HP DAT-160 An Ideal Storage Device For All Small Businesses

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The computers have changed the structure of record keeping. But since a computer is a machine, it is very likely that a technical problem can take place. The technological innovations have enabled the companies to secure a safe position. Be it any sort of business, the installation of backup technology has become the most integral part of securing the company from facing huge losses not only in terms of time but also in terms of monetary value. The backup medium used for storing duplicate copy allows the companies to avoid facing the disaster resulting from the malfunctioning of computers. These backup datasets provide the users a source for data recovery in case the computers crash down.

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When talking about the backup tapes, the most essential questions pertain to the storage capacity and the transfer rate of the tape. HP DAT-160 cartridge provides the options to store as much as 80 GB of raw data and because of the availability of the compression feature, a maximum of 160 GB of compressed data can easily be stored on the tape and supports a transfer rate of 12 MB per second. A more attractive feature of this DAT-160 solution is the physical size of the tape. The tape, because of its compact dimensions and light weight, has made it comfortable for the users to carry it.

The executives of the companies can always keep a copy with them even in their jackets of bags. Another interesting feature of HP DAT-160 drive is that it provides an option of backwards compatibility. This option enables the companies to rewrite or store the data from the older versions of the HP-DAT tapes to this new version without any headache.

This tape system can be conveniently used like USB drive. Also the availability of one button data recovery (OBDR) makes the tape drive one of its kind. This feature allows you to restore your entire system with maximum efficiency and reliability. HP DAT-160 is an ideal solution to your data recovery problems.

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The Economist ranks Russian education as world N 20: Voice of ...

For its ranking the Economist uses a rather complex formula which comprises many factors. In particular, it covers not only higher educational institutions but also secondary schools, so it is possible to judge about the situation with education in in general. The Economist also provides a social-economic context of the situation in a given country. That is why it is possible to have a more objective view about achievements in education in any country, Denis Konanchyuk, head of the Skolkovo educational projects center says.

"The research used additional indicators which refer not to education but to economy and this gave Russia several points. Besides that we are ranking quite high on this list thanks to our traditionally strong system of secondary school education. This rating uses PISA and TIMSS tests which evaluate skills and knowledge of schoolchildren."

For QS World University Rankings the main indicators are the results of scientific research, number of references in international scientific literature, publications in international journals and scientific awards. Here Russian higher education institutions are not the leaders. Just like the education the Russian science is partially isolated from the rest of the world. Professors and students are not fluent enough in English that is why their achievements first of all become known in domestic scientific circles. However in September QS World University Ranking Russia slightly improved.

There are also other studies which provide a more precise picture, Irina Abankina, head of the Institute of Education development under the Higher School of Economics told the ?Voice Of Russia?.

"The UN has a ranking of life quality, which also covers education. It also takes into consideration political freedoms, healthcare, life expectancy and respectively the quality of education. On this list Russia ranks 30th of 129 countries."

According to Carsten Sprenger from International College of Economics and Finance,Russia can top many education rankings on condition that it solves a number of issues.Russian universities have many good lecturers, the Russian school of Mathematics is very strong but the Russian education system lacks an efficient organization of teaching process, openness, readiness to attract foreign lecturers and to send their people abroad. If these problems are solved in ten year the picture will be different, Carsten Sprenger says.

Source: http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_11_28/The-Economist-ranks-Russian-education-as-world-N-20/

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Rihanna's "Unapologetic" tops Billboard album chart

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Rihanna shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Tuesday with her seventh record "Unapologetic," scoring her first No. 1 album despite mixed reviews.

"Unapologetic," which topped iTunes charts in 43 countries just hours after its release on November19, sold 238,000 copies according to Billboard, scoring the 24-year-old singer from Barbados her best opening sales week to date.

The album's lead single "Diamonds" landed at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart last week, giving Rihanna her 12th No. 1 single and tying her with Madonna and The Supremes for the fourth-most chart-topping singles in Billboard history.

"Unapologetic" left some critics unsettled by the singer's harder sound and close-to-home lyrics. One track in particular that had everyone talking is "Nobody's Business," Rihanna's collaboration with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who was charged with assaulting her three years ago.

The album has been promoted extensively by Rihanna, who embarked on a seven day tour across seven cities around the world, accompanied by a plane full of fans and journalists.

The full Billboard charts will be released on Wednesday.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy, editing by Jill Serjeant)

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PHOTO: Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Models for Guess

Dannielynn Birkhead, the daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith, is already walking in her mother's shoes. The 6-year-old has taken a gig modeling for Guess, a company that hired Smith as a model in the '90s.

