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diff --git a/site/news/amp-camp-2013-registration-ope.html b/site/news/amp-camp-2013-registration-ope.html
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@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Registration open for AMP Camp training camp in Berkeley</h2>
 
 
-<p>Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-three-berkeley-2013/">Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website</a>, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year’s workshop was sold out.</p>
+<p>Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-three-berkeley-2013/">Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website</a>, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year&#8217;s workshop was sold out.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/index.html b/site/news/index.html
index aec308f60..dcb8c194d 100644
--- a/site/news/index.html
+++ b/site/news/index.html
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@
       <div class="entry-date">February 2, 2014</div>
     </header>
     <div class="entry-content"><p>We are happy to announce the availability of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-9-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.9.0">
-Spark 0.9.0</a>! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. 
-This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine,
+Spark 0.9.0</a>! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark&#8217;s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. 
+This release expands Spark&#8217;s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine,
 including external aggregations, a simplified H/A mode for long lived applications, and 
 hardened YARN support.</p>
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ hardened YARN support.</p>
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-8-1-released.html">Spark 0.8.1 released</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">December 19, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">Spark Release 0.8.1</a>, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">Spark Release 0.8.1</a>, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
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@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-8-0-released.html">Spark 0.8.0 released</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">September 25, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.0">Apache Spark 0.8.0</a>. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.0">Apache Spark 0.8.0</a>. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.</p>
 
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@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-user-survey-and-powered-by-page.html">Spark user survey and "Powered By" page</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">September 5, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you’d like us to work on next. We’ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey – we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eMXp4GjcIXglxJe5vYYBzXKVm-6AiYt1KThJwhCjJiY/viewform">fill in the survey here</a>. Your time is greatly appreciated.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you&#8217;d like us to work on next. We&#8217;ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey &#8211; we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eMXp4GjcIXglxJe5vYYBzXKVm-6AiYt1KThJwhCjJiY/viewform">fill in the survey here</a>. Your time is greatly appreciated.</p>
 
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@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/amp-camp-2013-registration-ope.html">Registration open for AMP Camp training camp in Berkeley</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">July 23, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-three-berkeley-2013/">Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website</a>, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year’s workshop was sold out.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will include tutorials, talks from users, and over four hours of hands-on exercises. <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-three-berkeley-2013/">Registration is now open on the AMP Camp website</a>, for a price of $250 per person. We recommend signing up early because last year&#8217;s workshop was sold out.</p>
 
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@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-7-3-released.html">Spark 0.7.3 released</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">July 16, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">Spark Release 0.7.3</a>, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a <code>spark-shell</code> session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">Spark Release 0.7.3</a>, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a <code>spark-shell</code> session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
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@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-7-2-released.html">Spark 0.7.2 released</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">June 2, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’re happy to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">Spark 0.7.2</a>, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;re happy to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">Spark 0.7.2</a>, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
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@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/strata-exercises-now-available-online.html">Strata exercises now available online</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">March 17, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>At this year’s <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">Strata</a> conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course/">available online</a>, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-two-strata-2013/">slides</a> from the Strata tutorials online, as well as <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-one-berkeley-2012/">videos</a> from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>At this year&#8217;s <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">Strata</a> conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course/">available online</a>, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-two-strata-2013/">slides</a> from the Strata tutorials online, as well as <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-one-berkeley-2012/">videos</a> from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.</p>
 
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@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-7-0-released.html">Spark 0.7.0 released</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">February 27, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">Spark 0.7.0</a>, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a <a href="/docs/latest/python-programming-guide.html">Python API</a> for Spark and an <a href="/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html">alpha of Spark Streaming</a>. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release – 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">release notes</a> to read more about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">Spark 0.7.0</a>, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a <a href="/docs/latest/python-programming-guide.html">Python API</a> for Spark and an <a href="/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html">alpha of Spark Streaming</a>. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release &#8211; 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">release notes</a> to read more about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
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@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/run-spark-and-shark-on-amazon-emr.html">Spark/Shark Tutorial for Amazon EMR</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">February 24, 2013</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>This weekend, Amazon posted an <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">article</a> and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">Amazon article</a> for details. We’re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>This weekend, Amazon posted an <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">article</a> and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">Amazon article</a> for details. We&#8217;re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.</p>
 
