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Barnes & Noble had its best holiday season in over a decade with store sales up 9.7% over last year, and online sales soaring a whopping 67%.
Barnes & Noble had its best holiday season in over a decade with store sales up 9.7% over last year, and online sales soaring a whopping 67%.
The Bleeding Continues as Borders Reports Another Dismal Quarter
Google opened its long-anticipated Internet book store Monday, putting itself in direct competition with Amazon.com.
A newly-published author says getting the book deal is just a start -- learning how to pitch your story is what builds audiences.
It has been a tumultuous year for Barnes & Noble, the country's largest bookseller, and its quarterly earnings report reflects that. Total sales for the quarter were $1.9 billion, a bit less of a gain than analysts had predicted, while earnings were a net loss of $12.6 million, also worse than expected.
Back in September, billionaire Ron Burkle lost his proxy war with Barnes & Noble's board, failing to kill the poison pill that kept him from upping his stake in the company. That made Wednesday's shareholders meeting all but a formality. But what's next for the nation's largest bookseller?
Sales of e-books on Apple's iBookstore have made "barely a blip" in the digital book market. Will its new iBooks gift cards help to change this -- or will customers continue to use apps to allow them to read Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-books on their Apple devices?
Barnes & Noble is hoping to boost holiday sales by testing new toy sections, following the "store-within-a-store" model, in five of its locations.
Barnes & Noble tries to forge ahead with new digital products, but can't seem to put behind it old lawsuits.
Surely, the sale of Borders' Ann Arbor, Mich., headquarters for almost $18.4 million adds to the persistent rumors of the company's imminent demise. But the truth is more complicated and has more to do with real estate than books.
From history and economics to crime novels and biographies, whatever book the president touches -- and talks about -- turns into sales gold. Americans are very clearly interested in whatever the president is reading, and they're buying accordingly.
For the quarter ending July 31, overall sales dropped 11.5% from a year ago to $526 million, continuing a downward spiral that's seen revenues over this time decline year-on-year from $945 million in 2007 to $749 million in 2008 to $617 million in 2009.
Faced with tumbling book sales, Border's, the country's 2nd largest bookstore chain, will begin selling stuffed animal kits from Build-A-Bear Workshop in its stores. It also plans to cut prices of its e-reading devices.
Barnes & Noble's board has sent a letter to shareholders urging them to vote to rebuff investor Ron Burkle's battle to control the bookseller. The letter is part of annual-meeting materials B&N mailed to shareholders, formally launching its proxy battle.
Barnes & Noble reports a consolidated net loss of $63 million, or $1.12 per share. That's considerably more than the loss estimated by investors. Meanwhile, a battle with a major shareholder intensifies.
For investors, Books-A-Million stands out for its stability in a turbulent industry. The bookseller reported that second-quarter profits climbed to $1.9 million, although its sales fell.
Ron Burkle may have drawn first blood in the proxy fight that now looks all but inevitable at Barnes & Noble's annual shareholders meeting next month, but founder and chairman Leonard Riggio is not about to back down. In fact, Riggio's increasing his stock holdings and staying on the board of directors ballot while two others vacate their seats.
Talks Stall Between B&N and Ron Burkle
With its stock plunging and the trial between key shareholder Ron Burkle and top company executives about to take place in court, signs point ever more clearly to the possibility that Barnes & Noble will go private. And that just might be the best step for the company to take.


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Ah! Can't she just be happy for the cat?
Okay so today I was on facebook and one of my local animals shelters just announced that after 10 years of being at the shelter, a 14 year old cat name flo was adopted. I was very happy. =D The cat has arthritis and is very ill. I probably wouldn't adopt a cat or dog or any senior animal of that matter anyway if I could.
Then when I told my mom this about Flo and her situation, she said some of the heartbreaking things to say about a cat that old. She's like, "Why can't they just leave it at the shelter? It's going to die soon?" Now I know I didn't want it to be said,but I was so frustrated at her. She asked me if I rather adopted a kitten or a senior cat. I said even though I really love kittens, I would probably go with a senior cat. Why would you say that about a poor animal, especially if that animal is sick? Just because it's old doesn't mean it won't be loved or anything. If you can't say nice about it then don't say it at all.. :(
Hey Konstargirl. I think maybe she's thinking the old girl has made friends at the shelter after 14 years. Often in some locations there is a Cat Play room where they run and play together. Or maybe they get to be the office cat at some point. Then you are actually taking her away from the only home she has ever known. And that seems sad too. D if you do, and D if you don't. See what I mean. I think it is wonderful that she now has someone to love her all by herself and hope that she has many more years ahead of her!!
also, from a logical standpoint, adopting a kitten and giving the kitten a full life of happieness would yield more "happiness" than adopting a cat that is not in the best health and will probably die of natural causes soon.
Also when animals are moved to different environments, it often involves adding stress to the animals lives before they acclimate to the new environment. For a ill cat like Flo who cant travel very well, a new environment could be very stressful or cause depression. Although it sucks, sometimes, change, even if it seems for the better, is not actually better for the animals.
Thank you, you explained it so much better than I did.
I saw an update about Flo and the owners said that she is doing fine.
That's good to hear! good luck to Flo.
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One of my tanks has a built-in black background, but the rest of them are clear glass. Does anyone recommend backgrounds? Do they help the fish at all, or are they merely a thing of preference? I think I like the idea of covering up the hang-on filters, but I am not keep on pictures with fake fish on them. Where could I get a natural-looking one other than Petsmart or Petco (I don't want a faux picture of saltwater coral with my freshwater tank!)?
Some companies sell structured backgrounds which can be siliconed to the inside back of the tank. The only problem with these is that they have to be applied to a clean, empty tank. Here's an example of one, although there are rock effect ones available also.
Cool, thanks. I had forgotten about those kinds of backgrounds. Appreciate the info!
No probs! If you ever decide to go with that sort of background, please post pics. I've wanted to try it out but haven't had an empty tank since I first saw them for sale. :(
Personally I don't like backgrounds except for pictures. I do like hiding the junk in the back though so maybe I am gonna have to try and come up with a DIY one for my tanks. Maybe plastic canvas with aquarium silicone to put rocks, fake plants or just some sort of texture on the canvas and give some sort of depth effect. Would also make it removeable so I can clean it if I need to or change it in some way.
