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Beijing-based Lenovo (NASDAQOTH: LNVGY), the world's largest PC vendor by shipments, has improved profitable growth across its core PC business and mobile division this year. Its transformation into a PC Plus company proved lucrative as smartphone and tablet sales exceeded expectations for the quarter. The company's new line of smart-connected devices has compensated for lost laptop and desktop sales in the sluggish PC market. Lenovo seeks to expand its PC Plus strategy into new mature and developing markets to better position the company against competitors such as Apple and Samsung.
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Lenovo recorded revenues of US $8.8 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, up 10% year-over-year. Net profit rose 23% to US $174 million or US $1.67 earnings per share. Laptop sales increased 4.7% year-over-year to US $4.5 billion, or 52% of total revenue—representing the largest slice of the company's revenues. Desktop PC sales fell 2.8% year-over-year to US $2.5 billion, or 28% of total revenue.
Despite poor desktop PC sales for the quarter, Lenovo has outperformed the PC market for 17 consecutive quarters and topped HP and Dell to become the world's largest PC vendor. The company's PC market share for the first fiscal quarter came in at 16.7% on shipments of 12.6 million units, according to research firms Gartner and IDC.
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Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing believes his company can still generate growth from the $200 billion PC industry. Lenovo's ThinkPad and Yoga series, among other touch-enabled Windows laptops with new, innovative form factors have eaten away at HP and Dell's profits. Lenovo will release its next-generation IdeaPad Yoga product later this year to further distance itself from American PC brands and propel sales.
Lenovo Targets Samsung
Chen Xudong, President of Lenovo China, said the company has been "very much focused on the PC product," but "today we [Lenovo] are entering a new era called PC Plus." PC Plus represents smartphones and tablets. Lenovo's shift into mobile has proved lucrative through solid execution of its aggressive predatory pricing strategy. The company's smartphone and tablet sales increased 105% year-over-year to US $1.2 billion, or 14% of total revenue.
Lenovo displaced local rival ZTE Corp. to become the world's fourth largest smartphone vendor for the first time, behind LG Electronics, Apple and Samsung. Lenovo's global smartphone sales rose 144% year-over-year, according to research firm Gartner. About 42% of Lenovo's sales derive from China, where smartphone sales soared 121% from a year ago. Lenovo beat Chinese rivals with 12.3% market share, behind Samsung's (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) 17.6% share.
South Korea-based Samsung topped the worldwide smartphone market with 31.7% market share on shipments of 71.3 million units. The company has refocused its smartphone strategy in the developing markets, specifically in China, where consumers demand mid-to low-end smartphones because of income constraints. If Samsung wants to secure its market dominance, the company needs to carry innovation into its mid- to low-end smartphones with new form factors to differentiate from low-cost Chinese brands.
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Liu Jun, senior vice-president of Lenovo, believes Lenovo can overtake Samsung in China within two years with premium products such as the company's flagship K900 smartphone. In May, Lenovo released the K900 that targets the high-end smartphone segment to compete against Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S4. Lenovo also broadened its sales channel in China to increase brand awareness and distribution to end-users. The company opened its second flagship store in Beijing and plans to open five more in the next three years.
BlackBerry Talks, Again
Lenovo has struggled to strengthen its sales channels and relationships with telecom operators outside of China. Mr. Yang told the Wall Street Journal that he was searching for acquisition opportunities in both the mobile and PC marketplace to spread his operations into untapped markets. "We believe that the PC industry and the mobile phone industry will continue to consolidate. So Lenovo is definitely in a good position to become an important player. If a target or deal is consistent with Lenovo's strategy, we would take the opportunity," he said.
Last week, BlackBerry's Board of Directors announced that the company formed a Special Committee to investigate strategic alternatives to "enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BB10 deployment." Some alternatives include partnerships, joint ventures and a sale of the company.
BlackBerry's decision comes after disappointing second quarter sales of its BlackBerry 10 devices. The company failed to fuel its subscriber base, market share and sales against Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones. BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones, where only 2.7 million represented BB10 smartphones—shy of the 3.5 million some analysts projected.


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The past few months, I've covered a number of different non-relational (NoSQL) databases. Such databases are becoming increasingly popular, because they offer both easier (and sometimes greater) speed and scalability than relational databases typically can provide. In most cases, they also are "schemaless", meaning you don't need to predefine or declare the names, types and sizes of the data you are storing. This also means you can store persistent information with the ease and flexibility of a hash table.
I'm still skeptical that these non-relational databases always should be used in place of their relational counterparts. Relational databases have many years of thought, development and debugging behind them. But, relational databases are designed for reliability and for arbitrary combinations of data. NoSQL databases, by contrast, are designed for speed and scalability, without "joins" and other items that are a central pillar of relational queries.
Thus, I've come to believe that relational databases still have an important role to play in the computer world, and even in the world of high-powered Web applications. However, just as the introduction of built-in strings, arrays, hash tables and other sophisticated data structures have made life easier for countless programmers, I feel that non-relational databases have an important role to play, offering developers a new mix of interesting and useful ways to store and retrieve data.
To date, I have explored several non-relational systems in this column. CouchDB and MongoDB are both "document" databases, meaning they basically allow you to store collections of name-value pairs (hashes, if you like) and then retrieve elements from those collections using various types of queries. CouchDB and MongoDB are quite different in how they store and retrieve data, and they also approach replication differently.
Both CouchDB and MongoDB are closer in style and spirit to one another than to the system I covered last month, Redis—a key-value store that's extremely fast but limits you to querying on a particular key, and with a limited set of data types. Plus, Redis assumes you have a single server. Although you can replicate to a secondary server, there is no partitioning of the data or the load among more than one node.
Cassandra is a little like all of these, and yet it's quite different from any of them. Cassandra stores data in what can be considered a multilevel (or multidimensional) hash table. You can retrieve information according to the keys, making it like a key-value store, like Redis or Memcached. But, Cassandra allows you to ask for a range of keys, giving it a bit of extra flexibility. Moreover, the multidimensional nature of Cassandra, its use of "super columns" to store multiple items of a similar type and its storage of name-value pairs at the bottom level provide a fair amount of flexibility.
Cassandra really shines when it comes to many aspects of scalability. You can add nodes, and Cassandra integrates them into the storage system seamlessly. Nodes can die or be removed, and the system handles that appropriately. All nodes eventually contain all data, meaning even if you kill off all but one of the nodes in a Cassandra storage cluster, the system should continue to run seamlessly. Because writes are distributed across the different nodes, it takes a very short time to write new data to Cassandra.
