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Summer heats up with research experiences for undergraduates at K-State
More than 125 college students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico are taking part in select summer research experience programs at Kansas State University. Research areas include ecological genomics, ecology, bioenergy, sustainability, climate change and leading edge studies in chemistry, mathematics and physics.
The goal of the programs is to provide students with a quality research experience under the mentorship of K-State faculty and to increase interest in pursuing scientific careers, said Carol Shanklin, dean of K-State's Graduate School.
"These summer research experiences support K-State's 2025 goal of becoming a top 50 public research university by expanding research opportunities," Shanklin said. "They are excellent recruitment tools for our graduate programs since the students get to experience working in a team environment with their faculty mentor and our current graduate students for nine to 10 weeks. At the end of their experience they present their research to their peers and research team."
While at K-State many of the students will participate in weekly seminars coordinated by the Graduate School and attend special networking events. They include sessions on learning how to apply for graduate school, funding to support graduate education, preparing to do research and how to document research. Field trips include visits to K-State's Konza Prairie Biological Station and to the Kansas Cosmosphere and the Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson.
Summer research experiences being offered include:
* Research for Undergraduate Experiences, known as REUs, which are supported by the National Science Foundation. This year's experiences are being offered in biology, including ecology, evolution and genomics of grassland organisms and in ecological genomics; physics, studying laser-matter interactions at the atomic and nanoscales; mathematics; chemical engineering, including a Summer Academy in Sustainable Bioenergy and a sustainable energy experience; chemistry; and climate change. K-State faculty coordinators include Bruce Snyder, Ari Jumpponen, Brett Sandercock and Samantha Wisely, biology; Kristan Corwin and Larry Weaver, physics; Larry Erickson, Keith Hohn, Kieth Rutlin and Mary Rezac, chemical engineering; Marianne Korten, David Yetter, and Charles Moore, mathematics; Chris Culbertson, chemistry; and Chuck Rice, climate change.
* Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, known as SUROP, sponsored by the K-State Graduate School. The program gives undergraduates from underrepresented groups a firsthand experience with the research process in their chosen field of interest. The experience helps students prepare for graduate school and other advanced study. Coordinators include Shanklin, and Megan Miller and Tammy Sonnentag, both doctoral students in psychology.
* Summer Undergraduate Residency in Public Health, a component of the Pathways to Public Health and funded by the Kansas Health Foundation. Students are exposed to problem solving in the context of real-world situations related to the four master of public health program emphasis areas: food safety, infectious disease/zoonoses, human nutrition and physical activity. Coordinators include Kimathi Choma, director of the undergraduate public health program, and Beth Montelone, professor of biology and program director for One Health Kansas.
* Kansas State Research and Extension Summer Program, sponsored by the College of Agriculture. Coordinator is Zelia Wiley, the college's assistant dean for diversity.
More information on the programs is available at http://www.k-state.edu/grad/gshome/summerprog.htm.


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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured new images of the dancing auroral lights at Saturn's north pole. Taken in April and May 2013 from Hubble's perspective in orbit around Earth, these observations provide a detailed look at previously unseen dynamics in the choreography of the auroral glow.
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Just before the end of my freshman year in high school, my mom suggested I attend Interlochen's National Music Camp as a summer program. I had just acquired a new violin, an 1888 Giuseppe Sgarbi, which I wanted to play as much as possible. I use the same instrument today, which speaks to my affinity for this fiddle, and it will someday become a scholarship instrument at Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy.
Although the options of Chautauqua or Meadowmount were proposed by my teacher, Emily Mutter Adams-Austin, a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), I knew intuitively that I was not likely to become a professional musician, probably because practicing six hours a day was not in my DNA. Notwithstanding that my neighbor and concertmaster of the DSO, Mischa Mischacoff, was in residence at Chautauqua and the renowned Ivan Galamian was the violin guru at Meadowmount, I was interested in a much broader music education. Little did I suspect that the subsequent three summers would prove the most formative experience of my life, providing a musical baseline and forever friendships.
The landscape of northern Michigan and the Interlochen campus became my inspiration with its stately pines and the ever-sparkling Lake Wahbekaness (Green Lake). The concerts I played or witnessed at the Interlochen Bowl and Kresge Auditorium under the camp's motto, "Dedicated to the Promotion of World Friendship Through the Universal Language of the Arts," still fuel my idealism. I can recall founder Joseph Maddy on the podium of the National High School Orchestra, flourishing his baton and holding aloft a huge portrait of Jean Sibelius to get his young artists psyched for a performance of "Finlandia."
The fact that I had the opportunity to perform twenty-four wide-ranging symphonic programs during my three years as an eight-week high school camper was the catalyst that committed me to playing with a community orchestra during my entire adult life, including the Evanston Symphony Orchestra and the Highland Park Strings in Chicago's northern suburbs.
One thing was strangely absent from my early musical experiences – chamber music. Would you believe there was no chamber music instruction at Interlochen when I was a high school camper? I learned orchestral and string orchestra repertoire, studied violin privately, took a conducting class and even learned harp basics (my goodness, seven pedals). I learned to sail, swam the lake and went on canoe trips. I met my first love. I indulged in Melody Freezes too often. But I never played a string quartet until my late 20s!
At the University of Michigan where I majored in history and English, eventually teaching high school, I played constantly even though I was in a liberal arts curriculum. In addition to seven hours of orchestra rehearsals each week, I played in the pit for operas, Gilbert and Sullivan and musical theater. But I never encountered a string quartet! Only after I moved to Chicago as a newlywed from Detroit was I invited by fellow amateurs to play my first Haydn and Mozart quartets. The rest, as they say, is history, or more precisely the story of a journey that is as fulfilling as it is unfulfilled given the infinite breadth of the repertoire.
