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Title: Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg amputated above the knee
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Published: Jan 16, 2011
Author: The Envelope
Post Date: 2011-01-16 01:59:41 by christine
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Zsa Zsa Gabor had most of her right leg successfully amputated Friday, not quite two weeks after she was hospitalized with an infected lesion that doctors feared would cost the actress her life. Calling off an initial Jan. 2 rush to amputate, doctors began treating Gabor with powerful antibiotics in an attempt to save her leg. The wound wouldn't heal, publicist John Blanchette said Friday, which meant amputation was necessary to prevent the spread of gangrene. Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, gave permission a week ago for the surgery to take place. Gabor, 93, has been in and out of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles since breaking her left hip and other bones in a fall in July. She had hip replacement surgery at that time. In the Friday surgery, about three-quarters of Gabor's right leg was removed, starting just above the knee, according to TMZ. Her right leg had been previously damaged; she was using a wheelchair after a car accident in 2002 and a stroke in 2005. The actress and socialite received last rites from a priest in August.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Wonder how long it'll be before some puts it up for bids on Ebay.
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U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
==================================== Get some rest ..
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Green Acres leading actress was Zsa Zsa's sister Eva - the one who could actually act. Zsa Zsa was always a stuck up bed hopper and Eva was a Lady.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Green Acres was sister Eva Gabor, who could act, who died a few years ago. Many years ago Zsa Zsa was sued for breach of contract because she did not put in a promised appearance at a charity fundraiser in Monte Carlo to raise money for the Monaco Deaf School. When she got into trouble with an L.A. policeman about 20 years ago, I sort of wished that her public service punishment would require her to wash dishes or something for the L.A. area deaf school - no such luck. But now she can appreciate what it's like to be handicapped.
This is the high point of her acting career. After this, I think she was famous for being famous.
====================================== Truth hurts.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
========================================= I can relate to that. As OI observed, her's was the perfect 'sleep-around' example of the best of what Hollywood has to offer. But I don't jump on her as she lays dying, she is still a human being with a soul.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
The real high point of her acting career was in her first year in Hollywood, in Moulin Rouge (1952) as Jane Avril, dancer and acquaintance of Toulouse Latrec. Queen of Outer Space (1958) was such a low point that it marked her permanently as a punchline.
All six seconds........lol
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Eva was the talented one, as others pointed out. A good sense of comedic timing. Prettier than Zsa Zsa too, IMO.
I don't think she was quite the cock-monster that Shelley Winters was.
============================================== It is a given that if you are to become (and remain) a female 'star' in Hollywood, you'd better be ready to drop your pants quickly, and often. Immorality is the new (old) morality. That lifestyle reverberates off the screen into the hearts and minds of young people. They see it and then act it out in their own lives. I am not a prude, and enjoy watching good, entertaining movies as much as anyone, but the underlying culture of the movie making industry is one that nurtures adultery and unfaithfulness. I know I'm right, and the divorce and abortion rates in this country prove it.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Prior to acting, Zsa Zsa had married an original Hilton. She was famous for the same thing her great-neice is famous for: famous for being a celebrity but not for actually doing anything. Plenty of adultry and sex scandals for Zsa Zsa. She never cared to much about the craft or the quality of her roles though. Winters actually wanted to act and won an Oscar for best supporting role. If she played cock-monster it was to get the roles she wanted. However, I've long felt that her sexual exploits were exaggerated for two reasons: She really could act and she is Jewish, making connections and door open in her career.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
I think the same applies to male stars now too. It's about the only thing that can explain the careers of some of these "stars".
============================== Bunch of 'pretty boys.' Rock Hudson would just be in heaven ..
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
All the Gabor sisters were horrible women.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
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"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
These digital clocks were quite the rave 32 years ago .. I remember the first digital watches that year were selling like hotcakes for $500 a pop.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I remember when 8-digit calculators cost $1000. 1973, I think. By early 1975, the first home computer was being built, the Altair 8800. I recall reading this mag back in the day.
