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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

IHateMyTreo said:
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a Military History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.
When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.'

She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have.

Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. don't ever forget it.'

Ms. Cothren is the daughter of a WW II POW. In 2006, The Veterans of Foreign Wars named her 'Teacher of the Year.'

True story - confirmed by Snopes snopes.com: Veterans Return Desks
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Me too.:)
 
Someone went to Office Max and ordered a new N7 on the 20th and has received it. It was on Reddit but was later deleted.
 
I want!

NFC Ring To Control Your Smartphone Hits Kickstarter Goal In Only 3 Days


This is for you, Chief...
LG G2... but an FCC visit made by the phone might have already given us a clue as to which U.S. carriers the phone will call home. Using the code name D801, the eagerly anticipated top-shelf model that visited the FCC offers LTE and HSPA connectivity that matches the networks owned by T-Mobile, and AT&T in the U.S., as well as the major Canadian carriers.
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Morning folks! We're going to go to the Getty Museum today after a tasty breakfast and then the big event, going to Ink tonight! :D
Food | MVink.
One more shot from Santa Monica yesterday:
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halon said:
LG G2... but an FCC visit made by the phone might have already given us a clue as to which U.S. carriers the phone will call home. Using the code name D801, the eagerly anticipated top-shelf model that visited the FCC offers LTE and HSPA connectivity that matches the networks owned by T-Mobile, and AT&T in the U.S., as well as the major Canadian carriers.

This is for you, Chief...
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:( :( :( :( :(

Well, that sucks bad eggs. With the Nexus 5 and G2 out of the mix, my choices are either a New Droid or a Moto X and I may as well pounce on the Moto, although I see little hardware improvement over my 1-1/2 year old Galaxy Nexus. The software had better blow me away, and no doubt development will be strong for it. And the price is right!
 
The_Chief said:
:( :( :( :( :(

Well, that sucks bad eggs. With the Nexus 5 and G2 out of the mix, my choices are either a New Droid or a Moto X and I may as well pounce on the Moto, although I see little hardware improvement over my 1-1/2 year old Galaxy Nexus. The software had better blow me away, and no doubt development will be strong for it. And the price is right!
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I did see it mentioned for Sprint. So who knows?

Just think happy thoughts of VoLte and the Nexus 6 :)
 
Since I have smart TV and blu-ray players on both TVs, I really have no use for it, but I really think my wife could use it in the classroom at school.
 
halon said:
I wish there was an Amazon Instant Video app.
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There sort of is. My Logitech Revue has an app for it, but it's a system app. Plus the device is next to impossible to root without hardware modification so I can't yank it from the root directories. Is there one for Kindle fire devices?

If not, with the release of the sdk, maybe amazon will make an app to support it that would be available to all?
 
I haven't looked on a long time but the last I did people were trying to get the app to work with not much luck. I'll have to check if there was any progress tonight after work.
 
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