Then I heard about the Adult Chamber Music Camp, a week-long program for amateurs of all levels to gain repertoire exposure and receive coaching by outstanding Interlochen faculty and a nationally renowned string quartet-in-residence. For more than 25 years, I've had the privilege of being coached and hearing performances by the Cleveland Quartet, Manhattan Quartet, Concord Quartet, Pacifica Quartet and currently, the Enso String Quartet.
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I never imagined that my Interlochen background would translate into an avocation that went far beyond playing violin. Although I eventually established my own public relations firm, I cultivated this amazing sideline of teaching adult music appreciation classes and seminars, presenting preconcert lectures and speaking on a potpourri of musical topics at a variety of venues.
With general focus on "The Art of Listening," I currently serve on the faculty of the Newberry Library and the Music Institute of Chicago, offering eight-week seminars on Chicago Symphony, Ravinia Festival and Grant Park Music Festival programs. But it should come as no surprise that my greatest enthusiasm is reserved for teaching "Introduction to Chamber Music" with audience development as my mission.
Now each summer, as I pull up to main gate, I can't wait to begin a week of jump-off-the-world and total immersion. I register quickly, unpack and walk through the campus reveling in the trial-and-error sounds emanating from dorm basements and the stone practice cabins, still intact from 1928. I get all warm and fuzzy when I see staff in the same corduroy knickers I wore as a camper – the great equalizer for scholarship students who were indistinguishable from those paying full tuition. The Interlochen connection for me is a continuous thread that has nurtured my being for a lifetime.


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Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket, Patong
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Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket, Patongfrom $83
- Deluxe Room, Sea View
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- Family Room, Sea View
- Honeymoon Sea View
- Double Pool Access
- Duplex Pool Villa
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What's around Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket, Patong
- Patong Beach - 26 min walk
- Bangla Road - 44 min walk
- Kalim Beach - 11 min walk
- Jungceylon Shopping Center - 2.7 mi / 4.3 km
- Kamala Beach - 3.1 mi / 4.9 km
- Royal Paradise Night Market - 2.4 mi / 3.8 km
- Patong Boxing Stadium - 2.7 mi / 4.4 km
- Bangla Boxing Stadium - 2.8 mi / 4.5 km
Getting around
- Phuket (HKT-Phuket Intl.) - 48 min drive
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Free beach shuttle
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 190 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
Check-in and check-out
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 16
Travelling with others
- Children stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Free children's club
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Free self parking
- Free nearby parking
- Free beach shuttle
- Free shopping center shuttle
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Snack bar/deli
- Swim-up bar
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
- Free beach shuttle
- Beach sun loungers
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Playground on site
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Beach umbrellas
- Swim-up bar
- Number of spa tubs - 4
- Beach towels
- Pool sun loungers
- Steam room
- Pool umbrellas
- Sauna
- Business center
- One meeting room
- Conference center
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 9
- Year Built - 2012
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Library
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- English
- Thai
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Down comforter
- Premium bedding
- Balcony or patio
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch LED TV
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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The onsite spa has 6 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include Swedish massages, Thai massages, facials, and body scrubs. The spa is equipped with a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
DiningMalika Terrace - Overlooking the ocean and pool, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Thai Taste - Overlooking the ocean and pool, this fine-dining restaurant serves dinner and light fare.
Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket, Patong's small print
Also known as
- Kalima Phuket
- Kalima & Spa, Phuket Patong
- Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket Resort
- Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket Patong
- Kalima Resort & Spa, Phuket Resort Patong
- Kalima Phuket Kathu
- Kalima Resort Phuket
- Kalima Resort Phuket Kathu
- Kalima Resort Phuket Patong
- Kalima Phuket Patong
- Kalima Resort & Spa Phuket, Thailand
- Kalima Resort Spa Phuket
Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for THB 1500.0 per day
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 750 for adults and THB 350 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Fabulous 8.6 From 756 reviews
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Great service staff I. Every department remember me and welcome back ...
It's a great hotel but location is not that great if you wanna be close to everything. I guess it's good and bad but would I stay there again, YES. Just costs 300 baht to get into town.
Recently stayed in their private villa w/private infinity pool. Accommodations were comfortable and finely appointment. However, in terms of service (especially at this price point) I feel The Shore at Katathani beats Kalima, hands down. Kalima employees unfortunately don't exert the same outgoing cheerfulness and level of passion for their work, as do the employees at Katathani. Especially whenever you request a ride to your room after hours, you almost feel to be a bother. perhaps the fact that I visited during the high season contributed to the lack of personalized attention. But nevertheless, I don't feel their level of service reflected the price point.
The king size bed was two twin size beds pushed together with a noticeable gap in the middle. The hotel shuttle to town only runs to town 3 times a day and picks up five times a day which is rather inconvenient compared to the other nearby resorts. The breakfast was well worth the extra money and the pool was never overly crowded which was nice.
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Is there a need for more speed?
