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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Casey Anthony's Murder Trial: The Battle of the Color-Coded Charts
Watching yesterday's status hearing was excruciating. I sat at my computer with the video on the left, notes on the right. I focused my attention on getting the major details and names. My efforts produced a dazzling display of confusion which has taken quite a while to unravel.
The blame goes to Casey Anthony's "for all intents and purposes" lead attorney, Jose Baez. For the second hearing in a row, he has used his many-colored charts to figure out which witnesses have been deposed, which have been scheduled, and which had not been scheduled. His system clearly isn't working.
These names are very important due to looming deadlines imposed by Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., who, according to Diana Tennis, legal commentator for Fox35, is "micromanaging" the case. According to Tennis, "This is such a level of micromanagement I have never seen." I don't think I have to tell you why this is the case!
Due to technical difficulties, the audio did not come up until a few minutes into the hearing. At that point we heard Jose Baez state something about Tony Lazzaro's deposition. Linda Drane Burdick is heard to whisper, "that's past the deadline". Baez then flashed the infamous color-coded list and mentioned witnesses listed by the defense after May 24 (boldly highlighted in red). He then says they are already incorporated into his list (waves another list). He then goes on to mention names added to the State's witness list August 10, 30, and 31. (Remember, the 31st was the deadline for listing witnesses. I'm already confused and it's only 1:07 into the first part of the hearing.)
I promise not to micro-report the remaining hour, but this is an example of the confusion that reigned over the first section of the hearing.
Baez then mentioned that discovery was ongoing and that the defense had recently received 50 more pages.
Judge Perry then asked Baez how many expert witnesses would not be deposed by the September 30 deadline. Baez mentioned Neil Haskell, the State's forensic entomologist and hemmed and hawed about a couple more. He went off track to mention some other category of witnesses until Perry put him back on track. In the end, Baez managed to name 9 experts and explained in way too much detail why two of them wouldn't need to be deposed. (Actually, it may have ended up being 8 when Baez stated one of them, Sandra Cawn, or was it Maureen Bradley? was scheduled for Thursday. Jeff Ashton was able to clear up who one witness was as Baez didn't know what role she played. See what I mean about confusion?) After much color-coded chart-flipping, Baez came up with his final list.
When asked by Judge Perry when he believed that he would have the depositions completed, Baez answered, "I think, barring schedules the end of November".
Jeff Ashton rose to speak to the situation. He was willing to see a deposition slightly outside the deadline due to schedueling problems with Michael Rickenbach from the FBI lab.
As for Dr. Neil Haskell, Ashton pointed out that his report had been produced 1 1/2 years ago and the defense had never scheduled his deposition. He believed the defense should provide a motion showing just cause. Baez responded with a lengthy explanation of how he had wanted all his experts to examine the evidence at the same time and all the difficulties he had run into to carry out the examination two months ago. There was a longer explanation of lack of proper equipment, so on, and so on, to explain the delay. (I recall Dr. Haskell offering to have Dr. Huntington examine the insects with him from the beginning. I wish I could find that letter or e-mail!) Another reason Baez felt he needed more time was that the defense was fully booked for depositions which take time to prepare since they needed to go though 23,000 documents to do each one!
Ashton also indicated that they had a discussed the issue in a prior hearing and Baez had not approached him about the issue until three days ago.
Judge Perry then decided there was no need to file a motion for just cause and they would discuss the issue further.
Ashton blasted the defense by saying that they had chosen to delay looking at the evidence involved for 1 1/2 years! He accused the defense of not exercising it's due diligence in getting the evidence reviewed. It also should not have been a surprise to the defense as to what equipment would be available at the recent inspection. He said that to extend the defense would delay his preparation for the case since he has his own deadlines to meet.
Baez gave another rambling discourse about how ard they were working and all the discovery being dumped on them all the time. Judge Perry cut him off to tell him that all he was interested in was the expert witnesses, not other matters.
Judge Perry is my #1 hero of the day for reigning in Baez' ramblings and keeping him on track. After allowing Baez a few more moments of saying that "it just didn't work out", the judge ask him for numbers again. How many experts would not be deposed by the deadline.
Baez pointed out the name of someone who was scheduled, the judge reined him in again... how many would NOT be deposed by the deadline. Baez then went back to his chart of many colors and flipped back and forth for a while. Baez then said that they were all scheduled except for Dr. Sigmond who he had wanted to depose today, but the State was unavailable. There were cell phone people, no, computer people, who had to be rescheduled. Then there are the dog handlers, are they considered experts? Oh, and Stenger (OCSO). (At this point, my head was spinning and a headache was starting to make it's appearance in the back of my head.)
Jeff Ashton then mentioned Dr. Haskell. Baez said he was scheduled for the 22nd. Ashton said that he had a message from him earlier that day and Dr. Haskell had no knowledge of that date, and neither did he!
Judge Perry, perhaps to escape this issue, which had been under discussion and page-flipping for almost 20 minutes, resignedly extended the deadline to November 19. It would be the last extension Baez would receive during this hearing.
Perry then moved on to the evidence review. He asked if his experts had reviewed everything that was needed to be review. He reminded Baez that the deadline for that was October 31.
Baez indicated that only the hair and entomological evidence was left. When asked about the air evidence, Baez explained their visit to Tennessee to depose the scientists there. The only one not completed was the man who went to the junk yard to find control evidence (cars, mats, etc.).
There was then talk of the Cisco system. Baez did not go to the source at the court. He had signed on for himself. Linda Drane Burdick indicated she had spoken to the representative and had come to the conclusion that the Webex system might suit their needs better.
There was then discussion of stipulations that Casey Anthony has to sign concerning the examination of the entomological and hair samples. When Baez sort of tossed the topic off, the judge reminded him that "Death Is Different" and that his client was local. Baez agreed to see her the same day to have them signed. Jeff Ashton (hero #2 of the day), asked that Baez give him a list of the hair samples he wanted to add to the stipulation.
Next, the judge asked Baez if he would have all his experts listed by November 30. Baez responded that he wanted a one week extension because he and Mason would be going to New York for a big meeting with Linda Kenney Baden. Confused, the judge asked why, if he was going next week, they needed an extension, Baez said that he thought that the judge had said SEPTEMBER 30! Oopsie!
The next topic was the depositions of law enforcement people. (My headache moved forward a bit just hearing this.)
The judge then asked Baez if he had completed these depositions.
Baez responded that if the court were to give him the same extension, he would be able to complete them.
Judge Perry want to know WHY they weren't going to be completed. Baez claimed he had 8 no-shows at the marathon session on September 3. When Perry asked WHY, he stated he had problems in cooperation from the Orlando Police Department. Mason spoke for the first time and indicated that there were conflicts with vacations, sick people, sick family members, a person who had forgotten, and some who said they weren't served.
Perry then asked when he anticipated completing the 8. Baez said he's like the judge to give him the same extension he'd given before, November 16. Perry replied that he didn't like giving open ended extensions and to explain WHY he needed an extension.
Baez then said that he had scheduled December 1 for the "no-shows" and Judge Perry quickly responded that "that won't work, it was out of the question". He said they could fix up a "nice" Saturday schedule for them. He also said that the October 31 deadline was quite enough. Mason than stood and asked hero #3 for the day, Linda Drane Burdick, if there were 30 more in the same category.
She indicated that those who weren't there September 3 had been scheduled for October 7. When the judge asked for the names, Ms. Drane Burdick said that only 23 were deposed on the 3rd. She then read off her list of people and told Judge Perry that her records showed that they were either excused or hadn't been served. The judge began to say that he would extend the deadline if some of the 8 didn't show up. Linda Drane Burdick then reminded the judge that he had already extended this deadline once. From that point on, Judge Perry did not budge from that particular date. Baez tried to shoehorn in that he already had other witnesses scheduled for the 7th, but (drat) he didn't have that schedule with him.
Judge Perry pretty much ended that particular discussion by saying, "Bottom line is the 31st is the DROP DEAD DATE.
Oh no, it wasn't the end. It turned out that the defense had scheduled (John Allen) for a deposition last Friday and he had been sent out of town and couldn't be there. Also, although the defense had already deposed Yuri Melich for 8 hours, they were only half finished.
Perry reiterated that the deadline is October 31 and that they do have nights and weekends. Baez and Mason had a quick conversation and Mason was heard to remind Baez that they both had trials on a particular date.
