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I think this is GREAT! If I had children today I would home teach them with my iDevices including my iPads! I bet you those kids are excited about this as well as I would be!
Hmmm. Interesting concept. But what happens if the iPad decides to throw a fit and freeze itself up or needs to be restored? I'm guessing since it's locked then the students won't be able to sync it with their own iTunes account.
And if it's dropped then that becomes one expensive bill for mom and dad if it is damaged beyond functionality.
Very excited about this hopefully I'll be able to use one in school before I graduate in 2014.
Our local public school (yes, in Mississippi) assigned MacBooks to all of the students. Middle and high school at least. The teachers got MBPs. They are all insured against damage and loss. iPads would be no different- in fact, cheaper. Not to mention the cost savings associated with no physical textbooks.
Part of me thinks this is great, but part of me thinks this is a pretty hefty expense. How long do textbooks last? I know my school in SoCal (graduated in 2003) would use the same book for at least 4-5 years. Some get used until they literally fall apart, depending. How long are these iPads going to last? I assume they are school property, but these kids are going to be busting these things like there is no tomorrow. You drop a book, too bad. You drop an iPad, that might be a $500 mistake.
Now if only my HS did this. The reason schools use textbooks for so long is because they are expensive $30+ book x 1 per student + extras and that leads to books being outdated (there are still a few sci books that say pluto is still a planet).
This will also help with the school paper problem. I save the paper from school till the end of the year and it looks like it could have been a Whole tree and that's just the paper I take home. What I hate is people that think we should not spend so much time with "useless electronics". This will be the future everything will be digitalized. I mean we are already getting there decreased physical book sales etc.
Well if they aren't TOO tech savy then i really don't see a reason why this isn't a bad idea. After All they can use then during Summer Vacations & not to mention that there's a PLETHORA of Discovery Apps for the little buggers to explore, THIS..is what i like to see MY hard earn tax dollars being used for. Nice Job Lake Minneola High School, Nice One.
I almost feel like having some sort of tethered (physically) system would be the best answer here. Students can log into a server (can be as simple as signing in at the beginning of the day). This way the physical units (be they iPads, computers, etc.) don't end up moving (far less risk of damage). Kids can buy their own iPads (or other tablet) for home use, OR they can log onto a server and get their work online.
can you imagine if the school didnt supply these lmao
when i was in school my mom was pissed when she had to buy me the $100 calculator, could you imagine if the school list had iPad lmao
i kno all my highschool text books cost about 400-600 for the full semester if i lost them, 100 calculator, 100 in supply's (pens paper binder backpack Ect) idk spend the 800 on a iPad that will do all that and last more then 1 semester worth while
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we've been pregnant for damn near a whole year- we've been through so much. lost some): and gained some(:
shared our lives with each other, cried, laughed together..
opened up to each other, bitched at each other- and there are.so.many milestones we have to reach together!!
i've gained alot through this board and im so glad i found BBC!
ya'll crazy beaches (and i say that with SOO much love) seriously put soo many smiles on my face with our shenanigans!!! i look forward to coming on here to participate in this madness..
Shout out to all my TM's.. i need friends.like you in real life.. and to the classy mamas that always let us know.how out of line were being- the board.wouldnt be complete without either of ya'll!!!
i can only hope we all can stick together even after the babies get here!!
wishing you all.a.happy and healthy remainding few weekks<3
now excuse.me- i need to go get some cunillingus (is that how you spell it? dont judge me..)

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Travolta was playing the role of a loser newspaper obituary writer before that writer became a big shot for Rolling Stone magazine. Travolta needed a desk to sit behind, so the movie's directors picked Grobaty's desk in the features department of the old Press-Telegram building at Sixth Street and Pine Avenue.
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Grobaty, my senior sidekick in the art of column writing, has been covering movie filming in Long Beach since 1997 when Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt were working on "As Good As It Gets." Each received best acting Oscar awards for the movie.
"They were cavorting around the old Windrose Restaurant, where my wife and I proposed to one another back, in 1975," Grobaty recalls in the book.
Carolyn Ruszkiewicz, then the Press-Telegram's features editor, suggested that Grobaty write a regular column on location shooting in Long Beach. Grobaty whined at first, which is his usual response to editor suggestions, but he relented, went to work - and he has since become one of the city's foremost experts on movie and television locales.
During his film reporting, Grobaty said he has seen a bus full of people explode, a man jump off the roof of a 12-story building, a flamethrower strolling through the East Village setting cars on fire and giant robots fighting it out on Seaside Way.
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A Bar Mitzvah celebrant incorporates animal rights activism as part of his big rite of passage.
Mitzvah Hero: Eli Minkoff, a 13-year-old from Elkins Park with Asperger's Syndrome, turned his recent Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Adath Jeshurun into an opportunity to spread his concern for animal rights and the environment. As his mother noted with pride, Eli not only took a stand for the causes he believed in, but also worked with family and synagogue leaders to lead the ceremony despite his aversion to crowds, a common trait among those with Asperger's, a developmental disorder on the autism spectrum.
What It's All About: A seventh-grader at the Crefeld School in Chestnut Hill, Eli has been a vegetarian since elementary school.
"It was about third grade that I began to do this," says the son of Carra and Scott Minkoff.
He doesn't like to think of animals as a food source, he explains, because "I believe in a God and I thought this could not be what God would want. I believe every animal has a soul."
He's not the only vegetarian in his family: His mother, he says proudly, chose his 11th birthday celebration to give up meat. Indeed, she and her husband worked with their son — they also have a daughter, Sydra, 9 — to adapt the Bar Mitzvah rite of passage to Eli's beliefs and serve as a teaching tool for those attending. They worked closely with Cantor Howard Glantz, whose extraordinary help they readily acknowledge.
The Minkoff basement became, says Carra, "a workshop with plaster of Paris and cloth remnants," as they made sustainable centerpieces for the Bar Mitzvah party, which were given post-event to the synagogue's catering department for future use. They also referenced phillycompost.com, which led them to compostable service items.
"Eli," adds his mother, "finds it abhorrent to wear leather — so that created challenges for donning tefillin." To that end, she worked with the synagogue's religious leader, Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom, to seek out what she calls "vegetarian tefillin," which they found offered by the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs.
Not a One-Time Thing: Being a proponent of vegetarianism and animal rights does not preclude Eli's humanitarian activism as well. He refused to wear a kipah that was not manufactured under humane factory conditions — which meant the one he donned for his Bar Mitzvah was guaranteed by its Chinese manufacturer to have been made under fair workplace conditions. His mother recalls how they once walked out of a convenience store after Eli determined "that their policies toward LGBT rights were lacking."
