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Animal confinement and hog lots can be seen throughout the state of Iowa.
So, it makes sense an independent film based in Iowa would cover the topic.
"Against the Grain" is a film series co-written and produced by Bradley Smyser and Matthew Ohloff of Des Moines in association with Paul and Kathy Berge's company Butter Cow Films of Indianola.
"Anything we can do to get filmmaking down in Osceola, Clarke County, we're going to do," said Paul Berge.
Scenes from "Against the Grain" were shot March 2 at High Prairie Farms (Boyt Lodge).
The film is going to be a series, and the pilot episode was being shot at High Prairie Farms.
Hog lots
"Against the Grain" is about the issue of community control over large agribusiness enterprises coming into towns, essentially animal confinement and hog lots.
"Who should have the control over deciding whether it's going to be there or not?" Berge said.
Berge is an actor in the film. His character is a farmer who has lived in the same place his entire life and doesn't want an animal confinement nearby.
There's also a lobbyist character who's working for a state senator, and they're pushing to get a bill through that would limit the power of the local community in deciding the rezoning rules for animal confinements.
Once the pilot episode is done, there will be a fundraising effort for the entire series to be filmed.
"Right now, we all just volunteer to work on these things," Berge said. "That's how a lot of independent filmmaking is being done in Iowa — I work on your project, you work on my project — and we try and see what's what."
Helping each other
Berge has worked with Smyser on the short, drama film "Trying to Quit," which was shot in Osceola last year.
Berge helped Smyser scout out locations for filming "Against the Grain."
Smyser has signed on to help with Berge's film "Restoration Osceola" with sound and editing. However, Berge's film is going to be delayed from it's original filming time of early summer in Osceola. The reason for the delay is the production lost its director of photography, and needs to be found.
Berge said there's not a lot of money in making short films. However, short films offer a lot of experience for people and the opportunity to enter films into film festivals.
Festivals offer a chance to win awards or network with other people. Berge said an online web series is also an option for independent filmmakers.
Berge said he's hoping the film series "Against the Grain" will have a premiere at the Lyric Theater.
You decide
As for the underlying message of "Against the Grain," Berge said the film isn't telling the audience how to think about the issue of animal confinements and hog lots.
"In other words, here's one argument, here's another argument," he said. "This is a valid argument this week. Next week, this is a valid argument. And, you decide what's the right way to do this."


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Fair Day at Carrickmacross, County Monaghan
Researching Irish ancestors has never been easy. You may have heard that you can't do Irish research because everything was lost in the1922 fire at Four Courts (which among other things, housed the Public Records Office). Although the fire was devastating, and a hugh loss of Irish history, not everything was burned and Irish genealogists are working hard to rebuild collections and to digitize and make available records that have not been accessible in the past. All of Ireland's Civil Registration Records (births, deaths and marriages from 1864 and Protestant marriages from 1845 are extant.) Unfortunately the Irish census records from 1821 - 1851 were destroyed in the fire and the later ones, from 1861-1891 were pulped by the government during World War I. The oldest surviving census for Ireland is 1901 and because of the loss the 1911 census was released early. There is currently an active movement to get the government to release the 1926 census (the first after the Irish Civil War). I found an article written by Steven Smyrl in the Irish Times last week very interesting. With the Irish economy in taters, perhaps they will finally get serious about the opportunity for genealogical tourism.
There has been quite a bit of talk this past year about the "Certificate of Irish Heritage" to be issued by the Irish government offering discounts for travel in Ireland. There are no details on the program, so it is unknown how it will work, what proof will be necessary or what it will cost. In late December, an article in Irish Central indicated that the Foreign Affairs Minister hoped to launch the plan in early 2011. Stay tuned
Having said that, and before you purchase your tickets to Dublin, it's important to realize that you must do your homework before you plan to travel. (You can read about my first trip to Ireland here.)The most important information you need to know in order to search in Ireland is the townland where your ancestor lived. I hear over and over again that ancestors did not talk about their lives in Ireland. That is not at all unusual...they were leaving very difficult conditions and were anxious to become Americans. You must search for any records created in the United States to try and determine their origins in Ireland. If you can't find the information, then start researching with the same diligence, any siblings or other relatives you can identify, and if that doesn't work, search neighbors or witnesses on marriage or baptismal records.
Next week I'll discuss Irish Administrative Divisions to help you understand why the townland is so important.
Happy Hunting!
You can purchase a copy of the Syllabus for my lecture Strategies for Starting Your Irish Research here.

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Fourth graders at Scobee ES had a special visit from an active member of the military.
1st Sgt. Edward Canamar talked to the students about his duties as a member of the United States Army, and answered their questions.
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Bridgeport, Englewood and West Garfield Park each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
In Bridgeport, two men were shot to death Saturday in the 500 block of West Pershing Road, police said.
Bridgeport has logged two homicides so far this year. The South Side community area recorded four homicides last year, according to RedEye data.
In Englewood, a 38-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday in the 7000 block of South Carpenter Street, police said. One day earlier, a 50-year-old man was shot to death in the 5800 block of South Shields Avenue, according to officials.
Englewood has logged two homicides so far this year. The South Side community area recorded 21 homicides last year, RedEye data shows.
In West Garfield Park, a 32-year-old man and 16-year-old boy were shot to death Saturday in the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway, police said.
West Garfield Park has logged six homicides so far this year. The West Side community area recorded 13 homicides last year, according to RedEye data.
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This park's life
It's bigger than all of London's parks combined, beats Central Park for size, and is 350 years old this year – so is Phoenix Park the best in the world, asks PATRICK FREYNE
AILEEN AND MAUREEN seem to know everybody. I'm in the café in the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, when these two women ask if they can share my table. Before long they're helping me identify the people I've come to interview.
"That's the former superintendent John McCullen there," says Maureen, pointing at an older man in a blazer and V-neck who's just come in and ordered a coffee. "He's a Louth man." ("I'm not from Louth," he says later with mock horror. "I'm from Meath.") They tell me that Helen, who runs this café, is the sister-in-law of Angela, who runs the Victorian Tea Kiosk near the zoo. "The kiosk is lovely as well," says Maureen. "But it's hard to park there because people come in, leave their cars and head off to the Luas." They also tell me that when traffic through the park was restricted for the inauguration of Michael D Higgins, locals were allowed to enter by another gate.
