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Take a tour around the Camp Jurassic section of Jurassic Park at Islands of Adventure. Located at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. Camp Jura...

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Report: AMD’s Volcanic Islands GPUs Launching in October Without HD 8000 Branding

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ChinaDIY has reported that AMDs next-generation Volcanic Islands GPUs will be launched in October 2013.

ChinaDIY has reported that AMDs next-generation Volcanic Islands GPUs will be launched in October at the beginning of Q4 2013 and will not be released with the Radeon HD 8000 series branding.

This report is, of course, unconfirmed and highly speculative since we dont have any information on these upcoming GPUs except for the codenames found in a leaked Catalyst driver last month.

This being said, the October release date is certainly plausible since Nvidia has launched its new 700 series GPUs, and Ross Taylor (AMDs VP of Global Channel Sales) previously hinted that Battlefield 4 (which releases on October 29) may be included in a future Never Settle: Reloaded bundle and would be an ideal flagship title for the companys new graphics cards.

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Gulls, cormorants being surveyed on Maine islands

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AP/July 3, 2013

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Wildlife officials are surveying gull and cormorant populations on Maines coastal islands.

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is monitoring population and breeding distribution changes of great black-backed gulls, herring gulls and double-crested cormorants. Theyre also surveying common eiders on selected islands.

The survey is using a combination of aerial photographs, aerial counting and ground surveys in which crews walk the islands and count the number of nests that contain eggs.

Officials say between 1996 and 2008, the number of nesting black-backed gulls declined 42 percent, nesting herring gulls fell 30 percent and nesting cormorants dropped 45 percent. Biologists believe the decline is due to fewer fish to feed on and increased predation from a growing eagle population.

Copyright 2013 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Pacific Islands Struggle With Poor Internet Speeds

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The Talamahu Market in the capital city of Nukualofa on the island of Tongatapu, Dec. 2, 2010.

The opening line on the Kingdom of Tongas tourism website reads, Welcome to life in the slow lane. It could be the national motto. The Polynesian nation of 176 far-flung islands but just 105,000 people has a long tradition of sitting on the sidelines of world affairs. Alone among island nations of the Pacific, Tonga was never colonized by a foreign power, mostly because foreign powers saw no compelling reason to extend their empires some 3,000 km east of Australia. An unbroken succession of local chiefs and kings has ruled over the islands for more than a thousand years. But there are downsides to Tongas state of restful isolation.

The Internet is very sporadic here, and the speed is quite slow, says Minoru Nishi Jr., a local importer-exporter. Connection speeds on the island lag far behind world standards, a reality that sets in every time Nishi returns from a visit to China or Japan. You get on the plane, he says, and go, oh no. A single high-resolution picture can take six to seven hours to send as an attachment, assuming it sends at all. Often what happens is it just cuts off, Nishi says, forcing him to restart the process all over again. We have to wait until the middle of the night, when there are no people on the Internet.

Hes not alone in his frustration. A local telecom executive said he has a habit of making coffee after he hits a button to download a document. The Secretary for Information and Communications says friends stop him in the street to complain about dropped calls over Skype. In fact, across all the island nations of the Pacific, a combined population of around 10 million people is chafing against narrow bandwidths that most of the world left behind in the screechy-modem days of the early 90s.

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The problem boils down to the Pacific Islands unique geography. Theres no other place in the world as remote and as small and as fragmented, says Franz Drees-Gross, the World Banks country director for the region. Take Kiribati, a nation of 100,000 people. Theyre on islands spread over a surface area equivalent to India, but if you were to collapse the islands into a single landmass, it would be thesize of New Delhi.

Telecom companies blanch at the cost of connecting these scattered islands to the rest of the world. Inthe age of the mobile device, its easy to forget the fact that the Internet at least the high-speed variety that many of us take for granted is a physical thing. It is zapped through undersea cables that span the worlds oceans, connecting continent to continent and landmass to landmass.

The first fiber-optic cables were laid down alongside telegraph cables from the mid-1800s. These bundles of glass wires as thin as a strand of hair are coated in a layer of resin or bands of steel to protect them from abrasions on the seafloor. The cables must wend their way around volcanic chasms and pick through delicate growths of coral reef before surfacing at a landing station, where Internet-service providers distribute bandwidth to customers.

Telecoms companies have gradually extended these cables to every populated area of the globe, with one notable exception: the fragmented populations of the Pacific Islands. There, the cost of building a cable dwarfs the revenue that could be collected from such a tiny base of subscribers. The investment may take decades to pay off, if ever. So the telecoms industry has understandably bypassed the region, leaving islanders to grapple with costly satellite connections that can rack up bills as high as $500 a month.

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2013 Health Care Champions announces judging panel

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Health Care Champions, sponsored by TD Bank, is honored to announce this years panel of distinguished judges.

These individuals are elated to be participating in such a prestigious awards ceremony, recognizing those dedicated to improving the quality of care along the Treasure Coast.

Alice Macomber, a health care educator at Keiser University and the 2011 recipient of the Non-Physicians Excellence in Health Care Award, will be returning to Health Care Champions for her second year of judging.

Steven Salyer, CEO of Sebastian River Medical Center, will join Alice as a judge for the second consecutive year.

Gary Cantrell, CEO at St. Lucie Medical Center, will be serving on the judges panel for the fourth year in a row along with Jeffery Susi, CEO of Indian River Medical Center.

JT Barnhart, VP and Chief Operating Officer at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, is serving his first year on the judges panel along with Rob Lord, the Senior Vice President at Martin Health Systems and Peter Gloggner, the Vice President and Chief of Human Resources at Jupiter Medical Center.

Winning the Health Care Non-Physicians Award in 2011was an incredible experience and choosing the winners is a process that takes diligence, heart and a lot of thought to make the selection for the finalist, explained Alice Macomber.

This distinguished panel of judges has multiple years of experience related to health care in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, North Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties. They are also recognized for the active roles they play in their communities whether its being a member of dif ferent boards, donating their time and talents to local community groups, or teaching and mentoring the youth about the importance of health care.

Some of our judges have received several highly respected awards through their leadership, such as Gary Cantrell. St. Lucie Medical Center has received a number of awards and recognition, for example they are recognized as a Distinguished Hospital, ranking in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country for patient care.

The judges will come together in August, to review the nominations, discuss top selections, and vote on the winners for each of the seven categories. Finalists will be announced in Progress and Innovation Quarterly Report, publishing Monday, Aug. 26.

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Health care snag raises questions

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WASHINGTON Nothing's ever easy with President Barack Obama's health care law.

The latest hitch gives employers an additional year before they must offer medical coverage to their workers or pay a fine.

What does the delay mean for workers? And struggling businesses? And is it a significant setback for a law already beset by court challenges, repeal votes and a rush of deadlines for making health insurance available to nearly all Americans next year?

A few questions and answers:

WHY THE DELAY?

Businesses said they needed more time.

Obama administration officials say they listened to businesses that complained they needed to figure out how to comply with complicated new rules written since the plan became law. And the delay buys time for the government, as well, to improve and simplify the rules.

The law passed in 2010 required employers with more than 50 employees working 30 or more hours a week to offer them suitable health coverage or pay a fine. What's changed is the deadline for that requirement, which was to begin in January. The new deadline is Jan. 1, 2015.

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