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Chatting With David Dawson, Wolverine
Cass Tech OL David Dawson is one in a long line of Technicians who have pledged to become Wolverines, including his junior teammate Jourdan Lewis. He's also one of five four-star offensive linemen in Michigan's 2013 class, with the versatility to play anywhere along the line. I got the chance to catch up with David yesterday to discuss his commitment, the Cass Tech pipeline, where he'll play as a freshman, and more:
ACE: What made you decide you wanted to commit?
DAVID: I committed because I had been up there three or four times before I had been offered. My mom liked the academics and I felt at home. That was about it. The coaches were down-to-earth, it wasn't like they were trying to be fake or anything. It helped that our cornerback [Jourdan "J.D." Lewis] committed, so that was good.
ACE: Having you and Jourdan commit seemingly within minutes of each other, how did that go down, and how did it play a factor in your decision?
DAVID: We were joking about it earlier that day, saying "do you want to commit?" Stuff like that. They pulled me into an office with Coach Hoke and I sat down and talked with him for about 5-10 minutes. He offered me and I told I want to commit, and then he hops up yelling and everything, Coach Jackson came in. We called [Jourdan's] name, and about a minute later they were screaming out the back, walking in smiling, saying he committed too. That was just a great day.
ACE: What else set Michigan apart from the other schools you were looking at?
DAVID: Like I said, it would be academics. Everyone always says not everyone goes to the league, so the academic part was a big part. Then the possibility of working with a lot of the high-caliber guys that we're bringing in right now who are going to be there when I get there, that also played a big part in my decision.
ACE: You mentioned coming in with those high-caliber guys in your class. It seems like you guys have really made a pretty strong connection, obviously being there for that huge visit weekend and then over social media. What's it like to be part of a class that's already so tight-knit—and also so talented—this early?
DAVID: It feels great. We were on that Recruiting Nation show, and I saw that a couple of weeks ago. I like that we target the offensive line a lot, we pulled in five four-stars, that's always great. There's Shane [Morris], a good quarterback, and we've got a couple guys from the city who are going up there, plus a couple guys from Ohio. It just feels great to be a part of this class.
ACE: Michigan already has five offensive linemen, including yourself, committed in the class. What have the coaches told you about where they see you playing at the next level, and where do you think you fit in best along the offensive line?
DAVID: Coach Hoke was saying that I could play right tackle or they looked at me at guard, but he says when I get there they'll put me at right tackle and see how it works out there because he likes my athleticism and my feet. I guess when I get there we'll see.
ACE: Coming from Cass Tech, that's obviously a pretty huge Michigan pipeline. Are you excited to be back at Cass and rejoining your old teammates this year?
DAVID: Definitely. It'll be good playing another year with these guys, before going off to college I'll be playing with J.D. and [Kenton] Gibbs and everybody, then going off to college I'll be back up there with Delonte [Hollowell], Terry [Richardson], and Royce [Jenkins-Stone].
ACE: You mentioned a few of your former teammates that are now at Michigan. Did you talk to those guys at all when you were making your decision? Did they help you at all coming to your choice?
DAVID: Yeah. It was great; they didn't pressure me, but they said if that's where you want to go, there's no point in waiting and stuff like that. Royce and I talked a couple times before I made my commitment. I told him I wanted to commit and he didn't believe me, so when I did he was just like, "congrats," and he still didn't believe me until I saw him up there at school.
ACE: You guys have a pretty high standard up there at Cass Tech after coming off a state championship last year. What's the expectation this year for the team and for you personally?
DAVID: For myself, personally, just to finish a strong year, possibly get into one of the All-American bowls. From a team standpoint, we should just focus on our first game in Brother Rice on August 25th, then we can take it week-by-week, but ultimately we'll be playing at Ford Field in Week 14.
ACE: After spending the last year down in Texas, what was it like having that experience for a year and what's different about high school football down there versus back up in Michigan?
DAVID: Being down there, they work more on your football IQ. We had class down there, we'd watch film all the time, we watched film of us practicing—they'd film practice and we'd go and watch film of what we did that day. The coaches taught technique every day and then you'd play against high-caliber athletes week-in and week-out. It's somewhat different than Michigan. We have high-caliber athletes up here but there's a lot down there. That's what I think separates Texas and Michigan.
ACE: Heading into this year, you're already going to be playing—there's already Khalid Hill from Detroit Crockett committed. What's it like not only having a Michigan commit on your own team, but competing against future teammates as opponents before you head off to college?
DAVID: I played against Khalid my sophomore year, when we played them for the district championship, I think. I got to block him when I was there at that time. Senior year I just can't wait for us to line up until the end, then we'll line up and shake hands because we can't wait to go to college. But right now we're focused on another state championship for Cass, so anybody that's in the way has just gotta deal with it.
ACE: Going back to your recruitment and talking about the coaches real quick, what set Michigan's coaching staff apart from the other coaches you were dealing with?
DAVID: Like I said before, when I go up there, it's not like they're putting on a show. You see what you get. That's how they act. I felt comfortable because Coach Funk, that's going to be my position coach for the next four to five years, so that played a big part in it. Then Coach Hoke, he's just a down-to-earth guy, he's very cool, and I just felt like I was at home up there at Michigan. Everything played out.
ACE: When you come to Michigan, what do you bring to the table? What do you think are your biggest strengths as a player and what are you working on before you get to the next level?
DAVID: I bring my aggressiveness, footwork, strength, and my run blocking skills to the table. I just need to work more on pass blocking. Also footwork, you can never work enough on footwork, so that's something I'll want to improve before I get there. I'm very coachable; Coach Funk will tell me something once and I'll do it. They also tell me I have a good mean streak. I just like to play football.
ACE: Sum up in a few words what stood out about Michigan, what your choice ultimately came down to.
DAVID: I felt at home up there. The coaches are down-to-earth, the academics, and they're bringing in the high-caliber athletes that they're bringing in. That played a big part in my decision.


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Liberal Democrats try to silence two of our op-ed writers.
Remember when Bill Clinton was twice elected President as a "New Democrat" who wanted to get along with people in the private economy? Nowadays even writing in favor of ideas that Mr. Clinton supported can get you branded a heretic and banished from impolite liberal society.
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Natural Resources (Doctor of Philosophy)
The Ph.D. program provides the opportunity for focused, in-depth research in any of the specialties of the school, while fostering an interdisciplinary appreciation and perspective through course work and interactions with ecological, physical, and social scientists in an integrated academic setting. Students can develop programs in areas such as pollution ecology, recreation and tourism, conservation biology, and environmental policy, as well as any of the traditional natural resource disciplines featured in our Master's program. In addition, formal course work and practical experience in college-level teaching are an important component of the doctoral curriculum.
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Satisfactory scores on the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination. Acceptability to a potential faculty advisor holding an appointment in The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Graduate College. Applicants with a Master of Science degree are preferred.
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It is ordinarily expected that a student will complete the following requirements for advancement to candidacy prior to the end of the second year in the program: (1) one year of full-time graduate study in residence at The University of Vermont; (2) at least twelve credits of research; (3) at least fifteen credits of course work at the graduate level acceptable to the student's Studies Committee; (4) satisfactory performance on a comprehensive examination; (5) delivery of a public proposal seminar; and (6) a dissertation proposal accepted by the student's Studies Committee.
