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Directions to the U.S. Government Documents Collection
There is no separate U.S. Government Documents collection in the Columbia University Libraries. CLIO has records for most U.S. government depository titles, indicating the location in one of the campus libraries, according to subject. Some materials (primarily pre-1976 Congressional documents) still can only be identified and located through the card catalogs in the Butler Library Reference Department. Most print documents published since 1976 are now located in the Offsite storage facility. The CLIO records will indicate this location and provide a means for recalling the items from off-site on request. U.S. depository items on microfiche are located in the microfiche cabinets on the second level of Lehman Library. There are CLIO records for microfiche items, which give the location as Lehman U.S. Government Documents. Microfiche must be used in Lehman Library and do not circulate.
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Nearly every weekend there's a minor league MMA event somewhere in the world. Here's a brief look at one: TNT Fight Series' "March Madness", which took place in North Tonawanda, N.Y. on Saturday, March 2, 2013.
- Sam Cappy def. Ben Gaynes by Unanimous Decision.
- Justin Converse def. Josh Conklin by Unanimous Decision
- Andrew Canale def. Jason Gomez by Submission (Darce Choke) in Rd. 1, 2:23
- Jacob Bohn def. Corey Lauth by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in Rd. 2, 1:14
- Brandon Mueckl def. Bill Meggison by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) Rd. 1, :44
- Dylan Hall def. Kareem Coston by Unanimous Decision
- Jon Conklin def. Magdiel Matias by Unanimous Decision
- Scott McGregor def. Jermaine Sneed by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in Rd. 2, 1:44
- Cody Plotner def. Yuting Hong by Split Decision
- Eric Decker def. Tony Norton by Unanimous Decision
- Valerie Aspaas def. Angie Reinhardt by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) Rd. 2, 1:27
- Frankie Scalzo def. Dylan Freedman by Submission (Guillotine Choke) in Rd. 3, 2:01
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IBM BladeCenters still touring Shanghai as Istanbul beckons
Trying to find its x64 legs in choppy economic seas
While the six-core "Istanbul" Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices were launched yesterday, not every vendor is ready on day one to get the chip into existing or new products.
This seems to be the case with IBM today as it tweaks its BladeCenter boxes that support Intel's quad-core "Nehalem EP" Xeon 5500s, which were announced at the end of March, and support AMD's quad-core "Shanghai" Opterons, the version of which IBM is plunking into its blades was announced last November.
The Shanghai Opterons were updated at in January with low-voltage Opteron Highly Efficient (HE) parts and a higher-speed Opteron Special Edition (SE) part, and then in April AMD put out a dozen faster Shanghais, including very low power Extremely Efficient (EE) parts that have a 40 watt rating and run at 2.1 GHz or 2.3 GHz. That last Shanghai jump included quad-cores in the standard 75-watt thermal envelope that ran at 2.9 GHz as well as SE parts rated at 105 watts that crank the clocks up to 3.1 GHz.
Perhaps most significantly, given the launch of the Istanbul Opterons, the Shanghai chips now have substantially lower prices, which were cut on May 25 ahead of the Istanbuls. You would think these faster - and now cheaper - Shanghai processors would be in IBM's blades already.
Given the Shanghai price cuts and the lengthy time it takes for vendors and then end user companies to qualify new processors, you can see why IBM might not be ready to ship Istanbul chips in its BladeCenter blade servers and System x rack and tower servers on day one. Then again, given the huge market share gains that Hewlett-Packard has made in the blade center racket - perhaps the only profitable part of the x64 space at this point aside from very large x64 machines with 8 or 16 sockets - and that competition out there in the server racket is cut-throat, you would think that IBM and every other vendor would want to hit the ground running. They seem more interested in burning through their inventories of machines and letting their channels get rid of old boxes before pushing the new ones.
The Opteron-based LS42 blade server that IBM is rolling out today is based on the Shanghai 8384 processor, which runs at 2.7 GHz and which has 512 KB of L2 cache for each of the four cores on the chip plus a shared 6 MB L3 cache. The blade is a double-wide unit that has two sockets on each blade, which are snapped together using HyperTransport and special SMP ports on the board to make a four-socket blade.
The LS42 blade is based on Broadcom's ServerWorks HT-2000 chipset, and also sports Broadcom's two-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet mezzanine cards as well as four Gigabit Ethernet ports (two per blade). IBM is also plunking in 8 GB DDR2 memory DIMMs for customers who need lots of main memory (perhaps to support virtualization or databases), which doubles up memory to 128 GB on the four-way blade. The LS42 blade has room for two 2.5-inch SAS or SSD drives.
By the way, there is no technical reason why an Istanbul chip can't plug into the LS42 blade, but IBM has to flash the BIOS so it can see the new chip and its six cores.
The LS42 blade is available today, and with 16 GB of main memory and four Opteron 8384 processors, the server costs $15,275.
IBM announced a bunch of Nehalem EP machines on the day that Intel chip came out, including two System x rack servers (the x3550 M2 and the x3650 M2), an updated BladeCenter HS22 blade server, and a shape-shifting computer/storage hybrid iDataPlex blade. Today, the two-socket HS22 blade is getting a so-called Express variant, which provides customers with discounts on a preconfigured HS22.
