This commercial started running earlier in the NFL season, but seemed to get less airplay after Troy Polamalu’s injury. With the safety back on the field for the Steelers, this commercial is back in the Sunday afternoon lineup. And, for aspiring PR flacks, it offers a good lesson for staying on message:
Note that Polamalu answered his own questions – not the reporter’s – and even found a way to pivot off the reporters’ line of discussion (“You asked with your eyes…”) onto his own. Textbook – even if it is just a commercial.
I happen to be the same age as Michael Jackson, so I grew up listening to the Jackson 5 and to a lesser degree, Michael Jackson as a solo act. I thought he was a very good singer and dancer, but I never bought any of his records or went to see him in concert. I only bring him up because it frustrates me to no end seeing how people idolize celebrities as a whole. There is still nightly news cast about all the controversy surrounding his life and death. But where is the news about our military as they continue to fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan? These are the men and woman who have volunteered to put their lives on the line to fight for our country. They continue to get wounded and many still die on a daily basis. They don’t have a fancy glove on their hand or do the moon walk. They only pledge their lives to their country and many give the ultimate sacrifice. There is usually a small article in the local newspaper or a 30 second blurb on the local news. Our national and local news media are letting us down. They spend hours filming Michael Jackson’s hearse as it makes it’s way through bumper to bumper traffic in Los Angeles, but has little to nothing about a soldier who gave his life for our country. And to the general public– Michael Jackson is much more interesting.
Sam’s Medical Status: A few weeks ago Sam was able to go to the 1st birthday party for Kinsley who is the daughter of Amanda and Brian. Amanda has been very close friends with both of my daughters for over 20 years and she has been like a daughter to me. Sam arrived in a wheelchair accessible van and stayed at the party for about four hours. Kinsley is so good with Sam and loves it when he tickles her feet. As you can see, she is absolutely gorgeous.
We hope to get Sam out more often as it seems to really stimulate his brain. When Sam officially gets discharged from the Marines (yes, he is still a Marine assigned to the Wounded Warrior Battalion out of Camp Pendleton) he will receive a new wheelchair accessible van from the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. Until then, Erin is being supplied with a van from the Wounded Warrior Project. She took Sam out for a ride this morning along with one of the therapist from CareMeridian.
Sam was released from Sutter Roseville Hospital yesterday morning after being admitted last Friday with Drug Resistant Pseudomonas in his lungs. His temperature soared to nearly 106 degrees. He remained in the hospital for five days after being put on IV antibiotics which he will remain on for about two weeks. His temperature went down after a couple days, and he is now feeling much better. He is happy to be back at CareMeridian where he can be out of his bed and in his wheelchair spending time with Erin and the staff and residents.
If you have not see the first part, you can click this to view the part one before this second part.
Marlee danced very well for second week in row. The judges were awed with her deafness and were very impressed with her. Obviously, her dance partner, Fabian; had helped her very much and guided her very well on the dance floor and also danced very flawlessly. The judges gave her a score of 8 points each for the total of 24 points for night.
Update: Marlee has survived from the elimination night yesterday. She is in the fourth place overall right now out of 10 dancers left. Don’t forget to vote her if you think she did it very well.
KU freshmen overcome first-game jitters November 7, 2009.. Next game: November 7, 11:30 a.m. KU at Kansas State Sports, Community, Football,.
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"Kansas State is a team that has shown a lot of improvement since last season," KU coach Mark Mangino said. "They are improving in every area of their game. They are certainly a much more sound, fundamental football team.
More rock for your chalk, KUsports.com
KU has won 29 straight against KSU overall, and 10 consecutive games in. Snap an 10-game KU winning streak against Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse..
Parting Shots: KU at K-State | Campus Corner
A KU penalty at the end of the play now has K-State in KU territory. 8:06 1st Quarter So far we have a missed field goal and a punt from these teams. KU opened the game promisingly, moving the ball into the red zone, but came away with
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2 Nov 2009. MANHATTAN, Kan. – It's the Sunflower Showdown, and to help you prepare, k- statesports.com gives you Wildcat Gameweek.
