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This is a bit of a departure from the lines that I have been writing about (The Dunn/Lloyd connection and the Hassans), but I'm just so excited about an avalanche of information that just fell into place after a lot of awkward peering in corners.
When I was in kindergarten, one of our assignments was to ask our parents to help us fill in a family tree up to great grandparents and we would all talk about our families for show and tell. I remember feeling proud that half of my great-grands came from Eastern Europe and were prairie pioneers in the 1900s (I had a huge thing for Little House on the Prairie, and I imagined it was like that but more Canadian and with perogies). When I became interested in my ancestors again, I went looking for that tree. I didn't find it because if it is still around, it's in a box in my Mum's attic and I'm too afraid of falling through the ceiling to go up there. However, I found something better: The notes my Dad made when I asked him to help.
They're a bit grim and while I am grateful now that I have this information, I haven't a clue why he would tell a five year old about assorted uncles who had liver problems or Schizophrenia[1]. What I was hoping to find was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother, but I had no luck. He had just written "Patrinella" with her birth and death dates. Dad passed away in 2004, so I couldn't just call him up and say, "So, your grandma Patrinella? Was she some sort of Ukrainian rockstar, or did she have a last name before she married Phillip Podwysocki?"
What I did have on my side was that Podwysocki is not exactly a common name in North America. I already knew that Phillip and Petronella[2] lived in Manitoba and would have been married before 1920. Easy. Use the 1916 census to figure out when Phillip came to Canada and to confirm my gut feeling that there weren't a ton of Podwysockis around to muddle a search for a marriage registration. There was only one Podwysocki marriage in the Manitoba Vital Statistics Index, and it was in 1917 of Phillipe Podwysocki to a Petronella Kreszczuk[3] in Brokenhead.
From there, I found the Kryszczuks on the 1916 census, and they were living with Petronella's maternal grandparents, Martin and Tekla Niznik. After that, it was easy to get the record from the ship that brought them to Canada.
If you click on the picture, you'll be taken to the full page from the Montezuma's manifest. At the very bottom is Marcan Niziuk (Martin Niznik). Tekla is not on the next page. There was nobody else on the ship destined for Beausejour.
The 1916 census had said that the Kryszczuks arrived in Canada in 1912, so I hadn't looked at the 1911 census. Here they were, disembarking in Quebec on the 16th of November, 1910. Maybe Tekla had come a little later. It wasn't uncommon for husbands to immigrate first, but why would Martin go ahead with their daughter's whole family and leave his wife behind? They were all living together, so surely the farm could support one more person? Were there loose ends Tekla needed to attend to before leaving home?
Tekla was not living with them when the census was taken in 1911. I started to wonder if she was Domicela's mother after all, or if Martin had married someone in Beausejour. There was only one Niznik marriage for their area in the index before 1916, and Niznik was the bride's name.
I had tried looking for Tekla in the past, using Ancestry's Canadian Passenger Lists database. This turned out to be all but impossible because my toddler likes to babble "Tick tick tick ticka!" and after looking at page upon page of "Tekla" I could hear that baby voice at the back of my mind and it all became nonsense that I couldn't concentrate on. Anyway, the kid was sleeping so I pulled up the immigration records the other day and proceeded to comb through every Tekla who came to Canada between 1909 and 1916. Then a promising name popped out at me: Tekla Reznik.
I'm no stranger to transcription errors, so I'm willing to click on anything in an index that remotely shares the smallest bit in common with my original search.
Tell me, does this look like "Reznik" to you?
Well, maybe a little because of the loop from a letter in the line above it comes down and touches the N. Look at it slowly, though. It's pretty clearly "Niznik." The Rozalia Niznik she is travelling with is the Niznik marriage I mentioned earlier. And speaking of Niznik marriages, it was lucky I thought about searching for the possibility of Martin marrying in Canada, because even though he didn't, Domicela (Petronella's mother) did get remarried after Bill Kryszczuk died. Her indexed marriage registration states her name as Domicela Kryszczuk Niznik, and she married John Baran in 1928. Finally I have a date range for Bill's death, and I can find out when Domicela passed away, too. As a bonus, Domicela's marriage certificate may have Tekla's maiden name on it or her birth mother's name if Tekla is her stepmother. Now I can start collecting documents and getting my ducks in a row for that line!
[1] Thinking on it, I probably do know why. Dad was a bit awkward around kids, and you almost needed a dictionary to speak with him. He enjoyed horror films and sci-fi with a creepy bent. Dad was the sort of guy who would answer the door on Halloween, looking perfectly normal. Then when he gave the kids candy, a spooky smile complete with vampire fangs would spread across his face, and he'd drool a little fake blood from the corner of his mouth.
[2] Dad probably wrote down "Patrinella" because later in life she called herself Patricia or Pat.
[3] It gets spelled several different ways over the course of the paper trail including Kreszczuk on Petronella and Phillip's marriage registration, Krischuk and Cherchuck by census enumerators, and Krzyszczuk on the ship's manifest when they immigrated, but the spelling used most often is Kryszczuk so that is the one I use. If there is someone out there who is part of this line and uses something different, please let me know!


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I saw PARKLAND yesterday at the Venice Film festival and still am not completely sure what I think about it, which makes it a good time to blog about it. When my opinion sets in stone, then it will be time to review it.
The movie is about the Kennedy assassination as experienced by the doctors at Parkland hospital, where Kennedy and then Oswald died, and also follows Abraham Zapruder (nicely played by Paul Giamatti) and the family of Lee Harvey Oswald. The film is well-made and well-acted . . . but it seems to lack a point of view.
Or rather it probably does have a point of view, but it doesn't want to come down completely on the side of it, because to do so would alienate a good portion — perhaps a majority — of the audience. The film is based on a book by Vincent Bugliosi, who believes Oswald to be the lone assassin, so that could be said to be the movie's angle. But you almost have to know that to be able to tell.
To make a movie about the Kennedy assassination and not express an unequivocal opinion about who did it is a little like making a movie about Bush v. Gore without having an opinion about who really got elected. Yes, a counter argument could be made, that the point of the movie was not to assert what might have happened but to show what certainly did happen to certain people at the hospital, etc. Still something seems a bit missing.
Of course, part of my reaction COULD have something to do with the fact that I don't just think Oswald did not act alone. I don't think he acted at all. I think he was having lunch at the time. I suppose the filmmakers didn't want to open up that can of worms, but wow, that's a big can of worms to leave sitting on the shelf, unopened.

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Pondering Life in a PRISM World
Jun 17, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Not a single week goes by here in the Linux blogosphere without some assortment of news and events to keep life interesting.
It's not often, however, that something comes along with the magnitude of PRISM.
Linux Girl was comfortably ensconced on her favorite barstool when the news broke down at the Punchy Penguin Saloon, and it's been chaos ever since. More than a few Freedom Flip cocktails later, she's just now begun to write up her notes chronicling what will surely go down in history as one of the blogosphere's most somber conversations ever.
