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According to Pietro Gorlier, president and CEO of the Chrysler Group's Mopar brand, "The aftermarket is a $34 billion-a-year industry and SEMA is the perfect place to showcase everything that Mopar has to offer."
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The Chrysler 300 SF6 pays homage to the popular "Spring Festival," a major gathering of Southern California Chrysler owners that is entering its sixth year. The design brief for the car involved putting a discreet spin on the aggressive looks of the production 300S, adding a unique body-color grille, front chin spoiler and rear trunk spoiler; staggered 22-inch aluminum wheels from Savini; a custom Mopar suspension and SRT8 brakes; Mopar Katzkin performance seats; Mopar long-tube headers and a Mopar/Corsa custom exhaust system; and a premium Kicker audio system with a trunk-mounted dual 10-inch subwoofer, a pair of two-way speakers with domed tweeters on the car's rear deck, door-mounted 6 x 9-inch mid-bass speakers, and another pair of two-way speakers with domed tweeters incorporated into the instrument panel.
Taking its cues from the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR that recently set the production-car lap record on Germany's famed Nürburgring race track will be the Dodge Challenger SRT8 ACR. Developed to represent a modern take on the stripped-down "option delete" muscle cars of the 1960s and '70s, the car holsters a 392-cubic-inch HEMI V8 capable of 470 hp—and 23 mpg on the highway—as well as a long list of performance upgrades like Goodyear F1 Supercar tires, carbon fiber interior door panels and exterior body components, racing-style front bucket seats, a roll bar and fire extinguisher in place of the rear seats, and Mopar running gear that leverages coil-over springs, front and rear strut-tower braces, a front splitter, cat-back exhaust, custom exhaust headers and, as expected, much, much more.
Adding an Italian accent to Chrysler's SEMA stable will be the Fiat 500 Titanium, among others. The 500 Titanium combines sophistication and a sporting demeanor with accessories such as:
- A new, more aggressively sculpted front fascia and large honeycomb grilles
- LED fog lamps integrated with satin-black fascia inserts
- Circular projector-style headlamps accented in gloss black—matching the car's exterior paint
- Two-piece 16-inch Matte Titanium wheels
- A Mopar lowering kit
- Matte Titanium brake calipers with larger rotors
- A large liftgate spoiler
- A restyled rear fascia with diffuser insert
- Even more from Mopar, including a cold-air intake and cat-back exhaust
Further style upgrades highlight the 500 Titanium's interior, too, where Titanium Metallic trim, custom-look seats—including aggressively bolstered hi-po fronts—and black floor mats with Titanium Metallic "500" logos are all on display.
For more information on adding SEMA-approved MOPAR accessories to your Chrysler Group vehicle, visit www.Mopar.com or your local dealership.


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THE lamentable psychology of our species became clear to me on a sporting field at the age of seven. We were choosing players in a game of schoolyard footy in Shepparton. I was captain of the Skins and it was my pick. A portly lad stood in front of me waving his hammock-fleshed arms, shouting, ''Me, me, me. Pick me.''
It was a giddying dilemma. I knew the downside of choosing this dugong for my team was that the Shirts would run rings around his saggy arse until he cracked it and limped off with a feigned hammy and spent the rest of the match beached on the boundary heckling. The upside was that this moody dugong's father owned the local ice-cream shop. Forty flavours … a vast palate of bliss. There could be no subtlety about my choice. No pretence at charity. Every kid present knew if I chose the dugong I was trashing my team's chance at victory to buy myself a summer of gratis pistachio. It was a question of who would take the bribe first, me or the captain of the Shirts. I picked the dugong. I placed him at full-forward. We were pantsed.
I'd like to say those free litres of ice-cream tasted like ashes in my mouth. But Shepparton has a long, hot summer, and it was on those days when the asphalt ran and I lay under trees licking double-headers that I first realised conscience was a beast easily tamed by Cherry Italia, and that a man could do some truly evil things and the subtle tinctures of Butter Pecan would assuage his guilt perfectly.
I write this just by way of letting Tony Abbott know that if he chooses Clive Palmer for the team he will be able to live with himself. What he won't be able to live with is Clive Palmer. He's a political dugong and when the LNP endorses him, the ALP will dance around him lairising and laughing. That's the downside. The upside is he comes with a summer of bliss guaranteed. If Abbott can resist those 40 flavours, he is a better man than me. Clive's money is, after all, relatively cheap. He doesn't want the whole party. He just wants to get in the game, like my portly lad did. He will not sit in opposition, though. He will snap a hammy and limp away before that snore-fest.
Oh, and he will need a ministry. Clive would be restive as a backbencher. Let's forget the risible notion that he might be perturbed and energised by the paltry local grievances of the shoeless mango-suckers who make up the electorate of Lilley. In fact, let's never mention those people again. I'm sure Clive won't. What Clive wants, apart from the ability to sell your minerals without including you in the bonanza, is revenge on Wayne Swan. Because that man has cruelly chosen him as the exemplar of the bloated oligarch when, hell, he could just as easily have chosen Gina or Nathan or Twiggy. But once electoral revenge is had (and it might be, this being Queensland), what then?
Sitting down, shutting up and toeing a party line are the things he is least good at, and he is not good at a great many things. What people don't realise is that Clive Palmer is above all else, a humanitarian. On Q&A the other night, while pooh-poohing global warming, he made it clear he was only selling coal to the Indians and Chinese so they might enjoy the standard of living we do. So that good fathers and mothers could put food on the table for their children. His billions were a mere byproduct of his charity. And anyone who stood in the way of his altruistic passion was racist and cruel. His combatants on the panel failed to answer the charge of racism. But then, chillingly transfixed as they were by the six-shot magazine of his shirt buttons, I half expected them to put their hands in the air and surrender. Is it wrong for me to want the LNP to endorse Clive just for the periodic lashings of schadenfreude we will be served? Clive says a lot of contradictory and wrong things but a man fortressed from the world by wealth can't know that and can, anyway, afford wrongness like it was a Ferrari. A politician can afford far less wrongness. So, it will be fun. Because of all the political oddities that have come out of Queensland, none is more certain to have his career truncated in a hilarious snafu than Clive Palmer. And, no, I haven't forgotten Joh. Nor Pauline. There was nothing but politics for them. But politics is only a sideshow for Clive, and some of the malign minutiae of public life, like accountability, transparency or simply not being king, will exasperate the man before too long.
■Anson Cameron is a Melbourne writer.


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The Official Online RBS 6 Nations Store is open. The store has everything you need to get behind your team during the RBS 6 Nations, plus the store is now fully stocked with a much wider range of rugby merchandise.
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On iPhone and iPad, it was the second ranked sports app in the UK from February 2-14 and in Ireland it was the second ranked sports app from February 8-15.
And on Android, it was the number three sports app in the UK from February 8-14 and from February 8-17, it was the number one sports app in Ireland.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Two people with knowledge of the situation tell The Associated Press that the NCAA is scheduling meetings to discuss allegations with specific individuals involved in the long investigation of Miami's athletic compliance practices.
Some of the meetings have been scheduled for Monday, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the NCAA nor Miami authorized them to reveal the developments publicly. Reviewing specific findings is perceived as a sign that the investigation is ending and that Miami may finally receive its notice of allegations letter in the coming days.
Sanctions would be expected several months after that letter arrives.
Miami has been under NCAA investigation since 2011.