I recall my Freshman Year of College - HP introduced their first hand held electronic calculator which would add, subtract, multipy, divide, and do roots and powers. Only $425.00 at the school bookstore.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
I got into computers way late - 1982. Had all of them. I'll never forget paying $700 for a dual external 360K read/write floppy drive for my Commodore 64. Loved moving those sprites around. Another one that stands out is paying $1,000 for an HP Deskjet 500 in '86. Laser printers were going for 3 times that much - what a steal!
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Interesting how times have changed. My first computer was a generation 1.5 Mac which had 512K of memory, a 9 inch B/W screen, and a single sided hard floppy drive that would put 400K on a disk. The OS was on a floppy and you had to insert the boot disk every time you used the computer. I bought it at a special price in the Navy Exchange for 1500. Software extra. I ended up buying an external dual sided floppy (when it came out) for $300, and a dot matrix printer for $477. Now you can buy a Mac Mini with a several hundred gig hard drive, color graphics, 512M of memory, Monitor, Keyboard, and Laser Printer all for less than I paid for that first Mac which ran a Motorola 68000 processor at about 30Khz. I haven't looked recently but if I recall correctly the current Mac Mini has a Core 2 Duo Processor that is clocked at about 2.5 Ghz. It is more powerful than a VAX was at that time. I can't remember what I paid for my first inkjet - it was the latest and greatest HP at the time and I know it was not cheap, but I think it was under $500.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
================================================ In 1986, I got an Atari 520ST. Atari, Apple, and Mac were all trying to catch the historic market for the first GUI-based OS. We know how the battle ended, but Atari really had a shot at it. Then, in '88, I got the 1040ST. Both the 520ST and 1040ST both ran the 1.5 gen Mac OS on a ROM cartridge called "MAC IN A SAC" that plugged into one of the ports on the ST. I had a great time running the Mac software (68000 Motorola emulation) on the ST. Microsoft Windows had tons more software options, and in '89, I got a Gateway 386 with Windows 2.0 on it. I gave $2,400 for it and had to wait in line. Anyhow, Leopard now runs on the Intel hardware. Software is what really drives the hardware industry, and Microsoft has always managed to stay far enough ahead of Apple to get the market share. Windows 7 is their best OS yet.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I don't know that I would be so sure that Windows 7 is ahead of the current Mac OS 10.6. The Windows visual interface is really nothing more than a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell. Microsloth was able to get away with copycatting some of the Mac interface because the Judge in the Copyright Infringement lawsuit was either stupid or paid off. I suspect both. However, Microsloth did have to change some of the functionality so the Mac interface still remains a bit more elegant in operation e.g., when you delete something it is gone. You don't have to go into another program register to do a final delete as on the Mac when you empty the trash it IS gonnnnnnnne. Having had to use both I still prefer the Mac iteration, and it is easier to teach to new users. The Mac OS is also more stable and more secure. Not that I have never had OS problems but they have remained minor, infrequent, and easily fixed. And I still have not upgraded to the latest, and won't until I get a new machine as I'm still using a Power Mac dual G4 Tower and it is not supported in the latest edition. Not that I care as the machine works just fine for now. I just wish the fan was quieter.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
====================================== You lost me on the "a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell." How does Linux compute in either Windows or Leopard operating systems? I completely agree on the ease of use of Leopard over Windows, especially in the file handling conventions, lassoing, and file dragging ease of use. I don't use CS5 or Lightroom much, but the commands are very similar on both platforms. I got a Nikon D7000 from MammaClause and look forward in working with the NEF RAW pics with the new CS5 High Definition (HDR) post processing. Being a 'gadget guy' is such hell. ;>)
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
One day in 84 (?) my biz partner showed up with a Compaq. The first one with the 4" screen and the cover was the keyboard, with a nifty shoulder strap. You could say it was the first laptop. I crapped when he told me it cost $4,500. That said, it allowed us to compete with some big boys and soon paid for itself. About a year later a another partner owed me some $$ so I repoed his Epson. That thing didn't even use DOS, it had it's own OS and you had to write your own programs. I sold it.
