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Heartfelt condolences go out to Colorado basketball assistant Tom Abatemarco on the tragic loss of his former North Carolina State player and friend, Lorenzo Charles.
Abatemarco was on the sideline for two of the most enduring "frozen in time" moments in Final Four history. Charles took a 30-foot miss by Dereck Whittenburg (a former CU assistant) and slammed it home as time expired for a 54-52 upset of Houston in the 1983 championship game.
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There must be a more convincing argument for living a so-called "alternative lifestyle" than to become healthier by doing so. A lot of things are healthy for you, but they're not all that fun. Good thing, then, that the world of beer is ever evolving and there are simply too many alternative choices available for you to pick a single one. Good thing that Enegren Brewing exists to assist in the decision making. We'll get back to healthy.
Moorpark's Enegren Brewing is just the kind of brewery to never let your thirst for new and exciting flavors wane. At its Moorpark tap room, Enegren serves classic styles with modern, distinctly Californian twists.
The Golden Spur Saison, a limited spring release, is a flavorful burst of ripe fruit with a sour kick, perfect for the warming weather. Saisons are of Belgian origin and have quickly become the 5 O'Clock's official beverage of choice — complex and fruity with a hint of pepper in the finish. Enegren's saison, using a combination of Belgian yeast and an eclectic blend of European and American malts, is a writing session's best friend.
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And Dave Kaplan is making darn sure that he gins up this story to get the Cubs some leverage. The real story is whether the Cubs sent their favorite lap dog out to get this "exclusive" story. On his new show tonight Kaplan trumpeted this story, and to his credit Rick Morrissey sheepishly asked about him how this sorry came about. Kaplan said that he "heard some rumors."
Honestly, this would be the worst PR disaster and most boneheaded financial move in professional sports history if the Cubs were to move from their storybook ballpark in the heart of the City to some vacant lot out in Rosemont next to the Tollway. As a Sox fan, I'm on my knees praying that this is true and that the City of Chicago tells Ricketts to kiss ass and move.
From a logistical standpoint, this new site wouldn't be COMPLETELY removed from public transportation (looks like there's a Metra line there), but for all practical purposes, they might as well relocate to Rockford. The neighborhood around this site would be more barren than USCF.
Can't believe this is "real" leverage, and I hope the City doesn't take these clowns seriously, and on the same front I hope the Ricketts are 100% serious. Hilarious concept.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Magic. Invisible worlds. The end of the universe and the future of life.
Since 2009, the Buffalo Science & Art Cabaret has entertained the public by bringing artists and top university researchers together to discuss these and other topics in a casual setting: a basement bar.
Now, the event series is celebrating the start of its 5th season, which opens Oct. 23 with a conversation on "Hysteresis." The word refers to the way the history of a system influences its current state, and speakers will discuss how the theme of memory relates to fields from physics to photography.
Series co-founder Will Kinney, an associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, says the cabaret's "secret sauce" is its ability to reveal how people working in diverse fields are often thinking and talking about similar problems — without knowing it.
"We started the Science & Art Cabaret in 2009 because we wanted to do something different," Kinney says. "We wanted to pull science out of the stuffy lecture hall and show that it really is a creative activity: vital, lively, human and fun. From this perspective, mixing science and art was a natural thing to do.
"Every cabaret starts like a joke: 'A reverend, a poet and a mathematician walk into a bar…'" he says.
"Hysteresis" will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at the Ninth Ward at Babeville at 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
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The Science & Art Cabaret is a collaboration between the UB College of Arts and Sciences, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Each event in the series invites a hodgepodge of artists and researchers to share stories and work on a common topic. Past presenters have included a pastor, a psychologist, a painter, an artist who draws cadavers, an illusionist, a law school professor, an electronic music ensemble and more.
"While we always enter into each themed cabaret with confidence in the general idea and the invited participants, we can never determine how it will all play out," says cabaret co-founder John Massier, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center visual arts curator.
"In beautifully organic/artistic/scientific fashion, we have found our diverse presenters often overlap in curious ways, calling back to each other's ideas, and confirming what we always suspected when we began this ongoing program: that there is... umm… a force that binds us all. Or two forces, perhaps, each elemental and integral to the fields of science and art: critical thinking and imagination," Massier says.