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Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we check in with Gino Angelini, chef at Angelini Osteria and RivaBella.Courtesy RivaBella Gino Angelini
For almost 20 years, Gino Angelini has been one of L.A.'s most respected Italian chefs. At his own restaurant, Angelini Osteria, he's been turning out both traditional and more creative Italian dishes since 2001. This year, he also became chef at RivaBella, a gleaming fine dining Italian spot smack in the mid of Hollywood. So what does this chef like to eat when he's not cooking? Turn the page for five of his favorites.
5. Bouchon
"I like to get the mussels and fries. And the sommelier is great, we talk wine."
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2. Priscilla's
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1. Chinois on Main
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Can Dad's family keep Mom from being buried beside him?
This is a tough issue and I'm sorry your family is going through this on such a sensitive subject. There are a couple of considerations in your question. What is
it that your dad's family is asking your mom to "sign" over? In West Virginia, it may be a deed or a certificate of burial right. If that's the case, she may have a legal right to be buried there. You have a state cemetery association in West Virginia and they're very helpful. Call someone on their board of directors and they will be able to advise you accurately according to the state laws and your options. Their website page, which contains the names and phone numbers is [www.wvcfa.net/board_of_directors.htm] (http://www.wvcfa.net/board_of_directors.htm)There are a few things you may want to think about:
1. If your mother does have a legal right and she is buried there against their wishes, will it create a different problem? The law says that they can't prohibit you from visiting your parents' graves, but they may try to make it uncomfortable for you to do so.
2. Is there some way you can find out why they are opposed to your mother's future burial there? It may be a concern that can be cleared up more easily than you realize. If you're not comfortable contacting them, maybe another family member who is, can do it on your behalf.
3. The other options are to have your mother buried in a different cemetery, which of course involves spending money to buy a grave.
4. If you don't want her buried in a different cemetery than your father, there is a more drastic option - your father's casket (and burial vault if there is one) could be disinterred and moved to another cemetery, where your mother could be buried next to him. There are significant costs involved with this, such as the cost of the disinterment, transportation of the casket (and vault) to the new cemetery, purchase of the new graves, and digging the new grave to "re-bury" the casket.
When you deal with cemeteries and family conflicts on where to bury someone, there are a lot of personal emotions involved. Peace of mind about a final "resting place" is important. I wish you and your family well and hope that a resolution comes easier than you expect.
Great answers and suggestions. I guess each state differs in the laws or the churchs or owners of the cemeteries. Our single daughter, at 21, passed away 9/08 and we were forced to buy a plot. just wasn't something we would have thought about while in our 50's. We bought two and she is in one of them. Our names,as the parents and her's are on the headstone. My husband plans on being cremated. So I guess that leaves one space for my coffin/vault when the time comes. We were told we can bury his ashes if we want on top of our daughter but I believe pay to "open" the grave. Others have just put a few of the ashes in the area and put the rest, maybe where that person loved to hunt, fish, play, etc. Anyway, just wondering why they, the couple didnt have their own plots? Joyce
Wow - JDG - has there always been contention about your parent's marriage in your father's family? Are you intercepting the mail for your mother, or did she share this with you? What are your mother's wishes? Were your parent's happy for their married life - I would assume so, since they were married for so long.
Since it's a 'family' cemetery, who does the committe consist of? Good advice to contact the state cemetery association. Once you know the facts, consider your mother's wishes, then help her with the decision.
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Mr SIDEBOTTOM (3:15 PM)
—Forty years ago the last Labor member for Braddon, Ron Davies, made his first speech in this House, where he remained until 1975. I am proud to share this occasion with him, and I certainly hope to share his longevity in the seat. Ron Davies congratulated the then Speaker on being elected unopposed to his position. I similarly congratulate the Speaker and ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker Nehl, to pass on my congratulations.
The seat of Braddon, which I represent, is named after Sir Edward Braddon, a founding member of this House from 1901 to 1903 and a Tasmanian founding father of Federation. Giving me a real sense of occasion today is the fact that Sir Edward is buried only a short distance from my home in the beautiful township of Forth. The people of Braddon have been extremely loyal to their House of Representatives' members back to the turn of the century and the famous King O'Malley, the great initiator of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Remarkably, between 1917 and 1998 there have been only nine members of this House from my electorate. This loyalty is based on the principles of trust and honesty: trust that what you say is what you mean and do, and what you mean is what you say. What better way to convey this to you than through the eyes of Abby Gardam, a 13-year-old Wynyard High School student who wrote to me after the election. I would like to share with you part of that letter, which states:
Dear Mr Sidebottom,
I am currently attending Wynyard High School and I am in Grade 8. I am only 13 but I'm worried about my future. If you think you can do anything or be anyone maybe you'd like to raise the amount of employment on the North-West Coast. How could one man try to rule the whole of Australia without doing anything about further education, resources and employment. A lot of teenagers are likely to end up stuffed on drugs, alcohol and cigarette smoking. If you really care you'd help our area overcome these troubles. It's not too late. If only you could bring the light to our lives so we can be what we wish, but without your help Sid we will just end up as no-hopers in the future.
PS: You have what you want, how about giving us a go.
I am sure that letter could be directed at many members of this House.
After the federal election there was a lot of discussion about what constituted a mandate. In fact, nearly every editorial in every newspaper in Australia tried to define it. Well, my mandate is clear. It comes from the people of Braddon on the north-west coast of Tasmania. It is the same mandate that Labor members overwhelming received in other Tasmanian electorates of Denison, Lyons, Franklin and—joyously—Bass. It is the same mandate given to Labor members in this place by the majority of the Australian voting population. It is the same mandate that three Tasmanian Labor senators also gained from the election. The mandate that the majority of Australians gave to the parliament of Australia was that they did not want an unfair goods and services tax. Ask Tasmania's Liberal Senator John Watson if you want to know about that. They did not want the further sale of Telstra. They did not want more cuts to Commonwealth services, and they did not want any further breakdown of industrial relations in this country.
It is sad for me to say that, like a number of regions around Australia, my electorate is in many ways in economic and social crisis. There is an air of melancholy. The actual electorate size in terms of voting numbers has dropped since 1996, making my electorate the smallest based on enrolment. It may be small in these terms, but it is big in terms of the heart and spirit of its people. Braddon is a coastal, urban and rural electorate, with its population of around 80,000 dispersed between two cities—Devonport and Burnie—and a number of coastal towns including Smithton, Wynyard, Penguin and Ulverstone. In Trivial Pursuit if you are asked what the nickname of the potato is, it is the spud, and it comes from Smithton, Penguin, Ulverstone and Devonport!
My electorate also includes parts of the rugged West Coast and the beautiful King Island. I invite you all to visit. The main industries in this very rich and fertile soiled area are vegetable growing and processing, dairying production, forestry, paper production, textiles, carpet making, mining, engineering, fishing and tourism. The people of Braddon are a hardworking people and always have been. They are self-motivated, resourceful and enterprising. They have very strong links to their families and their communities. It was this great sense of community and belonging that attracted me to the North-West when I graduated from university to begin a teaching career at the Don College in Devonport in 1975.
The people of my electorate are no different from people in other rural and regional electorates around Australia. They ask that their representatives understand their community—to understand the things that are important to them; the things that make or break them as communities. They are not interested in hearing promises they know cannot be kept. They are realistic enough to know what is achievable.
There is a positive trend returning to politics today—a trend I feel was clearly demonstrated at the last federal election whereby people voted for candidates who have been part of their communities, who have strong grassroots affiliations with them, who are about face-to-face contact with their constituents and who are prepared to stand up for them. That was the traditional Labor way and it must continue to be in the future. I count myself as one of these. But, as we all know in regional Australia today, every battle is becoming harder and harder to win. One that we recently lost in my electorate was a campaign to save jobs when an industrial icon, the Burnie pulp mill, faced closure.
