positive about it, and we're still seeing growth there, you know, just not enough that it would warrant a sort of materially talking about it on a call.
Alex Grassino – Laurentian Bank Securities
Okay, perfect, thanks. I'll pass the line.
Elliott Noss
Thanks, Alex.
Your next question comes from the line of Thanos Moschopoulos, from BMO Capital Markets, your line is open.
Thanos Moschopoulos – BMO Capital Markets
Hi, good afternoon.
Elliott Noss
Hi, Thanos.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Hi, Elliott. To clarify your comment you made earlier, you said that you expect Ting to become your second largest piece of business as we head towards the end of next year. Are you talking about from a revenue perspective, or from a margin contribution perspective?
Elliott Noss
Well, I think it would be as a goal, as an aspirational goal, it would be both. And there, just to be clear too, we're talking about outside of the main registration, so I'm comparing it to things like SSL and email.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Okay, and then on the YummyNames business, you know, you've had some constant revenue there over the past few quarters, do we get to a point though where you start to work through a lot of the ad space that you have and we have to start worrying about that revenue sort of starting to tail off, or is that just constantly being replenished from the expiry stream?
Elliott Noss
Yes, no, there is no worry in site there. I'll tell you the way that we think about it internally is as if we have infinite inventory, and I don't mean that literally, but I do mean that, you know, the – we are adding names through the expiry stream faster than we are selling them, which means we don't have to think about the problem of depletion yet. So we're really focused, and you heard me making some comments on this, on maximizing total revenue, and you've heard me talk about price inelasticity in the past, so, you know, that doesn't mean just hit every bid you get, you will not maximize your revenue by doing that. So we're really constantly tweaking that, and really just trying to, sort of, tick up on the total revenue.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Basically, bottom line is we're seeing the main transactions going at a very, very healthy pace, so, similarly, I mean, you're asset base is presumably going at that pace as well?
Elliott Noss
Yes, we're comfortable that, you know, we can continue along on the pace that we're going.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Okay, now you kept up OpEx pretty flattened in recent quarters. Now that we've had sort of an uptick in your growth and, you know, your margin contribution, but you start to invest a little bit, you know, to capture some of the opportunities in front of you, maybe accelerate your traction in Ting and so forth, or should we think about OpEx being consistent going forward?
Elliott Noss
You know, you always heard me talk about, or you know, in fact, I really haven't talked in the last maybe few quarters, but you've heard me talk for years about, you know, sort of looking to spend no more than $0.50 of every additional dollar generated in OpEx, and that's bill gross margin dollar. You know, we're always looking for opportunities to take advantage and I think, you know, this is no different. If some of these opportunities present themselves and a little bit more growth presents itself, you know, we're going to embrace it, we're not – you know, we're not adverse to that at all.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Okay and it sounds – you maybe comment that as you got towards quarter end, you had sort of a benefit from maybe some of the boycotting of other registrars that was happening out there. Has some of that momentum continued into the current quarter, or should we think about that – go ahead.
Michael Cooperman
Well, I – what I said was we benefitted from our support of the opening.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Elliott Noss
Just to be clear, but, you know, that really that was primarily through the last week in December and the first couple weeks in January, so, it did carry on into the first quarter, you know, but now it's business as usual.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Right, okay.
Elliott Noss
I mean, we have a bunch of new customers, and of course, as they come over the bring over maybe their domain portfolios, they speak to their friends, et cetera. You know, one of the great ways to track a Hover is just looking at Twitter and watching mentions about Hover, or Hover.com, or Hashtag Hover. You know, you really get a great flavor for the ground swell and support, and real customer appreciation for Hover there.
Thanos Moschopoulos
Okay, that's it for me, I'll pass the line, thank you.
Great, thanks, Thanos.
Your next question comes from the line of Jim Kennedy from Marathon Capital Management. Your line is open.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Hi, Elliott.
Elliott Noss
Hi, Jim,
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Congratulations on a good quarter.
Elliott Noss
Thank you.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
A couple of housekeeping issues. With the buyback, shares outstanding at this point, are we kind of in that 47 million range?
Elliott Noss
I want to say 46, but Mike's going to correct me.
Michael Cooperman
No, 46 is right.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Okay, so okay, so we're at 46, all right, very good. Secondly, I missed the context of your mark-to-market comment earlier. What were you referring to that you're going to mark-to-market starting next quarter?
