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Africa is a land of vast spaces and infinite variety. Across its great length and breadth are found tropical rain forests, savannas teeming with wildlife, sun-scorched deserts, sprawling modern cities, and a kaleidoscope of peoples and cultures. The Sahara, largest of the world's deserts, dominates the northern half of the continent. Reaching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara covers an area nearly as large as the entire continent of Europe. Few people inhabit this inhospitable landscape of shifting sand dunes, gravel-covered plains, and bare mountains, where rain seldom falls and hot, dust-laden winds blow relentlessly.
Southern Africa also contains large arid regions, most notably the Namib and Kalahari deserts. Along the equator, however, rain falls in abundance. Verdant rain forests blanket much of this region, alive with monkeys, gorillas, wild pigs, and countless species of birds and insects. Between the deserts and the rain forests lie the broad swaths of grassland known as savannas. Herds of zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, and many other animals graze on the savannas, always on the alert for lions, hyenas, and other predators. Poaching and destruction of habitat have decimated animal populations in many parts of Africa, but enormous concentrations still exist in places such as northern Botswana and the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania.
Africa's greatest rivers are the Congo, the Zambezi, the Niger, and of course the Nile, the longest river in the world. From its headwaters in Burundi, the Nile flows northward more than four thousand miles-through rugged mountains and highlands, the beautiful lake country of East Africa, and the wide marshy plain known as the Sudd-before spilling into the Mediterranean Sea.
Humans have farmed the fertile land of the Nile Delta from time immemorial, and it was here that the great civilization of the ancient Egyptians sprang up more than five thousand years ago. The marvelous archaeological legacies of this civilization include the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and the temples of Karnak and Luxor.
Among Africa's seven hundred million people there is tremendous ethnic and cultural diversity. More than eight hundred languages are spoken across the continent, and scores of distinct ethnic groups can be identified-groups such as the Tuareg and Berbers of Saharan Africa, the Masai and Kikuyu of the eastern savannas, the Fang and Bateke of the rain forests. Not surprisingly, few African countries are ethnically homogeneous.
Tremendous change has swept through Africa in the twentieth century. As recently as the 1940s, nearly the entire continent was controlled by colonial powers. In the wake of the Second World War, independence movements gathered strength, and by the end of the 1970s all of Africa's countries had shaken off their colonial shackles. For the first time in centuries, the continent was free to seek its own identity and destiny.
Land Area: 11.7 million square miles (30.3 million square kilometers) Continental rank (in area): 2nd Estimated population: 722.2 million Poulation density: 62/square mile (24/square kilometer) Highest point: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 19,340 feet (5,895 meter) Lowest point: Lac Assal, Djibouti, 515 feet (157 meter) below sea level Longest river: Nile, 4,145 miles (6,671 kilometer) Largest island: Madagascar, 226,658 square miles (587,041 square kilometers) Largest lake: Lake Victoria, 26,820 square miles (69,463 square kilometers) Number of countries and dependencies: 61 Largest country: Sudan, 967,500 square miles (2,505,813 square kilometers) Smallest country (excluding dependencies): Seychelles, 175 square miles (453 square kilometers) Most populous country: Nigeria, 102.9 million Largest city: Cairo, metropolitan area population, 13.4 million
Africa, the second-largest continent, comprises about one-fifth of the world's land area. From the Equator, Africa extends roughly the same distance to the north as it does to the south. A high plateau covers much of the continent. The edges of the plateau are marked by steep slopes, called escarpments, where the land angles sharply downward onto narrow coastal plains or into the sea. Many of the continent's great rivers plunge over these escarpments in falls or rapids, and therefore cannot be used as transportation routes from the coast into the continent's interior. Among Africa's most significant mountain systems are the Atlas range in the far north and the Drakensberg range in the far south. A long string of mountain ranges and highlands running north-south through eastern Africa marks the course of the Great Rift Valley.
Africa's most prominent climatic region is the vast Sahara desert which spreads over much of the northern half of the continent. The Sahara experiences scorching daytime temperatures, minimal rainfall, and hot, dry, dust-laden winds that blow nearly continuously. South of the Sahara, the climate becomes increasingly humid, moving through zones of semiarid steppe and tropical savanna to the tropical rain forest that stretches across equatorial Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rift Valley. The climate patterns of northern Africa are repeated in reverse south of the Equator. The rain forest gives way to zones of decreasing humidity, and desert regions cover western South Africa and Namibia. Africa's mildest, most temperate climates are found along its Mediterranean coast, at its southwestern tip, and in eastern South Africa.
About one-seventh of the world's people live in Africa. It is the second most populous continent. The population is almost evenly divided between the sub-Saharan countries and those bordering the Mediterranean. Large tracts of the Sahara are uninhabited. Despite recurring famines, disease, and warfare, the population is rapidly increasing. The largest concentrations of people are generally found in regions in which one or more of the following conditions exist: moderate temperatures, ample water supply, and arable land. These regions include Egypt's fertile Nile Valley, the northern coast of the Gulf of Guinea, the highlands of East Africa, and the coastal regions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, north of the Atlas Mountains.
Deserts account for one-third of Africa's land area, and they claim new land every year. Drought, over-farming, and over-grazing can quickly turn marginal land, such as that of the Sahel region (also known as the Sudan), into barren wasteland. The huge Sahara desert has itself only existed a short time, in geological terms: cave paintings and other archeological evidence indicate that green pastureland covered the area just a few thousand years ago.
Most Africans are subsistence farmers, growing sorghum, corn, millet, sweet potatoes, and other starchy foods. Commercial farms, most of which date from the colonial period, can be found throughout central and southern Africa, producing cash crops such as coffee, bananas, tobacco and cacao. One-quarter of the continent's land is suitable for grazing, but disease and drought have made raising animals difficult. Although three out of four Africans work in agriculture, Africa is the only continent that is not self-sufficient for food.
The great rain forests that cover much of equatorial Africa produce mahogany, ebony, and other valuable hardwoods. However, only limited areas of the forests are suitable for logging, and the lack of developed road networks makes it difficult and costly to transport the wood.
Vast mineral reserves are spread throughout the continent. Most are unexploited, but notable exceptions include the diamond mines of South Africa and Namibia, the copper mines of Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the oil fields of Nigeria, Libya, and Algeria.