Fibre Channel switch and HBA vendors will be shipping 10Gb/s gear in early 2004. The Fibre Channel Industry Association has just backed a 4Gb/s standard, yet how necessary is this when some enterprises have only recently migrated from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s?
|Navy wants 40Gb/s--soon
Don't try to tell Hank Dardy that 4Gb/s and 10Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) constitute overkill. The U.S. Navy's chief scientist for advanced computing says current-generation 2Gb/s FC isn't fast enough to support the advanced visualization applications he's building today. He needs 10Gb/s bandwidth now, and he can see a need for 40Gb/s in the not-too-distant future. He believes the best bet for delivering the low-cost interconnect bandwidth he needs may turn out to be InfiniBand, not FC.
Dardy is heading up a Navy effort, known internally as .Geo, that involves prototyping and building a large visualization infrastructure and applications for the Department of Defense and scientific researchers. Rather than replicating the large image files that feed the visualization application, Dardy's team is building a system that can access them remotely via a distributed file system, then stream them directly over a high-bandwidth WAN.
"We don't have a copy of everything here, but we have active agents out on the network telling us that something of interest is available, and it can be immediately put to use," says Dardy.
Dardy's problem is that the high-definition, TV-quality motion imagery files his group is dealing with are several terabytes each and they easily overwhelm 2Gb/s FC SAN devices. On top of that, users often want multiple visual streams flowing at the same time. So Dardy is pushing vendors for higher-bandwidth alternatives. Without higher-bandwidth SANs, he says, .Geo simply won't fly.
"A doctor, scientist or military officer isn't going to wait on the data," says Dardy. "They'll say, 'The application isn't real-time enough.' We're trying to change the paradigm, which puts a lot of emphasis on data and storage."
Dardy's team has gotten around FC bandwidth limitations by stripping data across multiple Silicon Graphics 2Gb/s SANs and blasting through parallel switches and ports to produce cumulative bandwidth of up to 10Gb/s. The problem, says Dardy, is that it's expensive and complex.
"With 10Gb, we could replace all those boxes with just one and extend the FC out," says Dardy, whose team last year demonstrated a 10Gb/s fiber link running between data centers in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
Dardy acknowledges that 10Gb/s FC ports are expected to be several times the cost of 2Gb/s ports. That's why he's pushing for InfiniBand for interconnecting SANs.
"Already, InfiniBand is cheaper than most people think; 4x InfiniBand [about 10Gb/s] ports today are about $1,000, which is competitive with 2Gb FC," Dardy says.
Dardy predicts that InfiniBand will be the best bet for offering affordable SAN fabrics operating well above 10Gb/s. "What we're trying to say to vendors is that 10Gb is just the tip of the iceberg," says Dardy. "We need to go further. I see us needing 40Gb in the 2005 to 2007 time frame."
SAN buyers, however, will soon be faced with more choices when it comes to bandwidth and performance options. FC switch and HBA vendors are expected to begin shipping 10Gb/s SAN gear as early as the first quarter of next year. At the same time, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has backed the idea of a 4Gb/s standard for traffic over the SAN network.
The debut of 4Gb/s HBAs, switches and controllers is expected late next year or early in 2005. Recently, momentum has been building at the FCIA and among some vendors for an 8Gb/s standard. FCIA board member Art Edmonds says an association vote on an 8Gb/s SAN standard will "more than likely" take place.
It begs the question: Will enterprises welcome all the new higher-performance SAN choices? And are storage managers impatient for higher-bandwidth SANs?
In a word, no. Many enterprises have only recently migrated or are in the process of migrating from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s SANs. Most say their existing applications, OS and server bus architectures are far from consuming all of their SAN bandwidth. While rising storage volumes and the arrival of bandwidth-intensive data types will generate a need for higher-bandwidth SANs, that day is far off.
As a result, most analysts and vendors say that while 4Gb/s SAN gear may find broad application, 10Gb/s ports will be used mainly to speed up inter-switch links (ISLs) between SANs, at least initially.
Need not there yet
"We don't see any bottlenecks today that would require us to upgrade to 4Gb," says Alex Lopez, SAN architect at the University of California Davis Medical Center. Lopez, who runs two SANs containing a total of 24TB of data, migrated to 2Gb/s ports nine months ago as part of a larger SAN and server upgrade. The servers, which use PCI, don't come close to using up all of the SAN's bandwidth. "So, unless we add a supercomputer or multiple video applications, we won't have a need for 4-gig or 10-gig SANs for a long time," says Lopez.
Mark Deck, director of infrastructure technology at National Medical Health Card Systems Inc., feels the same way. The prescription drug program management company is currently upgrading its Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) N-class servers to faster K-class machines and its HP XP256 SAN from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s to keep up with online transactions. But he says that even the new servers won't fully take advantage of the increased SAN bandwidth.
Even vendors backing higher-bandwidth SANs say most enterprises aren't clamoring for them yet. While HBA vendor Emulex, for example, expects sales of its highest-performance dual channel 2Gb/s HBAs to double this year, "it would be overstating it to say that there's a strong pull for 4-gig SANs," says Mike Smith, the company's executive VP of worldwide marketing.
Many SAN switch vendors agree. "At this point, 4Gb/s appears to be a technology in search of a solution," says Jim Miller, senior product marketing manager at McData Corp., which plans to support the 10Gb/s standard for ISLs in the first half of 2004, followed in about nine months by 4Gb/s if there's demand. "But," Miller adds, "we see nothing on the horizon, even tape SANs, that will be able to drive that [4Gb/s]."
Gearing up for 4Gb/s
Why the vendor push for higher-bandwidth SAN products--4Gb/s, specifically--even in the face of apparent enterprise-user indifference? First, intense competitive pressures are prompting vendors to attempt to get a leg up on rivals by pushing for 4Gb/s SANs. QLogic Corp., for example, aggressively pushed for the FCIA vote in favor of 4Gb/s FC and expects to have HBAs for evaluation early next year, well ahead of rivals. Although QLogic marketing VP Frank Berry acknowledges there's little demand for 4Gb/s FC SANs, he says that there eventually will be.
