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2005 Ch. le Tertre Rôteboeuf, St Emilion
Red | For laying down | Chateau Le Tertre Roteboeuf | Code: 944007 | 2005 | France > Bordeaux > St-Emilion | Cab.Sauvignon Blend | Full Bodied, Dry | 14.0 % alcohol
The Wine Advocate - A sensational effort, Tertre Roteboeufs 2005, along with the 2000, is one of the most profound wines made by Francois Mitjavile. A dense ruby/purple color is followed by a stunning perfume of sweet black currants, jammy cherries, licorice, and spice. Full-bodied and opulent with high, but remarkably sweet, velvety tannins as well as a stunning texture and a finish that lasts nearly a minute, this prodigious St.-Emilion should be drinkable in 3-4 years, and last for two decades or more. Kudos to the proprietor.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/04/2008
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The Wine Advocate - A sensational effort, Tertre Roteboeufs 2005, along with the 2000, is one of the most profound wines made by Francois Mitjavile. A dense ruby/purple color is followed by a stunning perfume of sweet black currants, jammy cherries, licorice, and spice. Full-bodied and opulent with high, but remarkably sweet, velvety tannins as well as a stunning texture and a finish that lasts nearly a minute, this prodigious St.-Emilion should be drinkable in 3-4 years, and last for two decades or more. Kudos to the proprietor.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/04/2008
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The Producer
Château Le Tertre Rôteboeuf, is a St. Emilion Grand Cru property that is in the very top echelon of St-Emilion producers. Le Tertre Rôteboeuf is owned by François Mitjavile who also owns Château Roc de Cambes in the Côtes de Bourg. François produces just over 2,000 cases a year from his tiny 5.7-hectare vineyard, which is situated on a steep slope on the edge of a limestone plateau.
The grapes (Merlot 80%, Cabernet Franc 20%) are harvested by hand and are fermented in temperature-controlled concrete tanks. Le Tertre Rôteboeuf is then aged in 100% new oak barrels for 18 months. Yields are kept very low and consequently this is one of the most concentrated wines to be found in Bordeaux.
Typically, Le Tertre Rôteboeuf is deeply coloured, richly aromatic on the nose and packed with blackcurrants, overripe cherries, liquorice, roasted caramel and vanilla notes on the palate. A hedonist's delight!
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The Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.
The Region
St Emilion is one of Bordeaux's largest producing appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux put together. St Emilion has been producing wine for longer than the Médoc but its lack of accessibility to Bordeaux's port and market-restricted exports to mainland Europe meant the region initially did not enjoy the commercial success that funded the great châteaux of the Left Bank.
St Emilion itself is the prettiest of Bordeaux's wine towns, perched on top of the steep limestone slopes upon which many of the region's finest vineyards are situated. However, more than half of the appellation's vineyards lie on the plain between the town and the Dordogne River on sandy, alluvial soils with a sprinkling of gravel.
Further diversity is added by a small, complex gravel bed to the north-east of the region on the border with Pomerol. Atypically for St Emilion, this allows Cabernet Franc and, to a lesser extent, Cabernet Sauvignon to prosper and defines the personality of the great wines such as Ch. Cheval Blanc.
In the early 1990s there was an explosion of experimentation and evolution, leading to the rise of the garagistes, producers of deeply-concentrated wines made in very small quantities and offered at high prices. The appellation is also surrounded by four satellite appellations, Montagne, Lussac, Puisseguin and St. Georges, which enjoy a family similarity but not the complexity of the best wines.
St Emilion was first officially classified in 1954, and is the most meritocratic classification system in Bordeaux, as it is regularly amended. The most recent revision of the classification was in 2012
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A stranger is anyone that your family doesn't know well. It's common for children to think that "bad strangers" look scary, like the villains in cartoons. This is not only not true, but it's dangerous for children to think this way. Pretty strangers can be just as dangerous as the not-so-pretty ones. When you talk to your children about strangers, explain that no one can tell if strangers are nice or not nice just by looking at them and that they should be careful around all strangers.
But don't make it seem like all strangers are bad. If children need help--whether they're lost, being threatened by a bully, or being followed by a stranger--the safest thing for them to do in many cases is to ask a stranger for help. You can make this easier for them by showing them which strangers are okay to trust.
Safe strangers are people children can ask for help when they need it. Police officers and firefighters are two examples of very recognizable safe strangers. Teachers, principals, and librarians are adults children can trust too, and they are easy to recognize when they're at work. But make sure that you emphasize that whenever possible, children should go to a public place to ask for help.
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Perhaps the most important way parents can protect their children is to teach them to be wary of potentially dangerous situations – this will help them when dealing with strangers as well as with known adults who may not have good intentions. Help children recognize the warning signs of suspicious behavior, such as when an adult asks them to disobey their parents or do something without permission, asks them to keep a secret, asks children for help, or makes them feel uncomfortable in any way. Also tell your children that an adult should never ask a child for help, and if one does ask for their help, teach them to find a trusted adult right away to tell what happened.
You should also talk to your children about how they should handle dangerous situations. One way is to teach them "No, Go, Yell, Tell." If in a dangerous situation, kids should say no, run away, yell as loud as they can, and tell a trusted adult what happened right away. Make sure that your children know that it is okay to say no to an adult in a dangerous situation and to yell to keep themselves safe, even if they are indoors. It's good to practice this in different situations so that your children will feel confident in knowing what to do. Here are a few possible scenarios:
In addition to teaching children how to recognize and handle dangerous situations and strangers, there are a few more things parents can do to help their children stay safe and avoid dangerous situations.
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Federico Higuain is just shy of joining the club's top 10 list for all-time goals scored. At 18 tallies, he is in 11th place, one goal shy of a two-way tie for 10th place with Pete Marino and Robert Warzycha, who each scored 19 goals in a Crew uniform. Jeff Cunningham leads that Black & Gold list with 64.
Josh Williams is the longest-tenured Crew player on the roster dating back to just 2010. He's made 58 apperances for the Crew. The club is not without MLS veteran presence, though. Michael Parkhurst has 116 career MLS appearances in the regular season, Dominic Oduro has 217 since 2006 and Tyson Wahl has made 112 appearances since joining MLS in 2006 in Kansas City.
The 3-0 shutout victory at D.C. United on March 8 was Steve Clark's first clean- sheet win since coming to the League in the offseason following time in Norway. By recording a single shutout, Clark is now tied for 12th on the club's all-time goalkeeper shutouts list with three other 'keepers that had a Crew clean sheet in their time in Black & Gold.
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The TXSD is pin-compatible with other TX modules, providing a high-end solution for upgrades. With the Snapdragon 410E platform with integrated wireless and Bluetooth, developers can leverage consumer chipset capabilities for embedded applications which require long-term availability.
Complex applications are driving the need for increased computing power and connectivity in new products. The Ka-Ro TXSD is ideally suited to applications which require local processing, rapid image processing, video streaming and integrated connectivity.
