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Remembering Nelson Mandela
He was called Madiba, a clan name that was used as a term of affection.
The world knew him as Nelson Mandela — the charismatic leader of the African National Congress, the first black person elected president of South Africa, and one of the most revered leaders in the world.
Mandela died Dec. 5, 2013. He was 95.
Mandela was born in the Transkei in South Africa on July 18, 1918, a son of the chief of the Thembu tribe. He joined the ANC in 1944 and later battled against the National Party's political system of racial separation, known as apartheid. Mandela went on trial for treason in 1956, and the ANC was banned in 1960. Mandela was acquitted in 1961, but three years later, he and others were sentenced to life in prison for "sabotage, treason and violent conspiracy."
"Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won," Mandela said in 1961. "The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."
Mandela's release from prison in 1990 after more than 27 years was a worldwide news event. By then, the chokehold of apartheid was slowly loosening its grip on South Africa's black majority. Almost immediately, Mandela picked up the struggle where he had left off, vowing to forever dismantle the policy of "apartness" that for decades had deemed the country's black majority less than human. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, which he shared with then-South African president F.W. de Klerk.
In July 1993 when he was in the United States to receive the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal, Mandela was the featured guest at the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation that champions the First Amendment as a cornerstone of democracy, and is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum. Mandela, who was running for president of South Africa, spoke about freedom in his country and around the world.
Adam Clayton Powell III, a former vice president of the Freedom Forum who is currently a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy, recalled a private moment before Mandela spoke.
"While we were being seated, the AP ran an update from the CODESA talks announcing they had just announced an election date the following April," Powell said. "So, I introduced him as 'the next president of South Africa.' He broke into a big grin, and then he covered the mic and said, 'No one has ever introduced me that way before.' I then covered my mic and said, 'Get used to it.'"
Few images better captured political change in South Africa than news photographs of South Africans waiting in long lines to vote in 1994 — the first time in the nation's history that the black majority, seven out of 10 people, had been allowed. One of the ballot boxes used in the historic election that Mandela won the presidency is part of the Newseum's permanent collection.
Mandela served one term as president of South Africa. He left office in 1999.
NORAD Tracks Santa
The Newseum is once again proud to be a member of the NORAD Tracks Santa team for 2013!
NORAD Tracks Santa began December 24, 1955, when an incorrect phone number encouraging children to call Santa on Christmas was printed in a local Sears Roebuck and Co. newspaper advertisement. Instead of Santa, the number actually dialed the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Air Operations Center, NORAD's predecessor organization, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, the commander on duty that night, informed callers he was not Santa, but told them he could look on his radar and tell them Santa's location as he made his Yuletide journey across the globe.
From this act of timely kindness emerged a program that today is institutionalized throughout NORAD, which took over operations from CONAD in 1958. Each year since, NORAD has dutifully reported Santa's location on Dec. 24 to millions of children and families across the globe who inquire as to his whereabouts.
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Editor's Note: "Is There a Santa Claus?" is the most reprinted newspaper editorial in American journalism. In the spirit of that tradition, the Newseum has published the story behind it since 2007. It remains one of our most popular stories online.
American journalism's best-known editorial, a timeless tribute to childhood and the Christmas spirit, marked its 116th anniversary this year.
The editorial was published beneath the headline "Is There a Santa Claus?" in 1897 in the New York Sun, a gray but lively newspaper that began as a penny paper in 1833. The editorial's author was Francis Pharcellus Church, a veteran journalist who was assigned to write a reply to a letter from an 8-year-old named Virginia O'Hanlon.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus," Virginia had written. "Papa says 'if you see it in the Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?"
"Virginia, your little friends are wrong," Church replied. "They have been afflicted by the skepticism of a skeptical age."
A few sentences later, Church invoked the editorial's most memorable passages: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus."
"Is There a Santa Claus?" was given an obscure place in the Sun, in the third of three columns of editorials on Sept. 21, 1897. It was oddly timed, too — an editorial about Santa Claus appearing in September, three months before Christmas.
But over the years, the editorial became a classic in American journalism, and easily the most memorable item ever published in the Sun. That venerable newspaper folded in January 1950.
The Sun remained a storied name in American journalism, and the name was revived in April 2002 by owners of a new conservative-oriented daily in New York. The resurrected Sun laid claim to its predecessor's legacy, adopting its logo — which proclaimed the Sun "shines for all" — and its elaborate nameplate.
"Yes, Virginia," the Associated Press said of the new newspaper, "there is a New York Sun again."
The new Sun lasted just six, money-losing years in New York's hypercompetitive media market and published its final issue on Sept. 30, 2008. Thus, "Is There a Santa Claus?" outlived two incarnations of its natal newspaper.
So what explains such longevity? Why is the editorial so endlessly appealing?
Several answers offer themselves.
"Is There a Santa Claus?" lives on because it's such a rarity — an all-around cheery story, one without villains or sinister forces.
For many adults, the editorial stirs memories of Christmases past, when they, too, were young believers.
The editorial also offers a connection to a time quite different from ours, a time before jet aircraft, television and the Internet. It is somehow reassuring to know that what was engaging in 1897 remains appealing now.
The editorial lives on as a reminder of the lyrical heights that journalism, on occasion, can reach.
W. Joseph Campbell, a former Newseum scholar, is a tenured professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, including "Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misrepresented Stories in American Journalism" and "The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms," in which the story of "Is There a Santa Claus?" is told.
Related Links:Newseum Membership: The Perfect Holiday Gift
For the news junkie or museum lover in your life, a Newseum Press Pass membership makes the perfect holiday gift! Now is a great time to share the many benefits of membership — including unlimited free admission for a year and access to exclusive events — offered at a 20% discount for a limited time. Plus, receive two free guest tickets for each gift membership purchased through Dec. 20.
Membership benefits include:
- Unlimited free admission for a full year
- Priority seating at Newseum programs
- Invitations to special member events
- 10 percent discount in the Newseum Store and Food Section
- 15 percent discount on lunch at The Source by Wolfgang Puck
- Advance notice of cutting-edge programs
- Close-up look at the artifacts and images that made history
- $5 discount on guest tickets (purchased on-site on day of visit)
Purchase your gift memberships online or over the phone at 202/292-6287 by Friday, Dec. 13, to ensure holiday delivery.
Please note the two free guest tickets will be sent from the Membership Department only and cannot be claimed on site.
Offer valid through Dec. 20, 2013.
50 Years Ago in News History: President Kennedy is Assassinated
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas. Kennedy was in the city to mend a feud within the Texas Democratic Party and to rally support for his re-election bid.
At 12:34 p.m. CST, United Press International issued the first bulletin, which signaled a tragic day for the country and an unprecedented day for broadcast news:
"Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today in downtown Dallas."
