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Happy July 4th- Marine Sings Fourth Verse of National Anthem – You MUST watch this – be safe, be healthy, enjoy family

Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

 

Happy July 4th- Marine Sings Fourth Verse of National Anthem – You MUST watch this

Happy July 4th weekend

Please watch, listen an be Proud.

As we are going through challenging times as a country, may we never forget that “America is the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”- We are a Judeo Christian nation with values handed down by our ‘Founding Fathers’.  Men like  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe and, of course, Benjamin Franklin

May God Bless America, our Troops and on this day – always remember

“Freedom is NOT Free

Be healthy, travel safe and enjoy family

 

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WATCH: Marine Stuns Crowd at Tea Party

http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/06/07/watch-marine-stuns-crowd-tea-party

God Bless America

“The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from “Defence of Fort McHenry”,[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

Lyrics

Cover of sheet music for “The Star-Spangled Banner”, transcribed for piano by Ch. Voss, Philadelphia: G. Andre & Co., 1862

O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
’Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Shutterstock to Acquire Flashstock, A Leading Custom Content Creation Platform

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Congratulations to Michael Scissions and Grant Munro.  These entrepreneurs demonstrated how to start, run and exit a successful business model.

Shutterstock to Acquire Flashstock, A Leading Custom Content Creation Platform

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Shutterstock, Inc.

NEW YORK, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global technology company offering a creative platform for high-quality assets, tools and services, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Flashstock Technology, Inc., a Toronto based company that enables the efficient creation of custom content through its proprietary platform, for approximately $50 million cash. Flashstock has a fast growing customer base of enterprise marketers seeking on-brand content to feed the ever growing visual demands of multiple marketing channels. By integrating Flashstock into its product offerings, Shutterstock will be able to offer a high-quality custom content product to its 1.7 million customers. The transaction is expected to close in July 2017.

Flashstock established a new way of creating content for marketers. Its model ingests a brand’s visual identity and content strategy, which enables it to create relevant content on demand. Like Shutterstock, Flashstock has a global network of contributors and an innovative technology solution that has streamlined the content creation process. The company currently serves hundreds of top brands across the Fortune 500.

Shutterstock to Acquire Flashstock, A Leading Custom Content Creation Platform
Shutterstock to Acquire Flashstock, A Leading Custom Content Creation Platform

“Custom content has been something we always believed would be an important part of our long term strategy. We’re thrilled to have found Flashstock, a strong business with technology and management that will enhance our product offerings and allow us to grow our partnership with major brands as they look to efficiently create amazing content on-demand,” said Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO of Shutterstock. “This opens up a large new market that Shutterstock will now be able to serve with custom content. Flashstock’s DNA matches ours, and we believe that there is a great cultural fit and that the business can integrate seamlessly into our new platform.”

“Shutterstock’s global reach, commitment to technology and investment in its platform make it the perfect home for Flashstock,” said Grant Munro, Founder and CEO of Flashstock. “We will now be able to offer our cost efficient, streamlined content creation platform to Shutterstock’s global customer base.”

About Shutterstock, Inc.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 225,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 125 million images and more than 7 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world’s media; and Webdam, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.

For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com, and follow Shutterstock on Twitter or Facebook.

About Flashstock Technology, Inc.
Flashstock Technology, Inc. provides customized visual content for the world’s top brands. Working with its global network of contributors, Flashstock enables the efficient creation of custom content through its proprietary software platform

For more information, please visit www.Flashstock.com, and connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Notice of Public Auction for assets of Gamma Medica, Inc., by Secured Party – Hercules Capital, Inc.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION

By public auction (the“Auction”) to be held on Friday, June 30,2017

at 2 P.M. Eastern, via telephone conference call, Hercules Capital, Inc.,

as agent (“Agent”) for Secured Party will sell or otherwise dispose of

substantially all of the assets (the “Collateral”) of Gamma Medica, Inc.,

a Delaware corporation (the “Debtor”) to one or more Pre-Qualified

Bidders (defined below).

Agent reserves the right to credit bid for the Collateral.The aggregate

amount of principal, interest, legal fees, costs and expenses due from

Debtor as of June 16,2017,is $1,836,866.38.

To be deemed a “Pre-Qualified Bidder”, interested parties are

required to deliver to Agent’s counsel, not less than 72 hours prior to

the commencement of the Auction: (1) a letter of representation from

a U.S. attorney; (2) a standby letter of credit for not less than $250,000

OR a wire transfer of $250,000 in immediately available funds to the

Cole Schotz P.C. Attorney Trust Account (with wire instructions to be

provided upon request);(3) adequate assurance of the ability to close on

the purchase of Collateral, including (i) information about the bidder’s

financial condition such as federal tax returns for not less than two (2)

years, a current financial statement, and/or bank account statements,

(ii) information demonstrating (in the Agent’s reasonable business

judgment) that the bidder has the financial capacity to purchase some

or all of the Collateral at the Auction, and (iii) evidence that the bidder

has obtained authorization or approval from its board of directors (or

comparable governing body) with respect to its participation in the

Auction and purchase of Collateral; (4) full disclosure of the identity of

the bidder (including without limitation all affiliates, equity sources

or other parties that will be associated with such bid or will otherwise

participate in connection with such bid, and the complete terms of any

such participation);and (5) an executed non-disclosure agreement,in a

form available fromAgent’s Counsel,fromthe bidder.

Upon inquiry to Agent’s Counsel, each Pre-Qualified Bidder will be

provided with specific information pertaining totheCollateral.

