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Lily Collins Couples Up With Jamie Campbell Bower in Canada
Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower held hands during an afternoon out in Toronto yesterday. The duo stopped for coffee and shared a few laughs while sipping on their drinks. Lily and Jamie are in Canada to work on their movie, The Mortal Instruments. It looks like Lily and Jamie are getting close after both recently becoming single. Lily reportedly split from Zac Efron while Jamie and Bonnie Wright called off their engagement just last month. The new couple have each other and work to keep themselves busy, though. In addition to his latest project, Jamie will soon get started promoting the final installment of Twilight before it hits theaters in November. Lily, meanwhile, can be seen on the small screen after Mirror, Mirror was released on DVD.


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Daniel Jeremiah @MoveTheSticks
Seahawks acquire Harvin, 49ers acquire Boldin... When did the NFC West turn into the AL East??
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Whoa RT @RavensInsider: Anquan Boldin traded to 49ers for a sixth-round pick
Daniel Jeremiah @MoveTheSticks
Seahawks acquire Harvin, 49ers acquire Boldin... When did the NFC West turn into the AL East??
from one brother to another.
@adbrandt: Ravens have chosen to take a 6th round pick rather than commit $6 million to Anquan Boldin.
How would they like Holmes for a 7th. LOL.
Wonder if this means Arizona could be a potential suitor for Revis. NFC West is loading up on receivers, Cards have plenty of cap space, plus he would form a really solid duo with Peterson.
The NFC West is turning into a Cold War arms' race.
A 6th round pick is dirt cheap for Boldin too. He's not a burner, but he catches everything.
Flacco is going to look mediocre again next season. lol
wow, good value...
wonder what they will give us for Revis? Maybe their 5th rounder...
Boldin played great in the postseason. But the guy was a total JAG for the last few seasons. Baltimore sees him everyday, They know his postseason play was an abberition, not what he really is.
And he is not getting any younger.
@MoveTheSticks: I used to trade football cards with my brother. The Harbaugh bros just took that to the next level #AnquanBoldin
Could Boldin win back to back Superbowls with different teams?
Albert Breer @AlbertBreer
Two benefits for the Ravens in dealing Boldin now ... a) getting something for a player they were gonna cut, b) ensuring he'd go to the NFC.
@adbrandt: 49ers have to carry Alex Smith contract for one day to allow for trade, then can delete and take on Boldin salary.
With still so many picks left, and not that many needs, SF should look really good next year. Would be nice for Boldin to win back to back SB's. May be time to get back on that bandwagon. If Harbaugh loses again it will be unforgivable.
Between dumping Flacco's go to guy, and their O-line getting undone after this season, Flacco should look really overpaid next season. Looking forward to it.
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Remember when we were the team everybody was looking to flock to?
Those were the days......
NFL is a cold cold business. You go from playoff hero, maybe even playoff MVP, to them asking for $2 mill paycut and finally moving you for a lowly 6th round pick. Niners and Seahawks are in a serious arms race right now


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Connecticut police are expected to release a long-awaited report soon detailing their investigation into exactly what happened on the day of the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, but the Hartford Courant's Dave Altimari and Steven Goode have worked their sources to put together a rather chilling preview of some the investigation's major takeaways.
You can, and should, go read the full Courant report, but below you'll find a sampling of the more noteworthy revelations, from details about the sophisticated technology investigators are using to reconstruct the gunman's path to the latest heartbreaking revelation in a tragedy full of them.
One note before we start: the paper's reporting is based largely on unnamed sources familiar with probe, so keep in mind that there's always a chance for some of the findings' nuances to have been lost along the way. We'll have a more complete picture when the police release their final report.
Lanza May Have Been Planning to Ambush Police: Adam Lanza parked his car with the passenger's side facing a small brick wall near the school's front entrance, and left a shotgun leaning against the passenger's side door. Given that, police believe that he may have been setting himself up to ambush police officers. "The spot gave him potentially a perfect line of sight to shoot at unsuspecting police driving down the long driveway, around a curve and into his line of fire," the paper reports. "It also provided him cover since the school and woods were behind him."
He Shot His Mother at Close Range: Investigators believe that Lanza began his rampage by shooting his mother, Nancy, in the head four times with a 22-rifle. The gun, the paper reports, "was pressed directly against her forehead and found at her bedside." The bedroom shades were still drawn when police arrive, suggesting to police that she was killed in the day's pre-dawn hours.
The Police Set Up Their Command Center Before Clearing the Room: Two school employees—a secretary and a nurse—who had taken shelter in a closet in the principal's office when the shooting began remained there for "several hours" unbeknownst to the state police who were using the office as their command center.
Authorities Are Piecing Together Lanza's Movements With the Help of an Open Phone Line: State police and the FBI are using "sophisticated sound technology" to reconstruct the path of Lanza's rampage. The secretary in the main office who originally called 911 never hung up the phone, and it is the sounds recorded via that open line that investigators are using to plot the timeline of his actions.
And, Finally, There's This Heartbreaking Paragraph:
Through interviews with surviving children, sources said, investigators learned that some of [Victoria Soto's first-grade] students were holding hands in the far right hand corner near the chalkboard, away from Lanza's initial line of fire. When Lanza stopped firing because his gun jammed, student Jesse Lewis yelled for kids to run. Lewis was shot to death. Six of the children ran past Lanza to safety.
Much more over at the Courant.


