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- Auburn President William Walker plans to meet Thursday with board members as he awaits the news of his future at the school. |
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- Dec. 10 - Two people are reported dead following a plane crash in metro Birmingham. The plan crashed in a wooded area off Tyler Road in Vestavia Hills. |
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- Oracle has released their Application Server 10g. The AS 10g product suite contains many services: J2EE & Web Services, Caching, Portal, CMS, Wireless, Management & Security, High Availability, Integration, and more. |
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- Four new chapters from the book-in-review 'Enterprise JavaBeans' (4th Edition), by Richard Monson-Haefel, are available for download. The chapters explain Web Services standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, look at Web Services support in EJB 2.1 using JAX-RPC, describe the EJB transactional model , and provide an overview of the J2EE platform. |
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- In this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering: * Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment * Engineering our water resources against El Nino... * Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net I hope you enjoy it! Link... |
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- LindowsOS has opened a new Web site, called ChoicePC, to elicit support for its resellers, who are under attack by Microsoft. Originally, that support was for resellers in the Netherlands, but Microsoft has launched similar legal blitzkriegs in Sweden and France, and ChoicePC has responded by adding support for resellers in those countries as well. |
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- Following a successful six-year mission, the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE), is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere soon, after determining the influence of the sun on the Earth's atmosphere by measuring the amount of nitric oxide in the atmosphere. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release) |
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- Two of the nation's top atmospheric scientists, using atmospheric observations and computer models conclude there is no doubt human activities are having an increasing impact on the global climate, likely to lead to warming and more extreme weather in the future. (UCAR press release) |
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- A new study finds mercury levels in yellowfin tuna off the coast of Hawaii have not changed in 27 years, despite a considerable increase in atmospheric mercury, suggesting natural sources, not pollution, is responsible for the high levels of mercury found in tuna and other ocean fish. (American Chemical Society press release) |
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- A University of Utah study concludes that redrock in southern Utah may have once harbored vast amounts of hydrocarbons, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warming Earth’s ancient climate. (University of Utah press release) |
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- Recent satellite observations of the southern Pacific Ocean indicate unusually high concentrations of chlorophyll, the green pigment contained in phytoplankton, in zones poor in nutrients. (Institut de Recherche Pour le Dveloppement press release) |
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- Three new cameraphones from DoCoMo in Japan, the 1.3 megapixel SO505is from Sony Ericsson, which has a 2.3-inch, 262,000 color screen; the 1.3 megapixel N505is... |
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- Here's a shocker: Neonode says that their N1 smartphone, the one running Windows CD .NET that has been delayed over and over again, won't... |
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OpenPanel (Dec 11 2003 18:31 GMT) - OpenPanel Homepage! |
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FreEVA (Dec 11 2003 18:31 GMT) - FreEVA needs accountants to contribute... |
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- Red Nova Dec 11 2003 11:20AM ET... |
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- In family law news Thursday, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill late yesterday that would have the effect of banning same-sex marriage in the state. The bill adds to the existing marriage statute that "a marriage may only be entered into by |
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- A year end summary in the latest APA Monitor of 2003 psychology-related legislative action, compiled by the APA's Public Policy Office. |
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- A year end summary in the latest APA Monitor of 2003 psychology-related legislative action, compiled by the APA's Public Policy Office. |
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isa (Dec 11 2003 18:30 GMT) - der gegensatz von liebe is nicht hass sondern ignoranz |
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Twin Suns (Dec 11 2003 18:30 GMT) - The man strode tirelessly across the cracked desert floor. Garbed in a mismatch of tans, browns, and grays he could drop to the ground and become virtually invisible at the first sign of trouble. By his best calculations he was... |
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- Gardai have discovered the body of a man in Co Louth. |
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- Two hundred workers at zinc producer Arcon are in danger of losing their jobs after pay talks between management and unions broke down. |
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- Efforts to resolve the long-running pay dispute at Belfast aerospace company Shorts appeared to have broken down tonight. |
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- A senior US Congressman has said Ireland's future prosperity won't be built on our current immigration policy. |
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- Mel Gibson's controversial religious epic 'The Passion of Christ' has been praised by Vatican officials after a special screening. |
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- The newly crowned Irish winner of the Miss World Contest, Rosanna Davison has been afforded a civic reception at the Mansion House in Dublin. |
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- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced today that the United States Senate has confirmed President Bush's nomination of Howard M. Radzely to be Solicitor of Labor. |
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- There's money to be made in the online porn business, and Michael Hayes of AdultWebmasterSchool.com says he can help you cash in. Launched by laid-off dot-com workers in July 2000, the school's $140 course has graduated about 2,200 students, Hayes says. ¬> |
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- Negura Bunget - In-Zvicnirea Apusului |
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- I was racking my brain (no, it doesn't take very long) to remember the perfect parable to apply to the... |
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- 19:25, het is donker, het is koud en ik wil naar huis. Maar vandaag dus even niet. Als ik naar het kantoor moet in Diemen, dan rijden mijn zoldercol.. (134 words) |
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- This site is here to show those houses where the residents are likely celebrating a happy holiday, but have no sense of decency in how they choose to celebrate. We will show the garish, the ugly, the weird. For your own sake, and the sake of y |
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- Goombah gets mentioned by CNET in Search tools target digital music listeners: An independent company has bolstered this with a new Macintosh-only iTunes plug-in called Goombah, which analyzes a listener's downloads, looks at other people's play lists, and makes recommendations based on the listening habits of people with similar tastes. It's great to see real people using this since we spent so much time working on it. Even crazier to see people using features such as blogs that I designed and built. I really wish I didn't have to spend this week studying, I'd much rather help flush out the feature set and fix bugs. |
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- Philadelphia Inquirer story on a legal challenge to HIPAA focusing on its privacy stipulations - "The privacy rule created by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson gives patients power to approve release of medical information to employers and life insurers. But patients have no say about how the information is used or shared by health plans, billing companies, and some groups doing business with medical providers, such as consultants, lawyers or drug companies. |
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- Philadelphia Inquirer story on a legal challenge to HIPAA focusing on its privacy stipulations - "The privacy rule created by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson gives patients power to approve release of medical information to employers and life insurers. But patients have no say about how the information is used or shared by health plans, billing companies, and some groups doing business with medical providers, such as consultants, lawyers or drug companies. |
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- Philadelphia Inquirer story on a legal challenge to HIPAA focusing on its privacy stipulations - "The privacy rule created by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson gives patients power to approve release of medical information to employers and life insurers. But patients have no say about how the information is used or shared by health plans, billing companies, and some groups doing business with medical providers, such as consultants, lawyers or drug companies. |
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Bad News (Dec 11 2003 18:28 GMT) - This can't be good: About 300 of 700 members of the new Iraqi army have resigned, citing unhappiness with terms, conditions and pay and with instructions of commanding officers, a representative of the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday. The silver lining? |
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- To this point almost all of my analysis of the 2004 contest has been aimed at either the Democratic nomination, or, to a lesser degree, the basic idea of Any Democrat v. Bush. I do think that Bush has the... |
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- Mark Kleinman nomne ce petit poème, basé sur le Grec comme le plus triste du monde: Moi Lais, je dédicace ce miroir à Aphrodite, Car il ne me montrerait pas comme j'étais et je ne veux point me voir comme je suis. ...Autres nominations ? |
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