My headache really started pounding away when I heard Judge Perry mention the "ordinary", or lay witnesses left to be deposed. Their deadline is also October 31. I was amazed to hear the list of names. Some of them are not minor players in this case by any means. The list included Richard Cain, Amy Huizenga, Tony Lazzaro, Tim Miller, and Cindy Anthony's brother, Rick Plesea. Others included the two jail snitches Robyn Adams and Myra Durkovich.
Naturally, there was an extended wait for this list due to the fact that Baez had to again peruse his multi-colored list. The silence in the courtroom was deafening. Baez also made a big deal out of the "late" witnesses by the State.
Note here that Judge Perry asks Baez HOW MANY? and Baez never answers with a number. He always has to go through the list and tell you the "unique" situations.
There was one ugly scene during the recitation of the names. When it came to Amy Huizenga, it was explained that she was working on a cruise ship and was only available on Saturdays when the ship docked in Miami. Cheney Mason approached the podium to tell the judge what HE thought of the idea of a trip to Miami on a weekend. He told the judge he didn't care about her work schedule and she would just have to take time off for his convenience!
Kudos to Linda Drane Burdick for standing up for Amy. She did wait around in the area for a year and a half and had been available at her workplace, "down the street".
The judge reminded the lawyers that October 31 is the deadline!
Then, we got to the "recently listed people". In all, there are 18 of the 70 people listed that the defense wants to depose. According to Baez, a lot are custodians of records and a lot of them that they can just be interviewed versus taking a deposition. Baez then rambled on about how it would have been nice to have A, B, and C witnesses. He said that when the did the LE depositions, some of those people were in minor roles, such as "delivery persons".
In addition, there were 7 or 8 witnesses from the jail and that "something funky" might be going on in the jail again. Linda Drane Burdick explained that the names came from internal documents concerning Sylvia Hernandez, the guard who assisted in the contact between Robyn Adams and Casey Anthony. These documents had only become available in late summer and that she had turned over the names and some taped statements to the defense.
Jose Baez then threw the court for a loop. He stated that the best place to do these depositions was at the jail and that he wanted Casey Anthony present because she did not remember the names.
The judge looked at him and said, "Why What?" You want your client present? What does the rule say?" Baez responded, "I'd have to file a motion, show good cause." (The words are approximate, but I have the feeling the judge was floored by this request. I don't think it's going to happen! Ever hear of photographs?)
The judge then steered Baez back to the "late" and corrected himself, "recently" filed names. Baez said he thought most would be quick depositions and wouldn't take much time.
Again, Perry broke through Baez' hesitant presentation to ask, "When will you have those done.?". When Baez hesitated, the judge added that he didn't think Baez would say by the end of October!
Linda Drane Burdick then addressed the court and said that she believed that the court had already stated that the defense would have up to December 31. The judge stated he would check the transcript. He also wanted both parties to draw up a list of these people.
Finally, we got to the last part of the status hearing. Judge Perry reminded the defense that the deadline for listing all penalty phase witnesses was November 30. He asked if Baez had apprised his new death penalty expert (Ann Finnell ) of the date. Baez stated that he had and when the judge asked about the mitigation expert, Baez said that they were working together towards that deadline.
Then, the dreaded "ANYTHING ELSE" part of the hearing. Jose Baez always has "something else". This time it was a motion he had filed that morning to have DNA testing done on the shorts and laundry bag.
As the motion had just been filed, Judge Perry did not yet have a copy. Jeff Ashton kindly lent the judge his and Perry read silently for a few moments.
According to the motion, the defense wanted to send the evidence to Richard Eikelenboom's Dutch lab, Independent Forensic Services. Baez spoke for a while about how this lab would be the best and that it was world-renowned for it's work. In addition, Eikelenboom was willing to do the work pro bono.
Although this is not a motions hearing, Jeff Ashton was willing to argue it. He pointed out that the bag had been tested and no DNA had been found. He wasn't sure if the shorts had been tested. He argued against sending it out of the country because the court would have no subpoena power for witnesses who worked in the lab. He also pointed out that shipping it overseas heightened the possibility for the evidence to be lost or damaged.
Mainly, he stated he had a problem with the Eikelenboom's, but he wouldn't go into it at the time. He said that the lab wasn't ASCLAD certified. In his own research, he had found a dozen certified labs who have done touch DNA testing for 7 to 8 years. He said that there was a Pennsylvania lab the he wouldn't object to. He would also require a stipulation as with the other testing.
I'll spare you the rest of the arguments but one. Baez indicated that the 15 ASCLAD certified labs in Florida were associated with law enforcement. (How in the world could he indicate that DNA testing done by law enforcement was biased? DNA is what it is and is used to clear people as much, if not more than it is to convict someone!)
Judge Perry said that he was like to allow the testing, but would not allow the evidence out of the country.
UPDATE! Today, Judge Perry ruled that the evidence will be sent to National Medical Services, Criminalistics Laboratory in Willow Grove, Pa. According to the Orlando Sentinel, both parties have agreed to using this lab.
Linda Drane Burdick brought up the last issue for the day. She mentioned the list of pending motions. Judge Perry said that he would be entering orders later in the day or today. He also indicated that there are some that are still not "ripe".
Drane Burdick also inquired if there would be a hearing on the Kronk motion. If there were to be one, she would not bother with a reply. The judge agreed with her. He also said that the witnesses wouldn't need to testify since they will assume that what the witnesses say is true. From that point, that testimony would have to be measured against the Hitchcock decision which says a person cannot be impeached by prior bad acts. Upon presentation, he would have to rule based upon exceptions and precedents that allow that type of evidence in at trial.
The next item brought before the court by Drane Burdick was that the defense had added two witnesses to their list after the deadline. One was already on the State's list, the other was totally new, but scheduled for a deposition. She said she would not expect a certification for good cause on the one witness, but was merely advising the judge of the situation in case there were more.
The final information was that she has not received statements, photograph, or other materials from the people listed on the defense witness list. She used a tape recording from David Lohr.
Jose Baez jumped all over that saying that a transcript and tape had been submitted with the motion. He also got another dig in at Mark NeJame when he mentioned that Lohr had discussed writing a book with him. He was "shocked" that she hadn't received it!
Drane Burdick said that she had seen the transcript, but not the tape and was using this as an example only. She didn't want to have to flood the court with motions to compel (and she's filed two already). She summed it up by saying that "They are in possession of items they have not turned over."
I absolutely loved the judge's reply, which also ended the hearing:
Only thing I want to say about that is, you all know what the rules are, please abide by, and if somebody feels that somebody's breaking the rules, file the necessary pleading and we will deal with it.
But I would not want to be caught violating the rules.
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19 comments:
- hope4tomorrow said...
Awesome article, hope your headache went away, the one I got took four tablets!!!
- September 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Dr. said...
Thanks for the excellent summary.
- September 28, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- kathlb said...
Great article and a lot of work to get it posting ready! Baez sickens me big time. Next...Mason. I will never forget this one, and I hope that he remembers too. :-)
- September 28, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great article!
I didn't get rid of my headache until late last night! Baez was so unprepared yesterday! I don't know how Judge Perry doesn't blow a gasket.
Thank goodness for Jeff Ashton and Linda Drane-Burdick!
Justice for Caylee!!
- September 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for this! I have a much better understanding of what went on yesterday now!
Excellent job!
- September 28, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
How many still need deposed? Over 30! I lost count! Did you see Mr. Mason laughing when Mr. Baez wanted Casey present for the jail guards deposition? He couldn't believe that stupid request either.
This is going to be an embarrassing trial for those lawyers. Mr. Baez can't put two words together to make an argument or objection.
- September 28, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Liz said...
Wow Ritanita - your ability to understand and interpret what Mr Baez presents is amazing - a magnificent summary.
I think it is past time for the defendant to have to attend these hearings - this one seemed to cover much more than case status. Seems to me if it is status only - there shouldn't be "anything else".
many thanks for your summary and explanations.
- September 29, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- ritanita said...
Thanks, everybody for the wonderful comments. It's these comments that make my work go easier.
Liz, I agree that Casey should be at these status hearings, even if they don't turn into "something else".
The result would be that her attorney's would sharpen up their presentations and they would behave more professionally.
Baez wasted a lot of the court's time counting up his depositions. That part of the hearing should have only taken a few minutes had he simply made a list of what he knew the judge wanted.
Instead, he gave a lot of people major headaches!
As for Mason, his behavior is obnoxious and shows he doesn't care enough about the case to understand that he is there to be the lead attorney and take the heat when things don't go well.
Legally, Baez CAN'T be lead attorney, and someone needs to get through his thick skull that his attempts to clump around in shoes too large for him isn't going to bode well for his client.
