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Its Tricky will make her first start since winning the Ogden Phipps on May 28 in Sunday's Personal Ensign.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. They have combined to win 15 of 24 starts, 10 graded stakes, and accrued $3.7 million in purses. One is the champion 3-year-old filly of 2011; the other is undefeated in three starts this year.

As far as head-to-head matchups in racing go these days, Sundays showdown between Royal Delta and Its Tricky in the Grade 1, $600,000 Personal Ensign Invitational Handicap at Saratoga is about as good as it gets. The Personal Ensign is a Win and Youre In race for the Breeders Cup Ladies Classic to be run Nov. 2 at Santa Anita. The Personal Ensign winner gets her entry fees paid and a $10,000 travel stipend.

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Royal Delta defeated Its Tricky in last years Alabama here and in the Breeders Cup Ladies Classic in November at Churchill Downs to secure the championship in the 3-year-old filly division. After dropping her first two starts this year one being the Dubai World Cup in March Royal Delta has come back with a blowout win in the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis at Churchill and a gutty neck victory in the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap last month at Delaware Park.

Royal Delta, trained by Bill Mott, had a wide trip at Delaware and appeared to be laboring a little due to either an early move or dislike for the surface. Yet she fought back when Tiz Miz Sue came to her in the stretch.

Tiring but classy enough to hold on, Mott said, in summing up the performance. I dont think that filly was ever going to get by her, which is an interesting thing to find out. A lot of times a horse can blow by you if theyre full of run, but if they run to you and you can fend them off that shows you something.

Run at 1 1/4 miles from 1995-2011, the Personal Ensign has been shortened this year to 1 1/8 miles, something that is likely to bring Its Tricky and Royal Delta closer together.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates with his compatriot Yohan Blake (left) during the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne August 23, 2012. Reuters pic

The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the race, winning ahead of Dutchman Churandy Martina and as the top three all finished in under 20 seconds.

Other highlights of the meeting included another win for Grenada's teenage Olympic champion Kirani James in the 400 metres and the high jump where Qatar's Moutaz Essa Barshim leapt 2.39 metres to defeat Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov.

Less impressive was the 110 metres hurdles where Olympic champion Aries Merritt was disqualified for a false start.

Bolt, who has said his main aim was to see out the season without injury, seemed as pleased with his latest stunt as he was with his performance.

It's fun, I heard the music and it just came to me, it was spontaneous, he told BBC television.

His fellow Jamaican Blake, Olympic silver medallist in the 100 and 200 metres, beat his previous best by 0.06 seconds as he destroyed a world-class field in the 100, leaving Tyson Gay and Nesta Carter trailing in his wake.

Blake's performance added to the feeling that the 22-year-old could be the one to eventually topple Bolt, who is four years his senior and beat him over both sprints at the London Games.

Merritt's disqualification devalued what was billed as one of the highlights of the evening in the hurdles.

His fellow American, London silver medallist Jason Richardson, took advantage as he led from the front to win in 13.08 seconds, ahead of David Oliver and Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment who was third.

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LAUSANNE - Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 19.58 seconds for victory in the 200 meters at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday (Friday, PHL time) while Yohan Blake equaled the third fastest time ever to win the 100 in 9.69.

The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the race, winning ahead of Dutchman Churandy Martina and as the top three all finished in under 20 seconds.

Other highlights of the meeting included another win for Grenada's teenage Olympic champion Kirani James in the 400 meters and the high jump where Qatar's Moutaz Essa Barshim leapt 2.39 meters to defeat Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov.

Less impressive was the 110 meters hurdles where Olympic champion Aries Merritt was disqualified for a false start.

Bolt, who has said his main aim was to see out the season without injury, seemed as pleased with his latest stunt as he was with his performance.

"It's fun, I heard the music and it just came to me, it was spontaneous," he told BBC television.

His fellow Jamaican Blake, Olympic silver medallist in the 100 and 200 meters, beat his previous best by 0.06 seconds as he destroyed a world-class field in the 100, leaving Tyson Gay and Nesta Carter trailing in his wake.

