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Uranium Participation Makes First Uranium Purchase in Four Years
Uranium Participation Corp (TSX:U) is the only physically backed uranium fund. The company's primary objective is to achieve appreciation in the value of its uranium holdings through increases in the uranium spot price. In December, Raymond James analyst David Sadowski made a case for investing in UPC, a fund managed by the management team responsible for Denison Mines (TSX:DML), explaining that the fund offers investors with "great exposure to a uranium price rebound without the typical exploration, development or mining risks associated with some of the other equities."
After having completed a $57.6 million bought deal financing on February 6, UPC has made its first purchase of uranium in four years. The company announced on Friday that it would use a portion of bought deal financing to purchase 850,000 pounds of U3O8 at an average cost of US$34.74. UPC notes that 250,000 pounds have already been delivered, the remainder will be delivered by the end of June.
In a note to investors, David Sadowski views UPC's latest announcement as a point in the company's favor, supported by the overall sentiment that uranium prices are set to strengthen over the next 12 to 14 months on supply shortfalls and JApanese reactor restarts. Given these variables, and the companies current available cash, Sadowski expects to see another purchase of 800, 000 – 900,000 pounds of uranium sometime in the coming weeks.
UPC's uranium purchase could not have come at a better time. As Sadowski highlighted in his note, uranium spot prices touched down at $33.88 per pound according to UxC's daily average price chart on Friday, marking the first time in more than eight years that spot prices have dipped lower than the $34 per pound support level. The lower price environment has provided UPC with a prime opportunity to reduce its average purchase cost, as well as take a further chunk of excess uranium off the market. Assuming UPC does make another purchase in the short term, Sadowski estimates that a 1.7 million pound uranium purchase (850, 000 pounds bought so far, plus another 850,000 pounds in the future), would cut the forecasted 2014 over supply estimate to roughly 7 million pounds.
Overall, UPC purchasing uranium combined with mine shut downs only help to take a small edge over the overarching problem of an oversupplied uranium market, which can account for the continued weakness in uranium prices. With the expectation that Japan will restart its reactors in the near future contributing to further alleviate the oversupply, the firm sees upward pressure on prices in the future that could lend support to bring new, desperately needed, mines online.
Sadowski sees this reflecting in shares of UPC, which have been trading at a premium to net asset value since October. Raymond James maintains a BUY recommendation on UPC, with a target price C$6.75. The firm has prices this target on the fund's inventory of 15 million pounds of U3O8 equivalent at US$46 per pound (adjusting fo current assets and liabilities). UPC currently has an implied price of uranium at US$39 per pound.
Securities Disclosure: I, Vivien Diniz, hold no investment interest in any of the companies mentioned.


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There was — surprise, surprise — a lot of negative campaigning in the San Diego mayoral election cycle that culminated with voters — though not a lot of them — going to the polls on Tuesday. Two out of three voters stayed home, some at least complaining about the tone of the campaign.
So now that we're down to two candidates, Democrat David Alvarez and Republican Kevin Faulconer, should we hold out hope that the rest of the campaign before the as yet unscheduled runoff election will be positive?
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Installing EMC® XtremSW Cache™ on ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 (Partner Verified and Support) (2059943)
This article provides information about Partner Verified and Support for EMC XtremSW Cache software.
Note: The Partner Verified and Supported Products (PVSP) policy implies that the solution is not directly supported by VMware. For issues with this configuration, contact EMC directly. See the Support Workflow on how partners can engage with VMware. It is the partner's responsibility to verify that the configuration functions with future vSphere major and minor releases, as VMware does not guarantee that compatibility with future releases is maintained.
Disclaimer: The partner products referenced in this article are hardware devices or software that are developed and supported by stated partners. Use of these products is also governed by the end user license agreements of the partners. You must obtain the application, support, and licensing for using these products from the partners. For more information, see https://support.emc.com/.
Overview of product
EMC XtremSW Cache is intelligent caching software that leverages server-based flash technology to reduce latency and accelerate throughput for dramatic application performance improvement. XtremSW Cache accelerates reads and protects data by using a write-through cache to the networked storage. XtremSW Cache, coupled with array-based EMC FAST software, creates the most efficient and intelligent I/O path from the application to the data store. EMC XtremSW Cache version 2.0 support for VMware environments (for ESXi 5.0 and 5.1) works seamlessly in the presence of vMotion operations, and provides full support for VMware features such as DRS and HA.
Installation Overview
- Ensure that your system meets the software and hardware requirements in the XtremSW Cache Installation Guide.
- Ensure that you have installed XtremSF™, or other compatible flash cards.
- Step 1: Install the caching software on every machine that provides caching services
- Step 2: Install the management utilities on those workstations to be used to manage XtremSW Cache and XtremSF cards
- Step 3: Install the license
The XtremSW Cache installation files are included on the installation media, or you can download them from the EMC Online Support website. License files must be obtained from the EMC Online Support website.
Step 1: Install the caching software
To install the VIB file offline bundle:
- Use scp to copy EMC-XtremSW-ESXi5.0-2.0.0-xxx.x86_64.zip to a local directory on the ESXi host.
- Enter maintenance mode, as a root user, using the command:
vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
- Install the bundle using the command:
esxcli software vib install -d full_offline_bundle_path
Where full_offline_bundle_path is the full path to the offline bundle ZIP file.
- Restart the ESXi host.
- Exit maintenance mode using the command:
vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit
- Verify the installation with the command:
esxcli software vib list | grep -i emc
You see messages similar to:
EMC-XtremSW-Agent 2.0.0-xxx EMC PartnerSupported 2013-06-15
EMC-XtremSW-Flashcard-Agent 2.0.0-xxx EMC PartnerSupported 2013-06-15
EMC-XtremSW 2.0.0-xxx EMC PartnerSupported 2013-06-15
- Install the XtremSW Cache driver and remote agent.
- Run EMC-VFCache-2.0.0.XX.msi.
- Accept the default to Install the XtremSW Remote Agent, and click Next.
- In the Set credentials dialog box, enter these values:
- Lockbox password: The password to assign to the password lockbox. Passwords must contain 8-16 digits including mixed case letters, one digit, and one special character. No white spaces are allowed.
- VFCacheAdmin password: The password to assign to the XtremSW Cache administrative user, VFCacheAdmin. When using the VSI plug-in to manage all virtual machines from one management station, you must use the same VFCacheAdmin password for all virtual machines.
- Click Install. After installation is complete, restart the host. The XtremSW Cache software starts automatically after the restart.
- You can verify the installation of the XtremSW Cache driver using the command:
vfcmt version
This information displays:
vfcmt for EMC Server Flash Cache © Version 2.0 (build XX)
- You can verify the installation and operation of the XtremSW Cache remote agent using the command:
netstat -a | findstr 5989
This output displays:
Note: For Windows 2008 servers, the output differs.
- Enable access to port 5989 in all existing firewalls.
- Install the XtremSW Cache driver, as a root user.
- For RHEL 5.x, run the command:
rpm -ivh EMC-VFCache-RHEL5-2.0.0-XX.x86_64.rpm
- For RHEL 6.x, run the command:
rpm -ivh EMC-VFCache-RHEL6-2.0.0-XX.x86_64.rpm
- For RHEL 5.x, run the command:
- Install the XtremSW Cache remote agent, as a root user:
- For RHEL 5.x, run the command:
rpm -ivh EMC-VFCache-Agent-RHEL5-2.0.0.XX-Release.x86_64.rpm
- For RHEL 6.x, run the command:
rpm -ivh EMC-VFCache-Agent-RHEL6-2.0.0.XX-Release.x86_64.rpm
- For RHEL 5.x, run the command:
- Run this script, as root, to create the lockbox password and the VFCacheAdmin user:
Note: Enter all variables within single quotation marks.
/opt/ECOM/util/set-credentials-emc-vfc.sh -lock_box 'password'
-ecom_admin 'password' -vfcache_admin 'password'
-vfcache_monitor 'password'
- lock_box 'password' is the password to assign to the password lockbox. See step 2 in the Windows section for password requirements.
