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More from Our Pong Panelists
If you attended our October 12 panel on the birth of Pong and video games, you may remember our panelists recommending some games. Here are more suggestions from Mary Flanagan and Randall Nichols...
November 21, 2011 11:46 AM | Permalink
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1981 President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers
click here for mp3 file Live recording held at the café at AS220 at 5:30 p.m on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Click here to see the images from the live recording in AS220 1981 President Reagan Fires Air Traffic...
October 22, 2011 12:39 AM | Permalink
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1971 An American Family; Our First Reality TV Show
click here for mp3 file Live recording held at the café at AS220 at 5:30 p.m on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Click here to see the images from the live recording in AS220 1971 An American Family; Our First...
October 14, 2011 11:49 AM | Permalink
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October 12, 2011: 1972 - The Birth of Pong and Video Games
click here for mp3 file Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back. Is This Why We Don't Leave Our Houses Anymore? As more and more people around the world use video...
October 3, 2011 2:02 AM | Permalink
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The Providence Journal Article
Marc Joel Levitt continues to QB Action Speaks 10/02/2011 01:00 AM EDT By Rick Massimo For the 16th year, the Action Speaks discussion series, which begins on Wednesday and runs weekly through October at AS220, will bring expert commentary and...
October 3, 2011 1:39 AM | Permalink
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1961 President Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech
click here for mp3 file Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using underappreciated dates of twentieth-century that have changed America. Join host Marc Levitt and guest panelists for some old-fashioned community exchange in...
September 27, 2011 9:59 AM | Permalink
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Schedule of films on Channel 36, Rhode Island PBS
Our media partner, Rhode Island Public TV (Channel 36) is again showing films on Sunday night at 9 in October to stimulate your interest in our live AS220 forum. Here is the list of films. Live forum on October...
September 22, 2011 12:32 AM | Permalink
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Action Speaks' 2011 Season
October 5: 1961 President Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech. Did a Fox Guarding the Hen House Get it Right and If So, How? President Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War 2 warned us,...
September 20, 2011 11:19 PM | Permalink