Elliott Noss
We're going to – we're considering it, and you know, what that would do would be to take the – sort of the lumpiness out of the way we report, take that big correction for currency and sort of blend it in with the rest of the accounts. So it's a lot less, you know, it's a lot less of a big bite going down the gullet, might be the best way to put it.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
So what are you not marking to market now that you would mark-to-market at that point?
Elliott Noss
Oh, it's just a different presentation of the same contracts. So we're doing nothing different, we would do nothing different in the way we hold contracts or hedge curves, nothing different in our strategy or our tactics. It's just simply the presentation. And to take this mark-to-market approach is more work and more expense. And you know that I always look very carefully at every expense, Jim, so there's been a constantly dialog and the tradeoff is this bit of extra effort and extra spend worth the cleanliness in the presentation. And you know, we've got a little bit of a better handle on the work and you know, we've beaten up our suppliers a little bit more, so we're looking at it a little more closely.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Okay, good. Next question. Are you seeing any traction whatsoever in the expansion of the high-level domain name yet, or are we still in the kind of warming up waiting for the first inning there?
Elliott Noss
Well, you know, I think this is more like they're introducing the opening lineups than quite the first inning. So Ting are continuing a pace, you know, I repeat what I always say, which you know, you've heard me say to you for years, no revenue until 2013 at the earliest. But it was announced very recently that there's now 100 application in the queue, applications will be coming in until April 12 and we will be – I'd say surprised if there's not a full 1,000 or 1,000-plus in there by April 12. And sort of towards the end of April, or around May 1, there's what those of us in the industry are calling the reveal, which is when iCan will turn over all the cards and let us know who's bid on what and where there's contention and where there's not. So you kow, this is continuing exactly as it should but again, you know, no acceleration in the potential for revenue.
Jim Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Is the thought there on iCan's part that if I did win something, let's suppose I'm the only person that wanted a name, that I would be able to start my business immediately, or there is some sort of additional process I'd have to go through?
Elliott Noss
No, there's significant additional process that will take it through the rest of 2012. And that's really – those are the processes that you might have seen some of the opponents to the new GGLD program claim warrants and existence. And so this is a period where there's a significant amount of time and rules built around, for instance, intellectual property challenges to a string. Or governments have an ability to challenge around a string. There's room for what's called community objection. There are a few different heads of objections there and different processes that will run their course through the rest of 2012.
James Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Okay, and final question, could you drill down just a little bit on the Ting marketing strategy in terms of kind of who you think your targets are market is at this point, is how you're attempting to reach out to them be it through social media or whatever. And I would assume as you learn more over the next few months or year, that strategy might change as your subscriber base grows or your potential subscriber base grows.
Elliott Noss
Yes, I'm going to deal with the last part first. We're in an industry and whereas a company, [inaudible] of trying things. And then doubling down where there's success, learning from what we're doing. And one of the things that we think that's beautifully built into our business is the ability to experiment very inexpensively. And that allows us to do some of the learning in market.
I really love to talk about sophisticated customer [inaudible]. You've heard me use touch tones like zip car or ING before. Customers who appreciate a different way of doing things what we think is a better and less expensive way of doing things, it's really built around the customer.
In terms of how we reach – we're going to use initially to retail level of the same approach [inaudible]. [Inaudible] successful for us.
James Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Elliott, I don't know if it's my phone or not, but you're breaking up. It's probably me. Why don't you – I'm going to hang up. That's better.
Elliott Noss
Okay, so what we're going to be doing at a retail level is we're be using a lot of the tactics that have been successful with us with Hover. And that's including going into the podcaster who's we've been very successful with. Other online marketing approaches, we're used some of our [inaudible] portfolio trying to promote Hover. And of course, they're all buttressed by really smart use of social media to reinforce the successes there.
And then on the wholesale side, we're going to see in this quarter the start of experimentation both in terms of using bigger partners for lead generation and smaller partners who have really, really tight customer touch in order to have a more direct relationship. So you're going to see, for those very small IT integrators, we think they could have a huge role in putting Ting in the hands of their customers.
And I think when I talked earlier in the call about sharing some of our in-market learning for the next few quarters, those are the kind of stories you're going to hear me talking about.
James Kennedy – Marathon Capital Management
Got you. All right, very good. Thanks a lot.
Elliott Noss
Thanks, Jim
Your next question comes from the line of Aaron Fuchs from Fertilemind Capital. Your line is open.
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
Yes, it's actually a follow-up to that. The big expense for the American wireless providers has always been the marketing averaging hundreds of dollars per acquired sub. And you mentioned that you have some big customers in the domain space and many little small IT integrators. So it seems difficult to understand how these guys are able to help you. Can you detail that more often, detail that in greater specificity? That would be helpful.
