‘The photos in the press
of alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are so blurry, that his
identity is somewhat obscured. I find this really odd. But, it is not
just the poor quality of the photos, it is the fact that there appears
to be two different looking alleged terrorists!’
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As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere and in the seas around the world, the bodies of water become more acidic. It’s pretty clear that this is not beneficial to the ecosystems and the marine life that rely upon ecological soundness for their livelihood. New studies have shown that there can be additional detrimental effects that relate to marine mammals communication systems.
‘This whole scene is out
of control and I’m going to call bullshit on it. It’s a
staged production and an extremely poor one at that. We have to collect
by the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands around the world,
wherever we may be at a given hour every day and collectively focus our
attention on Rothschildlandia and chant, “Out demons out!”
You can also say, “Om Raksha, Raksha, Phat!” That will work
too. We have to focus our collective wills upon Rothschildlandia all at
once and see the Earth opening beneath it so that it may migrate to its
eternal home.
There are enough of us to
be a force to reckon with and we need to turn it on Rothschildlandia
and on Mubarak; Gordon Brown, Netanyahoo and his man in the shadows.
‘seven come 9/11’ Barak. We have to become a collectively
fused and focused force and we can accomplish miracles. The time is
certainly at hand and there is no more critical work to which we can
turn our hearts and our minds and our hands if we want to make a
difference in the life on this planet. Well… there is a greater
work, how could I forget? Still… this one may certainly be a
necessary part of the other. Let’s pick an hour of the day that
works for all of us wherever we may be and get to work. If we build it
they will come.’
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Talking about emulators, here it Tekken 3 being played on the HTC HD2 using FPSECE 0.10, which we wrote about a few days ago.
This Playstation emulator was also recently upgraded to support multi-touch on the HD2, and also to support bluetooth controllers, amongst many other features.
Read more in this XDA-Developers thread here.
Ken Diamond does Mocassins the right way from quality, construction, packaging, right down to the presentation. The Vancouver based designer has been working with leather since the late 90’s and now has his own line of various leather goods. Simple high quality leather material are used in the classic designs which are all hand made in the studio. Traditional ways of crafting the footwear are always intact but modern techniques give the product a very fresh flair. Available in Brown (Mustard), Black (Licorice), and White (Marshmallow), Ken Diamond Moccasins can now be purchased at their main website. Also make sure to check out other goods such as bags, wallets, belts, and more here.
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Filed under: Government/Legal, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Motorcycle
Drama, drama, drama. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking American Chopper is all about the motorcycles. In reality, the television show has always been about an amazingly dysfunctional family, and in particular the father/son relationship of its two main characters: Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul Teutul Jr.
Truth be told, we’re not big fans of the show. Don’t get us wrong, we love motorcycles, but as we said, this series has never really focused on building motorcycles (plus we prefer to ride bikes designed to be, um… ridden). That’s never been more true than right now, as anyone who happens to catch an episode from the last two seasons can tell you that Sr. currently has no contact at all with any of his children, including Jr. and Mikey.
Those on-air disagreements have reportedly culminated in a lawsuit filed by Paul Teutul Sr. in the Supreme Court of New York. The elder Teutul is seeking to buy his son’s shares in Orange County Choppers Holdings, Inc., along with over $1 million in damages. Kinda makes all that talk in previous seasons of not letting anything get in the way of family seem a bit disingenuous, no?
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Shortly before Christmas, my iPhone started misbehaving. I’d get an odd little notification message popping up on the screen telling me it “Could not activate cellular data network.” Despite not usually getting odd little errors on the iPhone, I didn’t worry too much about it. After all, I assumed, it is the holiday season; people are calling family and friends more than at any other time (well, except, perhaps, for New Year’s Eve). I just assumed it would right itself.
24 hours later it was still misbehaving, but by that time I’d finally snapped and decided to look into it. A call to O2 resulted in a recorded message that was played before the usual welcome message; “We are experiencing some difficulties,” an overly sympathetic voice cooed, “We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience this might have caused.” (I’m paraphrasing, of course).
