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NRA's Response to Sandy Hook: Federally Funded Police in Every School
Written by Bob Adelmann
One week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rife Association broke its self-imposed silence to comment on the tragedy. "Out of respect for those grieving families, and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre (pictured) explained in his December 21 press conference. "While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent."
Until now.
In his remarks, LaPierre took aim at the deadly consequences of making schools gun-free zones — and making sure everybody knows:
Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them.
And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.
Not providing armed security for schoolchildren makes no sense to LaPierre, who pointed out that we protect banks, airports, office buildings, power plants, court houses, sports stadiums, and the president and congressmen with armed guards. "Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now!"
How? "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away ... or a minute away?"
To drive home his point, LaPierre raised several other questions:
What if, when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School … he had been confronted by qualified, armed security?
Will you at least admit it's possible that 26 innocent lives might have been spared?...
Is the press and political class here in Washington so consumed by fear and hatred of the NRA and America's gun owners that you're willing to accept a world where real resistance to evil monsters is a lone, unarmed school principal left to surrender her life to shield the children in her care?
Undoubtedly most supporters of the right to self-defense applauded — and were not at all surprised by — LaPierre's statement against leaving schoolchildren unprotected in government-mandated gun-free school zones. But many gun owners — including even members of the NRA — may disagree, and may have been surprised by, the federal prescription offered by LaPierre. They may also have been surprised by the fact that in his remarks the NRA's LaPierre did not utter a single word about the Second Amendment, which protects "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
LaPierre said:
I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.
Before Congress reconvenes, before we engage in any lengthy debate over legislation, regulation or anything else, as soon as our kids return to school after the holiday break, we need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work — and by that I mean armed security.
In addition to proposing putting federally funded armed police officers in every school, LaPierre also announced that "the NRA is going to bring all of its knowledge, dedication and resources to develop a model National School Shield Emergency Response Program for every school that wants it." This new program will be led by former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, who was also head of the DEA and under secretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security.
"From armed security to building design and access control to information technology to student and teacher training, this multi-faceted program will be developed by the very best experts in their fields," boasted LaPierre at the NRA news conference. Hutchinson, who also spoke at conference, said that "armed, trained, qualified school security personnel will be one element of that plan, but by no means the only element."
It seems clear that the NRA is proposing an extension of America's growing garrison/security state to the schools as a solution to gun violence. But if the gun-free school zone laws are repealed — as they should be — why would federally funded police officers need to guard every school? Why would a former Department of Homeland Security official need to head a national program entailing more than just armed security?
If gun-free school zones were eliminated, wouldn't local school personnel possessing conceal-carry permits be able to protect their schools and the children entrusted to their care? Why wouldn't the NRA see it this way?
Though, as indicated above, many gun owners may be surprised by the NRA's federal solution, Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America was likely not one of them. In an interview with Anthony Wile at The Daily Bell in 2010, Pratt was asked what he thought of the NRA:
Wile: Is [the NRA] a helpful organization [in the freedom fight]?
Pratt: The National Rifle Association approaches politics and the government as a given. That leads to working within the system rather than saying we see the system [itself as] a problem, that the system represents a number of threats to our liberty and that the system needs to be brought under control … [that] the system [itself] needs to corrected and changed.
Wile: Some critics have charged that the NRA is set up as part of a Hegelian dialectic intended to move gun control toward gun confiscation. What do you think?
Pratt: Well, as I was saying earlier, they have this view that they can somehow get along in the system....
It is hard for people to come to grips with the idea that your government is not really working for your best interest. If you are able to come to that realization, you will take hopefully appropriate action.
The NRA hasn't come to that realization and so they are comfortable working within a system which is essentially leading us into bondage....
Wile: Why does the NRA so often compromise with Congress — thus allowing legislation which has whittled away Second Amendment rights?
Pratt: Theirs ... is the view that they want to work within the system.
To the NRA, working "within the system" apparently includes movement toward a garrison state in the name of protecting the right to bear arms.


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ORANGE -- There's a new twist for police in Orange, Conn.: They've had to break a man out of handcuffs.
Assistant Chief Ed Koether tells the Connecticut Post newspaper (http://bit.ly/HoMRcs ) officers were called Thursday afternoon to an adult entertainment store in Orange, a town just west of New Haven. The man had been trying on the cuffs and locked himself in a pair.
Koether says shop employees couldn't get the man free and called the fire department and then police.
The cuffs were similar to the kind police officers carry. But Koether says the officers tried several keys that didn't work. The handcuffs had to be removed with bolt cutters.
Koether says he doesn't know if the man had to pay for the broken handcuffs.

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Reliving my MLB Radio Memories
Today I decided to do something different. Well, at least for me it is totally different and a bit out of my high tech redneck comfort zone mentality. I have become in my own little video/television obsessed world a bit of a video-graphic fool who always seems to know the cable channels by heart no matter what subscriber service, and the broadcast times of most of the top shows (like AMC's "Breaking Bad") just on the tip of my tongue.
So when I looked during the off season at the 2010 Tampa Bay Rays road and television broadcast schedule and did all my usual cross referencing and synchronizing of both my time and social calendar to have the time and the perfect place to watch my Rays take on their opposition within the confines of my technological enhanced home, or the local sports bar with mega HD screens and the MLB package.