Newspaper reporters and photographers scrambled to cover the story from outside the Texas School Book Depository, where the shots originated, and Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was rushed to the emergency room. TV journalists raced to landline telephones to relay updates as the story unfolded.
The three major networks at the time, ABC, CBS and NBC — with their four days of non-stop coverage — established television as the primary source for breaking news. Two days after the assassination, about 93 percent of NBC viewers witnessed the shooting of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on their screens. TV cameras focused on every aspect of the tragedy gave Americans an unprecedented opportunity to stay informed and mourn the loss of the country's 35th president.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, the Newseum will feature exhibits, programs and events that explore media coverage of his presidency, home life and death.
- "Three Shots Were Fired" chronicles the assassination from newspaper field coverage to the live broadcasts of Kennedy's funeral and burial. Never-before-seen artifacts, including Abraham Zapruder's camera, are on display.
- "Creating Camelot" features private images of the Kennedy family from the collection of photographer Jacques Lowe. From 1958 to 1961, Lowe took more than 40,000 photos of the Kennedys' memorable public appearances and unseen private moments.
- An accompanying Newseum-produced film, "A Thousand Days," recounts the youthful glamour the Kennedy family brought to the White House.
The exhibits are open now through Jan. 5, 2014.
- On Nov. 20, Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News and moderator of "Face the Nation," and Clint Hill, a former Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, will share their memories of that day. This program is sold out. Follow it on Twitter at #JFK50.
- On Nov. 22, the Newseum will host "JFK Remembrance Day," featuring a number of daylong events. Follow the programs on Facebook and Twitter at #JFKNewseum.
Newseum Hosts Washington Ideas Forum Nov. 13-14
The Newseum is pleased to partner with The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute to host the fifth annual Washington Ideas Forum Nov. 13 and 14, 2013.
Following the bruising government shutdown and the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the event will bring together government leaders — from both sides of the aisle — as well as top business and media voices for two days of conversation about the serious challenges facing the country — and the possible paths forward.
Visit the 2013 Washington Ideas Forum online to preview featured speakers for 2013 and watch highlights from 2012. This year's event will be live streamed for those unable to attend in person. Follow the conversation on Twitter via @Atlantic_LIVE, @AspenInstitute and @Newseum and join in using #IdeasForum.
Free Admission for Veterans at the Newseum
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WASHINGTON — In honor of our nation's armed services, all veterans and active duty personnel will receive free admission for themselves and one guest on Nov. 11, 2013.
Complimentary tickets are available only at the admissions desk. Military ID, another form of military-service credential, or military uniforms are required.
Find out for yourself why everyone is calling the Newseum the best experience Washington, D.C., has to offer. Each of the seven levels in this magnificent building is packed with interactive exhibits that explore how news affects our shared experience of historic moments.
Don't miss "Three Shots Were Fired," an exhibit that examines news coverage of the events following President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
The "Creating Camelot" exhibit showcases former White House photographer Jacques Lowe's intimate, behind-the-scenes images of John and Jacqueline Kennedy and their children.
In the Big Screen Theater, "A Thousand Days" recounts the youthful glamour the Kennedy family brought to the White House.
Like all Newseum tickets, veterans tickets are valid for two consecutive days.
This offer is not valid in conjunction with other discounts. Limit four, same-day discounted tickets per transaction.
Red Carpet Evening for Sweepstakes Winners
Two lucky Newseum fans got the red carpet treatment at the Oct. 28 premiere of National Geographic Channel's "Killing Kennedy." Judith Bellas of Burke, Va., was selected as the grand-prize winner of the Newseum's "JFK's DC Sweepstakes," which included two tickets to the premiere of the highly anticipated film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Bellas and her husband, James McLaughlin, watched the film in the Newseum's Annenberg Theater along with celebrity guests, including stars Rob Lowe, Michelle Trachtenberg and Will Rothhaar; "Killing Kennedy" author and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly; and the film's cast, writer and director.
"We had a wonderful time!" Bellas said.
The sweepstakes prize package also includes a VIP tour of the Newseum's JFK exhibits; two nights at the Monaco Washington, DC; tickets to other top attractions in the nation's capital, including the National Building Museum, International Spy Museum and Madame Tussauds; and tickets for city tours with Big Bus Tours, Bike and Roll and Washington Walks.
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75 Years Ago in News History: 'War of the Worlds'
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Seventy five years after actor and director Orson Welles scared the daylights out CBS radio's nighttime listeners with his Halloween eve dramatization of the science-fiction novel "War of the Worlds," the power of the realistic-but-phony radio broadcast of an Earth invasion from Mars still endures.
On Oct. 30, 1938, Welles and fellow actors of The Mercury Theatre on the Air performed the dramatization that was written to sound like news bulletins. Though CBS announced several times that the broadcast was a dramatization, the bulletins sounded so authentic — and the actors' performances so convincing — that thousands of panicked listeners believed Martians had landed in New Jersey.
Ninety-two radio stations carried the drama. When it ended, most of them, as well as newspapers and police departments across the country, were swamped with callers seeking clarification and demanding to know if the world was ending.
"Officials of the electric company received scores of calls urging them to turn off all lights so that the city would be safe from the enemy," The Knoxville Journal reported the next day.
After the broadcast, Welles and CBS were roundly criticized. Hundreds of letters and telegrams were sent to the four-year-old Federal Communications Commission. In studies and surveys conducted weeks after the broadcast, some listeners cited the authenticity of the news bulletins as the reason for their fear. But the broadcast did not frighten everyone. About 40 percent of the letters sent to the FCC, and 90 percent of those sent to the Mercury Theatre, were positive.
In the months following "War of the Worlds," Mercury Theatre became "The Campbell Playhouse" through a corporate sponsorship by the Campbell Soup Company. Welles went to RKO Pictures, where he later directed and starred in "Citizen Kane," the critically acclaimed film inspired by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst.
Seventy five years after its debut, "War of the Worlds" remains a testament to the power of radio as a broadcast medium.
The story of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast is told in the Newseum's News Corporation News History Gallery.
"War of the Welles," a new KPCC radio documentary that goes behind the scenes of the radio classic, can be heard on Southern California Public Radio.
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Newseum Voted Among the Best in 2013
WASHINGTON — The Newseum was voted one of Washington, D.C.'s most popular museums in an annual poll conducted by Express, a free daily newspaper issued by The Washington Post.
Readers named the Newseum the city's best "non-Smithsonian museum" in the Arts category. The museum also earned top honors in the "most underrated tourist attraction" and was recognized for its gift store.
For complete poll results, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/
D.C. Open For Business, Despite Shutdown
WASHINGTON — Despite the first government shutdown in 17 years which has forced the closing of many D.C. museums and cultural institutions, numerous attractions, including the Newseum, remain open to tourists.