It's clear that Cassandra has resonated with a large number of developers. The project started at Facebook, in order to solve the problem of searching through users' inboxes. Facebook donated the code to the Apache Project, which has since promoted it and made it a first-class project. Facebook no longer participates in the open-source version of Cassandra, but apparently Facebook still uses it on its systems. Meanwhile, companies including Rackspace, Twitter and Digg all have become active and prominent Cassandra users, contributing code and contributing to the general sense of momentum that Cassandra offers.
Perhaps the two biggest hurdles I've had to overcome in working with Cassandra are the unusual terminology and the configuration and administration that are necessary. The terminology is difficult in part because it uses existing terms ("column" and "row", for example) in ways that differ from what I'm used to with relational databases. It's not hard, but does take some getting used to. (Although the developers might have done everyone a favor by avoiding such terms as "column families" and "super columns".) The configuration aspects aren't terribly onerous, but perhaps point to how spoiled people have gotten when working with non-relational databases. The fact that I have to name my keyspaces and column families in a configuration file, and then restart Cassandra so that their definition will take effect, seems like a throwback to older, more rigid systems. However, relational databases force us to define our tables, columns and data types before we can use them, and it never seemed like a terrible burden. And, it seems that part of the secret of Cassandra's speed and reliability is the fact that its data structures are rigidly defined.
This month, I take an initial look at getting Cassandra up and running and explain how to store and retrieve data inside a simple Cassandra instance.
That was a great informational piece! You make a lot of useful observations that are hard for an insider to notice any more.
I do have a couple of corrections. You say that "All nodes eventually contain all data." This is generally not the case. You set a replication factor (RF) per keyspace which determines how many nodes store a copy of each row (a set of data associated with a key). If RF is less than the number of nodes in your cluster, every node will contain different (but overlapping) sets of data.
Second, although it is true that in Cassandra 0.6 you must restart a node to create a new Column Family or Keyspace, it is no longer true for 0.7 (released yesterday). Keyspace and Column Families may be created, altered, or dropped on a live cluster.
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So, now it's clear: Windows 8 did not blow the doors off during the holiday. In context, this tepid launch is just one of a litany of failures fast relegating Microsoft to the status of incidental spectacle in the information technology business.
If Windows 8 is Exhibit A, Exhibit B is Windows Phone 8. Nokia has started discounting recently launched Lumia phones, indicating that they're not exactly moving like hotcakes. Microsoft makes excuses and says these things take time, but even a fool can tell a torrid introduction from a lukewarm launch.
Thus, in the important high-mobility category (phones and tablets), where Apple and Google are cleaning up, Microsoft is 0 for 2.
More on how bad it is: An in-depth review of Windows 8 by Brian Boyko pans Windows 8 for nearly 24 minutes.
How bad is it? Microsoft is not even mentioned among the four companies a Wall Street Journal team highlighted in an assessment of the great battles ahead in tech in 2013. According to the Journal, the firms to watch are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon.
Microsoft has reached an Orwellian impasse, in which it cannot tell the truth — even to itself. It is blinded by its own hallucinations about how the market is operating. The result is that its public pronouncements entirely lack credibility.
When the Metro name had to be dropped, likely for legal reasons, the company said, ""We have used Metro style as a codename during the product development cycle across many of our product lines. As we get closer to launch and transition from industry dialog to a broad consumer dialog we will use our commercial names." Dialog, schmialog. I'd hate to be the PR person who had to stand up and say that with a straight face.
A few gems in the credibility department from CEO Steve Ballmer:
"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
You get the idea.
No surprise, then, that a company culture like that drives away the best people. The litany of important defections is literally too long to list. But every major group has lost its most experienced talent in the past several years. A smattering of examples: Steven Sinofsky, head of Windows Group, left as Windows 8, theoretically his baby, was launching.
Craig Mundie, the company's chief research and strategy officer, just announced that he is abandoning the ship, completing an exodus by top appointees (the other was Ray Ozzie) that founder and former CEO Bill Gates pulled in to replace himself as he was leaving the company. Others include, Jeff Raikes, who led the Office Division; Kevin Johnson, Platform and Services head; Stephen Elop, who ran the Business Division; Robbie Bach, Entertainment and Devices chief; J Allard, another key executive from Entertainment and Devices; Chris Liddell, CFO; and Bob Muglia, head of the Server and Tools Division.
Sclerosis doesn't even begin to describe how the company doesn't function. Given the draconian performance review system, sometimes called "stack ranking," employees are afraid to do anything other than play palace politics in a descending spiral of shooting down each other's projects.
Google has even begun to gain traction against Microsoft's Office suite with its cloud-based Google Docs productivity software.
Byzantine pricing policies, designed to bleed customers dry without a thought to a future beyond this quarter's results, have even the most loyal Microsoft adherents in full rebellion.
And product naming conventions are both horrible and amateurish. Aside from the Metro debacle, there's Bing, which has yet to become a verb in anyone's mind. Other naming bloopers include Bob, HailStorm, Windows Genuine Advantage, PlaysForSure, and 2007 Microsoft Office System.
At some point, the accusing finger has to swing back toward Ballmer, who took over as CEO from Gates in 2000.
Over the years, Ballmer has made a buffoon of himself while turning out wrong call after wrong call on products, markets, and people.
Remember the Ballmer as Monkey Man dance, a moment of pure insanity? Or "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!" replete with sweaty shirt and cracking voice?. In the classic mashup, an aspiring YouTube artist put the two clips together and added music, with a horrifyingly funny result.
Well, even Ballmer doesn't believe that stuff about developers anymore. Microsoft's policies toward developers these days start with "What can you do for us?" and end with licensing policies designed to absorb any possible profit that a developer might make. No wonder they've all been driven to Apple and Google!
"We want them to be better than this," said one developer who works across all platforms. "We want them to be good enough to act as a foil for Apple and Google, which otherwise will take over the universe. Ten years ago, Microsoft seemed totally unassailable. If it's just Apple and Google, we're so f**ked. Microsoft's lack of innovative insight is astounding. Even in the car industry we have three companies, and that's one of the most sewn up markets ever."
Ballmer is not safe even in his dreams, as Jay Yarow points out in his widely viewed story in Business Insider, "Steve Ballmer's Nightmare Is Coming True."
I've often pondered on why capitalism doesn't work the way it's supposed to when it comes to reallocating resources. The theory is that a useful business attracts human and financial capital, but shouldn't the opposite also be true? A no-longer useful business should release its capital back into the marketplace. But institutions formed during their useful phase never seem to go away voluntarily. Like fat cells clinging to a body, they want to eat, too, despite their uselessness. Over-and-done-with firms need to be pushed out of business before their dead hand can be pried from the stick.