QLogic's strong pro-4Gb/s stand has forced competitors to consider supporting the standard or risk the appearance of falling behind. "A year ago, I'd have said Fibre would move directly from 2Gb to 10Gb, but today that's not so clear," says Emulex's Smith. "I've got to be ready to do both, then wait and see which camp is going to blink."
"With 1GB iSCSI becoming widely available in 2004, the low end of the market will move in that direction, so FC vendors need a growth path they can offer higher-end customers," says Phil Brotherton, VP of marketing at HBA maker JNI Corp., which expects to ship a 4Gb/s device in the second half of next year. "Competition from other technologies is definitely a factor driving the proliferation of higher-bandwidth FC options."
The third reason for the emergence of the 4Gb/s Fibre standard: It's becoming clear to some vendors that 10Gb/s FC will be expensive and difficult to deploy. Rather than fight an uphill battle by attempting to sell a 2Gb/s-to-10Gb/s SAN migration, many vendors are proposing an easier interim alternative with 4Gb/s.
The high cost of 10Gb/s
"Ten-gigabit is going to be a disruptive beast and one that is going to be incredibly costly," says storage analyst Arun Taneja of the Taneja Group, Hopkinton, MA. "In fact, based on the cost differential we see between Gigabit Ethernet and 10GbE, 10Gb Fibre could end up being at least five times more costly than 2Gb Fibre."
And that estimate could be optimistic. Ed Chapman, senior director of product management at Cisco, believes that initially, the cumulative cost difference between 2Gb/s and 10Gb/s SAN infrastructure--HBAs, switches, directors, drives and cabling--will be closer to 10-to-one. The higher cost of optical devices needed to drive 10Gb/s FC traffic is a major factor. Based on today's prices, optics for a 10Gb/s FC SAN would cost about $2,000, compared with the current price of $80 for the optics used in 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s FC SANs, according to Peter Wong, manager of strategic marketing at networked storage component manufacturer PMC-Sierra, in Santa Clara, CA.
"Originally, the thinking was that 10Gb Ethernet would drive up volumes and quickly drive down the cost of 10Gb fiber optics and other components, but that hasn't happened," says Wong. "The volumes for 10GbE haven't been there."
As a result, says Wong, PMC-Sierra expects 10Gb/s prices to fall slowly and in the near term, he sees a small market for 10Gb/s FC products. The company has scaled back the level of its investments in 10Gb/s FC components, shifting its emphasis to 4Gb/s products.
But it's not just the cost of 10Gb/s Fibre ports that will pose a barrier to the technology's wide deployment within SANs. Incompatibilities between 10Gb/s and existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s SAN infrastructure will also hinder migration, experts say. For one thing, most switch and HBA vendors say it won't be practical to work 10Gb/s Fibre elements into the existing auto-sensing scheme that today lets switches detect whether they are connected to 1Gb/s or 2Gb/s HBAs and disk arrays, and then adjust accordingly. As a result, it may not be easy to mix 10Gb/s-capable gear into existing SANs.
Also, it's expected that 10Gb/s SAN equipment won't be able to use the multimode fiber cabling currently tying together most SANs.
"All of that would have to be replaced with more expensive nine-micron single-mode fiber cabling," says Scott Drummond, program director for storage networking at IBM. "All of those things mean a migration to 10Gb would take more planning and be more expensive than what enterprises saw moving from one to 2Gb."
As a result of the high cost and the compatibility issues surrounding 10Gb/s Fibre, many vendors and analysts now believe it will not be deployed soon as a mainstream replacement for 2Gb/s Fibre linking servers, switches and storage arrays. Instead, say vendors and analysts, 10Gb/s Fibre will make the most sense as a backbone technology, speeding up ISLs for applications such as SAN consolidation and remote backup and data movement. Using 10Gb/s for ISLs could also cut complexity and cost, compared with the current practice of trunking together multiple 2Gb/s links, experts say.
"Speeding up [inter-switch links] is where you'll see the real use of 10Gb Fibre in the beginning," says IBM's Drummond. "We're seeing larger and larger SANs, some with 1,000 ports. That will drive the need for higher-speed ISLs in the near future."
Today, enterprises can use SAN extension routers from vendors such as Computer Network Technology (CNT), LightSand and Nortel Networks to merge multiple SAN fabrics and connect them over wide-area Sonet networks. Using technologies such as dense wavelength division multiplexing has allowed vendors to squeeze more bandwidth out of WAN connections such as Sonet. Feeding those fast WAN connections with 10Gb/s Fibre rather than 2Gb/s would mean more efficient use of expensive Sonet bandwidth. "For ISLs, 10Gb means simplicity," says Drummond. "It means fewer boxes and less money."
Still, vendors acknowledge that only their largest customers are experiencing bottlenecks while using 2Gb/s Fibre connections to feed ISLs. (See "Navy want 40Gb/s soon")
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Storage managers such as National Medical Health Card Systems' Deck, who's using IP over a T3 line to mirror his company's Oracle database at a backup data center in Little Rock, AR, say that moving to 10Gb/s would be overkill.