This particular configuration sports two 2.8 GHz Xeon X5560s, 8 GB of DDR3 main memory (expandable up to 96 GB), and room for two 2.5-inch SAS or SSD drives, all for $5,639. This HS22 Express configuration ships on June 19, but is orderable today.
IM also announced a new 2 GB memory module for the HS22 blade, as well as a USB memory stick preloaded with VMware's ESXi 3.5 Update 4 virtualization hypervisor, which plugs directly into the HS22 blade. IBM also said it is shipping a new ServeRAID MR10ie SAS disk controller for the HS22 blade, and warns that this controller does not support SSDs or SATA drives. Pricing for these features was not available at press time.
As part of the rejigging of the x64 server lineup today, IBM also said that as of June 30, it is taking a bunch of System x server products based on prior generations of Intel and AMD chips out of its catalog, including the System x3200, x3455, x3610, and x3655B rack servers and the BladeCenter HS20 (Xeons from years ago), the original LS42 Opteron blades (pre-dating quad-core), and HC10 (a workstation blade). The workstation blade is not being replaced. Whatever experiment that was, it didn't work. IBM does offer an HS12 uniprocessor blade, which companies could in theory use to support virtual desktops.
IBM has not said when it plans to get Istanbul Opterons certified in its existing LS series of blades, or if it plans to create a new set of blades with new chipsets and goodies that can support the Istanbuls. But sources at the company say that Istanbul rack and blade servers are coming out later this year. ®


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Playoff Beard Comparisons
It's that time of year again. The weather is getting warmer, flowers are blossoming and playoff beards are in full bloom. With Game One of the cup finals almost upon us, it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty, the details, the things that everyone wants to know about and the questions that everyone wants answered. Questions such as; 'How does Ryan Getzlaf look so much like Steve-O from Jackass?' and 'Why would anyone give you a blog if you're going to write drivel like this?' Without any further ado, it's time for… NHL playoff beard comparisons!
Mathieu Schneider
Billy Mays
First up is
Chris Drury
Luke Wilson in 'The Royal Tenenbaums'
This year Chris Drury wins the award for looking the most like Luke Wilson. He has not only the beard, but the eyebrows and far away stare as well.
Daniel Briere
Johnny Depp in 'Once Upon a Time in
Scott Niedermayer
Bob Vila
Chris Pronger
Jim Carrey
Chris Pronger is obviously looking to make the hockey Gods mad by not growing a playoff beard. Maybe the problem is that he can't grow one and is later going to blame the Canadian media for his misfortune. Either way, Pronger is going for something a little bit deeper here. He's not trying to grow a beard to make him look like someone else; he's actually trying to be someone else. See that smirk? That's a Jim Carrey smirk if I've ever seen one.
Brian Campbell
Will Ferrell in the SNL Cowbell skit
Brian Campbell has a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell! This entry gets an 'A' for effort and an 'F' for execution.
Actor John Pyper-Ferguson
Jeff Bridges in 'The Big Lebowski'
I'm not really sure what John Pyper-Ferguson is famous for (certainly not being a hockey player), but cameras spotted him screaming his lungs out at a Canucks game during their series with
Ryan Getzlaf
Congratulations to all of you who stayed with me this far! Extra credit goes to those who have read this much and are not stoned. Last but not least we have
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Four years after the launch of the world's first Android powered phone (the T-Mobile G1), there's no denying that Android is the dominant player within the smartphone market sector. According to the latest numbers from the IDC, a total of 136 million smartphones powered by Android accounted for 75% of all smartphones shipped in the third quarter of 2012. The remaining 25% of the smartphone market share was made up by iOS (14.9%), BlackBerry (4.3%), Symbian (2.3%), Windows phone (2%) and Linux (1.5%).
While Apple's iOS did show a 57.3% year-over-year increase in units shipped, those numbers appear minuscule when compared to Android 91.5% increase. One number which we'll be paying close attention to over the next few quarters is Microsoft's smartphone market share. In the past year, Microsoft somehow managed to nearly double its market share from 1.2% to 2%. With the launch of Windows Phone 8 and a fairly impressive lineup of devices from Nokia, Samsung and HTC, we have a feeling Microsoft's market share could reach double digits.
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A man accused of harassing Mila Kunis has been sentenced to six months in a rehabilitation center after pleading no contest to stalking the actress in violation of a restraining order.
Stuart Lynn Dunn has been in custody since his arrest last May (12) after allegedly spending three consecutive days at a gym and repeatedly trying to make contact with the Black Swan star.
A restraining order was already in place, stemming from when Dunn pleaded no contest to breaking into Kunis' West Hollywood home four months previously.
On Tuesday (22Jan13), Dunn was given credit for time already served and ordered to spend six months at a live-in rehabilitation facility, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
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Textbook for undergraduate students taking courses covering topics
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Brian J. Sharkey, PhD, has nearly 40 years of experience as a
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Sharkey is a fellow and past president of the American College of Sports
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research and data on injury to improve the safety of intercollegiate
athletes. Sharkey also coordinated the U.S. Ski Team Nordic
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Sharkey and his wife, Anne, reside in Missoula, Montana. He enjoys
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In -385 the Ancient Magisters of Tevinter sacrificed hundreds of slaves and two-thirds of the Imperium's lyrium in a misguided attempt to enter the Golden City. But when their sin turned the Golden City black they were cast from the Fade into the world as the first darkspawn. Almost 90 years later while the world is still at war with the Darkspawn, heroes from Thedas' future appear in the Deep Roads near Cadash Thaig.
