| Interxion 'lining itself up for £300m flotation'
One of Europe's largest data hosting companies, Interxion, is understood to be lining itself up for a flotation in the new year which its owners hope will value the company at over £300m. The move follows the successful flotation of rival Telecity earlier this year and comes amid a growing realisation that the online market is expanding rapidly with electronic data retention and retrieval becoming ever more important. Interxion, majority-owned by New York-based private equity firm Baker Capital, is understood to have been approaching potential investors, using investment banks Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns for the deal. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, Interxion has 22 sites across 13 cities in 11 countries and delivers a full range of data center, co-location and managed services solutions to over 1,000 corporate customers.
First Alert Weather Center continues tracking high winds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The First Alert Weather Center has declared that the threat of severe storms is over for the First Coast. Due to the heavy rainfall, some ponding of water and minor flooding could persist into Saturday. Strong and gusty winds will overspread the area Saturday with sustained winds of 15-30 mph and gusts up to and in excess of 40 mph. Stay with CBS47 and FOX30's First Alert Weather Center for the very latest. .
Hubbard love
However, that didn't prevent Edinburgh University Students' Union (EUSA) stopping Narconon Scotland putting up posters advertising its services. The rationale behind the move was that the union couldn't be sure Narconon was, in the words of EUSA's then vice-president Mark Calder, "independent". "We carried out research which showed it has strong links with Scientology," Calder said at the time. "We were also concerned that this link was not made explicit so a decision was made to take the posters down." The audio-visual presentation lasts for well over an hour. I have to say it drags a little, though I do enjoy the film about Venezualean Scientologists Audrey Cabrera and Ruddy Rodriguez. It seems it was only the personal intervention of these indomitable women that prevented the country falling into anarchy during and after the 2002 coup attempt against president Hugo Chavez.
Ten things you should about GPS units
They provide the user with basic guidelines on whether to go left, right, or straight ahead during their journey and some even offer verbal alerts such as when you are travelling over the speed limit or are approaching a red-light camera. If you are growing tired of the very polite voice inhabiting your GPS, novelty and celebrity voice skins are available to users of TomTom units - on sale either from the manufacturer itself or from the nascent third-party market which peddles a wide array of celebrity impressions from the likes of Elvis, the Queen and Marilyn Monroe. For those looking for more functional voice upgrades, forking out a little extra cash will fund the more sophisticated text-to-speech capabilities currently inhabiting products at the top end of the market which will read out street names.
NTRA Thoroughbred Facts & Figures
The National Steeplechase Association has chosen longtime racing executive Lou Raffetto to fill a newly created position of chief executive officer. Most recently the president and chief operating officer of the Maryland Jockey Club, Raffetto will manage company operations and direct plans for the future. Raffetto joins a staff of four at the NSA's headquarters in Fair Hill, Md., and starts the new position March 17. "We were lucky to have someone of his caliber available when we came to the conclusion that we wanted someone to run the company," said NSA president Franny Abbott. "I love his enthusiasm. I love his history in flat racing. He's got the people skills to be helpful with our race chairmen and horsemen, and he will be able to help in our goal to become a bigger part of the Thoroughbred industry." Raffetto left the Maryland Jockey Club and owner Magna Entertainment in November.
January 2007 Archives
We love each other, we're like a family here, we all go out on the weekends. I'm obviously going through something personal in my life, and I don't know what is going to happen in my future." Let me translate: They're sleeping together. They hope the ratings go up. She'll probably like women again in a month, so she's just enjoying things while they last. .
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