I raise the issue of the Burnie pulp mill not because I wish to dwell on the past but because it is what has happened in the past that is now shaping the way the community is looking at its future. North-Western Tasmania is a region like so many regional areas across Australia: it is hurting badly. With an unemployment rate amongst the highest in the country, Burnie was dealt another devastating blow by the closure of the pulp mill. Over 200 direct jobs were lost. Some $10 million a year was lost in wages alone. Economic confidence was shattered, and the social fabric of our community took another beating. The former Liberal member for Braddon suggested publicly that the fate of the Burnie mill cost him victory at the last election. More to the point, I believe it was a case of paying for your mistakes. Failing to tune into a community is a mistake—one I will not make.
The broader community of regional centres throughout Australia has put all politicians on notice. No longer can our needs and aspirations be paid lip-service. The Burnie pulp mill saga is a classic example of a lack of leadership, and the Howard government must shoulder some of the blame. It must send out a different signal to corporate Australia. It cannot simply sing to the tune of company chiefs and bow to the boardroom mentality of companies like Amcor. I note with interest that the Roy Morgan Research Centre report released last Friday said that big business had replaced unions as the perceived major cause of Australia's unemployment woes. It reported Australian shareholders felt that they were powerless to influence company decisions and saw business as self-serving and more interested in profits than people.
The report also found Australians thought unemployment was the worst problem facing the country, that large corporations were the greatest contributors to the problem and shareholders would sacrifice dividends for jobs—I repeat, shareholders would sacrifice dividends for jobs. The North-West Coast of Tasmania knows this scenario only too well. How quick this government is to attack unions for the economic woes of this country. In this very chamber, the member for Wide Bay and, astonishingly, the former member for Braddon blamed the workers of the Burnie pulp mill for the dilemma which faced their industry. The Roy Morgan report clearly repudiates such a philosophy and so too did the people of Braddon on 3 October. There was more swing in Braddon than in the zoo.
The federal government must play a much more proactive role in industry development and help nurture strategies that will keep the heart of regional Australia beating. You only have to look at the mountains of woodchips on the Burnie wharf awaiting export. It is a cruel irony that just a stone's throw away is a terminal pulp mill where the hopes of value adding and downstream processing have died a slow and painful death. The alarm bells will not stop ringing until dedicated industry and regional policies are put in place.
The State of Our Regions report, recently presented to the Australian Local Government Association by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, clearly highlights a worrying future for Australia's regions, with growing inequality in employment, income and investment. Again, this report echoes the cry of regions like my own. It calls for the federal government to develop a new and coherent economic agenda for regional Australia. You do not get a plea for a regional development policy if one already exists, and if one did I would have expected it to have taken hold in my electorate by now.
The Tasmanian economy has a shrinking industrial base and, because of its geographic isolation and the low level of Commonwealth fiscal support, faces many unique challenges. Federal Labor's Tasmania package, announced prior to the October election, was a sincere attempt to address some of the major concerns. A key component of the package was to establish a regional infrastructure fund. It is critical and indeed reasonable to expect the Commonwealth to give regional centres a leg up in their efforts to attract industry to their areas.
The federal government has said all its pre-election promises to Tasmania will be met, including $5 million for infrastructure for proposed magnesite mines in North-West Tasmania—but we are still waiting. The people of Braddon were assured in the last days of the election campaign that the Prime Minister would personally monitor and assist with this venture—so, too, the government's major projects team. Let's hope they have not forgotten where we are. It is heartening, however, to note the Commonwealth's $20 million pledge for the restoration of the historic and exciting ABT Railway on Tasmania's west coast. This appears to have been honoured to date.
However, the federal government is still holding back on its commitment to a 1984 agreement which would see Tasmania receive some $170 million in dam compensation funds. And, in typical bully-boy fashion, John Howard refuses to forgive Tasmania's $150 million debt to the Commonwealth unless it agrees to privatise its energy assets. The people of Tasmania made it very clear what they thought of that proposal, and they will continue to make it clear. By comparison, federal Labor's Tasmania package pledged to release Tasmania of the debt, no strings attached.
Why should cash-strapped Tasmania be forced to continue to contribute to this so-called black hole, which is now apparently brimming over with surplus funds if we are to believe the Treasurer? The Prime Minister's recent promise of $14.8 million in additional health funding for Tasmania has failed to materialise. Meanwhile, the new Tasmanian government has inherited a deteriorating health system. It is interesting, isn't it, that the Commonwealth, while starving my region and my state of money, has lost none of its appetite for the hard-earned dollar of ordinary Australians? The introduction of an unfair goods and services tax will further penalise Tasmanians.
The federal government still wants to sell the remaining two-thirds of Telstra, but we cannot afford to lose what is a guaranteed dividend for the people of Australia. We must continue to fight to keep it in public hands. Labor recognises the importance of telecommunications to all Tasmanians, especially small business. We want the state to be a single untimed call zone, and only last Wed nesday I was pleased to hear Kim Beazley commit the next Labor government to this policy. This can only happen if Telstra is kept in public hands.
In the Tasmania package Labor recognised the importance of the Burnie to Smithton Road, and I urge the Howard government to match Labor's $12 million commitment to this project. I promise shadow ministers on my side of the House I will continue to pursue this important policy initiative. The people of Circular Head expect nothing less from us.
Under this Liberal government, services and jobs continue to diminish. Take for example the shameful and massive job cuts from Centrelink—jobs and services the North-West Coast can ill afford to lose. It just does not make sense. But that said, I can assure you the communities of the North-West Coast have not lost the desire to get in and have a go—to help ourselves. Let me make it perfectly clear: the people of Braddon are not interested in government handouts. What we need, and I fear may never get from this government, is the framework for a better Australia.
So what of our future and the aspirations of our young people? For many young people in my electorate, it is not so much a future slipping away but one of them packing up and walking out. Youth unemployment is a disgrace. It is not a lack of willingness on their part; the simple fact is that jobs are not there nor is the incentive to continue their education. Greater emphasis should be placed on better resourcing our public schools, colleges and tertiary institutions, not cutting funds. The problems facing young people are exacerbated in my electorate by a very low participation rate in higher education. The obstacles for many are just too great. `Why bother?' many ask.
Let me give you an example. The small but dynamic Burnie campus of the University of Tasmania offers an excellent postgraduate program in primary industry sciences, working with local industry, the Department of Primary Industry and TAFE. It is an excellent example of regional partnership.
However, undergraduate students can study only one year of their courses on campus before they must leave the North-West Coast to complete their studies in Launceston, Hobart or interstate. This is an extra cost of some $10,000 per year on top of HECS, which in itself would be a millstone around the individuals' necks for years.
This is a real example of regional need. Young people in Braddon need encouragement to grow in our region, to contribute at all levels to its development and culture and to remain here to work and live. To be able to start and complete undergraduate courses on the North-West Coast would be an achievable, sustainable investment in social and intellectual capital—that is, our future.
My call for targeted regional policy is not the result of a handout mentality, contrary to what the former member for Braddon said after the election. It is in the name of a people used to doing things for themselves. It is a call for assistance at a time of crisis so that we can help ourselves. We have proved that we can do it in Braddon, for we have many success stories. We have the skills, the knowledge, the expertise and, most importantly, the people to compete with the best.
It is my goal to see a West/North-West Regional Authority established to assist and promote economic development. We must aggressively market our region both within and outside Australia. There is everything to gain by doing business cooperatively, differently, aggressively, but in partnership. It can happen in Braddon only if we share the desire to make it happen.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who assisted me on my long journey to this House—in particular, Senator Kay Denman, Colette Chinn, Brenton Best, Michael Tate and all those ALP colleagues who have supported me since 1991.
