| Oracle Helps Mayo Clinic Improve Information Management
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced that the Mayo Clinic, the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world, is using Oracle content management products, components of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware, to efficiently manage more than 100 million documents and images. The Mayo Clinic is the world's largest not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness. It began its Oracle-based content management project in its finance department to support accounts payable and accounts receivable processes. It then expanded its Oracle content management software implementation to its Publishing and Media Technology Services department, which is responsible for managing the clinic's brand-related, stock and historical images, as well as its newsletters and its institutional policies and procedures.
Giants, Jets prepare to scout combine
For general managers Jerry Reese and Mike Tannenbaum, though, the task marks the beginning of the Giants' attempt to keep the status quo and for the Jets to turn things around.
It could prove a tougher road for Reese and his Super Bowl-winning staff. As they say, reaching the top is a lot easier than staying there.
"It'll be a little different this year because everybody will be patting us on the back and saying, 'Good job,' '' Reese said. "But we'll try to stay focused and get us another strong draft class.
"The bar's been set high. I have this great fear of winning the Super Bowl and not making the playoffs the next year. We don't want that. We don't want to disappear.''
Reese heads into Indianapolis with fond memories of his last combine his first as general manager which began the trail to an unquestionable home run of a 2007 draft.
Nuclear Waste: Not a Problem
Six decades ago the birth of nuclear power was praised for lowering the volume of waste products by a factor of 10,000,000. As Petr Beckmann pointed out in his classic The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear, the nuclear wastes for an individual for a year is about the size of an aspirin tablet — a minuscule price to pay for inexpensive, reliable, safe electrical power. Yet when nuclear power is mentioned as a clean alternative today, the problem of wastes invariably arises. .
New Delhi, March 3
A case of polio was recently reported in the Capital with a 14-month-old girl from Darbhanga, Bihar, falling prey to the dreaded disease. Gulnaz, a resident of West Delhis Zakira locality, was diagnosed with the disease in the Kirti Nagar area, health officials said. The child is afflicted with the P1 strain of polio. It is the deadliest of the polio virus. PTI
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UPDATE...High-speed chase ends in death on PCB (see Map)
(Update: Beach police are asking for your help in identifying the driver who fled. Police said the vehicle is a four-door, dark-colored Volvo, and ask anyone who has information about who was driving to call police at 233-5000.) A suspected drunk driver fleeing from Panama City Beach police struck another car and killed its driver, Beach Police said this morning. The pursuit, which apparently lasted less than two miles, had been cut off by Beach police about a mile short of the crash, Maj. David Humphreys said. The driver fled in his wrecked vehicle and abandoned it. Beach police questioned two men who might have been driving. The investigation is ongoing, with no arrests yet. The names of the victim and the people who were questioned have not been released.
Underdog champion
When the Jays open the 2008 season at Yankee Stadium on March 31, Eckstein will appear in his 966th career game ... including 126 in 2001 as an Angels rookie, besting Merloni's game totals in one year. While Orange County fans loved Eckstein, the Angels didn't. In a salary arbitration hearing in February of 2004, the Halos compared his range and arm to that of a triple-A shortstop and knocked his .325 on-base percentage. Of course, mean things often are said during arbitration. We remember Bill Gullickson losing because he did not pitch enough shutouts and management telling Marquis Grissom that his 76 steals were of little import. Funny thing, underdog Eckstein, a winner all his life, won in arbitration, gaining a $2.15-million US salary for 2004.
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