Flash array vendor Violin buys NAS caching vendor Gear6

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Flash memory array maker Violin Memory said it has purchased the technology assets of high-end NAS vendor Gear6, whose DRAM and flash memory-based appliances improve the scalability of Web applications and content.
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BILLINGS- FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR * A PORTION OF NORTHEAST MONTANA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY...DANIELS...DAWSON...EASTERN ROOSEVELT...GARFIELD... original. byeh0t1

Wondering About A Few Things

Sitting on the front room floor with that old shag carpet underneath me and my favorite hanging lamp over my head. Me, Rufus, Cari and our lonesomes all together as usual. Squeezing my fists as tight as I can. How many birds in the hand are worth one in the bush?

Business events scheduled for Friday

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Major business events and economic events scheduled for Friday: WASHINGTON _ FDIC reports on bank closings. WASHINGTON _ FDA panel meets and votes on "female Viagra" pill. MADRID _ IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets with Prime Minister Jose... International Monetary Fund - Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Managing director - Prime minister - History
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Major business events and economic events scheduled for Friday:
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Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week Business - United States - Events - Non-profit organization - United States Department of Commerce original. notobod0gs website

Food price index up 16.12 per cent y/y: Govt

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Food price index rose 16.12 per cent in the year to June 5, while the fuel price index climbed 13.18 per cent, government data released on Thursday showed.
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Food Lion is appealing to wine drinkers by awarding a trip for two to the Napa Valley. original. qusefmomanhigh

Science, pipelines and bears: A reporter goes to Alaska s Toolik Field Station

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Editor's Note: Vienna, Austria-based science writer Chelsea Wald is taking part in a two-week Marine Biological Laboratory journalism fellowship at Toolik Field Station , an environmental research station in the Arctic Circle. To see the current conditions in Toolik, check out the webcam . [More]
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The decades-old Science In Motion program at Juniata College, once funded by the National Science Foundation and then the state, is fighting for a spot in the 2010-11 state budge.
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An eighth-grade science teacher at Woodrow Wallace Middle School in Lake Isabella is in the running for $25,000 in grant money to purchase robotics curriculum, and she needs your vote. original. Site of poinkgetvee

Development planned on grounds of Q-C airport

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An 88-acre mixed-used development to be privately built on landowned by the Quad-City International Airport received a green lightTuesday from the airport’s governing board.
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Jason White of Midwest Partnership and Audubon County Economic Development, along with Bruce Nuzuum of the Iowa Area Development Group and Joe Behrens of Region XII attended Monday’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting to discuss an impending expansion of Accu-Steel, a business in northern Audubon County that manufactures hoop buildings. original. Homepage of yertpandaqusef

Flash array vendor Violin buys NAS caching vendor Gear6

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Computerworld - Flash memory array maker Violin Memory today announced it has purchased the technology assets of high-end NAS vendor Gear6, whose DRAM and flash memory-based appliances improve the scalability of Web applications and content.
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Flash floods triggered by torrential downpours near France’s Mediterranean coast have claimed at least 19 lives. Six months worth of rain fell in less than 24 hours in some places. original. pandaoobos Choices