CategoriesTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:03PMMCCONNELLSVILLE — Harden Furniture and members of the Fish Creek Atlantic Salmon Club should soon be the proud parents of thousands of Atlantic Salmon hatchlings. In an effort to help re-...
Reporter's Notebook: Brenda NorrellTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:20PMNEW ORLEANS -- Walking down the irresistible Magazine and Decatur Streets, with the sun shining and yesterday's cold wind behind me, New Orleans reminds me now of a child who is given a lot of love.
J.P. Morgan Notebook: Airlines Share Plans For Capacity, Alliances, Revenue GrowthTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:28PMMARCH 09, 2010 -- Major domestic airlines today praised the industry's restraint from adding new supply into the domestic market as executives committed to flat capacity this year during presentations at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense Conference in New York City.
AVADirect Clevo X8100 SLI Gaming NotebookTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 4:56PMAVADirect, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their "most powerful notebook for gamers." The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7 and a GTX 285M SLI to provide a sizable bump in performance. The new model, NBK-CLV-X8100, uses the Clevo X8100...
Welcome back, you are in America nowMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:46PMI visited Egypt last month and spent a week covering a story with PBS News Hour crew. On my last day in Egypt, my family, who complained that I hadn’t spent much time with them, always working and running around, put together a farewell party for me.
Political NotebookSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:55PMCentral Coast Clark Vandeventer of Goleta, chief executive officer for W
COPS NOTEBOOK: This is what heroes doFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 9:29PMI have to begin this week’s column by giving props to the officers presented with hardware at the Falls police annual awards ceremony last Friday. I was out-of-town and couldn’t attend the ceremony, but a quick glance at the list of honorees left no doubt that they are some of the Falls’ finest.
CeBIT Remainders: Eight Reasons We Didn’t GoFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:41PMEvery year, Hanover, Germany hosts hordes of tech journalists, analysts and PR people for CeBIT. It’s like CES , sort of, except further away and more boring. We decided not to go this year; it ends tomorrow. Here’s what we missed! (more…)
Reporter's Notebook: Jessica DaviesFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 1:05PMOn Sunday 28 th February, a major conflict took place in the Chiapan community of Mitziton, when around one hundred members of the evangelical ‘Army of God’, widely seen as a paramilitary group, attacked Other Campaign supporters in the community.
Transcending the ordinaryFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 11:21AMONE great man asks, how does the art relate with science and technology? Can somebody with eyes to see find beauty in the works of man? read more
Compal shrugs off labor, parts shortagesFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:20AMCompal Electronics Inc (仁寶電腦), the world’s largest contract notebook maker, yesterday said component and labor shortages would not affect its target of shipping as many as 48 million portable computers this year.
Norwood Elementary begins Pennies for Peace campaignFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:34AMLast week, the students at Norwood Elementary joined hands with tens of thousands of other school children around the world who share the vision and dedication to empower communities through education in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Three Questions For Steve JobsFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 7:43AMThe iPad has fewer capabilities than a netbook, in a similar size. Not a good start.
Daily readersThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:58PMNewspapers are dying. It must be true, because so many newspapers — at least nationally — have said so.
Putting every New Yorker on paperWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 5:00PMArtist Jason Polan has an ambitious goal: to sketch all 8.3 million people in the city. He captures his unsuspecting subjects eating pizza, riding the subway, catching a train. Jason Polan cannot talk on the phone right now. He is on his way to Taco Bell in Union Square to draw unsuspecting New Yorkers.
WD Ships Its First SSDs for Consumer DevicesWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:21PMWD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3-gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) SATA interface to perform at a sustained read speed of 250MB per second, compared to about 100MB per second for WD's fastest 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Scorpio Black.
From Beloit to Super BowlWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:15PMHeadliner awarded to Coach Caldwell “It’s like a dream. I always knew he’d be someone special.”
Maingear mX-L 15 multimedia laptop available nowWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:06PMIt looks like Maingear's mXl-15, the long-awaited little brother to the eXl-15 gaming laptop has finally entered the building. This 15.6-inch laptop packs an Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, ATI Radeon Mobility 4570 512MB graphics, an LED backlit display (your choice of 1355 x 768 or 1600 x 900), up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, eSATA connection, and your choice of HDD or SSD storage, and a multitouch touchpad ...
Karate Kid TriumphsTuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:55PMBoth parts coming to Blu-ray.
Legislative Notebook: Sheriffs come to Capitol to decry cutsTuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:19PMATLANTA — Sheriffs and other law enforcement officers from across Georgia came to the state Capitol on Tuesday to complain about the erosion of state spending on public safety training and the scheduled closure later this month of three GBI crime labs.
Gangs rattle schoolsMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 12:01PMHe has a gun. Those words sent confusion and fear through the hallways of John Overton High School. Students ran to get away from a classroom where a teacher stared down the barrel of a .38-revolver.
Gangs rattle schoolsMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 2:25AMHe has a gun. Those words sent confusion and fear through the hallways of John Overton High School. Students ran to get away from a classroom where a teacher stared down the barrel of a .38-revolver. The self-proclaimed Kurdish Pride Gang member wanted his teacher dead. Why? She dared to discipline him. In gang culture, that's the way a problem is handled.
