| Charity Begins at Home Sales
In the market for a retirement home last spring, design engineer Douglas Knapman says he looked at 20 communities before deciding on The Settings at Mackay Point in Yemassee, S.C. What tipped the balance wasn't the golf course, swimming pools or fitness center. It was a presentation at an open house by developer Richard McWhorter, who invited people to take part in a fishing tournament he was underwriting to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In addition to donating $15,000 to the foundation -- an employee has two children with the disease -- Mr. McWhorter offered to cover the $1,200 entry fee for any resident or home buyer who would take part in the fund-raising tournament. .
Wowza Reaffirms Streaming Market Price Leadership with $995 Fully ...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Wowza Media Systems, emerging leader in media streaming server software, today made Flash streaming even more affordable with an 80% price reduction for its widely popular Wowza Media Server Pro Unlimited. Now priced at $995, Wowza once again reaffirmed its price leadership on a mission to make flash streaming server technology affordable to all. Since Wowza Media Server Pro launched in February 2007, Wowza has taken a leadership role in radically redefining the economics of Flash streaming and rapidly gaining over 3700 licensees worldwide. Wowza's customers have proclaimed its Wowza Media Server Pro "the smart choice" and recognized its value in the 2007 Streaming Media Readers' Choice awards, naming it as a top 3 media server choice along with Adobe and Microsoft.
EGYPT: Torture Ruling Boosts Rights
The infamous video clip dates back to 2006 when police officer Islam Nabih arrested the victim; a young man in the poor Cairo neighbourhood of Bulaq, who was known for challenging police officers and standing up against their harsh methods.
To break his will and make an example of him before others, the officer and his assistant Reda Fathy from Bulaq Dakrur police station in Giza governorate decided to sexually abuse the man on tape and show it around.
The graphic tape shows the two men handcuffing the victim behind his back and using a broom stick on his anus. They ordered the victim to call himself names and to say that he was actually a woman.
Kabir's loud screams for mercy inspired several documentaries and TV shows on pan-Arab TV stations on torture and abuse in Egyptian and Arab prisons.
Internet Gambling Deserves a New Chance
So let's draw the line on the ground--not in the thin air of cyberspace. We don't need gambling on the Internet. The U.S. isn't alone in this fight, either. Lots of countries ban Internet gambling, and many still outlaw gambling altogether. There are a lot of people who have weaknesses in the world. This online gambling thing is just another way for shysters to destroy the weak and suck them dry. It's anonymous, so the parasites don't even have to see their victims. It's an ugly thing we are better off without. .
It's a sure sign of spring when you see gangs of birds
Perhaps they were getting out of Daytona before spring break crowds hit and stopped by Jacksonville for the Monster Truck Jam. The Binmeister thinks they're heading to the Ohio primary to see which candidate lays the next egg. - On Feb. 16, a flash of red signaled the start of another progressive party. This time it arrived in the form of a big red double-decker bus carrying 65 ebullient Scots. The bus pulled up at Fionn MacCool's at Jacksonville Beach, the first stop on the Beaches Pub Crawl, a precursor to the Jacksonville Scottish Highland Games. The organization's treasurer, E.J. Taylor of Jacksonville Beach, and pub crawl host Audie Gibson were on hand to greet the - in some cases - kilt-clad partiers, who boarded the bus at Seven Bridges Grill & Brewery. Some wore their clan's plaid, and all carried mugs that said, "I survived the PUB Crawl." MacCool's General Manager Paul Glaser and his staff readily filled those mugs with the brews of choice.
WorkForce Software's EmpCenter Online Solution Selected by Matanuska ...
LIVONIA, Mich., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkForce Software, Inc., a leader in workforce management solutions, announced today that Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) selected its EmpCenter(TM) Online suite. MTA licensed EmpCenter Time and Attendance, Activity Based Costing, Employee Self-Service, and Accruals and Absence Manager to replace its antiquated workforce system. "We chose WorkForce Software and its EmpCenter Online solution because it could support our complex pay rules, meet our short timeframe for implementation, and it is a hosted solution," said Gordon Boeve, finance accounting analyst at MTA. "There wasn't another vendor we looked at that could meet these requirements, and we are already on target to meet our end-of-year timeframe by working with WorkForce." Automating and supporting complex pay rules, such as compliance with union labor agreements, organization-specific hourly and salary employee guidelines, overtime policies, and state and federal regulations was critical for MTA.
The Daily Weekly
Outfitted at each desk with a flat-screen TV and three Xbox 360 consoles, the testers are checking that Xbox 360's latest boredom-eradicating features—which enable you to fast-forward through movies before they've finished downloading, and chat with your friends via MSN instant messenger while you download free game samples—can be installed and used without the system freezing or crashing. So far, it's touch and go. Days from now, every Xbox 360 user will be prompted to install the new upgrade when they boot up their machines. But the testers have to do it first, downloading the software, then performing the new tasks, over and over, on several units of each variation of the console: Those sold in North America, the European Union, Japan, and "Rest of Asia" all differ. Each row of testers has a designated "lead," who manages the team and copies down the data: IP addresses, software version, serial numbers.
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