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In 9:41 Dragon the Elder One known as Corypheus interrupted the conclave called by the Divine Justinia. The ritual completed with the Divine's murder was supposed to grant power to Corypheus but instead creating a breach to the Fade that ripped apart the sky. Rifts to the Fade sprang open all over Thedas, tossing demons into the world and stealing heroes across space... and time.
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COLUMBIA CITY — Betty Marjorie (Method) Baughman, 84, of Columbia City, passed away at 2:54 a.m. Sunday, June 12, 2011 at Parkview Whitley Hospital, Columbia City.Born June 2, 1927 in Columbia City, she was the daughter of Ralph Leo and Katherine Candice (Coyle) Pratt. She graduated with the Class of 1945 from Columbia City High School. A former resident of Euclid, Ohio, Albion and Muncie Lake, she lived in Whitley County the majority of her lifetime.In May, 2005 she returned to Columbia City. On Sept. 24, 1976, she married Gene Baughman in Fort Wayne. She has been employed at Schultz Bros., The Trading Post, Fibre Form, Ion Capacitor, Montgomery Ward Catalog Office, J.C. Penney, Blue Bell, Inc. office and Scott's Grocery, all in Columbia City. She retired in August, 1989 from North American Van Lines, Fort Wayne. She was a member of Tri-Lakes Baptist Church and the Lakota Chapter. Survivors include her daughter, Katherine E. Method of Columbia City; sons, Marcus W. (Sharon) Method and Steven P. (Sue) Method, both of Fort Wayne; sister, Sandra Pratt of Columbia City; and her foster family David (Peggy) Yun and Michael (Michelle) Yun both of Knoxville, Tenn., Lisa (Stephen) Smith and Jennifer Yun, both of Atlanta; six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandson.She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Gene Baughman.Visitation is 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday at DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home, 600 Countryside Drive, Columbia City with funeral service following at 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.Memorials may be given in memory of Mrs. Baughman in lieu of flowers to the Lakota Chapter.Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. Please visit www.demoneygrimes.com to send family condolences or sign the guest register book.


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I'm sorry to keep beating you over the head with Nexus Two stories the past 24 hrs, but this phone has me genuinely excited. Our friends over at Gizmodo have a tale from one of their sources that played with the Samsung Gingerbread phone.
They describe the mysterious phone and it lines up with about everything I've heard so far: "It's black and shiny, built with glossy plastic. Up close, though, it's "got this curve to it." While the screen, which our source thinks is the same 4-inch AMOLED affair from the Galaxy series, is flat, the front is "sort of concave" with hard edges. And the back is curved. The tapering makes it feel thinner than Galaxy S, though it might be about the same thickness. "It feels really similar to the Galaxy S in a lot ways."
Other details about the phone include a front-facing camera, which will go nicely with those video chats coming to Gingerbread.
Now here is where things get interesting. We already posted that the phone will be announced on November 8th, but I've also heard from multiple sources that Gingerbread will "release" on November 11th.
If Gingerbread is in fact released on November 11th, then so could this magical phone.
Remember the official Nexus One unveiling? Google announced the phone on January 5th and had it available to order on the same day. This time around Google will sell the phone direct to customers, but they will take a different approach according to the report by City AM.
They quote an industry analyst as saying: "It could be a solution to the problems it experienced when it tried to sell the Nexus One exclusively through its website. People like to be able to go to a store — this solves that."
In the UK, the phone will be sold exclusively through Carphone Warehouse. No U.S. retailers have been named, so I'll let you speculate on who might sell it.
For more details about Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), I'll link to a post by Absolute Android who is pretty much spot on with most of his speculation.


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Montclair, New Jersey (PRWEB) December 16, 2011
Montclair State University's Board of Trustees has approved the creation of a new School of Communication and Media. The new school will combine existing, high-quality degree programs with new offerings to provide an unparalleled educational experience to students entering this rapidly changing industry.
The School of Communication and Media will reside within the College of Arts, and will offer Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication Studies, Television and Digital Media, and Communication and Media Arts, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking, and a Master of Arts in Public and Organizational Communication.
Montclair State has well-established, cutting-edge programs for communication and broadcasting students, preparing them to enter the workplace as creative and critical decision-makers in an evolving environment. Specifically designed with an eye to the future, the new program will take students' skills to the next level in the critical and creative use of new media technologies in a broad array of public communication fields.
"The School of Communication and Media will offer a comprehensive program that is academically superior and reflective of the emergent digital technologies that have resulted in unprecedented cultural and global interactivity," said Montclair State University President Susan A. Cole. "This initiative underscores the University's commitment to aligning our programs with evolving critical workforce needs in the state and beyond."