HP slips Intel's desktop Cores into biz laptopsSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 11:16PMThe power of small sacrifice With plenty of laptops in the business world ranging in age from five to eight years old, Hewlett-Packard is rubbing its hands together. It anticipates a big upgrade cycle in 2010 among commercial PC users whose companies might just be ready to give them a reasonable machine on which to do work, despite the weak economy.… What is your recession sales strategy?
Olympic Capsules: Crosby's goal gives Canada hockey goldSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 5:16PMVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Sidney Crosby scored 7:40 into overtime and Canada beat the United States 3-2 on Sunday to earn its second men’s hockey gold medal in the last three Olympics.
The C-J's Sunday college basketball notebookSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 9:23PMDerrick Caracter, who seemed to spend a good part of his time at Louisville suspended or otherwise in coach Rick Pitino's doghouse, was averaging 14.4 points and 8.8 rebounds for the Miners (21-5, 12-1 C-USA) heading into Saturday's game against Rice.
His love of history helped othersSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 7:44AMGENOA -- A local man's love of history has benefited the lives of people far away. Kirk Hise, 80, was a member of the Air Force and the Air Force band in the late 1940s. While he was stationed in Iwo Jima, other soldiers learned of Hise's interest in history.
Fix the stuff ups, Joyce tells RuddSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 12:08AMBarnaby Joyce has hit back at suggestions by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd he should be sacked.
Top 10 worst mobile technologiesFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:30PMLast week we counted down the ten best mobile devices and services of the last few decades.
Notebook: Montoya becomes mentor for DanicaFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 7:10PMBy Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS -- Juan Montoya is paying it backward.
MALIBAL VEDA Series (Clevo X8100) ReviewFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 3:11PMThe MALIBAL Veda Series notebook is an high-performance gaming machine built from the Clevo X8100. Offering an Intel Core i7 processor, dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M graphics cards in SLI, up to three internal hard drives, and a gorgeous 18.4" 1080P display this notebook is built for one thing ... speed.
Backstage: UBoard, The Mac-Ready USB Desk Shelf, And Clickfree C2 Portable BackupFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:26AMIt’s a space-saving, Mac-matching above-keyboard tray with integrated USB ports. And it even includes a cup holder. Welcome to America, UBoard ($50). Unlike Pyramid Distribution’s imported iClooly accessories, which started with the Japanese-developed iClooly Alumi Stand, the company brought UBoard over from South Korea, which is currently becoming more Apple-savvy now that the iPhone is finally ...
Mariners Notebook: Infielders Doing Drills by Brumley's BookFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 2:01AMPEORIA, Ariz.Mike Brumley has built a book full of fielding drills over a dozen years as a minor league instructor, and he hasn’t been afraid to use them in his first week on the Seattle Mariners ’ coaching staff.One minute the Mariners’ infielders will field ground balls from their knees (to get the hands and head working together). Later, they might be required to stand stationary with knees ...
BUSINESS NOTEBOOKFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 1:26AMbusiness notebook (biz/nis not/book) n. 1. A place where people can learn fun and interesting stuff about a locally owned business 2. Free publicity for locally owned businesses 3. Editor’s attempt to help local businesses.
Web site for Landscapes2 comprehensive plan unveiledFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 1:20AMFourteen years ago the Chester County board of commissioners unveiled the county’s first comprehensive policy plan, Landscapes, that was published in a 128-page spiral-bound notebook.
HDDs, The Next Generation: Drives With 4KB Sectors On The WayFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 1:12AMIn the future, an increasing number of hard drives will be writing data in 4KB chunks (rather than 512 bytes) to increase storage capacities. Performance isn’t impacted, as long as you follow some rules. We put WD’s new EARS series on the test bench. Western Digital - Hard disk drive - Hardware - Storage - Hard Drive
Reporter's Notebook: Kristin BrickerThursday, February 25, 2010 @ 4:05PMThe conference was the first event CUPIHD has organized as a collective. Jorge Hernández Tinajero, CUPIHD’s president, told Narco News, “All of [CUPIHD’s members] have been working on this issue for at least ten years from our respective areas of expertise.”
VIDEO: Brave man about townThursday, February 25, 2010 @ 2:09AMStanding naked, in front of a movie "focus puller" - the puller in dangerous proximity to your most delicate parts, well, it could all end painfully.
Super-cool Titanium iPhone re-news the Engadget vs. Gizmodo fightWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 5:13PMWhen an Engadget reader Martin Schrotz posted cool images supposedly representing a custom back cover modification for his iPhone 3GS, Gizmodo jumped on the opportunity to publicly bash Engadget for failing to realize it was a fake. According to Engadget, Schrotz crafted his modification out of a single piece of wested titanium, highly durable and ultra-light [...]
Letters to the editorWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:24PMTo The Editor: Joann Pelletiere is gone. Translation: Aphrodisia. Her “shoppe” — “An Experience in Herbs, Spices & Essential Oils,” according to the sign on the awning — decorated Bleecker St., literally, between Sixth and Seventh Aves., with its extravagant window displays, for more than 40 years!