Good for Him: Eli's activism has certainly impacted others in his life. Even his doctor, says his mother, has now adopted nonleather shoes. He still has some differing viewpoints to conquer on the home team: His father is not a veggie — yet. "But very likely that will change," says his dad.


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why could i help you? i dont know you or care about u. what level i fight at is unimportant, as im not in the new Hobbit movie and dont fight trolls, so you are never going to come on my radar.
where do you train? whats your name for that matter? does anyone in mma know u vouch for you?
You know what scrap it mma is clearly for elite vs elite at high level and grass roots level is messed up. hoped i could of got some advise but i just get abused
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This thread is so pointless it almost has a point lol
Liam Bad Intentions James, pro mma uk featherweight!!
Another shit troll, fuck me, this place sucks lately, gonna have to leave it alone because the quality of trollage is shameful
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My work mates would like to know how much it will cost them to hire lee cage for a seminar as they are hoping to hire him as a coach to teach the local football team how to go down in the box.
Gotta agree with my coffee drinking scumbag rival there, some of the recent threads on here have been woeful
Tea Drinker for Life, but preaching tolerance for the Children of Coffee.
Dude, come back to the other place, lets kick start it off again, at least there are not shit trolls there with fucking shit stirring agenda's
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Is it virus free mate? Can't afford to have my laptop fucked up right now!
Tea Drinker for Life, but preaching tolerance for the Children of Coffee.
Dude, its less virus riddled than me...I know that means fuck all but yeah its totally clean, has been awhile now. Come on, pop over, start a thread, I will threaten to kick you in the nuts and we can take it from there?
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|Distribution: openSUSE 11.4
|Version: 2.32.1
|Vendor: openSUSE
|Release: 7.10.5
|Build date: Tue Feb 22 23:07:56 2011
|Group: System/GUI/GNOME
|Build host: build21
|Size: 158161
|Source RPM: gnome-panel-2.32.1-7.10.5.src.rpm
|Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org
|Url: http://www.gnome.org
|Summary: GNOME Panel Applet Library -- Developer Documentation
This package contains the GNOME Desktop Panel. The panel is an easy-to-use and functional interface to manage your desktop, start programs, and organize access to your data. This package contains optional documentation provided in addition to this package's base documentation.
* Thu Feb 17 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-panel-fix-applet-xinerama.patch: on a xinerama setup, applets on the second/third/etc. screens won't even start. This patch from git fixes this. - Add gnome-panel-no-bonobo-in-process.patch: remove the possibility to have in-process bonobo applets. Having in-process bonobo applets will simply break the whole gnome-panel process, which is extremely bad. So we remove this option directly from the library. Note that it breaks API, but it actually affects no package in openSUSE, as far as I know -- if it happens to do so, though, then we can just rebuild the broken package as out-of-process applet. Taken from git. * Sun Feb 13 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Call relevant macros in %post/%postun: + %desktop_database_post/postun because the package ships at least one desktop file. + %icon_theme_cache_post/postun because the package ships themed icons. - Pass %{?no_lang_C} to %find_lang so that english documentation can be packaged with the program, and not in the lang subpackage. - Change Requires of lang subpackage to Recommends, since the english documentation is not there anymore. * Wed Dec 15 2010 email@example.com - Make libpanel-applet-3-0 own /usr/share/gnome-panel and /usr/share/gnome-panel/applets as applets using this library must install a file there. * Wed Nov 17 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.32.1: + Panel: Support relocating the .gnome2 directory with an environment variable, like libgnome does + libpanel-applet: Fix build breakage caused by wrong include + Link gnome-desktop-item-edit against X libs too + Updated translations. * Wed Oct 13 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Remove libidl-devel BuildRequires: gnome-panel doesn't need it (it's actually needed as a dependency for ORBit, though, but we don't need it explicitly). * Mon Oct 11 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add libpanel-applet-3-0 to baselibs.conf. * Mon Sep 27 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 18.104.22.168: + Build panel with -export-dynamic. Else, it just fails badly at runtime - Changes from version 184.108.40.206: + Fix build with --as-needed - Changes from version 2.32.0: + Associate .gir with pkg-config file. + Updated translations. * Tue Sep 14 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.31.92: + Panel - Fix various issues where panels stay hidden on load or on addition - Do not queue load of an applet if it's already being loaded - Fix loading of bonobo applets that are already configured - Understand bonobo IID in applet_iid keys - Add back optional support for bonobo applets to gnome-panel-add - Stop using deprecated gdk_display/GDK_DISPLAY() - Prevent modules from being unloadable, which fixes a crash on logout + libpanel-applet - Fix build with gobject-introspection 0.9.5 + libpanel-applet - Stop using deprecated gdk_display + Misc - Small build fixes - Update information in README and other files - Rewrite gnome-panel man page - Explicitly link to xrandr + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-panel-fix-hidden-panel-and-applets.patch: fixed upstream. * Tue Sep 07 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gobject-introspection-devel BuildRequires to build introspection support for libpanel-applet-3. - Change old-style BuildRequires to pkgconfig() style BuildRequires: + old-style: NetworkManager-devel, dbus-1-devel, evolution-data-server-devel, gnome-desktop-devel, gnome-menus-devel, libbonoboui-devel, libcanberra-devel, libgweather-devel, librsvg-devel, libwnck-devel + new-style: NetworkManager, ORBit-2.0, cairo, dbus-glib-1, gconf-2.0, gdk-pixbuf-2.0, glib-2.0, gnome-desktop-2.0, gtk+-2.0, gweather, ice, libbonoboui-2.0, libcanberra-gtk, libedataserver-1.2, libedataserverui-1.2, libgnome-menu, librsvg-2.0, libwnck-1.0, pango, sm, x11, xau. - This will make it easier to switch to GNOME 3 libraries. * Mon Sep 06 2010 email@example.com - Add gnome-panel-fix-hidden-panel-and-applets.patch to fix several issues, with fixes I just pushed to git: + panel is hidden on first boot (bnc#637180) + newly created panels are hidden + main menu not on default panel (bnc#637130, bnc#637229) - Remove 2.x references in summaries and descriptions: the panel will still be an option in GNOME 3. * Thu Sep 02 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.31.91: + Fix build with missing dbus-glib-1 dependency. + Notification Area Applet: - Fix bugs related to GSEALing effort. + Updated translations. - Remove hack to fix the build by setting CFLAGS. * Wed Sep 01 2010 email@example.com - Fix workaround that fixes the build by adding the dbus-glib-1 flags: we also need the path to headers. * Wed Aug 18 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.31.90: + Use the polkit helper from g-s-d to set time/timezone + Updated translations. - Remove polkit-devel BuildRequires. - Require gnome-settings-daemon-polkit-datetime. * Sun Aug 08 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Cleanup update to 2.31.4. - Update to version 2.31.6: + Panel - Allow Windows key as valid mouse modifier - Update to latest gdbus API change + libpanel-applet - GSeal fixes + Workspace Switcher Applet * Fix crash in multiscreen setups + Updated translations. - Remove gnome-themes Requires: it's just wrong. - Remove gnome-control-center Recommends: there's no reason for it. - Update summaries and descriptions. - Fix license tags: the non-library code is GPLv2+, not LGPLv2.1+. - Create a bonobo-support subpackage: the support for bonobo applets is optional, and this makes it easy to remove it when possible. - Update packaging for /usr/share/gconf renaming to /usr/share/GConf. - Reintroduce gnome-panel-bnc363981-intlclock-compatibility.patch, but update it for the new way panel applets work. - Move panel-test-applets* utilities to devel subpackage, since it's really only useful for developers. - Move old fish-related images to the extras subpackage. * Thu Jul 08 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.31.4: + More GSeal fixes + Stop using deprecated GTK+ API + libpanel-applet - Update to GDBus API change - Add gobject-introspection support + Clock Applet - Add -lm when linking the clock applet + Notification Area Applet - Fix issues with old-style multiscreen setups + Misc - Make automatic detection of bonobo work in configure - Changes from version 2.31.2: + All - Provide a dbus-based applet library - Keep an optional bonobo-based applet library + Panel - Make sure that newly-created panels become unhidden + Misc - Require glib 2.25.7 - Make orbit and bonobo dependencies optional + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-panel-bnc363981-intlclock-compatibility.patch, as the change away from bonobo obsoletes this. * Fri Jun 04 2010 email@example.com - fix baselibs.conf for the previous change * Sun May 23 2010 email@example.com - Split off libpanel-applet-2-0 subpackage * Sat Apr 24 2010 email@example.com - buildrequire pkg-config to fix provides * Tue Mar 30 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.30.0: + Updated translations. * Fri Mar 12 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 184.108.40.206: + Panel: Fix crash when using the main menu + Misc: Add configure summary + Updated translations. * Tue Mar 09 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.92: + Panel: - Display GenericName in tooltip if there's no Comment - Fix applet right-sticking on screen resolution change - Make email addresses hyperlinks in about dialog - Use special XDG directory icon names + All Applets: - Build with latest GSeal'ed GTK+ + Clock Applet: - Fix wrong string in documentation - Use icon fallbacks if the theme does not include phases of moon - Validate input in add location dialog + Notification Area Applet: - Make location of standard status icons predictable + Updated translations. * Mon Feb 22 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.91: + Panel - Add X-GNOME-AutoRestart to desktop file + Clock Applet - Make sunrise/sunset and other times follow the 12/24h preference + Updated translations. * Wed Jan 27 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.6: + Panel - Load applets in a high-priority idle loop on startup - Build fix + Clock Applet - Updated documentation + Updated translations. * Fri Jan 15 2010 email@example.com - Do not package en@shaw locale on openSUSE 11.2 and earlier. * Fri Jan 15 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Remove libgnomeui-devel BuildRequires. - Fix self-obsoletion of intlclock. * Fri Jan 15 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 22.214.171.124: + Panel - Update latest EggSMClient code, which requires no panel-specific patch - Fix potential crash when creating a launcher with drag and drop - Make sure to initialize bonobo + Clock Applet - Avoid unnecessary wakeups when monitoring non-existing timezone files + Misc - Require gnome-desktop >= 2.24.0 + Translation updates * Thu Jan 14 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.5: + Panel - Use a native window for PanelWidget to fix uglyness on unhide - Fix crashes in various conditions with the new randr code - Fix important regression in very important code - Fix crash with malicious .gtk-bookmarks - Impose a limit on the size of the bookmarks file - Port code away from libgnome and libgnomeui - Do not add (deprecated) Encoding key when creating desktop files + Clock Applet - Remove hack for gravity that was needed with earlier pango - Check errors returned by PolicyKit - Deprecate gmt_time gconf key + Misc - Build fixes - Remove dependency on libgnome and libgnomeui - Add configure check for libcanberra-gtk - Add configure check for ice and sm (X libraries) + Translation updates - Add libcanberra-devel to BuildRequires. - Remove gnome-panel-fix-ugly-unhide.patch. 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The tragedy of teen suicide is getting the attention of lawmakers this year and it appears several bills might succeed in addressing the growing epidemic.
But the response is coming a year later than it should have, since Rep. Steve Eliason's bill in 2012 to direct school districts to educate parents on warning signs of suicide was killed in the Utah Senate because of petty politics.
The Sandy Republican's bill would have required school districts to develop an educational program and conduct an annual voluntary seminar that parents could attend to help them detect signs of suicidal tendencies in a child. Part of the seminar would address the issue of bullying.
His bill passed the House overwhelmingly, but it was amended in the Senate to include sex education in the seminar for parents.
The amendment was dripping with political hubris because of resentment by Republican leaders over the criticism they received from a bill that would have basically done away with meaningful sex education in the schools.
Gov. Gary Herbert withstood threats from the Eagle Forum and other right-wing groups that harbor disdain for sex-ed programs and vetoed the bill.
The Senate decided to enhance Eliason's suicide-prevention intent with the sex-ed component as a political statement against anyone daring to question the wisdom of its leadership.
The House, after much mocking of the amendment, took it out and sent the bill back to the Senate. But when senators initially passed the bill, then-Senate President Michael Waddoups voted no and made statements that persuaded two senators to change their votes, thus killing the bill.
Since then, there have been more teen suicides, leaving distraught parents who had no idea there was a problem wondering what could have been done.
This year, the alarm bell has gone off and a bipartisan effort is afoot to do what the Legislature should have done last year.
Sen. Luz Robles, D-Salt Lake, and Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, held a press conference Thursday with the families of teen suicide victims to promote their bills that would require schools to notify parents of bullying or suicide threats.
Eliason has reintroduced his bill to provide suicide-prevention education for parents and it seems to be on the way to passage. A good sign for the bill is that its Senate sponsor last year was Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, who has replaced Waddoups as the Senate president.