- vfcache_monitor 'password' is the password to assign to the XtremSW Cache administrative user, VFCacheAdmin. When using the VSI plug-in to manage all virtual machines from one management station, you must use the same VFCacheAdmin password for all virtual machines.
- Verify that the XtremSW Cache remote agent listener is working using the command:
netstat -nltp |grep -i ecom
For port 5989, you see output similar to:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5989 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31151/ECOM
- Check the XtremSW Cache remote agent version against the installed version using the command:
cat /etc/ecom_version
- Verify that the XtremSW Cache remote agent service is running using the command:
service ecom status
- Enable access to port 5989 in all existing firewalls.
- Verify the installation of the XtremSW Cache driver using the command:
vfcmt version
This output displays:
vfcmt for EMC Server Flash Cache © Version 2.0 (build XX)
Step 2: Install the VSI plug-in management utility
On the machine running the vCenter client, run EMC-XtremSW-VSI-Plugin-2.0.0.XXX.exe and follow installation wizard instructions. The XtremSW feature is automatically enabled upon installation.
- On Windows and Linux servers, install the XtremSW Cache license with the command:
vfcmt set_license -license_file license_file_path
Where license_file_path is the full path to the license file saved on your host machine.
- To verify the XtremSW Cache license on your host machine, use the command:
vfcmt display –license
- On ESXi hosts, before installing the license, you must first create the shared datastore, via the Management Center, or with the VSI plug-in (as described in step 2 in the Configuring caching using VSI plug-in section of this article). To install the license on the ESXi host, the syntax of this command is:
/opt/emcsfc/bin/vfcmt set_license -license_file license_file_path
- To verify the XtremSW Cache license on your ESXi machine, use the command:
/opt/emcsfc/bin/vfcmt display -license
Configuring caching using the VSI plug-in
- Step 1: Enable access to the virtual machine
- Step 2: Create the XtremSW shared datastore
- Step 3: Populate the ESXi cache pool
- Step 4: Enable XtremSW Cache remote monitoring
- Step 5: Enable UUID mapping
- Step 6: Create an XtremSW Cache device
Step 1: Enable access to virtual machine
- Configure XtremSW ESX agent authentication credentials. On every ESXi host on which the XtremSW Cache software is installed, create a new user, a member of the root group, with administrator permissions, and no shell access.
Note: When using the plug-in to manage all virtual machines from one management station, you must use the same user name and password for all ESXi hosts.
- Enable access to virtual machines from the XtremSW security window.
- From the vSphere Client, click Home > Solutions and Applications > EMC VSI.
- From the Features area, click XtremSW.
- In the XtremSW VM Agent Authentication section:
- Enter this information:
- User: VFCacheAdmin (default user)
- Password: The password defined for VFCacheAdmin during installation
- Click Update Credentials.
- Enter this information:
- In the XtremSW ESX Agent Authentication section:
- Enter this information:
- User: root (default user), or the user name created in the first step of this process.
- Password: The password defined for VFCacheAdmin during installation.
- Click Update Credentials.
- Enter this information:
To create the datastore:
- If the Welcome dialog box appears, click OK.
- Select a cluster, and click EMC VSI > XtremSW > Cluster details.
- From the Commands panel, click Create Shared Datastore, then follow the instructions in the wizard. The shared datastore is named XtremSW_Cache_DS. Do not change this name.
When the datastore is created, you can install the license file.
Step 3: Populate the ESXi cache pool
To add cache devices to the ESXi cache pool:
- Select an ESXi host.
- Click EMC VSI > XtremSW > Cache Pool.
- From the Cache pool panel, click Add device.
- You add devices from a specific vendor and model as one unit. If you have multiple flash devices of the same model, the add command adds all of them. Add devices.
- From the vSphere Client, select a virtual machine, then click EMC VSI.
- From the EMC VSI tab, click Enable XtremSW Cache Remote Management.
- In the VSI window, select a virtual machine and click the EMC VSI tab. From the Features section, click XtremSW Cache.
- In the Commands section, if Enable disk file mapping to guest appears, click it, then power off and power on the virtual machine.
- From the EMC VSI tab, click XtremSW > Cache.
- From the XtremSW Cache management window, click Add XtremSW Device.
On RHEL 5.x machines, you may be prompted to reset the virtual machine. Do so, and then start this process again.
- Click Next.
- In the Add XtremSW Cache Device dialog box, enter the requested cache size, then click OK to accept the default settings.
- Attach a source device to be accelerated.
- Select an XtremSW Cache device, and click Add Source Device.
- In the Add Source Device dialog box, select a source device, and click OK. Acceleration is started, by default.
Additional Information
Verification details
Testing approach taken to validate the XtremSW Cache VMware platform
- Improves I/O performance against backend storage
- Supports DRS scenarios
- Provides enterprise level stability and robustness for high load scenarios
- Conforms to VMware requirements for product installation and management
- Extensive performance testing for different workloads on Win2k8r2 and RHEL 5/6 OS hosts
- Multiple execution of DRS scenarios under heavy load for Win2k8r2, RHEL 5/6 hosts for at least 72 hours
- Long haul test runs under heavy load for at least 72 hours with single and multiple guests with supported operating systems
- End to End testing with VSI Plugin for vSphere with multiple hosts running guests with supported operating systems
- Providing the product to internal EMC partners such as Global Support, Education, and others to get feedback
- Providing existing EMC/VMware customers an opportunity to install the product to get their feedback (Beta cycle)
Tested configurations
- Win2k8r2sp1
- RHEL5.x
- RHEL 6.x
Support information
EMC's Global Support team's mission is to accelerate success by delivering a differentiated service experience through world class capabilities that help customers meet their business goals.
You can find product information at https://support.emc.com/products/25208_XtremSW-Cache.
Installation Strategy
XtremSW Cache has been designed to be completely customer installable, maintainable, and upgradable. EMC Technical Solutions (TS) offers basic remote Virtual Service Delivery implementation and assessment services.
Example: When ten cards are requested to be implemented, your order would include five PS-BAS-IMVFC kits. Prior to commencing this service, your server must have XtremSF flash cards installed. The XtremSF flash cards provides transparent application acceleration via server-side caching.
Support Strategy
- The Enhanced Service offering is the standard for XtremSW Cache.
- XtremSW Cache is supported via the EMC Enhanced Service option. XtremSF PCIe cards are completely customer replaceable. If an XtremSF PCIe card requires replacement, customers should contact EMC and follow the Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) process. Before contacting EMC, customers must have the model number, part number, and serial number available. Customers can place orders online through Powerlink Service Requests.
- Global Services offers worldwide remote technical support for XtremSW Cache 7x24x365 through the Enhanced Service support option. A XtremSW Cache self-help product web page for customers and partners will also be available on Support Zone.
- A Flash Products call queue has been established for service requests. The queue is named: Flash VIC/Web.
This queue will be monitored by the Worldwide Global Technical Support SSG team.
- The Premium Service offering is available as a warranty or service upgrade. On-site service for break/fix is provided by EMC Global Services direct and Authorized Service Partners (ASPs).
To file a Support Request, use this link: https://support.emc.com/servicecenter/createSR/
Support Escalation Process
For the support escalation process, see https://support.emc.com/.


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Veronica Orozco
LV Life Editor
The ladies of Phi Sigma Sigma rocked their charity event last week bringing teams together in a competition that ended with team BSU being awarded the title of champions.
The eighth annual Rock-n-Jock charity basketball competition was held April 23 and 25 in the Athletics Pavilion to raise money for the Neddie Scholarship, a national scholarship given to women Phi Sigma Sigma members.
Neddie Iniguez was a sister who passed away from leukemia in 2005 so members of the chapter began the scholarship in her memory.
The event began with 14 teams competing for a chance to play in the finals. Guests were asked to pay $2 to compete and $1 to watch the games.