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JORGE MARIO BERGOGL alias POPE FRANCIS THE RELIGIOUS CHARLATAN WHOSE HYPOCRISY KNOWS NO APPARENT LIMITSWritten by
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by James Jacob Prasch
September 22, 2015
As Pope Francis arrives in the USA, the Vatican characteristically expects the media, the Congress, and the public to simply ignore the fact that when Cardinal of Buenos Aires, Francis staunchly refused to meet with the children sexually victimized by his priests and nuns and with their families. His pedophile sex criminal clergy were protected as the defenseless little children were raped and he refused to even meet them or their parents. So the College of Cardinals in a convocation that included multiple protectors and de facto enablers of baby raping sexual deviants frocked in their vestments, habits, and cassocks, including Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony and Boston Cardinal Law, elected Bergoglio pope and said he is 'the 'Vicar of Christ'. But didn't Christ say that "It is better to have a millstone tied to one's neck and be cast into the sea rather than harm a helpless little child"? Now this same Francis is coming to the land of Mahony with his lies and baloney, and of Law, who rather proved himself to be utterly law-less. These reprobates who shielded dangerous sexual deviates at the expense of the children whose molestation and sexual and homosexual violation these servants of Lucifer helped facilitate are among those who helped elect Bergoglio, so why wouldn't George (Jorge) Bergoglio cum Pope Francis come to the USA? How can such a disgusting pretender misrepresent himself as the vicar of a Christ whose very Words he nullifies and whose example he shuns in favor of a public relations motivated charade packaged in pseudo sanctimonious pomposity of the very same brand Jesus flagrantly condemned in the Gospel of St. Matthew chapter 23?
It is obvious to any honest observer that Bergoglio's only real god is the centuries old Vatican idol of theocratic politics that millions of former Roman Catholics who have accepted the real Christ, including now regenerate priests and nuns, can readily testify to. The real Jesus did not double talk or engage in the legalistic practice of pilpul in their attempt to defend the indefensible. Jesus appealed to the spirit of the law and did not engage in the pilpul of disputing about words Bill Clinton style as in: "it depends on what the definition of 'is' 'is'"; or ' "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" (when he performed acts other than intercourse). Jesus issued clear unambiguous moral dictates in response to hypocritical religious rhetoric looking for technical loopholes to avoid what in substance amounted to perjury or in practice amounted to transgression despite religio-legal attempts to camouflage it with pilpul and the Gospels are emphatic that He did so 'speaking as one with authority not like the scribes' (Matthew 7:28-29). There was no ambivalence or uncertainty as to what He meant. What Clinton was in the White House however, Pope Francis is in the Vatican. We see a return to the pilpul condemned by Jesus in The Sermon on The Mount. Concerning the issue of homosexuality Pope Francis stated "if two men are in a committed relation - who am I to judge"? The point is that Jesus Christ has judged the matter already and the Judeo- Christian Scriptures say so plainly (Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Timothy 1:10, 1 Corinthians 6:9). If the Scriptures judged it and he claims to speak for Christ (which he most certainly does not nor does any other Pope), why does he not simply uphold the teaching of Scripture judging it wrong?
What we see from Pope Francis is the pilpul that Jesus taught against and was a well defined alternative to. In Pope Francis we see a Pharisaical faker magna cum laude. Indeed, after his wife Laura and his former Vice President Dick Cheney (who daughter is in a lesbian marriage) appeared on YouTube urging Republican Party support for same sex marriage, former president George W. Bush stated with regard to homosexuality "I have to remove the log from my own eye", as if his out of context citation of that verse from Scripture justified his ignoring that God's Word strongly calls homosexuality morally abominable. The Sanhedrin may have invented pilpul but phony unprincipled politicians have perfected it with media spin, and as is solidly evident Pope Francis is nothing more than just another such politician whose theological roots are not in the Jesus whose vicar he fraudulently pretends to be, but in the Sanhedrin who collaborated with the Roman government to turn the Jewish people against their own Messiah and have Him murdered. It is of course a factually ridiculous legally and doctrinally false contention to corporately blame Israel and The Jews for the death of Jesus. Jesus stated that He laid His life down and no one took it from Him. The Hebrew prophet Isaiah informs us in chapter 53 that it was His Father's will to slay Him as an atonement for our sin when He took our sin on Himself and thus in the larger sense we are all His killers. Moreover , all of His initial followers and the New Testament authors were themselves Jews with Jewish belief in Him as Messiah reaching a very high percentage of the Jewish population by the early Second century. Juridically, all four Gospels and the earliest Creeds of the church dogmatically profess that He was crucified by the Roman government under Pontius Pilate. Yet, although He forgave His executors – and us - from the cross, there is no question that the pagan Roman government and Sanhedrin conspired to kill him and they are still conspiring to kill Him. Only today the Roman authorities are the Roman Catholic church, the Sanhedrin are the College of Cardinals and Papal Curia, and Pontius Pilate is now called the Pope. My own family is a combination of Jewish and Roman Catholic backgrounds, and as such I would not be surprised if the pedophile protecting Roman Catholic church gambled for His cloths at a Bingo game.
Like all such phony politicians be it a Clinton, a Bush or otherwise, Francis has his media spin. His PR machine says "He has not changed the moral teaching of the church, only the emphasis". He has done this in two ways. The first is divert away from inconvenient issues by changing the narrative. Thus we see Francis railing about capitalism and global warming in a cheap ecclesiastical version of 'Occupy Wall Street'. The second, as we have stated is to engage in a Roman Catholic imitation of pilpul. So when Francis concerning homosexuality publicly asks "who am I to judge"? The liberal wing of Roman Catholicism can claim that pope has modified the Roman Catholic opposition to homosexuality and he no longer will say it is flatly wrong; he says "who is he to judge"? Simultaneously, the traditionalist hypocrite wrong of Roman Catholicism reacts by saying "the Pope has not officially changed the opposition of the church to homosexuality". For the sake of political expediency he placates everybody but offers no clear moral direction. This Jesus did not do according to St. Matthew, yet this impostor Francis claims to be The Lord's personal vicar acting vicariously on Christ's behalf.
Another example is his liberalization policy on the issuing of marital annulments. To begin with the term itself as it is used colloquially or legally is not found in the New Testament. The only New Testament basis for the nullification of a marriage is only where in God's eyes there was no valid marriage to begin with due to one partner already being married (John 5:17-18). In Roman Catholicism an annulment may amount to nothing more than a mere euphemism for divorce. Apologists for Roman Catholicism of course conventionally resort once again to pilpul; the strategic use of semantics is of course pivotal in pilpul. In the political hypocrisy that we witness in the parlance of international diplomacy we encounter this all of the time where a synonymous or ambiguous phraseology can be interpreted by two different parties to mean two different things in order to forge a meaningless agreement or concordat that eventually breaks down. In ecumenical dialogue between Roman Catholic and supposedly 'Protestant' theologians we see the same hypocritical idiocy. Both panels of theologians sign a joint declaration stating "we agree both Catholic and Protestant that we are saved by grace", when in fact the Protestant understanding of grace is unearned and undeserved favor deriving from the Greek and Hebrew definitions of the term etymologically, while the perverted Roman Catholic definition is an ethereal substance , (be it actual or sanctifying grace as they describe it) that is ritualistically earned by sacraments even in the ex opera operato case of infant baptism (which in fact most Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran Protestant denominations absurdly an unscripturally share). Both can agree they are saved by grace and issue a worthless proclamation to that effect that has no capacity to do anything but deceive, yet in actuality they have two fundamentally variant definitions of what grace is. While this fails theologically and spiritually, it works politically. It is little wonder St. Paul condemned such semantically charged dialogue involving disputes about words in circumlocution of the divinely intended meaning of Holy Writ (1 Timothy 6:4).
The Roman Catholic church engages in this kind of stupid semantic dialogue without reference to what the Scriptures actually state concerning the issue divorce by a convoluted argumentation that declares a marriage invalid for considerations that are extra biblical and grant annulment when in fact they are simply calling a divorce by another name. For many centuries popes routinely granted European monarchs annulments to remarry when it was in the political and or economic interests of the papacy to do so. Thomas Moore, the notorious villain who was party to the horrific persecution of regenerate Christians during the Reformation was executed by King Henry VIII not because Moore opposed Henry's divorce and remarriage, but rather because the pope did not approve of it for political reasons. Pope Francis did not invent this 'divorce by another name' practice of the papacy. He is just making it easier to do in order to be 'seeker friendly' to trim his falling mass attendance numbers. Likewise with the majority of reported cases of clerical pedophilia by his priests and nuns being of a homosexual and lesbian nature, Francis knows that without homosexuals and lesbians the already thin ranks of religious vocations in the Roman Catholic clergy would be much thinner still and he would not have enough priests and nuns for his religious system to function. It is all pilpul and all politics from homosexuality to annulment to pedophilia.
