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NEWS
| February 16, 1994
A
Howard County school board combing through Superintendent Michael E.
Hickey's proposed operating budget for the next school year found at
least one program to trim: bike safety.Physical education supervisors
had asked for $3,900 to buy 30 new bicycles to rotate among elementary
schools to teach bike safety, but board members appeared to have already
made up their minds. They don't vote on the budget until next
Tuesday."That's all very nice if we had everything else we needed, but
we don't," member Deborah Kendig said.
NEWS
| Laptop |
Armed men in ski masks rob women in Lansdowne [Crime Log]
December 3, 2013
The
following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is
to include descriptions when there is enough information to make
identification possible. If you have any information about these
crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Twin
Circle Way North, unit block, 6:40 a.m. Dec. 1. Two men wearing ski
masks, one with a handgun and the other with a large knife, robbed two
women of a bag, cash and clothing. Knecht Avenue, 1400 block,
4:10 p.m. Dec. 1. Two men attempted to steal copper wire from Hammer
Underground Utilities.
BUSINESS
U.S. revokes duties on laptop computer screens Move clears way for Japanese imports
| June 23, 1993
WASHINGTON
-- Caught in the awkward position of fostering one high-technology
industry at the expense of another, the Commerce Department has revoked
import duties on advanced screens that are used in new laptop computers and
other equipment.In its decision, announced late Monday, the department
brushed aside the protests of a handful of fledgling U.S. companies,
which argued that import duties were crucial to developing a domestic
advanced-screen industry.Flat-panel displays that are capable of
producing vivid colors and detailed images are central components in
notebook computers and are expected to be used heavily in
high-definition television systems.
NEWS
| new laptop |
Laptop computers replace note pads Pilot program wires students for learning
| April 4, 1997
Look
out, spiral notebooks, your days at Oldfields School are numbered.The
old, reliable friend of students everywhere is being replaced at the
Glencoe girls' school by laptop computers that flip open almost as
easily -- but which students also can use to produce science projects,
hand in homework and communicate with their parents.These days, black laptop bags are nearly as common as backpacks and lacrosse sticks at
Oldfields, a boarding and day school and one of 10 private schools in
the country participating in a pilot technology project co-sponsored by
Microsoft and Toshiba.
NEWS
| Laptop Price |
Legislators switch to clicks
| January 8, 1999
Goodbye
to the reams of paper and the dusty binders stacked under the desks in
the nation's oldest working State House.Welcome to the Cyber-Senate.The
Maryland Senate is now wired. When they return Wednesday for the 194th
legislative session, 22 of the 47 senators will go about the ancient
business of lawmaking with the help of a quintessential modern
convenience: laptop computers."I'm pretty computer illiterate,"
acknowledged Sen. Leo E. Green, 66, a Prince George's Democrat, as he
started up his laptop during a training session this week in the Senate
chamber.
BUSINESS
Southwest joins TSA pre-check program, opens new security lane at BWI
| November 14, 2013
Southwest
Airlines has joined the Transportation Security Administration's
PreCheck program, giving trusted fliers access to a quicker and less
invasive path through security at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. The
airline, which is BWI's largest carrier, has opened a PreCheck security
lane at Concourse A, airport officials said Thursday. The program
allows registered passengers of participating airlines — Southwest makes
eight — to move through security without taking off their shoes, belts
or jackets, removing new laptop computers from cases or removing bags of
small liquids from carry-on luggage.
NEWS
Howard Crime Report
February 18, 2004
The
crime report is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from
police. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-313-3700.
East Columbia Majors Lane: 6000 block, Long Reach. Someone entered an
apartment early Feb. 10 through a rear sliding door while the resident
was sleeping and stole clothes. Watchlight Court: 8900 block, Long
Reach. Someone entered a home by forcing a rear sliding door late Feb.
10 and stole cash, digital video discs and a video game system.
Stanford Blvd: 5500 block, Columbia Corporate Park.
NEWS
Baltimore County school board OKs $205 million technology contract
| March 11, 2014
The
Baltimore County school board voted Tuesday night to approve one of its
largest contracts in recent years, an ambitious $205 million plan to
supply laptop computers to the system's 150,000 students and teachers
over the next seven years. The school system will lease HP EliteBook
Revolves, the centerpiece of Superintendent Dallas Dance's initiative
to put laptops in the hands of every student in the next several years.
Dance said the school system will pay for the computers in part
with savings from centralizing the purchase and operation of printers,
copiers and other technology, and by evaluating whether central office
employees who leave the school system should be replaced.
Southwest joins TSA pre-check program, opens new security lane at BWI
| November 14, 2013
Southwest
Airlines has joined the Transportation Security Administration's
PreCheck program, giving trusted fliers access to a quicker and less
invasive path through security at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. The
airline, which is BWI's largest carrier, has opened a PreCheck security
lane at Concourse A, airport officials said Thursday. The program
allows registered passengers of participating airlines — Southwest makes
eight — to move through security without taking off their shoes, belts
or jackets, removing laptop computer from cases or removing bags of
small liquids from carry-on luggage.
