Positive effects of the north Minneapolis tornado

MINNEAPOLIS - The tornado that devastated north Minneapolis in May of 2011 has apparently had some positive effects on the community.

Chad Schwitters with Urban Homeworks says the recovery effort helped unemployment in the city's north side. City officials made sure local contractors received the grant money used to rebuild the area.

In the year since the twister, the Business Recover Loan Program has made $117,000 in loans to 27 businesses.

However, the work is not done. One-hundred-thirteen properties still have roof damage. Assistance is still being offered to those owners.

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Highs, lows of Ferguson's career

Is Sir Alex Ferguson the most successful manager of all time?

If he?s not sitting at the head of the table, he?s surely got a place there, right?

Writing for Forbes, Bobby McMahon reminds us that Ferguson wasn?t born into the Manchester United position (even if it seems that way.) His journey to Old Trafford was shaped through failures as well as successes ? the same way most of us have success and failures in life.

McMahon also says Ferguson was a pretty decent player in his day.

The lengthy piece finishes with something that might be called the ?Seven Habits of Highly Effective Managers, Sir Alex Ferguson Version.? Like this one:

He has a hunger for knowledge. It has not only kept him relevant to a sport and a business that has changed beyond recognition but has kept him at the top.

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NYSE Euronext results falter on failed merger

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HBO's 'Girls' Renewed For Second Season

Show following the lives of four twentysomethings post-college has been picked up for 10 more episodes.
By Jocelyn Vena


Lena Dunham in "Girls"
Photo: HBO

Who run HBO? "Girls"! Well, at least they will for one more season. The Lena Dunham-created dramedy for the cable network has been renewed for a 10-episode second season.

The show, in which Dunham also stars alongside Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet, follows the lives of four twentysomethings as they navigate love, life and their careers in New York City post-college. Judd Apatow serves as an executive producer on the show.

The show, currently knee-deep in its first season, debuted on April 15 to lots of buzz and hype. To date, the Huffington Post reports, the show has averaged 3.8 million viewers, per HBO.

The young women on the show portray four very different Big Apple lasses. There's Williams' type-A gallery assistant, Marnie; Kirke's flighty, free-spirited Jess; Mamet's prissy, virginal college student, Shoshanna; and, of course, Hannah, played by Dunham, the show's main protagonist, a writer who talks a lot about her memoir without having actually done very much to get it off the ground and continues to rely on her parents for money.

"I would describe Hannah as a well-meaning but often trouble-making 24-year-old girl living in New York. She wants to be a writer but she doesn't realize in order to do that she actually has to write," Dunham explained to MTV News about her small-screen persona. "Despite being plucky, her circumstances aren't always going her way, so it's about some of those challenges for her. She loves to eat and dance alone in her room."

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Five UFC belts up for grabs this summer

Over the weekend, two more UFC championship bouts were finalized for the summer, and it's clear that the UFC wants to keep those championship belts moving. Every belt, except for the welterweight belt that is in limbo because of Georges St-Pierre's injured knee and the just-contested light heavyweight belt, will be on the line between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.

-- Bantamweight: Champion Dominick Cruz will rematch Urijah Faber at UFC 148 on July 7 in Las Vegas

-- Featherweight: Champion Jose Aldo will fight Erik Koch at UFC 149 on July 21 in Calgary

-- Lightweight: Champion Benson Henderson will rematch with Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 on Aug. 11 in Denver

-- Middleweight: Champion Anderson Silva will rematch with Chael Sonnen at UFC 148, which is the most stacked UFC event since UFC 129 last April.

-- Heavyweight: Champion Junior dos Santos will fight Frank Mir at UFC 146 on May 26 in Las Vegas.

Throw in a free on Fox show, a Fuel and an FX show and UFC 147 with Wanderlei Silva fighting Vitor Belfort, it's going to be a ... wait for it ... hot summer of MMA. Which belt is most likely to have a new owner by Labor Day? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Foursquare adds NFC to its BlackBerry app, hopes you'll touch base

Foursquare adds NFC to its BlackBerry app, hopes you'll touch base

Hot on the heels of a recent update for its Twitter app, BlackBerry users can now grab a refreshed version of everyone's favorite check-in network. While there's no news of the beleaguered phone manufacturer offering up free Butterfingers (yet), the geographical social app has cranked up the app's load speeds and also transplants its notifications to your BlackBerry inbox. It's all looking to be a pretty tasty NFC carrot to dangle in front of BlackBerry World attendees later this week in Orlando. If you're Florida-bound (and even if you're not), you can grab the update from the source below.

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Meon makes its way to Android!

Meon for Android

Those of you old enough to remember Windows Mobile no doubt played Meon at some point. The idea's simple enough — you use light to free the cute little Meons from whatever it is that's keeping them trapped. The game starts out simple, but pretty soon you'll be bouncing light off mirrors and changing colors with prisms to the point that you're not sure what started where, or where it's going to end up. It's strangely addicting.

The Android version is faithful to the original. Our only real complaint is that it doesn't really take advantage of the larger screen sizes.

Meon Lite gives you access to the first 32 levels, though chances are if you're anything like us, you'll spring 99 cents to get all 120 levels in the full version. We've got download links after the break.

Download: Meon Lite (free), Meon full (99 cents)

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How Much Revenue Does It Take To Be A $1B Public Company?

1billevilWith all the chatter about Billion dollar valuations -- like Instagram, Evernote, Splunk -- combined with recent S1 filings and IPOs, the topic of tech company valuation is coming to the forefront of people?s minds. Specifically related to the software industry, the growing number of SaaS IPO candidates of late is signaling an important shift in the way that enterprise software is built and sold. It also indicates that the subscription business model is here to stay. What does this shift towards a subscription economy means for startups, investors and the IPO landscape? First of all ? get Instagram out of your mind. The price it sold for is not relevant to us mere mortals who are building B2B software businesses. For all good, non-bubble reasons, SaaS companies need tens of millions in revenue, high growth, and solid business fundamentals. What you may notice though, is that revenue may be lower than what we?ve become accustomed to during the last few years of IPO drought.

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