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Also known as: Phone Information
The University uses Nortel telephones. Services include digital telephones, conference calling, cell phone service, courtesy phones, emergency phones (Code Blue), long distance calling, and the directory found on the phone.
Who do I contact if I need my phone or phone line moved?"
You will need to submit an ITSR - Information Technology Services Request.
I'm having trouble with my phone line - who do I contact?
The ITS Help Desk needs to be contacted. You may submit a trouble ticket at help.unf.ed or contact them by phone Their phone number (if you can find another working phone) is 620-HELP (4357) or e-mail them at email@example.com
Where may I find a campus phone directory?
There is a campus directory at http://www.unf.edu/phonedir. This site provides both a public (is available to anyone on the internet and only list department numbers for individuals) and internal directory, which lists an employee's direct extension.
Who do I contact to update the name on my phone or in the phone directory?
If you need to change
your name or location you will
need to submit an ITSR - Information Technology Services Request
can be done at help.unf.edu or contact the help desk by phone (904) 620-4357 or e-mail
If there is a problem with your title or department listing you will need to contact HR as this information is updated depending on the information they have on file.
Who do I contact with phone billing questions?
Billing questions or concerns should be directed to
Pat Rodgers at (904) 620-2201 or e-mail
How do I make an emergency call?
Listen for dial tone.
Dial 911.
The 911 call will be routed to University Police Department (UPD). UPD will see, on their dispatch telephones, the building and room number from which the call is being made.
How do I make a local call?
Dial 9 + the local 7-digit number.
How do I make a long distance call?
Your telephone must be classified as capable of making long-distance calls.
Dial 9 + 1 + the 10-digit number.
How do I make an international call?
Your telephone must be classified as capable of making International calls.
Dial 9 + 011 + the country code, city code, and number.
Can I call toll-free numbers?
Yes. Listen for dial tone.Dial 9 + 1 + (800 or 877 or 866) + 7-digit number.
Can I make calling card calls?
Yes. Listen for dial tone.
Dial 9 + 1 + 800 + 7-digit number.
Enter your access code.
Can I make operator assisted calls?
Dial 9 + 00.
Operator-assisted calls will incur a charge.
Can I make 411 and (area code) + 555-1212 information request calls?
Dial 9 + 411 or 9 + (area code) + 5551212.
Information request calls will incur a charge.
How do I access voice mail from my phone?
Press "messages" key.
Enter 4-digit phone number, press "#" key.
Enter password, press "#" key.
How do I access voice mail from any other phone on campus?
Dial 3900.
How do I access phone mail from any off-campus local phone?
Dial 620-3900. Preface with area code if long-distance.
How do I listen to my messages?
Enter voice mail system as explained above.
Press 2 (or press "play" LCD screen button) to listen to messages.
Press 4 to skip to prior message.
Press 6 to skip to next message.
Press 76 to delete message.
Refer to "CallPilot Unified Messaging Quick Reference Card".
How do I change my greeting?
Press 821 to record greeting for off-campus calls.
Press 822 to record greeting for on-campus calls.
Press 823 to record temporary greeting.
Press 829 to record personal verification.
Press 76 to delete a greeting.
Refer to "CallPilot Unified Messaging Quick Reference Card".
How do I change my password?
Press 84.
Enter current password, press "#".
Enter new password, press "#".
Re-enter new password, press "#".
How do I send a caller to someone's voice mail box?
Dial 3901.
Enter the phone number of person for whom message is to be recorded, press "#".
Record message, hang up.
How do I delete voicemail?
How do I set a Temporary Voice Mail Greeting?
When you are out of the office, a temporary voice mail greeting is a helpful tool to inform callers of when you expect to be back in the office. This option enables you to set an expiration date and avoid re-recording your internal and external greetings after you return.
To create a temporary voice mail greeting, login to your voice mail system using your extension number and password. Then...
To access your voicemail, press the "Message" button on your office phone or from off campus, dial (904) 620-3900 If you have questions or need your voice mail password reset, please contact the ITS Help Desk at extension 4357 (HELP).
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Thank god we didn't get Jimmer! As I predicted and hoped, the Knicks selected Georgia Tech guard Iman Shumpert with the 17th pick in the draft. He's incredibly athletic and he's a great defensive player. He's getting better at shooting and he's a great finisher. He's the pick we needed, apart from a big man. Now it's rumored Toney Douglas will be traded but I believe the Knicks would be smart to keep TD. I believe him and Shumpert would compliment each other well coming off the bench. Shumpert should be the back up point while Douglas is the back up shooting guard. Shumpert's 6'6 frame should compliment Douglas' lack of height while Douglas' shooting should compliment Shumpert's lack of shooting well. I think this is a great selection for New York and it'll be interesting to see what happens throughout the rest of the draft. Let's hope we can get some picks.
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Investor Release: Restated figures for 2003 and 2002
On 22 April, UBS published restated figures for 2003 and 2002 that align our comparative prior periods to the changes we undertook in accounting and presentation on 1 January 2004.
The restatement consisted of the following changes in accounting and presentation:
early adoption of IAS 32 Financial Instrument: Disclosure and Presentation and IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement
change in the accounting for investment property from historical costs less accumulated depreciation to the fair value method
change in the accounting from credit risk losses incurred on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives which are now reported in net trading income and no longer through credit loss expense
reclassification of corporate client assets in Business Banking Switzerland (except for pension funds) which will now be excluded from invested assets.
These changes lowered 2003 net profit by CHF 146 million and 2002's by CHF 5 million. The effects the changes have on our past results are described in detailed fashion in the attached investor release.
Please note that this restatement is not a correction of our reported figures, but the result of the application of different changes in accounting and presentation. Our restatement allows 2004's results to be compared with previous ones and are
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Former Washington mayor and current D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry will discuss his memoir and sign copies at a D.C. public library.
Barry's new book "Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.'' will be available for purchase at Thursday's event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Barry will discuss the book at 7 p.m.