For Maureen and Aileen, originally from Cavan and Monaghan respectively, and now long-time residents of Castleknock, the Phoenix Park is their park. And, indeed, since the earl of Chesterfield opened it to the public in 1747 (hence its main thoroughfare: Chesterfield Avenue), it's been the property of the people of Dublin and one of the largest enclosed parks in the world. It's bigger, so the literature says, than all the parks in London put together. There was a spring of clear water in the area, or "fionn uisce" in Irish, which was anglicised over time to Phoenix.
The 350-year anniversary date relates to 1662, when James Butler, duke of Ormond, established it as a deer park for aristocratic use. The poor duke would probably be a bit nonplussed by the commoners now frequenting his lands – pushing prams, biking (bikes can be hired at the main gates), running, rollerblading, kite-flying, picnicking, dog-walking, cricketing, Segwaying and occasionally playing bike-polo (apparently the polo club do this). He'd probably also have been a little put out by the various political murders (the murder of the chief secretary and under secretary in 1882) and mass Catholic rallies that have occurred since his day (the Papal visit in 1979 attracted close to a million visitors, the Eucharistic Congress in 1932 had 1.5 million), not to mention the recent Swedish House Mafia gig.
Everyone in the park is enthusiastic about something. Margaret McGuirk from the visitor centre tells me of the park's various landscaping projects over the years, and how Decimus Burton straightened Chesterfield Avenue. Walking along that road I meet Jack Dunne, who's revelling in having days off since retiring from night-work. He comes here to walk his dog, Junior. "There's a bit of a Chihuahua in him, I think," he says looking sceptically at his dog. "He's not as well-behaved as he looks."
Cricketer Matt Lunson declares the park to have "the best climbing tree in the world" (over by the visitor centre) and enthuses about Farmleigh. Newbie rollerblader Dave Carty enjoys having a place to skate where "you're not going to be killed by traffic", while his companion Charlene Loughrey notes the "hidden things here that no one knows about. There's the maze and the gardens. They're like my secrets."
Head coach at the Phoenix Cricket Club
"There's a sign out there and it says 'Phoenix Cricket Club, Members Only'," says Tasmania-born, Chapelizod-dwelling cricket coach Matt Lunson. "It's a bit forbidding. I think it should say 'Phoenix Cricket Club, Members Welcome'. Cricket is growing exponentially here. I've been working in schools for a few years now – Ballymun, Clondalkin, Tallaght – introducing cricket to people in cooperation with the County Council. That's been my main occupation."
The second-oldest cricket club in the world – "It was started in 1830," says Lunson. "I can't remember what the oldest is" – the Phoenix Cricket Club was once one of 20 cricket clubs resident in the park.
Sitting beneath pictures of Edwardian gentlemen and a big wooden board featuring the names of former presidents and captains, Lunson talks of how he made his way from Australia to Dublin as an aspiring musician. He sang backing vocals on Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon's cricket- themed The Duckworth Lewis Method album, but has more recently transferred his musical energy to his first love – cricket.
"My wife and daughter also play," he says. "I think it's because they think it's the only way they'll see me."
Model airplane enthusiast
If you put the words "Phoenix Park", "model planes" and "Pathe" into Google, you will find 1930s footage of besuited gentlemen flying remote-controlled planes in Phoenix Park. So Frank Boughton, former chairman of the Leinster Model Flying Club, informs me. I've approached some men flying radio-controlled planes from a landing strip mown into the long grass in the 15 Acres (the first pretended to run away when I said I was a journalist, then pointed me in the direction of Boughton).
Boughton, a retired civil servant, tells me about the standing agreement the club has with the park and then explains the various models used by his club-mates. "That's a Thunderbolt 947 second World War plane," he says, pointing to a large model being fuelled using a portable wooden fuel pump.
Personally, he's a bit nostalgic for an age when all of the members built their own planes rather than purchasing them ready made. He discusses the various debates within the world of model aeroplanes about whether it is or isn't a sport and at one point references an elusive group of "model-helicopter people".
He stresses how happy they are to have permission to fly planes in the park. "The flying of model aircraft here goes back to 1911," he says. "There's a picture of a Ranelagh man flying his aeroplane here in an English engineering magazine from 1911. And we continually say this to new members that this is an area of great natural beauty and that being here is a privilege. I think there's a miniature orchid here that's almost unique to the park."
Park ranger and deer-keeper
The deer were here first. Phoenix Park was first boundaried as a deer park in 1662 and it's been the same herd of fallow deer ever since. "They're the most studied deer in the world," says John McCullen. "There's 12 PhDs on the back of those deer. The most learned animals you're likely to find."
Terry Moore, the park's current deer-keeper, is a Ballymun-born Santry resident who is hugely enthusiastic about his job. We drive out to the female herd (the male animals stay at the other end of the park outside of mating season). It's the end of fawning season so timid-looking newborns huddle to their mothers, and signs warn people to keep dogs leashed.
"I think they should always be on a leash to be honest," says Moore, but he notes that the bylaw in question is vague. "It says dogs have to be kept under their owner's control."
Throughout June, Moore and students from Trinity College searched the long grass to tag, monitor and protect helpless fawns. This is crucial. Two years ago, a couple thought a newborn was injured, put it in the boot of the car, and brought it to the rangers. "You should never handle a fawn because you'll leave your scent and the mother won't be able to detect them. We returned it and luckily didn't come across it abandoned or dead."
People mean well, he says. "Most who come to the park are A-one. If they see something that shouldn't be happening, they ring us – whether that's a dog chasing deer or young fellows on scrambling bikes."
As we glide effortlessly through the long wet grass ("It's some jeep," says Moore), the post-rain sun makes the park look incredible. Female deer graze serenely. Elsewhere, antlered male deer are "browsing" the lower leaves in a copse of trees (in Phoenix Park, no leaves exist below the deer's "browse line").
In the rutting season, he says, their Adam's apples change, making their roars deeper, while the antlers, which are soft right now, harden and shed their outer coating. "We get loads of calls then," he says. "People think they're in pain."
They have to cull deer on a yearly basis to keep numbers down (there are between 500 and 600 deer at the moment).
"I found it very difficult at first. It didn't feel right. You spend most of the time looking after them so killing them feels wrong. But it's for their own good. They wouldn't look so sleek and healthy if the park was overpopulated."