The University expects to launch the new School's core offerings for the Fall 2012 semester. These will include the new interdisciplinary degree program in Communication and Media Arts, and the new Multi-Platform Journalism concentration within an enriched Television and Digital Media degree program.
"In making these curricular and organizational changes within the University's communication program, Montclair State is responding to scholarly changes that have influenced the study of communication," said Geoffrey Newman, Dean of the College of the Arts. "This is an exciting time to be engaged in the field of communication, particularly with the University's accessibility to the nearby media markets of New York City and northern New Jersey."
To further support the School of Communication and Media, the University recently completed a major technology upgrade of its DuMont Television Center to a state-of-the-art high-definition studio, which includes the most technologically advanced equipment. The University also announced that it will become the new headquarters for NJTV's news division and will provide studio space for the public media network's nightly news broadcast. Additional investments, partnerships, and initiatives within all areas of media will continue to round out the scope and reach of the new School.
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The times are growing harder, for all of the worlds. In Lyra's world, the Armoured Bears and Witches grow anxious within the frozen wastelands of the north, where further south, dæmons grow fearful. Even in Will's World, people are beginning to feel anxious, though they are not sure why. A war is coming. A war that threatens to engulf all of the worlds. It is the war of the Authority and the Republic of Heaven, created by Lord Asriel himself to overthrow the monarchy of the Almighty. And thrown in the middle of this, are two children, destined to hold the greatest weapons known to all the worlds. So what will you do? Will you fight to defend the Authority, or join Lord Asriel to help bring about its destruction. Armies are mustering, and the time is drawing nearer. Every person makes a difference. What will your's be?
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The biggest change you'll find on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt lies with its window sticker. General Motors announced today it was slashing the manufacturer's suggested retail price of its extended-range electric car by $5000, bringing the base price down to $34,995, including $810 in destination fees. That price does not include tax incentives tied to the purchase of an electric or plug-in vehicle.
According to GM, it hopes the price cut not only brings the 2014 Chevrolet Volt more in line with its immediate EV/PHEV rivals, but also places it in the running with buyers shopping within a lower price tier. Honda recently reduced lease rates for its Fit EV by $130 a month, while Ford also slashed the price of the Focus Electric by $4000, bringing its MSRP to $35,995. The California-only Fiat 500e rings in at $32,500, while a low-cost, base variant of the Nissan Leaf starts at $29,650.
Unlike the base Leaf S model, however, the 2014 Chevrolet Volt sheds no standard content or features as a result of the lowered price tag. 2014 Chevrolet Volt models actually gain a leather-wrapped steering wheel while retaining all the standard features of the outgoing 2013 Volt model.
The cut essentially mirrors a cash incentive offered on existing Volt inventories last month. In June, GM announced it would offer $5000 cash back on leftover 2012 Volt inventories or $4000 cash back with 2013 Volts. Interestingly, Volt volumes slipped slightly in June, dropping 3.3 percent to 1788 units, although the total number of Volts sold in 2013 is up 9.2 percent year-to-year, ringing in at 11,643. The Nissan Leaf, however, surpassed the Volt in June by 76 units, and outsold the Volt thus far in 2013 by only 60 cars.
In a prepared release, Don Johnson, Chevrolet's vice president of U.S. sales and service, says the price reduction is possible because the automaker has "made great strides in reducing costs as we gain experience with electric vehicles and their components." That said, GM isn't disclosing precisely how much cost it's stripped from the Volt's overhead. The automaker has previously admitted it has lost money on each Volt, but hasn't provided a precise figure.
The addition of the Opel/Vauxhall/Holden Ampera and Cadillac ELR – two models that share the Volt's EREV driveline – may have slightly helped amortize the development and production costs of the expensive drive system, but GM officials have previously indicated a significant drop in the Volt's production overhead isn't expected until a second-generation model launches in 2016.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - King College head softball coach Jenn Testa signed Florida standout outfielder Stephanie Rodriguez to the 2011 signing class.
Rodriquez comes to King from Lake Mary High School in Lake Mary, Fla. In her prep career Rodriquez has a .297 batting average with a fielding percentage at .996. She also played for the Winter Springs Panthers travel team. Rodriquez has won the 2010 Southern Star MVP award, and played for the 2010 Southeast Region Champion team. Her blazing speed helped her to the No. 2 ranking in the state when it came to baserunning.
"King was the perfect choice for me because it will allow me to pursue my passion for Softball as well as my love for Christ," Rodriguez said.
She will be joining a program that went to the 2010 NCCAA World Series in May and posted a 22-17 overall record.
"We are so excited to have Stephanie join our program," Testa said. "She will provide some much needed speed to every facet of the game. Her experience against the highest level of competition will be just what we need to take us to that next level, when we begin our play in Conference Carolinas."
King starts the 2011 season on Feb. 16 with a doubleheader at Limestone (S.C.) College.
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Waste Management announced Wednesday that the company delivered $892,994 in gross receipt taxes to various local community partners. Last year, the total payment was $646,401. These payments are over and above property and school taxes paid by the hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility. New York state requires a hazardous waste facility to charge 6 percent GRT on all hazardous waste landfilled.