Hordes of people lined up at the door and along the walls of the gym.
"I didn't think it would be as crowded as it was," said Niall Harrison, sophomore sociology major and member of Leak Out.
Despite competing with La Verne Idol and a karaoke and sushi event, the first round of games had nearly 200 guests packed into the gym.
"A lot of our supporters came to support us along with doing whatever else they wanted to do," said Brianna Romero, junior psychology major and co-philanthropy chairwoman for Phi Sigma Sigma.
Along with charging for admission and participation, they were also taking donations and selling shirts that publicized the event.
"I think this is good, it's for a good cause and I think sports definitely bring people together," Remy Easterling, sophomore English major, said.
"It's really neat because I know a lot of people on campus are really involved in athletics and to have competition and at the same time raise money for a good cause is always fun," Harrison said.
The event did come with a few setbacks including a participant getting injured and a small fight breaking out, but nothing too severe occurred.
Senior public administration major Paul Turner was a part of Team BSU and got hurt the first night of the competition. He is also on the track and field team as a triple jump and high jump competitor.
"I know I shouldn't have played," Turner said. "I had SCIAC championships this weekend I know better. I just though I was invincible, it was a humbling experience to say the least."
"I might be out for the season and it sucks because it is my senior year. But I'm praying, praying I make it back by nationals," Turner said.
Aside from a few setbacks, Phi Sigma Sigma was able to raise around $415 through participation and donations from supporters.
Winners of the competition received an event shirt with the word champion on it.
"We didn't have a technique, we didn't really practice. We just showed up and had fun," Harrison said.
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Iranian dancer accused with 'immorality'
The lawyer of Iran's most famous male dancer has announced that a court of appeal in Tehran threw down the 10-year suspended prison sentence given to the dancer last may, according to al Bayan newspaper.
Mohammed Khordadian, who lives and performs in Los Angeles since 22 years, was arrested while visiting relatives in Iran on charges of promoting corruption among the nation's youth.
An official has earlier said that dancer Khordadian was arrested because of the several classes he set up for women in Iran during his visit to the country, not for the broadcasting of his performances on Iranian TVs or in the United States.
The dancer's lawyer, Abdul Rahman Sultani told Reuters through telephone, "the travel ban was lifted and the court of appeal reduced the 10-term jail against him from 10 to 5 years without implementation."
Khordadian's case has gained much concern among the Iranian community abroad as well as inside the Islamic republic, where political reformers led by president Khatami struggle to take authority from the grip of their conservative opponents.
"Khordadian was relieved by the ruling but he does not want to return to the United States. He came to Iran to stay here. He might change his mind and travel to the US on a short trip to finish some personal business," the lawyer concluded. - Albawaba.com
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The popular TBS prank show "Deal With It" returns for season 2 tonight at 10:30 p.m. Howie Mandel joined us on the Morning Show to tell us what to expect.
The premise of the show is celebrity "puppet masters" guide contestants in pranking friends. Celebrities this season will include Kelly Osbourne, Nick Cannon, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Arsenio Hall, Bill Engvall, Kevin Nealon, Alex Mandel, Chris Jericho, Bob Saget, Tom Green, Orlando Jones, Moshe Kasher and more.
Howie called it a hidden camera show where unsuspecting people are nabbed in restaurants, clubs, public places and introduced to a celebrity. The celebrity says, "Want to win $5,000? Put this earpiece in and say and do what I tell you to prank your friend/relative."
Our favorite line from the interview? "Heidi Klum had a man — a pastor — in an art class staring into the butthole of a short, hairy man." Click play below to hear more from Howie:
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North Korea appears to have stopped jamming satellite signals in an apparent attempt to disrupt air and maritime traffic navigation systems in parts of South Korea, a high-ranking government source in Seoul said Tuesday.
The North has been blamed for global positioning system (GPS) disruptions that affected hundreds of commercial flights and ships in and out of South Korea since April 28, although no damage was caused as all had backup navigational systems.
"GPS jamming signals from North Korea have not been detected since May 14," the source said on condition of anonymity, adding the South's military is keeping "close watch" on the North's activities.
The source did not rule out the possibility North Korea could send such signals again.
The South's military is analyzing why North Korea sent the GPS jamming signals from its western border city of Kaesong, officials said.
The signal-scrambling may have been intended to "test electronic warfare devices by the North Korean military or block mobile phone signals inside the North," said an official at the South's military, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"We are closely watching activities in military units in Kaesong where the signals were detected as originating," the military official said.
On Monday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks in Beijing and pledged to cooperate closely to deal "more effectively" with North Korea, Lee's office said, as concern grows Pyongyang could stage additional provocations after last month's rocket launch.
The North's GPS attacks began after Pyongyang voiced anger at what it called insulting remarks made by South Korean leaders in connection with its failed rocket launch and costly birthday anniversary celebrations for late founding leader Kim Il-sung.
Lee estimated the costs of the rocket launch at US$850 million and said the North could have been better spent the money to feed its hungry people.
North Korea vowed retaliations, threatening last month to launch "special military actions" to reduce the Lee government to ashes in minutes. Seoul officials said the GPS attacks appear to be part of the North's latest threats.
Pyongyang has been blamed for jamming GPS signals in South Korea since 2010.
GPS is a satellite-based navigation system widely used by aircraft, ships and the military as well as private vehicle owners.
South Korean military fighters, cargo planes and precise guided bombs are not affected by the disruption of GPS signals as they are equipped with military-only satellite navigation systems, officials said.
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In this economy, you may be tempted to skip minor home repairs and inspections.
But don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish. I'm Janet Stauble with your Bankrate.com Personal Finance Minute.
An annual HVAC inspection costs about 200 dollars, and small repairs to a furnace blower could be about 150 dollars. But if you let it go, replacing a broken heat exchanger could set you back up to 3,500 dollars. An HVAC system is an investment worth thousands, so expect to pay a few hundred dollars on maintenance each year.
A simple chimney cleaning and inspection can prevent chimney fires and damage to your entire house, making that annual 150 dollar investment worth the cost.
Loss for termite damage costs about 3,000 dollars for the average homeowner, but losses can be higher. Termites eat wood from the inside out, so it's impossible for the average homeowner to detect initial damage. Invest in an inspection and termite protection program.
Dryer vent fires have caused more than damage to a home, they've caused deaths. Make sure to pay about 200 dollars each year to have your dryer vent cleaned.
And cleaning carpet is more affordable than replacing it. Extend the life of your floors with regular cleanings.
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Nuance is looking for a Senior NLP Research Engineer in Burlington, MA. The post states, "Computer scientist in the Healthcare Research organization working on a state of the art clinical language understanding system for CAC (Computer Assisted medical billing Coding). Major duty is to help develop rule-based systems using in-production (feedback) data, and research automatic rule learning methods. The research will focus on creating a state of the art rule-based system for Computer Assisted Coding. This includes systems that tune rules, which apply in multiple phases, based on new data, and evaluating performance on multiple data sets. There will be a need to debug multiple interacting components and phases of rule application. There will also be research into automatic rule discovery and learning from labeled and weakly labeled data both during system development and in production, based on user feedback."
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Create A Personal Online Profile Page With about.me For iPhone
The need to have a web presence is usually fulfilled these days by having one or more accounts on any of the social networking services which are around. However, no matter how active you are on social media, having a webpage of your own is at another level of "cool". Unfortunately, not everyone has the time or skill to create their website (although it isn't as tough as a layman might imagine). One service which will let you create your personal webpage with complete ease, is about.me. It has been around for quite a while, and many people use it to generate a single link containing their basic information, and data from all their social network accounts. The big news? about.me now has an iOS app available in the App Store as well!
It is not necessary to have an about.me account in order to browse through the app and taking a look at some of the featured profiles, although you will need to sign up if you want to actually create a page of your own. Signing up is easy, and all it takes is your email ID, along with a new username and password. If you are already using the service's web version, it is possible to use those credentials to sign in to the app. If you are done looking at the featured pages, it is possible to search through the app's database, and find anyone in particular. There are a few useful search filters available, using which you can orient the about.me search around Facebook, Twitter or any other network's data which users have shared over about.me. You can view there activities over any of the linked services, and about.me is even intelligent enough to extract useful pieces of information from across various networks or blogs related to the person.
