| Curious few get a peek inside long-closed lightkeeper's house
COROLLA, N.C. More than 100,000 people annually climb the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, but about 50 feet away sits the old lightkeeper's house, a part of the site rarely seen from the inside. On Wednesday, the 133-year-old house was opened for the first publicly advertised tour since it was restored in the 1980s. It was restricted to about 20 people, and site manager Meghan Agresto had to turn away several. "There was a clamor for it," she said. "Only a small number of people are going to get to see the inside of this home." A few others have glimpsed it over the years, by appointment or invitation. Its small rooms and absence of hallways, as well as limited staff and funds to maintain the house, prevent opening it to the public, Agresto said.
Terry McCrann
WE are caught between the US slashing interest rates and our Reserve Bank putting them up. And it's against the backdrop of an Australian broker failing to settle trades for the first time since the Australian Stock Exchange switched to computers almost 20 years ago. For almost five hours last Tuesday, hundreds of millions of dollars of share trades were frozen in limbo. Video: Terry McCrann's business wrap Throw in that $8 billion forex loss by giant French bank Societe Generale, another multi-billion dollar sub-prime write-off by Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, and it all adds up to disturbing confusion and complexity. Certainly, we are living in "interesting times". Are they about to turn interestingly nasty? For investors? For jobs? For your standard of living? In fact, the local outcome from all of this is encouraging resilience.
Business spies for FBI eyes
The FBI Deputizes Business. Editor Matthew Rothschild wrote, InfraGard is a child of the FBI, says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm. InfraGard started in Cleveland back in 1996, when the private sector there cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber threats. 'Then the FBI cloned it,' says Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the board of directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, and the prime mover behind the growth of InfraGard over the last several years. InfraGard itself is still an FBI operation, with FBI agents in each state overseeing the local InfraGard chapters. (There are now eighty-six of them.) The alliance is a nonprofit organization of private sector InfraGard members.
Telanetix Partners With Quintum to Offer VoIP Services to the VAR ...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Telanetix, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: TNXI) a leading developer of telepresence solutions and an award winning provider of hosted VoIP communications services, announced today that its AccessLine unit is expanding its channel program through an alliance with Quintum Technologies, where AccessLine will be utilizing Quintum's award winning Tenor VoIP gateway product line in its service deployment.
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VIDEO: MRSA alert at the Royal Bolton Hospital
HOSPITAL chiefs have declared war on killer superbugs. Their bid to wipe out MRSA and Clostridium Difficile (C-difficile) will see all new patients screened for the infections from April. Carpets in all public areas will be ripped out and replaced with tiles. And hundreds of chairs, currently used by patients and visitors in public areas, will be replaced. The plans were unveiled as Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced the Government was to invest millions of pounds in infection control in the NHS. David Fillingham, chief executive of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "We are delighted the Department of Health is putting yet more impetus on reducing infection rates. We have already made great strides in Bolton, particularly in reducing C-difficile.
The magic of uncertainty has returned
In an age of rampant diversity and flux in rugby, the South African Jake White has every right to covet one of the game's oldest jewels, stewardship of the Lions team, the old-fashioned collection that is supposed to transcend the hunger for carpetbagging success. After all, in the opening round, there were foreign coaches in charge of Wales and Italy and a big Tongan-born unit of frightening potential making his debut on the England wing. This is one reason for the uncertainty about the future. It is not just styles and methods that are changing, but allegiances and loyalties. The rugby marketplace is irreversibly global. If White can tout for not only the Lions job, as he did in an interview with the BBC, as well as the England and Wales positions earlier in the season, it is no more than a raft of mobile players and coaches would consider acceptable in the modern game.
Briefly: MacScan Family Pack, FolioLink on iPhone
In brief: SecureMac offers the MacScan Family Pack, FolioLink gets iPhone compatibility, Total Training for Adobe CS3 has been released, and it's the last day for MacHeist ... SecureMac has announced the MacScan Family Pack, a $50 suite that can be used to upgrade a single user license of MacScan to a three seat license for the difference between the original price and the Family Pack. You can download free definition updates for MacScan either from within the program, or by downloading a software upgrade. MacScan quickly detects, isolates and removes spyware from Macintosh computers using both real-time spyware definition updating and unique detection methods. The software also manages internet-related clutter on your computer. FolioLink gets iPhone compatibility ISProductions has announced a new version FolioLink photography and art website service that automatically optimizes clients' online portfolios for the iPhone interface.
Pirates add 'all-you-can-eat' section
U.S. Steel planning exec to retire [Pittsburgh] New purchase for Duquesne makes all of its power clean [Pittsburgh] Pitt, CMU endowments rose in '07 [Pittsburgh] Mid-Atlantic Sports Network to broadcast Orioles in high definition [Baltimore] New Bucs president gets down to business [Pittsburgh] .
911 tapes released in Omaha mall shooting
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - For almost 30 harrowing minutes, Jodi Longmeyer recounted to a 911 dispatcher what she could see and hear of a teenage gunman's deadly rage in a mall department store - and then broke down, she said Friday. As she told the dispatcher she could see Robert A. Hawkins' body lying next to a gun, her voice cracked, and she began to cry - a mixture of sadness and relief that the crisis was over. Nine people, including the gunman, were dead. "I had seen more than I wanted to see," Longmeyer told NBC's "Today" show Friday, describing the call. Longmeyer, who is a human resources manager at Von Maur, agonized with the operator while barricaded in an employee locker room at the store. Tapes of her 911 call were released Thursday, a day after the tragedy unfolded.
Losing weight together
When her mom suffered a debilitating stroke after the heart surgery, Linda knew she had to do something. She didn't want to suffer the same fate. Larry also had struggled with his weight all his life, going up and down like a yo-yo, 100 or more pounds at a time, every few years. So they decided to lose weight together, and after 3 1/2 years, they've dropped a combined 142 pounds. They now fit into "regular size" clothes, and no one recognizes them at weddings, Linda reports. Larry competes with people half his age in the martial arts. And they finally both fit comfortably on Larry's Harley Davidson motorcycle. Their combined weight loss has had such an impact on their lives that they've been selected among the regional winners in the Weight Watchers' Inspiring Stories of the Year contest.
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