Occasionally, Moore has to put down deer that have been injured or hurt. "The other night I got a phone call at half six to hear that a deer had been hit by a car. I had to operate a humane dispatch. That's tough because they're beautiful animals. But there was no chance of survival. It would have been a long painful death."
With this in mind, I have an ominous feeling when we notice a deer hobbling with a bad limp and Moore makes a note to call Jim Walsh, the vet.
Later, I see Moore's jeep, now with trailer, heading towards the herd, followed soon after by what sounds like a gunshot. "It was just a tranquilliser gun," Moore tells me over the phone. "The vet thinks she's going to be okay actually."
I'm relieved. And so, rather winningly, is Terry Moore.
MARGARET McGUIRK
Head guide at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre
Margaret McGuirk, "a fifth-generation Ballsbridge woman", now lives around the corner in Castleknock and breathes history and heritage. Currently in the midst of a PhD on local history at NUI Maynooth, she spent the previous week at an archaeological dig.
She is also an avid proponent of sustainability, and on a recent night left the park only to work on her garden until midnight. "I just love Dublin," she says, "a wonderful, wonderful city oozing with history and artefacts and things to do. We're spoiled for choice but often the last people to identify all that are the Dubliners themselves."
When we speak, she is in the midst of providing Eco Unesco summer camps for children. She passionately lists the educational projects, exhibitions and sites to be seen. She is knowledgable about the park's flora and fauna (a recent "BioBlitz" established that there were 528 species present – fewer than some other parks, she says, only because of the ravenous, all-consuming deer) and its monuments (the Wellington memorial was the tallest in the world prior to the Washington monument, and its plaques were made from cannons used at the Battle of Waterloo).
The park even breeds celebrities. "The lion that roars at the start of the MGM movies. He's a Dub. He was born in Dublin Zoo."
'Dubliners love the Phoenix Park'
JOHN McCULLEN
Retired chief park superintendent
John McCullen – a Rotunda-born Meath man – is sitting in the Bailiff's Lodge recalling 30 years living and working there. He's moving out soon, and a corner of the sitting room is filled with file boxes of notes for his second book on the park. The first, a beautifully produced illustrated history, came out in 2009.
"I arrived in 1984 during one recession and I'm going in another," he says. "When I arrived they were felling the last diseased elm trees. There were 2,000 elms here, all with Dutch elm disease. One of my fortes was tree health. I'd written a few letters to The Irish Times on the issue, actually. Trees cover about a third of the park and it's a park more than twice the size of Central Park . . . The Americans don't like hearing that."
McCullen is rightly proud of his time here and still goes for coffee in the visitor centre with other park retirees (that morning he met former landscape foreman Eamon Mullins).
He is passionate about the unsung health benefits of parks and observes an increase in visitors recently. "It's probably a recessionary thing. It might be due to other nationalities in the country, people who are even more used to using parks as a recreational thing. That said, Dubliners love the Phoenix Park. If anything looks out of sync they tell us."
Proud though he is of the increased interest, his favourite memories of the park are of having it to himself. "Just walking in it in the evening when there's no one around. Beautiful."
Things to do and see
Hire a bike from Paul McQuaid at the main gate. There's no better way to tour the park.
The Visitor Centre at Ashtown Demesne has a kitchen garden, arboretum playground, café and gallery, and on Saturdays you can book a tour of Áras an Uachtaráin. phoenixpark.ie/visitorcentre/
Beside the Visitor Centre is Ashtown Castle. In 1978 the OPW knocked down Ashtown Lodge (the former residence of the papal nuncio) and found the 17th-century Ashtown Castle within. There are free daily tours.
Green Fingers Workshop. Gardening aficionados can meet the kitchen garden's gardeners on the second Saturday of each month. In August they're doing bee-keeping.
Make art. On Sundays at 11an there are art cart workshops for children at the Visitor Centre (also free).
Don't feed the deer. "Some people try to give them food," says deer-keeper Terry Moore. "But these are wild animals. We don't encourage it."
Appreciate the trees. Margaret McGuirk says: "The trees in the park are beech, horse chestnut and lime . . . The oldest are Irish oak and were planted by Ormond's men in the 1600s. You should take some time to just sit back and look at the trees because they're absolutely fabulous."
Admire the Decimus Burton-designed gate lodges. On Sunday, August 26th, Margaret McGuirk leads a tour of the lodges as part of Heritage Week. Meet at the Visitor Centre at 1.45pm.
Take a guided tour of Farmleigh (Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm) or visit its food market. farmleigh.ie


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Aventis officials briefed agronomists, crop consultants and weed scientists attending the December North Central Weed Science Society meeting in Milwaukee about the compound. Aventis has not yet given the herbicide a trade name. The company currently calls the product AEF130060.
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Elementary Children between 6-18 years old who are looking for healthy snacks during school day
Need to design two wrappers for a kids nutritional cracker, a "4 seasons" version and a "shapes" version.
Product Name: Kid Smart Snacks (attached is logo)
The "4 seasons" wrapper should include colors and images that represent the 4 seasons of the year; Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Make it "non-holiday" specific and have a clear window in center of design to see product. (see attached example)
*Color Examples: Blue/White for Winter, Green for Spring, Yellow for Summer and Orange for Fall.
**Image Examples: Snowflakes or Snowman for Winter, Flowers or Umbrellas for Spring, Beach or Leaves for Summer, Leaves or Pumpkins for Fall
The "Shapes" wrapper should include colors and images that represent, Sports, Education, Exercise, School.
*Color Examples: Any
**Image Examples: ABC text, Soccer Ball, Football, Baseball, Pencil, Ruler, Apple, Red & Blue Stars, Flag, Apple.
Nutritional Facts: Include these in design (see: sample cracker wrapper)
Size: same as "sample cracker wrapper"


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Even though phosphates were closely associated with the soda fountain, the ingredient acid phosphate did crossover to the saloon and made it into a number of cocktail books. The one cocktail that often shows up in these guides is the Angostura Phosphate. This drink was a pick-me-up used to cure hangovers, settle the stomach and clear the head. Many of these drinks haven't been properly made for decades because one of the key ingredients--acid phosphate--has been missing. With a little research and a lot of lab work I've managed to bring this ingredient back to life, and so far I'm really impressed
The original acid phosphate was manufactured by the Rumford Chemical Works and was called "Horsford's Acid Phosphate". During the heyday of the soda fountain, Horsford's was synonymous with acid phosphate, even though many pharmacists made their own.
