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October 28, 2011
Rob Copeland
Convicted hedge funder to be subject of Hollywood "financial mafia drama."
Locked-up Galleon Group founder
Raj Rajaratnam's girth will soon be stretched across the
big screen.
Rajaratnam will be the subject of a new movie, "Billion
Dollar Raja," that producers are promoting as "an investigative
financial mafia drama." The movie will be released at an
indeterminate date after filming next fall mostly in New York
City, where
Rajaratnam was found guilty this year on 14 counts of
securities fraud and conspiracy. He was sentenced earlier this
month to 11 years in prison.
In an interview with AR, director Nayan Pedrai said
the real-life story of the hedge fund manager's unraveling was
far more screen-worthy than other recent Hollywood attempts to
portray the financial crisis, including Oliver Stone's "
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps."
"A lot of those stories have been amalgamations of events,
but there's stuff in here you can't make up," Pedrai said.
"There's sexual encounters, there's backstabbing, there's
backbiting-it's amazing that people who oftentimes we think are
so much bigger than all of us are as human and as messed up as
all of us. It's a real great story of greed and downfall."
See also:
Would Raj risk it all for a mere $45 million?
Lessons learned from the Rajaratnam case
Galleon pros get new jobs
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Met Office: Global warming sceptics 'have heads in sand'
@Anonymous John
'So? The thermometer was invented during the Little Ice Age. We've no record of temperatures in the Medieval Warm Period.'
Absolutely correct - apart from the evidence obtained from pollen, varves, ice cores, oxygen isotopes, insect remains, soils, crop residues...
Has the war on terror scored a virtual victory?
'Amateur spooks put willies up Al-Qaeda'
I'm pretty sure that sort of thing is what's got Al-Qaeda so upset in the first place.
UK.gov IDs identity vendors
Yes, oh yes!
With those three letters we know the project is surely doomed.
And nice to see IBM finally living up to its image in the original Apple Mac ad.
Gov seeks UK nuclear competition for EDF
Uh oh
One of the problems with the original British programme was that costs were made much higher by our inability to roll out a programme of building identical reactors sharing common technology; rather we kept 'improving' them so each one was practically a bespoke piece of engineering.
Would it be too much to expect the government to order the companies building our new plants to insist on a common design?
Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle
Another solution
Which was proposed for the original Hindenberg when that was going to be inflated with helium following the R101 design.
There would be two sets of gas bags, large doughnut shaped ones containing the helium lifting gas, and smaller cylindrical bags embedded in the helium bags containing hydrogen 'anti-ballast'. As the airship burned fuel it would become lighter. Cheap hydrogen would be vented from the bags, reducing lift and returning the vessel to trim.
The plan was abandoned when the US refused to sell helium to Nazi Germany and the Hindenberg was redesigned as a cheaper hydrogen ship.
What's the cost of global warming?
Mitsubishi electric car to get Iceland test run in 2009
£1.68 for a cup of coffee
Sounds like a bargain compared to most of London.
Apple fans besieged by iPhone Trojan and iTunes attack
'...creates an opportunity to crash browser applications'
Safari needs help to crash regularly?
Democratic rep fathered alleged Palin hacker
Surprised she uses a computer
After all it was invented after the 13th Century and doesn't get a mention in Leviticus.
ePassport tests put biometrics through their paces
This is fantastic news - for passport companies
If they keep changing the biometrics every couple of years, they'll soon get into the IT mindset of forcing you to upgrade your passport regularly or be deemed a security risk and be doomed to stay in this crappy country.
'Sorry luv, you're passport's only the Wombat Edition with facial, fingerprint, retina and earlobe analysis. We're only allowing Bushbaby Xtreme with arse-reading on the plane today. Good news though, we're offering a special upgrade price of just £500 and a free cavity search.'
500,000 oppose Red Arrows Olympic ban
Red Arrows planes
How old are they now? Won't every other country in the World just piss themselves laughing that we'd be flying such relics?
No uranium for Russia, say Oz MPs
@Anonymous Coward - Non-proliferation treaty
Building mini-nukes does not violate the NNPT.
The US is still within the treaty - just. So far the US and the other declared nuclear powers have not abided by the Second Pillar of the NNPT to work towards final multilateral disarmament.
The US is arguably in violation of Articles I and II of the NNPT by continuing to deploy nuclear weapons in non-nuclear NATO countries and modifying these countries weapons systems to use nuclear weapons. There is also a question over the US's sharing of weapons designs and materials such as tritium with the UK and French weapons programmes. The UK may have violated it in the past by supplying the UK with plutonium diverted from our civilian reprocessing plant.
All of the original three signatories - the US, USSR (whose responsibilities were assumed by Russia) and UK have probably been in violation of public statements not to target non-nuclear states with nuclear weapons. The US certainly targeted North Korea, Russia has recently threatened to target Poland and the UK has said it will nuke anyone who uses WMD on British citizens. This is not a violation of the NNPT per-se as the statements were made outside of the treaty.
On another front the Bush administration has recently signed a civilian nuclear technology transfer with India which is not a signatory to the NNPT. It was agreed that India had not proliferated weapons knowledge and was in desperate need of nuclear energy so an exemption was made in the NNPT by the IAEA to allow the treaty to go through. IIRC it has still not been ratified by Congress, so it's possible the situation might change.
Chrysler plans electric car production model
Ooooh I take back everything I said about the Chevvy Volt
This really is ugly. It's like a chromed banana-flavoured rollerskate.
Whatever happened to the Chrysler designers who came up with cars like Batman's weekend getaway car - the Atlantic concept?
Media standard backers attempt Apple-less solo run
"DECE is taking the lessons learned from the successful 'buy once, play anywhere' experience that we enjoy with CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray..."
That'd be region-coded, copy-protected DVD and Blu-ray 'buy once, play anywhere' experience then?
US Congress votes for some offshore oil relaxations
@ Matt Bryant
'Which of course completely ignores the fact that Chinese and African demands for fuel - which are currently driving the oil shortage - will have risen at a much faster rate, and will have increased the worldwide demand exponentially, or did you think they're just going to stop using fuel because Obama will ask them nicely if he gets to be Prez?'
