Published April 27, 2011, 01:46 PM
Club to put on 1st river racing event
This area is known for its abundance of lakes, but there is another water source which can be taken advantage of for just as much fun and relaxation.
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Brian Wierima, DL-Online
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Tier 3, an enterprise cloud platform company, today announced that Channel IQ, the leading provider of online pricing intelligence and channel management solutions, has selected the companys self-optimizing enterprise infrastructure to run its mission-critical applications and services.
Channel IQ, which provides manufacturers and retailers real-time, on-demand applications for product pricing visibility within online sales channels, spent a year evaluating and testing different infrastructure providers before selecting Tier 3 for its agile platform that delivers all the benefits of cloud computing without the associated risks and performance compromises seen with other solutions.
We were looking for a utility-based model that would scale with our business as it grew and also allow us the freedom to focus on our core businessnamely, our customers, said Wes Shepherd, founder and CEO of Channel IQ. The Tier 3 platform provides the speed and performance, enterprise level security, and availability in a mission-critical environment that we can trust.
With more than 60 brand name manufacturing and retailing customers using Channel IQ to provide visibility into online channels, pricing and competition, Channel IQ needed a cloud platform provider it could trust to scale with dynamic pricing environments and its rapidly growing enterprise customer base that demands high availability.
As innovative application providers move services online and into the cloud, they have to overcome new hurdles to winning customer trust and customer business.Their customers will expect better quality of service, uptime and support. To deliver this, application providers will need a cloud platform provider they can trust to keep the lights on, said Jared Wray, chief technology officerfor Tier 3. Our mission is to enable Channel IQ with a production-ready cloud environment that could scale on demand with an SLA that ensured they would be on 100 percent of the time for their customers.
We built our technology from the ground up with mission-critical enterprise applications in mind, Wray said. Companies with high performance applications, like Channel IQ, need predictive scaling that can quite literally meet any performance scenario you can imagine.
About Tier 3
Tier 3 is the enterprise cloud provider with the smarter platform. Tier 3 goes beyond traditional cloud offerings to provide agile, self-optimizing infrastructure that enables enterprises to run their mission-critical applications and services with complete confidence. Enterprises realize the benefits of lower TCO, dynamic scaling and built-in disaster recovery without sacrificing control, security and performance. Our customers count on Tier 3 for the flexibility and freedom to focus on their core business. For more information, please visit www.tier3.com.
About Channel IQ
Channel IQ is the leading provider of online retail intelligence solutions to manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Channel IQ provides real-time, online promotion and pricing information, empowering major manufacturers and retailers like Crutchfield, Olympus, Harman Kardon and Denon amp; Marantz to quickly and profitably handle channel issues and competitive situations. Only Channel IQ combines integrated reporting, interactive applications and services to enable manufacturers and retailers to automatically act on real-time data. Channel IQ solutions are the result of cutting edge technology combined with decades of industry experience in channel management, distribution, online retail and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.channeliq.com.
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Mom Finds Relaxation, Easter Fun at Terranea
Redondo mom Michelle Veale Borden opts to spend her birthday weekend at Terranea in Rancho Palos Verdes.
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(Memphis 04/23/2011) – Its a beautiful weekend in the Mid-South but some Memphians had no chance to enjoy it. They are still dealing with the aftermath of the storm and some folks are at their wits end.
Ive been spending a whole lot of money. Weve been eating out. Buying flash lights, candles and its just been awful, said Doris Hall, Frayser.
Hall is extremely frustrated. She is one of the last Memphis Light Gas and Water customers in the city still waiting for power to be restored to her home. Shes on her second trash can of food.
Ive been throwing away so much food. I had to throw everything away, out of my freezer, out of my refrigerator, just everything, she said.
Her neighbor, Chuck Pigue, never lost power but hes dealing with damage from two storms back to back.
New Final Fantasy Type-0 Screenshots and Artwork
Posted on April 23, 2011 by Erren Van Duine
The official Japanese Final Fantasy Type-0 site has opened, and with it comes a nice bit of new media, including screenshots and character artworks.
All screenshots are from in-game so you can see that director Hajime Tabata was not lying when he said he would push the PSPs graphical power to its limits. In addition to locations, we can see that recently revealed characters Ace, Nine, Queen, and Kurasame are represented in both scenario and battle images.
Final Fantasy Type-0 is set to release this summer in Japan. An actual date has yet to be revealed, but with increasing magazine coverage, it probably wont be too much longer until that happens. In the meantime, you can view the new screens below or in the Media Vault.
We had previously reported that Mac OS X Lion has made some under-the-hood changes opening the door to such super-high resolution displays.