Plastic canvas with silicone in waves covered by black and dark red sand could look really cool.
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Chamber speaker to speak on 'culture of excellence'
"Creating a culture of excellence" is the focal point for Rick Grandinetti, the keynote speaker at this year's annual meeting of the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce, set for today (Thursday) at 6 p.m.
The Cleveland native, author of "Succeed Inside the Box," said he hopes to share from his 25-plus years of experience, aiming "to raise the bar in everything you do, without hiring more or advertising more."
Grandinetti, who now resides in Cary, N.C., "has rolled up his sleeves and physically worked with organizations to produce results in efficiency, productivity, profit, leadership and service," as listed in promotional material.
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For just pennies a day you can help someone desperately in need, of pennies.
For just pennies a day you can receive a photo of a young child dancing an ethnic jig of joy on top of a heaping pile of your pennies. And if you act now, for just a few more pennies a day you can receive a video of this to upload on YouTube.
For just pennies a day you can feel superior to some poor sap who only makes Cambodian Riels a day. And while you're at it, how about being downright thankful you don't live in Cambodia to begin with?
For just 653 pennies a day you can get about 701 Japan yen, 20 Argentina pesos, or enough obsolete Italian lire to swim in every day. But please don't delay, as the penny is subject to fluctuations in value internationally, and when you make the inevitable exchange back to pennies you may end up with a few less in your pocket. I recommend you play it conservative and grasp your pennies tight like they were the salvaged gonads of Jesus Christ himself.
For just pennies a day you can buy a pack of gum, and you can chew that gum while glowing in the satisfaction that you have wisely spent your pennies.
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If you take just a few pennies a day, solder them together and stack them until they reach about 10 feet in height, one day you will be able to attach a rim and backboard to it and start a brisk game of basketball played at regulation goal height. Just set one up and see so-called urban children converge in a matter of minutes. Young urbanites are all about this exciting roundball game. When you see the looks of ecstasy on their sweaty little faces you can thank me.
For just pennies a day you can mock your favorite recording artist by sending them pennies in repayment for all the music of theirs you stole online. The internet gods will smirk upon you.
For just pennies a day you can help destitute African Americans like P. Diddy and Michael Jackson who are otherwise lacking in cents.
There was once a man who robbed a man silly for just pennies a day, and after several years of this purchased a shiny new pink bicycle with a white basket and streamers on the handles. He gave it to a less fortunate girl in a country wracked with famine and misery under a tyrannical despot.
Down on your luck? By simply making me quality athletic footwear and sporty hooded sweatshirts, you too can make just pennies a day. Get to work, you barefooted deadbeat.
For just pennies a day you can support the religion of your choice and their many altruistic services to the public. However, most organized religions will remind you that their altruistic services to the public are very costly and thus they favor large paper currency and/or bank transfers a day in lieu of said pennies. These donations are fully tax deductible and not only make you feel good inside, but also guarantee you heavenly back massages in the afterlife every day for the rest of eternity.
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For just pennies a day you can gradually fill a gigantic jar of pennies that would pay for a trip for two to Oahu with your significant other several years down the road if you don't figure in the ever-escalating prices of airline tickets and imminent inflation several years down the road.
Sorry, you're not going.
For just pennies a day you can entertain yourself in a crowded homeless shelter watching people turn their heads to the sound of clinking coins dropped by you to ground, eyes wide and hoping that you dropped anything other than goddamn pennies.
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This is a discussion on Bracket Checker within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Originally Posted by Sebastiani So basically, when you encounter an 'opening' symbol, simply push the corresponding 'closing' symbol onto the ...
How about this??Code:while ( input != 13 ) { if input is '(' or '{' or '[' or ')' or '}' or ']' { if input is '(' or '{' or '[' push it into the stack. else if input is ')' or '}' or ']' { if stack is empty report error. pop cell from stack if cell "matches input" we are ok. else if cell dont "matches input" or stack is empty report error. } } } if the stack is not empty report error.
Very good.
A couple of possible issues to be aware of, though:
1) The stopping condition should be on the null-terminator (0, the end of the string), not a newline (13).
2) The condition 'if cell "matches input"' would be incorrect, considering that if the input, for instance, is a closing bracket, then the cell should be an opening bracket. This is actually why it was suggested to push the 'closing' symbol, as it would make the checking logic a little simpler.
3) It's probably necessary to implement an 'is_empty' member function, or similar.
Everything else looks pretty close to being correct. Try to implement it in code now, and see what you come up with.


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RIVERSIDE COUNTY A San Diego County sheriff's deputy who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving and hit-and-run in a Riverside County incident was sentenced to 90 days of home detention Friday.
A Riverside County Superior Court judge also placed Deputy Barbara Crozier on five years of probation and ordered her to attend a DUI education course, Riverside County District Attorney's Office spokesman John Hall said.
Hall said the terms of Crozier's probation will not restrict her from possessing a firearm. Crozier remains employed by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, agency spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said.
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FALLBROOK FBI agents and sheriff's deputies arrested a man Saturday who is suspected of robbing a Fallbrook bank Wednesday.
An FBI agent who had been looking for the suspect in Encinitas earlier in the day was driving north on Interstate 15 when he happened to notice the man also driving north, sheriff's Lt. Jeff Maxin said.
Patrol deputies helped stop the driver in the Fallbrook area, near Old Highway 395 and Pala Road, about 3:30 p.m. Scott Moline, 50, was arrested, Maxin said.
Moline is suspected of robbing the Bank of America on South Main Street about 10 a.m. Wednesday, and saying he had enough explosives in a waiting car to blow up the bank.
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ALPINE A 2-year-old boy was bitten by a rattlesnake in Deerhorn Valley about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and his parents' car broke down while they were trying to race him to a hospital, fire officials said.
The father had pulled into a Jamul fire station for help, but no one was there and the car's tire blew out when the car struck a curb. They tried to keep going, but the car broke down.
With the mother on her cellphone with a dispatcher, paramedics tried to meet them, but the parents flagged down another motorist for a ride, officials said. A fire crew caught up to them on state Route 94 at Avocado Boulevard and treated the child while taking him to Rady Children's Hospital. No update on his condition was available.