Elliott Noss
Let me try it like this. I think you'll see a number of our large partners are really broader than web hosting companies at this point. They have a full suite of services that they offer to small businesses and individuals. And a lot of them have developed a fairly high level of expertise in cross selling and up selling. So think of Ting as an additional service that they'll be offering both in their purchase pass and in their control panels as well as in outbound emails to their customers.
If I recall correctly, I think you're a Hover customer. You might start to see some of that this month.
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
I am a Hover customer, and I am one of those that transferred some domains in in recent months.
Elliott Noss
So you might see, if you're in a test group, in fact, reach out to me offline and I'll put you in a test group. You'll see some of that in Hover this month. And when I say that you'll see, what you'll see in Hover is some of our other larger partners are going to be doing.
Do you want to dig in a little bit before I got into the small IT integrators?
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
No, go onto those.
Elliott Noss
So with the small guys, they're people who have these fantastically tight relationships with businesses that have typically less than 100 employees. They are dealing with everything from the desktop through the domain registration to the website. In a lot of cases what they've told us is they're actually dealing with the cell phones for their customers anyway. They're just not part of the economic equation today. So they're the ones who have to call AT&T and deal with AT&T's customer service. So for them, the prospect of being able to, two things; one, get compensated for what they're already doing. Two, be able to provide their customers most importantly with less-expensive higher level of service that they have way more control over. They, the IT integrator, has way more control over. They're thrilled. So those are the two types of relationships and you know with anything that we do, it's a very, very heterogeneous group, so it's not like there will be only two. But I want to use those two touchstones to sort of talk it through at this point.
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
Right, and then the economics of the deal, with bandwidth and minutes and things like that, give us the parameters of the contract. These pricing models tend to change quarterly. There's move here to move to unlimited bandwidth in data sometimes, and then caps and others, and I'm just curious if previously one of the MBNO's was public and didn't have a good experience. How does your contract differ from the first generation of MBNO's?
Elliott Noss
I think that Sprint like – I've talked about a few times in these calls, learned from their experience in market. We have a lot of when I say flexibility, we're buying network from them.
I think that there's probably two or three things that I would note there. First, we built the whole billing and provisioning system. We built the whole rating engine. I think we did that because of where we've come from as a business and what our other business experiences were, but that's unique. Most MBNO's don't do that, and by not doing that, they would have a lot more constraints around their flexibility. And they would change their own economics. So by doing that, we really do turn Sprint into a pure network, a done pipe.
I think the second thing is, I've been in this industry a long time. And network prices only go one way in my experience. So we're not worried about price shocks in terms of our costs being increased at some point.
And I think the third thing is that I'm very comfortable and every option has been, Sprint has been a great partner. And really, they think we're bringing something a little different to the market from what they've seen in the past. And the early press reaction is, you've seen it Aaron, is only reinforced that. I mean, the fact that when AT&T, when there's an article now talking about AT&T's allowing for bungling of data plans, in other words, for people to share data buckets, and we're already referenced as kind of the only supplier in the market doing that. That's with us being in the market two weeks. So I think it's really reinforcing the three or four or five big differences that we've brought really being recognized.
Aaron Fuchs – Fertilemind Capital
Great, thanks for your time.
And there are no further questions at this time. I'll turn the call back to the presenters.
Thank you, and I look forward to you all joining us next quarter. Thank you, operator.
This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.
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MDSTMARY-L ArchivesArchiver > MDSTMARY > 2004-05 > 1084709344
From: "John S Wilkinson" <>
Subject: RE: [MDSTMARY-L] Peacock Family
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:09:04 -0400
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Justin gave me Sally Ann and Martha A
as children who is the third one?
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Reno [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Peacock Family
Hello Justin,
I don't have any definite proof either that Philip Peacock was the son of
Paul Peacock and Dorothy Magill, but like you I suspect that he was.
Philip Peacock was deceased by 1840. He was not listed as head of household
and I think that Dorothy and the children were living with his brother
William at that point. Dorothy was listed in the levy court records in 1841
as a widow with 3 small children.