I anticipate with every hearing that I will find a good reason to praise the defense for a job well done. So far, it hasn't happened.
It's not fair to Casey Anthony either. She deserves a cohesive defense team whose purpose is to present a solid defense and mitigation should she be convicted.
- September 29, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- lacygirl said...
please!!!! tell me why bozo is still frist chair I thought that was why mason was there ,he drives me crazy they need to get him out of first chair ibelive casey did this but she needs an att.is this only till the trail starts that he has frist chair please anyone
- September 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- ritanita said...
lacygirl, Jose Baez cannot legally be first chair in this trial since he is not death-penalty qualified, and is far from being so.
He's pulled in other attorneys throughout the case to make his team legal. First was Terrence Lenamon who quit early on due to differences. Lenamon wanted to go with a mental illness/accident defense.
Next up was Andrea Lyon, who's not telling her reasons for leaving except for financial reasons.
Cheney Mason was the next DP qualified attorney on board and could now be considered first chair.
These qualified DP attorneys have had to agree to allow Baez to be the "de facto" leader of the team if not the legal one. At the budget hearing last spring, Baez introduced himself to Judge Perry as the "for all intents and purposes" lead attorney.
He's not, and should not be the lead in this case. However, his ego won't let him yield his position in front of the Court and the Media, in my most humble layman's opinion.
The recently added DP qualified attorney, Ann Finnell, could also serve as first chair, but seems to be focusing on the mitigation phase of the trial.
- September 29, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this very lucid summation of the hearing. I was getting a headache too, lol.
TOB (sorry I can't figure out the other sign ups)
- September 29, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- ritanita said...
TOB, not to worry! I'm wondering if all the people out there who got headaches from the trial could get together and open an aspirin franchise for the trial!
- September 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- shari said...
Perhaps there could be an "aspirin cart" (like a hot dog cart) set up outside the courthouse during the trial. Alot of people are going to need it. I wonder if Casey realizes what a joke this defense team is. They are like the Keystone cops. I might be reconsidering my atty. options if I were her. Bet they're sorry they lost Judge Strickland..
- September 29, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- FRG said...
Thanks for the summary, I had no courage to go back and watch those clowns all over, when I say clowns you know who they are, don't you?
I agree with you about CM's behavior, he acts like he doesn't care because if he did he would be the arguing in the hearings right? We know why he doesn't, he has no profound knowledge of what it's going on it is clear, he acts like a patso (pazzo). We all know CM wants to be in the headlines and say stupid things to the media.
BTW, if in those 1 1/2 JB had deposed AH, TL, and done his job instead of being on "GMA, Today Show and The Early Show, Geraldo, ISSUES", he would have plenty of time to do his work, wouldn't he? I am so sick to hear JB complaining that it isn't funny. We all know his excuses. Only idiots fall for his excuses.
I agree that JP, LDB and JA are doing a great job and they are the best part of the hearings to be heard.
I can't believe we still have a lot of months to hear these so called lawyers before trial. I need a bigger stock of aspirins. LOL
- September 30, 2010 at 6:21 AM
- shari said...
Luv U Ritanita, you make everything much clearer for us "legally challenged" people out here.........THANKS!!!!!!!!!!
- September 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
I lmao, great article! The defense is headache inducing. God, I can't wait until this trial is over!
- September 30, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- donchais said...
I've tortured myself and re-watched the hearing - specifically concentrating on Judge Perry's facial expressions...funny stuff there!
- October 2, 2010 at 7:20 AM
- LCoastMom said...
Thanks for the excellent replay!
I hope HHJP is doing something to blow off steam, after sitting thru the bumbling fools show!
Legally, Baez CAN'T be lead attorney, and someone needs to get through his thick skull that his attempts to clump around in shoes too large for him isn't going to bode well for his client.
This comment caused a vision of JB, shrunk down to toddler size; wearing a saggy diaper - tie dangling to his knees and oversized shoes - that he will never fill - not on his best day.
I would think ICA has seen enough to know JB is not competent - I guess we'll find out when she files her appeal!
- October 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Tezi said...
Thank you ritanita for your excellent work on this article. I have a headache just reading what Baez is putting the legal system through. I bet Judge Strickland is laughing his backside off at all of these antics!
- October 4, 2010 at 1:34 PM


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Hi all,
I'm implementing a backup plan for my Oracle databases with RMAN.
I'd like to what's best way to keep backups for 6 months.
What I'm doing currently is;
Backup archived logs on the productions database daily.
Backup database daily on the standby database.
My problem is how to maintain backups for 6 months.
Is setting "recovery windows" to 180 correct ?
Default "recovery window" is 1 day. Does it mean all my backups older than 1 day are useless. Or they can be still used to restore database ?
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How to Make Gluten-Free Bagels
Starting the day with a nice, chewy bagel isn't just a dream for celiacs. You can customize this gluten-free recipe by adding raisins or cheese, substituting 1/2 teaspoon dried onion flakes for the cinnamon or sprinkling on sesame seeds or cinnamon sugar before baking.
Tools: Electric mixer
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Rising time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Yield: 8 bagels
2 1/3 cups gluten-free flour mixture — (scroll down for the recipe)
3 tablespoons dry milk powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 1/4 teaspoons (1 packet) instant rise yeast
2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
1 egg, at room temperature
2 egg whites, at room temperature, plus 1 egg white
1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees), plus 1 teaspoon water
Nonstick cooking spray
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. When the oven reaches that temperature, turn it off.
Place the flour mixture, milk powder, salt, 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, and yeast in a medium mixing bowl. With the mixer on low, blend the ingredients.
Add the butter, egg, and two egg whites to the dry mixture. Whip on low speed until blended.
Add the water. Beat for 3 1/2 minutes.
Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and divide it into 8 balls.
Roll each ball into a 7-inch rope and then connect the ends of the rope to form a circle, sealing the ends securely.
Lightly grease a baking sheet with corn or olive oil. Place each bagel on the baking sheet. Cover the bagels with wax paper that has been lightly oiled.
Set the baking sheet in the oven for 40 minutes to allow the dough to rise. (It won't double in bulk.)
Remove the baking sheet from the oven and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Fill a large saucepan with water (about 4 inches deep) and add the remaining 2 teaspoons of sugar. Bring the water to a boil.
Place 4 bagels at a time in the boiling water and boil for 1 minute, turning each bagel over after 30 seconds.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and spray the paper lightly with cooking spray. (The bagels tend to brown too much on the bottom without the paper.)
Remove the bagels from the water with a slotted spoon and lay them on the paper.
Repeat Steps 11 and 13 with the remaining 4 bagels.
In a small bowl, whip the remaining egg white with 1 teaspoon of water until frothy. Brush the mixture on top of the bagels. If desired, sprinkle tops with cinnamon sugar or sesame seeds.
Bake the bagels for 20 minutes.
Per serving: Calories: 212; Total fat: 9g; Saturated fat: 2g; Cholesterol: 34mg; Sodium: 199mg; Carbohydrates: 39g; Fiber: 2g; Sugar: 4g; Protein: 3.g.
Gluten-free flour mixture
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Yield: 5 cups
2 1/2 cups rice flour
1 cup potato starch flour
1 cup tapioca flour
1/4 cup garbanzo bean flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 1/2 tablespoons xanthan gum
1.Sift all the ingredients into a large bowl.
2.Stir ingredients together with a whisk.
3.Spoon the mixture into a self-seal freezer bag and freeze until needed.
Per 1/4 cup: Calories: 138; Total fat: 0g; Saturated fat: 0g; Cholesterol: 0mg; Sodium: 1mg; Carbohydrates: 32g; Fiber: 2g; Sugar: 0g; Protein: 1g.