The great concentrations of wildlife for which Africa is famous can still be found in places such as Tanzania's Serengeti Plain and Botswana's Kalahari Desert. In many other parts of the continent, however, wildlife is quickly disappearing as humans encroach on habitat and poachers decimate entire species.
The origin of Europe's colonization of Africa can be traced back to the 1500s, when a lucrative slave trade developed to supply European settlers in the New World with laborers. Africa became the primary source for slaves: between the mid-1500s and the mid-1800s, 11 million Africans were captured and sold into slavery.
When the slave trade was banned across Europe in the early 1800s, commercial trade with Africa continued. In the second half of the century, competition for Africa's minerals and other raw materials intensified, and between 1880 and 1914, France, Britain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, and Germany annexed large areas of Africa. Colonial rule was often characterized by racial prejudice and segregation.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Africa began to break free from colonial influence. For most of Africa, however, colonial rule persisted through the mid-1900s, although it faced growing bitterness and nationalist sentiment. As the colonial powers struggled through two world wars, and as their international dominance declined, it became increasingly difficult for them to maintain their empires.
In 1951, Libya gained its independence, following a UN resolution that ended British and French control. Sudan peacefully won independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956. A year later, Britain granted independence to the Gold Coast, which became the new country of Ghana. Guinea separated from France in 1958, followed by all of the other French colonies in 1960. Anti-colonial movements gathered strength across Africa, and by the end of the 1970s, a total of 43 countries had become independent.
The end of colonial rule, however, has not brought peace and prosperity. Many of the newly freed countries were ill-prepared for independence. Their economies were oriented to fit the needs of the now-departed colonists, few transportation networks existed, and dictators and rival despots fought for power in civil wars.
Further, most Africans identify themselves primarily with the tribe to which they belong. The political delineations established by the European powers have little meaning and often conflict with traditional tribal boundaries.
In some cases, enemy tribes found themselves pushed together in a single country; in others, single tribes were divided among several countries. These conditions have already brought much warfare and hardship. Still Africa is a land of promise and opportunity. The rich diversity of its people and abundance of its resources should inevitably enable the continent to realize its full potential.


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"A note," McDonough replied. "I had gone into my room and it was on my bed ... I barely got through half of it before I had the keys in my hand." The note said, in substance, "I love you, but I can't stay here anymore. I need to leave. I need to be free. I will contact you when I am ready." Denise McDonough said she was surprised because Kat had never run away from home. McDonough said she eventually learned through email from one of Kat's friends that Kat was living at Mazzaglia's apartment. Denise McDonough said after Kat moved out, her interaction with her daughter was very minimal. Kat would not return phone calls and only posted one or two things on Facebook after she moved from Portsmouth to the Sawyer Mill apartment complex in Dover. Denise McDonough said she tried to contact Mazzaglia through Facebook, but after a conversation he told her, "I don't want to see you" and unfriended her. Denise McDonough described her sons seeing Kat at Portsmouth High School, where she was a senior, and waving to their older sister in the hall. McDonough said she had no real contact with the teenager who used to love going shopping and hanging out with her. She got tickets for Kat's graduation in June of 2012 through her sons.
"I thought I had convinced her to come home. I arranged to pick her up after work. On that day, she called in sick to work," McDonough said. "I texted her and she said, 'Stop stalking me.'" Denise McDonough went to Mazzaglia's Mill Street apartment that Sunday evening with Kat's grandfather and aunt. When McDonough got to the door, she heard voices inside. Denise McDonough knocked on the door. Mazzaglia entered the hallway and closed the door almost completely behind him. "Seth steps out and shuts it most of the way. His stance was like he puffed up his chest as big as he could be," Denise McDonough said. Public defender Joachim Barth asked Denise McDonough if Mazzaglia told her to leave. "I said I wanted to see my daughter," she said. Barth said Denise McDonough called Mazzaglia a pedophile. When Kat's grandfather got involved in the fight, she came out into the hallway.
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Ramos said Mazzaglia never told him what McDonough was doing. Ramos said when he took the stand that he didn't want to testify because he feared for his safety in jail. "It puts me in a bad situation," he said. Ramos is being held at Valley Street Jail in Manchester for failing to report as a sex offender. In the fall of 2012, at the time of Mazzaglia's arrest, Ramos was being held at Strafford County House of Corrections for failure to register as a sex offender. Ramos was put in the medical unit because he got into a fight and could not be housed with the general population. Barth quickly cut to the chase during his cross-examination of Ramos. He asked Ramos why he was held in the Dover jail on federal charges. The public defender insinuated Ramos was testifying Wednesday in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Barth then asked Ramos if he was in jail at the same time as Mazzaglia because he failed to register as a sex offender against children. "I thought that couldn't be brought up," Ramos said. After an objection by the prosecution and a bench conference, Judge Steven Houran told the jurors to pretend to ignore Barth's question. "In your minds, it should be as if it never happened," Houran said. Before Ramos got off the witness stand, Barth asked him about another motivation for making statements to investigators in the Mazzaglia murder trial. Barth asked if Ramos was afraid Mazzaglia's girlfriend, Kathryn "Kat" McDonough, would hurt someone else. "Were you afraid she would do it again when you talked with your attorney?" Barth asked. "They both did it," Ramos replied. When asked what he meant, Ramos answered, "I am talking about somebody dying." Following Ramos, another former cellmate of Mazzaglia's was brought to the witness stand in an orange jumpsuit and shackles. Andrew Sibik said Mazzaglia told him that during a sexual act, he threw Marriott into a position and it was "sketchy."
Sibik said that Mazzaglia tried to get him to send a letter to McDonough through the mail but Sibik refused because he was getting into a drug rehabilitation program at the jail. Trooper talks about interview with Kat During the afternoon session, Sgt. Sara Hennessey of New Hampshire State Police testified about the 90-minute interview she conducted with McDonough at the Newington police station on Oct. 12, 2012. Hennessey said McDonough told her and another investigator that she went to the cemetery to take some pictures of ghosts on the night Marriott was allegedly raped and murdered.
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Hannah Waterman became "obsessed" with making her fitness DVD.