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Abuja, Nigeria, July 6, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on a Togolese journalist who was trying to cover a demonstration on Monday and calls on authorities to immediately investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Atayi Ayi, a reporter for the daily Forum de la Semaine, was taking photographs of a protest in Lomé, the capital, when two groups of unidentified demonstrators beat him and seized his camera, he told CPJ. The journalist said he was wearing a vest that identified him as press. The attack left him with injuries to his right eye, a bloody nose, and bruises all over his body, Ayi told CPJ. He was rescued by a police officer and reported the incident to the police the same day, he said. His camera was recovered by the police, he said.
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(CBS News) It's hard to overstate the enormity of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was the largest bankruptcy in history; 26,000 employees lost their jobs; millions of investors lost all or almost all of their money; and it triggered a chain reaction that produced the worst financial crisis and economic downturn in 70 years.
Yet four years later, no one at Lehman has been held responsible. Steve Kroft investigates the collapse of Lehman Brothers: what the SEC did and didn't know about the firm's finances, the role of a top accounting firm, and why no one at Lehman has been called to account.
The following script is from "The Case Against Lehman" which originally aired on April 22, 2012. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. James Jacoby and Michael Karzis, producers.
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the world, declared bankruptcy -- sparking chaos in the financial markets and nearly bringing down the global economy. It was the largest bankruptcy in history -- larger than General Motors, Washington Mutual, Enron, and Worldcom combined. The federal bankruptcy court appointed Anton Valukas, a prominent Chicago lawyer and former United States attorney to conduct an investigation to determine what happened.
Included in the nine-volume, 2,200-page report was the finding that there was enough evidence for a prosecutor to bring a case against top Lehman officials and one of the nation's top accounting firms for misleading government regulators and investors. That was two years ago and there have been no prosecutions. Anton Valukas has never given an interview about his report until now.
Steve Kroft: This is the largest bankruptcy in the world. What were the effects?
Anton Valukas: The effects were the financial disaster that we are living our way through right now.
Steve Kroft: And who got hurt?
Anton Valukas: Everybody got hurt. The entire economy has suffered from the fall of Lehman Brothers.
Steve Kroft: So the whole world?
Anton Valukas: Yes, the whole world.
When Lehman Brothers collapsed, 26,000 employees lost their jobs and millions of investors lost all or almost all of their money, triggering a chain reaction that produced the worst financial crisis and economic downturn in 70 years. Anton Valukas' job was to provide the bankruptcy court with accurate, reliable information that the judges could use to resolve the claims of creditors picking over Lehman's corpse.
Steve Kroft: Had you ever done anything like this before?
Anton Valukas: I've never done anything like Lehman Brothers. I don't think anybody else has ever done anything like Lehman Brothers.
Steve Kroft: So your job, I mean, in some ways, your job was to assess blame?
Anton Valukas: Our job is to determine what actually happened, put the cards face up on the table, and let everybody see what the facts truly are.
Valukas' team spent a year and a half interviewing hundreds of former employees, and pouring over 34 million documents. They told of how Lehman bought up huge amounts of real estate that it couldn't unload when the market went south -- how it had borrowed $44 for every one it had in the bank to finance the deals -- and how Lehman executives manipulated balance sheets and financial reports when investors began losing confidence and competitors closed in.
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(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, §105, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2077; Pub. L. 100–204, title I, §185(a), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1365; Pub. L. 101–246, title I, §153(d), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 43.)
Subsec. (d)(2) of this section, which required the Secretary to transmit at least once annually to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives the Department's reports on equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and minority recruitment programs, which reports are required by law, regulation, or directive to be submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 129 of House Document No. 103–7.
1990—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 101–246 inserted "geographic or educational affiliation within the United States," after "marital status,".
1987—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 100–204 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: "Not later than January 31 of each year, the Secretary shall transmit to each House of the Congress a report, signed by the Secretary, on the activities of the Secretary under paragraph (1). Such report shall include any affirmative action plans submitted by the Secretary under section 2000e–16 of title 42 and any data necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the program under paragraph (1) for the preceding fiscal year, together with recommendations for administrative or legislative action the Secretary considers appropriate."


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Why storage managers are turning to tiered storage
Using top-shelf storage for all data assets is no longer a cost-efficient solution. Organizations must now account for what data they have, where it is located and who is accessing it -- details that cannot be determined by just adding hard drives. These companies are turning to tiered storage.
Every business has experienced tremendous data growth, and adequate storage and retrieval of that data is a serious concern. In years past, IT would simply "buy more storage," which meant adding high-end Fibre Channel (FC) drives to a storage array or SAN.