I didn’t stop there — I asked the mighty Google for more information, and it turns out those ‘difficulties’ affected quite a number of O2’s customers, both iPhone and otherwise, judging by the 20-odd page discussion that was raging on O2’s official support pages.
Tech news site V3.co.uk published several notices from O2 during the outages, which began rather hopefully:
We’re sorry that some mobile customers have had problems with data today – these services will be back up tonight.
…but ended on a decidedly more sullen note;
The system fault has been fixed and internet connections are gradually being restored. MMS and Visual Voicemail remain affected. We’re working on these as a priority.
Thankfully the problem was cleared up reasonably swiftly. Something to do with incorrectly assigned IP addresses, or leaves on the line (trust me, if you’re British that’s hilarious!)
While some tech sites are reporting on the data outages in London in much the same tone they would AT&T’s lackluster services in New York or San Francisco, I must offer my own (admittedly anecdotal) evidence to the contrary; my partner and I are both iPhone-toting, data-hungry technophiles who just happen to live in London. And this is the first time this year we’ve experienced any truly memorable disruption to O2’s data network. For clarity: I’m not saying we haven’t suffered the occasional dropped-call here and there. We have — at a rate of perhaps one dropped call every other month. You see, when all is said and done, the O2 network is normally exemplary (as it should be, considering how much we pay them).
Still, O2 has been reaching out to its customers, cap in hand, doing that quintessentially British thing…apologizing. In a Reuters report published today O2’s Chief Executive Ronan Dunne is quoted saying:
Where we haven’t met our own high standards then there’s no question, we apologize to customers for that fact. But it would be wrong to say O2 has failed its customers en masse.
The story is much the same here in the UK for O2 as it is for AT&T in the States; smartphone ownership is on the rise and smartphone owners use a lot of data, relative to the amount consumed by so-called ‘feature phone’ customers. The network carriers simply aren’t prepared for this. Historically they’ve never had to provide this much bandwidth and their business models (typically structured into five year plans that don’t change much in-between revisions) simply don’t make adequate (if any) provisions for the scale of network investment and improvement that data-hungry devices like the iPhone demand.
Still, that doesn’t stop their execs bragging about the upgrades that have taken place. From Reuters;
The company [O2] had invested 30 million pounds ($48 million) in its London network to meet demand […] and 200 extra mobile base stations had been installed.
Sounds impressive, no? But I wonder… that’s an awful lot of money, and an awful lot of new base stations. That sort of massive investment into network expansion was likely planned years ago as part of the company’s long-term growth strategy. Indeed, such a huge investment plan could easily have predated the 2007 introduction of the iPhone, and the subsequent explosion in smartphone adoption.
However, I’m not beating up on O2. It might be feeling the same pain AT&T has so publically suffered in recent months, but at least it’s not reacting the same way AT&T’s CEO Ralph De La Vega did, with barely-concealed threats of data-caps and tiered pricing plans for smartphone users.
AT&T’s message (at least how it comes across to me) has mostly been along the lines of, “You iPhone customers are a nuisance, you’re to blame for all our network problems, so you’ll have to pay us more money!” Conversely, O2’s message reads, “You iPhone customers chew through a terribly high volume of data that sometimes causes us problems – we’re sorry we weren’t ready for that, and we’re working on it”
Color me biased. But tell me you don’t think AT&T could learn something about good PR from their British counterparts.
December 31st, 2009 2:00 PM ET
Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas
The Sun Bowl is apparently sponsored by BRUT… who knew?
In one of the more interesting non-BCS match ups this year, an underachieving Oklahoma team minus their Heisman winning quarterback takes on an overachieving Stanford team featuring the Heisman runner up (who probably should have won).
Watching Gerhart run against Oklahoma should be one of the more enjoyable things to watch this bowl season, at least if the Oklahoma defense comes to play.
To play hard or not to play hard, that is the question.
Outside of that, both of these teams have been oddly hit and miss. Oklahoma hasn’t won more than two games in a row the entire season, Stanford beats Oregon and demolishes USC, then loses to California the next week.