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LA MESA Ten adults and a juvenile were arrested Friday during a law enforcement operation that began at a La Mesa trolley stop, Sheriff's Department officials said.
The operation was conducted along the Orange and Green lines leading to and from the Grossmont Transit Center on Fletcher Parkway. It targeted people with active felony or misdemeanor warrants and those involved in gang activity or other criminal behavior. The people arrested were wanted in connection with four felonies, six misdemeanors and a juvenile detention order.
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TOKYO – Hillary Clinton's recent trip to Asia may one day be seen as the most significant visit to the region by a United States diplomat since Henry Kissinger's secret mission to Beijing in July 1971. Kissinger's mission triggered a diplomatic revolution. Renewal of US-Chinese relations shifted the global balance of power at the Cold War's height, and prepared the way for China to open its economy – the decision that, more than any other, has defined today's world. What Clinton did and said during her Asian tour will mark either the end of the era that Kissinger initiated four decades ago, or the start of a distinct new phase in that epoch.
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AMD - The Road Aheadby Anand Lal Shimpi on May 11, 2007 5:00 AM EST
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A quiet AMD isn't a good AMD, but unfortunately it's the AMD we've been left with ever since Intel started becoming more competitive. In fact, the more Intel changed for the better, the more it seemed AMD changed for the worse. Intel started bringing out better product, talking more about its plans for the future, and made a whole lot of sense in just about everything it was doing and saying. Meanwhile, AMD just seemed to freeze up; we got no disclosures of upcoming products, no indication of direction, and very little sign of the hungry, competitive AMD that took Intel on and actually won a bout.
Enough complaining, poking, and prodding eventually got us a disclosure of AMD's Barcelona architecture last year. While we appreciated the depth with which AMD gave us information on Barcelona, the product itself was over a year away when we first heard about it. With no relief in sight for AMD other than a vicious price war, we began to worry not about Barcelona, but about what would come next. Would Barcelona have to tide us over for another three years until its replacement? How will AMD compete in the mobile and ultra-mobile spaces? And how does the ATI acquisition fit into AMD's long-term microprocessor design philosophy? In fact, what is AMD's long term microprocessor design philosophy?
You see, we have had all of these questions answered by Intel without ever having to ask them. Once or twice a year, Intel gathers a few thousand of its closest friends in California at the Intel Developer Forum and lays out its future plans. We needed the same from AMD, and we weren't getting it.
When Intel was losing the product battle late in the Pentium 4's lifespan, it responded by being even more open about what it had coming down the pipeline. When everyone doubted what Intel's next-generation micro-architecture would do, Intel released performance numbers months before any actual product launch. AMD's strategy of remaining guarded and silent while it lost market share, confidence, and sales simply wasn't working. Luckily, there were a handful of individuals within AMD that saw the strength and benefit of what Intel was doing.
A former ATI employee by the name of Jon Carvill was a particularly staunch advocate of a more open AMD. He fought to bring us the sort of detail on Barcelona that we wanted, and he was largely responsible for giving us access to the individuals and information that made our article on AMD's Barcelona architecture possible. Carvill got it, and he waged a one-man war within AMD to make sure that others within the company did as well.
We thanked him dearly for helping us get the information we needed to be able to tell you all about Barcelona, but we wanted more, and he wanted to give more. He convinced the CTOs within AMD to come together and break the silence, he put them in the same room with us, and he told them to tell us just about everything. We learned about multiple new AMD architectures, new chipsets, new directions, and nearly everything we had hoped to hear about the company.
Going into these meetings, in a secluded location away from AMD's campus, we honestly had low expectations. We were quite down on AMD and its ability to compete, and while AMD's situation in the market hasn't changed, by finally talking to the key folks within the company we at least have a better idea of how it plans to compete.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be able to share this information with you; today we start with a better understanding of the ATI acquisition and its impact on AMD's future CPU direction. We will look at where AMD plans on taking its x86 processors and what it plans to do about the ultra mobile PC market. And of course, we will talk about Barcelona; while AMD has yet to let us benchmark its upcoming processors, we can feel that our time alone with the CPU is nearing. We've got some additional details on Barcelona and its platform that we weren't aware of when we first covered the architecture.
The Road to Acquisition
The CPU and the GPU have been on this collision course for quite some time; although we often refer to the CPU as a general purpose processor and the GPU as a graphics processor, the reality is that they are both general purpose. The GPU is merely a highly parallel general purpose processor, which is particularly well suited for particular applications such as 3D gaming. As the GPU became more programmable and thus general purpose, its highly parallel nature became interesting to new classes of applications: things like scientific computing are now within the realm of possibility for execution on a GPU.
Today's GPUs are vastly superior to what we currently call desktop CPUs when it comes to things like 3D gaming, video decoding and a lot of HPC applications. The problem is that a GPU is fairly worthless at sequential tasks, meaning that it relies on having a fast host CPU to handle everything else other than what it's good at.
ATI discovered that long term, as the GPU grows in its power, it will eventually be bottlenecked by the ability to do high speed sequential processing. In the same vein, the CPU will eventually be bottlenecked by the ability to do highly parallel processing. In other words, GPUs need CPUs and CPUs need GPUs for all workloads going forward. Neither approach will solve every problem and run every program out there optimally, but the combination of the two is what is necessary.
ATI came to this realization originally when looking at the possibilities for using its GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU), even before AMD began talking to ATI about a potential acquisition. ATI's Bob Drebin (formerly the CTO of ATI, now CTO of AMD's Graphics Products Group) told us that as he began looking at the potential for ATI's GPUs he realized that ATI needed a strong sequential processor.
We wanted to know how Bob's team solved the problem, because obviously they had to come up with a solution other than "get acquired by AMD". Bob didn't directly answer the question, but he did so with a smile, by saying that ATI tried to pair its GPUs with as low power of a sequential processor as possible but always ran into the same problem of the sequential processor becoming a bottleneck. In the end, Bob believes that the AMD acquisition made the most sense because the new company is able to combine a strong sequential processor with a strong parallel processor, eventually integrating the two on a single die. We really wanted to know what ATI's "plan-B" was, had the acquisition not worked out, because we're guessing that ATI's backup plan is probably very similar to what NVIDIA has planned for its future.