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I discovered that Noel Paul Stookey, creator of Norman Normal, has an official website, and decided to email him regarding Norman Normal. I asked him if he had any interesting memories about it, and to my surprise, he emailed me back. I'll post the correspondence here:
I am curious to know more about a cartoon short written by Paul Stookey for Warner Bros. in 1968, entitled "Norman Normal". It's never been released on video or DVD officially, and last appeared on TV over 20 years ago. I'd love to know more about the experience of working on it. If interested in sharing, please contact me!
" hiya matthew. yeah...loved that cartoon...had rough outlines of a NORMAN NORMAL series set to go a couple of times but wbros never quite had the appetite for it. even 20 years after the fact there was interest. Although i did all the other voices, the lead voice (Norman) was DAVE DIXON, my co-writer on I DIG ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC (a pp&m top 10 song in the 60's), a director of a little known film i co-wrote with him called THE CULVERT and, oh yeah, a highschool classmate of mine - actually a year behind me - in retrospect he did a brilliant unaffected reading of the role that's for sure. Not sure how i can help you. what is it you want to know?"
Thanks for the response! Very interesting. I guess the way you can help me is to tell me all you know about the cartoon. How you came to write it, the plans for a series, and your experience with it. Did you have any involvement with Alex Lovy or the Warner cartoon studio at the time? I'm curious, since the cartoon itself hasn't aired on TV in 20 years and has not yet been released to DVD. A lot of people simply want to know more about it!
hmmm... this could be a very long email. tell ya what, i'll do a brief flybyand you get back to me with specific questions if necessary...
1) NORMAN NORMAL was a name, spray painted on various pieces of publictransport equipment in AUSTRALIA in the early 60's. i was struck bythe attempt to apply the term 'normal' to anybody. though there wasobviously a thread of similarity that ran through all human life, itwas becoming more and more apparent to me that each of us was veryunique; particularly in terms of how we dealt with our similarities.
2) for me, the making of records in the mid sixties was becoming moreof an experiment in styles than a straight rendering of the tunes. iwas interested in recording sonic environments (complete with soundeffects) as backgrounds in which music might present its poetry; ie:HYMN, THE HOUSE SONG, I'M IN LOVE WITH A BIG BLUE FROG and I DIG ROCKAND ROLL MUSIC were from that era.
3) loved sound effects! loved to mimic them. grew up on jonathon winters - did sfx on stage with the trio. thought to myself hey, nowthat multi-track is here, i could do an entire 'orchestra' with justmy sfx. discovered pretty quickly that i didn't have the range tocover all of it but laid down some basic tracks and then did vocalgroup overdubs for a song i wrote called
4) the lyrics to NN captured most of what i saw in the irony offinding 'normal' but thought if it could be an animated cartoon itwould give a broader palette upon which to paint the humor...
5) throughout the 60's, my highschool friend, dave dixon and had ishared an appreciation for the lyric subtext of popular music andculture. he was a 'perfect partner' as we saw certain hypocrisies inour own lives and those of folks around us. the idea of a 'normal'life appeared to carry with it some expectations that we thought wouldbe funny to examine; and especially preconceptions about businessethics, personal integrity and morality in general.
6) peter, paul and mary were among the 'first born' by WARNER BROTHERSrecords, certainly the first most successful group the label had inthe early 60's and therefore held in pretty high regard by thatcompany. though there was no official connection between thefledgling record company and the parent film group, the introductionwas made and i had a great meeting with joe kotler at the warnerbrothers building on madison avenue in nyc and we agreed in principleto go ahead with turning the tune into a cartoon.
7) milt glaser (the world reknowned graphics artist) did somepreliminary sketches of norman - i still have them as prize collectoritems - but they were thought by wbros as too difficult to reproducein animated form. we ultimately settled for a more 'closed' stylethat made cel painting and in-betweening an easier task.
8) dave dixon (who would become disc jockey and television personalityon public radio in detroit and florida) and i created and performedall the parts for the 1st cartoon. dave's beautifully level vocaldelivery underlined the 'honesty' with which NORMAN approached lifeand i did all the character voices. with the exception of the titlemusic (wbros used my sfx original), the incidental/transitional musicwas added by wbros. dave and i also did treatments for 3 or 4 followup cartoons which, alas...never got made.
9) bill hendricks WAS interested in the 70's in picking up the ideafor a series, interviewed me in that regard, and even paid $$ tooption the concept...but again there was no progress beyond talking.
10) although there was never an idea of creating a NORMAN series,myself but rather just because of my love of animation, i created aNEWORLD ANIMATION group in maine and, borrowing the talent of RYANLARKIN (from the canadian film board and recently the subject of anacademy award short called 'RYAN'), who came to work with us for twoor three months, we were creating a show for the christianbroadcasting network called THE SKY'S THE LIMIT when, sadly, theproject was cancelled by them.
11) i still maintain an affection for the animated process and itsability to speak in terms that transcend (and sometimes transform)reality. sometimes it seems we can only see beyond our day to day bybending it.
sorry to have run on matt...hardly a flyby...thanks for the chance to remember, noel
Thanks to Mr. Stookey for the information!


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I mean it. Everything. The media and entertainment industry as we have come to know it is being disrupted, and so is this blog, more on that later. Where to start? Because I did say everything is changing.
Broadcast is dead
Until I spent time this week wandering the exhibit hall and attending talks at INTX 2016 this week, broadcast's obituary was going to be buried a little deeper in the post. I frontload so heavily because I know how long the average reader spends here. Although I am tempted to name my posts something like "20 things are changing in the media and you won't flippin' believe number 19" and then present it as a slide show, I respect your time enough to make but the important stuff first.
We've been declaring broadcasting has been braindead for years, but now it's time to start harvesting the organs. Sports and regional news won't cover the bill to keep the ventilator pumping indefinitely.
The spectrum currently used by digital television would be put to better use quenching consumers' insatiable thirst for wireless bandwidth. To that end, the FCC has allowed broadcasters to opt into the Broadcast Incentive Auction. The idea here is simple. Give up spectrum so it can be licensed to wireless providers for 5G service and make some money. As a disincentive to hoarding and holding for a higher price, the first part of the auction is a reverse auction, so it pays to get in early.
As infuriating as it might be for a taxpayer to watch broadcasters profitably sell back to the public airwaves they lobbied so hard for and swore they could not live out, you have to feel a little bit sorry for the dinosaurs now that the asteroid is in sight. I'm partial to the EU's approach of reallocating the spectrum over 700 MHz for wireless and simply assigning new VHF channels to broadcasters, but here in the US corporations are people too, so we just can't act in the public's interest for the sake of the public interest. We have to think of the lobbyists.
Variety had a great explainer on the auction in March. My favorite numbers gleaned are below.
The final act of this play will be streamed
Once the video over IP's latency problem with live events is solved broadcast will have completely outlived its usefulness. We will have reached a point where even the Super Bowl can't save it. Currently IP network latency delays live events up to thirty seconds. As an MLB.TV fanatic, I have to put the mobile down to enjoy a game otherwise I'll witness the Twittersphere lighting up before I even see the batter step into the box to crush the game winning home run. For sports to remain a communal activity in the age of social media, latency has get down to about two seconds.
That date is very near. Using a combination 4G LTE bonding and some really nifty video file wrapping tricks, the Israeli startup Zixi has reached that bar with image quality that rivals today's Xfinity and FiOS pictures. It's just a matter of adoption. I put it at 24 months for Zixi or a rival technology to make broadcasting over the air obsolete.