NEWS
City, non-profit to swap guns for laptops
| July 13, 2013
City
officials and a local non-profit are offering residents a chance to
turn in guns and exchange them for laptop computers Saturday. The
swaps are set to take place at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center on N.
Howard Street between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. this afternoon. The event is
another take on the kind of gun buyback events that have become
increasingly popular since the shootings last year at Sandy Hook
elementary school. A previous event in Baltimore offered grocery
giftcards for firearms and Howard County residents were given cash.
NEWS
$15K worth of computers, electronics stolen from Annapolis Boys & Girls Club
| February 20, 2013
Lynetta
McCoy has told the teenagers the ugly truth, but not the younger kids.
Instead, the smallest of the 50 or so children who regularly eat
meals and receive tutoring at the Boys & Girls Club at Admiral Oaks
in Annapolis believe that the club's recently stolen Xbox Kinect video
game system stopped working. McCoy, the club's director, brought her
own Xbox from home for the kids to use on Wednesday. She's still unsure
how she'll explain everything else that disappeared during the burglary
of more than $15,000 worth of club computers, electronics and cash
earlier this week.
NEWS
Towson Crime Log: FedEx delivery person robbed during pickup
November 12, 2012
Baltimore
County Police say a FedEx delivery person was robbed in Towson along
LaSalle Road. The incident occurred Oct. 31 in the 8600 block of LaSalle
Road, between 7 p.m. and 7:38 p.m. According to the report, the
FedEx driver making a pickup was confronted by two men wearing masks.
The men put what the FedEx driver believed to be firearm to her head,
asked for keys to truck. They stole an engagement ring and cash. In
addition to this incident, the following is compiled from police reports
from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts.
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Towson Crime Log: Laptops stolen in two Towson incidents
September 25, 2012
Baltimore
County Poice report that laptop computers were stolen in two seperate
incidents last week in Towson. The first occurred 11 p.m., Sept. 19
and 6:25 a.m., Sept. 20 in the 400 block of Hopkins Boulevard. According
to the police report, someone entered through an open window while
resident slept, stole a aptop and left out front door. The second
incident was between Sept. 21 and Sept. 22, times unknown. This theft
occurred in the 8400 block of Charles Valley Court, and happened when a
car was broken into.
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The strange case of the apostrophe (')
February 29, 2012
Punctuation
isn't something I spend much time thinking about, even though I make a
living, in part, by writing and checking over what other people write.
It's not to say I don't understand punctuation. As grammar people
go, I'd say I'm punctuation proficient. Since the devices that replaced
typewriters, once referred to as word processors, but now known as
desktop and laptop computers came into being, a particular bit of
punctuation has crossed the threshold from being an afterthought of the
writing process to an irritating little sliver of ink that's apt to hook
the wrong way or translate into some errant version of a letter of the
alphabet.
BUSINESS
Japanese companies developing more powerful, cheaper microchip Dumping of laptop panels by Japanese alleged
| February 15, 1991
The
Commerce Department said yesterday that some Japanese companies have
been dumping flat-panel display screens -- used mainly on laptop
computers -- in the U.S. market.After a six-month preliminary
investigation, the department concluded that a handful of Japanese
companies were engaging in unfair competition by selling some of their
products below the cost of production. The department ordered the
companies to pay anti-dumping duties on their imports.The immediate
effect will be minimal, since the duties imposed yesterday range from
1.46 percent of the selling prices -- levied against Toshiba -- to 4.6
percent levied against Sharp.
NEWS
Man charged in theft of laptops pleads guilty
| November 2, 2008
Paul
Brian Steedman stole 32 laptop computers from his employer, a
Marriottsville-based nonprofit health care company owned by nuns,
prosecutors say. The Westminster man then sold the computers on eBay,
prosecutors say, listing photos of box labels with serial numbers that
matched those of the stolen computers - along with a picture of himself
as the seller and a user name that included his birth year. Steedman,
28, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Howard County Circuit Court to a felony
theft scheme and could now face 15 years in prison, according to
prosecutors.
NEWS
Man charged in theft of laptops pleads guilty
| November 2, 2008
Paul
Brian Steedman stole 32 laptop computers from his employer, a
Marriottsville-based nonprofit health care company owned by nuns,
prosecutors say. The Westminster man then sold the computers on eBay,
prosecutors say, listing photos of box labels with serial numbers that
matched those of the stolen computers - along with a picture of himself
as the seller and a user name that included his birth year. Steedman,
28, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Howard County Circuit Court to a felony
theft scheme and could now face 15 years in prison, according to
prosecutors.
NEWS
Man jailed for sex with teen
| May 31, 2008
A
36-year-old Clarksburg man was sentenced yesterday to seven years and
three months in federal prison for using a computer to entice a
15-year-old Anne Arundel County girl into having sex with him. After
his release from prison, Michael Lawrence Manoly is to register as a sex
offender and will be under federal supervision for the rest of his
life, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake determined. Prosecutors
said Manoly, using the screen name "Kevin" and portraying himself as 25,
began corresponding with the teenager in February 2006.
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