The Newseum experienced only one group cancellation for the first day of the shutdown, but it also added another group for that day. Walk-in traffic has been brisk. Groups are being booked for the remainder of the week and for upcoming visits. The Newseum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Other popular destinations that are open today include:
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art
- The National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Kreeger Museum
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
- The Phillips Collection
- The International Spy Museum
- National Geographic Museum
- Crime Museum
- National Building Museum
- Koshland Science Museum (open Wednesday –Monday)
- George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
All of these destinations include paid admission. D.C.'s public bus and rail system remains open.
Newseum Hosts JFK Day, Other Events, to Mark Anniversary
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Nov. 22, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Newseum will host "JFK Remembrance Day," featuring a number of daylong JFK-themed discussions with authors, journalists and filmmakers.
All events are included with museum admission.
The Newseum also will rebroadcast in real time three hours of CBS News's live television coverage from Nov. 22, 1963, including the unforgettable moment when legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite reported to the nation that the president was dead.
A full schedule of events will be available as new programs are added.
Schedule of Events
10 a.m.: Screening of "One PM Central Standard Time," narrated by actor George Clooney.
Documentary Theater (90 minutes)
11 a.m.: Gallery Talk: Creating Camelot
Concourse Level (20 minutes)
11:30 a.m.: Dean Owen, author of "Reflections on the Life, Assassination and Legacy of John F. Kennedy," participates in a panel discussion and book signing.
Knight TV Studio (60 minutes)
Noon: Screening of "John F. Kennedy A Legacy Remembered," a 30-minute special produced by Voice of America.
Documentary Theater (30 minutes)
1 p.m.: Screening of "President Kennedy Has Been Shot" and a panel discussion with filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg.
Documentary Theater (60 minutes)
1:40 p.m.: CBS News footage of the events on Nov. 22, 1963, shown on the 90-foot high screen.
New York Times–Ochs-Sulzberger Family Great Hall of News (180 minutes)
2:00 p.m.: Gallery Talk: Three Shots Were Fired.
Sixth Floor (20 minutes)
3 p.m.: James Swanson, author of "End of Days," participates in a panel discussion and book signing.
Knight TV Studio (60 minutes)
3:30 p.m.: Screening of "As It Happened."
Documentary Theater (90 minutes)
Newseum Institute Launches Civil Rights Learning Module
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, the Newseum Institute will add a new civil rights-focused learning module to its online education resource, Digital Classroom. Called "Making a Change," the module will be available to classrooms across the country for teachers and students studying the civil rights movement.
Digital Classroom is a free, cross-disciplinary resource featuring interactive timelines, archival videos and downloadable historical front pages, emphasizing historical connections, media literacy and civics.
In the "Making a Change" module, students and teachers have access to three online interactives, nine lesson plans, 40 archival newsreels and interviews, and more than 200 historical front pages and images. An interactive timeline highlights 100 seminal events in the civil rights movement and allows students to explore print and video news reports that add critical context to key moments. By exploring a civil rights media map, students will be able to compare and contrast how news publications such as The Afro-American and The Washington Post covered such news events as the 1963 March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
For teachers, the site offers comprehensive yet flexible lesson plans designed for middle, high school and college classrooms. These standards-aligned lesson plans will help teachers enhance student engagement with Newseum content, their communities and their peers across the country. As part of the "Making a Change" module, students can submit their own civil rights class work, news reports and local events for inclusion in the interactive timeline and map.
Earlier this month, the Newseum opened "Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement," an exhibit that explores the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation by exercising their First Amendment rights and making their voices heard. The display features a section of the original F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where in 1960 four African-American college students launched the sit-in movement, and a bronze casting of the Birmingham, Ala., jail cell door behind which King penned his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail" in 1963.
The Newseum's Digital Classroom was made possible by the Ford Foundation. More about the Newseum's civil rights initiatives can be found at newseum.org/civilrights.
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Five Freedoms of First Amendment on Display at March 50 Years Ago
Fifty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of his dream of racial equality — setting a historic milepost in the civil rights movement and in the nation's repudiation of the legal and historical stain of slavery.
The means, mechanism and methods of that Aug. 28, 1963, speech were the five freedoms of the First Amendment, given new definition and impact in that moment by an elegant and moving voice.
King's speech was rooted in a religious and philosophical belief of equality: "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent Constitution and Declaration of Independence," King said, those Founders promised "that all men — yes, black men as well as white men —would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Clearly, the right of free speech ensured that an entrenched and powerful system of bigotry backed by laws of segregation and the historical customs of separation could not silence its critics. The rights of assembly and petition guaranteed that hundreds of thousands of marchers — an amazingly diverse group, in peaceful protest on that day and others — could not long be stopped, dispersed or silenced by government forces.
And the amendment also provided that a free press, while shamefully slow in many cases to rise to the challenge, ultimately would document the terrible legacies of slavery — poverty, unemployment and fractured families — as well as provide a living room view of the horrific death spasms of a segregated society. There was no avoiding the evening news views of police dogs and fire hoses loosed on fellow citizens, the magazine articles with indelible images of lynched men, and the newspaper stories and photos of bombed churches and bloody Freedom Riders.
It is no stretch to say that our First Amendment freedoms were never so much in evidence, never more important, and never so essential in providing and protecting the means by which a nation could confront its worst demons without government direction, interference or control.
Just 100 years after the Civil War tore at the fabric of the Union, those freedoms provided the path for the nation to take corrective action by a new set of laws to protect voting rights and against discrimination, and to set in motion new attitudes. Little more than one century after a nationwide controversy was sparked in 1901 when President Theodore Roosevelt invited noted African-American educator Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, the nation saw the election in 2008 of an African-American president, Barack Obama.
To be sure, the effort toward equal rights goes on, as does the role of our five core freedoms in that work.
At a number of programs surrounding the opening of "Make some Noise," a new exhibit at the Newseum noting the events of 1963, speakers and panelists reminded us that the march was not just for "freedom, but also about "jobs." Fifty years later, unemployment for minorities still exceeds by far the jobless rate for whites.
Speakers at the National Mall events commemorating the March expanded the call for equality to all minorities, to gays and to immigrants. Critics also assailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year to end what many see as the essential voter rights protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
Today's legislative and social battles over the major issues of our day are both fueled by First Amendment freedoms and tempered by the "safety valve" aspect of those same rights. We have thus far avoided using those freedoms to avoid the great fear of the Founders, the "tyranny of the majority" that by force, heredity or royal claims had so paralyzed social progress in their time, and which even today plunge many nations into violent convulsions.