"Gorgeous George" Bergoglio has changed his name to "Frank the Phony". But he is no Vicar of Christ. Like his papal predecessors he is just another anti-christ and as he visits New York and Washington, the other crooked politicians will roll out the red carpet for him and listen to his pilpul. And why should they not? He is the only politician in the world who can give the other politicians in the congress, White House and at the UN lessons in hypocrisy and how to connive.
Pope Francis is truly a religious charlatan whose hypocrisy knows no limits. When he changed his name from George (Jorge) , instead of Francis he should have called himself Caiaphas or maybe Pontius. But he should not be calling himself 'The Vicar of Christ'. What he does, Christ did not do.
May The Lord Jesus graciously continue to save Roman Catholic souls and deliver them from the demonic clutches of the pedophile cult and anti-christ false religious system of Roman Catholicism. Please pray for the salvation of Roman Catholic people and for their clergy who mislead them with lies and hypocrisy and destroy their children.
James Jacob Prasch
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- Comment Link Friday, 09 October 2015 11:06 posted by Jerod
Hi Ms. Baruch, I hope this reply dies not come to late even though I am not an employee or affiliate of Moriel.
Your quote in question was quipped aboard the papal plane in 2013, I believe. The link for that bombshell interview is here
There is video as well online.
Jerod Hatch
- Comment Link Wednesday, 23 September 2015 12:14 posted by Suzanne Baruch
Jacob, please confirm the source where you obtained the comment allegedly stated by the Pope that, "if two men are in a committed relation - who am I to judge?" I have searched the internet in order to confirm he said this, and cannot find it anywhere. The closest quote I can find is this from the Wall Street Journal:
"The pontiff broached the delicate question of how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active. For decades, the Vatican has regarded homosexuality as a "disorder," and Pope Francis' predecessor Pope Benedict XVI formally barred men with what the Vatican deemed "deep-seated" homosexuality from entering the priesthood. "Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?" the pontiff said, speaking in Italian. "You can't marginalize these people.""
This is the second time I am submitting this comment, I *do* hope for a response.
- Comment Link Tuesday, 22 September 2015 23:51 posted by Suzanne Baruch
Jacob, could you please provide your source for the quote where the Pope stated, "if two men are in a committed relation - who am I to judge"? The closest quote I am able to find was published in the Wall Street Journal, where the Pope was asked "how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active." The Pope responded by stating, "Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?" the pontiff said, speaking in Italian. "You can't marginalize these people."
- Comment Link Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:10 posted by rev.jules barry jones
hi Jacob, love your new web site and am always glad to hear what you have to say about anything! This article about the Poop is perfect. Thanks.
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by The Gunslinger May 31, 2004
Yes, it does in fact mean "tits and ass", but it rarely is referring to the anatomy of just one female. It is used more in a descriptive generality... usually used to characterize a particular genre of entertainment, e.g. movies, TV, pop music, etc. It is often used pejoratively.
Wow, MTV used to be so cool. Now, it's all rappers and T and A.
Have you seen the amount of T and A that has crept into video games these days?
Have you seen the amount of T and A that has crept into video games these days?
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Journalistic abbreviation for 'tits-and-ass,' used when the complete phrase would be out of character for the piece.
The much-hyped, big-budget Super Bowl commercials always offer something to gag over - the Pepsi spots featuring the teen bimbo pop singer of the moment; the beer ads that pretend to make fun of sexist t-and-a beer ads by, well, showing lots of t-and-a.
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The (socially mandated) dance-unit for dancing with a single specific partner in a formal Argentine Tango dance, also known as a Milonga. Specifically, a group of three or four songs that have some commonality (orchestra, music style, etc) the ending of which is indicated by a snippet of music (known as the "cortina") that is not intended to be danced to (but rebels will). Yes, some DJs play tandas at informal dances (aka "Practica") but that's just plain wrong for various reasons left as an exercise for the reader. To stop dancing with this partner before the tanda is complete is considered rude and unacceptable unless you have a compelling reason. Pleading sudden nasea usually works.
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a way to talk about T & A but make it sound like you are actually talking about something
over the weekend i went out and found tanda both nights and i already have tanda lined up for friday and saturday, i also might go out a few nights during the week for some tanda.....ITS TANDARIFIC!
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PR Newswire's Business Technology Round-up, 27 December 2012
27 Dec, 2012, 14:00 GMT
LONDON, December 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
'Swapviva' app launched, new LG laser TV to hit the market and NQ Mobile celebrates double-entry in apps shortlist
Smartphone and tablet users looking for somewhere to list any of their unwanted Christmas presents for sale have a brand new alternative to the likes of Craigslist and eBay. Swapviva, an app launched recently in Seattle, lets members of its service sell or even trade items for other goods or services using the platform.
Photos and descriptions can be uploaded simply, and members will be able to offer their own unwanted items in exchange. The app, which was co-founded by brothers Mihai and Alex Draghici, is inspired by the television show Barter Kings and offers users a "clean app interface" for keeping their incoming and outgoing trades and transactions organised.
In another launch, LG Electronics announced the arrival of its 100-inch (diagonal) class Laser TV, which is to see its first public demonstration at next month's 2013 International CES.
The LG "HECTO" Laser TV, which boasts both Digital and Smart TV capabilities, creates a top-level home theatre experience using an innovative projector system which requires the lens to be placed a mere two feet away from the screen, either on the floor or ceiling. The 1080p Full HD resolution combined with a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio is just as clear in lighter rooms as it is in darkened ones.
The Laser TV also boasts integration with premium content providers such as Netflix and YouTube thanks to its built-in Wi-Fi, as well as smart connectivity that allows users to stream content from compatible devices.
Elsewhere in relation to CES 2013, a leading global provider of mobile Internet services has seen two of its products named in the top 25 apps at the Mobile Apps Showdown for the exhibition.
The two apps, NQ Mobile Security and NQ Family Guardian, are both produced by NQ Mobile and offer what the company's Chief Product Officer, Gavin Kim, describes as "cutting edge security solutions and protection for families".
NQ Mobile Security provides protection for mobile devices against viruses, malicious URLs and other potential security risks, and is described as having a 99 percent malware detection rate. NQ Family Guardian, on the other hand, carries a number of customisable features to filter, block and monitor activity on a child's smartphone.
All 25 apps in the line-up of semifinalists are selected by an expert panel with extensive knowledge in reviewing similar products.
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Thing is...Judge Dredd is everything,its a police procedural,horror,political satire,drama...Just not all of those at the same time.The series could have a similar system.You could have a horror episode,then a political episode,then a Chopper episode(just examples).
In what way?
Karl Urban has had talks according to this speel.http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/dredd/49331/judge-dredd-tv-series-karl-urban-has-had-talks
tension between street judges and SJS (I miss that!)
Get the audience on the Judge's side, then show that the Judges are sometimes the bogey man. And if the Judges are the bogey men, the SJS are the bogey men to the bogey men.
Certainly a story about human taxidermy could definitely work, because it wouldn't have to be zany. You could do it in a serious, dark and intelligent way, and in fact that is how it was done in the original comic story -- the Jacob Sardini stories only became comedies in the sequels. The original would adapt very well to the screen.
It would but part of its appeal would be lost were 'The Taxidermist' to be adapted early on. The problem is the dignified Jacob Sardini gets away with it, something I can't recall anyone else doing in the ten years 2000 AD had been going by then. Being faithful to that so soon into a TV series would undermine the Judges all-pervasive authoritarianism and rob the story of its quiet power (and some of its humour), whereas changing the ending would make Sardini just another victim of the City.
You've got me wondering about other characters who got away with it.
Quote from: sheridan on 19 May, 2017, 10:28:08 pmYou've got me wondering about other characters who got away with it. PJ spent two stints in pokey, lost his inheritance, lost his lover, lost his mayoral position and was (it appears) executed. He may have got away with individual crimes, but he certainly didn't escape justice.
You've got me wondering about other characters who got away with it. Arguments could be made for Satanus, Stan Lee, PJ Maybe... Though of those, only Satanus completely escapes the law.
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episode 1: Breaking in
It takes guts and ingenuity to break into the performing arts, and many artists find their entry points in unexpected places. Everyone's story is different. What unites the artists in this episode is that they navigate the performing arts world in ways that work for them.


