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- Most recent daily statistics (20 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Coon Rapids Herald story - "The Anoka County Board has increased funding for a 24-hour-a-day, seven days a week “warm line” for people with mental health problems. On the recommendation of its Human Services Committee, the board has approved a 2005 contract with Crisis Connections to provide the mental health counseling line totaling $35,820. That’ |
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- In the latest MSDN Magazine, George Shepard writes about determining whether or not a browser supports certain properties (”The ASP Column: Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET”, Jan 2005). |
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Shay (Dec 23 2004 01:44 GMT) - - crappie |
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- Recently, I came across A Night at the Hip Hopera. It's 25 years of Queen meets 25 years of Hip Hop... and creates something recognizable, yet entirely different. It's not really a mashup, as much as a bizarre remix (strangely akin to those awful extended-medley Ultimix records in the clubs in the late 80s)... and the sheer variety of both the hip-hop material and the ~3 second drop-ins and breaks is truely amazing. |
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- Readers of peterme know I'm fan of Best Cellars. Business week has an interview with its founder, touching on subjects of classification, store presentation, the value of calling assumptions into question, etc. Worth a read!... |
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- The suspected suicide attack inside an Army mess hall in Iraq represents a breach of the most basic principles of military security and points to significant weaknesses in the screening of Iraqis who are allowed onto the base, experts say. |
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- Author: paramedic168 Subject: re: A Prediction about Iraq Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6: |
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- Author: Richard Subject: Re: re: Protesters fear lack of access to inaugural parade Posted: |
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- Author: paramedic168 Subject: re: U.S. |
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- Modern Times Heart warming, well-designed poster artwork. The movie "Modern Times", the ironical masterpiece created by Charlie Chaplin, describes how capitalism sometimes causes a kind of unreasonable sorrow among people. Its soundtrack is also superb. The track "Smile", composed by... |
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- Death contrary to conventional wisdom Everybody's heard that dying people sometimes are able to hold out for their birthday or a major holiday, but one study now challenges that belief. Donn Young, from Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed death certificate data from 1,269,479 persons dying in Ohio from 1989 to 2000, including data from more than 300,000 cancer deaths. Researchers report no trend to indicate patients can somehow put off death immediately before major holidays or life events. "We would've seen a trend, and there just wasn't any," said Young, co-author if the study which appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Not that this will stop people believing in it. |
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- What Crappy Gift Are You? You Are a Self Help Book! While your advice is not always welcome... It's always right on target. Um, yeah, like I think everyone I know will probably agree with this... |
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- For newsletter lists, there are several things to avoid (although some are very tempting). I'm sure many people in this forum run some sort of newsletter campaign either by themselves or through a service. What type of email newsletter are you sending out and to what kind of people are you targeting to reach? Sending out newsletters to 1000+ people is fine if you have their approval. It's just like a poorly planned pop-up ad campaign (cliche? |
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- If I've been more prickly than normal today... well, just FUCK YOU!!! It's my goddam life and I'll be prickly... |
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- If I've been more prickly than normal today... well, just FUCK YOU!!! It's my goddam life and I'll be prickly... |
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- Stamford Advocate story - "Lt. Gov. Kevin Sullivan and mental health professionals yesterday made sweeping recommendations for changes in the state's "failing system" of mental health care, including more than $110 million in new state funding over the next five years. ... The recommendations, done in conjunction with Sullivan's so-called "mental health cabinet," include adding 1,000 units of supportive housing, improving Medicaid reimbursements for adult rehabilitative services, increasing payments to nonprofit agencies for their workers, expanding the availability of evening and weekend mobile emergency teams and increasing payment rates and available hours for family respite care. |
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- Grand Rapids Press story - "Ottawa County officials have agreed to allow the county's Community Mental Health Department to begin collecting interest earned on revenues from Medicaid funding, instead of it being transferred to the county's general fund. However, Community Mental Health won't get that interest all at once. County commissioners have approved a proposal to implement allocation of the interest over a four-year period, starting with 25 percent of interest next year and increasing by that amount each year after. CMH will receive full interest funding from Medicaid revenues by 2008, Administrator Al Vanderberg said." |
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- Announcing LexThink! Chicago. What do you get when you bring together a select group of innovative, big-thinking people from the worlds of law, business, technology, marketing, and consulting for a full day and ask them to design the perfect professional service firm? We call it LexThink! Chicago. |
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- Toward the end of the development cycle for J2SE 5.0, Sun made available to the public several "snapshot" releases of the weekly binary JDK builds. These snapshots allowed developers access to the latest fixes and changes made to J2SE 5.0 after the public Beta release, but before the final General Availability release. Response from the developer community was tremendous. |
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- Self defence, wrote William Blackstone, the 18th-century jurist, is a "natural right that no government can deprive people of, since no government can protect the individual in his moment of need". This Government insists upon having a monopoly on the use of force, but can only impose it upon law-abiding people. By practically eliminating self defence, it has removed the greatest deterrent to crime: a people able to defend themselves. - Joyce Lee Malcolm... |
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- Today, while wandering along beside the Thames, I came across a plaque, which said the following: LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN BY, ROYAL ENGINEERS FOUNDER OF OTTAWA, CAPITAL OF CANADA John By was born near this place and baptised in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, August 10, 1779. After a distinguished career in Canada and in the Peninsular War, he was called out of retirement in 1826 and sent to Canada to build the Rideau Canal waterway.... |
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- Home Office minister for race equality, Fiona Mactaggart refuses to condemn the fact Sikhs have used intimidation and violence to force the closure of a play they find offensive because... In my experience, very often the consequence of that [violent protests] is that the ideas of the play gain a wider audience than they would have had, had there not been such protests. That people feel this passionately about theatres is a good sign for... |
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- clusty.com - the awesome clustering engine |
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- Members of ABATE of Iowa District 7 accepted a $500 check for their 15th-annual Toys for Tots shopping spree from the owners of Master Floors Carpet One in Clear Lake. Ed and Chris Masters presented the check on Dec. 15 to ABATE members Sheila and Tom Hacker, Kent Clemons, Mike Cmelik ... |
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