Which leads me to ask, what is Microsoft's useful function now? Well, there's the business of acting as an alternative to other would-be monopolists. But that's pretty weak. There is, however, one function that the company continues to fulfill: it operates a well at the foot of a valley where a large population brings its buckets for water. And Microsoft gets to charge a monopoly rent for its "magic" water. Never mind that there are other wells elsewhere offering cheaper water. Many people are still in the habit of coming to this one place.
As long as people continue to buy its software, which costs nothing to manufacture and delivers in some cases gross margins greater than 90%, Microsoft has a "useful" function. But, as can be noted from the trends, this situation is not going to last forever.
At this point and at the very least, Gates needs to step in and ask his friend of many years to step down. I first raised the question of Ballmer's tenure 18 months ago. He has had ample opportunity to turn the ship around and hasn't done it. If Microsoft is to recover from its nosedive, it will need to address multiple institutional failures — with someone else in the driver's seat.
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Which developer policies are you talking about exactly? That part of your article is very vague.
REALLY hate this commenting tool.
What trend are you referring to? According to the latest NetMarketShare data, Microsoft took share AWAY from OSX in December and captures 91.74% of all operating systems today.
Yes it has bugs.
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No, it´s the same Microsoft, because they still have Ballmer in the leadership. Microsoft may be pretty good at the execution, but there is no leadership to create good products or new concepts. The idea that the problem is getting the customer to get their hands on their products is laughable.
It´s does not matter the quality of the Zune. It was launched five years late than it should. As all these revolutionaries products.
And 100% of the world used horses as the automobile was introduced. I don't see current marketshare as an indicator of future performance, do you?
And what are their developer policies? How bad/good are they compared to Apple, Google (and perhaps RIM)?
From what you are insinuating the dev policies are pretty bad.
"Well, even Ballmer doesn't believe that stuff about developers anymore. Microsoft's policies toward developers these days start with "What can you do for us?" and end with licensing policies designed to absorb any possible profit that a developer might make. No wonder they've all been driven to Apple and Google!"
Can you explain how their licensing policies are designed to absorb any possible profit that a developer might make? The reason that developers mainly develop for Android is because of the large user base and iOS because of the number of people willing to pay for apps, not any draconian licensing policies.
Their share of the desktop OS market has gone from 90% to around 30% since the iPhone was launched in 2007. They effectively lost the server market a long time ago, and with business services moving away from the desktop onto the cloud, coupled with their loss of a strangelhold over the client market, I think you can start to see the panic that MS are in right now.
Also, I get really tired of people running the line about how MS stuff is so much better supported in business than say Apple or Google – clearly those people have no clue about who the real business players are – but that is irrelevant. What is relevant however, is that this support and infrastructure has grown around MS, not the other way around. I would argue that this kind of 'support' is a bit like 'antivirus' software. It only affects shit products in the first place, and would quickly become an irrelevance if small companies begin to wake up in the same way as the enterprise has. MS have illegally controlled sales channels, stifled innovation and crushed their competition for a long time now, so watching their Windows division (the cash cow) recently post earnings down 33% from last years is no small blip. The reason many cannot see that there is a problem is that they have been plastering over horrendous results for a couple of years now using some creative accountancy, in order not to scare off these very people – their core customer base – who if they knew the truth would have been looking to invest elsewhere a long time ago. IMHO at least :)
Not even close. Try 90%!!!
Sorry meant OS market, obviously not 'desktop' OS market ;)


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The U.S. Postal Service is asking local businesses that mail in bulk to consider mailing earlier or driving to Charleston for speedy first-class delivery as part of the second phase of consolidating the Bluefield Mail Processing and Distributing Center.
In a letter sent to area businesses, the postal service requested bulk mailing businesses either have their first-class mail received by 3 p.m. or "considering entering your mail at the Charleston facility" on or by Feb. 1, 2013 when the second phase of the consolidation of the facility begins. Cathy Yarosky, a spokesperson with the U.S. Postal Service, said only business customers will be impacted by the new request.
"The letter is only for our bulk business mail of BMEU customers, not for residential customers," Yarosky said. "Residential customers will not see any changes which is why they did not get this letter. Our BMEU customers have known about these changes since our Area Mail Processing meeting in August of 2011. This letter provides them with the details that they need to know in order to schedule and prepare their mail operations.
Yarosky said there are only a few businesses in Bluefield that use the bulk business mailing option.
"Only our BMEU customers would understand the language in this letter as they are very familiar with our operations and we have been working closely with them since we first announced the Bluefield AMP so that they would have plenty of time to prepare for this transition," she said. "This is not information for the general public. Only a very small percentage of our Bluefield customers are BMEU mailers."
Mayor Linda Whalen said it is "ludicrous" to expect Bluefield businesses or anyone in the local area to make a four-hour round-trip drive to Charleston to send mail.
"This is our tax dollars at work," Whalen said. "Everyone in the city of Bluefield needs to contact their legislators about this recommendation for us. That is a ludicrous suggestion that we deposit first-class mail in Charleston. The alternative for us is to quit using the U.S. Postal Service and use other mail carrying services. That is not a viable alternative for people in southern West Virginia. It is ridiculous. Someone obviously that is in control of the mail in West Virginia does not know the location of Bluefield or they wouldn't make a suggestion like that."
Whalen said citizens and business owners must fight back if Bluefield wants to be treated fairly by the postal service.
"Frankly, when we had the hearing the powers that be from the U.S. Postal Service in Bluefield, it was obvious then this was a done deal and that hearing was a dog and pony show," she said. "The city board fights these things, but until our citizens start taking an active role in complaining to legislators and the postal service they will not take us into account. I don't think this is an option for anyone in Bluefield. The wealthiest person in the state maybe can make the drive to Charleston to mail something first class, but this is not an option for people here. You could hand deliver your mail faster than taking it to Charleston.
Delegate-elect John Shott said he thinks it is "unrealistic" to suggest anyone drive from Bluefield to Charleston for mail delivery.
"I have not seen the letter, but if that is what it says I think that is just outrageous," Shott said. "It is just not feasible for people to pay $12 round trip on the turnpike to deliver their mail to Charleston. I think this is unrealistic to have people to drive to Princeton from Bluefield to drop off their mail let alone drive to Charleston. This explains by the postal service is failing. They are out of touch with reality."
U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., also described asking Mercer County businesses to take their mail to Charleston as "ridiculous."
"It underscores just how impractical some of these of these mail facility consolidations are," Rahall said. "I have been pushing back against these closures and consolidations since the beginning and I am somewhat encouraged that, at least for now, the postal service has backed away from closing so many of our post offices as originally proposed. Although, we still must contend with reduced hours and the loss of our mail processing facility in Bluefield. I will keep pushing hard and I encourage residents to do the same in preserving the mail delivery services we are entitled to under the law."
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It's no longer just fun and games at Howard County's Blandair Park—the new park is generating a significant amount of noise, according to a report published in Explore Howard.