Written with novelist Omar Tyree, the book covers Barry's upbringing, involvement in the Civil Rights movement and his four decades in D.C. politics.
Barry served four terms as mayor. His first three terms ended after a 1990 drug bust at a downtown hotel. In the book, he portrays that incident as a sideshow, rooted in his efforts to upend white political and economic privilege. Barry was elected mayor again in 1994.


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Report finds drug officers stationed in Colombia assisted in setting up encounters.
A Drug Enforcement Administration officer hired and paid for a prostitute for a Secret Service agent in Colombia in advance of a presidential visit last year, according to a Justice Department report.
The DEA officer was stationed in Cartagena, Colombia, where 13 Secret Service agents were involved in a prostitution scandal in April 2012. The officer arranged for the Secret Service agent to receive a massage, the Associated Press reported, and the agent later had a sexual encounter with the prostitute.
The Justice Department found three DEA agents were initially at the Cartagena residence where the encounter took place, though one left before the prostitute arrived. Investigators found the three officers had deleted data from their government-issued smartphones during the probe. They later admitted to using their DEA phones to arrange for paid sexual services.
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MI-GU Live On WFMU, Playing NYC
As heard yesterday on WFMU's This Is The Modern World with DJ Trouble, MI-GU is in town from Tokyo with their new album Choose The Light. The band is is Yuko Araki (drum/vocals) with Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu (guitar/producer). Araki and Shimizu are also members of Cornelius group, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, If By Yes, and Brother's Sister's Daughter.
In this infomercial, Mike Watt says he just can't reccomend their new album enough, because MI-GU puts everything upfront. Upfront feelings. Upfront drums. Upfront guitars. Watt says, "It not Marlon Brando."
Folks in the NYC area can see their show on Thursday, October 4 at Union Pool with Nels Cline's Eye Bone. Tickets are $10 at the door only.
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CloudHarmony™ provides objective performance analysis to compare cloud providers. Their intent is to be the goto source for independent, un-biased, and objective performance metrics for cloud services. CloudHarmony is not affiliated with, owned or funded by any cloud provider. The benchmarks provided by CloudHarmony fall into 3 categories: Performance Benchmarking, Network Benchmarking, and Uptime Monitoring.
CloudHarmony states that there are 7 questions one might ask when considering benchmark-based claims. Answering these questions will help to provide a clearer understanding on the validity and applicability of the claims.
- What is the claim? Typically the bold-face, attention grabbing headline like Service Y is 10X faster than Service Z
- What is the claimed measurement? Usually implied by the headline. For example the claim Service Y is 10X faster than Service Zimplies a measurement of system performance
- What is the actual measurement? To answer this question, look at the methodology and benchmark(s) used. This may require some digging, but can usually be found somewhere in the article body. Once found, do some research to determine what was actually measured. For example, if Geekbench was used, you would discover the actual measurement is processor and memory performance, but not disk or network IO
- Is it an apples-to-apples comparison? The validity of a benchmark-based claim ultimately depends on the fairness of the testing methodology. Claims involving comparisons should compare similar things. For example, Ford could compare a Mustang Shelby GT500 (top speed 190 MPH) to a Chevy Aveo (top speed 100 MPH) and claim their cars are nearly twice as fast, but the Aveo is not a comparable vehicle and therefore the claim would be invalid. A more fair, apples-to-apples comparison would be a Mustang GT500 and a Chevy Camaro ZL1 (top speed 186).
- Is the playing field level? Another important question to ask is whether or not there are any extraneous factors that provided an unfair advantage to one test subject over another. For example, using the top speed analogy, Ford could compare a Mustang with 92 octane fuel and a downhill course to a Camaro with 85 octane fuel and an uphill course. Because there are extraneous factors (fuel and angle of the course) which provided an unfair advantage to the Mustang, the claim would be invalid. To be fair, the top speeds of both vehicles should be measured on the same course, with the same fuel, fuel quantity, driver and weather conditions.
- Was the data reported accurately? Benchmarking often results in large datasets. Summarizing the data concisely and accurately can be challenging. Things to watch out for include lack of good statistical analysis (i.e. reporting average only), math errors, and sloppy calculations. For example, if large, highly variable data is collected, it is generally a best practice to report the median value in place of mean (average) to mitigate the effects of outliers. Standard deviation is also a useful metric to include to identify data consistency.
- Does it matter to you? The final question to ask is, assuming the results are valid, does it actually mean anything to you? For example, purchasing a vehicle based on a top speed comparison is not advisable if fuel economy is what really matters to you.


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Join us in the DigiLab (Main Library, Room 300) for the first part of our workshop about using R with ggplot2 to build visualizations of data.
This series of workshops is a continuation of last semester's R series. They will introduce the concepts and power behind the programming language R. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary.
Full schedule of this semester's workshops, all led by Joey Stanley. :
January 19 - Intro to R Part 1
January 26 - Intro to R Part 2
February 2 - Building Interactive Web pages in R: Introduction to Shiny Part 1
February 9 - Building Interactive Web pages in R: Introduction to Shiny Part 2
February 16 - Visualizations I: Introduction to ggplot2
February 23 - Visualizations II: Customizing plots in ggplot2
March 2 - Visualizations III: Advanced topics in ggplot2
March 9 - Communicating to your audience with R Markdown
March 23 - Clean and tidy data: Tidyverse Part 1
March 30 - Transform, reshape, and modify your data: Tidyverse Part 2
April 6 - Special topics: Regression and mixed-effects modeling
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College students rally for funding at State House
Lawmakers told of debt struggles
Hundreds of Massachusetts college students, many of them saddled with debt, flooded lawmakers' offices at the State House on Tuesday to lobby for an increase in financial aid funding.
"I'm graduating in the spring, and I will have over $20,000 in debt, and I haven't even transferred to a four-year college," Nicole Ouimette, who attends Holyoke Community College, told students in the Gardner Auditorium."I'm devoted to making sure that we all are able to have more accessible and affordable higher education so that in the future students do not have to feel the pains that we are now."