When people hear the phrase "acid phosphate" most automatically think it is phosphoric acid. This isn't the case. Acid phosphate is a combination of phosphate mineral salts and phosphoric acid. The mineral salts partially neutralized the phosphoric acid when they are added. The pH after mixing is around 1.8 to 2.0 or about the same as fresh lime juice.
Warning: Do not attempt to use pure phosphoric acid as a substitute, it is too acidic and could cause bodily injury. Even a 10% solution of phosphoric acid still has a pH around 1.0. Since the pH scale is logarithmic, that means it is 10x as strong as a pH 2.0 solution.
The original Horsford's method was to mix bone ash--which is mostly calcium phosphate--with sulphuric acid. The two ingredients reacted to form phosphoric acid and some phosphate salts (calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium). For my test samples, I've avoided the bone ash method. Most bone ash is used in the pottery and ceramic industry, and very little is food grade. Depending on the source of the bones, they could contain undesirable elements like heavy metals. Instead, I've reproduced the acid phosphate using food grade chemicals most often used in nutraceuticals.
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The Angostura Phosphate combines four ingredients with impressive results. Lemon syrup plays a key role.
Lemon Syrup
8 Lemons, juice of
10 oz Sugar
2 tsp Gum Arabic
½ tsp Lemon Oil
Combine the lemon oil with the gum arabic and 2 tsp of sugar, mix until combined, set aside. Juice the lemons and dissolve the sugar to make a "sour mix". Add the lemon oil mixture to the sour mix and stir to dissolve, heating if necessary.
The recipe for the Angostura Phosphate comes from "1800 and All That - Drinks Ancient and Modern" by R. de Fleury
Angostura Phosphate
½ tsp Acid Phosphate
1 tsp Angostura Bitters
1 oz Lemon Syrup
Add ingredients to an 8 oz glass and fill with chilled soda water. Traditionally this drink would have been served without ice, but many people prefer ice.
The interesting thing about this drink is how well balanced it tastes. Most people think three dashes of Angostura Bitters is sufficient for a drink, but in this case, a whole teaspoon blends so well that the drink could probably handle more and not be overpowering. The cinnamon flavour from the Angostura shines through in this drink.
The lemon syrup is very "lemony" with the right balance of sweetness and provides a pleasant base flavour for the drink. The addition of lemon oil is what makes this an outstanding syrup.
Adding acid phosphate brings a pleasant dry astringency that tones down that citric acid "tang" from the lemon.
Like the Wild Cherry Phosphate, this is another soda fountain, and saloon, classic. Whether it helps a hangover or not is beyond the scope of this post, but as a classic drink, it definitely exceeded my expectations.
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What a weekend! If you are local, chances are I saw you at the OKCMOA's super sized Family Day! It felt like the entire city was there. It was a huge crowd of all ages that enjoyed the many activities revolving around the Jason Peters exhibit.
Be sure to save the date for the next family day. It is Sat. May 22 and it will revolve around the next exhibit, Sketch to Screen: The Art of Hollywood Costume Design.
Amid the facepainting, scavenger hunts, story times and dance, there were 3 art activities featuring three different artists. I made hanging sculptures. (I'd say the average age of my little artists was age 4, and as young as 2.) We folded, bended, hole punched and cut a variety of papers and attached them to a strip of tagboard that we made into a circle. When we were finished, we punched 2 holes at the top and threaded some yard to hang these beautiful moving hanging sculptures. They turned out great!
Some of these kids really got creative. The little ones liked using the hole punch-that is a great fine motor skill for your little ones to build hand/muscle coordination!
While a glue stick is good for adding small things to the top of your sculpture, tape is instant hold and will hold the heavier items better. Thinking about Peters: Focus on using all scraps! You cut it, punch it, you use it! The punched areas also allow light to come through which is a fun feature.
You will need:
-strip of tagboard/posterboard for the top
-Variety of papers
-hole punch
-glue stick
Here are a few examples!
This last one is not hanging, but was a really interesting. She told me it was an homage to the artist, Jason Peters. They added pieces from the Museum handouts they got-including a Peters portrait, attached their exhibit tickets...very fun. Love to see people expand on a basic idea! This is why I do what I do. I love to watch creative minds at work!
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ICANN was created to help move the domain name system that holds all the names and all the addresses together on the internet globally. Rod Beckstrom - ICANN Chief Executive Officer
And it was meant to transfer that responsibility from the U.S. government into the private sector, into a multi-stakeholder nonprofit organization. And the JPA was set up to assist that transfer and to make sure that transfer was successful.
With the conclusion of the JPA, it means we've hit that target after 11 years and we're now mature enough to move on to the next phase of our global development. So it's a real exciting time for us to enter a whole new level as an organization.
>>How would you characterize the JPA? >>Would you characterize it as a success?
Absolutely. There was a set of milestones that were established specifically around engaging different stakeholder communities: the addressing groups around the world, the ISPs, the registrars, the registries, and cultivating those communities and getting them engaged in self-governance for the Internet. That has succeeded.
>>JPA is gone. We now have this Affirmation. >>What is this Affirmation?
The Affirmation is an Affirmation of Commitments among the parties effectively for us to have a continued relationship with the United States government, and our commitment to do periodic reviews of our accountability and transparency as an organization of our performance and security and resiliency and in other areas. And we're committing to do those reviews, but in the past under the JPA those reviews were simply submitted to the U.S. government. Under the new relationship, these reviews are developed by what will conventionally be an international committee of parties chosen by the chairman of our Governmental Advisory Committee, who represents 100 countries around the world, and the CEO of ICANN--myself-- or in some cases the chairman of ICANN.
And so what it means is we'll do some reviews-- we're committing to do those--and the United States government will have one seat the table at one of those three sets of reviews, and the rest will be as appointed by these parties, including the Governmental Advisory Committee. So what it really means is we're going global. All the reviews and all the work done will be submitted for public comment to the world. And the United States, just like every other country, will be a recipient of that information through the publication of the results.
But there's no separate or unique or separate reporting to the United States government. All the reporting is to the world; that's the real change. Under the JPA the reporting was just to the U.S. government, and some of it was handled publicly, and now all the reporting is global.
A number of senior U.S. congressional leaders in early August sent us a letter expressing some concerns or things that appeared they wanted us to have in any relationship that might replace the JPA, in this case the Affirmation document. And the Affirmation document takes on all three of the issues that they raised, and I think they should be quite satisfied.
