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JIG Meeting Monday - Oct. 18

by Betsy Kremser

JIG meets Monday at my place - 6:30 p.m. Betsy

21 years, 1 month

JIG Meeting - Monday, Sept. 20

by Betsy Kremser

Just a reminder that JIG meets at my house on Monday. 6:30 p.m. Betsy

21 years, 2 months

JIG Meeting Monday, Aug 16th

by Betsy Kremser

Just a reminder that JIG meets Monday at my house. 6:30 p.m. Betsy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Betsy Kremser Betsy.Kremser(a)co.anoka.mn.us Health Planner/Policy Analyst Anoka County Community Health & Environmental Services 763.323.6096 (voice) 763.422.6988 (Fax)

21 years, 3 months

NYTimes.com Article: Symbol Technologies Buys Matrics, Accelerating Its Move Into Radio Tags

by jellings＠me.umn.edu

The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by jellings(a)me.umn.edu. /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\ GARDEN STATE: NOW PLAYING IN NY & LA - SELECT CITIES AUG 6 GARDEN STATE stars Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm. NEWSWEEK's David Ansen says "Writer-Director Zach Braff has a genuine filmmaker's eye and is loaded with talent." Watch the teaser trailer that has all of America buzzing and talk back with Zach Braff on the Garden State Blog at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gardenstate/index_nyt.html \----------------------------------------------------------/ Symbol Technologies Buys Matrics, Accelerating Its Move Into Radio Tags July 28, 2004 By BARNABY J. FEDER Symbol Technologies, which has been burdened by the fallout from a long-running accounting fraud under previous management, tested the patience of its investors yesterday by announcing an acquisition that is likely to cut into earnings for the next two years at least. Symbol, the nation's leading producer of bar-code systems, said it would pay $230 million to acquire Matrics, a developer of electronic identification tags and wireless devices that read them. Analysts said that the deal should sharply accelerate Symbol's push into the promising field of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, but that Matrics and many other RFID pioneers still faced significant hurdles to becoming profitable. Radio-frequency identification has long been used to allow drivers to pay tolls wirelessly, and to track valuable assets like missiles, rail cars and cattle. Matrics is in the vanguard of a new form of the technology that is expected to sharply cut the costs of using it. As the newer technology matures, analysts expect billions of the tags to be attached to - or embedded in - goods that retailers, manufacturers and institutions like hospitals want to track. Purchasers of the technology will also need readers to collect the data, software to analyze it and in many cases consultants to put it all together. Symbol, which is based in Holtsville, N.Y., said it struck its deal with Matrics after 18 months of exploring radio-frequency identification and experiencing growing pressure from customers to expand its capabilities. "It's a huge step for Symbol," said Michael J. Liard, an analyst who follows RFID for the Venture Development Corporation, a market research company in Natick, Mass. "They're definitely a contender now." But in announcing the deal yesterday morning before trading began, Symbol, which had more than $1.5 billion in revenue last year, warned that the deal would slice 5 to 6 cents a share off its earnings this year and that accounting charges had not yet been determined. Symbol said that it expected a smaller dilution next year but that the drag on earnings would be depend on how fast the demand for RFID hardware, software and integration services grew. Investors sent Symbol's shares down more than 15 percent in heavy trading during the day before rallying to close down 10.5 percent at $12.48. William R. Nuti, Symbol's chairman and chief executive, brushed aside that reaction, citing the generally supportive assessment of analysts. "If you take a long-term view, you'd be very bullish," Mr. Nuti said. Matrics, a privately held company based in Rockville, Md., with 64 employees, was founded five years ago by William Bandy and Michael Arneson, former wireless computing researchers at the National Security Agency. It is a leading designer of wireless tag and reader systems in which the reader's scanning signal provides the power needed for the tag to send a return signal identifying itself. The technology, which is known as passive RFID, has been embraced by Wal-Mart Stores and the Pentagon to track a wide range of goods they receive from suppliers. That in turn is forcing nearly every major manufacturer to get involved and raising alarm among privacy advocates. Passive RFID has the potential to be substantially cheaper and more compact than active RFID systems like those used in automatic toll collection because the tags do not need batteries. But, like active RFID, it can provide far more data than bar codes and much faster data gathering. The deal, which is expected to close by the end of September, would be Symbol's largest acquisition under Mr. Nuti, who was recruited two years ago from Cisco Systems to help the company recover from an accounting scandal that turned out to be much deeper than he had anticipated. Last month, Symbol agreed to pay $138 million in penalties and compensation to settle both private class-action lawsuits and a complaint brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/technology/28scan.html?ex=1092045711&ei=1… --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1&E… HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales(a)nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

21 years, 4 months

JIG Meeting Monday

by Betsy Kremser

JIG meets at my house on Monday. Usual time. See you there. Betsy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Betsy Kremser Betsy.Kremser(a)co.anoka.mn.us Health Planner/Policy Analyst Anoka County Community Health & Environmental Services 763.323.6096 (voice) 763.422.6988 (Fax)