To understand the point of combining a highly sequential processor like modern day desktop CPUs and a highly parallel GPU you have to look above and beyond the gaming market, into what AMD is calling stream computing. AMD perceives a number of potential applications that will require a very GPU-like architecture to solve, things that we already see today. Simply watching an HD-DVD can eat up almost 100% of some of the fastest dual core processors today, while a GPU can perform the same decoding task with much better power efficiency. H.264 encoding and decoding are perfect examples of tasks that are better suited for highly parallel processor architectures than what desktop CPUs are currently built on. But just as video processing is important, so are general productivity tasks, which is where we need the strengths of present day Out of Order superscalar CPUs. A combined architecture that can excel at both types of applications is clearly a direction that desktop CPUs need to target in order to remain relevant in future applications.
Future applications will easily combine stream computing with more sequential tasks, and we already see some of that now with web browsers. Imagine browsing a site like YouTube except where all of the content is much higher quality and requires far more CPU (or GPU) power to play. You need the strengths of a high powered sequential processor to deal with everything other than the video playback, but then you need the strengths of a GPU to actually handle the video. Examples like this one are overly simple, as it is very difficult to predict the direction software will take when given even more processing power; the point is that CPUs will inevitably have to merge with GPUs in order to handle these types of applications.
Merging CPUs and GPUs
AMD has already outlined the beginning of its CPU/GPU merger strategy in a little product called Fusion. While quite bullish on Fusion, AMD hasn't done a tremendous job of truly explaining the importance of Fusion. Fusion, if you haven't heard, is AMD's first single chip CPU/GPU solution due out sometime in the 2008 - 2009 timeframe. Widely expected to be two individual die on a single package, the first incarnation of Fusion will simply be a more power efficient version of a platform with integrated graphics. Integrated graphics is nothing to get excited about, but it is what follows as manufacturing technology and processor architectures evolve that is really interesting.
AMD views the Fusion progression as three discrete steps:
Today we have a CPU and a GPU separated by an external bus, with the two being quite independent. The CPU does what it does best, and the GPU helps out wherever it can. Step 1, is what AMD is calling integration, and it is what we can expect in the first Fusion product due out in 2008 - 2009. The CPU and GPU are simply placed next to one another and there's minor leverage of that relationship, mostly from a cost and power efficiency standpoint.
Step 2, which AMD calls optimization, gets a bit more interesting. Parts of the CPU can be shared by the GPU and vice versa. There's not a deep level of integration, but it begins the transition to the most important step - exploitation.
The final step in the evolution of Fusion is where the CPU and GPU are truly integrated, and the GPU is accessed by user mode instructions just like the CPU. You can expect to talk to the GPU via extensions to the x86 ISA, and the GPU will have its own register file (much like FP and integer units each have their own register files). Elements of the architecture will be shared, especially things like the cache hierarchy, which will prove useful when running applications that require both CPU and GPU power.
The GPU could easily be integrated onto a single die as a separate core behind a shared L3 cache. For example, if you look at the current Barcelona architecture you have four homogenous cores behind a shared L3 cache and memory controller; simply swap one of those cores with a GPU core and you've got an idea of what one of these chips could look like. Instructions that can only be processed by the specialized core will be dispatched directly to it, while instructions better suited for other cores will be sent to them. There would have to be a bit of front end logic to manage all of this, but it's easily done.
AMD went as far as to say that the next stage in the development of x86 is the heterogeneous processing era. AMD's Phil Hester stated plainly that by the end of the decade, homogeneous multi-core becomes increasingly inadequate. The groundwork for the heterogeneous processing era (multiple cores on chip each with a different purpose) will be laid in the next 2 - 4 years, with true heterogeneous computing coming after 2010.
It's not just about combining the CPU and GPU as we know them; it's also about adding other types of processors and specialized hardware. You may remember that Intel made some similar statements a few IDFs ago, but not nearly as boldly as AMD given that Intel doesn't have nearly as strong of a graphics core to begin integrating. The xPUs listed in the diagram above could easily be things like H.264 encode/decode engines, network accelerators, virus scan accelerators, or any other type of accelerator that's deemed necessary for the target market.
In a sense, AMD's approach is much like that of the Cell processor, the difference being that with AMD's direction the end result would be a much more powerful sequential core combined with a true graphics core. Cell was very much ahead of its time, and by the time AMD and Intel can bring similar solutions to the market the entire industry will be far more ready for them than it was for Cell. Not to mention that treating everything as extensions to the x86 ISA makes programming far easier than with Cell.
Where does AMD's Torrenza fall into play? If you'll remember, Torrenza is AMD's platform approach to dealing with different types of processors in an AMD system. The idea being that external accelerators could simply pop into an AMD processor socket and communicate with the rest of the system over Hyper Transport. Torrenza actually works quite well with AMD's Fusion strategy, because it allows for other accelerators (xPUs if you will) to be put in AMD systems without having to integrate the functionality on AMD's processor die. If there's enough demand in the market, AMD can eventually integrate the functionality on die, but until then Torrenza offers a low cost in-between solution.
AMD drew the parallel to the 287/387 floating point coprocessor socket that was present on 286/386 motherboards. Only around 2 - 3% of 286 owners bought a 287 FPU, while around 10 - 20% of 386 owners bought a 387 FPU; when the 486 was designed it simply made sense to integrate the functionality of the FPU into all models because the demand from users and developers was there. Torrenza would allow the same sort of migration to occur from external socket to eventual die integration if it makes sense, for any sort of processor.
AMD in Consumer Electronics
The potential of Fusion extends far beyond the PC space and into the embedded space. If you can imagine a very low power, low profile Fusion CPU, you can easily see it being used in not only PCs but consumer electronics devices as well. The benefit is that your CE devices could run the same applications as your PC devices, truly encouraging and enabling convergence and cohabitation between CE and PC devices.
Despite both sides attempting to point out how they are different, AMD and Intel actually have very similar views on where the microprocessor industry is headed. Both companies have stated to us that they have no desire to engage in the "core wars", as in we won't see a race to keep adding cores. The explanation for why not is the same one that applied to the GHz race: if you scale exclusively in one direction (clock speed or number of cores), you will eventually run into the same power wall. The true path to performance is a combination of increasing instruction level parallelism, clock speed, and number of cores in line with the demands of the software you're trying to run.
