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The next-generation user-centric Web is hurtling toward us and it is a rich-media future in which AJAX, the most talked about of all the Rich Internet technologies, is positioned firmly at center stage.
Burton Group defines “Rich” Internet Applications as those that offer functionality beyond standard HTML frames and hyperlinks, the most famous examples of such functionality on the Web to date being the AJAX-based Google Maps and Gmail.
AjaxWorld Conference & Expo 2006 recognizes that, while on the one hand Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) as a category is wider and broader than just AJAX, on the other it is indisputably AJAX that has acted as the tipping point.
AjaxWorld will feature a faculty of more than 100 distinguished speakers, presenting more than 96 sessions, keynotes, and power panel discussions, in seven simultaneous tracks for two days. Call for papers for AjaxWorld will remain open through June 30, 2006, at www.AJAXWorldExpo.com.
The first international AJAXWorld Conference & Expo which took place on October 2 - 4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA is sponsored by Adobe, Amazon, Apress, Backbase, ComponentArt, Cynergy Systems, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, JackBe, Laszlo Systems, Nexaw...
Mobile device usage has increased exponentially during the past several years, as consumers rely on handhelds for everything from news and weather to banking and purchases. What can we expect in the next few years? The way in which we interact with our devices will fundamentally change, as businesses leverage Artificia...
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Michael Meiner, an Engineering Director at Oracle, will look at this evolution of mobile computing, along with the underlying enterprise technologies that enable this shift. Demos using Amazon Alexa and Oracle Mobile Suite will be shown.
Michael Meiner is an Engineering Director at Oracle, with expertise in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). He leads Product Management for common technologies including metering, security and mission-critical deployments for Oracle Mobile Suite, Integration Suite and others. He also has extensive experience leading developme...
A devastated mum has spoken of her torment in the face of unanswered questions over her only son’s tragic death on a holiday isle.
James Todd went missing in Gran Canaria in July last year just days after enrolling at a university there.
And two months later a body, believed to be James’s, was found in Guiniguada Ravine, a popular hiking spot.
A DNA match between the body and a razor found in the 46-year-old’s belongings backed a police theory that it was James and his ID was also found at the scene. But identification has yet to be completely ratified.
James’s 70-year-old mother Chris Keen and her husband Derek, 74, who live in Standish Lower Ground, have now been waiting an agonising 11 months for confirmation while police try to establish their family link using a swab taken from his grieving mother. And what actually happened to him also remains cloaked in mystery...
Chris was contacted by the British Consulate in Spain with the shocking news that human remains found were believed to be her son’s, but since then she has not been able to find out any more information because she has not been confirmed as his next of kin.
Following the initial contact, Chris waited four months for police to take a DNA swab to see if it matched that of the body, and since March she has not had the results.
She added: “I got a call in November. The police said the remains of a body had been found at the bottom of a ravine. It was impossible to take in.
It is thought that James was in the country after selling his father’s house who died two years ago. Described as the “life and soul of the party” by Chris, James had a passion for travelling following a holiday with step-father Derek to Barbados.
Together Chris and Derek have sought help from Lisa Nandy, Wigan MP candidate, who they said “stepped on the gas” to help the distraught couple get some answers. Once Spanish police have ascertained that Chris is James’s mum, she will be granted permission to bury his body following another autopsy and an inquest.
However the couple, who are now both retired, would have to sell their house in order to pay the astronomical £50,000 fee to bring his body back.
Once the post-mortem examination has been conducted, the pair hope to bring James’s ashes back to the UK.
Franchise agreements spell out how much the cable company has to pay in fees in exchange for the ability to use a county or city’s publicly owned right of way to deliver its services. Franchise fees are charged to customers.
The now-expired Whatcom County agreement included additional protections for customers (as allowed by federal law) by requiring a baseline standard for the cable services offered, and requiring the cable giant to report the number of customer complaints it receives.
The 1996 document granted TCI Cablevision the right to operate in the county under certain guidelines for 15 years. Comcast inherited that agreement as part of a company merger.
As written, it dictates Comcast pay 4 percent of its gross revenues in the unincorporated portions of the county, to the county treasurer each quarter.
Though the agreement lapsed in 2011, the county continues to receive quarterly franchise fee payments and a reporting of revenues.
They send a report that shows they had 34 total complaints for the county (in 2014). Well I probably had 34 myself.
He requested the county provide policy guidance for the negotiations via council staff.
“We don’t want to negotiate something we think is good, then find out it’s not what you want at all,” Gibson said.
Some council members asked Schroeder and Gibson to look to recently completed agreements for guidance. Bellingham updated its agreement with Comcast in 2011, and Ferndale updated its agreement in 2009.
Council member Barbara Brenner asked anyone who was interested in drafting questions to do so and send them to the council.
It appears the county and cable company had attempted to renegotiate in recent years, but staff members working on the deal for both entities retired during the process, and no one stepped in to finish their work, Gibson said.
The matter came back to the attention of the county in part because county resident Michael Kominsky looked into the agreement after getting upset with his own experiences as a Comcast customer.