The actresses' ex-husband Ricky Groves believes the former 'EastEnders' star ended their four-year marriage because she became so obsessed with ditching the pounds for her fitness DVD.
Speaking about the breakdown of his marriage, which Hannah broke off on New Year's Eve, he said: "When she started the DVD she just became obsessed. I knew she was being pushed harder and constantly being told that the more weight she lost, the better her life was going to be. She got completely carried away.
"Suddenly scales appeared in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the downstairs loo. The small amount of time we did have together got eaten up by DVD meetings and all the time the weight kept dropping off."
Ricky believes that Hannah - who went from a size 16 to a 6 and lost 42lbs during the making of her DVD - thought she would be better off without him in her life anymore.
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The impact of team task and job engagement on the transfer of tacit knowledge in e-business virtual teams
- Weilin Cao,
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This research focuses on the initiative to integrate team task and job engagement as related to the transfer of tacit knowledge. The aim of this study is to investigate if team task and job involvement enhances the overall work efficiency through transfer of tacit knowledge between e-business virtual teams. We develop a model that is based on the relationship between tacit degree of knowledge, job engagement, team tasks, and their effect on knowledge transfer. The conceptual model is validated with the data collected from a survey. The results indicate that the tacit knowledge does not have a positive effect on team tasks and job engagement, and the team tasks and job engagement have a significant positive effect on knowledge transfer. In addition, the study found that team tasks and job engagement have mediating effects in the process of tacit knowledge transfer. Also, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications and contributions of this study.
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- Title
- The impact of team task and job engagement on the transfer of tacit knowledge in e-business virtual teams
- Journal
Information Technology and Management
Volume 13, Issue 4 , pp 333-340
- Cover Date
- 2012-12-01
- 10.1007/s10799-012-0129-6
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7667
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Tacit knowledge
- Team task
- Job engagement
- Knowledge transfer
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Weilin Cao (1)
- Li Xu (1)
- Liang Liang (1)
- Sohail S. Chaudhry (2)
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190 Charoenrat Road
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Chiang Mai
Thailand 50000
Tel: 66 53 306 678
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The walls of this large, two-story space are covered with figurative and abstract paintings by contemporary Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, and Burmese artists whose thoughtful work avoids schlocky romanticism. The upper level displays custom jewelry, handbags, and furniture. With Asian-themed prints, photographs, notebooks, and cards stocked as well, there's art for any budget.
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The starting point for developing Henna according to the planning is that it will
be self-sufficient in terms of services. The point for starting the development is a
planned railway station served by commuter trains.
The proposed city of Henna grows along the railway and the motorway, that
musn´t be a barrier but become a dinamic landscape, inside which there will
be public use areas related with the adyacent programe.
This area between the railway and the motorway will be a public park that will
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The energy supply for the city will be developing through time and it won´t be
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environmental halls, clean energies plants, eolic and solar parks, urban
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The city centre develops in both sides of the railway and the motorway to avoid
these being an obstacle. The areas crossing will be "functional bridges".
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BSNL Recruitment 2013Hi, welcome to the section of BSNL Recruitment 2013. In this article you will find details about recruitments in BSNL for the year 2013. Bsnl stands for Bharat sanchar nigam limited. Bsnl is a state owned telecommunications company with its headquarters in New Delhi. It is the largest public telecom company or communication service provider across India. Every year BSNL conduct written examination for the recruitment to fill the vacant seats of the organization. In this section of BSNL recruitment 2013, you will get the time to time information about the jobs in different fields in BSNL like telecom technical assistant, management Trainees and Customer service executive etc as company is looking forward for hiring talented young individuals in 2013 to develop techniques and to provide best service to their customers. Candidates who dream for getting job in BSNL can make their dreams true in the upcoming year 2013 but for that he/she have to prepare for written test examination which is conducted by BSNL every year. There is no other means of selection process other than written examination. Basically Final year candidates and graduate students are eligible to apply for most of the recruitment post. The applicants those who are willing to fill the application form of BSNL are advised to go through model test papers and previous year papers before giving the real exam. This practice will give them glimpse of real time exam pressure and situation. The candidate should also strategies themselves according to the time availability and no. of questions. For complete information related to BSNL recruitment 2013, the candidates can login to the official website of the respective organization and get the complete details about the exam pattern / exam centers/ and the syllabus.
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Cosas, or "things" in Spanish was, without a doubt, one of the best stands at this year's Feria Hábitat Valencia. Not just your standard designer retrospective, Cosas took us to the world of prototypes for work by Patricia Urquiola.
From the exterior walls of the enclosed space, where colourful plastic tags spelled out what we'd see inside, to a hanging conveyor belt in perpetual motion from which examples of Urquiola's prototypes were suspended, this presentation of work was compelling and full of warmth.
Some areas were a tastefully curated hodge-podge of furniture from a variety of European manufacturers, while others held more focus, such as the tableware under glass. But throughout the exhibit, there were light wood displays further softened by the Mangas work Urquiola has done for Gandia Blasco.
Tropicalia (Moroso)
Altogether, Cosas was an engaging time capsule of textures, colours and shapes by a designer whose does not cease to catch the collective attention.
Tropicalia - detail (Moroso)
Bend (B&B Italia)
Leather Hammock (Moroso)
Conveyor Belt
Conveyor Belt
Tiers (Viccarbe)
Maia (Kettal), Tiers (Viccarbe), Re-Trouvé (Emu)
Volant (Moroso)
Miniatures climbing up the wall, yet another delightful detail that made this stand so appealing.
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Union Station Dedicated to Robert "Bob" Franks: Transportation Advocate Left A Legacy Of Service, Integrity and Results
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 • 3:32pm
UNION, NJ - Tuesday, September 24 was a clear day and the Union Train Station was dedicated to the memory of a clear thinking man, former Warren resident and Congressman Robert "Bob" Franks. A plaque was unveiled by Governor Chris Christie and the family of the late Congressman, who Christie said, " you couldn't help but like."
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Holley Mangold of the US Olympic Weightlifting team poses for pictures during a photo session during the 2012 Team USA Media Summit on May 13, 2012 in Dallas,Texas.
Team USA weightlifter Holley Mangold.