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Seattle Seahawks cornerbacks Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner continue to deny that they have ever taken performance-enhancing substances despite facing four-game suspensions for testing positive.

According to Mike Garafolo of the USA Today, Sherman is saying that he unknowingly ingested Adderall prescribed to a teammate according to a person familiar with Sherman?s explanation. Sherman?s agent, Kevin Poston, would not speak on the specifics of the case but when presented with the scenario described Poston said, ?What appears is not always the case. Hopefully, when the facts come out, justice will prevail.?

Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network also reported the scenario described by Garafolo.

Sherman, however, is completely denying that?s what took place. In a series of texts Monday night, Sherman disputed the accounts being reported by the USA Today and NFL Network.

?It?s totally false,? Sherman said. ?It will be resolved in time and I have never taken anything.?

Sherman has denied ever taking Adderall since the suspensions were first reported on Sunday.

Browner?s agent, Peter Schaffer, also denied the claims against him client.

?I can tell you that Brandon Browner has no knowledge of how any illegal substance could have gotten into his system,? Schaffer said. ??He takes tremendous care of his body and he is very careful with what he puts into it. We?re exploring all avenues to try and figure out how any substance out of the ordinary would be in his system.?

Per Garafolo, Browner is already in the league?s substance-abuse program following an undisclosed incident while playing for the Denver Broncos in 2005. Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com was on Sports Radio KJR in Seattle Monday morning and relayed Browner?s denial of taking any performance-enhancing substance knowing how frequently he is tested due to being in the substance-abuse program.

?[Browner]?s someone who?s tested regularly; up to three times a week,? La Canfora said. ?So he?s told people, ?look, I knew what I was up against. I don?t even drink a beer because I?m so wary of having a positive for anything.? So he?s been adamant that ?I?m not on anything. I?ve gone out of my way not to put any sort of substance, supplement, or anything other than what you would normally eat and drink.??

Schaffer said they received notice from the league about the positive tests last week. He said normally hearings for these matters are usually scheduled within 20 days of the notice being sent but circumstances could require it to take longer. Schaffer said he wasn?t sure how long it would take for this particular hearing to come about.

?It?s too early to tell what we?re going to need, what witnesses and evidence and experts are going to be required so there is no way to even guess at this point,? he said.

Until those appeals are resolved, both Browner and Sherman are eligible to play for the Seahawks. Head coach Pete Carroll said Monday that he fully expects to have them available for this Sunday?s game against the Chicago Bears.

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Pakistani TV anchor survives attempted bombing

Pakistanis gather at the site of a bomb blast, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. A bomb hidden in a cement construction block exploded in the southern city of Karachi killing at least one person and injuring several others, a police official said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistanis gather at the site of a bomb blast, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. A bomb hidden in a cement construction block exploded in the southern city of Karachi killing at least one person and injuring several others, a police official said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

An unidentified man comforts Ali Mohammad, mourning the death of his father killed in a bomb blast, outside his residence in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. A bomb hidden in a cement construction block exploded in the southern city of Karachi killing at least one person and injuring several others, a police official said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Police on Monday found and defused a bomb planted under the car of a prominent Pakistani TV anchor threatened by the Taliban for his coverage of a schoolgirl shot by the militants, police said.

The bomb was made up of half a kilogram (one pound) of explosives stuffed in a tin can, said Bani Amin, the police chief in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, where the incident occurred. It was placed in a bag and attached to the bottom of Mir's car, said Amin.

One of Mir's neighbors noticed the bomb under the car after the TV anchor returned from a local market, and the police were notified, said Rana Jawad, a senior official at Geo TV.

No group has claimed responsibility.

The Pakistani Taliban threatened Mir and other journalists last month over their coverage of an assassination attempt against Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old schoolgirl activist who was shot in the head by the militants in the northwest Swat Valley.

The Taliban targeted Malala for criticizing the militant group and promoting secular girls' education, which is opposed by the Islamist extremists. She is recovering in Britain.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik offered 50 million rupees ($500,000) for information about those responsible for the attempted attack against Mir.

The anchor said on TV after the incident that it would not deter him from speaking the truth.

"It was proven today that the Protector is more powerful than the attacker," said Mir.

He said he wasn't prepared to blame the Taliban for the attempted bombing, claiming he had received threats from others as well.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, a bomb hidden in a cement construction block exploded in the southern city of Karachi, killing one person, said senior police officer Farooq Awan. Four other people were wounded, he said.

