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Molalla Geocaching Challenge proves popular

If you’re hoping to earn a commemorative coin in the Molalla Geocaching Challenge , also known as the Molalla Geocoin Challenge, you’d better get moving.

“Probably by next weekend we’re going to be out,” Sheri Kelly, executive director of Molalla Area Chamber of Commerce, said on Saturday.

Only 250 of the Molalla Geocoins were made and as of Saturday afternoon, Kelly said 145 had already been claimed since the challenge started on Nov. 13.

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Collège Jacques-Cartier

La fête de la Science organisée par le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche en est cette année à sa 18e édition et a pour but premier de susciter la rencontre entre le public et les chercheurs, ingénieurs et techniciens. Toutes les sciences sont au programme des diverses manifestations qui ont lieu un peu partout en France. Au collège Jacques-Cartier, c’était une première à l’intérieur de l’établissement, car si, comme l’année dernière, on se déplaçait, là, pendant la semaine, les élèves avaient accès aux expériences pendant les récréations. Geoffrey Barbier et Hervé Merda, respectivement professeurs de Sciences et vie de la Terre (SVT) et de physique-chimie ont proposé aux élèves des expériences amusantes.

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Alaric teams with Oracle for consumer payments sol…

London-based Alaric International has teamed with Oracle to combine financial solutions to create a new offering for the consumer-payments market. The product package — the Consumer Payments Services Hub — will enable retail banks and service providers to progressively modernize aging ATM and POS legacy systems while delivering increased profitability, reducing operational costs and expanding existing customer relationships, Alaric says.

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FileWave 4.0: Software-Distribution im Netzwerk

FileWave , ein plattformübergreifendes Client-/Server-System zum Verteilen und Verwalten von Software auf Arbeitsplatzrechnern in lokalen Netzwerken, steht seit dieser Woche in der Version 4.0 zur Verfügung. Zu den Neuerungen gehören eine überarbeitete und einfacher zu bedienende Administrationsoberfläche, Performance-Optimierungen, Kommunikation per SSL-Sockets mit den Clients, eine auf SQLite basierende Server-Datenbank, Unterstützung für Access Control Lists (ACL), LDAP-Anbindung und Blacklisting (Entfernung von Dateien und Software, die nicht durch FileWave verwaltet werden).

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Paradox, BBC One, review

James Walton reviews BBC One’s new sci-fi crime drama Paradox, starring Tamzin Outhwaite.

Paradox: Emun Elliott and Tamzin Outhwaite star in BBC One’s new drama

Here’s a useful tip for you. The next time you have trouble getting the police to come round and investigate a crime, simply ring the station and explain that you’re a top scientist and that you want to see “a clever police officer” at once.

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W.Brytania.Komisja ws. Iraku zainaugurowała dochod…

Pięcioosobowa komisja dochodzeniowa badająca okoliczności brytyjskiego zaangażowania wojskowego w Iraku w latach 2001-09, rozpoczęła we wtorek dochodzenie, które premier Gordon Brown zapowiedział w połowie czerwca.

Opinia publiczna domagała się go od dawna, oskarżając ówczesny rząd Tony’ego Blaira o to, że przedstawił w nieprawdziwym świetle i wyolbrzymił domniemane zagrożenie ze strony irackiej broni masowego rażenia, a także o to, iż wprowadził w błąd parlament co do swych intencji.

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Populi Changes its Strategy

The FINANCIAL — Populi, leading food retail chain plans to change its strategy. “If previously the main priority for our company was the immediate increase of our branch numbers, now we will focus on improving service and increasing customer satisfaction,” told The FINANCIAL Evgeni Pichkhaia, shareholder and General Director of JSC Populi. Company last week introduced new product the Pop-Art cards.

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FutureIT Appoints New CEO

Boardmember Tzahi Langer Becomes FutureIT Ltd.’s CEO

LOD,,/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — FutureIT Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for the automated and effective management of Microsoft SQL servers, today announced the appointment ofto the position of CEO FutureIT Ltd., the Israeli subsidiary of the American publicly traded (FITI.OB) company. Upon assuming the position of CEO, Mr. Langer will resign as a member of FutureIT’s board; he begins his new position on. Mr., the current acting CEO will continue in his role as CEO of FutureIT Inc. and as Chairman of the Board.

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40 Training on Cleaner Production

Kigali — A group of 40 participants from various industries in Kigali are undergoing a five-day training on cleaner production that is expected to lower the cost of production and pollution.

Steven Niyonzima, a Cleaner Production expert who is also in charge of the Rwanda Resource and Cleaner Production Centre, said that the training also doubled as a sensitization platform.

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Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots | Scienc…

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn’t be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have formulated a theory of spatial perception called information field theory. The scientists have developed a series of rules for reconstituting incomplete and noisy image data. Furthermore, they have established the various conditions under which the rules should be applied. They draw on a mathematical algorithm that particle physicists use in quantum field theory. The theory could also help to create images in the areas of medicine, geology and materials sciences. (Phys. Rev. D, online publication, 9 November 2009)

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