HP now offers the most comprehensive portfolio of any blade system vendor with more than 100,000 possible blade combinations in a single enclosure to match the needs of any customer.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama (BCBS/AL) is Alabama's largest healthcare provider and insurer, with more than 3 million customers and more than 4,000 employees. BCBS/AL needed more computing power to manage its current workload plus additional new contracts and services. The company was concerned that adding more physical servers to the 500 it already had would make data center management cumbersome and send power and cooling costs soaring.

BCBS/AL turned to HP to install 48 HP ProLiant BL460c and six HP ProLiant BL480 server blades in HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures.

Our-Social.com Offers a Safe, Family-Friendly Social Networking ...

GARDENDALE, Ala., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- At a loss for family-friendly online social networking? Searching for a Web-based community that's easy to join and not just for younger people? Our-Social.com (http://www.our-social.com/) offers a user-friendly environment free of profanity and pornographic material so that members can safely make new friends of all ages as well as connect with existing friends and family. As evidence of Our-Social.com's commitment to extending a hand to everyone seeking a safe online community, membership is free.

"Our-Social is the clean alternative to the prominent social networking sites," said founder Theresa Adams. The site's word filter prevents members from being exposed to profanity and lewd or sexual comments -- as well as racial slurs and other hate speech.

Feb. 4, 1915: Improve Your Diet and Live Better, Longer

1915: The dawn of the "nutrition age" begins, haltingly, with the first results of experiments showing that poor diet is the cause of pellagra, an often fatal disease affecting impoverished communities.

The first experiments were carried out using volunteer inmates at a Mississippi prison farm. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, who had established his credentials as an effective fighter against infectious disease while with the Marine Hospital Service, conducted the experiments at the behest of the surgeon general of the United States.

In Africa, Bush wants AIDS plan renewed

But Bush seemed surprised that Obama's name would come up during this victory-lap journey that is celebrating some of his only foreign policies that make him popular."It seemed like there was a lot of excitement for me, wait a minute. Maybe you missed it," he joked during a news conference, speculating that a question about Obama was put to Kikwete instead of him because it was well known that "I wouldn't answer."Kikwete appeared to get the hint, declining at Bush's side even to discuss the prospect of a man with African roots becoming president of the United States."I don't think I can venture into that territory, either," Kikwete said. "The U.S. is going to get a new president, whoever that one is. For us, the most important thing is, let him be as good friend of Africa as President Bush has been." Bush's term ends next January.The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has raised the number of Africans on anti-retroviral treatments from 50,000 to 1.2 million.Democrats want to strip requirements that one-third of the money go to abstinence-until-marriage programs and that some groups sign anti-prostitution pledges.Some Democrats also say that Bush's request for $30 billion over the next five years, twice his original commitment of $15 billion, is too little, and would merely continue the program at the current year's ramped-up levels.

Ryazan Region

For a long time, the Oka River and its left tributary the Ugra were a natural defense against the threat from the steppes. The chronicles called them the Holy Virgin's sash that defended Russian soil.

The Prince of Moscow took possession of Kolomna in 1306, but for a long time the boundary between Moscow and Ryazan held firm near the city, passing just south of the present location of Shchurovo. A Moscow-Ryazan boundary post placed here at a time when provinces, territories, and regions were being reshaped has miraculously been preserved right up to the present. On one side of the post is a portrayal of a mounted St. George the Victorious (Georgy Pobedonosets); and on the other, a foot soldier, who is often seen as Prince Oleg of Ryazan (Oleg Ryazansky). This boundary post is perhaps the only remaining symbol of old Ryazan.

Councilor to push for video cams

John Eagleton's suggestion for police car cameras is linked to saving money.

Councilor John Eagleton said this week he will push for video cameras in Tulsa police cars when he can make a compelling case that they would end up saving the city money.

"Many other jurisdictions use this technology," he said following Tuesday's council committee meetings.

"I think cameras would cut down on lawsuits and serve as compelling evidence in a high-speed chase or when an officer observes an accident."

Fifteen years ago, more than 120 Tulsa police cars had cameras installed following the death of Officer Gus Spanos, who was shot while making a traffic stop.

It was part of a $500,000 private "Camcorders for Cops" fundraising effort.

Geek Notes: New Toys

The Sony Mylo Personal Communicator (top) COM-2, or Mylo 2, is a device situated firmly in the netherworld between laptops and cellphones. Aperture, Apple's photo management and editing software (bottom), was originally intended as a professional alternative to iPhoto. Aperture 2.0, a major revision of the program, offers things for both the amateurs and the pros. (The New York Times) .