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  • After a String of Bad Luck, Little Is Left but His Documents Friday, January 9, 2009 @ 12:42AMPatrice Mbekeli won political asylum in the United States in June, after violent episodes of political repression led him to flee his native Cameroon.
  • Get a fix on corporate risks at the click of a mouse Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 2:02PMThe ministry of corporate affairs is working with sectoral regulators to put in place a centralised data pool that would help banks and lending institutions assess risk factors associated with a particular sector or a company.
  • NEC Develops Speech Interpretation Software for Mobile Phones Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 8:23AMTokyo, Jan 5, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation announced today the development of automatic software for mobile phones that quickly and accurately provides interpretation of words and phrases commonly associated with travel.
  • Crimewatch: Here are some tips on computer safety Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 2:14AMT his past week, I received e-mails from readers who just got their first computer and shared many concerns. The computer is a wonderful invention, but it can also bring nightmares. I pulled some information from one of our crime prevention partners, The National Crime Prevention Council, and here are their tips so that you can have a good experience with your computer.
  • Set your child up for school success Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 1:16AM Homework can be a daunting task for students and parents alike. Making schoolwork a priority in your home sends the signal that you care about your child and his or her future. Janeal Roberts, vice president for education at KLC School Partnerships, offers some quick tips to help ensure your child is set up for homework -- and academic -- success. •  Make a schedule. Make homework part of a ...
  • Tips on computer safety Friday, January 2, 2009 @ 9:10AMThis past week, I received e-mails from readers who just got their first computer and shared many concerns. The computer is a wonderful invention, but it can also bring nightmares. I pulled some information from one of our crime prevention partners, The National Crime Prevention Council, and here are their tips so that you can have a good experience with your computer.
  • Northway reopened after crash Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 12:34AMMOREAU — A 19-year-old Queensbury woman broke her ankle after her car struck a tractor trailer on the southbound side of the Northway this afternoon, police said.
  • Eat at our house -- Dec. 31, 2008 Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 10:25AMAnd here we have been made to believe, mainly, in my opinion, by the media, that Canadian politics are dull.
  • Resolutions for the new year Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 1:36AMI am frequently surprised, amused, and bewildered by the things that come out of my daughters mouths. But something my ...
  • Special feature: Unlocking the dynamic web Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 5:06PMMost of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that unlocks and links the web’s hidden resources.
  • Letters to Santa, Part 1 Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 12:10AMPlease bring me a robot and spider man and bat man.
  • Poetry encyclopaedia website planned Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 12:24AMAbu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) will soon launch a website which will serve as the latest issue of the poetry encyclopaedia.
  • Local birders attract rarities; White-winged crossbill latest visitor. Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 2:25PMThe most amazing and productive bird feeders in Mid-Missouri belong to John and Wanda Darby in Hallsville.
  • ECTACO, Inc. Announces a New Era in Handheld Communication Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 1:01AM The newest Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook that will change the translating world
  • School of enduring lessons Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 9:57PMI walk away from the two rows of tents and the blue tarpaulin where people tired from a big day’s work are sprawled after a traditional Cambodian dinner. Away from the single light, looking for a lit
  • Travel Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 9:54PMI walk away from the two rows of tents and the blue tarpaulin where people tired from a big day’s work are sprawled after a traditional Cambodian dinner.
  • VND2 billion violation of software copyright found in Hanoi Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 8:25PMVietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese inspectors found the use of unlicensed computer software programs at a French firm in Hanoi Tuesday, estimating this breach of software copyright is worth VND2 billion (equal to some US$118,000).
  • I Found It At The Library (published Dec. 16, 2008) Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 7:19PM“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The second annual Winter Reading Club for Adults will kick off on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 and continue through Tuesday, March 31, 2009. This year, you will turn in the number of books you read or listen to each week.
  • BCS got it right? Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 6:11PMThe fools got it right. In spite of themselves. Or did they? This year the BCS has delivered unto us a championship game pitting Florida and Oklahoma. For anyone who breathed nothing but college football over the past three months, this seems like the right thing to do.