To achieve public office means scrutiny of character and personal qualities. Some of these in me, alas, are perhaps flawed, but others are for the better. I thank my mother and my father, who is with me today, for the core moral and social values that, along with their great love and affection, have shaped my life; my brothers and sister for their personal support; Margaret, Malcolm and Pauline and my long-time friends Kyron and Steve—who are also here with me today—Julie, Vanessa and Shane for showing me what friendship means; my first principal in my first and only college, Tom Bailey, for helping me to aspire; and my past students for keeping me in touch with the future.
My campaign team never faltered in its support and hard work. Thank you to Meryl, Gloria, the two Kerrys, Cris, Norm and Kim. John Dowling, George Robertson, my friend Senator Nick Sherry and Paul Bini drove the campaign and my special mate Matt Tidswell made sure that there was a journey in the first place.
My wife, Bronwyn, and my two beautiful sons, Julian and William, have supported me at every step along the way. I cannot begin to thank them enough for their love and understanding.
The people of Braddon have honoured me with their support, and I will do my best to represent them with energy and integrity. Thirteen-year-old Abby Gardam said in her letter, `Sid, you have what you want; how about giving us a go?' Abby, you are right: I do have what I want, and that is the chance to make a difference, a positive contribution to our community. After all, Mr Deputy Speaker and colleagues, isn't this the real reason why all of us are here in the first place?
Opposition members
—Hear, hear!
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Nehl)
—Before I call the honourable member for Kalgoorlie, I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech. I ask the House to extend to him the usual courtesies.


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Man this game is over a YEAR away. I haz a sad Anyway here are some new details and man does it sound good! Source
This game is shaping up nicely and they still have a year to perfect it. It has all the making of awesomeness. We will know in a year. @MM : Modified the title a bit to make it clearer.
Wow sounds awesome, finally great to see a good dev come out and address what us PC games have been wanting. Now lets hope they execute it.(which they should, it is Id after all) Also today is John Carmack's birthday people!!!!
seems very weird interview "more anti-aliasing and MAYBE a higher resolution"so people get ready to play the game at 1280x720 with 2x AA......but dont worry after fearsome fights between the employees they will add and extra BONUS....IF you preorder it from GameStop "A mouse and keyboard support" i think ID is done with PC gaming(only shabby ports from now on)
This will be a port. However this will be a port iD is backing. I have faith. Carmack has never let us down before.
i was really excited when i first found out about this game awhile ago, now its shaping up to be another disappointing port thats what everyone always says once legendary pc devs first dip into console games and look how that turned out in every other case
My only dislike is how long this game is taking to come out, I've been hearing about it for what feels like 18+ months already (not too sure how long I have actually been hearing about it) and the longer it takes the more people will expect. I just hope it lives up to the hype is all.
It kind of sounds like Hard Truck: Apocalypse with the ability to exit the truck. As such, I am intrigued.


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One week, two big talks from our Educator-in-Chief: "I'm Trayvon" and "Middle-Out vs. Trickle-Down" economics. Despite Carlos Danger and Baby George, can Obama's reframing change minds long-term?
Go ahead and drop that nuke, Harry! Start approving President Obama's nominees, as the Constitution says you are supposed to. Republicans will be Republicans no matter what you do, and you've already been suckered twice by "handshake agreements" that they won't.
At a time when this country needs to pull together, when the world is embroiled in difficult financial and life-changing struggles there are states that are trying to rip our democracy apart.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is exactly the sort of candidate -- an appealing, conservative pragmatist who knows how to govern -- that the Republican Party needs if it wants to win elections.
Sequestration Nation? Department of Defense schools stillhaven't learned the extend of the effects of sequestration cuts, a fact that has rankled DoD teachers and families across the globe, we report. DoD schools across the globe could face up to 22 days of furloughs, but the body that governs these schools is still figuring it out. Some teachers want to find other cuts. "It seems odd that we're told we're mission-essential, but now, we can suddenly be furloughed," one teacher in the UK told me.
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McDonnell Gets By With A Little Help From His Friend As Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) continued his push for education reforms in Virginia, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) stopped by for a little nudge in the right direction, reports the Associated Press. "Jindal was in Richmond for U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's fundraiser, so Gov. Bob McDonnell took the opportunity to have his fellow Republican talk about grading schools on an A-to-F scale and allowing the state to take over chronically failing schools," AP writes.
Unable to win the last two presidential elections, even with the help of unlimited corporate spending and undemocratic voting restrictions, Republicans are now trying to change the rules of the game again.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and the rest of the state's GOP leadership have opposed President Barack Obama's health care law since the start. The ...
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made efforts to stay away from all of the callous and outrageous comments made by his anti-choice allies. Should he win, it's likely Romney could give these anti-choice extremists a seat at the table. Who are these extremists?
Think this year's political focus on women's issues is just some overblown hype fueled by a few rogue Akins and Mourdocks? Think again. I sorted through binders full of Republican candidates, and found a real pattern.
With cameras in tow, Tareq Salahi kicks off underdog bid for Governor's mansion Sept. 16. It is perhaps the first-ever statewide political campaign filmed for an independent reality show.
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I really can't blame the no-show trio, however, for skipping Romney's coronation. I couldn't be bothered to go either and I live for these quadrennial political love-ins. Forget Hurricane Isaac. It was Tampa in August with Romney. That's all the reason I needed to stay home.
Here is one of the most important, and underreported, problems of a Mitt Romney candidacy. Romney doesn't lead as much as follow the loudest voices in his party.


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That is SO misleading. in 8 years of publications there were 3 racist comments all made by the same guy who was dismissed. You make it sound like every publication for 8 years was racist. Hogwash!
The establishment hates this guy with a passion. You are serving as their tool.
If Union County is "cooperating" with the Prosecutors office, and turning over receipts and documentation to show where the money went, then at the very least they should be prosecuted under the OPRA laws for not turning over the same evidence to Tina Renna in her OPRA requests.
If the Prosecutor's office comes back saying they are satisfied that nothing untoward took place, they would still have to explain where the records went if not the money.
The County Government HAS no copy rights to violate. This sounds like a veiled threat. ewwww ya better watch out UCWA, you could be sued. Really? Why would the County want to draw even more attention to their no-bid contract way of doing things? There are LOTS of capable web designers who could have done at least as good a job for a whole lot less money. But the County isn't looking to save the taxpayers money. Or they would have gone out to bid.
The site was not STOLEN you fool, it was a parody. The content of the Union County Watchdog was simply reorganized to look comically similar to the Union County site. Yes, anyone can make an exact copy in short order, but this isn't a duplicate of the County's website, and why would anyone want to duplicate that useless site anyhow? They offer very little of value to the public, it's all fluff and photo ops.
Attacks on John Paff are a VERY reliable indicator for whether the person posting is one of the bad guys. Got secrets? Attack John Paff. The guy is a Libertarian, attacking him for high taxes is the height of absurdity. You know what makes OPRA expensive for the taxpayers? It's when public officials refuse to abide by the spirit of the law, and waste our money vainly attempting to withhold information that is meant to be public.
Of course the public should know how much money was confiscated. Saying that this is part of a criminal investigation may be a convenient way to brush off the public, but it hardly engenders trust in the police.
The only time John Paff's activities cost the Public money is when he WINS in court. If he is WINNING, shouldn't someone interested in saving taxpayers money stop foolishly fighting to keep secrets that aren't meant to be kept?