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3 questions, K-State vs. KU. Photos. OCTOBER 2009 FILE PHOTOGRAPH/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL. Kansas State running back Daniel Thomas, center, leaps into the end zone during a game against Texas A&M on Oct. 17 in Manhattan.
WILDCAT GAMEWEEK Game 10: KU – Kansas State University Wildcats.
6 Nov 2009. I have 4 tickets to tommrows KU / K-State game. They are $75.00 each. They are in section 14, row 4, seats 5,6,7,8!.
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KU-KSU LAST TIME AT MANHATTAN WR Dexton Fields pulled in the game-winning fourth quarter touchdown pass with 6:27 left as KU upset then No. 24 Kansas State at Manhattan on Oct. 6, 2007. The victory was KU's first against a ranked
4 tickets for tommrows KU/K-State game
The Nov. 7 Sunflower Showdown between Kansas and Kansas State in Manhattan will be televised, though the network and kickoff haven't been decided.
Hawk Talk: Kansas v K-State Tailgate Edition – Rock Chalk Talk
The KU defense collapsed toward the end of the Texas Tech game, but that appears to be an outlier. KU held Colorado to 3.4 yards per carry, Oklahoma to 2.7 and Texas Tech to 3.3. Kansas State gets 51 percent of its offensive yards on
KU-KSU game time still undecided, Kansas Jayhawks, Wichita Eagle
2 Nov 2009. KU has won its first game in the month of November four straight seasons with victories against Nebraska twice, Iowa State and Kansas State..
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Factor in three nonconference victories, and K-State was on its way to a bowl game without really breaking a sweat. And winning, as we all know, is a self-sustaining cycle. This was especially true for K-State, KU and Missouri,
Game No. 9 – Jayhawks Travel To Kansas State For 11:30 a.m..
6 Nov 2009. I think that this is a very significant game for every one involved on both sides.” Advantages: When KU runs the ball: K-State.
Column: Can K-State keep pace with KU, MU? | CJOnline.com
LAWRENCE | All week, Kansas and Kansas State players and coaches downplayed the magnitude of today's game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. But for evidence that the Sunflower Showdown is indeed important for gauging where each program is headed, </p><p>One of the few people not shocked by this is probably KU coach Mark Mangino, who coached under Snyder at K-State for eight seasons. Mangino quickly pinpointed the difference Snyder has made in less than a year.
Parting Shots: KU at K-State, Campus Corner
2 Nov 2009. Joe: I have a feeling that if either KU or KSU had won their games this past weekend ABC would've carried it. KU is in the midst of a 3 game.
Balance of power in Sunflower football has shifted K-State's way
Since DirecTV does not offer Versus, the KU-Kansas State game can only be watched on DISH Network if you are using satellite. Here are some local places that use DISH: Famous Dave's, Kansas City Sister's Restaurant and Bar, Kansas City
K-State Collegian – Kickoff for KU game set for 11:30 a.m.
3 Nov 2009. He's been through plenty of KSU-KU games and knows it is important to folks in the Sunflower State. Of course, this year there is the added.
Bars showing KU-Kansas State on Versus Network | Campus Corner
And so here Meier is in Lawrence, part of a KU program that has shifted the axis of power in the state of Kansas. In the past four Sunflower Showdown games, the Jayhawks have emerged victorious in three. And while Shad became quite
Tulsa World: KU, K-State has division implications
Like anything else, writing a novel can be broken down into a number of steps, some of them simpler than they appear, which go something like this:
1) You get a brilliant idea! Eureka! This is the greatest concept for a novel since…well, ever! A guaranteed best-seller. You are so excited! You don’t want to write it; you want to call all your friends and tell them, “Hey, guess what I just thought of?? No one’s ever done this before!” You’ll be famous. You can already see yourself sitting across from Oprah on the couch, talking about the moment of your inspiration as the famous talk show hostess cradles your book and reminds viewers it’s now on sale at Amazon.com and other outlets.
