Lifeless, ordinary

2012-05-17 @ admin

Vivien Adam’s play A Sense Of Justice is, declares the cover of the programme, “a brand new thriller”. This refers only to its hasty construction, as a late replacement for Perth Theatre’s planned adaptation of Emlyn Williams’s Night Must Fall, which collapsed when the theatre and the playwright’s estate were “unable to come to agreement”.
There is no other sense in which the adjective “new” could reasonably be applied to A Sense Of Justice. Nor do the difficult circumstances of its birth excuse the horribly ugly baby it has become.

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Legal opinion puts more power in hands of database owners

2012-05-17 @ admin

A European Union advocate general has issued a legat opinion that could give database owners more scope to sue people who copy the data without permission, no matter how they obtain it.
Although not binding, the opinion written by Christine Stix-Hackl will be used by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in dealing with four cases over the use of data obtained from third parties.

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Integrate with people

2012-04-18 @ admin

When the Internet bubble burst, it looked as though, at least temporarily, the IT industry had been chastened enough by its experiences to not try to paint every advance in computing technology as the solution to business problems.
Not completely cast aside because they did have real uses, many technologies have spent the last few years quietly making inroads into real applications, and making a difference. For example, users at the recent European Business Rules Conference in Amsterdam reported success in adopting inference engines and other advanced techniques in improving the abilities of applications that employ business rules.

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Avatar animated graphics for BlackBerry

2012-04-18 @ admin

From the Blackberry Messenger 6.1.0.49 version of the popular Messenger receives the support of animated avatar images (animated GIFs). That means you can move images as an avatar image store and share your BBM friends.

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For Women: Landing the Loan

2012-04-12 @ admin

Are bank loans still difficult for women to obtain? “Maybe 15 or 20 years ago that was the case,” says Maria Coyne, executive vice president and national sales manager of community banking for Key-Bank National Association.
“However, banks are now much smarter about serving their female clients and understanding their needs”
Coyne, who manages Key4Women, a resource for women business owners, says that in the past two years, KeyBank has loaned more than $2 biilion to female entrepreneurs. That includes lending $150,000 to Sharon Thompson, 50, president of Ambience Salon Spa in West Chester, Ohio. The $2 million company was in business for six years before Thompson applied for an SBA loan.

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Bali, Indonesia

2012-04-06 @ admin

In February, we continued what we started 20 years ago: At that time we had come by bus, train and boat from Bangkok and Singapore via Malaysia to Indonesia. About Java, it went to Bali, where we had circumnavigated the island on a moped, then crossed the mountains and were unfortunately ill with hepatitis. We broke off the voyage, but went back the same distance, however, shortened by some short-haul flights. Back then we swore to visit this island paradise again soon. In subsequent years, we were flying mostly in European winter time and again to Asia, including five times to Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Sumatra.

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