Of course, I NEVER hear a public official admit that it was THEIR refusal to abide by the OPRA and OPMA laws that cost us taxpayers money. No it's much easier to blame John Paff.
I say Thank God for John Paff, we need more like him.
The Star Ledger clearly has an axe to grind also:
For example:
"There is a history here: Renna is a self-appointed Union County watchdog with a web site that tracks the board's spending and voting habits. She often gets on the freeholders' nerves. Sullivan and his family have been targets. So, it's personal.?
So it's personal? What's wrong with appointing oneself a watchdog? What's wrong with running a website that track's the board's spending and voting habits? Are these state secrets or something. Sullivan and there family have been targets of what? Honest reporting?
The Star Ledger gets so much of its money from government ads that it is in danger of becoming a lapdog rather than a watchdog.
And isn't it a "self-appointed" watchdog too? Or are they now the state owned watchdog? I lean towards the latter description.
Tina Renna is a rare gem in this world. An un-Apathetic citizen watchdog. More kudos to her for being self-appointed. She doesn't draw a salary for what she does, she does what all of us should do. She asks hard questions and demands an answer.
If that isn't considered civil any longer than I say lets have more rudeness. What kind of democracy do we have if the citizens who give a damn get escorted from the room when they ask questions?


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So, you would like to try your hand at writing an adventure. Easy right? Well, yes... er... kind of. To really make an adventure successful you need more than just a great idea and a bunch of cool monsters, although that's an excellent start! You need proper spelling, grammar, and formatting. You need a solid layout with jaw-dropping artwork and top-notch cartography. You a... [click here for more]
Something happened in the darkness of Gettysburg--something that scarred Ronan Lynch for life. Now, years later, he wanders the West finding trouble and generally shooting it for a price.
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Ronan and crew are hired by none other than Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson to keep the law in Dodge City on the Fourth of July. Angry Rebels and drunken mobs aren't the worst of the deputies' problems, however: the Butcher has come to town!
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Title: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Author: Candice Millard
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A riveting account of James Garfield's rise to the presidency, his attempted assassination by an unhinged office seeker, and his eventual death at the hands of inept doctors.
-Mark at KDL's Krause Memorial branch
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James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.
But the shot didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his condition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.
Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.


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"Great clean hotel"
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"Good hotel, near 95 and Boca Raton Town Center"
Hotel has nice staff, room is clean and comfortable. Good free internet. Excellent locationExpedia 真实住客点评
"Great for FAU student dropoff"
I reserved and prepaid for a standard double, but because they were oversold, I was given a king suite, which worked out just fine. All of the staff were very pleasant and the room was very spacious and accommodating.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Hight price -- have to pay for all services."
No inclusive breakfast. Limi9ted menu grill. Nothing to support ptice of room.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Nice Location"
Nice Hotel because close to Boca Town Center (shopping), Close to bunches of good restaurants, Facility renewed everything look new...carpets, wall, bathroom, loby etc... Rate is fair enough! Yes you can stay there...Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Convenient, Comfortable and Pleasant"
It was very enjoyable staying at this hotel. There were healthy food choices at the convenient main floor restaurant. The location is convenient and lovely.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Close to Business Location"
The clerk checking me in asked me if I had a floor preference. I said no. She then put me on the third floor without telling me that the elevator was broken. I then had to walk to the elevators on the other end of the building and then walk back to my room, which was right next to the broken elevator. To top it off, neither key worked, so I had to walk […] all the way back down to the front desk. I asked for a room on the first floor, which was very close and convenient. Why wasn't I offered that room in the first place? 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Great modern hotel if you have to be around there"
Convenient location if you have business around Glades Road,lots of dinner options around.Great modern room, love the "market" with take out options and the cafe with Starbucks and healthy food options.Nice area to sit , read the paper, watch TV.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Night before boarding cruise ship"
Hotel was very comfortable and clean. We went out for dinner and stroll on the beach a few miles away from hotel. Staff were polite and helpful. Room was what it looked like on the internet.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"OK if you're a very early riser"
Was awakened by the collection of trash (from the restaurant next door) at 5:04 A.M. on a Saturday morning. Awakened again sometime later but still before 8 AM by the delivery of food to the restaurant next door.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"My review"
My stay could have been better. I ordered breakfast in their bistro and I saw one of the waitress give my breakfast to another person that ordered after me. I waited for 1/2 hour before someone came out to ask me if what they had in their hand was mine. I stated no. They made me a new breakfast. When I got to my room half of my breakfast was missing. […] At the head of the bed the bed skirt had hair, dust, filth there. I also found a bottle cap on the floor and it was not mine. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Newer hotel, nicely done"
new hotel with comfortable rooms, convenient to highway, restaurants close byHotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great hotel"
Great hotel and good location. Close to I-95, restaurants and stores.Expedia 真实住客点评
Our party of 12 arrived about 5:00pm - our reservations were made months ago and prepaid. They said they were overbooked - they spent considerable time trying to locate 4 rooms for us - finally after much consultation they came up with 3 and the 4th was not what we reserved but had to settle for it. The only thing they offered was if we came again to […] let them know and they might be able to give us an upgrade! I don't think we will be going again! 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Great location in Boca to stay and visit"
This hotel is located in the financial district of Boca Raton and in the vicinity of great restaurants like Stephane's, Heuston's and grill52. Hotel itself is an older building, but you get to save a lot of money and spend it on shopping and dining. Strongly recommend. After all its location, location and location that countsExpedia 真实住客点评
"Comfortable hotel in a quiet area, easy access"
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Everything was great, you had to pay for every bit of food which was a little expensive but the place was very clean and everyone was very polite. Will be staying there again in 4 months.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
My only complaint is the coffee maker did not work.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Clean and convenient"
Rooms were nicely appointed and clean but beds not particularly comfortable; limited breakfast options and pricey; staff was very pleasant but hotel is a little tricky to find at night and convenient parking is limited. Probably the biggest complaint was the bed, otherwise adequate.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"easy access of highwau"
Very comfortable room. Love the bed and pillow!!Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"great hotel for everyone"
This was the 3rd hotel we stayed at after our trip to Antigua. We flew in to south beach and stayed at a hotel which was horrible. This hotel was great, great location would def. Recommendthis hotel.Expedia 真实住客点评
Very nice front desk staff and great breakfast and clean room. Located in a nice area close to several dining options and shopping.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great place to stay for business travel"
This Courtyard was a great option for my business travel. I would have given it all 5-stars, but the air conditioning unit was kind of a pain when you sat at the desk. The cold air would blow right on you when you worked on the desk. If you turned the air off completely, the room would get really humid. I would recommend not having the air conditioning […] unit right next to the desk. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"would never stay here again"
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"Too expensive, for too little."
The room we booked turned out to be very small for paying a very high rate. Through hotels.com we paid an additional fee for breakfast for everyone staying in the room, Marriott Courtyard only honored it for one person. It should be avoided, if at all possible.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Nice to stay, expensive for the area."
