What do you think about the projects that Norm's lined up
for this season? I like the various projects towards the
end and the clock, but the gilt mirror wasn't my
cup of tea. So glad he's back tho!

MJ Wallace

Won't do us here any good, our local PBS is too busy raising money. All
channels here who once carried NYW have slowly stopped offering it. When we
did/do see an episode it was far from current schedule.

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SwampBug


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What do you think about the projects that Norm's lined up
for this season? I like the various projects towards the
end and the clock, but the gilt mirror wasn't my
cup of tea. So glad he's back tho!

MJ Wallace

Swampbug wrote:
Won't do us here any good, our local PBS is too busy raising money. All
channels here who once carried NYW have slowly stopped offering it. When we
did/do see an episode it was far from current schedule.

We don't see it at all on CPTV.

They sure carry lots of UCONN women's basketball, though.

Swampbug wrote:

Won't do us here any good, our local PBS is too busy raising money.
All
channels here who once carried NYW have slowly stopped offering it.
When we
did/do see an episode it was far from current schedule.


Sounds like SoCal.

The L/A station stopped carrying NYW 2-3 years ago.

The Orange County station has been in continuous begging mode for the
last month.

Lew

B A R R Y wrote:

Swampbug wrote:
Won't do us here any good, our local PBS is too busy raising money. All
channels here who once carried NYW have slowly stopped offering it. When we
did/do see an episode it was far from current schedule.

We don't see it at all on CPTV.

They sure carry lots of UCONN women's basketball, though.

CraPpyTV has got to be one of the worst PBS stations. I'm glad to be rid
of them and in a market where the PBS station programs for the
demographics of the market, not the demographics of their internal
political clique.

Pete C. wrote:
B A R R Y wrote:
Swampbug wrote:
Won't do us here any good, our local PBS is too busy raising money. All
channels here who once carried NYW have slowly stopped offering it. When we
did/do see an episode it was far from current schedule.
We don't see it at all on CPTV.

They sure carry lots of UCONN women's basketball, though.

CraPpyTV has got to be one of the worst PBS stations. I'm glad to be rid
of them and in a market where the PBS station programs for the
demographics of the market, not the demographics of their internal
political clique.

For a while, I had a different PBS feed via DirecTV, getting the Boston
(WGBH??) station. Once we really got "local programming" CPTV bumped
off Boston.

I freaking hate basketball, no matter what gender is on the court. How
do you get excited when each team scores 50 times? G

That's what is so great about America. You can dislike something and
then have the freedom to waste bandwith griping about it to other people
who could give a flip about your opinions.....

Oh, by the way, I LOVE basketball, but only NCAA brand, could care less
about the professional brand.


B A R R Y wrote:

I freaking hate basketball, no matter what gender is on the court. How
do you get excited when each team scores 50 times? G

B A R R Y wrote:

Since you brought it up... G

Do you really think NCAA Division 1 men's basketball, or football,
for that matter, is not professional? It's a minor league for two
sports that don't have real farm systems.

That is the end result for only about 5% of the players who have the
potential to move to the next level. The rest of the kids are getting
free educations because of their athletic abilities. Most of those kids
have invested a considerable amount of their time and energy to get to
the level of ability that they have.

At least in baseball and hockey, someone who is very talented in the
sport, but not university material, can develop their skills toward a
professional, major league career without some sort of fake academic
program.

What percentage of baseball and hockey players did not go to college? I
don't understand the term "fake academic program". The universities set
the requirements, the student satisfies them, they get their "degree".
The relative "worth" of that degree will be determined by the job market
in the real world. Those kids still have to create a resume and
interview for jobs. They have to get those jobs on their own merrits.
If they can't cut it, then they are the ones that suffer. "Inferior,
unqualified" graduates dilute the potentcy of a diploma from a given
school? If that is the case, then I will make sure my kids don't go to
school there.

I got 2 boys, one just graduated from the U of Tennessee Knoxville. He
got his job based on his GPA and course of study, the fact that they
don't graduate very many football players, and a lot go to the pros did
not factor into his getting a job at the corp. office of the biggest
retailer in the world.


The super talented players often don't bother to graduate
anyway, as they go pro before they're seniors.

If opportunity knocks on your door, are you going to refuse to answer it
until you get a diploma??? If it were me, I'd put a couple of million
in the bank now, cause I can always go back later and get that degree.
I could even pay for it myself at that point, and not be a burden on the
system. But here at my local university, they have a standing policy,
after you exhaust your eligibilty, you can still work toward your degree
for free, even 20 years later. There is no reason not to get that
degree, period.

I know I wasn't impressed with the guilded mirror. I was so
unimpressed that I just turned it off and went out into the shop and
puttered around a bit. I haven't checked out the other projects yet.

Make more sawdust,

Woodworkerdan
Dan Harriman
Orange, Texas

wrote in news:1167890440.158552.87270
@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:

What do you think about the projects that Norm's lined up
for this season? I like the various projects towards the
end and the clock, but the gilt mirror wasn't my
cup of tea. So glad he's back tho!

MJ Wallace

B A R R Y wrote:


Mike Richter, the retired Stanley Cup and Olympic silver medallist New
York Ranger goaltender is currently attending Yale Law school. Ted
Donato, a retired Bruins and Rangers star graduated from Harvard.
Retired NBA player Kevin Johnson created a foundation to improve inner
city schools. KJ was talented enough to be offered professional
basketball and baseball contracts. Brains and athletic talent can
certainly co-exist.


Frank Ryan, quarterback for the Cleveland Browns held a PhD in
Mathematics from CWRU. Bernie Kosar was eligible for the draft
because he graduated after three years from the University of Miami.

Jim Brown had a degree in Marketing from Syracuse University and
for his first eight years in the NFL made more money in his off-season
job for Pepsi Cola than he did playing ball.

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FF

wrote:



Frank Ryan, quarterback for the Cleveland Browns held a PhD in
Mathematics from CWRU. Bernie Kosar was eligible for the draft
because he graduated after three years from the University of Miami.

Jim Brown had a degree in Marketing from Syracuse University and
for his first eight years in the NFL made more money in his off-season
job for Pepsi Cola than he did playing ball.


Sounds like a Browns fan of old.

BTW, had Case & Reserve merged by '64?

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote:
wrote:



Frank Ryan, quarterback for the Cleveland Browns held a PhD in
Mathematics from CWRU. Bernie Kosar was eligible for the draft
because he graduated after three years from the University of Miami.

Jim Brown had a degree in Marketing from Syracuse University and
for his first eight years in the NFL made more money in his off-season
job for Pepsi Cola than he did playing ball.


Sounds like a Browns fan of old.

BTW, had Case & Reserve merged by '64?

Lew

Case and Reserve "federated" in '66/'67, if I recall correctly, and
merged 2-3 years later.

Jim Artherholt CIT '65 ;-)

Jim Artherholt wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
wrote:



Frank Ryan, quarterback for the Cleveland Browns held a PhD in
Mathematics from CWRU. Bernie Kosar was eligible for the draft
because he graduated after three years from the University of Miami.

Jim Brown had a degree in Marketing from Syracuse University and
for his first eight years in the NFL made more money in his off-season
job for Pepsi Cola than he did playing ball.


Sounds like a Browns fan of old.

BTW, had Case & Reserve merged by '64?

Lew

Case and Reserve "federated" in '66/'67, if I recall correctly, and
merged 2-3 years later.

Jim Artherholt CIT '65 ;-)

Oops, right. I believe Ryan's degree was from Western Reserve.

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FF