The event, titled Public Higher Education Advocacy Day, started with a pep rally inside the auditorium.
Governor Deval Patrick made a brief appearance, telling the students that more money in public higher education is crucial to make it affordable for all.
"I have stared at this budget long and hard. . . . So I see the faces and the lives behind those line items," he said. "And I'm here to tell you we're not going to be able to reform our way to an affordable higher ed system. We have to invest.
"If we're going to keep the public in public higher ed, then the public has to step up, too," Patrick added.
Patrick's proposed $1.9 billion tax increase would raise money to bolster education from pre-kindergarten through college, including a significant increase in the MASSGrant Program. The program provides financial aid to students demonstrating the greatest need. The tax plan would quadruple the amount to $152 million.
University of Massachusetts President Robert Caret recently said that tuition rates and fees at system schools could be frozen next school year if the Legislature passes Patrick's proposal to pump $100 million into the public higher education system over the next several years.
Patrick's plan would also allow for the expansion of the Completion Incentive Grant Fund, a pilot program that awards students at some schools a maximum of $8,000 over four years.
Costs to attend Massachusetts public colleges vary. In-state tuition, fees, and room and board at UMass Amherst for the 2012-2013 school year cost $23,167. At Bridgewater State University, the total cost for the year is $18,645.
The students rallied Tuesday amid rising concern nationwide about the soaring cost of college. Patrick said that while state colleges and universities must continue internal cost cutting, taxpayers must also be prepared to contribute.
After the rally, the students divided into groups under the name cards of their elected officials. About 30 students gathered around a woman holding the card that read "Chang-Diaz, Sonia," a state senator from Boston. They were met in her office by Chynah Tyler, the senator's legislative aide.
Tyler told the group that Chang-Diaz had a full agenda for the day and couldn't meet with them, but that the senator fully backs Patrick's proposals. She then took questions in the hallway, jotting down students' concerns in a notebook.
"I am graduating in a couple of months, but unfortunately a lot of the . . . disincentives of higher education will be with me," said Gary Uter, 21, a political science and history major at UMass Boston. "I'm talking about student loans — those things are going to be with me long past my time at the university."
Still, Uter said he was thankful for the chance to earn a degree. "I want to make sure that opportunity is not only available to myself but the children of my children and everyone who wants to benefit and contribute to society," he said.
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This is a bald eagle that lives out by my house that i've been trying to get a picture of for the past two years...it's not a great picture but at least I got it!
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What a fantastic shot! How awesome it must be to have this living near you!
Thank you! It truly is amazing that one lives so close to me! Especially since I live in Indiana, I never really considered Indiana to be the ideal habitat for Bald Eagles.
what is its wingspan, roughly? I can't tell from the background
roughly, i'd say at least 4ft wingspan, maybe more
I would actually say it's probably up to 6ft
That's huge! I hope you don't keep cats!
Hahaha, the cats stay inside don't worry :)
Pssssssh... Eagles are overrated. Hawks are better.
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Post-punk quartet Parquet Courts headline an eclectic line-up at PhilaMOCA tonight. Back in Philadelphia for the third time this year, Parquet Courts continue to tour in support of their debut full-length Light Up Gold, which just got a proper label release through indie label What's Your Rupture. Tickets and information for tonight's all-ages show with Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Amanda X and Household can be found here. Watch Parquet Courts perform "Master of My Craft" and "Borrowed Time" live on WNYC below.
One of the stand-out bands at March's SXSW, Sir Sly make their way to Philadelphia tonight for a show at Johnny Brenda's. With an EP plus a few more tracks released, the band has quickly made it clear that they will operate in the realm of expansive, catchy pop hooks. Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show with JMSN and The Last Royals can be found here. Watch a new video for "Found You Out" below and download "Gold" here.
Local Brazilian band Alo Brasil plays Underground Arts tonight. More than just a performing band, Alo Brasil features an interactive live show influenced by African rhythms like samba, maracatu and more. Though often accompanied by costumed dancers, for their recurring "Underground Sessions" Alo Brasil has a refreshed line-up of musicians. Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show can be found here, or on the Facebook event page here. Watch a promo video for Alo Brasil below.
Lentil Fest continues at The Fire tonight, with performances by Kuf Knotz, Nicos Gun, Reef the Lost Cauze, Mike "Slo-Mo' Brenner, Gedeon Luke and Brady & the Bear. In support of Lentil the french bulldog (born with a cleft pallate), all proceeds will benefit the French Bulldog Rescue Network, Street Tails Animal Rescue and ccakids.org. Tickets and information can be found here. Watch Kuf Knotz perform at the 2011 XPoNential Music Festival below.
Also happening: XPN welcomes The Smithereens to The Sellersville Theater; XPN welcomes Free Energy to the North Star Bar. Tickets and information for both shows can be found on the XPN Concert Calendar.
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October 1, 2012 - Kaiser Permanente of Southern California set a Guinness World Record by administering 47,259 flu vaccinations in eight hours at multiple locations on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 8 am to 4 pm. The Super Saturday Flu Clinic was held at 48 Kaiser Permanente medical office buildings across Southern California, with 600 nurses and medical staff involved in administering the vaccines.
The new record nearly quadrupled the previous record of 12,851 set by Vanderbilt University in 2011. A real time tote board tracked the progress throughout the day and was confirmed by a Guinness World Records adjudicator.
"The flu shot is the first and most important step to protect ourselves against the flu," said Paul Bernstein, MD, area medical director for Kaiser Permanente San Diego. "We know prevention saves lives so getting our members vaccinated is a great investment in the total health of ourselves, our members and all San Diegans."
This year's flu vaccine will protect against three strains of influenza, including the 2009 H1N1 strain, plus a different H3N2 and B strain. The flu shot is recommended for all individuals ages 6 months and older, but certain groups are at higher risk of developing complications from the flu and are highly encouraged to get immunized. Those groups include:
Kaiser Permanente's members were also offered preventive health screenings such as mammograms, blood pressure checks, and cervical cancer screenings. The flu clinics were held in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County and San Diego County.