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I enjoyed my stay at this hotel. which delivered the quality I expect from Marriott Courtyards. It was clean, quiet, and the staff was friendly. Comfortable bed, flat screen TV, plentiful and easily accessible plug outlets for laptops chargers, etc. Only knock I can give it is that there was no frig in the room.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Nice hotel and convenient location"
hotel was clean and modern, and in a good location. Stayed for one night, reserved a couple of days ahead since went to Boca Raton to celebrate a friends birthday and did not want to drive back to Miami that night.Expedia 真实住客点评
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I stayed at this hotel for one night while on business in Boca Raton. I arrived at around 10 PM and was able to grab a quick bite in the Bistro, a small bar/restaurant right in the lobby. It was fine but ridiculously overpriced. They do it because they have a captive audience -- there is no inexpensive dining within walking distance. Also beware about […] where you park. When I checked in, the agent asked me where I had parked. When I told her, she said that was part of the restaurant across the street, and that I would have to move my car. But the hotel itself, and the room, were just fine. I would consider this place again if I happened to come back to Boca. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Boca Raton Mariott Courtyard"
Our six day stay was a very pleasant experience. The hotel staff was helpful, the room was very nicely decorated, the location was quiet and the price was very fair. Altogether a very positive experince.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Renovation looks great...until a cockroach in room"
The lobby has a beautiful facelift to comply with Courtyard by Marriott brand standards, but the air wasn't high enough in the hotel so it felt and smelled musky. Underneath the paint in the room, you could still tell that some of the bathroom fixtures were dated. What killed the experience for me really was the cockroach that was an inch big in the […] bathroom. It just made me feel paranoid the rest of the time I stayed there. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"A Good "Bang For Buck" In Boca"
My recent stay at the Mariott Courtyard in Boca Raton FL. was outstanding! The staff was very friendly and the amenities within the room (ironing board, hair dryer, coffee maker, etc) were a welcome site. The room had free WiFi and a small business center which offered computers, printers, etc. The grounds and hotel facility was very clean and well […] kept. The on-site laundry, pool, hot tub, snack bar and small fitness room (a few cardio machines) was a bonus. The lobby also served complimentary Starbucks coffee which was a nice touch. Anytime I asked for something at the front counter, it was a done deal and a very pleasant experience. A very convenient and nice place to stay for the money. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Loved Boca Raton Courtyard"
The staff at the Courtyard proved extremely helpful at all times. The hotel was very clean with the exception of the pool/sun patio area. The pool itself was not swept and was a bit dirty. There was a lot of garbage in the landscaping around the pool. It was a beautiful environment, but needed a quick clean-up.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Not Impressed"
rooms were very small and cramped. felt Claustorphobic. The common area (coffee bar, etc.) were very nice. Possible the rooms overlooking the pool are nicer and more open.Expedia 真实住客点评
Busque la conveniencia de la cercanía a FAU, Town Center y Universitarios Commons. Me agrado que logre el objetivo en un hotel muy limpio y relativamente actualizado, a un precio muy razonable, las habitaciones tienen la medida correcta para servirte ocupadas máximo 2 personas.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
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Aardman Digital Designs New Fansite for The 99
THE 99 is a comic book brand and animated TV show created with the intention of providing new role models for young people all over the world. The superheroes are based on Middle Eastern principles and Islamic archetypes that possess values that are shared worldwide.
Aardman Digital, the digital arm of Aardman, has been commissioned to devise and develop a multinational, inclusive digital home for THE 99. The exciting new website will eventually be a bilingual brand site that includes sophisticated and cleverly designed mechanics which allow children from across the world to work together, no matter what language they speak, to play and socialize within the world of THE 99.
"The animation successes and unique understanding of a child's imagination made Aardman the standout creative choice to help shape the digital future of THE 99 Kids. And boy, did we make the right choice!" says Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, CEO, Teshkeel Media Group.
The new fansite contains videos, single and multi-player games, a character guide with in-depth profiles, and tons of free 'downloadables' along with never-before-seen features appropriate to THE 99 Kids viewing audience. THE 99 Kids site will be added to monthly with new features, games and fun things to do.
Jemma Kamara, Digital Producer at Aardman adds, "I met Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa at a conference last year after hearing about THE 99 comic books. I was immediately intrigued by the brand because of its values and objectives, and the engaging way it has created new role models for youngsters all over the world. For us, the challenge was how to create a truly multinational experience where language and cultural differences didn't get in the way of playing together. We came up with an idea that allows kids from all over the world to play collaboratively together by working towards common goals, all of which is underpinned by the values of the brand. We have lots of exciting content in development that we will be releasing over the next few months. We really can't wait to see how the fans react to the new site.
The site offers good, safe fun to be had on a computer screen, tablet and smart phone, enabling fans all over the world to interact with the brand on-the-go.


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Photo memories of 18 first computers
By Nicole Nash , June 10, 2010, 8:17 PM PST
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About Nicole Nash
Nicole Bremer Nash is Director of Content and Social Media for HuTerra, where she uses SEO and social media to promote charitable organizations in their community-building and fundraising efforts. She enjoys volunteering, arts and crafts, and conduct...
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Nicole Bremer Nash is Director of Content and Social Media for HuTerra, where she uses SEO and social media to promote charitable organizations in their community-building and fundraising efforts. She enjoys volunteering, arts and crafts, and conducting science experiments at home. Nicole has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Transylvania University, and has experience in copywriting for education, print, business, and the web. You can find her on Facebook and Twitter via @HuTerra.
My first computer was built from the plans provides by Popular Electronics and called the COSMAC Elf. 1802 processor and 256 bytes of memory. I expanded the memory to 1024 bytes of RAM and 1024 bytes of ROM later in its life. I still have it squirreled away in a box someplace in the garage.
My first computers were the Atari 400 followed by the Atari 800 series. Loved that basic language.
My dad bought me my first computer, a Commodore 64, when I was 15. Anytime my parents were out home, I used to open the case and look the circuitry inside. I remember clearly trying to control a junk step motor through the modem port, sending those great 'poke' commands to toogle the pin voltages. Next day, with an angry dad barking me to explain the technician how I blew up the C64, I was amazed at how they replaced the dead IC and brought the computer back to life in just minutes. Decades later, there must be quite a few kids out there, blowing things up on their hobby circuits designed by me. The loop is closed.
Comm64.. What a beauty..I did an entire "Scarab 38ft" boat costing (575 separate parts) on one of these.Slow but got there in the end...
This was my first! I was s suprized when I saw the pic. I didn't think anyone else ever owned one of these. Bought from radio shack around christmas "84. It was top of the line having 2 Floppy drives. It was an apple compatible computer and I primarily used it for word processing. My roommates were glad I had it too. Sold it about "92 to someone who just needed a word processors. I included my 9 pin dot matrix printer. It got me through school.
I learned to use a computer on the Apple II, at Genesis Club in the early '90s, and jumped at the chance. I'd been fascinated with computers ever since they came on the market (late '80s). Although I couldn't really say I'm a geek - am very technically challenged: attracted to technology, but don't have the ability.
In the early 70's I used the IBM 1130, IBM 360 and PDP-8 computers at San Diego State. I had to carry boxes of cards from my classroom to drop off at SDSU. In 1973 my SD Community College classroom received a Wang 600 programmable (http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang600.html) calculator so we could program right in the classroom. The term microcomputer or personal computer had not yet been invented, but we used the Wang 600 to teach scientific and commercial programming. In addition to the 2K memory, we had the cassette tape drive for data and program storage. We also had a drum printer and an IBM Selectric typewriter for I/O. We used machine code to program everything. A few years later, the school bought a locally manufactured computer based on the Motorola 6800 chip that could address 64k of memory. BASIC in ROM was placed at the 32k boundary because who would ever need more than 32k? It had a TTY with paper tape for I/O. The first pc that I owned personally was one manufactured in Texas that had 3 processor cards - Z80, Motorola 6800 and 6502. Depending on boot choice, we could run CPM, DOS, MDOS, Unix or Apple programs. My second pc was a 1986 Radio Shack IBM PC compatible. I still have both. I booted them up after the year 2000 and both had no trouble with the Y2K problem, unlike some of my later devices. Great memories!