What will you do differently, Linux Girl asked bloggers, now that we know about PRISM?
'When the U.S. Was a Free Country'
"PRISM won't change my habits at all, because I have long assumed that every packet could be snooped upon, and if I had any incriminating data, I wouldn't be storing it online," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza offered.
"People who do not use encryption for sensitive communications have failed to learn lessons of history that go back at least to the ancient Romans," Espinoza added.
Similarly, "I don't see any way that changing my use of technology would affect my situation," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien agreed. "The government has way more in the way of resources than I can bring to bear here. I am just going to nostalgically recall when the U.S. was a free country."
PRISM "wasn't a big surprise," Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone agreed. "It's really just confirmation of something I already 'knew.'
'Why Freak Out Now?'
"Considering the existence of systems like ECHELON and legislation like the Patriot Act, PRISM is about as surprising as the sun rising in the East," Stone explained.
"There's a niggling little part of my brain that tells me to lock everything down: move to a Linux system where everything is compiled from source rather than trusting DEBs or RPMs and funnel all my internet traffic through an offshore VPN and a TOR network," he added. "Move as many services in-house as possible and encrypt everything."
Then again, "the rest of my brain just says that you already suspected this kind of thing, and you did nothing then, why freak out now?" Stone said.
"I don't like the violation that accompanies PRISM, and I disagree with the government's stance that the constant monitoring of its citizens is 'required' to keep them safe, but I'm not really going to change my habits," he concluded. "I'm going to contact my congressperson regarding the issue and I'm going to vote."
'There Is No Magic Bullet'
Anyone who was surprised by the revelation "hasn't been paying attention," Google+ blogger Brett Legree told Linux Girl.
In any case, "as a Canadian citizen, I will be sure to let family, friends and colleagues know that our country has various 'sharing agreements' in place with the United States, and I will remind them that we do have similar programs in place," he said. "I can't imagine that there are many countries on Earth that do not do this these days."
Legree will also "continue to remind people (as I have for many years) that whatever they share electronically MUST be treated as if it will be on the front page of every major news publication, paper and digital," he added. "I will remind them to keep their critical and confidential information on systems they trust, offline and backed up redundantly, and I will help them to do this if they do not know how to do it themselves."
It's important to remember, though, that "there is no 'magic bullet' solution," Legree warned. Even if you switch to Linux, use ownCloud, host your own email, encrypt all communications and use disposable SIM cards with your phone, for example, "how can you trust that everyone you know, and everyone they know, and so on out to six degrees of freedom, will do the same?
"You cannot," he concluded.
'Everyone Is Uncomfortable'
PRISM's surveillance has global implications, Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. told Linux Girl.
"Everyone is feeling very uncomfortable with this story," he said. "It doesn't matter if you are a good person, citizen, professional, a pacifist... you are being watched."
Personally, "my use of technology will remain almost the same," Gonzalo Velasco C. added. "Of course, I feel less comfortable with Google and try to use systems and software that are said to be less vulnerable or cooperative with 'Big Brother.'
"Why? Because I have the right to do so," he concluded.
'What Is the Point of Worrying?'
"If you had asked me two weeks ago how would I feel about a PRISM-like system conducting surveillance on my online activities, I probably would have been upset," began Robin Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. "PRISM actually targets me, since I am not a U.S. citizen or resident."
Now, however, "is there anything I would do differently? The answer is no, and I am not too worried about it," Lim said. "The reality is, there is little I can do about it, so what is the point of worrying?
"What this does underscore is we do need a Switzerland of the Internet and local companies in that country to offer email, messaging and cloud storage services," he concluded.
'It Is Necessary'
"I think PRISM is a necessary evil," Google+ Rodolfo Saenz suggested.
"It is necessary to scan Internet activities with advanced, intelligent, scanning algorithms taking advantage of human mistakes made by potential terrorists, especially those who are troubled, mentally speaking, and reveal their intentions through the use of social networks," he explained.
Of course, "the effectiveness of PRISM remains to be seen because of the rise of terrorist acts made recently," Saenz conceded.
'It Weakens Society'
"Terrorists can adapt to non-use of telephone/Internet just as Osama bin Laden did," countered blogger Robert Pogson. "Despite $billions spent, it took many years to hunt him down.
"PRISM and other such blunt instruments will not discourage alert terrorists," he opined. "Further, terrorists could use PRISM to set false alarms or to entrap responders."
In short, "no technology can solve the problem -- technology always has counter-measures," he explained.
"Compare terrorism with computer viruses," Pogson added. "We don't stop using computers because viruses exist. We cannot eliminate viruses, but we can harden our computers."
PRISM, however, "is not hardening our society," he concluded. "It weakens society by violating fundamentals of the constitution."
Two Key Pieces
The first key part of this story "is that the government can effectively deputize any U.S.-based business and compel them to spy on Americans and others," offered Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project..
"The second is the fact that so many American tech giants went out of their way to facilitate the NSA's surveillance measures through PRISM," Travers added.
"Whether or not this was a fairly automated way to get court-approved information or direct access to the backbone, such automation expands the amount of information available to the NSA and therefore make such requests more intrusive and more frequent," he explained.
'It's All There'
All in all, "it just goes to show that Bill Hicks was right when he did that joke, 'I think the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs. I think the puppet on the right is more to my liking. Hey wait a minute, there is one guy holding out both puppets!'" Slashdot blogger hairyfeet told Linux Girl.
"There is NO difference between left and right; all we have in this country is right-wing and ultra right-wing, nothing else," he explained.
"Whether we like it or not, we are going from a free to a nonfree society, and all the signs that followed previous shifts -- places where torture takes place where the rule of law doesn't exist, spying on citizens, checkpoints designed for intimidating the populace, a media that is in bed with and is often just the mouthpiece of the government, hyped threats -- it's ALL there," hairyfeet went on.
"You get the populace used to more and more abuse until an event (whether real and hyped or staged), and then the society is 'temporarily' locked down, only the threat is designed such as to be never-ending," he said.
"The people in Germany went from a free society in 1930 to a locked-down dictatorship by 1935, it was THAT quick," hairyfeet concluded. "The sad part? Merely writing that probably has put me on a list, if I wasn't already."


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It's been a difficult proposition this season for teams to win on the road on Thursday nights. Then again, most of those teams didn't have to play the Oakland Raiders either.
Denver quarterback Peyton Manning posted the 70th 300-yard game of his career throwing for 310 yards, a touchdown and an interception and Matt Prater kicked four field goals as the Broncos knocked off their division rival 26-13 on Thursday night.
The Raiders played a decent first half and trailed just 13-7 heading into halftime after Darren McFadden scored from six yards out on a touchdown pass from Carson Palmer with 2:06 left in the second quarter.
The porous Raiders defense actually held strong in holding Denver to just a field goal early in the third quarter despite three snaps from inside the Raiders 2-yard line.
