From the beginning, minority owner Jay-Z set up the Nets to be the coolest, hippest, sports franchise on the planet.

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The answer is simple: as he does with just about everything he touches, Jay-Z is set to profit at every turn from his involvement with the Barclays Center.

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He needs the support of his industry and peers (particularly the elder statesmen like Diddy and Jay-Z who set the tone for being successful black males in music) in his pursuit of recovery.

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"World War Z" is set to open June 21.

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With Graph Search you combine phrases (for example: "my friends in New York who like Jay-Z") to get that set of people, places, photos or other content that's been shared on Facebook.

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The C and E Series (as well as the G Series for embedded applications like digital signage, set-top boxes, and game consoles and the Z Series, a 6 watt version aimed at passively cooled, sealed applications like tablets) are based on the same 75 square millimeter Brazos die.

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The arena is set to open next week with a bunch of concerts by Jay-Z, a Brooklyn native and Nets stake-holder who apparently also moonlights in the entertainment business.

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And Heller has brought his do-it-yourself spirit to the new enterprise: Instead of paying a lawyer to set up the S corporation, as he'd done when he started Z-Code, Heller did it himself on the Internet, using one of the commercial incorporation sites, like Incorporate.com.

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"If we embrace a set of shared values, then it shouldn't matter if you have a 'z' at the end of their name, or your accent might be different, " he said.

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