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Orono Weekly Times. Wednesday. October 9, 1996 - 11 Newcastle Lions WaIk«A-Dog*ATh on Saturday was not only the Newcastle Fall Festival, but the Newcastle Lion's Club Walk-A-Dog-A-Thon. The Lion's Club President, Terry Graham, walked Allie. She is a black lab and a Seeing Eye Dog In Training. The dogs walked their owners through either the 5 or 10 km course. The money raised will go towards training more dogs through the Lion's Foundation in Oakville. They hope to beat the over $7500 they raised last year. Arthur Black Everything that can be invented has been invented. Now who said that, do you reckon? Don Cherry? Preston Manning? Ned Ludd? Nope. Those prophetic words came from the mouth of one Charles H. Duell, chief com- missioner of the U. S. Office of Patents. Mister Duell made his prediction back in 1899 which means the world had yet to see roadsters, radios, rocket ships and rock and roll, not to mention penicillin, polyester, Prohibition and the Bay of Pigs. But we shouldn't snicker too loudly at poor old Charlie. He's not the only "expert" ever to misread his crystal ball. Take Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society of Engineers back at the turn of the century. Lord Kelvin cast a jaded eye at the heavens and pronounced: "Heavier- than air flying machines are impossible.- Fortunately, the Wright boys were out working in the garage and missed the announcement. If you were reading the New York Times back in 1939 you might have come across an editorial that concluded "The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued to a screen. The average family hasn't time for that." Yeah. Right. History is littered with the bleached skulls of soothsay- ers who should've kept their traps shut. An internal memo that circulated in the offices of Western Union about a century ago confidently pre- dicted "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. Embarrassing for the writ- er -- but not as embarrassing as the prophecy put forward by a Yale professor of Economics named Irving Fisher. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanent ly high plateau" he told an audience of businessmen. Regrettably for the profes- sor, he made his announce- ment in the late summer of 1929, just a few weeks before the greatest stock market belly flop in history. Entertainment gurus fare no better. It was H.M. Warner of Warner Brothers fame who, back in 1927 when movies with sound tracks first appeared, took his Havana Corona out of his mouth long enough to growl "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" And it was movie genius Irving Thalberg who confided to fellow mogul Louis B. Mayer. "Forget it, Louis. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel." Mayer, like the stubborn cuss he was, went ahead and made Gone With The Wind anyway. Then there was the pro- ducer for Decca Records who, back in 1962, panned a pop group saying "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on its way out. " Thus, Decca Records passed on a chance to sign up a group called The Beatles. I wonder what that pro- ducer is doing nowadays? Not working for Decca Records, l'Il bet. And what of the comput- er? Now there's an invention that touches all of our lives in hundreds of ways every single day, Surely the experts caught the significance of the computer from the begin- ning? Well, not quite. In 1949, a writer in Popular Mechanics magazine wrote "computers of the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." ln 1977, the president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation announced "there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Even the folks who make the things aren't all that bright when it comes to see- ing their worth. Take the experience of a young com puter geek named Steve: "So we went to Atari" Steve recalls, "and said, Hey, we've October 11th is Emergency Nurses Awareness Day 1996. Friday, October 11lth is Emergency Nurses Awareness Day, a time to be aware of the special service which these dedicated professionals pro- vide to the community. Emergency_ nurses from Oshawa General Hospital will have a display at the Oshawa Centre, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., where they will demon- strate emergency situations and explain the role of the nurse in the èmergency room. The theme of Emergency Nurses Day 1996 is the star. This represents nurses being in the forefront of the changes taking place in emergency care. Emergency nurses care for patients with diverse health problems in various got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts what do you think about funding us? We'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No'. So then we went to Hewlitt-Packard, and they said, Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through col- lege yet. So Steve -- that's Steve Jobs -- and his partner Steve Wozniak, went out and formed a company on their own. You may have heard of it - Apple Computer Inc ' stages of crisis and they remain current with techno- logical advances in order to provide the best in emergency care. One of the demonstrations in the display at the Oshawa Centre will be the Let Trial, a solution which freezes the skin without the use of a nee- die. Another demonstrates the use of a medication given to patients having a heart attack which dissolves a blood clot in the coronary artery. The emergency nurses of Oshawa General Hospital invite the public to come out and meet them, see their dis- play at the Oshawa Centre, ask questions and learn about the exciting world of the emergency nursing. Subscription Special!!! Receive this newspaper on a trial basis for the rest of this year for only $5.75! 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