I instantly was drawn to the Saturday, May 8th game to command my instant attention that the Rays versus A's game that afternoon was to begin at 4:07 pm EST.That game time automatically pushed it into that dark recess of Fox Saturday Baseball's darkened stealth zone that makes it verboten that there be no other television competition while their "Game of the Week" was systematically going on at the same time.
So I instantly began to hash out a nostalgic "blast from the past" type party where I could again hit back to some of my youth growing up, and one of the last memories of my father before he passed away just weeks after the 1976 World Series.
The main theme of this sports bonanza of pork, beef and chicken BBQ-d goodness would focus on the old Saturday and Sunday family adventures that took my family into the backyard with the Kingsford glowing red, then black and steaks, ribs and mountains of hot dogs would steam, cook and become instantly invisible after the kids and parents threw themselves on the altar of my father's grilling mastery.
For the weekend days were the time for him and I to listen to the National games of the week on the radio while enjoying the fun, sun and even a few laughs after a hard workweek. It was the perfect remedy for my father to forget the hustle and bustle of his job and connect again with me in our passion and fascination with baseball. And so on May 8, 2010, I wanted to pay homage to that tradition and invited a few Rays friends to my little hidden home and reinvest myself into this special piece of my past no one ever knew before that afternoon.
So I made sure to have the perfect afternoon of baseball complete with the grill full of charcoal and the meats all marinated and ready to awaken from their marinated slumber upon the coals. For today this BBQ would be a little more chef-oriented with my own special recipes for Dixie Cole slaw and Kansas City method bake beans and frozen Captain Morgan Lime Bite frozen concoctions. It has been so long since I had held one of these events, and the time and the game not being televised provided the perfect moment to go back into the past and enjoy some nostalgic memories.
Listening to the baseball games on the radio had been a family tradition between my father and I since I was very young. And since we did not have a local Major League team at that moment, but the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals had called our town their "Spring" homes, we instantly gravitated towards those National League squads. So as 3:30 approached I moved my bedroom stereo out into the backyard and positioned it for the assembled folks to enjoy some old time radio broadcast magic…the type I grew up with in my youth.
And sure the technology was a bit advanced as some people sat there on their I phones poised watching their screens with the MLB At Bat application while Rays broadcasters Andy Freed and Dave Willis began to get us ready for another afternoon of Rays baseball. I was anxious to hear again the descriptions and the accounts of the game without visually seeing the action right in front of me. It immediately harkened me to that simpler time of my youth where I would cheer and yell at the radio with each corresponding move either good or bad in the course of the game.
And even if the game did not go as planned, and the Rays lost their first game in eons, it was a time I really would not trade for anything. I again became in love with the game as told by two very descriptive visionaries who for 162 games a year tell the rest of the world what we can not see due to other commitments or driving to or from a game in another town. Again I could hear and see by the tone and the register of their voice the kind of play or action playing out in front of them, but I was blind to those events.
Some people at the party did have some problems with this concept, but they did enjoy the food and the conversation with a few adult beverages, so they too actually took in the day with a smile without knowing it. And at the end of the game after all the kids were packed up into their parent's cars after soaking in the small pool or climbing the trees beside my place, everyone seemed to leave with a smile.
But at that moment I did look skyward and instantly threw a smile and a wink towards the heavens knowing my father would have really enjoyed that time with me and the other fans. I have missing those kinds of parties for a long, long time and really do not know why I took today to bring them back into my life.
Maybe it was the upcoming date on the calendar that proves I have seen so much and lived so well. Or it might just be the total fact that I did something special today and not until my friends read this tonight will they know the real reasoning for it. I would have loved to invite all of you reading this too, but reality is that my backyard is not that big, and Tropicana Field was booked ( not really, but whatever).
Listening to a baseball game on the radio takes a bit of imagination and creativity that we seemed to have lost in this video enhanced world. I returned to a simpler time, both in life and in my love of baseball. But I honestly might hide a small FM radio in my laptop bag for games the rest of the season. I revisited a part of my past and fell in love with it again. I now might just marry the action in the stadium with the radio accounts of the game to enrich and enhance my baseball experience. I guess that would make me a high tech red….baseball fan.
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i like listening to Terry Smith on the radio for Angel games too. Unfortunately I missed out on some great announcers in the game so I don't know what it's like to listen to a legend who's a master at his craft. At least I have Vin Scully when I occasionally watch Dodger home games now and then. Sometimes I prefer to listen to the radio. I can play things out in my head and it's certainly handy when I have to go somewhere.
I know what you mean about playing the action within your mind and recreating it as you hear it.
But you have to have a good imagination and creative soul for it to be a great time…I think you got that covered.
I got to hear some of the Legends during my earlier days like Harry Kalas, Harry Carey, Vin Scully and Mel Allen.
But there is another crew that is just getting the National exposure and will be the next generation's favorite broadcasters.
It was a great time today just enjoying each other's company and parlaying the action on the radio..