To create an about.me page, login and go to the me section of the app. There you can link any number of your accounts with about.me and enter your bio and profile picture. Next to the "me" section is the location menu, through which it is possible to look for people near your current location. To define proximity level of the search, go to the app settings menu in about.me and hit Proximity.
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Did you ever know that famed stage magician Harry Houdini once collaborated on a story with H. P. Lovecraft? It's true! The wiry, wily entertainer also possessed a talent for words, never more visible than in his book-length study of rogues, eccentrics, and fellow prestidigitators reprinted here. "The truth seems to be that when a lovely woman stoops to crime, she usually goes to the greatest lengths of iniquity…." If you can resist sentences and themes of this nature, then even an introduction by silent stage wizard Teller might not be enough to lure you in.
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I am stressed alot and I do be in the sun alot but i havent had any problems before. its starting to spread and is really dry. It gets achy when i yourn or when cold air hits my face. Sometime its noticable and sometime you can see it really good! any help please. My skin is really scaring me. I used dove and some some kind of lotion my doctor prescribed but that was about 3 to 5 years ago. It wasnt bad then but now it is.
Lighter Spots Around my Nose and Mouth are Painful and Spreading
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Seborrheic dermatitis also presents on the scalp as dandruff and itching. Please consult your dermatologist for proper diagnosis and treatment.
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Water your lawn twice each week, providing enough irrigation to supplement natural rain so it receives two 1/2-inch doses of water. Use a rain gauge or empty tuna cans set level on the lawn to measure the amount of water. Less frequent watering provides the correct air-to-moisture ratio in the soil that encourages roots to grow deeper for a healthier lawn that withstands drought. The exact schedule depends on the type of grass, soil conditions and weather.Continue Reading
Another way of measuring the proper amount of irrigation is by testing the depth of water penetration. A long screwdriver should penetrate the lawn to a depth of 6 to 8 inches before you feel resistance after irrigation. In order to provide moisture to this depth without runoff, you may need to operate the sprinklers for two or more 10- to 15-minute intervals with a break between.
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Recently ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the introduction of the complete Internet domain names in non-latin specific languages (Non-latin characters in domain names)
Extract from one of the Press release:
"Up to now, domain names had to use the 26 Latin letters in the English alphabet as well as 10 numerals and the hyphen.Technical efforts have enabled display of parts of Internet addresses in other scripts, but the two-letter suffixes had to be made up of those 37 characters.The approval for non-Latin characters applies for now only to domain names connected with the two-letter country codes, like .ru for Russia and .cn for China.Languages that could become available in 2010 for Internet-site names include Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Hindi and Korean.he so-called generic top-level-domain suffixes, like .com, .net and .gov, will remain Latin-characters-only for now."
Tha above announcement could bring in number of changes in current industry. Here are few of them:
- Web Content Managment: With new non-latin domains getting registered everyday, WCM demand will increase than ever before with the focus on multilingual support. In my experience with WCM, I have not come across many implementations that support multilingual. So, its going to be a challenge for both the product vedors as well as System Integrators. It is important to test the current implementations for non-latin languages and becoming a Must Have feature for any implementations going forward. The same will hold good for e-commerce .
- Translators: The market for translators will increase and will become more prominent. The content will start becoming more localized to regions and translators will come to rescue to retrieve any such localized information to outside world. And there is a good chance that translators becoming one of the offerings of WCM products.
- Search: Local/regional seach will start occupying the search space. This might lead to emergence of lot of localized search engines and will provide stiff challenge to some of the bigger players today in the industry
- Social Networking: With Web 2.0 and social networking the key in todays world, I can imagine local facebook, twitter etc. versions emerging in the market. Localized social search is other area to watch out.
- Migration tools: Emergence of tools which could help to migrate your existing site to localized version
The announcement will:
- Bring in new business opportunities and whole new dimension for non-latin countries
- Internet users will increase exponentially
- Internet will start becoming the preferred source of communication for non-latin countries through localized email and social networking sites
- System Integrators local market in non-latin countires will increase many folds
- Add more challenge to the big brands as they will be pressured to register their current domain names in any number of non-Latin-script languages to prevent fake sites
- Another potential issue highlighted is that some characters in non-Latin scripts appear similar to those of Latin-alphabet characters. So, if we substitutea non-Latin character for the similar Latin character, it will createa unique URL — and the potential for site-spoofing
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Minor league team jerseys honor Jerome Bettis's HOF induction
The State College (Penn.) Spikes are honoring Pittsburgh Steelers legend Jerome Bettis and his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame by wearing special gold jacket uniforms on Sunday.
Bettis finally made it into the Hall this year after being a finalist in every vote since 2011, with a 12-year career that saw him win a Super Bowl and accrue 13,662 rushing yards, good for sixth on the NFL's all-time list.
In addition to the jerseys, the Spikes will be handing out bobbleheads of Bettis wearing a gold jacket and standing atop a bus to the first 1,000 fans.
Those at the game will be able to bid on the jerseys, with the winner receiving the special edition uniforms directly from the players at the end of the night.
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Sunday the @SCSpikes are celebrating @JeromeBettis36 Hall of Fame induction in a way only a minor league team can pic.twitter.com/AihQPeb0Nh— Minor League Promos (@MiLBPromos) August 5, 2015


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Mary Tilson is yoga instructor with a passion for travel. You an follow her adventures on Instagram at @mctilson.
I'll preface this blogpost by saying that in the last two years that I've spent traveling Southeast Asia and India, I tend to focus my travel plans around the natural beauty each country has to offer. Needless to say, a city like Delhi did not quite meet those standards. Yet I knew my trip to India wouldn't be complete without experiencing the crazy chaotic city life I had been warned so much about, even if just for a day or two. So here it goes!
I departed from Rajasthan to Delhi on an overnight train. I had a seat in 3AC, and was very pleasantly surprised! I read advice on the blog on how to pick my tickets – super useful! I had a whole lower level of seating with a table to lay out my computer and work from, and a comfortable bed space for the night. I also had the pleasure of being seated across from the sweetest Indian lady who was traveling alone for the first time to visit her daughter at school. She called me over to sit with her and share cookies, and even woke me up bright and early for one last chat before we got off the train. I hope all of you get so lucky!
My accommodation in Delhi was Stops Hostel. This is an excellent homebase, particularly for solo travelers. I quickly found a nice spot in the cinema/lounge area to roll out my yoga mat and recoup after the train ride. There's also a communal kitchen which serves free breakfast, and a cozy bar/café style lounge. In the lobby area, you'll find bulletins with daily activities ranging from group sightseeing tours to Indian cooking class to evening bar crawls. I decided to spend the afternoon exploring by foot with a new German friend I met in the lounge. The man at the front desk handed us a map, and drew a loop of some of the top things to do in Delhi, all within walking distance of the hostel. We made our way from the Red Fort to the Spice Market, and back around past Jama Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India.
While this is all very accessible and convenient, as a solo-female traveler I was grateful to have company with me from the hostel. There were entire city blocks where I was the only woman in sight, the streets are crowded and you'll certainly be hassled by eager vendors and bicyclists ready to pull you down the street. If you remain open-minded and breathe through the chaos, the streets of India are a pretty amazing experience. Colorful buildings draped with hundreds of hanging wires, bags of goods being carried and tossed in every direction, the aroma of fresh tea being shoved up your nose by enthusiastic street vendors! At one point, I remember spotting a monkey walking across the electrical lines and imagined us sharing the same thought of how the hell we got ourselves into this mess!
Two days in Delhi were enough to give me my first fix, and were well worth the stop!