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The Overworked Database
A web page may generate dozens of queries on each page load – user credentials, session information, system notifications, new messages, latest headlines, configuration information, and content areas may be loaded on every single page and displayed to the user or acted upon by the page logic. As this data is read by the rendering process, other web requests or background processes may be modifying the data in these tables by inserting new headlines, publishing new content areas, and creating sessions for other users. Often, this contention between database reads and writes is where the bottlenecks occur. In order to maintain database integrity, protections are generally in place to prevent the same data from being read as it is written.
In a typical MySQL installation, this problem can become quite apparent because the default table format of MySQL requires that an entire database table be locked while data is being updated in any row. This can create a cascading effect when one process writes to an important table. Perhaps the sessions table is updated whenever a user logs in or logs out. If so, every page load will then read from the sessions table to determine the authentication status of a given user (based on their cookies). Once you reach a tipping point, the minor pauses caused by the writes to the table can pile up like a traffic jam, slowing the entire site down simply because of writes to a single database table.
In a situation where you notice intermittent slowdowns of your site, you can attempt to troubleshoot the cause from the MySQL command line:
mysql> show processlist;
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info
| 1 | root | localhost | test | Query | 3 | Locked | select * from | 2 | root | localhost | test | Query | 6 | Locked | insert into ON
As you can see, you'll get simple feedback if queries are waiting on a locked table by the State field. The Time field shows how many seconds the query has been running.
{mospagebreak title=A Solution – Caching}
The bottleneck in many modern web sites is the database. This may seem like a daunting problem because database hardware can be expensive and rearchitecting the application with a different database structure can require a large time commitment. Luckily, most of the data presented on the internet is ideal for caching.
Let us consider our example set of queries from before: user credentials, session information, system notifications, new messages, latest headlines, configuration information, and content areas. Of those, latest headlines, configuration information, system notifications, and content areas are not likely to change very often or vary per user. Digging down further, we'll consider news headlines specifically and build up a solution to dramatically reduce the database queries to this table.
For a typical website, news headlines will be generated with a query like this:
FROM news
WHERE category_id=21 AND status=1
ORDER BY publish_date DESC
Each time this query is executed, MySQL will (assuming the query cache is not enabled, which is another issue) first parse the query, decide how to locate the data, read the table index, filter out rows by status or category_id, order the remaing rows, and return the first five. With proper indexes, this query may take a fraction of a second, but enough queries will eventually bog down the database. And 99% of the time, that query will return the same data it returned the last time.
So here, we've found a query that runs on nearly every page load, is the same for every user to the site, and returns a relatively small result. Five news headlines, perhaps the links to the full article, the URL for a photo, and a published date can likely fit in under one kilobyte of memory.
Now that we've identified a candidate for caching, we simply need a place to cache it. PHP and the Linux/Apache environment provide numerous ways to do this, but we'll focus on one solution here, MemCached.
{mospagebreak title=Enter MemCached}
MemCached is designed as a solution for low complexity caching. Data is stored as simple key-value pairs, with the two primary operations "get" and "set." All data is stored in RAM allocated to the MemCache server. This allows for incredibly fast access times, generally beating those of a database handily.
Once you've installed MemCached on your system (from source, RPM, deb, or tarball), you'll want to fire up an instance and allocate it some memory:
sudo /usr/bin/memcached -m 8 -p 11211 -u nobody -l 127.0.0.1
MemCached is now running, listening on port 11211 of your localhost (127.0.0.1) interface, and using 8 Megabytes of memory. It's running as user nobody to mitigate any security concerns. (At some point, you'll want to add this command to your start-up scripts, ensuring that MemCached starts up with your server).
While you'll generally access MemCached with a higher-level client API, you can get a feel for the system and the protocol used with a telnet client.
> telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
set mykey 0 0 13
Hello, World!
get mykey
VALUE mykey 0 13
Hello, World!
The lines beginning with "set" and "Hello, World!" after it are the basic set command. It tells MemCached to store some data for a given key:
set [KEYNAME] [FLAGS] [EXPIRES] [BYTES]rn
[BYTES OF DATA]rn
KEYNAME can be any string up to 250 characters. FLAGS is used by client libraries to note any characteristic of the stored data. EXPIRES is 0 if the data should never expire, a number of seconds to retain the data, or a unix timestamp when the data should expire. BYTES is the size of the data to be stored and DATA is sent after a line break.
get [KEYNAME]rn
"get" is much simpler; it takes one parameter and returns the stored data.
{mospagebreak title=PHP MemCache PECL Extension}
Obviously, you are not going to want to interact with MemCached on a regular basis by using telnet and by typing out the protocol commands. Instead, client libraries are provided for nearly every popular web development language: PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, and more. Here, we'll focus on the PHP client.
The MemCache extension is a PECL module and may need to be installed separately from your PHP installation. In most cases, the PECL module can be installed and MemCache can be enabled without rebuilding or installing a new version of PHP. You can verify that the installation was successful by viewing the output of phpinfo(). You'll get a section of the output with the MemCache status, number of active connections, and PECL extension version:
memcache support
Active persistent connections
$Revision: 1.80 $
Once you've verified the installation, you can start using your cache! Here's an obligatory "Hello, World!" using MemCache.
$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die('Memcache Connection Failed');
$memcache->set('mykey', 'Hello, World!');
$myvar = $memcache->get('mykey');
print $myvar; // Outputs: Hello, World!
Using our news headlines example from before, here's a better example:
// Obtain an array of news headlines
// Each healine is an array or headline, link and img
function fetchHeadlines($category_id) {
// Load cached headlines
$memcache = getMemcache(); // wraps creation and connection of
// MemCache object
$articles = $memcache->get('articles:' . $category_id);
if ($articles) {
// cache hasn't expired
return $articles;
// The cache doesn't exist (probably expired)
// Load articles from the database
$dbh = getMysql(); // Wraps MySQL server connection
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM news WHERE category_id="' . mysql_escape_string($category_id) . '" AND status=1 ORDER BY publish_date DESC LIMIT 5', $dbh);
// Build an array of articles
$articles = array();
while ($article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$articles[] = $article;
// Store back into the cache
$memcache->set('articles:' . $category_id,
60 * 15); // Store for 15 minutes
return $articles;
In this example, we see a couple different things. The value of data used with the PHP library can be nearly any PHP variable. The data is converted into a string with the serialize() function, so numbers, strings, arrays, and most objects will be stored easily… only resources (file descriptors, database connections, MemCache connections) can not be stored effectively. Additionally, we see using the key as an example of an arbitrary lookup table: an ad-hoc string with the keyword 'articles:' and the category id from a simple, but effective key.
At this point, if you're site is loaded one time per second, you've decreased the number of queries for the news table from 900 every fifteen minutes to one every fifteen minutes. That's not bad for a handful of code. And even if your site traffic increases from one hit per second to 100, you'll still only be querying the news table once every fifteen minutes.
It is important to keep in mind that if the MemCached server crashes or the process dies, all your cache data will be lost. Always store the actual data in a database server or another persistent storage system.
While the example we created is fairly trivial, it's easy to see how this technique can be expanded throughout your site. Other queries and other data can be cached with similar benefits. Obviously, MemCached isn't the only solution to web scaling and data caching, but it can be a pretty useful. Often, as seen in our example, a MemCached solution can be implemented and put in place with minimal code changes, minimal time, and, hopefully, minimum downtime for your users!