21 years, 5 months

NYTimes.com Article: Wells Fargo Buying Strong Assets

by jellings＠me.umn.edu

The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by jellings(a)me.umn.edu. /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \----------------------------------------------------------/ Wells Fargo Buying Strong Assets May 26, 2004 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:25 a.m. ET MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) -- Wells Fargo & Co. is buying all the assets of Strong Financial, whose founder and principal owner was banned from the industry because of his personal involvement in a trading scandal. Terms for the sale of Strong's $34 billion in assets under management, announced Wednesday morning, were not disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the transaction could be worth as much as $700 million. The move came six days after Strong Financial and founder and former CEO Richard Strong agreed to a combined $175 million penalty to settle regulators' allegations of improper trading at the expense of other shareholders. Wells Fargo and Strong Financial had been rumored to be in talks for months, and the settlement had cleared the way for a sale. The settlement did not prohibit Richard Strong, who owns 85 percent of the privately-held company, from benefiting from the sale. The deal announced Wednesday does not include any legal entities of Strong Financial, which is based in the Milwaukee suburb of Menomonee Falls, the companies said. Wells Fargo will gain $27 billion in assets in 70 mutual funds. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo's total assets under management would grow to $217 billion. Mutual fund assets would climb to $103 billion, ranking among the top 20 mutual fund companies in the U.S., Wells Fargo said. ``This is a great strategic fit of investment talent, resources, well-established investment management products and new distribution channels,'' said Mike Niedermeyer, head of Wells Fargo's investment management business. ``The purchase will provide significant benefits for both companies and their clients.'' The agreement calls for the key investment teams of Strong Financial to join Wells Capital Management, a Wells Fargo subsidiary, but it was unclear if that meant all 1,125 of Strong Financial's employees would keep their jobs. Wells Fargo, which also provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance services and has $397 billion in total assets, has 143,000 employees. ``We're excited about joining a highly respected partner who understands and shares our commitment to an autonomous investment culture,'' said Richard Weiss, Strong's director and head of its investment department. In morning trading Wednesday, Wells Fargo shares fell 15 cents to $58.60 on the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Strong is the highest level executive so far to admit his role in what has become an industrywide scandal for the mutual fund business. The company he founded, which was fined $115 million for allowing the improper trades, put itself up for sale shortly after regulators went public last year with allegations against Richard Strong. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the first quarter of next year. It is subject to approval by the Strong Funds Board of Directors, its fund shareholders, shareholders of Strong Financial Corp. and Wells Fargo Funds Board of Trustees. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Wells-Fargo-Strong.html?ex=1086… --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1&E… HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales(a)nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

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Star Tribune Article

by J

This article from the Star Tribune has been sent to you by J. BYLINE: CREDITLINE: HEADLINE: Wells Fargo will buy back up to $1.4 billion of its shares Wells Fargo & Co., the fifth-biggest U.S. bank, said it will buy back as many as 25 million shares of its common stock. The San Francisco-based bank will buy the shares, valued at about $1.4 billion, "from time to time," Wells Fargo said in a prepared statement. The bank last bought back stock in 1991, when its board authorized the purchase of up to 30 million shares. Companies typically buy back shares to drive up the stock price by reducing the supply of shares in the market. Wells Fargo profits rose 18 percent to $1.78 billion in the first quarter as the company opened more accounts and loaned money more to customers. The banks shares rose 70 cents to $57.09. The stock is down 3 percent so far this year. Bloomberg News

21 years, 7 months

Star Tribune Article

by J

This article from the Star Tribune has been sent to you by J. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4746435.html

21 years, 7 months

The TurtleTrader web site...

by Johnson, Dennis

Here is the home page for the Turtle Trader web site: http://www.turtletrader.com/ The web site is quite large (somewhere over 400 pages) and can it take considerable time to wade through all of the info. So if you want a brief overview, you can check out the following 7 links. Trend following ("trading like a Turtle") isn't a guarantee of quick and easy riches: http://www.turtletrader.com/holygrail.html But they do offer a guarantee for the course itself: http://www.turtletrader.com/nd.html Definition and introduction to trend following: http://www.turtletrader.com/it.html Introduction to volatility and risk: http://www.turtletrader.com/risk-v-volatility.html Introduction to money management - this is an essential part - the key, really - of successful trend following: http://www.turtletrader.com/money.html Why the number of winning trades vs. number of losing trades isn't important: http://www.turtletrader.com/babe-ruth.html Quite a bit of importance is placed on trading psychology: http://www.turtletrader.com/know.html Enjoy! Dennis Johnson - Infrastructure Architect GMAC-RFC 8400 Normandale Lake Blvd. - Suite 250 Minneapolis, MN 55437 Ph: 952-857-6953 Cell: 612-819-0376 email: dennis.johnson(a)gmacrfc.com

21 years, 7 months

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