The passing of traditional broadcast is interesting enough. In fact, I could stop here and call it a post except that I said everything was changing. And, dammit, everything really is.
Move over Viacom, Fox, and Disney
Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook, and Microsoft all want to steal your lunch money. Wall Street believes they will, and these things become self-fulfilling prophecies in short order. They all already own or aspire to own a significant portions of the entertainment value chain. Microsoft and Facebook are longer shots but somewhat more interesting because they are not just looking at the traditional media value chain, but are approaching M&E through significant investment in gaming and VR. For them it comes down to whether VR technology will be ready for primetime soon enough. If one of them wins, just read Ready Player One to see how the story ends. Google's gotten into VR as well, but it gets lumped it with the others due to its ownership of the world's most successful online video platform. And how many OVPs does the world really need? Hint: The answer is not greater than two. One rare bit of investment advice from this publication… short OVPs and go long on CDNs.
It going to come down to who can afford to front the large sums of money to create tent pole content, who can store and protect it throughout its lifecycle without losing it to theft or in a theme park fire, who can monetize it effectively, and who can deliver it efficiently. That's what will determine the winners. Amazon with Elemental and Apple with all its video expertise are positioned for an epic battle. Apple has the edge in video smarts while Amazon has the edge in distribution, pricing, and packaging smarts. How will Apple compete against free two-day shipping for underwear and great programming for $99 a year? Whatever the tech giants come up with will certainly beat a $300 a month cable bill.
Where's Google in all this? I can't help but feel that Google will mess it up. Media and entertainment is all about user experience. Google simply doesn't value design and user experience enough. YouTube and Gmail are still ugly after all these years. While an email client can be ugly and a little clunky as long as it's free and the user never loses anything, the presentation layer for the night's entertainment should be inviting.
IaaS the big play
The real money in media then is infrastructure as a service. What Avid, Grass Valley, and the like have done in the past must now become exponentially bigger, more robust, and more open. Avid is right. The industry is crying for a platform. Unfortunately for Avid, it's crying for a platform a mid-sized tech company doesn't have the resources to provide. Amazon with Elemental is already closer to realizing Avid's dream than Avid is. A lot of small players have the necessary pieces built to connect to a network, a larger company, not viewed as a direct competitor by potential partners is better positioned to roll them up into a unified platform offering.
Simplifying it a bit, whoever can provide the storage, rights management, and monetization tools will win. Dell-EMC is extremely well positioned to contend in that space with its hardware, virtualization expertise, and storage smarts. It makes the servers and intelligent storage. It owns VMware and Virtustream, so it will be able to provision data centers like no one else. Dell-EMC should be able to take a commanding early lead repurposing hardware in real time as audience usage patterns change. Add an acquisition like Telestream or Harmonic, and we have a new media and entertainment powerhouse.
IBM is the cicada in all this. Once every few years IBM shows interest in M&E only to shift focus shortly thereafter. With the right timing, IBM could get lucky.
Over the next few years, the remaining media-specific tech companies will have to become more focused on their core competencies. Their customer bases are buying less, forcing them to compete in a race to the bottom in a shrinking pool. While all are moving as nimbly as they can to make the transition from signal-based to IP video, they are faced with R&D resource limits and the drag of legacy customers such as large state broadcasters moving more slowly to the future. These legacy customers account for significant portions of media tech's revenue stream and cannot be ignored until the business transformation is complete.
Acquisition and Post are about to be disrupted too
Camera evolution is the total wildcard that can change the whole production and post process dramatically. When light field cameras get high enough resolution and come down in cost, the cost of shooting will drop dramatically due to shorter set up time and the need for fewer cameras. Composition, focus, lighting, tracking and green screen will all be handled in post, much of it algorithmically. Editing becomes a smaller part of the post process with DPs, directors, and VFX taking on larger roles once shooting stops. As post production for the 2D display requires more 3D capabilities, look for the post solutions market to bifurcate with Adobe taking the lion's share with a combination of Avid and Autodesk tools owning the extreme high end. Don't be surprised to see Media Composer land at Autodesk, or Autodesk's media and entertainment business go to Avid. A number of former (and extremely talented) Avid engineers are now in Autodesk's media and entertainment development organization.
Adobe has a leg up in the light field world. These cameras have been in development for some time. Light field still image capture is already available to the market, and Adobe has tools under development to enable Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, and After Effects to thrive in this new world.
How media is created, distributed, and consumed is all changing. No career in media will be untouched. No company will be sheltered from the disruption. Be agile. Embrace the disruption.
Everything includes this little nook in the internet
I will follow my own advice by embracing disruption and becoming more agile. It will no longer be focused exclusively on media and entertainment technology. Instead I will draw upon my experience of the past fifteen years in technology design, development, and product management. I will adjust my gaze away from LA and put more focus closer to home in the technology hotbed of Boston.


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So I've been using the wall destroying guitar nonsense to get the few completion runs I've been missing on the labyrinth. It works less well than the whole "cramped map and Rex chasing you is the main hazard" would suggest.
First thing - the way the trophy collecting thing works didn't make it much less tricky. If you kill Rex first, you have to kill the other guy without the gold from Rexes trophy which is probably harder than killing the other guy first and then tackling Rex. My point of view might be messed up because of the guitar business, but there's truth in there somewhere, and support for the way things work currently.
However - that place is actually pretty hard even with the Guitar. Or playing maps without walls is somehow tricky because it's such an alien way of playing that it messes up your resource management drilled-in instincts. With free roaming power I tend to waste a lot of exploration, and I'm beginning to think the guitar could stay the way it is but have an extraorbitant prep cost. It'd do a world of good for making god tutorial videos as it cuts down on things you have to do that distract from showing gods off. And on a very difficult runs, the fact that you have to prep the guitar instead of something worthwhile is actually quite a tradeoff.
Not saying the guitar isn't silly, but if they made it cost as much as the fabulous treasure to prep, or even twice more, it makes for a nice WTF/sandbox mode kind of thing. Won't be sad to see it go, just saying.
With that out of the way - tackling the place with the gorgon and the vampire, with the guitar, took me two tries and was rather tricky even on the successful attempts. You may say - boo hoo, a vet's complaining about not being able to demolish something without thinking. But the thing is - it's the most cramped map out there, hard as hell for plenty of folks because it's cramped, and the guitar ATM works exactly as a no clip cheat. Yet the place gave my vampire and gorgon fits. And I wasn't badgehunting or going PQI or imposing any challenges on myself.
If they remove the guitar as such - what WILL the Gorgon and Vampire attempts look like? I've done VGT with both, so I sort of know my way around them. Has anyone else done it? The Regular way? With how much scumming? I know the Gorgon, especially a binlor gorgon, can destroy any cramped map, and the Vampire is immune to poison so at least snakes are good fodder, but is there something about that place other than the crampednes which makes it hard?
Is Vampire the only real trickshot in there? Could it be fixed by adding "free" bloodpools? Any need for it? Maybe I'm not looking at it right, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it without the cheap guitar gimmick...