AMD has been a bit more forthcoming than Intel in this respect by indicating that it doesn't believe that there's a clear sweet spot, at least for desktop CPUs. AMD doesn't believe there's enough data to conclude whether 3, 4, 6 or 8 cores is the ideal number for desktop processors. From our testing with Intel's V8 platform, an 8-core platform targeted at the high end desktop, it is extremely difficult finding high end desktop applications that can even benefit from 8 cores over 4. Our instincts tell us that for mainstream desktops, 3 - 4 general purpose x86 cores appears to be the near term target that makes sense. You could potentially lower the number of cores needed if you combine other specialized hardware (e.g. an H.264 encode/decode core).
What's particularly interesting is that many of the same goals Intel has for the future of its x86 processors are in line with what AMD has planned. For the past couple of IDFs Intel has been talking about bringing to market a < 0.5W x86 core that can be used for devices that are somewhere in size and complexity between a cell phone and an UMPC (e.g. iPhone). Intel has committed to delivering such a core in 2008 called Silverthorne, based around a new micro-architecture designed for these ultra low power environments.
AMD confirmed that it too envisions ultra low power x86 cores for use in consumer electronics devices, areas where ARM or other specialized cores are commonly used. AMD also recognizes that it can't address this market by simply reducing clock speed of its current processors, and thus AMD mentioned that it is working on a separate micro-architecture to address these ultra low power markets. AMD didn't attribute any timeframe or roadmap to its plans, but knowing what we know about Fusion's debut we'd expect a lower power version targeted at UMPC and CE markets to follow.
Why even think about bringing x86 cores to CE devices like digital TVs or smartphones? AMD offered one clear motivation: the software stack that will run on these devices is going to get more complex. Applications on TVs, cell phones and other CE devices will get more complex to the point where they will require faster processors. Combine that with the fact that software developers don't want to target multiple processor architectures when they deliver software for these CE devices, and by using x86 as the common platform between CE and PC software you end up creating an entire environment where the same applications and content can be available across any device. The goal of PC/CE convergence is to allow users to have access to any content, on any device, anywhere - if all the devices you're trying to gain access to content/programs on happen to all be x86, it makes the process much easier.
Why is a new core necessary? Although x86 can be applied to virtually any market segment, the range of usefulness of a particular core can extend throughout an order of magnitude of power. For example, AMD's current desktop cores can easily be scaled up or down to hit TDPs in the 10W - 100W range, but they would not be good for hitting something in the sub-1W range. AMD can easily address the sub-1W market, but it will require a different core from what it addresses the rest of the market with. This philosophy is akin to what Intel discovered with Centrino; in order to succeed in the mobile market, you need a mobile specific design. To succeed in the ultra mobile and handtop markets, you need an ultra mobile/handtop specific processor design as well. Both AMD and Intel realize this, and now both companies have publicly stated that they are doing something about it.
K10: What's in a name?
There's been this confusion over codenames when it comes to what we should call AMD's next-generation micro-architecture. Originally it was referred to by much of the press (and some of AMD) as K8L, and more recently AMD took the stance that K8L was made up by the press and that K10 is the actual name of its next-generation micro-architecture. Lately we've been calling it Barcelona, as that is the codename attached to the first incarnation of AMD's next-generation micro-architecture, destined for the server market. The desktop versions we've been calling Agena (quad-core), Kuma (dual core) and Agena FX for the Socket-1207 quad-core version, once again because those are the product specific codenames listed on AMD's roadmaps.
But when we talk about architecture, is Barcelona based on K8L, K10, or is there even a proper name for what we're talking about? To find out we went straight to the source, AMD's CTO Phil Hester, and asked him to settle the score. According to Hester, K10 was never used internally, despite some AMD representatives using it in reference to Barcelona. By the same measure, K8L does not refer to the micro-architecture behind Barcelona. It sounds like neither K8L nor K10 are correct when referring to AMD's next-generation architecture, so we'll have to continue to use Agena/Kuma/Barcelona in their place.
What happened after K8?
As we're talking about names, there was a project after the K8 that for various reasons wasn't called K9. Undoubtedly there was an internal name, but for now we'll just call it the first planned successor to the K8. The successor to the K8 was originally scrapped, but the question is how far into its development was AMD before the plug was pulled? According to Phil Hester, the project after K8 was in its concept phase when it was canceled - approximately 6 months of time were invested into the project.
So what was the reason for pulling the plug? Apparently the design was massively parallel, designed for heavily multithreaded applications. AMD overestimated the transition to multithreaded applications and made significant sacrifices to single threaded performance with this design. Just as the clock speed race resulted in Intel running straight into a power wall, AMD's massively multithreaded design also ran into power consumption issues. The chip would have tremendous power consumption, largely wasted, given its focus on highly parallel workloads.
The nail in the coffin of AMD's ill fated project was its support for FB-DIMMs. AMD quickly realized that Fully Buffered DIMM was not going to come down in cost quickly enough in the near term to tie its next microprocessor design to it. AMD eventually settled on unbuffered and registered DDR2 instead of FBD.
Without a doubt, AMD made the right decisions with scrapping this project, but it sounds like AMD lost about half a year doing the project. Given that the first K8 was introduced back in 2003, one canceled project doesn't explain why we're here in 2007 with no significant update to the K8's micro-architecture. We couldn't get a straight answer from AMD as to why Barcelona didn't come earlier, but there are a number of possibilities that we have to consider.
Barcelona is AMD's first native quad-core design, which is more complicated than simply sticking two independent dual core die on the same package. AMD committed the cardinal sin in microprocessor design by executing two very complicated transitions at the same time. Not only did AMD build its first native quad-core design with Barcelona, but it also made significant changes to the architecture of each of its cores.
Intel's Mooly Eden, the father of Centrino, once imparted some very important advice to us. He stated plainly that when designing a microprocessor you can change the architecture, or you can change the manufacturing process, but don't do both at the same time. AMD has already started its 65nm transition with its current generation parts, so the comparison isn't totally accurate, but the premise of Mooly's warning still applies: do too much at the same time and you will run into problems, usually resulting in delays.
There's also this idea that coming off of a significant technology lead, many within AMD were simply complacent and that contributed to a less hungry company as a whole. We're getting the impression that some major changes are happening within AMD, especially given its abysmal Q1 earnings results (losing $611M in a quarter tends to do that to a company). While AMD appeared to be in a state of shock after Intel's Core 2 launch last year, the boat has finally started to turn and the company that we'll see over the next 6 - 12 months should be quite different.
