My father, Carl Eugene Bruce, died on 24 October 2013. He used to work for Ohio Power, and at one time, his job was to shut off the electricity of people who had not paid their bills. He sometimes would find a home with an impoverished mother and some children. Instead of shutting off their electricity, he would tell the mother that she needed to pay her bill or soon her electricity would be shut off. He would write on a form that no one was home when he stopped by because if no one was home he did not have to shut off their electricity.
The best good deed that anyone ever did for my father occurred after a storm that knocked down many power lines. He and other linemen worked long hours and got wet and cold. Their feet were freezing because water got into their boots and soaked their socks. Fortunately, a kind woman gave my father and the other linemen dry socks to wear.
My mother, Josephine Saturday Bruce, died on 14 June 2003. She used to work at a store that sold clothing. One day, an impoverished mother with a baby clothed in rags walked into the store and started shoplifting in an interesting way: The mother took the rags off her baby and dressed the infant in new clothing. My mother knew that this mother could not afford to buy the clothing, but she helped the mother dress her baby and then she watched as the mother walked out of the store without paying.
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, Warner Bros. Cartoons was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short subjects. The characters featured in these cartoons, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig,Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner, are among the most famous and recognizable characters in the world. Many of the creative staff members at the studio, including directors and animators such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Frank Tashlin, are considered major figures in the art and history of traditional animation.
The classic Warner Bros. animation studio is sometimes referred to as "Termite Terrace", a name given to the temporary headquarters Tex Avery and his animators were assigned to during Avery's first year as a Looney Tunes director.
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Lois The Pathetically Lonely Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
Oh, how embarrassing! I got so excited yesterday thinking
about Lorenzo Music, I didn't even finish reading the entire
trivia question which would have resuslted in me mentioning
Ruth Gordon who scarred me for life when I saw her in that
terrifying and deeply disturbing film "Harold and Maude".
But it's not my fault. Walmart in Roseburg is open 24 hours
a day and they started selling Oregon Micro-brew ales, and
well, love them IPAs. Anyway, I think I read the whole
question today and the answer is...Warner Brothers! Maybe.
But in any event, they gave us Daffy Duck, who had been my
hero and role model for over fifty years! And he is kinda
sexy too. For a cartoon duck. Oh man, I may need
intervention.
Alan J said:
Warner Bros.
Charlie wrote:
Warner Bros. cartoons.
Pretty easy to guess, actually.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Adam answered:
The Warner Brothers animation unit.
Marian responded:
Warner Brothers Cartoons
Sally said:
Warner Brother's Animation studio is sometimes referred to as "Termite Terrace."
And, that's all she wrote...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
Michelle answered:
Warner Bros. Mel Blanc wld've known this one.
BttbBob replied:
All Hail! ~ To that shrine of American cultural exceptionalism! ~ Where those Wizards of Whimsy, the Titans of their craft, conjured up miracles and magic!
Allow me introduce to you... The one... The only... The magnificent! Ta Da!
That's all, folks...
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MAM wrote:
"Termite Terrace" is the original Warner Brothers animation studio for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
And, Joe S said:
In the time honored tradition of Rand Paul, the following was lifted directly from Wikipedia. I guess it's not quite like Rand Paul would do as Rand Paul would not have attributed the following to Wikipedia.
Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons (formerly Leon Schlesinger Studios), the studio which produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts from 1933 to 1963, and from 1967 to 1969. Warner reestablished its own animation division in 1980 to produce Looney Tunes related works.
OK, yesterday you all ganged up on me, right? I mean Carlton didn't really have a mother, did he? I don't remember one and neither does Casper. We think you were out to zoom us.
KMET DJs - Jeff Gonzer, Ace Young, Dr. Demento, Jack Snyder, Paraquat Kelley, Rick Lewis, Rick Scarry, Billy Juggs, Dr. Leon, Frazer Smith, Rauool, David Perry and Jim Ladd.
TONIGHT - In his original time slot, 6pm, it's Dr. Demento!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with a LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'Betrayal'.
The CW offers a FRESH'SAF3', followed by 2 hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'The Governor's Wife', then another FRESH'The Governor's Wife'.