No, I was pointing out that any extra oil from the US offshore fields will do nothing to improve American energy security.
With over 1 million wells drilled, North America is a mature region for oil and gas exploration and the potential for huge new reserves are very small. Proven reserves are around 21 billion barrels (sounds a lot, but it's only 3 years of total US demand).
If you add the Federal Outer Continental Shelf, the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, and the Bakken Formation in North-Dakota/Montana you can get up to 134 billion barrels of TECHNICALLY recoverable crude. However, technically recoverable does not mean it will be ECONOMICALLY recoverable, nor does it discuss the RATE that oil can be recovered from those resources. So a good portion of US oil will never be as cheap as competing sources from the Middle East, Nigeria or Central and South America. And then you're into markets - will the US legislate to exclude cheaper oil from their markets.
'or stimulating US companies to produce oil from oil-shale'
Ah that old canard - oil shale. Shale oil was supposedly economic when oil was above $50ppb, and yet it is still not being recovered. And why is that? Geography. To make one barrel of shale oil on the surface you need anything between one and five barrels of water. The majority of US shale deposits lie in the Green River Formation in the Rocky Mountains. The Green River is a tributary of the Colorado, a river which is already over-committed for other uses - such as keeping people alive.
Sub-surface retorting is an alternative, but it is a potentially huge hazard to ground water quality (see above). All methods of making shale oil produce large amounts of CO2 and SO2 and create vast quantities of waste material. So it's actually even less clean than coal.
Bush on the ball as ever
"At a time when American families are in need of genuine relief from the effects of high fuel prices, this bill purports to open access to American energy sources while in reality taking actions to stifle development,"
Which means - assuming they find any substantial fields, the first trickle of new oil coming ashore sometime around 2015. By which time American demand for crude will have grown so much and US onshore production fallen so far, they'll be importing even more oil.
Royal Society says goodbye to creationism row vicar
The problem with Reiss' idea is...
...he was trying to address the problem of kids not believing in evolution because they come from the closed-minded part of the readership of the Bumper Book of Fairy Stories.
He thought that a science teacher could say 'no, creationism is wrong because...' and win over his audience. When in fact, if you ever try talking to these people, you won't get anywhere - they believe it absolutely. The Creation is in the Bible, end of story, now let's go stone some gays and people who wear two kinds of cloth. The whole class would be given over to discussing the Great Flood when the 9/10 kids who are normal could have been learning about really exciting things like genetics, finches or Pangaea.
There's one answer to this. You teach evolution. It is compulsory. If someone doesn't believe in it or doesn't want to study it they fail the class. No loss to science there, they can join Sarah Palin and the population of Kansas back in the 13th Century.
If it upsets 'faith' - screw them, they can turn the other cheek.
* It is - TWICE! Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 and Genesis 2:4 - 2:25. Despite coming one after the other and being the Word of God (TM), they can't even agree on basic things like what happened in what order or even how long it took. Mind you, I've had plumbers like that.
GM shows off production electric car
@ Duncan Ellis
'An American Car I Actually Want '
Well there's always the Mustang designed with only the finest neolithic engineering, but oh that sound!
Apple releases bumper patch batch
@ Hud Dunlap
'Apple will always let me know about something new in iTunes but won't e-mail me about a critical security update. I check it every day but then again I am paranoid.'
Why don't you just set Software Update to check daily and forget about it?
Chinese manned spaceshot set for 25 September
On only their third mission? That's a pretty impressive level of development. The Soviets only attempted it on their eighth manned mission, the US on their ninth. Even allowing for technology transfer from the Russians, it's clear that the Chinese are very confident about their hardware and their crews.
Phorm: Our business is fine, honest
@ David Hicks
'What sane customer would want this?'
Ah BT are ahead of you there. First they change the name to 'WebWise' and don't refer to Phorm anywhere in their documentation; then they sell it to customers on the grounds that it'll improve their security. And we all know how people act when they're told their security is under threat unless they conform.
Mitsubishi eyes Middle Earth for 'early' electric car roll-out
@ Matthew Terrell
'They just need to make a decent family type car. It's can't be that hard....'
You'll be wanting the Chevvy Volt then - a plug-in hybrid which if you're a regular commuter will let you spend most of your time tootling around on electric power, but gives you the extended range and performance of a small (1.4l) petrol engine. When you get home, plug it in to the household supply and recharge it overnight.
Due Yankside late 2010; likely to be built in Europe by Vauxhall or Opel the year after.
Looks horrible (like almost all American cars) though.
Northrop offer supersonic robot stealth raygun cyber-bomber
@ Anonymous coward
'If the WTC floors collapsed in a 'pancake' fashion; how does that account for the collapse of the building's steel core? '
In both cases the core was severely damaged by the impact. The WTC's core was also not capable of supporting the entire weight of the structure, a good deal of the vertical load in the buildings were handled by the exterior vertical steel columns. With both sets of supports damaged the building collapsed pancake fashion, the lower part of the core crushing down on itself like a soda can under your boot.
UK launches major road signage review
Get rid of...
...the brown signs identifying 'places of interest' which have spread like wildfire across the country, and the bright-yellow signs pointing to new housing developments which are a new infestation in these parts.
Robot airliner anti-missile escorts proposed
Another airline tax?
So after charging extra for fuel, baggage, e-check-in, insurance, credit cards, airport improvements and wheelchairs; the airline will be able to add a £5000 drone charge to every £1 flight to Oslo.
Of course if you fly RyanAir you just get a paperplane reading 'Come get me ya bastards!' towed behind the 737.
Hurricane Ike snuffs out Galveston webcam
If you haven't read it
Erik Larsen's book about the 1900 hurricane which utterly destroyed Galveston, 'Isaac's Storm', is a fantastic read. (While you're shopping for it at Amazon, also take the time to pick up 'Devil in the White City' from the same author).
Japanese call on deities to discipline wayward PCs
@ Christopher Martin
You might want to consider the religion in question.
