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Google No. 1 has required many years of work to get up and running, along with millions of dollars of equipment and countless hours of mental toil by some of the computer industry's brainiest folks. But Google No. 2 you might be able to build yourself in a spare weekend. That's one way of thinking about a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, being funded, as it happens, by Google, among others. The researchers aren't interested in finding the secret behind Google's search algorithms. Instead, Armando Fox, a computer scientist and director of the RAD Lab project at Berkeley, and his team are trying to take the mystery out of Google's data centers. These data centers are the engines that run Google's search software; Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon have their own.
Punjab, Tata Motors to set up driving school
New Delhi: The Punjab government and Tata Motors will set up a driving training institute in Muktsar at a cost of Rs.125 million that will help youngsters secure jobs as skilled drivers.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in the national capital Tuesday in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Tata Motors managing director Ravi Kant.
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guardian of the galaxy
Suppose yourself a National Basketball Association lottery pick. Suppose further that you are blessed with a big body but are somewhat limited (Im being kind here!) in skills. Say your rookie year free throw percentage was a reeking 59%. That aint just malodorous that kind of stench from the line should trigger an OSHA investigation. The HAZMAT guys shouldve been sent in to clean up the site! Say further that you have no shot; you must be within 5 feet of the hoop to score. In plain talk: you cant hit the side of a barn with a Gatling gun even if you are inside the barn. If you were being paid kajillions of dollars, would you dedicate a few minutes each summer to honing those skills and your craft? If that question seems rhetorical, consider the career statistics of a certain overpaid NBA athlete.
Brother searches for answers in shootout
A photo of gunman Edwin Rivera is displayed as L.A.P.D. Chief William Bratton speaks to the press at Parker Center in Downtown L.A. Friday afternoon about the gun battle in Winnetka Wednesday morning that killed SWAT officer Randy Simmons and left another officer severly wounded. .
Developer Says City Keeping Him From Renovating Crime-Ridden Area
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A developer says he has big plans to renovate several rundown apartment complexes in an Orlando neighborhood that has been riddled with crime. But he says the city is standing in the way. Developer Jimmy Yuken wants to renovate the Peppertree apartments on Mercy Drive, one by one. The problem is they all have code violations and the city says the most dangerous violations, including the unsafe stairs leading to the second floor units, have to be fixed in less than 60 days whether someone is living in the buildings or not. "We put in all the central air conditioning ducts," Yuken said during a walk-through of one of the units. Jimmy Yuken is in a hurry to gut the Peppertree apartment complex, but says he can't do it on the city's deadline.
Mayor Ousted: Bartlesville City Council votes to strip title from Ron ...
We are networked through work internationally and there are so many people from here to Indonesia, Kazakhstan, London--you name it--and back, who email us one disastrous recollection followed by another--the experiences they had living here. Well, good riddance to Bartlesville--we say--and hello to better paying jobs (with sign on bonuses of a years' salary and more) in a real city! We will not miss this town! But it has been nice knowing you, Brady, and we are all so appreciative of your efforts to bring the BCC and Bartlesville into the 21st century. Nice blog, too, and it is nice to be able to share the way that we feel somewhere where it is 'safe'. I'm sure you can understand that we have to be careful and very discrete. In fact, I am borrowing a friend of mine's computer to type this now.
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