Blake's performance added to the feeling that the 22-year-old could be the one to eventually topple Bolt, who is four years his senior and beat him over both sprints at the London Games.

Merritt's disqualification devalued what was billed as one of the highlights of the evening in the hurdles.

His fellow American, London silver medallist Jason Richardson, took advantage as he led from the front to win in 13.08 seconds, ahead of David Oliver and Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment who was third.

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TORONTO--(Marketwire -08/23/12)- TransUnion's quarterly analysis of Canadian credit trends found that the average consumer's total debt (excluding mortgage) rose modestly, increasing by $192 in Q2 2012 to $26,221. Although this continues the trend of inflationary growth seen in the past five quarters, Q2 2012 is still the highest debt level per person seen to-date. The nation has now experienced consecutive quarters of accelerated growth when comparing both quarter over quarter (0.74%) and year over year (2.41%) numbers, possibly marking yet another turning point in the directionality trend for consumer debt.

"We are in a unique situation because while it is somewhat disconcerting to see average consumer total debt reach its highest level since we've been tracking this variable, Canadian consumers appear to be able to manage this debt as delinquency levels have dropped across all of the major credit vehicles," said Thomas Higgins, TransUnion's vice president of analytics and decision services. "It's quite possible that this is a trend that will continue as consumers take advantage of the low interest environment. However, if there are any sudden economic shifts such as a significant rise in unemployment, then it's quite conceivable that delinquencies will rise with debt levels."

The increase in average debt was consistent throughout Canada. All provinces experienced increases during the quarter except Saskatchewan. On a year-over-year basis, only Alberta posted a decreased annual growth rate in Q2 2012 versus Q2 2011, which constituted the third consecutive quarter where debt levels decreased from the prior year.

Consumer Debt - Quarterly/YearlyDespite year-over-year growth on total consumer debt, directional changes in debt levels varied for several credit instruments.

Consumer Delinquencies - Quarterly/Yearly

Delinquency levels continue to remain low across all major product categories.

"Across the board, we saw delinquencies drop on an annual basis," said Higgins. "Auto loan delinquencies stand out most as they are traditionally among the lowest of the major credit types, yet they've continued a downward trajectory even while auto debt experienced significant increases."

Three Highest Delinquency Provinces

Three Lowest Delinquency Provinces

Consumer Bankruptcies - Quarterly/Yearly

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** FILE ** A Hewlett Packard Company worker walks into HP headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., in a file photo from July 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) swung to an $8.9 billion quarterly loss as personal computer sales shrank again and it swallowed a huge write-down linked to its $13.9 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems.

The No.1 personal computer maker, which employs more than 300,000 people globally, is undergoing a multiyear restructuring aimed at focusing the sprawling corporation on enterprise services, in the mold of IBM. The plan calls for reducing its employee base by 8 percent.

HP will have gone through about half of its targeted job reductions by the end of the fiscal year, HP's Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak said in an interview. The Palo Alto company cut 4,000 jobs in fiscal third quarter and will likely have shorn 11,500 jobs by end of fiscal 2012, she said.

"HP is definitely showing progress in terms of turning around the company," said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. "One of the clear signs is a better predictability of earnings."

The company was plagued by poor forecasting during former CEO Lo Apotheker's brief tenure.

CEO Meg Whitman has urged investors to be patient as she works to jumpstart revenue and cut costs.

"We are still in the early stage of the turnaround. There will be

The world's largest PC maker posted a 5 percent slide in net revenue in its fiscal third quarter to $29.7 billion, slightly below the average Wall Street estimate of $30.1 billion as compiled by Thomson Reuters.

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Hewlett-Packard misses analysts' revenue expectations, posts largest quarterly loss of all time

Everton defender Phil Jagielka was pleased with his performance in victory over Manchester United.

He was individually praised by Sky's analysts for his excellence at centre-half as United's multi-million pound strikeforce was blunted.

Jagielka told evertonfc.com: "We knew it was going to be hard but it was a game we were all up for and all ready for. It was nice to have a goal going into the last 20 minutes to give us something to hang on to and we defended really well.

