13th Feb2012

World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Has Died

by iSpit

Previously, 16-year old Pakistani computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world’s youngest MicrosoftCertified Professional, had been hospitalized after a seizure and heart attack.

She has since passed away, reports The Express Tribune.

She will be buried in her family‘s village outside Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Todd Bishop of Geek Wire had met her a while ago and shared some audio clips from his interview with her.

Despite her young age, she was full of wisdom like this: “If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.”

28th Jun2011

Number Of The Day: $72,384 (To Lock Up Youth)

by iSpit

By Angela Caputo

That’s how much the Illinois Department of Corrections estimates that it would cost to incarcerate each 15- and 16-year-old convicted of gun possession if HB2067 is adopted by the state legislature this year.
State Rep. Michael Zalewski — along with some powerful allies from the Chicago Police Department
and Mayor Daley’s office — are trying to keep the measure alive this week before the clock runs out on moving the bill from the House to the Senate on Friday.
Under the bill, 15- and 16-year-olds charged with gun possession within 1,000 feet of a school or park would automatically be transferred to the adult felony courts. Under adult jurisdiction, those convicted would be required to spend at least one year behind bars, under a new mandatory minimum sentence that Zalewski ushered through the General Assembly last year.
Zalewski himself is the first to admit that the punishment is “harsh.” But in our latest investigation, Without A (more…)
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