Kominsky, who worked for TCI from 1982 to 1990 and negotiated franchise agreements as part of his duties, questioned the county’s ability to collect franchise fees without a valid agreement, and wanted to see copies of the required customer complaint logs.
But Comcast hadn’t provided the complaint logs to the county.
When asked, the company provided logs that showed Whatcom County residents made between 19 and 34 “escalated video complaints” each year from 2010 to 2014.
(Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG's chief U.S. economist Joe LaVorgna left last week after about 20 years with the bank and plans to "work elsewhere in financial services," Bloomberg said on Monday, citing people familiar with the move.
The bank's chief economist Peter Hooper will continue to oversee economic forecasts and analysis, Bloomberg said.
Deutsche Bank spokesman Troy Gravitt declined to comment on the matter in an email statement.
Located to the immediate west of downtown Miami, Little Havana is the symbolic and cultural capital for Cuban-Americans in Miami. The neighborhood brings in droves of visitors with its vibrant atmosphere and excellent food.
Calle Ocho (8th Street) is the center of activity here. Maximo Gomez Park, also known as Domino Park, is located at the corner of Calle Ocho and 15th Avenue and is a pleasant place to hang out and take in a game of dominoes or chess. Travelers recommend El Pub for its authentic Cuban food and cheap prices. Every March,...
Travelers also enjoy visiting the cigar factories and the Cuban Memorial Boulevard on the corner of 13th Avenue and Calle Ocho. However, some visitors just don't get the area's appeal. One TripAdvisor user says, "It is a very cool destination, but not one I would go out of my way for except for the food or the cigars."
President Jalal Talabani—Iraq's first Kurdish president is the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two leading political factions in the semiautonomous northern region. He was a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council that served just after the former regime fell.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari—A Shiite Muslim, al-Jaafari is an Islamist from the Dawa Party, one of the oldest and most influential religious parties in Iraq. He was exiled to Iran in the 1980s and later lived in Britain. He was a member of the U.S.-appointed governing council. He is now the acting defense ministe...
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi—A one-time favorite of the Pentagon to lead Iraq, Chalabi fell from grace last year amid accusations that he passed secrets to Iran. Unpopular among ordinary Iraqis, Chalabi nevertheless has managed to remain a power broker. The secular Shiite is one of four deputy premiers. He is al...
Dr. Shamil Yenikeyeff is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Senior Associate Member at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Battle for Russian Oil: Corporations, Regions, and the State, a forthcoming book on the pol...
Big business under threat in Putin’s Russia?
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani left open Sunday the possibility that Trump and former personal attorney Michael Cohen might have discussed Cohen’s congressional testimony.
Giuliani told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he did not know if Trump had discussed with Cohen a 2017 congressional interview at which Cohen has admitted lying about a Trump Tower real estate project in Moscow. He also acknowledged in a separate interview with NBC News that conversations about that project stretched t...
The question arose in light of a BuzzFeed News report from last week that said Trump had instructed Cohen to lie to Congress and that Cohen relayed that to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators. Mueller’s office took the unusual step of issuing a statement disputing the story. BuzzFeed said it stands b...
Giuliani said in interviews with CNN and NBC that Trump never directed Cohen to lie to lawmakers. But on CNN he acknowledged the possibility that Trump and Cohen might have discussed Cohen’s testimony, saying that while he had no knowledge of such a conversation, he wasn’t ruling it out and that it’d be “perfectly norm...
Giuliani’s suggestion that dialogue about the Trump Tower project could have stretched into the fall of 2016 extends the timeline for negotiations well beyond what the president has publicly acknowledged. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress by saying that he had abandoned the project in January 2016 even though p...
Giuliani made a similar comment last month on ABC News when he suggested that the president knew that Cohen was pursuing the project into 2016.
Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and chairman of the House intelligence committee, said the panel planned to investigate why Cohen made false statements to Congress and determine what exactly Cohen and Trump might have discussed about his testimony.
DENVER -- The Colorado mountains continue to get snow Thursday night. The risk for avalanches remains at historically high levels. So, traveling into the Colorado mountains is not advised due the threat for snow slides.
There will be a break in the snow for the mountains early on Friday before more accumulating snow returns later Friday into early Saturday. Those planning to ski this weekend should pay attention to roads conditions before heading up to the high country.
In Denver, we will have a mild Friday with highs in the upper 40s to low 50s with some sunshine early in the day. We are expecting clouds to quickly increase followed by rain and snow showers for the evening. Right now, we are not expecting any accumulation across the city.
Your weekend will be mainly sunny and dry in Denver with highs both days in the low to mid-40s. There will be a brisk northwest breeze on Saturday. So, if you have to be out, grab the jacket because that wind will put a chill in the air.
We then shift our attention to our next chance for accumulating snow in the metro, which looks to arrive on Tuesday into Wednesday. We are watching details related to the timing of the snow and possible accumulation in Denver and along the Front Range.
South Africa has beaten New Zealand to win the hosting rights for the 2023 Netball World Cup.