"The gross receipt taxes from the site are divided into thirds," explained WM Spokesperson Lori Caso. "One third goes to the Town of Porter, one third to the Town of Lewiston, and one third is divided up between the Lewiston-Porter, Niagara Wheatfield and Wilson school districts based upon student population."
The amounts delivered were:
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•$218,795 to the Lewiston-Porter School District
•$62,386 to the Niagara-Wheatfield School District
•$16,483 to the Wilson Central School District
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If you think you'll be bored in Hampton Roads, try a few of these activities:
American Rover. Sightseeing and party cruises on a tall ship. Narrated sailings and dinner cruises daily, rain or shine. Cruising mid-April through late October. Waterside, downtown Norfolk. 757-627-7245. americanrover.com.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg. European-themed adventure park with more than 50 rides, shows and attractions. Single-day tickets: $66.99 adults, $56.99 ages 3-9, children 2 and under free. Parking $13. Multi-day and season passes available. Exit 243-A off Interstate 64 near Williamsburg. 800-343-7946.buschgardens.com/bgw.
Go Ape. Treetop obstacle course incorporates Tarzan swings and zip lines. $55 for adults, $35 for children. Reservations are recommended. Open March through Dec. 12. Freedom Park, 5537 Centerville Road, Williamsburg. 888-520-7322. Goape.com.
Go-Karts Plus. Go-carts, bumper cars, blaster boats, video arcade, Kiddieland, miniature golf. Free admission and parking. Pay as you ride. Discount books available. 6910 Richmond Road, Williamsburg. 757-564-7600. gokartsplus.com.
Hampton Carousel. Renovated 1920s merry-go-round. $2 a ride. Discounts available. Hours vary, so call or check website. Next to the Virginia Air & Space Center, 600 Settlers Landing Road, Hampton. 757-727-0900. vasc.org/visitvasc/carousel.html.
Miss Hampton II. Narrated harbor cruises, with views of Naval Station Norfolk and Fort Wool. $22 for adults, $11.50 for children ages 6 to 12. Call for times and reservations. Pier at Miss Hampton II Harbor Cruises, 710 Settlers Landing Road, Hampton. 757-722-9102 or 888-757-2628. misshamptoncruises.com.
Motor World. Go-kart tracks, kiddie bumper boats, paintball, rides and two 18-hole miniature golf courses. Open daily 10 a.m. to dark, March 1 through September; open until midnight Memorial Day to Labor Day; open weekends year-round, weather permitting. Pay as you go. 700 S. Birdneck Road, Virginia Beach. 757-422-6419. vbmotorworld.com.
Ocean Breeze Waterpark. Wave pool, 16 water slides and children's area. Hours vary May through September. Adults $31.99, ages 3-9 $23.99. 849 General Booth Blvd., Virginia Beach. 757-422-4444. oceanbreezewaterpark.com.
King's Dominion. Theme park with more than 200 rides, shows and attractions. Tickets: $59.99 for adults, $37.99 for children. Web and advance-purchase discounts. Multiday and season passes available. New attraction Dinosaurs Alive! requires separate $5 ticket. Parking costs $12. Located 20 miles north of Richmond, exit 98 off Interstate 95. 804-876-5000. kingsdominion.com.
Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf. Two 18-hole miniature courses. 10 a.m.-11 p.m. daily during summer. Call for hours before Memorial Day and after Labor Day. $8.50 for adults, $7.95 for children. 2001 Mooretown Road, Williamsburg. 757-259-4600. piratescove.com.
Play A Round Golf and Games. Three 18-hole miniature courses, video arcade, birthday parties and snack bar. Hours vary by season. 10814 Warwick Blvd., Newport News. 591-2800. Playaroundgolfandgames.com.
Rebounderz. The 35,000-square-foot indoor trampoline arena incorporates jumpers with rebounding floors and angled rebounding side walls. Offers birthday parties, summer camps and dodgeball tournaments. $15 per hour. 12650 Patrick Henry Drive, Newport News. 757-468-5867. Rebounderznewportnews.com.
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum and 4-D Theater. Over 300 exhibits, a spinning Vortex Tunnel and a 4-D Theater. $15.99 for adults, $11.99 for children. 1735 Richmond Road, Williamsburg. 757-220-9220. Williamsburgripleys.com.
Spirit of Norfolk. Sightseeing, lunch and dinner cruises. Group rates available. Waterside, downtown Norfolk. 866-304-2469. spiritofnorfolk.com.
The Schooner Alliance. Sailing cruises aboard a 105-foot gaff-rigged schooner. Daily sails from April to November. Group charter packages available. Leaves from Riverwalk Landing Pier, Yorktown. sailyorktown.com.
Water Country USA. Theme park with climate-controlled pools and children's areas. Single-day tickets: $47.99 ages 10 and up, $40.99 ages 3-9, children 2 and under free. Parking $13. Multiday and season passes available. Online discounts available. Route 199 West, exit 242-B off Interstate 64 near Williamsburg. 800-343-7946. watercountryusa.com.