I still have a Compaq like the one pictured. Still have the original 5 1/4 disks containing Lotus 1,2,3 and work processor programs too. Still works too. I also had a VIC 20 my Dad bought for me back when the came out in the early eighties. Those were heady days. Being able to write your own programs and play games (remember "picking and poking"?).
Kind of a screw-up... What about the Altari 8800, the IMSAI 8080, and the SCELBI-8H? They were around before any you showed, and were available in both kit and finished form. "First" 18 computers - indeed...
I think you should add the word Personal in the title. The first 18 were mainframes - Colossus, Eniac, Maniac, Atlas etc.
The Digi-Comp was the very first computer that I had as a youngster and enjoyed programming it with the plastic pegs and enjoyed making it count up and down in binary.
Now THAT was a TI-99 system!! I'll bet he had full voice synthesis with that get up. I always borrowed my buddies once and a while for basic courses. The voice programs I wrote were creepy!! They sounded almost a good as today's synthetic voice! It was easy to program the inflections to make it sound like a real human was talking!! I bought almost everything for my 1985 IBM Convertible too. I even got the optional monochrome monitor. Looking at the green lettering puts me in a trans like state now. The memories flooding back!
I remember the Apple 2 Europlus in school. we used to open the top and plug the game paddles directly into the mobo. Our physics teacher was constantly unplugging the paddles :)
The first computer I used at my job was not a PC, it was, I believe, a Burroughs, (don't remember the model #,maybe L5000?) but it took up a whole room, read a strip on 9x13 cards, had a separate reader and printer and the computer itself was huge. That was in the early 1970's. We've come a long way, baby!
The first computer I got to fool with was a PDP-15, followed by a 360/25 and then the university's gigantic GE-635. . . (200K 36-bit words!) and the last of the pre-PC computers I used regularly was a Data General S/250. In addition to the custom programs I worked on, the S/250 supported over a dozen simultaneous WordPerfect users up through version 4.05. I wasn't impressed by PCs much 'till they got powerful enough to run WordPerfect. . . That wasn't 'till after the IBM PC came out. . . Then I got one of the very first "white label" PC-XT clones. Does this make me a fossil?
Sanyo (MBC-550) and TI both created machines that were 'almost' IBM compatible. The Sanyo one were inexpensive and ran quite a bit of IBM software but not all which doomed them. TI made a very good, very expensive high end machine with gorgeous graphics for the time. Being less compatible than even the Sanyo they quickly marched to oblivion. My manager had one, only because his brother worked for TI & he got it really cheap. The Tandy 1000 may qualify here, ran a 80186 chip so it was faster than a bog standard XT, booted to DOS from ROM as well I think. Suffered from odd compatibility glitches.
Started with a ZX81 then progressed to a Dragon 64 - made in Wales I believe. Advanced for its time - but the company went bust - bad management. Had tape plug in and ability to pload from a solid state cartridge (basically a large usb :-)) Then an ATARI STFM with built in disk AND GUI
Was pleased to seem an image of the Kaypro. Bought one in San Francisco in 1984 & brought back to Australia. Started what has been a 25+ year adventure in IT. However the Kaypro was probably the first of a series of bleeding edge bad bets. I have made a number of incorrect choices at the beginning of new technological developments - but hey, that's how you learn.
In all these looks at old computers I have yet to see a photo of the SB-180 which was produced by a small firm in Connecticut. Does anyone recall this and is there a photo out there somewhere? llh
I still have my TI 99/4 A in a box in my basement.. Can't wait to show my 1 year olds what daddies first computer looked like in a few years!!!
If you like re-living old memories about your days writing program onto audio cassette, or if you just long to create stacks of punchcards, then perhaps oldcomputers.com is the site for you. I stumbled across this site a while ago, and every now and then, glance back at what once was high tech. It's amazing how much they look like junk now.
You forgot the Tandy 1000. I had one with 2 floppies and an RGB color monitor. Loved it!
There are two computers I remember starting with. One of them was a Texas Instrument computer that used cartridges and the other was a Commodore-like computer that had two floppy drives and no hard drive. That one I have especially fond memories of since we had games for it like "New York Adventure," "The Golden Wombat," and "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade"(the most graphically advanced game we owned). Man, I loved that computer. If anyone else remembers any of those games, would you happen to know where I could find a copy of "The Golden Wombat?"
Oh I loved the Commodore 64 had the whole nine yards.. the tape drive.. two hard drives (lots of 5 1/4 flippies).. the Commodore monitor.. spent lots and lots of hours writing programs and games for this one.. still have it packed away..I always thought at the time that I would NEVER fill up the 64 ram of memory :) Dave Wilson
The Heathkit H-29 is the display monitor only. The computer in the picture is the H-8. firstname.lastname@example.com
The Apple ][ was the first Apple computer that was not a kit. Although the base unit came with 4K of RAM, I immediately opted for the 48K version when I purchased it in 1978, so I could do meaningful work. Apple's Integer Basic was built into the ROM of the machine, and it came with a tape cassette for loading / saving programs, and I also purchased a black-and-white 9" monitor (not an Apple product, as their original computers were meant to be plugged into your own monitor or TV). The operating 8-1/2" x 11" manual was maroon colored with white writing on the cover. Inside, the pages looked like they had been typed on a typewriter (not typeset), and there were hand-written margin notes by the Apple engineers. I still have that computer, and the manuals that came with it, and was happy to pay the $3500 asking price for this amazing piece of technology. As time progressed, I upgraded the memory to 64K, added a Z80 card, and eventually two floppy drives (140K each). About four years after purchasing the basic unit, I added a Corvus 5MB hard drive (price of the drive in 1981 was $5,000) and created my first Point-of-Sale software using Ashton Tate's Dbase II database language.
Wang 2200 series (straddling the prog calculator and a computer); the Altos range (running Unix); the Datapoint machines with the very first networking connection AND the first VLSI (the RIM chip, Resource Interface Module; the networking part of the computer). They are company who sold Intel the 8008 instruction set and Intel eventually squeezed it onto a chip. And the rest is history ...
With my first real job, one that I got myself, parents did not help at all. I used my second paycheck with my savings to buy and Atari 800 computer. Half the price of an Apple and I already owned an Atari 2600 Video game. Then after playing only games or writing Atari Basic (very much like HP Basic) I started to use the 4 joystick ports as two 8bit I/O ports. After having them switch on/off red LED's (the only color in 1982). I hooked them to 8bit Digital to Analog converters to move motors to angle mirrors to aim laser beams like at the Laser Light shows. The audio input was from the cassette tape data recorder, it was only a 1 bit sampler but it input the beat rate of the music to change the mirrors (two angles) to aim the beams of red lasers. Later for a blue Krypton 5 watt beam that we aimed at the moon and could see at night. They had yet to make an affordable green laser so we could not do RGB full color.
I remember back in 1977 helping author Rescue from the Death Star. Our TTY text adventure went over the 256K the HP time sharing system allowed each school to have for storage. We to store and backup programs had to use the 7bit Ticker tape to keep copies of programs. Over time the game got so popular we were given our own member area of a huge 512K. Over time it became 37 programs with 54 data files holding maps and data. In time with compacting and pruning the code we used 362K with 442 rooms and could have 63 people playing at the same time. The game got removed from the system in 1981 because it was using to much of the time sharing time slots. The problems of making a program be so much fun.
So do you remember ever waking from a daze, after your physics teacher hypnotized you into a trace over Apple junk believing it was great. And spending money on anything but Apple stuff was like a sin to the all mighty Steve Jobs.