Then Oakland fell apart.
Linebacker Von Miller sacked Palmer and forced a fumble that was recovered by Mitch Unrein at the Raiders 2-yard line. Two plays later, Knowshon Moreno scored on a 1-yard touchdown run to give the Broncos a 23-7 lead. The Raiders went three-and-out on the following possession and Prater kicked his fourth field goal of the night, a 33-yard attempt, to give Denver a 26-7 lead.
Palmer connected with Darrius Heyward-Bey for a 56-yard touchdown with just under six minutes to play, but Denarius Moore was ruled out of bounds on the two-point conversion attempt to preserve a 26-13 cushion for the Broncos.
The Broncos then rode Moreno in piecing together a 12-play, 38-yard drive to keep the sticks moving and run out the final five minutes off the clock. In his third start for the injured Willis McGahee, Moreno carried 32 times for 119 yards and a touchdown for the Broncos.
Palmer completed 19 of 30 passes for 273 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. McFadden carried just 11 times for 52 yards for the Raiders in his first game back after missing four games with a high ankle sprain.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The past two weeks of competition for the Lipscomb track and field teams have seen an array of highs and lows.
This weekend the team will proceed through the final leg of the outdoor season in search of sharper performances at the Mt. Sac Relays and Kentucky Relays.
"They will get some incredible competition and it should be great weather," said Bill Taylor, director of track and field. "Tucker (Peabody), Colin (Dempster), and Andrew (Bosket) will get great competition in their respective events."
Peabody will be competing in his best events, the 100 meters and 200 meters. Dempster will take part in the 400 meters while Bosket tests his speed in the 800 meters.
Gemikal Prude will have the opportunity to vie in a higher level of competition in the high jump this weekend.
"Gemikal has been moved to the prestigious Elite Olympic section of the high jump on Saturday, which is a huge honor," Taylor said.
A large portion of the team will be making their way to the Kentucky Relays where they will attempt to pull out strong results before final exams.
"This will be the last competition before finals, and we are taking next weekend off due to finals," Taylor said. "So it is important for our athletes to compete hard this weekend, and then turn their focus to finishing the academic year strong."
With almost all of Lipscomb's top performers competing this weekend, there is one who will not see time on the track.
"We are sitting Dani Walker this week," Taylor said. "She has a bit of an injury and we want to be careful. Having this week off, and an off weekend next week will give her time to get healthy and ready for the final stretch."
Fresh off of record-breaking appearances in last weekend's meets, Del McSpadden and April Terry will be participate in throws this weekend.
"Throws will be fun this weekend," Taylor said. "Del had a huge personal record last weekend, so he has to have a lot of confidence right now.
"April is always fun to watch, and she gets a personal record and a new school record more times than not."
The distance runners will have their final opportunity this weekend to contend in the 5000 meters before the conference championships.
"There is a bit of importance there in terms of determining our conference roster, and it's probably the best last chance to get an NCAA Division I National Championship preliminary qualifying mark," Taylor said. "For the women that most likely means sub-16:30, and for the men, sub-14:10.
"I don't know what the competition is going to be like at Kentucky. We are hoping it is strong enough."
Taylor's expectations for the weekend will be high as the team prepares for conference action.
"For all the events, this meet is big in determining who will go on to the conference championships," Taylor said. "I expect to see an excited and motivated team out there Saturday."


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Did you know that the United States Army has a field manual on the internment of civilians?
Titled FM 3-19.40 Military Police Internment/Resettlement Operations, the field manual was first published in 2001, during the George W. Bush administration.
Like you no doubt, I immediately thought: "Though difficult to justify, the Army manual on internment must be because of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the resultant Patriot Act!"
You see, the manual was published on August 1, 2001 — one month ten days BEFORE those two passenger jets flew into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Nor is the manual something for which Democrats can blame only Republicans.
Why is that?
Because there is an updated, revised, and more extensive 326-pages version of the same U.S. Army field manual, FM 3-39.40, published on February 12, 2010, under Democrat Barack Hussein Obama's administration.
Although the cover page of FM 3-39.40 states that:
- Distribution of the field manual is "restricted," being "authorized to the DOD and DOD contractors only to protect technical or operational information from automatic dissemination";
- Requests for the manual "must be referred to the Commandant, U.S. Army Military Police School, ATTN: ATZT-TDD-M, 320 MANSCEN Loop, Suite 270, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri 65473-8929"; and that
- FM 3-39.40 is to be "destroy[ed] by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document"
Happily, an anonymous patriot or patriots leaked FM 3-39.40, so that the American people can read it for ourselves.
The Preface of the revised 2010 version of FM 3-39.40 says:
"Field manual (FM) 3-39.40 is aligned with FM 3-39, the military police keystone FM. FM 3-39.40 provides guidance for commanders and staffs on internment and resettlement (I/R) operations. […] FM 3-39.40 discusses the critical issue of detainee rehabilitation. It describes the doctrinal foundation, principles, and processes that military police and other elements will employ when dealing with I/R populations. As part of internment, these populations include U.S. military prisoners, and multiple categories of detainees (civilian internees [CIs], retained personnel [RP], and enemy combatants), while resettlement operations are focused on multiple categories of dislocated civilians (DCs).
[…] All military police units are specifically manned, equipped, and trained to perform I/R operations across the spectrum and those identified as I/R units are the specialists within the Army for this role."
This is how FM 3-39.40 defines civilian "internment" and "settlement":
"Internment and resettlement operations are conducted by military police to shelter, sustain, guard, protect, and account for populations (detainees, U.S. military prisoners, or dislocated civilians) as a result of military or civil conflict, natural or man-made disaster, or to facilitate criminal prosecution. Internment involves the detainment of a population or group that pose some level of threat to military operation. Resettlement involves the quartering of a population or group for their protection. These operations inherently control the movement and activities of their specific population for imperative reasons of security, safety, or intelligence gathering."
In its "Introduction," FM 3-39.40 seems to say that the "civilians" targeted for "internment" are the civilian populations of FOREIGN countries:
"In light of persistent armed conflict and social turmoil throughout the world, the effects on populations remain a compelling issue. The world population will increase from 6 billion to 9 billion in the next two decades, with 95 percent of the growth occurring in the developing world. By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population will live in urban areas. Coexisting demographically and ethnically, diverse societies will aggressively compete for limited resources.
[…] The goal of military police conducting detainee operations is to provide stability within the population, its institutions, and its infrastructure. In this rapidly changing and dynamic strategic environment, U.S. forces will compete with local populations for the same space, routes, and resources. The modular force's ability to positively influence and shape the opinions, attitudes, and behaviors of select populations is critical to tactical, operational, and strategic success.