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Nokia's SVP of Series 60 software in 2006-2009, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation until 2010 and now a partner at Sourcebits, a San Francisco mobile software consultancy, Lee Williams is bitter about what current CEO Stephen Elop is doing to Nokia. In a CNET interview today, Williams says:
When I was at Nokia and we shipped a Symbian product and it was bad, in its worst incarnation we knew that if we just flipped the switch, we could move 2.5 to three million units — overnight, no matter how bad the product…That was Nokia. That was Nokia's brand, we knew we could count on that.
And now look at it — they flipped the switch and oh, 200,000 [Windows Phone] units out of the gate. Huh? Only selling in the US, under AT&T's moniker. If you can't flip the switch like that, Nokia's dead and devalued.
What's remarkable here is the candid portrayal of the Symbian mindset: "no matter how bad the product" was, Nokia could "flip a switch" and "move 2.5 to three million units — overnight." Just like that.
Nokia wasn't in the business of shipping a great user experience, products that delight customers, engaging and innovative apps, vibrant and profitable ecosystem…it was in the business of flipping switches and shipping out millions of "units" even when they knew "it was bad, in its worst incarnation." And they "knew [they] could count on that." It wasn't about the product, it was all about the units.
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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Vintage Books, 1996 - History - 476 pages
In The Ends of the Earth, Robert D. Kaplan travels from the devastated countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack. Kaplan's intention was to investigate firsthand the effect of population explosion and environmental degradation in these countries and to see how the various cultures he encountered responded to them. But as he traveled, talking to gun smugglers and government ministers, warlords and shantytown dwellers, he discovered that the real problem, in places as far afield as Sierra Leone and western China, was the reemergence of longstanding cultural rivalries and the dissolution of national boundaries as regions redefine themselves along ethnic and historic lines. Kaplan's ground-level experiences allow him to avoid grandiose generalizations about the clash of civilizations and to replace them with intimate portraits of the men and women he encounters: Rafighdoost, Khomeini's fiercely loyal chauffeur; Ali Abdel Razag, keeper of the Aswan High Dam; and Ayshe Tanrikulu, a squatter on Golden Mountain, a shantytown on the outskirts of Ankara, who hopes that her sons will one day be doctors or engineers. It is in the squalor of daily existence and in people's fears, frustrations, and dreams that Kaplan looks for the key to a country's future. The Ends of the Earth offers an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world, whose cultural disasters - like those in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Rwanda today - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.
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|Department Routing Option (Fewest Number of calls) is no longer supported
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|Music on Hold for Departments – The option to skip to voicemail is no longer supported.
|Music on Hold for Departments – Pressing # to skip to voicemail is no longer available for departments. Departments that had the option to let callers skip to Voicemail by pressing # (when they were waiting for an agent) will have that option turned off.
|low cost viagra valign="top" bgcolor="#ededed">Agent Availability Settings for Departments - Agent are still available after a missed call.
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|Assigning Digital Lines to ring a device, greeting, or directory will always follow the user's answering rules.
|Assigning Digital Lines - Digital lines will always follow the user's answering rules. For a hard phone device to ring, it will need to be added to the User's answering rule. Digital lines already assigned to "Ring Device" will continue to work after the upgrade.
|Dial-by-Name Directory default settings have changed.
|Dial-by-Name directory search option is set by default to at least 3 characters. The option to list all extensions in the Dial-by-Name directory is now turned on by default.
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|User Custom Greetings have been simplified to store only one custom greeting per prompt or music greeting.
|User Custom Greetings - Only one custom greeting per prompt or music greeting is stored. Users that had more than one custom greeting will have the ability to download those greetings after the upgrade.
|User Forwarding options that been simplified.
|User forwarding options – The option to distribute calls in "Sequential in Rotating Order" has been simplified to "In fixed order" or "Simultaneous" for user extensions.
|Voicemail Recording Length - Maximum length is now 3 minutes. Voicemails under 1 second will be auto-deleted.
|Voicemail Recording Length - The maximum length of voicemails has been set to 3 minutes by default and cannot be changed. Users who had maximum Voicemail length set to 4 or 5 minutes will now see that new voicemails are truncated at 3 minutes. The system will automatically delete voicemails that are less than 1 second. This option cannot be disabled.
|Voicemail Playback Settings have changed to announce name and number first. Message retrieval is set to play newest messages first.
|Voicemail Playback Settings - When playing back voicemails, the caller name and number is announced before the message is played. This is the default and cannot be turned off. Message retrieval has been set to play newest messages first.
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The short version is a press release. The long version is an investor's presentation – 35 pages in .pdf format – that Yahoo filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Both versions present a much rosier future for the struggling search engine than most analysts would have you believe.
Can you imagine a Yahoo that doubles its cash flow and increases its revenues by more than 50 percent in just three years? Without Microsoft buying it out? Apparently Yang can. I have certainly been wrong before but, not to put too fine a point on it, I'd like some of whatever Jerry's having.
How exactly does Yahoo propose to accomplish this? That extra money is not going to come from search advertising, where Google leads the market. Yahoo projects that it will come from display advertising, including banners and videos. While this area has traditionally been one of Yahoo's strengths, it has lately proved vulnerable to other web publishers, most notably social networking sites such as MySpace. Yahoo's plan calls for growing faster than the market in an effort to take back lost share. That could work – if it doesn't lose any more search advertising to Google.
