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Homeowner Chris Ringdahl, left, is comforted by family friend Katherine MacIntosh, right, in front of her possessions as they cleanup from the floodwaters in Longmont, Colo., on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Floodwaters have affected a 4,500 square-mile section of the state inundating entire neighborhoods and destroying bridges and roads. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)
Homeowner Chris Ringdahl, left, is comforted by family friend Katherine MacIntosh, right, in front of her possessions as they cleanup from the floodwaters in Longmont, Colo., on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Floodwaters have affected a 4,500 square-mile section of the state inundating entire neighborhoods and destroying bridges and roads. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)
Local man Joey Schendel, 19, looks for submerged items while helping neighbors salvage and clean their property in an area inundated after days of flooding, in Hygeine, Colo., Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Searches continue for missing people in isolated Colorado mountain towns. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Local residents, left to right, Tyler Sadar, Miranda Woodard, Joey Schendel, and Levi Wolfe help salvage and clean property in an area inundated after days of flooding, in Hygeine, Colo., Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Searches continue for missing people in isolated Colorado mountain towns. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Local resident Sue Sadar walks across a trench of mud which used to be a lawn as she and family members clean property in an area inundated in flooding, in Hygeine, in Boulder County, Colo., Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Searches continue for missing people in isolated Colorado mountain towns. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Local residents Genevieve Marquez, left, and Miranda Woodard remove the carpet from Marquez' home which is strewn with mud from flooding, in Hygeine, in Boulder County, Colo., Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Monday's clearing skies and receding waters revealed only more heartbreak: toppled houses, upended vehicles and a stinking layer of muck covering everything. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
LYONS, Colo. (AP) ? Thousands of residents have poured out of the mountain towns around Boulder, Colo., over the past week, fleeing unprecedented floods that tore down hillsides, carried away homes and piled slabs of highway like stacks of books.
In those frantic moments, many residents left behind their most prized possessions. Lives are more important than objects.
As officials concentrate on finding missing residents, damage assessments and recovery, evacuees are returning to their ravaged communities. Some are finding that their belongings have been destroyed. Others are clutching their damaged possessions, but don't know if they will last. Those who don't know what happened to their things are hoping they survived, somehow.
Whatever the outcome, the stories behind the items they left behind will stay with them.
?David Tiller, mandolin.
As he sat astride his mountain bike on the deserted Main Street in Lyons, which was among the biggest towns heavily damaged in the deluge, Tiller, a bluegrass musician, was thinking about the electric five-string mandolin he left as the water rose.
A friend carved it for him 20 years ago, when he was first starting out, and stamped the inlay work with symbols of their relationship, including a hand holding a baby. His family had taken only instruments and recording equipment with them, leaving all their clothes and even their toothbrushes behind at their home.
"The studio that it was in doesn't exist anymore. There's water rushing right through it. So it's down the river somewhere," Tiller said, talking quickly and nervously about his lost mandolin.
When he began to talk about the musicians who came to play in his home studio, though, he slowed down and he almost smiled. He was a week from finishing one of their records.
Now, he doesn't know when it will be done.
?Enion Pelta, 1930s-era wedding dress.
For Pelta, getting wedding rings was easy, and so was arranging the entertainment for the reception. The shopping for her dress, however, wasn't.
She didn't often go shopping with her mother, an academic who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, so when they went hunting through San Francisco thrift stores for her wedding dress, it was an extra-special occasion.
"We never did the mother-daughter bonding thing," she said. They were always having "intellectual discussions" instead.
She had planned to wear the lacey dress from the 1930s again to renew her vows with her husband of nine years.
The white antique was now beneath a muddy, newly-formed river in Lyons.
?Carmel Ross, kiln.
Ross tried to dig her kiln out from where the flood lodged it beneath her mobile home in Lyons, but it was wedged too deeply.
She used the kiln in her raku beadwork, a type of Japanese pottery. Seeing it damaged, she was reminded of her youth in the 1950s, when she said her parents didn't agree with her pursuing a life in art.
