Bulls 88, 76ers 87
Kirk Hinrich made the go-ahead jumper with 26.7 seconds left and Luol Deng scored 20 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to their fourth straight victory, 88-87 over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night.
Japanese scientists in eye of storm ... with goggles
Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind -- with the help of some goggles. (Read on Source)
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OPINIONS OF ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, A MINOR GREEK GODDESS. She can be reached at: ECHIDNE-OF-THE-SNAKES.COM (Read on Source)
Re: how to pass a current transaction values in statement level triggers?
First read, then I will help you if you can't.
Post what you try.
Btw, with what you posted noone can accurately help you.
You have to first give why you want to "pass" parameters to the trigger. What is the need? What do you try to achieve?
Regards
Michel
Filing Your Flood Damage Insurance Claim Posted By : Jim Corkern
Simple tricks that make filing an insurance claim for mold or water damage.
StubHub, MLB enter ticket resale pact (AP)
AP - EBay Inc.'s ticket-reselling subsidiary StubHub announced a five-year deal Wednesday night making it the official source of secondary tickets for Major League Baseball.
Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn recognizes Primus Canada for ongoing commitment in employment equity
... carrier in Canada with over 1,000,000 customers. The Company offers facilities-based voice, data, e-commerce, Web hosting, VoIP and broadband Internet services utilizing ADSL2+ technology. Primus Canada's national network consists of ...
links for 2007-10-19
... of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK's best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences ...
Proximity to pain
The closer you are to the point of need, the more you can charge. Pizza at the airport costs five times more than pizza on the way to the airport. Tax audit services in the middle of an SEC investigation cost triple what they cost before one. Scalped tickets cost more than ones bought in advance, by mail. Emergency towing in a strange town costs ... (Read on Source)
Leadership - 5 Lessons from the Current Recession
Many parts of the world are in recession or at least facing a downturn in the economy. At these times, redundancies and cutbacks are announced on almost a daily basis. Like all events, the current e...
Open Source Still the Best Way to Develop Software
Computerworld: "I can't take this study too seriously. After all, what else is Fortify going to say? "Open-source's Law of Many Eyes works great. You don't need our products?" I don't think so."
Oklahoma Supplement Distributor Files Bankruptcy After Breach Of Contract Decision
OKLAHOMA CITY - AMS Health Sciences, a distributor of natural supplements, recently filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, citing a November verdict and judgment against it related to its acquisition of Heartland Cup Inc. (In Re: AMS Health Sciences, No. 07-14678, N.D. Okla. Bkcy.). Full story on lexis.com
Email Marketing: How Not to Be a Dirty Rotten Spammer
What's remarkable communication? It focuses on the reader, not the writer. It's well-crafted. It engages. Remarkable relationships (business or otherwise) begin with remarkable communication. (Read on Source)
US/Mexican border states consider crossing toll
Latest Bizarre Proposal: Save Democracy By Taxing Energy To Make It Too Expensive To Blog
Okay, we see all sorts of crackpot ideas and theories show up from time to time, but it's not often that you get one quite this bizarre published in a publication quite as respectable as the Washington Post. Yet here is the venerable Washington Post with an op-ed from the lawyer, Dusty Horwitt, for a "nonprofit environmental group" in Washington DC complaining that blogging and other types of internet content are somehow a drag on democracy, and the solution is for the government to raise energy taxes such that it would make it too expensive for the riffraff to continue owning computers with internet connections, thereby reducing this flood of information. Yes, I think he's serious. There is, I will admit, a chance that this is pure satire. If so, I'll just tip my hat and admit that I was fooled -- but let's move forward on the assumption this is serious.
There are so many troubling aspects to this op-ed that it's difficult to know where to start. First, he brings up the classic complaint that the internet today is producing "too much information." Apparently, he believes that all this bad information somehow prevents good information from being distributed. Good information, by the way, is apparently information published in traditional newspapers. He uses a troubling interpretation of a few questionable stats to establish this -- assuming that because some people spend less time on various online sites, they're somehow not getting access to the good information that they need. He doesn't seem to consider that websites and the ease of publishing now allows people to get access to more good information that it was difficult to come by in the past.
