Community Calendar-7/30Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:23PMJuly 29-31: Casco Days , events take place on Casco town green. FMI, www.cascodays.com . Thursday, July 29 events: Midway opens at 6 p.m.; Fireworks at 10 p.m. Friday, July 30 events: Chicken BBQ at 5 p.m.; Jerks of Grass bluegrass band at 5:30 p.m.; Midway opens at 6 p.m.; Children’s parade at 7 p.m.;
Barksdale Boys & Girls Club hosts its annual fundraiserThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:08PMCONYERS — A finished playhouse is among the prizes to be raffled off as part of the A.R. “Gus” Barksdale Boys & Girls Club’s 27th annual Super Saturday Night fundraiser to be held Aug. 7.
Rugged robots duke it out at The SchieleSaturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:16PMWhitney Coble winced as Mini Doom lurched out of the wooden rink, its blade bent and its plastic frame gouged. Her fiancé’s creation was clobbered in a cage match for rugged robots at Gastonia’s Schiele Museum of Natural History. Michael Mull...
Catan Review [PlayStation 3]Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 9:34PMCatan is a successful re-creation of the classic board game but lacks any noteworthy additions.
Report: N.M. may face water shortage in 2050Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 11:56PMGet FREE Daily Headlines by email! In 40 years, most of New Mexico's counties, including Santa Fe, will face moderate to extreme water-shortage risks because of population growth and drought driven by climate change, says a new report by the California-based engineering firm Tetra Tech.
Create gesture-driven interfacesTuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 6:00AMThere might be a world of multi-touch devices and gestures out there, but it’s worth asking whether there’s anything we are missing or could be doing more with regarding the most commonly used single input devices that we have.
Firm offers Japanese science experimentsSunday, July 18, 2010 @ 12:23PMInteresting and delightful science experiments can help students spark imagination, boost learning and lure students to like science. Soon, such experiments - done in classrooms at 18,000 schools and tutorial schools in Japan - will be brought to Thailand.
Get Active Briefs: July 16Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 11:00PMDOWNLOAD LESSONSKnox County is launching the Walk and Read Club to encourage citizens to get in shape - both in mind and body - by asking participants to walk 150 minutes each week for six weeks. To ensure that technology isn't an obstacle, the Knox County Public Library has scheduled a tutorial session to help people learn how to download audio books. It will be 12:15-12:45 p.m. Wednesday, July ...
Manipulating Facts to Fit a Theory: A Dangerous Trading PracticeMonday, July 12, 2010 @ 3:08AMAll traders, experienced and new to the field, hold theories about the market. Through reading, trading, listening or watching they have discovered how they believe the markets operate.