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Flush with electoral success and a new Gallup poll that shows 7 in 10 Americans want Republicans to heed its small-government ideas, the tea party movement is on a roll toward its ultimate prize: determining the 2012 presidential election and becoming, in Sarah Palin's words, "the future of politics in America."
But the tea party phenomenon teeters at a critical point in its rags-to-riches two-year history. In fact, the future of the tea party could largely be determined in the next few months as its willingness – or not – to compromise on key issues comes into sharp focus.
"The big question is whether the tea party is politically savvy enough and realistic enough to realize that democracy works through incrementalism, or are we going to see this passion that says, 'If you compromise, you're done,' which is basically forming a circular firing squad," says Robert Watson, a political scientist at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Fla.
American history shows that populist political insurgencies can burn out as fast as they flare up, either absorbed into a major party or shunted to the ineffectual fringes of the American mainstream.
The 19th century's anti-immigration Know-Nothing movement dissipated after striking deals with Democrats and losing the 1896 presidential election. At the other end of the spectrum, the 1960s John Birch movement, which also began as a right-wing Republican reaction to a Democratic president, remains a constituency for some Republicans today.
So far, the tea party has managed to emerge as a quixotic, if amorphous, force largely focused on economic issues, but imbued by strains of past xenophobic movements and simmering with culture war issues like "God, guns, and gays," says Professor Watson. Before the November election, USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham predicted that these views spelled its doom. "Left alone, there's a good chance that the tea party will sputter out of existence as quickly as the Know-Nothing movement did," he wrote last September.
But in a poll released on Monday, the Gallup organization found that the tea party has moved toward the mainstream of the political debate, reporting that 71 percent of Americans said the Republican party should take tea party positions into account when crafting new policy.
Many Democrats still hope the tea partyers can be sidelined, and would gladly see Republicans nominate more candidates in the Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell vein – two tea party-backed candidates who won Republican primaries but failed to muster enough votes in Nevada and Delaware general elections for the US Senate.
The basic challenge is whether the tea party – and, by proxy, figureheads like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann – can hold pragmatic approaches to the debt limit, entitlements like Medicare and Social Security, and the upcoming budget battle, while still remaining distinct from the GOP establishment. And, conversely, can Republicans marshal tea party ideas without alienating voters?
"Republicans are in a very challenging position now that they're in power, trying to deliver while having Michele Bachmann with the tea party caucus just waiting for leadership to not go far enough," says Tom De Luca, a political science professor at Fordham University, in New York. "It may require more than licking a finger and putting it in the air. They're going to have to figure out exactly how far they can move toward the tea party without alienating voters they're going to depend on."
Others point to the tea-party backing of moderate Republican Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts as a sign that the movement is willing to compromise – at least, on a case-by-case basis – to achieve greater goals.
"Our concern is that we do get smaller government, less intrusive government, and that we get our country back on the track that the Founding Fathers put it on," says Shelly Pettus, a tea party activist in Florence, Ala. "I don't care if they call themselves a Democrat as long as they do what the American people want."
Tea party Republicans are gauging such sentiments now. Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida declined last week to join the Senate Tea Party Caucus, raising eyebrows among some tea party activists.
Yet Senator Rubio managed to put the snub in the context of a tea party ideal. "If all of a sudden being in the tea party is not something that is happening in Main Street but rather something that's happening in Washington, D.C., the tea party all of a sudden becomes some sort of movement run by politicians," Rubio told the Florida political blog, the Shark Tank. "It's gonna lose its effectiveness, and I'm concerned about that."
The ultimate arbiter of the tea party's future may be the 2012 presidential election. If Republicans nominate anyone but Sarah Palin in 2012, a new Rasmussen poll shows, nearly half of Palin supporters would likely vote for a third party, which could, in turn, doom Republican chances of unseating President Obama.
In the 2012 election, Americans will see just how pragmatic the tea party is willing to be and, thus, "how long it will last," says Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver.


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The Northwood Heights Bridge is the most northerly bridge in Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. It connects Boulevard, Bohan with Northwood, Algonquin, traveling over the Humboldt River. The bridge has a basic deck-arch structure and is considerably basic compared to the architectural wonders of Broker Bridge and Algonquin Bridge. The bridge caters for four lanes of traffic, two in each direction. The bridge leads off of Boulevard in Bohan and connects to the northern end of Frankfort Avenue at the Algonquin end.
Beta Bridge
The bridge looks vastly different in the Beta version and how it looks now, the beta bridge looks like the Algonquin-Charge Island span of the East Borough Bridge, without the metal work between the stands as you can see in the picture on the down-right.
Subway Route
There is a rail bridge situated just to the south of Northwood Heights Bridge which allows K/C Algonquin Inner Line trains to connect to Bohan and B/E Bohan Line trains to connect to Algonquin. The rail bridge is unnamed in GTA IV although is likely to be known as the Northwood Heights Rail Bridge, or more likely the Frankfort Avenue Bridge. As it follows the perimeter of the road as the line leads to the Frankfort High LTA in Algonquin.
Design and Geography
The bridge is geographically based on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge. The unnamed nearby rail bridge appears to be based off of the University Heights Bridge (which also lends some design cues to the main bridge). This bridge is part of Grand Boulevard, the major thoroughfare in Bohan. Due to this, when you stay under the bridge at the Algonquin site, the street will be labeled as Grand Boulevard.


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Achilles. An opera.
Description: John Gay is credited with inventing the ballad opera, a genre that blends spoken plays and previously composed songs to new texts. Although The Beggar's Opera (1728) was his most successful endeavor, he continued to compose English musical dramas. Achilles was finally performed in 1733, one year after Gay died. In this story, Achilles appears as a girl named Pyrrha, unknown to most of the inhabitants of the island of Scyros, in order to circumvent a prediction that he will die in battle. Deidamia (the king's daughter) knows the secret, however, because she is carrying the disguised man's child. After Achilles's identity is revealed, he and Deidamia are able to wed. Then, in a fateful twist of irony, Achilles plans to join the Greeks in the Trojan War.