Jets coach Rex Ryan, left, wants C Nick Mangold to attend the 2012 Olympics to watch his sister compete.
Jets coach Rex Ryan hopes C Nick Mangold will accept his offer to watch sister Holley compete in the Olympics this summer.
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Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, The Home Smith Bar is a showcase for some of the most important instrumentalists and outstanding singers on today's jazz scene performing in the charming intimacy of one of Toronto's best-loved lounges.
Tonight we feature jazz icon ARCHIE ALLEYNE, recognized as one of this country's premier jazz drummers and leading social activists. Prominent at the forefront of the Canadian jazz scene for over six decades, Alleyne, together with the late Doug Richardson, co-created the famed hard-bop Kollage Sextet in 2001, and continues to perform and tour with this ensemble internationally. In addition to a lifelong career recording and touring with jazz legends such as Billie Holiday and Joe Williams, Alleyne has dedicated himself to challenging social inequities, and in recognition of his immeasurable musical contributions and commitment to activism, Alleyne was named to the Order of Canada in 2012. This evening's all-star Archie Alleyne Trio also features pianist STACIE McGREGOR and bassist ARTIE ROTH, performing for your pleasure in the up-close-and-personal ambience of The Home Smith Bar.
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With the increasing regulatory emphasis on treating customers fairly, and achieving good customer outcomes, we help our clients ensure they are compliant with internal and regulatory requirements. Evolving regulatory requirements and expectation means existing remediation and redress programmes often require review or recalibration.
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I know everyone's going gaga about the Richard's Group's "God Made a Farmer" ad for Dodge because it cut through the clutter and was quiet and beautiful in an otherwise lackluster year of super bowl spots. And this is true. Paul Harvey's voice still resonates long after he made this speech back in the 1970's.
But. I guess I would like it more if Farms.com didn't do the exact same spot, right down to using Paul Harvey's voice and the execution (though not as heavily retouched) two years ago.
Do we still like it as much?


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Welcome to K&M Dodge / Ram 's website! We are a proud new Dodge dealer, located near Hillsdale, Michigan. We service Hillsdale, Michigan for all individuals looking to buy or service a new Dodge. K&M Dodge / Ram carries a wide selection of new Dodges near Hillsdale, Michigan. Using our website you can view our new Dodge cars.
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An exclusive property with one of the best views in Penneshaw.
Relax and enjoy this exclusive holiday house just minutes from Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island. Stunning views overlooking Backstairs Passage and the Mainland.
Wake up most mornings in your bedroom or in the main living area and watch the dolphins, yachts, and sometimes whales and the albino wallaby pass through.Sit back and relax and enjoy this modern 3 bedroom home with all the mod.cons. A large open plan kitchen/family room opens out to an expansive timber decking with magnificent views.Ideal for alfresco dining/entertaining with uninterrupted views of the coastline and the Mainland.A high cathedral ceiling with a wall to ceiling gas heater and a modern masport fire place add romance to this superb property.There is a modern laundry with washing machine and dryer. The laundry adjoins a modern bathroom with a bath. and vanity. The shower and toilet are seperate.It is a true paradise. A client said " Better than the Greek Islands."
Washing Machine, Parking
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Cross my wrists and hope to die,
I will only ever lie
When you ask me if I'm fine
Or if I like this life of mine.
If I had a gun,
I'd put it to my head
And turn bouncy blonde,
Into ruby red.
You want me to stop cutting;
I'll stop when I'm dead.
The last time I'll cut
Will be the last thing I see
When I finally put an end to me.
Dying sounds good right now,
Just fading into black
And never coming back
To the agony living brings.
Perhaps you'll find me hanging,
Or bleeding,
Or after OD'ing;
Someday soon you'll find me,
Finally free.
It's too late now,
I'm too far gone.
Now I'm just a ghost
Of who could've been someone.


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Saturday Stumbles: January 29, 2010
I started this post BEFORE I left for Blissdom with the intention of posting it last week. Yea, didn't happen. and this week has been just as crazy if not more so, so I am glad I had something in place.
Once A Month Mom Giveaways you don't want to miss:
- Say Mmm – lots of prizes
- Home Depot Bathroom Redo – $100 Home Depot Gift Card
Once A Month Moms
- Kate from Savvy Little Women (also one of my Blissdom carpool pals) made the Homemade Pop Tarts for her little ladies this week!
- Full Bellies, Happy Kids made an adaption on the Sicilian Meatloaf. Mmm, that is a good recipe!
- We are on the Heart for Home Menu Plan Monday as she is planning on having Chicken Broccoli Casserole.
Recipes (that caught my eye)
- Clementine Meringue Brulee: A Diet Dessert You Will Crave by Chefdruck Musings – I'm not on a diet but this dessert looks absolutely amazing to me. I am not much of a dessert person either. Yum!
- Simple Light Crab Cakes from How Sweet It Is – I'm attempting more seafood recipes over at our abode and this one has me thinking it will be on our menu plan soon enough!
For more Saturday Stumbles go visit Simply Staci.
One Response to "Saturday Stumbles: January 29, 2010"
Oh, those pop tarts are still on my radar to try. Thanks for linking up Tricia!


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It has been an exciting and busy first half of the year here at NCC, and we invite you to read all about it in our Summer 2014 Newsletter. This edition features highlights of some of our recent contract awards, noteworthy projects, community events, exciting news about an Audiovisual and Technology Solutions (AVTS) team member, and a message from President and CEO Chris Marquez.We wish everyone an enjoyable summer, and stay tuned for the next NCC newsletter!