Who knows how well either team will play in this game. I have to give the edge to Oklahoma, however, because good defense beats good offense (hear that Oregon) and Stanford’s power run game plays right into the teeth of the Oklahoma defense… at least in my opinion.
On the other hand, Oklahoma’s offense has been wildly inconsistent behind
Who didn't enjoy watching Gerhart steamroll Notre Dame?
freshman QB Landry Jones, who had the unenviable task of replacing Bradford. If Jones turns the ball over (he threw five interceptions against Nebraska) and puts the Sooners defense in a bad spot too many times, it could be a completely different ball game.
Also, Oklahoma’s best defender DT Gerald McCoy is heading to the NFL, so will he risk injury to play hard in this game? Who knows.
Like I said, it is a tough game to call, but that isn’t going to stop us from trying.
Mali: Oklahoma
Eric: Stanford
Jeff: Stanford
Jim: Oklahoma
The picks are split down the middle once again, highlighting the uncertainty of the game. It should be a fun one to watch on new years eve.
Harvard economist Jeremy Stein has seen the sausage factory of policy-making from the inside. From February to July of 2009, he worked as an adviser to the U.S. Treasury during its struggle to rescue the countrys banking system.
Mr. Stein spoke with The Wall Street Journal about the future of American-style capitalism in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — and at the end of a decade in which the U.S. turned in its worst economic performance in at least 60 years.
Has the decade of the 2000s — with the downfall of Enron, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the Great Panic — discredited the U.S. model of capitalism?
The risk is that the U.S. model will be discredited more broadly than it ought to be. The lesson that we learn is that we need to do certain things to reform financial markets, but we dont want to throw out the whole model. Our labor markets are less constrained than European labor markets, we have more IPOs per capita than most other countries. A lot of that stuff remains a strength of the United States.
What elements are crucial to the functioning of the U.S. model? Are there benefits to unfettered financial innovation and allowing banks to use borrowed money - or leverage — to boost returns?
Even if derivatives vanished off the face of the earth, I would say that theres still a lot of the distinctive U.S. model that remains. And if you think of a lot of the really great innovative stuff that drives economic growth - stuff like technology startups — I dont think limiting financial institution leverage impinges on that all that much. A lot of real innovation is not very heavily involved with leverage.
How can we get rid of the parts of the U.S. model we dont want while keeping the parts we do?
Youd want to monitor leverage creation and margins - the down payment investors have to put up when they buy things such as homes and asset-backed securities. The lesson that the Federal Reserve has learned is that it should not be an aggressive bubble-popper in all cases, but that it should be very careful about those bubbles that involve leverage.
How does that change the mission of the Fed?
I think its quite likely well have a somewhat different model of central banks a decade from now. I could imagine it would involve broader powers but somewhat less independence. If you think that the Federal Reserve has to be involved in cyclical leverage policy, then it also has to be more deeply involved in supervising the banks. With all those powers, it may be politically harder to sustain complete independence from the government.
My a1c was 8.9——–My new a1c is 6.5
My weight was 219 (:eek: )—-My new weight is 188 (:D )
My lipid panel still needs some working on, but there was such a tremendous inprovement, that he gave me three months on that as well.
My old fasting bg was 298—–My new fasting bg was 104.
I am ready to jump right into this New Year! Thank you so much for answering my questions. No matter how silly and redundant they may have seemed to you, you treated me with respect and answered them. You helped me to breathe when I thought I would suffocate. I know that some of you aren’t Christian (and that doesn’t even matter to me)….but even if you aren’t, I want you to know that the most wonderful thing I, personally, say is God bless you all! And I am saying it…Thank you and God’s richest blessings to you.
Joyce
OH! And my Accu-Chek Aviva Meter matched my Dr’s office reading!
By putting leaves between their lips, the apes apparently make themselves sound bigger and more threatening.
O UPC Brasil é uma verdadeira viagem a diversas partes do Brasil e do mundo, através das lentes e olhares de alguns foristas. Selecionei algumas fotos que foram postadas esse ano, focando algumas cidades brasileiras…muitas imagens, infelizmente já não estão disponíveis, mas mesmo assim, garanto que a viagem será bem interessante…boa viagem!