Rays Renegade
I sometimes listen with headphones to the radio feed while at games. It is always interesting and even at home, I love to visualize what they are talking about :O)
I love listening to games on the radio too. But more importantly, can I get your recipes for the cole slaw and baked beans? Yum!
Never been one of those people who sit there and get the multiple baseball experience, but that might change.
I thought yesterday might also be a good way to show some of the kids how their grandparents had tolisten to baseball games….A bit of a learning lesson, but not sure it soaked in like them in the small pool.
But it brought back great memories and also some great thoughts on how to do it again when the blackout bug hits a Rays telecast again..
Rays Renegade
I always carry my radio to the stadium. Listen to Vin's first three innings (he onlydoes three innings) then I switch to Jaime Jarrin and Pepe Iniguez with Fernando Valenzuela. Jaime has been been doing radio games for the Dodgers for 50 years and Pepe who I call the golden voice, for twelve. Is just not the same if I don't have my radio with me.
Even thinkinf of listening to the radio past driving home and posturing with the post-game show is a new adventure to me.
It has been over 30-odd years since I sat in a backyard and listened to a game like this, and I missed it.
As for the recipes….I will send them to you soon, but right now I have to perfect a few additonal ones, then I could send you an entire spread, including a peach flavored BBQ sauce that kills them all on chicken.
Rays Renegade
I actually like the way Dave Willis and Andy Freed sometimes swap play-by-play and color analyst positions in the broadcast to giv e a renewed vigor to the broadcasts.
Would have loved to hear Vin Scully everyday, even if it was only for a pregame boost.
Never heard oif the second two broadcasters you mentioned, but that is what every team seems to have…Those hidden treasures you wish other fans throughout the MLB could hear for even an inning during the All-Star game.
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Over this weekend I want to run a 'little' competition here at ProBlogger. I'm offering a 'little' prize (see below) and all you need to do to put yourself in the running for it is to submit a 'little' blog tip. Let me explain:
Lately I've been getting into Twitter (I'll write a post in the coming week about what I've learned in the process).
The Competition
While there are numerous thinks that I like about Twitter – one is the challenge of getting something written in 140 characters.
While I wouldn't want to write this way all of the time – it does make your pause before twittering something to think about what you want to communicate and how you can do it succinctly.
This forms the basis of this competition.
How to Enter
Your task is to write a blog tip that will help others blog better in 140 characters or less.
Your entry to this competition needs to be submitted as a comment below. You're welcome to post it elsewhere also if you wish (Twitter, your Blog or anywhere else) – but only comments below will count for the prize.
Please start your comment with the keyword TwitterBlogTip – this isn't counted in the 140 characters but will help us to defeat the spam filter which falsely moderates some comments as spam.
So what's the prize?
This prize is actually a gift that was given to me late last year from Google AdSense. It was given to quite a few AdSense publishers so some of you already have one – but I know many of you missed out – so I'll giveaway mine (it's unused).
It's a 2GB USB Flash Drive (pictured below – image courtesy of FishandClicks):
I'll pick one random but genuine entry from those comments submitted to win the prize – and as it's so small I'm happy to ship it anywhere in the world – so feel free to enter wherever you are.
Entries close on Monday at midday (my time here in Melbourne – which is Sunday evening for many of you). I'll announce the winner Monday.
UPDATE – this competition is now closed. I'll announce a winner later today. Thanks to everyone for the amazing response. Some of the tips submitted are quite profound and I've learned a lot just from reading your responses.


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Browsing Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics (INO) by Author "Frederiksen, Lars"
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Lessons from the Entertainment IndustriesLorenzen, Mark; Frederiksen, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper analyses management of product innovation in project-based industries, offering a view on management not only of firms, but also of markets. It first argues that projects are prominent in industries where the nature of consumer demand means that product innovation takes place as experimentation. Then, the paper argues that if skills needed for projects are very diverse and projects are complex, there are few internal managerial economies of projects, and the scope for management then transcends the boundaries of firms. In these cases, markets become organized in combinations of people, contracts, and other institutions, in order to facilitate the coordination of market-based projects. While contracts play a role, a continuous, active role of knowledgeable managers (leaders and boundary spanners) is also often necessary. Such managers --- and thus (core parts of) whole industries --- are embedded in project ecologies at particular places, which is why we see geographical clusters in many project-based industries. The paper is mainly conceptual, but develops its argument by drawing examples from the Entertainment industries throughout. Keywords: Project organization, product innovation, portfolio management of projects, entertainment industries JEL Classification: L22, O31, L82 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7264
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The personal attributes of innovative users in the case of computer-controlled musicJeppesen, Lars Bo; Frederiksen, Lars (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Studies of the sources of innovations have recognized that many innovations are developed by users. However, the fact that firms employ communities of users to strengthen their innovation process has not yet received much attention. In firm-established user communities users freely reveal innovations to a firm's product platform, which in turn puts the firm in a favorable position (a) because these new product features become available to all users by sharing on a user-to-user basis, or (b) because it allows the firm to pick up the innovations and integrate them in future products and then benefit by selling them to all users. We study the key personal attributes of the individuals responsible for innovations and the creation of value in this organizational context, namely the innovative users, to explain why firm-established user communities work. Analyzing data derived from a web-based questionnaire generating 442 answers we find that innovative users are likely to be (i) hobbyists, an attribute that can be assumed to affect innovators' willingness to share innovations (positively), and (ii) responsive to "firm-recognition" as a motivating factor for undertaking innovation, which explains their decision to join the firm's domain. In agreement with earlier studies we also find that innovative users are likely to be "lead users", an attribute that we assume to affect the quality of user innovation. Whether or not a firm-established user community can be turned into an asset for the firm is to a great extent conditioned by the issues studied in this paper. Keywords: Innovation, User community, User Characteristics JEL code(s): L21; L23; O31; O32 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7218
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Septimus Weasley was a pure-blood wizard who married Cedrella Black. Considered to be a blood traitor by the Black family, their marriage caused Cedrella's removal from the Black Family tree[1]. The couple had three sons, including Arthur Weasley[2].