The first was that they wanted to see a long-term or a document with more permanence, a more permanent relationship. That is accomplished. The Affirmation is effectively a perpetual agreement. There are some abilities of the parties to exit, but it is fundamentally a long-standing agreement.
Secondly, they were concerned that ICANN remain on U.S. soil for its headquarter offices. We have reaffirmed our commitment to do that in the Affirmation agreement.
And thirdly, they wanted to make sure that we had adequate accountability for our performance as a private nonsector group. And as discussed already, accountability reviews will be part of what we do every three years from here on out, continuing as an organization under the Affirmation document.
If anyone is concerned about the conclusion of the JPA and is concerned about this move to the Affirmation, they should just open their eyes and look at the world. The internet is spreading everywhere. It's spreading into our PDAs, into our telephones, into our computer classrooms, in huts in Kenya, in the backwoods of Thailand, in the rainforest. The internet is connecting us all, and it's this amazing fabric that's bringing us together as mankind. And it is a global phenomenon.
In addition to the Affirmation agreement, we're moving towards fully supporting different scripts and languages in domain names, and these two efforts will tie together very nicely. But the internet's becoming more global because today you have to type dot com or a dot extension that has English-like or Latin characters, what we call ASCII. In the near future--next year--we'll be rolling out Chinese, Russian, and different languages.
So the Affirmation is our commitment to be global and to report to the global community and then, technologically, we're opening up other pieces of the internet, too. So the primary expansion now is around the world, of course. It's highly saturated in the United States and other advanced countries, and we're seeing tremendous uptake now across Asia and into Africa, Latin America, and all over the world.
The Affirmation of Commitments – What it Means
30 September 2009
The Affirmation of Commitments completes a transition that started 11 years ago ...
When ICANN was created in 1998, with the assistance of the United States Government, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) process was started with the objective of achieving a noble goal: the coordination of the Internet's unique identifiers by the private sector through a not-for-profit organization where policies were developed from the bottom up.
The signing of the Affirmation determines once and for all that this model works.
The JPA was the seventh amendment of the original MOU. Over the years there have been thirteen report cards on performance of responsibilities to the US Department of Commerce alone. So why is the Affirmation of Commitments a further step in progress and internationalization of the ICANN model?
It commits ICANN to remaining a private not for profit organization. It declares ICANN is independent and is not controlled by any one entity. It commits ICANN to reviews performed BY THE COMMUNITY – a further recognition that the multi-stakeholder model is robust enough to review itself.
The Affirmation is of long standing and is not limited to the three years for which previous agreements operated.
The Government Advisory Committee's role is reaffirmed. And the GAC is a key participant in selecting the membership of the review teams.
There is a certain timetable as to when those reviews will take place.
In summary, the Affirmation of Commitments places beyond doubt that the ICANN model is best equipped to coordinate this vital resource and places reviews of ICANN's performance in the hands of the community.
That provides a stable, secure platform into the future that can adapt to changes to the Internet itself.


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sekp79 needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Maxpak Australasia - MaxValu products
Maxpak is a market leading packaging company supplying various plastic bag and film products to the Australian market. We have been in business for 30 years, and have established distribution networks across Australia.
We market a range of packaging products in a large variety of markets. For this project, we are focused on the independent bakery market.
The artwork design will be printed on plastic bags designed to hold a single loaf of bread. The target market for this product is independently owned Australian bakeries. These are usually small family owned businesses serving their local communities. We have an existing product being sold to existing customers - but our current artwork is due to be refreshed. The target customers need to compete against large "franchise" bakeries, and so must differentiate by selling, fresh, healthy, authentic, delicious bread. They also differentiate themselves by promoting themselves as friendly "local community" business, not large corporatised franchise operations.
The size of the bag is 45cm in length and 17cm in width.
The artwork must will be placed no less than 6cm from the bottom of the bag and 6cm from the top of the bag. The artwork must be placed no closer than 2cm from either left or right side of the bag.
It is restricted to 2 color print. It will be printed on gravure printer.
We need the 2 versions of the same artwork. One version will represent a wholemeal / multi grain loaf, and the other will represent white bread loaf. Whilst the artwork is the same for both versions - the color scheme should be different to differentiate it. There must be some text and pictures to communicate the details that the target audience seeks. I have attached the first and second version of the product - so you can see how it has progressed throughout the years.


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Are you sitting comfortably? Doctors find high risk of injury and illness in office
WORKERS who compensate for spending hours in front of a computer by using ergonomic chairs, standing desks and good posture are still likely to suffer back, neck, wrist and shoulder injuries, while also increasing their risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, doctors say.
Increasing computer use almost negated the benefits of improved workstation design and posture, new research from the University of Sydney has found, suggesting the overall workplace environment is to blame.
''Workstation design has come a long way since the '80s and they are good changes,'' said the lead author of the study, Karin Griffiths, from the faculty of health science.
''But what I also found was the proportion of people reporting symptoms has not changed much despite this … [and] is not enough to keep up with health issues that arise from paperless, IT-dominated offices.''
The survey of nearly 1000 workers across six government departments found about 85 per cent of people who spent more than eight hours a day working at a computer experienced neck pain. Published in WORK: a Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, the study also found three-quarters reported shoulder pain and 70 per cent reported lower back pain.
''I know the amount of money organisations are putting into improved workstations and ergonomics, and it's not that those changes aren't important,'' Dr Griffiths, who is a physiotherapist, said.
''The problem is nearly everything can be done at the desk now - communication, library research, file retrieval, even meetings. It doesn't matter how good the chair is, it is not going to address the health problem of what some researchers are calling 'chair disease'.''
Long hours of computer work may also contribute to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, she said, with people in senior or managerial positions the hardest hit because they worked at a computer most.
Nicholas Gilson, a lecturer in physical activity and health at the University of Queensland, recently studied employees in an open-plan office who were given a choice of sitting or standing desks. After one week, their overall sedentary time had not decreased.
''My main observation is that we typically deal with the important issues that research like this raises in a reactive way … like [with] sit-stand desks,'' Dr Gilson said. ''But workers need environmental opportunities to frequently change posture from sitting to standing and moving in work tasks.''
Discouraging internal emails on the same floor, holding meetings while standing or walking, and placing phones on a standing bench were some of the strategies suggested by researchers.
