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Windows 7 and MinWin Glimpse
During a presentation at the University of Illinois a senior Microsoft OS engineer showed a glimpse of the next...
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How I Got This Body: 50-year-old pole vaulter jumps to new heights

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

One day when Jim Moeller was a boy, a large roll of new carpet arrived at his home in Illinois. It came wrapped around a bamboo pole — a pole that was just right for practicing the pole vault. He took up the sport in ear ...
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DirecTV Consider to Acquire Hulu
DirecTV Consider to Acquire Hulu
DirecTV, the second largest satellite provider in the United States is vacillating over a decision. Should it or should it not buy Hulu? And furthermore ought it to wholly or partially acquire the online site that lends access to television programs?
 
Microsoft plans to update Xbox 360 Dashboard UI for 2013
Microsoft plans to update Xbox 360 Dashboard UI for 2013
Who hasn’t heard of the Xbox phenomenon that has swept the world by storm in recent years. The Xbox 360 Dashboard is being updated for the year 2013. As for the new Xbox it will be launched close to the middle of May.
 
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr and Update Flickr
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr and Update Flickr
The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer has decided to buy the social micro-blogging site known as Tumblr. She also plans on updating Flickr for her company’s sake. Both these transactions are rumored to take place in an event set for Monday.
 

Ottawa, Seneca good neighbors to Marseilles

Source: The Times

THUMBS UP TO ... Ottawa Central Intermediate School's Students Working as a Team group, which recently started an Adopt-a-Classroom initiative as a way to help Marseilles Elementary School students and staff in the wake of an April flood that rendered t ...
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WRITE TEAM: Salute our past, present, future

Source: The Times

In my dorm room in Champaign, I have an old bumper sticker proudly displayed on my wall. It reads "STREATOR: Pride in the past, faith in the future." Now, it's no secret I'm a big fan of my little hometown. And, it's no secret that many people my age d ...
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Weighing the implications of carbon milestone

Source: The News-Gazette

Editor's note: On May 9, global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, as measured at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory, reached 400 parts per million for the first time since accurate measurements started there in 1958. University of ...
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State workers anxious as lawmakers debate pensions

Source: NWCN.com

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois agency manager might have to delay retirement. A former university secretary wonders if she'll have to cancel vacations. A state office assistant fears he won't be able to afford the medical care his wife nee ...
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Italian cartoon character helping sell Fords

Source: The News-Gazette

Familiar animated cartoon characters make us laugh and feel good, so when they try to sell us something, we're more inclined to listen. That advertising ploy dates as far back as at least World War II, when Bugs Bunny sold U.S. ...
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Everybody takes a hit with pension reform

Source: The News-Gazette

Everybody — state employees, teachers, professors, taxpayers — will take a haircut, as they say in financial parlance, when the Legislature enacts pension reform, probably this spring, certainly this year. We will be paying ...
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