Date: 1733
Creator: Gay, John, 1685-1732
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In the decade of the 1930s, the years that led to the Holocaust, many Jewish families fled Nazi-led Germany for other lands. One such family was that of Zysia and Hinda Pressman , and their two children Hermann and Sonia. They had originally come from Poland, but they had moved to Berlin where Zysia had a thriving clothing business.
When Hitler came to power, son Hermann made the decision to leave Berlin, and in the Spring of 1933 he immigrated to Antwerp, Belgium. It was not easy, but he convinced his parents to do the same, and they and Sonia joined him.
So they began their lives in Antwerp, though it was not easy -- Zysia could neither find success in setting up a new business, nor could he gain residence permits for he and his family. Finally, the family decided to seek a better life with more opportunities, and they decided to immigrate to the United States in April 1934, traveling on a Red Star Line ship for New York, where they began their new life.
Hermann's diary tells of his day-to-day activities in Berlin, then Antwerp, and finally as a resident of the United States (the Bronx). His diary tells of his friends and their times together, his relationship with other members of his family, his attempts to gain a residence permit. At times he also gives his impressions of the tragedy that was occurring in Nazi Germany during this time.
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Update: The deadline for the Cotchery Skills and Drills Football Clinic has been extended to Friday, June 13, 11:00 a.m. Tune in to JOX Friday, June 13, 7:00 a.m., to hear Jerricho Cotchery talking with Jay Barker on the Opening Drive.
The Birmingham Public Library is excited to host "Score Big"with the Cotchery Foundation. Jerricho Cotchery, one of Birmingham's native sons, has teamed up with the Library to host yet another amazing series of events for the 2014 Teen Summer Reading Program, "Spark a Reaction."
Born in 1982, Cotchery grew up to be an incredible athlete. He excelled at Phillips High School in Birmingham and attended North Carolina State University. The New York Jets drafted him in 2004, the Pittsburgh Steelers added him to their roster in 2010, and this year he will join the Carolina Panthers. For his career, he has compiled 437 receptions for 5,558 yards. In layman's terms, he's "the man" and the library is lucky to partner with him.
Named for the famous Biblical city, Jerricho is deeply committed to his faith and to community outreach. He was moved to start the Cotchery Foundation in January 2007 as a result of his own personal memories and experiences growing up. He and his foundation have set out to "show that anyone can do extraordinary things if they have the desire and passion." Cotchery has made it his mission to show that any individual can make a significant difference in the lives of others.
For the past seven years, The Cotchery Foundation has hosted a FREE Skills and Drills Football Clinic with Jerricho Cotchery. In 2009, The Foundation asked the Birmingham Public Library to join them to enrich the experience. In order to register for the 2014 Skills and Drills Football Clinic, youth from 11-17 must be an active participant in the "Score Big" component of the "Spark a Reaction" summer reading program. Seven points are necessary to qualify. Youth may score points by registering for the program (1 point), reading an entire magazine (3 points), and reading an entire book (6 points). "Score Big" registration forms are available at all Birmingham Public Library locations. The completed registration forms are due by June 11, 2014. At least two hundred participants will be selected to attend the 2014 Skills and Drills Football Clinic on June 28, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., at Legion Field. Those selected will be notified by June 20, 2014.
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In Defense of Copying
We live in a society obsessed with copying. From file sharing to Internet memes to playlists of songs created for loved ones, we copy things every day. The pervasiveness of copying in our society has led to strict laws that distinguish acceptable acts of copying and sharing from non-acceptable acts. Laws that police piracy and protect copyright and intellectual property have become so powerful and pervasive that they discipline even our most quotidian behaviors. All we need do is look at the ongoing and heated debates over Facebook's privacy settings to realize how hyper-vigilant we all are about what's mine and what's yours and who can share what with whom.
For all the legitimate problems that copying and piracy produce, I believe our obsession with policing them has caused us to forget the creative benefits that copying and sharing provide to individuals, society, and even business.
I think quite a lot about piracy and the act of copying in my job as a Spanish professor. My students' success in learning Spanish is a result of their ability to copy how people who already know the language use it: how words are selected, how intonation changes their meaning, how pronunciation makes communication possible, and so on.
Of course, language belongs to everyone. We don't have to worry about copying language because it is not the private property of a particular individual, organization, or corporation.
This is where things like literature really complicate the issue. Literature is considered private property because it supposedly comes from the individual genius of one person. But to be meaningful, literature is composed from material that belongs to us all: language, ideas, myths, histories, traditions, and values. Shared material is foundational to society, and thus to literature.
Example I: in fall 2012 my students and I read a medieval story from El Conde Lucanor, written by Don Juan Manuel in 1335. The old folk tale is uncannily similar to Shakespeare's famous play, The Taming of the Shrew, written nearly 255 years later. In fact, Shakespearian scholars agree that the English master based his play on a number of earlier literary works, including the text by Juan Manuel.
In class we watched a video production of The Taming of the Shrew, along with clips from contemporary Hollywood recreations of Shakespeare's play that are targeted specifically to young adults, including the 1999 film Ten Things I Hate About You. While none of my students had ever read or seen The Taming of the Shrew, let alone heard of the story by Juan Manuel, almost all of them had seen Ten Things I Hate About You. These copies helped turn a remote text into something familiar and accessible to them.
But does this count as piracy or copyright infringement? Did Shakespeare plagiarize Juan Manuel or was he simply inspired by him? Many scholars who study piracy and copyright laws frequently cite this kind of example as evidence that copying is an inherent part of the creative process, and that current laws against copying pose a serious threat to the richness of art and culture. Imagine how different Shakespeare's artistic career would have been if writers like Juan Manuel had copyrighted their works — or how different our own popular culture would be if Shakespeare had copyrighted his.
Under today's laws, though, Shakespeare might be guilty of copyright infringement. Researchers studying cinema, for instance, commonly cite cases in which the mere repetition of a particular idea for a film is enough to sue someone wishing to make a film about the same idea.
