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 bizjournals: Nixon names former AG employees to senior staff
Missouri Gov.-elect Jay Nixon, the state’s outgoing attorney general, announced Monday his senior staff, which includes nine former employees of the attorney general’s office.
bizjournals: Nexsen Pruet opens Raleigh office
Nexsen Pruet on Monday announced plans to open a law office in Raleigh to include former Gov. Jim Holshouser and Ernie Pearson, former N.C. assistant secretary of economic development.
bizjournals: Troutman Sanders merges with Ross, Dixon & Bell
Atlanta law firm Troutman Sanders LLP said Monday it closed on Jan. 2 a deal combining with Ross, Dixon & Bell LLP. (SO) (DAL) (CUZ) (WB)
bizjournals: MathStar investors urge liquidation
Two holders of MathStar Inc. stock have written to chairman and chief executive Douglas Pihl, urging him to liquidate the company.
bizjournals: Holland & Hart chooses new managing partner
Energy attorney Thomas O’Donnell has been named managing partner of law firm Holland & Hart LLP, succeeding Lawrence Wolfe.
bizjournals: Harvard dean picked for solicitor general
President-elect Barack Obama has selected a Harvard University dean as his nominee for solicitor general, Obama’s transition team announced Monday.
bizjournals: Conn’s sales beat gloom and doom
Specialty retailer Conn’s Inc. has released a preliminary sales report for the month of December, which shows the Texas retailer had a 5% growth in same-store sales when compared to December of 2007.
bizjournals: Griffin Bell dead at 90
Former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, 90, died Monday morning in Atlanta after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Tobacco Stories: EDITORIAL: Smoke-free benefits proved: Significant reductions in heart attacks seen after bans
There is now tangible evidence to back up claims that secondhand smoke adversely affects nonsmokers, particularly the secondhand smoke that is increasingly being outlawed in public places in communities across the country. . . .In addition to long-term health effects, smoking increases the danger of fire. Most states, including Maryland, now require that al ...
 silicon.com: Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
The UK government has agreed to work with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to conduct remote searches of computers without a warrant.The European Union Council of Ministers approved a plan in November 2008 to grant law-enforcement authorities in member states the power to perform remote searches of suspects' computers, as well as to p ...
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Griffin Bell, Ex-Attorney General, Dies
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·Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
The UK government has agreed to work with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to conduct remote searches of computers without a warrant.The European Union Council of Ministers approved a plan in November 2008 to grant law-enforcement authorities in member states the power to perform remote searches of suspects' computers, as well as to perform 'cyber patrols' of the internet and increase data sha ...
·BGL Group IT director goes to Directgov
The UK government's digital information service Directgov has appointed three new directors, including the former IT director of BGL Group, David Matthewman, as CTO.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the PS newsletter today!Matthewman will be responsible for the organisation's infrastructure strategy and delivery. In his former position at insurance com ...
·Peter Cochrane's Blog: New Year wishes
Compiled in my hotel room in Swindon UK and dispatched via a free wi-fi serviceChristmas lunch seems long past and the decorations have been packed away until next year. It's a new year and I have been pondering the events of the last one and the past few decades. It has been abundantly clear for a long time that our politicians, bankers and managers in every spherehave failed to grasp a few essential basics.
·PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks to have given the go ahead to a recession-busting programme of investment that could see super-fast broadband rolled out across the UK.Speaking to The Observer newspaper yesterday, Brown revealed plans to create 100,000 new jobs by spending on public works, including investments in network infrastructure and backing for jobs in "digital industries".
·Navy tech gets £15m weapons brain overhaul
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose is to get a new command system to help her crew defend the ship against air, surface and underwater threats.The upgrade is an important milestone in the programme to develop a common command system across the fleet, starting with the Type 23 frigates, according to defence equipment and support director of surface combatants Commodore Graham Peach.
·2008: The year in numbers
$1bnThe value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone App store will achieveFive millionThe estimated number of iPhone 3Gs sold in the third quarter of the year.
·High fibre, high investment and high speeds
While it's been some years since the UK became a majority broadband nation but 2008 has still seen its fair share of shake-ups in the fat pipe world. silicon.com takes a look back at the stories that changed broadband this year.Virgin hits top speed As the year closed, Virgin Media announced a speed bump for its users, offering broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps for £51 per month using a mixture of fibre and coaxial cable.
·Getting your IT department ready for 2009
With the world in the grip of an economic downturn, making the most of IT spending has never been more important for business.The Corporate IT Forum recently found that its most senior members are planning to invest in IT but managing costs, careful budgeting and trimming discretionary spending are key priorities.