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Against All Odds: Chinese Poetry Today
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October 16, 2007 - 7:00PM
A panel discussion on the survival and evolution of the Chinese poetic tradition in the face of the globalization of capitalism and the Chinese government's political control with Cao Shuying, Cris Mattison, Eleni Sikelianos, Sun Yi and Zhang Er. Part of Against All Odds: Chinese Poetry Today, a panorama of readings and discussions by Chinese poets and American translators featured in the Talisman House Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, offering an encounter with the poetic forms, philosophies and political underpinnings of the emerging generation in China. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities.
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Every vehicle has a purpose. This 2007 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited's purpose is testing parts for Advance Adapters, most notably the company's new RubiCrawler auxiliary gearbox designed for Jeep Wrangler JKs and TJs.
The Advance Adapters RubiCrawler auxiliary gearbox uses a six-planetary gearset within a new cast housing. The new housing replaces the empty tail housing that mates the 42RLE auto trans to the NVG241 and NVG241OR transfer cases in Jeep Wrangler JKs, and the NVG241OR and NP231 transfer cases in Jeep TJs. Once in place it creates two low ratios; the factory 2.72:1 transfer case low ratio and the RubiCrawler 7.40:1 low ratio.
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Only a caption on the photograph identifies it as the Cafe Royal. This building that houses it, on the N.W. corner of NW 1st Avenue and 3rd Streets, was known as the W.E. Mayes Building. Upstairs rooms were rented under the name of the "Carlsbad Hotel" in recognition of the nearby Carlsbad Drinking Pavilion at the opposite (or NE) corner of the block: 700 NW 2nd Avenue. (The first edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells", page 105, identifies it as the Wells Hotel.)


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Friday, April 25, 2008
Bring in the Double
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Noooo....it's, it's Daffy!!
First time I would suppose it was Wile e. , but then I noticed that when he was falling he was scared, and so it should be a charachter that was not used to at this kind of stunt!! great film!
- April 26, 2008 at 1:57 AM
- Christopher said...
I remember seeing that ad sometime ago. Found it to be a pretty cool crossover. Still can't work out how they worked their majic to have Daffy be in the costume.
And to add an even more random quote, the brief Flintstones skit seen at the very end gave me a good WTF moment.
- April 26, 2008 at 6:15 AM
- Harley Green said...
What kind of snacks are Cheetos? someone told me they are a salad snack, like french fries...first time I though it was "Cheerio's ad" with Looney Tunes...I miss it!!
- April 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM
I actually remember this one! It was rather weird! Heh-and the Fruity Pebbles ad-that was an ad campaign of some sort. Barney was disguised as a mermaid and stole Fred's pebbles. Fred suddenly finds some of Barney's costume and heard him yelping in an underwater cave. It was then up to the kids to help Fred find Barney. Later the entire commercial was shown again only to show that Fred had caught a shark. "Now give me back my-Pebbles?" Barney was enjoying the pebbles with the other sea creatures
- April 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM
- PCUnfunny said...
Ah yes, I remember this one. Great cameo by Daffy BTW. Sadly, Chester is now mean spritied and unfunny.
- April 27, 2008 at 4:50 PM


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As time runs perilously short for action, Obama challenged top lawmakers to return to the White House on Tuesday with fresh ideas for a debt-reduction plan that could pass the House and Senate. All sides are scrambling to reach a deal as part of a tradeoff in which Congress would agree to extend the nation's debt limit by Aug. 2 to prevent a catastrophic government default on its bills.
Turning up the pressure, Obama declared that he would reject any stopgap extension of the nation's borrowing limit, imploring lawmakers once again to reach one of the most sizable debt-reduction deals in years.
He refused to even entertain a backup plan if that doesn't happen.
"We are going to get this done," Obama insisted in a news conference.
In a 90-minute closed meeting, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor spelled out potential spending cuts that had been identified in talks led for weeks by Vice President Joe Biden. But Democratic lawmakers in the room made clear such a cutting-only approach without tax hikes on wealthier Americans would never pass the Democratic-led Senate or the House, where Democratic votes would be needed, too.
It did not appear, either, that such a plan would meet the House Republicans' own standard of a debt-cutting package. They want cuts that would exceed the size of the increase in the debt limit, which could be about $2.4 trillion to get the country through 2012 and next year's elections.
Republicans won't support a package that raises any taxes. As the stalemate continues, the pressure increases. A government default could trigger another enormous economic swoon.
Democratic officials familiar with the White House position in the private talks insist that leaders of the House and Senate will not let that happen, and that Republicans ultimately would vote to raise the debt limit even if a deficit-cutting package does not come together in time.
Yet Republicans say otherwise. House Speaker John Boehner insists the House can't pass such a bill.
"I agree with the president that the national debt limit must be raised, and I'm glad that he made the case for it today," Boehner told reporters. "But the American people will not accept - and the House cannot pass - a bill that raises taxes on job creators."
Obama renewed his case for a package that would put a historic dent in the country's deficits by blending politically poisonous elements for both parties: tax hikes for the wealthy and big corporations opposed by Republicans and social service cuts that Democrats decry.
He implored both political parties to give ground and show the American people that Washington can actually work.
"If not now, when?" Obama said.
By all accounts, Obama's third meeting with House and Senate leaders in under a week produced little movement.
Cantor did most of the talking for Republicans, aides said, outlining up to $2.3 trillion in spending cuts over the upcoming decade, with $1.3 trillion coming from squeezing the day-to-day budgets of Cabinet agencies including the Pentagon.
Cantor erred on the high end of the savings range in virtually every instance. The White House countered that the cuts really added up to more like $1.7 trillion, which would leave negotiators $700 billion short of the $2.4 trillion being sought and no bipartisan way to make up the gap.
Democrats suggested that most spending cuts be concentrated in the later years of a deal, but a Republican aide said GOP lawmakers took issue with that suggestion and want the cuts to begin right away.
Obama spent most of his time encouraging lawmakers to reconsider a bigger deal, on the order of some $4 trillion in spending cuts and tax hikes over 10 years. Democrats familiar with the talks said the meeting produced a clearer recognition that the leaders were going to have to go back and think again about how to find a compromise.
Obama has offered to entertain raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 years if Republicans make compromises, including letting tax cuts for wealthy Americans expire at the end of 2012, according to a Democratic congressional aide.
Yet the path to an accord remained hard to see. Cantor told reporters earlier in the day: "We are not going to raise taxes. That's all."
All the officials familiar with the talks spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose details of the private discussions.
Obama told reporters he would meet with the lawmakers every day until an agreement is reached. They have two weeks or less to do so in order to get any deal through Congress in time. He asked lawmakers to return to the White House on Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. EDT.
Obama tried to alter the debate by saying in his news conference that any potential tax increases on wealthier people would not take effect until 2013. Notably, that would fall after the next election.
The president said he would refuse to accept stopgap legislation of a few months to keep the nation from defaulting. "It's not going to get easier; it's going to get harder," Obama said. "So we might as well do it now. Pull of the Band-Aid. Eat our peas."
More broadly, Obama sought to position himself as the pragmatist seeking a compromise in a divided town.
To Republicans, he said they have long pushed deficit reduction as the way to create desperately needed jobs and now won't take yes for an answer. "Where are they?" he said.
And to Democrats eager to protect entitlements, Obama said doing nothing is not tenable.
"So, yeah, we're going to have a sales job," he conceded. "This is not pleasant."
Obama made clear Monday that any changes to Social Security would be designed to ensure money is available for beneficiaries years from now - as opposed to trimming costs to reduce the deficit. One possibility would lower cost-of-living increases for recipients.