The Agent hereby reserves the right to cancel,postpone or re-notice

the time, date and/or method of the Auction at any time. All inquiries

with respect to the Auction should be directed to Agent’s Counsel

Indicatedbelow.

ALL OF THE AGENT’S RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY RESERVED.

Date: June20,2017

Cole Schotz P.C.,Agent’s Counsel, Stuart Komrower, Esq., skomrower@

coleschotz.com,Cole Schotz P.C.,Court Plaza North,25Main Street,P.O.

Box 800,Hackensack,NewJersey 07602,(201) 489-3000

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Should you be scared of Amazon? by Steve Kovach -Business Insider

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Should you be scared of Amazon?

jeff bezosAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Amazon bought Whole Foods on Friday for $13.7 billion.REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa
AMZN Amazon.Com

About a month ago, New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo helped coin a new term for the top-five tech companies that are increasingly dominating our lives: The Frightful Five, better known as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook.

The top of his list? Amazon.

Farhad’s argument was that he’s increasingly dependent on Amazon for buying stuff and entertaining his family. That’s true.

But I’d argue Amazon’s reach goes deeper than that, deeper than any other company inside or outside the tech world. And its grip on our lives is only getting stronger, which raises some serious questions we haven’t had to ask ourselves about the power and influence a tech company can have over our lives.

Out of the Frightful Five, Amazon is the company you should fear the most.

Amazon’s surprise $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods is the latest example. We already knew Amazon had ambitions to break into the grocery business through the Amazon Fresh delivery service and the futuristic cashier-free convenience stores, but this is a whole other level — a subtle troll that the online retail giant can creep its way back into the physical world and take over a popular chain of supermarkets.

But let’s talk about everything else Amazon has its grip on and how it continues to hold greater influence over:

  • Cloud computing. Amazon Web Services powers many of the apps and websites you use every day. (Remember when an Amazon outage took down a large chunk of the internet?)
  • Artificial intelligence. Amazon has quickly become a leader in AI thanks to its Alexa assistant, which has opened up a new world of voice-powered computing.
  • Logistics. Through Amazon Air, Amazon plans to use drones and its own planes to deliver goods. It’s also experimenting with autonmous trucking. Many have speculated that one day Amazon won’t need to rely on UPS, FedEX, or the Postal Service to deliver stuff.
  • Entertainment. Amazon has dumped millions into original TV programming and movies. It also runs a streaming music service, and lets you buy digital music and video.
  • Food. Between Whole Foods, those futuristic grocery stores, and the Fresh delivery service, Amazon is poised to be one of the largest grocers in the country.
  • Health. According to a CNBC report, Amazon is thinking about getting it the prescription drug business.
  • Retail and e-commerce. This one is self-explanatory.

There’s more. Amazon’s influence extends to other industries indirectly through CEO Jeff Bezos’ personal investments:

  • News media. Bezos owns The Washington Post and a small percentage of Business Insider.
  • Outer space. Bezos owns a rocket company, Blue Origin, that’s building reusable rockets.

That’s a lot of stuff that affects you every day from a company that started selling books online back in the 90s. Now it’s hard to find a need Amazon can’t fill.

That raises some serious, potentially scary questions if Amazon’s influence and capabilities continue to grow. Should one conglomerate have that level of control over the future of so many vital industries people rely on? What kind of check will there be on that power, if any?

Granted, it’s a little early to be thinking about all this. Most of the verticals Amazon is involved in are still dominated by traditional companies. But as we saw in the market’s reaction to the Whole Foods deal on Friday, it’s clear that there’s a strong possibility we’re accelerating toward a future where there’s a digital layer on top of everything we do. And the company best equipped to deliver all is Amazon. There’s literally no one else in a position to compete.

That’s a lot of power concentrated in one conglomerate, and puts Amazon in a position where it’s a company to fear.

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Microsoft’s new standalone keyboard has one the best new features from Apple’s MacBook Pro by Antonio Villas-Boas — Business Insider

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Microsoft’s new standalone keyboard has one the best new features from Apple’s MacBook Pro

One of the best new features that Apple added to its 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro is a Touch ID fingerprint scanner on the keyboard. And now, Microsoft has also added a fingerprint scanner on its new Modern Keyboard to work with Windows 10 computers.

microsoft modern keyboardYouTube/Microsoft

The fingerprint sensor on Microsoft new $129 Modern Keyboard, called Fingerprint ID, has its own button on the right of the right “Alt” key.

Microsoft already offers an easy keyboard-less way to unlock your computer called Windows Hello, which uses a webcam and facial recognition to unlock your computer. That’s great for computers that have built-in webcams, which many laptops have. However, the monitor I use on my Windows 10 desktop doesn’t have a built-in webcam, so I can’t use Windows Hello. And because typing in a password every time I want to unlock my computer is a pain, I don’t use a password, which is a terrible, insecure idea.

Microsoft’s new Modern Keyboard with a fingerprint scanner is the solution.

windows hello Windows Hello on a Windows 10 computer. YouTube/Microsoft

Touch ID on the MacBook Pro, and now Microsoft’s new Modern Keyboard, cuts out the need to type in your password to log in to your computer. If that doesn’t seem like a big deal, look at your smartphone and imagine if you had to tap in your PIN number every time you wanted to unlock it instead of using its fingerprint scanner. Seems like a pain, doesn’t it?

It might be true that you don’t unlock your computer as often as you unlock your smartphone, but your computer password if likely longer than your smartphone PIN, which could include four to six numbers. With that in mind, the fingerprint scanner on Microsoft’s new keyboard is a great shortcut to unlock your computer.

The Modern Keyboard costs $129 and will be available to buy soon.

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