Panelists in a July 29 program at the Newseum theorized that King's closing words echo strongly down the halls of our history, because he spoke both to issues and aspiration in great American experience in self-governance, one rooted in five basic freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. He put it this way:
"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God almighty, We are free at last."
Postal Service Unveils Anniversary Stamp
WASHINGTON — To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new Forever stamp at the Newseum on Aug. 23. The stamp completes a series of three that honor the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
The unveiling follows a first-of-its-kind social media campaign by the USPS that asked the public to "take a stand for equality" and add their Facebook profile photos to a mosaic of the stamp design.
Actress Gabrielle Union was on hand to add the final photo and unveil the stamp design. The latest stamp is an impressionistic depiction of a diverse group of protesters bearing signs calling for equal rights and jobs with the Washington Monument in the background.
The program, hosted by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr., featured Rep. John Lewis and deputy postmaster general Ronald Stroman, who jointly dedicated the stamp. In 1963, Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and an organizer of the march.
"This stamp will remind us of the distance we've come, the distance we've traveled, and the distance we must still go before we lay down the burden of race and class and color, and create one America where no one is left out or left behind," Lewis said.
The Newseum observes the 50th anniversary celebrations with two new exhibits focusing on the civil rights movement. "Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement" explores the triumphs and challenges of young civil rights leaders in the 1960s, including Rep. Lewis.
"Civil Rights at 50" is a changing three-year exhibit that explores the formative moments of the movement, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington, through the newspaper and magazine coverage of the era.
The stamp serves as an enduring symbol of the fight for equality and justice.
"It is a powerful image. When you look at it, you can't help but think of the debt that Americans owe those marchers," Stroman said.
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Ron Burgundy himself will have more to say about the exhibit and his legendary career in the coming weeks. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram to be among the first to know all the classy things that are in store for "Anchorman: The Exhibit" at the Newseum.
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" opens in theaters nationwide Dec. 20.
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the U.S. Postal Service will unveil a limited-edition commemorative stamp at a special program held at the Newseum on Aug. 23.
The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the New York Times–Ochs-Sulzberger Family Great Hall of News on Level 1. The stamp will go on sale the same day.
Visitors who want to attend the event must check in at a table located in front of the Newseum beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are limited and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
In the true spirit of participation that surrounded the historic march, the Postal Service for the first time invites the public to help digitally unveil the new stamp and become a part of a virtual stamp mosaic. Individuals can pledge to "take a stand for equality" and add their Facebook or Twitter profile photo to the March on Washington Stamp Mosaic on the U.S. Postal Service Stamps Facebook page. Each photo unveils a small piece of the stamp artwork. As more people participate, the artwork will gradually be uncovered until the full stamp is revealed on Aug. 23.
The Newseum's newest exhibits on the civil rights movement, "Make Some Noise" and "1963: Civil Rights at 50," explore the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation and the watershed moments of the movement from 1963, including the historic March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
Newseum Hosts Civil Rights Youth Summit
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, the Newseum, in partnership with the National Park Service, the National Alliance of Faith and Justice, and the National Park Foundation, hosts the second day of the March on Washington Memorial Youth Mentoring Summit.
The summit will be held on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and will feature participants in the civil rights movement, including Carlotta Walls LaNier and Ernest Green, two of the "Little Rock Nine" students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.
Other guests include Chuck McDew, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1963, and Edith Lee-Payne, whose iconic photo at age 11, taken at the 1963 March on Washington, became a symbol of youth involvement.
Lee-Payne will also appear at a special screening Aug. 25 at the Newseum of "Eye on the '60s," a documentary on Life magazine photographer Rowland Scherman's civil rights images. Scherman took the photograph of Lee-Payne at the March on Washington and will appear with her at the screening.
The Newseum's newest exhibit, "Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement," tells the story of this new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation by exercising their First Amendment rights and making their voices heard. The exhibit opened on Aug. 2.
The summit is free and open to the public, but seats are limited and must be reserved online.
The screening of "Eye on the '60s" is free with paid Newseum admission or Press Pass membership.
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- National Park Service
- National Alliance of Faith and Justice
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With Post Purchase, Bezos Has Chance to Remake Newspaper Model
Jeff Bezos made it clear in founding Amazon.com that he can compete in the marketplace.
We'll just have to wait and see if he can, and will, do the same thing in the marketplace of ideas — that equally combative zone protected and preserved by the First Amendment's provision for a free press.
The historic sale of The Washington Post to Bezos, announced Aug. 5, is most noteworthy in that First Amendment sense, even beyond the already-rising sea of speculation over how its new owner will move it from traditional ink-on-paper distribution to the inevitable one involving electrons.
The First Amendment's protection for a free press doesn't identify any particular owners or even what kind of press gets shelter. But what it does provide for is a news media that functions as the proverbial watchdog on government, ultimately requiring it be a defender, informer and surrogate for citizens who need information on how their government and public officials are functioning.
The Washington Post, once a lightweight also-ran in a long-lost, multi-newspaper era in D.C., built a reputation as one of the nation's foremost newspapers in the 80 years it was owned by the Graham family. The Watergate scandal, of which the Post uncovered and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, summons up a high point in national journalism in the last 50 years.
The paper's leaders were leaders in the industry, from the Grahams as outspoken and courageous publishers, to the inimitable Ben Bradlee, that rare editor whose fame spread beyond the trade, to the unique reporter-movie hero category inhabited only by a few and dominated for more than a generation by Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Certainly the newspaper had its critics, chief among them being those who said it sacrificed objectivity for a liberal voice. And it publicly stumbled at times — handing back a Pulitzer for a story it learned too late was far more fiction than fact.
What made, and makes, the Post truly unique, even with such strong competitors such as The New York Times and the network news operations, was, and is, that it held the government accountable on a daily basis as only a local newspaper can. From relatively mundane matters affecting and afflicting the federal bureaucracy, to the highest reaches of nationwide policy and national security, those were hometown topics, with sources in neighborhoods, as well as in Congress.
And that's where Bezos's highest challenge will be, in terms of the 45 words that include freedom of the press. He's free to take the paper where he will — no government decree or legislation mandates his next moves. Will he be noted for quality, quantity, or neither? Can he sustain that intense focus on policy and process in an era of news as celebrity fluff and pundit chatter?
On "CBS This Morning" Aug. 6, author and journalist Ken Auletta said that one immediate tactic might be to make the Post available for free on Amazon's Kindle reader devices — a huge boost in potential readers at no real cost. A story in The New York Times sounded a warning that Bezos, who it described as having "a sort of libertarian bent," also "will now have a microphone as powerful as anyone in Washington and outside the West Wing."