The second time I passed through the same hostel, my friend and I decided to hop on one of the tours which included the India Gate, Rajpath, the President's House, Cathedral Church of Redemption, the Ancient Haunted Stepwell, and a couple others! If you have the time, it's definitely worthwhile – we had a good time getting to know our local guide, who also puts on a lot of the evening activities around the city. Delhi is filled with different things to do and if you're going to be spending a while in India, using the city as a crossing point as I did multiple times, it's worth giving yourself time to check out all there is to offer!
Excited to share more from the mountains on my next stop, Dharamsala!


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Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008: The Unofficial User's Guide
The setup process has been streamlined a bit; from the initial menus, you're taken instantly to the Examining TV Signals page. Here Media Center parses the various inputs to your computer and determines which carry a signal. This process takes a bit of timethere are quite a few new signal sources to scour, after all! The guide should detect your signals correctly, but if not, you're presented with the option to set up signals manually. If your QAM tuner wasn't detected properly, ensure that you're using the latest drivers and that you've plugged in the video cables properly.
There's an extra new step in the setup menu: The wizard introduces a screen that identifies which tuner you'll be setting up next. Handy, eh? Configuring QAM channels is nonetheless a challenge at present. Even when it works properly, there's fine-tuning required to get the most from your setup. For starters, you'll have to choose your lineup ; the default should be correct, but several people have reported better luck syncing with the ATSC lineup than with the expected digital cable lineup. Next the QAM tuner scans through your cable feed to detect available channels. It takes forever to run (over half an hour in some cases!). As it sorts through the various signals coming through your coaxial cable, it lists all the signals it has found . The scanner will probably detect more channels than your guide lists223.24, 223.25, 223.26, and so onbut only those that it can match correctly to a lineup will be displayed.
Click OK a few times to move through the remainder of the menus and you're done. But to get the system running ideally, you'll want to spend some time optimizing things so they work for you.


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NEW YORK, October 25, 2011 – Raise a glass and give a toast to the hardly-working man.
Adam, Blake and Ders will return for more adventures! COMEDY CENTRAL has renewed "Workaholics" for a
third season, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, head of original programming and
production COMEDY CENTRAL. Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck
will return to work next year for the new season of all-new episodes.
"It's such an honor to be able to keep Workaholics' going," said Alterman. "We feel like
the show is one, big public service announcement, teaching the youth of America how to
engage with the workplace."
"We're beyond excited to get working on season three," said Anderson, Devine, Holm and Newacheck. "Unless it's gonna be hard work – we hate work."
"Workaholics" has been on a roll since its second season premiere on September 20, averaging 2.1 million total viewers per week. The first five episodes of this season have garnered a 1.5 Adult 18-49 rating (up +35% vs. season one), a 3.5 Men 18-34 rating (up +36%) and a 4.4 Men 18-24 rating (up +39%). Across its second season, "Workaholics" has been #1 in all of television in its timeslot (10:30-11:00 p.m.) with Men 18-34 and Men 18-24 and #2 in all of television with Men 18-24 on Tuesday nights behind "Tosh.0." (Source: Nielsen Media Research, Live + SD data. 10/19/11.)
From the minds of the hilarious and irreverent Internet sketch group Mail Order Comedy,
"Workaholics" is a single camera comedy featuring three friends who work together as
telemarketers from 9 to 5 and live together from 5 to 9. Dress codes, deadlines and waking
up before noon are not things these guys are used to. They do their jobs and sometimes
they even do them well, but they show up late, leave drunk and always live for the day…
even if they don't know what day it is. Co-created by Mail Order Comedy's Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck and 5th Year's Dominic Russo and
Connor Pritchard, the series stars Anderson, Devine and Holm and is directed by Newacheck.
Kevin Etten serves as the show runner.
The "Workaholics"
Web site features a wealth of video content including, show clips, exclusive video, cast
interviews and behind-the-scenes action. The guys are active on Twitter (@UncleBlazer, @ADAMDEVINE, @ders808, @kylenewacheck), live tweeting each week on
show nights. The "Workaholics" Facebook page is updated daily throughout
the season and fans can follow the show's tumblr at workaholics.tumblr.com, featuring exclusive
photos, videos and updates. In addition, mobile will feature a WAP site loaded with video
content and periodic SMS challenges.
"Workaholics" is executive produced by Mail Order Comedy, Etten, 5th Year's Russo and
Pritchard, Avalon Television's Richard Allen-Turner, David Martin, Jon Thoday and Isaac
Horne as well as Gigapix Studios David Pritchard and co-executive produced by Avalon's Dan
Lubetkin. Seth Cohen and Jackie Phillips are the executives in charge of production for
Available in 99 million homes nationwide, COMEDY CENTRAL (www.comedycentral.com), the only all-comedy network, is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B). For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press web site at www.comedycentral.com/press and follow us on Twitter @ComedyCentralPR for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos.
Viacom is home to the world's premier entertainment brands that connect with audiences through compelling content across television, motion picture, online and mobile platforms in more than 160 countries and territories. With approximately 170 media networks reaching more than 600 million global subscribers, Viacom's leading brands include MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nick at Nite, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike TV and Tr3s. Paramount Pictures, America's oldest film studio and creator of many of the most beloved motion pictures, continues today as a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. Viacom operates a large portfolio of branded digital media experiences, including many of the world's most popular properties for entertainment, community and casual online gaming. For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com.


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For those who care, E and I have been in Charlotte this week while he to trains for work at the corporate office… luckily for me my job is flexible and I can do it from anywhere so I was able to accompany him. I've been spending alot of time in the hotel working on freelance work and just sort of thinking and brainstorming for all the different things in my life. I've had a few emails lately asking about what's going on with US in our lives NOW and I realized that I haven't really done a personal update in a while. The opportunity has presented itself.. so here we go!
I just want to say that I am absolutely LOVING married life. E is my best friend and it's so awesome that we get to live together and share our lives with each other. I have never been happier!
I dunno if I ever updated on E's job situation, (I did on twitter but dunno if I posted about it here) but he was able to find a job pretty quickly post-layoff, so we didn't suffer too much because of that. He is working as an assistant manager at Harris Teeter and he's also picked up a second job where he is training to do commercial real estate appraisal. He's been keeping really busy with the two jobs- going into work around 7 or 8 and not returning home until 7 or 8 in the evening. We're trying to save as much money as possible so that we might possibly be able to buy a house by the end of the year. If we could take advantage of the First Time Homebuyers Tax Credit that would be totally awesome! After the wedding, we were lucky to be able to move into E's parents' house to help us save money. I am so glad they've been able to put us up during this time, but I can't wait until we have our own space so I can begin nesting!! I'm dying to decorate and buy furniture and settle in to our REAL married life.
As for me I am still doing freelance for Evin and trying to build up my design biz… (it's been more of a challenge than I thought, being the boss of me, haha!) The thought of being responsible for my own success or failure is scary, but also very exciting. I've been getting lots of inquiries lately about my services and am working on a few projects. I even have a couple of big projects in the works! The best part is that most of the work I am doing is wedding-related so it's helping me fight my post-wedding-depression (and yes, it's true- it does happen and I plan to do a post on it soon!)
I've had alot of inquiries in terms of what I plan to do with my blog now that my wedding is over. I've shared everything through the ceremony at this point, and will continue through all the details and the reception until I have no more pretty photos to post. (And I am ALMOST ready to post the final budget- I swear!)
But then what? I find myself pondering this question quite often. I guess I just don't know why you all keep coming back to my blog… is it to see my photos? Is it to hear about my life? I feel like it's so much bigger than me. Would you be interested in me finding other budget-savvy brides to share their experiences with you? Do you want to see other budget weddings and their cost breakdowns? I need to know… because I LOVE writing this blog and I want to keep writing for you as long as you're reading, so please let me know what you want to see here. I really do love hearing from my readers, and anyone who's written me an email knows I will write you back and thank you for reading! 🙂 I truly keep this up because of you so I want to write about what you wanna hear about! 🙂 Don't hesitate to leave a comment below or shoot me an email with any ideas you have or questions you want answered. Thanks again for reading!!!