The argument that piracy and copyright laws stifle creativity has also infiltrated the world of business. From a business perspective, piracy is most often seen as a threat to success and therefore as something that should rightfully be penalized. Yet the legal wars currently playing out within the technology industry (notably the suits and counter-suits between Apple and Samsung over phone designs) show how overuse of copyright and intellectual property protection can harm scientific and engineering innovation. Industry leaders have the resources to file an endless string of lawsuits (and they do) to scare smaller firms right off the playing field. In the technology industry, as well as in the media and entertainment industries, copyright and intellectual property laws often do more to create corporate monopolies than they do to ensure innovation, creativity, and the diversity of ideas and products.
As much as I think our current views on copying deserve to be critiqued, I myself am on the frontlines of policing illegal acts of copying. The technology available to university students today makes plagiarizing easier than ever. Business has responded with software such as Turnitin, which scans student work for plagiarism. I use Turnitin, but I worry that it produces a relationship of distrust between teacher and student. I offset such outcomes with assignments that encourage ethical and creative uses of copying.
Example II: this semester my students and I read a lot of poetry. They cringed when I asked them to write a poem in Spanish, but were relieved when I asked them to copy the structure of a poem we had read together in class. This framework, based on an act of copying, eased their insecurities and freed them to do something they thought impossible: write poetry in another language.
We shouldn't do away with our efforts to mitigate the negative aspects of piracy and copyright infringement, but neither should we allow these efforts to prevent us from sharing, imitating, or at times even copying great ideas.
Jane D. Griffin is assistant professor of Modern Languages at Bentley University.


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College Loans Are a Burden Long After Graduation, Poll Finds
Students Borrowing More Than $25,000 Score Worse Than Debt-Free Counterparts on Quality-of-Life Measures, Even Decades Later
People who take out significant college loans score worse on quality-of-life measures, a trend that persists into middle age, according to a recent poll of college graduates.
Even 24 years after graduation, students who borrowed more than $25,000 are less likely to enjoy their work and are less financially and physically fit than their counterparts who graduated without debt. For more recent college grads, the discrepancy is even more pronounced....


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UPDATE: The Wimpy Kid trailer has arrived!
Spiderman 4 is set for 2012, with emphasis on a "an everyday teen in an epic super-human world." Director Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are both out. Really, can't you just leave Spiderman alone? I hate multiple sequels. Cynopsis Kids had the news.
I love Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, so I was excited to see that Neil Patrick Harris aka Dr. Horrible, will be voicing Dr. Blowhole, a wicked dolphin in a new special on Nickelodeon, Dr. Blowhole's Revenge, featuring the penguins of Madagascar. The special is on Nickelodeon, Monday, February 15 at 8p. "In the special Dr. Blowhole goes up against the Penguins who have continually foiled his plans to rule the world." Thanks to Cynopsis Kids for the heads up.
There's a Twilight graphic novel on the way. You can check out an early preview at Entertainment Weekly. I'm not very impressed and really, can we stop with the extra Twilight tie-ins? I don't know about you, but the teens at my library aren't really big fans of graphic novel versions of movies/books/etc. They want manga and that's it-not this fake manga stuff that keeps getting put out.
Martin Scorsese is in talks to direct the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I loved the book and I think a movie would be great and I would love him as director. Thanks to Cynopsis Kids and The Guardian for the news.
And the best news for last! Little Brown announced that they will be publishing Glee novels featuring new stories about the cast. Expect these in the Fall. I hope they're good-I'm keeping my fingers crossed but they'll probably be super cheesy, just like the Clueless based novels I read in eighth grade! Thanks to Lisa at EarlyWord for the news.


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2013: Played in all 12 games, starting in three ... Had 18 receptions for 127 yards and two touchdowns ... Caught a season-high six passes for 70 yards including a 43-yard touchdown in the season opener at East Carolina ... Had four receptions for 24 yards in the win over Liberty ... Caught three passes for 20 yards, including two first downs in the first-ever FBS win at Idaho ... Caught a two-yard touchdown pass in the win over URI.
2012: Caught 29 passes on the year for 289 yards and one touchdown ... Caught a career-high nine passes for 89-yards and a touchdown in ODU's 64-61 victory over New Hampshire ... Finished one shy of his career-high catches with eight grabs for 79 yards in 31-20 win at Towson ... Caught four balls for 48 yards in victory over Delaware ... Named to the CAA Academic All-Conference Team.
2011: Named CAA Special Teams Player of the Week (10/3)...Blocked a #20 UMass punt that led to a safety and returned the lead for good in ODU's 48-33 win over the Minutemen in the Monarchs' first ever CAA win and win over a ranked opponent....Bailey's blocked punt and safety gave ODU a 27-26 edge and a lead they would not relinquish...Caught the ball 12 times for 118 yards...Had a season-high four catches in the week eight victory at Villanova...Also registered a season-high 34 receiving yards on his lone caught against #9/10 James Madison, ODU's first win over a top-10 program.
HIGH SCHOOL: Philadelphia Inquirer First-Team All-South Jersey...Second Team All-State by MaxPreps...Caught 45 passes for 804 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior... Had a season-high eight catches for 187 yards in the Eagles' Non-Public Group 4 playoff game with Seton Hall Prep... As a junior, caught 25 passes for 690 yards and seven touchdowns...Played for Paul VI High School head coach John Doherty...Also earned All-South Jersey and All-Conference honors in track.
Born September 8, 1993...Son of Grady Rogers and Donna Bailey...Has four brothers, Justin, Javon, Jherell, and Jamaal...Majoring in business.


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The Chiefs have found the answer. They're going back to Brady Quinn.
After being cleared by doctors following a concussion, Quinn is going to take the field with the Chiefs in the second half, replacing quarterback Matt Cassel.
Quinn started a pair of games before the head injury, and probably would have started today if clearance had come earlier in the week.