An adaptive enemy will manipulate populations that are hostile to U.S. intent by instigating mass civil disobedience, directing criminal activity, masking their operations in urban and other complex terrain, maintaining an indistinguishable presence through cultural anonymity, and actively seeking the traditional sanctuary of protected areas as defined by the rules of land warfare. Such actions will facilitate the dispersal of threat forces, negate technological overmatches, and degrade targeting opportunities. Commanders will use technology and conduct police intelligence operations to influence and control populations, evacuate detainees and, conclusively, transition rehabilitative and reconciliation operations to other functional agencies. The combat identification of friend, foe, or neutral is used to differentiate combatants from noncombatants and friendly forces from threat forces.
FM 3-39.40 is written with the acknowledgement that today's OEs are much more variable than the environments addressed in previous doctrine. Military police must be prepared to deploy into any OE and conduct I/R operations in support of the commander while dealing with a wide range of threats and other influences."
Though Field Manual 3-39.40 Internment Resettlement Operations seems to be a manual for the U.S. Army Military Police's internment and resettlement of civilians in foreign countries, the manual does NOT say U.S. civilians are excluded.
In fact, FM 3-39.40 (p. 24 of the PDF document) specifies that the "agencies concerned with internment and resettlement" are comprised of "international agencies" of the UN, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Organization of Migration, but also of "U.S. agencies" that include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
To my knowledge, neither DHS nor FEMA has ever been deployed outside of the United States.
More disturbing still is that pages 30 and 78 of the PDF version of FM 3-39.40 are blank, except for this message: "This page intentionally left blank."
Maybe now we know why on the last day of the year 2011, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act — a bill passed by a bipartisan majority of both houses in Congress, which authorizes the President and the military to arrest and indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without cause or trial.
Maybe now we know why the construction company Kellogg Brown & Root is tasked to provide services for FEMA camps scattered across the five regions of the United States. (See my post of December 14, 2011, "There Really Are FEMA Camps.")
Maybe now we know why a DHS informant leaked the information that the Obama administration is preparing for a massive civil war in America.
I belong to an e-mail list that includes active and retired U.S. military and federal government employees. The reaction thus far, predictably, is a dismissive "Pffft":
- "The federal government has contingency plans on EVERYTHING, as it should. Be glad that our government is prepared."
- "The U.S. government is under civilian, not military control. Besides, the U.S. military is sworn to protect the Constitution and will never turn against the American people."
- A retired Defense Intelligence officer who's now a practicing attorney, however, observes: "USMIL forces are not supposed to be deployed inside the US on law enforcement missions. Called the Posse Comitatus law and it's a century and a half old. It's bad news if U.S. agencies like Homeland Security and FEMA are deployed. It's really bad if international agencies are unleashed inside U.S. borders."
Our military strategists have a guiding principle for the formulation of defense policy toward other countries: "It's not intention that matters, it's capabilities."
Indeed, intent changes with the wind. But if a powerful entity has the capability to do harm, that means if and when it decides to wield that might against us, it has the ability to do that.
What is true about other countries is true about our own government. Whatever the intent of the Obama or future administrations, we now know that the United States Army has a detailed field manual on civilian internment. And the vast majority of Americans are civilians.
Read FM 3-39.40 for yourself here or, if that site's been scrubbed, in FOTM's archives.
H/t May, Mike, Tina, and Joseph.


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BlackBerry shares dive on reports of muted US debut for Z10
Shares of BlackBerry fell nearly 8 percent on Friday after reports of a flat response to the launch of its new Z10 smartphone in the vitally important U.S. market.business Updated: Mar 23, 2013 12:06 IST
Shares of BlackBerry fell nearly 8 percent on Friday after reports of a flat response to the launch of its new Z10 smartphone in the vitally important U.S. market.
The well-reviewed device, whose success is essential if BlackBerry is to reestablish itself as a power in the smartphone industry, finally hit U.S. store shelves early on Friday, nearly two months after being formally unveiled.
Several analysts and media reports found the debut lackluster.
"This morning we visited and called stores to survey early demand for the Blackberry Z10," said Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst. "We found no lines, no signage announcing the launch, and clerks told us they had very few pre-orders."
The uninspiring turnout hurt BlackBerry shares, which ended the day down 7.7 percent at $14.91 on the Nasdaq. The Canadian company's Toronto-listed shares fell 8 percent to close at C$15.19.
Many analysts argue that the Z10's performance in the hyper-competitive U.S. market could well decide whether BlackBerry can turnaround its faded fortunes.
BlackBerry, which is already selling the new touch-screen smartphone in about 25 countries, aims to make the Z10's new operating system the clear No. 3 platform in the market, a realistic but still difficult challenge, analysts say.
"I think the U.S. will be a challenge for BlackBerry more so than some of the countries where they have already launched," said Morningstar analyst Brian Colello.
"The momentum for iPhone and Android is too strong here. I still think they can win over some enterprise users, but the U.S. is a country where BlackBerry's brand has been greatly diminished."
BlackBerry once ruled the U.S. smartphone market, but it has fallen badly in recent years as devices powered by Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems dominate sales both in North America and overseas.
BlackBerry's new BB10 operating system will now slug it out with Microsoft's Windows 8 platform to secure the No. 3 spot in the market.
By most accounts BlackBerry has a tough fight ahead. It not only has to win back the hearts and minds of consumers, but the timing is hardly ideal, with the Samsung Galaxy S4, expected to go on sale by the end of April, generating a lot of buzz.
"We believe BlackBerry's launch in the strategically important U.S. market will run into intense competition," said Raymond James analyst Steven Li in a note to clients on Friday.
Despite the buzz around other devices, some still expect the Z10 to do well in the United States.
Best Buy's head of mobile sales, Scott Anderson, said the retailer has been able to gauge demand for the Z10 based on sales at Best Buy stores in Canada.
"We have fairly consistently increased the allocation of it to our stores as it has got more and more buzz. Even though we aren't releasing any numbers, we do put this in the realm of a serious iconic launch," he said, adding that BlackBerry has a window of opportunity over the next month before the new HTC and Samsung smartphones hit store shelves in the United States.
US Delay
The company was forced to delay the Z10's launch in the U.S. market because testing by telecommunications carriers there took longer than expected.
"We've been working very intensely for the last two months with the carriers and partners to ensure the retail experience will be great for customers," BlackBerry Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview with Reuters.
The launch, though, appeared to be low-key at AT&T stores in New York, where there was no sign of posters or other marketing to highlight the launch day. An AT&T sales associate at one of its stores said the store had sold several of the devices early in the day.
The device went on sale at AT&T Inc stores across the country early on Friday, while Verizon Inc is set to begin selling the device in its stores on March 28.
Carriers in the United States allowed customers to pre-order or pre-register for the devices earlier this month.
"Relative to the population, we are on the same trajectory as we were in Canada with respect to pre-registration, and as you know we've had a very solid performance in Canada during the first six weeks," Boulben said.
BlackBerry has yet to release hard numbers on initial sales of the Z10 in major markets such as Britain and Canada, where it went on sales soon after the introduction.
