Plans set for annual luncheon at Bauxite Oct 5, 2005
Patterson is the daughter of the late Mac and Frances Trimble. Now retired, she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. (Benton Courier, AR)
Storage Clips: HP acquires blade server software Oct 5, 2005
1, which adds support for a pair of server-side features for Mac OS X v10 ... 1 also adds support for Tiger extended attributes that will be used by future Mac applications. (Search Storage)
Stocks to watch: Yum Brands, more Oct 5, 2005
Stocks to Watch: Yum Brands, Solectron, Mercury Interactive - Biotechnology - Computer Hardware - Insurance - Internet Services - Financial - Telecommunications - Industrial, Diversified - Media - Computer Software - Oil and Gas - Technology, Hardware and Equipment - Banks - Pharmaceuticals - Chemicals - General Industrial Services - Financial Services - Internet - Fiber Optics - Industrial Products ces - Software - Energy - Manufacturing - Earnings - Company Announcements. E-mail. (CBS MarketWatch - Front Page)
Calling in sick, while at work Oct 5, 2005
In the last year, large companies such as Capital One Financial Corp., Discovery Communications Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and mortgage guarantor Freddie Mac have opened on-site medical clinics with physicians and nurse practitioners ... In some cases, the clinics allow them to more tightly control who is referred for additional, expensive treatment; keep a watchful eye on potentially costly employees with diabetes, high blood pressure or a high-risk pregnancy; and push budget-conscious... (Sun-Sentinel.com)
Post-Katrina landscape turned into wireless lab Oct 5, 2005
Hours after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and knocked out telecommunications across much of the region, Mac Dearman visited shelters in northern Louisiana to connect telephones. Dearman doesn't work for a phone company. (MSNBC -- Technology)
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Disasters from the past hit home in this pair of powerful accounts Oct 5, 2005
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917, By Laura M. MacDonald, Walker, 356 pp ... That was Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Dec. 6, 1917, but Laura M. Mac Donald's powerful account of that disaster, ''Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917," cannot be read this fall without thinking of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.And the immediacy of those current disasters does not diminish that of nearly a century past. If anything, Mac Donald's account of the Halifax disaster more closely... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Networks offer power of three Oct 5, 2005
Len Gemelli, IT manager at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre ... The Australian Tax Office in Canberra and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne are both taking advantage of high-speed networks to improve how they function ... IT manager Len Gemelli says Peter Mac, as the centre is known, had been experiencing a growing demand for converged voice and data services. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Obituaries for Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 Oct 5, 2005
and Paul Boydstun Calvert Jr. of New Orleans; three great-grandchildren, Sean Jacob Calvert, Tristan Joseph Calvert and Camille Buckner; many other relatives and friends, including the residents and staff of Camellia Estates and Ruby Reed; special friend and caretaker, Pearl Strange and her family, Mac and Diane Cothern and their son, Chris and wife Jennifer, Margie and Jimmy Roberts, Vickie Lee Cothern, Paul and Patsy Rushing Frolich and daughter Emily. Pallbearers will be William Ernest... (Enterprise-Journal)
Through thick and thin: Polk County couple celebrates seven decades of marriage Oct 5, 2005
Mary and Frances Mac McCarthy are still holding hands after 70 years of marriage ... Mary often steals kisses from Frances, also known as Mac, while Mac has often said that he doesn t know what he would do without his wife ... While Mac and Mary, known as The Wild Pair, may sound like newly weds, they just recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. (Cedartown Standard, GA)