The bomb contained about one kilogram (two pounds) of explosives and was detonated by a mobile phone, Awan said.

Pakistan suspended mobile phone service throughout most of the country on Saturday and Sunday to prevent attacks against Shiite Muslims during a major religious commemoration.

Despite the ban, a pair of bombings over the weekend killed at least 13 people.

Awan said he suspected the bomb in Karachi was meant to target Shiites over the weekend, but militants were not able to detonate it at the time because of the mobile phone cutoff.

Shiites are observing the holy month of Muharram. Pakistani Shiites on Sunday marked Ashoura, the most important day of the month.

Pakistan has a long history of Sunni Muslim extremists targeting Shiites, whom they consider heretics.

Also Monday, police said 16 addicts have died in the eastern city of Lahore after drinking cough syrup suspected of being toxic, said police officer Multan Khan.

Khan said they died at various hospitals in Lahore over the past three days. Two people were still being treated at the city's main hospital.

Police arrested the owners of three drug stores where the cough syrup was sold and sent a sample for analysis to determine whether it was toxic, Khan said.

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Associated Press writers Adil Jawad in Karachi, Pakistan, and Zaheer Babar in Lahore, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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How To Use Online Public Relations To Promote Your Business ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Internet sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google give businesses a platform to announce new product launches, special promotions and changes within the business. Status updates can be done on a daily or weekly basis ...

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Local businesses take spotlight for Small Business Saturday ...

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SALISBURY - The biggest shopping day of the year may be over for large retailers, but today, small businesses hope it's their turn.

Scott Coleman, who runs Dead Ed's on East Innes Street in Salisbury, said he doesn't look forward to Black Friday when business is slow for the alternative clothing store.

Instead, he's been waiting for the day after.

"Black Friday is the big box store day, so that's what everybody does," Coleman said. "I hope Small Business Saturday makes up for what the big box stores get to do."

Gov. Beverly Perdue has proclaimed today as Small Business Saturday in North Carolina. Consumers are encouraged to use the Saturday after Thanksgiving, between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, to shop at small businesses around the state.

It's part of a growing national event dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.

For the third year in a row, American Express is promoting Small Business Saturday by offering a $25 statement credit. Cardmembers must first enroll their card at www.shopsmall.com, then use it today to spend $25 or more on a single in-store transaction at a qualifying small business.

An interactive map, available at www.shopsmall.com, can help shoppers find local small businesses that accept American Express cards where they can redeem the offer.

Those businesses include restaurants, coffee shops, retail stores and other locally operated establishments.

Jennie Pfaff, owner of Tranqwool Knitting Provisions on South Salisbury Avenue in Spencer, said the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is extremely important for her shop.

"Half of my customers are knitting things for Christmas," she said. "There's this huge run up to Christmas where everybody's knitting and trying to get their gifts done."

Pfaff said she appreciates the recent push to buy American and shop local, and businesses like hers are eager to meet that growing demand.

The Green Goat Gallery shares a building with Tranqwool and also depends on the holiday season for an end-of-year boost. Owner Anne Waters said more shoppers start coming in this time of year looking for unique art pieces.

"A lot of ours are destination gifts or special occasion gifts, and those large purchases are certainly crucial to our business," Waters said.

She said the gallery is starting its holiday open house this weekend, complete with hot apple cider.

Pam Coffield, owner of Stichin' Post Gifts on South Main Street in Salisbury, said shoppers can avoid the holiday season's traffic and crowds by going to local stores.

"You may not realize it, but there are so many cute boutique shops in downtown Salisbury and so many places to eat," Coffield said. "There are so many good places right here under our noses. ... It's so much more fun to stay right here."

Contact reporter Karissa Minn at 704-797-4222.

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Las Vegas Real Estate Blog: Bank Foreclosures Start Again in Las ...

First, a little background:

Most large banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are members of MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registration System. This system allows a third party entity, like Recon Trust, to transfer notes between members of the system without recording the deed of trust into the new note holder?s name. So the name on the deed of trust and the name of the new note holder do not match since MERS was not required to record these documents. This made it difficult, if not impossible, for a homeowner facing foreclosure to actually find out who was foreclosing on them and try to work out an agreement. Many homeowners were foreclosed upon without ever being able to contact the existing note holder.
So in light of these national ?robo signing? scandals, Nevada was among 11 states that enacted legislation to protect homeowners and regulate illegal foreclosure activity. In Nevada, Assembly Bill 284 was passed which required a bank employee to sign an affidavit stating that to the employee?s personal knowledge all previous transfers of the note were correct before the bank could start the foreclosure process.
Since there is no bank employee that could possibly attest to previous transfers of a note, AB284 effectively stopped the Las Vegas bank foreclosure process in Nevada, and foreclosure filings dropped from around 6,000 per month to less than 1,000. (Not all banks were affected by AB284 since they were not members of the MERS system.)