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But you probably can't use it yet.
Early demand for the app was so high that the company had to create a reservation system to handle all the new users.
If you want to try Mailbox, you have to go to the company's site and register. You'll get a text message with two reservation codes that you need to put in the app after you download it to your iPhone.
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text: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:18, Michael Will wrote: > Steve, his original question was why we still bother with mpi and other > parallel programming > headaches when instead we could just use Mosix that does things > transparently. My response > intended to clarify that you still need parallell programming > techniques, and your point that > you could then also use mosix to have them migrate around (and away from > the ressources > in the worst case) transparently is true. > > My point is: There is no automated transparent parallelization of your > serial code. > > My apologies if my answer was not clear enough. > > Michael Will > Nothing personal, friend. Your point is well taken. > Steve Brenneis wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:29, Michael Will wrote: > > > > > >>On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:31 am, Rajesh Bhairampally wrote: > >> > >> > >>>i am wondering when we have something like mosix (distributed OS available > >>>at www.mosix.org ), why we should still develop parallel programs and > >>>strugle with PVM/MPI etc. > >>> > >>> > >>Because Mosix does not work? > >> > >>This of course is not really true, for some applications Mosix might be appropriate, > >>but what it really does is transparently move processes around in a cluster, not > >>have them become suddenly parallelized. > >> > >>Let's have an example: > >> > >>Generally your application is solving a certain problem, like say taking an image and apply > >>a certain filter to it. You can write a program for it that is not parallel-aware, and does not use > >>MPI and just solves the problem of creating one filtered image from one original image. > >> > >>This serial program might take one hour to run (assuming really large image and really > >>complicated filter). > >> > >>Mosix can help you now run this on a cluster with 4 nodes, which is cool if you have 4 > >>images and still want to wait 1 hour until you see the first result. > >> > >>Now if you want to really filter only one image, but in about 15 minutes, you can program your > >>application differently so that it only works on a quarter of the image. Mosix could still help you > >>run your code with different input data in your cluster, but then you have to collect the four pieces > >>and stitch them together and would be unpleasently surprised because the borders of the filter > >>will show - there was information missing because you did not have the full image available but just > >>a quarter of it. Now when you adjust your code to exchange that border-information, you are actually > >>already on the path to become an MPI programmer, and might as well just run it on a beowulf cluster. > >> > >>So the mpi aware solution to this would be a program that splits up the image into the four quadrants, > >>forks into four pieces that will be placed on four available nodes, communicates the border-data between > >>the pieces and finally collects the result and writes it out as one final image, all in not much more than > >>the 15 minutes expected. > >> > >>Thats why you want to learn how to do real parallel programming instead of relying on some transparent > >>mechanism to guess how to solve your problem. > >> > >>Michael > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >Ignoring the inflammatory opening of the above response, I'll just state > >that its representation of what Mosix does and how it works is neither > >fair nor accurate. > > > >Before message-passing mechanisms arrived, and before the concept of > >multi-threading was introduced, the favored mechanism for > >multi-processing and parallelism was the good old fork-join method. That > >is, a parent process divided the task into small, manageable sub-tasks > >and then forked child processes off to handle each subtask. When the > >subtask was complete, the child notified the parent (usually by simply > >exiting) and the parent joined the results of the sub-tasks into the > >final task result. This mechanism works quite well on multi-tasking > >operating systems with various scheduling models. It can be effective on > >multi-CPU single systems or on clusters of single or multiple CPU > >systems. > > > >Mosix (or at least Open Mosix) handles this kind of parallelism > >brilliantly in that it will balance the forked child processes around > >the cluster based on load factors. So your image processing, your > >Gaussian signal analysis, your fluid dynamics simulations, your parallel > >software compilations, or your Fibonacci number generations are > >efficiently distributed while you still maintain programmatic control of > >the sub-tasking. > > > >While the fork-join mechanism is not without a downside > >(synchronization, for one, as mentioned above), it can be used with a > >system like Mosix to provide parallelism without the overhead of the > >message-passing paradigm. Maybe not better, probably not worse, just > >different. > > > >The effect described above in which sub-tasks operate completely > >independently to produce an erroneous result is really an artifact of > >poor programming and design skills and cannot be blamed on the task > >distribution system. Mosix is used regularly to do image processing and > >other highly parallel tasks. Creating a system like this for Mosix > >requires no knowledge of a message-passing interface or API, but simply > >requires a working knowledge of standard multi-processing methods and > >parallelism in general. > > > >One final note: most people consider a Mosix cluster to be a Beowulf as > >long as it meets the requirements of using commodity hardware and > >readily available software. > > > >Just keeping the record straight. > > > > > > > >>>Tough i never used either mosix or PVM/MPI, I am > >>>genunely puzzled about it. Can someone kindly educate me? > >>> > >>>thanks, > >>>rajesh > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > >>>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis at surry.net>


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Wargames necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Wargames Laser Combat
We are an out of the box push the limits type company. We have been in business for 6 years and have rapidly become the leader in our industry. We produce cutting and bleeding edge technology and have over 300 fields all over the globe.
What we do!!!
We make tactical laser tag equipment that will blow your mind. Our equipment is made fully of metal and has ranges of over 1200 feet.
We have several Laser Combat weapons and looks. Players come out and play on one of our battlefields. Our personal battlefield is over 180 acres full of forts, fields, and combat zones. The battles get up to over 200 people at one given time. Our players have to choose a player class (i.e. Scout, Sniper, Commander, Medic, Soldier, Assault Trooper, and Heavy Weapons) Each class has its own specific weapons and settings. Each player wears a factional player uniform with full patches, rank, name badges, awards and skills ratings badges,( all of which will be made on this site if we like the quality of the results). Our missions use a point based system and typical Military Units ( Fire Teams, Squads, Platoons, Companies and Battalions). Our Missions are played both during the day and night using Radios, Sniper Scopes, Night Vision, Direction Finding Equipment, Smoke Grenades, Helicopters, Pyro, and various other props to make the game a once in a lifetime experience.
Anyone that would like to Role play in a Military Settings.
We have 3 main groups that were targeting.
1st Group of targets
Video games youth that play games Like: 1 Call of Duty, 2 Navy Seals, 3 Battlefield, 4 Halo, 5 World of Warcraft and other video games that have leveling or rank like structures and are very Guild oriented.
2nd Group of targets
Adults that share the first group and adults that want once in a lifetime experiences....And have the cash to pay for it. The age of Adults we are looking for is from 18-38 people that have been successful in business and can afford to drop 50 -100 a day in playing real life combat. We want guys who want to gear up and go play wargames
3rd Group of targets
We focus on and 60 percent of our business is in kids under the age of 16. These kids have their birthday parties at our site or bring their church group to our site and have short length private groups usually 3 hours.
Clean & Crisp
No Shadowing
Visible at descent distance & make a lasting impression
Design must be able to be very flexible. It will go on print media, T-shirts, 60 different types of embroidery of all sizes and colors, Window decals, Stencils painted all over our site, on our Tank, Hummers and other fun stuff
Be tied into the name Wargames. We do combat simulations with the real gear, vehicles and other stuff.