2) You sit down and sketch out a few paragraphs. Although it’s hard to do this because you’re so excited you can hardly write. In fact, instead of writing out your idea you go on Facebook to see if your best buddy is logged in so you can tell him/her about your terrific idea. He or she is not around, so you send a message instead. While doing this you realize you don’t have a title yet for this masterwork, so…
3) You brainstorm to think up a title. Something snappy, so Oprah can mention it over and over on her show. (Dang it, Star Wars is taken and it’s such a good title. Of course, maybe not for a romance set in Paris…) After about half an hour you come up with a name for your book, and you love it. You can see the whole cover now. Excited beyond belief, you write a short synopsis of your plot. All this activity has exhausted you; you go to bed, but can hardly sleep. Instead, you keep seeing yourself on your first book tour, signing autographs which later turn up on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
4) Wake up the next morning and reread your synopsis. And GOD, it’s AWFUL! You can’t BELIEVE you were excited about this last night! The clever bits now seem not very clever. The characters are thin. Last night you thought the wise-cracking sidekick was so funny. Today he seems like a television cliché. You’re depressed all morning and into mid-afternoon.
5) Okay, enough of this depression! Sitting in your favorite coffee shop (note: what are all these people doing in a coffee shop on a weekday?), stirring a latte or staring into a double espresso so you’ll feel more like a real writer, you decide to sort out what you do, and don’t, like about this novel.
6) Enthusiasm renewed, back to work. Okay, they must put some booze into this coffee, because after half an hour you see things you like in this story after all. The elements just needed some reordering. Didn’t George Lucas reuse a lot of stuff from Kurosawa, who reused a lot of it from Shakespeare, who just copied Bacon and Marlowe? There’s nothing wrong with imitation. So you get to work on chapter one.
7) The next day you reread chapter one. It stinks! God, you’re hitting the reader over the head with this dialogue; the characters are just talking the story. And all that exposition. Yesterday it seemed to give the story more depth, the way Tolstoy and Amy Tan give their story depth. Today it just seems pretentious. What makes you think you can write? You’re not Amy Tan and you’re certainly not Tolstoy. You haven’t lived exciting lives like they have. You just work a nine-to-fiver and live somewhere dull like Pasadena. Have any famous novelists ever come from Pasadena?!
8) You finally get an email back from that Facebook friend. She loves your idea. Your original idea. The one you decided two days ago was stupid. But her email is bursting with strong points you hadn’t seen, so you think, Hey, maybe this is better than I thought. You tear up the drafts you’ve been doing and go back to the first version. Didn’t your seventh grade English teacher tell you your gut ideas are usually the best? You need the funny sidekick because humor sells and your main idea is kinda grim, or at least existential, so people need to laugh along the way. Sitting in that cafe, the one with the free wifi if you buy one pastry, you crank out three chapters in a row. You reread it after dinner and throw up.
9) Enough of the negative vibes! After a sleepless night of second thoughts, you decide to just write, and not censor yourself, until you’re all the way through the first draft, which, at the rate you’re going, will take you a year. Sure a lot of it will be crap, but some of it will be good, right, and you’ll keep the good stuff when you revise, right? Right??
10) Confusion sets in. You want to change direction here on page 142. But you vowed no more negative vibes, and if you do change something you have to revise what you wrote on pages 56-58 and 77-82 and 99-101 and again on 120-121. You check your How To books on writing and they recommend you just insert a small note to make those changes in the next draft. You do, but the notes turn out to be longer than the original writing, so you might as well just change it now.
11) A month passes. You’re making changes left and right now. Why’d you decide to set this thing in Paris? You’ve never been to Paris, dummy. The only street in Paris you know is the Champs-Élysées, and you can’t even spell it. So make the location Pittsburgh. Not the most glamorous, but you know your way around. That means Margaux and Jacques have to be changed to Marge and James, but that’s what global search is for. Darn, you’ll have to lose all those gnarly Edith Piaf references, and those moody rainy days near the Eiffel Tower are out, because in Pittsburgh there’s nothing romantic about rain and there’s no Eiffel Tower, but oh well. Hmm—here’s an idea: maybe part of it could take place in Paris. Just so long as they get a room on the Champs-Élysées and stay on that street the whole time. That’s it! You spend so long Googling to see if there are hotel rooms along the Champs-Élysées that they make you buy two pastries.