But to achieve this goal, Yahoo needs to pull some very ambitious numbers. It expects to sell $8.8 billion in online advertising in 2010, an increase of $5.1 billion over 2008. Yahoo thinks it will pull this off by increasing its advertising sales by 11 percent in 2008 – and 25 percent in both 2009 and 2010. It is almost as if Yahoo is saying "What recession? What's all this talk about a bubble bursting? That doesn't apply to us!"
{mospagebreak title=A Closer Look at Yahoo's Figures}
To call Yahoo's presentation optimistic is almost an understatement. One presentation slide flatly states that "We believe our growth and profitability prospects are not fully appreciated by the public market." Tell that to the 1,100 employees Yahoo laid off earlier this year!
Yahoo did focus fairly strongly on its Asian position in the presentation, as if to counterbalance the latest economic news and indications of the US entering a recession. The company holds a 33 percent stake in Yahoo Japan, which dominates that market. It also holds a 39 percent stake in Alibaba, a Chinese business-to-business site. On the other hand, rumors are circulating from no less of a source than Forbes that Alibaba's leadership wants to buy Yahoo's stake back in order to keep the company independent if Yahoo is bought out by Microsoft.
Yahoo has other numbers working for it, ones that pale only in the shadow of Google. Just looking at the large number of visitors it receives boggles the mind: 305 million unique monthly users of its home page and 262 million unique monthly users of Yahoo Mail. This doesn't even count all the users of Yahoo's other properties, like Yahoo Finance.
Yahoo also emphasized a number of very new social media projects. In particular, it pointed to social news site Yahoo Buzz, which I reviewed recently. It also mentioned a mobile service that has yet to launch, Yahoo OneConnect. Apparently it expects these projects to really take off.
I wish I could be more optimistic about Yahoo's ability with social web projects, especially since I think they really do "get" Web 2.0 there. But in all honesty, Yahoo's performance in this area has been haphazard. Yahoo Groups remains very popular, and Yahoo Buzz looks like another winner. On the other hand, there's Yahoo 360, which never quite took off. And Yahoo Mash, launched in September 2007, is still in invite-only beta mode, and seems to be flying under most people's radar. Some observers believe that Yahoo Mash was created to out-Facebook Facebook when Yahoo failed to purchase the massively popular social site; a lack of buzz in this case is not a good sign for the future.
{mospagebreak title=Analysts' Views}
I was tempted to call this section "You have to be kidding," but the truth is, I like Yahoo enough to give it the benefit of the doubt. And I'm not convinced that a Microsoft buyout would be the answer to the search engine's woes – or necessarily a good thing for consumers. But I'm not exactly a market analyst, so let me quote those who are.
Ross Sandler, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, isn't buying Yahoo's optimism. "Judging by recent history, we remain skeptical of Yahoo's ability to execute smoothly against this plan," he wrote in a research note. "If the overall economy and the online advertising space were in a healthier place right now, we would have more confidence." Still, he did raise his price target for Yahoo's stock from $24 to $32.
Clay Moran, of Stanford Group Company, meanwhile, thinks the presentation's real audience wasn't Yahoo's shareholders, but Microsoft. "This is another step in the public negotiation between these two companies," he noted. "We believe this deal is turning friendly. But, Yahoo's alternatives are dwindling." He's right about that; News Corp. recently bowed out of a possible deal with Yahoo.
On the other hand, Microsoft doesn't have a lot of options either. Mark Mahaney of Citi Investment Research thinks the software giant might be persuaded to come up in price after this. "Buying Yahoo may be Microsoft's ONLY game-changing option in (the) Internet sector," he wrote.
And then there's Henry Blodget, writing for the Silicon Alley Insider. He thinks Yahoo's plan "is more of a 'best case' scenario than a 'most likely' scenario," but he didn't dismiss it outright. Doing some math and making some projections, Blodget calculates that Yahoo is saying it will be worth $50 to $60 per share in 2010. "Discount that back to today and you're looking at about $40-$50 a share. Thus Yahoo's assertion that it's worth at least $40 a share." In short, this is why Yahoo rejected Microsoft's offer of $31 per share.
The problem with Yahoo's math, according to Blodget, is that it's too optimistic. Take the area of display and video ads, where Yahoo projects its strongest growth. Blodget thinks that assumption is "reasonable," but makes one very significant caveat: "This absolute growth would almost certainly not be possible in a recession."
Michael Liedtke, writing for the Associated Press about Yahoo's projections, pointed out what most analysts have been saying: Yahoo is being overly optimistic. "After subtracting ad commissions, Yahoo's revenue predictions of $7.1 billion in 2009 and $8.8 billion in 2010 are well ahead of analyst estimates. Analysts, on average, had been anticipating $6.4 billion in 2009 and $7.6 billion in 2010."
{mospagebreak title=Next Moves in the Game}
We can't ignore the fact that this is playing out against the backdrop of Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid. Indeed, if Microsoft hadn't made the bid, it's questionable whether Yahoo would have gone public with this investors' presentation. Many analysts speculate that the entire point of the move is to get Microsoft to raise its bid for the search engine.