Must have a look that ties in to some of the newest combat oriented video games yet still be distinctive.
Faith based neutral
Must POP and say WOW
Design must have some elements that we can change the color to make it logo for a different product line.(i.e.) Maybe the name Laser Combat is red for the bad guys faction & the name blue for the good guys) Just an example...
The design must have color & subdued version. One for showing the great colors & the other for subdued military environments
25% of our clientele is military, law enforcement & paramilitary
Your your own style for our own project....We are not going to ask you to change your design 100 times.....we have over 30 projects that need to be done.We don't have time to make your style to our needs we want to find the people who's style we like and have them design for us.
In closing. No flaming or your designs will be eliminated.
Thank you for your help.
Derek Petit
Ceo Adventure Sports HQ
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Yesterday Microsoft and Local Corporation announced a deal in which the latter's Krillion local product database will be provided to Bing for display in search results. Local Corp. will supply in-stock product data from a range of mostly national-local retailers.
The list of participating retailers includes BestBuy, Costco, Express, Fry's, Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe's, Nordstrom, Orchard Supply, Office Depot, Radio Shack, Rite Aid, Sears, Staples, Target, True Value and Wal-Mart. All of the indexed products from these stores — it's not clear if this includes all in-store inventory — will be available on Bing.
Local Corp. bought local product inventory provider Krillion in early 2011. Through that acquisition Local inherited a potentially sweeping patent (8,032,427) that covers presentation of product inventory data online, for offline retailers.
Bing's Bill Hankes said, "We think the addition of Local.com's product data can help consumers by letting them know which brands and categories are in stores. The inclusion of this data, however, does not change the way in which Bing ranks results based on relevance."
In a way that's unfortunate because it would create incentives for retailers to get their inventory online.
Local Corp. offered the following statement to me in email: "We're providing our entire dynamic shopping data set to them. We'll be coming out with updated growth numbers for our platform (brands, categories, etc.) soon."
Several years ago there were a number of startups competing to bring local product inventory online. The recession hit some of these startups and stalled their growth. There were also a number of acquisitions in the segment, including NearbyNow by JiWire, Milo by eBay and Killion by Local Corp. Most retailers have also been slow to put their inventory data online and small, independent retailers have done almost nothing in terms of getting their product data onto the internet.
Local product search engine Goodzer (which offers an API) has taken a different approach and crawls retail websites, matching products with store locations. And Yext has an offering that includes some product inventory syndication as part of its larger local data distribution network.
Google has a "in nearby stores" inventory filter in its Shopping Search but the company has not invested in deepening product inventory. The advent of indoor location will likely present a new opportunity to get product inventory data online.
It's not clear what percentage of product queries are inventory related. However most products are purchased in local stores.
While e-commerce, and more recently m-commerce, has grown into the billions, online shopping remains a fraction of offline consumer spending (5.8 percent of total US retail). Recently I calculated that online-influenced offline spending ("O2O") represented something approaching $2 trillion annually.


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To Tell the Truth
Every Pride season I think back to when I first came out to my mother. I was out to my friends and a few family members that were my age, and that was it. This experience was nothing like I expected it to be.
I was 13 years old. It was a day like any other. I went to school, came home, did homework and chilled on the porch for most of the evening. After a long day and dinner I decided to join my mother in the living room and watch TV. We didn't do much talking while we watched TV unless we were debating what program to watch.
Flipping through the channels, my mother stopped on a game show called "To Tell the Truth." This game show was really well known at that time and had lots of comedy. Filled with mystery, the audience would hear a very interesting story and three panelists would have the chance to ask specific questions to the three players. Two of the players hear that same story, and the third player would be the person from the story -- each would answer the questions as if they were the real character. The questions will help the panelist figure out which of the players is telling the truth and is the real character from the story.
We would sit upright, analyzing every word and move the players would make, trying to be the first to figure out the "truth teller." After many questions and finger pointing, I picked the wrong one. My mother was right again. Somehow I was never able to completely win with her. If I picked the right character she had already picked it first.
"I think the show was a rerun but I'll let her take the win this time," I remember saying to myself as she laughed in my face!
When the commercials came on and the laughter stopped, she turned to me and said, "Now it's your turn to tell the truth." This was one of those times when I couldn't read her facial expression. I didn't know if she was playing or very serious. Yet, I knew just what she was talking about.
"You want the truth? ... WELL YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" I proclaimed in an attempt to bring the laughter back. My attempt was unsuccessful. She just stared into my eyes. Standing there with one hand on her hip and her head tilted slightly to the right, she gave me the look. You know ... "THE LOOK." That "Boy you better answer me with a neck roll and I got a belt and know how to use it" look! There was no question asked, but I knew just what she wanted to know.
"OK," I said as my heart dropped to my ankles; "I'm bisexual!"
I don't think I was ever as proud as I was then. I don't know if it was because that was the first time that I was identifying as bisexual, or that I was prepared to defend the title.
She only took a second to reply. "No you're not!" she stated as she began to gather her things for bed. I knew she was thinking hard, and now I really couldn't read her body language.
"Yes I am!" I affirmed, mentally ready to defend myself against whatever she would say next. I just knew that she would try to talk me out of calling myself bisexual, or say it's wrong. I thought of all the times in the past when she would say things like "Bring home whoever you want; remember, you are the one that has to be happy with them, not the family" or things like "Color doesn't matter -- they can be red, blue or purple, but you have to live with them."
"No. You're not!" she said, with a calm but stern voice. I followed her walking from one side of the room to the other as she exaggerated her efforts of getting ready for bed.
"Yes. I am!" I said mocking her tone. Trying to show her I was just a serious.
"NO YOU'RE NOT! NOW TAKE YO ASS TO BED," she demanded. The look she gave was something I'd never seen before.
I said nothing, and I left. I don't think I slept a wink that night. I kept wondering, how predictable is she really? What will she say in the morning? What would she do? Who can I call if she kicks me out like most of my friends' parents did when their parents found out?
The next morning when I got up she was already gone. I went to school and told my favorite teacher, who gave me a pat on the back and said, "Things with be fine. Don't worry." But, I couldn't help but to worry. I went to the library and started looking up resources for runaways and thinking of who could I turn to.
When I got back home from school and the library, my mom was home and in her room. She didn't greet me when I walked in the door. I was so stressed I wanted to cry. I kept saying "I love my mother; I really don't want to run away," walking down the hall. I dropped off my books in the living room as I headed to my room to change clothes.
When I got to my room I saw a small box on my bed. Quickly I began to open it. It was a box of condoms. "Condoms!?! " I said to myself with a blank face. I thought, "What made her think I was having sex? Is she telling me it's fine to have sex?" The thing is, I was already having sexual experiences, and if you stick a box of condoms in front of a teenage male it's like the golden ticket.
Only later in life did I figure out that my mother just didn't know how to reply. She didn't know much about bisexuality and didn't know how to educate me in the area. She knew that if she gave me condoms that I could protect myself, and we could figure the rest out later.
It was a rocky road of conversations on the subject and my choice of partners. Now my mother is my biggest supporter. Whenever I bring someone around that I'm really interested in or involved with, she would introduce him or her to the family as her son or daughter. My mother loves me and takes pride in who I am!