Neighbors of the park said noises such as air horns, whistles, buzzers and public address speakers are creating a situation in which the park has become a nuisance, according to the report.
A meeting to allow residents to discuss the noise issues is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Other Barn in Oakland Mills.
The park, which is open from sunrise to 11 p.m., officially opened in March, and is home to lacrosse, soccer and football practices and games on its three synthetic fields—which are lit at night. The park also hosts large tournaments that draw a significant number of children and adults.
"We had more than a handful of residents who sent letters to the board with concern over the noise at the park—not noise from regular people, but there are large tournaments there," said Sandy Cedarbaum, village manager for Oakland Mills. "There has been a lot of overflow parking on neighboring streets, lots of kids walking and crossing streets in an area that had little traffic before the park was developed."
Cedarbaum said the community supported building of the park during its development phase and this is just one of the issues that needs to be dealt with now that it's open.
She said the community hopes to work with Howard County Parks and Recreation, which manages the park, to find a mutual solution.
"With anything new there's going to be issues, as soon as we can work out an agreement the better," said Cedarbaum. "We're going to have an open and civil discussion [Tuesday night]."
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The folks at WNYMedia.net have set up a live Internet broadcast from City Council chambers, so people who couldn't devote their morning to food truck regulation can follow along at home.
The page is here, and the broadcast is supposed to start at 10 a.m.
In the meantime, truck backer Alan Bedenko has some advice for would-be speakers, and his take on what to expect. He says food truck supporters need to keep their eyes on the horizon, so to speak:
"5. The matter is not going to be resolved tomorrow. You will not walk out of there having witnessed a new food truck law being debated and enacted. This is just one part of a lengthy process, which will continue to evolve and be discussed and debated – both privately and publicly."
Don Burtless of BuffaloEats.com has words of support as well.
Check back later for Buffalo News coverage of the hearing.
In the meantime, if you just want a snack, Lloyd the taco truck will be at First Niagara (formerly HSBC) Arena from 11:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m., according to its Facebook page.
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook — Save 50%
Over 45 recipes to take you from beginner to professional in SharePoint Development with this book and ebook
This article will take you through all the recipes that you require to build your very own development environment. This will be done in a step-by-step manner, via the suggested best practice of using a Windows Server 2008 R2 server as the base operating system running on a virtual machine.
In this article by Ed Musters, author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook, we will cover the following concepts:
- Selecting your virtual environment
- Installing and configuring Windows Server 2008 R2
- Installing and configuring SQL Server 2008 R2
- Installing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
- Installing Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
(For more resources on Microsoft Sharepoint, see here.)
Selecting your virtual environment
Prisoners serving life sentences (in Canada) have what is known as a faint hope clause where you have a glimmer of a chance of getting parole after 15 years. However, those waiting for Microsoft to provide us a version of Virtual PC that can run Virtual Hard Drives (VHDs) hosting 64-bit operating systems (such as Windows Server 2008 R2), have no such hope of ever seeing that piece of software. But miracles do happen, and I hope that the release of a 64-bit capable Virtual PC renders this section of the article obsolete. If this has in fact happened, go with it and proceed to the following section.
Getting ready
Head into your computer's BIOS settings and enable the virtualization setting. The exact setting you are looking for varies widely, so please consult with your manufacturer's documentation. This setting seems universally defaulted to off, so I am very sure you will need to perform this action.
How to do it...
Since you are still reading, however, it is safe to say that a miracle has not yet happened. Your first task is to select a suitable virtualization technology that can support a 64-bit guest operating system. The recipe here is to consider the choices in this order, with the outcome of your virtual environment being selected:
- Microsoft Virtualization: Hyper-V certainly has the ability to create and run Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) with 64-bit operating systems. It's free—that is, you can install the Hyper-V role , but it requires the base operating system to be Windows Server 2008 R2. It can be brutal to get it running properly on something like a laptop (for example, because of driver issues). It won't be a good idea to get Windows 2008 Server running on a laptop, primarily because of driver issues. I recommend that if your laptop is running Windows 7, look at creating a dual boot, and a boot to VHD where this other boot option / partition is Windows Server 2008 R2. The main disadvantage is coming up with an (preferably licensed) installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 as the main computer operating system (or as a dual boot option). Or perhaps your company runs Hyper-V on their server farm and would be willing to host your development environment for you? Either way, if you have managed to get access to a Hyper-V server, you are good to go!
- VMware Workstation: Go to http://www.vmware.com and download my absolute favorite virtualization technology—VMware Workstation—fully featured, powerful, and can run on Windows 7. I have used it for years and love it. You must of course pay for a license, but please believe me, it is a worthwhile investment. You can sign up for a 30 day trial to explore the benefits. Note that you only need one copy of VMware Workstation to create a virtual machine. Once you have created it, you can run it anywhere using the freely available VMware Player.
- Oracle Virtual Box: Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/ and download this free software that will run on Windows 7 and create and host 64-bit guest operating systems. The reason that this is at the bottom of the list is that I personally do not have experience using this software. However, I have colleagues who have used it and have had no problems with it. Give this a try and see if it works as equally well as a paid version of VMware.
With your selected virtualization technology in hand, head to the next section to install and configure Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the base operating system required for an installation of SharePoint Server 2010.
Installing and configuring Windows Server 2008 R2
SharePoint 2010 requires the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system in order to run. In this recipe, we will configure the components of Windows Server 2008 necessary in order to get ready to install SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010.
Getting ready
Download Windows Server 2008 R2 from your MSDN subscription, or type in windows server 2008 R2 trial download into your favorite search engine to download the 180-day trial from the Microsoft site.
This article does not cover actually installing the base operating system. The specific instructions to do so will be dependent upon the virtualization software. Generally, it will be provided as an ISO image (the file extension will be .iso). ISO means a compressed disk image, and all virtualization software that I am aware of will let you mount (attach) an ISO image to the virtual machine as a CD Drive. This means that when you elect to create a new virtual machine, you will normally be prompted for the ISO image, and the installation of the operating system should proceed in a familiar and relatively automated fashion.
So for this recipe, ready means that you have your virtualization software up and running, the Windows Server 2008 R2 base operating system is installed, and you are able to log in as the Administrator (and that you are effectively logging in for the first time).
How to do it...
Log in as the Administrator. You will be prompted to change the password the first time—I suggest choosing a very commonly used Microsoft password—Password1. However, feel free to select a password of your choice, but use it consistently throughout.
The Initial configuration tasks screen will come up automatically. On this screen:
- Activate windows using your 180 day trial key or using your MSDN key.
- Select Provide computer name and domain. Change the computer name to a simpler one of your choice. In my case, I named the machine OPENHIGHWAY. Leave the Member of option as Workgroup. The computer will require a reboot.