But companies are rethinking their basic approach to data storage. High-end storage is very expensive, and using top-shelf storage for all data assets is no longer a cost-efficient solution. And since companies are now obligated to meet regulatory and legal data storage requirements, they must account for what data they have, where it is located and who is accessing it -- details that cannot be determined by just adding hard drives. Tiered storage is emerging as one means to address these changes.
Tiered storage is a way of reorganizing corporate data onto a variety of storage media. Tiering involves the selection and implementation of storage systems, the software to manage and optimize that storage, as well as the policies and procedures needed to operate each tier.
"The concept of tiered storage is to better align data on storage devices with its value or importance to the organization," says Jim Damoulakis, chief technical officer at GlassHouse Technologies Inc. The idea is to retain the most timely or important data on fast, high-I/O storage (such as Fibre Channel or solid-state disk drives), and move less important and less frequently accessed data to less-expensive (lower-performance) drives, such as SAS, SATA or even tape drives.
Data can also be moved over time as its value changes. For example, a quarterly financial report may start on high-performance storage, then be migrated to secondary storage, and eventually be archived or offloaded to tape. This isn't simply an exercise in data migration. Data must be relocated as necessary based on its relative value, i.e., a business decision rather than an IT decision.
Tiered storage offers cost benefits. Shifting less valuable data to less-expensive storage media can allow for higher storage capacities (now exceeding 1 TB to 1.5 TB per drive) at a lower cost per TB. "If I treat all my online storage the same, if I only had one kind of storage, I'd probably be wasting some money," says Brian Garrett, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "If I'm able to pull out lower-priority or old data, I can put it on something more cost-effective and save money."
However, shifting to larger, lower-cost storage entails a performance tradeoff. Business typically translate tiers of storage into "tiers of service," offering storage users a more practical measure of reliability and accessibility at each level.
Tiering can improve storage performance. "If you have it [data] placed on the right performance profile [tier], you may be able to get at it quicker to better service your customer's needs," Garrett says. When all corporate data is stored on a single tier (e.g., FC), all network users are competing for access. By separating storage into tiers, I/O operations are spread out among multiple tiers (usually across several storage subsystems). So even though SAS or SATA drives may offer lower I/O capability than FC drives, reduced competition for I/O time may actually allow for good performance at the SAS or SATA tier. And since this also reduces the number of I/O requests arriving at FC drives, top-tier performance may also improve -- enhancing the storage service experience for all users.
Even solid state disk drives (SSDDs) are changing the way that storage performance versus capacity considerations are handled. "Solid state for pure I/O and larger, lower-performance drives for pure capacity might be a good combination in many data centers that gradually reduces the need for faster FC drives," said Mark Peters, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
Dispelling tiered storage myths
The most common error in tiered storage is the confusion between data classification, tiered storage and information lifecycle management (ILM). Although data classification is closely related to tiered storage, the two are different. Data classification is the process that identifies data and determines its value to the organization. Tiered storage is the hardware, software and processes that actually implement those data classification plans.
"Buying the storage is easy," says Damoulakis. "Doing the data classification work required to take advantage of that storage is the challenge." Data classification is pointless unless you intend to tier the storage architecture, and it's impossible to place the right data in the appropriate storage tiers without having first accomplished a data classification initiative. It might be said that tiered storage is the practical expression (or implementation) of storage decisions made during the data classification process. Data classification and storage tiering are a part of ILM, but ILM is an even broader umbrella of policies and procedures that define how data should be handled throughout its lifetime.
Tiering storage is supposed to save money, but a simple cost/gigabyte or cost/terabyte analysis is not a good yardstick. Cheaper disks may cost more in the long run if they're hard to manage. Even though Tier One storage is more expensive in terms of raw cost per GB/TB, if it's managed and utilized well, the total cost may actually be less than a high volume of lower-end disks, where management may be more difficult. "We've actually seen examples where the cost per utilized GB of the more expensive Tier One storage is actually lower than the highly unutilized cost per GB of the Tier Two storage," Damoulakis says.
A tiered storage initiative doesn't guarantee cooperation within the organization. Proper tiered storage deployment requires a great deal of underlying classification work, and many managers are hard-pressed to justify the expense to department leaders or other decision-makers who are already used to data being highly accessible from fast storage. The easiest way to garner support is to associate cost with each storage tier, and let each department decide how much storage service they want to pay for.