In October of 2012, however, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that banks using the MERS system would be able to foreclose on properties as long as the note holder and the name on the deed of trust matched prior to the foreclosure sale. ?This ruling will allow the third party entities used by MERS to record a deed of trust in the name of the current note holder and consummate the foreclosure process. Recording the deed of trust gives homeowners the opportunity to contact the note holder and work out a settlement, but doesn't allow them a "free ride" to stay in their homes indefinitely with no payment.

What this means for the Las Vegas real estate market:
The housing inventory has been at an extreme low for the past eight months, with bank owned foreclosures of Las Vegas single family homes accounting for only 10% of the active listings at any given time. Active short sales account for about 20% of the active single family listings and the rest are ?real? sellers. It?s a ?seller?s? market, prices have risen steadily since January, there are multiple offers on most listings within days of coming on the market, and buyers are finding it difficult to make a purchase unless they bid above appraised value. ??

Banks have started the foreclosure process again, and we do expect new inventory to begin?hitting the market after the first of the year, probably in or March or April. However, the banks do still have very stringent hoops to jump through, and there is no huge wave expected all at one time. Still, there should be more?listings on the market, allowing frustrated homebuyers the opportunity to finally get an offer accepted. Hopefully we will get back to a more balanced market that remains steady for the next few years. A balanced market is better for both buyers and sellers and the local economy.

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California city building "tsunami-resistant" port

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large backhoe repairing damage caused by the March, 2011 tsunami at the boat basin in Crescent City, Calif. Once it overcomes some construction setbacks, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large backhoe repairing damage caused by the March, 2011 tsunami at the boat basin in Crescent City, Calif. Once it overcomes some construction setbacks, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large driling rig, at right, waiting for a custom drill bit to install bigger and stronger dock pilings to take the place of docks destroyed by the 2011 tsunami from Japan. Once it overcomes some construction delays, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. Due to the formation of the sea floor and the configuration of the harbor, Crescent City regularly takes the biggest hit of any port on the West Coast from tsunamis, whether they come from Chile, Alaska or Japan. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

A March 12, 2011 photo shows sunken and damaged boats in the boat basin at Crescent City, Calif., after a powerful tsunami sent repeated surges that broke up docks and tore loose boats. After one tsunami after another over the decades, the port hopes that repairs under way will make the harbor able to withstand a similar tsunami in the future. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

CRESCENT CITY, California (AP) ? It doesn't matter if the earth sways in Chile, Alaska or Japan, the formation of the sea floor along the U.S. West Coast generally aims any tsunami surges at the tiny California port town of Crescent City. Churning water rushes into the boat basin and then rushes out, lifting docks off their pilings, tearing boats loose and leaving the city's main economic engine looking as if it has been bombed.

That's what happened in March 2011, when a Japanese earthquake sparked a tsunami that sank 11 boats, damaged 47 others and destroyed two-thirds of the harbor's docks.

Port officials are hoping that tsunami is among the last of many that have forced major repairs in Crescent City, a tiny commercial fishing village on California's rugged northern coast. Officials are spending $54 million to build the West Coast's first harbor able to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit once every 50 years ? the same kind that hit in 2011, when the highest surge in the boat basin measured 8.1 feet (2.5 meters) and currents were estimated at 22 feet (6.7 meters) per second.

Officials are building 244 new steel pilings that will be 30 inches (76 centimeters) in diameter and 70 feet (21 meters) long. Thirty feet (9 meters) or more will be sunk into bedrock. The dock nearest the entrance will be 16 feet (5 meters) long and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep to dampen incoming waves. The pilings will extend 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the water so that surges 7 ? feet (2.3 meters) up and 7 ? feet down will not rip docks loose.

Crescent City was not the only West Coast port slammed by the tsunami, which was generated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan. The waves ripped apart docks and sank boats in Santa Cruz, California, and did similar damage in Brookings, Oregon, just north of Crescent City. But their geographical location doesn't make them as vulnerable to multiple tsunamis.