- In the Update this server section, choose Download and install updates. Click on the Change settings link and select the option Never check for updates and click OK. Click the Check for updates link. The important updates will be selected. Click on Install Updates. Now is a good time for a coffee break! You will need to reboot the server when the updates complete.
- In the Customize this server section, click on Add Features. Select the Desktop Experience, Windows, PowerShell, Integrated, Scripting, and Environment options. Choose Add Required Features when prompted to do so. Reboot the server when prompted to do so.
If the Initial configuration tasks screen appears now, or in the future, you may now select the checkbox for Do not show this window at logon. We will continue configuration from the Server Manager, which should be displayed on your screen. If not, launch the Server Manager using the icon on the taskbar.
We return to Server Manager to continue the configuration:
OPTIONAL: Click on Configure Remote Desktop if you have a preference for accessing your virtual machine using Remote Desktop (RDP) instead of using the virtual machine's console software.
- In the Security Information section, click Go to Windows Firewall. Click on the Windows Firewall Properties link. From the dialog, go to each of the tabs, namely, Domain Profi le, Private Profi le, and Public Profi le and set the Firewall State to Off on each tab and click OK.
- Click on the Server Manager node, and from the main screen, click on the Configure IE ESC link. Set both options to Off and click OK.
- From the Server Manager, expand the Configuration node and then expand Local Users and Groups node, and then click on the Users folder. Right-click on the Administrator account and select Properties. Select the option for Password never expires and click OK.
- From the Server Manager, click the Roles node . Click the Add Roles link. Now, click on the Introductory screen and select the checkbox for Active Directory Domain Services. Click Next, again click on Next, and then click Install. After completion, click the Close this wizard and launch the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard (dcpromo.exe) link. Now, carry out the following steps:
- From the new wizard that pops up, from the welcome screen, select the checkbox Use advanced mode installation, click Next, and again click on Next on the Operating System Compatibility screen.
- Select the option Create a new domain in a new forest and click Next.
- Choose your domain (FQDN)! This is completely internal to your development server and does not have to be real. For article purposes, I am using theopenhighway.net, as shown in the following screenshot. Then click Next:
- From the Set Forest Functional Level drop-down, choose Windows Server 2008 R2 and click Next.
- Click Next on the Additional Domain Controller Option screen. Select Yes on the Static IP assignment screen. Click Yes on the Dns Delegation Warning screen.
- Click Next on the Location for Database, Log Files, and SYSVOL screen.
- On the Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password screen, enter the same password that you used for the Administrator account, in my case, Password1. Click Next.
- Click Next on the Summary screen.
- Click on the Reboot On Completion screen. Otherwise reboot the server after the installation completes
- Right-click on the Users folder and select New | User
- Enter SP_AppPool in the full name field and also enter SP_AppPool in the user logon field and click Next.
- Enter the password as Password1 (or the same as you had selected for the Administrator account). Deselect the option for User must change password at next logon and select the option for Password never expires. Click Next and then click Finish.
- Right-click on the Users folder and select New | User
- A loopback check is a security feature to mitigate against reflection attacks, introduced in Windows Server 2003 SP1. You will likely encounter connection issues with your local websites and it is therefore universally recommended that you disable the loopback check on a development server. This is done from the registry editor:
- Click the Start menu button, choose Run…, enter Regedit, and click OK to bring up the registry editor.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Control | Lsa
- Right-click the Lsa node and select New | DWORD (32-bit) Value
- In the place of New Value #1 type DisableLoopbackCheck.
- Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, select Modify, change the value to 1, and click OK
You will now configure a user account that will run the application pools for the SharePoint web applications in IIS. From the Server Manager, expand the Roles node. Keep expanding the Active Directory Domain Services until you see the Users folder. Click on the Users folder. Now carry out the following:
Congratulations! You have successfully configured Windows Server 2008 R2.
There's more...
The Windows Shutdown Event Tracker is simply annoying on a development machine. To turn this feature off, click the Start button, select Run…, enter gpedit.msc, and click OK. Scroll down, right-click on Display Shutdown Event Tracker, and select Edit. Select the Disabled option and click OK, as shown in the following screenshot:
Installing and configuring SQL Server 2008 R2
SharePoint 2010 requires Microsoft SQL Server as a fundamental component of the overall SharePoint architecture. The content that you plan to manage in SharePoint, including web content and documents, literally is stored within and served from SQL Server databases. The SharePoint 2010 architecture itself relies on information stored in SQL Server databases, such as configuration and the many service applications. In this recipe, we will install and configure the components of SQL Server 2008 necessary to install SharePoint 2010.
Getting ready
I do not recommend SQL Server Express for your development environment, although this is a possible, free, and valid choice for the installation of SharePoint 2010. In my personal experience, I have valued the full power and fl exibility of the full version of SQL Server as well as not having to live with the constraints and limitations of SQL Express. Besides, there is another little reason too! The Enterprise edition of SQL Server is either readily available with your MSDN subscription or downloadable as a trial from the Microsoft site.
Download SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise from your MSDN subscription, or type in sql server 2008 enterprise R2 trial download into your favorite search engine to download the 180-day trial from the Microsoft site.
For SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, if you have MSDN software, then you will be provided with an ISO image that you can attach to the virtual machine.
If you download your SQL Server from the Microsoft site as a trial, extract the software (it is a self-extracting EXE) on your local machine, and then share the folder with your virtual machine. Finallly, run the Setup.exe fi le.
How to do it...
Here is your recipe for installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Carry out the following steps to complete this recipe:
- You will be presented with the SQL Server Installation Center; on the left side of the screen, select Installation, as shown in the following screenshot:
- For the choices presented on the Installation screen, select New installation or add features to an existing installation.
- The Setup Support Rules (shown in the following screenshot) will run to identify any possible problems that might occur when installing SQL Server. All rules should pass. Click OK to continue:
- You will be presented with the SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup screen. On the fi rst screen, you can select an evaluation or use your product key (from, for example, MSDN) and then click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license, but do not check the Send feature usage data to Microsoft checkbox, and click Next.
- On the Setup Support Files screen, click Install. All tests will pass except for a warning that you can safely ignore (the one noting we are installing on a domain controller), and click Next, as shown in the following screenshot:
- On the Setup Role screen, select SQL Server Feature Installation and click Next.
- On the Feature Selection, as shown in the following screenshot, carry out the following tasks:
- In Instance Features, select Database Engine Services (and both SQL Server Replication and Full Text Search), Analysis Services, and Reporting Services
- In Shared Features, select Business Intelligence Development Studio, Management Tools Basic (and Management Tools Complete), and Microsoft Sync Framework
- Finally, click Next.
