Heroism

1. Irene Morgan Kirkaldy died last week. In 1944 she was arrested and jailed when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Virginia, more than ten years before Rosa Parks lit the South on fire with her own refusal. She could easily have been killed, but she found it important that day to stand for something.
   
   
2. Deranged man kills a kid and maims a mom with a meat cleaver, which is what you'll see everywhere about the story. The other story is that a 53-year-old woman neighbor charged the guy in mid-attack, unarmed, took a cleaver hit to the face and still knocked his weapon away. The phrase that you see in Medal of Honor statements "thinking nothing of her own safety" comes to mind. She could easily have been killed, but it was so important to her that she had to do something.
   
   
3. A psychologist I knew 20 years ago had been in the resistance against the Nazis, inside Germany. Not too many people did that. Not too many of his friends made it, from what I understand. In the context of trying to help me with a much more trivial problem, he said that he had been captured and interrogated twice by the Gestapo. I told him that he was unusually courageous not to have broken under that stress. He said: "No, none, none of us was particularly brave. It was just important. Very important."

Area Music Fan Has Question

Dear the BRYAN ADAMS:

I had occasion to hear on my car radio today, once again, your 1984 smash hit record "Summer of '69."

I'm sure many listeners resonated to this stirring recollection of one of pop music's most amazing years, and that many of them also had a guitar and some friends that year and felt inspired.

You, however, were nine years old.

What the hey,

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Support Ticket #43942 (P0) (Network)

Folks,

Could someone in I.T. take a look at Diane's PC. She's out on vacation this week, but it's been acting funny and no one on 8 West can print. Also, we stranded tens of thousands of people for a whole day and brought international travel to a halt and caused worldwide news. Whenever you stop by 8 West next could you check her pc? thanks

Guys if you could look at this right now it would be great.

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(AP) LOS ANGELES The source of last weekend's system breakdown at Los Angeles International Airport has been traced to a malfunctioning network interface card on a single desktop computer.

U.S. Customs officials say the card -- -- which allows computers to connect to a local area network -- experienced a partial failure around 12:50 p.m. Saturday that had a domino effect with other computer network cards.

A total system failure occurred a little after 2 p.m., leaving more than 17,000 inbound international travelers stranded in the terminal or on airplanes because authorities were unable to screen them.

The malfunction prompted city and state leaders to request briefings and reports from customs and aviation officials.

The system was up and running again by 4 a.m. Sunday, but experienced a second 80 minute outage late Sunday into early Monday, which was blamed on a power supply failure.