"I wasn't brought up in an era that honored art or artists," she said, as she prepared to evacuate, her long gray hair swinging as she cleared space to tear out muddy carpet. Her home was littered with sheet music, spirituality books and gear from her days as a professional clown.
It's taken Ross a lifetime and a move to an artists' community to embrace the importance of her work. Now, the rebuilding begins.
? Glenn Scott, African violet.
For evacuees like Scott, the loss of a dearly held possession is not sudden, but in slow motion.
As Scott prepared to leave Lyons, he was wondering if his African violet would survive. It was a gift from his mother, who owned an African violet store like her mother before her, and spent her life cocooned in a world of flowers.
She died a couple of years ago, he said.
Scott is hoping the delicate, bluish-purple-flowered violet, a traditional mother's day present, will survive in his car in the weeks ahead. "I always killed them, and then she'd give me another one and I'd kill that one. But I've had this one for three years," he said.
He's not hopeful that it will survive, but he will try.
"It's the last one I have that she had," he said.
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Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier.
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A biography of William Harvey, the 17th-century English physician who was the first to understand how blood circulates throughout the body, won the 2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for works of fiction and non-fiction exploring medicine. Author Thomas Wright was awarded the prize for his book Circulation: William Harvey?s revolutionary idea last night at a ceremony in London.
Following a growing trend in the publishing industry, the shortlisted books - three novels and three works of non-fiction - were introduced to the audience with video trailers. Among other things, the books explore hospital life in violence-torn Afghanistan, the role of surging testosterone in the financial crisis of 2008, an imagined future in which genetic engineering raises the prospect of "perfect" children and the bloody enterprise of early surgery. The trailers, then, were distinctly grim, and made more so by being interspersed onscreen by scenes of a dark hospital ward with eerily flickering lamps.
When he stepped to the podium to accept the prize, Wright made light of this introduction: ?I felt a bit squeamish after watching the film of my book.? Yet an oversized cheque for the amount of ?25,000 seemed to help. ?Now I feel a bit better.?
When announcing the winner, journalist Mark Lawson said that the panel of judges, which included himself, neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, writer and poet Ruth Padel, editor of FT Weekend Magazine Sue Matthias and writer?Brooke Magnanti, voted unanimously in favour of Wright?s book.
Circulation is the third non-fiction work?to take the prize since it was initiated in 2009. That year Andrea Gillies won for the non-fiction Keeper, and in 2010 Rebecca Skloot won for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Last year Alice LaPlante became the first novelist to win, with Turn of Mind.
The full 2012 shortlist was?Circulation by Thomas Wright, Merivel by Rose Tremain, Our Lady of Alice Bhati by Mohammed Hanif, Perfect People by Peter James, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates and The Train in the Night by Nick Coleman.
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Android: If you have a bad tendency to forget where you parked your car in a huge lot, or forget where you parked in an airport lot before your week-long vacation Park Me Right is an Android app that can help you get back to your vehicle.
Park Me Right is simple: once you've parked your car, fire up the app and tell it you're parked. It'll mark your GPS location on a Google Map and save it so you can retrieve it later. You can use coarse or fine GPS to do it, but the latter is more accurate. When you get back and need to find your car, tap the "FInd Car" button, and the app will show you, a compass, and your car on the same map so you can find it again. If you prefer, you can use an augmented reality view, so you can hold up your phone and see which direction your car is and how far you have until you reach it.
The app is free, and even has its own tool to help you find parking spaces built-in, but I found it a bit spotty when I tested it. The real utility here is the ability to find your car quickly when you're jet lagged from a 5 hour flight, or you're tired after a day of walking around. Combine this with snapping a photo of your spot before you walk away, you'll never lose your car again.
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TORONTO, Ontario, November 7, 2012 ? Mood Media Corporation (ISIN: CA61534J1057)?(TSX:MM / LSE AIM:MM), one of the world?s largest integrated providers of in-store customer solutions,? today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012.