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Living Museum of Dead Computers
Below are sections for each of the displays in the Living Museum of Dead Computers with the goal of writing a concise statement suitable for museum signage.
- 1 Slate Tablet*
- 2 Leroy Lettering Guide*
- 3 Slide Rule*
- 4 Mechanical Calculator*
- 5 HP Programmable Calculator
- 6 Model 15 Teletype*
- 8 Compaq Portable III*
- 9 Amstrad PCW8256*
- 11 Powerbook 100*
- 12 TRS-80 Model 100*
- 13 NeXT Cube*
- 14 Original George*
- 15 Raspberry Pi*
- 16 Apple II C*
- 17 Toshiba T1100*
- 18 Original Macintosh*
- 19 G4 Macintosh*
- 20 Indigo iMac*
- 21 Computer Memory*
- 22 Microprocessors*
- 23 Tape Storage*
- 24 Hard Drives*
- 25 Floppy Disks*
- 26 EZ 135 and Zip Drive*
- 27 Computer Networking*
- 28 Palm Pilot*
- 29 Apple Newton
- 30 iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone*
- 31 CueCat
- 32 Linux
Slate Tablet*
Inscribed by its contributor with the statement "Your new information technology may become obsolete". According to Wikipedia, the use of writing slates dates back to the 14th century, but became the primary tool in the classroom for students in the 1800s century and remained so until the 1930s, when pencil and paper became more common.
Contributed by: Rodger Gwiazdowski
Leroy Lettering Guide*
Before computer printers, many scientists turned to Leroy Lettering Guides to label axes and figures.
Contributed by: John Roberts
Slide Rule*
Before integrated circuits made pocket calculators affordable in the 1970s, students in science and engineering learned to use a slide rule to perform mathematical calculations.
On Loan from: Chris Hoogendyk
Mechanical Calculator*
The Monroe Calculator Company, founded in 1912, started out making mechanical adding machines. Electromechanical calculators, like this one, were produced through the 1960s and 1970s. This one is probably from the late 1950s and cost $595 when new. It was probably used by ecologists to calculate life tables.
HP Programmable Calculator
Contributed by: George Drake
Model 15 Teletype*
The Model 15 teletype came into service in the 1930s and was the mainstay for electronic communications during World War II. It remained in service in press agencies until the 1970s.
Contributed by: Al Woodhull
Digital Equipment Corporation was an important, early Massachusetts computer company. This computer, manufactured in 1974, this computer was still in service in the 1990's with a small paper sign taped to it saying "Please God, Keep it Running".
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
Compaq Portable III*
This 20 lb "luggable" was the closest thing to a laptop in 1987. It cost $5,000 ($10,545 in 2014 dollars) with a 20 MB hard disk. 12 MHz 80286 CPU, 640 to 2048 Kilobytes RAM. 5 and 1/4 inch floppy disk, 1.2 MB. Salmon-colored gas plasma display, 640 x 400 pixels or 25 lines by 80 characters text. Operating system: text based MS-DOS 3.31 (no GUI).
Contributed by: Eric Martz
Amstrad PCW8256*
Amstrad computers claimed a substantial part of the computer market in the UK, but were never common in the US. This model was sold as a personal word processor through Sears, but came with CP/M, BASIC, and Logo.
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
The IBM PC is perhaps the most iconic computer of all time, symbolizing the transformation from when computers moved from the backroom and office to the home. Purchased in 1983 for $4500, this computer had an 8088 processor (around 5 Mhz), 640K of RAM, and 2 160kb floppy drives.
Contributed by: William E. Bemis
Powerbook 100*
The first modern laptop computer, which set the design characteristics that would define the industry, the Powerbook 100 has been recognized as the one of the most transformative computers of all time.
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
TRS-80 Model 100*
The Model 100 version of the classic TRS-80 set the standard for mobile computing for a generation. It was still in service -- and in demand -- 20 years later for journalists and scientists working in remote areas due to its ability to use retail batteries (D-cells) and communicate reliably through simple telephony. The Microsoft BASIC interpreter is reputed to be the last code that Bill Gates personally worked on.
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
NeXT Cube*
After Steve Jobs left Apple, he started NeXT to build high-end workstations. Early models had neither a floppy nor a hard-drive and, instead, used an odd magneto-optical disk. NeXT was ultimately purchased by Apple and its operating system formed the basis of MacOS X. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wild Web, used a NeXT computer which became the first web server.
Contributed by: Brett Longworth
Original George*
Before desktop computers were available on the mass market, George Drake created computers for word processing in the Biology Department. Although the computers have all been lost to time, this one keyboard remains.
Contributed by: George Drake
Raspberry Pi*
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. (Statement from Wikipedia). They're widely used here for digital signage.
Contributed by: Biology Department
Apple II C*
Released shortly after the Macintosh computer, this fourth revision of the Apple II computer was intended to be compact and portable. Aimed at novice computer users, it was less expandable than previous models, but simpler to set up and operate.
Contributed by: Joe Kunkel
Toshiba T1100*
Manufactured in 1986, Toshiba described this computer as "the world's first mass-market laptop computer". It was used for word processing for many years in the Biology Department.
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
Original Macintosh*
Released in 1984, the original Apple Macintosh broke new boundaries in Desktop computing as the first mass-market computer with a graphical user operating system.
Contributed by: Tom Hoogendyk
G4 Macintosh*
This BCRC computer was purchased in 2002 and was preserved, after the others like it were discarded, to be the last computer with OS 10.4 installed, which could also run the old Classic (MacOS 9) environment. It has been used several times (most recently in 2014) to run old applications and recover data.
Indigo iMac*
Another groundbreaking Apple computer, the iMac set a new aesthetic standard for computers, did away with proprietary connectors -- and the floppy drive. It had an atrocious -- and hated mouse termed the "hockey puck", which people found ways to work around.
Contributed by: Biology Department
Computer Memory*
Three generations of computer working memory (what we call RAM today) are displayed here. An early form was made with little ferrite donuts wrapped in wire called "core memory". Core memory arrays was very highly labor-intensive since the wires were threaded through the core by hand. To the right, the single board was the starting point for the manufacture of thin-film magnetic memory. For comparison, in the front, is a Single-Inline Memory Module (SIMM).
Microprocessors are complex integrated circuits manufactured in bulk on wafers of silicon using photolithography. This wafer of 386 processors (used in early PCs) is contrasted with a single 386 as it would have been installed.
Contributed by: Chris Woodcock
Tape Storage*
Tape storage, used principally for backup, migrated from reel-to-reel tapes to cassettes. Digital tapes were almost unknown for personal computing due to fears of the music industry that people would use them to share music which slowed adoption of the technology until it became almost irrelevant.
Hard Drives*
Mass storage has both decreased in size and increased in capacity — and shows no signs of slowing. Early drives used a magnetic drum, but quickly spinning platters were used with tiny electronic heads that float above the surface of the spinning drive, reading and writing data in a magnetic medium coating the surface.
Floppy Disks*
Floppy disks, initially as 8-inch (200 mm) media and later in 5¼-inch (133 mm) and 3½-inch (90 mm) sizes, were a ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. (From Wikipedia)
EZ 135 and Zip Drive*
As portable storage needs outgrew floppies, two companies fought for dominance in the removable storage market. Ultimately, the Iomega Zip Drive won over the Syquest EZ 135 but, in the end, flash storage (thumbdrives and cards) has displaced all of these technologies.
Contributed by: Steven D. Brewer
Computer Networking*
Behind the scenes, networking hardware quietly hums away exchanging packets and providing connectivity. Morrill has had four generations of networking: thick wire, thin wire, twisted pair, and fiber. Elsewhere on campus, a Terminal Access Unit (TAU) gave dialup speeds over the Ericsson telecom network. Also featured, an Airport Base Station and 14.4k Modem.
Palm Pilot*
The Palm Pilot was a Personal Digital Assistant. It used a stylus and a specialized alphabet, Graffiti, where most characters could be rendered using a single stroke. Initially popular with geeks, the company struggled to develop a coherent strategy and product line, and ultimately failed to compete as smartphones took their place.
Apple Newton
The Newton was Apple's pioneering first attempt at a Personal Digital Assistant. It used a stylus and offered real handwriting recognition which, after the earliest versions, were surprisingly capable. It proved too expensive, didn't capture a wide popular market, and was discontinued after only a couple of versions.
iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone*
Apple brought digital convergence to reality with the pivot to first the iPod, then the iPod Touch, and then the iPhone. (I'll put my iPhone here as soon as I'm done using it.)
Do you remember the CueCat? It was a bar-code reader that tried to be what QR codes were a generation later. Don't remember it? It was a really big deal for … about a month.
Linux went through a brief period when it was overhyped and attracted vast venture capital as many companies tried to create a desktop OS to capture the new market. The local Western Mass Linux/Unix Users received many sample copies of distributions and linux swag. RedHat still exists today but Caldera, renamed SCO, became a patent troll pursuing legal claims against other linux companies. Applixware, renamed Vistasource, still sells development tools.