"Normally, Crescent City takes the hit for all of us," said Brookings harbormaster Ted Fitzgerald.

Since a tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small. It typically suffers the most damage and the highest waves on the West Coast, said Lori Dengler, professor of geology at Humboldt State University.

The sea floor funnels surges into the mouth of Crescent City's harbor, and the harbor's configuration magnifies them, experts say.

A wave generated by an earthquake in Alaska on Good Friday, 1964, killed 11 people and wiped out 29 city blocks. That was 10 years before the boat basin was even built.

When the waves hit in 2011, the port was still repairing damages from a tsunami that hit in 2006. Officials already had a plan for dealing with future tsunamis, said Ward Stover, owner of Stover Engineering in Crescent City, which put together the plan.

With no tsunami building codes, Stover said the state of California and Crescent City decided to prepare for the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. They rejected as too expensive building a tidal gate to close off the mouth of the harbor or trying to survive a powerful tsunami like the one that hit in 1964. Instead, they planned to make the docks strong enough to ride out the most likely surges.

"It's tsunami-resistant, not tsunami-proof," Stover said.

Construction has been marked by one delay after another. Government funding was slow, and a custom-built drill bit for installing the extra-strength pilings deep in bedrock broke. So authorities switched to installing temporary docks the old-fashioned way, by pounding in the pilings, to get them through the winter. Many of the 60 commercial fishing boats based in Crescent City are still mooring in the outer harbor. Others have to make do without water or electricity.

The March 2011 tsunami was a wake-up call for communities up and down the West Coast. Many improved tsunami evacuation plans and held mock evacuations.

But some experts say the West Coast is still not taking the threat seriously enough.

"Many ports on the West Coast are in denial as to their tsunami hazard," said Costas Synolakis, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California.

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Jeff Barnard can be reached at https://twitter.com/JeffBarnardAP

Associated Press

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California city building "tsunami-resistant" port

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large backhoe repairing damage caused by the March, 2011 tsunami at the boat basin in Crescent City, Calif. Once it overcomes some construction setbacks, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large backhoe repairing damage caused by the March, 2011 tsunami at the boat basin in Crescent City, Calif. Once it overcomes some construction setbacks, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

An Oct. 26, 2012 photo shows a large driling rig, at right, waiting for a custom drill bit to install bigger and stronger dock pilings to take the place of docks destroyed by the 2011 tsunami from Japan. Once it overcomes some construction delays, the port hopes to have the West Coast's first harbor designed to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. Due to the formation of the sea floor and the configuration of the harbor, Crescent City regularly takes the biggest hit of any port on the West Coast from tsunamis, whether they come from Chile, Alaska or Japan. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

A March 12, 2011 photo shows sunken and damaged boats in the boat basin at Crescent City, Calif., after a powerful tsunami sent repeated surges that broke up docks and tore loose boats. After one tsunami after another over the decades, the port hopes that repairs under way will make the harbor able to withstand a similar tsunami in the future. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

CRESCENT CITY, California (AP) ? It doesn't matter if the earth sways in Chile, Alaska or Japan, the formation of the sea floor along the U.S. West Coast generally aims any tsunami surges at the tiny California port town of Crescent City. Churning water rushes into the boat basin and then rushes out, lifting docks off their pilings, tearing boats loose and leaving the city's main economic engine looking as if it has been bombed.

That's what happened in March 2011, when a Japanese earthquake sparked a tsunami that sank 11 boats, damaged 47 others and destroyed two-thirds of the harbor's docks.

Port officials are hoping that tsunami is among the last of many that have forced major repairs in Crescent City, a tiny commercial fishing village on California's rugged northern coast. Officials are spending $54 million to build the West Coast's first harbor able to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit once every 50 years ? the same kind that hit in 2011, when the highest surge in the boat basin measured 8.1 feet (2.5 meters) and currents were estimated at 22 feet (6.7 meters) per second.

Officials are building 244 new steel pilings that will be 30 inches (76 centimeters) in diameter and 70 feet (21 meters) long. Thirty feet (9 meters) or more will be sunk into bedrock. The dock nearest the entrance will be 16 feet (5 meters) long and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep to dampen incoming waves. The pilings will extend 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the water so that surges 7 ? feet (2.3 meters) up and 7 ? feet down will not rip docks loose.

Crescent City was not the only West Coast port slammed by the tsunami, which was generated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan. The waves ripped apart docks and sank boats in Santa Cruz, California, and did similar damage in Brookings, Oregon, just north of Crescent City. But their geographical location doesn't make them as vulnerable to multiple tsunamis.