Certainly, 4Gb/s Fibre technology will bypass many of the cost and complexity problems lurking around the 10Gb/s standard. For example, 4Gb/s HBAs and switches are expected to be compatible with the existing auto-sensing schemes used for 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre. And devices with 4Gb/s Fibre ports are expected to use existing multimode cabling, although maximum cable distances at 4Gb/s will drop to about 125 meters from the 300 meters that is possible with 2Gb/s Fibre.
In the end, say analysts and storage managers, the pace with which enterprises and vendors embrace 4Gb/s Fibre SANs will depend on the cost. More specifically, how much will 4Gb/s SAN gear cost, vs. existing 2Gb/s SAN equipment? If 4Gb/s SAN gear carries only a small premium, or no premium, over 2Gb/s equipment, enterprises will choose it whether they need the bandwidth now or not. That thinking is what's fueled the migration during the last year from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s SANs, says Taneja.
"If you look at the 1Gb to 2Gb transition, many of us were saying the same thing that's being said now: 'Enterprises don't need it,'" recalls Taneja. "People went to 2Gb not because they needed it, but because the vendors of chips and other FC equipment made 2Gb essentially the same cost as 1Gb."
Vendors, however, disagree about whether 4Gb/s SAN gear will cost more, and if so, how much more.
QLogic's Berry predicts 4Gb/s SAN ports and other equipment will be "about the same price as 2Gb."
But Bill Mottram, director of strategic alliances at HP, believes 4Gb/s SAN equipment will carry a 10% to 20% price premium over 2Gb/s gear for at least the first six months after it becomes available late next year or early in 2005. Other vendors and industry analysts predict that 4Gb/s gear will initially command a price premium of up to 25% over 2Gb/s equipment and that some 4Gb/s price premiums will exist for up to two years.
The wild card is the future pricing of 2Gb/s Fibre ports and HBAs. If manufacturers continue to offer 2Gb/s gear even after 4Gb/s equipment arrives, 2Gb/s equipment prices could drop to levels comparable to Ethernet port prices. That would not only mean bargains for users, it would also mean plenty of lower-cost competition for new, expensive 4Gb/s gear.
And that's just what some experts expect. "In the one- to 2Gb transition, manufacturers closed off 1Gb fairly quickly after two arrived, because they didn't want the cost of carrying two test beds," says IBM's Drummond. "But 4Gb will be a tougher sell, so they may be forced to continue offering 2Gb HBAs for quite a while. And the cost of that stuff should come down quickly."
In fact, Emulex's Smith says his company will continue offering 2Gb/s HBAs as long as customers want them. And one competitor has already indicated it plans to use low 2Gb/s pricing to gain market share. JNI Corp. is rolling out a 2Gb/s dual-port HBA targeted at Windows servers and priced at $600 per port, about 45% lower than current 2Gb/s port prices.
Hedging their 4Gb/s bets
Given the uncertainty over 4Gb/s pricing and enterprise migration rates, it's not surprising that many vendors--mainly switch and systems makers--are hedging on when they'll make 4Gb/s products available. Neither Brocade Communications Inc. nor Nortel are committing to a date for shipping 4Gb/s products. Jack Hunt, director of storage marketing for Nortel, says, "The jury's still out on whether there will be a mass deployment of 4Gb Fibre. If that happens, we'll be ready to support it."
Similarly, officials at Brocade say the company is waiting for demand for 4Gb/s Fibre to materialize from its OEM customers before committing to a specific date for supporting 4Gb/s ports. HP say it's only recently begun to evaluate whether to support 4Gb/s SANs.
While officials at EMC say the company will support 4Gb/s if demand develops, they express doubts that it will happen. "A lot of [customers] have said they'll move directly from 2Gb to 10," says Paul Ross, EMC's director of storage networks marketing. "We don't know if 4Gb will become widely interesting to enterprises. Right now, there are just a couple of vendors pushing for it."
But analysts predict that even reluctant storage vendors will warm to 4Gb/s SANs, particularly if prices for the high-bandwidth products fall quickly, coming close to current 2Gb/s levels. "That's likely," says Rick Villars, VP of storage systems at IDC. "That's why there's a drumbeat of the inevitable right now around 4Gb."
What should enterprise storage customers do as that drumbeat becomes louder? First, understand that 10Gb/s Fibre initially won't be practical as a widespread replacement for 2Gb/s products, but it will be useful to speed up ISLs. Consider whether your SAN topology could benefit from such a high-speed backbone boost.
When 4Gb/s Fibre ports and other elements do become available, consider waiting at least six months before migrating. Given intense competition among HBA and switch vendors, analysts expect 4Gb/s prices to drop quickly.
And third, keep an eye out for bargains on 2Gb/s Fibre gear. If 2Gb/s SAN fabrics provide adequate performance for your applications, you could be in line for some savings.
For their part, storage managers agree that if 4Gb/s prices fall quickly, there's no reason they won't embrace the higher bandwidth. "We may not need it today, but in a year or two, who can say?" says National Medical Health Card Systems' Deck. "It's better to get caught with too much bandwidth than too little."


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Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called "sponsored stories" advertising model – a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream.
Gawker, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and Forbes, among others include content created by advertisers or are experimenting with them. And it's not always easy to tell the difference between paid and so-called real content other than the appearance of a label of whatever company is sponsoring it.
But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the viral web in realtime, has started creating cool list articles, with titles such as "20 Grandpas Who Own the Internet" for its advertisers. That earned a glowing review from the Wall Street Journal, even though the content shows a thorough disregard for copyright and internet etiquette.