- On the Installation Rules screen, click Next
- On the Instance Configuration screen, click Next.
- On the Disk Space Requirements screen, click Next
- On the Server Configuration screen:
- Set the Startup Type for SQL Server Agent to be Automatic
- Click on the button Use the same account for all SQL Server services. Select the account NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and click OK.
- Finally, click Next.
- On the Database Configuration Engine screen:
- Look for the Account Provisioning tab and click the Add Current User button under Specify SQL Server administrators.
- Finally, click Next
- On the Analysis Services Configuration screen:
- Look for the Account Provisioning tab and click the Add Current User button under Specify which users have administrative permissions for Analysis Services.
- Finally, click Next.
- On the Reporting Services Configuration screen, select the option to Install but do not configure the report server. Now, click Next.
- On the Error Reporting Screen, click Next.
- On the Installation Configuration Rules screen, click Next.
- On the Ready to Install screen, click Install.
- Your patience will be rewarded with the Complete screen! Finally, click Close. The Complete screen is shown in the following screenshot:
- You can close the SQL Server Installation Center.
- Configure SQL Server security for the SP_AppPool account:
- Click Start | All Programs | SQL Server 2008 R2 | SQL Server Management Studio.
- On Connect to server, type a period (.) in the Server Name field and click Connect.
- Expand the Security node.
- Right-click Logins and select New Login.
- Use the Search function and enter SP_AppPool in the box Enter object name to select. Click the check names button and then click OK. In my case, you see the properly formatted THEOPENHIGHWAY\SP_AppPool in the login name text box.
- On the Server Roles tab, ensure that the dbcreator and securityadmin roles are selected (in addition to the already selected public role).
- Finally, click OK.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
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(For more resources on Microsoft Sharepoint , see here.)
Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2010
We are ready to get to the main event of the article! In this recipe, we deal with the installation and configuration of SharePoint 2010 itself.
Getting ready
Download SharePoint Server 2010 from your MSDN subscription, or type in sharepoint server 2010 trial download into your favorite search engine to download the 180-day trial from the Microsoft site.
There are a few pre-requisites that need to be in place before the actual installation of SharePoint 2010. So, let us prepare a few ingredients for our recipe in advance.
From Internet Explorer in the virtual machine:
- Use your favorite search engine to fi nd ado.net data services update for .net framework 3.5 sp1. Look for the Download Details link, which should be the fi rst result (on the Microsoft site). This update is required in order to enable the REST–based data services that SharePoint 2010 relies upon.
- Use your favorite search engine to fi nd ado.net data services update for .net framework 3.5 sp1. Look for the Download Details link, which should be the fi rst result (on the Microsoft site). This update is required in order to enable the REST–based data services that SharePoint 2010 relies upon.
- Click Yes when prompted with Do you want to install the following Windows software update?, which is shown in the following screenshot:
It is now time for our second coffee break. Click Close after the Installation Complete screen appears. We are nearly there! We are going to get into the SharePoint 2010 setup in order to install the required pre-requisites. If you have the MSDN software, you will be provided with an ISO image that you can attach to the virtual machine. If you downloaded it from Microsoft as a trial, download it to your virtual machine settings and sharing a folder from the host machine. Double-click the EXE fi le to launch the installation. Ensure your virtual machine has internet connectivity (test by using Internet Explorer to navigate to http://www.microsoft.com). Run Splash.hta.
Installing the SharePoint 2010 pre-requisites:
- Click on the Install Software Prerequisites link. Once you click on this link, you will see the following screen:
- On the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool - Welcome screen, click Next.
- On the License Terms for Software Products screen, select the I accept the terms of the License Agreement(s) checkbox and click Next.
- It is now time for our third coffee break. Watch for any prompts to reboot the server.
- On the Installation Complete screen, click Finish.
Now, let's get to the main recipe for which you have patiently been waiting for!
How to do it...
Here is your recipe to install SharePoint 2010:
- From the virtual machine CD Drive, run Splash.hta
- Click on the Install SharePoint Server link.
- On the Enter your product key screen, enter either your MSDN software key or your trial license key.
- On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms screen, select the checkbox I accept the terms of this agreement and click on Continue.
- On the Choose a fi le location screen, click Install Now. The Installation Progress screen will show the proceeding of the installation.
- Fourth coffee break? You might want to consider switching to decaf.
- Note! This is a good time to actually take a snapshot of your virtual machine (or back it up), as this can be a good a starting point if in the future you have to set up another separate development machine.
- When you see the Run Confi guration Wizard, leave the checkbox Run the SharePoint Products Confi guration Wizard selected and click Close.
- On the SharePoint Products Confi guration Wizard or the Welcome screen, click Next.
- Click Yes to the warning regarding services that may need to be restarted.
- On the Connect to a Server Farm screen, choose the option to Create a new server farm and click Next.
- On the Specify Confi guration Database Settings screen, specify your machine name in the Database Server text fi eld. Use the SP_AppPool account, which was previously set up, and specify your password in the Password fi eld of the Database Access Account section and click Next.
- On the Specify Farm Security Settings screen, choose a passphrase of Password1 (or the same as you have used for the Administrator account) and click Next.
- On the Configure SharePoint Central Admin Web Application Page, select the checkbox Specify port number and enter the value 9999 (or a different port number of your preference). Leave the default authentication provider as NTLM and click Next.
- On the Completing the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, click Next.
- You are probably sick of coffee by now. Please take the time to check your e-mail, voice messages, Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In.
- On the Configuration Successful screen, click Finish.
Configure SharePoint 2010 via the Initial Farm Configuration Wizard:
- Internet Explorer will open and navigate to the adminconfigintro.aspx page in Central Administration or the Initial Farm Configuration Wizard
- On the Help make SharePoint better screen, select the option No, I don't wish to participate and click OK.
- On the How do you want to configure your SharePoint farm? screen, click on Start the Wizard.
- On the next screen in the Service Account, select Use existing managed account and ensure that the SP_AppPool account is selected. In the Services section, de-select Access Services and Word Automation Services and click Next.
- You are almost there! Reward yourself with a quick online match in your favorite game on your favorite console while you wait for the configuration to complete.
- The wizard will have created a web application using the machine name, in my case, http://openhighway. You now get to create your very first Site Collection. Choose a title based on your company name (in my case, The Open Highway ), choose the Team Site template and click OK, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Your hard and patient work is rewarded with the This completes the Farm Configuration Wizard screen!
- Click on the Site URL to open and test that your new Team Site (and therefore SharePoint 2010) is operating correctly. DO NOT DESPAIR OR PANIC if you receive a rather nasty looking Error screen!