Hino do UPC Brasil
Ouça e Cante
Ouviram de uma avenida um click plácido,
de um povo heróico imagens retumbantes,
e a câmera da liberdade, em fotos fúlgidas,
brilhou na tela do SSC neste instante.
Senhor moderador dai-nos liberdade
de fotografar muito mais que um morto poste,
em nossas câmeras,ó fealdade!
andar em nossas ruas é cortejar com a própria morte.
Ó imagem amada,
bem enquadrada,
Salve!salve!
Brasil, em cliques tortos de imagens vívidas ,
o fervor e a esperança das fotos cresce,
em nublado céu ou em céu risonho e límpido,
a imagem aos olhos dos foristas resplandece.
Dementes pela própria natureza,
és belo, és forte, impávido teimoso,
e o teu futuro e ser assaltado com certeza.
Minha Canon adorada,
Entre outras mil,
És tu,UPC Brasil ,
Ó Pátria amada!
Das fotos deste solo da mãe gentil,
Pátria amada,
UPC Brasil!
*****
I: Região Sul:
Curitiba – Foto: Ricardohaab
Um "túnel verde" em Curitiba. Foto:Xistracinho
Uma casa em estilo normando construída no centro de Joinville, SC. Foto:Xistracinho
Caxias do Sul, RS. Foto: Touniquet
Gramado, RS – Foto: Allan Fonseca
Londrina – Foto: Calvin
Pôr do Sol na Baía Norte em Florianópolis, SC – Foto: Manezinho
Cambé/PR . Foto: Calvin
São Francisco do Sul,SC. Foto: A feña grande
Igreja Matriz em Roque Gonzalez, RS. Foto: MMichaelN
Beira do Rio Guaíba, Poa – Foto: Flick
***
II: Região Sudeste:
Parque da Independência, São Paulo – Foto: RRC
Detalhe da fachada do hotel SESC Copacabana – Foto: Osmar Carioca
Ipanema, RJ – Foto: Luis_RiodeJaneiro
CSN em Volta Redonda, RJ. Foto: Desatento
Uberlândia em foto noturna. Foto: Valter
Sampa – Foto: Rodrigo Guidotti
Parque da Independência/São Paulo – Foto: TêAgá
Estação da Luz,São Paulo – Foto: Rodrigo Guidotti
Não identifiquei a cidade da foto, mas creio ser uma cidade do sudeste – Foto: João Cézar
Praia do Canto – Vitória/ES – Foto: Mascate
Guarapa/ES no final de tarde – Foto: Naipesky
Vista aérea de Belo Horizonte – Foto: Bob Omena
***
III: Região Nordeste:
Lagoa da Jansen e Praia da Ponta D’areia,São Luís, MA. Foto: hugoslz
Lagoa da avenida Beira Rio em Imperatriz – MA. Foto: Cacique
Igreja do Santíssimo Sacramento, Salvador. Foto: Lipessa
Pelourinho, Salvador. Foto: Lipessa
Baía de Todos os Santos, Salvador. Foto: Tourniquet
Centro de Salvador num domingo. Foto: Tourniquet
Centro de Salvador. Foto: Tourniquet
Recife vista de Olinda – Foto: Belcity
Centro antigo de Salvador – Foto: Urbanrecycle
Linda foto!!nordeste? fica minha dúvida – Foto: Mascate
Açude Velho em Campina Grande-PB – Foto: Marcus_CG
***
IV: Região Centro-Oeste:
Sobrevoando Campo Grande. Foto:Renan-CG
Campo Grande (MS). Foto: FaB!O [..SgO..]
Parque das Nações Indigenas,Campo Grande (MS) – Foto: FaB!O [..SgO..]