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
IIRC, the Kaypro was the first portable computer running an Intel 8086 or 8088 cpu. Cost was over $5,000.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
How does Linux compute in either Windows or Leopard operating systems? The original Mac Interface was written in Pascal, and that remained the standard Mac OS language up until the introduction of OS X. OS X is basically a Shell - a "Shell" is an interfacing program which enables the user of a Unix based system (or any other OS for which a shell is written) to input commands to the OS for execution. Typically that is done using a command line using text commands so I probably shouldn't have said shell as GUI or Graphical User Interface would be more correct in describing the Mac OS or Windows. However the GUI is performing the same function just using graphics instead of command lines. So, it is in effect a shell. The DOS command line interpreter is a type of shell that allows a Microsloth user to input text commands to the OS, and DOS still exists. Some DOS commands still work on Windows machines if you bypass the visual interface and use the command line interpreter. The Mac also has a terminal function that allows you to access its command line for direct input, but why bother? I'm not a geek I'm a user. Linux is nothing more than Unix, developed at UC Berkeley, ported over and adapted for use on Microcomputers. The visual interface in Mac OS X is a program which overlays the Linux OS and replicates the original Mac Interface allowing the Mac User to use the same command functions they would have had in the older Pascal based OS but now it is an intermediary that translates mouse clicks etc., into Linux commands which are executed by the underlying Linux OS. So, while the look and feel is the same to a Mac User used to the older system it is effectively a completely different operating system and the only thing retained is the Graphical User Interface, but re-coded for Linux. I hope that all makes sense.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
I remember the first HP portables as I was working in Data Processing support at a Naval Ship Repair Facility and we began getting them for the Ship Superintendants (who manage the jobs for the ships). They were definitely not lap tops, and we called them "luggables" rather than "portables" as they weighed 15 or 20 pounds. However, they were also some of the first LCD Screened machines. They ran on an 8086, no hard drive, and used a floppy. Thankfully I only had to support them and not carry the heavy bastards around.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
==================================== Perfect. Thanks.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I think I was a little high on the Kaypro price . . LoL U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Those were 8MHz CPUs. The early Z80's ran at 1-2Mhz (CP/M machines and Radio Shack's computers) and the 6502s all ran at 1Mhz (Apple II, Atari, C64).
That looks like a 1983 Kaypro IV (the 1984 ones had half-height drives, a 2.5Mhz Z80, and came bundled with Wordstar). I have a friend who has a mint one in working order. I used to write little Z80 assembly programs, utility stuff like setting up ports for easy printing on a serial printer by stealing bytes of memory from the Kaypro copyright notice.
============================================== Fast Forward to 2011. Rumor: Windows 8 will be a ROM-BASED operating system for the first time in Microsoft's history. Steve Jobs goes on sudden leave, possible pancreatic cancer. The only programming I have done is in Cobol on a Wang VS-100. I was a sysadmin with right at a $million in hardware assets, WAN, LAN, and real-time DDN interoperability. The VS-100 ran out of a climate-controlled room (ambient 68'F) with anti-static floors with an adjoining sysop admin and co-sysop office with a glass WALL looking into said computer room. I had five 250mb disk drives using glass packs. Each drive cost $35,000. The local lan was connected via RG58 coax. I ran over 8 miles of it in ONE BUILDING. There were 80 BNC/TNC connector ports available to the local LAN connected to a patch panel I built using a heavy gauge metal locker with lockable doors, reinforced with a heavy gauge aluminum panel where the BNC/TNC came in. I spliced all the cable and terminators with just myself and my co-sysop. I'll never forget paying $200 for a coax cable splicing tool. I can't remember how much the RG58 cost. The patch panel sat five feet behind the VS-100 with a 10 inch thick cable bundle running out of the patch panel up through the ceiling, then dispersed throughout a 3 story building. The VS-100 ports were individually configured for the type of hardware connected at the other end (modem, printer, scanner, computer, etc.) We had state of the art Wang 286 computers on our remote LAN hardware connected via telephone line using 300 baud modems. Each one of those were $2,600. High speed band printers back then went for over $20,000. That was in 1986.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
That's quite some Hot Rod. Hee, hee. You can now buy a mini-laptop that would run so many rings around that you'd get dizzy trying to count. My how times have changed. I remember when Heathkit offered a 10 MB hard drive kit for the low price of 2 grand. ;-)
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Woh. Very ambitious.