The Company reported revenues of $120 million, a 38% increase versus the prior year?s quarter, driven by acquisitions, improvements in the North American and International geographic markets, audio and visual customer growth, and rising blended ARPU.
Adjusted EBITDA rose by 16% relative to the prior year?s quarter to $32.1 million reflecting acquisitions, improvements in ARPU and offset by lower equipment sales, lower non-recurring revenues and unfavourable translation of Euro results.
Net loss per share from continuing operations was ($0.03) compared with ($0.09) in the prior-year period. Lower losses in the current period were driven by the improvement in EBITDA and a foreign exchange gain on financing transactions, offset by higher transaction and restructuring costs and unfavourable translation of Euro results to our reported U.S. dollar results.
?Mood Media is establishing market-leading capabilities in media, interactive and sensory solutions to enhance in-store consumer experience, and we are seeing the results of this strategy in our strong growth in ARPU for the third quarter,? said Lorne Abony, Chairman and CEO of Mood Media.
?The strength and breadth of our solutions along with our industry-leading reach and expertise has produced sustained growth in our visual customer base, has enabled us to introduce new, innovative services and has attracted a growing list of premier brands that we are partnering with. Mood Media is committed to a clear goal, to be recognized as the world?s leading designer of customer experience in the in-store environment.?
?We performed well in the third quarter as is evident in the improvement in our key performance indicators, especially in the 3% improvement in our ARPU. We are excited about the opportunity ahead and are confident that our service layering strategy will produce sustained momentum in our operating and financial performance.?
Key Performance Indicators
| Pro forma Key Performance Indicators | Q1.11 | Q2.11 | Q3.11 | Q4.11 | Q1.12 | Q2.12 | Q3.12 |
| Subscriber locations (company owned) | 396,156 | 396,087 | 401,323 | 407,386 | 408,144 | 407,100 | 406,374 |
| Visual gross subscriber additions | 339 | 462 | 524 | 715 | 710 | 1,134 | 1,380 |
| Blended ARPU | $59.12 | $59.51 | $58.35 | $58.52 | $59.95 | $60.71 | $60.12 |
| Blended Churn (per month) | 0.84% | 0.80% | 0.59% | 0.64% | 0.73% | 0.89% | 0.72% |
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Subscriber locations rose by 1.3% in the third quarter from the prior-year quarter with increases in audio and visual locations and in both the North American and International segments. On a quarter over quarter basis, subscriber locations declined by 726.
Visual gross subscriber additions totalled 1,380 in the third quarter, rising by 22% relative to the previous quarter and by 163% relative to the prior-year period. Improvements were made in both the North American and International markets.
Blended ARPU improved by 3% from the prior-year period driven by rising penetration of higher-ARPU visual solutions, higher audio ARPU, and was offset by foreign exchange. Excluding currency fluctuations, third quarter ARPU rose by 6%.
Blended churn was 0.72% in the third quarter, a sequential improvement versus the 0.89% rate in the previous quarter, although rising from 0.59% in the prior-year period.
Pro forma key performance indicators express the results of all ongoing businesses presently owned and reflected as if ownership had occurred on January 1, 2011.
In this earnings release, the terms ?we?, ?us?, ?our?, ?Mood Media? and ?the Company? refer to Mood Media Corporation and its subsidiaries.
About Mood Media Corporation?
Mood Media Corporation (TSX:MM/ LSE AIM:MM), is one of the world?s largest designers of in-store consumer experiences, including audio, visual, interactive, scent, voice and advertising solutions. Mood Media?s solutions reach over 150 million consumers each day through 560,000 subscriber locations in over 40 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Mood Media Corporation?s client base includes more than 850 U.S. and international brands in diverse market sectors that include: retail, from fashion to financial services; hospitality, from hotels to health spas; and food retail, including restaurants, bars, quick-serve and fast casual dining. Our marketing platforms include 77% of the top 100 retailers in the United States and 100% of the top 50 quick-serve and fast-casual restaurant companies.
