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Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma

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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010, AT 6:19 PM
Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma. Very long title. Long long long. Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma. Very long title. Long long long.

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010, AT 6:19 PM
Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma. Very long title. Long long long. Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma. Very long title. Long long long.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/10/oarfish_in_california_photo_and_video_show_18_foot_fish_that_may_have_sparked.html
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Miley Cyrus Is NOT Dating Rolling Stone Photog Theo Wenner! New Info HERE!

Looks like we might've said rebound too soon!

While recent reports were claiming Miley Cyrus was getting cozy with Rolling Stone photographer Theo Wenner, a source close to the pop star insists they're not a couple!

The two apparently became friends after Miles topless covershoot and have been in "constant contact" ever since!

The problem is, Theo resides in NYC, while Mileybird's home base is LA!

An insider revealed the duo has not seen each other since the Wrecking Ball singer left the Big Apple after her epic SNL weekend:

"[Miley] hasn't been in New York, where he [Theo] lives, for a week and has no immediate plans to return. Miley still is battling a cold. She wore herself down through the VMAs to album launch and was exhausted after the Ellen appearance."

Miley did say she was obsessed with being alone recently, but we're still unsure who to believe!

Especially since the singer tweeted out lyrics about crazy love yesterday!

We guess a relationship is one less thing she needs to worry about, which is good news, because Miz Cyrus is prepping for an amaze performance at The American Music Awards in November!

You do you, girl, and get better!

[Image via Terry Richardson/Twitter]

Tags: american music awards, dating, love line, miley cyrus, rolling stone, rumors, theo wenner

Source: http://perezhilton.com/2013-10-16-miley-crus-rolling-stone-theo-wenner-not-dating-insider-confirms
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How a Lost Boy Used Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years

Last year, we heard the amazing story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian "lost child" who used Google Earth to find his way home after 25 years. This stirring video produced by Google features Brierley telling the story in his own words. It's pretty crushing.

In the video, Brierly recounts how 1987, after a day of begging for money on the street, he boarded a train for home, but he never got there because he fell asleep and missed his stop. Instead, he ended up on the other end of the country. He was labeled lost, adopted and shipped off to Australia. But thanks to the Google, he found his way home—as if you needed another reason to love Google Maps.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-a-lost-boy-used-google-earth-to-find-his-way-home-a-1446315507
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Taken By The Taliban: A Doctor's Story Of Captivity, Rescue

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dr. Dilip Joseph was working for an international aid organization in Afghanistan in 2012, providing medical and public health education, when he was kidnapped by the Taliban. He was in captivity for several days, before being rescued by a team of Navy SEALs. Joseph shares his story with host Arun Rath.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NprProgramsATC/~3/65InIJS4RVE/taken-by-the-taliban-a-doctors-story-of-captivity-rescue
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Bank of America posts profit as loan-loss provisions drop

(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp reported a third-quarter profit of $2.22 billion, compared with a loss a year earlier, as provisions for credit losses and expenses fell.

The second-largest bank earned 20 cents per share in the three months to September 30, beating the average analyst estimate of 18 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

In the year-earlier quarter, the bank recorded a net loss attributable to common shareholders of $33 million due to accounting adjustments, litigation expenses and tax charges.

Bank of America's shares rose 1.7 percent to $14.48 in trading before the bell.

Total revenue fell marginally to $22.19 billion in the latest quarter from $22.53 billion a year earlier, excluding accounting adjustments.

The bank said on Wednesday its provisions for loan losses fell 83 percent to $296 million as credit conditions improved, while operating expenses dropped to $16.39 billion from $17.54 billion.

Sales and trading revenue for the bank's fixed income, currency and commodities business, excluding an accounting adjustment, fell by $501 million to $2.0 billion, due to lower bond-trading volumes for much of the quarter.

Fixed-income traders were inactive for several weeks leading up to the Federal Reserve's meeting in mid-September in the expectation that the central bank would announce a winding down of its stimulatory bond-buying program.

"This quarter, we saw good loan growth, improved credit quality and record deposit balances," Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said in a statement.

Bank of America's shares have risen about 23 percent this year, in line with the KBW index of bank stocks.

Bank of America sold its remaining stake in China Construction Bank Corp for $1.47 billion in September, contributing $750 million pre-tax to the bottom line.

(Reporting by Anil D'Silva in Bangalore and Peter Rudegeair in New York; Editing by Ted Kerr)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bank-america-posts-profit-loan-loss-provisions-drop-110843290--sector.html
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Support Unclear For GOP's Plan To End Shutdown

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House Republicans were expected to announce their own plan Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default on the national debt. But House Speaker John Boehner came to the microphones and kept things very vague.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/234752361/support-unclear-for-gops-plan-to-end-shutdown?ft=1&f=1014
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Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth

Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead.

On Tuesday, at Storage Networking World, veteran data protection vendor Sepaton is announcing a backup and recovery platform that's designed to grow easily as an organization accumulates data. Sepaton's introduction of its VirtuoSO appliance and the underlying Optiscale architecture comes just days after tape specialist Spectra Logic announced its BlackPearl appliance to integrate web and cloud data into vast and growing tape libraries.

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While primary storage technology has matured to the point where many systems can automatically grow to accommodate more data, backup and recovery is still mostly built around products that force IT administrators to reconfigure their systems every time they add a new hardware unit, analysts say.

That threatens to become a bottleneck in a world where, according to research company IDC, enterprises are expanding their storage capacity by more than 30 percent every year to keep up with data growth. What's important enough to store is usually considered worth backing up in some form, so data protection challenges are escalating along with storage woes.

VirtuoSO can scale up from one to four nodes, treating all the data within as a single pool with a 1-petabyte capacity. It's the company's first entry into NAS (network-attached storage) data protection and is designed to work with more data types than its earlier products. Most importantly, it supports the widely used CIFS (Common Internet File System) and NFS (Network File System) protocols. Sepaton developed the new platform to back up growing amounts of file-based data stored in NAS systems instead of SANs (storage area networks).

Sepaton's new software and appliances are especially good news for large enterprises that have huge volumes of data, more than they can back up to any one traditional appliance, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Jason Buffington said.

Coming from a tape storage background, Sepaton so far has made most enterprise backup software treat its systems as virtual tape libraries, Buffington said. With CIFS and NFS, VirtuoSO will be able to take in data more easily from third-party backup applications. Plus, it will give enterprises more granular access to their backed-up files, Buffington said.

What may make VirtuoSO and OptiScale stand out most is hybrid deduplication. Sepaton historically has used post-processing deduplication, finding and eliminating duplicate bits of data after storing the data whole. It's now adding in-line deduplication, which runs while a backup system is ingesting data.

Enterprises can apply either or both of these methods to a given type of data. To do this, they can use automation software from Sepaton or set their own policies, including ones that will bypass deduplication for data types that don't need it. In addition, deduplication is applied to the data on all nodes rather than just what's on a single node, leading to greater storage efficiency, Sepaton says.

Hybrid deduplication gives users more flexibility and in some cases lets them deduplicate twice, making their backups even more compact, ESG's Buffington said.

Sepaton's roadmap for VirtuoSO and Optiscale calls for eventual scaling to as many as 16 nodes, plus support for more storage protocols, replication capabilities and other features.

The VirtuoSO platform, now in limited release and set for general availability in the first quarter of next year, is offered as a full appliance with storage included or as a gateway that can be attached to existing Hitachi Data Systems storage. Prices for the full appliance start at US$344,500.

Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is stephen_lawson@idg.com

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/backup-starts-scale-out-along-storage-data-growth-228754
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