Conference and Peer Review Management Services
NCC Provides Logistics and Planning Support for NSF's EAPSI Program
While many college students will spend their summers with family, reconnecting with friends, and heading to the nearest beach, 205 graduate students from across the country will be flying abroad to participate in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Program. However, before they started packing their bags, they first were required to attend a Pre-Departure Orientation in Washington, D.C. on April 3rd and 4th, for which NCC's Conference and Peer Review Management ... read more »
NCC to Exhibit at 24th Annual Government Procurement Conference
On Wednesday, April 16th, NCC will exhibit at the 24th Annual Government Procurement Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. We invite you to stop by Booth 535 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. for a chat with our team members.Representatives from across our three divisions will man the booth and discuss with visitors our mission, products, and services. We will showcase our webcasting and video production capabilities, and visitors will have the chance to ... read more »
NCC Provides Logistical Support for Department of Education NAEP Panel Meeting
In January, NCC proudly provided comprehensive logistical support for the Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Validity Studies Panel meeting in Washington, DC.Members of our Conference and Peer Review Management (CPRM) team supported the meeting from pre- to post-event. We were responsible for a variety of functions including site selection, hotel and meeting room arrangements, preparing and sending invitation letters, and arranging teleconferences and prepared meeting materials. Following the event, we generated a complete summary ... read more »
NCC Supports NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program
In January, NCC was pleased to provide logistical support for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Our on-site team at NSF secured meeting spaces in the Foundation's Arlington headquarters to host a series of review panels over the course of three weeks.After several years of being held off-site, GRFP panel meetings were held at NSF's headquarters and connected to off-site participants via WebEx. NCC procured space in six rooms that were utilized by 50 ... read more »
New Conference Center Support Contract with Hines Management
NCC is pleased to announce a new contract with the Hines investment, development, and property management company to provide complete conference center scheduling and audiovisual support for the Constitution Center in Washington, D.C. NCC's dedicated staff perform scheduling and coordination of meetings and events, as well as full AV support for the Constitution Center Auditorium and Conference Center.Prior to this contract award, we have gained an intimate knowledge of the Constitution Center, through contracts with two ... read more »
NCC Provides Logistics Support for 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Meeting
On June 13th and 14th, NCC was pleased to provide on-site logistics support for the first meeting of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.Two Conference and Peer Review Management (CPRM) associates were on site to provide logistical and administrative assistance to over 110 DGAC staff and participants who were in attendance, helping to ensure the proceedings ran seamlessly.In addition to supporting DGAC at the meeting itself, ... read more »
NCC Supports NCSER's Summer Training Institute
NCC was pleased to provide administrative and logistical support to the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) Institute of Education Sciences' (IES) Summer Research Training Institute on Single-Case Intervention Research Design and Analysis, held June 24th to 28th at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Two of NCC's Conference and Peer Review Management (CPRM) associates were on-site at the Summer Institute working directly with NCSER staff to support the event's 34 participants and seven instructors. We were responsible for ... read more »
NCC is Hiring!
NCC is now hiring for a number of positions in all three of our divisions of service: Audiovisual and Technology Solutions (AVTS), Conference and Peer Review Management Services (CPRM), and Multimedia and Production Solutions (MPS).If you are excited to tackle new challenges, enjoy finding creative solutions, and want to be a part of contributing to the overall success of our growing company, we want to talk to you!Visit our new Online Job Application Portal to ... read more »
NCC Supports Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony
On Tuesday, February 12, NCC was proud to support Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) at the Medal of Honor Ceremony in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. NCC's Conference and Peer Review Management (CPRM) team facilitated all lighting, backdrop, and staging set up in the auditorium for the event which honored former U.S. Army staff sergeant Clinton Romesha.One day after President Obama placed the Medal of Honor around Sgt. Romesha's neck, Romesha joined the prestigious Hall of Heroes. ... read more »


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It's the age old question… Can Organo Gold bring you home so you can spend more time with your family instead of slaving away at a dead end job? Well, the opportunity is good, and the potential is there. But if your thinking of joining the Organo Gold business opportunity to get you there, I would think twice.
When looking to join a home business opportunity like OG, you need to consider a few factors before jumping in.
The product, the compensation plan, and the team that can take you from newbie to veteran marketer.
I found an article that addresses all of these concerns quite thoroughly at http://fivestarleadpro.com/organo-gold-scamming-coffee-drinkers and all I can say is I am GLAD I found this website.
You see, many people fail prospecting to their warm market, and then others go online to try and market their business. Only to fail in the end just the same.
Organo Gold marketing strategies that WORK
There is a right way and a wrong way for just about any tactic you use, and there is no exception for those trying to sponsor more reps online.
It is a DAUNTING task to get a return on your investment unless you either already have experience, or you can join a team of leaders that can get you there. Because lets face it, success leaves clues. And I would much rather join an Organo Gold team consisting of leaders who are seeing success RIGHT NOW in this industry using online marketing methods.
Here is an example of what most will do… and they will fail with these strategies…
Guess what… Uploading videos like this are a WASTE OF TIME!
NOBODY CARES about the comp. plan and the opportunity. To see real success, you have to brand yourself as a leader that can help your reps get from A to Z and reach the finish line.
And what better way to learn how to do that than to join other leaders in the industry who are ALREADY doing it!?
So once again… If you want to see success in this industry, then go check out that article I linked out to at the top of this site to learn how to choose the best team of leaders when joining an Organo Gold business opportunity.


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Zayo Group has announced it completed its transaction to purchase Arialink, adding 930 new route miles to the Zayo Network, including 400 miles of dense metro networks in Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Michigan network will provide Ethernet, dark fibre and optical transport services across a 437 on-net building footprint in Michigan. The acquisition also provides Zayo with a regional long haul network and connectivity to smaller markets in central Michigan.
Fibertech Networks, a leading provider of metro-based fibre optic network services to customers in the Eastern and Central United States, has announced it has completed its diverse fibre optic connection into DuPont Fabros Technology's New Jersey data centre located in Piscataway, New Jersey. This complements Fibertech's strategic direction of bringing fibre directly into NJ1 to offer its customers high-speed connectivity and low latency solutions.
TELEHOUSE America, a leading provider of global dedicated data centres, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, announces today that Hurricane Electric, the world's largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, has expanded its network to TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea, located at 85 10th Avenue.
Anytime you pay a visit to Mozilla.org, the home page of the open-source Mozilla project, you're landing on a page served by a brand new type of machine. A SeaMicro SM10000 server — a fat box about the size of an air conditioner that houses 64 Xeon processors. Mozilla's new US$3 million Santa Clara, California, facility — a shared floor on a large facility run by wholesale data centre provider Vantage — is tiny compared to the monster facilities run by the cloud giants.
Power Distribution, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business and leading provider of mission-critical power distribution equipment for data centres, alternative energy, industrial, and commercial power markets, today announced that it has signed an international licensing deal with UK-based Mardix.