Septimus is a name of Latin origin. It means seventh.
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- It is possible that Septimus was sorted in Gryffindor house, as Ronald Weasley, his grandson, stated that all his family was sorted into Gryffindor.
- Septimus is a Roman name meaning "seventh" in Latin.[3] This is interesting, considering that seven is the most magically powerful number, and that Septimus Weasley's son Arthur went on to have seven children. The name "Septimus" is usually given to a seventh-born son, indicating that Septimus Weasley likely had six older siblings.
- Bilius may be another of Septimus and Cedrella's sons; however this cannot be confirmed, as it is only known that he was the uncle of Ron and his siblings, not whether he was born nor married to a Weasley or a Prewett.
- Septimus was probably the previous owner of Ron Weasley's Wizard Chess set, as Ron's set was described to be a hand-me-down from one of his grandfathers, though it might have probably been from his maternal grandfather.
- Ironically there was a member of the Malfoy Family with the name Septimus. Both families would become enemies during the twentieth century.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on Black family tapestry)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Black Family tree
- ↑ Although it has never been confirmed that Septimus and Cedrella are Arthur's parents, this can be inferred based on Sirius Black's statement in Ch. 6 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that Arthur was "something like [his] second cousin once removed." The Black family tree establishes Cedrella as a first cousin once removed of both Orion and Walburga Black, Sirius's parents. Thus, any children she had would be their second cousins, and second cousins once removed of their sons Sirius and Regulus. Also, almost all of Sirius's relatives can be seen on the Black family tree because both his parents were born into the House of Black, making it unlikely that he could be related to Arthur in a way not shown. See also this talk page and an HPL essay for more information.
- ↑ Behind the Name: Septimus
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It's a camp unlike any Ford McAlexander had ever attended.
Wabash's Opportunities to Learn About Business program is a week-long, jam-packed crash course in what it takes to succeed in the business world. Males and females going into their senior year of high school are eligible to attend.
"I wasn't expecting it to be easy or anything, but we're going 100 percent," McAlexander said.
The Canterbury High School student from Ft. Wayne read about the program in his school newsletter and heard positive word-of-mouth experiences.
He came for academic growth and a crash course in business, marketing, advertising and the stock market.
The OLAB staff, made up of Wabash faculty and staff, lawyers, and past OLAB participants tried to make sure that happened for McAlexander and the other 48 attendees.
After an initial two and a half days consisting primarily of lectures on key concepts, the teens were faced with a labor negotiation that proved challenging.
A group of four lawyers, including three Wabash grads and an actual union negotiator discussed employee demands and benefits for imaginary companies and products each group of participants had created.
"It's role playing on both sides," Wabash coordinator of donor relations Marilyn Smith said of the negotiations.
After lunch and speeches, participants were introduced to advertising concepts so that they could prepare their advertising campaign the next day. They later filmed 30- or 60-second commercials advertising their group's imaginary personal digital assistant. They also designed visual ads to target specific customers.
Alex Bucksot's group "created" a device for busy parents. "This one probably has the largest range of consumers," Bucksot said of his group's idea. He said the imaginary product could be used by stay-at-home mothers or fathers and professionals.
Meanwhile, McAlexander's team came up with a device catering to a narrower group — surfers. The PDA of sorts would have access to beach cameras up and down the coasts, title waves and clean water updates and a global positioning system, among other features.
The program changed since it began in 1973, when PDAs were an invention-yet-to-come. The differences go beyond technology. The time commitment and number of students also decreased. The program is no longer 10 days long, and one session is offered instead of two.
"It's kind of evolved and become more streamlined based on how busy high school students are in the summer," Wabash English professor Tobey Herzog said.
"I don't think it's diluted the quality of the program. In some ways it made it better," he said.
Teens are still presented with in-depth concepts.
"We're taking a lot of the material that we would present to college students and adapting it for high school students," Herzog said.
The intense atmosphere provides a glimpse of the academic demands of college. It also helps prepare participants for the real business world "where people are having to do a lot of work under intense pressure in a short period of time and under deadline," Herzog said.
The experience also taught students teamwork and how to best utilize colleagues' strengths.
"We're a different group from (when we started)," Allison Kontz, one of McAlexander's teammates, said. "Now we all know each other's personalities. I think it's interesting to see what different people are good at," she said.
Dick is a reporter for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.
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On homepage: OLAB's winners for the Best Managed Team.