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Between August 2011 and May 2012 a Calderdale SOS activist uploaded a lot of links to Media articles that may be of interest to campaigners against the cuts. Calderdale SOS is no longer able to run such a comprehensive service. However we would welcome being informed about any media coverage that may be of interest. Please e-mail:
Government reviews NHS constitution and involves Virgin Care. False economy (31/3)
Measuring the economy – rethinking the growth obsession. LEAP (31/3)
…ambulances in Yorkshire are running short of petrol, … due to "self-inflicted insanity". Guardian (30/3)
…research highlights GP conflict of interest risk. False economy (29/3)
George Galloway wins Bradford West byelection. Guardian (29/3)
UK is back in recession, OECD says. Guardian (30/3)
A short history of privatisation in the UK: 1979-2012. Guardian (29/3)
Nottingham teachers walk out over 'no summer holiday' plans. Union news (29/3)
Education system could be completely privatised by 2015, union predicts. Guardian (29/3)
Technical recession or not, the UK economy is sick. Guardian (28/3)
Teaching unions are reporting 'solid support for a London-wide strike over the government's proposed pensions cuts. Union news (28/3)
… the very rich now take home such huge salaries and bonuses for doing no more than they did 30 years ago.. explains the increase in the tax they pay. False economy (28/3)
Michael Hintze, a leading Conservative party donor who runs the £5bn hedge fund CQS, has emerged as a financial backer of the climate sceptic thinktank..Guardian (28/3)
NHS draft risk register.. points to danger of emergencies being less well managed and increased use of private sector driving up costs. Guardian (27/3)
Massive turnout as Unite drivers vote to strike over safety. Union news (26/3)
The true face of Toryism is now being exposed. Left Futures (26/3)
Who are the super-rich beneficiaries from this Budget? Left Futures (26/3)
Another Budget for the benefit of the Landed against the Landless. LEAP (24/3)
The consequences of ever vanishing corporation tax revenues. LEAP (23/3)
Latest YouGov/The Sun results 22nd March CON 34%, LAB 42%, LD 9%; (23/3)
… the embrace of austerity by policy and political elites …was an almost inconceivably terrible blunder. New York Times (23/3)
The Office for Budget Responsibility's credibility is in tatters. Independent (22/3)
Budget 2012: Cynical, deluded and regressive. Guardian (22/3)
The most dishonest Budget ever? LEAP (22/3)
All the nastiest Tory prejudices … will be in this Budget. Left Futures (19/3)
Why cutting Corporation Tax won't help the British economy. Liberal Conspiracy (19/3)
Who are the rich that Osborne is pandering to? Left Futures (19/3)
Doctors opposed to NHS reforms to stand against coalition MPs in election. Guardian (19/3)
Ministers lied to push through NHS reforms, Labour peer claims. Guardian (19/3)
Regional pay on top of pay cuts and job cuts from a government meaner than Thatcher's. Left Futures (18/3)
George Osborne's budget will mirror Europe's Ebola economics. Guardian (18/3)
Progress – Labour's Blairite faction – is … sponsored this year by the British Venture Capital Association. Left futures (18/3)
Public sector cuts will hit women hard. Guardian (18/3)
Greece on the breadline: HIV and malaria make a comeback. Guardian (17/3)
Why Greg Smith was right about Goldman Sachs. Guardian (16/3)
The common sense that governed us for a generation has collapsed. We are living in revolutionary times, whether we like it or not. Aljazeera (16/3)
… we face not just years of austerity, but the final dissolution of the postwar welfare state in Europe. LEAP (15/3)
The big US-UK divide ..There are two ways to deal with a big budget deficit: one is by cutting back expenditure (austerity) and the other is growth to expand revenues (stimulus).. Left futures (15/3)
what's wrong with the argument that when times are tough the government should tighten its belt. NY Times (15/3)
Noam Chomsky on the Occupy movement, and the possibilities for social change (13/3)
Guardian response to Shirley Williams on the LibDems' role in abolishing the NHS (13/3)
Remploy: another privatisation scam? Left futures (11/3)
Health and Social Care Bill 2011: a legal basis for charging and providing fewer health services to people in England Allyson Pollock (11/3)
Rail privatisation has failed – and the NHS is hurtling down the same track. Guardian (10/3)
So what is "financial repression"? Put simply it is a combination of inflation and capital controls designed to erode the value of debts – and therefore of savings. (Newsnight 10/3)
Statement by Professor Allyson Pollock, David Price and Peter Roderick in response to the Lib Dem "40 points" document (10/3)
Liberal Democrat MPs 'insult' man with HIV who raised concerns over the 'privatisation' health bill. Union news (9/3)
Another credit crunch looms. New statesman (8/3)
Calm down, dears? Why it's a bad time to be a British woman. Guardian (8/3)
Police are linked to blacklist of construction workers. Observer (6/3)
How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx. Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats. Guardian (6/3)
What now for Greece – collapse or resurrection? Guardian (5/3)
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is deceiving the British public about the true adverse impact of his health bill, as a crunch tribunal hearing will today decide whether the risk register on the bill's implications should be made public Union news (5/3)
5 things you need to know about the legal aid bill. False economy (4/3)
An amazing day of action against workfare Boycott workfare (4/3)
Police are linked to blacklist of construction workers Guardian (4/3)
Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country. Guardian (3/3)
Grayling caught fibbing on his voluntary work experience scheme, which is really mandatory unpaid labour (1/3)
Now, we have to assume, there is corruption at the heart of major British institutions with better reputations than parliament. The medical profession, the prison service, the civil service, the armed forces? Newsnight (1/3)


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Although in many ways, computers have helped businesses improve their efficiency and delivery, when they malfunction or when software programs have glitches, there can be trouble. Most companies employ a team of support staff expressly to address computer problems. These individuals are sometimes described as help desk analysts. The main job of an analyst is to answer employees' technology-related questions and to strategize favorable results. He or she can work either within a company and for a company, and any time computers or technology are involved, this person is usually standing by to help fix things when they break.
The majority of help desk duties involve technological problem-solving. Most of the time, an analyst diagnoses problems over the phone, and there is often a special telephone hotline that employees can use to reach the department. After listening to the employee's description of the problem, the analyst will usually ask the employee to try executing certain commands to resolve the problem. Depending on the set-up, this person might also be able to access the employee's computer remotely in order to get a better sense of the problem.
If possible, the help desk analyst will resolve the problem with the employee still on the phone. If the problem is complex, however, he or she may have to visit the employee's work station personally to get a better sense of what has gone wrong. To effectively do their job, these individuals must have a firm understanding of all the different computer programs and hardware that the company uses. The analyst must also be a good communicator and be able to effectively manage employees who may be frustrated or upset by their malfunctioning equipment.
The help desk analyst job description largely depends on the setting. Not all work with employees; some interface directly with customers. Individuals who work for Internet service providers or computer manufacturers, for instance, will usually answer calls from customers who are often far away, but nonetheless experiencing difficulty getting things to work properly. If the analyst cannot fix the customer's problem over the phone, he or she typically will either schedule an in-house service call or offer instructions for getting hardware repair.
In order to be hired as a help desk support analyst, a person must generally have an in-depth knowledge of computers and technology, as well as the ability to get and keep certification. There are several leading industry certification programs available for people who do this job, ranging from technical competency on specific platforms to broad customer service training. It is up to an individual company to set the requirements for the kind of certification required to be a help desk support analyst, as well as the contours of any required training.
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La Paz & Cabo San Lucas Rescale v1.0
Rework and rescale two cities (La Paz & Cabo San Lucas) from the Map Mexicali mod by denzik so it is now working with the new 1.28 patch (1.20 scale) and the Viva Mexico map mod too!
The original map mod by denzik:
Modhub Map "Mexicali" V1.0
You will NEED to have Viva Mexico if you want to play on this map mod!
Place the La Paz & Cabo San Lucas Rescale above the Viva Mexico in the mod priority to make it working.
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For those thinking their smartphone is secure, watch out for a new application that can crack the four-digit password on Apple's iPhone in almost no time flat.
The password on the smartphone that keeps growing in popularity can probably keep a regular person who finds the device from breaking into it. However, the software from Sweden's Micro Systemation, which it sells to law enforcement agencies, can break the code on an iPhone or a smartphone running Google's Android mobile operating system within minutes.
Android Malware Apps in Outside Markets
Mobile Apps Bring Security Woes
Smart Phones 'Leak' Crypto Keys
Smartphone Security Faces Big Problem
Micro Systemation's XRY essentially jailbreaks the device in the same manner that regular jailbreakers do, officials said. It then runs every combination of four-digit passcodes (there are 10,000 of them) until it hits the right one. Once that happens, the attacker can get to all the data on the phone, the company said.
The data — from call logs and contacts to messages, files and GPS location — goes to a PC, decrypted and then displayed.
There are no "back doors" left open by the device manufacturers that XRY exploits, said Micro Systemation Marketing Director Mike Dickinson. Instead, the application finds the same security flaws regular jailbreakers do when they seek to get around any restrictions on applications that can download onto the smartphone.
The company spends a lot of time on finding these security flaws, Dickinson said — half of Micro Systemation's 75 employees are in research and development.
"Every week, a new phone comes out with a different operating system, and we have to reverse-engineer them," he said. "We're constantly chasing the market."