AMC offers the movie 'Men In Black', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'The Talking Dead', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Comic Book Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 1 - Episode 4 NEW
[6:40AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 1 - Episode 5 NEW
[7:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 1 - Episode 6 NEW
[8:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Belize
[9:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Florida
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Revisited: Moore Place
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Burger Kitchen, Part 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] THE PINK PANTHER (1963)
[9:30PM] THE PINK PANTHER (1963)
[12:00AM] THIS IS SPINAL TAP
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Without A Paddle', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', 'American Daredevils', and another 'American Daredevils'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Poker II
[6:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Clip Show
[7:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Jury Duty
[7:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:45AM] Slumdog Millionaire
[10:30AM] The Fugitive
[1:15PM] U.S. Marshals
[4:00PM] Mystery Men
[6:30PM] Wonderland
[8:45PM] The Wrestler
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jessica Alba Wears a Jacket with Patent Leather Pumps
[11:30PM] The Birthday Boys-Catching up on Shows
[12:00AM] The Wrestler
[2:15AM] The Shining
[5:15AM] The Birthday Boys-Catching up on Shows
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Restless-Episode 1
[8:00AM] Restless-Episode 2
[10:00AM] A Few Good Men
[1:00PM] The Big Chill
[3:15PM] The Closer You Get
[5:15PM] Dragonslayer
[7:45PM] Robin Hood
[10:00PM] The Right Stuff
[2:00AM] Another Earth
[4:00AM] Serial Mom (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade', followed by the movie 'The Adjustment Bureau'.
People light lamps as they make a formation of a peace symbol on the eve of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh November 2, 2013. Earthen lamps were lit during a public ceremony for world peace, organisers said.
Photo by Ajay Verma
A prominent Egyptian statesman criticized Saturday a local TV station for stopping the airing of a widely popular satire show, describing the decision as unwise and harmful to the country.
Private broadcaster CBC said the program by Bassem Youssef, often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart, would not be shown because the satirist and his producer violated editorial policy.
The decision appeared to be a reaction to the sharp criticism Youssef came under after his first episode following a four-month hiatus mocked the country's recent nationalist fervor.
The announcement by CBC came just minutes before Youssef's show "El-Bernameg," or "The Program" in Arabic, was to air Friday night.
Those who watched the pre-recorded program said the episode was largely critical of the station's policies. Youssef mocked the station's management for criticizing his first episode, when they issued a public statement advising him to respect national sentiment and "symbols of the Egyptian state."
Armin Bielefeldt of the U.S. poses with his beard art work before the Beard World Championship 2013 in Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart November 2, 2013. Bielefeldt needs more than 6 hours for his art work. More than 300 people from around the world compete in different moustache and beard categories.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
In a quiet, tree-lined suburb of New York City sits an unassuming brick ranch house that many musicians consider hallowed ground.
This is where saxophonist John Coltrane composed the epic 1964 jazz masterpiece "A Love Supreme," shortly after moving into the Dix Hills, Long Island, home. Although he only lived there three years - Coltrane died of cancer in 1967 at age 40 - musicians including Carlos Santana and Coltrane's jazz saxophonist son Ravi are among those backing a volunteer effort to turn the dilapidated, four-bedroom house into a museum and learning center.
"The Coltrane Home is a beacon to anyone interested in jazz history, cultural history, African-American history, New York history and American history," Santana said in a statement promoting a Manhattan fundraiser where he helped raise $30,000. The guitar virtuoso has been a Coltrane fan for decades; he released a 1973 album with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin called "Love Devotion Surrender" as a Coltrane tribute."
The move to restore the home began about a decade ago when local jazz enthusiast Steve Fulgoni learned a developer had purchased the 3.5-acre property with plans to demolish the home and build three smaller houses. He organized a lobbying effort to save the home, and eventually Huntington town officials purchased the property from the developer for $975,000 and designated it as a town park.
But town officials told Fulgoni and his supporters - which by then included members of the Coltrane family - that any effort to create a museum would have to be privately funded.
