U.S. Judge Rules Thimerosal Warning Claims Are Preempted

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on March 28 dismissed all claims against GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) and Wyeth Inc., ruling that failure to warn claims are federally preempted in a case asserting injury from thimerosal contained in immune globulin and vaccines (Lisa Sykes, et al. v. Glaxo-SmithKline, et al., No. 2:06-cv-01111, E.D. Pa.; 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22998). Full story on lexis.com

Changing the Primary Email Address in Exchange 2007

Sometimes you need to assign more then one email address to one object (user or group) from various reasons and make this new email address the default email address (this is email address that the recipient side will see and reply). Though this was rather straight forward in previous Exchange versions it is a little different in Exchange 2007.

YL Mail Verifier

YL Mail Verifier is a powerful and easy-to-use solution for the "email message delivery error". with this Mail Verifier, you can easily check every ...

Herbalife Disputes That Expert Testimony Surprised Plaintiff

NEW YORK - Herbalife argues before the ephedra multidistrict litigation court in a Feb. 12 brief that a motion to add an expert neurologist by a plaintiff is a "feeble effort to salvage a doomed claim" after the plaintiff's expert was excluded from offering his causation theory under Daubert (Parks v. Herbalife International of America, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 9358; In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR], S.D. N.Y.; See February 2007, Page 4). Full story on lexis.com

June 19 07: Daily Review: FX Trade Calls

A look at the Swiss Franc, Euro, and British Pound from our FOREX Analysis in the live trading room. We focus on pattern recognition and stop placement to help control risk for FX traders, but these trading tips can be applied in any market for any time frame to encourage consistently profitable trading.

Google Engineers Join VC Firm as "Entrepreneurs in Residence"

How would you like to get paid to just sit around and give some thought to what start-up you’d like to do next? Sounds good to me, and it must have sounded pretty enticing to Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the engineers behind Google Maps, as they’ve left Google to join venture capital [...]

Battle Lines Drawn in Day 1

Opening statements were delivered Monday in Crewcut Charlie Weis' malpractice lawsuit against Charles Ferguson, director of Massachusetts General's surgical residency program, and Richard Hodin, a surgeon and professor at Harvard Medical School. Weis attorney Michael Mone, above right, said the doctors acted negligently by allowing Weis to bleed ... (Read on Source)

Yahoo late on Messenger for Vista

No ETA yet on Yahoo Messenger for Vista public beta, which is three months late.

Texas 31, Baylor 10

Highlight: Longhorn quarterback Colt McCoy and McGee didn't connect on an option pitch from the Baylor 1. Baylor safety Brandon Stiggers caused the fumble and returned the ball 60 yards to the Texas 32. A personal foul against McCoy added 15 yards to the play. (Read on Source)

The Benefits of a Website

There are many ways a website can help your business that differ depending on the kind of work you do. Why a web site? There are many ways to take an approach to the Internet. If you plan to sel...

Westfall Class Wants Metabolife Liquidation Stayed Pending Appeal

SAN DIEGO - Willard Westfall, the representative of a dismissed putative Metabolife class action, is moving for a stay of the implementation of the joint plan of liquidation for the Metabolife bankruptcy pending his appeal of the approval, arguing that the plan contains impermissible releases (In Re: MII Liquidation, Inc., No. 05-6040-H11, S.D. Calif. Bkcy.; See October 2007, Page 6). Full story on lexis.com

Software Liabilities and Free Software

Whenever I write about software liabilities, many people ask about free and open source software. If people who write free software, like PasswordSafe, are forced to assume liabilities, they will simply not be able to and free software would disappear. Don't worry, they won't be. The key to understanding this is that this sort of contractual liability is part of a contract, and with free software -- or free anything -- there's no contract.

SearchDay: Link Building with Customers

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion:Link Building with Customers; Avoiding Online Missteps with Generation Y and Millenniums; Google to Update Content Network; and more.

Linux Foundation gets a boost as Canonical signs on

... Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. This move reflects the growing relevance of ...

RMAN Backups

Backing up all or part of your database is accomplished by using the BACKUP command from within the RMAN client. RMAN uses the configured settings and channels for your database, the record of previo...