  • OBR School Board meets with parents Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 9:56AMOPDYKE — Some questions posed by parents who wanted to know about an accusation made against Opdyke Belle Rive Superintendent Dr. John Wheatley 20 years ago were answered during a school board meeting Tuesday night, but many parents want to know more.
  • FICS’ Credit, Flood and Mortgage Insurance Interfaces Earn MXCompliance Certification from MISMO Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 8:27AMFinancial Industry Computer Systems, Inc. (FICS ® ), a mortgage technology specialist that provides in-house residential origination and servicing technology and commercial servicing technology to the mortgage industry, announced that its residential mortgage loan origination system, Loan Producer ® , has received MXCompliance Certifications from Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance ...
  • Making quality the key to Web searches Tuesday, December 9, 2008 @ 3:05PMNEW YORK — In the not-so-distant future, students will be able to graduate from high school without ever touching a book. Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer. In only a few decades, computer technology and the Internet have transformed the core principles of information, knowledge and education. Indeed, today you can fit more books on the hard ...
  • Bulldogs lose quarterfinals by 1 point Sunday, December 7, 2008 @ 12:19PMPublished 12/04/2008 - 2:07 p.m. The final score does not tell the complete story. Steele Canyon upset the Ramona Bulldogs 24-23 in the Dawg Pound in the quarterfinals of the CIF Division III football playoffs.
  • Free-spirited Nyman flowing along this season, SKI Thursday, December 4, 2008 @ 3:12PMp>BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Steven Nyman has been called kooky, quirky and a free spirit.
  • Cyborgs may help run country, and world Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 1:52AMQuestion: Do you think our government or world will ever be run by cybernetic organisms (robots)?
  • In memory of a leader Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 12:13AMROXANA - A tree grows in Roxana, commemorating the life of a beloved educator who died earlier this year.
  • Cabaero: Comptroller, controller Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 7:43AMTHE origin of the word “comptroler” is the 15th century term “controller.” The two are the same as they mean controlling by auditing accounts and supervising finances of corporations or government bodies.
  • Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 12:01PMA fundamental function of the visual system is to encode the building blocks of natural scenes—edges, textures and shapes—that subserve visual tasks such as object recognition and scene understanding. Essential to this process is the formation of abstract representations that generalize from specific instances of visual input. A common view holds that neurons in the early visual system signal ...
  • Mula kay Ricky Lee, Para kay B. Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 1:38PM"Walang himala! Ang himala ay nasa puso ng tao, nasa puso nating lahat!’’ What Filipino does not know where this line came from, or who actually wrote it?
  • Search the Archives Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 2:11AMA merciless plagiarism case rages on after nearly 20 months of litigation as the University of Tampa appeals a judge’s order to clear the name of a now-graduated criminology student.
  • Ruthie Sampson, champion of Inupiaq language, dies in Anchorage Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 9:03PMResidents of Shungnak said goodbye today to a woman who devoted her life to teaching the Inupiaq language. Ruthie Sampson, was 54 years old when she died of a massive stroke earlier this week on a trip to Anchorage. She was passionate about keeping the endangered Inupiaq language alive. Sampson wrote an Inupiaq dictionary, helped [...]
  • Sampson kept voice of Alaska Inupiat alive Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 4:27AMRuthie Sampson, who began translating Bible verses while still in her teens and spent the rest of her life spreading and teaching the endangered Inupiaq language, died Sunday from the effects of a stroke.
  • Eyal Goldshmid: Installing programs can change defaults, such as media players Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 3:24PMQ. I have a 6-month-old Dell Inspiron with Vista Premium and use Comcast for my ISP. I subscribe to “A Word a Day,” a dictionary-based e-mail newsletter that sends me a new vocabulary word each day, along with an mp3 file of that word so I can hear how it’s properly pronounced. Normally, I just double-click on the mp3 attachment I receive from “A Word a Day” and the computer plays the file for ...
  • OpenOffice vs. Google Apps Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:00AMSix weeks ago, Richard Stallman condemned network applications as proprietary software. He is right, of course -- not only is the source code for most network apps unavailable, but except in a few cases like Clipperz , using them means that you cede control of your data.
