| ATHLETICS: Former Olympic ace inspires students
FORMER Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Olympic athlete Tony Jarrett spent an afternoon in an Enfield classroom last week to pass on tips to sports students. Jarrett, who competed in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996, Barcelona 1992 and Seoul 1988, was born in Enfield. And the former sprint ace, who won medals at the World, European and Commonwealth Games, returned to his home town to give a talk to sports students at Enfield College. The 39-year-old would probably have enjoyed even more success in his career had it not been for GB teammate Colin Jackson, with his only individual gold medal coming at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Jarrett, who is now an athletics coach, shared his experiences as a professional athlete with the students at the Hertford Road college, as well as running an exclusive practical coaching session.
IIS 6.0 Mature at Last
WHEN I FIRST TAUGHT Windows NT 4.0 courses, Internet Information Server (IIS) 2.0 was included in the base operating system. It was a big improvement over IIS 1.0, and I still remember the fun I had showing students how easy it was to set up a Web server. That was about six years ago, when Web servers running on NT were an exception. Since then, things have changed considerably. IIS has improved in performance, increased in functionality and grown in the number of deployments because of the changes. Netcraft reports that IIS has between 24 percent and 35 percent of the market, depending on how its measured. I expect the increased security and performance of IIS 6.0 to bump up those numbers a great deal. So lets look at IIS 6.0 and what it brings to the table. In putting together this article, I sat down with several of my former IIS students over lunch and showed them the new Process Model for IIS 6.0.
Univision Battle With Televisa Places Programs in Jeopardy
A long-running feud between Univision Communications and the Mexican broadcaster that provides most of its programming is headed for a showdown in a federal court in Los Angeles. If Univision loses, it could see many of its prime-time shows yanked. While a dispute over royalty payments is the source of the current dispute, tensions between the two companies date back to bad blood between Univisions former chief, A. Jerrold Perenchio, and the late Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, who felt he got a bad deal in 1992 when the two men negotiated the original contract. If the Mexican company, Grupo Televisa, wins and pulls its programming, Univisions enterprise value could be chopped by more than $1 billion. The lawsuit centers on a program license agreement, or PLA, between Televisa, the dominant broadcaster in Mexico, and L.A.s Univision, the dominant Spanish-language TV network in the U.S.
Nvidia 9600 GT gets rave reviews
Despite the name, the GeForce 9600 GT is a 65nm GPU that is similar to the very popular GeForce 8800 GT (G92). It's also interesting that at the sub-$200 level Nvidia is now pushing–and nearly all of the first cards reviewed are using–512MB of graphics memory. Nvidia clearly believes the more demanding games now require that much memory. Most Radeon 3850s have 256MB, though you can get cards with 512MB. The verdict: The GeForce 9600 GT not only leapfrogs right over its direct competitor, the Radeon 3850, but also offers performance similar to (and in a few cases better than) the higher-priced GeForce 8800 GT and Radeon 3870. Rich Brown at CNET Reviews, which gave the Asus EN9600 GT an Editors' Choice, notes that it is the only sub-$200 card out there that lets you play most games at 'medium or better quality settings.' Newegg already lists more than a dozen 9600 GT cards–most of them with 512MB–ranging in price from $180 to $210.
Building an application? Do you need a BPM engine?
It contains no Java extensions or .NET extensions. Execution is based on BPEL and WSDL, with the WSDL approach to WS. BPEL Toolkit: The toolkit operates as a plug-in within the Eclipse framework and features full support for WS-BPEL 2.0. The editor provides three views of a process with differing levels of granularity. The highest-level view is a graphically-based activity diagram that represents the overall process flow; this view is based on UML activity diagrams. The middle level is a tree structure that reflects the DOM (Document Object Model) of the BPEL process. The lowest level is a syntax-highlighted text editor with browsing capabilities Parasoft BPEL Maestro implements a WSDL-centric view of Web services. It supports Web services standards such as WSDL, SOAP, XML, HTTP, JMS, WS-Addressing, and WS-I Basic Profile.
Hillary Clinton to visit Casper
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be speaking at Casper College on Friday, said Lisa Icenogle, information coordinator for Casper College.Clinton will be speaking at 6:30 p.m. in the Administration Gymnasium, Icenogle said. The state basketball tournament previously reserved the larger Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gymnasium.The democratic caucuses are on Saturday morning at the Holiday Inn on the River. .
Elma's Briggs Nursery purchase complete
The Spring Garden Group Inc. said it's completed its purchase of the Briggs Nursery Inc. business for an undisclosed price. Briggs Nursery was founded in Elma, Wash., in 1912 by Orson Briggs. His grandson, Gary Briggs, has served 12 years as the nursery's CEO and will retire from the business, according to Wellesley, Mass.-based Spring Garden Group. Briggs specializes in production of tissue culture plants such as rhododendrons. According to its website, it employs 120 people full time and sells to 38 states and 17 countries from its 440-acre site in Elma, which is located in Grays Harbor County, and a laboratory in Olympia. .
Motorola Teams with Primus Canada and Mipps to Trial WiMAX in Toronto
CHICAGO, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WIMAX WORLD USA -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is working jointly with Primus Canada and Mipps Inc. on trials of WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 in Toronto. The trial, using Motorola's wi4 WiMAX solution, will provide valuable in-field experience and data to both service providers as they evaluate WiMAX technology for planned future deployments of innovative, high-speed wireless broadband services to their customers throughout Canada. With WiMAX users can enjoy untethered access to Internet applications such as browsing and video streaming using customer premise equipment (modems), PCMCIA cards for laptops, and handheld devices at speeds greater than today's cellular networks. Mipps Inc. ("Mipps") acquired 3.5 GHz licensed spectrum covering Toronto as well as similar spectrum in most major cities across Canada.
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