But in companies that don't have a chargeback model in place, business leaders must find other arguments for tiering, such as performance streamlining. "Your less frequently accessed data will be OK, and you'll get good -- maybe even better -- response times if we take it out of a high-performance pool where it's competing with other data," says Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO. Garrett suggests a different argument for the near term. Rather than making the case to move data from FC to lower tiers, try making the "bottom-up" case to move data from tape backup to SAS or SATA to improve recovery performance. Such a tactic gets users comfortable with middle tiers and demonstrates its benefits, making it easier to justify moving data from the top tier down the road.
Other technologies have also evolved that affect the importance and use of tiered storage today. For example, data deduplication eases storage needs by removing redundant files, blocks and bytes from stored data, effectively reducing a corporate data set by 50-80%. Similarly, thin provisioning supports the creation of LUNs that are logically bigger than the actual storage allocated to them, allowing users to "grow into" LUNs while only purchasing and deploying the minimum amount of storage up front. These and other technologies do not reduce the importance of tiering, but are critical to rein in the proliferation of physical disks while helping to mitigate storage cost, power, cooling, backup/DR planning and other data center issues.
Getting the most from tiered storage
There's no one "right" way to handle tiered storage. Implementations vary based on corporate business needs, data classification granularity and IT budgets. An enterprise may use a different storage array for each tier, while smaller organizations may mix drive types to establish multiple tiers within a single array. Some users may opt for FC and SAS drives, while other businesses may go with FC, SATA and tape. In the end, tiered storage requires an understanding of business needs. "Learn more about the business and learn more about the applications that support the business," Schulz says, noting that application performance can sometimes be optimized by matching each application's data needs to its appropriate tier in the IT architecture.
Avoid the tendency to express tiers as specific technologies (e.g., Tier One FC versus Tier Two SAS or SATA). Instead, present tiers as "service levels" that express real business needs.
This is particularly relevant given the importance of modern networking technologies that tie storage to the business. Faster networks allow faster access and further improve responsiveness. Traditional Fibre Channel storage networks have accelerated to 8 GB, while Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet now support popular iSCSI storage, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet is poised to carry FC traffic over everyday networks in late 2009 and beyond.
Damoulakis suggests creating a limited number of service classes and identifying the corresponding business costs of each class. "Work with the business units and relevant IT areas to determine the appropriate classes of service," he says. "What does each 'basket' of features look like?" When supporting service classes through service level agreements, it's important to see that the back-end process (your infrastructure) is capable of delivering the promised level of service across a range of network conditions.
Tools are appearing to automate tiering, migrating data transparently based on a range of criteria. Although the technology is promising and algorithms are improving, experts like Schulz note that automation carries significant overhead -- particularly under heavy workloads -- while performance demands and response times grow more demanding. "Vendors are waking up and talking performance, including IOPs and bandwidth, instead of a focus just on capacity," Schulz said. "The next step is to talk about latency … and with fast technology like SSD."
Storage virtualization has indirectly influenced storage tiering. Virtualization allows storage pooling. This improves utilization, but can abstract storage tiers and make it difficult or confusing to maintain physical separation between tiers. The primary benefit of storage virtualization is the management agility and ability to migrate storage content between systems for maintenance or technology refresh. From that perspective, virtualization can enable and support tiering quite well, but it still does not handle any of the underlying classification work or gauge the relative business importance of the data being migrated -- that remains a largely "human" decision.


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Blockhouse Bay, 1899
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Never heard of gumdiggers. Interesting.ReplyDelete
You're not the first Aussie to say that around here, Andrew. My friend Lee, commenting to a post about the McLeod's Crossing Bridge in Henderson last year, asked about them. I replied:ReplyDelete
"Gumdiggers literally dug for the solidified gum of the kauri trees which remained in the ground as a legacy of the kauri forests which once abounded in the upper half of the North Island. It was a key component in the manufacture of varnish, paint and other products from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. They'd stick a metal probe in the ground, and if they hit something which seemed to be gum, they'd then dig for it, hence the name."
In terms of Blockhouse Bay and Avondale, the gumdiggers dug into unformed roads and caused potholes looking for the gum -- and had a £1 bounty on their head for it in the 1880s to 1890s.
Andrew: Here's a photo of a giant piece of Kauri gum i snapped at the Kauri museum in Matakohe in the North Island a while back http://www.flickr.com/photos/porkynz/3369459257/ Ironically this piece belongs to the Auckland Museum where i work... was rather pleasant to see it there!ReplyDelete
There quite a few pics of Kauri gum in there...if you ever get to Matakohe...this is a MUST museum to see!