Buzzfeed told the Wall Street Journal it has a 15-person team that comb the internet to look for hip content to rebundle into lists – the company's most popular content – and then slaps their advertiser's name on it to give the company a veneer of cool. That team has routinely created sponsored stories for its clients by lifting images from the internet without permission or even the courtesy of a proper attribution.
Consider a sponsored story from Virgin Mobile last month, a picture gallery called: "30 Geeky Ways to Spruce Up Your Nerd Pad."
Some of the pictures are lifted from blogs that lifted them from other blogs that lifted them from catalogs – a likely fair use even if the original source of the picture is not given attribution. But there's more to it than that.
One photo was a New York Times picture of a Captain Kirk chair taken in 2009 by freelance photographer Susan Seubert of Portland, Oregon.
Wired contacted her to see if either she or the newspaper had granted permission. Neither did, she said. Subsequently, photo agency Redux Pictures of New York got Buzzfeed to cough up an undisclosed licensing fee.
When Wired asked the company about the practice, Jonah Peretti, the sites' founder, said Buzzfeed is changing its ways and is addressing the problem.
"When they get caught, of course, the answer is going to be, 'We're trying to clean up our act,'" she said.
To be sure, much of the lower-tier blogosphere is filled with infringing pics. But what makes the Buzzfeed case so unusual is that it is a brand-name media outlet with big-time funding – $15.5 million was invested in January by New Enterprise Associates. It's also hiring veteran journalists to cover beats ranging from politics to Hollywood, and has won plaudits for its internet savviness in an age where journalism is struggling to make money online.
Buzzfeed is moving toward the sponsored stories model as one of its primary economic engines, Peretti said.
"We're going beyond banner ads," he said, "to replace that with interesting social content people think is interesting to share and pass along to their friends."
He admits that the site's paid and non-paid content has been filled with infringing pictures.
Buzzfeed, he said, has image deals with several agencies, including The Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images and celebrity shops. Sometimes, he said, the site has the rights to photos, but its staff lift them from blogs on the internet, where the picture was already pilfered, he said.
Tom Spina, a New York designer, said a picture of his $10,000 Star Wars desk with Han Solo encased in carbonite has been lifted from his website zillions of times. The picture appears in the same "Nerd Pad" paid post that Seubert's photo was in.
"We've wound up in a lot of these kinds of lists," he said. "We didn't give them any kind of approval of it, but I would have."
The attribution for Spina's desk on the Virgin Mobile sponsored post says nerdapproved.com, a blog with no affiliation with Spina.
Another picture in the same nerd post is one of a Millennium Falcon bed, which apparently originated on Kyla Kromer's Facebook page. She says pictures of her bed may be used by blogs and magazines. "All we ask for is to be credited, and given links or hard copies," the Facebook page says.
Yet the picture is attributed to a static Flickr URL that doesn't even indicate what Flickr account the photo was borrowed from. Oddly, enough it was the "official" Star Wars Flickr page.
Despite Peretti's dismissal of the problem as a training issue, looking through the posts for Virgin Mobile, it seems more accurate to say that Buzzfeed didn't make any concerted effort at all to track down the original owner when it comes to sponsored posts.
Another recent Virgin Mobile post is entitled "20 Instagrams to Get You Excited for Fall." What follows are 20 photos, ostensibly taken by Instagram users. But if you liked any of them and wanted to follow the original photographer, you'd have no idea who took any of them.
The "attribution" for each photo is a link to the photo's location on Amazon's cloud storage network – which gives no clue to who took the photo. The photos are almost certainly not licensed under Creative Commons, because Instagram doesn't offer that option.
The model seems intended to lend some of Buzzfeed's coolness to partners like Virgin Mobile. For instance, this list story about Halloween includes LolCat-style captions over borrowed images, one of which is a Pedobear pumpkin referencing a meme about pedophilia that started on the notorious 4Chan image board. Another Halloween post includes photos of a pumpkin used as a bong, multiple fraternity-style beer/pumpkin mashups, and even a pumpkin that looks to be having oral sex with a gourd.
None of the images in those posts have any attribution to speak of – though at least one photo is watermarked with another site's URL. That violates one of the internet's key tenets, which is that if you are going to borrow or infringe from another creator, at least provide the courtesy of a link.
Peretti defends the borrowing, in some cases. Often, he said, the sponsored posts, which in Virgin's case are produced jointly by Buzzfeed and Virgin, have a fair-use right to use the pictures.
"There's many [photos] we think that there is a strong fair-use argument," he said. "They have been remixed and shared on the web."
Fair use, which is subject to judicial interpretation, is a defense to copyright infringement and may be invoked for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research. One of the other tests, however, is to what extent is the re-use for commercial purposes.
Buzzfeed, he said, "can't participate in the conversation on the web," unless it publishes photos that are hot on the internet, regardless of whether the original owner grants permission. And in many instances, he said, it's virtually impossible to determine the real owner of a photo.
One case in point is a picture of a Nintendo bedspread on the same Virgin Mobile nerd post, which was attributed to bedzine.com as the source. But the picture appeared on so many blogs that we were not immediately able to determine its original owner.
Virgin Mobile declined to be interviewed for this story. But in a statement, the carrier said it was bound by Buzzfeed's "policies and guidelines."
"When we publish content on the Buzzfeed platform, we automatically are subject to Buzzfeed's policies and guidelines around content licensing. If you have questions about these policies, we encourage you to reach out to Buzzfeed directly with your questions," the statement said.
The internet seems to be accepting Peretti's model as Buzzfeed has been hit with only a few infringement suits.