Linda Reno
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin D. Norris" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 12:54 AM
Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] Peacock Family
> Dear MDSTMARY Listers,
> Would anyone have any information regarding the
> ancestry of collateral relations of Philip Peacock. I
> suspect that he was the son of Paul Peacock and
> Dorothy Magill. I think that he was also a first
> cousin to John S. Peacock, whose father, Zachariah,
> was uncle to Philip. If anyone would have anymore
> substantial evidence, I would greatly appreciate it. I
> don't have any birth dates or death dates for Philip
> Peacock. However, I know that he died before 1846,
> since his wife, Sarah Marthena Greenwell, married
> again to Edwin Clarke. Philips children were:
> Sally Ann Peacock m. Frederick Pilkerton
> Martha A. Peacock m. Ignatius Bohanan
> Mary Jane Peacock m. William H. Brown
> Have a great weekend,
> Justin
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I had lipo to my stomach 2 yrs ago,gained weight and had lipo again last year in stomach. the doctor didn't take all the fat so I waited 6mths and had a touch up there again and he still has not been able to get rid of unwanted fat.I have been to a few PS and they agree with me that more fat can be taken out. However, I am afraid of dents and irregularity if i get lipo on my stomach again, it is already starting to look weird. Will it be ok to get lipo again there? i am 4mths post touch op.
Liposuction on Same Area? (photo)
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Having repeat liposuction to the same area does increase the risk of dimpling and irregularity. Also, the procedure is harder due to scar tissue formation. Allow your body to heal fully from your most recent procedure before making any decisions to proceed. Also, concentrate on keeping a stable weight.
3rd liposuction?
It is absolutely true that the 3rd liposuction is unlikely to produce a better result. However, an exam would be necessary to sort this out.
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Revision liposuction
Each time liposuction is performed over the same area there will more than likely be diminishing returns. It is not to say it won't be possible but may be harder. Best to be seen in person. You may also have an intraperitoneal component as well.
Liposuction on Same Area 3 times
This is one dilemma that many liposuction patients face and PS face it too every other day. Liposuction when its done second time its not surgically as easy as the first time since there is a good amount of fibrosis that sets in after the first lipo. And the third revision is still worst. Therefore as very wisely suggested by Robert L. Kraft that try to sustain your weight and repeated revisions are not the answer. Also if you would have posted pre op images then perhaps more valuable suggestions can be given. Some localized depressions can be fat grafted at some stage.
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You should discuss your outcome with your plastic surgeon to see if he/she understands why you have not reached the results you expected. Diet and exercise would be the next step to try to drop your size. If there is a focal issue, that might be addressed under local anesthesia. It's difficult to assess the full situation with a single photo and I would recommend you visit with another board-certified plastic surgeon in your area for another "set of eyes."
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Lipo Touchups
Thanks for posting the picture. However, it would be best to see a "before" picture as well. Otherwise, it really is difficult to comment on your results. Having lipo three times in one area is not typical. So, after your second lipo heals, you may want to consider a second opinion. Any fullness that you see may not necessarily be due to fat which can be removed by lipo. You many have intraabdominal fat for diastasis recti which may be contributing to the look of your abdomen. For this two issues, weight loss and abdominoplasty would be the intervention of choice. However, without seeing you in person, there is no way to give a definitive answer.
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Liposuction "touch-ups"
Your question is a very good one. Each time you have liposuction you form more scar tissue underneath the skin, in the plane that is suctioned. This does make each additional liposuction effort more challenging. However, it is possible to do. I would just be sure that in your next consultation with a PS, you are very clear about how much fat you want removed, so that it is all taken. You don't want to keep repeating this procedure indefinitely. Also, I tell all my patients that liposuction is not a "magic bullet"! It's extremely important to maintain a healthy diet and exercise in addition to having liposuction in order to maintain your results. Best of luck to you!
Revision liposuction
Hello and thanks fofr the questions and photo. Since you have had a revision four months ago, I would wait for more swelling to resolve. Your concerns are valid in regards to contour deformities (the dents and irregularities). All the more reason to wait longer to be assured that the swelling has resolved. You might want to consider Smart Lipo Triplex to the abdomen. It utilizes laser lipolysis first in order to more evenly breakdown the fat. This is very useful in areas that have had previous liposuction, where there is more scar tissue to break through. In addition the laser will also tighten the skin more than traditional liposuction. Hope this helps and best of luck. Robert Kratschmer, MD
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Date: 25 Jul 2003 20:20:07 -0600
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I have Joseph Attaway as the father of David Attaway (married to Rebecca) of Wood County, Texas and Elisha (m to Lettice) and as the father of Joseph.
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New research shows that as culture has evolved over the last two centuries - with increasing urbanization, greater reliance on technology, and widespread availability of formal education - so has human psychology. The findings are forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
"This research shows that there has been a two-century long historical shift towards individualistic psychological functioning adapted to an urban environment and away from psychological functioning adapted to a rural environment," says psychological scientist Patricia Greenfield of the University of California, Los Angeles, author of the new study.