The sunburst Fender Stratocaster that a young Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he famously went electric, perhaps the most historic instrument in rock 'n' roll, is coming up for auction, where it could bring as much as half a million dollars.
Though now viewed as changing American music forever, Dylan's three-song electric set at the Rhode Island festival that marked his move from acoustic folk to electric rock 'n' roll was met by boos from folk purists in the crowd who viewed him as a traitor. He returned for an acoustic encore with "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."
Now the guitar is being offered for sale Dec. 6, Christie's said. Five lots of hand- and typewritten lyric fragments found inside the guitar case - early versions of some of Dylan's legendary songs - also are being sold. The lyrics have a pre-sale estimate ranging from $3,000 to $30,000.
With a classic sunburst finish and original flat-wound strings, the guitar has been in the possession of a New Jersey family for nearly 50 years. Dylan left it on a private plane piloted by the owner's late father, Vic Quinto, who worked for Dylan's manager.
Followers hold up their figurines of La Santa Muerte (The Saint of Death) while attending rosary prayers during the Day of the Dead celebrations at a market in the Tepito district of Mexico City, November 1, 2013. On the Day of the Dead, Santa Muerte followers offer her lit cigarettes, glasses of tequila, apples and flowers to express their gratitude for miracles and favours accredited to the saint, according to the organizers of the celebrations.
Photo by Henry Romero
Before 1912, anyone who heard the word ambivalence would have raised an eyebrow, or shrugged, uncertain about what it could mean.
That's because "ambivalence," as a word, didn't exist until 101 years ago, according to Oxford Dictionaries, and neither did "jazz," nor "vitamin." Language has always evolved, along with sentiments about kids these days and their crazy slang, no doubt, but the advent of the Internet and a few crazy dance moves has introduced a number of new words that would have baffled us a decade or two ago. (If they don't continue to baffle us.)
i09 compiled 14 examples of new and wondrous words, including "blog," which is ubiquitous in everyday speech, though the shortened word for "weblog" has only existed for about 15 years. "Paywall," an online system for blocking access to websites for those without paid subscriptions, also made the list, along with "cyberstalking" and "supercut," meaning a video compilation.
Just as new words flow into our vocabularies and out of our mouths, old words die out at rates that researchers have studied and analyzed.
The Greenpeace activists being held in a Russian jail - including two Canadian men - are being transferred after six weeks in detention in a remote prison.
The environmental organization says it has learned from diplomatic sources that the so-called Artctic 30 will be moved to a St. Petersburg jail from the current one in Murmansk, an isolated port city in the northwestern tip of the country.
St. Petersburg will offer more sunlight than the current location, in the Arctic Circle. It's also closer to consular services.
But Greenpeace said it doesn't mean the conditions at the new facility will be any better.
Hundreds of women protest after a teenager was allegedly gang-raped in June and no one was jailed, at a demonstration in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. About 300 women marched through Kenya's capital on Thursday to protest the rape of a 16-year-old girl, after more than 1.3 million people signed an online petition calling for the prosecution of the alleged rapists and an investigation of the police who arrested the suspected perpetrators but freed them after only making them cut grass at a police station as punishment.
A leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts that man-made global warming likely will worsen already existing human tragedies of war, starvation, poverty, flooding, extreme weather and disease.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global warming is already affecting the way people live and what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income. A leaked copy of a draft of the report's summary appeared online Friday. Governments will spend the next few months making comments about the draft.
The report details specific effects of warming and how countries and people can adapt to some of them. The American scientist who heads the report, Chris Field, says experts paint a dramatic contrast of possible futures.
Hallmark Cards has apologized for changing a word in a well-known Christmas carol from "gay" to "fun" on a holiday ornament.
The Kansas City-based company created an ornament for its Keepsake line depicting a miniature sweater bearing the words "Don we now our fun apparel," instead of the lyric "Don we now our gay apparel" from the Christmas carol "Deck the Halls."
"We've been surprised at the wide range of reactions expressed about the change of lyrics on this ornament, and we're sorry to have caused so much concern," Hallmark said in a Twitter posting on its website on Thursday.