Shinto has a central tenet that ALL objects, whether animate or inanimate have a soul known as a kami. (If you travel in Japan you will see shrines to kami almost everywhere - at rocks, ancient trees, hot springs and so on). If you build an object, it possesses a kami, and depending on how you build it, the kami will either be good or bad; which has actually influenced Japanese product design.
Because objects are thought to have a spirit, there is a long history of building things with the highest quality components and a perfect finish; also, how they look is thought to influence the mood of the kami - so the arrangement of the front radiator and lights on a Japanese cars often form a smily 'face', and so on...
So this ceremony might not protect a PC, but it does fit in seamlessly with the idea of appeasing and protecting a computer's kami.
Ray Winstone joins Mel Gibson at the Edge of Darkness
Hmmm - Mel Gibson does 'Edge of Darkness'
Well we all know his thoughts on conspiracies:
So is this feature going to end up as 'The Protocols of Zion' with added plutonium?
Sony PRS-505 Reader e-book
Love it - but...
I still haven't got it to work with the Waterstones store. Every time I try to put one of their DRMed titles on to the Reader, it crashes and needs a hard reset. Which requires the Reader to be re-activated, and do that too often and - Adobe Digital Editions locks you out. Which means you have to call Adobe to get ADE re-authorised, so far I've been waiting 2 days just to try and find out if my Reader is buggered.
NASA mulls nuclear Moon reactor
@Jasmine Strong
Ah TOPAZ - you mean the completely unshielded nuclear reactor fuelled by highly enriched uranium?
Nope, can't see a problem with that?
'UK's Chernobyl' spam spreads Trojan
One reactor close to London
Imperial runs the CONSORT reactor at its Silwood Park campus near Ascot. It's only a tiny research reactor and nothing like the RBMK reactors at Chernobyl. So its probably almost entirely unlikely to turn London into a glow-in-the-dark deathzone.
PA Consulting begs for mercy after data loss axing
We deeply regret this human failure and apologise unreservedly to the Home Office.
Sounds like they're accepting liability for the breach. That won't help them in court should any of this lost data be used to commit a crime against those people whose details were stored on the card.
And before anyone says that people taking justice into their own hands and beating the living shite out of a con is a good thing: a: vigilantism never is, b: once someone has served their sentence the law says they have paid their debt to society, c: the card also held details of people on drug treatment programmes and some reports said it also had information about informants.
US boffins develop self cleaning gecko-foot glue
All this to replace a PostIt note?
They seem to stick to most things, so can't we just cover our latest robo-deathreapers with little pieces of yellow paper?
Saatchi to promote foreigners' ID cards
I wish Saatchi would dust off one of their other ads
'Cos New Labour clearly isn't working.
DR Congo minister liberates imprisoned goats
Anyone know...
...if the Home Office has made 'being sold illegally' a crime in the UK yet?
If not, they really need get a law on the statute book ASAP to continue New Labour's highly successful new-crime-a-day legislationathon; whose previous hits include 'no illegal egg inspections', 'don't set off a nuclear explosion' and 'it's wrong to sell a grey squirrel don't you know?'. Those jails won't fill themselves up you know.
Amazon flash mob mauls Spore DRM
Any advance on three tries? Oh hello Sony!
The Sony/Waterstones eBook store for the Sony PRS Reader allows you to download a title precisely ONCE. All titles are locking into the horrible Adobe Digital Edition software which makes no allowance for backing titles up on to CD or external disk. If your machine dies, ADE goes tits-up or you upgrade to a new machine you've had it.
Today is not Hadron Collider Day
Everything I know about particle physics I learned in Marvel Comics
Can any Reg-reading particle physicists who might be taking a break from releasing Lovecraftian horrors into this dimension answer this question honestly?
'Do you ever get an overwhelming urge to stand in front of the beam in the hope of getting super powers?'
Sony e-book reader to debut in UK tomorrow
Great hardware - oh my god who designed the DRM???
Only works with Windows - bad. But the people at Waterstones should be shot for their DRM policy.
You are allowed to download a title ONCE. After that the DRM kicks in to say the title has already been downloaded and you can't have it again. No matter if the download is corrupt or if your newly DRMed book refuses to open on the Reader. You can't have another copy.
And when you have your book, it's folded into the horrific Adobe Digital Edition plugin for Flash so you can't back it up in the event of a hard disk crash or a move to a new machine.
This is simply not acceptable. I've never used a download service with so many restrictions.
But I have to repeat, the Reader itself is a stunning piece of technology.
Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials
Down, down, down
Looks like Phorm is now trading at around 1/6 of their market peak back when they announced their tie-up with the big three ISPs. It's getting tempting to take out a ruler, draw a straight line through a plot of their share price and work out when their share price will reach zero:
DNA database costs soar
Easy, spin our way out of this
When the BBC got a lot of flak for the price of the TV licence they resorted to a slightly desperate campaign telling you how much it worked out to on a daily basis.
It's time for the Home Office to do the same; now M&S have started using David Jason to do their voiceovers, I'm sure Dervla Kerwin is available:
'Do you know it costs less than 2 pence per day to store the data of a child on the government's database? Peace and security for just 2p? What else can you get for that?'
ID scheme plans 50,000 cards by April
Ahhh I'm being a silly bugger
Ahem, re point about about Northern Ireland not being in the United Kingdom. Ummmm yup, I'm wrong, it's not in Great Britain.
I'll go and hit myself over the head with an atlas now.
@Anonymous Coward
geography fail said: "Your [sic] talking about England. The UK isn't connected to another landmass like the way you describe, either that or you have exceptionally long legs."
Er ... Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland?
It's worth taking this opportunity to point out that Northern Ireland isn't in the UK.
Prototype orbital seaplane in Texan blimp-base blast
Re: Anti Submarine Blimps in Texas?
The U-Boats specifically targeted tankers travelling from the Texan fields to join Atlantic convoys heading for the UK, although they did spend most of their time taking potshots at tankers off the Florida coast where they could be seen silhouetted against the lights of Miami. It was only much later in the war that Florida enacted a lights-out policy and deprived Floridans of the spectacle of going to the beach to watch ships explode.