PRIDE EQUALS LOVE ... and that's the truth!
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) is a branch of medicine and surgery (both methods are used), which deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a Specialty (medicine) in ophthalmology. The credentials include a degree in medicine, followed by additional four to five years of ophthalmology Residency (medicine). Ophthalmology residency training programs may require a one year pre-residency training in internal medicine, pediatrics, or general surgery. Additional specialty training (or fellowship) may be sought in a particular aspect of eye pathology.
Macular degeneration
Diabetic retinopathy
dry eye syndrome
Strabismus (misalignment/deviation of eyes)
Exophthalmos (bulged eyes)
Epiphora (medicine) (tear duct obstruction)
Eye neoplasm
*Refractive surgery
Visual acuity
Ocular tonometry
Slit lamp examination
*Retina examination
Optical coherence tomography
Fluorescein angiography
*Medical ultrasound
The pre-Hippocrates largely based their anatomical conceptions of the eye on speculation, rather than empiricism. They recognized the sclera and transparent cornea running flushly as the outer coating of the eye, with an inner layer with pupil, and a fluid at the centre. It was believed, by Alcamaeon (5th century BC) and others, that this fluid was the medium of vision and flowed from the eye to the brain by a tube. Aristotle advanced such ideas with empiricism. He dissected the eyes of animals, and discovering three layers (not two), found that the fluid was of a constant consistency with the lens forming (or congealing) after death, and the surrounding layers were seen to be juxtaposed. He and his contemporaries further put forth the existence of three tubes leading from the eye, not one. One tube from each eye met within the skull.
The Greek physician Rufus of Ephesus (1st century AD) recognised a more modern eye, with conjunctiva, extending as a fourth epithelial layer over the eye. Rufus was the first to recognise a two-chambered eye, with one chamber from cornea to lens (filled with water), the other from lens to retina (filled with an egg white-like substance).
Celsus the Greek philosopher of the 2nd century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method.
The Greek physician Galen (2nd century AD) remedied some mistakes including the curvature of the cornea and lens, the nature of the optic nerve, and the existence of a posterior chamber of eyeball. Though this model was a roughly correct modern model of the eye, it contained errors. Still, it was not advanced upon again until after Vesalius. A ciliary body was then discovered and the sclera, retina, choroid, and cornea were seen to meet at the same point. The two chambers were seen to hold the same fluid, as well as the lens being attached to the choroid. Galen continued the notion of a central canal, but he dissected the optic nerve and saw that it was solid. He mistakenly counted seven optical muscles, one too many. He also knew of the tear ducts.
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), in his Book of Optics explained that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes.
Ibn al-Nafis, an Arabic native of Damascus, wrote a large textbook, ''The Polished Book on Experimental Ophthalmology'', divided into two parts, ''On the Theory of Ophthalmology'' and ''Simple and Compounded Ophthalmic Drugs''.
Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and leader of the First Viennese School of Medicine. He introduced a flap operation for treatment of cataract (Beer's operation), as well as popularizing the instrument used to perform the surgery (Beer's knife).
In North America, indigenous healers treated some eye diseases by rubbing or scraping the eyes or eyelids.
Polish ophthalmology dates to the 13th century. The Polish Ophthalmological Society was founded in 1911. A representative leader was Adam Zamenhof (1888–1940), who introduced certain diagnostic, surgical, and nonsurgical eye-care procedures and was shot by the Nazis in 1940. Zofia Falkowska (1915–93) head of the Faculty and Clinic of Ophthalmology in Warsaw from 1963 to 1976, was the first to use lasers in her practice.
Physicians must complete the requirements of continuing medical education to maintain licensure and for recertification. Professional bodies like the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery organize conferences, help physician members through continuing medical education programs for maintaining board certification, and provide political advocacy and peer support.


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The last time I wrote, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite and Vibe Magazine had died within weeks of each other. It's gonna be a stretch, but I'd like to try and catch up to what's happened in the politics of race, pop culture, identity, and media since then. I know: it's going to take me a while.
I've bookmarked an awful lot of headlines since then. But as a practical matter, with one looming exception, not much has changed at all. I've just scanned my 66 delicious bookmarks tagged "race" and "identity," and recalled a number of recent, census related public radio pieces and talk show segments. I may deviate in places from the true mean, but I think I can draw a few quick and dirty lines through the whole coverage that end up at the following points:
- White people still don't see the identity they've inherited, or the history that willed it to them.
- Black people are clinging more desperately than ever to our own denial of who we are now—and are not— with almost as much historical amnesia and/or ignorance as whites.
- Other so called "minorities," Hispanics, Asians --and now even Arabs and Persians--are clueless at best or (more likely) shamefully disingenuous about what is really in the cards for them when the reality of the 2010 census sinks in.
- The media (of which I remain an emeritus member) clearly no longer checks it's clips anymore, at least on these subjects. As I commented in part on a particularly clueless NPR commentary: In 2010 we are still going in circles that were made straight by scholars decades ago.
I apologize to however many readers for being inconsistent over the years. Perhaps it's the story of my life catching up to me in late middle age, as failing relationships are now joined by failing health.I think the trick may be to write shorter posts that trickle down what I see as true, rather than deluge folks with too much information. And to leave in each post a little thought question bomb like "what did he mean by "with one looming exception" ?
You can see all my delicious bookmarks on race and identity since the summer here.


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Defensive driving training opportunity Sept. 27
The Office of Environmental Health and Safety at Mississippi State University is offering the National Safety Council's defensive driving course at no charge to employees, including student workers. The defensive driving course offers practical strategies to reduce collision-related injuries, fatalities, and costs.
After participating in the one-day session delivered by MSU Safety Officer Alicia Musselwhite, attendees will receive a nationally-recognized certification from the National Safety Council. The NSC's certifications are accepted in more states than any other driver improvement or driver education program for insurance discounts.
This session is limited to 15 participants and a minimum of seven attendees must be present to hold the class.
Upcoming training sessions and locations include:
-- Friday, Sept. 27 from 8 a.m. to noon in Room 119 at the Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology in the Pace Seed Building
If you are interested in attending, please follow the steps listed below to register:
1. Click on https://ssl2.msstate.edu/orc/workshops/login.php
2. Enter your NetID and password to access the "Enroll in a Course" page.
3. Click the title for the date you wish to register, and then click "Yes" to enroll, or "No" to be returned to the enrollment page.
If you have questions about this course or if you require special assistance relating to a disability, please Musselwhite at firstname.lastname@example.com or 662-325-4607.


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Tell your senator: Vote 'No' on this dirty, dangerous budget
Dear Senator,
President Trump's proposed federal budget would virtually eliminate EPA funding for proven programs that are cleaning up the the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay and more.
These regional programs have already made a difference. They've improved toxic pollution hotspots, restored coastal wetlands and worked to keep invasive species like the Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
I urge you to reject any dangerous and short-sighted budget that cuts funding to these successful clean water programs.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas cotton producers averaged 914 pounds per acre in 2003, breaking the previous record of 877 pounds per acre set in 1994. But the state's notorious year-to-year variability in cotton yields mean nothing is certain for 2004.