On this page: Two of the groups present their TV commercials for the OLAB exercise.


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At the Perugia Journalism Festival, this panel explored how women journalists contend with unwanted presumptions, sexual harassment and the threat of gender-based violence.
At the Perugia Journalism Festival, this panel explored how women journalists contend with unwanted presumptions, sexual harassment and the threat of gender-based violence.
Sexual harassment is at the top of the news agenda, and every industry - from politics to arts and entertainment to journalism - is being called to account. Like so many of their counterparts in other fields, women journalists contend with unwanted presumptions and the threat of gender-based violence. The Dart Center asked nine leading women in journalism to share their experiences and to reflect on their own best practices.
A conversation on reporting craft, ethics and narrative with Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and The Collision of Two Cultures.
At the 2017 Global Media Forum in Germany, a panel discussion featuring conflict photographers Capucine Granier-Deferre and Patrick Tombola, and Dart Centre Europe's Gavin Rees.
Video coverage of the 2017 Dart Awards presentation and winners' roundtable, featuring Jay Allison and Samantha Broun from Transom.org, and Erin Alberty and Rachel Piper from the Salt Lake Tribune. The event also included a special World Press Freedom commemoration featuring Columbia Journalism School graduate students Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, Amel Ghani and Riham Alkousaa.
Full video and powerpoint presentations; "Return on Investment: The Case for Early Childhood Development"; March 11, 2017.
Full video and powerpoint presentation; "Data-Driven, Data-Informed: Telling High Impact Stories on ECD"; March 12, 2017.
Full video; "Making Editors and News Consumers Care"; March 12, 2017.
Full video; "A Case Study of Best Policy Practice in Ecuador"; March 10, 2017.
Full video; "Cultural Interpretations of ECD: A Global Tour of Assumptions"; March 12, 2017.


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Can someone help me find the IDC connectors on digikey that are used on ribbon cables for ISP and JTAG programming (2x3 and 2x5). Can't seem to find them.
Digikey IDC connectors for programming
Mouser Part #: 617-09185066324
Manufacturer Part #: 09 18 506 6324
Manufacturer: HARTING
Description: DIN 41612 Power Connectors 6P IDC MALE STRAIGHT SOLDER PIN
Mouser Part #: 649-71600-306LF
Manufacturer Part #: 71600-306LF
Manufacturer: FCI
Description: Headers & Wire Housings .100 RCPT 2X3P Female IDC
Digi-Key Part Number 609-2423-ND CONN HEADER 6POS DL PCB 30GOLD Male open
Manufacturer FCI
Manufacturer Part Number 69168-106HLF
Digi-Key Part Number 609-2845-ND CONN HEADER 6POS DUAL VERT PCB Male
Manufacturer FCI
Manufacturer Part Number 75869-131LF
Digi-Key Part Number 609-2843-ND CONN HEADER 6POS DUAL VERT PCB Male Latch
Manufacturer FCI
Manufacturer Part Number 71918-106LF
Digi-Key Part Number 609-2841-ND CONN SOCKET IDC 6POS DL SR 30AU Female IDC
Manufacturer FCI
Manufacturer Part Number 71600-006LF
You get 10/10 and a big elephant stamp for that excellent work. :lol:
It would be nice if this post did not get lost in the noise. hint hint
Nice post John.
Those connectors are awful to find. Sometimes Digi-Key has one - but it goes in and out of stock. It seems like such a straight forward part too.
Works too, helluvalot cheaper, if you can manage to figure out which pin is 1... :)
I have posted this a few times before but even I can't find it :lol: just as well I keep a copy here.
I've taken the hint and made it sticky - if anyone disagrees then let me know. Perhaps it should become a more general thread title such as "supply of components often used in AVR designs" or something like that with suitable additions then being made?
Works too, helluvalot cheaper, if you can manage to figure out which pin is 1... :)
I never had problems when ordering items like this through farnell, I do not know if this s a good alternative in the US (digikey seems to be mostly used there)
Digi-Key Part Number 609-2423-ND CONN HEADER 6POS DL PCB 30GOLD Male open
Manufacturer FCI
Manufacturer Part Number 69168-106HLF
John - I just realized you made the same mistake as me a little while back. This part is not compatible with the AVR ISP connector.
However, I believe that another FCI part, 609-2845-ND, is compatible. I haven't used it though - as it tends to be out of stock when I need it!
I never had problems when ordering items like this through farnell, I do not know if this s a good alternative in the US (digikey seems to be mostly used there)
Not sure how much you order from Farnell(or whatever they are calling them self's today)and therefore what prices you get, but in general Farnell is around 20% more expensive than Digikey(Mouser is close, but Digikey is still a little cheaper for most of the products). Also, when you order above 60.00 euro, shipping is free.
It's not that I'm biased, I've ordered products from all those companies and others, they all have a good service(let's say, the only difference when ordering from Farnell, is that the goods are there the next day or the day after, with Digikey it's one day more (to Belgium)) , it's just the price, why pay more for the same thing?
Sometimes I ask myself, how do they(Farnell) do it?