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eHealth Portals and Applications
Helps you to provide successful health information exchange
Integrating patients in the care process with the portal for patients
The eHealth Patient Portal allows patients Web access to their health data and enables them to actively participate in their treatment. It allows patients to:
- Organize their own health record (incl. authorization rights)
- Access their own data
- Adapt their personal data
- Interact with physicians online
- Connect external devices and load data into the portal
Benefits at a glance
- Integrating patients into the treatment process
- Patient self-documentation
- Consent management and access overview for patients
- Connects with several home monitoring devices
- Secure and quick online communication saves time and effort
- Easy online access to treatment data, no more paper/CD records
- Reduced effort to keep personal patient data up to date as patients manage their own data
- Easy integration of prior results into the local patient record
- Stronger relationship between patients and physicians


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Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
Curbstone Press, 1994 - History - 240 pages
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José Ignacio López Vigil,Mark Fried
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Not so long ago, Pennsylvania stood unquestionably as a swing state, one presidential candidates of both major parties thought they could win.
Democratic candidates knew they had to win the state to get elected. Republican candidates knew that if they won it, they would likely be president.
Maybe Republican nominee Mitt Romney still really believes he can win Pennsylvania, but with the decision by the presidential campaigns and their affiliated super PACs to stop advertising on television in Pennsylvania after Labor Day, the state is President Barack Obama's to lose.
As a result, the Keystone State is second-tier in importance behind states such as Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and even Wisconsin, which hasn't voted for a Republican for president in even longer (1984) than Pennsylvania (1988).
The campaigns and their super PACs are advertising on television in the other states, but not here.
"It's a big, and I think somewhat unexpected surprise," said Ross Baker, Ph.D., a professor of political science at Rutgers University. "I think the feeling was there would be a real battle for Pennsylvania, but I think clearly what the polls are picking up is a lot of strength for Obama."
Republican officials did their best last week to downplay Romney's refusal to air television advertising in Pennsylvania and the decision by Republican-affiliated groups to stop their commercials here on his behalf. The Republican departure prompted President Obama's super PAC to leave. The president's campaign stopped airing ads here at the end of July.
Nonetheless, Gov. Tom Corbett and U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey flatly predicted Romney will win the state.
"Any people out there ... asserting that a one-size-fits-all campaign effort or that advertising dollars on TV are the only factors in this campaign (are) simply misinformed," Corbett said during a conference call last week.
He could end up right, but Obama is in the driver's seat, according to polls that still have him well ahead despite summer months of commercials battling between Obama's campaign, Romney and their respective super PACs. Super PACs are political action committees not directly affiliated with the campaigns that are allowed to raise and spend campaign money without restrictions.
On local broadcast and cable television, three super PACs backing Romney spent $702,229 on 3,080 commercials, according to records at the stations. The three super PACs were Crossroads GPS, affiliated with former senior adviser to President Bush, Karl Rove; Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaire corporate titan David H. Koch; and Restore Our Future, run by former Romney campaign aides.
By comparison, Obama's campaign itself and a super PAC run by former Obama campaign officials, Priorities USA Action, spent $1,084,682 on 5,026 commercials, according to the records.
Perhaps more tellingly, Romney's campaign committee itself has spent nothing on campaign commercials in the state since the primary election April 24. By this time in 2008, Sen. John McCain's campaign had aired $687,578 worth of ads, almost as much as the Republican super PACs this time around.
The Republican advertising retreat is perhaps understandable in the context of before-and-after polls.
The first post-Pennsylvania primary poll had Obama up by 8 percentage points. The last two in August had him up 9 points.
After all that advertising, little changed.
Unless the state race tightens, one other fact of life in recent presidential elections will likely change: no major visits by the presidential campaigns here. Presidential and vice presidential candidates visited Northeast Pennsylvania repeatedly during the 2000, 2004 and 2008 campaigns, but the most recent this year was Vice President Joseph Biden in July.
Kate Meriwether, a spokesman for the Romney campaign in Pennsylvania, dismissed suggestions the campaign is giving up on Pennsylvania, saying that is "absolutely false." Many of the states where the campaigns are advertising, unlike Pennsylvania, allow early voting, she said.
Here, she and other Republicans said, the campaign is focused on its grass-roots effort - contacting voters, persuading them to back Romney and compiling lists of supporters to get to polls on Election Day.
The Romney campaign has two dozen offices across the state with 65 paid staffers whose effort so far is vastly superior to McCain's.
State Republican Party chairman Rob Gleason offered a similar argument about grass roots, but acknowledged Romney is suffering from months of advertising by the Obama camp that portrayed him negatively.
"As he continues to campaign, that starts to wear off and wear thin and the economy has gotten worse, not better. People are plainly frustrated, worried and they cannot find work and I think in the final analysis when they go into the polling booth ... they're going to vote for Mitt Romney," he said.
Still, Gleason sounded frustrated by the lack of Romney campaign commercials.
"If it was my decision, we'd be spending $9 million or $10 million on advertising," he said. "I told those people in the Romney campaign and the national chairperson that ... polls be damned, we are poised to win," he said. "Seventy-five percent of our program is on target. The thing that isn't on target, of course, is a robust TV buy and I have reason to believe and I can't tell you what it is, that that will come sooner than later."
He declined to elaborate.
But Christopher P. Borick, Ph.D., director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, said the advertising pullout signals clearly the campaigns don't consider Pennsylvania a priority, though things could change if polls tighten up.
"Right now, if you look at Pennsylvania and its track record (of voting for Democratic presidential candidates), it doesn't engender a lot of confidence in Republican circles that the state can be won," he said.
Pointing to victories statewide by Republicans such as Corbett and Toomey, Borick said Republicans can hold out hope, but there's a reason the Romney camp is off the air.
"Put yourself in the shoes of Republican strategists," Borick said. "(They say), 'We can dump lots of cash and we can get this race closer.' But close doesn't matter in Electoral College politics."
Whoever wins Pennsylvania - by a large margin or a narrow one - gets all of its electoral votes.
If Romney must, as many believe, win Florida and Ohio, plus Virginia, North Carolina and Wisconsin, "where do you have room for Pennsylvania in there?" Borick said. "You don't."
"You can't take the risk of allocating resources to a place that may come up short and give you nothing at all," he said. "That's where they're at right now. It's not that there isn't any chance here, it's just that it's not worth the risk."


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With bold move for Turner, Pacers send message to Heat: We're coming
There's long been a sense around the NBA that wing man Evan Turner might be much better off as a player if he were anywhere except Philadelphia. He was the No. 2 pick in the 2010 draft and, despite some solid numbers in four years with the Sixers, he never came close to living up to expectations-and he felt the brunt of that perception.
Even Turner himself sounded ready to try out a new location earlier this month when he told me, "When it came down to it, I got blamed for dang near everything. I wasn't this, I wasn't that. You become insecure about it."
MORE: Turner traded to Pacers for Granger | Miller traded to Wizards | George, Hibbert at All-Star Weekend
If Turner is the classic example of a guy who can do much more as a complementary player on a good team than as a star player on a bad team-that's how most scouts view him-he will now get his chance. The Pacers pulled a stunner on Thursday just ahead of the league's trading deadline, sending away veteran small forward Danny Granger to the Sixers and acquiring Turner and big man Lavoy Allen, as Yahoo! Sports reported.
Make no mistake, though-if Turner is to be a role player with the Pacers, it will be a sizable role. He is not just expected to go to Indiana and round out the bench. He will be expected to be a key piece in pushing the Pacers past the Heat, the three-time defending East champs.
First, Turner will allow the Pacers to play small at times, matching up with teams that use quick lineups. They can have Paul George at power forward, with Turner and Lance Stephenson on the wings and George Hill at point guard. That will be a wrinkle that could help the Pacers combat the small lineups teams sometimes use to neutralize center Roy Hibbert.
More important, though, is Turner's ballhandling. He is capable of running the team from a point forward spot, and while Hill and C.J Watson have the point guard spot covered, Indiana was clearly worried about the way that the Heat can play pressure defense and force turnovers. In their seven-game conference finals series against Miami last year, the Pacers simply coughed up the ball too often, closing with 17, 18 and 20 turnovers in the final three games.
And then there's the bigger overall message that the Pacers sent with this move, one directed squarely at Miami: We're coming.
The Heat were quiet on the day of the deadline, creating a roster spot by trading away Roger Mason Jr., but nothing else. Meanwhile, in the last month, the Pacers have added two big men-Andrew Bynum and the underrated Allen-as well as Turner.
Over the course of the last year, the Heat have added … well, what exactly? Michael Beasley? Greg Oden? These are not the kinds of transactions that strike fear in any Eastern Conference hearts, particularly not the Pacers.
Turner-with Bynum, Allen and offseason additions Watson and Luis Scola-should be cause for plenty of concern on South Beach. The Heat and Pacers have twice played in the postseason in the last two years, and Miami holds an 8-5 advantage. But Indiana has been steadily chipping away at the Heat's advantages, improving the roster from the outside as its young talent has blossomed from within.
Turner could prove to be the final piece, the versatile wing the Pacers need to deal with the Heat's pressure D and small lineups. He is finally out of Philadelphia where, as he said, the focus was always on what he was not. The Pacers will be happy to focus on what Turner is.