The company is expected to provide a first reading on the Z10's popularity when it releases its quarterly results on March 28. BlackBerry's shares surged last week, however, after it said one of its partners had placed an order for 1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the largest single purchase order in the company's history.
The BlackBerry Q10 model, which has a traditional physical keyboard that's likely to appeal to professionals who are heavy email users, is expected to go on sale next month. It won't reach U.S. store shelves until May or June. The company also plans to launch lower-end versions of the devices this year.
"I really expect a great start from the Z10 in the United States and that will be amplified by the Q10," Boulben said.
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Counter-cyclical is defined by Webster's as something that is opposing or designed to oppose a trend, especially that of an economic cycle. Translated into farm policy, what it means is simply government support when farmers need it the most.
In testimony before the House Agriculture Committee April 25, National Corn Growers Association President Lee Klein, of Battle Creek, Neb., stressed the importance of a counter-cyclical farm policy. Also present at the testimony were fellow corn producers Dee Vaughan of Dumas, Texas, and Brent Porteus of Coshocton, Ohio.
At the root of the group's farm policy plan is the goal of improving the safety net for farmers while maintaining many aspects of freedom-to-farm. To do this, the group proposes a commodity price-sensitive program that provides assistance to farmers when commodity prices are low and decreases subsidy levels as commodity prices become more profitable.
"Farm income shortfalls will not be resolved by one easy policy change like boosting exports or artificially shorting the market with a set-aside. We need a complete package that provides farmers opportunities in the marketplace with minimal interference in production decisions and that includes a safety net against those economic forces that are beyond producers' control. We believe the correct counter-cyclical policy can do that," Klein says.
More research funding
Such a counter-cyclical policy, according to the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), would include doubling the funding for agricultural research, and re-authorizing food assistance programs, the Export Credit Guarantee Program and the Market Access Program. At the heart of the group's proposal, however, is the elimination of the current marketing loan program.
According to Klein, farmers have concerns over the way the program is being implemented and many growers are unable to get their local loan rate because often the posted county price is above the local cash price. In addition, he says, growers have expressed concern regarding the inequity of LDP rates across state and county lines. "This disparity in rates results from a system where county loan rates are fixed for an entire year's crop, but loan repayment rates are subject to change, based on dynamic market price relationships as reflected in the daily (or weekly) posted county price (PCPs).
"Like Congress and other commodity associations, NCGA has vigorously debated the issue of raising the corn loan rate," he says. "Our official policy reads, 'NCGA will oppose any decrease in the corn loan rate' — reflecting our internal conflict with this issue."
Klein estimates that raising the corn loan rate would cost approximately $90 million for each 1-cent increase. "If Congress were to 'rebalance' the corn loan rate at, for example, $2.10 as has been suggested, the budget impact would be $1.8 billion even though the CBO baseline assumes a corn price above $2.10 for every year in the baseline. NCGA believes that merely rebalancing the loan rate levels will not address the underlying dissatisfaction with loan rates across county and state lines. In fact, rebalancing may exacerbate this and other concerns with the marketing loan."
Rewriting farm policy
NCGA proposes replacing the current marketing assistance loan program with a counter-cyclical program made up of several key components. The proposed program would work with production flexibility contract payments set at 2002 levels, establish a target income for each commodity, establish individual eligibility based recent production history; and replace the market assistance loan program with a recourse loan. "The goal of this proposal is to provide growers financial assistance when it is needed and promote policy that is less production- and trade-distorting," Klein says.
The group's proposal establishes an annual target income for commodities based on the average crop value during the base period and incorporates producer benefits from the marketing loan program and the market loss assistance payments. This base period average income is adjusted for each year of the farm bill by a factor that reflects projected production increases.
For each loan-eligible commodity, NCGA anticipates production adjustments for producers who sustained crop losses during the base period. Each year, crop income will be calculated using USDA production estimates and the average price during the first three months of each commodity's marketing year. For corn and other commodities with a marketing year that begins on Sept. 1, the third-month price will be the preliminary estimate as determined by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. "A three-month price allows payments to be calculated and made when they are most needed by farmers.
"We would anticipate that this would allow farmers the option of receiving these payments either prior to or after Dec. 31 or each year for optimal tax management. Whenever the national crop income is less than the target income, producers will receive a payment based on their eligible bushels," Klein says.
"We think a farm program with this structure has many benefits: It eliminates the 30-year problem of inequity within loan rates, it's non-production distorting, non-trade distorting and provides payments when needed to those who need it," he says. "This program will provide $31 billion more in assistance over that seven-year period than current CBO-like baseline estimates."
The December 2000 CBO baseline projects corn prices steadily increasing over the next 10 years. It estimates an annual average of $2.18 per bushel in the 2001 marketing year, $2.37 in 2003, and $2.40 in 2005. A more real-world projection, the national corn growers group says, would put annual corn estimates at $1.86 per bushel for 2001, $2.01 for 2003, and an average of $2.24 per bushel in 2005.
NCGA proposes eliminating the marketing assistance loan program, Klein says, due to concerns about compliance under the WTO agreement and the regional disparities inherent in the current program.
Should Congress decide to keep the current program despite the concerns expressed by NCGA, the group asks that four changes be made to make it "work more equitably for growers." The suggested changes include: allowing a grower to determine their LDP rate on any or all eligible commodities after harvest or beginning Sept. 1; continued LDP eligibility for silage, high moisture, mycotoxin-infected and damaged corn; revising the rules to give a producer the choice to have his LDP set in the county grown or marketed; and directing USDA to use the Posted County Price as the average of the two adjusted terminal price for the county.
"As export demand improves, so will corn prices," Klein says. "NCGA will continue to seek stronger export markets by supporting trade liberalization through multilateral negotiations and by aggressively pursuing market opportunities."
The keys to increasing export opportunities for U.S. producers, NCGA says, are the passage of trade promotion authority legislation and the re-authorization of food assistance programs; the Export Credit Guarantee Program; the Market Access Program, and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program.
Klein calls the "on-the-ground presence" afforded through the promotion arm of these programs vital to U.S. agriculture.
"We need to be out there on the playing field everyday, constantly marketing the U.S. advantage. We've got to listen and learn what it is our customers want and need. We must continually educate foreign buyers about the superior quality and reliability of U.S. grains. And, we have to be the people who these foreign buyers know and trust. This can't be accomplished from Washington. It's got to be done on the ground, in country, day after day. You can only build trust and lasting relationships through direct experience with your customer base," he says.
"It is time to demonstrate a serious commitment to market development to enable U.S. producers to develop and maintain important markets," Klein adds.
The NCGA is urging Congress to provide a $5 million increase in ARS funding for plant, animal and microbial genomics research and a $10 million increase for the USDA National Plant Germplasm System.