Digikey is often more expensive than others in small quantities for discrete parts and standard logic, but they have a good stock of specialty IC's others don't. And they are just convenient to order from TBH, best no-fat catalog IMO.
Farnell is around 20% more expensive than Digikey
This part is not compatible with the AVR ISP connector.
Yeah Farnell is expensive, but you get stuff the next day. Both Farnell and Newark merged into Element 14, but even though they fall under the same company the prices are considerably different. Was looking at a programmable gain amplifier PGA116 and there was something like a $3-5 difference per chip (Farnell being the more expensive one).
I still pay for the speed though :).
Thanks for the responses guys. Mainly what I am looking for is the one part that js posted above:
Personally I keep a supply of wide ribbon cable and split off the number of conductors I need.
Pololu has 6-pin shrouded male connectors (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/854) as well as the mating females (not as dirty as it sounds): (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/855).
I usually buy the breakable 2x40 headers, and break them to 2x3. It's much cheaper, but not shrouded so you must pay attention.
Things like this are really robbery on digikey - I think better to buy noname stuff from ebay/china, unless it is mission critical.
For example - the cable side connector, one at digikey is 82 cents, or 10 for $7.24.
On ebay 10 is $3.90, shipped. Chinese no-name stuff, but.. sufficient.
Check my post here (near the end) to see how to convert an ISP header for breadboard use in case you need to...
Since the new site launched, Atmel seem to be using an invalid cert for their HTTPS traffic.
I don't use IDC headers, just built something like this: http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/p... and leave free pads on the boards for production.
Appears similar to a Tag-Connect.
Tag Connect
What is Tag Connect?
Appears similar to a Tag-Connect.
Exactly, same spring probes.
I've had some success with press-fit IDC header as a cheapskate alternative to the Tag-Connect probes. These headers plug into standard 0.1 inch PTH header footprints, and hold sufficiently well for plugging and unplugging programming cables. The header is removable and hence reusable. I don't know the endurance of this setup, though.
The pcb holes for the header are drilled to 1.1mm diameter, plated through, on a 1.6mm double sided board.
The specific header that worked for me is the TE 104350-3 (this is the 2x3 pin version). Digikey's part number is A122684-ND, while mouser's part number is 571-104350-3. The price is just over USD1 each right now.


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Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace, a North Carolina State Historic Site established in 1955 and located 12 miles northeast of Asheville on Reems Creek Road near Weaverville, serves as a memorial to North Carolina's Civil War governor and U.S. senator Zebulon B. Vance (1830-94). The site, where Vance spent his early childhood, is representative of an 1830s mountain farmstead. The modern State Historic Site consists of a two-story, five-room log house reconstructed around the original chimneys, six log outbuildings, and a visitors center. Throughout the year, visitors can learn about the Vance family through exhibits, a media presentation, and guided tours of the house and grounds. Seasonal demonstrations of the skills and trades needed to survive in the mountains during the early years of the nineteenth century are also offered.
Frontis W. Johnston, "Zebulon B. Vance: A Personality Sketch," NCHR 30 (April 1953).
Richard F. Knapp, ed., North Carolina's State Historic Sites: A Brief History and Status Report (1995).
Richard E. Yates, The Confederacy and Zeb Vance (1958).
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"Vance Birthplace." North Carolina Historic Sites. http://www.nchistoricsites.org/vance/vance.htm (accessed August 28, 2012).
Travel and Promotion Division, Department of Conservation and Development. "Sheltering a heritage: North Carolina's historic buildings." Raleigh, N. C." Litho Industries, Inc. 1969. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,642128 (accessed August 28, 2012).
"An Act Repealing Chapter 1234, Session Laws of 1953 and Transferring the Appropriation Made in Section 4 of Said Act to the State Department of Archives and History for the Purpose of Aiding Said Department to Acquire the Zebulon Baird Vance Birthplace and to Establish the Same as a Perpetual Memorial to the Name and Memory of Zebulon Baird Vance." 1955 Session Laws and Resolutions passed by the General Assembly at the Regular Session. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Winston Printing Company. 1955. p.1339. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,381365 (accessed August 28, 2012).
Conway, Robert O. "Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace," Tar Heel Junior Historian XII. May 1973.
Tarlton, William S. "Division Of Historic Sites." p.20. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,34523 (accessed August 28, 2012).
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I was showing my wife the pictures of the old house that Zebulon B. Vance grew up in and she tells me her Dad, Zebulon Allen Rhodes was kin to him and that they had an old bible in their home that she used to read that belonged to the Vance family and that her dad donated it to the historic site and it is on display there. Pretty interesting but not sure how they are kin?
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His curiosity led our reporter into the mysteries of Budapest, the cradle of escape rooms. Did he solve the challenges or is he still there, wrestling with conundrums?
A complicated city at the best of times, Budapest is not a place visitors immediately grasp. It takes time to understand it. The old heart of Europe, it beats to the pulse of the history of an entire continent. The streets are grand avenues, the buildings linked by the ubiquitous omnibus power lines. No chessboard here, no urban development plan. Budapest grew organically, like a living thing with a memory, a creature that swallows up careless strangers who come without a map. This sense of new departures, of the dream of a peaceful 20th century still clings to the Art Nouveau facades of Andrássy út boulevard. And because the facades are crumbling, the plaster peeled away to reveal the bricks beneath, it is also suffused with disappointment and the sadness of the 20th century. Budapest is the essence of Europe.
