| Super-fast fine after UK Broadband misses accounts deadline
The group, which markets its service as Now, was due to file its figures for 2006 at the end of October. Companies House confirmed that it would face an automatic fine. The penalty marks the latest embarrassment for the Hong-Kong group, which had bold ambitions about revolutionising internet access when it launched its "next generation" broadband service in Britain in 2004. It said that the service - offering internet access without the need for a fixed telephone line – would "open up the web" for consumers. PCCW spent $14 million on 15 broadband licences before launching its service, initially called Netvigator. However, when it last released figures, it had only 14,000 customers and has remained a niche company. The maximum speed on offer is only one megabit per second (Mbps).
No excuse for racial abuse on the sports field
Australian opener Darren Lehmann was reported in The Australian in January 2003 to have yelled "black c..ts" in the tunnel leading to the Gabba dressing rooms after he was dismissed in a game against Sri Lanka. Coach John Buchanan was reported as saying that he did not condone any form of racial abuse. In December that year The Age revealed the racial abuse used by spectators against the visiting Indian team: "As Cricket Australia said it was moving to adopt powers to eject spectators for racial abuse, Indian spectators and journalists yesterday reported being called names such as 'coolie' and 'curry muncher' at the Adelaide Oval and in Brisbane." The reporter quoted one Indian, who sits on the board of a leading corporation in Melbourne, as saying he had feared for his safety for the first time in 15 years of living in Australia as he left the Adelaide Oval on that Friday night.
Albemarle Earns Wildlife Habitat Certification at Orangeburg Plant ...
(CSRwire) ORANGEBURG, S.C., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- It's not every day that a chemical company gets cited for creating wetlands. But the prestigious Wildlife Habitat Council now has recognized specialty chemicals maker Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) twice in as many years for Albemarle's innovative wetlands programs at two of the company's U.S. plant sites. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071105/NEM138 ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050801/ALBEMARLELOGO ) After a couple of years of planning and six months of preparation, land development, and sheer physical labor, Albemarle's Orangeburg employee- and contract-worker-based Wildlife Habitat team recently received word that its newly developed habitat has been certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council's (WHC) Corporate Certification/International Accreditation Program as a commendable wildlife habitat management and environmental education program.
LPGA acquires Futures Tour
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – The LPGA Tour has acquired the Duramed Futures Tour, the 27-year-old developmental circuit that has sent nearly 300 players to the big tour.
The Futures Tour has been the LPGA Tour's official developmental tour since 1999.
Terms of the sale weren't disclosed during Wednesday's announcement at the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship.
The Futures Tour has a 19-event schedule this year, with the top 5 money-winners earning 2008 LPGA Tour cards.
“This agreement solidifies what all of us have been working toward for years – a cohesive tour system for the best talent in women's golf," Futures Tour president and CEO Zayra Calderon said.
Duramed will remain the title sponsor, and Calderon will stay as president and CEO of the Futures Tour and become a member of the LPGA Tour's senior management team.
Bryant named new KTU morning host
From July 2006 to November 2007, he worked with Whoopi Goldberg on the nationally syndicated "Wake Up With Whoopi," which aired on KTU.
�Cubby is a well-established and loved New York personality," said Tom Poleman, senior vice president of programming for Clear Channel New York, in a statement. "He's perfect for this. He knows how to connect with listeners, while keeping the music going. His extensive radio experience doing afternoons at Z100, paired with his experience in mornings with Whoopi, makes him the ideal choice.� .
The Kern Valley Sun's Year in Review
Sycamore Asset Management was brought in to assist the district with bringing the SNF into compliance. Bob Duncan was hired as the new CEO, but he stepped down in October when he took a job closer to his home in Coalinga. Rick Carter, with a strong background in healthcare administration, took the helm in November. Kern Valley Sun annual gardening contest This year marked the second year the Kern Valley Sun has held its annual gardening contest. Gardeners of all types were invited to show off the hard work they put into their yards each year. Entries ranged from vegetable gardens, to flower gardens, to orchards and varying combinations of all three. Darice Repp, of Weldon, took top honors. Frank Hernandez of Lake Isabella earned honorable mention this year for best vegetable garden.
Outcome Enables Hospitals to Meet the Requirements of MassHealth P4P ...
OUTCOME Renee Holmes, 617-715-6882 rholmes@outcome.com or FD Business Communications Theresa Kelleher, 212-850-5663 theresa.kelleher@fd.com Outcome Sciences, Inc. (OUTCOME), the leading provider of patient registries and studies for evaluating real-world outcomes, today announced that it has created a Patient Management Tool (PMT(R)) to support the MassHealth Hospital Pay-for-Performance (P4P) Measures initiative. In an effort to improve hospital .
TrialStat Announces Industry’s First Browser-Side Encryption Module ...
Patent-pending encryption technology provides an additional level of security for contract research organizations managing sensitive patient data. Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) September 19, 2006 -- TrialStat Corporation (www.trialstat.com), a clinical data management on demand company, today announced the availability of the industry's first browser-side encryption module for hosted EDC. The new patent-pending encryption module for ClinicalAnalytics (CA) 3.0™, the company's on demand EDC platform, consists of a customer-managed security key that is used to encrypt and decrypt specified data fields before they are sent from a web browser to a hosted server. The module's encryption process, which is transparent to researchers entering data, completely obscures highly sensitive data elements, such as health card numbers, so that only users who created them and colleagues at different research sites can view their details.
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