Many Democrats deeply oppose that idea. As to why that would be included in debt talks, Obama said it all came back to politics.
"If you're going to take a bunch of tough votes," he said, "You might as well do it now."
Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Erica Werner, Julie Pace contributed to this story.


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The Detroit Lions signed 14 undrafted rookie free agents Thursday, July 28. The list includes DE Daunte Akra (Wayne State), WR Dominique Barnes (Youngstown State), CB Branden Bufford (Howard), LB Quentin Davie (Northwestern), FB Preston Dial (Alabama), P Ryan Donohue (Iowa), LB Dejuan Fulghum (Texas Southern), WR Marcus Harris (Murray State), OG Pat Illig (Wofford), WR Jared Jenkings (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), OG Jeff Maddux (Central Michigan), LB Cobrani Mixon (Kent State), S Ricardo Silva (Hampton) and LB Narada Williams (Fort Valley State).
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Wofford OG Pat Illig took part in Coastal Carolina's Pro Day and measured in at 6-foot-4 5/8, 316 pounds. Illig ran a 5.46 and 5.44-second 40-yard dash, a 1.92-second 10-yard shuttle and a 3.21-second 20-yard shuttle. He posted an 8-foot-3 broad jump, a 23 1/2-inch vertical, a 7.97-second three-cone drill, a 4.94-second short shuttle and 26 repetitions on the 225-pound bench press.
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Friday Video – Bear in Heaven, "The Reflection of You"
Here's our Single of the Year, for the moment. It is also one of the most difficult videos to watch, ever.
Not unwatchable in the normal sense of the word, mind you – just extremely challenging on the eyes. See, the director had this crazy idea to keep running the camera on repeated bullet cam-type zooms towards the members of synth rock trio Bear in Heaven, kind of like a hyperkinetic blend of the videos for Beck's "Devils Haircut," which employed the off-center zoom, and Simple Minds' "All the Things She Said," where the band members repeated a certain movement while staying in sync with the audio, which must have involved dozens upon dozens of lip sync jobs put together. The key to watching this clip, we learned, is to keep blinking. Stop blinking while watching this clip, and you're probably going to fall out of your chair. Those susceptible to siezures, just press play and close your eyes. It's for your own good.
Why post such a polarizing and potentially life-threatening video, you ask? Because the song is AWESOME. The drums tell you something's different from the very beginning, as the snare drops on the 1 and 3 beats rather than the standard 2 and 4. The keyboard tracks, meanwhile, should serve as an instructional manual on what keys should sound like (M83 and your yip dog synths, we're looking in your direction). Gorgeous stuff. We can't wait to hear the rest of the record. Happy Friday, everyone.
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EMR Masters, Smart EHR, and Congressional Hearing on Meaningful Use
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
The EMR is trying to serve too many masters goo.gl/fb/qsQzu
— Kevin Pho, M.D. (@kevinmd) November 12, 2012
I think this is definitely the case. I wish that EMR would embrace its place as the database of healthcare and enable an entire eco system of people to provide the add on functionality.
@snippetphysther I call what you describe "Smart EHR" See: ow.ly/fgsrZ We're not there yet, but getting there.#HITsm #hcsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) November 13, 2012
I always love seeing a provider asking for something I've been writing about for a long time. We need smart EHR, but as you see from the first tweet in the Twitter roundup I don't think one company is going to make them smart. It's going to take an ecosystem to make them as "smart" as they need to be.
Congressional hearing on #MU highlights usability, costs, standards – clinical-innovation.com/topics/ehr-emr… #healthIT
— Nuance Healthcare (@NuanceHealth) November 15, 2012
I saw another tweet somewhat related to this. It asked if meaningful use was going to fall off the fiscal cliff. My short answer is: No.


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HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — For utility crews racing to restore power to residents of this waterfront city that have been sitting in the dark for a week, the task is both mundane and monumental: Clean a bunch of gunk off electrical equipment with rags and cleaning spray.
That's the way it has been across the Northeast, as crews clean, replace and fix the equipment needed to get the lights back on for millions of customers who lost power when Superstorm Sandy blew through.
In Hoboken, the salty, filthy floodwater of the Hudson River swamped a substation that relays power to 10,000 homes and businesses. It worked its way into switches and in between wires. It washed over the hunks of copper and silver capable of handling 26,000 volts of electricity. It fouled everything below a perfectly straight line of dirt on all the boxes of circuit breakers and transformers on site that marked the crest of the flood.
"It's getting the crud off," said Mike Fox, a Public Service Electric and Gas Co. engineer who was supervising the company's substation restoration. "It's nothing earth shaking, but it's a lot of stuff."
Sixty-seven thousand utility workers in the Northeast are working day and night on tasks they are familiar with: putting up telephone poles, stringing wire and replacing transformers. But Sandy's storm surge added another dimension by attacking the utilities' internal equipment. Switching stations, substations and underground electrical networks were inundated in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken and elsewhere.
But it's the sheer volume of work that is making the power outages last so long for some. At the peak, 8.5 million homes and businesses were without power. A week after the storm walloped the Northeast, 1.4 million customers remained in the dark, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Getting the power back on for all of them will take at least another week.
Frustration is turning to anger and despair. The air in the region has a winter chill and another storm is approaching. Some without power see neighbors with twinkling chandeliers even as they still use candles.
Fox gets it. He has been taking cold showers and using a flashlight to shave every morning before setting out from his house in Westfield, N.J. to the substations that need repair. On Sunday his neighbors started an email exchange suggesting they complain to PSE&G in hopes of getting service back quicker.
"I had to head them off at the pass, and explain why it can take so long," he said. "Every day people get a little more strained and stressed. I'd be losing patience too if I had time to."
Local workers have plenty of help: Utility crews from as far away as the West Coast started streaming toward the Northeast in their bucket trucks even before the storm hit. But feeding, housing and outfitting thousands of out-of-state workers has its own challenges.
Utilities have agreements with local hotels to house workers, but as the extent of the damage became apparent, and homeowners abandoned their powerless homes for hotel rooms, a housing crunch developed.
A crew from Duke Energy that specializes in underground electricity transmission based in Cincinnati arrived in New York on Wednesday to help Consolidated Edison restore power to lower Manhattan. Getting a hotel in New York was even tougher than advertised.
The crew was first sent to a Girl Scout Camp near Rye, N.Y. After that was the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. But instead of getting a room they were asked to "hot bed," military style: they'd get a bed for 8 hours before they had to pack up and leave. Next stop: The Hudson River. They were put on a dinner cruise boat called the Hornblower Infinity docked at Pier 41 that had rows of cots where tables and chairs once sat.
Finally, on Saturday, they were moved — for good it seems — to the Hudson Hotel, a boutique luxury hotel on 58th Street. Not a bad upgrade.
For the workers on loan to PSE&G, the day starts at 6 a.m. when busses take them from their hotels to staging areas like the one in the gigantic parking lot at the Garden State Plaza, in Paramus, NJ.
The staging area was set up with the help of 10 logistics experts from Florida Power & Light who know a thing or two about hurricanes. It operates like a giant outdoor assembly line. Workers climb into 800 trucks parked at the site that have been fueled overnight with tanker trucks brought in from Pennsylvania. They pick up their instructions and a PSE&G worker called a "bird dog" that knows the service territory.