The company sells its passcode-breaking products in 60 countries, with interest among law enforcement agencies, according to Micro Systemation. Police departments in the United States are customers, as is the FBI and the U.S. military, which Dickinson said is the firm's largest customer. About 98 percent of all police departments in the United Kingdom are customers.
"It's a massive boom industry, the growth in evidence from mobile phones," Dickinson said. "After 20 years or so, people understand they shouldn't do naughty things on their personal computers, but they still don't understand that about phones. From an evidential point of view, it's of tremendous value."
iPhone users are strongly encouraged by Apple to put in a four-digit passcode to protect their smartphones in case their devices are lost or stolen. However, according to a survey last year by the developer of the iPhone app Big Brother Camera, users aren't being smart about the four numbers they choose.
The 10 most common passcodes used by iPhone users accounted for 15 percent of all the passwords analyzed, Daniel Amitay said. Amitay said on his Website in June 2011 the most common passcodes were 1234, 0000, 2580, 1111, 5555, 5683, 0852, 2222, 1212 and 1998.
"Formulaic passwords are never a good idea," Amitay said, but his analysis found most users selected easy-to-guess codes.
Out of the 204,508 codes the app sent back anonymously to Amitay, "1234" was the most commonly used, with 4.3 percent of the users. The second-most-common code was "0000," picked by 2.6 percent of the users.
Amitay's Big Brother Camera Security app lets owners know who could be using the smartphone without permission. The app automatically takes a photo of anyone using the iPhone in the front-mounted camera; it also collects information about the passcodes used to protect the camera app. Amitay believes there's a strong correlation between the four-digit passcode used for the app and the one used to lock up the iPhone.


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The secret to Business Intelligence success: Less is more?
By James Polasek and Lachlan James
You've heard the old adage 'less is more', but we frequently bite off more than we can chew – in a multiplicity of ways throughout life.
But is this proverb also true in relation to Business Intelligence (BI) success? What does the number of BI tools within your organization say about your chances of BI actualization?
Source: http://theawkwardyeti.com/
Dresner Advisory Services' (DAS) 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study attempts to answer this question, analyzing the average number of BI tools in place across an organization, and comparing those figures to the perceived success of an organizations' BI program, in order to determine a correlation.
Number of BI tools in use within a single organization
When we analyze BI initiatives by the number of tools in place, some interesting patterns emerge. The study found that of those businesses with current BI programs, close to 70% have incorporated between one and three tools, with the total number of tools implemented increasing in direct relation to the size of the organization.
It's likely that this correlation is a reflection of the capability of larger organizations – in terms of resourcing, expertise and finance – to implement a variety of BI solutions. This association also demonstrates the potential for BI programs to become uncoordinated and disassociated from one another within large, more complex, organizations comprised of many separate business units and functions.
Number of BI tools implemented within a single organization: Shifts from 2012
The average number of tools in place within a single organization has increased over the past 12 months, as shown in figure 36 (below). An additional 3.3% of respondents said that their organization utilized two BI tools, with a further 2.4% stating that their business now employed four reporting products compared to 2012. Conversely, this partiality for multiple BI tools is also demonstrated via the simultaneous reduction in the number of organizations reporting the use of just one BI solution (down 5.2% from 2012).
This trend is likely to accelerate in the near future, with an ever-increasing number of BI solutions being tailored and pitched to specific business needs and functions. This inclination can also be explained by a proliferation in the number of BI tools marketing themselves towards non-technical business users. Many organizations are implementing additional 'self-service' or 'visual data discovery' reporting and analytics solutions to aid independent business user data access, exploration and fact-based decision-making. Numerous organizations have demonstrated a propensity to treat these business-user-oriented tools as supplementary technology, opting to also continue maintaining their existing 'traditional' BI deployments.
This rising prevalence of consumer-oriented BI tools is also illustrated by a 3.6% increase in the number of respondents who were unsure of how many solutions were in place within their organization. How have we drawn this conclusion? The rationale here is that business users are less likely to be directly involved in the technical implementation of BI technology, and therefore also less likely to be aware of the number of BI tools in place.
The optimal number of BI tools: Analyzing perceived BI success by the number of BI tools implemented
So, does this rise in the average number of BI tools implemented within a single organization equate to more successful BI programs? It seems doubtful. This year's Wisdom of Crowds study identified organizations that deployed fewer BI tools as more likely to report greater BI success. In fact, nearly 60% of respondents who 'completely agreed' that their BI initiative was a success reported using just one or two tools. In terms of absolute numbers, the study stated, crucially, that "those with fewer tools tended to report greater success with Business Intelligence".
This association suggests that organizations with a more unified BI strategy, incorporating BI tools capable of scaling across business functions and user types, generally experience greater levels of satisfaction and success.
Interestingly, organizations that disagreed with the statement 'Has your BI initiative been a success?' were also most likely to not know how many tools were active within the business. This may be indicative of a lack of coordination across the enterprise in regards to BI.
So what?
Without a clear rationale behind implementing tools, a BI project can never be successful. The traditional ethos 'the more the merrier' does not hold true for BI. Solutions must be implemented on a needs basis – you need to ask questions of the proposed initiative.
What value will I obtain by introducing a particular tool? Does it have a specific purpose? How will it address the needs of defined user groups and help them better achieve desired business benefits?


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Lincoln couple enjoy the day with their furry companion
Story, audio and photos by Kathleen Anderson, NewsNetNebraska
It's easy to make Rick and Phyllis Tillmans' faces light up. Just ask them about their dog, Sadie.
"She's the best thing that ever happened to us," Phyllis said.
The Tillmans are always looking for dog-friendly places to take Sadie. So on a recent Saturday, the annual I Love My Dogs Expo seemed like the perfect opportunity for the three of them to do something fun together. The event is a fundraiser for Domesti-PUPS, an organization that provides service dogs. Rick and Phyllis look forward to the expo every year.
The Tillmans weren't always dog lovers. Rick hadn't owned a dog since he was young, but when he and Phyllis were asked to watch their neighbor's dog, they fell in love.
"We had a big fenced-in yard and thought it was time," Rick said.
In 2006, the couple went to the Humane Society, but the dog they wanted to adopt was already gone. When they went into the kennel area, all the dogs were barking like crazy; every dog except Sadie. She sat there calmly, and the couple immediately knew she was the one.
The canine has found her way into their hearts with her unconditional love.
"It's like that saying," Rick said, grinning at Phyllis. "You put your wife and your dog in the trunk and when you open it, your dog is happy to see you."
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After MARSeG is started, it asks for information with the following questions:
Figure 1: MARSeG input command line dialogue in Windows
Figure 2: MARSeG input command line dialogue in Ubuntu
"Name of motif list (motifs.txt): "
Asks for the name of a file which contains the motifs that should be avoided when generating sequences. Default is "motifs.txt" if no input is given. The file should be a plain text (.txt) file located in the current directory and contain the DNA sequence of the motifs separated by a single white space (see motifs.txt for an example). The user should be cautious with the selection of the motif and the number of motifs that are chosen to avoid in the generated sequences as the amount of motifs increases the homology of the sequence. Furthermore, a higher amount of motifs increases the probability that the program arrives at a point where it cannot remove a given motif from the degenerated template sequence, which will cause the program to fail. See Background & Reference for details.
"Pattern for main sequence"
Asks for a template for the generated, motif-less sequences. This sequence needs to have degenerated nucleotides (see table 1 below for a list of all accepted degenerative nucleotides) and mustn't contain the motifs provided in the motif list. However, as long as they do not constitute a direct occurrence of one of the motifs, defined bases are allowed as parts of the template. Sequences that contain repetitions of single characters can be written using a short notation as follows: N(150) will be handled as a sequence of 150 N's, AGGCGV(5)S(3)N(6) as AGGCGVVVVVSSSNNNNNN. This input is case insensitive.
"Prefix sequence" & "Suffix sequence"
Asks for two sequences that will be added to the main sequence that can contain motifs that are on the motif list. This input is case insensitive.
Figure 3: Structure of MARSeG generated sequences
MARSeG creates a subfolder to the current directory called "output", in which it will place two output files. Both file names contain the date and time of their creation in order to distinguish different MARSeG runs. In every run, MARSeG creates 150 degenerated sequences and generates
100 defined sequences from every single degenerated sequence. The defined sequences are used to calculate GC content and a homology value for every degenerated sequence (through pairwise comparison of the defined sequences). Furthermore, MARSeG calculates a "possibilities per base" value by multiplying the number of possible outcomes of each letter in the DNA sequence and dividing them by the sequence length.