Greenfield measured culture-wide psychological change over two centuries using the Google Ngram Viewer, examining the frequencies of specific words in a corpus of over 1,160,000 English-language books published in the United States between 1800 and 2000.
Drawing on her Theory of Social Change and Human Development, Greenfield hypothesized that the usage of specific words would wax and wane as a reflection of psychological adaptation to sociocultural change. Data from the corpus of books supported her hypothesis.
For example, the words "choose" and "get" - markers of the individualism and materialistic values that are adaptive in wealthier urban settings - rose in frequency between 1800 and 2000. Words that reflect the social responsibilities that are adaptive in rural settings - such as "obliged" and "give" - declined over the same period.
Interestingly, there was a short-term deviation from this overall trend: Usage of "get" declined between 1940 and the 1960s before rising again in the 1970s. Greenfield believes this deviation may reflect a decline in self-interest motivation during World War II and the Civil Rights movement.
Greenfield also observed a gradual rise in the use of "feel" and concomitant decline in the use of "act," suggesting a turn toward inner mental life and away from outward behavior.
The corpus also revealed a growing focus on the self, with the use of "child," "unique," "individual," and "self" increasing from 1800 to 2000. Over the same period, the importance of obedience to authority, social relationships, and religion in everyday life seems to have waned, as reflected in the decline of "obedience," "authority," "belong," and "pray."
The same patterns in word usage also emerged in the corpus of books published in the United Kingdom over the last 200 years. Furthermore, Greenfield was able to replicate the findings using synonyms for each target word in the both the U.S. corpus and the U.K. corpus.
"These replications indicate that the underlying concepts, not just word frequencies, were changing in importance over historical time," says Greenfield.
She points out that empirically testing hypotheses about psychological adaptation to long-term cultural change wouldn't have been possible a decade ago:
"The Google Ngram Viewer is a revolutionary tool in that it counts word frequencies in a million books in less than a second. Not only that, it's a publicly accessible tool. Anyone can go to the Google Ngram website and replicate all of my results!"
Being able to examine culture-wide changes over hundreds of years allows for broader view of how cultural values are shifting, says Greenfield.
"This research shows that the currently discussed rise in individualism is not something recent, but has been going on for centuries as our society moved from a predominantly rural, low-tech environment to a predominantly urban, high-tech environment," she notes.
Because the sociodemographic changes driving cultural and psychological change are global, Greenfield hopes to replicate these findings using Google Books' Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese databases.
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Under the proposed regulation, a UVA star rating would be prominently displayed on sunscreen labels, near the SPF rating.
"For more than 30 years, consumers have been able to identify the level of UVB protection provided by sunscreens using only sunburn protection factor or SPF values," said Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drugs. Under this proposal, "consumers will also now know the level of UVA protection in sunscreens, which will help them make informed decisions about protecting themselves and their children against the harmful effects of the sun."
With the proposed UVA rating system
- One star will represent low UVA protection
- Two stars, medium protection
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FDA also wants to make changes regarding protection against UVB light. The agency has proposed amending its existing rule on UVB products to increase the maximum sunburn protection factor from SPF 30+ to SPF 50+.
The proposed rule is asking the public to comment on the use of nanoparticle ingredients in sunscreens, and is proposing to
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NIAGARA FALLS – City lawmakers Monday night put off a decision on a proposed settlement agreement with the company that owns the One Niagara building downtown.
Under the proposed deal, One Niagara LLC – which has been fighting its assessment for several years and owes more than $2 million in back taxes to the city and school district – would promise to pay $1.55 million by the end of February.
The City Council voted, 5-0, to table the proposal at what was its last meeting of this year.
The proposed settlement deal, according to a memo from Corporation Counsel Craig H. Johnson and Assessor James R. Bird to lawmakers, would also call for the city to lower the assessment of the building to $1 million on assessment rolls from July 1, 2009, through July 1, 2013.
One Niagara LLC, which owns the nine-story, former Occidental Chemical office building at 360 Rainbow Blvd. that abuts Niagara Falls State Park and is adjacent to the Rainbow Bridge, would also discontinue the legal challenges to its assessment and pay all money owed, including penalties and interest, for taxes levied based on assessment rolls before July 1, 2009.
Both Johnson and Bird are recommending that lawmakers approve the deal.
