ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Higher Education Commission (HEC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishing the first-ever Self Access Centre (SAC). The MoU was signed by Executive Director HEC Prof. Dr. Sohail Naqvi and Vice Chancellor, AIOU Prof. Dr. Mahmood-ul-Hasan Butt.

The Center will facilitate teacher training, especially in the Computer

Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Internet Mediated Language Learning (IML). It will also enable the teachers to use latest tools of computer and internet in language classrooms and help the teachers and researchers update their knowledge about the latest trends in language learning and teaching.

Speaking on the occasion, Sohail Naqvi said that the Centre would be a role model for other universities to follow. He said that English language was an issue in the higher education sector and special focus was being paid on imparting it. ìWe have been giving special attention to improve the level of English language teaching in our universities and for this purpose, special courses have been designed for training of English teachers,î he added.

Vice Chancellor AIOU on the occasion thanked HEC for selecting his varsity for this model Centre and expressed full confidence in the University's English Department to run this Centre. Director General, Learning Innovation HEC, Ms. Noor Amna Malik briefed the

Intel has taken a somewhat shocking step away from its roots in the chip industry with its new Health Guide, a small tabletop gadget that Intel will build, sell, and manage through a suite of backend services.

Intel will develop pilot programs with several healthcare organizations, including Aetna, to assess how the Health Guide works in the home. The chip giant is also working with the American Heart Association to develop care plans for patients who have suffered heart attacks.

The Health Guide is being deployed now, after being approved by the FDA as a Class II device this past summer. It will be supplied by healthcare organizations. "This product is ready to go, end to end," said Louis Burns, general manager of the Digital Health division at Intel.

A small device about the size of a small-form-factor PC, the Health Guide PHS6000 is a small white box with a flip-up 10.4-inch LCD touchscreen, a webcam with privacy shield, and a touchscreen. Inside it is an undisclosed Intel processor and motherboard, together with Bluetooth and four USB ports.

The Health Guide requires a broadband connection, which it uses to connect to doctors and healthcare professionals, and to download content onto its small hard drive.

Intel designed the interface, which is both spare and functional, allowing users to access contact numbers for their doctors, schedule appointments, and upload new medical data via a small line of connected health devices, such as glucose meters and blood-oxygen sensors, that are already on the market from third-party suppliers. The webcam also allows the patient to videoconference with a nurse or healthcare provider, possibly its most important function.

The overarching goal, Burns and other Intel executives explained, is to provide a means for both patient and doctor to monitor a chronic condition, such as diabetes, without the need to constantly stop by a doctor's office for updates and new tests. Data uploaded by the device is automatically plugged into a mathematical model customized for the patient, where signs of an impending heart attack or other life-threatening condition can be analyzed and assigned treatment before a patient is forced to enter an emergency room.

While the Health Guide represents a sea change for Intel, it's also true that the company has done almost everything but ship its own PCs and other devices. The company manufactures chipsets, and publishes reference designs for both motherboards and guidelines for the PCs they form the heart of. Intel also has pushed OEMs to manufacture Mobile Internet Devices, developed a Viiv PC initiative mixing software and entertainment services, sold an electronic microscope, and designed or co-designed smartphone and in-vehicle entertainment reference platforms. Intel's design efforts have had some success, but generally influenced the design of existing platforms.

This is actually Intel's second step into integrating IT into healthcare; in 2006 and 2007, Intel helped develop a tablet-based device called a mobile clinical assistant, which Motion Computing backed. Just last week, Panasonic launched a ruggedized Toughbook that conformed to the mobile clinical assistant standard.

How It Works

Intel sees the problem as something akin to the transition to mobile computing. Health Guide (the system behind the health-care gadget) includes a clinician-facing suite of services that allows access to a patient's healthcare data and vital information. It allows a nurse to schedule appointments and follow-up visits, and set alerts in case a patient's blood pressure, glucose levels, or other key indicators indicate a dangerous trend.

A healthcare professional can set up a series of questions to guide a patient through a self-diagnosis, with questions about his sleep habits or general state of health. Finally, the integrated webcam can also permit a personal consultation without the need for an on-site visit.

To solve that particular problem, Intel showed off the Health Guide in a portable format, running as an application on the T-Mobile G1, powered by Google's "Android" operating system, as well as a Sharp MID. In both cases, users would be limited by the hardware constraints of the mobile device, but could manually upload data and access some of the other features of the device, such as video content.

Portable healthcare also makes more sense in Europe, where even the elderly have mobile phones. Even simple things like an accelerometer in a mobile phone can provide clues about a person's stride, which can be slowed by an adverse reaction to medication. One of the best ways to judge the onset of a neurological condition is to examine how people type; Intel already has three year's worth of data to that effect by monitoring how people interact with PCs in Europe.