12) After another month you’ve abandoned the coffee shop and moved up to Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon at the Imperial Bar in the lobby of the Hotel International. Now you know what drove Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Chaucer to the bottle. (Chaucer had it especially tough, since he had to actually invent the novel before he could write it.) You reread your last 100 pages. Big mistake. It sucks. All of it. Well, the first bit in chapter two was good, and some of chapter five can be saved, and the scene with the Port Authority bus driver was funny. But that’s all. You decide to put your manuscript down for a month, but keep coming to the bar anyway.
13) After a month you go back to your story. And it still sucks. The thing is, in the interim, you got an even better idea for another novel. This one is really great: you can see it now—best-seller! It has none of the flaws and all of the assets of your first idea. You can already see yourself sitting across from Oprah on the couch—no, wait, bouncing up and down!—talking about the moment of your inspiration as the famous talk show hostess cradles your book and reminds viewers it’s now on sale at Amazon.com and other outlets. You decide to leave the unfinished first draft of your first novel in a drawer and start this second one instead, because this one you know you’ll finish.
14) Repeat steps 1-13.
15) You’re browsing in a bookstore when you see Syd Field’s Screenwriter’s Workbook. You are astonished to read on page three that screenwriters can make up to a million and a half dollars for a single movie script. You look at the format for a screenplay and think, “I could do this! No narrative to contend with. No allusions to Edith Piaf and the Champs-Élysées to have to work in. This is way easier than novel-writing. $24.95? I’m getting this book. My idea always was cinematic, anyway.”
16) Syd Field receives his monthly royalty check and smiles.
"This didn't suck yesterday. What happened?"
Big 12 College Football | Preview – TV Schedule | Oklahoma-Kansas …
Big 12 football kicks off week 8 with five match-ups on Saturday. The game to watch this week will be between the injury ridden Oklahoma Sooners and (21) Kansas. Sam Bradford will be sidelined again, he injured his shoulder last week.
Orlando Sentinel – Week 6 college football TV schedule by Alan …
DateGameNetworkTime Tuesday, Oct. 13Arkansas St. at UL-Monroe ESPN2 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 14Boise St. at Tulsa ESPN 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 15Cincinnati at USF ESPN 7 pm Friday, Oct. 16Pittsburgh.
College Football TV/Radio Sked: Mercifully, no Aggies
What do the TV execs know and when did they know it? Even before Kansas State 62, Texas A&M 14, there were no plans to televise the Aggies-Texas Tech on Saturday. But if you are a fan of a winning college football program and you have …
Big 12 College Football | Preview – TV Schedule | Missouri …
Five big 12 conference games will be televised in week 7. Two of these match ups will be between top 25 teams. The match up of the week will definitely be between the 3rd ranked Texas Longhorns and the struggling Oklahoma Sooners.
Just BS: Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor, Week 8 College Football TV …
Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor, Week 8 College Football TV Schedule, Lebron James. Can the relationship between Ohio State, Terrelle Pryor be salvaged? www.si.com. The marriage between Ohio State and Terrelle Pryor began with such promise. …
ESPN Broadcast Schedule Of 2009-10 College Football For October 27 …
ESPN broadcast Schedule Of College Football For October 27-31 Day, Date & Time MatchUp Broadcast Network Tue., Oct. 27, 8 pm East.
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At the very least, in this mult-tasking college football landscape, you can watch UCLA-Cal on your laptop (with ESPN360.com). Consider the multi-choice options. THE LOCALS: == Saturday, 12:30 pm, Channel 4: USC at Notre Dame (with Tom …
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College Football TV/Radio Schedule: Still no respect for the Aggies
Mercifully, Tuesday night college football returns this week. Good luck finding Texas A&M-Kansas State on Fox College Sports. Houston correspondent David (Media) Barron reports that next week's Texas A&M-Texas Tech has not picked up for …
NFL scheduling question?