Another Eliason bill would establish a State Office of Education suicide-prevention coordinator to oversee school district and charter school youth suicide prevention programs and an additional state suicide prevention coordinator through the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.
Eliason said he wants a statewide prevention program following the model of Provo School District, which hasn't had a student suicide since the program was adopted in 2005.
Robles' bill easily passed through a Senate committee, but Froerer's bill was held by the House Education Committee, although there are signs it eventually will pass with some tweaking.
One member of the House Education committee wondered aloud if the issue would better be handled by the school districts, but Eliason said the districts have not carried the ball, and only about one-fifth of school districts nationwide have adopted a suicide-prevention program.
Davis County School Board member Peter Cannon agreed at the committee hearing that school districts were better equipped to address the issue than the Legislature.
But once, during a school board meeting, Cannon suggested that students on the subsidized lunch program be given lunch tickets in a different color, which obviously would humiliate low-income students and make them vulnerable to bullying.


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So, since we're all in the waiting to O (ovulation) phase, let's play a game to help pass the time.
Here are the rules.
I'll start with a single word. The next person to comment says the first single word that pops into their head based on my word. The next commenter says the first word to pop into their head based on the previous commenter's word, and so on.
And yes, only ONE word. lol.
And my word is "Flower"


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McKee, Alan (2003) Postscript. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 17(1), pp. 110-112.
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'Yet Connolly, also a center, was the Islanders first pick (fifth overall) in the 1999 entry draft, and is projected to be a good-to-very-good player in the NHL now and for many years to come. Pyatt, already in the NHL at age 19, is a prototype power winger and went eighth in that same draft. A big left winger is something the Sabres definitely needed.'
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Home Depot Breach May Be Bigger Than Target's
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(NEWSER) – If you shrugged off the recent celebrity hack of private photos, along with the massive Target breach last year, here's one more punch: Home Depot is investigating a potential breach of customer data from credit and debit cards, reports Reuters.
The scoop originally came from Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, who reports that most if not all 2,200 US stores were affected and that the breach may go back to April of this year. If so, "this breach could be many times larger than Target, which had 40 million credit and debit cards stolen over a three-week period," he writes.
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Good, better for us consumers
That's not good I need better service and AT&T it the only wireless company I like
This is horrible, the merger would have been a great step forward for setting the standard for wireless phones! I have AT&T and work for sprint, what does that tell you
Excellent, EXCELLENT news. The leviathan that would have been a GSM monopoly is slain.
Does this mean T-Mo will see the end of 2015 as a single company? Unlikely, IMO. They've still got a ton of deep-seeded problems, starting with "we need more subscribers" and "our frequency bands are incredibly uncommon."
For those of you bemoaning the loss of extra AT&T towers, I respectfully ask: AT&T already has a bazillion towers, and in many well-publicized cases, does not manage them very well. What would make AT&T better manage another bazillion towers (plus ~30 million customers)?
EDIT: While the FCC case has been withdrawn, the DOJ/anti-trust cases have not, and the press release states the sale is still intended to go through. Too early to be celebrating, apparently.
Must I remind many of you that there are still lots of areas that AT&T only has Edge and not 3G and certainly not 4G. Yet I pay the same price I am billed the same amount as those on 4G. I am glad the T-Mobile merger didn't go through but I do wish we had more towers. When my contract ends I am going to Verizon if AT&T still has no 3G here.
TMO may not sell to AT&T but they also won't remain independent. Deutche Telecom wants out of the US. Maybe Apple should buy
What's interesting is Tmobile used to be decent
I see trouble for current Tmobile customers
1. recently hitting Iphone users and other smartphones with Huge fees for trying to use the service with Data or without
2. Iphone can only be used with Edge........... so I read
3. Very poor coverage compared to AT&t, Verizon and Sprint
Explain to me how is this better? With Tmobile being the last major without Iphone and then only Edge Data, two cups and string is better at times
Ok, I am not sure where everyone is getting better coverage on AT&T than T-Mobile, I have both (AT&T for work and T-Mobile for personal) and I have to say that I often have coverage (3G or better) with T-Mobile, even when AT&T has no coverage at all.I have to say that overall this is great news for the consumers and the economy, by merging with AT&T, I would imagine that at least 90% of T-Mobile staff (because they are much better) would be laid off.As for the data recently hitting iPhone users, all they have to do is call customer service, they will reverse the charges and block data. When we were still being charged for data, they even set up the account to automatically reverse all data charges. Try getting that service with AT&T.As for only being on Edge, T-Mobile's edge is faster that AT&T's 3G these days in my area, which is sad, but true.


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I love sunshine. I love summer. I dislike snow, especially how much snow we've had this winter. That's partly because I spent my last winter in California, where it was 80 degrees in January and I laid out in the sun. Yesterday it got up to 48 degrees, I think, and it had me wishing for Spring so badly! I can't take ANY more snow!! I just want to wear my cute new swim suit and lay out in the sun!
So sometimes, when my desire for summer just gets to be too much, I pull out my favorite shorts and a summery t-shirt, turn up the heat and sit around in them.
Not sure if it helped.
Dear warm weather,
Please come soon. Melt all the snow. Gimme those Western endless blue skies.
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State Senator asks Attorney General Alan Wilson to weigh in on Daniel Island secession
From our News Partners at WCBD-TV:
Secession is now a hot topic on Daniel Island, as islanders consider moving from Berkeley County to Charleston County. State Senator Larry Grooms says he has asked South Carolina's Attorney General to weigh in on the issue.
Do It Yourself Frozen yogurt owner Damon Pennington says talk of secession has him a bit concerned for his Daniel Island business. "I've heard a lot of things about Berkeley County taxes or Charleston County taxes and it just does concern me as a business owner. I do want to know what's going on, what's happening and how it can affect my business."
He plans to attend tonight's announcement and meeting about secession.
He is not alone when it comes to concerns about what happens next.
State Senator Larry Grooms represents Daniel Island in the SC Statehouse. He says the people have a right to address grievances with their elected officials. "If they can't be addressed, the state constitution does have a provision that allows a section of one county to secede to another county."
A major issue leading some to seek a move to Charleston County is schools. But Senator Grooms says he is not certain the school district would automatically change if the county lines change.
He is asking for clarification from SC attorney General Alan Wilson. "But the provision in our constitution just speaks to changing county boundary lines and so I've asked the attorney general to give an opinion as to whether the district lines for the school district would also have to be changed if the procedure is followed by the constitution to the letter of the law with the voters of Daniel Island and Charleston County."