A specific figure for how much in back taxes is owed to the city and school district was not available Monday night.
The company also owes taxes to Niagara County, but a figure for what would be paid to the county was not discussed Monday.
The building, situated in a prime downtown spot, houses food and souvenir vendors, though not all of its floors are occupied. The site is also used for parking and is busiest during the summer tourist season.
One Niagara LLC has several pending legal challenges against the city, and negotiations have been taking place between lawyers for the parties, with the help of State Supreme Court Justice Ralph A. Boniello, for months.
The city, meanwhile, has begun foreclosure proceedings on the property.
In 2012, One Niagara LLC filed a lawsuit claiming its $3 million assessment was too high and that it had been overtaxed by $1.7 million over the previous four years.
From 2006 to 2008, the building was valued at $4,665,000. In 2009, the assessment was lowered to $4 million.
The property is currently assessed at $2.6 million, according to the city assessor's online database.
In February 2011, the amount in overdue taxes was pegged at more than $1.5 million.
Niagara Falls attorney Paul A. Grenga emerged as the leader of a new investment group that bought the building in July 2010.
At least two city lawmakers Monday questioned whether Mayor Paul A. Dyster supported the settlement, noting that his apparent lack of endorsement raised questions about it in their eyes.
Council Chairman Glenn A. Choolokian and Councilman Samuel F. Fruscione said they believe Dyster should sign the agreement before the Council acts.
According to Dyster and Johnson, the mayor has no role in settling litigation under the City Charter. That duty falls to the Corporation Counsel's Office, which works for both the Council and the mayor. The Council then has the power to approve proposed settlements.
"I think it was appropriate that it was tabled," Dyster said, noting that the situation is "a complicated matter."
Choolokian said he wants to know if this is the best deal the city can get, adding he needs to do more "fact-finding" before he makes a decision.
After the meeting, Richard F. Soluri, community and government relations representative for One Niagara LLC, said he was disappointed the settlement wasn't approved Monday but was "confident" the deal will be approved next month.
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Come celebrate Maine's newest brewery, Friars' Brewhouse, at the release party to be held at Bangor Wine and Cheese Company at noon on Saturday, September 21st! Bangor's venerable favorites, the Friars of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who fourteen years ago secured their place in Central Maine lore by opening the wildly successful Friars' Bakehouse, have now turned their sights to the age-old tradition of brewing quality ales. They chose to partner with Bangor Wine and Cheese, which will be the sole retail distributor of the initial 3-beer line-up.
Brother Donald, the keeper of the brewhouse, has chosen to begin with a Traditional Monastery Ale, a St. Francis Brown Ale, and of course, an original Whoopie Pie Porter, which draws inspiration from one of the Bakehouse's best-sellers. Other seasonal brews are planned, beginning with a special Christmas ale that Brother Donald is particularly keen on.
"We brew the same way we bake…with prayer, patience, the highest quality ingredients and time tested methods. Our beers are all brewed in the monastery brewhouse, hand crafted in small batches, bottle conditioned and individually labeled. Our ales and porters will be difficult to obtain, but worth the effort. Each bottle is cellared in a brown Belgian style bottle and sealed with a natural cork and wire cage. The resulting product looks as appealing as it tastes. We brew the old fashioned way because we don't know any better."
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Get an overview of this hotelDelightful beach condo with a spa tub
Popular property highlights
Located in Cherry Grove Beach, this beachfront condo is in the city center and within 3 mi (5 km) of Cherry Grove Pier, Surf Golf and Beach Club, and Molten Mountain. Mayday Golf is 2 mi (3.2 km) away.
Property Features
Guests of this beach condo will appreciate convenient onsite amenities such as a spa tub and a fitness center.
Room Amenities
All 122 condos feature kitchens with refrigerators, stovetops, microwaves, and dishwashers. Free WiFi and sofa beds are standard, as are TVs with cable channels.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Beach
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Condo Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool and an outdoor pool, Ocean Club, A Festiva Resort provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. A business center is on site. This beach condo also offers a children's pool, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Computer station
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tennis on site
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Business center
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 122
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 7
- Picnic area
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Spa tub
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Children's pool
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Free WiFi
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Laundry facilities
- Playground on site
- Separate dining area
- Sofa bed
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Separate sitting area
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Kitchen
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Television
- Sofa bed
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Separate dining area
- Dishwasher
- Stovetop
- Cable TV service
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free WiFi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Playground on site
- Boat tours nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Condo Policies
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
Optional extras
- Late check-out fee: USD 50.00
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.