"It was hard with the amount of people they had popping into holes, but fortunately we had enough people in the right places making blocks and tackles and we managed to keep them out.

"We won't get carried away," he added. "The game was perfect for us with everyone expecting us to lose like we normally do first game of the season, so it was nice to get three points. We have now got a hard game at Villa where hopefully we can get a point or three."

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Citrix today announced the release of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.1, which just won the 2012 Best of Interop award for delivering a simple, affordable yet complete VDI solution with personalized end-user experiences. The latest release of VDI-in-a-Box delivers complete end-user personalization with personal vDisk technology that allows end-user applications and data to be preserved while giving IT the ability to manage only a single instance of the master image - saving time and cost. This version also includes several feature enhancements to improve ease-of-use, flexibility, and performance such as optimizations for Google Earth, support for Active Directory failover, and beta support for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

The industry is rapidly moving from the PC era to the cloud era. Businesses of all sizes want to adopt desktop virtualization and realize its benefits of driving efficiencies, adopting mobile workstyles and improving continuity, but many face tight budget and resource challenges. Citrix VDI-in-a-Box address these needs head on. The VDI-in-a-Box design eliminates multiple moving parts that run up the cost and complexity of VDI. The all-in-one grid architecture runs on inexpensive off-the-shelf servers. Scaling simply involves adding another server, with nothing to rearchitect or reconfigure. Citrix is building on the success of VDI-in-a-Box by further simplifying the purchase and rapid adoption of desktop virtualization with these new additions:

Growing Partner Ecosystem

With the growing popularity of VDI-in-a-Box, partners are joining forces with Citrix to make virtual desktops easy with validated hardware appliances and configurations that eliminate guesswork and deliver predictable, repeatable performance at affordable prices.

Extending Desktop Virtualization Beyond VDI

Citrix has also made available a license migration path from VDI-in-a-Box to XenDesktop for customers that want to extend beyond VDI to leverage the full flexibility of XenDesktop. The end-user experience is consistent across both products as both VDI-in-a-Box and XenDesktop use the same Citrix HDX stack and Citrix Receiver.

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Kumar Goswami, Vice President, Products, VDI-in-a-Box, Citrix

As customers are growing their deployments on VDI-in-a-Box, they are looking to increase the level of personalization offered to end-users without increasing complexity or costs. With VDI-in-a-Box 5.1, we offer customers a simple and affordable approach to delivering personalized virtual desktops, helping businesses of all sizes leverage the power of desktop virtualization to deliver employee mobility and flexibility.

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New Citrix VDI-in-a-Box Release Makes Simple, Affordable Virtual Desktops More Personal

FOSTER CITY, CA--(Marketwire -08/21/12)- Funambol, the leader of white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile providers, today published the results of a global survey of consumers asking about their views on personal cloud storage (PCS) services. The survey asked 42,500 consumers about PCS services and whether they would use a PCS service from mobile operators. Seventy-four percent said they would use a PCS service from their operator. Seventy-seven percent responded that if they used their operator's PCS service, this would make them less likely to switch operators. Seventy-four percent indicated that if they used an operator family cloud, this would make them less likely to change operators. The findings underscore the importance of operators providing a PCS service and how their window of opportunity is limited to deploy a PCS service before others capture their subscribers' content.

The free survey report can be downloaded instantly at http://funambol.com/solutions/library.php with registration. The survey results will be presented during a free webinar entitled "Personal Cloud Crystal Ball: What's Next for Users & the Industry?" on Thursday, August 23 @ 8am PDT / 11am EDT /4pm UK with registration at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/684115688. The webinar also discusses a Funambol forecast of how the number of PCS service accounts is expected to reach one billion by 2016.

"Operators face mounting pressure to reduce churn and increase loyalty, and many are considering personal clouds to do both," said Hal Steger, Funambol VP Marketing. "This report provides further proof that operator personal clouds can significantly increase loyalty and reduce churn and that the financial benefits can be enormous. Based on these results and market conditions, operators need to move quickly before it's too late."