"Normally, Crescent City takes the hit for all of us," said Brookings harbormaster Ted Fitzgerald.

Since a tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small. It typically suffers the most damage and the highest waves on the West Coast, said Lori Dengler, professor of geology at Humboldt State University.

The sea floor funnels surges into the mouth of Crescent City's harbor, and the harbor's configuration magnifies them, experts say.

A wave generated by an earthquake in Alaska on Good Friday, 1964, killed 11 people and wiped out 29 city blocks. That was 10 years before the boat basin was even built.

When the waves hit in 2011, the port was still repairing damages from a tsunami that hit in 2006. Officials already had a plan for dealing with future tsunamis, said Ward Stover, owner of Stover Engineering in Crescent City, which put together the plan.

With no tsunami building codes, Stover said the state of California and Crescent City decided to prepare for the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years. They rejected as too expensive building a tidal gate to close off the mouth of the harbor or trying to survive a powerful tsunami like the one that hit in 1964. Instead, they planned to make the docks strong enough to ride out the most likely surges.

"It's tsunami-resistant, not tsunami-proof," Stover said.

Construction has been marked by one delay after another. Government funding was slow, and a custom-built drill bit for installing the extra-strength pilings deep in bedrock broke. So authorities switched to installing temporary docks the old-fashioned way, by pounding in the pilings, to get them through the winter. Many of the 60 commercial fishing boats based in Crescent City are still mooring in the outer harbor. Others have to make do without water or electricity.

The March 2011 tsunami was a wake-up call for communities up and down the West Coast. Many improved tsunami evacuation plans and held mock evacuations.

But some experts say the West Coast is still not taking the threat seriously enough.

"Many ports on the West Coast are in denial as to their tsunami hazard," said Costas Synolakis, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California.

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Jeff Barnard can be reached at https://twitter.com/JeffBarnardAP

Associated Press

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Gay marriage approved by popular vote in Maine, Maryland

In an historic election night for the gay rights movement, voters in Maine and Maryland became the first in the country to approve same-sex marriage, breaking a 32-state losing streak.

According to the Associated Press, Maine passed a ballot measure legalizing it on Tuesday night?an issue put on the ballot by gay marriage supporters?while voters in Maryland approved a law legalizing gay marriage that was actually passed earlier this year by the state legislature. The Washington Post reports that gay couples in Maryland will be able to wed starting Jan. 1.

Gay marriage is on the ballot in four states. Voters in Washington state are weighing in on a similar referendum, while Minnesota voters are deciding whether to add an amendment banning gay marriage to the state constitution.

"It's hard to overstate the national significance of this vote," Mark Solomon, the national campaign director of Freedom to Marry, which supports gay marriage, said in a statement about the Maine initiative. "For years, our opponents have argued that we could not win a majority vote at the ballot. Today, Maine voters proved them wrong, standing up for the Golden Rule and for freedom for all Mainers."

Maine and Maryland join six other states?Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Iowa, Vermont, New York and Connecticut?and the District of Columbia to allow gay marriage.

Tuesday's election was the first time gay marriage was on the ballot since President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to declare his support for it in May. It also marked another milestone for gay rights advocates: Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay candidate elected to the U.S. Senate.

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Google Nexus 10 vs. Microsoft Surface - News - Know Your Cell

With Google's Nexus 10 slate finally up for preorder on Google Play, some tech nerds are already proclaiming it to be the best tablet on the market. All this bluster without much to go on.

While there?s no escaping the fact that the Nexus 10 is one impressive tablet, we wanted to see how it stacks up against Microsoft's offering: the Microsoft Surface. Does it have as much functionality? Is the software better? How is the design?

Read on for the answer to those questions below!

Design

The design found on the Nexus 10 and Surface is quite different, but let's start with the Surface first. The Surface is very thin and extremely light. The Surface also has an industrial build and feels nice in the hand.

The Google Nexus 10, meanwhile, features a more clunky design in comparison. It has a considerable amount of bezel and a light, black unibody frame. It feels very light in the hand, yet durable.

Winner -- Microsoft Surface! Both devices have unique designs, but the Nexus is just clunky and looks like a last generation device.

Specs

Now it's time for the spec battle. Microsoft's Surface runs on a NVIDIA Tegra T30 processor. This is a huge deal because it is a step above the all-powerful Tegra 3. The device also makes excellent use of the PowerVR GPU, which delivers solid gaming performance at reasonable temperatures, and the device has 2GB of RAM.