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@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/video-from-first-spark-development-meetup.html">Video up from first Spark development meetup</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">December 21, 2012</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/events/94101942/">introduction to Spark internals</a>. Thanks to one of the attendees, there’s now a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Hr5xZyTEA">video of the meetup</a> on YouTube. We’ve also posted the <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/dev-meetup-dec-2012.pptx">slides</a>. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/events/94101942/">introduction to Spark internals</a>. Thanks to one of the attendees, there&#8217;s now a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Hr5xZyTEA">video of the meetup</a> on YouTube. We&#8217;ve also posted the <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/dev-meetup-dec-2012.pptx">slides</a>. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.</p>
 
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@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-and-shark-in-the-news.html">Spark and Shark in the news</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">December 21, 2012</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>Recently, we’ve seen quite a bit of coverage of both Spark and <a href="http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu">Shark</a> in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>Recently, we&#8217;ve seen quite a bit of coverage of both Spark and <a href="http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu">Shark</a> in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li>Curt Monash, editor of the popular DBMS2 blog, wrote a great <a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2012/12/13/introduction-to-spark-shark-bdas-and-amplab/">introduction to Spark and Shark</a>, as well as a more detailed <a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2012/12/13/spark-shark-and-rdds-technology-notes/">technical overview</a>.</li>
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
 <li><a href="http://data-informed.com/spark-an-open-source-engine-for-iterative-data-mining/">DataInformed</a> interviewed two Spark users and wrote about their applications in anomaly detection, predictive analytics and data mining.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p>In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">O’Reilly Strata conference</a> in February. They include a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27438">introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS</a> Tuesday morning, and a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27440">hands-on exercise session</a>. </p>
+<p>In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">O&#8217;Reilly Strata conference</a> in February. They include a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27438">introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS</a> Tuesday morning, and a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27440">hands-on exercise session</a>. </p>
 
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@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-0-6-1-and-0-5-2-released.html">Spark 0.6.1 and 0.5.2 out</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">November 22, 2012</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>Today we’ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a> and <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-5-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.5.2">0.5.2</a>. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a>.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>Today we&#8217;ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a> and <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-5-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.5.2">0.5.2</a>. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a>.</p>
 
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@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Over 450 Spark developers and enthusiasts from 13 countries and more than 180 co
       <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="/news/spark-meetups.html">We've started hosting a Bay Area Spark User Meetup</a></h3>
       <div class="entry-date">January 10, 2012</div>
     </header>
-    <div class="entry-content"><p>We’ve started hosting a regular <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/">Bay Area Spark User Meetup</a>. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.</p>
+    <div class="entry-content"><p>We&#8217;ve started hosting a regular <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/">Bay Area Spark User Meetup</a>. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.</p>
 
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diff --git a/site/news/run-spark-and-shark-on-amazon-emr.html b/site/news/run-spark-and-shark-on-amazon-emr.html
index 1870856af..dc1529a2a 100644
--- a/site/news/run-spark-and-shark-on-amazon-emr.html
+++ b/site/news/run-spark-and-shark-on-amazon-emr.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark/Shark Tutorial for Amazon EMR</h2>
 
 
-<p>This weekend, Amazon posted an <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">article</a> and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">Amazon article</a> for details. We’re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.</p>
+<p>This weekend, Amazon posted an <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">article</a> and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL queries from Shark on data in S3. Head over to the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">Amazon article</a> for details. We&#8217;re very excited because, to our knowledge, this makes Spark the first non-Hadoop engine that you can launch with EMR.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-6-1-and-0-5-2-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-6-1-and-0-5-2-released.html
index d0dbe02f9..fdab61aa9 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-6-1-and-0-5-2-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-6-1-and-0-5-2-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.6.1 and 0.5.2 out</h2>
 