Now, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture researcher Derrick Oosterhuis is convinced he knows what's behind the yield variability of Arkansas cotton. It's the weather.
"Arkansas had a mild summer last year," Oosterhuis said. "Cotton comes from hot climates, but it really doesn't like heat all that much. It does best between 68 degrees and 86 degrees Fahrenheit, but we're almost always above optimum temperature range during fruit-set, so the cotton's always suffering."
Bill Robertson, Extension cotton specialist, agrees that mild temperatures helped in 2003. "I give a lot of the credit to boll weevil eradication and new technologies, like BollGard and Roundup Ready plants," Robertson said. "But even with improved varieties, Arkansas cotton yields have been running pretty flat."
The 10-year average yield is 745 pounds per acre, and the five-year average is only a little better at 755 pounds per acre, Robertson said.
"Last year's mild temperatures helped us set fruit and keep it," he said.
Oosterhuis plotted temperatures and yields over several years and found that yields were always higher in mild years. But what struck him most about this study was that nighttime temperatures seemed to make the biggest differences.
"Plant respiration increases with higher temperatures," he said. "When overnight temperatures stay above 74 degrees, respiration causes the plants to work harder and consume carbohydrates that would otherwise be used for plant growth and fruit development."
Oosterhuis discovered the importance of overnight temperatures when he compared yields and temperatures in Arkansas with those of Greece, where he lectured and worked during a sabbatical in 2002.
"Greece copies our production practices, but typically produces yields averaging about 50 percent higher than ours," he said. "I charted 10-day average temperatures for a whole year and found that daytime temperatures in Greece were virtually the same as Arkansas, but nighttime averages were about 8 degrees cooler."
He added other cotton-producing areas to his study — California, Brazil and Australia — and found the same correlation of similar daytime temperatures to Arkansas, but lower night temperatures.
"All those areas have drier climates than Arkansas," Oosterhuis said. "They have lower humidity, which allows the temperature to fall lower at night, and they all have higher yields than Arkansas.
To test his theory, Oosterhuis and his graduate students set up test plots at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Fayetteville, which were covered at night and either heated or cooled to specific temperature ranges. Plots with cooler overnight temperatures consistently had higher yields.
"This test supported our hypothesis," he said.
Oosterhuis and Robertson said there's nothing farmers can do about the weather, but understanding the impact of temperature is useful information when managing cotton.
"Manage crops to reach maturity as early as possible," Oosterhuis said. "Control pests and other stresses to avoid delays in setting fruit, and a good water regime will help keep cotton cooler during the day. I think the early stages of fruit-set are more sensitive to heat than the later stages, so setting fruit early, before the worst of the summer heat, is important."
In the meantime, Oosterhuis and his graduate students are doing a lot of research to find out exactly what parts of cotton plant physiology are affected by heat. He is also working with UA cotton breeder Fred Bourland, director of the Northeast Research and Extension Center at Keiser, Ark., to learn how to evaluate germplasm and breeding lines for heat tolerance to improve future varieties.
"Water is the most limiting factor for reaching yield potential," Oosterhuis said. "After that, temperature is the most important. Farmers can use irrigation, nutrient management and pest control as tools to get the most from their crops. The only factor outside their control is temperature, but improved heat-tolerant varieties may offer a way to stabilize yields."
Fred Miller is science editor for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. e-mail: email@example.com.


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February 5, 2007
Cash placing of 8,600,000 new ordinary shares at 59 pence per share to raise approximately $5.1 million
IX Europe plc ("IXEurope", AIM: IXE), Europe's specialist datacentre services company with 14 IXDatacentres across four countries, proposes to raise approximately $5.1 million, before expenses, from the placing by Investec of 8,600,000 new ordinary shares
In its January 2007 trading statement, IXEurope stated that the accelerated build and higher specification of phase 1 London4 is expected to result in substantially higher revenue and EBITDA from H2 2007 onwards and that total capital expenditure for phase 1 of London4 is expected to increase to �20.4m (�19.4m in 2007 and �1m in 2008). IXEurope also stated that, due to the strong demand, the Board had decided to prepare for phase 2 (5,000m2 additional net space) of London4 by building the mezzanine floor at a cost of �1.1m in preparation for future build-out. London4 Phase 1 (5,000m2) remains on target to be open to customers in summer 2007.
The new funds raised are to finance the accelerated build and increased specification of London4 phase 1 (5,000m2 net space) and support other build-outs in progress including Frankfurt2 and Paris2. In addition, the new funds are likely to allow for improved debt terms and share liquidity. The market for the Company's services remains strong and the Directors are not aware of any comparable datacentre capacity being built of similar specification and power in West London. The increased specification of London4 is expected to support increased prices to customers.
All of IXEurope's build-out projects are part of the plan to bring on line a total of 35,400m2 net space within the current IXDatacentre portfolio.
The Placing Shares are proposed to be placed by Investec and will be made available to eligible institutional shareholders. The Placing is not subject to shareholder approval. The Placing will be conducted in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the Appendix to this announcement. The Placing is not underwritten. Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Dealings in these shares are expected to commence on 8 February 2007.
Guy Willner, Chief Executive Officer, said:
"Strong demand for datacentre capacity, particularly London4, has resulted in an acceleration of our expansion programme to a higher specification to meet demand from high-end customers with increasingly demanding datacentre requirements. By enhancing the quality of new datacentre space we are aiming to improve our margin prospects and investment returns.
"We are delighted with the response to the Placing which has also given us the opportunity to improve share liquidity. We remain upbeat about the Group's trading environment and ability to deliver organic growth on a solid base of recurring revenues."
For further details
IX Europe plc
Guy Willner, Chief Executive
Karen Bach, Chief Financial Officer
020 7689 1400
Investec Investment Banking
Chris Godsmark/Andrew Pinder
020 7597 5000
College Hill
Adrian Duffield/Corinna Dorward
020 7457 2020
About IXEurope
IXEurope is one of Europe's fastest growing providers of datacentre services. Its principal activities include primary datacentre services, connectivity services and business continuity solutions.
IXEurope works with enterprise and internet customers to provide resilient datacentre infrastructure to house their IT systems far more cost-effectively than through in-house provision. The benefits include optimised IT performance, improved systems availability and reduced corporate risk through improved regulatory compliance. By continually focusing on quality, IXEurope also gives clients exceptional service levels and on-site access to a high level of technical expertise.
With award winning datacentre facilities in key European cities, broad technology expertise and a proven track record, IXEurope provides solutions that give customers the confidence that their operations are protected. The Company is ISO 9001:2000 certified has over 450 customers in the enterprise, internet and networking markets including Merrill Lynch, Deutsch Borse, Network Rail and France Telecom.
IXEurope is listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market.
For more information please visit the website at www.ixeurope.com
About Investec
Investec Bank (UK) Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for IXEurope in connection with the Placing and no one else and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Investec nor for providing advice in relation to the Placing or any transaction or arrangement referred to herein. Investec can be contacted at 2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QP.