"While many federal agricultural programs are important to the nation's corn growers, the NCGA believes that the future of the corn industry is written in corn's genetic code and that plant genomics will give us the fundamental information necessary to revolutionize American agriculture," Klein says. "The National Plant Genome Initiative, the National Plant Germplasm System, and the competitive USDA programs that support genomics research are critical to the long-term viability of U.S. agriculture as they will provide our growers with the tools to meet the challenges and demands of the 21st century."
In addition, the NCGA is asking Congress to double federal investments in food and agricultural research over the next five years. This translates into roughly an increase of 15 percent per year of the research, Extension and education in USDA and other federal agencies, or about a $500 million increase per year for five years.
Calling it a "strategic and wise investment," the commodity group says the additional funding would improve income opportunities for farmers, strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. farmers in the global marketplace, find new uses for agricultural products, enhance the protection of natural resources and insure a safe food supply.
"In hindsight, the 1996 FAIR Act provided farmers with many of the tools we were looking for, but it was shortsighted in its ability to provide a safety net that would be sufficient in times of sustained low prices," Klein says. "We believe that our counter-cyclical proposal is the safety net that eluded us in 1996."
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I'm spending some family time in France this month. At the end of this week, I'm going to be cooking for my sister's family while Aria gets to spend some time with her cousins. This is the chicken recipe I'm planning to prepare for our dinner meal. The chicken is flavored with preserved lemons, dried apricots, fennel and harissa. The process is much the same as for my tandoori chicken recipe, but with North African flavors. There is a large North African community in France, and as a child I enjoyed many similar wonderful dishes. I've learned a lot about the flavors from the region and have savored many spectacular dishes from its culture.
The dish incorporates lots of sweet flavors, as is common in North African cuisine. I'll serve this on a bed of semolina with a fennel salad. I hope they'll like it!
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Roasting chicken is one of the best ways to showcase the poultry and enhance its flavor. It doesn't require too much skill; really, it's just about a willingness to get your hands dirty. To ensure a tender and moist result, you'll need to massage the marinade under and all over the skin of the meat.
The flavorings for the marinade are up to you. All that matters is the inclusion of the tenderizing ingredients to ensure the meat is succulent. Over the years, I've come up with a great combination for a successful roasted chicken, which consists of softened butter or/and olive oil, baking powder, green papaya paste and an acidic ingredient such as lemon, lime (or any citrus) or vinegar. For the remaining ingredients, I chose, garlic, freshly grated ginger, mint, coriander and honey. I also prepared a lime coconut sauce to pair with the chicken. And it was delicious!
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One of my contacts just informed me that the complete 1911 Census is now available and easily searchable at: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Be sure to click through to see the original handwritten census returns.
The 1901 census will be made available within a year, hopefully. All earlier censuses for Ireland were destroyed, and later censuses have not yet been released for privacy reasons.
My own great-grandfather had already emigrated to Chicago by 1911, but his sister and other relatives in Tullycorker, Tyrone appear in the census.
In the coming weeks I hope to add some posts about Cullens in the 1911 census, about things like different spellings of Cullen, Protestant Cullens, and Irish speaking Cullens.
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Apparently Meyer showed up late for the visit, and Reeves came away unimpressed. All the fine Ohio folk on 11Warriros and Bucknuts are already accepting him commiting to Michigan as a foregone conclusion; they're even starting to squirm a little.
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For reasons I can't imagine, apparently I have been nominated for "Most Humorous Blog" honors by these kind people. Go figure. Upon hearing this I promptly curled up in a dark corner and muttered "Must be funny… mustn't disappoint my audience…" And I thought up all kinds of laff-tastic entries that would prove just how funny I can be, proving only that I am desperately unfunny when the pressure's on.
Anyway, I'm not winning, so I command thee to go forth and vote. I didn't want to say anything, but those other blogs? They all have syphilis.*
(Normally I'm not one to toot my own bloggy horn, but last time I said nothing, and then--disgrace. Penury. Death. I won't let it happen again, damn it.)
Also, today is National De-Lurking Day.
So sayeth Sheryl of the delightful Paper Napkin, and I do whatever other bloggers tell me to do. So say hello. Now. I think this is a bank holiday, too, so you can all go home from your jobs. They'll tell you that if you leave you'll be fired, but that's all part of the holiday hijinks.
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Maybe it's the anticipation of a big surprise. Or perhaps it's the seductive way you eat a candy cane. Whatever the cause, the holidays are a mating call for men everywhere to go get some.
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Give her a frankincense back rub - Massages can be very sensual. Toss in some seasonal frankincense, and before you know it, she'll be equating Christmas with your oily, kneading hands. Pavlov wasn't so crazy after all, now was he?
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This small stoneware vase, or deep bowl, is untypical of Svend Bayer's work and was made at the Wenford Bridge Pottery of Michael Cardew when Bayer was an assistant there. The exterior of the pot is decorated with wide bands of closely spaced vertical lines, over which there is a thick, dark brown glaze. Interest lies in the contrast between the fine and cripsly incised lines and the smoothness of the glaze.


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Hurricane Sandy brought death and destruction to the New York and New Jersey area, but while one Staten Island woman lost all of her belongings, she wouldn't let the storm break her Belieber spirit.
Laurie Gjenashaj lost everything during the history-making storm, but thanks to a vendor's kindness, she was able to recover her eight tickets to Justin Bieber's concert at Barclays Center on Monday (Nov. 12). "I'm homeless, I'm broke, but I'm here," Gjenashaj told the New York Daily News.
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Freddie Couples won his first event this year, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, with a last round -2 under par 69 for tournament total of -17 under par, a six shot victory. Kenny Perry won the year-long points competition for the Charles Schwab Cup.
Fred Couples / AP
Fred was happy with his win;
" It's great to win. It seems like four years ago, now I have 60 days to lose all my momentum. I'd like to have the kind of year Kenny had, the goal is to win the Cup. The goal is to play. This year, I wouldn't call it a waste, but it was a waste as far as not winning. This week was different, I did not miss many shots. I got the lead and I kept it. I'm not a fierce competitor but I love the competition. Just winning, even if it's a club championship, you're thrilled."
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Kenny remarked on his magical season;
" It's been a magical season. This is my highest accomplishment. I've been close to winning a major on the PGA TOUR and to finally win a few this year, it's the things dreams are made of."
Kenny spoke about the challenge from Bernhard Langer;
"Starting the week I said it was 29 against one, and like I was saying, I was trying to be the mayor of San Francisco trying to shake all the players' hands. I just said, I need one of you to get hot this week and keep Langer off of me. And it was so funny he played right in front of me today, Bernhard did, and I came to the ninth hole, which I knocked a driver and 5-wood on the green, and I looked over at the board and he shot – 4 under on the front nine and I'm thinking this guy just won't go away. We'll cherish this year because, you know what, not too many people have one of these. To be able to say that I did it once in my career is a dream come true, to finally, here at 53, to achieve something pretty significant in my golfing career. I've had the lead since June or whenever and every week we talk about the Charles Schwab Cup and I'm finally glad it's over, I don't want to talk about it no more, I got it."