After World War II blimps continued to be used by the US Navy as anti-submarine and anti-aircraft radar pickets. They were so big the radar could be fitted inside the envelope. And when I say big - I mean REALLY big:
IBM, PGP fill Bletchley Park's rattling tin
@ Jon G @ Steve
BP did apply for a National Lottery grant a few years back but was turned down. They're making another application at the moment.
It's a real contrast to the case of the two Titians that have attracted publicity of late. Their owner wants to sell them and is willing to part with them and allow the pair to become part of the National collection for the trivial sum of £100 million, otherwise they'll go on the open market where they might go for £500 million.
Naturally the great and the good are lobbying furiously for the government, Lottery and uncle Tom Cobbly and All to stump up the money for a pair of paintings that have nothing to do with Britain apart from they ended up here after Johnny Frog got all choppity-chop with his betters.
As for Steve's comment about the luminous Phyllis Starkey MP's majority vanishing - I hope so, I hope so.
Segway shock army to invade Department of Transport
No problems with them or cyclists...
...just as long as insurance and number-plating is mandatory.
Commodore launches little laptop
If it's a Commodore
It'll be a notebook computer with a HUGE power brick that could warm a house - and a tape drive.
Apple, O2 to release PAYG iPhones this month
Reassuringly expensive
Looks like Apple are trying to make sure it doesn't become the sequel to the RAZR chavfone.
Biometrics exhibit blushes over email snafu
Not to worry
When the government's biometric fortress is in place it won't be managed by incompetents like Wellcome; it'll be run by organisations such as the Home Office, BT and Capita who have a long, consistent track record of managing personal data,.
Erotic artist urges spanking for Jacqui Smith
Can't imagine it without PlayMobil
The sight of Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith bound and gagged needs to be created in El Reg's favourite childrens' toy.
As for it being the most disturbing image possible - n'ah, just think of David Miliband lashed to Hazel Blears; cheek to cheek with only a small meringue between them - now THAT'S scary kinky!
Blu Christmas coming, format fans forecast
It's good - but is it *THAT* good?
In my experience, a Blu-ray played from a PS3 over HDMI to 1080p screen has lots of 'fizzing' in the picture like the grain in a poor photo - Sony's 'Casino Royale' is particularly ugly. The companies claim the transfers are good, the whole process is digital, so why are there artefacts that weren't present in the cinema and are missing from the DVD?
Throw in ridiculous prices - £30 in HMV and Zavvi and the region-coding from hell and THAT's why I'm not buying a whole lotta Blu-rays.
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The Tao of Dalton: A Social Media Handbook
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BVK's Managing Director Sara Meaney is bringing her wits and wisdoms to Outdoor Retailer's Summer Market 2014 in Salt Lake City on 8/8. The rules of social media have changed as it becomes more and more of a paid platform, impacting engagement, frequency and content production models. And in order to reach and interact with >more
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BVK Sweeps the PRSA Paragon Awards
We are incredibly excited to announce that BVK took home a grand total of 11 top PR and social media honors – 3 Excellence Awards and 8 Merit – in today's PRSA Paragon Awards for work on Guitars for Vets, New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, Funjet Vacations, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Foresters. Check >more
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Swimming upstream to reach millennials
Last year, digital track sales dipped 6% — the first ever down year*. Yet music streaming was up 32% last year. Not surprising. Millennials no longer buy, they rent. And because Millennials are the current trend setters, society has seen a shift occur over the last handful of years. Purchases and contracts are being swapped out for >more
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Is the QR Code Failing?
QR Codes. It seems every advertiser wants them on their ads. But few understand how they are best used or their real value. Sean Cummings has an interesting take in this article on why QR Codes aren't working and how they can be redeemed. >more
April 20, 2011 – Industry News
When is the Best Time to Post on Facebook?
Your business hours might be 9-5. But if you think that's the best time to reach your customers on Facebook, you might be missing some huge opportunities. New research from Buddy Media recently reported on the best times to post on Facebook. Their findings may surprise you. http://mashable.com/2011/04/06/facebook-engagement-data/ >more
January 12, 2011 – Industry News
What too much coffee can lead to.
Check out the street art installation of the Mona Lisa made entirely of cups of coffee. 3064 cups of coffee to be exact. It was created for the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia. Each cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the shading of the painting. Pretty cool. >more
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Hey QR Junkies. Here's What's Next.
It's called NFC. And it's halfway between an RFID and a QR code. Google is going to be pushing it big this year. Check it out. http://gizmodo.com/5707321/what-is-near+field-communication >more
December 1, 2010 – Industry News
Top 10 Interactive Sites of the Last Decade.
The One Club invited some of the top digital creatives to cull the best interactive work from from the past decade of One Show Interactive winners. These are their Top Ten. >more
November 13, 2010 – Industry News
Hit and Run? Luckily these Drivers get Off with Just a Warning.
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We do wonder, though, whether Adam Douin and Jonathan Dumont knew what they were getting into when they applied for internships with the Maine Forest Service.
That's because they're literally getting into something in the course of their jobs that would, well, maybe embarrass the rest of us mortals.
They're putting on bug costumes. Beetles, to be precise. One's wearing the costume of an Asian longhorned beetle (long horns, naturally; black helmet; many hands; big, buggy eyes; white-splotched black structure hanging off the back), while the other's wearing an emerald ash borer get-up (green hoodie; weird, lumpy protruberances off the back; things that may be wings between the shoulder blades).
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It's all for a good cause, and we commend Douin and Dumont for their courage and fortitude. Not to say their respective senses of humor.
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From 1673 onwards to 1689 there is an almost total
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While only in its first year of activity, the Dawson County High School fishing club is already making waves.
As part of a 14-year tradition, Dawson County educators have recognized one of their own for excellence in special education.
Funding for long-sought new greenhouse complex at Dawson County High School has been approved.
For the first time in more than five years, the Dawson County Board of Education foresees no impending budget cuts.
Black's Mill Elementary is continuing its dedication to prepare students for higher learning.
The Dawson County Board of Education has taken the next step in finding a replacement for retiring Superintendent Keith Porter.
With ice and snow hitting Dawson County during January and February, students and teachers missed almost two weeks of school.