If a petition is signed by 10% of registered voters on Daniel Island, then that starts the process toward deciding whether islanders want to secede.
Grooms says the next step would be, "an election will be held on Daniel Island and if two thirds of the voters decide to move to Charleston County and then if the majority of those in Charleston County decide to except Daniel Island, (it) then goes to the legislature."
If the legislature cannot come to agreement, courts could eventually get involved.
Tonight's announcement and question/answer session takes place at 7pm at Bishop England High School.
Senator Grooms says he expects to hear back from Attorney General Wilson in a couple of weeks.
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Barium enema is a special x-ray of the large intestine, which includes the colon and rectum.
Lower gastrointestinal series; Lower GI series
This test may be done in a doctor's office or hospital radiology department. It is done after your colon is completely empty. Your doctor will give you instructions on how to empty your colon.
You will lie flat on your back on the x-ray table and an x-ray will be taken.
A small balloon at the tip of the enema tube may be inflated to help keep the barium inside your colon. The health care provider will monitor the flow of the barium on an x-ray fluoroscope screen, which is like a TV monitor.
Sometimes a small amount of air is delivered into the colon to expand it. This allows for even better images. This test is called a double contrast barium enema.
You will be asked to move into different positions and the table will be slightly tipped to get different views. At certain times when the x-ray pictures are taken, you will hold your breath and be still for a few seconds so the images won't be blurry.
The enema tube will be removed after the pictures are taken. You will be given a bedpan or helped to the toilet, so you can empty your bowels and remove as much of the barium as possible. One or two x-rays may be taken after you use the bathroom.
Your bowels need to be completely empty before the exam. If they are not empty, the test may miss a problem in your large intestine that needs to be treated.
Your bowels may be emptied using an enema or laxatives, along with a clear liquid diet. You will be asked to drink plenty of clear liquids for 1 to 3 days before the test. Examples of clear liquids are:
When barium enters your colon, you may feel like you need to have a bowel movement. You may also have a feeling of fullness, moderate to severe cramping, and general discomfort. Taking long, deep breaths may help you relax during the procedure.
The barium enema is used to:
The barium enema test is used much less often than in the past. Colonoscopy is done more often now.
Barium should fill the colon evenly, showing normal bowel shape and position and no blockages.
Abnormal test results may be a sign of:
Other conditions under which the test may be performed:
There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored to provide the smallest amount of radiation needed to produce the image. Most experts feel that the risk is low compared with the benefits. Pregnant women and children are more sensitive to x-ray risks.
A rare but serious risk is a perforated colon.
It is normal for the stools to be white for a few days after this test. You should try to drink extra fluids for 2 to 4 days. Ask your doctor about a laxative if you develop hard stools.
Bresalier RS. Colorectal cancer. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2010:chap 123.
Kim DH, Pickhardt PJ. Diagnostic imaging procedures in gastroenterology. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 135.


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The Great Crash
posted at 6:12 pm on February 4, 2010 by Doctor Zero
During my college days in the early Nineties, I read a study that projected tax rates into the future, assuming government spending remained fixed at early Clinton levels. Due to the explosion of entitlement spending brought about by the insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, even the lower income brackets would face something like a sixty percent federal tax burden by the 2020s. Reading this study was one of the most significant events of my intellectual life. I remember thinking, with terrible clarity: That's just not going to work.
I believe collectivist ideology is an offense against liberty, and also a tragically inefficient means of addressing the social problems it professes to care about. A study of history shows that every form of collectivist ideology has grown increasingly vicious, and eventually murderous, as its ruling elite struggle to retain power. There is one other reason I'm opposed to collectivism: it's doomed to fail. Even if I were willing to concede Big Government the intelligence and moral stature to control our culture and economy, I would be haunted by the knowledge of its inevitable failure… a destiny written into the DNA of American socialism since the birth of Social Security.
Socialism fails because it's a static solution imposed on a dynamic society. People respond to incentives, chasing carrots and avoiding sticks. The initial proposition of the New Deal was to provide for the needs of the desperate, by collecting taxes from the wealthy. Unsurprisingly, the system devolved into the vote-buying and corruption we live with today, becoming a heavy wagon hitched to a struggling middle class, which provides far more of the funding than those "fat cats" socialists love to use as whipping boys. Politicians respond to incentives too, and the machinery of the centralized state excels at sucking in tax dollars and spitting out votes. The ugly gears of that machinery are well-hidden behind an illusion of moral authority and seductive promises, alluring enough to compel the faithful support of nearly half the population, even as its unsustainable failures become painfully obvious.
The system was doomed to crash because its vast array of taxes, spending, and regulation destroy the very wealth that sustains it. It ran out of fat long ago, and began feeding on muscle… and now it has worked its way down to the bone. Wealth is a product of choice, and every action taken by a collectivist government destroys wealth by reducing the options available to its citizens. Liberal politicians assume the population will go on blindly producing the same extraordinary prosperity, no matter how much the government skims off the top. That's why every outbreak of bad economic news is "unexpected" to them, as well as the media who share their assumptions. Has a nation ever grown poorer after reducing the cost and power of its central government? Why would anyone assume a nation could grow richer by reducing the size and power of its private sector?
The towering heights reached by the American economy gives us a long way to fall. Of the dozen wealthiest nations in the world, only America has a nine-digit population. The next largest wealthy nation after us is Switzerland. The system imposed on a population our size is bound to fail with a mighty crash. We take the trappings of our prosperity for granted, and don't appreciate how complex, fast-moving, and fragile the upper reaches of our economy are. Politicians seeking to micro-manage the corporate world are tinkering with a high-performance engine while it's still running.
I don't know exactly what form the Great Crash will take. Social Security has been a ticking bomb for generations, and recently we learned its detonation is much closer than previously suspected. Instead of producing a surplus that helps fund the rest of the government, it has gone into the red… something that wasn't supposed to happen for over a decade. Social Security was never an "investment" safeguarded by the government. It's a pyramid scheme, with current payroll taxes funding the benefits of retirees. The original ratio of workers to recipients was over 40 to 1, but now it's down to three to one… in an economy with over 20% real unemployment, suffering under a government unwilling to do any of the things that would reduce its power, and promote long-term job growth.