The file suggested_sequence_*.txt contains the sequence with the lowest value of homology. The defined sequences that were generated using this degenerated sequence show the highest amount of diversity, which makes it optimal for the most approaches. In addition to the sequence itself, this file contains information about the input that was used and the date of creation (figure 4).
In case that there's not just one sequence needed or the homology shouldn't be the deciding factor which sequence is to be used, all_sequences_*.txt contains all the degenerated sequences that were generated by MARSeG. These sequences are written in fasta format and the description line contains the sequences homology, GC content and possibilities per base values.
Examples for both files are provided in the folder examples, and the files are called all sequences example.txt and suggested sequence example.txt.
Figure 4: Content of the output file suggested_sequence_*.txt


text: Tim McGraw appears on Def Leppard's new album. I have no idea what that means. But I do know that if Def Lep had sat out the '90s, they'd be playing Pyromania in its entirety at summer festivals. Instead, their classic three-album run -- High 'n' Dry, Pyromania, and Hysteria -- wound up tossed aside as hair-metal relics when they were near-perfect pop records, as vital as much of Bowie's catalog. From "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" to "Animal," they brought sophistication -- and large ensemble harmonies -- to anthems and power ballads unmatched before or since. An immediate correction: Def Leppard's first three albums are slightly less vital than Bowie's catalog.


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HP.com's Transformation Through SOA and Governance
HP IT is undergoing arguably the largest transformation in the history of the industry. At the end of the process, there will be around 1500 applications and 500 active projects. HP hardware in 6 data centers will host our infrastructure. 100% of the IT budget is already managed by the IT organization that uses 30 core locations worldwide.
Hewlett-Packard conducts a wide variety of business in every country in the world. Suppliers, channel partners, and many other companies help us design, manufacture, market, sell, and support our products to customers in five separate but often overlapping segments. When you consider that almost every permutation of that last sentence has a web site associated with it, what becomes obvious is that it takes a large, well-organized group of people to deal with the massive scale of sites that must be managed. HP.com's architecture is a huge conceptual jigsaw puzzle assembled by a variety of Chief Architects and Solution Architects, each with specific areas of expertise, and all with common goals and processes that bind us together.
How do you get thousands of people to construct over 1,000 web sites in such a way that they all work together and consistently carry the same branding? What processes give individual groups room to be creative without introducing hundreds of different ways of doing things, increasing the overall cost to HP along the way? Which technologies are being utilized to promote reusable pieces of functionality?
The Guiding Light: HP IT Transformation
HP IT is undergoing arguably the largest transformation in the history of the industry. When we started this journey in 2005, we were managing over 4000 applications among 1200 active IT projects. We had 85 data centers sprinkled around the world and only 30% of IT spending was managed by the IT organization. Less than 50% of our IT spending went to new innovation as we dealt with massive maintenance headaches, and IT employees were spread across more than 100 different work locations. HP's overall IT spending was roughly 4% of the company's revenue.
At the end of the process, there will be around 1500 applications and 500 active projects. HP hardware in 6 data centers will host our infrastructure. 100% of the IT budget is already managed by the IT organization that uses 30 core locations worldwide. Once the data center moves have been completed, these improvements will allow 80% of our IT resources to work on innovations that affect HP's bottom line, all at a cost of 1.8% of the company revenue.
Longer term, a leading edge portfolio management process helps us planwhere our IT spending will go. Heavily focused on return on investment analysis, this process measures all projects using the same set of financial criteria and lets us discover what programs will deliver the highest business benefit versus alternatives. A nice side effect is that such planning encourages reuse where possible because it significantly reduces the spending needed to achieve certain functionality.
This transformation not only serves as a humungous case study for how customers can best use HP products, emulate our processes, and adopt our organizational and financial models, it also establishes the parameters under which HP.com's architecture must function. How do you cut IT cost while increasing efficiency? Perhaps surprisingly, it all starts with governance.
Governance That Actually Saves Money
At no point in any project has any software developer ever said, "Oh boy, I get to have my project reviewed by a governance council today!" It is, however, a necessary evil to have governance in place so that those 1000 different websites do not have 1000 different ways of doing things. Without it the solutions, in sum, becomes too expensive. Not that there has to be one way of doing things, but there have to be a manageable number of ways. To this end, teams of seasoned architects across HP IT maintain a master list of components that are deemed most beneficial on various topics of software development. IDEs, web services frameworks, and AJAX libraries are among the pieces reviewed and documented by these experts.
For HP, the business benefit of having a manageable number of solution components is that we enjoy great economies of scale on licensing costs with third parties. Given the number of sites within the HP.com domain, we are able to negotiate volume pricing on functionality such as middleware, databases, and web servers. If each site was allowed to pick whatever technology mix it wanted without bound and was left to acquire licenses individually, the cost across the company would increase dramatically. Instead, by limiting the choices, more opportunities arise for centrally managed, wider-scoped licensing and overall costs decrease. This translates into huge cost savings on the order of several million dollars.
How do you enforce these choices? By having a limited number of data centers to which the development teams have no direct access. HP had 85 data centers around the world that are being consolidated into 6. It is far easier to manage what goes into a smaller number of data centers, so before a release can be published on a set of machines in these environments, it must undergo the scrutiny of a review, during which compliance with the published standards are checked by the various governing bodies. No compliance, no release. Although seemingly strict, the process is necessary to ensure consistency in the solutions and to enable financial gains in the licensing.
Web Site Flavors and Sample Services
With the set of choices now limited, different combinations of commonly needed patterns can be sculpted into platforms and services. Getting price breaks on licensing will only cut IT spending so far. In order to achieve the next order of savings magnitude, reuse must be the enabler.
But, at what places in the architecture is this reuse best suited? In order to answer that, you need to be able to classify the kinds of offerings you need and then you can build platforms that jumpstart development for each category.
Web sites with an "hp.com" domain name fall into three general categories, as depicted around the outside of the diagram (in order of complexity):
- Publishing – Generated HTML that is either static or dynamic per visitor based on a few key parameters (locale, customer segment, etc.). Authoring tools are used by business partners to change content independent of software releases so that alterations can be made without enlisting the help of IT.
- Portals – Highly personalized experiences based on heavy authorization rules applied to individual pages or even snippets of pages. Portlet technologies are used here to facilitate these needs.
- Web Applications – The grey area in between the first two where more dynamic content than Publishing is being generated, often based on form input, but not as varied as Portals. Most of the direct sales sites fall into this classification bin.
At either end of the spectrum, the HP.com organization offers platforms on top of which internal partners can quickly build solutions. Where possible, integrations with key services are provided at the platform level (shown in blue). In the web application category, a variety of technologies are used and service consumption is typically up to the development team working on a particular site given that the variety of needs in that space tends to be too wide to provide a general-purpose platform that meets every possible need.
The bottom center of the diagram depicts a partial list of services utilized by a variety of sites that fall into the various categories, including (but not limited to):
- Authentication – Single sign-on across all HP.com sites.
- Authorization – Rules that bind users into groups based on a variety of factors, which can then be used to decide what content to render.
- Search – Indexing and querying services across all sites with the ability to drill into specific sites.
- Product Catalog – Access into the HP product catalog, whose contents can vary greatly based on locale and customer segment.
An example of mapping individual sites to this model is as follows:
The HP.com home page is comprised of static pages translated for a variety of locales. It does not require any authentication or authorization, but does need to publish changes - in some cases several times a week depending upon what marketing campaigns may be going on in different parts of the world. As such, it is a perfect candidate for the Publishing Platform, which provides integration with HP.com Search automatically.
The Home/Home Office storefront (aka shopping.hp.com) offers a similar product catalog browsing experience to all users. Its content is highly dependent on data in the Product Catalog back end service and much form input is required during the check out process where a purchase is completed. Unsuitable for either Publishing or Portal Platforms, it relies on an HP-enhanced Struts code base to serve its community. It maintains its own integration with the general-purpose services it needs (shown in green).
The Global Partner Portal helps collaborating channel partners who sell HP products hand in hand with HP marketing, sales and support teams. Built on top of HP.com Shared Portal Platform it benefits from ready-to-use services such as site administration, HP.com single sign-on, user profile integration, rule-based user groupings that drive site customization and personalization, and content integration. This enables a highly personalized experience for a wide variety of user roles ranging from site administrators, support agents, and HP internal users to delegated partner administrators and normal users.