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Bladder Cancer in Dogs
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Our 10 year old Sheltie was just diagnosed with bladder cancer. The tumor appears to be about 1 1/2" and is located near the opening of the urethra. The bladder appears to be abnormally shaped. Could you possibly outline the likely treatment options?
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Unfortunately, most bladder tumors are not diagnosed until they have become too large, or are in a location where surgery is not a treatment option. Treatment efforts are aimed at controlling the clinical signs (such as straining to urinate, blood in the urine, etc.) for as long as possible (which usually means months, rather than years).
The traditional chemotherapy drugs such as Adriamycin and Cytoxan, or cisplatin are the standard treatment for this tumor. These drugs do have some effectiveness in controlling bladder tumors. A newer approach uses a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug called piroxicam (tradename Feldene, which is similar to drugs like ibuprofen) which has shown anti-tumor effects against transitional cell carcinoma, as well as decreasing inflammation associated with the tumor.
Additionally, your dog should be evaluated for the presence of a urinary tract infection (urinalysis, culture and sensitivity) and treated with antibiotics as needed. Kidney function should be monitored periodically as well (via blood chemistries).
Each of the mentioned treatments has certain manageable risks, which must be weighed against potential benefits and your dog's overall health. These should be discussed with your veterinarian or veterinary oncologist, along with any other questions or concerns you may have.
If you or your veterinarian have not already done so, please consult a qualified veterinary oncologist to further explore the treatment options for your pet.


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Transfer Updates and Custom Leagues for Football Manager 2013
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.


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Raiffeissen Bank International and ING Bank are the mandated lead arrangers for the deal, which follows Lukerg Renew's acquisition of the operational Gebeleisis wind farm from Vestas in a EUR 109.2 million deal last year .
Alongside Gebeleisis, Lukerg Renew also owns the 82MW Topolog wind farm in Romania, which will shortly see capacity expanded to 84MW. In Bulgaria, the two partners own the 14MW Hrabrovo wind farm — also acquired from Vestas last year — and the 40MW Cavarna wind farm.
Regulatory uncertainty and reduced subsidies in both Romania and Bulgaria, respectively with cumulative wind capacity at end-2013 of 2605MW and 677MW, have meant Lukerg Renew and other market participants have largely put growth plans in these markets on hold.
However, Erg Renew CEO Massimo Derchi said recently that further growth could be possible in both Bulgaria and Romania should their market frameworks stabilise.
Lukerg has also begun evaluating the Russian market, although a local content requirement is among hurdles to investments there. Elsewhere in eastern Europe, Erg Renew is also considering Polish wind investments outside of the framework of the joint venture.


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pycscope is a python script that generates a cscope index of Python
source trees.
pycscope uses Python's own parser and AST to generate the index, so it
is a bit more accurate than plain cscope.
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Have you ever created a PowerPoint or Word file that was so huge, that you couldn't upload it to a website, or email it to someone because it exceeded a file size limit (Or you could, but it took forever)?
Did you know that with just a couple of clicks, you can drastically reduce the size of your file without any noticeable difference in quality?
Why does this happen?
One of the most common reasons that these file sizes get out of control is that you have huge photos which haven't been resized appropriately. You just drop images onto the page, and drag a corner to resize them, right? Well the Office application apparently keeps the entire image around in case you want to make it bigger again. (The same thing applies to websites – if you upload a humongous photo, and just tell the page to display it small, it is still loading that humongous photo!)
What can you do to fix it?
Fortunately Word and PowerPoint have a nifty feature to compress all the images in the document.
Click on any picture in the file. Then click the "Format" tab near the top right of the menu. With the Format menu displayed, click on "Compress Pictures".
You'll get the Compress Pictures popup box. You will want to keep the "Apply to selected pictures only" UNCHECKED, so that you only have to do this once! You can just click OK to start the compression, or you can click the Options button to choose your options.
The options allow you to choose how much to compress the images – whether for print, screen, or email (smallest size). I'd suggest starting with Email, and if you notice an unacceptable quality of the final file, then you can undo and choose to compress for print or screen.
Before you save it, take a look at the size of the file. Then save, and look at the size of the file again – it should be much smaller, depending on the number of photos and how big they were to start with. I've seen reductions of 80-90% quite often.
This technique addresses only one potential cause of huge files – read this article to find out about several other causes and what to do about them: [Reduce the size of your PowerPoint files].


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7 Powerful Plugins to Repair Video Artifacts that threaten to ruin your next video
We know that many DTG readers are involved in video ... from small, short vignettes on their DSLR to the big-time production jobs. Well, chances are, there will be some noise and graphic artifacts that threaten to spoil the takes. No more with Cleaer for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion. May 18, 2015


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I don't think there will be many performances remaining in this test to change the XI.
Here's my Ashes XI, and there aren't many Aussies:
1. Cook
2. Strauss (c)
3. Trott
4. Pietersen
5. Hussey
6. Bell
7. Haddin
8. Swann
9. Siddle
10. Tremlett
11. Anderson
12. Harris
A few tough selections. The first was Strauss over Watson. Watson, probably has been more consistent and has two half centuries, but so does Strauss who also has a century. So in the end he has to get the nod.
The other tough selection was Haddin. He probably hasn't kept as well as Prior, but he has batted much better. Haddin's innings in Brisbane was fabulous, he also batted well in Perth.
Only two Australian bowlers average under 30 so it wasn't hard to decide the bowlers. Siddle had to be in, despite only getting one wicket in two tests, in Brisbane and Melbourne he bowled super. Anderson & Tremlett were easy choices, and the other decision was between Swann and Johnson, both have bowled their teams to victory, however, in the matches they didn't Swann has easily bowled better than Johnson.


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Today was Lucas' 7th birthday and rather low key but yesterday we
had a little birthday bash. Just a couple friends, but a rowdy water balloon
fight that included getting me wet.
Love this picture of him! Not so much of me, but it's not too often
I get to appear in pictures too so I'll take it!
You are a sweetheart! Your toothless grin melts my heart. It is a sweet sign that you are indeed growing up. I'm so grateful that you still love to give and receive hugs and kisses. So, I'll give you as many as I can now. You are starting to be a big help with your brother and I love how you desire to be daddy's right handyman. You are so inquisitive. Your mind goes 1,000 miles a minute, but that definitely makes you who you are. You amaze me almost everyday with some fact, usually math, that you share with us. It's a gift from God. It certainly isn't anything we have done.
He has given you a mind that easily grasps certain concepts and I can't wait to see how the
Lord uses that in your life. You thrive on being silly and you have the most awesome dance moves!
I love you, buddy, with all my being. I am blessed to be your momma.
Happy Birthday, Big Guy!