Uma miragem no cerrado, Brasilía. Foto: David!bsb (UPC 2008)
Parque da Cidade – Foto: David!bsb
Brasília – Foto: David!bsb
Principal Estação do metrô em Águas Claras/DF – Foto: David!bsb
Céu em chamas, Cuiabá. Foto: Guajará
Simplesmente Goiânia. Foto: Rodrigo U. (UPC 2007)
***
V: Região Norte:
Rio Branco, AC. Foto: Davizão AC
Rio Branco, AC – Foto: Davizão AC
PortoVelho, RO. Foto: gustavo.sces
Praça em frente a Câmara Municipal aqui de Arica/Ariquemes,RO.Foto: Thilindha
Ariquemes/RO – Foto: Thilindha
Jardim Botânico Rodrigues Alves, Belém – Foto: WP Gyn
Construção do Boulevard Shopping e da Sun e Moon, as maiores torres da Amazônia/Belém. Foto: Nunez
Complexo Feliz Luzitânia – Foto: WP Gyn
Praça Batista Campos, Belém. Foto: Sr. França
Baía do Guajará, Belém. Foto: Marcos Neris
Av. Almirante Barroso, Belém. Foto: Marcos Neris
*****
Care to see a webOS app developed in under 10 minutes? Sure you do, even if it means having to take a performance enhancing drug just to keep up. Once you get past the rapid pace and robotic pace, what you’re looking at is Project Ares in all its glory, drag-and-drop, in-browser development at its best.
In 9:37, FirstStryke08 puts together a Flickr photo search app. Obviously, this developer has worked in Ares before, so this is more of a demonstration of the power of Ares in experienced hands.
Interested in getting your hands dirty with Ares? All you need is a developer account with Palm, and that’s easy enough to get. So get crackin’ with the apps (especially now that we’ve got more space for them)!
Thanks to FirstStryke08 for the awesome video!
By Jimmy Wales and Andrea Weckerle, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
In less than 20 years, the World Wide Web has irrevocably expanded the number of ways we connect and communicate with others. This radical transformation has been almost universally praised.
What hasn’t kept pace with the technical innovation is the recognition that people need to engage in civil dialogue. What we see regularly on social networking sites, blogs and other online forums is behavior that ranges from the carelessly rude to the intentionally abusive.
Flare-ups occur on social networking sites because of the ease by which thoughts can be shared through the simple press of a button. Ordinary people, celebrities, members of the media and even legal professionals have shown insufficient restraint before clicking send. There is no shortage of examples—from the recent Twitter heckling at a Web 2.0 Expo in New York, to a Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be killed.
The comments sections of online gossip sites, as well as some national media outlets, often reflect semi-literate, vitriolic remarks that appear to serve no purpose besides disparaging their intended target. Some sites exist solely as a place for mean-spirited individuals to congregate and spew their venomous verbiage.
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The United Kingdom’s largest mobile network said Tuesday that it was having problems keeping up with the increased demands placed on its system by Apple’s iPhone and other advanced smartphones. The admission follows on the heels of recent statements by AT&T executives that the heavy data demands of iPhone users are straining the carrier’s ability to serve users in U.S. metropolitan markets such as New York City and San Francisco, Calif.
O2 CEO Robert Dunne told the Financial Times newspaper Tuesday that an “explosion” in data demand from smartphone users is hindering the ability of some network users to transmit data as well as place or receive telephone calls in London.
“Where we haven’t met our own high standards, then there’s no question, we apologize to customers for that fact,” Dunne said, according to the Times. “But it would be wrong to say O2 has failed its customers en masse.”
Better Traffic Controls
Dunne told the Times that O2 is in the process of installing 200 additional mobile base stations in London. Meanwhile, the carrier is consulting with smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion about what can be done to reduce the strain placed on its network by the latest handset apps.
One of the ways in which handset makers can make a vital contribution is through the introduction of more efficient software technologies, noted Lisa Pierce, an independent wireless analyst at the Strategic Networks Group. “For example, RIM has specifically developed a proprietary capability where it supports compression over the air today, so handset makers can help,” she said.
Dunne also said O2 — which has 46.7 million customers in the U.K. — is currently working on software modifications with infrastructure supplier Nokia Siemens Networks. The goal is to make it possible for the carrier to better manage the…
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Finnish mobile device manufacturer Nokia today filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that Apple is infringing on seven distinct Nokia patents in its iPhone, iPod, and Mac product lines.