They proceed in two columns past pallets stacked with parts and equipment and pick up what they need for the day — wire, insulators, brackets — and bagged lunches. Then they head off for 16 hours of line work.
At a site in Allendale, N.J., one huge tree had taken town five utility poles and 11 sets of wire. A Centerpoint Energy team of 15 workers and 8 trucks — one with a Texas flag flying from its crane — labored much of the day and into the night digging holes for the poles, raising them, and hanging new wire.
Shane Pittman, a Centerpoint worker from Angleton, Texas, arrived with his crew on Oct. 29. Other than the number of trees and the cold — it was the first hurricane cleanup he had done that required winter clothing — he said it was just like back home.
PSE&G said it is using 4,000 out-of-state workers to erect at least 1,000 new poles in its service territory. As of Monday, the company had restored service to 1.3 million of the 1.7 million who lost power in its service territory. It has also restored power to 78 percent of the gas stations in its region, which should ease the long lines seen at stations that had both power and fuel.
The Duke Energy team in Manhattan spent its first day climbing under streets on the West Side, pumping water out of vaults and disconnecting switches that were ruined by the flooding. After ConEd restored power to the networks that serve Lower Manhattan, the Duke team visited customers who were still without power to determine if the utility needs to fix equipment or if the customer has a problem in the building that an electrician must address.
The substation in Hoboken was being worked over by a team of 40 that included local contractors and a team from Kansas City Power & Light.
The Hoboken substation was built in 1953, and it is powered with equipment that has been there ever since. There are no replacement parts for the bank of circuit breakers that manages the electricity's journey from 4 incoming lines to 13 outgoing ones. So the workers have had to pull these breakers out of their boxes and truck them to a machine shop in Connecticut that specializes in reconditioning old electrical equipment.
On a temporary work bench made out of plywood and a large white plastic crate, a team was taking apart sensors that measure electricity flowing though the equipment and trigger switches. Each part had to be taken apart wiped meticulously cleaned with cleaning spray, rags and brushes, and put back together.
A contractor was stuffed in a cinderblock control room on site with a voltage meter, testing each individual wire to make sure it was still good. A team of workers from KCP&L was poring over a diagram of the control panel of one of the station's transformers to make sure they had rewired it correctly.
At 10:30 Monday morning workers flipped the switch and reenergized the substation and power began to flow through 8 of the 13 circuits. Unfortunately for Hoboken customers, this is only a first step: While power is flowing from the substation into the local grid, PSE&G can only now start looking for problems in the wires, switches and transformers that deliver the power to residents — and send another crew out to fix it.
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Simon Malls may reopen Saturday afternoon
February 09. 2013 1:41PM
Most Simon malls including Mall of New Hampshire, Pheasant Lane Mall, The Mall at Rockingham Park and Fox Run Mall will not open at their regularly scheduled 10 a.m. opening time due to the impact of the storm. The malls do anticipate to possibly re-open for business later Saturday. Should that be the case, more information will be posted when it becomes available.
Any updates or changes will be posted, as soon as a decision is made, on each malls' Facebook page - that's the most up-to-date place to check as well as calling the shopping line for the malls, Twitter and Simon.com.
Per Simon's weather related closing policy, it is at the discretion of each store whether or not to open during severe weather. Store employees should check with their store managers regarding plans to open.


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Research project: Conservation of the White-fronted Chat, a declining species from threatened saltmarsh habitat
- Start date:
- 2008
Museum investigators
External investigators
Funded by
- Hermon Slade Foundation, Lake Macquarie City Council, Australian Museum, Sydney Olympic Park Authority
White-fronted Chats occupy moist habitats, including inland swampy areas and coastal saltmarsh. Populations of the White-fronted Chat in New South Wales have declined from 54 reported saltmarsh localities across Sydney in 1930 to just two localities today. Saltmarsh is an endangered ecological community in New South Wales. There has been a significant decline in populations in inland swamps associated with changed hydrological conditions and in coastal wetlands due to urban development. The prognosis for populations in both habitats is poor under projections for climate change, with reduced rainfall extinguishing many swamps and sea-level rise extinguishing saltmarshes that are bordered by urban development.
The White-fronted Chat has undergone a 36% decline nationally between 1980 and 2000 and, as a result, has recently been nominated as a vulnerable species for inclusion under the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act. Within the greater Sydney region, more than 80% of saltmarsh vegetation has been destroyed by coastal development, leaving two isolated chat populations from 55 former localities. We have been monitoring these two populations at Homebush Bay and Towra Point and now believe that they number only around 10 and 20 individuals respectively.
We now plan to extend our research by determining the population size and survival rates of other isolated populations and measuring levels of genetic interchange between these populations. Our observations to date indicate that the species is experiencing high nest predation rates in coastal saltmarshes, so we also plan to investigate the feasibility of predator-proof caging as a last-ditch intervention to prevent the extinction of endangered populations.
Dr Richard Major , Principal Research Scientist
Dr Rebecca Johnson , Director, Australian Museum Research Institute
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The advent of the virtual mall
Without a doubt, we are well ensconced in a virtual age. Sometimes I think the virtual part is not always on the computer. Things are often not what they appear to be, but nonetheless exist.
For instance, when you see a teenager with green hair, a minimum of a dozen body piercings, covered in tattoos, and wrapped in a sack with holes for appendages, you know that somewhere in that package is a person. It is not a living, breathing fishing lure in a ripped denim bag. It is just a virtual person, disguised as something else. I don't know what, but I'm sure they had something in mind when they created their image.
However, today we are going to discuss some real virtual stuff. I know - "real" and "virtual" in the same sentence sounds like a contradiction in terms, but that is often the case in the virtual world. I believe, for the sake of accuracy, we should use the term "virtual reality" - a concept of the computer age in which we live.
One of the great realities that came from this wonderful period of invention is the advent of the "virtual mall." It's not a real mall made of bricks and sticks, but with a few strokes on a keypad, you can buy stuff in it. Since different stuff can be purchased from different stores, and all in one place, it deserves to be recognized as a "mall." This is a good thing.
The virtual mall has all the advantages of a real mall, without the bad stuff that comes with actually going out into the real world where real shoppers, mostly women, will maul you to death if you do something like grab the last of any item on a shelf that they happen to want.
Bad experiences like this, and we have all had them, are no longer necessary. I actually prefer to call computer-generated stores "virtual shopping centers." The term "mall" bothers me because I have always suspected that "maul" would probably be what would happen to me if I actually went into one of those places and tried to purchase something.
Anyway, shopping at the virtual mall can be a very cool experience. You can take your laptop computer to your nearest wi-fi(wireless Internet connection) restaurant, sip coffee, eat delicious pastries, and shop till you drop, or your credit card ceases to be accepted.
I often find my friends in these places, and we shop together while having friendly conversations, and compare notes on where to buy whatever at the cheapest prices. It's fabulous - no massive parking lots to contend with, or malls the size of the average small country, where you have to find a store that is always on the opposite side of where you parked. And best of all, no obnoxious shoppers or surly clerks are on hand to ruin your day.
Another big advantage of the virtual mall is that every store delivers. They have no choice. Shoppers never have to carry armfuls of packages to their waiting vans again. Everything is conveniently brought to your doorstep, where you don't even have to go out in inclement weather. And most virtual stores will gift wrap your purchase for free, or for a nominal fee. What more could we ask? Virtual malls are shoppers' heaven.