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Forty five years ago, Nov. 7, 1967, a young U.S. Air Force pilot Capt. Lance Sijan, met what would ultimately be his final journey as his plane went down over Vietnam. Without food or water he heroically evaded capture for six weeks, but on Christmas Day exhausted, he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. Although severely weakened, he again escaped only a few days later but was soon recaptured. His strong will to continue fighting and resisting the enemy while a Prisoner of War, even while being tortured, made his life an example of leadership and the Warrior Ethos that continues to be recognized by the United States Air Force Academy and throughout the armed forces. Sijan's military bearing, conduct and heroic action earned him the Medal of Honor and the eternal gratitude of his country.
In Colorado Springs, Colorado an impressive portrait pays tribute to Sijan. Painted by Maxine McCaffrey, the original artwork is displayed at the United States Air Force Academy's Sijan Hall and seen daily by thousands of cadets. A replica of the painting hangs in Arnold Hall where tens of thousands of visitors to the academy learn about Sijan's example of courage and valor. Sijan's legacy of service is also carried on throughout the United States Air Force through the Lance P. Sijan USAF Leadership Award which recognizes outstanding Airmen who have demonstrated the highest qualities of leadership in their jobs and in their personal lives. Likewise, Sijan's high school in Milwaukee set up a scholarship in his honor, presented each year to the student who best exemplifies Sijan's service and leadership. A nearby park, Sijan Playfield, is dedicated to his courage and sacrifice. Milwaukee's Serbian community honors him with a memorial on the grounds of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral. A replica of his F-4 Phantom jet fighter plane is displayed in front of the 440th Air Force Reserve at Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport, painted in the same color scheme as the one he flew in Vietnam.
This inspiring image of Sijan is also the centerpiece of the new website, Team Sijan, developed by Lance's sister, Janine Sijan-Rozina. TeamSijan.Com was established to preserve Lance's legacy as Sijan-Rozina explains, "At a time when honor, courage, commitment, and integrity are fading from the forefront of public consciousness, Team Sijan is being created to celebrate these ideals once again."
Sijan's name appears on Panel 29E, Row 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and Memorial Day 2012, his spirit was present at the launch of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the war. Sijan-Rozina represented both her family and all Gold Star families whose loved ones were killed in combat or died while a Prisoner of War, as her brother did, and was joined by The Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden.
Mick Kicklighter, Director of the United States of America Vietnam, a two-tour Vietnam veteran and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General said, "we were honored to have Janine join us as we remembered Lance and all our Vietnam veterans, and their families for their service, sacrifice and valor. No one knows the cost of freedom more than our Gold Star Families. Janine and others who laid wreaths on Memorial Day represented the families and friends of the more than 58,000 heroes whose names are forever enshrined on The Wall."
Born and raised in Bay View, along Milwaukee's Southside, Sijan was a star athlete, student leader and scholar. He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1965 and went on to pilot flight training. He trained to fly the F-4 Phantom and joined the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at Da Nang Air Force Base, Vietnam in July 1967. By late October, Sijan had completed 52 combat missions. He had completed an evaluation flight for an "upgrade-in-theatre" on his 44th mission. He then spent a five-day rest and recuperation in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sijan's first flight, after returning from Bangkok, was scheduled for Nov. 9, 1967. His pilot was squadron commander, Col. John Armstrong. A West Point graduate, Armstrong was a demanding and professional pilot who had experienced his first combat flying F-86 Sabers in Korea. The mission included two F-4s, call signs AWOL-1 and AWOL-2 and had a scheduled takeoff of 2000. The mission was to attack a river crossing of the Ho Chi Minh trail called Ban Loboy Ford.
During the attack, AWOL-1, Sijan's aircraft exploded as Sijan ejected. The rescue process involved over 140 aircraft participating in the three-day long, yet unsuccessful rescue attempt. Seven allied aircraft sustained heavy battle damage and one, an A-1E Sandy, was lost.
Christmas morning of 1967, 46 days after he ejected from his F-4, Sijan collapsed unconscious in an open area just three miles from where he had landed. Within hours, a passing North Vietnamese convoy discovered him and took him to a roadside camp. Rendering little medical aid, his captors replaced his tattered flight suit with the typical Vietnamese uniform, resembling black pajamas. After regaining consciousness, Sijan was provided some food and water. After three days and some rest Sijan regained enough strength to overpower his guard and escape back into the jungle.
A few hours later and less than a half-mile away, Sijan heard alarm whistles and shouts and was recaptured. He was taken by truck to the Bamboo Prison, located near Vinh, arriving Jan. 1, 1968 and soon was transferred to the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." Jan. 22, 1968, after ten days in the Hanoi prison, Sijan died. He remained listed as Missing In Action for nearly 7 years and his family did not learn of his fate until the surviving prisoners returned in 1973. One surviving prisoner, Maj. Robert Craner, nominated Sijan for the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was approved, making Sijan the first U.S. Air Force Academy Graduate to earn our nation's highest award for valor.
The Medal of Honor Citation that was presented with his medal by President Gerald Ford is quoted below:
The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR to Lance P. Sijan, Captain, U.S. Air Force.
Major Lance Sijan's Medal of Honor Citation: While on a flight over North Vietnam, Capt. Sijan ejected from his disabled aircraft and successfully evaded capture for more than 6 weeks. During this time, he was seriously injured and suffered from shock and extreme weight loss due to lack of food. After being captured by North Vietnamese soldiers, Capt. Sijan was taken to a holding point for subsequent transfer to a prisoner of war camp. In his emaciated and crippled condition, he overpowered 1 of his guards and crawled into the jungle, only to be recaptured after several hours. He was then transferred to another prison camp where he was kept in solitary confinement and interrogated at length. During interrogation, he was severely tortured; however, he did not divulge any information to his captors. Capt. Sijan lapsed into delirium and was placed in the care of another prisoner. During his intermittent periods of consciousness until his death, he never complained of his physical condition and, on several occasions, spoke of future escape attempts. Capt. Sijan's extraordinary heroism and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty at the cost of his life are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. Armed Forces.
Gerald Ford, President of the United States
Sijan's legacy of service lives on thanks to his family and the United States Air Force award that bears his name. To learn more about the heroism and life of Sijan and the Vietnam War Commemoration visit the following websites:
United States Vietnam War Commemoration
Team Sijan -
USAF National Museum – Unbroken Will – the Lance Sijan Story
Lance Sijan at Vietnam Veterans Memorial –
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Mikkey Dee Video now online!!
Mikkey Dee Video now online!!
We are proud to announce a new video that features MIKKEY DEE (Motörhead) talking about his All-New Signature Series Snare Drum!!
Mikkey, best known as the Drum-Powerhouse for Rock'n Roll's loudest live-band: Motörhead, has been part of the SONOR family of artists for more than 30 years. After filling the drum throne for artists such as King Diamond & Dokken and having appeared on numerous recordings, Mikkey joined Motörhead in the early 90's. His style, both unique and powerful is recognized as the key ingredient to Motörhead's thunderous sound!
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- 14" x 7.25" Shell Size
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Video Series - New Product Discoveries with Randall Restle
Electronics and technology continue to become more and more important in our society and Digi-Key's mission is to expand the industry's broadest inventory to keep up with the new demand. As the head of our Applications Engineering area, I get to preview some of the "hottest" products and get exposure to the "coolest" new technologies. Then I thought to myself, "How could I share these innovative products with the EE community?" To answer that question, this week I'm starting a video series called New Product Discoveries with Randall Restle.
Every other week, I'll feature one or two new and innovative products that I think are worth highlighting and that I hope you'll find interesting enough to want to come back and check out other videos. These are products and technologies that I think engineers and Maker-Pros should know more about. There's no supplier dollars backing these selections – just my thoughts from one tech junkie to another.
Following my videos, we'll also feature some of our industry-leading technical resources demonstrating how to use these products for specific projects. Then, they'll also be doing some advanced troubleshooting on potential issues that they've seen occur and providing additional useful information.
The goal of this video series is to try and give you the best information and education on parts, products and technologies to help you be the finest engineer or maker possible. Happy Tinkering and I look forward to sharing this series with you.


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The best things in life are free and the free things in life are the best -- especially if you're broke as a joke or just hate wasting money. The Bay Area is a wonderfully resourceful place to find free things to do. Today, Sunday July 13th, you can go check out the new Frida Kahlo exhibit at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for free, and it is just one of the many wonderful free things to do in the Bay Area this summer.
First Tuesdays of the month are when most (not all -- so always check in advance) major SF museums host free days. On July 1st, the most recent free first Tuesday at MoMA, I headed over in the hopes of catching both the general museum exhibits (which are highly recommended) and the recently opened one of Frida Kahlo's work (thru Sep 28), which spans the famed Mexican artist's career and also includes her own collection of photographs, most of which have never been displayed before.
When I arrived at the main entrance on 3rd Street, there was no cover charge and no line to get in to the general part of MoMA but the much (justifiably) hyped new Kahlo show had attracted an additional wallop of eager art fans who both had to line up (it moved fast) and pay an additional $5 (still good value) to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. I inquired about seeing Frida for free and was informed by Jean Halverson at MoMA that July 13th would be the only completely free day to see that exhibit. But be forewarned: free often comes with some kind a price, usually standing in line for a bit -- so arrive prepared, and bring a book to read or snacks to share with your friends in line. At one ridiculously long wait for a one-time only exhibit in New York, a bunch of us in the slow long line had pizza delivered.