Reckless deficit spending has weakened our currency, and hastened the day when Social Security and Medicare entitlements will grow to devour the entire federal budget. Massive tax increases are just over the horizon, awaiting the day when this President feels safe in assuring the voters that fiscal responsibility compels him to unleash them. The point of statist "health care reform" is to make the voters feel the only alternative to those tax hikes is death. The outer limit of New Deal socialism will be reached when overtaxed workers step back from the last few private-sector jobs, and refuse to support dependents who will fight to the death for their benefits.
I suspect the Great Crash would begin long before that ultimate moment of bankruptcy arrived. It could be triggered by an unforeseen catastrophe. By some estimates, the total cost of the 9/11 attacks exceeded two trillion dollars. Barack Obama's economy would not survive such a blow, especially since his immediate reaction to a systemic collapse would accelerate it, by nationalizing more of the private sector.
Even without a catastrophic trigger, the tragic end of our old system would begin when the job-creating upper class exercised its option to withdraw from the economy, taking money and capital with it. One of the most important attributes of wealth is the range of options it brings. The people targeted most aggressively by desperate socialists can simply leave the system. They can stop investing, hoard their wealth, or move overseas. They can do this very quickly, and they are, by definition, highly skilled at sensing the right moment for dramatic action.
The rich will play along for a good long while, and as you can see from the number of well-connected Democrats raking in fortunes during this recession, they can even profit handsomely by purchasing influence over a stagnant command economy… but when they feel the endgame approaching, they'll be gone before their old pals in Congress know what hit them. When you hear a leftist declare that all of our problems can be solved by soaking the rich, understand that will never happen, because the rich will jump out of the pool before they get soaked past the knee.
The time of the Great Crash has not arrived just yet. As bad as things may seem now, they can get an order of magnitude worse… and that means we still have time to change course. Your daily life depends on billions of transactions performed at the speed of light, millions of tons of goods shipped across vast distances, and oceans of gasoline flowing from convenient pumps. These complex systems cannot sustain much damage before your life changes in ways you might never have imagined. The people responsible will tell you it was inevitable, or it was all your fault for living so well in the first place. They'll try to divert your anger to their enemies, and expect you to trade your ambitions for the sustenance they will provide.
We don't have to let it come to that, if we remember that prosperity is inseparable from freedom, while command offers only obedience and survival. We don't have to lose much more freedom before we lose a great deal of our prosperity. Every dollar spent by the government is a dollar that won't be able to generate wealth through choice. We still have the imagination and energy to put the bankrupt ideology of liberalism behind us, before it bankrupts us. We can thank the deluded intensity of Barack Obama and the last true believers of the Left for making it clear how the story of the almighty State will end, in the absurdity of a $14 trillion debt that still isn't big enough for them. Our grandfathers broke the Axis and rebuilt the world. Our fathers made academics eat every word they wrote about the inevitable triumph of communism. We have one last pitiful offspring of the collectivist dream to bury. We can do it, but it will require vision and leadership.
Simply returning to the bloated budget of George Bush's final year would require a historically unprecedented cut of over 15% in total government spending. The budget President Obama just submitted would swell the federal workforce to over two million. Trimming it back to where Bush left it would put half a million people out of work. Correcting this ruinous course will be an achievement unlike any the world has ever seen. The world has also never seen anything like the crash that awaits us if we fail.
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One of the most celebrated groups in the history of bluegrass, The Travelin' McCourys, will appear at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
No other band today has the same credentials for playing traditional and progressive music. As the sons of bluegrass legend Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin and Rob McCoury on banjo continue their father's work—a lifelong dedication to the power of bluegrass music to bring joy into people's lives. And with fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram, the ensemble is loved and respected by the bluegrass faithful.
Recently the McCourys debuted the widely successful festival on wheels called The Bluegrass Ball bringing spontaneous live collaborations, the hallmark of the McCourys, to clubs across the country. The band has a confidence that comes with having paid their dues with 20 years on the bluegrass road. They are known not only for their individual prowess on their instruments but also the tight rhythm, the soulful material and the confidence in taking bluegrass from the safety of the shore into uncharted waters. The Travelin' McCourys are quickly becoming known amongst fans and musical icons alike collaborating with the likes of Vince Gill, The Allman Brothers, Phish, and Warren Haynes, Steve Earle, Dierks Bentley, Yonder Mountain String Band and many more.
Tickets for the show start at $38 and may be purchased at www.fmupac.org, via telephone at (843) 661-4444, and at the FMU Performing Arts Center Box Office. Telephone and personal ticket sales are available Monday through Friday between 12-5 p.m. Subject to availability, tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
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The FBI wants the public's help in identifying and finding a bank robber who held up four financial institutions in Idaho and one in Utah.
Debbie Dujanovic Bertram, spokeswoman for the bureau's Salt Lake City office, said Thursday that the same man is believed to have robbed banks in the Idaho cities of Boise and Garden City, and in Cedar City, Utah, between December and Wednesday.
"Witnesses to the bank robberies have generally described him as a white male, approximately 50 to 60 years old with gray hair," Dujanovic Bertram said. "During each robbery he either verbally demands cash or displays a note; no weapon has been reported."
The robber is further described as 5 feet 9 or 10 inches and weighing between 145 and 180 pounds. He has worn blue jeans, gray, green and navy blue jackets, white sneakers, glasses, a green ball cap and has carried a red bag.
In his most recent holdup, on Wednesday at a U.S. Bank in Boise, he wore a fake beard.
A Mountain America Credit Union in Cedar City was robbed Feb. 26.
The public is cautioned to avoid approaching the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI Salt Lake City Division at 801-579-1400.
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Lorde disses Drake and Nicki Minaj for making 'completely irrelevant' music
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Lorde is speaking her mind again, calling out Drake and Nicki Minaj for making "irrelevant" music.
The teenage singer, who has dissed Disney stars, Selena Gomez, David Guetta, and others in her young career, tells Interview, "Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake, as well as pop singers like Lana Del Rey. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me — or anyone that I knew."
She says, "I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant.'"
As for her own growing fame, Lorde says, "That's the good thing about starting off in New Zealand, there is absolutely no concept of 'celebrity' or fame."
She explains, "'Famous' people here, like Shortland Street actors, you all have mutual friends on Facebook, you know? Yeah, people are starting to recognize me now, which is kind of weird. But in New Zealand, it's easy to hide from that stuff."
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Rankings update for February - of course we saw the return of UK MMA action, and in particular a huge UFC card having an effect on things.
There's also been Cage Contender, UCMMA, Made 4 The Cage, Supremacy etc.