Nokia says that Apple has used its patented technology to create key product features in terms of cameras, antennas, power management, and user interface. The technologies allow Nokia to create small devices, deliver longer battery life, lower their manufacturing costs, and provide better user experiences.
The complaint isn’t the first shot in the war between the two mobile phone giants. In October, Nokia sued Apple over alleged infringement on GSM and wireless LAN patents. This month, Apple countersued Nokia, charging that Nokia was stealing technology from 13 Apple patents and attempting to obtain more money from Apple than other companies. Apple also charged that Nokia was also trying to obtain access to Apple’s intellectual property with respect to the iPhone since Nokia had copied and is now using that technology.
Nokia has lost a tremendous amount of market share since the iPhone was released in 2007, and the company’s profit margins are slim compared to those of Apple and BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion. The battle between Nokia and Apple is heating up, and it’s only going to get more intense as Apple fights for more market share in the mobile phone world and Nokia tries to hold onto its former glory.
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This app is all about motivation and is really very simple; in this case, that’s a good thing. Let’s say you want to get your kid to clean her room and no amount of hectoring is getting the job done. Earn It Stars works on a reward basis, which some may call bribery, but I’ll just call it positive reinforcement. Negotiate what the pay-off will be and how many times the room will be cleaned before the the prize is awarded. Let’s say 20 cleanings before the kid gets to go to the movies to see something that will probably make the parent gag and retch. I’m looking at you, New Moon.
The app lets you designate what the task will be and how many times it needs to be done before it pays off. Then each time the room gets checked and you can see that the color of the carpet isn’t laundry, someone gets to tap on Star Earned which plays a nice sound and increments the counter. When the counter hits 20, a badge is displayed that says: Earn It Stars. You did it! That’s Great!! Enjoy (your) New Moon, or whatever the reward might be.
That’s about it. It’s really nothing more than a fancy looking counter, but sometimes simplicity is a good thing. Having grown children, I know that I could have used this years ago and that it would have worked. It would have eliminated the circuitous discussions based upon: Yes I did. No you didn’t, Yes I did. No you didn’t etc. Once you get into one of those, getting out is never easy, or fun, and if you don’t think that kids like getting stars, ask any first grade teacher. Given the app’s meager aspirations, I think it’s fine, and the only thing I would add is a big audio flourish when the goal is reached.
Earn It Stars can be used for anything and can be used by anyone. Right now, I have it set that if I write 10 posts I get to eat. Simple.
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It looks like the Nexus One, a.k.a. the Google Phone, may go on sale in just a week.
Sources are telling TmoNews that you’ll be able to order the Nexus One directly from Google starting at 9am on Jan. 5. The site also has a screenshot from an internal T-Mobile site, which more-or-less confirms some previous reports: That Google is launching a new phone in early January based on its Android smartphone operating system, and that Google will be selling the device itself. T-Mobile, meanwhile, “will offer service support including billing, coverage, features and rate plans.”
We’ve also received an invitation to a Google Android press event in Mountain View, Calif. on the morning of Jan. 5. Now, that may mean that TmoNews is right, and that Google timed the press conference to coincide with the first sales. It’s also possible that these sources are confusing a press conference with the start of sales, and that the launch may come a little later. Or it could be none of the above.
Regardless of the exact details, it looks like the Nexus One is real, and it’s coming very soon. Besides being a big step for Google (since it will represent the search giant’s first direct sales to consumers), the Nexus One could also represent a substantial improvement on previous Android phones, since Google has more control in the creation of the device itself. A Google phone could also shake things up for mobile carriers, since customers won’t be locked into a contract with a specific carrier like T-Mobile or AT&T.
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Christmas might be over but if you’re still in the holiday giving mood, Omega watches should definitely put a smile on the faces of those who deserve your gift. As part of their Holiday release, Omega has an impressive Seamaster Aqua Terra Co-Axial Chronograph for the gents. But if you’re a guy looking to give a special lady something special as well, Omega has a few options as well.
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Center’d, creator of social networks revolving around local events and activities, has brought in $1.9 toward a targeted $4 million round of equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., the company is backed by KeyNote Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and a handful of angel investors.
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