  • Health, wealth, and movies Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 4:59PMAmong this month’s collection of mags, the excellent Psychology Today stands out with a cover story on living in the moment, and a discussion of ‘post election stress’, something the world has probably been experiencing since Tuesday’s historic US presidential election.
  • Humanities fields at UW-Madison face challenges Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 4:33PMOn the third floor of the 101-year old University Club, wall paint is peeling, asbestos lurks under the carpet, and thick strands of cables snake visibly along the hallway ceiling. This is to be the new home of the Center for Humanities at UW-Madison, which is moving into the aging building next year with several other humanities and arts-based centers and institutes. The directors of those ...
  • Main Menu Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 9:35AMWhile the WEP-encrypted Wi-Fi networks have been easily broken for quite some time now, latest reports indicate that the more secure WPA or WPA2 encryption systems are also vulnerable.
  • WPA Wi-Fi encryption partially cracked Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 12:18PMThe Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard has been partially cracked by security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck, according to a Thursday report. The pair will demonstrate and discuss their accomplishment at the PacSec conference in Tokyo next week. The attack allows the hacker to read data sent from the router to a laptop computer and send inaccurate information to connected ...
  • Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 7:06AMResearchers plan to disclose a partial crack of the WPA wireless security standard next week.
  • Calendar Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 5:15AM Based upon space availability, The Champion prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. The deadline is 10 days before the desired publication date, however there is no guarantee for publication. Send releases and items of local interest to: Morton Grove Champion, 3701 W. Lake Ave., IL 60026.
  • Landslide a loose concept at best Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 1:33PMMon, Nov 3, 2008 (11:15 a.m.) First, the easy ones: The 1936 election, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt beat Alf Landon 523 to 8 in the electoral vote and 61 percent to 37 percent in the popular vote, was definitely a landslide.
  • Chrome beta update lands with security and performance tweaks Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 7:13PM Google has announced the availability of a new Chrome beta release. The new version includes security fixes and a handful of other performance and reliability improvements. While the excitement over Chrome may have died down, its market share at Ars is still significant. Read More...
  • New Android Apps a Mixed Bag, Should Improve Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 6:27PMSo far, some new applications in the Android Market are low quality but analysts expect them to improve with time.
  • The Battle for the Mid-Atlantic! Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 8:13PMIs it really a campaign event if no one shows up? Leesburg has been taken over by Obama supporters. They walk in the streets, spontaneously chanting “Yes We Can” and snickering at the occasional McCain/Palin yard sign.
  • Premier Literacy Releases Version 9 of its Key to Access Portable Literacy Tools Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 2:01AM Premier Literacy announces the release of version 9 of the industry-leading Key to Access portable literacy tools. First introduced in 2005, the Key to Access has become a de facto standard for portable literacy software and hardware. The new Key to Access is even faster and more reliable than ever!
  • Tech Terms to Avoid Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 1:28PMIn two weeks, I’ll celebrate my eighth anniversary writing this column. And if I do any ruminating during my 15-second celebration, I’ll recognize that one thing still hasn’t changed: there’s still no single technical level of writing that makes everybody happy.
  • SET Listed Company Raided for Software Copyright Violations Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 1:36AMThe Thai police authorities have executed a search warrant and filed charges against an international, publicly-listed company for software copyright infringements valued at more than 1.25 million bah
  • New assistive technology lab opening soon Thursday, October 23, 2008 @ 11:48PMThe North Dakota Department of Human Services, through its Rehabilitation Consulting and Services initiative, will open a new assistive technology lab in Minot.
  • SET Listed Company Raided for Software Copyright Violations Thursday, October 23, 2008 @ 11:41PMÇѹ·Õè 24 µØÅÒ¤Á 2551 11:37 ¹. The Thai police authorities have executed a search warrant and filed charges against an international, publicly-listed company for software copyright infringements valued at more than 1.25 million baht.
  • Do our schools still teach BrE? Wednesday, October 22, 2008 @ 6:56PMI AM puzzled by BrE (British English) and AmE (American English). Is the English that is being taught in primary and secondary schools (since 1990) still BrE?