"As you know, this winter has been especially harsh, which has resulted in nine days of absences due to the inclement weather...," said Dawson County School Superintendent Keith Porter in a letter addressed to parents dated Feb. 21. "The difficult situation with missed days is made worse due to the fact that we started the year two days short of a full student calendar due to budget."
Dawson County teachers may be spending more days in class next school year.
Dawson County School Superintendent announced just before 2 p.m. today that schools are canceled for students and staff on Wednesday.
With just a two-week reprieve from the last snowstorm, Dawson County was bracing early this week for more winter weather and the closings that come with it.
Despite a few weather-related delays, the Dawson County school system has crowned a spelling bee champion to represent it in the district spelling bee.
The Dawson County Arts Council has taken another step in the community toward promoting the arts.
For the past few weeks, Dawson County elementary and middle schools have been testing their students' knowledge of words and spelling.
The Dawson County Board of Education has a new chair and vice chair for the 2014 calendar year.
After a month of secrecy, the 2014 Dawson County High School STAR Student can celebrate the achievement with friends and classmates.
The Dawson County Board of Education heard the concerns and questions of parents in the county last week when they held a public forum to discuss the new five-year plan for the system.
With Halloween only a few weeks away, Riverview Middle School is gearing up for a spooky run for a good cause.
Hightower Academy Teacher of the Year Niki Kenny has been in education for nearly 20 years, five of those in Dawson County.
Dawson county students were paid a visit by a local literacy group last week.
A pumpkin patch has sprouted in the lobby of Riverview Elementary School.
Students with musical interests at the high school will most likely be familiar with the school's director of choral arts.
A new collaboration is gearing up to make sure local children are not going hungry when they leave school and are home on the weekends.
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Have a wickedly awesome Birthday! I posted about this & even changed my animation to help you celebrate. I'm all for parties now!
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This is so exciting Hanna!! I'll definitely be checking back and entering the fun!! :)
Congrats on your blogiversary... I know what you mean about the blog being a wonderful little space all your own. What did people do before blogs?? :P
- July 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM
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Happy first year to you! Your blog contains a very nice variety of you, family, food and fun. It is always a joy to come for a visit!
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Lisa Biron, 43, of Manchester was arrested by the FBI on Friday afternoon on a seven-count indictment alleging sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography.
The Manchester lawyer arrested in October for allegedly possessing child pornography was indicted on new federal charges this week for driving a teenage girl to Ontario, Canada, where she was recorded having sexual relations with another person, prosecutors said.
Biron was ordered held without bail following her arraignment before Magistrate Judge Landya McCafferty in U.S. District Court, according to U.S. Attorney John Kacavas.
A grand jury handed down the indictment on Wednesday, but prosecutors asked to keep the charges under seal until Biron was arrested and brought to the federal courthouse on Friday afternoon.
Police began investigating Biron, a Manchester lawyer since 2008, on Sept. 29 after receiving a tip that there was child pornography on her computer. She was arrested at her home - located at 42 Pratt Court in Manchester - on Oct. 9 on seven counts of possession of child sex abuse images.
But the FBI apparently continued investigating the origin of the digital videos and photos allegedly found on Biron's laptop.
Federal prosecutors say that Biron transported the girl on May 25 from New Hampshire to Ontario, Canada, and coerced her into performing sexual acts with another person so that they could be recorded.
The four digital videos and a digital photograph were made over a four day period between May 25 and May 28, according to prosecutors.
Indictments say the pornography was found Sept. 29 on Biron's laptop. Biron is facing charges of possession of child pornography, transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and four counts of sexual exploitation of children.
On Friday, it was unclear whether Biron would still face state charges that led to her initial arrest. The FBI, Customs and Border Patrol, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement investigated the case with the help of Manchester police.
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Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is celebrating Pink Floyd week this week, and the fun continued on Tuesday with a monster collaboration between the Foo Fighters and Roger Waters.
The Foos stuck to the script with a cover of The Wall's opening track "In the Flesh," with Waters singing lead and playing bass.
Waters also sat down with Fallon for an interview, giving props to the Shins, who covered The Dark Side of the Moon's "Breathe" Monday night.
"What a great singer that kid is," Waters said of frontman James Mercer.
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Fallon's week-long tribute to Floyd continues Wednesday, when MGMT will cover "Lucifer Sam," off The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Country artist Dierks Bentley will perform the title track from Wish You Were Here on Thursday, with Pearl Jam closing out the week on Friday with The Wall's "Mother."


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Some would say this weeks matchup of Gang Green versus the Seattle Seahawks is more of a sure thing than not. Hold your horses. Although the Seahawks (3-11) are lack luster in Mike Holmgrens final season at the helm, the one thing the Jets will have to contend with is the crowd on the last day Holmgren coaches at home at Qwest Field.
The 12th man in Seattle will surely be heard this coming Sunday. QB Brett Favre and the gang will have to quiet him early and often to have a chance at going into the season finale against Miami in a possible winner-take-all scenario for the AFC East crown. Seattle receivers like Deion Branch and Koren Robinson have breakaway speed bursts from time to time.
He is going to come to play on Sunday no matter what you might read, even if he has little nicks, bruises or injuries, CB Ty Law said of Branch. On Sunday, Deion is going to come to play. He is a tough guy and he enjoys the game as well. There are a few guys that I can say enjoy the game week-in and week-out. You can tell on their face even when they are competing. Deion is one of those guys, kind of like Hines Ward, that enjoys being out on the field.
With the Jets (9-5) ranked 31st in pass defense, look for QB Seneca Wallace to search for his receivers and TE John Carlson in the passing lanes. Wallace said that with this being Holmgrens last home game, they want to come out hard and fast.
Wallace has one interception over six starts (one game in relief of Hasselbeck) this season and a quarterback rating of 88.9. The Iowa State alum has amassed 67 rushing yards this season with 47 of them coming in Week 14 against New England. If the Jets decide to play the pass well on Sunday, look for Wallace to attempt to beat the Jets sixth ranked rushing defense with his feet.
We still want to go out every Sunday and win the game, Wallace said. Their record is a lot better than ours and they are probably fighting for a lot more than we are. We definitely want to go out, make it a game and make sure we play hard every snap.