Bezos does have a chance to be the landmark 21st century owner: Someone with financial pockets deep enough to sustain the quality of a major enterprise like the Post, while it and others search for a long-term solution to lost revenues that fled online where Amazon is preeminent. He touched on both areas — journalism and the future — in a note to Post staffers:
"The values of The Post do not need changing. The paper's duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners. We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, and we'll work hard not to make mistakes. When we do, we will own up to them quickly and completely," Bezos wrote, also noting that he will not run the paper on a day-to-day basis.
As to what's ahead, he told his new staff, "The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition. … There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment."
Bezos's success with Amazon came from taking an old format — the mail-order catalog — and completely reshaping it to a new on-demand era, setting the pace in how businesses market, sell, ship and satisfy their customers.
The new owner also set out a similar plan for his newest enterprise, and with no small irony, it, too, builds on an old idea: "Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about — government, local leaders, restaurant openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports — and working backwards from there."
Perhaps the key to revitalizing American journalism's economic base and editorial vigor is just that: going backward to go forward.
Visitors 'Make Some Noise' about Newseum's Civil Rights Exhibits
WASHINGTON — The Newseum opened two new exhibits Aug. 2 on the U.S. civil rights movement that highlighted the contributions and struggles of students.
With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington approaching on Aug. 28, the timely exhibits underscore how organizers in the movement used the media to garner public support.
"Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement" takes visitors through a timeline of events that defined the movement and its student organizers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
One quotation featured in "Make Some Noise" from Rep. John Lewis, SNCC chair from 1963 to 1966, tells the story well: "Without the media, the civil rights movement would have been a bird without wings," Lewis said. Bringing the fight to America's front pages, the press made an impact on the movement, and as a result, reporters were threatened with violence and were attacked for spreading the word of injustice. Broadcast news reports were particularly instrumental in turning regional struggles into national concerns.
Notable artifacts of civil rights history have a home in the new exhibit, including a section of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter where North Carolina students started sit-in protests in 1960, and a casting of the jail cell door behind which the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. authored the seminal "Letter From Birmingham Jail" in 1963.
Jim Deleonardis of Miami, Fla., recalled being required to use a segregated water fountain at his integrated school and said he watched the coverage of the civil rights movement while growing up in West Virginia. Deleonardis said the exhibit brought back memories about how "the news was mostly one-sided, especially in the South."
Adjacent to "Make Some Noise," the "Civil Rights at 50" exhibit of newspaper front pages and magazine covers, captures the turbulence of the 1963 through events such as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala., and the assassination in Mississippi of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The display shows media coverage as it really happened, including press biases and prejudices. "Civil Rights at 50" will be updated in 2014 and 2015.
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The Rapha Women's 100
If I cast my mind back to around seven years ago, I recall making my first London commute, hauling a heavy mountain bike across rush hour traffic to my workplace a mere three miles away. Upon arrival, red-faced and panting, I dashed to the toilet where I promptly threw up from the gargantuan effort of getting my derrière from A to B.
Fast forward to 2013 and I stand (fully cleated) before you a passionate and enthusaistic road cyclist, hours spent daydreaming of chasing down the hairpins of European roads, cultivating tan lines that would alarm any non-cyclist and riding whenever I can. Now I find my monthly hours spent in the saddle sit around 50-60, riding anything up to 200km purely for pleasure. The Rapha Women's 100 represents an amazing opportunity. I've been fortunate enough to be invited to ride with 99 other women and push myself with the aim of completing the Etape du Tour. And hopefully I can help to inspire other ladies along the way and build a solid foundation of enjoyable and realistic training.
Motivation and inspiration for my riding comes from seeing female professional riders push themselves racing, often for a criminally small portion of accolades and financial rewards compared with their male counterparts. Yet despite this inequality, these ladies are still out kicking the proverbial, be it juddering up the cobbled climbs in Belgium, or drilling unabating ascents in the Dolomites. You want to learn the definition of consummate and hard-working athletes? Look up the legend that is Marianne Vos, or Emma Johansson, Evelyn Stevens and Lizzie Armitstead.
A winter base helped in no small part by the recent Festive 500 Challenge and a looming late-April date with the start line of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege sportive should hopefully springboard my legs into spring fitness. l'm looking forward to meeting other like-minded women on some of the proposed regular rides departing from Rapha's London Cycle Club HQ (keep your eyes peeled for dates). To pedal over the same roads on which so many of cycling's great stories have unfolded, especially in this year of the 100th Tour de France, is something truly unique and special. I look forward to sharing my journey and hopefully seeing you out on the road.
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Pentagon to cut jobs, contracts by $1 billion
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he'll cut the Pentagon's headquarters' budget by $1 billion from 2014 through 2019, which will lead to layoffs and reduction in contracts.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday announced he's trimming the Pentagon headquarters' budget by 20%, starting in 2014. It will result in jobs cuts and reduction in contracts with private companies.
The budget cuts will happen even if Congress ends sequester, according to the defense agency. Hagel said the time is right to "pare back overhead and streamline headquarters," after the fast growth of the agency in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
"These reductions are only a first step in DoD's efforts to realign defense spending to meet new fiscal realities and strategic priorities," Hagel said.
The cuts would trim $1 billion from 2014 through 2019. Hagel said the first jobs to be cut will about 200 workers from his own team of 2,400.
Savings would come mostly by cutting back some contracts with private companies, but the agency said there would be "significant reductions to civilian personnel."
He stopped short of detailing other potential cuts, like those to commissaries -- military grocery stores -- and military pay, saying "difficult but necessary choices remain ahead for the Department on compensation reform, force structure, acquisitions and other major parts of DoD."
The Pentagon has had to cut $40 billion this year since March from the sequester. That led the agency to furlough workers for six days over the summer.
The $1 billion in savings announced Wednesday is only a tiny fraction of the $500 billion in defense cuts mandated over the next 10 years by the sequester. Still, Hagel said "every dollar that we save by reducing the size of our headquarters and back-office operations is a dollar that can be invested in war-fighting capabilities and readiness."
If the sequestration cuts are not reversed it is likely that more job cuts will be necessary, Hagel said.
The announcement is likely to have wide repercussions, especially for defense companies that rely on government contracts such as Boeing (BA, Fortune 500), Northrop Grumman (NOC, Fortune 500), Lockheed Martin (LMT, Fortune 500) and Raytheon. (RTN, Fortune 500)
The Defense Department is one of the largest federal agencies with a budget of $526 billion and a civilian work force of 800,000.
-- CNN's Jennifer Rizzo contributed to this report.
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EU antitrust regulators fined six financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Citigroup a record total of 1.71 billion euros ($2.3 billion) on Wednesday for rigging financial benchmarks.
The move confirms what a source familiar with the matter had previously told Reuters.
The penalty is the biggest yet to be handed down to banks for rigging the benchmarks used to determine the cost of lending, one of the most brazen violations of conduct since the financial crisis. It is also the highest antitrust penalty ever imposed by the Commission, the EU's competition regulator.