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TS, I wonder if we had such diggers in Australia. Dear oh dear, digging up the roads.ReplyDelete
Thanks Sandy. I remember a chunk of something mounted on a board when I was a primary school. Obviously not kauri, probably a eucalypt resin.
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See paragraph 5 - Mr Pooley - I wonder if anybody has any idea of the origins / history of this Mr Pooley ? Maybe a connection to Liverpool, UK, or Birkenhead / Wirral in Cheshire, UK.ReplyDelete
An Alfred Pooley arrived in Auckland in 1882 and lived there for about 9/10 years before moving to Manly, Sydney. I wonder if he links to the Mr Pooley of Blockhouse Bay ?
We know that Alfred Pooley ran off to Auckland with his lover Maria Phillipps from Liverpool in about 1881/1882, also their baby Ethel Ward Phillipps (later Ethel Ward Phillipps Pooley), born 1879 Chester, UK. Any family historians out there ??


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just me, 2 May 2007 @ 4:17amA good test, and a good means for business everywhere to take notice in case they have any "not so bright ideas".
LesterRay, 2 May 2007 @ 4:55am
What the hell is obviousnessIn regards to this case of course. to me this is not so obvious. Is not a patent a patent and if it is infringed upon is that not obvious. Obviously since this has not been commented on by anyone other than us it is quite clear this court is to smart for their own good. Ummm, I don't know what I'm saying, maybe I have not had enough coffee this morning...THIS IS OBVIOUS...
ChrisLeigh, 2 May 2007 @ 5:18am
What happened to personal conscienceTodays business world you have to have a law to tell you that your obviously wrong and then a court to make you do it. Then what is the next law I can skirt around. It reminds me of a lawyer turned former president was guest lecturing at my cousins law school. He said laws were not to be obeyed but broken. If we lived in a society were morals was king and money was not. Then people like this would be socially ruined. No amount of money could buy an ounce of respect. It doesn't matter what your bank account is. What does matter what you did to get that bank account.
SomePerson, 2 May 2007 @ 5:26am
Obvious.What's OBVIOUS is that Verizon's original claim that Vonage was infringing one or more of their "patents" is complete and utter BS. And this is why Vonage is filing for a re-trial. Verizon filed a false claim and paid off a judge to get a ruling in their favor...to get Vonage shut down. Now that the courts are starting to realize that all these "you stole my idea" cases are bogus...Vonage definetely has a good chance for a re-trial. I am all for it and I hope Vonage wins.
Sanguine Dream, 2 May 2007 @ 6:22am
Payback...I understand there were no contengiencies for RIM to get its money back but I'm sure they will try to come up with something. It would be so nice if they did. I know that it is almost impossible to prove effort in the market but everyone knows that NTP didn't even try to innovate and just waited for someone else to do the work for them.
RandomThoughts, 2 May 2007 @ 6:38amThe judge in the original trial stated at the beginning that he would not rule on the patent itself but only if Vonage was infringing on Verizon's patent.
He ruled that the patent itself wasn't his jurisdiction and left that to other courts. That probably was a good idea.
Anonymous Coward, 2 May 2007 @ 6:46am
Re: What the hell is obviousnessThe reason this is obvious is that Vonage got patents for technology that was already in existence. Thats why it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Anonymous Coward, 2 May 2007 @ 8:01am
Re: Re: What the hell is obviousnessI think you mean "Verizon got patents on technology that was already in existence."
Concerned Customer, 2 May 2007 @ 8:19am
Patent cry is Bull!!!!Verizon is obviously jealous of Vonage because they can offer a better service much cheaper than those crooks at Verizon!!!! Stop Hatin Verizon and lower your prices for the same service. Oh I forgot...You guys don't offer the service.
Danimal, 2 May 2007 @ 10:41am
Re: Patent cry is Bull!!!!Okay, I think Verizon sucks as much as the next guy, but they do offer a service very similar to Vonage at the exact same pricepoint: Voicewing by Verizon (https://www22.verizon.com/ForYourHome/VOIP/VOIPHome.aspx)
I was actually considering switching from Vonage to them until they sued Vonage.
scate, 2 May 2007 @ 8:35amOpportunistic? Hmmm...Let's see:
"exploiting chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle"
Nope, not opportunistic. While they are taking advantage of new court decision, they have that right and they are not doing so in an immoral way. It seems fairly clear that Verizon's patents are blatantly obvious, of the "you got chocolate in my peanut" variety and there seems to be prior art--making them doubly invalid.