Corvus drive?
#2. To: christine (#0)
(Edited)
#3. To: Obnoxicated (#1)
Wonder how long it'll be before some puts it up for bids on Ebay.
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#2)
#5. To: christine (#0)
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#2)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#4)
Green Acres leading actress was Zsa Zsa's sister Eva - the one who could actually act. Zsa Zsa was always a stuck up bed hopper and Eva was a Lady.
#8. To: Shoonra (#5)
I sort of wished that her public service punishment would require her to wash dishes or something for the L.A. area deaf school - no such luck. But now she can appreciate what it's like to be handicapped.
#9. To: TooConservative (#6)
#10. To: TooConservative (#6)
This is the high point of her acting career.
#11. To: Shoonra (#9)
#12. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#8)
As OI observed, her's was the perfect 'sleep-around' example of the best of what Hollywood has to offer.
#13. To: TooConservative (#12)
I don't think she was quite the cock-monster that Shelley Winters was.
#14. To: TooConservative (#12)
I don't think she was quite the cock-monster that Shelley Winters was.
#15. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#13)
It is a given that if you are to become (and remain) a female 'star' in Hollywood, you'd better be ready to drop your pants quickly, and often.
#16. To: TooConservative (#15)
I think the same applies to male stars now too. It's about the only thing that can explain the careers of some of these "stars".
#17. To: christine (#0)
#18. To: christine (#0)
#19. To: Original_Intent (#18)
Only $79,000
#20. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#19)
January 1975 Popular Electronics
with the Altair 8800 computer
#21. To: TooConservative (#20)
#22. To: TooConservative, Original_Intent (#20)
#23. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#22)
#24. To: Original_Intent (#23)
My first computer was a generation 1.5 Mac which had 512K of memory, a 9 inch B/W screen, and a single sided hard floppy drive that would put 400K on a disk. The OS was on a floppy and you had to insert the boot disk every time you used the computer. I bought it at a special price in the Navy Exchange for 1500.
#25. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#24)
#26. To: Original_Intent (#25)
The Windows visual interface is really nothing more than a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell. Microsloth was able to get away with copycatting some of the Mac interface because the Judge in the Copyright Infringement lawsuit was either stupid or paid off. I suspect both.
#27. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, Original_Intent (#24)
(Edited)
In 1986, I got an Atari 520ST.
#28. To: Flintlock (#27)
#29. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#26)
You lost me on the "a fractured copy of the Mac interface which is now operating as a Linux Shell."
#30. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#28)
#31. To: Original_Intent (#29)
I hope that all makes sense.
#32. To: Original_Intent (#30)
#33. To: Original_Intent (#29)
#34. To: Original_Intent (#23)
that first Mac which ran a Motorola 68000 processor at about 30Khz.
#35. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#33)
#36. To: TooConservative, Original_Intent (#35)
(Edited)
I used to write little Z80 assembly programs, utility stuff like setting up ports for easy printing on a serial printer by stealing bytes of memory from the Kaypro copyright notice.
#37. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#33)
#38. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#36)
I ran over 8 miles of it in ONE BUILDING. There were 80 BNC/TNC connector ports...
#39. To: Original_Intent (#37)
I remember when Heathkit offered a 10 MB hard drive kit for the low price of 2 grand. ;-)
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