Now it is difficult to imagine the days when dreaded trips to the mall for Christmas shopping were unavoidable. However, I suppose when the real malls and shopping centers were invented, everybody thought they were a far step ahead of the days when people actually made Christmas presents for each other. Stores were often far and few in some areas of the country. Back in those days, you couldn't even get a pizza delivered, let alone a gift, because the telephone had yet to be invented.
I don't want to even think about making anything. The last time I tried to assemble something I bought at a mall, my dog licked the crazy glue on a cabinet door before it dried and his tongue stuck to it. Nothing is more pitiful than a bulldog trying to bark with his tongue glued to a door. "Ark! Ark!" It's just not dignified. It was downright pathetic. Then I got my fingers stuck to the same door trying to free him. We were a mess.
Anyway - this year, I'm going to do all my Christmas shopping at the virtual mall. It's so convenient. If only someone would invent virtual presents that are paid for with virtual money, it would make life in this system we can't understand a whole lot easier.


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09-Feb-2007 -- The route I was taking went within 4 km of this confluence point. I had to convince my guide about going to this point and in fact had to run most of the way there and back, while he waited for me!
The camel handler was unaware of this deviation and upon our failing to show up at a certain meeting point, walked for 5 hours to find us.


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Dear Gossips,
Oprah's exclusive interview with Lindsay Lohan will air on OWN on August 18. Preview clips are now being released. I've attached the first one below.
As I wrote at the time of the Mighty O's sit-down with Lance Armstrong, O's problem isn't the first question. Anyone can ask a first tough question. And anyone can prepare for a first tough question, a list of tough questions. O's weakness is the follow-up. She just doesn't. This is why Armstrong chose her. He went to Oprah in part because Oprah would be easier than anyone else. Lindsay Lohan can come up with a response that sounds good but means actually nothing. She is an accomplished liar. Lindsay Lohan has always known how to say "the right things". Lindsay Lohan's issue is that she doesn't DO the right thing. So while Oprah will certainly elicit tears from Lohan, what she'll really get is more excuses. What she won't get, because she can't push for it, is the truth.
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- Title:
- Ready, Steady, Go! at Lowewood Museum
- When:
- 28.09.2012 10.00 h - 16.00 h
- Where:
- Lowewood Museum, Hoddesdon - Hoddesdon
- Category:
- Museum Exhibitions
Feeling inspired by the London Olympic Games? This exhibition celebrates the history of local sports clubs and personalities through a captivating story of awe-inspiring determination and remarkable achievements.
From local sprinter Harold Abrahams (1924 Olympic 100m gold medallist) to Broxbourne Olympic rowers, Tom Stallard and Acer Nethercott (2008 Olympic Men's Eight silver medallists), the Borough is full of sporting success. Find out more about how you can get involved in sport in this one off exhibition that is not be missed.
The exhibition displays sporting memorabilia from local sports clubs, including an impressive collection from Hoddesdon Town Football Club and spectacular film footage of Broxbourne Rowing Club, filmed by former Hoddesdon resident, Mr Thomas Franklin.
With the Olympic Canoe Slalom events taking place at The Lee Valley White Water Centre Olympic venue in nearby Broxbourne, why not combine a visit to the venue with a visit to Lowewood museum and experience our sporting history as well as the modern day atmosphere of our sporting legacy.
Ready, Steady, Go! will be open until 6 October 2012 and there will be a number of sporting activities to accompany the exhibition, as part of the museum's new family fun programme taking place on Thursday afternoons between 12noon and 3pm.
Admission to the museum is free
Opening times: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10am – 4pm and Saturday 10am – 5pm
For more information please telephone 01992 445596, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.broxbourne.gov.uk/lowewoodmuseum
- Venue:
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- Street:
- High Street
- City:
- Hoddesdon
- State:
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Lowewood Museum tells the history of the borough of Broxbourne capturing the unique stories of those who have lived and worked here. Housed in a beautiful Georgian building dating from the 1750s you will find something to interest and inspire you here.
Fun for all the family!
A programme of temporary exhibitions and events take place throughout the year in the museum or our delightful garden. Interactives and gallery trails are also available to keep all members of the family entertained. See the Lowewood Museum website to find more information on events and exhibitions.
Our opening hours are:
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Tuesday : Closed
Wednesday : 10am - 4pm
Thursday : 10am - 4pm
Friday : 10am - 4pm
Saturday : 10am - 5pm
Sunday : Closed
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Question: Our family includes 20-plus people, most on my husband's side. For years my mother or I hosted Christmas, and my husband's mother or sister hosted Thanksgiving. Five years ago, my sister-in-law announced she was neither attending nor hosting Thanksgiving. Her family of four still attends Christmas, as does my husband's brother's family (seven people) who live across the state. My mother-in-law is now too old to host.
This leaves my mother, 72, hosting the smaller gathering every Thanksgiving (inviting my mother-in-law) and me hosting every Christmas for 20-plus people.
I'm having trouble with why my sister-in-law can't have us over for Thanksgiving. She doesn't work; I have a career. Her children are grown; mine are still living at home. I am happy to host Christmas, but I think she should host Thanksgiving instead of my elderly mother. I don't think absenting herself from Thanksgiving means never having to reciprocate for Christmas.
Part of the reason this burns me up is that my husband's family has always treated me like I'm "difficult" and my sister-in-law is the "nice" one. I think I'm being pretty nice, having everyone over when they never invite me anywhere! Is there anything I can say to try to get her to step up? Am I being difficult?
Answer: No, just a bit myopic.
I certainly understand your frustration. But you've essentially roasted this down to, "I'm stuck with Christmas, so stick her with Thanksgiving" - when that's treating things as compulsory that aren't, and making decisions for others that aren't yours to make.
Your sister-in-law had every right to quit Thanksgiving. It's her time, her kitchen, her choice. Before you argue that it wasn't all about her since it heaped the work onto your mom, remember: Your mom didn't have to step into the breach. She could have said instead, "Maybe it's time to downsize/go to a restaurant."
I appreciate that busting a we-do-this-every-year!! tradition is sacrilege to some people, and heartbreaking particularly for heads of family like your mom and mother-in-law. I also get your scapegoat concerns.
But none of this changes the fact that your sister-in-law doesn't make you cook, you choose to. You have, perhaps reflexively, determined it's more important to keep accommodating 20-plus guests than it is to invite blame for canceling Christmas.
Know this: You are just as entitled to quit Christmas as your sister-in-law was entitled to quit Thanksgiving.
What I also suggest you don't touch with a 10-foot turkey baster is the idea that your sister-in-law's employment, maternal responsibilities, and status in the family - on their own or relative to yours - have any place in this discussion. Her choices are hers to make, and yours are yours, end of story.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The hospital that's treating famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer says the 104-year-old has gotten worse.
Rio de Janeiro's Samaritano Hospital says Niemeyer is suffering from kidney failure, aggravated by bleeding in the digestive tract, which has been brought under control.
In a statement Monday, the hospital said he is now breathing with the aid of machines, although he remains lucid.
Niemeyer was hospitalized on Nov. 2 after a cold he caught several weeks ago led to dehydration, which compromised his kidneys. After steadily getting better, Niemeyer took a sudden turn for the worse last week when he experienced the bout of bleeding in his digestive tract.
Niemeyer designed much of Brazil's futuristic capital Brasilia, as well as Rio's Sambadrome, where the city's annual carnival parade is held.