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I was telling a close male friend excitedly about some friends I'd met at a new job in a city I'd just moved to. "They're so cool and smart," I burbled happily. "And they're all really pretty!" I was relieved to have found people I got along with, and I really did think they were an exemplary bunch. I wanted to brag about them.
"Let me see," he said, and we went on Facebook, of course.
He proceeded to dismiss each of my friends in turn. "Eh, she's OK." And "I don't know … I wouldn't call HER pretty". And "Seriously?".
I was hurt and offended.
"You're prettier than this girl," he was saying, and I got the sense that this was supposed to make me happy. As though he were giving me some kind of medal. Well, thank god, I'm prettier than my friend. Now I can sleep at night. I have officially won at life.
I was annoyed and upset, but I wasn't very surprised. The practice of casually dismissing a woman's entire appearance is sometimes a part of everyday conversation. Guys do it, girls do it. Guys I've dated have reassured me that I'm "prettier than my friends", even though I hadn't asked and found that observation awkward and most likely untrue.
Other women have mentioned their partners telling them the same thing. One of my friends told me exactly which of our mutual friends her boyfriend doesn't think is attractive at all. Apparently, he's made a big deal about how he "just doesn't see what everyone thinks is so hot about her".
You know what, come to think of it, I can even remember my best friend, at 13 years old, mentioning that her parents had informed her that she was the prettiest of all her friends. That includes me, I thought immediately, and wondered sadly why her parents would say something like that about me. It felt personal at the time. Am I really not as pretty as her? I thought. Maybe I'm not even close …
Once I mentioned a beautiful friend of mine to some other female friends, and they quickly asserted that she wasn't really "that pretty". Even my mum has made an effort to set me straight on occasion when I refer "incorrectly" to someone's beauty. She recently told me, gently, as though teaching me a lesson: "Sometimes when you like someone, you begin to perceive them as beautiful, even when they aren't."
So many of us have fallen into the habit of diagnosing the beauty around us with barely a second glance. We seem to rate and rank the girls and women in our lives without much thought. We have learned to try to make the girls and women we care about feel better about themselves by putting other girls and women down.
It's a bad habit.
And I have this suspicion that my eyesight is not really so bad, nor my judgment so impaired by love, as my mum has suggested. After all, this type of exchange about who is "really" pretty happens constantly, and often it's not centred on people any of us know. Over and over, I've heard people argue passionately about the attractiveness of famously beautiful women. They seem to pride themselves on "seeing through the hype" and dismissing actresses and models and rock stars for not really being attractive, but for somehow managing to fool the rest of those schmucks.
Someone mentions Megan Fox and someone else says: "Ew. She's not even pretty. I think her face is flat and weird and her hair looks like it's made out of wax." Or whatever.
Of course, we all have our favourite famous beauties. My friend Lucy thinks Alexa Chung is particularly stunning; the only time I ever heard my dad call a woman besides my mum pretty he was talking about Meg Ryan; and I am always partial to striking women with interesting noses, like Emily VanCamp, while a parade of starlets with tiny, upturned noses and enormous eyes quickly lose my interest. But let's be real, just because I don't think Emma Watson is the most compelling beauty I've ever seen doesn't make her unattractive. And Megan Fox's look may not be your favourite one, and it's not mine, but it seems pretty clear to me that she's not ugly.
It might be that people just like to assert their personal preferences and have opinions about everything. It makes us feel special and unique and interesting to do that. It might feel satisfying to be able to distinguish yourself by disagreeing with the mainstream media about anything at all — a famous woman's looks included. And disagreeing with your friend over her friend's appearance may just be an automatic expression of personal taste. We like different things. The world is wonderfully diverse as a result. This is good.
But it isn't good to insult someone's appearance. And even if it were true that the girls in my new friend group at my new job weren't the slightest bit pretty — why did my guy friend feel the need to express that? What did it accomplish? What does it accomplish to insult someone's appearance?
If we do indeed sometimes put some women's appearances down in an effort to make other women feel better, this habit reaffirms an idea that the thing that is important about a woman is her appearance. We're assuming that the thing that would make a girl or a woman feel better about herself is to feel prettier by comparison to other girls are women.
But let me be clear: when you insult the way my friend looks, you aren't making me feel prettier, you're offending me, because you're saying something unnecessarily negative about my friend. And believe it or not, I am not competing with my friends to be the prettiest one. I am appreciative of their beauty, the way I am appreciative of their other positive characteristics. I am proud of them. That is why I chose to be friends with them. Because they are the kind of people I am glad to give my time to, happy to have in my life, and am proud to introduce to other people.
So when you say something about how someone I care about doesn't look as good as I think she does, or even when you make a snide comment about a famous woman's appearance, you don't sound clever or interestingly countercultural or complimentary towards my own appearance. You sound a little needlessly mean, and a lot like it might be time to get your eyes checked.


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|The move around the second right facing corner seemed harder than 5.9+, because I couldn't get any traction with my feet! Got a .3 C4 in that corner and took some falls on that :) Fun climbing.
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|good job Vicki! I think we were watching you that day--looked like you were having fun-
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|At the first right-facing corner, it separates at the bottom into a detached flake...which is loose. I suggest you don't pull hard on it.
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|Were more bolts added to this? I was expecting two bolts and there were actually four on this climb, the last one I thought was not needed but hey I clipped it anyway. Perhaps it was PG13 but this climb is totally protectable with a few small pieces. No need for a #2 unless you mean a C3...bomber piece at the crux moves under the right-facing corner/overhang before the last bolt. If the last bolt wasn't there you'd probably plug that #2 C4 cam Tom mentioned.


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Gentrification is one of the most emotionally loaded words in Brooklyn. Some welcome it with open arms, embracing all the artisanal cheese and organic coffee shops left in its wake. Others detest it like a virus, decrying the loss of the "real" Brooklyn, horrified by the hipster harem left in its wake. Those less concerned with the culture wars point to the skyrocketing rents that uproot poorer and working class families out of their neighborhoods.
For those people, here's the latest map confirming their suspicions. Provided by Propertyshark via Gothamist, the map outlines changing property values in Brooklyn from 2004 to 2012. Only residential properties were included in the analysis, measuring the values of single and two family homes, condos and co-ops.
The darker the red, the higher the jump in real estate prices. And them red parts are exactly where you'd expect them to be.
In Sheepshead Bay, there has been a 10 percent decline in property prices, a figure that puts it in the stagnant zone. Those worried about a hipster invasion in Sheepshead Bay can take comfort that they are not Williamsburg, which, unsurprisingly, has seen a whopping 174 percent increase in property prices.
Other areas surging with hipsters and high prices include Fort Greene (+51 percent), Gowanus (+52 percent) and Lefferts Garden (+63 percent). Southern Brooklyn's very own Coney Island also saw a bump of 25 percent.
Not all of Brooklyn is so hot though. Cypress Hills saw a 30 percent drop in property prices while the supposedly up-and-coming Red Hook only saw a relatively stagnant 10 percent boost.
Of course, none of this is to say that Southern Brooklyn has cheap real estate. In fact, some of the largest residential deals have recently been in Gravesend and Manhattan Beach. But it does show that over the past eight years, home prices have stayed relatively stable, even through recession, while Northern Brooklyn developed, gentrified and saw dumpy commercial areas give way to so-called luxurious living.
Sheepshead Bay and its environs, though, remain the bastions of middle class families, with steady real estate prices and unflinching resolve in the face of the hipster hordes. We were here before they came, and we'll be here when they go home to Arkantuckisconsin.
And, in case they get any ideas, here's a reminder to our Northern Brooklyn neighbors: stay above the line.


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January 23, 2008
NEW YORK - The setting was New York City's Cipriani on Monday night and the party was Emerson's Vegas Night, which attracted many Emerson customers and party-goers, who had a chance to win fantastic prizes including a trip to the NCAA Final Four.