 
-<p>Today we’ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a> and <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-5-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.5.2">0.5.2</a>. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a>.</p>
+<p>Today we&#8217;ve made available two maintenance releases for Spark: <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a> and <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-5-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.5.2">0.5.2</a>. They both contain important bug fixes as well as some new features, such as the ability to build against Hadoop 2 distributions. We recommend that users update to the latest version for their branch; for new users, we recommend <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-6-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.6.1">0.6.1</a>.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-7-0-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-7-0-released.html
index 12614ce72..1409a3bb3 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-7-0-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-7-0-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.7.0 released</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">Spark 0.7.0</a>, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a <a href="/docs/latest/python-programming-guide.html">Python API</a> for Spark and an <a href="/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html">alpha of Spark Streaming</a>. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release – 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">release notes</a> to read more about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">Spark 0.7.0</a>, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a <a href="/docs/latest/python-programming-guide.html">Python API</a> for Spark and an <a href="/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html">alpha of Spark Streaming</a>. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release &#8211; 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.0">release notes</a> to read more about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-7-2-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-7-2-released.html
index aca1a2650..0637d64ed 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-7-2-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-7-2-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.7.2 released</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’re happy to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">Spark 0.7.2</a>, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">Spark 0.7.2</a>, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all users update to this release. Head over to the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-2.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.2">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-7-3-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-7-3-released.html
index 0bc598a95..b495c257f 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-7-3-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-7-3-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.7.3 released</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">Spark Release 0.7.3</a>, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a <code>spark-shell</code> session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">Spark Release 0.7.3</a>, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a <code>spark-shell</code> session. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-7-3.html" title="Spark Release 0.7.3">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-8-0-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-8-0-released.html
index 312dcfb84..dda232c8d 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-8-0-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-8-0-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.8.0 released</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.0">Apache Spark 0.8.0</a>. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;re proud to announce the release of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.0">Apache Spark 0.8.0</a>. Spark 0.8.0 is a major release that includes many new capabilities and usability improvements. It’s also our first release under the Apache incubator. It is the largest Spark release yet, with contributions from 67 developers and 24 companies. Major new features include an expanded monitoring framework and UI, a machine learning library, and support for running Spark inside of YARN.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-8-1-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-8-1-released.html
index 8ad5955fd..d1ba0e5cf 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-8-1-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-8-1-released.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark 0.8.1 released</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">Spark Release 0.8.1</a>, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;ve just posted <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">Spark Release 0.8.1</a>, a maintenance and performance release for the Scala 2.9 version of Spark. 0.8.1 includes support for YARN 2.2, a high availability mode for the standalone scheduler, optimizations to the shuffle, and many other improvements. We recommend that all users update to this release. Visit the <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-8-1.html" title="Spark Release 0.8.1">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-0-9-0-released.html b/site/news/spark-0-9-0-released.html
index 7fe78832d..21a047741 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-0-9-0-released.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-0-9-0-released.html
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@
 
 
 <p>We are happy to announce the availability of <a href="/releases/spark-release-0-9-0.html" title="Spark Release 0.9.0">
-Spark 0.9.0</a>! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark’s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. 
-This release expands Spark’s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine,
+Spark 0.9.0</a>! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark&#8217;s largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. 
+This release expands Spark&#8217;s standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine,
 including external aggregations, a simplified H/A mode for long lived applications, and 
 hardened YARN support.</p>
 
diff --git a/site/news/spark-and-shark-in-the-news.html b/site/news/spark-and-shark-in-the-news.html
index e344d1fd7..a3d13f3d5 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-and-shark-in-the-news.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-and-shark-in-the-news.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Spark and Shark in the news</h2>
 
 
-<p>Recently, we’ve seen quite a bit of coverage of both Spark and <a href="http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu">Shark</a> in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.</p>
+<p>Recently, we&#8217;ve seen quite a bit of coverage of both Spark and <a href="http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu">Shark</a> in the news. I wanted to list some of the more recent articles, for readers interested in learning more.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li>Curt Monash, editor of the popular DBMS2 blog, wrote a great <a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2012/12/13/introduction-to-spark-shark-bdas-and-amplab/">introduction to Spark and Shark</a>, as well as a more detailed <a href="http://www.dbms2.com/2012/12/13/spark-shark-and-rdds-technology-notes/">technical overview</a>.</li>
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 <li><a href="http://data-informed.com/spark-an-open-source-engine-for-iterative-data-mining/">DataInformed</a> interviewed two Spark users and wrote about their applications in anomaly detection, predictive analytics and data mining.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p>In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">O’Reilly Strata conference</a> in February. They include a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27438">introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS</a> Tuesday morning, and a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27440">hands-on exercise session</a>. </p>
+<p>In other news, there will be a full day of tutorials on Spark and Shark at the <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">O&#8217;Reilly Strata conference</a> in February. They include a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27438">introduction to Spark, Shark and BDAS</a> Tuesday morning, and a three-hour <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27440">hands-on exercise session</a>. </p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-meetups.html b/site/news/spark-meetups.html
index 2958629c2..48568716a 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-meetups.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-meetups.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>We've started hosting a Bay Area Spark User Meetup</h2>
 