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MLB Baseball: John Olerud
Of all the baseball players to come out of the Seattle area, is there a better pure hitter than John Olerud? Not only did Johnny O make a career out of his beautiful swing, he overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to do it.
From the moment he arrived at Washington State University, Olerud projected to be a major-league star.
He hit .414 as a freshman and, in 1988, he hit .464 with 23 homers and an .876 slugging percentage to win the Baseball America College Player of the Year award.
Olerud's career and life were seriously threatened in 1989, when he suffered a brain aneurysm. However, armed with his trademark batting helmet, which he wore in the field for protection, he bounced back. Olerud debuted with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1989.
Olerud won World Series titles with the Jays in 1992 and 1993 and will forever be remembered for his amazing 1993 season.
He batted .363 with 24 homers and 107 RBI; his batting average remained over .400 as late as August 24. Olerud earned one of his two career All-Star selections.
Later, Olerud excelled as a New York Met, setting a single-season franchise record with a .354 average in 1998. A three-time Gold Glove winner, Olerud was featured with fellow Mets Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordonez and Robin Ventura in what Sports Illustrated dubbed the "Greatest Infield Ever" in 1999.
After his time with the Mets, Johnny O returned to his roots, signing with the Seattle Mariners in 2000.
He was an All-Star in 2001 and tallied two 100-RBI campaign with the Mariners.
While his career fell short of Hall-of-Fame credentials, John Olerud was widely regarded as one of the best players of his era, both offensively and defensively.
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These knee strengthening exercises will help with your running, strengthen the muscles around the knee and prevent knee pain.
The exercises strengthen all the muscles supporting the knee and stretch out the iliotibial band, known as the ITB, which runs down the outside of the thigh.
They can be done as part of your warm-up before a run or as a cool-down routine after a run, outside or indoors, or whenever is most convenient.
Typically, you should start to see some benefits after 2 weeks of doing these knee exercises every day.
You should not feel any pain when doing these exercises. If you do, stop immediately and seek medical advice. These exercises are not suitable for people with an existing knee injury.
Stand a foot away from a wall with your knees hip-width apart and your feet pointing slightly outwards. Slide your back down the wall by slowly bending your knees. Let the knees point in the same direction as your toes. As you come up, focus on tensing the muscle above your knee and your buttocks.
Tip: place a Swiss ball between your back and the wall for smooth movement
Sit up straight on a chair. Slowly straighten and raise your right leg until straight with your foot pointing slightly outwards. Squeeze your right thigh muscles and hold this position for 15 seconds. For the exercise to be effective, you should keep tensing the muscle above your knee. Repeat with the other leg.
Tip: for more of a challenge, perform with an ankle weight
Sit up straight on a chair. Straighten and raise your right leg until horizontal, with your foot pointing slightly outwards. Keeping your leg raised, move your leg up and down 10 times while maintaining the contraction in the muscle above the knee and without touching the floor. Repeat with the other leg.
Sit on the edge of a chair. Keep your left leg bent and straighten your right leg, placing the right heel on the ground with your foot pointing slightly outwards. Bend towards your right leg to stretch your hamstring while tensing the muscle above your knee at the same time.
Tip: keep your back straight and bend from the hips – you can do the move looking straight ahead or looking straight down
To stretch your right ITB, cross your right leg behind your left leg. Keeping both feet on the ground, lean to your left side and push you right hip outwards. Don't bend forwards or stick your buttocks out. You should feel the stretch along your outer right thigh and hip.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, feet pointing slightly outwards and your hands down by your sides or stretched out in front for extra balance. Lower yourself by bending your knees to no more than a right angle. Keep your back straight and don't let your knees go past your toes.
Stand with both feet pointing forwards, hip-width apart. Lift your left foot off the ground and balance on your right foot. Now bend your right leg and slowly lower yourself, making sure your knee doesn't go past your foot or lean inwards. Push back up slowly to your starting position.
Tip: if you can perform these confidently, you can progress on to the wide stance single leg squat
Stand with your feet pointing slightly outwards. Shift your weight onto your right leg and lift your left foot off the ground. Now bend your right leg and slowly lower yourself, making sure your right knee points in the same direction as your right foot. Push back up slowly to your starting position, keeping your thigh and buttock muscles tight.
Stand in a split stance with your right leg forward and left leg back. Slowly bend the knees, lowering into a lunge until the right leg is nearly at a right angle. Keeping the weight on your heels, push back up to the starting position. Keep your back straight and don't let your knees extend over your toes.
Tip: for more of a challenge, perform these lunges while walking
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PARIS – A French news agency reported Saturday that President Francois Hollande has ended his relationship with his companion of seven years, Valerie Trierweiler.
Agence France Presse reported that Hollande said in a telephone conversation with the news agency Saturday evening that "I make it known that I have put an end" to the relationship with Trierweiler, who was the country's first lady, two weeks after a tabloid report that Hollande was having an affair with a French actress.
A presidential aide who request anonymity to discuss private matters confirmed that the president had called AFP to announce the relationship's end.
Hollande told the news agency that he was speaking in a personal capacity and not as head of state.
Hollande has four children with former presidential candidate Segolene Royal. He and Trierweiler have lived together since 2007, and while they're unmarried, Trierweiler occupied the so-called "madame wing" of the presidential palace, traveled abroad with Hollande and functioned as the first lady.


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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Keith E. Whittington will give the talk, "Is the Constitution a Cage?" Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is held in celebration of Constitution Day. It is co-sponsored by the Putterman Lecture Series and the Legal Studies program at Bucknell.
In his talk, Whittington will explore such questions as "What authority does an inherited constitution have for the current generation? and How do we live with a relatively inflexible constitutional text?"
Whittington, who is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, also serves as director of graduate studies in the department of politics.
He is the author of several books including Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning; Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent and Judicial Review; and Political Foundation of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History, which won the C. Herman Pritchett ward for best book in law and courts and the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history.
Whittington has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He is editor (with Gerald Leonard) of New Essays on American Constitutional History and editor (with Maeva Marcus, Melvin Urofsky and Mark Tushnet) of the Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution.
Constitution Day was proposed in 2004 by Sen. Robert C. Byrd as a way to ensure that students gain an increased knowledge and appreciation for this valuable and important document of freedom. Congress declared Sept. 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the day the document was adopted in 1787.
The Putterman Lecture was established by Arnold L. Putterman, a 1960 Bucknell graduate. The lecture is intended to address prominent current issues with a specific focus on politics, government and/or the economy.


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A Mother superior in a 17th-century convent finds herself possessed by the Devil in this Polish drama set in a convent of Ursuline nuns. Several attempts are made to exorcise the demon. While four priests attempt to banish the spirit, two more are burned at the stake for impregnating her. All but one of the other nuns allow Satan's minions to enter their bodies. An extremely devout priest uses every power at his disposal to exorcise them. But even self-flagellation cannot stop them. In desperation, the priest consults an aged rabbi who suggests that the "demons" are really manifestations of human nature. The priest then finds himself becoming possessed by the Mother Superior. Suddenly he desires her body and soul. To prove his desire, he murders two stable grooms. He then encounters the one unpossessed nun who has just spent a night of lovemaking with an aristocrat who has since tossed her out. She is terribly upset and the priest advises her to go back to the convent and tell the Mother Superior of the lecherous man's misdeeds. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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