BW goes up to 25 now, and there's been the usual dropouts due to inactivity etc.


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The Cleveland Division of Police Homicide Unit is currently investigating the death of two individuals which occurred on Monday, September 16. >
Fifth District officers responded to a call for a male down at 6128 Lausche Avenue at approximately 1:30pm. The preliminary investigation reveals that a mail carrier discovered the victim outside and notified police.
A male was found outside in the rear of that address. Upon searching the residence for information relative to the incident, a second victim was discovered upstairs. The second victim is a female.
Both victims appear to have suffered gunshot wounds. The male suffered a gunshot wound to the head and the female had a gunshot wound to the head as well. EMS responded as well and pronounced the victims dead on scene.
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I am having problems with metasploit. When I try to remove it with either apt or synaptic, I get an error. I also cannot update the rest of backtrack because it gives an error. Not sure how to proceed. Here is what the error stuff says:
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Thanks,Code:root@bt:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up framework (4.0.0-bt1) ... chmod: cannot access `framework-32.run': No such file or directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/framework.postinst: line 11: ./framework-32.run: No such file or directory Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed mysql-2.9.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for mysql-2.9.0... Installing RDoc documentation for mysql-2.9.0... ln: creating symbolic link `/pentest/exploits/framework': File exists dpkg: error processing framework (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of framework3: framework3 depends on framework; however: Package framework is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing framework3 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: framework framework3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Hi Manuel & lists (cc-ing -dev),
> m0n0wall loses the DHCP lease database on reboot - this is a design choice.
After actually digging up and reading the relevant RFC (2131), I feel
the need to reiterate my previously stated point that this is a bad
design choice. It conflicts with an explicit design goal of the DHCP
mechanism. To quote:
> The following list gives design goals specific to the transmission of
> the network layer parameters. DHCP must:
> o Retain DHCP client configuration across server reboots, and,
> whenever possible, a DHCP client should be assigned the same
> configuration parameters despite restarts of the DHCP mechanism,
I really feel this leaves no room for slack (apart from the fact that
I'm one of those rare folks that is actually bitten by the loss of state) .
Will a big "please" do? :-)


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AFI's Davey Havok Planning To Star In Film, Starts Crowd-Funding Campaign
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AFI frontman Davey Havok is asking for help as he makes the transition to the big screen. He's set to star in an upcoming film about '90s era punks and skins called The Violent. But right now Havoc and the movie's director and screenwriter are using a crowd-funding campaign at IndieGoGo.com to raise money to help get the production started.
Havok says he thinks The Violent is an important film because it represents a culture that many people don't know much about. He adds that he was immediately drawn to the script because it seemed "very, very genuine."
In addition to acting in AFI's music videos, Havok briefly starred in the Broadway musical American Idiot back in 2011.
Havok and the rest of the film's production team have so far raised more than $6,000. They hope to reach their first goal of $20,000 by August 14th. According to their IndiGoGo page, $500,000 ensures that The Violent will be made.
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text: On November 20th, 2012, American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble would have celebrated 123 years on Planet Earth. Hubble's discovery and development of the concept of an expanding universe has been described as the "most spectacular astronomical discovery" of the 20th century. As a tribute, the Hubble Space Telescope, deployed April 25, 1990, from US space shuttle Discovery, was named for him. The Hubble Space Telescope, with a 240-centimeter mirror, was to allow astronomers to see farther into space than they had ever seen from telescopes on Earth.


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im on 6.1 iphone 5
Has anyone heard yet when an LTE toggle will be released. I noticed that the only place I have a 3G toggle is on Auxo. Would like an LTE toggle for Sbsettings.
When a new device comes out with new hardware that jailbreak developers have never coded for before, it takes time and research to find out what makes it tick. LTE has just recently been cracked by a few developers.
AssistantLove was updated with support for toggling LTE via Siri, and Auxo will be getting an LTE toggle shortly.
Since it has been discovered, finally, SBSettings will probably get a toggle shortly too.
SBCenter (Respring, Reboot, etc)
ncRam (live Ram readout)
NCSettings (toggles)
Springtomize 2 already allows you to turn off mobile substrates one by one.
And WeeKillBackground allows you to kill background processes and apps in switcher.
Now it's a testament to SBSettings that it takes five other tweaks to replace its full functionality, but I just can't bear with RAM leaks. And the first three I listed there tuck neatly into the top of your Notifications Center.
The initial leak is verifiable at between 50-60MB.. Then you open other apps - read online.. do other activities. Kill all those processes with a combo of clearing out App Switcher and using a tool like SystemActivity to clear processes - and the leak has gotten larger - like to 250MB or more. With every new app you open - the leak gets bigger. As soon as you get rid of SBSettings it all goes away. No leaks of any kind. Only SBSettings and Auxo have had identifiable leaks so far per several threads I've watched and then personally tested and can confirm.
I know what you're going to say, King.. .. with 1GB of RAM now and Apple's implementation of Dynamic RAM allocation - it just a 'non-issue'. I hear you. But my RAM has gotten as low at 121MB on the iPhone 5 before I got rid of SBSettings and I just don't want to have any tweaks loaded that can affect my phone to that level. Whether the phone 'still works fine' is, in this case, irrelevant to me.


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LISTEN: School Of Seven Bells Release Benjamin Curtis' Final Recording
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Indie rockers School of Seven Bells are sharing the final recording from founding guitarist and producer Benjamin Curtis.
Curtis died in December after a lengthy battle with a rare type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He recorded a cover of Joey Ramone's "I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)" with bandmate Alejandra Deheza from his hospital bed in New York City.
The track, which was recorded entirely on Curtis' laptop, is available on iTunes now.