 
-<p>We’ve started hosting a regular <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/">Bay Area Spark User Meetup</a>. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.</p>
+<p>We&#8217;ve started hosting a regular <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/">Bay Area Spark User Meetup</a>. Sign up on the meetup.com page to be notified about events and meet other Spark developers and users.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/spark-user-survey-and-powered-by-page.html b/site/news/spark-user-survey-and-powered-by-page.html
index 02b45680f..8e14f37ee 100644
--- a/site/news/spark-user-survey-and-powered-by-page.html
+++ b/site/news/spark-user-survey-and-powered-by-page.html
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@
     <h2>Spark user survey and "Powered By" page</h2>
 
 
-<p>As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you’d like us to work on next. We’ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey – we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eMXp4GjcIXglxJe5vYYBzXKVm-6AiYt1KThJwhCjJiY/viewform">fill in the survey here</a>. Your time is greatly appreciated.</p>
+<p>As we continue developing Spark, we would love to get feedback from users and hear what you&#8217;d like us to work on next. We&#8217;ve decided that a good way to do that is a survey &#8211; we hope to run this at regular intervals. If you have a few minutes to participate, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eMXp4GjcIXglxJe5vYYBzXKVm-6AiYt1KThJwhCjJiY/viewform">fill in the survey here</a>. Your time is greatly appreciated.</p>
 
-<p>In parallel, we are starting a <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Powered+By+Spark">“powered by” page</a> on the Apache Spark wiki for organizations that are using, or contributing to, Spark. Sign up if you’d like to support the project! This is a great way to let the world know you’re using Spark, and can also be helpful to generate leads for recruiting. You can also add yourself when you fill the survey.</p>
+<p>In parallel, we are starting a <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Powered+By+Spark">&#8220;powered by&#8221; page</a> on the Apache Spark wiki for organizations that are using, or contributing to, Spark. Sign up if you&#8217;d like to support the project! This is a great way to let the world know you&#8217;re using Spark, and can also be helpful to generate leads for recruiting. You can also add yourself when you fill the survey.</p>
 
 <p>Thanks for taking the time to give feedback.</p>
 
diff --git a/site/news/strata-exercises-now-available-online.html b/site/news/strata-exercises-now-available-online.html
index 9e4cf083e..4aae42b09 100644
--- a/site/news/strata-exercises-now-available-online.html
+++ b/site/news/strata-exercises-now-available-online.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Strata exercises now available online</h2>
 
 
-<p>At this year’s <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">Strata</a> conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course/">available online</a>, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-two-strata-2013/">slides</a> from the Strata tutorials online, as well as <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-one-berkeley-2012/">videos</a> from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.</p>
+<p>At this year&#8217;s <a href="http://strataconf.com/strata2013">Strata</a> conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course/">available online</a>, letting you learn Spark and Shark at your own pace on an EC2 cluster with real data. They are a great resource for learning the systems. You can also find <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-two-strata-2013/">slides</a> from the Strata tutorials online, as well as <a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-one-berkeley-2012/">videos</a> from the AMP Camp workshop we held at Berkeley in August.</p>
 
 
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diff --git a/site/news/video-from-first-spark-development-meetup.html b/site/news/video-from-first-spark-development-meetup.html
index e3c871c57..4bd408c7c 100644
--- a/site/news/video-from-first-spark-development-meetup.html
+++ b/site/news/video-from-first-spark-development-meetup.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <h2>Video up from first Spark development meetup</h2>
 
 
-<p>On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/events/94101942/">introduction to Spark internals</a>. Thanks to one of the attendees, there’s now a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Hr5xZyTEA">video of the meetup</a> on YouTube. We’ve also posted the <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/dev-meetup-dec-2012.pptx">slides</a>. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.</p>
+<p>On December 18th, we held the first of a series of Spark development meetups, for people interested in learning the Spark codebase and contributing to the project. There was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated, with over 80 people signing up and 64 attending. The first meetup was an <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/events/94101942/">introduction to Spark internals</a>. Thanks to one of the attendees, there&#8217;s now a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Hr5xZyTEA">video of the meetup</a> on YouTube. We&#8217;ve also posted the <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/dev-meetup-dec-2012.pptx">slides</a>. Look to see more development meetups on Spark and Shark in the future.</p>
 
 
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