The ambiguity of this city has inspired two of the most successful logic games of the past century. Ernö Rubik conceived of the famous colored cube that bears his name here, driving people to despair since 1977. Even more successful are the exit games that require players to solve problems. The games involve locking a team into a room and giving them an hour to escape by a process of deduction and combination. The team only escapes if it follows all the clues correctly.
"Maybe it's because Budapest is so confusing that I got the idea," says the man who believes his Parapark was the very first escape room. Attila Gyurkovics, stocky, close-cropped hair, businesslike attitude, is sitting in a café, ashtray, a substantial meal and a beer in front of him. "Budapest has lots of dilapidated buildings, old, rundown courtyards, and I knew I could do something with them." Gyurkovics always loved puzzles, whodunnits and thrillers, and the dark, shabby side of his city was inspiring. Budapest is a place where dark thoughts can arise. "I solved the Rubik cube when I was a child," says the now 41-year-old, "I always wanted to get to the bottom of every puzzle."
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Our first impression is disappointment: A narrow staircase leads down to a musty basement, like a seedy underground club. There's a smell of damp laundry, forgotten furniture and mothballs. The ceiling is low and claustrophobia soon sets in. "We changed nothing in the first room," says Gyurkovics, outlining the rules. There are no tools and no manual. All you need for a good story is a good script, says the resourceful Parapark boss. Parapark has been around since 2011. "Your brain is the only tool you need for this game," he explains. Just in case anyone really gets scared or frantic: "One of my staff will be watching you on camera and will step in." We are relieved – a little.
Gyurkovics makes up the clues himself. These days, people in many countries play his stories. It's a lucrative business and start-up costs are low, as the furnishings of the basement vault on Vajdahunyad utca 4 reveal: Furniture dating from the days of socialist planned production, an old computer screen, junk and half a car. Imagination is what turns this medley of old stuff into a story. We have to make our way through four rooms. The first looks like the break room of a small workshop. "An overall," I say out loud, "there's actually an overall in here," still able to laugh. Then the door closes and we don't know what to do. Bewildered, we look around. Christoph, the brains of our quartet, the mathematician, wants to roll out his theories about the probabilities of puzzles. "Christoph, please," I say, reining him in, "people who don't spend their free time calculating when the universe will implode are also supposed to be able to solve this!" We crack the first nut: In the overall pocket, there's a key, which should open a lock we haven't yet located. We split up: two search, two ponder. We have to work as a team as we only have an hour's time.
You have to solve the puzzle in one room before you can enter the next one. We discover some numbers on a screen: a safe code. Inside the safe, there's a jigsaw piece – reminding me of 1990s computer adventure games. Immediately we spot an old computer with four video files on it. Christoph and I analyze the videos, find more numbers and note them down. We're feeling smart because we're solving the puzzles. For us, a musty basement in Budapest with some junk apparently randomly strewn across the floor is turning into a story, an adventure. "I think that's supposed to be an elevator," I say as we enter the third room. Of course, it's not a real elevator, just another room.
A Parapark visit costs roughly 30 euros per group. After half an hour, even seasoned players will have cracked two of the four rooms at most. Things get hectic: "Why don't I get it? Why can't I pull the key out of the car's dashboard?" I yell. The four of us weigh down laminated maps with big lumps of wood. Another code pops up which opens the dashboard. Instantly, our brains reward us with endorphins. "That's why people love Parapark puzzles," Gyurkovics explains, "everyone can do them and when the team finds a solution, all the players get a rush of pleasure."
Spirits of the past
Pinball fans can play this museum's vintage exhibits.
Tours of tunnel systems and caves beneath the city.
Römische Geschichte schnuppern im Ruinengarten von Aquincum.
The very popular Szimpla Kert bar is housed in a vast old oven factory.
Lufthansa offers five daily flights from Frankfurt (FRA) and up to eight weekly flights from Munich (MUC) to Budapest (BUD). To calculate your miles, go to meilenrechner.de


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A resolution approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, in recognizing the Armenian Genocide, asks the Obama administration to endorse history at the risk of insulting a needed ally. The passing of House Resolution 252 introduces a new dynamic into the State Department's hopes for "normalization" of relations between Armenia and Turkey.
The Armenian Genocide is marked as beginning April 24, 1915. On the 94th anniversary last year, President Obama decried the "great atrocities" – but defied his own campaign promise by following the precedent of other modern presidents and stopping short of using the word "genocide."
HR 252 calls on the president to use the annual April 24 message "to accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide and to recall the proud history of United States intervention in opposition to the Armenian Genocide."
The fallout over the nonbinding resolution – Turkey withdrew its US ambassador, and its prime minister called the resolution "a comedy" – makes it most unlikely that it will either pass the full Congress or nudge President Obama to call a historical fact by its proper name next month. Indeed, the Obama administration urged the committee not to pass the measure. The letdown will further erode the trust of Armenians to whom he has become davatchan – a traitor.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has vowed to stop the resolution where it stands. Mrs. Clinton was the chief diplomat behind a three-country effort shared by Russia and Switzerland last October that resulted in Turkey and Armenia agreeing to try to agree, and follow a set of "protocols" intended to work out their deep differences.