Well I live in the home of the Wisconsin Badgers Madison, Wisaconsin, and I have Charter Digital Cable, I have ESPNEWS, CSTV, FCS (Fox College Sports Networks, Central, Atlantic, Pacific) and ESPN U, but guss what, NO BIG TEN NETWORK, which is BullSh!t, because the only people in Madison that can watch The Big Ten Network are people with Direct TV, and the majority of People in Madison have Charter. And Here is the Badgers Football Schedule with The TV channel.
9/1/07 Vs. Washington State ABC
9/8/07 @ UNLV Versus Network (OLN)
9/15/07 Vs. The Citadel Big Ten Network
9/22/07 Vs. Iowa ABC
9/29/07 Vs. Michigan State TV TBA
10/6/07 @ Illinois TV TBA
10/13/07 @ Pennsylvania State ABC
10/20/07 Vs. Northen Illinois TV TBA
10/27/07 Vs. Indiana TV TBA
11/3/07 @ Ohio State TV TBA
11/10/07 Vs. Michigan TV TBA
11/17/07 @ Minnesota (The Ax Game) TV TBA
Now let's move onto The Men's Basketball Schedule
11/4/07 Vs. Edgewood TV TBA
11/7/07 UW Eau Claire TV TBA
11/11/07 Vs. IPFW TV TBA11/15/07 Vs. Savannah State TV TBA
11/16/07 Vs. Florida A&M TV TBA
11/17/07 Vs. Colorado TV TBA
11/24/07 @ Duke ESPN
12/3/07 Vs. Wofford TV TBA
12/8/07 Vs. Marquette TV TBA
12/12/07 @ UW Milwaukee TV TBA
12/15/07 Vs. UW Green Bay TV TBA
12/22/07 Vs. Valparaiso TV TBA
12/29/07 @ Texas ESPN 2
1/2/08 @ Michigan Big Ten Network
1/5/08 Vs. Iowa Big Ten Network
1/10/08 Vs. Illinois ESPN/ESPN 2
1/15/08 @ Pennsylvania State Big Ten Network
1/19/08 Vs. Northwestern Big Ten Network
1/22/08 Vs. Michigan ESPN
1/26/08 @ Purdue ESPN
1/31/08 Vs. Indiana ESPN/ESPN 2
2/3/08 @ Minnesota Big Ten Network
2/6/08 @ Iowa Big Ten Network
2/9/08 Vs. Purdue Big Ten Network
2/13/08 @ Indiana Big Ten Network
2/16/08 Vs. Minnesota Big Ten Network
2/20/08 @ Illinois Big Ten Network
2/23/08 @ Ohio State TV TBA
2/24/08 @ Ohio State TV TBA
2/28/08 Vs. Michigan State ESPN/ESPN 2
3/4/08 Vs. Pennsylvania State TV TBA
3/5/08 Vs. Pennsylvania State TV TBA
3/8/08 @ Northwestern Big Ten Network..3/9/08 @ Northwestern Big Ten Network
3/13/08 TBA Big Ten Tournament ESPN
3/14/08 TBA B.T.T. ESPN
3/15/08 TBA B.T.T. CBS
3/16/08 TBA NCAA First Round CBS
Now let's look at the Big Basketball Game's we are missing
1/2/08 @ Michigan
1/5/08 Vs. Iowa
1/15/08 @ Pennsylvania State
1/19/08 Vs. Northwestern
2/3/08 @ Minnesota
2/6/08 @ Iowa
2/9/08 Vs. Purdue
2/13/08 @ Indiana
2/16/08 Vs. Minnesota
2/20/08 @ Illinois
3/8/08 @ Northwestern
3/9/08 @ Northwestern
Now that is alot of BIG Important Games that are not able to be viewed on TV for Charter Cable Customers. Sometimes when a game was not on TV and it was on a Satilite Network they would show it on WISC TV 3 CBS, or My Madison TV 14, which realy helps, they got to have some of The Games on The Big Ten Network on WISC, and My 14. I hope to God by next year, so many Charter Cable Customers will complain to Charter, that Charter will HAVE to Have The Big Ten Network for the 2008-2009 Season.The Big Ten Network will be the WORST thing EVER, to happen to The Big Ten, unless if Charter and other Cable Companies like Comcast, Time Warner, through out Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (Those are the states that have a Big Ten Team, and have The Big Ten Network)
Wisconsin Badger Fans in Madison are screwed by Charter?