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Cary, NC, United States, 2014/08/12 - SAS uses Amazon Web Services to provide enterprise-level analytics - SAS.com.
SAS is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help organizations improve business functions by creating flexible, scalable, analytics-driven cloud applications. This marks a critical step forward in helping organizations execute their big data and Hadoop initiatives by applying advanced analytic capabilities in the cloud with products such as SAS® Visual Analytics. The success of this collaboration is already being realized by customers using SAS® Data Management, SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Analytics products on AWS.
Being able to run SAS on Amazons Cloud infrastructure allows us to democratize analytics throughout our global operations, said Anthony Volpe, Lenovo Executive Director and Chief Corporate Analytics Officer. Not only do we reduce the costs associated with our own technology environment, but our customers also benefit because we can make critical decisions much faster by being able to analyze data from anywhere at any time. SAS in the cloud allows us to incorporate relevant changes into our business processes quickly and effectively, across our worldwide organizations.
As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS has continually looked for ways to help organizations stay on top of market changes and meet customer demands. Cloud-based technologies allow businesses to do more with less at a time when being agile and effective is more critical than ever, said Scott Van Valkenburgh, SAS Senior Director of Global Alliances. SAS has been working with AWS to bring SAS Analytics into the AWS Cloud to help address the need for speed and flexibility in analyzing large amounts of data quickly and for taking new analytic approaches. Lenovo is an excellent example of how a company can run cutting edge solutions like SAS Visual Analytics on AWS to help increase efficiencies across its global operations.
Factors driving businesses toward the cloud include faster access to new functionality, reducing capital IT costs and improving the use of existing resources, said Dan Vesset, Vice President of Business Analytics and Big Data Research at IDC. These are all critical factors to maximizing the value of analytics, which can take the accuracy and timeliness of a companys decision-making capabilities to the next level. Deploying analytics within the cloud gives a business the ability to use more than just existing in-house systems to manage and analyze their data.
SAS offerings work with the following AWS services:
Amazon Redshift: A fully managed, easily scalable and secure cloud-based data warehouse service that works with SAS to help customers quickly engage in big data analysis.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce: Amazon EMR uses Hadoop to distribute and process data across a scalable cloud infrastructure. This makes it easier for SAS users to focus on their data analysis rather than on the provisioning and administration of their SAS and Hadoop environments. Doing so ultimately leads to greater flexibility in how and when they analyze their data.
AWS Test Drive: AWS Test Drive provides a private IT sandbox environment containing preconfigured third-party software solutions. Via select SAS Alliance program members, AWS Test Drive offers customers the ability to access SAS Visual Analytics to see how quickly it delivers powerful insights to support their business.
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Women's Cross Country has best ever finish
The Florida women's cross country team earned the best NCAA Championship finish in school history, placing 11th at the 2007 NCAA Championships held Monday afternoon in Terre Haute, Ind.
Four of the Gators' top five finishers placed in the top 100 for team scoring individually to help earn the school-record finish.
The Gators were the top finishing SEC team at the national championship. Arkansas finished two spots behind them in 13th and Georgia was 22nd.The Stanford women won their third consecutive team title with 145 points. Sally Kipyego from Texas Tech won her second individual title, finishing the 6K race in 19:30.9.
Junior Jacy Kruzel led the Gators with a 60th place finish and a 6K time of 21:15.8. Her finish was the best individual finish by a Gator in the NCAA Championship since Kris Jost finished 43rd in 1999.
"This team just has a great chemistry," UF coach Jeff Pigg said. "These women are not only good athletes, they are great people. Ali Crabb and Alison Babb are both walk ons and we would not be here today without them. Babb didn't run until SECs and she has just continued to get better. She is good because she wants to be. She has the best attitude and desire. Lindsay is so unselfish. She was disappointed with her individual performance until she saw how high we placed as a team. Her goal this year has simply been for the team to do well. Jacy is a strong Florida kid, who just keeps getting better. Rebecca Lowe came here and added depth and talent to this team. I just cannot say enough about these athletes, how hard they work and how proud of them I am.''


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Women's basketball: Former Hawkeye Baranczyk is first-year coach at Drake
DES MOINES -- Jennie Baranczyk has returned home with a mission in mind.
"We don't need to develop a tradition here," said Baranczyk, the first-year women's basketball coach at Drake University. "We just need to re-ignite it."
Baranczyk will make the perfect fuse, said her college coach.
"What made her a great player is what is going to make her a great coach," said Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder. "She was a little undersized to play her position, both in height and in strength.� But she made up for it through her passion.
"She made up for it through hard work and the competitive fire that she brought to the game every single day on the court in practice and in every single game."
As Jennie Lillis, Baranczyk played at Iowa from 2000 through 2004. She is No. 4 on the school's all-time scoring chart with 1,762 points. She ranks fifth in blocks, sixth in rebounding, eighth in steals and 13th in assists.
A native of Des Moines (she was an all-stater at West Des Moines Dowling), Baranczyk served as an assistant at Kansas State, Marquette and Colorado. She was named the head coach at Drake in April.
"Drake is a very, very special place," Baranczyk said. "It's the capital city, a vibrant city. I love the feel of the university."
Baranczyk welcomes her coach to town when Drake (3-5) hosts Iowa (7-3) at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Knapp Center.
"This will be the first time I've ever rooted against Iowa," Baranczyk said.
The Hawkeyes have owned this series recently, winning 10 straight games. The Bulldogs were at a peak during Bluder's time there (187-106 in 10 years, ending in 2000), but the program has backtracked somewhat in recent years.
Baranczyk succeeded Amy Stephens. One priority is to make the attractive to in-state players. There are no Iowans on the current roster.
"I'm going to recruit Iowa, and I'm going to recruit the Midwest," she said.
Baranczyk is the mother of a 7-month-old son, Elijah. She said she has turned to Bluder about the balancing of career and family more than she has about X's and O's.
"I really value her perspective on that," Baranczyk said. "That's huge to me.
"And Coach Bluder is a great teacher of the game. Her teams are very disciplined."
Iowa will be playing its first game since Dec. 6, when it defeated Iowa State. Finals are over, and basketball is back."This is my favorite time of the year," Bluder said. "During holiday break, all you have to do is play basketball, eat, sleep and spend time with the team."
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Cleveland Nasty
COBRA VERDE SINGER-GUITARIST JOHN PETKOVIC HATES INDIE ROCK even more than you do, which is a bit surprising, considering that his first band, Death of Samantha, spent much of the '80s releasing albums on Gerard Cosloy's influential alterna-label Homestead. In fact, Death of Sam's sardonic rock revisionism on records like Strungout on Jargon and Where the Women Wear the Glory and the Men Wear the Pants was such a direct influence on indie icons Guided by Voices that Cobra Verde were enlisted as co-producers and backup band on GBV's Mag Earwhig! CD.
In contrast to GBV leader Robert Pollard's boozy, one-of-the-guys persona, Petkovic longs for the classic-rock days when musicians were untouchable, elegantly attired aristocrats, before punks came along and knocked Jimmy Page off his wizard's perch on a faraway, mystical mountain. Petkovic calls indie rock "a victim culture, the Achilles' heel personified," and laughs at the thought that modern rockers are presumably more honest because they dress drably.
"There's a lack of sincerity in Cobra Verde, as much artifice as there is authenticity," he says. "I still think of rock as rebellion, an expression of physical power and intellectual energy." There's plenty of both on C.V.'s latest, Nightlife (Motel Records), ranging from the confrontational pop melodicism of "Every God for Himself" and the Werner Herzoginspired "Don't Burden Me With Dreams," to the updated Brechtian cabaret of "Pontius Pilate." The band righteously see themselves in the swank and decadent glam tradition of Roxy Music and Mott the Hoople -- a connection that's furthered by legendary Iggy/Ziggy photographer Mick Rock's stylish, sexy Nightlife cover shots of Mick Ronson's daughter Lisa lolling in fishnets and feather boa in the back of a limousine, clutching a bottle of champagne. Yet Cobra Verde take their sound into the current century with Chas Smith's unexpected theremin-and-synth arrangements, Tom Waits sideman Ralph Carney's tar-pit-mired-mastodon sax squeals, as well as Petkovic's and Frank Vazzano's spooky electric-eel-guitar squiggles on "Conflict."