In Depth: HP's User Profile Service
HP websites serve suppliers, channel partners, and other companies that assist in various portions of the product lifecycle in addition to customers in different market segments. Given the different needs of those audiences, it is next to impossible to create a schema that captures profile information for web site visitors in a single place. Yet, there are occasions where information from multiple data stores might be a beneficial. Asking each site to maintain connections with every data store it might use becomes costly as the number of sites multiplies. In order to solve this problem for web user profile data store access, HP created an internal User Profile Service (UPS) so that end sites only need to maintain a connection to a single entity which then aggregates access to the various back ends.
UPS offers a SOAP interface to any client front end that needs to read user profile information and an administration tool (built using Struts) for making configuration changes to the system. HP's Customer Identity Management System is the external user single-sign on solution, and when calling this interface, UPS expects to be passed the User ID of the user in question along with the name of the profile the caller is interested in. UPS maintains a list of these profiles, essentially a list of items and what their sources are.
For example, the sample file above shows a single profile ("Profile1") that pulls attributes from three separate data sources. Multiple profiles can be defined in this same way to customize the data requested by individual sites.
The data sources get plugged into UPS using a Java interface called an Adapter. In order to achieve high availability requirements, it became necessary to add Adapters without brining down the entire service. To achieve this, each Adapter gets packaged in its own EAR file and has an associated startup EJB. Within this startup code, information about the Adapter is inserted into the JNDI tree so that the UPS core can find it when referenced in one of the profile defining XML files.
Within a particular Adapter, a variety of mechanisms might be used to connect to the actual user profile data store, which must index information based on User ID making it essentially a master foreign key across all back ends. It is this layer that insulates the client applications from maintaining connections individually. In the configuration of a specific adapter, it identifies what items it offers so that profiles can be constructed based on the elements it is capable of providing. With this structure, then, UPS provides user facing web sites with a broad spectrum of user profile information while maintaining a single interface, even as additional back end data stores are made available.
In Depth: HP's Shared Portal Platform
One key platform within the HP.com domain is the Shared Portal Platform (SPP), which is used for highly personalized experiences which utilizes portlet technology.
At the top of the stack sits the Portal Server. This is third party software that provides site management, site navigation management, page creation tools, security, and portlet provider management. Content is provided to the Portal Server by a variety of Portlets, which utilize WSRP to facilitate the communication between the two. In an effort to insulate ourselves from Portal Server vendor lock-in, things like authentication, user grouping, and interactions with other sites via punch-outs are handled by a set of Common Web Services that both the Portal Server and the Portlets interact with over a SOAP interface.
Using the administrative tools of the Portal Server, sites are created, pages are added to that site, and pages are tied together with navigation. The tools allow administrators (typically a business user as opposed to an IT resource) to specify what end user groups (created in the Common Web Services based on the user's aggregated profile and imported into the Portal Server) are entitled to view which pages or which content on specific pages. This creates a user experience that varies greatly depending upon the entitlements a specific user has.
The Portlets providing content to the pages, which are usually created using Spring Portlet MVC, use an HP-enhanced version of WSRP4J to remote themselves. For more personalized content, the Portlets can configure the extended WSRP4J to pass UPS data to it or make SOAP calls to the Common Web Services to access other pieces of data. This information can then be used in conjunction with whatever back end it may be interacting with to create personalized rendering.
When constructed in this way, this portal architecture gives HP a number of key features:
- Through the Portlets and the various standards governing them, content generation is completely independent of the front end Portal Server, making it extremely portable.
- Once content is exposed through a Portlet and a particular profile data store inserted into UPS, a business user can construct groups based on the profile, create site pages, place content on those pages, and apply authorization rules based on the groups – all without IT intervention or code release.
- By having one infrastructure that serves multiple sites, content across sites is more easily reusable.
Final Review
The size and scale of HP.com's architecture mirrors that of Hewlett-Packard's business. Company leaders have placed a priority on an efficiently run IT operation, and those ideas trickle down to technology leaders as well as individual software engineers worldwide. Governance enforced through entry in a small number of data centers relative to the number of IT assets narrows the scope of choices available to development teams, but doing so reduces licensing costs through volume pricing. Services provide functionality that spans different website functionality categories. Platforms for each site classification speed time to market by pre-integrating with commonly used services in addition to offering core functionality sites of certain types typically needed.
What's next for HP.com? As the data center moves complete, more assets will be consolidated onto the main platforms to further reduce the overall maintenance load. The freed resources will focus on adding even more value to HP's variety of businesses. As new initiatives emerge, code generation techniques like JRuby and Grails are being investigated to increase developer productivity while preserving the established JVM infrastructure. Together, the combination of these architectural approaches, with heavy influence from the HP IT transformation and a portfolio management process focused on benefit delivery, gives HP.com a model that is as sustainable an innovative as it is cost effective.
Author Bio
Pete Johnson is the Chief Architect of HP.com, where he has worked with over 400 engineers worldwide. Pete has presented at the HP World trade show and written for HP Professional magazine. Active in HP's intellectual property initiatives, he was awarded a patent in 2002 with five more patents pending in the US, primarily relating to web technologies. He blogs about how improved non-technical skills can accelerate an engineering career at http://nerdguru.net.


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Here you will find news, tutorials and links to various design resources. I will show you the techniques I use to create Web UI, Print and Motion Graphics. And since I have a lot to learn myself… I will also show you links to great work from the people I appreciate and enjoy.
An Atlanta web designer and developer. Right now, I am re-doing my website, so there is some maintanence going on. But, this is an example of the audio narration that will take place on the site. There will be a play button for each article and that will explain the content displayed on that particular page.
Here, I will take advantage of YouTube's LIVE Video Streaming with Live Chat.


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This week Meet the Travel Bloggers interviews young and adventurous travel blogger, Melissa Shearer of The Mellyboo Project.
What is The Mellyboo Project?
The Mellyboo Project is my own personal mission to live my life on my own terms. I don't want to do the typical 9 to 5 and go through the motions of 'what's expected' just because it is the societal norm. I want my life to be nothing less than extraordinary and I want to be able to have incredible adventures and share them with anyone who's willing to listen. I do this all in hopes of inspiring others to live their life on their own terms — whatever those terms may be.
When and why did you start the blog?
I started The Mellyboo Project initially in 2010 as a means to keep in touch with my friends and family while I went to Australia on a working holiday. I was lazy and wanted to give them a one-stop-shop to read at their convenience – rather than me having to send out a huge number of emails every week or so.
What is the thing that keeps you the most jazzed about blogging?
The thing that keeps me going with the blogging is when I receive messages from people all over the world telling me how I've inspired them to go explore the world around them, or to step out of their comfort zone, or simply to put their desires into action.
Are you constantly on the road or are you based somewhere?
Since December 2010 until December 2012 I was constantly on the road – Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Hawaii. Since December, I have been in my hometown, just north of Toronto, Canada.
When on a prolonged adventure, how often do you travel?
When I'm not constantly on the road – I try to get out on a multiple-months-long trip at least once per year, or a handful of shorter trips. I can't sit still in one place for too long, especially not my hometown.
Do you travel always travel solo?
Not always – but most of the time it's been solo. I am a huge advocate for tours, so even though I may be a solo traveler when I get there – I walk away with friends from all over the world. Also, during my travels, I have met up with friends who live overseas and have either traveled with them, or have visited their new homes abroad.
What do you like most and least about solo travel?
Most: My favorite thing about solo travel is the freedom to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want, where you want, for whatever reason you'd like. Basically I feel solo travel allows you to not have to compromise your travel desires. Additionally, I find that I meet more people when I'm traveling solo.
Least: It can get lonely and if you're just not feeling overly social one day it can be difficult to 'put yourself out there'. Also, the fact that you're stuck with so many 'selfie' pictures rather than nicely posed photos.
What's your best tip for solo woman travelers?
Trust your gut and exude confidence. If something feels 'off' it probably is – so make sure you're aware of your surroundings, and put your safety first. Also, make sure you check in with people back home every now and then so they know everything is kosher on your end.
What excites you most about travel?
Being able to get out there and genuinely get to experience the world in all its glory – getting out of my comfort zone, meeting beautiful people, doing extraordinary things and seeing the magnificence of what this big bouncy ball we call Earth has to offer.
On the road, do you seek out some experiences more than others?
I generally have an idea of things I have on my "must do" list – most of these are included on my bucket list. If the opportunity arises and I get to partake in a particular activity or experience then I will definitely go for it. You only live once –and that is something I've learned the hard way – I've known a number of people who have had their lives cut far too short and because of that want to make sure I experience all that I can while I can.
What kind of traveler are you?
