| Rain can't wash out tennis tourney
The Nature Coast Tennis Foundation held its third annual Junior Singles Championship at Delta Woods Park in Spring Hill this past weekend. Weather trouble caused a move from Saturday to Sunday, but the rains held off long enough for the foundation to finish the tournament. With 42 entries, tournament director Louise Downey characterized the turnout as "highly successful." In the High School Girls final, Tamara Bustard defeated Alexa Burns in straight sets for the title, 7-5, 7-5. The High School Boys title was arguably the match of the tournament. Lasting more than two hours, Anthony Carter ousted P.J. Waterson in a final set tiebreaker, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6. In the Middle School divisions, the girls champion was Mallorie Pickersgill, who dominated Kayla Papp in straight sets, 6-0, 6-1.
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VeriCenter to Manage Enterprise Servers for MedAmerica, Inc.
Hosted portal application enables leading healthcare company to provide web-based physician practice management solutions for well-known physician groups across the U.S. HOUSTON (PRWEB) August 14, 2006 -- VeriCenter, Inc. and MedAmerica, Inc. today announced that VeriCenter is providing managed hosting services for MedAmerica's portal solution for physician practice management. MedAmerica is a nationally recognized medical practice support and consulting company.
"The resources required to operate and maintain IT infrastructure in the healthcare industry have grown exponentially over the past few years because of several factors, including government regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 24x7 access information and online applications," said Nancy Burghart-Hall, CIO of MedAmerica.
SaaS Spawns Entrepreneurs
I'm attending SaaS Summit this week in San Francisco, sponsored by SaaS aggregator OpSource. Companies ranging from Microsoft to my company Absolute Performance attended. To demonstrate the diversity of companies involved in SaaS, even the smallest of companies exhibited. Next to our booth is TimeclockOnline.com, a three person startup company offering online time clocking software for time tracking. Remember those old punch clocks you used to punch in and out for the day at the factory, service or other type of hourly job? TimeclockOnline.com is the digital equivalent, delivered as an online web site, serving over 300 companies. Joel Slatis, president, spun the company off from his web site design firm, and SaaS Summit is the first trade show he's ever exhibited.
Auction Services and Phil Mortensen Auctions Inc. Introduce Cutting ...
For the first time in the auction industry, Auctionservices.com will use virtual salespeople in designing and hosting a client's website. This new tool has been proven to attract customers, increase sales and retain interest in company services, according to Rick Romanus Sr., President and CEO of Auction Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) September 13, 2006 -- For the first time in the auction industry, Auctionservices.com will use virtual salespeople in designing and hosting a client's website. This new tool has been proven to attract customers, increase sales and retain interest in company services, according to Rick Romanus Sr., President and CEO of Auction Services, Inc. "We are delighted to offer this innovative video and audio messaging capability," noted Romanus.
County running club thriving
Winter generally puts a damper on the running calendar, but the 2008 Xtreme Running Film Series got started on a snowy evening in February with Dancing the Bear, a film about two women at the Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run. "I think it was an interesting and in some ways unique opportunity for runners to chat other than in a racing or training setting," said organizer Mike Casper. The next film in the series, on March 19, is Without Limits, which tells the story of American running legend Steve Prefontaine. Appalachian Outdoors is hosting the series at 123 S. Allen St., in State College. Viewers meet at the store at 7:50 p.m. and the film starts at 8 p.m. The Tussey mOUnTaiNBACK 50 and the Nittany Valley Running Club are sponsoring the series, which is scheduled to run through June.
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Another high school coach once told me that working a football sideline, for him, was always "a dance with madness." Time and again, in the ebb and flow of tense competition, he felt damaging words for officials and players clog in his throat like thick sludge, held there by the thinnest fabric of conscience. Coaches, of course, are far from alone. Athletic events, from the stands to the scoreboard, routinely include as many vented spleens as splendid victories. When it comes to supporting our kids, whether as coaches or parents, common sense is often the most costly turnover on the stat sheet. As the father of a teenage athlete, the only thing keeping me from going Wacker on a referee from the bleachers, time and again, has been the feel of my wife's gentle hand on my shoulder.
Palme Middle East on course for 20% growth
The show, which runs from April 27-29 at Dubai's International Exhibition Centre, has already expanded into Hall 4 to accommodate the extraordinary growth in the Event 360 vertical sector. With Palme now occupying an unprecedented five halls (plus the Pavilion) show organiser Alex Heuff has revealed that stand space for the sixth edition of the show is already 70% sold with five months to go. Event 360The change of emphasis placed on Palme Middle East 2008 by show organisers, IIR Exhibitions, has attracted a raft of first time exhibitors; one such participant in the Event 360 sector, Purple Fire, has immediately become a platinum sponsor. The repositioning of Event 360, which will target the growing number of event managers throughout the GCC's meetings and incentives industry with a programme of conferences and awards, spearheads a package of improvements at this year's show.
Holes in the net make 'cloud computing' pie in the sky
Here's a phrase you will be hearing a lot in the next few years: 'cloud computing'. Its etymology is vague, but it probably dates from the moment when someone casually illustrated the global network beyond the individual PC by drawing a cloud and writing 'internet' on it. No matter. What cloud computing means is a scenario in which users obtain computing services not from the PCs on their desks, but from servers located elsewhere on the internet. Another way of expressing this is the mantra, first enunciated many years ago by Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, that 'the network is the computer'. This seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, because connections to the internet then were slow and often erratic. But with gigabit ethernet connections in local area networks, and increasingly fast broadband, network performance has improved to the point where cloud computing looks like a feasible proposition.
Reforming Selective College Admissions
So, rather than spending junior year searching for colleges, visiting colleges, testing for colleges and preparing to apply to colleges, and senior year applying to colleges, interviewing at colleges, nervously waiting to hear from colleges and recovering from applying to colleges, their child is postponing applying to college until she takes a gap year after high school. They are negotiating with the school to provide its usual level of college counseling during the gap year, so their child can concentrate on getting a fine high school education for four full years. So, what would I ask selective colleges and universities to change about the admissions process? A lot. (1) Adopt a policy that your institutions will not provide information to or cooperate in any way with the rankings done by U.S.
Letting go of war
Capt. Charles (Chip) Rankin came home from war on a Friday in July. He dropped his backpack inside the back door of his beige rambler, looked at his wife and young son, and thought how happy he was to be there. But within a couple of days, he was thinking, Now what? In Iraq, his Bravo Company -- Company B, 2-136 Infantry, based out of northwestern Minnesota -- had seen more action and more death than any other unit from the state. They'd lost three men; two had died together in the same attack that robbed another man of his legs. And they'd been deployed longer than anyone else, much of the time in dangerous Anbar Province. But it had been rewarding, too. In Iraq, Rankin, 33, had known what to expect and what was expected of him. Duties, responsibilities and chain of command were set in stone.
Westminster talks to set unionist agenda for the future of Scotland
We have never had that from the UK government," the source said.And he added: "The reason that is so important is because, at the end of this process, we would envisage a Scotland Act Amendment Bill coming through the House of Commons and that needs government support."The Liberal Democrats believe a lot of the work of the commission will involve Treasury officials, because of the complex arguments over fiscal control and responsibility, and that will need positive support from the UK government. The Tories are more cautious, looking for the practical details of the commission's work to be thrashed out today.For Labour, the central issue is the difference between Ms Alexander, the Scottish Labour leader, and Mr Browne. Ms Alexander has made the drive for more powers for Holyrood a central part of her leadership.
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