- Many times in a development machine, depending on the resources assigned to it and the power of the desktop/laptop you are running with - navigation to the URL will simply TIME OUT. Breathe deeply. Refresh the browser. See! There is your Team Site. Congratulations! Bookmark this URL in your Internet Explorer favorites. The following screenshot shows my Team Site:
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured SharePoint Server 2010 and are ready for our next step – to install Microsoft Office and your development tools.
There's more...
From the home page of your Team Site, click on the Site Actions menu and select More Options. If you are prompted with the following screen with the Install Microsoft Silverlight link, then click on the link and take the opportunity now to install it! The user interface of SharePoint 2010 relies on Silverlight in many cases:
When the Silverlight install downloads, click Run on the security warning on the Install Silverlight dialog and then click Install Now, as shown in the following screenshot:
Installing Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
SharePoint 2010 is tightly integrated with, and was specifically designed to exploit, Microsoft Office 2010. So Offi ce 2010 is a key tool for you to leverage in your SharePoint 2010 solutions, such as Word, Excel, and so on. Together with Visio and SharePoint Designer , these applications will be an important part of your development toolkit.
Getting ready
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus from your MSDN subscription, or type in Microsoft Office 2010 professional plus trial download into your favorite search engine to download the 60-day trial from the Microsoft site.
Wherever the software comes from, it will be presented as an EXE file. Make the file available to your virtual machine, for example, by going to your virtual machine settings and sharing a folder from the host machine. Or you could choose to download the software directly to your VM environment. Double-click the EXE file to launch the installation.
How to do it...
Here is the recipe to install Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010:
- On the first screen, enter your product key (either MSDN or trial key).
- Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Continue.
- On the Choose the installation you want screen, click Customize.
- (Recommended) On the next screen, Installation Options tab, mark Microsoft Access, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Publisher as Not Available / not installed (red mark). You can always install these later if you wish to experiment with these applications with SharePoint. Finally, click Install Now:
- Click Close when the installation completes.
- We want to take a moment to initialize Office. From the Windows Start menu, launch Microsoft Word.
- On the Help protect and improve Microsoft Office screen, select the option Don't make changes and click OK.
- Take the opportunity to activate Office if this has not been (automatically) done already.
- On the File tab in the ribbon, select Options. On the Word Options screen, select Trust Center on the left-hand side. Click the Trust Center Settings button. On the Trust Center screen, select Protected View on the left-hand side, as shown in the following screenshot. Deselect the first three checkboxes and click OK twice:
- Close Microsoft Word.
Congratulations! You have installed Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010.
In this article we selected a virtual environment for your system. We then successfully installed Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft Office 2010 Professional.
- Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Rules for End User Deployment [Article]
- Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration: Monitoring and Reporting [Article]
- Microsoft SharePoint : Creating Various Content Types [Article]
- Working with Client Object Model in Microsoft Sharepoint [Article]
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About the Author :
Ed Musters
Ed is a SharePoint MVP and a SharePoint Architect for Infusion, where he has consulted on dozens of SharePoint engagements. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint 2010, and has been teaching SharePoint development courses for many years. He has been a featured speaker at many international conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, and user groups. Ed would very much enjoy the opportunity to share his real world expertise with you! Twitter: @TechEdToronto


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Date: July 17, 2009
by: Observer staff
The Sarasota Family YMCA has named Paul Smith, a YMCA executive from Kansas City, Mo., as the association's incoming president and chief executive officer.
Smith will begin his position Sept. 1. He has held the position of executive vice president/chief operating officer of the YMCA of Greater Kansas City Missouri since 1998. Smith fills the position left open by Carl Weinrich, who retired June 30 after 34 years.
"We are excited to have a man of Paul's experience and caliber joining our organization," said Ed Landis, chairman of the Sarasota Family YMCA board of directors, in a press release. "He has overseen impressive growth in membership and facilities while in Kansas City, which positions us well to continue to serve and expand our services to the Sarasota community."
Smith has been a YMCA employee for more than 20 years. During his time at Kansas City, Smith has opened 12 new membership centers and has grown revenue by more than $14 million.
"The YMCA mission is the basis by which I direct my professional career and personal endeavors," Smith said. "I am excited to make an immediate, positive impact on the lives of the members and staff of the Sarasota Family YMCA and the greater Sarasota community."
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The sound of pitch-perfect harmonies filled Dorton Arena, where five a cappella singing groups from Duke, N.C. State and UNC were the opening act Thursday for the series of concerts on tap at the 2012 N.C. State Fair.
Outside the arena, the sounds of fairgoers, vendor barkers, ride tunes and millions of colored lights blended a different harmony on the state fairs opening day.
Indoors, the Varsity Vocal Showcase featured Rhythm & Blue from Duke, Ladies in Red and Grains of Time from N.C. State, and the Clef Hangers and the UNC Loreleis from UNC. Each took the stage for 20 minutes.
It wasnt the barbershop quartet show most might imagine cover songs ranged from Cee Lo Green and Justin Bieber to Zac Brown Band and Gotye. The renditions sometimes sounded so intense, it was easy to forget there was no instrumental backup.
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Employees of the N.C. Department of Agriculture who work the fair each year came up with the idea. Paul Jones, a public information officer for the fair, said the popularity of TV shows like Glee and The Sing-Off and the movie Pitch Perfect has renewed interest in a cappella singing.
We knew there were a lot of great groups around here we could spotlight, Jones said.
The UNC Loreleis are among the best-known of the groups performing Thursday night. Maggie Sparling, the business manager for the Loreleis, says they do two or three gigs a week and even more during the holidays. They sing at campus events, charity events, at the UNC Childrens Hospital and for private functions.
The 17-member ensemble has also auditioned on the TV show Americas Got Talent Howie Mandel liked us, Sparling said and opened for Ben Folds at the Durham Performing Arts Center in 2009. In 2004, they sang the National Anthem at Yankees Stadium for the second game of the American League Championship Series.
Sparling hopes all those events and the one at the fair will boost the popularity of a cappella and influence more high schools to organize similar groups.
My high school didnt have an a cappella group or a glee club, she said. And I really wish they had. I wish Id had that experience from high school.
Thursday was Sparlings first trip to the N.C. State Fair. A junior from Winston-Salem, she usually attends the Dixie Classic Fair in Forsyth County and was looking forward to comparing foods and sights from both events.
N.C. States Ladies in Red was the youngest group performing Thursday, and President Krystal Rodas of Wake Forest said the Dorton show has been their largest venue so far.
I dont get nervous, Rodas said. I get excited. I have a lot of excess energy before we take the stage, but then its OK.
It was a big deal to be asked to do this because we only had seven members at the time, the smallest of all the groups, she said.
The Ladies added six members this fall and now compete with 13.
Cream of the crop
Jones said they targeted groups based on which had been around the longest on campus and which had the most name recognition.