The Surface comes in three flavors: 32GB without Touch Cover, 32GB with Touch Cover and 64GB with Touch Cover. The Surface does not come in any smaller size, sorry.

The Nexus 10, on the other hand, is powered by the quad-core Exynos 5 CPU, clocked to 1.2GHz. The slate comes in 16GB and 32GB variants. Like the Surface, the Nexus 10 doesn't have support for external storage.

Winner -- Google Nexus 10, hands down! The Exynos 5 CPU blows any Tegra CPU out of the water and is extremely powerful.

Screen

The Surface features a larger 10.6-inch HD display, ?which operates at a pixel density of 306PPI. That's quite a bit less than the 326PPI found on the iPad. From what I can tell, though, it's a good display.

In comparison, the Google Nexus 10 sports a dazzling 2560 x 1600 high resolution display. HD movies are more vivid and photos will look as clear as the day you took them on the device. Does the Nexus 10 screen match the Surface's display? Absolutely.

Winner -- Google Nexus 10

Software

Microsoft's Surface is powered by Windows 8, and while the operating system is still the most user friendly and polished in the land, it is a bit one dimensional and a little boring. The Nexus 10 runs Android 4.2, Google's all-new mobile OS.

Android 4.2 is similar to Jelly Bean, offering just a few more tweaks, including a new Google Now app and home screen UI. It is equal to, if not better than Windows 8.

So who wins in terms of software? I think the advantage here goes to Microsoft. Windows 8 is simply more versatile and there are probably more tablet apps available already.

Winner -- Microsoft Surface

Camera

The Microsoft Surface sports all-new front- and rear-facing shooters. The cameras are pretty good, according to reports, and can record in 720p HD. They also take good stills. Not much information is available on the Surface cameras.

Google's Nexus 10 offers a 5-megapixel rear camera, and a secondary 2.0-megapixel front-facing camera that is capable of 720P video capture! The Nexus 10 also has a much improved camera app that offers HDR mode.

Winner -- Google Nexus 10

And the overall winner is...

Microsoft Surface

The devices are, in most areas, fairly evenly matched, but the Surface just seems to have more polish and more apps. Again, this is from what I can tell thus far. No review has been done yet.

While the Surface might be better, the choice between the two devices is largely subjective. They both offer an excellent experience, so don't discount the Nexus 10 just yet.

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Judge orders 1 Fla. county to extend early voting

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ? A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county Sunday after Democrats sued to allow more time in a presidential battleground state where more than 4 million ballots have already been cast. The move was one of many legal skirmishes in the tight contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to deal with inevitable disputes over balloting.

Some Florida voters had stood in long lines Saturday, the last scheduled day of early voting. The judge ruled on a lawsuit filed late Saturday in Orange County after an early voting site was shut down for several hours. The Winter Park library was evacuated when a suspicious package ? a cooler ? was found outside. It was later detonated by a local bomb squad.

Orange County is part of the state's Interstate 4 corridor, a populous "swing" region that often determines the outcome of close elections.

A spokesman for the state Republican Party said it would not challenge the decision.

The Florida conflict was just the latest to emerge in a presidential race whose winner may be determined by how many people take advantage of early voting. Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia now allow early balloting, including Florida, whose 29 electoral votes make it the largest of the closely fought battlegrounds.

Early voting has been central to the Obama campaign's efforts to win Florida and other swing states. More Democrats than Republicans tend to vote early, and a sizable advantage among early voters in Florida in 2008 helped Obama defeat Republican rival John McCain by 3 points, 51 percent-48 percent.

Early voting in Ohio, this year's most closely-fought swing state, has also been a source of legal wrangling.

A federal appeals court last month reinstated early voting on the last 3 days before Tuesday's election, handing a victory to the Obama campaign. The ruling overturned a state law saying early voting should end on the Friday before the election, making an exception only for voters living overseas and for military personnel, who tend to favor Republican candidates.

The Romney campaign has advocated for early balloting rights of military voters. Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi last month sent letters to officials in four states, including Wisconsin, a presidential battleground, demanding the deadline for receiving ballots from military personnel and overseas voters be extended.

And in Iowa, the Republican National Committee asked election officials to investigate claims of absentee ballot misuse by Democrats.

But Florida's early voting program was the main focus in the campaign's final weekend, with memories of the state's disputed 2000 presidential vote between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush still fresh.