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You have only three days to prepare for the 2014 NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. Here are 16 facts about this year's remaining teams and matchups:
1. Let's hear it for the SEC
The football conference only earned three slots into the NCAA Tournament. But Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee went 7-0 and are tied with the Pac 12 and Big 10 for most teams in the Sweet 16.
2. Break it down
Besides three schools each from the SEC, Big 10 and Pac 12, there are two schools from the Big 12 (which had the most teams in the tournament at 7) and the American Athletic Conference and one each from ACC, Atlantic 10 and Mountain West.
3. Done this before
10 of the 16 teams have won NCAA men's basketball titles in the past: UCLA (11), Kentucky (8), Connecticut (3), Louisville (3, including 2013), Florida (2), Michigan State (2), Arizona (1), Michigan (1), Stanford (1), Wisconsin (1)
4. First time for everything
Iowa State, San Diego State, Tennessee and Virginia are the four teams that have never made it to the NCAA title game. Dayton lost to Lew Alcindor-led UCLA in 1967 and Baylor lost to Kentucky in the 1948 title game.
5. Bro-power
Archie Miller (Dayton) and Sean Miller (Arizona) are the first brothers to coach teams in the same Sweet 16 in NCAA men's basketball history.
6. Every even year
Baylor has traveled to the Sweet 16 in 2010, 2012 and 2014. The only other years the Bears were one of the final 16 teams in the NCAA Tournament was 1946, 1948 and 1950, when the tournament was eight teams.
7. Worth every penny?
The five highest paid Sweet 16 coaches, according to the media reports: Kentucky's John Calipari ($5.4M), Louisville's Rick Pitino ($5M), Michigan State's Tom Izzo ($3.7M), Florida's Billy Donovan ($3.7M) and UCLA's Steve Alford ($2.6M).
8. Top seed vs. fourth seed
The South (Florida vs. UCLA), East (Virginia vs. Michigan State) and West (Arizona vs. San Diego State) will have the top seed playing the fourth seed in the Sweet 16. That matchup has developed 43 times in previous tournaments and the top seed has a 29-14 record. In the Midwest, the fourth seed (Louisville) will meet the eighth seed (Kentucky). Surprisingly, the eighth-seeded team has won four of the six matchups previously.
9. NCAA may own March Madness, but they only rent Sweet 16
The NCAA has gone through the trademark wars on March Madness, but the Kentucky High School Athletic Association beat them to the punch on Sweet 16. The KHSAA registered the Sweet 16 trademark in 1988 and retains ownership. The NCAA licenses the term for its tournaments.
10. 2008 remains safe
When Kentucky held off Wichita State, it meant that 2008 will remain the only NCAA Tournament to date in which the top seeds won all four regions (Kansas, North Carolina, UCLA and Memphis).
11. Kentucky can tie a record
In the 1997 NCAA Tournament, Arizona set a record that can only be tied in the current format, beating three No. 1 seeds on the way to the title. Kentucky has a win over Midwest Region top seed Wichita State. If the Wildcats win the national title and beat Arizona in the semifinals and either Virginia or Florida in the title game, they would be the second Wildcats to run through three top seeds.
12. Sweet 16 appearances
In 1975, the NCAA men's basketball tournament expanded to 32 teams and the Sweet 16 was born. Here's the number of Sweet 16 appearances for the teams in this year's field: Kentucky (23), Louisville (20), Arizona (16), Michigan State (16), UCLA (16), Connecticut (14), Florida (10), Michigan (9), Virginia (8), Wisconsin (7), Tennessee (6), Stanford (5), Iowa State (4), Baylor (3), Dayton (2) and San Diego State (2).
13. One more time
Only Arizona, Florida, Louisville, Michigan and Michigan State return from the Sweet 16 of 2013.
14. First time coaching in Sweet 16
Connecticut's Kevin Ollie, Dayton's Archie Miller, Iowa State's Fred Hoiberg, Stanford's Johnny Dawkins and Tennessee's Cuonzo Martin will be first time head coaches in this year's Sweet 16.
15. Dome advantage
The Final Four will be held at an NFL stadium for the 15th consecutive season. In last year's tournament, the South and Midwest regionals were held in NFL domes. Louisville and Michigan won those regionals and then won at the Georgia Dome in the national semifinals. This year, only the Midwest Regional will be held in a domed NFL stadium. So will that be an advantage for the winner between Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan and Tennessee?
16. If/then statements
We have seen all these seeds matched up in the Sweet 16 before -- even 10 vs. 11. But if Kentucky and Tennessee or Dayton and UCLA win their games, then we'll have our first 4 vs. 11 or 8 vs. 11 in the Elite Eight. An 11th seed has made the Elite Eight five times and each time it was matched with a top seed (top seeds are only 3-2 in the matchup, thanks for asking).


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I saw an interesting comment on this blog (browse it here). The person talked about remastering a linux that would be the real answer to Black XP. Good idea! After going through his comment I browsed web for that Windows and came to know that it is a remaster (nonetheless a pirated one) that is very convenient for home users. It is an unattended version that includes as much bells and whistles as possible. Some of those are: Tuneup Utilities, Acrobat, WindowsBlinds, Sun Java, IE7, Firefox and Thunderbird, K Lite Mega Codec Pack, Windows Media Player 11, Nero Lite, ZoneAlarm, BlindWrite, UltraISO, Quicktime Alternative, WinRAR and Windows Vista themepack plus extra widgets . Had it packed something more such as MS Office, Photoshop, DVD Ripper and Player, it would have been a great bundle for every Windows user. However, it's still good.
Now what about packing those punches (software) into linux or more specifically PCLinuxOS? Is there any such Linux that is full with all these necessary software so that a user need not have to download a single stuff from web?
The answer is Yes and No. PCLinuxOS loads a lot of stuff in just one CD – a good office suite, a good selection of media players, a cd/dvd burner, a terminal and a fairly good number of internet applications. One of its remasters, Granular Linux had really done good job offering a nice selection of apps in its Funworks release, though I am not quite aware of its present release. Of other linux desktops I found Linux Mint and Mepis to be complete desktops that add a lots of proprietary stuff. Mint has gone bold to add libdvdcss and unrar in its Daryana release. And everybody knows Mepis has always tried its best to punch as much as it can despite some hue and cry from FOSS people.
