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Through more than 150 extraordinary artifacts and photographs, multimedia presentations and enthralling stories, the show endeavors to open visitors' eyes to the role African Americans have played in the nation's history. The exhibit is a historical continuum of pivotal moments in courage, conviction and creativity that collectively illustrate the undeniable imprint of African Americans across the nation and around the world. "As our country continues its celebration of Black History Month, it's important to remember that African American history is, in fact, America's history, and we are excited about the potential of this exhibit to enlighten and empower Americans across the country," said Smiley. "We appreciate the vision and support of Wal-Mart to help bring this historic project to life." "The lessons and examples of this collection are more important, and more relevant, then ever," Simon said in making the announcement.
Why does the MacBook Air make so many so dumb?
On the other hand, the MacBook Air is light and solid. And beautiful. Somehow, longtime Mac users were deluded that this new machine would be some kind of a replacement for a MacBook Pro. Sorry, it isn't the replacement for anything. The MacBook Air is something different. (A brief sidetrack: I add that the whole notion that notebooks can be a "desktop replacement" is marketing nonsense, one that most computer users have bought into. Notebooks are designed for mobility and they make many serious trade-offs when compared with desktop machine, whether professional or consumer grade. For example, my MacBook Pro is a fantastic machine, however, it can't touch an 8-core Mac Pro's amazing processor performance, networking and storage expansion, video performance and reliability.
There’s Nothing Mainstream About the Corporate Media
As we stumble toward another presidential election, it's never been more clear that our political process is being warped by a corporate stranglehold on the free flow of information. Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a horrific war, a global ecological crisis and an advancing economic collapse, what passes for the mass media is itself in collapse. What's left of our democracy teeters on the brink. The culprit, in the parlance of the day, has been the "Mainstream Media," or MSM. But that's wrong name for it. Today's mass media is Corporate, not Mainstream, and the distinction is critical. Calling the Corporate Media (CM) "mainstream" implies that it speaks for mid-road opinion, and it absolutely does not. There is, in fact, a discernable, tangible mainstream of opinion in this country.
CES: LaCie unveils new hard drives, LCD display
LaCie on Monday introduced five new products including desktop and portable hard drives and a new LCD display aimed at professionals. Some products are available today; others are coming later this month and in February. The LaCie d2 Quadra is a redesigned quadruple-interface desktop hard drive. It features USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and external Serial ATA (eSATA) connections. Featuring a large surface area, the external drive dissipates heat without needing a fan. It's available now in capacities ranging from 320GB to 1 terabyte (TB), at prices starting at $189. The Little Big Disk Quadra is a quad-interface drive designed for portability. It's fast enough to handle video editing and digital content creation on the road, but sports an aluminum heat-sink design that cools without needing a fan.
Seneca fourth-grader already a LEGO champ
SENECA Sixty-eight teams of students ages 9 to 14 from around the Upstate squared off Saturday at Clemson's Littlejohn Auditorium as competitors in the Clemson/Upstate South Carolina FIRST LEGO League regional competition. Just up the road in Seneca, though, one 9-year-old could make a fair claim even before the competition to being a LEGO king. After all, his skill with LEGOs has already won him $5,000, a king's ransom for the J.N. Kellett Elementary fourth-grader. Logan Roth, son of Kelly and Lora Roth of Seneca, was one of 10 children ages 6 to 13 across the nation who were each awarded $5,000 prizes in the first of what LEGO intends as an annual award series for the most creative use of the LEGO blocks and related gadgetry. Winning for Logan was simple: he wrote an essay to the company explaining how he used LEGOs to make stop-action movies, combining the structures and figures he builds with his family's video camera and their home computer.
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