Head Coach Eric Mangini knows whats at stake. The Jets have practiced all season in noisy conditions. This was evident during training camp when speakers across Hofstra blasted everything from T.I. to Garth Brooks during 7 on 7 and 11 on 11 drills.
Its extremely loud, he said. I feel like weve worked with noise for so long that thats just part of the process now all through training camp, OTAs and everyday in practice, one side or the other is getting it. For us, it almost feels a little bit different when there is no noise at practice. When the radio is off for some reason, thats the exception.
The Jets will need to stick to the methodical running attack that includes recently named Pro-Bowlers in RBs Leon Washington and Thomas Jones. Look for Seattle and its 21st ranked rushing defense. Running backs this year have averaged 119.5 yards per game and 4.1 yards per carry this year. Look for that matchup to take center stage this weekend.
The dedication to the craft of running the ball has paid off for the dynamic duo this season. Jones went from trade dud last year to AFC rushing leader this year. Washington is in the top ten in kick return and punt return yards and has five rushing touchdowns this year.
His work ethic. His leadership, Washington said. The attitude that this guy brings to the locker room and what he brings on the field is something that I havent seen by any other guy since I have been here. When he is in that huddle before the game talking to the guys before we go out, he really gets you pumped and ready to go. In the huddle that we have with the running backs he gets so pumped and ready to go.
But dont forget about that crowd noise. The noise levels in Seattle rival that of an Alice in Chains concert. Gang Green will need to stifle the crowd with long grueling drives so the Seahawks offense has no chance to cause a stir in the local Seattleites since Wallace has great mobility and create mismatches if his receivers stay on course while hes on the run.
The best way to control crowd noise is to have effective drives, Mangini said. That tends to slow it down a little bit. If the noise does get some type of negative response from your team, a false start or something like that, it just rockets up.
The magnitude of this game, being that snow showers are in the forecast for Seattle on Sunday, is huge. Regardless of the records of these two teams, this game will show if the Jets have what it takes to go into next week and cap off a real rocky ride of a 2008 regular season.
Its a big deal, RT Damien Woody said. Adding to it, this is Coach Mike Holmgrens last home game with Seattle. I am sure they are going to want to send him out in a good way in front of the home fans. Its going to be a tough game. Those guys play hard. They have a lot of pride over there.
A lot of that pride stems from the veteran presence on the Seahawk defensive unit anchored by DT Rocky Bernard, MLB Julian Peterson and CD Marcus Trufant. The Jets offensive line knows that despite the 3-11 record, Seattle would love to spoil the Gang Greens chance at a first division title since 2002.
The Jets know about spoiling. Back in 2002 when the NFL needed the Hubble telescope to figure out the AFC East, the Jets beat the then Brett Favre-led Packers and even though the Patriots beat Miami in a 27-24 OT game, Gang Green came away with the division crown because they swept New England that season.
They have a lot of good veteran players, plus they know what is at stake for us, said Woody. They are going to want to play spoiler, too. Its going to be a difficult game to play.
Will history repeat itself once more and have the division decided during the finale at the Meadowlands next week? Stay tuned.
Snow Games
Coach Mangini said the team will practice outside today because of the possible chance of snow in Seattle this Sunday. They usually practice inside when inclement weather touches down in Florham Park. Its supposed to snow up there so I thought wed enjoy it, he said. Plus I think Brett wants to make some snowballs. The Jets need all the help they can get if that have to deal with the 12th man plus Mother Nature this weekend. You cant simulate it, Mangini said of the snow. You can talk about it. You can try to educate on it but until you go and do it, its different. Weve practiced a lot in the rain and the cold. Theres real value to it.
Feely returns to Seattle for a second chance
Everyone remembers K Jay Feelys meltdown a few years ago with the Giants when he basically ripped the air out of Giants fans lungs when he missed field goals and the end of regulation and in overtime which was one of the first signs of Big Blues downward spiral toward a losing season. Hes a really competitive aggressive guy, Mangini said of Feely. Hes never once struck me as the type of guy that lets a setback set him back the next time. Hes inherently competitive. The way he covers kicks in practice, the way that hes involved on the show team. Hes got a very competitive personality for a kicker.
More Noise creates a game of telephone
No one cant mention the Seattle Seahawks without mentioning the noise level that emanates from Qwest Field. Noise has been such a consistent part of our practice routine, Mangini said. I feel that guys are extremely comfortable in that environment. Its not the exception here, its the norm. When we do go somewhere it usually doesnt have a significant affect on what were trying to get done. The Jets practice in loud noise conditions every week. They know its going to be loud and they realize the crowd will be rocking due to the situation with Holmgren and what not. When one corner is fifty yards away from the other corner and the message goes to the safety who is twenty yards away, thats more like that game of telephone where youre hoping that the message gets to the other side, he said.


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Windows 7 professional x64 stucks while booting on ASUS A52J laptop
I have new laptop, ASUS A52J, i3 processor, 4 GB of memory, 640 GB hdd and so on.
It runs legal Windows 7 professional, x64 system and it usual memory usage after booting is around 40% as I have many applications loaded on boot (Skype, MSN, Hamachi, Avast, MSE, and few other utilities...)
It worked perfectly for few months, though it needed minute or 2 to completely load and boot, those few minutes were acceptable in every way.
Suddenly, I don't know why, when I turn on the laptop, type password and desktop appear it just stucks at that point. Anything I do in that 15 mins and sometimes more causes laptop to completely freeze. I cant even invoke task manager.
Its completely frustrating see this quite good configuration struggling to load and boot windows.
From your experience is this windows issue? Can this be connected with some recent windows 7 updates? Also, I checked memory with windows memory diagnostic tool seeking for some memory issues, but it whole test passed for several times without errors. I did repair using windows 7 DVD but this didn't solve the problem.
Avast free AV, Microsoft Essentials and Malwarebytes (all newest versions and updated ) didn't report any malware/virus/trojan on the system.
Can I suspect some faulty hardware on brand new laptop?
What are your suggestions?
Ty all in advance.