In my opinion, the power to choose and install software should be at users end because everybody is using it anyway and exclusion of some proprietary stuff like mp3 and dvd playback and rar/unrar only adds to user annoyance. That's it. For example Fedora does not pack any proprietary stuff but is there any Fedora user who has not added those proprietary stuff after installation? I just wonder who will keep oneself away from them when mp3 and dvd video have become major commodities of entertainment.
It would really be very good if a desktop linux distribution comes with Mac OS like philosophy. I mean it would be really very good if Linux becomes as stable and polished as Mac OSX (deep inside it remains bsd core) with options for installing proprietary software the way it's possible in Mac OS.
Ok. Let me dream of a PCLinuxOS remaster that will outdo any other OS under the sun if it includes following stuff:
Office Suite: OpenOffice (excluding draw, math, base and web, as there are better apps for these purpose)
Internet: Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission, D4X, Skype, Pidgin.
Graphics: Gimp, Inkscape, Blender
Sound and Video: VLC, Audacious, Realplay, Totem Xine, Acidrip, Audacity, WinFF, plus libdvdcss, recordmydesktop or xvidcap and cdfs.
Accessories: Isomaster, unrar, gnochm, brasero
- Lastly a Mac Aqua like desktop environment, may be the linux aqua will differ in look but it sould as stable as Aqua. Everybody knows Linux desktop environment breaks quite often if somebody tinkers around.
Even PCLinuxOS or a remaster of it can add all these stuff into one CD, if it exclude some less used features such as wallpapers, a few icons and themes and 3d desktop stuff and follows one application per task philosophy. It seems most desktop linux distros still come with some apps/packages that a very few people use and excludes many useful apps mentioned above.
There is in fact a pclinuxos remaster with includes all these goodies and more. It includes: Wine, w32codecs, dvd playback, ntfs, openoffice with office 2007 file support, emulators, games, amarok & banshee, latest firefox & thunderbird, pptp support, windows shortcut key pre-configured, compiz-fusion and a lot more to name!


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Having lived true to her inspiration, owner and designer Diana Carolina spent much time residing in the Mediterranean, while coming up with the Azzurra Capri sandal concept. The blue and white color scheme of the sandal brand was inspired by the beautiful Isle of Capri, which evoked peace and tranquility of the elegant resort town and its surrounding azure ocean. It is this peace and tranquility, that Carolina purposefully created in her brand's flagship and boutique store-front, Azzurra Capri Boutique. What started as an international sandal line offering personalized variety of handmade Italian leather and Swarovski footwear pieces, now has an online fashion boutique and storefront counterpart housing the iconic sandals plus other luxurious brand-label clothing pieces and accessories.
Our Mediterranean-inspired sandal brand, Azzurra Capri, has a presence in both international and national markets. From an international footprint in Dubai, Qatar, Mexico and the Caribbean to a national headway in Miami and Los Angeles, our glamorous footwear pieces of the Azzurra Capri line are the perfect fit of elegance in just about any market.
The Azzurra Capri brand emulates trends that can be found not only in its origins of the Mediterranean but also on the fashion runways. From lace numbers to soft cashmeres and embellished tunics, our Azzurra Capri Boutique is a great destination to find unique wardrobe pieces, both online and in-store. Browse through our lookbooks, merchandise and brand collaborations to find ideas for ladies fashion online, as well as, how to incorporate these Mediterranean numbers into your wardrobe. When you stop into our Little Italy San Diego boutique, you can receive complimentary styling and consultation, comprehensive wardrobe assessments and exclusive collection viewings. You can also have your pair of signature Azzurra Capri sandals either customized and fitted or designed from scratch to fit your style preference. So check out our online fashion boutique! Your glamorous, warm-weather pair awaits.
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ACB Peace&Love Choker is handmade from delicate 14-karat gold filled chain and strung 4 pendants. This '70s-inspired trending piece can be worn closely around the neck or adjusted to rest a little lower. We like it layered with a simple chain or a lariat necklace.
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President Barack Obama is meeting with CEOs of some of the biggest U.S. companies Friday morning to outline new efforts to help the long-term unemployed. In an interview with CNN, Obama said 300 companies, including Wal-Mart, Apple and Ford, will agree to new "best practices" so that companies don't "screen people out of the hiring process just because they've been out of work a long time."
There are several reports that the State Department could release an environmental analysis on the Keystone XL oil pipeline as early as Friday. Fox News said the report may disappoint environmentalists and other opponents of the proposed project. Still, the study is not the final word. The Obama administration has 90 days to determine if the pipeline is in the national interest.
The Keystone pipeline may play a role in the standoff over raising the federal debt limit, according to a report by Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. In a video blog post, Seib said Republicans may press for "pro-growth policy steps" such as approval of the Keystone pipeline in return for raising the debt ceiling. They would also like budget cuts but understand there are no easy spending cuts left, he added.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on how banks are starting to ease limits on lending. New research from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said banks relaxed the criteria for business and consumers to obtain credit during the 18 months leading up to June 30, 2013. Any thaw in lending could boost economic growth. Banks have more than $2 trillion in excess reserves parked at the Fed.
Stay tuned: San Francisco Fed President John Williams is sitting down for an interview on the Fox Business Network at 1:15 p.m. Eastern. He will be the first Fed official to discuss the central bank's decision to continue to taper in the face of global market turmoil and some soft U.S. economic indicators.
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June 04, 2012 18:30 ET
New HP Information Optimization Solutions Enable Clients to Manage, Understand and Act on 100 Percent of Data
New HP Information Optimization Solutions Enable Clients to Manage, Understand and Act on 100 Percent of Data
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Jun 4, 2012) - HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced enhancements to its Information Optimization Solutions portfolio, designed to help organizations capitalize on the explosion of information, including operational, application and machine data.
The extreme volume, variety and velocity of information has placed unprecedented burdens on organizations. According to research conducted on behalf of HP, only 2 percent of business and technology executives said their organizations can deliver the right information at the right time to support the right business outcomes all of the time.(1)
Legacy approaches to information management -- which rely on outdated information architectures, infrastructure and analytics -- fail to discover the concepts and value found in all forms of information. They also are incapable of cost-effectively scaling and processing the oceans of information collected in unstructured, structured and machine data in real time.
These shortcomings are especially evident in an age when changing customer sentiment plays out over Twitter, YouTube, the web, phone calls and emails, much of which happens outside the enterprise walls. This sentiment also can be tracked in the form of foot traffic picked up by sensors in retail outlets.