Terms and Conditions of and Important Information relating to the Placing
By participating in the Placing and acquiring Placing Shares in the capital of the Company placees will be deemed to have read and understood this Appendix in its entirety and to be making such offer to acquire Placing Shares on the terms and conditions, and to be providing the representations, warranties and acknowledgements, contained in this Appendix.
The Placing and the terms and conditions herein, are directed exclusively at investment professionals (within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "FPO")) and high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc (within Article 49 of the FPO) (such categories of investors being referred to as "Relevant Persons") who are also qualified investors for the purposes of section 86 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA"). No person other than Relevant Persons contacted by Investec may participate in the Placing or rely on any communication relating to it. Accordingly, this announcement is exempt from the general restriction set out in Section 21 of FSMA on the communication of invitations or inducements to engage in investment activity and has not been approved by a person who is authorised under the FSMA.
Members of the public are not entitled to take part in the Placing and this announcement is communicated to them for the purposes of information only. The offer of the Placing Shares has not been made to the public for the purposes of the Prospectus Rules. This announcement and the terms and conditions herein must not be relied on, acted on or responded to by persons who are not Relevant Persons.
This announcement and Appendix do not constitute an offer to sell or issue or solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for new Ordinary Shares in any jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and the Republic of Ireland. This announcement and the information contained herein are not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, to persons in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Republic of Ireland or in any jurisdiction in which such publication or distribution is unlawful. The Placing Shares referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 ("the Securities Act") and may not be offered or sold within the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration. Any offering to be made in the United States will be made to qualified institutional buyers ("QIBs") within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act in compliance with Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. The Placing Shares are to be offered and sold outside the United States in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.
The distribution of this announcement and the placing and/or issue of the Placing Shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons to whose attention this announcement has been drawn are required by the Company and Investec to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
Any acquisition or application for Ordinary Shares by placees should only be made on the basis of information contained in this document.
The Placing
Under the Placing, Investec, on behalf of the Company, has agreed to use its reasonable endeavours to place 8,600,000 new Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each at the Placing Price to raise approximately �5.1 million (or approximately �4.8 million net of expenses including VAT).
Prospective Placees will be contacted by Investec to invite them to submit a bid in the Placing process. If a bid is successful, the Placee's allocation will be confirmed to it orally following the close of the Placing process, and a conditional contract note will be dispatched as soon as possible thereafter. Investec's oral confirmation to the Placee after the Placing process has closed in connection with this announcement will constitute a legally binding commitment upon the Placee to subscribe for the number of Placing Shares allocated to it on the terms and conditions set out in this Appendix. Investec is arranging the Placing as agents of the Company. Participation will only be available to persons invited to participate by Investec.
Terms of the Placing Agreement
Pursuant to the Placing Agreement, Investec has agreed to use its reasonable endeavours to place the Placing Shares with placees selected by it. Investec is not obliged to subscribe for any Placing Shares.
The Placing is conditional on, inter alia, the admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM on 8 February 2007 (or by such later time and date as Investec and the Company may agree but not later than 8.00 am on 16 February 2007). Dealings in the Placing Shares are expected to commence at 8.00 am on 8 February 2007 (or by such later time and date as Investec and the Company may agree but not later than 8.00 am on 16 February 2007). It is also conditional on the Placing Agreement dated 5 February 2007 made between the Company and Investec having become unconditional and not having been terminated in accordance with its terms prior to Admission. If any of the conditions of the Placing Agreement are not fulfilled or waived on or before the time and date set for their fulfilment or become incapable of being fulfilled the Placing will not become unconditional and any placing monies paid in advance will be returned to the Placees, without interest, as soon as practicable thereafter. Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM. It is expected that admission will become effective and that dealings in the Placing Shares on the London Stock Exchange will commence on 8 February 2007. The Placing has not been underwritten.
The Placing Shares will be issued credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with IX Europe's existing ordinary shares, including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after the date of issue. Following admission of all the Placing Shares the Company will have 181,184,323 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, IXEurope under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
In consideration of its services in connection with the Placing, the Company will pay to Investec a commission of a certain percentage of the aggregate value, at the Placing Price, of the Placing Shares. The Placing Agreement contains warranties given by the Company with respect to the Group, its businesses and certain matters connected with the Placing. Investec is entitled to terminate the Placing Agreement in certain circumstances prior to Admission, principally in the event that any of the warranties contained therein are, or become, materially untrue, inaccurate or misleading or if an event of force majeure arises. In addition, the Company has given an indemnity to Investec in respect of, amongst other things, the performance by Investec of its services in connection with the Placing and the application on behalf of the Company for Admission.
The exercise by Investec of any right of termination under the Placing Agreement shall be within its absolute discretion and Investec shall not have any liability to any Placee, or any other person for whom any Placee is subscribing Placing Shares, in respect of any decision which it may make as to whether or not to exercise any right of termination or any of their other rights under the Placing Agreement.
These terms and conditions apply to persons making an offer to subscribe for Placing Shares under the Placing. Each person to whom these conditions apply, as described above, who confirms his agreement to Investec to subscribe for Placing Shares (which may include Investec and/or its nominee(s)) hereby agrees with Investec and the Company to be bound by these terms and conditions as being the terms and conditions on which the Placing Shares will be issued under the Placing. A Placee shall, without limitation, become so bound if Investec confirms to it (i) the Placing Price and (ii) its allocation (the "Confirmation").
Conditional on (i) Admission occurring on 8 February 2007 or such later date as the Company and Investec may agree (not being later than 16 February 2007), and (ii) the Confirmation, each Placee agrees to subscribe for the number of Placing Shares allocated to it, at the Placing Price. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Placee acknowledges and agrees that it will not be entitled to exercise any remedy of rescission at any time.; This does not affect any other rights a Placee may have. A conditional contract note will be dispatched as soon as possible following the Confirmation.
Each Placee undertakes to pay the Placing Price for the Placing Shares issued to such Placee on a delivery versus payment ("DVP") basis within CREST as shall be directed by Investec. Liability for stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax is described below. In the event of failure by any Placee to pay as so directed, the relevant Placee shall be deemed hereby to have appointed Investec or any nominee of Investec to sell (in one or more transactions) any or all of the Placing Shares in respect of which payment shall not have been made as directed by Investec and to indemnify Investec and the Company against any costs thereby incurred or loss thereby suffered.
This announcement is the sole responsibility of the Company. Investec is acting as financial adviser and broker to the Company and to no other person in relation to the Placing. Investec will not be responsible to any person other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to the customers of Investec nor for advising any person other than the Company on the transactions and arrangements referred to in this announcement.
No offering document or prospectus has been or will be submitted to be approved by the UKLA in relation to the Placing and the Placees' commitments will be made solely on the basis of the information contained in this announcement. Each Placee, by accepting a participation in the Placing, agrees that the content of this announcement is exclusively the responsibility of the Company and confirms that it has neither received nor relied on any other information, representation, warranty or statement made by or on behalf of Investec or the Company and neither Investec or the Company will be liable for any Placee's decision to accept this invitation to participate in the Placing based on any other information, representation, warranty or statement which the Placee may have obtained or received. Each Placee acknowledges and agrees that it has relied on its own investigation of the business, financial or other position of the Company in deciding to participate in the Placing. Nothing in this paragraph shall exclude the liability of any person for fraudulent misrepresentation.