The new TV schedule provided by yahoo is a nightmare to open and read. On my screen I am unable to speed thru the chanell selections or the times having to scroll across the screen. Who ever made the corporate decision to up grade the old provided schedule should be fired.
The old system did start to deteriate this year when it did not show the actual teams playing college football even on the same day..often using the TBA…to be announced. So many I know have relied on the yahoo foremat for years…now this has become a disaster.
Over time other aspects of yahoo have been changed for the worst, one being the yahoo on line chat groups…and the introduction of yahoo profiles with the 360aspect..which does not show city address or email address.
Always a puzzle when you have market acceptence ….then some "genius" decides to change it.
Yahoo provided TV schedule?
None of them really know what the f*** they are talking about and they pick the worng teams to win every week. From NFL to College they hop from bandwagon to bandwagon and deep throat anybody who's had the most RECENT good game. And they pick on and bad mouth any athlete that doesn't give a f*** about ESPN or the Media. They choose who to protect and who to disgrace.
Quotes:
"The Steelers are done, baby. They're not making the post season." then next week.. "The steelers are BACK, baby. The champs are Back.!!" then they flip flop again when they lose.
"From watching it with my two eyes, Michigan is without a doubt the second best team in college football right now.."
"It doesn't matter if Flordia blows Arkansas out next week they are not gonna leapfrog Michigan, no way.."
"Florida should be in there cuz they have had a tougher schedule."
"The Colts are the best…The Ravens are the best..The bears are the best…"
**** cable..this is why I hate TV..
Does ESPN have some of the gayest Football analysts ever?
To start off, I have a DirecTV receiver with Tivo built in. It's not one of the newer dvr's, it's the old one that actually uses the phone line to get scheduling instead of the satellite, which is what the current dvr's do.
Here's my scenario and question: My dad and I are both college football nuts and our team is playing Thursday night. He is heading off on a weekend vacation to the beach and won't be able to watch the game. When he comes back home, can I take my receiver to his house and hook it up to his tv so he can watch the game on my tivo receiver. He does have directv, as well, if that matters. In my head, I'm thinking I should be able just to connect my receiver straight into his tv and watch the game, but the only problem would be my receiver is going to reset and reboot. Is this going to cause any problems with his current service?
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
Remember, remember the 5h of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I really thought I was going to avoid writing about the whole, stupid Mayan calendar/2012 nonsense, at least not until the director of the upcoming end-of-the-world film 2012 opened his mouth to talk about his medical problems with fear-induced testicular diminishment syndrome.
And may I say – give me a freakin’ break!
This has to be the stupidest condescension to the uber-delicate feelings and ‘oh-so-easily provoked sensibilities’ of Muslim clerics I’ve ever seen. It’s OK to obliterate to smithereens the religious landmarks of Christians or Hindus, but God forbid the Kaaba bites it.
And why was it ok for director Roland Emmerich to trash iconic Christian symbols, such as St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro? Says Emmerich
Because I’m against organized religion.
(Insert head scratch here, because I thought Islam was a pretty organized religion already.) Mr. Emmerich continues on…
You can actually … let … Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.”
Oh, I get it. He’s only against organized religions that won’t put a religiously-mandated hit out on him.
I say let’s have a little equal opportunity world destruction here. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans and atheists. That’s what the confraternity of man is all about – we all die together. Unless you’re John Cusack and can outdrive seismic faults and collapsing buildings in the most amazing road-jamming limo that Detroit, sadly, could never have produced – and that’s why this movie is science-fiction!