HP has been investing in innovation to build out the industry's most comprehensive Information Optimization Solutions portfolio with unique intellectual property and technologies that solve customers' challenges with big data. Only HP enables organizations to manage, understand and act on 100 percent of information. This is made possible through new HP Converged Infrastructure solutions, as well as technology from Autonomy and Vertica, both HP companies, and HP data management services.
"Big data presents big opportunities -- and challenges -- for organizations today," said Bill Veghte, chief operating officer, HP. "HP's powerful Information Optimization Solutions deliver the technologies and expertise required to help organizations succeed in this new era -- by tackling any data type, source or environment. Whether on premise, in the cloud or hybrid, HP offerings allow organizations to turn big data into growth, opportunity and competitive advantage."
Managing big data with HP Converged Infrastructure and Apache Hadoop
Many organizations experiencing dramatic information growth are turning to Apache™ Hadoop™, an open-source-distributed data-processing technology, to meet their needs for storing and managing petabytes of information.
HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop is the industry's first enterprise-ready appliance that simplifies and speeds deployment while optimizing performance and analysis of extreme scale-out Hadoop workloads. The solution combines HP Converged Infrastructure, common management and advanced integration with Vertica 6 to deliver massive data processing and real-time analytics.
Clients also can find the right solutions to their information-optimization challenges with these new services:
Understand any information, in any location, in any way
With the introduction of Vertica 6, the latest version of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, companies now have the ability to connect to, analyze and manage any type of information in any location using any interface. The unique Vertica FlexStore architecture delivers a flexible framework for big-data analytics, including advanced integration or federation with Autonomy and Hadoop technology, or any other structured, unstructured or semistructured data source.
As part of the Vertica 6 release, Vertica is expanding its distributed computing framework to include native support for the parallel execution of the advanced R analytics language. With enhanced support for cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) implementations, as well as deeper capabilities for mixed workload environments, Vertica 6 is the most robust, comprehensive platform for big-data analytics available.
As part of HP's strategy to understand 100 percent of an organization's data, HP announced new capabilities for embedding the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) 10 engine in each Hadoop node, so users can take advantage of more than 500 HP IDOL functions, including automatic categorization, clustering, eduction and hyperlinking. The combination of Autonomy IDOL and Vertica 6 plus the HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop, provides customers with an unmatched platform for processing and understanding massive, diverse data sets.
Acting upon insight to develop foresight
Extending its industry-leading digital marketing platform, HP also unveiled a new Autonomy solution, Optimost Clickstream Analytics, providing marketers with a single, consistent view of customer visits, conversions and engagement through ecommerce.
Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics leverages the Vertica Analytics Platform and Autonomy IDOL to provide marketers with access to granular clickstream data, enabling them to aggregate, combine and analyze the information any way they choose.
Additional information about HP's announcements at HP Discover, its premier client event, is available at www.hp.com/go/hpdiscover2012.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
(1) "HP Research: Information Optimization," Coleman Parkes Research, Ltd., October 2011.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including execution of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; any statements concerning expected development, performance or market share relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP's businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; expectations and assumptions relating to the execution and timing of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2012 and HP's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
Apache and Hadoop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.
© 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
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I don't know if anyone said it yet but... SONNY IS YOUR KITE REPAIR GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sonny has saved my a$$ a number of times already!
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depends where you live, i say Sheldon if you near delta, If not, Airtime shipping same as gas and time.
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Someone may have mentioned Sonny already, another +1 here. Small LE & larger canopy tear repaired in < 24 hours.
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At a surface level servicing involves carrying out scheduled preventative maintenance, inspections, and repairs when necessary. This ensures that systems last their intended life span and can allow them to greatly exceed this intended life span.
Car owners across the lot know this – if you take care of your car it will take care of you.
Regular oil changes, O2 sensor change outs, transmission fluid flushes, timing belt replacements, inspections and so on can prevent your engine from seizing or worse having a tire blow out on the highway.
More importantly servicing creates steady reliable jobs. Every time a dude with servicing in mind exists, countless other dudes now have a steady source of income for decades to come (not to mention thousands of dudes now have a guaranteed source of kite power even if it is intermittent due to kite trickling down effect). Dudes should pay other dudes to perform necessary kite maintenance and inspections & kite tunes & kite upgrades & board upgrades & kite streamlining & kite leaning.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - I love cats!!! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in I love cats!!! Goto page 1, 2 Next Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message miss GloJoined: 01 Oct 2004Posts: 26Location: italy Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:57 am Post subject: I love cats!!! Hi everybody!!! My name's Gloria, I live in Italy, I'm 15 and I'd like make friends !!! I've got two cats: Bella and Bestia....I LOVE THEM!!! Have you got any pets??Do you like cats???What do tou think about cats??? Answer me...please!!! 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FREMONT — Three men arrested for a series of armed robberies throughout the Bay Area last summer have each pleaded no contest to a robbery charge, police said Wednesday.
Alex Crisp, 29, of Vallejo; Trenton Frolander, 19, of Vallejo and Jabari Knight-Jenkins, 20, of Fairfield, entered their respective pleas during a Monday hearing at the Fremont Hall of Justice
The pleas stemmed from armed robberies involving Craiglist.com advertisements that took place in August in eight cities throughout the Bay Area, police said. During at least one of the incidents, a victim was pistol whipped, Fremont Police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said.
The crimes took place in Fremont, San Jose, Berkeley, Pinole, Fairfield, San Leandro Police, Oakland, Alameda and in unincorporated Alameda County.
In each case, the victim reported that they had all placed an advertisement on Craigslist.com selling electronics, expensive shoes or designer watches. The victims were contacted by the suspects by telephone or by e-mail and a meeting place was set between the victim and suspects.
The meetings between the suspects and victims all slightly varied, but generally, the suspects produced a firearm and demanded the items. In a few cases, the victims were battered when they did not comply with the demands.
On Aug. 22, Crisp was arrested in Vallejo. On Sept. 15, Frolander was arrested in Fairfield. The next day, on Sept. 16, Knight-Jenkins was arrested in Solano County. All three suspects were then charged felony robbery.
All three defendants remained behind bars on Wednesday at the Santa Rita Jail.
Sentencing is scheduled next month and under the law each defendant faces prison time.
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