The next move is up to Microsoft. The software giant is likely to stand firm for at least a little longer. First of all, it doesn't really lose anything by waiting, with Yahoo running out of options. Second, if Alibaba actually does buy itself back from Yahoo, that will reduce the company's value in Microsoft's eyes, giving the OS king even more reason not to raise its bid.
There's a third reason to hold firm and play the waiting game. Yahoo won't be announcing its financial results for the first quarter of 2008 until April 22. While the search engine has expressed optimism that it will achieve the results Wall Street expects (and then some), it has experienced two years of little to no growth. The numbers that Yahoo delivers in late April will help decide Microsoft's next steps.
Every investment vehicle says that "Past performance is not a predictor of future growth." Yahoo seems to be depending on this, or at least on the idea that a company's immediate past performance doesn't have to be a trap for the future. If Yahoo can't survive on its own, it would probably at least prefer to be purchased on its own terms.
A graceful, "friendly" buyout could still happen, but Microsoft holds the ultimate trump card: it could stage a coup and take over Yahoo's board of directors. There's less talk of that now than there was in the first couple of weeks or so after Microsoft made its initial offer. Indeed, CNN Money cited "a person familiar with the situation" as saying that the two companies entered into preliminary talks about Microsoft's offer on March 17, which could open the way to an amicable marriage. Either way, in the face of Google's dominance of the search market, both companies are running out of options for a strong future.


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I have a two level nested frameset. The top level is divided into two column frames, Lframe and Rframe. Rframe is divided into two row frames, RTframe and RBframe.
I use dtree to build a hierarchical table-of-contents from a database which is displayed in the Lframe. The operator selection is reflected in the RTframe and RBframes.
Everything works fine if the web is entered from the index.html page. But if I enter the web directly to an internal page, the links in dtree don't work. Actually, they don't work in Firefox 25 for Windows but they do work with Firefox 17 for Linux and they do work with IE 7.
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Diana Spell talks with a participant at a March 17 health screening event in Tarboro. Photo by Cliff Hollis
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 23, 2012) — Three years into medical school at East Carolina University, Diana Spell finally feels like she can offer a road map to incoming students.
"First year, you learn everything that goes right (in the body)," she said. "Second year, you learn everything that goes wrong."
And the third year?
"You're free," the 25-year-old said, and laughed. "It solidifies why you went into medicine. This was like the first year of our careers."
Spell may be relaxing because she completed Step 1 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination – the Boards -- in 2011. It's a cumulative test examining all the systems and science students learned in the first two years of medical school.
Spell still has to take the Step 2 clinical exam this summer, but she said it tests skills she practices every day.
"Basic run-of-the-mill things that we see in eastern North Carolina, I feel very prepared for," she said. "Diabetes, high blood pressure, substance abuse…cirrhosis of the liver."
Third-year Brody School of Medicine students such as Spell take rotations in ECU clinics and at Vidant Medical Center in areas of study including family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatric medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and surgery. Spell also completed an elective rotation in nephrology, as the kidneys continue to be her primary interest.
More tough decisions lie ahead. With her surgery rotation a few weeks away, Spell knows she'll soon decide whether she wants to focus her efforts in the operating room and consider how that might balance with other life pursuits, like starting a family.
"Now I'm having the battle of…can I live a life without surgery?" she said. "A lot of people enjoy the O.R. It's kind of like recess. You learn all about the body and then all of a sudden you're looking at the abdominal aorta pumping. You can touch an organ and it's OK. It's right there."
Even if she opts for the operating room or the hospital, Spell said the time in clinics taught her to build relationships with patients.
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BLACKFOOT — Jury pre-qualification began Tuesday in the second trial involving a former Blackfoot High School athlete, with 11 jurors passed for cause after the first day of voir dire.
Eighty-three jurors arrived Tuesday morning for jury selection in the trial for Logan Chidester. Chidester faces six counts of misdemeanor false imprisonment and two counts of battery. His trial is scheduled to begin March 22.
Potential jurors were questioned 24 at one time. After the first panel, five jurors were passed for cause and seven were retained for additional questioning by Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Randy Smith and Chidester's defense attorney Justin Oleson.
Jury questioning will continue today. Magistrate Judge Charles Roos has indicated he would like at least 30 potential jurors to continue on in each case.
A pool of 35 potential jurors was selected for the trial involving Nathan Walker, who faces six misdemeanor charges. His trial is set to begin March 8. Those jurors will be called back then for additional jury selection. Six jurors are needed, with one to two alternate jurors.
The third and final trial involving Anthony Clarke is scheduled to begin May 3, with jury selection April 20.
A hearing to consider a motion to amend the complaint against the three defendants is scheduled for Thursday.
All defendants face various misdemeanor charges stemming from incidents that occurred during the 2009-2010 basketball season at Blackfoot High School.


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Many of the Department's rest areas are operated by Travel Information Council (aka Oregon Travel Experience). Please help keep rest areas available to all by using them as they are intended, and by following the posted rest area rules.
Arrangements have also been made with Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and others to provide additional rest opportunities for travelers to supplement the rest areas provided by the Department. The features of these rest opportunities vary based on the site however they all have restrooms. The agency responsible for these other rest opportunities is noted in the list below.
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