New Details on Barcelona Emerge
If you've been following AMD's latest roadmaps then you'll know there are a couple of new sockets on the way. While AMD's next-generation CPUs will work in current Socket-AM2 and Socket-1207 motherboards, a new class of boards will launch with support for Socket-AM2+ and Socket-1207+. Inevitably the question you will ask yourself is: what does the + get you?
The pinout of Socket-AM2 and Socket-AM2+ is identical, and likewise Socket-1207 and 1207+, and thus the same Agena or Barcelona will work in both sockets, which is how AMD is able to guarantee full backwards compatibility with current AM2 and 1207 motherboards. If you do buy a new motherboard that uses either Socket-AM2+ or 1207+, you will get some additional functionality.
Current platforms only support HyperTransport 2.0, while the new + platforms will enable HT3.0 which brings faster link speeds and greater bandwidth. For desktops, a faster HT link won't really change performance, but in multi-socket workstations and servers there will be a benefit.
The more tangible feature is the ability to support split voltage planes. As we mentioned in our preview of AMD's Barcelona architecture, the CPU cores and the Northbridge can operate at different voltages and frequencies. In order to enable this functionality, you need motherboard support, thus if you want the power benefits of having the Northbridge and CPU cores on independent power planes you need an AM2+ or 1207+ motherboard.
It's not all about saving power with split voltage planes, as there's also a performance benefit to going AM2+/1207+. When the Northbridge is placed on its own power plane, the motherboard can actually apply more voltage to it than the CPU cores and run it at a slightly higher frequency on the order of a 200 - 400MHz increase. The Northbridge is an extremely low power part of the CPU die and an increase in voltage/clock frequency results in a minor increase in TDP, but it can drive a disproportionately large increase in performance.
With AM2+/1207+ systems, the Northbridge runs at a higher frequency and thus the memory controller sees slightly lower latencies. The shared L3 cache also operates on the same power plane as the Northbridge, reducing L3 cache latency as well. AMD expects the overall performance advantage by going with AM2+/1207+ to be on the order of 3 - 10% over current motherboards.
While your current motherboards will work with AMD's forthcoming CPUs, you'll get better performance out of upcoming Socket-AM2+ and Socket-1207+ platforms. AMD does plan on supporting both AM2 and 1207 into 2009, so you can expect a continued upgrade path for your AMD platforms well after Agena/Barcelona.
Barcelona Demos and Motherboards
Much to our dismay and definitely against our recommendations, AMD will not follow in Intel's footsteps and let us do a performance preview of Agena or Barcelona. In fact, AMD wouldn't even let us know what clock speeds its demo systems were running at. While we cautioned AMD that a lack of information disclosure at this point would only reinforce this idea that AMD is lagging far behind Intel, AMD's counterpoint does have some validity. AMD's reasoning for not disclosing more information today has to do with not wanting to show all of its cards up front, and to give Intel the opportunity to react. We still don't believe it's the right decision, and we can't help but believe that the reason for not disclosing performance today is because performance isn't where it needs to be, but only AMD knows for sure at this point.
In order to combat worries that Barcelona is fundamentally broken, AMD did give us a couple of live demos of an 8-core QuadFX system and a 4-core Socket-AM2+ system. AMD ran Cinebench as well as Nero Recode on the systems, but it did not let us measure performance on either. Both systems worked fine; they didn't get too hot and they didn't crash.
Undoubtedly Agena and Agena FX work. We suspect that clock speeds aren't quite as high as they need to be but we don't doubt that AMD can get there by its scheduled release sometime in the second half of this year.
AMD also let us get up close and personal with the motherboards used in these systems, but we can't disclose details about the chipsets used just yet. Keep in mind that what you're looking at is AMD's next-generation desktop chipset solution.
The Hammerhead reference board is AMD's Socket-AM2+ reference board that was used in the quad-core Agena system above:
Up and running
|The motherboard - Click to Enlarge
All four cores, loaded and running
The Wahoo reference board is AMD's QuadFX Socket-1207+ reference board, used in the eight-core Agena FX system:
Quad core per socket x two sockets
All eight cores, locked and loaded
|The Wahoo Motherboard - Click to Enlarge
And here's the man that made sure we could see these demos - AMD's Ian McNaughton:
He's also the guy that prevented us from running benchmarks, and hid the Cinebench scores from us:
Manufacturing Roadmap
AMD finished things off with a brief update on its manufacturing. By the middle of this year AMD's Fab 36 will be completely transitioned over to 65nm, which is just in time for Barcelona to ramp up production.
By the middle of 2008, AMD plans on bringing 45nm to market, approximately 6 months after Intel does. Fab 36 will continue to be AMD's most advanced fab, with 45nm coming out of it starting in 2008 and by 2010 AMD expects to move the fab to 32nm.
AMD showed off the same 45nm SRAM test vehicle we saw over a year ago in Dresden, which is a bit bothersome. We expected to see more than what we had already seen, but it could be that AMD continues to be a bit more guarded than we'd like; either that or functional 45nm CPU silicon just isn't yielding yet.
Final Words
Needless to say, there's more to come and this is just the beginning. The fact that we can say this about AMD is an absolute shock to us, and possibly to you as well. For the longest time it seemed like the only CPU articles we'd write were either disappointing AMD product launches or exciting new Intel announcements. AMD is changing, arguably later than we'd like, but at least it's happening.
For a while we had lost confidence in AMD, like many of you had as well, and although AMD's position in the market hasn't changed we are more confident now that it can actually bounce back from this. Intel seemed to have the perfect roadmap with Conroe, Penryn and Nehalem all lined up back to back, and we saw little room for AMD to compete. Now, coming away from these meetings, we do believe that AMD may have a fighting chance. Over the coming months you'll begin to see why; it won't be an easy battle, but it will be one that will be fought with more than just price.