PhysicsGuy, 2 May 2007 @ 9:26am
patentsso did techdirt actually get that patent for "a website that looks like the acned buttocks of michael jackson"?
Anonymous Coward, 2 May 2007 @ 10:16am
Re: patentsIf you have nothing better to do than complain, why don't you start your own blog. You can sit on there and rant about how great you are all day long, and then you will only be affecting yourself instead of making everyone else read your silly cross-thread whining.
glitch, 2 May 2007 @ 11:34am
i dont think verizon sux, nor that vonage is a godi had verizon and also at & t callvantage....they were both far beneath vonage quality wise. been there, done that...choice by actutal use
i do maintain a verizon landline...due only to 911 concerns..i know if i dial 911 and cant speak, the 911 center that gets that call is in radio communication with my local police, fire & ambulance..
another issue i have with verizon is there broadband availability...around here, there is none. in my situiation [location] ROI is not visible, even a breakeven point is not very probable.
nor would i ever accept them putting out "if you used voicewing, maybe we would invest".
Allan, 7 May 2007 @ 8:49am
Significant developments in 2007Significant developments in 2007 to date are:
- In January 2007, the Company received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office with respect to its "Private IP Communication Network Architecture" patent application, which covers the delivery of telecommunication type services across a network using digital technology.
- On March 21 2007, the European Patent Office published its decision to grant C2 a European patent that is equivalent to its U.S. Patent No. 6,243,373.
- In April, a trial scheduling conference was held with respect to the Company's patent infringement lawsuit against AT&T, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc., Qwest Communications International, Inc., Bellsouth Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Global Crossing Limited, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. August 4, 2008 was set as the trial date.
Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed with the SEC on March 16, 2007, and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2007, filed with the SEC on May 4, 2007, for further information.
About C2 Global Technologies Inc.
C2's business is focused on licensing its patents, which include two foundational patents in VoIP technology. C2 plans to realize value from its intellectual property by offering licenses to service providers, equipment companies and end-users that are deploying VoIP networks for phone-to-phone communications. For further information, please visit C2's website at www.c-2technologies.com.
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Griffin was bruised and battered and busted up and down the field last night, not to mention kicked in the jimmy-johns. In a lifeless 27-6 loss to San Francisco, Griffin was sacked four times, hit seven, and tackled on six short runs. "I don't know how many I took," Griffin said, and it's entirely conceivable that he lost count.
Take away the two 60-plus yard drives to start the second quarter that ended in field goals, and the Redskins averaged 4.4 yards and four plays per drive. (Take away the five-play drive that resulted in an interception, and that average drops to 2.3.) Futility like that requires a team effort, and there's plenty of blame to go around—the league's worst offensive line, the lack of a real No. 1 receiver, some truly bizarre play-calling, like a handoff to Roy Helu up the gut on fourth-and-two—but for better or worse, Washington has cast its lot with Griffin, and he's the poster boy for the Skins' troubles.
Griffin didn't look like a QB in a sophomore slump. Against an elite 49ers defense, he looked like a rookie overcome by the speed of the game. He second-guessed and psyched himself out, calling audibles or clearly considering it on numerous plays, convinced the Niners knew what was coming. And at least one defender on the other side of the ball says Griffin needs some time off.
"He's obviously a man and he makes his own decisions, but I personally don't feel he should be playing right now," Ahmad Brooks said.
"I don't think he should be playing," he said again. "You can see it. Everybody can see it, everybody can see it."
We've been down this road before. Unless Griffin's hurting—and given all the shots he took last night, he seems as durable as before his injury—there's nothing to be gained from benching him and everything to lose. He's still just 23, and if not for Washington's unlikely sprint to the playoffs last season, he'd be getting graded on a learning curve. Maybe the improvement's not there, and that's troubling, but he's not going to get better watching from the sidelines. Maybe it'll take a few crappy years—this is a crappy team around Griffin—for him to figure out the league, or for Washington to figure out exactly what they've got with him. But for a team that hasn't won anything in a couple of decades, patience and a true rebuild are necessary.
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It is common for people to return to the schools they attended as youth to make a donation, but it isn't often that the student brings with him the son of the school's founder.
Apa Sherpa, a native of Nepal who now calls the Salt Lake Valley his home and who also happens to be the world record holder for summits of Mount Everest with 21, has invited Peter Hillary, son of famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, to a Jan. 25 fundraiser in Utah that will launch the Apa Sherpa Foundation.
The foundation, at least initially, will focus on raising funds for the Thame School in a village of the same name in the Himalayan highlands. It's where Apa was born and still has family and strong ties.