I've only seem photos of those old computers, it seems like they still used tubes and the silicon parts were in inch's of size mot fractions of an inch. And punch cads held data, even before ticker tape
I was taking my secomd year of physics, and one day a fellow student brought in his fathers kit. Every one was fascinated by it. My teacher was admazed by it, The last comomputer he saw was the size of the Industrial frig in the back of the room the Biology class keep their experiments in. And it had a big red skull and cross bones on it to warn you about it.
Only ever was one in a Byte Mag ad. But when it vanished many Byte readers wanted to know why such a cool name vanished. The Z-80 SX computer made great controllers for things like home made Robots, but never seemed to make it into the media environment. But processing the step by step actions of decisions, some thing that cost less than a bengy and needed a human to pick the correct action. That was far cheaper that a person who would suffer boredom thus costing big bucks to employ or a good flow of replacements.
It is not that you made the wrong pick, you made the right pick with new innovative technology. It was the company that made the tech you bought the ones who made the bad choices. What you selected may not have been a good and wise selection, but in America you are educated to believe you always make the right selections. And if you get blamed for bad happenings you blame someone else. You can see this culture flaw every where today. There use to be a I made the choice and am proud of it because I was man enough to make a choice.
Are you going to have your one year old baby watch some Dinosaur films first. So your child has the concept of old. Or make grampa and gramma play video games against you so your baby knows what old is. Because age to a one year old is like how do you get to the moon for a grade schooler.
I recall a few years back when I use to get PC Mag. One of their Sites they recommended was this old computers site, most likely the same place. It was like digging in the Colorado hills (other states they would be mountains by here a 1000 foot mound of dirt and rock is a hill) for dinosaurs bones. And finding your old computer stuff was like finding a new kind of Dinosaur. And the few years was actually more like Turn of the Century time, so a decade ago. But those old clunkers were marvels of technology at there time. Almost like finding the first Trilobite fossil.
The first Texas Instruments computer I recall is the TI-99 and I think Radio Shack sold them locally in Denver for around 6 months, then the Trash 80 (TRS-80) Model One came out. Remember 16k to start and a 32x16 text screen on TV. Next year came the TI-99A and plenty of expantion options, even a S-100 like clone box but think it only had a 50 pin bus. Do not recall the CPU, but it was a rare kind. It even had a drawing tablet, some thing like a 4x3 inch pad, and a thermal ink printer. TI had computer things but never got big or any more popular than My dad worked for them and got me this computer at employee discount prices.
Reading the description on Golden Wombat reminded me of Infocom Games. We had tons of those because my brother (the boy genius) played them. We even had the good ole "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which I tried my hand at but couldn't get very far. We had the official "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" book but it didn't help me. The only one I got close to solving was one of the first one's with a female main character. Can't remember what it was called, but it had something to do with pirates. But those were games where you actually had to use your brain!
Haven't downloaded it myself but I'm sure you've got safeguards in place to make sure you're protected from malware. http://www.darkneon.com/copy/various/wombat/wombat.html
In 1983 when I upgraded to an Atari 800XL it allowed memory bank switching, simular to the 40K to 48K that the Atari switched in and out as cartridges where added or removed. With the bank switching of the 256K chips I could have 216K of free RAM, less if you used the memory as a RAM Disk. And made finding the closest and easiest fraction to use as PI. Today on today's 32/64 bit machines that week would happen in hours. But the clock rate of half the TV channel band with of 3.58 MHz was speedy back then. Now days it's 1000 times faster in the Giga not Mega range. How long until the Tera range.
A friend of mine had a home built Heathkit 8080 system that he upgraded to a Z-80, and loved the CP/M OS. He first started with an Altar 8080 system built on proto typing peg boards with wire wraping connections. When the IBM PC came out he was first in line to order one. Then when Windows 3.0 came out he was proclaiming 'Apple stuff this' I used Win 3.0 for 4 months on my old AMD K-6 (386 but better and faster) PC that I built by collecting hardware parts I put in a full tower case.
It seems the editors of the posting here are Apple fans. When I picked Atari over Apple in 1980. Atari was a far better game and graphics with sound system. Really began to hate them when the Atari ST started. Wondering why everyone was so dumb in picking a B/W small screen with no real joystick or game ability's. And saying I ever owned a Apple computer is as insulting to me as saying I'm gay or HIV+, so please correct your error so I only feel insulted once not every day. But I do not hate those that pick a MAC, because as the 80's band DEVO once sang 'It's a Freedom of Choice' in the song 'Freedom of Choice'. P.S. But I guess it's the System Controllers (SysOps) here choice also.
Hi Found a link on Wikipaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64 for the Dragon 32 and 64. Interesting that it talks in present tense like its still in use ! Its got some picture as well
I loved Infocom games, managed to get so much atmosphere into text-based adventure games! I still have Hitchikers and Wishbringer. I still occasionally play them on my iPod Touch using Frotz. You also got great extras in the boxes. Hitchikers came with pocket fluff, a microscopic space fleet and 'Don't Panic' glasses! :) Russ
A Dinosaur of the industry going back to the 50's told me, Everytime I work on my MacTel, I drink several shots of booze, so I can loose 100 IQ points. I don't know how many FCP users I've asked, what codec are you rendering to, and they can not tell me. I know there are many Mac Pros, have no doubt and seen some great things, I'm just astonished Jobs still wants to sell an OS for 2k. The iToys is their bread and butter, I like the new iPhone, but they have shot themselves in the foot to not bring OSx to the PC world, they must wear special shoes! LOL
I think you were a postman in it weren't you? I had the stone, it was nice little clear crystal in a velvet drawstring bag but I think the dog ate it! :) Got a letter and map in there still though. No one else ever gave you the great stuff in the box that Infocom did as far as I know.
That was the only one I actually did solve. If I remember correctly I liked that one because it came with a Wishbringer "stone". :D


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The Reconstruct Furniture project from my senior thesis last year was an interesting project to work on. During the Design Does senior show, Reconstruct received a lot of feedback, both positive and negative.
Reconstruct Furniture at the Design Does exhibition last April. Photos of the exhibition taken by Lou Caltabiano and Amy Li
In order to further push the line, I knew I needed to recruit a team member who had skills and knowledge that would benefit the furniture most. For that, I looked to Matthew Malesky, who is also a University of the Arts alumni. Malesky was a woodworking major and now practices his art professionally in the Philadelphia area.
In order for us to make this project successful, we are trying to garner help from a lot of our contacts around the city and its outskirts. Our material is waste from a local Pennsylvania-based panel manufacturer with a keen eye for sustainability and responsible industry practices. We're planning on devising better marketing techniques and entirely rebranding the project. Branding and marketing aren't our strong points, so we're going to Brolik Productions for that. Brolik is an interactive marketing agency that has built a reputation for top-notch service and hugely successful projects. Our friends over at Postgreen are helping with consultation and advice, as well as providing a setting for photographs in their beautiful homes. Production of the furniture is going to be done at NextFab Studio. NextFab is an awesome place in the city that not enough people know about. It's a high-tech, efficient "gym for innovators." Their equipment ranges from plasma cutters, laser cutters, CNCs, and 3D printers to traditional shop tools like table saws, miter saws, and various bandsaws.
Our experimentation and development of this project wouldn't be possible without funding help from The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy. Their Creative Incubator program offers a chance to compete for various grants to be used to grow creative ideas into both non-profit and for-profit businesses. Senior fellow of the Corzo Center, Neil Kleinman, is extremely helpful in both advising and expanding contacts for more particular advice.
Please stay tuned, as we're ironing out the branding/domain/hosting now as we finalize designs. We're both very excited to be working on this project, and we hope that some people out there may be too.