Zen Internet, one of the UK's leading independent Internet Service Providers, has opened its new purpose built data centre at its North West headquarters. The data centre was officially opened by the Mayor and Mayoress of Rochdale, Councillor Alan Godson and Gillian Brown, who were joined at the event by Zen's guests and colleagues for a presentation and tour of thenew facility.
EMC has announced that Tulip Telecom will provide managed on-demand storage services and Backup-as-a-Service using EMC unified storage and backup and recovery technologies from the Tulip data canter in Bangalore.
EMC's EMC VNX unified storage, EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain technologies for storage and backup and recovery will power Tulip's cloud-based storage and backup service offerings. Tulip will offer enterprises managed services to address the growing complexities related to storage and backup of data.
Digital Realty Trust, a leading global provider of data centre solutions, has achieved "five 9s" of uptime for its data centres for the fifth consecutive year with 99.999% availability during 2011. These uptime metrics are based on a comprehensive evaluation of the Company's facilities worldwide using standard industry methodology.
Yahoo has warned Facebook that the social networking giant may be infringing on 16 more of its patents. Yahoo sent a letter to Facebook last month alleging that the patents "may be relevant" to technology Facebook uses in its servers and data centres, Facebook disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday. Facebook has data centres in Oregon and North Carolina. It developed its own servers to power those data centres.
Interxion a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that Qbrick, a European provider of streaming media, has chosen Interxion to house a large part of their overall server capacity in the Nordic region. Qbrick cited a greater end-user need for capacity combined with demand for increased quality behind its decision for consolidation.
Compass Datacenters has unveiled the company's new data centre product offering, which reinvents modular data centre design. Compass Datacenters was recently founded by Chris Crosby, a co-founder and former senior executive of Digital Realty Trust, to address the data centre industry's narrow geographic focus and limited solution set, which only meets the needs of a very select set of companies in a handful of major markets.
Multinational companies doing business with Qatar and local firms with international operations are set to benefit from a "faster and highly secure" global connectivity, which will be provided through a Qtel – British Telecommunications network node that has been set up.
Telecity Group plc, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has issued the following Interim Management Statement.
Highlights: TelecityGroup has had a positive start to 2012 with good first quarter growth in revenue and profitability; New capacity has been brought on-line across the Group, adding 7MW of customer power and taking total available customer power up by over 10% since the year end to 75MW; Management confirm their positive outlook for the full year
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider has launched its innovative CloudEngine series switches. The CloudEngine series switches provide the industry's largest single-frame switching capacity of up to 48T and support high-density switching of 100GE, 40GE, 10GE and GE interfaces, as well as virtualization and computing, storage and network convergence. This enables the sustainable development of enterprise data centres over a 10 year span.
Alcatel Lucent is challenging Cisco, Juniper, Hewlett-Packard, Brocade and others with a performance-boost upgrade to its fabric offering, including the addition of 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet on various core networking switches. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent's fabric, Mesh, now sports 40 GbE links throughout its architecture, which will increase data centre responsiveness and flexibility when deploying bandwidth-intensive applications such as VDI and video, the company said.
The government wants 90% of the country to have access to super-fast broadband by 2015, with everyone getting at least some broadband access by that date. However, an LSE which was prepared for analysts Convergys, suggested that the money is not yet there to achieve these aims.
zColo, a Zayo Group Company, has announced it will provide carrier-neutral interconnection and colocation services for First Communications. First Communications is a leading regional communications provider, which offers metro and long-haul fibre network services, and voice and data services across the United States.
Transmode, a global supplier of packet-optical networking solutions, has announced that the US-based managed data centre service provider, Net2EZ, has built a protected optical network with Transmode's TM-Series and TG-Series optical networking platforms.
Hosting Metro has announced that it has acquired long-time web host company Goleman Networks. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro will maintain existing operations and will be expanding available web hosting options in their Salt Lake City Metro area C7 Data Center. Recently, Hosting Metro began utilizing CA Cloud infrastructure services to deliver comprehensive
Lloyds Banking Group has appointed quantity surveyor EC Harris as its single source professional services provider for the next three years. EC Harris will support the bank in the delivery of capital construction across its retail banking network, head offices and data centres throughout the UK. No financial details were disclosed.
Zayo Group has announced that it will be expanding its fibre network into Richmond, Virginia. The build of 60 miles will mark Zayo's initial Dark Fiber presence in Richmond. The project is slated for completion in the third quarter of 2012.
Once complete, the 60-mile build will consist of a metro ring through the southeast portion of the Richmond Central Business District and a larger ring with connectivity up to Henrico and Laurel. Alongside the new fibre build, Zayo will now have diverse access into a large data centre campus in Richmond.
Web hosting HostGee had opened data centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Web hosting provider had also data centre in Karachi, Pakistan, known as HostGee PK. The web hosting provider company had chosen Jeddah because it is the the economy capital of Saudi Arabia and to providing its customers with a choice between two geographically server area's locations.
Taiwan Mobile the nation's No. 2 telecoms operator has said it plans to spend NT$5 billion (US$170 million) building "green" cloud-computing facilities in Neihu District, Taipei. The phone company is scheduled to complete the construction of the facilities in the first quarter of next year, according to a company statement.
Network equipment manufacturer Extreme Networks and networking technology provider Qlogic have signed an agreement to work together to deliver a new storage network application for data centres. The new storage network application will allow data centre operators to connect Ethernet networks to both Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet networks for a converged storage application.
AboveNet, which is in the process of being acquired by Zayo, is enhancing its European Ethernet network presence by establishing a connection into ancotel's Kleyer90 data-centre facility in Farnkfurt.
TeliaSonera International Carrier has announced that it will build and operate a new pan-European managed optical network for Facebook. The next-generation multi-terabit optical network will provide Facebook with connectivity between Internet exchange points in multiple European cities and their newest data centre on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Luleå, Sweden.
NBN Co expects to create a dozen new jobs in Adelaide when it launches two new high-speed connection hubs. The hubs will be located at Lonsdale and the industrial suburb of Green Fields in Adelaide's north, with the first to open by the end of the year.
TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, has announced that it has expanded its infrastructure and is delivering Canadian market data into the Equinix NY4 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Data centre provider M247 has moved a step nearer to opening its new facility in Trafford Park with the arrival of an £80,000 electrical sub-station, provided by Electricity North West. The new data centre will have capacity for thousands of servers and related hardware.
M247, which opened in Trafford Park in 2009 after moving from London, acquired a building last autumn to house the facility, which will boost its capacity fivefold. Its current data centre hosts about 60,000 websites for customers around the world.
Geo Networks, a leading provider of high-performance fibre networks for demanding data users, has expanded its fast-growing data centre community, announcing a significant deal with London Data Exchange. The move sees Geo providing 'open-access' connectivity into LDeX's new, state-of-the art data centre.
Level 3 Communications has announced it has expanded its data centre capacity in Latin America in response to significant growth in customer demand. New infrastructure capacity, dedicated customer equipment and shared services technology provide key enhancements for the expansion of Level 3's 14 data centres in the region, with substantial expansions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador.
Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, has announced that it has achieved certification to ISO27001:2005, the global Information Security Management System standard.
TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic announce a potential new low latency high bandwidth connection between New York and Landeyajasandur, Iceland. The route would utilize the Greenland Connect cable, owned and operated by TELE Greenland; network facilities owned and operated in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Eastlink; and the facilities of Hibernia
Metro fiber and bandwidth provider Lightower Fiber Networks has announced it has expanded its network and its existing colocation facility, both in Providence, Rhode Island. Partnering with a fiber network supplier like Lightower can help web hosting companies expand their network reach and increase the speed and performance of their hosting services.
The continued demand for Ethernet services has led GTS Central Europe (GTS), a leading infrastructure-based provider of integrated telecommunications services, to offer an unified Ethernet product beyond GTS core countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. Through partners and interconnections in the CEE region, GTS is now offering astandardized Ethernet Line product in: Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine and Turkey.
euNetworks has announced an upgrade to its European long haul transport platform, delivering a 100 Gigabit capable network to market. euNetworks has invested in this next generation of network due to customer demand, both for greater capacity and 100G circuits. The Company has selected Ciena Corporation as its equipment supplier and deployed Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic coherent optical processors. This platform enables a simple upgrade to 100G transmission and beyond without any network infrastructure changes.
Technology and consulting firm IBM has introduced new server applications that will offer x86 clients and data centre managers speed, performance and flexibility they need to implement and manage new and existing workloads.
DuPont Fabros Technology has announced it has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its SC1 data centre located in Santa Clara, California. This is the Company's third LEED Gold certification.
As businesses embrace the transformative power of cloud computing to gain a significant advantage, IBM has unveiled advancements to its SmartCloud Services and announced new customers and partners that demonstrate IBM SmartCloud is a leading enterprise cloud platform for business.
Telecoms companies must embrace the cloud computing and use it defend its core business according to new research. The "Navigating the Telecom Cloud" study, carried out by analyst firm Informa Telecoms and Media said that using cloud services, telcos would have a "multi-billion dollar opportunity to change the dynamics of ICT wallet share."
Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, has announced UK telecoms operator, SSE Telecoms, has selected Ciena's coherent 100 Gb/s optical networking technology as the exclusive solution for deployment in its UK national network. By utilising Ciena's WaveLogic coherent optical processors, the 100 Gb/s network, which is operational, can now connect the operator's main data centres and enable a far more efficient provisioning of high-capacity services.
Apple, targeted by Greenpeace International over its energy consumption, said its 500,000- sq ft data centre in Maiden, North Carolina, will be powered entirely by renewable sources by the end of the year. The move, announced on Apple's website, follows protests at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, and elsewhere. Greenpeace demonstrators criticized the world's largest technology company for using too much coal.
HP has announced it has completed installation of an HP EcoPOD at its Alpharetta, Georgia, next-generation data centre, extending the company's leadership in energy efficiency. The HP EcoPOD-the world's most-efficient data centre-is located on-site and expands the compute space of one of the HP data centres that was a part of the company's original transformation to consolidate 85 internal IT data centres worldwide to six NGDCs in the United States.
Ticketmaster, the ticketing platform used by the London 2012 Olympic Games, has awarded a contract to nlyte Software for data centre infrastructure management services.
The monitoring software is expected to enable the company to offer a more reliable service to customers, which has not been the case at several stages of the Olympic ticket sales. Using nlyte's DCIM software, Ticketmaster will be able to manage the power, space and cooling utilisation at its data centres in London and Amsterdam
Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that a carrier-class switching infrastructure based on the Juniper Networks® QFabric architecture will be deployed at a new data centre being built by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing . The new Hosting Services Data Center, scheduled for completion by the third quarter of 2012, is designed to provide exchange participants with equal, ultra-low latency access to HKEx markets and information.
TCC Technology, Thailand's leading carrier neutral data centre services provider has announced that they have appointed IBM to develop their future data centre strategies and data centre model.
STERCI, a leading financial messaging solutions company, has accelerated the efficiency and business agility of its growing customer base, by outsourcing its portfolio of global transaction services for financial data to the cloud. Placing its Global Transaction Suite (GTSuite) in Interoute's pan-European private cloud, STERCI has increased its network capacity to meet the need for greater security and higher availability for its 300 customers, across 20 countries worldwide.
Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that it has been awarded the Management & Operations Stamp of Approval for the Interxion Paris 3 and Interxion Paris 5 sites situated in Saint-Denis.
e-shelter has developed in co-operation with the ventilation and cooling specialists Hoval and Emerson a cooling module which saves approximately a quarter of the cooling energy costs in comparison with "Pure Water Cooling".The "hybrid external air cooling" will be used in Datacenter Frankfurt 3, which will be in operation in November 2012.
Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data centre Infrastructure company, has announced a nationwide network of international-class, licensed data centre infrastructure locations in some of China's most important emerging cities. Chayora will deliver essential infrastructure for corporate and government occupiers and collocation operators requiring internationally recognised data centre facilities in China.
ZIM, one of the world's largest shipping container companies, has selected Orange Business Services to rationalize further its global MPLS network.
Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, has announced that it has extended its optical network into Hong Kong. The new Point of Presence (PoP) will support Interoute's customers in Asia, expanding the reach of its pan-European fibre optic network from Washington DC in the West, to South Africa in the South, and now Hong Kong in the East.
Hong Kong is a growing global business hub and access to Interoute's pan-European network will provide international and local enterprises with high capacity connectivity direct to 29countries worldwide.
BT has announced that it is working with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited's to offer BT Radianz Venue to customers hosted at the exchange's new data centre. This new suite of services will offer HKEx's customers fully managed hosting capabilities and optimised latency, as well as interconnectivity between and within global trading venues.
Silver Cross Hospital's recently opened data canter puts it at the forefront of an emerging healthcare trend: Combining construction of new hospitals with new data centres to offer the latest in technology and accommodate an explosion in applications and patient data--not just documents, but images and videos.
NYI, New York's premier data center provider, has expanded its portfolio of colocation, dedicated servers, managed services, and business continuity solutions with direct access to the Equinix International Business Exchange in Secaucus, known as NY4, one of the key locations in the Equinix financial ecosystem.
The announcement for Arsalon Technologies to open phase two of their Lenexa data centre comes on the heels of regional business' increasing demand for cloud hosting solutions and IT outsourcing. The Arsalon hosting facility expansion will be available for clients by the third quarter of this year and create up to 25 new positions.
Deutsche Börse continues to expand its high-performance network. The company announced that it will set up an additional access point to its global trading network in the Equinix ZH4 data centre in Zurich.
This access should be ready for use in the third quarter. SIX Swiss Exchange already uses the Zurich data centre operated by Equinix as a colocation centre for its customers.
Source: Finextra
Net Access Corporation, a leading data centre and cloud solutions provider, has announced that Fibertech Networks, a premier broadband provider has completed their fiber build at Net Access' Cedar Knolls, NJ, data centre.
Accessing Internet could soon get faster and cheaper. The Department of Telecom is planning to make it mandatory for all Internet Service Providers to connect to the National Internet Exchange of India.
International broadcast services company WRN Broadcast has extended its existing facility in London with a new broadcast data centre.
Metronode, a subsidiary of Leighton Contractors Pty Limited has signed a A$182million contract with theNew South Wales Government under the Data Centre Reform project for the provision of two managed data centres in NSW, thus confirming earlier speculation.
The server farms which manage and route Internet traffic are among the most energy intensive venues on the planet. According to UC Berkeley researchers Justin Ma and Barath Raghavan, this use accounts for fully one percent of the 16 terawatts of energy used by humanity. That's why researchers at Rutgers School of Engineering recently installed 16 polycrystalline solar panels on the roof of its computing center.
Gyron has announced that it would be opening an additional data centre in Slough, in the South East of England. When open for customer occupation in Q1 2013, the new Ajax facility will complement the existing Gyron owned and operated Maylands (pictured) and Centro facilities located in Hemel Hempstead, and bring Gyron's total announced power capacity to 19MW.
The recently set up government-owned broadband company to boost broadband services in the country is making big strides and will start achieving its goals by 2015, the top official at Information Technology Authority has said,
Dell is now shipping ARM-based servers to a select list of customers and partners as part of a programme aimed at building up the ARM-based ecosystem, including providing remote access to ARM servers for developers.
Cross River Fiber, a competitive dark fibre provider, is going to build a new dark fiber route to Mahwah, N.J. in an effort to appeal to the state's financial trading community. Financial trading companies looking for alternative fiber routes will be able to get what the service provider says is "express connectivity" between Mahwah and Carteret, Secaucus and Weehawken, N.J.
Telehouse America, the leading provider of dedicated data centres, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, has announced that ISPnet joins the boom of carriers and internet service providers entering its New York Chelsea data centre. Chelsea Center continues to be a viable, high quality data centre facility in which carriers and service providers can directly connect to clients and key enterprises within the region.
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, and Green, one of the top information and communications technology service providers in Switzerland, have announced the official opening of Green's new Zurich-West data centre expansion based on direct current technology.
HP have unveiled the blueprints for its HP Net-Zero Energy Data Center, an architecture designed to automatically match energy supply with a facility's IT workload energy demands. The architecture can cut total power usage by 30% and operating costs by more than 80% according to HP. The approach envisions data centres using on-site renewable energy to offset the use of energy drawn from the power grid, which isn't too far-fetched, given that data centre giants such as Google, Facebook, Intel, and others have invested in on-site renewable energy.
IT infrastructure company Pulsant suffered a power outage at its Maidenhead data centre last night that cut websites off from the internet. Although electricity was restored soon after by routing around a dead uninterruptible power supply, the blip knocked out web hosting firms' servers and firewalls, and issues were still on-going hours later. Bringing up systems and recovering data after a forced hard shutdown takes time so some businesses were still sorting themselves out today.
An innovative method of saving the energy consumes by data centres has been invented by EPFL scientists and applied for Credit Suisse in Switzerland. The solution, developed at the Embedded Systems Laboratory at EPFL, will save up to 50% of the energy currently used.
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Posted By Lynn Bartels On June 23, 2010 @ 8:03 am In Colorado Legislature,Colorado Politics,Elections | No Comments
Senate candidate Joel Judd has a new campaign mailing that 99 of his colleagues might take exception to.
It says on one side "There are 100 legislators in Colorado … "
The flip side says, "But not one of them has fought harder for change, and won, than Joel Judd."
The Denver Democrat, who has served in the state House for eight years, then lauded his record, saying he has:
- Fought for working families by closing corporate tax loopholes and toughening consumer protection.
– A 100% pro-choice record, supporting a woman's right to choose and fighting the religious right to prevent restrictions passed in other states from coming to Colorado. In the state Senate, Joel will fight for access to health care for all Coloradans and for a woman's right to choose.
– A strong track record on environmental issues, earning a 100% rating from the Colorado Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club. Now, Joel wants to crack down even harder on those who pollute the environment and destroy our quality of life.
Judd faces Sen. Lucia Guzman [2] in the Democratic primary in August. She was appointed to the northwest Denver seat in May after Sen. Paula Sandoval [3] stepped down, following her victory in a special Denver City Council election. The winner of the Senate District 34 [4] primary faces Republican Derec Shuler in November.
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