·2009 CIO New Year's resolutions
With a potentially tough 2009 looming, Tim Ferguson as picked the brains of experts across the tech industry tocome up with some of the areas CIOs should focus on when making their New Year's resolutions.Be more efficientWith the economic downturn looking like it will continue in 2009, one of the first things CIOs should look at is how technology could be used to make their business more efficient, as well as secure ...
·Police slash paperwork with mobiles
Beat bobbies across the UK will be able to use mobile devices to slash paperwork following street searches from next week.The Home Office says that red tape following stop and searches has been cut from about 20 minutes to 60 seconds by one force piloting the new approach.
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·Shropshire | Elderly man dies in bungalow fire
An elderly man who died in a bungalow fire may have been smoking late at night, the fire service has said.Firefighters were called to the blaze in Yeaton, near Baschurch in Shropshire, about 2300 GMT on Friday.
·St. Paul records lowest fire death rate in over 20 years
The city of St. Paul says there was only one fire death recorded in 2008, the lowest rate in 22 years.The fatality occurred on Aug. 10 when an 86-year-old woman died after smoking in bed.City officials said that while even one fatality is too many, it is the lowest number of fire deaths in St. Paul since 1986."The widespread use and maintenance of smoke detectors has helped a lot . . .Careless smoking is the lead ca ...
·Authority: No smoking with oxygen
A fire in September that resulted in third-degree burns to a Fairview Hills resident has led the Altoona Housing Authority to formally prohibit smoking in rooms containing equipment for supplemental oxygen.Several residents complained to Executive Director Cheryl Johns that the prohibition would be unfair, but none showed up at the recent meeting where the board adopted the policy.The authority has the right to adopt ...
·Woman, 85, dies in apartment fire
An 85-year-old woman died Thursday of smoke inhalation following a small apartment fire in a seniors' home in Montreal.Three other residents of the building in the St. Laurent borough were taken to hospital, also to be treated for smoke inhalation.
·Lit cigarette possibly ignited deadly Montreal apartment fire: police
An 85-year-old Montreal woman died in an apartment fire after apparently falling asleep with a lit cigarette in her hand.Montreal police spokesman Raphael Bergeron says emergency personnel evacuated several floors of the senior's residence in the city's St-Laurent borough.He says the woman may have fallen asleep in her 7th-floor bedroom while smoking a cigarette.
·Scientist studies effects of heavy smoking and drinking
The party never stops for mice in Todd Wyatt's laboratory at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where researchers hope to learn how chronic heavy drinking and smoking often inflicts a double whammy on lungs.The drinking water for some mice there is 40 proof, raising blood alcohol to the point they can't legally be at the wheel. The mice also smoke the equivalent of a pack a day, based on blood cotinine levels ...
·Smoking likely led to deadly Mpls. house fire
An 89-year-old Minneapolis man died early Wednesday morning after a large fire broke out in his home.According to Minneapolis police, John Legierski called 911 to report the fire at his home at 4125 Portland Avenue South around 1 a.m. He talked with the dispatcher until he suddenly became unresponsive. . . .Police believe the fire was a result of careless smoking. The man was seen smoking a cigar earlier in the night ...
·RIVERVIEW: Bedridden smoker's cigarette was likely cause of fire
Careless smoking caused a fire Thanksgiving Day that killed a man and injured up to 10 residents of Bellaire Independent Senior Apartments, Fire Chief Timothy Bosman said.Ralph Dyer, 68, died of soot and smoke inhalation, authorities said.The injured were among 85 residents evacuated from the complex at 12621 Hale St. by the Riverview Fire Department with the assistance of fire and police personnel from nine other co ...
·Lung Cancer Devastating for Senior Citizens but Steady Decline in Diagnoses 1995 to 2006: Hospital admissions in 2006 for lun...
Hospital admissions for lung cancer remained relatively stable at roughly 150,000 a year between 1995 and 2006 despite a steady decline in the number of Americans diagnosed with the disease, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Still, the American Cancer Society says it will be the biggest cancer killer in 2008.Cancer was the second-leading cause of death i ...
·Smoking Compromises Quality-of-Life in Old Age
Smoking doesn't just shorten your lifespan, new research indicates. It makes the years you do have less enjoyable.University of Helsinki researchers followed a group of 1658 men for 26 years, and found that those who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day (heavy smokers) had far more difficulty later in life than non-smokers, even if they quit smoking during the study period. Never-smokers, meanwhile, lived 10 years long ...
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