The protocols meant to be a roadmap have led nowhere, as neither country has ratified them. Armenia has even gone so far as to amend its legislation on international treaties, allowing for "the suspension or termination of agreements signed by Armenia before their entry into force." Creating a pre-emptive exit strategy from cooperation hardly portends kumbayah in the Caucasus.
Turkey (which closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in support of Muslim cousin Azerbaijan in its war over the historically Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh) was the first to drag down the process, by insisting that rapprochement cannot carry on unless Armenia returns land it reclaimed from Azerbaijan. Turkey's insistence on projecting Karabakh into the discussion brings to question whether protocol negotiators were literally on the same page.
The drafted, debated, signed-and-sent-to-parliaments document makes no reference to the Karabakh issue. Armenians saw Turkey's introduction of this controversy into the protocol talks (after they were signed) as unacceptable. Washington diplomats – mindful of the delicate and protracted negotiations over Karabakh – encouraged Turkey to seek harmony with Armenia "without preconditions" – or in this case, "postconditions."
Nonetheless, members of Congress debating HR252 last Thursday and indeed Clinton herself in subsequent statements, seemed either uninformed or dismissive of the reality that "normalization" has reverted to the unfortunate normal state of acrid dislike between Armenia and Turkey.
Clinton's claim that endorsing the resolution would damage the protocol process plays perfectly into Turkey's position as the aggrieved nation. Neither she nor the Turks concede that the attempt at reconciliation has been a blunder that not only hasn't worked, but has torn scabs off wounds that irritate the Turkey-Armenia healing process. What was meant to be a document uniting nations has left the republics divided. And while open borders were intended, closed minds have prevailed.
The process has also split Armenia's vast diaspora and has been a source of division domestically – in a cantankerous country that needs no encouragement to divide its diminished self. A large segment of the Armenian diaspora rejected the protocols from the start. (Significantd diaspora institutions endorsed the document, but their support was muted compared to contrary outcry.)
Opponents contested a clause that calls for a "historical commission" to explore what happened from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire. They reasoned that such a commission would cast doubt on (as candidate Obama called it) the "overwhelming body of historical evidence" and in doing so would betray lost souls to whom nearly every Armenian can trace a link.
The diaspora is unhappy. The natives are uncertain. Turkey is stonewalling. Azerbaijan is threatening war. Is this the "normalization" the State Department envisioned?
The Obama administration won't call genocide by its ugly but scientifically-deserved name because Ankara effectively said to Washington in March what it said to Yerevan last October: "Share our blindness to history so that we all might squint our way to a brighter future."
By passing this resolution, a congressional committee has hurt Turkey's feelings, and the resulting pout could harm American interests. Moral courage carries a higher price than the US can afford.
This resolution – like similar ones before it – will be stopped from going any further. Convenience will trump conscience because Turkey's importance to US strategic interests is too great. Armenia, landlocked, crippled by Post-Soviet-Syndrome and a soaring national debt, offers nothing – except a share in the just side of moral judgment. All it takes is a word that, again, won't be spoken by the world's most influential voice.
American journalist John Hughes is founder and Editor in Chief of ArmeniaNow internet daily in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Acadia Insurance wins PIANH Company Award for Excellence
CONCORD, N.H.?The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc. today recognized Acadia Insurance with the Company Award for Excellence in the category of commercial lines. The company was presented with the award at the association?s Fall Education Festival, held last week in Concord.
Acadia received the highest praise from its agents overall concerning service to commercial lines in the PIANH 2009 Company Performance Survey. ?Acadia Insurance scored among the highest in several categories of in PIA?s Company Performance Survey including products and pricing; providing competitive compensation for its agents; for providing a stable market; and flexibility in underwriting commercial lines products,? said Stanley Pollack, CIC, president of PIANH. ?We are pleased to recognize Acadia as a strong partner in providing businesses in New Hampshire with quality coverage.?
Bill Rohde, president of Acadia commented, ?We are honored to receive this award. Acadia strongly supports PIA and the independent agency system, and we are very proud of these relationships.? Mike Lee, assistant vice president and branch manager added, ?Our employees are proud to receive this recognition from PIA and the New Hampshire agents, and we are committed to striving to attain this goal each year.?
The PIANH Company Awards are presented to those insurers that consistently demonstrate outstanding performance in the eyes of the agents that represent them. Winning companies received high scores on the PIANH Company Performance Survey, which gauges insurance producers? views of their carriers and gives agents the opportunity to share opinions on their companies? handling of claims; products and pricing; technology; underwriting and more.
PIANH is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.
Acadia Insurance is rated ?A+? (Superior) by A. M. Best and is a subsidiary of W. R. Berkley Corp., one of the nation?s premier commercial lines property/casualty insurance providers, one of the 50 largest diversified financial companies in the United States.


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Hi Guillem, With all the talk of Neymar coming to Barcelona, could Alexis Sanchez leave? Thanks, Steve Jobson (Barcelona fan)
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