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Judge: Detroit can proceed with bankruptcy
Protesters gathered outside the courthouse Tuesday.
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A federal judge has given a green light for Detroit to proceed with its bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
The ruling opens the door for the city to cut billions of dollars in payments that are owed to city employees, retirees, investors and other creditors.
Unions and pension funds had argued that the city should not be eligible to use bankruptcy court protections. They said that regardless of the Detroit's financial troubles, city and state officials did not negotiate with creditors in good faith in an effort to reach a deal on its liabilities.
In his ruling, Judge Steven Rhodes found the city did not meet that threshold, yet he ruled that such negotiations were impractical because of the huge number of creditors, which total more than 100,000. So, ultimately, he concluded that the city filed its petition properly.
One major union, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, has already said it plans to appeal the decision.
Detroit filed for bankruptcy court protection on July 18.
Once one of the nation's largest cities, Detroit was a symbol of U.S. manufacturing might. But decades of declining population and the departure of businesses have left it struggling with high crime, high taxes and poor city services.
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in March to oversee the city's finances, has proposed slashing more than $9 billion of $11.5 billion in unsecured debt.
But Orr's plan could mean deep cuts to the pension benefits and retiree health coverage that has been promised to city employees. It could also mean investors holding debt issued by Detroit would receive only pennies on the dollar.
Opponents have argued that pension cuts are barred by the state's constitution. But Judge Rhodes ruled that pensions are fair game under federal bankruptcy law, trumping state law, though he noted that didn't mean he would definitely approve cuts.
"He isn't going to do it lightly, and he recognizes the significance of these issues, but pension cuts are certainly on the table," said attorney Michael Sweet, an expert in municipal bankruptcy, who listened in on Tuesday's ruling.
No municipal bankruptcy has ever resulted in involuntary cuts to pension benefits, Sweet said. In California, Vallejo exited bankruptcy in 2011 without imposing cuts to its ballooning pension obligations, while nearby Stockton plans to do the same.
It's unclear just how deep pension cuts could be in Detroit.
But Orr can now prepare a proposal for the court on how the city will slash its debt, said attorney Michael Sweet, an expert in municipal bankruptcy. The judge will have to sign off on the plan.
Sweet said that Rhodes urged the parties to move quickly, though creditors may seek to delay proceedings during the appeals process.
"The big question looming out there is, 'Will the appeals slow the process down?'" Sweet said.
Meanwhile, Orr said in a press call with reporters that the city would continue to negotiate with its many creditors as it crafts its bankruptcy plan.
"We continue to try to work with both our unions and our creditors to reach consensual resolutions," he said.
As the bankruptcy moves forward, tens of thousands of workers and retirees are bracing for benefit cuts.
Retired Detroit fire captain Arthur Versace, 62, began applying for full-time jobs at Home Depot and Costco after Detroit's bankruptcy filing this summer.
Unable to find work, Versace said he isn't sure if he and his wife will be able to meet their monthly expenses, which include a mortgage payment, if his pension is cut. After taxes and his health care premium, he receives around $45,000 a year. And like many other public safety workers, he is not eligible for Social Security.
"I'm worried about how I'm going to pay my bills. How do I pay for my car insurance, my house insurance, my house taxes?" Versace said. "People don't want to hire someone that's 62 years old, they just don't."
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Official: White House to push benefits of Obamacare, PR offensive on the way
Can President 'right' the Obamacare ship?
Washington (CNN) -- Battered by two months of bad publicity over the Obamacare website, the White House is going on the offensive to tout what it sees as the benefits of the President's signature healthcare plan, a White House official told CNN.
"While work continues on the website, we think it is important that proponents of health reform undertake a renewed effort to refocus the public on the benefits of the law that have already been implemented," the official said.
"To kick off the new effort, the President will hold an event at the White House to discuss the health care law's benefits already in place for millions of Americans and make the case for why we need to move forward to make sure the law is a success."
The first event is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but it is just the first wave in a tsunami of information the Obama administration plans to unleash.
This will be a daily event through December 23 as the White House plans to highlight benefits of the Affordable Care Act -- sometimes on its own and other times with the help of supporters of the reform package.
A new-found confidence
The offensive is a sign the White House no longer feels weighed down by the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov.
Over the weekend, officials announced they had met their self-imposed November 30 deadline for getting the site working for the "vast majority" of users, saying response times and error rates had been slashed while capacity increased.
Jeffrey Zients, a former administration official brought in to oversee the website fixes after its launch, compared the hardware upgrades so far to widening a highway on-ramp from two lanes to four.
Brazile: Health care website improving
That means chronic breakdowns, error messages and delays users experienced two months ago when the website went live have mostly disappeared, he said, noting the average response time was less than 1 second and the system's "uptime" -- a measure of system stability -- was consistently surpassing 90%.
It all means that HealthCare.gov can now handle its original intended volume of 50,000 concurrent users for a total of 800,000 visitors a day, according to Zients.
White House spokesman Jay Carney made clear that more glitches were likely in coming weeks and months, arguing that any major website has periodic problems that must be addressed.
"It does not mean that there will be no problems with the website going forward," he said when asked by reporters if HealthCare.gov was truly fixed or merely functioning at a minimal level.
To Carney, the bottom line was that as of Monday, "more people are visiting the site and are able to effectively go from beginning to end" compared to the unsuccessful launch in October and through November.
Not all roses in the Rose Garden
Vocal throughout the launch of the program and the successive problems, the GOP stayed vigilant with its critique.
"President Obama and his administration repeatedly claimed the Obamacare website would be fully functioning by the end of November, but this has proven to be just another broken promise," said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. "The Obama administration had over three years to build HealthCare.gov, and all they've produced is a non-functioning website, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars."
Obamacare site fix: 5 things to look for
Non-functioning probably isn't fair, but the online portal did experience delays during peak traffic periods on Monday.
Carney told reporters that 375,000 visitors went to HealthCare.gov by 12 noon ET, almost half the total daily capacity of 800,000 that officials announced Sunday as a result of a round-the-clock effort to fix the site.
However, Carney provided no details about how many of those visitors were able to sign on and enroll in insurance exchanges set up under President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms.
Insurers: Site glitches persist
A new function created in the latest technological overhaul completed Sunday put people trying to sign up in an online waiting queue if capacity exceeded demand. They could wait until their turn came to enter the system, or ask to receive an e-mail when they could try again at the front of the line.
Three CNN journalists who attempted to sign on Monday ended up in the new queue around midday and then two hours later. Their wait lasted a few minutes before they received a prompt on their screen to proceed with enrollment.