The PCS market is changing rapidly and offers consumers more choice than ever. The survey polled consumers on a range of personal cloud questions. In addition to the aforementioned results, it found:

Funambol's webinar will discuss the survey report and key trends that will accelerate user adoption in coming years. It will also describe important technology innovations and the evolution of the prevailing freemium business model. The webinar is for anyone interested in learning more about the personal cloud and its future direction.

About FunambolFunambol is the leader of white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile providers. Funambol solutions have been deployed by leading companies in mobile, including operators, device manufacturers (OEMs), internet firms, content companies and system integrators. Visit http://www.funambol.com for details.

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Survey: Operator Personal Cloud Storage Critical for Consumers and Building Customer Loyalty

GORHAM The most successful women's mountain cyclist in Mount Washington history, Marti Shea, is now the second fastest.

A Manchester native, Shea, 49, now of Marblehead, Mass., turned in a personal best performance of 1:03:14 and won her third consecutive Mount Washington Bicycle Hillclimb here Saturday.

Shea, a standout athlete at Manchester Memorial High School and a former all-America distance runner at Boston University, is also the only women's winner the Newton's Revenge competition, staged here annually in July, has ever known. She now has nine bicycle triumphs over the 7.6-mile Auto Road to the mountain's 6,288-foot summit. Shea's Saturday time was second only to the 58:14 turned in by course record holder Jeannie Longo in 2000.

Times were quick in the men's field as well, as 2012 Revenge winner Cameron Cogburn, 26, of Cambridge, Mass., became the first male to sweep the summer races on the mountain and the second fastest man ever, winning in 52:28.

Tom Danielson, of East Lyme, Conn., is the lone male who has pedaled quicker. His course record of 49:24, set in 2002, is one of three faster times that he has posted.

The race featured seven different cyclists completing the steepest mountain bicycle hillclimb in the world in under one hour.

Leroy Popowski, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was second in 53:47 and Peter Hurst, who started in the second wave, finished third in 54:03.

Race results coolrunning.com.

New Hampshire's top male finisher was 17-year-old Chad Young of Newmarket whose bid to finish under one hour was denied by two seconds. He was eighth.

Weather conditions were ideal as a slight breeze barely stirred the 45 degree summit temperature.

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Dublin, CA (PRWEB) August 18, 2012

Dublin personal trainer and running coach, The Fit Potato, is currently offering to train clients for upcoming local races through coached running group sessions, one-on-one personal training and running coaching, and online running coaching through e-mail, Skype, text messages and phone call sessions.

We are currently training our clients for races like the San Francisco Marathon and 5k, the San Jose Half Marathon, Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco and California International Marathon in Sacramento, Francisco Gomez of The Fit Potato said.

Upcoming racing dates include Susan G. Komen San Francisco on Sept. 9, Back to School Scholarship Run on Sept. 15, The Giant Race Half Marathon on Sept. 16, Rock 'n' Roll San Jose Half Marathon on Oct. 7, Primos Run for Education on Oct. 10, Nike Women's Marathon on Oct. 14, Fremont Run for Education on Oct. 14, Grape Stomp Half Marathon on Oct. 21, New York Marathon on Nov. 4, Bah Humbug on Dec. 1 and California International Marathon on Dec. 2.

The Dublin personal trainer and expert running coach is offering his training guidance and specialized running training to cover the demand of the new running boom in the U.S. So many people want to train for a race, but they don't know where to begin or how to improve their times and performance.

I want to offer my running expertise to them so I can help them improve and stay injury free. Just as the number of runners that are signing up for these races is increasing so are the number of injuries they suffer. Stay healthy by getting your own expert running coach! Gomez said.

Running helps people fight diabetes, health problems, weight issues and overall health. Without direction or guidance, the chances of suffering injury and stopping improvement increases.

The Fit Potato offers running training at coached running group sessions in Dublin, San Ramon, Danville and Pleasanton; one-on-one personal training and running coaching in Dublin; and online running coaching.

The great news with online running coaching is that you get your very own expert running coach and a personalized training plan, Gomez said.

For more information about its running coaching services or any of The Fit Potato's services, call 925-241-5235 or view the training expert on the Web at http://www.thefitpotato.com.

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