One case against Buzzfeed was lodged last year by now-defunct copyright troll Righthaven concerning the site's use of a Denver Post photo of a Transportation Security Administration search at a Colorado airport. The case was dismissed for procedural reasons, as were dozens of other Righthaven cases, because the courts concluded Righthaven did not own outright the content over which it was suing.
Earlier this month, Mavrix Photo hit Buzzfeed with a $1.3 million suit for allegedly running pics of Katy Perry and Kathy Griffin without permission. That case is pending. A patent infringement case (.pdf) filed earlier this year by Mobile Transformation was dismissed in October.
The site has a staff of about 150, up from a couple dozen the year before. According to the Wall Street Journal, traffic has doubled from a year ago, and some of its other advertisers include Toyota, General Electric, JetBlue and Pepsi.
The Obama for President campaign is also buying Sponsored Stories, though all of its content looks to be videos created by the campaign.
For Peretti, it's not that big of a deal to print "web culture stuff" without authorization.
"It's not like it's threatening some photojournalist who's in Afghanistan risking his life," he said.


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IN the 24 hours before the McCain campaign put the finishing touches on its surprise announcement Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska would be the Republican vice presidential candidate, one Wikipedia user was putting the finishing touches on her biography on the site.
Beginning at 2 a.m Eastern time on Thursday, a Wikipedia user with the name YoungTrigg began an overhaul of the article, adding compelling stories about her upbringing, including that "she earned the nickname 'Sarah Barracuda' because of her intense play" as point guard for her high school basketball team and that she and her father "would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school."
Many details were culled from, and footnoted to, the book "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment on Its Ear," by Kaylene Johnson.
Soon enough, YoungTrigg pivoted from the biographical to the political, adding that Ms. Palin had high approval ratings as governor and that, as mayor, she had "kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60 percent."
As governor, YoungTrigg wrote, her "tenure is noted for her willingness to take on oil companies" and that she has been called "a 'politician of eye-popping integrity.' " Both of those statements were attributed to a profile in the conservative Weekly Standard magazine.
In total, YoungTrigg whose user name is a reference to Ms. Palin's infant son, Trig made 30 "edits" to the article, all positive and largely unnoticed, since they came at a time when few were discussing her as a possible running mate of Senator John McCain's.
The coincidence of the user's name, and the sudden spurt of activity just before news broke of Mr. McCain's choice, has raised suspicions that YoungTrigg was a campaign operative tasked to make sure that her Wikipedia article was ready for prime time, much as handlers have been assigned to do the same for the candidate.
While ethically suspect, the idea that a politician would try to shape her Wikipedia article shouldn't come as a surprise. In modern politics, where the struggle is to "define" yourself before your opponent "defines" you, Wikipedia has become an important part of political strategy. When news breaks, and people plug a name into a search engine to find out more, invariably Wikipedia is the first result they click through to; it is where first impressions are made.
The daily page view totals for even well-known candidates are striking. For example, according to a site that tracks the traffic to Wikipedia, the John McCain article had 645,000 page views in June. That month, Barack Obama had 1.35 million page views. Henrik Abelsson, who tracks the traffic, said that on Friday there were 2.4 million page views for Gov. Palin's Wikipedia article.
Last year, a graduate student, Virgil Griffith, created a clever Web site, Wiki- Scanner, that made it easy to detect where anonymous editors of Wikipedia were accessing the site. In the process, companies, government agencies and, yes, politicians were caught in the act of spiffing up their Wikipedia entries, even as many assumed that anonymity would make them safe. (Wikipedia, incredibly and mercilessly, keeps a record of every change made to every article.)
YoungTrigg made the last edit Friday morning, hours before the news of the Palin selection became official. But in the wee hours the day before, when no one was really paying attention, YoungTrigg did contact other Wikipedians, who were initially impressed by the rapid improvements to the article.
YoungTrigg was given a virtual unit of praise, the Barnstar, for the effort. When another Wikipedia contributor asked gently if YoungTrigg could include page numbers to his footnotes from "Sarah," YoungTrigg wrote back excitedly: "Thank you! I'm afraid I didn't use the page numbers when I did the edits, so I don't have them now. The book has a pretty good index, though, and I can look something up if anything I added was controversial. I apologize if I misunderstood the format."
Also, YoungTrigg reached out to an anonymous editor who had changed the Palin article on Thursday night, without any evidence, to say that she was Mr. McCain's choice. In a public note to the anonymous editor, YoungTrigg wrote: "Where did you hear that Palin was the VP nominee? I can't find anything online."
Whether this pokes a hole in the idea that YoungTrigg had inside information, or rather confirms that the user had an unusually acute interest in whether the news had leaked out, is hard to tell.
Or maybe it was dumb luck. When news outlets like National Public Radio and Washingtonpost.com reported on the editing on Friday, they classified it as another example of Wikipedia's mysterious ability to predict about-to-break news, if we only knew to look there. When the liberal Web site Daily Kos, enmeshed in the rough-and-tumble of the presidential election, picked up on the news in a highly read post, commenters were quick to raise the specter of dirty tricks.
Oddly enough, as YoungTrigg began to tackle editing the Palin article, another editor happened to be working there too. This user, Ferrylodge, a lawyer who has contributed to Wikipedia for years and describes himself as a independent-minded Republican, was interested in examining the accusations that Ms. Palin had used her position to get a trooper dismissed for personal reasons.