AMD's Fusion strategy looks to be an even stronger part of its future plans, if Phil Hester's prediction of a heterogeneous processing era comes true. While Intel has managed to deliver a much stronger CPU roadmap, we don't have much of an understanding of its answer to Fusion in the long term. AMD has very much been a leader in areas such as the move to 64-bit, an on-die memory controller, and now we may see the same leadership role with the move to integrate the CPU and GPU. The integrated CPU/GPU, taken to the exploitation stage as it was called by AMD, has the potential to really change the CPU as we know it. We do know that Intel has a response, but we're not as clear as to exactly what it is.
That being said, there's a lot that AMD has to do in the near term to ever get us to the point where the ATI acquisition could pay off. Barcelona is still at least a quarter away, we have no idea how it will actually perform, and AMD isn't giving us any indication. Despite a relatively weak introduction of Intel's latest Centrino platform, AMD still doesn't have a good competitor; while Fusion will give it a unique selling point into the mobile market, the first Fusion core is still well over a year away. The same worries we've had about AMD are still there; while we now know that AMD has some truly wonderful things planned for its future, we worry how great of a toll the interim will take on the company.
It is often said that what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger; despite losing $611 million dollars last quarter, and not winning a single performance benchmark since Intel launched its Core 2 processors, AMD is not dead. Market share is diminished, morale is low, but it may just be possible for AMD to come back from this stronger than ever. We're not exactly sure how AMD has lasted through all of this, but if it can pull through, we may once again have two very competitive manufacturers in the CPU industry.


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Deploy Hooks
Last updated 26 February 2016
Table of Contents
Deploy hooks allow you to receive a notification whenever a new version of your app is pushed to Heroku. It's useful to keep you and your team informed about deploys, while it can also be used to integrate different systems together.
After one or more hooks are setup, git push will show that they are scheduled to run:
$ git push heroku master ... -----> Heroku receiving push -----> Rails app detected Compiled slug size is 76K -----> Launching...... done -----> Deploy hooks scheduled, check output in your logs http://myapp.heroku.com deployed to Heroku
Hook output and errors appear in your application's logs:
$ heroku logs ... 2011-03-15T15:07:29-07:00 heroku[deployhooks]: Sent email notification to firstname.lastname@example.com
Each deploy hook is its own add-on. This allows you to pick and choose one or more that you want. The deploy hooks include:
This hook will send one or more emails. You can specify the subject and body, as follows:
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:email \ --email@example.com \ --subject="Myapp Deployed" \ --body="{{user}} deployed app" Adding deployhooks:email to myapp...Done.
Email multiple recipients by adding additional email addresses separated by spaces.
An IRC bot will connect to the specified server and message the room.
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:irc \ --server=irc.freenode.net \ --room=devlounge \ --nick=mydeploybot \ --password=secret \ --message="{{user}} deployed app" Adding deployhooks:irc to myapp...Done.
Nick and password are optional. You can also set the server port by sending port=1234.
This hook will post a message to any Basecamp account you specify, under a certain project and post category (both specified by the name).
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:basecamp \ --url=http://myaccount.basecamphq.com \ --username=00000000 \ --project=myapp \ --category=deploys \ --title="{{user}} deployed myapp" \ --body="check it at {{url}}" Adding deployhooks:basecamp to myapp...Done.
NOTE: Please put your API Key under the username param above.
Have any Campfire room receive an automated message when your app is pushed.
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:campfire \ --url=mycampfiresubdomain \ --ssl=1 \ --api_key=0000000 \ --room=devlounge \ --message="{{user}} deployed myapp" Adding deployhooks:campfire to myapp...Done.
This hook wil post a message to a HipChat room of your choice on app push. An authentication key is required for Heroku to access your HipChat account. To create one, fill out the form found in API Auth Tokens (available to group admins only). For maximum safety, set the type to "notification".
To make Heroku send notices to a HipChat room on deploy, do the following:
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:hipchat \ --auth_token=my_auth_token \ --room="My Company's Room" \ --message="{{user}} deployed myapp" Adding deployhooks:hipchat to myapp...Done.
Additional optional settings are:
from: Name of the user sending the message (default: "Heroku").
notify: Boolean value (1 or 0) indicating whether the message should trigger a notification to users in the room (default: "1").
color: The background color of the message. (default: "purple").
message_format: Can be set to "text" for plain text messages, or "html" to support basic tags. (default: "html").
hipchat_api_url: API URL of HipChat server (in case of on-prem, non-hosted HipChat install). Example value is
https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message. Details.
Check the HipChat API docs for more info on these options.
HTTP post hook
Performs an HTTP post to URL of your choice.
$ heroku addons:create deployhooks:http \ --url=http://example.org Adding deployhooks:http to myapp...Done.
The parameters are POSTed to your url with a mime type of
The parameters included in the request are the same as the variables available
in the hook message:
git_log and
See below for their descriptions.
This is an example payload:
Customizing messages
It's possible to use variables when defining the message, title or subject of any deploy hook attribute.
For instance, use
{{user}} when you want to see who deployed, and that text will be replaced for the actual user email whenever a hook is executed.
Available variables are:
- app: the app name
- user: email of the user deploying the app
url: the app URL (e.g.