Taking cues from iOS, Apple has reportedly built in support for what it calls HiDPI display modes. These HiDPI modes allow developers to supply 2x-enlarged images to support double-high resolution displays. Like the iPhone 4s Retina Display, this means that user interface elements will remain the same size, but everything will be twice the resolution and therefore twice as detailed.
Now, MacMagazine.com.br has found that Apple is already starting to include other super high resolution artwork in Lion. They found several icons stored as 1024×1024 sizes, up from a previous maximum of 512×512.
Update: The 1024×1024 icons in Mac OS X Lion were publicized [Google translation] earlier last week by Consomac.fr.
Betfred is an owner-operator bookmaker with over 840 shops and a call centre that is one of the UK’s largest. Betfred is the UK’s fourth largest bookmaker with an annual turnover of approximately 4 billion pounds. The company was started in 1967 in Salford with only one betting outlet by owner operator Fred Done.
Fred Done’s approach to wagering was one that stood out from the rest by offering excellent customer value and excellent service which is still the hallmark of the business today. Betfred gained the name the ‘Bonus King’ because it is one of few bookmakers that offers daily price boosts and bonuses to the advantage of the punter.
Betfred has recently announced it has appointed a new managing director for its online gaming operations. Former Chief Executive Officer for International Game Technology (IGT)s mobile gaming arm, Million-2-1, Chris Sheffield will be responsible for the online gambling portfolio.
Chris Sheffield is expected to move Betfred forward in the very competitive sports betting sector, concentrating his efforts on casino, bingo, poker, sports betting and mobile gaming.
A spokesperson for Betfred, Mark Pearson, commented, Chris is an outstanding talent, and with his experience in mobile gaming, we are delighted with our new signing and everyone is looking forward to working with him.
Sheffield said that he was delighted to be joining Betfred at such an exciting time for the industry, he stated, We have just started television advertising and I am proud to join at the start of a high profile tournament in the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, Sheffield added, I have a real affinity with the Betfred.com brand, which has been successfully developed by Fred Done and his team.
Plans to upgrade and develop the firm’s mobile gaming and poker products were suggested by Mr. Pearson as directions that the new managing director has in mind.
The Freedom Bus, an AC Transit bus decorated with student artwork inspired by the civil rights movement, stopped at Lorin Eden Elementary School in Hayward on Tuesday.
SIOUX FALLS, SD The father of US Sen. John Thune on Friday signed a series of prints of a fighter plane he flew during World War II.
Harold Thune signed the F6F-5 Hellcat artwork created by artist John Mollison at the Republican senators office in Sioux Falls.
The senior Thune flew numerous missions for the US Navy during the war from the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down four enemy planes during one engagement near Formosa.
He says the F6F-5 Hellcat were bigger and faster than the Japanese planes.
Harold Thune says its encouraging and inspiring that people still take an interest in World War II history.
Greg Raymer, whose $160 entry fee in an online poker tournament led to a $5 million win at the 2004 World Series of Poker, says its hard to tell how a federal crackdown on online gaming will affect WSOP entries this year.
But hes a gambler. If he had to bet, hed figure on a sizeable drop. The 2011 WSOP, a series of 58 events, starts May 31 in Las Vegas. Its Main Event, which begins July 7, had 7,319 entries last year.
If I was actually putting a number to bet on, I would say more like somewhere in the low 5,000s (this year), Raymer said by phone from his home in Raleigh, NC If you made me pick a number because you were going to bet either over or under » it would be something like 5,250.
Last Friday, federal authorities in New York targeted three online gaming firms: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker. Eleven people were charged with bank fraud and illegal gambling. Restraining orders were issued against about 75 bank accounts allegedly used to process payments in 14 countries.
Some fallout so far:
» Full Tilt has been a major sponsor in mixed martial arts. It was about to return to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. But Caren Bell, a spokeswoman for UFCs parent company Zuffa, confirmed the deal has been shelved.
» ESPN2, which was to begin taped coverage of the North American Poker Tour Monday, said the shows will not air. PokerStars was presenting sponsor.
Plans have not changed for the WSOP, said spokesman Mike Soltys of ESPN, which aired WSOP shows from July 27 through Nov. 9 last year.
The World Series of Poker, not affiliated with PokerStars or the other two firms and operated by Caesars Entertainment, declined comment on possible effects on its 2011 entries because of the crackdown.
The Main Event took a hit after 2006 passage of the federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prohibits firms from knowingly accepting US payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling.
There were a record 8,773 entries in the Main Event in 2006. The next year, after the WSOP prohibited third parties such as online firms from directly paying the $10,000 entry fees for participants, entries fell to 6,358.