FDA Requests Recall Of 'All Natural' Erectile Dysfunction Formulations

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a Nov. 2 press release that it has requested that America True Man Health Inc. recall its "all natural" erectile dysfunction products because they contain potentially dangerous ingredients. Full story on lexis.com

A Facebook Saga With a Twist

A movie about Facebook is in the works, but a soap opera starring the lawyers of Palo Alto, Calif.'s nonstop drama machine would be much more on point. In the latest installment: Facebook looks for a new general counsel -- or does it already have one? -- and the Facebook lawyers try to corral a persistent and rather imaginative Nova Scotia woman who believes she not only owns Facebook and co-founded Microsoft, but has also fired Mark Zuckerberg, the company's co-founder and CEO.

No Magic From the GOP Version of Penn and Teller

REVIEW: The Host by Stephenie Meyer

REVIEW SUMMARY : More a romance fantasy than science fiction, the bestselling author of the young adult Twilight vampire/werewolf series puts a slightly original romantic angle on the highly unoriginal sci-fi vehicle of a parasite taking over human hosts. MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS : A kinder, gentler version of a Stargate Goa'uld, (millions of ... (Read on Source)

Nov. 17, 1749: Father of Modern Canning Born

1749: Nicolas Appert is born. He will invent the modern food-canning process while trying to help Napoleon conquer Europe.

By 1795, France was in an expansionist mood and quarreling with its neighbors. As the army and navy found themselves increasingly embroiled in foreign entanglements, the realization that an army travels on its stomach began forcefully hitting home. Looking for a way to efficiently provision its troops in the field, the revolutionary government offered a prize of 12,000 francs to whoever could devise a way of doing just that.

Nicolas Appert, an experienced chef living on the outskirts of Paris, took up the challenge. More than a decade later, he had the solution.

Through experimentation, Appert eventually concluded that the best method of preservation was to heat the food to the boiling point of water, then seal it in airtight glass jars.

Appert's principles were tested successfully by the French navy, which found that everything from meat to vegetables to milk could be preserved at sea using his method.

Napoleon was running things by now and immediately recognized the benefit to his far-flung armies. He was so grateful to have the problem of victualing solved that in 1810 he had the revolutionary government's Directory award Appert the 12,000 francs.

Appert took the money and opened the world's first cannery. The cannery was destroyed in 1814 as Napoleon's world came crashing down.

A few years later, Englishman Peter Durand refined the process even more by switching from glass to the tin containers we associate with modern canning.

Fortunately for Appert, Napoleon did not retain his services as chef on his ill-fated invasion of Russia, and so lived on until 1841, dying at 91.

Source: Various

The Planet Launches New Storage Cloud

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. In an industry first, The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly into the cloud. By combining two products into a single offering, customers gain additional benefits, including free uploads to the local node and a single policy-driven account to manage all file-based storage needs. (PRWeb Nov 17, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/the_planet/storage_cloud/prweb1627694.htm

SmartCase adds total protection to iPhone

Ivyskin Released on Tuesday its newest iPhone 3G accessory, the QuattroPower SmartCase. Priced at $100, this bundle package includes a Glass touch-thru case called Quattro T4 along with a new QuattroPac� battery. The QuattroPower case will provide stronger protection for the phone while making it easier to handle and the added on battery should provide an additional 200 percent battery life. This ...

Stromatalites and the Death of the Die Hard Mac Fan

... evangelists were telling anyone who would listen that Macs have always been better. When Windows 98 came out, Macs were better. When Windows ME came out, Macs were better (which ...

Court may not be able to end Thailand crisis

The Constitutional Court is expected to rule in a campaign fraud case involving three political parties. It could please anti-government protesters but also stir up counterdemonstrations. With a deepening political crisis draining millions of dollars from the economy by the hour, government opponents hope a court can break a deadlock that ... (Read on Source)

Testing Fedora 10 KDE Edition

An alien's viewpoint: "My experience with Fedora has not been bad at all. I think a big reason for that is that my laptop has practically no need for proprietary drivers...So, that leaves me free to compare distros by their features and ease of use. So what have I found in using Fedora 10 KDE version?"

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