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WORKING ON A SPECAL DAY Extends at 59E59 Through February 17
The Obie Award-winning The Play Company (INVASION!, ENJOY), in collaboration with Mexico City-based Por Piedad Teatro, proudly announce that the U.S. premiere of the play WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY has extended through February 17, 2013 at 59E59 Theaters (59 E. 59 St.) in Manhattan.
WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY is inspired by Ettore Scola's Una Giornata Particolare, a 1977 Oscar-nominated Italian film starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, and the subsequent play, about an overworked housewife and a mysterious bachelor who meet on May 8, 1938, the day Rome celebrated Hitler's visit to Mussolini's Italy.
Based on Una Giornata Particolare by Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari and adapted by Gigliola Fantoni, WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY is translated by Danya Taymor, Ana Graham and Antonio Vega; with an original staging concept by Laura Almela and Daniel Gimenez Cacho.
Performed in English by Mexican actors Ana Graham and Antonio Vega (who also co-direct) in a singular performance style, the actors employ simple props to create a bittersweet human drama that unfolds while a charged political landscape of rising fascism stirs outside their apartment windows.
WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY has original set and lighting design by Gabriel Pascal, sound design by Rodrigo Espinosa, costume design by Ana Graham, and scenery and lighting design adapted by David Arsenault.
WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY began previews on January 10, 2013, and opened on January 16th. This full production followed a developmental studio production, also starring Ms. Graham and Mr. Vega, that was staged last season by The Play Company and Por Piedad Teatro at The Flea. The two companies also collaborated last spring on Hecho en Mexico, a reading series introducing contemporary plays from Mexico to New York.
WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY will be performed at 59 E. 59 St. (between Park and Madison Avenues) through February 17th as follows: Tue - Thurs @7:15, Fri & Sat @8:15, Sat @ 2:15, and Sun @ 3:15.
There are two special post-performance events scheduled during the remainder of the run for WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY:
January 30: Mexican Theatre in a Violent Climate
Post-show Discussion with Mexican actor/director/producer Antonio Vega.
Mexican Theatre Creator, Antonio Vega, will discuss how Contemporary Theatre artists are responding to Mexico's current climate of violence and the impact it has on the work being produced on Mexico's stages.
February 7: Artist Talk with the Creators
Post-show Discussion with Ana Graham and Antonio Vega.
A talk with Mexican theatre artists and the creators of WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY as they share their insights into working on this very special piece. Ana is also the Artistic Director and Founder of Por Piedad Teatro. Antonio is the Literary Director of Por Piedad Teatro.
Tickets to WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY are $35.00 (PlayCo and 59E59 Membership prices are available, as are $5 Student Rush tickets). Tickets can be purchased online through www.playco.org and www.59E59.org, by phone through Ticket Central at 212-279-4200, and in-person at the 59E59 Theaters box office, located at 59 E. 59 St., between Park and Madison Avenues.
WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY is the latest production by The Play Company that features the English-language debut of a foreign play. Previously PlayCo presented the debut of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Swedish play INVASION! as well as Toshiki Okada's Japanese play ENJOY. In spring 2013, The Play Company will present the New York premiere of THE GOLDEN DRAGON by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of Europe's most produced playwrights, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses).
For more information, visit www.playco.org.Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg


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Jost Nickel added to drummerworld.com
Jost Nickel added to drummerworld.com
SONOR proudly announces that German drummer and SONOR Artist Jost Nickel is one of the latest additions to drummerworld.com.
There you can find different videos from solo performances as well as band performances. Check out Jost's exciting playing!
Further SONOR Artists on the website include Jojo Mayer, Gavin Harrison, Benny Greb, Thomas Lang & Steve Smith. Thanks to Bernhard Castiglioni and his team for putting together such a great website that every drummer around the globe should check out frequently!
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Rick Santorum's latest foe, rhetorically at least, is a politician from half a century ago: John Kennedy.
The Republican candidate for president has loudly condemned a 1960 speech in which then-Senator Kennedy outlined a limited role for religion in politics.
The cross-generational dust-up is serving as a reminder of how American attitudes about the interplay of religion and politics have evolved since President Kennedy's time.
Back then, the Democratic presidential contender's speech served to soften widespread public worries that a Roman Catholic president might be beholden to the views of a church hierarchy. Today, former Senator Santorum sees points to be scored by defending the role of faith in public life (he is also Catholic), not downplaying it.
Here's Santorum in February 2012:
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country," said Santorum in a Sunday interview on ABC News. "This is the First Amendment. The First Amendment says the free exercise of religion."
Here's Kennedy in September 1960:
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote," Kennedy said in a speech at the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.
Kennedy's comments helped his candidacy. Today, Santorum's very different comments may also work in his favor – in the Republican primary at least.
"Back in 1960, John Kennedy had to stress the distance between public life and religion," says Robert Schmuhl, a Notre Dame University expert on US politics, in an e-mail interview from London, where he is teaching this spring. For Santorum, "catering to social conservatives is one way he can appeal to an important Republican Party constituency in the primaries and caucuses."
Public concerns about whether a Catholic would make a dangerous president, while they may not have disappeared, have faded. By contrast, two-thirds of Americans today see religion as "losing influence" in US life, rather than gaining, according to a 2010 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. And many, especially among Republicans, see that as a problem.
When Kennedy was seeking the presidency, only a small minority of Americans felt that religion was "losing its influence," according to Gallup polling at the time.
The changes over the past five decades include a confluence of social and political forces. America has remained deeply religious, compared with other industrialized democracies. Yet the perception that religion is losing influence has been matched by the rise of what political analysts David Domke and Kevin Coe have called a "God strategy" in US politics.
Republican politicians, and to a lesser extent Democratic ones as well, have become more vocal about their religious faith – and have enhanced their connection with many voters as a result. They may not quite be kneeling, Tim Tebow-style, before each speech. But Mr. Domke and Mr. Coe argue in their 2008 book that Kennedy's speech conveyed "a welcome message then" that would be "almost unimaginable today."
Polls show that Americans want their leaders to be people with strong religious faith, says Greg Smith, a senior researcher at the Pew Forum.
At the same time, it's important not to overplay the cultural gap between today and 1960.
Kennedy didn't disavow all role for religion in public life, as Santorum's comments intimated. He erroneously accused Kennedy of saying "faith is not allowed in the public square."
Although Kennedy talked about "absolute" separation, his speech implied a specific definition of this in practice: No church would be dictating his decisions, and he would seek the best interest of a nation in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace."
Kennedy added this: "nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election," and he ended the speech, "so help me God."
Today, as in the 1960s, many Americans share some of the concerns Kennedy spoke to. Mr. Smith cites a 2010 Pew survey finding that 52 percent of Americans, essentially the same share of Americans as in 1968 (in a Gallup poll), say that churches should stay out of politics, rather than push their views in the political arena.
Americans "want to see that kind of influence of religious values" on their leaders, Smith says. "At the same time there's a line at which they don't want to see too much mingling of religious influence in politics."
John Green, a political scientist who tracks the role of religion, says that in 1960, the religious divide in politics was among groups such as Catholics and Protestants. Today, the divide has become more about the preferred level of religiosity in a candidate, says Mr. Green, at the University of Akron in Ohio.
Santorum appeals to many voters who favor a strong level of religiosity. That's a sizable share of Republican voters in the primary races, but a smaller share of the swing voters who would become crucial to Republican hopes in the general election.