"We never intend to offend or make political statements with our products, and in hindsight we realize we shouldn't have changed the lyrics on the ornament," it said.
A monk performs the Lama Dance during a prayer ceremony called the "Thousand Offerings Buddha" in Kuala Lumpur November 2, 2013. The Lama Dance, also known as the Mask Dance, is a ritual performed during ceremonies which believers said would expel evil and bring good fortune.
Photo by Samsul Said
Anthony Weiner, the New York City mayoral candidate undone by a sexting scandal, stands in a schoolyard - the butt of his classmates' jokes. A chorus of reporters breaks out into a sexually charged dance number during a Weiner press conference.
A new play about the misbegotten campaign of Weiner, the former Congressman whose political ambitions were crushed by revelations he sent women lewd pictures of himself, is based on actual texts and modeled on Greek tragedy.
The play, "The Weiner Monologues," opens on Wednesday - one day after New Yorkers go to the polls to elect the city's next mayor.
"The Weiner Monologues" examines the role of the public and the media as actors in the drama. It is based on transcripts of conversations Weiner had with women over social media that the women then leaked to the press, articles about the scandal and Weiner's news conferences immortalized on YouTube.
If you have an occasional craving for macaroni coated in butter-y, bright orange cheddar-cheese sauce-not some ornate, from-scratch casserole, but the instant kind-you might want to reach for the box with the cartoon-shaped pasta come next year.
This isn't a choice about fun, but rather artificial food coloring: Kraft announced this week that it will remove Yellow No. 5 and Yellow No. 6 from some versions of its classic blue-box macaroni and cheese.
Those without the artificial dyes-which have been linked, rather tenuously, to hyperactivity, asthma, skin problems, and cancer-will include those branded with characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and How to Train Your Dragon 2. The reformulation will also add an additional six grams of whole grains and reduced sodium and fat content.
What's not included in the health-conscious revamp is the classic mac n' cheese, made with the all too familiar tubes of macaroni.
An Andean dancer performs during Day of the Dead celebrations in Nueva Esperanza cemetery at Villa Maria, in Lima November 1, 2013. Each year people visit the cemetery, one of Latin America's largest, to honour the dead.
Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil
Crews at Denali National Park in Alaska have cleared a massive landslide from a road that is a popular tourist destination each summer.
The landslide discovered last week covered 200 feet of the Denali Park Road with tons of rock and soil.
Crews taking advantage of unseasonably mild weather finished clearing the road at day's end Monday, and some snow has since fallen, park spokeswoman Maureen Gualtieri said Friday. It's not clear if instability of the terrain will affect visitors next summer, park officials have said.
Gualtieri said the affected section of road, 37 miles from the park entrance, appears intact. That part of the road already was closed and there were no reported casualties from the slide, which officials believe occurred recently.
Strange forests with some features of today's tropical trees once grew in Antarctica, new research finds.
Some 250 million years ago, during the late Permian and early Triassic, the world was a greenhouse, much hotter than it is today. Forests carpeted a non-icy Antarctic. But Antarctica was still at a high latitude, meaning that just as today, the land is bathed in round-the-clock darkness during winter and 24/7 light in the summer.
The question, said Patricia Ryberg, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, is how plants coped with photosynthesizing constantly for part of the year and then not at all when the winter sun set.
Fossilized wood and leaf impressions record a history of the Antarctic forests. The leaf impressions appear to show mats of leaves, as if the trees had all shed at once - a sign of a deciduous forest.
To confirm this, Ryberg and her colleagues gathered samples of fossil wood and examined the tree rings. Wood cells in the rings reveal how the trees grew: Early wood is produced when the tree is growing upward and outward. Late wood is produced when the tree is preparing to go dormant. At that point, the tree stops growing and starts storing carbon in its cells. Late wood is denser than early wood, and has thicker cell walls.
A Nepalese woman carries a dog, decorated with vermillion, in her bag after performing rituals during Tihar festival celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. Dogs are worshipped to acknowledge their role in providing security during Tihar festival, one of the most important Hindu festivals dedicated to the worship of the Goddess of wealth Laxmi.
Photo by Niranjan Shrestha
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