| Will authorized hosting put MySQL on a par with Oracle and DB2?
Although real comparability to Oracle and IBM databases could still be some time away, MySQL's new authorized hosting program might help broaden out the niche for the open source database a lot more quickly. MySQL AB started developing a new program for hosting partners in early 2007, about a year before Sun announced its $1 billion bid to acquire the open source database vendor, said Rich Nigro, MySQL's service provider business manager. Unveiled earlier this week, the new MySQL Authorized Hosting Partner Program gives managed hosting companies using the top-of-the-line Enterprise edition of the MySQL database an option for 24/7 database support directly from MySQL. .
Mothers Day charity gifts
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has opened a 13th century church in Wales which was dismantled and rebuilt stone-by-stone over 20 years 50 miles away at the National History Museum, St Fagansa, in Cardiff. St Teilo's Church from Pontarddulais near Swansea has been restored to recreate its appearance in 1520. Copies of a rare series of 16th century paintings, which were uncovered as it was being dismantled, adorn the walls. Dr Williams is from Wales, and he served as Bishop of Monmouth and as Archbishop of the Church in Wales, a disestablished art of the worldwide Anglican Communion, before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. He was accompanied at the ceremony by First Minister for Wales Mr Rhodri Morgan and other officials Morgan believes that his great-grandparents married at the church, which was used regularly until 1850 and then occasionally during the summer until 1985, reports the BBC.
Legg Mason Hosting Conference Call to Discuss Fiscal Third Quarter ...
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM) will announce operating results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended December 31, 2007 on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in a press release that will be issued at approximately 7:00 a.m., E.S.T. The press release will also be available on the firm's Web site at leggmason.com. A conference call to discuss the company's results will be hosted by Raymond A. "Chip" Mason, chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, Inc., at 8:30 a.m., E.S.T. This call will be open to the general public. Interested participants can access the conference call by dialing 1-866-793-1308 (or for international calls 1-703-639-1310) at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start to ensure connection. The call will also be accessible through the firm's Web site at leggmason.com.
Co-terminal Illness:Silent on frosh expansion
President John Hennessy's column in Stanford Magazine last fall advocating an increase in undergraduate students seemed poised to start a healthy debate within the University. Since then, however, there's been no new information or discussion about the proposal from either the administration or The Daily. .
Toy retailer entertains web upgrade
Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh and contracted ecommerce specialist Escalate Retail to provide a software suite for the back-end. The implementation cost just over 400,000, including overall hosting, development and license costs, in the first year but since the system went live in October 2007, one of the retailer's sites, thetoyshop.com, has increased sales by 147 per cent, according to The Entertainer's online marketing and ecommerce manager Richard Bewley. silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! The system replaces a bespoke implementation made before thetoyshop.com and The Entertainer's other brand Gadgetshop were acquired, which was deemed too inflexible to be able to cope with the peaks and troughs of traffic.
Righetti, St. Joseph hoops open at home
Basketball fans of the Santa Maria Valley won't have to venture far for first-round CIF Southern Section playoff action this coming week, as both Righetti High and St. Joseph scored first-round home games for each of their boys and girls basketball teams. The highest seed of the bunch, Ron Barba's St. Joseph girls, take their No. 4 ranking into the Division II-A playoffs on Thursday night against Glendora, the No. 3 entry from the Sierra League. Tipoff at Hofschulte Gym is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast live by the Santa Maria Times and Lompoc Record on the Times' web site at www.santamariatimes.com. At the same time across the street, Righetti's girls open Division III-AA action as the No. 13 seed with a home game against Torrance, with the winner facing a second-round road trip Saturday to No.
Contact Solutions Opens Third Hosting Center to Support Explosive ...
Contact Solutions Opens Third Hosting Center to Support Explosive Nationwide Growth of Shared IVR Services RESTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- Contact Solutions (CSI), the leader in contact automation, announced that its third shared IVR (Interactive Voice Response) hosting center has opened. The new facility, located in Sunnyvale, CA, mirrors existing centers in Dallas, TX, and Ashburn, VA. The hosting centers are located in state-of-the-art facilities supplied with amenities required to ensure non-stop operation of CSI's clients contact automation operations. The third center significantly expands the company's capacity to support the growing base of companies and government agencies that have shifted to the shared IVR services model and away from the expense of unnecessary onsite customer premise equipment.
FBI opens inquiry into Roger Clemens
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Some Thoughts on Gay Marriage
See http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/bosrev-wilken.h... for a great summary. Jesus still defines sin as lack of love (Matthew 22:36-40). Those concerned about the sanctity of marriage should insist on outlawing adultery, divorce and abortion. All are sinful because each has an unloved victim. Marriage must be for love, not pregnancy. What is unloving about a couple in a homosexual love relationships? Neither is victim, neither is unloved. Where is the hurt? Who is the victim being sinned against? The Gospel writers and prophets do not mention homosexuality because it is not a sin. The King James Version comes closest to a correct translation of two condemning nouns used in Leviticus 18:22 — "sexual immorality". That is not necessarily homosexuality. ("Homosexual" was coined about 1865, so any translation using a form of that word is a lie that needs to be emended.
The kinder, gentler energy superpower
In the face of US demand for Canadian oil, the greatest challenge we face is maintaining our sovereignty and democracy. Already that demand has dictated for us Canadian policy on greenhouse gas emissions and the SPP (which is principally about securing energy security and prosperity for the US). The Canadian electorate's opinion is simply bypassed and the important long-term decisions on the future of our country are made behind closed doors by unelected elites.
For example, it was a Jan. 2006 meeting in Houston, Texas, kept secret from the Canadian public for over a year before Radio Canada got a hold of the minutes, that called for a "fivefold expansion" in oilsands production in a relatively "short time span" and encouraged decision-makers "to streamline the regulatory approval process" with a "one-stop-shop" for project proposals to facilitate that expansion.
Jeff Thelen's Blog
I live in a rural area and have a satalite dish as well as an antenna for local channels. (The dish is not used for local channels) When there is heavey cloud cover or heavey rain or snow the signal from the satalite is lost. I rely on my local stations for weather warnings, will the signal be lost with the new system when the weather gets bad?I actually don't know. You might want to drop Mikel Lauber a line about this. He's covered the issue extensively. His e-mail is mlauber@wsaw.com.JWith HDTV, what happens with are antennas???Again, a question for Mikel.JYour exclusive interview with Obama was a paid political ploy by the Obama campaign. His campaign pays for the satellite time, and its only just as a responsible journalist if you give "equal time" to both sides. I do not fault Mr. Lauber for doing the interview, but the station is misrepresenting just how "exclusive" it is.I'd agree with you if not for a couple of things.
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