That has also prompted concerns about privacy. Some elderly patients in Intel's trials said that they don't want to be reminded of their conditions on their phone, which they regard as an entertainment device.

Will the Health Guide make money for Intel? In the short term, probably not. Intel's representative declined to comment on when the product might have a material effect on Intel's revenue. But they said that the product has had the backing of Intel senior executives, including chief executive Paul Otellini, who apparently shares Burns' view that the Health Guide can put a chunk of that $5 trillion in US healthcare costs into Intel's pocket.

Cheating is an act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. Cheating characteristically is employed to create an unfair advantage, usually in one's own interest, and often at the expense of others. The term 'cheating' is less applicable to the breaking of laws, as illegal activities are referred to by specific legal terminology such as fraud or corruption. Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less.

If you are a businessman you might have come across many cheaters. The purpose of this article is to make you aware as to how you can trace out the footsteps of a cheater using modern electronic gadgets and services.

The outcome of talking to a person who is cheating you will be usually a denial! The truth is that very few cheaters - especially when they are closely related to you - will accept that they are cheating, unless you have probes. In fact, only the cheaters that are looking to end the business partnership want you to take the responsibility to do it, will accept the disloyalty.

Reaching that point, there are only two options for you, catch the cheater, or wait until the association ends later in some way. If you want to catch the cheater, there is no other choice than spying one way or the other. Probably, this is not the most honorable thing to do, I admit it, but before getting into a moral dilemma, you should take into account that the cheater already betrayed your trust, so you should not feel guilty about this. However, note it down that it's the last option.

The methodologies described below will mostly provide you the electronic footsteps left behind by the cheater. You should be aware that there is always a risk involved when spying someone and you could get caught, bringing you unwanted consequences. So, if something wrong happens; don't blame me; follow them at your own risk.

If you are being cheated, you should follow the principle: spend the money, and tap the communication channels. These two rules are basic when gathering information.

Find where and when the cheater meets other culprits, follow the steps below carefully.

Cell Phone Calls

Most people think that cell phones are untraceable, so they are used for communication between two cheaters. Usually, they won't use regular phones unless they are very confident that you are not aware of anything.

Fortunately, you can get every cell phone activity from the cheater's mobile phone. That's because landline numbers are published very openly, and have been existing since a long time. Cell phone/mobile numbers are still largely private and not openly released by phone companies. To obtain owner information for cell phone numbers, you'll need to use a service like Reverse Phone Detective.

Such a service will get you the phone activity and the useful text messages from a cheater or from anyone. Most of them are caught only with this procedure.

If you have a name from any of the information services described here or the Reverse Phone Detective service above, then you probably will need further information about the culprit's partner. Knowing further details about the persons provided from the service is an investment worth doing for your safety.

Knowing the whereabouts of the cheater during the day will definitively get you priceless information.

If you decide to use a GPS car tracking, this device will give you information to match with the addresses acquired from reserve phone detective. A GPS is a device that knows its own position by receiving information from a satellite. When placed into a car, some of them can give you live information about the car position or there are some others that are more useful to catch a guilty person, by recording all the places where such a person remained during the day. These places are then presented to you in map of your own town.

Although there are many types of GPS, the one suggested above will give you useful information to catch a cheater and it can be placed stealthy in the car because they are very small.

Computers are very useful to get into a cheating case these days. Chatting, forums and match sites are very common today and getting in touch with someone keen to cheat is very easy with a computer. Therefore, monitoring these activities is a useful act.

There is a good number of spy software in the market, but you should be very careful to use it, because some of them may crash the computer making easy to expose you, especially if the guilty party is savvy computer user. The very best and most reliable of them is EBLASTER 6.0

Pulling a rabbit out of a hat or making the Statue of Liberty vanish are impressive feats of magic. Magicians are in many ways like computer scientists: a magician must find a method to solve a problem, that problem being, say, making the rabbit appear or the Statue vanish, but without the audience realizing how it's done. A good magic trick is a combination of method and presentation, in some ways like a computer program: the computer software must have a method to solve the problem (in computer science we call this method, or series of steps, an algorithm), but, unlike magic, software must present the results to the user so they can understand them.

It's not surprising that many mathematicians and computer scientists are interested in magic tricks. Working out ways to solve problems, whether predicting a chosen card in a trick or how to reduce the amount of digital data in an MP3 music file without the listener noticing are very similar. A magician wants to be sure that the trick will always work. Computer Scientists want to be sure their programs always work. The difference is that computer scientists want to tell other people how it's done. Magicians must keep the method a secret, never revealing it to the audience.

Funny Story about Computer Confiscation

Police in Denmark confiscated the computer belonging to the guy who was involved in 'Rottin in Denmark' blog. They accused him of using a stolen credit card to buy stuff online. The blogger explained that he has an open WiFi access point, and that anyone can use it. It took them a long time to figure that out, but they took his computer (and his room mate's computer) anyway.