He then goes on to suggest that true social movements have only happened because of the scarcity of broadcast media options, which somehow forced everyone to hear only a single message. This is, apparently, a good thing -- because obviously the big professional media only reports on the important stuff, whereas everyone else only reports on bad stuff. He honestly makes the claim that the civil rights movement wouldn't have happened today, because all of these other media would have drowned out the issue. It was only because a few newspapers decided that it was important to cover it -- and because people had nowhere else to get distracted -- that people actually made civil rights an issue. Today, I guess, we'd all just go back to watching hamsters hit each other on YouTube.
So, the problem, as he has described it is that all these damn people are talking to each other online, rather than listening to what the big important "good" media has to tell us. He says that the answer isn't necessarily to tax the technology of production -- though he considers this -- but to tax energy. He recognizes that it takes energy to use a computer and connect to the internet, so if it's much more expensive, he believes that plenty of folks would give up talking, and go back to being passive consumers of what the big professional media says is important today. As a side benefit (no, seriously), he points out that this increasing cost of energy would probably make it too expensive to offshore jobs. These would be the same jobs that have helped create new jobs and grow the economy (he leaves that part out). It's a wonder his proposal hasn't already been turned into legislation. Who wouldn't support a policy of higher energy costs to shut up the riff raff and make Americans have to pay more for just about everything?
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My Latest Pajamas Media Column: The Top 9 Reasons Why Barack Obama Hasn't Been Able To Pull Ahead
My latest column at Pajamas Media is called The Top 9 Reasons Why Barack Obama Hasn't Been Able To Pull Ahead. Here's an excerpt from the column, Many people, especially liberals, have been puzzled by Barack Obama's inability to pull... (Read on Source)
Climate change could devastate Philippines: NASA scientist
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Abacus appoints Peter Gammon as Chief Financial Officer
Abacus appoints Peter Gammon as Chief Financial Officer.
PRESS RELEASE: Brookhaven Scientist Confirms UFO C...
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Using Citrix XenApp and Need to Increase the Printing Ease and Performance of Your Applications?
Suwanee, GA (PRWEB) October 20, 2008 - DocPath announces the compatibility of the latest version of DocPath for Citrix® XenApp™ version 4 printing software with Citrix® XenApp™ 5. (PRWeb Oct 21, 2008)
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Silobreaker fun
October 2008 InfoTip: Silobreaker by Mary Ellen Bates. Features Silobreaker, a online news portal with some dazzling data visualization displays. Bates describes how the researcher can make good use of this site. I don't find it easy to search, but... (Read on Source)
Despite Obama Victory, Will Supreme Court Justices Sit Tight?
Conventional wisdom, accelerated by Barack Obama's Nov. 4 victory, has Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, all on the moderate-liberal wing of the Court, heading for the exits during Obama's first term. As the theory goes, all three justices would be happier being replaced under a Democrat. But justices don't always follow political timetables for their departures. And Ginsburg, for one, has put the word out in no uncertain terms that she isn't looking to leave.
Are you showcasing your benefits to the correct person?
While the above statements are common to see in the retail season ? those comments are not directed at the product user ? they are for the product buyer. (Read on Source)
HRA Wrap-up 244
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How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10
HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free)."
Sony to cut 8,000 jobs, 4 percent of work force (AP)
AP - Sony Corp. is slashing 4 percent of its worldwide work force, reining in spending and shutting plants as it tries to ride out a looming worldwide recession that is battering Japan's export-reliant manufacturers.
Six months of secret planning - then Israel moves against Hamas
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 00.01 GMT on Monday 29 December 2008. It appeared in the Guardian on Monday 29 December 2008 on p6 of the International section. It was last updated at 00.01 GMT on Monday 29 December 2008. (Read on Source)
Linksys announces Wireless Home Audio System, another wireless audio toy for rich people
Unless you're down to hobble your own crazy homebrew set-up, tinkering with wireless audio systems is a damned expensive hobby. Everytime I read about these products, I imagine some rich old dude tango'ing himself around his mansion with a rose in his teeth and an air-partner in his arms. Linksys' just announced "Wireless Home Audio System" is ... (Read on Source)
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