Besides the Orange County challenge, Democrats filed a federal lawsuit Sunday seeking more voting time in Broward County and in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, where balloting didn't wrap up until early Sunday morning to accommodate voters still standing in long lines when the polls closed.

The Miami-Dade elections office reopened to accept absentee ballots Sunday after shutting down temporarily.

Deputy Supervisor Christina White said officials closed the location out of concern that their limited personnel and one printer couldn't handle the large crowd who showed up. Voters banged on the front doors and demanded to vote, prompting staff to reopen the office about an hour later.

Palm Beach County began accepting absentee ballots at 9 a.m. Sunday. "I decided to open because we are allowed to do so," said Susan Bucher, supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County.

Broward County allowed voters to pick up absentee ballots Sunday, but only if they made an appointment in advance.

Early voting differs from absentee balloting in Florida. Early voting takes place at multiple sites and uses the same machines as those used on Election Day. Absentee voters must go to the supervisor of elections' office and fill out a mail-in ballot, then hand it to a worker.

At the Winter Park Library site in Orange County, voters were offered provisional ballots, which are reviewed by local canvassing boards before they are counted. Some voters left upon hearing the information, opting to drive to the election supervisor's office and cast an absentee ballot instead.

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Beth Fouhy reported from Washington. Associated Press Writers Curt Anderson in Miami, Ann Sanner in Columbus, Ohio, and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., contributed to this report.

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Wedding Show at Thistle Hotel Aberdeen Altens

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On 04 Nov 2012

Showcasing local wedding suppliers.

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Sunday

11am to 4pm

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Free Event.

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Ballroom

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Metal Supermarkets Names Norm Hanson as Franchisee of Year

Mississauga, Ontario ? November 2, 2012 ? Metal Supermarkets Franchising Family of Companies bestowed its highest honor, Franchisee of the Year, on Norm Hanson at the 2012 Annual Metal Supermarkets Conference. Hanson is the owner of two Metal Supermarkets branches in Edmonton, Alberta and one in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Franchisee of the Year Award is given annually to the franchisee exhibiting the highest level of performance in areas such as growth, customer service, safety and operations. Additionally, their branches best embody the spirit of Metal Supermarkets? mission, vision and core values.

Hanson, who has been with Metal Supermarkets for 20 years, owns three franchise locations that consistently rank highly in revenues, and have grown on a continued basis at approximately 15% for the last two years. In addition to his Metal Supermarkets branches, Hanson owns Thermex Metal Treating Ltd. a commercial heat treating company in Edmonton. This growth is due to consistent and superior delivery of service to customers, and his refusal to rest on his laurels. He plans to open a fourth location in Saskatoon, and has been an important brand supporter for Metal Supermarkets.

?Norm has been instrumental in sharing his Metal Supermarkets experience with others. His brother- and sister-in-law own and operate successful locations in the Seattle area, a former employee operates in Salt Lake City, and another former employee operates in Vancouver. We are grateful for his enthusiasm and commitment to our brand. With an advocate like Norm, we will continue to grow and other franchisees will reap the rewards of his wisdom and experience,? said Stephen Schober, Metal Supermarkets? President and CEO.

?I am very pleased to receive the Metal Supermarkets 2012 Franchisee of the Year,? Hanson said. ?This achievement reflects the very hard work of my team, and the staff?s ongoing commitment to deliver on the Metal Supermarkets brand promise. I am thankful to them for their hard work and dedication. We have enjoyed great success with the Metal Supermarkets brand, and I look forward to our continuing participation in the organization,? Hanson said.

About Metal Supermarkets Franchising Family of Companies

The Metal Supermarkets business concept was established in 1985 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Since then, the company has grown to more than 65 franchise locations across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Metal Supermarkets is the only international brand in the small quantity metals industry. More than 60,000 customers rely on Metal Supermarkets for ?one stop shopping? for all their small metal requirements and the ability to purchase what they need, when they need it.

The Metal Supermarkets brand is known for superior customer care from start to finish, and the most high-quality metal products available. Customers include manufacturing facilities, maintenance departments, tool and die makers, fabricators, machine shops, military and other government departments, hobbyists and home owners.

Metal Supermarkets is a dependable business model, a trusted international brand name and a lucrative franchise opportunity.

For more information, visit www.MetalSupermarkets.com or franchise.metalsupermarkets.com or call 1-800-807-8755.

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Ashlie Lanning
919-459-8158
alanning@919marketing.com

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