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- VIDEO: Newtown dad weeps at hearing
- VIDEO: Kampusch attends 3,096 Days premiere
- Benedict begins final day as pope before retiring
- Nevada Corporation Solely Owned By California Resident Dodges California Taxes
- Astronomers Measure How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
- VIDEO: Australia finds largest meth haul
- VIDEO: Celebrated US pianist Cliburn dies
- VIDEO: Kerry holds talks with Syrian opposition
- VIDEO: Celebrated US pianist Cliburn dies
- Indonesia finance minister says not being pushed out of job
- Terrorized ethnic group to form force in Pakistan
- China To Erect Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days? Not So Fast
- The World's Tallest Buildings
- Get On Down Co-Founder Matt Welch On Physical Music and Rap Re-issues
- NBA legend visits North Korea
- Indonesia finance minister says not being pushed out of job
- EMC Greenplum Brings SQL to Hadoop
- VIDEO: Blair calls for UK intervention in Syria
- VIDEO: Pope Benedict's retirement nears
- VIDEO: Three dead in Swiss factory shooting
| VIDEO: Newtown dad weeps at hearing Posted: 27 Feb 2013 08:14 PM PST Neil Heslin, the father of a boy slain in a mass school shooting in December, has broken down in tears at a US Senate hearing on a proposed assault weapons ban. |
| VIDEO: Kampusch attends 3,096 Days premiere Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:28 PM PST Natascha Kampusch has attended some of the first screenings of a film based on her kidnap ordeal |
| Benedict begins final day as pope before retiring Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:21 PM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is beginning a final quiet day as pontiff, meeting with his cardinals before flying off into retirement. |
| Nevada Corporation Solely Owned By California Resident Dodges California Taxes Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:18 PM PST The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) held that a Nevada Company was commercially domiciled in California because it was owned by the California resident. The FTB assessed total California taxes, interest and penalties in the amount over $2.27 million for the years 1997 and 1998. |
| Astronomers Measure How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:59 PM PST For the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a supermassive black hole spins - which is fast enough to push the limits of the laws of physics. |
| VIDEO: Australia finds largest meth haul Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:51 PM PST Australian police say they have made their largest-ever seizure of the drug methamphetamine hidden in a shipment from southern China |
| VIDEO: Celebrated US pianist Cliburn dies Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:41 PM PST Van Cliburn, the renowned American classical pianist, has died aged 78. |
| VIDEO: Kerry holds talks with Syrian opposition Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:36 PM PST US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Rome for his first meeting with key figures in the Syrian opposition. |
| VIDEO: Celebrated US pianist Cliburn dies Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:41 PM PST Van Cliburn, the renowned American classical pianist, has died aged 78. |
| Indonesia finance minister says not being pushed out of job Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:38 PM PST
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| Terrorized ethnic group to form force in Pakistan Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:49 PM PST
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| China To Erect Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days? Not So Fast Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:49 PM PST It's hard not to be impressed by this 2011 video of a 15-storey tower going up in China in just 30 days. Ignore the pompous music and marvel at the night-becomes-day pace. The trick, if you can call it that, lies in the prefabrication of steel-and-concrete blocks that can be hoisted into position, just as bricks form a wall. Think Lego meets PC. Modular buildings aren't new, but the technique wasn't seen as applicable to skyscrapers until Broad Sustainable Building entered the picture. Based in Changsha, central China, Broad ('Yuanda') is known for making giant air-con systems; its founder and CEO Zhang Yue has built an estimated fortune of $860 million. In 2008, Zhang began experimenting with prefab construction that he says makes for buildings that are cheaper to build and consume less concrete and water. Architects have taken note of Broad's innovative approach rather than its aesthetics: the buildings are barely distinguishable from others in China's drab cityscapes. Zhang is a self-taught engineer, not an architect, and it shows. |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:49 PM PST |
| Get On Down Co-Founder Matt Welch On Physical Music and Rap Re-issues Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:48 PM PST Personality can go a long way in the music industry, even during a time of instability. Matt Welch, who co-founded Boston-based label Get On Down, can attest to that fact: In the past few years Get On Down has become a premiere reissue imprint known best for its impressive and creative re-packaging of beloved rap albums. The label has released a box-set version of GZA's Liquid Swords that includes a chess set, revived Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... in its fetishized purple-colored cassette format, and earlier this week it dropped a new version of Ghostface Killah's Ironman that comes with a puzzle of the album's artwork. At a time when musicians and labels often bend their wills to the digital marketplace Get On Down has carved out a niche by focusing on the physical product. |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2013 08:52 AM PST Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman and three members of the famed Harlem Globetrotters arrived in North Korea Tuesday to "entertain and inspire" with their basketball skills while they film a TV show. |
| Indonesia finance minister says not being pushed out of job Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:38 PM PST JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's finance minister denied on Thursday that he was being pushed out his job, dismissing speculation that he was being shifted to the post of central bank governor because he had crossed swords with politically powerful businessmen. |
| EMC Greenplum Brings SQL to Hadoop Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:09 PM PST Back in January, I wrote a blog post on how we, as an industry will need to combat the Big Data skills shortage. One of the ways I suggested was to bring traditional capabilities, methods and approaches to Big Data (namely Hadoop). On February 25, 2013, Greenplum (a division of EMC) launched PivotalHD. PivotalHD brings standard SQL to Hadoop. This means that databsae administrators (DBAs) who have spent a career building up their database skills on relational databases, such as Oracle, IBM DB/2, and Sybase can take those skills and apply them to the Hadoop world. This is a major leap in the acceptance of Hadoop in the enterprise. Hadoop engineers and contributors can work as hard as they want to harden Hadoop for the enterprise, but without the necessary skill set to put it into production, the efforts would be for naught. What this means is that one of the major hurdles for enterprise adoption of Big Data (and in this context, Hadoop) has been taken away. The marriage of SQL and Hadoop can be viewed much like the royal marriages that took place for dynasties and bloodlines to continue. I heard a beautiful phrase from the TV series In Plain Sight recently, "two nerds don't make a right". SQL "nerds" are about querying relational databases. Hadoop "nerds" about breaking down the prescriptive relational nature of data management. Bringing these "two nerds" together is an oxymoron. But combined, it actually provides enterprises with the necessary runway to evolve themselves into a much more dynamic and competitive organizations; better able to relate to its customers and create value through innovation. Much of the revenue opportunities available for Big Data vendors is in helping traditional enterprises evolve to the next generation software defined data management data center. Bringing SQL and Hadoop together allows enterprises to do just that; and it is very likely that this will lower the barrier to entry for Big Data. Neuralytix wrote a Communiqué on this very topic. Click here to view it. |
| VIDEO: Blair calls for UK intervention in Syria Posted: 27 Feb 2013 09:00 AM PST Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Newsnight's Kirsty Wark he believes Britain should be taking a far stronger line on Syria. |
| VIDEO: Pope Benedict's retirement nears Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:03 PM PST Pope Benedict XVI will retire on Thursday - the first pope to abdicate since Gregory XII in 1415. |
| VIDEO: Three dead in Swiss factory shooting Posted: 27 Feb 2013 02:26 PM PST Three people have been killed and seven injured during a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, police have said. |
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