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Hmmm.........first thing I notice is that you have both Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast. You should pick one or the other, not both.
Type msconfig.exe in the start box and go to msconfig. Look at the startup tab. Uncheck everything except your antivirus and restart. Does that improve things?
Look at the services tab of msconfig. Check "hide all Microsoft services". How many services are then shown and do you need them all to be running?
Have you downloaded and run the hard disk manufacturer's disk tools?
You are absolutely locked out of Task Manager?
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Windows 8.1 Pro x64
Run only one antivirus at a time, using more will cause conflicts
40% of RAM usage is normal but you should properly maintain your system, an utility like Ccleaner may be used
Download CCleaner 3.12.1572 - FileHippo.com
Run an SFC scan SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
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Win7 x 6 PC's
In addition I would run a clean boot, at least to troubleshoot what's causing this.
For absolute best performance I would run a clean boot at all times, since programs dont' need to start until you run them or else it allows freeloading on your RAM/CPU and Startup time, spyware such as Google Updater which builds a profile that follows you to every site pasting its ads up based on your profile like Big Brother.
To try the clean boot, enter msconfig>Startup and uncheck everything except the one AV you settle upon. Then in msconfig>Services, select Hide All MS Services, do the same. After reboots periodically check back to see that nothing has snuck back in - if so turn it off in its Program Preferences or Uninstall it.
If this fails to solve the problem, work through these troubleshooting steps
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Hi to all.
1st I want to thank you for taking interest in my case and giving me all these suggestions, they are all much appreciated.
I found that Ccleaner is quite good utility. My problem was gone after I deleted MSE and used msconfig to disable some unneeded services and utilities that were working in the background. Also I agree with last post, and to be honest didn't know that Google updater is a spybot. Ty for clearing that up.
I will disable some more services incl that Google thing to gain more performance.
My laptop is running smoothly now thanks to you guys. Much experience in just few posts, great
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Dougal is the secret son of a priest.It seems the only explanation for how someone so utterly unqualified could have become a priest: his mother threatened to go to the papers, and to avoid a scandal young Dougal was fast tracked through the seminary. I'm about 50/50 on the chances that Bishop Brennan is Dougal's real father.
Dougal is a lot smarter than he seems.That diabolical laugh with the trophy in the Christmas Special? Completely genuine. He's an evil mastermind who plays Ted expertly through Obfuscating Stupidity. Being sent to the island is all part of his Evil Plan to take over the world.
Dougal is The Straight Man in a Cloud Cuckoo Lander world.Following on from above. The whole �Why not knock loudly?� thing in �Cigarettes & Alcohol & Rollerblading� seems to suggest this.
The opening sequence demonstrates some kind of helicopter accident that takes place either before or after the events of the series
Dougal isn't stupid(or at least not just stupid)), he has schizophreniaHis behavior throughout the series is that of someone completely detached from the real world—with Ted even having to draw him a chart describing the differences between fantasy and reality—and moreover Dougal's thoughts and words do occasionally conform to reality and to varying degrees. In addition, many of his behaviors throughout the show are not outright stupid but just plain weird and nonsensical. He only became mentally ill sometime in his adult life, after becoming priest.
Father Jack is a former Soldier of Heaven......and the series is set in the In Nomine universe, probably a Bright Low Contrast game. He lost an Ethereal Force in celestial combat and became the madman we know today, but retained a massive amount of Corporeal Forces. His stranger shifts may be the product of willing Kyriotate possession.
The show is a crossover with Ashes to AshesOnly it's in the priest version of purgatory instead of the coppers version.
Father Ted takes place in the same universe as The Snapper.In the Irish TV film The Snapper (1993), actor Pat Laffan plays George Burgess, a lecherous middle-aged man who gets a young woman pregnant. In the Father Ted episode 'Speed 3' (1998), Pat Laffan plays Craggy Island's new milkman, Pat Mustard � a lecherous middle-aged man who gets numerous women pregnant. Could it be that the two characters are one and the same? By the end of The Snapper, George Burgess has left his wife and is presumably homeless. Perhaps he fled Dublin and changed his name in order to escape the scandal that he had knocked up a girl, and so that he could continue his womanising lifestyle, and eventually ended up on Craggy Island? After all, 'Pat Mustard' does sound a bit like a pseudonym. The two characters have similarly selfish, obnoxious, horny personalities, although Pat Mustard is slightly more cartoonish and exaggerated, in keeping with the style of Father Ted. Considering the similarities, it's hard to believe it's all coincidence; the writers probably cast Pat Laffan because they had already seen him play this sort of role, and knew he could play it again. The actor aged between The Snapper and Father Ted, which fits with the idea that several years have passed between the two. And, as an additional link, Irish actress Rynagh O'Grady plays a minor character named Mrs O'Leary in The Snapper � she is best known, of course, for playing the recurring character of Mary O'Leary in none other than Father Ted. Incidentally, this theory would mean that the other films in Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy � The Commitments and The Van � also take place within the Father Ted universe.
The reason Mrs Doyle doesn't talk about her husband is because she killed him.She's on the run from the police and thus hiding on the island. Her obsession with making tea is a sign of OCD brought on by nervousness, and she stays in the kitchen because she knows guests won't go in there. We see in "The Mainland" that she can get violent enough to be arrested (although the cops allow her and Mrs Dineen to be bailed out). The fact that her friend Mrs Dineen lives on the mainland indicates that Mrs Doyle use to live on the mainland and left it for a reason. It is plausible that Mrs Doyle's husband died because of being allergic to tea. Her 'go on' method of persuasion could plausible force someone to drink poisoned tea.
The reason the priests seem to have a One-Hour Work Week is because none of their parishioners want them anywhere near them.Well, would you want Dougal's help with your problems?
Jack was in the French Foreign Legion.Where did he learn his fighting skills? Why does he feel compelled to stand whenever the Marseillaise plays (and make everyone else stand)? Where did he learn to identify wines by sound? ("Jacob's Creek Chardonnay 1991!") (Okay, stretch there.) Maybe it's all from his service in the L�gion �trang�re. His age is approximately appropriate (assuming Jack's meant to be at least a decade older than Frank Kelly) for World War II, in which Ireland was neutral.