- head: short identifier of the latest commit (first seven bytes of the SHA1 git object name)
- head_long: identifier of the latest commit (SHA1 git object name)
git_log: shortened log of commits between this deploy and the last, or the
descriptionfield for releases triggered via the Platform API
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Friday May 23 2008
A cheerful recovery
By: Lauren Weber, The Press-Tribune
ACL injury hasn't stopped Granite Bay senior from pursuing college dream
Cheerleading is what Janelle Brown of Granite Bay excels in – it's a sport that fits her bouncy personality and positive attitude. As a senior in high school, she has worked hard to reach her goal to cheer in college, but not without an unexpected twist. Brown had her mind set on attending University of Oregon in the fall and becoming a member of their 13-woman stunt squad. But after a powder puff football game in March that resulted in a torn ACL for Brown, she feared her chance of making the college cheer team was slim. Cheerleading has been a huge part of her life since she was 8 years old. She has been a cheerleader for teams in school while cheering competitively on the side, strengthening her stunting skills. "It's a big part of me," she said. Brown said she watches sporting games and naturally cheers, even when she's not in uniform. "When I was little, I had a lot of energy," she said. Brown learned to channel that energy into cheerleading and served as the varsity captain for the Granite Bay High School cheerleading team this year. Brown applied to University of Oregon in October last year and was accepted two months later. In February, she attended a clinic in Oregon, anticipating cheerleading tryouts in April. But during a powder puff football game a month before tryouts, Brown was left with a torn ACL. "Her spirits were super shot," said Bri Larson, Brown's cheerleading coach at Granite Bay High School. Larson has coached Brown for six years, knows her strengths and describes her as "super, super talented." "She's just a blessing to coach," Larson said. "She's played a major role in the success of the Granite Bay High School cheer team." Initially, Brown thought her chances of making the team were shot, but she continued to vie for the team. She sent in a video to the coaches sharing her cheerleading skills, community service work and her personality through a self-interview. "We showed a lot of persistence," she said. "I was fighting for it." In April, a few days after tryouts were held, Brown received a call welcoming her to the team. "I was shocked," she said as her eyes lit up and a smile stretched across her face. Since her injury, Brown underwent surgery and has been in recovery mode, stretching and relearning cheer skills through physical therapy, and will be recuperating up until the cheerleading season begins at the University of Oregon. The excitement of not only entering college but also becoming a college cheerleader, is keeping her focused. Laraine Raish, the head cheerleading coach at Univer-sity of Oregon, remembered Brown from the college prepar-atory clinic held before tryouts and something about her skills and personality caught the coach's eye. "She was pretty outstanding," she said. "She just has everything that we're looking for." More than 100 people tried out for the team and Brown was one of 14 chosen to join either the dance squad or stunt squad – Brown was chosen to join the stunt squad. Although Raish admits to being hesitant about Brown's injury, the medical staff will continue working with her until she is fully recovered. "We're still concerned," Raish said. "I don't want to push her." During her high school years, Brown averaged more than 10 hours a week of cheer practice and devoted many after-practice hours to perfect her skill by taking tumbling classes as well. And come September, Brown will be rooting for the Ducks of University of Oregon. "She's just an above and beyond kid," Larson said. "She never settles for anything but the best."


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Junior southpaw Casey Rowland turned in a strong pitching performance and UNCW capitalized on four Youngstown State errors to post a 7-1 nonconference softball victory Wednesday at Boseman Field.
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Matt Helms August 16 at 2:10pm
Lost a blank MVP shock light blue with a black rim on hole 2.
Brian Kelley April 27, 2015 at 9:05am
I left behind my first run yellow Nuke. Not sure what hole but it has my name and number on it. I will gladly offer a good trade for returning it.
mike paquette March 22, 2014 at 7:52am
Is there snow on the course now and is it open
front 7 are ok... past that us bustin trails. as of a week ago
thanks for the info we played 2 rounds today fun course
how were the holes after 7?
snow covered we walked in each others steps we would do it again
Brielle Vance March 5, 2014 at 9:19am
Newaygo State Park is not free to play ... you have to pay to park or you will get a ticket.
Did this change it the last year or two? We have always parked right by the picnic table before hole one in the little parking lot and never got a ticket. We even chat with the person in the little booth/store sometimes and they have never said anything about paying. Though I did have a state park thing on my plate for a couple years so that may be why.
No it hasn't changed. It's always been that way. But sometimes people get away with it.
That is a state park requirement, you do need the sticker to enter the park, and the course is within the park. You can just get an annual pass then you're all set.
Mike Eldridge June 8, 2013 at 2:00pm
Is there any update on this course? It is coming up on a year (since July 31 2012) Is this course just done for and never to be again?
It reopened about 3 weeks ago. There are still some rough spots but its playable.
Jimmy Jean April 23, 2013 at 6:10pm
How are the course conditions?
Wrecked. Holes 8-16 were badly damaged by a storm last summer and the baskets were removed. Cleanup is underway now. Holes 1-7 and 17, 18 are clear and playable but the park has posted signs that the course is closed.
Any update? Will the course be open at all this summer?
Friends of Newaygo State Park July 31, 2012 at 11:24pm
The course suffered extensive tree damage last night during the storm, holes 1 thru 7 are passable, but holes 8 thru 16 are not. So far no baskets or signs were damaged to need replacing, but LOTS of trees down. Friends groups Thursday and Sunday league are cancelled until further notice, any questions, please email the Friends group at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks!!
Mitch Hubbard April 27, 2012 at 6:42pm
I don't know who changed the par to 59 here, but every hole on this course is par 3. I changed it back to 54
Brian Kelley February 16, 2012 at 6:13pm
Shoveled the tee pads tonight. Tomorrow's sun should leave then in pretty good shape.
Angry "double bogey" Andy September 16, 2011 at 11:14am
It has been brought to my attention that two (2) baskets have been stolen from the Whitehall Township Disc Golf Course. Please be on the lookout for 2 Innova baskets. There will be a significant reward for information leading to the culprits. It happened sometime between Monday night and Wednesday am. If you saw anything suspicious, let me know. All information received will remain confidential. Thanks- Brian- Whitehall Disc Golf
Brian Kelley June 13, 2011 at 3:06pm
Corey, the pars listed for this course are recreational.
Corey Kieft June 9, 2011 at 9:40pm
This course is Par 59?


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Over-55s specialist Grand UK Holidays has appointed a new sales and marketing executive to boost its promotional activities.
Lucy Grace joins the Norwich-based tour operator from local holiday lettings agency, Norfolk Country Cottages, where she was marketing assistant then marketing executive.
She graduated in 2008 from the University of East Anglia with a 2:1 degree in business management.
Her new role at Grand UK's head office will involve liaising with travel agents, overseeing the operator's website www.grandukholidays.com and assisting with brochure launches.
Harold Burke, sales director at Grand UK Holidays, said: "We are delighted to welcome Lucy to join our team.
"We have had another busy summer this year and forward bookings are looking strong, so we are looking to build on that success with Lucy's appointment.
"We are just about to release our summer 2011 brochure which has plenty of new holidays and destinations, so her first task is to promote those to our travel agency partners."
Lucy added: "I am very excited to be joining such a well established and flourishing company.
"I am looking forward to working with the trade as agency sales are a key part of Grand UK's sales strategy.
"Grand UK Holidays has seen a surge in bookings for its dedicated 'direct by coach' holidays run in conjunction with selected agencies, so I hope to keep that momentum going.
"I will also be looking at new ways to work with trade partners and expand the number of agents with whom we work."