I consider myself to be a budget backpacker, but I am not afraid to spend some money on special treats or activities such as one night in a hotel or private room in a hostel, or something crazy like taking a hot air balloon ride.
You've done a lot of wild stuff, bungee jumped, sky dived, walked with lions, swam with sharks. Is there anything you wouldn't do?
Nah, I'd try anything once – the wilder and more outrageous, the better. I love having a great story to tell. For me, the thing that was most out of my comfort zone was actually learning to surf. My coordination when it comes to popping myself up quickly and balancing on a board is terrible. I was also in a class full of nimble Japanese tourists who had cat-like reflexes. It made me feel quite out of place and very self-conscious.
What wild stuff is still on your bucket list?
In terms of the wild things I still have on my list – mountain gorilla trekking, sailing from one country to another (I don't know how to sail), and chasing a tornado (something I've wanted to do since I was young and saw the movie Twister).
What's your most memorable travel experience or favorite trip ever and why?
My absolute favorite trip was when I was volunteering hands-on at a lion conservation project in Zimbabwe in 2012. Each and every day I had the opportunity to walk alongside the king of the jungle, feed them, clean up after them, and I played my part in vital conservation efforts. Since returning I've put the information I learned about the plight of the lion out there to try to help raise awareness about the declining population and how humans have pushed the species onto the brink of extinction. To be a part of something so much larger than my own personal travels and give back to a cause that is very dear to my heart was definitely the most special thing I've ever done in my life.
What's your favorite place on earth?
Africa. It's magical. The people are beautiful, the landscapes are second-to-none, and the variety of wildlife on display is extraordinary. It's seriously the most special place on the planet. A few months ago I even wrote a about my love of the continent.
Where are you off to next?
I am heading back to Africa in July 2013. I will be spending three-months traveling around the continent. I have a partnership with Nomad Africa Adventure Tours and am their blogger in residence – so I will be partaking in their 38-day East Africa and Gorillas tour, which will take me from Nairobi, Kenya to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. After the tour ends, I will spend a week in Victoria Falls catching up on my writing and enjoying the surrounding area before heading further into the middle of the country to Gweru, Zimbabwe where I will be volunteering hands-on at a lion conservation project (once again) for three weeks. The last leg of my African journey will have me going to Cape Town, where I will be meeting up with a good friend and exploring the city and going on a road trip along the Garden Route. Needless to say I am extremely excited for my upcoming adventures.
What's the biggest fantasy on your bucket list?
The biggest fantasy bucket list item and probably the one that means the most to me is to raise $10,000 (or more) for charity. I would absolutely love to raise money to donate to the lion conservation efforts that are being put forward by amazing organizations of conservationists. To make my dream even bigger – I would love to be able to start my own charity that donated funds to various animal conservation programs around the worlds for many of the world's endangered and threatened species. The world is a beautiful place, and I want to help to do my part to right the wrongs of our less-environmentally-conscious forefathers and help restore the world's beauty for future generations.
Melissa Shearer is a full-time travel blogger, dream-chaser, and adventure seeker. She has given up the 9-to-5 in pursuit of living her life on her own terms and has been traveling, working and living abroad since 2010. Originally from Toronto, Canada she has called the likes of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand's Far North 'home' and prefers living her life out of her 80L backpack. When she's not too busy throwing herself out of airplanes, scuba diving with sharks or volunteering hands-on with lions, she's sharing her experiences with the world on her blog The Mellyboo Project. Friend her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter. Don't be afraid to say "hi."


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Any Club at our level can't exist without its army of volunteers. Our volunteers are the backbone of the Club, they ensure our matches go ahead without a hitch. Here at Bishop we have been fortunate to have many volunteers who have been with us for a good number of years and some who have recently joined us.
There have been a few changes so I thought it would be a good opportunity to let everyone know what's happening while at the same time express my appreciation, on behalf of the Club, for all the work our volunteers do.
David Strong has recently resigned as Match Secretary and I would like to thank him for all the time and commitment he put into this position over many years. We are now looking for someone to replace David as Match Secretary. The position involves liaising with match officials and opposing teams regarding scheduled matches, attending home and away matches, completing the team sheet before and after matches, completing registration and transfer forms as and when required and dealing with correspondence from the League, the FA and Durham FA. Being able to travel to matches in time to complete the team sheet (45 minutes prior to kick off) and having some ICT skills are essential. If you are interested in taking on this vital position, then please don't hesitate to contact us at the Club.
Gary Ventress has been our groundsman for several years and due to other commitments is reducing the amount of time working on our pitch. Gary is now our 'consultant' groundsman and will advise our volunteers groundsmen on the work required and he will also carry out the more complex work for us such as verti-draining, fertilising and seeding the pitch etc. as and when required. Peter Jackson and Dave Illingworth now carry out the main day-to-day tasks in getting the pitch ready for all home games as well as looking after the surrounding grassed areas of the ground.
Malcolm Watson looks after the maintenance of Heritage Park and arranges the work to carried out such as security / fire / smoke alarm testing and maintenance, arranging equipment (including the lift) servicing and repairs and general wear and tear maintenance. You will also see Malcolm after matches going around Heritage Park emptying the bins!
Match days at Heritage Park are when you see most of our volunteers working for the Club. Kit man Michael Walker will have arrived early to hang-up the strips for our players in the dressing room, get the training balls and match balls prepared, water bottles filled and get the training equipment ready for the players warm-up. When guests and spectators arrive, you will find Alfie Smirthwaite manning the car park and Alan Walker at the main entrance along with Kathryn Stephenson who as a registered 'first aider' is on hand during matches should anyone require assistance.
Our turnstiles are manned by Douglas Johnstone and Vince Taylor and selling our Golden Goals and 50-50 tickets is Paul Hartley and last season's 'Volunteer of the Year' Bob Black ably assisted by Jordy Barkus. Phil Carlton and Michael Buckley help us on match days when work commitments allow.
Keeping supporters informed of the teams, goal scorers and substitutions is our public-address announcer is Pamela Cowey.
Upstairs in the function room on match days you will find our catering service where Margaret and John Dixon provide tea and coffee and half time hospitality and post-match meals for players ably assisted by granddaughter Sophie Dixon.
Our Club Shop is operated by Michelle Postma and Maureen Brassell where supporters can buy a range of club merchandise ranging from replica home shirts to scarves, fleeces and hoodies. Joanne Illingworth helps out too on the Club Shop and also helps with catering when needed.
During games, you will see youngsters Harley Jones and Ben Dixon running after balls that have gone over the fence into the car park next door and we have teams from St Mary's Juniors acting as mascots and ball boys on match days.
Finally, a big thanks to my fellow Directors. We are also volunteers!


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Theo's Restaurant
(713) 523-0425
812 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77006
At Theo's, formerly One's a Meal, the Servos family takes a cozy, low-key approach to Mediterranean food from within an old, renovated house in Montrose.
Dig into plates of octopus broiled in wine vinegar, a feta-dotted pizza or anything involving the sautéed spinach. In the mood for breakfast? Theo's delivers a mean line-up including Greek omelets, waffles and pork chops.
Open 24-hours a day.


text: Humble Pie regularly offers a range of unique seasonal cupcakes and other edible goodies. These are available for limited periods and are ideal for parties or gifts to mark a special day. You can view some of our previous Seasonal Cupcakes by clicking on the links below and if you have any ideas for other events that you would like us to create new cakes for leave us a message on Facebook.


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Buick Electra 225 Nailhead V8 Just drove 1,000 miles!!
Price: - Item location: Spring Hill, Florida, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Buick
- Model: Electra
- Year: 1964
- Mileage: 99,999,999
- Color: Brown
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Transmission: Automatic
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1964 Buick ElectraI purchased this off of a man who's mother bought it brand new. He has since become a friend of mine. I just got back from driving this car to and from north of Tampa to Key West Florida. Roughly 1,000 miles and 16 hours of driving. The body is in bad shape. Wrecked in the front, usted floors and trunk but runs like a top.
Good. Legendary 401 Nailhead V8, oesn't leak a drop of anything, tarts easy, hifts smooth, lectric fuel pump, ll original as I can tell, ew straight pipe exhaust out the side, ewer tires, ll glass and windows good, ew battery, ice seats and great head liner, indshield wipers work, ights and turn signals work.
Bad= body rusted,front left is wrecked, rame is good, o gauges work except an rpm gauge in the made up wood dash panel, ack passenger door doesn't open, o heat or air,
All in all its a perfect rat rod or daily driver. Its the talk of every car show I go to. Or take the motor out and put in your own ride. Reserve is $1500 which is well worth it!