Cassel was 8-of-16 for 93 yards in the first half, as the Chiefs slouched to a 21-6 deficit.


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For starters, let's get you warmed up with The Piano Guys and their epic video, "Cello Wars."
If that isn't enough cello-dueling for you (it sure isn't enough for me), I want to introduce you to the first musical group I can think of that has ever gotten me really, really excited. When I hear these guys, I want to jump up and bounce off the walls. I'm talking about 2Cellos, two guys from Croatia who use cellos to do things that are still illegal in seventeen countries. Watch and be amazed as they shred "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n' Roses while also shredding their bows.
So illegal.
And finally, to tone it down a bit, we have the haunting strains of Adam Hurst


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New Canaan's Heigl stars in 'The Big Wedding'
"The Big Wedding," a big-budget comedy with a bevy of local ties -- from its director, to its all-star cast, to its filming locations -- opened in theaters Friday.
Directed by Greenwich native Justin Zackham (who also wrote the screenplay for "The Bucket List"), the film centers on a long-divorced couple, played by Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton, who fake being married as their family gathers for a wedding. In reality, De Niro's character is dating another woman (played by Susan Sarandon) -- a painfully awkward situation with the potential for hilarity.
Rounding out the all-star cast are Connecticut-raised actors Katherine Heigl, of New Canaan, and Topher Grace, of Darien, along with Robin Williams, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Barnes and Christine Ebersole.
At the time, Zackham said he took a very sober approach to his first directing role, even consulting with other directors, such as Peter Farrelly, of "Dumb and Dumber" fame, on how to treat the cast members.
"What a lot of them told me is that the big movie stars want to be directed, " he said. "Forget about who they are. Forget about what they've done. Forget about what their trophy case looks like."
Lesson No. 1: no gushing over De Niro's Oscar-winning performances in "Raging Bull" or "The Godfather" trilogy.
"If you do that, you lose right out of the gate," Zackham said. "I try not to think about that."
Perhaps an even more notable star of "The Big Wedding" is Greenwich itself.
During the summer of 2011, Zackham, along with Clay Pecorin, a boyhood friend and fellow Greenwich native who is the film's lead producer, transformed the town into their very own Hollywood lot.
Filming locations included Christ Church Greenwich, St. Agnes Church, Gabriele's Italian Steakhouse and a private home in the town's Stanwich section.
"It's been just kind of amazing to come home," Zackham said. "To do something like this with my best friend who I've known since eighth grade, that's the best part."
Lower Fairfield County is no stranger to Hollywood productions. De Niro has been to the region many times, filming "What Just Happened," "Righteous Kill" and "Everybody's Fine" in various towns. All of the movies were critical and commercial flops. De Niro is probably hoping his visit to the area yields some blockbuster results this time around.
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The event began at 9 a.m. and
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sessions at 9, three more at 10:15 and the keynote speaker
presentation at 11:30. The day ended with a brief gardening Q&A session with Logan County Extension garden specialist Jennifer Fishburn.
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September 28, 2006
LOS ANGELES - In its third quarterly report of 2006, the UCLA Anderson Forecast says that while, "the U.S. economy appears to have seamlessly downshifted to a soft landing (and) we are not forecasting a recession … the economy is about to get bumpy as the housing market continues to deteriorate." The Forecast calls for a sustained period of 1.5-2.0% growth. In California, the housing market continues to soften and real estate employment has gone from an "engine of growth" to "a drag on growth in 2006." In the absence of a recession, however, statewide home prices are unlikely to experience significant declines.
The National Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast Senior Economist David Shulman says that the national economy is about to enter a period of several quarters of sluggish growth with, "inflation above the comfort level." In response, the Federal Reserve will cut the funds rate to 4.5% and unemployment will rise, while economic sectors related to real estate will decline. Strength in business investment and trade, coupled with a bottoming of the housing market will eventually strengthen the economy, which will bounce back to a 3-4% growth rate by 2008. The Forecast calls for real GDP growth averaging 1.8% in the three quarters beginning with the third quarter of 2006.
The report titled, "Soft Landing with Turbulence Ahead," notes that home sales are off 12% and housing starts off 26% from their respective peaks, making it clear that the housing market is in a major cyclical decline. "It is only a matter of time," Shulman writes, "before nominal home prices are down on a year-over-year basis."
The California Forecast
The California Forecast, authored by Economist Ryan Ratcliff, says that the State's real estate sectors will continue their 2006 decline – without major declines in other sectors.
This distinction is significant, since it implies a slowdown instead of a recession. Historically, recessions in California have had major job loss in at least two sectors, such as construction and manufacturing. Without recession-sized job losses, a significant decline in statewide home prices is unlikely. However, a few regions where new construction is significant share of overall sales may see some price declines, since builders historically have been more willing to lower prices than owners
According to Ratcliff, building permits will continue to decline, bottoming out in 2008 as activity returns to levels seen in 2000. The drop in building activity will continue to weaken the construction sector, which will lose around 100,000 jobs through the life of the forecast (which runs until fourth quarter 2008). The Financial Activities sector will suffer a slowdown overall, due to real estate-related declines. Nominal home prices in the State will stay flat through 2008, though real prices will fall.
In a California companion piece titled, "2005: The Year the Tortoise Won the Race, Whither California Home Prices," Forecast Director Edward Leamer again makes the case that the real estate sector is a volume cycle, and not a price cycle. As a result, the real declines in this area will be in total volume and not real estate prices. He argues that volume produces the activity which contributes to GDP (and GSP) and declines in volume often lead to layoffs of construction workers and lowered brokers commissions.
Leamer expects home prices five years from now to be about the same as they are today, though lower in real terms by 15-20%. Meanwhile, housing's contributions to GDP will be very weak, with building, finance and real estate commissions suffering significant declines.
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation, and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California, and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. Most recently, the Forecast is credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast on the Web at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 35,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.


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The Quincy Gems battled back from 8-0 and 9-1 deficits in the third and fifth innings, respectively, to claim a 10-inning, 10-9 Prospect League baseball win over the Springfield Sliders Tuesday night at Robin Roberts Stadium.