For further information about Mood Media, please visit www.moodmedia.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. The words ?believe?, ?expect?, ?anticipate?, ?estimate?, ?intend?, ?may?, ?will?, ?would? and similar expressions and the negative of such expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements are subject to important assumptions. While Mood Media considers these factors and assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect.
Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the impact of general market, industry, credit and economic conditions, currency fluctuations as well as the risk factors identified in Mood Media?s management discussion and analysis dated November 6, 2012 and Mood Media?s annual information form dated March 11, 2012, both of which are available on www.sedar.com.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.? All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and other cautionary statements or factors contained herein, and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Mood Media.
Forward-looking statements are given only as at the date hereof and Mood Media disclaims any obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.
This earnings release, which is current as of November 7, 2012, is a summary of our third quarter 2012 results and should be read in conjunction with our third quarter management discussion and analysis and unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, each dated November 6, 2012, our 2011 annual management discussion and analysis and our 2011 audited annual consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, all of which are available on www.sedar.com, and our other recent filings with securities regulatory authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom.
The financial information presented herein is expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise stated.
This news release includes certain non-IFRS financial measures. These financial measures are not defined by International Financial Reporting Standards (?IFRS?) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and therefore are referred to as non-IFRS financial measures.? Mood Media uses these non-IFRS financial measures as supplemental indicators of its operating performance and financial position. These non-IFRS financial measures are not recognized earnings measured under IFRS, do not have any standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS, may not be comparable to the calculation of similar measures used by other companies. Accordingly, investors are cautioned that these non-IFRS financial measures should not be viewed as alternatives to measures of financial performance calculated in accordance with IFRS or our results as reported under IFRS.
Investor Inquiries:
Randal Rudniski
Mood Media Corporation
Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel: +1 (416) 565 9295
Email: randal.rudniski@moodmedia.com
Dominic Morley
Hannah Woodley
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited
+44 20 7459 3600
North America Media Enquiries
Sumter Cox
Mood Media Corporation
Director of Communications
Tel: +1 (803) 242 9147
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Nothing is as priceless as seeing our kids have fun in the snow and play with snowballs or build snowmen. It happens once in the year so we might as well let them enjoy the white showers of nature. But of course, we still have to keep them warm with the right cover-ups and most especially, winter jackets. Considering warmth and price doesn?t mean compromising the style and look of our kids, right?
The Rothschild Winter Roses Jacket is just about warmth, comfort and style. It is what Rothschild has stood up to for 125 years now: bringing ?a unique synergy of creativity, style and quality to every coat it produces?, as their website claims. For generations, Rothschild has manufactured a lot of coats and outerwear for any ages that are designed and made to last a lifetime. It is still going up to date and is continuing to grow strong.
This Winter Roses Jacket looks really good on my daughter. It is not too bulky on her and doesn?t look too much of an adult-jacket. She even said she thinks the jacket does not feel too heavy on her. I love how it looks on her. I was even thinking of getting more of these as Christmas presents for my daughter?s girl cousins since its sizes can range up from 4 to 12 years old. Anyway, it will come really handy for them from the fall to the winter season and will be great as school outfit staple when classes resume.
I find it absolutely pretty and very cute for little girls?being rosy and all. It is delightfully quilted and has details of pretty rosettes trimming on its hood. The waist is cinched with a matching elastic belt, too, and has a small buckle for an added accent. It has a zip front closure with a single button on each end. The fabric is 100% polyester on a satin finish and is thick enough for a cozy feel. Also, it is safe for machine wash.
If you?re still thinking of a great Holiday jacket for your daughter or a perfect present for little girls, this Rothschild Winter Roses Jacket is what I highly recommend. But if you?re looking for more options, Rothschild has a wide range of collections for girls, women and even boys. They have accessories like hats and gloves, too. Choose from their lovely coats and other pieces that are really adorable. I especially adore their Boy?s Prams which I think will look great for my baby boy on the next winter, perhaps. Every piece at Rothschild is as practical, dainty and functional as the Winter Roses Jacket. So hurry, grab them now while it?s?cold out!
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