Later in the day, users proceeded directly to enrollment without waiting, indicating reduced volume at the end of the afternoon, as officials had predicted.
An administration official familiar with the matter told CNN that about 100,000 people signed up for coverage last month on the site. The official cautioned the number was preliminary and final numbers would be released in mid-December.
Joanne Peters, a Health and Human Services spokeswoman, said enrollment through alternate channels and successful exchanges in 14 states would help bolster November figures.
In October, the first month of a six-month enrollment period, just over 106,000 people signed up for Obamacare. Less than 27,000 of them did so through the HealthCare.gov website, which was supposed to be the main enrollment portal.
Initial enrollment figures lower than hoped
Website progress garners muted reaction from Congress
Marilyn Tavenner, the official charged with implementing Obamacare as director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told a congressional hearing last month that the administration initially hoped to enroll 800,000 people by the end of November. The overall enrollment target by March 31 is 7 million.
A properly functioning HealthCare.gov is crucial to implementing the most vital provisions of the health law that require people to have health coverage.
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This Meetup is for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) mobile app developers in the Boulder/Denver area to meet, show code, demo apps, learn new techniques, and have fun. We are for iOS developers by iOS developers. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month usually somewhere in downtown Boulder.
This is a small group, professionals and students only, with the specific goal of learning and exploring mobile application development. It involves selecting self study exercises and case studies, connecting with others who are also exploring mobile development, exchanging information and presenting ideas, and learning at all levels. It meets every 4 weeks on Thursday and provides a rough structure to the process of ongoing education as a current or soon to be mobile application developer.
This Meetup is for people who want to learn iOS development in the Boulder/Denver area (we are the little sister of the much larger Boulder iOS meetup). This meetup is a bring-your-mac-laptop meetup. We will write code, do exercises, listen to short lectures, and hopefully learn about iOS -- kind of like going to school but without the grades. We meet monthly usually somewhere in downtown Boulder.
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This is a group for anyone interested in working together with Mobile Assay Inc.(www.mobileassay.com) to develop low-cost mobile diagnostic tests for use on the iOS and Android platform. We recently received a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Explorations award to develop our Lab on Mobile Device platform. We would love to meetup with anyone with expertise in image analysis, molecular biology, DNA amplification, App developers, marketing research, agricultural pathogen testing, animal test …
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Build fully-native iOS apps with Ruby, in your favorite editor, without having to touch Xcode or Objective-C. All the benefits of Ruby, and fully-native on iOS. The similarities between Ruby and Objective-C are enough that a former Apple employee named Laurent Sansonetti was able to make a compiler for Ruby that outputs native iOS machine code. It was announced in the spring of 2012 and has been in and out of hacker news since. We're intending to make Denver/Boulder a hub for the Ruby Motion co …
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The Mobile Dev Denver user group is a nonprofit group dedicated to establishing a sense of community within the mobile software development space. We do so by fostering a strong network of connected mobile developers in a bi-monthly meeting format. Our meetings are run by a board of coordinators and volunteer members. They are not a platform for individual or corporate marketing, but a delivery of a relevant, platform-agnostic, mobile software development related topic. Anyone can volunteer to p …
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WordPress Interactive Training Interactive Training for WordPress, marketing, and other technologies. Each session is interactive, allowing questions from participants throughout the training, and showing actual live examples of how to do what you need. Get much needed expert advice, help, and Interactive Training! We tend to focus on WordPress, but not exclusively. Everybody loves WordPress! No matter what level of WordPress user you are, everyone needs to learn more about how to use WordPress …
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Seems like it would be similar to the 939. Looks like soldered connections which could be a plus or minus depending on how you look at it, but it should make it lighter. I kind of like the LED eyes through the canopy. The motor legs seem really short, which means you couldn't launch in grass (well I can't launch my 939 in my St. Augustine grass, but I can launch in soccer field turf). I like the smaller controller although I hope the 50m flying distance isn't true.
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Flying a U816 upside down
It was controllable in a 'skidding around the floor' kind of way, though. ArchillesElbow improved on that with his v929 FPV setup, by actually drilling out his props so he could put them on upside down and got it flying perfectly here: So, in response to the challenge from dave1993 here , here's the U816 flying just great 'upside down' (the board and battery are the normal way up, everything else is inverted) with reversed thrust props. I broke a prop soon after this, so only have one type 'A' left for an outside flight when the weather improves. I might try and flip it. When that breaks I'll have to put LB or X100 props on all round. They don't quite have the same profile so probably won't be as efficient in reverse, as they're better in the forward direction than the U816 ones. U816, LB and MJX X100 Prop comparison was back here. This video is a re-edited version of the previous one, but with a happier ending.
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It all depends on the environment you're flying in. I don't fly in tall grassy fields, it's either short-cut grass or concrete jungle. I also fly in fairly heavy winds, so I have to deal with alot of air wash and gusts. I simply can't count on dead air like many have the luxury of in their geographical area. One of the reasons why I'm itching to get a Hubsan even though I think my 939 does a damn good job. |
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Heh...yep they would certainly sell more props with them mounted that way...