Father Dougal is a demon disguised as a humanHe talks a bishop out of his faith and turns him into a New Ager in a single episode. He manages to finish a funeral with more bodies than he started. His feigned stupidity is the cause of half of Ted's problems.
Noel Furlong is Jim Moriarty's embarrassing cousin.He has the same ability to force groups of people to do his bidding, but only uses it for sing-alongs.
Bishop Brennan was defrocked after Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The ArseUpon meeting The Pope, he screams "He did kick me up the arse!" and shoves him out of the way. Surely that would be a major strike against him. Or, in a Laser-Guided Karma moment, he gets demoted and sent to Craggy Island.
Dougal is the anti-christ.It's just no one remembered to tell him.
Father Stone is a demon.One that sucks the life force from anybody he stays with. Why else would Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs. Doyle seem to lose the will to live when he's around. Plus, that little grin at the end of the episode.
Mrs. Doyle had a mental breakdown after her husband died.This would explain her neurotic behaviour, such as her obsession with taking care of Ted, Dougal, and Jack even when they don't want her to, as well as the fact that she freezes up whenever she thinks about her husband.


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Access to financial services has become an important element of social fund and community driven development projects because the poor must have continuous and permanent access to strong, stable financial systems in order to build their family's economic security. In many of the countries and contexts in which social funds operate, there are few viable microfinance institutions, and necessary emphasis on access to finance is lacking. Even in countries with a strong microfinance sector, most low-income families, especially those in rural areas, do not have access to financial services that enable them to build their businesses and meet other needs such as health care and education.
Grants for individual or family income-generating activities may be appropriate in emergency or post-conflict situations to help families rebuild their asset base, or to provide a safety net to the destitute, but they are not a sustainable mechanism for the economic development of the community. Individual and family-owned businesses that are privately financed tend to be more successful.
Microfinance Approaches and Social Funds
The formal financial institutions approach focuses on building strong, stable financial systems that serve the needs of the entire population. This is the preferred approach when there are banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and/or financial cooperative/credit union networks that are interested in broadening their outreach to geographically underserved areas and in deepening their outreach to the poor. Examples: social funds have supported the creation of MFIs (Yemen, Albania), strengthened existing MFIs (Bosnia), provided funding to MFIs to expand to rural areas (Morocco) and provided support for MFIs through commercial banks (Chile).
The community-based institutions approach is appropriate for inaccessible rural communities that cannot attract banks, MFIs or established cooperative or credit union networks. This approach focuses on building strong informal or semi-formal community financial institutions, and linking them with the formal financial sector either directly or through the creation of federations. Examples: CDD projects in Andhra Pradesh, India have supported informal self-help groups that link to banks, while in Sri Lanka this type of project has supported village-based companies engaged in savings and loan activities. In Tanzania, savings groups have been promoted.
The "rules of the game" that work well for infrastructure subprojects are often not effective for the establishment of sustainable microfinance in SF/CDD "open menu" projects that provide direct financing to communities. Technical assistance in institution building, including establishment of a legal entity with identifiable owners, governance, management, policies, procedures and financial systems often cannot be procured locally by communities. Failure to adequately build the institution frequently results in mismanagement of the financial resources provided by the project.
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Microinsurance: Extending Pro-Poor Risk Management through the Social Fund Platform (147kb pdf)Vol. 5 No. 2; October 2008by Marc Maleika and Anne T. Kuriakose
Graduating the Poorest into Microfinance: Linking Safety Nets & Financial Services (269kb pdf), CGAP Focus Note No. 34, February 2006
Agriculture Investment Note: Microfinance Institutions Moving into Rural Finance for AgricultureAgriculture Investment Sourcebook, Module 8World bank Agriculture & Rural Development Dept. (ARD), March 2004
Social Fund Support of Microfinance: A Review of Implementation ExperienceSocial Protection Discussion Paper No. 0215; 2002by Alexandra Gross and Samantha de Silva
Guidelines for Designing Poverty-focused Projects with Microfinance Components (34kb pdf)Developed by the Social Protection Unit in collaboration with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, Financial Sector Development and the Rural and Small Enterprise Thematic Group, December 2002
Timor-Leste: Independent Review of the Credit Component of the Community Empowerment ProjectWorld Bank Social Development Paper, Conflict Prevention & Reconstruction No.11, March 2004by John Conroy
Holding the Door Open: Facilitating Access to Microcredit in the Benin Social Fund (203kb pdf)Social Funds Innovation Update Vol. 2 No. 3; March 2002by John Elder and Maurizia Tovo
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Under the plan, EMC will hand over some 800 employees who are part of its Greenplum and Pivotal Labs branches, while VMware will contribute 600 workers through the vFabric, Cloud Foundry and Cetas platforms.
The two firms said that the deal, which is expected to be finalised by the second quarter of 2013, would seek to advance both companies' positions in the big data and cloud computing markets.
The two firms believe that by tying up their big data, cloud and virtualisation offerings into a single brand, the new company will be a stronger player in the cloud space than each had been on their own.
"There is a significant opportunity for both VMware and EMC to provide thought and technology leadership, not only at the infrastructure level, but across the rapidly growing and fast-moving application development and big data markets," the companies said in announcing the deal.
"Aligning these resources is the best way for the combined companies to leverage this transformational period, and drive more quickly towards the rising opportunities."
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Bayside High School five-star safety and 2014 Virginia verbal commit Quin Blanding was keeping a close eye on the happenings, checking for possible future Cavalier teammates.
Blanding and fellow five-star commit Andrew Brown have vaulted UVa into ESPN.com's top 20 classes of 2014 and are spearheading the movement to make Virginia destination for the country's elite players.
"Everything's going great," Blanding said of his recruiting efforts. "Just building this class and just trying to make a difference in Virginia and building a dynasty."
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"You wouldn't think of a five-star, number one safety in the nation go to Virginia because they think 'Oh Virginia hasn't really done anything big like other schools' but it's not even all about that," Blanding explained. "I feel like this is where I feel comfortable at, this is where the change is going to happen and this is where we're going to make a difference."