By participating in the Placing, each Placee irrevocably represents, warrants and undertakes to Investec (for itself and as agent of the Company) that:
1. it and/or each person on whose behalf it is participating (in whole or in part) in the Placing or to whom it allocates its Placing Shares in whole or in part:
1. has the capacity and authority and is entitled to enter into and perform its obligations as a subscriber of Placing Shares and will honour such obligations; and
2. has fully observed all laws of relevant jurisdictions and obtained all necessary governmental or other consents in either case which may be required in relation to the subscription by it of Placing Shares;
2. it is not a person who is resident in, or a citizen of, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland or Japan (or an agent or nominee of such a person) or a corporation, partnership or other entity organised under the laws of any such jurisdiction (or an agent or nominee of such a person);
3. it is a Relevant Person and a qualified investor for the purposes of section 86 of FSMA;
4. in agreeing to subscribe for Placing Shares it has received and read this announcement including this Appendix and is not relying on any information, representation or warranty relating to the Placing, the Placing Shares or the Company other than as contained in this document and it has not relied on and is not relying on any representation or warranty or agreement by Investec or the Company or any of their respective directors, employees or agents or any other person except as set out in the express terms herein;
5. save where either Investec has been given prior written notice to the contrary, in participating in the Placing it is acting as principal and for no other person and that its acceptance of that participation will not give any other person a contractual right to require the issue by the Company of any of the Placing Shares;
6. it irrevocably confirms Investec's discretion with regard to the Placing Agreement and agrees that Investec shall not owe it any fiduciary duties in respect of any claim it may have relating to the Placing;
7. it acknowledges that the Placing Shares have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under the securities laws of any State of the United States, that the relevant clearances have not been and will not be obtained from the Securities Commission of any province of Canada and that the Ordinary Shares have not been and will not be registered under the securities laws of Australia, the Republic of Ireland or Japan and, therefore, the Placing Shares may not, subject to certain exceptions, be directly or indirectly offered or sold in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland or Japan;
8. it acknowledges and agrees that neither it nor any affiliate, nor any person acting on its or any affiliate's behalf, has or will offer, sell, take up, renounce, transfer or deliver directly or indirectly any Placing Shares within the United States, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland or Japan or offer, sell, take up, renounce, transfer or deliver in favour of a resident of the United States, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland or Japan;
9. it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell any Placing Shares in the United Kingdom prior to Admission except in circumstances which have not resulted and will not result in an obligation to publish an approved prospectus arising under section 85(1) of the FSMA or a breach of such section;
10. it has complied with all relevant laws of all territories, or obtained all requisite governmental or other consents which may be required in connection with its participation in the Placing; that it has complied with all requisite formalities and that it has not taken any action or omitted to take any action which will or may result in Investec, the Company or any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees or advisors acting in breach of the legal and regulatory requirements of any territory in connection with the Placing or its application; that it is not in a territory in which it is unlawful to make an offer to subscribe for Placing Shares; and that it will pay any issue or other taxes due under any relevant non-UK laws;
11. it acknowledges and agrees in connection with its participation in the Placing that Investec is not acting for it in relation to the Placing or otherwise and that Investec will not have any duties or responsibilities to it for providing the protections afforded to their customers or for advising it with regard to the Placing or the Placing Shares, nor do the contents of this announcement constitute the giving of investment advice by Investec to it and nor does it expect Investec to have a duty to it similar or comparable to the "best execution", "suitability" and "risk warnings" rules of The Financial Services Authority;
12. it has obtained all necessary consents and authorities to enable it to give its commitment to subscribe for Placing Shares and to perform its obligations as set out herein;
13. save where Investec has been given prior written notice to the contrary, it is not a person falling within subsections (6), (7) or (8) of sections 67 or 70 or subsections (2) and (3) of section 93 or subsection (1) of section 96 of the Finance Act 1986 (or an agent or nominee of such person);
14. save where Investec has been given prior written notice to the contrary, the issue of Placing Shares to it (whether as principal, agent or nominee) will not be subject to stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax at the increased rates referred to in sections 67 or 93 (Depositary Receipts) or sections 70 or 96 (Clearance Services) of the Finance Act 1986;
15. in the case of a person who confirms to Investec on behalf of a Placee an agreement to subscribe for Placing Shares and/or who settle with Investec on a DVP basis, that person represents and warrants that he has authority to do all such acts on behalf of the Placee;
16. to the extent that a Placee is subscribing for Placing Shares on behalf of a third party and prior written notice of such matter has been given to Investec as contemplated by paragraph (e) of this appendix:
1. such Placee has carried out applicable procedures to verify the identity of such third party for the purposes of the Money Laundering Regulations 2003 (the "Regulations");
2. such Placee has complied fully with its obligations pursuant to the Regulations; and
3. such Placee will provide Investec on demand with any information it might require for the purposes of verification under the Regulations;
17. it is aware of, has complied with and will comply with its obligations in connection with money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and insider dealing under the Criminal Justice Act 1993;
18. it acknowledges that the issue of the Placing Shares to it will be issued subject to the terms and conditions set out herein;
19. it has read this announcement;
20. it acknowledges that no offering document or prospectus has been prepared in connection with the placing of the Placing Shares;
21. it acknowledges that the content of this announcement is exclusively the responsibility of the Company and that neither Investec, nor any person acting on its behalf is responsible for or shall have any liability for any information, representation or statement relating to the Company contained in this announcement or any information previously published by or on behalf of the Company and will not be liable for any Placee's decision to participate in the Placing based on any information, representation or statement contained in this announcement or otherwise; and
22. it has not received a prospectus or other offering document and has not relied on any information other than information contained in this announcement or any information previously published by or on behalf of the Company and acknowledges and agrees that it has relied on its own investigation of the business, financial or other position of the Company in deciding to participate in the Placing.
In the event that a Placee is not able to give the warranties in (m) and (n) above, stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax may be chargeable or may be chargeable at a higher rate. Neither Investec, nor the Company will be responsible for any resulting liability to stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax, which shall be for the account of the Placee and in respect of which the Placee agrees to indemnify, and keep indemnified, Investec and the Company.
Each Placee irrevocably appoints any duly authorised officer of Investec as its agent for the purpose of executing and delivering to the Company and/or its registrars any documents on its behalf necessary to enable it to be registered as the holder of any of the Placing Shares offered to it.
Settlement of the transactions in the Placing Shares following Admission will take place within the CREST system against Investec's CREST account 331.
Investec will endeavour to meet the demands of those Placees indicating that they wish to hold their Placing Shares in certificated form.
In the case of a joint agreement to subscribe for Placing Shares, references to a Placee in these terms and conditions are to each Placee who is a party to such agreement and each such Placee's liability is joint and several.
These terms and conditions and all documents and agreements into which these terms and conditions are incorporated by reference or otherwise validly form a part will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. For the exclusive benefit of Investec and the Company, each Placee irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in respect of these matters. This does not prevent an action being taken against the Placee in another jurisdiction.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of IXEurope into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; the results of any litigation relating to past stock option grants and practices; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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