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if yall could go anywhere in the world and do anything while you were there, where would you go and what would you do? i would go to every island that i can think of by ship and hang out with all the locals. id relax and party and have a good time. only problem is when i got down there i wouldnt leave. ____________________ War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson |
Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 12:49 pm |
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Johan Steele Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352
Take my wife back to Crete for a couple weeks then come back home. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 04:40 pm |
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booklover Member
I'd love to travel through Europe like I had planned to do when I was young and foolish and poor...now, of course, I'm older, foolish and poor, so the chances of that happening are slim to none. I'd like to go back to Gettysburg and get to stay as long as I want to this time. Best Rob |
Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 05:20 pm |
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TimHoffman01 Member
I'd like to take a trip to the Holy Land wtih the kids. Assuming, of course, that we wouldn't get shot at, blown up, or otherwise disembowled whist there. Like with the battle fields we go to I'd like to show them that the places they hear about every Sunday aren't just names or something from another dimension. They are real places with real stories. Probably go with my priest and his family....his kids are the same ages as mine and we have the same love of digging up historical minutia. HOWEVER, there are two main things holding us back...Political Instability and, of course, $$$$. Failing that, similar to Bama & booklover, go explore some more battlefields. Sharpsburg would be nice. I really want to take the kids there. Maybe even camp nearby. Probably not this year though. Gas prices have put the kabosh on most of our summer ideas. |
Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 05:42 pm |
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Devils Den Member
I would love to follow the trail of Lewis and Clark, go to the beaches at Normandy, ANY Civil War battlefield, or basically anything historical! But since Gettysburg and Antietam are so close, I will visit them when I can (this Sunday for one!), and will have all kinds of info on the new visitors center on Monday morning! Chuck |
Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 05:45 pm |
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Kernow-Ox Member
Oh, just about anywhere. Why should reality interfere with my travel plans? My dream trips currently include: - getting on a train at the top of Scotland and riding the railways all the way across Europe and Asia to Vladivostock (day 4 of the Trans-Siberian...more tundra) - driving a '57 Chevorlet across the continental US - Hiking in South America Of course, I'm happy enough sitting by the river with a book and a pint (I did that yesterday afternoon, in fact)... |
Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 12:09 am |
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susansweet Member
I would like to finish my trips following the Oregon Trail and Lewis and Clark Trails. I have done parts of them but not the whole thing. Big section in the middle I missed on Lewis and Clark, Beginings of Oregon Trail. Spend more time visiting battlefields . and other historical sites all over the United States. I did the Eurail pass when I was young substitute teacher and living at home so saved money for the summer . Loved it then. Not sure I wouldn't want to travel first class all the way now. That said I would love to return to England and see more of the country outside London. Never did get to Cantabury or Stonehenge. Spend time seeing the historical sites and museums of Washington . I have two friends whose names are on the Wall. I need to visit them. See the sites of New York. Go to the top of the Empire State Building . Ride a carriage in the park. Go to the Museums. Visit Tiffany's . I loved the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's . I don't look anything like Audry Hepburn but I can pretend. See a Broadway show. Stand in Times Square . Guess that is enough for now. Susan |
Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 12:23 am |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
Sorry, can't choose between mine: 1) Back home to Pa. to see 2 grandkids I've never seen. 2) Israel. I'm not religious, but all religious connections aside, it's some of the most historic land on earth. 3) Rome - again for the history. |
Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 01:41 am |
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CleburneFan Member
Dixie Girl wrote: if yall could go anywhere in the world and do anything while you were there, where would you go and what would you do? Dixie Girl, there is a fairly cheap way you can do a similar thing and come close to the experience you crave. Take Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas four-night cruise out of Miami during off season when the prices are lowest. That ship has port calls in Nassau, its fabulous private island Coco Cay and in Key West. Both Coco Cay and Key West are tropical islands. In Key West you can hang out with the locals with no anxiety because they speak your language and use American currency. If you hurry you will not even need a passport, but that requirement kicks in soon and a passport will be required to travel on a cruise ship out of US waters. Key West is such a cool ,neat , zany little city. It has Civil War history too. Its harbour was where the US Navy took all the captured blockade runners and their ships. Coco Cay is a piece of Paradise, so tranquil and the ocean water is jeweled shades of blue. The palm trees sway and there are hammocks to enjoy. The ship has a free beach barbeque. Nassau is NOT what it used to be, a British-influenced outpost where several James Bond movies were filmed. It is much more commercial and "touristy" now, but a treat none the less, because you do get a taste of the tropical and British and Bahamian rolled into one. The ship is one of Royal Caribbean's smallest and oldest, but the crew is very friendly, the food is great and included in the price and the entertainment is spectacular given that it is on a ship and not land. By the way, if you do find that one day you can visit some Caribbean tropical islands by ship, please let me know. I'll be happy to tell you what islands I find to be extra special and what ships are good bets. You can also visit the Hawaiian Islands by ship. Last edited on Sat Apr 26th, 2008 01:45 am by CleburneFan |
Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 12:24 pm |
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ashbel Member
Some of my favorite vacation places: 1. Hawaii - fabulous surf and beaches 2. Nevis - my favorite island in the Carribean 3. Florence, Italy and Brugge, Belgium - two of the richest art and history cities in Europe 4. Any battlefield 5. Scotland - visited there last year for a golfing trip. I love the old courses and the Scottish approach to golf. |
Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 07:26 pm |
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Johnny Huma Johnny Huma
Would want to go to Sicily and see my Fathers Family of whom we have not had much contact with over 60 years. I called there once and got one of my cousins on the phone and they "No speakie' the engel-ish" so I not speakie the Italian either. But still would like to go...2nd choice would be take a year off (like I can afford it) and go across country and visit all the CW fields I could in that time...WIfe would not take to it to well so I probably would have to stop in Omaha Nebraska to see her brother and his family..( may take some of the fun out of it but one has to comprimise ) Huma |
Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 04:34 pm |
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fedreb Member
Have just returned today from 2 weeks mouse hunting in Florida with the grandchildren, had a terrific time but now need another holiday to recover, so tiring, unfortunately though it is back to work tomorrow! Given the chance I would be back to Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania for a battlefield fix or to Upper New York State, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondaks, possibly the most restfultrip I've ever been on, finishing at my friend's place in rural Connecticut. |
Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 05:02 pm |
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Widow Member
Fedreb, I gotta ask, what the heck is mouse hunting? Does it mean taking the grandkids on walks in the woods, looking for mice or moose or tigers? I live near so many battlefields, and haven't seen enough of them. So my Civil War vacation would start here at home. My second love is opera, from early childhood. A dream vacation would be a luxury hotel suite in Manhattan with the best seat in the house for the entire season of the Met opera. Then the next season in Milan for La Scala. St. Petersburg for the Kirov. Paris, London, Vienna. Hm. To do that, ISO a sugar daddy. I'd have to outlive him, of course. I don't know any lonely rich old men. Guess I'll stick with what I've got, I'm happy right here. Patty |
Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 05:36 pm |
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CleburneFan Member
Widow wrote: Fedreb, I gotta ask, what the heck is mouse hunting? Does it mean taking the grandkids on walks in the woods, looking for mice or moose or tigers? My guess is he is referring to Mickey Mouse and that he took the kids to DisneyWorld, a very tiring activity indeed. Widow, if you want a sugar daddy, there are good pickings in Palm Beach, FL. Trouble is, those guys maintain an entire corps of estate lawyers, body guards and an assorted cast other charatcers to see that you don't come within a mile of them. |
Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 05:51 pm |
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fedreb Member
Sorry for being so obscure Widow , Cleburnefan has it right, we have spent 2 tiring weeks doing the Disney( and other) theme Parks. |
Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 06:00 pm |
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Widow Member
Fedreb and CleburneFan, Duh-me (smacks forehead with palm). I truly live in the wrong century, to forget about Disney World etc. Never been there myself, though my step-grandchildren have been. CF, thanks for the tip about sugar daddies in Palm Beach. Believe I'll pass, thanks anyway. :=)) Patty |
Posted: Mon Aug 4th, 2008 03:33 am |
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Captain Crow Proud Southerner
I'd go to England, Scotland, and Ireland. All my ancestors are from that area so it would be like a homecoming of sorts. I'd also love to go to Napoleon's tomb and Waterloo. I'm fulfilling one of my goals next year with a trip to Japan. First Okinawa then off to Tokyo...and any other spots we can fit in. |
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