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2013: An explosion at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility, leaves at least 15 people dead, with more than 160 injured and more than 150 buildings damaged or destroyed. [ + - ]
2001: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 500th career home run, becoming the 17th major leaguer to reach the mark. [ + - ]
1998: Photographer and musician Linda McCartney, who married Beatle Paul McCartney in 1969 and later joined his band Wings, dies of breast cancer at the age of 56 in Tucson, Arizona. [ + - ]
1993: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicts Officer Laurence Powell and Sgt. Stacey Koon of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King (pictured). Two other officers, Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno, were acquitted. Powell and Koon would be sentenced to 32 months in prison. [ + - ]
1990: American civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, dies from two blood clots that traveled to his heart and lungs at the age of 64 in Atlanta, Georgia. Abernathy was with King in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was assassinated in 1968. Following King's assassination, Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and led the March on Washington, D.C., that had been planned for May 1968. [ + - ]
1985: Actress Rooney Mara, best known for movies such as "The Social Network," "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Side Effects," is born in Bedford, New York. [ + - ]
1975: After five years of fighting, the Cambodian Civil War ends as Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. Here, Saukham Khoy (second from right), president of the Khmer Republic, arrives on board the USS Okinawa after being evacuated from Phnom Penh. [ + - ]
1974: Pop singer Victoria Beckham, better known as "Posh Spice" from pop group Spice Girls, is born Victoria Caroline Adams in Harlow, Essex, England. [ + - ]
1972: Actress Jennifer Garner, best known for the TV series "Alias," and movies such as "Daredevil," "13 Going on 30," "Juno" and "Valentine's Day," is born in Houston, Texas. [ + - ]
1970: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. The mission's lunar landing was aborted two days after its April 11 launch when an oxygen tank exploded, crippling the service module. Astronauts (from left to right) Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fought hardships caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of water and the need to jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system to return successfully. [ + - ]
1970: Rapper, producer and actor Redman, well known for his collaborations with Method Man, including their starring roles in films and sitcoms, is born Reginald Noble in Newark, New Jersey. Some of his best known songs include the hits "Time 4 Sum Aksion," "Blow Your Mind," "How High" and "Whateva Man." [ + - ]
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He would be sentenced six days later to death in the gas chamber, but his sentence was commuted three years later to life in prison, owing to the California Supreme Court's decision in People v. Anderson, which ruled capital punishment a violation of the California Constitution. [ + - ]
1964: The Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market. The 1965 Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A. [ + - ]
1964: Landing in Columbus, Ohio, Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. The trip took 29 days, 21 stopovers and almost 22,860 miles. Pictured here is Mock's plane, the Spirit of Columbus, hanging in the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. [ + - ]
1961: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro's government. The invading force was defeated by the Cuban armed forces, under the command of Castro himself, within three days. [ + - ]
1960: Rockabilly singer-songwriter and musician Eddie Cochran, the rock 'n' roll pioneer whose hit songs included "Summertime Blues," "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else," dies at age 21 of severe head injuries in Bath, Somerset, England, the day after being in a road accident in which he was thrown from a taxi. Cochran was riding in the backseat of the car along with his fiancée, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, and fellow singer Gene Vincent, when their speeding taxi blew a tire while traveling on a highway through Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. The taxi lost control and crashed into a lamp post. Sheeley, Vincent and the taxi driver, George Martin, survived the accident, although Vincent suffered lasting injuries to his leg. [ + - ]
1959: Actor Sean Bean, best known for portraying Boromir in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and Eddard Stark in the HBO television series "Game of Thrones," is born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Bean has also appeared in movies such as "GoldenEye," "Troy" and "National Treasure." [ + - ]
1957: Author Nick Hornby, best known for the novels "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy" and the soccer memoir "Fever Pitch," is born in Redhill, Surrey, England. [ + - ]
1954: Professional wrestler and actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, who often played the villain as a wrestler, is born Roderick George Toombs in in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Piper was billed as coming from Glasgow, Scotland, due to his Scottish heritage and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He was also known for his appearance in numerous B-grade movies, most notably 1988's "They Live." Piper died in his sleep at age 61 on July 31, 2015, from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by hypertension, with a pulmonary embolism as a contributing factor. [ + - ]
1951: Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle makes his major league debut with the New York Yankees. After slumping, Mantle would be sent down to the Yankees' top farm team, the Kansas City Blues, where he would remain for 40 games before being called back up. Mantle would go on to hit 536 home runs in his 18 seasons with the Yankees, leading New York to seven World Series titles. [ + - ]
1951: Actress Olivia Hussey, famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of "Romeo and Juliet," is born Olivia Osuna in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hussey, who won a Golden Globe for her "Romeo and Juliet" performance, has also appeared in movie such as "Black Christmas," "Death on the Nile" and "Virus." [ + - ]
1934: Music publisher, promoter and producer Don Kirshner, known as "The Man With the Golden Ear" for his success with bands such as The Monkees, Kansas and The Archies, is born in The Bronx, New York. Kirshner, seen here with Dionne Warwick, Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton-John in 1974, was also influential in starting off the careers of singers and songwriters, including Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond and Carole King. He died at age 76 on Jan. 17, 2011, and was posthumously inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012. [ + - ]
1924: Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures merge with Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, more commonly known as MGM. [ + - ]
1923: Journalist Harry Reasoner, a founder of the "60 Minutes" new program, is born in Dakota City, Iowa. He died at age 68 on Aug. 6, 1991, from a blood clot in the brain received from a fall at his home in Westport, Connecticut. [ + - ]
1918: Actor William Holden, who starred in such blockbusters as "Sunset Boulevard," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "The Wild Bunch" and "Network," is born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois. Holden received Oscar nominations for Best Actor for "Sunset Boulevard" and "Network" and won in 1954 for "Stalag 17." He died at age 63 on Nov. 12, 1981, after slipping on a rug while intoxicated in his Santa Monica, California, apartment and severely cutting his forehead on a bedside table. [ + - ]
1907: The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, its all-time daily high. The daily record came during the center's peak year, with 1,004,756 immigrants processed in 1907. [ + - ]
1905: The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, holding that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The decision struck down a New York law that limited the number of hours a baker could work to 10 hours per day and 60 hours per week. [ + - ]
1897: Author and playwright Thornton Wilder is born in Madison, Wisconsin. He won three Pulitzer Prizes in his career, for the novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and for the plays "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth." [ + - ]
1852: Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Cap Anson, one of the greatest players of his era and one of the first superstars of the game, is born Adrian Constantine Anson in Marshalltown, Iowa. Anson spent most of his career with what would become the Chicago Cubs franchise, leading the team to five National League pennants in the 1880s, and was the first player to reach 3,000 career hits. [ + - ]
1837: J. P. Morgan, the leading financier of America's Progressive Era who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time, is born in Hartford, Connecticut. Morgan arranged the merger that created General Electric and also oversaw the formation of the United States Steel Corporation. [ + - ]
1820: Alexander Cartwright, the inventor of baseball, is born in New York City. Cartwright (top, center) is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. [ + - ]
1790: Politician, inventor and diplomat Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of America who also gained international renown as a scientist for his famous experiments in electricity and for his many inventions, dies at the age of 84 in Philadelphia. [ + - ]
1524: New York Harbor is discovered by Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. [ + - ]