He ended up editing YoungTrigg's edits, toning down entries that seemed biased, removing material that seemed extraneous, like the exact unit that Ms. Palin's son is serving in that will be going to Iraq. "A lot of stuff was useful like citing a biography of her," he said in a telephone interview, speaking under condition of anonymity to avoid tipping off his clients that he spends time on Wikipedia. "Some was questionable stuff." In general, he said, the editing "indicates a very close familiarity with Governor Palin."
The lawyer said that when YoungTrigg linked to government documents on a government Web site related to the trooper case, it seemed like this editor was not exactly a political naïf.
But, he says, this person may be Wikipedically naïve. "They didn't quite know what they were getting into they got a lot of conflict-of-interest notes," he said. And much of that original, flattering material has been overwritten.
By Sunday morning, YoungTrigg came forward, still anonymous, on his or her Wikipedia user page: "It's not true that 'all of my edits made Palin look better.' "
The user narrowed down YoungTrigg's identity: "I am not Sarah Palin. I think it is obvious that I am not the five-month-old Trig Paxson Van Palin. I am not a member of Sarah Palin's family, or even Michael Palin's family."
YoungTrigg was a user name picked for this task; for other editing, he or she chooses other names: "I will acknowledge that I volunteer for the McCain campaign, one of thousands of people nationwide who are working to elect the best candidate for the job. Palin was not the nominee when I made my edits, though I am certainly excited about the selection. I don't believe I have a conflict of interest problem."
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In Denver, officials braced for flooding when the nearly 30-inch mantle of heavy, wet snow began to melt. The temperature there was expected to reach 40 on Thursday and 50 by Saturday.
Colorado and Wyoming needed the moisture after months of drought. ''We've had such a terrible drought, and this will help with our water situation,'' said Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who was stranded near the Denver airport.
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CNN reported that Denver has received a record 53 inches of snow in 5 days.
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The northbound lanes of Interstate 25 were closed at Wellington, about 20 miles south of the Wyoming border. Forecasters said heavier snow was likely to come Tuesday night or Wednesday -- welcome news to the drought-parched state.
"They'll be working through the night and probably tomorrow night," Steve Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said late Monday.
At Denver International Airport, snow-removal crews were told to be prepared to work 12-hour shifts.
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"We could get a month's worth of precipitation in a couple of days or even see an historic storm. And this is not the only storm we are going to get in the next week or two," atmospheric scientist Klaus Wolter said.
Winter storm warnings were in effect across most of Wyoming -- except the northwest mountains -- while winter weather advisories were issued in the Rock Springs, Rawlins and Laramie areas.
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"It's not rare for us to get something like this in March, especially with the high water content," he said. "We tend to get more Pacific weather at this time of year."
Six inches of snow had fallen in Sinks Canyon by late afternoon with 4 inches in Lander, 2 inches in Thermopolis and less than an inch in Kaycee.
High wind was also reported, with speeds between 30 and 40 mph possible in many areas. A gust of 58 mph was reported on Interstate 25 between Buffalo and Kaycee Monday evening, Jones said.
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Meteorologists warned motorists to stay in their vehicles if they become stranded and remain visible to rescuers by keeping their overhead lights on and attaching a brightly colored cloth to their antennas. Make sure ice and snow do not block your exhaust and do not run your engine more than 10 minutes every hour, officials said.
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The storm battered a long swath of the Rocky Mountain region, from New Mexico to the Canadian border, weather officials said, and a blizzard warning remained in effect Wednesday from New Mexico to the Colorado-Wyoming line.
Gov. Bill Owens' spokesman, Dan Hopkins, said the storm may be the worst to hit metropolitan Denver in 20 years.
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Officials in both states warned residents to stay home unless absolutely necessary, and there was limited sympathy for stranded motorists.
''We're not Triple A, and we're not equipped to help people who are stuck,'' Officer Dave Padilla said in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Southeastern Denver had gotten 29 inches of snow by early Wednesday, and Boulder, 38 inches. Cheyenne was up to 18 inches by morning, and its 16 inches on Tuesday set a record for the date. More snow -- perhaps 6 inches -- was on the way.
''A good storm lasts a day,'' said National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin. ''This will be a three-day storm.''
Denver's streets were empty at morning rush hour, save the occasional bus or commuter with 4-wheel-drive. Offices, stores and even the coffee shops were closed. Snowplows fought to stay ahead of the heavy, wet snow -- more troublesome than Colorado's signature skier's powder.
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Stacey Mittelstadt, a Casper, Wyo., teacher, was stuck in Billings Logan International Airport in Montana on her way home from a conference in Phoenix. She said she considered renting a car or taking a flight to Salt Lake City for a possible connecting flight to Casper but thought better of it.
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Strong wind whipped the snow horizontally, sweeping many areas bare and piling up 10-foot drifts across roads, at the end of driveways and behind cars.
Residents were advised not to travel in Cheyenne, where the wind-driven snow forced all state offices, schools and the Postal Service to close. F.E. Warren Air Force Base was closed to all but essential personnel.
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The snow was good news for the Colorado water supply. Last year was the state's driest on record, and the mountain snowpack -- which accounts for four-fifths of the water in the state's lakes and rivers --stood at about 85 percent of average last week.
''We are very grateful. We're very glad to see it. The snow that we've received has brought us to just about normal,'' said Trina McGuire-Collier, spokeswoman for Denver Water.


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One Bay Area Plan includes nine counties, 101 cities, 7,000 square miles, and 7,000,000 people. By 2040 the population of the Bay Area is expected to reach 9,000,000, and the optimistic projection is made for new jobs at 1,100,000, mostly in the south Bay.
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