What really separates Cobra Verde from generic rock revivalists are Petkovic's unsentimental, witty lyrics ("Even machines have bad days"), which come off like angry fortune cookies bearing brutally honest survival advice ("Kill the dream/save the dreamer"). "Keep your feelings to yourself," he warns sensitive songwriters. "The only thing I like that's warm and fuzzy is my cat."
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Petkovic calls his group's attitude "Cleveland nasty," which he loosely translates as "Anyone who thinks their feet don't touch the ground, here we'll knock them down to the ground. Cleveland really is a two-bit town, a black hole, even in the music scene, because most bands have no ambition to go on tour. We're perceived as being part of this working-class, blue-collar economy, which doesn't have the East Coast veneer of sophistication. But it also gives you a good perspective on things, like the way Devo embraced this self-deprecating quality. You develop your own instincts in isolation."
He takes special delight in contrasting his hometown with New York City, turning the tables on the latter burg's snobbery: "New Yorkers are the most provincial yahoos you'll find. I've been to New York a million times, but how many New Yorkers have been to Cleveland? They don't even know how to drive! How are you going to be an American if you don't drive?" Worried that New Yorkers are missing out on the quintessential American pastime, he adds, "America is an island nation of tourists. America is meant to be seen through the windshield, so you can visualize it but never actually touch it."
GIVEN PETKOVIC'S SERBIAN BACKGROUND -- he's worked as an aide to Yugoslavia's exiled Crown Prince Alexander and is a commentator on a National Public Radio news program about the Balkans -- it's never clear on Nightlife if he's singing war songs about love or love songs about war. "Talking about love gives you the ability to be both conversational and dramatic in your language," he says. "The way people make love in America is the same way they make war -- from afar."
While he disses "alternative weeklies that aren't alternative," Petkovic's main gig is writing a column for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His bandmates maintain even more unusual careers. Synth player Smith is a professor of rock & roll at Cleveland State University and is also a board member of the Church of the SubGenius. Bassist Dave Hill is a wrestler in the town's thriving underground open-mike wrestling scene, and guitarist Vazzano designs juggling pins.
Asked if the Cleveland site of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has had any influence on Cobra Verde's music, Petkovic answers simply: "No."
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DETROIT – Faced with three virtual must-win games this week, the Detroit Red Wings delivered in the clutch.
The Red Wings maintained their own playoff destiny Thursday with a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators at Joe Louis Arena in their home finale, Detroit's third win in a row.
If the Columbus Blue Jackets lose to the Dallas Stars tonight, either in regulation, overtime or a shootout, the Red Wings will clinch a playoff spot, extending their postseason streak to 22 seasons.
If the Blue Jackets defeat the Stars in any fashion, the Red Wings would need to gain at least one point in their season finale Saturday at Dallas to wrap up a playoff spot (unless Minnesota fails to gain a point in its final two games).
The Red Wings, for the time being, moved to seventh place in the Western Conference with 54 points, one more than the Wild.
Dallas is eliminated from playoff contention.
Pavel Datsyuk had one goal and two assists, Johan Franzen had one goal and one assist. Valtteri Filppula, Patrick Eaves and Justin Abdelkader also scored for Detroit. Henrik Zetterberg had two assists. Jimmy Howard, making his 14th consecutive start, stopped 20 shots.
Nashville (16-22-9) was out of playoff contention a while ago and sits near the bottom of the Western Conference standings.
The Predators, in a surprise move, started backup goaltender Chris Mason, who was 1-5-1, with a 3.80 goals-against average and .848 save percentage entering the game.
The Red Wings scored three unanswered goals in the second period to take a 4-2 lead.
Franzen tied it at 2-2 with his 14th goal, his seventh in the past seven games, at 1:01, seconds after his team's power play expired. He roofed a shot from a sharp angle with little room to shoot.
Eaves snapped the tie at 3:41, one-timing a nice backhand pass from Jordin Tootoo, who did a good job maintaining control of the puck in the offensive zone. It was Eaves' second goal of the season.
Datsyuk gave his club a bit of a cushion with a power-play goal with 47 seconds remaining in the period. He rushed the puck into the zone and snapped a hard, low wrist shot from the high slot.
It was Datsyuk's team-leading 15th goal.
Abdelkader wrapped up the scoring with 3:59 to play in the third period, his 10th goal.
The Predators led 2-1 after the first period. The Red Wings had several chances but missed a couple of open nets and hit the goal post once.
Mike Fisher, back after missing seven games with an injury, converted on a two-on-one with Rich Clune at 1:46.
Detroit's Gustav Nyquist and Jakub Kindl each lost his stick on the play. Kindl tried to scramble back and break up the play, but to no avail.
Filppula tied it at 6:53. Daniel Cleary corralled the puck in the corner and passed to Johan Franzen. Franzen skated to the net and made a backhand pass to Filppula, who fired it in for his ninth goal this season and the 100th of his career.
The Red Wings took the first three penalties of the first period and got burned on the second one, when Craig Smith scored on the power play to snap a 1-1 tie at 12:30. He fired in a rebound from in front of the net.


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Bad News: Goghee To Go Taco is Closing. Awesome News: They're Reopening BIGGER!
News this morning from Goghee To Go, maker of Korean barbeque tacos at 2222 Inwood Road, is that the small drive through spot is now closed, but will open in a larger spot soon.
The Goghee on Inwood was about as unassuming as a Korean-Mexican fusion taco place could be. Their beef goghee "transvestite tacos" caused Cheap Bastard's brain to completely freak out. The combo of bold Korean spices with fresh pico, salsa and cabbage slaw tossed in a warm corn tortilla was a glorious mess. Then, there's the whole kimchee element.
And the tiny drive through was a little bit crazy. Actually, I'll miss it.
But, they're expanding to a larger space with seating, so that's a positive.
"We're moving to an INDOOR location at 635 and the Tollway at the former La Paloma Taco and Dunn Bros. Coffee space," said Janice with Goghee.
The official address is 4895 LBJ Freeway and they plan to open in about two months.
The new name will simply be Goghee. They're already working on the grand opening, which will surely involve more brain freak-out.
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Dealing with the surge of illegal immigrants into Texas is swallowing a lot of money in Austin and along the Rio Grande.
The cost has alarmed some lawmakers, including some who question the method Gov. Rick Perry has chosen to pay for deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the border.
And local officials in the Rio Grande Valley say they need help in offsetting humanitarian, law enforcement and other costs.
It would have been much better if Congress had completed action on emergency federal funding last week, but wishing for help from Congress is futile lately.
To be clear: These are expenses that the entire nation should bear. Immigration is a federal responsibility, not one that border states and their residents should assume or should have to carry.
At least two options are still available.
Congress will be back in session after Labor Day. The House and Senate could agree to funding that would reimburse Texas and the local communities that have been hit hard by the immigrant surge.
But, there we go again, wishing.
President Barack Obama has said that, failing action by Congress, he will take steps on his own to address immigration issues before the end of the summer. He could provide emergency funding to hard-hit areas.
Perry has chosen an unexpected way to pay initial costs of his National Guard deployment, one that his aides defended Tuesday at a meeting of the Legislative Budget Board.
The governor intends to take $38 million that the Legislature allocated for Department of Public Safety emergency radio communications upgrades.
In a report on the LBB meeting, The Texas Tribune quoted Mike Morrissey, the governor's deputy chief of staff and senior adviser, as saying $7 million will go back to the DPS to help pay for its expanded border operations.
The rest will pay for between two and three months of the National Guard deployment. Morrissey said the governor wants to work with legislators to find funding for even longer National Guard operations.
The money pit keeps getting deeper.