Bernhard finished in second place, a last round -4 under par 67, for total of -11 under par, in reality a long way from actually winning the tournament, which he needed to do to beat Kenny to the overall points title.
Tied with Bernhard in second place this week were Peter Senior and Mark O'Meara. As things turned out without Fred winning this week, there would have been a play-off for the overall title. Apparently Kenny was very thankful that Freddie turned on his super dominating performance.


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Garson, Jeremy A. and Brillanti, Stefano and Ring, Christopher J. and Perini, P. and Miglioli, Merio and Barbara, L. (1992) Hepatitis C viraemia rebound after "successful" interferon therapy in patients with chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis. Journal of medical virology, 37 (3). pp. 210-214. ISSN 0146-6615
Brillanti, Stefano and Garson, Jeremy A. and Tuke, Philip W. and Ring, Christopher J. and Briggs, M. and Masci, C. and Miglioli, Merio and Barbara, L. and Tedder, Richard S. (1991) Effect of alpha-interferon therapy on hepatitis C viraemia in community-acquired chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis: a quantitative polymerase chain reaction study. Journal of medical virology, 34 (2). pp. 136-141. ISSN 0146-6615


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From Fedora Project Wiki
Fedora Events: VDay Hungary 2012, Budapest, Hungary
The [http:/http://vday.hu/ Virtualisation Day Hungary] are an Event with a broad Scope at Users, Beginners, Developers, Administrators, Companies. It features usually some talks mostly in hungarian, presentations, and makes possibility to system administrators to build contacts, learn, share new developments around virtualisation.
When and Where
- 23. Nov. 2012
- Event timing has been cleared fully, but gates usually are opening approx at 7:30 AM.
- Registration desk is opening from 8:00 AM.
- The event place is:
Lurdy House, 1097 Budapest, Könyves Kálmán körút 12-14.
- Maps are coming here FIXME
- Parking is possible around the venue for free
Booth Personal
- Zoltan Hoppar (zoltanh721) - event owner
- Gergely Rakosi (rgeri77)
- Red Hat staff from Brno will arrive, their booth should be next to our Fedora one. Hiring desk will be available.
What we will get/will have:
- Space
- 2x2 meter tables (longer available, or we get one more)
- 2 chairs (if we need more we could have it)
- Wireless or better wired Internet Access and electricity
- Fully equipped talk room (Micro-port, projector, and so on)
- Catering: Not included, but there is available to purchase anything in vending machines, but also shops are available near at venue
Available event Swag/Tools/Equipment
- F17 multiboot discs (at least 100, but can be more - what we left we will take to the event) (Gergely)
- Some cheatcubes as decorations (Zoltan)
- XO laptop (Zoltan)
- Paper posters 4F for decoration (they are not in the best shape, but still usable, maybe we need better one) (Zoltan)
- Extra Rollup (if necessary) (Gergely)
- Laptops with monitor for demonstrations at booth (Gergely)
- Table cloth, rollup banner
- We need some virtualisation stickers, and fedora ones
- We have some swag from Fudcon Paris, so we have pins, lanyards, and such
- Under preparation
- Tickets and talks are under preparation
Tickets: Famsco
- Need to open for travel and additional costs.
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"Incense has always been a sacred offering
(For a quick instruction go to Basic Method for Burning Incense on Charcoal article)
To begin, you need a Censer or Incense Burner.
The Golden Lotus electric incense heater is thermostatically controlled to enable use with many different types of fragrances , incense resins and gums, powdered incense , bakhoor, wood chips, soft and hard dhoops, simmering granules, scented wax, herbs, flower petals, and essential oils.
The best setting to use will depend on the type of material being burned, and your own personal preference.
We recommend for most incense that you turn the Thermostat to full (230).
This heater provides a gentle heat that cycles so there is no fear of over heating or scorching your incense.
It is meant to bring forth scent and not smoke, so if you desire more smoke from your incense, use traditional charcoal and a resin censer .
For oils and waxes use a lower setting, experiment to see what works for you and the material you are heating.
Note that it may take a minute or two for the scent to begin to be released.
Basic Guide
- Press a single layer of foil into the metal dish or place a foil cup directly on the heating surface. Mermade carries beautiful gold squares of foil and cups for this purpose.
- Plug in and turn the heater on by adjusting the inline thermostat control knob. The red light shows that the power is on. We find that a maximum setting of 250 works best for most woods and resins.
- Place incense onto the foil with the small spoon provided. Place the metal dish with incense on the hot surface of the heater until it has released all its fragrance or has turned dark. Delicate woods and resins may vary in time needed, but since the temperature is controlled it will not scorch or flame.
- Be sure to always place the heater on its circular base when in use
- Putting the lid on the heater while in use helps keep in the heat. It is also traditional not to "clean" a censer lid that is used for fine incense, for over the years the residue that collects inside will be a fragrant history, especially if you are heating fine woods like Agar and Sandalwood.
- Do not reuse the foil. Dispose of it with the incense residue when the metal dish cools or remove it with the incense pinchers provided, Foil cups may be used more than once. The Cups are re-usable 2 or 3 times each.
- Please be sure that you turn the thermostat control to the off position after use.
Ceramic Heater with lid, metal dish, and base, implements (spoon and pinchers), Foil sheets an cups sample, Incense samples, Satin lined Gift Box, 120 v, U.S. 2 prong plug
With this method of burning incense you'll actually be "heating" or smoldering the incense, not burning it directly on the charcoal. This method of burning incense is especially good for aromatic wood chips.
This will take about 5 minutes or so. If you like you can fan or blow on the charcoal to help get the whole tablet started.
Burning Nature Spirits Incense
We find that half a stick is enough to scent a room.
|This article was published on Thursday 29 March, 2012.


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A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Gajitz.com is a place where readers find fresh content daily on great new gadgets, strange and sensational science as well as technology ... with a twist! In short: it is a place where people come to be inspired by innovations and dazzled by new discoveries.
The Problem: Gajitz is the latest in a series of sites I run but somehow seems most lacking in the logo department - which is where you come in. As you can see, I had maybe *too* much fun trying to design the logo myself - it is simply a bit too childish and hard to read. Its 'sibling site' Dornob.com has a better logo though I was hoping for something more playful/exciting/sensational/etc... for Gajitz without compromising style/respectability.
Beyond the Solution: if this contest turns out well I'd also ultimately like to maybe tweak the Dornob.com logo and definitely redo logos for WebUrbanist.com and WebEcoist.com and/or do other graphic work on these sites. This is my first time on 99designs ... I've always been impressed with the caliber of work and finally felt I should try it out myself.
Since the site has over 500,000 monthly readers (and the whole network has millions) this is a good potential portfolio-worthy project as well.