"It is simply marvelous that Apa is now helping renovate the Thame school my dad built in 1963 after being one of the first students to attend there," Hillary said from his home in New Zealand. "This is a great example of how a foreign foundation can help by building a school or hospital and then have the people who benefited come back and do it for their neighbors. It feels like everything has come full circle."
Apa it is common for Sherpa people to go by their first name as so many share the same last name recalls attending the Thame School as a youngster for two years, which at that time was all the school provided. After graduating from the Thame School, Apa spent six hours a day walking to and from a farther school as a 10-year-old.
But you could argue that all that walking prepared Apa for his long, successful and safe career as a high-altitude porter and, later, a guide to the top of the world.
This isn't the first time Apa and Hillary have teamed up. On May 10, 1990, they stood together more than 29,000 feet above sea level on top of Everest. It was the first summit of the world's tallest mountain for both men.
Apa and his wife, Yangjin, moved to Utah in 2006 to find a better education for their three children. In Nepal, their children were in schools in Kathmandu, far away from Apa and Yangjin for long periods. The family embraced the opportunity in the U.S. to be together every day and still focus on education.
After the move Apa returned to Nepal each spring to make his attempt on Everest and helped find ways to expand the Thame school to serve older children and prevent the long walks and long absences from family for students.
Apa made his last summit of Everest on May 11, 2011. He has become involved in efforts to remove the heinous amounts of trash from Mount Everest base camp and more recently in explaining to the people of the Himalayan highlands, and of the world, the threats of global climate change.
Back in Utah, and with the help of Jerry Mika, who shared a home with Apa's family for several years before they could afford their own, the humble world record holder worked hard to create the Apa Sherpa Foundation.
The dinner on Jan. 25, featuring Hillary and mountaineering author Broughton Coburn, is the culmination of that work.
"My goal is to help educate people, not only in Thame or Nepal but all over the world," Apa said. "Four years of school was not enough for me. Children need more time. We all need to work harder to help kids achieve their goals."
Apa's focus on and desire to make the foundation a success is as steadfast as his efforts to not only make it safely to the top of Everest each trip, but, more importantly, to return home.
"Apa is not a wealthy man. He gives what he earns to his family here and in Nepal. He understands better than anybody how important providing opportunities for other people is and he is dedicated to helping whomever and however he can," said Mika, who serves as president of the Apa Sherpa Foundation.
Apa says once funding has been secured for the renovations in Thame which includes plans for a greenhouse, a heating system, bathrooms and a salary for the teacher the foundation will focus on areas in the Himalayas and elsewhere. The school currently serves more than 70 children.
"Having a grown Apa Sherpa come back to make a contribution of his own to his people, well, there is something very beautiful about that," Hillary said. "That he wants to do similar work in other places is a tribute to what kind of a person he is."
Apa Sherpa Foundation dinner
Apa Sherpa, whose 21 summits of Mount Everest is a world record, is hosting a dinner to benefit his foundation and provide renovations to the Thame School in his home village in Nepal.
When • 6:30 p.m., Friday
Where • Hilton Hotel, 255 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $100 for dinner and a silent auction
O For more information and to buy tickets > http://www.apasherpafoundation.org Apa Sherpa's successful summits of Mount Everest
1. May 10, 1990
2. May 8, 1991
3. May 12, 1992
4. Oct. 7, 1992
5. May 10, 1993
6. Oct. 10, 1994
7. May 15, 1995
8. April 26, 1997
9. May 20, 1998
10. May 26, 1999
11. May 24, 2000
12. May 16, 2002
13. May 26, 2003
14. May 17, 2004
15. May 31, 2005
16. May 19, 2006
17. May 16, 2007
18. May 22, 2008
19. May 21, 2009
20. May 22, 2010
21. May 11, 2011
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You hear about the morning sickness, the wacky cravings, and even the swollen ankles before you get pregnant. But let's be real, those symptoms are child's play when it comes to what you'll really have to deal with. We asked Bumpies to spill even the most TMI symptoms they wish they'd known were coming.
1. You might grow a beard.
"I didn't know my prenatal vitamins would make my facial hair grow out of control!" –megi616
Okay, so maybe we're exaggerating a tad. You probably won't be sporting a full-on beard (hopefully!), but facial hair growth in general is a very real pregnancy symptom–so be on guard. Your raging hormones can be blamed for this one, since they're what's causing your hair to grow at super-fast speeds and maybe even in some new (and embarrassing) places. But at the end of the day, it's a small price to pay for baby; so buy a home waxing kit and remember it will all end soon.