The Sliders were within one out of victory when they were leading 9-7 in the top of the ninth inning. But Springfield relief pitcher Alex Siddle allowed a bases-loaded single to Adam McGinnis that scored two runs to tie the score.
The Gems scored the winning run in the 10th when Ryan Light, who reached base on a dropped third srike to start the inning, eventually scored with nobody out on a wild pitch by Siddell.
The Sliders scored three runs in the first inning, including a two-run homer by Dominick Bregar, and added two more in the second on a two-run single by Riverton�s Will Schneider.
Springfield added three more in the third to lead 8-0, and added one more in the fifth on a RBI single by Zach Schira to lead 9-1.
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The Sliders finished with five errors, and five Springfield pitchers combined to allow 13 walks. Siddle took the loss, his first decision of the season.
The Sliders fell to 9-14 in the league�s second half, while the Gems improved to 18-9. The same teams meet at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday at Robin Roberts Stadium.


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Kitimat, B.C. and New York had one thing in common this week: the misuse and use of social media, Twitter and Facebook that spread both accurate warnings and dangerous misinformation about an impending disaster. In the case of New York and the surrounding area, it was Superstorm Sandy that caused widespread devastation. For Kitimat it was the tsunami warning after the 7.7 earthquake off Haida Gwaii that brought no damage but a lot of worry for residents.
It has been documented that there was no official response from Emergency Management British Columbia (still largely known under its former name Provincial Emergency Program) until an hour after the first earthquake report from the U.S. Geological Survey. Only sometime later did B.C.'s provincial emergency officials hold a short conference call with reporters.
So in that hour of silence from the B.C. government, one question has to be raised: Were the tsunami warnings so completely uncoordinated -- at least as far as the public is concerned -- that that was one cause of the misinformation and inaccurate information on Twitter and Facebook? Or did confusing information from authorities simply compound and amplify the social media misinformation that was already spreading?
As Kitimat's emergency plan co-ordinator, Bob McLeod, told an earthquake post mortem on Oct. 29:
"There was one case where someone was going around banging on doors in Kildala, telling them to get out. I think it was over when he was in the lockup that night. But this is the type of foolishness that goes on. You have people going on Facebook saying 'Alcan's been evacuated. They're evacuating Kildala.' I am going to be generous and say it is misinformation... It was a blatant lie. And that does not help."
Kitimat Daily reporter Walter McFarlane told the meeting:
"I found the night of the earthquake that no information is just as bad as wrong information. People were calling me on my cell saying, 'Why does the Kitimat Daily say we have to evacuate.' That is because the Daily republished a warning from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre that said 'Tsunami warning, evacuation for the North Coast.' People were saying we're on the north coast, we got to go."
When I got to my home office, my only source of information at that point was Google News, Facebook and Twitter.
I saw the initial warning from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Soon I was getting what I hoped was more specific information on my marine radio from the Canadian Coast Guard Prince Rupert communications station.
The Coast Guard advisory mentioned various zones, for example, Zone A and Zone B, but there was little specific context and that point I had no idea what Zone A meant. Prince Rupert Coast Guard Radio then went on to say evacuate low-lying coastal areas.
With that confusion, and mindful of "when in doubt, leave it out," I did not mention the zone system in any information I posted on Facebook and Twitter that night. I only retweeted official information or tweets from reporters I trusted. (I did not see any tweeted information from the province with a link to the page that identifies the official tsunami zones.)
In Kitimat, I was told about the man going door to door with inaccurate information and as soon as I confirmed it with reliable official sources, I posted that on both Twitter and Facebook, emphasizing there was, at that time, no evacuation order.
Twitter misinformation spread internationally. The first hashtag I saw was #bcquake, but as the tsunami warning gained traction -- especially after the warning was extended from B.C. and Alaska to Washington, Oregon and California and then to Hawaii -- the more common hashtag #tsunami became prominent.
As people outside B.C. began tweeting, they began using #Canadaquake and soon #PrayForCanada also began to trend. Completely inaccurate information spread on #PrayForCanada (believed to have originated in Indonesia) that it was Vancouver, not the North Coast that had been hit by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
Just how were people going to interpret such general terms as "North Coast" and "low-lying areas?"
From the Emergency Management BC/Provincial Emergency Program you have to ask "What is Zone A?" It turns out by checking a day or so later, that the province of British Columbia has created Tsunami Identification Zones.
Before Oct. 27, it is likely no one outside of the provincial bureaucracy had ever heard of the provincial tsunami zones. Later on, the TV networks put up maps showing Zones A and B -- but that was only good if you had power and were watching the right channel. It was no good at all if you were listening to news reports on radio or to Prince Rupert Coast Guard Radio on a fishing boat and had no access to the actual maps.
Compounding the confusion is that the U.S. system appears to be very different from the Canadian.
The U.S. system has two levels of warning. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center sends out general warnings but hands over for a more specific warning map from the Alaska based West Coast and Alaska Pacific Tsunami warning centre. It uses its own system of lettered and numbered zones for the west coast of North America. (See the Oct. 27 tsunami advisory here - Note it is a Google maps plugin.)
Possibly adding to uncertainty for those who sail the coast of British Columbia, is that usually when the Coast Guard talks about zones on marine radio, it is talking about the fishing zones as defined by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which are numbered not lettered.
So in case of a tsunami warning, Kitimat is in Zone B for the province of B.C. and the Provincial Emergency Program and in Zone BZ921 for the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre. For the much more familiar fisheries management areas, Kitimat is in Zone 6.
If a conclusion can be drawn from the earthquake and tsunami warning in the Kitimat region on Oct. 27, it's not just that inaccurate, incomplete or malicious information can spread at the speed of light on social media during an emergency, it's worse that incomplete, inadequate and confusing information from the authorities is amplified and distorted by rapid posting on social media.
For a longer version of this story and transcripts of the tsunami warnings, you can visit Northwest Coast Energy News.