The International Netball Federation (INF) announced today that their flagship event would take place at Cape Town's International Convention Centre.
It means Africa will host the Netball World Cup for the first time.
"On behalf of the Board of the International Netball Federation, I am delighted to announce that Netball South Africa has been awarded the rights to host the 2023 Netball World Cup," said INF President Molly Rhone.
"We were delighted to receive two exceptional bids and the INF Board was satisfied that both Netball New Zealand and Netball South Africa would be capable of hosting a successful and thrilling World Cup.
"The INF Board decided that the significant investment that the South African Government and Western Cape were prepared to make over the next four years in netball facilities and coaching programmes in South Africa, the African continent and beyond would deliver a greater impact on the development of global netball.
"It is an exciting time for netball right now.
"Our sport is growing in popularity at an unprecedented rate throughout the world.
"There is increasing competitiveness between the top nations and now three teams from Africa feature in the top 10 of the INF world rankings.
"We look forward to working with the Organising Committee to bring the INF's most important event to South Africa in 2023."
The quadrennial event will be held this year in English city Liverpool, where Australia will be looking for a fourth title in a row.
Celebrations were held in South Africa following today's announcement but New Zealand missed out on hosting the event for the fourth time and the first since 2007.
The two countries both made bid presentations to the INF in Singapore last year.
If successful New Zealand would have hosted the event in Auckland and celebrated a century of the sport in the country.
"We're very disappointed we were not awarded the hosting rights for what is the pinnacle event within the world netball calendar," said Allison Ferguson, Netball New Zealand's Board chair.
"This would have been a fitting way to celebrate 100 years of netball in New Zealand.
"I know we would have done a superb job and we certainly had the support of our netball community, Government and venues, to have made this an outstanding Netball World Cup event.
"On behalf of Netball New Zealand and the netball community in New Zealand, I wish Netball South Africa all the best with their preparations to host the Netball World Cup in 2023.
"The Netball World Cup is the pinnacle event for our sport and we know Netball South Africa will be working hard to ensure it is delivered to a world class standard."
Originally Published: February 12, 2002 5:15 p.m.
The Chino Valley Town Council may wash their hands of a controversy regarding a proposed racetrack at Old Home Manor and let the townspeople decide its fate, if Thursday night's meeting agenda is any indication.
That issue and several others, including a possible investigation into the Chino Valley Senior Center and rescinding the granting of a water franchise to the Del Rio water company, will come up for discussion at the meeting, which starts an hour earlier at 6 p.m. at town hall, 1020 W. Palomino Road.
Three agenda items pertain to the proposed racetrack. The first item directs town staff to prepare the necessary and legal documentation to put the racetrack question on the ballot. An election would take place in either September or November of this year.
Council Member Joel Baker requested the item, which would be a referendum approved by the council.
The question would not indicate a preferred location for the facility, which has considered setting up shop at Old Home Manor.
Baker explained in a telephone interview Monday that he was just inquiring as to the legal hoops the town has to go through to refer the issue to the voters.
"And I found out today that the issue has to be citizen driven if it were to take place," Baker said, adding that the town government could not initiate a referendum.
"If we are that split on the issue, and there is anxiety on both sides, let the democratic process take place and make that decision," Baker said.
A second agenda item would authorize Mayor Dan Main to sign a letter of support for a racetrack within the town, just as long as it's not at Old Home Manor.
In a request by Main to be on the agenda, he explained that eastside neighbors in close proximity to Old Home Manor object to the facility.
"I feel we need to honor our commitment to them," Main wrote. "In addition, as of the date of this request (Feb. 5), there has been no financial pro forma or engineering plans submitted to the staff."
However, Old Home Manor may come off the table as a site for the racetrack. The council will also consider an amended intergovernmental agreement with Yavapai College.
According to the agreement, the town would stipulate that it would not allow any "motor sports facility to be constructed or operated on any site on the town's Old Home Manor property."
Yavapai College, in recent weeks, publicly stated its opposition to the racetrack (See related story). Also, two citizen groups – one for the racetrack and one against – are circulating petitions for their respective positions and plan to present them to the council Thursday.
Council Member Norm Barnes sponsored the agenda item regarding an investigation into the senior center. Chino Valley resident Marilyn Trinka requested the time on the agenda.
Town Manager Carl Tenney noted via a memo that the town is not aware of the nature of Trinka's concerns, but that the town is prepared to address them as directed by council.
In other action, the council will consider three resolutions that rescind three previous resolutions granting certain rights to the Del Rio Water Company.
One resolution granted a non-exclusive easement to the company, while the other two granted a water franchise and a special use permit.
In a memo by Tenney, he states that the items may not be legally correct. "We seek to rescind them pending legal advice and further discussion with developers."
• Presenting a preliminary draft of the Chino Valley Strategic Plan. The public may comment on the plan at this meeting or at two other meetings this month – the planning and zoning commission meeting on Feb. 21 and the town council meeting on Feb. 28.
• A review of proposed impact fees and development fees.
• Setting a policy for the collection of assessed privilege taxes due to the town.

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