2. Taking a good poop could feel like a distant memory.
"I never thought I'd have constipation so severe that it makes me feel like I had a major ab workout the day after 'pushing'" –HRMJPC
Sadly, constipation plagues many moms-to-be throughout their pregnancies, since the flow of hormones can make your belly muscles relax and turn pooping into a rough process. Your uterus is also growing and putting added pressure on your bowels, which may be yet another factor why things aren't quite in working order. Try to fight back by adding in more fiber to your diet, drinking more water, keeping active, staying on top of your prenatals, and living by the motto "When you gotta go, you gotta go…"
3. You'll have insane gas you can't even blame on the dog.
"My gas would make a trucker blush." –2becomes3
Yep, it happens to the best of us. And unfortunately, crazy pregnancy gas is not always something you can avoid. With your body working double-time making hormones like progesterone and relaxin, muscle tissue around your bod will start to relax–especially around your GI tract. This causes the food you eat to move through your system more slowly, thereby causing you to bloat. Altogether, these factors can prove to be a pretty nasty combo. Our advice: Lay off the gassy foods for awhile, since they'll just add to your troubles. Other than that, all you can do is grin and bear it—and hope that your partner's a good sport.
4: Two words: Uncontrollable drooling.
"No one told me about all the extra saliva that would wind up all over my pillow after waking up!" –B3Bride
Nighttime drooling certainly isn't sexy, but hey, sometimes you just can't avoid it. Nobody knows why for sure, but it's pretty common for your hormones to cause your body to produce way more saliva than normal when you're pregnant. This can definitely lead to some pretty gross situations on your pillow, but also be embarrassing during the daytime too–because yes, the drooling isn't just a problem at night. So what can you do? Brush your teeth more often, swish around some minty mouthwash and pop in some sugar-free gum to try and get dry in the mouth.
5. You'll burp like a frat boy.
"I don't just have little burps… I have full-on if-I-don't-release-the-valve-I'm-gonna-hurl kind of belching." –AndriaKay
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6. Grooming your lady bits could become the bane of your existence.
"No one told me that one day, you won't be able to see your vagina, therefore you won't be able to give yourself a trim… and will become a hairy beast." —shanmoyer
Sad but true: With your belly growing by the minute, it's inevitable that there will come a time when you won't be able to see what's going on down there—or tend to it. And this definitely presents problems when it comes to personal grooming, since (as we've already established), your body kicks things up a notch in the hair growth department when you're pregnant. If you're going into panic mode about what someone might encounter down there if you don't get things taken care of, stat, you're not alone. But that doesn't mean there isn't hope—it's time to start shopping around town for a good waxer. Trust us, you'll thank us later.
7: There will be discharge. And lots of it.
"Oh, the huge amounts of discharge … I was so not prepared to feel wet the entire third trimester." –Cullum13
Gross, we know. But it's the truth. Your body is making way more estrogen now and causing more blood to flow down to your lady bits, which means excess discharge is bound to happen. And while it's totally normal, it sure ain't pretty. So if you haven't already been introduced, it's time to meet your new best friend: the pantiliner. You're welcome.
8. The term "lightening crotch" will become a painful reality.
"I refer to it as the Cooter Basher. It feels like someone came up to you and used your vag for batting practice." —aliciamarie
Next to labor, you really haven't felt true pain until you've been kicked in the vagina by your unborn baby. Of course, there are lots of different possibilities for why this might be happening to you, depending on what stage of pregnancy you're at. It could be due to baby's repositioning in your uterus, or maybe what you're feeling is some early Braxton Hicks contractions. Whatever the case, "lightning crotch" pretty much happens to all of us and isn't necessarily a sign of anything bad. Consider it a rite of passage and try working on looking less shocked when it happens in public (because it will).
9. Kindergarten wasn't the last time you'll pee your pants in public.
"I pee my pants every time I gag, cough, or sneeze." –mrosekepple
It's true, "snissing" as it's affectionately known on TheBump.com message boards, is an annoying and sometimes embarrassing side-effect in the later stages of pregnancy. Baby's resting on a lot of internal organs in there, including your bladder, which is why your body can't help but leak a little. But don't worry, you won't need to throw on a pair of Depends any time soon. A mini-pad or even a pantiliner should do the trick for now, along with a good sense of humor.
10. Your vagina will actually grow. (Yes, grow.)
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