Educated, internet-savvy and geeky blog reader types - yes, it will be mostly male 20-somethings but there are plenty of older and female readers as well. The baseline: your typical web guy who is also interested in science, technology and innovation in general. These are folks likely to be reading Gizmodo, Io9, PopSci, Digg, Reddit, maybe TechCrunch as well.
-Must include 'Gajitz' or 'gajitz' (upper or lower variants are fine) - including the current tagline ('Tech with a Twist') is optional
-Should be bigger as a file but scale to fit a 229x108-pixel space
-Should blend with the light gray background of the header area as the current logo does (or have a transparent/flexible background
-Should start from scratch - do not build on the existing logo directly if possible
-Could have some dark blue (ala Dornob.com), but mostly grayscale ideally
-Could use Verdana to fit with site fonts or something else
-Could use gear image for the 'G' as the favicon does or not
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Phoenix1 needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Optimist Addict by Erica Nicholson
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Existing market...men and women focused on personal development. I imagine them being business professionals, managers, directors, and those who are working to climb the ladder of success. Ages ranging from 21 to 40. They attend workshops, seminars and read books to develop themselves.
Title: Optimist Addict
Subtitle: You Daily Fix of Motivation
Author: Erica Nicholson
I would like to see the book cover with a pill bottle design as if it's a prescription for negativity but feel free to allow your creativity to run free. You're the expert! :-) I have complete trust in your expertise.


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Where once the road used to end, now it begins. Never before have we been able to explore like this. Rediscover what it means to throw a leg over a drop bar bike with "Gravel Tripping."
Ep. 6: It all started when my mate Julian who works for Scott Bikes said, "Wouldn't it be cool to do an Everesting with someone who has actually climbed Mount Everest?"
Ep. 4: As an U23 rider Lachlan Morton was touted as the "next big thing" in Australian cycling and no-one batted an eyelid when he secured a contract with World Tour team Garmin-Sharp at the start of 2013. After two years at the highest level of racing, Lachlan was struggling to find the motivation to deliver on his early promise and eventually walked away from the sport.
Ep. 3: The Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross is an annual Cyclo-cross event over the three peaks of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-ghent, in Yorkshire, England.
The mass start CX race is a unique type of bike race. You could argue it is not a bike race. It is but a slog over the three small, but majestic mountains, be it by foot or wheel it bills itself as the "hardest cyclo-cross race in the world."
Ep. 2: The alps aren't just in Europe. Head to the Victorian High Country in search of the finest gravel in Oz.
Ep. 1: Windy Wellington. The purpose of the trip was to ride the Rumitaka Trail, but what was experienced we could never have imagined.


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Happ states his case in Blue Jays' shutout win
PHILADELPHIA -- J.A. Happ has been very open about his desire to be in the starting rotation, but on Monday night, he let his pitching do the talking for him.
One day after Dustin McGowan made a strong case to remain in the starting five, Happ responded with a statement of his own. The veteran left-hander wasn't perfect, but every time he encountered some difficulty, Happ found his way out of the jam.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- J.A. Happ has been very open about his desire to be in the starting rotation, but on Monday night, he let his pitching do the talking for him.
One day after Dustin McGowan made a strong case to remain in the starting five, Happ responded with a statement of his own. The veteran left-hander wasn't perfect, but every time he encountered some difficulty, Happ found his way out of the jam.View Full Game Coverage
Happ made his first start of the season a positive one by tossing five scoreless innings, while Jose Reyes homered and Colby Rasmus had a pair of doubles in the Blue Jays' 3-0 victory over the Phillies.
"I sure hope so," Happ said when asked if he thought a point had been made with his outing. "I'm just trying to go back out and do what I feel like I'm best at, get comfortable, and I feel like today was good step towards that."
Happ's outing was particularly impressive, considering he hadn't pitched since April 23. After being activated off the disabled list in the middle of April, he became the forgotten man in the bullpen and made a total of three appearances before getting an opportunity in Philadelphia.
The original plan was to have Happ make a spot start. Toronto only has one off-day in May and manager John Gibbons wanted to give his starting five an extra day of rest between appearances. That concept changed when right-hander Brandon Morrow tore a tendon sheath in his right hand Friday night and was placed on the 60-day disabled list.
Morrow's injury opened a spot in the starting rotation for Happ. There has been some speculation that the job could eventually go to rookie Marcus Stroman, but following Happ's strong performance vs. his former Phillies team, that seems unlikely to happen, at least in the immediate future.
"I am happy to be in there now," Happ said. "I'm trying to take advantage of the time now. Of course, I would have liked to be in there at the beginning. Before spring started, I felt great and then had a little issue with the back, and I feel good now. Happy to be where I'm at."
Considering it had been almost two weeks since Happ last appeared on a mound, there were very legitimate concerns Happ wouldn't be very sharp and that rust would have a major impact during his outing.
That didn't end up being the case, as Happ faced the minimum during the first inning and was able to escape a series of jams later in the game. He stranded the bases loaded in the second, left two runners on in the third and stranded another one in the fourth.
Happ's night eventually came to an end following a three-up, three-down fifth inning. He allowed three hits, but did walk four batters while throwing 48 of his 80 pitches for strikes. It might have seemed to some like a quick hook by Gibbons, but the outing was never expected to be very long, considering the extended layoff.
"We thought we could get out there and get after him," Phillies outfielder Ben Revere said. "He was kind of sneaky. He was kind of going in and out. The catcher back there called a good game for him. He was going to both sides of the plate and using offspeed really well. Kind of one of those deals where you focus on one place and then you overguess and it messed you up a little bit."
Reyes gave the Blue Jays some early run support with a solo home run on the third pitch of the game off right-hander Kyle Kendrick. It was the 19th leadoff homer of Reyes' career and his 181st hit vs. the Phillies. Toronto went on to add an additional run in the first inning when Juan Francisco hit a bloop single to left field which scored Melky Cabrera from second base.
The Blue Jays started another rally in the second inning when Rasmus led off with a walk. Catcher Josh Thole then hit an RBI double to the gap in left-center field, and Rasmus scored all the way from first base. All three runs were charged to Kendrick, who managed to get through seven innings and allowed seven hits and three walks.
Right fielder Jose Bautista didn't have a hit, but he was hit by a pitch during the seventh inning. He has reached base in all of Toronto's 32 games this season, which is the longest streak to start the year since Cincinnati's Joey Votto did it for 33 games in 2011.
The three runs ended up being all the Blue Jays would need following Happ's strong start and a bounceback performance by the club's beleaguered bullpen.
Esmil Rogers, Aaron Loup and Steve Delabar each tossed a scoreless inning before left-hander Brett Cecil came in for his second save of the year and the third of his career. It was a welcome change of pace for a team that had coughed up seven leads of two or more runs in the past 17 games.
"That's big, especially what they've been through the last couple of weeks," Gibbons said. "They're good down there, it's not like they've never been successful. Sometimes you hit those ruts, and it's been an extreme rut, but those guys are pretty good down there."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.