We wanted to keep it more local for the first one, Jones said. So, we culled it down to very local schools and ended up playing off the ACC rivalry a little bit.
But this rivalry was not as cutthroat as the State-Carolina-Duke basketball match-ups. Since the concert was a showcase and not a competition, no group was declared winner. Instead, each earned money based on how many people bought tickets to the show on behalf of their group.
Phoenica Zhang, the musical director of Dukes Rhythm & Blue, says any money their group earns at Varsity Vocal will go toward recording albums, paying for sound equipment and funding other performances.
Rhythm & Blue was the only co-ed group performing Thursday night. Zhang, a sophomore from Arizona, said that gives them a distinctive sound.
Co-ed sounds very different, she said. It can be a richer sound.
Josh Apke, president of the Grains of Time, who sang the National Anthem for President Obama at an event in the RBC Center in 2011, said the groups have no competitive feelings toward each other.
I love the Clef Hangers, Apke said. And I just saw a friend from high school who is in the Loreleis. Were one a cappella family.
Actually, Apke means it when he says family. He and Rodas are engaged to be married. But, both juniors, they say that will have to wait until after graduation. Theyve still got a lot of singing to do.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 — Wade Hampton Hatley, 91 years of age, of Stanfield, passed away Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at Bethany Woods Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Albemarle.
He was born August 15, 1922, in Stanly County, to the late Ruben Lemuel Hatley and the late Dora Elizabeth Hatley.
He was also preceded in death by son, Wallace Allen Hatley.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday, August 23, 2013, at Hartsell Funeral Home in Midland. The funeral service will be on Saturday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 200 N.C. 200 N., Stanfield, officiated by Rev. Bruce League. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Survivors include wife of 70 years, Annie Lee Smith Hatley, of Stanfield, N.C.; son, James Wayne Hatley and wife Dedria of Locust, N.C.; daughter, Judy H. Tucker of Oakboro, N.C.; son, Donald Lee Hatley and wife Myra of Locust, N.C.; brother, Hubert Lee Hatley of Oakboro, N.C.; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grand-child.
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The Maryland Senate has delayed its vote on same-sex marriage legislation until Thursday.
The 47 legislators had planned to take up the bill, which was passed Friday by the House of Delegates, during its Wednesday morning session.
The opponents said the procedural delay would allow them time to seek an opinion from the attorney general on several amendments as well as prepare additional amendments that could be offered Thursday.
One amendment, offered by Sen. Edward Reilly, an Anne Arundel County Republican, would allow the law to go into effect on Oct. 1—thus removing an amendment by Delegate Wade Kach, a Baltimore County Republican, that set the effective date as Jan. 1, 2013.
"It may look like a placebo, but this is really a poison pill," said Jamie Raskin, a Montgomery County Democrat. "Any effort to amend the bill is an effort to kill it."
Proponents and opponents acknowledge that changing the bill at this point will be nearly impossible.
Passage in the Senate also is expected.
"I don't anticipate a single vote has changed," said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller.
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Johnstown Area Heritage Association announced three additional dates for its Summer Concert Series at Friday night's season opener, the 10,000 Maniacs concert at Peoples Natural Gas Park.
Todd Wagner, chairman of the Flood City Music Festival, said 4,000 free tickets were distributed for the concert.
"All 4,000 were gobbled up," he said. "We did this to gauge what to expect for the other concerts. We wanted to kick off the year right and bring some momentum to it."
The new Friday concerts will feature New Orleans blues with Marc Broussard July 19, retro soul with Jesse Dee Aug. 9 and pop with Lake Street Dive Sept. 13.
Broussard has a gift for combining classic rhythm and blues, rock and soul into contemporary terms.
He released his debut album, "Momentary Setback," which he recorded and released independently, at age 20 in 2002.
Broussard is the son of Ted Broussard, acclaimed Louisiana Hall of Fame guitarist and former member of The Boogie Kings, and appeared onstage at age 5 with his father's band singing "Johnny B. Goode."
He released a new live CD, "Live From Full Sail University," in April.
"No one will be disappointed after hearing Marc Broussard," Wagner said. "He's a regular at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. I'm proud and pleased to bring him here. The last time I saw him was before a crowd of 10,000. He's more established, but the last two acts are major up and comers taking the country by storm."
Jesse Dee of Boston is a singing, songwriting, guitar-playing soul man inspired by the old school.
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The music of Lake Street Dive is a largely acoustic, groove-driven strain of indie-pop.
This northeastern quartet features drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price and Mike "McDuck" Olson on trumpet and guitar.
Wagner said last year's inaugural concerts went over well, with music lovers paying attention.
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Wagner said Flood City Music Festival has changed the musical landscape for the concert series, and Johnstown is getting a lot more attention.
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Modern astronomy offers mankind a look at the cosmos never before seen. The size and beauty of astronomical bodies is a testimony to the magnificence that is our Father in heaven. This presentation aptly uses the scale of the cosmos to guide viewers to a better appreciation of the Glory of God as is revealed by the heavens. Drawing from images taken by space telescopes and spacecraft, we will tour the solar system, distant nebulae, and galaxies that testify of the creators power.
This video file is a 50 minute seminar by Chris Ashcraft that was recorded during the Seattle Creation Conference September 2011 at Wooden Valley Baptist Church.
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Christopher Wayne Ashcraft, M.S., M.Ed. is a creation scientist, speaker, and educator. He obtained the Bachelor of Science in biology from Wayland Baptist University in 1989, a Master of Science in biology from Texas Tech University in 1996, and a Master of Education from the University of Washington in 2008, and is currently a fulltime graduate student at Seattle Pacific University.
Chris was a research technician for 12 years specialized in plant tissue culture and genetic transformation technology, and is now a high school science teacher at Cedar Park Christian Schools where he teaches Biology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Creation Apologetics.
He moved from research into teaching in response to serve God in creation science missions. He is firmly committed to researching and teaching creation apologetics and speaks periodically at churches, schools, and creation organizations in the Northwest United States. He is the founder of the Northwest Creation Network and the CreationWiki internet encyclopedia where he serves as senior administrator. He also organizes the Seattle Creation Conference
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Megan got engaged on Christmas Eve and is planning for a late April wedding. She seems to think that if Will and Kate can pull it off, then so can we.
(Hysterical laughter.)
But I wrote this on Monday (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/28/jennifer-biggswhining-dining-wedding-plans-catch/), and already so much has been accomplished. I'm beginning to think that this will all come together pretty easily, after all.
Here's betting we'll have a venue by the end of this week, and a caterer by the end of next week. Photographers have been contacted, and an appointment has been made to look at dresses. Not bad for folks having to squeeze in phone calls between, um, actually working!
Tips and suggestions welcomed!